Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 December 1868 — Page 1

STANTON is looming up a3 the probable successor of BUCKALKW. If bo cbould bo elected tbo Keystone State will have just one ljone3t Sou a tor.

THE Tribune, of the 2d says: "The New York electors solomuly marchcd to Gov. SEYMOUR'S botol yesterday, and paid bim tho poor tribute of thoir rospects, singing, doubtless, as they went: 'Wt: guvo nil, v.o cau no more.'

ULY.SSES S. GKANT and SCHUYLER COLPAX wero yesterday formally elected President and Vice President of the United States, by tbo electors assembled at the capitola of their respective States, in the manner horotoforo described in our columns.

THE Cincinnati Commercial thinks it ia a mistake to suppose that COLKAX is exerting himself to secure a place in GRANTS cabinot for WADE. It asserts) very positively, that" tbe Vice President will nut take part in the Cabinot mak* ng.'

TIIK Anderson (S. C.) Intelligencer hoada an article wiih thoquostion, "What shall the South do?" Wo hopo it would not be regarded as blasphemous were wo to suggest to tho chivalry the propriety of putting of thoir broadcloth coat3, rolling up the sleeves of their rufflod shirt*. and making an attempt to "do" work.

TOE Minnesota Legislature moet3 on Junuary 5. A United States Senator must be elected within ten days afterward. The Legislature stands politically fifty-four Kopublioans to fiftoeri Democrats. Tbo competing candidates fur ttiia p.pition are Messrs. RAMSEY, WILKINSON and DONNELLY, with the chances in Uvir of tho last.

THE NOW York papers report a very interesting and important legal decision, that of the TAYLOR will caso at Whito Plains—a caso involving o7or half a million dnilarB' worth of property—in which the woman whn hnd lived for years with Mr TAYLOR as his wife, without actual niariin^e, was hold to be his legal wife, and the offspring wore admited us heirs The verdict seems to us rightervis, and likely to bn productive of good

WILKK&'Spirit of the Times makes the extraordinary statement, with an appearance of truthfulnoas, that the colebratod £5 HERMAN-JOHNSTON treaty, for which HJIURMAK wai so reprehended at the timo, was really dictate I by ATCF.AHAM LINCOLN, ar.d that against the protoflt of General SuERMAN himself. Tho assa38intion of LINCOLN prevented his avowal of tbo responsibility, and SIIKRMAN, with the Soldierly nobility which has always so distinguished him, did not deign to defend himself against the unjust imputation.

THK House of Kopresentatives of Alabama, without tno fears oi' v.h.iu iiatc/i. oration that haunt Kontucsy legislators before their eyes, have repealed the law forbidding intermarriages botwaen whites and 1,1'U'ka. The Tribuv comments on this action thus

White Plains' rule applied, that living together in tho relation of man and wife shall bo hold to be legal and binding evidence of marflage, and wo shall speedily have a reformation of Alabama morale, .•tS well :»s protection to the complexions of the next generation."

TIIERK is something exceedingly consulatory in the last clause of tho following extract from tho Indianapolis Journals. Mlliision to Judge CIIAI'MAN'S action in rescind wig lii.i obnoxious oriler.

We could liava wished that the Judgu had adorned his surrender to law and rea•ii with tho graco of good temper. It would havo looked much more like yielding to his own conviction of his mistake, than to tho pressure of public aontiment, »nd any alleviation of the unpleasantness lie has made lor himself would havo been grateful to us. But ho renowod his contempt tor the prest and the proas does not reciprocate \l, because he A«s so much to beer f: jy: others

WE are glad to note a striking instance of common sonso in a section whore that quality has long been little known or valued. DE LKON of the Mobile Reyistev has beon in Cincinnati in attendance on thn convention of tho National Board of Trade. This gentleman ia reported by the Ti .ics&a saying that on the day aftor the Presidential election, he announced that bis paper would thonceforth be neutral in politics (and religion?), and would dijvoto itself oxclueivoly to the industrial and commercial interests of tbo South, and of Mobile in particular. He took tho ground that tho South was whipped, first by arms and then by bel'.jt, and that now, it was time for her to ac quiesce in the peace provided for her.

Thio isthe true doctrine, and tho Ccru?-De Leon, is beating from loft to right in this* matter,

THK proposition of tfa« New York Sun that the Prsident elect retain tbe rank he holds in tbe army: or, if he resign it, then it shall be forced upon him by the Re publicans as "an appropriate reward for unprecedented military services,'' is simply absurd. As President, GRANT will be mmander-i:iChief of the Army and Navy of tbe United Sutes. There is »uftlcient honor and quite a sufficiency in •.he line of emoluments in ttie Presidential office for any one man. GRANT is a reat man, undoubtedly, and deserves oll of the Republic, but we (do not imsgiiie thai Lo desires all precedents to be trampled under foot in order to devise •Rays to do hua honor. We think he is not disposed to accuse the couutry of ingratitude, and believe he feels that the people have shown generous appreciation of his great public services in giving to him the place that has beeD filled by

WASHINGTON and LINCOLN.

IT was only in 185D that some ray of civilization—some glimmor of decency thoue in upon the dull brains of tbo legislators of Delaware, and woman-whip-ping was abolished.—Exchange.

