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For Sale.

FORwest

SALE—EIGHTY

FOR

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there 1* on la

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Tlmbervd Land, conveniently located

within

ten

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wheat, 'hich

mi)en of city and half a mife from St. MtryN Station. It is described a* the north hair south*-ft*! quarter 6,12,7. It haa an«eel lent bed of co*! of ea*y access, and oner* decided inducements to parties wishing to MrelijaMe. For further particulars J. McO., Loch Box 1,849, or Inquire of W. A. RYAN, eorn» Fourth and tjliio-

»ALJS—HOUtiE AND LOT, NO. 45, ou south Seventh street. A central lo

minute* walk of po^j

office contains six rooms, kitchen and

Agent

HAL.K--.juO COKIW ()F W ?0I. T"£ line of K.T. II. A Railroad .tPply toCLAUDK MATTHEWS, Clinton, Ind. 82-2t _Li

JdewillHALK

jlOK VALUABLE FAKMS. I

Hell at private sale o0 acres off north southeast quarter, ctlon 28, township IS. range 8. w«-»t. Alw the northwest quarter of

Section

25, 13,8. These are valuable

tacts of ax good fanning lands as there Is on Otter Creek prairie. Upon one of the tract* hundred and twenty acres now 1 will sell with the land

The tract* are nil In good repair— under good ftjnoe. ami ttrst-rate land. Inquire of A. M. OBTK vNDKft, or at tills oftlc-e. 20-2t

TOR

HALE-BEES-A LIMITED NUMber of colonies, T. Huiman, near the Hospital, Terre-Haute. 29-3t

T70R SALE —SEVERAL PURE-BRED and very fine Short-Horn Bulls, 1 aiul "2 •ear* old. h'or particulars, addre*CLAUDE MAT THEWS, "Hazel Bluff

Farm,"

Clinton,

Vermillion County, lnd. 32-2t

7OR SALE—OLD PAPERS FOR WRAPping paper,for sale at 50 cents a hundred mi tne MAIL office. ^OR SALE.—AT A BARGAIN 26 ACRES of Land, 4 miles Houth-eaM. of TiMrc-

Killif 1 lUllvR »7"M I .. j.

Faute The most commanding building iSlte In Vigo county. The land Is pecullar-'-?W adapted to the cultivation of vegetables if or fruits, being dry, sandy and productive.

Terms one-slxtii cash, balance In five annu-

*Vor*further particulars apply to Editor of MAIL.

WANTED

18"LF*

Wanted.

LOCAL AGENTS IN EVERY

town In the State, to sell the Sewing Machine Attachments of every descripH01 H. K. STEPHENS, 3 Bates House

Block, Indianapolis, Indiana. 33-3t

ANTED AT THE NATIONAL HOUSE •I good girls. Apply immediately. 32-2t

WANTED—PERSONSCollege,

ENGAGED DUR-

ing tin. day to Improve the night session at the Commercial corner of 0th and Main streets, from 7 to 9 o'clock. Book-k.«'Ping, Arithmetic, Penmanship, Telegraphing and German all taught. In a thorough manner. Send for College Paper, Garvin A llHnij

ANTED—A FEW BOARDERS.—NICE rooms, well furnished. J. W. MATLOCK, ^Poplar, between Oth and 7th streets.

WSATI,

ANTED -ALL TO KNOW THAT THE KIIAYKVKSINOMAIL has a larger Circulation 11111 any newspaper published HODtside of Indianapolis, in this State. Also that it is can-fully and thoroughly read In

Hie homesol its patron*, and that It Is the very best advertising medium In Western .Jbd'lami

Found.

J*OtTND-Nl«\R MoKEEN & MINSHALL Bank, 7*2 Main street, that candles, nuts, oranges lemons and apples, aro constantly kept on blind, and *eil them cheap. Also the finest clears and tobaccos In the city, at B. I .Black's. SO-3m.

[jluUND—THAT THE CHEAPEST AND

"best "advertising" In the city can be obthe Wanted,

|£lu 1 hv Investing In the Wanted, For tolti, Kor'Rent, Lost and Found column of the A 1L.

