Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 June 1870 — Page 1
WITH sincere regret we learn that the office of the St. Louis <Republican> was entirely destroyed by fire on Tuesday night, involving a loss of about $150,000. ———<>———
NOTICING that a paper mill at Cohoes has just filled an order for a sheet of pa« ,per four feet wide and twenty-five miles long, the Cincinnati Times remaps: "We know, now, that ANDY JOHNSON is about to return to-political life."
TIIE Superintendent of Public Instruction in Delaware reports that one-third 'of the entire population are unable to read and write. Whereupon an editor who has the ill manners to "twit on facts" remarks that Delaware is the State in which whipping posts, "white men's parties" and Democratic victories abound.
TIIE Cincinnati Chronicle learns that the hale and hilarieu?] HALSTEAD, of the Commercial, is going to Europe to recuperate. His robust figure has become bowed with eare, of late, and his raven locks are powdered with premature frosts of age. The Chronicle piously hopes that he may find abroad the-recreation which his physical and moral system so greatly need. -u
THE Charleston (S. C.) JRepublican recommends that those who intend to emigrate to the South should form themselves into companies for mutual protection, and thus go prepared,to start communities, in which they can at once enjey the advantage* of a well ordered society. This system of emigration by colo- tion. nieh has been practiced to a large extent ter is not a candidate, by emigrants going to the far West, and has, we believe, proved to be uniformly successful.
A LADY CORRESPONDENT of the Woman's Advocate writes in favor of limited .marriages, for a time, running from one to three years, with privilege of renewal, of mutual consent. An editor, who passed some months in "Dixie" during the war, remarks that this plan originated •with our soldies in the late unpleasantmess, thousands of whom married for '"tta-ee years or during the war," but the privilege of "renewal" was seldom taken advantage of. It didn't work to the entire satisfaction of the ladiw interested.
THE attention of the Land-grabber's Attorney and his home organ is called to this statement which ve find j{i a leading journal: -r
A subscriber at Meridian, Nebraska, says: "Send several thousand of your poor people out here and they can find homes, although (his giving half of the land to railroads is playing out homesteads very fast."
The policy of the Atorncy and the organ is to give the land to rich corporations at the rate of 60,000,000 acres in a slice. Homes foe the poor do not enter into thoir calculations.
THE nationalities of the new Board of Assistant Aldermen of New York city are given by the Herald as follows: Natives of Ireland, 12 Americans of Irish parentage, 3 New Yorkers born of Americans, 8 American carpet-baggers, 1 natives of Germany, 2. Of the 21 members 7 are liquor dealers, 5 gain a livelihood as "ward politicians," 3 are contractors, 2 are butchers, 1 is in the coal trade, and 1 is a horse dealer. In view of these facts, the Herald proclaims that New York is "the glory of Ireland." Then why not adopt tho suggestion of a Chicago paper and change ono letter in its name, and call it New Cork.
WHEN land grants are asked for, the presumption is that Congressmen are going to cede.—Jourml.
The presumption, in such cases, is that Mr. VOOIUIKES will voto tocedo, or give, all the land that is asked for by tho railroad monopolists, and that the Journal will dtrfend him for so doing. And there is an equally strong presumption that Messrs. KERR, NIBLACK and IIOLMAN will, as heretofore, vovc and speak against such measures, as will all their Republican colleagues from Indiana. And our '•neighbor will have the pleasant task of condemning KERR, NIBLACK and IIOL-
MAN, in defending DANIEL—acrificing three Democratic M. C's to save ono I
Sonic Sol emu Fuels.
The dry goods trade in Indianapolis differs slightly from that department of business in Terro Haute. In tho former city it has a solemnizing inlluence, atend--ency towards the pulpit, nnd we read that
Mr. DIXON, of the Trade Palace, will soon retire from business and commence studying for tho ministry.
Our dry goods men have not time for (hose serious reflections which culminate in suck radical changes. Always busy with the grand rush of trade, their thought'' seldom invade the pulpit and never dwell on ihc bar, or other "learned professions."
In cities where trade is so dull that proprietors and clerks have abundant time for study and meditation, it is reasonable and "proper that a taste for theological studies should be aequired but we will not complain if the activity of trade, here, continues to preclude all hope of recruiting the ranks of the clergy from dry goods circles.
AN editor of a newspaper receives more •ratuitous assistance than any other indiidual. He has more clearly defined lines of policy ljjid out" for him than would furnish every journal of every posrfble political complexion in a State with editorial matter for years. In view ot all the various lights in which subjects are presented to him, he must be pardoned if he gives up in despair the pleasure lie might derive from pleasing every one, and takes his own course. We have endeavored to put this as wildly as possible. More violelSK men might say something profane.—Ft. Wayne Gazsttc.
The ambition of any man who is fit for an editor should bo to please himself. The same remark applies to other avocations. He
who
his own
tried
succeeds in maintaining
self-respect
cannot long lack the
respect of others. He who, having no clearly defined idea of his own duties, caters to the whims, prejudices or opinions of the "dear five hundred friends" who are roady to smother him with an immeasurable redundancy of gratuitous advice, will soon come to-despise himself, and will be an object of undisguised con tempt to the very "friends" whom he has
to please. A sensible editor, like a isible man in any other business, will j.oJen to advice from those who have the
right
to offer it, and may frequently derive much profit from the practical suggestions of men who could not, by any possibility, write a grammatical sentence: but the editor who follows counsel that doea not [commend itself to his own approval, who lets others mark out Ins course and march him along in will march to professional disgrace
id ruin. We have seen more than one
B3ich
victim, meekly submitting to the dictatorial airs of some shallow-brained fellow whom money had elevated to poligotl or social influence. And there isn't a sadder sight under heaven than to brokeirains playing second-fiddle to money, 'uc. TT* how common it is. Even ZACK oneraiPUSB subsidise some of theurnatistic tafeatin thcwiptry!
TERMS $2.00 A YEAR}
WE shall not trouble the EXPRESS any more.—J ournal. Bless your simple soul, Journal, you re no "trouble" to the EXPRESS. Only little amusement that's all.
THE Volks Blati, our excellent Gorman cotemporary, appears on the high tide of prosperity, and proposes to move on to still better achievements. It has our most cordial wishes for its permanent success.
THE following is from the Bloomington Progress of the 25tli inst. It cornfirms a statement made, some time since, in the EXPRESS:
The Bloomfield Tribune and Bedford Newt assert that Morton C. Hunter is a candidate for
the
Congressional nomina-
This is a mistake. General xlun-
WE HAVE the excellent authority of the Indianapolis News for the alarming statement that the stench arising frpm the
Illinois street gutters is "breeding a pestilence" in that city. Under these afflictive circuinstanees we tender to our friends of the Capital City the hospitalities of Terre Haute, a locality never invaded by '-pestilence" and rarely visited by the Grim Messenger..
