Daily Wabash Express, Volume 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 February 1871 — Page 1

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The union of the legislative with the judicial function would be an anomaly in our republican government. The English endure it, to be sure, in their Lord Chancellor, llut their example is no argument for us. The impropriety of allowing a man to pass, as a judge, upon the laws which he has helped to make, as a legislator, is too apparent to be defended. Aside from the undue combination of powers, it opens a way to partial and prejudiced rulings. We can hardly expect that a Mayor will hold a different opinion of a city ordinance while acting as City' Judge from that he expressed by his casting vote in the Council, and even upon an ordinance enacted without his interference, he can hardly be free from preconceived notions after hearing the di"Cussit)nrupon it. He cannot therefore ibe an impartial judge. He must come 'to a case under any city regulation, with 'ideas more or less fixed, and difficult to be moved by the best arguments for other views. This is not, in the ordinary course of municipal business, likely to prove a source of any considerable mischief, but then it may,be made so, and that possibility is a thing to be provided for, as the State provides for'it, by separating the judicial from the legislative function absolutely. -J'

BuVth« Mayor is the executive as well as the judicial officer of the city. If.he is not, who is? Not the Marshal, ccrtainly, for he is merely the Sheriff of the Court and the servant of the Council. The May ft is the .head of the city'govcrnmeat as clearly as the Governor is the lt^ad pf ttye State government, or else it lias no head at all. The charter of the city of Indianapolis,- paese'd 1847, gives tire—Mayor the veto •power. This was a distinct recognition of his executive position and functions. The veto has since been withdrawn, but that leaves him as .the Geviroor^wouW be.jleft by a Constitutional amendment abolishing the veto, "/still the executive, with less power. The jVconfei ring of-that power did not make the .sMay^r the executive. It found him already so.' Jt-: was merely added to his

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is ting duties. It was given him because he was the Executive. Every other City Mayor ttaads in the same position, and ..an.atnendment of the General Charter 5? ». act might be passed to morrow to add the veto to his powers. That it is not done *^ttakes:nodifference in his relation to the pity, so long as he is the man to give it to if it is given. Now it is bad enough taake the City Judge of a city legislatout it is wocse to make him the City oi Executive, too? This thing of making, ^"'AS "Mrs. MALAPROP4 says of "CERBEKUS,* "three officers at once" oat of the same X-IJman is a bit of compression that consists |^j ai^jittle #i(h propriety as with the uniform precedents of our history, j.-'• -Another consideration is that the head government need not be a law-clear-headed merchant or manu-

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The Mayoralty acd Cily Judgeship. Where the analogy is clear, the wisest Courts have often held that a single uncontradicted precedent was sufficient to decide a case. When there is a long course of prcedents the weight of reason is overwhelming. It is hard, to deny the wisdom of what many wi=e men hare, one after another, concurred in comraending, and the experience of successive gen* erations has pronounced good. Is there such an analogy to direct a conclusion as to the union of the judicial, legislative and executive duties of a city officer?— We thin(c there is. The State, bj- its organization' to Welles its duties, is separated from the General Government by a -well defined boundary. It is charged •with a multiplicity of duties which no general government could ever adequately discharge for forty Stales. Within the limits prescribed by its constitution it supersedes the general government. -The city, analogously, is charged with very many duties .which no Ssate government could discharge-'for all the cities in its limits without constant cost, confusion and inconsistency". ^Wllhin the limits of its charter, it, supersedes the State gov-ernm«iUrjttu.-|M eQUGly, the same necessity that rxakes the State take the place of the general government. The experience of eighty years has shown us that the division ofkag\&tat9 govefnment into departmen^Tjtrhrcl} ^hnll not interfere with each other, is indispensable to the maintenance of a wholesome balance of power, which interposes equally between its undue concentration upon one side and its undue dispersion upon the other. If indispensable to a State, why is it not at least advisable in a, city? We are not much Uroubled, to be sure, bv apprehensions of •an usurping Mayor making himself master of our citv treasury, taxes, rcgulation$, and improvements, but when the jVlay&ris,, ifi a contingency, a potential member of the municipal legislature, and is always its executive and its sole judicial •officer, is it-not'possible that.some time an able, unscrupulous, far-sighted man may-get- the place, and with the triple powerjqf poking,Jaws, interpreting them -and executing them, pervert the-govern-ment to our injury, or prostitute it to his •own benefit in a way that we should find it hard to countercheck? There is little inducement now, so far as we can see, but less promising situations have been cultivated to most mischievous purposes by grasping men with plenty of available brains and conscienceless resolution. It may. tKe'tpar,t of wisdom to separate these united powers, so that one may serve to check the other, and not, as now, double the strength of the other. Here the analogy of the State government leads u? to .the avoidance of a possible danger. The present condition of New York is a- warning that we can never be too cautious in provisions to keep the power of the citizens as nearly as possible always ready at hand to restrain corruption or ambition, \jf\

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fadurer is better for the place, by all elds. But the City Judge ought to be a lawyer. He has any number of cases under the State laws to dispose of, as well as those under the city ordinances, and even ordinances involve the same principles of interpretation, and their violations demand the application of the same rules of evidence, thai the gravest civil and criminal cases do. A legal training, and no small legal attainments, are as in. dispensable in a City Judge as a Circuit Judge. We can rarely have these qualities nnited with the business sagacity, perspicacity and power, which the city needs most in its chief officer, and which are the fruit of a business life and wide experience. We can make sure of a good man for both places only by having a different man for each plaae.

