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FtTBHSHKD BI IHI . . EYAXSTIILE JOURNAL COJIPAST, BATIKU1Y. JU 25, 1870. The Floyd County farmers report the wheat crop, now being harvested, the best they have had for tho last ten years. The Coumr comnlains of its in ability to understand a railroad ar ticle ia the Journal of Friday, as thouch wo were responsible for the feebleness of its intelligence. Tiie defeat of the bill abolishing the franking privilege, by the United States Senate, wo cannot regard as a very superior stroke of statesmanship. On tho contrary, it looks to us very much like a refusal to give up what the Senate seems to regard as a pet prerogative of that body, notwith standing the unanimity of the people in favor of its abolition. VlSCBIfSZS BKAT3 TfRRI Haute! The game of base bail between tbe picked nine of Vincennesand the Vigo nine of Terre Hante. on Saturday, resulted In favor of tbe Viucennei club. Three lnnlnes were played tbe score blood SJ7 to UJ. Vincennet Hun. We suspect that oar base ball lata will have to take tbe conceit out of those Vln cennes "fellers." Evantville Journal. We imagine that your base ballists, in a test ot their skill, would get the conceit taken out ot tnem. t in cennes Sun. IF your boys think bo, all that is necessary is to let their thoughts be known. Republican Mass Heetln. The Ilepublicans of Butler and adjacent Counties in Kentucky, have determined on holding a mass meet ing at Morgantown, on Monday, July 11. General Eli Murray, O. P. Johnuon, Hon John P. Bruner and other distinguished speakers will address the meeting. A Barbecue and Pic nic have been arranged for at the same time, and a joyous occasion is anticipated. Everybody is invited, and rallant little Butler is determined that her hospitality shall be as com prehensive as her Republicanism is unflinching. TnE New York Standard asserts that unless some active measures are speedily taken an epidemic will soon bo found raging in the most populous parts of that city. The Btreets are in a wretchedly filthy condition, and the intense heat is making the gutters almost unbearable. The Democracy tax the people of that city fearfully, ostensibly for cleaning the streets, but ini reality to fatten a lot ot carbuncles, who have fastened upon the corporation. The poor tools of these political tricksters are the first to suf fer from an epidemic, but what care they for the tools, so long as they receive the benefit growing out of their instrumentality. New York is the heaviest taxed and the worst governed city in the world. TnE Democracy of the Second District, in their Convention, abandoned the"timo honored two-third rule." Mr. Kerr's friends saw that it endangers, 1 .tto 6UCCU33 of their favorite, and consequently decided that a majority of all the votes cast should bo sufficient to nominate. In some places the two-third rule is still held sacred. Tho EvansvlUe Democracy stick by it, it, and tho resolutions of '98.83 cardinal principles. Whatever may bo the difficulties experienced in determining, under! tho rule, who 6hall be their candidates, thty fight out the battle on tho two-third line. We suspect, however, that the next County Convention will have to abandon the rule for tho more Democratic principle of the majority ruling. The Summer will prove too hot !o fight out the Sher iff contest on the two-third line. ;1 Tn Cincinnati Commercial has a bad habit of confounding our paper with the Dayton Journal that is more funny than annoying to us, though our Dayton contemporary don't always seem to take the blunders in equally good temper. The following paragraph is the Commercial's last mistake of this kind: The postmaster at Patoka, which is in Gibson County, Indiana, is named Lamb. The worses went for that liamb, They forwarded to. the Postmaster General a petition setting forth that the Lamb was not only, insufficient and. incompetent, but unfriendly to the "Administration, and requesting his removal, and the appointment of t -.t'olored man named Graham. As Itanib was considered innocent at iVahington, the Postmaster General made inquiry of General JVtch,.ef Dayton, about him, and thaacute gentleman suspecting something wrong, sent for the petition, an 4. found, to his amazement, Wood Republican signatures attachecjto it. But, says the Dayton Journal, on hold'-it t the light it was discovered" Jhat the names were signed to a remonttrarice against granting a license to one AQttne llutenl'rem,o retail liquor in aha town of Princeton in the year lb'30. The remonstrance It aJ-been abstracted in some tray fro:n the Auditor's records, and the petition so pasted over the wordifig of the remonstrance as to make it appear that the names were signed to it.'- ,Tho Journal waxeth indignant thereat, and pronounces it a "dirty Copperhead trick," which it was, likely enough. i TnE Chicago Times, Democratic, recently remarked that the Democracy of New York, in their effort to make themselves as odious as possible, proposed to run the well known blackguard. Brick Pomeroy, for Congress.! Brick regards this as kind, "coming as it doeB from W. F. Story, a man who was horsewhipped in the streets by a woman, for blackguarding herself and friends" a man who "has not enough friends in any society to nominate him for Congress or any other office." At this exhibition ot brotherly love let us weep. Cincinnati Commercial. Veritable transcript from the record of a will admitted to probate in the State of New York: "I bequeath my body to the grave, my soul to its Maker, and the remainder of my property to my wife."

