Terre Haute Daily Gazette, Volume 1, Number 61, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 August 1870 — Page 2
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1870.
The War.
Every thing now indicates the overthrow of the Emperor of the French, and the Empire. Napoleon was forced by circumstances to declare war against Prussia. He was compelled to make war, in order to direct the public mind from himself, or the attention of the peo pie being directed to him, would certainly depose him. Knowing this, and with out, perhaps, a sufficient pretext, he commences a war which, if successful on his part, establishes him firmly in his seat as Emperor, and if unsuccessful, only places him where he would have been without any war—an exiled Emperor.
So far fortune has been unfavorable to the French. The King of Prussia has triumphed, and the French army is slowly falling back upon Paris. Of course every inch of ground will fought over by the retreating forces. Napoleon will not give up his kingdom without a great struggle. The pride of the French army will prompt it to defeat the Prussians, if possible. Already a motion has been made in the Corps Legislatif to depose the Emperor. The young Prince Imperial has been sent to London, and the Empress Eugenie has sent all her jewels and valuables there also. This looks like great demoralization, and that Napoleon is really about to give up the contest before the fighting has fairly commenced. "Curses like chickens come home to roost." The infamous crimes committed by Napoleon III. when he placed him self on the throne of Empire, are now retroacting on him, and he will, ere he "shuffles off this mortal coil," receive his full and just reward. Men are in the hands of Providence, and wicked acts are followed by punishment, as certain as effect follows cause. What Victor Hugo said of Napoleon I. may be appropriately applied to Napoleon IIL "He vexed the Almighty," and the Almighty will meet out to him the proper punishment.
If the French Empire is to be overthrown, there will be a Republic established upon its ruins. The tendency of the French mind has been in this direction for a long time. "Vive La Rapublique," has been echoing and re-echoing along tne streets of Paris, for many years. The iron doors of the dungeons would smother it for a time, but down deep in the French heart, it still lived and burned.
It is better for the world that France be a Republic. It is much better for the people, that all governments resolve themselves into Republics. But with France a Republic on the other side of the water and in full sympathy with the great Republic on this side, Republican institutions will receive such an impetus that the prediction of the elder Napoleon, when he said "Europe will be Corsack or Republican," may yet become true.
The Democracy and France. It is somewhat singular with what unanimity the Democratic party has taken sides with the French, in their great struggle with the Prussians. Why the leaders of the party do this we must confess we are at a loss to know, unless it is from the aid and comfort the French gave them and their rebel friends, in the invasion of Mexico during the war. And from the other and further fact, that the German element all over this country was loyal to the Federal Government during the war, and the great mass of it in the Federal army.
These are two good and sufficient reasons why a Democrat should like the French and hate the German, and we opine are the reasons why the Democratic Press all over the country now, appear in full sympathy with Napoleon and his course.
No European nationality was so well represented in our army during the late War as the German. Willich, Osterhaus and Seigel are names as familiar as household words. They were brave and loyal Germans, and fought with courage and skill for the land of their adoption. While such men as D. W. Voorhees was at home, secretly giving all the information and aid to the rebels he could without endangering his neck, they were in the field surrounded by thousands of their fellowcountrymen, upholding the flag of this country and fighting for our free institutions.
No wonder that Mr. Voorhees still remains sympathetically opposed to such men. No wonder the party to which he belonged during the war, would now rejoice at the success of the French over the Prussians. Had the rebels succeeded in overthrowing this government, Napoleon would have held on to Mexico, and he and Jeff Davis would have acted in complete accord and sympathy. This was understood between the rebels and the Emperor, and that is a reason why the Democracy still cling to his fortuues
Tho suit of Had way fe Co., of New York, ftgaiust Griffin, of the Vincennes Gazcltc, for libel, on tho second trial, was decided against tho Radways in oar Circuit Court to-day.—Telegraph from Vincennes.
