Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 January 1872 — Page 4

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FOR

BALK-VALUABLE will sell lit private *ale 50 acrp« off north

WANTED-A

FAKM8. I "»°5l

ctlon 88, tovn»lfH

prairie. Upon one of ilie tracts

Otter Crtfk

there lit one Hundred and twenty acre* n^*~

In wbmi, which I will sell with the The tract* are all in Rood

repair—under

dALK-BEEA-A

good

feny». and fli-st-rate land. Inquire of A. M. OHTR ).N UJSR, or at this, office. JW-2t

LIMITED

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her of colonics, T. Hulmitn, near the

29-31

hospital, TVnv-Hniit**. *I?OR SALK—TO UNDEKTAKEIW—A good hearse for P^thT'

ItlTORt SALE-OLD PAPERS FOR WRAPpine paper,for sale at 50 cent* a hundred at tne

Wanted.

WAITED—T0rooms.

RENT- A HOUSE con

veniens to Ma.ii street, as 10 distance, •with from 5 to 7 Enquire at L. A. iBURNETT A CO.'H, i44 and 148 Main St.

ANTED-PERSONS ENGAGEDDURing the flay to improve the night ats sl'od at the Commercial College, corner of Jth and Main streets, from 7 to 9 o'clock. Hook-keeping, Aril lime-tic, Penmanship, Telegraphing imd German all taught in a thorough manner. Send for College Paper, Garvin 4 Helnly.

GOOD HOME FOR A

girl twelve years of ai?e, ot good parentage. Any one wishing to adopta child ol thiUage will ploae

address

Box 1171, Terre-Haute.

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IBank,

fngton.I).

GUARDIAN,

ANTED-A FEW BOARDERS.-NICE rooms, well furnished. J. W. MATLOCK,

Poplar, between flth and 7th streets.

WHATCKDAYEVKNINGM-AII.

ANTED-ALL TO KNOW THAT THE ha« a larger 0lrcul»Uon than any newspaper published oaUhle of Indl«»ajoMH, in this State. Also that It is carefully and thoroughly read in the home* of It* patrons, and that It 1« the veiy best advertising medium in Western Jadlana. .:

Found.

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HOUND-NEAR MeKEEN A MINSK ALL 72 Main street, that candies, nuts, oranges, lemons and apples, are constantly kept on hand, and sell them cheap. Also the finest cigars and tobaccos in the city, at B. I. Black's. »-3in.

•SOUND—THAT THE CHEAPEST AND best advertising in the city can be ob"uined by Investing in the Wanted, For vflale, For Rent, Lost and Found column of stheMAiL.

Dr. SALTER (LATE MEDI-

cal Referee of th« Pension Bureau), pros

JKN.HIONH. cal Referee of th eeutes claims for invalid and widows pen •dons— original or Increase, rejected or sua

unded. Office, 610 Loulaluna-ave., WashC. 2tt-tf.

Legal.

STATEOF

INDIANA,COUNTYOF VIGO.

In the Vigo Circuit Court, Murcli Term. 1872. Saliic Warren, Mary A. Warren and Jessie E. Warren by their Procbeiu ami, William B. Warren vs. Erastus Belknap, Mary Root, Charles Root, Betsy Thurston, Peter Thurston et. al. Impleaded with E11xa Lee, Gordon Lee and Albert Jackson et. al. To correct and t^uiet Title. No. 8601. Be It known on the 2tfth day of January, A. D. 1872, the said Plaintiffs filed an Affidavit in due form, showing that said Era*.tus bolknap, Mary Root, Charles Root, Charles D. Jackson, Betsy Thurston, Peter Thurston, Carlelon Boil, Benjamin Pratt, Catherine Pratt, Myron Alien, Nancy Allen, John Hanawalt, Charlotte Hanawalt, James Jackson, Ann Watson.'Mftry Watson, John W, Watson, Catherine Watson, Charlotte Watson, Samuel Surreli» Mary Bur? tell, Harah Surrell, Alexander Barrel!, John Jackson, Robert Jackson, Ca leb Jackson, Harvey Jackson, Samuel II. Jackson, Cordelia Lathrop, Isaiah Lathrop, Kllsha Jackson and otln-ts unknown heirs of John Jackson,deceased. Benjamin 1?. Durham, Eliza D. Durham, Mary DurSliain, Lucy Durham, Fljra Durham, WllSi 11ain Durham, Dalsey Durham and Lucy