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Divorce.

The Lafayette Journal thinks "Lhat would be a proud day for Indiana on which the present divorc* law should be wiped out, and, in its place, be substituted the single law of the New Testament."

It is questionable whether the good of society would be promoted by compelling people to live together, in hatred and malice, making each other, and all associated with them, supremely wretched. It is questionable whether the good of society requires that a wife, in addittion to supporting herself andcliildren, should be compelled to support a worthless, drunken vagabond of a hunband.

There was a husband, in otrown State, but a few months ago, who, after robbing his wife of everything else that could be converted into whisky, took her underclothing. pawned for it a fev dimes, got drunk on the proceeds, came home and beat, not only his wife, but their children, in the most brutal manne r. Should a wife and little ones be compelled to live with such a beast as that? And are there not many other causes, that .will occur to every thinking mind, which render divorce right and proper? Let ns be careful that in correcting a great evil, wc do '. not create a greater one.

THE Lafayette Ccurier 1 earns that the Council of that city have decided to indefinitely postpone the election for the Holly Water Works. This settles the question of their construction by the city. The Courier says: "If capitalists wish to oome forward and take Htock, and form a company, the opportunity presents it-

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THERE is a nice lad., in Lafayette, who tries to kill his mother, and other members of the family, with an ax, for which the Mayor talks to him!

"THE city of blood" is the awful name which a wicked rjotemporary applies to Evansville.

ME. JAMES S, RAY offers liis name as a candidate for Mayor of Indianapolis.

TnE Good Templars hold a mass convention at the Battle Ground to-day. -f

THE London Times absurdly affects to see in BUTLER'S resolution of sympathy with the released Fenians, a special manifestation of "avowed hostility." Whereupon tile Chicago Republican remarks, "and its langaageis plain:"

The Times ought to know that, throughout the whole course of our brief but brilliant national existence, we have made it an invariable rule to sympathize with the downtrodden and oppressed of all nations, and to encourage all rebels everywhere— except our own, of course. As for the "avowed hostility," there has been no concealment about the fact that Americans do not cherish the kindliest feelings toward England. We owe her no friendship. The peculiar courtesies we received at her hands during the war have not yet been, and will not soon be forgotten. The British Parliament did not pass a formal declaration of sympathy with the South, it is true, but it was quite as effectually manifested otherwise, and the omission resulted from lack of courage rather than lack of disposition. Anyhow, it is oneoj the sovereign and inalienable rights of every American freeman to let his sympathies gush whenver a rebellion occurs beyond the ljmits of our own glorious and happy Republic and it is not worth the Times' while to make a fuss about it.

EVAKSVlLIill.

HOW A MAN WALKED OFF WITH A QUART OF WHISKY. EVANSVILLE, Feb. 8.—A man named Hull, at Newburg, drank a quart of whisky last night, on a bet of one dollar that he could walk off with it. He walked ten or fifteen feet and dropped, and died during the night. The bet was declared a draw.

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WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE, WASHINGTON, Jan. S.—The Committer on Ways and Means have before them a bill to facilitate export of whisky and high wines. It is looked upon with favor, and will probably be reported in some form.

POSTPONED.

The hearing in the. case of the New York Central Railroad scrip dividend tax has been postponed. IJI '^I^'THE STEAMER TENNESSEE.

A startling rumor was in circulation hereto-day that the United States steamer Tennessee had been lost, but inquiries at the Navy Department dissipated the fears that^originated from the report.

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DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8.—At Jefferson, Texas, a fire broke out on Monday night in the Russel building, on Austin St., by which a whole block was consumed, including the buildings occupied by Grinnan & Wayland, S. H. Stone, H. G. Shuhan, Haulkntir & Schriek, Berge, Nichols & Co., J. P. & J. C. Alford ahd Pinskidally. The Democrat office was also destroyed. Loss estimated at $300,000. Insurance $200,000.

INDIANAPOLIS LETTER.

The Supreme Court Bill State Agent's Election—School Fund Bill —Fees mid Salaries. •INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 8.

The Senate hasn't done much that shows in a report, and yet it has been busy all day. It discussed the abolition of the State Agency all morning, and finally referred all the bills relating to the matter—that, abolishing the office, that reducing the salary, and another, the tenor of which I do not remember, to the Finance Committee. It is believed by some sanguine Republicans that the bill reducing the salary to SI,000 can be passed. It was pawed by the House, and the Senate is not made of "sterner stuff," and the belief may be recalized. In the meanwhile Pat Shannon was elected by joint convention this afternoon, and is as happy as the prospect of a lean salary can make a man who reasonably expected more. There ai now but $109,000 of the five per cent, bonds out, nearly $40,000 having been redeemed since my first statement of the balance still due was made. A bill was introduced by Mr. Williams, of Knox, to redistrict the Stale for legislative purposes. It is a thorough Democratic, long-sleeved bill, with as many "advantages" in it as Ah Sin's had in the game with Bill Nye, and it will be pressed liaid. Whether it will pass or not, depends a good deal on how far the consistency of Mr. Hughes can be depended on. He is the author of the present districting arrangement, and -if he chooses to'stand by it, as he.did by the validity of our' internal improvement bonds, he can dcfc-it the new bill. Can'j he be depended on? As a lawyer once Bail of the ve/dictof a petit jury, "lhat is a conundrum that Omniscience itself can't gue?3." The Fees and Salaries bill of Mr. Mariindale has been undergoing discussion all afternoon, except during the time of the joint convention^ and the Senate adjourned without reaching a conclusion.

