Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 December 1868 — Page 1

THE

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

THE LARGEST, BEST AND CHEAPEST

ELECTION 18 OVER. PEACE PREVAILS, PROSPERITY ABOUNDS, And How is the Time to Hnbserlltc for

MOORE'S

Rural New-Yorker,

TUB GBXAT NATIONAL

RURAL, LITEKABY AND FAMILY WEEKLY

VOJL. XXTFOK 1869, VASTLY ENLARGED AND IMPROVED

The Kara I New-Yorker haa long boon the I.ending and Largost-CirciilatiUK Journal of it* Clasi ou tba Continent. It haa constantly increased in Popularity, Influence and Reputation —fairly acquiring, by Superior Ability and Enterprise, the flrst rank In ita Important sphere of Journalism. Bat in order to immensely augment ita Osnfulncpa and Power for Good, its Founder and Conductor haa determined to so enlarge and Improve the BOBAL that It shall be tho

LARGEST, BEST AND CHEAPEST

PAPER OF ITS CLASS IN THB WORLD TlieKaral for 1809 will be about IOUM.Z

ITS t'ORmu SIZE, coutu in more reading in Leading Departments, several New Feature*, and employ, as Editorial and Special Contributors, many of tbe.ablest Practical, ScitutiAc.and Literary Writers. It will be published on a Mammoth Meet, comprisiti SIXTEEN LAB6K UOlfBLK QUARTO PAGE^ OP

FIVE COLUMNS EACH

Printed in Superior Stylo, on Book Paper, and Approprlatel) Illustrated. In brier, it will be ABLY EDITED, FINELY ItLDSTEiTtD, NEATLY PBIKTED, ana AD*PTM

TO THE Wnott

Husbandry,

Cotton Culture, tirazlng, Breeding, Dairy Farm I n^, Poultry, Bees, Landscape Gardening, Katomologa,

FAMILY

AND

OENTB P. O. Money Orders, Dralts and ttcgii-tercd Letters at our risk. Address D.I). T.NOORE, 41 Park How, No York, or Buchester, N. Y.

WHAT LEADINCTJOFRNALS SAY. J,

Tnr. BORAL NF.W-YOBKEB will henceforth be published simultaneously here and at Bochester. Its Editor, Mr. D. D. T. MOORE, late Mayor of Bocheater, has been nearly twenty years at its head,and has snrroundod himself by a very able Corps of Assistants and Contributors. Ho has dono a noble work Tor Agriculture in the West, and is now rapidly enlarging the field of his usefulness,— Tf. Y. Datty Tribunr.

MOOBK'B BUBAL is full of variety, original and ae act. We confess to a surprise at the variety and richness of its contents bountifully Illustrated aB It is. No paper on our list cornea so near our ideas of prrlectlon, for a secular family paper. It maintains a high moral standard. -New York Obtercer.

WITHOUT exception, tho beat Agricultural and Family Newspaper. Mr. MOOBE lately received a $1,000 draft for one club of nsw subscribers.— Mitin. Stut" iu}i.

A MODEL PAPKB for the farmer's family. If we were to start a periodical again it would be in imitation of the BUBAL NKW-YOBKER.—American AijrianUuritt.

AGRICULTI'RAL IMPLEMENTS

WERCHANTN or FARMERS desiring any of tho nbovo for their Fall or Winter tra'k or use, should address

K. 11. AI.LEN CO., P. O. Box 876, New York.

RED JACKET AXE.

COLBURN'A PATENT.

Patented July 9, 1967. Re-Issued Aug. 18, lSftS. Extracts from Letters and Reports of the working qualities of the Axn.

I. Your Axe is bonnd to be THE AXE. II. It will cut 25 per cent, better. III. My brother lost oae arm In the war, but with your Axe he can cnt as woll as any one elae can.

IV. If I conld not get another, twenty-live ($16) dollars would not bny It. V. It will cut boop-polea better than any other Axe.

VI. I wonld not be without It for anything. VII. The only objection la it goes too far into the wood.

VIII. Men who chop for a living universally approve of it, Ao., Ac., ad ii\finiiem. For Bale ly all reaponalble dealers In the United Btates.

LIPPINCQTT & BAKEWELL,

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Manufacturers of the BED JACKET AXES. SAWS, SHOVELS and SCOOPS, and atl approved Shape* and Styles of AXES. Sole owners of Colburn's Patent.

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THE

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WANTED-AN

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to take the Agency for the sale of Bradstreet's Rubber Moulding and Weather strip*, applied to tho eidoR, bottom top and contor of doors and windows. Tho sale 1B beyond anything ever offered to Agents. From Ten to Twenty-live Dollars per day can bt made. Send for agents' circular. First who apply secure a bargain. J. B. BRADSTBKET A CO., Boston, Mosj.

