Evansville Journal, Volume 21, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 18 January 1870 — Page 2

rCBLISKSD BY TUB f?ASYILLK JOUUXiL COMl'AXY, Ko.6 fjocngt Street, KvaiisYllJc!

TUESDAY, JAMAUY IS, IS'). The Indianapolis Sentinel boldly avows that if a change docs not soon take plao in that city, it will not bo Ions till our State Capital will take precedence of Chicago in rnittcrs cf Scandal. Hardly a day passes that something tad is not heard of, and cases of s in. mag. are becoming so common that the local hardly regards them a3 worthy tlo time necessary to write them up for items. The Sentinel insists that " llot'orra or punishment is needed Lad'y, aad cannot come too soon." But has cot the great Democratic party in Convention assembled Resolved that any attempt to regulate the moral ideas, appetites or innocent amusements of the people, by legislation, is unwise and despotic!" How absurd, then, ior the Sentinel, the organ of that party, to be insisting that persons should bs punished for indulging their appetites. Their ' moral ideas " may all bo wrong, but to attempt to right them by law will be " despotic and unwise." "When a gceat political party, which claims to number within its pale more than half the voters in the State, publicly takes toe position set forth in tie resolution we have quoted, it is not surprising that cases of scan. mag. commence multiplying at an alarming rate, bhould tbat resolution be endorsed by a majority of the people of the State, can wo expect anything else than that it will become a lazar house of licentiousness and ali ua cleanness. The resolution itself is an invitation for the debauched of all the States to come into our mid3t. and its endorsement will result in forcing many of the moral, the pure and the good, who love their children, to move out cf it to some place where laws regulating moral ideas and ap petites and amusements are regarded with respect and faithfully enforced. Kentucky Finances. The State Auditor's report gives the total esti mated receipts i'or lS70at$l,02S.G8G G7, and the total expenditures lor the eamo period; including the amount due the sinking fund, $2,1(X;,G00, thus makine a deficit on the lUtu ot Ucto ber, lb70, of Sl.077,913 23. Paducah Herald. A nice little testimonial of Domo cratic efficiency and integrity in maneeing State Finances! A deficit of one million severity-seven thousand nine hundred and thirteen dollars am twenty three cents in one year I What a beautiful commentary on Democratic professions of economy. It will b remembered that Indiana, under Democratic management, used to re port deficits, though not so large as that which characterizes the Ken tucky management. But Indiana was never fo strongly Democratic as Ken tucky, and tho party leaders had soino little fear of adverse majorities, which is not the case in Kentucky. Are the people of our State so highly pleased with this specimen of financiering in Kentucky, that they will make hasto to hand over the management of their affairs to the same party? We cannot think so. At present, the indebtedness of the State has been paid off almost entirely. But it would only require ono term of Democratic management 6iniilar to that which is blessing Kentucky to increase the debt to the old dimensions at wLich the Republicans received it from tho hands of their Democratic predeCeSEOrS. mmmmmmmmamammmm isiTSR Faaii tike corxir. Rallroad Matters KvansYlllo Ceusured Politics. Peteksbuhgu. Ind., Jan. 13, 1S70. Kditors Journal: Inasmuch as your correspondent "Filo," from thi3 place, keeps very quiot of late, will you and your readers pardon a few lines from the undersigned, as Parson Nasby would eay. Vc have more railroad schemes than you could shake a stick at now agitating the public mind. Tho North and South, known as Dr. Piereo's Ivad, has just met with a defeat by fiflY-eisht vote?, on actual count by the Board of Canvassers, one township thrown out for of certificates, which would aud want have made it - nearly two hundred more. .The people have voted down by about ten to one, the JNew iUfcany project, and it now secm3 almost as clear as a problem in mathematics that they will vote down anything offered in the shapo or a railroad. This arises from different causes to what many suppose. Oar people feel deeply the want of market facilities, and are well aware of the advantages of railroads, but local prejudices, too dificult and too tedious to explain, make a suro thing against any county project. The dreadful blisters of tbe old Straight Line, or Carpenter's Road, have not healed over, and will not while this generation lasts. During the late canvass one D. II. Kennedy, from Washington, Indiana, visited our county in behalf of the Straight Line, but was very coolly received by our citizens. It sccmi very strange to we green Pikeites that whenever we have any railroad project on hand the old Straight Line booms up. but vanishes alter each election. We of Pike may be wrong, but we look upon Evansville as tho enemy of the Straight Line, and that it is duo to your city that we never got it in the first place, and we will never do anything for it until your city takes the lead. We have mud until you can't rest. In fact, that distinguished individual tho "oldest inhabitant," says "he never saw the beat." We have but little pork packing this season, as Morgan, Casio .& Vnitcaiaa, who are our heaviest dealers, shipped on foot the most of their lot. The Iato-iii most enthusiastic Democratic Convention, at Indiapolis, don't enthuse the unicrriSod of county worth a cent. There 'u cot enough '''"nigger " in it. It takes very long for tham to get the new?, and they hardly know what a Democratic Convention means, when the resolutions are not two-thirds " nigjer." I'ours, Scboo'uins.

