Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 January 1870 — Page 2

WEEKLY EXPRESS.

TEBRE HAUTE, IND.

Wednesday Morning, Jan. 5, 18*0.

THE revenue receipts for the six months ending with the close of the year, show a balance in favor of a Republican AdrninLstation, over the receipts for the period, one year ago, of $17,966,748.

IT IS believed that another State will goon be added to our family. A delegation from Colorado is in Washington to ascertain the views of, the powers that be relative to the admission of that Territory as a State.

THE Chicago Tribune learns that an "embassy" from Tammany is now itinerating the Western States "on a sort of rag-and-bone business, trying to buy up Democratic newspapers to support HOFF

MAN'S nomination for the Presidency."

IN December of last year it was estimated, on good authority, that moie than 60,000 men and at least as many females, ^n New York, who depended upon their daily toil for subsistence, were out of employment. The labor prospects for the present winter are represented to be little, if any, more promising.

IT IS STATED that the bill which the Judiciary Committee of the Senate is to report, changing the various Judicial Circuits of the country, makes no change in this (the Seventh), which is composed of the 8tates of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. The changes are principally in the Eastern Circuits.

COTEMPORARY thinks it is a remarkable fact, and speaks well for what poor THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE once happily called "the all-conquering English .tongue," that when the last Ecumenical was held that language was almost unknown on the continent of Europe, whereas it is now represented, at the present 'Council, "by upward of three hundred Bishops.

IT IS DENIED that the President intends to withdraw the name of Attorney General HOAR as a candidate for Assistant Justice of the Supreme Court. A Cincinnati cotemporary suggests that under the genial and mellowing influences of the -holiday season, it is quite probable that many Senators have become prepared to yield their ^reverse opposition to a man whose transcendent merits -always -excepting the "local" objection—we do not understand that tliey Shave ever had the hardihood to deny.

THE Chicago Republican thinks Congress cannot afford to ignore or resist the almost universal demand for the abolition «f the franking privilege. We presume that if the question were put directly to the people nineteen of every twenty, at least, would vote to do away with this expensive and unnecessary burden upon ihe Treasury. And members will find themselves laboring under an error, if they suppose the people are so little in earnest in the matter that they will not «ote and remember in future elections jthe.action of their several immediate representatives on the question.

THE Insurance Commissioner, of Massachusetts has, for several years past, published statements of the number of those insured—and the proportion of such in •each oompany—that have died after paying only two or three premiums. These tables show an alarming proportion of persons who die within twelve months after being insured, and who have, of course, paid only one premium, and who .take from the companies much more than •flhey pay in. The sa»e is true of the second year after insurance. The facts would warrant greater discrimination in the selection of lives or the early necessity «if higher rates of insurance.

TBINTED FORMS of petitions for the abolition of the franking privilege have been prepared by the Postmaster General, and arc being forwarded to Postmasters

for

signatures. This franking privilege has grown to be an evil of such tremendous proportions that these petitions should be so generally signed by the people that Congress cannot afford to disregard the demand for its abolition. Its cost to the country is estimated at live million dollars, and the abuses which are practiced under it ire unbeatable. The New York Sunday Times claims to know a Congressman who always sends home, under his frank, enough public documents to sell for a couple of hundred dollars, as waste paper.

THE conviction is beginning to dawn upon the minds of the advocates of cheap labor that John Chinaman can not be re* lied upon. Mr. WALKER, who recently brought out a number of Chinese laborers for Texas, is of the opinion that but few Chinamen will expatriate themselves for a series of years except oh condition of receiving such high wages as surely will enable them to return home in comparative aflluence. He further says he confident no reliance can be placed upon obtaining and retaining Chinese labor for agricultural work, except at the wages of the country where labor is performed. John is no fool, and is as fond of filthy lucre and as crafty in getting and holding on to it as the "Melican man."

THE NewjYork Tribune thinks the tautological and long-windy nature of legal documents, with their pleonastic "whereases" and "aforesaids," has reached a point in New-Hampshire beyond which it will be impossible to go. The writ in Monadnock Railroad Comjxtny agt. The Town of Peterborough is sixteen feet and seven inches long, and the mere reading of it in opening will take more time than the whole trial of ordinary causes. He must be a miserable lawyer who, in a document of such dimensions, cannot find flaws enough to justify the dismissal of the action but if it goes on, and all the papers are of proportionate prolixity, special building, the size of a small barn must be built near the Court-House for their reception.

ACCORDING to an Eastern journal, ternational law has found a new if not Mrs. JULIA WARD address before the

in able exponeht in HOWE, who in an New Hampshire Women's Suffrage Association, discussed, as a pertinent theme, the Cuban question. She insisted that the Cubans should be recogniied, and assured her readers that "the ghost of Captain KIDD laughed and the scattered timbers of the Mayflower groaned when

Snanish gunboats steamed out of New York harbor." Could President GRANT and Secretary FISH have foreseen these frightful consequences they would doubtless have detained the gunboats for an indefinite period. Now will Mrs. HOWE inform an anxious world how the ghosts of the Pilgrim Fathers regard female suffrage do they laugh with KIDD or groan with the Mayflower's timbers? Our owh^pinion is that the latter gentlemen -would have invoked the law against Mrs. How® and her cabal as common ,scolds.

THE OPENING of the State Normal School is an important era in the history of public education, in this State. For the first time this great Commonwealth, with its grand army of public school children, and its magnificent school fund( opens to its young men and women the doors of an institution in which they can fit themselves for the teacher's profession.

The building is, undoubtedly, the most splendid structure of the kind in the United States. It is an edifice of which the citizens of the State may well be proud convenient in its arrantcementsj elegant in its appointments, imposing in its appearance, it is alike an honor to the State and to our City.

The Board of Trustees and the Faculty, will spare no effort to make the institution a success and if the people will but second their efforts there Is every reason to believe that our Normal School will at once take rank with the leading establishments of the kind in the older States.

To the Faculty and the students we extend the cordial greeting of the people of this city,with the assurance of earnest sym patliy and hearty co-operation in the great work which this school is designed to accomplish.

IN DESCRIBING a murderer the Missouri Democrat says that he is not prepossessing in his personal appearance. Who ever saw a deliberate murderer that was.

Cin. Times. There have been many "deliberate murderers" remarkably "prepossessing' in their "personal appearance." The most diabolical, cold-bloodcd murder we ever heard of was committed by the hand' somest man, the most elegant "gentleman," the greatest favorite with the ladies that could be found in a circuit of fifty miles. There was not a family in the en tire county that would not have been glad to welcome him as a relative by marriage up to the very hour when his awful crime was exposed. And his is not a solitary case. A gallery of murderers would show many handsome, intelligent and prepossessing" faces. There are many stubborn facts that contradict the theory that the face is a true index of charac er.

Iloy. BENJAMIN F. HOPKINS, member of Congress from Wisconsin, died at his residence in Madison, on Saturday afternoon last. MR. HOPKINS was a gentleman of genial manners, of generous heart, and of energetic character. He possessed unusual tact in the management of political affairs, yet kept his honor unsullied, and always discharged his official duties with conscientious fidelity. He was a comparatively young man, and had apparently a successful career before him, until stricken down by disease. He had been ill for several weeks, and was reported convalescent a few days since, but suffered a fatal relapse.

