Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 28, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 January 1872 — Page 4

'For Sale.

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new boo*e or 5 rooms, cellar, cistern, weod and, oonl lioasc—lot 40x108. I otfer this property for nale on reasonable terms, for 10 days only, and If not w»lJ by that time will be for rent. A. C. MATTOX. ao-2t«

JOR RALK TO UNDERTAKER*j A K'MXI hwirse for Bale or irrnle. AJdre**. WILDY&POTHS.

[7OR SALE.—AT A BARGAIN 26 ACRES of Laud, 4 tulle# South-east of Tcrre,ate The inoht commanding building in Vigo county. The land Is peculiar-

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ly adapted to the cultivation of vegetables or fruit*, being dry, sandy and productive. Terms one-sixth cash, balance in flveannu-

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Legal.

OF INDIANA, VIGO COUNTY.AtUK^iment proceedingIxjfore L. U. IenPhl«, a Justice of the Peace, Harrison township. Frank Greenup vs. Benjamin lh»cUer. Whvrens, a writ ot attachment was issued by tho undersigned, against the goods and chattels, rights, credits and effects of Benjamin luoker at the suit of Frank Greenup, and the summons issued in the premises having been returned endorsed defendant not found. The defendant Is berebv notified that said proceeding has been continued for hearing and determination at my otAi*1 In said township, until the 22nd day of January, 1*72. at the hour of 1 o'clock i*. M.. on said day.

Given under my hand and seal this 27th •lav of December. 1871. 27 Hi. PEN EH IE, J. P. [HEAL.)

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IRON WORKS,

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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR."

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TERRE-HAUTE. JAN. 6. 1872.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO KD1TIOJSU

Of this Taper are publisher. The FIRST EDITION, on Thursday Evening, has a large circulation among farmert* 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 Is«ue is, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS.

In which all Advertisements appear for ONE CHARGE.

~KUKLUX.

The trial of the Ku Klux prisoners now going on at Oolutnli i, South Carolina, developes enormities and outrages the equal of which was never known in the history 01 barbaric times. The story of the wrongs of the blacks of the South, like the story of the horrors of Andersonvillp, can never be fully told. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, writing from Columbia, gives an epitome ot the evidence in a few cases. The trustworthiness of this evidence can be properly appreciated in view of the fact that it comes usually from members of the Ivlan. Charles Good, a colored Radical, was killed by a raid, and his body, after lying three days in a thicket, was taken and anchored in the bottom ol Broad River. Beforo his death the poor creature was given time to pray, and in his prayer he expressed his regret that the slaves had ever been freed or the Yankees ever allowod to come south. This last wish of the poor victim was communicated in a spirit ol exultation by one of the raiders, in a letter to a friend, and was the cause ol ultimate exposure. An old colored man named Sim rail was whipped severely and bis wife was ravished by three ruffians 111 succession.. This man and wife were compelled to live in the woods for months. A party of the Klan attacked the house ol Tom Roundtree, a colored Republican, anu fired seventy shots into tbe cabin. Roundtree jumped from a window after being shot. He staggered and tell upon his face from loss of blood. Then Ilenry Sepaugh turned him upon hif back And cut his throat with a bowieknife. Another case is told of an tinnamable and heretofore unknown outrage upon a white woman—an outrage beside which all the stories of rapes and other brutish indecencies upon women pale into senii-respectabilit}'.

These brutes of the gulf states are the beings who receive the especial sympathy of the Democratic party because of the action of the Ku Klux bill. Reverdy Johnson, the celebrated Baltimore conservative who went down to Columbia to defend them, abandoned his position as counsel, and denounced the criminals in these woids: "I havo listened with horror to some "of the testimony which has been brought before you. The outrages proved have been shockingtohuman"ity tlioy admit neither of justification nor excuse they violate every obligation which law and nature Impose upon men. These men appear to have "been ulike insensible to the obligations of humanity and religion."

