Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 August 1870 — Page 1

WHAT A bad bargain we escaped from clinching when the San Domingo annexation" treaty was rejected by the Benate, ia only to be properly appreciated by the chronic revolutionary tendencies of the people of that Island. Three or four chieftains are mastering bands for raids upon one another, to culminate, of coarse, in a struggle for the mastery of the unhappy Island, and in the death of one or more of the leaders. That our Govern* *ment could have curbed the ambition of these unscrupulous chiefs is more than probable, but it would have cost as more than the possession of the Island would have been worth to the country.

OUR AD vie £8 from every section of this Congressional, District are of the most cheering character. Republicans are warming up to the work and going into the campaign with a degree of unailirtlity ahd energy indicative of the best results. All that we have to do to Make success certain is to work right on, intelligently, zealously and harmoniously until the polk are closed on election day. In that way, and in no Other, lies safety for the Democracy will put forth a greater effort, in this canvass, than they have ever made. They can be defeated—handsomely whipped—by bringing out a full Eepublican vote, and this vote can afld will be brought out by a well-organized, thorough and lively canvass. Keep the ball rolling."

THE Indianapolis Sentinel makes itself appear silly in attempting to show that there can be no economy so long as there is any taxation, and that, therefore, the Republicans deserve no credit for wiping out the debt of this State. We had innocently supposed that true economy consisted in levying taxes fairly, and honestly applying the money, thus obtained, to the purpose intended, instead of squandering or stealing it, is Democrats were wont to do during their administration of State affairs. PENDLETON orJVooRHEEs, with their proposed greenback factory, and sufficient power to compel peoplo to accept their unlimited issue of "Lincoln rags" in exchange for State bonds, might have paid off the State debt without taxation, but honest men are de barred from the practice of such "economy" as that!

WHILE the friends of Prussia on this side of water are ardent and outspoken in their sympathy for the foes of Louis NAPOLEON, the admirers of the latter, though less demonstrative, are by no means idle. They have opened bureaus of emigration, where they pay the passage of all who desire to sail for France, with the understanding, of course, that the will volunteer in the armies of the Empire. We do not know of any law to prevent the departure of these people from our shores, as they are not regularly enlisted those furnishing them with passage money trusting that the Verbal promise to enter the army will be fulfilled. Perhaps the zealous advocates of the cause of King WILLIAM can discover some means by which to check this very suspicious emigration to France. It will certainly not inure to the benefit of Prussia.

THE Express is now bending its gigantic energies to prove that Dunn is half as good a rebel as Voorhees.—Journal.

That is another of those little "mistakes" whicli so often grace the columns of our Democratic cotemporary. The Journal attempted to show that Mr. DUNN, during the war, followed the example of VOOBHEES and his disciples. We proved the reverse, showing that his sympathies and material aid were freely given to the Union cause, while DAN Was working in the interest of the rebels from the inception to the close of the war' ut we took occasion to remind the ""Journal that, in its effort to prove that -Mr. DUNN was on the rebel side, it was incurring a risk of making votes for liim in the rebel element of the Demo- .. (-.ratio party. We stated—what everybody knows to be true—that those Democrats whose hostility to the Union cause was incited and intensified by the speeches and examplo of VOOBHEES, had become disgusted with his miserable pretences of "loyalty," "love for the soldiers," and all that sort of thing, and would vote for DUNN, If the Journal could make them believe the absurd falsehoods that it was charging and intimating against him.

The Republicans of this District know tliat Mr DUNN, throughout tho war,.was always faithful to the right side was at true to the Union as VOOBHEESv was to "the Confederacy," and that is putting the case strongly, for "our oppressed Southern brethren" had no truer friend *r more zealous advo cate than VOOB­

HEES. All that a man of his undisputed ability could do for the South and against the North, he did, both in and out of Congress. And when he now goes back on his magnificent rebel record, it is not strange that the deluded Sons of Liberty, whose horrid crimes were inspired bV his speeches should feel a sensation of intense disgust.

Declination of General Schcnck. General SOIIENCK addresses a letter to the editor of the Dayton Journal, formally declining to be a candidate for reelection to the House, in which, he says:

I do not affect to be indifferent to the trust which the majority of the people of the Third Congressional District have for so manv years reposed in me nor am I ungoatefiil for their continued confidence. I am assured if ruy name were to go before the convention which is -about to be held, I should have a renewed expression of that confidence by a renomination and entering the canvass with such endoresment, I should expect, not unreasonably I think, after trie usual hard fought contest with our political opponents, to be successful at the polls. Those who know me will also, I believe, give me credit for not shrinking from my share in any contest where I believe principle is involved. But I have grown wearv with long service and I need a little" rest. I have found that my best intended and conscientious efforts, and my hardest labor for the public good, are often misconstrued, misrepresented, or fail of appreciation. Some there are, too, who seem unwilling to leave to the

Representative any opinions of his own, and who resent any independence in the expression of honest convictions and that does not altogether suit me. So, upon the whole, perhaps a change, even on these grounds, is advisable. •L, But above all else—ancP&idependeptly

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of public cosiderations—I am constrained c- to remember that I owe it as a duty to $ myself, and to those dependent on me, to leave, while I am yet able to work, a service in which I can make no provision for future ease or support. I can not afford 1 to remain in Congress. I must devote *Z some time to my personal interests, and engage in some employment that will give me a chance of not being left embarrassed and destitute of fortune when the 'season for labor shall have passed.

And yet this man, who declines a reSelection to Congress in order that he may in Some business that will enable him to provision for the proper

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support of his family, when he shall no longer able to work]for them, has been charged, even in Republican journals, with having grown rich by selling his influence, as Chairman of the Ways and ^.lieaas Committee, to rings and monopo--lists. The Republic has had few more faithful servants than General SCHENCK^ and none have- been more shamefully abused by those from whom he should have received nothing but respect and indness.

TERMS $2.00 A YEAR}

THE Franco-Prussian quarrel having deranged telegraphic communication on the Continent, the Western Union Telegraph Co. have notified the public that they will forward all American business for foreign points by the most reliable route, particularly avoiding, at the present time, the transmission through France of messages which might be delayed or altogether suppressed on account of their contents or destination.

SOME ill-advised persons say that Americans ought to sympathise with the French because the poor Hessian* fought the revolutionary army under WASHING TON. To this, the Cincinnati Commercial makes a sensible and true reply, thus:

Now, are those persons ignorant of the fact that the Hessian troops in qnestion were sold, body and soul, by their villainous Elector,whom history has pilloried as the vilest of German monarch* for this very act, and who in Europe, is still execrated for the very act for which those persons try to hold the Germans responsible.

