Terre Haute Daily Gazette, Volume 1, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 July 1870 — Page 2

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ATR JrLi vxis signalizing Ins Inst days in Congress by proposiinyuid sccuring the of laws protecting the people against the land grabbers.

LaFayette

Journal. Did not Julian recently vote to give a valuable Island in the Bay of San Francisco, worth 510,000,000, to a railroad company Pretty big grab that.

BERRY SULOKOVE is one of the editors of the

Indianapolis Journal.

No

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Yoorhees vs. Dunn.

Tin-: evening Radical organ is determined to light the Congressional campaign on the war line. Isn't that an ungracious dig at little Moses, who hied oil' to Europe during the heat of the fight?—Tourwd.

We are informed that Mr. Dunn when he left college with his health'much impaired, was advised to travel, in order to restore that health. Acting under this advice, we understand, he went to Europe, and made a tour of the continent. He came home much improved in health, but is yet a man of feeble physical constitution. How a man of such physical health that his friends advised him to travel in order that he might live, could do the duty of a soldier in the service, we cannot quite understand. Perhaps the dashing editor of the Journal, whose sword flashed in the sunlight as he led the advance guard in the bloodiest battles of the rebellion, can give us the required information

No one pretends that Mr. Dunn would at any time have been received by any examining surgeon as a soldier. He would have gone into the hospital after I the first day's march, and remained there* But Mr. Dunn was loyal to his country, and never gave aid and comfort to her enemies.

This charge that Mr. Dunn "shied-off to Europe during the heat of the fight,' certainly comes in a questionable shape from the editor of a Democratic paper, and a Democratic paper too, which advocates the election of Daniel W. Yoorhees to Congress. AY here was D. W. Yoorhees during the "heat of the light?" (Jpon what battle fields did his brawny shoulders support a musket? In how many fights did his six feet of physical development and ponderous muscle exercise themselves? Where was his tall plume seen to rise and fall amid the dust and smoke of carnage? Echo, from every quarter all over this broad land, answers—where? Every man, woman, girl and boy throughout this entire country knows that Mr. Yoorhees did not fight in defence of his country, in her hour of greatest need. Ah! more than that. Had he stopped here he would have been much less censurable, though possessing as he did a. physical development that is capable of enduring ail the terrible hardships of a. soldier's life, and which now, when the great war is ended and he remains untouched by saber and bullet, should make him feel ashamed of whenever he looks at it.

But Mr. Yoorhees was not content with not lighting in defense of his country, but it was notorious throughout the whole country, North and South, in the Federal and in the Confederate armies, that all his sympathies were against his country. More than this it was believed by every one, during all this long and bloody war, that he gave "aid and comfort to the enemy." That he defended the interests of the rebels while a member of Congress, and drew his per diem regularly from the Federal Treasury for doing so. That he spoke for the rebel government, and voted for the rebel government, while he ate, and drank, and clothed himself with the money he drew as a member of the American Congress. That he was willing to destroy a Government whose money, from the pockets" of her loyal people, was furnishing bread for himself, and to fill the mouths of his children. Men more conscientious, when they determined to give their assistance to the rebel cause, resigned their seats in Congress, and refused to draw money from the Treasury of a country that they were willing to see overthrown.

There were men all over this country who might have been in the service, but diil not go in. There are men all over this country, who ought to have assisted the Government during the firey ordeal through which free institutions passed, and did not. But there were few men throughout the North who sympathized so warmly with the rebels as did Mr. Yoorhees, and remained out of the Confederate ranks.

Does the Journal dare question the loyalty of Mr. Dunn? To kave been loyal to the Federal Government during the rebellion was something in one's favor when an entire section of the American people were disloyal, and disloyal men were scattered all over the loyal States. To have been disloyal at such a time, is the Nessian shirty/whose woof and whose web will eat into the flesh and bones for all time to come.

