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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21,1871.

THE ISSUES OF 1872.

Senator Mortion's Speocli on the Joint Kesolation of tlie State of Indiana declaring the Ratification of the Fifteenth

Amendment by that State Xnll and Void. The following: is one of the Indiana resolutions "Resolved, further, ?'}J the ctutnor'tiy aforesaid That Congress has no lawful power, derived from the Constitution of the United States, nor from any other source whatever, to require any State of the Union to ratify an amendment proposed to the Constitution of the United States as a condition precedent to representation to Congress that all such acts of ratification are null and void, and the votes so obtained ought not to be counted to affect the rights of the people and the States of the whole Union and that the State of Indiana protests and solemnly declares that the so-called Fifteenth Amendment is not tbis day, nor ever has been in law, a part of the Constitution of the United States."

The Democratic members of the Legislature of Indiana, without exception, voted for this resolution.

In the Senate, on Wednesday last, Mr. Morton said This resolution declares that the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment by the Legislature of Indiana was null and void because of the absence of a constitutional quorum,

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It is insisted that by making the ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments by the late rebel States a condition of their restoration to representation in Congress, their several acts of ratification were made under coercion and duress, and were null and void, and that the amendments not having been ratified by three-fourths of the States, not counting the late rebel States, have not been adopted and are not part of the Constitution of the United States. This proposition proceeds upon the hypothesis that the people of the rebel States lost no political rights by going into the rebellion that as soon as they had been overcome upon the field of battle they were entitled, ipso facto, to resume their representation in Congress just as if nothing had occurred, and that by overcoming them in arms we merely conquered them back into the enjoyment of full political rights.

Jt further assumes that when the people «f certain States had inaugurated and prosecuted for years a bloody rebellion, which had only been overcome by a vast -expenditure of blood and treasure, the people of the other States, who had remiiinel loyal and borne the heat and burden of the conflict, had no right to »sk guarantees for the future good conduct of their late enemies that they had no right to prescribe any conditions which they might deem necessary for their future safety before restoring their late enemies to the enjoyment of political power.

These doctrines so abhorrent to common sense, are the foundation upon which is placed the right to nullify the amendments. The position taken by the friends of the Government was that treason was a crime, and carried with it the forfeiture of political rights that when the people of the rebel States withdrew their Senators and Representatives from Congress, formally declared their severance from the Union, and attempted to form anew and hostile Government, they forfeited their right to representation in Congress, and could not resume it merely because they had been defeated in battle, but only by the permission and upon the conditions prescribed by those *'Jho had remained true to their country, acting through the Government of the "United States.

The whole trouble with the Democratic party is that it fails to perceive the wrongfulness of the rebellion. That fact once admitted, all the consequences which we claim, forfeiture upon the one

side,

rights and powers upon the other, follow inevitably. Need I argue that the txjople who remained true to the Governpaeat had a right to protect themselves gainst future rebellion? Need I argue that when ft rebellion has been suppressed (rebels have not an equal right with loyal #»en to prescribe the terms of peace? If there be any difference between the right and wrong, between loyalty and treason, I need not argue these questions.

Assuming, therefore, the wrongfulness .of the rebellion, and that treason was a (crime which carried with it the forfeiture of political rights, and that the loyal people of the United States, acting through the Government, had a right to exact guarantees for their future peace and jsafety, I come to the question how those guarantees were to be obtaiued, and how that security could be taken. Is it not obvious that those guarantees should be placed in a law as nearly as possible irreversible? that the security, to be valuable, must be written down in the Constitution of the United States, and placed beyond the reach of those fluctuations in parties which occur so frequently in a Government like ours?

This conclusion, so reasonable, was at once adopted, and the guarantees were proposed in the form of amendments to the Constitution, and the restoration of the late rebel States to representation in Congress made dependent upon their ratification.

According to the theory of some dis-

tingulsbed statesmen these amendments could be adopted without the consent of iiny of the rebel States. They held that those States by going into the rebellion, had ceased to be States, and were held as conquered provinces to be disposed of like other Territories, and that the ratification of the amendments by threefourths of the remaining States was suffleient. The other theory was that the rebel States were still to be counted as

Btates in the Union, but having forfeited their right to representation by going into the rebellion were entitled to have it re1 stored only upon such conditions as were compatible with future safety of the nation'and not inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States.

This latter theory seems to have been the one adopted by Congress in proposing the amendments and in the enactment of the reconstruction laws.

