Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 12, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 September 1870 — Page 7

[For the Saturday Evening Mail.] I AM THINKING OF T1IEE. «V, F*,

BY KOCH ESTER,

I am thinking, yes thinking of tWee, And the glorious old days of th« piwt That will sink in oblivion's sea,

With their glory and brightness at last—• "I am thinking, yea, thinking of thee.

I am thinking of friends who have gone To their rest in bright mansions above, W iio gilded my life's early morn •\Vith kindness, with friendship and love

I am thinking of them and of thee.

Time is still working its changes, Yet the fires of memory still bright, Will sliine with a halo of splendor

Hound the fi lends of the past with its light cannot forget them in thinking oft bee

The vine-clad bower and spring, 'Neath the shade «. tail spreading tree Where featherwl choristers sang iTrhelr love songs for you and for m»»,

Are united in memory.with thee.

TVas there that we plighted our love In the sunlight of a bright Sabbath morn Tlie angels smiled on from alxive

A nl blessed a new love that was born— As then, I am thinking of thee.

'Twas thi'n that the bird" sung the sweetest The breezes were laden with rhyme, And th»* delicate murmuring brooklet

Joined in the love witching chime, And ilows on in sweet memories of tliee

Those halcyon days with their brightness Have passed o'er our hearts like a dream Vet. memory thrills with gladness,

My soul with a happier theme, For I'm thinking, my darling, of thee.

I long for those days In my sadness, And would stay Meeting time In her flight, That memory might revel in giadiuws

And banish the shadows of night— In sadness, I am thinking of thee.

But the dead of the past must be buried, We must look to the future for rest Toward eternity's shore we.are hurried,

Let us meet,in that land of the blest— Until tlH-n I'll be thinking of thee. Kvansvllle, Sept. 11.

WAIFS FROM FIELD, CAMP, AND 1 AIM I

SON.

Under this bond James Franklin Fitts contributes to Lippincott's Magazino, for September, a series of amusing incidents, from which we make the following extracts:

No one was moro easily approached by all grades on any legitimate business than (Jeneral Hanks, out soon after lie assumed command at New Orleans it entered the head of member of his stall" to devise a system which compelled every one who came on business to the commanding general to proenro a ticket from one of the aides, the presentation of which at the door gained him admission. Possibly the system was well enough the time and place, but it seemed otherwise to a burly colonel of an Eastern regiment, who camo one day to the door of the private ollice at 'headquarters and requested his name to lit* given to the general. "I lave you a ticket?" brusquely inquired Mr. Stall o/llcer.

A ticket!" echoed tlie colonel. "No, sir, I haven't. You can't enter horo without omr," reported S. O., positively. "Sir," said the colonel, very decidedly, "when CJoneral Banks becomes puppt t-show, niul I have twenty-fivo e.Mils to spare, I'll buy a tiekot to see him—not before." lie was admitted without further parlev.

In this connection some passages from a general order of the rebel general Kick Taylor may be cited as extraordinary specimens of military froth and buncombe. They are no worse than hundreds of kindred performances perpetrated upon both sides during the war. I select this one because I have a to rue copy of the original, dated "J loadquart ers'Distrlct Western Louisiana, in the Field, May H"th, 1S0I." It is plainly the handicraft of some ambitious handler of the pen and sword, whose zeal far out ran his judgment. Thesubject of the congratulation, it should be premised, is the unsuccessful termination of our lied River expedition and though the author of the order draws heavily upon his imagination for somo of bis facts, his overpowering diction must be allowed to stand unimpaired: •"Along a hundred miles of his path," one paragraph ran, "with more than average barbarity, the (lying foe burned every house and village within his reach. You extinguished the burning ruin.* with his bane blood Long will the accursed race remember the great river of Texas and Ijouisiana. The characteristic hue of its turbid waters has a darker tinge, from the liberal admixtof YaiiKoe blood. The cruel alligaor and ravenous gar-tish wax fat on food, and our native vulture holds high revelrv o'er many a festering Corpse. Like generous hounds with ho game in Ail I view, vou have known neither hunger nor fatigue, and the hoarse cannon and ringing ritle have

Vplaeed in this stern chase the sonorous •Vni and joyous halloo. Conquer your o\\j vices, and vou can conquer (he woy." ^Vniust admit, after reading the ahovAii,at t|u, Napoleonic style in warliteral^-,, •was badly overdone during our latiV^|)pi(tjiHiinincss.