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Prepared from a Prescription of Sir J. Clarke, M. D., Physician Extraordinary to the Qneen. This invaluable medicine Is unfailing in the enrt of all tho painful and dangerous dUoasea to which the female constitution is subject. It moderates all excesses and removes air obstructions, from whatever cause.

TO MARRIED LADIES

It ia particularly suited, It will, in a short time bring on the monthly period with regularity,and although a powerfal remedy, does not contain anything hnrtfnl to the constitution. In all cases of Nervous and Spinal Affections, Pains in the Back and Limbs, Fatigup on Blight exertion, Palpitation of the Heart, Hysterics and Whites, It will effect a enre when all other means have failed. Full directions in the pamphlet around each package.

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N, B.—One Dollar, with fifteen cents for postage, enclosed to the sole Proprietor, JOB MOSK.SOortlandt street, New York, will iusure a bottle ol the genuine, containing Fifty Pills, by return mail, eocnrely sealed from all observation,

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Prlc« $1,00 Per Box, or Six Boxes lor $6,00 ASK FOB DKLAMABRE's SPECIFIC FILI.S, AND TAKE NO OTHERS.

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Manufacturers of Steam Engines, Mill Machinery, House Front*, Fire Fronts, and Circular Saw Mills.

Special attention paid to tba manufacture and repair of Brass Work, Patent Office ModelSj Ac. Wc are also prepared to cut Toothed or Oog Gearings of either Oast Iron, Wrought Iron or Brass, in the most perfect manner.

M* Bep&iring done promptly.All parties connected with thla Mtafellshment being Practical Mechanics of severally ears experience, we feel safe in saying that We ran rendoi full satisfaction to onr customers, both In pcfnt of workmanship and price.

The highest price paid for all old scrap Iron delivered at tba ••Phoenix Foundry," Dear the Passenger Depot.

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STEREOSCOPIC VlEWS»

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STEKEOSCOPEd.—We manufacture very largely, and have a large stock of th« best styfrs at tas lowed rates.

PHOTOGBAPHIC ALBUMS.—Onr Manufacture of Albums Is well known throughout the country as superior in qnality and beauty to all others.

AU we sell are made in our own Factory, and onr styles are different from those of any other maker. Buyers should not fail, to see onr stock before making their purchasrs. .•

OHROMbi.

These beantifnl picture*, that cannot be ditlinguiihed from Out finett Oil Painting$, at one tenth their cost, we import largely from Paris, London, Berlin, Vienna and Bome, and supply the trade at the lowest rates.

DOCTOR WHITlIGB

A

REGULAR GRADUATE of MEDICINE, as Diploma at Offloe will show, has been longer engaged in the troatment of VENEREAL, ISEXUAL and PRIVATE DISEASES than any other

Pbysiciau iu St. Louis. I Oonnrrhea, Gleet, Stricture, Orokitu, I Hernia and Rupture all Urinary Diteasee and I Syphilitic or Mercurial Affeceioru of the Throat, ]S£»i» or Boat) are treated with unparalleled succosa.

Spermatorrhea, Sexual Debility and ImpoItency, as the result of aelf-abuse lu youth, |sexual eucesaeg in matnrer years, or other causes, aud which produce some of tho followling offerto, as Nocturnal Emissions, Blotches, I Debility, Dizziness, Dimness of Sight, ConfuI slon of Ideas, Evil Fortbodings, Aversion to I Society of Females, Loss of Memory and Sexlual Power, and rendering Marriage improper, are permanently oured.

The Doctor's opportunities in hospital and I private practice are unsurpassed in St. Louis I or any othercity. Baok flies of St. Louis paI pers prove that he has been located there longler by years than any other so advertising. The establishment, library, laboratory and appointments are unrivalled in the West, unI rivalled anywhere. Age, with experience, can 1 be relied upon, and the Doctor can rofer to I many physicians throughout tho country. In paat success and present position he stands it boot a competitor.

The Writings of a Physlciaa whose Bepntntlon Is Cnlon-wlde, Bhonld be worth Reading.

DOCTOR WHITTIEB publishes a Medical Pamphlet relating to Venereal Diseases

I and ttie.disastrous and varied consequences of I self-abuse, that will be sent to any address in I a sealed onvelope for two stamps. It contains I full symptom lists that will enable those affeoted to detormine the n»tare of their complaint and give a written statement of their case that will answer almost as well for tbe 1 purpose of treatment as a personal interview I but where it is couxenient, the Doctor should I be consulted personally. Those hvvlug friends I that may require advice, oan supply them with I this valuable work by sending their address, I with stamp. Thus yon can assist the uufortunate without their knowing their benefactor. Certainly no subject is of more importance than pnaity of blood and perfect manhood.

