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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1871.

From tlie CincinnatiEnquirer, Dec. 14. ON'CHANGE.

The Ciuciiiniiti& Tcrrc Haute Railroad.

AI«ircat»of M.C. IS«si!cr, of Blflouiiiigton, Uid.

On 'Change last Tuesday President Rowland introduced General Morton C. Hunter, of Bloomington, Indiana, who delivered tlie following address on behalf of tlie proposed Cincinnati & Terre Haute Railroad:

Gentlemen of the Chamber of Commerce of the City of Cincinnati: I come before you to-day as the representative of the Cincinnati & Terre Haute Railway Company, a corporation organized for the purpose of constructing a new and independent line of railway 'from Terre Haute, in the State of Indiana, to this city, with a branch leaving the main road at Bloomington, Indiana, and running thence aLmost due west to t,he WitiTasii river on a direct, line for St. Louis. Tlie importance of this road to your city js the question that I desire briefly to present to you and through you to your j.ieople, to-day.

Cincinnati for many years justly bore the proud name of the Queen City of the West. In 1840 she had a population of 46,348, which was near three times as great as the population of St. Lonis at that time, and more than nine times that of Chicago. In 1850 her population was 115,436, whiie that ol St. Louis Was 77,860, and Chicago 29,953. In I860 her population was 101,054, while that of St. Louis 160,773, and Chicago 109,280. In 1870 her population was 218,000, while that of St. Louis was 312,693, and that of Chicago 297,000. In the last ten years St. Louis and Chicago have both gone far ahead of her in population. Why is this? It may be claimed for them that they have greater natural advantages, but I do not attribute their superior prosperity to that, half as much as I do to the wonderful developments that they have made with their railroads. In this march of railroad improvement Cincinnati has not kept pace with her rival sisters. She has relied too much on her former prestige, and has not looked to the development of of her material resources, while they each draw to them by their system of railroads and water communication, the trade and commerce from every part of the country that they Are justly entitled to, and thus fatten .and grow upon their rich and bountiful supplies. Your city, by neglect in constructing failroads, is to-day losing a trade that in the course ol a year amounts to millions to which she is justly entitled by her position. Cincinnati ought to enjoy the greater portion of the trade of Sourthern jxiul Central Indiana, and yet she does not get scarcely a tithe of it in my part of the State and I attribute it almost wholly to the want of cheap transportation. Gentlemen, are you aware of the fact that your railroad system, as it exists to-day, is driving the trade of Southern and Central Indiana from your doors, and making it almost prohibitory to the merchants of that section of coflntry from trading with you If not, it is high time that you were learning it. On last Friday I went to two of the leading firms of my town (Bloomington, Indiana,) and ask them the price oi freights of different points to that place, aud I was surprised to learn from them that they could ship goods from Baltimore to Bloomington cheaper than they could ship the saaie goods from Cincinnati to Bloomington, and yet the goods would pass directly through your city. I also learned from them that goods from New York to Bloomington were shipped as cheap as from Cincinnati to Bloomington. I asked them why it was so. Their auswer was that from the East the competition in freight was so great that the Pennsylvania Central and Baltimore & Ohio railroads would ship goods to Mitchell and Greencastle, points on our north and south road (the L., N. A. & A. Railroad,) cheaper than the Ohio & Mississippi and other roads would ship from Cincinnati to the same points. One of the firms, Messrs. Dunn & Co., well-known in your city by your grocery men, said that they had just received goods from Baltimore thaC averaged them from Baltimore to Mitchell 29 cents per 100 lbs., aud from Mitchell to Bloomington 14 cents, making in all 43 cents per 100 lbs., while their goods from Cincinnati averaged them 50 cents. On all goods purchased East they get tlrrough rates, while on those purchased iu Cincinnati they have to pay local rates. No city in the world could prosper under such disadvantages. If Cincinnati expects to grow in the future as she has in the past, she must reverse this order of things, and give to the( people cheaper freights, or trade will go where it can buy aud ship the cheapest. It may be asked, how is Ciuciunati to •cheapen her freights and increase her business I answer, by encouraging the buildiug of competing lines of railroad, and in a short time she would find her present roads doing twice the business hey now do, and at less than half their preseut rates.

