Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 August 1870 — Page 1

WE want a Congress which will he for the country and not for itself.—Journal. Then don't try to re-elect a Congress' man who has a confirmed habit of run ning away from public duties attend to his personal afiairs—a Con greesman whose vote is not recorded either for or against scarcely any of the important measures of the recent session.

IN AN^article eulogistic of oar M. C. the Vincennes Sun says: "Suppose you prove all that is charged against VOOR HEES! It should elevate him (and will) in the minds of good and true men.— Those who were most prominent in Ike fratricidal war\occupj the least enviable position."

It is melancholy to .see DANIEL going back on his splendid rebel record when his enthusiastic admirers are so proud of it.

SAYS the Boston Times: King WILLIAM could not have expressed himself more clearly and truthfully when he said that Prussia had been "bantered into conflict." Even the inattentive observer of European affairs on this side of the water could judge from the tone of NAPOLEON'S words that he meant to aggravate Prussia and embroil the two nations in war. What justification have this usurper's defenders got to offer beyond the sickly admiration for the name of NAPOLEON, which has been BO conspicuous in their articles thus far.

DOWN in Alnhama they need political and literary rec"n'ruction yet badly, as witness the folio viiiij paragraph from the Tuscaloosa Monitor: "The news reaches us that the miserable .Radical tool, GRANT, has appointed the drunken, cowardly villain, V. H. VAUOIIAN, Secretary of Utah Territory. This is in keeping with GRANT'S previous infamy. This act is a reward for the crime of attempted assassination. What a Government is this that we chafe under! Here is a despicable crcature, who deserves hanging, raised to a fat office by the (mutton) head of the nation! CJESAR had his BRUTUS, LINCOLN had his BOOTII, and poor devil GRANT had—better profit by their example."

THE report of the United States Department of Agriculture calls attention to the rapid destruction of our American forests. It iB estimated that from 1850 to 1860 fifty millions of acres of new land were brought undir cultivation, of which two fifths were timbered land. The increasing demand for sawed lumber is a warning that measures should be tafiicn not only to preserve a portion of the forests in all parts of the country, but also to renew them by planting. At our present rate of increase of population, there will be needed, in twenty years, as much as $200,000,000 worth of sawed lumber annually, and it is a vital question where all this lumber is to be obtained. It is quite time to begin the practice of economy in the consumption of our forests' They cannot Ijp replaced in two or three centuries, if at all, and, their more careful preservation should now be attended to.

Au lioncst Rebel's Opinion. The editor of the Vincennes Sun, a candid, outspoken rebel throughout the war, thus expresses the real sentiments of a majority of the Democratic party in Indiana:

Suppose vou are right:—that Voorhees didn't "fight our Southern brethren," in the recent unnatural, inhuman struggleall contributing to the elevation of the negro and mean white people, and to the detriment and degradation of the best blood of the South—suppose you prove all that is charged against Mr. Voorhees! It should elevate him (and will) in the minds of good and true men. Those who were most prominent in the fratricidal war occupy the least enviable position. If this is disloyalty, make the most of it!

But when "all that is charged against VOORHEES" is proven, and he goes back on it, claiming that he was "loyal from the beginning to the end of the struggle," does that "elevate him?"

THE grants of public lands to a single railroad monopoly are withouta parallel in the history of scandalous legislation.— Journal

We respectfully submit that, whatever other papers may say or do, the Journal is estopped from entering any complaint nbout "the grants of public lands" to the Northern Pacific, or any other railroad compnny. When the N. P. R. 11. bill was beforo Congress, there was but one paper in this State that failed to enter a protect against it. That paper was the Tcrro Ilaute Journal. Nor was it content w.\th silent acquiescence but, day after da/, in ponderous leaders, it urged the •'ju&iice," "propriety" and "sound economy" of the measure, arguing that "any person of ordinary intelligence could see that the bill was right and just." It wanted "the country developed desired that the Western settlers "should have an outlet for their products," and declared that the land-grant system was the only plan by which these and many other mast desirable objects could be obtained. And, carried away with enthusiasm, our usually solemn and decorous neighbor not only lustily demanded the 00,000,000 acres of public land included in (he N. P. R. K. bill, but fairly shriekfor the "equal endowment of half a dozen railroad companies." ith such a rccorJ, any papor but tho Journal would keep quiet as to tholanl-grab business!

ALMOST every paper in the State has published the resolutions recently adopted by the teachers attending the special term of the Normal School. This will do much towards placing the institution in its true position before the public. And when all these teachers go to their homes with a good report, it may reasonably be expected that right views and proper feelings, in relation to the school, will be still more widely disseminated. It is only necessary that the people of Indiana should know what this institution is, and what it can do for the improvement of teachors—and the consequent improvement of the public schools, and society at large—to insure for it the hearty support and warm friendship of all the friends of free public instruction. Without good teachers, good schools are impossible without special training for their profession, we cannot have good teachers and the State Normal School is the only institution in Indiana the object of which is to give such training. The graduates, or undergraduates, of our colleges are just as fit to go to the Bar without taking a course of law study; to go to the Pulpit without at theological course, as they are to enter the teacher's desk without a course of preparation especially designed to fit them for that profession. True, there are tolerably successful preachers who don't know much of theology and there are some lawyers who manage to get ahead in the world without knowing much of law. So there may be teachers who have learned, by experience, how to teach and to govern a school. But such experience has been gained at the expense of their pupils, at the expense of many errors that have left permanent scars upon the intellects and characters of the youth assigned to their care. Few parents would desire their children to be made useful as experimental subjects for a young surgeon or physician and it isn't much safer to consign them to the care of a teacher who has not made a specialty of .that profession.

BY ITS-judicious silence the Journal admits that it suppressed the public debt statement in order to avoid contradicting VOORHEES.

FORNEY predicts that the Democrats in 1872 will have two embarrassments— want of a candidate, and want of a creed and the trouble is, that if they unite upon the one, they may dissolveupon the other,

MR. VOORHEES says that what the government owes without paying interest on it, is no part of the public debt: that is, man's store account is not a debt, Nothing is a notes 1

debt bnt intereat-bearing

5.PUBLIC DEBT statements, showing by official figures the rapid removal of the enormous burden that the Democratic rebellion saddled upon the people of this country, are regarded, by a certain class of Democratic journals, as "incendiary documents," calculated to make Republican votes, and, therefore, unfit for publication.