It is self-evident that a physician who conI fines qimsalf exclusively to the study of a oer I tain class of diseases aud treats thousands of leases every year, must acquire greaterskill in that specialty than one in general practice.—

Many poyslcians, recognizing this fact, lntroJnoe patients to the Doctor after reading his Medical Pamphlet. Communications oonfldonItlal. A friendly talk will sost you nothing. I Office central, yet retired—No. 617 St. Charles |ssreet, St. Louis, Mo. Honrs, 9 v., to 7 r.

Sundays excepted.

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We believ* it tho BEST and 8UBEST REMEDY IN THB WORLD, in all cases of DYSENTERY and DIABBHCBA IN CHILD

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OFFICE,BOOKS,

CONSULTATION AND BEOEP-

Tros G16 Washington Avenue,

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We publish over Few Thousand subjects of Stereoscopio Views, includicg

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Our Imported Views embrace a large assortment, including the choioest productions of Wm. England, G. W. WilBcn, Lamy, and other eminent photographers, consisting of Switzerland, Ireland, Spain, Herculanonm, Rbine, Wales, Tnileriad, Fontaineblean Pyrenoea, Pompeii, St. Could, Campeigne, Paris, Germany, Trianon, Versailles, England, Austria, CrystalPal. Naples, Scotland, Italy, Tyrol, Borne, Ac., Ac.

THE LAND OF THE BIBLE, Anew and intensely interesting series. Also, Illuminated and Transparent Views, in great vi-ri-ty. Wo are also exclusive Agent* in America for "FEBBIEB'S GLASS VIEWS," of which wo have a splendid assortment. Agents for Frith's Series of 8%x6% in. Photographic Views in Switzerland, the Rhine, England, Scotland, Wales, Ac.

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ry STAKTON for United States Senator

THZ New Orleans Tribune, & journal owned and edited by colored men, has been revived. It signalizes its reappearance by taking ground in favor of universal amnesty and universal suffrage

IT is estimated that the cotton crop of the South, this year, will sell for two hun dred and twenty-five million dollars. This is the beginning of reconstruction on tbe right basis.

THE Washington correspondent of the Boston Post (Dem.) represents that Gen eral GRANT is very decidedly in favor of an amendment to tbe Federal Constitu tion, making male suffrage universal, without distinction of color.

THE Petersburg (VH.,) Index, under tbe head of "Hallelujahs and Horee Talk," recommends Dexter for GRANT'S Secretary of State, because he "would be likely to say neigh to any outrageous measure of tho Rump Congress."

DEMOCBACT

sSt.

I Louis, Mo,, treats with tho greatest success I all Diaeasea of Women. Leuchoroea, or Whites, Falling, Inflammation or Ulceration of the I Womb, Ovaritis, Pruritis, Amenorrhea, Menorrhagia, Dysmenorrhoea, and Sterility, or

Barrenness also, every disease connected with I Puberty, Menstruation or Pregnancy. Since I the Doctor confines himself exclusively to the I treatment of these complaints, and. treats a I very large number of caaes, It follows that bis I knowledge of them must be far more extensive I and accurate than that of physicians in genlaral practice. Send stamp for Medical Pam[phlet .of thirty-sixpages. No matter wbo I have failed, read what he says. Patients in I every Western State. Cures guaranteed. Con1 sulfation by letter or at office free. Booms for patients requiring dally attention. A lady assistant. Heur 9 A. M., to 7 P. M. Sundays excepted.

IT is announced by Hon, E. B. WABHBUBNE'S "home organ'' that he will not be appointed to the Secretaryship of the Treasury or any other position in the Cabinet. We do not doubt that this will prove to be correct. In fact, it ia quite likely that neither Illinois nor Indiana will have a Cabinet officer, as they share the Presidency and Vice Presidency between them.

JEFF DAVIS

TERRE-HAUTE, INDIANA! DECEMBER 2,1868.

of the Pennsylvania papers arei

THE

[strongly urging tho name of ez-Secreta-1 appeared in tbe New-York World of the

consoles itself with the as­

sertion that

HORACE MAYNARD, of Tennessee, is becoming somewhat prominent in political circles. He is & candidate for a Cabinet office, and Governor BROWNLOW, in his paper, backs him for Postmaster-Gen-eral and it is furthermore stated that Mr. MAYNABD is a candidate for the Speakership of the House cf Representatives.

IT

turns out that the offensive article which was the pretext for the cowardly assassination of POLLARD, at Richmond, was a local item, with which the murdered man really had nothing to do, except as tbe "responsible." The article was slightly defamatory in its insinuations, and was worked up in a sensational manner not at all pleasing, of course, to the family of the missing lady.

?9X.

