Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 January 1871 — Page 1

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1 he Alabama Claims.

EABL KUSSBLL, out of W hone gross mismanagement the Alabama question arose, has written a letter to the Times, in which he says that '"during the American rebel.ion, when the United Sia es remonstrated with the English government for not doing more by way of checking the building of cruisers and plundering tho {Spanish and Portuguese trader.-*, England answered ihen that ii would allow no interference in domestic measures, ami that when the cruisets escaped Birkenhead the government was no longer responsi ble." l'he Philadelphia Press remark that this is a very ingenious begging ol the lestion, and recalls the fact that when Messrs. LAIRD were violating their Queen's proclamation by building pirati cal war vessel.-* for "'the so-called South ern Confederation," Mr. DCDLKY, Lr.ited States consul at Liverpool, placed befoi th« British government—that is, belore tiiis very Lord Rc.-st i.i., then Foreign Secretary—affidavits from unimpeacha persons, proving lhat "Numbe 2'JO," afterwards called the Alabama was so built to order and would bt ready for sea, and I^OID RL'.-«I.LL, in stead ol taking the req li.-ite and lawful means for pieventing this viola'ion the law, po-i:polled doing anything, and finally—by a coincidence HO remarkab.e that it can scarcely oe considered acci dental—did not send orders to the collector of customs at Liverpool to prevei her going tountil half an hour a/te, slis had stean. :t of the Mersey and was ou the J'iuiSea. His order to the CO1 lector each'" Live."pool just in time

to be too late. I'. was this delay and neglect— whether accidental or willful— which caused the Alabama claims and did make the Jlriti-h government responsible.

The Alaham claim* are Citin.ated at SI'5,000,1)00. It would be money proiuably expended by the liriti.^Ii government —for it would get rid of the pre-ent hostile complications—if a check for ibis amount, were sent fo Washington. 'I'hiwould involve no humiliation to England neeing that Lord STASLKY, and even Mr. GLADSTONE have admitted hat England was'"responsible" in the case.

A WASHINGTON CURRKSPONDENT alluding to the recent sharp debate in the Senate, on the San Domingo question says it would seem out of place !or a newspaper correspondent of llepubl.can principles to assail or even criticise ti.e character and standing of Mich a gentleman as the Hon. CHARLES SUMNER and, again, it would look as xhough one wire not true to his principles, to his party, and to his God, if he did not deleud either in case of attack. Mr. SI .MNKit's character as an honest man, a cultivated gentleman, and the "hub" of the Republican party, has seldom been questioned, and we are opposed to reading him out of the parly, an Mr. EDMUNDS proposes to do. Bolter put up with a little sarcasm, close scrutiny, and even a little obstreperous conduct, from him—viewed as he is by the people—than to tumble him out in haste from the party to which lie has been a tower of strength. At the Kami time he, as well as those who have not so great a hold upon the people, ought to be guarded in their assaults upon the President, merely because the views of the Executive are adverse to tho-e of the Senator from Massachusetts. To err is human, and the position occupied by the President in regard toihcSan Domingo commission may ultimately appe ir to a great majority of the people to be the proper one. This issue between the President and the New England ""HMI ator is one that it will lequire soni" time to settle It is, however, within only a few months past that Mr. SUMNER expressed his views to the President oil this question so forcibly, clearly and distinctly in favor of the Dominican annexation, and entirely coincided with the Executive. that to change his base, as he has done, when the subject has been brought to a direct issue, is very queer. Within the history of the Senate there is nothing to compare with this sudden change of sentiment and expression of Senator Sl'MNEU.

IT IS not reasonable to expect the small squad of policemen who are sup posed to be on duty all ninlit, for seven nights in a week, to guaid ihe public peace, in all parts of the city, hv day. The night duly witliceilain unavoidable day duties, such as attending thi .Municipal Court, for instance—is all that should be required of them. lint there are occa. ii ns when day policemen are needed. We think every holiday, from

New Year's round to Christmas, presents such an occasion. It is very certain that, on last Sunday and Monday, a dozen good policemen might have been employed 'to the manifest credit of the ci'.y. The brutal rowdies and scoundrels, little better than notorious cut-throats, who parad1 ihe streets assaulting lnotTeit-ive citizens and in-uhing all whom they me.", should have been summarily arrested am! locked up. Had they nsistel the officers, and had a few of them been accidentally killed in the operation, much good victuals, now wr.s'ed in prolonging their worthless existence, would have been saved for a better ue.

We think it would be well for the Council to provide for the employment of special policemen oil all holidays, and to see to it that the right kind of men are employed, else they will be worse than useless.

Tilt: last steamer iron) China brought to S tn Fiancisco but sixty-seven Mongolians, he smallest number that have arrived by any one steamer since the estab lishnirnt of iheOrient.il Steamship Line. It has been suggested that the Tientsin massacre is the direct cause ol this hilling oil" in Chinese arrivals, the people, fearing very naturally that tho brutal intolerance of their countiymen would be re-en:ed upon themselves. Or they may have heard of the prejudices existing against them here and prefer no: encountering them, or the wave o! coolie emigration may have subside from other causes. We have, however, belore us the fact that the Chinese are not over whelming us just yet.

THE city authorities ol Cincinnati are regulating one side of the "social evii That is to say, they are providing tore gi-ter and inspect the protligi'e women, but leaving untouched the prolliga'e men. This," remarks the Chicago He publican, "is what is called equal and rx act justice. It there are moral or sani tarv reasons in favor ot the registration and inspection ot one p.vty to a joint ceding, it would be hard to show thai the same reasons are not equally cogent in favor ot the -amo processes in e-pecf to the other. To dodillerenily, is class le^is

laiion: a thing forbidden by every maxim of justice and sound policy.

COL. FORNEY'S letter o*" the 0th oJune last, lately published, no: only at firms positively that Senator SUMNKK »aid "he would cheerfully support" the San Domingo treaty, but states that Mr. St MHER, when reminded of ihis understand ing, "replies that oilier information since obtained as shaped his present action, This admission would seem to be conclu-

TERMS S2.00 A YEAR}

A Correction.

The Indianapolis Journal or yesterday

h'S the following: As NILSSOS will give her only concert in Indiana in Indiana[olis on the evening of January 10, the people of our neighboring cities will doubtless improve he opportunity by paying the Capital a vi-it and hea'ring the great Sv.eedish -inner. We are assured t.hat the leading ••nilroads would run excursion trains to Indianapolis on the night of the concert it ihey were a-ked. We should be glad 'osee delegations from Lafavette, I erre Haute, Madi-on, Richmond, and the other cities and towns of the State The Academv of Music is large, and the price-" of tickets will he more moderate than in the larger cities.

