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Vol. No. 30.

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ljfRsT '^TATBMEXT TO THE PUB LIC FROM TUB STOCKHOLDERS. To TUB VOTBIWOF HARBISON TOWN4111 pThe Commissioners Vigo county having O'dered aspecial election to take place on the 22nd day of Jtuuarv, 1872, in wlticb you1 willdecide whether 'be property of Harrison township sh ill be taxed to the amount of $150,000 and tbi4 money used as a HtiijMttripiion to the Terr® Haute and Southwestern Railro-ul, it is fit and proissr that we should state to you explicitly the design htvi object of our corporation, the benefits that may accrue to the property holders of Harris on township in consequence of the building of the proposed road, and give all other information of interest to you which w£ may possess.

It is the design of our corporation to construct a line or railroad rroin lerieHaute, in the State of Indiana, toa point on the Mississippi riv«r, in the State of Illinois, lying in a Southwesterly direction from this city.

We cannot indicate more definitely the line of the proposed railroad than to say that it will cross the Wabash river at a point between Dirwin and York, and that it will pursue thence a ^Southwesterly direction, by Olnev or

Flora, to the flual terminus on the Mississippi river. The reasons why the Hue may not lie uiore definitely indicated at this time are: (1.) The route |has not yet been surveyed. (2.) The location must depend greatly upon local subscriptions and donations.

Tiiw construction of this lino is demanded bv the interests of this community. Morethanthis.it is an uctu il necessity unlessTerre Haute can afford to lose the business of the most valdUIble trading region now tributary to ?her, lust as she hss lost the trade of

Green and Owen counties in consequence of the construction of the Indianapolis A Vincennes Railroad. The 8 wholesale dealers of the city tell us that 5 one-third of the Jobbing trade of Terre-

Haute iroines from th® territory lying 'South or the Vandalia Railroad and West of the Wabash river, which territorv Is not now penetrated by any rail'road line. The retail trade of that re's glon Is also immense. Now this valuable trafflo will be lost to Terre-Haute 1 entirely within twelve months, if the

Terre-flaute and Southwestern RailIs road la not aonstruuted. The Chicago, 1 mville A Vlnoennes Railroad, of which Hiram Sandford, of Paris, Is

President,, Is already under contract, «having been let to Thomas King, of H'ekiti, Illinois, and sub-let *y hlin to

Ool. J. C. Prescott.of Indianapolis, with I the a/resilient that the whole lino from Dtinvl le, through Paris, Marshall,

York, Robinson or Palestine, to vin^cennes, shall bo ready for iron within a

vear. At Palestine, Illinois, on the "18th Inst., the St. Louis A Cincinnati I Railroad Company was organized.

This line is projected to rurnlsh a Westorn connection for the Cincinnati A

Terre-Haute Railroad, the main line ol I W'hloh corporation (the C. A T. II.) does not touch Terre-Haute at all, but

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from Blootnlngton through Bloom Held and Sullivan, to Meroni In this State. The directors of the St. Ijouis A Cinciniiatl Rill road promise to put their line unrier contract

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wlil l)® seen that the Chicago, Danville, A Vincennes Railroad, which will ceri*iuly bo built, and tlioSt, Ioul9 A Cincinuatl Rill road, which will probably be eonutructed, will take away from this city all the trade or the region beyond I the Wabash ilver to the Southwest ir the Terre-IIaut« A Southwestern Railroad is not constructed at the earliest os a

In answer to objections which have xine to our uoii«*e to the proposed subcrlptlon of $150 000 bv Harrison township, and In reply inquiries onnoernlug the said suoscriptlon we will say

The first objection seems to be that ihis corporation dots not propose to build the rvui beyond the if1 Ixvih river, Iu Miswer, we beg to give assurance over our own signatures that tho subscription of stack which in ay be voM by .the electors of Harrison townshlpshall not be used, In wtiole or In pMrt, unless we are able to guarantee the construction of a railroad across the Wabash river and to Robinson, Illinois, or to a polut equl-dis»ant with Robinson from this cltv. And further we pledge ourselves, that the purpose of this «rprAiion shall be completely abandoned *nd its charter surrendered without uaing ouo dollar of the^money that in ty oe vot»d by Harrison township if we find ourselves unable, alter a survey of the route and a full canrws for feubs^rlptlon*, to build the road to R''bitieou, or to a jv»tnt «jnl-di*Uni 5