WE SEE it stated that a new trade has sprung up between Egypt and England. The old land of the Pharoahs is sending the bones of its millions of mummies to the shores of the thrifty Albion, where they are reduced to powder and used as fertilizers of the soil. English agriculturists express a decided preference for the ancient bones, having discovered, by long practice, that they exert a beneficial influence on the turnip lands where the famous Southdown sheep are raised and fattened. Thus the remains of the ancient Thebans and Memphians serve to furnish food for the tables of the Londoners of our own day. ———<>———

THE Journal has something of a melancholy character to say about the "widesprtt ii ruin" now prevailing among "the industrial classes." It is a sufficient reply to this to remark that labor was never in better demand, and never better paid, than so'v. Since the Union had an existem.a there has never been a time when a day's work would procure so much of food and clothing as now. This state" mcnt is founded on a careful examination of facts, and we challenge the Journal of DAN VOORHEES to disprove it. Within less than six years from the time when the Democratic rebellion was suppressed, the Republican party has restored the country to prosperity—and even more than restored, for her present prosperity is unexampled in the history of our own or any other nation.

OVER all this vast country—says the Chicago Republican—general prosperity reigns. Every hamlet, village, and city gives evidences of growth. Countless new buildings are everywhere rising, and farm improvements go on ceaselessly, in connection with all the other great developments in the material interests of the people at large. A vast aggregate crop is the reward of this year's industry Business of all kinds has been free from peculation, and though comparatively slow, has been safe. If, on one hand, fortunes have not been rapidly made, on the other, they have not been speedily lost. Prices of crops have risen high enough to give a (air margin to the producer, so that labor has generally receivedits just reward and the promise for the future is all favorable to a sound, healthy growth of the country, and reasonable expansion of all its great leading interests.

Compare these well known facts with the Democratic statements of the case— with the dark pictures of ruin painted for the public eye. They furnish their own commentary. They indicate .to therefleeting that a wise and sagacious Admin* istration has watched over the nation's affairs—has paid off huge sums of public debt reduced taxation enforced collection of the revenue introduced economy and retrenchment restored order and domestic tranquility and preserved peaceful relations with the world. What more was practicable? When Democrats talk of "ruin," let Republicans point to facts accomplished.

A Little Social Philosophy. The Philadelphia Press notices the fact that there is a marked preponderance of women and children at all the watering places this season. "No men!" it says, is the mournful complaint which comes up from the belles at Capo May, Atlantic City, Long Branch, Saratoga, and Newport. At the hops half the ladies must llanccwith lady partners or be content to remain wall-flowers.

We agree with the Press in its conclusion that there is an important piece of social philosophy involved in this disproportion between those of the two sexes who enjoy the pleasures and invigorating influences supposed to be found at the summer resorts. The demands of fashion and the prevailing social customs are making man's work, as the money-getter, more and more slavish and exacting. So true is this that few men in moderate circumstances arc now able to enjoy with their families the needed rest and recreation of a summer vacation. If they manage to fit out their wives and children, and support them a month or more at the seaside, it is only at such a pecuniary sacrifice that they must limit themselves to an occasional flying visit, and devote themselves the more closely to business to make upior the increased outlay. In earlier and simpler times the duties, responsibilities, and pleasures of life, it seems to us, were much more equally distributed among the several members of a family. When the sewing, knitting, spinning, and weaving, as well as the cooking, were all done at home, and by the wives and daughters, the latter were as busy as are their fathers and brothers now. But these branches of work have been very generally relegated to the steam-«nginc and the factory .girl, to the knitting-ma-chine, the sewing-machine, and their troops of sickly-looking operators. It is useless now to discuss whether or not society has gained by. the change. It is too late to turn back. But women having been practically deprived of employment at home, are being obliged to seek it in the stores and shops and factories. And those who feel these situations beneath them, are slowly pushing their way into the professions.

Few

husbands are yet

able to bear the idea of permitting their wives to assist by any outside business in keeping the wolf from the door but from the present tendency this is evidently what we are are coming to. Else fewer and fewer men will marry, and marriage instead of the rule will become the exception.

THE editor of the Cincinnati Times will be surprised, not to say indignant, on seeing his paper quoted by the Democratic press of Indiana as "a Radical organ."

THE astuteness of Mr. VOORHEES is manifested in denying that the government is paying its debts when it is only taking up its paper which bears no interest. That is, if a man pays his book accounts he is not paying his debts! 4

MB. VOORHEES insinuates—he does not dare to make it a distinct statement— that the only manner in which the Government is reducing the public debt, is by "contracting the currency." This is not true. The currency has not been contracted since Gen. GRANT came into

P°Wer* Ail r* lit APROPOS of the Chassepot and needlegun furore, the Philadelphia Press quotes EDWIN M. STANTON on fai.\ firearms: "The best invention for killing was made by God Almighty, when he created a man. I would rather have one good soldier with a single charge in his gun, determined to kill somebody, than a new recruit armed with a repeater, and followed by a wagon load of ammunition.'

THE August number of The Overland MontUg—best of all the good things that come from the Occident—is at hand, and iB filled, as nsual, with a choice variety of well-written, instructive and entertaining articles. Many of our readers will be interested in this magazine from the fact that NEWTON BOOTH, Esq., formerly of this city, is a frequent and valued contributor to its columns.

THE Radical Terre Haute Express don't like its Radical neighbor, the Indianapolis Journal.—New Albany Ledger.

That is one of those little mistakes which will occasionally creep into the columns of conscientious Democratic papers! The EXPRESS does "like its Radical neighbor, the Indianapolis Journal,' very well, and has given no occasion for the Ledger's assertion. There have been times when we have found occasion to dissent from the Journal's views, and such instances may occur again but that does not and will not prevent us from appreciating the worth of our ably conducted and liberally supported State organ.

THE telegraphic report of the capture of Saarlouis by thfc French is contradicted. It was scarcely to be credited when received. Saarlouis is a very strong frontier fortress of Prussia. It lies nearly opposite the French fortress of Metz, some thirty miles distant. It ha3 along stone bridge over the Saar river, which flows half around the town, and sometimes during the winter lays part of it under water. The fort was built originally by VAUBAN, the great French engineer, in a single year, on a wager with Louis XIV. It is said that the works can be wholly innundated by sluices. There are seven or eight thousand inhabitants in the place. Marshal NEY was born here. Saarlouis was transferred by France to Prussia by the treaties of 1814-15, and has since been held by the latter power. This fortress can doubtless Btand along siege successfully.

