Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 29, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 January 1876 — Page 4

REAT CLOSING SALE —OF—

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DOT GOBDSI

The Lowest Prices In 15 Years

HOBERG?" ROOT & CO.,

OPERA IIOt'SE,

Being determined to increase their this year* business, and make It the inrgert In the history of their existence, will from this dite until their annual inventory in February, offer at an Immense sacrifice for cash their entire stock of

Silk Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, Furs, Velvets, Cloakings,

Blankets, Woollens,

Waterproof*, Cassimeres. Flannels, etc.

All these good* will be sold without regard to cost, as we wish to close them out. In coiiHequencesof thecontlnuel"shrinkage of values" our buyer has by some very favorable purchases for cash enabled us to oirer the following unheard of low prices on

Domestic Cotton (joods.

finish bleached

I/onsdnle yard wide soft muslin, 10c per yard. The celebrated Ktinper muslin 10c.

Idem shirting

The best Wamsutta, 12%\ The fluent New York Mills l'ij^c, and many other* in same proportion.

Also, 19,000 yards best calico at Ac per yard. A big lotSnrague prints, new styles, at tiMc These are bottom prices and we would advise all to purchase at once.

Look at our Cheap counter. Piles of desirable goods will be sold OIJ this counter at half price.

Hoberg, Root & Co.,

OPERA IIOUSIE.

BUNTIN & ARMSTRONG,

Drvfffflsffi, Cor. 6th mid Snin streets

THE PLACE TO GET

Pure Irii£S. Fine Toilet Goods, Prescriptions,

Ac., &c

Anfl the QSI/V I'tAC'E where you fan get

THE HAVANA FILLED

"LA PICA DURA," 5 cent Cigar.

P. C.

E.

WE INVITE ATTENTION to the noveltics now opening, and having bought during the recent warm cpcll, largely of

Cloaks, Furs, Shawls,

And all cold weather g«nds, we Invite a com prison of the prices with those of remnants of stocks carried over in other houses.

Prairie City Emporium

32-1 Main St. I doors west 4th.

Amusements.

OWLING HALL.

POSITIVELY ONE DAY ONLY! Friday, January 21st. TWO PERFORMANCE8-AFTKHNOON at

EVENING at 8 o'clock.

D«orn oprn atSnnd 7 o'clock. SYLVESTER BLEEKER, Manager. The (Jrnat Original and Renowned

(JEN. TOM THUMB and WIFE!

Together with the Infinitesimal HI I MI MIXNIE WARREX, And th^Skatorlal Phenomenon,

MAJOR NEWELL, Will appear in a Variety of

FASCINATING PERFORM AN I S, Consisting of SONUS. DUETS, DANCES, DIALOGUES, COMIC ATTS, AND

LAUGIIABLE SKETCHES, aagiven before thf Potentates of the Earth during their celebrat-, ed Three Years' Tour

Around the World.

At each Entertainment the Ladles will w«far several New and Elegant Costumes, Magnificent Diaiuouds, Ao. Admission Only eta. Children under 10 years, 1" cts. Reserved S ats, VI cVn. Children under 10 to Reserved Seats, 25 c. a.

Indies and Children are considerately advised to attend the DAY Exhibition, and thus avoid the crowd and confusion of the Evening Performance.

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UKO. MITCHELL, Agent.

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THE MAIL

A PATER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TORRE HAUTE, JAN. 15,1876,

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening hm a largo circulation in the surrounding towns, where It Is sold by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes into the hands of nearly every reading person In the city, and the farm er« of this immediate vicinity.

Every Week's Issue Is, in fact, TWO NEWSPAPERS, In which all Advertisements appear for

ONE CHARGE. UTAH is snugly tucked under 12 l'eet of snow.

JoJIN HORN, of Detroit, has saved over 100 people lroin drowning. Lets blow him.

THE New York AVorld speaks of the new Viceroy of India, Lord Lytton, as the author of Owen Meredith."

