Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 March 1871 — Page 4

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*I?otl*AI.K—H««w» with 5 rooms and h*lf Kouih N|«« Hlrifl. L*i lev IIJOOl AI«o KTM 5 miles "south of the city. Kalr *bo»4ingM, over 300 bearing fruit triw mid It i-crcsiof timber, lobjsokl witb th* mmo ytiicr WthH9.

GRIMES4 ROYSlv

tnRSALR-Hoimn and lot* In all port* or he ciy, Xiutu tflW to &.UM. GRIMRS&ItOYSK.

t'^')Uties

SAI.K Ko»(( n[ wvcit moms iyd un! !t ot Itvt- iM-re on Pmirteton road 111 froiu tin* I'ourt liouse. 1U) fruit 30«J gru|K- vine*. Ureal bargain. Apply to *Mf. JKKRY VORIS.

"T^ORSALK. T.uioiii.1 Hotel. Tlil« valuabl«* property adjoining the Dealing 5J:»ck 011 tlie ICo.il •will if* sold very low.

I !.«*$ BOI'DI NOT 4 BROWN. Attorney's.

"UOR KA LB—House with six room*, Cellar, stable uii'I outhouse* lot 70 fi-t-t front hv Ml de.-p. Price il^JOU, B. Holmes Agent, 11S M»ln street.

,V)R SA LK— House with five rooms, oltur, oiithiu.«, statili-, &.C. I/O I 7" bv III f-et. »ntv of tr-«* and shrubbery, truit, Ac. rlcejl.HOO, B. Holmes, Agent, 113 Main St.

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SALK—Ixit, Ifli by HI well wt

with tr«-»« worth 1,000 will sell for cash at SUUJ. 15. Holmes, Agent.

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HA LK-Old papers suitable for wrapl»inu paper,for sal.- ut.iOc.nts a hundred MI the 1 All. olllee.

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HA LK-LOTS— Most desirable resl-

(lenee lots ill theeity. Five lots fronting on Sixth street. Ten lots fronting on Fourth street. Three I,ots fronting on Third Mi'cet, and know us the Farrington Projier»v Th«-se lots are the most desirable Ke*l4en«e sites to be had in the city, and are dally b- .nung more valuable. Kor terms, information, or plat of ground, apply to \V. JlKNDRii'H, Auent. otliceover I'rairie City lbyik, Beach's IU(K-k.

noR HALK— Miscellaneous l»ooksami goM |x-iiHanl jx iu'lls at less than -ost. :ivjt. It. (i. cox.

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HALK or Kxehaiige—Clark House.

I he proprietor,deslrltiK toretire from the business, otiers his Hotel for sale or exchange for small Dwellings in, or small Farm near the eity. House is doing a good l)Usim-s.sor Is Well located lor manufacturing purposes). Ka-sv terms. Kor particulars enquire of 25-tf. \V. II. ijRI FFITH Proorietor.

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HA LK—Now Is the time to buy a nice little home at a low figure, and some tline on part of purchase. Theadvertlser wants to Kill a House and Lot located 111 a quiet nelgliIsirhood- far enough from the pera House lo make It desirable House contains I rooms all in good repair, with cellar good larg cistern in ynri. I-ot has 011 It apple, peach ••berry and pear trees ibig trees that mow fruit) with room to plant more. Price SI,'.'.id —half cash, balance 011 good time. For further imrtlctilarx address HOI »K, P. O. B»x MV2, Terre-Haute. tf-'-U.

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HA LK— Twenty acres of timbered land on the Lockport road, four or live miles from the city. Will sell the whole tract on reasonable terms, or will sell the Limber, alone, of ten acres.

L. Iv ISSN ICR, Palace ol Music.

jioR HALTC—1Two mares will be wild on time, with good security, or exchanged fir corn. L. KISSNKR,

Palace of Music.

iR HA LIC—A good second-hand Safe.

