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TERRE HAUTE, APRIL, 3, 1875.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on

Friday

has a large circulation In

Evening

the

surrounding

towns, where It is sold by newsboys and agents. The 8ECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes into th* hands of nearly every reading person in the city, and.th faim era of this Immediate vicinity.

Ever}' Week's Issue Is, in fact, TWO NEWSPAPERS, in which all Advertisements appegr for

ONE CHARGE.

MONTPENSIER has been refused a passport to Spain, on the ground that it might establish a precedent by which Isabella might return to Madrid,and that would be a very undesirable event.

TUB editor ofthe Sullivan Union this week announced his return from the State prison at Jeffersonvillo, and seoms to have gone through the institution pretty thoroughly. Tho reason he gives for having been there is, that he was waiting for a train at Louisville, and in order to pass away the time he just went over to take a look through it. lie didn't see Rudifer although ho says he expressed a desiro to do so.

THE government of France has signified its willingness t© extend its support to tho committee in all measures aiming at worthy representation of France at Philadelphia in 1876. Tho Duke de Cazes says that the work has his entire sympathy, and that measures will be taken to promote it in every way. When the assembly convenes it will bo asked to grant a credit for this purpose. This would havo been done sooner but the government wished to act with tho Htmost economy. A circular from the Minister of Commerce is to bo addressed to all the Chambers of Commerce, asking them to co-operate. *1

THK Tiehborne claimant has not yet been forgotten in England. lie was the occasion of the largest meeting which has been held in London for a number of years, a few days ago, and the object of which was to secure his releaso from prison. Tho number present was estimated as high as one hundred thousand. Short speeches were made by several distinguished gentlemen. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the crushing partiality ofthe Judges on the trial, the unscrupulous license of tho prosecution, and the absolute miscarriage of justice, and declaring that they would know no rest till the enormous judicial crime was rectilied. Tho meeting adjourned tumultuously. The speakers were escorted from tho.park by great crowds .tH

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GENERAL SPINNER'S resignation, as Treasurer of the United States, ha* been accepted and will take effect July 1st. He is to be succeeded by Mr. John C. New, a prominent banker of Indianapolis. Mr. New is about forty-three years of age, was clerk of the Marion county court was Quartermaster General under Gov. Morton during the lattor part of tbe war, and while acting in that capacity bccame a membor 6f the Finance Board of tho State. He subsequently became Cashier and manager of the First National Bank of Indianapolis, which position he has since held. He is a man of unimpeaohable integrity, and of large financial experience. He was appointed on the reoammendatlon of Senator Morton,and will doubtless make an able and efficient officer.

TUB editor of the Chicago Times was not satisfied with having several indictmeats returned against him. It made him wrathy, so ho went for the grand ury and state's attorney in a manner which the judge ofthe court, Williams, jOuld not appreciate, and he was accordingly made to stppSar before that august dignitary and render an acoonnt of himself is is honor gave him ten days in the county Jail, in order that he might have time to think the mattorover and see how unchristian ho was in making bold to criticise the doings of that tribunal. Mr.Storey conldntseeitin just exactly tke same light so be made application before Judge McAllister for a supersedeas, which was granted, and he onco more breathes tho free air of heaven, but how long he will continuo to do so is one of those mysteries which time alone can solve.

SriRiii'AI.isM is having a temporary revival in this city. During the greater part of this week they have been engaged in celebrating the twenty-seventh anniversary of modern spiritualism, which in these latter days means sharp tricks played upon credulous old men and women. In carrying out their good work they have •scored the services of an orthodox preacher named Wright, from Vienna, Illinois, who has condescended to enter the arras with one C. W. Stewart, who can get more blasin

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time, than any ten »en of ordinary caliber. Stewart advocates some very peculiar doctrine*. Among other things h© declares that men have b«m dangerous in society In proportion as they were instructed from the Bible that the buds of all scientific investigation is found in Mohammedanism that tto Bible has in every age prevented intellectual improvement that there, is no devil that as there is no such thing in the universe, therefore spiritual materialisation Is but another manifestation of lift, etc.

