Terre Haute Daily Gazette, Volume 2, Number 159, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 December 1871 — Page 1

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1871.

A Review of Rev. Mr. Howe's Position on Creeds, ly Key. A. Countryman. "That if thou shall confess with thy mouth theLord Jesus, and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shall be saved." "For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation"--Roman's X. 9-10.

Creeds are the products of belief. They are the opinions of the people. Their quality and difference are the outgrowth of conditions. And if bad creeds were sometimes framed for a sinister purpose, that were not believed, and these have been harmful, a man's opinion is his creed nevertheless, and the harm comes not from the fact of a creed, or from the fact of thinking, but from the fact of thinking badly and of putting the result of it into a bad creed, and there will be agitations as to creeds while there is difference of opinion. There will also be differences while men are imperfect and are struggling to an absolute standard. Nor it is unprofitable to investigate and even reprove what claims our belief. But it is scarcely Christian to be unfriendly, or to alienate people or disparage their virtues, if they dissent from us with honest conviction. We can disagree in opinion with cordial estimates of each other, if we have the reqisite amount of virtue. But it is yet demanded that we be honest in our convictions, and sincere in our utterances. Truth is above any mortal consideration, and it must be spoken earnestly and faithfully, even though it refutes the scholar dr wounds the conceit of our dearest friend..

Our text is the Apostle's creed. It contains two articles, one of which requires belief in Christ, and the other requires faith in His resurrection. The Christain Church was founded on the first, but was confirmed by the second. During His life a simple faith in Christ was sufficient for the fellowship of the church, but after His death this was supplemented hy faith in his resurrection. And the faith of the head confirmed by confession of the lips were made essential to salvation.

Now, with this standard of the Apostle we learn the use and importance of a creed, and by it we may judge the positions recently promulgate^ in the press of the city, under the sanctions of the pulpit that gave them prominence.

The argument opens with the assumption of a difference between a church creed and the test church-membership. On this difference the creed is divided into two sets of doctrines—those "absolutely essential" and those "not absolutely necessary." Those "absolutely essential" are Christian, and admit the candidate to a Christian fellowship. Those "not absolutely necessary, or other important doctrines," are "for educational purposes," and admit the candidate to church-fellowship. The one set is to open the door of* the church, the other is to educate and couflrm in the dogma of the church. We are told that the essentials lie in the hearty confidence in Christ for the attainment of holiness. We are not told what tiie "other important doctrines" are until we get further on. But both sets are made positive to the full fellowship into which the initiated is expected to come by the process of education and confirmation.

This creates the conclusion that the church is not satisfied with Christians until they are confirmed in the dogmas. The pastor does not tell the "ignorant and mistaken people" that they are required to accept these dogmas, as they are educated by their "teachers." He puts the simple confession of Christ at the beginning, coupling it with the excellent desire to beoome good, aud puts the "important" but ugly things in the distance, which they are to reach by such training as the church aud his ministrations shall give them. He beguiled the unsuspecting novitiate uutil the teaching and fetters of fellowship make him stroug enough to endure the hateful things of the creed on the ground, doubtless, that such a strong meat won't do for babes. I have seen many struggles over those revolting dogmas on the part of candidates, which were only overcome by immeuse efforts of prayers and palliatives, such as stupefy conscience and sugar coat the bitter drugs served up by doctor Calviu aud his iEsculapeau successors. He places beautiful things at the eutrance to the church, aud then leads uususpicipus but "ignorant and erroneous Christians" stop by step

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ghostly apartments, where skeleton babes line the way "not a span long," where fathers and mothers, sisters aud brothers, husbands aud wives aud children, are the sport of infinite pain, £nd over which the angels chaut their hallejabs, and Christ gives his sauctions, and God conflms the honor, while you and I are expected to enjoy the same things by becoming "educated and confirmed"— and in this year of grace, we are asked to applaud such astondiug liberality, and are met with astonishment, if we don't.

Now, we rejoice to be liberal, but this kind of liberality has no advantage over tiie most rigid communions and has always existed. The most intense doubter would be welcomed under the incipient confession, with the consent to have himself manipulated into all the essential dogmas in the church curriculum. I have kuown preachers of the most narrow school to plead with good men and women waive their objections to the dogmas sit first, for they were sure that when they became initiated into tbe mysteries of religion, they would willingly accept the objectionable tenets, with the rest of them. And I am in remembrance now of a young woman, the daughter of a Universalist clergyman. whose eloquence in speech and unction in prayer, thrilled aud suffused tbe people. I have been with him in the pulpit. I have been moved by his exhortations and devotions. His form now rises before me, although he has passed to the "other country" in tbe triumph of his divinest faith. The daughter Is Btill on the earth and is aU

