Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 15, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 October 1871 — Page 4

For Sale.,

FOR

SALE-TWENTY GOOD BUILDING LoU, Kern's Addition. Long time, 48-tf.

FOR

JACOB KERN.

BALE—20 ACRES OF TIMBERED land on the Look port road, four or Ave miles from the city. Will sell the whole tract on reasonable terms, or will sell the timber, alone, of ten acres.

L. KISSNER,

88-tf Palace of Music.

FOR

SALE-CHOICE LOTS IN TEEL'8 subdivision, corner of 6th and Oullck streets. Also for exchange^arming lands in Indiana and Illinois, for improved or unit mp roved city property. Apply to H. H. sTEEL, Ohio at., opp. Court House. 87-tf.

IOR SALE OR House. The proprietor, desiring ininesM, offers his Hotel fc

EXCHANGE-CLARK to retire

rers

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hik Hotel for sale or

from the business exchange for small Dwelling* in. or small Farm near the city. House & doing a good buxlnem or is well located for manufacturing purposes. Easv terms. For particulars enquire of 28-tf. W. B. GRIFFITH Proprietor.

Saute.Land,county.commanding28peculiar

j*OR*4ALE.-AT A BaRGAIN ACRES of 4 miles South-east of TerreThe mosct building site in Vigo The land is ly adapteo to the cultivation of vegetables or fruits, being dry, sandy and productive Terms one-sixth cash, balance in five annual payments.

For further particulars apply to Editor of MAIL. 18-tf.

Fpine

OR SALE-OLD PAPERS FOR WRAPpaper,for sale at SO cents a hundred Bt tne MAIL office.

Wanted.

WANTED-EVKRmODY

WANTED-Athe

TO KNOW

I hat H. 8. Kichardson A Co., at the "Crockery Bazar," 78 Main street, has Just received a fr»*nh supply of.Earthen Flower Pots, also fancy goods in great variety.

No. 1 PASTRY COOK IS

wanted at National House, apply Immediately.

WANTED-TEETH

TO PLUG AND

make useful, such'as you may think an- beyond redemption. All severe cases of facial Neuralgia to cure. Also all kinds of dentistry to scientifically perform at the office and residence of S. C. Richardson, •north -1th street, between Cherry and Mulberry. 12-tf.

WANTKD-PAKTNERand

IN THE MILL

business and In a woolen factory. I have ample water power, mv mill has been In successful operation many years. I refer to the editor of this paper. Address me at Chllllcothe, Missouri. 8-tl. JOHN F. GILLESPIE.

WSATUKDAVEVF.NINOMAIL

ANTED-ALL TO KNOW THAT THE has a larger alrculatlon than any newspaper published diitside of Indianapolis, In this State. Also that It is carefully and thoroughly read in the homes of Its patrons, and that it Is the very best advertising medium in Western Indiana.

Lost.

OfiT-AN ANTIQUE HRACELET LAST night In the Opera House, or on Main street, between 4th find 0th, or on south 8th between Main and the residence of John H. O'Hoyle. A llteral reward will be paid lor its return to the store of Tuell, luplcy A Demi rig.

IOHT-LAKGEcolumn

HUMS OF MONEY ARE

lost every week by persons who should advertise In this of the MAIL.

Found.

^OUVD TIL AT THE CHEAPEST AND

.T best aaveruslng In the city can be obtjl0

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Legal.

npiIE 8TATE OF INDIANA, VIGOCOUNI ty. .In the Vigo Common Pleas Court, John Elsebach vs. John N. Rets, Maty L.

ItelK, et. al. In Foreclosure. No. 8X74. lie It known that on the 28th day of September 1N71, said Plaint IfT filed an Affidavit in due form, showing that said John N. Iteiz and Mary L. Kelas ar« r.on-resldcnts of the State of Indiana.

Hald non-resident defendants are hereby notified of the pendency of said action against them, and that the same will stand for trial at the December Term of said Court In the year 1K71.

Attest: MARTIN HOLLINGER,Clerk. McLKAN A PlKKCB. PlfTs Atty. 14-3t.

NION STEAM BAKERY.

FRANK HEINIG & BRO.

Manufacturers of all kinds of

Crackers, Cakes, Bread |pL'

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Foreign & Domestic Fruits,

FANCY STAPLE GROCERIES,

L.AFA VICTTE 8TRKKT,

(Retween the two Railroads,)

Jl-tf. Terre-Haute, I nd.