IKNSIONS.- Dr. HA LTEll (LATE EDIOn I •loree the Pension Bureau), prostatites clolins for Invalid and widows' pen•louH—original or Increase, rejected or suspended. OtTlee, 010 lyouislana-ave., Washington, ('. 20-tf.

^iNm al report

Of the igo Iron Company.

Vigo lion Com p'y—Capital Stock...8125,000 00 •Mess me ot made and ,* ^4* paid in actually. ........ 1125,000 00 $126,000 00 #125,000 00 Personal Assets 12? [S Liabilities

Overplus

THE MAIL.

A. L. CRAWFORD, President, A..I. CRAWFORD, Secretary, D. W. MINHHALL, A. MROREGOR.

SB.

STATK OF INDIANA, VIOO COUNTY

Before me, W. K. Hendrich,a Notary Public in «nd for said county, personally ftp•oared A. Crawford, President, ami A.J. Clrawtord, Secretary, Alexander McGregor and D. W Mtnshall, Directors, of the Vigo Iron Company, ami upon tlielr oaths say that the above nnd foregoing Is a true and •orreot statement of the condition of said Company on Januanr 1st, 1872.

W\ E. HENDR1CH, Notary Pnbllo

CIHN4

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I, Ass

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Wholesale and Retail, Goods, In great

Als*. Toys and Faavarlety. Exclusive

Agents for "Lupton Silver ••Family Favo-lte Burning Fluid. Ag»«*« •anted in surrounding counties.

H. S. RICHARDSON A CO7# MAil* STMKKT, tB-Sm North side between 3d and 4Uk

ANTED.

lelodfona and Accordeow

TO HKrAIB,

... (By W. STATS, Main Street.

E. HOSFORD,

Attorney at Law,

COR FOVnTh AFTD MAIN 8TB. *17

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CASEY. D. M. D.

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AH In need of Dmt*1 mrrUm• P—« «•». iUTBFAOrtOH 6DA1ASTWD. tl-lf

O.J.SMITH,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

Office, 142 Main Street.

TERRE-HAUTE. FEB. 10. 1872.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIOSa

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

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which all Advertisements appear for ONE CHARGE.

TO THE PUBLIC.

On the 26th day of January last 1 sold The Mail to Mr. Perry S. Westfall, a journalist long and favorably known in this community. Mr. W. will succeed me as publisher of this paper on the first day of March, or sooner if able at an earlier date to sever Iris connection with the Terre-Hauto Express, of which journal he is the city editor and business manager. I shall commence in April the publication of a Sunday morning newspaper in St. Louis.

Probably this announcement would not have been made to the public before the date upon which my connection with The Mail will be severed but for the fact that a business house of this city which has advertised its trade for nearly two years by calumniating upright citizens, and which has honored The Mail by persistent and malicious abuse, having learned from private sources the positive fact of the sale, has seen fit to publish a statement to the effect that this paper has lost money from the start, and that its decease must soon follow.

Perhaps I should pass this libel without notice, knowing that citizens appreciate fully the malice and tnendac ity of its origin. Lest silence,however, be construed by persons who know nothing of the business status of The Mail as an admission of some truth in the statement, I shall say this to the public: The Mail has more than paid expenses in every month of its publication, and the average of its business has been quite profitable—more so, I doubt not than that of any weekly journal published in the State. Us circulation is well known to be large. There are few newspapers in the land, if any, published in places no largei than Ter-re-Hauto, that have attained so great circulation upon a cash basis as The Mail. O

J. SMITH.

THE Allgetneine Zeitung gives some nteresting particulars as to the dispersion of the Jews over the world. In Palestine they have long been reduced to a verv sum 11 proportion of their former numbers. They are now most numerous in the 'northern part of Africa, between Morocco and Egypt, where, especially in the Barbary States, they form the cijief element of the population,) and in that strip of Europe which extends from the Lower Danube to the Baltic. In the latter region there aro about 4,000,000 Jews, most of whom 1 of the middle class among the Slavonic nationalities, while in the whole of Western Europe there are not 100,000 of them. In conseqnence of European migrations, descendants of theso Jews have settled in America and Australia, where they -are already multiplying in the largo commercial towns in the same manner as in Europe, and much more rapidly than the Christian population. The Jewish settlers in Northern Africa are also increasing so much that they are constantly spreading further to the South. Timbuctoohas.sinse 1858, been inhabited by a Jewish colony of traders. The other Jews in Africa are tho Falasches, or Abyssinian black Jews, and a few

