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Ki-ti-reiice »£iven Addres* for 10 days, WELWMK, P. O. Box 310.

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"11,r ANTED—TO RENT-A DWELLING TT house of four or five room*, within not more t) an five or six blocks from 5th and Main. One or more up-Main* rooms nroferred. Cl.tein desirable. Wanted by husband and wife, with no children, who will take tin- beat care of property. Enquire at (iazette office.

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1IK the day to Improve the night session at the Coniniereial College, corner of 6tli and Main streets, from 7 to ft o'clock. Book-keeping, Arithmetic, Pcnmanah p, Telegraphing and {Jerman all taught In a thorough manner. St ud lor College Paper, Oarvin A Ileinly.

ANTEDA FEV BOAItDEltS.—NICE rooms, well furnished.

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Poplnr. between fith and 7th streets.

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THE MAIL.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

Office, 142 Main Street.

TERRE-HAUTE. MARCH 23, 1872.

SECOND EDITION.

Contents

Inside Pages.

The following are the contents of the in aide pagex, the 2d, 3d, 6th, and 7th. of today's Saturday Evening Mail. We thin they will be found rich in variety and in tere*t.

SECOND PAGE.

MY BIG BLUNDER. •, NEWS AND NOTINGS. CONNUBIALITIES. ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN. THE LITTLE PEOPLE—Saturday Night— an Awful Story—"Girls," a Composition INTERESTING FACTS. EXERCISES IN ARTICULATION,etc.,etc,

THIRD PAGE.

WE ALL MIGHT DO GOOD. AN AUSTRALIAN ADVENTURE,.* CHIPS AND SPLINTERS.

SIXTH PAGE. *"J

TWO SIDES OF THE SAME STORY-Hls Side—Her Side. KEEPING HIS WORD. LOT AND HIS WIFE—A New Venilon. THE HOUSEHOLD. FINANCIAL. *f -4 NOVEL TEMPERANCE LECTURE^

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REASON TRIUMPHANT. MRS. JONES LESSON. A PETTICOAT MOB IN IOWA

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1,101.'ND—THAT THE CHEAPEST AND JT best advertising In the cltv can be obtained by investing In the Wanted, For Sale, For Rent, Ijost and Found column of the All..

A MAJORITY of the Massachusetts Legislative committee on ihe subject, have reported a resolution to amend the constitution so as to give women the right to vote and hold office.

LABOR Itoform and Temperance men made but a poor show in the results of the New Hampshire election. Such will always be the case. Workingmen and temperance men have always been governed by political considerations more than by their own special nominations, and it seems probable that they always will be. The onl course for the workingman is to follow those politicians who he has reason to believe have his interests most at heart, and will be most likely to forward those interests.

IN Massachusetts every winter a good portion of time is occupied by the Legislature in discussing amendments to the prohibitory liquor laws. A11 attempt has lately been made to repeal the law allowing towns and cities to vote upon the question of permitting the sale of ale, lagor beer, and the like but tho measure was defoated, so that the State will still have its beer elections, as they are culled, as one of its regular institutions. An attempt, also unsuccessful, has ber-n made to prohibit tho sale of cider. It is believed by many advocates of prohibition that if the principle should be so applied as to prevent tho sale of beer and ciiter, tho rosult would bo that the existing laws would be repealed altogether.

WIIM.K the old temperance organizations arc dj ing out and going into decay, one of tho most hopeful features of the temperance movement is the increase of total abstinence societies among tho Catholics throughout the country. In our own city we have the St. Joseph Teetotal Abstinence Society. Massachusetts has now forty-eight local total abstinence societies, thirteen of which have been formed within a few months past, and several more are process of organization. In Pennsylvania there are a number of local societies, which have just united themselves into a State union. Ohio has six societies ready to join in a similar movement, and Iowa four or five more. In Minnesota the good work is progressing favorably, and a .State anion is likewise soon to be formed thero. A national organisation was formed at Baltimore on the 22nd of February, by delegates from the various State unions. Such facts are among the most encouraging signs of the times.

