Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 March 1870 — Page 1

THKRB are

100,711 colored children

attending the public schools of South Carolina, and 68,108 whit®. This State is likely therefore to be under the control of the colored population for many years .to come, if not permanently.

THE RECENT DECISION of the Supreme Court of the

United

SWEDE?? has taken another step in ad. vance by extending political rights to dissenters and Jews. The king immediately approved the bill. The world still moves forward—the example of the Uni- rm?T) TWQ £0 AA A Vt1 A "D ted States being felt everywhere through- IXiiXiW-^ x\. I IJAIVJ out the civilized world.

IT IS stated that anew Democratic or ganization has been established in Cm cago, in contradistinction to carpet-bag-gers. They are called "Sand-baggers,"and knock down their victims by a stunning blow on the head and then "go through' them at their leisure.

A NEW HAMPSHIRE man, riding in car the other day, exclaimed to a friend "My boy was killed at Antietam I buried him the next day—and now they want ne to yote the Democratic ticket. No, Hir no sir. Never, so long as I have head on my body!"

THE selection of the Hon. A. H. CONNER for the chairmanship of the Repub lican State Central Committee was a deserved compliment to that gentleman, and a fitting acknowledgement of his most arduous labors for the good of the party We are confident that no other man in the State would fill the position so ac ceptably, or give to it.* duties so much of Ills time and it is equally certain that no man could bring to that thankless but most important office more political sagac ity than Mr. CONNER possesses. In his hands the interests of the party are safe, and Republicans, throughout the State will feel sure that every proper effort will be made to insure decisive victory in October next.

MB. BUTLER, of Massachusetts tried to road his colleague, Mr. DAWES,out of Jthe Kepublican party, on account of his advocacy of the reduction of expenditures. failed, however to satisfy the Republicans of New Hampshire on the subject and they forthwith invited Mr. DAWES to visit that State and participate in their political canvass. His answer has the true ring about it, and shows that his colleague will have hard work to unhorse him. The fact is, the Republican party could much better part-with half a dozen such men as BUTLER, than with one such as DAWES. And the country understands this.

TUB KMPKKOK NAPOLEON1 has just found out that it is incompatible with a liberal government to transport to penal colonies those who belong to secret political societies, and has published and imperial decree abolishing the practice. But lie must have curious ideas of a liberal government when scarcely a day passes but what some Parisian editor is fined for daring to express an opinion adverse to his policy. With an army at his back he keeps the people in subjection—destroys all freedem ef the press, and yet talks about a liberal government! now long will the French people endure such tyranny?

sitions, both civil

States, as to the valid­

ity of Indiana divorces, will settle that vexed question finally. The effect of it is, tliut all the Slate Courts must recognize them as valid, under the Constitution of the United Slates, which requires that full faith and credit shall be given to the judicial records of every State by the Courts of all the other States. A moincut's reduction will show that if this wore not so, there would be no certainty injudicial proceedings, and the decisions of the Courts of one State could not be enforced in the other States, but would all be subject to review. This would make all business intercourse between the States uncertain, if it did not, in fact, put an end to it. \Ve have nothing complimentary to say about the manner in which divorces have been obtained in this State, but this decision will end a very troublcsome and perplexing controversy, .j

Death of Bnrllngame.

In the House of Re|jesentativos, Monday,/the Hon. N. P. BANKS announced, on the authority of a cable dispatch from Minister CUUTIN to Secretary FISH, tlit death of ANSON BURLINGAME, Minister from the Chinese Empire to the United States and the leading nations of Europe. The unexpected and mclanoliolv event occurred at St. Petersburg, after a very brief illness.

Mr. BUKMNOAMK'S public life is familiar to the reading community. He served as Representative in Congress from one of the Boston Districts with much distinction. He was a billiant and popular orator, and did excellent .«erviee on the stump in all parts of the countrv during several hotly contested campaigns. Ilis commission from our Government to that of China, and subsequent transfer of service to the Eni|cror of that country, followed by his official viSlts to the United Stales, France, I'jigland and Russia, are of too recent occurrence to require extended mention.

ANSON BIMU.IXC AMK was a noble specimen of the American character, and his early death, while prosecuting a mission of vast importance, will be sincerely regretted.throughout the civilized world.

WK HAVK conflicting accounts 1'iah as to the ultimate purpose designed Siv Biiuiii.vM YOUNG and "the Saints" in ilie event of the passage, by Congress, of 1 lie bill to abolish polygamy. His stated jliat BRIGIIAM is now on a visit to the southern portion of Arizona, to look out for some new territory to which the polygamous part of the Mormons may flee, in the event that the Government shall attempt to employ force against them, and from which they may escape into Mexico, if pursued. It is, however, also represented, by several letters irom Utah, that he has resolved upon bidding defiance to the United States authorities, aud to fight it out if the Government shall place a military force at the disposal of the Governor of the Territory. The latg| ter story is the most probable, because it jjg is more consistent with the character of

YOUNG. He is well supplied with muniions of war, and can put 20,000 troops in the field. These men, familiar with all the hiding places in the mountains, and desperate to the last degree, would, in all probability, be difficult to manage by any It army that the Government could afford to send there, for some years. And

BRIGIIAM knows all this. Therefore, we may expect that the troublerf'in Utah vill increase rather* than diminish. This J| polygamy question is an exceedingly troublesome one, and it may turn out that the only way to solve it will be to apply force. But whether by this or some other means it must be done before it has beeouie a consuming curse amongst the deluded and ignorant people who arc debasing themselves by its influence. It^is *. a cancer that mast be cured,—hy gentle

treatment if jiossible, by cauterizing if necessary.

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The State Convention.

In our last issue we gave a full report of the State Convention, including ticket and platform, and the very

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The platform meets the live issues ol the day without the slightest attempt at dodging, and will commend itself to fairminded people, of all parties, for its straightforward honesty. The Indianapolis Journal says of it:

It is in marked contrast with the Democratic deliverance of the eighth of January, which says nothing and means less. Upon all the topics adverted to in yesterday's issue, the resolutions speak just as the people think. It congratulates the country upon the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment extends to the colored peo pie a helping hand in the effort to improve and elevate their condition it remembers with gratitude, the work of the

Interesting Statistics.

