Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 April 1871 — Page 4

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8ALK—Parlor Hets, nt H", «tt» 50 & $•4. Fine Chamber Sets, lull marole, $76 .Vi. and $112 .V). J. & B. W. Ross, Nw. .11 unl 12, Stitmil slnt-t. W*3t. T^OR KAI/K-A fIT—One hundred feet Jr front—on Fifth street, between Oak unl Wilson siwii. Will be sold in lot.H«f 2-j f.-fi fnmt. To persons wanting a small home, this

a splendid chance

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monthly imymenlK of Miiall amount* In excliniiKi'. 30-If. f-i L. MAHAX.

f^OR H.\ LK—Two desirable House* nnd 1»U«,

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situated on the corner of Thir

teenth nnd i.'heMnut streets, In JewettV Ad111Ion the other on Kotirili •treet, 4 square* from Main al*o .'!S oer»-s In Otter ("reek towiifthlp, ."i miles from the cltv. For particular* Inquire of Mir. H. BROWN, 7V North Fourth street. 39-tf.

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HA LK—Twenty acres of timbered land on the Look port road, four or Ave Mullen from the city. Will Hell the whole tract on reasonable term*, or will wll th timber, alone, of ten acres.

L. KIKHNKR,

38-tf Palace of Music.

HALK-»ORE AT BARGAIN IN I« E. Might hundn-d tons of pure Crystal Ice can le purchased at low 'rate* nnd on long ert-dlt. The purcliiwr will hav«M vt*ry facility for competing successfully with r«-tall lee dealers who are endeavoring to establish a monopoly In the leu trade in Terre-Haute during tho coming season. A rare chance ofTeri*«i to any one d*sirus of maUiiiK mon-

Applv toOF.o. F. JENCti KSorto.MiHN ». WILl'lAMS, Ohio St seet, bet. Third and ^Fourth, Terre-Haute, I ml. JRHf.

f.KjR HALE.—For sale at a bargain 28 acres of I^tnd, I miles South-east of TerreTiaute. The most commanding building Mite In Vigo county. The land 1h peculiarly adapted to the cultivation of vegetables or fruit*. Iielngdry, windy and productive. Terms one-sixth wu.lt, balance In Ave annual payments.

For further particular* npply to Kdltorof MAM.. IH-if.

^OU HALE.—Fine Farm—The farm of the late Hiram Hmith, Hr., lying miles 'nith-east from the centre of the city, is now offered for sale. This Is one of the most deniable piece* of rural property in the county or State. It lien partly upon the bluff and partly on the prairie. The improvements are flrM-ratc. The location of the residence Is of surpassing leauty, commanding a view of the whole city ami prairie. There are two large orchords on the place, a splendid grove of timber, and never failing stock water. The purchaser can have choice of buying ninety or one hundred and sixty acres. Terms easy. Enquire at this ofllc*. 12-tf.

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HALE—Choice building lots In Ted's sutxlivision, corner of (ith and (iitlick streets. A No lor exchange,farming land* In Indiana and Illinois, for improved or unimproved city property. Apply lo 11. H. TKKL, Xilo si., opp. Court House. :r7-tf.

L^I ill SALE—Mix Houses and lot* all new with :l rooms and cellars to eac_with cisterns and wood sheds. Good location, each worth Sl.iVi, will sell all for oc choice foril.lXKi wish. •IS-tf: B. HOLMES. "Spoil HALE-'IIOUHO of seven rooms and X* and lot oi Use acres on I'ralrieton road 1'. miles from the court house. NiO fruit trees, KX) grape vines. .Ureal bargain. Ap-

pl:l(V.tf. JKllKY vnItlH.

Hilt SA LK.-—Tentonla Hotel. This voluable property adjoining the Dcmlng block in the Kast* will be sold very low.

isi'.'iltlV,' BOUDINOT iV BROWN.

«i-tit. Attorney's.

^oltHA LF.— House with five rooms, cellar, oulhoiises, stable, vtc. Ixt by HI feet. Plenty of trees and shrubbery, fruit, Ac. Price jl,ntm, H. Holmes, Agent, 113 Main St.

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HALE -old papers, suitable for wrapping paper,for sale at 50 cents a hundred at the MA it, ofllee.

