Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 16, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 October 1876 — Page 4

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A PAPER KOK THE PEOPLE.

TERRE HAUTE,

OCT. 14, 1876.

P. S. WESTFALL

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOH

TWO EDITIONS

1 tbis Paper are published. Tbe FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening baa a large circulation In tbe surrounding towns, where it Is sold by newsboys and agenta. The 8EOOND EDITION, OH Saturday Eventog, goes into tbe bands of nearly every reading person In the city, and the farm •rs of tbts Immediate vicinity.

Cvery Week's Issue Is, In fact, TWO NEWSPAPERS, which all Advertisements appear for OKK CHARQU.

WEARY OF BREATH. A few day* ago an old man by tbe name of Samuel Turner committed sul cide by drowning himself in tbe Ohio river, near Loaiaville. His case was very singular one. At the time of deat)| be was eighty-five yean of age, yet perhaps sinoe early childhood he had never known a happy moment. From birth nature had seemed to frown upon bim He went about bearing the undeserved brand of her disfavor. He was, says an exchange, bald from his birth, never had but one tooth, and bis body was covered with nnsightly marks of odd shapes and colors. These disfigurements made bim the victims of tbe prurient curiosity of the vulgar, which is one the most fear ful scourges ever sent upon mortal kind He was sensitive to an unusual degree, and the daily torture be endured because of his peculiarities was indescriba ble. His personal deformities isolated him from bis kind throughout all bis life and at lrst crushed him into tbe grave. He never married, and though surrounded by friends lived a life of bitter loneliness and intense anguish. He fancied tbat no one looked upon him without loathing him, and the fancy took root and became a deep settled con viction, which grew with his years until it became to heavy too be borne, and could not be cast off save with his life. He became possessed oi the idea tbat even in death he would find no refuge from tbe miseries beneath which he groaned. He had a morbid fear tbat his body would be sought for by the medical students and displayed upon the dis secting table, where his deformities would be the subject of curious comments and brutal jests, and to avoid tbis dismal possibility he drowned bim self in the Ohio river' hoping his body would not be recovered. It is not often that an old man feels so keenly the bitterness of physical ugliness. Although always sensible of it, they ordinarily either float over its unpleasant issues on the ship of philosophy which they have been all their »ives constructing, ey become utterly indifferen to the opinion of others, and still cling to life for the sake of the poor enjoyments it contains, or rather, perhaps, because they dread to die. Tbe heart is heavy and sorrowworn indeed when it exchanges lire for the silent mysteries of death but wben, as in the case of Mr. Turner, there was on'y a little longer to wait at the utmost, and that little too dreadful to be endured, it must know an ccstacy of woe almost superhuman.

THK fallacy of Peter Cooper's arguement tbat tbe contraction of the currency brought about the hard times is apparent when it is remembered that nearly tbe whole of the contraction took place between 1865 and 1873 and that it was exactly during this period tbat tbe Immense railroad speculation was going on in this oountry. During those eight years there were 33,000 miles of new railway built in tbe United States, nearly doubling the amount of railroads up to that time, at a oost of not less than 160,000 a mile, or a total cost of over a biilioQ and half of dollars. This unprecedented speculation could not continue permanent any more than tbe South Sea Bobbie in England and when tbe end came, as it did in 1873, and the whole business fell to tbe ground, crushing its projectors in tbe ruin, it drew down along with it to destruction or pertna nentiy crippled, many other legitimate industries. The iron world suffered terribly. Furnaces blew out, mills stopped, and there was utter stagnation. Tbe Ooal industry suffered correspondingly. Immense car manufactories suspended and in like manner many oilier industries sympathised with tho revulsion in railway building. And this Is only one, though the chief example. There was oyer speculation In almost every bnalnts and Industry. Tbe fever spread like a conlagipn. flow much more rational an explanation of tbe hard times can be deduced from these facts than is offered In tbe theory tbat the contraction of tbe currency produced tbe panic.

TAKIUC is a movement In New York to prohibit the employment of married women as teachers In tbe public schools. It to urged thai maternal duties and anxieties may materially interfere with the claims ef the school r»om, and that while a mother to nursing her baby at home tbe children In the schools might •offer. YTery true, hot what about tbe huge number of married women who unfortunately do not happen to be mothers flaring no children of their own to teach are they to be deprived of the privilege of leaching other people's children, when, It may be they are ad* mirably qualified for the task both by edocatioo and experience? And would It not be very had policy to drive out of the foboola all the experienced and successful tescbeis the day they marry

Manifestly it would. Further than that we are quite sure that wherever this matter is thoroughly investigated it will be found tbat married women are doing just as good, if not better work in tbe public schools, than the single ones. It is indisputable that some of the best teachers in this city are married women and more than tbat, tbe mother# of children. A proposition to drive such from tbe public schools of Terre Haute would be met with such a storm of indignation as would soon convince the unlucky person who proposed it |htt he had done a very foolish and unpopular thing.