most tbe very picture of her father. She inherited his bright black eyes, and also his'bright faith. He left that as the richest legacy after a life of sacrifice and courage and hope in the Universalist ministry. But she does not continue in her father's communion. For the sake of social considerations, and for a churchhome, she entered the Presbyterian communion. No doubt she waived her convictions, as she stepped into that enclosure, and who knows what were her misgivings and her griefs? But the last time I saw her, I learned from her own lips the story of her change. Aud she that was tender and beautiful andlov ingofher parent, could now say with scarcely a tinge of shame, that she accepted all the dire dogmas of the creed. And when I suggested the consequences to her of her dear father and brother who had died, she only replied with ^an un nerved but slightly quivering lip, that they were doubtless in hell.

That instance shows what is meant by the "other important doctrines for educational and confirmatory purposes.'' Nor is it the only instance in which chil dren have fallen into the arms of a church whose creed has helped them to say that their parents, kind, tender and honored, but Universalists, had gone to endless perdition! 1 am not to sit in judgment upon others' acts or conscience, but to me this seems a sacrilege and a most bitter retribution, instead of a Christian'tiling, and a thing of gain it is thought to be. O, friends! can we tamper with our dearest convictions without becoming weak, or without falling into the snare? Can we look at the danger without seeing that there is only safety to assert the sincere belief of the heart with loyal lips? Can we trifle with the spirit of truth, and not be tormented by the creeds whose presence we invite, and for which we sacrifice our good Evangel?

It may not be perverse to have doctrines divided as I have described. But the wrong is sure, in having them'so opposite in their use and influence. It is wrong to have one Christian and the other heathen—to have one set beautiful and simple, to ease the entrance into the church, and the other set mysterious, revolting and hardening to the sensibilities. It is a relic of barbarism brought into modern use. It is like the Romish practice which begins with the "Sisters of Mercy," and ends with Torquemada!

But do you say that these terrible things are too strong an influence, and that I indulge an extreme picture? Then have patience with me until I give you the basis of my words, and the reflection of my views.

In a paragraph of the sermon under review, it is distinctly affirmed that "this church holds and teaches the doctrine of future endless punishment." That dogma is also affirmed in the printed article of its faith. And to show that the whole body is committed to it and is not held in a modified or accommodated sense, but in its original essence, the Congregational church, by what amounted to a world's convention, as late as 18G5, went down to Plymouth Rock, and there upon their knees, reaffirmed the doctrines of the fathers. And if this same liberal pastor was among the number, did he not sanction all the decrees and dogmas, which you and I know cannot have too strong an inference? You would not wish me even to produce in words, the frightful group of dogmas that were solemnly endorsed by this impressive scene. And are Ave to conclude that in the presence of pilgrim memories, with tho world looking upon them, and hearing their attestation with breathless suspense, this oath meaut nothing—that it was a burlesque upon the" denomination, or at most but a complimentary resolution to the dead fathers?

Then we have another incongruity in the position assumed between the creeds of the church and the tests of membership. Itis-well known that Unitarians and Universalists are pronounced uuevaugelical, aud are voted out of fellowship, even for the work of the Young Men's Christian Association, because tjiey believe in the divine unity, aud in universal salvation, and because they do not believe in the trinity and endless punishment. These two dogmas are the tests of "orthodoxy" and the very basis of its theology. They are at least the sharp points that separate us, and give them their distinction. And yet the confession is that these very corner stones are "not absolutely essential" to the Christian— are uuessential to the Christian character. I agree with the good-hearted brother, and more, I believe these corner stones are a positive offense to it. But what shall I think of fundamentals in a church and which are unessential to the Christian building, and of what use is a church where the membership, the spiritual edifice—all that is of any account—is built up outside of it, in fact under protest of its fundamentals, and uuder the inspirations of another gospel? How does it look to see a church thoroughly Calvanistic and Trinitarian in its creed, with a membership thoroughly heretical—that is, largely Uuitariau and Universalist. It strikes me as something incongruous from beginning to end, and that it is.not much use we make of creeds to ignore them or declare them unnecessary for a Christian.

Nor can we deny the incongruities that appear in the difference between what the members believe and what the creed affirms. Neither can we fail to see tbe condition of things that leads to that end. The pastor, to whom I have referred, calls your attention to the possibilities of the situation. He gives us instances, aud although he calls theaa "extreme cases," he tell us "they are not uulikely to occur." He nevertheless calls them "practical questions," and evidently felt the weight of the subject when he asks us and himself to "face the matter openly-and boldly." It no doubt required some heroism to produce these "extreme cases" to the audience and to the

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how this kind-hearted brother must have felt, and what effort it must have cost him, with perhaps some prominent Unitarian, a Universalist,right before him in his congregation.