GLAXCE AT SCENES. EASTERN i The Crimea Its Geolozy and Towcs Thelspcnskl Eonastery In the Sol id uock me laraim or Talmudrejecting Jews, ana the Tartars or Baktschesaral, Indiana State XJy iters itt, l Blgomisgton, lad., May 81, 1870. In my last letter, after endeavoring to convey some idea of Constantino ple, I gave a brief account of our voyage to Odessa, the great grain market of Southern Russia and part of Tur key, and from there to the war renowned Sebastopol. The remarks reregarding this Russian stronghold and some other places, rendered familiar to our ear during the Crimean war. will be found under the heading THE CRIMEA, ITS GEOLOGY AND TOWNS. The voyage from Odessa to the Crimea occupied but little over twen ty four hours, and we arrived at Se bastopol (pronounced as well Simfero pol, the capital, with the accent ou the syllable before the last) landing. not as at Odessa from a small boat through the surf, but securely on a pier, , there being a good barbo formed by the promontories on which Nome of tbe forts stand, one bay iun ning up as far as Inkerman, a distance of at least four miles, although be coming shallow towards the last. The Malakoff fortifications are all leveled and a neat house, graveyard and boundary stones mark the spot of that celebrated struggle. The greater I T1 1 . P iL . and icsser .ueuan are seen irom me Malakoff eminence as well as the town and many adjoining forts of minor note. Most of tho Russian troops for this garrison are encamped across the bay, on the leit when ooatirg up to Inkerman. At this place after examining the pass we foucd the re mains of a stupendous aqueduct for supplying the town formerly, with water, it penetrates ine Boit nummu litio limestone for about 200 yards and on emerging from this tunnel the water was conducted around hillsides and over two valleys by very extensive aqueduct bridges. . At Inkerman they are Quarrying vast quantities o the limestone lor ouuaing materials m . . , -v In some places the rock is white, and so crumbling as to be unfit tor build ing; at other points we find, in a dif ferent formation, the hardest and most durable building material. This diversity arises from the fact that in an easterly and westerly direction high ridges, culminating in the Tchatir Dagh, or Tent Mountain rass through the peninsula in the line of the Caucasian and Carpathian Mountains. J his system of crystal line . eranitoid or, often, metamor Lhie Tocks forms magnificent bluffs especially near the south shore of tho Crimea and is often externally like our Hudson River palisade rocks Crossing this ranco are parallel basal tie upheavals nearly all the way from Balaclava to Aluschta, with a north erly and southerly strike, forming the points and promontories ot tbe coas and furnishing by decomposition of this, and the limestone, the soil for most of tho vineyards cf that region. already quito noted for its wine. The remarkable Mountain, Ursuf. or Bear Mountain, cast of Yalta and running boldly into the sea, ia of porphyry. 1Much of the limestone is nummulitio and of the Oolite period, some is Wealden, and toward Kcrtch and thence west in the northern part of the Crimea, is Tertiary, furnishing a pretty fair building material full of the most beautiful shells, of the genera pecten, cardium &c. The northern portion of the peninsula is chielly a large steppe, rendered, arid for want of water; however, in portions, great flocks of sheep, (one German owning 40,000,) are fed and found profitable. A smaller river, the Alma, in the southern half, runs from the mountains to its western embouchure, markiogitslinobya belt of timber and green herbage, very much as alonsr the Arkansas and other rivers, in Colorado and New Mexico. In fact the Crimea, with its wild Tartar population, its primative wooden wagons, its small, sprightly, durable horses, its arid steppes, thorny vegetation and rich narrow valleys, its table lands and mountain ridges, reminded mo forcibly of the rjlain?, valleys, mountains and people, io the approach to our Rocky Mountains; the southern aistrict being somewhat the counterpart of portions of the fruit and vine regions between Santa Fe and El Paso, with arid steppes at intervals. In the northwest of the Crimea, salt is made in considerable quantities, especially near Eupatoria; and near Perekof, the town at the narrow neek of land, leading to the continent, are several gas and mud volcanoes, in a low swampy spot, whence these volcanic vents throw off constantly, as by a safety valve, thegaseous accumulation of subterranean decomposition and recomposition. The southern slopes, towards the Black Sea, and also some of the valleys watered by small mountain streams, as well as by the larger' Alma, are sufficiently fertile and in some places tho manuring, plowing with two yoke of oxen, the orchards, vineyards, haystacks, tobacco fields, and loads of apples going to Sebastopol, for shipment, and a caravan of twenty wagons all loaded with cabbages, and some drawn by two camels with a yoke over their necks, betoken some enterprise and considerable success in their culture. - NEARLY THREE. HUNDRED WERSTS IN AN OPEN, EPBINGLESS, RUSSIAN POSTWAGOX. Notwithstanding the warnings of some travelers, who represented this mode of posting as being something fearful, we ventured to secure a permit, called in Russian a Podoroena, for which we paid about $3 00, to be supplied with horses and wagon9, during a round which, with our various directions, made nearly three hundred wersts, or about two hundred and eight miles. After the 15th of September O. S., you are obliged to pay for at least three horses; yet if the roads are good, or horses scarce, you only get two. The charge for these is seven and one-half copeks per mile; twelve and one-half copeks per station, of about fifteen wersts for the wagon and ten to fifteen coptks for the driver. Thus tho cost per mile is about nine cents, exclusive of any accommodation, except hot water at the station for your tea, and a lounge for your bed, the traveler carrying provisions and bedding. The wagon is fourwheeled, small, and usually strong, two horses being attached by ropes to traces on each side of the pole, while the third, when you get it, pulls by a single tree on the near side, fastened, sometimes, to the standard, sometimes to the coupling pole, they drawing obliquely and disadvantageously. The lines invariably pass through the

