Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 July 1870 — Page 1

luring tin* 'V "hir nw^* fined its poeition on the Chinese emigration question. Our files show that we met the,question when it pu first raised, opj^f Jlhc,Coolie ^sfep, voluntary temigratfbn :. l'i ,?"?• .1 *ftfj'ffi

HON. Moses F. :DDNN authorizes UB to fry that1 he cannot accept the invitation of Hon. D. W. VOOKHEES (which appears in the Journal of this city) to attend his appointments, owing to the fact that Mr. DOTJN "has "appolntmenfe of" his own In Owen and Greene counties for the Bame time. Mr. DujfN propose! that, he wijl withdraw hia present appointments if Mr. V09EIXJPES will withdraw his, and thai ^mip|iitm|nts'1e made/at once, for a joint discussion, to commence as soon as notice can be given or if this does not suit, he proposes that a joint discussion be arranged to commence at the expiration of the present appointments.

If Mr. V0OKHEE8 desires a joint discussion he cannot decline this offer, but if be intends to avoid meeting Mr. DUNN, tet'lM'SAJ so.! Mr. VOOBHEES being a good stump speaker, we do not, of course, suppose that he is afraid to -meet Mr. DUSN, in discussion, on the score of ability, but we do believe that he is unwilling to discuss the present issue/)' with any Republican in the district, because he is afraid that his misrepresentations and demagoguery would be eiposed by liis competitor. He prefers to spc--' where there is no one to contradict hi.- crtion8 or expose his sophistries, and in making his appointments, without consulting Mr. DUNN and then jrjviting him, .through the newspajiers, to be present, is too transparent a dotjge to deceive any one. If Mr. VoOBIIEBS wants (he discussion he can have no reasonable excuse to decline the offer here made him. Having invited Mr. DUNN to attend appointments made by himself, he cannot now fall back on the reason, given by Mis frifends, for declining a discussion with Major CAKTEB, two years ago, which was "that his reputation as a speaker would bring out large crowds for Major CARTER to address which he could not otherwise get while Major CARTER would not draw anybody to hear Mr. VOOBJFFEES."

The School Toucher. We have among us at the present time about one hundred of the teachers of the public schools in our State. Although the special term of the Normal School occurs at a season of the year when physical exertion is difficult, and mental effort next to impossible, yet these earnest teachers have eagerly embraced the opportunity of doing four weeks of hard study in order to improve themselves in their profession. They deny themselves the rest and recreation of vacation in order to learn how they can better serve the people. All honor to these worthy strangers.

Not only do we honor these teachers for their zeal in a good cause, but we honor the profession for what it is, and for what it does. There are few tests by which you can try the profession of teaching which do not vindicate the claim of its members to the hearty respect of all intelligent and right-minded persons.

Try them by the standard of intelligence, one of the very highest by which a man can be tried in a Republic. One of the first requirements to worthy membership in the profession is intelligence. There are doubtless ignorant teachers persons unfit for the positions which they occupy. So there are block-heads at the bar and in the pulpit, and yet these professions as a rule, are composed of intelligent men-—intelligence is a necessity to worthy membership thereof. So, despite the stupidity and ignorance which intrude themselves upon this, as upon every other profession, it must of necessity, as a general rule, be composed of intelligent men and women. Not only is this a necessity, but the very fact that one engages in teaching, is strong evidence of a taste for intellectual pursuits. More money can be earned at many kinds of manual labor than a majority of the teachers, especially in the country, can secure. At the East, the fac­

tory-girl and those sewing bonnets, earn

and those sewing bonaets, earn

double the wages of the teacher. Few positions in the profession offer as good a salary as a clerkship in some store. Yet young men and women choose to teach because it is an employment which accords with their tastes and then too, their professional duties tend to an increase of intelligence. And besides all this, facts prove teachers as a class to be possessed of an unusual degree of intelligence.

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Try them by the standard of morality, and their claim for respect is confirmed. It is probable that it would be impossible to select any other pursuit or profession, unless we except the clerical, in which the average standard of morality would be so high as in this. Here again necessity is laid upon the teachers, for no community can be found so degraded as to desire an immoral teacher of youth, and few will even tolerate such.

Try these teachers by their aspirations, than which there is hardly a surer test of true manhood or womanhood. Many of them are young men and women who have determined to rise above the positions in which they were born. Some of them, having been born in circumstances demanding no labor, have disdained to fold their hands in idleness, or spend their years in what is termed, society Not a few have entered upon teaching from the desire to be useful. The aspirations of the teacher are self improvement, an honorable position and usefulness: few if any, are higher. [blot]ry them by their usefulness. Every [blot]t which we make of our public school system, every indignant throb of the heart against the man, party, or church which would do aught against these schools, every house which we build for school purposes, every dollar which we vote for the same, every one of them is a tribute to the usefulness of the school teacher. Our schools are what these teachers make them. And often if they could have their own way they would make the schools better than they are

They are a necessary part of the school system, and as we believe in its imporance and usefulness, we believe in them.

Probably so far as the money standard is concerned our teachers would not take the highest rank. But where intelligence, morality, lofty aspiration, and usefulness are, money is of little account as a basis of honor. No doubt many of the members of.this profession would be greatly accommodated by an increase of "filthy lucre," and yet not one whit more would they be entitled to our honor. If they are worthy members of the profession, they already possess the strongest claims to the hearty, respect and honor of all who esteem real worth. A hearty welcome then to the teachers who have come among us, and a warm heart and ready hand for the teacher in the public schools wherever found. ———<>———

E Seymour Democrat, taking its cue

'|from Voorhees, sagely remarks: "Not a ^dollar of the public debt has been paid." To call that sitgpiyalie would be an'insult to liars of average respectability. Emilia w«s descubingy'V*' ,s®rt of,. thing when she said'io lago: "Ton t»U ite aniodiow, damned lie

Upon iay soil, a lie a wicked lie.

TERMS $2.00 A YEAR}

THE vote on the adoption of the new Constitution in Illinois, is as follows: For, 130,896 against, 35,127 showing a majority of 95,769. The following is the vote on minority representation: For, 98,276 against, 68,956 majority, 29,314.

have been withdrawn for any reason, and afterward restored, shall thereafter be subject only to homestead and peremption entry. This action will secure to the exclusive use of actual settlers large bodies of lands which have heretofore been the apple of temptation to land grabbers, and have induced the laying of many wellplanned schemes to obtain possession of.

THE population of North Germany is nearly 31,000,000. The South German States, not including Austria, contain 9,000,000 more who will probably aid Prussia to repel French aggression. Should the war be confined to France and the German States, they will be about equal in population from which to draw their fighting material, unless the French Emperor, by sudden and strategic movements, interposes his armv between North and South Germany, and thus cuts off the Southern German States from cooperation with Prussia. if

REV. HENHY BLANCIIARD, the able Apostle of Free Trade, has gone East for the Season-—-Terre Haute Expxm.