The first*"extremecase" is a Unitarian. It is possible that one who "denies the Trinity may have such views of Christ and his offices as to make him a Christian," and such a one he would receive and baptize into his church. My experience is that such a thing is more than possible, that he can find many Christians, as the successors of Chanuing. They are not such exceptions as be seemed to indicate, even among that class of Unitarians who are more heretical thau Doctor Gannet, whose churefc was perhaps the most exclusive church all Boston, and whom he singled out tor his special benediction. There are Christians among them too who would never think of compromising their faith by giving him an opportunity to baptize them in the name of the Trinity.

The next "extreme case" is a Universalist, and I should judge from what follows that this was a little more extreme than the other. The preacher says: "I believe the doctrine of universal salvation to be a most harmful error and I fear that to a majority of those who hold it, it proves a snare whereby their souls are held in sin, and through which many will be finally lost. In the community I think it works untold harm. I cannot see how any man with the least particle this dooof logic iq bis brain, can bold

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trine and at the same time believe the Bible." I want to stop here just long enough to say that if brother Howe is very anxious to see how a man, not "with the least particle of logic ih his brain," but with a good deal of it, and with a brain large enough to hold the doctrine of universal salvation with the Bible besides, I would respectfully refer him to Rev. W. W. Curry, whom he has met on another occasion. I want to drop another word on my way to my main duty, and that is, as to the convicting testimony against Universalism. I regret if his experience justifies him in this indictment of our faith and its working, and can only hope for a better witness. I will appeal to this community, if our church members —those living and dead, those present and absent—have not an honorable record as citizens and neighbors. Aud I will set over against his statement the evidence of Dr. Dwigbt, of Yale College, his brother in the church, of extensive learning, observation and experience, and liberal and candid withal. After having traveled extensively in Germany in 1829, he said he "met one man who believed in endless punishment, and and another whose mind was wavering on the subject." And, remarking the prevalence of Universalism among that enlightened people, he added that "we must look in vain for brighter examples of piety than they exhibit, and others would do well to imitate them." I don't think this sweeping indictment was needful, unless to break the concession that gave us a few possible Christians with the implication that a majority went to the bad. It may be that the brother thought that he was doing great things in his heroism to "face the matter boldly," but I can assure him that we don't feel complimented at all over his liberality, and I don't believe it is a compliment to him. We are not compensated for his long preface, in which he enters his counts against us by his willingness, under certain circumstances, to baptize a Universalist. We get no equivalent, nor are we flattered over this well-meant condescension. We believe that he is capable of better things, and with le?s effort. And if he lives long enough and has a little more Christian experience, with more courage, and less trammels of tradition, he will try again*and do better. In the meantime, I commend him to the liberal hearted Saviour, "who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time."

And yet this harmful error, working untold harm in the community, proving a snare and perdition to the many—the pastor would take the harm working thing into the bosom of his church. Perhaps he thinks to neutralize its influence there, while at the same time, his charity is appeased and his membership Feplenislied. But whatever his motive, which is doubtless sincere, such action is attended with no little danger to that distinctive features of his communion. The moral standard might receive no detriment, but the alien faith would work a sure revolution in the sentiment of that part of the creed for "educational and confirmatory purposes." There is not power enough in all Calvanism to resist the subtle purposes of Universalism through the brain and heart, the thoughts and sympathies of the people.

But the pastor would guard against harm by not allowing Universalists to teach in the church. That is to say that they would be silent partners for the sake of the social emolument of the concern. That would be an "extreme case" indeed,for the instances are extremely rare in which a person would pay his money and use his influence.for society without asserting his freedom to express himself on the great questions of brotherhood and destiny Our neighbor may be satisfied with the situation as he describes it, but he either has unworthy views of our friends whom he would welcome to his charge, or else he does not appreciate the manhood essential for divine grace, as well as for a valuable church member. My own belief is that he flatters himself too much on their silence, considering their well defined convictions and their proclivities lor affirming them. But however this may be, it is at least a mutual, if not expressed understanding, that there shall be silence, as a condition of membership. The pulpit may talk like Edwards on hell, but the pen is muzzled—a pen who don't believe in that "unnecessary" Christian doctrine. Wonder how many muzzled pens there would be in brother Howe's church, and if they would continue to be muzzled at the "day of judgment" when the secret of allfhearts shall be revealed, and when the talent is demanded with its uses