Knqulre at Kern's Billiard rooms, Main t. :«i-2t. stri

1 ,^olt SA LK.—For sale at a bargain acres I of Innd, -1 miles South-east of Terrcflaute. Thi most iHimniAnding building site In Vigo county. The land its peculiarly adapted to the cultivation of vegetables or liults, being dry, sandy and productive.

Terms

one-sixth cash, balance in rtveannu-

V^o'r fnrt'her particulars apply to Editor of MAI 1..

SALE IN MARSHALL, ILL.—The Brick Tavern Stand known as the Archer House. Is well situated for Tavern or Hoarding House or could be converted Into a flouring mill and would be an elegant site for such a business. Price very moderate. Kor further Information address

STEPHEN AIM'HER.

S4-4t. it* Marshall, 111.

FOR

HALE.—Kino Farm—The farm of the late Hiram Smith, Sr., lying .i miles Kouth-ea-st from the cent re of the city, Is now ottered for sale. This Is one of the most deHirnhle pieces of rural property In the county or State. It lies partlyiipon the hlutr and imrtlv'on the prairie. The improvements are flrst-rnte. Tlir location of the resldenc® is of snrjwwlng Ix-auty, coiumaiullng a Tiew of the whole city and prairie# There are two large orchards on the place, a splendid grove of timber, and never'fallingstock water. The purchaser can have choice of buying ninety or one hundred and sixty acres. Terms easy. Knoulre at this olTW—. 12-tf.

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RENT—DESIRABLE OFFICESHIH'OIKI story over store room lately oc•upled by Warren llobergvt Co. Also Store Room now (xvuniiHl by .IIKS. Krlanger. Possession given about the l"th of March. Apply at National State Bank.

t»Wanted.

\l A NTED -Everybody to know thnt the HATI HOA i:vKMN* MAti. has a larger circulation than any newspaper published outside of Indliina|HIK In this State. Also that It cnrefully und thoroughly read In tlie homesof lis ivatrons, and that It Is the vcty l»e*t advertising medium in Western I ndta na.

\l ANTKD A young man of good tm*l-tu-ss habit.*." some pro|H»rt.v, and pre|N«K*ewi|ng |Hnnaial app-«rnnee, who lifts iceentlv located In the city would like to open a" correspondence with one or more young ladies, with a view to forming pleasant acquaintances. He Is fhrwrable to mntrtmonv. and Is a mem Iter of Protestant chureh. Tills advertisement l* Inserted In good faith. Addtv*«. R. R. rt.

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11' ANTED. for the Wheeler WIS*on Sewing Ma thine. A permanent situation «tid good \unmlwloji« offered. A poly atoJflee. N. K. earner Mnln and Sixth Mivet*. fci-tf

Lost.

I«*me suimot money are lord evwry j*«ek by persons wlw should advent* tu shtscolamn of the MAII-

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Kverybody who nu** the LoM

Creek to pmnounee it the b«t In tlil* market, for grnte*. For Mile tyr UM lli«elow Coai Mining Company. IMt.

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OUND—Tb«t the eJie*pe»t »nd bent adIn Uieeltvcnn be obtainedhjrlnvmtlnt In the Wanted, For M«lf, Kor Kent, 1/M and Fooiul eolumn of the MAIL.

Printing.

y^HKAP AND PROMPT !—The motto of the Terre-Haute Printing Ilmw, US Main idrrel. All work don# i»roropUy and WIJCU promised. O.

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ETTKR HKAIW.—S**nc new and elegant at lea* price* tlkan Ummk awmlr for nmiwm work, TVrre-Haaw

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House, 113 Main nUrvU a J. Stailfc

ITMINB88 CARlWs-New *nd elennt 1«ii|M cheap, at TVrre-llaaU Prtntiav OU«e, MJUU O.

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THE MAIL.

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& KD1TOH AN1 PROPRIETOR.

Office, 142 Main Street. TERRK-HAUTE. MARCH 4, 1871.

SECOND EDITION.

