Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 44, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 April 1871 — Page 4

For Sale.

FOR

SA LE-HOUSE AND LOT—On South Fourth street for wile on favorable terms. The house Is convenient and handy to the business portion of the city. For further particulars inquire on the premises or at the Express Printing Office. 44-3t* C. W. BUOWN.

FOItschool,

SALE—The Lot and the Brick Building hcn-toloie occupied by the Third Ward

offered for sale by the trus

tees of ili«- public schools to the highest bidder. M«iii»-d bids will le received by the Board up to the third Monday in Slay. Terms 01 sn c: One-third cash, one-third payabb-in one and one-third in two years, with p*-r cent, interest, payable annually. The unpaid part of the purchase money has to IM M'cunii by mortgage on the property.

Bv order of the Board, «-3t F. V. BICIIOWSKY, Treas.

F•OR

SALE-A HAW MILL—In a neighboring country town, doing a good business Will be sokl or traded on liberal terms. Address, ,, «-tf P.O. BOX, 529.

FORDollars

HALE-HTOVE STORE-Amrechance for an investment of rtbout Two Thousand in an old «nd well established Store, Where tlie profits, if properly managed, cannot fall short of Five Tnoosand Dollars a year. I tind that one Store is about as moch as I can attend to well, and "have determined to sell my Fourth Street establishment. The tools and machines are all new, having been very recently purchased.

The location of the Store is as good as any in town, and has paid me well. I will sell on easy terms, if application is made Immediately, or will trade for city property. Enquire at my store.

S. R. HENDERSON,

43-tf. No. Ill Main St., Terre-Haute.

IOR SALE OR RENT—I have a neat Cottage House with six rooms, cellar, well cistern, stable, wood and coal house, ier lot 48xltJ8 feet, all in good repair. TWs projierty is offered for sale on very reasonable terms for ten days. If not sold by feat time it will be for rent.

I also have two other Houses and Lots and two Lots 30x168 feet, newly fenced, all for •ale on reasonable terms.

Call at Prairie City Cooper Shop. 42-tf. A. C. MATTOX.

FOR

KALE—House and Lot In a desirable neighborhood. House cozy and comfortable. Lot has on it large and bearing trees of choice fruit. Price reasonable and terms easy. Enquire of IlEEhb r. ErsOLIKH, MAII, office. «-tf.

FOR

SALE— Houses and lots in all parts of this city at low flgurcs. Small payments down, and good time to pay the balance. Enquire of B. HOLMES, Agent, 42-tf. No. 113 Main street.

T?OR SALE—A LOT—One hundred feet front—on Fifth street, between Oak and Wilson streets. Will be sold in lots of 2o feet front. To persons wanting a small home, tills Is a splendid chance as I will take monthly payments ol small amounts in ex-^iW-'tf.'' I- L. MAIIAN.

FOR

SALE-TWO desirable Houses and I/ts, on* situated on the corner of Thirteenth and Chestnut streets, in Jewetts Addition I he other on Fourth street, 4 squares from Main also :ts ocres in Otter Creek township, miles from the city, tor particulars inquire of Mrs. S. BRO\V N, 79 North Fourth street. o#-tf.

7OR HALE—Twenty acres of timbered land on the Lock port road, four or live mllc.s from the city. Will sell the whole tract on reasonable terms, or will sell the timber, alone, of ten acres.

I•

L. KIHn EK,

gtHf Palace of Music.

T?OR SALE.—For sale at a bargain 20 acres _T of Land, A miles South-east of Terrell iiu lu. The most commanding building uite in Vigo county. The land is peculiarly adapted to the cultivation of vegetables or fruits, being dry, sandy and productive. Terms one-sixth cash, balance in five annual iMiymenl£. ..

For furtlnVpartifiiW MAIL.

FOR

upply to Editor of 18-tf.

SALE.—Fine Farm—The farm^of the bite Hiram Smith, Sr., lying 3}-£ miles south-east from the centre of the city, is now offered for sale. This is one of the most deKiruble pieces of rural property in the county or SUite. It lies partly upon the bluff and wirlly on the prairie. The Improvements are first-rate. The location of the residence 1H of surpassing beauty, commanding a view of the whole city and prairie. There are

two

large orchards on the place, a splendid grove of timber, and never falling stock waUir. The purchiiHer can have choice of buylug ninety or one hundred and sixty Qcres. Terms easv. Enquire at this office. 12-tf.

lUK HALE—Choice building lots In Teel's sulni I vision, corner of fltli and Gulick streets. Also lor exchange,farming lands in Indiana and Illinois, for improved or unimproved city property. Apply to II. 11. TEEL, Ohio St., opp. Court House. w-tf.

ium HALE—House of seven rooms and and lot of live acres

011

Plj»Mf.

iiloc

Prairleton road

1% miles from the court house. 100 fruit trees, 300 grape vines. Great bargain. Ap-

JERRY VORIS.