AN EXCHANGE mentions the gratifying fact that the Western States are acquiring handsome "feuttclations" for educational purposes through the liberal land grants from the National Government. For instance, the''|ale of school lands in Minnesota so far this year increased the school fund over $300,000, making the school fund over $2,200,000. The sale of Agricultural College lands has increased the •University fund over $100,000. In Wisconsin $80,000 have been added to the funds of the Agricultural College of the State University by the sale of Agricultural College lands during the past year.

THE National Intelligencer suggests as the ticket for 1872, Chief-Justice CHASE for President, and Gen. ROBERT E. LEE for

Vice-President.

Such a Democratic

ticket, it says, "would be hard to beat."— Yes, it would—this side of the place where all good rebels go.

THE STATE.

TiLL-TAPrERS

trouble Lafayette.

ROCKFOKT is to have a new bank.

TIIF, Supreme Judges meet next Tues­

day.

"STAG DANCES" are quite the raje at Fort Wayne."

BISHOP TALBOT confirmed a class of thirty at Evansvillc the other night.

THE Lafayette Savings Bank Directors have declared a five per cent, dividend.

ONLY HG persons died in New Albany during 1869.

REV. O. B. STONE, of Lafayette, dedicated a church at Peru on Sunday.

EDWIN ADAMS is playing Enoch Arden at the Indianapolis Academy.

THERE are.ifty-two prisoners in Marion county jail, six of whom arc female?.

THE rink at Fort Wayne is completed and in operation.

THE HON'. GEO. II. CHAPMAN, Judge of the Marion Criminal Conrt, is seriously ill.

THIEVES raided the office of the L. N. A. & C. R. R. at Lafayette a night or two

ag°*

FIFTY-SEVEN inquests were held by the Coroner of Marion county during the past

THE Clerk of Marion county issued seven hundred and seven marriage licenses last year.

THERE are one hundred and threecases on the docket of the Marion Criminal Court for trial.

BUILDING improvements in Indianapolis last vear, are "set down" in round numbers at $1,000,000.

COLONEL JACK TEMPLETON, of Oxford, is mentioned as a Republican candidate for the office of Treasurer of State.

EMANCIPATION DAY was appropriately celebrated by the colored people in sever al of the leading cities of the State.

JOE EMETT commences an engagement in pomedv at the Indianapolis Academy on week.

MORROW HOLT is the name of an Evansville scoundrel who kicked a woman $5,00 on New Year's Day.

A LARGE NUMBER of prominent Democratic managers are at Indianapolis "fixing up things" for the State Convention.

JOHN S. WILLIAMS is said to have Democratic aspirations for Congress. He must not interfere with Coflroth's arrangements.—Lafayette Journal.

Two hundred and twenty liquor licensis were granted by the Marion County Commissioners during 1S69. About thirtv more than in 1S68.

FOR shooting a dog in a bungling manner, so as to keep the animal in prolonged misery, an awkward marksman was fined $11, at Indianapolis on Monday.

THE Martinsville Gasette has a new heading, and is otherwise much improved in its general appearance. It is al thoroughly live paper.

A CooKcn. of Congregational preachers will convene at Plymouth Church, Indianapolis, on the 11th instant, t® disolve I Rev. F. P. Ingersoll's connection wjth that church.

THERE will be a meeting at Moore3villc, on Friday, January 14,1870, to perfect the organization of a District Agricultural, Mechanical and Horticultural Society, composed of the counties of Morgan, Marion and Hendricks.

THE congregation of |the Christian Church, Lafayette, propose building on the lot at present occupied by them, this year, and promise an edifice which will be a credit to that fclty.

THE Rockville Railroad enterprise is again being agitated. This would be valuable feeder to Lafayette, penetrating, as it would, the Fountain county coal reeion, and we should like to see it built.

Lafayette Journal.

FLOYD COUNTY is now fifty years old, having been organized in 1819. Since its oganization there have been six thousand seven hundred and eighteen marriages in the county, of which 260 took place during the year 186&.

MR. WILLIAM HALSTON, a celebrated English comedian, opens at the Indianapolis Academy of Music for six nights on Monday next. He will be supported by the company from Chicago now support ing Edw.n Adams.

A FATAL shooting took place near Fort Wayne on Saturday morning, by the premature discharge of agim at a shooting match. The XfOunded man, named Jacob Parker, survived the accident until the next morning.

THE Lafayette Journal learns that Leroy Templeton, of Oxford, sold 600 head of cattle to John T. Alexander last week, for over $60,000. They have been fed by Mr. Templeton on his farm in Prairie Township, and average over $100 per head.

the mat.er it goes back to the old figure. As it is a matter for legislative action, nothing can be done to increase it till the next session of the Legislature,

The following exhibit shows the condi­

tion

of the State Treasury on the first of the present month: Balancc on hand Deo. 1. 1869 tM!82 Receipts during

Dec. 1869 89.543 £6 8356,470 68 DISBURSE* Estff,

Warrants paid dorftig Dc'a.1869 SI31,54419

Balance inTtcas. Jan. 1,1870 #204,62649

A STARTLING piece of Scan. Mag. is agitating the minds of certain social circles of the upper-tendom in this city which gives fair promise of developments in the shape of pistols for two, with an inquest accompaniment, or else of an elopement coupled with a suit for divorce based upon the ground of adultery. The parties to this interesting history are a youth, "to Fortune, and to Fame unknown," and the wife of a well-known gentleman who is largely connected with the business interests of our city.—Ind. Sentinel.

A DISPATCH dated Fort Wayne, 3d inst., says: "The dwelling house owned by William Michael was completely demolished this evening, by the explosion of a can, containing two or three pounds of powder. A child of Mr. Michael's became possessed of a light, and, in some manner, touched off the can. The sides of the house were blown out, and the child thrown nearly fifty feet from the building. He is very much burned. His eyes are burned out, and physicians say he can survive but a few hours." =====

A Warning to Girls.

lonable brothel before their ruin was ac-1 complished. Had not the girls left some

trace in New York bv which the police were enabled to ascertain their destination and so secure, the co-operation of the police department, m*st prsbably the unfortunate maidens would never have been heard again, or, if heard of, only as lost forever to honor.

One of them has a widowed moth er, and it was her inquiries after her missing child that led to the discovery that three had eloped at the same time and together. How pretty, accomplished, and intelligent girls can transform themselves in to such idiots as did these three, is a question which will puzzle the philozophical inpuirer. They had simply got tired of confinement at school, and started away on this wild goose chase after con tentment. They probably would have found it if left to themselves. But the blame is not theirs by any means. This case is probably only a faint illustration of what goes on daily, but is seldom found out—young girls decoyed away from home by the glittering promises of unpincipled men, whose object is to reap a harvest by leading them into a life of vice.

Stanton, Andrew and Morton.

The Cincinnati Commercial says: During the war there were three civil officers, in direct contact with military affairs, who displayed great executive ability, viz: Stanton, Andrew and Morton. However others were distinguished —through Curtin, of Pennsylvania, and Dennison, Todd and Brough, of Ohio, were active, zealous and capable—the first distinction for grasping the responsibilities of the occasion, and becoming reognized postive personal forces, distinctly and vastly- influential, belongs to the Secretary of War and the Govornors of Massachusetts and Indiana. The labors performed by these men—the energy they put into the war, the mighty impulses they gave to armies, can not be understood by "ordinarv workers—were but dimly appreciated in the days when their services were most essential, but they will stand forth defined and gigantic in historv.