The following interesting statistics are from the official records of the War Department: Of the whole number of living graduates of West Point, both in and out of the army, when the rebellion commenced, 67 per cent, had been appointed from the free States, and 33 percent, from the slave States, and of these 78 per cent, remained loyal. Of the whole numbor of officers in the army when the rebellion commenced, 74 per cent, remained loyal of the graduates, 76 per cent, remained loyal, while of those appointed from civil life to the army 70 per cent, remained loyal. Of the graduates in the army from the loyal Border States, 71 per cent remained loyal and of the non-gradu-ates, 60 per cent. Of the graduates in the army from the free States, 07 per'cent. remained loyal. The record of the parents of the graduates during the past twentyfive years, shows 24J per cent, engaged in agricultural pursuits 13 per cent, were lawyers and judges 5 per cent, were legislators and executive officers of the National, State, and Territorial governments and 9 per cent, were army and navy officers.

-ht Democratic War Cries. This paragraph from Senator MORTON'S last speech is so good that we cannot "resist the temptation to reproduce it:— "Where now are the Democratic mottoes? 'White husbands or hone,' and 'Fathers save us from negro equality,' and 'This is a white man's Government.' Where are \he 'White Boys in Blue?' These war crics of the Democratic party are suddenly hushed forever by the 15th Amendment, and in place are now issued on perfumed paper, polite invitations to eat and sleep at the houses of Democratic editors^ What a wondrous change has been wrought by the 15th Amendment! The colored man has his revenge. It lifts bectt long coming, but has come at last. What a luxury it must be to him now to despise the fawning demagogue who now grovels at his feet, and begs to kiss his hand for Ins vote.

Honest Democrats.

An honest Democratic editor of a New Hampshire paper frees his mind thus: "The Fifteenth Amendment Is a fraud—a base, black, diabolical tyranny—born of tyranny and nurtured by tyrants to destroy the independence of these States." hat is the way in which every Democrat in Indiana would talk if they dared to speak out their sentiments. But the stern necessities of the situation compel (hem to grovel to the men whom they despise One of the most prominent Democratic politicians in the State—a man who has not a superior in brains, or influence with his party—declared, in conversation, at Indianapolis, the other evening, that he, and every other true Democrat, would disfranchise the colored man in a moment if he could. And he added: "The nigger that votes our ticket is a fool."

try besides. The Tribune states that under the Government of the City of New York, as arranged by Mr. PETER B. SWEENY, the mere advertising alone,— Corporation doings—without a collected edition of the ordinances—cost in 1S67 the handsome sum of $76,S70 33 only $26,S70 33 more than for the United States Government.

A

speech of Senator MORTON. NO space identical with the 8th of January aborwas left for editorial remarks, and, deed, we believe that little comment necessary. The ticket is composed men who have been tried in official

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signally vindicated their respective claims able information. Among

greenback "Democratic

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members with gratitude, tne wont 01 me 11.

Yexed Question Settled. A XOVKXXXT has been inaugurated in The Journal continues to wail upon the the Massachusetts legislature for the Greenback question. Its last affliction is change in the Constitution, by which able that the Republican State platform -is not a member of the Legislature may be

in- tion upon the payment" of the national is debt. If the editor of the Journal will de-

vote some portion of his elegant leisure to

of vine wiue puruuiiui UIA eietnun teiaure

men who have been tried in official po- A careful reading of Senator MOBTOI. slas

and military, and have speech, he will gain a vast dealof val

TUp Convention things th&t hive heretofore escaped his ^e

C0ment

to public confidence. that nominated the ticket—probably largest delegate convention that ever sembled in Indiana, and certainly equal to any in the intelligence and character of its members—had every appearance of a body of men who believed they were not only nominating candidates, but lecting the officers of the State. Firm confidence of succcess, and a full deter minaeion to deserve it, were clearly apparent to the most casual obsercver.

ly disposes of their theories thus: "That Supreme Court, which they so much

revere, has cut up their financial theories by the roots, stripped them of all their poor pretences, and left them without peg on which to hang an argument. In the decision rendered at Washington, week before last, the majority of the Court decided that the law making the United States notes a legal tender was un constitutional and void as to all contracts made before its passage that all bonds and debts, of whatsoever kind, made before the 25th of February, 1862, could be paid only in gold, if gold was demanded by the creditor. The effect of this decision is that, if Congress were 10 authorize the issue of new legaltender notes, they could not be made ap1- plicable to the payment of any debt created before their issue. Thus legal-ten-der notes issued in 1870 could not be

soldiers and sailors in the suppression of made applicable to debts created in 1869 ... 1 il ._i 1 1 1

the rebellion, and favors the payment of pensions without cost to the pensioners. The platform pledges the party to a Constitutional amendment forbidding the payment of the canal bonds to rigid economy in the national expenditures to a reduction of the rate of taxation to a currency equal in volume to the necessities of business to a reform in the matter of fees and salaries of county officers to a tariff for revenue, believing that a tariff so arranged will afford all the incidental protection which any interest can honestly ask or equitably require. The national administration of General Grant, the State administration, and the economic policy of Congress are indorsed. Confidence is expressed in our Senators and Republican Representatives, while Senator Morton is personally thanked for his efforts in securing the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment.

The platform is alive one. It addresses itself to questions prominent in the thoughts of the people, and the_ manly way in which they are met, will call forth a response at the polls indicative of the confidence of the country, in a party which has evinced the honesty of its purposes and demonstrated the ability of its organization to carry all its aims to a successful issue.

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Hereafter when any Democrat quotes from the 8th of January platform the declaration that "the five-twenty bonds are payable in greenbacks," he can be effectually silenced by the remark that the Democratic judges of the Supreme Court have rendered such payment impassible, without a reversal of their decision.

Our State Debt.

The clear, comprehensive,* and forcible statement of Senator Moittfoi* in regard ro the history and present condition of our State debt, deserves the careful consideration of every voter. All parties in a contested campaign are ready to make promises of economy and reform. But all such promises ought to be interpreted in the light of party history. If in the past the Republican party has been reckless, dishonest, and extravagant, of what avail are empty promises for the future? And so of the Democratic party. Of what avail to denounce the party in power, complain of existing extravagance, and make large promises of good conduct, if in the past there are no/acts to justify these promises? In the hasty printing of the Senator's speech in this paper, occured some typographical errors, but none affecting the general conclusion. But to correct th«Ssft mistakes, and to impress the results on our readers, we give the following tables, expecting to republish it many times during the year, as an effectual demolition of all Democratic demagoguery about extravagance and economy: Total amount of Stato debt Jan. 1,1857, closo of Gov. Wright'sterm... k.:r«IT.m(9U.OO Total Jan. li l«Sl,befenhihgorKepiiblleftn nd ministration 10,179,267.09 Increaso under last Democratic administration, a time of "poace and prosperity." 2,406,956,09 Amount of Wnr llonds author2,000,000,00

ized in 1861, niado necessary to suppress Kebellion Amount of General Government diroct tax paid by State Treas-

elected for tiro or more years.