Senator Pratt's bit:, introduced j into the United States Senate, on the 11th inst., is of particular interest to our people, and for that reason we ccpy it entire, as follows: A Bill giving to the State courts con

current jurisdiction with the district courts of the United States, in cases of maritime contracts and torts upon tho navigable rivers and waters above tho ebb and flow of tho tide, lie it enacted by the Senate and House cf Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the several State courts shall have, possess and cxerciso the sane jurisdiction, in all mat ters of contract and tort arising in, upon, or concerning steamboats aad other vessels of twenty tons burthen and upwards, enrolled and licensed in the eoasUtg trade, and at tho time employed in the business of com merce ana navigation between ports and places in the different States and Territories, upon navigable rivers and waters above the ebb and flow of the tide, C4 is now had, possessed. aud exercised by the district courts of the United states; and said jurisdic tion in the State courts may be exer cised after the manner heretofore exercised by them, including a jury trial upon tho demand of either party: and sd much of the ninth section cf the act of the twenty-fourth of Sep tember, seventeen hundred and eignty-nine, esraoasmng tne judicial courts or the united States, as con fers upon the district courts exclusive original cognizance of all civil cauaea ot admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, arising on such navigable waters ikbove the ebb and flow of the tide, is hereby repealed. For the Journal Decency. Jzesjived, Tuat any attempt to regulate the moral ideas, appetites, or innocent amusements of the people. by legislation, is unwise and de potic. ' What does that mean? Men have been arrested on our streets for being drun7c, not dangerously, nor offen sively to the citizens, but stupidly drunk, so that they had to be hauled to tho lock-up on a dray. Are we to understand that such action on the part of our police is "unwise and des potic?'' Men have been arrested for exposing their persona in our streets and alley3 contrary to the law. Are wo to understand that Euch moral ac tions, or "moral ideas" are not to be regulated by law? Persona have been fined heavily in this city for keeping houses of so-called "ill-fame." Have the law-makers the right to stigmatise the house of any citizen as a house o "ill-fame" when the inmates are simply catering to the moral appetites" o their customers. Persons have been made notorious by being arrested aud fined and published lor attendiDa such places for the gratification of their moral appetites. Are we to understand that such notoriety and punishment by law are "unwise and despotic lnlnngements of persona and private rights, with which the law-making powers have nothing to dor l ersons nave been arrested and tried and punished in this community lor exposing lascivious books and pictures for sale, in order to corrupt and pollute the youth of both sexes. Is it true that "the attempt to regulate tho moral ideas ot the youth ot this community, by preventing tho sale and distribution of this moral poison, is unwise and despotic?" Keno tables and faro banks have been brought to light in this community where youDg men were indulging in "amusements," which, however lanoecnt in themselves, were proving very expensive pleasures to somebody. The law calls such play gambling; gcntle-tongued people call it "innocent amusement," and denounce the legislation as "unwise and despotic" which seeks to control it, and thereby save young men from Sunday desecration, gambling and stealing their employers' money. Can the intelligent, moral and religious men and women of this city fathers and mothers endorse tlo sentiment " That any attempt to regulate tht moral ideas and appetites or innocent amusements of the people is unicise and despotic?" When our city and State come to endorse this resolution and the principle is carried out to its legitimate results, then we will emulate the condition, and deserve the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah. When this resolution is con firmed by the solemn suffrages of good people, then will wantonness stalk our streets in impudent effrontery, and indecency and vice riot in the assurance of legal sanction. 1 We have witnessed with pain the daring effrontery with which the paper which represents the interests ot a great political party a party which in this city numbers in its ranks many good, moral and Godfearing people is insidiously endeav oring to undermine tho virtue and morality ot this city. Ve do not think that Amercan politics demands thi3 desperate bid for support, that it must saenhee all that distinguishes us as a good .people. The character of a " pimp " is not one that honora ble and decent men and women en dorse ; nor can (we think) they endorse a paper that so frequently prostitutes its columns to vulgar expressions, and vulgar innuendoes aad slang. In order not to do justice, or S3em to bo writing for mere party effect, we would direct attention to two articles in yesterday's (Sunday's) paper. Such stuff serves to pollute all the fountains of purity, and deserves tho most ample apology to every man of decency and taste into whose family it may come. There is one from one column, and as if the ideas were fermenting in the head of tho writer, he has to repeat it in another place. " Scan. Maq." We have not had a case of "scan, mag." for a long time. Can't soma one get up a case of that sort? We will give the chap notoriety who gets np a case. That ought to be inducement enough. A sensational murder would place us in the seventh heaven of reportorial bliss. Vain hope! Indianapolis Sentinel. " We would put up with a case of scan. mag. or crim. con. We are not so blood-thirsty as the Sentinel man." We think it is not necessary for the writer to look far for a case of " Scan. Mag.," and if this was not enough, surely tho article of a column anda half entitled " Life as it is in New York," is sufficient. One virtuously inclined would have supposed that among all the exchanges containing such a variety ot matter, bometning tleccut and virtuous might have been selected, instead of the description of a hou:ui and scenes and persons of the lowest Lied of polite debauchery. Is it the intjsiiioa of those who conduct this paper to send this Sunday reading into tLe families of this commui.uy ia iird;r to debauch the public morals, that when this political resolve F-hidl be vo'cl upon and adopted, that "pretty waiting girl saloons " phall

