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

-WEEKLY EXPRESS

TERRE HAUTE, IND.

Wednesday Morning, March 2,1870

^Republican

State

Ticket.

S-O? SECRETARY OP STATE, JIT MAX F. A. HOFFMAN. AUDITOR OP STATE,

JOHN D. EVANS.

*. TREASURER OP STATE, MI/** ROBERT H. MILROY.t

JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT, JEHU T. ELLIOTT. ,, R.C.GREGORY.

CHARLES A. RAY, ANDREW L. OSBORNE.

ATTORNET GENERAL, NELSON TRUSSLER.

BUL'PRINTEN'DEXT 01' PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, BARNABAS C, HOBBS.

The Platforms on the Tariff.

A comparison of the platforms of the two parties in this State concerning the tariff, will develope some remarkable points of difference, which ought to challenge the attention of the people. 1. Both platforms declare in favor'of a revenue tariff, assuming that the necessi" ties of the government mast take precedence of any particular theories of protection or free trade. Of the soundness of this^general proposition 110 sane person can doubt. The large public debt growing out of the war brings with it a greatly increased expenditure for interest, management, &c., and this expenditure must be meet before any claim of local or class interest can even bi considered. So far, we take it, the two parties mean the same thing. 2. But here tlicy separate. The Democratic platform pronounces the present tariff odious, and demands repeal. Now, the present tariffproduce a lcvenue of, say, $160,000,000. Can the Government dispense with this amounlCertainly not.

It

has been proposed to reduce

the income by various sums, from thirty to eighty millions but nobod.- thinks a greater amount than the la- desirable. IIow then do the Democracy propose to supply the other eighty millions? By an increase of internal taxr ion.' No, for they say they favor a xnue tariff. Well, they also propose to -put coffee, tea, &.C., on the free list. IS'i' these articles make up the eighty millions of proposed reduction Hence, if this is done, the tariff on iron, wool, &c.,— lie ,rotixted interests, must be let alone, lius, while affirming that they are in favo of a revenue tariff the Democracy pre po- to do just what the protectionists .n!, take off the duty on articles not produced at home and leave it on those that aie. In their efforts to humbug the people ihc Democracy thus completely stultify titenisel.ycs.

The Republican platform r.voids this absurdity. It proposes a general reduction of duties in whatever amount can be dispensed with. Republicans understand that a tariff for revenue only, instead of placing coffee and tea on the free list, would make them the especial objects of taxation. And they are not so hostile to American laborers as to wish to disregard their interests in arranging the details of tariff. Revenuo must be the first care of a tariff law under the present exigencies of Treasury, but the incidental protection of a wise distribution of duties will save American laborers from competition with the low wages of Europe. "While, therefore, both parties seem to favor a reduccd revenue tariff', one is a piece of inconsistent demagoguery, while the other is'an open, straight forward avowal of its purpose.

THE colored man is destined to be the death of the genuine, old-line Democracy.

In

past time it has been the boast of

the party that it was the champion of the "rights of man," while the Whigs, &c., were the champions of rights of property. But first abolition, and now suOVage, have driven it from all sense of propriety and consistency. The Chicago Times argues in favor of an "cducationl qualification" for voters. To cut out the colored man it is willing to go back 011 the Irish laborer, who has not l)cen

One Year of Grant.

About one year has elapsed since the administration of President GBAXT came into power. In his brief inaugural address the President made a solemn pledge of economy in the public service. It is a proper time now to inquire bowv that pledge has been fulfilled, and we can best obtain the desired information by comparing the last twelve months'with the closing year of JOHNSON'S administration. 'Avoiding fractions, for the sake greater perspicuity, we find that^ from March 1, 1868, to March 1, 1869, the total receipts into the Treasury were a little over three hundred and sixty-eight million dollars. Not only was this enormous sum expended, to the last dime, but the public debt, daring that period, was increased about six million dollars, as appears from the official publications of the Treasury Department, thus showing a total expenditure for the year, of three hundred and seventy-four million dollars ($374,000,000,)

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fortunate as to go to school. And the Kentucky Legislature declares in favor of a "property qualification." The rich may vote, but the poor niay not, is now to become democratic doctrine. We arc reminded of BEN. FKANKLIN'S illustration of the system. Said the philosopher: If JOHN SMITH owns a jackass worth what the law requires, then he can vote if JonN SMITH'S jackass dies, he ceases to vote. Query: Which voted, the man, or the jackass?

TIIOUGHLESS PERSONS sometimes ask, what right had Congress to interfere with the doings of the State of Georgia, and pass Senator MORTON'S bill? Such persons forgot that the Constitution of the United States devolves on the General Government the duty of "guaranteeing to every State a Republican form of government." In order to make good thisguarantee it must enquire what government exists in the State and if in violation of the Republican principles of the national instrument, must take steps to correct the

wrong. If Indiana should establish a religious test for suffrage, it would be anti-Repub-lican, and call for national interferance. So Georgia having clearly violated the 14th Amendment, and set aside the conditions of reconstruction, was a proper subject of national regulation,

AYE have before us the Monthly report of the Agricultural Department, from which wo learn that the average of wages paid to farm laborerers in the United States is S2t per month without board, and £15.50 with board. It further appears that the value of such labor is

constantly

increasing, the yearly average

being $336, against $182 in England and nearlv double what it was thirty years

TJIE utterly unprincipled character of Democratic policy is unexemplified in ilie effect produced 011 the Kentucky Bourbons by the certainty of the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment. The regular city election in Lexington is held in March". On the 10th of January the City Democratic Convention made its nominations. But learning that the amendment would probably be adopted before the election, to keep out the colored vote, the Legislature was invoked and a law obtained to have an earlier election, lengthen the terms of office, and increase the pay of city officials. The same was also done in other places. Perhaps the colored voters will/y^rt tlns, and vote the Democratic ticket? mo knows?

THE management of the government telegraph in England proves to be extremely unsatisfactory. Complaints are made from all quarters, and especially from the business community. The vexat'ious delays, red tape hinderances, and ^Lcnee of remedy against the government ar?especially noticed. WE hope no such scheme will .prevail in this country, and shall Opposed all postal or other telegraph bills in Congress. Let private or corporate enterprise mi'nage such things, and

Ihey will be more efficient, and less^cor­

rupt. CSTO

The total receipts into the Treasury, during the first year of President GRANT'S administration, amount in round numbers, to $394,000,000. Of this sum eighty millions have been applied to the payment of the public debt, leaving for the current expenditures of the Government, including interest on the public debt, three hundred and fourteen million dollars ($314,000,000), or sixty millions less than woe expended in the same time by President Johnson's administration. These figures, which we find in a letter from Speaker BLAINE, are taken from official records, and their accuracy is beyond question.