Durham and other unknown heirs of David Durlmni, deceased, are non-residents Stat* ofgjncllana.f said iTOii«reNlde|it defendant! are* hereby notified *of Uo pendcibcjr. of' said ScLrau against them and the feme will -*tand for trial at the March Term of said Court in the year IHTiS.

Attest: MARTIN HOLLINGER, Clerk. UKNDKICII A WII.I.IAMH, for pllTs. 81-3t.

ESTATE OF INDIANA, VIGOCOUN ty. in the Vigo Circuit Court. TerreIIaute Iron Works of Turner, Glover A C., vs. George Turner and Jane Turner. Proceeding to correct title, 1 Iki It known that on the 26th day of Jan »miry, 1R72, said Plalntlflfe Hied an Affidavit in due lurtn, showing that said George Turner and Jane Turner are non-residents of

Uie Htate ol Indiana. Maid non-resident defendents are hereby not tiled ot the endency of Saul aotlon •gainst them, and that Ih* Mime will stand for trial at the March Term of said Court In the year 1S72.

Attest: MARTIN HOLLINGER, Clerk.

HKNDIUUU A WILLIAMS,IOJ

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HTATE OF INDIANA, VIGO COUNtv. In the Vlgo Circuit Court. Max Joseph vs. WliltfleUl Smith, Marion S. Smith, William W. Crane and Sidney 8. Chartee. No. :W1. Be It known that on the26th day of Januaiy, 1K72, hald PlalntllT rthnl an Affidavit In due lorm, showing that said Whitfield Hmlth, Marion Si Sniitb, William W. Crane and Sidney H, CbafM n6n»it*iaenls Of tke State ot Indiana. is Mali! non-reMdent defendants are hereby notified of the lHUnleney of said action against them, and tltat (liesame will stand for trtnl at the March' Term of said Court In 'the year IH7-.\

Aitwi MARTIN HOLLINGEB, Clerk HK.Niimc*l,A

WILLIAMS,

At ty.

1HE STATE OF INDIAN A, VIGO COUN ty. In the Vigo Circuit Court. William lleigman vs. VN lllls Simmons, Mary E. Simmons, eU al. For Hpvwfl Performance. No. 3tkM. B* It known that an the 26th day of Janu-an-y lHT-i. mtld PlalnUfT fll^l an Affidavit in duo form, showing that said Willis Simmon* «td XTai^r E,?SUnmo?s are uoa-reai denti oft hff state vflhdiaha.

Said nou-rwddent defendants are heieby notit1,Hl of the pendency of said action atialnst them, and lhat the same will stand for trial at the

WAtu»t:1

roll Term of said Court in

MARTIN HOLLINOER,Clerk.

KNDKtcii A WILLIAMS, pp. MNR^^FEWMTRIAFI A, VMB EBBW-

In the Vlgo Circuit Court. James il.Stewart and Burton Stewart vs. Oarrett Kvcvw, Anson J. Kelly and Jerome B. Kelly. Totililel Ti^le. No. 3006. Be It known that on the 27th day of Janu /„ary I8W, said Plaintifft filed an AOdavIt in .due form, showing that »ald G*'rett H. evc«, Anson J. Welly and Jerome a 5K«lly are nou-resldeuu of the State of Indl\k nnn.