With what kind of a face, then, can the editor of the Journal refer to the fact that daring the "heat of the light" Mr. Dunn went to Europe to recuperate a feeble and broken down constitution but who was all the time intensely loyal, and at the same time support the aspirations of Mr. Voorhees, whose muscularly frame peculiarly fitted him for the duties of a soldier, but who remained out of the ranks and held his seat in Congress, and gave all the aid and comfort he could in |H that position to the enemy.

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the .State is more familiar with the political history of the country, both State and National, and he is altogether one of the very best writers anywhere.

We congratulate the Journal that Mr. Sulgrove is again on the tripod.

Thanks.

We are thankful to our many friends, who, both personally and by letter, have complimented the course pursued by us since assuming the management of the GAZETTE. We know the people want the truth, and are tired of the wishywashy. milk and water, cuttingand trimming, backing and

tilling

peculiar to some

portions of the press in different sections of the country. We propose to continue to "speak out in meeting," and our friends may rely on that. However, we fully appreciate kind and encouraging words.

INDIANA NEWS.

The population of Peru is 3,609. JjaGrange county is out of debt. Tenement houses are in great demand in Jeffersonville.

Much sickness is reported in JefFersonville. The shoemakers in LaFayette are 011 a strike.,

Jeffersonville is agitating the Holly water works for that city. Dr. G. L. Gibbs, an okl and prominent citizen, died on Thursday evening.

Twenty-two deaths occurred at Fort Wayne during the month of June. A military company will be organized at Crawfordsville 011 the 6fch proximo.

Newton, Dearborn county, is to have a new two story brick school house. Anew postoffice has been established in St. Joseph county, called Sumption Prairie.

Mrs. Buston, of LaFayette, was severely injury by an angry cow a day or two ago.

Captain David H. Walls, of Huntington, died at the State Insane Hospital a few days ago.

A tremendous war between the advocates of spiritualism and its opponents at Kokomo.

The Kokomo Journal recommends billiard players and loafers to get them into the harvest fields.

Workmen are engaged in laying the foundation for the new courthouse at the Shoals, in Martin county.

A bear was exhibited in the streets of Mitchell the other day. The papers there call it a "gentleman bear."

The Democratic Congressional Convention for the first district will be held at Princeton on the 21st inst.

The safe of T. W. Kindall & ^Co., at A manufacturer of linseed oil, at Richmond, is receiving an invoice of 10,000 bushels of flax seed from Calcutta. LaFayette, was robbed a few nights ago of papers, &c., to the value of $4,000.

The road to Oak Hill cemetery from Evansville is to be graded. The contract has been let.

A Carlisle writer boasts of the beauty of the ladies of that place. The writer does not state whether they are married or single.

A few days ago we made mention of the fact that a bank in LaFayette had been robbed of about $10,000. The property has been recovered.

Col. James G. Jones, an old and experienced lawyer, and the present Circuit Judge for the Evansville District, is a candidate for the office of Criminal Judge.

Conrad Turner, a saloon keeper of Liawrenceburg, has "lit out," leaving sevelal hundred dollars of debt in his rear.

Day before yesterday, two ladies, named respectively Mrs. Ira A. Fairchilds and Mrs. Wm. E. Wood, were thrown from a buggy, and Mrs. Fairchild badly injured, having one of her legs broken.

The case of Richards, the alleged defaulting Treasurer of Harrison county, has been postponed until the next term of the Circuit Court in Jeffersonville.

A young colored man, named Ben. Ray, who carried water on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, attempted, on Tuesday, to jump from the cars at Charlestown, but was thrown upon the track by the car, and had his head cut from his body.

The business of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad over the Vernon branch, was in July, 300 per cent, more than in May. This rapid increase of business at "this season is remarkable.

One hundred and twenty head of mules arrived at the New Albany and Chicago Railroad depot, at New Albany, for the Southern market, Wednesday evening.

It is claimed that the oldest couple in the State reside in Leavenworth. They arc William Wilbert, aged 95, and his wife, aged S7. They have been married, the Independent says, for 00 years. They were among the earliest settlers of that part, of Indiana, and the memory of the old gentleman of events-jof the early history of the State is very vivid.