be etallished as refuges for our debauched youcK women, and places of resort for the " innocent amusement" of tho young men? If this is the

plan, it is a uoiu one, out we uara;y think that even at the behests oi party, many of. our good citizens can adopt that resolution or endorse such wicsednc's in their representative, the Courier. ' Monday, Jan. 17th. ZiiU:s;:si Items. RcuicroRT boasts six tobacco stemmeries. Tns largest hog cut in Mt. Ver non, this year, weighed 5G8 pounds. The Muneie limes is the biggest paper in the State. Thomas IIilmnoer was rolled on. and killed by a larjo saw leg near Columbia City last Monday. A revival cf religion is in pro gress in the Presbyierian Church in Mt. Vernon. U. G. Dam RON, of New Harmony, has taken charee of the rseteon House, Mt. Vernon. The State Convention vfas too much for the Cannelton Reporter. It hasn't a single item of news. TnE railroad bridge across the Tip pecanoe, at iViontieeiio, is reported unsafe, on account of flood and ice TnE Mt. Vernon Democrat thinks the State Convention covered the Democratic party all over with glory. The Democrat fels effulgent. Col. W. J. Templetgn, of Benton County, is a candidate for the Repub lican nomination for Treasurer o State. TnE l:quor-seller3 in Princeton are being prosecuted by detectives, who have been on their track for some time. Tho.?. Miles Martin, formerly rector oi tbe i-piscopal bburch in Terro Haute, died on Thursday, at Njask, N.I. John G. Greenwalt has been ap pointed to the honorable and re muncrative position of Quartermaster General of the State, vice Peter Schmuek. Israel Laual, of Warrea County some time bince caught lour young minks alive, wmch he has raised and domesticated. They are said to be as tame as cats, and much more terrific on Norwegian rodents A Bluffton merchant has in store ten thousand bushels of flaxseed, for which he paid sixty cents a bushe more than he can - now gee for it liis pulse beats a little flaccid on the flaxseed issue. The old St. Mary's Catholic Church in Litoyette has been purchased for an opera house. It will be recon structed so a3 to make a cosy hall capable of accommodating ciht huu dred people. Billy Manning, the well known "minstrel." and Miss Mary McWil liams, the equally well known actress have joined their fortunes in a matri monial venture, and were in Indian apoli3 last week. HIE lluntmaton Uemorrat says that Gen. Charles Parrish, a lawyer of Wabash, absconded last week with a sum of money, about three thousand dollars, which be had collected as bounty for the soldiers who had served under him in the late war. The friends of the Lafayette and Rockville Railroad are pushing matters energetically. Meetings are being held on the proposed line, and it has been decided that the wcrk must be accomplished. The completion of this road would be of great advantage to Evansville. On Friday morning last Miss Sarah J. Lynch went to the house of Mr. Robert Jordan, near Cicero, Hamilton County, before daybreak, and knocked for admission. Mr. Jordan, believing that burglars were attempting to enter his house, opened the door and discharged hi3 gun, the ba'l with which it was leaded taking effect in the body of tho deceased, causing almost instant death. We hear a painful rumor from Evansville. It is said that Welborn, the good-lookiDg and genial member of tho Legislature from Vanderburgh County ha3 proved to be a forger, a defaulter and an ab;Conder. lie 13 said to have run away with a larga amount of funds held in trust by him. The tiger is the rock on which he split. Indianapolis Mirror. TnE much talked of newspaper change beccmos public, and amounts to this: Mr. Will. Pound, city editor of the Journal, retires from that position to more fully devote himself to the interests of the Cincinnati Gazette, of which he ha3 for some time been speoial correspondent, and the vacancy caused thereby is filled by Mr. George C. Harding. Ben. F. Reed, assistant city editor of the Journal, also retires. No other changes are known, although rumors of diver3 and sundry can be heard upon the street. State Sentinel. Well, Georoe is handsomely spiked. Hereafter the Douglass Boys, Col. Holloway and the Woarell Sisters will be clever fellows. I From tlio Leavenworth Commercial, 111 h GOING JT B1IXD, Two Ancient Paap2r Lovers Elepc from a County Toor-house. Most people, wheu they marry, do so from affection, or for money, or to get on in business, or to obtain a social position; but this pair had no anticipations other than these of pure love. The facts are these : There has been, for some time, in the county poor house, an old blind man, who lived by begging. He, from time to time, left the house aud resumed hi3 trade, but always found his way back again, and was considered as a life-long inmate. There was in tho same place a woman, who was subject to epileptic fits, and who was incapable of earning her living in any way. She was also a hard-featured woman, aged about forty-five or fifty years. Now, those two old people seem to have fallen in love with one another, and as the woman considered this to be her last chance in life to get settled, and as the man had no eyes to see the glaring defects of the bride, they determined to get married. The night before last they eloped in the pitchy darknes3, though that did not make much difference to a blind man, and whither they went knowet'u no man. They had no money, and wcrs cot encumbered with bat-gage, so that ali the world was open to them. Mr. Osborne, the Superintendent, u making anxious inquiiits lor the happy pair.