The action of the administration in enforcing the Ku Klux bill is entirely right. It is primarily the duty of a government to protect citizens if it fails in this it is no government. For many years, loyalty has been treated as a crime in the South. Tho nation has made a vast sacrifice of blood and money to preserve her integrity the oblation must be renewed if it is unable to punish Biich iniquities as thost which have disgusted Reverdy Johnson with the Ku Klux. ,r

THE School Board of St. Panl, Minn., has taken warning by tho Hunter's Point difficulty, and resolved to eliminate everything bearing the semblance of sectarianism from its public schools. How long will it bo until the School Board of Terre-Haute will conclude that Catholics, Jews and unbelievers are as clearly imposed upon by the authoritative reading of tho Protestant Biblo in the public schools as Methodsts, Presbyterians and Baptists would bo if the exercises of the schools were opened by the reading of extracts from tho Episcopal prayer book? How long, in other words, will it bo until the school authorities here will conclude that the rights of citixens in the public schools should be equal, and that prefence cannot rightly be given to one branch of faith

AT length we have something like an authoritative statement a* to the condition of military and Indian afftUti iu Arixona. (.ten. Hchofield, in a report just tnade, says substantially that the whites are as brutal as the savage* that in war times, when large number or troops are in the Territory, the whites make a great deal of money feeding them that in times of peace the Indians underbid the whites, and trade is restricted that the (femp Grant BiMMcro was a cold-blooded butchery. Intended by tbe whites to incite the Indiauft to war and bring back tbe troops, sod that the present indfcfettton* cncourage hopes for a lasting peace. Gen. Scholield declares that the •ffoit* «f the Peace Commissioners were of great value in dissuading the I Indiana from ({ttir warlike purpose*,

PARTIES In tbe city object to the subscription of $160,000 by Harrison Township to the Southwestern Railroad because that corporation has not expressed itself as willing to guarantee the construction of that .line to the Mississippi river in consideration of this subscription. J?o organization can ever be effected in the city of Terre-Haute that will be able to make such a guarantee, involving as it does an outlay of many millions of dollars. The extension of this line to the Mississippi river depends greatly npon local subscri]lions, donations and subsidies that may be procured along the line of the road. No sane men would think of obligating themselves to build such a line, thus saying to the people residing in the region Southwest of us that the road shall be built whether they aid in constructing it or not. If the voters of Terre-Haute wait for a guarantee that the road shall be built to tbe Mississippi River before voting for the subscription tbe strong probabilities are that such a road will never be constructed.

THE Iron Age takes strong ground against restrictions imposed by the trades unions upon the admission of apprentices, Hunting tin number to two to a shop. T! is rule is simply infamous. The Age sa\s that "tbepoli'cj'of the unions in this matter is as "ruinous in its effects upon society as a law limiting the number of scholars "who should be permitted to receive instruction in the public schools and the sooner it is abandoned the sooner will the unions rid themselves of an "encumbrance which has seriously retarded the progress of true labor re"form in this country. Tho present 'generation of skilled mechanics and "workingmen have nothing to fear from competition with the rising generation, and to adopt measures of "protection against such competition is worse than foolish." 'V*

STATE SUPERINTKNDENT HOPKINS is in favor of compulsory education. This is impracticable. We have too many laws already that are not enforced. In Massachusetts, where statutes are more rigidly executed than in this

State, a law

compelling parents to send children to school is a dead letter. All that the State can properly do is to place education within the grasp of all persons and leave the option with them to embrace it. A law compelling personal cleanliness, religious observances, or the reading of newspapers would not be more ridiculous and oppressive than a statute requiring children to be sent regularly to school. The advocates of compulsory education forget that the virtue and intelligence of the masses are the outgrowth of Opportunity, and not of coercive law.

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LAW has been vindicated in Rochester, even at the sacrifice of life. A mob thought to mnrder a negro named Howard, accused of a horrible outrage upon a little girl. The Sheriff, supported bjT militia, defended the criminal and beat back the mob. Then the roughs of the city avenged themselves by attacking and abusing all the blacks they could And. There was as much justice in this as in the murder of all the male infants of Judea by Herod but mobs are always cowardly nnd brutal. Howard, who was not injured, has been tried and convicted, by a court ot justice.