THE Springfield (111.) Journal records a trial in the County Court which is interesting to all persons who have ophthalmia. Torrey, the plaintiff, had inflamed eyes. He saw advertised the celebrated

Dr. Walker's Chemical Eye Salve and of a druggist (Beale) lie purchased a box of that renowned medicament. He applied it to one eye before going to bed, and of that eye he awoke in thft morning stone blind—to the damage, as he said in his declaration, of $10,000. Upon this, to make matters sure, he salved the eyes ofa dog with the same sovereign remedy, and the dog became as blind as Homer in a few hours. The defendant proved, however, that two hundred persons had used the salve, and that none of them had lost their sight. Verdict for the defendant. Moral—be careful how you use quack preparations for the eye, and, whatever happens, never sue a druggist,—.tf. F. Tribune, "2

The Hanging of Morgan.

A 8EBM02T, BY BE7. W. CUR*V, OF THE vvrvE&SAi.is$ cttBRcn, TKBBE HATFTI, nto.

Therefore as I live, saith the Lord will prepare thee unto blood, and blrod MUl penile thee since thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall

persue

theeEiektel XXXV» 6.

Our text is spoken of peophS *Ho dwelt about Mu Sfttr. We know little of them, except that they were a blood thirsty people, constantly engaged in wars with their neighbors, and hence finally exterminated by the swOrd they iAvofeed. The text contains a general principle, which the faot concerning those people confirms, and for which it is chosen, namely, that violence leads to violence. Our Savior gave utterance to the same principle when he told Peter to put up his sword, because "they that take the sword shall also perish by the sword." In fact it is one of the oldest moral principles of the scriptures, having been announced to Noah, Gen. IX. 6. "Whoso sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed."

And this is a truth of to-day, as well as of the past, and may well challenge our attention, in view of recent events. It is a common rtiAirk that homicides are fearfully frequent, and crimes of violence more numerous than in former years. Every paper brings us accounts of fresh bfood-shed, and our own community does not lack of instances. Several murders have taken place in the past few years, one man is in prison under sentence of death, and one has just beeen hanged for crime. In July last, Oliver A. Morgan killed John Petri, and on Thursday fast, the State killed Oliver A. Morgan.— What is the cause of the increase of such crimes, and what will b*S th'e efftfet of hanging murders? TfiM are grave questions, attd demand attentive consideration.

Guided by the principle contained in the text, I am lead to believe that the increase of crimes of violence in the last few years is mainly due to the influence our late civil war. However necessary that war may have been, I cahnot. drtubt that the employment of hundric'asof thousand! of nrtft ift the business of destroying liffe, was extremely demoralizing.— It tended to destroy the idea of its sanctity, and to cultivate feelings of vindictiveness and blood thirstiness. In the crimes of violence now so prevalent, we are experiencing the malediction of the text, as all nations before us have done»

And so the hanging of Morgan, the continued shedding of blodd bv the State, will have the same influence, so far as

THE salary of the Adjutant General of the Siate became $800 per annum on and afier January 1, 1870. The Legislature during the war placed the salary of that I example goes. officer the same as that of a Brigadier I recognize, and nftaAv fferstms are ot a difGeneral, to continue until January 1,1870,1 ferent Opiftiok Hence I enquire what and as no steps have since been taken in 1

But the fctw ao'es Wot so

the effect of the

liangl"g

of

gan? There are two theories on this subject. One of them is, that the execution of murderers is right that^ its influence is beneficial and, therefore, it should be continued. We are told that it will tend to prevent murders, by striking terror to evil-doers, and thus secure the safety of human life. I hold this theory t6 be unsound, because uViphiWsf^pti ical. 1. It assftrtes tiiat a process of cheapening human life, and an example of premeditated violence, will teach the evildisposed to restrain their passions, and regard the sanctity of life. It supposes that a familiarity with bloodshed will produce & distaste for it that violence can be checked with violence that the Devil can be successfully fought .with fire. It is contrary to human^espfirhiftCS and progress, which Ar€ Cdritihually moderating the severity Of lAw, and finds crime diminish in proportion as^th? Stftte sets the example bf lttod^rAticti and virtue. It is cOfttriry to tile maxims of the Bible, which teaches us to "overcome evil with good," and not with evil. 2. And it is a confessed fallacyj as is shown by the methods of execution.— If hanging is to terrify evil doers, then it should be both painful and public. Our modern practice of private executions, and the mode Of producing instant death, are innoxati.oVis inconsistent with th6 "terror" system. If we are to hang ift order to frighten the vicious, then the process should be the old fashioned, puolic choaking to death. Our jails, and brothels, and grog shops should be emptied of their inmates to witness the "example." If it is ft good thing, the public should h&V® the benefits of it, and not merely a few invited

manity ahd pernicious influence of the death penalty. And hence the second theory, that the death penalty is both impolitic and unI just,—equally in conflict with the law of

Three young girls at school in New York, who wanted a extra excitement, answered an adveatisement in a newspaper for women to go to California.. They found the advertiser in Canal street, and agreed to go to St. Louis, not wishing to go as far as California* In persuading them to go, he put before them all sorts of exciteng and alluring pictnres. "He told us," to use the simple language of the one of the damiels, "that we should have no work to do, but would live in a mar-ble-fronted house, and wear silks, and have a carriage to ride in, and go to balls and parties." Their girlish minds could not resist the spirkling proposition, and, oblivious of the consequences, they started. To make a long story short, we will state that thev were rescued from a fash-1 power of putting the murderer to death.

God, and the principles of good government. Believing this theory, I used my influence to prevent the execution, ad vising petitions, and urging the Governor to commute the sentence.

tI

never saw

Morgan, have rio doubt 3f his guilt, and freely concede tn&t he was a bad man. But I know he was a fellow-man, teo good to be choked to death like a doL and only regret I could not save him. I openly and solemnly protest against the hanging of any man, as an unnecessary, pernicious and wrongfiil act. What right had the State to hang him? Did you ever ask yourself that question? It "is one we ought to consider. No law should remain on the statute book whose rightfulness cannot be vindicated in the court of reason. On what bAsis will you rest the right8f thfe St&tte to inflict the penaltv of death?

Will you say that civil governments have always claimed and exercised the

I If I an is he re is vi us an

swer that "might" does not ma.ve "right, and th.it governments are fttlraDle, and have perpetratfed thtt greatest outrages. But wh«t is this claim? Simply, "prescription"—the right of usage. But this is aright Americans cannot admit, for it has been pleaded in favor of every wrong. At every step prescription resists progress. It has maintained polygamy, slavery, monarchy,—and every abuse of church and Stato. We repudiate all claims of prescriptive right, and demand reason and proof for every existing,(as well as proposed institution. Prescription kept stH»W{Jfet oh the throne of Spain, ufttil the moral sense of the people would no longer endure it. lhat which can giye no better reason, stands already self-condemned in this enlightened age. No theory of science, no doctrine of religion, no institution of the State is now free from investigation.— Hence, the State must prove its right to kill, or it must abandon the practice.— Hence I press the question: What right had the State to hang Morgan?

There are two fundamental theories of civil government, and out of one of them must the right grow, if it has any existence. One of the theories is, that the State exists by a Divine appointment, is His representative authority over the world, and may do whatever He appoints. According to this theory, the government is over the people, is not subject to their control, nor responsible to them for_ its doings. This is the claim of monarchies Kings rule by the grace of God, and the duty of the people is, implicit submission. On this theory religion is the foundation of the State, the church its instrument of instruction, and the people entitled to no other than it prescribes. If this theory is correct, of coui-se the right of the State to hang men depends on the appointment of God. Questions of effect and expediency are excluded, and we have only to ask, "what saith the Lord?" Will you say that God has or' dained the existence of the State of Indiana, and delegated to it the power of life and death? Will you say that God has empowered all civil governments to put to death the murderer? I ask, where is the record?