THE Democrats of the Cleveland (Ohio) district, to the number of seven hundred have called upon a colored man named WM. E. AMBUSH, to be their candidate' for Congress, and Mr. A. has accepted. The Indianap'olis Journal remarks that 'this will not prove to be the first time the Democrats have been caught by an ambush. Upon several occasions large companies of Democrats in the South were similarly annoyed."
THE Journal, in a valadictory article that graces yesterday's issue,takes another occasion to repeat the monstrous assertion that the people of this district are in favor of the land-grant system. If our neighbor really believes that stuff, we hope a resolution in support of the position of VOORIIEES, and denouncing the action of KERR, NIBLACK and HOLM AN, will be brought before the Democratic Congressional Convention on the 30tli promixo.
Is there no ipember of the present Council with nerve enough to move for the permanent improvement of Wabash street?—Journal.
There is a great deal of superfluous muscle in the Democratic portion "of the present Council," but we can't tell how they are off for "nerve." From the sleepy manner in which they take the Journal's lashings, wo should infer that their temperaments are not what medical men would call "nervous."
A Matter of Muscle.
The "great Democratic majority" at the recent judicial election in New York, continues to occupy the attention of the Democratic press. We have no doubt that the majority might have been twice, or even ten times as large had tho virtuous managers of that party so desired, A strong, healthy Democrat can vole a hundred times a day as well as five times, and Democratic majortic-s in the Empire State arc simply a question of physical exertion. That is their "moral significance nothing more
THE Journal commences this campaign, as it went through the last, by answering all charges against the political record of D. W. VooRUEia M. C. with low-bred abuse of the person whose duty it is to make those charges. This is, the Democratic idea of journalism, and we shall leave to our neighbor a monopoly of the system. If VOORHEES is satisfied with the style of defence which tacitly admits all that is chargcd against him, it furnishes additional evidence of those grand qualities which his organ claims for him.
MR. BOUTWELL has been reckoning without his host if the Richmond Dispatch is right. That journal asserts that at the close of 1832 the General Government was indebted to Virginia, on account of the war of 1S12, four hundred and eighty-three thousand seyen hundred and fifty-eight dollars and that with the interest" accrued since that date, the debt now amounts to the snug little sum of
one
million and a half. If this claim can be established and it must, of course, be paid and it would be just as well for the Secretary of the Treasury to have a gcueral overhauling of the old books of the United States.
Congressional Convention. THE call for the Republican Congressional Convention, to meet in this city on Wednesday .Tunc 15th, is published in this issue. It will be the duty of the del egatci who will assemble on that occasion to nominate a successor to the preseut Member ofCongress from this districtIt is not possible to over-estimate the importance of making a good selection. And by this we mean not merely a good man, but a strong candidate, one who will be able to command the united and hearty support of tho party. With such a can didate and a fair election the Republicans will certainly carry the district which was lost, two years ago, by palpable fraud
Some Interesting Figures. Tho Land-Grabbers Attorney's home organ wants "half a dozen railroad com panies" endowed with the public lands at the rate of 60,000,000 acres to a company. This little donation would amount to only 360,000,000 acres, or just enough to furnish 2,250,000 familes with homesteads of 160 acres each! These are small figures in the estimation of the Attorney and his employers! Estimating these 2,250,000 families at five persons per family, we find the Land-grabbers' Attorney, through
the
Land-grabbers' Attorney, through
his home organ, advocating the surrender to railroad monopolies the land which the Almighty intended as homes for 12,750,000 human beings, equal to four times the population of the United States when the country achieved its independence, or one-third of the present population of all the States and Territories.
And the man who thus deliberately proposes to rob the poor of God's gift to Poverty; the man who, as a Representative of this district in the Congress of the United States, lends his influence in favor of despoiling millions of their homes to enrich "soulless corporations," is endorsed by the Democratic organs of his district and will be nominated, without opposition, for re-election. Such is modern
for
"Democracy."
reflection. Such is modern
THE article on "Convent life," which lHE arucic wu appears in this issue, is published at the an article addressed the EXPRESS with request of a Sister of Providence, in ac- these "dear old words:" "Good bye." cordance with our custom of giving all From which we naturally infer that the Bides a fair hearing.
THE home organ of DAHIEL concludes
organ is about to leave town—a bereavement for which we are totally unprepared.
eDIANAPOLIS.
EMTORS AND PUBLISHERS CONVENTION. LVDIANAPOLIS, May 27.—The annual convention of the State Editors and Publishers' Association met in this city today. Resolutions were adopted to the effect thai our Senators and Representatives in Congress .be requested to use their
influence
to secure a reduction of
duty on printing paper to ten per cent., and that the Legislature be petitioned to pass laws requiring State laws to be published in one pajx-r of each political party in each county. EMMET GUARDS ORDERED TO MALONE.
The Evening News says the Emmet Guards received a dispatch this morning ordering them to report at Malone, on the line, without arms. A meeting is bcig held to night to take the matter into consideration.
CHICAGO.
A NEG110 KILLED FOR TiSfi CENTS. CHICAGO, May 27.—On the 25th, in the
town of Marcelline, Adams county, ^Ills., Frank Anderson, a young man of a highly respectable family, shot and instantlykilled a negro named Thomas Armstead. The trouble arose about a wager off ten cents, which was-lost" by Anderson. He mid it 'and immediately went to- his louse, got a revolver and returned to where Armstead was and demanded a return of the money, which Armstead refused, whereupon Anderson drew lus revolver and fired at Armstead with the result stated. Anderson is in jail.
HARTFORD.
PROPOSITION FOR A NEW STATE HOUSE. HARTDOKD, CONN., May 27.—At a special town meeting a vote was passed authorizing an appropriation of IP-500,000 for building a new State House in this city, provided the Constitutional amendment making Hartford the Capital of the State be adopted.
QUEBEC.
THE LOSS BY THE GREAT FIRE. QUEBEC, Mav 25.— The loss by the great fire here* foots up five hundred thousand dollars, about half covered with insurance. Four hundred and nineteen houses, a foundry, potash factory, two ships and a large quantity of lumber were destroyed.
TIIE WICKEDEST HOUSE IN SEW YORK.
Brief Chapter in tho Life John Allen.
The wickedest house in New York has fallen before the march of demolition.— Tnis edifice was for many years known as 302 Water street, and it was a miserable habitation—a habitation in which lived one John Allen, who for a
long
and
time was
the proprietor of one of^ the vilest dens that ever cursed this city._ Who John Allen is, is a question long since been settled. Allen, some time during the year 1868, macw professions of religion. He asserted that, like Saul of Tarsus, he had been suddenly converted, and that from that time henceforth he had resolved to lead a life of Christian purity. How long he persisted in this life of Christian»virtue is well known. The Howard Mission folk took possession of this place, and at once began a series of noonday and Sunday afternoon prayer and exhortation meetings there. Among the devout ones was John Allen| himself. He made speeches on many cccasions, and constan tly asserted that he had resolved to leave his evil ways and become a Christian man
brother. But John failed. He
fell from grace, and in his fall was involved the happiness-of many men and women who had come to consider John as a prophet. His fall was considered a dire calamity in Water street, and though he franklv confessed that he had failed in his fidelity in the religious principles he had espoused, many persons clustered about him and made every effort to keep him from being a positive backslider.