OLIVE IXOAN, In a communication to the New York Sun, expresses her horror of the Woman Suffrage movement because somo free lovers are its prominent advocates. Now Olive Logan has a former husband, named DeLisle, who lives in New York at this time, and Wirt Sikes, her present husband, has a divorced wife living somewhere. Now these are uot tbe persons to throw mud at free lovers. Mrs. Woodhull and Theodore Tilton claim simply for married people the right of free divorce and the privilege of marrying again. In what respect are Wirt Sikes and Olive Logan not free lovers?"

AMERICAN ideas are becoming immensely popular in Japan. The Mikado has become infatuated with the circus. A negro minstrel troupe would probably set tho whole Empire wild with enthusiasm. Thoy havo got the base ball disease, thero, already. A patent medicine genius has not yet dawned upon the Japaneso horizon, but we doubt not that, in a few months, the rocks, trees, hills, fences, houses and temples of that country will blaxon forth advice to try Changwhanguinania's Four Horse Power Antidote, lor Hari-Kiri.

Now OR never. Tbe people of TerreHaute have waited too long already with the enterprise of building a railroad to the Southwest of us. It should havo been put under headway last year in time to secure the subsidies already gobbled up by the railrosd now being built from Danville, through Paris and Marshall,to Vincennes. But tbe road nan be made yet, and will be made, if the su!»scrlption receives a majority of the votes cast on the 22nd.

DK.XMAHK is having a little trooble with Iceland. The Icelanders are very independent. It is a fact not generally known that Iceland had a republican government before tbe days ot Charlemagne, and before Christianity wa» known in Northern Europe.

WILUAM WILLIAMS, of Kosciusko county, member of Congress from the 10th District, is mentioned in connection with tbe nomination for congressman at Itrje, fie is a

IUXIJ.

popular

and able

M. D. CONWAY, in one of his -very able London letter* to the Cincinnati Commercial,says that the Fulton street (New York) Prayer meeting and other praying assemblies in America, telegraphed to tbe Qneen during the severe illness of her son that they Joined with the people of England in daily supplications to Almighty God for the life and salvation of th« Prince of Wales. Commenting upon this fact, Mr. Conway says: "We have had in this "country many a man, both great and "good, lying at the door of death— "Cobden was stricken down John "Bright is just recovering from serious "illness and many another. The "prayers of America have for the first "time been moved by the illness ot a "Prince not

one

whit better than mil

lions, not so

.wortby|a8

hundreds of

"thousands of bis countrymen. But if "all the prayers of the world can avail "to save the Prince's life, surely a "similar combination ought to be potent enough to make him both as .int "and a genius/^_ ^Mi_B_

WE can be found. These are oor words, and we mean 'em. If the abortive, antiquated, withered, apoplectic and epileptic man of fashion who stopped our devil on the street yesterday and asked him if ho was responsible for the startling weather item in last week's Mail, doubts our assertions let him call and look at our arsenal. He will find, a Parrott

gun

commanding the

stairway, a mitrailleuse behind the door, a torpedo anchored beneath the table, a can of kerosene on tho counter, an iron clad monitor in the alcove and a bull dog in the back yard. We mean business. Isaac Ball is onr regular undertaker,and we keep him pretty busy. There are seventeen corpses waiting in tbe cellar for him to measure now. Let this iniquihitive fiend come on. A grave in Potter's Field among the small-pox cases, yearns for him. Wfl repeat ii, let him come!

THE "New Year's day gifts in Paris were warlike this year. Not to mention the stationers who sold cannonball paper-weightR and mortar inkstands, the toy makers who advertised nothing but Chassepcts and leaden soldiers, and the nick-nack venders who invented a graceful cigar-stand like a mitrailleur, there was a show in all the shop-fronts of the bon-bon tradesmen that reminded one of military store-rooms. Sinister-looking rows of shells bristled on the upper shelves, while the lower ones were encumbered with Prussian helmets and muffin cups, made, of course, to contain sweetmeatSj^^^^^^^

A DisrATCH was received in this city yesterday from Major Kd. Harlan, Senator from Clark and Crawford in the Illinois legislature, saying that a general railroad law will positively pass both houses on Monday next. The passage of this statute will remove all obstacles to the immediato organisation of tho Terre-Haute A Southwestern Railroad in Illinois. The great difficulty in the way of organizing in that state' heretofore has been that the Legislature has reserved the right to designate points on the line of contemplated railroads.

