Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 29, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 January 1873 — Page 4

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TERRE-HAUTE. JAN. 18,1873.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONS

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TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which all Advertisements appear for ONE CHARGE^^___ GEN. DICK OQLKSBT was inauRorated Governor of Illinois, last Monday, and on Tuesday next will be elected United States Senator^^^^^^—

ON Monday last Hon. Thos. A. Hendricks began his four years term of imprison tnent in the Gubernatorial office, Politically, poor Tom's a 'cold.'"'.

INDIANA has not had a Democratic Governor for twelve years. A heap ol history haa been written In that time, and wonderful changes have occurred.

OUR State legislators have voted themselves entitled to no perquisites in the way ot blotting paper, penknives, etc. The reason is, that have decided to commute and take so much a day in cash. !5-SS=S5=E5=5 A

SOMETHING over sixty thousand dollars for the pews of Mr. Beecher's church—an increase of $350 over last year—shows that the reverend gentleman's popularity is not upon the wane.

IF it is true, as suggested, that the immediate cause of Napoleon's death was chloroform administered by the best medical talent of Europe, sulphuric ether is likely to come to the front as an anaesthetic.

Gov. BAKER on last Monday retired from the office of Chief Executive of the State of Indiana, after six years of most faithful servico, leaving a most honorable record and the plaudits of men of all parties.

IT seems pretty generally conceded that the Electoral College has outlived its usefulness, nd two methods are proposed for its abolition—ene that tbe vote shall be by the people, but by States as before the other, the plan of Senator Sumner, voting directly for President without regard to State limitations. Tho first is an improvement only in form, and would permit of a minority President just as much as the present method., ,h _•

THE young Emperor of China, who is about to ascend the throne, recently took to himself four wives in one day, and they are only the advance guard of a small army of wives that are soon to follow. Only one, however, bears the title of Empress, and she the beautiful Aluta, daughter of a doctor of the Imperial Academy. Great preparations were made for the wedding and her trousseau is said to have cost 9500,000. Tbe bridegroom is but 17, and seems to begetting into difficulties at a very early a«e,

IF you would look for fresh, oflband gushing literature, look West. Poets and wits, and romancers rise from the West, and from the very beach of the Northwestern Pacific comes gush of newspaper literature that pales the reportorial, splurges of tbe great fires that light up the land. Portland, Oregon, has her newspaper reporter who "spread" himself like the young lusty eagle and soars aloft thus: "Lambent tongues of flame, leaping and sibilant, burst out, seeking new material to augment their angry force."

How is that for tongues

SC8AN B. ANTHONY was brought4 be* tore Judge Hall, of Buffalo, on tne 10th, on a writ of habeas corpus, and in glancing over the proceedings, we note in the original indictine'nt the following serious charge: -J-?s

Tbe said Susan B. Antbony was then a person ol the female sex, oontrary to the form ef the statute of tbe United States of America in such ease made and provided, and against the peace of the united States and their dignity.

To be "a person of the female sex, oontrary to the form of the statute in such case made,etc.," is a terrible crime, but we have grave doubts whether the indictment on this count can be sustained.

Tn Keokuk (Iowa) Gate City, whose editor sat in the United States Senate a few months, says: "It Is harder to be a virtuous Congressman than a virtuous Christian tbe methods of legislation that have grown up, and of attempts to influence legislation, are pernicious and hateful. Yet no man in the House or Senate can control them. He can only resist them to a certain extent. If he accomplishes anything at all, if he gets through measures for which he is anxious, and especially it he hopes to secure appropriations, however just and necessary, he is compelled to defer in some degree to pernicious methods of legislation, which he detesta, yet which he cannot abolish or circumvent. Now to disclose these pernicious methods in all their hateftil detail and fasten them upon the certain members connected with the Credit Mobllier legislation, Is to fasten upon those certain ones the entire odium of a pernicious system."