St. Louis and Chicago have done another thing which has added, and is stiff continuing to add, millions to their wealth each year, and that is they have devtrlo the minerals within their reach, i. .id given to their people a Constant supply of coal for fuel and manufacturing purposes, and they are to-day supplying nearly all the iron manufacturing establishments west of the Alleghany mountains with their ore, and by this wouderful show of mineral wealth they have impressed the people that they are in the future to be the leading manufacturing cities in the West, and hence they attract population, bile Cincinnati has most entirely neglectcd this great source of wealth and economy, and instead of building railroads aud developing minerals within her reaeh, and making herself equal to either St. Louis or Chicago in the eyes of the world as an ii-nn manufacturing city, *he hfw depended almost

entirely upon the river for her supply of fuel, which is so frequently rendered incapable of supplying the demand by drouth and freeze that her people and manufacturers are made to suffer on account of the frequent coal famines that she falls heir to.

Someone may ask what mineral fields are near Cincinnati that she could develop that would make her equal to St. Louis or Chicago with their Iron Mountain and Lake Superior ores My answer is, the coal and iron fields of Indiana. I believe it is now a conceded fact everywhere in the West, that the block coal of Indiana, for the manufacture of iron and Bessemer steel is superior to any coal yet discovered. It is, therefore,'unnecessary for me to speak of its qualities, further than to say that it is a coal that will not coke, but burns to a white ash, and is entirely free from sulphur and phosphorous. For the smelting and manufacture of iron, it is regarded as superior to charcoal, and in the future must necessarily supersede in the West the use of all other coals for that purpose. A specimen of it is before you, and it speaks for itself. St._ Louis and Chicago have each direct lines of railroad leading into the coal fields, and they are to-day using it for the smelting aud manufacturing of their ores. The heaviest body of this coal yet discovered is untouched" by railroad, and lies immediately on the line of our projected road between Bloomington, Indiana, and the city of Tern Haute. It is iu the western 'part of Owen and the southern part of Clay county. It is at least fifty miles nearer Cincinnati than any part of this field is to St. Louis, and from seventyfive to onu hundred miles nearer than it is to Chicago. As to the supply of this coal, it is sufficient to say that it is inexhaustible. We also have adjoining this block coal millions of acres of bituminous coal that cokes, aud for the use of blacksmiths, grate and furnace is very nearly, if not equal to the best Pittsburg coal.

The heaviest bodies of iron ore yet discovered in Indiana lie in Monroe and Green counties, and in the immediate vicinity of this block coal in many place- the block coal lies in the same hill with it. Fire-clay and limestone, (such as is used in the smelting of ore), as well as soft water, are also in abundance in the same hills with the ore. This ore is of three kinds, to-wit: The brown and red hemetite and kidney ore. This hemetite ore is porous, easily smelted, and will yield from 38.31 to 40.95 percent, pure* iron, as shown by the report of Prof. Cox, our State Geologist, which I herewith submit. Some years ago this ore was worked at two points. At the Virginia Furnace, in Monroe county, Indiana, Jf'nd at the Richland Furnace, in Greene county, they succeeded iu making excellent iron, some specimens of whicii I have with me that will show for themselves but having no railroads, and depending upon transportation by wauons, it'was found tqo expensive and the works were abandoned. As to the supply of this ore I would not be surprised if it should be found equal to t.^at of the Iron Mountain, for it coversea space of country some eighteen by twenty-five miles, whiie Iron Mountain is only about two by three miles. As to the real thickness of these iron ore beds in Indiana, no one is able to speak with any degree of accuracy, for their thickness has. never been tested. Prof. Cox, in his report, speaking of the bre at one point in Greene county, says that it can no' be less than from twentyfive To thirty feet thick. I agree with him fully in that statement, and would not be surprised, when it is fully tesUd, that it will be found to be twice that thickness.

It may be said by some that as this ore is not so-rich as Iron Mountain or Lake Superior ores, therefore it is not so valuable but it is porous, and smelts so much easier than either Iron Mountain or Lake Superior. I believe in a fair test of working these oresnthat the Indiana ore will prove equal to either, as it will save in the cost of smelting over either of the other ones what it lacks in richness. From the tests of iron already made from each of the ores without mixture, the Indiana ore has proved equal to either of the others, but experience, I have no doubt, will show that each will be improved by a mixture, and that the others will need the mixture of Indiana ore as much as Indiana ore will need the mixture of them. If so, I can't see why Cincinnati has not superior advantages over either St. Louis or Chicago as a great manufacturingcenterof steel and iron. She is nearer the Indiana ore than Chicago is to the Lake Superior ore, "andalmost as near to it as St. Louis is to Iron Mountain and then she is fifty miles, at least, nearer the block coal, which they'are compelled to have, than either of tlem are. Cincinnati is within 155 miles of these minerals.