The Universalists would not be allowed to teach. Why not? Not because they would not know enough, nor be good enough, nor because they would not teach the Christian doctrines, but because they would not teach the church doctrine of endless punishment that "important doctrine for educational purposes." Do you discover that belief in an endless hell qualifies a man for the ministry, even if it is unnecessary for the purpose of making Christians? Think of this, ye Miner and Chapin, and Clark and Martineau think of it, ye George McDonald, who left the Congregational ministry because he would not preach it, and is now preaching to millions in the stories he writes! Think of it, angels that shouted the glad tidings of great joy to all people! Think of it, all ye band of noble souls that pronounced the victories of redemption! What would be your standard of disqualification according to our very liberal friend?

But there is another condition which the preacher discusses to us, on which I would say ai word. It is rather hypothetical, it is true. If a Universalist would feel comfortable uuder the teaching of endless punishment, the pastor would take him by the hand and baptize him. I wond«r what that hand would signify, so empty of heart and soul, and how much joy there would be in encouraging such a pitiful surrender of all that is noble O, ye shades of the fathers! A Universalist feel comfortable under the preaching of endless punishment Even Prof. Stuart, one ofthe purest and greatest of pastor Howe's church, could not feel comfortable. Dr. Barues could not feel comfortable, and under it his mind was tortured and all was dark to his soul. Saurin could not feel comfortable under it, as in the "very thought of it, he found a mortal poison, rendering society tiresome, nourishment insipid, and life itself a cruel bitter!" And yet while these good and great men were made miserable by it, tind others were driven into insanity, pastor Howe says, in his very liberal way, that if a Universalist will so toughen his sense, and so deaden his conscience and bis sympathies, as to feel comfortable under the teaching of an endless hell, he will be glad to baptize him in the name ofthe Trinity, and will get his people to say amen

And now let us to the reasons given for this strange bundle of liberalism and logic. We are told in that famous sermon that "not pne in ten, more or less, of church candidates are sufficiently familiar with the creeds on the Bible for an opinion, and that therefore no honest assent can be given. The most that the mass can say is that they do not know that they do not believe the doctrines, which is a confession with little or nothing This is a most remarkable fact, if it be a fact. Couple this mass of illiterate people with tbe kind of Universalists that would "feel comfortable un

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der the teachings of endless punishment," and what a nameless crowd of parishioners and communicants would a pastor.have! And yet by this confession, worth just nothing, the people came by thousands into the church fold, and are encouraged to make this worthless confession by an "Evangelical" ministry. But don't people know if they believe in endless burnings? Don't a father or mother or sister or borther or son or daughter know it in the light of their be reavements, or under the instincts of human nature alone? Does any one of these need to know the complex dogmas of creed or metaphors of the Bible, in or der to give an opinion on this questtion Can no honest assent be given to the fun damentals of Christianity without these? Are they not so simple that "a wayfaring man though a fool need not err therein But the dogma of perdition none know, nor the mystery ot the Trinity. And yet everybody knows that three is not one, and that one is not three. Every child knows that! But granting it true that people are thus ignorant, will some one tell us who is responsible for such a condition? Have the children not been taught to think on religious questions? Have the older ones not been told that reasoning on them would prove a snare of Satan to them And were they not made to believe that the subject of their question ings was a mystery, it were wrong to fathom? They don't know! It was in the interest of the church that they don't know! Ignorance could only enslave them to the priesthood, and subject them to the superstition and crime of a fable infernus! It is confessed in history that the hell of the church is an invention, and yet brother Howe thinks it is the product of the Bible and its God

Another reason given for the preacher's position lies in the fact that the condition of the creeds were not required in the New Testament. I am glad so much is learned this side the long catechism, and the various other tasks to Which the world has been subjected. But the reasons that the New Testament did not require the conditions were because it had no doctrines on which to base them. The Apostlic church had a creed that was demanded from the heart as from the lips. But who would think of believing endless punishment from the head, unless indeed it was "deceitful above all things and desperately wicked?" It might do for the lips, for a confession worth nothing, but it would not do for the heart in its sincerity and love. In Paul's thought, what a man confessed with his lips was to be the conviction of his heart. He was not to forswear himself at the altar, confessing before God and man what he denied at the tribunal of his conscience. The Apostle's creed represents the opinions of his church, and was made essential to the Christain as to its membership. It was distinctly founded upon these essentials, and there was nobody that could climb up some other way to its preferment. And any distinctive church is a mockery and a cheat that does not represent|in its creed the opinions of its members.