It will be seen that the receipts have been $26,000,000 more during'GRANT's first year, than they were during the last year of JOHNSON'S term. Most of this gratifying increase—or not less than $20,000,000—is due to increased faithfulness in the collection of the internal revenue. It would not have been surprising—might not have indicated dishonesty—had the receipts .of internal revenue been less under GRANT than under JOHNSON, for it is to be borne in mind that many of the taxes were repealed, and others reduced, just before GRANT came into power, hus diminishing and cutting off sources of national income. That, under such circumstances, one j'ear of GRANT has increased the internal revenue collections twenty millions, is a tangible fact worth more than all the stilted rhetoric tha could be employed in praise of the administration. Briefly recapitulating we find that:

.. .. THE STATE*.•

000,000

Expended 3/4,000,000 Increased the public debt 6,000,000 Turning from that sad picture—that strong promise.of national bankruptcy-to the .cheering prospect of "the good time coming," we see that, GRANT, in his first year collected $394,000,000 Expended.... Decreased, tho debt 80,000,000

The JOHNSON table is a beautiful picture of "Democratic economy!" The other is an illustration of "outrageous Radical extravagance!"

The Indianapolis Journal permits its unhappy temper "to betray it into most indiscreet and altogether uncalled-for abuse when it says: "Mr. Crawford of 1870 says Mr. Crawford of 1807 made wilful misstatements, in order to sell some real estate and goOge lionester men."

It might reasonably be expected that the sheet which did not hesitate to charge General SCHENCK with having accepted bribes to influence his official conduct, as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, would be ready to assail the character of any other gentleman on very slight provocation.— The Journal, as is well known, was overwhelmingly defeated—totally annihilated—in the pig iron controversy. While being severely pushed for evidence of its own rash and unfounded statements, it called A. L. CRAWFORD to the stand as a witness. Mr. CRAWFORD came, and his testimony completely broke down the slimsy case which the Journal was struggling so frantically to build up. This is the provocation which calls down on his head the anathamas of the used-up and played-out iron man of the Journal.

It would be an insult to the intelligence and fairness of our readers to defend Mr. CRAWFORD from such an assault. His character, as an honorable business man is second to that of no other man in any department of manufactures or commerce and the Journal will find it most consistent with its own self-respect—to say nothing of otlier important considerations—to offer an ample and a prompt apology for the manner in which it has used his

Democratic Economy.

The resplendent beauties of "Democratic economy" are finely illustrated in the fact that, in the Manual of the Corporation for 1868, the New York tribune finds that the city of New York paid for legal expenses, on public account, for the preceding year $1,233,5S4. Such was the actual cast of the law business of the city and count)- of New York for one year, and it is doubtless much greater now. Taking out the judgments against the city, seven-eighths of which are clear stealing, we find this result: Cost of law in New York in 1S67, £S21,91S cost of law in all the United States, under the General Government, $375,990 New York city more than the thirty-seven States and leu Territories, $445,928. Tho tribune says the city is saddled under Democratic rule, with some 10,000 useless officers, who are, like vampires, sucking out the lifeblood of the people.

THE Philadelphia Ledger is indignant at the waste of the public lands. It says that since 1S50, 120,000,000 acres have been given to Pacific railways, and there are left but 4".0,000,000. Of this 224,245,520 were asked for roads during the last session of Cbngress, and large slices are demanded of the present session.— The Ledger apprehends an early end to the public lands—as a refuge for the Poor. .... ...

ANOTHER annual assessment of incomes, at the present rates, is to be made at once. If any reduction is ultimately decided upon at the present session—and the act must be renewed, or it will expire by limitation before another yearit will not affect the present assessment.

(Jeneral Yeateh

Of the appointment of General JAMES C. YEATCH to the Collectorship of the First District, mentioned in our last issue, the Indianapolis Journal says: "We need hardly

say

that this selection will

meet the goyful concurrence of the Republicans of the First District, and of the State at large. No appointment President GRANT could have made, would be recognized so fitting as that of General VEvrcn,«i»osedi*tinguished military and civil services have endeared him to the loval people of Indiana, while his sterling ability and integrity eminently befit him for the efficient discharge of whatever service the Administration eoald have committed to his care.5'

LAFAYETTE is indulging in small-pox, in a small way.

OUTRAGES upon school teachers are becoming common in Delaware coonty.

MRS. NORA STACY, Steuben county, was fatally injured by being thrown from a carriage last Friday.

A WOMAN in Ohio county applies for a divorce from her sixth husband. Four of the lot are still living.

Gov. MORTON'S State Convention speech is being very extensively circulated, which is a very wise thing.

THE contracts for the erection of the Purdue University have been completed and the work has been commenced. \V

TIIE United States Arsenal in Indianapolis has been designated, by the Secretary of War, as an Arsenal of Construction.

JAMES SORELL, an Adams county carpenter, had his neck broken by a fall from a barn last Friday. He left a wife and seven children.

THE geological collection recently purchased from Prof. Owen, by the State University, will be shipped to Bloomington during the month of March. It comprises about thirty tons. v*«

OLIVER SMART, of Dubois county, was seriously—and, it is supposed, fatally iujured by a tree falling on Kim, a few days ago. He was chopping wood, and the tree that struck him was felled by 1 companion.

THE Indianapolis Journal says a upper men of red oxide of iron, taken from a bank lately discovered six mile3 above Worthington, Owen count/, is in the cabinet of Prof. Cox. It Is adapted either for smelting purposses or for-paint.

THE .State Board of Agriculture have offered a premium of a gold medal for the best specimen of iron manufactured in this State. Also a premium of $25 for the best of glass, and $20 for the best sewing machine manufactured in the State.

THE Muncie Times says that Mr. John Atkinson, of the village of Eaton, in that city, started for Indianapolis, on the 10th instant, to purchase stock, and has not been heard from since. It is feared he has been the victim of foul play, and no other cause can be assigned for his disap pearance.

A MRS. WOLFENBARGER, living about three miles from Plymouth, was sht)t and dangerously wounded on Saturday after noon. The dastardly deed was committed by one of three drunken men, who were passing her house in a wagon. The worn an looked from the door of her dwelling on account of the great noise that was being made, when the ruffian, without provocation, shot her. No arrests hav been made.

A Bad Temper.

THE Muncie limes has this to say of a "female fiend" in that county: "By her cruelty she literally drove two of her daughters from her to seek aliome among strangers. She beat and bruised and starved them until they were forced to fly Ifrom her preserfcc. The last thing she did to them was to take as many pins as she could hold in one hand and rake up and down their arms with the poiutsj— She also took an orphan child, living with her, and put it in a pen where several hogs were fattening, and tried to make the brutes tear the flesh from the child's body."