One will say, God organized the Hebrew government, and gave that people statutes requiring the death of the murderer, and therefore it must be right, But irAy "therefore"? Is this conclusion in the premises? Obviously not. There is an assumption of several fundamental facts to warrant the conclusion. Thus: We must assume that the laws of the Jews were to be of universal, and of perpetual obligation, or they are no criterion for us. But this they were not for many reasons as (1) that the especial characieristic of them, was their exclusivness (2) their especial repeal by the introduction of the new covenant (3) their inherent relation to a theocratic government. Nor dare any one claim for them the requisite character to make them now a rule of action for beside requiring the death of the murderer, they also required the death of wit elites, and were quoted to justify the Salem horrors the death of the sabbath-breaker the death of the man-stealer, and the death of the blasphemer, and of any one who sacrificed to a false God. They established polygamy and slavery both and if these are "twin relics of barbarism," the death penalty makes up a "trinity" of foul

quotes the law of.

Mosea as a model for Christian governments is simply beyond the pale of reason.

But it will be argued that the divine sanction of the death penalty for murder, is long anterior to Moses, and was given to Noah, as the eecbhd father of the race, in the precept "Whoso sheddeth nia&'s blood, By nian shall his blood be shed." Let us examine this .text. Is it to be taken as a universal law, a positive command to shed bloOd for blood, without limitation? Hs^, tli'eii, if A is killed By ft, then mast be killed by C, and by D, and by E, and on to the end of the alphabet. With the first homicide begins a process of destruction which can only end with the last man. But if this is not the meaning there are limitations not in the words quoted, and I ask what they are? Is it, that governments shall shed the blood of murderers? But this was a precept to Noah, when there were but seven other people in tlite world, and no civil govOrhtneM existed. What then d06s it Meall? Lobk at the context and you will see. God s*vs to Noah, I will give yon the beasts of the field for firtJd, as h'erlw. But you must

Viot b&t t&E blood, for that is the life.— And I will require the blood of man at the hand of beasts, and at the hands of his fellow man. For "whoso sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." In this translation there are three alterations of the Hebrew original: (1) The participle "shedding" iB altered into the verb "sheds" and "Whoso." in the masculine sense is introduced without authority, ..attic 4fitrtr (31 thfe rtrfirtnsitinri "bv" IS

as the actor} (2) the prepositioii "by" is introduced ih the place of "ift" and (3) the imperative "shall" is put in the place of the sihiple futurfe "will A literal translation Is tFiUi "Shedding blood of maA in man, his blood will be shed." In fact, instead of a command it is a prediction and instead of a delegation of power, it is a reservation of it. God does not say, "you shall require the blood of man at" the hand of his fellow but just the reverse, "I Will require it ",

uAttd

But ^'0u will say, the State has aright to punish crimes as it sees fit, arid this was a hardehed ah'd dShgferdus criminal, and Ought to nave suffered death. What right has the State to punish? May the State create crimes without limit, and prescribe penalties without reason? Of course not. There must be reason for what the State does. well as the individual. ..Has thfe State the right of.vettgelice? Where did it get it? Of God? Of Man? Has any man aright to revenue himself If not have two, or ten, or ten thousand? No. 1 one of the reserved rights of the Cre:i "vengence is mine, I will repay, saiiii he Lord." The State then has no right of revenge against the criminal, and must find its right to punish, in the right of defense. In other words, it Way not punish beyond the requirements of. protection. It may restrain .thfe evil disposed from doing.Mrtti, _but it Siay use no unnecessary violence on them. They may be confined so they can do no further violence, subjected to such discipline as will tend to improve them, but not pursued with vengeful or retaliatory penalties. The hanging of Morgan did not fall under this rule, was not necessary to his safekeeping, made no one more secure from his assaults, It was therefore an act of unmixed vehgence, a remnant of barbarism," ai\ exhibition of brutality. It was a disgrace to the State, a blot on the civilization of the age, and an affront to the Christian religion. The State had no right to do this deed, and I arraign it as a sinner against its own enlightened convictions. In the Bill of Rights i.i the 18th Section of the 1st Article of the Constitution, you have this broad and just declaration: "The penal code of the State shall be based on the principle of reformation, and not of vindictive justice." I denounce the statute under which Morgan was hanged as in conflict with this principle,demand its re» peal at the earliest practicable day,and pro test against a repetition of such scenes of judicial murder. Having done all I could

Froperly

do to prevent this State tragedy,

wash my hands of the blood of this man, and I warn you that blood will p-'rsue the nation so long as it gives examples of violcnce.

But I cannot dismiss this subject in justice to my congregation, without calling your attention to another feature of the case. It Ls a notorious fact that the principle assailants of the gallows are from the ranks of the liberal denominations, and its chief defendents from amongst the strenuous advocates of the so-called "evangelical" theology. Its teachings of an angrr aud revengful God, who will witness without pity the endless torture of sinful souls, seems to enconrage the spirit of cruelty. All attemps to mitigate the severity of the laws are resisted by its advocates, from an instinctive perception that the benevolence and gentleness which demand it, are incompatable with the faith. And yet even on the most orthodox grounds how horrible" a scene was that of last Thursday! If Morgan was converted under the influence of his spiritual advisers, how horrible a thing was it for the State, in the open face of the day, to strangle a Christian man God had forgiven him, but sinful men would not. He was good enough for God and Heaven and the company of the angels but not good enough for earth, and the society of men, even in the confinement of the penitentiary! But if he was not converted, how much more horrible to choke the life out of him, and send his miserable soul to the torments of endless perdition! If he had been permitted to live, had received the discipline of the State's Prison, and the instruction of its excellent chaplain, who can tell but that he miaht have re Dented, and been saved. Who aare take

the responsibility of this act, and say, I sort this unpenitent soulout of earth, uncalled by its Maker*sact. ...

In any event, penitent or Impfchitent, orthodox OR hfeten&BS, I would not have this mail's blood upoh toy conscience, for all the honors of the State, or all the gold of earth.

By Telegraph.

then

adds the wirhirtg.. .tft^t-.sftwlaihg blood, will

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retaliation, precisely the

less'6'h of the text. But If those who reverence the Scriptures as a rule of duty, wish to go outsides of the Christian records for a universal rule of duty, why not take one that is obvions and acknowledged? In the ten commandments they may read "Thou shalt not kill," fttt inhibitlbfl of universal obligation, as btndirigjbh the State as the individual, and which niay be followed with perfect coiifidehcie of rwtitiide'. And therefore, eve^ if. tlte tl\e?Vy of "divine right itf governments were true, there is 4 complete failure to establish a divine command to enact the death penally.

But we repudiate the whole theory of divine right in governments. Our American theory is, that man is possessed of inalienable rights, that governments are established to protect thesp, that they derive all their just pdwGrfi frtiiti the people, and therefore tltdt thev may be altered as.the people plieasfe. itencfe our government has no rights it ha^^ot/'eceivtd frtMh the people, .j A'jid ftehc* Bso, the people can confer no right on the government they do not themselves possess. Whatever "ris ht" one man has to put another to death, he can transfer to the State, and no more. Has one man, then, any right to kill another? Yes, the right of selfdefence. If A attacks B, the latter may defend himself and if his life is in peril, and he can only silve it.hy slayihg his assailant, he miiy db it. Btit the peril nirtsfc B6 tiovjtius, and the necessity real, to justify this. A man may not anticipate an attack, tir slay his etteriiy for fear of an ass&ult.