The flag of a nation represents the political creed of that nation. The United States does not flaunt the old flag of St. George, and then swear her new made subjects by the stars and stripes, to show her liberality. That old unnecessary bunting went down in the shock of revolution, and the new flag stands for the essentials of liberty, not merely to ths ignorant emigant, not one in ten of wnom can read the "E. Pluribus Unum," but to the educated and refined who have helped to make the nation mean more liberty to all of us. What a spectacle would this nation present to all other nations to mean liberty and good citizenship to its newly naturalized foreigners to its ignorant blacks, while to its native citizens, to its educated and chief officers of the State, it meant the old Government and the defunct flag of Britton, and yet it is a spectacle of a church, which to the masses who "don't know" nor care whether they believe the old dogmas or not, it allows the liberty of the age with the simple confession of Chist, but to the educated and ministers it means the creeds of Westminster and Saybrook. But those creeds went down in the battle of religious thought long ago. And if the inspiring brother wants to stand square before the liberal world and receive its honors, let him put the horrid bunting down, tear it into shreds and run up the banner of tbe cross whose inscription is the immortal sentence of the dying Redeemer: "And if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me."

And now let me tell you in a few words why I am so earnest in this mat ter. In this double-dealing there is infinite harm to individual character. It says the foundation of religious integ rity weakens confidence in human honor. It honors the standard of Christian fidelity, by putting people in a false attitude before the world. It offers a premium to hypocrisy and ignorance, by welcoming to fellowship those who are either too politic or too ignorant to pronounce an honest opinion on the fundamentals of the creeds, while it refuses the proper reward to the virtuous and true. Rev. Howe is preaching on sue cess to young men. Wonder how he regards that success which persuades a man to belie his convictions iu religion, and if he regards it any better for religion than for business! Wonder what he thinks of an achievement which convinces a young man that by being false to his heart, he may win advantages of the world, which will be forever denied him in his religious honor! Ah! this principle is rotting the whole social and religious fabric of society, and will be the death of any church that sanctions it.

This principle does a\^ay with the heroism, of which martyrs are made for opinion's sake. If a man can be truely Christian by disloyalty to conviction—if he can muzzle himself in the pens of some heavy church to escape the odium of his advanced and honest opinions—if he can probably quench the light of his soul in some popular fold, how shall God have instruments of reform and progress? If Luther could have kept silent in the Romish church, and Wesley in the English, and Murray in the Methodist, and Charming in the Congregational, what would be our religious liberality to-day. Why did Cranmer hold his own right arm in the fire until it withered into ashes, but for doing that which so many people are persuaded to do by a professedly

Christian ministry in this afternoon of the nineteenth century of the Christian Era

Why did Christ reprove tbe persuasives of the old church and rather brave the cross and shame, but to be honest to the truth which needed His most faithful witness? I tell you, the Christian church itself, could never have been by the policy Mr. Howe advocates!

Finally: The position advanced makes truth of doubtful account. It .may be confessed or denied, according to circumstances, and the church is a shield for the delinquent. But truth is vital? and no truth is unnecessary that pertains to human perfection of faith and character. Either the creed is true, or it is not. If true, it needs to be believed with the heart, confessed with the lips, and lived with the life. God has made truth vital to the soul. We cannot have high salvation without it. And when that salvation state is reached, it will be & joy to speak it and live it. May that state be ours, here, and now. Amen!

TERRE HAUTE, IND.: TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 5, 1871. NO. 159.

The Tery Latest News

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By the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph.

Interesting Details of the Massacre of Students at Havana.

Med ill Inaugurated Mayor of Chicago.

He Resigns his Editorial Position on the Tribune.

Strike of Coal Miners at Straits yille, Ohio.

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NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—The details of the Havana massacre are interesting On Thursday the 23d ult., there being no lecture to the first-class of the medical students, composed ot young men under J8 years of age, some of them went to the cemetery and in a frolic, foolish of course, and highly reprehensible, broke the glass of the niche of Gonsalo Castanon's grave.

The fact got to the ears of the volunteers, their enemies, and a number at once went to verify the fact. On ascertaining the truth of the report they ran to their armories, got their guns and roamed about the city like wild beasts. Most of the houses were shut up. The city seemed deserted by all except the volunteers.

On Saturday Acting Captain General Crespo, after a visit to the medical college, failing to discover the perpetrators of the glass breaking, arrested the whole class—46young men. On Sunday 500,000 troops were reviewed on the ground, and as soon as they were dismissed they broke into shouts and demanded the heads of the desecrators of Castanon's grave.