A SAGACIOUS JOURNALIST, after a care, ful review of "the situation," concludes that whatever may be the result of the present war, the ruler of prance has a most difficult future before hi^}. In consequence of a drouth of unexampled severity, famine is already staring in the face hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen. Thousands of acres of land have been literally burned bare of their crops. The yield of cereals is very small, the vintage is a failure, and of forage for cattle there is almost none. Before the declaration of war, farmers asked each other how .they were to pass the winter. With the pri vations that the campaign will entail on all classes, the waste that is inseparable from armies, and the nearly total failure of the crops, the future prospccts Of France, oven if victorious, are not promising, and if defeated the outlook for the NAPOLEON dynasty is as gloomy as it possibly can be.

OF ALL the political trickery ever attempted by anj- public man of any party, the most contemptible is that of the Hon. DANIKL W. VOORHEES, M. C., when he adds the bonds redeemed and held by the Government to the outstanding debt, and tries to make his dupes believe that these paid bonds are still due. It is a viola tion of that decency which the people have a right to expect from any man who asks them for their confidence. It is a disgusting exhibition of a kind of demagoguery too low to be tolerated. It will bring upon its author the contempt of every intelligent man in his own party and it ought to make him sit up nights to hate himself for thus degrading an intellect capable of high achievements. We do not mean to speak more harshly than the ease demands, and we appeal to every business man who reads this, to justify our rebuke of a Member of Congress who insults the popular intelligence by counting the redeemed bonds, in the United States Treasury, as a portion of the inter-est-bearing debt still due!

THE astuteness of D. W. V.'s "statesmanship" is shown in the fact that he counts bonds redeemed, but not destroyed as yet unpaid. According to this luniin ous idea, a business man owes his notes after he has paid them and locked them up in his desk or safe. A merchant, for instance, goes to the banks, week after week, month after month, and promptly pays his notes as they fall due. He takes these notes to his counting room, and files them away, flattening himself that he doesn't owe them. They ire in his keep ing, bought with the full amount for which they call, and his books, as well as the cash accounts of the parties who held his notes, show that they were *11 paid at maturity. But his fancied security is rudely disturbed by a "statesman" of magnificent financia labilities! who comes into his office and, pointing to his files ef canceled notes, exclaims: Not one cent of all that load of obligations has been paid. Instead of reducing your debt, you have actually increased it to an ex tent equal to the full amount of all the notes you have given since you began to take up these claims."

Would not any man, capable of doin: business, treat such a "statesman" lunatic, or a fool

And yet, D. W. VooRnEES is parading that style of "statesmanship" all over thi: District. Is not his presumption on the ignorance of the people an insult to his constituents? ,°s-

Democratic Financiering. A few days before the Kentucky election a correspondent sent the Courier-Jour-nal, the Democratic

organ in that State, an

account of a discussion between the two Democratic candidates for Jndge of the Appelate Court, in which occurs the following JX,

The finances of the State and the waste' ful extravagance of the last four years, and whilst Capt. Lindsey has been a member of the Senate was also largely discussed it being made to appear that the expense of the State during this time have swollen $450,000 yearly above that of any period of the war, and that from an overflowing treasury in 1866-7 it is now bankrupt, the money all gone, a million dollars of the sinking fund, squandered, and appropriations of the last two sessions, including $75,000 to Sand river, still unpaid, with a million of dollars of the State debt due next year, and no money in the Treasury to meet it, and consequently largely increased taxation on the people certain.

This is characteristic. As soon as the war was closed the Radicals were driven out of power in Kentucky, the Simon pure Democracy restored, and "economy" began! In Indiana in the last four years, the Republicans have paid $10,000,000 of State debt, reducing taxes and expenditures. In Kentucky the Democracy have piled up debts and taxes, and run up expenditures half a million a year above "Radical war rates!"

The Seat of War.

Weissenburg, the location of the recent battle between the Prussian and French forces, is a station on the railway between Manheim and Strasburg. This line runs nearly parallel to the river Rhine, on the west side. Weissenburg is on the Lauter river, which forms the boundary line betreen the German State of Bavaria and France, and is about fifteen miles from the Rhine. It is therefore on the left of the Prussian general line of battle, and on the right of the French.

The present seat of war is about as follows: the Prussians are massed in the triangle included between the rivers Moselle, Saar and Rhine. At this point the Rhine flows north-westerly to the North Sea. The Moselle rises in France, flows first northwardly to Thionville, thence north-easter ly into the Rhine a Coblentz. The Saar also rises in France some sixty or eighty miles east of the Moselle and runs in a north-westerly direction and empties into the Moselle near Treves. The Prussian right rests on Treves, passes up the valley of the Saar by Saarburg,Saar Louis, Saarbruck, Weissenburg and other minor points, and strikes the Rhine between Carlsruhe and and Rastadt near Malsch. This triangle in right lines, without regard to the sinuosities of the rivers, say one hundred and twenty miles on the Rhine as a base, extending, say seventy miles, on the right along the valley of the Moselle, from Coblentz to Treves, and ninety miles on the left, along the valleys of the Lauter and Saar from Malsch to Treves. The Prussian line of battle follows the left side of this triangle. The French line extends from Thionville, on the left,

St. Avoid, Saareguemines, Bitsche, Weissenburg and thence to the Rhine, reinforcing its right back to Strasburgh, thus facing exaetly the Prussian line. Both armies are formed, with their right and left, as near Belgium as practicable and strike the Rhine above Stradmrg.

There are large concentrations of French and Prussian forces along both the right and left banks of the upper Rhine from Carlsruhe to Basle, between which points that river is the boundary line, but as yet there is no demonstration any "crossing from either side, above Strasburg. If the war progresses there will be invasions, doubtless, attempted on both sides of the Rhine above Strasburg.

DANGEROUS RESERVOIRS. ———

A Sequel to "Put Yorself [sic] in His Place." ———

in His

"Put Yorsclf Place."

The catastrophe which makes the turning incident of Mr. Charls Reade's latest novel, "Put Yourself in His Place," viz., the inundation of the town of Hillsborough by the bursting of a reservoir, may have seemed to many readers somewhat improbable. But a precisely similar aecident happened in England some years ago, causing the loss of many lives, and the last mail brought an account of calamity which recently befell the town of Rhymney. A violent thunder storm so flooded the reservoir of the Rhymney Iron Company, from which the town was supplied with water, that it first overflowed and then burst its embankment, carrying away a house just underneath. This reservoir was just two miles from the town. The volume of water rushed down the valley, sweeping everything before it—horses, cattle and human beings, just as we had it descried for us in Mr. Reade's picturesque pages. For miles, we are told, articles of household furniture, and carcasses of pigs and sheep could be seen floating on the stream. The town itself was reached, and houses in it flooded and damaged.