If attacked and he can complete his defence without killing, he must do it, If A. attacks B., and the latter overpowers and, binds him, he niay not then shed the blood of his assailant If he does so, he makes himself the wrong doer, and is held responsible. The law of self-defence is the plain common sense principle, that a mart maj repql an attack with alltth5 force necessary lb security, but no mbre, and this right of defence, and no more the State possesses. Thus, the State, having aright to live, may kill its enemies in war, or in rebellion but not after hostilities have ceased, and the assailant is disarmed.' Hettce the gov ernment of the United Stittes did right in refusing to exCCptfe tnft rSbel 'chiefs, and gave tb ike world ahoblte example of conscious strength. Ahd th'e State, holding the right to, defend individuals, may take the life cf assailants in the act of violence, if no other course is available. If mobs assail any one, or armed bands engage in violence, they may be repress edDy force, even to death. If an officer of the peace had been present when Morgan assailed Petri, he might have defended the latter, even at the Bxpfense of the life Of the former. All this the law of defence justifies. But when the criminal is,, dMriHed, custody, iht&pabib of further resistance or injury, then to take his life is not justified by any rightful power of the govern men't. Hence the death penalty as an ordinary punishment for crime, is premeditated vengeance, as pernicious in its influence, as it is unjust in its essence.— The hanging of Morgan did not restore Petri to life, Was not necessarv to hissafekeeping, rests on rto defensible basis tF right*

HEW YOBK-iltia

FRENCH OPERA.

•NEW YORK, Jan. 4.—The French Opera at the Theatre Francais last night was largely attended. Up to two o'clock no disturbance had occurred. The usual license prevailed in the boxw and oft the

DivoncE CASE.

Mrs. Georgiana Renhey, divorced wife of Courtlana Kehney, one. of the PouehkeSjpsib KtiicMrB&bkcre, made an application lately before Judge Freeman to open the judgment of divorce granted against her. Kenney moved in highly fashionable circles. The lady is beautiful and the scandal has occasioned much comment. The reported infidelities occurred during last summer at Long Branch.— Yesterday Judge Freeman denied the motion to open the divorce.

TltS LOVK fftAOfiDY.

The terrible love tragedy in Elizabeth street excited general interest yesterday and to-day. Fresh deveUtomfcHts hive been rtladte. It is h8w evident that the cause of the murder and suicide was, fear upon the part of the murderer that he would soon be deprived of the means of continuing his unholy intimacy with his victim. The parties were school teachers in Brooklyn, the man Bauman acting as principal of the same sehool..i,n. .which Miss McNamarfc ft Mrft'. Allemargo, was an assistant. Bauman has a wife living, who informed the reporter that her husband was a good man uniil his mistress won his affections from her. Mrs.

Allemargo was the divorced wife of a dissolute Spaniard. The intimacy which terminated so tragically lasted about five months. vs ttta TiliEViHa fdnicEMEN fh the case of the two policemen', Hah nar and Rehiisort, who were tried and

convicted in thfe Qditft.iftf QwiferSi 8es haviv'fe robbed a Kentuckian of

sion-s, for having rol about $430 and were sentenced by Record er'Hackett to five years each in the State Prison, the Supreme Court, to which a motion was made for stay of execution of the sentence, ha? given an opinion in which the stay Ls refused. Judge Cardoza holds, however, that the Writ of error asked for is one tjf fight ahd he has gr&htetl it-. surftEstE cob nr.

In the 8utrtto Cfyirt to-day the ap'pl catioh .-to JuWpd CXtrdoza, by Wm. F. Howe for the discharge on bail of Daniel Josephs, of Cincinnati, charged wiih having obtained by false pretenses come $66,000 from Claflin & Miller, and other merchants of this city, the District Attorney resisted the application, and Judge* Cardoza reserved decision.

FROM PAKAMA

Panama papers Of DeteHlUr 2ist iiave been r'ecWvfea tier steamer California at Mobile. Litths hews. A rumor at Lima says the Uhited State Slearaef .Nyapk had gone to the Galli^agos. Islands tb t»kc formil pbss^ssioH ih the name of the Uhited States.

ARRESTED.'

E. C. Gaffield, wholesale liquor dealer at 198 Maiden Lane, and a rectifier in the Second dlstriet of Brooklyn, Wfts rtrrBstetl yesterday oh cihftrge efhltVing defrauded the government out of a ldrge amouht of money by not keeping the. books and records reqpirtd.by.j&wl _„i. titfe CASE OF JOSEPHS.

Application was made to Judge Cardoza that the Cincinnati merchant, Josephs, who was brought here by requisition un* der three indictments for obtaining uoods by false pretences from New. York merchants, by habeas corpus, lb bfc rtiitttlttea to bail) District Altorhcy Garvin ih resisting the mbtiott B&id, the habits tif taeh^ ih desperate circumstances comiHg ort to Ne.w York ahd. purchttsirig ldrge »?ills of goods are carried tbsutil ah extent that the losses to New York therefrom were from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 per annum, or more. The Court reserved decision.

POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.

The Poitoffioe Department has made permanent arrangements With iha BrO* men line toe&fry an En^lish mail to Southampton, ahd a German mail tb Bremen, every Saturday. The .Hamburg lihe will,cohtihwe for .he |ir»seHt tb cirr}: the Frehch mails every Tuesday, while the Williams andGuion line will carry mails to Queenstown every Wednesday.

THE CUBAN JUNTA.

It is reported that the Cuban junta got off last week, quietly, a largo propeller, the Uba, and have another about ready to sail. The rumor adds thttt three hundred mengb on the litttofi ftdWN ON tiRisriNAtfe

City Judge Bedford to-day charged tlllp grand jury to weild .their jiowter fertrlRssly, fairly and impartially in order to aid the authorities in their honest endeavors to stem thfe current of the daring and reckless actions of bad and unprincipled men, so as to teach them in emphatic terms that crime cannot be committed here with impunity, ,and if they persist in their lawlessness they will be made to taste the bitter fruits of their misdeeds, even to the stern letter of the law.

A1BAI1.

HUDSON RIVER OPEN.

ALBANY, Jan. 4.—The navigation of the Hudson llivin- ls completely opened. A tow of barges aid cdnal boats detained near this City, Uy the sudden closifl» of the rivfcr.ili Deceriib^r, left for New York this morning. A large number of tugs and loaded coal boats left New York for this city this morning.

TOE LEGISLATURE.

The first bill in:roduced in the State Senate to-day was for the repeal of the excise laws.

Mr. Tweed introduced a .resolution in the Senate repealing the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment.

WASHIWOTOHr.

TEXAS ELECTION.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. A dispatch from Gen. Reynolds received by the President this morning states that all but four counties in Texas have been heard from, the return:, giving Davis 775 majority.

CABINET MEETING.

wA.%Horot®ir.

PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT.

Decrease for Detentbelr $1,812,7 81.92

Debt bearing interest in coin—$2,107,939,100 50 Debt bearing int. in lawful money 59,5(0,000 00 Debt on which int has censed... 4,145,93fi 61 Debt bearing no interest 436,046,142 68

The first regular meeting of the Cabinet since Congress took recess was held to-day, all the members present.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

A colored child having been admitted to one of the public schools yesterday, seven white children were in consequence withdrawn by their parents.