It does not seem to be a very profitable investment, for a fellow to bring suit for libel against an editor, before an Indiana jury. And we are inclined to the opinion that the investment would have been no more profitable, had a proprietor of one of the Vincennes papers, been the advisory Attorney in this prosecution. The jury of twelve honest men would have seen the "cat in that meal tub," and by their verdict rebuked the unmanly fellow.
Let the Boys Have Tools.
We heartily indorse the following, which we extract from an article on "Mechanical Recreations" in the Scientific American:
Every man who can afford it should supply his boys with tools, and a room where they may be used and cared for. A boy takes to tools as naturally as to Kreen apples, or surreptitious and forbidamusements and ten to one if he
den has a chance to develop his meeanic^l tastes and gratify them to their full extent, his tendencies to vicious courses will remain undeveloped. Such a result is enough to compensate for all the expense and trouble the indulgence we recommend would entail whife the chances that the early development of his constructive faculties may in this mechanical age be the means by which he may ultimately climb to fame and fortune are not small.
Grant's Administration—Senator Harlan's opinion of tlie General. The
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THE Madison, Ind., Courier relates the following sad accident: Alfred Flint, fifteen years of age, shot and killed William McLaughlin, aged twelve years, while out gunning on Saturday afternoon. Young McLaughlin had stooped down to pick a few blackberries, and while in this position a rabbit started up, when young Flint fired, and misnincr the rabbit, the ball struck young McLaughlin at the fifth rib on the left side, passn)^!l?.Wn I11*1!
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ing the Administration of General Grant: TTIVITED STATES SENATE CHAMBER, "I WASHINGTON, July 20,1S70, My Dear Colonel:
In reply to yours of the 16fch, I have to say that the criticisms of General Grant and his Administration found in Southern papers, and supported by certain Republican papers, so called, in the North, are without sufficient foundation. President Grant's habits, so far as I am able to learn, and as I firmly believe, are exemplary in every respect. He is a gentleman in his bearing, officially and socially, always manifesting great intelligence. both in conversation and in the discharge of his official duties. He has not always appointed great men to civil stations, but very few can be named who are destitute of respectable talents, and, as a rule, they are honest and faithful. And in this connection allow me to say that our Government is so simple in its form and machinery that great talents are not absolutely necessary to secure success in its administration. Hence, honesty and industry, supported by medium talents in public station, ought to be satisfactory to the people. I therefore think it would be wise, taking all into consideration, to continue this administration another term, and I predict the people will so decide. That President Grant has made some mistakes, I freely admit but as they were mistakes, and not intentional errors, the presumption is that they will, as far as practicable, be avoided in the future. And it is by no means certain that any of our greatest and most experienced statesmen would not, if in his situation have committed errors equally grave. That the Government is, on the whole, being carefully and prudently administered and the laws faithfully enforced, without bluster, flurry, "fear, favor, or affection," no one can truthfully deny. The honest and faithful collection of the revenue has enabled the Government to reduce the public debt at a rate below $10,000,000 per month, on an average, since the date of President Grant's inauguration, and warranted Congress to greatly reduce the rate of taxation. This ought to be satisfactory. But there a*e those who desire to break down the Administration for thepurpose of advancing their own interests and I regret to add that some of them are shining lights in the Republican Party. As to changes and proposed changes in office, to which you refer, I need only say that so far as they have occurred, I am of the opinion the service has been improved. There are of course, some exceptions. I would not, with my limited information, have recalled Mr. Motley but no one can find fault with Mr. Freiinghuysen as his successor. The latter is not, probably, the equal of the former in the lield of battle but Mr. Motley is hardly the equal of the latter in jurisprudence and statesmanship. Personally, I am satisfied with President. Grant's Administration. Taking it all in all, I doubt if any one of our leading statesmen of greater pretensions would improve it. I have felt such a sense of safety and security for all our free institutions since he came to the Presidential office, such a freedom from solicitude and anxiety, which pursued me, day and night, for two years preceding, like an omen of evil, that I feel like protesting against a change, unless for the gravest reasons. It is true, as you state, that some influential public journals of Republican politics have assailed President Grant but they have assailed Congress with equal recklessnes and in each case, as I think, without sufficient reasons. The conductors of papers are like the rest of us, only human. They have their likes and dislikes, and are not always wise enough to suppress the spirit of fault-finding, especially when disappointed in their personal aspirations. I believe I have now traversed all your inquiries, answering them frankly as you requested.