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names, and the driver sits cn nay in front, while the devoted passengers bump up and down on a rope, but little larger than a bed cord, stretched across the rear of the wagon bed, and covered with thin layer ot hay; ometimes. as a lavor, witn a crunnv ack. having tho hay stuffed into it. The driver having a bell hung to the wagon pole to warn others out of the way, and armed with a whip, and calling pur-r-r to his horses, instead or our whoa, when necessary, to stop them starts, without locking (not withstanding a sign al the top of all steep hills, bearing the painted figure of the old-fashioned wagon shoe and two links of a chain as a warning), dashes down, with loose rein, from heights that command the Black Sea over a sharply winding road, that often over hangs precipices of ma ny hundred feet, with a speed that al most raises. the wheels of tha outer curve from the ground, and swings the traveler who has neither seat back nor wagon sides by which to hold on, until his head leans over, the abyss, and he calculates on a grave at the foot of a magnificent palisade with his bones in the condition of a wheelcondemned heretic, xet there is an intense pleasure, somewhat akin to mat experiences ia uesutum a steep snow mountain in a sledge, as the tough . j: i little Tartar horses tear away down these mountains, missing the side rocks by six inches and knocking off fifteen wersts within the hour. me variety, nowever. was not so pleasant, when the stupid authorities. because our Podoroena read: "from Sebastopol to Simferopol Ly the way of Yalta, &c, insisted on Monday morning, we having arrived on Satur day evening at xalta, on sending us back to Sebastopol, before we had been to Simferopol. Baktschisarai &c , and the driver, to whom we could not speak in Russian, could by no signs or imploring looks, not even by the remonstrance of a German whom we had met on the road and who ex plained in Russian, be induced to stop until he took us twelve wersts to the next station. Thero we fortun ately round a traveler speaking reach, who explained the mistake and we were sent back, having, how ever, to pay both ways, as if no mis take bad been made, JJut this was nothing compared to the astonishing fact, which we discovered on our re turn, that THE POSTMASTER. AT YALTA DID NOT KNOW THE UNITED STATES While waiting for our post horses, 1 concluded to send a lew lines home in order to mention our change of route, as this tartaro-barbario portion was not in the original programme therefore taking a liussian who spok some Uermao. and another who spok some French, we assailed the worthy dignitary in his full official uniform of blue cloth and silver lace; having previously requested the Russian, who spoke uerman. to write beneath tb full English address, to which I had added Etats Vnis Je I'Am'r'que du JSord, the words Isorth America in ltussian. Ine Postmaster was evidently puzzled, not so much to know what to charge as where to send it. Opening his printed catalogue, he read aloud in succession, Columbia Bolivia, Venfzuela, Peru, Republica Argentina, Brazil; and, as 1 stu shook my head and made a rough drawing of North and South America he finally found Canada in his book and when X still tried to snow it was next below Canada, ho read New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfound land, and at 1 am it uiu9t bb : Kurope. When 1 still denied, by my interpreters, but admitted it was close to Canada, he concluded to send it there, and to Canada I suppose it went, as I paid my thirty-five copeks and bowed myself out, with an exalted opinion of official ignorance. 1 may add, however, that tho letter reached home through Canada. TUB PALACE OP THE KHAN, THE USPENSKI MONASTERY AND THE CARAIM JEWS. We had been highly pleased, as we passed along under the Palisades which tower over the north shore cf the Black Sea, protected from the north wind, to observe, on those basaltio spurs, vineyard slopes and sites for superb Summer residences. We had seen most inviting chateaux, and some princely palaces, smiling beneath the rugged ooronet of nature's adamantine materials; we had viewed the rich vineyards, and heard of Prince Woronsoff 's palace, costing twenty one millions of francs, his botanio gardens, with one hundred and twenty varieties of the grape, his vast wine cellars, from which he ships to Petersburg and Warsaw, buying up tho entire wine product of the Crimea, over what is raised on his own estate; we had wondered at madv things, new and strange to us ia Yalta, Aluschta, the capital, Sim feropol, and upon the route to and from those places; but newest, mo3t wonderful, and most interesting, was Baktschisarai. with its surrounding", the cave-dwelling monks and Talmud-rejecting Jews, at "Tchufut Kaleh." meaning, when translated, from Tartar into English, "Jewish Heights." Having, through the politeness of Colonel Schostak, who is commissioned by the Government to supervise the Palace, received permission to sleep there, as there is no hotel in Baktschcsarai, we wandered through the ancient residence of the last ruler of this part of Tartary. and saw the rooms occupied by his christian bride, whom, according to the Russian poet Puschkin, he so loved that he imprisoned her until he fairly won her love by his devotion, only for her too soon to be poisoned by a jealous rival, and long to be mourned by her disconsolate lord. In the mosk adjoining, rest the remains of many a death-dealing scourge to tbe Western Empires, in solemn turbaned state. The quaint, arched doors, the Eatin and 6ilver covered divans, the cupolashaped fire-places, and many other oriental varieties, speak of barbaric splendor and despotic power; yet from the well kept grounds, its name Baktschisarai is well deserved, meaning "Garden Palace." From here, guided by a Moslem Tartar, mounted on sprightly Tartar horses, erect in Tartar saddles, and clattering through the gay booth:lined streets of Tartar Baktschesarian, we came to overhanging rocks hung with drying tobacco, sticks being driven into the stone, on which to suspend it, and reached the cave dwellings. Ascending steps cut in the rocks, we saw dwelling?, whose door and window facings were flush with the face of roc It s hundreds of feet high, and entered a small chapel where we tendered a fee and were conducted to a much larger, built by the personal labor of these monks, after excavating a vast arch in the rock, of materials independent of the main rock. The interior was ornamented with quite passable paintings of the Yirio, Saints &c, and the candles were kept here as we had seen in other Greek Churches, each worshiper buying from one to six, at i copeks apiece aod ; having them lighted and placed on the High Altar v Here, as well as at the Church in Yalta, we saw them, af

ter many crossings and kneelines, place the forehead repeatedly on the ground in Turkish fashion.