OPIUM EATING

Statistics of the opium trade of this country have been recently collated which are suggestive. They^prove that the use of opium in its various forms is increasing with rapidity in the United States.

The total quantity of the drug imported into the United States in 1840 was 34,000 pounds, the population of the country then numbering 17,000,000. hi 1870 we find the population doubled, but the consumption of opium increased to such an extent that tho importation at New York alone was six times greater that the entire amount imported into the country thirty years before

At the poit of New York tho importations for the last eight years were as follows:

Ftfrthe year IffiT-..^-For the year W08 For the year 1800 For the year W0 For the year 1S71 For the year 1K7'_'..,

New Orleans, Boston, Baltimore, SanFrancisco, otc., all import considerable quantities, so that it is estimated that tho total amount brought into tho country from July, 1873, to July, 1874, must have amounted to 400,000 pounds, or 200 tons.

To be sure China consumes 7,500 tons per annum, but China is steeped in the vice, and the effect certainly justifies the most startling apprehensions concerning tho constant and rapid increase in the consumption of the drug in the Unitod States. The price of opium in a crude state is §8,15 per pound, so that the first cost of the amount used by the American people is §13,500,000.

Tho rapid spread of the use of anodynes of various kinds of late has been apparent to druggists, grocers and physicians, but the mass of the people know but little of it, because the habitual use of tho drug is always concealed by the victim.

The vice of opium-eating, laudanumdrinking and morphine-consuming spreads insiduously and shuns the light. Probably every druggist in Terre Haute could tell pitiable tales of men and women who are known to them as slaves to tlie habit, and who are yet able to conceal the fact from the world. They are in bondage, and sooner or later the terrible fact is inevitably revealed to tho startled sympathy of their friends

The use of opium as* medicine prescribed by physicians is generally the beginning of the acquaintance of a victim with the seductive influences^ the the soothing but deadly opiate.

Opium isamost valuably and effective ally of the physician, in its various forms, but in view of the shocking effects which its constant use is sure to produce, the physician ought to administer it with the greatest prudence and throw all his influence against its use by a patient without his knowledge or appro va).

Every man, woman and child who is in the habit of taking more or less opium, laudanum, or morphine, for this or that physical ailment or in moments of depression, ought to be made to understand that anything lilte a regular indulgence is, with the rarest exceptions, certaiu to lead to mental imbeaility and rr, physical wreck.

Whiskey itself is not to-day so dangerous an enemy to the weifare of the people as opinm.

THE poor devils commonly known as transients, but who are not exactly paupers, are now without means of support so far as this city and county are concerned. On Wednesday last their supplies were cut off. Now they can come here without money, find no work, and live on air—a very light diet, and not a very healthy one when taken in such largo quantities.

The city vton't famish them meals, and the county has refused to do so. What the result will be is a difficult matter to tell. If a man lives he must eat to sustain life, and if he has no money with which to purchase be must get it ia some other manner. Fwr some time our citizens have beeii complaining of the number of beggars which infest this neighborhood, but new their troubles are to be increased. The number which have been fed at the public expense are now to be turned loose upon them, so that the nuisance will become intolerable. If they are refused food at private houses there is but one other way of obtaining it, and that is by theft, so this action of cutting off supplies is nothing less than encouraging these men to steal, and .when they are caught at it, it will cost our citizens about ten times the amount to prosecute and defend them than It would to feed them in the first instance.

During the first three months of the year 1874 the number of transients kept at the station house was 380. There were famished 968 meals at a cost of $148.20* During the past three months th© name£iai*e»lHA lb* 1®, who were famished 511 meals at a cost of £78.65, yet rather than pay such pitiful amounts the city will turn them loose to pester the people who pay the taxes. A city with 30,000 inhabitants and taxable property worth about 118.000,000, yet so niggardly that it won't pay an expense like this. Give *s a few more gasoline lamps and build a magnificent market house, gentlemen of the city council, but don't do anything which would ba charitable or in the cause of humanity.