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State Fair of Indiana—Time October to 8th. The Secretary and State Board of Agriculture of the State of Indiana, in conjunction with every district and county society in the State, are making every effort to make the coming Fair one of the very best ever held in the State. The undersigned would announce to the people of Indiana and adjoining States that from reports from all portions of our State, from agriculturalists, manufacturers and live stock men, the prospect for a grand and interesting Fair never was better. The regulations adopted at the January meeting of the Delegate Board, that all entries should be free—no entrance fee on live stock— appears to be gratefully appreciated by all classes of exhibitors, and many of them inform the Secretary that they will attend our fair—from "the fact, that if they receive no premium they will have nothing to pay, and have an eqqalchance to exhibit their livestock on the same terms as all other products. All premiums are large and liberal and intended to encourage every industrial pursuit in the State. Providence has blessed our people with equal good health—the prospect of an abundant crop of corn, the staple of our State, and a fair average crop of every other product of the West. Every citizen should feel grateful, and can exhibit their feelings of gratefulnes in no better way than by bringing the best specimens of the products of their labor to the State Exposition—exchanging products, interchanging views and manner of production—feeling thankful to the Great Ruler of the Universe and spending a few days in friendly intercourse with the people from all parts of our State. From all indications they appear determined to do so. To the people of the Indianapolis I would say prepare bountifully for the coming exhibitions make all bills as reasonable as possible treat all visitors and exhibitors kindly and the reputation of your city will continue to be more valuable than money. For circulars, posters and premium lists, and all information in regard to the fair, address the secretary at Indianapolis,
JOSEPH POOLE, Sec'y., Ind. S. B. A.
Fast Time.
The train carrying the President and suit on the Terre Haute and Vandalia road, made the run from here to St. Louis on Tuesday evening in seven hours. The rate of speed was 46 miles per hour on the old part of the road, and 36 on the new part. Every precaution was taken to prevent accidents. The crossings in all the towns along the line were watched by special flagmen, and the section men on the different sections on the watch for obstructions along their lines. There was no opportunity for an accident except by an unavoidable break. General Grant will go from St. Louis to Chicago via the Vandalia and Illinois Central railroad on his return to Washington. Indianapolis Journal.
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NEWS SUMMARY.
Governor Seward left Auburn yosterday afternoon, for San Francisco. Jefferson Davis sailed for Europe yesterday, on tho steamer Russia.
The steamer Tarita, from Liverpool, arrived at Boston yesterday. A ton of silver bricks passed through Omaha yesterday for London.
Archbishop Purcc'l, of Cincinnati, ar rived at New York, Trom Europe, yesterday.
Miehaei, the wife murderer, was ac rainged for trial at Vincennes yesterday The sentence of Sheddan, the New York wiie murderer, has been commuted.
Rear Admiral Lee has been ordered to command tne No*-th Atlantic squadron The Republicans of Nebraska have renominated Cuttex- for Governor and Taffe for Congress.
Counterfeit tens on the First National Bank of Poughkeepsie, New York, are in circulation.
There were thirty-five oases of relapsing fever in New York last week, and five cases of small-pox.
The naturalization treaiy between the United States and Great Britain has been ratified at London,
Ihe colored labor convention, announced to meet at Saratoga on the 16th, will not assemble until the 24to.
The Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Company has re-elected its old Board of Directors and officers.
An orgaoizatioa of colored women, known as the "Grand Order of the Eastern Star," is now in session at Columbus, Ohio.
Sir Morton Peto is in Hungary superintending the construction of railroads for the Austrian Government.
Madame Clara Schumann has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music of Stockholm.
Miss Le-ia Curtis, Mrs. Mary Richardson, and Miss Ella Gibbons are practical wood engravers in San Francisco, and are well patronized.