In the name of common sense, are we to class tho Express with that class of unthinking journals who have gone off on the Free Trade humbug? Truly, it would seem so.—Bloomfield Tribune.

Why would it seem so? Because we styled the Rev.BLANCHABD an "Apostle of Free Trade"? Ashe is a clergyman who sells his services to the Free Trade League, we think that is a very proper title for him. The EXPRESS has not "gone off on the Free Trade humbug," and is not likely to do so in a hurry.

I f.: IV?.: THE EXPRESS is as ardent an advocate of the high protective principle as the most arrogant monopolist could desire.— Journal.

That is another mistake. The EXPRESS is not an advocate of the high protective system. While we regard "Free Trade" as the most transparent of humbugs, a preposterous absurdity, we do not believe in the encouragement of "arrogant monopolists." None but an idiot will deny that it is expedient to raise a large pro. portion of the money that the ^government must have, by a tariff, and [we are in favor of such an adjustment of the tariff as shall afford reasonable protection to home industry.

As A MATTER of general, interest we republish, in the following table, the population, numbers of their armies and expense thereof, of the powers likely to be involved in the European war: cutAit Population. Army. Expcnd's. 85,000.000 697,000 $85,000,000 31,000,000 191,000 71,000,000 26,000,000 167,000 26,000,000 36,000,000 246,000 39,000,000 50,000 7,000,000 26,000,000 957,000 45,000,000 2,000,000 85,000 1,600,000

RussiaEngland Italy Austria ».... Bavaria Prsusia Switzerland ... Franco

39,000,0001,350*000 129,000.000

We have given the military strength of Prussia and France on a war footing, while as to the other powers we have given the number of the standing armies. In addition to what is given above England has 142,000 militia, Italy can call in 500,000 for war, and Switzerland can swell her force to 200,000 more for an emergency.

The Normal School—What is its Object? It would hardly seem necessary, at this late day, to state the question: What is the Normal School for? and yet we are persuaded that erroneous impressions are more or less widely diffused among the people even of our own city. We have heard of very intelligent citizens declaring that they wished it were a college. We hear that a very prominent and educated citizen declared that the school might teach the pupils how to teach, but he did not believe it would turn out any very great scholars. Now it needs to be remembered that this is a professional school, the object—the sole object—of which is to instruct in the science of teaching—to teach its pupils how to teach. It is not intended to turn out scholars. But it is a plaice where scholars may go, and learn the best method of imparting the knowledge which they already possess. The pupils do not come here to learn to read and spell, to learn grammar, arithmetic and geography, but to learn how to teach these, and also to learn other things which are necessary to enable them to teach successfully. It is true that under the present condition of affairs, it is necessary to teach what may be termed the common school branches of learning. But these are not a legitimate part of Normal School instruction. In theory, and, as our educational system is improved, it will become the fact, the pupils will come with a thorough education, and will be taught here, the proper method of instruction, and also such other branches as are heedful to the proper organization and management of schools. Just as the

College graduate goes to the law, medical or theological school, to learn how to use his knowledge in one of these professions, and also to get instruction in those studies which are peculiar to his profession, so the graduates of Common Schools, High Schools and Colleges are to come here to learn what is peculiar to the profession of teaching. It may be said that as the teacher is to instruct in Arithmetic, Grammar, &c., he should learn these here. And so he must if he has not learned them before coming, as he should have done. And when our school system is properly arranged he will be compelled to learn these things before entering the

Normal School. The object of the school is not to make scholars; they should be made before coming there. The pupil can properly come with but one question, which is,

"How can I become a successful teacher?" Only one thing should be expected of the school, and that is, that it should instruct its pupils <how to teach>. It should take such scholars as we furnish and make the best teachers it can out of the material provided. For a time it will be necessary to do much work which ought to be done before its doors admit the pupil, but the one purpose which was. in the minds of those men who labored for years to secure it, the purpose which was in the minds of the Legislatures which voted it funds, the purpose which is in the minds of Trustees and Faculty, is to make teachers, to teach them to teach. If it does this it is a Success. If it fails to do this, whatever else it may do, it is a failure.

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VON MOLTKE, the chief of staff of the

Prussian armies, is the European GRANT. Throughout the Continent he is known six lan as "the man who is silent in

TnE New York Herald is of the opinion that the Wall street speculators will not make much out of the foreign troubles, and that, should the war be prolong-

IT NOW appears that the Civil Service Appropriation bill, passed by Congress in the closing hours of the session, has in it .—, a clause providing that public lands which ed, money will be worth more in legiti is an no ii in ha in to

male channels of business than in stock and gold gambling.

THE Indianapolis <Sentinel> says "the Democratic party have made the road to citizenship easy and short." To which the <News> responds: "We should think they had, in New York at any rate. The census returns for certain heavy Democratic wards there, show that there were more than twice as many votes cast at the last election, as there were men, women and children in the districts. Under such a state of affairs citizenship is not worth having." ———<>———

TnE Radical candidate lor Congress may be canvassing Monroe county, but it is a singular fact that his organ in that county, the Bloomington Progress, says nothing about it.—Journal.

THE Bloomington Progress of the 20th contains a list of DUNN'S appointments in Monroe county, and numerous highly complementary allusions to his speeches. We learn, from most reliable sources, that his canvass, thus far, has been remarkably successful. The people come en masse to hear him,'and are delighted with his able and convincing arguments.

THE Democratic papers of the State in copying the article of the Logansport Pharos, complaining of the tax on Whisky and Tobacco as onerous, are but consistent. It Is an outcrop of the change in the principles of National taxation proposed by their party platform, "equal taxation of every species of property." They want to tax Bonds, Whisky, Farms, Crops, and everything at the same rates. Hence their distaste for the Whisky tax. Republicans on the other hand favor taxes on luxuries rather than necessaries, and on business rather than property.

WE CAN readily believe the statement of the Philadelphia Inquirer that Washington is rapidly becoming a deserted city for its magnificent distances are no longer dotted by the good, talented,brave, true and lobbying of the land. Senators and Representatives have deserted its avenues, their special foes the friends of little bills have gone before the correspondents are packing away their pencils and paper, and the President and Cabinet are scanning the maps for cooler resorts than the banks of the Potomac. Let St. Louis and other cities smitten with an ambition to become National Capitals take warning by the fate of Washington when Congress is not in session for of all the dull places of the land it then is the dullest its immense structures of marble and granite but mock the loneliness of its desolation.