IFcapital punishment is to beconlin ued in this country some kind of^measures should be adopted to render it less barbarous than it is at present practised Every week emphasizes the necessity of adopting some new method of executing condemned criminals. Scarcely: a Friday passes that some poor wretch is not brutally mangled at an unsuoessful first attempt to bang bim, cut down and launched bunglingly again to die at last in the most fearful and horrible agony. Such ghastly spectacles are much too frequent and sbould.be stopped. It is not to i-eexpected tbat in rural counties where hangings do not take place once in ten years tbat the sheriff, who perhaps never saw an execution in his life, should be able to perform the office with the skill and coolness tbat so important an act requires. There should be some otber means of putting condemned men out of the world, some means more suddeu and tnore certain. It has been suggested that every State should have an official executioner, and electricity or other sudden means of exit substituted for tbe bungling rope. The suggestion is certainly worthy tbe attention of our law makers. Tbe existing mode is as degrading and b»d as og^ld be de vised.

Mrs. Hiram Powers is visiting her old home in Cincinnati. Sho weut abroad with her husbana soon after their marriage thirty-nine years ago, and tbis is her first visit to America since, She says: My children were born there the lecollections of my husband are clustered there, and that fe my home. The manner of living in Italy is quite different from tbat of America. It is easier, I mean by tbat that there is less to vex one in a business point." She has three daughters and three sons, two of whom follow their father's profession, but have not his talent. All tho children speak Italian fluently and English as correctly as if they had been born bere. Mr. Powers wanted to visit America but she says "bis children grew up around him, and bo never felt able to bear the expense of a trip across the ocean with his children, and he refused to make tbe visit without me and the children." And so he died with the hope unrealized.

COL. INQBRSOLL does not think the country is going to the demnition bowwows on the contrary he believes it is getting better that it is purifying itself, detecting and punishing its thieves, reforming its Administrations, reducing the burdens Of local and national taxa tion, and improving its popular education and civilization. He closed the expression of this opinion with the following eloquent words: "Go to work my frionds the world is getting better. I have got a dream tbat prisons will not always l« cursed with tbe shade of tbe gallows that ignorance will not alwavs exist in this world tbat tbe whitherea hand of want will not always be extended for cbaritv that wisdom will sit in the Legislature tbat honesty will sit in tbe courts that charity will stand in all tho pulpits, and tbnt the world is progressing in education, in everything that will carry out tbe grand, tbe splendid destiny of the American people." ___________

JAMBS LICK.theCalifornia millionaire, died in San Francisco last Saturday. During the past two or three years he had made donations for charitable pur poses amounting to upwards of five millions of dollars. Tbe property donated la all in tbe hands of trustees and the business in such a shape that no complications can ensue in carrying out his munifioent charitable designs. His death bad been looked for some time, and was from mere decay of nature.

LBWIS of the Detroit Free Press would seem to belong to tbe Can't Get-A way Club. He lets himself down on tbe Centennial question gracefully: "Along next Winter when the wood gives out' and tbe potatoes ran low, it won't help family a bit to remember that they went to the Centennial." I 41

THBRB were heavy frosts Saturday night at New Orleans and Memphis, which greately relieved tbe anxiety felt in those cities in regard to yellow fever.

A ORASHHOPPRR invasion is reported In some of the northern and northwestern oonntieeof Texas, and wheat sowing will be delayed in consequence.

THK champion bankrupt ts H. A. Pierce, of Springfield, Massachusetts, His creditors got one cent on tbe dollar.

AND now Mrs. Braddon, the novelist, has turned actress, and is making a tour among the small citle* of England,

EVKST sewing machine in the oountry claims to have been awarded the first premium at the Centennial.

Bantm is steadily improving in tbe East and the effect is beiog perceptibly felt is the West and South.

UIA'I/T I 7Ay :TJ Y.Afl '.-I !TAf! i'fl"T /. T{ -fHl»fTT tE&RE TT MTTE SAffUIUXAX -BV'JfiN IN

BARKIXQ D008.

