Terre Haute Daily Gazette, Volume 1, Number 69, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 August 1870 — Page 1

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1870.

Republican Ticket.

SECRETARY OF STATE,

MAX F. A. HOFFMAN.

AtJDITOH OF STATE,

JOHN D. EVANS.

TREASURER OF STATE,

ROBERT H. MILROY.

JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT,

JEHU T. K. ELLIOTT, R. C. GREGORY, CHARLES A. RAY. ANDREW L. OSBORNE.

ATTORNEY GENERAL,

.NELSON TRUSSLER.

SUTKllINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION,

BARNABAS C. HOBBS.

FOR CONGRESS, SIXTII BIST.:

MOSES Jr. DUNN. COUNTY TICKET.

AUDITOR,

WILLIAM PADDOCK.

SHERIFF,

GORDON LEE.

TREASURER,

MORTON C. RANKIN.

RECORDER,

THEODORE MARXEN.

SURVEYOR,

-ALEXANDER COOPER.

COMMISSIONERS,

FIRST DIST.-WM.

T. PETTINGER.

SECOND

—JOS. FELLENZER.

THIRD

—PHILIP RANDOLPH.

JUDGE CRIMINAL COURT,

JOHN G. GRAIN.

PROSECUTING ATT'Y CRIMINAL COURT,

F. M. MEREDITH.

REPRESENTATIVES,

B. WILSON SMITH, H. H. BOFTDINOT.

PUBLIC SPEAKIXG.

HON. MOSES F. DUNN, Republican Candidate for Congress will address his fellow citizens as follows:

Perrysviile, Saturday, 1 P. M., Aug. 20tli. Rosevillo' jilonday, 1 p. M., Aug. 22d.

NEWS SUMMARY.

McKeen Buchanan is roaring in Milwaukee. The Prussians will either enter Paris or go to Nouen.

Sunset Cox is hunting summer sunbeams at Long Branch. Brignoli will give Newport its first experience of opera this week.

Olive Logan is at work on two new lectures for the coming season. Grant, the Richmond man who killed Pollard, is with Bryant's Minstrels.

Much anxiety on the subject of rights hath crazed an Indian woman, named Hope.

The Duchess of St. Albans is acting as a volunteer organist to a country parish church.

The young ladies' boat club at Albany is nearly ready to challenge the world to a trial of speed.

Miss Belle Smith has been engaged to paint a portrait of the late E. M. Stanton. Pric3 $2,000.

A wire mask for bathing is a recent novelty. One of them is worn by a lady at Cape May.

The Indian children in Virginia City, Nevada, take their shower baths from the street sprinklers.

Base ball has been successfully introduced into Scotland, and bids fair to become a favorite out-door sport.

An Arkansas paper starts the story that Gen. Pemberton was bribed to surrender "Vicksburg to the Union army.

It is estimated that over one hundred young ladies are at preseut studying law in this country. Probably they all hope to become mothefs-in-law one of these days.

San Francisco people take issue with the Chinamon on the manner in which they gather blackberries. They pick enough to fill their boots, and pour them into a pail.

A St. Louis paper is mean enough to insinuate that in Chicago men are employed to take the names of travolers daily arriving at the several hotels and add them to the census list.

It is said that three hundred thousand bales of cotton, at the lowest calculation, will be made during the present season in Georgia, and that the wheat crop was the finest ever gathered in that State.

Judge Gillespie, of Belleville, Illinois, has decided that there is no law in that State to punish adultery where both parties are white.

Philip R. Mertz, a Pittsburg banker, firmly believed that gold would go up, but it went down. He blew out his brains on Sunday.

The express messenger on a Western road thought a carpet-sack in his charge rather lively, and opening it found a young infant with limited trousseau.

Brigham Young has assigned to Orson Pratt the task of reminding the Rev. Dr. Newman that Solomon and the older patriarchs had a spare wife or two.

French papers recently received literally empty the vials of their wrath on Bismarck's head. The Paris Journal calls the Count a liar, falsifier, corrupter, land pirate, man slayer, crown robber, Colossus with feet of clay, executioner with bloody hands, ftc. and then informs its readers that during the war with Austria the Prussian Minister distributed to the English, German, Italian, Swiss, American and Austrian press 7,800,000 francs.