A VLNCENNES CORRESPONDENT of the Commercial, having written that "MORTON is politically dead," the Cincinnati Gazette proceeds to show that he is very much alive and among other things, says: "A person named Senator MORTON was advertised to speak at Terre Haute on Monday evening. Having heard of the man before, we dispatched a reporter to take down the speech, which he did, and it was printed in the Gazette in full on Wednesday morning. It was an able ipeech, fully equal to the deliverances of the late MORTON who was killed and buried by the, disappointed office seeker at Vincennes. We are not alone in our estimate of this speech, for to-day an or-der-was received from Kentucky for two thousand copies of the document. So it goes."

TIIE Journal attempts to perpetrate a joke by intimating that Mr. DUNN went to Canada during the war. Ilad he boen there it could beeasily shown by the testimony of thousands of "good Democrats" who sneaked across the border, some to avoid the draft, and others to plot treason. There are prominent Democrats in this city on whom the Journal might call for testimony.- They abode in Canada to keep out of the reach of conscription, and in so doing they followed the advice of HENPBICK#, VOORUEES, *and nearly the whole list of Democratic leaders. If the Journal could succeed in convincing its readers that Mr. DUNN was a "draftsneak," more than h&lf 6f them would vote for him. They have been disgusted with VOORHEES' denial of his record, his pretence that he was "the soldiers' friend," etc. In biddiug for the votes of loyal men, VOORUEES has tried the patience of his rebel supporters, and they will flock to DUNN'S standard, almost en masse, if Democratic organs convince them that he was not—what Republicans know him to have been—a thoroughly loyal and generous friend of the Union in her hour of need/

-MANY of our readers are aware that several futile attempts were made to create disturbance while Senator MORTON was speaking in the Wigwam last Mon day night. The false alarm of fire was a shallow trick that failed utterly. Two or tliree inebriated rowdies tried to get up fights, but were quietly hustled into the street. And one Democrat, who holds a prominent official position in this city, disgraced himself, his party and his friends, by frequently responding to the Senator: "That's a damned lie." He was persuaded to withdraw. Respect for his family induces us to suppress his name, for the present, on condition that he will deport himself better in future?

All these facts indicate a desire to dis turb Republican meetings, and we hereby notify "all whom it may concern" that Republican meetings will not be disturbed with anything like it* punity to the disturbers. Democrats are cordially invited to come to the Wig warn and hear Republican speakers. They will be made welcome and are as-' sured of courteous treatment. But row dies—whatever their Bocial or official standing—who attempt to annoy our speakers or make improper noises to disturb the audience, will be taught better manners. Each party has right to hold its meetings unmolested, and this right should be maintained.

THE most objectionable nomination ever made for Congress, in this State, is that of WmtC. MORBAC in the Eighth District. Perhaps, had there been a ghost of aehance for the election of a Democrat, the party would have nominfctfed a vJwtt*rjM«.,

SENATOR MORTON'S Terre Haute speefh will be very extensively .-circulated as'a campaign document.—5Vrre Haute Express.

The best campaign document for the Democracy, will be the circulation of Morton himself.—Ind. Sentinel.

It was very soon after MORTON began to "circulate," that Democracy lost its grip on the pockets of the people of this State, leaving a debt of $9,000,000, and causes necessitating its increase to $12,000,000, MORTON has kept "circulating" ever since, and now the Democratic "blessing" is wiped out. Practically Indiana owes no man a dollar, and is striding along in the grand march of improvement, distancing all competitors.

Had MORTON not "circulated," the State would have gone into the rebellion under leaders of the Sentinel school it would have been devastated by armies and, in all probability, would have turned the scale against the Union cause and made the Confederacy a success. At all events it would now be hopelessly loaded down with Democratic debt, and instead of possessing a priceless heritage of glory in its peerless war record, it would be a disgrace to the family of States.

If the Democracy can find any comfort in the "circnlation" of O. P.,Monro*, they are very welcome to it. He has dealt them harder blows than any other living man, and he still strikes with such effect as tf elicit a howl of rage and pain from every Democratic sheet in the United States.

THE Cincinnati Chronicle alludes to an interesting fact connected with the suicide of PBEVOOT PARADOL, of which we have seen no mention elsewhere. In 1868 the Minister published in the Jfcwie Des Deux Monde an elaborate article headed "La France Nmvelle," in which, with all the graces of his brilliant style, and all the force of his incisive logic, he argued that the period of French military triumphs was past, and that military glory must thenceforward be abandoned to the German and Anglo-Saxon races upon both sides of the Atlantic. PREVOST PARADOLJ although at that time in stern opposition to NAPOLEON, was and has always been a true patriot. The recollection of this expression of thoughts, and, perhaps, to a Frenchman, the still more melancholy forebodings of their present fulfillment, may very probably have been one of-the most irritant causes of the mental depression under the influence of which the fatal shot was fired.

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TURKEY is really on the path of progress at last. Instead of rebuilding the burned portions of Constantinople in the old food-for-conflagration style, a commission has been ordered by the Sultan to proceed to London and Paris and carefully study the methods of house-build-ing employed in those cities, and how far they can be adapted to the wants of the Turkish capital. That this innovation will not meet with the approval of the strict Mohammedan subjects of ABDULASSIZ is more than probable. When, however, they come to see that the Frank methods of building impart a security to life and property not attainable by the Turkish style, they will waive the doctrine of fatalism, as far at least as house construction is concerned. 1'

THE late plentiful rains throughout the greater portion of the Northwest have settled the mooted point affirmatively, that there will be a good crop of corn, a fair yield of rye, oats, barley, wheat, and vegetables generally. In the rainless sections where the drought was worst, the straw is short and heads scant, but the grain is extra good. The yield will be a moderate average compared with other years but no one in the west will lack for food. There is a great breadth of grain sown, and the average yield, taking the country together, will be quite large. ———<>———

A CtJTEMPORARY mentions an immediate though temporary result of the war which many may not have thought of. It neoessarily dries up for the present those North European fountains of emigration which have, proved a source of 60 mUch wealth to the United States. From this time forth the immense arrivals weekly chronicled at Castle Garden, New York, will diminish to comparatively small figures, and the Northwest and South will miss the honest Teuton faces whose coming has been so welcomed.