It is to be hoped that a sufficiently brilliant "ray of civilization"—some penetrating "glimmer of decency"—may shine in upon the cerebral arrangements of tho legislators of Indiana during tho approaching session of our General Assembly, to tho end that woman whipping may bo abolishsd in this State.

TUE NOW York Herald furnishes a brilliant specimon ut ironical writing in expressing its admiration of A. OAEKY HALL, the recently elected Tammany candidate for Mayor of that city. It speaks of him as a "genial companion eloquent orator, musical poet, and Christian gentleman, the Admirable Crichton of our city, who can drive a pair of fast horses aa well as BONNBB or GRAN swinq a billiard cue equal to RUDOLPHB, handlo the boxing-gloves like Professor JUDJ), dress with tho taeto of a BKAU BRUMMKLL, shine in society with tho grace of a CHKSTEKFIKLB, and captivato tho ladioi with the success of a DON GIOVANNI."

TIIK EHFUSAL of the Government to accept the latest extension of the Union Pacific Railroad or to pay its subsidy on tho last hundred milos, has caused considerable excitomont among those who are building, or making a pretence of building, tho road, it will havo tho effect, wo hopo, to call public attention to tho manner in which these great jobbers ure going into tho Treasury three or four miles a day at hixteon thousand dollars a mile. Good railroad men who havo been over the track say that a good deal of it is the most scandalously slighted and ram shackled piece of work ever dono in this country, and that it will all have to be done over again boforo it will be fit for use orsafo to travel on.

The

Popular Vote

Official majorities of the Pieaidential vote in twenty-five States havo beon published, with very nearly accurato statements of the result in North Carolina, Tennessee, Kansas and West Virginia, from which a few counties in each wore still lacking at last accounts. As to Louisiana, tiio official v.to as returned gives GKAIAT a majority, for the .Board ol Canvassers threw out a largo part of the returna on the ground that the election was illegal, as it doubtlois was Including tho votes actually cast in that State and in Now York, legal or illegal, the majority for GRANT in the six New England StatfH, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigau, Iowa, Minnesota, Nubntakii, South Carolina, Alabama, and California, seventeen ates, is 428,24r, ar,d the majority lor 'KYMoUR in Now York, Now Jersey, SDelaware, Maryland, Georgia, Louisiana, Oregon and Kentucky is 201,1911 The remaining Slates have given, West Virginia about 9,000, North Carolina 12.U0O, Tennessee 24,000, Missouri 22,000, lianas 17,350, Nevada i,000 and Arkansas about lo,0ountor GRANT.

The goneral result, then, is thai twentytivo Stales havo voted for GRANT by 522,989 majority, anil eavon States for SETHOUR by 210,193 majorily popular maonly lor GRANT, counting in frauds in Now York, Now Jersey, Louisiana and Georgia, 312,955. But allowing ten thousand lor tho naturalization frauds in New York, tiime thousand ior now Jersey, forty thousand for Louisiana, and this ly tliouaand lor Georgia, and allowalso about ton thousand for illegal votes cast in Missouri, thohonofl popular majority for GRANT was not j«s than ljur Iiui.died thousand

THK annual report of the Department of Agriculture will be ready about Christmas It will make a volume of about 540 pages, and will contain 37 full-page iilus* trations. Congress has ordered somo 25,000 copies for gratuitous distribution. The following synopsis of contents has been made public by tho department

It contains, besides the reports of tho Commissioner and his heads of bureaus, about twonty-flvo papers on different subject?, propared by writers livinu in various sections of the country. There are three on stoam culture One is tho history of the invention lor farm uso, with somo consideration on the mechanical principles involved. Another gives the practical results of steam culture in Europe, as shown by hundreds of experiments, and the third relates to introduction and working of steam ploughs in the Unitod Slates. Another is upon Kaiuio or Chineso grass, giving tho history of experiments and tests in British colonists, resulting from jealousy of thia country, and also on account of tho efforts nuide by tbo Agricultural Department in the ramu direction. Thcrj arc also articles upon the goat antelopo of the Koeky Mountains, and upon the manufacture of goat fleece for commercial purposes.— George llusmann, of Missouri, has a paper on wino making, and Edward A. Samuols, of Boston, on the value of birds on farms. Mrs. Ellen S. Tupper, of Iowa, has an article on boo keeping in winter, and F. R. Elliott, of Cleveland one on popular varioties of hardy fruits. One of the department officers has an article on industrial colleges, agricultural societies, magasiucs, and papers, and there are a half a doson essays on Southern agriculture, rico culture, Southern fruits, lobacco culture, orange and citron culture, and similar topics. There are other articles on irrigation by eitir.ons of

Arizona, liquid manuring, cross breeding and degeneration ot plants, model farm buildings, Pennsylvania butter, etc.

THKY say that, if we get mad and recall lioverdy Johnson,our Minister, from Groat Britain, the English Government will at once recall their Minister from Washington, and send over Rcverdy in his place, as thoir Envoy Extraordinary to the American Government. The British want a man at Washington who will attend to their interests with enthusiasm and they say there isn't a fetter man for the position in the United ivingdom than RaverJy Johnson.