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SAT.E—IjOTS—Mont desirable resl-

dence lots In the city. Five lots fronting on Sixth street. Ten lots front Inn on Fourth street. Three Lots fronting on Third street, and know as the Farrington Property. These lots are the most desirable Residence Bites to be had In he«ity,and arc dally becoming more valuable. »or terms, information, or plat of ground, apply to W. E. HENDR1CH. Agent, ofllco over Prairie City Bank, Reach's lllnck.

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"IIOR HALE or Exchange—Clark House.— I The proprietor, desiring to retire from the nuHim-s*. offers his Hotel for sale or exchange for small Dwellings In, or small Farm near the city. House is doing a good business or Is well'located for manufacturing purposes. Kasv terms. For particulars enquire of 25-tf. W. B.ORIFFITH Proorietor.

HALE Now Is the time to buy a nice little home at a low figure, and sometlm« on part of purchase. Thcadvcrttser wants to nelI a House and l^ot lo'atc«l in a quiet neighiorhood far enough from the Opera House to make it desirable! House contains 4 rooms all In good repair, with cellar good large cistern in var l. Ixit ha* on It apple, peach, cherry and pear trot* (big tre»« that grow frult)"wlth room to plant more. Price JiyiV) —half cash, balance ongool time. For further particular* address Hot'SK, P. O. B'lX 1M2, Terie-Haute. 32-tf.

Wanted.

'\\T ANTRIM— AH to know there Is no humbust In the reduction of prlct^ on Furniture nt J. A E. W. Ross, Nos. 11 and 12, 2nd Street.

^\\7 ANTKI)— By competent tenchom,a llmTf Utsl numlM-r of Htiulents to learn the nrt of telegniphlnu-terms moderate. Enquire at rtHim over Dr. Mulls ofllee. fith St., tlrst «l«H»r frtmt Main.

"\irANTED-At the Water Cure Medio"1 and Surgical Institute, Terre-Haut0' three or four vonng I^idii^ to attend to the lady guests while under treatment: work, light and pleasant. Apply at No. 8 South Gtn strert. isr\ T. CARLKTON COYLE. M. P.

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rtr.'iilation thni^ any newspaper putHsb«si outside of lndlnna|s»ll«. In this State. Al*o th^U It Is carefully nn»l thortMichly reatl in the homes of Its pottvn*. and tfint It I* the vorv lMst advertising medium in Western Indiana. *AITANTED. -Energetic Agent!* tocntivnss for the Wheeler A Wilson Swlnu Machine. A permanent situation and ir«»d commissions offered. Apply at office, N. E. C\»rner Main nnd Sixth streets. St-tf

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OST— I^nre «nin' ot money are lrwt every I jweek bvperson* who should mlvertlsc In this t-olamn of the uu

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"T^orNI~That the cheap**t and IH*SI «dvert King In thecltvean te»bt!»tttf«Hyinventlng In tlic Wiuitnl, ftir sale. For Rent. 4^*t nnd Fouml eoiutnn of the AIi-

'Printing.

^rRURK-HAtTTK PRIXTINt} IIS J. Main Street, «lo«*« the nenteAt ami ehe#net

Job Printing in theeltr. 11U*IB«W NWN ftiiould make a note of this. O. J. Smith A Co.

li'I^lANT Bronw and tWorrt Printing «i a »|wr|«)ty at the Terre-Haute PnnUn* iHuow. The mn«t competent work me* in h» citv. Kv.-r ti\inK gnaninte*! sntlidhcto3rjr. IIS Main mr*et. O. J. Smith A f».

A J. SMITH A COI* prices fw IVInttnc "J* ftrrm 8 to 10 per crnU lower than jNew ^ork Printed Prtoe IJXs. GkUHn mhI com pa re prim.

INVITATIONS-ForThestyle

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gotten «p In any deslml »tyle. either to p.aln or colored inks* of oar vork not e*oelled Ntivwhere. 1Xrri|lutr PiiRtlng How*, 10 Miiln •trret, O. J.

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THE MAIL.

O.J.SMITH,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

Office, 142 Main Street.

TERRE-HAUTK. APRIL 1, 1H71.

SECOND EDITION.

W ih Supplement.