The PL'Use ha.t done, another silly thing. It killed the Game and Fish Law bill yev.erdav, as I told you, but I am informed that many of its opponents are ready to reconsider that rejection if the provisions as to game are" stricken out and the fish law left by itself. This will do pretty well, for the present game law is not a bad one, and the fish were leally the only important object of legislative attention. If this arrangement is carried out we may yet have an approach to an adequate protection of both. But the other silly thing was the adoption of the substitute for the bill of thecommiitce for the diiposal of the cash in the School Fund. The majority of the committee reported in favor of retaining the money in (he hands of the State Auditor and lending it to the citizens of the various counties in proportion to their distributive share of the School Fund. The Sinking Fund was thus managed and not a dollar was ever lost. The substitute proposes to send the money the coun« ties and let the county officers lend it, as was done by the law of 1859. The fate of that money should be a warning now, but it is not. Over $350,000 was thus distributed, and it might as well have been thrown away. It yields just nothing at all to the schools, and the county officers pocket five per cent, of the current interest for managing it. In the State's hands that five per cent, would go to the Fund The county officers, under the substitute get two per cent, wheee land he'd as security is fo? feited, to be paid by the borrower if he redeems it, and by the purchaser if stlie iand is sold. The State gets cone of that. Nobody knows anything of the condition of the scaitercd money, and no legislation' can ever get re'uins enough to determine any action in regard to it. The folly of the distribution of 1859 became so palpable that it was slopped before the money was all squandered. Now, we have, or soon will have, $700,000 more to lend. If the Auditor lends it, the schools will get the proceeds, as they did from the single and entire management of the sinking fund, with the live per cent, for managing the loans, ii' it is sent to the conn ie---. it is thrown away sis the other wasjllu' county officers will pccket the live percen. and the schools will get just what it suits the officers topiiy and that will be the last of it. Mr. Cautfiorn, tl Ivuox, made a fiery speech for tne mischievous substitute. Mr. Caulhorn is a young man whose intellect could be improved by a due admixture of dish watee wi'.h his brains. The substitute was adopted by a large majority, and the $700,000 may as well be bidden a long farewell now. The schools have seen the end of it, unless the Senate has sense enough to undo the folly of the House.'4

The bill to add another Judge to the Supreme Court and rearrange the districts so as to make five, was rejected yesterday evening in the House. A motion to "reconsider and to lay that motion on the table," the usual legislative "finis" of rejected measures, was lost. This morning Mr. Wilson, of this county, called attention to the failure of the motion "to table," and had the journal corrected so as to show it. He then urged the motion to reconsider, or renewed it,., but Speaker Mack decided that tlie -motion5 fsrw"

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iotder, and, th$ vote of rejection could not be reconsidered- This was a most unaccountable ruling "when the journal showed that the motion to table it was lost, and the reconsideration must be still pending, if it was entertained at all. But he ruled so. He -has done a good many queer things in a parliamentary way, but this is the queerest of all. Ou appeal lh« House sustained him, as might be expected of a Honse that is ready to throw away $700,000 in the face of our experience with $350,000.

TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA. THURSDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 9, 1811.

This kills the additional Judge for the Supreme Court. There is a good deal of feeling here over the reported loss of the Tennessee steamer, with all the St. Domingo Cominission, and their friends, attaches and accompanying visitors on board. It is an awful catastrophe, and there is more than one opponent of the Annexation scheme who will see the hand of Providence in it. Its effect will be disheartening to the friends of the measure, though it has no more connection with that than has the burning of the train on the Hudson river railroad the other day. T. T.

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THE WEATHER.

NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—The weather has moderate'd. A snow storm set in about four a. and still continues.,...

SMALLPOX. ')•:,!

The small pox is still raging in Newark, N. J. ANNUAL RAILROAD FIGHT.

The regular annual fight at Trenton, N. J., about the railroad from Philadelphia to New York, is now in full blast, and Trenton is crowded with hangers-on about the Legislature.

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H. Steinway, lounder and head of the piano manufacturing firm of Steinway & Sons', died yesteiday, after a lingering

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ICE cmor."

•Although we are in the coldest portion of the winter, and ice is super-abundant, the gathering ef the crop will cease altogether on the Hudson to-night. There is no room for more. In Maine and ail Eastern Slates the ice crop this year is immense.

THE TENNESSEE.

The Tennessee sailed .three weeks ago with the dan DomifiEio inmission on board. Some surprise, in -jinning to be felt at not hearing from •. She was not expecxted to be mote than nine or ten days on the outward voyage, and a day longer would have carried a dispatch to Havana, the nearest cable station. A Washington correspondent telegraphs that Admiral Porter yesterday expressed surprise at not rceeiving intelligence, though he does not appear anxious. It should be remembered that the weather since the departure of the Tennessee, has been rthigh, which in itself is sufficient to account for the ,lengthy voyage.

The Tennessee i3 or.e of the staunchest and most complete vessels in the naval service of the United States, and little apprehension need be felt regarding her ability to weatlftr any gale, although it seems to have been expected at Washington that her arrival at Samana would be announced by telegraph from Havana, it is not at all certain, and even improbable that a vessel was found ready at Samana to carry the news to Havana.