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HON. WM. STRONG, the new Associ

J* re ate Justice of the United States Supreme

ment of the

hDe observation, he will discover that the strument shall recognize God the Bible,

carry

904,875,33

Total"debt inherited by Republican party from Democratic rule and rebellion.. 13,084,143,42 Total State debt Jan. 1,1S70, as per Auditors report 2,04O,fi9P.t6 State Bonds to School and Univcrsity funds 3,614,901,15 Total obligations 5,655,597,61 Total amount of Stato debts paid under Republican rule i,4zo,545,81

These are the figures, and in addition them we have the following facts: 1. That the rate of State taxation is now as low as it was during the last Democratic administration of the State. 2. That the annual surplus of the Treasury now exceeds a million of dollars, and hence the whole foreign debt will be paid next year! 3. That in addition to these payments the debt, about one million of dollars

FOR the current year the United States Government appropriates the sum of $50,000 for the publication of the laws of have been paid for necessary mproveCongress in LITTLE & BROWN'S well- ments as the ^RMAL School, the

of

known pamphlet edition and in one hun- Home, the ou»e ugc, ».*e hi tlia twn Ann a half mi dred papers scattered over all the coun

Soldiers

That the two and a half millions of fraudulent bonds issued by a Democratic Agent of State, have been destroyed, or driven out of sigh!.

That the only lass 0/ public funds during the last ten years was in gold gambling investments by Democratic Commissioners of Sinking fund. '5

That's enough for one dose!

MASSACHUSETTS

is making an effort to

check the frequent occurrence of selfmurder. In that State attempts to com mit suicide are hereafter to be punished upon the principle that attempts to commit a crime are indictable as misde-

LET it be recorded that the Journal has done one honest thing. It has published the Republican State platform, thus affording its readers a feast of truth and reason for which their previous diet was not calculated to prepare their digestive organs. As a "good square meal" will recently lendeavored toshoot himself, but sometimes kill a nearly famished man, so failed, has been bound over in Worcester, this banquet may prove fatal to some of for trial in the Criminal Court the JournaTs readers, but the loss of portion of them will be more than compensated by the inevitable improvement ef the survivors'!

meanors at common law. A person who

A. T. STEWART is mentionod ad the probable Republican candidate fqr Qg?ernc of Jfgw York, 'J-

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pregident of &

«Nstional A^I-

organiled to 8ecure an

politicians have and the Christian religion. He has sign-

been slaughtered in the House of a call for a convention to meet^ittetheir friends." The Senator final- burg on the 3d of March next

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and could not be used in the payment of the national debt, as recommended by the Democratic politicians in Indiana. So that the theory of paying the national debt by the issue of new currency, which is never to be redeemed, however lovely in itself, must be abandoned."

If the editor of the Journal has any argument wherewith to answer that, will he be kind enough to produce it? And let him remember that the decision which thus destroys the best hope of his party, and dissolves the last sand of the little patch of stolen earth on which that party tried to take a stand for another contest, is not "a Black Kepublican" or Radical 'outrage," but comes from the most revered and much bepraised members of the Democratic party.

Senator MORTON remarks that the argument of Chief Justice CHASE went to show that the legal tender act was unconstitutional in all respects, but the majority of the Court confined the decision to contracts made before the passage of the law. And the Senator adds that while he does not approve of this decision as he had "never doubted that the legal tender act was constitutional as to past contracts, still it has had the effect to greatly simplify the financial situation, and to remove the vast piles of rubbish with which the Democratic party were endeavoring to obstruct the vision of the people and as it was made by the Democratic members of that tribunal which the Democracy hold in such supreme regard, they can not complain that this is a Republican outrage, committed for .the benefit of the bloated bondholders."

Amend-

Constitution so that that in

A Political Wonder.

Alluding to the rejection, by MajorGeneral REYNOLDS, of a proffered nomination to the United States Senate, the Philadelphia Inquirer remarks that tf ANDREW JOHNSON were still among us as President he would send Congress a message on this extraordinary occurrence, and assign General REYNOLDS a place in the rapidly-growing list of second WASHTNGTONS. As it is, our late President will be astounded to hear that an eligible American has actually thrust aside Senatorial honors. for even ANDREW'S Roman integrity was not proof against the allurements of the fascinating Senate Chamber.

THE Cincinnati Enquirer alleges that Senator REVELS, who, without his own advice or consent, was born with a skin somewhat darker than the average of Senators, was guilty of embezzling certain funds of a church of which, many years ago, he was pastor. It is not pretended that he was ever convicted of this crime, or that he came short in his final settlement. But, responds the Cincinnati Chronicle, supposing it is all true—what is this offense in comparison with that committed by the Democratic Senator who was his immediate predecessor? Let the thousands of families all through the North and South who mourn for the dead in the late war, and let the burdened taxpayers groaning under the weight of a vast national debt, answer. From JEFFERSON DAVIS to HIRAM H. REVELS is a step in the right direction. A decent colored man in the place of the beastly SAULSBURY, and TABBS GROSS for GARRETT DAVIS, are also changes that would relieve the Senate".

As THE Fifteenth Amendment will soon be a part of our fundamental law, the politicians are engaged in figuring up the colored vote and making predictions as to how it will probably be cast. It is stated that the number of colored voters in Delaware will be not far from 4,500, and in Maryland full 34,000. These are larger figures than the majorities by which the Democrats now hold those States, and if these voters rally in a body to the Republican standard, Delaware and Maryland are lost, at least temporarily, to the Democratic party. In Connecticut the number of colored voters must be nearly 2,000, in New Jersey, 4,500, and in New York full 12,000. If the mass of these support the Republican ticket, it will be discouraging for the Democrats to try to

"Connecticut, while they will

be sure to lose New Jersey, ann will have hard work to save New York. "The colored voters in Pennsylvania will be fully 13,000, in Ohio more than 8,000, possibly 9,000, and in Kentucky not far from 42,000. If this vote is to be thrown solidly for the Republicans, it will assure the. continuance of Republican ascendency in both Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and severely shake, if not completely overthrow, Democratic domination in Kentucky. The number of negro voters registered in Virginia at the ita

ER ran for Governor, was 120,103..,

Heard From.