III EL BY FRENCH,^

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At Junction of Mh and Lafayette street*, near Indianapolis & «U.LovUa Railroad de|OT.

Wood I'nrnlnhcd by the Cur or And full measure guaranteed. {12-lm

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'4«OOD DRKM) MAKER. Will do well to call on S S E

she guarantee all her wtrrk. RspwUU at-

Patterns

of mr,v'dcKi1ptlon lor sale, Ohio rtrwt, opposite the Court House. IMa.

tmtlon paid to cot tins and fitting.

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A con CTM SOS, JPrvpr'i.

AND PROMPT I—Tbe motto of Terr*-Haute PRINTING BOON, 1S a street. All work done promptly and

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wb«a promised.

THE, MAIL.

O.J. smith

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

Office, 142 Main Street.

TERRE-HAUTE. OCT. 7, 1871.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONS ,,

Of this Paper are published. The "FIRST EDITION, on Thursday Evening, has a large circulation among farmers and others living outside of the city. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes into the hands of nearly every reading person in the city. Every Week's Issue is, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which all Advertisements appear for ONE CHARGE.

TRUST THE PEOPLE."

This is a demagogue cry, and yet it is sound doctrine. If there is anything in free government to recommend it above absolutism we must be able to trust the people implicitly. The trust will be betrav«d at times, but the evil will remedy itself. The Kansas troubles of 1855-6 grew out of the meddlesome interference of the general government in the affairs of that territory. This interference was lawful,but it afforded to the settlers no means of redress. The governors and territorial officers were not responsible for their places to the people, but to President Buchanan, and hence they cared nothing for the free soil sentiment of the masses. There has been no government of the people in New York city for the last thirteen years. Since 1858 there has been no power in the voters to make their own city government good or bad. The State legislature piactically placed the government of the city in the hands of mixed commissions, with no central head, with no responsibility either to a personal executive or to the people, but made up by the secret compacts of managing politicians and factions. Two years ago the legislature attempted to remedy the evils growing out of this system by setting up an executive not independent and responsible, but dependont on a political conspiracy, and on subordinates intrenched by law aguinst all supervision or interference of the people, or of the Mayor, their agent. Out of this wretched system has grown the peculations of the Tammany Ring, unequalled in tho history of political corruption. The monarchists over the water point to New York as a lesson that self government is a failure. It is really a lesson that the attempt to subvert self-government is a failure.

It is true that the meddling in the affairs of the city of New York by the legislators at Albany grew out of fear of tho power of Fernando Wood, a noted Democratic politician, over the low and dangerous classes of the city. This was an evil of great magnitude, yet it had its remedy the present system has none. Upon pure democracy our government rests in theory, and upon pure democracy it must rest in fact, il it is to bo enduring. The most dangerous demagogue who ever obtained an election as mayor could not have done a tithe of the evil in his official term that tho Rings" have done in a year. He was responsible to the poople who conld not be corrupted, and who were certain, soonor or later, to turn upon him. Tho "Ring" is responsible to the legislature which can bo purchased with a small part of their enormous stealings. The government of the city must be returned to the peoplo. The low and vile are in the majority, it is argued, but the low and vile voters can better be trusted than the combinations which have gorged themselvos upon the treasury of that city. Wo must hasten to elevate the standard of morality and decency among tho masses. When the women of Now York hold tho ballot the corruptions which have blackened tho fame of that city will never again be permitted.

All the virtues come from man's untrammeledaction. Humanity,unconflned, runs to all manner of extravagance, but excess checks itself. The people have supported corruption and crime often, but they never fail in the and to turn and rend that which is vile and fltlse. Hence we say, "Trust the People!'

THK Protestant Episcopal clergymen of the Diocese ot New York have a "Mutual Insurance League," so simple and tiseful that it deserves mentiop and imitation. Any clergyman of that church can become a member by paying two dollars. Whenever a member dies, each surviving member forwards two dollars more to the treasurer. This appears very little, and it certainly is a light tax, but from the tond accumulated in this manner the treasurer has in the past year paid |9,2S2 to the families of six deceased members. As the families of clergymen are almost always left in destitution, this simple but practical plan ought to be adopted by ail denominations.

TrtR Joxmal prefixes the title "Mr." to notices of masculines of African descent, and alludes to them as

,lcolor-

"ed dtisena." That newspaper tised to revel in the word "Nigger." With what dignity and respectability tbe ballot docs clothe people 1

A DBTUKVU of $14,000,00* In the public debt during the month of September speaks well for the financiering ot Mr. Boutwell, fbr the Integrity of the administration, and tor the moo|cw of the nation.