Coroner Shirmer is said to have written a note to Dan Bryant, asking him on what terms he could supply a respectable Coroner's jury with a few bones. The note is understood to have been replied to by Neil Bryant in these words: "Dan and I still deal largely in bones, but we hold them all in reserve pro bono publico."

The Emperor Napoleon is said to be a large holder of real estate in New York, which he was sdrewd enough to buy in the early stages of our own civil war when prices were low. Who knows but that "Louis and I" may yet help to swell our metropolitan population

LOUD TALKING WOMEN.—Persons{desirous to be thought ladies, sometimes converse screamingly in public vehicles, apparently for the purpose of attracting attention. They succeed, but the attention they elicit is not of a complimentary iiature. Their gentler sisters are sorry and ashamed for them, and men are disgusted at such conduct. There is a magnetism in melodious sounds, which is almost irresistible, and when they issue from fair lips they are apt to take the sternest of us captive. On the other hand, hard, discordant tones, though they should, come from the loveliest mouth in Christendom, play the mischief with sentiment, and put tenderness to flight. Remember this, ladies, and modulate your voices. 5 DAVID P. HOLTON, of New York, has petitioned the Hartford city government Co appropriate a piece of land in the heart of the city for the erection of a "Forefather's monument," to cost $50,0 0

OUT OF HUMOR.—The Journal igoutof humor again, in consequence of the fact, this time, that a plain statement of the facts regard to the adoption of resolutions by the Council requiring that the State Sunday law should be enforced was given. It was done injustice to the gentlemen of the Councii, at whom an uncalled fling had been made in that paper, and not in an ill-natured spirit, as is manifested in the Journal. No attempt was made to condemn or praise the law, nor anything else, save to show that there was no reason for the fling made by that paper at the Common Council, and this, every one who read the article well knows. Evidently the Journa by a manifestation of so much ill temper feels that it "has put its foot in it," as is usually the case when discussing local affairs. The question of keeping open or of closing saloons on the Sabbath day, is not the one discussed in the GAZETTE. That lies with the Council, but they are entitled to be fairly understood on the question, and for that purpose, and that alone, the article referred to in yesterday's paper was written.

A GENTLEMAN from a large "grapery" in this State came to the city yesterday for the purpose of selling grapes, but he found that the vineyards in this vicinity had given so abundant a yield this year that it was no use for him to attempt to do any business. The grape crop will be unusually large in this neighborhood this season, and the fruit is very fine indeed, but expensive, though bountiful.

THE removal of Gov. Ashley, of Montana, and the confirmation by the Senate in his place of Gen. B. F. Potts, of Ohio, seems to involve Senator John Sherman in the necessity of thoroughly explaining his conduct in regard to the entire subject. As our readers will remember, the nomination of Potts remained in the Senate along time without being acted upon, and the impression had become universal that it was to be allowed to die, and that Ashley, whose career as Governor had been creditable to himself and usetul to Montana, would remain in office. This expectation was much strengthed by the following note written by Senator Sherman to a friend of Ashley's who had suggested that Potts should be appointed to some other place, so that Ashly might remain undisturbed: "COM. OF FINANCE, U. S. SENATE,

WASHINGTON, June, 17,1870.

"DEAR SIR In reply to your note of the 7th I am able to say that the Ashly and Potts matter will probably be settled as you suggest. The removal of Ashly, the appointment of Potts, and the course of the President throughout has been a surprise to me, as well as a serious embarrassment. I shall be delighted with any arrangement that will provide both for Ashley and Potts. Very truly yours, "JOHN SHERMAN."

This note was written a little more than three weeks before the confirmation of Potts as Governor, on which occasion, as all reports of the proceedings testify, Senator Sherman earnestly led the opposition to Ashly, while Senator Sumner zealously defended him and pleaded for his retention in office. Under these circumstances, it will manifestly be advisable for Senator Sherman to explain the inconsistency between his words and his action.—JSF. Y. Sun.

Perpetual Motion.