We charitably hope the above is not intentionally false, hut it is entirely untrue. XILSSON will give a concert at our Opera House on the evening of January 11th, a week before she sings at Indianapolis. This being the case, and our Opera Hall being much better adapted to such a purpose than any other concert hall in this part of the United States, we cordially invite Indianapolis and other cities to •'end excursions here on that grand occan. There i- but one NILSSON, and one can live hut a single lifetime. Who. then, MII afford not to hoar lie"

THE Louisville Commercial advises its readers betimes to get some standard work on fortifications and sieges, that they may understand the flood of barbarous terms which will be poured on them during the bombardment of the Paris foils, 'liie Commercial says we shall have parallels, approaches fascines, gabions, glacis trenches, counter-carps, ditches, revetments, scarps, parapets, redoubts, mamel ous, lunettes, bastions, mi..es and countermines, checks, embrasures, casemate*, barbette guns, dead-angels, practicable breaches and a great ileal of impracticable stuff". To those who would consider

MA II AN on Field Fortilieai ions, with an Appendix on Permanent Works," as be ing too drv, we would recommend the 1 ii cu brat ins of USCLIO TORY, in STERNE'S great work on the siege of Namur, as lighter and more plea-ant reading.

Tin-: Philadelphia I're-s says Ihe folowin works are announced by the erudite anther of "Does Protection Protect?" and will shortly appear as a series. It seems that political economy is too restricted a sphere for this clever writer, and it would seem as if he was about to extend his researches through the known inge of positive science: "Does Collection Collect?"'—a treatise on Ii nance.

Do Connections Connect?"—a railroad handy-book. 'Does Correction Correct?"—a mailill for writers and proof-readers. '"Do Projectiles Project?"—a pa per on ordnance. "Docs Divi-ioti Divide?"—a tract on mat heinat ics. 'Does Stultification Stultify ?"—a div.

nt'. 'e.v York Independent, copying from llic report of the Postmaster General the statement that, during the year 1870, the amount deiivcd from letter postage was SI0,771.1128, and the amount tun newspapers and pamphlets was only "?!)o-V !2 and yet the weight and bulk of newspaper mails was, at least nine or ten times greater than that of letter mails, savs

It is evident from this that letters pay fifteen lime* as much postage as new-pa pers, while the cost of transportation of papers is ten times as much as letters. make the department support it-elf is therefore to lax letters for much more than I hey cost, in order to pay the expense of carrying new-papers for much less than ihev cost. By what principle justice do you tax letters for the benefit of new-papers

THE Boston Times, a sprightly little journal lhat reflects credit upon the I:tb,"appear

soil,

to b.t in favor of adding

San Domingo to our national domain.— 11 .-ay s:

San Domingo is one of ihe richest of he West India l-%inls. Continud contests with the ll.iyiien Government have destroyed its usefulness, and the inhabitants have grown up a lazy and ihrifile-s population, depending upon itinn and bananas for their subsistence. With northern energy infused into ihe government of the inland and ihe tilling of the

it would soon become one of the S|d! valuable portions of the United .States.

THE Richmond Enquirer ha« discovered thai the war for ihe Union was a struggle in which "The money of one section overpowerd ihe superior courage and manly virtue of the other." Therefore, the Philadelphia Inquirer conclude' that the greenbacks of the servile Yankees induced the chivalrous Southerners to stll their lilies and cannons to the peddlers of New England. The world would never have believed ibis shameful fac save on Virginia testimony.

THE New York '/'MI-'S, edited by an Englishman, docs not admire London. In speaking of the death of \MES MONROE, the Paris banker, it says: "He died in London—not improbably a victim to lhat apptiling climate which renders London, for at least live months in tue year, a city not fit for a dog to live in. How it is that such a city could grow up at all. under ihe influences of perpetual fog and rain, is one of tho unexplained mvsteries of the physical universe.

THE mutual r.dniiration articles ofTa,TON anil Row EN, in lust week's Indepcn dent, arc very harmless reading, and we can't see why so many Ot our exchanges should get funny over lb "u. I he story of Damon and Pythias is not new nor is it rema: kablv iiitiusing, even ill ibis new new version. But, barring a few litile eccentricities, The Indejxndent is a m.)si valuable journal. "No family should be without it."

Two bills aie before Congress establishing a postal telegraph system. One is Mr. WASHBI'RN'S, of "Wisconsin, which provides for the purchase of all existing lines by the Government, and the other is Mr. HfBBARii's, of Boston, which provides for the transmission of tele1 graph letters by a company making connec' ions with all the best offi "es, and doing the work under a bond to the

Government.

THE General Assembly of M.issaehu setts will convene on the 3d proximo and will pro

ably devote nios of its valu

able time to the liqtior question and the IIoos-ic Tuniul.

A CHICAGO paper says that the Chicago 5 postoflice has done more business during the past year than the postcfSees of Cincinnati. St. Louis. Indianapolis, and Milwaukee, all combined.

THE Ma ne Liquor Law is loudly demanded in Mississippi, by men who an-

sive as to his original promise to the nonnce themselves as stern and unrePresidem, as alleged by the latter. lenting Democrats.

HERE are some interesting statistics in reference to the national cemeteries: The report of the officer in charge shows that the remains of deceased Lnion soldiers are interred in seventy-three national cemeteries, and in 316 local, private or post ceine'eries. The to!al number of bodies of Union soldiers reported interred throughout the United Slates is 315,555, of which number the remains of 152,109 can be identified, while tho-e of 143.446 remain unknown. It is e-timated lhat four hundred and sixty-three scattered bodies remain to be interred in the national cemeterie.s. The estimated aggregate of expenditures on account of the establishment and maintainance of the national cemeteries up to June 30, 1SG9, was reported at S32,G'i"3 70. The estimated expenditure of tbe-e cemeteries for the next fiscal year i- 831,000.

I!Y the new tariff which goes into effect on the 1st of January, many changes are made in the revenue, among ihe most important of which are ihe following: Teas, fiom 25 to 15 cents coffee, from 5 to 3 cents new sugar, from 3] to If cents sugar above No. 7, from 4 to 2 cents refined sugar, from 5 to 4 cents cane molasses, from S to 5 cents brandy, from $3 to 32 liquors, from S2 50 to 82 per proof gallon wool, from 30 per cent, to 11 and 10 cent.- steel railway bars, from 2A and 10 per ccnt. to 1 cents pig iron, from to $7 cast and wrought scrap are each increased Si p?r ton. Fitly two articles, mo.-tly drugs, are placed on the free list and ihe tariff upon forty reduced.

THE recent destruction by fire of the Spoltswood House, at Richmond, is awakening numerous comments as to the present unsafe and dangerous style of hotel building. As at present constructed many of the great hotels have but one staircase leading from the upper 10 the lower stories, and being usually of immense height, when escape is cut off in that direction, the luckless guests have no recouase but to immolate themselves. The Philadelphia I'rtw ihinks sleeping in a large hotel is getting to be about as dangerous as traveling in a steamboat, and as the ne is obliged to furnish lifesaving appliances, it is only just and fair that the former should be.

Ai.i.fiits'c to the report that the Representative in ihe North Carolina Leg islature, F. M. STUCDWICK, who presented the articles of impeachment against Governor HOLDEN, is a member of the Kuklux, and was one of a band of ruliian"5 that attempted to a-sassina'e the Repnb lican 'State Senator Sr'iioEi-'.SKu, the Philadelphia Inquirer remarks:

The spectacle of a Kuklux Klan-inan trying a Governor who, whatever his faults' mav he, is an uncompromising Union man, is not an edifying spectacle

AT a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Indianapolis Agricultural arid Mechanical Association, held on Wednesday, it was determined to hold their next fair in Indianapolis, commencing September 27ih and continuing lo October 2d 1871. A committee was appointed to solicit additional capital stock. It is proposed to increase he capital slock to one hundred thousand dollars.