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IOLONEL MERWIN, Deputy Assessor of the Seventh Collection District, furnishes the Indianapolis Journal with the following interesting items: Number of physicians in the District 327—as follows: Vigo, 55 Sullivan, 40 Owen, Green, 52: Clay, 40 Vermillion, 18 Putnam, 48 Parke, 39. Number of lawyers, 168— Vigo, 48 Greene, 23 Parke, 12 Putnam, 28 Clay, 21 Sullivan, 10 Owen, 23 Vermillion. 13. Number ot jackasses, (four-footed and not included in the above enumeration) 143—Putnam, 46 Parke, 27 Greene, 16 Owen, 14 Sullivan, 18 Clay, 10 Vigo, 7 Vermillian, 5.

MR. VOORHEEP, rising to a personal ex planation, referred to an insinaution in Air. Benton's speech of Saturday last, coupling him with the Knights of the Golden Circle, and indignantly denied all connection with secret political organizations.—Congressional Proceedings.

Our arboreal friend may be strictly true in indignantly repelling the assertion that he belonged to the "K. G. C.," but the only reason why he didn't attach himself to that organization was his cowardice. Mr. Voorhees will hardly deny that he was relied upon as a "dear nephew," to send along those "hundred thousand men," he was understood to have promised a Virginia rebel and relative.—Ind. Journal.

THE Coroner of Tippecanoe county held an inquest, at Lafayette, on Saturday, over the rqmalns of an unfortunate female namfed Louisa Smith, a girl for a time employed in the Monitor Woolen Mills, though almost an entire stranger in that city. After hearing the evidence jury found a vordict that the deceased had come to her death from the effects of an operation performed to produce abortion by Dr. Brittinglu.m. A warrant was issued and he was arrasted upon affidavit made by the Coroner. A preliminary examination was ^ield Saturday afternoon, before Esquire Ivimmel. Wilson and DeHart appeared for the defendant, Carnahan and Embree for the State. The affidavit charged murder in the first degreeThe trial did not conclude until about midnight 011 Saturday and resulted in the discharge of the accused. The testimony in regard to the statements of the girl herself being in admissable, as being in legal terms "hear-say" evidence, there was n( thing sufficient to hold the prisonerrand he was released. A jftWSf' Mi

THE Lafayette Journal thus discourses upon Indiana divorces: The courts of New York are haying quite a time over the matter of Indiana divorces. Very contradictory statements have been made in the newspapers on the subject. The truth appears to be, that, despite statements to the contrary, New, York courts do not regard Indiana divorces as valid. The recent Cheever case, decided in the United States Supreme Court, which ,is held to sustain Indiana divorces, does not, that we can see, touch the point at all. New York courts rule that the decree of divorce from any State, where the courts granting it has no jurisdiction of the defendant, is void and we have seen, as yet, no different ruling. In the Cheever case the Supreme Court held the divorces valid, for the reason that Cheever appeared as a party to the suit in the Indiana court, and defended himself therein. This, of course, debarred any objection on the ground above mentioned. While the decision of the SupreWe Court may perhaps strengthen faith in Indiana divorces, we do not see that it affects the rule of the New-York courts, which simply declares the divorces of any State void where the defendant does not appear, and thereby become subject to the jurisdiction of the court granting the decree. We do not understand the decision of the court to be final and mandatory, that a divorce legal in one State must be held to be legal in every' other Statfe. The decision is such an'important one, that we publish it in full elsewhere ».•%...

to havc^a new hand*

LAFAYETTE 1 engine compan "S.J.

A X*#-. &asstand. is the fe prove men tin Lafayette.

TiiE'goarips of' Fort another cwe of scan. mag.

A COLORED WOMAN,104 years old, died, in Marion county, a few days ago.

DURING last month Indianapolis furnished 32 recruits for the regular army.

AJX IMMENSE quantity of lake ice is being transported by rail to Evansville.

ANSON BURLIKGAME, when a boy, lived, for a time, in Dry Prairie, Indiana.

R. Y. CADINGTON, editor of the Vincennes Times, is seriously ill.

MANY BUILDINGS are to be erected, in Vincennes, during the approaching sea

son.

FRANKLIN is to have a Christian Church, to be erected during the coming summer.

THE Indiana Medical College closed its first session, on Monday evening. Gov. Baker delivered an aifd.'e3s, and about twenty "sheepskins" were awarded

THE Vincennes Sun wants the Congressional Globe continued in order to preserve Niblack's record. Else, it fears, oblivion will soon hide that functionary. ....

REV. MR. MULEY, formerly an Epis copal minister, was ordained as a Priest at St. Mary's Catholic Church, in Lafayette on Sunday.^«f^

THE Chicago Tribune says the platform of the Indiana Republicans "grapples the present and coming issues of national politics with a spirit of genuine courage and manliness."

TIIE constitutionality of the railroad law, passed at the last session of the Legislature, is to be tested. A test case has been made up, and Cofroth is to prosecute

IT IS stated that David Fisher, a bishop of the Dunkard Church, has been arrest ed 4nd released on bail, at Monticello, for seducing a daughter of a Dunkard pastor. nr

THE gay, gallant, garrulous, good-look ing,' generous, gingery Garber, of the Madison Courier, (may his tribe increase) pronounces this benediction: "God bless the women and babies." Amen, brother

THERE is a man in Evansville who has a stock of most remarkably combustible goods on hand. They take fire every few days. Insurance men are getting to be afraid of tllem, and are cancelling poli cics.

A CORPS of Engineers left Indianapolis on Monday under charge of Thad. Reed Assistant Engineer, for Worthington, on the Vincennes road, from whence they will run a line to Newburgh and from thence to Owensboro, for thp^In^ipa North and South railway.

THE Fort Wayne Gazette learns that a teacher at Areola, having occasion to discipline an unruly boy on Thursday last, was attacked by .the boy's father, as she was returning from school, who beat and kicked her in the[most brutal and shocking manner, finally leaving her in an almost insensible condition. *5 mV.

THE New York Tribune has tho following notice of the action of the Central Committee of Marion county: "The Republicans of Indianapolis have taken a step in the right direction. It is easy to see, although persons of color may be by law qualified voters, that it would be no difficult matter to excludethem from Nomination Conventions, which are substantially close and private bodies. The Indiana, committee has resolved that every qualified voter, without distinction of race, color, or place of nativity, who will pledge himself to sup port the regular nominations, shall be entitled to vote at the nominating election. This is simply fair play and with out this recognition of their unquestionable rights, would be of very little value to themselves, however valuable to their white associates."