A District Agricultural Society, composed of the western portion of Wayne, and a part of Henry, Fayette, Union and Rush counties, has been organized. The joint fair will be held at Cambridge City this fall. Seven thousand dollars have been subscribed, and sixty acres of land purchased,- a portion of the Meredith farm.

Last Sunday, Rev. Levi Johnson, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Put namville, received into full membership sixty-one persons. The large number who Lave remained faithful to their vows is gratifying evidence of the thoroughness of the revival work of the past winter.

There is standing near Charlestown a house occupied by two octogenarians, George Hester and wife, who were once attacked by Indians, who surrounded it. On its walls and floors are seen the holes through which the brave volunteers fired out at their savage foe. The occupants are the father and mother of Judge Melville C. Hester, «f the Flovd and Clark Criminal Court, and Rev. W. McK. Hester, of New Albany.

The Louisville Commercial1s

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Jefferson­

ville correspondent relates the following: "The case of a man who came here recently from the far West seems hard. He was convicted, he asserts, and as many persons believe, when he was entirely innocent of the charge imputed to him. He was sentenced to several years in the State prison, and served out his time, behaving in a most exemplary and proper manner. While he was in prison his wife, mother and father died, and all that was left for him was an infant that lie had tenderly loved. His infant was given to a family that soon afterwards moved to the far West. While in prison the convict, by overwork, saved up $300, with which he hoped to reclaim and provide for his child, but was induced to lend it, under solemn promises of payment, to a former keeper

or attache of the prison,

who cheated him out of the whole sum. When the convict came out of prison he was almost penniless, and utterly failed to find his child.

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Democrats have

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Fjora the Missouri Democrat.

3 Shall the West (Jet Justice The Chicago Iribune, discussing with vigor the defeat of the apportionment bill in Congress, and pointing out very clearly the great injustice done to the West in refusing the representation to which the Western States arc constitutionally entitled as soon as a new census is taken, makes a suggestion which we think worthy of serious consideration. It is this, that the Western States proceed to elect, as provisional members, the number of additional representatives to which each State is entitlad, and that the members so elected shall present themselves at the organization of the next Congress and "demand admittance as aright belonging to their constituents." Of course the next Congress will recognize the right of the States to the additional members by anew apportionment with what reason, then, can it refuse the members if elected in advance

To this plan the obvious objection is that it is not in accordance with any existing law. But the Iribune meets this objection as follows: "What is there in the Constitution to prohibit the people of Illinois electing the additional number of Representatives to which the State may be entitled under the census of 1870 Can Congress, by refusing to pass an apportionment act, defeat the constitutional right of representation The people of Illinois have as much right to be represented in the Congress which commences in 1871, according to the enumeration under the census of June, 1870, as they will have three, five, or ten years hence. So with all other States. They have all the right to representation according to population, and when Congress refuses to recognize that right, it is the privilege and the duty of the people to assert it.

The objection that these new members must be elected by districts is absurd. Illinois has had a Representative elected by the people at large since 1862. There is nothing in the Constitution which requires the election of members of Congress by-districts, or that prohibits their election by general ticket. In the earlier days of the Union the general ticket plan was common. In 1842, the Whig Congress passed an act requiring all Representatives to be elected from separate districts. Previous to that time New York elected Representatives from districts, some districts electing one member, others two, and one district electing four members. Tne act of 1842 was not obeyed. In the very next Congress. New Hamprhire, Georgia, Mississippi and Missouri were represented be members elected on general ticket. There was an attempt by the Whig party to exclude them, but it was a complete failure. Several of those States continue to elect their Representatives by general tickets for several years. In 1850, California elected two Representatives to Congress in advance of any apportionment, and, though her population did not entitle her to but one, both were admitted. Congress has, by a trick which is more dishonorable than the ordinary disreputable practices of factious minorities, denied to the people of the Western. States the representation to which they are entitled under the Constitution, and the only proper way to meet that affront, and to vindicate their rights, is for the conventions of both political parties, in all these States, to nominate, in addition to the present number of Representatives, such other number as the State maybe entitled to.

