Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 4, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 July 1871 — Page 1

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THE MAIL.

Office, 142 Main Street*

TKRHE-liA VTE PRINTING HOUSE.

O.J.SMITH

Jtsilroid & Commercial Printing a Specialty.

KnllroiMl Time Table.

VJlItDAUA SHORT USE.

IndianajxAU Division.

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Markets.

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July 21.

Tha following figures are pui«l to farmers *ad'otherM by dealer* In this city BEISHWAX-Yellow,*2.5(^300 -i

BUTTER—Bwt, 12.*20o.

L—5i00#ftfto.

GOGH-Fresh. WllOc. FEATHERS—Live Geese, NvJiflflc. Old 10g40c. FLOITR--Fancy brands, id'A.

I I A Dried Apples, 7c. (. 1 ,, Dried GRAIN—Corn, I0(«4.V.

'v Hy«*,ftft 'itiRc.

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On!)*, .VH-.

*,* torrat^RT/, "ft'ol) JXNMKNCI-JjOC. 3T

Brtiwrt, MWC. i.

MlPl'S (lr«-«-n Trltnimxl, 8c.

TAT.LOW -7 V. -U.

f'KoVlrtlUJfH— HHIIIH I0f(«l2c. KUt.-s Hhouldcra (IfijTc. I. A UI ('on r.v, Nn»h*. POTATl MvS I'OULTUY—TuikfVH, Rllvopnr pound,

corros

N I 2

!l•neks pt-r doaon, $2 *. Gti. Ciilckt'nN.old.pfrdoK'ii.ftJuO. ,1 young, $1 no.

RAiSH—fotlon, WOOl*--Tub-wiu»liMl, .VifjlfllV. j3 FUihv l"n wasliml, ,'Vt»4)K*. 1 HOU^-Llve «roHs Jo70Sft Nt..

CINCINNATI. ClNlMNNAH,

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FLOL'H—lnll and a Hluido lowor 11* r»gardu now old unclnum«Hl new family, 5W 4W 25 I old, Itl /ki ut' 75.

WHKAT—Now No. I rod winter, ?l COlt.N- M(«.W liYl1'-Halt*of in at 78t*77o.

Mixed. VKA.MO.

BAK1.EY- Fall, So^oo and noinliittl. i!t K«.MJH-12o. lil' rrKll Mloadv prlino to

fi nl.

elu)lv,lV-'1k\

flUCF^K It.,, lie. l'KO\'ISH)N'M l'ork, saUw al 811 .A but puroliiwte* 10 any extent could not be niada at I hi* rule. Hulk ineatM dull and noinln-

Nolhliijt iloiio In bacon

Hales

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S )Micku|(o», Miiouldera, (f^c nldes, clear rib, ll4c: bulk

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h'^e .title* of 1U0 pin-kit-

U«, bitcvnt nldt**, cli ar, -'40, sellers' lor sp-

tenilx'r. l.AHP—I0'«e itHkml and 10c olH»ntl. HiHirt—$t (W. 1TUK —Dull and unclinitKtHl.

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Kt.oi lt Dull ami nominal. WHEAT N».

xprliitt openeil wn«k and

elotod linn at 1 l"» lor oimb Si for .Inly. Tbl* afternoon the market In Htendy at II 14** for July I W7V*1 07'*« for Auu\i«l.

Cv»llN-Nt. '2 intxml witk and

J»c

lower

at 4!*4ij|00i for ea-ii 4l»v'kH for Jul U*', for AuiiuM. Tnlt afternoon tbe market lx Hteady at 4»ViS»4l»4ic for July •',* «»J40 for AUKUKU

OATs— Dull and veitker No. 2. fprct«li:

lor July.

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Active at $4 aM4-» V. 4

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nrrFAi.o I.IVK STOCK.

MI-RRA1.0, Jul ST.