THE SEURO PROBLEM. President Grant threilens to call out troops for the suppression of disorders in South Carolina as did President Lincoln just ten years ago. This i» videno\ sjiy the reactionists, that reconstruction is failure, and that the Republican pnrtv has brought anarchy, not peace, to the country. This argument would have more force it it were not advanced liy the very persona who assure us that every tiling is lovely in the Southern States, and that there is no necessity tor intervention by tlio 'Federal government. Our position is, that there aro serious disturbances in the South, which call for United States troops to interfere that everything is not lovely in cottondom at the close of ten years since the beginning of the reb"l war n*d still, that the reconstruction policy is nioresuccesslul than any other policy wou 1(1 have been, and that in the end it will bring perfect peac an 1 prosperity to the South. In support of this position we adduce the fact that the Southern States have been more quiet, orderly and peaceful (luring the two years of I'residelit (Jrant administration, than during any equ period of the past thirty years.

who does not know this, understands little of the .Southern question. We do do not slander the South when we say that its people are naturally, or by education, turbulent and disorderly. Nowhere else in Christendom has so light an estimate been placed upon human •life. That a great reform and revolution liko reconstruction would not maintain a bloodless triumph was evident from the beginning. In the boiling of tlio great public cauldron impurity ever comes to the top. This cannot bo trusted as a sample of the matter benoath any more than thesurfaco sentiment of the country, as spoken by ranting politicians and bold and unscrupulous newspapers, can be expected to represent tlie great heart of the people. The vile and bad are uppermost in the South now. It requires a st rong, good tirui policy only, to skim the impurities from tlio surface and restore tranquility.

A depraved public sentiment in the South demands the persecution of the blacks, and the expulsion of Northerners who are holding official positions. It is tlio old pro-slavery, hu-manity-hating sentiment which has not yot died out entirely from the hearts of the people, who look upon the blacks as creatures made for their own use and pleasure. Political and civil equulity they reject ns a heresy more damnable than Galileo's theory of the earth's movement was esteemed to be two centuries ng#. They cannot see that while they are cursing the negro because I10 is no longer profitable to them that ho is slowly and surely laying the foundation of liis own elevation and prosperity. They hope for the re-establishment of slavery, or something akin to it, and do not realize that tho cotton States aro already far advanced in the process of becoming negro States. Hv their violence they are hastening this solution of the negro problem. For natural reasons there can bo no other solution of tho future of the black pcoplo in America. They desire to be separated from the whites even more than the whites desire to be separated from the negroes. This separation will never come about by colonizing tho blacks in the West Indies, or in Africa, because their attachment to tho land of thoir birth is as great as that of tho whites, and colonization must le voluntary. Moreover, the result of the scheme of removing the negroes from the United States, if it were practicable, would be to make a wilderness waste of tho cotton states. The trade, commerce and wealth of tho South aro based upon the products of the soil. It is safe to estimate that nineteen bales of cotton out of every twenty grown in the S«uth dnringthe past season were produced by negro labor. White labor, though pushed by the samo incentive of poverty and suffering, has accomplished nothing in the South *s yet, and it will not in the future. The climate is ruinous to the vital energies of the white people. Thoroughly enrrgetic lalioriug white men exist In no semi-tropical country on the face of the earth. Witness tho L-i*-xaroni of Italy, the effete agriculturist* of Southern Spain and Portugal, the scml-bart»arous Mexicnns, and the "poor white®" of the South. The negro belongs by nature to tho cotton belt. He basks In its sunshine and thanks God for its wlnterless year*.

Ho is kept in the north only by the dread of that lawlessness in the South, while, like all evil thing*, mu*t pass away.

The blacks of the North, and of the South, desire nothing so much as to lie separated practically from the white*. There is no doubt that they are entitled to admission to tho public school*, thaugh they prefer, like the whites, nrparaUi schools. To refuse them admission to the halls of learning is as unlawlbl and as unrsaaotiable as to deny thwoti the privilege of breathing Ike common air, or of praying to the one God. Social equality grows not from pottlioai or dril equality. Than waa

more of the former in tho South during slavery than there would be If, in consequence of reconstruction, every office hi the land were filled by a negro.

Through oppression, through trouble, through long yoars of sutlcring, tho black race has couio up from barbarism to civilization. Let no man, unless he would offend God, raise hand in opposition to this progress.