Ssld non-rwldants are hereby notified of the pendeuqr of *mi4 action against them, and that tWsame trill stand /or trial at the Marctt Terra of said Court in the year ltd.

Attert: MARTIN HOLLINGER,Clerk. HKNDKICII WTLUAITA, Atty. «•».

,3 TATE OF INDIANA, VIGO COUNTY.

5 lu the Vlgo Common Pleas Court, ert Kla vs. Sarah Jane Kla, In Dl"

LFATTeat:

irt. RobDlvorw.

Re it known that on \tn 17th day of Janu

ary.

18TO, aaitl PlattttifTfiled an Affidavit In

die

Ibrni, showing that said Sarab Jape Elh Is a non-rwident of the State of Indi-

Said txiA-rMdeot defrndsnt Is

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tified of the pendency of ^ald action ai^inst her, and that the same wtt! wtaixl tor trial at the April Term of said Court In the year

MARTIN HOLUNOER,Clerk.

MCLKAI** PIKRCK.

pp. »-«.

Attorpey^^Law,

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"EDITOR AJ&) PR0PBIETOI

Office, 142 Main Street.

TERRB-HAUTE^I JAN. 27. 1872.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIUA'H

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Thursday Evening, has

large circulation among farmers

and others living outside of the city. :. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Ev6hing, 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-

tfJilREN HUSSR AND THE LITTLE EMMA MINE. It is not generally known that our former tellow-citizen, Warren Hussey, was the owner at one time of the Little Etnma Mine, and that be is still largely interested in it. A brief account ot this mine may be of interest to our readers because of Mr. Hussey's connection with it, because of Minister Schenck's connection with it, and because it is the richest mine irt the world. We condense from the New York Sun.«

The Little Emma is a silver mine. It was discovered by Bolivar Buckner, a Mormon. He investigated, did Bolivar, that rich deposit of silver, and said, "here's my mine,bat where's uiy money "to rurl it?" And forthwith Bolivar went off in search of a capitalist. He found that article in Warren Hussey, who, without loss of time, agreed to pay one hundred thousand dollars in six months for the mine, ii it proved to be anything like Bolivar represented. He never did pay the hundred thousand, for his agents sent out to open the rich deposit, sent him five hundred thousand dollars in ore, and Hussey lound himself a double millionaire.

But nothlnff of value^save heaven, can be found on the Pacific slope that a dozen, yea hundreds of hungry people do not start up and claim' it on the ground of original grant, original dis

covery,

or some other equally plausibly

equitable, and legal ground. Hussey found himself confronted by the Walkers (called in Utah the Walker boys), who claim to Ibe the original owners, and divers and sundry others with all sorts of claims, and the Department of the Interior refused to grant sbch a disputed patent. The Department of the Interior is a very cautious Department indeed. It never issues a patent until one of its own officials is ready to certify that it is all rigkt. And this is proper. How can a Secretary of the Interior know untiloria of his own trusted agents certifies, ana if necessary swears? And so Hussey found himself possessed of the Little Emtna Mine and a handsome lawsuit.

The claimants went into the courts of Utah, and the fight was nipand tuck. Senators Stewart and Nye (not Wm.) were opposing counsel! The litigants wanted Mormons and the judges wantedOentiles on the jury. The judges had an eye on Little Emma themselves, or on some of her rich deposits, and preferred their Gentile juries, which are very excellently trained juries, inasmuch as they always do just what is required of them by the courts.

The air was filled with writs. Summonses and injunctions and mandamusses and all other kinds of musse were thick as leaves in Valambrosa." Finally Senator Stewart got mad. He preferred charges against the judges, and the upshot of the whole'HflM* Wsa that the contestants withdrew the case and agreed to arbitrate. A bond was entered into, agreeing to submit the issue to one Curtis, of Boston, and to pay his expenses and a hundred thousand dollars in gold if he would go to Salt Lake and try this case. 1 This was a grqat mistake. Plenty of men could have been obtained to do the work cheaper than that.