IT IS an interesting fact that France goes into the war which the folly and perverseness of NAPOLEON have brought about, crippled with a gigantic debt. Already the Minister of Finance has asked for a supplemental credit of five hundred million franfis, a sum Insufficient for the operations of the army for a siligle yeat. France will come out of the great struggle with a debt as lasting as that which now encumbers England. Prussia, on the other hand, has a very small debt—in fact, the smallest of any of the Great Powers.

THE long heated term is producing increased sickness in various places in the West. This is especially true of many of the river towns. Cholera-morbus and diarrhea are the forerunners, and without extra precautions, we may have an oldfashioned sickly season, as these complaints are apt to end in fevers when the patient gets much debilitated. In 1843 and 1844, the sick list in many places, located near streams and bodies of stagnant water, included nearly half the population. Both years had intensely warm summers.

ONE of the most dignified of our eastern exchanges expresses a hope that the advocates and abettors of Woman's rights, will be satisfied with the two females who aKe training for a public foot-race in Ohio. For ourselves, we confess to a feeling\f pain that two women should so far forget the native reserve of the sex as to be willing to appear before the public as rival athletes and we believe that this emotion will be shared not only by all true men and women, but that even MRS. JULIA WABD HOWE and the Rev. T. W. HIOGINSON will see nothing to admire, but much to deprecate, in the unseemly exhibition now preparing.

IT IS stated that the amount of money paid during the Forty-first Congress to contestants was-$52,000 the expense attending the contests three times as much. The Democratic press are endeavoring to make political capital out of the above exhibit, and charge that it is all owing to Republican extravaganee. They denounce the whole system of contests and demand a reform in it. The Philadelphia Press pertinently suggests that the reform should commence with the Democracy. Nine-tenths of the congests before the House at its last session originated in Democratic fraud or violence. Let that party purge itself and there will be an end to contested-election cases,

THE Cincinnati Enquirer has a characteristic fling at Senator SCHURB, Winding up with the inquiry. "Why didn't you enlist?" To this the Chicago Eepublican replies that as Gen.

SCHURZ served in the

field during nearly the entire war, the question "why he didn't enlist" is wonderfully powerful and pointed. It is a shot of the home guard order, and nearly as effective and sarcastic. The trouble with the General is that while theUnquirer folks were piloting KIRBY SMITH'S army toward Cincinnati, he was at work at the trenches near Chancellorsville. He has the further misfortune to be a German, and to sympathize with the old Fatherland, while the Enquirer is on the

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of the despotic NAPOLEON,

A WELL INFORMED COTEMPORARY corrects the common impression that the Prussians uH the same weapons now that they did at Sadowa. The French have a better gun than the needle gun and the Prussians have fcnown it for many months. Having been made to appreciate the importance of being provided with the most approved implement of warfare, the Prussian Government cast about for a gun that would do better execution than even the Chassepot, It was finally decided to patroniie the latest Springfield rifle. Accordingly the Prussian army has been supplied with guns made in Springfield. The superiority demonstrated was, therefore, the superiority of American guns over French.

A SCIENTIFIC publicist thinks that forty years hence half the active men of the United States will be the immediate descendants of foreigners. This expectation is based not enly on the enormous immigration constantly swelling our population from Europe, but upon the fact that our people of foreign birth rear so many more children than do Americans. For instance, in Massachusetts in 1860, the native population was four times the number of the foreign. The births, on the contrary, were just equal in both cases—that is, four children were born to every foreigner where one was born to a native. The truth was scarcely overstated when it was said of that States that the Puritan stock was fast dying out,

A writer, of opposite views, forcibly urges that Massachusetts presents an extreme case. Manufactures have, from one end to the other, superseded the agricultural interests, and her sons emigrate to more enterprising fields, leaving only enough behind to take the place of their lathers. The effects of social and artificial restraints are probably felt more strongly there than in almost any other part of the Union.

To show, however, that the same law is working elsewhere, we will take the case of Michigan, a State that is new, and devoted to the agricultural and mining interests.

The

returns of two years ago in

that State show a native population of about four or five times the foreign, while the comparison of births shows only about •five to three in favor of native Americans. These figures will probably represent approximately the parentage of the children born in all those Stated where the foreign immigration is large.

SINCE the European war broke oat Mose Dunn has discarded the us of the French language—Journal.

Bat all the Democratic papers in the United States are talking French with all their might. 'if

ACCORDING to a report of the City Auditor of Boston, the increase of the net debt of Boston during the past year was $2,168^133 99. It amounted on the last of April to $12 602,580 68. The Peace Jubilee cost the city $38,412 82 for photographs $1,222 was paid, and generally for junkettings," photographs included. $63,590 93.

As AN evidence of the capacity of the language, and the uses it may be put to, a cotemporary records the fact that some of the Democratic press style President LINCOLN an autocrat," who usurped and exercised tyrannical and despotic authority," and compare him to NAPOLEON, giving the preference to the latter! This to justify the enormous crime of an nn provoked war with Prussia. The Savior of the American Union compared with the destroyer of French liberty 1 To what base uses may not language come at last, when such expressions and com parisons are possible?

"WHAT act of despotism has NAPOLEON fifer committed," asks aNew York paper which King WILLIAM has not at least equaled, if not exceeded, in Prussia?" "Well, this for one," replies the Tribune:

Being sworn to defend a Republican Government, he overturned it by military force, subjugated the whole of France by a horrible massacre of hundreds—many say thousands—of unaftned and inoffensive men and women, and the summary imprisonment and exile of the best citizens, and then made himself Emperer. The means by which he mounted to the throne was wholesale murder, and no political phraseology can make the crime any less. What has King William done like this?"

