Terre Haute Evening Gazette, Volume 6, Number 258, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 April 1876 — Page 2

POUND.

IO^T—A

rOST—Pocket-book

WANTED—A

WANTEof

$

Cures

livery

FOR

on

some

-. batcher sbon.

®he lady who leit it wilt lease call, pay or this notice and receive her property.

JLQST^

leather pocketbook, containing

f!8 in money and rome va'uable papers •Any person returning the said to the store of H. 8. Richardson, •will be liberally rewarded. THOMAS WARD.

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—A garnft ear ring was lost this jnfterroon. between Third and Fifth strata. cn Main. The finder will confer a great favor by leaving it at this office.

containing about. 88.

The ok wan lost OD Filth tst., tet"-epn fliulbeiry and Cherry. The flnder will be rewarded by returning it to Mrs. Jfine Mei rig an, west side Fifth St., between NulbnvRnii rhfiTV

WANTEP.

lady's and ctaildVi maid:

must also be a pood opeiator on fiewlne machine, call frr throe Hnya from 10 till 2, at room 29, Terre Hante House,

A NTET—A dwelling house with from 8 to 10 rooms, between 4th and 7th street, south ot Main. Inquire ol Ehriich.

WANTED.—A

hand 1o work on ajlir™

Apply at once to

Stevenson, B'-P"us

& Co., agricultural store on south Four in atreet, between Ohio ar.6 Walnut. W- ANTED Ladies to ien'-n Proi. ^^t ng stons French system of drpss cutting AlFoanystem ol cutting ^&y which ICO yaids can be cut In ten nu.es. Free cutting to test the system. Call for three days at room No. 1 xerre Haute House. Agents wanted.

WANTED.—Pupils

to be taught to plav

on the piano. Tuition fee «6 for twenty-four lessons, without the use of the piano, or 118 with the pih.no. Apply at the third house south of Eagle, on the We Bide of Fifth street.

P.—60 flrft class salesmen. Men experience preferred, mus. b^reliable,sober men.with good references and able to give security lor prorprty en« trusted, to sell the' Old Reliable Singer Sewing machine. Liberal com per sat Ion paid to good men, Apply office of 1 he Singer Manafacturlng Company, 308 Main street. —Some good dining room "girls. Good wages and .permanent t,^.

E

«ood wages and it

situations given. Inquire of 1^. Bruniue attheFrf-nrh restaurant, on Main f.treei

WANTED—A

GENERAL AGENT—TOR

the New

Family

and No. 6 and No 7

Rotary-Hook. Lock-Stltch Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machines. A good chance for the right man.

For

terms, Ac., apply to J.

T. Grayson, at Terre Haute Honse.

Wwishestomakeait

ANTED—A FARM—The undersigned rent farm. He lias a Knod tea •*». and can profitab.e for both parties. Apply to W. H. Cook, City.

ANTED—Everybody^ to know that Brunker's Carminative Balsam is inCftllibte for diarrhaj, flux, pain or con gestion of the stomach, or cholera morbus, children's teething cholic, hiccups, summer complafcit, or cholera infantum,

without debilitating after all other remedies fail. Pleasant and sale to taie, Inquire ior it at your druggist s.

WANTED—orituationHavehadclerkdp-

either ao

grocery or feed store or driving

wagon team. consid era tile experie ca in these lines. Address Jacob Behlrger. City postofflce box 1*2.

ANTKD—Washing.

Anply on First

between Moflatt aud Kospman 8ts. Bam'l Powel.

WANTED—Anorth

position as housekeeper,

by an experlced person. Apply at the sixth house of Locust, on Ihlrd street.

FOE RENT OR SALE.

to WUllam Joab, corner fourteenth and •Sycamore,

FORRENTORSALE-Ab°yrdlng.nremi-

good house of

9 rooms, suitable for Joo outbuildings, etc Apply ou the nes,on Ohio, between first and seconu

TOO til

FOR TRADE. _____

NOB TRADK A vacant-lot, 10" ieet, on I? South Fltth street, between Wilson and Crawford streets, for a house ano ioto jrjfth or Sixth street", between

FORIt

Ohio

TerreHautK^TTiE

and

Crawford sheets, worth flve or six thousand dollnrs, the difference paid in cash, nouIre at this office.

TRA.li' --Some town pro per tv in Coffeev'i'.r Montgomery county. K^71 Is a A!ore house sad dwelling h*use. It's valuable and clcar brance. "Will be traded for property here

ia

A Mc

MONI ?LE

Blxtta house east of Sixth (No. 76), so-t

V~~~ FOR RENT.