rrom this Uspenski Monastery, (or Church of the Ascension) as we were informed it was called, we rode up the Valley of Jehoshaphat (for theCaraim Jews have so named it); and, ascending a steep rocky height, came to the foot of a bigh bluff, and apparently impassable, rock barrier; but turning a sharp corner our guide rode into an arched opening, and, emerging, we found on the bluff, the town of the Cariam Jews. We wero at once conducted to the Rabbini, as he called himself, or the octogenarian, Abraham Fireovitsch, the head of the Caraim Jews. Finding he spoke German, although im perfectly, after recording our names and giving a small gratuity to the li brary, we obtained valuable informa tion regarding the sect and its ancient manuscripts, which I am told by others, will become the property of the Emperor of Russia, by purchase; nearly all, except the ancient leader, and a few of his immediate followers. having deserted the locality. In the library are kept chiefly the less ancient writings; but in their museum they have besides parchments, long rolls of common sheepskin leather. covered with Hebrew writing, one datinsr back to 124 years B. C. That was the oldest, while others on leath er or parchment, either in Chaldean, Syriac, Hebrew or Arabic, were usual ly tome centuries later. A stitched parchment book containing the entire writings of Moses, in large quarto Bible form on parchment, is nearly a thousand years old, and is naturally very highly prized by them. After the venerable head of the sect had exhibited his ancient possessions. I requested him to writehis name on a leat ot my memorandum book, which he did in Hebrew, beginning on the right. I then took a book from ray pocket and showed him his name in connection with the account he prepared, by order of the Emperor, tracing the historical wanderings and describing the peculiarity nf his sect. Knowing that we were Americans and seeing his name printed in one of our works ( although in reality this was a Lepzig edition,) he was much gratified and explained to his followers, that, notwithstanding our being almost their antipodes, (which in parts of California would approach somewhat to the facts) we had heard of Abraham Fireovitsch. At leave taking, he seized successively the hand of each of us in both bis, and gave ns a tender embrace. His venerable beard, a fine countenance, retaining at 83 much youthf'ulness. his sprightliness and intelligence all contributed to photograph deeply on our brainalbum ot choioe portraits, that of the noted Rabbini, Abraham Fircovitch. His sect, according to the most authentic records, did not return to Palestine, after the Babylonian captivity, but during Cambyses reign gradually reached Armenia, and in later years the Caucasus region; whence all all those wandered to the Crimea who refused to accept the Talmud, which they claim was an innovation brought about by the influence of the conquering nations in Palestine. There are perhaps, in all, but about one thousand Caraitei now remaining, and they are considerably scattered. They have the reputation of being honest aod intelligent. Of the Talmud-aeccptine Jews, we saw something while at Yalta. Enteringtheir Synagogue on our Sun day, we found them 6inging from books, one of which they handed tons and we observed prayer,, His?7 f.v,o t. I'salms, pr'r.d ;u ono column in German and on the opposite in Hebrew. Thy all wore their hats, and after chanting these prayerp, on arriving at what seemed a chorus, they struck little bunches of willows (which all carried as memorials io their hand?,) against windows, doois, books and on each other, until among the junior part of the congregation there was quite an excitement. THE PAST, FRESENT AND FUTURE OP SEBASTOPOL IN PARTICULAR, AND OF THE CRIMEA IN GENERAL. Taking a boat we had a pleasant sail round a westerly point and reached the ancient Chersonesus Taurica. We might, had we preferred, have walked across, in about half an hour. The relics of the ancient ruins, left there by the Tauri, from early Grecian times, were very interesting: bricks, tiles, hard mor'ar, broken marble columns, are still to be seen scattered in confusion. Over the site of the ruined church in which Vladimer was baptized, there is being erected a fine church, preserving the old altar in the crypt of the modern structure. Close by is a Monastery, the intelligent Prior of which showed ns many ancient Greek and later relics found in digging: several coins bearing the heads of Constantino and Irene, also, some of the ancient heathen household gods, small figures in ia5tal cf birds, &o., as their protective penates. Thus this point, close to Sebastopol is interesting as having been the scene of early Greek colonial settlements, probably Cimmerian and Taurian, while Balaclava, near by, (besides its modern glory, as the valley of the splendid Light Brigade charge), is thought by some authorities to be the locality described in Homer's Odyssey, as receiving the companions of Ulysses in their wanderings into a harbor safe from wind only to expose them to the cruelty of the Lastrygones, from which his ship alone escap ed. At subsequent periods the Scythians. Mithridates, the Huns, Khasars, Genoese and Tartars in 1237, and the Turks io 1475, were, according to some writers, successively masters of the soil. When the Tartar hordes under Dgingiss Kahn (so the Tartars write the name), separated into the greater and the lesser, the former made Casan, on the Wolga their capital and the latter settled in the Crimea, the Kahns residing at the capital Baktschesarai; each in succession being buried there, even to the last, Guirey Khan, who had in 1783 to yield to the victorious army of Catharine of Russia. It s this last who previously carried oS the Polish Countess Maria Potocka (or according to some Pototzki) and it is further stated that instead of the romantic termination given to the adventure by the poet, she was drowned in attempting to es cape Irom her harem prison. The past of the Crimea is thus full of historic interest. Sebastopol, at present, is almost a mass of ruins, remnants of fine buildings, very few as yet being rebuilt. The town, and all around, speaks of desolation and the ravages of war; the Greek Church, however spared alike by the cannon of the conquerors and the fire of the retiring Russians still towers in its original splendor. As regards the rest of the peninsula, although arid in many places, the beautiful summer residences, on the shores of the Black Sea (one of which was occupied by the Emperor a day or two after we passed); the orchards and fields along the river courses (of which there are four somewhat considerable streams in Winter); the vineyards on the couth mountain