CATTLE— KewlpMol Ktt caw itc«n»-t 4i*l wtwiek. Holder" sll rtrat, »nd »«uytrs tldinu off an adw.noe 1* clalimd of ivr iHtund, nut itiki.ky th*1 quality of *t«»ck put on Hie market, a can hardly eon-

The usvatei |«trt or the n«n'l|t*m»

westward. Klixt h.tndt Mtl.* a» follow*: I** Indiana *te.t-, »o I^W pounds, al W lil »lilo, I.0T* to I.SS jH»umls al 1VW :IT JUiii.aN l.ifcT to 1..W juniiidiL at .4: Bl I'.'Xhh*, mixed.**, to LHHiul», at ST' ..-•{ 75 8H«-:K»-Mark. well «ippl!«i with *low deinnod. Hulwt 2.NSS Ctaiwtda l»ml». Wto «ft|Hnnd)i,at 50 kU«.^p. i'.K lo

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and UOCHUSRL«

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A 9KV .( MLTPLACE^L wit* ob^vrvetl *t Mount Vernon the other day.

imshing female stood tor

half »n )imr. like Niofoe, all tears, «sdIr eaiit«,ft,|diti«« mi Ue hoove. Jib# thoagitt ii wm Washington'# tntuK

The News.

DOMESTIC.

Valuable gold mines have

trork

been

& Co.,

Steam Job Printers,

Hulrotn Block, 14* Main Street,^ TEKKK-HAtTT®, IKD.

them.

Uie change of

Monday.

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a. m.

4:00 p. Lightning Express...-10:20 p. m. 7:06 a. m. lay Express H:.V p. m. 1:40 p. ni....Ind'I aecouunodatlon....l0:10a.in. til. Jj&uii Dilution.

dls«jvered

In Monroe county, Tennessee, and Vau^hen calls for one hundred banda to

cuage from

feet\.-fKht

and

six feet to four

a half Inches on the Lonls-

vllle tijvUion of the Ohio and Mississippi Itailroav! from Louisville to Mt. ernon, a distance of fifty-two miles, was made on Tuesday In the short space of seven houra. Cars were running regularly on schedule time on

General flchofldd writes: "The Indians seem willing to work, and 1/ the go\ eminent would furnish tliein with the means of agriculture and stock raising, they 'would noon become self-supporting. Tht.y coin plain that money is b»W expended to build school house* and pa' teaciiers, while they are starving." *.

The remains ot Thomas Ltacoln, son of the late Presltient, were taken front Chicago Monday evening tx» Hpringneld. iu a specfii car tendered for the purpose by the and Ht. Louis Kail road, and interred atw Kldge. near that city, beside those of his father and brother Willie, this morning. The funeral took place from the rjwideuci of Ninean W. Edwards, an uncle of the deceased, and was attended by ail itniiH'iise concourse of citizens of Springfield and the .Stale.

The Maryland Democratic Htate Convention for the nomination of candidates for Governor, Attorney General and Comptroller, met at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning, Hon. Frederick Stone presiding. Hon. William Fiiickney Whyte, of Baltimore, wiw nominated for Governor on the first ballot by a large majority. Hon. Sylvester, of Washington county, wa* nominated for Attorney General on the first ballot. Levi Wooaford, of Somerset county, the present incumbent, was nominated for Comptroller by acclamation. No committees on resolutions or platform were appointed, and no resolutions of a political character were Introdu':ed.

FOREIGN.

The sanitary condition £ftr,ls-M

good.

1iow

t'if

The Inhabitants of Met/, have sent a petition to Thiers, asking tor tiie pardon of Gen. 1 1

General Paladines has been flppolntetl Commander of

the

Fourteenth Military Di

vision of France. The I^ondon Standard says that Gladstone will abolish tiie system ol purchasing army commissions.

Some of the journals report that President Thiers aud M. GambetUt are negotiating for the establishment of a moderate re public.

The Bavarian troops, which served In the late war, made a triumphal entry Into Munich Sunday, amid the most enthusiastic rejoicing. The city was splendidly decorated, and at night there was a general Illumination.

Advlcos from Athens announce a terrible disaster 011 board Greek man of war. The Forty of

iier

crew

were

the

rest wwre

vessel Itself was

r-J

jjlhy l-'t^llc. «, ij .. Flint, ltto. Sheep PeltM,

Cniotl nearly all

more or less injured, while the

almost

entirely destroyed.

The ludlotmentsupon which M.de Rocliefort is to bo tried contain Hie following tour counts First. Provocation to hatred among cltl/.eus. Second. Incitement to civil war and pillage. Third. Publication of false news and spurious dispatches knowing them to Ie false, consequently coumerleitIttg public and private writings. Fourth. Complicity in murder, by Instigating arrests and execution of hostages.