European Jews at the Cape of Good Hope. There are numerous Jewish colonies in Yemen and Nedschran, in Western Arabia. It has long been known that there aro Jews in Persia and the countries on the Euphrates in the Turcoman countries they inhabit the fbur fortresses of Scherisebs, Kitab, Schamatan, and Urta Kurgan, and thirty small villages, residing in a separate quarter, but treated on an equal footing with the other inhabitants, though they have to pay higher taxes. There are alM Jews in China, and in Cochin China there are both white and black Jews. The white Jews have a tradition, according to which, in the year 70 A.D., their ancestors were 10,000 Jews who settled in Cranganore, on the coast oi Malabar, after the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem. The Jews remained at Cranganore until 1565, when they were driven into the Interior by the Portuguese. The black settlers are supposed to be native proselytes, and have a special synagogue ot their oirp.

MB. SCMIIN'S supplementary civil rights bill provides thst black people •hall not be excluded from schools, churches, places of public amusement nor osmeteries. The grave-yard clause Is purely despotic. Imagine the mortification of a tried Bourbon like Garrett Davis at being compelled to rise on the resurrection moggi alongside of a "big "buck nigger.**

MAMUOI notices should be published under the hsad of matrimonial

TKRRE-HAtftH SATURDAY EVENING MAM,. FEBRUARY 10. 1872

REBEL DEBT.

They say that England purposes to make us pay the Confederate War I^an. In the language of Artemua Ward .when he was offered the hands of thir-ty-one Mormon girls in marriage, "This "is too much." ^Ve don't like the idea of paying the debt, because the Confeds, you know, were not friendly to us. If they had whipped us it ain't likely that they would have paid our debt—leastwise they wouldn't have enjoyed doing so. If,like Kaiser Wm.,we had indemnified ourselves tothetune ot a lew billions for the trouble and expense of threshing the Southern mansellers we might pay their War Loan easily as not but having treated them as deluded brethren, and having deadheaded them back into citizenship, we are not really able to pay their little outstanding obligations

However, this, question can be settled amicably and in a manner satisfactory to all parties. English citizens hold bonds of all the rebel states, and the holders expect to be paid. The states referred to have repudiated these obligations and will not pay them The general Government will not pay these' bonds if it can avoid it. This is a snarl. But behold the easy solution of the difficulty. (Patent has been applied for by The Mail.) Let the gentlemen all over the nation who are in the habit of weeping scalding tears of anguish over the failure of the purest and best cause for which man ever drew sword—let the brave and dauntless and unconquerable chivalry of the South and their devoted supporers in the North who have not smiled happily since Lee surrendered under an Appomattox sour apple tree—let all the Iriends of the Lost Cause pull out their pocket-books and contribute their shtkels toward paying this debt to the Englishers. Of course the supporters of the L. C. will be only too happy to do this. Navarre's white-plumed king in the Huguenot wars was not more eager for the fray than will be the friends of the Southern flag to pay the last dollar of debt that sullies the 'scutcheon of Confederate honor. They will pay iu good Confederate notes, redeemable six months after a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States'ot America.

'SDEATII Odsbodolokins! Let us have war with Russia—aye, war to thp knife! A St.. Petersburg dispatch says that in Copenhagen recently American Minister Cramer, who is a brother-ini-law of President Grant, attempted to read at a diplomatic dinner a secret circular from Secretary Fish explanatory of the Catacazy affair, and that this was resented by the Russian Minister who immediately inlormed his home government of the fact. Upon receiving this information Prince Gortschakoff became furious, and expressed himself in most unsatisfactory terms of the American Representative, calling biq» an animal and other hard names.

American Freemen! Sons of patriotic sires! Joint heirs of revolutionary glory! Shall the minion ot All the Russia's Imperial Autocrat be tamely illowed to call our President's brother-in-law an animal Must a relative by marriage of our Chief Executive be thus trailed in the dust? We answer never! And wethinks the hills and valleys and far-off mountains of our proud laud will answer with stern reverberation—never! never! never!

