Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 October 1872 — Page 1

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The day I* gUtd, and bright, and cheery It shines, and the bird# seem never weary The vine clings close to the granite wall, While Into IU shadows the sunbeams lull,

And the day la bright and cheery.

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My life is glad, and bright, and cheery It shines, and the day seems never dreary My faith clings close to the Ood of the pant, And the dreams of ray youth come true at la«t,

And the day Is bright and cheery.

Be glad, 0 heart! and filled with singing Into thy life new life Is sprlBgtng What If the skies are at times oyer cat, The win will shine when the clouds are past,

And the days be bright and cheery.

Town-Talk.

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Are coming to the front. These gentlemen tve not received the attention which tboy deserved—they have boen flighted. But merit will assert itself in time. Let all those who feel themselves slighted remember the case of William Coulson Esquire, late of Baltimore, but now an attache of Samuel McDonald, also Esquire, of Terre laute. For a long time it seemed as if, when said William was transplanted to this prairie soil and fanned by the prairie breezos, and permitted to regale his nostrils with the oleagenous sulphuric odors of his uew home, that he was destined to gambol, as do the young and innocent whelps of tigers in the wilds of Asia, all unnoticed and unseon. But the city authorities, alter one or two eye openers from the daily press, concluded that It was not safe for tbomselves any longer to look the other way when the whelps cut up their pretty pranks. The man, whoever ho bp, that has power to give the word of command, was not afraid hlmHeir of said whelps, but he heard growling from another quarter, from the pooplo, that did make him fearful. So at last he lot looso tho dogs of war, and said "St'boy," and away they went, eager for tho fray, and said William's merit mot with public recognition. It only cost him $13. Encouraged by the attention bestowed, ho made a raid upon the press tor free advertising, and got it, Just all.he wanted. It is sickening to see what fulsome tlattery these editors will bestow upon a fellow whon thoy begin. Take these puffs: "A man natnod William Coulson called nt this ofllce last evening, and put in claim to the grand old name of gentleman. lie talkod and acted like what he is, a low-down, villainous Baltimore "rough." lie belongs to a squad who have beon hangers-on of Samuel McDonald's, and ho Is tho msanest of the lot. His conduct at tho Express ofllce ontltloa him to this notice, ills general deportmont calls for the strictest surypillancoof the police."

Ilore is another from the Gazette: "Billy Coulson, a bouncing Baltimore lutnmer, la daily adding to his achievements as a bipedal blackguard, which reminds us tnat good clothes never make or indlcato the gentleman, any more than line feathers make tine birds."

Is tho "gontlomanV ambition satisfled? It seems not, for he attempted to lay even a larger claim upon the re­

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and gratitude of the inhabitants of his adoptod city, by attempting to dhoot one of her cltlxens, as will be seen in the following news item clipped from

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"William Coulaoti drew a revolver on William Klrtley In the Senate saloon, last evening, but was disarmed before doing any Injury."

By the by is Mr, McDonald entitled to the gratitude of this community tnore for the breed of cattle which he has introduced or the breed of men which he has brought among us? And which are his presence and influence among us improving most, the breed of cattle or the breed of boy*

Considering the increase of gambling among us T. T., with many other citizens, was sorry to see so estimable an organiaatlon as the Mtennorchor, resorting to this In order to raise funds. These "Gift Concerts," conducted by good and respectable cltlsena, do much 10 create a taste for gambling among those not addicted to It, and so prepare victims fbr the tiger.

Now that T. T. is on this subject he will say that the city preaa, which cobdemna gambling, is not a bright and shining light of consistency when It admits advertisements of thees gambling enterprises, aa all the papers, Tbe Mail included, hare done fbr In jpaat tvw months. If T. T. remember* correctly he had oocaaion to oommend the city papers fbr refusing to advertise for tbe last "Dollar Prlae Store" which came here. What la the difference be* tween advertising tor that institution and the Gift Concert* o! Terre Haute and Cincinnati These are violations of the law against gambling aa well as that, and are jost a* Injurious to public morals. & rom th* cm Acraoamat

T. T. h«* one plain word. Gambling

in its worst form haa existed among us. Tbe haunts ot the "tiger" have been well known to Mayor and police, unless they are lesa enlightened than tbe publio generally. One "fell swoop" has been made, and a good work done. Somebody has shewn an ability to command an attack, and tbe police have shown a readiness to obey orders. Now the word is this, Let this work go on. There are more dens here. If the. Mayor and police do not know where they are let them ask on the street. Tbe authorities must not attempt to stop tbe grumbling of tbe people and press by throwing this morsel. It was a nice bit. It taated good to the hungry people. Bat tbe appetite is only whetted. They see what can be done. And now the cry is "more, more, more." Shalt the gamblers be cleaned out? that's the question. The answer wanted is, that the man, whoever he be, that baa authority to say "St'boy," do so again, and keep doing it till there is no more game. tit*

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People and Things.

