Evansville Journal, Volume 18, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 25 July 1867 — Page 2

THE EVANSVILLE DAILY JOURNAL. THURSDAY. JULY 25, 1867.

The Memory of Lincoln at the White llonse.

X DISGRACEFUL DEVELOPMENT. One of the most disgraceful devel opments which has appeared against Andrew Johnson, Acting President of the United States by the grace of Booth the assassin, is stated in the letter of Colonel Boyxton to the Cincinnati Gazette, from which we make the extract below. ,. s It appears that the facts came to the knowledge of Congress just before its adjournment, and a resolution of inquiry was sent up to the President. A dispatch dated on the 20th says: The resolution regarding the Lincoln Memorial Tablet, known to be in a coal-heap in the cellar of the White House, went up to the President at ten o'clock this morning. Up to the time of adjournment it had not been found. It will now become the duty of General Mitchell, in charge of the public buildings, to dig it out. and Lave it taken to the old Hall of Representatives. , Col. Boynton's account of the Lincoln Memorial Tablet is as follows: Let the reader be certain that what follows is truth, truth unadorned, if strange and difficult of belief. Instead of entering the East Boom, as you approach it by the usual way, turn to the right and go down a tolerably well lighted stairway to the level of the basement or cellar of the buildins'.- A wide paved hall runs the entire length of the house. On one side are kitchens, store rooms, and other apartments of similar character. On the opposite are other store rooms, and besides vaults for coal and for other purposes. Let us enter one of these near the east end of the building. It is perhaps thirty or forty feet square. In it are the furnaces-'. The floor is stone. The furnaces are bricked over. There are piles of coal and wood in various parts. It is not tidy, and there is on all sides the litter that belongs to such a place. You shut the door and it is gloomy and quiet, and through the iron bars across the windowsyou can see the cobwebs and the dust on the panes. The door which leads out into the area on the south is thick and heavy, and barred securely. As you face it, there is another door at the right, a heavy one, also. If curiosity, or any previous information of what is hidden there, prompts you. open it. It will gjate a little on its unused hinges. There is just room to swing it open, as it turns inward, and the email apartment is nearly filled with a variety jof trash. You enter p:irt way, and' then are obliged to ehut the doorin order to move around. It is a small place, almost like a cell. It May be ten feet long and eight feet wideT, There is one grated window, dim with dust, looking out into an area under a porch. There is an old work bench, half covered with worn out coal scuttles, and on the floor are some portions of broken grates and old iron pipes, and a heap of coal and kindling. An old wine box, half full of musty feathers, evidently pulled out of a ragged cushion which lies on the wi-xlow sill beside it. On the coal and kindling is a lot of shavings, half mixed with feathers. On that heap of rubbish, in this subterranean cell of the White House, lies a stone, with this inscription: ABRAHAMO LINCOLNIO BEGION. FOKDEBAT, AMERIC. PRESIDI II II VNC EX SERVJ TVALLI AGGERE i LAPIDEM ( QVO VTRISQUE LIBERATIS ADSERTORIS FORTISS. ' MEMOBIA CONIVNGATVR . CIVES ROMANI. I D. A. MDCCCLXV. The stone upon which this inscription is cnt is a species of red sand stone very similar to that so commonly in use fbr building purposes in our Eastern cities. Its surface has grown dark by age. A considerable piece has been battered off. and there the grain looks fresh. The block is rectangular, the upper surface being two feet and three inches long, by eighteen inches wide, and the thickness about nine inches. The translation of the inscription, which will vary slightly with the word for which: the letter D in the last line but one i an abbreviation, has been thus rendered : ' The citizens of Home dedicate this ston$ taken from the tomb of Servius Tnlius, to Abraham Lincoln, President for a second term, of the United fates of America, by which the memory of either brave defender of liberty may be joined to that of the other. A. D. 1SG3." A STRANGE AND DISGRACEFUL HI3r TORY. The story of this block, as told by those about the White Iouse, is as follows : It arrived in the autumn of 1SC5. or beginning of 18GG. It was allowed to lie on ;the porch of the White House for a number of weeks. One eide of the box which held it was at length broken off. The exposed side was then- turned up against the building. Some, who know its character, criticising the treatment it was receiving severely, it vras taken inside, and for sometime formed a sort of foot stool., under a window where orderlies and attendants sat. Finally after several moves, by none of" which was its position bettered, it found its way interfile cellar when the White .House was, being renovated last sum