slopes; all render the southern por- ; tion of the Crimea picturesque and; productive. From the river Alma i alone (the, name meaning apples),!

there are vast quantities of that fruit, I shipped yearly by wagons to Peters- i burg, so baled in India rubber and matting that neither rain nor frost can penetrate. Largs quantities of tobacco are also produced, chiefly of tbe small Turkish variety. Of wine there are many varieties, all said to command good prices in the market. Prince Woronsoff has his agents to purchase the inferior wines and convert them into brandy, while the better are shipped with his own to Petersburg and Moscow. Thns the present of the Crimea is rather promising, especially as many German colonists are settling on the cast coast. Still farther east, on tbe Caucasus slopes, the soil, cli mate and prospects generally are said to be most inviting and at Piatigcrsk there are medicinal waters reported, the Narzan, or Demigod-Baths, whose efficacy is vaunted in the high er terms. At the various summer residences on the Black Sea. there are bathing houses on the shore, and the sea is so pleasant that even the wealthy freauentlv indulge in sea bathing. The water is so mild that medusae and other aoalephs are very abundant Probably from this cause almost every evening, by agitating the water with a stick, it gives forth tbe most brilliant phosphorescence I have ever seen from a similar source Of the Crimean future, it is only pos sible to judge from the shadows which the present throws on the distant his torical picture. European Turkey seems likely to pass, at no distant day, to the successors of Peter the Great; and the Rusians, sustained now by the Christianizing spirit of the Greek Church, are becoming gradually civil lzed by tbe force of circumstances, and apparently almost contrary to their wishes. With the large agricultural resources of Southern Russia, brought by projected railroads to Bessarabia and the Crimea, and then thrown from the great mart of Odessa through the Bosphorus, if they acquire its command, to all parts ot the world Russia opens for herself the prospect of commercial and naval prosperity and development, which bids fair to make her at some future day the great power of Europe: the 1'russian aod Austrian eagles trembling before the talons of the double-headed Muscovite King of Birds; and even the King of Beasts himself (the British Lion) brought to couch in an attitude of watchful apprehension beneath the soaring flight of the Russian eagle. Should this dream ot St. Petersburgh be realized, then the Black Sea will be her theatre for naval tactics; and the Crimea, rebastioned and fortressed, the southern key which locks and bars the entrance to a giant territory. On the 5th of October, 18C3, we were awakened from these reflections by traversing for the third time, in order to reach Constantinople, the Thracian Bosphorus, and to witness its undiminished beauty, and niaratinae prosperty. with ever increasing admiration. Nor could we any longer wonder, after seing all these oriental glories, why the "Golden Horn" is a horn of contention between the Vladimir Cross of the Russ, and the star-enclosing Crescent of the Turk. Very truly yours, Richard Owen. POPULAR LECTURES! 1 ! In anawer to the subjoined Invitation, New York, WILL LECTURE AT TIIE opera house: Oa tbe days and subjects herein tpeclfled: Monday Evening, Jane 27th, Before Ladles and Gentlemen. SUBJECT : NERVOUS PEOPLE. Tuesday Evening, Jane 28th, Before Ladles and Gentlemen. SUBJECT: Physical Grace and Beauty." Wednesday Evening, Juna 29th, Before Ladles and Gentlemen. SUBJECT : "The Heart ani Lungs," With hints on the physical education of children. Thursday Evening, Jane 30 th, SSI ORE (JBNTZEMEX ONLY. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday ifternoons, before L'ddie3 cnly. Evenlnc lectures commence at 8:15 F.1C Afternoon lectures at 4 :S0 p.m. Prices of Admission : Tickets admitting to tall coarse, 81 so. Tickets admitting to single lectures, SOc. INVITATION. Evakbviixe, Ind., Jane 21, 1870. Cr E. P. Banning, Henderten, Ky.: DiabBib: Understanding tuat you will shortly be in mis city, we. the undersigned, would request you to deliver your lectures on "Mechanical Physiology" in this city. Very respectfully, M. J. BRAY. A. M. OWEN, J. F. BILLIARD, B. R. SMITH, J. c. eierboweh. and many others. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. From the New York Trlbune.1 An entertainlnir and instructive lecturer. I r rum uig mew ion XieraiU.) Should be attended by all, old and young. From the Evening Post. Fall ot instruction, and forcibly Illustrated by anecdotes. - From the New Origans Picayune. He Is one of those rare speakers who obeys Hamlet's Injunction to the players. The lecturer was Interesting, and we went away feeling that we had acquired a knowledge ot things worth know lag. From the Columbus ( Miss.) San. An old thinker, and one bad rather take bis physic than endeavor to combat bis logic We advise alt our citizens to attend. Je24 dtd J. C. ATKINSON, IPapor TBCrLiier. Orders left at JOHN WYMOND'3 will be promptly attended ta. I have been In tbe business In the city for six years. My work U tha bet refer, sea I can give. mo it) 3m

MARCH--1870.