Emerging from the religious enthusiasm which had-so long encompassed his house, and assuring the pious gentlemen and ladies of the Howard mission that he was not so much converted as they thought he was, he offered to rent his place to them for a certain amount of money. Here it was that the business genius of the financial John manifested itself. The offer was accepted, and minion for the reform of the fallen women of Water street was at once established—John and his wife (he has taken another wife since) being retained as superintendents Qf the establishment. It is hardly necessary to say that the scheme failed. It did fail. John Aliens piety was not equal to the emergency. And now, the only relic to be seen of the Water street reformation is to be found at Kit Burns' rat pit, where the speculative Kit does a bigger business than he ever did before the pious people came down and bought him .partially out.
John looks bade with the greatest satisfaction upon hi* piooR experience, feel-, ing that he lost nothing by his, sudden religions conversion, and that hisbank..account ia^TOUch larger than it was. before he filmed an intimate acquaintance with ,ih« people of the.
CAW AD A.
THIS FENIAN RAID
TORONTO, May 25.—Considerable' ex citement still exists in regard to the Fenian raid, but the government appears well
WE UNDERSTAND that it is the inten- advised of all movements and is fully pre«nn nffamnta of inVaainn
tion of a prominent friend of DANIEL JO bring into the Democratic County Con' vention, on the 18th proximo, a resolution endorsing DANIEL'S championship of the confirms the belief that Fenians are deter- ..... minon r»n a mrwpmpnt. nil the eastern
land-grabbers. If this should be done, we trust the Democracy of Vigo will come squarely "up to the scratch," and endorse not only the 60,000,000-acre vote of our M.-C., but the 360,000,000-acre proposi tion of his home organ. It would be in teresting to see the Democracy go to the people on a proposal to give to "soulless corporations" the farms that God made for 11,250,000 human beings!
WILL the Express never find out about the 80,000 Democratic majority in the recent New York State election?—Journal.
Tiie EXPRESS did "find out" all there was to be found out about the New York election immediately after it occurred, and we gave our readers much fuller information thereof than has yet appeared in the Journal, as our flips will show.— Had it not been for the extreme heat that prevailed on electton day, whereby the labors of "repeaters" were much retarded, the "Democratic majority" in New York might have reached 150,000. For, as we suggested yesterday, a sound, healthy Democrat can, under favorable circumstances, be voted a hundred times a day. But when the mercury is above 90° and whisky is dealt out too lavishly, your honest Democratic "repeater" will some times give out on the 20th to 30tli vote. Even Mr. SEYMOUR'S "friends," the orphan asylum-burners, women-hangers and baby-murderers, find their faith severely tried by the time they have cast three ballots at every Democratic precinct in New York City unless the weather, and circumstances generally, are unusually auspicious.
VaI.
pared Tor any attempts at invasion. Vol unteer forces are prepared to move at once if required.
MONTREAL, May 25.—News received
mined on a movement on the eastern frontier. A large number of men have assembled and are parading close to the lines. They had pitched on a patrol a mile from Pigeon Hill, at noon, and shortly before that a special train was at Pottsdam Junction with 250 armed Fe^ nians on the way to St. Albans to move on St. ArmaudCentre through|Pigeon Hill.
The Fenians are also said to have cut the telegraph wires at White Hall, and the last report is they are actually on the frontier in force. Instructions have been sent to General Lindsay to take active steps for the defense of the frontier. A considerable force left here yesterday afternoon for the frontier under command of Lieutenant Colonel Smith.
OTTAWAT, May 25.—The United States Government has 150 regular troops on the way to Ogdensburg.
Four hundred Fenians were left behind to-day at Rome for want of accomodations.
PRESCOTT, May 25.—A large force of volunteers including artillery are under arms here.
ST. ALBANS, May 25.—About half-past eleven o'clock this forenoon the Fenians, who ha3 been for several hours previous, busy unpacking their arms and otherwise getting ready for action at Hubbard's Corner, half a mile beyond Franklin, took up line of march, and when they arrived near the house of A1 vin Richards, about twenty rods this side of the border, they halted and Gen. O'Neill made a speech.
The advance was then resumed by flank on the open road, and as Captain Cronan's company passed Richards' house and were descendeng a little hill towards the line, they were surprised by a sharp volley from some Canadian troops whose position had been concealed. The fire was instantly returned by Cronan's men, and quite a sharp fire kept up for some time. The Canadians were posted behind rocks and trees, and had of course the advantage of the boys in green. It is reported one Fenian was killed and Captain Cronan wounded in the thigh.
The skirmish was witnessed by quite a number of citizens. United States Marshal Foster and Deputy Marshal Foley took commanding positions part way up the hill, and were under fire all the time.
About, one o'clock when O'Neill had gone to the right of his command, General Poster had his close carriage brought ear position and immediately arrestee! General O'Neill by virtue of the President's proclamation.
The General said he refused to be arrested, and had forces which he would use for his protection. The United States Marshal seeing a lot of Fenians close at hand, threw open the carriage door, and with the help of Foley thrust the Fenian leader into the back seat. The officials leaped into their seats, started their horses and left in hot haste.
The General arrived at the WeldonHouse in this village at four o'clock. O'Neill was soon after arraigned before United States Commissioner Jacob M. D. Smalley, for violation of the neutrality laws. He waived examination, and in default of twenty thousand dollars bail was taken to Burlington this evening to be committed.
The arrest of General O'Neill has fallen like a wet blanket on the Fenians, and reports this evening, say they are badly demoralized.
The Fenians fought well, but it was ident they were not reinforced as they expected. There cannot be at the outside, about the place where the skirmish •took place, more than five hundred men, whereas ammunition'for four times that 'number had been provided. It is reported many are already on the way back to St. Albans to take transportation for home. 6:30 P. M.—A train from the South this evening landed here about 120 more men, who immediately took their departure. Unless \tlie Fenians are at .once leavily reinforced, the movement so far as this section is concerned will prove a very great fizzle:
Later intelligence places the number of kilfed at two and wounded two. ,. -A MISERABLE FAILURE.
TORONTO, May 26.—From the best information received, the Fenian raid, so far as Pigeon Hill is concerned, is looked upon as a miserable failure. The Fenians are now retreating, leaving their arms, baggage and wounded behind them. No loss of life on the Canadian side. Huntington is now the principal point of interest, where every necessary preparation has been made.
PROTECTION OF TNE FRONTIER. OTTAWA, May 26.—It is rumored that the Government has received notice from the British Government that Minister Thornton has been directed by the Sec retary of Foreign Affairs to demand protection of the Canadian frontier by President Grant.
VIRTUALLY COLLAPSED.
TORONTO, May 26.—The Fenian movement is looked upon as virtually collapsed. Straggling parties may give a little trouble,but preparations are so complete that entire defeat will attend any further attempts at invasion.