mer, and from the cellar it was allowed to rest at length in the cell where it lies to-day. Whether this account of the occupants themselves concerning its treatment be correct, eertain it is, that the block as described, with the inscription as given, is in this dark coal hole in the cellar of the White House, and in any case it is a disgrace to the present occupant that it lies there it is more" than disgraceful, it is infamous. In this connection, though the story or the legend of Servius Tullius

is familiar to every reader, it will be interesting to note the parallel between the old Roman King and President Lincoln. The King was of humble ofigin. He was a soldier in his early manhood. He was kind to the poor, heartily espoused the cause of the masses, strove constantly to elevate them, and especially to confer upon them the right to vote. Upon announcing his determination to introduce a freer form of government, he was assassinated by Ins son-in-law, who, uniting with the disaffected Senators.' was able to bid defiance to the resentment of his subjects. The memory of Servius lived long among the common people, their veneration for him constantly increased, and the usurper with his followers lived in daily fear lest the people should rife in their power and restore the laws of the martyr. From all this the full beauty of the inscription, and the character of the sentiment which prompted the gift, will appear, and stern voices will speak to all from out that past 2,400 years in condemnation of Andrew Johnson's treatment of Mr. Lincoln's memory. DAT GAMBLIXgTn' NEW YORK. George Alfred Townsend Describes Faro bj Sunlight. We copy the following from the Troy Times, to which paper George Alfred Townsend is contributing a series of articles: If you will stand before the Astor House at high noon, you will see a picture of metropolitan energy a con currence of whee's and multitudes, the hurry of ten thousand individual purposes beneath achievements in marble and iron that make the sky seem only a structure of gause, the impressment of beast and steam to industry, the methodizing and electrifying of life, fifty years of Europe in a winkful! You have no nobler purpose than to look, feel a sense of physical danger out of your own inertia. This is a giant's nightmare to your best dream of ambition. Insensibly you exclaim : " Marvelous city and men!" Now, turn short around, and walk down Barclay Street. One half minnute from Broadway finds you in the second story of a handsome building where the furniture is of walnut and velvet, massive and armorial, reproduced in mirrprs which might be priced like diamonds, by their carats. The gas is burning as if it were midnight; the heavy curtains are folded close; the sunshine world of business might be twenty miles away, yet here is business of its kind, grave and anxious, which we may look upon. A table, narrow and long, reaches across the place. Upon its green surface there are embroidered the thirteen cards that make up a suite. At each end is a space, colored respectively red and black. Between these spaces, opposite the thirteen embroidered cards, sits a man shuffling a pack of fifty-two cards, supported by a second man, who keeps a tally and tiikes in and out checks and money. There are chairs facing, and on either side of the dealer, and these are filled by men who place money or ivory blocks upon the fifteen spaces and the spots of red and black. . When the man in the middle ras shuffled and cut the cards, he places them with their faces up, in a silver box that exactly contains them. - "Now, gentlemen," cries the dealer briskly,' " make your bets." ' , , This, then, is the day gambling house, and the game to be begun is called faro. . If you are not familiar with cards, you may like to know that a pack is xjomposed of fifty-two, divided into four kinds of suits, of thirteen cards apiece. Two of the suites are red ;. two black. The philosophy of Faro, which is supposed to be the fairest gambling game, is, that the host or banker bets against his guests promiscuously, upon either the denomination or the color of the alternate cards, as they are successively pushed up by a spring at the bottom of the box. To compensate for the cost of the entertainment, rather more than an equal chance is accorded him, and this is variously estimated at from three to fifteen per cent. You will see at this raidday game strange people around the board. Here, bending with a laughing face over his ' cheque,' is tha chief salesman of a great mercantile house near by, who has come to saunter into Delmonico's for his lunch, and trade being quiet, has stepped here to try his stake. Beside him is the customer whose note he took yesterday for twenty thousand dollars at six months. Srieakine ; to both familiarly is the man who has j worn the uniform of Sing Sing, and j I iciu, ii ut unit, ICU uuw ior I LIC uuc i time lie sunereu shamu- fhora vr a ' hundred that he escaped it. Here is u boy, cigar between his teeth,known by his father's name among these abandoned ones, while the old man in Wall Street holds his gray hairs high in the conscientious satisfaction that his home life is without a spot. There are patties of coose lines for lunch, and brandies distilled from the ;