SHOOTING MATCH, SS'.W?

Edward Tinker, of Providence, failing to meet Capt. Bogardus, the famous Illinois marksman, forfeited, and an impiomptu match was then arranged between Bogardus and John Taylor, of Jersey City, in which the latter wa.s easily vanquished.

RAILROAD RUMOR

It is rumored that for several days past officers and principal directors of a large Western railroad have been occupied in traveling over the entire route of the E-ie railroad, for the purpose of examining the condition of the road, with the view of making on offer for an out and out purchase or lease of the latter line.

CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE.

The health of Chief Justice Chase remains substantially unchanged, and his friends take hope that he is better.

FENIAN DEMONSTRATION.

At a meeting last evening convoked by General William M. Tweed, Jr., to complete arrangements for a demonstration to the Fenian exiles to-morrow, the fact that a place in the procession had been assigned to colored societies that desired to participate in the affair, was arranged, and a resolution adopted heartily approving such action.

RAII.ROAD CASE. ."

In a suit brought by the Erie Railroad Company against James H. Ramsey, D. B. Eiton and others, charging them with unlawful conspiracy in connection with a suit previously brought by Ramsey against the Erie Railroad, Judge Barnard yesterday rendered the following decision: "As far as Eaton is concerned in this case I direct entry of judgment in favor of defendants, but without costs or allowance. In a mot al point of view I feel convinced that the conspiracy charged in the plaintiff's complaint existed at the time of the commencement of the action. The plaintiff's counsel failing, however, to establish by legal proofs the allegations of this complaint, lhat if fraud is the ground work of plaintiff's suit, fraud must be clearly proven. It will never be assumed. Let a finding accordingly be presented to me." •MKRCANTILE AGENCY.

The u-i.al ftatqiuen! of the Mercantile Agency of tlie number of failures and amount ol' liabilities- reported during the past year, shows an increase of twentylive per cent in failures as compered with 1869, and thirty-three per ceut as compared with 1868. In 1869 the number of failures was 2,780 amount of liabilities, $73 05-1,000. In 1870 the failures were 3,551 liabilities, $38,243,000.

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Twenty-lour proposals for bonds to-day amounting to about seven millions at 10 OoalO 95. Awards to be about twentyseven million 10,865, 10,S82.

SPECIAL SHIPMENTS.

The steamer Idaho takes to-day $300,000 in gold and silver bars, and the China $87,000, all in silver. Total $387,000.

SPECIAL TO THE WORLD.

LONDON, Feb. 8.—The German army will enter Paris on the 19th inst. Charles M. Swager, of Louisville, Ky., died in Paris on the 2d, from a wound inflieted by a shell fired during thtf bombardment.

POLGIIKEEPSIE.

1- TUB RAILWAY DIBASTER»FEFT POUOHKEEPSJE, N. Y. Feb. 8.—Up to midnight no more bodies had been re covered, and nothing new in relation to the disaster had transpired.

It is now'ascertained lhat a man named Rosenthal, a cattle drover, was in the first sleeping car, and escaped. He was in the drove yards at Albany yeeterday, This fact refutes the statement that all the persons in the car referred to, perished.

Pacific Solution of the Eastern Question by the London' Conference.

Paris Indicates a IDesire Peace.

The Armistice Expected to be Prolonged.

The German Army to Enter Paris on the 19th Inst.

French Provincial Press Gen crally Urge Peace.

Scarcity of Provisions InParJs.

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LONDON, February 8.—The Queen in her speech to Parliament to-day congratulates Parliament on the peaceful relations existing with all countries, and the prospect of a satisfactorv settlement of questions with A merica. She believes the Conference will result satiafuctorily to the signatory powers. Laments continuance of war, and trusts the a: mistice will result iqtence. She is anxious render her friendly offices to the belligerents, and will take every opportunity to do all in her power as a neutral, for the restoration of peace :.nd rc-csiabllshment of uninterrupted trade. She speaks of the contemplated marriage of Louise, and recommends the ballot, univerdary and Scotch education bills the reorganization of the army on the basis of a large increase in the reserves an improved organization of regulars, and especially artillery ind engineers a strong militia and improved volunteer ormyr- ?.iif

THE AK JUSTICE.

A Brussels correspondeent of the telegraph says, Odi Rusael has been instructed not to sustain the demand made by Favre for extension of the armistice, as its prolongation is expected. ,,,,

DESIRE FOR PEACE.

The Times says all the information received from Paris indicates a longing for peace at any price^NORMANDT. Ji r\

Cornot, comissioner for the defense of Normandy, has reigned. OCCUPATION. ••. XV-I

The Prussians under Von Dertann occupy most of Burgundy. EVACUATION.

Pellisser on the oth evacuated Lon Lesancon. -v THE CONFERENCE.

LONDON, Feb. 7.—The Eastern Confer-, ence met again to-day.. Representatives from all signatory Powers except France. Upon its adjournment assurances were given out that a pacific solution of the entire Eastern question had been attained.

PROVISIONS.

Fifty cars with provisions entered Par is on the 3rd,%bearing the inscription, "London gift to Paris. 'r

CATHOLIC EXPECTATION.'

LONDON, Feb. 8.—At the Lord Mayor's banquet in Dublin yesterday, Cardinal Cullen said the Catholics claimed and expected to obtain their own university and schools at the point of secession from Parliament.

