Terre Haute Daily Gazette, Volume 1, Number 96, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 September 1870 — Page 1

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1S70.

Ilcpublieau Ticket.

•SECnETABY OF STATE, MAX F. A. HOFFMAN. AUDITOR OF STATE,

JOIIND. EVAN'S. TREASURES OF STATE. ROBERT H. MILROiT. judges of sitprejie court,

JEHU T. E. ELLIOTT, ,.U. C. GREGORY. CHARLES A. RAY,

ANDREW L. OSBORNE. ATTORNEY OEXERAL, NELSON TRUSSLER.

SUi'EltlNTENDEXT OF I'UHLIC INSTRUCTION, BARNABAS C. HOBBS.

FOR CONGRESS, SIXTH BIST.: MOSES F. DUNN.

COUNTY TICKET. AUDITOR, WILLIAM PADDOCK.

SHERIFF,

GORDON LEE. TREASURER,

MORTON C. RANKIN. ItECOItDER, THEODORE MARXEN.

SURVEYOR,

ALEXANDER COOPER. 'COJIMISSIOXERS. FIRST DIST.-WM. T. PE'JTTNGElt. •SECOND —.1 OS. FKLLENZER.

THIRD —PHILIP RANDOLPH. JUDGE CRIMINATj COURT, JOHN G. GRAIN. PROSECUTING ATT'*/ CRIAIINAT, COURT,

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

II. II. BOfTDINOT.

NEWS SUMMARY.

They say Fanny Fern will stop writing after this year. Mrs. Sam Colt, of revolver fame, is tho richest widow in America.

John Kitts aged 108 years, the oldest citizen of Baltimore, died yesterday evening. Fifty German families expelled from Paris, wore passengers on tho steamer Iowa.

William A. Fowler, of Brooklyn, New York, has been appointed Receiver of the Black Ilawk Mining Company.

Swinburne is writing a drama, Bothivell, in which Queen Elizabeth is tho principal figure.

As a matter ot family pride, the relatives of the lato Marquis of Hastings have paid all his debts.

Miss Prevost Paradol has gone to England to livo there, during the war, with the famityof M. Thiers.

Verdi is stated to have received an honorarium of 150,000 francs for his new opera, Aula, written for the Khedive.

Berry declines Walter Brown's Challenge for a single scull match. A fine race is arranged botween Renforth and Coulter, for §1,000.

There was a dectructive fire in the dye and storago house of the Merrimac Woolen Mills at Drachut, Massachusetts, Sunday. Loss, $175,000 mostly insured.

A new talking machine is exhibited in London. Most of tho machines of that sort hereabouts wear jute for "back hair.'»

The sum of $8,804 9Q has been subscriber! to tho fund for the children of the brave Captain Williams who went down on tho Oneida.

Mr. R. H. Edgar, low comedian at Sadler's Wells, and a son of Miss Marriott who appeared here last year, sailed for the United States on August 27.

When Tennyson was eighteen yoars old lie wrote a poem called The Lover's Tale. Bound up with early editions of his poems, it lately was sold at auction for $23. There is no copy of it in the British Museum.

A private dispatch states that the number of deaths in Havana, from yellow fever, for tho week ending Saturday, aggregated 560.

Tho Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows commenced its session in Baltimore yesterday, Grand Senior Farnsworth presiding. Representatives aro present from 25 Grand Lodges, and 23 Grand Encampments.

The long protracted strike ot tho iron boilers of Wheeling, West Virginia, is ended. To-morrow all the rail and iron mills will be in full blast. The boilers return to work at the old rates, the managers asking no concessions.

Tho schooner Howard collided with the schooner Dominion, about twenty-five miles from Rochester, on Lake Ontario,last night. The latter filled and capsized. The crow escaped in a boat. Both vessels belonged to David Andrews, of Ontario.

Tho Powelton House, at Newburg, New York, owned by the wife of Homer Aurdsdell, and occupied by Goodsell, burned yesterday. Loss, §60,000 partly insured.

The commissoners to supervise the sale of Tennesseo's interest in delinquent railroads, appointed by tho Legislature, meet in Nashville to-morrow. Important business is expected.

United States Judge Strong, of Philadelphia, has decided that tho dividends and interest paid by railroad companies subsequent to January 1st, 1870, is not liable to internal revenue taxation. f'

Mr. Greeley has been demonstrating what he realty does Know About Farming, with a big F, dewn in Connecticut. A farm for which he paid §5,000 some time ago, sold, with his "improvements," for $3,650, on Tuesday.