THE Philadelphia <Press> calls attention to the evils consequent upon the unrestricted sale of quack medicines, many of which are known to be most noxious, and urges the necessity of requiring all such concoctions to be officially inspected before permitting them to be offered for sale. We heartily concur in the suggestion. The French sanitary laws prohibit the sale of any patent medicine until its ingredients have been publicly announced and officially recorded. There is certainly urgent need of such a provision in our own statutes. There is scarcely a doubt that more sickness and permanent disease are produced by the nostrums everywhere sold and used without medical advice than there is benefit derived from them. Why don't the doctors move in this matter? ———<>———

THE Chicago Timea-the most prominent Western Democratic organ—in speaking of the German meetings to express sympathy with Prussia, which are being held all over the country, says they are worthy descendants of the' hireling Hessians, who fought against American ndependence in 1776,"

In reply to this the Chicago Journal remarks that to represent the Germans of America as descendants of the Hessians an infamous insult. Those mercenes came from a little State bearing much the same relations to Germany that Delaware does to the United States. We doubt if there area hundred of their descendants among the hundreds of thousands of Germans in America. This is a fair specimen of the Times' fairneA in the discussion of the Prtlsso-French question.

THE Chicago Republican concludes that most of the able and patriotic Congressmen whose terms will expire in JIarch next, have been, or will, if they desire it, be again put in nomination. In a number of cases, they have refused longer to serve, and new men will have to be selected.

It is well that the people are in charge of this whole subject. They understand that the policy of repeated and causelesg changes, is no policy at ail, but a misnomer—that it takes time to educate a member to discharge his duties successfully, and that their real interests lie in adhering to the true and faithful men who have looked so carefully after their affairs,and conferred honor upon their constituents as well as themselves There will of course be many new men selected to the next Congress, but the old members will no doubt predominate largely. The country cannot afford to lose the benefit of their wisdom and experience. Any one who will examine into the subject, will see how largely the reputation of the States and Their strength in the national councils, is secured by selecting good men, and keeping them at their poets for along term of years, when they have onee demonstrated a capacity for the position. It is by this means only that some States make a larger figure in public affairs than others. Frequent changes are the bane of legislation, and the grave of State influence.

THE Member of Congress for our District is inundating this portion of the State with campaign documents under his frank. We do not complain of this as contrary to usage—though the whole franking business is an abomination—but we mention it to remind our friends of the necessity of circulating the antidote to VOORHEES' political poison. And the best antidote in the world will be found in good, Republican newspapers. Of these there are scores that can be bought, in any quantity, at the mere cost of the paper on which they are printed. They will be ten times as likely to be read as pamphlet editions of anybody's speeches.

Now is the time to do this work, before the progress of an exciting campaign shall kindle men's passions and render their minds impervious to truth and reasonThere are hundreds of Democratic families ia this District in which the New York TVibvnc^ Cincinnati GaxetU, Chicago Republican, St. Louis Democrat, Indianapolis Journal, or any other prominent Re publican paper, would be welcome. The women and children would read it, to begin with and the voting power of the household would not be long in following their example. Were half the money that is used in noise, bluster and parade during oar campaigns, expended in circulating Republican journals among moderate Democrats and those who are classed as "deubtful," the result would astonish those who think gunpowder, torch e, and music the greatest agencies a^frpolit* ical reform..

THE IRON INTEREST!

Fraita of th« Block Cod Fields!

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YIGO IRON COMPANY'S FURNACE

C01PLITIB AM HAM W IWW IN!

Full and Accurate Description of a Great Work "Well Dene! ,~m

O W I W A 8 A E t*s

WHAT IX WILL DO

Other Enterprises Contemplated!

The blast furnace of the Vigo Iron Company has just been completed and is ready to "blow in" whenever it can do so without risk of interruption in its sapply of coal. This is the first work of the kind ever established in this county, and is intended to demonstrate the practicability of making pig iron, at this point, in profitable competition with localities at which this important branch of our industrial interests has been prosecuted for some years. The inauguration of an enterprise so important in its probable results, an enterprise which, if successful, will prove but the pioner of many similar works, demands more than a passing notice more than the brief mention we have made from time to time during the past ten months. This furnace, as well as those in Clay county, is but the legitimate product or outgrowth of

INDIANA COAL FIELDS.

It is only a few years since the existence of coal in Indiana was determined, and it is but a few months, comparatively, since the use of Indiana coal was but very limited. The growing importance of the subject has now called' attention to it, and there is hardly a county In the State having coal beds in which their extent and character have not been pretty nearly ascertained. The coal measures of this State cover about eight thousand square miles, and in value and variety will compare Very Well with those of any Other State. They are located. in the Western part of the State, sweeping in a belt from the Ohio river to the Wabash, and embracing quite a number of counties. A line drawn from Leavenworth, on the Ohio, to Mitchell, and then following the line of the New Albany & Chicago Railroad to the northern part of Montgomery county, and then turning west to Danville, Illinois, will take in all the coal lands of the State. As yet, however, but a small portion of this territory has been developed. As new railroads are built and the country opened up, we may expect to see our coal interest becoming a very important one. Already It has assumed acnagnitude whieh four yean ago would have been considered amply commensurate for the labors of a quarter of a century. This has been entirely due to the discovery, in Clayeounty, of

BLOCK COAL.

What may have caused the formation of this species of coal, or why, under apparently the same circumstances,it should differ so much from other ooal. in the same field, is a qnestion we shall leave for geologists to determine. Block coal is peculiar, from the fact that it is entirely free from sulphur', with wTilch most -bituminous cOtlis are impregnated to a greater or less extent. It .derives its name from the fact that it comes out in large blocks, and when broken, splits up in thin layers, or cakes. It is very much like charcoal and is equally free from cinders and clinkers. In the coal districts, the other varieties, which are always found near it, are distinguished by the name of "bituminous coals," but this is an error, for the block coal contains as much if not more bitumen than other varieties. Block coal is found in but few places in the United States, principally in the Chenango Valley, in Pennsylvania, the Mahoning Valley, in Ohio, and in Clay county, Indiana, and invariably lies to the northeast of other coals. Northeast of the block, no coal is ever found. The deposits in Clay county are the largest known, aqd although not inexhaustible, will suffice for all possible wants for a great many years.

WHAT MAKES IT VALUABLE

Above other kinds of coal is its freedom from sulphur and its consequent adaptability for iron working. The smallest portion of sulphur in coal is sufficient to prevent the making of good iron, and indeed it has only been a few years since it was thought impossible to smelt iron with anything but charcoal. The introduotion of hot blasts led to the use anthracite coal, and about twenty years ago the Lowell furnace, situated near Youngs, town, Ohio, in the Mahoning Valley, first tried block coal in the manufacture of iron, and found that it answered the purpose just as well as coke, charcoal or anthracite. A few months later t}ie Sharon furnace was built in the Chenango valley, a few miles away, across in Pennsylvania, and was operated with block coal. It proved an immense success and is still in operation, and although a small furnace, averages a ton of excellent metal every hour. From the time the success of these furnaces was assured, and it was demonstrated beyond a doubt that bloek coal would make iron, there has been a constant increase in manufactures there, until now both the valleys are lined with furnaces and iron mills, and ooal lands are held at enormously high figures. Im mense quantities are also shipped to Cleveland and other points, and used for fuel, making'gas, etc. The coal business of the railroads interested is really gigantic, as will be seen from the fact that over one branch road seven miles long and owned by private parties, two thousand tons are moved daily. The Braxil coal is said to be just as good as any in those valleys, while the supply is much greater and" persons from those regions have come into Clay coanty and bought up coal lands covering a vast area of terri tory. i'"V

HOW IT WAS DISCOVERED.