THERE are some wealthy m£rt "who can afford to vote against the proposition to tax the property of Harrison township in the sum of $150,000 for the benefit of the Southwestern Railroad, but the laboring class, the men of small means and tbe men engaged in active trade cannot afford to oppose this road. The wealthy can be entirely comfortable in holding

Jill

they have, but the

people who are doing tho work and managing tho trade of the city cannot afford to do anything of the kind.

IT would be well for our people to remember that it is possible for TerreHaute to stop still and grow no more. Other promising towns have done this. There are many unoccupied store rooms on our principal business street now. Are we in condition at present to throw away one-third of our wholesale trade, and a very large portion of our retail trade, by refusing to encourage the Southwestern Railroad This is the question for voters to determine at the election 011 the 22nd of January.

THE choice sentimant of Ix»uis Napoleon, while on the throne, was, "The "Empire is peace." M. Thiers echoes this with equal sincerity, when he says in his first message: "The policy of "France, henceforth, is a policy of en"durlng and dignified peace." And he proposes to back this up by general conscription and an army of 800,000 men. We fear that the peace of Thiers will not be more "enduring" than that of Napolemu^^^^^^^^^

THE location of tho next national Republican convention has not yet been determined. The prevalent opinion seems to be that Cincinnati will be the pcint if the convention is held in the West. Why St. Louis, the lsrgest city in the Mississippi Valley, should be ignored is not Ii nown.

THE financial management of the administration still looms up grandly. The reduction of the public debt f4,412,956 in tho month of December will probably overbalance, in the estimate of the public, the ehargvsof the opposition that Orant has some relatives in Office.

THE Indianapolis Journal favors George W. Julian for Congresaman-at large. The Republicans of Indiana cannot afford to ignore their foremost radical in the campaign of 1872.

JoHn HHKRMAX has been re-nominat-ed for .Senator from Ohio by tbe Repnbllran legislative canoos.

VAL.MA8EDa, the Spanish Alarlo of Cnba, is tbe foremost brute of tbe time. He has decreed that, out of the thirty* five thousand Chinese inhabitsnta cf Cuba, ten or fifteeu thousand of them shall immediately enrol themselves under the tutelage of Spanish minions and labor for the government at |4 per month. He also decrees that all Chinese now working under the contract system shall be reindentured on the expiration of their terms or be sent to jail. This infamous order will virtually place the Chinese in a state worse than slavery. More than this. All Insurgents taken prisoner are to be shot, the black women to be sent to slavery in chains, and white women deported from the country. The patriots are hunted down like wild beasts.

ON Tuesday the Protestant ministers of this city, organized in accordance with tbe Evangelical Alliance, agreed to hold union meetings during the week of prayer beginning to-morrow. On Thursday th3 ministers again assembled and rescinded their action. The fact that the Universalists of the city were included in tbe arrangement of Tuesday is understood to be the cause of its abrogation. If this be true, the ministers withdrawing haveprovad themselves, in this respect, unworthy followers of their Master. It is not by such exhibitions of arrogance and intolerance that the lesson of the Martyr of Calvary shall gain strength aud hon-

IT must be that our iuuiana Senators have something rural in their appearance when the3' go to NewYork.Perhaps they wear blue jeans coats, broad shoes and butternut stockings, and munch gingerbread as they wa!k along Broadway. Otherwise, how does it happen that both have had their pockets picked recently in Gotham Senator Morton lost his wallet about three weeks ago, and a light fingered gentleman yesterday found our herculean Pratt a stranger and took him in to the extent of «B51. __________

IT is stated that several prominent labor reformers are endeavoring to consolidate the national and international trades unions, the State labor councils and the various secret orders of mechanics into one national order of American mechanics. This is to be done by a Convention, in which all the different existing organizations will be represented by delegates, and if the proposed consolidation is effected, it will unite at least one million of workers and voters, who will be controlled by a Central Labor Congress.