TERRE ATTTE SATURDAY EVENING, MAIL.

Pounds 50,898 01,521 80,072 14vSR2SC 110,172 91,101

From*Jnlyls78 to JuVy"lR74 205,513,1 Observe that in the panic year, from July, 1$73, to July, 1874, the importation of tho potent drug was three times greater than the year before—»a fact full of significance. Now these 265,513 pounds, or 132 tons of opium, aro tho importation at one port of entry.

STATE NEWS,

One of the students of Wabash College has fallen heir to $70,000. Thomas T. McDonald, an old and prominent citizen of Marshall county, died at his home in Plymouth, last Friday.

The enrollment of the Northern Indiana Normal School and BUB In ess Institute, at Valparaiso, has reached five hundred.

Trees are trees. Ithamer W. Stuart, of Henry county, has been offered $1,050 for thirty-five walnut trees in his woodland.

The citizens of Lafayette have tendered Hon. Godlove S. Orth a public banquet, which will bo given on the evening of April 6th. .,

Tho New Harmony Register gives tho result of Mr. D. H. Dixon's crop for 1874, on 200 acres of land in Bethel township, Posey county: Corn sold, $2,420.25 wheat sold, $1,800 pork sold, $1,135.33 watermelons sold, $40. Total value of crop, $5,755.58.

Thomas llaro, an old citizen living a few miles from Logansport, while placing a curb in a well, the otker day, tho windlass posts gave way, and Mr. Hare was struck on tho head by the windlass handle and knacked into the well, killing him instantly.

Mrs. Borden, wife of Prof. Borden, assistant Stato geologist, a highly educated lady, attempted suicide at Providence, Clark county, a few days ago. Family difficulties, which had been made public through the papers and the courts, was the causc. She will probably recover.

At Fort Wayne, Indiana, a few days ago, a farmer bought a ticket for Wachita, Kansas. A few moments after a fellow stepped up and asked him to loan him $120 for a few moments on a $750 check, which Bequest was complied with. The victim has not started for Wachita yet.'(

The strikers at Brazil are receiving as much as $7,000 per month from other parts of the country. Ohio sends $4,000 each month Braidwood, LaSalle, and other mining places in Illinois send large sums. Colorado also does her share. There are about four hundred of the strikers yet at Brazil, tho remainder having left.

The Montgomery county commissionera have authorized tho auditor to offer a reward of $1,000 for the arrest and conviction of the murderer of Mrs. David Brown. Mr. Brown proposes to turn over notes and claims to the amount of $600 (about all the property he possesses) to some responsible party, to be given as an additional reward for the arrest of the murderer. {*1

The Knightsville Enterprise says: "We learn a butcher by the name of Johnson, in the north part of the township has been arrested fer selling his customers beef that had been killed by the cars and buried, and by him dug up three or four days after. The trial was set for last Saturday, but a change of venue postponed it for some days.: If the charge is trne, the penitentiary is the only fit place for him.

Such a confessing as there is at Hopewell church, Jennings county. Wives and husbands are accusing each other of infidelity neighbors charge neighbors* with theft, and all the minor crimes, and under stress of conviction the accused are owning up to oven worse than is charged, so that in a small way the little village rivals Brooklyn In nastiness, and exceeds it in honesty.

Three tickets have been put in the field for the city offices in Evansville. The candidates on the Republican ticket are as follows: A. J. Colburn, for clerk Henry Huber, for marshal Charles Ohning, for treasurer, and Wm. D. Babcock, for surveyor. The Democratic ticket is: J. F. Vaughn, Fred Brennecke, A. J. Jagoe and James D. Saunders, in the same order. The Independent nominations are: William F. Cole, F. Brennecke, Charles Ohning, with surveyor unfilled.

The Logansport Star: "Tlie largest real-estate transfer that ever took place In this city was the sale by John T. Musselman, to William H. Standley, of all his real estate. The price paid was $101,540. This will relieve Mr. Musselman of all care, and will no doubt tend to assist In regaining his health that has been very much impaired. The sale Includes tho Muwodeon, tho homestead, what is known as the Keystone corner, The Sua office property, the corner of North and Sixth streets, and other lots in the city, and about 600 acres of land, in Pulaski, White, and Jasper counties."