OK SALE.—Teutonia Hotel. This valuable property adjoining the Deinlng ck on tlie foist will oe sold very low.

Applv to

HOSFOI'ID, BOUDINOT& BROWN,

?42-lt.

t'TLIE

Attorneys.

^ORSALE—Old papers, suitable for wrapping paper,for sale at 6» cents a hundred it MAM. office.

I1JOlt

HALE or Exchange—Clark House.— The proprietor, desiring to retire from the business, otters his Hotel for sale or exchange for small Dwellings in, or small Farm near the clt v. House Is doing a good business or Is well located for manufacturing purposes. Knsv terms. For particulars enquire of •J-Vif. W. M.UKIFFIT1! Proprietor.

For Rent.

"170K RENT The front |*art of the old I bank building next door to KIssuer": Palace of Music. (Ymtalns four nice room* with two good front show windows. Apply at the mudc stole u. xt door. K-tf

Wanted.

•a

«1 \\TKl) -,\ voung lady, nineteen years \y of aire, well' islucated. refined and of good fa 11111 relations, permanently located in Terre-Haute. would like lo o|ien a correspondence with a very limited number of •ounix men not over twenty-five years of age. of good Meadv habits and engaged in some laudable business. with a view to mutual improvement and the formation of agitable amuftlntarees.

Atlnm. A. P., TH»X 480, Tcrre-Ilaute, Ind.

ANTfil~Everylody

to know that the

\Y SATI'utiA VEVKNINOMAIL has a larger circulation Ihnn any newspaper published oittslde of Indlnnapolls, in this State. Also that It Is carefully and Uumuighly r*»«id fti

the

homwof its patnuis. and that it is the very best advertising medium in Western Indiana

Lost.

OHT—Ijirgesumsot money are lost every Jjweek bypers»»ns wh* should advertise in this column of the MAII-

Found.

Fvert

OUKP—Tliil

the

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Kl mi in the city ran be •btainedbylnJinSrWrn^^ Rent, Lc*t and Found column of the MAII

Printing.

fpKRRE-HAl'TK PRINTING HOUSE, 1C I Main street, does the n«*U*t and cbeapMt Job Printing in U- citv. rixmiii make a note of this. O. J. Smith

Co.

rTerro-Hantebetter

lK BEST PRINTER in the W«t at the Printing House, 113 Main ctmet. who devotes bis entire time and at* to the elaab of work. O. J. Smith A Oo.

THE MAIL.

O.J.SMITH,

EDITOR AN1 PROPRIETOR. 1

Office, 14o|Mai& Street!

TERRS-HALITE. ^£PRIL 29, 1871.

SECOND EDITION. With Supplement.

THE RE VOL UTION OF LABOR. The greatest question in the womb ot the immediate future is that of labor reform, Millions of laboring men in all civilized countries have organized to secure more of the prizes of life to themselves. A world-wide federation of labor seeks far the amelioration of the condition of the "Mud sills" of society. This is not a sporadic movement its origin was simultaneous with that of railroad and telelegraphic progress, and with the Republican uprising of 1848. Its progress has been greatest in these last years, since the triumph of the American Republic over slavery has given an impetus to radical agitations in Europe. It is a movement wbich shall yet shake every capital in Europe. It is the old defiance renewed—the war begun again between Capital and Labor. For centuries Labor has sown for others to reap. All the wealth ot the world has come from the toilers, and they have had none of the benefits. Now that there is more light in the world than of old, they seek to know how this colossal evil can be remedied in a rational and just manner, and this is what they have already done:

Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Machinists, Millwrights, and PatternMakers." It had in 1867 (the last year for which we have been able to find official data) a membership of thirty-four thousand, belonging to three hundred and eight branches, located in Great Britain, Ireland, France, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the West Indies. There was a cash balance of five hundred and sev-enty-six thousand seven hundred and eighty-five dollars in its treasury, and an annual income of over three hundred and eighty thousand dollars. So perfect has its organization become since 1850, that strikes are almost unknown, and this because capital has found out it pays better to arbitrate than "lock out." It is a fact worthy of noto, and proves that these societies are not, ns some would believe, unmixed evils that the larger their growth and tlio inoro perfect their organization, the less inclination is there to resort to strikes, and the more ready arc both sides to listen to reason. Organization among the men has made strikes too costly to themselves and the employers. The "Amalgamated Carpenters," quoted by Professor Beasley *as the best union in cxistcnco, numbers eight thousand members, has one hundred and eighty-soven branches, and a fund on hand of seventy thousand dollars. The operative masons number eighteen thousand the bricklayers,twelve thousand tlio plasterers, oight thousand tho general union of tailors, twelve thousand ironfoundcrs, twelve thousand boiler-makers, nino thousand»

London tailors, seven thousand Scotch carpenters, five thousand power-loom weavers, five thousand locomotive engineers and firemen, fifteen thousand with sixty-fourbranches and an annual income of about thirty-five thousand dollars. Those societies are not federal lmt individual, so to speak, nor must it be supposed that the large funds they gather and disburse are used wholly in aggressive movements. By far tho larger portion of their dues are applied to benoticont purposes. Up to 1866, for instance, the •'Amalgamated Engineers" disbursed (a period of fifteen years being included) 92,443,"85, of which amount $1,369,200 had been devoted to assisting men out of work, including those "on strikes." Not more than a third of this went directly to the hitter purpose, while $1,024,.185 is reported as expended directly for such objects as sickness, superannuation, accidents, funerals, etc.

No very accurate estimate of the Continental Trades Unions membership can beobtained, for nearly every European government has had these organizations under open or secret surveillance. Italy has a very complete network of semipolitical trades societies of which Garibaldi is honorary president. It numbers about four hundred and titty branches, has a membership of about one hundred and twenty thousand,and a ftind of about three hundred thousand dollars. In Italy strikes have been frequent durimr the last five years, as also in France, Belgium, and Austria. But this aggressive policy has been promoted bflhfl growth oftbe international Movement and the energy of its propaganda. In Spain, four thousand workingmen'S societies are reported. They form the principal source of the republican agitation there. In France, 433,785 unionists are co-operat-ing with the International association in Switzerland, 42^36 in Germany, 150,006 In Austria and Hungary, 100,000 in Belgium, 91,000 while in Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, and even in Asiatic Turkey,

tions

England the Trades Unions

had a membership of 850,000 in 1867. These unions control every trade in England. They have already raised wages against all the theories ot economists and the protests of philosophers. The A tlanlic Monthly informs us that the most powerful union existing, though not the most numerous, is that of the

organizing. In America

country, reports three hundred branches. The Iron Moulder's Union has two hundred and four branches, and seventeen thousand members. In the cities of New York and Brooklyn there are about one hundred unions, with a membership of seventy thousand. It is an encouraging sign of the American labor

movement

The most significant feature of this movement is its International organizations. Already the Trades Unions of England and of the continent are allied with those of America in fraternal bonds for mutual protection and preservation.

The power of these organizations possess cannot be measured merely by their ability to control the labor markets of the world. From a careful examination of parliamentary and other returns made in 1867, it is estimated that at that date the wages class ia Great Britain had accumulated funds to the amount of $437,216,660 specie. This vast sum belonged to the various co-operative, friendly, benefit, building, loan, and other similar societies, to the Trades Unions, or was deposited in the savings banks. The deposits in the savings banks of New York and New England alone amount to the sum of $400,000,000—more than the total bank capital of the whole United States. It is safe to estimate that three-fourths of this sum is owned by mechanics, working men and domestics. There is pow

er—undeveloped

but the product of labor, one's own "labor." Now this is not Agrarianism —it is Progress. The laboring m^n of England and America have in their hands now to ru the manufajQ^xrlng those countries. In the they will be able, by means of practical co-operation, to own and manage all these establishments, and other branches of labor besides, and consequently to enjoy the full fruits of their toil. Anew epoch is coming on. The vast, boiling, volcanic material which underlies society will have vent. Common schools are fitting the working men of America to become masters of the situation. The toilers of Europe will follow their example.