The result of the census taken at midnight. Monday, April 8, 1871, throughout Great Britain, has Just been officially announced. The entire population of England, Ireland, Scotland, wales,Channel Islands, aud Isle of Man, Including the army and navy aud merchant aud marines abroad Is, males, l-~,-ll*,27l: females, Iii,2fl7,s:f7: total, 31,UW,yitt. The preponderance of females over males, 71SI.'WS. a 1

On the 28th nit., at Rome, the 1'ope held ft Consistory, at which he pre-coneolzi'd Bishops ot Z.ripo In Hungary, of Oporto in Portugal, anil of St. JitKo In Cape DoVordes, and he afterwards published the nominations made since last month, in brief, of the Patriarch of Lisbon, and of the Bishops of Braouaii7.it and Miranda. In Portugal, and of the Bishops of Meeo and Edens, In Partihas. He then addressed the sacretl college In Ijitln, in which he announced his decision lu thusv words: "We are, my very dear brothel's, In the hands of Divine Providence. We have nothing to expect, from human aid, for man has alwtndoned us. Why should we dissemble? It Is In-tter that I should tell you that kings and governments, forgetting their promises, leave us to our fate. They have addrossi-d and us sent lis the warmest congratulations tin the day of our Jubilee, but they are tar from taking anv step in support of their messages. We can hope for no help trom any quarter. King Victor Emanuel will be here in a few days and will bo attended by the Ministers of the Catholic States. We have done all that was in our power, but our efforts have failed. All Is lost. You will tell me, perhaps, that wo have still hope In France, out France can do nothing. She Is going through a frightful crisis, which may be N««vetded by others yet more dreadful. 1 repeat it, alfls lost, and only a miracle can save 11s. Turn then to the Almighty and sock this In(ciposition trom Him.

A WKSTKUN journal sums up the question of what women are doing, in this style:

A woman is Iniilrfinsr railroad slie hr\» contracted for it, overseen tiie work, and pays off Ihe hands. A woman has sunk an oil well in Pennsylvania, called the L'ulies' Well." She contracted for the work, superintended and paid for it, and now ovcrsoeet it all without male help. A woman is a school-visitor. A woman is Justice ofthe peace. Two women built a line of telegrenh, and have two offices on Broadway, Sew York. Women are photographers. Hundred* of woman are lecturers and readers. Women are preachers, and some have congregations. Women am lawyers and doctors. A woman has been a'ppointed deputy in one of the internal revenue offices ol Ohio A woman is a photograph-1 ic amanuensis iu the Treasury Iep.irt~ ment, Washlnaton. A woman huAdug a well. A woman has shingled and pnlnled a house. Women are farmers and hankers, clerks and telegraph operators, and women are still g«xxi wives,! mother#, sisters, and daughters.

A LAWYKR who had defended a Scotch burglar, received theno two suggestions in lieu of* fee for hi* aervic««: First that a yelping terrier, inside of a house, wast a better protector than a big dog miUide and secondly, that no lock* no bothered a houae-breaker a* an old, rusty one.

TB* abolition of tc#t» at the University of Oxford bore ita first fruita A 1e of weeks ago. In the conferment con iple

9r\

of trie degree of Matter of Art* on a Jew and on a Roman Catholic. This la an encouraging tAe\\—Go!4rn Ape.

Mas

UNEXPRESSED.

VY ADELAIPE A. PROCTER.

Dwells within the soul of every Artist More than all his efforts can express And he knows the best remain unuttered Sighing at what we call bis success.

Vainly he may strive: he dare not tell us All the sacred'mysterie^of the skies: Vainly he may strive, the deepest beauty Cannot be unveiled to mortal eyes.

And the more devoutly that he listens, And the holier message that is sent, Still the more his soul must i^truEglc vainly, Bowed beneath a noble discontent.

No great Thinker ever lived and taught yon All the wonder that his soul r-celved No true Painter ever set on canvas All the glorious vision he conceived.

No Musician ever held your spirit Charmed and bound in his melodious chains, But be sure he heard, and strove to render, Feeble echoes of celestial strains.

No real Poet ever wove in numbers All his dream but the deviner part, Hidden from all the world, spake to him only In the voiceless silcnce of his heart.

So with Love: for Love and Art united Arc twin mysteries different, yet, the same: Poor indeed would be the love or any Who could find its lull and perfect name.

Jiovc may strive, hut vain is the endeavor All is boundless riches to unfold Still its tenderest, truest secret lingers Ever in it.s deepest depths untold.

