Terre Haute Daily Gazette, Volume 1, Number 84, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 September 1870 — Page 1

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'he Evening (gazette

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1870.

Republican Ticket.

SECRETARY OF STATE,

MAX F.

HOFFMAN.

AUDITOB OF STATE,

JOHN D.EVANS.

TREASUBKB OF STATE,

ROBEITT H. MILROY., JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT, JEHU T. ELLIOTT,

R. C. GREGORY, CHARLES A. RAY, ANDREW L. OSBORNE.

ATTORNEY GENERAL,

{NELSON TRUSSLER.

SDPKKINTENDENT O* PUBLIC INSTRUCTION,

BARNABAS C. HOBBS.

•FOB CONGRESS, SIXTH BIST.:

MOSES

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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. FELLENZKR.

THIRD

—PHILIP RANDOLPH.

JUDGE CRIMINAL COURT,

JOHN G. CRAIN.

PROSECUTING ATT'Y CRIMINAL COURT,

F. M. MEREDITH. REPRESENTATIVES, B. WILSON SMITH,

H. H. BOTTDINOT.

NEWS SUMMARY.

The monument to Jim Lano is finished. Miss Edmonia Lewis is exhibiting a statue of Hager in Chicago.

About 140,000,000 codfish is the annual yield of the Newfoundland banks. The will of the late Geo. Wood gives ?3,000 in gold to the American Tract Society.

Stokes, of Tennessee, is lying dangerously ill at his homo from the effects of sunstrokes.

Sir James Clarke, the Queen's physician, at his death left property in England valued at $128,000.

It is a curious fact that Baron Von Moltke, in his long life of war, never commanded a regiment in the field.

Joseph Rodman, of Benton county, Iowa, got mad at something the other day, began to swear and suddenly fell dead.

At one of the watering places in Maine, whore several clergymen are stopping, they drew lots to see who should officiate last Sunday.

In 1800 there were not one hundred native Protestants in all India and Burmah. Now there are not far from eighty thousand church members.

Olive Logan has boxed up her $1,500 hair, and wears her locks in Chinese braids down her back, as she did when a school girl, years and years ago.

Mr. O'Neal, of Louisiana, held four acres and the king in a recent social game of poker, and when Mr. Tally called him on five aces he very properly shot him dead.

Mommsen, the historian, pronounces "absolutely worthless" the Leignitz manuscript of Li vy, recently discovered, and of which so much has been heard.

Owing to the long dry spell at Hartford, Connecticut, but three week's supply of water remains in tho reservoir of the water works.

The gross earnings of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad during the past year were $12,535,428 net earning, $2,313,857. The gross earnings fell $1,258,213 below those for the previous year.

The German Consul at New York has forwarded to Berlin contributions in aid of German wounded, from German sympathizers,in this country, amounting to $73,500.

The New York papers repeat the story of Chief Justice Chase having been stricken with paralysis. A dispatch from Narragansett speaks of him as being indisposed.

Stephenson, one of the original witnesses to whom tho Book of Mormon, was presented, and who has heretofore resided at Kirtland, Ohio, has removed to Salt Lake City.

Work on tho Chicago harbor breakwater commenced on yesterday. Tho cribs will bo twenty-seven feet deep and thirty wide, and the entire work will be about 8,000 feet in length.

They aro getting up a game of base "ball in Chicago between picked nines of the Board of Aldermen, one nine to be Democrats and the other Republicans.

James King, a citizen of Dover, N, H., recently celebrated his eighty-first birthday and second wedding day simultaneously, by leading to the hymonial altar a blooming bride of seventy-six.

Athens, Me., has one church edifice, •which is owned by four societies, and occupied by each every fourth Sabbath, while the four sects live together in peace, and support a large Union Sunday School.

The Schiller monument at Berlin is under lock and key, awaiting the unveiling of the Frederick William III monument, the inauguration of which precedes it. Venedy calls it the chef (Vosuvre of modern art.

Napoleon is reported to have said, during the height of his power as Emperor of France, that he had a presentment that he would e&d his days in Cheapside, London, where he formerly resided.

Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has withdrawn the offer of compromise which she made to the city authorities of New Orleans, and will now claim tho full amount to which she considers herself entitled. Her claims amount to nearly $5000,000, besides

Costs.

It is a curious fact that, three weeks before the battle of Saarbruck the Peace Society of Paris sent their deputies to Saarbruck to celebrate an international feast held there by the corresponding society in Prussia. It was held at the station, one of the first places in flames.

J. Edward Stacey, arrested in Memphis a few days since, on a charge of leyiug a blackmail on liquor dealers, was taken from jail on Saturday, with a habeas corpus issued by Judge Twigg, of the United States Court, and left for Knoxville, in charge of the Deputy United States Marshal.

Judge Dicks has decided that no authority exists for issuing a warrant against Governor Holden for excess of executive authority. Bnt warrants can issue for the arrest of Colonel Kirk and others, acting under the Governor. But even these can not be served in counties in a state of insurrection. Kirk is in Alamence county.

NEARLY one-half the type setting on the Paris literary papers is done bjrjyromen.

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Martha'Washington's Watch. The "Father of His Country" had couple of "love affairs." The first was with Miss Mary Phillipse, a daughter of the owner of the Phillipse estate in Westchester and Putnam counties, New York With the graces of this lady, he was al most incurably smitten, and tradition avers that "George W."—as he is profanely called—"sat up" all night with his girl occasionally. But. in the mod ern phrase, Mary "couldn't see it," and gave George the mitten some time in the year 1856. In 1758 he met the widow Custis, and not being favored at that time with the advice of the elder Mr. Samuel Weller, he neglected to "beware' of that dangerous variety of the sex, fell overhead and ears in love with Mrs, Custis, successfully "sparked"^ her, and in due course of time was married to her.

His old flame, Miss Phillipse, became the wife of Roger Morris. George's wed ding obcurred in 1759. After the betrothal of George and Martha, he presented his lady love with a handsome gold watch which was manufactured expressly to his order in London. This watch is now in Newburgh, New York, and an effort is now being made by the citizens to purchase the interesting old relic and de posit" it at Washington's headquarters'in that city. The price asked for it is only $1,000. It is was given by Mrs Washington to Mrs. Halyburton, her niece, and the mother of Judge James D. Halyburton, of Virginia. The saddest part of its history is that it is now thrown on the market for sale, as one of the results to its owners, the family of Judge Halyburt, of the fortunes of our lale war, which stripped so many of our Southern countrymen of their possessions.

The watch bears the name of its maker, "Barwie, London, No. 743." It is of the old fashioned "bull's eye" pattern, reduced in thickness to a neat lady's style. The gold case is inlaid with white enamel around the edge of the back and face. The watch is in its original case and accompanied by its original key. The key letters ot the name, "Martha Custis," are marked on the dialplate, one letter just outside of each of the figures indicating the hours. The watch is now 112 years old. A day or two ago it was wound up and ticked as in "ye olden time," but it marked the hours slowly, reminding one of a brave old heart beating on beyond its threescore and ten.

FARRAGUT'S bravery, says an ex change, is everywhere admired, but infinitely more precious to tho3e who knew him and loved him is the recollection of his tenderness and devotion to an invalid wife—a devotion that never flagged through seventeen years, of painful watching. Six months after Captain Farragut's marriage to the beautiful Miss Merchant, of Norfolk, disease of the spine developed itself in her constitution, depriving her of the use of her lower limbs, and impairing her general health. His unwearied and unceasing attachment to the lovely sufferer wras the admiration of the women of Norfolk, and the devotion of all marriageble ladies to him was such that it is said one could scarcely enter the room of a young flirt and not find a picture of Captain Faragut hanging at the foot of her bed while navy buttons, or indeed any little thing that belonged to him were cherished as religiously as a Soman Catholic cherishes a relic of St. Peter. A life-long friend and brother officer of the Admiral declares that so unwilling was he to be absent from his wife, even for recreation,. that he had a room hext to her fitted up as a carpenter-shop, that be might indulge in his favorite amusement without absenting himself from her sick bed.