Poor Richard Yates—the hell within him. Chicago has 15,000 habitual drunkards. IWMl*. •.'*** 4\%r-

Poor St. Louis has only half a dozen murderers awaiting trial. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, is a contributor to the Atlantic.

The young farmers of Washington Territory are in great want of wives. Tbe complete census returns make out 428.859 more males than femalos in tho country.^,, **$•$

John E. Owen's "bar'l of apple sass" has yielded him about $1,500,000 up to the present day.

I hold it to be a fact," says Pascal, "that if all persons knew what they said of each other, thero would not be many Irlends in the world." I

Hon.' George Bancroft, minister to Berlin, is still a great student. As there is always something to learn every sensiblo man should be a great student until the day of his death.

The change in the politics of Hon. Jason Brown, better known, when a Democrat as "Bazoo Brown," is attributed to his new wife. Some go so far as to say that she making a man of him.

Mr. Clark, of Amsden, Michigan, has just disgorged from his nose a Minnie ball, which a Confederate carelessly deposited in his loft eyo eight years ago, and Is now ready to clasp hands across the bloody chasm.

Dion Boucicault says America has the three best comedians that speak tho English language, to-wit: William Warren, Lestor Wallick, and Joe Jefferson. The latter he pronounces "tho greatest living actor."

Joo Jefferson will not return to tho stage this season. He appeared once or twice, but finding that his oyee were seriously effected, he canceled bis engagements, but generously paid his company their salaries.

Mark Twain Is golbg to Cuba this fall for his wife's health's sako (Mrs. Twain goes too,) and has told Kedpatb A

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cel all his lecture engagements. Bret Harte will fill his place. A butcher, a sewing machine man, a horse trainer, a drayman, a tassel-ma-ker, a picture dealer, a car conductor, a blacksmith, two grocers, and two unoccupied persons composed the Jury that said Laura Fair was not guilty on her second trial.

A poor murderer languishes in prison in Carver county, Minnesota, waiting for tho Attorney General to make a decision so that be may be properly hung. Tho heartless ofilcer is in this State making speeches for Grant.

Prince Bismarck always promenades in full uniform, white gloves, and sword, and merely nods to those who doff when he approaches. We presume the Prince's style Is necessary In the country In which be lives. Here he would have to "doff" when those who approached him did.

Santa Anns the longest-lived and most persistent public man the continent has ever produced has turned up again, this time as candidate fbr the PreeidMugr of Mexico. This wonderful man has more vigor yet than hundreds of Americans not half his age.

In Arkansas a man was sentenced to be hanged, but all the carpenters in the neighborhood refused to build tho scaffold. As theeondemned man was himself a carpenter by trade, the Sheriff tried to indues him to put up a gallows but he steadfastly declared he'd be hanged if he did.

Twenty-nine yftiurs ago Thomas ,Thome, a seaiartng man or grief, killed tbe man who induced his girl to go back on him during his absence on the sad sea waves, and has sinoe languished in ths Mains Penitentiary, from which he tea just been pardonM. How str*£g* this world most look to him!

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Politics is so much the rage now that it seems useless to write of anything else. And it is worse than useless to writeof itin the wsy it is generally done. I shall therefore try to say something which Is not found In the political papers, but which ought to be. Last week I pronounced the science of politics a useless one, snd I maintain that It Is. But It Is something worse than that it is a terribly corrupt science. I am aware that I am stating a truism: I am aware that I am stating what every man what every man will agree to but politicians, and what politicians would agree to anywhere else than in politics. And yet it Is not generally known how corrupt politics Is. Only a few know what shameless trickery is resorted to in electioneering schemes, and these few are such as do not divulge the secrets ot the camp: sometimes, it is true, they unfold the frauds of their opponents, but the people psy little attention to tales which the politicians tell ot each other, too little indeed. This is tbe greatest misfortune of politics, that the people hear so much of corruption and scarcely believe that there is any such thing. The party papers are all aflame with stories or fraud and corruption, but it is every wbit on the other side. Between tbe Are the people have come to believe that there is no particular fraud and corruption on either side and that the whole thing is more tbe fabrication of enterprising editors anxious to get something sensational for their papers than anything founded really in fact. Now, tbe ciutb is, the papers on both sides do not shoot so very far above the mark, and if people would believe all they see in both it would be far better than to believe nothing they see in either. If they really knew how much rottenness there is in tho political fabric, of this country they would begin seriously to think of putting some new beams into building. But thero is a poor chance for them to know. The politicians try to enlighten them and to arouse them by frantic appeals to a sense of the imminence of the crisis and the necessity of bestirring themselves but it is so plain that the politicians do not believe themselves that it is no wonder their hearers do not believe them. About tbe only effect most of tbein produce on the more sensible portion of their audiences is that of disgust, and they go away more* than ever convinced that politics is a corrupt and contemptible thing, but not half as corrupt as contemptible and they inwardly resolve to have as little to do with it as possible. But the rabblo Is set whooping wild with enthusiasm, and is satisfied that unless it wears caps and carries torches, and exposes the corrupt state of affairs to its neighbors on the street corners, that the government will goto pieces in less than six months and carry everybody to ruin in the vortex. So the rabble gels yery patriotic and saves the country, and tbe decent, honest and honorable portion of the people are very well contented to let the rabble do it.