THE rapid increase of the railroad business in the United States is shown by the fact that in 1851 the entire capacity of all railroads did not exceed 5,000,000 tons, the value of which was $750,000,000. The earnings of all the railroads for that year from freight were $20,192,104. The past year they were fully $300,000,000— a sum fifteen times greater. The annual increase of gross tonnage has averaged $6,222,222 tons; the annual increase in the value of the same has been $600,000,000. ———<>———

THE Street Commissioner informs us that the city ordinance in relation to the cleaning of alleys is so defective as to be almost entirely useless. Hence many alleys are in an exceedingly filthy condition, to the serious detriment of public health and convenience. This is a matter that should receive prompt attention. The nearest possible approach to cleanliness is absolutely necessary at all times, and particularly at this season of the year. ———<>———

IN FACE of the fact that the national debt has been reduced more than <one hundred and forty millions> since President

GRANT came into power, D. W. VOORHEES dares to tell the people that it "has not been reduced one dollar and will not be for the next thirty years!" How desperately he is pushed, in this canvass, may be inferred when he is seen resorting to gigantic falsehood. ———<>———

BOSTON must look closely to its fame as the musical centre of the country. Other cities and towns are striving hard to pluck the freshest laurels that the American'Athens has set upon her brow. Such an obscure place as Vincennes, Ind., jenly boasts, through its leading paper *jat it has just been honored with the organization of a brass band composed en tirely of l^onng men who have no know! edge whatever of music. What is Boston's artillery chorus to the Star Spangled Banner in comparison with the Vincennes brass band? Why, it sinks into mere insignificance. Gilmore must see to it that the city of the Peace Jubilee will not be eclipsed in its musical career by a sixth-rate Indiana town.—Philadelphia Inquirer.

THE report that Miss Laura Beam has gone to Cincinnati to accept a position on the Commercial wrong. Mm Laura has done nothing of theJamL but intend* (vifitifining her residence in Indianapolis. —JM.

HEWS ASD NOTES.

SBNATOBMOKTON'S Terre Haute speeoh will be very extensively circulated aa a campaign document.

Or THE six Supreme Judges nominated in Tennessee, two have always been Democrats and four Old Line Whigs.

As a striking instance of municipal economy, it is stated that the Council of Donaldsonville, La., has voted Mayor Albertson a salary of $1 a year.

THE'baths,which, have been placed by the city authorities of New York city on either aide of the town are already found to be a great boon to the inhabitants of those localities.

I* ALMOST any national conflict Prussia and Germany should have the sympathy of all neutral powers. Their success would spread abroad the elements of *a higher civilization, while the success of France would diffuse to a greater extent than now all the elements of corruption and decay. 1

OF the foil trade the Boston Journal says: "The demand for foil goods has sprung up in New York, and several of eur New England manufactories gf dress fabrics have within a day or two received large orders from New York. The qtocks of goods on hand are quite light."

THE Prineetonian learns that a movement will be made by the residents of Princeton, N. J., to secure from the next Legislature the repeal of the law rendering the college'students irresponsible for debts contracted while pursuing their studies.

GEN. MCMAHOS, the first of the French commanders, is ah Irishman. He is the descendant of an Irish noble family that lost all in defense of James II.,and has resided in France ever since—almost two hundred years, long enough to become thoroughly nationalized in France.

THE Boston 2Vat*fer says, in its financial article: "The Boston, Hartford and Erie railroad enterprise appears somewhat like a winter bear, hanging by his fore paws in a hollow tree, not exactly c(ead, but inanimate, and waiting for a spring thaw. The present price of the $20,000,000 bonds is less than $6,000,OBO."

AN ENGLISH Countess, who made the acquaintance of some American girls on the Continent, is said by the ^Revolution to have expressed great astonishment at the fineness and costliness of their underclothes. She did not believe that the cambrics, linen and laces of the Princess Royal exceeded in value those worn by our American girls.

THE Philadelphia Press declares the new Tax and Tariff act to be more favorable than the old tariff for American manufactures. We suppose that in regions where the free trade sentiment dominates it will be contended that the new act is a step in the right direction. On the whole, even though the "odious Income Tax" was retained, the New York Tribune considers the Tax and Tariff bill a first-rate platform on which to go before the people.

THE ample provision, says the London Spectator, which Charles Dickens made for his family, consists of some £43,000, invested in public securities half the value of copyright of the great novelist's books estimated at £20,000 his modest house at Gad's Hill, together with its contents and the interest-in All the Yea? Round, bequeathed to his eldest son. Mr. Dickens was at all times a munificent and free-handed man, and never made the attainment of wealth a first object.

PROFESSOR PIAZZI SMYTH, astrono-mer-royal for Scotland, has made along series of observations on the temperature of the earth with underground thermometers, and is thereby led to conclude that some relation exists between this temperature and the amount of sun spots, and that it takes place in a certain order, deducible from the observations. Following this out to a conclusion, he is of opinion that next winter will be unusually severe throughout the British Islands.

THOUGH' the soldiers who will be called upon to take part in the European war mayj be counted by the million, it

does not follow that the loss of life will necessarily be as great as in former general European wars. It will be a war between disciplined soldiers, armed with the most destructive of modern war weapons. The battles will be more quickly decided, anJ with less destruction of life than where undisciplined mobs and inexperienced soldiers are pitted against each other.

IN the contest which is now going on between labor and capital, tlie true »olu tion is not to be leached either by crippling capital or by oppressing labor. As in most other cases of radical difference of opinion and action, the golden mean is the only practicable platform of reconciliation. The indications derived from vaqgus sources now point to the princi pie of co-operation as the open saame to harmony between labor and capitaL That it may be made successful under the or dinary circumstances of wealth accumulation has been proved by the prosperity which has attended quite a large number of cooperative adventures both in this country and in Europe.

AMONG the subjects of taxation afford ing relief to the people, the following re ductions will be chiefly noted. The license tax on trades and profess ion* will be wholly dispensed with on the 30th of April 1871, and thereafter that source of annoyance will disappear. The income tax is reduced from 5 to 2$ per cent., and the exemption increased to $2,000, so that this tax will hereafter only apply to the few and the most wealthy and in the course ot events must soon disappear. The tax on gross sales has also been abolished. Add to this, reductions in a variety of ways, mainly and more directly affecting the laboring classes, and the aggregate reduction is estimated to reach $84,000,000 a year, and still leave ample revenue to the Government. Thus, altar all the abase heaped oa Coagren, and the cry of extravagance, the people wiU speedily feeTthe direct remit of its risal acting in a greatly redaced taxation. It isooly "thai

TERRE-HATJTE, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY 27, I870. {PAYABLE IN ADVANCE

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USDKB the wise and economical admin* Mtratfcxiof President Grant, the revenues through an honest system of collection, are found to have largely increased, in the very face of diminished taxation, so that eighty millions can be stricken off without interfering with a steady reduction of the national debt at the same time. A system of progressive payment has been inaugurated, and all that is necessary to bring the country back to the standard of income and expenditure, prevailing before the war, is to continue the same policy.