IAEDWAEE AT PAXIC PRICES, CASH.iONLY. Wholesale stnd retail buyers will find It to their interest to examine oar price before purchasing elsewhere. Orders by mall, 4a, promptly attended to. FRED. P. STRAUB & CO., NO. 83 MAIN STIKEJET, (Near tbe Court House.) B1UN OF THE BROAD-AXE. mh8 Courier, Democrat, and Union copy. aAHUIL OKB. JAXB8 DATLDBOH. J. L. OBJI SAMUEL ORR & CO., SULIU 1M IEON, STEEL TIX-I'LAT. 1VI11E, ZINC, BPUING8.AXLEH, Horse and Mole Shoea, Tinners' and Blacksmiths' Tools, WiUON AND BUGGY TfOOBWORK WUOCUHT SCRAP IKON BOCtiin At the highest market rata. Sycamore Street, near Witter IttnU dtf EVANHVILLE, IND. B(f?TTlCilim, HELLUUU & Co (Successors to Wells. Kellogg & Co.) IMPORTERS AND JOBBER OK 13 lETirmt, Street SION OF THE BIG PADLOCK axi;n, axes, table cutler 1, TABLE CUTLERY, TABLE CUTLERY, POCKET CUTLERY, POCKET CUTLEliY, POCKET CUTLERY, Trace Chaintt, Trace Chains, Traco GlinliiM, Planters Iloea, Planters' Hoes, I'lantera Hoes, Mechanics' Tools, Mechanics' Tools, Mechanics' Tools, BU1LDKKH' MAUDWABI, BUILUKU8' HAKtiWAKK, BCILUKKS' HAKDWABK, WITrOHi AN1 WI. AKIK COTTON AMU H'OOl. JAKIN BKHT KUBBRR BKL.TINU, BSCHT HVIiiiKH BKLTINW, RBitT HUBMMB. BHL, TlHHt I1H and Cross-Oat Sawe, MUl and Cross-Cnt Saws. 2511 and Cross-Cnt Saws. CAMH buyers will find it to their edvan Uvge to examine our stock before pnruhac. Ing elsewhere. it the Old Stand, 13 First St. SSTTICBKB, KELLOGG A CO. SADDLERY, ETC. GEO. TII0KMIILL, KAUVrtCTCKIS or ftmlt! le& ixu.il Ilarnesi SXCOXD 8TUKKT, oesr Halo, EVANSVILLE, IND. All Kinds of fine Saddles and Harness constantly on hand. REPAIRING done Id the beet manner and at short notice. fmh5 dam Charles Babcock & Co, ntPORTI&S A HO SZALXUS IM Coach & Saddlery Hardware Springs, Axles, Wood Work, Damasks, Harness, Enameled Patent Isealher Pad Skins, Skirtings, &c, tfcc, f LNo. S MIia Ntreet, ma2 EVANdVILLK. IND. Steam Faw Mill for Sale. KKOWHAsKTEAD'j MILK. AIho, twenty-nine feet on of the north end or side of Lot No. 103, in the town of Carml, upon which lot is situated a storehouse. Terms of Hale One-eighth cash in band : the balance on a credit of nine, eighteen and twenty-seven montbsequal payments, the purchaser giving note with approved personal security and a mortgage on tbe premises sold, to secure the payment of tbe purchase money. Upon the first above described piece of groaad is situated the well known Haw Mill owned by the late O. P. Btead, which Is known to be one of tbe beet mills in Boulhern Illinois. For further particulars inquire or Jasper Partridge, Attorney, Carml. Illinois. THOH. O. PARK.ER, Commissioner. Jane 6, 1870-Jell tds " LIVE BY & SALE STABLE, Fifth Street, bet Locust & Walnut. Thos. B alien, Prop'r. ARCPPIT OF CORD WOOD eon. stantly on band. Cisterns filled with fjctmb water on short notice. Orders left at tbe Livery Stable will be promptly attended to, aprtHiai

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THOS. C. SMITH & CO., PBODCt'E AKD Commission Mercli'ts Dealer In Floor, Hay, Oats, Grass beeds, and Prodnc generally, -o. 5 South Water Street, KVANSVILLE. Orders promptly attended to. IJalO dly C a LTOS. E. C. MACHX2T. LYON & 3IACIIISIV, Produce and Commission Merchants, Dealers in Hay, Corn, Flour Oats and Product Generally. So. 80 North Water street, nov!3 3m KVAN8VILLE, IND. X. H. FAIBCHILD. JOHN W. BINGHAM & LIS GUAM, FA1IICIIILD Coiniiiission Mercli'ls