IT is the general verdict of the prcs ilrt* the speech ot ice President t.oi.i-wx al the musical entertainment in Wa-li-ingioii, last Thursday even in.-, in aid of the Soldiers' and Sailors Orpnan" Home was one ofsingular beauty and eloquence It is titling, indeed, that ihe nations ciiil.lton should he ihus iendc-rly lenieu bered in these days of festivity.

'"THE wealthiest man in the State," MR. W. C. DEPAI'W,of New Albany, contemplates the erection, in that city, of a handsome and spacious mission chapel to be used as a Sunday School and for occasional preaching, and proposes to devoic his attention to the superintendence of a school. The chapel is lo be built next spring.

Gi:oi:r,i". wins IN, of Indianapolis,has filed his petition lo be adjugded a bankrupt. His schedule --hows his assets to be S2 h'), and his liabilities $2,412. He is the man who killed the negro IM.EET, in September, ISO'J, and the first item in his statement of liabilities is that of ajudgnuuit of $450 against hiM by FLEET'S administrator on a suit for damages.

MATTHEW 1». LLFT.I., prominent candidate

the notorious, is for doorkeeper

of the Democratic House of Representatives of our State Legislature. The F.vansville Journal thinks that MATTEHW, 110 doubt, hopes lo be c'ecicd by the Democracy because of bis /.cal in bcha.f of temperance and Maine Law legislation.

CoN'tu cTou FKRKY'S train, on the E. A C. Railroad, drawn by the locomotive "Yince lines,"' in charge of Al LYON, has not been nvo minutes behind time in arliving at the Terre Haute Depot during tho entire year. This is a record showing faithful conduct and stood lock.

THE prospectIIF of ih" Louisville Ledo* er, the new Democratic Dailv, concerning the establishment of which much has been said in thai city, is out at last. Il will be published by the Louisville Ledger Company, and llie first number will be

out February 1st.

THE Cincinnati Cciwicle says the (m zf!te, of lhat ciiv may be able to mention something which i: has approved in the conduct of the Administration. It would oblige many old friends by doing so, if there is anv instance on record.

A CTRIOU? ovrotroRAUY wan'.s to know why it should be necessary fot Senator SL'M.N"Kit so Irequenily and sogxplic illy to state tliat he is not in ^session oi a copy of MOTI.KY'S la--t di-pa:ch Has nnvbodv ever said he had it

As elderly Indiana pair, aged respectively 7S and 75, want a divorce on ac count of accumulated inconipa'.iblity.—.V. I Svn.

But this eccentric couple are fre-h importations from the "Land of Steady

(Habits."

TWENTY-TWO Senators dodged San

Domingo.

THE Alleghanians are concertising in New Albany.

THE Fort Wayne Skating Rink is doing a good business.

"NECKTIE sociable-" are about to be introduced at Indianapolis.

THREE alleged murderers, said to be most desperate villians. are confined in Posev county jail.

BRADFORD, the Wayne counfv man who was shot by his sister-in-law, is recovering.

NILSSON has "partially promised" to -ive a concert, in Lafayette, for the benfit of a Swedish church.

GENERAI. BuiNKiiuoKi', of Onio, is wasting his valuable lime making freetrade addresses in New England.

LAFAYETTE is disgusted with the show bu.-iness as managed by home artists. "Esther" run the managers in debt ?50.

C. DION "pulled in 810,000 very neatly on Wednesday night in his match g:ime of billiard* wiili Ll IOL.PH for the championship ol Anieriea.

A RELIABLE JOURNAL solemnly admits that the "female heart" of Indianapolis "hankered alter' S g. RANDOLM, who

sang

at the Kellogg concert in that city!

TIIE HON. WM. IIEILMAN has icsigned his seat in the City Council of Evansvillei to take a seat in the House of Representatives, at Indianapolis.

THE Evan-ville Courier perpetrates another joke in quoting the New Yo Sun as Republican." 1 he Coioiei not less a Republican sheet than theS'un

THE OVERLAND MONTHLY for January is jusi received. It is, as usual, full of good things. 'I here is no magaztne published on either side ol tlic Atlantic which we prize mine highly.

"THE POOR" of Lafayette are still loudly bewailing the fact lhat ihey are

"TilERE is," says Gail Hamilton, "a great army of sewing women, who, beyond question, are wretchedly paid.— Equally, beyond question, is the wretchedness of llteir sewing. A good seamstress is as scarce as a gocd cook, and is as sure of good wage-'. How many of these women who make shirts a! .-ix cents a piece know how to fashion undergarments tastefully, to cut them economic illv. and to sew them neatly and strongly. What they do is the coarsest and most "mechanical kind of sewing. AVInn it conies to what is called family sewing, thev are utterly deficient.

"out" fifty dollars by rea-on of ihe good clo'es in which "Esther" was "harne-sed." 'Tis very melancholy.

ANDY JOHNSON having just ventilated hi- opinion that General GRANT «as "no more tit to be Pre ident than a goose,' the New York Ilvrtt'd asks nl ihe itefuiict 'busheluian' never Viiik ihe slli-p?'

"i'lir: a layette Cowitr learns that a collection will be taken up toassisi the "poor" of that ciiv in paying the S50 that ihey lo-'t in the "Esther'' show b.i-iriess. The Courier savs too much good clothes will

ruin any show.

AN Indiana Senator, MORTON is engaged in the disreputable scheme to displace Senator SfMMHt from ihe Chair-man-hip of the Senate Coin mil lee on Foreign Affairs.—New Albany Lenger.

The Ledger ought to know—as everybody else knows—that there isn't a partiIce of truth in its statement.

WE are pleased to learn that trains, exclusively lor pa-sengers, are now running on ilie Indianapolis and Yincennes Road Exehanye.

Trains mav be walking on that road, but we don't believe that they have got to

"running" yet.

for energetic young h-iiv a disinclination

HERE is a hint 1 itlies who-e lovers to "come 'o lime:"

A rathor strong murk

1 vevmj woman

at Tuftunboroujjl), tir-nuni she tieen conriwl as neco.-.-:u), procured a ccrli'.ica'c. took her loo pas sive lover to a minister, and m.triicd him

THE New Albany Ledger stales lhat £trly

Sunday moining ihe community

was start led by ihe announcement that Mr. JOHN M. RENSII\W, a well-known ciii/.en had suddenly died at ihe (amil\ residence in that city, from an attack of congestion of (he lungs. 1 he suddenness of bis death was startling to ihelriend- of Mr. R., as be was about the city Saturday morning in apparent good health

THE usual divorce matinee was he'd in the Common Please Court room, Indiair

anapolis, IitTi on Saturday, Je.il^e

P'Csidir.g.