ABOUT SERVANT QIBL8. The subject of female servsntsfor "girls," as they sre more oommonly called. Is one ot considerable Importance, Inasmuch as It affects very materially domestic comfort and happiness. Tbe scarcity of servant girls has become proverbial. Every household has suffered from a famine of female help and it is not an uncommon thing for the man of the house, in every part of tbe country, to make periodical forages, Jrequently vain and fruitless, in search of "a girl" to supply the vacancy caused by the unexpected desertion of an offended Bridget. Nor is this all. When the "girl" has finally been procured it is a matter of conumon complaint that she is unsatisfactory impertinent, untidy and careless. In fact tho impression prevails that the servant girls have become tbe mistresses and many of the illustrated periodicals bavo given excellent caricaturts of Bridget dictating tertns to her mistress as the Czar of all the Rus9ias might, to his humblest subject.

In the January number of one of the magazines Gail Hamilton takes this rough subject in band and endeavors to smooth out its knottynees and naughtiness. Surveying tbe field she exhorts briefly that housewives combine together to oppose and overthrow the autocratic domination of the servants and starve them to terms of submission. She urges that whole cities be thoroughly organized by wards, as men organize for political purposes, on the broad platform of resistance to incompetent and tyrannical servants. She thinks that if this were done the autocrats ot the skillet and wash-tub could soon be brought to terms.

Without reflecting at this time on the practicability of the proposed remedy for an evil which is coextensive with the country, let us look for a moment into this question of servant girls. Why is it that good, pleasant, competent girls are so scarce? Why is it that the majority of our female help is ot so inferior a character? When these questions are satisfactorily answered we shall be fairly on the way to coriecting the evil.

There are thousands of girls and women in the country who spend lives of ceaseless and ill-paid drudgery in unbealthful manufactories, toiling along day after day for the mere pittance on which they live. If there is any other field where they could support them selves more easily why do they not seek it? There are plenty of working women in the land, why do not more of them offer themselves as "help" in families The question is answered by saying that this particular field of work is in ill repute—that it is despised and evaded by the higher-spirited class of working women. There is about it an aroma that is not pleasant it savors of slavery. Americans are not fond of tbe word "servant." It smacks of caste and feudalism and seems to be discord ant with our generally conceived ideas of independence. The women of America want to call no one master, no matter how poor and illiterate they themselves may be, or how rich and great those for whom they labor. They would rather toil harder and receive less where their independence is not compromised, than do the reverse in a situation which circumscribes their personal liberty. It is not to be denied that this feeling operates. While there are notable exceptions, it is generally true that women who do household work are treated in away that continually suggests tbe idea of servantism and galls their self-respect and pride. This is not so among tbe other sex. The hostler, the gardener or tbe general hired-man has no such feeling of servitude. He complies with all the wishes of his employer and yet feels as free and independent as the employer himself. There is no fores on the one side nor resistance on the of her, and there is no suspicion of anything like a loss of sell-respect or personal freedom. Why could not the same state of affairs ex 1st between mistress and "girl?" That it does not is certain that it does not is one of the principal reasons why servant girls are so hard to obtain. This tact is worthy of consideration by tbe female heads of families, for it probably contains the whole kernel of the "servant" question.

As to the Incompetency and Inefficiency of tbe seryanta who can be obtained, tbe explanation binges on tbe same fact that the other does. Work which is not esteemed honorable is very apt to be done poorly. No one is or can be a good workman who feels that bis work disgraces him. Once remove the idea of social ostracism and personal degradation from the work performed by hired women and the quality of the work done will sustain marked improvement. Let the woman who cooks the meals and keepe the chambers feel ss independent and worthy as the man who curries the horses and spsdes the garden beds, and he servant question will need very little aid from wise editors to bring it right. The "open sesame" will have been spoken at the doors ot a hundred dark, rumbling factories and a stream of honest and earnest women will pour out to seek a more oomfortable, and not less independent, life in elegant and cultured homes. Perhaps If mistresses would talk more about some plan of making the position ot working girls more pleasant and self-re-spectful, and less about their faults and failures, Gail Hamilton woold not be driven to the necesdty of urging such anti-American measures for the cure of a purely Amerioan evil, and the routine of fiunily duties would experience a magical relief. Perhaps the "girls"

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are not so utterly tyrannical as they im, nor the mistresses so cruelly abused as th*y Imagine. Perhapa, in short, one evil generates the other.