THE LABOBTyQ MEWS PARTY. A prominent citizen of a neighboring county, having discovered in tho MAII, soino articles favorable to the interests of the laboring classes of tho country, wrote us last week asking our opinion of the movement for tho organization of a Laboring Men's Party, and of tho platform adopted by the National I,nbor Union of Cincinnati. We answorod that we were favorable to tho Interests of the laboring men, but that we had not seen tlio platform alluded to. He kindly sent us a copy, and it is now before us. To say that we are ama?ed at its narrowness and illiberality does not express our feelings. Upon its face a protest against tho oppressions and exactions of capital, it enunciates principles mqre narrow and selfish than any considerable political organization has ever dared to advocate in this country. Witness the following:

Resalved, That the presence In our coun

try

of Chinese laborers in large numbers is an evil entailing want and its consequent train of misery and crime oil all other classes of tin* American people, mm should be prevented by legislation.

In otlies words, tho white laboring men of America say to the laboring man who wears a pig tail, ^ou shall not come here. We are organized to protect labor, and we are going to protect it from competition." Tjjpe labor reformers can just as reasonably demand legislation to prevent youths from learning trades and entering into competition with journeymen as that the Chinaman shall bo excluded from a free country. If labor protection means anything more than an artful ruse of schemingpoliticians, or the selfish clamor of would-be monopolists,it must cover the protiction of all men in laboring in whatever field they choose, and in the enjoyment of the fruits of their toil. 1

Here is another resolution: Resolved, That the National Labor Congress earnestly recommend the adoption of such measures among all clashes of workmen, in all sections of the country, as will secure the adoption of the eight hour system, and call upon the respective state legislatures to follow the example of the National Congress in recognizing eight hours as a legal day's work.

Now, every ten year old boy in the country knows, or ought to know, that Congress, or the State Legislatures, can pass laws making eight hours a legal day's work in the absence of a positive contract to the contrary, but that such legislation will not affect the compensation for labor in the smallest. Neither will it be of the slighest benefit to laboring men. An hour's work is worth a certain sum to every employoi- in the land. If his laborers work only eight hours a day, of course they will onljr receive four-fifths as much as if they were to work ten hours. Tho legislative bodies of the land can as justly regulate the price of wheat or corn by statute as to attempt to make employers pay ten hour's wages for eight hour's work.

Hero is another clap-trap resolution: Resolved, That the claim of the bondholders for payment in gold of that class of indebtedness known as 5-20 bonds, the principal of which is legally and equitably payable in lawtul money—Is dishonest and extortionate, and hence we enter our solemn protest against any departure from the orlglual contract, by funding the debt In long bonds, or in any way Increosing the gold bearing and untaxed obligations of the government.

This is exploded Pendletonian Democracy. It is the patented idea that you can pay a note drawing interest by the violent substitution of a note payable at no time or place and bearing no interest. It is "sugar-coated repudiation." It is the project that has been spit upon by tho American people in every general election since George H. Pendleton conceived his wonderful financial theory.

The laboring men of the country must go before tho public with broader and more liberal views if they expect to sucoeed politically. Wo fear that some politicians, who desire to ride into office upon the brawny shoulders of laboring men, are at the bottom of this movement for the organization of a

Laboring Men's Party."

A OORRE8POSDEXT takes us to task because he has discovered a disposition to discuss political questions in the MAIT,. He says that his understanding was that the MAIL would not be a party paper. He is right we do not intend that ours shall be a partisan newspaper,and yet we will discuss any political, social or moral questions that may come before ns. Our correspondent mistake* the sphere of independent journalism. Ono can disenss politics without partisanship, and this is what we propose to do. We advocate the Right "as God gives ns to see the Right" without fear or favor. The MAII. from the start, has earnestly advocated the unpopular side of many questions. We have yet to learn that its peculiar view* have ii\jured or retarded the increase of its circulation. Onr patrons have Iteen genetons. and we thank them* We trankly avow, hawever, that we would not surrender the right to speak our h( nest convictions concerning any public qui stion even if our stnbbornne*s were to cost us one-half our subscribers.

THE Cincinnati

Otmmerrud of Tue%-

dsy announced in a blaring head line that the Holy Land was to be exploded. Animoaity to the infernal Mohammedan* swelled within us until we referred to the body of the dispatches and discovered that Palestine waa to be piomd—aimply this and nothing more.

PRESIDENT GRANT.