Gen. Crespo, who probably intended to have the offenders tried in a civil court, bowed to the will of the volunteers and consented to have the whole class tried by drum-head court martial. The concession was in reality a delivery of the whole class to death, for although eight only have been executed, thirty-two others are condemned to tbe chain-gang for from two to ten years. It will be impossible for these young men to survive the fatigue and torture to which they will be submitted. No representative of the United States, unless backed by a man-of-war in port, dares to lift his voice against the outrage.

CHICAGO, Decembers.—The new Common Council was inaugurated last night, and Alderman McAvoy elected President. The retiring Mayor Mason delivered a brief address, and the new Mayor Medill, followed with a lengthy inaugural in which he shows the city debt to be $14,232,667, the estimated expenses for the present year $1,141,000, and the municipal losses of property by fire $2,509,180.

The Mayor advises caution in ordering further special assessments for the city, the Superior Court decision havingmade them hazardous. He recommends that the fire limits, within which there shall be *o wooden structures, be made co-ex-tensive with the city limits,' and that the supply of water, independent of the water works be furnished, as a precaution against fire.

The Tribune announces that Mr. Medill, the new Mayor, has resigned his editorial connection with that paper, to continue during the period of his administration, and that he is not responsible for what appears in the Tribune, nor the Tribune for the character of the new city government.

The demand on the Relief Society for coal is very great, as high as 400 tons a day being needed. Contributions of fuel will be thankfully received.

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miners about Straitsviile, are on a strike. The dealers in this city are limiting their sales, and there is evidently trouble' ahead. The miners have hit upon a good time for a strike, as tbe bitter cold weather has just set in. It is said, how ever, that their demands are unreason able and will not be acceded to. The diggers are going on the commutative principle, and declare that if their pres ent demands are not complied with, they will after a lapse of two weeks, dig no coal for less than five cents per bushel.

DAYTON, O., Dec. 5.—The tobacco manufacturers paid a tax of $19,130 in November. Cottril, Fenner A Co., of this city lead tbe list at $7,087.20. In the matter of beer, J. W. Harries & Co. of this city paid for stamps in November, $370, heading the list in that direction.

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 5.—An old resident, named John Given was found on the sidewalk, and soon afterward died from the effects of exposure.

Tbe State Teachers' Association meets here December 26 to 29. A very excel lent programme of exercises has been prepared.

SPRINGFIEMS OHIO, December 5.—On Saturday a man named Wm. Millhollan, contractor and builder, fell from a scaffold a considerable distance and in jured himself dangerously.

THE MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.

Cincinnati Market. CINCINNATI, Deo. 5.

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Markets generally unchanged. HOGS—Firm at [email protected] receipts 7,500 head, with 120 car loads to a rive receipts for the season, 318,466, against 202.648 same date last year.

PROVISIONS—Firmer and but Jittle doing. GROCERIES—Steady.-

WHISKY—Steady at 90c.

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1 Y*NKW YOBK, December 5. COTTON—Demand fair and prices advanced middling uplands,

FLOURr-Quiet and weak receipts, 10,000 bbls superfine, Western ana State, [email protected] common to good extra, f6.35@ 6.60 good to choice, [email protected] white, Western, [email protected] extra, Ohio, |6.60@ 7.10 St. Louis, [email protected].

WPXS5T—Firmer} held at 97@96o,

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WHEAT—Dull and prices declined receipts, 90,000 bu No. 2, Chicago,, spring, 81. [email protected] No. 1. Milwaukee and Duluth, $1.55 No. 2, Milwaukee, $1.54 winter red, Western, [email protected] amber, $1.64 @1.66 white, [email protected].

RYE—Qniet buyers, 90c sellers, 91c. BARLEY—Quiet and weak State, 95c@ $1.10, the latter for choice.

CORN—Dull and prices have declined receipts, 90,000 bu Western, mixed, 78o new ditto, ?6J4@7Sc white, 83c.

OATS—Doll and prices drooping receipts, 116,000 bushels Western aud Ohio, 55M@56}aC.

COFFEE Demand fair and market firm Rio 18@20}4c. SUGAR—Fully fair to good refiniug, 9H@9Kc Cupa, 9@9J^c.

PROVISIONS—Pork weak mess, $13.37 @13.50 February, $14.75 beef and cut meats unchanged middles heavy long clear and short ribs 7%c long cut hams .9/^0 short clear, December and February, 7}£@8c short ribs, January, 7fc.

LARD—Dull No. 1 to prime, 9@9}£c prime kettle rendered, 9%c January, 8%c December, 9J^c.

AMUSEMENTS.

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

GRAND CONCERT!

AT THE

Congregational Church, ON TUESDAY EVENING, DEC. 5.