STKP by step the ladies are invading the English universities in an age of universal inquiry and the active aggressions of new forces, and in a country which appears to be infected by an altogether novel spirit of innovation, the feminine reformers are lain to seek at least the privilege of obtaining as thorough an education as that which is given to the other sex. Already English women, reooided on the poll lists, have voted, not only tor parish officers and school boards, but for members of Parliament and have succeeded in establishing in the school boards active female member*, who deba& the matten which come before them with much earueainess, eloquence, and force. The movement to introduce female an der-graduatee into Cambridge and Oxford originated in a concession granted several years ago bj the former univer altr, which instituted examinations for glrla, by leaning a seriee ot printed qneetiona which correspond with the examinations of the Cambridge enrrictUum Itself. These were sent to every part of the country, and examlneia were appointed to oondoct the teat*, and issue oertifioatea of merit to audi yooig lad lea as aattaiatitorUy aoawered the questions. Many hundreds availed themsalvea of the privilege, and the reports of the examiners allowed that a large proportion ot the female sdwlara passed aa good evaminatioaa aa the anlataiiy aliwfa«ualh»niafflT«p,

TKKRK-HA lTTk NAIIR'DAY feVKKlM. MAlU MARCH 23. 1N72

"Off, LORD! THE MONEY rVE SPENT 8uch were the words we heard the other evening, as we were coming down Main street. They Game from a yonng man. apparently a mechanic. "Oh, Lord! the money I've spent!" Spent how? Spent for what? If lor the necessaries of life only, why the dismal complaint of having spent it?

Was it spent for whisky, or wine, or billiards, or at the gamingtable? Or was it spent on that woman, or those women? It must must have spent so as to create either pangs of consc.ence, or at least in a manner condemned by the judgment, else why the agony of regret that it is gone

Evidently the man was getting into the more sober period of lite. He probably felt the need of what might now be fully supplied had he not wasted his money. He has waked to the realities of life. He knows that he is liable to lose health, or at least work, an.) having foolishly spent all his earnings, he apprehends the worst. Probably he has a family of several children, whom he cannot decently clothe, or for whom he is not certain of a sufficiency of bread. Well might he groan from the bottom of his heart—"Oh, Lord the money I've spent!"

If he had his life to live over again, he mutters to himself, he would hold on to every dime not absolutely necessary for his support, especially while unmarried—in order that he might fit himself for the family relation by having a comfortable home, and, if possible, a sum laid up for accidents. He can now understand how independent, manly and happy he would feel had he worked out his freedom in early life as he should have done.

Why cannot every young man be sensible in this regard Why should he throw away his yotith, waste the energies of his early manhood, and in the middle of life find himself a miserable dependent with heavy family responsibilities to keep him in bondage for work, for bread, and in the still worse bondage of lear that he may be ompelled to humiliate himself to the charity of others?

Sad is such a life! Misery by day, with no peaceful pillow for his troubled head

And yet three-fourths of our young men, with whom now is the day of golden opportunities, the day of salvation, are liying as if they were always to be young, alway to be single, always to have plenty of work and never suffer want.

Silly men! foolish boys! They spend enough on liquors, on cigars and tobacco, worse than useless amusements, fine clothes, and, perhaps, tine women, to innke themselves completely independent in a few years. With their annual savings invested in a city lot for future homes, or placed in the savings bank, they would soon find a friend in time of need.

Stupid are those who yield to frivolous young men in being tempted to play tho fool with their hard earnings. "Cut" all such acquaintances. He who would call you "stingy" for saving your wages, will doubtless see tho day when he will envy you vour prosperity. Then, while ho pays a heavy rent, you, in your pleasant little cottage, surrounded with evidences of comfort, and for which yon pay no rent, will be able to bo generous. Then you will be respectable and he will feel himself a poor, mean, poverty-stricken servile.

Think of this, young men. you who are now finishing your school days, or may be learning a trade or profession, and strive to so live that never will escape your lips the remorseful exclamation "Oh, Lord! the money I've spont!"

DIVORCE LAW OF ILLINOIS.

From the Freeport (III.) Journal, we learn that the following are the only grounds for divorce in Illinois, and, as will appear, are already sufficiently liberal 1. A prior marriage. 2. Consanguinity, or blood relationship. i-i 3. Affinity, or marriage relationship. 4. I mpotency. 5. Adultery." /. 6. Extreme cruelty. 7. Wilfnl desertion without cans*, for two years. 8. Habitual drunkenness for two years. 9. Conviction of felony or other itu famous crime.

For any of the above canses either party, husband or wife, may, by proceeding in the Circuit Court, obtain a divorce in Illinois. But the party applying mo^ have resided in this State one year unless the ground of divorce arose in Illinola, in which case the bill can be at once filed, without wsiting fbr a year's residence.