A eortak regiment which wore the Zouave unhnrm was commanded by young otlletV of dashing appearance, who rode a h^W that had been taught to curvet and i\ance at the touch of the spur. Karly on\morning in that memorable campaign \f ism', while Sheridan's army was niWiug eastward from itn bivouac toward garner's Ferrv, this j/nieor, riding at th\ head of his regiment, espied tJeneralVmorv, the corps eonunandor, who had dismounted with two of his stall*, and \vy_s standing by the roadside.inspecting\ith a keen eye his command as it pa^cd.

thought that this would l4a capital ot»casion to "show oil" a little before tho

stern old general so, hand to salute, lio touched his liorso with the spur. The animal immediately praneou up to the gonoml in beautiftil stylo, hut unfortunately overdid the thing, and had his fore legs elevated over tho head of the head or tho corps before the colonel eonld check him.

The general jumped back in extreme irritation. "tJood (}od,Colonel "lie thundeml, "isn't there room enough in the whole State of Virginia for vou two animafo and met"

Tho tendency of soldiers to grotesque exaggeration in well illustrated by tho remark of one of them concerning thai

f:reatcst

pent of the camp which thedic-

ionariea denominate a 'small insect of tho genus fxxUcultM." I presume every army in hmtory ha* been annoveti by this atomy, but I think nono suffered from it and at the same time inado it llyn subject of hihitual jost be fore the armies of our war. Aj» in the case of

every other source of vexation, (he men grumbled at it, philosophized over it, and laughed at it. "I could boar tho tittle fellows, and say nothingabout them," 1 heard a dry joker in blue say to his comrades at reveille roll-call one morning "but such monsters us there are in this camp! Why, 1 woke up last night and saw one of these crocters sitting at the foot of my bunk, lie had his back to mo, and there was a great l\ S. A. on it but when i.e turned round—great Scott! what dt'ye think he was doing?" "Eating hard-tuck," suggested one, with a wink. "Smoking your pipe," put in another.

No ho wasn't—ho was picking his teeth with my bayonet •a.*#

FACE TO WD Kit.

The lady correspondent of the Chicago Journal says: "The use of face powder has been the source of infinite ridicule to fossil bachelors, and of deprecation and horror on the part of respectable old ladies and prim young ones. Now, I am its unyielding champion. I would as readily think of surreptitiously using my tooth-brush as of being ashamed of my powder-box. It is not the use of a thing, but the abuse of it, that injures. When I see voung ladies Avith faces incapable of smile or dimple, as thickly white-washed as the side of my room, with dabs of red on each cheek-bone, and the cars and ncck, from comparison, showing sallow and dark, involuntarily turn aside to drop the briny tear, lirst for my sex, then for my theory. Every lad}' knows that, alter bathing, or in summer time, the face is apt to look oily. Now. why should go about with a forehead like a bottle, and a nose like a placid summer lake, quito reflective, when by tho wise application of a little harmless powder I can improve my appearance, is a conundrum bevond my solving. If any can answer it, let them enlighten me forthwith. Not long since a crusty bachelor discovered a bit of powder in my left eye-brow. His soul was stirred within him, and the torrent of denim ciation unsealed. What did I do? Blush? Not a glimmer. I went and got my box. I explained its use. waxed eloquent, and my burnin thoughts, clothed in breathing words so convinced that antique being, that

If past tiie day of dimples, examine losolv the wrinkles.) After this operation, "conscientiously jSerlbrmed, if you are not satisliod with yourself, just give up to destiny and look to inward (dominant. Let rouge alone. The best store to buy carmine tints is at Nature's. Take brisk walks, drink milk, and ignore tea and cotVee, gravies, spices and candies, and if you don't have cheeks and lips like hillside strawberries, call me a prevaricator."

IIOTSIIOT.