MEMPHIS.

FIOIIT BETWEEN WHITES AND BLACKS. MEMPHIS, Jan. 4.—A serious disturbance occurred at Dardanelle, Arkansas, on Christmas eve, between whites and blacks, growing out of whisky, which resulted in the death of Pat Jones, a Worthy young -man, at the hands of Helland Mustine, a noted desperado. The affair at one time threatened to involve a war of races, but was finally quelled.

BUFFALO.

SUPPOSED TO BE LOST.

BUFFALO, Jan. £—Leonard Crocker, well known as the lessee of the New York Central cattle yards at this place, left St. Mark's Church on Friday night in a buggy with a hired man, for his home, two miles distant, since which time nothing has been heard from him. It is feared he was lost in the blinding snow storm and drowned in the current which swept th£ turnpike near the beach during the night.

FOREIOW.

BOXE, Jan. ma is dead.

DEATH OF A BISHOP.

4.—The Bishop of Pana-

RESIGNATION OF TH« MINISTRY. MADRID, Jan. 4.—A decided negative has been received from Italy in the matter of the candidature of the Duke of Genoa. As a consequence, Gen. Prim and all the rest of the ministers have resigned.

Principal $2,607,671,179 82 Interest due 50.463,490 18

Total debt 82,658,131,670 00 LRSS AMOUNT IN TRKASCBY-

Currency 12,i Sink, fund bands Bonds purchased

J.903 06

.„3,fcr 00 1,908,550 67—#809,337,716 I

Debt less ain't id Tress. Jam 1 S2i+48,747.S63 31 Debt less ain't ihTreas. Dec. 1 2 453,559,735 23

4,812.781 92 $76,716,306 70

co Marc

Decrease

5T1SHVILLE.

vm f-i r- -it" *{I ENGLISH FREE SCIICOL.

NASHVILLE, Jan. 4.—In view of the probable suspension of public schools the Germans of Nashville propose to organize a free school of their own.

COTTOX.

The number of bales of cotton shipped from Nashville since the first of September to December 31st, ^as 17jOi6, dgainst 80,339 IHst y&ir: I*

POLITICAL.

The Conservatives have carried Knpxville, electing their Mayor by 500 majority, and carrying all the wards. The city was Radical heretofore. fe ,"5

RAILROAD INTEREST.

Only tKr railroads have paid their January interest, the Nashville and Chattanooga, the' Memphis and Ohio, and the Mississippi and Tennessee. The last paid part, leaving a small balance. The East Tennessee and Georgia road proposes to pay one-third greenbacks, one-third bans time notes and one-third coupons. The Mississippi Central and Tenhessee road offers coupons The Mobile ahd Ohio rOad offers to pay $40,000 lis

Coupons in payment of railroad interest. The prospect of payment in currency is encouraging. "M

PITTSBURG.

TELEGRAPH OPERATORS Olt TH» SfftlRfii PrtTBbtiRo, Jan. 4.—the telegraph abettors of the Wfesterh Uhiott office, in this city, left their instruments at :30 this m'ornihg. The offifcers of tl\e.coiilpajjy Jwvfe.secbred opCTators'"enough to do business as usual in the main office.

ST. LOUIS.

RIRIS.

ST. LoUte, Jan. 4.—The residence

Mr. Sydney Bartlett, who was of opposing counsel, addressing the court, said that the law Which llad been so severely ftri'dtgtted by liis.lfeariiedbrbthfer (Chbate,) had been framed several vfears bfefore by the theil Attbriiev^Gfenerrtl for Mjtssnbhu: sfittSi Aiid SxHiHitKuB ite cplilfireHelisivb:Wfess and exact adaptability to its legal purposes, the peculiar distinctness of expression for which that gentleman's writings and speeches were noted and, said Mr. Bartlett, with a ra her roguish expression on,his countenaho», "I thitifc I £ni Hot wrblig in stating that the gentleman who so eminently tilled the office of Attorney-General for the State that year was Hon. Rufus Choate."

The court smiled audibly even Judge Shaw gave vent to something between a sigh and a groan, which, being interpreted, meant a laugh—all eyes were upon Choate, and all minds wondering how he would get out of his personal dilemma. They had not long to wait, for Mr. Choate almost instantly responded!

Admit led hclhutted, may it please

GLEANINGS.

Out of debt, out of danger.

Young girls are employed as lamplighters in Buffalo. There is still considerable cotton unpicked in portions of Louisiana.

Locoiiiotlves have been used with success for drawing omnibuses in Paris.

There are five factories for canning salmon on the Columbia river, in Oregon.

ANew Haven coal dealer gives away a ton of coal with every fiftieth that is sold. A gentleman of Montgomery, Alabama killed eighteen owls On Saturday last.

Hardwick, Pa., has neither a church tavern, preacher or lawer within its limits.

Chicago has a private residence in the building of which thirty-nine kinds ol wood were used.

Plenty-as-admirers-of-femnle-beautv-around-a-dollar-store" is a California adjective.

Virginia's "oyster rocks" yield an an nual revenue of $40,000,000. They occupy 640,000 acres.

A medicated baih establishment in New York uses the same water for three days' run of pat ion's

Ninety-si* pounds of Wild honey were taken from a single tree in Candia, N. H. a few days rigb. Sbmfc of the comb was over six feet in length.

A little girl who was sent out to hunt eggs, thought it strange she did not find any, as the. were several hens ''Handinij round doing nothing."

A Mormon emissary was killed the other day in North Jutland, by a farmer, whose wife and two daughters he had in duced to leave the house of their parents

A man in Dundee, Illinois, has raised on three-quarters of an acre of ground this year, nearly four hundred bushels of tomatoes. Most of them were sold for fifty cents a bushel.

Loss

cwciaiAtr.

MILITARY FUNERAL.

CINCINNATI, Jan. 4.—A meeting'of the members of the military organisation with which Gen. McGroarty has been connected, was held to-day and resolved to attend the funeral td^motrow in a body, ftt ten o'clock V-J

Anecdote of Ihte tiitc Rwfns Ohbnte

rrom the Boston Slmes.) A good many years ago some trouble connected with a bank at Northampton caused the directors to engage the legal service of Hon. Rufus Choatc. The ca-e was heard in ehaihbers at Bosto.h, Chief justifce Siidw jprfesitliHg. Wlittt tlife tifeRuIjtlr merits br (lfemferits bf the case were the rtarratbr docs hot recollect, but Ho onfe wh'd listened tb the earliest arguinerit of Mr,, Choat^ .agaihst the .ihterjiretiitiort given liy the opposing Counsel to the law regulating the class of questions under hearing, could have failed to doubt that there was something radically uiyust and wrong in tlie statute. To prove that the law never could have been desighed to admit of such interpretation as had been claimed ftir it was Mr. Chottte's grand point, attd he wound up his subject bv declaring that—if such meahingCbulti, by ahy specifcs bf logical torturb, he applied tH tlie M.w, aHd such itiicrpretiitfcm designed by the framer of the law, that individual, whoever he might be, manifestly knew nothing whatever of the subject he sought to legislate upon. As to that fact, Mr. Choate felt thoroughly satisfied in his mind.

It in now nine years since" the Evangel ical Alliance issued the first invitation to Cliristifihs throughout the world to set apart th& first wfcfek of .the new year for unitbd praybr oh agreed subjects.