HE COOSE-JOilSSTOX ELttPKMEXT.

ictiirn of the Fugitives statement.' CosUc'd As already noticed in our uisCookc, of patencs, me lvev. noracc New York, and his parishioner, Miss Martha Johnston, witu whom he eloped, have been found, the girl having sent a letter to her lather lrom the Everett House, announcing that she wa3 there and wanted to come home. The Times of the 13th says: It seems tuat on Iriday alternoon, as Miss Johnston was returning from school, she was met by Cooke, who joined her and walked with her some distance, taiKing wun ner as usual. Finally ho proposed that she should go to the Everett House, and by various threats and representations induced her to accompany him. Miss Johnston states that educated as she wa3 to regard her pastor with reve rence, and to look upon him as her spiritual and temporal guide, she aceoinpanied him unhesitatingly. Arrived at the hotel uooke registered Miss Johnston as hia sister, under the name of Miss Mary Campbell, and she waa assigned a room. Here her father yesterday morning, discov ered her, and with her returned to her home. Mr. Johnston, upon whom our re porter called last evening, states that . . ' - -. 1at present ce is disinclined to mate public tha facts in the cae which have come to his knowledge, but that he has every reason to believe that nothing ha3 transpired which affects the innocence or purity of his child; that owiog to the excitable and ex citing scenes through whicn sno nas passed, he has been unable, as yet. to converse with her fully, and that until she becomes calmer, ho shall not attempt to do so. He says further that the proprietors and employees of the hotel assure him that curing the time of his daughter's absence from home Cooke has only called at the hotel once or twice, each time iu the day, and remaining but a few Kiomen?B at a time. It is his impression that Cooke, from the various accounts which had appeared in the public press, was forced, by the pressure cf public opinion and a failure to accomplish his infamous purpose, to take the step he did, and diselcso his own identity and the hiding place of fas victim. Cooke's attack on one of the editors of the World, and his subsequent ar rest, have been described in our columns'. The following is a letter written by Cooke to the Tribune: To the Editor of the Tribune: Sir: Will you give the words of a criminal a place in your columns I I do not ask to excuse myself, ua no! I only wish the truth to be known If I could only write, I would "t plain, unvarnished tale " deliver, but my head and heart hurt me so much that I cannot. On this day tho young lady will be returned to her home, as pure and good as when I first saw her. She has been with me as my sister. Of course we did not intend that, tut my wretched heart etungmcat the begin ning, and my only desire is to repair (83 far as lean) the injury I have done to all my friends, so good to me, and the church but "the damned blot" will never out. (Excuse the blots; they were caused by the snap ping ot the pen.) I wish that I could write, but I can not. Let mo make a few statements, and for Uod s sake believe me: 1st. I did not 1 have Dot Bcduccd Miss Johnston. If I had, why should I bring her back? If I was villain enough to ruin her, would I not have been villain enough to keep her? It is no fear of personal injury that prompted me, because 1 could have eluded everybody if I chose, and I am back now, and ready to pay any pen alty the family may require, only don't let anybody else come near me; for inasmuch as the papers say 1 am a wolf, it must be remembered that wolves bite. 2d. I did not correspond with her when in .Lurope. 3d. I never visited the school un til the day wc left the city. 4th. I was never in an assignation house with her or aDy one else, in my life. 5th. No "panel thieves" have black mailed me, and I defy and challenge any living man or woman to lay aught against my character since 1 have been a minister of the Gospel. If anybody panel thieves or any one else have letters of mine, let them publish them. As I hope for mercy no, 1 don t hopo ior any: but on my soul on everything that men hold sacred, even the most depravedswear it is not true. I have done wickedly enough, but don t paint me blacker than I am What I was beforel entered the minis try ought not to damage my character or veracity now. JUany actors are better than 1 am, and because 1 have turned out a reprobate, that is no reason why sucn villainous tnades should be launched against the Church. If could be five minutes in the presence of the man who wrote the report in the World, I would be satisfied. My chiefest anxiety is about the youug lady. Oh, I am certain that those who know me, who have been intimately connected with me, will believe mo. 1 never did wickedly at Mamaroneck or Flushing. I don't wonder they write so, for a man who would do what I have done, it is very natural to suppose would do anything. Don't understand that I am trying to excuse myself. I 3m not. I want neither pity nor mercy. Let that lo understood perfectly. I say, again, the young lady is pure as snow, and I am ready to do anything that will tend to confirm my assertion. Pardon me for troubling you, and put this in good shape, for I can't write although I want to. Horace Cooite. Wednesday r. H Jan. li, 1S70. OPSN-Aia PES ACHING. Dens cf Thieves la Arkansas Tamed Into Temples. A ecrre3pondent of the Chicago Tribune writes from Little Kock, Arkansas, that Rev. Mr. Pierce, of the Methodist Episcopal Church North, who has recently arrived in that place from St. Louis, has made a sensation. A few weeks since the public were startled by an announcement in each of the dailies that on the ensuing Sabbath the Rev. Mr. Pierce would preach in front of the Anthony Ilouse door, upon the most public Bquare in the city. The originality of the innovation itself drew a crowd to hear the sermon. Contrary to general expectation, the crowd was favorably impressed. The entire absence of every allusion that even the most prejudiced could hinge an objection upon was admitted by all. Everyone spoke freely of the preacher as one of the finest orators they had ever heard in the ministry. All were favorably impressed with hj-i personal appearance and bearing, and disposed to admit their belief in hia honesty of purpose. This was a great point gained. I