Robiiiaon irom ihis ciiiy as Indicated a The s**cond objtwtlon which ha* been brought to our notice Is that our enrpo ration for a attbt*eriftion of $1 SO,000 tmo other rnitroad organ'Motion* which

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the citit of Trrrt- tiauie mtieiied but $100, 000 ctcJi. We answer: (1) The Kvansville. T»»rw-H *ute A Chicago Railway n*eeltf«*l larger private suhacrlpiions in this ciiv than our enterprise. One cit isen subscribed $30.00u. and the a^cgreirate q: private sub« »rlptinns amounted to more than $1«0.000. Thus it will be M*n that the

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received much more subatantial »ld la this city th .n i« hoped for by ourwruoration. (3.) The Twre-Haote A Cl»»Snnatl Rtlmtad has no o^Oy bridge

to build within the twwity-flve miles which It h*s goaranteed to construct in consideration of the city*! «ib«ertptiott of $100 aides miles

ideration of the dty^e wilweripuoa 00.000. Our own pledging M««ir to build thirty si* I of ixnuT instead of iwMr-fve,

is compelled to build a bridge over the Wabash river which will cost, with its approaches, not loss than $150,000. (3.) Th» sum of $150,000 assessed npon the township of Harrison will make the subscription of the city but little, if anv, more than $100,000.

We pledge the community that 1 he machine shops of our line shall b® located in Terre- Haute. Of course, as citizens identified with the interests of this city, we would not entertalu for a moment any proposition looking to the location of these works elsewhere.

The foregoing is respectlully submitted by the projectors of the Terre-Hante and Southwestern Rtilroad organization, with the additional assurance that the 'necessity of immediate movement to protect fmportaiit interests of this city prompts their action.

Signed by the directors and all of the stock holders of the Terre-Haute aryi Southwestern Railroad Co.npany.

This question has also been asked: WAy has the Tsrrc-llaute and Southwestern Railroad Company not yet been organised in Illinoisf" We answer: Our articles of incorporation have been prepared sometime, and can be placed on record any day, for the construction of a railroad from a point near Darwin, on the Wabash river in Illinois, through the counties of Clark, Crawford, Jasper, Richland, Clav, Wayne, Hamilton, Jefferson, Franklin, Williamson, Jackson and Union to a point on the Mississippi river opposite Cape Girardeau in Missouri, at which latter place a bridge will aeon be constructed over the Mississippi river. We have not placed these articles of incorporation on record as yet because a general railroad law, which simplifies the granting of charters, lias already passed the'Illinois House of Representatives and is now pending in the Senate. W^e are positively assured that it will pass the latter body in a few days, and we prefer to wait for its passage as a matter of convenience only, inasmuch as we can organise under the laws as they stand now any day that we choose to do so.

This question has also been asked: Why are the people of Harrison, Prairietm and Prairie Creek tovnship* solicited to vote subscriptions to this enterprise before the line has been surveyed and before any aid has been asked for this railroad in Illinois f" We answer: The people of Southern Clark, of Crawford, Jasper and other counties on our line ar*mwt anxious for the construction of this road. They have already voted large subsidies for corporations organised earlier than our own. We have positive assurances of substantial aid for the benent of our railroad, and that large stock subscriptions can be secured. But the people of Southern dark, and of Crawforn and Jasper counties have been disappointed repeatedly in reference to railroads. They have built heretofore largtiy upon promises that have not been fulailed. They look upon this as a TerreIIaute enterprise, managed in the interest ol this city, anl they demand that we shall show* tbem positively that wo have the moans subscribed at home to commence the undertaking before they will enter into contract as to the aid «o be furnished br them. This is reasonable. We can hardly ask distant communities to take stock in this corporation

GBO. F. RlPUCY, Rovr. & Cox, I J. B. HAOK*,

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J. H. O'Boyle, George F. Ripley, J'res'-on Hussf»y, *0. W. Bi-niciit,

W. B. Tuell, O. Smith, Robert S. Cox, A McGregor, JohnS. Beach, James Seat h, A. Doming, Samuel Royse, F. C. Crawford,

J. B. Hagfr, J. P. Baird, John T. Scott, is. B. E linnnd8t Wm. Paddock, John G. Williams.

Patterson.