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LONDON, Fell. 8.—The Daily News says the Prussians will vote to-day in entire dependency on the good faith of Germans. It is impossible to complete negotiations for peace between the meeting of the National Assembly and the 19th, when the armistice expires, and when fighting may be resumed. It is said, continues the News, that German preparations overrun the whole of France, and that events are of the most formidaha a

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NEW RESTRICTIONS.

A correspondent writes from Versailles on the 5th, that fiesh restrictions are contemplated by the German commanders, in consequence of the influx of Parisians into Versailles. r-

PROVISIONS IN PARIS.

Provisions in Paris are still at a -low ebb. There is not sufficient flour to last until the 8th.

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MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR. BORDEAUX, Feb. 7.—A decree the 6th appoints M. Emmanuel Minister of the Interior.

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ITALY. iI

NEGOTIATIONS WITH TUNIS. 9/ FLORENCE, Feb. 7.—In the Chambers to day the announcement was made by the Government that negotiations are pending with Tunis. Italy insists upon satisfaction of her just demands, as well as guarantees for the future.

GERMANX.

«"«?ksOREASE OF JCLY LOAN.1 .4. BERLIN, Feb. 7.—A decree has appeared increasing the amount of issue of the July loan from eighty millions to one hundred and five million thalers:

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,1 ,i THE NEW MINISTRY. VIENNA, Feb. 8.—The official Gazette to-day says the new Austrian Ministry is thoroughly united, and possesses the confidence of the sovereign. It will give fair play to all legitimate provincialism, but ibere will be no more compromise with separateism at the expense ol unity. It will uphold the Constitution, but will propose a Parliament for enaction of laws, partially extending legislative and administrative autonomy to the Empire, and will introduce a bill providing for direct elections and enlarging the rights of electors. The Ministry will offer no opposition. ... AMNESTY. '.

Emperor Francis Joseph has by autograph decree granted full amnesty to all political and press offender committed to the sevetath instant. 4 4

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PAINFUL IMPRESSION.

ATHENS', Feb. 8.—The appointment ofBlacqpe Bey as Turkish Minister to fireece, causes a painful impression in this city.- „,.f. .-

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Mr. Dawes offered a resolution authorizing the Committee on Apppopriations to send for persons and papers and examine witnesses in reference to the cancellation of the contract with Dempsey & O'Toole, for stamps and envelopes, by the Postmaster General adopted.

Mr. Cox presented a petition from C. H. Marshall & Co., Grinnell, Minturn & Co J. Thompson, Nephew & Co., and one hundred other merchants and ship owners in New York city against the passage of subsidy bills, and for the right to purchase their ships in the cheapest markets.

Mr. Scofield, from the Com'mittee on Naval Affairs, reported a bill to provide for the removal of the Brooklyn navy yard. The bill having been read, Mr. Scofield called attention to the importance of the bill. He spoke of the general opinion of the people of Brooklyn that the navy yard there was an impediment to improvements, and was a'public nuisance. The committee understand that' the land and fixtures wpuId sell for $20

000,000 pnd some, estimated the price as high as. $3O,OO0,OOQ.' Tl^e committee had cofloe to the conclusion that Che'land might be sold for $20,000,000, provided' the Government could give a good title, but there was some little^ shadow about a portion of the,title.

Mr. Dskwes offered a resblution'providing for like removal of the navy yards at' Charlestown, Mass., and at Kittery. Me or either of them..

Mr. Hooper moved to amend by providing: that the land might be sold either at public.auction, or by sealed-proposals. After opposition, by Messrs. Woed anil' Judd,: Mr» Scgfield'8. amendment was a

Mr. Dawes spoke in support of th? bill and his amendment. He regarded maintenance of eight rvivy yards lis an unnecessary expense. The cost of offices# alone would reach a million dollars. The conviction, was gaining ground) even in the Navy, that it would be better'and cheaper to have vessels built by private contract, than in navy yards.

Mr. Hallj member of the Nayalr Committee, discussed the bill. He had no do&bt that the experience of other nations and the sentiment of Congress and the cpuntry, were in favor of reduction of navy yards, but he doubted whether the House would favor a bill whiph provided for removal of fixtures and materials of the Brooklyn navy yard to another site.

Mr. Van Wyct opposed the bill, and wanted to know why tbe committee should strike at the Brooklyn Navy Yaad, where millions had been expended in building a dry dock, from the ^ale of which nothing could be realiied.

Mr. Hale replied that there wa^a^general,, demand on the. part of the people and the pi ess and representatives of New York and Brooklyn, for the removal of this yard, and that it was selected because the' government would realize a large sum from its sale.

Mr. Slocum argued -in support of the bill, and gave a history of the Brooklyn Navp Yard in.proof of the fact that work could be done more cheaply by the contract'system. He quoted from a- letter from the Secretary of the Navy, showing tUe relative cost of vessels built under the two systems. The screw ship Madawa3ka had cost at Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1865, $1,123,000, while the Chattajooga, of about the same tonnage and the same number of guns, had cost by private con-' tract in 1866, only $950,159. The reason for the great disparity in the cost of contract work and navy yard work, was well kno.wn. Men were placed in navy yards and driven from it for political reasons. No man, however valuable he might be as a: skilled workman, could hold his place unless he was willing to sell his vote and political influenoe to the party in power. The result was that few men sought- employment in navy yards except such as were willing to sell their votes, and fluoh men seldom made faithful employes. They went there not to work but to draw pay and aid in carrying on political schemes.