noblest Bergundy; bananas and pineapples to make flavor, and cigars that are in every roll of the rich leaf a dream of sensual content folded away. And all the money falls to stolid or eager countenances surveying, and those who are ruined dare not for their guilty vanity show despair, and those who win are lured tocome to-morrow. Here the extremities of social life meet; the pickpocket and the detective ready to turn upon each other like hyenas as soon as they have cassed their portal.

If vou will pass from the rear of tne itth Avenue Hotel, at night, down Twentv-fourth Street, you will see all around you the palaces of gamblers. They pay the best rents; j if you scruple to let your house to them, they will pay down the full year's rent in advance, and bring you police assurance that you will suffer no blame. Here has long resided a celebrity in his "profession.". He possessed by nature the gambler's two great qualifications, boldness and plausibility. So glib and deferential is he that you do not heed the coarseness of his English. In his stalwart role of the frank and courageous host you barely mark his bruised countenance, and the low, curveless forehead. Among these mirrors and Turkey carpets and plush chairs, how can you recall the giant in cropped hair, blackened knuckles, and desperate scowl, shaking the heart of his adversary while he shook his hand with the cool assurance that he meant to kill him at the ropes. Strange that such men possess almost the friendship of the sage and potent citizens here who are of venerable descents, while all the day their associates are the "cappers," "strippers," "ropers," and "skinners," who walk on' the margin of the penitentiary. I do not believe that among the more respectable classes gambling is so universal as in European cities, but the American plays a more desperate game. Among the lower orders, however, gambling is the one great viee. There are four thousand policy shops in New York, end six thousand dens and. cellars, and crazy tenements,, where nakedness stakes the penny that it begged. Five thousand is the estimated number of professional gamblers of first carat in New York, but this probably includes the gambler's parasites, who are anxious to pass for his rank. These professionals do not acquire more income, upon an average, than $2,000 a year, and must eke out a living by some other dishonorable course : $40,000 a night is the estimated sum lost in the city at games of chance, but the fashionable clubs for the most part, permit gambling. Broadway, after midnight, is dimly illuminated by the lamp of gamblers in the second stories, and yet, all the games that are played, however ostensibly fair, are nightly made dishonorable. Holes are cut in the ceiling, where, a spy reads the " hand " of the dupe, and telegraphs the result to his opponent. " Braces," or false double boxes are used in faro. What eambler can be honest and consistent? LUMBER, &C. JAMES SWANS0N & SON, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in ZPHNTE LUMBER, Shingles, Lath, Doors, and Sash. Also, a large assortment of Allegheny, Chicago, and Toledo Lumber and Flooring, Dressed and Undressed, on hand and for sale. Extra Sawed and Shaved Pine Shingles, eighteen inches long. We respectfully solicit the citizens of Evansville to give us a call and examine our stock before purchasing elsewhere. Yard oi Water Street, -(Opposite Lamasco Wharf), - .Evansvlll All orders promptly attended to. " may23 dtim New Steam. " Sash, Door, and Blind Factory. THE UNDERSIGNED. II A V ISO formed a copartnership under the arm name of , , : .. . McCORKLE & STRONG, have now in snccessiul operation a complete and well-furnished establishment for the manufacture by STEAM of , Sasli, Doors. Blinds, Brackand every other variety of Wood Work used in Carpentry. . ... A liberal patronage is solicited. s j Factory on the corner of Walnut .and Eighth Streets, Evansville, Ind. - ( . JOHN S. McOOKKLE. jun20dly ; E. P. STRONG. LIQUORS. 3ranxllo. (Successor to Son ntag & Gamble), WHOLESALE DEALER IN Foreign and ' Domestic Liguors, Cigars and Tobacco, IV o. O 8outh First St. EVAASVILLE, INDIANA, 1TTI11;Kr- WILL ALWAYS Rk V found on hand an assorted Mock o( Imported Bisndies, Foreign and Domestic Wines, and pure old copper Whiskys. Scotch and English Ales. Especial attention will be given to the supplying of families for domestic use warranted pure and genuine. Agent lor Walker & Leonard's celebrated Tonic Bitters. , The trade supplied on liberal terms. mayiffdiy