ORE of the arguments which the DCLFT^ ocrats make against Hayesis that he is a weak man uid will, if elected president, be under the control of the leading men of his party. It is easy enough to make such a charge but what ground is there for it? What facte are there in the history of Gov. Hayes which indicate any weakness in his character? He was a brave and gallant soldier during the war, and led many a bloody charge on the field of battle. He never turned his back on tbe foe but was always in the thickest of the fight. He said he would go Into the War for the preservation of the Union if he knew lie should never come back alive. Do these facts indicate a weak man? Where was Mr. TUden at that time and what wss he doing? Did his conduct during those dark and bloody years sh|w him to be a strong and valiantman? Since the war Hayes has administered the affairs of the great State of Ohio for two terms. Has these been anything in his conduct during that time which indicates weakness? If so, will our Democraiic friends be kind enough to point it out? It is true that he is a plain, modest man that he ia no blatherskite Jike Tilden but we have yet to learn that modenty is a sign of weakness or noisy boasting an in dication of strength. "A barking dog does not bite," says the proverb and we see it exemplified every day. Tilden is the barking dog in this campaign. He has been barking up the tree of Reform now thiR good while. He has made his boast that he is the only man who can give the country reform. It begins to look now as though his business of reform, like charity, had better begin at home. There are very strong indications that tome of his private 'acts during the past ten years would bear considerable reforming. He might, perhaps, begin on certain affidavits of his to pretty good advantage.

But as to the question of strength, Carl Schurz can hardly be objected to as a witness by the Democrats. They will not forget his splendid services in their behalf during the last Presidential campaign. Many of our readers will remember the eloquent and powerful speech he made in the Wigwam here. Well, Carl Schurz lias taken occasion lately to say that he does not think Hayes is a weak man. On the contrary he regards him as a man of undoubted and undeniable strength of character and will. Referring to his splendid and manly letter of acceptance, (a letter which for strength, clearness and brevity is as superior to Tilden's as a.speech of Burke's is to a school-girl's first essay,) Schurz says: "The man who in the critical period before election has sufficient courage and fidelity to his convictions to issue such a manifesto, will have the courage after election to resist whatever hostile influences may surround him." This is the opinion, not only of an honest man but of a man whose large abilities and long experience in public life entitles his judgment to unusual weight and credit. Schurz is not a man who can be deceived in such matters, nor is he a man who would deliberately express an opinion on a public question of such importance until he had carefully weighed and pondered it. The fact is, Hayes is not a barking dofc, but his whole history and conduct show that he knows how to bite and will bite vigorously when he gets the chance.

A VERY large proportion of the rebel claims now pending in Congress come from Tennessee. It is a notorious fact that during the war, on account of Tennessee being so near tlie border of the rebellion the government expended millions of dollars in feeding and clothing the citizens of that State, who were too cowardly to enter the rebel army, too treasonable to join the Union ranks and too lazy to work. Yet in the face of this fact they ask for millions of dollars now to pay for their "losses." To show how the government took care of and protected the scalawags who now present "bills" ef losses we quote a dispatch from General Sherman to President Lincoln, written at Chattanooga in 1864: "We have worked hard with the best talent of the country, and it is demonstrated that the rail road cannot supply the people and army, too. One or the other must quit, and the army does not intend to, unless Joe Johnson makes us. The issues to citizens have been enormous, and the same weight of corn or oats would have saved thousands of the mules, whose carcasses now corduroy the roads, and which we need so much. We have paid back to Tennessee ten for one of provisions taken in war."

OXE of the head-lines in the Journal on Monday was "Georgia's Democratic Majority Only 80,000." To put it plain, Georgia, in her State election, gives eighty thousand majority in favor of the United States Government paying for every barn burned, every rail burned, every piece of land occupied by the army, every bale of cotton destroyed, every tobacco field, cotton field, rice field and sugar field marched over by the army, every cotton gin and sugar mill which laid idle, every house occupied by officers and

told

THK official Republican majority in UKSMMMTOI »l»» ^pe.pl.of theNortJ. 1. Is 15037 unjust and absurd claims, and the Terrs

lent, and eves the payment of

tolls on turnpikes and ferry boats. Georgia gives eighty thousand majority in favor of putting an additional debt of two billion five hundred million dollars

Haute Journal glories over the fact. It

GOLD is considerable quantities is should hide its shamed face from the flowing into this country from Europe, eight of loyal and honest men.

MAIIT

[From Thursday's Daily Moil.] THE ELECTION.

an 7 Wc made some predictions yesterday morning regarding tbe result in Vigo county. We know no reason to change them. We believe a part, if not the

whole Republican county ,ticket is elected.

