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ANTED-ALL TO KNOW THAT THE HATUKDAYEVF.NINGMAIL has a larger circulation thnn any newspaper published outside of Indianapolis, in this State. Also that it Is carefully and thoroughly read in the homes of its pa'rons, and that it is the very best advertising medium in Western Indiana.

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P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE-HAUTE. AUGUST 10,1872.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday 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 NEWSPAPER8,

In which all Advertisements appear for ONE CHARGE.

HAVE CHARITY.

"Of the dead speak well or not at all." "While conceeding to tbo fullest extent the charity embodied in this classical adage, it is to be regretted none the less that the abilities and virtues of our public men are never acknowledged by their political opponents until death has put a period to the usefulness of their possessors. Then there is a unanimous reference to the excellencies of the man who was reviled while living. Just now Abraham Lincoln is having tardy but full justice clone him by those who heaped opprobrium upon his acts and motives wkile at his great work. This is manly and generous but it would be better to have a little charity for our fellow beings while they are yet among us. It is not quite true that Messrs Grant and Greeley, Sumner, Schurz, Morton and Voorheos are such very depraved persons as those who differ with them in politics represent.

little more

fairness and courtesy in discussing our prominent living political leaders would be quite as meritorious, and certainly of more practical benefit to the country, than fulsome laudations ot them after death. 4. *. --y

PR AYER AND SCIENCE, A short but striking paper on the question whether the Deity does or does not give a practical assent to the prayers of men is going the rounds of the press, and exciting much attention The essay is anonymous, but it is prefaced by a note from Prof. Tyndall, and it is known to have been written by a man of eminence. The author endeavors to obtain an accurate measure of the degree in which prayers for the sick alters the rates of mortality. He would place in a particular hospital a number of persons suffering from diseases which have been ascertained to cause on an average a certain number of doaths. All believers in the efficacy of prayer would then be invited to beseech, during four or five years, that tho Almighty would specially interpose in behalf of those patients. If the prayers wero answered in those hospitals the death rate would of course be much less, and scientific men would detect the influence of a spiritual force beyond their province, and appreciable by none of their gross tests. The distinguished author, to be plain, challenges the believers in a special Providence to fight a battle on the field of statistics! But, then, in these days of bold speculation no thome is deemed too solemn to be touched by the finger of analysis. A leather medal should, by all means, be voted the attthor of this singular paper.

TOO INQUISITIVE.

The learned men of our day are getting too inquisitive. They are making sad havoc with the stores of useful knowledge left us by our methodical ancestors,duly done up and labeled with painstaking care,the minute carefulness ol which was looked upon as a guarantee of accuracy. But modern explorers are turning topsy-turvy all the information gathered {and bequeathed by the past generations. There is no maelstrom, the Dead Sea is as wholesome as Lako Huron, Dead Sea apples are as solid and juicy as are the toothsome "Seek-no-furthers" of a western orchard. Pocahontas never saved the life of John Smith, and now the saddest blow of all, the inevitable German 8avan,one who claims to know all about China, announces in A scientific magazine, that the Chinese do not drink tea. A few mandarins, he admits, sip of the eup which cheers but does not inebriate, but the middle classes drink infusions of weeds, while the poor people imbibe, with a relish, hot water, innocent of the flavor of any leaf whatever. Tea not the national beverage of the Chinese! What next? Intelligent readers arc becoming prepared for anything from scientific sources—to be told that reindeers do not live in Lapland, and that there are no rains in Greece, no works of art in Florence and not the vestige of a canal in Venice.

LATE advices from the continent tell us that the dread visitor cholera is steadily coming toward the Atlantic ports. From these porta vessels are almost daily sailing to ours, and it will be almost a miracle if

it does not come

over to us in soma of them. If only our seaport towns and cities can hold out devn hands to it when it dees come the fatal presence may be made to torn aside, but whether they will is a question which affects us quite as much ss themselves, tor once in the country its march will be rapid enough.