At half past one the bill went over until to-morrow, and the House proceeded to consideration as the special order, the bill for better1 protection of the frontier of Texas, authorizing the Secretary of War to organize and call into service detachments of mounted men in each county, consisting of inhabitants thereof, for defense against Indians and appropriating $100,000 therefor.

Mr. Degener, who had charge of the bill, yielded to Mr. Butler, of Mass.,_who introduced a joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of- the- Treasury to remit duties On such imported articles of merchandise as were donated ahd actually sold in fairs for t-hef behefit of destitute and wounded citizens of France passed.

The House having'resumed consideration of the Texas bUI, Mr. Slocum argued in opposition. As tltf one felass df propositions that would be made by: Arizona, New Mexico and other Western Territories asking authority to* raise independent armies to b6 Supported by the general government, he predicted, if this: bill passed, the youngest man in the House would not live.long enough to see all the claims of th^se Texas rangers fully pai^.,

Mr. Logannaid It meant nothing more or less than war with Mexico. Mr. Garfield moved to lh.y it. on the table Agreed to. n~»d

The Hotise then at 2r43 refeumfcd consideration of the bill to establish a system of national education. a

The Speaker appoibted, Messrs. Beck, Sargent and Negley a,committee of conference on the West Point appropriation bill, and Measts. Willard,:Maynard and Rioe a. committee of conference.on ,the, dill granting a pension to soidiers.of the war of 1812.

Adjourned.

SENATE.-

Mr. TrujuhnU) from the Committee on the Judidlii'jvrepottled with 'amendment, the House bill to^ provide fbr taking testimony for UP« in the- Departments. Passed Also, MrithflM: amendment the House bill providing for the appoint ,ment of an addition*! fcssistmeat Attor ney "General.'

Mr. Th'nrman, frdWthe same'commit-' tee, reported adversely the bill to allow li lb $.w'nl"nR.' '0 fWy,iU befixlf ip

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the District of Columbia. Also, without amendment, the House bill to divide the State of Ohio into three judicial districts.

On motion of Mr. Scott the amendment to tbe House^ resolution for paying the Senate Committee to investigate alleged outrages, ifas concurred in.

Mr. Bice, from the Judiciary Commit* tee, reported with amendment a bill to create a Southern judicial district in California.

Mr. Cole asked its present consideration. Mr. Trumbull, chairman of the Judiciary C-ommittee, objected.

Under objections the bill went on the calendar. Mr. Sumner presented a memorial from the reform leagues of Philadelphia in fa* vor of legislation by Congress to protect colored people referred.

Mr. Trumbull, from the Committee on Jndiciary, reported favorably a joint resolution prescribing the oath to be taken by Miller, as Senator elect from Georgia, providing for some form of oath to be administered to the other Senator from Georgia, Hill, and members of the House, who had been under disabilities.

On motion of Mr. Scott, an addition of two members was made to the select committee on the condition of the Southern State*.

Mr.. Blair introduced a bill to grant to the State of Missouri all the public lands within the State remaining undisposed of, for the benefit of the public school fund of said State. Referred.

Mr Williams presented and had read a resolution of the Oregon Legislature, rejecting the 15th amendment. It denies the right of Congress to interfere with suffrage within the State, and charges thatt the amendment was forced on the State&by the aid of the bayonet.

Mr. Williams said that the resolution was an indication of the position to be assumed and issues to be raised by the Democratic party .in the next Presidential election.

Mr, Thurman desired to say for the benefit of friend Williams, that it was the intension of the Democratic party to hold a national convention between now and the next Presidential election.

Mr. Flanagan moved to refer the resolution to the special investigating committee on Southern outrages. He said it showed that there were men in the North as well as in the South who were not ready to indorse and adhere to the laws of the Union, and he. would like to extend the present investigation to. include all such persons, whether North or South.

Mr. Thurman replied that if investigation was to be made into partisan grievences all over the country, there would be as much to blush for in the North as in the South.

Mr. Flanagan withdrew his motion, to allow Mr. Williams to move that the subject be laid on the table agreed to.

Mr. Fenton presented a petition of citizens of Lewiston, N. Y., praying for the passage of a bill to secure cheap transportation of breadstuff* from the West to the sea board, at uniform rates throughout the year.

The bill regulating the organization and conduct of public schools in the District of Columbia was taken up, and gave rise to along discussion upon the expediency and propriety of establishing mixed schools in the District, after which the Senate went into executive session, •without taking a vote, and at 3 o'clock adjourned. 1

BELGIUM.

FRENCH RETREAT.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 7.—The Independence Beige had a telegram from Lyons that Cremer with a division of the French Army of the East had effected a retreat from Pont Arlien toGex, but was obliged to spike and. abandon forty guns. t.

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Mr. Arnell, chairman of the Committee on1 Education, from which tbe: bill was reported Addressed the House in advocacy of the bill. The bill went over until to-morrow. io- ::,-i•«»

Mr Ket'cBahl offered ja—mibstifuce for, the bill for removal of tbe Brooklyn,navyj yard It provides for Constituting a board consisting of the Secretary of the Navy, General Sherman, Admiral Porter, Brig. GenerabrHnmphreys, the cjiiftf engineer in the army, nnACapfc-.C. P.,Patterson, of the Coast Survdyi to-inQuire whether it is desirable and for. the best interests of the Government to -sell the Brqoklyn navyyard, and if so, to recommgnd a suitable place in the State and neaiv the city of New York to jwhich/. the wotkp of ^he Brooklyn navy yafd shall be transjerve'd, and report to Congress before December 15, 1871'.