THE HI.A ''A' PEOPLE, Ono deoiulc ago nine out of ton jorsous of colored lilood in this c"nintry were bond j»ooplo. 'I ho slave aristocracy was the great political and social power in the land. The tortn "aboli"tionbt" was considered an epithet more vile than that of liur or swindler, or scoundrel. The citizens ofthe boasted Republic of tho West either knelt in servile adoration before the slave power, or expressed with bated breath and timid looks their disapproval of it. The outrage of ono April day, however, aroused tho nation to a sense of its responsibilities, and as the result of a sinshot sent down tlit* harbor of Charleston toward the heroic fortress of Sumpter, the chains of the bondmen were broken, and Equality, dearest of human rights was proclaimed throughout the land.

Tho results of tho enfranchisement of the black people aro not yet fully un derstood. There are those among us who gravely doubt the policy of granting to them equal political rights, and a powerful party organization stands pledged to the destruction of the 1.1th amendment. It seems probablo at this time that the n- xt Presidential campaign will bo fought upon this issue. Toe prejudice against tho blacks among the more ignorant of tho white population seems not to have abated one jot of its bitterness or vindictiveness There are those who would doom the black people to ignorance forever rather than grant them tho privilege of occupying public school houses or tho uso of public money for educational purposes. Scorn them, crush them, humiliate them—this is the motto of the Jlourbons who swear that the world shall stand still. 4 I

Meanwhile, what ofthe blacks themselves? Are they proving the wisdom of their elevation The ablest Governor of the South, James L. Alcorn of Mississippi, has given us some valuable facts and statistics upon this subject, lie gives it as his opinion, and our readers should bear in mind that it is the judgment of a gentleman who has no political aspirations or ambition, having recently declined a seat for six years in the United States Senate, that it careful survey shows that the South is working out ot ruin, and that reconstruction in Mississippi "goes forward 'tc the sure consummation of moral •and material triumph."

The illegal relation of the sexes under slavery was changed by tho new Constitution of the State into a legal one, and thereafter marriage licenses began to be issued, as in the case of tho whites. Tho white and colored population of thirty-one counties in 18G0 1ST,643 and 2o9,{T,0, respectively.

It lSfio there wero 2,708 licenses issued to the whites, and only ."(14 to tho blacks in 18J3, .'1,125» to the former, against 3,070 to the latter, and since that year tho blacks have surpassed the whites both in the whole number of marriages, and (since 1868) in the percentage to total population. Do the freed people raise their children as carefully as they wore raised in slavery Hero, as might bo supposed, the census ot 1S0 is of almost no value but as between blacks anil whites the census of 1*70 for tho six counties shows that the ratio between childten under one year is not maintained (on the part of tlio blacks) for the children between one and fire—that tho difference is, in fact, nearly two per cent. Tho testimony of another decade can bo moro safely trusted in this particular.

Wo have not space to examine in detail tbo various other points in which tho two classes of population arc compared. The following abstract will sufficiently tell the story, the blacks being always tlie more numerous:

lHftV 1870.

Number of Churches*, White 810 5W 22 counties Colored ...—105 385 PnfBOher* employed, 1 White JBS .Wt 22countt«'S 1 Colored..._ 7 2U2 Number Of Schools I White 3.1K

open, ("JO counties)} Colored...... IS Ifii

Enertetlc Agents to cnn\ .i«s 1 No. of Teacher* em-1 bite —3W Ufi p!oy«»d,ilf»eo nti«*s)) olon-d 1st 17K)

(lfth«w» hist stat 1stica the Govornor romark* Uiat the "fxtraorrliuary iu*Vr«ife ofthe numlter of schools of our "new citizens, unassisted by legislashows an individual spirit which "pl«Klgw« to the support of rwmntriio **Uon a Jtreat volume of moral power **iu quarter where it could hardly "have bwn looked for without qualms «*of mfcffiving."