The Prussians were recently reported ns throwing red hot balls into Strasburg.' They are solid balls, boated in furnaces, and fired from common guns or mortars. When the cartridge is in tho gun, a prop of wet felt is rammed on top of it. Two of the gunners (sometimes only one) get hold of the ball with iron songs and let it run into the muzzle of the gun, and then the cannon is tired in the ordinary manner. In lieu of tho wot felt, very often a piece of turf is rammed against the cartridge, the red hot ball rolled on top of it, and tho gun fired. The shot is scarcely ever certain, because the operation of'loading and directing tho gun always goes on with great rapidity and under the impression of an imminent danger to the gunners.

In former times the cover of the cartridge was so thin that the red hot ball set the cartridge on (ire at onco and made the shot go oil'without tho interference of the gunners. This made it a still more uncertain shot, and the new method of about two inches in thickness has been adopted. It is used to set ships and shingle roofs on (ire. The new hollow bombshells, filled with explosive matter, and shot from howitzers have now replaced, in almost every ease, the shooting with red hot solid balls, and it is very probable that these explosive bombshells of small caliber are meant when dispatches speak of red hot halls being Urea into towns. Soldiers, however, who served in tho late Prussian war against Austria, assort that the Prussians had furnaces in the train of the army to make redhot shot of solid balls.

Mit. I) VVIT MACHAK, a Scotch gentleman, us just published in Edinburgh a book about"! he Americans at Home," which contains several anecdotes of that singular |eople. When he was at Mobile he was desirous of seeng Captein Senimes, of Alabama noterietv, and asked the clerk of the hotel if he knew where the captain lived. No he didn't.

What paper does he edit No paper." said the clerk. He did edit a paper once, hut lie gave that up."

What is he doing now "(.Jod knows," Raid tho clerk.1®"1* I reckon they'll be ablo to tell you at tho Tribune otfw," said a tall gentleman who was lounging against tho rails.

Away to the Tribune otlVe Mr. Macrae went, made his way up to the editor's room, but was taken aback by the following intimation on the door:

POSITIVELY NO ADMITTANCE Unttl after Ttco o'eloek, KXCF.PT TO WHIP THK KHITOUS. After some little trouble, but without whipping any Southron, he found Captain Senimes, and had a talk with him. The ilk didn't amount to much.—Harper's Drawer.

BR.RK STOCKING."—'This ter ru, ap-

fnatedto

died ladies of literary taste*, origin HOO, in Venetian Society style ed the "Societ do Calta," the members of which, when thev met were distinguished by the color or their stocking's, blue teing tho color which particularly prevailed. Th? title rejected in 1590, crossed the Alps, and found a congenial soil in Parisan society, whore it was used aa the brand of female pedantry it then came to England, and for'some time marked the vanity of certain feinil? literary cjterieo.

PREIWIIATION KOll SOITKNTNO LKATllkh.—An oil has lately been introduced into commerce in (torniany which answers an excellent purpose in softening stid'ened leather, and rendering it almost as pliablo as when now. This preparation, it is said, consists of a mixture of sixteen parts of oleic acid, two parts of alcohol of IK) pereont., and ono part concentrated sulphuric ncid. Tho oleic ether formed is poured off, it being a thin, brownish oil. It is separated from the freo sulphuric acid and alcohol by shaking it up in warm water and decanting it. On mixing this oleic ether with an equal weight of fish oil, and adding, for tho purpose of concoaling tho smell, from a quarter to half an ounce of nitro-benzolo to tho pound, a preparation will bo obtained which experiment has shown to possess all tho qualifications required for tho purpose.

IIow TO TKKAT EXTRAVAGANT WIVES. —"Wo hear much of tho oxtravaganco of women but as a rule men spend far moro money on luxuries than women and if any man thinks his wife extravagant or careless in money matters, wo advise him to divido his incomo with her, give her a bank account, and let her manage her household affairs, lie giving advice when asked. Ho will presently discover in his wife an amount of tact, care, ^udgmeut, forethought, and skill in management which will greatly increase his admiration of her, and tho exercise of which qualities in an independent way will make her life happier, and largely' increaso her usefulness as a momber of society and as the educator of her children."