The story of Indians having attacked troops at Sault St. Marie cannot be traced to a reliable source, and lateA advices say nothing of it.
On Niagara and Detroit frontiers a sufficient force is in readiness to repel any attempt to enter the country.
FENIAN COUNCIL OF WAR.
ST, ALBANS, VT, May 26.—The Fenian bubble, so far as the movement in this direction is concerned, has burst. Soon after the arrest of Gen O'Neill, Fenian officers held a long council of war, and decided that it was useless in them with the small number of men at their command to make any further attempts at invading Canadian soil, and as a consequence the roads leading from here to Franklin arc lined with returning Fenians.
FROM THE 8EAT OX WAR.
A gentleman just from Franklin brings information that there is not a Fenian in the village, that guns, ammunition, blankets &c., are scattered about in great abundance. The rank and file complain bitterly of officers, and say they do not understand their business.
It is evident the point chosen for crossing the line was most unfortunate. An aid of Gen. O'Neill says a thousand men could not have driven the Canadians from their position, which was naturally very strong, and Fenians for the most part behaved badly aud became sadly demoralized at the first volley of Canadian musketry. Three Fenians are this morning reported killed and 10 or 15 wounded.
General Donnelly in attempting to escape from Richards' house was wounded in the leg but not seriously.
O'Neill is now in jail at Burlington. General Spear is here at the Weldon House.
TORONTO, May 27.—A movement at Huntington began at five o'clock this morning. The Fenians constructed a breastwork of rails across afield on the north bank of Trout river. At half-past eight o'clock the Canadian troops came up and opened fire. The Fenians fired a few shots and then look to their heels. They were pursued to the boundary line, where officers, displaying revolvers, attempted to form them into line, but it was fruitless. There was not a single' casualty on the Canadian side. The Fenians left & few wounded, and one killed, on the field. United tkat^ troops are advancing from Malone.
WHAT TH* PAPERS SAY
im«Ji.ii .wi«n i* treating of the presttitFeaUn raid express the. following riejr*: -.v
They hold that the Imperial government
is remiss not making nroner reoresen- ... tations at Washington, and demanding of the United Slates government that it shall take some step to prevent these reeurring invasions, the murder of brave men and waste of money."
THE FENIAN SITUATION.
ST. ALBANS, May 27.—Generals Spear, J. H. Gleason and Prim have, with other lesser lights in the Fenian brotherhood, been in close consultation over the situation.
General Spear wants a general return to Franklin, as their presence is necessary to draw a portion of the Canadian troops from Huntington.
Many of the men express an earnest desire to go to Malone, and would have done so if they had money enough to pay for their transportation.
Col. Mosby was reported here yesterday and left for the border early this morning with fifty picked men. The report, however, needs confirmation. General Donnelly died of wounds to-day.
After the Fenians had pretty much all left Franklin, Some Canadian troops came this side the line and seised a piece of artillery and a large quantity of arms and ammunition that had been abandoned. Marshal Faster, it is said, made a demand for their return, and the reply was he could only have them at the point of the bayonet.
R. THE FENIAN BUSINESS. MALONE, N. Y., May 27.—General Gleason has been strongly reinforced. He has 3,000 men and now occupies a position four miles beyond the line. He is intrenched" strongly, and is confident of holding his position.
News has been received that after the arrest of General O'Neill and his incarceration in Burlington prison by the U. S. Marshal, Gen. Foster, Gen. Samuel P. Spear was appointed Commander-in-Chief, and proceeded at once to issue his orders in the face of Marshal Foster.
Gen. Spear will either cross the Canadian border at some point not heretofore attempted, or reinforce Gen. Gleason.—, This statement is by authority.
Privates express great dissatisfaction with Gen. O'Neill, some say he is too young to plan and too inexperienced to execute, and that he is both practically and theoretically incompetent.
BRITISH TROOPS FOR RED RIVER. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 27.—The Tribune of the 26th publishes a state ment from a gentleman whom it vouches for as entirely trustworthy, to the effect that early in May he left Fort Francis, a fur trading post on the British side of Rainy Lake. He found twenty-five hundred British soldiers fully equipped and provisioned. They had a large fleet of river canoes, with which they intended to make their way to the Red River country. He thinks that ere this they have reached the Lake of the Woods. It supposed these troops were started from Canada as soon as navigation permitted them.
FENIAN EXCITEMEI
There is considerable excitement around Fenian headquarters tlua morning. They expect to hear of a fight at Malone 'luring the day. About forty men left for the East on the half-past eleven'train.
THE FENIAN INVASION.
WASHINGTON, May 27.—The rumor from Ottawa that Minister Thornton lias
from Ottawa
that Minister Thornton lias
been directed
THE BATTLE OF TROUT RIVER. JsEAV YORK,May 28—A Malone special gives .the following account of the engagement at Trout river:
General Starr, of Cincinnati, at seven o'clock yesterday morning crossed the line at 'trout river, and advanced with his command, numbering not more than 300 stragglers, and proceeded about five hundred yards when he deployed on the right and left of the road, his extreme right resting on Trout river. He had not
1
*l position long when British Canadian militia emerged
from the woods a little in front and on
lrom
The Fenians, who had been told by Gen. Starr to keep up a steady fire for ten minutes, obeyed orders and stopped the advance of the British. Before the expiration of ten minutes, the Canadian troops, far outnumbering the Fenians, made a movement as they intended, to flank and capture the invaders, when Gen. Starr formed a rear guard and retreat was ordered. The British continued firing and pressing the Fenians, who managed to maintain comparatively good order, until they reached the United States line, when a parting volley was given the British, and the battle of Trout river was oyer.
Who commanded the British troops is not known. On the Fenian side under General Starr were Col. Robertson, Aid-decamp, of Hamilton, Ohio, Mayor William O'Kecfe, Aid-de-Camp, Mayor Wm. H. Shange's, Inspector General, Major Daniel Sharp, Quarter Master, of Rochester, Col. William L. Thompson, of Albany, Col. M. O'Neill, of Philadelphia, Col. Smith, of Buffalo, Col. Campbell, of Youngstown, Pa., and Lt. Col. Marion, of Toledo. The losses were one killed, one wounded and one missing, who were all in the sixth Regiment, Col. Thompson, who does not know the names of his wounded and missing.
FROM MALONE.
A Malone special last night, says there are over a thousand Fenians here now, and several hundred more are expected to-night or in the morning, if the Buffalo police fail to stop their coming from the West. Gen. John H. Gleason, of Richmond, Va., has assumed command of the forces here, and Gen. Starr has disapeared,as the Fenians threatened to lynch im for his cowardice.
It i# reported that General Donnelly has died, and that two Fenian prisoners will be hung this morning.
FROM BUFFALO.