We confess that this plan seems to us well worthy of consideration. It can do us no harm to elect additional members, subject, of course, to the decision of the decision of the next Congress as to their admission—and this is all that the Tribune intends. The assumption by the present Congress of the right to say how the States shall be represented in the next Congress is utterly without warrant in the Constitution, for that instrument plainly recognizes the right of each House to be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members. The next House will have an absolute right to admit members for whom no apportionment has yet been made by law, or to admit members elected in advance, as soon as the apportionment bill had passed. Indeed, the assumption that the Senate has any right to say how many members shall compose the House is not warranted by the Constitution, so far as we can discover. If the Senate should absolutely refuse to pass an apportionment bill, it would be not only the right but the duty of the House to carry into effect that' clause of the Constitution which provides that "Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respeetiv© numbers."

The

senate led them to

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the Hon. Sam.

Moffatt Theodore Cuyler, and Dr.

The military comedy of •'The^Lancers" Museum,

Hon* Mses

If the House

should admit all members to which each State is entitled according to the census, the Senate would have no business to object, because "each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of it3 members."

The Senate and the Taxes. The squabble ill the Senate about the Tax bill might be very easily elided. There would have been none but for the prevailing Senatorial tendency to keep all controversies perpetually open, and there would be no difficulty in discovering a method of escape if Senators were not Senators more prone to favor special interest than to consult the wishes or interests of the people.

There seemed, tne other day, a fair chance of striking off around eighty millions of taxes, including the income tax and sundry other taxes which the House bill would have continued. The material point ot difference between the two chambers related to the income tax, which the House proposed to continue in a modified form, and which the Senate proposed altogether to drop. The issue was a square one, and one that would have enabled the Senate to test the disposition of Representatives to enlarge or curtail the amound of taxe3 to be reduced. But Mr. Sherman, in a half-hearted way, deprecated the large reform contemplated by the Senate, and insisted that if the income tax was dispensed with, other internal taxes or certain customs' duties must be retained. 1 his declaration gave special interests a pretext for intrigue, and Senators were louncl to lieip them. By a maneuver which cannot be too strongly condemned, a minority contrived to reopen the decision of the majority, and, by reviving the income tax, to unsettle all that had' enmh-

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Democratic sheet

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has been nominated by th^ nlS ,•y' of the Sixth District, Dunn is a young man, p©^esSPA of good deal of money and more ability, and will make it interesting for Mr Voorhees, in the coming campaign He is an enemy not to be despised, and if the Democrats count on the inability of Mr. Dunn^they will be much disappointed. Mr. Dunn's father, Hon. Geo. G. Dunn, was one of the ablest men of his day, and his son is more learned than he was, and possesses all his natural ability. He only lacks the incentive to labor, which necessity gave his father, to become a much more famous man. He is seeking a high position we think, before he is qualified by mental training to fill it. He is, however, a clever gentleman one that we would be glad to see succeed, if he only advocated correct political prini

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A very good Unbleached Muslin for 6 and 7c a yard. First rate yard wide Muslin for 8 and 9c. Our 12 1-2 cent Muslins are the same as others. Charge 18c a yard for IT HANGS AT THE DOOR. LOOK AT IT. Big lot of Sprague and other Prints at 8 cts a yard. OUR Prints have the tickets on them so that you can see whether they are the Best Goods or not. Beautiful Dress Goods at 12 l-2c, 15c, 18c, 20c, 25c, 30c, 40c, 50c. Lot of Best Delaines 11c, Douhle-widtli Alpacas 22c. Elegant Percales 14c, sold until recently for 25c.

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PAPER DEALERS,

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Proprietors of

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Fine Lawn Robes at $2 50

Tucked Skirting- BELOW COST, to close out.

Lisle Thread and Silk-Spiked Half Hose, very cheap.

Light weight Cassimeres, Jeans and Cottonades, cheaper

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Palm Leaf, Linen, Silk, Sandal-wood, Pocket and Ivory.

Linen Fans at 15c others ask 25c.

Best l()-bone French Corsets at 75c others ask $1.

Linen Cambric Handkerchiefs at 75c per dozen.

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