Before Curtis arrived (like a true Bostoalan lie was grumbling about thr price) a new claimant named Lyons made his bow to the courts. It was believed that this was the court's plains tiff, and td j^nd pf trouble i^ticipated.

WBs SUggesfetl

And here ia where diplomacy comes in. The Little Emma Mine was found to be rich beyond hope. The yield was counted at a million a year. It was the richest mine in the world. But there was one painful doubt. Experts learned in such matters, after a care

Robert

hereby

Ail

investigation, said this yield might continue a few years—it might continue a fbw months. The happy thought was suggested of organising a company and selling its shsres In Europe. To this end

C. 8chenck, Envoy and

Plenipotentiary, was presented some of the stock—some say fifty thousand, some a hundred thousand, and he and Senator Stewart and the Hon. Kd. Cook, Governor of Montana, all went to Europe to boll the stock of the Emma Company: and this is what they were at when Schenck's connection with It wiim^tpobtle.

Ax atteopiplto organist the blaeks of Indtanapolt» tor separate political m-

TERRE-HAUTE .frAfnmi)!* Y. EVENING/ AII ANtTARY

DOLLARS AND CB#rT9. JC The fact has recently been brough home to this community th»t national bank stock cannot be taxed for municipalpufposes. Of bourse tl|lp if nothing new, but the truth haa never been canvassed so fully as during the interval preceding the recent railroad election.

The injustioe of this state of affairs has always been appaient. While the poorest householder in the city haa to pay taxes on the commonest utensils, the national bank stockholder does not pay one cent of taxation for city purpose! upOd his stock. *f

The law of Congress establishing national banks provides that they shall have all the privileges formerly granted to State banks. The State banks of Indiana were not taxed for municipal purposes, and hence the national banks cannot be made to pay city taxes.

This injustice can be righted by Congressional enactment. But the wrong of the whole national banking business is so colossal that the country should have faith in no reform bearing upon it short of the complete abrogation of the whole system.

According to the report of the Comptroller of the Currency for 1870,the average percentage of the profits of the banks for that year, including dividends and net earnings in excess of dividends, lor the first dividend period of six months was six and eighty-eight onehundredths, and for the second period six and seventy-five one-hnndredths, making an aggregate net profit for the year, clear of all taxes, expenses, losses, and abatements whatever, of thirteen and sixty-three one-bundredths per centum. When it is remembered that this is the averagd rate of net profits of all the national banks which paid any dividends at all during the yeai, including those unfavorably situated or badly managed, and those which had sustained osses through either mismanagement or dishonesty, the profitableness of the national banking system will be clearly realized. No other investment of capital ^equa^y safe "is so profitable as national bank stock. Why should the government

encourage and fosteV this%kind ,of monopoly? 1

This system was inaugurated during the darkest days of the war by-Secre-tary Chase. It was a scheme for selling bonds, and doubtless answered a good purpose but it does not deserve perpetuation any more than the conscription laws and other extraordinary regulations required by great emergency. The pretense that the banks were needed as government depositories for the safe keeping of public funds in different parts of the country has no significance in view of the fact that none of them are now used for thai purpose.

The national bank circulation is about 1300,000,000, secured by deposit of government bonds to the amount ol about |340,000,000t which bonds draw'interest at an averagjp.tate of not less than" five per cent, in gold. The government can abrogate the national banking system by an act of Congress at any time, and thus save 117,000,000 in gold annually by substltuting- gre^nbaAkfc for the notes of the hanks. There is no not ul son why it will not be done. The banks are too rich and strong to permit such legislation. Not only would the.nation save $17,000,000 of gold in interest? by doing away ,with the banks, but it would abolish at the stime time the expensive and intricate system for supervision of the banks.