PHILOSOPHER

LAST

the

tional Labor Union was organized at Baltimore in 1866 and represented thirteen national and international Trades Unions, having nine hundred and nine-ty-two branches, and a membership of about three hundred thousand persons.. The "Knights of St. Crispin,'? the jnostj piardQr be powerful labor organisation in this

and societies, that they

show a strong desire to enter as organized bodies into co-operation and selfemployment.

as yet, but still power

—in the aggregation of these small means. A zealous advocate of labor reform pictures the result ot the movement as follows: "All

new

inventions and discov-

"eries, instead of redounding, as now, "to the benefit of the few and to "the enslaving of the many, must be converted into means of reducing the toils of all, of beautifying "life, and ennobling humanity. All the great indispensable means of existence, as lands, mines, machines, and means of communication, must "be tho common property of all, and must be made so gradually. Nothing can reasonably be private property,

has shown that all

great original suggestions pass through three stages: Firstly, the stage of ridicule Secondly, the stage of argument and thirdly, the stage of acceptance. The Woman Suffrage Movement has passed through tho first of these stages, and has now fairly entered upon the second, that of argument. The path to reform from time immemorial has been a rugged one. It lias been sprinkled with the blood of martyrs. Sneers, social ostracism, arid small persecutions, have over been used to chill the hearts of tho pioneers of civilization After their triumph, mankind has lavished honors and approbation upon them, but often it has come too late. Ten years ago the masses of the American people condemned the leading Abolitionists of the country as fanatics and scoundrels to-day, they are esteemed in America and throughout civilization as freedom's princes, and the laurel wreath entwines their foreheads. The Woman Movement is unconquered and unconquerable. From ail time the bet* ter and purer part of humanity has been the servant of the stronger. The woman of barbarism was literalh' a slave the woman of civilization is destined to be an equal and a companion This is the fiat of the future. The opponents of woman's enfranchisement must meet this issue with reasons and arguments. Tliey cannot skulk behind the sneer or the derisive laugh. Every step in the world's progress has been met before by the same sneers and laughs. The Woman Movement needs only investigation and honest discussion to insure its triumph.

THE Golden Ape

Mal

UM»

are sec

calls attention to a

singular parallel which recent events in connection with Charles Sumner bear to a certain experience in the congressional career of John Quincy Adams Just twenty-nine years ago "the Old "Man Eloquent" was going through the ordeal of persecution and gwntatf meat, iu the Hotne of Representatives, in vindication of the right of petition. The attempt was made by his enemies to displace him as Qkairman of the Cbmmitiee on Foreign Affairt. Mr. Adams came out triumphant from the contest. Col. R. W.Thompson's article "The Tri-

of John Quincy Adams." published in the Cincinnati Gazette two years ago, is probably the best history of this remarkable event that has ever been written.

week the Express contained this

harmless squib: THE German language is getting to be fashionable as an accomplishment In Bos ton. Also the measles.'

Now, in these rollicking days ot jokes and burlesque nearly everything ii ridiculed. ReasonaMcGermamicould nd|S Ijy llie puti$iaation of item* jike .^t||[t |quote4 alipve. One Teutonic gentle^uatt was OfTen however, and he showed his antipathy to the English language by murdering it in the columns of the Banner. He defends the German tongue earnestly, and grows wroth over its classification with the measles. He sneers at the English speech as the language of the poultry. He tells us of a young American who found that knowledge of the German language bad become ademand of necessity!" and who, in consequence, leiurned to speak the foreign tongue "fluent correct." He also tells us thatj^ iBl$58* a class of over 70 young Americans was teached" by Prof. Kretchmar, /at Dubuque, Iowa, He avows that in many English papers tho German language "is being made "an aim of degradation." He uses the word parallell for comparison, and spells badly. The article contains the vaporings of an over-zealous German enthusiast, and would attract no particular attention except for the conduct of the two mornfng papers in reference to it. In view of the fact that we are on the eve of an important municipal election, and that the German vote is of great consequence, both of these journals re-publish the ridiculous article with a flourish of trumpets which would lead onet to believe that it contains matter of vital importance. Now, we fancy that our German citizens are usually too intelligent to be influenced by such treatment. They are able to take a joke, and do not desire to be lauded above their native born fellow-citizens. The day has gone by, if it ever existed, when such truculence will influence German votes.