THE English papers %re discussing a case of hospital practice believed to be without precedent in the science of surgery. It occurred in a London infirmary. It appears that a medical man with a turn for was curious to know whether a portion of 'the skin-of a negro, if applied to raw. surface on a white person, would adhere and grow and if so,' whether the surrounding skin would become discolored. A chance to solve this physiological problem offered. A child waa conveyed to the hospital suffering from an enormous burn, and leaving a wound so liirge that the vitality of tli« little sufferer was inadequate to. heal, it. A negro patient was bribed to part with a portion of his epidermis and this was placed over the wound. The, result has not yet transpired. But in the mean time much indignation has been aroused against the surgeon whose search after knowledge is made at the expense of his patients, and the Daily News is quite sure that, if the facts are as alleged, he merits public condemnation and disgrace. Medical men, however, defend their confrere on the ground that the experiment is expected to determine a point, the knowledge of frhich may enable the surgeon to save the child's life.

EIGHTEEN young men have been fined $10 each for habitually "loafing" on the street corners of Boston. Were this rule enforced in Terre Haute, we might soon dispense with all our taxes for municipal purposes.

THE Cincinnati Times thinks there can be no doubt that President Grant is already seeking to conciliate the Chinese element. His appointment of Fre Ling Huysen as Minister to England is conclusive on that point. sit!

THE Democracy of the Eighth District, in convention at Kokomo yesterday/nominated Captain Will C.-Moreau. as their candidate for Congress. This is the worst nomination eVer known in the histonr of this idiotic Bourbon organization. If the merits of the candidates have any weight with the voters in the Eighth District, Mr. Tyner's majority will be about 32,179. In 1868 the vote was as follows: _.D. Pratt 17,238 Nathan O. Ross..... 14,946

Total- ...32,179 —Ind. Journal, Saturday.

AN APPALLING TRAGEDY. ———

A Man Sixty Years Old Kills His Wife

and Hangs Himself.

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The Erie <Dispatch>, of Wednesday, says: A terrible tragedy occurred on Tuesday morning in the township of Conneaut, about two and a half miles from the borough, on the road to Ridgeville. A eell-to-do farmer named Ralph Wright resided there. He was about 60 years of age and his wife 55. Four daughters lived with them, two between the ages of 10 and 12, and two, three or four years older. On Monday night Mr. Wright and his wife visited Mr. Stephen Daniels, a neighbor, returning about 9 o'clock. Nothing unusual appeared to be the matter at that time, but about 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning Mrs. Wright was aroused by |her husband making a murderous attack on her with a hatchet. She screamed and sprang out of the bed, and the children came into the room. One of the older girls, at the risk of her own life, sprang between her father and mother, and grasped the hatchet, which she succeeded in wresting from, the murderer's hand. Mrs. Wright, already slashed about the hands, arms and head, ran down stairs and into the woodshed, her husband following. He there caught up an axe and struck her in the back of the head, burying the blade in her skull. She staggered a couple of steps and sank down in the grass. Meantime the children had run after the neighbors. The track of the murderer showed that he had gone up stairs to the rooms occupied' by the girls, carrying the bloody axe with him, doubtless with the intention of also murdering them. When the neighbors arrived Mrs. Wright was still alive, but speechless. She breathed her last, about half an hour after the attack. Before leaving the house the murderer set fire to it, and it was with the greatest difficulty that the flames were finally subdued. When the fire was quelled a search was made for the murderer through the barn and in the vicinity of the premises, but it was for some time unsuccessful. Finally he was found dead, but yet warm, hanging in a stable near the barn. The suicide had been a most determined one. He was leaned over forward, his feet thrown back, and his knees nearly touching the floor. He is supposed to have been insane, and probably had for some time brooded over the commission of the terrible crime, as he has of late several times remarked that there was soon going to be a great change about the house. ———<>———

fsilt 5 .1 Saratoga—John Morrlsscy in a New Role.

The turnouts of the first day's races at Saratoga were both elegant and promiscuous. Commodore Vanderbilt,accompanied by his handsome young bride drove on the track behind "Dayson and Bunts" and "Post Boy"—a team that the day before trotted a mile at Glen Mitchell. Helm-

hold's six-in-hand dashed up at a spanking pace, while other teams shot in through the entrance gate right smartl v. Presently the lion-eyed Morrisser observed five: notorious thieves and desperados from New York driving up in an en barouche. John Casey, the leader

U1

the swaggers, and who shot a man at Albany last winter, jumped out of the carriage to buy tickets for the party. Mr. MoriBsey stopped and asked Casey whether he and his friends did qot make a mistake. "I guess not I'm going in," replied Casey, with a tremendous oath. "Think it over first coolly," remarked Mr. Morrissey "you might think better of it." Saying this, Casey attempted to enter the gate. Mr. Morriseev caught him by the collar and told the bruiser he could not be admitted. The latter immediately put his hand on a pistol, and, in a menacing attitude, said: "This is a public race trade, and I ant going in anyhow." "I will make you think it is a church before I am through with you, and if you dare draw that pistol on me I'll make you eat it," said Mr. Morrissey. The belligerent Gtoey was handed over to the officers and confined in the lock-up until after the races. But for the shrewd forethought of Mr. Morrissey, fiveiundred thieves would have flocked on to the track if Casey had gained admission. The great Bensation of the day, however, was the purchase, Mr. Belmont, of Kingfisher, for £20,00( It seems that the owner of the hone, while driving at the Club in. company with Belmont, Travers, Lorillard, Harry

Genet, Oliver Charlock and others, jocosely observed that he would sell the King if he was offered $20,000 for him. Mr. Belmont immediately closed the bargain, and bought the horse.—Bottom Post. -n

Xominations for Congress. The following are the 'nominations for Congressmen made by both parties in this State. The list is complete with the exception of the Democratic Candidates in the Eighth andEleventh districts: iDitriet. RgnhUcant. DamqrraU.^ lrt_— H. Cl»y Gooding—W. E. N lblack.

Stk.

lletei I. Dni Lewis Wi

,JD. Tf.Voorbeei .M. S. Manson. ...Joha Cohrickt .Jf.S.Huefcall.

BI.VS AH OUT.

Uponmy bosom lies A knot of blae aad gray Ton uk me why- Tsars fill ay eyes 1

As low to yoa I say: I had two brothers oneo— Warm-hearted brave and cay. They left la side—one wore the Mae,

The other wore the gray.

One rode with Stonewall and has men. And joined his fate to Lee: The other followed Sherman's March

Triumphant to the. sea.

Both foaitht for what they deem'd the ritht And died with sword in hand One sleeps amid Virginia's hills.

And one in Georgia's sand.

The same sab shines upon their graves. My love unchanged mast stay And so upon my bosom lies

The knot of blue and gray.

NOkKOWS OF WEKT1IEK.

Wortherhada love for Charlotte, Such as words could nfcver utter Would you know how first he met horl

She was cutting bread and batter.