Things of Time have voices: speak and perish. Art and Love speak but their words must be Like siblings of Illimitable forests. And waves of an unfathomable sea.

[For the Saturday Evening Mail.] ".*.f

In Limbo.

UY SCIPIO MICKLEPENJFY,

Well, Ibis is n. nice situation to be in. And lor nothing. The people of this town must be fanatical 011 the subjet of temperance. I have known a great many absurd things to happen in my time, but this act of the polico of the town of Whipville beats anything in my experience of absurdities. I really believe those accursed Good Templars have had something to do with my incarceration. Of all people on this great round world they seem to me, and to all right thinking people, the most foolish. Whether or not they are sincere of course I am unable to say, as I nev er attended one ofthe meetings of their miaci^iP.JUiditeavb^t actually I haw abolish the inanufaon»/£^£ oniy^to to destroy the [stock on fanatical wretches! What do tl?T, mean? 1M not this dfree country? Did not the noble Mr. Washington light like a Turk to preserve all our liberties? And shall tho privilege of becoming hilarious be talton from us? Of what uso then is tho COTistitntion, or tho Magna Charta? Does any one think that P. llenry or W. H. Harrison would have £ut themselves to the trouble of casting ol! and hiding the Charter Oak from the minions of the abolition and woman suffrage party if they could have looked forward to this day and seen mo confined in this overgrown coffin

Absurd? Worse than alwurd Criminal That's the word for it. Crimimtl! If I only had the money to fee a lawyer I'd put those blue-coated devils thro' a course of sprouts. The boasted civilization and freedom of this country is a notorious failure. Even now, in this lK71st century, a poor man can not have just ice done him for want of funds.

My offence? Why, bless your dear, innocent heart, I have committed no offence. Only a little drunk, but then 1 was very quiet. Perhaps I did stagger a little but no more than many a lame mm docs, and no one will say that he should be arrested. Itesidcs, it was an anniversary of mine—my birth day. Wherein lies the virtual difference between alwxlyof men celebrating the birth of a Nation, of a Saint or an Idea, and one man the birthday of Himself? May I not, too, march down the middle of the street and cheer now and then? I carried no Hags or banners to frighten horses, but merely swung aloft mv old wide-awake now and then. I had no boisterous brass band to disturb sleeping babies and sick women but only raised my human voice divine occasionally in the exuberance of my Joy.

And a fertile source of joy I had, for had I not IH-CII liorn then could I not have known the exquisite happiness of drunkenness.

Oh! marvelous spirit! Thou quickencst the weary heart ot man, causing! the poor iu purse to become rich indeed —the sorrowing heart to

but own a newspaper I'd fellows hump their oacks. Actually, they had the effrontery to put me on tbe streets at work all this hot day. And that, too. with a nigger! And wheeling stones! It is bad enough t« have one's liberty even temporarily .taken from him in this free country, but when it comes to trotting about between the shafts of a barrow and working on an equality with a nigger, it'is unbearable. I was born and rearefti a gentleman and never did a day's work before in my life. I explained this to the officer and protested aginst such barbarity, but he called me an "impecunious dead beat" and forced me to it.

rejoice

IXMI

with

irrcat gladnes*! Heaven sent art thon. o. thricn blessed Spirit us Frumenti! Wei', I must not grumble. Fate, destiny—calS it what you will—guide* human affairs. Perhaps a thirty days rest here will add new rest and pleasure to the spree I mean to take as soon as my time is out. The fare is pretty good", the

fair, and the cell cool

and shady. 1 am waited on attentively and no lUbbonmen or Orangemen can annoy me. So let mv soul possess Itself with patience.

But am awfully dry'. Sermons have been written, poems "sung, and societics established on the parable of the good Samaritan. Iear I*rd, do wish one of the*e charitable creatures would come along lust now with a bottle in) his pocket. They'll all offer you water —oh, doar, yes—but who wants such flat, pokey stuff as that

Seven o'clock, p. *. Well, here's a! pretty go, decidedly. These unconsti-1 tutional creatures are going to old I Knickerbocker as taut as they can trav-1 el. Oh! this enrsed povertr. Ilid I

3r I'd make these

If there is anything in the Christian legion that officer will catch hell one these days. May I be there to see, and as he reclines on Abraham's bosom caving for water, I'll laugh him to scgrn.