No blister draws sharper than interest does. Of all industries, none is comparable with that of interest. It works all day and all night, in fair weather and foul. It has no sound to its footsteps, but it travels fast. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth. It binds industry in its film, as a fly is bound in a spider's web. Debt rolls over and over, binding hand and foot, and letting him hang over the' fatal mesh until the long legged interest devours him. There is but one thing on a farm like it, and that is the Canada thistle, which swarms new plants every time you break its roots, whose blossoms are prolific, and every flower the father of a miilion seeds. Every leaf is an awl, every branch a spear, and every plant a platoon of bayonets, and afield of them is like an armed host. The whole plant is a torment and a vegetable curse. And yet a farmer had better make his bed of Canada thistles than attempt to be at ease upon interest.—Beecher. How a Camel goes Through the Eye of

Needle.

The passage in the New Testament, 'It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle," &c., has perplexed many good men who have read it literally. In Oriental cities there are in the large gates, small and very low apertures, called, metaphorically, "needles' eyes," just as we talk of windows on shipboard as "bull's eyes." These entrances are too narrow for a camel to pass through them in the ordinary manner, or even if loaded. When a loaded camel has to pass through one of these entrances, it kneels down, its load, is moved, and then it shuffles through on its knees. "Yesterday," writes a.lady from Cairo, "I saw a camel go through the eye of a needle—that is, the low, arched door of an inclosure. He must kneel and bow his head to creep through and thus the rich man must humble himself."

THE Papal dogma has already begun to bear fruit. At Jerusalem the Armenian Patriarch has declined to lend his cathedral to the Latin clergy, who had been accustomed to celebrate mass there upon St. James's Day,and to venerate the relics with which the catheral is richly endowed. At Braunsberg, in: Eastern Prussia, a Roman Catholic priest and professor has openly repudiated the doctrine, and declared the Pope a heretic. These, it is predicted, are but the beginning of a more generfd protest.

A SINGULAR procession came into Kansas City the other day. It consisted of a party of negroes—a woman, who carried on her back a heavy pack of bedding, two girls, and four boys, pulling by means of a rope a home-made wagon (wo«den wheelson which sat a helpless old negro, whose head was suow white with age. They wtere going to Saline county. The woman's husband was dead and the family left destitute, yet they were hopeful and cheerful.

DURE FOB HOG CHOLERA.—Feed your hogs on the ground with shell corn, and while they are eating, sprinkle them

Slentifully

with fresh slacked lime in a

ne dry powder, until their hair is full of lime. Whether it is what they eat with the coru or what they inhale, I unable to say—probably. bothbut it has never failed to arrest -the disease when tried. It should be none once a day until the disease disappears.—Exchange.

MtrCir'confusion isoibcasitoned in Paris .by the forced departure of a large number of Germans. The journals felicitate the government upon a measure which will rid it of many enemies.

This Morning's News.

The Empress Eugenie to Join her Hnsband and Son in Prussia.

General Trochu to be tor.

Made Dicta-

12,000 French Troops Cross the Belgian Frontier ana Lay Down their Arms.

Great Excitement in Paris.

Napoleon's Place of Residence Assigned.

PARIS, Sept. 4.—TheEmpress Eugenie, having received assurances from the Prussian Government that she will not be treated as a prisoner, has consented to join her husband and son, who has also surrendered with his father at Sedan. She wiil leave for Prussia as soon as her arrangements can be perfected.

General Trochu will at once be made Dictator, and Paris will be defended to the last.

A dispatch dated Brussels, September 3, received in this city this morning, states that twelve thousand French troops with cannon, eagles, and twelve hundred horses, had crossed the Belgian frontier and laid down their arms,

A demand has been made upon Montmedy for the surrender of that town and garrison, but the demand was promptly refused.

Another dispatch dated Carlsruhe, Sept. 3, states that on the previous day the cellars at Strasbourg had been inundated by the rising of the Rhine, causing great suffering and destruction of property.

The magnigcent Strasbourg Cathedral, so much admired by tourists, is certainly partially destroyed. 2 p. M.—It is now impossible to reach the Corps Legislatif, owing to the enormous crowds surrounding the building It is currently reported that the vote on the Dechance has been carried by yeas 185 nays none. The people are wild with excitement and are rushing through the streets bearing placards with the vote of the Corps Legislatif inscribed thereon Shouts of "Vive Republique" are heard on all sides.