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The Republicans of Vigo county have done nobly. They have had to fight a disaffection in their own ranks and an open, unscupulous enemy called the Democratic party. They have done well, and deserve well. We have faith in the returns which shall oome in to-day, and that they will show a victory, indisputable, has been gained.

THE Terre Ilaute Journal had ft iftilly articlo about the withdrawal of Governor Hayes, yesterday. No Democrat need console himself with the idea that Hayes will be withdrawn. No Republican has e^er thought of such a thing. He is the man to win with, and his name from the first has been an omen of victory. With him as the standard bearer the Republican party will secure an unprecedented victory in November.

THE Paris modistes have decided that a change in colors for ladies' dresses shall be made, and the sombre brown and plaid «nd black are to give way to brighter colors. The colors most likely to pre dominate are blue-upon-red, green-upon-orange, and plum-upon-yellow, for street wear. Terre Haute ladies will be on the qui vive until the first installment of these gay and cheerful colored goods arrive here. ______________

THE New York Times has arrayed it self against Gen. Ben. Butler in his race for Congress. Wc don't like Butlerism at all, but it would not be a calamity to the country to have Ben. Butler in the House to take care of the Ben. Hills and Sunset Cox's.

"LALLYGAO" iB not a very sweet sound ing word it is not a very elegant word to use in strictly proper company, yet its use should not be buried, for the New York Graphic, which claims to be a very respectable paper, says it is of ptire Greek in

TH/KE are some doubtB as to whether Hell Gate was really improved by being blown up. But seven feet of water is found in the channel at low tide, and projecting fragments of rock makes it quite dangerous/or navigation.

DR. E. W. II. ELLIS, of Goshen, who has for many years been a leading Republican, died on Tuesday morning. He served one term as State Auditor. He served sixteen years as Auditor of Elkhart county.

COL. MCLEAN'S majority will give Hunter more "malarial fever."^-Journal, of Tuesday.

Gen. Hunter can grow fat on the kind of "malarial fever" McLean's majority gave him. Pull down your vest young,

SOME went down the new cot road, and some went down the lane, and all that wc could hear them say, was "beaten, Billy a

O. P. D., he, of Opeedee, Vermillion conn tee, should see, that he, is one of dwiw fvllows who never did have no show.

BOB INGKRSOLL don't believe in a hereafter, bathe has made the Democratic party believe there is such a thing.

MCLEAN is a success as a ticket distributor, but a failure when it comes to inducing men to vote his tickets.

SOME one said that a man named O. P. Davit was a candidate for Congress a few days ago. We don't believe it.

Tnr.boys must remember that they must trim their IsmjM and get ready fey another campaign. r*

Tins Tom Nast of oratory," is the way the New York Herald designates Bob Ingenoll.

IT'S a pretty well settled fact that Terre Haute has a large population.

WILLIAM E. MCLKAX, let's sea, what was he running for? CSHfeB9KflnH9S89BBBQ5

NOTwrriMfTAXDIXO the hard times our amusement-loving people are preparing for a feast. Several dancing and unging clubs have been formed, and it is understsod that the various churches are preparing various kinds of amusement with which to entertain the young people during the winter months.

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The excitement yesterday, while the people were awaiting returns, was really greater than prevailed on tbe day of election. Owing to the length of the tickets, and the unusual amount of scratching, the counting out of votes all over the State h«8 been exceedingly small. The returns even iu Vigo county have been provokingly slow in coming in. At a late hour in the night dispatches from Indianapolis indicate that both parties claimed the State. It is beyond a doubt, as we learn from private dispatches that Harrison is elected, and a gain of four Congressmen, certain, and five possibly has been made. Hunter's majority will be between seven hundred and a thou

Estimated at 5,000.

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DESTROYING OVER +JVE THOUSAND PERSONS A CHURCI! A

The Massacre of the Inhabitants oTRetak—A Prtcat and Others Mnfttlated and Tartiired ta Death—The Milled

[From the London Times.]

The next part of the report deals Wit^5 the case of Betak—"the most fearful trag•edy that happened duringthc whole insurrection."

The Medjliss of Tartar Bazarjik, hearing that preparations for revolt were going on in this village, ordered Achmet A^ha of Doshjpat to attack it, and this individual, having joined his forces with those of Mohammed Agha of Dorkova, proceeded to carry out tlicse orders. On arriving at the village he summoned the inhabitants to give up their arms, which, as they mistrusted him, they refused to and a desultory fight succeeded, which do lasted two days hardly any loss being inflicted on cither side.