Nilsson makes her first appearance in America at Stineway Hall, New York, tonight, assisted by Miss Isabella Cari, from tho Royal Italian Opera, London Signer Verger, baritone Signor Brignoli, and Vieuxtemps, the great violinist.

One of tho magazines belonging to the Lake Shore Nitroglycerine Company, located at Fairport, Ohio, exploded about 10 o'clock last evening. No loss of life reported. It was probably the work of an incendiary. Some damage was done to the the adjoining buildings.

During the week ending on the evening of the 18th there were fiftv-two deaths at New Orleans from .yellow fever of this number, twenty-eight were natives of Italy, nine of France, three of Germany, three of the United States, two of Holland, two of Nova Scotia, and five of other conntries. Ten were interred September 12th, threo on the 13tli, ten on the 14th, eight on the 15th, seven on the 16th, nine on the 17th, and two on the ISth. The deaths from other fevers were twenty-one. Total interments for the week, 171. The fever has not been declared epidemic.

THE following arc the individuals and firms that sustained heavy losses by the lire in Rockville. We take it from the News

The Baby on the Other Side. "Who took him

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Miss Lola Marcia Clark, a protege of Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth, was married at the residence of Mrs. Southworth (Prospect Cottage), Georgetown, on Thursday evening, to Mr. Brainard Spencer, of the Treasury Department.

Insured. $ 7,.500 2 000 8,71.0 10,C00

LOSS.

Cal. Thomas 815,000 Hannnh & Co 4,'t 00 B. W. Shacklefortl 15,000 Ott fe McMillan SO,000 Hough man 1,800' Stark Bro.'s & Co 23,000 '4.1 ,'11000 Jas. Cox. 7,000 4,0C0 ». J. Innis 9,000 ki 3,000 Mi's. Cole 3,000 Geo Sill 7,500 Dr. Ricc QUO E. J. Hughes, fully insured. Harry Ilargrave 7,0C0

Tho following parties have also sustained heavy losses in way of books, office furniture, etc. »fcc., pertaining to their trades and professions: J. H. Davis, Miss Russell, Dr. McGown, Burks & Bristol Judge Maxwell, Win. II. Nye, John C. Brush and Clarence Noel.

A STRIKING passage in theaufractuou.s colllection of infinite acclivities without elevation, and awful depressions without visible depth, to imitate his own impressive style, which Daniel W. Voorhees displayed before the Literary Society of Chicago recently, lie concludes with the following touching but unintelligible remark: 'By the ties of the past he "saluted the living by the hopes of the future he ould embalm the dead, and cast his humble tribute

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their grave.

"Embalming the dead1' in hopes of any sort connected with this earth, and especially in "hopes of the future," is a suggestion thai we fancy Daniel got from Punch's "Ballad of Bedlam":

"The joys of future years are past, To-morrow's hopes have lied away Still let 11s Jove, and e'en at last,

We shall he happy yesterday."

It is very like, isn't it?.—Tnd. Journal.

Obstacles to Peacc.

Christendom hears with sorrow that tho War between France and Germany is to be still further prosecuted. Germany has triumphed—signally, overwhelmingly—the season is advanced, and the million of Germans under arms —mainly citizens suddenly called from the conilortsof home and fireside—will soon be disabled and dying by hundreds of thousands, of fevers, rheumatism, and the multiform results of excessive fatigue and unwonted exposure to the elements. Their case is very different from that of veterans bronzed on a hundred fieldsand inured to inclemency and privation. If the war shall proceed, not half the Germans who inarched into France will be effective on the 1st of December.

Why should the war go on We hear both sides, and can judge more dispassionately than those whose feelings are heated, whose judgments are clouded by passion. And we hold that Germany is wrong in declining to treat with the actual Government of France, while that Government is wrong in refusing to consider any proposition which involves the cession of territory.

Has not France acquired territory from Germany by conquest? Nay did she not divest Prussia of all her Rhenish provinces as a consequence of her victories at Jena and Auerstadt? Nay, more: Is it not notorious that she would require a cession of that territory this day, if she. had routed two or three Prussian armies, captured one of them entire, and was

now

investing Berlin? Whv

rule work but one

should tuic

way?

We insist that Germany is morally bound to offer terms of peace to France— the actual France of to-day—and that France is equally bound to consider them iu the light of existing facts. To refuse to treat with any other than a perfectly satisfactory Government—to refuse to treat while an invader is on the "sacred soil," or unless territorial acquisition is waived—what is this but to say that war shall be interminable and that carnage mu.st proceed until no blood remains unshed?—N. Y. Tribune.

the other side?"