IT is generally believed in New York that the Erie Ring is doomed. The committee of the American share-hold-ers opposed to the present Erie management have been empowered to act for the stockholders, this country holding 910,000,000 worth of shares. This added to the $30,000,000 worth in England, leaves only about $3,000,000 or $4,000,000 necessary to oust Fisk and Gould. This is expected to be accomplished before tbe next election.

THE orthodox Protestant ministers of this city think that none are fitted to pray for the evangelisation of the world save those who believe in hell and damnation. We are troubled now with a well grounded fear that the prayers of our orthodox friends, though tbey yell "like strong bulls of

Bashan," will not ascend higher next week than the tops of their own ohurch steeples.

THE Indianapolis Journal Company has been triumphantly acquitted of the charge of procuring money from the State treasury on false vouchers. Tbe Journal has been tbe prime cause of the exposure of all the Indianapolis stealings. All of its friends, and all friends of honesty, will be glad to know that its own skirts are proven to be entirely clear.

THE South Bend Register, Mr. Colfax's home organ, says that Schuyler will not retire if the people Insist on rc-noininating him. Wo presume that he will postpone for a time his pet projects of engaging in the manufacture of firc-clay umbrellas, oroide castor beans and perfumed railroad iron.

THEre is8ome silly talk about war with Spain. President Grant is evidently wise enough to know that the nation desires vigorous peace now as earnestly as it desired vigorous war when its own life and honor were imperilled.

A HEAVY immigration from Europe to this country is anticipated during the present year. In addition to tbe regular flow from North Germany and Sweden, great numbers are coming frohi Alsace and Lorraine.

THERE seems to be anarchy in Now Orleans. The carpet-bag governments of the South are leading, in many cases, to chaos.

A voi i«« lady of western New York wrote to Alexis, asking for money enough to marry a widower with whom she is in love.

J)ANA'tiljPlXION OF (J 11A NT. Among the personal enemies of General Grant ana his administration, few have been more venomously conspicuous than Mr. Charles A. Dana, of the New York Sun. A document has recently been brongbt to light, however, which shows that Mr. Dana has not always entertained the opinions be now expresses in the Son. It is a campaign life of General Grant, by Charles A. Dana, Esq., published in 1868. We quote a sbort extract: "Early in I860 he accepted a proposition from bis father to remove to Galena, and join bis brothers in the leather business. Devoting himseir with industry and good to bi« now occu-

nation, he soon became familiar with all ita branches, and achieved a fair degree of success. But, not being at all demonstrative in his manners, nor inclined to take an active part in town affairs, he made but few »cqualntanoesr and those mostly among the people with whom he had business. A few of the best citixens had broken through, his natural reserve and bad discovered the sterling qualities of the man, though it is but fair to say that no one then suspected that the modest, quiet and obscure leather dealer would ever become the most distinguished man of his time. "When the rebellion was precipitated upon the country by the attack on Fort Sumter, Grant had just attained his thirty-ninth year, and having been blessed with a strong and elastic constitution, an equable temper, a stout-, and well set figure, capable of great endurance, he had passed through thfr varied experiences of his life with con-? tinually increasing powers. He had* not reached full mental development with manhood, but had increased steadily in mental and moral stature by the trials through which he bad gone, rather thMn by the years that had passed over his head. "He bad neither whims nor hobbies, neither pet theories nor visionary schemes, but was entirely free from prejudice of every sort, and. better than all, he had reached that perfection of common sense, which, combined with truthfulness and steadfast courage, is superior to genius Plain and simple in his address, 'with manners unspoiled by the world,' direct in his purpose, slow to anger, sparing of words in public, free from guile and shame of every sort, and faithlul in all things, he was regarded as a true friend and a good citizen, and au honest man."

In his preface, Mr. Dana says he has collected for the people "all the information they naturally desire respecting this great soldier, sincere patriot, and naturally astNte statesman." Concerning the political predilections of General Grant, Dana says that although he had voted for Buchanan, he "had become convinced before the war that this, his first and only vote, had been a grievous mistake."