Four divorces were is-

.V. Y. Sun. We suppose those parlies desired to form new matrimonial alliances, and secured divorces as a proper pre-requisite. Had thev lived in New York, lliey wouldn't have thought it necessary to cancel the old contracts belore laktng new ones. \Ve have no pride in our divorce laws, but we would as soon think of installing Haian as a regular pa-lor, as ol looking to New Yoik for moral lessons!

SPEAKING of the proposed canal swindle, the Yiucennes San says The peopleof Indiana count themselves rid of the debt morally as well as bv constitutional inhibition, and woe betide the legislator, who, for a consideration or without one, attempts to fasten that debt upon the Stale.

But the great danger lies 111 the fac 1 that the would-be swindlers are able to pav such enormous figures for votes, that he parlies accepting their bribes cf.u well afford to pack up and move to New York, or some oilier locality, where wealth means respectability.

Another Naval liero Kone.

Some months ago, all the world grieved for the gallant Farragui, the Nel.-on of ihe American navy, with none of the moral stains lhat blacken the fame of the hero of Trafalgar. Only yesterday we published a brief obituary of Rear Admiral iireese. who died in Philadelphia last Saimdav, and now ihe obituary is Seforc us of Commodore Gatdner, who died

From

Philadelphia the next dav, and

who had also passed the allotted age of man. These naval deaths are the most notable feature of the mortuary record of our country for ihe year now upon the edge of the grave.

The last defender of our flag upon the high seas to sail into the haven ot eternal res was a native ol Maryland, and was bo:n 111 1S00. At the age ot fourteen he l^^an his naval career as a middy. Al twenty five he was made a Lieutenant and at ft rtv one, a Commander, and at fiftv-five a Captain, which was at that lime ihe highest rank in our navy. At sixty two he was made Commodore- Al-lio-iir an officer held in very high re pute he never had part in any naval engagemeni, being always engaged in some

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Personal.

E'*win Forre=t, it is reported, will lake his final farewell of the stage next spring.

The editorial chair of the Independent is said to have proved not too steady to Tilion. s'-

Norih Cornwall, Conn., enjoys the notoriety of having a bride who has not yet attained her thirteenth year.

Ihe fascinating daughter of the Prussian Minister at Wa.-hiugton, is soon 10 bemarriedtoa Greek of unexceptional pedigree.

The Lelands will commence the erection of a new hotel on Catskill Mountains in March, and the Stetsons will build a Stetson House at Mahopac.

Col. James Fisk is understood positively to have secured Nil-son for a serits of operas to be produced in grand stvieat the Opera House in February.

Halifax must have been enjoying a celebration of some sort. lis local edit'r vows that early on Saturday morning be -aw the sun, moon and stars all al once.

The New York Standard alleges that Secretary Boutwell intend- to resign far he purpose of going home 10 Massachurens and contesting Wilson's re-ilc-ciii 10 tjie Senate,

Mr. O'Baldwin expresses his'preference for a prison in Massachusetts over a pal ice el.-cwhere. and declines the pardon offetcd him on condition of his leaving the Slate.

Mr. Newton Crane, author of the leading article in the January Seribner, entiled "Fainnount Park," is the assistant •ditor of the St. Louis Democrat, and one of the most promising young jourinlists ihe West.

Mrs. Devereux Blake's striking speech 011 the peace meeting recently held in New rk Citv, has called orlh so much admiration that she has consented to prepare it in more extended form as a lecture, entitled "Soldier and Victim."

Prof. Davidson, in an address before the California Academy of Natural Science, recently said that in making some computations of late astronomical and geodetic observations, large deflections of the plumb line had been detected In iiui. clous instances, Ironi ihe Strait of Fuca to Los Angeles, ihe delleciions had ranged fioui si.~ to twelve seconds oi arc

Ebenezer Henderson, seventy years ol age, a wealthy fai mer of Elizabeth town ship. I'cnn committed suicide, a lew da-s ago, by blowing the top of his skull off wiili a shot-gun. lie had been living pleasantly with his family, and appeared he excellent spirits a tew minutes before committing the rash act.

Bonneville, Mo., has received a fresh impoitation of fifty Swedish immigrants, forty-three of wli'-m are girls of Swede sixteen.

Soelt'O' Small Talk.

Kid gloves, of heavy texture, a-e worn by sensible women tor the promenade. White, pearl color, fa-vn and gray silks and velours are all considered "t'« rei/lc' for weddingdiesses.

Young Indies have entirely discarded thebioad but comfortable fur collars. Tiie lioa is "the thing."

Very useful and convenient is the new invention just patented —a wire spring to secure iadiis, veils lo their bonnets.

Beautiful brooches, car rings, necklaces and bracelets of dear and opaque amItcr. exquisitely carved, are becoming very fashionable.

A black velvet collarottii, mounted with 111 breast of a grebe, is one of the hues: novelties for a lady's full costume, street or cairiage costumc.

A voung gentleman tho other dav shneked society out of its propriety by during to get married in a light overcoat. What arc we comming 10?

The very latest idea of ultra-fashiona-ble ladies is lo have their boots and shoes p-uided al ihe instep, so as to give the

T|I and graceful

foot, at lual point, curve. A new s'vle of lorgnette is made of whi'e a"d stained mother-of-pearl, in perpendicular bands. The colors most popu'-.'.r arc Solfei ino, garnet!, I'.Kinark, and emerald g: cell

Uhlan jackets for house wear are just about the most dashing little articles of oxt.'ior costume a (dv can don. Ihev a e' (titer gorgeously enib-oidered and s'n s-ied —whereas genuine Uhlan jackets are not.

"SCRAPS/'

Monkey skin muffs nrc offered for sale this season. An Illinois fire company has elected a lady foreman.

The Philadelphia Inquirer predicts a return to the dark age

Fox liiuoins: is one of the city amusements ai Griflin, Georgia. Some of the .-mall cities in Massachusetts want to be villages again.

Sir Waller Scott's centenary is to be commemorated in August next.

Five hundred dollar lace shawls are 11 ed a- over.-kirts for ball es-es.

General Anderson, the hero of Fort Sump.er, continues to re-ide in Europe.

Conneaulville. Pennsylvania, with one thousand inhabitants, has eight churches.

Garnett, in Anderson county, Kansas, is to have a female dentist soon—Mrs. Lucy 11. Taylor.

It costs S'Joo,000 a year to print ihe Patent Office Reports. It's a nice book Ibi" a holiday pre.-ent.

Game is reported to be very abundant this sea

.-i .ii

in ihe mountains and valleys

of Eat Tennes-ee.

New York is making a move for cheaper hotel rates, so that a man not a millionaire can stop all night.

various points at the South re-

a 11

tist

We may ad what has escajted public attention so far, that the late Commodore Breese was a brother of Judje Hrce-e of the Supreme Bench of this Sia'e, at least we saw such a statement some years ago. They certainly re-em bled each other in eene'al appearance ana that manly vigor which baffles sen ilhy.~Chiea.ti Journal.

Church, at Raleigh, N. C.

TERRE-HAUTE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 1870. (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE

Dont Ferget the Old Folks at Home

UK. WM. AIKMAN.

