Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 38, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 March 1877 — Page 4

HOBERG,«-X 1 ROOT & CO. lOPEBA HOUSE,

OggUne to open dally mw fresh goods at low prices.

NEW SPRING DRESS GOODS,

10.12X. 15, 20 and 25 cents. The handsomest goods ever shown for the money lew Mllu,

Summer Silk*. IteleredSlllu, Black Orofl Grain Silks* In spite of all the advance in Silks we offering onr stock, of Dress Silks

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prices which have not been equaled fifteen years. For a handsome black Dress Silk look at onrs, at 92.00 per yard well worth 92.40. Our advantages in Injing goods insures customers. 1st. The best assortment in the city. 2nd. The lowest prices 3rd. The newest styles 4th. The freshest Goods.

Our Mr. Root, whose excellent judgement is evinced bj the goods we keep imides permanently in New York where he is kept busy buying goods in immense quantities to supply this and our other large store in

FORT WAYNE, INDm With everything new, novel, useful and desirable in our line. His ample experience and extensive purchases insures the tiest goods at the lowest prices ®f which our customers reap the profit

D. C. GREINER, Opera Shoe Store,

497 Wain St.,Opp., Opera House

TERRE HAUTE, IND.

Is offering the largest and most com

plete stock of Boots and Shoes in the

city, and at prices much lower than

other houses. LADIES SHOES made

to order in every style and a fit guaran-

teed.

Wanted.

117ANTED—TO RENT—HOUSE CONW venient to P. O. Seven to nine rooms, •table and outbuildings. Rood repoir reasonable rent, possession Ibi of May. WM. 1 ABDILL, Hooster Store, cor. 4ih and Ohio

WANTED-V

MaM.

SITUATION TO TAKE

charge of A COUNTRY STORE, by A WIN WITH THIRTY YSAR8 EXPEKIKNCK IN THAT LINK. Best of reference given. Address "BUSINESS," Care

Saturday Evening

WANTED-ALLanyKNOWTHAT

TO THE

SATURDAY EVKSIWQ MAIL has a largcirculation than newspaper publlshin the State, outside of Indianapolis. Also that It Is carefully and thoroughly readi tt» homes of its patrons, and that it is the ery best advertising medium In western nali ndlana

For Sale.

TOOK SALE-VALUABLE PROPERTY.I want to sell the building, corner of Ninth and Main streets, known as Shew maker's warehouse. Also, ray residence

Sluiaerryandnorth

reperty, on Eighth street, between Kagle. Also a valuable piece of

Umber

land, near the city. All or either

ot these pieces of property will be sold at a barvain, and on reasonable terms as to payments. Enquire of U. SHEW MAKER, at Warehouse, corner of 9th and Main streets.

For Trade.

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TRADE-A FARM OP 1« ACRES, 6 miles east of Farmerburg, in Sullivan county. 120 acres In cultivation, house of 7

F°1

Will

rooms, barn 80x60, and good timber, iri"

iyviMn| —•"I 7 uduuxo for city P~P»rt{,REI)

Roa8.

RENT—FIR8T CLA8S DWELLING House on south Sixth street, near Main :eeL Also two store rooms in Burnett Slock. Enquire Of L. A. BURNETT.

ITRAYKD—A SORREL COLT-4 YEARS •J old, about 15 hands high, shod ail round, n« blemish. Any person delivering the

no blomlsh. Any perse —to JOSEPH ABBO'. rewarded for their trouble.

IT will bo amply i-ti)

BUNTIN & ARMSTRONG,

WnOLKSALB AND KKTAIL

DRUGGISTS,

Manufacturing Pharmacists, AMD DKALKRS IN

Snrjicnl Imtrniiieiitei?:

No. tOO Main 8L. opposite National House, one square west ot Terre Haute House, TIBU HAVTS, IND.

Stunning!

Are the Bargains now Offered in Dry Goods at B. EHRLICHS STORE, Wilson's old Stand.

CARPETS, & 0IL CLOTHS,«" J1 We are Selling Below

Cost. We want

To Get Kid of Them And will do it. Specialties in other lines. In fact, there are nothing but low prices in the whole store.

SPRING STOCK Is now being received daily. New Goods are being placed upon the counters constantly .We are determined to please the people and not be undersold.