A pair of soft blue eyes, lull of tenderness and tears, looked up into mine. Sorrow lay on the lips that asked me. "On the other side! What do you mean, darling?" "Baby, I mean." The little one's voice trembled. "He was so small and weak, and had to go all alone. Who took him on the other side?" "Angels," I answered, as steadily as I could speak, for the child's question moved me deeply, "Loving angels, who took him up tenderly, and laid his head softly on their bosoms, and sang to him sweeter songs than he had ever heard in this world." "But every one will be strange to him. I'm afraid he'll be grieved for mother, nurse and me." "No, dear. The Savior, who was once a baby in this world, is there and the angels who are nearest to Him take all the little children who leave our side, and love and care for them just as if they were their own. Whan baby passed to the other side, one of the angels held him by the hand all the way, and he was not in the least afraid and when the light of heaven broke upon his eyes, and he saw the beauty of the new world into which he had entered, his little heart was full of gladness. The Lord, who tenderly loves little children, who took them in His arms and blessed them when

He was on earth, who said that their angels do 'always behold the face of my father,' is more careful of the babes who go to Him than the tenderest mother could possibly be." "I'm so glad!" said the child it makes me feel so much better. baby! I didn't know who would him

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"and Dear take

the other side." r*?,!

A Remarkable Prophecy. what extent men can prophecy, and is the gift confined to the just men made perfect? Talleyrand is made to speak as follows, iu his "Memoirs:" "We must not delude ourselves the European equilibrium, of which we laid the foundation at the Congress of Vienna, will not be eternal. Some day it

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tumble, but it. promises us some years of peace. What threatens to break it up at a period more or less distant are the aspirations which are becoming universal in the centre of Germany. The necessities of defense and of a common danger have prepared their minds for German unity. This idea will continue to develop, and some day one of tl?e great Powers which form psirt of the confederation will form the desire to realize this unity for its own profit. Austria is not to be feared being composed of scraps and morsels, and having no unity at home, she cannot dream of exporting it abroad. It is Prussia, then, that should be watched. She

try the venture and if

she succeeds, then all the conditions of the balance of power will be changed, and it will be necessary to seek for Europe a new basis and a new organization^"

Having' examined the more or less difficult circumstances amid which this reconstruction will be effected, M. Talleyrand indicates France as being the nation fhost interested in combatting the unification movement, or in seeking to be compensated for it. All this reads if written after the facts, instead of many years before them.

This Morning's News.

Arrival of American Volunteers in

r. »,s parjs y.fji

A Prussian Army Moving on Ly OLLS. 3. W "£1

The Ued Republicans of Paris Opposed to Keratry and Trochu.

Count Bismarck on the Attitude of Prussia.

A Heavy Fight Yesterday.

The French Beaten, but Inflict Heavy Losses on the Prussians.

40,000 Prussians Repulsed Within Four Miles of Paris.

The Pope to Quit Rome and Rest His Case in tlie Hands of Catholic Nations.

[Special Dispatches to tlie Terre Haute Gazette.]

LONDON, Sept. 19.—The advance guard of the American volunteers, now being raised in America, arrived at Paris and were received with great enthusiasm.

The La Libcrte says the Prussian movements against Paris have been attended with no extraordinary celerity, taking them two weeks to get their guns before the city and, meanwhile, a new French army has been raised, of sufficient strength to attack the besiegers.

Advices from Belfort, state that the Prussian army which crossed the Rhine at Mulhousc, are marching via the latter city in a western direction, supposed to be moving upon Lyons, and that their advanced forces will secure communication by the valley of the upper Savne and come through the department of Daubse.

The Prussian cavalry are concentrating before Soissons. Aimens is threatened both from the direction of Soissons and Criel.

It is thought probable that the enemy may attempt a movement beyond the Oise.

The Red Republicans held several large meetings and great applause manifested against the restoration of the monarchy and leaders proposed to organize a system of popular protection against peace and its negotiation, for the arrest of Imperialists, to divest the Commissioners of Police of their authority and confiscate tho estates of Bonapartists. This organization will exert a great in-

fluonoo Atrnw

Tiiere is great dissatisfaction manifested because of the presence in the Ministry of Iveratry and Trochu, on the grounds that they are not sufficiently Republican. It is supposed that powerful efforts will bo made to remove them.

LONDON, September 39.—A correspondent of the Times writes from Berlin that he has struck a clue to the King's action ic ignoring the present Government of France. It is in order to inform political parties and expectant candidates to the throne of France that Prussia will recognize that government alone which accepts the terms Prussia proposes. Therefore, as the Republic ignores Prussia's terms, Prussia ignores the Republic.