WE were premature in announcing, upon the authority of the Chicago Times, that the Democratic Congressional Address would give assurance to the country that that party had accepted the settlement of the issues of the war upon the basis of Republican reconstruction. Here is what the address does say on this subject:

We earnestly entreat our fellow-citizens in all parts of the Union to spare no effort to maintain peace and order, to carefully protect the rights of every citizen, to preserve kindly relations among all men, and to discountenance and discourage any violations of the rights of any portion of the people secured under the Constitution or any of Its amendments.

Now this is ambiguous and dishonest. It is intended to be construed one way in the North and another way in the South. It is intended to mean some* thing or nothing in the hereafter, as 4he interests of the party may demand. This kind of thimble-rigging tias been used by the Republican party at times, and by the Democracy often, yet we hoped for something better from the

Democratic congressmen. "-.V'.l

THE cotton crop now arriving at the cotton ports of the South, promises to bethe largest since the famous one of 189MK). The Savannah Republican,basinets estimate on the number of bales alrckdy received, says that the crop will reacli 3,750,000 to 4,000,000 bales. By reason of its increased railroad connectlon^Savannah is fast taking position as on^ of the principal cotton ports of the South. This large crop proves that the fradmen work as profitably under the stiiulus of freedom as under the influenboftho lash. The negroesofthe South ae solving the riddle of their own desiny. The little blacks are learningVapidly tho rudiments of education, am the older

ones

are gradually

accumulakng property and power. In a very fewyears tho cotton States will be prosperous, enlightened and liberal negro commonwealths.

SPKXCKR,

AIN, MILI-,

have all higher orde scss concienci tiuient is dis animals. Th instance, sho shame, contri forgiveness

better evidenc mothers to thei notorious fact Christian mothe dren, the femal higher order of to sacrifice their their offspring

and Darwin,

mted the idea that tho tho bruto creation posind that tho moral senctly developed in some claim that the dog, for indications at times of n, and a desire for i/ might have cited, as

hat

fro

nothing more purdy heroic and unselfish in the worlcfthan the abandon with which brute m^hers defend their young.

THE Indianapolis wpers arc trying to make tho public lMieve that some children have been suten in that city because several fainilkt can't make their family lists talH with the last census. We have an itW that nlJout the last articles that a Sensible thiol would desire to steal woul be little unripe Indianapolitans. Ttowever, Indianapolis parents are pitting strawberry marks upon theirchinren'sarins to secure their .recognition ease they are kleptomized.

TRS Cmperor of Brazil tnking steps to secure the emancipaion of all slaves in his empire. It is brobable that, at the end of another decwe,there will be no slave within the bo^idaries of civilization.

THE finest poem that we ha' for many months, "In Media by Karl De Vere, will be found oi the inside of this issue. The author & endowed with "divine aflHataa," andafew sucn poems as this will give him fane.

The following ia a copy of the petition addressed to the School Board of this city by Marcus Schoemel and others suggesting the propriety of using a Catholic school house and teacher. This petition is signed by four Protestants and f^Aottofc^gjhe Ezpro* of this on^tcd JBl c8j| tho Irrotestant »rs.

mor

IKERK HAUTE, Aug.ltd.

be its

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To the Honorable Board of Fmnees of our City Schools of Terre Haute, Ind, Having heard that the capacity of our city school houses are insufficient for all the children of our city, we the undersigned citizens of Terre Haute, and stockholders of the school house on the novth-east corner of Ninth and Walnut streets, would respectfully petition the Honorable above named School Board to accept the use of our school house, with the understanding that Mr. J. P. Vesque, a licensed public school teacher of our city,

teacner and

ine there

the

toooso. The

children

to school be

go-

permitted

continue

school

house

and

is well arranged

veutilatad, provided

with

Mr.

proper school

and otlfcer requirements. Please grant ourpetitton ft leaaffor the next school year, paying

die wlole

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least

part of

the

sala

J.XP. Vesque, which is $80 per

mdath,Hront bur

paSUe city school fund. H. HCUUK, T. HTTLMAJJ,

PETKK Poo FROTH, MARCUS SCHCEMEI., EDWARD FAUES, FRED OOETC,

Louis

FIKKBINER,

P. MJCHUER, D. B. DICK.

MARCUS SCHOEMEHI.,

the Democratic

candidate for City Treasurer, is a worthy, competent and accommodating gentleman. His management of the city finances has been eminently honeetfnd satisfactory to tax payers. And yet, should Marcus Schoemehi be re elected on Tuesday next, the city of Terre-Haute will be disgraced. This is not because Mr. Schoemehi is unfitted in any way for the office, but because a gentleman as competent in every respect, who has lost a limb in the service of his country, and is consequently incapacitated for active labor, is a candidate'in opposition to him. John Paddock, when a mere boy, gave bis leg to his country. Shall it be said that the voters of Terre-Haute have lorgotten the maimed heroes of the war