RE^T-An exccl1entstoraro' formerly occupied *y the St. r. saloon. A.pp!y to Lee Goodman*

Fgoodses^ab

OR RKNT-—Large rooms VroJ ishment

of

F"Rthree

with a

Wilson Bros,

formerly occupied by the Y. M. C» A--_r» RKNT.—The rooms lately occupied ri hvtheYonng Men'*Christian assocln tWon the corner of Fifth and Main. For particulars cal 1 on Wilson Bros.

RENT—One flve acre lot one mil from* the Court Souse also an acre lo

room house and ool stahlc

on it. Other houses In various parts of the «uvof from two to nine rooms. Bonce or. these lioUse* »re

rjoab

tmnnon Abniv At once to William Joao corner'of l&urteenth and By cam ore streets

EOKSE^T.^Tlirefe

jeood icoom* on north

.FourthBtree»s8J£Equates from Maj"2 n»»-iitai'ra--irobl& 8 a a enon«ta®j®nd^iii. All n'cely u»pere^ ana-lniwfll itl on, able* Partly.roust brlpg sat!

FOR

re

eretce: Inquire of Miller, of Miller Cox, 5J2 Main street.

RKNT-On the corner of Fli st and Mulberry, two rooms furaiflied or not fumlslipd,with, or without board. Call on the premises and see Mrs R. Scoit.

Announcements. $

51ieQ«zeMc is authorized toanuouno O. W Brown as a candidate for clerk of the Vlzo Circuit Court Subject to the decision of the Republican County Conven Hon.

Tbo GAZKTTK is authorized to announce STANLEY BOBBINS as a candiate for

Clerk

of tlio Vigo Circnit Court sutject to the decision of the Republican County Convention.

'Pho Gazette is authorized to announce 6 li GIRDNER aa a candidate for the office ol County Clerk, sucject to the de•Uslon of the Republican Nominal!eg Convention,

The Gazette ie authorized .to announce D. C, GKK1NER as a caudidate for Unuty Ch rfe, fcubjett to the decision of the Republican County Convention.

We are authorized to announce JNO. C. MYJBR, as a: candidate for, commission" irom the First District of Vigo coanty.8ubiect to the decision of the republican Somtnatinc Convention.

The Gazette Is authorized to announce the name of G. P. SHANKS for the office •. •1 of Township Tiustee^nbject lo thedecmon of the Republican Nominating Conven-

£*',.**]* The GAZETTE IS authorized to announce tne name of C. V. ROTTMAls as a candiVdate lor the office ot County Treasurer subieclslon of thoRepubJiaan nomvrject to the

Seating Convention. •8 'UieGazaU^ authorized announce ••the name of JOSHUA M. HULLi as a candidate for the office oi cherlfl. sutj'.ct to the decision of the Republican County

Con ven tlon.

v—•nr.Tnrfl

»uthorlz*d to annotm:e tbe

r...«flofBDQO DUENWEG asacandidate j.jl'Une

ol

J® a" dec:Biou

TieasuMr,-.subject

of lhe

^epubllclSSopnven-

The Gazette is authorize^ to announce the name of JOHN E. iiAMBas a candidate s® office of Prosecuting Attorney of toe Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, composed of the counties of Vigo and Sullivan, subject to the decision ol the Democratic District Nominating Convention.

WM. G. BALL & CO., Prop'rs. WJT. C. BALL .SPENCER F. BALL.

Office, Sou ill Fifth Mreet, near Main,

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Tnesdiy Evening:, April 18, 1876.

GRANT has signed ajje bill.

the silver coin-

IT is said that the President will not take take any part in the selection of his successor. If he only knew it, the people will tolerate mighty little interference by him on this question. We have had enough and to spare of Graut and Grantisiu.

A CORRESPONDENT of tile St, Louis Globe—Democrat writing from Washington, gives it as his opinion that Blaine's chances for the Rebublicau nomination are by all odds the best. He presents a tabular statement which he declares to be correct estimate in which it is made to appear that he will receive 351. votes on tne first ballot. Seven hundred aad fiftytwo delegates composed the convention. If he should really receive on the first ballot 351, vote?, he will only need 2G votes to give him the nomination, there being only 752 votes in the convention. With such a form^ idable showing of strength at the start his nomination ought surely to be accomplished by the third ballot.

For Senator Morton the correspond ent allows 111 votes on the first ballot, and counts upon his loosing rathe er than gaining, from that point. But as somebody has said politics are very uncertain, and we can tell belter when we know more.