INEBRIATE ASYLUMS. Gov. Palmer, of Illinois, discusses that knotty problem of the times, the liquor question, and comes to the oonelusion that the only solution of it Is In a State inebriate asylum where Inebriates may be reformed voluntarily or by compulsion. He does not believe in tbe efficiency of prohibition he has never observed any aatisfactory evidence of a real intention on the part of the people to enforce measures of prohibition, nor does he believe the total prohibition of the use of intoxicating agencies possible. He does not concur in the opinion that intoxication ought to be treated as a crime none of tbe methods heretofore employed to punish it have proved effectual as a social vice, it is scarcely reproved and the inflictiou of fines on a drunkard only itnpovishes without reforming him. He prefers to regard it as "a disease, or habit producing physical alter nations that assume the form ot diseased nervous action and he thinks the true treatment of it must start from this diagnosis. He therefore recommends the establishment ot a State asylum or retreat for inebriates, to which all persons conscious of their unhappy condition, may voluntarily resort, and to which all habitual drunkards and persons who become dangerous when Intoxicated, may be committed, and, if need be confined until cured. The Governor says:

Under tbe criminal laws, all persons who break the peace or threaten to tnjure the person or property of another, maybe committeed to jail or required to give bail. Intoxicated persons, from their condition, menace the safety of others, and if intoxication is a crime, as I think it is improderly supposed to be society has aright to dem&nd that preventative means be employed for its protection if a iisease, as I suppose it to be, the victim of soci 1 errors and vicious legislation ought to be provid ed with a retreat, and if possible, cure.

THE New York Tribune concludes an article on the Stokes tiial^is follows: "Tbere lingers in the public mind some doubt, as to whether the young man now convicted of murder was really the aggressor and the sympathy bis unexpected conviction of murder in the first degree has aroused is heightened by the popular'aversion to a penalty which precludes tbe possibilllty of mitigating the verdict because of sucb a doubt, no less than by recollections of tbe career which the prisoner's act brought to so sudden a close. We do not believe in hanging as tbe proper punishment for murder. While the law prescribes it, we believe tbe law should be enforced but does not the public doubt about this very case give voice to the popular argument against the continuance of tbe law?"

THE Pittsburg Commercial notes that a much better political feeling is beginning to make itself felt in some parts of the South. Finding themselves to tally mistaken in their estimate of the President's personal character and disposition, large numbers of young men in that section who have reached the status of citizenship since the war, are it is said, beginning to come heartily to the support of the generous and progressive spirit which he has manifested whenever he has had opportunity of doing so. These signs of growing sympathy and co-operation in the Southern States are all the more gratifying, inasmuch as they help not a little to counteract the mischievous tendencies of the sullen p.issivity ot the Bourbon portion of the Northern. Democratic press. g'*

THE STOKES CASE.

A New York correspondent writes: If New York city was ever thoroughly astonished it was on Sunday morning when it was announced that Stokes' jury had brought in a verdict of murder in the first degree. So confident was Stekos that he had made his little will at tbe tombs, devising and bequeathing his effects to the sufferers who would longer remain there so san-

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ulne were his relatives, that a bail bad been properly prepared, and no matter what the amount, tbe signatures were ready so sure were tbe lawyers that over their supper they discussod the necessity of "Ed's" being very quiet for while. The poor father and mother went home, as the jury went out, leaving their fair young daughter and that faithful Horace to bring Ned" with 'em to the home so long darkened by bis terrible act and Its consequences.