It will be remembered that the pig iron artist

of

Jf* ~i Wants to Know. The Journal, in real or feigned ignt rence of the recent anti-greenback decision of the Democratic judges of the Supreme Court, is still harping away on an 'issue" that is as dead as ABEL. It keeps wanting to know whether we are in favor of paying the five-twenty bonds in greenbacks? What difference does it make whether we are or are not inclined to that policy? If all the Republican papers in the Union were to howl in unison for an issue of greenbacks to cancel the five-twen-ties, they would find their way most effectually barred by a Democratic decision that such an issue, and such payment, would be in direct and palpable violation of the Constitution. Let the Democratic organs hurl their anathamas at tha-e Democratic judges who have ruthlessly knocked their platform from -.uder their trembling feet. Every Republican can face the poor, woe-begone ghost of the once grand old party and acquit himself of "the deep damnation of its taking off." As Senator MORTON tersely says, "the Democracy have been slaughtered in the house of their friends. That Supreme Court, which they so much revere, has cut up their financial theorie- by the

roots,

stripped them ot all their poor pretences, and left them without a peg 011 which to hang an argument."

The Republican party was thus relieved of the trouble of destroying its adver sary, and pail now repel the troubled ghost with, "Thou canst not slirvkf?. thy gory locksat me and say I did it."

THE Louisiana Democratic State Cen

A BRILLIANT financial genius in Boston has discovered and informs his mis guided readers that "money is so plentiful in Europe that we cannot fund the debt at the proposed lower rates this year."

THEY say that a member of one of the Eastern Legislatures recently wrote home to his wife to know what his religion was, and that she wrote back that he had better call it Protestant, and let it go at that.

GEN. ROBERT TOOMBS was in Augusta, Ga., last week, looking ten years younger than he did at the close of the war and what is more, one of the local papers says that he "still retains, in full robustitude, one of the most remarkable and volatile minds the country has ever produced."

THE Emperor Napoleon is already looking out for a wife for his boy. Blanche d' Orleans, a granddaughter of Louis Philippe Mary Mercedis of Spain, daughter of the Duke de Montpensier Louise, eldest daughter of King Leopold II. and the Princess Giselor, of Austria, are the contestants so far named for the imperial prize.

GOVERNOR AUSTIN, of Minnesota, sent a message to the Senate of that State Saturday, urging the passage of a memorial to Congress, praying that body to assume the control of the whole railway business of the country, with a view of fixing the

tariff

for freiglits and passengers. He is, if

we

mistake not, the first Governor to take this stand. THERE are seventy-five "gentlemen" in the Tennessee Constitutional Convention, sixty-eight Democrats and seven Republicans. Of the latter, four were in the Union army. Of the former, for-ty-two were in the rebel army, several were in the rebel Congress, and all but three, who are described as "conservatives," were active and zealous rebels.

THE act conferring the elective franchise upon women in Utah Territory provides: "That every woman of the age of twenty-one years who has resided in this Territory six months next preceding any general or special election, born or naturalized in the United States, or who is the wife, widow or the daughter of a nativeborn or naturalized citizen of the United States, shall be entitled to vote at any electioni the Territory."

THE victims of the depredations of the Alabama have petitioned Congress for the appointment of a mercantile commission, by the President, who shall ascertain the actual lasses, sustained by the claimants for damages, and that certificates issued by the commission shall be

good

election,lu

WAI.K-

the Indianapolis Journalj a

few days ago, was driven into a hole, excavated by his own hands, and that the excavation, or opening, was effectually closed over his head by a heavy boulder furnished by A. L. CRAWFORD, Esq.— Judging by the rules generally applicable to human nature, he was supposed to have been finally disposed of. But this judgment was at fault. Vitality was not entirely extinguished, and when his friends came to look at the place where he once was, their ears detected a subterranean noise like the insipient rumbling of a feeble earthquake. He was evidently pecking away, doing his level best to dig out. lie has been at it ever since and though the faint sounds that reach the surface indicate that the unfortuilate youbg mah has lost his bearings, and is digging towards China, there ... still a possibility that he may, at some remote period, astonish the pig-tail Celestials with the sight of a pig-iron mar* tvr from the Great Republic. "It may be for years, and it may be forever," that all trace of him among men will be lost but if he should succeed in boring through the globe —and, depend upon it, he can bore through, if the thing be possible— and will report, by cable, we will chronicle, hjs success and greatly rejoice thereat.

for the amount specified the holders to be paid out of any sums received from Great Britain in final settlement of our differences with that country.

THE Montreal Witness, while remarking that it does not interfere in Dominion party politics, says it cannot resist the conviction that the position of Sir Johti A. Macdonald, who has so long ruled the country, has points of similarity to that of Belshazzar at his last banquet—that Gait may stand for Mene, McDougall for Tekel, Bowell for Upharsin, and McKenzie for another Danial to interpret them.

IT IS stated, on the authority of Judge Miller, that there is a case on the docket of the Supreme Court that will bring the question of the Constitutionality of the legal tender act again before the Court for its decision, when it will probably be argued before a full bench, as by that time the vacancies, for which the appointments are now pending, will be likely to be filled. Considering the vast importance of this question, it is very desirable that it should be so.

To THE late James Bradyj at one time New York's most eminent criminal lawer, belorgs the now somewhat doubtful honor of having introduced the doctrine that "moral insanity" was a sufficient plea in criminal cases. This defence has become so well-worn, however, that its use is questionable among other than the lowest class of ruffians. New York murderers have seldom of late advanced this plea,it having been found that "political influence" accomplishes the same end The wretch Reynolds, whb appears not tohave anything "moral" in his composition, will, it is believed, adopt this line of defence. The Mail thinks it might prove fortunate should he do so, as it might thereby be settled "as to whether there is any, and if any, what, limit to the practical application of a doctrine, the most dangerous to society ever invented or tolerated." *£4

THE two principal planks of the Dem ocratic State platform have already been knocked into splinters. The Supreme Court—or the Democratic members of it mashed the greenback plank with the

anti-greenback

decision. Ratification

did the business for the anti-Fifteenth-Amendment plank,so that we already see the party begging for the colored vote, on a platform denying the colored man the right to vote. If this thing goes on for a few weeks, at the present rate of progress, the poor old party will have nothing left of its platfoJm but the "social evil" plank. On that congenial footing it will squat, and take the whipping due alike to its stupidity and its" many sins.