GENERAL GRANT

is not so

much of a Republican as some think. In the times of Noah there were certain demoralized outsiders who were disposed to think that the flood of forty days and forty nights of rain was not so much of astorpi after all.

is reported to be lecturing

upon Jerusalem and advising Englishmen to go there. Doubtless many of those credulous Johnnies who invested their funds in Confederate bonds have been wishing

JEFF

in Jericho for a long

time. It is hoped that he will not neglect the Jordan in his lecture?, although it might be a great comfort for

SALMON

P., tbe learned chief of our judicial Petticoat Brigade, to have D. pass over that classic stream.

THERE is an increasing probability that an increase in the tax on whisky wiil be the grand scheme of the next Congressional lobby. The wbieky-ring holds a large proportion of the already manufactured corn-juice. It is now subject t® a tax of fifty cents. It was bought under that burden, more or less imposed. A law for taxing at a higher rate all hereafter manufactured would make & magnificently easy thing for present holders.

THE following figures, made out by Professor GOULD, reveal tbe nationality of our army. The table does not include the necro soldiers

Per cont.

1,623,300 75.43

Native American* Britieli Amorlca 63,600 English 45. Irish 144,200 German 7C,8M Other foreigners 48,4'-'0 "Foreigners," nativity unknown 2rt 5''0

2,?6 7.14

8,76 8,38 1,33

1(K',IX) that

Total ?,013.2f0 From theso figures, it appearg about three-fourths of the men in our armies were native, and onu-fourth foreign born.

Crarei Koad Law.

No law which has been passed in this State in & long time has excited so much interest, or has received severer condemnation from a portion of the farming community than that known as tbe Gravel Road Law, which provides for taxing adjoining lands according to tbe interest of the property-bolden in the road. We publish elsewhere a decision of the Supreme Court, delivered by Chief Justice RAY, affirming that of the Court below, and deriding the •onstitutionality of the law.

THE

Colu nbus Journal thinks the re­

ports relative to the probability of WADE going into the Cabinet are well foundedWADE'S confidential friends make no aecret of claiming that he is sure of such a position.

There has been much discussion in regard to the so-called usage, of conceding one member of the Cabinet to be named by the Vice President. It seems that Mr. LINCOLN did so far recognise such a claim as te make it a pretext or excuse for drop» ping his bucket into empty Welles and drawing nothing out again. But we have not received information as to any such custom having obtained recognition From »ny previous Administration. Nor are we informed as to the 'disposition of the 3?te«dent elect on the subject.

following Democratic language

14th inst., printed as correspondence:— ••Prosperity and tranquility in the South will be insecure as long as the policy which has been pursued at Washington is unremitted the lives of certain high officials may be endangered. President Grant himself may have, as Abraham Lincoln had, a maniac for a Nemesis."— What shall be said of such language as this, appearing in BO authoritative and represpntat ive a journal a3 the World f— Is GRANT to be coercod into a Democratic administration of the government by threats of anamination

THE Cincinnati Chronicle suggests that with the benefit of past experience, it will not be difficult to determine what mom. bers of either branch of Congress are influenced by the demands of tbe Whisky ring.

It is scsrcely credible that an attempt will be made, ss alleged, to restore the wbUky tax again to $2, enabling extensive holders to realize on a heavy advance. The transaction would be too transparent. Whoever favors it will be a marked rean, no matter what tbe pre* text. The revenue, it is well known, has been increased by tbc reduction of the

THE New York <Tribune> has an account of a recent occurrence in Tipton County, Tennessee, which proves that the Sheriff of that favored county has a particularly fine sense of justice. A body of about 1,600 negroes, a few of them carrying arms, as the custom of the country is, attended a political meeting at a place called Mason's Depot, where they were set upon by the whites and disarmed.— "The negroes," says the Sheriff, "were, with few exceptions, quiet and well-be-haved but the whites were "very indignant and very much excited," and could hardly be persuaded from stringing the leader of the colored men up to a tree— And what do you suppose is the comment of the Sheriff upon these proceedings?— Why, he assures the freedmen that if they ever again "come, under such circumstances as those above given, without notice, and in a manner calculated to provoke violence, they may expect the vengeance of an outraged and incensed public." It seems to be the old story of the lamb attacking the wolf, and the roiled water running up stream. =====

THAT intensely pacific and altogether commendable organization, the Pennsylvania Peace Society, held its annual meeting in Philadelphia a few days ago. It discussed the Indian as a live topic, taking the very romantic, if not strictly tenable ground, that the "Lo" family are natural Christians, and that they have never met with anything but outrage and wrong from the civilized infidel race to which the Pennsylvania Peace Society belongs. The Society exhibited the usual fervor about the "noble qualities of courage, faith, manhood, strength, freedom, recognition of a great Controlling Spirit, and veneration for their fathers, and for the good everywhere," which have made the treacherous savages such heroes in works of fiction heretofore. From the Philadelphia standpoint the redskin is the most lovable of created beings, the most pitiable object which the compassionate soul can be called to contemplate. Welike, how~ ever, the suggestion of a cotemporary that this Peace Society hold their next meeting out on the Plains, where a wild, filthy, yelling pack of Comanches can have a crack at them. In that way they will get a practical view of the other side of the question. =====