By the Reconstruction Acts of 1867, the ratification of the Fourteenth Ametidrnent by the late rebel States was made a condition to political risrhts. Afterward, and before Virginia, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia had complied with the conditions, the Fifteenth Amendment became a manifest necessity to the peace

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has not been adopted, because Virginia, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia rati tied it under the provisions of acts of Congress making such ratification a condition precedent to their representation in Congress. The last objection would be equally fatal to the Fourteenth Amendment, but was not urged against it, for the reason, perhaps, that the honorable geutleman proposing the resolution had advocated the Fourteenth Amendment and indorsed its adoption as complete. But every argument to prove that the Fifteenth Amendment nas not been adopted is equally applicable to the Fourteenth, and both must stand or fall together.

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and safety of the nation, and Congress required those four States, in addition to the terms prescribed in the acts of 1867, to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment before final restoration.

Now the argument is that this condition was

unconstitutional

people of tho^e States had a

that the

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presentation already, and had such a right from the very moment they laid down their arm.

If the rebel States forfeited no rights by going into the rebellion, then their ratification of the amendments was as valid as if made after being restored to representation, for they were States vested with original powers to ratify amendments before as well as after.

If they were still to be counted as States, but regarded as having lost their right to representation by having willfully abandoned it, and engaging in the rebellion, it was clearly competent for Congress to prescribe the terms upon which they should be restored to its enjoyment. But if, on the other hand, they had lost their State character, which was only restored by tbier admission to representation, such new admission into the Union, by a well recognized principle of constitutional law, would relate -back and validate their previous acts ratifying the amendments.

The Constitution provides that Senators shall be chosen by the Legislatures of the States, but it has always been held that the admission of a State into the Uuion validated a previous election of Senators while yet a Territory.

Such also has been the uniform construction where Territories proposing to be admitted as States have been required by Congress to enact certain laws, or comply with certain terms as conditions precedent to their admission. Their subsequent admission has always been held to relate back, and validate such enactments or agreements.

If the Territory of Colorado, now seeking admission into the Union, was required by Congress to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment as a condition precedent, and having done so was afterwards admitted, would any one doubt that such a ratification would be legal and binding?

But I come now to consider the declaration, that requiring the late rebel States to ratify the amendments as conditions to their restoration, was coercion and duress that rendered their action null and void, and that the right to representation in Congress was absolute, and unaffected by participating in the rebellion.

If the people of the loyal States had a right to prescribe any conditions, then those contained in the amendment were legitimate and proper. They were reasonable, just in themselves, and were considered vital to the safety of the nation.

If, therefore, the right existed to prescribe the conditions it was not coercion or duress to require compliance with them. If I have the right to prescribe the terms upon which I will convey my house to my neighbor it can not be coercion or duress when he accepts them, and to give to this transaction the slightest color of coercion or duress it must be made to appear that the Southern States and the people of the Southern States lost no rights under the Constituion by going into the rebellion, and that immediately upon their defeat they had aright to resume their high places in the Government they had just failed to destroy.

And this argument, pushed to its conclusions, would entitle them to representation at the very time they were prosecuting the rebellion, for it Gap. not be urged with any show or reason that defeat in battle and submission to superior power has the effect to restore a constitutional right that has been lost. The rebel States were in no wise compelled to ratify the amendments. They could ratify them and be restored, or refuse to ratify them and remain in the condition in which they had placed themselves. Their situation was entirely of their own making. They had voluntarily, aqd 3g$inst the prayers of all loyal men withdraw their Senators and Representatives from Congress, and attempted to cut loose from the Government, and if we had left them for an indefinite period to lie in their bed as they had made it, they could not have justly complained. But,

not

with

asking indemnity

for the past, we said to them, give us security for the future and we will restore you to the full fraternity of the Republic. They gladly responded to the offer, and by overwhelming majorities in every State, and with flje assurances of good faith, accepted the terms th&t were prescribed and having accepted the terns without protest how absurd it is for other States to plead that their action was unr der duress and not binding upon them.

But it may be said we offered the rebel States inducements to ratify the amendments. That may be true, but that is not coercion or duress. Inducement is the great mainspring to human action. Texas was induced to annexation by the immense advantages to arise from union

this pountry, but surely there was no coercion in the case. States, as well as individuals, sometimes require inducements to the performance or duty, to

the

administration of justice, to the dis

charge

of obligations imposed upon them

their own action. But, it is said, the Southern States should not have rati tied the amendments until after they had been fully restored. In that case, the inducement to ratify would have been taken away, and they would not have done so, especially if they had heeded the advice of the Northern Democracy.

When it is necessary for a man to give security for his good behavior, he is required to execute the bond before he is discharged from custody he would hardly do it afterward, and it was not reasonable to suppose the Southern States would offer guarantees after they had been fully restored to political power.

The act of Cougrees passed J.S18 coptains the following provisions: "SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever official notice shall have been received at the Department of State that any amendment which heretofore had been, or hereafter may be, proposed to the Constitution of the United States has been adopted according to the provisions of the Constitution, it shall be the duty of the said Secretary of State forthwith to cause the said amendment to be published in the said newspapers authorized to promulgate the laws, with his certificate, specifying the States by which the same may have been adopted, and that the same has become valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of the Constitution of the United States."