Alexander A. Stevens has been reelected Grand Master of the Free Masons of Canada.
The Rev. Mrs. Ilanaford has an autograph letter from Queen Victoria, thanking hor for a copy of her "Life of Peabody."
Jesse Matteson died at Lee, N. Y., August G, aged 80. He was the contractor who built the lirst railroad between Albany and Schenectady.
The German bankers Paris have been working a corner in United States bonds. The Par's speculotars sold short to them largely of lSS2's at 81, and when delivery was called for on Tuesday, the price had risen to §101
The deaths in New York for the past six weeks have exceeded those of the corresponding period last year by 1,215—the deaths from July 1 to August 7, this year, being 5,0iJ. Tlie increase is attributed to the heat.
Fifty thousand squaro feet of floor space has been taken by exhibitors in tho National Industrial Exposition at Cincinnati. The Exposition will bo held in September.
President Grant ariived at St. Louis lat last ght. After transacting some privai.e business there he will leave "or Chicago on Saturday, and spend Sunday in that city.
Edward Hoag, who murdered his mistro»s, Mrs. Phi'lips, and her mother, Mrs. Clear, at Detrov, on the 14tli of last month, was yesterday found guilty of murder in the lirst degree.
Among the aspirants for Appraiser, under the new port of entry bill, to be appointed for Louisville, the most favorably spoken of are General P. G. Burbridge, Colonel Wake Holman and Robert Johnson. The salary is §3,000 and perquisites.
Skirmishing botween the Cubans and Spaniards, in the Eastern Department of the Island, continues: the latter generally getting the worst of it. Tb'e Spaniards continue to execute all tho captured Cubans, while the cholera and yellow fever are making fearful havoc among the Spa niards.
The Cashier of the Bank of Nova Scotia, at Halifax, has been discovered to be a defaulter to the institution in $320,000. His property, which has been turned over to the bank amounts to $193,000. The loss will sweep away all the bank's surplus and §03,000 of the capital. It is still solvent.
Tho now Army Board, to examino applications of officers to be relieved, will be announced to-day. One hundred and fifty applications are pending before it.
The Biggest Snake Story Yet.
To the Editor of the Chronicle: Having read some pretty big snake stories in the papers of late, I thought I would send you one "of early times," one I have often heard related by the old man whose name I only give in part, but who is well known by the old pioneers of this county.
Abijah a very worthy old man, and one of the early pioneers of Southern Ohio, when relating some of the adventures of his early pioneer life to a crowd of eager listeners (for all who know him love to hear him talk), often gets off some rather tough yarns. One he tells—although a "stunner," he is willing to vouch for its truthfulness—is aboutan ad venture he once had on the prairies of Illinois. The story runs as follows (I will give it as near as possible in his own lan guage): "Ha! young men, you talk about your hunting adventures and snake stories if you'd seen the sights I have, in my young days, then you might talk. I'll relate to you an adventure I once had with rattlesnakes on the prairies of Illinois. "It is now nigh on to forty years ago when I went there to look at the country, and enter some Government land. In the course of my travels I had occasion to cross a piece of prairie that I was told by old hunters was full of rattlesnakes. But nothing daunted, I first took their precatuion of wrapping long prairie grass round my legs from the ankles up, and then started in. I soon stirred them up lively, and then war begun. Whenever one would strike at me, it would get its fangs fast in the grass round my legs then with my bowie-knife I would coolly whack off' it's head. After I got across I thought I would count heads, and, boys, believe it or not, there were just one hundred and ninety-nine rattlesnake heads hanging to my legs." SUBSCRIBER.
^Rentes."
Many of our readers may not have a fair understanding of the word "rentes," which occurs so constantly just now in our foreign dispatchcs, and whose rise and fall seems to constitute the financial barometer of Paris. They are the funded debt of France, not, however, in the form of bonds, but simply loans from the people. These loans are entered to the credit of the lenders oil the ledgers, and draw a specified rate of interest. The holders of the debt arc called "renters," and the fluctuations in its value denote popular distrust or confidence in the Government.