THERE has been some discussion among our local capitalists and business men, of late, relative to tbe inauguration of a movement for tbe dovelopemerjt of the petroleum interest of our city. Little, if any doubt exists, that there is a vast deposit of this valuable commodity at an average depth of fiicbt hundred feet from tho surface, and extending nver a large area, including Fort Harrison Prairie.— It is among tbe possibilities of the future thnt this bidden wealth may be one of the chief sourres of the growth and prosperity of the city.

In this connrction it i3 interesting to note what this trade b»3 dono for otbor cities. It has oirealy become a feature of grent importance to Philadelphia.— Millions of fapital are invested in it.— Immerse refineries and storehouses have been built in its interests. Tbe depots for it on the Scfcuvlkili urd Delaware cover a water lirr* of severe.! mii"s. Tho Peiitieylvania Iliilrod Company run branch lines to tlie prii cipsl points for the delivery of the oil at the immediate place of shipment. Be'ow Hoed stroet tbe whole city is being given up to tiu petroleum business. From the 1st c-f Janunry last to the 14th of November there was shipped from Philadelphia 33,G65.224}ealIons. from Boston 2,267,617 gslions, from Baltimore 2,417,723 g-ulons, and from Portland 580,400 tallong of this important article of export Pbiifldalphitt claims export nearly half of tbe immense amount sent out of tbe United States. The principal market is in Europe, but new markets are constantly opening up, and already its shipments are more general and extended than that of any article known to American commerce. :U

Whipping Criminals.

For several days tbc press of the entire country has been engaged in a terrific onslaught on the poor, little, contemptible State of Delaware, because, in a number of recent cases, parties duly convicted of crime have been punished at the wbipping»po9t We are no advocates of that "relic of barbarism,'' and beliove that Christian civilization demands its abolition. But we undertake to say that a round dozen or two at the whipping-post Is a much more humane punishment than confinement in such loathsome, healthdestroying, vice-promoting pens as aro the greater portion of tho county prisons end city prisons in this State. Wo sug gest to our brethren of tbe press in Indians, that they intermit tbeir denunciation of Delaware barbarity long enough to take a look at the manner in which our criminals are punished. Half our county jaila and city calabooses are such places as a humane man would net consider suitable

WEEEEF EXPRESS.

for a horse or pet dog to be kept in.— The idea ef health or comfort seems never to have entered the craniums of those who designed these horrid structures.

Society has no right to inflict such punhment as the de struction of health. It has no right to torture the poor victims by years of lingering disease. It has the right to protect itself bat protection can be insured without destroying, utterly, the moral and physical natures of the subjects of its punishment. Good men are liable to be sent to jail. All who are sent there to await trial are presumed to be innocent. But were they the worst of their race, it would be better, more humane, to have them shot, beheaded, banged or whipped to death, than to kill them by inches in filthy kennels.

There is another matter, too, thnt wc may as well look at while howling at Delaware. Convicts, of both sexes, are whipped in this Slate, at one, if not both, of our penitentiaries. We submit that we have quite enough of barbarity" to attend to at home, and can afford to let the barbarians of Delaware alone until we can protect our own very much exposed glass windows. v"

Th« Gravel Koad Law—The supreme Court Sustains its Constltutionali ty—Opinion of the Court.

Law, ei al, vs. tbe Madison, Smyrna and Graham Turnpike Company. R*y, Chief Justice.

The appellants filed their complaint averring that they are the owners of real estate within one and a half miles of either side, and of the terminus of theappel'ee's road, the said appellee being a corpora* tion organized under the Act of 1852, authorizing the construction of plank, macadamized and gravel roads. I. G. & 474. It is alleged that the appelee has procured the Board of County Commissioners, of Jefferson county, to make an assessment of tbe beceflt to accrue from the construction of said road to the said real estate so situate, belonging to the appellants, and that the Auditor of said county is proceeding to place the amount so assessed upon the tax duplicate for the year 1867, to be collected as other taxes. An injunction is prayed against the appelee and tbe Auditor and Treasurer of said county. Issues were -framed and a trial had, and a special finding by the court for the appelee. The point presented by the record for our consideration is the legality of the assessment of the real estate for the purpose of the construction and completion of the road. This assessment is made under the authority of an Act authorizing the assessment to the extent of the benefit received of all the lands within one and cne half miles on either side, or within one and one half miles of the terminus of any plank, macadamized or gravel road, organized under the said Act of 1852. Acts of 1867, 167.