Apart from the loss of life, the d-"£nge property, of course, is great uch accidents, not to speak of the injury it causes to agriculture. And with such fatal precedents before them, it seems strange that the coastructors of reservoirs in England do not take greater precautions against these disasters. In this country, so far as we know, no similar catastrophe has ever taken place. Floods we have had, disastrous to life and property, but always from the rising of streams, swollen by spring tide freshets, or tide-waters raised unusually high by storms. An inundation from the bursting of a reservoir is, we believe, unknown to us. There seems no good reason why it should not be equally unfamiliar in England, unless we are to suppose gross and constant ignorance or carelessness in the location and construction of reservoirs in that country.

It may be well to observe that the flood at Rhymney was only one of a series throughout the country, caused by unusually severe thunder storms, which are ascribed to the extreme sultriness of the weather. We have furnished the conditions are we to have the same effects? Perhaps our meteorologists can tell. If so, they will render a greater service in putting farmers on their guard against these violent convulsions of nature than by prophesying more hot weather or registering the fluctuations of the thermometer.—N. I". Times.

SENATOR MORTON received a private dispatch from Washington yesterday, stating that it was geneerallv believed^ that there would be an extra session Congress in September. The object was not made known.—Ind, Journal, 5th.

Fall River loses $250,000 per month during the "strike" of the cotton mills, that being the amount of wages paid to operators.

Tho Massachusetts Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias has resolved to admit no one not renouncing all alliance to the the Supreme Pythian Knighthood.

The Sublime Porte is about to establish a fire brigade in Constantinople on the model of those existing in the chief En ropean capitals.

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From the Daily Kxpreu of Monday.... The Earopean War. The Crown Prince FREDERICK WILLIAM, who commands the Prussian left wing, followed up his victory of Friday, at Weissenburg, by assaulting Marshal MCMAHON, commanding the French right, on Saturday, and engaging him in a sanguinary battle near Worth.

WOBTH is a small village in France, about fifteen miles distant and southwest

from Weissenberg. It is some five or six miles west of the railway from Manheim to Strasburg. The location of the battle shows that the Crown Prince successfully

passed the celebrated "lines" of Weissenburg and forced MCMAHON to battle at Worth, fifteen miles inside the French ter­

ritory and defeated him, forcing him to fall to h,is left about fifteen miles,to Bitsche. The defeat of the French right seems to ht-.ve been very complete. The Prince

Royal reports the capture of standards of artillery, four thousand prisoners, and all things which go to make up a complete victory. All this occurred on Friday.

General STEINMETZ commanding the

Prussian centre, opposite Saarbruck, took up the movement of the Crown Prince, and moved on the French centre, with four or five divisions of his argiy. There

was a sanguinary engagement with heavy loss on both sides, the result being in favor of the Prussians.

The reports which reach us, by telegraph are conflicting and unsatisfactory, but enough is certain to justify the belief

that the Prussian arms have been wholly successful in thvir advance on their left and centre. No reliable intelligence has yet been received of any forward movement of the Prussian right wing, commanded by Prince CHARLES. The ad­

vance has doubtless been general along the whole Prussian line and later dis­

patches may chronicle the success or repulse of "Prince CHARLES before this is ue

goes to press. The successes of the left wing art increased by the report of a'shccessful engagement at Haguenau, showing that the

Crown Prince is pushing j^r4 Strasburg, and by reports of a direct attack on that point, by German troops from across the

Rhine. Present appearances indicate that the deci-ive battle of the war will be fought west of the Saar and the Rhine, within the French torritory, as far back as Nan* cy or even nearer the French capital,

and possibly before tho walls of Paris. The French inilitafy authorities have placed Paris in a- state of siege and are making all the defensive preparations incident thereto.

Thus far every tiling has worked favorably to the Prussians. The French de­

clared the war, about nothing, so far as any national grievance is concerned, moved their troops up to the frontier and commenced military operations. The

Emperor went out after wool and has got badly shorn. Our sympathies are with Prussia and the Germanic biaies, and we hope the Teutons will be victori­

ous. We should like to see FREDERICK WILLIAM dictate the terms of peace to Louis NAPOLEON behind the fortifications of Paris. The course of civilization and liberty will be promoted thereby, the arrogance of France humbled and the unholy ambition of European monarchs checked to some extent. Of course no one can foretell the result of the conflict. It may be short or long, as

INFALLIBILITY EXPLAINED.

The Pepe Likened Unto a Snprei .. Court., ,r.

An address was made in St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday by Vicar-General

Starrs, giving an explanation of the dog"nfallibilii 1 intc tarrs said: "He deemed it necessary to give concis.' description of the dogma of infallibility, and the reason for its promulga' tion and that this could easily be done •because the doctrine is so simple ana comprehensible. Many entertain the erroneous opinion that the Pope cannot err in anything he says or does bat that is not so—that is not the meaning of papal infallibility. This is no new doctrine the recent ceremony at Rome was only for its more distinct enunciation. It is as old as the Church itself. The dogma of infallibility does not teach that the Pope can not err in what he says or does. He can make mistakes—he is human just as we are. The doctrine does not mean that he can not err in matters of science and politics does not mean that he can not err in discussion or preaching. He is truly fallible as a man. 'Infallibility' means this, and no more or less, that the Pope, spealang ex cathedra—officially from the chair of St. Peter declairing anything as to matters of faith —is infallible. This attribute belongs to all the successors of St. Peter, the visible head of the Church. Christ prayed for St, Peter that his faith might not foil, and said, 'Peter, thou art the rock and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.' 'I give thee the keys of the kingdom of Heaven Feed my sheep and lambs,' &c. "All that Christ gave Peter belongs to his successor. As Peter could not live always, the power given to him as head of the Church coula not be perpetuated except as delegated authority. This doctrine is, then, very simple and plain, when rightly viewed.

ma of infallibility as now formally incor porated into the Catholic creed. Father

So many false ideas have been uttered on this subject, it is necessary to test plainly just what the doctrine is. It is well illustrated in some human affairs. For instance, in the United States we have a Supreme Court, with a Chief Justice and Associate Justices. Many cases are referred from the lower courts to this. But after a case has been decided in the Supreme Court there can be no appeal. These final decisions are as near like those of the Pope as any secular matter can be like a spiritual one. When the Chief Justice is not on the bench his opinions only pass as those of an ordinary citizen when he presides in the court his decisions are final, and the whole country submits to them. And so in the Church, now that the great dogma is r.nnounced from the Papal chair there is no appeal from it."