W. H. PAIGE Director. Professors E. C. KILBOURNE and A. SHIDE Pianists.

PROGRAMME.

PART I.

1. Organ Solo—Prof. A. Shide. 2. Chorus—Hall to Thee, Liberty—from "Semeraniide."

Quartette—Starry Waves—Loekwood. Mrs. J. B. Richardson, Miss M. Conn, Mr. W. H. Paige, Mr. George Morgan. 4. Solo—Only a Withered Rose—Thomas. Mrs.

George Farrington. Duett—What Mountains—"I Masnadicori." Mrs. C. D. Carrington, Miss Kellogg. 6. Solo—Inquesto Simplice—Betly. Mrs. Carrington.

PART II.

1. Chorus—Like a Fairy Creature. 2. Solo and Chorus— Beautiful Girl of Kildaire. Dr. Rossetter, Mrs. Farrington, Miss Katie

Morgan, Mr. J. B. Richardson. 3. Solo—La Farfeletta—Torry. Miss Kellogg. 4. Duett—If I had but a Thousand a Year. 5. Trio—Addeo. Mr. Paige, Mra. Carrington,

Miss Kellogg.

6. Quartette—The Hunters—Ruck en. Mr. Grover, Dr. Rossetter, Miss Kellogg, Mrs. Carrington.

Admission, Fifty Cents.

8®" Tickets for sale nt B. G. Cox's. Reserved Seats may be secured on Monday, by parties taking whole slips containing six sittings.

E A O S E

FOR OM: SIGHT ONLY!

Thursday Evening, Dec* 7.

THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY

MORRIS BROS.

miTSTBELS.

TWENTY STAR ARTISTS!

All the old favorites and many new ones.

MORRIS BROTHERS,

The Wholesale Dealers in Minstrelsy.

CHARLIE SUTTON,

"Without equal in Song and Dances.

BILLY EMMETT,

Monarch of all in Pathetic Ballads.

TnE GREAT BERNARDO, The renowned Prima Donna.

THE BARLOW BROTHERS,. The Champions of Double Jig Dancers.

JAPANESE TOMMY, Engaged in Europe by the Morris Brothers his first appearance in America in five years.

EVERYTHING NEW! Prices as Usual.

*®"Box Seats how open at Cox's Book Storef Carriages may be orderee at 10:20 P. M.

O W IN A

Grand Masquerade

DOWLI^G HALL,

Thursday Eye., Dec. 14, '71,

Under the anspices of

TOUT & M'KENNAN.

NO PAINS WILL BE SPARED

To make this

THE BALL ofthe SEASON!

Tickets of Admimlon,,.......fLSO.

SUPPER EXTRA.

TOUTE'S FUUL BAXD

Will be in attendance. 4td

CHANGE.

A CMAITOJE!

O. F. FBOEB

if**1? ST* 4 •r'1' }$t Successor J*

an6dSm.

CHANGE OF TIME.

Indianapolis & St. Louis RAILROAD.

CMASTCHE OF TIME.

Takes Effect Sunday, NOT. 26, 1871.

and after Sunday, November 26. 1871, trains on the Indianapolis.* s-t. Louis Railroad will arrive and depart at Terre Haute as follows: Arrive from the East. Depart tor tho West. 5:45 a. in Fast Express 5:50 a. 10:30 a. in Day Express 10:35 a. 10:15 p. Night Express 10:50 p. iu 4:07 p. Mattobn & Indianap's Ac. 4:10 p.

Arrive from tho West. Deptfrt for the East. S:40 p. Dav Express 8:45 p. 12:40 a. Lightning Express 12:43 a. 6:45 a. Night Express 6:50 a. 10:15 a. Mottoon & Indianap's Ac.10.50 a.

The Mattoon* Indianapolis Accommodation leaving here at 10.50 a.m. runs as a mixed train to Indianapolis, carrying regular passenger coaches and baggage car. earFirsl-class Sleeping Coachesonall Express Trains. Berths can be secured by application to the undersigned. K.B.ALLEN,

I5d6 Agent.

KAILROAD.

EYAKSYILLE,

Terre Haute & Chicago

RAILWAY,

Trains Leave Terre Haute.

Accommodation 0:10 a. Express and Mail 4:15 p. Trains Arrive at. Torre ilnnte. Express and Mail 9:45 a. Accommodation 8:80 p.

The following important connections are made at Danville, Illinois, viz.: With the Chicago, Danville VincenncsRail way for Chicago and the Northwest.

With the Indianapolis, Bloomington «& Western Railwav East, for Covington and Crawfordsville and West, for Champaign, Urbaiui, Bloomington, Peoria, Rock Island, Burlington, Omaha, without change of cars from Danville.