It is objected that this mode of requiring the payment of money is in conflict with that part of section twenty-two, article four, of our State constitution, which prohibits the General Assembly from passing local or special laws for the assessment and collection of taxes for State, county, township or road purposes.

It is also insisted that it comes in conflict with the flrst section, of article ten, of the Constitution, which reads as follows "The General Assembly shall provide by law for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation, and shall prescribe such regulations as shall secure a just valuation for taxation, or all property, both real and personal," etc.

In the case of Palmer vs. Stumph, at the May term of this court, we examined the question as to the constitutional power of the Legislature to provide for the construction and improvement of the streets in cities, by assessing upon adjoining property so much of the benefits which should result to such property, as might be required to defray the expense of such improvement.

We found in what seemed to us a fair and reasonable construction of the language of the instrument, which can alone limit the legislative power, ample authority for the method of requiring each piece of property, which receives a peculiar and special benefit from such a work of improvement to contribute toward the

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)wer to conditions upon the in the one case, not enjoined in tbe other, although the foundation of each power rests in tbe inherent power of a government of }tbe people, to tax the people for its support.

Having determined upon a construction of the Constitution itself, and found support in legislative action for the construction adopted, a majority of the members of this coorWhare not felt that it was proper to determine from the Itg'tlatirt exercise of a power, given by the Constitution, the limitation at the power, or

Streets and highways may be constructed by taxation, as distinguished from an assessment, but they both seem equally proper subjects for tbe application of tho principle of assessraont on the ground of local benefit to property.

They arp constructed along the line or throaeb the lands of a proprietor they become part of tbe improvement or betterment of the land its«lf tbey are out-!eU required for it3 full enjoyment and use.

The application of this rulo of assessment had been made to highways as early as 1691, in tbo County of Ulster, in the Colony of New York. (Bradf. Laws. 45.) Iu that State, it has been applied to highway* *:d turnpikee, and to the Irninirig of mars' e«. In January, 1846, an *ct was passed in Ohio "to Jay out and establish a free turnpike road from the town of Perrysburg, to the North line of Wood County," and the policy was adopted of constructing guch roads, in the northwestern portion of that neighboring State, through the medium of corporatio created for that purpose, and authorizing the assessment tor their construction, of a special tax upon lands situate within a given distance of the proposed road.

The application of the doctrine of assessments to the building of turnpikes through the medium of corporations, was sustained in Reeves vs. Treasurer Ohio State 333.

In State vs. City of New Brunswick 30 New Jersey Law Rep. 395, it was held that tbe city authorities, if in their judgment, the bealth, comfort, convenience or prosperity of the city require it, may order a turnpike coming into the city, to be graded and paved at the expense of the owners of lots fronting upon it. In the case of the Mayor, etc., vs. Livingfton 8 Wend. 85, the Chancellor used this language. "It is a well settled principle that where any particular county, dis» trict, or neighborhood is exclusively benefitted by a public improvement, the inhabitants of that district may be taxed for the whole expense of the improvement, in proportion to the supposed benefits received by each."

An act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania authorized viewers to take into con« sideration the advantages of laying out a highway to land owners, and to assess the property benefitted for the benefit of other property injured. In Nichols vs. Bridgeport, 23 Conn. 189, it is said in the opinion by Hinman, J.: "Most of our highways are laid out by the select men of tho towns, and the expense is borne by the town in which the highway is located, though, in regard to many of them, the inhabitants of the towns have a much

less interest than tho public beyond the local limits of tbe town. But the towns bear the burden, because the Legislature has thrown it upon them. It might, with the same propriety, have thrown it upon the counties or even upon the lesser territorial corporations." He holds, that although there may be occasional hardships, yet no more equitable system has been devised, and was of opinion that these principles are deducible from the acknowledged right of the public in taking land for a highway, to consider the bene* fit accruing to the owner as a set-off to his claim for compensation in whole or in par:.

In Mississippi, a statute in regard to levees on the river, authorized a uniform tax not exceeding ten cents per acre upon all lands lying on or within ten miles etc., of the river. The law was sustained. William? & Commack, 27 Miss.—Id 495.

There are other authorities to which we might refer, but we regard the precedents in such full accord with the reason of the rule, that we do not regard the subject as requiring any further decisions.

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expense incurred, at least some portion of its exhanced value. The only limit, it seemed to us, upon the exercise of this power in any given case was that the rate of assessment should be uniform and equal upon all property receiving special benefit) that is an advantage from the improvement, not enjoyed by the owners of all other property. This, of course, requires that the subject matter for which the assessment is made results iu local benefit to the property within some special district of country, and that among the motives which prompt the improvement, this special benefit is not lost sight of, in tho more general and larger good, resulting to the people as citizens, nnd entitled to the general care and protection of the law-making power in common.