Charlotte was a married lady. And a mortal man. was Worthor: fir And for all 'the wealth of Indies,

Would do,nothing for to hurt hor.

So he sighed and pined and ogled. And his passion beiled and Dabbled Till he blew his silly brains out.

And no more by it was troubled,

''"Charlotto, having seen his body ,v' Borne before her on a shatter, 11 Like a well-conducted person.

Went on catting bread and butter.

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—Tkackcrail.

FOREIGN.

CONCERNINGJROME.'

PABts, July 22,-Henry Martin, French istorian, publishes a long article in the Jiede this A. M., taking ground that Franee ought to break with Some, seeing that the extravagant pretensions of the Pope are fatal to the liberties of the Gallican church.

OTTEXCH CIRCULAR

1 July 21st, iplomatic agghts at foreign capitals. The circular Mentions the explanation made on the 15th of July in the Chambers in regard to the rapid events of a negotiation in which is fast as we redoubled our efforts to preserve peace, the secret designs were developed of an adversary resolved to render it unfavorable.

Whether the Berlin Cabinet has judged war necessary for the accomplishment of tfieir projects against the self-government Of the German States, or hardly satisfied sit having established in the center of Europe a military power formidable to all its neighbors, they had wished to turn tb account the power already acquiredjby displaying definitely to the advantage of Prussia the international equilibrium, the premeditated intention to refuse us guarantees which were indispensable to qur security as well as our honor, showed itself by the strongest evidence in their cbnduct of negotiation.

The circular .then mentions the candidature of Prince Hoheniollern, and declares the German Cabinet hoped to place tie Prince on the throne of Charles by snrpriBe, believing Europe would accept tie accomplished fact, and that Franee in sjite of her temporary displeasure would hiesitate to oppose the express will of the

Spanish people, who were friendly to uer. 1 The French government informed of danger from this-intrigue, did pot hesitate to denounce it to representatives of the people and. to foreign powers. All have felt that Prussia was alone in her policy, and that knowing herself to be without support in common right, she his nevertheless sought to ^imjjoee upon Europe the^ further a! an extension of her up the cause of eri knowing it to be the cause of all peo-

„wov. Joing.so she has not placed .hcirself in opposition to her own maxims ami policy, or those of the great powers.

The circular cites as proof the cases of Belgium. Greece andNaples, and the refusal of the great powers to allow any of'their Princes to mount those thrones.

THE WAR.

The ICeoiparaUve Streagth of the

Combatants.

The war we suppose will be a severe one, though it is not likely to be long. Europe now-a-days cannot bear contests of years' duration war is too costly, the politics of the continent are too complicated, and dynasties are too infirm. A few weeks of fighting in 1866 destroyed the old German empire, made Austria practically a second-rate power, effected anew confederation of the German States, and raised Prussia to an oh a threatening pre-eminence among the military powers that her riva's hastened to make peace on the best terms they could. A few weeks more will probably decide whether Prussia shall retain ner precedence, or the first place hereafter belongto France. So far as' we can judge from statistical returns, the two powers are almost evenly matched, but the victory will remaitf with that one whose reserves can be the more readily mobilized and whose organzation will work the more perfectly in practice. Theoretically every able-bodied adult both in France and in Prussia is a soldier during his prime ot life but in France there are many exemptions, and in Prussia there are few. In Prussia, moreover, there is a larger population to draw from than in France, for in time of war all the forces of the non-confederate States of South Germany will be at Prussia's absolute disposal. Lithe course of tbs debate the other day in the French Corps Legislatif on the proposal to reduce the contingent of 1871 (that is, the numberof new troops to be raised by recruiting: and conscription from 100,000 to 90,000, CoUut de la Tour said: "Even with an annaul contingent of 100,000 men our military forces are inferior to those of Germany and in another part of his speech he stated the effective military force of France to be 810,000 men and that of Germany 1,608,000. Practically there will be no such disproportion as this between the armies which the two nations can bring face to face in the field, and we shall not be far from truth if we place the effective force of Franee on a war* footing at 750,000 men, and that of Prussia (including South Germany) at 970,Q00. Both are admirably organized and equipped. In the war of 1866, Prussia required only fourteen days to mobilize her entire reserve, aud it is probable that both she and France will be able to move with equal or greater celerity now.

But if Prussia has -a preponderance of strength on land, France has an overwhelming superiority in her navv. To the improvement of this arm of the serr vice she has devoted, during the last few years, enormous sums of money, and there is no fleet jn the world, except that oif Great Britain, which can cope with hers for an hour. The latest improvements in naval ordinance, armor plating, and ndw systems of attack and defense, have all been adopted. Splendid turret vessels, fit to rival the English ships Monarch and Captain, rams, gun-boats, floating batteries, eighteen iron-clad frigates mounting from 12 to32 guns each, and a multitude of smaller vessels, are included in this splendid maritime force. |Prussia also has some magnificent armored Bhips, but she is no match for France on tne sea, and Napoleon can easily carry out his ptirpose of blockading most Of the Prussian ports. It is doubtful if any serious engagement takes place on the water. The brunt of the campaign will be borne on the Bhine in the midst of that net work of fortresses upon which the military engineers of so many generations have expended their ingenuity. Here Prussia has the advantages of previous possession and the most minute acquaintance with the country. For years her

Tijm.ni.n officers have traversed the provinces back Ewo^The furtherabuse of so dangerous and forth her soldiers have marched an extension of her influence. France over all the roads—We might almost say took up the of the balance of pow- 'have drilled in all the fields. Ever since the first threatening of war she has been armies in these strong the clash of battle comes __i her favor almost every aid which military science has devised for, a defending force. She will have a patriotic and enthusiastic people supporting her, and a just 'cause to give her confidence. From present appearances it would seem that the odds are all in her favor but how well she has preserved the

The circular ^hen mentions the with- *—-1drawal of the Hohenzollern, the refusal admirable organization which gave her -r rt onil ntliAr aiir.li a Biinerioritv in 1866. are ouestions such a superiority in 1866, are questions which can only bo answered by the test of yfai.—N. Y. Tribune.

of Prussia to give guarantees, and other incidents which have followed, adding that France ought to demand guarantees since Prussia had already given her word that the Prince of Hohenzollern should noti mount the, throne of Spain, when in Mairch, 1869, there had been a question of his candidature. At that .time the French Minister at Berlin told the King that no Priissiah could reign in Spain. Count Bismarck replied that France need not concern herself at a contingency so improbable, and Herir Von Thile, Prussian under Secretary of Foreign Af-

henzollern was not and could not be a

ainiidate. If assurances thus solemn cannot be relied on, diplomatic inter courte must cease. In repudiating suchpledges, Prussia challenges France, who now! only demands, in vi£w of previoos tergiversation, that the former renunciation of her designs be made real and per-

The circular concludes by declaring that history must assign to Prussia the responsibility for a war which she had the means of avoiding, and which, while she affects to deplore it she has rather sought, and adds, under what circumstances has she aone this?. It is when France for four years past has refrained with scrupulousness from invoking against her treaties concluded under the mediation of the Emperor, but td which she has failed to give voluntary support of all the acts of the government, which has only thought of means of forcing herself from obligations of treaties even while signing them. Europe has been witness. Let Europe pronounce upon the justice of the cause.

jouid reten BDain

^blled fhat France stadt, at Ems, Germany, taking such comreplied

that

..i?ra

061fort

nf^wmor that sT Ho-1™3

falrB, gave hw word of jonor that a Ho.