Mr. John II. Holliday, in a valuable article written last summer, for the Indianapolis Sentinel, and to which we are indebted for many of the above facts, states that to Samuel Strain, Esq., of Bratil, is dae the honor of first directing attention to the block coal in Clay county He was for many years a resident of the Chenango valley, and had had agreat deal

of experience ia ooaland iron. He came to the conclusion that block coal was not confined to that narrow limit in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and in order to ascertain the troth, he Visited all the cod beds in the country, going to a number of States. He searched for several yean, but could not find one until a miner, who had drifted out to the neighborhood of Brazil and was working in the old mines near New burg, wrote to him, saying that he thought there were deposits of block coal in the county. Mr. Strain started from home immediately, and going to Newburg, examined the mines, but could find no block coal. Disheartened and disgusted, he started on his Teturn home vowing that he would then and there abandon the search. Reaching Indianapolis, he found that an hour or two had to elapse before train time, and this he concluded to spend in visiting the rolling mill. While in the yard there he picked up a piece of the coal,his attention was attracted, he examined further, and found the long eought for block Coal. To learn where it came from, to go back to the depot, jump on a train and return to Brazil, to bay and lease a thousand or more' acres of land, to fill a carpet bag with specimens and start for home, did not require a great deal of time for Mr. Strain. He removed to Brazil immediately. Through his efforts the discovery was to a coiwiderable extent made known, foreign capital was attfacted, and the development of the region commenced.

THEN AND NOW

The discovery was made but a little more than five years ago. For several years ooal mining had been carried on to some extent in that county. Mines near Brazil were in operation, and considerable coal of the ordinary kind was sold. The Indianapolis rolling mill has also been using it for a number of years, finding that, for heating purposes, it answered very well But the demand for it was not very great. "Indiana coal," as it was called, was considered rather below par, and the mining operations would probably never have amounted to much, had it not been for the discovery of block coal. At once the aspect of things changed: new mines were opened, labor was in demand, and the population increased. Lands grew in value, blast furnaces were built, a rolling mill started," villages sprung up, until the country of to-day would hardly be recognized as the country of even three years ago.

This sketch of discoveries and operations brings us properly to the organiza. tionof

THE VIGO IRON COMPANY

In which A. L. Crawford, Esq.—a prominent manufacturer and capitalist, residing at Newcastle, Pa., but having extensive interests in Indiana coal lands —was the prime mover. The

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

Bear date of Aug. 21st. 1869, less than one year ago. The CAPITAL STOCK $125,000, most of which has been paid in upon regular assessments, and has been expended in the purchase of a site and the erection of the company's works. The following is a list of the

STOCK-HOLDERS, J.'

A. L. Crawford, New Castle, Pa. A. J. Crawford, J. M. Crawford, Philadelphia Pa. W. L. Soott, Erie, Pa. 8. W. Phelps, Harmony, Ind. D. W. Minshall, Terre Haute. W. B. Tuell, Chas, Cruft, Owen Tuller, Firman Nippert, Alex. McGregor, Jas. C. McGregor, Demas Deming, Chauncev Rose, ..." Preston Hussey,

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H. Hulman, Seath, Hagar A Oilman, do. DIRECTORS. A. L. Craw ft rd M. Crawford A. J. Crawford S. W. Phelps Chauncev Rose AJOX McGregor D. W. ftinshall. ,,

OFFICERS.

President, A. L. Crawford. ... ,? Secretary, A. J. Crawford. Treasurer, D. W. Minshall. The ground of the Company consists of thirteen acres on the line of th'e E. A C. Railroad, one and a quarter miles southeast of the Terre Haute House. This large tract was purchased with a view to the erection of other works in connection with the furnace. A rolling mill, for the purpose of making railroad iron, is among the probabilities of the not distant future. There will be abundant room for such an establishment, and any others that the Company, in its future operations, may deem it proper to erect.

On the 23d day of September, 1869, ground was broken for the erection of the blast furnace and the various buildings pertaining thereto,, and from that time until the 29th inst. the work was prosecuted with energy under the efficient management of E. B. Sankey, Esq., of New Castle Pennsylvania. And we may as well say here, as elsewhere, that the Company was exceedingly fortunate in securing the services of so thoroughly competent and energetic a man as Mr. S. to superintend the construction of its works. He has made all the drafts, furnished all the plans and specifications for the buildings and machinery, and given his personal attention to all the details of this difficult, intricate and expensive enterprise.

The number, size and material of the various structures are shown by this list of

BUILDINGS.

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Frame—Stock House...140x60 28 feet high. Boiler ... 88x36 .24 Scale 24x16

Elevator 24x20 -.75 J? Smith Shop-... 20x30 —10 PnmpHoose... 16x16 8

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Brick—En'gHouge .. 36x33. 26 1 CutHonse l»2x42...._..24 Hot Blast 37x13 21 Office-Frame 16x20-i(only temporary

All these buildings—except the office hot blast—are covered with iron.

and The sides of the elevator are also covered with the same material, making an area of half an acre of iron roofing and siding. The office has a shingle roof, aud the hot blast is covered with a brick aroh.

MATERIAL USED.

Sheet Iron, (n*ed in boilers. ttack, tanks, blow pipes. Ac.) 106,000 pounds Roofing Iron 49.00C R. K., iron (foniA tracks) 54.000 Castings, about... —350,000 Lumber—Pine._ 72,000 feet Lomber—Oak and Poplar. _273,500—345,000 F'e Brick—Scioto, Pt'smt'h, O., 50,000

Sbenanxo, N.C.Pa., 23,000 Lowell. Lowell. 0-. 32,000 Brazil, Branl, Ind.,103,500-209.000

Red Brick—From T. H., 410,000 From Braxil... .296,000—706,000 The Brazil Fire Brick were furnished by W. H. Wiight, Brazil, Indiana.