1HE GREAT

was enabled to illustrate my theory practically, and with subdued triumph powdered my listener's face, and won "roni him the remark that "it was all right—a nice thing." Let me tell you although half of you might loach me, I suppose—how to put powder on. After bathing the face, before drying, ap ply a little glycerine, with or without dilution of rose water then take a flair nel cloth'and rub the fact perfectly dry. Then, with a bit of cotton or a pull', throw the powder on, without friction \fter which let matters rest as thfiy are until you have entirely completed your )ilet." When all is done, and "bright is the nun, fair as the moon," ite., you stand before your tiring glass, prepared for such harnili ss slaughter, as is tho right" of our sex, take a soft linen ra ami carefully remove all traces of powder, going into a strong light, and inestigating every eyebrow and dimple.

HEADdUARTERS

FOR

DRY GOODS!

Examine our Stock and Prices

fi"

K"-t'

Before you buy.

ONE PRICE TO ALL.

WARREN, HOBERG & CO.,

lis

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Successors to Ed.sail & Co.,

Cor. 4th nii] Main Ntrrci.C

SAY E S

•JONES & JONKS

TIAVE TUB

FARMERS'FRIEND

H. OOBr.

IS THE TLACE TO BUY

GOOD, HONEST,

AND

CHEAP GOODS?

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Iff?

BE SURE AND

& if*

GRAIN DRILL

(Kubn, the Celebrated Drill Inventor's last and best.) A FORCE FEED Dill I.I,. OPERATED BY

.JUL

HPURUKAKIXU. .j

Jjyxf

Qyg WheeU AbOtU It!

Impowible to Choko it—The Feed Changed in One Second—Will Sow any kind of Urnin or Seed, whether Clean or Foul!

The grain is distributed by means of small double spiral feed wheels working in cups under tlw hopper these wheels carry the grain uptmrdt to a discharge opening in the eup and fore*r it out, and with it force out Mfrnxrs ana other obstruction*. It 1* utterly possible to choke it, and as evidence of tact the wheat we have in oar sample ma

im this

chine ts half chaff, and by turning the wheel is carried through a* well as clean wheat. It will sow any Kind of grain, and In any

it is carried through as well as clean wheat. any Ki quantity desired.

In other force feed drills to change the feed you remove one cog wheel and pot In another and the cog wheels are loose and liable to be lost. In the

FARMERS' FRIEND DRILL!

the wheels are all fastened to the drill, and the feed is changed by simply moving a mail lerrr— it doneln one tecona.

Henrt for Clrralar showing how the Farmer*' Friend came out ahead In I860, to

Jones & Jones,

1-ti.

TERRE-HAUTE, IND.

a O. OOX A COH, NEW PEN—308 1-tf.

A.DBFKKE8. T. W. W ATKINS.

Q0RY, DEFKEE8 & CO./.i ..

Wliolowilo nnil Rota!! Donlora In 'I

HARDWARE,

IRON, STEEL, NAILS,

Glass, Oils, Paints, Sash,

Doors, Blinds,

CARPENTER'S TOOLS

SPOKES, FELLOES, HUBS,

V..

urn & Leather Belting &c.

Nos.

I 2 I

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"V".

Main Stret,

r-j

?And 1 and 3 Fifth,

TERRE-HAUTE, IND.

BG.*COX

& CO.

BOOKSELLERS

sANB STATIONERS,

NO. I59 MAIN ST.,

TERRE-IIAUTE, INDIANA.

7 I* -T.

Our stock is all new and purchased at the

AVe keep constantly

011

S\i!

hand a full line of

SCHOOL, MISCELLANEOUS, FI BLANK AND fiPASS JBOPKS,

AND

LETTER,

LEGAL CAP, AND 5 NOTE PAPERS.

AVe are closing out our stock of

MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS,

At cost, preparatory to laying in fall stock.

MAI

jy STREET,

3-tf. Under National Hotel.

AS. SEATII.

J. B. IIAGER.

IGO FOUNDRY

AND mmmm

TERRE-IIA UTE

CAR WORKS,

SEATII & IIAGER, PROPn's.f

Manufacturers of

Cars"and Car Wheels

Of all kinds.

'Machinery and Castings.

Highest pricc paid for Cast Scrap Iron.

Repairing promptly attended to.

/WORKS ON CANAL,

Jletwecn Main and Ohio Sts.

ORDERS SOLICITED.

f-tf.