Having shown some of the disadvantages under which Cincinnati is now laboring, and the absolute necessity to her of the buiiding of new and competing lines of railroad, I come now to speak, more particularly of the enterprise which I have the honor this evening to represent and iu so doing I have no hesitancy in saying that if you will but investigate the facts you will soon be satisfied that the construction of this road will do more for Cincinnati thau any other road that can be built for her borders, unless it may be your great Southern road, and I believe the benefits will fully equal that.

It is not certain when this road will enter your city but the articles of association, made in pursuance of the laws of the State oi Indiana, and under which the Company was organized requirewtimt that the road shall pass through the counties of Dearborn, Ripley, Decatur, Bartholomew, Brown and Monroe, in that State, and thence through the counties of Owen, Clay and Vigo, to the city of Terre Haute, with a branch leaving at or near Bloomington, in Monroe pounty, and running through the counties of Greene aud Sullivan to the Wabash river. If you will examine your maps you will find the line almost due east and west from Olncinuati to Bloomington from there it bears north of west and passes through the very heart of the richest body of block coal yet found in the State, to the city of Terre Haute. At Bloomington the branch leaves the main liue and passes a little south of west through the heavy beds of iron ore in tlie counties of Monroe and Greeue, above described by me, until it strikes the Wabash river near the tows of Merom, which is on a direct line for St. Louis.

The advantages of this road to your city, either one of which would justify your people in aiding its construction, are as follows 1. It will be a competing line with the O. & M. road, and will force that road to lessen its freights at least one-half, which will give to your city by that road more than double the business she now receives. 2. It will open up a direct line of road from your city through the counties of Bartholomew, Brown, Monroe, Owen, Clay, Vigo, Greene, and Sullivan, in the State of Indiana, and give to it a trade that your people bavg not heretofore enjoyed, which will, amount to millions each year. 3. It will pass through the richest coal and iron fields in the State of Indiana, and from that development alone I believe it will give to your pity more mate­

rial wealth than the freights of all the rest of vour roads put together, and it will forever in future, prevent your coal famines.#Coal by this line can be furnished to your people at about twelve cents per bushel. Ifyou are to be a manutacturing city, no estimate can be put upon the millions that will be added to vour wealth by the construction of this road. 4. If yours is to be a successful manufacturing city, you must have cheap fuel, cheap buiiding material, and cheap transportation for all articles shipped to and from your city. This road, being a competing line, will cheapen transportation and as it penetrates a country abounding in food, fuel, stone and timber, it will necessarily cheapen those articles.

In order to hasten the completion of this rosid, it is the intention of this company to ask your citizens to aid in the sum yf §500,000, upon the following conditions: 1. The company to complete fifty miles of road from ttiis city within months. 2. One-half of tlie money to be paid to the company when the fifty miles is graded and ready for the ties and iron. 3. The other half to be paid when the road shall be completed aud a train of cars shall have passed over it. 4. When each payment is made to'the company as aforesaid, the company to give to the subscriber a certificate of indebtedness for the amount so paid, which is to be paid in passenger travel at three cents per mile, or in freights, at the regular tariff rates.

Was ever a proposition more liberal thau this made to any people?—a proposition that secures to you a road will be worth to your city untold millions, and for which you really pay nothing except laying out of the use of your money for a short time without interest.

As soon as your subscription of $500,000 is made upon the conditions above stated, the company will at once commence the location of the road, and will press the work as rapidly as possible. The people along the line, have in the aggregate, subscribed to this date near $500,000, and will in a short time, if we meet with no reverses here, swell their their subscriptions some §250,000 more. 1 have never seen a people more thoroughly in earnest about the success of any enterprise than they are about this. And if your citizens will but do their duty and make their subscriptions promptly, twelve months will uot have passed until a hundred car loads of coal will be shipped into your city upon this line of road every daj'.

This road was projected by oue of your citizens, Mr. William Frazier, of West Walnut Hills, a gentleman of the highest character, and one of the most thorough and untiring business men that it has ever been my pleasure to be associated with. He is now giving the enterprise his whole time and attention.

Gen. A. Pleasanton, of New York City, is the President of the company, a man that you all know by reputation, if not personally. He has a National reputation for honesty and integrity, and enjoys the confidence of all leading capitalists of his city.

John D. Scully, of the First National Bank of Pittsburg, whom all your bankers know, is the Treasurer. He has all the old Jeffersonian testa for positions of trust. He is houest, faithful and capable.