EVERY day the fraudulent Republic of Thiers sinks deeper and deeper into the embrace of despotism. It is evi dent that Napoleon must come back, or an Orleanist must ascend the throne, or the real Republic headed by Gam betta and the men who revolutionized Paris on the 2d of Septembe r, 1870, must take the reins of government The last deed of tyranny enacted by the National Assembly was the passage of a resolution on Wednesday authorizing the prosecution ot the publishers of provincial papers which have lately contained articles iifsulting to the Assembly. Imagine the American Con gress taking such action in reference to the press of this country

THK advocates of the Northern and Southern routes to the Pacific are taking advantage of the present blockade on the Union line to urge the importance of carrying out their pet schemes with out delay. Strangely enough both sets of men are equally sure that the block ade would be avoided by adopting their line, the Northern maintaining that owing to the warm breeaes of Oregon and the peculiar conformation of the mountains, it will be impossible tor them to be showed up. We say put through all the roads, the more the better, and then people can choose the route for themselves, and the competition will keep things up to the mark

YHBY have a room in the Insane Allium of Maine with six beds in which those patients are placed who have an inclination to oommit suicide. It is said that they never attempt to kill themselves exoept when alone, and by giving them company all the time this propensity Is continually counteracted Suicide Is such a disgraceful and unbecoming act that even a lunatic will not oommit it In the presence of another.

*4. DISFATCH from London asserts that the British Government sup

pressed

the Kooka insurrection In India

by blowing fifty prisoners from the months of guns. WS trust that this M«a has no foundation. There are enough common barbarities Ml among civilised races without resorting to practices which would bring the blush of shame to the cheeks of osnnibsls.

LAMB-LIKE PARTISANSHIP. Not in forty years has a presidential campaign been inaugurated with so little bitterness as the one tor which the hofts are now being marshalled. There seems to be none of the old-time hate. Selfish schemers there are, and greedy cormorants watching forofficial spoils, but the people who are to fight the battle are imbued with none of the malignant partisanship of former years.

It must be that Radical reconstruction has brought about this desirable state of affairs. The years of our greatest political trouble were the periods when compromise was the word. From 1860 until the ratification of the 15th Amendment in 1870 the nation was tossed wildly about by party hate through the agency of timid leaders who endeavored to patch up colossal dissensions by half-way measures. The Fugitive Slave Law and the repeal of the Missouri Compromise were tubs thrown to to the Southern whale. The North stood off and disavowed an intention to interfere with slavery where it already existed. But the "inevitable "conflict" was marching on. Lincoln, the prophet of the impending struggle, went down under the burden of its unpopularity in the Illinois senatorial canvass of 1858, only to be carried into the Presidency by tho force of the same doctrine two years later. Then came the war. Controlled in the outset by timid counsels its prosecution was feeble, and the tide of victory was strong from the South. Finally the Great Emancipator put forth the proclamation which made him immortal and the nation great. Then came victory to the loyalists. Timid counsels came in again when Johnson took the helm. Reward rebels crush the "blaiks," was tho motto of the administration. Chaos came again. The blacks were massacred in New Orleans, and loyalty was a brand of infamy throughout the South. Then Charles Sumner, the Great Radical, stood up in the Senate and said "We must arm "the negro with the ballot we must "enfranchise the manhood of the nation we must kill the last vestige of "caste." Timid Republicans were scared they thought the negro too heavy a burden to carry. The Democrats fought the measure with intensified bitterness. But the victory was to the friends oi equality.

And now comes peace. The struggles of the past are ended. A resolution in the Lower House of Congress declaring the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to be valid parls of the Constitution was carried on Monday, only twenty-two Democrats voting against it. The Connecticut Democrats, in convention on Thursday, "recognized the late amendments as "deserving the support of all good cit izensand "demand equal suffrage "for all." The prejudice of the rabble against the negro no longer furnishes the animus of Democratic stump speeches. The nation goes forward to grapple with questions affecting public economy and morals it no longer wages war upon races of men. The inevitable conflict is ended. The bouse has ceased to be divided, and it shall not fall.