IDU nUitRS U1 iUu IJOHIkot 1 Uvl reason'* ntton«f why this' shdujd 1 donef but'there is^a very poweffo

There is not one argument to be adduced in defense of the present system by which $17,000,000 in gold is paid uselessly to the banks that, cannot be brought forward with equal force iri favor of government aid for other branches of business. Money is a ooinmod ity governed by the laws of tradS, and there is no sound reason why a privileged class of bankers should be subsidized* by £he government*' any more than any other privileged class of businessmen. If the national banking system is to be continued let us have, by all means, national dry goods stores, national printing offices, national buteher. shops rind national pea nut stands, the owners of which can draw five pei oent gold on their capital stock.* -j

THB

that thebrig-

inal parties should coalesce and take in the Presidential Ring of Washfngton, and so secure the patent. So compromise was the word. The litigants became harmonious, and proceeded to realise.

Liberal Republicans of Missouri

met. in msss convention in Jefferson City on Wednesday. The attendance was large and enthusiastic. Resolutions were adopted affirming the loyalty of the Liberals to the doctrine of equaHt$ for all citisens demanding equal suffrage a*{ ciitjn^e' |liti|eM^| fend ofposing .protective tatiff, the corrupt use of public patronage and*hecentralization of government. It was agreed to cad a mam national convention of Liberal Republicans to meet in Cincinnation the first Monday of May next. A letter was read from Senator Schurx endorsing the movement. Governor Brown made a speech. This movement Is significant. It may result in the nomination of a Liberal Republican candidate for the Presidency, which candidate would, almost certainly, receive the support of the Democratic party.

THK

Liberal Republicans of Missouri

were more liberal in their Jefferson City platform evidently than they Intended 0 W when pey sorted Umt no government call be pure or gr«at **in which tax-payer* have no active part.** fhla tf strong eudorsehtenr Of Woman Suffrage. If the Liberals will stand honestly by thla principle they will Worthy betters af th® ef velfcrta.

rc*r 'Wklvoatb ahrxts HAFPnras Is secured Wise is ours. The Grand Duke will pass through this city on the Vandalia Line Tuesday morning at six o'clock. Our Lord Mayor will meet him at the depot and welcome bim with these w°rds:

Your Noble, Royal and Imperial Highnet: It pleases me, sire, to.be intrusted with the mellifluous honor of extending to you the bonpLtaIitie9 of the sovereign Dutchy of Terre-Haule. Between tbMrovince and your sublime father, ths wir, there has always existed the most cordial relations of atnity and friendship. When your august paternal relative knocked the shackles from seventeen hundred million serfs it thrilled us,your reverence,with classic Joy. Tears of gratitude large as snap beans stood in our eyes. We only regretted that we bad not, here in our own loyal principality, a few billion serfc to emancipate in order to trump your majestic progenitor's hand. But, O scion of excellent family, we could not do this! It was left us only to grasp unfading honors through devotion to peaceful but glorious trade. Our furnace, you s*e, lights yon prairie with effulgent rays, and, if your Resplendent High nets will but incline your august nose towards a point south by southwest, you can sniff the aroma of oil—oil which brings us wealth such as Croesus never owned and such as Golconda never produced. Receive again our kindly greeting, noble Duke, and carr home this earnest of distinguished regard from Alexander, Mayor of All The Te*re-Hautes to Alexander, Czar of All the Russias."

The response of the Grand Duke will be impromptu, and, of course, we are not able to give it now to our readers.

THK

members of the woman suffrage convention .recently held in Washington, should have been condemned to the workhouse, every one of them, and compelled to wash the dirty linen of the Administration.—[Journal.