THE LIVINQ8T0NE MYSTERY. Col. Sandford, who has lately returned from his third excursion around the world, and has traveled in many unfrequented parts of Africa, has imparted to a reporter of the New York World some skeptical views about Stanley's discoveries and the alleged Livingstone letters to Bennett. He points upon the map to the comparatively limited area of the unexplored region to which Dr. Livingstone went to prosecute his labors, the whole being comprised within not much over twenty degrees of latitude and longitude, and thinks it incredible that Dr. Livingstone should have in six years accomplished so little, as appears from the statements of his alleged discoverer. Col. Sandford is vory skeptical as to the recent developements in reference to Livingstone. If Stanley could get to that country and get away, so could Livingstone, he says, and the letters purporting to be Livingstone's instead of being models of terse English and rare specimens of condensed and vivid description, as his letters are wont to be, are tho poorest kind ol drivel. Tho Colonel had seen and conversed with several Arabs in Karnak and Cairo who claimed to have passed through this portion of Africa. Many Nubians, too, had been there, and were well versed in the traditions of the country. They all agreed that the lands were in no part very fertile, and were generally very poor.

FIJI.

Tho change going on in the Polynesian Islands is remarkable and worthy of note. Twenty years ago tho Fiji group was inhabited by cannibals. Cripples, sick, and aged people were strangled. When a chief or man of rank died his wives and slaves were slain and children could be slain by their parents, slaves by their masters, and common people by their chiefs, without any danger from law or public opinion. Not half the people died by natural death. To-day there is a regular government on the English system a Cabinet, a Parliament and a Supreme Court, with all the minor offices, judges, magistrates, postmasters, wardens, &c. There is a regular weekly paper, the last issue of which contains a proclamation for a day of thanksgiving and praise, in that

it has pleased Almighty God to deliver Fiji from the perils and disasters attendant upon tho visitations of hurricanes' and tempestuous weather," and the day is set apart as a holiday. The population of Fiji is 150,000. Tho mail steamships between California and Australia are to stop regularly at Sevuka, the chief, town of the group. The government offices are principally filled by representatives of England and America. 4**? t* 1^'

POLAR EXPEDITIONS. It is hard to realize in the pleasant summer weather, in theso latitudes, which stretches off into long and lovely fall, to be followed by a short and often mild winter, that nine polar expeditions are in the field, or rather the flood hoping to unlock tho icy gates by which the north has thus far guarded the secrets of the pole. First Captain Hall is moving northward by Baffin's Bay. Second, Captain Topieson, in a Norwegian ship,is endeavoring to complete the circumnavigation of Spitsbergen. Third, Mr. Whymper is conducting an English expedition into the interior of Greenland. Fourth, Count Wilczeh leads in an Austrian exploration of Spitsbergen, to be followed by two others. Fifth, Svend Foyn has a Norwegian vessel in the

TFRRF-HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL. AUGUST 10, 1872.

Siberian Ocean.

Sixth, a French expedition, under Captain Ambert, with the Norwegian Mariner, Mack, is attempting to reach the pole by way of tho Karian Sea. Seventh and eighth, two Russian parties are going to pass tho winter in Nova Zembla. Ninth, Captain Nordenskiold has a Swedish expedition moving in the samo direccion. Arctic expeditions are a refreshing topic in the summer heats, and will have, a least the present sympathy of all our ..iiers.

AMONO the good stories told of Mr. Greeley, which his nomination for the presidency has called forth, is the following, which is in no way complimentary to his chirography: Years ago, when a young man, he received a poem from a young lady in Vermont. He strongly suspected that all poetry was nonsense, especially if the lines did not square at both ends, and as this partioalar poem did not come up to his peculiar mechanical standard for such literature, he threw it in the wastebasket, and wrote to the author that ho thought she would do better to marry the first honest man that offered her his band, and mend his hose and tend bis babies, than to rack her brain in trying to write rhymes that nobody would read. The poor girl received the cruel letter, but could decipher only the writer's name. She showed it to her mother, and she too was non-pluss-ed. A council of inquiry was held over the strange document, which was finally interpreted as a proposal to marry the gifted author ofthe rejected rhymes. After some inquiry into the character of Mr. Greeley the proposal was accepted, greatly to the surprise of the young editor, who was so much pleased with ths piiae he had won that he bsught the white hat and overcoat he has worn ever sines, and was married forthwith.

The actual duration of flash of lightning does not exceed the millionth part of a second, but the retina of the human eye retains the impression of the electrical flash for a much longer period.

A CABEFUL analysis by Prof. Chandler, of Columbia College, New York, made by request ofthe Postmaster General, sets at rest the current story that there is anything poisonous or hurtfal in the several ingrediments or processes used in the paper, printing or gumming of postage stamps.