We have perpetually heard of inventors of perpetual motion ever since we can remember, but our perpetual memory informs us that they have been, without exception, perpetual failures. And now comes Mr. Rich, of Wilson county, Kansas, and he cries "Eureka" louder than any of the famous inventors whose massive brows pass in imaginary array before us. Read what the Fredonia Courier says, and doubt no more "We conversed a day or two since with a gentleman who has seen a perpetual motion machine, invented by a citizen of this county, residing about nine miles north of Freedonia. Our informant has no doubt of the perfect success of the machine, and says that it increases its speed by its own inherent power if not checked by brakes. He further says that its principle of construction is such that it can be increased in power and velocity to any desired degree. It is patented and the inventor, Mr. Rich, left for Washington last week to make further arrangements, and contemplates visiting England before returning to Kansas. "Mr. Rich claims that his invention can be used as a motive power for all kinds of machinery, from a wagon up to a steamboat, or railroad train, and can be managed as easily as the simplest water wheel. We wish all success to our friend Rich, notwithstanding we are skeptical. Mr. R. is a very poor and illiterate man, formerly from Tennessee, but he says he is offered all the money he wants."

Morning.

How tranquil is the air how mild its temperature! It is morning and a morning sweet, and fresh, and delightful. Everybody knows the morning in its metaphorical sense, applied to so many objects, and on so many occasions. The health, strength, and beauty of early years lead us to call that period the "morning of life." But morning itself, few people, inhabitants of cities know anything about.

Their idea of it is, that it is that part of day which ushers in a cup of coffee and apiece of toast. With them, morning is not anew issuing of light a new bursting forth of the sun anew waking up of all that has life, from a sort of temporary death, to behold again the works of the Creator—the heavens and the earth it is only part of the domestic day, belonging to breakfast, to reading the newspapers, sending the children to school, and giving orders for dinner. The first streak of light, the earliest purpling of the east, which the lark springs up to greet, and the deeper coloring into orange and red, till at length the "glorious sun is seen, regent of day," this they never enjoy, for they never see it.

Beautiful descriptions of the morning abound in all languages but they are the strongest, perhaps, in tho3e of the East, where the sun is often an object of worship. King David speaks of taking to himself the "wings of morning. This is highly poetical and beautiful. The wings of the morning are the beams Of the rising sun. Rays of light are wings. It is thus siiid that the Sun of righteousness shall arise, "with healing in his wings"—a rising sun, which shall scatter life, health and joy, throughout the universe. Milton has fine descriptions of morning but not so many as Shakspeare, from whose writings pages of the most beautiful imagery, all founded on the glory of the morning, might be filled.

We love the morning, fresh and sweet as it is a daily new creation, breaking forth, calling all that have life and breath, and being, to new adoration, new enjoyment, and new gratitude.

A LONDON marketer was recently arrested for selling the mat of a donkey.

This Morning's News.

An Able Speech by a Colored Member of tlie Labor Convention.

Mr. Frelinghuysen Declines Mission to England.

LONDON, O., August 18.—Hon. H. J. Jewett, received the Congressional nomination of the Democratic Convention of the Sventh District.

HAMILTON, O., August 18.—The Democrats of the Third Congressional District nominated L. D. Campbell, after a heated contest.

XOJRTII VERNON, IND., August 18.— Senator Morton and H. R. Pritchard, Republican candidate for Congress in the Third District, addressed several thou sand persons at the fair grounds to-day.

PEORIA, III., Aug. 18.—The 108th Illinois Regimeut holds its annual reunion at Pekin on the 25th.

CHICAGO, August 18.—The Evening Mail, anew two-cent paper, made its appearance to-day. It is a handsome sixcolumn sheet, well filled with reading, and its news by the American Press Association. It supplies a want long felt in this great and growing city, and its success is beyond a doubt.

BERLIN, August 18.—Ad vices have just been received here of a naval engagement off the coast of the Island of Rualu, in the Baltic.

One division of the Prussian fleet, consisting of an aviso and the gunboats Drasche, Blitz and Salamander, yesterday afternoon, at four o'clqck, encountered the French fleet, consisting of four armed frigates, a corvette and an aviso. The Prussian fleet soon withdrew without loss.

The French fleet is now off Dornbruch. HAMBURG, August 18.—The Prussian iron clad gunboat Gelle and the gunboats Drache, Blitz and Salamander, fought four French iron clads, corvette and a dispatch boat near the Island of Gagen, off the Pomeranian coast, in the Baltic sea.