The Journal is of the class referred to the other day in the Senate by Mr. Morton—like the man riding in a car with his back to the front, who cannot see anything until it is past. To-day the Journal insults shamefully the leaders in the Woman Suffrage cause who represent hundreds of thousands of the best and purest women of America. A little while ago it classed abolitionists ower than thieves and common scoundrels. If it had been published in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, we doubt not that it would have sneered with the rabble and the conservatives at Christ and the^postles. ,, f, t' », .'j

TUESDAY'S congressional proceedings credit Mr. Morton with sayiug that, "if "gpneral amnesty is granted, the next "step will be to pension rebel soldiers the next to pay rebels for the property taken by the Union armies in the "war, including slaves and the next to pay the Confederate debt." Our Senator is too moderate in his deductions. He should have added to his category that the next step would be the scalping of carpet-baggers the next the roasting of*all loyal colored men, and the last the garroting of the Goddess of Liberty from her perish on lofty pedestal surmounting Freedom's majestic temple. When one starts in on the extravagant it is well to follow the subject to a thrilling and blood-cur-dliug climax. J!

WENDELL PHILLIPS tells the Irish anecdote of the gentleman who added a postscript something like this to a letter: "I have closed this abruptly because a low blackguard is looking "over my shoulder reading every word "I write." "You lie, you scoundrel "I've done nothing of the sort!" said the individual behind. Mr. Phillips says this joke was stolen by the Irish from the ^French, by .the French from the Greeks, and by the (Q reeks from the Hellenic literature of three thousand years ago. This must be the old, old story.

TEMPERANCE legislation promises to occupy anunhSual Smountofatteirilion this year. Illinois has just passed a stringent license law. Kansas has one under consideration, and in California, where temperance has heretofore scarcely been regarded as a virtud, the subject is receiving careful consideration, and it is proposed to introduce into the law the most rigid New England ideas. Besides this the Governor of Massachusetts has taken a firm stand in favor of plrdhibUion, and the temperance people in Maine are insisting that their law must be enforced.

MB. CYRUS W. FIELD, before the In ternational Telegraph Conference lit Romtf, ttfe 28th bT Deccaibfefri proposed that telegraphs, neutral in time of-war that4 the Exclusive right to lay a cable between two foreign countries should not be given without the Joint consent of the respective governments that the extra tax upon messages In Europe should be done away with that the "telegraphic circuit of the world" should be completed, and that an international treaty should be entered into to secure the first and seoond propositions.

MR. BUTLER, of Massachusetts, presented on Monday a petition of thirtyfive thousand women of America for a declaratory law to secure the right of suffrage. He assured the House hat, in his judgment and as surely as the sun rolled on its course, the right asked for by this petition would be acceded to the women citisens of the Unitedf State*. The petition was referredi to ithe Jadleiarv Committee. 1 vi/u

THEofficers

of the Japanese navy re

cently begged the American Minister to send away the United States Steamer Colorado as she waa so neat-looking that they feared the Mikado might decide to have no ileetatall If it were not aa well kept as tfie| AJnertosru In lapan out dotrntrymen have reputation tor smart nsee and cleanliness. Wonder If they will no* also get credH lor GodMW»f

.IK72.

THB argument made Mr. Donglass at the Opera Houae* I1M1* /night in favor of the annexation of S«y»Doiningo *raa good from the stand point of an inhabitant o£v that Islkfld, but very weak (ton the position of an American"eitiaen.i In other words, annexation would be a good thing for the island but a poor thing for our govern-? ment. Alter we have squelched all rings and threatening monopolies* after we have annihilated the Ku Klux,

and after we have so perfected our school facilities as to give every child in the nation a fair opportunity to receive education, it will be time to talk about throwing the SBgia of our protection over the ignorant, and superstitious people of semi-tropical islands. We must govern ourselves before we attempt to govern distant lands. There is no argument in favor of the annexation of San Domingo that doe* not apply with equal force to the annexation of Mexico and other tempestuous, volcanic and revolutionary states to the south of us. The citizen who has charity to give does better to bestow it upon his -starving neighbor than to send it to unknown persons in far lands, notwithstanding the fact that it would be a blessing to the latter. So a nation should seek to secure protection and justice for all its own people before it attempts to furnish good government to alien lands.