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TERREHAUTE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 2,1870. (PAYABLE INADVANCE

Political. THE Norwich Bulletin nya that the only argument which can be used to prevent MAINE proposes to eompel the attend- colored people of Connecticut from ance of children in its public schools, and

voting at the decti0D 0f

to abolish the district system. April next is their not having paid taxes THE Hartford Times says the new Con- but even this.it holds to be no bar to their stitntion has been ratified by 21 States, 7 exercise of the suffrage, and claims that military districts, and "Gen. Reynolds." it will be the duty of the registrars, pro-

A MEMBER ofthe South Carolina House "ded •.SecnUij.f State proclaims heard the notes of the menagerie band the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment outside, and forthwith moved that "dis by the requmte number of States, to add honorable body move to de winder to see

de show pass." It moved. THE Ameriean residents of Paris ex press a desire when thefr Government Bends any one over there to negotiate a postal treaty, that the man shall know a little about the French language, jr

to the llst

g^te officers ii

the.

namea of

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colored

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sons who shall apply and request to be made electors, and that they will be entitled to admission as candidates.

A CORRESPONDENT of The Sante Fe JTew Mexican, writing from Albuquerque, in the same Territory, describes a theatrical performance of a kind that seems

tral Committee, acting upon the advice of like a leaf from mediseval annals. It is prominent country members of the party, difficult to realize that the old Miracle have determined to revoke their call for Play, the parent of the modern drama, is

a State Convention on the 4th of- March

yet in existence, and in theUnited States He says: "The past week we had a grand fiesta at Duranes, with a theatrical performance by an amateur company of actors. The play was the great moral drama of the 'Fall of Man,' in which were personated God, Adam, Eve, Mercy, Gabriel, the Devil, Appetite, etc. God was represented by a well-known butcher of this place. The play went off to the satisfaction of all present, and the crowd immense. We had horseracing, dancing, and various other sports at the feast."

THE Chicago Republican, having published an item to the effect that Senator BROWN Low's health was failing rapidly, has received advices from Washington, coming from a quarter not to be gainsaid (being no less than a son of the distinguished loyalist), and contradicting the report which is drifting among the public prints regarding Senator BROWNLOW'S health. The communication says: "The statement recently published as to my father's health, is wholly unfounded.— He has been steadily improving since I last wrote you." Not only will the many personal friends of the "old man inflexible," both in Tennessee and other States, be cheered by this intelligence, but the whole Republican party of the country may well rejoice, for the death of Senator BROWN LOW would open wide the legislative doors of Tennessee to admit ANDREW JOHNSON to a seat in the United States Senate—a calamity that all patriots would deplore.

STRANGE STORY OF MISFORTUNE.

Singular Adrentnres of an English Woman—An Unfortunate Passenger —Shipwrecked Twice on the Way from England.

From the Now York Horal4-J Mrs. Susan Morris took passage in November last, at Cardiff, Wales, on board the bark Carnie Hill, bound for the port of Mobile, Alabama. The voyage was quite a pleasant one up to the 13th of December but on that day, in the afternoon, the vessel ran on a coral reef off the coast of St. Domingo, and the Captain, crew, Mrs. Morris, and another passenger —a gentleman named De Wolf—were compelled to take to the boats. Thev succeeded in reaching Saona, a bleak island at the southeast extremity of Hayti, and about 120 miles from the town of St. Domingo. The crew made a tent of the sails of the vessel.

The morning after the wreck a sail was descried. A pole was at once erected and the Stars and Stripes run up, with the Union dowu, as a signal of distress. The signal was answered and aljoat put out from the strange vessel, which proved to be a pleasure yacht of a Spani.sh General, who had just sailed from the island of Uma. The General himself came ashore and expressed his willingness to let Captain Smith, of the Carnie Hill, take his yacht with her own crew and go to St. Domingo for assistance. The General and one or two of his party, after the departure of the yacht, erected a tent beside that of the crew of the Carnie Hill.

The latter had succeeded, after being on the island five or six days, in saving a Igreat quantity of articles from their ship, which they piled up near the tents. On he sixth day a party of natives, about thirty in number, all armed with long swords, swooped down upon the tents, ana deliberately went to work putting the goods saved from-the ship into their small boats they had brought with them. The Spadish General said he was powerless to prevent the robbery, as the natives were not under his jurisdiction.

On the eighth day after the wreck the General advised the first officer of the Carnie Hill that he had better not wait any longer for the return of Capt. Smith in the yacht, and to take the small boats and make his way as best h6 could to St. Domingo. The first officer took the advices, and the whole party at once set out, and were fortunate enough to reach St. Domingo without any mishap. Accord-^ ing to Mrs. Morris, on their arrival at the town, the story of the murdered crews was denied by the authorities, and the General was thrown into prison on suspicion of being a party to the robbery of the goods sttved from the Carnie Hill.

Three weeks after arriving at St. Domingo, Mrs. Morris took passage on board the British schooner Grand Pre, Captain Cormley. When 250 miles from theport the British brig Nora ran into the Grand Pre, the latter vessel sinking in a few minutes. The passengers and crew were rescued by the Nora, but they lost all their effects. The Nora finally arrived at this port safe and sound.

The Fate of the English House ,of Lords. It cannot be long before the House of Lords finds itself face to face_ with the new revolution, bringing with it changes which it will be as idle ior it to oppose as it was for Canute to attempt to keep back the rising tide. The demand for popular government will roll on against it" like an overhelming wave, compelling it to go with the current in order to avoid destruction. As a legislative chamber it will certainly be remodeled, perhaps altogether abolished. If a second should be retained at all, it will in all probability take the shape of a senate, whose members will be elected for life from among candidates relying on their personal merits, not on their aristocratic birth, for election and to whom the nation, looking upon them as a body of true counselors— a body of really "potent, grave, and reverend seigniors"—could safely intrust ruling powers.

The glory of the House of Lords is departed. As it stands at present it is a mere pageant, a relic, an anachronism, an obsolete remnant of the old feudal system. The masses have taken care to render it impotent for evil, though at the same time they have rendered it impotent for good. But for a certain conservative element in the national character, it would ere this have been abolished formally, as it has for some years been abolished virtually. It has been retained in form much on that same principle which gives to men and women a tendency to preserve relics ol bygone days, which, though cumbersome and useless, they

tnougn cumoersome anu useless, uiev

THE Wilmington Commercial thinks have nevertheless, not quite the heart to that the Supreme Court has done one sen- destroy.—LippincoH't Mayazine.

sible thing in deciding that if the divorces of Indiana are valid here, they are valid everywhere. The Commercial says ''Certainly, that is according to the national Constitution, and common sense too. If .'full faith and credit, were not given, 'in each State to the public acts, records, and judicial proceeding of every

Ax EASTERN CLERGYMAN, who called upon a lady to condole with her upon the suppoeed loss of her husband while out in his boat at sea, was told by her that. "Benjamin dearly loved his Bible and if he was called to leave, he was prepared to go, for he was a good man." Here a long silence ensued. Finally drying her tears, the wife said in a low and earnest tone. "Well, if he did go, it must have

other State.* where. Jinallv heen the same gust that slewed the barn." a:,, land?" The missing man subsequently returned.