The American Eagles at the Tuileries. From the Philadelphia Inquirer.! There was a grand ball at the Tuileries last night, which was attended by many Americans. On the same day Gustave Flourens, friend of Rocliefort and Victor Noir, was sentenced to three years imprisonment for being a Republican. We believe his offense was given some other name, so as to place it among the possibilities of the code Napoleon III, but the real crime was desiring the freedom of France. The dispatch by cable bringing us the two above items makes 110 mention of Flourcn* being tendered, in his prosecution, the sympathy or support of "many Americans."

If dear old Thackeray, whose heart was filled with humanity and tenderness for his fellows, but who had a triek of mind by which lie turned people inside out, like an old coat,and saw the miserable,cheap,sham sehtiments with which they were lined if he had only extended his field of survey to America, when he was looking out for snobs to put info, his book, or if ho bad gone to Paris ain4,'dropped in for a moment at the Tuileries'ball, what magnicent specimens of the genius he might have discovered and impaled.

Americans never will be slaves.— Never! never! never! Abroad or at home they are forever true to their native-born instincUs of liberty and equality all over Europe they persist in rendering themselves offensive to sovereigns, courts and courtiers by their disregard of royalty and rank all over Europe they are recognized by having embroidered on their c'aw-hammer coat-tails mottoes .of stern republican import, like the following: "All men are created free and equal," '•A man's a man for all that," "We never will be slaves," "Down with the bloated aristocracy," and others which are equally offensive to Kings and Emperors, but too numerous to mention.

We suppose the "many Americans" at the Tuileries ball went there by mistake, or they wanted to see how the London expoliceman and author of the murders of that far-away June day of the coup'd'etat lited. -Our brave Republican citizens abroad all sympathize with Rocliefort, Flourens, and mourn Victor Noir but curiositv takes them nst to Flourens' side, but that "cut-throat Bonaparte's." But afterwards these good Republicans of America went home in the security of their houses shouted "viva Rochefort," "viva Flourens." Did they? Or, snobs as they are, did they sing praises to the Empire, to the Emperor, to the Empress and to the Imperial Prince?

Flourens a fugitive, Rochefort in prison, Noir murdered, and the American eagles eating of the murderer's salt and dancing at the murderer's ball—these are among the latest items from Paris.

THE troubles in the navy arc leading to the discussion of the propriety of abolishing the entire Naval Department and returning to the old order of things under Washington, when the navy was managed by the Secretary of War. The Federalists, under John Adams, in 1798, created the present Navy Department, and laid the foundation of a pearly expenditure of twenty or thirty million dol-, lars to keep up our navy in time of peace. The Democrats of that day, with Jefferson and 'Albert Gallatin and Nathaniel Macon at their head, opposed the new depart men t, 'whioh was established by a strict party vote, and defended by snch men as "Harrison "Gray^ Otis, Robert Goodloe Harper, and Josiah Parker, of Virginia. The Democrats were tfrong in tljeir oppositidn then, as the war ot 1812 soon showed them but they were 'right in jtheir anticipations' of the grekt cost,of najvy yards and a naval peace establishment .'—Philadelphia Preen

LETTER.,

TarymWrtwr rg Feb. 28, 18fp.

It^itao*aftfi*tter of regj|te|4haJ||i proceedings oKhe Republican- party State -i&invefl$ton "have not exited tha ocracy to a greater extent. The criticisms of the Democratic press have been, on the whole, too tame. They have lacked the usual rancor, and spleen, and viciousness.

Some ofcthe papers have had^omething frican gentleman, and to say about the

vention for choosing a colored vice-presi-dent. But even that has been handled gingerly—ras

if it

had concealed in it a

Hotchkiss shell that might explode and hurt some one. Our adversaries should show somesigns of life and opposition. The Republicans expect to do some hard work this campaign, even if by so doing they run their majority up to twenty or thirty thousand. But there is no use in going at an empty jug to lift it, with the muscular energy necessary if the thing were full of some desirable beverage. "^*s'.

The apparent indiffereiice of the Deiiiocracy need not be attributed to any consciousness of strength, for they know well enough they have a foe that will give them all the business they can attend to. It is early in the campaign, however, and we shall expect to hear from them by the time they have reconciled Messrs. Pendleton, and Hendricks, and Bright, and others, and used what little "moral mucilage" they have left in inducing those wbo are inclined to make "new departures" to stick to the old party. ASSESSMENT OF PROPERTY—HOW NOT TO

DO IT.

The Legislature in special session, December, 1865, passed an act providing for a meeting of Township Assessors at the County Auditor's office of each county in the State, on the 1st day of January of each year, to agree upon a uniform rate of asssessments for their respective counties.

It was no doubt thought that this would be a good plan to equalize assessments.— The plan looked well on paper, and assessors have acted accordingly. But it don't work well for the State, whatever it may do for counties. It has developed the fact that values vary materially in different localities. For instance in one county the assessors meet and fix upon seventy cents a bushel as the average value of wheat, and forty cents a bushel as the average value of corn, and so on. In a county adjoining the assessors meet in solemn conclave and declare that wheat in that county is worth fifty cents a bushel and corn fifty. And therein is the wrong.

On the first of January the assessors of Fountain county fixed upon the following prices, for some of the property as sessed: Horses $50 mules $50 cattle $15: sheep $1 pork 100 pounds §4 wheat, per bushel, 70 cents corn 40 cents oats 25 cents potatoes 20 cents barley 50 cents clover seed $5 timothy $2 hay $5 wool, per pound, 20 cents lard per pound 10 cents wine, per gallon .81.

In Tippecanoe county the same property was assessed as follows: Horses $65 mules $80 cattle $30 sheep $1 fat hogs, 100 pounds, $7 wheat, per bushel S5 cents corn 60 cents oats-40 cents potatoes 40 cents barley ,$1 clover seed $7 timothy $2 hay $12 wool, per pound 30 cents lard, per pound 15 cents wine, per gallon $2.

Any cine can sec with half an eye that there is something wrong in this. Horses in Tippecanoe county are certainly not worth fifteen dollars a head more than horses in Fountain county, and there is certainly not the difference of thirty dollars in the value of mules. But that is the result of the 'Township Assessor's deliberation, and assessments are made accordingly. Consequently the good people of Tippecanoe County have to pay more taxes on the same kind of property than the fortunate inhabitants of Fountain county.

Of course the evil does not stop with two counties. There is a great diversity of opinion amongs the assessors of the different couniies of the State, and valuet get badly mixed. The burden of taxation is not borne equally, and the State is swindled..