The material obtained outside of this city alone has made over 200 car loads. MACHINERY

The machinery in the engine house consists of a large upright blast engine of 400-horse power, 31-inch steam cylinder, 72-inch blowing cylinder, 4-foot stroke, stands 23 feet high, weighs about 40 tons

TERRE-HAUTE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3, 1870. {PAYABLE INADVANCE

on each side has a fly-wheel 16 feet in diameter. This engine is used for blowing air through the hot blast into the fur- nace. It was built by Greenleaf & Co. Indianapolis.

The Crasher Engine is also upright, resembling in appearance a decanter. It stands about 10 feet high, 12-inch cylinder, 20-inch stroke. Its purpose is to drive by a series of belts and pullies one of Blake's Patent Ore Crushers. This engine was also built by Greenleaf & Co., Indianapolis.

The Hoisting Engine is a small, compact engine built by the Northwestern Manufacturing Company, of Chicago. It

has two steam cylinders of 7-inch diameter and 10-inch stroke. It is used for raising all material required for the furnace. It is automatic in its workings, opening and closing the valves as the platforms containing the material arrive in place. It is the first engine of its kind in use in any furnace in the country.

In addition to a force-pump attached to the large blast engine for supplying the boilers, there is one of A. S. Cameron's No. 4 Patent Steam Pumps used for pumping to the boilers the waste water from the tuyers which empties into a large brick cistern immediately under the elevator.

In the pump house, which stands about 20 feet north of the engine house, there are two of Knowl's No. 9 patent steam pumps built in Warren, Mass., capable of throwing 500 gallons per minute, each arranged to work either single or double, they are located about 16 feet below the surface of the ground in a pit 16 feet square walled solidly with heavy timbers, and lift water 18 feet, discharging through a 6 inch pipe into a large iron cistern— 16 feet long, 8 feet wide and 12 feet deep and having a capacity of 10,250 gallons— resting on iron girders between the walls of the elevator and cast house. From this the boilers and tuyers are kept constantly supplied with cold water. The pumps are furnished by Greenleaf & Co., Indianapolis.

The ore crusher located in the stock house, an immense iron frame, [weighing 11,0001b] .containing a moveablejaw which breaks the largest and hardest pieces of ore into sizes adapted for smelting, and so arranged that ore can be unloaded right from the cars through it, thus preventing the necessity of a second handling. It was built by Robinson, Rea & Co., Pitts-

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From the same power used in crushing ore, the ore which may have been deposited as stock outside of the stock house, is drawn up an incline to the crusher platform, thence through the crusher on to the stock house floor, to be loaded here into barrows preparatory to being elevated to the tunnel head.

The steam is made by four of Cliff A Son's large cylinder boilers, sixty feet long forty inches in diameter, arranged in JJkirs, to allow for cleaning. The fire is expected to be supplied from the gas generated in the furnace stack ahd conveyed through airtight flues to the boilers, where it ignites immediately on receiving air. If the coal yields gas as is expected, the boiler will use but little, if any, coal or slack.

The boiler stock is II feet square at base forl2 feet high, thence round—inside flue 4£ feet in diameter. Total hiphth 75 feet.

GETTING IN AND STORING STOCK. Two railroad tracks, each more than six hundred feet long, connecting with the E. A C. Railroad on the south end, pass through the stock house, elevated on trestles from 6 to 14 feet high, from which coal .and ore can be unloaded and piled up from 10 to 20 feet high, enabling, the Company to stock a great quantity on the smallest space. The grade inclines to the south, and the loaded cars, being set in by an engine, are unloaded and then dropped out by their own weight. This arrangement of tracks reduces the expenses of unloading and crushing ore to a mere trifle.

The floor of the stock house is entirely covered with three-inch oak plank, also the stock.yards for 85 feet north and 100 feet south, making in all a space 325x60 feet, about one-fourth of an acre.

THE HOT BLAST

is a large brick oven 37x13 feet, containing 64 large syphon pipe» resting upright on eight large bed pipes, through which the cold air is forced, traveling about 125 feet before passing out into the furnace. An intense fire, supplied also by gas, is kept around these pipes,heating the air to a temperature of from seven to nine hun­

dred

degrees before passing through the tuyers into the furnace. It is arranged as a double oven, and by means of valves one-half can be shut off in case of accidents, which are liable to happen. Although the smallest building connected with the establishment, it may be called the costliest, having been constructed at an expense of not less than $10,000. The material used in its construction consists of 100,000 red brick, 35,000 fire brick, 100 tons castings.

The roof of this hot blast is afire brick arch, nine inches thick, covered with red brick laid in cement.

THE STACK.

For the purpose of making additional waste or cinder room, the bottom of the hef^-h was raised about ten feet above thfij§|§«*t,pd. The foundation consists of a circB. ||||gk wall, titentytwo feet in diameter, VHjjLtt thick on the bottom and three feet on the top—containing about fifty thousand brick. Upon this eight large iron columns, weighing one ton each, rest, supporting an immense iron ring plate which receives and supparts the shell or outside of the stack. This shell is made of heavy boiler Iron, and is eighteen feet in diameter on the bottom, which diameter it retains for eighteen feet in height, thence draws in to thirteen feet in diameter on the top. The whole stands about forty-two feet high, capped with a projecting, platform, and connected with the elevator by aq iron bridge. The stack standrf in the cast house, its top passing np the roof. The inside lining is composed as follows: Four in. common Red Brick, next to ileel. Nine in. Fire Brick. Nine in. Loom Sand, to allow for expansion of brick. Fourteen in. of laner in-wall brick.

The last named brick were all made to order in shapes to suit the different diatn eters, and bevels, for turning flue arches, carrying jambs, Ac., making about ten different shapes and sizes. This lining rests Bpon the large ring plates and was completed before the hearth and bosh were put in.

The bottom is commenced' on cl sharp sand, thoroughly tamped, whieh is covered with two layers of large fire brick, in all 8 inches deep: another layer of sand, as before, and finally 21 inches of Shenango fire brick. The hearth, resting apoa this "bottom," Is faailtof

Shenango fire brick, made at Newcastle, and which have been tested as first-class. Its walls are 3} feet thick, pierced at the height of 43 inches with .7 openings or tuyer arches through which hot air from hot blast oven" is forced. An opening in front, larger and lower down, called the "neck," admits' of working the furnace with bars and for drawing off the cinder and iron at casting time." The walls of the "bosh" are much flatter than those of the "hearth," preventing the stock from crowding into the hearth. £iie of Hearth. 6 ft. diameter. Siie of "Bosh" -.12 ft. Siie of Tunnel Head 6 ft. Highttrom bottom of Hearth to platform -50 ft. Hlgbt from bottom of Foundation to top of Tunnel Head 74 ft.