The Directors of this company are Gen. A. Pleasanton, of New York John D. Scully, of Pittsburg Nathaniel M. McDowell, Canton, Ohio A. B. Quackenbush, Pittsburg Lynus A. Buriiett, Jas. Small and Gen. J. B. Folley, of Indiana. They are all men of fine business qualities, and stand high in the communities where they reside as men of honor and integrity, and give character to all enterprises that they indorse.

With sucn men as at the head of the enterprise, it should inspire your people with confidence, and encourage them at once to take hold of it, aud give it the required aid. Certainly they can not object to doing so, if once satisfied that the company is on a solid basis and means business. You now know who are its officers, and what their intentions are. I therefore, in the name of everything that is near and^dear to you as a city, ask you to investigate the claims of this company, and what the building of this road wiil do for the city, and after you have once done so, and is found to be all sound and right, and the benefits stated by me are not overestimated, that you will at once act, apd give it your cordial support. Let there be no failure upon the part of your people. The company only ask you to loan them your credit after they have made you perfectly safe. Judge Sweeney is the accredited agent of the company to solicit subscriptions in this city. I ask you to encourage him, and speedily give him the required aid, and when it is accomplished you will have securcd for your city a road that will do more for her than any other road that can now be brought to her borders.

Additional Local News.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—The wife of a tonsorial artist on Third street, near the Buntin House, attempted to commit suicide last evening,,by taking four ounces of laudanum and two and a half grains of opium. Brs. Stephenson and Roberts were called in and administered the proper restoratives and saved the disheartened woman from a premature grave. No cause is given for the rash act, unless it be jealousy.

This njorning she seemed more pleased than otherwise that slip was still living, though she asserted her determination to complete the tragedy at an early date. Look out for an item!

INFORMATION having reached us that a certain individual stated that he notified us that we should be summarily dealt with did #q mention a certain reeent affair unfavorabte to him» we tajte this occasion of asserting that we have not spoken to each other for many months, and we will further state, not only tor his benefit, but for that of others like him, that in any case hereafter, where threats of personal violence are made against us, under like circumstauces, we shall publish the name of the party in each instance. Therefore, when a man makes a statement to the effect that he intimidated us from stating the oircumstanoas of any case through these columns as we see proper, his hearers can set him down as a liar of the first water!

DID you ever think what a rent time for the household is the "after-supper" time? "After-supper" time contains within itself the germ of many a destiny. Let the guardian of the young studiously cultivate "after-supper talk play "af-ter-supper games keep "after-supper books takeall the good newspapers and magazines you can afford, and read them aloud "aftersapper." Let your boys and girls bring their friends home with them at twilight, sure of a pleasant and hospitable welcome and of a good time "after supper," and you may laugh to ecorn all the temptations which town or village can set before them to draw them away from home for their evening)).

TERRE HAUTE, IND.: FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 15, 1871.

The Yery Latest News

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By the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph.

The Prince of Wales Dedidedly Better.

Strong Hopes of his Recovery.

Rapid Spread of Small Pox in Brooklyn.

Anderson. Ind., Receives a Terrible Yisitatiou.

A Destructive Fire and George Francis Train in One Night.

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LONDON, Dec. 15—5 A. M.—The Prince is decidedly better. He now takes his food and his appetite increases. There are strong hopes of continued progress towards recovery. The Queen and Princess Louisa yesterday visited the Prince's groom, who is also recovering. Later reports from the physicians have greatly relieved the public mind.

LONDON, December 15.—The following bulletin from Sandringham at eight o'clock, says: The Prince of "Wales passed a quiet night, although the debility are great. The general conditions are more favorable.

The. noon bulletin says: The favorable symptoms continue. It is believed a long tedious convalescence will take place before his recovery.

The excitement in political circles is subsiding, and business confidence being restored.

LONDON, December 15.—Lady Burgoyne's death is announced. BERLIN, December 15.—Count Von Arnim, late representative to Rome, was appointed German Embassador to Paris.

NEW YORK, December 15.—The Tribune's Washington special says: The Committee on Foreign Affairs instructed General Morgan to report a bill providing for the taking of measures to institute a joint ommittee to run a boundary line between the United States and British America, and from the summit of the Rocky Mountains eastward to the Lake of the Woods.

Gen. Banks' bill making an appropriation to carry out the provisions of the treaty of Washington, will come up in the House to-day, Friday, and may lead to a lively debate.