After a severe combat the French squadron withdrew from the fight. BBBLIN, Midnight, August 18.—The Pope of Rome in a letter to King William has offered his mediation for the restoration of peace. The King, in reply, says that Prussia neither desired nor provoked the war now raging, and was ready to the appeal of the Pope for peace if the independence of Germany was insured, and if his Holiness was able to give assurances of the peaceful disposition of the Emperor of France, and a guarantee against a renewal by the latter of any future attempts to disturb the peace of Europe.

LONDON, August 18.—Particulars of the battle near Metz on Sunday have been received through French channels. The French claim that the Prussians lost 10,000 killed and wounded, while their loss was not over one-half that number. The battle was opened at 3 o'clock p. M., by an attack of the Prussian corps upon the division commanded by General Frossard. The latter was about withdrawing from his position at the time and the Emperor had just previously departed.

Prince Frederick Charles, assisted by Gen. Steinmetz, led the attacking force. The retreat of the French army was con­

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Ohio and Indiana Political Items.

Particulars of the Battles on Monday and Tuesday.

Several of the Leading Generals Severely Wounded.

Special Dispatches to the Terre Haute Gazette.

CINCINNATI, August 18.—Weare, the colored delegate to the Labor Convention, delivered a very able speech upon State rights and republicanism, to-night, and in the course of his remarks expressed views entirely dissimilar to those entertained by the mass of delegates in attendance at the Convention. He ad vocated Chinese labor, and the encouragement of immigratian, as calculated to develope the country, •and elevate the white man.

He denounced the allusions made to the Republican party in the country, and by the temperance and soundness of his remarks in general elicited renewed applause.

Resolutions were passed expressive of their regret at his utterences in the Labor Congress, in reference to Congress and in regard to the national debt and taxation

Also for the resolution relating to the action of the President in the matter of the Kansas neutral lands and the action of the country.

Joseph Langston and Hon. P. Spinkbeck, the colored Laboring Assessors of the United States, were warned to avoid the labor enrollment should it assume a political aspect.

NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 18.—The Newark Daily Advertiser publishes to-day a letter from ex-Senator Frelinghuysen, dated July 27th, addressed to President Grant immediately after he had received the official notice of his nomination as Minister to the Court of St. James, in which he declines to accept the office of Minister to England.

He says, in view of my domestic relations, &c., which I was gratified to find in a recent interview, you appreciated my own distaste for the Diplomatic position and my conviction that there are others better suited to .the office, I am brought to my first conclusion, and shall forward my letter declining the office to the Secretary of State.

BROOKLYN, August 18.—Ann O'Donnell, residing on Washington Avenue, is reported to be in a dying condition from the effects of injuries received at the hands of her husband who struck her an the head with the leg of a chair on 29th of July. The husband was arrested.

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ducted with the utmost skill, while the 4th corps engaged the enemy. During the battle, Marshall Bazaine displayed the greatest valor and risked his life in the midst of the heaviest fighting and several horses were killed under him, but|he escaped with slight flesh wounds.

The French claim that the mitrailleurs did dreadful execution, nearly exterminating four regiments of Prussians.

A heavy storm arose in the night, during which both armies succeeded in vacating the field of battle

The French are of the opinion that the greatest and most decisive battle will be fought at Chalons where the Emperor now has his he adquarters. He is daily receiving heavy reinforcements from Paris, together with large supplies of arms and ammunition.

The French also claim that at the battle on Monday, the 15th, the Prussian loss was very heavy, although they admit that thier army also suffered severely. The flight took place at Gravelotte, where Napoleon had temporarily established his headquarters.

The attack of the Prussians was resisted again by the 4th corps, under General Admirault, which during both days formed the left wing of the army and sustained the heaviest fighting. The corps is now in an advanced position with four other corps concentrated in the immediate vicinity. A large escort is conveying a greater portion of the train and equippage on to Verdun.

METZ, August 18.—The French War Office is in receipt of official dispatches from Marshal Bazaine. He reports that on Tuesday forenoon Prince Frederick Charles vigorously attacked our right General Frossard's corps received the blunt of the assault, and the Prussian attack was well sustained. The corps stationed to the right and left of Nesauville came up successively and joined its wings to those of Frossard.