TKBBIJ-Hj»UTK, Dec. 26t,h, 1871.

.... T' ......... ...... A.,..* SECOND STATEMENT FROM TH15 STOCKHOLDERS TO THE PUBLIC. To the Voters of Harrison, P^airietyn and

J'rairie Creek Townships: v*. *,» In discurtoing the proposUion to tax the property of your townships for the purpose of Btibscribing stock to aid in the construction of the Terre-Haute and Southwestern Railroad, these questions have been a*ked: "If the Stockholders are unable, after a mrvey of the route and a full canvass for subscriptions, to guarantee the construction of their line to Robinson, Illinois, or to a point equi-distant with Robinsonfrmn this city, what will become of the tax which may be voted al the elections already appointedf Will it be placed on the duplicates of the townships Will it be collected, and if so,what will be done with the money

These are reasonable questions, and we desire to answer them fairly and squarely. We have already pledged otireelves that the subscription of stock which may be voted by the electors of Harrison township shall not be used, in whole or in part, unless we are able to guarantee the construction of a railroad across the Wabash river and to Robinson, Illinois, or to a point equi-distant with Robinson from this city." And now we add this further pledge:

We hereby make ourselves individually responsible that no portion of the tax which may be voted by theelectors of Harrison, Prairieton or Prairie Creek townships as a subscription for the Terre-Haute and Southwestern Railroad, shall be placed upon the duplicates of either or any of the townships named, and that no monies whatever shall be collected from the property holders of the said townships for this purpose, unless we are able to give a positive and substantial guarantee that the said railroad shall be constructed from Terre-IIaute in a Southwesterly direction to Robinson, Illinois, or to a point equi-distant with Robinson from this city.

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to encourage it. The road will be trom Terre Hante to the Southwest, not from the Southwest to Terre-Haute, and the firm subscriptions should undoubtedly be solicited at the point where the enterprise is inaugurated. W. B. TvEi.t-, AI-KX. MCGRKOO*, PRBSTOJI Hu?«iEY, J. 11- O BOYLR,

O. J. SstrrH. JAMB* 6. Eoifthn*, JAFT. 8KATH, JNO.& BKACH, Jon* T. Socrrr, a Y.fArrmmm, so. G. WflJUAJCS

K. (X CRAWPUKD, 8. Rorsa, J. P. BAIRP, W*. PAODOCK,

Tem-H 1S»1871.

We had fl tttered ourselves th it we knew something of the geography and re-sources of the country lying between Terre-Haute and Cape Giraraeau, and our impressions have been and still are that a road built on a direct route, (as is proposed for this,) would pass through a country of prairie, timber, and bottom lands, alternating as rich naturally in its agricultural resources as any part of "the garden spot of the West,' (Illinois and with a good railroad running through it, would velop and improve as rapidly as has the country along the other main lines of railroad in Illinois. A couutry rich also in mineral resources, more than three fourths of the distance being through the richest portion or the inexhaustible coal fields of Southern Illinois, which will furnish business not only tor one but for many roads, for many generations to come.

It is a well demonstrated fact that any naturally good country Is benefittea by the construction and operation of a railroad, or other good means ol transportation througk It, to several times the ordinary cost ot an Illinois railroad, though new and uniinpr ved, when the road is projected, npidly develops, and soon returns to the road, (as if in gratitude) a large remunerative business, and there is certainly no good apparent reason why this country should prove an exception in this respect.

There have been but few roads built in the Western States th it have not had the same arguments: "No business "won't pay urged against their construction and although the falsity of the arguments have been demonstrated by almost every roud built, yet they are again and again put forward upon the projection of any new-enter-rise. But this route need by no means dependent upon its local ouslness to insure its final success. Properly constructed and connected it uecomes a part of the great trunk route from the great lake to the gulf of Mexico and Pacific ocean, from the great Northeast to the greater Southwest.