PROCESS OF MAKING IRON.

After ore has been crushed into proper size it is loaded into large iron wheelbarrows and carefully weighed, sometimes using one kind of ore entirely and at others using the different kinds in proportions according to the quality and kinds of iron wished to be produced. In either case they are carefully weighed upon scales having six beams and capable of weighing as many different materials at the same draft. To this charge of ore, and upon the same barrow, is added limestone, which is also charged in quantity as the nature of the ores to be reduced changes, some requiring more, others less. A full charge consists of one barrow of coal and one of ore, &c., loaded as above. These are wheeled on to the hoisting platforms and carried to the top, where they are taken by the "upper filler" and dumped in turn into three different openings or "filling pockets," which pierce the Tunnel Head" at the level of the platform. After the furnace is filled once and running regularly, it will take about one hundred such charges every twelve hours. Stock is supposed to require about thirty-six hours in passing through, during which time it is being prepared until it reaches the "Hearth," where the "blast" striking it reduces it to a liquid state. At regular intervals of eight or twelve hours, as the case may be, the furnace is tapped and the iron drawn off and run into beds moulded in the sand. These beds are made by a series of small runners called the "pigs" leading off from one large one called the "sow." Hence the name "pig iron."

After the iron has been thus moulded, and while "red hot," the pigs are broken from the sow and, when coll, are carried off and weighed, being then ready for the market.

OPERATIVES.

The number of men employed to do this work is comparatively small. The following table showe their various duties: Ono Founder. 5^^ -CRf Two Engineers Two Keepers

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duty to work furnace, watch tuyers and take charge at

Two Helpers, casting time. Two Top Filllers, to unload barrows. Four Bottom Fillers, to load and weigh stock. Two Firemen, for boilers. Two "Iron Men." to.break and carty out iron One Breaker of limestone, i-: Six Laborers, general work, iJ#§

All the castings, many of which are of immense size, and all of them making an enormous amount of work, were made by Seath, Ilager A Gilman, Terre Haute.

The frame of the Cast Hotfee roof was made by Wm. J. Ball A Co., TerreHaute. The gas-fitting was done by D.W.Watson, Terre Haute.

Barr A Geakle, of this city, painted the iron roofing. The red brick work was done by contract by Henry Fisher, of New Castle, Pa., and fire brick work by days' work, J. C. Reed, of Terre Haute, Foreman.

The carpenter work was done by days' work, A. Van Ho*n, Foreman. The capacity of this furnace will be from 25 to 28 tons of iron per day. With no bad luck it should run from eighteen te twenty months before blowing out." The "raw material" to be used in making pig iron is as follows:

Iron Mountain ore, Missouri.

Pilot Knob Otigr Merrimac ore (Red Hematite, Mo.) Lake Superior ore, Mlchiean.. Cale, Clay county. Limestone, Putnam county. About one hundred and twenty tons, or twelve car loads, of stock will be required daily, giving employment to a large number of miners in Missouri and Indiana and adding largely to the buiness of our railroad lines.

The ore will cost, upon an average, about ten dollars per ton. The manufactured article will sell for about $30 per ton.

The daily product will 'amount to $750 to $800. The monthly earnings of the employes will be not less than $3,500.

The operatives and their families will add more than 125 persons to our in«~fj -tag dustrial population.

CONCLUSION.

We have thus given, as concisely as possible, all the material facts connected with this great enterprize. Should it prove successful, as we believe it will, the company will soon erect another furnace in connection with this, which can be done at comparatively small eost, the present buildings having been erected with a view to the construction of an other stack. Let us hope that the "blowing in" of the first.blast furnace in Vigo county wHl be-an era from which we may date the rapidly accelerated progress of all our material interests.

THE Republican party of Indiana has paid off the State debt of ten millions bequeathed to its management by the bankrupt Democracy, and the State has a surplus of money in the treasury. No swamp-lands and school funds have been stolen, either, in order to accomplish this result. Now the Democracy want tocome again into power that they may pile up another debt, and cnrich themselves, and debauch the financial morals of the people. It can not be permitted. The recollection of the past is too fresh in the public mind to allow Such a calamity to happen.—Lafayette Journal.

THE fact that President Grant and General Lee are both at Long Branch excites much talk, and the letter writers struggle intellectually to give extraordinary significance fo it. But# the Herald says Grant refuses to talk politics with anybody, and Lee is equally taciturn so it is safe to conclude no conspiracy batching or coalition forming. Th country is safe.—(Jin. Commercial.

IF IT had not been for the votes of Holman and Niblack, two Indiana Dem ocratic Congressmen—each of whom is re-nominated—we should have had two more representatives in the next Congress and the West would have had nearly, or uite thirty more.—Lafa^etU Journal.

Pattl and Mlsaoa.

London is just now a perfect aviary of song-birds, and Lucca, Patti, and Titiens at the Covent Garden Opera House, and Nilsson at the Drury Lane, warble nightly their sweetest strains to enchanted audiences. The operatic sensation of the hour is undoubtedly the silver-voiced Nilsson, whose angelio face and still more angelic voice have Tendered her the successful, nay the triumphant, rival of the hitherto peerless Patti. The charming little Marquise de Caux is still admired applauded, and adored, still sings to crowded houses, still sees the world at her feet but the rush, the excitement, the enthusiasm, and, above all, the high premiums paid on tickets, are reserved for the nights when the lovely Swede lights with the. moonlight Deauty of her presence the dingy stage of Drury Lane. It is hard to imagine anything more exquisite than that wondrous voice, whose liquid urity and crystal clearness remind the earer of the founfain of molten diamonds celebrated in Eastern fable. Nilsson has been reproached with, a want of dramatic fervor, and it is Uue that her voice is of too celestial aquality to adapt.itself readily tothe accents of earthly passion but the innocence of Marguerite and the sublime devotion of Alice have never found a more perfect interpreter. In the latter role (in Robert le DuMe) she is the embodiment of a guardian angel.