NEW ORLEANS, LA. Personal attention, and prompt returns guaranteed. fnov8 rtflm BUSINESS CARDS. Osborne, 27 I.ocu8t Street. Osborne, SIGN PAINTER. OHborno'K Show Cards. Jonl2 dtf 8 o cr o -i CS CP STATI02IEI2.Y. JOHN H. SCOTT, 12ookneller,itntioiicr ABA m;u Mi) kali; u, No. 53 JtllX STRUT, cor. Second, auift dly Kvawbtillb. Iwn. mii & BAKTliR, Wholesale iJou&wlieru & Stationer SCHOOL BOOKS, BLANK BOOKS, MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS, PAPER ENVELCPLS. ARB INo. lt Main Mtreet, HTAiisvUle, Indiana. Ju!ylT NOTIONS, ETC. Clement, WJaite & Co. WHOLESALE IDKY GOODS and NOTIONS 1 . ... rt'ir 22 and 21 Flit. ST ST., JyZl KVA NRVfMK. INI. INSURANCE. NEXSEN & BAKER, General Insnrancs Agents, AWD ADJUSTERS OF LOSSES, No. 10 Main Street, Up-Stalrs, EVAH8VILLK, IND. Dwelling Houses insured for a tem of . years at greatly reduced rates. Three Tears at the Price of Two Five Tears al the Price of Three. L.lfe Ininrance a Hpecial tj. Tctal Cash Assets Represented Oter Twenty-Seven Million Dollars. The following are among tbe Companies represented : iETN A Insurance Co. of Hartford. Conn. Cash Assets ....rt,ftOO,000. PflffiNIX Ins. Co. of Hartford. Conn. Cash AAttets ....-...........l,7OO,t00. COSTINESTAL Ins. Co. of New York. Cash Assets ..........:i,3ao,ooo. NORTH AMERICAN Insurance Coo. Hartford, Conn. Cash Assets OO.OOO. MERCHANT Ins. Co. of Hartford, Ct. Cash Assets . i.Q0,000 BfOKTII AMEKICAW Insurance Co. of New York. Cash Asseta - $00,0)0, PUCKS IX Ins. Co. of Brooklyn N. y. Cash AwlJ ....ai,j O OOO. TORKER8 4k ti. TORU Fire Ir.s. Co. Cash Abeu..............now,'o.oo ETNA LIFE Ins. Co. of Hartford. Conn. Cash AmieU ......SH,0tf,ouu. NEXSEN & BAKER, Agents, 10 XlL BTUXKT, Xraosrllle, Ind. Jan30 dly FAIKIIAXUN' STANDARD HORNBROOK A CO., No. V North Water Btreet. KTAnsTllla, Ind ot all kinds. c2 Mm IiiglcKide Conl mines CHEAP FUEL. TO FACTORIES wanting cheap fuel, we offer Black at the Mint at one cent per bnsnei; delivered, ayte; Ilsrel Coal at the Mines lour cents per ouahel; delivered six cents. Hat Coal, al the Mines, ulx oents per bushel ; delivered, eight cents. 'r contracts on Clean Lump Coal, please apply to our office. We are prepared to furnlfch a cleaner article than ever before. J NO. IfstiLK, Jn, A HON. apv3 8m Proprietors. J3ENTI&XJ3. DR. 1. Hv-A.. Xtenltleiit n Over Klrrt National Banc, Corner Main iM FJmt t'arcuu, JCvansvllle, ind Yiw-ASii'KACTriiKK or - 'vri('. I J ous (Jam Work, Oold, Silver, Vtij cunlte, Comllte, and Amber Plates, Cti vd Work, Artificial PalaUm, A a. ADMINISTRATOR of Nitrous OiM (an excellent and safe anawtbetic). Citii roform, Ktber, and aln several local rur lyxera. NKTJRALOIO Afoctlons treated. UY FAU1UT1M are as ood and mf establishment as larce (couNlHtlng of rrv rooms) as any In the United Htatcs. I RKTtJRN MY THANKS for ths o. tensive patronage received daring the pal 1UUI TEAKU, nacnii