I've got a little money hid away in mv shoe, and if, in the morning, they attempt to put me to work again, I think I will pay my fine and light out. There are towns in this free country where the rights ol all are respected, and one of them I'll find, where I'll not be fined.

FRANCHISE FOR WOMEN. To THE EDITOR OF THE MAIL.

Dear Sir:—'The 'third article in the woman suffragist's creed is,/iecaiwe worsen need it.

According to age, or condition of life, rtomen may be classed J'Mrst, Single women Second, Wives. For reasons that will appear as we proceed, I state the proposition thus: Because wives need it.

Marriage is the natural and proper condition of woman. To marry, or not to marry, is not thequestion but when and whom shall she marry? The first woman was never single unless she out-lived Adam. The Bible record is, that she was created as a help for man, doubtless, not for his gratification, or even good, alone, but that twain might become one flesh to mutual profit. ...

Mothers are often censured for bringing up their daughters to marry well, when in truth it is perfectly right and good that they should do so. I can conceive of no higher position she may attain,

110 more

commendable ambition

ihe' may satisfy, than to become the happy wife of a good man, and the mother of priceless children. If this in glittering t^eral!ties, and take for gold all that tors, while priceless, modes ogiuiiry truth is neglected or abused.

Joan of Arc, whose name is most invoked by pleaders for woman's rights, was an anomaly, a prodigy, a monster aberration.

Scores of like opportunities have occurred, but no second Joan has appeared. There was wanting the crafty king, tho credulous, superstitious people, or the crazy girl, to make up the combination and create another such heroine. Hut the mother of the Gracchi, or women as noble as she and as worthy, has lived in tent housand homes of tho earth.

Anna Dickinson has won an enviable reputation as a lecturer but she is the exception to tho rule. Yet the glory of her life pales beside that of the mother of the Reechers. There is just the difference lietween the two that one immediately perceivos between the glitter of tinsel and the lustro of gold.

Where one woman has left the usual way of life of womankind and has achieved success, a hundred have failed.

Where one has failed in the commonly accepted work of woman, a thousand have nobly succeeded. I do not think it can be denied, since it is a question, not of theory, but of a fact taught by the experience of years, that women have their proper work, that which Ihev can best perform, and which is most fitly suited to them as a class, nor do I think that the question of what women shall do, has been determined b}' the arbitrary decision of men. Among savages, women are slaves. Themostdrudgiugtoil is theirs, aud the rights of motherhood are ignored. As the people rise in intelligence, these privileges receive more attention, and out-door labor, less. Naturally and quietly she gathers her work about her, under the roof and between the walls of home, where she may bo shut in from public gaze, al certain j»eriods of her life, where her offspring may be sheltered from heat and cold, and gathered into a little school of which she is preceptor, mentor, conscience, every thing. The present distribution of duties appears to lie, not only the apportionmenl ot a wise providence, but also the choice of men and women them-j

^To-night I have I*5?*! reading letters that have kept silence for years, letters written by one the memory of whom is very dear to me, not only for her own but also for her dead husband's sake, and which bare riveted tbe conviction in my mind, of tbe truth of tbe sen-1 tence with which I began, that marriage is the natural, the heaven-ordain-ed, the wisely preferred condition ofi woman. Let her powers be so great and her training such that the richest possibilities are ©pened unto her she will forsake them all for the peaceful happiness of a pleasant home, and the rich love of a noble husband. Not because she is blind to these possibilities,

but because their attractive power finds less affinity in her breast, than do home and husband.

Whatever will make women better wives, and

wives

better mothers should

at once be done. Will their enfranchisement consummate this? Or, will it aid in its consummation?

I do not, can not, think it will from the following considerations: There is a growing tendency of the day to undermine the sanctity, and to lessen the strictness of the marriage relation.

This is done in two ways: First, by representing marriage as a tyranny, man tbe tyrant, and woman the slave Secondly, by elevating to the same importance, by bringing into the same bold relief, other duties and posibilities. 1 ,. 4 ..

No one, with his eyes open can doubt that tj-ranny is oftentimes exercised in the family the will of one being law, the other having no will but to obey. This is to be doprecated.

Observation, however, does not justify us in attributing the tyranny to the man and the servitude to the woman, since cases ofthe opposite character are so numerous as to annul the rule. But I would not attach all tho chimeras of addled brains to the question under notice, since it is not responsible for them.