On Monday last, afire broke out in the pattern shops of the Southwestern oar company, located inside the main walls of the State Prison South, at Jeffersonvjlle, burning up five thousand dollars worth of patterns belonging to the Southwestern car company, J. M. A I. railroad, and Louisville and Paducah railroad company. The portion belonging to the Southwestern car company and the machinery were partially damaged, but was fully insured. It is not definitely known how the fire originated. Though the excitement ran high among the convicts, the/ behaved well the r«*in jwrtiou of the* wer» locked in their cells. At one time It was feared the whole prison building would take fire, and iilro engines were telegraphed for from Louisville, but before they reached thin side of the river the flames were under control. This is the third time the

same

building has been burned.

After a close examination it is believed the loss to the State will not exceed |10,000. The fire will not impair the usual ability of the Southwestern car company to take contracts and fill them promptly. ,.,

It Is reported that the miners of Clay county aro going in the different banks. one by one, and it is thought that it wilhj not be long until they are all at work again. It would seem that Brazil Is to have water at last. A correspondent writes: "The City Council has decided to have the water-works on the land belonging to A. S. Hill, near the cemetery. It Is Intended that about ten and a half acres shall be covered with water. Bonds will be Issued to the amount of $25,000." KuighUvllle Enterprise: It was reported la&t week that an attemjft had been made by some one to burn tho Lafayette Iron Company's furnace. A man was seen In the stock-house with a bunch of kindling saturated with kerosene, and was arrested and brought to town, but nothing could be proven against him, so he was set free. lit* returned again to the furnace a fu\v days ago, and the negroes called a. meeting and appointed a committee to attend to him. They accordingly caught him and gavo him a severe flogging, and he has not been seen 'in these parts' since."

THE Indiana Editorial Excursionists arrived at Evansville yesterday afternoon, and to-day tho several members of the party are distributing themselves to their respective homos, after a delightful tour of some three weeks in the sunny South. They wore met at Honderson, Kentucky, by members of the press and citizens of Evansvilloj and escorted to the city on Steamer Arkansas Belle, with Warren's superb cornet band. A lunch was set on tho boat, followed by a superb banquet at the St. George, and a hop in tho evening, in •which Evansville's beauty and chivalry took part. A ride up the river above Evansville was contemplated, but the late arrival of the train prevented the carrying out of this portion of the programme. The editor of Tho Mail and his wife, who accompanied the excursion party to the South, will arrivo homo this evening, and next week will speak of the trip. fe:

OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

A BRILLIANT EASTER CELEBRATIONHENRY VARLEY—THE HIPPODROME AND RINK PREACHING—ITALIAS

OPERA NEXT YEAR—A LOVELY YOUNG PRIMA DONNA—OPERATIC CELEBRATION BY THE LOTOS CLUB. Correspondence of The Mall.l

NEW YORK, March 80,1875.

Seldom has an Easter come so like a resurrection. The last three days have been a sunburst upon the Lenten gloom, and "winter of our discontent." Consequently, last Sunday seemed one of the finest days that ever was made and as nobody was hindered from putting on their best attiro for the streets, and everybody had for onco an inducement to go to church, all the religious ceremonies of the day were crowded with attendants. In the splendor and expense of the sensuous attractions of Easter service, this year, too, exhibited its due proportion of the steady jprogress which is one of the religious traits of the age.