It an unfortunate state of things when tbo best and purest citizens of the country consider tbe matter of helping to carry on the government a mean and ignoble business. It is not a good omen. It was not so In the first days of the Republic. The duties of the citizen were honorable then. The man who bad the most wisdom and judgment ot any in the town was not above being made justice of the peace, and he performed the duties of his office as conscientiously and with as much dignity as ho would have performed those ot President. And the people too felt that it was not only desirable but necessary to put tbe best meafinto office. They attended the primary conventions and saw that such men were put on the tickets. Bnt that Golden Age of politics has long since passed away. To-day who attonds tbe convention that is called. Some politician, who wants to be nominated, and bis friends. Tbe politicians and the rabble go there and the intelligent, stable business men of the country stand aloof. Then when it comes time to vote they wonder why a better man was not puigOn tbe ticket, and they are so disgusted they care very little whether they vote or not.

We have heard a good deal of late about civil service reform, and Heaven knows the civil service needs a reformation but the reform should begin st the root and not in the branches. It Is our whole system of politics which needs reformation, and not the civil service, or any other particular department only. Civil service reform would be good bnt potUieal reform would be good deal better. The time must come when the citisen will feel that his government is no secure while he takes

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ernmental system is that the intelligence and moderation of the people will sustain it. But what if tbe most moderate and intelligent of tbe people refuse to have anything to do with it That is a dilemma which the fathers probably failed to take into aeoount, and yet it is a dilemma whioh is In a fair way to occur. The indifference to political fraud la astonishing and alarming. The purity of the bal lot-box is not considered very essential in these days. A man whose honesty and ability make him worth half a dozen ordinary men will hear that his voto has been neutralized by one from the hands of some wbisky-guzzllng, characterless wretch who does not know enough to know that he is not entitled to vote ss many times as his master can succeed In getting his disgraced ballot into the box, and seem hardly to consider that a great wrong and crime has been committed against him. It is what be expects and what be does not see very well how to help. Bnt there is a way for him to help It and be will be sorry sometime that be did not pursue it. It is to mske politics honorable and decent to take it from the hands of the rabble and tbe cunning wire-pullers to make it what it was at first, and what it must be again before our conntry is safe, the sacred duty of every good citizen to attend to. Let him trample bis party beneath his feet when it goes wrong. Let him stand not for men but for principles. Let him help to expose fraud and corruption, no matter where it is found, not regardless, but regardful, of consequences for tho consequences will be always and inevitably good. Let him see that the ballot-box Is a sacred thing, not to be trifled with and sullied and disgraced. Let him not consider politics contemptible, but politicians who try to make a dishonest living out of it. Let him give these men a wide berth and be incessant in his labors to foil and defeat them. Let him resolve that our political system must be purged and made clean and apply himself to the task with that vigor he bestows on other subjects.

Whenever the good citizens of the country, those only who make selfgovernment practicable, take up the work in earnest our political system will soou suffer a radical cbange Fraud, corruption and triokery can and will be driven out of it. Dishonest, knavish, unscrupulous men will be invited to take a back seat and there will be some chance for an honest and decent man to be honestly and decently elected.

There are those who will sneer at all this and say there is nothing in it and that our office-holders are as good as the ayerage American citizen. That there always has been and always will be some corruption in government and it cannot be avoided. I admit that this is unfortunately true, but there is a vast difference between the people tolerating a minimum of corruption which cannot possibly be abolished, and shutting their eyes to a corruption which is general, sweeping ajd overwhelming, and lilting no finger to stay the evil. And the latter Is the position in which we are to-day. Let us strive for the best, for if we do not we are bound to drift to the very worst. «4!