From this altitude of hope, from thia pinnacle of fancied security, the fall wss something truly awful—most awful to that fond sister, whose wail rang out like the death cry of one upon the rack to that strong man, the brother, whose conyulsed sobs could be heard all over tbe court. God alone knows how awful to tho pale, statue-like Stokes, who stood like a marble image. And certainly Ned Stokes has borne himself wonderfully through the two terrible events ot tlie New Year—tbe rendering of that untorseen verdict and tbe death sent* nee of Monday.

There no doubt about it, Simmons killed Duryea,and sentenced Stokes, and will probably hang somebody. It may be Foster, It ought to be Sharkey. It won't be Stokes. There's lots of law yet for him, and when all the law Is used up and there's nothing to follow but the execution of Monday's sentence, Edward Stokes equal to tbe occasion ion will never be a hi fold.

will be found But the occas-

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In the meantime the gentlemen in the Tombs don't feel comfortable. It's sn unpleasant lookout. When the unhappy Stokes came back on Saturday nighC fourteen bottles of Winslow's •oothing syrup and a groes of paregoric were utterly unavailing tbe babes were restless all night. They're beginning to cut their teeth now in earnest, and the jolliest place in town Is no longer on Centre street, corner of Franklin.

THE SOCIAL QUtSTIOX "M. B. K."—a woman—tho New York correspondent of tho St. I4uls Republican, says:

One bears a great deal just now of tho "social evil" and lis proposed remedy. It will be a very delightful discovery when found, but it Isn't ready to patent there Isn't enough show to file a caveat ohjuatyet. Wouldn't it be gay (and probably very efficacious) in the esse of a ottng man who bad gone to tbe dogs —done every evil thing—to approach that pantslooned sinner snd say: "Poor, miserable being! return to the path of virtue. I will show you the way. It lays along In the same direction with my high-toned boulevard—as a bridlepath may follow tbe main road. But, ot course, you must never hold a

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ce with honest men who have never found out, or forced to make their bread by their dishoneat abilities. You must be good and bumble and meek, and content to be shunned and banned on account of the evil you have done."

There's not a doubt—is there?—but what the poor young man would be touched, and if he wasn't you ran a fine chance of being so, if he's got sn inch of fight in hlui.

All old faded courtezans, who have no house to keep, are ready to be con verted and live humbly on hasty pud din and molasses. But not one in fife hundred of thoee worth saving— the young, the beautiful and gifted— would listen to or be benefitttea by the propositions ot the reformers. Get expeditions to foreign parts establis agencies for their temporary shelter, and get them permanent employment: stop up every chink that may let in light on their past life start 'em new, among people who (U they don't betray it) will never know, tho shsdow that has rested on their former lives, and nine out of ten will thankfully begin all afresh, and their unsatisfactory ex per ience of a gay life will make them for better women than If they had never bad it.

This fine scheme of mine won't bring tbe wool over my ears! O no! It isn't heresy and heathenism and utter immorality? There won't be anything said of the enormity of contaml nating innocence by associating with reformed viee—no Christian horror at the possibility ot men marrying these women and living, perhaps forever, in ignorance of their dreadftil antecedents I'd pull a sober face through all their demolishing arguments, but tbe minute they said "innocent men" I should explode. Barnum has had a white whale, and a living gorilla, I believe, was actually once caught somewhere. But the guiltless, innocent young man of twenty-one exists but in one place—that's Connecticut, and there's only one specimen there. He's got hydrocephalus his head weighs fifty pounds and he's anohored by It high and dry out of mischief, and his mother feeds him with a spoon. Then tbe argument about contaminating Innocence. Here in New York there are thousands of these women, who have little daughters, or younger sisters and no puritan parson's wife ever shielded her sex from knowledge o| evil as do these women their tnnoceuts. The convent ot Mt. St. Vincent here hss a little army oftheae relatives of fast women—daughters (actual and adopted) —sisters and nieces. They never live lor a day beneath the roof of their improper relatives. They leave the school to board somewhere, and occasionally, be visited by the fond, proud hearts that would break to see them become what they are themselves.