IT IS stated that General McClellan will probably be appointed onrjineer for the construction ot the proposed New York under-ground railrond. This selection, it ia understood, is made at the instance of Mr August Belmont, and it is no secret to say is a graceful tribute paid to the ability displayed by tbe General in running tbe Democratic party into the ground four years ago.

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NEWS AND PERSONAL.

Da. J. C. AYER of Lowell, Maes., has declined tho Republican nomination for Mayor.

far recovered aa to be out again—in two oelumus of Tribune editorial, and Dana is well enough to exercise in the Sun as usual.

MES. HENRY WARD BSECBZB

to start a magazine, to be called Mothers at Home. Hope she will be able to keep thom there.

At the time Pollard, of Richmond, was sliet, he had in his pockets three loaded pistols, showing that if somebody had not shot bim, he was prepared to shoot somebody himself.

THE Duke of Richmond, one of the highest peers in England, has created a sensation by marrying the pretty daughter of a London stock broker. None of the groom's family would go to the wedding.

FRANKLIN PIKHCE who, it'will bo romembered, was once President of the United States, writes that he has not been out of his house for three weeks, but hopes to be about very soon.

JAMES BUCHANAN'S monument is to be a solid block of Italian marble, five feet high, soven feot ono inch long, and thrco feet seven inchos wide, with heavy moldings at the top and bottom, and a rich carved wreath of oak leaves.

THE Herald says Grant Is in favor of tho projected constitutional amendment to make universal manhood suffrage tho supreme law for the whole Unitod Statos. If that is true, the measure will be carried through this Congress.

GENERAL GRANT has been gossiped about of lato as being worth $300,000This is an enormous over-oatimato. He has nevor been a money-getter, and about all he possesses has beon given to him.

As GRANTis going to keep house for the government during tho nest four yoarsor more, he has sold his dwelling in Washington to Mayor Bowon for $40 000,—possession to be given about tho 4th of March.

IT will be seen that the Erie Railroad windle complicates itself with Now York Domocracy. Tho late advices indicate that tbe little trifle of a million dollars of tho company's bonds were used to carry tho State for Seymour and Hoffman.

THE Detroit Tribune is vigorously opposing the re-election of Senator Chandler. We have long thought that he had ceased to be useful to his country or creditablo to his peninsular constituent— the vigorous and healtby State of Michigan.

CHKMGNG COUNTY, N. Y., was carried lor Grant by one vote. The man who cast it, the Etmira Advertiser thinks, was a gentleman laid up with a broken leg, but who insisted on being carried to the polls. Ho is declared the banner voter ot Chemung.

THE reunion of the officers of the armies of tho Tennessee, Cumberland, Ohio, and Goorgia, to take place on tho 15th and ltth inst. at Chicago, promises to be a great gathering. Grant, Sherman, Thomas, Sc.hofield, and all the other victorious Western Generals will be present, except Sheridan who has accepted an invitation to a i/eunion \yith some warriors farther west.?"

THE Republican members of tho Ponn sylvania Legislature, for the city of Philadelphia, have agreed to support, at the next session, J. Edgar Thompson, Esq., for the position of United States Senator trom that State. Mr. Thompson was tho ^f»t Chief Enginuoi and Superintendent j° tho Pennsylvania Railroad, having taken charge of that work in 1848. lie was subsequently for a long lime Chief Engineer, Superintendent, and President of that road

GEORGE A STUART, formerly President of the Christian Commission, sayr "Aftor Gettysburg I telegraphed to Boston: 'Can I draw on you lor $10,000 on sight?' It wa3 stuck up in the Exchange. The merchants at oace formed in lino to put down thoir subscriptions. In half an hour tho answer eamo, 'Draw for $G0,000.

Mr. Seward insists that Groat Britain shall virtually, if not expressly, acknowledge that sho violated hor own neutrality laws whon sho recognized tho Southern Confederacy as a belligerent, before ho will consent to go into p.ny arbitration with her. This will bo a rather bitter dose for John Bull to swallow but Mr. Soward should be vigorously backed up in tbe demand that it be taken down without any sugar-coating.

GEN ROUSSEAU said, beforehand, tha tho election in Louisiana would bo either a tragedy or a farce. It has boon a littlo of both. Tho absonco of Union men from tbo polls through fear of murder was the tragedy and Goir Rousseau's prelenso of doing anything to prevent the outrage was tho farco.

THE Cincinnati Times says the collissi on of Horace Greeley and Charles A. Dana in a velocipode race on Tuesday in New York stopped the Erie noise for awhile. Horace is heavy on ihe crank, but not good at steering, Aid Dana ran into him full tilt. The two velocipcdos wcro not badly hurt, and the riders, though they butted each other off with great energy, did not greatly injure the ground where they fell. Greeley has go

WHEN Lord Derby was about to ^tiro from the Cabinet, his fall was soothed by tbe Slar of tho Garter. Mr. Disraeli declines to be a Lord, and in this he shows his usual tact. A coronet would be but a barren honor to a man who is old and childless who probably remombers the fall of tbe first Pitt, and more recently of Lord Brougham who lost his splendid position as a leader of English opinion when ho became Lord Chancellor. Mr. Disraeli can gain no fame by any honors that tho Queen can Conor dnoc him.