To aid us in the construction wo placed upon tbe provision we hnve oited trom our organic law, we looked indeed to th« general course of legislation, as it existed on such subjects before, at. the date, and subsequent to the adoption of that controlling law. From that examination, we found that the rule charging upon pr. perty receiving special benefit from any aothorized local improvement, the expenses attending such work had been long 8nd constantly recognized, and indeed almost unchallenged in this State. Such a continued course of legislative action certainly strengthed us in the conviction that the convention which formed the constitution under which we are now acting intended to recognize a distinction between the general power of taxation for purpuses in which, as citisens and Inhabitants of either the State or smaller territorial divisions, all are generally interested and assessments for improvements resulting in a special benefit to property, and therefore reasonably and justly chargeable with the expenses thereof.— The right to appropriate private property to a public use to take for a highway a strip of land, springs from the right of eminent domain tbe power to assess upon the adjoining property benefitted by such highway being made the expense of its construction, rests in tbe power and right of the State to tax, but a constitutional convention may require that general taxation shall be upon a just valuatin of all property, both real and personal, and may also authorize the assessment, at a uniform and equal rate, of the expenses of any improvement upon the property benefitted. They have the

That the law ia not special, or local, was determined in effect in Palmer vs. Stumple supra.

That a toil is exacted to maintain tbe expenses of the highway, and to render it iree public ro&d in time, does not render tbe law invalid, in Chagrin Falls etc. Plank Read Cornpanj- vs. Cave, 2 Ohio, 419, acd the highway was taken by the corporation vMibout compensation to the n-rnors the f^e. the public easement in tbo Hud. is said to be acquired for a defi* nite purpose, and tho use by the plank road company is held to be the same the difference being only in th9 mode of levying tbe tax for construction and keeping in repair. Such i9 tho general doctrine as to tdrnpik* companies.—Angel 1 on highways, c. 00.

Th- judgment must be affirmed with, cost*. Fr-is?u J. disserting.

MORE AhuUl1 RAILROADS.

AN IMPORTANT KAIU JD ENTERPRISE T' KKRh HAUTE THE MITCHELL & TKRHK H*CTK R^ILKOAD CONNECTION

BRIWSICN TERKB HAUTE AND NEW ALB NT ANl LOLlSVlE.bE The Terro H*ute papers have lately beeu diacu?s'r.g the railroad interests of »h^.t city, and in the Jmcrnal of Saturday last we find the following article: "We ten by tho Louisville papers that it to proposed to build a new railroad from that point connecting with Vincennes, in this 8tate Tbe building of that line would put Terre Haute in direct commu'iioation with Louisville and Nashville and other prominent and important Southern points."

Not very direct, Journal. What Terre Haute requires to put her in direct, almost air-line, communication with Louisville, Nashville, and the entire South, is the proposed Terre Haute and Mitchell railroad. This is the road for Terre Haute, and would prove one of tho best roads in tbe State.

Starting from Terre Haute this road would pas* through tbe counties of Vigo, Clay, Owen, Greene, Martin, and Lawrence, connecting at Mitchell with the Louirvlllo, New Albany, and Chica road, for New Albany, Louisville, Nas ville, and all the great Southern lines of railroad.

Let our Terre Haute neighbors take the map of Indiana and examine the route of this proposed road. From Terre Haute to Bowling Green, Clay county thence through Clay, Owen, and Greene|countiea to Bloomfield, the county seat of tbe latter county thence by an almost straight line through Greene, Martin, aud Lawrence counties to Mitchell.

This road would not vary over six or eight miles from a straight line, and wonld pass through tho richest coal and iron fields, and the finest timbered and richest agricultural ooanties In the Sta to, opening up to this vast undeveloped wealth the very best markets in the West and Soath.

the proper subject which should^call it into exercise. Indeed, we would feel more rpkiatant to impose such a limitation upon the present existing statute, simply because no prior legislative assembly bad ever regarded it as expedient to exercise this power, applied to a given subject matter. Uaving found the power in the Constitution, we should rather be expec ed to look to precedent authority and the reason for the rule, and thus determine the proper limit for its legislative exercise.

Tbe building of this read is aftogethor practicable Kvery county through which it passes could well afford to subscribe $150,000 to $200,000 to insuro its completion for the rapid increase in population and consequent development of the wealth of theso counties, would speedily so increase the value of tho taxables of the countios that the citizens would scarcely feel the payment of theso liberal subscriptions. This is the road for Terra Haute, and weuld prove a source of immense prosperity to that city. It is just the kind of railroad communication needed to develop the untold mineral and agricultural resources of the counties through which it would pass.

Let the citizens of Terro Hauto and Vigo county, and the counties of Clay, Owen, Greene, Martin, and Lawrence take hold of this grand enterprise with earnestness, and tho road will be built, and that right speedily.—Neto Albany Commercial.