THE veteran temperance lecturer, John B. Gough, 58 years of age, 33 years a lecturer, delivered his 7,365th speech in Chickering Hall, New York, Monday.

WE find this item floating around, uncontradicted: "Logansport, Ind., has lost 4,000 population in 18 months which would seem to indicate that Logansport had suffered from an incursion of Indianapolis "doctors."

THE Democrats area little embarrassed in their virtuous determination to "investigate" everything and everybody about Washington, by the discovery that the Republicans have fully attended to that work before thein.

THERE was something refreshingly COQI about that reply of tho Boston Handel and ITaydcn Society to the man yh9 v?rQte from stuall town ia Maine, Usklng bo\V liiucli they wGlikt charge to come down there and give a concert. The reply was that it would be cheaper to bring tho town to Boston.

E. H. SARIN has enlightened Boston through the Globe newspaper of that city, as to the virtues of block coal in Southwestern Indiana. Mr. Sabin devotes himself especially to show the value of this coal in producing pig iron, and he mentions incidentally (as it were) the importance of Rockport and the railroad that the name implief

BLAINE has had a complete parliamentary triumph. lie put Randall in a position where he had to defeat amnesty for the sake of Jeff Davis, and then by his sharp motion to reconsider, showed what a competent leader of a minority could do to secure tho expression of his views. It was a handsome piece of work in parliamentary tactics.

THE trial of Alfred M. McGriff, exGauger, for complicity in the reveuue frauds perpetrated by Bingham Bros., began Monday in Indianapolis. Tho defendant is an old citizen of Evansville where he has always been highly respected. He waa city clerk five or six years and since leaving tho revenue service has been manager of a largo dry goods house.

IT doos not imply any special gift of prophecy to predict that Benjamin H. Bristow is going to be a most formidable candidate before the National Republican convention. Perhaps there is not at this time any man who is more universally popular with tho people. He has honesty and back-bone, two things that command respect among all classes and in all parties.

WOOD remarked in tho House, Wednesday, that over ten thousand bills had been introduced, and almost none passed. He understood that twentythree gentlemen had indicated their intention to speak on the amnesty bill. He wished in the interest of the country that the debate should terminate as soon as possible so th*t the house might proceed to the necessary busines of legislation.

GORDON BYRON BINGHAM, one of the Bingham Brothers implicated in the erooked whisky transaction at Evansville, died at his residence at Patoka, at 0 o'clock Monday evening, His death was caused by apoplexy, superinduced by extreme nervous depression, and it is stated that he was insane for twentyfour hours previous to his death. Poor man! he must have felt keenly the mortification and disgrace of the past few months, and one cannot but pity him. His life was not wholly bad, but it was ruined for all timo by these later exposures which swept away property, reputation, everything and it is not unmeet that it should end in a tragedy.

IT is stated that that the total cost of the buildings for the Centennial Exhibition, at Philadelphia, will amount in round numbers to 17,000,000. Of this amount $5,500,000 have already been raised. The 8tat« of Pennsylvania has contributed $1,600,000 to build Memorial Hall. The citizens and municipality of Philadelphia have contributed $3,500,000, and all the rest of the country has contributed but 9500,000. The South has given nothing the contributions from the West, all told, amount to only $20,000 New York baa furnished about 9200,000, and the remainder has come from the Eastern State*. Before next

TOUSIVIth AT WITH smKEOT state^ Before next ed. Mr. Kelly took the floor alter Mr. £mu'npth/t^u£d«y Evening Mail, almost Spring ft,MO,000 most be raised to com- Cox and made a strong speech against plet* the work so well begun, and if the fclaioe amendment and in favor of •oondlnc Terra Haute. tfcwro Is not mora libera]tlty exhibited universal and unqualified amnesty. Mr. GROUND—THAT THE SATURDAY

EVE- In the country at large, Philadelphia Hill, of Georgia, then obtained the floor

I? nlng Mall is the m«*t widely cimilsted will bo obllced to agni» op*n her strong and on Tuesday delivered an able newspaper la the State outside of Ind la«ap» «—. •Us. W*.