ALEXIS."*

The son of the Emperor of Rnssia.tbe Grand Duke Alexis, is on the way to this country. A genuine first-class live prince will soon set foot in New York. He comes surrounded by all the pomp and circumstance of royalty He will be the wonder of a month.

The American Snob, the veriest of all snobs, will fall down and worship hiua. It is a fact that in America, where we boast continually of our republican institutions, there is more abject reverence for royalty and nobility than in any moes'i'chy of Europe. There are few American mammas, or papas, either, who would not rather see their daughters married to some dissolute titled foreign adventurer than to the worthiest among us. The Americans journeying abroad are the travellers who have least that is good to say of democracy and of democratic institutions. Ninety-nine of our countrymen out of every one hundred cannot trace back their lineage more than two generations. This obscurity of our origin gives us unquenchable admiration tor the blood which can be followed back for centuries. We forget that the families of noble blood have produced usually a yield of idiots, fools and knaves averaging fairly with the common people. We forget, too, that the House of Peers of England, backed by heriditary honors and entailed estates, has become a cypher in English politics beside the commoners, fresh ftom the people, who are "too proud to care from whence they came," and who believe that

The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent."

The prince who is coming represents the most despotic government in Christendom. His imperial father's throne is built upon millions of crushed-down men and women. Splendor is purchased at the cost of the comfort of the many poor of his empire. He is one of that iron chain of rulers that has defied God for centuries by treading on the necks of the common people. If each of the monarchs who have swayed the destinies of Europe for the last century had been possessed of a spark of liberality, of enlightenment, or of genuine Christianity, all the peoples of the old world would have been prepared for liberty and enfranchisement now. Like rocks in running water the thrones of Europe stand in the way of progress. But the waters are rising, the torrents are c6ming from the mountains, some of the rocks have been hurled from their places,and the rest will not long obstruct the channel. The deluge is near at hand. God's voice, potent as when it spoke from out the fire of Sinai, hurls anathema at the princes who obstruct the gropings of t^eir people for light. These gropings have been through all the ages, but tho great light has come at last. In shines wherever free Christian civilization exists, and it will penetrate yet to the darkest lands. Russia hg# done much for freedom in emancipating her serfs, yet the empire remains a despotism, and Americans should no^ forget their principles in the hospitality wijh which they greet the young prince.

WHES the Indianapolis Journal first charged that R. J. Bnght had made to) much out of the state printing, the latter responded with the couplet which has become quite famous,

When yon get a good thing, save it, save it, When you catch a black cat, skin it to th3 tall,"

and added that the Sentinel had mads sorrie money out ot the printing and that it hoped to make enough yet t# pay the expenses of several Democratic campaigns. After the recent trial Mr. Bright announced himself as a candidate for re-election because he desired to vindicate himself, and not because o' the profits of the office, as nothing could* honestly be made out of it. In the first place ho expected to make enough to pay the expense of several Democratic campaigns, no inconsiderable sum, and in tho sccond place, he announces that the honest profits of the office amount to nothing. Evidently Mr. Bright needs some friend to watch and revise his utterances and prevent him from acknowledging his crime.

THE Chicago Democrats, unlike tho non-departing followers of Mr. Voorhees in this district, are not afraid of "nigger equality." Well may our local Bill Nyes exclaim, "Can this be when they read the following revolution passed by the County Democratic Convention^ that city last Saturday:

The abolition of slavery, the eqnallty of raros, and the universality of aonrage, are facts cordially accepted by the raawes of the Democratic party as the Just and logical aa well as anticipated results of oar success In tbe late rebellion, and that tbe Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments, having been acted upon by all departments of Government and recognised by the people, have become parts of the Constitution, and as much entitle*! to our support as all other provisions of that In strument."

As Albany paper calls Wendell Phillips "a conspicuous illustration of the "danger of living too long." There has never been a time since Wendell Phillips' voice has been heard in the land that the enemies of reform did not think he had lived too long. Mr. Phillips' biographer, who will write the true story of his good and noble life, will not find less to admire in bis devotion to Ae cause of Woman's Rights and Labor Reform than in the heroism with which he labored for the emancipation and enfranchisement of the slave.

THB Indianapolis Mirror advises people to "smoke an Emma Thompson, or "a Castelto cigar." We don't think Km ma would like it.

TUBState Printer baa received some iband blows Irom the land of Knox.