Honest dealing compels a man to distinguish between a cause and its advocates, especially between those that bang upon its skirts to attain notoriety.

I do charge, however, that the enfranchisement of woman, while it might temporarily dissipates some of her cares, would eventually increase her burden by making distasteful those duties that are interwoven in her very nature, which she can not get rid of if she would.

Besides, so soon as women are taught these and other duties which demand an equal show of attention with her maternal duties, she must necessarily lesten the time and attention these receive to be able to devote it to those. I have a case in mind, which, I assure you, is no imaginary one. A young woman of intelligence and pleasing address felt called of God t© preach the word. She obeyed, and was set apart by the laying 011 of hands, by fasting and prayer, to tho work of tli'e ministry. For a time all went well. CrowTds flocked to hear

eloquence. By and by another IOMC crept into her "heart and HO tilled it, that heart and hantL -With an rfWJwWTfjf life-fealty, to a man, a widower with two or three children. Before, it had been an easy thing for her to preach whenever an opportunity tie red but now home and home-du-ties commanded her labor and her thoughts. And when she became a mother and found another and a more dependent being than the others oast to her care, how onectually for a time, did it debar her from the pulpit? To-day her hands are busied with little garments, and she finds employment in resting little bodies on her knoes, and in speaking peace to storms in little breasts. Whenever she goes to feed the lartrer lambs, the sheep of the fold, these little ones must be confided to the care of the "hireling."

Do you say sht» did wrong in cntorintr into that relation by which she is hindered iu meeting congregations, and which douhiless saps much of the spirit of her preaching? 1 do not. God created her woman and gavo her womanly aspirations and hopes. And, though she was an honored member of a holv calling, she rose to a more exalted place when she stepped into that man's house as his wife, and among those little childron as their mother.

The highest, holiest office to which men and women may aspire, is that of parent.

To this woman, lo all women, I would say, "preach all you can, and as well but do not think ^ou are doing God service by neglecting your children, or your home duties, for the pulpit, tho bar, or the bedside of tho suffering."

Whatever diverts the labor of woman from her maternal duties to that degree that she begins to neglect them, is to bo cast aside, not as elevating her, but as dragging her down. And the ballot in the hand, of wife and mother will bring such cares upon her as will at least partially unfit her for her peculiar laiKirs.

I have spoken of women as wives. I now consider tho question whether single women should have any special privileges granted thern because of their almost helpless condition. Gallantry would accord thein such but gallantry will expire with the birth of woman suffrage. Women, if tbev take up the ballot, inust do it with ungloved hands, since there will be occasion for earnest, Incessant toil. Many things now yielded them without questioning they will then have to earn. I do not say this ought to be so, but very much fear it will be.

If I am right in this proposition that marriage is the natural condition of women, then it follows that women of marriageable age who remain unmarried occupy an unnatural position. Observation corroborates this. All young women expect at some time to bo married. They become old maids by the disappointment of these hopes widows, by divorce or death.

It it can be shown that the franchise of women will enable them to secure better wages, then without a doubt single women would derive such a vast benefit from it, that that consideration would outweigh all others in respect to them. I leave it, however, to be considered hereafter. fhitside of the question of wages I do not see that any great argument, pro or

(Dili,

can be adduced, except

those I have mentioned and shall now give. Let us state the proposition in general terms, aud as it was first written: lietnujie teoaum need it.

What will ber enfranchisement accomplish First. It will open to her the difler ent departments of the government,

making her eligible to their respective offices—legislative, judicial, executive. Admitting the propriety of women helping to make the laws, since I see no impropriety in her doingso, there is attached the duty of judging and executing those decrees. In the judiciary office woman's unfitness appears. She can well judge a question at law, considered aostractly but when applied to some particular case in which the corruption of humankind is evolved, what chaste, modest, womanly judge would not fain hide the blushes of her coun- y: tenance in the privacy of home?

Second. She will be held under the same obligation, as men are, to support with her money, her time, her life itself^ if neoessity require tho decision of the people. No citizen of a Republican, or Democratic government, can consistently live under its protection, and aid in "the expression of its voice, without acknowledging the grave obligation to support and defend that goveminent, and aid by all and whatsoover means to on force it decrees.

Do not let the advocates of franchise for women pass this with a jest or a •?$ smile. »«.

