Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 January 1871 — Page 2

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HENATOK SenUK/ telegraphed the chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee of Missouri telling him to consolidate the entire iarty vote on 'he .. nited Slates Senator. This reminds a Cincinnati editor of the following little incident: A gentleman, who place of business fronts on the wharf in that city, while looking from his counting-room window one summer day, noticed a boy push his companion into the water and then jump in and rescue him. The gentleman's curiosity was provoked, and he said to the culprit: "Why did you pu.-di that hoy overboard?" '"Oh," replied the youngster, "1 wanted to have the credit of saving him."

To SHOW that "the copperhead still writhes," one of our exchange* alludes to the fact that, the other day, when the Ohio House of Representatives was discussing a resolution to simply permit JONES' bas-relief of the Surrender of Vicksburg, surmounted by a beautiful bust of ABRAHAM LINCOLN, to be placed in the rotunda of the Capitol, some of the members could not forbear from voting against it, whiie Mr. SEITZ, of Seneca county, made a remark, "Mr. Speaker, with respect for the nculptor, but not for the daul, 1 vote aye." And onlv last week the Legislature of Virginia, by a party vote, ordered the picture of ROBERT E. LEE for the Stale Capitol, and by the same vote rejected a motion for the purchase of a portrait of General GEORGE H. THOMAS, the best man Virginia has had since the days of WASHINGTON and JEFFERSON and MARSHALL.

A CALIFORNIA CORRESPONDENT of the New Bedford Standard says the wine product of the State for 1870 is estimated at about 7,000,000 gallons, an increase of 000,000 gallons on the preceding year. There are now $30,000,000 invested in this interest, and it is not hazarding a rash prediction to say that in ten years it will surpasscven gold mining importance. The Eastern States can hold no rivalry in this industry, and as soon as experience enables producers to give their wines the delicacy and flavor of the French and German vintages, they will prove formidable competitors to the foreign article in the world's markets, and on this continent may supplant them nearly altogether. The European war has not had such an immediate effect in increasing the demand for native wines as was anticipated. But it has greatly stimulated the winemakers, and caused them to make redoubted efforts to improve the quality of their articles. Even now they can challenge comparison with the best brands of sparkling wine, not even excepting those of Rheims or Chalons.

OUR READERS will be interested in the following statistics of the great manufacturing city of Lowell, Mass., for 1S70, which have just been published: Capital stock invested in manufacturing compa nics, $13,650,000 number of mills, 50 spindles, 520,710 looms, 12,910 person employed, 14,898, consisting of 0,035 males and S,SC3 females weekly product 2,2-10,000 yards of cotton goods, 21,667 yards of woolen goods, 35,000 yards of carpeting, 2,500 shawls, 10,900 dozens of hosiery. Raw material used per week 612,000 pounds of cotton, 97,000 pounds of clean wool. Goods dyed and printed per annum, 51,691,200. There were also used per annum 39,890 ton- of anthracit coal, 18,100 bushels of charcoal, 1,875 cords of wood, 102,576 gallons of oil 1,980,000 pounds of starch, and 1,2 barrels of Hour. The steam power consists of 32 engines, with an aggregate force of t, 130 horse power. The manu facturing corporations support a hospital (ov the use of sick and disabled operatives Lowell has a population of 40,937 persons and the taxable property is valued over $25,000,000.

WE ACIUEE with the New York Times, that at a time when public policy seems to dictate a modification of the Test Oath the proposition of Senator CARPENTER to extend it, compulsorily, to all grand and petit jurors in United States Courtsj is singularily ill-timed. The act prescribing an additional oath for jurors, which was enacted in 1862, made the enforce incut of the oath therein embodied discretionary on the part of the District-At-torney orthe Court and the form of oath itself was less stringent than that of the iron clad. Mr. CARPENTER'S bill leaves nothing to the discretion of the Court. It requires the Clerk to tender to "each and every person summoned"' as a juror the full te.t oath, and disqualifies fiom serving anv person who cannot take it. A laxity which was deemed safe and amid the perils of rebellion is to give place to imperative harshness in a season uf peace. We hope that the Judiciary Committee of the Senate will take a broader and ser view of the situation. The effect of the bill in its present shape would be to multiplv causes of difficulty in all parts of the countrv, and especially in the South to obstruct the administration of _.l an/1 or*_

--^f the country, South, to obstru iusiice in the Southern States, and to encourage perjury. These can be scarcely considered proper objects on legislation hist now, and certainly they would furnish a rather unpleasant commentary on the results of reconstruction.