It has been suggested that there should be aBoard of Equalization, to meet in Indianapolis soon after the first of January, to take the reports of the several counties and equalize the value of property. That would do, but it would be more expeditious, and much cheaper to require the Secretary of State to receive tlie reports, and governed by them, fix upon the proper average. At all events this matter furnishes some work

for-

fPrtaUn^iBp^ifonian. A review of th^rfmgc&TO^the printing business in Californii is given by the pin Frawtinnt Fidlrfin•! At the time of fold Uscovqgr in 1848 but me small ipapir was gmblisltMl in California, jditor ofhF uah was his own printer. In the winter of 1&49-60 three daily newspapers andtfiree job-prfnting offices, employed about forty printers at wages of §50* a week each, were established in San Francisco. In the spring and summer of 1S50 daily journals began to spring up over the State, and the journeymen printer^ n&t np wages? to «ixty flollara a week, ana then to two dollars pet IJ000 en*s j&hkhjpieb,, ruled ^generail until, 1856, when they were fixed at seventyfive cents per 1,000 for pieoe work and fifty dollars per week for day work, which ra'es have been maintained to the present time.

the

next General Assembly, |, I A TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR SCARE. Three and a half or four years ago a bank in this city purchased through a correspondent in New York a five per cent, certificate of Indiana State stock for ten thousand dollars. Shortly, after it was taken up by the Sinking Fund Board of Commissioners, and the transaction became a matter of official lustory. 4.

Some weeks ago, however, the man in whose name the certificate was registered, gave notice to the Agent of State in New York that the certificate had been lost, or tolen from him, and that he wanted to know about it. Inasmuch as this stock passed through several hands, there was something of a scare as soon as the matter became known, as some one would probably lose ten thousand dollars.

Fortunately the certificate was among those that the Finance committees of the General Assembly have neglected to destroy, and consequently the assignment and signatures are in an excellent state of preservation. The certificate was sent to New York, and the former owner was requested to come and see if hie could recognize his own signature, as well as the signatures and testimony of the witnesses. He looked at the "John Hancock"' and said it was1 his'n and finally admitted that he had sold the stock, but that it had slipped his mind! »r

THE POSTAL DELIVERY SYSTEM

Inaugurated in this city last July, has proved a great success. The actual increase of business has more than compensated for the change, and expense of bringing if about, and each month shows an increase over the month preceding.— In the month of November over one hun--dred and fifty thousand mail letters were delivered, and nearly fourteen thousand drop letters, and seventy-six thousand letters were collected.

Nineteen carriers are now employed.— In the business portion of the city each one makes five trips a day. On routes reaching to the limits of the city, from two to four trips are made.

By this system of delivering and collecting letters the force of clerks usually employed in postoffices is reduced, and about the same number of persons are employed on the routes. It now requires only one clerk—a lady—to attend to the delivery at the office.

Between two and three thousand letters boxes are attached to lamp post throughout the city and the remark, "going to the postoffice" has become obsolete.

J. C. B.

Sax dailies, two semi-weeklies, three tri-weeklies, twenty-eight weeklies and monthlies and oiie bi-monthly are now published in San Francisco, giving employment to about 400 printers. There are thirty-fonr book and job printing establishments, eleven of them using steam-power in their pressrooms.' The total labor bill for one of the most extensive job offices amounts to$45,000 gold pen annum (only gold rates are given in this article), and at least two newspapers are paying printers at the rate of $55,000 each year.

A Brave Woman.

The Portland Argus gives some facts relative to the suffering that attended the disaster to the schooner Emily Hillard, Capt. Trimbuls. "In

a

passage from

Bangor to New York this vessel was blown off, and after along and desperate contest with storm and billow succedeed in getting into Nassau. The The captain's wife was on board, and proved herself a heroine. She took her turn at the pumps regularly, and once, when the worn-out seamen declared they would pump no longer, she took an

ax

and threatened instant death to the first man who left his station. She carried her point, and the vessel and lives were thereby saved. The provisions ran short and were finally exhausted, and they were six days without a morsel of food. They had decided.to draw lots to see which one should die by his own hand for the others to eat, when a favorable wind came, and the vessel the next day reached Nassau. They were in a. terrible condition from their long suffering, and were reduced almost to skeletons."

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Fearful Treatment of a Drunken Wife. An iron mask for the cure of a drunken wife is among the latest novelties in England. In Jersey, last month, one Le Roy, a watchmaker, was arrested on charge of cruel treatment of his wife, and a mask with which he had covered her face was produced in court. It consisted of two iron rings a quarter of an inch thick, attached to each other by vertical bars of strong hoop iron, each an inch wide. One of the rings was about nine inches in diameter, and the other six inches, the smaller part resting upon tbe shouldere when the instrument was placed in position. The bars were about two inches apart, and to prevent the wearer getting anything to her mouth, a piece of iron was placed across two of the bars in front. It weighed two pounds. It turned out, however, that the woman was able to reverse the mask and drink a glass of spirits. The mask opened with a hinge in front, and was fastened behind with a padlock. The husband was fined 10s for the assaujt on his wife. The mask remains in the possession of the police.

MISSOURI was roughly treated during the war. Being a slaveholding State, she naturally gave powerfiil aid to the Southern Confederacy, and, under Quantrell and others of his kind, re-enacted the policy and the horrors that Stringfeliow and his followers initiated in Kansas.— Missouri was the occasion of the earliest decisive battles between Freedom and Slavery?—a fight that resulted in that miserable failure—a Compromise—'"the cause of all our woes." Missouri has passed through many strange and instructive vicissitudes, the most important in a legal view being that of her famous resident, Dred Scott—the most important in Congress being the attempted extension of her Compromise line to the Pacific Occan, white on the North and black on the South. During the late Rebellion, the loyal men of Missouri "fought the devil with fire she disfranchised Bebels, and braved even the animosity of Frank Blair. She was in downright earnest, and her hand was gloved in steel.

But the time of war and revenge is over and while other less earnest if not less brave people than hers are halting between two opinions and squandering precious time in doubt, Missouri comes bravely up to the true spirit of the hour. Her Slate Senate, by the gratifying vote of 25 to 5, has passed an amendment to her Constitution granting suffrage to colored men and restoring th_e_franchise_ to all of her formerly rebel citizens. It is a grand step forward—Impartial Suffrage and Universal Amnesty. We congratulate the brave men who have risen above the, poor policy of revenge and opened wide the door for Freedom* to all. This amendment must go to the people for ratification but we cannot doubt the result. Henceforth let the debatable ground be counted foremost in the array of the defenders of Liberty end Loyalty.

Singular Case of Somnambulism. The Archbishop of Bordeaux thus decribes a case of somnambulism in a young priest: He was in the habit of writing sermons when asleep, although a card was placed between his eyes and the note book, he continued to write vigorously After he had written a page requiring^ correction, a piece of blank paper of the' exact size w« substituted for his own manuscript, a 11J on that he made the corrections in the precise situation which they would have occupied on the Original page. A very astonishing part of this is that which relates to his writing music in his sleeping state, which it is said he did with perfect precision, lie asked for certain things, and saw and heard such things, but only such things as bore directly upon the subject of his thoughts. He detected the deceit when water was given to him instead of brandy which lie asked for. Finally, he knew nothing of all that had transpired when he awoke, but in his next paroxysm heremembered all accurately—and so lived a sort of double life, a phenomenon which is said to be universal in all the cases of exalted somnambulism. 1

The. Franklin Legacy.