COLD-BLOODED ASSASSINATION

At Miami, Saline Connty, Hlssonrl.

A CIM— gfcrt WMle Slltlaf ta HIIOOM.

Correspondence Missouri Democrat.] MIAMI, SaliNe Co., Mo., Feb. 21. At about half-past eight o'clock, las evening, there occurred in this place one of the most atrocious and coolly premeditated murders ever known in this region.

The victim was Mr. Daniel Wheeler, a quiet and peaceable citizen, an exemplary resident, who was esteemed by all who knew him. While Mr. Wheeler was unsuspectingly sitting in the office of his livery stable, on High street, at the hoor above named, some wretch fired upon him through the window, instantly killing him. The chair in which the mur­

dered

man was sitting stood at the time not more than four feet from the window, and the cowardly miscreant must have approached closely to perpetrate the villainy. About sixteen bucKshot, as nearly as can be ascertained, entered Mr. Wheeler's lefUemple, of course, producing instantaneous death. A doublebarreled shot-gun must have been used, and both barrels discharged at once.

Mr. Wheeler came from Brunswick, Chariton county, Mo., to this city, in August last. He was formerly, I think, a resident of Illinois. He leaves a wife and children bereaved of their supporter, and friends and neighbors to lament his loss and execrate the baser than brutal being who was capable tf this wickedness.

Our usually tranquil town has to-day been a scene of constant excitement—the citizens at eVery corner discussing this horrible and most deplorable affair. No occasion is known which could have instigated to the murder. A jury has been

At Fort Scott, Kansas, peas, and letuce and raddishes are planted. "Suffering from wet groceries," is the polite name for drunk in Chicago.

An Iowa farmer wants a patent on "an improved mode of making fried cakes." Horses are the only animals that give ear to the the many whoas of mankind.

Sharp conversation is improved by the edge being taken off, but a razor isn't. Will you take a lunch? is now rendered—Will you surround some nourishment?

Moving spectacle—A house going through the street or the audiences at many of our lectures when about half

0Ver"

•Fond mamma-"And what would Johnny 3o if poor mamma were to die?" John„y—"Eat up all the sugar."

The mamma who had bars put ""across the nursery windows to protect the chil­

dren,

says'it does not hinder them from "falling out." The gentleman who found that the lady was not all his fancy painted her, discovered quite frequently that her cheeks were much more so.

The wife of a St. John druggist made her biscuit for an evening party with tartar emetic instead of cream tartar. The result proved the efficacy of her husband's drugs.

Eight kind of kisses are mentioned in the Scriptures: The kiss of Salutation, Valediction, Reconciliation, Subjection, Approbation, Adoration, Treachery, and Afiection.

Under the equator is EO place for fashionable folks. The chief dress in that festive region is the skin, with a small umbrella made of palm leaf, used as a shelter from the sun.

At a recent lecture ProfeSSr^ stated that Saturn had a ring six thousand miles broad. "Be jabers!" exclaimed an Irishman who was present, "what a finger he must have!"

It was well said of a handsome woman, whose feet were immense: "She's very pretty, but she upsets completely the ordinary system of measurement, by proving that two feet make a yard." "Do you believe in second love, Mister McQuade?" "Do I believe in second love? Humph! If a man buys a pound of sugar, isn't it swate? and when it's gone, don't he want another pound? and isn't that swate too? Troth, Murphy, I do believe in second love."

A charitable instiutution having reccntlv intimated to the public that money, articles of wear, or "other little matters" might be left, and would be gladly received, found a pair of twins on the doorsteps, generously contributed by an unknown hand.

An awkward clown in a circus at Columbus, Ga., last week, threw a large wooden ball into the air, and when it came down it struck upon the head of a little boy, one of the spectators. The boy's father asks the circus company to pay him $10,000.

The Pennsylvania Cemetery contains seven graves side by side, in which repose the lifeless remains of a man and his six wives. When the first wife died the third was three years old and the fifth an infant of twelve months while the last wife was not born until the year following the death of the first.

A chemist in Albany, while expatiating on the discoveries of chemical science, announced that snow possessed considerable heat. An Irishman present said chemistry must be a valuable science, and asked the lecturer how many snow-balls it would require to boil a tea-kettle. Thi was a poser.

OUTLAWRY IN KENTUCKY.

A United States ReTenne Collector 9t Ti

j(«!ca iwioaur WUCUIVI

Stripped, Robbed of $7,000, and led to a Tree.

From the Nashville Banner.) Authentic information reached us yes terday of a diabolical highway robbery committed on a United States Revenue Collector, while en route from Princeton to Hopkinsville, Ky. The officer had ridden to within fifteen miles ofHopkinsp. ville, when some two or three men rode up in his rear and accosted him in a commanding tone of voice. They accused him of having passed counterfeit money. He denied the charge. Pretending that they had come to search his person for counterfeit currency, they forced him some distance into the woods, stripped him of all his clothing, and robbed- him of $2,400 in greenbacks. $5,000 in exchange notes, and a gold watch. They took away his clothing, and to add to the already perpetrated indignities, tied him, in a state nf nudity, to a tree and left him to his fate. It was bitter cold, and he would have been frozen to death had not his wails brought to his assistance a friendly negro, whq cut the cords which bound him, and provided for him food and raiment. The robbers have not, as yet, been captured 1

in Spencer County

GACSI—1AB WHISKY AMD 1AJD PBACTICKS

The Murderer Arrested and Held to BaiL

From the Evansville Journal, yesterday.J Mr. Wesley Wilson, of Lake P. O. Spencer county, sends us the account of a murder committed in that county on Fri day night last.

It seems that a man named Joel Woods went to the house of George Lenoir on that night, and with an oatb declared his intention of remaining all night. He went to bed, but after a short time rose to take a drink, and Lenoir also rose to Bmoke.

Woods is said to have behaved indecently toward some little girls in the house, and LenoiV ordered him out.

Woods, instead of going as ordered, knocked the pipe Lenoir was smoking out of his moutii, saying: "Your d—d old pipe is smoking me to death."

A good many hard words passed between them, when Lenoir, becoming enraged, seized a large oaken club, used as a fire poker, and struck Woods four heavy blows on the head, from the effects of which lie died.

Lenoir stayed by the injured man, waiting upon him, until he died, when he flra, but was caught by a constable and posse, about eight miles from the scene of the tragedy.

He had a preliminary hearing before Justice F. McKenney, on Saturday, and was held to bail. Woods leaves a wife and family.