B. EHRLICH,

TERRE

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TERRE HAUTE, MARCH 17, 1877

P. S. WESTFALL, WJU EDITOR AMD PBOKKGROB.

GOOD-BYE AND OOD SPEEDt Nearly two years ago at a time when the editor of this paper was wearied with well doing—or, rather doing the best he could—perhaps doing more work than he ought to do, better expresses it—Mr. S. B. Henderson entered The Mail's editorial room. He had then in view the purpose of establishing at some point in the Wert a psper similar to The Mail, which has enjoyed a popularity and success seldom resched by a weekly paper in the West. He wanted a prac tical knowledge of the work on such paper we desirod to take a good rest, after eleven years of incessant-newspa-per labor, and so the editorial work was placed almost wholly in his charge. He has remained here for a longer period than either of us expected when he first came on the paper. The time has come, however, when the pleasant relations must cease. On Tuesday evening Inn* having perfected his arrangements—he started for Peoria, Illinois, where, in about three weeks, will be issued the Saturday Evening Call" a paper similar in Its leading features to The Mail. His work here and the intimate acquaintance formed in the past two years assures us that the people of Peoria will have a paper of which they will be proud. That it will be a success there can be no doubt. Mr. H. is accompanied by Mr. J. D. Weaver and Mr. J. W. Clifton, compositors on this paper almost from its first issue. They have partnership interest, and in their hands the mechanical appearance of the paper will be as near perfection as possible. They have our earnest wishes for success and we shall watch their progress with much interest.

THE NEW PRESIDENT. From every quarter come praises of the new President and his family. It is very evident that a great majority of the good citizens of the country have the highest hopes and expectations of the new administration. Mrs. Hayes is universally spoken of by those who have met her, as an intelligent, sensible and estimable lady. She is not given to ostentation and parade. She dresses elegantly but it is the elegance of simplicity. She is no mere figure head. She evidently has tact and influence. Already the ladies of the Capital have begun to follow the example set by the lady of tfae White House, and her first reception, held recently, was noted for the absence of vain display and the rich and simple elegance of the toilets.

As to President Hayes, it is manifest that, while he is not at all given to blustering or braggadocio, he is a man of sound judgment, liberal culture, unquestionable patriotism and a will of his own. He takes hold of affairs, not with the doubtful hand of a novice, but with the firm and decisive grip of one long experienced in pnblio life. The politicians are not openly reproved but are quietly ignored. The President, without giving anybody notice or warning, shoulders the responsibility of selecting his own cabinet officers and calls around bin such advisers as he deems best. The politicians wince and some of them fly into a passion and make threats, but the executive pays no attention to them and they soon subside. The cabinet is a strong and liberal one. It oontains several very eminent gentlemen who would never have found a place in the cabinet of a mere partisan president. Tbeseleetion gives assurance at once of the President's patriotic and liberal intentions. It means that he is going to carry out the policy enunciated in his letter of acceptance and reiterated in his inaugural address, namely, to serve his oonntry first and bis party afterwards. An enlightened policy is to be applied to the southern questern. Carpetbagism is to be abolished root and branch. The people of the South are to have local self-government and if they select bad officials they will have nobody but themselves to blame for it. The assurance of good will which the president'! oobduct hss afforded have already evoked a hearty and earnest response from the people of the South.

Everything considered the new administration starts off under the most promising auspices and affords good reason to hope that the country bM entered upon a season of peace, good will and proeperity.

HENRY WARD BEECHES. There are few great reputations that do not appear exaggerated when one comes into the presence of the man himself—hears him talk and sees him aot. They are like the mountains which looms up from afkr, across the vast levels of our western plains, whose blue summits seen from a distance seem to touch the skies, but which sink away as you approach, and dissolve, like a mist beneath your feet, into a ridge of rolling prairie, a little elevated above the flat uniformity of the plain. Probably no MM, after hearing and reading about the sublimity of Niagara Falls, ever saw the wonder for the first time without a Ibellng of disappointment. The great cathedrals and ptotures, the musical celebrities, tfae great orators especially, almost always fell fer below the suture of tbelr feme on a first bearing or seeing. Mr. Beecher Is an exception to this rule. He is always greater than his reputa-

tlon.

Cor.CMb aad Mai* Sto.

Hia genius always surpasses expectation. It never fegs. He is ss great a wonder every Sunday to his con

gregation at Plymouth church, Brooklyn, as to the audience who will hear him for the first time In our Opera House next Tuesday evening. He Is never tame and never wearies. His exbaustless fertility renders every sermon a fresh surprise. His imagination Is a youths mirror which reflects all the moods of nature, her sunshine and her flhawgin^ shadows, and her infinite diversities afld wealth of color. Hii profound sympathy with nature and ea pecially with human nature ia the secret of his eloquence.