NEW YORK city is pursued by a new pestilential horror, which tho doctors call mucedines. It arises from the putrefying paste which bill-posters industriously smear over all the bill-boards, dead walls, curb-stones, and awningposts ofthe city, and yields a pestilent germ not unlike the cholera germ of Asia. -v

A steam strget car is running successfully in New Orleans. The engine is a double cylinder, five inches in diameter and seven inch stroke. The attached tank contains 300 gallons of water. The car travels nine miles, and a simple valve proves as effective as the ordinary street car brake. There is no escape of steam and no noise.

Ax associated press dispatch from New York, 3d inst., says a London letter, states that one of the most influential members of the International Workingmen's Association asserts that it is not improbable that the dissolution of the association will be accomplished at the coming General Congress, to be held at tho Hague, on the lid of September. .»

THE Germans are talking of celebrating the 2d of September, the anniversary of tho capture of Sedan, as -a day of national rejoicing, and, indeed, of making it a regular anniversary occasion to commemorate German unityr in ttoe same mauner that our Fourth of July is celebrated each year in memory of the achievement of national independence. 7,

DURING tho siege of Paris sixty-four balloons were sent out of the city. Of this number fifty-seven reached a safe resting place, landing one hundred and fifty passengers. Two fell into the ocean, where they and the people in them were lost, and the other five were captured by the Germans. In the balloons vast numbers oi pigeons were taken, and they, in flying back to their homes carried into the beseiged city fifty thousand messages.

THE lack of telegraphic facilities in North Carolina has caused a week of anxious suspense to men of both political parties. O110 week.ago, when the first returns came in it seemed certain that the Conservatives had carried the Stato by from 6,000 to 10,000 majority. Now, as the official returns come in it is found that the entire Republican ticket is elected by about 1,200 majority. The Democrats demand that the election be contested before the legislature in consequence of alleged frauds in many sections.

IF you belong to a wealthy family in the City of Mexico now-a-days, and drive into the country a few miles from that capital, you will be gobblod up by guerrillas, who will send tho cheering intelligence to your friends, that they want §2,000 or $5,000, and if it is not forthcoming in so many hours you will be shot. The funeral over jrou a few days later, when your body is found by tho roadside, horribly mutilated, will bo very impressive. Mexico is a more healthy country for poor people at this time* 5 ,•

THE labor question, so far as the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad is concerned, has been solved by that company. At the time the papers were filled with accounts of the New York strikes, and there seemed a probability that tho mania would spread West, the plan of paying all tho employees by the hour was initiated. Tho workmen in tho machine and repair shops wero so paid, while the engineers, brakemen, and firemen were paid according to the number of miles they ran, At first the men objected, but after a month's trial of the system they declared themselves ready to adopt it. This plan affords a perfect protection against strikes, and removes all chance for ill feeling between employers and employed.",, hi J-

VENERABLE as he is, President Thiers is still willing to lear J, and is not at all backward in displaying his newly acquired stores of knowledge. In the Assembly, recently, the President asserted that William of Prussia was a greater sovereign than was Frederick the Great, Bismark a statesman of more ability than Richelieu, and Moltke the best military strategist the world ever produoed. To be defeated by such a combination of greatness as is comprised in the Teutonic trio is no disgrace to any nation. But what a pity Thiers could not have given the heads of the Second Empire a correct idea of the chieftains in the field with whom they had to cope in Germany. And Louis Napoleon Is it any wonder that he went to the wall with the superiors of the Great Frederick, Napoleon Bonaparte and Richelieu to contend with. isif

DANOEROCS LOCOMOTIVES.—It is stated that careful engineers, after examinations of particular cases, declare that there are hundreds of locomotive boilers in operation throughout the country that are liable io explode at any time. This is very satisfying information for railroad travellers, and which will doubtless add considerably to their enjoyment while on the rail.

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Special Correspondence of The Mall.] BOSTON, August, 2,1872. In my last letter I wrote of the excursions for the poor children of New York, under the management of the New York Times, and said I should make an attempt to attend the

NEWSBOY'S EXCURSION.

Thanks to The Mai» which puotisnes my scribblings, and to tho politeness of Geo. F. Williams Esq., the news editor ofthe Times, my attempt was successful. Mr. Williams deserves and receives great credit for his efforts in getting up and managing these excursions. Every cent of money contributed,

Jnowover$15,000—haspassed through bis hands, and the getting up and management of the excursions has been under his personal supervision. Considering the fact that he has given six excursions and had a pleasant day for eyery one, has brought back safe and sound every one of the thousands of children taken out, and has made tha thing so popular that money enough comes in from voluntary contributors to give an excursion overy day, he may be set down as the champion excursionist of the world. He is doing a noble work, and deserves to have his name sounded over the entiro country as the poor children's friend and benefactor.