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i aowts. j. Avi.x. (jou.iiii,ci HOWES & VVOOLDniDGE COTTON FACTOHG, rnoiJircE ai Commission ricreh'l? 282 FRONT feTItXuKT, MEMPHIS, TI'.NN. Liberal Cah Advancts on Cotton an J Produce. (df-'idiin SAKUIL H. KI5NIDTi jrTMCS VAIKIN MUL J. MOU 'IMEK. S. H. KENNEDY & CO., CommiKsiozi Slercli'iM FOB TUB BALK Of Flour, Provisions, Core, Whisky And Western Prod ico generally, 65 Md 57 POTKRAII Nl ltLI T, Consignments sollclte I, and liberal cash advances made on kbip;tn nLs to the above booKe, by W. hi. Aik pcttl d(im EyANSviLLK, In FOSTER & GWIN, COimiSSIOJI MERCHANTS, ;V.Ejr ORLZAX3. ESPECIAL ATTKirflOX OITENTU Western Produce. Consignments of Hour, Corn, Pork and all kinds of Wwlc: n ProiluoeKoHeHod Liberal cash odvancx a made on tit uliljt ments, either for sh la jn .New Orleans or shipment to New York. FOSTER, mi !L' CO., ComnilHHfon MerohuntH 41 WATER STJtrjET, novl-dlm NEW YoiiK. R. K. VVTSXXHHOX ...J. K. Hakih. R. K. DUNKK1S0N C(. Forwarding & Commissici IVIorcliriiitK j AND OKKKliAL AG KM south: seeohb FAST FREIGHT LIKE, ovih riiit ST1NSYILLK & CKAWFOKUSVILLK TKUBK HAITK & IWDIASAIOLIB, BKLLXFO.TALK, LAKK SUOUE & IUIE KAILIIOAM E VANS VI LLP, IND. Liberal cash advances made on conuUinmenta. lnfdi.f F. B. 0SOUCHr If. O OILBfcKT. DDSOUCILST & CILDJillT, GENKKAL COMMISSION JI Eft CI I A A 'IS, So. S9 Poy Iras Strm, NEW OULEANm, i a Orders and consignments ollcn:i. jy6dtf Hiiw J. PHKI.PH, or Nw ftrlrvtiH. J.O. MoOoiJ.(HrH, of iiu'.wvUiH, Ky, K. Nott, of New Orleans. riiclps, ficCuiloeli L to., PRODUCE, PROVISION, AMD OKKIRAL Commission Hercliants, 112 (ililVIIUi KTKEET. noviMdtf NEW OKLV.ANH. WM. C. KliJWN & Ci.. Forwarding a ua coxajr.ic-io JSTarc lira-i-t, WRARFBOAT PROPRIETORS, Railroad and Fast Freight Lin Ag Hits, ISVASMT1LLK, I Kit. Jang dlv A. S. IIAlIIUIiST, fjiODUUE, VOAtMlVXJOX AKD . WA R D 1NU M Kit CilA Arr. NO. 8 Houtti vymr n Daler in Klour, Knnott, 1Ihv,.h'.. . i, andCouulry Product. r. M. F.UMP1IKKY. UK.). J. LhWI, O. W. KIUNKV. UDMPUREY, LEWIS & (JO. FOUWAKDl.V'U AXO CUM. MISSUS MERCHANTS, Proprietor f y !trl!jr., I'.-Vll HnVlllli, I Jill lv I St. BAIJ ,. K. B.r A B A I U I) & STAIU, i:ki:kai. auk.vin, vutnn . KorwarUlna aid CouihiIhhIou .v chants, KvaiiHvlIle, iu'llamu itor i. Q. Wheeler. Prex'U Kirt National La., mil Ham'l Orr, Vice PrenMeut Kvuim. national unnk. Agents for Huua C ty Bait ;o. uouWK Wlltliil' .V V. .''I I A l o friends aud f. ; iii.'r puiruim lu,a are on PIltHT Hfi.k.KT, ono tloor Um Vine, next to L, Phtmou'h Tin Miioi, m Hi in the trade of l.lQVOlc:i, LOVll, c rf. MlHH10Ati.Ao..iiKi Htiouid be i:i..jf.ii i see them. it. U. A LLiH & i o FOR WARDING AND C0;.:.VJ:,i ' MEKCIIANTa. RECTiriKRH, and Wholesale Ilea,,,. LIQUOL'S, FLO IE, F I R S T S T R E E T One door below Vine, ueit to L. Pltnoa Till blioji, fcVAfS VILLI, Ij , Janl dtf. Jonnson's Real Estate asd Patent Agency. BraiWKSSand DWKLL1NG IIOU.HKd building- Lots I nd Farm, and titular. ea lAudM, cheap, and ou easy terms. PatMiiiof ail aluus prrxHmni, Al. VAJJ JOI1N.KOV, Real Estate end ilut Auhi.i !!!,,. r, n Third Htreet Kvant villa, iml. ianu'jy Wedlock. The Basis or Cmr. Hon Young Men. oa the henor and of Marriage, aud Che evils and lan..-r .f Celibacy; with HaDltary help for li,o attainment of mari'K true position In li(i. Heut free, in seaU-d nVflopnft. Add rt-..i HOWAIlll AHMOCJATTON, 1 ox P, 1-biia-delpk.'a. Pa.. IfeKI Uaw.iiu WATCIIMAIIIIIG. A. a KOSI. KANS. It AKlt Y HM ITU ROSENCRANS & S3.IITII, Watchmakers and Jewelers, AO. 13 SOUT H Nt:'OM NT., DBA I. EHN In American, KnKllfu aud rwIhh Watche ., in K'Hd, miver uud elated caxes. 'iu Jewelry, silver Ware, loess, Ac. P;rMor al aUu"on g'ven to repairs of fine wait hen, &c STNo work entinMtd pprentlcw. J. RUE INLAND Kil, WHOLESALE DKALXlt IN 0OMENTIC AS1) HP AS I Nil JLeaf ToInce, So. US MAIS STIIKET, dea dam evansvillk, isv.