BERLIN, September 1(J.—The Deutch Zeitung official Journal says Prussia will treat with whichever French Government accepts the terms, and is able to carry out the treaty.

LONDON, Sept. 19.—A special correspondent of the Standard telegraphs from Rheims, at the headquarters of King William, the substance of a conversation with Bismarck upon the attitude Prussia will maintain toward the present government of France in its dealing with that Power. The interview, throughout, was characterized by the utmost affability on the part of Bismarck, and his reception of the representatives was cordial. In response to a direct question as to what he considered the government of France, he responded that if France possessed any government, it was that of tho Empress Regent. The present government ho considers as unstable.

However, whatever is, or shall become the Government of France, we must have Strasbourg and Metz. We base this as our ultimatum. It is idle to hope to propitiate France. She will never forgive us, even if offered the easiest terms in the world. We shall be at her downfall, annexing her territory to ours to form a glacis between her and Germany.

By a late arrival in this city ,the,following intelligence is received: The Prussian scouts in considerable force have made their appearance at various points on the line of the Havre & Paris railroad, tearing up the track and burning a number of very fine bridges. At the village of St. Hourion in the department of the Seine, 14 miles north of Paris, they remained for some time doing an immense amount of damage to the railroad and its connections.

The Prussians are still concentrated in the vicinity of Ville Nueve, Georgas and Bruner.

The French gunboats on the Seine are daily engaged in reconnoitering the Prussian position near Charenton.

PARIS, Sept. 10.—The heights occupied by tlie Prussians after yesterday's fight, were the same which the French had been holding. The Prussians, numbered 30,000. The fight is said to have been a very bloody one and the French, though beaten,, inflicted heavy losses on the Prussians. The contest raged for upward of two hours.

The Russian Ambassador left the city to-day to return to St. Petersburg. The diplomatic circular issued by Jules Favre has met with the universal approval of the citizens, and the opinion is generally expressed that it is the-ultima-tum of the Provisional Government.

VOL. 1. TERRE HAIJTE, IND., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 20, 1870. NO. 96.

NEW YORK, Septcnber 19.—A Paris official reports that a force of 40,000 Prussians, within four miles of the city were repulsed with gr at

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by a body

of French of about he same number Tho French retired vithin their fortifications.

A Florence dispaii'li says that the Pope will quit Rome nd rest his cause in the hands of Catholic nations to demand a restoration of his temporal power.

A London special (mentions the fact that telegrams received from Paris indicate that peace will De made this wTeek, France paying the ex enses of the war, and dismantling all fdrtifiqations on the frontier.

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NEW YORK, September 19.—Private dispatches to-day state that the number of deaths in Havana from yellow fever for the week ending Saturday aggregated 500.

Fifty German families driven from France, arrived on Sujiday on the steamer Iowa. They were forced to leave in consequence of the orqers of the French Ministry expelling tip in Paris all Germans. The cmigrandsociety by German consul, sent to Berlin$170,000 subscribed iu this city and vicinity for the Prussian relief fund.

Rumor that the yellow fever prevails in tho city is officially contradicted by Dr. Morris, on the certificate of two health inspectors, who made diligent inquiry, and pronounce the fever at Governor's Island confined to this locality, and did not come by way of Perth Amboy, as reported. »-'t •,

The funeral of Thomas Ewb-ink, the author, took place to-day at 10 o'clock from his late residence, 140 East Thirtyfirst street. Among the distinguished people present were Horace Greeley, Paul DuChaillu and others.

WASHINGTON, September 19.—Official dispatches from Minister Motley to Secretary Fish says that tho English Government is willing to recognize the French Republic when it can be satisfactorily shown that it is not merely revolutionary in its character, and liable to disappear with the withdrawal o" the Prussian armies.

Minister Motley telegraphs to Secretary Fish, under date of Saturday night last, that there is no truth in the widely circulated report, that the Prussian Government will not treat for peace, other than with Napoleonic regency, and that tho Prussians refuse to recognize the French Republic. The Prussian Government does not believe that the present Government ot France is other than local in its character, and doe3 not faithfully represent the French people, and cannot guarantee the fulfillment of a peace treaty, if one should be made.

Mr. Motley further says that the Prus-

eion

7 -ohjpp.f to n.

Republic if it is establishes! vj of the French people. No response lias been received to a proposal to allow M. Favre to have an official interview with Bismarck, but a favorable reply is expected.

Nothing is as yet known as to who will succeed Mr. Motley to the Court of St. James.