And this is as it should be. Little that is vindictive will enter into the approaching canvass. Radical reconstruction has "gone down through the 'quicksands of doubt and prejudice, "and boilt upon the rock of justice and equality." No storm shall shake its sure foundation. The questions of the future will be earnest and important but they will not be issues so exciting as to make men fljr at each other's throats. We are (ill learning the lesson of toleration, and we are far wiser for the teachi

THE English parliament seems to think that the American members of the Joint High Commission were too sharp for the British members of the same Board. Ralph Osborne, member for Water ford City, addressed the House of Commons a few days ago, and in the course of his remarks said the Alabama question was the most momentous oneEngland bad been called to pass upon within a century. Heoompared the astute lawyers who composed the American Commission with the novices who represented England, and said the latter bad been completely outwitted "If," said he, "lawyers bad planned "the English case, we could escape with the payment of six millons ster "ling. The American Commissioners had served their country well, and "achieved a triumph."

Gov. BUTLER, ot Nebraska, was impeached it will be remembered, some time since. Gov. James, who has been acting as the executive since the impeachment, left the State on Thursday for a trip to the East. J. S. Hascal President of the Senate, then issued an order as Acting Governor calling together the Legislature for the purpose it is supposed, of impeaching James, Verily tho intricacies of state govern ment in the land of the free and the home of the brave are manifold.

SENATOR NYB, of Nevada, argued in the Senate yesterday that our treaty with China forbade the naturalisation of Chinamen. It seems that the whole Nye family Is opposed to John,

AITD now the Indiana Christlon Ad' vocate, the only Methodist journal in this State, comes out in opposition to the suthoritative reading of the Bible by the teachers In the public schools.

A DXCRKBI Indian assaulted Hon. Geo. E. Pugh In Washington last week. Ilia aborigine was of the Kicks Pugh tribe.

ILLITERACY OF THE NATION. The Educational Bill passed the lower House of Congress on Thursday. It provides that the net proceeds of the public lands shall be forever set part for the education of the people. Nothing in the act, however, limits the power of Congress over the public lands, nor Interferes with the granting of bounty lands, nor with the Homestead act. For the first ten years the apportionment of the fund to the various States and territories will be made according to the ratio of illiteracy. This to give ignorant sections of the country a chance to get on a level footing with the more enlightened.

The wants of the illiterate parts of the nation cry aloud. In the United States at large there are five and a half millions of persons over ten years of age who can neither read nor write. Consequently over one fourth of the population of the age specified is illiterate, for the whole population over ten years of age is only 27,000,000, and one-fourth of those who profess to read and write are not really competent to do so. This illiteracy is mainly in the South. The illiteracy of the Northern States, including all persons ten years old and over, is thus compared Maine .........f 19.052 N.Hampshire. 9,956 Vermont 17,700 Massachusetts. 97,742 Rhode Island... 21,921 Conm-cticut 29, til 6 New York .241,152 New Jersey 54,687 Pen nsy 1 van ia.222,:t50 Ohio- 173,172 Michigan 53,127

Indiana 127,124 Wisconsin 55.441 Illinois 133,584 Minnesota 24,413 Iowa 45,672 Nebraska 4,*61 Kansas 24,520 California 31,716 Oregon 4,427 Nevada 872

The illiteracy of the Southern States, including all pe.*sons ten years old.and over, is thus compared: Delaware 23,100 S.Carolina 290,331 Maryland 135,675 Georgia

Alabama 882,997 Florida 71,798 Mississippi 812,751 Missouri 225,885 Arkansas 133,318 Louisiana 27o,742

Dlst. of Col 28,719 Virginia 445,774 W.Virginia 81.490 Kent ucky 332,127 N. Carolina 396,993 Tennessee 364,668 Texas 230,518

Compare the illiteracy of some of the Northern and of some of the Southern States:

Massachusetts has 1 illiterate in 14. South Carolina has 1 illiterate in 3. New Hampshire has 1 illiterate in 32. Arkansas has 1 illiterate in 3.

Minnesota has 1 illiterate in 18. Mississippi has 1 illiterate in less than 3.

And so on. The condition of the Southern States in resoect to education must rapidly improve. Lavish appropriations for educational'purposes have been made in all cf thein, and this law of Congress will let light into the dark places. The work of enlightment must go on. God wills it.