The Overton Hotel at Memphis manu factures its own gas from water, acid and iron-molding, at a cost of $2 per 1,000 leet. The gasometer is of copper, three eet high, weihging about fifteen pounds.

A correspondent writihg to Zion's Her aid. Boston, s!t.vs that fpiiet is so far re stored iii Georgia that he believes the time for killing Methodist preachers has gone by fdrevfcr. ii

Aa improvement in the common bellpull has been attached totheSouth Boston street cars. It consists of a cord attached to the bell, and running along each side of the car, just above the heads of tjie passengers, so that each one can easily pull the bell without rlsihg.

of

ex-United States Senator D. K. Atcliinsbn, near Plattsburg, Clinton couhty, Missouri, wa? burhetl ybstfertlity. All tne lijrRiUtrB ftjld a. i&rgli library wfere consumed. about $20,000.

Mrs. Kihg, bf Adrain, Mich., has a baptismal rtiblj, composed of linen and ltlbS, iiHu richly BhlbrOidbrbd, which is dver two hundred years old, and which has been used by five generations first at the baptism of her mother, and last at IKat bf ah infant about two vears|old.

Mr. Sullivan, of Ford county, 111., is the possessor of forty thousand acres of tillable praiiie land, which he Is engaged in improving. His farm embraces a whole township, which iH called after the proprietor, and is at present hedged with tWO hundred atid lifl.V fttilas of Osage hedgeSi

A traveler who has circumnavigated the -Mirth says th^t-everywhere lie found tlie houses of worship free, all over the world, among all religions except the Christians. The very people whose work is to disciple all naiions, have adopted a nystem which shut out from the house of God a large part of the common peoJfl*

CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN. ———

Curious Story of a United States Express Robber. ———

Some weeks ago Jacob K. Bear, telegraph operator and express agent at Brownsville, Nebraska, abscondered [sic] one night with $13,000, left in his hand as agent. He directed a letter to the paper of that place, stating that there were ninety-nine chances of his arrest to one of his safe escape with his plunder, but for the $12,000 he would take one chance in a hundred. He wrote "Won't this affair of mine make a nice litle [sic] local item?"

When the Company learned of their loss, they at once set active measures afoot to capture Bear, but failed. Lately, however, he has sent another letter to the Brownsville <Advertiser>. In it Bear states that losses in gambling led him to commit the theft. He states that one of the packages he states that one of the packages [sic] he stole contained $8,000, and writes:

your honor but the fact does not disqual- ing what moment will be arrested for ify my statement, thai, whosoever framed my crime. And what then? The State thai statute with the views of having such meaning applied to it as has been asserted by brother Bartlett,could not, by any possibility, hnveknovm anything about law."

And Mr. Choate went on with another part of his argument.

The Dead ofthe Year.

From the New York Tribune.] In the necrological list of the year 1869 ii seems as if the losses of our counhave been unusually heavy. Two at least of the present active generation of American statesman—Rawlins and Stanton-

position, we have lost Ilenry J. Ray-

moud and among politicians ofa pa.tdav,

whose influence had measuably or whollv

passed awav Tune has been unusualy

busy. Ex-Pre-ident Pierce, ex-Attorne

Genera! Bates, ex-Secretaries Bel!, Guth

ne, Walker and Toucey,

Fitzpatrick, of Georgia and Pickens, of

South Carolina and that curious relieof a by gone political era, Joseph Ritner, some time Governor ofPennsylvana. The loss of European statesman has been much smaller. In England Lord Darby and Lord Stanly of Alderley, in Spain Gen. Dulce, in Russia Prince Menschikoff, in France Marshal Neil and Troplong, in Turkey Faud Pasha, are the most distinguished of the dead. From the oils of he army and navy we shall miss heneetorth at home the|names of Old Ironsides and Gen. Wool abroad the British Gen. Lord Gough, Admiral Sir James Gordon, who brought a'Briti-h fleet up the Potomac in 1814 the French Marshals Neil and Regnault, St. Jean d'Angely, the famous Russian soldier Menschikoff, and the veteran Jomini. Art deplores the loss ofGrisi, Berlioz aud Overbeck science mourns for Hengstenberg, Reichenbach, Jukes, and many lesser lights and the charities of two hemispheres will feel the taking away ofGeorge 1'eabody. In literature, although the list is long, very few names of real eminence are found in it. When we have mentioned William Carleton, Professor Connington, Frederick S. Cozzens, Peter Cunningham, Alexander Dyce, Lamartine and Ste. Beuve, we have called over all the most sllustrioos.

IT is proposed to raise a fund of $100,000 for the family of the late Judge Stanton, who "died poor." The proposition is commendable. When a man has resided for a number of years at the National Capital, in the public service, and has not accumulated an immense fortune, the inference is that he is honest, and such instances are so rare that the country can well afford to reward them. We shall not probably be called on more than oneo in each decade —Gincinnati Timen

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erno's.

THE Director of the French Ocean_ Telegraph Company deny the statement of the Presidents message, that dispatches of our Govrnment are subjected to the supervision of the French Government, Nothing is done but to keep su ipi n,Cr count of the dispatches hs well direct tW axes and other public charges aase-sed by the Imperial Government. Those ad dressed to cities west of Paris, or to England, or Spain, never pass through Paris at all. The Indianapolis Nans remarks hat "all this may be true, but nothing to the purpose. Cable messages may never go to Paris, but it is not hard for an imperial censor to go to Brest and stay there-

We should rather have rtrt ftssurrahcfc— and it would be hard to believe 6vefl tli?.l —from the government itself that no examination of our official dispatches is allowed, or will be in any event. Tho who remember Napoleon's oath to th«? Constitution, and the coup d'etati by which he smashed the Constitution and his oath ogether, are not likly tocredit him with manv scruples about possessing himself of our dispatches. A little grasp on the power to inflict a penalty for any trespass ofthis kind will not be a bad thing to have, and we had better hot glv6 it up for the assurrances of arty body in Franc# under Napolcoii's thuhibt' .«•-*-

WE are informed, upon what we think •rood authoritv, that when Hon. G. W. Julian called upon Dr. Woodburn, of.the citv of Indianapolis, to consult,hin^|in ns-1 gard to the alarming symptoms ^f disease that the doctor informed him in substance that he was suffering from premonitorv symptoms* of softening of the .. brain, and that entire and absolute rest from business or care of any kind was indispensable, and that in fact his life depended upon it, and advised a trip to go to

Nlinnesota, ih pursuance to which the trip was made, and with beneficial results, His long horseback rides, attd hibming walks while at home during tht hutumrt, were so manv efforts in aid df his sHattPt -.. ed and broken down vif+l powirs, Ril} he workings of that indomitable mid restless spirit which has carried him successfully through long and bitter strifes and laborious canvasses, overcame his better judgment, and impelled him to Washington to take his seat in Congress against the advice of his true friends and his own convictions. .,

It is very apparent that a tew t»f M*. hangers-on and petty Officials who MVP been fattening upoH their shattering* front. the public crib, have tried to persuinghim that he was coriralesietit., jand ton recertified in public prints that nc wiis .n,one time "as well as ever," while at another thev represented him as "improv-^ ing," and as "greatly relieved," all of which is slightly transparent, and earnest evidence with it'tliat they are fearful that the Hon. M. C. has about run his rnepj and they are in great tribulation in regai to his successor and 'heir own brtad and

tUWe

again iissSrt tiiilt/rbjH present ihd:g cations, Hon. Geo. W. Julian will not 1 a candidate for re-nomination, and we a' 4 confident that the sequel will yerify .01 prediction.—Richmond- Humminy Bird.