A" Buffalo special states that'men are constantly arriving in small parties from the West" and going forward, as fast as means can be raised. Committees are canvassing the city for subscriptions, and the response is said be liberal. An enthusiastic meeting was held at Fenian headquarters last night, which was addressed by Col. McClure. of Chicago. He gave an encouraging account of affairs at the West, and said men were waiting at all points for means to come forward. Fenians continue to deny the truth of the report of defeat, and talk encouragingly. Parties returned from the front represent things as going on favorably. Numbers of United Stales troops stationed here attend Fenian meetings. About 50 more Fenian soldiers arrived on the 10:30 p. ii., (train from the West, and left on the 11:30 train for the East. Part of them wore rebel grey uniform.
SALE OF IRON WORKS.
The Novelty Iron Works sold at auction to-dav,subjecttoa mortgage of $250,000, for $135,000.
PRODUCE EXCHANGE.
Governor Fairchild, of Wisconsin, addressed the Produce Exchange to-day upon the .practicability of building a canal to connect the ttusisuppi river with TaVyK^'f"" The Exchangeadopted radUatioas setting forth the grcat need of cfcaaper transportation faf thte produce of At Watt tM fttboard, and urging
TERREHAUTE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 1,1870. (PAYABLE INADVANCE
"In its effect upon Canada Fenianiam Congress to favorably consider the pre- !_ 1.1 MnaA a/ Mitel WAPVof
is a miserable pest, a cause of trouble and expense, a nuisance which the country is lorcea to suffer from continually without reason, entailing loss of life in an ignoble cause and disturbance ofbusi ness relations. To these evils the Canadian people would submit without comdian people would submit without com- that Presbyteriairism Is the only plaint if they thought the Imperial
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jected canal as a work national interest REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD. The Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church was to-day occupied in revising the new covenant. Il denounces atheists, bewails the prevalence of crime,
divinely in3titated
government considerate of their position,, ernment.ldiscountenances secret orders, or assumed its share of resnonsibilsty.-
form of chnrch gov-
Popery and
spiritualism, and
it8
represen-
belief to the Westminster
FENIAN COUNCIL OF WAB. MALONE, May 28.—At a Fenian council of war this afternoon, it was resolved that the presept movement against Canada be abandoned. The council was composed of commissioned officers, but leaders of the raid Were no where found.
One hundred and thirteen car loads of Fenian war material has been saved. UNFORTUNATE FENIAN.
Capt. Joseph Murphy, of New York, is reported to have been captured and shot at Pigeon Hill. The Government has provided transportation for the men, and they hurry homeward.
MALONE DIVISION UNORGANIZED. Gen. Starr, of the Fenian force, passed through this place to-day en routenome, having abandoned the expedition. He reports the Fenian force is an unorgani«id rabble, impossible to handle and not subject to discipline. Fenian authorities are still confident, sending men in small parties to the front and striving to re-or-ganize the Malone division. •^^TEARS OF A RAID.
Much apprehension of a raid exists at Prescott, Canada, to-night, and volunteers have been exercising in firing and skirmishing a large part of the day.
FENIAM-
ST. LOUIS, May 28.—Reports are current that a considerable number of Fenians have left here for the East, but it cannot be ascertained that over 40 or 50 have gone. Secret meetings have been held to raise funds to send recruits, but the news from the border is not calculated to render this work successful, and prominent Irishmen regard the Fenian movement premature.
ALL QUIET.
TORONTO, May 18.—All quiet during tho night. Only ten Fenians reported in Camp at Trout River. Eight Fenians more were killed and 20 wounded yesterday. All quiet on Niagara and Detroit frontiers, but an ample force will be kept tip to defend all the borders of the dominion from marauding bands wandering near the lines.
The excitement has almost ceased, and business is rapidly resuming its former condition. What is considered the last Feian raid is looked upon as a completed failure. RAIROADS TROUBLESOME TO FENIANS.
OGDENSBURG, May 28.—It is reported that five hundred-Fenians will pass over the Rome and Ogdensburg Railroad tomorrow on a special train for Malone. Deputy Marshal Benedict contemplates stopping this force with the aid of United States troops, and also all other bodies of Fenians that may attempt to pass over the road to the front, unless he.is countermanded by United States officers in command.
One hundred Fenians at Pottsdam Junction, without passes attempted the sizure of a train on the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad, going East, but were repulsed by a company of United States troops. Each train on this road is now. furnished with a guard of regulars. Deputy Marshal Benedict has refused to provide transportation for Fenians at Malone who desire to return home.
FENIAN INVASION ABANDONED. MALONE, May 29.—The Fenian invaoiuii io —"r •are almost famished, and but for the charity of the people of Malone would be starving.
jQn
jg
aijankoned,
by the Secretary of Foreign almost famished, and but for the Affairs to demand protection of the Canadian frontier byJPresident Grant is untrue. On the contrary, the British Minister in behalf of his government is satisfied with what the President is doing to suppress the Fenian invasion, and has so expressed himself to the government.
as Ihe hopeless men
Prominent officers of the brotherhood have agreed to discountenance farther hostile movements on the American continent, while nearly all the men here say they will never have anything to do witli Fenianism again and will use their influence against it.
Gen. Meade having refused transportation the Selectmen of Malone will bond the citizens for four thousand dollars to pay the Fenians' fare back to Rome-
WANTS TO FIGNT.
Father McMalion says he has telegraphed to twenty places, including St. Louis, for men and money, and advises the men to stay here till Monday or Tuesday when a fight can be made. ,v
CAPTURED FENIANS.
MONTREAL, May 28.—Great anxieiy is
tne woous a nine JIUU. ... the other side of- the Fenians. A line of felt regarding the future disposition of il l?AniAno
battle was at once formed by the British, and a sharp, steady fire was opened "on the Fenians. There was at the time a small rail fence in front of the latter, which was immediately converted into a sort of stockade.
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captured Fenians by the government.— Five are in jail at various points and public feeling is so intense that extra precautions have been taken for security from lynch law.
RETURNING FROM THE WAR. CONCORD, N. II., May 29—Seven car loads of Fenians passed through here this morning on their return from the war. ,.
MANY APPREHENSIONS.
OGDENSBURG, May 29.—Apprehensions of a rising of Canadian Fenians to-day were entertained throughout the Dominion, as the government has information that such an understanding existed between them and the invaders. Additional precautions have been taken, but it is thought that the poor success of the invaders will prevent a co-operative rising.
Father McMahon passed on to St. Albans yesterday in company with a body of
Philadelphia Fenians. A detachment of regular troops has been sent to DeKalbe
Junction to protect property. Much alarm exists along the line of the Rome and Ogdensburg Railroad lest returning Fenians pillage the country, and appeals are being received for military protection.
Apprehensions are felt by Canadians of a raid on Prescott in steamers from some of the Lake ports. No gunboats at this point, and (no guns mounted on Fort Wellington.