This constitutes the Secretary of State a judicial officer to determine and decide upon the official evidence of the ratification of an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and If he finds it has been legally and properly ratified, to make proclamation thereof in the manner prescribed. From his decision there is no appeal, and his adjudication is final. That power had to be lodged somewhere, and it has been vested in the Secretary of State.

The Joint resolution ot the Legislature of Indiana, ratifying the. Fifteenth Amendment, signed by the presiding officers of the two houses, duly certified under the seal of the State, in accordance with the law of the State, was filed with the Secretary. The evidence was incontrovertible, there was nothing to impeach it placed before him, and there could be

nothing. An appropriation bill passed by the Legislature of Indiana on the same day, with the same votes, was afterwards contested before the Supreme Court of the State, and held to be valid, the Court deciding the evidence of the validity of the act to be perfect, and that nothing could be received to impeach it for want of a quorum or by other irregularity.

As before stated, the decision of the Secretary of State was made final by the law, and no appeal can be taken from it to a Democratic convention or to the accidental majority of a subsequent Legislature. The question as to whether a constitutional amendment has been ratified, is essentially political, and must be determined by the political department of the Government. Like those other questions, whether a State has a republican form of government, or whether a State has been properly admitted into the Union, as in the case of West Virginia, it must be determined by Congress or by some officer appointed by a law of Congress for that purpose and when so determined, must be acquiesced in by the Courts and the Government, for otherwise nothing can ever be settled.

The Vice President—The Senator from Indiana will please suspend the morning hour has expired, and the unfinished busines of yesterday is before the Senate.

Mr. Pratt—I move that my colleague be allowed to proceed and conclude his remarks.

The Vice President—It is proposed that the unfinished business be passed over until the Senator from Indiana concludes his remarks.

Mr. Sumner—I make no objection. The unfinished business is the telegraph cable bill.

The Vice President—It is, but it will be passed over informally if there be no objection. The Chair hears no objection and the. Senator from Indiana will resume his remarks.

Mr. Morton—But suppose that the Secretary of State had been notified, as he was not, that objections were made to the sufficiency of the quorum in the Legislature of Indiana when the resolution ratifying the Fifteenth Amendment was passed, and had undertaken to do what the Supreme Court of Indiana said no Court had a right to do, go behind the enrolled bill, and behind the signatures of the presiding officers, and inquire into the sufficiency of the quorum, he would have found the following state of facts That the law of the State provides for the election of one hundred members to the House, and fifty members to the Senate, and that the Constitution of the State provides that "two-thirds of each House shall constitute a quorum to do business." The Democratic leaders assumed that it require, two-thirds of all the members authorised by law to be elected to each House toconstitutethe quorum, That was sixty-seven in the House and Ihirty-four in the Senate and in order to defeat the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment by breaking the quorum forty members of the House and seventeen members of the Senate resigned their seats, thus rereducing the membership in each body to less than two-thirds of the members authorized by law to be elected. On the other hand, the Republicans assumed that each House consisted of its actual membership that when a member died or resigned he was no longer to be counted, and that two-thirds of that membership constituted a quorum.

The Constitution of the United States provides that— "A majority of each House shall constitute a quorum to do business."

Two thirds of each house is required to constitute a quorum in the State legislature, but a majority in each House will constitute a quorum in Congress, and the first question under each Constitution is, what is the "House," or how many members does it take to constitute the "House V' And when that is ascertained then two-thirds of that number will constitute the quorum in the Legislature, and a majority in Congress.

It has been solemnly decided that each liquse of Congress consists of its actual membership ai)d npt of £he whole number of members authorized bylaw to be elected that when a Senator or Representative dies or resigns he is no longer to be counted in determining the quorum, and that the quorum consists of a majority of the remaining members, and in this way varies from day to day, as vacancies occur by death or resignation or are filled by election or appointment.

This question was raised in Congress after the resignation of the Senators and Representatives from the Southern States at the beginning Qf the rebellion, and was decidetl in accordance with oqmmon sense and the necessity of preserving the Government.

The resolution ratifying the Fifteenth Amendment in the Indiana Legislature received fifty-six votes in the House and twenty-eight in the Senate, the same being a clear majority of all the members authorized by law to be elected to either House.

So much of the joint resolution I am considering as purports to rescind the act qf thel^egistatureof Indiana ratifying the Fifteenth Amendment is a harmless nullity and need not fee noticed but for the spirit by which it is animated. The better opinion is, that after the Legislature of a State has ratified an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, even before it has been ratified by enough other Stat'es to secure its adoption, the act cannot be rescinded on the ground that the power of a Legislature, as conferred by the Constitution of the United States, having been once exercised on the particular amendment, has been exhausted. But that the Legislature can rescind its act of ratification after the amendment has been ratified by threefourths of all the States and proclaimed according to law, was never ascertained before, except by those who maintained the right of secession.