In the year 1790 Benjamin Franklin left one thousand pounds sterling as a fund from which loans should be made, in sums not exceeding sixty pounds sterling, to "married artificers" under the age of twenty-five who should have served their apprenticeships in Philadelphia. These loans were to be made at the rate of five per cent, per annum, and to be secured by a bond signed by two responsible citizens as securities. "Dr. Franklin calculated that at the end of one hundred years the one thousand pounds thus lent at five per cent, compound interest would reach the sum of one hundred and thirty-one thousand pounds sterling, and therefore directed the city of Philadelphia to expend one hundred thousand pounds sterling in bringing the waters of Wissahickon creek by pipes into the town and ordered the remaining thirty-one thousand pounds sterling to be let out at «mpound interest for another hundred years. At the end of the second hundred years he calculated the fund would amount to four million and sixty-one thousand pounds sterling, and this sum he directed to be dueled between the city of Philadelphia and the State of Pennsylvania, one million and sixty-one thousand pounds to the city, and three million pounds to the State.

On the supposition that the original thousand pounds sterling had been augmenting at five per cent- per annum, the fund now should reach the sum of £49,560 sterling, or §247,800, whereas the investment on December 31st, 1S69, was only $40,160. The reasons of this great falling off are not difficult to ascertain. The abatement of one per cent, interest was not sufficient inducement,and the conditions required of the borrower were too onerous hence very few "married artificers', availed themselves of the Franklin Fnnd, and the income was invested in worthless securities.

About eighteen months ago, eighteen or twenty persons left the Presbyterian Church in Jefferson City, because a colored man attended and was permitted to sit in a pew. The other day a colored minister preached in this same church by invitation of the pastor.

tnir*, OM Nat«rV 1. istian was tiMMTMp a m.n. He was nearly deaf, 'wd cd to sit facing the ooggre4 iider th« pnlmt wttflThis :lirieted upward w#aid the !ieMrmon moved him oonone time he. said to him'rvha^ten dollars again he ive fifteen." At the dose of

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etr-trm «wcl:^{ 8laerab v£ h*lf: said,

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the appc :t he was very much moved, and thought he would give fifty dollars. Now, the boxes were passed. As they moved along his charity began to ooze out. He :came down from fifty to twenty, to ten, to five, to sero. He concluded that he would not give anything. "Yet," he said, "this won't do—1 Sin ltiYbad fix. -My* heroes of heaven may be in this question. This covetousness will be my rum." The boxes were getting nearer and nearer. The crisis was upon him. WThat should- he do? The box was now under his chin— all the congregation were looking. He had been holding his pocket book in his hand during this soliloqny, which was half audible, though in his deafness he did not know that he was heard. In the agony of the final moment, he took his pocket-book and laid it in the box, saying to himself as he did it—"Now squirm, old naturM"

A tiottschalk Rontancc. A correspondent of the Springfield Republican contributes the following reminiscence of the great pianist: "The reminiscences of this distinguished musical author and artist, in a late number of the Republican, remind me of an incident in his singularly checkered career, strikingly illustrative at once of his romantic love of adventure, and the generous character of his impulses. It was some fifteen years since, and Gottschalk was in the Spanish capital. His concerts had produced a decided sensation —in fact, had taken the people quite by storm. The furore occasioned by his success was very general it was such as easily to fascinate the mind of an imaginative and impressible young Spanish girl, and one such was caught by the splendid glamour. She was confined to her sick chamber, even to her bed her friends considered her near her end. But she was enthusiastically fond of music, and the fame of this celebrated young artist had inspired her with a most passionate desire to hear him. How idle the hope! Her people were in very humble circumstances, and accordingly were not in a condition to compensate the musician for so great pains as paying her a visit and giving a concert for her exclusive benefit would involve. But she would take no denial she felt that she must hear this man before she died. Could she but once be entranced by his delicious, dreamy music, she could say, 'Welcome death!' "Her requests were made known to the great pianist. To the utter surprise of all he at once gave orders for his instrument to be conveyed to her bumble abode, and lie himself straightway followed it.— Then by the bedside of the dying girl he proceeded to discourse such music as only he, perhaps, under the strange circumstances could. He was in his element. His fair listener, it need not be said, was in hers. Nay, she was only too happy.— Under the stress of the rapturous and grateful emotions inspired by this kind and gratuitous service on the part of the distinguished and beautiful stranger, the frail tabernacle containing that passionate young nature was shaken, and the enfranchised spirit had flown ere lie finished his final chord." ***1

MR. BURLINGAME was on the point of returning to the United States when the mission, in the performance of which he ably acted until the day of his death, was unexpectedly tendered him by the Prince Rung, and accepted by him after consultation with his colleagues. It is related that "Prince Kung came in solemn state to the United States Legation, and presented the Imperial decree, which bears date Nov. 26, 1867, and is written on heavy yellow parchment, wrapped in yel low brocade satin, the Imperial color, and encased in a yellow box. He has given him the title of Embassador, and clothed him with the most ample powers." He however preferred the title of Envoy, and was accordingly commissioned Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, or in Chinese, Poo-an-chew (Burlingame, Anson), Chin-chi-choong-jen-tachen (Minister of Heavy Responsibilities). ,1 urn'. 1 4

Personal.

Senator Brownlow's voice is quite gone, T. W. Robertson, the dramatist, is sick. Natchez is looking at Mrs. Scott-Sid-dons.

Boston snubs New York by adulating Fecliter. Dr. Livingstone's brother thinks the explorer safe yet.

Ristori is playing in Florence, Italy, to small audiences. The trial of McFarland will begin on the 7th of March. \f .1,

The New York Sun calls Mr. Seward "a thorough Democrat." John Nunan, a well-known actor, died in New York on Thursday..

An English physician Is prosecuting the Duchess of Somerset for libel. Gov. Jewell, of Connecticut, has disposed of his interest in the Hartford Post.

Mrs. Waskburne is credited with a diplomatic success at Paris. It was a

sirIw v,r Miss Julia Coffinbury has been appointed Commissioner of Deeds of Wisconsin.

Santa Anna is stumping along through his seventy-second year of revolutionary existence.

The Seward banquet is set for next Thursday evening, at the Astor House, New York.

DeGroat,, the Cincinnati favorite, and Mary Preston, are performing at Fort Scott, Kansas.