Regiments passing into the city are received by the populace with deafening shouts of "Vive La Ligue," "Vive Republique." The Nationai Guards reversed their arms as the regular troops passed, as a sign of amity.

The troops are singing a Mourier Pour Patrie. The scene is one of indescribable excitement.

Rumors of all kinds have been in circulation and it is impossible to ascertain their foundation. But one sentiment seems to be prominent and that is resistance to invasion. All nations now to the rescue, shout the people, and the troops oln enthusiastically.

The Garde National says order must be preserved. The people evince but little desire to create trouble. All seem overjoyed at the vote of Dechance. Crowds are beginning to tear down the Imperial Arms from the front shops. There are fears that they may lead to trouble as the National Garde is not inclined to permit any disorder. 2:30 P. M.—The city now represents one of the most imposing popular displays ever witnessed. One hundred thousand armed citizens are marching to the Corps Legislatiff and surrounding the building, amid the phrenzied hurrahs of. countless masses, which are filling every avenue leading to the Hall. There are no symptoms of disorder yet, only a unanimous expression of the popular will.1Jfr

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Before the residence of General Trochu in Louvre, there is a compact mass of people awaiting the return of the Governor. Around the building is a strong military force guarding against any possible display of popular indignation.

Hundreds of thousands of citizens are still pushing towards the Corps Legislatif. Place de la Concorde is one mass of human beings.

LATER—4:30 P. M.—At the departure of the Deputies from the Corps Legislatif scenes of enthusiasm took place around the building, the National Guards fraternizing with the troops and the people. Thousands of guards rushed into the hall but wese persuaded to retire by M. Gambetta, who seems to have great influence over the people. The crowd outside, was, singing the Marseillaise and Vive Republique^. There is intense excitement, and a constant noise of voices that drowns all other sounds

There were no dangerous elements visible until the crowds reached the Rue Castaglione, where they began tearing down the Imperial Arms, and tearing from the flags of the National Guards the golden eagle of France, and from the walls and signs medals bearing the Imperial effigy. Soldiers have also joined in these demonstrations. The National Guard have been beat to arms to suppress the

disorder

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if ittakes a more serious turn.

citizens are becoming impressed with the idea that there may be danger, and the mob is becoming more and more excited.

An interview has taken place between Napoleon and the King of Prussia, for the purpose of deciding upon the future residence of the Emperor. One of the German fortresses was fixed upon, probably Mayence. Y.

There is so much confusion in the city, and such immense crowds about the

Corps

Legislatif, that it is impossible at present, to get a faithful account, of their proceedings.

The occupation of Rome by the Italian troops-isexpected immediately.

PARIS, September 4—Midnight—Asthe the proclamation- of the Ministers, announcing the capitulation of McMahon's army and the capture of the Emperor becomes known, the excitement among the people became indescribable, All even

TERRE HAUTE, IND., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 6, 1870.

ing great crowds occupied the Place de la Concorde, it being known that a stormy scene had taken place in the Corps Legislatif.

The story of the capture of the Emperor was freely circulated but not credited. It was reported that a Dictatorship would be announced, and a secret meeting was held and a large crowd anxiously awaited the news. There was a large police force on the ground but there was no violence. At last the crowd separated. At this hour many of the streets are crowded with anxious and excited people, but there is no disorder.

PARIS, September 4—5 A. M.—Manifestations were kept up during the entire night, crowds demanning the decheance of Trochu. He was called for, and on appearance spoke to the crowd, saying he had taken an oath, and an honest man can not break it. The Chambers must answer.

At midnight the crowd assembled be fore the Corps Legislatif building, and shouted that the Emperor having fallen into the hands of the enemy it was now time for the people to rise and chase out the invaders

The Corps, however, adjourned until to-day, assurance having been given that the day should not pass without some determination about the future of France.

Later in the evening, the crowd assembled on the Bouvelarde Bonne Novelle, parading and shouting, "Decheance," and "ViveFrance." They were.charged by the Police, who used firearms. It is reported that some of the citizens were mortally wounded.