Feminitems.

Alatilda Fletcher speaks at tauncie this evening. A female life Insurance sgent is devastating Wisconsin.

Small pox sometimes changes a soprano voice to a rich contralto. A Wisconsin girl has committed shicide because her hair didn't curl.

Laura Keene appears in costume recitals at South Bend, this evening. Josie Mansfield is having a full suit of scarlet velvet built for a lecture costume.

Women are scarce in Northwest Kansas. No blame attaches to the noble red man. ,* *,!••»,

Another self-sacrificing femsle martyrooaloiled at E as ton, Pennsylvania the other day.

The fragile belles or Memphis are taking oodliver oil in order that they may grow plump.

A beautiful woman, said Fontenelle, Is the purgatory of tbe purse and tbe paradise of the eye.'-

A Mrs. Hillard, of Kockport, Ills., recently cowhided a clergyman becauhe he told bad stories about her.

Forty-fifth avenue girls have resolved to devote their "pin money" to the cause of the Methodist missions.

Miss Susanna Evans will make her reappearance next winter as a lecturer on the fashionable foibles of New York.

As a fashion ably di eased young lady passed some gentleman, tbe other day, one oI them raised his hat, whereupon another, struck by tbe fine appearance of the lady, made some Inqul riee concerning her, and wss answered thus: "She makes a pretty ornament In her fktber*s boose, bnt otherwise is of no use." '"r

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TERRE-HAUTE, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5,1872. Price Five Cents-,

Bertha Davis, of Rochester, says: The modern belle is a leaning tower, with an eruption on her back."

There are nearly 100 women serving on school committees in the State of Maasschusetts. Several other 8tates are following the example of Massachusetts.

Monmouth, Illinois, boasts a company of feminine Tanners, who number sixty chignons. They sport regulstion capes, jaunty little caps and Chlneas lanterns, and look exceedingly handsome when in full rig.

A Connecticut Mseoenas offers two prices for the best and nex^-to-best public display of female straddle wis© equestrianism st the Middlesex (appropriate name) county lair. Inasmuch, however, as none but "ladies ol good moral character" are to be allowed to enter, there is not likely to be much competition. "1

In "Con nubialities.

The St. Louis Republican published a marriage notice headed "Huggins— Pleasant."

Few young ladles are,so modest as not to be wlUlng to sit in thp 1*P of ease and luxury.

This is the "rock of ages" said the father after rocking two honrs and the baby Still awake.

To make a good broil—leavo* a letter from one of your old sweethearts where your wife oan find it.

John Cerlach, a party under indictment for polygamy, was found drowned near Philadelphia. He leaves four inconsolable widows.—A man with four wives might have cause to drown himself.

Pere Hyaclntho's example in taking unto himself a wife is being followed by scores or French priests. His marriage being about tbe only real thing Hyacinthe ever did, he has thereby obtained a few actual imitators, if not sincere followers.

When your wife begins to scold, let have it out. Put your feet upon a chair, loll back at your ease, light a cigar and say nothing, but let the storm pass on. If, however, you find on reflection that you deserve the thunder, put your feet down, cessa your "lolling," put out your cigar, acknowledge your error, kiss your wife and be a better husband.

A couple from the backwoods of Tennessee arrived at Nashville on their bridal tour, and, on calling for a room, were shown Into the elevator, which they in their innocence mistook for a bedroom. When the servant who had gone for some matches, returned, he found them partially disrobed, and expressing their dissent at the closeness of the room and the scanty sleeping accommodations.

James Gordon Bennett, the late editor ot the New York Herald, left a large bequest to his wife, but only on condition that she remained bis widow. This condition will, it is said, be set aside by the courts. It has been judicially decided over and over again that all conditions in restraint to marriage are opposed to public policy, and are dimply null and void. Mrs. Bennett is much younger than her late husband, and may marry again.

Thh answer of husband to his wife, when she reproached him for risking his life to save a man and thereby periling the support of his family, was an admirable one. He said: "Dear wife, I thought of my children, and so tried to save another father to bis children." And this is the true motive of all generously noble and charitible efforts, and, moreover, It Is tbe glory of our age that, notwithstanding Its reputed selfishness, there are more real heroes (be world ever saw—more truly charitable men and women whose professions are followed by acta. There is a happy tendency, too, to organised obarity, whieh aoeompUabea vastly •mow than individual effort.

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The woman's tea company of New York has bought a ship, and fitted It out for the trsde between New York and China. It has been named the Madame Demorest, after the President of the company. This is the first time a ship was ever bought and fitted out by women for commercial purposes.