THE Presbytery of Brooklyn will soon try the grave question of the right of a woman to speak from a Christian pulpit. Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler recently permitted a Quakeress to preach in his church, at which Calvinism is sorely shocked. This innovation is to be severely rebuked. But what good will the reprimand do? The coming woman cannot be suppressed. She is heard through the press, she stands among the learned, she speaks electric words from the rostrum, she asked the ballot the other day in the capitol, she will receive it soon from the hands ot men. She demands decent recognition and the boon of Opportunity. Give her room. -iHia-

MR. COLFAX has written a letter to the editor of the Indianapolis Journal in which he consents to be a candidate for the Vice Presidency and states that he is in favor of Grant for the chief place on the ticket. If the Republican nominating convention were held Just now, Grant and Colfax would undoubtedly bo placed on the ticket. Although there is time for many machinations between now and June there is little doubt that they will both be renominated.

THK civil suit of tho State against R. J. Bright was yesterday compromised by tho Cat-Skinner turning over t» the Secretary of State eight hundred and forty nine reams of paper for which be has drawn pay. The criminal prosecution for perjury still goes on. ms—

THE venerable Peter Cartwright.who has been a minister In the Methodist church sixty-eight years, was yesterday stricken with paralysis, and his death is momentarily expected.

MRS. LAURA FAIR'S physician has presented to her a bill for medical attendance amounting to f3,040. Pretty extensive bill 'o Fair.4.

THE Amnesty Bill was rejected in the Senate yesterday.

SoMfe preachers complain that, although they preach doctrinal sermons often and long, and explain the dogmas, tenets and points of belief of their particular sect with great lucidity and particularity, tbey still fail to make some of the warmest and staunchest adhereftts of their creed understand it in its scope and relations. For e*al""

Ele:

"Father Ballou," said an elderly Universal 1st, who had for twenty years delightedly attended on his presching, "in your sermon to-day I got the idea that you thought everybody was to be saved—them Orthodox fellows as well as we Universalis!*. Do you mean tbatf" "Certainly," was the rep£, "that's our leading principle. Wen, was the disappointed rejoinder, it never struck me so before I thought 11

saved—them

in the doctrine."

who had faith

LANOUAOB is the last clUdef of nationality, and Russia, unable to extinguish the spark of independence in the hearts of the Poles by other means, has decreed thst the Russian language •hall be taught In all the Polish primary schools. She will find it easier to enforce the teaching of her language than to prevent tho teachings of the mother tongoe of that unconquerable people, [Golden Age.

[From the Golden Axe.]

MRS. DAHLOREN ON WOMEN'S TONGUES. Sincere is our hope that Madeline Victoria Dahlgren's recent letter to Elizabeth Cady Stantou will exert no mischievous influence 011 Christine Nilsson, Parepa Rosa, Scott Siddonsr Fanny Kemble, Adelaide Phillips, Julia Ward Howe, and the Rev. Sarah Smilie.

Mrs. Dahlgren is not only an opponent of woman's suffrage but of woman's appearance on the public platform. Mrs. Stanton invited her to attend the woman's suffrage convention in Washington and to state her reasons against tiie movement. Mrs. Dahlgren replied that "the preservation of female modesty" requires a woman who wants to utter herself to the public to do so not with her tongue but her pen. Accordingly Mrs. Dahlgren and Mrs. Sherman (her colleague in this amiable delusion) propose to coniino themselves to "written articles."

There is small reason to regret this decision on account of anything whictv the public will lose from tne supressed oratorical effusions of Mrs. Dahlgren or Mrs. Sherman, since if these Indies possessed a genius for speaking they would probably use the pen rather as the tongue's lieutenant than as its substitute. But the eminent position of I hesotwo Washington ladies—one the wife of a Rear-Admiral, and the other of a Lieuteuant-General—seems to say, asthe verdict of the best society, that Christine Nilsson should cease to sing at the Academy ot Music, and should indulge her voice only in her own cottage in Dalecarlia that Parepa should hereafter appear at a concert, except as a quiet spectator, listening to her husband Carl Rosa's performances on tho violin that Scott Siddons should nt» longer put on a boy's attire to play Rosalind, but that Thomas Scott, her husband should perform this dramatic service for her, wnile she herself should be content to publish a "written article" on the subject that Fanny Kembleshould not again gather an audience to regale them with Cymbeline and tho Tempest, but that "the preservation of her womanly modesty" should keep her away from the public stage, and confinaherto the writing table at home that Julia Ward Howe should never more read one of her poems 111 public, but should hand over the product or her muse to the unwomanly resonance of some male and murdering voice that Anna Dickinson should summarily give up her lecturing, and immediately marry, keep house, and be a domestic and literary ornament that Miss Adelaide Phillips should not again sing at a Jubilee Concert iu Boston or elsewhere, but should write criticisms on musia and that Sarah Smilie, who is just now delighting the Methodist and Presbyterian churches of Brooklyn with her evang Ileal sermons should never again open a Biblo on the sacred desk.