W HILK we do not withhold our By mp.v thy from Mr. R. Barnwell Rhett, Jr., nee Smith, in the suspension of the Charleston Mercury, T»e are satisfied that this melancholy event is not one of unmixed evil to tbe rest of mankind. We are foi tified in tbe foregoiug opinion by tbo conviction that the present shattered condition of the Southern constitution is owing in large part to too copious and frequent doses of the villainous mercurv compeund&l Charleston, Soath'CarotV ns, and with wiHch the fire-eaters of that section have heretofore delighted to salivate themselves on the slightest provocation.

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about

STATE ITEMS.

LACOOA has a revival.

EVANSVILLE talks of a rink.

STEALING gates is the latest New Albany dodgo. J.

THK ghost of a white rabbit is creating & sensation in New Albany.

J. M. GRUTIN denies that he is a candidate for United States Senator.

THE value of school property in Fort Wayno is $115,000.

FORT WAYNE has 2,074 scholars and 14 toacbora in hor public schools.

NEW ALBANY abates patent medicine hawkors as "common nuisances."

MUCH suffering is reported among tho poor of Evansville and New Albany.

SULLIVAN talks loudly of "Are apparatus and a market bouse."

BURGLARS and horse-thieves are operating iu Evansville on a gigantic scale.

NOTWITHSTANDING tho large crop of whoat, tho Indianapolis mills are running on short time.

THE New Albany tip-hammor works will bo in full blast by the first of January.

IT costs only $3.50 per year to educate a child in the Fort Wayne public schools.

JAMKSSWANSON, jr:, of Evansville, was vory seriously injured by a runaway team on Wednesday.,

THERE ia a great deal of sickness in Evansville. The prevailing diseases are measles, acarlot fever and pneumonia.

SAM DRLQELL, Indianapolis, lost his pockot book last Tuesday. It contained $4,000.

POLICEMEN, of Indianapolis aTe not allowed to enter public, or private bouses, except in the line of duty.

TKK Frederici Opera Troupe will soon revisit Evansville, encouraged by their recent great success in that city.

THE Scotch Thistle Society, Madison, successfully celebrated their anuiversary on the evening of the 39th prox.

THE Indianapolis Evening Mirror manifests an upward tendency. Each issue is better than its predecessor.

TLI/DES JEWELL, of Lafayette, baptised a woman by moonlight. An exchange says that was a lunatic performance

MRS. JACOB HUFF, the first woman ever married in Bedford, diod on Saturday night last. She had attained a ripe old age.

TTIE NOW Albany Glass Works ire run to their full capacity to moot orders and then can't keep up with the demand for their products.

AN Indianapolis paper gravely announces that tho fact of a man's being a Democrat is not considered sufficient evidence that ho noedd a guardian.

JOSEPII REED, of Dublin, had to pay fifty dollars for shooting a man iu Henry county. A good fat hog would have cost bim more.

PETITION in bankruptcy No. 865 has been filed in the Cierk's office of the District Court, by H. Norton Kross, of Valparaiso.

A YOUNG LADY of Indianapolis recently used corrosive sublimate to romovo a light moustacho from hor uppor lip. Tho application removed the moustache and a portion of tbo lip.

AN Indianapolis trader has gone East to buy a hundred velocipedes. They will bo used this winter by the mombors of the Legislature in riding between their hotols and the State House.

A CORRESPONDENT of tho Indianapolis Journal suggests a State law against quacks, alleging that all tho Ohio quacks are coming hero. It is a good idea.— Mako every practitioner of modicine show a diploma from some medical college.

"DADDY," said a young hopeful at LaFayette, "let's go up to the ten pin alley and roll." "Roll, boy I what do you know about rolling at ten pins "Me know about roiling Why I can roll your darn9d old eyes out in leas than ten minutes."

THE revival at the Granville Method* ist Church, in LaFayette, under the ministrations of Rov. G. W Warner, still continue, Thero had been ninety-sis addition!* to the church up to Saturday night, and the Work still goes on.

THE Madison Rink is a "big thing."— The entire structure—which includes the Rink proper, ticket office, skate repairera room, ladies' room, gents' room, kitchen, and refreshment •room—covers a space of 140 feet by 175 feet Two galleries, on the sides, ran the entire length of the Rink.

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I HE TEltRE^HXIITE WEE KJL EXPRESS.

TERREHAUTE, INDIANA, DECEMBER 9, 1868.

LADOGA IS to havo a stave faetory.

A LECTURE ASSOCIATION is being or ganized in Wabash.

THE Second Adventists of Now Albany are getting ready to go up^-or down—on tbo 10th of July, 1369.

Two nights recently paBsod during which no burglary occurred in Evansville. This is regarded as quite unusual in that well governed city.

THE Indiana readers of tho Cincinnati Commercial and Gazette are getting intensely interested in tbe private business affairs of the publishers of those papers.