Just now to be a belle the only things esteemed to be necessary are to be dressed in the very latest style, to wear one's liair on tbe top of one's head, to walk on tilted heels, to carry a vinaigrette, to know when to faint, when to blush, when to snub admirers with no prospects, when to look tender and languishing, to dance and flirt to one's heart's content. iv„j, f-i

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The Star of the Ring.[

A STORY OF TBE CIRCUS,

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Or scan the lpflnlte amount Of one fit-art's treasure, or the whole Concentrate purpose or a soul? —[Adelaide Proctor. This lovely, moonlit evening, and tho| 4 distant music of the band floating sofUf ly to my eats, brings vividly to my re-* membranceone evening years ago when1 gay young party of us attended the* circus, and the atrange, ssd story oft which this apparently trivial event was* the beginning.

It was a sultry summer night, tbe| a? evening breeze gently stirred tbe vine! leaves of that curtained porch, where we were assembled. As the music of a? delicious waltz, mellowed by distance,« fell upon our ears, Cora Lester, a tall,1 graceful blonde, exclaimed: 'Ifo •••». "What is that music? Ob, It Is the^ circus I Come, let us all go."

Cora was a rather showy, striking'! .*: girl, with hair of tawny gold in a fluffy mass of curls and waves, pushed bsck., from her clesr open brow and small, shell-like ears, brilliant blue eyes, andfl complexion so pure and fair that the, blue veins were distinctly traced, andst tbe rosy color came and went with* every breath. She was becomingly snd|/ tastefully attired this evening In a dressy of cream colored silk, with overdress ofa some thin, airy material of tbe sameM shade, tbe folds of which were looped^ up by sprays of the scarlet, starry blooms of the cypress vine, and a trail- ?«m ing branch of tbe same adorned thej| abundant ringlets of her hair. .|s

You will have to excuse me to-»{ night," said Harry Austin, who was'J leaning with folded arms against marble pillar, and seeming rather allent|t and distrent. "I have a previous en-*! gngement for this evening."

For more than a year Cora and Harry^f bad been, engaged, and both young,a wealthy and handsome, they were mutuslly proud of and dovoted to each^ other, and although she was a little^ haughty and exacting, fcr she had been indulged and spoiled from childhood,' yet as ho was a vory yielding and attentive lover, thus lar the course of true./{ love had run smooth. "Go without me," said he, seeing that Cora flushed and looked rather dis- ,| plessed "I should like to go with you««» 9 to-night, but it is impossible." "Let him go," said May Elton, merry little creature, always full of mls-ir. chief, "where be oan find beetter company, if he wishes. "S01110 prettier girl than thore is here, no doubt," said Fred Elton, her broth-tei er, as fond of fun and excitement assbe*' was.

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"You wretch!" cried May, "to insin-^ W: uate the possibility of such a thing." "Of course," said Harry more lightly,^ "Fred knows that the present company jy V: is always excepted." 4^.-«"*• m:-\ "It not accepted," said I. "Does not that expression always re-' mind you," said May Elton to me, "of.that time when we wont on a picnicex- mi cursion on a river steamer, and of that & antiquated specimen of the genus homowf» who tried to render himself so agreea-.'. ble to us two? Happening to remark"1 that if I were as ugly as two ladies there' were on board I would certainly drown^-i myseir, he replied they cbrtainly were. the ugliest women be ever saw in hlsyj life—with extraordinary politeness.*. adding, 'present company always ex-^ cepted." "Served you right," cried Cora, "fish-^w ing for a compliment in that outrage-: ously bare-faced manner—but come,who are In favor of going to tho circus?""

Harry don't think the circus is very *.: refined amusement, that's whatV the matter with him," said May.W "He is opposed to it on principle he' thinks the clown's wit is coarse, tho,,j k' acrobatic feats unworthy tbe attention of enlightened people."' "But the ladies riding a'nd dancing,^ Harry," said I, "you like that, don'^-

yOU?" "That reminds me," said Fred, "1^: dropped In awhile this afternoon, and(j saw 'Stella, tbe Star of the Ring, in her daring two horse act,' as the bills hav®K It, and it is the best riding lever saw.", "Do you think it oan be right," said 4 Harry, "for a human being, a youn£ and lovely girl, as interesting and at^ tractive as any or you, no doubt?"

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"Thank you for the implied, compliment," said Cora. 'i "Risking her life in that way for our mere amusement do you think it is right to encourage such things "She will ride and dance whether we*^* are there to see It or not," said Cora, who seemed to be in a rather contrary®,, perverse humor to-night. "She is in no dsnger she is

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