effort was made to entrap him, but it was no use. He positively denied that he had ever seen Col. Crosby before, or that he was acquainted with anybody at Milford. Tko dispatches say that after talking awhile with tho sheriff, privately, Colonel Crosby again questioned the boy closely for upwards of an hour in regard to Milford. He reiterated his previous statements in regard to the Milford bank robbery, and described some erf tho streets there and a bridge correctly. lie was questioued in regard to the children and people, but stoutly and llatly denied knowing any of the persons named oxcept four children whoso names he had repeatedly given as those of his schoolmates in Philadelphia. Failing to confuso or break him down in any way, Colonel Crosby said

Wfcll, Jiiiuny, I sh^ll go back to Milford and tell your mother you don't want to see her any more."

My mother don't live in Milford,"

was

the reply. "Sho lives in Philadelphia, and my papa, too, and his name is Mr. Ross." Here tho little fellow broke down and cried bitterly, saying, "I wish my napa woi^d come aftur me."

Tho sheriff tried his hand, repeatedly. Said he, "Now, Jimmy, I want you to tell me the whole truth about this business, and if you will, I'll stand by you and be your friend and see that you are protected and taken care of. Now, you know your real name is Jimmy Blanchard. You live in Milford. This woman, who is coming to-morrow morning, is your mother. Here is Colonel Crosby, a nice man and a prominent man in Milford, and he says he knows you and all about you. Now, he must be right and you mistaken, and I want you to tell me the truth about it."

The boy looked straight up in ms fuuw, as innocently as a child could, and said, "I have told you the truth. I never lived in Milford. The woman is not my mother. I never saw that man before, and my name is not Jimmy Blanchard, but Charlie Ross, and Mr. Ross is my papa."

And so he insisted to the end. And though he repeated his story time after time, was never detected in a single slip. How a child ten years old could learn a long story like that of the Charlie Ross abduction, with all its details of travel and description of places he had never seen, and still remember his statements so perfectly that he could repeat them time after time without change or variation, is a marvel. Yet the cvideneo is clear that the little rascal is tho veritable Jimmy Blanchard. Chdrlie Ross, if living, would bo but six years old. The Blanchard boy is at least ten. This fact is enough itself if there were nothing else, to show that Blanchard is a fraud but for what purpose and by whose agency This question arrises constantly. One thing oertain, he's the most precocious and extraordinary littlo liar ever discovered in this country before.

TWO FIELD DAYS.

Jeff Davis from thegeneral amnesty and

however, was on the side of Randall,

and the previous quostion was seconded by an overwhelming vote. But Blaine is a man of resources, and he proved himself more than equal to the occasion. He voted in the affirmative, and the moment the result was announced took the floor, moved for a reconsideration, and, before the Democrats ha4 ftdrly begun to comprehend the situation, waa in the midst of one or the most powerful and eloquent speeches ever heard in that chamber. So impressive were bis manner and language that bis audience maintained the most complete silence, exoept when bis excoriation of Jeff Davis occasionally startled an ex-Confed-erate inte-an exclamation of disapprobation or contradiction of an assertion. At bis conclusion Cox took the floor and attempted to reply, but although he made some good points his effort as a whole was not what his friends expect-

PERRti HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

THE LITTLE UZZLER. That pi-ecocious little liar Jimmy Blanchard, alias Charlie Ross, who for more than a week had the St. Albans people crazy about him, has been final ly identified by Mrs. Blanchard as her Hill, of Georgia, to the fallowing effect son and taken home. Whether Jimmy That every person pretending to be consented to identify her or .ny- ^lb.U body else at Milford, we are unable to confederates States after January 1st. say. At last accounts he still persisted 1863, shall be presumed to have entered that be was Charlie Ross and nobody the territory of the Confederate States mu «Mh«mr»at with the intent to incite insurrection else. The whole case is one of the most

weakened by Blaine asking him If he had not been a member of the Confederate senate, and on his replying in the affirmative, reading a resolution offered in the Confederate Congress by Senator

aQd tQ abet murder) and that URiess

amazJng on record. It seoms almost iafactory proof be obtained to the conimpossibie that a child like the alleged trary before a military court, Before Jimmy could for a week defy the closest which bis trial shall be had, he shall cross-questioning of scores of. persons and never reveal by a word or a look his identity as the run-away Milford boy. So far as any sign of his was con cerned, bo was the missing Charlie Ross and none other. If he had evor been anybody else he seemed to have put the thought nnd remembrance of such fact entirely away from his mind.