The next Sabbath found the preach- : er again at his po3t, and holding forth to a still larger crowd than before. Old men on horseback stooped and bowed their uncovered heads in reverence. Carriages and vehicles of various kinds impeded the highway, while the walks, and mueh ol the street, indeed, showed a larco crowd in most ca 'nest and respectful attention. The preacher himself admitted he never had a more respectful audience in his life. The weather becoming cool, the scene wss changed, and .services held in one of the largest and

most fashionable gambling heils of the city. Here, too, a large and seemingly appreciative audience was found, among whom were very many indeed of the eporiing fraternity themselves, who, to their credit be it spoken, treated tH preacher with the most marked rescect. The next Sabbath, at tno same hour, services were held in the drinking and billiard saloon attached to the Anthony House. From hero Mr. Pierce had shifted his grounds lrom one saloon to another, until ho has preached in every prominent saloon and gambling hell in the city. Everywhere he is followed by a large and respectful audience, who, strasge as it may geem, are generally free to admit that his labors are looked upon as friendlv ofierme in their behalf. Whether any great or permanent good grows out of this bearding the lion in his dm or not, certain it is at least, that the Rev. Mr. Pierce has accomplished thereby much for his Chvrch. lie has, in his own. person, almost obliterated from the minds of the masses at least the prejudice hitherto exist ing towards ministers of his peculiar cloth. Mr. Wm. M. Taylor, of Clay Township, cultivated ninety-five acres ol tobacco lat year, which yielded an average of 800 pounds to the acre making a total ot 7b,UUU pounds Where is the farmer in the State that can surpass this? Hocuport Demo crat. i The Lebanon Pioneer says: "A bright and intelligent little daughter of David Peirsol. aeed about nineteen months, was bo severely scalded by the upsetting of a pot of hot coffee as to cause death. The family were just about sitting down to breakfast, when the child ran up to the tabic and Eulled over the coffee-pot, pouring its oiling contents on. her head and shoulders." Annexation Notice. AI SOW IIEKF. ITAPI'EAUIWfl to tbe Mayor and Common Council oi ice City of Kvansvlile, that the foliowln; described territory, contiguous to said city, aud not platted or laid off into lots, a map whereof lias been dnly made and verified by affidavit accurately describing the Kama by metes and bounds, and which said territory Is described as loilowf, to wit: Commencing at the southwest corner of Bray's Enlargement of the city of Evansville, and thence runuln-i north 399 feet to the southeast bans: of the Wabash and Krie Canal: thence northeasterly along said canal 7SS feet to the half-seclion line, pairing north and south Ihrouxh tho centre of Section 5M, Tojrn 6 south, Xlango 10 wtbt, In Vanderburgh County, Indiana; thence north along said hail-section line bWJ feet to the quarter quarter f ectiou corner; thence west oa the quarter quarter section line 834 leet to the toutheast line ol Chestnut (Street of said city; thence southwesterly along the Hide of Clifsmul Street 958 feet to the northeast side of Tenth Street of said city ; thence along said northeast side of Tenth fctreet 821 leet to the northwest baud of tho canal aforesaid; thence southwesterly along said canal bank 175 feet to the halt-section line, passing east and west through the centre of Section 29 aforesaid, and from t bene 3 eafct (kM feet along said half-section linetoibe place of beginning, ought to be annexed to the said city of n.vatisvU'e and made a part thereof : and tbe said Mayor and Common Council of said city, being dr-eirous that said territory should be annexed to actl made a part of said city, for the following reasons, to wit: First, that said territory is contiguous to, and ta a large extent surrounded by, Raid city ; second, that said territory chares In the benefits of seweiage and other improvements now mde, and necessary to ba made, and bhould bo annexed, so es to sbaie in tha burdens of taxation equally with other property slmiiaily situated and now within the corporate limit of said city; and, third, tht.t the jurisdiction of said city over said territory is necessary to enable the Common Council of said city to open aud lay out suitable streets and alleys, and also to p ovide necessary and proper drainage for said territory. It is theiefore ordeied that the ilayor and Common Council ol said city give due notice, according to the requirements of an Act of the General Assembly of the tat4 of Indiana, approved March Sin, lSti.3, that they will, on the 13 th day of lx;cenibtr 1S(;9, pre-eut to the Uourd. of Commissioners ol Vanderburgh County a petition for the annexation, as a part ot said city, the territory hereinbefore describe.!. A. M. AIcGRiKF, Cierk, By E. A. AIctirfiFF, Deputy. City Clerk's Offlee, October Zi, 1So9. To Joseph P. Elliott, Samuel Orr. Hewitt C. Keller, William Baker, Thomas E. Garvin, li. J. Day, and the heirs ot Hugh ItonoMs, dec-eased : MOTllfi 1.4 IIKHEBV WIVES, that Jw" the petition referred to in the above notice was presented to the Hoard oi County Commissioners of Vanderburgh County, on the l;lth day of December, 1S&9, and that the same was received aud considered; aud it is ordered by said Board, that tha further hearing and consideration of said petition be continued until the 17tli of January, 1S70, aud tbt notice ba given by the County Auditor, by puolication lu the Evansville Daily Journal, that said application Is now pending before said Doard, and that it will b heard and decided on the said 17th dav of jantiaiy,1870. V1CTOH UXSCIl, Auditor Vanderbmgh County. Kvansvlile, December ISth, 1oj9. Mr-2 d'JOtl THE EMPRESS BELT FOR LADIES AND CHILDREN. ANEW TllIXG FOB AX ESDEKBELT, or for a Dress Beit. This Belt auid to support and improve the appearance of the figure, and is preferable, la many respects, to any other Belt in tha market. It is metallic, which gives it durability, aad is beautifully finished. In jet, silver-gilt, and plaid patterns. No lady should be without one. We liave just received our Fall Stock ol WHITE GOODv, EMBROIDERIES, LACES, HANDKERCHIEFS, HOSIERY, GLOVES, AND NOTIONS; and as we are iu tbe White Goods Trade exclusively, we of course keep a larger stock and c-m afford to sell at les profits mull uioiciiimu wiio Keep general siccus, We are exciu Jive Agents for tho Empress mpress tso:i. U. ii. CuUiia HC CO, rte8dt.f GAS FITTING, ETC. KONALD FISOEIJ,