As to tho »Xfpo improvidence, the fiftirwi are very significant. Since 1900, tenant-IVrmlnft among the whites ha* expanded one hundred per cent*., but ol course this system was not known to the negroes until after the war. Yet in twenty-thrre counties in 1869. while tho whiten produced but 27,975, b*k# of cotton the black tenaotfhrmers prodaoed 40JMI last year 20,808 and 50,79S resjxvtircly. Again, in twenty counties in 1MB, the white w*. era of tMc «o*l grew 100,697 bale* of cotton the colored laod-ownerm, 4,64o la«t year, 193,491 and 9,141 respectively. And finally in seven counties: 9 colored people own real estate to vaiae tKMM S.TW calami people own pemtoahy to a Rnm «alue of...

ITS colored jNwtptaown both realty Mtd pc*wm*ll- to pw« nltw ot t»,7H Those people wcr~' penniless in 1M5. Thai fact* show nandoaivaly that

tho blacks of tho South aro true to themaelvcg, and worthy of tho great trust which has boon confided to them

It will be seen that the colored people hav« steadily gained u[w»n the whites in property, schools, churches and other adjuncts of civilization. It must be remembered, too, that this progress has been made in a State where the legislation, after emancipation and provious to reconstruction was moro oppressive and unjust to tho blacks than in any other. There can be but one reasonable deduction from these figures concerning tho future of the blacks in the cotton states. These states will become Africanized. White labor is not suited to tho cotton belt Nine out of ten bales of cotton grown in the country aro the product of negro labor. The laborer is worthy ot his hire, and tho blacks will, in the end own the land which they opened and tilled in the dreary and profitless days of slavery. The negroes now living north of the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi.and Arkansas will emigrate to tho cotton belt, and the whites of that region will remove to climate which suits them better. Thus will be brought about a practical separation of the races without impairing the liberties of either. The district where tho dominion of slaveholders was most brutal, cruel and arrogant will become prosperous, intelligent and happy negro states.

PI A TT ON WOMAN -V UFFIiA G'E. THESE people are wasting their energies po an object wot th very little,if anything, when obtained. They want that which decent men In the United States care very Iit— le for, and are in reality deprired of. Every year the polls are more and more given up io tint ignorant and vicious, who hold tho majorities in tills blessed land of freedom. We have cheapened the right to vote until it has ceased to be valuable. There is scarcely a month in the year that a man is not willed upon to vote for somebody to occupy some oflice or other. The number of people thus elected can be called legion, and the manner of their election would be a farci: were it not so deplorable. The right to vote carries with it the right to have a candidate. This we do not possess. The more important oflices of the country are so poorly paid,and ot such uncertain tenure, that the better class of men can not be induceir to till them. And even if they were, a process, called caucus, made up from corner groceries and lager beer saloons, creates the candidate of the party, and not the candidate of the individual and if you vote at all you have to vote fortlie nominee, in every election the number of voters who abstain from exercising this privilege Is enormous, and each year the number increases. After a time the entire business will have gone over to professional politicians and the ignorant mob they influence.—jDonn Piatt.

Did it over strike tho Commercial and the

over

correspondent that the way only way, to reform the abuses of which he speaks is by granting to woman the right to vote Does he not realize that after woman's enfranchisement the polls will not bo given up to "the "ignorant and vicious" because they will no longer "hold the majorities in this blessed land of freedom?" .Will lie not admit thnt the "proccaf,*Qfilledl caucus, made up from corner groceries, and lager beer saloons,° will be deprived of its power and corrupting influence when the mothers and wives and sisters of the land march to the ballot box Admitting the deplorable condition of American polities, why does ho not espouse the cause of Woman Suffrage which alone will give us relief from the vile and corrupting influences which control American elections at this time? iA'J 4