The Executive Committee of the Convention of Steamboat men in Louisville, had a long conference to-day with the House and Commissioners of Commerce, and another meeting is appointed for Saturday. Some of the points to be embraced in a new bill to be presented

Congress as an amendment to the act passed last February, regulating freight, passage, &c., on steamboats and commonly called the steamboat law, were considered.

Among them was the subject of steam pressure and the manner of regulating it means of indicating it, and providing for the safety of passengers. The Committee developed their plans for fixing the responsibility in the use of these, which provides that the manufacturer shall thamp on each sheet, leaving his hands the character of the iron, its tensible strength, and the name of the manufacturer, to protect the boilermaker who uses the material. The bill proposes to hold the boilermaker responsible for his work.

The Times' Washington special says the House will probably do little more business before the recess next week.

The House Committee on Appropriations and the House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds had a conference to-day and agreed formally to the bill fixing the cost of the new Court House and the Custom House and Postofflce at Chicago at $4,000,000, including the grounds.

It is stated that Andrew J. Garvey has offered to disclose all he knows about the ring frauds. Mr. O'Connor, and others connected with the Committee of Seventy, are, however, very reticient on the subject. The rumor hag not yet received positive confirmation.

The extensive premises of the New York Printing Company, on East Twelfth and Centre streets, have been seized by the Sheriff on a suit to recover $}Q8,3§0, on notes in the defunct Ocean Bank.

BROOKLYN, December 15.—The smallpox spreads so quickly that great alarm is felt in consequence. The disease is stated to be spreading all over the city. A committee of the Board of Health waited on the Mayor yesterday, who stated that money must be raised to help to ward off the father spread of the disease, and in the meantime instructed the Board to employ an ejftra force of physicians.

ANPERSON, INP., Dec. 15.—A destructive fire occurred here last night, by which the building used for moulding purposes connected with the Michener Machine Works, was entirely consumed. Two frame dwelling houses were muoh damaged by the fire. Tlie loss of Stratton & Michener wiil be about $3,000..

George Francis Train, next President of America, spoke to about five hundred people in Union Hall, last night. A Train Lique was organized, with Hon. T. N. Stillwell, President. The next President will speak again to-night.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—The House Committee on Appropriations will report a bill recommending the appropriation of $4,000,000 for the erection of Governernment buildings in Chicago.

The case of Foster Blodgett, claiming a seat in the United States Senate from Georgia, will be taken up by the Senate Election Committee to-morrow and probably disposed of.

The Committee of Ways and Means heard an argument of tobacco men in regard to stamps on tobacco. No definite result was arrived at.

WASHINGTON, December 15.—In the House, Mr. Garfield, from the Commitmittee on Appropriations, reported a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase ground in Chicago for Government buildings, at a cost of $2,000,000 for ground or $4,000,00® for ground and buildings.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15.—John Ware, paricide, was hanged at nine o'clock this morning. There was an immense crowd present. His body was given to his friends for burial.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 15.—The New Orleans, Mobile & Texas Railroad, having fallen into the hands of Charles Morgan, the beautiful line of lake steamers, running from here to Mobile, have been discontinued. Owing to the railroad the steamers had been doing business at such low rates as to barely defray expenses.

LANSING, IOWA, December 15.—A fatal accident occurred near this city on Tuesday last. A Norwegian farmar started to kill his hogs with a pistol, he put one charge in and thinking it was not sufficient, he put the second charge in, and while priming the pistol it suddenly went off", the ball lodging in the side of his only brother, a lad 13 years old, killing him instantly.

CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.

The Senate resumed the consideration of Mr. Anthony's resolution to create a Committee on Retrenchment with Mr. Trumbull's amendment authorizing it to sit during recess and send for persons and papers.

Mr, Wilson warned his Republican friends that they were placing their party in a false position before the country. Already there were millions throughout the country who believed that an attempt had been in the Senate of the United States to shield the Administration. He hoped there would be a unanimous vote for Trumbull's resolution, so as to let people see that the Republicans were determined to keep the Administration pure in all its departments. He had no sympathy with the plan of covering our own shortcomings by talking of gigautic swindles in New York. There were Republican thieves as well as Democratic thieves, and a Republican thief was to him far the more hateful of the two because he brought disgrace upon the Republican party. Notwithstanding the defects of the present Administration, it was far purer and more efficient than most of its predecessors. No previous administration had ever been so prompt in punishing delinquency among its officers.