The action lasted until night. The en emy deployed considerable force several times and returned to the attack, but were repulsed.

We also defeated the attempt of a fresh corps which, toward the close of the day, attempted to turn our left. Everywhere we have succeeded in maintaining our position and inflicting considerable loss upon the enemy. Our losses are also severe.

Rumors are in circulation this afternoon that the commanders of the French and Prussian armies, who exposed themselves to danger in the battles around Metz, have suffered for their temerity. It is rumored that Prince Frederick Charles, the Prussian leader, and Gens. Frossard and Balatile, the French commanders, were wounded, the two latter being dangerously injured. The severity of Prince Frederick Charles' wounds is not mentioned.

The entire garrison of Paris is busy day and night making cartridges. The opinion of the Natle nevertheless complains of Count Palikos sluggishness.

By Saturday one hundred guns will be mounted on the Paris fortifications, and one half of them served by numerous but inexperienced hands.

General Mellinet has been assigned to the command of the Garde Mobile. Marshal Bazaine has again stopped all private telegraphing as by that means news reaches Berlin by way of London,

The Arab chiefs of Algiers have offered France 20,000 horsemen and 30,000 Turkish volunteers.

The Empress appoints Troclii Governor and Commander-in-chief of the army in Paris.

It is rumored that the Emperor has left Chalons for Rhoms. M. Thiers expressed a hope in the Corps Legislatif that Paris would oppose invincible resistance to the enemy, and if necessary, make fast around Paris by allowing the country people to take refuge here with their produce. Government guaranteed provisions to the city, especially by the means Theirs proposed.

COLOGNE, August 18.—A report has been been received here that Prince Frederick Charles with 80,000 Prussians, beat the French, 180,000 strong, at Vienville. The combined loss in both armies in killed and wounded is set down at 40,000.

PORT AMOUSSON, August 18.—All was quiet along the frontier to-day, the Prussian army held the position gained in Tuesday's battle. Apart of Marshal Bazaine's army is at Metz, and a part retreating by Etain on the Verdun. An army Corps of the Prussians, for three hours, kept the French army corps and a portion of the Imperial Guadrs engaged.

The Prussian cavalry rode down the ranks of the French army towards the close of the battle, completing the victory and driving them back on Metz. The prisoners include several officers of the Imperial Guard.

Lieut. Gen. Sheridan, of the United States army, is a guest at the headquarters of the King of Prussia.

An Important Discovery in Cancer Therapeutics. At the recent annual scientific meeting held at the New York Medical University Professor Scott read an interesting paper upon an entirely new method of treating Cancer, which gives promise of the alleviation of mach human misery. The treatment of the cancer has hitherto been empirical and unstaisfactory—chloride of zinc, nitric acid, and arsenic, the remedies usually employed, being painful, dangerous, and unreliable.

Professor Scott's discovery consists in applying to the surface of the sore the chloride of chromium—a new salt of this rare metal—incorporated into stamonium ointment. This preparation, in a few hours, converts the humor into perfect carbon, and it crumbles away. Specimens of cancers thus carbonized were inspected by a number of physicians present, which had the appearance of charcoal, and were easily pulverized between the fingers.

The remedy causes little or no pain, and is

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poisonous. A considerable num-, ber of cancers have been cured by this means, and an agent of such marvelous efficacy must ere long be adopted by the entire profession.—New York Commercial Adnertiser. /i

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TERUE HAUTE, IND., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 19, 1870. NO. 69

LATEST jNEWS.

AFTERNOON DISPATCHES

By the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph.

Expressly for the Daily Evening Gazette.

Commodore Vanderbilt Stricken with Apoplexy.

His Condition Yery Precarious.

Congregational Church at Mansfield, 0., Destroyed by Fire.

Maashal Bazaine in Close Quarters at Metz.

Heavy Prussian Force Closing in ITpoa Him.

FRANKFORT.

Railroad Matters—Convention of l)ele gates.