Wit

not argtimenlM

Nor Is a loud laugh a demonstration." I maintain, if women vote and are admitted to the lull rights of citizenship, they obligate themselves thereby, to sustain that government, of which they would then form an orgunic part, to obejr its call to the army, the navy, the hospital, the field, the march, tho buttle, the prison walls, and that there would be no justice in exempting them trom any or all of these. Are they ready to undertake all this? 1

The government demands such service from tho father, sometimes relentlesslv taking away the guardian of the family, tho house-band of the household. If that powor be extended to the mother, the nurse and the refligee of dependent childhood, behold, tho destruction of home! the separation of thein that should have been brought up together, becoming objects of chari-

K'er's

tv ana seoking shelter under the stran-

roof! Then would government ecome the destroyer of that which its province is to preserve.

Do not decry this, and sav it is overdrawn and too highly colored. Tho picture, though tho child of prophecy, carries with it tho conviction of its own ,g truthfulness.

An objector answers: "A woman s| does not always havo a babe in her arms and little children about her. They grow up and out of the way, so that time sufficient is granted her, afterward, to engage in oilier work." To which I reply, ii a woman raise her family well,and they carry hor insinuation with them into tho world, thon i§h£ has done enough to fill up well tbe

W bother she idle, or w^ietiier~she"to!l, I will not captiously question her after-* life. T. C. M—.

MEROM, Ind., July 10, 1871.

ORANGEMEN AND UNITED* IRISHMEN. EDITOR MAII.:—Lot me put boforo you a correct and complete copy, of the Orange oath as 011 file at the Gastlo of Dublin. Ireland:

I, A. B. do solemnly swear (on Uio Holy Bible) that I will support the Constitution of Great Britain and that will always maln tain and support the King or (iueen (whoever reigning) to IH the spiritual head of the Protestant Church of England, and that I will not countenance any other form of overnmcut except that of which his (or icr) most gracious Majesty has charge of, so long an they are acknowledged as such by the tiord.i and Commons

England. And

I also swear that I will endeavor by ail means in my power lo suppress the Komish Kellgion or any other sect that maybe I11opposition to the Protestant Church of England, or

our

God.

Orange Society, So help me-

Now let me give von an exact copy? of tho oath takon by the United Irishmen, Protestant and Catholic takon by such as Henry Gratton,Flood, Kmmett,, and others, the three mentioned being Protestants

I11 the awful presence of God, I, A. B. do= voluntarily declare that 1 will ix rsevere in endeavoring to forrt a brotherhood of afTectJon among

Irishmen of evrry n-Uuioun

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suasion and that I will also (x-rsevere in my endeavors to obtain an equal, full, and adequate represent at Ion ot

nil

the people of

Ireland. loo further dcclarc, thai neither'" hopes, fears, reward*, nor puiil«hinent, not even death, shall ever induce me directly or indirectly to Inform on, or give any evidence against any member or members of this Soelcty or similar Sock-til's, for any act expressive of this done or made collectively or individually, in or out of this society, lii pur«tiauco of tlu* spirit of 1 his obligation, So help me God.

AN limuMAN.

IT does not seem comely Ln tho Tri~ bune to le forever attacking Gen. Butler. Tho country owes much to this man, and expects yet more from him. We cannot seo wfiy he should lie the constant target of so ui uiy presses in his own party. Ilis ability in public affairs is undoubted, nor do we know of any just accusation against hi* iiv tegrity. He is supposed lo be unscrup-

ulous, but wo know him well, ami"* have ns much faith in him as in the average moral caliber of American politicians. That hei»rude aud vulgar in his private tastes and habits, is a slander. He is uncommonly delleato and nice iu all his personal ways. (ion. Butler is both a statesman aim a gentleman. If he should liecouie Governor of Massachusetts, the state would, in our judgment, honor itself and profit its citizens by the choice.—Golden A$r.

A ViROi?riA paper defined its position In relation to the celebration of tho Fourth in this touching strain: "Today istheanlversarv of the Confederate retreat from Gettysburg, and also of the surrender of Vicksburgl in the same, year. In memory of two such bitter and humllatlng events we suspend our paper for a day, and our readers must, pardon us for giving them no paper tomorrow."

THINGS politioal wear a rosy huo in the eye* of the Alabama State Journal. It says: "Reason and just ic are gradually returning to our people their love for the Union of our forefather is being rekindled, and soon tho day will come when the heart of our young men will leap with Joy at the sightof the old flag kissing the gentle breezes

heaven."