Mrs. McDaniel, who lives near Bennettsville, S. C., recently gave birth to five children.

Mrs. General Williams, formerly Mrs. Senator Douglas, lias presented her lord with a boy.

London has discovered a Mordannt that fixes dye of fast colors 011 the Prints of Wales.

Gossips link the name of Gen. Sheridan and Miss Harris, a Washington belle and blonde, in their matrimonial talk.

Hon. Morton McMichael has been elected President of the Philadelphia Union Leage, vice Horace Binney, Jr., deceased.

Bev. Mrs. Phoebe A. Hannaford, has received and accepted a call to the pastorship of a Univcrsalist church in New Haven.

The wedding of W. Scott Smith, a wellknown Washington correspondent, 'and Miss Annie M. Dubant comes off at Washington on March 1.

General Rosecrans Is in Washington canvassing the Senate and House with reference to his railroading and mining schemes in Mexico and California.

Thomas Walker's tomahawk has been found in Kentucky. Also his powderhorn. Thomas Walker was Boone's predecessor on the "bloody ground." 5' 'An Austrian lady of rank recently appeared at a court ball in a dress so shockingly low in the neck that the Empress caused her to be banished to a country seat in Hungary.

The Crown #rinCess Louisa of Denmark is described as the most lovely royal dame in Europe, and yet she is brntally treated by her husband. Her father is the King of Sweden. ..

MONTANA. ———

INDIAN NEWS.

HELENA, MARCH 28.—Last Thursday a small party of intoxicated Indians came to a ranch 20 mileS from town, and their demands for whisky being denied, destroyed most of the furniture about the premises and left the three white men. They barricaded against the Indians, who returned in a short time, but were unable to enter the house. They stole 15 head of horses. The whites recaptured the horses next day. The Indians threatened further violence. ———<>———

CHfdmTI.

SOUTHERN RAILROAD BILL. CINCINNATI, March 1.—The Cincinnati Southern Railroad bill was defeated in the Kentucky Senate to-day by, a,. tote of 22 to 13.

By Telegraph.

APOUX. ran.

IsDMirirocn, March 1. —Fixe »•. Thornjown, Indiana, destroyed the large flouring mill of McKenzie & Co. Loss $20,000. Insured $16,000, $10,000 of which in Underwriters.

ANOTHER

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HADPfOI.

ATTEMPT TO BURN THE COURIER

OFFICE.

MADISON, IND., March 1.—Incendiaries made another attempt to burn the Courier printing office last night, and the lower Seminary. The fire in both places was extinguished without much damage.

FORElGHr.

THE ONEIDA.'

LONDON, March 1.—Dispatches just received announce 56 lives saved at the sinking of the Oneida.

THE CAMBRIA AND THE SAPPHO. LONDON, March 1.—Ashbury refuses to race the Cambria against the Sappho, unless the latter allows time in favor of the Cambria, to offset the difference in tonnage. ,,

THE BANK OF HOLLAND.

AMSTERDAM, March 1.—The Bank of Holland has reduced its minimum rate of discount to four per cent. The opinion is general that other continental banks will follow the example.

SPORTING CIRCLES INDIGNANT. LONDON, March 1.—There is much indignation in sporting circles at the result of the boat race yesterday between Sadler and Heath. It is supposed the result was pre-arranged between the parties, for betting purposes. REPORTED SUCCESSOR OF MR. BURLIN­

GAME.

ST. PETERSBURG, March 1.—It Is reported that J. McLeary Brown, Seoretary of the Chinese Embassy, will be appointed to the place made vacant by the death of Anson Burlingame.

MARDIGRAS FESTIVITI IS.

PARIS, March.l.—Notwithstanding the announcement that theMardi Gras festivities would be suppressed by the police, at this hour, one o'clock, the fat ox boeuf gras procession has just entered the court yard of the Tuilleries. Great crowds of people arc gathered on the line of march, but no disturbance of any kind has occurred.

THE REMAINS OF MR. BURLING AMR ST. PETEftsBURG, March 1.—The remains of the late Anson Burlingame will be sent to the United States via Berlin.— The widow and sons of the deceased will remain in St. Petersburg. The -disease of which Burlingame died was inflamation of the lungs. -,a .1

CHINESE EMBASSY.-*^**?

The Chinese Embassadors continue their negotiations with the Russian Government.

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I EXCITEMENT IN TIPI'ERARY. DUBLIN, March 1.—Intense excitement in the Tipperary district arising out of an election scene. The candidate to succeed the Fenian convict O'Donavan Rossa, Kitcham, who was supported by Fenians, and known to be Rossa's choice was defeated by only four votes. The successful candidate, Mr. Herrons, who was present at the polls, was only saved from the mob by the police.

An attempt was made to attack him at Cloumel, and he was pursued far beyond the town by bands of Rosse's friends. Armed police continued their protection until he passed the limit of the town.?

NEW YORK.

TIIE MORDAUNT DIVORCE CASE. NEW YORK, March 1.—The latest foreign mail brings details of the opening of the famous Mordaunt divorce case, in which the Prince of Wales appeared on the stand. Witnesses were quite emphatic as to the insanity of the defendant, and some of the most extraordinary evidence ever given in a court room was elicited on this occasion.

GERMAN COLONY.

The German colony that left Chicago a short time since under charge of Carl Wulsten, started from the end of the Kansas Pacific railroad to-day for their destination, West Mountain Valley, Colorado. All well and in good spirits. I' THE GOLD PLOT

The Testimony before the special Congressional Committee in regard to the glod plot is published. It is voluminous, and clearly indicates the cause of the panic and the untruth of the stories regarding complicity of the administration.

The Times, this morning, in reviewing the report says that the whole story comes to this: Boutwell undoubtedly actcd as he believed, in the ^interest of the public. Fisk and Gould thought they going to make a fortune by sending up the price of gold, and they believed that Corbin would further their schemes. They also tried to got General Butterfield on their side, and it must be owned that he does not come out of the office with perfectly clean hands. Fisk and his associates did not find the plot work well, but Gould modestly declined to say how much they made out of it on the whole. Finally, the President and or two others who were scandalously traduced at the time, are shown to have act' ed throughout with the highest dignity.

CITY HOSPITALITIES.

Mayor Hall has returned the resolution of the Common Council tendering Mr. Seward the hospitalities of the city, saying it does not require his approval, but at the same time calls attention to a provision in the charter forbidding expenditure for celebrations without a threefourth vote.

CUBAN EXPEDITION.

Another Cuban expedition is reported about to leave the country. Four hundred Cubans and others arc said to have left here Saturday under Colonels Harper and Pomero.

BROOKLYN NAVY YARD.

One thousand men discharged from the Brooklyn navy yard are to resume work on Wednesday, by special orders from Washington to Capt. Strong, in command of the yard.