THE FENIA'N WAR ENDED. Gen. Meade arrived this afternoon accompanied by Generals McDowell and Von Vliet, and will leave for New York to-morrow. He reports the Fenian war ended. The leaders are in the hands of the civil authorities and all is quiet along the lines. The govern ment will not provide transporta tion for the thousand or fifteen hundred Fenians remaining in Malone and vicinity, and Meade is of opinion that the railroad companies must do this at their own expense, as they reed ved full fare for bringing them here The General reports the Fenians behaving very well, not disposed to be violent and only desire to return home. He is confident there will be no further trouble. There is great rejoicing along the Canadian frontier at the inglorious termina tion of the movement.
THE Sentinel defends Mr. Voorhees slander upon the Republican press of Indiana, by the assertion that it is well known that the "ring" were animated in this county by the sentiment uttered by Mr. Voorhees on the floor, of Congress. We don't care what the Sentind may say is "well known" about the motives of the "ring." That don't touch the point at issue. Mr. Voorhees asserted that "the current columns of the newspapers of both parties in Indiana" gave currency to the libel he repeated. We called npon him for the proof. The "inferences" and assertions of his organ are the merest chaff. Name the newspapers?—IndJovmaL
William De Haas "Pastoral It is a broad
OCR SOTHEK IS TOT GKOWING OLD.
Our mother is not growing old, Tho garment that she wean .May have a wrinkle in some fold
And here and there some tears. For flesh and blood are worse for wear When worn for fifty years They show the marks of timo and rare.
And oft are stained with tears-
Our mother is not growing old. Her nature keeps its charm Her loving heart is net more cold, -.
As fondling is her arm As when we clustered by her side In years long, long gone by. And looked upon her with sach pride.
And only looked that high.
For we were only little ones. But we are older now The grown ap daughters and the sons
Still see the mother's brow But we can now look higher UP
Will welcome ns to God.
For pleasant paths we ve trod. And so-much sweetness in our cup Has made us look to God.
Wo area happy household band^.With one we loved the best, Gone first unto the spirit land
To wait there for the rest The one loved best, fbr two wero one, The husband and the wife. The knot can never be undone
Of such a married life.-
And when the blissful day shall come. When life for each is o'er: When each one has arrived at home
To separate no more The dear face that has long been hid^. Beneath the churchyard sod, Shut from us by the coffin-lid
But flesh and blood can enter not That sacred, hallowed sphere Oh, mosthlest is their blessed lot'
Who to that rest are near! Then as our fleshy garments wear We'll bless ehch wrinkled fold. Look kindly on eaeh stain and tear
And smilingly grow old.
For ap can only last a while, 0d'S I God's promise is all truth -i ,y 5 His promise to souls freofrom guile
IB an eternal youth Then lot a hymn, a sacred song To holy age bo sung For growing old will not last long,
The sainted are all young
Since the McFarland trial, a cotemporary thinks Cain must have been morally insane when he killed Abel.
The Pope has apologized to the British Minister at Rome for the recent expulsion of English ladies from the Eternal
I
At Patti's recent failure in Paris, in the "Huguenots," she was not hissed, but the audience left the house. She had taken the matter much to heart.
Dr. J. S. Bigelow, aged eighty-five and George B. Emerson, the noted botanist, aged eighty-eight, both of Boston, are off on a frolic to the Pacific slope.
Jasper Morgan, of Middletown, Connecticut, never called a doctor until May 10, when he was in his eighty-eight year. Then he called one, and is gathered to his fathers.
Count Bismarck suffers now only, from the weakness consequent upon his lute illness. It is supposed, however, that he will be unable to return to active work for along time to come.
Three peers, disgusted with the small andiencefc'in the House of Lords, are at presnt engaged in preachin in various larts or England—Lord Bad stock, jord Farnham andLord Teynham.
The Emperor of Austria has conferred upon Baron Anselm Rothschild the rank of First Class of the Order of the Iron Crown, in recognition of the- lon£ and remarkable public services of his house.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The grapes on Kelley's Island arc said to look better this spring than for years. It keeps 1,000 cows busy supplying the milk for a single Vermont cheese factory.
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of .water in the 'foreground, shaded by alm% The sky at the senUh is clear, bat near the horizon Mmi-transparent, cloads-forms ehhance its airiness of feting. *JIr. DcHaas has mnother subject in .s.ttauKiition state, "A Sunset.$n tho 8hawaiiguhk MfHBlamv"
The Parliament of North Germany numbers 296 members. Of these, 137 nobles, and 159 men without titles.
In Los Angeles, Cal., an orange tree is in bloom, the seed of which was planted last August.
Wedding cards are no longer printed with a monogram. The latest stye is the letter only on the bride's name, printed large and plain.
In Germany, a certain drama called the "Curse of Galilee." aimed against the Ecumenical Council, is received with favor.
The Jewish Messenger is indignant be cause a Jewish congregation of Boston have been soliciting money of Christians to build a synagogue.
The Louisville Courier states that the stock of the Nashville and Northwestern railroad is being bought up at five and ten cents on the dollar, for speculation.
A strange animal that roars like a lion roams the woods of Mccklenburg, N. C., and proves of valuable service to the farmers in keeping their hands at home o'nights.
The New York Methodist, of last week, states that after eight years of unceasing effort, it has "the satisfaction of announ cing the triumph of lay delegation."
Lady Douglas Convent Life. To the Editor of tho London Times.] SIB:—Will you kindly oblige me by inserting the enclosed communication in the columns of your paper? Having read in the Times of March 30, the account of Mr. Newdegate's successful motion respecting the examination of monastic institutions, I think that the experience of one who has been herself for five years a member of one of the cloistered convents of our land, may be of service in removing prejudices and popular delusions, or, at least, in furnishing some correct in* formation on a subject which, whileit oc cupies so large a share of the public at tention, is by the majority very little understood. I am the eldest daughter of the late Lord Qneemberry. At the age of twenty-one I entered the Convent of the Good Shepherd, at Hammersmith and after a three years' noviciate—in terrupted by a residence of five months' in my own family, during the period whicn immediately succeeded the death of my brother, Lord Francis Douglas, on the Matterhorn—I was professed and became a sister of the "Black Veil" in 1867. I was then sent successively to houses of the Order in Liverpool and Glasgow. At the expiration of two years (for reasons which I do not feel myself called upon to state, but which were personal, gravp, and important, and which had nothing to do with the convents or nuns, to all of whom I am warmly attached), I wished to return to my home.
No difficulty was made in allowing me to see and converse with the Ecclesiastical Superior of the diocese. At my request he came to see me, and treated me with the most indulgent and fatherly kindness, and after a short delay he released me from my vows and allowed me to return to my family. To Protestant authority in such a case I never have appealed, and had my application for freedom, had they imposed the smallest restraint on my conscience, where the real tie existed, then would the commission of inquiry which Mr. Newdegate wishes to set on foot, having been perfectly useless to procure^ my "liberation," should most decidedly have declined to take advantage of its interference in a mat ter which simply regarded my own conscience, and this not from contempt, but from a conviction which nothing could shake, that no authority from God could rest with any but the priests of the holy Catholic Church, to whom alone He gave the r-'^wer to "bind and to release.'^ This is, I'know, the conscientious belief of every nun I have ever known. This example should be enough to convince Mr. Newdegate and his party that there does exist for every nun a certain Court of Appeal in the persons of her ecclesiastical superiors, and that, moreover, it is the only Court of Appeal that can be of any service to her.