But now for tho boys. The news boys of New York are an entirely different class from the modest clean faced and well dressed crowd which gathers about The Mail Oflice,Saturday afternoons. Early in the morning taking my stand on the City Hall I watched 1HE GAFLLFCLTFNCR.*4'

They came from all quarters. Some had hats—hats of all styles and ages, and not a few had none, but wore instead a smooth shaved head. Some had coats, but more had none. Some had shirts and some had no shirts. (A fact.) Boots and shoes were at a discount. When the red, white and blue ribbons wbre distributed to bo tied in the button holes for badges, not a few of the ragamuffins had no button hole in which to tie them. Some had two legs and some only one, and of theso last some had two crutches and some only one. There were well shaped and robust -forms, and puny, sickly and deformed bodies. Thero wero pleasant and smiling faces and surly and malicious ones. There was the little boy of five or six years and the boy almost a man. Of all tho happy crowds ever seen none ever surpassed in happiness or in variety of methods of expressing it, this crowd of boys, hatted and hatless, coated and coatless, booted and bootless, shirted and shirtless, logged and legless, buttoned and buttonless, and most of them less almost everything which most of us think absolutely necessary to our comfort. Thus gathered 900 news boys and boot-blacks filled brim full of fun by the anticipation of a day of strange delight,. This fun overflowed in all sorts of performances, leap-frog, tag, summersaults, hand springs, sham fights, dancing, rolling and tumbling, cheering and all the thousand ways in which boys contrive to express themselves^ when too full for utterf nee.

At the sound of tho music this crowd soon formed itself into a line fVom four to six deep. As they moved down Broadway they received a perfect ovation. Business was suspended, the sidewalks were crowded, handkerchiefs fluttered, cheer after cheor went up, and of course the boys were not slow to respond. In this way they moved to tho boat which was in waiting, the crowd increasing all the way., As soon as admitted to the boat a rush was made for the upper deck. At

THE START

tho fun broke out again, and of all the methods of expressing pleasure possible to man or boy not one was omitted on this occasion. The scene on the boat was more tumultuous and more varied than that in the park. But when the band struck up there was the most amusing scene of all. In an instand the whole crowd was dancing. There was waltzing—some of it as graceful as is seen in any parlor there was the double-shuffle, and the can-can, in fact all styles oi dancing ever seen in tho parlor or on the stage. After a little each receives a ticket and passing down the narrow stairway one by one each receives a large sandwich. This disposed of, and all were again ticketed, and passing down the stairs each received a large mug of lemonade. Everything was the very best of its kind, and supplied in abundant measure. Between the dancing, the frolicking, cheering passing boats and vessels, eating and drinking, the two hours ot the trip qnlckly passed. Having arrived at the grove on the shore of Long Island, each boy was supplied with a soup plate, spoon, a generous piece of bread and a ticket. Thus equipped they passed ashore, and their plates were filled with as good, clean chowder as was ever made. Scattered about on the ground, singly and in groups, they quickly devoured this substantial fare, and off came the clothes, and soon the water was full of bobbing beads, and naked bodies. Three or four hours spent in sport, and the boys were again supplied with chowder, and sent on the boat to eat It. Soon we were off again. With dancing, lemonade, cheering and tumbling,and a few tired ones sleeping, we made the way back to the city again, and landed all safe and sound.

CHEERS AKP SPEECH MAKING."" Mr. Williams was cheered, and attempted to make a speech. He had said: "A great many people have giv

en me money to bricfg you on this excursion. I want you to remember that there are good people who care for you." "Yah yah! yah!" issuing from 900? 5 throats trained in crying daily papers prevented further speech making. It was attempted onco more, but tho

cheers and the tigers were too much for them. Finally Mr. O'Conner a jolly Christian Irishman, Superintendent of the News Boy's Lodging House, called for three cheers for the Times, three for Mr. Willianms, three for everybody and everything, ending by calling for ono cheer for himself.