ORDER VACATED.

Judge Spencer yesterday vacated an order of attachment in the case of Henry Clews & Co., vs Livermore & Co. The cause of the action arose out of the gold excitemcnt in September last.

COLD WEATHER ABROAD.'

Letters from St. Petersburg state that never in the memory of man has more intense cold been experienced than that to which the people are at this moment exposed in Russia, Poland, and in all Northern countries. A number of deaths from congelation are registered by Russian journals, among them of several sentries frozen at their posts. .. ..

THE FULLERTON CASE.

The ca*« of Judge William Fullerton, which originated during the investigations into the alleged whisky frauds on the part of ex-commlssioner Rollins and Harland, was called for trial before Judge Woodruff yesterday, and was postponed until Monday next, on account of the illness of Charles O'ConBer, 'one of Fullerton'" counsel, who isconfined to his residence on Washington Heights with small pox.

MISSING STEAMERS.

No intelligence has yet been received either directly or from commanders of passing vessels, of either the City of Boston, or of the Bremen steamer Smidt, which latter vessel cleared at Bremen for this port on the 20tli ult and sailed on the 22d, and has consequently now occupied thirty-eight days on the passage.

COLUMBUS.*

DISASTER AT SUA.

Loss of the U. 8. Steamer Oneida

ISO LIVES LOST.

I WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.

The State Department has received a dispatch from Minister Motley, .at London, stating that the British steamer Bombay collided with the United State? steamer Oneida near Yokohoma. The litter went down, and it is reported 120 lives were lost.

The following is the list of the officers of the Oneida as it appears on the books at the Navy Department:

Commander, Edward P. Williams: Lt. Commanders, Wm. F. Stuart and Alonzo W. Mulduar Surgeon, James Luddard Assistant Surgeon, Edward Frothingham Passed Assistant Paymaster, Thomas L. Tnllock, Jr. Masters, Walter Sargent, John R. Pheland, Isaac J. Yates and Chas. B. Arnold 1st Assistant Engineer, in charge, N. B. Litig 1st Assistant En'gineer, Hariland Bustow 2d Assistant Engineers, John Torrence and Charles W. C. Senter Ensign, J. W. Cowie Carpenter, J. D. Primer Carpenter's clerk,

Wm. W. Crownishield Paymaster's clerk, Win. C. Thomas. The Oneida was a third rate vessel carrying eight guns.

CHICAGO.

FIRE AT THE ILLINOIS i'EMALK COLLE(iK.

CHICAGO, Feb. 28—A special says about nine o'clock this morning the Illinois Female College, at Jacksonville, was discovered to be on fire, and before the flames could be arrested the entire main building was destroyed. The building belonged to the Illinois Conference Methodist Episcopal Church. A large wing structure was saved uninjured. The furniture was all saved, but considerably damaged. There were about 150 young lady pupils in the building at the timo the fire was discove'ed, all of whom escaped uninjured and also saved their wearing apparel, books, Cc. IXJSS about $40,000, with insurance of $35,000 a* follows: Home, New York, $5,000 Republic, Chicago, $10,000 .Etna, Hartford. $10,000 North American, Philadelphia, $5,000 Security, New York, $5,000^.

1 WASHINGTON.

THE ONEIDA DISASTER.

WASHINGTON, March 1.—The ^Navy Department has nothing by which to relieve or allay the terrible suspeiv-e of those most interested in the particular.-- of the Oneida disaster.

A letter was received here by Collector Tullock, from his son, Paymaster Tnllock, of the Oneida, dated January 2.^1, in which he mentioned the home pennant had been hoisted and farewells made with their friends of the squadron who wero to remain on the station. Admiral Porter says the present complement of the Oneida will not fall much short of 0110 hundred and sixty souls.

The Navy Department has not received any particulars of the Oneida disaster. It is impassible to obtain any perfect list of the officers and crew of the vessel, for fhe reason that she was about to leave China for the United ^States.— Some transfers both among officers and men of the squadron to which she belonged probably took place, particularly in the case of men who had yet to serve some time of enlistment, while»others belonging to other United States vessels of the same squadron, whose terms had expired or were about to expire, would be transferred to the Oneida for home pissage.

MARRIAGE.

President Grant, Secretaries Fish and Boutwell, and several Congressmen, today, attended the marriage of Winliehl Scott Smith, a prominent newspaper correspondent, with Miss Dubont, of Washington.

PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT. The Public Debt statement shows a decrease of $6,500,000. The amount of coin In the Treasury is 8102,000,000, and of currency $10,000,000.

Ziai CHICAGO.

Jrove.

THE BIBLE QUESTION.

COLUMBUS, O., March 1.—The Supreme Court to-day granted application for writ of error in the Cincinnati Bible in School case, but set the case for hearing on the 2d Tuesday in December. This leaves the case so that the Bible can be read In schools nntil that time at least. FC K, I WOMAN SUFFRAGE BILL.

I DIED. CHICAGO, March 1.—Rev. Cornelius Smearius, a Jesuit Priest, Pastor of tho church of the Holy Name, in this city, died at his residence this morning.— Father Smearius bore an excellent reputation as a man and Christian. '1

FIRE.

The residence of George Baker, near Quincy, Ills., burned on Monday night and two children had a yarrow escape of being burned to death. Loss $30,000.

FROM PKMMNA.

Letters fiom Pembina dated Feb. 17th State that Col. Bolton, of Dennis' surveying party, has a force of loyal English and Canadians, with a liberal sprinkling of Indians, and was moving upon Fort Garry, where President Kiell was ready to receive them. The following arc the other provisional officers elected with Riell: James Reese, Chief Justice Thos. Bunker, Secretary of State W. B. O'Donahue, Secretary of the Treasury.

The New Nation insiders the bill of Rights adopted as iPvery moderate one. A general .amnesty for political offences would soon be published. Gov. McTavish had been set at liberty.

The convention appointed Judge Black, Rev. Wm. Rice and Alfred Scott delegates in behalf of the settlement.

WHEELING.

TIIE ENFRANCHISING AMENDMENT.

WHEELING, W. VA March 1.—Tho joint resolution proposing an amendment to the State Constitution so as to enfranchise negroes and ex-Confederates, passed the Senate to-day by a vote of 18 to4. It was passed by the House on Friday by a vote of 06 to 18. It has to be concumd in by the Legislature next winter, and then submitted to the people in October, 1871. Under it the enfranchised Confederates will first vote in October, 1872.

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DYERS.

-QYEING, SCOURING^

The House te-dav reconsidered ye-ter-day's action on the Woman Suffrage bill, and allowed it to be printed

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H. F. Reiner's Dye ifousc, Main St., bet. 6th and 7th.

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