A YOUNG GIRL bas been arrested in Evansville for larceny. Among the ar» tides taken by her were a shawl worth $200, a ring worth $300, and another shawl worth $50. li

LOTJIBVILLK doctors, it is said, try to bribe grave yard sextons in New Albany and Jeffereonvillo to permit them to opon graves and carry off dead bodies to tho disserting rooma.

A HOG killod at Ferguson's pork house, Indianapolis, this week, weighed S10 pounds gross, and 704 pounds net, showing that it had been fatted oxtromely well.

ON SUNDAY of last weok a rogular ring, fistic encounter, with all tho paraphernalia usual on such ^occasions, occur* rod at Gosport. Throe other lights occurred in that pleasant village during tho week.

Gosa & Co., of Gosport, recently killed a hog which had live feot and nineteen toes. Tho fifth foot grew out of the left fore leg about midway between the knoo and hoof. It was smaller than the other but woll formed.

THK Democratic State Central Committee meet to-morrow to decide whother or not on eighth of January Cons vention shall bo called. It is expected that Lafe Dovelin and Jo. McDonald will embrace each other.

THE Lebanon Patriot says "an attempted elopement last week created considerable food for the town tattlers. The lit* tie girl should be soundly spanked, and the man who attempted the ruin of such a child, deservesjhanging."

THERE will bo but few courses of lectures in any city in Indiana this winter, which is a healthy sign- The money that these lectures generally cost will buy much more and better knowledge and entertainment at a book store. Try it.

GBORGE FILE, ot Carroll county, charged with passing counterfeit United States Treasury notes, was before Oommiislonsr Kimball, at Indianapolis, on Friday, and recognized in the sum of $1,0# 0 to appear for trial at the present telKi of the District Court.

MR. COLFAX bas had his residonce in South Bend newly rooted.—Exchange. As a fitting companion piece to the above we are privileged to unnouncu that Mr. Schunckpeldter, of Haubstadt, has had his barn newly weatherboarded.— Let these two great facts go into history together I

THERE isn't half Hie usual scramble lor the small plunder to be bestowed by the Legislature. What tho matter? There ought to be at least thirty candidates for every position from Clerk of the Senate down

near the northeast cornor of tho State House. Go in bnyp. Make the thing interesting.

WILL the Legislature hawk the Agricultural College grant to the highest biddor, as suggested by the Cincinnati Gazette, or will it consult dignity and decency and establish an Agricultural College at such place ns it may in its wisdom deom most conducive to tho objoctfi contemplated

JACOB CURRY has filed an affidavit in tho Marion Circuit court by his attorney, Solomon Claypool, sotting forth that be had been olected Clerk of Iloono county at the recent election, and praying Judge Hinos that a writ of mandamus might issue against Governor Bakor, to cotnpol bim to issue a commission to aluant Tha case was taken undor advisomont.

JOHN C. WHIGUT and family, aftor an absence of nearly three and a half yoars, arrived in Indianapolis, on Friday evening, in good health, and are tbe guests of Captain Wiley, at tho Arsona!. Mr. Wright went out with his father, Gov. Wright, Minister to Prussia, as Secretary of Legation. After his father'^ death he was Charge D'Affaircs at Berlin until roieved by Minister Bancroft. Since then himself and family have made a tour of the Old World. Thoir many friends wilj rejoice at their return, and give them, a warm welcome.

ALPHONSO W. UOATH, Knox county WM. Bowers, Boono county E. A. Edward.*, Decatur couuty Georgo W. Collins, Shelby county, and Jacob M. Truxell, Jasper county, are petitioners in bankruptcy.

TTti Indianapolis J/i/ivi' guU iff the following and still survives: "What is the difference between Judge Chapman, sitting on the bench, and a young fellow sitting up with his girl? One is for muszlin' the press, while the other wants to press the mu»lin."

IT has been tully decided that a Stat: Convention of newspaper publishers will be held at Indianapolis on Tuesday, the 6th day of January, 1869. Tbe object of tha conventiod will be tbe advancement of tbe interests of publishers, especially of oouatry journals.

ANOTHER TENNK88RK HORROR

Bntcbery of an Entire Family uear ihe Kentucky Border—Capture or tbe Murderer vith the Blood

Stains Still Upon Him.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal of yesterday.] A little over a week ago a frightful tragedy was enacted in Fentress county, Tennessee, near the Kentucky line. There lived in that section a family composed of an old lady, some eighty years of ago, and her three grandchildren—one a young lady, another a boy of twelve, and the third a small girl. In the neighborhood was a man named Logsdon, ill-fa-vored of face and of little character, who in some way, became cognizant of the fact that the old lady had in her possession a considerable amount of money, the back pay of her dead son, who had been a soldior, and he resolved to secure it at all hazards. Proceeding one night to tho house she occupied, Logsdon, with knife and revolver, murdered the grandmother and granddaughter and left the boy for dead also. All the money he found, however, was $76, and with this he fled. Tho boy, who fortunately survived, noxt day told the tale of the bloody work of the night, and the sheriff of Fentress county as soon as he could be notified, started immediately in pursuit of the murderer, with a warrant. He passed through Clinton county, in this Stato, where he was joinod by the sheriff of Clinton, and together the two sheriffs mado their way to Hustonville, Lincoln county. Here they captured the murderer at the house of his father, even before he had changed the clothing he wore when he committed tho terrible crime, and which bore the bloodstains of cruel murder.