THE GREAT Mougolian tidal wave 11 emigration is, after all quite a different affair from what the Hon. Eugene easterly, Mr. Koopmanchap, and sundry antiChinese Califomians would have us believe. It it true that China has a sii|pernbundant population but the Chinese are in no wise artxidtis to Jbavfi their itrttltP land. Able-bodied laborers are rfcatly tfj come to the United States Tor a fcpecifiea number of years, bnl bbly on condition 6f receiving such wages as will cnabiu them to return to their homes in wh thev consider a condition of alHucnce Throughout China the Californian standard of wages is well known, and bp* it the temporav emigrants regulate their priff, and they are adepts at rtrlviilR clbsfe bargains .AS for Htir bbllticrtl itistitlnitjhs flf religion, tiiev cart- fOr HcithBr. 'flfO? leave their own land with thfc fixed ilitffltion of returning to it as. soon as tjiry have accu mitIalodA«ert#jfl,:*J?f" ofinonev.

EXPEKIEXTIA DOCKT.—Yes surely experience teaches those who use Doctor jlorse's Indian Root Pills that it is better to take a medicine upon the first symptoms of disease, that will surel* restore health, than to wait until the complaint has become chtoriit!. Use ttiesG jnlls In all cases of lJlllibilshCss, Indigestlolb Headache,- Liver Complaint, Fthial6 Irregularitiesj &qj.i.iGet jhe Omejilj, nac from your •'tHrekCep^i!, coHtaihiinuplj useful information for the iiivalitl and convalescent. If you arc ailing use I)r. Morse's Indian Root Pills and you will find them of great value. Sold by all dealers. [janodwlm

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But the best matured plans often fail; and now comes the most incredible part of my statement. The package of $8,600 was soldered up in a zinc box in the exact size of the package, and I also had about $1,000 besides that. It is natural to suppose that I was very much excited when I was leaving, which was true, for as I stepping into a skiff my foot slipped, and I dropped the box containing the $8,600 in the Missouri river. "In conclusion, I will say this: I am where I am making fast, and before the expiration of ten years every dollar of that money will be returned to the United States Express Company. If I die, my life is insured in favor of the United States Express Company for an amount greater than what they have lost. "I ask the sympathy of no one, but I am already fearfully punished, not knowing what moment I will be arrested for my crime. And what then? The State

Prison, or suicide, if I prefer it. I will also state why I wrote the note to Holladay & Balhoun in the braggadocio style that I did. I wanted to kill all the love and respect that my wife entertained for me, and thereby lessen the sorrow or anxiety that she might feel for me after she became aware of what I had done. You who have up to this time thought or imaginned what a luxurious life I am no doubt leading, are for for once disappointed, as I am one of the most miserable crimnals [sic] on earth." ———<>———

A Marringe in

died while gratitude for their past servi-j Haimily ccs was still fre-h and the hope of their

jokc Turning Out

From the Missourii

future usefulness was unimpared. Fe- Thirty vears ago, when Charleston, IIsenden has passed away, leaving a varan-

cv in theSenaiewhich will iong be feh Jdard was caught napping for the first Of political leaders less eminent in official

'ricpiblican]

in an 6embrvo

sta c, Dick ,S:W!-

time Dick a a

partv, a conntrv

and had

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ecompany with a mu.rim,,

nial sce|le

All things being readv sav

de and groom, two very es'senth:!

of the ceremonr t,

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procured in the persons of the aforcsai.l

and (he be£tilll, an(] acconip|ishe,i

Miss the belle of the whole country. who, like Dick, was full of fun. and of a romantic disposition. The license waI easily procured, so was the jus ice. Tlie ceremony was }erformed. and the b.-ido and groom pronounced l:u.land ^and wife.

This, ofconise, was ronsideud ll.ejoke of the sea on. Dick and his bride enjoyed it so did the fpectators. The justice, however, had peiformed the ceremony: had tho licen e, and knew the penalty ol' a failure to return it as the law directs, and being sworn to discharge the duties incumbent upon him as a Justice of the Peace, was legally and morally bound to return the license to the County Clerk, which he did, and where it is to this day. viih his certificate properly endorsed thereon to the effect that he had "duly joined in the bonds of holy wedlock' the parties afjrsaid. Dick and his wife soon learned that what they bad conceived to be ajoke was a sad or joyful reality. So the matter wa? talked over, and they con -ludcd to make the best of it. They have been living together every since, blessed with a bountiful supply of this world's good—a large family and a host of friends, and as Dick Pays, they have been enjoying the jokc ever sintie.

The homestead in North Brookfield, Mass., of the late Rufus Dod«e, has been occupied by the Dodge family for more than two hundred years. A part of the real estate is still held by the fifth generation.

A vast bed of sea clams, thickly planted over a space two or three miles in extent, has been discovered at Nantucket. They sell for $10 per barrel as bait.

Cough, Cold JSoi'ii Throat

fletjulres iintnotllntc attention, as nnfclect rtften I'esullS in ah incurnble l.utlfr Pi»fcrts»h

Brows'*

Hrilrtfcitirti

will most invurllibly giVti In^ For BRONCHITIS, ASTUNA, CA­

stant relief.

TARRH, CONSUMPTIVE and THBOAT DISEASHS! they have a soothing Qffc t. iii. SINGERS snil PUllUC HpHAKKIlS "s* them to clear and jtrenRthen tllijTtilre'

Owing to tho goud reputation and popularity of the Trochcs, many tmrthluM and chcnp imitation* are offered,

ICH

iv.h tire

QIHHI

for nothing.

Be sure to OBTAIN the true. BROWNS BRONCHIAL TROCHES.'

SOLD EVEKYWHEIJE. nov2.'Mw6m

LOCAL NOTICES.

ivnkc's itiilii.lt.

These Alpacas are pronounced, by Harper's Baznnr, better than any others importi-d. Tho fabric is stronger. 6ncr and smoother tho color better in appearance and moro enduring than in a'ny other brand-

Wo ar« making a speciality of theso goods and selling them at as low priccs as OKP1NARY godds bring in this market-

Tho trado supplied at Wm I. Feako A (VI card price. Tuell, Ripley Denting,

Corner Main and Fifth street?.

BOOKS AND STATIONERY

Be it known unto all tho people everywhere, that

BARTLETT & OKI

Are still in the

BOOK TRADE!

At the Old Stand,

lOl MAIN STRliET,

With the largest and inos!

Complete Stock of (ioois,

In their line, ever opened in Tcrre-FI.iuto, and still ihcy come.

Bibles in every variety, chcii^er than the cheapest. Standard Works, a good supply.

GiftBoeks to suit all tnst and pockets. Juvenile Books, piles upon piles. Pocket Books, a choicc selection. Blank Books, anew full stock. Pocket Cutlery, a nice variety, v?ry low. Gold Pens, Pencils and Pen Holders to suit the most fastidious.

Pictures and Picture Frames, tho best in tho market. Phstograph Albums and Port Folios, come and see them.

School Books with which to supply tho whole country. Toy Books for all the babie s-

French, English and American I apers stamped with any initial Stereoscopes and Stereoscopic lews, beauif to be

Writing Desks and Work Boxes, all styles and sixes. ,, —Night Blooming Cercnf in a Mapic Uox-

Brackets for all the Knick Knacks, and an

Endless Vaiicf t/

Of othor things which you must sue, nt 101 Main Street to appreciate £-dtf