Fancy Preachers.

bnaer mis heading the St.- Louis Christian Advocate says the following: We have fancy neckties, pants, coats,

stigated to tne rauraer. a jury uas wen we nave lanuy pauus, tww organized, and adjourned until to-mor- dresses, shawls, and a few fancy preach mur wtipn thev will enter UDon the in- era. Preachers are in and out of th row, when they will enter upon the in vestigation, and will, it is trusted, be able to ferret out the dastard and bring him to justice. A. E.

JB.

'-Hash."

Taking people—Thieves.

The color of parasites—r awn.

Handy book markers—Dainty fingers. The pale of civilization—Pearl Powder.

A laborous occupation—Shop-lifting. A constant friend—A life-long Quaker. Men of means are often the meanest of men. gj'-j

Girls of the period—'Tliose' wlio punctuate it. The work of an hour—Anything you do in sixty minutes.

Professor Blot's Brooklyn kitchen is a success. This is the proper time for trimming grapevines and shrubbery.

ers. Preachers are in and out of the fashion, just like hats and bonnets. Our slow, methodical, plodding, hard-toiling preachers sometimes become discouraged at the price which is paid for mere show, but they may as well De patient, for certaily the fancy preachers will soon get out of the way. We remember four men who have shone and gone out like meteors. One was brilliant, erratic, proud and vain. He became too great for the itineracy, and left us to itinerate iii a more "limited sphere. He has gone into obscurity. Another was pompous, wordy, heady, high and flippant. He was flattered out of his first love, married rich, reviewed his theory, and changed it about as often as he. did his linen. He read books, magazines, newspapers from the liberal press s:s ran into worse errors, and off ne weui. His vanity could not withstand the flattery heaped upon him. A third preacher was young, handsome, vain, talented and popular. He was caressed, flattered in'the papers, in private circles, everywhere. He was sought after, and churches clamored and quarreled to get him. He went from one fine place to another, until he ran his course into the ways of the destroyer, and down he went. Another shone brightly, was followed and flattered until he, too, was turned away from virtue and ran into ruin. So swiftly, surely, everywhere are fancy preachers going down. As sure as God hates vanity, so sure will all such preachers fall. "The honest, faithful, hard-working men will win the prize.

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

A Wife Kills Her Husband With a Butcher Knife.

Erom tho Stoubenville Herald.] Francis Brannagan, who for some days past has been more or less inebriated, went to his home quite drunk Saturday night, having a bottle of the "critter" with him, which he drank during the night. On arising Sunday morning he commenced abusing his wife, Rosa, in a violent manner, knocking her down several times. She was endeavoring to pre-

time,

to his death by a wound in the left breast inflicted by a butcher knife, and that the wound was inflicted in self-defense.

the'scene a large number of unruly boys who should take up their residence on Goodchildren street. They took delight in pulling her hair and dress, and otherwise annoying her, especially by making rude remarks. One young man grossly saluted her by saying, "See, here, we were in Castle Thunder together in the same cell."

This insult nettled the Doctor into uttering a merited rebuke for the insulter's benefit. It was at this juncture that the officer asserted his authority, for, as he swears, to prevent a riot. He further says that when he took her into custody she made some unfeminine language, insulting and abusing him grossly. The Doctor indignantly denies that she said a single unmaidenly word to him, or to any one else. The officer took her to the first precinct station-house, and entered his charges, when fortunately, Recorder Becker appeared and *at once arraigned the accused. The affidavit charged her with having violated the city ordinance, disturbing the peace and insulting the officer. Mullahy'8 testimony was drawn rather strong, causing. the prisoner to ejaculate so roundly that the Recorder felt constrained to restrain her.

She expressed her regret for making the interruption, saying that her surprise at his testimony was so great as to overcome her feelings. She made her statement of the affair, most of which is embodied in the above. She informed the court that the officer had handled her roughly, grasping her arm to tightly as to cause considerable pain. He refused

durate, not only refusing to be gallant, but asked her several impertinent questions, }ii*~h will not look well in print. Qp. ffay to the station-house the v.«v_- increased in number until there were several hundreds of people.

Forty team Agi^SiirHttMi Last Leap* The Elmira Qm&I has recently pub. lished some extracts from a paper printed in that village

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The only witness to the tragedy was a ......

When the officer had given his testimony the Recorder inquired if she had any witnessess, when she replied that she had none, although several gentlemen had witnessed the trouble. One of these had followed the rabble, and when the court asked if. there were any witnessess present this one arose and substantially verified her narration. Recorder Becker made a few pertinent remarks on the occasion, and spoke of her costume, saying that as higher tribunals than his- had received her withjhonor he would not enforce a law resjiecting male or female attire, and therefore discharged her.—

N. O. Republican, 2'ld.

A young man is now in jail in England "for-a term of years, for shooHng a pheasant on his father' farm in 180-*.

yeart ago.* TheTast

number contains the following relating to Ram Patch, who made his last leap over theGenesee Falls at Bochester, November 13,1829: **4

October 12,1828, Sam made a big leap from Biddle Stairway at Niagara Falls. His success was announced in an extra, which appears in the Gazette of October 24th, ana is as follows:

WHITNEY'S EAGLE HOTEL, 4 o'clock. Sam hasjust made his greatjump. The day was lowery and rainy. However, the number of 300 persons assembled on the Island to witness the feat the Canadian shore was crowded. To view the platform for the fearless Patch from the Biddie Stairway, did not appear so grand, as the platform reached only about twothirds the hight of the bank but to descend to the margin of the water, in the gulf beneath, ana there look up at the perpendicular ladder, made you imagine that it would require superhuman power.. to accomplish such an enterprise. Sam ascended the ladder, and remained on the top about ten minutes, resting himself and adjusting himself for the leap, dur-. ing which time he was repeatedly cheered by the spectators. At length lie rose —every eye bent intently on him he waved his hand and kissed the star-span-jled banner that floated gracefully over- ft iiis head, and then precipitated himself. like an arrow into the flood below!— Twas a matchless and tremendous leap.— He very soon reappeared and swam to the shore with great ease. Then it was that 1 a painful and unpleasant yet indescribable sensation was driven from each breast,, by the flood of joy which succeeded on seeing that he was safe. Then it was that the

benuming

spell which had

reigned a moment or two from the moment he arose on the platform, was broken by the burst of the voices of congratulation—all rushed forward (who were be- =. low to take the jumping hero by the hand and the intrepid Sam spoke to the first.' "There's no mistake in Sam Patch!" And by the waving of handkerchiefs and the huzzas of the company, there was no mistake, for with one consent they exclaimed, "This is the real Sam Patch!" A gentleman present, who assended to the top of the ladder, is of?the opinion that but few could imagine or appreciate the sublimity of the scene, without they ascendcd the ladder, which was rising of 200 fcot._ Mr. Patch crossed the gulf in the evening to see his Canadian friends.