A WASHINGTON telegram to the Herald says Senator Schurz asserts that he will bolt if Grant is re-nominated. Does the Missouri Senator remember that one A. Johnson once attempted to form a new party Mr. J. and the gentlemen who assisted him are not now known in public life. A party is born, not made it is the representative of a great principle it cannot be organized successfully to defeat an individual or to advance the interesUrof a clique. The trouble with the Liberal Republican movement is that it based too much upon enmity to Grant and an intention to advance the interests of the Scburz-Gratz Brown cabal.

FEW romances have been written which contaiu so much of thrilling interest as the life of the gentleman who lectured in the Opera House last night. Frederick Douglass was a Maryland slave until manhood. Since, he has come up to be one ot the foremost mqn of the land, he has been accepted as a representative American by the royalty of Europe, and be has well earned the designation of reformer, a title prouder than belongs to king or noble.

Ex. GOVERNOR HAIGHT and Governor Booth of California were severely hauled,over the coals by a speaker at the great Japanese banquet in San Francisco on Thursday night for their opposition to Asiatic emigration. His utterances were enthusiastically applauded and it is supposed/that change of opinion in reference to Celestial emigration is impending in C^l iiornia.

THE steamer America, plying between Rio and Montevideo, while on a trip from the latter port, on the night of December 22d, took fire, and the flames spread with great rapidity, and the vessel was soon burned to the water's edge. A largo number of passengers were on board, of whom 87 lost their lives, being either burned to death or drowned.

A YOUNG Baptist minister of Cincinnati, named Stephen Morgan, has been arrested for stealing theological books from a religious library. He confessed bis guilt. Now the great question comes up—was it a sin tor this young man to steal information which he designed to use in saving souls?

A YOUNG lady who bad been chosen Engrossing Clerk in the Minnesota Senate resigned because she thought some of the votes were given grudgingly. Now this shows progress. Who ever heard of a man declining an office because of votes given grudgingly

MASSACHUSETTS has a right to congratulate herself on her good name in the 'financial world. The last of the loan in aid of the "great bore" through the Hoosac Mountains has been taken up in London at 98 gold, or above, paor in currency.

PA Mb* GOODWIN, of the Indiana Christian Advocate, is opposed to a recognition of God In the. Constitution because he thinks that the Almighty can get along without that kind of aid. The Parson is right.

THE Irish citisens of Terre-Haute have formed' an organisation for the purpose of demanding of the Democratic party division of the local official spoils.

LAST Summer George Botts murdered Pet Halstead. Yesterday the State of New Jersey, at Newark, murdered George Botts. The two great wrongs do not make one right.

A BILL was introduced in Congress yesterday by Senator Morton to authorize the building of a bridge over the Ohio at Evansville.

ITTDIANAPOLIS has the narrow guage railroad fever. She will soon get over that.

ALEXIS was born in the eighth month of the yesr. He is an August child.

THB Empress Dowager of Brazil has TTeed all her personal slaves.

TN Chicago Poet favors the appointment of Gen. McClellan to the vacancy on the Brie Railroad ooeaaioned by tbo death of FWk, Jr., "because," it says, "if MnflaHan takea efcarfce of Ike Brie, the toad will newer kill anybody!"

The City and,Vicinity,

ftafcaertptiMa.—The SATURDAY JLVEKISO MAIL Is delivered to city subscribers at. TWENTY CENTS a month, payable at the end" of every four weeks, or at TWO DOLLARS a year in advance. Tbe MAIL will be famished by post, oral this office, at tbe following rates: One Year, 12,00 Si* Months, 11,00 Three Months, 50 Cents—invariably in advance

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Hall

Sakwrlbcn,—Watch thedato

on your direction label. It indicates tbe time when your subscription expires, at which time the paper will, invariably, b» hdiscontinued without further notification. 7.'

FAYETTE is the only township in this county that is out of debt.