Patti has changed wonderously little since the days when New York first Went wild over the marvelous little singer. The rosebud has* bloomed into a rose, that.is all. Beauty and voice alike have developed into fuller perfection, and are alike unchanged in every .other respect. She is still the dark-eyed, Vrinsom damsel of pre-Secession days, and her voice still possesses that exquisite, birdlike carol which distinguishes her notes from any other songstress 1 have ever heard. Patti reminds one-of "the lark that at Heaven's gate sings," but the voice of Nilsson seems a strain from the other side of Ihe gate.

Thave dwelt thus'at length on the different merits ef the two great rival prime donne, as it is said they both intend to-cross the Atlantic—Nilsson in the coming autumn, and Patti a year after. If this be true, the lovers of music in the United States have in store for them such perfection of enjoyment as has not been theirs since that other and diviner Scandinavian songstress sailed from our shores, and left behind here a memory of seraphic

Bong

Four to six men to unload and crush ore and stock. In all from thirty to thirty-five men. A. J. Crawford, Esq., will be Superintendent of the Works. (jsw jr t#4

MISCELLANEOUS.1' I

The shell of stack, the boilers, gas and air pipes, and all sheet iron work, exclusive of roofing, was done by Cliff A Son, Terre Haute, amounting to over one hundred thousand pounds.

and almost seraphic good­

ness and nobleness of character. And as we honored in Jenny Lind the pure and generous woman, let us]also honor Christine Nilsson, who has walked unscathed through the fiery furnace of Parisian theatrical life, and come forth without even the smell of fire upon her garments.

QUACK DOCTORS.

How They Flourish in New York.

From A New York Lettor.]

One of the finest houses in. Union Square has been taken by the Chinese doctor, Lum Ling Law, who claims to post ess great numbers of wonderful medicines unknown to American doctors, and to be able to cure innumerable diseases heretofore considered incurable. It would not be be surprising if he made as great a success as many of the other medical charlatans of this city. Some of the quacks have enormous rev.enues. There is one Broadway consumptive curer and cure-al} doctor whose annual income for some years past has been between$100 000 and $125,000. He has constantly an average of between four arid five thousand, patients, located all over the country, most of whom communicate with him by letter, and to whom he transmits advice and prescriptions by post and express. His establishment is regularly organized, and is kept constantly running, though he himself is absent more than half of the time in other cities, where he has other establishments. His letters from patients number over a hundred a day, and he has about a dozen men and women engaged in reading, classifying, and answering them, and putting up the medicine for them. The whole machinery moves.with regularity, though he himself never reads or answers any of the letters of his distressed but hopeful correspondents. There is no reason why he should know anything of the cases. His clerks attend to the business as well as himself. He has some half dozen or dozen medicines, two or more of which he administers for consumption and every sort of complaint and it only requires a little experience on the part of the clerks to classify every case in a big book under, some given head, which requires a certain kind or kinds of medicine.

Bis constant supplies of victims are drawn mainly from the "intelligent rural [opulation" of the Eastern and Western States.

There area score or more of other reat and successful medical quacks in sTew York, several of whom are no less successful than the Broadway charlatan here mentioned. it**' ft A Dog Catcher Bisks his Lifo to

Save the Lives of Others.

From tho St- Louis Democrat, July 17.] Yesterday a rabid dog appeared on Lespera'nce street, and after biting several other dogs and a cow, made several attempts to bite the pedestrians on the street. Louis Strumberg, one of the dog catchers, hearing of it, and knowing the street would be full of children, several of whom would probably have been bitten but for him, took his wire noose and pursued the ainmal. Coming up with him, he succeeded in getting the loop over his head, and a desperate struggle ensued.•

The dog ta large hound) at once endeavored to fasten his foaming jaws upon Strumberg, who, for*a time, with considerable difficulty held him off'wi»h the wire. The noose, however, finally broke before the other dog catchers could come up with and assist him, and the animal springing upon the man, caught his hand in his mouth, and tore it in a shocking manner. He then ran down the street with the foam dripping from his jaws and getting into the rarik weeds growing upan the flats near the river was lost too sight. He was found after a five hours' hunt, and sliot by one of the other men.

The wounds on Strumberg's hand were at once cauterized, but the hand began to inflame, and on Saturday he exhibited unmistakeable symtoms of hydrophobia.

His friends learning that Dr. Schmidt, of Carondelet, was said ta be possessed of a mad stone, had him taken there, when the stone was applied to the wounds. The stone did draw from them a greenish fluid, said to be the poison, but whether the man's life can be saved by it remains to be seen. At last accounts he was rapidly growing worse. 8trumberg deliberately periled his own life to save the lives of others, and did it in a manner that few would have attempted. ,t

Bathers and Dogs, uii

The correspondent of a country"" paper relates the following anecdote: "When I was about fifteen years old, and at school, I obtained permission one day to take with me as a bathing companion Hector, the master's great Newfoundland dog- I had taken my header from the pier, and was making for the buoy anchored some yards from the land, when I was startled by a sensation such as might be produced by a rake drawn down my back first from my right shoulder, then from my left. Turning quicklyjround, I found to my dismay that Hector was resolutely bent on saving me from a watery grave. Without stopping to reason with him on his unnecessary display of zeal, 1 insiantly dived, turned under water, ro^e to the surface, seized him by the toil, pulled him under water, and held him there until I thought he had enough of it. We then swam quitely and independently to land. Hector taking the lead. I recollect to this day the smart of the salt water on the musical staves which decorated my poor back but though Hector and I bathed together many a time afterwards he never came near me again."

A

YOUNti

lad named Wm. McCafferty,

living at tiew Albany, accidentally shot himself through the right leg on Friday. The limb was amputated.

Send him to St. Htlena.

From the St, Louis Democrat, 28th.] It is now hardly to be doubted that the secret treaty unearthed and published by the London Times_ is genuine, was proto the Prussian government in the dwnting of Count Beneditti, and was rejected by Prussia. All the world over, an act of open warfare puts an end to confidences, as well between nations as between individuals, and Prussia, lied about long enough by Napoleon to excuse his own wanton aggression and declaration of war, cannot be blamed for disclosing a document which so completely reveals the infamous designs of the Emperor, his restless desire for territorial aggrandizement, his faithlessness toward his allies, and his otter disregard of that same balance of power" which is his pretended excuse for war.