THI MAIL having some months ago accused tbe morning papers of keeping up and enjoying an "odious monoply the prejudice of the people, now attempts to get out of that untrue and ungenerous statement by denying that Its charges at that time would Dear any such construction. The yoting gentlemen who runs the MAIL IS probably excusable in this Instance as well as most others. His saying* are 1 erally so witty that a misconstruction liable as any other version.—Journal.

This is the latest broadside from our Democratic morning coteinporary. The MAIL did say some time ago that the monopoly of telegraphic news in this city was broken. The statement was exactly true, and we have at no time attempted to "get out of that statement." We don't know what the Journal is driving at, and don't suppose the editor himself knows. He simply is unhappy and refuses to be comforted. We fear that, beneath his allusion to the wit of the MAIL, lurks an insinu ation that the humor of this sheet don't amount to much. Now he has hurt our feelings! This is the unkindest cut of all. To say that the jokes of the MAIL are not good is to falsify history, Go ask that young man (his name Legion) to whom lite has been made a roseate paradise by reading the jokes of the MAIL go ask that young wo man (also of the Legion family) in whose memory there can be uo brighter recollection than the funniness of this journal go ask the physicians who will tell you that readers of the MAIL are never troubled with indigestion— go ask all of these if the MAIL is not a good joking newspaper, and then tell us, if you are base enough to do so, fhat the witticisms of this paper are likely to be misconstrued! Why, bless your soul, Mr. Journal, we can't keep a lean compositor in this office. They laugh so heartily while setting up the matter for these columns that fatness clothes their bones with wonderful celerity. Now will the Journal "relieye "itself of the mean insinuation, or rather charge," which it has preferred against us?

MR.' FABRICIUS, of the Banner, is dissatisfied with the MAIL and its management. This makes us very unhappy. He announces that his political position is well known, and cannot be in doubt. Of course it is well known. People know where to find him now, but they don't know where they will find him to-morrow or next week. He was editing a Republican jpurnal in this city one year ago, and sold its influence to the Democrats for five hundred dollars. He is a Republican now, but no one knows what day or hour the Democrats will buy him up again They were dissatisfied with their last purchase of him, and will not give so much again, but it may be that, in the general decline of values, the price of Fabricius has fallen.

IN Knoxville on the 28th ult., Col Nelson, formerly a federal officer, shot and killed Gen. J. H. Clanton, of Alabama, formerly a Major General in the SQIIthorn army. Tho two" bad Juat been introduced by a mutual friend, andadifficulty grew out of a mere misunderstanding of ordinary remarks. Yielding to the brutal custom of the South, (both were native Southerners) they engaged in a street duel. Clanton was killed, and Nelson escaped. The kind of courage which these men showed, in defense of what Southerners falsely call thoir honor, would have been more in harmony with a barbaric ago than with Christian civilization.

MR. BEECHER, in his sermon on New York municipal affairs last Sunday evening, struck at the root of tho whole matter when ho said that it was not enough to punish a few leaders like the Tammany Ring, but that we must thoroughly reform society bofore we can expect to escape existing evils.

FRANCE, though nominally Republican, is not yet sufficiently tolerant to countenance cntiro freedom of the press. Under the new press law, an editor has been arraigned, found guilty, and sentenced to pay a fine for publishing false news. This is liberty in name, but not in fact.

ABOUT one-sixth of the stock of the national banks in Massachusetts is held by savings banks. The ratio is fast increasing. After a while the savings banks, and back of them tho laboring classes, will own the preponderance of capital in tho nation.

Louis NAPOLEON admired Ccesar most of all men, and wrote his life. Eugenie has now written a life of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. Perhaps she sees in that Catholic Queen her own prototype.

A PECULIARITY of tho Nilsson opera season will be the adoption of tbe French pitch, never before used in this country. The fiddlers of the troupe will use North Carolina rosin.

SRBK RE.VOAMBA is her name, land Japan is her nation. She lectures on Woman's Rights, and is said to be an occidental Mrs. Stanton.

GKXKRAL BUTLER accepted his defeat in a sharp speech in which he administered to his enemies a wholesome dose of Worcester sauce.

A TSRRIBLK fire

baa a

wept over

Northern and Western Minnesota, devastating hundreds oT miles of territory.

Tan sentence of Rocbefort has been commuted from imprisonment to banishment from the French territory.

THERE seems to be no doubt that Brigbam Young has really been guilty Of

WE have beard snoogh about thb "black cat" controversy. Let Requietcatf be written.

The City and Vicinity.