AN Eastern journal bitterly remarks, that the Spiritoaliata do not appear to have been making hay while the son of the great Tlchborne eaae was shining. It the real Roger C. Tichborne i» dead, why did not Mr. Home, wboee associations are aristocratic, common! cate with him in the sphere to which baronets are entitled to remove after they hare "shuffled off this mortal coll If Orton is dead, why did not some less haughty professor of Spiritualism than Home addresa that mythical batcher in kit particular poet-mortu-ary asylum In either eaae, unlesa the professors of sonl-raising are Impostors, such information might have been el id ted as would hare settled forever a eaae that may yet preeent some new and astounding phsaea. Old Lady Tlchborne need baidly bfc troubled In the antter, ainee, while liring, ahesaid all jhe had to aay upon the subject.

About Railroad Men.

AFFINITIES AND FRIENDSHIPS.

INTERESTING INCIDENTS.

CREWS'1—RATES OF PAY—SOCIETIES. 1

Terre-Haute is rapidly becoming a great railroad center. Already we have the Terre-Haute and Indianapolis, and its ally the Vandalia, to St. Louis the Indianapolis and St. Louis, reaching to the two cities named the E. A C. R.R. to Evansville, the Rockville Extension of the same road, now with connections to Crawfordsville, and thence north and east and the Danville road, giving us direct communication with Chicago. Soon will be added the Cincinnati and Terre-Haute road, andt then the Southwestern. Other roads are contemplated and, in fact, it has become a saying that a town or city considers itself happy when it has a railroad on the stocks reaching towards Terre-Haute.

Of course the operation of so many roads gives employment and brings to our community a large class of railroad men—a class closely banded together in ties ot interest and friendship—having its opinions, its rules, its customs, and its grades, peculiar to itself. Even the train-boy may feel bis pre-eminence over other youth, and above him is

THE BRAKEMAX,

Of whom there is one to every pair of coaches, or, in other words, half a man to each coach. To him there is no music like the steam whistle—at one time the long and distressing shriek, blowing for a station, and then the short puff or signal for breaking. This brings him to his lever, and with a wrench that throws the body Into all manner of contortions he fetches the roaring train to a halt. These men have all the dignity, of a craft. They are known as "Jack," or "Bill," or "Charley," and when passing at full speed they will greet each other on different trains "by a gesture peculiar to themselves, being a gentle motion of the hand like one beating time, good braketnan may hope in time for promotion in fact, this is the stepping stone to higher and more important po sitions, and nearly all conductors and baggagemen have commenced their railroad experience at the brakes. The rislcs of this employment are very considerable, but notwithstanding this, there is alway a rush for every vacancy.

THE ENGINEER.

Among the most noble, generous hearted of railroad men will be found the engineer, occupying a position of fearful trust, holding as it were in his grasp of the lever, the lives of every person on board the train. On express trains, when in motion, not 0110 moment must he take his eye from the track in advance, or his hand from the lever. Many are the dangers he sees of which the passengers or other employes of the train know nothing. We re member one day last summer, arriving at Indianapolis from the north, tired, weary and disgusted with the neverending return of the train-boy, with bis peanuts and candies tho conductor with his "tickets, sir the last young man with his blacked moustache and frizzled hair the young lady with her veil that is always out of fix and the gay, dashing, dangerous woman of the world, with her fine clothes, pleasing address and painted fhee—a well set trap for poor humanity, we resolved to leave the cars and try the pleasures otforded by a ride upon the engine, where we could be consoled and amused by the quickly and everchanglng views thist are presented. We were, as is usually the case, half an hour behind time. Engineer said he would make Terre-Haute in time, though. Wood was piled in, and off we went. A roaring fire was kept up steam gnnge indicated the highest number of pounds to be carried with safety everything went smoothly engineer kept a sharp lookout ahead we dashed through forests rattled over bridges the engine urged to meteor speed, it sprang, it dew, as though a frenzied wretch was on its back its will was good, It labored hard, Its breath was quick and shott. Something on the track away ahead just as we turned a curve! What was it? We soon ssw. A cow lying down "as comfortable as you please." The whistle was used, but to no effect. The sand was shaken down, whistle again nsed with a like result. Hometbing must be done, and that speedily. The brakes were applied, but did not check our dashing speed. One mighty jerk at the reverse lever and the engine is reversed. The ponderous driver wheel turns in the other direction, and yet tweuty-five tons slide along the rails like a aled upon the snow. This could not last long too much friction. As the engine neared the oow, up it jumped and ran away, just in time to "sare her baeon.* Up went the reverse lever, two toots of the whistle and away we glided ss before. Littiedld the passengers know of the anxiety and excitement in front. And yet aimilar scenes ate occurring every day.