THE Journal is manly and independent in reference to the 4th Ward difficulty. For private reasons it declines to support Mr. Douglass, the Democratic candidate for councilman. Whether its reasous for objecting to Mr. D. are good or not we do not know, and have not inquired we do know, however, that the day has gone by when any decent newspaper will consent to be whipped into the support of a party candidate. All parties will yet learn that they do not own partisan editors, and that they cannot force them to be servile. The mission of the American press of to-day is to lead public opinion—not to bend the knee to ward politicians, or to big politicians.

THE male members of the Senior Class of Asbury University propose to have a "Class-day" during Commencement Week. In arranging the programme of exercises they proved themselves to be blackguards by electing a lady Senior to perform the duty of '•wheeling a large boulder into the new "college campus," and another was designated to "present a basket of "brickbats to the Sophomore class." Tho lady members promptly and properly withdrew trom the class organisation. It looks a little as though the male Seniors of Asbury are jealous of the superior attainments of the lady members 6f their class.

The Evening Mail newspaper has thrown off its thin guise of "independence" nnd Is now an outspoken radical organ. That's right. Deception is one of the meanest crimes.—Journal.

The Mail is not an organ of the Republican party, or of any clique, ring or sect. Its editor reserves tho right to discuss fairly and candidly the issues and topics of the day. Tho Journal ought to know by this time that a newspaper can advocate a party principle without being a party organ or tho lickspittle of bi^ :-nd little politicians.

DAN RICK,

le devotion of brute oung. While it is a niany so-called destroy their chilof nearly all the imals seem willing 11 lives to shield danger. There is

the inimitable showman,

lias made a serious innovation on tho old established circus arrangements. He has an extensive pavillion arranged like a theatre, with dress circle, parquette and gallery seats—all nicely cushioned chairs—tho whole lighted with gas. It takes four days hard labor to put up his canvas, consequently he cannot afford to atop at small places.

THEODOKE Tllton's Golden Age, from which we have quoted largely of late, is tho brightest, smartest and most original newspaper in America. Better than this, it is true to those broad and liberal principles which are leading the world forward to something better and nobler^-. VL ,«?i

THE Jews have been scourged, and humiliated, and slaughtered in the Danubian Principalities. This to avenge tho crucifixion. These Odessa Christians will yet learn that outrages committed in tho name of Christ are the viK^ciimes in jjiw category oiTsfc.

THE Princess Louise had six little boys to carry her flowing robes at the great wedding. They were all trainboys, though they had not graduated in the peanut business.

THE Communists have apologised to the Gas Company of Paris for the seizure of its cash deposits. The Gas Company would rather have the cash than the apology.

THB Indo-European Telegraph now sends messages, without re-transmis-sion. from Bombay to London, a distance of 0000 miles.

GCESTS of the Indianapolis hotels complain that the butter is aged—in some instances even gray haired.

Public Opinion.

CATHOLIC VERSUS PROTESTAfrt NATIONS. An extract from an article in Scribner Monthly appeared in last Saturday's MAIL. as a curiosity we suppose, in which it is said that the late war between Germany and France was a triumph of the Teutonic over the Latin race—of Protestantism over Romanism! Catholic nations arc said to be bankrupt, and "neither seem to hold within themselves the power of recovery." And further, "Does any one doubt it let him "point to a single Catholic nation that is making progress to-day, or to a single Protestant nation that is not." Is England progessing to-day It is a well-sett led fiict that her political power is declining, and that her influence in European affairs is reduced to almost nothing. Does Holland, Sweden or Denmark shape the destiny of Europe? These are the only purely Protestant nations fn the world. Germany counts as many Catholics as Protestants If military suecess'ts the standard by which, progress is marked, then Attila was the most progressive man of his age. Belgium, the first oountn* save our own In the world, has maintained its liberty and independence for a century, against many foes from within and without. Belgium, whose agriculture and industry are looked upon with admiration by civilisation, is an entirely Catholic country, and has always been so.