There is always a liability when sons and daughters have o- away from the home of iheir childhood .:id have formed homes ol their otvn, gradually 10 lose ihe old a tachmeuts and cease to pay those attentions 10 their parents which were so easv and natural in the olden lime. New associations, new thoughts, new cares, all come in, tilling the mind and heart and if special pains be not taken thev crowd out the old loves. This ought never to be. Y'ou should remember lhat the change is with you and not with those you leit behind. You have every thing now, much thai is attractive in the pres

ent

and

bright

in the future their hearts

cling to the past, they have most memory. \Y nen you went away von knew not and will never know until you ex perience it, what it cost iht-m to give you up, nor what a vacancy you left behind, riiey have not,if you have, anv new loves to take the place of the old. Do not, then heartlessly deprive ihem of what you still can give of attention and love

VUit Your Parents. If you live in the same place let your steps be, perhaps daily, a familiar one in the old home it yon are miles a.vay, yea, many miles away, make it your business to go to them. In this matter do not regard time nor expense, the one is well spent, and the other will be fully, yea a hundred.Id repaid. When some day the word reaches you, lla-hed over the telegraph, ihat fatheror moiher has gone, you will not think them much, those hours ol travel which last bore you to their side

IFhVc to Your Parent*. I have known father and moi her wait with sick hearts thiough weary months, longing that some word might reach them from an ab.-ent son. The have watched the mails tin til in despair ihey have ceased to expect any more, and while they mav not have the grief of a great bereavement, they have what is almost as bad, the oilier consciou.-ncss lhat they are not in mind enough even to call out a few poor lines from one whoee infancy and early years ihey had watched with sleeple.-s love. Sons arc often guilty of this crime

I can not call it less—fiom sheer neg lect or indolence. While an hour, perhaps a few moments, would suffice 10 write a letter which would give unspeakible satisfaction, they let months and even yeaisslip away in utter indiflereme 10 all the pain ihey are causing. O, how full is many a mother's heart of sorrow and foreboding, when just a few words, from an :d-er.' son would fill it with joy and praise. Such indifference or neglect sliameliil and wicUtd. One lieeil not wonder that sons guilty of it are not pros pered, that thev wait in vain for those turns of fortune which will .send them home, to surpri-e the old neighborhood '.heir wealth. Their thoughtlessness

has

The inevitable over-skirl still goes 011.

Nothing but the script style in vogue for wedding and visiting cards. Friday is the inosi fashionable for reception day. 1 huisday is nexl in lavor.

been productive only of disa-ter. Keep up your intercourse wiili father or 1110:her do not deem it sufficient to write when something important is to be told do not say. "No news is good news." If it be hut a few lines, write them: write if it be only to.say "1 am well," if it be only to send the salutation lhat says ihey are "dear," or the farewell that tells llic-m that you are"affectionate" st ii 1. The litile messengers shall belike -kets of jewels, and the lours lhat fall fondly over them will he tieasures for you. Say with a warm hearted son: "The hills mr.y tower, the wines may rise.

Ami roll between my home anil me shall my quenchless memories Turn with mulling love to thee!"

A MYSTEKY OF FIFTY YEARS SOIiVEI).

AGO

The F:ilc of Chancellor Lansing—He \l 11s Not Murdered, but Committed Suicide.

From the Sehencetaily Star, Doc. IT.] We have in recent issues of the Star made reference to Thurlow Weed's lei ter regarding the mystery of Chancellor Lansing's fate, in which Mr. Weed relates thai, twenty thtec years ago, an eminent ciiizcn of this State, now deceased, put him in pusses-ion oi information which, in ihe judgment of the informant, clearly proved that Chancellor Lansing had be.i murdered, and lha'. through the agency of certain paities who-e names this eminent citizen communicated, this person further invoking a promise that, should Mr. Weed survive the parties implicated, be would publish the facts.— This contingency has now occurred but Mr. Weed states that on matine consideration and con-ultation, he has concluded that circumstances have absolved him f'om bis promise, and he declines to publish the facts of the allege murder. We published a few days since a letter from John L. Living-ion, a gtanl -on of Chancellor Lan-ing, calling upon Mr. Weed lo make known all the facts and circumstances regarding llie fate of Chancellor, made known to him. Mr. Weed has failed to make the disclosiite, and we have therefore concluded to make, known some facts in our po session regarding the fate of Chancellor Lansing —made known to us by an old gentleman, a wellknown and res peeled re-ident of ibis city, who was a personal friend of the Chancellor and his familv, antl lo whom the facts we ate about to disclose wetemade known years ago, and from what lie believes to be a reliable source. The Chancellor •v.is the posse.-sor of gical wealth, and had been speculating heavily, and had swamped hiinstli. lie was in New York, stopping at the old City Hotel, when he received intelligence that his re-idenec on State street, in Albany, had been seized, ai was to be sold by the Sheriff. Mr.

Lan-ing wrote a letter to Albany, and lo-'k it to the boat himself. lie was never -een M'"ierward. nor was any trace afterward found of him. It was surmised at 1 be 1 inie by his friends that he had stepped oil ihe plank, in the darkness, while b*avJng the boat and been drowned.

But such was not the o.t-e. Mr. Lan-ing relumed 10 the City Hotel and there committed suicide by hanging himself.— The matter was hushed up. the body was secretly removed in the night time anil deposited in the family burial vault of Abram G. Lan-ing, a brother of the Chancellor, and the fate of Chancellor Lansing remained a secret to the people, only to be solved alter a lapse of half a century. Our informant, who is a man of veracity and prohiiy, slated that he was fullv convinced thai the above facts were the true solution of the mysterious

Californians have contributed nearlv disappearance of Chancellor Lansing. ,, 1 v- 1 ... \f_ w—1 three hundred thousand dollars to the French and German leiief funds.

A Leavenworth man deeded his house and lo' 10 his wife to escape his creditors, and now she has escaped him.

Now, let us hear from Mr. Weed.

How a Texas Woman Persuaded Her Husband to (Jo Hoinc. [From the Galyestou (Texas) Xr-ws, Dec. 31.]

A correspondent of the Denton Monitor savs a handsome, dashing woman rode

ports come of colder weather than has jmoa village in that region, a few days been expc. ienced before since 18o.

ag0-

During all the time of John Bright's rapidly to a drinking saloon where a illness, lie has refused to lake his salary number of sovereign* were having a as Cabinet Minister, but 1 hen he's "high time.' tehe singled out the finest without it. looking man in the crowd and, walking up to him, seized him by the arm and

The friendi of Filz John Porter are I ordered him 10 put down the glass which again moving 10 effect a reversal of the j,

Eight American drug houses make a and that she would no longer consent lo speciality in dealing in proprietary, be disgraced and impoverished by him "patent" medicines, having an annual She demanded his pistol. He refused, trade of $7.1)00,000. .She took it from him. copkct it. and

Hartford has sixteen banks, twenty-one I presented it at him and loUl hitn he insurance companies twenty seven

churches two hundred streets, and only seventy lawveis.

special service. "When the late war came Wednesday, pro'essed religion on Friday,

he was too infirm for active service, and in the Mexican skirmish the navy played a subordinate part.