TRANSPORTATIO

FRED. R. HUSTON, Commission Merchant, AGENT White Line Central Transit Company, The only Line running Oars through to New Yoik, Boston, and all New England cities, WITHOUT TRANS Ft R. Cars are loaded, LOCKED, and SEALED, and never opened until they reach their destination, carrying goods between Evansville and New York in FIYE TO SEVEN DAIS' TIME. Freight delivered at all tbe Inspection Yards in New York, Brooklyn, or Jersey City. For PROMPTNESS and DESPATCH this Line has no equal. Damages and Overcharges promptly settled at this office. FRED. R. HUSTON, Agent, No. 5 NORTH WATER ST., may29 Etaitsviu.e, Iicd. BB0WN, CINKEESON & CO. 0RWARDING AND C0NJOSSI0N MERCHANTS. And special Agents for.tlie BELLEFONTAINE K. K. CO., v . ERIE TRANSPORTATION CO., And ERIE TIME EXPRESS. Also, Agents for the Eellefontaine Cotton Express. TIME AND KATES GUARANTEED. etS" Consignments solicited. EROWN, DUNKERSON & CO., August 13, lAiti auirl-ll Agents. LAW CARDS. J. F. WELBOEN, ATTORNEY AT IATW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Office on the corner of Main and Third Streets, in Walker's new building, je!3 Evansviioje, Ink. A. 11. BLACK, ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR at LAW MARION, " Crittenden County, 'Kentucky. , , , , ap!7 wtf . s. - ' B. L. D. GUFFY,. ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, MORGANTOWN, KY., i , Will practice in the counties of Butler, Warren, Muhlenburg, Ohio, and McLean Prompt attention jyven to the collectioi of claims. Re ferences Wheeler & Rigg. Hollinworth & Bro.fChas. Babcock Si Co. apit WM. KEAVIS, , XJ. S. Claim A;ont.' Also, REAL ESTATE and COLLECTI1 - AGENT. Office on Main street, between Third and Fourth, No. toi (over Keller's (inn Store), Evansville. Ind. seplW6 W. Hi ' & J. H. BEADLE, Atiornejs-at-I.aw, . T1UKU STKEirr, hear Main, - Evansville, 1st Refer to Hon. James Harlan. - Hon. G. K. Steele, Rockville, Im ma3,3m Hr:n.R.W Tnoinpnon.Terre Hac JOHN M. C$EBS- CHAUNCEV S. COSGKK i CREBS & CONGER, Attorueys-Ht-Law, Carml, Illinois. Will practice law in all the Courts of Edwards. White, Wayne, Hamilton, Saline, and Gallatin Counties, in the State of Illinois, aiid in the Supreme Court. Refer to O. Magliee, James K. Minor, Stockwell fc Co., Colonel T. W. Stone, with I. & Ji. Heiman. Gen. W. Hariow, MU Vernon. may 24 d3m Notice to Contractors. THE COMMON COUNCIL OP THE City of Kvansville will receive sealed proposals until Monday, the 2yth day of July, 1867, for grading and paving the following aileys, v z. : For grading and paving tbe alley situated between First and Second Streets, and extending from Vine to Division Street. Grading and paving the alley situated between First and Second Str els, and extending from Chestnut to Cherry Street. Grading and paviue the alley situated between Fourth and Fifth Street, and extending from Wt-lnut to Chestnut Street. Grading and paving toe alley situated between Second and Third Streets, and extending from Vine to Division Street. . By order oi the Council. A.M. McGRIFF, Clerk. -City Clerk's 02.ee, July 6. 167. jy8 , lUnion copy.

GROCERIES.