With the Toledo, Wabash fc Western Railway East, rr Attica, LaFayotte, Fort Wayne and Toledo and West, lor Tolona, Decatur, Springfield, Jacksonville, Keokuk, Q,uincy, Hannibal, St. Josephtind Kansas City, without change of cars from Danville.

BauTlieT., \V. & W. have Pullman and Wagner coaches on ail passenger trains, aud the!., B. & W. have Pullman coaches on all night passenger trains. no 1(5 JOS. COLLETT, Sup't.

SPECIAL NOTICES.

OX MARltlACiE.

Happy Relief for Young Men from tho effects of Errors and Abuses in early life. Manhood restored. Nervous debility cured. Impediments to Marriage removed. New method ot treatment. New and remaikablo remedies. Books and Circulars sent free, in sealed envelopes. Address, HOWARD ASSOCIATION, No. 2 South Ninth St., Phi adelphia. Pa, octl2

LEGAL.

Notice of Application for License.

riiHE undesigned hereby give notice that they will make application to the Board of County Commissioners at their next regular meeting, lbr a license to sell intoxicating liquors in a less quautity than a quart at a time. The premises ou which said liquois is to be sold and drank is known as the 'VDexlor Saloon," situated on the south side of Ohio, between Third and Fourth streets, in the city of Terre Haute, Harrison township, Vigo county, Indiana. HOWE & CO.

November 25,1871. 25-8w

MEDICAL,

WARNER'S

PILE REMEDY.

W(net

E I S S

BELTING.

JTOSIAH GATES & SOSS,

Manufacturers 01

Oak Tanned Leather Belting Hose.

Lace lieather of Superior Quality, and deal* ,era in all kinds oi 11 'OR?

MANUFACTURERS'

Ffire Department Supplies,

HOB. 4 A6DUTTON STREET,

IdSm Lowell, MasKKsbnaett* y:

ARNER'S Pile Remedy has never failed even in one case) to cure the very worst cases of Blind, Itching or Bleeding Piles Those who are afflicted should immediately call on tho druggist and get it. for lor it will, with the firstapplication, instantly afl'ord complete relief, and a few following applications are only required to effect a pennant cure without any trouble inconvenience to use.

Warner's Pile Pemedy is «xpressly for the Piles, aud is not recommended to cure any other1 disease. It has cured cases of over thirty years standing. Price #1.00. For sale by druggists everywhere.

NO MORE

WEAK. SERVES.

Warner's Dyspepsia Tonic is prepaied ex pressly for Dyspeptics and those suffering from weak nerves with habitual constipation. There areveryfew who have not employed pliysi clans for years to remedy what this preparation will do in a few weeks, by strengthening the nerves, enriching the circulation, restoring dl gestion, giving strength mentally and physi cally, enabling those who may have been con fined for years to their roon's as invalids to again resume their occupations in all their duties of life. One trial is all we a^k to enable this 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 81.00.

COUGH HfO 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, More Throat, Bronchitis, Inlluenza, Hoarseness, Asthma and Consumption is almost incredible. So prompt is the relief and certain its effects in all the above cases, or any affection of the throat and lungs, that thousands of physicians are dally proscribing for it and one and all say that is the most healing and expectorating medicine known. One dose always affords relief, and in most cases one bottle aftectsacure. Sold by druggist in large bottles.. Price 81.00. It is your own fault if you still cough and suff'er. The Balsam will cure.

WMTE OF LIFE.

The Great Blood Purifier and Delicious DrinkWarner's Vinum Vitse, or Wine of Life, is free from any poisonous drugs or impurities being prepared for those who require a stimulant. It is a splendid appetizer and a tonic, and the finest thing in the world for purifying the blood. It is the most pleasant and delicifus article ever offered

the public, far superior to brandy,

whisky, wine, bitters, or any other article. It is more healtny and cheaper. Both male and female, young or old, take the Wine of Life. It is. in 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 Life. It is different from any thing ever before in use. It is sold by druggists. Price 81.00, in quart, bottles.

EMHMAGOGUE.

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 important medicine is not wanted Mothers, this 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 81-00, or sent by mail on receipt of 81.25. Add reus 619 State Street. )hicago, Illinois. dly.

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BRASS WORKS.

BRUff «& EDWARDS, Manufacturers of

PLUMBERS' BRASS WORK

**$ Of every description, and superior

CAST ale pumps

-y}} And dealer in fc?-

PLUMBERS' MATERIALS^

^"Corporations and Gas Companies supplied dly L:

WARK, N. J. ft®

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