SEATH & IIAGER.

JJOGGS & FELTUS,

HOUSE, SIGN,

ASD

ORNAMENTAL PAINTERS,

Sixth 8t. bet. Cherrj- and Mulberry,

TERRE-HAUTE, IND.

Special attention given to Sign Painting, Graining, Paper Hanging, Calsomlnnlng, 4sc.

y. B.—AU our work warranted. 1-tf.

jy£EDICAL, ONLY.

0ld Crow, llcrm and 'J6

We have as

PURE WINES and LIQUORS

as any house in America. We have in stoek the famous brands of

AXmn

County,

itrboms

He Kim's Monongehala Rye.

Catatcba, California, Peach, and French Brandies. Port, Skerry, Madeira, Hock, SHil and

Sparkling CaUnrba And a choice three year old Blackberry Wine*

For sale by GCLICK dt BEBKT, DraCfi«^ 4-2m, Cor. Fourth and Main.

T*.! Hant

AS. H. LUCAS, Prcs't Edward F. I'ittmax,Secretary.

(RAIRIE CITY

PLANING MILLS.

CLIFT & WILLIAMS,

Manufacturers of

Sash, Doors, Blinds,

WINDOW & DOOR FRAMES,

MOULDING BRACKETS

STAIR RAILING, BALLUSTERS,

Newcll Posts, Flooring, Siding

And all descriptions of

FINISHING LUMBER.

a Wholesale and Retail dealers in

Pine Lumber, Lath & Shingles,

Slate Roofing,

AND ROOFING FELT.

Custom Sawing, Planing and Wood Turning done to order. All work warranted.

Cor. Ninth & Mulberry Street's.

9-tf.

USHER'S ,,

Photograph Gallery,

COR. MAIN FC SIXTII STRF^ETH.

Long experience and close attention to the business enables me to. furnish all kinds of Pictures in the highest style of art. Particular attention given to the new styles of Photographs. including the popular Rembrant and Snadow pictures.

Prices low. Satisfaction guaranteed. 7-tf. J. W. IIUSHER.

L. D. WILSON & CO.

De Soto Mutual Life Insurance Company,

Manufacturers of u-

STONEWARE,

Livingston, 111.

A full supply constantly on hand

All orders promptly attended to.

gCLIPSE STABLE,

Chadwick & Monroe,

(Opposite Old PostofOce,)

f15 Keep the finest

Horses, Buggies and Carriages

ELEOANT

styles, neatly gotten ea. Call at Terre-

Gfl.—All sites— new ap at reduced price*. ate Printing House, 142 Main street. O. J. Smith A Co.

THE

Of St. Louis, Mo.

Assets and responsibility to the Assured, over $ oo,obo7

THOMAS A. MEANS, State Agent,

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

This Compauy Issues all kinds of Policies upon the most approved plans and being a Western Company, with their

Capital safely invested among the people of the Vcst,

Peculiarly adapt it to the wants of the citizens of Terre-IIaute and Vigo county. The character of the officers and stockholders of the De Soto (some of them the most wealthy business men of the West) is a sufficient guarantee of its reliability.

The West can do better for the assured than the East, because estem Companies can lend their money at a much higher rate of interest than Eastern Companies do or ean,tinless they invest in the West, which most of the Eastern Companies are forbidden by their charters to do. Higher rates of Interest allow of larger dividends, and the advantage which Western Companies have over Eastern in this particular, is clearly shown by the following estimate of money invested at di tie rent rates: 81,000 invested for 50 years, at 6 per cent, compound interest, yields S 18,420.10 it ii 1. 47,901.01 10 117,S00.So

It can be seen by this statement .that Western Companies can give far better dividends than Eastern Companies. The difference of the surplus arising from different rates of interest is thus seen, under the operation of compound interest, to be wonderful.

Persons desiring Insurance on their lives will find it to their interest to consider the claims of the De Soto Life Insurance Company.

DIRECTORS:

ST. Louis, Mo:—Jas. H. Lucas, Jas. H. Britton, Pres't National Bank of Missouri .-•"*• Adamantine Johnson, of A. Johnson «VLionberger,

cock, Esq., Attorney at Law. LOUISVILLE, KY:—Jas. Trabue, of Trabue, Davis & Co. R. A. Robinson, of R. A. Robinson & Co. C. N. Warren, of C. N. Warren & Co., Bankers Isaac Caldwell, Esq., Attorney at Law.