THE county offices burn about two thousand bushels of coal per year. ?v

THE Union Band of this city is preparing for the spring campaign.

THE list of the names of depositors In E the Savings Bank is fifty feet in length.

DEALERS in seeds and forming implements are preparing for the opening season.

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No GAS is manufactured in the Seventh Internal Revenue district outsido ot this city.

LESS than half a dozen .building permits have been issued during the pastmonth. tif mi

THE national banks are the only ab-" solvents of mutilated currency in thi»t city.

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ALL the old brickyards in this oity are preparing for the work of the coming season. JJJ

FROM twenty-five to forty real estate if transfers per week are now made iiv* this.city and county. "iVjjfc'

THE Normaf School literary societies hol£ their meetings on Friday after-,} noon of each week.

A MODERATE subscription frofn OUT citizens will bring the next Indiana Stste fair to this city.

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THE poll tax in Fayette, Pierson and Riley townships is 92.50 in all other townships it is f2.00.

POLL taxes in this county are fronv| ten to twenty cents lower this year than for several years past.

NONE of the county offices are now s: heated by furnaces. They have beenjl found decidedly unbealthful.

THE city and county have each purchased fifty of the new city maps^ which are now being distributed to subscribers. »s rf

REAL ESTATE will be sold for the nonpayment of delinqut nt county and city taxes, at the Court House door, one rife-, week from next Monday. ..n$p

Two REVIVALS are now in progress among the oolored people of this city one on Third and the other on Thirteenth street.

AN exciting Methodist revival is now

Township. "No. Harrison... ............AJH9 Pralrletoti... 175 IJnton 8SI Riley NevInd.„.._....-~ 282 F«yette........«.~...» •120

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in progress at Humilton church, six miles southeast of the city. Nearly forty accessions have been made up t*«l the present time.

THE owner of property sold for dtelinquent taxes is allowed two years in which to redeem his lost possessions, which can be done by paying fifty I* per cent. ^ihaget9,a^d six.j^er cent, interost.*,.}.!*, ,, 1 i*i 1 ft .PRAIRIBTQN and Lost Creek town-« ships represent the extremes in thorates of taxation in Vigo county this

year the rate of taxation in tho former township is $1.70 on the one hundred dollars in the Istter, it is %\M o» the one hundred dollars.

THE Vandalia will eclipse itself in honors' to the Grand Duke. Major Simpson has ordered ten thousand pearl-handled perfumed time cards, re-

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ardless of expense, and Hlbbard is up a commissary car fit for forty Prinpes. The Vandalia will not bo behind the best of them in entertaining Aleck.—(Ipd. Journal.

THE next regular term 6i the Circuit Court will commence on tho fourth Monday in March. The Criminal Court will reorganize with anew Grand Juiy on the first Monday in April. On the third Monday in April the Common Pleas Court will reorganize with anew Petit Jury. hlr(S.

THB Board of Directors of the Southwestern Railroad has determined that tbe line of that road shall enter tbe city with the Cincinnati Railroad on First or Water streets. It is believed that, in oonsequenoe of this location of tbe two roads named, property in the 3rd Ward will be greatly enhance^ in value. iJ./

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TBE following shows the number of masculine inhabitants "over twentyone years of age in tbe different townships of this county according to tbe census:

Township. No. Honey Creek .„ Xfl Pralrfe Creek..._ 80S

Pierson »I2 Lost Creek 807 Otter Creek 817 Sugar Cretk 4S0 8,27

THB following table shows the amount of tax on whisky and gas in this internal revenue district for each month of tbejw 1871:

Whisky,"

January February March May Jane —....... July ......

Gas.

1294 00

•njm mjm so so 30422 86 37,835 42 44,085 29 2MS7 87^373 96 4»jaa& *7.1* Og

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171 44

1 «121 IH 1I08 00 70 2»» ,230 36 '118 04

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