FRANKFORT, August 19.—The Convention of the Delegates from the counties interested in the construction of the Paris & Frankfort Railroad held here yesterday, one hundred and sixteen delegates were present The Cincinnati & Lexington, Maysville & Paris, Shelby & Louisville, Maysville & Big Sandy Railroad Companies, and the City Council and Board of Trade were represented.

Resolutions in favor of appointing agent, to canvass for subscriptions were adopted. Resolutions for the extension of the Shelbyville railroad to Boydon, and for consolidation with the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington, the Franklin, Paris and Maysville, and the Maysville and Big Sandy Railroads, was voted down.

Peter Blymer, the Boone county murderer, who was to have been hung on the 26th inst., has been granted an appeal by the Court of Appeals, now in session here.

PITESBURGH.

A Prominent Citizen Arrested on charge of Embezzlement-He Embezzles $13,* OOO of Cliurcli Fund.

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 19.—Otto Hartung, a prominent German citizen, was arrested yesterday on a charge of embezzling $13,000, the funds of the German Evangelical Church, of which he was one of the trustees for several years. Hartung is in jail awaiting a hearing.

An investigation of the affairs of Phillip Merley, a banker, who committed suicide last week, show his liabilities to be §95,000 available cash assets, $263,000.

NEW YORK.

Commodore Vanderbilt Falls in an Apo plectic Fit.

NEW YORK, August 19.—A dispatch from Troy says that Commodore Vanderbilt fell in an apoplectic lit at Congress Hall, Saratoga, last evening, and lies in a precarious condition. His family have been summoned to his bedside.

MANSFIELD.

Church Destroyed—Building Insured.

MANSFIELD, O., August 19.—The First Congregational Church, Rev. E. Fairfield Pastor, was entirely destroyed by fire last evening. The building took fire from a pile of brush which the sexton was burning in close proximity. The building was insured for $7,500, which covered the loss.

DAYTON.

A Han Murder liis Wife

HVnile Drunk.

DAYTON, OHIO, August 19. Mike O'Conner, living at Sonora, Preble county, attempeted to murder his wife last night while drunk. Mrs. O'Conner only saved herself by jumping from the second story window, breaking her arm.

Her cries aroused the neighbors who came to her rescue and scared her brutal husband off. He will probably be lynched if caught.

An unknown man was overcome by heat yesterday and will probably die.

IIILLSBORO.

Democratic Convention—domination of Congressional Candidate.

HILLSBORO, O., August 19.—The Democratic Congressional Convention of the Sixth Ohio District yesterday nominated Gen. J. W. Denver.

GALLIPOLIS.

Regular Army Captain Shot—The Offender Shot. GALIPOLIS,

0., August 19.—Captain

Hazeltine, of the regular army, was shot here yesterday by a man named MeDevitt. The ball entered the mouth inflicting very dangerous ounds.

Hazeltine had McDevitt dismissed from the army. McDevitt was arrested and is in jail. In the fight here this morning, a machinist named Newton, was shot three times and will probably die.

FOREIGN.

GREAT BRITAIN. t,:

Napoleon Suffering from Symptoms of Monomania—'Thinks he has been Betrayed— Effect of the iMte Fight—Garrison at Mete in a Famished Condition.

LONDON, August 19.—The Daily News has in its extra issue of this morning a dispatch from Brussels, which states that Napoleon is suffering from acute symptoms of febrile monomania, during the paroxysm of which he incessantly says that he has been betrayed.

A Berlin dispatch to the Times says the French armies were separated by the victory at Marsletour. ^7

The main army at Metz has been brought to bay by the German first and second armies, under General MantufFel and Prince Frederick Charles.

The Crown Prince, Frederick William,

num-, ith the third army, is now proceeding rapidly to the works, where he will attack Major General Trouchu, who, with the French reserves, is now posted at a

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The Times' correspondent also declares that the garrison at Metz is in a famished condition. There are no provisions at Metz and arrivals of supplies have' been interrupted. The Times also declares that unless Marshal Bazaine can, by a bold stroke, cufc liis way through the German army and extricate himself from its coils, the French army on the ine will be forced to capitulate, and it is assumed that such an alternative is imminent.

The Farmer's Security.