These qualifications would seem to reduce the new dogma to little more than a peculiarity of organization in the Roman Church. There must be a last appeal in the organization on questions of doctrine, and that appeal is now to be made to the Pope Those who do not relish his decisions may go elsewhere.

This is very well, if this sect only claimed to be an organizatipn for the religious purposes of its own members. But when it claims to be the only Church on earth, exclusion from which is eternal ruin, the case is altered. The Pope asserts the right to dictate faith ana doctrine to the world, and calls on all men to accept them as divine truth, on penalty of exclusion from salvation here and liGrc&ftcr

The admission that the Pope is fallible "as a man," and may err in the matters of "science and politics," only makes the matter worse. If he can not be trusted in the affairs of this life, how shall we bow implicitly to his teachings in those of another? If he can not safely decide whether a new theory of astronomy or chemistry is true, what confidence can we have in his insight into other thoughts of God, more difficult to read, but more momentous in their bearings on our destiny The claim that the Pope be recognized as a poor, weak old man, of very limited knowledge, frail judgment and perverse prejudices, in all affairs of ordinary hu man interest, and yet the very spokesMan of the Deity upon the eternal interests of our souls, is too much like a mere trick of controversy for the avoidance of a too obvious refutation to find much favor in these days.—N. Y. Post.

circumstances arise. It may end in Nothing or* may produce great results. The present success of Prussia may be but tem­

porary, and the scenes of war may soon be transferred beyond the Rhine All is yet doubtful, but ajfew more stirring days like those just passed will tell the tale.

MR. GREELEY'S Tribune has certainly been the ablest Republican journal in the country, from the time of the organization of that party to the present yet there has hardly been a day since its^ existence when the Tribune did not differ materially in its views from the principles of the party as expressed in its platforms. It stood always in the advance of public sentiment beckoning the people to follow, and they have followed.—Saturday Evening Mail.

They have not always "followed," for there have been many times when it has beckoned the people" in the way of ruin. It may be safely said that there was not a single day, from the inception to the close of the late war, when' the Tribune "beckoned" in any safe direction. "Dfet the South go"! "On to Richmond"! "Make peace with the Confederacy on the best terms we can get" 1 The^e are a few of the Tribune's "beckonings" that are not easily forgotten. We do not question inability, nor can we doubt the honesty and sincerity of Mr. GREELEY but he has made more and greater mistakes than any other prominent Republican in the "J union.

Base Ball.

From a correspondence between D. G. Mark, Esq., of this city, and G. A. Hipard, Esq., President of the Rocket Base iall Club, of Marshall, III., as published in the Marshall Messenger, it appears that the Rockets contemplate a visit to this citv, to play a match with the Riversides.

A special reduction of fare from Terre Haute to this city has been secured, and if the match is concluded, we may expect to see numbers of the people from that part here, to witness the best game of the season, as the Rockets have, thus far, been victorious in every contest.— EvansrMc Journal.

About the time the above was being written, the Rockets were getting handsomely beaten by the.Vigos of tms city.

CORINNE. ———

COACH ROBBED.

CORRINE, UTAH, August 6.—The coach from Helena was attacked by road agents at Little Dry Creek, 11 miles this side of Pleasant Valley, Idaho, between 12 and 1 A. M. Three men were in sight, and it is thought others were in reserve. Three Chinamen passengers on the coach were robbed of $4,200. The treasure boxes were taken, and were supposed from the weight of the boxes they contained between $5,000 and $6,000. The company offers $1,000 reward for each robber captured, dead or alive, and for the treasure one-fourth of the amount recovered.

A BIT OF "ROMANCE.

Tlie Love, Elopement, Marriage and Vicissitudes of a Young Girl of Fonrtee/%

The ioilowing, from the Grand Rapids (Michigan) F^le, has a local interest in our city:

A correspondent, in announcing the death of Mrs. Marie Matilda Kibby, wife of Chauncey H. Niles, a resident of this city, in Cleveland, a short time since, call

:o

mnd a few incidents connected

with love and marriage that smack somewi.ri' of the romantic, not to say sensational. Her parents were well to-do respectable people, residing in the

Cleveland.

The Ptkl

State of

New York, and surrounding their daughter with all the luxuries and comforts that heart could desire, she was apparently happy and contented at home until 1862, when she chanced to meet the person who afterward became her husband. Being of a pleasing disposition, and withal fair-looking, he gained her affections, which ripened into love She formed a resolution to leave her parents, her happy and luxurious home,_and elope with the man of her choice, with whom she was but slightly acquainted.

They did not leave her home together —Niles starting some hours abead of her he went to Cleveland, thence to Toledo, from there to Fremont, where he met the young ladv. She there informed him that her brother was in pursuit, and to thwart detection he procured for her a s-iit of male attire, which she donned, going from Fremont to Toledo, where he found employment, and she went to peddling oranges on the street, and actually sold her brother one as he met her, he little dreaming that the little boy of fourteen was the sister in whom he was in search of.

From Toledo the pair went to Nash.ville. Niles, being an engineer, soon obtained a locomotive to run from the former place to Chattanooga, on the Nashvillo Tsa.ianooga, Railroad, the girl being •.!. -eman. They had worked pn the read a short time before he received a wonad by the rebels firing into the train. He was taken to the hospital she foil' ving and nursing him until he had sufficiently recovered to travel to

Their next appearance was

at the Madoc gold mines, in Canada, they having caught the gold fever which was "iging at that time, accordingly took up the life of miners. It being a wet season nothing was donetn the mines, And they returned to Cleveland. The excitement hardship* and vicissitudes she experien ced and endured were too much a fever ensued, and after a short illness she was borne to that home from whence no trav eler returs.

Appearance and Condnct of "Ouida The celebrated Onida," the well-known authoress of Granville de Yigne, Under Two Flags, etc., is at present staying the Langham, which is, I believe, her permanent home. She is a fine-looking and very stylish person, not handsome but decidedly striking in appearance, anil apparently somewhere between thirty ana forty years of age. She is the only well-dressed Englishwoman I have as yet seen her toilettes, of which I have caught an occasional glimpse in the mlle-a-manager, being very elegant and tasteful, though she somewhat mars their effect by letting her back hair flow loose over her shoulders. I am told that she has a great dislike to her own sex, and that ladies are never admitted to her weekly receptions, which are graced by the presence of most of the masculine celebrities of the artistic and literary circle of

London."—Lippincofs Magazine.