THE measure of Hohenzollern soccoss is full. France is so humbled and humiliated that she knows not what to do or whero to turn. She has a re public to-day, but the people, madden ed by misfortune, may turn to an Orleans King to-morrow, or to Napoleon the next day. Tho pious William looks on profoundly pleased. All goes well with tho great Kaiser. Tho powerful rival of his nation is destroyed, and the hopes of the Republicans of Europe have sunk in fathomless darkness. Germany, drunk with victory, and conquest, mav grow sober yet over her sit uation. She has lost much good blood, much treasure, and there is misery throughout Fatherland. Her sons have sacrificed much to make a Prussian King into a German Emperor. She has gained a wonderful military reputation, but it is the result of a system which has caused her to leave uncultivated the arts of peace. Germany has much glory and much misery. She is at the mercy of a military autocrat who has converted the land ho rules into a vast camp from which his legions issue with the precision of machines, but inspired with the enthusiasm of crusaders. Militarism is the tomb of progress. Glory's gew-gnws art? not civilisation, and tho warriors cairn is too often the grave of liberty. O for a conquest that will crush out princely power in Europe—a victory of Republicanism, of Peace and of Civilisation!

Ot'B citizen* have witnessed during the week two opposite feminine forces, which are at work in this .era of civilization. On Wednesday Anna Dickinson displayed sublime goniuft and almost perfect goodness for our edification, und for two nights "the Blondes" have shown legs of unrivalled symmetry and redundant lea gin ousness. Legs figure largely in the race of life, yet we doubt not that the brains of women will make the stronger impression upon the age in which we live.

PKMOXK competent to judge ansert that there will be an immense French emigration to thin country in consequence of the recent war. What love the American politicians will express for the dear Johnny Crape*mis when they arrive How aatoniabed the Freochmen wil 1 be to find that the political heart of America gushes sod overflows with sympathy for Franes and for all French male dtinran who have attained the ege of twenty-one yean!

W AH An A A IF~WU *M-*•

SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, MARCH 4, 1871.

TERMS OF PEACE.

Tho preliminaries of peaco arranged by Uismarck with Thiers and Favre, and ratified by the Bordeaux Assembly, are as follows:

Article I tpeciflea the line of demarkation. Article 2 provides that France will pay Germany Ave milliuriUfruncs, one milliard, nt least, in 1871, anu all the rest in the Mace of three years from the ratification.

Article three piovide* that the evacuation la to commence on the ratification of the treaty by the Assembly that the Uerssau troops will then immediately quit Purls and the left bank of the Seiuo and the Departments of Cher Indre, Loire and Heine. The French will remain behind the Ixiire till the signing definitely of the terms of peace.

Tho Germans will evueuute the right bauk of the Seine gradually after signing definitive treaty, and payment of hub a million

After the imyment of two millions, ill only hold

francs. the Germans wllf only hold the Depart^ ments of Marne, Ardennes, Meuse, Vosges Meurts and Uelfort. After the payment of three millions, the Germans will only keep 5,000 troops in France, but if a sufficient money guarantee be given, the Germans will evacuate completely, otherwise three milliards will carry interest at 6 percent, from ratification.

Article 4 provides that the German troops shall make no further requisitions that tne French Government will provide food tor the army in occupation of the ceded department, that favorable arrangements will be mud6 with the people and time given them' to move if they please, anil that no obstacle will be placed in the way of emigration.

Article 5 provides that the prisoners will be immediately liberated on the ratification of the trealy, and that the French railways will lend I heir carriages and engines at the same prices us to the Freuch government.

Article seven provides that the treaty will be definitely signed at Brussels immediately after the ratification.

Artiele eight provides that after the ratification the management of all the Departments occupied will be handed over to the French officials subject to the German commanders and in the interest of tlie German troops.

Article nine provides that it will be understood that the Germans have no authority the departments not occupied by them.

CAPITAL, versus Labor is tho great question ot tho day which underlies a.l others, and is daily growing in importance and significance. There is too much of a disposition to ignore it, to frown it down, but it goes on l'roin day to day, gathering strength, and we will have to face it, and the sooner and more rationally we do it tho better. A brief glance at a portion of the civilized world as it now is will show whither we are tending. In England less than thirty thousand people own all the real estate one hundred and fifty men own half of England twelve men own one half of Scotland. England to-day, with her vast wealth has more than a million paupers sunk in hopeless poverty and destitution—more degraded than tho lowest brutes on earth, and the number frightfully on the increase. In this country we are traveling rapidly on the same road. In the city of New York less than nine hundred people own all the real estate of the city ten men own one-tenth of all the taxable property four hundred and eighty thousand peoplolivc in fifteen thousand houses, an average of thirty-two persons to each house mountains of wealth, the accumulated productions of hundreds of thousands, in a few hands on ono side on the other, poverty, misery and crime daily growing,dceper and dirker—and the same thing in a less degree everywhere.