South Carolina held in 1860 that she conld throw off her constitutional obligations and secede'from the Union by simply re Dealing the ordinance by which she ratified the Constitution in 1788 and such seems fo have been the opinion of those who voted for this joint resolution. Stnpof all pretenses and beclouding

'•whereases," it asserts the naked and abhorrent doctrine ot the right of secession. It is important that the country should understand the issue tendered by the Democratic party that it proposes to accept nothins that has been done in the way of reconstruction th^t it repudiates all the terms and guarantees required of the rebel States as the condition of their restoration. Not only has it declared, through its conventions, State and national, that the reconstruction acts of 1887 were uncontitutional and void, but it now asserts that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are nullities, and will be by them disregarded when they come into power.

Men of all parties, who seek repose and the final settlement of the great questions crowing out of the rebellion, are notified that the programme of the Democratic Dartv is revolution and retrogression. The nullification of the Fifteenth Amendment means the robbery from the colored people of their right to vote. The nullification of tbf» Fourteenth Amendment means the reduction of the colored people of the Southern States to the condition of slaves to the law it means to leave the door open to the assumption of the rebel debt, paying the rebels for their slaves and for the repudiation of the national debt. All these things are provided against in that amendment, and there can be no other reason for its nullification. Why should any one desire to set it aside unless it be to accomplish the things which it forbids.

TEE.EE HAUTE, INJD.. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 21, 1871.

In stating the position of the Democratic party I rely upon the expression of opinion in the Indiana resolutions and upon the vote of Democratic members in the other end of this Capitol, at the last session, against a resolution declaring th« validity of the Fourteenth and Fifeeenth Amendments. On the 11th of July, 1870, the other House, by a vote of 13S yeas to 32 nays, every Democratic member present voting nay, adopted the following resolution, offered by Mr. Ferris, of New York: "Resolved,, That the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Articles of amendment to the Constitution of the United States, having been duly ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, are valid to all intents and purposes as part of the {Constitution of the United States, and as such binding and obligatory upon the Executive, the Congress, the Judiciary, the several States and Territories, and all the citizens of the United States."

I rely upon these further reasons: That the adoption of the amendments was strongly opposed by tthe Democratic party in Congress and out of it that the Democratic party everywhere denied the power of Congress to require the late rebel States to ratify the amendments as a condition to their restoration that no Democratic convention, Legislature or leading statesman so far as I know, has accepted or admitted the validity of the amendment. And I may refer to the additional facts that the State of Kentucky today nullifies an important provision of the Fourteenth Amendment, and also of the "Civil Righls Bill," by refusing to colored people the right to testify in her courts in any case, civil or criminal, to which a white person is a party. A white man may enter a colored congregation and shoot the minister in the pulpit, and if there are no white witnesses he can not be prosecuted. No wonder that the press is teeming with crimes committed upon the colored people of that State.

And the Supreme Court of California, in a recent decision, refusing to the Chinese the right to testify in cases to which white persons are parties, while notd'rectly denying the authority of the Fourteenth Amendment, asserts theexistence ofState rights which wonld subvert it utterly. And the Governor of that State, in a message to the Legislature, declared that the Fifteenth Amendment was not within the scope of the power of amendment contained in the Constitution of the United States.

Mr. Casserly-^Will the Senator allow me— Mr. Morton—I shall be through in a moment, and then I will answer any questions.

Mr. Casserly—I rise merely to a correction as to a question of fact. Mr. Morton-—Very well.

Mr. Casserly—The Senator from Indiana probably is not aware that that message of the Govervor of California was delivered while the ratification of the amendment was still pending.

Mr. Morton—I am aware that that message was in sending the amendment to the Legislature but that message denied the power of Congress to propose an amendment of that kind, and denied the possibilty ot its becoming apart of the Constitution of the United States, though ratified by ever so many States.

And the Legislature of Oregon, at its late session, formally declared the same amendment to be a nullity, and not binding upon the people of that State.

Ttie issue thus presented is of the gravest possible character, and involves the peace add perhaps the very existence of the Union. Amendments so vital to the safety of the nation, and to the liberty and happiness of nearly five millions of people, adopted under circumstances so solemn and so strange in the world's history, can not be nullified but by a struggle which will shake our Government to its foundations.

When we look at the reign of violence in the South the bitter and bloody persecution of men for opinion's sake, and at the ominous cloud of nullification which makes the political horizon black, who will dare to say that the mission of the Republican party has been performed

Buckwheat—Its Poisonous Effects—The Honey Bee. There is in buckwheat an essence of medipinal principle upon which its irritating qualities depend, and is called apis venerium, or "bee poison." This is one of the sources from whence the common honey bee obtains its poison hence, the same disagreeable effects follow the immediate use of honey when obtained from the buckwheat.