Mr. Blair—The Senator is very boastful about the purity and the rigor of the administration. I wish to call his attention to a case in Arkansas where the District Attorney and Marshal were both removed from office for prosecuting an indictment against a man for violating a law of the United States.

Mr. Wilson—I don't know whether that is so or not. Mr. Blair reiterated his statement.

Mr. Wilson said he was not boastful of the administration he simply desired to be just, and therefore ne said that the administration was seeking progress in the right direction, although a good deal more of it was necessary. He was not one of those persons who thought the Democratic party dead. He expected to encounter them in full force next year, and he warned his friends against relaxing their efforts in any degree in the vain hope that they would meet no vigorous opposition in 1872.

Mr. Nye opposed Trumbull's resolution. Certain gentlemen in the Republican party who thought the President was becoming too popular, devised the scheme of civil service reform, and under that cry they were now attempting to revive the old committee, with all the extraordinary powers of sending for persons and papers.

Mr. Thurman—The Senators objects to sendiug for persons and papers. Where was his voice on that memorable occasion when a committee qf the House of Representatives wag esamiuing into the conduct and affairs of Senators, to discover whether they had not been bribed to acquit Andrew Johnson, and were ransacking' telegraph offices to get at something that might compromise those Senators

Mr. Nye—Just where it is now. Give me another such set of circumstances and I will vote for it again. But there is no such occasion now. There is peace in our ranks now, save with one here and there who would be greater than his master. (Laughter.)

Mr. Schurz replied to Mr. Nye and in the course of his remarks, said the legitimate sphere of a comedian is generally within the walls of a theater, but if the Senator is satisfied with the role he plftys here nobody else has reason tQ te dissatisfied. ThQsq who defend a bad oauae always resort to a certain line of defense. They attempt to throw suspicion on the motives of those who attack, so the Senator from Navada, (Nye) like other Senators here, makes no attempt to disprove any of the facts that I stated yesterday in regard to the New York Custom House, but simply throws aspersions upon my motives and accuses of so insinuating that Mr. Leet's service in the army should prevent him from obtaining employment in the civil service of the Government and that the President had something to do with the cartage business in New York. I wish to say a few words in reply to the Senator from New York, Mr. Conkling. He said yesterday that the investigation of the New York Cnstom House was closed up by the Committee on Retrenchment last year. The committee did undoubtedly believe that the case was closed, for it has reason to belieye that when such scandals as it exposed were laid barfe to the administration, it would jump at the chance, But it turns out that they were vastly mistaken, for the same scandalous system of robbery exists down to this day in spite of exposures made by the committee. The Senator asked also why we hare proposed no legislation to remove those abuses. Because no legislation was necessary. The abuses were created by executive action in the administration of the Custom House and they could be done away with by Executive action. The Senator objected to what I said of the power which sustains this system. I did say, having laid the evidence before the Senate, that when the most respectable merchants of New York, protested against this system of robbery, when the Secretary of the Treasury had time and again pronounced against it, and when still it is sustained and kept alive down to this very day I did say in view of this evidence, that there must be some mysterious power sustaining that system stronger than a decent regard for public opinion and stronger thau the Seoretary or the Treasury himself.

Mr. Patterson here interposed to make

an explanation, and in reply to a remark by Mr.Trumbull said: I do say that there are inspectors in the Custom Heuse in New York, who stated before the committee under oath that in violation of the laws of the land, they had taken bribes and that they took bribes every time they discharged a vessel, and I say 'further that agents of the steamship companies told me that they could not get their vessels discharged without bribing officials.

Mr. Sumner—I should like to know whether these men are continued in office.

Mr. Patterson—I have no knowledge of their having been removed. I know nothing about it.

Mr. Schurz—The Senator from Indiana, Mr. Morton, says that my remarks yesterday cast a reflection on the Republican party. How so—do not we all profess to be in favor of reform and yet when a member of this body attempts to lay bare a gross abuse the cry is raised that he is trying to injure the Republican party. My motives have been reflected upon and I and those with whom I act have been asked what object we pursue. I am ready to tell the Senate. My object is to uncover and to denounce and t& try to have corrected any and every abuse whenever I can lay my hands upon it, without regard to how it will efffect the interest or advantages of a party, and without regard to whether this or that person may like it or not. I am in favor of reform and I am dead in earnest. I do not mean to denounce abuses on the other side and to shield abuses among my own friends. I want to put the jron to the bottom of the sore, and unless we do that we do nothing.