WITHOUT the slightest impediment being offered, without hearing a mur mur from the grief-stricken citizens, the German army entered tho silent and deserted streets of Paris on Wednesday. The last sad act in the bloody draina of Franco-Prussian war draws to a close. The legions whoso most lie roic eflort would have failed in taking the city by assault, even if the siege had been protracted into 3*ears instead of months, have marched as conquerors through the deserted capital. And now there are ominous rumors that the end is not yet, that German occupation of Paris may continue indefinitely. This is well. It is ordained from on high that the enlightened people of the earth shall get their fill of Kings, and of princely grandeur, and of royal greed and vanity, within tho next decade of this age of civilization. The seed of rapacity and license sown in French soil to-day, fertilized by the blood of good men, and the tears of the widowed and orphaned, will bear glorious fruit in that hereafter when "peaco on earth and good will among "men" will reign throughout Christendom.

THE applause which greeted Anna Dickinson at the Ojera House on Wednesday evening was of that kind which Joseph Jefferson says is most valued by an actor or speaker—en wrapt silence. Thcro were no violent outbursts of applause. The commendation of highly refined and intellectual audiences, such as those which have greeted Mrs. Livermoro and Miss Dickinson in this city, not expressed by Iwisterous acclamation, but rather by that wrapt sympathy which shows the truest appreciation of the magic cf eloquence. Miss Dickinson's lecture was essentially great. It was great in argument, great in ideas, great in pleading earnestness. great in sublime heroism, great In goodnm.

THE Catholic sovereigns of the world have been unfortunate in the past five years as will bo seen by this list: Max imilliao executed, Carlottacrazed, Isabella humilated and dethroned. Napoleon a prisoner and disowned by France, and lastly, His Holiness the Pope deprived of his temporal power, a selfmade prisoner in the Vatican.

A snRKwn Washington letter-writer suggests that the American members of the Joint High Commission should propone a dicker with the English members fort he purchase of Canada. There is little doabt that the latter gentlemen will be chested out of all British possessions in America If they wait here long.

Tor Forty-first Congress expired at neon to-day. It has developed a good deal of patience as shown by Its Jobs.

V88TA AND PR U8SIA.

EDITOR MAIL*—I call your attention to the Associated Press news of Thursday containing tho answer of the Czar of Russia to the dispatch sent to bim by the Emperor William, where he says: "Th' future of Prussia (not Germany!) and Russia is secured." Prussia helped Russia to crush Poland "Russia," according to William, "has prevented the sproading of war," and the civilized world knows that each will help the other to crush any attempt the people may make to gain freedom.

A. GERMAN.

TIIK .associated press dispatches, or careless news editors, have frequently used the word million lor milliard in referring to the sum of mouey demanded by Germany of France. A inillard is a thousand millions.

A XKW Yonii merchant absent-mind-edly copied a love-letter to his "heart's idol" in the letter-book of the firm before sending it.

City News.

SubHcrlntieiiM.—The SATURDAY EVENING AII. Is delivered to city subscribers at TWKNTY CENTS a month, payuble at the end of every four weeks, or at TWO DOLLARS a year in advance. The MAIL will be furnished by post, or ul this ortlce, at the following rates: One Year, $2,00 Six Months, $1,00 Three Mouths, 50 Cents—invariably itt ailvanr.fi.