Mr. Botifihrr has probably done more th«" any other living man to harmonise the Christian religion, in it* modern interpretation, with the want of human nature and tbe progress of civilization, and to make it tolerable and comfortable for a generous and sy mpsthetio soul to be a Christian. To build up a sound, strong, symmetrical manhood—to make men good, benevolent, patient, self-sac-rificing, rather than pious—to per suade men to love Christ as an ideal of excellence rather than to fear him as a Judge, and to be. loyal to that ideal, not by much praying either in the closet or at the corners of the streets, but in the aotual every day life, and to get all the good you can out of the world by putting all the good you can into it, is the moral and religious aim of Mr. Beecher's teaching.

THE NEW ST ATE HO USE. The passage by the Legislature of the bill providing for the erection of a new State House will be received with satisfaction by a very large majority of the

people

of the State. The present struc

ture is an old, dilapidated, tumble-down building, permeated with mould, and dampness, and altogether unfit for the purposes for

which

it was erected. The

Governor and nsarly all the State officers have long ago been compelled to abandon it and the members of tbe Legislature have had serious thoughts of so doing. Perhaps

would have been

better for some of them if tbey had, for it is charged that the old bat-cage has really caused the death of more than one capable and efficient man whose constitution was not able to withstand the deadly poison of the villainous vapors that lurk there. Besides, the prosperity and progress of the state ronder a new building proper and necessary. It will take eight or ten years to complete the structure and there could be no better time to lay the foundations cheaply and honestly than now. The new building is to stand on tbe site of the present one, including the old market space to the north of it, and will comprise two full squares.

million

cost not to exceed two

dollars and the bill provides

that a tax of one cent on the 100 shall be assessed the present year, and two cents on the |100 for the year 1878, to defray the cost of it. The Governor and two men selected by him from each of the two political parties, will constitute a board to oversee and manage tbe construction of the building. The work will commence at once and meantime the commissioners of Marion County have offered rooms in tbe new court bouse for the meetings of the General Assembly. We presume the new State House will be a large and imposing edifice and such a one as will be calculated to do credit to a great asd flourishing state.

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^,'r tCHICAGO DIVORCESLi We have all heard a great deal of "Chicago Divorce," but we have never seen it shewn up in all its bideousness as a few days since, in reading in the Chicago Inter-Ocean, a three column article from a lady reporter of that paper. She wasyoung, and we presume pretty and nteresting. Pretending she wished to sever the marriage tie, she called on six divorce lawyers in that city, who openly and notoriously advertise their neferious business. Without following her in details of these Interviews, we find that these six consultations for divorce left her the happy choice of getting one, either because she wss "tired of him," would "feel better without him," "longed to be free as a bird," "had different tempers," enjoyed life more ass single womsn," or thst a divorce would be "like the elixir of life."

We learn from this and other sources the following facts relstive to this busi-

1. Anybody, for sny cause or for any purpoee, will be furnished a divorce by these Chicago lawyers on application Inside of thirty days, and at an expenditure of from |60 to

faoo.

2. The defendant need not be notified, may be kept wholly Ignorant of tbe entire transaction, and find himself or herself a single man or woman without word of warning or suspicion of tbe aflkir. A deserting woman may be robbed of tbe support to which she is entitled may be leit with a helpless fkmily on her hands may, indeed, be living with a man who has ceased to be her husband, and who Is waiting a convenient opportunity to reveal tbe fact— and all this under the color—t|e ^notion—of law. 8. The baffled libertine who regards the matrimonial state as irksome may acoomplish his purpose by a marriage he doee not Intend to Observe, and have a divorce from his victim awaiting his re turn from the bridal trip.

CbL. THOMPSON, "our Dick," and

rwn JL rr^rirvT-^ .mrtrsir-fj *m /J

HAUTE SATURDAY EVENIKG MAIL.

for

theqhlefeof

foe various

bureaus,

Secretary informed them

tracts involving the

money would

submitted

the

that no con

expenditure of

msde

have Been

until'they shall

to the

Secretary

and received his approval, in order that tbe

Secretary may make himself familiar with the current business of the department. He directed tbe chief of each bureau to

prepare

list of all con

tracts now being fulfilled, with explanations showing progress made, the law under which contracts were given ost, tbe aggregate amount authorised to be expended amount expended to date, amount remaining in tbe treasury to the credit of each bureau, and generally such other information touching contracts as will enable him to intelligently understand the current business of tbe department. Secretary Thompson ssys he is determined to run the department upon strict business principlee. He will personally supervise all expenditures, and will endeavor to see that the-government receives full compensation for every dollar expended.