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,/, |. MILWAUKEE.

MEETING or GKRMANS.

MILWAUKEE,July 24.—Germans favorable to the Prussian war held A meeting last ilight and directed the following cable dispatch:

MILWAUKEE, July 23.—To the Chaneellor of the North German Confederation Count Bismarck: The five hundred thou Kind Germans of Wisconsin enthusiastically join their voices with thosd of all the civilized nations of the globe, in condemning the cowardly blow which wounded ambition and despair have suffered Napoleon to aim against the peaceful and majestic development of Germany. We heartily tender our humble support towards the triumph of the holy cause of Germany in a struggle that must end with the gigantic structure of German Union. In behalf of the meeting. Signed, Morte Schiffler, Pres't.

The Ladles at the Baths. On Thursday of last week the ladies were present in greater numbers than on any previous occasion. Among them was tne Princess "Edjtha,1' who, accomtied by a male friend—a prominent teenth Ward politician—created considerable of a flutter by her eccentric

both-sauntered leisurely away. In conversation with an officer she avowed her intentions to publish a book and give her persecutors "fits."

One day last week, while the women were bathing at the foot of Fifth street, a horrible yell was heard in the bath, matron rushed in and found a person wit a masculine cast of countenance in the

grasp

of some eight or ten nymphs who were 'fsousing" her iraleg |hewater,at an alarming rate, antf at every dip they Bcreamed out, "We'll give it to you, you DVtMMMvu VMTJ 5- "*"7 infernal scamp!" (Dip.) ^TIow dare you intrude your dirty carcass among us unprotected females?" (Another dip.) "If you stay here another minute" (two dips in quick succession) "we'll duck the life out of you.? The unfortunate wretch was resoued from their dutches, and when -tfc^Urqth was ascertained, it was found the viragoes had almost drowned a poor German girl ander a supposition that aha was wB* la dignisa.—Siw YorkP^r.

^ey could derive from the juice

ofBhenish grape and a .pack of cards. os on pi us re of he up

a

lar8®

man

w*th

a head

They shuffled the cards, and the French man lost. "Another wager!" said Nesselrode, with a glance at Bismarck, who eyed his two companions calmly, though never uttering a single word "250 that within five years Fraace.and Prussia measure swords, and that France yields Alsace and the whole disputed border." "Cest impossible/" excitedly responded the Consul.

Again the cards were shuffled. At the fourth play Bismarck and the Frenchman had each taken two tricks. It was the Russian's lead. He threw the queen of clubs upon the table. "King 1" shouted the Frenchman triumph, as he covered Nesselrode's card and extending his hand to seize the prize. "Not so fast," coolly remarked the Prussian Premier*. "I believe the game is mine and casting the ace, he leaned back in his chair ana laughed heartily "Mm DieuPt shouted the discomfitted player, ''but cards always were liars." And unable to conceal the chagrin and excitement that overmastered him, he rose from the table and quitted the

Three years have scarcely elapsed since the incident here narrated (an incident which Nesselrode told with hearty satisfaction in the Ems cafes that summer),

and,

now that the big cloud of war that has hovered over Europe has burst, the result may prove that the cards were not such liars after all* A ni

SWIff ISMS?*

Canfessloaof (From the Detroit Tribune. July 15.) We have additional particulars of the terrible tragedy, which we give herewith. It is proper at the outside that we should say that we were mistaken in ascribing^ a questionable character to one of the victims—Mrs. Phillips. Wo obtained our information from sources which should have been, and we supposed to be^ reliable, but we have now no doubt that it did her injustice, which we most deeply regret. To atragedy so awful Mid melancholy in its nature we are heartily sorry that any error of ours should even have tended to adda'deeperhue.

Mrs. Phillips visited the residence of Mrs. Clear (where the murder was committed) on Wednesday, taking with her an ummarried daughter, and they remain* ed there together most, if not all the afternoon. Minn Phillips returned to her home—No. 11 Spencer street—in the evening, leaving her mother at the resi-dence-of Mrs. Clear, she having decided to remain there over night, as shefeared that Hoag, who seemea to be in ill-Wtu-per, meant to do some mischief, and thought that her presence might act as a check upon him. The foot that she laid upon the bed withovt removing her clothing (in which con dition her body was "found after the. der) shows that she was suspicious^ some danger. It will be seen from this statement that her presence in the house was due to her solicitude for her daughter, and whatever MrB. Clear's andHoag's relation may have been, die was not re^ sponsible therefor. She was a woman of upright character, and a communicant of the Mariner's church.

Coroner Cahill empanelled a jury yesterday morning, and, after viewing the the bodies, adjourned the inquert until this afternoon at two o'clock, when the testimony will be taken., The scene of th» tragedy was yesterday visited by thousand of people, and aa officer had to be stationed there to prevent matters from being disturbed.

The murderer is fifty-five years of age, and is believed to be worth several thouBand dollars. He is of small stature^ not Communicative, but fond of mony^ap^ miserly to the last degree. The police station was thronged *111 day yesterday by persons anxious to get* glimpee of iiim, and he seemed to fear that he woald be lynched. He is, however, too cloeely guarded for an effort at violence to have he slightest chance of success.