Cheap Advertising.— We shall hereafter give spcclal prominence to the notices under the head of Wanted, For Sale, For Rent, Lost, Found, Ac. We will charge five cents a line for each insertion of such advertisements, and no notice will be reckoned at less than live lines. The circulation of the MAIL is such that we can assure the public that it is carefully and regularly read in the homes of nine out of ten reading persons in this city and its immediate vicinity.

NEW ADVERTISEMENT&. •, New Business Directory. W. C. Allen, Tailor. tin lick &. Berry—Hog or Clilckcn Cholera. Webster's Dictionary. Dissolution—G. W. Ilall & L. Thomas, Joseph Strong, Teas, Coffees, Ac. Pensions for soldiers—D. 8. Dnimldson. Special Notice to the Public—W. Stats. Closing out sale— B. G. Cox. Lost—large sums of money. Found Lost Creek Coal. For Sale—Teutonia Hotel. For Sale—House with six rooms. For Sale—House with five rooms, For Sale—

Lot.

For Sale—Old Papers. Good stoves at Ball's. Pensions for Soldiers A. Grimes. Ryce's Carp Hall for Goods. For Sale—House with five rooms. For Sale—House & Lot. For Rent—Desirable Offices.

FARMERS are buying plows. -'r f.wil 11 A NEW station on the E., T. H. A C, Railway is named Early. 11/. JK

THE Public Square Park looks liko a backwoods clearing.^

GAS mains aro being extended on Walnut street from 3rd to 4th.

IF any one wants to borrow anything of you now yot* ,cat£ tell^bi!n "it's Lent.''

A THIRD street citizdh is out $25,00, which his dog "chawed up," including a wallet. *r

COL. THOMPSON proposes to bore for coal on his Spring Hill farm in a few weeks.

THERE is no grade on tho whole line of the E. T. H. & C. Railway greater then 26 feet to the mile.

IIIRAM BRUNKEN will not run his brick yard the coming season. It. is not probable that any new yards will bo atarted.

FORT Harrison Lodge, No. 151, I. O. O. F., will remove irom Col. McLean's building to the new Gilbert building shortly.

E. M. OILMAN shipped from this city during the past year 350 car loads of cooperage, all of which was manufactured here.

THE railroad bridge over tho Little Vermillion at Newport will be finished this week, after which the cry of tho track lavers will lie, "On to Perrysville"

IT is said that the stone from over the river, which can be delivered at any point within the corpoaratc limits at a cost of ninety cents a cubic yard, will make splendid macadamized streets.

THE prospects aro that very heavy mercantile and manufaetnring interests will soon bo developed in Siblevtown betwoon tho tracks ofthe Vandnlia and I, & St. L. railroads.

THE E. T. H. A C. Railway received notification on Wednesday that the contract for carrying the U. S. mall to various points in Vermillion and Parke counties had been awarded to that corporation.

THE new Christian Church at Paris, Ills., will bo dedicated to-morrow. Rev. W. T. Mrere, of Cincinnati, and ItovW. F. Black, of Indianapolis, will preach th« dedicatory sermons. Tho church is the finest finished in the city and is an honor to the congregation.

THE German eftizensof this city have raised enough money by subscription to purchase a power press for tho pnbliaher of the Banner. Tho press has been ordered, and Mr. Fabricius will remove his office to Baur's new building, opposite the Terrc-Hautc House.

TnE sssemorswill not be able lo complete their work before the second week in April. They are greatly delayed by the negligence of many persons in msking out their reports. The disposition manifested by some to evade the officials entirely and to show fight when compelled to answer the usual routine of questions, is also a great soon* of vexation and detention.

THE Library Association is defunct.

VraStirEDEs havo again made their unwelcome appearance on our aide walks. ,,-.9

SULLIVAN county has thirty-seven residents between seventy an.l eighty six years of age.

CORINTHIAN Hall, onco the favorite temple of the muses in this city, is in a disused and dilapidated condition.

DAVIS & DAVIS have removed their law oflice to the corner of Main and 3rd streets, over McKeen A Minshall's llank. ri

A PROMINENT builder informs as that larger preparations are being made for improvements in this city during the coming season than ever known before.