Like a flash of lightning in a dark night, this treaty reveals with most startling distinctness much that has been hidden in European diplomacy. We see Napoleon in his true colors a shameless breaker of treaties, a desperate disturber of the peace of Europe a monarch as dangerous to other nations as he is hostile to liberal ideas in France. One nation after another he has forced into vassalage to the French empire, robbed of true treedom under pretense of liberation, and either openly annexed or placed under the mastery of his tools. Italy was "set free" just as France is free -its freedom was enslavement. Spam, whether under Isabella or Prim, has been little better than a province of France. Denmark, entangled in a broil with Prussia, a natural ally, has been tied up in treat-. ies which Napoleon now sends a navy to compel it to observe. Turkey, aided against Russia, was so enslaved by the?, indebtedness that Turkish troops are offered to France for pay. Austria was se-. .- duced iuto war with Prussia and Italy by Napoleon's device, and, getting beaten, was reduced to a second-rate power. Belgium then caught the lustful eye of this robber of nations, and only Prnssian honor and firmness prevented its conquest, as it has saved the minor German States from being crushed, one after an-, other, by that same remorseless and insatiable power.

Not alone in Europe has France made trouble. Algiers and Africa have long been the practice-ground of the French soldiers, and the slaughter of Arabs more honorable than Napoleon himself has more than once culminated in such deeds' of atrocity as to make Christendom shudder. Not satisfied with embroiling the old world, the mischief-maker sent his troops to Mexico, plotted with the rebels to destroy the Republic, and proposed to England armed, interposition in behalf. of slaveholding rebels. That same aristocratic government of England, which would then have joined him in crushing the Republic but for the sympathy of the English nation with the Union, is now more than suspected of plotting to extricate him from the penalty of his misdeeds, and is again forced by public opinion in England to put on the mask of virtue—and profess a pious horror at. tho disturber whose alliance has long stained England's escutcheon.

If, as we suspect, the British ministry was negotiating to prevent war, Napoleon himself as well as fhc ministry must have known that the scheme was frii3tra-

ted as soon as the treaty was made public, From that moment the hesitation which had been so inexplicable vanished,and the Emperor and his troops arc now moving hastily "to the battle-field. There seems to be no doubt now that war must come, in a shape most unproraising-to France. One nation after another which has been fettered with French alliance, seizes the opportunity to declare its freedom by neutrality. Italy, passionately demanding the truth of its rulers, drives them to pledge that tbey will be neutral. Austria •, and Turkey declare neutrality the Spanish people accuse Prim of complicity with France, and he, witii persistent denial, and profession of neutrality, seeks to'sustain himself Denmark proclaims neutrality, regardless of the approach of the French fleet.

The Liberal party of England, success fill in many reforms at heme, has always bad one weak spot it has failed to satisfy the nation by jealous care for its honor abroad. It seems not unlikely that Disraeli and his friends will once more find public Opinion with them, and dictate the policy of the government, if the Gladstone ministry does not hasten to sustain itself by very vigorous manifestations of a feeliqg which

Proclaimed Infallible.

He is infallible, then. Five hundred persons wearing black robes, of whom several wanted to wear red hats, have said so. Who can doubt it? Whoever he maybe, "anathema/"

It is a comfort to know that this thing has been done. Here now for these several thousand years the weary human intellect has been trying to find somebody to lean upon some excusc for shuttling off the ugly responsibility of individual opinion. It is so much trouble to make up one's mind about things! Mental fatigue is painful. "All things have rest, why should we toil alone,

l!We

only toil, who are the first of things. Therefore, to ease the souls of tired mortals, we have-granted to us that spiritual land of tbe lotus-eaters, "a land where all things always seemed the same," the Catholic Church with an infallible Pope to do its thinking for it.

What a relief! Not that the prospect decidedly encouraging for a future world. The present keeper of the keys keeps the gate ot heaven tightly closed, but lie has the gate to damnation always very wide open. Not to speak of the countless heathen not to speak of the hopeless ca.ccof the millions who adhere to some oilier faith not to speak of the infidels who indulge in astronomy, geology, and various natural sciences, with the sacreligious belief that they can learn something thence worth knowing not tospeak of a would of frivolity and wickedness, busy in money getting it seems very doubtful, according to this infallible guide, whether any large number of his own especial followers will escape dam-

certainly has not been controlling iis recent conduct. If England joins Prussia, the contest can hardly be along one Napoleon the Little will end like Napoleon the Great, in captivity. But Germany alone, united now as never before, and fired by the zeal which a jnst cause gives to people who fight not only for Fatherland, but for the emancipation of mankind, will not fail to abate this public nuisance of Europe in the end. That the struggle may not be prolonged unnecessarily, we trust that England will help to send another Napoleon to St. Helena.

nation. For so many and so universal are the practices for which he deals out "anathema" that we hardly know how any can escape. He who reads a Protestant Bible, he who questions the temporal power of the Pope, he who looks into profane literature or dares to suffer his children to get an education not under spiritual guidance those, and pietty imuch all others are goinjj to the bad the infallible one has said it. This i* disconr'aging, but there is some relief in having everthing settled and surely knowh.

And this elderly personage, whtee infallible distribution of anathemas is so liberal, is sitting on a few French bayo-" nets, which may at any moment be withdrawn. The French representatives were absent when tbe dogma was formally declared the report at once goes through Europe that the troops of France, now ui garrison at Rome, will be wanted elsewhere. Suppose this carnal support, from very carnal and unholy ruler of men, should be taken away suppose that AntiChrist himself, in the person of an Italian^ liberator like Garibaldi, should look into'# Rome one of these fine days! Is itnotu painful to think that all the power of the spiritual and temporal ruler of this planet would not keep him in tlTe sacred city more than half an hour that Austria, huffed about this infallibility business, might decline an asylum that Spain is iust now no sure abiding place for any-. body, and France is not quite out of the':* reach of infidel bayonets tha^ England is as unfriendly as Ireland is powerless and that the infallible person, should he .. come to this country, and continue to1^

fiable

treacli his temporal supremacy, would be to arrest any afternoon by a policeman! Verily, this is an uncomfortable* world, just now, for an infallible perron who has so many anathemas to distrilmie! *. —St. Louit Democrat.

THE Republican party of has paid nearly a tnousand

the nation millions of

the debt saddled upon the people by a Democratic rebellion, and so handsomely demonstrated the capacity of the countryto pay the remainder, that it confidently, during the last session of Congress, re-, duced taxes to the amount of eighty IJJT lions per jear. And yet the Denip^-' asks for the management of fairs. Not while things go on —LafayetU Jowual.