On the 9th of May the inhabitants seeing that things were going badly with them, and that no aid came from without had a parley with Achiuct, who solemnly swore that if they only gave up their arms not a hair of their heads should be touched. A certain number of tlie inhabitnnts, luckily for them, took advantage of this parley to make their escape. fhe villagers believed Achmet's onto and surrendered their arms, but this de-/ mand was followed by one for all the I money in the village, which, of cours»e\ had also to be acceded to. No sooner was the money given up than the Bashi-Bn-zouk's set upon the people and slaughtered them like sheep. A large number of people, probably about 1,000 or 1,200, toolc refuge in the church and churchyard, thelatter being surrounded by a wall. The church itself, is a solid building, and resisted all tho attempts of tho Bashi-Bazouks to burn it fromtheoutside they consequently fired in through the windows, and getting upon the roof, tore off the tiles and threw burning pieces oi wood and rags, dipped in petroleum, among the m%s of unhappy human beings inside. At last the door was forced in, the massacre completed, and the inside of the church burnt. Hardly any escaped out of these fatal walls.

The only survivor I could find was one old woman, who alone remained out of a family of seven. When the door was broken in, and she was expecting immediate death, a Turk took her !y the hand, and saying, "Conte, old woman, I am not going to hurt you, led her awav, and saved her life. The spectacle which the church and church yard present must be seen to be described: har ly a corpse luis been buried where a man fell there he now lies, and it is with difficulty that one picks one's way to the door of the church, the entrance of which is barred by a ghastly corpse stretched across the threshhold. I visited this valley of the shadow of death on the 31st of July, more than two months and a half after the massacre but still the stench was so overpowering that one could hardly force one's wa into the churchyard.

In the streets at every sfep lay numan remains, rotting and sweltering in the sun—here a Bkull of an old woman, wifh the grsy hair still attached to it, there in the tress of some unhappy girl, sliced in half by a yataghan, the head which it adorned having been probably carried ofl' to be devoured by some of the dogs, who up to this have been the only scavengers. Just outside the village 1 counted morej than sixty skulls in a little hollow, and' it was evident from their appearance thai nearly all of them had been severed from the bodies by axes and yataghans. From the remains of female wearing apparel scattered abous, it is plain that many of the persons here massacred were women.

It is to be feared, also, that some af the richer villagers were subjected to cruel tortures before being put to death, in hopes that they would reveal tho existence of hidden treasure. Thus I'etro Triandaphvilos and Poj»c Nccio weni roasted, and Stoyan Ntovchofl' had hii earsj nose, hands, and feetcntoff. Enough I think, has been said to show that to Achmet Agha and his men belongs the distinction of having committed, perhaps, the most heinous crime that has stained the history of the present century, Nina Sahib alone, I should say having rivaled their deeds. As regards the number of killed, 1 have before stated that about 5,000 is my estimate, am aware that others place it higher, hut be this as it/ may, whether the slain are to be counted by hundreds or thousands docs not levsen in the least the criminality of the slayers. The Intention was to exterminate all except those few girls Cprobably alout eighty) whom they carried off to satisfy their lusts. Those" who escaped owed their safety to their own good fortunes, and not to the tender mercies of their neighbors .'5 04 fit i^"r

A Centennial Romance./

[New York I«.lt'-r.J

It is privately announced that a wedding will take place this winter which will be the fitting sequel of a romance oi two cities—this time in real life. Th parties are Mr. lien II and Mi«Sadie both residents of the Mur-rav-llill section and the romance of the affair consists in their novel introduction. Miss went to Philadelphia about two weeks a^o, with a party of young friends, to visit the Centennial and, an she wished to stay a little long than the rest, it was arranged, or thought to be arranged, tbat her brother-in-law was to meet her at the depot in Philadelphia, and escort her to New York. I5y some mischance, he meant the Pennsylvania depot, at the grounds, while she meant the North Pennsylvania depot, down town, near her hoarding house. It was evening, and as he started for. the depot, she missed her pocket book but as it only contained a few dollars she did not mind the IOM, and hurried forward to jftrv depot in time for the 7:lo train tfom Philadelphia. She failed to meet her Relative, snd was more disconsolate thaujevcr. As time wore on she be^an to realize that nhe was in a strange city without a cent of money. Jnst at the crisis of her despair, she chanced to see a gentleman whom she had often seen on the street near her own home, but whose name was unknbwn. Emboldened by despair^ Bhe spoke to him, and explained the situation. He offered assistance, and as he was en route to this city his escort was accepted. The acquaintance thus commenced ripened into something stronger than friendship, and, as they walked from church last Sunday, an intimate friend of the lady told the story as above, and added that the wedding we old be brilliant one.