IF Franklin T,ander9 receives the 11ULU iuutlon for Governor at^tne hands of the Democratic convention to-morrow, and a soft money platform is adopted, the GAZETTE, for one, will repudiate the organization in the coming election. We have waited and watched for the Democracy of the present to stand true to the an* clent traditions of the party on those questions of political economy which made it honored aud powerful, before its false attitude on the slavery question, and its perversion of the sound doctrine of State rights into the pernicious theory of secession, brought upon it a merited defeat. Never did a party have more glorious onportu* nities than Democracy has had during the past four years. Blunder after blunder has been committed by the Republicans, to take advantage of which most effectually it was only necessary for Democracy to be true to itself and to its principles, Instead, it has betrayed a disposition to oppoao those mistakes only so long as there was really some excuse for their commission, and when that was passed, aud the Republicans, ashamed of their work, set about rectifying it, it has espoused the blunder and made the cause its ownA soft money platform adopted by the Democracy of Indiana will demonstrate this point most thoroughly. There is not a prominent Democrat in the Slate who did not oppose the issue of Greenbacks and the making them a tegal tender. Wheu at last they acquiesced in it, their only reason for so doing, was that given by the Supreme Court/for declaring the issue tojbe constitutional, viz that it was justified by the exigency of the war. At length the Republicans have determined in this period of profound peace to return to the worlds standard, and it actually seems as if Democracy was bent upon standing in the discarded shoes of its opponents. A party which plays at fast and loose with ita principles is bad enough, but one which changes at exactly the wrong times, is intolerable.

Silver Chango.

AT last the nation ha9 set out. with a steadfast purpose on the road towards the resumption of specie pay* ments. The bill which will accom» plish this result has passed both houses of Congress and now lias received tne signature of the President.. As origiu* ally introduced in the House by Mr. Randall, lrom the committee on appropriations it was entitled "a bill to provide for a deficiency in the Printing and Engraving Bureau of the Treasury Department and for the issue of silver coin of the United States in place of fractional currency." Although publisued before in the news columns of the GAZETTE we print it again in this connection. It reads: ,t\ '-'Be it enacted, &c.» That there be and hereby is appropriated out of anv money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $163,000 to provide for engraving and printing and other expenses of mak.

ing and issuing United States notes, and the further sum of $48 003 to provide for engraving and printing national bank notes to be disbursed under the Secretary of the Treasury. "Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to issue silver coins of the United States of the denomination of 10, 20, 25 and 50 cents, of standard value in redemption of an equal amount of fractional currency, whether the same be now in the Treasury awaiting redemption, or wherever it may be presented for redemption, and the Secretary of the Treasury, may, under regulations of the Treasury Department, provide for such redemption and issue by substitution at the regular snb treasuries and public depositories of the United States until the whole amount of fractional currency outstanding shall be redeemed, and the .fractional currency redeemed under this act shall be held to be apart of the Sinking Fund provided for by the existing law, the tnterest to be computed thereon as in the case of bonds redeemed under ihe acts relating to the Sinking Fund."

The first section isirreelvant to our present purpose, merely making provision for paying the necessary expenses of priming and engravigg such proportion of Greenbacks aud National Bank note3 as are to bo re" tained. Intarest centers arouud the second section. By its provisions the legal-tenders of the country will be prevented from further inflation through conversion of the fractional currency into Greenbacks. By treating this scrip a9 a part of the National debt, and that is what it, really is, ihe Secretary of the Treasury will not be required to redeem any more bonds, until this portion of the debt shall have been paid. In this way gold will accumulate in the Treasury aud we shall be that much nearer the final day of resumption.

LISCOMM ASSASSINATION.

A Story Concerning tlie Actors in it as Told by Pomeroy's

Democrat.

A FISHY, BFT IXTEBESTOGHfABlTiVK I6ELATIXGt UOOTfIS MO­

TIVE FOR THE DEJLD.

A Gazette Correspondent 5iau ^ouiethiug to e»y Also iu BehUion to ta J9u!ieet.

Another of tho characters of the war time was a wild,'dashing, bee-brained youug mau, named John Wilkes Booth. From his father he inherited a certain taint of frenzy under excitement that was cousin-german to insanity. This Booth was a reckless, handsome fellow, whose delight was to dress well, feed upon female hearts and in mimicry mouth tho utterances of men of creative genius. His b'oo was hot, and passions quick to kindle. In bis loves and friendships he v/as erratic and peculiar. He did not try to study himself, and grew up wild and tumultuous.