The bee takes from the flower a portion of its medicinal virtues with the saccharine matter of the plant, which, by passing through the internal laboratory of the insect, becomes separated its primary constituents of apis venenum and honey the one being deposited in cells for the sustenance of the insect, and the other laid by within itself as a means of de-

Now, in making this separation in the chemical laboratory of the insect (or by accident where dead bees are in the honey while being rendered,) it often occurs that portions of this poison are mixed with the honey, producing all the disagreeable effects which would result from the use ot buckwheat itself.

There is, perhaps, no article con tainins as great a per centageof the poisonous principle used for food as buckwheat iu its various forms and the same of its aroma with that given off' by the common honey bee is a proof of its identity.

All poisonous insects and reptiles are liealthy, active and virulent in proportion of the plentiful supply of tl.e poison they are enabled to derive from their food: and while feeding on such articles as yield them this supply, their stings are more virulent than at other times. This I saw fully demonstrated last winter, in transporting the honey bee over the Isthmus to California from the cold regions of the North. The sting from those bees, in the most unhealthy state, produced but little sensation or effect upon the hnm^n fjesh.

The nervous, warlike habits of the honey bee during the period of the flowering of buckwheat fully corroborate the doctrine that-this plant contains considerable quantities of poison, and it is on this principle that its irritating qualities depend.

The best remedy to prevent the disagreeable burning and itching sensation of the skin caused by a free use of buckwheat cakes is. carbonate of soda (or an alkali of a similar nature), used iu their raising, or taken internally when the itching has taken place in consequence of having eaten too freely of the cakes. And here let me state, that an alkali of the above chemical nature immediately taken and applied to theskin after a bile or sting of the most poisonous insect or reptile, is a good antidote, and will, in most casps, save the unfortunate victim from any serious harm.—Scientific American.

THE French Assembly has chosen for its President M. Grevy, a Liberal Monarchist, prominent in the provinces for twenty years of the Empire in opposition, previously as one of the Revolutionists who expelled the Bourbons in 1830, and an officer of the Provisional Government which followed the expulsiou of Louis Philippe in 1848. There fs nothing in this election to indicate on what particular Prince or House the hopes of the Monarchists rest. For the present it seems most likely that a Provisional Government, with Thiers atits head, will be entrusted with the fate of France until the withdrawal of the Germans. Thus far the action of the Assembly indicates two things as assured—that peace will be made at once, and that then the grand nation will look about it for awhile, and finally beg somebody to be its master, as Spain did.—JV. Y. Tribune.

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LATEST NEWS.

Safe Arrival of tlie San Domingo Commission.

The Entire Party in Health.

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Excellent

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[Special Dispatches to the Terre Haute Gazette.]

SAN DOMINGO CITY, Feb. 3.—The Commission arrived from Samana Bay yesterday. Every one connected with the party is in excellent health. The want of coaling facilities detained the ship six days at Samana. The Commission found the inhabitants of the Peninsula very generally in favor of annexation A full investigation into the ownership of the land around the harbor, showed that no United States officer is involved in any private transaction there whatever. Fabens and associates and O'Sullivan have a perpetual lease, at nominal pfices, of nearly all the available water front for large vessels, around the harbor of Samana. There is no valuable land in that section.

The Commission landed here this morning, and was formally received. Baez and his Cabinet gave a cordial welcome. President Baez said that peace and a stable government would follow union with the United States. The people were all anxious for union. Cabral had no Domincians with him. The force he was supposed to command were Haytiens, and Hayti was the real mover in the whole matter. Baez had information that an incursion was to be made while the Commission was here, to influence them, and from his agents he has learned of the whole movement. He expressed the hope that the commissioners would examine all classes, and promised to extend every facility. Five of the party came across the island from Samana to this place.

The commission find thus far no appearance of public disturbance or dissensions. The season is very healthy.

The officers and crews of the United States steamers Tennessee, Watasket and Juntle, now in this harbor, are all well.

The Commission will be here a week longer.

Stories of troubles there are untrue. The Commission intend to start for home in about four weeks.

Baez has agreed t^give safe conduct to Cabral or any of his officers to come here and meet the Commission.

Mesengers will be dispatched at once.

Finance and Trade.

*'X S GAZETTE OFFICE, February 21,1871. MONEY. The following table will show the rates for Government securities, as gold closes to-day:

ll%c

Buying. Sellinj

United States 6s of 1881., United States 5.20s of 1802...., 110^ United States 5-20s of 18(5-1 109% United States 5-20s of 1865 109£ United States 5-20s of I860..... 108'4 United Statas 5-20s of 1867. 108% United States 5-20s of 1868 108% United States 10-40s 105% Currency 6s 110% Gold

11% HI

110% 110K 109)4 lOO^I

109%

mk 11194

DRY GOODS.