antl was baptized on Sunday, in the Bap

Tiie New York coffin makers, shroud makers and hearse drivers had a carnival Monday evening. A local pape

headed the item "The dance of Death

alighting from her horse, went

fa'e a military court awarded him dnring |, glass and rushed away ihe the war. ladv followed, and finally cornered The Peoria papers claim 40,000 bu-h- him in- the billiard room/ She told els

com were shipped from that citv in in ahrm, determined voice, that the one dav la-elv. The corn was probably

about to drain. He dashed down

lace he wa and ,hec0

fl -TIT0 purpling would not answer for tier hu*

", -e

band, that he was w&stjnz her properly,

leave or d,e He

concluded to leave,

She marched him out as a prisoner of war to where hi- horse was hitched, ordered him to mount, and in a few minutes the

Governor Ilolden was impeached on two wcie leaving town, the wife riding in the rear her captured lord, with his six shooier in her hand.

i'ltF. Trustees of the Metropolitan M. E Church at Washington wete sued on the"2i for ma-erials used in the construction of the building. President Grant is

of he Trlls ees The hH that cit

Horace Greeley's essays, "What I zen bring civil suit against the Chief Know of Farming." w'vic'i have Executive officer of the nation is another published in the T,il.ve:v week dtir proof that tinder onr system of self goving 1S70, are lo be printed ir. book form.

ernment all men ar^ equal in the eyes of the law. ................

Pr'i.-siiins Occupy Fort Avrou

Successful Sortie at Belfort

Prussians Badly Punish ctl

General Evacuation by Prus sians of the Eastern Department.

Canihrai to b' Defended by the French at all Hazards,.-

Bourbaki Marching to the Eastward.

Charged With a Missioa to Tut the Prussian Line of Communication.

Arras Evacuated by the French.

Prussians Driven out of Montaire.

Dispatch from King William.

Conspiracy at Madrid.

One of its Objerts t' Assas sination of Oi 11. Prim.

Serious Disturbances liended.

LONDON", Dec. 30.—The French Yice Consul in llie Island of Jersey, has ordered all French refugees to report to irmv headquarters for service in the French army immediately. All those who won't comply with the order, will be considered as deserters.

AM Kit At TO UK DEFENDED.

The French have resolved lo defend Cambria at all hazards. There is a force 11 2000 Prussians at Si. tentin. twentyfive miles south of Cambrai.

KVAI'UATION".

The force which has lately occupied \rras, ha- evacuated the place, but its preci.-e movements are unknown.

INDEMNITY BONDS.

Prussia litis replied 10 ihe ('presentations of llie Engli-h Cabinet, and will give indemnity bonds to owners of Brush vessels recently destroyed, to impede navigation of the Seine, but declines to compensate sailors fur harsh treatment accorded them.

SUt.'oKSSlT!. SOUTH-:.

A dispatch from Belfort reports a sue cesslul sortit by the gani.-on, in which the Prussian- were badly punished.

TELEGRAPH.

The land lines between London and the Cable arc working badly owing to a heavy tall ot snow.

STKUI: BATTEIUIX.

YKIWAH.I.KS, Dec. 2!—via London, .'50. Prus-.ians are e.-iabli-hing siege batteries.

PRUSSIANS OCCUPY l-'OKT AVltON. The Prussian tweifth corps occupied Mont Avion after, one day's bombardment. TheFiench in iheir retreat let 1 behind their dead, and many gun carriages and rifles.

SCPKlilNTENDENT OK El" EN'S ICS. tien. I'etlingias has arrived at Havre from Bordeaux to superintend the defenses of the city. He was rectivid en thusias'.iealiy by both troop- and citizens.

MII.ITA/.Y OKDEU.

A di.-patch from Besancon says that Gen. Freskow has is-ucd an order confining the population to the right side of the river Daubs.

CO'ITON.

LIVKKI'OOL, Dec. 30.—Official figures show that the stock of cotton has heretofore been largely over estimated.

I'KENCll KOI'.CE.

Tours estimates the entire number of the French tioop- at 750,000. liOUUIIMC is COMMAND.

Bourbaki's command is charged with the dutv of revieiiialling Paris, and' has already on hand a vast amount of live stock and provision-- for that purpo-e.— At a proper time this army will make a desperate eS'ort to join Chau/.y's force and reunite the aimy ol the Loire, which will then, with great energy pu.-h on for Paris.

J'Al.ADlNES RESERVE.

Gen. Paladines reserve is now chaigc-d lo meddling polilicit.1 ho persuaded Gambetta to in'.erft with his operations.

OFFICIAL I.-taPATCII.

Earl Granville has received tin official dispatch fit 111 the French Governmental Boideax, in which Fiance declares a determination not lo send a delegate to the peace conference to be held in London, unless the British Government shall lir-l recognize the Republic, ihe di.-palch has been suit to each ol the powers. (JEN. PKIM.

Advices from Madrid .-tate that Gen. Prim ha- announced his determination 10 resign in person 10 King Amttde'i and plead a dcsiie to ictirc priva.e life.

EVACUATION.

Dispatches from Yersailes received

here state thai a general evacuation of the department east of Pari- which had been occupied by German troops still continues. It is thought that this ii being done in order to concentrate the Prussian -trength around Yeisailles.

A AI.I.\NI" ACTION.

A Prussian di.-p:Cch rep »rts that Colonel liattenstein, eomtiKinding a detatchmcnt of six companies of foot, two squadrons of ca."alrv and two guns, was surrounded by the Frenoli ai Mont Oise.— After a desperate fight lie gut his way out, losing only one hundred men of his command and taking two hundred and forty prisoners.

RATIFICATION.

Dispa'cbes fiom Stultgatdf and Darmstadt announce the ratification ot federal treaties by Wurtembtirg and Hesse.

ORIHtli FROM TIIK AIM I It A I.TV. LONTON, Dec. 80.—The investigation into ihe causes of the loss of ihe Captain resulted in an older from the Admiralty for the following alteration in the English iron clad navy "A reduction of length and weight of masts, and the use of concrete for ballast introduced into the cellular bottom."'

OLD WEATHER.

Cold weather continues circumscribing military operations. puu.-s ". S LINE OF

Afprc-

ENGLAND. FKENCH KEFL'C EES.

COMMUNICATION TO BE CUT.

B..u baki's army is now marching eastwa d. The General has been charged wi'h a mission to cut the Prussian lines of communication in all directions in that quarter.

PRUSSIANS DRIVES OUT OF MONTAIRE. Chansey tent a strong column to Mon-

tai.-e, driving thf Piussians out of ihe place and tsking many p. i-oners. NEWS FK( SI PARIS.

BORDEAUX. Dec. 30—A dispatch from Raebe sur l'arme. of the 20ih, reports ill landing of a balloon from Paris with new that the Prus-ians 011 Wednesday ftirioii Iv attacked Fori- Rasny, Nogent and Mount Avron. Some of iheir siege bat tcries were unmasked and 3n atlemp made at regular bombardment of tiie above named positions, but the attack was rMi»lsp 1 wi. henvv los* to the enemv The morale of Paris is exce lent.

FR EN CII A RTILEHY.

A dispatch fron Rocsoi of the "2'Jih "says French artilery at Mezieres prevent the Pi tissians establishing siege batteries.