GEORGE H. PENDLETON is spoken'of as a Democratic candidate from one ot the Cincinnati districts.
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FOSTEB BROTHERS.
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Th«al through this dull season of the year, when other Dry Goods' Stores are empty, and their Clerks down stairs asleep,
W IS IT!
WE ASK, THAT
FOSTER BROTHERS9
GREAT NEW YORK CITY STORE
IS AS CROWDED AS EVER
WHY IS I T!
That in spite of all the misrepresentations of Highpriced Merchants, and their combined attempts to prejudice the public against us, why is it that people still come through all the dust and heat, for more than fifty miles around, to trade at our store? It is
BECAUSE
WE IIAYE WRITTEN UPON OUR BANNERS,
DO W IV W IT IX HIGH PRICES!
CHEAP 6r001$ 3TO DULL TRADE!
IT IS BECAUSE WE ARE FULFILLING OUR PROMISE TO SELL
Goods as Low in Terre Haute as in N. Y. City
It is because tlie people have found out for themselves that our prices on many Goods are only about half those charged in other stores.
It is because our advertisements are not overdrawn, and so may be cut out and brought to our store, and the exact article be obtained at the price mentioned. People coming from a distance do so without any fear of not getting the goods advertised.
It is because one and all of the 75,000 customers who have already traded with us bear willing testimony to the reliability of our house and the quality of our Goods. We aim to make our store the most reliable place of business in the West. We want our customers to feel that a child can buy Goods of us just as safely as an experienced buyer.
THESE PRICES TELL THE STORY.
Good Quality Red Flannel, 20c. Extra Heavy Factory Jeans, 50c—others charge 65c. A yery good Unbleached Muslin, 6 and 7c a yard. Good yard wide Muslin, 9c a yard. The very heaviest and best Unbleached Muslin, 12 l-2c a yard—others charge 16 and 18c. Look at it. It hangs at the door. Coats' best Six Cord and Spool Cotton, 5c a spool. Extra fine and heavy Waterproof Cloth, 00c per yard. Heavy "A" Grain Bags, FULL SIZE, only 29c. 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, Double-width Alpacas 22c. Elegant Percales 14c, sold until recently for 25c.
NO ADVANCE IINT OXJR PRICES
BECAUSE OF THE RISE IN GOLD!
CARPETS of all kinds away down. Thirty cts. up.
Elegant lines of Black and Colored Silks. ^renadines, Dagmar Cloths, Shawls, Lace Points, Hosiery and Underwear. Cloths,
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Hickory, Denims and Checks, Table Linens and Napkins
farasozsana bun Umbrellas, &c., &c., all new and bought with CASH since the great decline.
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At Half Price from this date.
AUGUST ri, IN/O.
TUELL, RIPLEY & DEMING'S
GRAND SEMI-ANNUAL
Clearance Sales Have Commenced!
Japanese Poplins, Lenos, Check Mozambiques, and all other
SUMMER 1RESS GOODS
40 per cent, off for goods for Traveling Suits.
10,000 yards Merimac and other Standard Prints at 10 Cents per yard.
Elegant styles Jaconet Lawns at half price.
Satin striped Grenadines reduced to cents.
Elegant Line of Black Alpacas from 25 cents.
Muslin Grenadines at 20 cents, worth 50 cents.
Hosiery, White Goods and Notions at price to insure IMMEDIATE SALE.
We Must Make Room for Fall Stock,
And are ready to offer Great Bargains in Summer Goods.
Good yard-wide bleached and Brown Muslin at 10c. per yard.
The best brands of Blaclied and Brown Muslins at exceedingly low prices.
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RIPLEY AND DEMING,
Corner Main and Fifth Sts.
HERS & ARNOLD.
We fear ]V0 Opposition.
We are not governed by Competition Prices.
We sell only GOOD Goods.
We buy them AS CHEAP as the next man,
And sell at prices to SUIT THE TIMES.
HERZ & A RTNOI D,
89 Main Street,
Between Third and Fourth Sts.
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