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There tea tearful novelty attending one's tnt ride upon a locomotive of an expraaa train of a dark night, and we ad rise any reader of Tho Mail who may be traveling next summer to enjoy it. Hie courtesy of tho engineer will allow you to try the experiment, and taking a aeat where you will be out of the way of the fireman, you will fiad abundant food for apecalation and reflection as the speed of the train in

creases. You proceed slowly at first. As you pass through the outakirta of the city, the bell rings a continued warning to "clear the track," while the shrill whistle nearly splits your ear. You soon reach the country, and you can see the town lights fading away in the distance. Fsster and faster rushes the locomotive towards its destination, while the firemam is busily employed in feeding the insatiable demon, who glares upon you as his prison door is opened to receive his food.

The man in soiled and greasy overalls, who stands with a firm grasp upon the lever, and tvbo does not for a moment remove his eye from the short perspective illuminated by the headlight. rises to a personage of great importance for the time,nsyou reflect that upon his faithfulness and efficiency depends, in a great measure, th^ safety of hundreds—your precious self among the number. You see the head light of an apparently approaching train, and your heart gives an involuntary jump as you think you see the engineer grasp the reverse lever. You go thundering on and pass it in a twinkle. It was safe upon aside track,but you cannot help speculating upon the very minute particles in which your body would have been found by your afflicted friends, had a switch been misplaced.

You gaze dubiously at the circular plate of iron dotted with rivets and steam cocks, that forms the end of the boiler, and imagine the little incidents that would attend a bursting out in that locality. The coolness of your companion in the greasy overalls fortifies your courage, and you are arous ed from your fears of a collision or an explosion to find yourself at the first station where, although pleased with the experience,you will gladly retire to the passenger coaches.

THE CONDUCTOR.

The importance of this officer is not to be expressed by mere words. On a train the conductor, like the engineer, holds a trust of life and death importance. He is, like the captain of a ship, the supreme commander of his train, and from the time he takes«charge of it, his word is law until he brings it to its destination. During this time he is required to maintain incessant vigilance, and at every station he can be telegraphed of any change or dangers on the line. The orders by telegraph, sent by the train dispatcher, are addressed to the conductor and engineer.. Before going ahead they myst telegraph back how they understand the order, and If they receive in return "O. K." they can proceed. The conductor is held responsible to a certain degree for all accidents and must on such occasions vindicate himself or lose his place. It is only a short time ago that John Kirk man, the well-known and popular conductor on the E. fe. C. R. R.—now upon the road from Evansville to St. Louis—was placed in charge of a special train carrying the Philharmonic Society, of Evansvillo to Vincennes. He was given a written order to "run regarding extra trains." He read it, he says, "regardless of regular trains," and away he wont with his merry freight. Just before reaching Vincennes, on rounding a curve, tho engineer was appalled at beholding the regulur passenger train heading towards him at full speed. Engines were reversed and a terrible collision was barely escapcd. This was the ground for a dismissal.

The conductors of passenger trains aro the means by which the company comes into contact with the traveling public. On this account each one isex pected to exhibit good dress and polite manners, and this he must maintainunder all circumstances. His dutiesit will be seen are many, severe, and peculiar. He must do more than cry "all aboard," swing his lantern or wave his hand as a signal to the enginoer. He must answer all manner of questions, protect the weak, be courteous to the ladies in his care, civil to those who are rude, seo to his fares and run his train safely. And yet his position would be a pleasant one were it not for the frequent attempts at imposition to which he is subjected. One class of Imposters are those who beg their passage, or who attempt in other ways to evade payment, a class much more abundant than the reader may suppose, A conductor can allow no one to ride free unless be has a pasa regularly issued by some authorised officer of the road, the violation of this rule being a just ground for dismissal.

In this connection the number of people in this country who think they ought to ride upon railroads free, is surprising, actually astonishing* We beard the other day of a^case which will serve as a sample. A citiaen of Evanarille waa coming to this city on James Ferry's train. He had no ticket, and at the call of "tickets," asked Ferry to pasa him. The latter said it waa impossible for him to do so without a pass from President Ingle or J. K. Martin, the Secretary snd Treasurer of the road. The paaaenger reluctantly paid bis fere and Ferry suggested that if he was entitled to a pass that he should apply to Mr. Martin. The passenger said he would nerer do that again, for said he, "I applied to Marti nonce. He looked at me and remarked that be didn't know the road was Indebted to me, and kept on at his writing. And," said he with an air of iqjured dignity, **I will nerer ask him again!" That man waa hard to take a hint. 1

TH« LAWS OF BAILBOAD LOT

are rigid in the extreme. Such Is the the grade of subordination from the President, General Superintendent, DirMon Superintendent, atation agents, Ac., that all orders must be obeyed without qoeetion. There is hut one

law for all, and that ia obedience snd there is one penalty, discharge. The railroad man Is therefore under a daily risk of losing his berth, and what In! others might be a trifling neglect, beoouies in his case unpardonable, slnoc it m^y cost human life. It ia a rule, closely adhered to, that no man shall commit a blunder a second iinie, or in other words the opportunity will not be permitted him. This rule seldom admits of amelioration, and hence, while no man is discharged witMout cause yet the oldest man on the road may bo removed at any time with cause, and with little hope of restoration.