SHEETINGS—Brottm—Atlantic

AAS}4c

Laurel D, ll%c Laurel H, 12%c Stand

ard A A, ll^c Snffbll£,8c.

Fine—

Stratford

4-4,

lliic Norfolk A 4-4, ll£c Lawrence S4 -4, 11c Hadley 4-4, 15c ConetTtoga 3-4, 7c.

JRleached—

Vaughn's 4-4, 10c Red Bank 4-4, 11c Hope 4-4.13c Hill 4-4,16c Hill 7-8,14c Lonsdale S 4-4,17%c.

DRESS GOODS.—Wool Delaines, 30@45c Fancy Delaines. 12%@18c Armures 20c Oriental Lustres, 20@2Z%c.

PRINTS—Uocheco, LLJ^c Merrimac D, 10%c Pacific, 11c Gloucester, 11c Lodi,10 Cocheco, 12c Albion, ruby, lOj^c Troy, 6c.

STIUPES—American 3-3. 12%C American 6-3,

l!*i)ELAiNES—Pacific,

ATICKINGS—Belville

new sfc.vl ^s, 18c Manches

ter do. 18c Manchester, r6ht styles, 12%c

7-8,

li%c,

Belville 17%C

Conestoga A 7-8, 20c Conestoga C. T. 22 Philadelphia No.5 7-8,27kc. BAGS—American A, &3c seamless, 28c.

BANS—Indiana8 oz.. scoured, 57%c. FACTORY YARN-White, 80c coloied, 90c Dayton carpet wrap, 30c do. cotton yarn No. 600 perdoz.,14c do.500,16c do.400,18c.

Our dry goods merchants are generally closing out their present stock at bargains, in order to make room for the spring styles, and the market is brisk.

PROVISIONS.

BACON—Shoulders 16c, clear sides, 19©20c Clear rib Sides 17}£c Hams—sugar cored! 30c do plain canvassed 2oc.

LARD—By the tierce 16@18c in keg20c. GRAIN AND PRODUCE. GBATN—TF/»."a«—Excited, and held some higher demand good with light supply at $L 11 from wagons, and 8112@115 from cars for red winter Tennessee, 51 18@125 prime to choice white SI 25@135. Or«40c in the ear shellet} or mixed, 45@48c.

Oal-i

are quiet at 38@40c.

Rye

tive and quotations nominal, at 85@75.

inac

Barley,

75c@Sl 25. FLOUR—The market is somewhat excited, with prices raising* We quote city fancy at 87 00@7 50 at city mills family at SO00@t 25, round hoop extra at$5 00@5 50: superfine, SM@ 3 25 flne.S3 75@4.

CORN MEAL—In fair supply at Sl@l 2o per cwt. HAY—Baled.S15@16 per ton, according to quality very dull. Loose, demand moderate at

81BRAN—Isheldat

«10@12 per ton, and dull

SHIPSTTJEFS—81 @20 per ton. SALT- Brisk. I^o «*nd Qhio River S3 60 in oar load lots. Single barrels 82 80.

GREEN APPLES—Becoming more plenty and better in quality at 75@100 per busheJ. POTATOES—In liberal supply at o@80c per bushel demand improved.

WHITE BEANS—8125@160 per bushel, and in good demand, but very scarce. DRIED ^RUIT—Fair demand Peaches £2 7O@ 3 00 for quarters, and S3 00@3 50 for halves, per bushel. Apples $175@2 00 per bushel.

ONIONS—£2 00 per barrel 75@$100 per bushel. FEATHERS—70@75 per pound for live geese. BEESWAX-20@33 per ft, according to qua! it. BUTTER—Rolls,30@40c common 20@15c supply very limited.

HIDES AND LEATHER.

HIDES—Dry flint 16c per pound dry salted 14c green 8@9, demand improving.

$47@50 per dozen domestic

16$foi.AflSES—New

16%

Orleans choice 82%@85c New

Orleans'?ri£Te 75@80c Honey syrup 8%90c Sil-

VCAd^L^-F^'ll

weight 20@21c 14 oz weight

I«DY—Stick,

18c.

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STARCH—Erkenbecher'S

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AMUSEMENTS.

BOWLING HALL. •v\

LEAKE A DICKSOJS, Lessees

THREE RIGHTS 03JLY!

THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, Febrnary 23, 24 and 25. 9 I**

I V*.

MIgs

LXZETTE

BERNARD!

1IN A NEW PLAY.

O I A N A

IN WIIICII SHE WILL

Sing Eight Songs! Execute Eiglit Dances!