Among the chosen friends of his boyhood was a dashins, chivalrous young man jaamed John Y. Beal, whose home was in thebaautiiul Shenandoah Valley, not far from Winches ter, as we know from having been there. Damon and Pythias were not more attached to each other than were Booth and Beal. They rode, walked, dined, drank ami intrigued together. Beal was southern in bis sympathies, and was, to a certain extent, as much a martyr as was erratic John Brown, who was taken in a raid, huug in the nil yard at Charleston, Virginia, by order'of Governor Wise, and whose scaffold, as we writo this, is now in our office. Beal planned raids on northern cities, and at last was capturned at or near Buffalo tried for piracv on Northern lakes, and sentenced to be hune on Bedloe's Island, in the barbor of New York. In prison, awaiting his doom, we leave him for a time.

One afternoon in the city of Washington, while Beal was under the sen tence of death, there alighted from a carriage two men, who walked into the room occupied by Washington McLQan, of Cincinnati, who was at tbat time in Washington in the interest of his business. The men who called were Senator Hale, from New Hamp shire, and John Wilkes Booth, with whom, through the Morgans, of Kentucky, McLean had becomequite well acquainted.

Their errand was briefly told. Booth was anxious to save the life of Beal, his chum and confidential personal friend. He had interested Mr. Halo in bis behalf, who, from his former identification with the political movement that had grown into the elevation ol Lincoln to the Peesidency, had come to ask of the Executive the favor of mercy for a brave enemy, who had, in defense of his friends in the South, done no more than people in ,he North applauded their scouts and adventurers for doing or attempting.

They importuned McLean to go with them to the President as a Democrat— as a friend of Booth—as a man who bad much influeuce with Mr. Lincoln, aud to vouch with Mr. Hale lor any promises Booth might make in return for this great favor to him. After a protracted interview, McLean accompanied Hale and Booth in a carriage to the residence of John W. Forney, who was then it bed, the hour being late. Fornev was awakened from bis sleep and toid the object of the call. His sympathies were enlisted, as he was always ready to serve his friends.

It was an hour or more past midnight when Hale, Forney, McLean and Booth were driven to the White House. Tne guard, at the request of Forney, admitted tbe carriage to the giounds Mr. Lincolr was called from his sleep, and there, in the dead of night, he sat and listened to the prayers of Booth and the endorsements of those who came with him to ask the favor of Executive clemency.

That interview lasted till four o'clock in tbe morningf. It was one of tears, prayer and petition. There was not a dry eye in the room as Booth knrit at the feet of Lincoln, clasped bis knees with his hands, and begged him to spare the life of one mau—a personal friend, who, in serving the ones he jov«-d, had" come to the door of death.

Booth told all He told haw, long before, in a fit of passion to do some bold deed, he had joined in a conspiracy to abduct the President and to bold bim as a hostage lor the release of certain military prisoners who were

Booth's friends,, and who, it' was thought, were to be shot. He told of the meetings they had held at the house ot Mrs. SurEatt, and_ tha£""aH' of that plan had fallen fo the ground long before.

He offered his services at any time, and In any place or capacity, free of cost or fearless ot consequences. The emiLent gentlemen who were there with him joined in the request that the prayer of Booth be granted, and that Be-U should be pardoned.

At last, President Lincoln,with tears streaming down his face, toon Booth by the hands, bado hiui riso aud stand like a mail, and uave him bis promise that Beal should be pardoned. He asked the party to depart that he might gain rest, lor tbe work of the morrow, aud said that ttre official document they askpd for should he forwarded at once to United States Marshal, Robert Murray, in New York, and through him to the officers charged with the execution of Beal.

After breaklast, Lincoln informed Seward, Secretary of State, what he bad done, or promised to do, Seward said that it must not be that public sentiment in the North demanded that Beal should bo hung. HH declared tbat to pardon Beal would discourage enlistments, lengthen the war, and insult the sentiment that called for blood.

He chided uincoln for making such promises without asking the advice of his Cabinet, or advising with himself, Seward, on State policy. As the argument grew contentious, Seward declared that if the conduct of the war was to be trifled with for the appeals for humanity, he should go out ol the Cabinet and use his influence against tne President, and should charge him with being in sympathy with the South.