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lUiiXJUAlIOB. INTERNATIONAL INS. COMPANY. Cash Capital, $.1CO,?00. Surplus, July 1, $631,S1S 05. Wo. Iiri BKOAIIWAY, X. Y. 8TATKM KNT of the Condition or tho 1NTKKNATIONAL 1NSUKA NCK CO. Of JSew York City, July lt, WJ: Total Asrts ....tJ,?!M),Kll SO Total IsiaOLlilici ..... .. .... las.ytM Z C. K. DREW, Agent, nov!7 t!3:n Kvansvlile, Ind.

The SPRINGFIELD FIRE INS. CO., OF MASSACHUSETTS. CAI'lTAI. AN!) bCRPLCa 8&oo,ooo. Tills well-known Company continues to Insure agnlnsL LOSS AND DAMAUE BY 1' IRK ou all kimlsi of buildings, merchan dise, household furniture, and all other Insurable properly, ai reauonaoie raiux. Appiieatlona received aud pollcleu issued by C. iv. DlCfc.v, Agent, novii Horn tvaiisvuie, iua. TJIIC MKKUlf ANTS' FAYOUITK. me mmma company OF NEW YORK. $2,000,000.00. Dwelling 11 oases lnsnred for a term years at greatly reduced rates. of THREE YEA US A T Tim FRIGE OF two: FIVE YEA US A T THE PRICE OF THREE! Don't wait for a Ore to warn you, but go at ouceand Insure la tbe Jji O jE X !i 2j .A- m Wisdom. Prndnee. and Experience all say iuburelu the LORIIjLARD The Aniplo Resources, Ijargo Experience, Prompt Payment of Losses, Atid High Standing oi THEa LORILLARD INS. CO. Commend it to all who want F I UST-C L ASS I NS U LI A NC K. All los.vs Adjusted and Paid by !. II. IHiKW. Agenl, ao. 2MH.V tui:kt. uolO-lm NEXSEIS1 & BAKER, ttonaral Insurance Agents AMD ADJUSTERS CF LOSSES, 2URULH HILL, No. 9 Main St., BVANHVILbK, INI!. Dwelling Houses Insured for a term oi year Hi greatly rtlucxl latex. Three Yrart at the Price of Two Five Years at the Price of Three.. 3ilJ Iiifcnriiiic5 .Sfterinltj'. Total Cash Assets Represented Over Twenty-five Million Dollar. The following ar among the Companttw representod : iETSA Insurance Co. of llartrori.conu. Cash Asset ..s,ooe,ooo. PHF.NIX Ins. Co. of Hartford, Conn. Cash Assets . . t,5oo,0y. CttJrriJBKNTAI. Ins. Co. of New York. Cosh Aitfets M.....S,O0,tifl. SOBTH AM KKIOAN insurance Coo. Hartford, Conn. Cash Assets 50,00. HIUtClIAKTN Ins. Co. of Hartford, CL Cash Assets , .........30,0U KOR'III AMKStlCABI Insurance Co. Of New York. Cash Asset SSOO.oog. PIMSVIX Ins. Co. of Brooklyn N. Y. Cash Aets 4f ,70 woo. JEW. LIVE Ins. Co. of Hartiord, Conn. Cash Assets . 00,M.. NEXSEN & BAKER, Agents, 9 MAIX STUKST, ETansTtlle, !n4, JanSJ dly ' tItTfire insurance co. HARTFORD, CON.V. CAPITAL AND AESKT3 OVEE A isAi.F Miixioar UAES. The reputation and standing whlen this Company has secured ia EVANttVlLKK, together with the large and uudouuted security it ofleis lor all its obligatlouH.will, it ts hoped, euro for it a share of the public patronage. A. C. HA LXOCK. Agent, No. 4 North Kustisirfet. uovl7d3ru Evansville, lnd. NOTIONS, ETC. WlCLKSALE DRY GOODS and NOTIONS 22 and 21 FIKST ftT KVANKVILLrt. 1N1J. I,1V 11J'L' ll Via Hill T. JXCillUllTC