Secretary Fish being applied to this morning for information on the subject, laughingly said he hoped that when the press had settled the controversy as to who is the coming man, he would not fail to report to him for instructions and to notify the President of his willingness to leave the country at once. From what Mr. Fish said in relation to Mr. Orth,of Indiana, it is believed that that gentleman has not been tendered the position as reported in various papers in the country.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—The Postmaster General is expected here to-mor-row, when the great amount of business of the Post Office Deparment, which has been up in his absence, will be disposed of. Among such matters are Postal Treaties between British Columbia and Voncouver's Island, as well as with the Republic San Salvador in Central America. Nycaragua makes overtures for a Postal treaty with this country, British Columbia, and San Salvador, and is only awaiting signature and approval.

During the week both Secretaries Boutwell and Belknap return to this city. The President is expected to be here about the first of October. I

The Revenue Department is being very much annoyed by receiving letters from gas companies regarding the supposed repeal of the tax on illuminating gas, and to-day reiterates, in a lengthy decision, gas is liable to tax, the tax on gas being a specific tax, and coming within clause of the new law repealing the taxes on sales.

F. J. Morris has been appointed inspector of customs at Portland, Maine, and Baldy H. Gennard appointed deputy collector at Baltimore, vice Bowerman, who is said to be a defaulter. Luther Lee, Jr., collector of customs at Norfolk, was to-day appointed by proxy for the United States in all business connected with the Dismal Swamp canal, in which the Government is to take hold of, allowing commissions where sent by the surveyor to the President, Edward T. Parker, collector of customs at Duluth, Minn.

The general Land Office has transmitted to the Governor of California, a list of lands selected by the State in pursuance of an act approved March 3d, 1853, for the use of a Seminary of learning, containing 11,640 acresv Also a list of the Internal improvement selections and the Humboldt land district, under an act of Sept. 4th, 1841, embracing G,155.aeres.

Commander Shutfieldt, who will have charge of the Tehuantepec Surveying Expedition,klias returned here from Portsmouth, and is busily engaged in completing his arrangements for the survey.

The Kansas, which has just been fitted Out at the Washington Navy Yard, is ready for sea, and her officers have been ordered to report to-morrow. It is expected that she will leave here in the course of two weeks.

The Darien Expedition under the command of Commander Thos. O. Selfridge. is in proccss of reorganization and will probably be ready about the 1st of October. An effort will be made to obtain the services of most of the officers who accompanied this expedition last winter.

NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—A special dispatch to the Standard from Washington says that the English mission will be announced positively on Thursday.

Early this forenoon, the Crescent City, from New Orleans, arrived in this port, having on board Captain Marston, 10 seamen and one passenger taken from the Britisii bark Ives, which sprung a leak. Fortunately for those on board, she fell in with the Crescent City, and signalled her.

The Crescent City went to the assistance of the bark and commenced towing her into the harbor, but owing to a heavy sea which prevailed, had to take on board tho crew and passengers and cut her hawsers. Soon after the abandoned bark disappeared beneath the waves.

The Standard of to-morrow morning will contain the following: "We are authorizied by President Grant to give a prompt and absolute denial to the infamous life published in tho Sun of yesterday, to the effect that Jay Gould and Col. Fisk, of the Erie Railroad, had paid his subscription of $10,000 to the fund in aid of the family of the late Gen. Rawlins.

Tho relations existing between the President and General Rawlins wrere of the most friendly nature as the country well knows, and General Grant was always ready to render any assistance due from one friend to another. The means of General Rawlins were not of the most ample character, and General Grant was glad of an opportunity to assist an old comrade in making arrangements which would promote the comfort of himself and family. In this way one or two sums of money passed between them, and at the death of General Rawlins all these old obligations wreredestroyed.

When the fund for the relief of the family of Gen. Rawlins was proposed, the President contributed $2,500 towards it while it was in process of subscription and payment. He received a telegraph dispatch from New York announcing that some citizens had volunteered to pay his subscription. This offer was immediately and indignantly refused.

Another slander of the Sun is that the President and family have been in the habit of traveling as free passengers on boats owned by Gould and Fisk is positive, and that some courtesy of this kind may have been unwittingly acccepted, as persons in the station of President, are always made honored guests, and as 4-s\ -1-" money wouiu oe regarded as an mdigmty. But he always purchased a ticket before hand on the boats of Fisk, and never accepted or used on the passage. The story that he had been stopped or questioned, or detained, or any way annoyed, was an infamous lie. This atrocious slander, on the memory of a dead soldier, as well as upon a friendship that continued through every trial and hardship, and ended only with death is mean. It is so terrible and cowardly that it is proper this prompt and absolute denial should be made. We are as glad as they were of the

opportuhity

of making it

upon the authority of the President in

tiiis unequivocal circumstantial manner.