THE youngster who has before him a big doee of castor oil, and behind and above him a big switch, and knows that taking the latter will not release from the necessity of swallowing the former, can sympathize with the politicians in the Senate who wanted to reject the President's cabinet nominations, and didn't dare to do so. After hesitating until the growls of the people began to reach Washington, they concluded to step up, like little men and take the dose. Down it went, and all hands declared that they fully intended to take it all the time, only they didn't want to manifest any indecent haste. But they deserve sympathy. It is dreadful hard for the old political backs who supposed thst the chief object of Providence in creating this continenfcand planting this nation, was to provide good places for them, to see such mean as Evarts, Schurzand Thompson, put into the best places, and be told that they can no longer control appointments for their own advantage. Blessings brighten as they take their flight," and political plunder must have been most attractively gilded by that inaugural, and tbe cabinet appointments, and it is uo wonder that there' were tears in the Senatorial eye when it took its departure. But with President Hsyes to give the needful medicine, and with tbe people to apply the switch, the poor fellows will have abundant occasion for tears in the four years to come. Let them weep.1'''1** _______________

MR. MOODY is quite as remarksble for bis quick wit, good sense and good nature, as for his piety and earnestness, and the former often help him out of a tight place. All have heard of his reply to the London clergyman who asked him if his work was intended to reach the miserably poor, and he said instantly, Yes, and the miserably rich too."

Tbe other day at a ministers' meeting in Boston there seemed the prospect of trouble. On Tuesdays, after the noon meeting, he meets the olergymen "who are in sympathy with him." At one of these meetings a prominentgUniversalist minister appeared among the number* and asked if he was Included in the Invitation to attend these meetings. If Mr. Moody bad said, Yes, then doubtless the orthodox, some of them, would have objected and there would have been a division of sentiment. If he said No, then tbe "liberal" clergymen who have spoken kindly of him and his work would have taken offenae. If he dodged be would have loet the respect of both parties. Quick ss

thought,

almost before the question was asked, came tbe reply, "You have beard me preach and know my doctrines, and if you can stand me I can stand you." All hands were satisfied.

IT was a bold movement on the part of President Hayes to put into his cabinet not only a southern man but a southern Democrat. But whatever politicians may think or say, the people don't care much about tbe section oi country from which a man comes, or what have been his party associations, if, when called upon by the papers of his own party to resign his place in the Senate, because he did not vote to suit the extremists, he can write in reply as did Mr Key in 1875:

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our

Secretary of the Navy, hss taken the helm in a manner that is somewhat startling, yet really hopeful for the return of honesty and eoonomy in the management ot our natural aflfcirs. As soon aa hs had sasumed formal charge 8«cretaryThompson gave general directions with reference to tbe future administration of the depart naent, touching the necessary reforms In every branch of tbe public service. Sending

I beg y«u to remember I am no diplomat, no trimmeer, noilrae-server I believe you know that My raoito and my Platform are,"Honesty is tbe best boiley." (f my party adopts a platform every single principle of which I do not indorse, I lb Ink I may vote for and support its men if choose. When Col. was Superintendent of Public Instruction, we bad a conversation at the Maxwell House in Nashville, in which we both agreed that we were not and would not be partisans, but should reserve to ourselves the right to do what we might think right. Tbat Is jet my platform, and always shall be. If It takes me to the altar or tbe stake I shall take tbat platform wltb me to it If my party and oonseienee go together I shall go with my party, but ir my oonseienee goes one way and my party the other, then I prefer to go with my oonseienee and Judgment. If tbe Democratic party dont want a man with this son of "platform It had belter read me out. I stand by my utterance*.

Yon mav file this letter and use it

against

me if I fell in a jot or tittle of what

I say." s=B^=ss=^a

THAT was a vigorous blow square upon tbe head of the political nail which the Christian Union gave last week, when it said:'

The country bas come with great unanimity to tbe threefold determination—to have ptaee founded on liberty, to bave of-fice-holders the servants not the masters of the country, and to bave performances, not broken promises, for money.".