PERSONAL.
Galusha A. Grow is manufacturing porcelain in Philadelphia. General Longstreet has been appointed Adjutant-General of the Louisiana militia.
Dr. Hawkins, a blind chemist of Philadelphia, invented soda water in 1812.
It is now reported that P. T. Barnum i« to "manage" Miss Nilon's American concerts.
DeSolla, of the Parepa-Rosa troupe, is to marry Eliza Wctliersby, the Lydia Thompson blonde.
If any girl or woman dares to assert she is detained by compulsion in her con-_ vent, she speaks falsely. Every nun has
Longfellow is a greater favorite "jEngland than Alfred Tennyson and Ten- the same liberty as I had. Let her use it nyson is unable to conceal his jeal- if she will! It is not true that any one ousy.
.... any ever "liable to be subjected to a discipline for which she is not prepared." In every convent there is a Novice Mistress, whose duty it is to exercise the novicesjin the "discipline" of the house. My experience enables me to assert that "the roughest and hardest side" of the picture was always shown in the noviciate nor did I ever, after I became a professed nun, see the smallest alteration in rule or discipline nor did I ever see any one called upon to exercise
any
any
One hundred and sixty men are now employed on the Cincinnati and NewKrt bridge. The engineer promises to _ave trains running across tho bridge by the first of January, 1871.
Beauty of American Women. From Putnam's Magazine,] Nature has endowed the American lady with a profusion of rich gifts far beyond her less favored sisters abroad. If really great beauties are comparatively rare, ana even on this point the diversity of taste may lead to a difference of opinion, the majority of women are merely fair. They are almost without exception, delicately made, and in this respect very different from the robust type of the English girl of the period, with her ruddy color, her full form, and her deep, masculine voice, and still more different from the heavy, angular girl, who combines so mysteriously an immense amount of sentimentality with an unlimited appetite. The neck and extremities are uniformly so small that European establish ments have to make collars, gloves and shoes especially for the American market, certain sizes of these three articles being utterly unsalable in Europe.
Hence, when the American girl reaches Vter natural heaven, Paris, and has been a few weeks in the hands of French artists, she is simply perfection. SJe outshines the Parisian on her own jmvileged ground. Elderly men will remember a fair New York beauty, who visited Paris when the Emperor was still President, and the furore her exquisite toilets create whenever she appeared at the opera, at the Elysees or at the Bois. Younger men need not be reminded of the recent rivalry between one of their beautiful countrywomen and the brilliant Met ter nich, and the desperate but facile effort made by the great arbiter of ushion to wrest the crown of victory from her hands. Combining great natural ad vantages in beauty and grace with ad miraole taste and an .almost instinctive perception of the beaming, American women abroad very easily outstrip all competitors in the art of dressing.
The: acnlntor Maidfr ban arid his "Prodigal 8on" to the InMitote of Phila-
obligation for which
she had not been thoroughly prepared as a novice. It is not true, as far as my experience goes and I think it may be allowed to be greater on this subject than that of any greater on this subject than that of any
complaint against the justice of the Superioress. There reigned about one and all of them, without exceptioa, a spirit of simple, childlike confidence and attachment for their Superior a warm devotion to their work and their Order. I never in the course of those five years heard an expression of discontent upon the lips of any of the sisters. I never heard one regret her liberty, or desire to escape from the obligations that were the delight of her daily life. They all seemed happy, we# and trulcy happy, as it Has never been my lot to see any in the world. I am speaking now of the professed. The novices are, of course, perfectly free, and come and go continually though, I must say, more of them are dismissed as unfit for the life than leave of their own accord. In conclusion, I have only to remark that, though I am no longer myself a member of the convent, I shall never look back to the days I spent there but with the warmest gratitude and affection. I shall never look back to the days I spent there but with the warmest gratitude and affection. I shall never forget the unvarying love which was shown to me by. the Superioress and the Sisters, without a single exception, and that to the last, after they knew I meant to leave and I shall never think of the convent enclosure, which Mr. Newdegate, and others so unjustly desire to violate, but as a home which has been the scene of so«ie of the brightest recollections of my life. A sense of honor and justice has induced me to come forward with these statements, and as I am now entirely removed from any "conventual influence,"! trust that the English public will allow my testimony to weigh with it in future, when the subject of convents is brought up as a topic for conversation, seeing that, as I have already observed, I may perhaps, justly claim to know more about the interior of convent*, than either Mr.Ncwdegate or any other gentleman can ever possibly hope. Trusting to your patience and your sense of justice to make this public, I remain, Sir, yours faithfully. GERTRUDE DOUGLAS. 11, RUE PRINCE ALBERT, BOULOGNE-SUR
MER, PALM SUNDAY, 1870. m...
Mark
Lemon, of London.
The Cable announces the death of Mark Lemon, the editor of the London Punch. Mr. Lemon was born in London, November 30. 1809, and was for some years a play-wright, and sometimes essayed the part of amateur actor. He was ofte of the knot of authors which established Punch in 1849, acting as a joint editor from the first. When Mr. Harry Mayhew withdrew, Mr. Lemon became chief editor, a position he has since retained. He is the author of upward of sixty dramatic pieces. He wrote "The Enchanted Doll," a fairy tale: "Wait for the End "Loved and Lost "Leighton Hall," and other tales. He lias also credited to him about one hundred ballads and songs. He edited a book of jests, which was awfully dull, as such books always are. Mr. Lemon was a very hard worker, died in the harness, with the representative journal of ita class aa his monument. As it was said of Yorick, he was a fellow of infinite jest.
Brigham Young's small family is broken out with the measles.
Business Morals.
From the Philadelphia ledger.] "Honor to whom honor is due," says a correspondent of the "Pittsfield (Massachusetts)" Sun. And to "do honor" to whom it is due, the Stm states the following facts: "Eighteen years ago, a minister, in Berkshire county, now eighty-two years of age, endorsed, with others, note in behalf of a mercantile firm to the amount of three thousand dollars. Disaster came upon the firm and the first endorser being the clergyman, the obligation to pay rested upon him. He said 'Give me time, and I will do it.' And two weeks ago this venerable man made his last payment, and cancelled the ob-.-ligation, the principal and interest {. amounting to something over eight thousand dollars."
Now whatever honor may be due to
:"i
the venerable clergyman—and we will,, not deny that he deserves a golden statue or a retiring pension, at least—let us ask what is due to the parties who have received usurious interest on their claim, 1 at the rate of at least 1J per cent, a month It would take another Shakspeare to do than justice. And where are the other parties to the endorsement, they who suffered an old man to toil on for eighteen years, till he was past fourscore, to pav eight thousand dollars, for their common liability to meet three thousand? If there are many more such "honorable" men in that region as the defaulting debtors and inexorable creditors who left such burden on the shoulders of a simple hearted old man,- we trust the Bay State will keep them at home. They should not let them loose on society, for with such legally correct and strictly honorable men as figure in the aged clergym an' case common people would jbc at a great disadvantage. None less sharp than the New Englanders could manage gentlemen of a "business talent" so acute.