SUFFERING FROM COI.D.

BORDEAUX. Dec. 30.—Accounts received here show that bolh the Prussian and French forces suffered terribly from cold Strong reinforcements have been sent forward to all points where French soldiers are incapacitated. Yas quantities of material calculated to increase the comfort of the troops have also been sent to the front.

PRUSSIAN EXCESSES.

It appears that the Prussians committed excesses at Orleans and Blois because the inhabitants, who had been rt ined, were not able to meet their requisitions. At Orleans thev threatened to take away as hostages fifty prominent citizens, unless 600,000 francs were paid for maltreaimeut of Prussian soldiers.

SPAIN.

EXrilKSSloN OF HORROR.

MADRID, Dec. 30.—The Cortes adopteed a resolution expressive of horror at the attempt to assti.-sinaie Gen. Prim, and passed a vote of confidence in lhat government.

OKN. PRIM.

General Prim is rapidly progressing towards recovery from his wounds. Seven of thf eight balls embedded in his shoutder have been extracted and hiscondition comfortable. He has suffered a loss of iwo fingers.

MINISTERIAL.

Admiral TopeiC has as,-umed temporally the functions of Gen. Prim,as Miniser of Foreign Aflairs and War, as well as he Presidency id ihe Council. Senor Oavala has been appointed Minister of ihe Colonies.

KUIOUS Dt.STUIillANCF.S APPRF.UKNEDEB. Several battalions oi National Guards recruited in the republican quarters of Madrid refuse 10 attend the service to be held on Sunday in honor ol the new King. Serious disturbances are apprehended.

ITALY.

OVERFLOW OF Tilt: TIBER.

ROME, Dec. OO.—An ovetflow of the I'ilier has flooded bait the ciiv, which ocsioned a vast amount of damage.

GERMANY.

DISPATCH FROM KINO WI. l.IAM. BERLIN, Dec 30.—The King has sent he following telegram to lecn Augusta.

Yiti SA 11,1.1s, I ice. —The bombardment of Fori Avion, silenced the enemy's guns. 'Ihe 1 ail way station at Noissy was shelled and the Fret eh. artillery at Bandy di.-lnged. The Prussian loss, ihieeinen. The garrison ol Fort Avron fled 10 IW. WILLIAM.

SEIV YOIIK, I1K.-S ONiiltltSS.

NEW YORK, Dee. 30.—The Chess Congress Committee has -xnt to the secreta1 ies of all the chess clubs in the country a circular, asking for aid and assistance in I'm thcring the scheme of a grant! illlei national Chess Coiigre-s to be held in this city in ItSTl.

OEOROIA ELECTION.

The Tribune's Atlanta, Ga.. Special telegraphs that rc tut ns enough are received 10 warrant him in saving that three Republican Cong.essmen are elected 10 the list and-J2ii Congress, from ihe 2d, 3d and 4-b di-iricls. in each of the-e districts the contests have been very close. 1 lie seat of llie Democrat elected to C011-gre.-s from the oil district will be Contested by bis l.'i publican opponent, owing to llie fac! thai his di-abiliiies have not been removed, at.d llie fraud and intimidation practised at the polls, lti tact it could hatdly be callcd an election, colored voiers being di iveil from the polls on each election day in large numbers. At least a thousand were ihus prevented from voting. The Legi-iatine just elected will be largely Democratic, bin ibis Legi-laluie does not, accotding to liepublican opinion in ibis Slate elect U. S. Senators, thai question having already been liecided bv the last Legislature. The new Le :i-lature docs not meet until November next. Republicans here are not readv to believe lhat Congress will refuse admis.-ioii of their Senator whose term commences on ttie -lib of March next. Should Congress admit the Sena tors elected by the last Legislature, thus ending a vexed question, it would give the Republican party a strong foothold at least in Georgia, on which to rally fiom the late defeat.

BILLS OK .Mi'l.Al.vr.

About fifteen bills of complain have been Ii led with the .let of the I Ciicuil Coui I, iu suits brought sgain-l former members of the firm ol Morris. Keichum. Son & Co by various banking corporations and person-, for recovery of certain sums of money and value of certain securi'ies depo-ited with defendants bv plaintiffs, previous lo their failure on account ol llie noted defalcation ot E. B. Keichum, one of the lit 111 in 1£05. Ihe aggregate amount -ought lobe recovered is estimated at upwatd of $-t0,000.

FIRE ISCAPFCS.

Orders were issued yesterday by huperintendent. James M. McGregor of the De puitment ol buildings, for the survey all hotels in thi

preparatory to ref

quiring ihem to place fire escapes upontlieir buildings. Tne Grand Central, Fifth Avenue, Hoffman Mouse and French's Hotel were ordered lo be inspected ve-tenia}'. No:ice- will be served upon them to day. For some month*? past the question a to whe'her hotels could be required under the law 10 attach lire escape-, has been in the Cotnt upon a suit brought by McGregor against llawkes, one of the piopiictors of llie St.

Nicholas, to te-t the question, and owing to the law's delay 110 decision ha.- been

reached. The Superintendent determined

to take prompt action in llie premises, and if necessary lei each proprietor test the law separately.

DISCHARGED.

All the butchers at C'oramtinipaw Abbator have been di-eharged on account of-

FRANCE. GAMBETTA.

BORDKAUX, Dec. 59.—Eve.—The presence here of Gambetta, has given creat impetus lo milnary preparations. Troops are rapidly going forward to the armies in the field. Many were sent hence today, who had just arrived from the South o'F-t:nce. Cannon of a new pattern, ^mall arms and ammunition have lately been sent to the front. At the earnest request ol Gambetla, no public reception was made. An effort was made to have hirn accept an ovation on New Year's d*y, bill he fnally declined.

rnd plots well laid. i'nday some expressions of indignation^ templet! crime, but generally auf_ difference by the masses ofthe popnlj Great activity is evident at the Office. The Ministry contemplate ch ing the programme fair the route by the newfv eltrc cd King will make into Madiid. This is to be donei the view of an attempt on the lifej Prim, and to bafile conspirators.

To-day Gen. Sickles, U. S. Ministef Madrid, and representatives of foreign governments congratulated ''rim upon hi- e-oape trim the bul of would-be assassins.

FIRE.

This morning a row of eleven two stol frame buildings on I'ttica Avenue, al Bergen street, Brooklyn, was destroyed ll lire. Twenfy-two families left ftom*lel and in th'e cold without shelter. TlJ buildings were' valued at $'J,-300 earhj insured, it is said, in the Pheonix Co.h)tal loss estimated' at Joo.000. EigM of the houses were "owned by Jeremialj Boshev, two by Christopher Gibbons, bv Air. Barney.

BOILER EXTLOSION.

A terrible explosion, causing the deatl^ of three niM occurred last night ir the iron Toundry of 'Millcn La Fare, Brooklyn. The water in the boiler being' -illo\rc(T to get too low was the cause ofj he explosion. The engineer and liremtiuj ivere instantly killed, and the dead bo.lv a painter employed about the buibi-] ing \vas picked up this evening in Brunswick creek, 300 feet distant from tin' -ccne of disaster:

STEAMER OVERDUE.