Lincoln yielded, and Beal was executed in accordance with the sentence of the Court. The reaction to Lincoln's nervous system was such that for days he was far from well,

Theeflecton Booth was terribie. Ho raved liko a madman, and in his frenzy swore that Lincoln and_ Seward shouid both pay lor the' griof ana agony ho had been put to. From the death of Beal, Booth brooded ven geanco ior that which he considered a personrl affront. His rage took in Seward, and he engaged Harold Aserodb and others to avenge Baal death, by killing Seward, while lie (Uooth) wreaked human vengeance on the President.

At last came the hour* Booth killed Lincoln. His frieods and the relatives or avengers of Baal, tried their best to kill Seward, and when they left him stabbed, bleeding and limp as a cloth as he rolled ever behind the bed whereon they found him, they supposed their world was completely doue.

Our story is told. We have given the truth of history, and told exactly why Abraham Lincoln, the humane President of the United States was killed, AN ACCOUNT OF JOHN V. 15EAIX, BY

A GAZETTE CORRESPONDENT W O

KNEW HIM. Pomeroy's Democrat, in giving the reason why John Wilkes Booth assassinated Mr, Lincoln, attributes it to the broken faith of the President in failing to pardon John Y. Beal', who, as the Democrat states, was the warm personal and confidential friend of Booth, and was at tbe time under sentence of death, in New York, having been tried and condemned to —wH,»n»h nonaltv hv a. military court. If this is tiue, ft vras^-a--sa«-finale to a solemn pledge given by the humane Lincoln, in which, accord ing to the democrat, he was resisted by his Secretary of v/ar, Mr. Seward, till he withdrew the executive clemency, which Booth understood to have bee? promised to him in good faith. To correct tne Democrat as to the proper location ol the home of John Y. Beall, and not to discuss the the assassination, is the object of this article. Beall did not live "near Winchester," as the Democrat states. Hi9 father was a farmer and owned, and resided on his farm about two miles north of Charlstown in West Virginia as it happens now, aud near flowing spring, a cool bubbling spring, famous iu that section for the great volume of water it pours out, and turning in its course what is •known to the inhabitants there as tbe flouring spring mills. Therefore the birth place and home of Beall was near Charlestowu. The fine oak woods near tlie spring iu days gouo by was when baibecueo were given, when log cabins, coon skins aud hard cider played their parts in politics. In those days the two old parties were earnest in their work, and contended with spirit for their candidates, and had the merit each, of being honest.

But to return to John Y. Beall. There is living at this time in this city a lady, who, when a girl lived near Charlesr.own and attended school with Anna Yates, the mother of John Y. Beall in that village. The writer of this was personally acquainted^ witti George Beall, the father ol John Y. Beall, aud has many times seen John Yates grand father of tho latter. Young Beall who descended from among the best families in Virginia—the state than being whole aud undivided—and it could oniy have been in consequence of the troubled and revolutionary condition of tbe country at a later period that could have brought about the asso~ ciation and friendship between hiinsiif and Booth, which the Democrat mentions. His birth, education, and position entitled him to social rank of the best character. Jefferson County is now in West Virginia and Charlestown is the eoun ty seat, and it is in, and around this pleasant little town, that the friends and relatives of John Y. Beall live, and where he lived and grew to man's estate.

On both sides of the house his connections are of the highest character and standing. His grand father John Yates, owned large landed possessions and lived in luxuious ease near the beautiful spring referred to. In passing from Harper's Ferry to Charlestown, on the railroad, the fine old mansion of John Yates, is in plain view, the oak woods forming the back ground to the handsome landscape which spreads out in front of tbe grand old dwelling, and it was under the roof of this house, that the old fashioned Virginia hospitality was dispensed, in the days when kindly feeling, and good neighborship prevailed among the people and rbetween the different sections. The changes since are many and startling. At this point Bad, swe^t memories of the long ago begin to come up before the writ* er here of in which he prefers not to indulge. The Democrat, also says that "the erratic John Brown was hung in the jail-yard at Churlestown." It ia greatly at fault. Brown was executed in an open field nearly a'mile away from the jail. The Democrat thinks it has the scaffold on which Brown gave up the qhost in its office. This is a mere fancy. The Virginia people were to. much, in earnest then to allow northern rel-

.ifc

ic hunters to be abroad in their fair domain. Pomeroy has been jrnposed upon by-.jaome sagacious rtfonf?y making Yankee. He don't own a splinter of that scafiold but it is nevertheless a well conceived announcement to draw curiosity hunters to the office of the Democrat:

CHARLES DICKENS.

A Pleasaufc Baiublo 'iiirougli ail Art tfall»ry of iiunmi I'orfcraiis Dra\ni by tha

Peop es' Greatest ,r Novelist.