INSURRECTION. .IN-.-,

Le Francais asserts that an insurrection has broken out in the province of Constantine, Algeria.

PHILADELPHIA."

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A SERIES OF FORGERIES.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8—An extensive series of forgeries committed by George Reakirth has been unearthed. Those discovered amount to over $100,000, scattered among various wholesale drug firms. He had over a dozen bank accounts, in all of which he had obtained loans on forged acceptances. Reakirth has been engaged in private stock speculations, having large dealings in Reading, and has balances in nearly all the banks ot the cily, which he had used to further operations, but not sufficient to cover thf amount of the forgeries. Reakirth was connected with the firm of Jofin Reakirth & Son and Janney, Reakirth & Co., wholesale druggists, and his forgeries included those firms as well as that of his father. The banks concerned hav! kept the matter secret in hopes of having the losses refunded.

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MOVEMENT TO SUPPRESS COAL 8TRIKE8, READING, PA., Feb. S.—The Board of Trade has appointed a committee to confer with committees from various regions in the State, in which manufacturing interests are subjected to disadvantages by reason of coal strikes. These committees are authorized to call a State convention if they deem it expedient, and to lay before it any proposition they may mature looking to suppression of the existing system ot suspensions. Business interests in this vicinity are beginning to suffer f-eriouslv, and manufacturers arc very decided in their demands for a change.

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FIFTKEN1'} 1 AMEKTFMT:ST,

TRRNTON, Feb. 8.—The lower branch of the Legislature this morning ratified the Fifteenth Amendment by: a veto of 34 to 24. t' ,. •till' li •if'

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BOSTON, Feb". 8.—The French relief fund in this city amounts to $53,000.

LOCAL NOTICES.

^"ilCUARWOS LINES, In fall assorttbont: also Bleached Goods in New \®rk Mills. Wamsutta. Lonsdale, llill. Had ley, Hope, kc. I tica and \Valtham 8-4, 94,10-4 Blenched and Brown Sheetings

TCTELL. RIPLEY & DEMLNT*, Fifth and Main streets.

WHEAT, RYE, OATS, AC. telegkaph mills,

UK1YKTTE STEEtT, tiEUE HAUTE, ISO.

s?Highe?t market prici paid for v"

Wheat, Kye,Catg,

Corn

fffceatFloor, Kje Flour,BackwliestFloor, All of the beft quality, and sold at tho Lowest Prioes.Wholesiie or Retail, inBarrels orS^cks. Also, Crowd F«f$, qdin* »»fl Fife Br««, iH. BiclUlJDWtfJWUl'TUOW.'fwpr'*. .• i' i-u.i''

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Br Telegraph.J Feb. 8. .COTTOfi—Quiet and weak. Middlinal4J4. FLOUR—Demand good at fall prices', rantily 6 00a6 25.

WHEAT—Steady, with moderate demands 1 30al 33 for red. CORN—Demand good at fall prices. 53A

RYE—Opened doll bnt closed activc. 1 00a 1 06. OATS—Demand fair and market Urm. No. 2, 56a52.

BARLEY—Demand good at fall price*. 1 00al 05 for choice. GROCE RIBS— 1' ncbanged.

OILS—Quiet and unchanged. COFFEU~16al9k. SUGAR— New Orleans 9%al2. MOLASSES—65a65. a.r KGGS—Dull and prices drooping, 20a21. BUTTER—Quiet and weak, CHEESE—Steady, with moderate demand,, CLOVERSEED—Demand fair and marked'' firm, llKa!2.

TIMOTHY SEED—Dull, but unchanged: 6 25a6S0. PORK—Demand fair and prices advanced, on Change. Sales at 22 50 now dull at this" rate.

LARD—Demand fair and prices advanced. Steam 12a12)4 kettle 12%ali04. Inside mteaif for lard, head and gat, 11%. A

BULli MEATS—Demani light bnt holders^? firm. Shoulders 8}4 sides 10%all. BACON—Demand light, but holders firm Shoulders 9Jia9% sides lt?al2.

HOGS—Demand fair and market firm ., 7 25a7 50. Receipts 915. WHISKY—Steady, with moderate demand

«OLD-11%. zhh EXCHANGE—Par. MONEY-Easy. /. •».«-

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l'elograph.l N«w ¥oaa, Feb- 8. g-. COTTON Dull and priccs drooping. Middling 15M-

FLOUR—Demand fair and market firm.' Superfine Western State, 610a6 25 common' eood extra, 6 65a6 85 good choice 6 80*7 20 White Western extra 7 20a7t-5 extra Ohio 6 80a7 45 St, Louis* 6 95a8 75. Receipts 7,000 barrels. ».

RYE FLOUR—Unchanged. WOISKY-93M. WHEAT—Market niiet and weik. Receiptg 3,000 bushels. Red amber 1 n7.il 60 spring 1 52al 55 Whito Michigan 1 &ial tif.