Mr. Tipton followed in support of Mr. Trumbull's proposition. He cited Mr. Morton's statement yesterday that the object of those who befriended that proposition was to show that great corruption exists under the present Administration, and that there was exactly what he wished the people to understand. As to the other branch of Mr. Morton's cnarge that this movement was an attack on the Republican party, it was not true he made no attack on the Republican party. On the contrary, he desired to redeem that party from the curse that had come upon it through the mistakes of the Administration and the corruption of its officials. He believed that there was corruption deep, damning and festering through this administration. The motives of those whosought to revive ths Committee oil Retrenchment were called in question. Could not a man believe that even in the Senate there might be found a better leader for the Republican party than the intellectual collossus now sitting in the White House? Without being, therefore, accused of unfaithfulness to party, would it be said that there was only one man in the country under whom the Republicans oould train to be loyal. The Senator from Indiana, (Mr. Morton) had boasted that it was a distingushing mark of the Republican party, that it was prompt topuuish wrongdoers among its members. He, Tipton, had once believed to do so, an acted upon that belief, but he had been proscribed and puuisliedfor it ever since.

Mr. Trumbull's amendment was rejected by a vote of 24 yeas to 35 nays. The following Republicans voted for the amendment—Alcou, Fenton, Logan, Patterson, Robertson, Schurz, Sumner, Tipton, Trumbull, West and Wilson.

The original resolution was then adopted. Mr. Trumbull then moved to instruct the committee provided for in the resolution just adopted to injuire into'all the subjects enumerated in his rejected amendment, and made a few remarks. He denied that he had done, or prepared or said anything hostile to the Administration or Republican party.,

He wished this Administration to be better than all its predecessors, and the Republican party to be purer than any other.

Mr. Morton—I am glad to hear the Senator declare his devotion to the Republican party, but I did understand the spirit of his speeches to be different, however, I accept the statement of his position.

Mr. Trumbull said Mr. Morton was extremely kind to accept his statement, but he declined to answer to him (Mar ton) for his Republicanism, and denied his right to call him to an aocount, but h! had a queer way of showing it. Not long ago. in a speech at St. Louis, he had eulogized the civil service as it stands at present. Mr, Morton remarked that in that speeoh he had said of the civil service, that while there were many reforms and improvements which could be made on it, and which the Republican party would make, ne did believe that, on the whole, we had the best civil service in the world, and he did say the same now.

Mr. Trumbull—If there is anywhere in the world a worse civil service than that of the United States. I pray God to deliver that people from it. [Laughter.] I feel less disposed than ever to submit my Republicanism to let the Senator from Indiana, (Morton) after his declaration that we have the best civil service iu the world. My Republicanism is not partisan. I care nothing for it except as a party of great principles, and if it ever comes to be used as a cover for frauds and iniquities the honest people will overwhelm us as they ought.

At 5 P.M., without reaching a vote on Mr. Trumbull's motion, the Senate went into executive session, and soon after adjourned.

A Cheerful Play.

Says the San Francisco Bulletin: "Ben McCullough," apiece brought out at the California Theater, is of the sort to delight the gentle beings of a sanguinary turn who crave blood and thunder on the stage. In the first aot the cheerful business of slaughter is opened by a contest between the hero and some renegade whites and Indians a oabin is burned .the shooting is very promiscuous, and the curtain descends in the midst of sulphurous smoke. In the next act a railway train is thrown from the track, but nobody is hurt, except the hero to whom that very train brings—his mother-in-law. She plots mischief of course, and the heavy villain of the piece oo-operates. Between them they get the gentle Ben into the State Prison, on a trumped-up case for theft. In the third act the amount of bloodshed necessary to sustain the interest occurs in a revolt of the prisoners. Further bloodshed occurs in the next act. The convict, released after his ten years' confinement, a la Enoch Arden, sets out to return to, his wife and home. The diabolical mother-in-law, without any sufficient provocation, turns the unknown, demented wanderer out in the winter's night heavy villain discovers his identity and attempts to assassinate Ben, the innocent convict. The curtain falls amidst the bloody business that comes to this, in which all the surviving characters take a hand. It was then 11 o'clock, too late for our reporter to remain to witness the carnage reserved for the last act. i'he piece has an odor of the slaughter house, and is pervaded by such utter disregard of all probabilities that it will likely be successful.

A quarry of beautiful marble, with black and cream vines, has been disoovered nearBarahoOj WiioppjiB,

THE MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.

Cincinnati Market. CINCINNATI, Dec. 15.

MARKETS—Generally unchanged the demand for hogs not so pressing receipts 11.000.