Now, according to our way of thinking, it would be a public calamity :il Mrs. Dahlgren and Mrs. Sherman should, by the force of t':eir pure and high example, succeed in inducing all the women whom wo have named to hush their tongues, nnd to turn their public utterances into "written articles" and we trust that the Rear-Ad-miral's blue coat and the Lieutenant General's guilt buttons will not shed such a reflected luster on Mrs. I)ahlren and Mrs. Sherman ns to give these adies power to lure the bedazzled eyisot our leading temale singers and speakers away from the public platform to devote themselves to tho sort of literature of which these two narrowminded women have given us unsatisfactory specimens.

THE ORIGIN OF SHY LOCK. A correspondentof the Jewish Chronicle calls attention to the fact that the original Shakspeire's Shylock was a Christian and not a Jew. He quotes irom tho eleventh book of George Levi's Biography of Sixtus V. in proof of his. A Roman merchant named Sechi heard that Admiral Francis Blake had conquered San Domingo, nnd communicated the news to a Jewish merchant named Cenedn. The latter was so confident in the fttlseness ot the news that. after repealed protestations, said, I i! bet a pound of my flesh that (ho report is not true." "And I lay a thousand scudi against it," rejoined tho Christian, who caused a bond to be drawn up to that effect that in caso the report should prove untrue, then the Christian merchant, Signor Paul M. Sochi, i* bound to pay the Jewish merchant 1.000scudi and on tho other hand,'if the truth of this news be confirmed.? the Christian merchant, 81gnor Paul M. Sechi, is justified and empowered to cut with his own hand, with a sharp knife, a pound of tho Jew's fair flesh, of that part of the body it might pleaso him. When the news had been proved true, the Christian insisted on hi* bond but tho Governor having got wind of the affair, reported it to the Pope, who condemned both Jew and' Christian to the galleys, from which they could only be ransomed by paying a fine ot 2,000 scudi to the hospital af the Sixtine bridge.

WHILE Henry Reed of Cincinnati was editing the Chicago Republican hr put forth tho following theological platform

It, is doubtless our duty as journalists to agree with theology. It is safest, in a financial point of view, likewise in sa social. We believo that the world? was created in six days that man was made out of the dust of the earth that woman was made out of a rib taken from the man that the sun wa* set up to light the earth by day, and the moon—although, by an oversight in the adjustment, it does not always do it—to perform a similar service by night. We believe that the sun and moon—though we do not clearly see/ the need of 1 he process in the case of" the latter luminary—stood still at the? command of Joshua: we believe thai, two she-bears ate up forty-two children^ in tho days of Elisha, and indorse,witbr entire cheerfulness, the justice of the, proceeding we believe that Jonah was three days and three nights in tho belly of a big fish, which was divinely inspired to swallow him: in short, whatever the church teaches wo believe."

COLD WKATHKR.—In 1740, the winter was of such rigor in Russia that an lee

Eurg

the Universallsts alano who

were to be

nlace was constructed at St. Peters-fifty-one feet long and seventeen wide. Six Ice cannon were mounted: on the walls, and two mortars for bombs. The cannon held balls of si* pounds weight, were charged with powder, and discharged, so that the ball pierced aboard two inches thick, at distance-of sixty feet. The cannon did not burst, although its walls were leaf than ten inches. Five years before, in Chinese Tartary, the thermometer felt to ninety-seven degrees below aseroFahrenheitj^^m—

A BASKST of champagne!" exclaim-, ed a country dame. '*Why, I declare,., now! I always thought champagne wa#» watery stuff" like I never

wed yen

eould carry it in a basket."