CHARLES VIELE & CO. WHOLESALE GROCERS, SOUTHWEST CORNER First and Sycamore Streets, Evansville, Ihd. au9 dtf. K. K. WHIKLIR. JAKXS D. BIGGS. WHEELER & RIGGS, Wholesale Dealers in GROCERIES, SOUTHEAST CORNER FIRST AXD SYCAMORE STREETS, Evansville. Ind. Ail orders promptly attended to. nov26 dtf ISAAC HBIMANIT. DAVID HEIXAN. I. fe 1). HE 1 91 ANN, Wholesale Dealers In GROCE HIES, Foreign and. Domestic JAquors, NAILS, COTTON YARSS, GLASSWARE, &c, 4c, Xos. 60 and 62 Main Street, Between Second and Third, Evansville, Ind. FISH DEPOT. ovaOdtf 1I0RNBR00K & C0.f DEALKK3 I If Agricultural Implements, and Oils. Agents for Fairbanks' Scales. We keen on hand a eeneral assortment oi these Justly celebrated Balance. T ley r durable and warranted accurate, auu tne cheapest, all thin considered. Sizes from one drachm to 150 tons. Jau9 dttm CRESCENT CITY PROVISION STOKI and M"EAT aiAHKIvT. F. W. BENNETT & CO Cor. LOCUST and SECOND STS. feb7 dly KEEP COOL Massers' "5Minnle,, Ice Cream Freezers. Warranted to give perlect satisfaction. For s"ile low at Eureka Bazaar, 76 Main Street. " AIR THE BABIES-We have just received the third shipment or those beautiful Baby Buggies tbe best evidence that we sell low. Price from i 50 to tzl 00. VICKERY BKO.'S. 75 Main Street. IUCJAR CURED H AMS, Breakfast Bat con ana Dried Beef. For sale at V'iCKERY BKO.'S, 75 Main Street. FISH DIRECT FROM BOSTOX, Pickled Haddock, Salmon, Herring. os. I and i Mackerel, Mexs Mackerel. Smoked Bloaters, die, Ac. For sale cheatat f VICK.H.RY BKO.'S, 75 Main SU S HOARS In anticipation of - a good fruit season, we 'purchased before tbe recent advance, a three months stock of ugars, wnicn enables us to sen in any quantity from a pound to a barrel, as low as the lowest. Pi ice from 12 to l(c tuall ties very superior. VICKERY BRO.'S, 75 Mala SU FRUIT JARS i - . 4 , ; F AS GOOD QUALITY AND AT as low price as any in the city. For o sale at at VICKERY BRO.'S. Eureka Bazaar, 7o Main Street. DENTISTS. DR. I HAAS ' Resident Dentist, Over First National Bank, , ; ' ' Corner Main and First Streets, Evansville, Ind., MANUFACTURER OF COXTIXUous Cfum Work, Gold, Silver, Vulcanite, Coralite, and Amber Plates, Carved Work, Artificial Palalew, &c ADMINISTRATOR of Nitrous Oxide (an excellent and safe antesthetic). Chloroform, Ether, and alo several local paralyzers. ' NEURALGIC Affections treated. MY FACILITIES are as good and my establishment as large (consisting ot fivjc rooms) as any in the United States. I RETURN MY THANKS for the extensive patronage received during the past EIGHT YEARS. mchil DR. J. C. BIERB0WER, tSr Surgeon Dentist, Office, No. IO FIRST STREET, bet. Main and Locust, i Tenders his professional services to tbe citizens of Evansville and vicinity. (fe26 tf ,Adm4uisters Nitrous Oxide Uaut ,to; alleviate .pain Ln extracting teeth.