PROF. WILET hopes to occupy tho new school buildings at the beginning of the spring term of the public schools.

AN energetic Life Insurance agent of this city, issued policies to the amount of thirty-five thousand dollars within twenty-four hours' time, tho first of this week.

MCKEEN IT MINSIIAM. received a proposition from a New York party to supply them with counterfeit money, popularly known as "tho queer," a few days ago.

THE completion of tho railroad from Crawfordsvillo to Rockvillo will give this city direct communication with Detroit by way .of Logansport and tho Eel River Railroad. This lino will? give us choap freights from tho East.

ARRANGEMENTS aro on foot logivo a grand Mjennerchor Concert with other entertainments, including soino recitations by Jamos l£. Murdoch, at the Opera House on soino Sunday eveuiug within a few weeks.

MR. Josurn E. YOUNG, the contractor for that portion of tho E. T. II. A C. ltailwity embraced betwoon Chicago and Danville, expects to havo cars running us far south as the latter point early in the fall. President Collott will havo his end completed beforo that timo, so that through trains will bo run from Terre-IIaute to Chicago by September or October of this year.

THE following are somo of tho most important items of expenso, paid by city for the month of February: Police force, including about two hundred dollars for detectives and ono wook'sback pay for January, F1,183.35 street repairs, $385.87 printing und advertising, $332.17 Station houso expenses, $115.35 jail expenses, $00.75. Tho total amount paid during tho month as shown by olftcor Schoemehl's books, was $3,204.43. 4

ON the day of tho sun's "Crossing tho line," March 21st, known as the vernal equinox, it also enters the constellation Aries. This has beon held from timo immemorial as a certain indication of a hard, cold, backward Spring. Tho "sign" at this period is in tho head, and is indicated by a ram. Certainly thoro can be nothing much harder than a rani's head, bnt according to this sign of tho Zodiac, we are doomed to buck against It the coming Spring.

TERRE-HAUTE is excited ovor a worrdcrful stablo which has boon recently completed by a wealthy young citizen. It is said that it is finished in oiled walnut, and that tho mangers aro surmounted by elegant oil paintings put in the host light to cultivate a taste for tho fine arts among tho horses. Each liorsc-chatnber (there aro no stalls) is. supplied with a spring mattress, a mar-blc-top wash stand, und a handsome' toilett sett. Tho favored steeds use nothing but fragrant Sozodont for their teeth, Burnett's Cocoaino for their hair, and Barr's Pectoral Elixir for cougliA and colds. An Ethiopian 3,°"th roads extracts from the Pilgrim's Progress, Mark Twain's Memoranda, and other humorous works, every night until tho equine quadrupeds, lulled by murmuring fountains and lar-oT music, are wrapped in delicious slumber.

iNOtterCreek township about five miles north from tho city, a difficulty aroso soino two or three weekssincc, between the white and colored citizens of a certain school district, in which tho grossest injustice wis ini|H»»od upon the colored people, if the facts are as wo have received them from very reliable source. It seems tIi.it a school for the white children had closed, and no other provisions having been mmlo for the blacks, they applied for tho u«0 of the school house, iti which to hold their school, having employed a teacher with the funds set ajnirt by the law for that purpose. In rc-opoiise lo this application the whiUs assembled and passed, almost unanimously, a resolution denying the blacks the use of tho hotue.. The colored citizens chose to submit to this outrage for tho sake of jteace, rather than add fuel to the flame by standing up for their rights. This act on the part of the whiten was not only unjast but unlawful. Tho law sots apart a certain portion of the school fund for the education of both races, and neither has a right to deny tho other any privileges wbatcvor. In this case, if either is entitled to greater :ulvantages than the other, it seems that the blacks would be more Justifiable in a'tempting to assume jurisdiction over the whites, as quite a large majority of the children of the district are black. It would be Just as consistent in thein to bold meetings and deny the whites certain privileges. The colored school is now taught in the dwelling houso of a colored citizcn named Stewart.