DR. EZRA READ, Medical Examiner. 4-3m.

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Orders will receive prompt at-

In the city, tention.

Bronse and Colored Printing,

a speciality at the TernvHaate Printing House. The most competent workmen in the city. Everything guaranteed satisfactory, 142 Main street. O. J. Smith A Co.

BEST PEN OUT is B. G. Cox A Co 808 and Bank. 1-t/.

\Vm. 1»aj.T.ENTixr. YK'O Pres't. R. (.'. Auendt, Aisuary..

ROCH. F. ROBB, Dis't Agent,

Henry Hitch

TERRE-IIAUTE. IND.

GYFERS, STRONG & CO.

Wholesale Grocers,.

190 Main Street,

C-tf.

TERRE-ILVUTE, IND.

M. JOAB,

.ATTORNEY AT LAAV,

TERRE-IIAUTE, IND,

CLAIMS COLLECTED AND ESTATES MANAOED, fi®* Ofilee

011

Ohio street, between Third

and Fourth. 1-tf.

C. CRAWFORD,

BOOTS AND SHOES,S

9 8 A I N S E E

C-tf. TERRE-IIAUTE, IND.'

Q'BOYLE BROTHERS,

.. Wholesale dealers In

BOOTS

0-tf.

AND SHOES,

NO. 'f*

MAIN STREET,

TEIIRE-HA UTE, IND

WABABII

WOOLEN MILLS.

BSTADMSHKl) 1854.

G. F. ELLIS, WOOL DEALEli, And Manufacturer of Woolen Ooods. Wholesale and Retail Offlcc and Manu/aclwh

N. W. Cor. First and Walnut Streets,

0-tf. TERRE-IIAUTE, IND.

•^^ILDY, THOMAS & CO.

Carriage Manufacturers,

C'or. Second and Walnut Streets, 4 TERRE-IIAUTE, IXD. Repairing done promptly and at low rat''.". 7-3m.

BEACH'S BLOCK,

DWARDS & DAVIS,

Dealers in

FAMILY GROCERIES,

No. 286 Main Street,

7-3m

JOHN

t, TERRE-IIAUTE.

AIWISTRONG,

^OCK AJfD C1UNSMITII, ]d St., Door* North Main, 'I'ERRE-HAUTE. Repairing proniiitly attended. I also havv a pair of NEW PLATFORM SCALES for weighing Corn, Hay, &c., and persons having such weighing to do are Invited to call 6-ly.

ANIEL BROWN, (SUCCESSOR TO BROWN MEI.VIN,) .'•• Wholesale and It( tail Dealer in Queensware, China, Fruit Jars, 1 Glass, Castors, Table Cutlery, de.,

No.

78 MAIN STREKT,

6-tf. TERRE-HAUTE, IND.

JJOSEMAN & BORSSUM,

MERCHANT TAILORS,

217 Main Street, near Seventh, TERRE-IIAUTE, INI).

Cultino and Repairing done on short n&icc* 6-tf.

rpERRE-HAUTE HOUSE,

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Tcrrc'llaule, Indiana.

T. C. BUNTIN,

~i Proprietors,

South Fourth St., bet. Main and Ohio,

CLARK

PROPKJFTO*.

The Street Can« pams th!« Honse every Tun Minutes, from the Depot and River. The Artesian Rath* are connected uHth 1-tf. this Hotel.

HOUSE.

Cur. Fir* and Uat St reels,$ E E E A A I HACK LINE will at -"i t» for trainsleaving both the Ka*.- hi and ." rthern !)•-_ pots alsoconvfv in r, u# vuy part of the city. All ordei* li 'ivUe-HanUt House, Postofflc/% National i!••. w, iluntiri Hoose, or at the Ciurk Ilonj,. v. 1 -1 ^pr^motly attended to. o-tf.

RATIONAL HOU8?,

COR. MAIN AND SIXTH STS..

Terre-Haute, Indiana.

Hnk^r JA COB BUTE* SON, Propr