RabacrlptlM*—The SATURDAY t,vis wo MAIL IS delivered to city subscribers al TWKXTT CKHTS a month, payable at the end of every four weeks, or at TWO DOLLAKS

year to

advance.

The MAIL will be tarnish

ed by post, or at this office, at the following rates: One Year, 12,00 Six Months.$1,00 Three Months, 90 Cents—invariably to advance

Chcs|i Advertising.—We shall hereafter give special prominence to the notices under the head of Wanted, For Sale, For Rent, Lost, Found. Ac. We will charge five cents a line for each insertion of suoh advertisements, and no notice will be reckoned at less than five lines. The circulation of the MAIL is such that we can assure the

tublie that It Is carefully and regularly read the homes of nine out of ten reading persons in this citv and its immediate vicinity.

To Printers.

We have ior sale one good' second-hand Plow Paper Cutter, which will be sold cheap for cash. Reason for selling: our increased business demands a faster and larger machine O. J. SMITH & Co.

To Xnll Subscribers.—Watch the date on your direction label. It indicates the time when your subscription expires, at which time the paper will, Invariably, be discontinued without further notification.

Extra Inducements.

We will send the MAIL by post for the remainder of the year 1871, and all of the year 1872, for the regular annual subscription price, Two Dollars. Per sons intending to subscribe the first of the year will find it to their interest to begin now, as, practically, they will get the paper the balance of the year for nothing.

SSI NEW'ADVERTISEMENTS. Wanted—Everybody to know, Pastry Cook.

Free Lecture—Jane E. Weeden. Stelnway Pianos—A. Shide. Watches, Ac.—Riddle. Lost—Bracelet. Hardware—Cory A Co. •.. 1 •?. Opera House Bazaar—Hers A Arnold. Clothing—Jos. Rothschild. Dry Goods—Tuell, Ripley & Doming, W. S. Ryce.

FEVER'NAGER abounds in the land:

SHEEP-KILLING dogs infest the conn"y-

A THOUSAND dollar race at the tair ground next Tuesday.

QUININE is in demand, drug on the market.

though it is a

THE E. T. H. fcC. Railway has received some fine new passenger cars. H"

LADIES are now admitted to membership in the Msennerchor.

MEMBERS of dancing clubs are commencing to unieef their legs. 1 -1

NOT being a muse we respectfully decline "An Invitation to the Muses."

THERE are large quantities of wheat on tho river below awaiting transportation.

THE voice of the oyster which cheers but not {nebrintes is heard in tho laud.

A DRUNKEN dead beat fell in a fit this morning near the 4th street market house. It was a tight fit.

N. KATZENBACH sold 70,000 cigars during tho month of September, and F. Biel, 58,600.

THERE'S one consolation—ague never kills. The grim Reaper rarely sickles those sick with fever'nager.

THE Amateur Dramatic Club is to be revived. The breath of life will be blown into its nostrils in a few days.

TERRE-HAUTE has better newspapers than any place ot its size in America, excepting perhaps the city of Sacramento, California. 1

BUILDING contractors are busily engaged finishing jobs, and it is impossible to find a carpenter or plasterer out of work.

MOORE & HAOERTY aro putting the handsome galvanized iron cornice on tho new stone front building on Main between 61 and 7th.

THE people of Riley township defeated the railroad appropriation at tho election on Tuesday. For the appropriation, 83 against it, 160.

HERB is Josh Billings' beautiful introduction to October: Sweet cider now, and punkln pize4

And maidens lair, and doughnuts greasy Who wouldn't be a farmer's boy, 80 phull ov phun, so free and easy

THE "Drummer Boy of Beach's Hall," a military and patriotic tragiocomedy, will be rendered soon for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the dead and divorced braves of the Fort Harrison Guards.

O THE ingratitude of Republics! It is currently reported that a maimed survivor of the late campaign of the Fort Harrison Guards has been compelled to make a 'living by grinding a hand organ on a street corner in a neighboring city.

THE survivors of tho. Fort Harrison Guards will have a reunion soon for the purpose of perpetuating tbe memories and rehashing the adventures by field and flood of that heroic band. All the scarred (we spell it with two r's) and maimed veteran's of tbe Beach's Hall War will be there.

AassssmsNTs of Internal Revenue taxes made in tbe 7th District of Indiana during the first eight months ot 1871, including annual list: January ,J February ft^Sl 16 March

April May «J0S72 Juno WJBh July M72 71 Angoat 10,830 Annual fit,.—, 16,728 77 .Total rV*

"BACHELOR CLUB" is projected.