Oregon wool sells in San Franoiso for 25 to 26 cents per pound for shipment East.

Flf-

Tra«enrUto

teenth

A short and simple enumeration of the titles and editions of the books printed before the rear 1500—made jrith all a German bibliographer's conciseness by Hain, in his Repertorium Bibliograpkie%m, occupies four good-sixed octavo volumes, printed in smul type, and with all possible abbreviations.

Altogether, we have here enumerated 16,312 publications, consisting of different works, or different editions oi the same work, made in about the space of forty years. It has been estimated that an average edition with the old printers was about five hundred copies. It would hardly be less than that, since many of the publishers at that time did not possess a sufficient supply of type to set up an entire volume, much less to keep the forms locked up and ready to print from as the demand declared itself but each sheet was printed in the required number, and then the form broken up and redistributed, in order to give the type tor printing the next. A smaller sale than five hundred copies would htffflly, therefore, repay the labor of publishing, even though things were cheaper then than

Supposing that theie fB^lf^wmrons consisted each of 500 cSpies, "this %dd give us eight millions one&lmndred aid fifty-six thousand volumes printed and offered for sale in Europe within a space of a little over forty years. In this view of the case, the publishing activity of the fifteenth century will not compare unfavorably with that of the nineteenth. Within that time, also, the art was exercised in two hundred and twelve different cities of Europe, which fact of itself does much to account for the general diffusion of books at a time when railroads and expresses were things of the distant future. The speedy reduction in the prices of books shows, too, that the supply was large. From manuscript notes on the .fly-leaves of many of the early copies

Library at Paris,

the Imperial Library at Paris, M. Van Praet, the well-known bibliographer, and the librarian of 'that^-collectuiB) ibas given us the means the prices of books Acopy of the dvitate JJeu'"priiifKiHU Rome in 1467, and bodghfTrofa We pfffrters, Sweynheym and Pannartx,i«e8tel|ht gold crowns and^ten baiocchi, say $18. A volume of Commentaries upon the same work, printel atMayence in 1473, folio, by Peter Schoeffer, and containing also the Fasciculus Temporum, was bought from the printer himself for four crowns by the prebend of Sainte Croix atfaris, though the regular prince, as the note goes on to say, was eleven crowns. This shows that then, as now, clergymen had the privilege of books at an irregular discount. In -1493, however, a copy of the Legenda Sanctorum, printed at Nuremburg in 1488, 4to, and containing 529 pages, were bought for a crown, or about $6 of our money. At the end of the Catholieon, printed at Rouen in 1499, are some verses telling how common books had then become, and how cheap, so that the poor even could have volumes which formerly kings and- princes could scarcely buy. The last two of these verses are: "Quem modo rex, .qugm vix princops modo rams habebat,

Quisquo sibi kbrnm paaper habfro potest.

A Virginia Wedding in the Olden

From the Lynchburg TimciTj From the recollections of an aged inhabitant of this city, who has passed the allotted time of life, we have been favored with the following reminiscence, which may be taken as a general representation of the festivities of a wedding in our grandfathers' days.

Invitations were freely extended to all friends and acquaintances, and after the marriage took place two entire days were devoted to feasting and dancing. The bridal couple then set out for their own home, attended on horseback by their friends, who, moving in pairs, made a very imposing appearance.

At the residence of the groom everything is ready, and with especial care a bottle of choice liquor, richly decked out with ribbons, has been prepared and placed upon a high post at the front gate of the dwelling.

As the cortege comes within one mile of the house, the master of ceremonies wheels his horse aside and extends an invitation to all the gentlemen present to join in the race for the bottle, wliieh awaits the winner and gives him theen-. viable privilege of drinking the h&ftlr of the bride on her arrival.4- 'The grea&r portion of the party accept the invitation thus extended, and start off at full speed for the desired goal. The foremost horse man, on arriving at the gate, receives from the hands of the groom's sister the much-desired prize, amid the huzzas and congratulations of all assembled to welcome the young couple, and when the cavalcade appears, headed by the groom and the bride, he rides forward, and as they approach the gate, drinks the health of the bride.

The huzzas and congratulations now burst out afresh, and amid the best good feeling all around, the ladies are invited in the house, the horses are Btabled, and siege sets in, to terminate after two days of dancing and feasting, and to leave the newly-married couple to continue life journey with the most plea&nt recollec-

tions. Modern society claims tohayeiircWBBt about an improvement The appreciation of a friejm is onen weighed by the value of mdarffft, and he is lucky to be invited 10 the public church, where the marriage ceremony is performed to the infinite emoyment of small boys and a curious crowd of strangers and bare acquaintances. Thei-couple having been pronounced m|n and wife, hurriedly disappear from view to reappear transformed with marvelous quickness into every-day people.

WE ADMIRE our great and growing Western States. Their wondrous progress is a part and parcel of our National history, and that their great deeds in the future will surpass their achievements in the past there is little room for doubt. But there vigorous young offshoots of the old sister States never tire of telling the more staid communities of the Atlantic slope of their superior facilities. Says young Kansas to the venerable Keystone, look at my schools and colleges, my enlightened jurisprudence and numerous daily papers. You had none of these things when young as I am -now. And the boast of Kansas is but that of all her Western *ister§. These new Commonwealths forget lhat they are "the offshoots of the improved systems, the foundations of which were laid broad 'and -deep, in toil and in pain, in th^midst or poverty and war, by Pennsylvania and New York, and Massachusetts and Connecticut. And it is the decendants of the sturdy founders of the improved methods of teaching and governing, in Pennsylvania and her col leagues of the Revolution,

Great Prussian Victory

Ik Priaon Cqtare Wtimabwg logfets bqiii

BERLIN, Aug. 5.—The following dispatch has been received here from Niederotterbach, a small village on the Lauter river, near Weissenburg, dated 6 o'clock, Thursday evening: "We have won a brilliant, but bloody victory. The left wing was the attacking body and consisted of the 5th and 11th Prussian corps, with the 2d Bavarian.

This force carried by an assault under the eyes of the Prince Royal the fortress of Weis&enburg, and the heights between Weissenburg andGeshull.