The high prizes of life are not offered to the' farmer—not one in a thousand acquire a princely fortune by the cultivation of the soil. This is so well understood by the shrewd men, who "will be rich," that almost every man of them avoids larming, as by instinct. But there is another side to the subject, which is full of interest and instruction.

Almost every farmer who has an average of health and industry, acquires a competence and an independence. Four out of five families will furnish proof of the assertion that men, beginning with nothing but vigorous industry, and an unsullied name, have, within the last twenty years, risen to the possession of comfort and abundance. The exceptions to this remark are few, and can be readily accounted for on the most obvious principles. Now set down against this fact, which the last fifty years have developed, namely, that nine out of ten of all who engage in trade fail in business, and farmers have abundant reason to felicitate themselves on their position and its blessings.

Where the farmer exercises care and prudence, and does not go out of his business to make money, he is quite beyond the reach of bankruptcy.

We have taken some pains to learn the actual condition of the farming interest in the region of our calculation, and it is our belief that nearly every serious case of embarrassment has arisen from one or both of the two folio wing causes:

Farmers have purchased faster than necessity required or prudence permitted, or they have gone beyond their business to engage in speculation more or less remote from their work as farmers. When they have become commercial men, they have incurred the risks of commerce and those risks should not be set down to the account of agriculture for when farmers have kept aloof from these, they have avoided those entanglements which have been the "lion's net' to so many men,

We invite the attention of our young men to these facts. They are worthy of the most thoughtful reflection. Other professions are always crowded to overflowing: very few succeed in them. The present commercial derangement is scattering the fictitious fabrics built on hollow credit, while the farming interest passes comparatively unscathed.—Ohio Farmer.

IDEES NAPOLEONIENNES.—"Franceaccepts the war which Prussia offers." ''Louis has received his baptism of fire He picked up a bullet." "My communications with Marshall MeMahon have been interrupted. We may hold our position at Metz."

THE venerable ex-President Lord, of Dartmouth College, is very feeble and failing fast.

THE MARKETS. TERRE HAUTE. TERRE HAUTE, AUG, 19,1870.

RETAIL.

Flour, per barrel, 55 00@7 50 Corn, Potatoes, per bushel, Corn Meal, Butter, Eggs, per dozen, Chickens, per dozen Coffee, per pound,

Salt, per barrel, Hams, per pound, Shoulders, per pound, Sides, Pork, pickled,

CALL ON

70 40

1 00 1 00

25@ 30 VIVi

2 40(S 3 00 20@ 28 1 50@2 00 15 2 .:'UM2 75 30 16@ 18 22 20

WHOLESALE PRICES.

Wheat—White, No 1 Wheat, Alabama, Wheat, Mediterranean, Oats, Rye, Corn .» Timothy Seed Flax Seed, Clover, dull at Hayj per ton

1 25 1 20 1 10

Chickens, old, 3 00@3 25 Chickens, young, 1 5002 50 Eggs, 8@9 Wool—Choice Tub washed 40044

Unwashed 25@ 28 Fleece washed 250 35 Bacon—Clear sides, 100 17 Hams, country, 17© 18 Shoulders, 110 12 Hides—Green Butchers, 7@8

Green, cured, Green, Calf, Dry Flint 14(3)

11 16

Damaged, off

Sheep Pelts, 25© 40

BOOKSELLERS.

BARTLETT & CO.,

Booksellers and Stationers,

100 MAIN STREET.

"yjy^ILL supply you with all

THE CHOICE NEW BOOKS

as they are issued. Will order Books on any catalogue at publishers' prices. Will sell you Paper,Envelopes,Pens, Ink,Pencils, Pen Holders, Slates, School Books, Picture Frames, Mould ings.Gold Pens, Pocket Books. Indelible Pencils, or any thing else in the Stationery line at the lowest figures.

BARTLETT & CO., AT 100 MAIN STREET, ldtf Op osite the Opera Hons

FAMILY GROCER.

JAMES O'MABA,

SUCCESSOR TO

J. E. TOOBHEES,

Ohio Street, between Fourth and Fifth,

TjrriLL keep on hand a full supply of Food for man ana Beast. A few articles enumerated:

Flour, Feed, Fruit, Poultry,

And a General Assortment of

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Will keep constantly on hand a fresh supply of Vegetables of all kinds. Also,

FRESH MEAT MARKET,

and Veen all kinds of fresh meat. Leave your Olilere an they will be filled and del^cred promptly to all parts of the city. Will also buy all kinds of

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Farmers will do well to call before selling. 62d&w3m AS. O'MARA.