It was found that Logsdon, on roaching his father's house, had sent for a heavy lock which he designed placing on the door, and that he had also sent a woman and a boy for powder, lead and caps. These parties were detained, howevor. It was evident he intended making a desperate resistance, but tho officers oxporioncod little or no diflculty in effecting his arrest. He was taken back to Fentress county, where he will, doubtless, bo made to suffer the extreme penalty of the law.

TIIE FINANCES-

Card from Senator Morton to the New Yorfc World.

NEW YORK, Dec, 2.—The World contains the following letter from Senator Morton, of Indiana:

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. SO,

To the Editor of the Neic Fork World: In tho New York World ot tbo 28th irist., I find an articlo, from which 1 quote the following "A telegram to an overling paper states that Senator Morton, soon after the opening of tbe session^ of Congress, will introduce a bill directing the immediate paylhent in greenbacks of that portion of the five-twenty boiulb issuod fivo years ago. If tbe report ba correct, tbe course of that Seuutor on this subject is conspicuous for vaccillation.— Eight months ago he was an open advocate of the so-called greenback theory, but during the Presidential canvass be publicly recanted. If he is now about to propose aud advocate such a measure as that described in the telegram, his remuneration must have been a mere political dodge—a feigned surrender of his principles to promote tho success of his party."

Ia the first place, I do not intend to introduce a bill directing the immediate payment in greenbacks of that portion of the 6-io bonds issued five years, and havo never said "I did'1 to Secretary McCulloch or anybody else. In the next place, 1 did not during the canvass recant what said iu the Senate with regard to the payment of the 5-20s in greenbacks. No speech by me to that effect has been mado. What I urged during the canvass was that the first duty of the Government wab to return to tpecie paymente, which, when accomplished, would settle all questions as to paying the bonds. I further urged that tho Government had no right to issue new legal tender notes, and maku them applicable to payment of bonds, and urging that such notes could not be made to sustain the same relations to the bonds in law or equity that was sustained by existing notes, and that tbe further issue of such notes would unfortunately postpone the return to specie payment.

These propositions were fully stated in my speech in the Senate last summer, in which I arguod tbo legal right of tho Governmont to use the existing legal tender notes in payment of the bonds. I also argued at various times during tho canvass tbat whatever might be the law «n the subject, tho government could not pay tbo bonds, or any considerable portion, in coin while the currency romainod depreciated, and that improvement of tho currency bringing it up to par was a nocossary condition precedent to tho payment of the bonds in gold that if tho govornmont could not procure gold enough to redeem $365,000,000 of legal tondor notos it was folly to talk about paying tho bonds in gold that tho prominent question of tho mode of paying bonds will becomo important only by a continuance of tho depraved currency, without taking stops to improvo it that to take the surplus gold in the Treasury and apply it to the purchase of bonds in market which will not fall duo for four toen years would not bo paying tho bonds, but shaving them, and would be an improper uso of the means by which tho paper of tho Government, over-due and dishonored, should be redeemed. Thoso positions are not inconsistent with anything I said in the Senate. 1 am, very roepectfully, yours,

O. P. MOETOIT.

A FELLOW writing for the New Albany Commercial over the signature "Hyena" —by the way, he owes an apology to the animal whose name he has stolen—says "If we had a law, giving, under proper restrictions, the paupers of the country, who fill mostly unknown graves, over to tbe students of anatomy, it would prove a blessing to tbe living and work no possible injury to the dead."

Wouldn't it be just as proper to have "a law, giving, uader proper restrictions" the very rich men "of the country over to thn students of anatomy

MADISON hasn't a rolling mill and can boast of nail works but it has two starch factories, the Watt Poarl Starch Co- and the Madison Pearl Starch Co.— The two grind daily some nineteen hundrei bushels of corn. The employes number over five hundred men and boys. They keep two steamers employed in towing their barges, loaded with corn, to their factories, and their receipts by railroad are as large as by the river.

THE CITY TREA#U$T is empty, so the

Journal

states.

Terrible Accident on Ihe Ohio Biver.

STRAMBOAT COLLISION

Seventy five or Eighty Persons Lost

MADISOJT, IND. Dec. 6.—Tho Madison Courier says of tbo terrible accident on tho Ohio river last night at half past 11 o'clock, tho magnificent steamor United States dcaconding and tho America ascending, collided at Kay's landing, about two miles above Warsaw—on the Indiana side.

Tbo Unitod States had a quantity of potrolouu oil on hor guards. Tho America struck the Unitod StaloQon tho starboard, on tho righthand side forward of tho stops, cutting into hor a considerable distance, sinking tho Unitod Statos to about tho main dock in two minutes. Firo was communicatod in the lower way to tho petroleum oil, and as soon as the boats collided they were in flames.

It is said some mistake was made in the signal, the Ameriea blew her whistle twiee, which tho pilot on tbo United Statos apparently did not hear. The America again signaled by two blasts of tho whistle. Then tho United States an* swered, but it was too lato, tho steamers wore at tbe point of collision.