From Washington

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—The librarian of Congress has cauased to bo placed in the rotunda of the Capitol a statue of Alexander Hamilton, heroic size, executed in Italy by Horatio Stone, of this city, under an order of Congress.

TBt ASITBEB'S BIPOBTJ.

Gen. Spinner's annnual report shows his covering warrants to have been 10,098, and for payments 30,222J***»fl®

LEGAL TfiJDIB- -4

Under tbe recent circular from the Treasury Department requiring financial agents to send in for redemption certain descriptions of legal tender notes, a very large amount has been received.

PUBLIC DEBT EXPXJTDITCRE.

The Secretary of the Treasury's financial report will show an expenditure on account of the public debt of $848,500,000, which includes redemptions, conversions into customs, pnblic debt, &r. ""w"

CTTRRX^CT.

Fractional currency printed during the week $402,000 shipments $454,589 amount redeemed $269,000 National Bank currency issued for the week $132,•80 total in circulation $310,855,976.

BECEOT9 FROM CUSTOMS.

Customs receipts for the week ending 22$t, $2,228,803. I -r—•

Prom Washington.

WASHINGTON, D.

C., Nov. 29.—The

new postal convention just concluded with the United Kingdom, which goes into operation January 1st, 1869, establishes the following rates of international postage, vie 1st. Letters 12 cents per single rate of 15 grammes, one half ounce, in the United States, and six pence, twelve cents, in the United Kingdon, prepayment optional.— A fine of five cents in the United States, and two pence, four cents, in the United Kingdom, will however, be levied and collected in addition to postage on each, unpaid or insufficiently prepaid letter received by one country from the other. 2d. Newspapers two cents each in the United States, and one penny each, in the United Kingdom, if not exceeding four ounces in weight. 3d. Books, packets, including printed papers of all kinds, &c., and patterns or samples of merchandize, including seeds and grain, when not exceeding one ounce in weight, two cents in the United States and one penny in the United Kingdom. When exceeding ono ounce, and not exceeding two ounces in weight, four cents in the United States and two pence in tho United Kingdom. When exceeding two ounces, and not exceeding four ounces, six cents in the United States and three pence in the United Kingdom, and when exceeding four ounces in weight, an additional rate of six cents in tho United States and three pence in the United Kingdom will be charged. For every additional four ounces or fraction thereof, the postage chargeable as above. On all articles of printed matter, including patterns or samples of merchandize, postage must be fully prepaid at tho mailing office in either country, and is in full to destination, the receiving country delivering without any charge whatever.

GEN. ROTJSSEAU'S RRPORT.

The official report of General Rousseau as delivered to the War Department, does not contain tbe paragraph which appears in a recently published synopsis with the heading of, "A specimen of a Martyr Monger," in which Dr. Southwork is represented as saying to General Rousseau that his (Southwork'6) committee would advise the negroes to vote at the recent election, adding, "Let them be slaughtered, the more there are killed the better it will be for onr party.'"

From New York-'

NEW TORE, NOV. 29.—Attorney

Gen­

eral Evans has forwarded to the President his opinion on the operation of the eight hour law, in regard to the compensation of employ#?.

He says the law being silent on tbe subject of compensation, Government of3 ial» are at liberty tc uce tbeir discretion in the matter but that the law of equality, which haa heretofore regulated tbe wage* of Government employe*, requires that bey shall receive the same compensation for their labor as is paid in pri vate establishments in the vicinity of government workshops.

Tho law of 1868 does not fix the wage?, nor does it require the Government to pay ten hours wages for eight hours work. If citizens adopt such a course Government must do the oame but as the law now stands, it is left to the option of Government officials to pay the same wages as when men worked ten hours a day, or to reduce tbe compensation In proportion to ttM reduction of tbe hours of labor.

Fenian dongress.

PHILADELPAIA, NOV. 28.—Gen. John O'Neill was unanimously elected President of the Fenian Brotherhood at their Congress in this city. Tbe delegates pledged their entire support to the plans submitted by him, and resolved to use their influence to stop all recriminations and denunciations among Irishmen laboring for the independence of Ireland. After a harmonious session the Congress adjourned this morning.

From Memphis.'

MEMPHIS, NOV. 29.—The

lessees of the

Mississippi Central Railroad,

H.

Comb, Sam. Tate,

S. Mc-

H.

D. Newcomb, and

others, have proposed to the City Council to purchase their controlling interest in the Memphis and Grenada road, and pledge themselves to construct a direct route from Memphis to Troy, making thti shortest through line from New Orleans to New York via Memphis, Paducah and Viacesnes. A committee of the Council have the matter under consideration. It ia strongly opposed by the friend* of tho Louisville aad Nashville line. Active efforts and strong feeling prevail on either side.