If I wanted a nursemaid for my five little daughters. I'd sooner entrust their pure minds to tne keeping of a reformed bad woman than lug in from the country good old praying Snooks' buxom daughter, who Is lust gushing with the inborn desire of ignorance and natural wickedness. When a woman can, by a life of purity and honesty of pur-

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ose, out the shame a trusting man's perfidy and her own simplicity have brought upon her, and take her place among other women as tbe vilest male scoundrel Is able to among his fellow-men, than the work of reformation will commence and go on and prosper.

A WARNING TO YOUNG MEN. The New York Tribune holds up the career and fate of Stokes as a warning to young men thus:

Never was a more terrible sermon preached against an aggregate of so many vices, sgslnst such a multifarious congeries of crimes!—against an overwhelming love of luxury, against self-iudulgence, sensuality, and eager greed, laxity ot moral principle, and, above all, a mad surrender to tho dominion of unbridled passion. The last, we sre constrained to believe, is the morsl danger against which our young men especially shonld be cautioned by these sad and solemn tranactions. There is no vice more dominant In our streets and In our houses. Even in our moderate climo we seem to have acquired something of the tropical fervor and impetuousity which find their readiest resource in tho poiusrd and the pistol, and regard the pursuit ot the extremest revenge ss chivalrous and praiseworthy. ,r

IN relation to the gambling question tbe Boston Traveller says: "The sporting men of the country—a much larger and more influential fraternity than is generally supposed—sre deeply interested in a question now unaer consideration in tbe Chicago courts. The capitsl of the professional gambler. In addition to his good clothes and his unlimited assurance, oonsists lsrgely In the Implements of bis trade. Tbe police whenever they attempt to break up tbe gambling den, seize upon their implements, snd afterdue process before the courts they are destroyed. The fines psid by the gamblers are nsuslly small, snd do not stop their professional career, bat the loss of their tools—the mesns whereby they workIs often a serious matter with them. Realizing this, tho Chicago members ot the fraternity have raised a claim that the courts cannot authorize the destruction of these Implements, and that they have tbe same right in then that tbey have lu any other property. What the decision of tho Chicago Judges ought to be, no respectable man can question, but in tbese days when the claims or individual liberty are so often declared paramount to the publio welfare, their plea may prevail. This would be a long step toward that legalising of what our forefathers, old fogies as tbey are called, considered ss crimes, which finds many advocates in this age of liberalism, and embraces in its scope the sale or intoxicating liquors, tne eecularizlng of the Lord's Day, and the traffic which debases alike its victim and tbe purchaser.

Postmaster General CresweU ha written to thaPruraUn director of posts on the subject of women in government service. He reports seven hundred women employed in tbe postal department, five hundred of whom are postmistresses of local offices.

The City and Vicinity.

To Mall SakMrlkcrs.Watch the date on your direction label. It Indicates the time when your mbeeriptfoa expires, at which time the paper Willi invariably, be discontinued without farther nottflcatkm.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING MATT. Ul on sale each Saturday afternoon by A. H.Dooley, ..Opera Bouse. 8. R. Raker Co., .p. o. Lebby. M. P. Craft*,..™— _Opp. Post Office. Will B. Bherlff, .„!„...Perl*, Ills. Walter Cole,—— .Marshall, Ills. Harry Hill,.—... —.............._Sullivan, Ind. James Allen, J. B. Dowd, Prank Bmeade..

...—...—..Clinton, Ind. RockvlUe, Ind. -Brail], Ind.

Decker.

Mattoon, Ilk.