Tho excitoment was terrible. It is supposod that sovonty-fivo or eighty persons havo lost their livos. Sovoral of our citizens wore on tho Unitod States, roturning from Cincinnati. Throe of theso, Mr. Steele Bright, Low Vance and O. B. Sappington, aro Among tho missing.

Tho receiving clerk, James Johns, of the United States, is also missing. It is estimatod, but under the circumstances this must bo a mere guoss, that thirty-three women, on tbo United Statosi wore lost. 5 jMr.

ca, after securing tho boat's registor and valuables, wont through the cabin, kicking in tho doors of tho state rooms. To this precaution, and the cool intrepidity of Mr. Taylor, no lives woro lost on the America.

Our townsman, Harvey Fostor, was on tlio United States returning from Cincinnati be informs us that be and a party from this city had just loft tho ladios' rahin, whore they had serenaded Mr. Inskoep and lady. Mr. Foster was standing in tho cabin near tbo clerk's office. Mr. Bright was on tho outside, the latter eamo running ia saying tho steamers wore coming together. They felt the shrek. Mr Foster looked around imraediatelj', und all forward was in flames.

He ran aft, and with the help of a dock band loosed one of tha fenders on which both floated ashore.

Mr. Inskeop and lady jumped from the United States to tho deck of tho America, a distance of fifteen feet, and were saved, losing ail thoir clothing.

Tho survivors of tho terrible accident iinito in juaiso of the management of tbe Americii after tho collision.

It was not thirty seconds after the boats collided before the United States was amass of fUmes from stem to stern.

Tko America might havo been saved had sho not attempted to save tho passengers of tho Unitod States. Those saved owe their lives to tho coolness and courage of the officers and crow of tbo America.— Her engines^voro kopt moving until tho boat was mado fast to the shore, the pilot stood at his post until tha pilot house was burning around him, and then left to avoid suffocation.

Tho destruction of thoso tine and costly steamers, tho more torriblo rosult in loss of life, and tho fato of missing frionds havo cast a gloom over the community.— We still hopo our missing friends have mado tho shore at somo point, and have beon savod.

CINCINNATI, Doc. 6.—Farther particulars in regard to tho stoamboat collision yesterday, show a larger loss of lifo than at iirst supposed.

Immediately aftor tho collision tho UnU tod Statos was envelopod in flamos, which wero instantly communicatod to tho Amorica, both steamora boing completely destroyed.

In less than five minutes thoro was about soventy-fivo cabin passengers on tbo Unitod States, more than half of whom wero lost

Tbe reports of officers are very conflicting, but as near as we can learn, fortyfivo passengers, including eighteen ladies, and in addition soven of tbe officers and cabin crow woro lost, whilo only four out of twenty-two dock bands aro known to bo saved.

Thoso lost ou tho Unitod States aro Mrs. K. A. Jones aud daughter Kva, of Waynesvillo, Ohio Elijah Fort, colored.

Tbo list of tbo Unitod States passengors cannot bo corroctly givon, owing to tho loss of the clork's registor.

Rev. Mr. Parvin and Rov. Mr. Risley. of New York, aro missing also Mrs. Harriot Warting, of New Albany, and a young lady in her employ. Mr. Bigley John F. Burns, M. F. Lewdower, M. Cook, Wm. Garvin, L. R. Johnson, Mrs. Goo. W. Griffin, S. lieidelburg, Miss Mary L. Johnson, Stoolo Bright, O. B. Sappington, L. H. Vance, M. Elfewe, Mrs. Hammors, Wm. Briggs, Cbaa. Runk, Mr. I'opo and Mr. Uegau are supposed to be saved.

The officers lost aro John Fennell, nteward, Richard Marshall, aecond steward, James Johns, 3d clerk, James Fennel I, barkeeper, and Dan, colored barker.

Mr. Hays, of Nashville, was sevorely bruised. Gut of ten firemen on tbe United States aiy three wero saved.

Oie Bull was among the passengers aved. Vice President Smith of the Indianapolis & Cincinnati railroad, tendered tho Mail Company a special train for tho me of tbi wounded and unfartunate.

The accident is attributed to a mistake iu tbe whistle. The Statee was built at Cincinnati, cost 1230,000, and was insured for $loo,000

The America was built in 1867, at a cost of $240,000, insurance $133,OOo, principally insured in Cincinnati.

Those passengars on the United States I ?Wno

Tho following are missing, but supposed to be saved: J. Crawford and lady, Mr. Ragge and wife, Mr. Huddle, wife and daughter, B. F. Morris, B. Slessinger, Mr. Otter. Maddox, P. Hartman.

The Mail Company has been organized 30 years, and only two accidents havo happened to steamers of that line in hat time.

Tho wife of (Jommodoro Thompson, and a lady traveling with her, were lost. Mrs. Hays, of Nashville, is missing.

John Morset, of. Owonville, was lost. Harry Brunswick, billiard table manufacturer of this city, is missing.

The yawl of tho United States was swung up on the atom derrick, when tha deck hands made a rush for it, throwing them all in the river and many ot thom woro drowned.