In reference to the first sf theee, there certainly is a very strong public sentiment condemnatory both of bulldozing the negro and of interfering with stats governments by Federal troops. And the feeling in reference to these twin eads Is by no means confined to either party. The better elements of both

parties sincerely deprecate bulldozing and military interference. The Republicans, not only the rank and file, but the pi say In his political action and the troops shall betaken and kept away." And the South generally ssems inclined to say, Take and keep away the troope and we will let the negro alone." And tbe country generally is determined that both of the conducting paities shall make and keep this agreement. This dene there will be "peace founded on liberty"—liberty for the nesre, and liberty for state governments and peace for all.

preMut leaders, seems iuelined tct to the 8outh, Leave

Helen's Babies."

Ihe negro free

Wi hardly know whether the experience of Mr. John frabberton, tbe author of Helen's Babies," with the book publishers, is mere encouraging or dishearting to young writers. He says that some years ago he picked up in a publishing house the manuscript of an author whioh had been- rejected by two of the most eminent readers and finished scholars of the day, and being struck with the vigor of its style, procured its publication though under protest. The book bad a large sale and the same publishers afterwards printed several others by the same author. The readers rejected it because it was without shape," but Mr. Habberton is convinced that what the reading public wants is something fresh, bold and spirited whether eo classically finished or not. This is encouraging to young writers who, whatever their faults, generally have, or at least think they have sufficient spirit and boldness but also awakkens the dreadful doubt of not felling into tbe appreciative hands of such an appreciative critic as tbe author of

IF any respectable and well meaning woman is foolish enough to advertise for a husband In the newspapers she had better take warning from the fate oi Mary Athers, of Porterville, Pa. Five years ago Miss Athers was a respectable young lady and the daughter of a bank cashier of Porterville. In an evil hour she advertised for a husband and was answered oy one Johnston, ot Rutland, Vermont. A correspondence ensued and in three months tbey were secretly married. Although grieved at her conduct her parents accepted the inevitable and a plaoe was made in tbe bank for the new-comer. Time ran on and a lady with two children appeared on the scene and claimed and carried away the truant husband as her lawful spouse. The forsaken woman, unable to endure the ignominy and disgrace thus put upon her, shot hereplf through the heart. And so ended Mary Athera' illegitimate search for a husband.

ANOTHER life insurance company is about to wind up its business on account of "crookedness" in the conduct of its affairs—this time a Chicago concern. The Toledo Blade states that It is charged that the Protection Life Insurance of Chicago has been guilty of divers frauds, among them tbe collection of assessments for the death of fiotltlous persons on forged certificates. It is also charged that the officers have used 1200,000 of the funds oi the company, collected by such means from tbe polioy holders. Tbe case excites good deal of interest.

THK Weekly Republican of Elyris, Ohio, records tbe fact that, on Friday of lsat week, Mrs. Sophia Briggs, for many years the efficient and popular deputy olerk of the Common Pleas Court in that county, administered the oath of office to tbe Hon. W. W. Boynton, as one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Ohio, this being the first time in the history of tbe state that suoh an act was performed by a woman.

A BOSTON man lias a good word for the Spits dog while everybody else Is denouncing him. He denies thst the Spitz is near brother to the wolf, the very parent of tables, says he is no msdder than any other dog and tbat hydrophobia Itself Is a delusion. The manifest conclusion is thst no family is entirely safe unless there be a Spitz in it.

THB New York Tribune observes tbat it is creditable to the character of American women, and an evidence of their tact and ability graoefully to adapt themselves to circumstances, that no President's wife bas shown sny particular incapacity for the position through want of good breeding and dignified manners.

AKONO other reforms—bow familiar tbat vord "reform" does sound—Mrs. President Hayes has Introduced high necked dresses in Washington, snd it#is said will do away with the custom ot serving wine at state dinners, and have no drink but tea for aupper.

AT.T. along his route in tbe West tbe people are turning out in immense numbers to see and bear Beoober, indicating that they have lost none of their felth in tbe man, or else there is unparallelled curiosity to see the great pulpl preacher.

To read the glowing eulogies of the new president and cabinet, of tbe proposed reforms and jolly good feeling existing among those who assume to control tbe destinies of the nation one would imagioe thst tbe politics! millenlum hsd surely dawned.

THK mystery which publishers are throwing round the authorship of certain

books is beooming rather stale, and as the books are sometimes very worthless, tbe device no longer excites curiosKy.

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BuLnm "bit off more than he could chew," discovered his error snd hss surrendered to the Hayes administration.

burglary: "I have never known parenta tofeil to commit pwjury,-whenit was requisite in defense of their child-

FUO DOUGLASS hss boon appointed to tbe saarahalship of the District of Columbia, the salary of which is six thousand dollars, snd it is kicking up a terrible bobbery at the Capital.