It is a popular thing in these days to abuse the person and administration of Ulysses 8. Grant. Democrats hate Graut Us a mutter of party faith, and a largo portion of tho leading Republicans of tho land disliko him for various reasons, principal among which is the fact that they do not recognizo in him tho traditional popularity-seeking president of the olden tiiue. Unquestionably President Grant is not above criticism. Ho has rocelved too many presents, ho has rewarded too many friends and relatives, and he has been unnecessarily persistent in his achemo for the annexation of San Domingo. Yot none of these errors constitute crime, and probably they are not worse than the errors of tho best presidents of the republic. All men are fallible. President Grant is a man of practical common sense, who intends to do right, but who is liable to err like other men. But whilo wo dissent from somo of his actions let us not forget what tri

umphs

of economy and order have been

won by his administration. When Mr. Johnson left tho head of the government the national debt was daily ittcreasing, tho civil servico was notoriously corrupt, crowded and inefficient, the Southern States were chaotic and unreconstructed, and tho westward tide ot emigration was annually stopped by Indian wars that cost the government thirty millions of dollars in cash, and twice that amount by unsettled lands, not counting tho loss of lite. Two years have passed, and how is it to-day? The current of extravagance is checked, and the revenues so collected and apropriated that tho national debt is reduced one hundred and fifty millions, a gain of over ten millions on tho interest from cancelled bonds, and this with a reduction in our revenues of eighty millions per annum by congressional legislation. Never in the history of the government has thero Wen such a reform in tho civil service, first as to the number of persons necessary for the service, and second as to their honesty and efficiency. The Southern States are reconstructed and represented, and better order has been preserved during these two years than during any equal term before Grant's inauguration and since the boginning of the slavery excitement. Loyal men of both colors in the South have an assurance of protection from the general government. Tho wise course of President Grant with the Indians has wrought marvels in two years. Thero are 110 more armed warriors, stung to deeds of murder and outrage by the robberies of unprincipled politicians acting as agents. The nomadic tribes are settling on reservations, exchanging tho wigwam for tho house, the scalping-knife for the plow, and learning from tho followers of Penn to forget barbarity and wrongs in the lesson of civilization.

These are the substantial results of Grant's administration. It has brought to us peace and prosperity. Wo believe that tho bitter enmity to General Grant by the men of his own party faith is caused principally by tho lack of political excitement in tho country which is the result ol his policy, and which is so objectionable to scheming politicians and tho sensational press. It may be that tho people, revelling in the new order of things, will demand his re-nomination and elect him in spite of the disaffected public churacteg^^^^^-i

THE result of tho elections for the German Parliament, so far as it

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known,

does not verify the fears of those who anticipated an overwhelming victory of the Conservative Prussian party inconsequence of the popularity of the new Emperor and tho Crown Princo. It seems that the Conservative party barely holds its own. It counted in the last North German Parliament 68 members. As it will get no additions from tho South German States, it will have about the same number in tho new National Parliament, which has, in all. about 400 members. The Catholics have lost in some districts in Bavaria, and gained more in Prussia and Western Germany. All the large Catholic cities in Western Prussia, Cologne, Aix-la-chapelle, Dusseldorf, Munster, and many others, have remained true to the Church. The Danes of Northern Schleswig are again represented by one member, and tho Poles by about a dozen. Both Danes and Poles have no objection to a German Empire comprising all the German tribes, but they persist in asking the German Government andtt German people to release them from a political union with which they, being of a different nationality, have no sympathy^^^^——

LORD WALTER CAMPBELL, said at lie New York banquet in honor of his brother's irriage to the Princcssa Louise, that "be heard from an old ac"quaintapce that soon after the cngagement between the Princess Louise "and his brother, the Princess Beatrice went to the queen and said, 'Mother,

I am glad that Louise is going to marry a subject, because now I suppose I "can marry an American.' There are numerous young Americans who would accept the position of son-in-law to the English throne. The serious question is», will the husband be the Prince Beatrice, rr will she be Mm. Princcaa Brown

IIAXS Vo* DEBGOOFTE* and Katrina Von Der Gooften, of St. Louis, celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage on Thursday evening. It was a German ailver wedding.

A focvo gentleman in the country recentlv sent twenty-five stamps to New York ftr a method of writing without pen or ink. He received the following instructions, in large typs on card "Write with psad!"

PEST HOUSE.