Colonel Crosby, Postmaster at Mil ford, N. II., and other citizens of that duced, I may recollect. plaee went up to St. Albans to see him.

There was no more sign ol recognition "»'f.

sat-

suffer death." lie asked Hill whether he was author of that resolution.

Hill: I will say to the gentleman from Maine very frankly, that I have not the slightest recollection of seeing it before.

Blain You do not deny it. Hill: I do not know. My own opinion is that I never was the author of that resolution but I have no recollectlea of it." If the gentleman can give me the circumstances under which it was intro-

nki"°

refreshed his memory with

ic"a"

'1aft .r

on his part than if they were the greatest squirming, H.ii acknowledged that h. strange* he had ever seen. Every

had

offered such a resolution, but de-

nicd that he wrote it. After the interruption Mr. Hill proceeded with his speech, and finished it amid great applause from the Demo•cratic side of the house. The proceedings of the day were closed with speeches in eulogy of the late Ex-President, Andrew Johnson. The debate was continued Wednesday and Thursday.

IT almost reconciles one to the hardtimes and scarcity of money for speculative purposes, to know that the "pinch" is especially severe on the brokers of Wall street. These gentlemen live OH the blood they suck out of outsiders, and when outsiders keep away, their only resouree 4s to attack oaefc other and if this continues long, they starve. From an instructive editorial in the Sun regarding th^ir present employment and prospects, wo gather that the brokers now spend a large part of their time in matching nickels and throwing dice for drinks, and in other equally exhilarating and "Intellectual employments. The Coupes do a far lass thriving business than o? old. It is no longer customary to see a smart coupe, with a gorgeously arrayed broker stretched diagonally across its interior and smoking' a fifty-cent Cabana, trotting rapidly up to the New York Hotel bar, tho first stopping place on tho road to the Union Club, where the luxurious broker is to spend the remainder of the afternoon, extracting nourishment from tho head of his cane, and betting on the speed of the flies on the front window panes and the numbers of the passing Fifth avenue stages. All this glory.is a thing of the past. The usual thing nowadays is to see a knock-it aaad J)MSB painfully dragging a coupe with three dilapidated members of the Stock Exchange, who arc squeezed into the space intended for two, and intending to pool the expense. If things don't improve in the street, the smart brokers may actually be driven to take tho horse cars or even to walk.

Tho number doing business in Wall street is much less than it was five years ago but there are still five times too many, we are told, and it's a pity there isn't'some way of compelling the surplus to hunt up some productive industry and go into it. But, the pangs of starvation may aocomplish that result before long, or, at any rate, drive them out of tho street.

JOSEPH WALKER, the "Vinegar Bitters" man, and Eliza Jane, his wife are each suing the other for a divorce. Among her reasons for applying for a divorce, Eliza Jane says that Joseph "is inclined to coaisenoss, roughMW, an* unevenness of temper that he has a voice which, as occasion inclines him startles one with fear, and that since he has risen to wealth he is without an equal in the use of profane, violent, vi tuperative, and indiscreet language in the family circle and elsewhere In reference to the defendant and himself," and in conclusion prays that Joseph may be ordered to provide her with a furnished house in New York city, of a kind to which sho has been act a horned, and to pay for her support $30* a we«k a«d her counsel fees, or else that he bo ordered buy