MAKING SIX RAPID CHANGES!

Rivaling Lotta and Joe. Emmett.

MATINEE SATURDAY!

POPULAR TRICES:

Admission .nOe Reserved 75c 8Tickets at B. G, Cox's Bookstore.

OPEBA HOUSE,

Adelaide Phillipps

CONCERT COMPANY.

Miss ADELAIDE PHILLIPPS

Respectfully announces

One Grand Concert

Wednesday Evening. February 22,

Assisted by the following Artists:

MR. J. LEVY,

Tbe Greatest Cornet Player in the World

MR, JULES D'DASLER, The Eminent Baritone. •.-

MR. EDWARD HOFFMAX, The Distinguished Pianist and Composer.'

ADMISSION:

Balcony Chairs SI 5© Orchestra and Dress Circle 1 No extra charge for Reserved Seats. Family Circle 75

To be had at the Bookstore of B. G. Cox, on and after Monday, Feb. 20th, and at the Hall on the day of the Concert.

The Piano is from the fac-tory of Steinway & Sons, and furnished by Anton Shide, their Hole Agent in this city.

To commence at 8 o'clock.

Augusta

FOUNDRY.

V. H. M'ELFRESH. J. BAKSAKD.

Phoenix Foundry

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GROCERIES.

COFFEE-RIO, common 18^@19%c: fair 20%@ nrime 21Viri22c choice 23c Laguyra 22^@2§c. Java, old Government, 28@30c Imita*

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SHOP!

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Cor. of Xiutli and Eagle Streets, (Near the Passenger Depot,)

TERRE HAUTE, IND.

MANUFACTURE

Steam F.sigines, Mill Ma

chinery. House Fronts, Fire Fronts, Circular Saw Mills, and all kinds of

IRON AND BRASS CASTINGS!

REPAIRING DOKE PROMPTLY.

All parties connected with this establishment being practical mechanics of several years' experience, we feel safe iu saying that we can render satisfaction to our customers, both in point of Workmanship and Price. 211dwly MCELFRESH & BARNARD.

PL0PBIM& MILLS.

TELEGRAPH MILLS,

LAFAYETTE STREET,

iHE highest market rrice paid for

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TERItE HAUTE, INDIANA.

Oats, Corn

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The Bridal Chamber.

ESSAYS FOR lOMG jpE^,

Great Social Evils and Abuses *1

Which Interfere with MARKIAOK, with sure means of relief"for the Erring and iifortunate, diseased and debilitated.

Sent in sealed letter envelopes, free of charge. Address, HOWARD SANITARY AID ASSOCIATION, No. 2 South Ninth street, PHILADELPHIA, Pa. lfcxJ&wSm

$5to$10PERBAY.

and GIRLS who engage in our new business make from to £10 per day in their own localities. Full particulars and instructions sent free by mail. Those in need of permanent, profitable work, should address at once. OEORGE & QQ., Portland, Maine. 35w3m •"7 t'.' jr

NO.

F- ELECTEIC 0IL.: I»K. SMITH'S ...

Genuine "Electric". Oil.

UTEW COMBINATION.

NERVE POWER WITHOUT PHOSPHORUS A REAL Sedative without Opium or Reaction! INNOCENT even in the mouth of Infants. Twenty

Drops is the LARGEST Dose. Cures Sick Headache in about twenty minutes on rational principles.

CINCINNATI, June 17,1870.

DR. G. B. SMITH—Dear Sir: My mother scalded her foot so badly she could not walk, which I alarmingly swelled. My little hoy had lumps on his throat and very stiff neck. I got up in tlie night and bathed his throat and chest and gave him twenty drops of your Oil. They are now both well. JOHN TOOMEY,

Express Office. 07 West Fourth street.

FORT PLAIN, July 12.

Dr. Smith Send me more Oil and more circulars. It is going like '-hot cakes." Send some circulars also to Sutllff & Co., Cherry Valley, as they sent in for a supply of the Oil. Please send by first express, and oblige,.

Yours truly, D. E. BECKE Druggist.

Not a Failure! Not One! (From Canada.) NEW HAMBURG, ONT., July 12. l)r. Smith, Phila I have sold the Oil for Deafness, Sickness, Neuralgia, &c., and in every case it has given satisfaction. I can procure quite a numberof letters. We want more of the large size, &c., fcc.,

Yours respectfully, FRED. H. McCALLUM, Druggist.

Sure on Deaftiess, Salt Rheum, &e.

Cures RhenmatiNDi. Cares Salt Rheum. Cure* Erysipelas. Cures Paralysis.

Cures Swellings. Cures Chilblains. VHtt' Cures Headache. Cures Rurns and Frosts. Cures Piles, Scald Head Felons, CarBunchlcs, Slumps, Croup, Iiptheria, Neuralgia, Goat, Wounds, Swelled Glands, Stiff Joints, Canker, Tooth Ache, Cramps, Rloody Flux, £e.,dc.