But there are other considerations which invite attention in a case like this. No man out of business or in, cleric^ or lay, has any right to sign" an obligation under which he may become liable for all that he can save in twenty years. He pledges what he does not own, and may never live to make good. The old clergyman's conscience told him his fault, and "grievously hath he Tanswered Jit" No man out of business should endorse at all, except within the amount that he can afford to lose. Men in business have their eyes open, and establish compensations, by which their intercsts7.are protected. Yet, after all, there is no maxim better than that of the wise king Solomon: "He that hateth suretyship is sure." "Too good," a money lender! once replied to an applicant, "your paper Is too good." And the shrewd lender refused to negotiate entirely unnecessary, if the drawer had any pretence to credit or solvency. "Yon are welcome to my name," says one of the characters in the comedy of "London Assurance." "It's of no possible use to me." Probably the clergyman "to whom honor is due" was supported by a train of just such, inconsequents, and because they could not, or would not pay, he felt himself obliged to do so, having that troublesome inmate, from which they were free, called conscience.
Mercantile life,, which supplies manv of the noblest examples of high-minded, generous and honorable dealing, exhibits also poor hnman nature in some of its meanest phases. There is probably no reader of the Ledger who has not, among his acquaintances, some father, beggared by his son, or some retired business man reduced to poverty by his younger friend, ''lausible representations induce those •ho are no longer in trade on their own account to lend their names or tlieir credit. The consequence i-s often the loss of hard earnings of a lifetime. It ought to be taken as prima faci-e evidence of insolvency when such. aiia.vor as an indorsement is asked by a young man in business, of an old man who retired. Of course there are exceptional cases but, under all and any circumstances the retired man should be cautious, and ask no more for friendship or for affection than he can afford to lose, or is willing to lose, whether he can afford it or not. "Drowning men clutch at straws," but we never heard of a case in which the straws saved them. The mercantile adventurer who conscious that he is losing command his affairs, had better meet the first loss
0f
his affairs, had better meet the first loss
gentleman of the House of Commons— herocially than pull his friends under tl,a ore infprrented." or that writl, him Rplter confess bankrUDtcv at
that "lettres are intercepted," or that there is not perfect "liberty to communicate with friends." I always saw my friends alone—my relations not only alone, but whenever they chose to call. My mother on three several occasions spent a few day in the outer part of the convent, during which time 1 spent the whole days with her and alone. My letters were never intercepted. I wrote to whom I pleased, and when liked and the same liberty existed for every sister in the house. Upon my leaving the convent the money which I had given at my profession was unhesitatingly offered jack to me. I refused it but neither the Superioress nor my ecclesiastical superior would accept tli£ paper I had written renouncing my claim to it. The remained inexorable on this point nor was it until I had returned home that, without asking their consent and against the advice of every ecclesiastic I consulted, I carried out my purpose of leaving my dowry where it had Deen placed,-and of securing it to the noblest and most exalted charity on earth—the work of the Good Shepherd. And now, Sir, allow me to remark I am most intimately acquainted with between 80 and 100 nuns I have been one of them in the work-rooms, classes, reformatory schools, as well as in the more private life of the community. I have seen them under all circumstances but never for one moment have I heard
with him. Better confess bankruptcy at once, than either ruin your friends or so implicajp them in your disaster that you cannot make them harmless without •dium* ___ Women and Work. From the Cincinnati Chronicle.]
We have frequently expressed our•elves in favor of enlarging woman's sphere of industry, and we would by no means confine this "sphere" to the home circle, believing that there is much honorable and remunerative labor—not incompatible with the purest and best domestic relations—adapted to the position and character of woman. The blumo reRts, in great part, at least, upon man, that woman is not trained to such professions and light employments as would enable lier to secure honorable independence.
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does not the blame lie
rather in the chivalrous impulse to protect and provhfe for her, than in that selfishness of nil
which, wo are so often
told, is the prime cause of woman's "wrongs?" Man we believe to be as much interested as woman, and quite as sorely perplexed, to ascertain some effective remedies for th^'disabilities" which undoubtedly surroniiid her. We think the remedy will be found in opening new avenues of labor and..education by training her, in Bhort, to earn lier own living.
There is always a market for skilled labor, but this skill can only be acquired by proper education and with the opportunities for learning. Probably in the, history of the world intelligent labor lia.1^ never been ,so well paid ns it is to-day,' but there is a constant strife between unskilled and educated labor. That unjust discriminations have been made against women, no kind and reasonable man will deny, nor can it be denied that public sentiment has undergone a marked and rariid change in this respect. In many or our States equal educational advantages with man are no longer refused her, and this reform has in great part be«n brought about by the action of intelligent and benevolent women, and not by noisy aspirants for political honors.
The association of the sexes in educational institutions has already been mado the subject of grave discussion, and is even now receiving a practical test in many of our cities. The loug-mooted question as to wether women should be permitted to receive a medical education has been definitely answered in Philadelphi. This is tardy justice, but once admitted to tho competitive ranks, it remains for woman to demonstrate her aptitude for the practice of medicine. This is but one of the facilities for professional training that might be opened to woman but in this, as in all others, she will learn that "the laborer is worthy of his hire that "equality," in this, instance, means competition that in practising the same professions and occupations as man, the battle of life must be fought from a common stand-point, and that in the selfish hand-to-hand fight womans "rights" do not mean immunities and privilege.?, but must bring with them many of the penalties to which men also are liable.
The Woman's Suffrage movement, already divided by petty jealousies, will soon lack the support of that good natural rididcule which has thus far kept it alive. The earnest and intelligent laborers for a more extended sphere of industry for their struggling sisters, have received neither encouragement nor spin pat by, from the blatant advocates of female suffrage, who, with few exceptions, have expressed no interest in the elevation ofthe female industrial classes. "Revolu- 1: tions" will not demonstrate woman's capacity for many of the pursuits now tilled by man, ncr will they relieve the wants of those females who are forced to labor, for their daily bread. Want of industrial' knowledge, and not political power, is one pf woman's greatest "wrongs," and this knowledge is to be obtained,not by legislative action, but by fearlessly entering into the competitive lists with man, and by taking part in those departments of thought and labor in which she can best demonstrate lier superiority.
M. J. Heade has lately returned from a brief sketching tour, visiting during his absence tho Northern States of South America and the island of Jamaica. Mr. Heade is now working up a flower, sub-, ject, "Apple blossoms in a Nautilus' shell." "V
A. Cary Smith has upon the easel a marine picture, "Coast of Maine," With bold ledges of rock on either lmnd in the foreground andsailing vessels in the dw». tance Mr. Smith has partially finished "WinterSunrise," taken from tlieshor* •of the bay on the New Jersey sid?.
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