If built to Cape Girardeau, and connected there with the Cap Girardeau A State Line lilroad, now being buil' in a southwestern direction through the counties of Cape Girardeau, Bollinger, Stoddard ana Butler across the fiat but rich agricultural lands of Southeast Missouri, through den*e torefets of valuable timber, and along the

foot of bills containing millions upon millions ot tons of Brown Humility iron ore, to the Arkansas S ate lin*. where it Is to connect with roads running through Arkansas and Tex «s, the great cotton aud cattle producing region of the United States, who have so little knowledge in this age of railroads as to come out boldly before an intelligent coiimmunity and assert 1 hat any part or link In a linn of road through such a country, running jus in the direction that its immense productions want to travel to find their principal market, will not, in due time find a largely remunerative business in both height and passengers?

Now let us accept the invitation of the correspondent of the Express, and "lake a glance at the contemplated Southwestern road." as a route -over which to obtain for Terre-Haute "the iron ores of Missouri." and t.y to get at corroct figures, instead of the erroneous ones he presents.

From Terre-Haute to East St. Lonis via. Vandalia road, is 165 miles. East St. Louis (via. »t. Louis and iron Moon--

Knob 88, to Cornwall (tin* first d«

TERRE-HATJTE, SATURDAY EVENING. JANUARY 20, 1872.

[From the Cape Girardeau, Mo., Argas.] THE TEKRK HAU VND SOUTHWESTERN RAILROAD.

We have noticed some articles recently published in the Terre-Haute Express, In regard to the Terre-Haute 1 rnf So nth western Railroad, a railroad V""

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said enterprise. If (as asserted)

icquainted with the geography and natural resources ot tne section or coun try through which this route Is project ed, they must differ considerably in

St. Louis (via. St. I»u is aiio 1 rotii flew in«o a passion at onoe. tain R. R.) to Iron Mountain 82. to Pilot Moorehead in tones of and fell upon Moorehead in tones of vehement Indignation. "Who are you. sir, th presumes to question what I recommend? Did Kentucky send you here as my censor? Ain I to take lessons at your hands? When I propose a measure,it- behoove* yon to acquiesce in respectful silence." This burst of vulgar braggadocio cowed the memb or tne caucus Into silence. When we read these things, and see with what not more desirable than tnoy, iron ^vo,ion tbe Whig party obeyMountain andI Pilot Knob. and thattjo

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of brown Hemetite) 115 miles ilting from Terre-Haute 247.253 and 280 miles, respectively, instead ol 225 and 250 as stated. A well located line from TerreHaute to Cape Girarde«u. would be alHuit 190 miles in length. From Cape Girardeau to the iron deposits in Stoddard and Butler counties. 32 to 00 miles, to iron deposits fully as desirable, if not more desirable, thau thoso of Iron

over roads with much tighter graaes

and easiei curves th .11 o\ the at. Louis route. Prof. Forrest Sheppard. in a recent report on the country

and %'iells a soft, nulforui and

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within a very few yeirs. sh« will be seen lamenting her error and mourniug over this golden opportunity lost.

So LOIIO as onr correspondent, Taxpayer," confined himself to the question before the House," we did not

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proposed to be built from Terre-Haute deem It necessary to comment on his Southwesterly to Cairo or to Cape Gir- productions. But when, as In his comardeau and feeling an Interest In the munlcatlon that appears In th Issue, success of this, as well as all other s'.in- h" K°«8 out.of his way to advocate the liar enterprises, the object of which is claims of the Chicago, Danville A Vlnto develop and improve the country cennes Railroad, we deem it proper to where they arb located, we feel a desire suggest that he is trying to assist an to correct some erroneous statements enterpise more inimical to the Interests in regard to the feasibility and ut lity of of Terre-Haute, than anv other that has awrar hniln nmWtMl TIlA linn orn inn ever been projected. The line whieh ir 1 as assFrieni

tated to divert rrom us the trade or a reirion now tributary to us. Taxpayer" makes another miatake in speaking of Robinson as the terminus or the proposed Southwestern lilroad. The lino is intended to extend to the Missisisppi River.—[Daily Express of January 19th