STOVE WORKS. SOTJTEGSRISr STOVE WORKS,

ANTON HELBLING, (Successor to Brlnkmeyer A Co.,) MANUFACTURER OF COOKING & HEATING STOVES, For Wood and Coal; Skillets and Lids; , Ovens and Lids ODD LIDS; SUGAR KETTLES: DOG IRONS; JAMB URATES; AIR AND CELLAR GRATES; . HAM BOILERS; MUFFIN MOULDS; WAFFLE IRON8S Copper, Tin, and Sheet-Iron War. &C, Ac. Dealers in Tlopiate, Sheet-Iron, Copper, lc.,fct. Also, Sole Agent for O'Nell's Patent Broad-GauKe, Indestructible Copper Bottoms, for Wash and Co flee Boilers, Ao. Sales-room, No. 93 MAIN STREET, opposite the Court-House. Foundry, near the month of Pigeon Creek. Orders solicited and promptly filled Jan21 dtf Excelsior Stove Woiks. DLEMKER, TI I.T.MAX & Co. (Successors to II. E. Blemker), MANUFACTURERS of tbe fine and heavy EXCELSIOR STOVE, the most durable now made, and tbe famous CHARTER STOVE, and the good and cheap Armada, Stonewall, Kentucky, ' TENNESSEE, and PALMETTO STOVE, and a irreat variety of HE A TINO STOVES, all of the latest and most approved patterns. Also, Llgb't and Smooth Country HollowWare. Skillets and Lids, Ovens snd Lids, Dog-Irons, Dinner Pots, Tea-Kettle; and particular attention paid to the manufacture of House-Woik CAST-1R0X FRONTS, GRATES, Ac, iC. Also Tinwaroj - and Dealers in Tinnern' Stock. If dexired. Cooking Stoves warranted for twelve months. Orders solicited before purchasing elsewhere. Foundery, corner Sixth Street and Canal. Store and Sample Room at No. 11 Second Street, H. K. Bleink'-r- old B'uiid. BLEMKER, TiLLM AN fc CO. may29 MEDICAL. Great New England Remedy DR. J. V- POLAND'S WHITE PINE COMPOUND, IM 7VOW OFFERER TO THE A'flicled throughout the country, after having been proved by the test of eleven years lu the New England States, where , its merits have become as well known as the tree from which, in part, it derives its virtues. The White Pine Compound Cures Sore Throat, Colds, Couglts, Liptheria, Bronchitis, Spitting of Blood, and Pulmonary Affections generally. It is a Renvirkable Remedy for Kidney Complaints, Diahet, Difficulty of I oiding Urite, Bleeding from tM Kidnegs and Bladder, Gravel and other complaints. , In Novemlier, 1S.V, I first advertised It under tbe name of White Pine Com pound. In two yef;n from that time there bad ' been wholesaled in Manchester alone one hundred thousand , dollars' worth, where it took the lead of all the cough remedies in tbe market, and it still maintains that position. There are good reasons for this; it is very soothing and healing in its nature, is warming in the stomach, and pleasant wilhal to the taste, 'ud is exceeding cheap. " As a remedy for kidney complaint the White Pine Compound Mauds unrivaled. It was not orlgi nated lor that purpose; tint a person in using it for a cough was not ' only cured of the cough, but was also cured of akidne- difficulty of ten years' , Htandlng. Since that accidental discovery, many thousand have u ed it for the Mama complaint, and have been completely cured." THE WHITE PINE COMPOUND. "It was early ln the spring ot '52 that this compound was origins ted. A member of my family was afflicted with an irrilation of the throat, attended wibh a disagreeable couitb. I bad for some month previous tbonght that a preparation Having for its basis the inside bark of White Pine might be so compounded as to be very useful in diseases ot the Throat and Lungs. To test the value of It in the case alluded to, I compounded a email quatiti y of the medicine that I had been planning, and gave it ln teaspoonful doses. The result was exceedingly gratifying. Within two days, the irritation of tne throat was removed, the eolith subsided, and a speedy cure was effected. The above was writen by Dr. Poland ir IStiO. Since then, as in iVjanchester, tb White Pine Compound has taken the lead of all cough remedies, as well as preparations for the cureol kidney difficulties, ir every city, town, village, and ham lev throughout the New England States. This remedy is as safe and pleasant to take as it Is effectual. WHITE PINE COMPOUND, OEORGE XV. KTEET.M.I)., Proprietor. Prepared at the NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL DEPOT, 106 Hanover Street, BoHton. Under tbe "opervlsion of Rev. J. W. Po- . 1HUU. Cloud & Akin, Wholesale Agents. Wnr a.iA h Keller A White. Wm. H. P Stoddard , T. C. B id well. H. J. Schla?pfer and by UruggWl generally. feb9 dlw, wit If.