During yesterday jtfternoon he was visited by some acquaintances, and being idvised to tell the whole truth ooacerang the murder, he finally made conession, which is in substance as follows.'. He wanted money, and having learned that Mrs. Phillips and Mrs. Clear had a quantity, he asked them for some., They :-efused his demand. He laid dowirupin the sofa in the front rootn, but did not [o to sleep. Mrs. Phillips laid dowa_ In he kitchen with her clothes on, whim Mrs. Clear undressed herself and laid down upon her bed to read. 1 Two lamps were burning ap^to tho tiime of the murder. Between 1 and 2 j'clock, Hoag approached Mrs. Clear and repeated his demand for money, having first sfttisficd himself thil Mrs. Fniilips' •as asleep. Upon being a second time refused, he obtained the natchet and attacked Mrs. Clear, striking her several times in the head, as he thinks. The doise,together with theories for help, ijwoke Mrs. Phillips. The murderous spirit being now fully ai oused, Hoiig dealt Mrs.- Clear one more blow which felled her upon the bed snd then attacked

PRINCESS SPOTTED

V} ?i"TS fi

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A Game of Cards. V}rj

From Appleton's Journal..! One hot afternoon in the month of August, 1867, three men sat around a table

a

Private Parlor

at

th*.hotel

Parm*

8**?'

blue a heavyTlghtooiored

airs

mous-

about him that would have done

honor to the imperial purple. This personage had even then achieved some fame and was tolerable well known to reading people by the name of Bismarck. Next to him sat another baldheaded individual, inferior to Bismarck in stature, with a border of black hair about the base of his skull, that looked like the rim of an old felt hat (ruthlessly robbed of its crown), condemned to remain there as a permanent fixture. During the Crimean war the father of this man figured at the Cabinet councils in St. Petersburg as Count Nesselrode, but the son was only knoif as a clever gamester and an habitue of the fashionable European watering places. The third member pf the .party was a little fellow (so little that his feet scarcely touched the floor) with_ dark, piercing feyes, swarthy skin, and vivacity enough for half a dozen ordinary men. At the time of which we speak htfwas the French Consul at Stnttgara. All of them had been partaking freely of wine, and each in turn shuffled the cards with a vim that the generous grape imparts even to the most phlegmatic temperament. The Frenchman, in the interludes of play, kept up a running fire of conversation, skipping from topic to topic with a facility which only Frenchmen eiyoy, until, warmingV as he went on, he ventured the declaration that France would one day mark her boundary by the Rhine from Bastr to the sea. "A hundred fredericks to, fifty," exclaimed Nesselrode, "that she won't." "Done,"replied the Frenchman," "and let the game be the fortune-teller."

Mrs. Phillips, cutting-,-her-ia—the most horrible manner..

»After

he was thoroughly satisfied that ., Phillips was dead, he seized the kjerosene lamp that stood on the table in. ., her room and dashed it upon the bed. He then returned to Mrs. Clear's room, and also threw her room lamp upon her bed. He says that both wnmen "were dfead before he" set the beds on fire, but in this he was mistaken, as the body of the laist named victim Was found upon the fl6or before life had become extinct.

I After doing all this, he puts on what clpthing he had previously removed, ineluding his boots, carried his two trunks oiit of the house, and went to the outhouse, where he remained until the arrival of Mr. Moses Stone. He says he committed the murder purely because I10 winted to obtain whatever money the wom^n had that he was perfectly sober at

the time, and in full possession of his se^Bes. He now realizes the enormity of his crime, says it was a "cold blooded morder," and claims to feel sorrow for the fearful act.

TAILI'

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Talc of Love on the Larautio n} Plains. v\-nr, U4T" 1

The daughter of Spotted Tail, When dyplaced her arms around the old chieftain's neck, and exacted a promise 1. tall nHislltAli nfh if fl TT1«1

from him never to kill another white man. He has religously kept his vow.—Eastern Paper. lo much for the old aboriginal of variegated caudle nomenclature. Having supped with republican royalty, he needs no nonors at the hands of commoners But his daughter is a good Indian. All dead Indians are gooL In that respect they resemble the whites. Nothing so nourishes the virtues into conspitrousneBs as decomposing flesh. She was a peace-ma-ker, too, and hence blessed. Her clasped arms were a turniquet to stay, ever after the flow of demon blood from his heart to his head, or—the Eastern paper lies. So, gentle, good and gone, with no poet-song to carry her name to posterity with a romance hallowed by constancy until death, clinging about her memory— its recital is apropos, and may be interesting.

On Sunday. June 24,1866. an emigrant train, thirty days out from Omaha, bound for Helena, Montana, came-outof the arid sand and buffalo gnats ,of the woodless tfaste of the Pacific Valley, and camped near Fort laramie until a' drunken sergeant, who represented the American Government on that occasion, should ascertain if its numbers and armament were sufficient to attempt the Bozeman route. The occasion offered oppotunity to visit the Fort—a few housee with outlaying rifle pits«and an unfinished earthwork, partially surrounding a slight eminence, the inclosure of which was used as the post burial-ground. In it the grass was rank and tall, almost concealing the few head-boards that marked the resting places of the dead of the command. In the southeastern corner were two noticeable objects—the burial places of the daughter of Spotted Tail, alluded to above, and an infant Indian. And this is the: story:

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Spotted Tail is one of tne principal chiefs of the sioux. Hir daughter was gentle and beautiful—the ideal Indian maiden—the light of his wigwam, |the pride of the tribe, and was'selected to be 'J tlie mate of a distinguished young war-.. 1 rier. On one of Spotted Tail's annuel visits to the fort to procure powder and lead, awhiteman became jenainored of her, woed the dusky princess, and taught her

to love him. He asked her hand of old Spotty,Jbut the enraged Jchieftain scorned their entreaties, ana, hastily leaving the fort, started with his lodges on a hunt, compelled her to accompany him, and despite her repeated entreaties and avow- 1 al tnat she would marry her white lover or die, he was inexorable, She was as good as her word. She $te of a fatally poisonous berry, sickened and died. She requested to be buried in the hite. man's 1, burial ground.

The Chief came back, and, craving that permission, it was granted. The tribe' was assembled the finest fabrics they could procure enshrouded her xemains,) tt'F which were then placed in a large wooden

box, covered with bright colored blankets,, ,jl' and elevated on poets about ten feel high.lnji Her favorite ponies were slaughtered,m., that in the happy hunting grounds she might have good speed. The heads and'^ a re he a to up or the coffin, and there they still remain, in the wind, and sun, and storm, while thd" smooth-flowing Laramie murmurs it* ever-requiem to her who gave her lifo^ for love, and her last breath for peace. „,(,.

Peace to your ashes, maid of the Plains. Your story iB given as it was told to us at .your .grave, in the dim- twilight, by one'1 "?i who came there at each setting sun. It,!.- ui is almost too good to be true, but if it

you

A NEW serial story, by a distinguished American writer, wnose name is, held in reserve, is to be begun in the AugustGAI,ITV. The tale is said Ur be foll of incident dramatic, novel-in scene aad character, and admirably adapted foe sarial publka-

deserve a good word, and wo give. you the benefit of the doubt.—Chteago ibsfc-

A MATERIAL reduction of the clerical, force in the Departments at Washington" is to be made at the close of this monthk as required by the approprhuion bills,

This

economy is particularly in place in ,) the Treasury Department, where the apappointment business has been greatly