TRY IT FOIt YOURSELF.

SALT RHEUM it cures every time (if yon use no soap on the parts while applying the Oil, and it cures most all cutaneous diseases—seldom fails in Deafness or Rheumatism.^

See Agents' name in Weekly. For sale by best Druggists. splOdy

MEDICAL

WARNER'S

PILE REMEDY.

W(net

ARNER'S Pile Remedy has never failed even in one case) to cure the very worst cases of Blind, Itching or Bleeding Files. Those -who are afflicted should immediately drugei: with the firstapplication, instantly afford com-

call on the zist and get it, for for

ilately it will,

plete relief, and a few following applications are only required to effect a permant cure without any trouble inconvenience to use.

Warner's Pile Peinedy is expressly for the Piles, and is not recommended to cure any other disease. It has cured cases of over thirty years standing. Price SI.00. For sale by druggists every where.

NO MORE ,S

WEAK SERVES.

Warner's Dyspepsia Tonic is prepared expressly for Dyspeptics and those suffering from weak nerves with habitual constipation. There areveryfew who have not employed physicians for years to remedy what this preparation will do iu a few weeks, by strengthening the nerves, enriching the circulation, restoring digestion, giving strength mentally and physically, enabling those who may have been confined for years to their rooi"S sis Invalids to again resume their occupations in all their duties ol life. One trial is all we ask to enable tiiis remedy to recommend itself to the most skeptical. It is a slightly stimulating tonic and a splendid appetizer, it strengthens the stomach and restores the generative organs-and digestion to a normal and healthy state. Weak, nervousand dyspeptic persons should use Warner's Dyspeptic Tonic. For sale by druggists, Price $1.00. t.

COUOII lO MORE.

Warner's Cough Balsam is healing, softening and expectorating. The extraordinary power it possesses in immediately relieving, and eventually curing the most obstinate cases of Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Influenza, Hoarseness, Asthma and Consumption is almost incredible. So prompt is the relief and certain its effects in all the above cases, or any atlection of the throat and lungs, that thousands of physicians are daily prescribing for it, and one and all say that is the most healing and expectorating medicine known. One dose always aflordsrelief, and in most cases onebottle aftectsa cure. Sold by drugg'St in large bottles. Price $1.00. It is your own fault if you still cough and suffer. The Balsam will cure.

WOE OF LIFE.

The Great Blood Purifier and Delicious DrinkWainer's Vinum Vitse, or Wine «f Life, is free from any poisonous drugs or impurities beinw prepared for those who require a stimulant. It is a splendid appetizer and a tonic, .and the finest tiling in the world for purifying the blood. It is the most pleasant and delicious article ever offered to the public, far superior to brandy, whisky, wine, bitters, or any other article. It is more healthy and cheaper. Both male and female, young or old, take the Wine of Life, it is, iu fact, a life preserver. Those who wish to enjoy a good health and a free flow of lively spirits, will do well to take the Wine of Lile. It is different from any thing ever belore in use. It is sold by druggists. Price 81.00, in quart bottles.

EMMEKfACOCiUE.

Warner's Emmenagogue is the only article known to cure the Whites, (it will cure in every case.) Where is the female in which this i«uporlant medicine is not wanted Mothers, this is the greatest blessing ever offered you, and you should immediately procure it. It is also a sure cure for Female Irregularities, and may be depended upon in every case where the monthly flow has been obstructed through cold or disease. Sold by druggists. Price S1.00, or sent by mail on receipt of $1.25. Address 619 State Street, Chicago, Illinois. dly.

GROCERIES.

BEX JAMIX F. WEST,

DEALER IN

Groceries, Queensware, Provision?,

Ground Feed, coarse and fine, Bran, &c *HhvL: RICHARDSON & GIFFHORN. lOidy

SPECIAL NOTICES.

AND AN

COUNTRY PRODUCE,^1

',£ NO. 75 MAIN STREET, BET. 8th A 9th, ,. "y Terre Haute, Intf ess-The Highest Cash price ^pald (pi Country Produce. 4dly

PEED STORE.

A. BURGAN,

$Uh --.nii'iUry 3 Dealerln i-'l

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

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NORTH THIRD ST., NEAR MAIN I' TERRE HAUTE, INI?.

FEED

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delivered in all parts of the city free of charge ld6m

LOCKS..

CORNELIUS, WALSH & SON,

& Manufacturers and dealers In

CABINET & TRUNK LOCKS, TRAVELING BAG FRAMES A TRUNK HARDWAIUa,

Hamilton street. Corner Railroad Avenne. Idly \NEWARKjN. J»! jjpi&axi