It is not our purpose to inquire what were the reasons which persuaded Mr. Dana into a chauge of opinion concerning the President. It is well known, however, that the New York Custom House had a great deal to do in "modifying" that gentleman's estimate of Andy Johnson, and we are not without hope that the same h'gh considerations prompted the revolution of judgement concerning Gen. Grant.—fMissouri Democrat.

[Froui tl-.o Musical Review.] MUSIC IN CHUIWll.

In my last letter presented a few, thoughts Hearing upon the general sill ject of "Music in Church," and specially discussed the opening voluntary or prelude.

The next part of the musical service ot the housoof the Lord that claims attention is the opening anthem or 6et-

iece in lieu thereof. Now nothing can more appropriate for the opening of public worship than a good anthem or set-piece, well sung, and nothing muchworse than a poor or inapproprlatrt piece badly given. And this leads me to say that the great objection heretofore justly urged against all such pieces is, that hey are made by too many mere vehicles for personal display. If the ehurch question be bltH9ed, (or cursed, which is more frequently tb»v case,) with a quartette choir, then that quartetto immediately becomespossessed of tho idea that nothing in the whole range of so-called sacred music is above their grasp, and they attack, with an amount of energy and vim that would insure success, if success depended upon the will of tho executants, the most difficult compositions, singing mezzo voce all tho place* where they leel themselves in deep water, and coming out strong and jubilant at the places where a dearth of aocidentals seems to augut plain sailing. Now this would not bo so very bad if all agreed as to the parts to be slid over, easilv and those that were to be given: full-voiced, but unfortunately the' place where the soprano finds it necessary to be very cautious are frequently the very ones where tho base, rejoicing greatly at a few bars of clear skies and. favoring breezes, conic out fortissimo. The result of the whole is generally to mangle tbe composition until all traces of the composer's original ideas are* lost, to say nothing of the evident luck of anything like worship in such an abortive performance. As I remarked in my last, this idea of worship should bo the key to the whole musical service, and any and everything inconsistent with this must be inexorably dis-, carded.

Then again, the character of the opening piece is too frequently not what it should be. Mere singing ahvut sacred things is not any more worship than is the family discussion of the merits of the sermon around tbe dinner table.

To sum up—the opening anthem or set-piece should not bo too elaborate, and not above the co.*y grasp and executive ability of the choir. It should b« either a direct supplication or address to the Lord—a diroct act of worship—• or else a subject tho whole scope and tendency of which is to stimulate tli« minds of the auditory and lead their thoughts and affections up to the contemplation ofthe Lord, their object in coming into His house, and the solemn duties of tho hour.

It should be sung simply, without any attempt at personal display, and with a constant endeavor to accomplish the uses which it is intended to servo. A simple chant, well sung, is often far more effective than tbe most elaborate piece however well the latt*r may be given. OWTHR WIN«.

ABOCT COFFINS.—A man who ean have bis coffin mado while alive must look at death philosophically. We hear of a case in point in Persan county. A Mr. Richard Hargis, who lives near Bradsber's store, thirty odd years ago, set out a sassafras tree to grow for the purpose ot making himself acuffiD, and, about twelve months ago tho 6ld man had it cut down, and got some orw in Roxborough to make his coffin out of it. The old chap occasionally gets in it and stretches himself out, by way of showing his neighbors "a good fit." He paid Ue maker of the coffin in wheat, no he is one living man wbv wM\ have no fuss over bus grave about tho coffin when dead.

This reminds us of an old coon in Murfreesboro.North arolina,wbo bad a coffin cast of iron, before tho war. H» his gravo dug, also, and walled up with brick, with a magnificent tombstone, setting forth his name, date of birth, and fixing bis death "somewhere about the year 18*1." But be was alive and kicking In 18®. The old chap kept his cast-iron ooffin in bis corn crib, aotl used to shell 00m In It. Tho crib needed no lock at night, for vou couldn get a negro to go uoar It after dark.

AiX tbe pension agents In Ohio are-one-legged soldiers.