LETTER FROM YORK, ILLINOIS. W. B. TUEIX, ESQ.—Sir The people or this vicinity are enthusiastic over the project or the Southwest Railroad. The result or the meeting in your city last Saturday evening has given confidence in the enterprise, and removed a ir.ultitude or doubts that augur well lor your success. Carry your township! elections and that will give us a nucleus or capital lhal will grow beyond your most sanguine expectations. There is 1 unanimous feeling, from the poorest widow to the wealthiest farmer, that there must be a united effort to push this road through with all the capital that can be commanded and all the energy that can be thrown into it.

The engineers of the Danville, Paris ind Vincennes railroad are here preparing to locate their road. They will uake their strongest effort to get their road through first and get command of the Wabash Valley trade. From Ter-re-Hiiute vja. York, Robinson, Olney. nd Car bond ale, to Cape Girardeau is one great garden divided here aud there by streams of Water and belts of timber. There is not a richer soil or a more productive country traversed by any railroad in the great West, and there is no road that can carry trade tlf as far into the interior from your city as the proposed Sou hwestern. 11' your merchants and mechanics continue in their liberal and honest business tact and qualities their business can be limited only by the Mississippi river. «*»t Your obedient servant,

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brown Hemetite, or hydrUed peroxide lad^phtaP.»st. of iron. (Simoiilte.) in* from sulphur, and 111 gftstl abundance TMOUBHIIJS upon thousands—It not millions upon millions—of tons of this ore, re«dy for the furnace, may be exe ivafc-d before reaching Indian Ford, uu the S«. Fran jcols river, and th re ito» great iron

Sldsof Missouri oVn wide ^ithstores The .llot may not be .Ifwlinniw th* wants or com- need—-it certainly is not all that inen "U is do-but it is at le «»t a protection. Woan ore of higo rank. 1« smelts easily,

tough Iron. But while it yields fifteen t«l creatures. Let ua take agrand ma-

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'T.'rtLie the correspondent of the Ex- m«.» share inttwm iking of our laws prwJKthi in

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Intelligent tax Tax payer' advocates from Marshall

payers" of Terre-Haute are somewhat the C. D. A V. Railroad, destined, if a a a 1 I a a A I

ever completed, to seriously impair the business of Terre-Haute. This fact has been seen and recognized by all our

en tney musi ain«r cwnsim-rnuij in citizans for some years. It is not probtheir Intelligent conclusions, from the able that any money will go from this conclusions of the correspondent of the city to aid in constructing a road calcu Express, wlio pronunces it the wildest 'h« of new railway projects"ft wild goose chase," tf"c.

D. O. MCCOKD.

YORK,III.. Jan. 18,1872.,

I HE DAYS OF THE GIANTS. If the writ* in the Galaxy who is contributing "Suggestions of the Past" is an accurate chronicler, the public judgment concern!' the character of Mr. CI iy and his political associates is likely to be modified. If Mr. Clay, or my other man, were to appear in a party "caucus or Sonate cbamler and take on such airs as he did during the early days or the Tyler administration, be would be set down as a braggart and bully by the intelligent judgment or the land. The story this writer tells is 11 most incredible. Tyler having some sci uples about certain sections in the National Bank bill drafted by Mr. Clay, sent for lilin, and after a brief conference said: "Now, sir, draw a bank hill that you give ine your honor yon would aiivise your son to sign under the sa ne circumstances, and I give vou my.honor I will sign_that bill." One would think this sufficiently condescending on the part of the President. But "Mr. Clay drew himseir up to his full hiuht, and looking sternly at the President, closed the interview with these words: 'Tike your own course, sir, I sh ill take mine." When he reported his bill fo the Whig caucus he indulged in a fling at the President, savioit that he thought it would meet "Ihe whimsical objections or the President," but hoped that the members of the caucus would criticise and speak their miii'ls fired v. and added that he was not' at all strenuous about its terms. Upon tnis hint, Governor Moorehead, Clay's colleague from Kentucky, proposed a all ht chanire in the terms the amendment. Whereupon the