liZT. FIFTH AND HLX.TII STS., Tha Ctoapost Oyster House in Town I irHI:fcil4YB'ri2B8 THE FI MUST JZ quality recetvtd from Uallimore daily per express. Meal at all hours 3i cents; Oyster Soup 10 cents; Lodgings '& couts. Open troui 6 a-U. to li! p.m. .e4 dly

LUMBEE, zG.

IS E V JT I XI 211, jorra 8. k'oohkij;. jons r. twf.hd. HqGORSLE & TWEED, Co?tlmctors and ISrilEsIerJi, And Manufacturers of Sash, Doors, Blinds, Frames, Brackets V.tv. WA I.N MT & KI IlXtl KTitEETfr. EVAPSVIMJ?, 1XD. All orders wJll receive prompt attention fe3ii3ui BUI fJJFJ US' We respectfully call your attention to a brief lint of Building Materials manufactured for and kext on hand b us. We propose to furnish everything required In building. Oar establishment comprises a combination never before attempted by any one house, s we make Building Materials a, specialty ; and from twenty-five years experience as mechanic, manufac turer, arid builder, wo flatter ourselves tUat we can furnish articles lu our line more to the satisfaction of builJers, aa re gains qua.ity ana etues?, than persons With less exprlMicoa'urlng you that, If our list comprises anything required by you, we shall be most happy to forward you, on application, our Price List, Doora, Sash, Blinds, and Mouldings. We keep on band a largo stock of all the usual slees, and are prepared to manufacture everything In the ilae of Doors, Sasli, Blinds (outside and inside), Mouldings, Frames, Brackets, New ell Posts, Balusters, &on &o. SASH, PRIMED and GLAZED, On hand aud to order. GLASS of all sizes and kinds PAINT BRDSHK3, OILS, PO'ITY, and VARNISHES of all klcda. NAILS, LIME, CE2ENT, PLASTER PARIS, HAIR. SHINGLES, LATH3, FLOORING, WEATHERBOARDINO, FIRE B3ICXS, &a We would partlcnlarly call your attention to our huge stock of IUH I,IEC1CS HAKUWAIIK, comprising everything In tbe line, assuring you that we can successfully compete with the largest hardwaro dt-alers as to price. We are AgeuUi lor YERXOXT Si PKNS8YLVAN1A SLATS ftUAISiUES. We have on hand a largo EtocS of Hoof ing Hlale, Marblelzcd Unite and Iron, Italian aud Wlatuary Marble AfauMoH, Orat-.x, 6c, aud can furnibh every kind and style at mauufantnrera' prices. Salesroom and Office; iSontli Writer Street i elweeu Walnut aud Locum, K V ANS V I XAjK, 1N1). '"ais Jk. GOODS. If ne iHiKt selected Mock of Summer and Seasonable OU.YAT Via.: In the DOMESTIC DEPA R THE NT, A very large stock of I he BEST PRINTS And tho mjl popular brands Elcatlied & UiiblcucLert ivt u s n, i jst s At the lowent market rates. DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT Is now more complete in its aHsortment thau ever be'ore offered In this market, and at AMTON ImIIINULY LOW ritlCKs. And all the new shades of FANCY HI LKH At 25c., 60c, 75c, and tl per yard lrx than their value, and tvarranird all silk, the assertion of (tome unscrupulous conietltorM to the contrary notwithstanding. Elack and White LLAMA SHAWLS, Hosiery, Q loves, PARASOLS AXD 113 UMBRELLA. NOTIONS in endless variety. MILLINERY HTflCIf nrlil ln cheap during the balance of the neasou. K'osqnito Bars and Netting. The best style of Mowmlto Kar Klxlures juat received and made up to order at abort notice. SCHAPKES, BASING ii CO., Xos. l and 4a Main Street. Jun28 VALUABLE DWELLING HOUSE FOE SIJE BY OKDEtt OF THE tliUTIT Court, the undersigned has been appointed a Commissioner to sell the houso and lot, at the upper end of Water Street, 27?, I."? occupied by the heirs ol Charlen H. Wella, decah;d. This property is one of the most desirable in the city. The hou.se is built of briclr. two stories blf;b, contains eight rooms, and is Wfcll nulshed, with good cUWaus aud out-bulldings, and the yard ih filifd with frult-tree and shrubbery. Terms On tnird cu;h, aud the residue in equal payments of oue and two years, bearing interest.. TiTitK fKarEOT. liefer to A. H. liayburst, No. 0 Houth Water Street, or to a a.. . A-Jj' ROBINSON, nov26dtf CommlsiHoner. CAHRIAGSS. J. B. JK. L. CiilEKN. 0 ARE! AGS MANUFACTDREitB. Tr:itifor Oriifinieutx ut t luclunati priots 'Main St ml, If-i. Fifth or,d S'uih, aula UAw -ia