Nations rise and foil, bo they Catholic ot Protestant. There are other than Sectarian causes acting on the vitality of nations.

Such articles as the one mentioned above, intended to be read by educated men, are a poor compliment to an intelligent public, and do not speak well for our common school system—what others may say, to the contrary notwithstanding. B.

SECTARIAN 8GH00L&J' In the amendments to the constitution 01 the United States, we find the following:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech, or of tho press or tho right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition toe Government for a redress of grievances.

I have been lead to recur to the above by recent discussions in our papers in regard to public schools, and the suggested Sectarian division of funds raised for their support,, by general taxation.

I think It must be admitted by all impartial persons, that the founders of our 'government intended to ignore every form ol religion, and establish purely political institutions for the government of tho people of this country. They seem to havo •Intended to make the separation so broad aud entire, that the name of Deity is not even mentioned in the fundamental, law and, although since the adoption of the constitution and amendment above recited, there have been numerous instances of pious people attempting to secure the recognition of some form of religion, they have in every case signably failed and there is, 1 think, no doubt that if the question was now submitted to the people, there would be an overwhelming majority opposed to any change in this regard in our constitution or laws.

I think I cannot be mistaken in believing that nine-tenths of the cltlacnsof the Unirecl States regard tho total abnegation of all religious tests, as the palladium of our liberty, and the only true foundation upon which to build enduring republican institutions.

Under such a government air are alike protected in their political, social ami religious right ft Eaq)i p*ay Qgd "'J'' may seem righrJma proper, aiul none make him afraid. But this being a ment of law, tho pfOCfedings of our logfL tors, and the laws enacted by them are published by authority, that all may know and understand their obligations. Hence, it is important that all the people should bo able to read and understand their constitution and the laws made in accordance therewith thence arises the duty of a republican government to provide ample means for the education of its entire population in substantial literature and scirttce. This I regard as a fundamental auxiliary to a free and enlightened government, and therefore, believe it right and proper to tax all the people for the support of common schools.

But I deny most emphatically, tlio rights to raise money by general taxation, using the machinery of government for its ascssmcnt and collection, for the purpose of making a division of funds thus obtained, amongst a greater or less number of Sectarian associations, under whatever religious designation they may choose to be classed. Let each denomination of religious people establish and maintain all the schools and colleges they can, and give the attendant Just such instructions ns they please—not in conflict with the constitution and laws ol the country, and nobody will complain

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the contrary a great many not In sympathy with them In their religious creeds will rflve material aid, and wish them God speed in any good work they may undertake.

If all our people can be persuaded to become Christians and unite with someone or the other of these denominations, very well but this must be accomplished by prr»uaMon—not force, nor can the common fund of the masses be used for any stu purpose and I trust the day is not distant, wlu this sentiment shall so universally prevail throughout the whole country ih it no fnnaticciinbe round bold enough to Mi^gest measure:'* so opposed It) the griilus of our institutions, ns the direct or covert ^upttort by governmental authority, of any liglouc denomination whatever. W..J. IJ.

The Pennsylvania (."(Mitral railroad has leased the united Railroads of New Jersey, comprising tlw New .Jersey Railroad and Transportation (Company, Camden nnd Am boy K'ilroad, Philadelphia and Trenton It.ijroad, and the Dolawaro .and Raritan f'anal. Theso little titbits are only taken by lie great Pennsylvania corporation in order to whet its appetite preparatory to the groat feat of swallowing th« United States government, including all parties, officials, corporations :»nd peoples contained therein,

JM t^socisttod press diftgateii published in an Indianapolis paper, informsUH that the wealthy people of Paris are irrigated to the point of desperation by tho Communists. One would suppose that the revolutionists had employed the fire engines to deluge tho rich people/ However, Wo^huve read,the samo dispatch in auolhex. jOLT&ni- nnd find that the aristocrats are only irritated, not irrigated.

The dispatches from Franco tell us oi Communal victories, and of triumphs for the Versailles government. Evidently no substantial progress has been made by either party.

THE Presbyterian bodies which slavery put asunder and kept apart thirty years, have happily come together since its death and burial and they celebrate their reunion by raising five millions of dollars for missions, churches, schools, and various other denominational purposes, all of wbich will contribute in some degree to the general good. It would bo well ifsome other sects, kept apart by dead issues and maintaining a show of life by cultivating prejudice and exciting antagonism, would go and dolikewise.--00fr/rn Age..