THE malcontents at Washington have been completely ailenced by the unexpected popular support welling up from press and people in all sections of the country. 7,""

THE saddest feature of this presidential matter is that Tilden's woman has gone back on him''—at least we do not hear any more of tbat interesting female.

THE first election of 1S77, occurred ia New Hampshire, on Tuesday, the Republicans carrying the State by about 3,990 majority. =S9=9EBBEK I

A PROMINENT citizen of Springfield, Illinois, in his eighty-first year, has just married bis sister-iu-law, seventy years old.

THB friends of the Rev. Phoebe Hannafosd have formed a new society, and re-engaged her at a salary of |1,500.

THE U.S. Senate adjournod at noon to-day—the President having no further use for tbat body.

PRESIDENT Hayes come* in at the some age that Grant goes out—fifty-five years.

THE State Legislature comleted its work and adjourned on Thursday.

"TAKE it all in all, the oabluet suits me," says big Bob Ingcrsoll.

Now we're ready tor that lbng promised revival of trade.

HAYES seems to bave busted the Senatorial ring.

S E

INDIANA IS to have a new state house. THE ship of state is smoothly sailing.

FOUR years more of Ft 1 beck.

TRANSPLANTING JOURNALISM. [Tuesday's Dally Express] A Colony of three Terre Haute gentlemen, ex'perienced in different branches of tbe printing buslnees, will go to PeoriS, Illinois. In a

day or two for the

purpose ef establishing there

newspa

per somewhat like the prosperous Mall oft bis city. Another Terre Haute colony bas made a very successful venture in a similar enterprise at Grand Rapids, Michigan. We are informed tbat a popular business man of this oity contem-

ville. This Is well. Tbe press is tbe educator of the people and tbe fertilizer of morality. We do not know anything that is better calculated to lilt the western country into a higher and more beautiful lire than tbe transplanting of our lofty Terre Haute journalism into tbe minor cities. Tbe gentlemen who have undertaken, and who may yet undertake. this missionary labor will have the hearty wishes of this community for their success.

HENRY WARD BEECHER. [Burlington Hawkeye.] Mr. Beeoher's lecturing and preaohing tour through these western states is one of tbe marked events of the season. It is not too much to ssy that no single Individual living oould oocaslon as much interest as bss been snd is being awakened by this trip of tbe great Plymouth or rather tbe world's greatest—preacher. Some of this interest doubtless-arises from the feot that Mr. Beecher's name baa recently bees very much in the public prints, snd there is a natural curiosity te see and hear one about whom so much has been said but the still greater reason for the Interest taken is the roognition of the fact not only of his unequaled powers of oratory, but tbat the aspersions cast upon his good name bave been unjust, and the people are desirous of testifying tbelr undiminished confidence in his integrity and uprightness of character, as well as of improving an opportunity, which is now for the first time afforded to many, of listening to and seeicg his matchless eloquence.

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And as an orator, Mr. Beecher bas In seeming perfection every qualification, whether of, voice, of person, of brain power, and of that marvelous tact of putting into words and phrases tbe best thoughts of the best minds and the common sense of the masses infinitely better than they can do it for themselves. He can take bis bearers through all the stages of thought and feeling and apparently without effort—oonvulsiug them with laughter, melting them to tears, charming them with tbe wealth and beauty of bis illustrations, lifting them into tbe highest spiritual Yealms, and awakening in them the deepest and most profound emotions. Of course, in a single lecture, or a single discourse from the pulpit, it is not possible for him to exhibit tbe fall strength or the end less variety of his wonderful powers. A wonderful speech, or a great oration, or a great sermon, requires a great occasion to call it forth. But even in a single lecture or sermon, Mr. Beecher exhibits powers which cannot fall to convince tbe discriminating hearer that heisjtbe perfect master of the art, and capable of tbe highest succees. r:

It gives us pleasure to say tbat Mr. Beecher bears his age and bis abundant labors well. He is apparently good yet for many yeaas of successful work. His trials, so far from souring bis nature, have given him a richer experience, a greater spiritual insight, and equipped him more thoroughly for ministering to the necessities,, tbe wants and the hopes of his world-wide parish. He has not been able to take by the band and to apeak with ths thousands who would have been glad thus to testify their admiration, respect snd love. But wear sure tbat hs is not indifferent to the manifestations of friendship which bave greeted him on this western tour and furthermore tbat the magnificent ovatioo every where given hlm throughout the growing cities and magnifiomt irieaot tbe west, will be cherished as pral among eventful

ths choicest memories of an life.