Monday and Tuesday were exciting days in the House of Representatives. Randall called up his amnesty bijl, and as was expected, attempted to shut off to afford her relief sufficient to debate and amendments by moving the proper furniture, a span of horses and a previous question. Blain protested and coach, and pay her counsel fees and #400 tried to offer his substitute excluding

a

week for her support. As a final de-

cree 8hesues

requiring all persons desiring the remo- her life val of disabilities to first take the oath jn reply. Joseph produces the affidaof allegiance. The majority of the House

vn„ 0f

for *20,000 alimony during

servants in his employ, charging

UpQn

Eliza Jane habitual drunkenness and Immorality, iacluding adultery with several persons, and making her out a very bad kind of woman indeed. He also denies the claim which she has set up, that he is worth a million dollars, and avers that at no timo has be been worth uioro than $300,000 and thai recent losses have reduced his fortune to ]e*3 than $100,000. The good "Doctor" can utilize the histery of the two suits by publishing it in hi* next-years almanac as an awful illustration of the evil results that may ensue from a family's not confining Itself to the use of Vinogar Bitters as a beverage.

No ORB should fall into the error of supposiug that the only difference between

Randall's

speech, the effect of which was somewhat ords of the United Stales.

bill and Blaine's sub­

stitute Is that the former does not except Jsff Davis from amnesty, while the latter doea. This Is the least important of the points of dissimilarity. The vital provision of Mr. Blaine's substitute is that it compels the small class of rebels to whom it applies to ask for p%pdoa before receiving it, and that such petitions shall bo made part of the judicial rec-

THE Senate Republican caucus has agreed to support Morton's amendment changing the method of counting votes for President and Vice President.

ELEVEN cans containing 25,000 California salmon were emptied into Little River, at Huntington, Ind., the ofetaer day. They were on their way to the Kentucky river, but there being danger that they could not be put through in time, they were dumped as above, much to the joy of the natives and the fishes.

THE Chicago Saturday Evening Herald thinks that business men are learning that advertisements pay best in society and literary papers which are taken into the home, and carefully preserved until every member of the family has road it. The Herald has the correct view.

A CINCINNATI artist, Dr. F. Glessner, died some time ago and now among other bills that have come up against his estate is one from his brother, amounting to $47.50, itemized as follows: Traveling expenses to and from Cincinnati, hotel bills, etc., $40 three days' time, attending funeral, at $2.50 a day, $7.50. Is not this a suggestion of a new and profitable industry

IN the House, Monday, Fernando Wood introduced a bill for the repeal of th^specio-resumption act and to provide for a return to a hard money basis without contracting the volume of the currency. The measure was the joint work of Wood, Randall, Cox, Holman, and other Democratic leaders. It requires that the government shall retain in the treasury five per cent. »f all the specie received from all sources to establish a resumption fund. It also require.* all national banks to retain in their vaults as resumption funds five per cent, of tho gold received by them as interest on the bonds deposited to secure their circulation. The date of resumption is left to he determined at a conference between the Secretary of tho Treasury and the national banks.

THERE seems to be a good deal of unnecessary lamentation about the bad blood that Blaine stirred up by his recent speech. With some people there is an idea that nothing connected with tho rebellion must ever be mentioned except it contain an acknowledgment that the caftse of the Southern Confederacy was as good as that of tho United States, if not a great deal better. We must studiously avoid all matters of history which in any way reflect on the.conduct of these gentlemen who now aspire to run the country. This idea is a false one. Facts are facts and these are now matters of history and as such must bo discussed whenever there is any call to discuss them. There was such a call In this case. Randall came pompously forward with his amnesty bill as if grace, and sweetness, and justice, and mercy belonged exclusively to his party. Blaine objected to this, and was able to show on the floor of the House sixty living witnesses of the magnanimity, unexampled in the history of Nations, of the National Government. He spoke well and to the point, and no body will be so much hurt by what he said as the squad of rebel officers who now make thoir headquarters in Washington and assume to lead tho Democratic party, and manage the country.

BLA INK'S BITTER SPEECH.