AFFINITIES AND FRIENDSHIPS. There are very strong ties uniting railroad men, and they have a peculiar

esprit du corps, which shows itself on all suitable 6ccaslons. Whenever one of their number dies, a badge of mourning is worn as a token of respect. Tho same spirit is also exhibited by many kind offices shown each other.

The engineers aro banded together by a thorough organization, known as the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, This association is for mutual benefit and protection. The Division in this city has a handsome hall or division room,in thebuildlngoppositetheTerreHaute House. The eighth annual sessionof brotherhood was held at Toronto, Ontario,last November. The Division in this city was represented by Chiqf Engineer James McCutoheon. They aim to make their certificate of membership a sufficient guarantee to all railroad managers, that the holder is thoroughly qualified to fill any position as a locomotive engineer. An extract from their magazine will give a clear Idea ot' the high motive tbey have in banding together. It says: They have seen the importance of keeping pace with improvements made daily in the locomotive engine, and have therefore adopted the plan of lorming into organizations, the bettef to morally and intellectually qualify themselves to bo able to perform all that may be required of them by railroad managers in tho capacity of looomotive engineers."' A system ot mutual life insurance is included in their plan, and from this the widow of the late Michael Dodson recently reeelved the sum of $2,500. Besides this, they have a widow and orphan's fund from which Hiram Westfoil's widow has received one hundred dollars.

We had intended to speuk at greater length of this noble baud of brothers, but this article has already grown to considerable dimensions and wo must defor to another time special mention of an Association which must effect, not only the welfare of Its members, but also the greater safety of all who travel under their care.

Similar to theaboveorganization. tho Firemen have formed an association, which has a Division in this city, and extends throughout tho Unitod States and Cnnadas. At the time we write wo are not within reach of a member ot the organization and cannot now speak of it as we desire.''

RAILWAY CREWS.

A railway train has a fixed crew (as it is called), the conductor being Captain. Add to this an engineer, a fireman, a baggageman and two brakemen,, and tho number is complete, u/iless there is an extraordinarily long train..

RATES OK PAY.

Conductors of passenger and local freight trains are paid $100 month. Conductors ^of through freight trains are paid $75 a month, tboir duties not being so arduous. Engineers get from $100 to $12.r a month fireim about $5f baggagemen $60 brakemen $50 and station agents from $60 to $100. 4

Railroad men, as will be observed by tho foregoing, are a class that live by the rules laid down. They take the* time card and the printed instructions for their daily chart, Tho impositions practiced upon them by strangers and rogues with whom they daily come in contact, oblige tbem at times to appear rough and stern, but all who aliow tho signs of good breeding will be treated respectfully. They are trained by their, method of life to look duty sternlv in tho face, and we believe they aim to discharc:*! these duties more faithfully than any class in the community.

TITK beneficial effect of labor-saving machines in improving the condition of workmen, It is stated, has been exemplified by the application of tho sewing machine to the manufacture of: shoes. The workmen of Lynn, Mass., who in 1802 were earning ten dollars a week without Ihe assistance of the leather sewing machine, are now, it is I reported, earning fifty dollars a week with tbe aid of this nseful apparatus. The inventor, who In 1862 was threatened with mob violence, is now considered by the workmen as their greate*t benefactor. Within the last ten years the town of Lynn has doubled in population and taxable property, and it is estimated that forty-four million dollars have been saved to the whole country by the invention of the sewing machine as applied to the manufacture of articles of leather.

TRB Boston Journal says that a new safe has been invented which makes things very unpleasant for burglars. The walls are filled with gunpowder in such a manner that tbe blow of a sledge or the cutting of a chisel, in the attempt rob thesife, will ignite the powder, blow off the outer crust, annihilate tbe burglar, and, leave the contents of the safe uninjured. We're determined to procure one of those safes at once, so that when any irate rongh, or other person feeling agrieved, calls upon us with a scowl on his countenance, and club, or gun or a dray pin In his band, we may get Into tbe safe, close tbe door, ana when be commences to thnmp upon It there will be an explosion which shall blow our ssssllent into pieces small enough for eat meat. That will be sweet and safe revenge, indeed.