Douay's division of Marshal McMahon's Corps was splendidly defeated by being driven from its camp. Gen. Douay him|«lf,was killed. 500 prisoners were taken, none of them wfere wounded. Many Turcos were among the Captured.

The Prussian General Kirchbach was slightly wounded. Royal grenadiers and 15th regiment of the line suffered heavy

LONDON, Aug., 5.—The victory of the Prussian Crown- Prince in capturing Weissenburg and Geishull was brilliant, but bloody. The French were repulsed and dispersed, leaving behind their general, Douay, killed, and five hundred prisoners, and wounding many Turcos. The Prussians captured one cannon. The Prussian commander, Kirchbach, was slightly wounded. •ar ..«• A*-*

INDIANAPOLIS. ———

SUICIDE.

INDIANAPOLIS, August. 5.—Maggie Woods, a young lady 19 years old, committed suicide at Cartersburg last night.

WOOLEN EXPOSITION CLOSED. The Woolen Exposition closed to-day. The goods will be packed up to-morrow. There were but few visitors present today.

EVANSV1LLE. ———

A DESPERADO KILLED.

EVANSVILLE, August 4.—Ed. Philips, a noted desperado, attacked Fred. Wunderlich yesterday about noon, near Patoka, with a knife. Wunderlich struck him with a walnut slat, and killed him. Wunderlich is now in the custody of his brother, our city Marshal, who will take him to Vincennes to-morrow. ———<>———

S A I N I A .) is,

TURIN, Aug. 6.—Serious riots took place in Geneva yesterday, arising out of the Roder criminal trials. Two persons were killed.

NEW YORK.

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THE PRESIDENT.

NEW YORK Aug., 6.—The President returned to Long Branch th:s morning. PROCLAMATION OF NEUTRALITY.

The official notification of the war between. France and Prussia having been received yesterday, and the fact being made known to the President, he determined to issue a proclamation of neutrality. He says that he will promulgate this order of neutrality when ho returns from St.Louis. The proclamation will particularly explain the neutrality laws so they may be fully understood by the people.

MINISTER TO ENGLAND.

The President replied to a question in relation to Frelinghuysen, that he would probably leave for Europe the latter part of August, that he had accepted the appointment, and that his instructions, although not yet prepared in form, were ^understood by Frelinghuysen, and would ^doubtless be carried out by him so far as possible. He said, "I feel confident that Mr. Frelinghuysen is in perfect accord with the Government, and will do his best in the discharge of his important duties in connection with the Alabama claims.-'

Ministers and Women.

At a fire in Hodgenville, Ky., recently, the novel sight of ministers and wumcu becoming firemen was seen. A correspondent of the Louixville Courier. -Joura a

Great praise is due all the citizens of Hodgneville for their untiring efforts to save the property. The ladies are especialy entitled to praise for their heroic conduct. They were formed into line by their intrepid leader, Rev. Mr. McGee, and handea buckets alternately full and empty, to and from the creek to the ^buildings opposite the scene of conflagration—a distance of two hundred yards— and thus saved the property of Mr. Hagan, as also the Baptist church and Mr.

Williamson's residence and tan-yard. Much praise is also due to the ministers and delegates to the district conference, now in session at this place, for their valuable assistance in battling with the fire.

There are a great many rumors and surmises as to the cause of the fire, a ma joritybelieving.it to be the work of an incendiary.

With commendable energy and enterprise the merchants and property-holders are already making preparations

fig8,

that

are build­

ing up the great West. They forget that they nave not only the experiences of nearly a century of free government to guide them, but that they are merely perfectly a work shaped to their h:«nds by the older States.—Philadelphia Inquirer

The trunk and valise business of Boston amounts to $1,000,000 a year. The "war in-Europe" is the convenient excuse for all street rows in New York now-a-days.

Frank Thorn, who is to leap from the suspension bridge at Niagara Falls, next week, is practicing by daily jumps of fifty feet into the river at Buffalo.

There will be no more dismissals from the Treasury Department at present, the force having been brought within the-' limits of the •pprjoprjaliq|pg

St. Louis is horrified at the discovery that it has 50,000 dogs, and has appoint-

has

appoint­

ed a force of one hundred men to catch all that are found in the street without muzzles.

Elliott's train arrived in St. Cloud on the 26th from Fort Geary with 502 bales of buffalo robes. Each bale contained ten robes. They belong to the Hudson's Bay Company.

,n

build, and will erelong hi in good order again.

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to re­

ave everything

ALL SORTS.

Alaska has had a prize fight. Trichina: is found in Oregon deer.

GRAND MDISTRELFEST.

Monster Concert by the Negro Mil. strels of the United States—One Thousand Instruments—Ten Thou, sand Yoices.

"Qris" in Cincinnati Times.] We have just learned that preparations are on foot for a grand Minstrel fest, to come off next month at the Siengerfeet Hall, if it can be secured for that purpose. All the negro minstrels in the United Stales, besides several in the penitentiary, are invited, and are expected to attend. It is estimated that there will be an orchestra of a thousand instruments, and something like ten thousand voices to swell the chorus and the bar bills. Herr Dan. Bryant will be the leader of the concert, assisted by Herr Lew. Benedict and Herr Billy Manning. The tambourine for the occa«ion will be twenty* five feet in diameter, and played upon by gigantic trip-hammer, worked by steam. It is estimated that over three hundred barrels of burnt-cork will be consumed during the Fest. Paper btus advanced several cents on a pound, in view of the quantity that will be required to provide them with wide collars without which no minstrel show could ever hope to succeed. The following is the programme agreed upon:

FIRST DAY.

The forenoon will be devoted to hunting security for their board-biljg jvhile in town. In the afternoon there will be a grand procession, every man being at lib- sf erty to march by any direction he pleaxes to his favorite gin mill. S

Opening of the hall at 8 o'clock in the if evening by means of a crowbar. Opening chorus, with oyster knives.

Welcoming speech, by creditors who hold numerous unpaid bills against sundry members of the orchestra. sponse by Herr Banjo—"Bier nil around 1" a chorus of ten thousand voiccs taking up the cry.

Solo by five hundred negro comedians standing on their heads. |, GRAND CONCERT.

Juba-lee overture, with an accompaniment of five hundred cloggists dancing the Juba.

Shadow Dance, from the opera of "Dinab," performed by Herr Charley Baekus on a skeleton key.

Oratorio, "Stop Dat Knocking," bv five hundred pairs of bones, under the direction of Herr Johnny Hart.