...........Greencnatle, Ind.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Watchmaker and Optician—Cal Thomas. T. H. Coach Works— Wm. R. Mercer. Centaur Liniment—J. B. Rose Co. Pitcher's Castoria. Commissioners 8ale—Wm. Paddock, 8molander's Bnchn. Mexican Mustang Liniment Rale—M. M. Hlckox.Adra'r. Land, etc., for sale—Tuell, Ripley A Dem£iironle Complaint*—Dr. Dlnsmoor.1 Clothing—Mossier Bros. One Dollar—Art Emporium. Great Bancains—Theo. Stahl.. Grocers- Briggs A Milllgan, Prices Reduced—Erlanger & Co. Corsets, ete.—Bee Hive.

Now comes the season of bad roads.

REMARKABLY quiet is the eity just now.

OVERCOATS are in good demsnd with the thief ing gentry.

THB merrysleighbells jingled away into the small honrs last night.

RUBKXSTIEK uses the Steinway Pfano, sold by Anton Shlde In this city.

An indebtedness of $85,252,67 hangs over the Opera House Company, ff

LIKK the Vermonter's flock of sheep this week has been composed of all wethers. ,,

THB Southwestern road will be pushed with great activity on tho opening of spring.

THB river is rising and with the melting of the present snow a big flood is not improbable.

THB price of hogs has stiffened a little the past few days. 94,25 Is now paid for dressed hogs $3,50 gross.

THE Rubenstien concert begins at iyx o'clock in order that the troupe may get away on the eleven o'eloek train for St. Louis.

THE residence of Rev. Parker Milligan, on Fourteenth street, was consumed by fire on Wednesday morning. Loss about |3,000. tn

THB office of Collector ef Internal Revenue this district, is worth fl,500 that of Postmaster about |4,000. Now take your choice.

REV. L. B. SMITH, of Huntington, Ind., will preach at the Christian Chapel to-morrow at the nsnsl hours. A good hearing is desired.

Aw advestisement In Tbe Msil looks better than In any other paper in the city. Don't it? Our foreman takes especial pride In this department, J,

THE temperance men are coming to the front, with apparently some hopes of accomplishing something. The movement is more formiiisble than is generally supposed.

THB Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Association will give a grand bail at Turner Hall on Wednesday evening. We acknowledge a flivor from Mrs Mack, the President of the Association.

TPB terrible weather operated against the vpry meritorious entertsinments of tho Jspanese at the Opera House this week, snd the receipts were not entirely satisfactory to tho management. ,,

IHTBRESTMG religions meetings have been held at Asbury every evening this week. The meeting lsst night was ono of unusual Interest, snd gaye promise of a glorious revlvsl at old Asbury.

THB Woman Suffrage Acsociatlon at Maoksville is officered as follows: James Blackard, President Mrs. Mary Mopps, Vice Preeident Charles Fisher, Secretary HenryJIonee,Recording Secretary Richard McElroy, Treasurer.^ ,,

THE old ssying that "a white man's as good as a nigger, if he only behaves himself," will soon be a truism, from the rapid manner our colored brethren are coming to tho front in the way of official favor and position.

ALBBADY the Opera House is engaged for the coming month as follows: Fifth Avenuo Theatre, 3rd, 4th, &tb Cal. Wagner's Minstrels, 7tb, 8tb Edwin Adams, llth Wallace Sisters, 17th, 18th Lydla Thompson, 1st of March. .- "V-'s-

RBV. 8. M. STIMSOII, of the Baptist Church will preach at Asbnry to-mor-row st 10H A. M. and Rev. James Hill, tho psstor, at 7 P. *. The public are respectfully Invited to attend these services. t,

T&m stockholders of tho two Nation1 Banks have re-elected the old boards of directors and officers. Preston Hussey is President and Chas. M. Warren Cashier of the National State Bank, and Demas and Henry Deming President and Cashier of the First National.

SBVBM o'clock sharp!" was attached to Mr. and Mrs. Bement's invitations to a reception this week. Quito party—whether pleased at tho innovation or the novelty, we cannot sayput in an appearance promptly to the minute. The innovation is worthy of being perpetuated.