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I- HOWES. J. ALEX. WCOUjMi O:. WGGLOniPOE HOWES L COTTOIJ FACTCmS, i i: ASK .1 I ill.Mi'illS, Tl-.N Advance r:i C a I.U.ci,a cash Produce. HOWARD & PitESTONS, Co i s s 1 1 i m I o 1 1 Jle r t 1 1 i : AVv'ir ORLEANS. i :. corsi5biui?u!s c ., TOBACCO, Ac, cash advance j upon FORK, CORN, fJSjU &(, to tbe above house, and r.So J-itui gunnies to shippers. nov2ii:r SAITUEI, H. KEN.XKDY. va:k; PAUL E. 1IORI "IS Kit. g. 11. KENNEDY CO., CommiH.'iioii 2 ere I s v IC R TII2 SALE OF Flour, Pio-v kio23, Con?, Whirs y Aud Western Produce Ff-ner i? !y, 55 and 57 KlTHS tS HI Itf I. r. .NUW OilL,iA-S, I. A. CouKlgoments solicited, am !" ral ca-: al vances uiadn on shipments to tne suut e bous, by w. if. aKi OC21 dbnl EVANlVILLg, i FOSTER & GWYN, COMMISSION HERCH&IiTS, 07 si a a a zix r: Km zivi J-.Si'i;CIAJ, A U Western i'r ATTKNTIO.Y i s:s i ' ouuea. Consiemnen s of Flour, (" it, "ir!: and all kinds t f Western i'us.juce ho'Untr.i, Lllx-ml Cimli dvauce.4 matlo on !1 m,!i.menls, either tor sale iu New Uileaij.t rshipment to New ork. foster, cv y:, Hi., Commission 31oi-'Suiil 41 M ATI K HI itF.ET, novl-d3m NKVr YORK:. ...J K. RA'Kiy. R. K. DUNKKESGa A (:(,. Forwarding & Ccmmi?shreliant s? j. AND OKNERAL AG K N SOTJT "3 FAST FREIGHT LIN: OVER THE RYAXSVIILU & t H A IV TQ R 03 YT L I. i , TKttKK HAITK Jfc !MJIA. AI'uL! i KELLKHmUNK, LAKK SUiiHR & KRIE UAiUJiii; . E VA NS VI L I E, INI), Liberal cab advance made on con ; t i. meats. miiodii h. d; H-jvca It. C Gl'.i aiLBEJi? a kn !::.. i, COVMISHJON M KUCHA?. xr.sv cKi.fAf.'M. s Ordcri and futifiifc'nraents hr!U-it; : Jyadtf S', HakiiW J. Funi.i's, ot New Or K J. O. Mi t 'Uf.l ot'H, or Joi,.l-lii rj. NoiT, ol New Orleans. Phelps, Ecl'sxkls ecu Vv PRODI CE, PRO 'E Commission More .t.KA . Forwarding und CoianiiK!!' 33 (irt; WHARFIMAT h a t f-j, PKOPKiKTOf? KRilroxd ani Fxst irals; lit Mr Agents, KVAMHVI M.r.. tti. J.'Ui'J dl V . X. HA I U.l is A 1 it t'i.'t:; .;-v ii-.i .(! C.;i, !:itmts. ICva.". i 1 lo. Q. Wh.:eir, Pi -s i. aud Ham'i (i r, V 1m Nf.tlor.al JJ-ii.L. vim !'ic Nut lo Ai;llU for 1 Ji in ;. :l!L C i i: -'t :T:r i.;v I..H I1 Vino, ncxi ;u (.. l'.roi:'s t in r.n In tljetiilt i. LtiiL'oh;:, i i-OL i-',' MltOHGT'X, rsu Ai-nuUi t. t.w B- theiu. a, i,, t , HKCTIli lKLM, -iud V.'bo.fUf. !:.;..-. i F I R S T S T R i: E T Oue iloor below Vine, next to L. fUi-"' Tin r;h Kv A.NHV 1 Li.E, I H janl dir. A. S. HAYlIUiWT, VA li D MX1: VB A X T. No, 6 ..Sou!:-. Water Dealer iu Flour, i:aft.u, H r.y, t'rtU, . u J and Country i'r kIucj. S. a. BARTON. Co m fill -,. im 71 ! hi f - CINCI.NNAM Liberal ndviinct x made on consijrnni e7 d LI F. M. HUMfHUF.Y. V. W. t.r . j, i.KVf KEIiSBY. I1U5IPHIIEY, LKW1S C: i '0. Vf?:WAUBI?fi AXD COMMISSION M E R I "21 A N TS, U3l