Aria for soprano fyou don't), "Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine," by one thousand triangles, with an accompaniment of torpedoes and stuffed clubs. uble Clog Dance by canvas elephants, concluding with a grand transformation scene in which the elephants mount into the flies with the stage-wings amid a sea of red fire.

Song and dance, "Big Sunflower," by five hundred imitators of Herr Billy Emmerson. Grand procession of sunflowers across the stage.

GRAND FINALE.—All(n)egro majestose —"Shoo, Fly," by ten thousand minstrels, assisted by the entire audienee, accompanied by the ringing of fire bells, steamboat bells and dumb-bells all over the city, firiwg by Col. Travis' colored artillery, charge by the Cincinnati Zeuaves, and a general descent upon the managers and conductors of the concert by Cnpt. Rjjffin's police.

& Noble Example of Honesty. Conversation turned upon the subject of ingratitude, and it was remarked how few men remember a favor after they have been benefitted by it, or repay it when opportunity presents. "As you well know," quoth the Chancellor, "I entertain no very great faith in human nature. Men's promises with me are but chaff, unless it be their promise to pay, satisfactorily indorsed. The disposition to doubt my kind was severely rebuked once, however, and by a burglar."

1

"A burglar?" 'Yes, a professional burglar. lie Wrts detected a comproitusihg situation that required explanation before the court of the county being caught at the dead hour of night leaving a gentleman's house through a cellar window with a sack filled with silver-ware on which were the gentleman's initails. It could hardly be explained, of course, but he wanted a lawyer to explain It, and hn sent for me. He had no money, he said, but if I would clcar him he would do anything in his power to remunerate me. I bethought me of a plan for rendering him useful not only to myself but many of my neighbors. I lived in one of the ,\ suburbs of the city, and in the vicinity was a meeting-house where they were running a revival, and what with their shouting and singing it was impossible to sleep within a quarter of a mile of it. I told my client I would undertake his case, and if I cleared him I should expect him to burn that meeting house, and then h6 might clear himself. He promised to do it, but with my innate distrust of the honesty of mankind I hardly believed him, and I think I expressed as much. "The trial came on, and through some flaw in the indictment or in the spoons, or in the jury, I cleared him. That night the meeting-house was burned, and I saw no more of mv client. In a week or two I received a letter from him from some place in Texas, in which, reminding me that he had fulfilled his contract according to agreement, he implored me henceforth to have more faith in my fellowmen. All were not deceivers there were t: some whose honesty and veracity could be relied on. The conduct of that worthy man filled me with admiration, if it did not wholly restore confidence in my kind."

The Archbishop of Cincinnati. John, Archbishop Pureell, of Cincinnati, is personally one of the most agreeable and persuasive men whom the Papal Church counts among its dignilaries in the United States. Very few American ecclesiastics have enjoyed a greater sharo of personal popularity than has fallen to his lot. In private intercourse his soul seems to overflow with benevolence, and ,f one reeing him in this light would hardly suspect the existence of the far diffei ent qualities displayed in a recent speech in the (Ecumenical Council. A German cotemporary says that, "althongh it was not one of the most elegant in point of diction, it certainly contained some of the most remarkable language ever uttered in the Aula o^ the Vatician." Said he: "I am an old man. I have become grizzled in the vineyard of the Lord. The little Latin that I learned in mv youth I have not liad leisure to practice and retain. There shall be, however, no lack of truth undefiled in what I have to say, though I may not utter it in severely classical language. Before all, I must tell vou that I am a RepuLlican, therefore I do not believe in 'royally by the grace of God.'" Then looking over toward the Spanish prelates, ho added

I see a whole nation running after a

Knoxville, Ills., is successful in raising king without succeeding in catching linn.

Augusta, Georgia, hens are dying of sun-stroke. A three pound black-and-tan brings $500 in New York.

Queen Yictoria is summering at Ofborne on the Isle of Wight. California produces 3,000,000 pounds of quicksilver annually. 1

The King of Sweden goes in for the woman's rignts movement. Among the 170,000 inhabitants of San Francisco, about 40,000 are Germans.

A complete French-Chinese dictionary is announced in Paris. Under Conservative rule, the whippingpost has been again erected in the Virginia Penitentiary.

There have been thirty-five persons admitted to the Society of Friends, in New England, during the pa*t year.

The McPberson monument at Clyde, Ohio, will be ready to be placed in position, September 10th

The Grand Ilaven Herald declares that the Spring Lake mineral water is an antidote for divorce.

Anna Morrison, a beautiful California gir, is stumping the S:atc in opposition to woman suffrage

Mr. McTavis, lale Governor of the Hudson Bay Company territories, died in Liverpool, on the 22d ult.

The Mormons of Massachuse't*, Rhode Island and Connecticut^ arc to hold a Con vention soon at Fall River.

The cost of running a steamer a round trip between this countiy and Europe is raid to be about $42,000 in greenbacks.

One of the New York papers account: for the defeat of the Dauntless on the round that she had too many officers on

ard.

Kings are ordained for the sake of (he people. The people are not creati fur the sake of any king And so is at ihu Pope is elected for the sake of the church, and as certainly, I he, church was not founded for the sake of the Pope. The Church, to peak, is a Republic, and the Pope is its responsible President, for the time being and if he attempts to makc.him-elf an absolute king, he commits usurpation!'' Imagine the effect on the a'sembledCouncil! Archbishop Pureell looks, perhaps, lea.s like a priest than any other member of the Council. He may be se«i almost any day promenading the Corso, in around hat, standing collar, and all the other adjuncts belonging to the dr«.vjs,s of

an

ordinary American citizen. '--3

TIIE Managers of the Indianapolis Fair disclaim any hostility to the State Fair. They say:

The State Fair is ours and we only seek to add a new impetus to the agricultural and manufacturing interest of Indiana and our city, by assisting the State Board or Agricultural in the beUtr promotion qf all the industrial arts. Our organizing the Indianapolis Agricultural, Mechanical and Horticultural Association, is to render assistance to all similar associations through these meliums, place Indiana agriculture and hianufaeture upon the pinnacle of industry, as high a* our national rcources and the ind'i-try of our people can make it. »&p&\

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DEMOCRACY will never forgive New England lor establishing the common scJhool system. It is the worst foe the party ever had. Wherever vice, ignorance and degradation abound, Democracy does much more abound. And to establish free schools and disseminate correct principles by increasing educational facilities is, in the language ad*«)ted by the Sentinel, to make "a hell on earth"— fui Democrats.—Ltd. Journal.