Thero woro 96 passengers on tba America, only one of whom is known to be lost.

Tho wreck of tho America 1103 against tho bank ou the Indiana shore. The Unitod Statos lies in eight feet water, abojit ono hundred yards above tha Amorica.

From Washington)

WASHINGTON, Doc. 6.—Vice President Durant, and Col. Seymour, consulting engineer of the Union Pacific railroail, have laid before tho Prosident a review of tho spccial commissioners report on that road.

The commissioners stato of tbo $6,000,000 that tbey havo estimated that tho road will require for substituting wooden bridges with stone and,iron ballasting and additional equipments to prepare it for the through travel whon completed, thoy have not given tho company credit for any of its works in progress.

Tho commissioners estimate that of this $6,000,000 about $3,000,000 will ba required for locomotives, cars, &c.

Tho company say that uno-ball of this is already being prepared, and tbo remainder will bo ready when wanted.

The company does not admit that all of the expenditures recommended for additional ballasting, fencing, &c., is now necessary, but' express its readiness to mako tho line first class in every respect, and consents that the government shall reserve sufficient security until complatioii of road for this purpase.

Tbe difference between the Commiiaioners and the Company's estimate is about one and a half million dollars on 890 miles.

The Company report an expenditura of over $8,0o0,000 for grading, iron and equipment of work in progress and not completed.

It is understood the issue of bonds to the Union Pacific Company will now be continued, and there has been no interruption to tbe work.

From

Memphis.

MEMPHIS, DOC. 5.—A .report is current here, said to have been brought by tba officers of the Julia, that the steamer Richmond was burned yesterday evening abovo Napoloon. No confirmation, of the report further than that she hsd not passed Helena at nine to-night though duo at six this morning.

A Fight With Indians.

ST. LOUTS, Dec. 2—Tho following official report of tho recent Indian battla has been received at military headqarter* hore:

'wife, Fremont, Ohio James Price and brothor, Louisville Jbee Kahn and Dr. Leslie, Cincinnati B. NeUon, Alleghany

City, Pa. Master Pearce saved, but his mother and brother lost CapL Joseph McCamant, Cineinnati, burned about tha neck Robert Nelson, Newport, Ky-, slightly injured J. H. Green and lady, Sol. Harris, Louisville W. W. Hanley, Cincinnati Wm. Chamberlain, Cincin« nati Mr. McFaren and Mr. Hays, Nashville Mr. J. B. Fisher, N. S. R. Clark, Memphis.

IN THK FIELD, DEPARTMENT OF TITK NoRTn, CANADIAN RIVER, AT THE JUNCTION OF BEAVER

CREKK, INDIAN TERRITORY, NOVEMBER 29, 1868.

To Brevet Major General W. A. Nichols, Assistant Adjutant General Military Department of the Missouri

GENERAL: I havo tha honor to report for tho information of tho Lioutenant General, the following opnrations of Goneral Custar's command:

On November 23d I ordered bim to proceed with eleven companies of hia regiment, tho 7th Cavalry, in a southerly direction, toward tho Antolope Hills in search of hostilo Indians. On tho 26th he struck the trail of a war party of Black Kettle's band returning from tha north, near whoro tho eastern lino of tha Pan Handlo of Texas, crosses tho main Canadian.

Ho at onco corrallod his wagons and followed in pursuit, over to tho hoad wators of tho Washita, thonco down that stroam, and on tho morning of tho 27tb surprised tho camp of Black Kettle, and aftor a desperate fight in which Black Kettlo was asnstod by Arranahoos under Littlo Raven, and tbo Kiowa.s under Santanta, captured tho entire camp, killing tho Chiof, Black Kottlo, and oae hundred and two warriors, whoso bodies were left on tho field, all thoir stock, ammunition, arms, lodges, robes and 53 women and their children.

Our loss was, Major Elliott, Captain Hamilton and ninetoen oalistod men killod. Brovet Lieut. Col. Barnitz, Brevet Lieut. Col. J. W. Hustor, 2d Lieut. F. S. March, aud eloveu oulistod mori wounded.

Little Ravon's band of Arrapaboaa and Santanta's band of Kiowas were oncamped six miles from Black Kettle's camp.

About eight or nine hundred of tbe an imals captured were shot, tho balance kept for military purposes.

Tbe highest crodit is due to Gon. Custar and bis command. They started in furious snow storm, and traveled all the while in snow about twelve inches deejx

Black Kettle's and Little Raven's families are among the prisonors. It was Black Kettle's band who committed the first depredation on the Saline and Solomon rivers in Kansas.

The Kansas regiment bas just COmo In. They mi?sed tho trail, and had to struggle in the snow storm, the horses suffering much in flesh and tha men Jiving on bnffalo meat and other game for eight days.

Wa will socn have them in good condition if we'can get one or two more good blows. There will be no more Indian troubles my department. We will ba pinched IH ability to supply ourselves, and nature will present manydifi Acuities in our winter operations, but we have stout hearts, aud will do our best.

Two white children were recaptured. One while woman and a boy lo years old, were brutally murdered by tha ludiaa women when the attack commenced. [Signed] P. H. SHKRIDAN,

CtGRi Oom'dg.