A LECTURE BY fOL. WSJ, E. ficLEi^, FULL OF SPIt'EANDVlUIETV.

A F^ar^e AUeniia

The interest in Mr. Henderson's course of home lectures is unflagging Last night both the speaker and^ the subject were excellent "cards''—if such an expression may beu6ed—and a very lurge audience was the result.

Col. McLean began as follows: THE LECTURE. Nearly sis years have now elapsed since the great heart of humanity was smitten by the sudden blow of death of the

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World's Heir of Fame,"

Charles Dickens, certainly the most brilliant novelist, if not the greatest writer of the age. His place, in the great field of literature, has not yet been filled, aud it is no vain proph ecy to say that the world must wait along time before another arises, in any land, to take his place. I believe that life has been made better and brighter for what he has doue as an auther he has made millions happy by his inestimable geuius and kindly sympathy. He is to-day the most qucited aud the most quotable auther in the entire range of English prose. His writings have never soiled the public mind by one unlovely image. His men and women have a magic of their own, aud I doubt if any will ever arise who will walk the same grand tound of fiction, which he traversed with so free and firm a step.

The star of his genius went out iu death when iu the heyday of his fame and glory, iu the midst of hia labors, leaving behind him an unfinished work of dazzling promise, dyiug, it may be said, like the camel in the wilderness with its burden upon its back.

In Sir Walter Scoti'd most beautiful of all, the Waverliee," Old Mortality," is represented as wandering for Ions? yeais through lonely glens and silent churchyards, seeking the burial place of religious martyrs, cleansing the moss from old gray gravestones, and renewing with industrious, chisel, the fading devices and inscriptions upon them. Let me this evening attempt a similar purnoae.although not actuated, I confess, iy ur^sa'ffle-prowHDBffsraerailonS, seek to revive some pleasing memories that cluster so richly around the name of Charles Dickens. Let us refresh our recollections, by recalling, in memory, some bright image from his living galery of human portraiture, and revive some lesson, of rich wisdom, it may be, so quaintly, so grotesquely, recorded in his sparkling volumes. None of us are strangers to his fame. His name is loved and cherished to-day wherever the English lauguage is read or spoken An audieuce larger and more fascinated than aiay English author ever had, on both sides of the Atlantic, eagerly awaited every fresh creation of hi3 bain. It may possibly be said yf Mr. Dickens hat as an author he was more brilliant and fascinating than great. This may be true. He made no grand discovery in philosophy or scieuee he eliminated no new truth. Of Shakespeare,

Miltou and Lord Bacon it might be said that they, like some grand old mountain peak, hailed the inte!ect uai sun before it heams had reached the horizon of common minds. They were gianis, who stood like Socrates upon the apex of wisdom, having removed from their eyes all film of earthly dross, were able to foresee a purer law, a nobler system, a brighter order of things. But every age does not produce a Shakespeare, a Milton, or a Bacon.

The great distinctive difference between the writings of Charles Dickens and those of any other novelist is, thai while his creations are all pure fiction, and profess to be nothing else, yet his wonderful gallery of human portr its however grotesque and antique some of them may seem, are yet drawn from real flesh and blood. Like some grand masterpiece "f painting, tbey s'.and out from the canvass, with a marked individuality, unlike tbe creations of ordinary fiction. Dickens deals with human life as it is, as we all have occasionally seen it, and the characters iu his writings, which have been most severely criticised as exaggers ated or disorted, are actual traus scripts of bono fide originals. Una der the pleasing garb of fiction, he depicts human life in its realities, and in such a manner that the reader almost for gets that it is fiction. It has been well said that the lifo of no human beina: is so commonplace as to ne wholly devoid of interest. No man's life is so humble as to have no lesson of rich wisdom lor the wisest. The life of every human being is a reality and reality in all its forms and relations is of vastly more interest to every mind than fiction. As the tourist starts down Loch Katberine, the most beautiful of Scottish lakes, he sees on his left, at tho head of the lakej'Olengyle, the placd where Rob Roy dwelt. He sees at the foot of the lake, "Ellen Isle," immortal ized by Sir Walter Scott as the ideal home of the outlawed Douglas, an isle of rare and exceeding beauty, but in the thoughtful mind the former always awkens the deeper interest, for itob Roy, the rude free booter, Was once a living reality, while sweet Ellen, the beautiful "Lady*%?of lhe Lake," danced only in tbe poet's dream. Dickens may be called the biographer of common life. He was the champion of the poor and oppressed, the censor of the selfish rich. Nearly twenty* five years' ago Daniel Webster gaj(j that Dickens had already done more to ameliorate the condition of the Euglish poor than all all the statesmen Great Britain had sent to Parliament. There is no part, of the civilized world where his name is unknown, or where his

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T, ^id Palislo 83.00. Pebble Goat Polislo ?3.00.

impossible to name pricee of all our

goods hence we Invite you to look and see for yourselves. J. p.