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forring to know that a Senator who should dare to put on snob airs now,

111 A mvni would soon be retired to private life. ii IOPIIL in the The days for leader worship and lick g.iceui 10 me

.. r.rlr,i» i. tnd suite splttl-s in Amealcan jiolitics are happi line of the Cape Giranie u^.ndj SUite

Line Rallroadjs ivs of ib'-selron deposits, About thirty-two miles Irom Cape Girardeau, we arrive at bills «.f vapf uir*ru'• du,

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Hit RE are true words from the Phl-

And thoce ladies who do not wish to vote should not be uqjust to those of their sisters who do. The Constitution compels no one to vote, and therefore the beautiful creatures who shrink from the publicity of the polls may consider themselves in a perfect safety, all that -women

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»I, If not In «le- and the selection or our public

Ulls. If ^Terre-H ut* dons not want th awe eonoedH

any trade or pnsiooe Trom the great prayed of our own aex? All of our nL

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admit that they are verv use-

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{!, Ku.. ir «h« doea not poetrv and fiction—indeed, all of our

want any .nufactoriea to spring up daily lives i» *nrl in her nelghlxtrhood—In short, if she loye of wo« »n. and yet Mr "J? d^ not wsn* prosperity and areatnem asUbli-lied in oontempt of lbelr exUt-

uinlv defut the buUdimtof this pro- and we shall gladly welcome *i»y S a a 1 I she doe* deHwi»4», tot as prophecy, that apolitical equality with man,

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CHILDREN.

A GEM FROM LONGrKLLOW. I

Come tom O ye ehlMnin!'! For I hear you at your play, ,. And the questions that perplexed mej

Have vanished quite away.t Ye open the Eastern windows That look towa'd the sun, Wh-re th-jughts are singing swallows,

And the brooks of morning ran. ,,w In your hearts are the birds and the ]snnshine,

In yortr thought* the brooklets flow,»=* But fn mine Is the wind of Aufumn, And the first fall of the snow. Ah! what would the world be to us,

If the children were no more? 4 We should dread th« desert behind us Worse thau the dark before. What the leaves are to the forest.

With light and air for food, ., Er«* their sweet and tender Juices Have been hardened into woodThat to the world are children

Fhrouah th»»m It feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate Thau reaches the trunks below. Come to me, O ye children!

And whisper In my ear What the birds ana the winds are singing In your sUnny atmosphere. For what are all our contriving*,

And the wisdom of our books, When compared with younn caresses, And the gladness of your looks? Ye are better than all the ballads

That ever were sung or said* For ye arc living poems, And all the rest are dead.

[From the Washington Chronicle.] ARTEMU8 WARD.

How he Oame to Write his First, Wax Figger" Letter.

BY W. A. QUAY.

As a meteor startles us with its brief but brilliant blaze flying through the heavens in the gloom of night, so the humorist Browne (Artemus Ward) burst upon the plodding world with his unrivaled glow of health-provoking mirth, soon, by the fiat of fate, to be followed by the other extreme—grief at his prematurely eaily exit.

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He at once decided to hide the game and accept the pi udits awarded him. for hit he had no idea of making, and never in any subsequent letter, did he ever allude to the lost pointji?sy

This is its history We entered the office about the same time on one very stormy morning.

The winds did blow as if ihey'd blow their The rattling rain came pouring thick and fast."

After looking thoughtfully for a few moments out Into the storm, he turned and said: "Deacon, what can I have for a sensation item to-day, lor there must be something to arrest attention every day

Well, Charley, yon are the 'Local go out and hunt one up." "No. sir, not if the court understands herself, and she think she do. I'll make ono." "What! out of I mag nation alone, without regard to truth?"