While the Episcopal and .Roman Catholic churches take the main as well as the leading part in all gorgeous ceremonial,the custom of cerebrating Easter with festal pomp Is rapidly gaining favor with the once austere protestantism ofthe non-Episcopal denominations. A church which is intermediate and nondescript is Rev. George H. Hepworth's

CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES,

and here the floral display and festival services were prominent. Five hundred dollars worth of flowers adorned toe platform, and twenty-five hundred people were there to see a large proportion of them being obliged to stand, while hundreds were turned back from the doors by the dense mass that filled the passages to the very threshold. This was, in fact, the case at all the prominent churches in which much is made ofthe sensuous in worship

TRINITY CHURCH

takes the lead in this kind for the Episcopalians. and its rich oelebration always distinguished by a peculiar degree of good tasto was attended by crowds that got in and crowds that didn't. Thousand of dollars were expended in flowers. St. Thomas's church, on Fifth Avenue, near the Park, (once away down Broadway at Houston street) is another Episcopal church where the splendor ofthe Easter celebration draws the crowds in great force. The communion was administered there to eight hundred persons. Zion church, on Madison Avenue, was also splendidly adorned, and distinguished itself in music, the soprano, in particular, .being a young lady much remarked for musical promise. Old St. Mark's, on Stayvesant street, exhibited floral decorations on an unusually extensive scale.

ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. Down town in obscure Mulberry street, remains the capltol of Catholicism and the Cardinal, until the magnificent cathedral indeed, extending from Fifth to Madson avenues and filling an entire block shall roach its still far-off completion. But it is a splendid and noble object even now in its half-built condition. St. Patrick's has the Police Headquarters to the north of it on Mulberry street, and the Methodist Book Concern's extensive evangelical laboratory, to the south. So that the proper antidotes, temporal and spiritual, are close at hand. It Is a very large church,

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but not large enough for an Easter like this. The music was very beautiful, enriched by another rare soprano. The Cardinal officiated, of course, and that i"i-' W«| *V»r y'o

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toget in. in none oi the otiicr iwuia.ii Catholic churches were the musical attractions so prominent, if wo except

ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH,

on Twenty-eighth street. Here it Ss the practice to engage the chief operatic stars ofthe day.The boll is not all a bull, for when they quit their nocturnal operatic sphere to sing to morning church-gixr«, tbev may ne sailed day stars, or morning stars, as you plea*®Brignoiia. and tho celebrated Mario, have been among the regular attractions here, and the congregations used to be reminded by the reverend father that such music as they paid two dollars

to hear on week nights, ought noi to go for nothing because it wasgiveu without tickets in a church on Sundav. The sexton, too, used to make a good thing, out of it for in this church, unlike most Roman Catbolio churches, there aro pews with fastening doors, and a good reserved seat, if it is too profane to call it a box, was worth from a quarter to four quarters to tho obsequious usher whose palm had been duly propitiated. The bew singers of the opera are still retained, and last Sunday, in addition to the regular organ and ehoir, a full orchestra of well selected performers went through a magnificent programme.

MR. HENRY VARLEY,

The Loudon lay pastor and preacher, discoursed in tne morning on the Ressurrection, in tho Church of the Disciples. In the evening, be commencod a new series of preaching services in £he great "Rink" ot tho Atuorican Institute on Third Avenue and Sixty-third street, to continue every ovening this week. The Hippodrome services were on Sunday nights only, and the place, was given by Mr. Barnum free although tho seating, printing and other incidentals, cost $15.0J0. NOW, the Hippodrome services proper are reopened by Mr. Barnum himself, and tho Hippodrome, no longer available for religious purposes, gives place to the Rink, which has to be paid tor. This is done by private subscription, but a collection is taken up in aid. Tho Rink is too far up town, out that seems to make no difference, for it was filled with an audience of fully ten thousand people, and the scene, especially in singing, was one of grand effect.

ITALIAN OPERA NEXT YEAR

Provided the times mend sufficiently to allow Mr. Strakosch a chance of paying expenses, will be enriched with new prima donna of extraordinary prestige. Al'lle Anna de Belacca is the French of her tltlo and the Italian version of her name. She is a native of Russia, bom in St. Petersburg in 1854, and so but twenty-one years of age. The Russian name is Bellokh, and tho gentlemen who has the honer of giving it to our brilliant cantatrice, is also distinguished as a scholar, and councillor of State of the Russian Empire. In fact wo can easily imagine him rather indifi'erent and that one of his three titles to distinction which I have named first.