MESS PORK—Held firm at 14c. WHISKY—Steady at 90c. The river is falling with 5 feet 3 inches clear and pleasant.

Chicago Market. CHICAGO, Dec. 15.

WHEAT—Quiet and steady No, 1,91.25 No. 2, $1.19® 1.1934 No. 3, *1.10. CORN—Firme* at 40%G for No. 2.

OATS—Dull and easier at 31M@31%c. RYE—Quiet at 62'^c for No. 2. BARLEY—Weak and lower No. 2, 61 @61 )4e No. 3, 52c.

HIGH WINES—Dull and weaker closing at 88c. MESS PORK—Firmer and cash mess, $13.12%@13.25.

LARD—8%c. LIVE HOGS—Moderately aetive and unchanged.

CATTLE—Fairly active at 10@12}£c lower.

New York Market. NEW YORK, December 15.

COTTON—Opened strong middling uplands, 203-3@20,£c. FLOUR—Dull and unchanged superfine Western and State, f£.85@6,25 common to good, [email protected] good to choice, [email protected] white wheat extra, [email protected] extra Ohio, |[email protected] St. Louis, $6.80@ 8.25.

WHEAT—Dull spring, No. 2, $1.51@ 1.53 winter red Western, [email protected] amber, [email protected] white $1.65@1,77.

BARLEY—Dull and declining Western, 80@85c. CORN—Active but unchanged old western mixed, in store and afloat, 78@79c new, 76K@78c.

OATS—Dull and heavy at 65K@66J^c. COFFEE—Fair and firm Rio, 17^@20o. SUGAR—Quiet fair to good refining, 9@8%c Cuba, 8^@8%c.

MOLASSES—Firm New Orleans, 48@ 53c. PETROLEUM—Crude, 13K@13?ie refined, 23%c.

PROVISIONS—Pork market favors buyers mess, [email protected] March, flS new messf [email protected] new prime, $11.15 @11.15: new prime mess, [email protected].

HOGS—Dressed, dull at [email protected]. LARD—Heavy No. 1 to prime steam 9}^@9%c prime kettle, 9J£c December and January, 93^c February, 9Jic March, IO^OIO^C.

WHISKY—Dull at 97@98 declining.

ELECTION.

Election Notice.

rpHE qualified voters of Harrison township, 1. Vigo county, Indiana, are hereby notified that, by virtue of and in pursuance of au order of the Board of County Commissioner, of said county, rendered at the regular December session, 1671, of said Board,on

Monday, January 22, 1872,

the polls of said township will be opened at the several voting places therein, to-wit: First Ward—Gottlieb Reiss, Inspector at the Ninth Street Engine House.

Second Ward—Grafton F. Cookerly, Inspector at Bleeinel's Brewery. Third Ward—Martin Kercheval, Inspector at Kercheval's Grocery Store.

Fourth Ward—L. F. Reifsnider, Inspector at the No. 3 Engine House. Fifth Ward—IsaaoBeauoliamp, Inspector at Jmbery's Brewery.

Sixth Precinot—George W. Naylor, Inspector at the new Court House. This precinctincludes all of Harrison township outside ot the city of a

The polls will be opened as aforesaid for th® purpose of receiving and taking the votes of the legal voters of said township upon the sub. jeet of an appropriation by said township of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($130,000) to aid in the construction of the Terre Haute & Southwestern Railroad.

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SAMUEL ROTSE,:

dec!5w4t Auditor of Vigo County.

AMUSEMENTS.

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MAUDE EVAKBUBG

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Monday Evening, December 18th, 1871.

A NEW LECTURE,

A New Style, Vv

AND THE SUBJECT A NEW IDEA!

Admission to Parquette, 75 cents to Family Circle, 50 cents to other parts of tne House, 25 cents.

Tickets can be procured at the Opera House. Door open at 7 Lecture to commence at 8 o'clock.

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Illustrating the Scenery, Music, Songs, Dances and Sketches of Character in the

EMERALD ISLE!

The following Talented Artists will appear:

SfARlE D. MAC EVOY, MRS. JOSIE MORRIS,

MR. CHARLES MAC EVOY,

MR. DAN MORRIS,

MISS KATE HALI'INE, MR. JOHN O'BRIEJT,

In the new Dramatic Episode of

IRISH HEARTS

Or, Lore in the Ould Sod!

Admission 35 and 50 Cents* BST Doors open at 7 commences at 8 o'clock.

MARRIAGE tfCIOE.

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