RYE—Unch'inged. BARLEY—Unchanged, CORN—Steady, with moderate demand. Receipts, 23.UUU bushels. No. 2 mixed 83a85 trhite fair, ceipts 2,000. bushels. 6O VS-

yellow 85%aS6£ white85. OATS—Demand fair, prices advanced. ILeWesters Ohio 63Ka

LEATHER—Firm 27a30. Orineco 25a28. WOOL—Firm domestie 40a53 pulled 40a47J^j California 26a28.

COFFEE—Demand fair and .market firm. Rio 13Kal6%- Java 18a22, SUGAR—will. Cnba9JialOK, ,tii

MOLASSES—New Orleans 50ao0, RICE-7ka8K. PETROLEUM—Crude 15 refined 25%a26. POKK—Mess new 22 75a23 00 old 21 50.-. Prime 19 50 prime mess new, 21ifi0a22 00.,

BEEF—Steady. Mess 10 00 a 15 00 extra15 00al7 50 prime mess 26 C0a39'00.- 'i HAMS—3Ua31.

CUT MEATS —Firm. Hams It'a 15K: shoulders 8%al0. LARD—Heavy, Steam ]2Kal$K kettle 13

V3. BUTTER—Demand fair and market firm 14a22", Western, a

CHEESE—Dull and unchanged, 12alG-

SEW VORK MONEI MAltttE'l. Fs By Telegraph.] NBWYOBK, Feb. 8. GOLD—Steady, at from ll%all%, i: '.*« .J^

LOANS—From 3 to 5 per cent, CLEARANCES—835,000.000. ... GOVERNMENTS—Steady. b. MONEY—Easy. 4a5 per cent.

SEW YORK mil tiOUllfe SARK£J. By Telegraph J, N*w YOKE. Feb. 8.

The high rates of freights from here to distant point* West, as compared with those ruling from Philadelphia and Baltimore, oheck Western trade. There has been one or two meetings ot railroad rings in regard to this monopoly, but they have not yet arrived at anything dofinito, but we understand that the Erie road has modified rates somewhat, and we look for a general revision in tariff rates & ere long, lor until this occurs we cannot otpect. any lite in business. The followingchanges in prices of staple goods have 'come •under observation to-day: Nevada A brown sheetings 10% Cabot A bleached muslins 14% do 12%. 9-8 42 inih 16: 5-446 inch 18 Naumkeag4-4 IT WaithamXll 0-4 Pacifies.: Mills corded mohair3 25 do robe' de chambre 20 do cnocolate and white tawns 15, and Masonville bleached shirtings 15%.

Mens Nutria Far ©loves only $1 50, New York Hat Store, 145 Main Htreet.

Cheapest liat Store in the city, New York Hat Store, 145 Main strfect.

Men's Coney Fur Caps only one dollar, New York Hat Store, 145 Main street.

Men's Nutria Fur Caps only one.do! lar, New York Hat Store, 145 Main street. 20-6t

Call at Stuukard & Barrick's, corner of Third and Ohio streets and try a load of Sugar Creek coal—only ten cents a bnshel. iH

Cory & Co., have just received a new supply of the following goods, vis: Bar- js,, ton's Cooper's Tools, the Celebrated m. Lightning Cross cut and Wood Saws, Step Ladders, Ammunition, Ac., Ac.

Masqne Ball.—We again direct the attention of the citizens of this city to thesss Masque Ball of the Terre Haute Manner- g# chor to be given at Dowling Hall on the 13fch of February. Tbe members are all,-• actively at work to make this one even s,j better than former occasions of this kind.^i The Msennerchor is the Pioneer Society for such Balls in this pity, and they understand more than any other Society, how to excel in regard to comique performances, and genteel enjoyment,

"Who pahts for glory finds but afe Short repose." But he who pants him--, self, and buys all his clothing at the cheap store of Eli Kahn, No. 16S, Main if. street finds comfort in their warmth, and wear in their quality. Go to Eli Kahn fbr clothing:-

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Spring Wagous.—3 springs 3 rail':: body 1 seat and shafts—net cash $125,^ at -Jones & Jones. 24-10!.

No dull tinios, at Herz & Arnold's.-

New Lace Collars.at Herz & Arnold's.^

One Person Treated as, well an thes other, at Herz & Arnold's,

The best and most Reliable Fancy Goods House in the city, is Herz & Arnold's.

Try Ua^gerty's Challenge

s'dap.—

It is better than any other Soap in the. market and. twenty per cent. cheaper than ibc.sniue grade of soap is sold at in» lliir? markei. «vyp^ 28-tf.

Ovi 25 Different Styles of' Corsets, (every stvle in all numbers,) at Jlerz A Amold's4—

Who Is at llic Hfnd ot the Fancy (ioods trade in 'I'eife Haute,? ^Herz & A nold, of cqn rse! E

A Good Silk-lined Muff for ^»t Herz & Arnold's.

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Agents and Dealeri iti'V

Johfa's Patent Asbesto% Booflng.|

Hook Biver Paper Co's Bmldinfc|

Boofing Slatq,,

& Buckwheat

Felt and Cement Booting* Chicago Elftstio Stono Kooflpg I-.IPERS. used In tbe place e# Piastcrin on tko ld«ldo anjA fer Sheathing *pder aiding on the outside. E

Roofs awlied m: clt* And «pantry an warranted. Call 00 us at thq rrairie City Planing Mills, oerner off** and^Mu^berrj

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