The young lady appears to havo been born to art and genius, not only in music but in painting. Her gifts were appreciated by her father, who employed for her the best musical Instructors of St. Petersburg, and afterwards placed her in Paris under the training of the celebrated Lablache. She made ner first

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rivate debitt, but a year or two since. the musical critics and select dilettanti of Paris, on whom she made a triumphant impression. Shortiy after, her first appearance before the public was made in Lucresla Borgia, with immense success. Her voice, however, is not so remarkable for power, as for purity and deliciousness. Her personal beauty is also said to be remarkable, of the brunette, and rather Spanish type.

THE LOTOS CLUB

Is celebrating its fifth anniversary tonight, in a unique and brilliant manner. The Aoademy of Musio had been procured for the ocoasion, and connocted with the Club House adjoining. Very few even of tho members of the Club, knew just what was to be done. A report got out, that Von Flotow's new opera

L' Ombra," not yet produced in this country, was to bo performed. This would havo been rather too much fer the solf-control of tho Academy stockholders, who have aright to claim their bo*es under all circumstances, when the opera is performed and besides this the impresatw, Max Maretzek himself, intends to produce the same opera at the Academy, next month. So tho rumor was judiciously suffered to dwindle to that of a concert, comprising selections from the new work. Nevertheless, the opera is being given, in due form, to a most brilliant and superlatively surprised, as well as delighted audience. Not to engross the evening utterly with a single feature, however extraordinary feature though it is the opera has been condensed so as to comprise its goneral action and its musical gems In a single act. It is bright and brim full of melody. The scene is laid in a village in Savoy, on tho frontier of France time, 1707,'during the war ofthe Cervennos after the revocation of the edict of Nantes. The characters, four in number, are as follows: Vespina, a young widow charmingly personated by Miss Adelaide Phiflips, (soprano) Fabrizio, a wood-carver, by Tom Karl, the English tenor Mirouct, the village doctor, by Orlandlni, baritone and Gina. an orphan girl, by Miss Violetta Galville, contralto. The overture was given admirably by thirty-three pieoes from tho famed orchestra of the Philharmonic society under their leader, Carl Bergmann.

So quietly had the affair been conducted, that apparently none of tho Academy stock-holders could have got wind of it. At any rate, tho Lotos-eaters and their friends are enjoying undisturbed possession of their boxer. The opera Is followed by an elegant banquot from Delmonlco, in the club heuse, te which the guests are to be escorted by tho special private passage. The mirth and fun of this more social pfart of the festivities are of course too much for my present space, and a little too future lor my present tlme^ Vini.

A BRONZE STATUE OF STONEWALL JACKSON. Gov. Kemper, of Virginia, has communicated io the Legislature of that Stato Information conveyed by a letter from Hon. Mr. Hope, member of the BritisE Parliament for the University of Cambridge, that a bronze statue ol heroic size of Stonewall Jackson, de-

H? Foley, R. A., was offered as a tribute of English admiration and sympathy for the acceptance of tho Commonwealth. Gov. Kemper says

The statue is represented by competent judges to be a most imposing and beautiful work of art. It was procured through subscription spontaneously organized among friends of Virginia in the mother country, who admire the character and love the memory of our dead hero. It remains for the Stato to accept this apleudid aift, and to guarantee its erection on some conspicuous site within the capitol grounds.

IMPRISONMENT for debt is abolished in Rhode Island, as in other States, but the laws of Little Rhody seem to permit a proceeding qtiito a» summary. In August last, nine months ago, a young m&n bill of fifteen pa. a live: dollars at Providence, use, as ho alleged, it was exhorbitant. By some legal hocus-pocus he was thrown into jail, and has remained there ever since. Rhode Island civilization seems to aeed reforming.

How heroes carry off heroines is oaeationed by the Court Journal with this note: "At Vienna we saw a little tenor struggling to carry off a fat soprano to the amusement of the house, which she made stentorian mirth by turning around, whipping up the tenor and making her exit with him kickipg nnderhcrarm.