The Tremendom Impression Made,

Ppeclal Correspondence' CMicago Times.] WASHINGTON, January 10. A scone more passionately dramatic than anv episode since the war electrified the llouse to-day, on Blaine's motion for an amendment to Randall's Amnesty Bill. Mr. Randall presented, during the first week of the session, an Amnesty Bill identical in terms with tho two that passed the Republican' House in previous sessions without demurrer from either party. Mr. Blaine also presented, the first week of the session, a bill identical with Randall's in terms, save that Jeff. Davis is excepted from tne rights of amnesty. There was no anticipation that any unusual debate would be brought about on the bills, until Mr. Blaine, so soon as an opportunity offered, demanded the right of tacking an amendment to Mr. Randall's bill. This was voted down, but instead of giving up the contest, the exSpeaker pushea the point, and, to the astonishment of every one, the bill was lost, failing to receive a two-thirds majority, and Mr. Blaine inteijected, with a ready understanding of the situation, a movement for reoonsidering, by which ho gained the right of debate without the consent or instrumentality of the majority. It was a mystery to those not versed in parliamentary law, and even a majority of the best parliamentarians, how the floor was secured, and how, in spite of Mr. Randall, Mr. Blaine virtually gained, by bis celerity and dexterity, charge of the amnesty bill, instead of Mr. Randall, its moverl The rule of the House is that when a vote Is taken a member of the majority on tho winning side of proposition can move to reoonsider. This motion to reconsider gives the mover the floor to open and tikwe the debate upon the motion. Now, in tho voto upon the passage of Randall's bill a two-thirds vote was required, as it was offered under a suspension of the rules. The minority, of which Blaine is a member, constitutes more than one-third of those voting upon the bill, and was, therefore, a vtrtuaLmajority against the measure. Mr. Blaine then moved a reconsideration. This point of his, it is said, has no precedent, out every one upon both sides concedes its correctness. Having won his position, Blaine was ready with bis ammunition. It was plain to the Hftuse, which was now crowded in the galleries, on the floor and in the lobbies, that a tremendous effort was about to be made, and an oppressive hush fell upon the llouse as Blaine, radiant, resolute and confident, strode forward a few benches and began the most overpowering harangue that ever fell upon the eara of a legislative assembly. The lines bf the speech mav be read, but the terrific, envenomed, harrowing intensity of emphasis ana motion and gesture with which the words were accompanied, it is not possible to represent. He

Jed.