Opp. Opera House between Fourth una Fifth.

TREAbUltEIi'3 REP0ET.

Benefits opening streets 1.024 15 1,024 In Interest 2,282 17 2,282 17

Total receipts ..280,883 09 ?280,883 Oil DISBURSEMENTS. Salary ot city officers ..... ?11,337 25 Fire department 16.295 81 Police force 16.769 00 Street ropairs 9 380 24 Assessment, including City Commissioner's pay 2,013 25 Board of health 114 96 Gas 9 MO' 95 Gasoline o5,93 02 Books, stationary and advertising 1,776 01 Cemetery expanses 1 718 33 Station "house 3,238.40 L'lmps and posts..*.. 509 22 City clock, dead animals and wells 186 16 Elections 317 50

New market house 32 222 93 Street grading 3,375 26 Sewerage 572 32 Small pox 3,561 89 Fire'alarm and telegraph 58 80 Water 13,816 32 Loans refunded 22,861 60 Damages for oponing streets 1,600 00 Interest on bonds issued to E. T. H. & C. K. 7,447 02 Interest on bon^s issued to C. fe T. H. It 5,775 00 Interest on bonds issued to Water Works company 2-800 00 Interest on sewer bonds 4,660 CO Commission and expenses 131 16 Bonds issued to E. T. II. fc C. R. R. cancelled 39,000 00 Bonds issued to C. & T. H. R. cancelled 13 000 00

Bonds sued to Water Works company cancelled 4.000 00 Sewer bonds cancelled 4.o00 00 City scrip destroyed 73 00 Treasurer's miscellaneous fees 1,496 SI Cash on hand to balance 35.385 48

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CITY TREASURER'S OFFICE, TERRE HAUTE, April l-i, IS76

To THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL—GENTLEMEN: I herewith submit mv report of the receipts and disbursements of the city lor the vear ending April 13th, 1878. Also a statement of assets ar liabilities at date."

RECEIPTS.

Cash on hand, April 11, 1S75 40 949 00 Tax for duplicate of 1S74, after Ap i:j, IS75. 75,074 08 Taxes from delinquent list of 1874 10,132 21 Taxes from duplicate of 1S75 totlato 63,766 92 189,922 27 Fines and costs by Mayor 826 88 Camotery aecouut 1,046 00 Liceuso 670 00 Market 339 75 Sewerage account 71 70 Miscellaneous collec1 ions 606 44 3,460 77 Loans

A8SETS.

E. T. H. A C. R. R. stock C. &T. R. It. stock lOd.OOO CO Taxes on duplicate of 1875, not collected 98,629 53 Effingham order, interest from May, 187o i,77J JO Bills receivable --ooi .Cash on hand

Total assets $337,557 63 §337,5 7 63 LIABILITIES. Bonds issued to E. T. H. fc C. R. *61.000 00 Bonds issued to C. & T. H. R. 77,000 00 Bonds issued to Water Works company 40,000 00 Sewer bonds 55,500 00 233,500 00 Loans /1.193 /3 71,193 *3 Orders allowed, not drawn 1.010 94 1,010 94 Assets over liabilities to balance.... .... 31,852 96 31,852 90

NOTE—The figures in the left hand column is an itemized statement of tbo various receipts and disbursements, stiowing from v/bat sourco received and for what purposes paid out. Those in the right band column show the total ot each kind of receipt and disbursement. You will see tbat the item of "Interest on bonds issued to tho E. T. H. & C. R. R. Co.," amounts to $7,447 02, wli'ch_ i3 §447 02 more than a year's interest on the whole issue. Tbe list regular installment of interest on tbeso bonds was paid January 1st, 1876, Rince which time I havj purchased §39,000 of them, and paid tbe interest that bad accrued at date of purchase. In tbff statement of assets and liabilities, I report the railroad stock at the tace value. Tho market value, if any, is not known.

genial and elevated writing are not.