The new Ctinard steauier Parthia, now on her first trip with a vei'y large cartcc tboard, is nearlv .fourteen days out. She last Tuesday. She sailed on the 17th imt,'

CLIIVKLAXD.

A IIULLY FORTUNE TELLER. CLEVELAND, O* Dec. 30.—A female fortune teller called at the Leader office his noon armed with a horse whip, and lenianded a retraction of an article rhich appeared about her in yesterday norning's Leader. The local who wrote articles refused to retract, whereupon lie applied llie whip with considerable energy, but without much effect. The local came off victorious, and the woman was ejected from the office.

caxrix.vvri.

HOTEL liURNED.

CINCINNATI, Dec. 30.—The Lindsey House at Zaliske, Ohio, was burned yeserday. Insured in the Ohio Company it Chillicotha. $8,000.

GERMAN DAILY.

new German evening daily will isic January loth. The publishers are no:

made

public, but it is thought they

ill be llof aad Ila.-sawcik.

TOLEDO.

RAILWAY UlilDliE lU'li.NED.

Tot.EDO, O., Dec. 30.—A bridge 011 the Toledo, Wabash and Western railroad, at Deli.nice, Ohio, was destroyed by tire this morning. No interruption to business, fiangements having been made lo send ains^lhrough to Ft. Wayne, via Water-

Thcbridge will be rebuilt in a few days-

"IMDN'T SMIXL WELL."

A .lii lg'C 'VI10 Didn't I.ike Jlitsk tiet* into a ^crii. and Out of It.

Judge 1out West, of eoui.-ei, hated, to put il mild, the smell of musk. One bo! dav, the mercury standing ninety de•::ces in the shade, llie Judge sat in his ollicc. lolling in his easy chair, placed just in the draft—the little there was— doincr his be-t 10 open up the mystery of an old opaque '"las' "ill and Ic-tiimciit, submitted lo his judicial determination. .Its,.! as the breeze grew sensibly strong and lefreshing. the jirdce's olfactories contracted under the smell of musk. His honor looked up fiom the ancient document lie was eon-ideiing. and beheld a I idv standing in the open door. With a gentle wave of hi- hand, as if motioning her

turn one fide, the judge greeted her -A h. "II.-tr pa don, mndame, you don't smell well." "Sir," replied (tie aslonislied dame, in a lone lhat wo lid have fro/.en a less 111 perln 1 bable man in his seat, notwithstanding the excessive beat, and threw her-e'f out of the office.

The judge dropped lo the contemplation of his paper. Directly a stern voice greeted him with, "Are you the chap lhat insulted my wife?"

Again the judge looked up from his work, and seeing a stiong-buili man standing ill his doorway frowning upon him, answered promptly, "No, sir please be sealed." "Didn't yon ju-t tell my wife she slunk?" thundered ihe man. "No, sir," said the judge very lii nily "I am incapable of saying that to any lody."'

The man mined .-qiiarcon his heel and dii eetlv returned wiili his wife, saying "Wife, is that the teller?" pointing to the judge. "Yes," said she, decidedly.

Well," said her husband, "lie says he didn't say you stunk."' "No," "replied she, "he said 1 didn't smell well." "Oh," broke in the judge, in his blandes! lone, "a mi-apprchen.-ion. It must be true, inadame, lhat you didn't smell well, or el-e you would bavesmelled nie. You have a ea'arrh, have you not?'

The husband relaxed his fist, looked til his wife, smiled, then, turning to the judge, said "Squire, your a cute one voiPlI do for us.' A..d the judge got a case and a fat client.

Tiie male medical students ot Edinburgh having barred the academic gates auainst the sex,and otherwise demeaned themselves in an offensive antl Philadelphia manner, sundry exceedingly stern, elderly females have organized a protective biigade to escort the young ladies to csliege and back.

Tilt: alumni and friends of Franklin College, in this State, met in reunion, in Indianapolis, 011 'Tuesday evening. It was agreed to form a society to advance the interests of the ct.Ilege, and the following officers were electcd: President, j. \Y. Saunders Vice Presidents, A. .). Vaw'er, O. Binnev, J. N. Stone and E. 11. Davis Secretary. W. C. Smock Treasurer, D. G. Williams. The friends of the college propose to raise an endowment of $100,000.

•"LiftiiT switARtN'. artillery'' is the descriptive term applied by the Hartford Cum ant to the phrases invented bv women to serve the purposes of profanity in conversation—that is, to give emphasis to sentences othetwi.-e weak. "Gracious,"' "good gracious "gracious me," "goutiness" (words beginning in "g" seem lo be favorites), "sakes," sakes alive," "la-vs,"—ar« given as samples of the rnathis pin feather

a a I a

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KING WILLIAM'S exhaustive demands for men are visibly. enlarging woman's sphere in Prussia. B" a recent order of the Ministi.- of Education, women who prove themselves qualified are to l.e ac-

disairreement with their employes re- Tcaebers of modern languages gaiding the Butchers mon. Animals I

to be killed were brought from the W est

in droves, and tinder the 111011 rules lite

butchers receive a full day's wages for killing a drove, be it large or -mall. If

one man lias not enough cattle to keep the men busy for a day, they will not kill and charge for the time occupied, nor will they allow a contractor 10 secure from others sufficient animals to make a full

Wedne.-dav, onlsidc butchers were employed, but 011 hearing that thev could not"be allowed to form a Union, they refused to work. Employers are determined to hold out, ami they have transferred their orders to Forty-second street. New York. si-Kcr AL TO THE HERALD.

MADRID, Dec. 29.—To-day information obtained from papers seized, shows that the con-piracy was of an extensive character. 'Ihe members were sworn to exterminate all public enemies of the Republic. It is believed that the murder of Prim was opposed by some on the ground that nothing should be attempted until the arrival of Duke Aosta, but tbeadvocates of immediate action prevailed.

Lots were drawn for the selection of three person to undertake the killing of Prim. It is said the Ministry are in possession of proof of identity of the actual assassins, but have not yet succeeded in making arrests. Il i.s certain the conspiracy is of a most extensive character,

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lic schools-a profession hith-

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bv the masculine tell-

A PHILADELPHIA REPORTER is n-spon-sihlc for the assertion that Julia Ward Howe's head is in the same condition as that of the Hebrew prophet, who-e peculiarity led to the untimely conjunction of two she-bears and certain irreverent

A PEEKSKTLL

paper

(New York

speaks of recently deceased person "who was struck down by the hand of Providence, antl not permitted to fini-h the French roof he had begun on his house." A melancholy illustration of the uncertainties of sublunary existence.

REVEREND ALBERT I!ARNI», one of the most widelv-known and best-loved ol American divines, died in Philadelphia, on last Saturday, in the 72d_yenr of hi--, age.

THE

receiver of the Indianapolis. Cin

cinnati & Lafayette Railroad has called a meeting of the creditors of the company for the 19th of January, at the office uf tlic company, 111 Cincinnati.

In New York, recently, a young forger, heir ta a million dollars, was sent to jail to await trial. The judge steadily refused to bail him, notwithstanding his wealth.