irotested against restoring to citisenshlp Davis, not because he was the bead

and front of the Southern Confederacy not because be was the arch conspirator in a galling rebellion, but because he was responsible before man and Ood for the murderous slaughter and unspeakable infamy of Andersonville. As these words rang out, sharp, bitter, and defiant, the lazy attention which the House had at first given was changed to mingled amazement and anger. This was what the speaker wanted. With tho entire assembly eagerly attentive to every word, he plunged into a scathing review of the condition of our prisoners, winding up with the climax of the horrors which Andersonville presented. "I have read," said he, "recently, to refresh my mind, all historical horrors of the past. I have followed up the atrocities and criminalities of Alva in the Low Countries, and I have reread the story of the slaughter of Saint Bartholomew. I have gone through the familiar horrors of the Spanish inquisition, and I dcclare before God, with a full knowledge of what I am saying, and in temperate speech, that these were humanities as compared to the barbarism of Andersonville. As these words, clear, solemn, studied and pathetic, broke out upon the House, a hundred livid faces frowned on the Democratic benches while the glistening eyes and clenched hands of -his own immediate followers and tho hoarse murmur of applause in tho gallery told only too well the baleful power of tremendous philippic. Wastiogjno time on superfluous points of oratorj*, he carried the horrified assembly "through that shuddering golgotlia ot cruelty and despair of the prison stocks, and touched with a supremely skillful hand the unspeakable miseries of that devoted thirty thousand of cmaciated hero martyrs who, under tho burning breath or a Southern sun, which was oven more kind tliap tho hot breath of Southern hate, wasted and fell away before tho hideous barbarity of Andersonville. He read from the committeo on the conduct of the war, that gratuitously onesided report en the treatment of otfr prisoners in the South, a report manifestly intended to hold the hatred of the North forever black and strong against all thought of reconciliation a report so vigorously bitter and so obviously partisan that the horror which Mr. Blaine's recital had aroused began to recede and the relaxing muscles of faces, tho loosening of clenched fists, and tho audible murmurs which fell upon tho House indicated that tho tension was done and that the speaker, though holding the perfect atention of the House, had jarred that one chord of fairnesw which had heretofore blinded every$ man, woman and child who beard him into impulsive adhesion to his argument. Though every paper in tho land publish this master philippic in full, without hearing it, it will sound tamo and impotent as compared to its prodigious impression upon tho House. It was a studied effort. Every line had been prepared with care. Every fact had been elaborated, as the effort showed. Ho had made inquiries in tho War Department, Navy Department, and other departments, and found that about seven hundred people would come under the terms ot this bill, and ono man only wmld be debarred, Teff. Davis, lie# was willing to extend the inestimable: right of citizenship to all who desired it, but ho was not among those who would force it upon a reluctant people. He understood, on very good authority that Mr. Robert Toombs had boasted in foreign countries and at fasionable watering places In this country thai ho wouldn't condoscond to accept a restoration of the privileges which his treason and felony had forfeited. Never in an hour was so much sweltered venom put on the ears of a listening auditory. A more infamously inhuman revival of the hates and horrors of the past wero never attempted eveii by that aich demagogue, Morton. It was utterly unexpected from Mr. Blaine. As the most rancorous periods struck the cars in the gallery, the exclamation was, "Butler— this is a speech that Butler should make, not Blaine." He said no word that was untre, probably, nor did he torture to anv undue extent tho hideous criminalities of the Southern treatment of ti.e Union soldier, but tho general sentimont of the House and evidently to some extent of his own party revolted from a recrimination in every sense baleful and harmful to tho best irtterosts and best sentiments of tho country.

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WHO ARE CALLED?

Rev. W. H. II. Murray has this to say to young men who imagine they have,9 "call" to the ministry:

What are tho evidences, young man, that you have been called to thin peculiar work? llwve vou the special iaeultles that fit you for it Ilave you a good voice? Have you the needed Imagination, the needed memory, the affectional development, which ho who preaches the gospel must have in order to preach it persuasively to men Have you a strong body, a cheerful termpor,

[ove

atience,

courage, and above all, that for Christ and love for men which are required forsuch a tasking and tender service Are you apt in directing conversation to a spiritual end? Can you speak upon religious matters in a natural voice and_ pray sympathetically without mannerisms of Intonation and expression? Can you stand on your feet and argue a point accurately and sympathetically? Have you a strong sense of human brotherhood in you? Can you prcach without a broadcloth coat on Are you handy with a towel and a basin of water in washing the disciples' feet? And do you actually prefer to take the lowest room at a feast, where are tho great and gifted? We say this to discourage nono much less would wo be rude to any. But we feel that the ininistrv has about as much unfit stuff in it as can stand up under. Unintelligent piety has dedicated so manv young men to the ministry who had net the fiist element of fitness for its service that the ministry has been so weakened in its power over the popular mind that it Is In danger of losing the intellectual respect of the people. The matter is getting too serious to be much longer winked at by those who have tho welfare of the church at heart. Everybody knows what is the matter, and yet no one likes to speak his thought «ut first. But people begin to shake their heads and when folks begi» to shake their heads you may know somethiug is coming."

A I.BTTKR from K. B. Wash bu rno i* published, bearing date Paris, November 8. He says In respect to the talk of his candidacy for the Presidency:

I am not vain enongh to suppose that mv name can ever figure seriously in, that direction. No party could ever undertake to carry a candidate with such old-fashioned notions as I have, and whose record is loaded down in opposi, tion to all the great interests that control political conventions. While I receive many letters of the same kind, Ir. am so impressed with what I have writ-, ten that I decline all action in the way of candidature, and in the end, when the convention comes off, and my name is never mentioned, you and other friends will say that I have bt-efc wloe."