found matter far more serious aud convincing than is to be discovered in many a lengthy homily in which Christian charity is distinguished by its absence. Even at times when mcst amusing, he teaches a grand and noble lesson. No vile thoughts, no prurient suggestions, no foul words, are to be found in the writings of Charles Dickens. Even treating of crime and proverty, his lauguage is neither base nor low. I know it has been charged that his writings do not 6vince a high moral or religious tone, that his good characters do not inculcate a wholesome moral tendency, for the reason that they act more from impulse than from the" influence of elevated moral and religious motives. This may be true to a certain extent. But no writer, I insist, has painted vice of every kind, more odious and less attractive than he, exhibiting it to us, like the drunken Helot to the youths of bparta, in its true and disgusting shape. Dickens wrote for the age in which he lived. He mixed freely with the people of all ciasae9 and ranks iu life, was one of tlie people. He may be called the novelist of the people. When we think of Dickens, and all the lasting goods and abounding pleasure he has brought into the world, we wonder at the super?tition that dares to arraign him. A sound Philosopher once said: "He that thinks any innocent passtime foolish, has either to geow wise, or is past the ability to do so. It ia an Impudent fiction that playfulness is inconsistent with greatness. Men and Women have died of dignity, but the disease that8ent them to the tomb was not contracted from Charles Dickens. A distinguished gentleman of this country, says: "A person once com mended to my acquaintance an individual whom he described to me as a fine, pompous^ gentlemanly man I thought it prudent," says ho/'under the circumstances, to decliue the profFered introduction.

Dickens can be said to be the most railing, the most comic, humorous and jocose of any English author. His gaiety is a peculiar one, differing from any other writer. Occasionally we see in hie writings a laughter akin to teara, as if wounded by contemplating misfortunes and vices he would avenge himself by ridicule. Noibing could be more damaging than tome of his long chapters of sustained irony in which sarcasm afrer sarcasm is piled line upon lin»« We Americans, a short time after his return from his first trip to (his country, came i_ for a share of his unrelenting irony and stinging sarcasm, of course we think his picture of us somewhat ov«

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S4,193 73 84,193 73

1,000 00

809 33

2,5( 9 34

1,590 43

1.466 30

138.153 02 22 8G1 60 1,600 00

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60,500 00 73 00 1.496 81 35.385 -18

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§337,557 03 $337,557 63

Respectfully submitted, JOHN PADDOCK, Tressurer.

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ty as a instarce, of our bribed newspapers, our druuken journalists, our swiuds ling speculators, our Miss Nancy aus thoresses, of the female persuasian, our coarseness familiarity, insolence and brutality, so graphically picturs eri iu "American Notes," and in sevw eral chapters of "Martin Cnuzzie.wit."

It is somewhat soothing to our national vanity to know tbat twenty-/!vo years afterwards ne expressed himself quite differently about«our country and its people. At the larewell banquet given to biin in New rk in April, 1S68, at which Hon. Horace Greeley presided, in response to the toast of tbo evening, be said, among other thiDgs: "I declare how astonished I have been by the amazing changes that I have seen around me on every side, changes in the amount of land subdued and cultivated changes in the rise of vast new cities, almost out of recognition, changes in the growth ot the graces and amenities of life changes in tbe press—without whose advancement no advancement can take place anywhere."

This I suppose, squares our account with Mr. Dickens. But what institution, what thing, American or English, let me ask, has escaped tbe barbed arrow of bis cutting irony. Foundations of iudustrial societies, interviews of a member of Parliament with bis constituents, instructions of a member of Parliament to hissecrt tary, the display of groat banking houses, the laying of tbe cor-ner-stone of a public building, every kind of ceremony, humbug, sham and lie of Enslisb society, all are depicted with extraordinary firo and bitterness.

There are occasions when the comic element is so violont that it looks like a vengeance. For instance tbe story of Jonas Chuzalewit. He says, "Tho very first word which this excellent boy learned to spell was 'gain,' and the second (when he came into^ two syllables), was 'money.' Tbia line education had unfortunately produced two results—first, that having been taught by bis father to over reach everybody, he bad imperceptibly acquired love of over reaching tbat venerable monitor himsell secondly, that being tauiibt to regard everything as a matter of property, he had gradually coir to look with impatience on hfs parent as a personal estate, who would he well "secured" in that particular description of strong box wbicb is commonly called a "coffin," and "banked" in the grave. "Is that my father suoring. Pecksniff?" asked Jonas. "Tread on bis foot—the foot next to vou is tba gouty one." At the bottom Dickens fdoomy and misanthropic, but, like Hogarth, he makes us burst with laugeter by the buffoonery of his inventions and the violence of his caricatures.

Dickens has a special hatred of oil shams, all sorts of hypocracy and Continued on fourth ptge

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