ENGINEER STROUT'S new city map fc about completed.

THK light bombastic toe is tripped nightly.

QUARTERLY meeting at Asbury Chapel to-day and to-morrow.

THB oil ftever is felt in all the territory within fifty miles of this city.

COUNTY TREASURER SANKKY is now engaged in making his semi-annual re or to A it or

THE "Indiana Student," a Bloomington semi-monthly college magazine, will be printed, hereafter at the MAIL job office.

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TRACK-LAYING will be completed on the Paris & Decatur R.R. from the former place to Areola on the Illiuois Central within 60 days.

THE real estate business has been unusually lively during the past week, judging from the number of transfers placed upon the recorder's books. &

WATSON BROS.,proprietors of tho rolling mills at Kuightsville, are now preparing to boro for oil in that village. They will commence withiu a few weeks.

FENCES and other improvements along railroad lines are now suffering severely from fires caused by sparks from locomotives, igniting tho dry grass and weeds.

CHRISTIAN CHAPEL, Mulberry street, between Sixth and Seventh, B. B. Tyler Pastor. Preaching to-morrow, Sunday, at 11 o'clock A. M. .and 7:15 r. M. Sermon in the morning will bo upon "Tho terms of admission into tho Church of Christ."

M. O. FROST, of the Marshall Herald, is the publisher of two papers—both weekly. The second publication is tho Martinsville Express, a handsome quarto sheet, tho first number of which has just been issued.

THE Union Oil Company of TorreHauto Indiana, placed articles of association in the Secretary of State's office Thursday. Tho officers of the corporation are: Prosidont Linus A. Burnett Treasurer, Mortin C. Rankin Secretary, Sidney B. Davis.

THE Asbury Choir will glvo a concert at tho church on Fourth stroet some time during the prosont month. A splendid programme has been prepared and a first class entortainmont may be expected. The proceeds will be appropriated for tho benefit of tho choir.

MANY of the best singers of the city aro preparing to give a concert in tho Congregational Church as soon as the repairs are completed. The programme will bo rich and varied, including the most popular choruses, quartettes, tc. Also, some splendid solos by Misa Kellogg. It will be a rare entertainment. t'

GFN. PLEASANTON, President of the Cincinnati tfc Terre-Haute Railroad, tolegraphs to Director Burnott that the company will change tho guago of that road to four feet eight and ono half inches single track if th ep'eoplo of this city desire it, and that the Company will commence work a« soon as tho appropriation is mado.

A DAY or two sinco, a train on tho I. A, St. L. Railroad loft St. Louis at 7:22, with tho City Councils of Cincinnati and Philadelphia on board, and overtook the regular express al Mattoon at 10:23, making tho 133 miles distance between these two points in a little over three hours—or about 4o miles art hour

MARRIAGE LICENSES.—'Tho following licenses havo been issued by the Ceunty Clerk sinco our last report:

Edward A. Itobertstand Mary A. Jackson. Peter Kaufman and Ida Waiters. Robert Brown and Harah Tolbert. Edward Dyer and Catharine McHride. Cliff W. IIOHS and Pantile A. Morgan. Nicholas P. Ilarpold and Mary Black. Edward Shampalgn and l'rlscilla A.

Stew

art. Wm. H. Welch and Arsula S. Oaisinger. Jarnea E. Wei 1m and Mary 10. Hearca.

THE present month is said by many to be the most unlucky in tho yoar. The man born in this month, it is asserted, will have a handsome face and florid complexion: he will be wicked in bis youth and always inconstant hot will promise one thing and do another, and always remain poor. Tho lady born in this month will be pretty, co-1 quettish, a little given to contradiction and a little given to wine.

A MAJORITY of the Council Committee to which has been referred tho petition concerning tho subscription for the Cincinnati & Terre-Haute Railroad will report next week advising tho council that the requisite number of freeholders have signed tho petition and recommending that tho city issued one hundred $1000 seven per cent. bonds to be given as a subscription to the C. AT. II. R. R. with theno conditions (1.) That tbe line of said road enter tbe city on the south and follow Water street to such point as may be selected as depot ground (2.) that the Company agree to locate its machine 1 shops in this city and (3.) that the Company agree to run its line through Bowling Green and Ashborough, provided that stock to the amount of 175,000 is subscribed by tbe people of the towns or townships in Clay county on that line. Tbe report will also recommend thatfthe stock be taken on theso conditions whether the railroad is constructed on the standard or narrow gauge.