Certainlv What has the truth to do with getting up Interesting reading matter? Besides, this paper lays down the Items, and the fads have got to come to the programme. Do you Sup pose Dickens, the writer or the age, follows facts, or carea for facts at all 7 Do you believe that Ellen, the Lady or the Like really had a dog, Lu'ra? Do you believe Esquire Bunyan knew a clover chap (Pill) who waded through a mudhole and aaw two lions lying down in the road? Do you think Mr. Milton's so a ad got a soft of hip-lock on Esquire Lucifer, and tumbled hiin over a press-ed-brick wall I ir so, great is your faith. Deacon. No, sir. Tell your story so as to elucidate character,! llustrate a principle, adorn a tale, or make a rdlnt. and never mind about actual tr insaetlons. What did It matter whether old Prod killed a fatted calf or a kid. or a capon Parental joy and forgiveness were illustrated by old Prod, and young Prod made a fine showing of a wild-oats farmer, retiring from business satisfied.

At this point I turned to my desk and Charley sat moodily down to bis. By the time my thoughts were wel. engaged in my "leader'71 heard Charlev In his peculiar way, showing that his whole soul was absorbed In the de velopement of something rich and nicy uu nnt tn&kim

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Price Five Cents."

In this case, if there was elemental lowering outside, there was mental sun-* shine within. "Well, Charley,what la it?

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strnekile?" "I am going," said he, "U ridicule the independence of any press that haa^ a job office connected with it, iomewspaper 'puffs' are baaed more on-otoney than merit, it not altogether on (Money,^ or ita equivalent in some way. I am going to get up a letter -at AOB| a wandering illiterate 'cuss'«bowman, whose whole establishment woald coat* about $13 42, all told. 1 have seenjust such a chap, named Ward, up in Lucas'? county, so that my letter will* come nearer being 'founded on fact*.' aajfi«ii-» tlous writers say, than an avtiiage. I'll make him call on us to 'puff hia«how high,' and as a reason that h* is goingt to get all his showbills printed, at our office. His spelling shall bp tbe,Qoiu- 1 menton his merits, and his reason for..,i being puffed shall show the^udepenilence of the press."

When he wrote, his tbuiril},aYid lingers were curled up till they "formed the letter "O flattened softiewhal oil v-/ the under side, and between the ends of them, tightly grasped, he held his' pen, noarlyln a perpendicufaf posiion, and wrote a very wiggley haitd. When

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W. Gray,

having failed, I was called to his editorial chair, and thus became associated vlth Mr. Browne on the Cleveland Plalndealer.

Soon after being thus associated with him a lively discussion arose between 11s which was prelude to that initiative first letter, in which, to nse a figure, be aimed at big game—aimed well .ind brought It handsomely down, but the crowd was so charmed with the report of his piece that no one ever saw th® game he bagged.

This was a source of infinitely greater amusement to Mr. Browne than was bis letter to the people, and as paper after paper came in from day to day with his letter copied and bis point utterly ignored in ne editorial comments, "Artetuus" went wild over the more comical idea that he had completely hid bis subject under the ridiculous rags he had clothed him only as ornaments and what he had intended as a keen, sharp point was wholly lost.

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his advent yet unwritten, which I only piace. I shall have my handbills in give, ane which I propose to give.

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suggested by a statement want vou should git my handbills up

Piatt. I allude to the circumstances under which his first Ward letter was written, and the point he aimed at. The health of my brother,

he arrived at the bottom of the-pa^e on the left hand side, he wa»'*ar from!, down on the right hand side. He was very tenacious of having "liifc-"matter just as he wanted it, and mxrtd wften!. set his own articles, and tW one else was ever permitted to read his proof lor him. This Is the said, letter. I giveit in full, that his lost point may at last be discovered and appreciated:

TOTHK EDITOR—SIR—Immovin along —blowly down tords your place. I a want you should rite me a letter, sayln how Is the sh bisnlss.ln youf pi »oo. My show at present consist of 3 moral Bires. a Kangaroo, (a ainoozin little Raskal—t A'ould make you larf yerselt to deth to see the little cuss Jump up and sqeal) wax figgers orG. Washington, General Taylor, John Buny^n, Captain Kidd ana Dr. Webster in the act or killing Dr. Parkham besides several miscellanvus moral .wax statoota of celebrated pi ruts A tmirderers 4to„ ekalled by few A exceed by none. Now. Mr. editor, scratch orf a few lines