At this early hour in the morning, great crowds are in the streets, and journals are bought with extreme avidity. The agitation was very great, and the feeling against the invaders singularly unanimous. "PARIS, September 4,1870. "General Trochu, Governor of Paris, has been appointed a member of the Government ef National Defenses, installed at the Hotel de Ville. He takes the portfolio of war, aud his colleagues have conferred upon him the Presidency. "LEON GAMBETTA."

The following proclamation has been issued by the new Government: "REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE,

MINISTERE L'INTRIEUR.

"The Decheance has been proclaimed in the Corps Legislatif. The Republic has been proclaimed at the Hotel De Ville. A Government of National Defense, composed of eleven members, and all the Deputies of Paris, has been constituted and ratifed by the populace with acclamation. Their names are Arago, Emanuel Cromienx, Jules Fayre, Jules Ferry, Gambetta, Fourier, Pages, Glois Bizoine, Eugene Pelletan, M. Picard, Rochefort and Jules Simon. "General Trochu will, at the same time, continue in the exercise of the powers of Paris, and is appointed Minister of War in place of General Palikao. "Please placard immediately, and if necessary have proclaimed by the

public

crier this declaration, for the good of national defense. The Minister of the Interior,

'•LEON GAMBETTA, jn

"Paris, the fourth day September, 1870, at six o'clock p. M." BERLIN, September 5.-^The following dispatches have been received from the King:

The King to the Queen:

"VARENNES, 8 o'clock, A. M. Sunday. "What a thrilling moment, that of meeting with Napoleon. He was dejected but dignified. I assigned as his place of immediate stay Williampon, near Cassel. "Our meeting took place at a small country house opposite the Western glais of Sedan. When summoned to it I was in the saddle inspecting the position beforethe place. You must imagine my reception among the troops. It was indescribable. Their exultation was overwhelming. At dusk I ended a five hours ride. At one in the morning returned hither. May God aid us further.

WILHELM."

BERLIN, Sep. 4.—5 p. M.—The members of the Provisional Government who were cited to appear and delineate are now assembled in the Hotel De Ville. Henri Rochefort, also, has been liberated, and is assisting at this meeting.

M. Keratry has been appointed Perfect of Police, vice M. Pietri, andEtienne Arago, Mayor of Pdtis.

The people outside the building are in a state of extraordinary excitement. From time to time M. Gambetta assures them, exhorting order.

It is reported that the soldiers of all regiments mix among the people, unarmed, and are shouting vive Republique from the enterancesand windows at all barracks. The soldiers salute the people.

At four o'clock in the afternoon the flag was lowered on the Tuilleries. This said—the Empress is gone.

The people are rushing through the Tuilleries. Placards have beeh posted in various places, inscribed, "Death to Thiers."

STUTTOARDT,

WURTEMBURG,Sept.3.—

At a crowded meeting held here to-day, the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That Germany refuses the mediation or intervention of the Powers.

Other resolutions were passed, demanding the incorporation of Alsace and Lorraine as a portion of Germany, as the only guarantee against French greed, and as a national compensation for the expenses of the war that the Germans must now j)e the nation{ in one State with one army and one Parliament, and that these are the only securities for the permanent peace of Germany and Europe.

M. Keratry performs the functions of Prefect of Police, and Arago those of Mayor of Paris.

The excitement created here, in London, and in provincial English towns by the news is intense.. •?.

A correspondent or the Daily News at Paris says at 3 P. M., Sunday, he saw the palace of the Tuilleries invaded by a mob who tore down the throne, robbed everything marked with the Imperial bees and other Napoleonic insignia, and carried away and cast into the Seine all btists, statutes and pictures of the Bonapartes.

Henrie Rochefort was borne in triumph to the Hotel de Villa. Amidst the scenes the soldiers fraternized with the people, and all shouted "Vive, le France" and "Vive Commerce." They laughed and wept with joy, and embraced one and another.

PARIS, Sept. 5.—The Empress is expected to abdicate imjavor of the nation. She joins the PRFRIEEImperialin Belgium on Monday.

Marshal McMahon was not wounded. He remains in health though greatly fatiirued.

The' Cliambers will meet' now to discuss M. Jules Favre's motion, of which the following is the text:

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