A TERRE-HAUTB MAN IN HONOR. By the way as I was telling Mr. O'Conner where I was from,he exclaimed, "Why, one of tho best friends of the newsboys lives in Terre-Haute— Mr. ChaunoeyRose." Then he told me of the munificent donations which they 5: had frequently received from him. 1 wish Mr. Roso could have seen these 900 boys on this trip. Ho certainly would have seen that his gifts were bestowed upon thoso who have need of them.

At tho risk of making my letter too long I must give an instance of the s, SHREWDNESS AND ENERGY of these boys in a business way. Mr. O'Conner told me tho fact. At the timo Fisk was shot, the Evening Telegram came out with an account of tho affair. Two boys, brothers, invested all they had in copies of this paper. Ono of them took a carriage and drove to Newark, getting there before "any train arrived, and before tho Newark papers could issue their extras, and made by his speculation §56. The other took a cab and drove up town, getting thoro before any other boy, and made $36.00,

A boot-black who was without a icket greatly desired to go to this oxcur-f'. sion. He went to one of the editors of the Times and says "Boss, givo mo a ticket?" "I haven't any. You must goto Mr. O'Connor." "He won't let me have any," said tho boy. "Ah, ah," said the editor, "what have you boon about? You haven't behaved yourself." "Ob, come now, Boss," said the boy in a coaxing way, "givo mo a tick-' et, and next time I writo an article in-1 tho Times I'll give you a d—d good' puff." Whethor or not tho editor got a puffin his own paper I don't know. I heard him tell the story.

WANDERER.

FROM THE ADIRONDACK'S.

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Special correspondence ot The Mall.] CoorERHTOWN, N. Y., Aug. 2,1872. It is a half month, since I sent you a* flying epistle from Trenton Falls.* Since that timo, with my friond Mr. W.. Williams, I have spent a week with my daughter (Mrs. S. H. Roach) on tho border of the wilderness, known tho* world oyer, as the Adirondacks. Ono day while thero wo spent in a long car-* riage ride, and visiting ouo of tho larg-^ ost if not the largest tanneries in northern New York. I have onco before* described, or given an account of its business and capabilities. We found it' under full business operations, and teir thousand sides of leather in tho vats, undergoingthetanningproecss. Messrs.^ Beach and Dodgo are live men, as evidenced by a line of telegraph (20 miles) from Carthago, leading direct to their store and oflice near tho tannery, every pole of which—all cedar, they had cut' and drawn on to tho line at their own expense. A railroad will soon next bo in order, and then, a two hour rido* from there will carry you into the very borders of a wilderness over ono hun-fe dred miles in width and length, abound-' ing in beautiful romantic lakes, clear^ running mountain streams, toweringj mountains, and whore tho doer roam, where the brilliant speckled trout sport? and find cool water to multiply and fat-* ten in, and where tho partridge of thot "genus perdix." tribe, find secluded^ coverts among tho abounding eyer-r greens. One day we spent in a dri\o* of six miles, to tho very edge of tlio'^ wilderness, where the faithful guido* (Woolsey Glasby) resides, who spent' ton days with tho party I was with last?, fall, far out in the woods. I found biim hale and hearty, and swinging tho| scythe, but ready that very night to go out with us to a small pond, and takog a veal, ii we would stay. Owing to as statute, found in the Stato library at* Albany, it is quite common and pre-' cautionary to call a certain horned ani-. mal that runs in the woods about this, time of the year, "veal." Sometimes^ a large saddle is brought in to tho vil-j lage, carefully wrapped in a nice white cloth—a little bloody—the owner enquiring of some special friend, If ho. would like this morning a nice piece of^ •'vealy-e-s, is most generally the an-! swer. Williams and I, had a taste of that kind of veal, at a certain General's^ house where we put up. Also of speckled trout, which wo caught with that*' charming and magic bait called P. 0.| currency. Not being prepared to stay,' over night, wo could not accept of tho? guides generous offer. But after a picnic, which we enjoyed nnder the shado| of a tree, I started out with gun for a partridge—Williams offering fifty center to the cause of foreign missions for8 every one I brought in. Well, in less than a half hour, the crack of my guns pat fifty cents into that beneficial trea-i frury. It made a most savory break fasti for my daughter Susan, who is at the', present time quite an invalid. Ono day more of enjoyment we had, and itk was a good day, richly enjoyed by my friend Wlilams, and all of the party. It was a picnic to Bonaparte

Lake,

which necessitated a carriage ride of five miles. A row in two boats of one,' mile took us to a romantic little island, rock bound, and wooded handsomely, After fishing a short time a fire was-.