ghow bizniss down to

your offlss. Depend upou it. I

want you should git my himdbills up in fliimin slile, also git up a treraenjus excitement in your paper bowt my un-. paralel show. Wetnust fetch the publie somewheie. We must work on their ieelins. Cuin-the moral on em stro.ig. If Its a tempramje com muni-

ty tell em I slued the pledge fifteen minnits alter Is© born, but on the 4 contery ef your peple take their tods, say Mr. Ward is as jenial a feller as we ever met* full of conviviality and thelile and soul of the stisbel Bored. Take, don't you If you say anything about my show say my snalx is harmless as the new born Babe. What a inter-. est in study it is to see a zewologlcal animal like asnaik under perleck subjecshuu! My Kangaroo Is the most larfabte little cuss I ever saw. All for 15 cents. I am anxyous to skewr your* inflooeuce. I repeat in regard to tbem handbills that I shall git em struck orf up to your prlntin offls. My porlltercul sentiments agree with your'n exactly. I know they do bekaws I never saw a man whose didn't, ti/ii

Respectively yures, ABTKMUH "WARD. p. s.—Vou scratch uiy b.ick and He scratch your back.

Thus accidentally he found Ids "fort," as he was wont to say ol others, and from this rapidly rose his |ame as a humorist, till not only ^hi» P«op»«. among whom he lived, but our

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velopement of sometning r»cu {n motion, and never reach it." Yet He would drive bis breath out. making

a hissing noise, like that made by an

engineer testing bis boiler then halting tor a moment, would hiss forth the half suppressed laugh and this be would keep up till bis idea was on paper beyond loss, utterly regardless of

"iSSJd'Sil .Id: -Ch.rl.jr, you're »oi hitn now." ., But during such time nothing could arrest his attention, not ev*n the cry of fire, in my opinion, till be had his conception down }ost to suit him: then be would spring up, and woe to chairs and tables that came in his way. He won Id twirl on hi* heel, and ten to one but be would haul me oyer backward. If not on my guard. Till the tension of his •rindjwaa relaxed he tv«4e lively work. t*

mO0t ot tj,e

the exact

Eng

lish ancestors, though studiedly slow to

credit to the west, became en

thusiastic in their plaudits, and so ambitious were they of his personal acquaintance and of spending a convivial hour with him that they inconsiderately deprived him of the quiet und rest,^ a'fter

exhaustive effort before the'

public, without which he could not' even live, and thus absolutely interviewed hi into the early grave in re

THB FATR or DICK YATIW.—Tbef Peoria, Illinois, Review prints this plain story: Springfield has just bad a sensation. A former State official, and a man who basoc upied high positions, not only in the common we ith, but In the nation, has been on a spree for some days in her classic precincts. On Friday he visited Bonn's banking, bouse and demanded »50. It was refused him, whereupon he «,t""*d

t*)e

teller like a pickpocket and bad to be ejected. He visiter a saloon and asked for a drink of whisky. The bar tender told him he bad none, whereupon be grew so violent that be had to be pot out by force. Drunken, friendless and an outcast—such Is the fate of on® who aspired to be President of the United States. He Is now a perfect wreck, and even his friends have come to the conclusion that the only service he can, render Is to die. Whisky has swamped him as it has many another.

THE Boston Times has had 1,800 answers to Its »l,000 prize problem, requiring to know bow lonsc It will take? a locomotive to go 100 miles, provided? it goes 60 miles the first hour, 25 the next, 12Ji the next, and so on. Ol course the offer was eminently safe, the problem invelvos an infinite progression, forever leaving a remainder to be dlvld. or, as one of the mathematicians puts it, we have the "startiln proposition that a body may starts toward a atationary point, always keep

replies purported to give

time at which the locomotive

would reach the end of ita journey.

TIIKRK are Frenchmen who want the Monarchy restored, and the reading or their petitions in the Assembly ere«ted intense excitement. If Thiers bad acted wisely hi* government would have won the heart ot the nation. But he made the fatal mistake of trying to shoot hte way Into the hearts of the people by th« cold-blo ded assassination of the

Communists, and finds them

barricaded against him,and clamoring for a government whieh haa the clemency of order if they cannot taw one which haa the fraternity.-of freedom--[Golden Age. sf.* rj