No subject haa moro engrossed the attention of this oity and community for several months past than that of a pest house. Everybody saw the need of it everybody talked about it, and finally everybody demanded it. Tho demand was responded to bv both the city and county, and the initiatory steps to secure its erection were immediately taken in the purchase of seventeen acres of land at one hundred dollars an aero, opposite the city, adjoining the National road. During the past week the last payment was made on the laud. But what does that signify The pest house is no nearer completion now than it was when tho purchase was made. It will never be built on that seventeen acres. Why? Simply because it is not the place for it, and the peoplo will not submit to it. Nobody has favored it since the exact location of tho land was known. It is sixty-three rods in length and but littlo moro than three hundred feot wide, tho entire north side lying on the grade. So it will be impossible to locate the building moro than three hundred yards from other dwelling houses and the public highway. Besides it will cost the modest little sum of ?6,000 to elevate a small building site above high water mark. Citizens who are compelled to travel that road declare that it shall never be built on that spot. We are reliably informed that a number of persons have declared their intention of burning the first building placed there before a single patient shall be placed in it. This is the feeling of many. The entire public sentiment is against it, and it is plain that another location must bo selected before this necessity can be secured. WThero shall it be? Almost every other locality within two miles of the city was examined beforo this. Tho people in every vicinity arose cn masse against it. We see but ono alternative, and this we regard as no mean prospect. That is, to locate it on tho well known island, situated in tho Wabash, about ono mile south of the city. Wo are informed by persons who have examined this island that it can be bought for a mere trifle, and tho cost of preparing it for the building will bo comparatively small. Patients could be conveyed there with less trouble and suffering than to any other locality, and everybody will be entireiy lreo from exposure. This seems to bo the place peculiarly adapted for a pest house— tho only fit placo, and, in fact, tho only place when it can be built with any assurance of its romaiulu where shall it bo built?

SENSATIONAL journals, having tired of assailing the good men of to-day, are attempting to prove that Georgo Washington was tho father of moro than his country, in other words, that I10 was tho father of two illegitimate children, one George Washington Iiowen, of Rhode Island, and the other Colonel Posey, tho first territorial Governor of Indiana. The proof of the first caso of alleged bastardy lies in the fact that a very old woman remombers that her mother thought, contrary to public opinion, that Georgo Washington was the lather of the Bowen alluded to, because ho visited Bowen's mother often some time previous to the birth of her son. Tho proof that Colonel Posey was tho son of Washington is advanced by an Indianapolis correspondent of tho Cincinnati Commercial who says that Col. P. was an illegitimate child, born on tho Mt. Vernon estate, and that Washington, to the day of his death, manifested a warm and friendly interest in the lortuncs of tho young man. It is even said that letters did exist in tho famil3r of Colonel Po soy (they cannot be produced now) in which Washington addressed him as

My Dear Son." These charges against Washington may be true. We have no reason for believing that he may not have been as liable to err as other men. We can only say, however, that 10 proof whatever has been advanced to back these charges. The name of Georgo Washington has been as prominent in tho history of tho world for a hundred years as that of any man of modern times. It is very unreasonble that, after the lapse of a century, tho American peoplo should be asked to believe a slander which was never uttered before, and which is backed by nothing moro than conjecture.

Mn. SCHURZ, in his San Domingo speech of Wednesday, asserted truthfully that successful military chieftains have often proven lamentable failures in civil administration, and cited the case of the Duke of Wellington, whose military exploits did not save his dwelling at a later day from being pelted with stones by the populace, liecause of his ministerial policy. By a reverse argument Mr. Schurz doubtless desired to pro've that a man who has been a military failure may bo eminently successful as a civil functionary. We have an illustrious example in our mind's eye. One Major General Carl Schurz, who commanded the 11th corps at Chancollorville, so blundered and tuistnanaged in that action that his corps, before and aPerwards esteemed to be one of the bravest and best in tb6 army, WHS disgracefully stampeded. The reputation of this same General Schurz was such in the army that he waa afterwards permanently assigned to the command of barrack* at Nashville, a position which would not have been considered particularly honorable for a captain of volunteers.

THAT

WMI a lovely scene in the Sen

ate Chamber when Butler and Garrett D-ivis tried to glare and scowl each other oat of countenance. It is a pity they didn't succeed. The physiognomy of each could be spared.