A little less then a month afterward the jumping hero made his last leap, Nov., 13th, 1829, from Genesee Falls, Rochester. The distance was only five feet more than when he made his successfull jump above described. The account of Mr. Patch's fatal leap is as follows:

SAM TATCH'S DEATH. ROCHESTER, Nov. 13, 1829."

How to Reform Politics

pare breakfast for her children at the If there is any one thing the average

of whom there are eight, the young- American dislikes more than another, it est being but four weeks old. In a short is to take part in the government of the time Brannagan again commenced on her, country. He leaves the management of remarking that "one or the other had to all public affairs to a few who make it die." Mrs. Brannagan had in her hand a their business and live by it. He dis common-sized butcher knife, and, when likes to vote, he will not attend a nomithe fiend struck at her, threw her hands nating convention or a primary election, up wildly to ward off the blow, when the and feels wronged if summoned to act as knife struck him between the first and a juror, or called on in any way -to labor second.ribs. He lived|about five minutes, for the public, to the injury, perhaps, of but never spoke. The Coroner held an his private business. Most Americans inquest on the body, when the jury re- would rather be imposed upon in many turned a verdict that the deceased came instances than malfe a fuss about it, but it is in public matters that this spirit crops out in the most alarming manner. Tho people endure much more than they should from cliques and rings whose

little girl about 8 years of age—a daugh- growth they are responsible for, but it is ter of the unfortunate parents, that had only when the load becomes exceedingly eight small children, who have been de- burdensome that they grumble a great pending for support mainly upon the deal, and raise a hue and cry for reform, mother. The cliques are anathematized, and is proclaimed against them. This is all DR. «MARY WALKER ARRESTED very good, but unfortunately the war

An Offlcions Pelican Policeman—The Brute Arrests, Insults, and Abuses the Little Woman—Her subsequent

Dishharge.

Between

one and two o'clock last even- is a contemptible failure. Tho much ins a rather excited congregation of men, abused "rings" triumph, because they women and children, near the corner of work with zeal and continuously. This Girod and Tolioupitouias street", attract- has been the history of reform moveed the atfentian of Patiolman Mullahy. ments in all parts of the country, and When he had forced his way into the will be, so long as the American prefers midst of the rabble, he heard a voice, he to have other people run the government asserts, preaching Woman's rights, and for him. Those men who do take an thus creating a disturbance of the city's active part in them frequently become peace The voice belonged to Dr. Walk- soured by defeat, and withdraw entirely er and her stvle of dress had gathered to from politics. Only yesterday, when in 1 1- 1 conversation with a gentleman of this

Sam Patch is no more! He made his .v last leap from a scaffold erected on the bank, of the falls this afternoon. The vw staging was elevated twenty-five feet. lie sprung fearlessly from it, and descended one-third the distance as handsome as he ever did. He then evidently began to droop, his arms extended,_ and liis legs separated, and in this condition lie struck the water, and sunk forever! It_was a fearful leap, and fearfully it terminated. The prevailing opinion is that he became lifeless ere he reached the water. lie li.id drank fearfully in the morning, but was not apparently more overcome than lie was on Friday last. It was truly a solemn scene, where so many thousands were witnesses to an imolation,which had its origin only in an effort to satisfy the craving appetite of human curiosity. Sam's lx-t request, I understand, was that the funds collected should be sent to his mother, if his adventure should terminate fatally. His body has not yet been found. The i, hight of Genesee Falls, from which he jumped, is 100 feet The staging was about twenty-five feet above the fall*. The distance whioh he descended was therefore 125 feet. "Strange rumors were afterward circulated that Sam was alive, having secreted himself behind the sheet of water at tho falls until darkness favored his escape. A notice was even posted at the entrance of "j the Arcade, in Rochester, stating that ho j, would return at a certain time and relate his adventures at Acker's Eagle Tavern. But he never did so. He failed to fulfill his engagement. As an admiring bard wailed out at that time, Though tho trumpet of fame groat Sam Puti li recalls, s-e# Ho has jumped his last jump from tho Urucsee Falls!

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usually ends here. The people don't follow up the declaration. They talk much about reform'and the necessity for it, and sometimes organize an effort to bring it about, but when the work was to be done, it is left to a very few, and the movement

city, who has been an advocate of reform and economy, he said: "I have fought rings and cliques for fifteen years, as one .' of a hopeless minority, but I have done 5 "3 now, I never intend to vote again."— There are scores of men who will say the

Evening News.

same thing, and there are hundreds of others who wpuld not go one square out of their way to vote. And yet they want politics reformed, and the government administered economically. They want everything]"noarly perfect, but have no intention of trying to make it so. They Want rings which are bad things and con- .' trary to the spirit of our institutions, abolished, but wont raise a hand to do it. The only way to purify politics, is for the mass of the people, which, in the main 1. is honest, to take hold of them. There -j* never can be any reform until the people go to work persistently in the right manner. Men must learn that citizenship entails duties. They must exact the best

qualifications' for office, they must see that the best men are selected, even' though it puts them to much inconvenience to attend ward meetings, nominating conventions, and elections. They -. must talk,and try to educate public sentiment. It is the little things of lifev which count the most, and no man has a' right to say he will not vote because it does no good, or because it will cost time". or money. Let him do his part all the»V'\ time—not spasmodically, or at lopg intervals if others fall short, it is no ex--, cusc for his wrong doing. If he fails! once or twice or a dozen times, that is no-, reason why he should stop all effort and discourage others. We want every citizen who is interested in having the country decently governed, to contribute his\ share, and not sit at ease waiting for oth-/ ers to do the work and benefit him. If/ he will do this he may talk about reform'' as much as he pleases* but if he prefers to? be governed by other, he has no business to complain of bow much it costs him,-' and the less he says the more consistent he will be. The next time any one of our readers feels like abusing the character of our officers, or denouncing the many abuses of official trust, let him stop a moment and think whether he has ever done anything to raise the one or prevent the other. Jn nine cases out of .ten he will find profitable reading fn *3 "the text: "Let Kim'that Is without sin aniohg you cast the- fhrst stone."—hid,,

A gallant wa» lately sitting beoniv beloved,and being unable to think of any-., thing to say,asked her why shejvas like dg tailor "1 don't know."-said sRe, ^th pouting lip, "unless it's Iiecausc I'm ing be-idc goons