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(OPERA HOUSE BLOCK,)

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INSURANCE.

$13,221,194.

11AGEB & MeHEM,

GENERAL

Insurance Agents

OFFICE, DOWLING'S HALL.

THE

very best and most reliable Insuranc Companies represented by this firm.

ifcTNA OK HA'RTFORP, HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE 2,544,21 FRANKLIN OF PHILADELPHIA, 2,825,/3 SPRINGFIELD. GJM MERCHANTS OF HARTFORD, 5$'K-. NORTH AMERICAN,

FE0-5'

Policies written in lie above named Companie as cheap as in any first-class Companies repre sented in the city.

NEARLY $14,000,000.

IF YOU WANT

LIFE INSURANCE

Why not Get the I est

IT

does not cost any more, and you know you are in a sound Company.

THE

jETNA LIFE INSURANCE CO.,

ASSETS $13,000,000,

Is represented by L. Office Dowling's Hall.

G. HAGER. A gen Id6m

EEAL ESTATE.

13. HOLMES,

Notary Public, Ileal Estate Agent,

AND'

CONVEYANCER,

OFFICE, Second Floor, No. 115 Main St. ldy Terre Haute, Ind

PROFESSIONAL.

Trial is Better than Report!

DR. HABL1XD,

188 SO TJTII FIRST STBEE1,

Bet. Fairington and Vine,

I

TERRE HAUTE, IND.

WILL guarantee to cure all ACUTE AND CHRONIC CASES in less time, and with less Medicine than any other Physician in the city.

I aim to Care Tuto Cilo el Jucundc." References in this city will prove it, HOUKS or CONSULTATION—From 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. 21dwtly

DR. II. J. TREAT,

OFFICE, iOHIOiSTREET,

^BETWEEN THIRD & FOURTH.

RESIDENCE—137 North 4th Street. Idly

SANT C. DAVIS. SYD. B. DAVIS

DAVIS & DAVIS,

ATTORNEYS AT LAW,

OFFICE, NO. 80 MAIN STREET,

Id 6m

25@ 30 70 800 90 4 00 1 75 5 25 10 00

Between 3rd & 4th Streets,

Torre Haute, Ind.

GROCERIES.

BEMAMOT F. WEST,

DEALER IN

Groceries, Queensware, Pro visions,

COUNTRY PRODUCE, NO. 75 MAIN STREET, BET. 8th & 9tli, Terre Haute, Ind IS®-The Highest Cash price paid for Country Produce.

4d]y

ARCHITECT.

J. A. TBYDAGH,

A I E

NORTHEAST CORNER OF

WABASH AND SIXTH STREETS, Idly Terre Haute Indiana

FEED STOBE.

J. A. BCBGAN,

Dealer in

Flour, Feed, Baled Hay. Corn Oats, and all kinds of Seeds,

NORTH THIRD ST., NEAR MAIN

TERRE nAUTE, IND.

FEED

delivered in all parts of the city free of charge ld6m

EDUCATIONAL.

WAVELAND

COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE,

LOCATED AT

WAVELAND, INDIANA,

Will enter upon its Twenty-second Year on

SEPTEMBER 5, 1870.

For particulars, address,

J. M. NAYLOR, A. M., Principal. [46d2w4]

PROPOSALS.

PROPOSALS INVITED.

Nsals

OTICE TO CONTRACTORS —Sealed Propowill be received by the Common Council of the City of Terre Haute, at their regular meeting, on the evening of the 23d day of August, 1870, for the building of a Station House, in accordance with the plans and specifications of Charles Eppinghousen. [The plans and specifications can be seen at the office of Charles

^SoiSfswS^be'required for the faithful performance of said work, in accordance to said plans and specifications.

The Council reserve the right to reject any and all bids that they may deem not in the interest

Vo&otc«mm»£($'a

r8EElcR('Sii

G. F. COOKERLY, C. R. PEDDLE, 8

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