IT would seem that the days of 1793 havo como again in Paris. The dispatches inform us that tho capital is under the absolute control of the Reds and that the wntchword of the Cominun is Death to tho rich Death to the Und owners! Death to the priests!" Civilization should mount at this latest exhibition of ferocity and lawlessness. Tho Paris mob cries for tho guillotine. We shall see if the French, unlike all tho other people of Christendom, have learned nothing in eighty years. Tho insurrection at Marseilles is dying out, and Lyons is quiet. Only the people of Paris led by a score of infuriated malcontosts, hold the axe of torror over Franco. This will not" last long. Tho sober second thought of tho French people is stronger to-day than ever before. It may be best in the end that this ebullition of madness and impracticability should take placo now, und wear itself out. If Franco can provo to tho world that the masses of lier peoplo have no sympathy with such disorders she will havo attained a grander triumph than when, after Ansterlitz,Europe lay prostrate at.*: the feet of tho first Napoleon.

ENGLAND has well tried her system of postal telegraphy. We observed from the Government weekly report for the week ending March 4, that

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loss than 199,979 messages were transmitted in that week against 147,206 messages sent during tho correspondingweek in 1870, beforo the telegraph business was placed under the control of the Government. It is apparent that the incroaso under the new system' amounted to 57,77.'! messages, or abont 35 per cent. Tlio English postal telegraph system has therefore boon a great success. One remarkable feature in the report is tho careful registry that kept of the complaints made by thn public. These complaints are arranged under tho heads of "Delay in transmission "Non-delivery "Inaceuracy "Overcharge "Koplv paid for "und not sent, or twice paid for," and

Other irregularities." And wo notice that during tho week when

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two hundrod thousand messages were sent over the wires, only complaint* wero registered.

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Chenp A«lvcrti*lfi|r.— We shall hercaiter give special prominence to the notices uniter the head of Wanted, For Hale, For Rent, Lost, Found. Ac. We will charge five cents a line for each Insertion

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llsementa, and no notleb will le reckoned, at less than live lines. Tho circulation ot' the MAIL is such that wo can assure thes public that It Is carefully nnd renularly read in the homes of nine out of ten read Inn persons In this city and Its Immediate vicinity.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 8am Sharplev's Silver Hh«w. Clearance Sale—J. A K. W. Koss. Administrator's Hale—Fred. A. Ross. Art Emporium—R. Gam*. say yes Q—Jonas Jones. Financial—Pacific Railrood. Opening Days, Ac.—Tuell, Ripley

Writing—Marv McHwan. Press Goods, Ac.—Ryce A

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ing. Dress Maklnn—Mrs. J. M. Crlsher. Pattern Bonnets, Ac.—8. L. Htraus. 178 Main Street—J. Schaublln.

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7-.'KC JoId Loan—Jay Cc«kc

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Attachment—L. B. DensMc. Croquet,

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Young Mechanics' Ball. Notice—George lfall. Opera House baxuur—Horz A Arnold*

Additional City »«wi Writ Eighth

TIIK entire Station House debt has. just been paid off.

TIN? Fire Department e«ploys sevenhorses.

OFFICK rent costs the city only si» hundred dollars a year.

THB Terre Haute-Houso is to be thoroughly renovated and repaired.

YOUNO Mechanic's Ball at Beach's. Hall, Monday evening, April 10th.

FAUMKRH havo commenced plowing for corn in this vicinity.,

MERCHANTS still oontinuo to recciv** spring goods.

CRIMINAL Court, beginning of Aprilterm, on Monday.

To MAKE a hot-bed, sprinkle in Cayenne pepper before retiring.

WILD flowers are peeping from beneath the forest leaves.

NEW locomotive named Shelburn has been placed on the E. A C. Railr road.

NEWSPAPER correspondents In this, city can send their communications to the public by ErjrreJin or by MAIL.

FKWKK Cincinnati daily papers «ire taken in this city now than at any timebefore in fifteen years.

EIOIIT hundrod dollars per MONTHS will cover all tlio 1 xpcns.s of the fire department of this ei$y.

REPEATED atuwnpts havo recently been mode by a number dead beat* and drunken loafers to abuse the advantage* of the Station House, and obtain their board and lodging the greater portion of the time at the expense or the city. Night after night some of their number have leen accustomed to apply to Officer Sibley for accomodations, evidently pretending to be drunker than they really were. A few nights ago bo commenced turning them} off, and finds that such applicanta ure alwavs able to euro for thoinsclvt* when compelled to do so.