THIS, from the Indianapolis -Yetr-s is applicable to our own city: We trust in the canvass preceding the nomination of city officers all c.Uzens will remember that it is their duty to Uke a part and endeavor to secure the selection of good men. The difficulty with many persons who complain about the government of the city is that^at "|e proper time they make no effort to alter it. Men who will not try to bnng about a change have no business to talk atter wards. The primary meetings "Vth* p!aees in which the work is to be done, •nd if men will attend and try defies in whom they can trust they «U1' have performed at least apart duly hat every ciy owes U, h« ^ntry. The »ard meetings should be largely., tended.

In view of the result of his labors, pla-

cing Frank Blair in tht 8e#itt, we suggest that he give tta another volume entitled, "Does aft Election Elect?"

EDMUNDS' bill increasing the pensions for disabled soldiers and sailors passed the Senate cn Monday without a word of debate- A corresaondent says this fact seems to occasion considerable surprise in Whshington inasmuch as all measures looking to making inroads upon the Treasury, whether worthy or not, generally meet wilh opposition in the Sen* ate. This will increase the drafts on the pension funds about $4,500,000 annually. The following is the text: "Be it enacted, «fcc., That the pensions of all officers, soldiers, marines and sailors in the land and naval force* granted, or hereafter to be granted, by the provisions of the general law, and also the same pensions granted by ppecial law not in excess of the rate provided by the general law for similar cases, be, and the same are hereby, increased by the sum of 20 per centum thereof, to commence on the 1st dav of March, 1871."

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NEWPORT, Veimil:vant is vigi« to have a large stavi* i-,-uini !tj any ..e promotion

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A WASHINGTON SPECIAL states that the Appropriation Committee has fin* ished the Army Appropriation Bill. Secretary BELKNAP has been so active ahtl vigilant in cutting down the estimates of his bureau officers and in reducing the expense* of his department to the lowest figures, that the committee found very little to do, and accepted the estimates approved by I he Secretary for every item except two, those for ordnance expenses and for the payment of Indian scouts, which the committee reduced one-half.— The total amount appropriated by the bill is §27,525,080, which is $2,058,856 42 less than the appropriations for the army last year. This saving is effected by the operation of the Army Reduction Law of last summer. The principal items of the hill are: For the pay of the army, $12,000,000, for subsistence, $2,800,500 for expenses of Quartermaster's Department, $11, 155,000, including clothing, transportation, erection and hire of quarters, fuel, forage, purchase ol horses for the Medical Department, $207,000 for ordnance expenses,§600,000, including$200,000 to buy new heavy cannon for the seacoast forts.

THE STATE,

BURGLARS worry Rock port.

THE revival, at Grandview, still flourishes.

SCARLET FEVER is very prevalent at Laporte.

LAPORTE is raising the salaries of he clergymen. has re-

THE Cannelton Cotton sumcd operations.

Mill

THE fine residence of Jonas Bond, Elkhart county, was burned on last Sunday.

THE Common Council of Anderson is much given to gasing.

IT COSTS $500 to get a license to sell liquor in Crawfordsville.

FORT WAYNE finds it impossible to support two morning papers.

FRANKLIN has aBoard ofTrade—more Board than Trade we suspect.

LAFAYETTE has an average of twenty Democratic candidates for each office.

BOLD BURGLARS are extending their operations into all parts of the State.

FIFTY-THREE embryo lawyers are being incubated at our State University. MRS. ELIZABETH LUCKY died of destitution and neglect, at Indianapolis, on Sunday.

HENRY L. RIPON, Dubois county, broke his neck by a fall from his horse on Saturday.

MR. JAMESSMITH died in Noble county, recently, at the age of one hundred and one years.

AN Illinois lady has donated one hundred dollars to the Lafayette Home for the Friendless.

(in,MAN FLETCHER, a DeKalb county sportsman, accidently shot off his left arm last Friday.

A NEWTON COUNTY man named Holland froze to death in the road a few nights ago. Drunk.

GILES RRADFORD, of Ripley county, had an eye destroyed by the claws of an angry cat, on Saturday.

MR. TIIISTLEWAITE has become sole proprietor of the Richmond Democratic Hf'ixld. Unfortunate man

THE newspapers of Lafayette are doing a vast amount of wind-work for the new Opera House-project.

ROBERT NASON, an old citizen of Porter county, was crushed to death by falling tree on the 20th inst.

ONE week from next Monday the I nit ed. States Courts will be organized at Evansville by Judge Gresham.

THE staid and solemn people of Evansville are going to have a good look at Olive Ixigan's new clo'es in a few days.

MRS. E. CAIJY STANTON will let her light shine at Ixgansport to-morrow even ing.

LUTHER IIOLOEN, Martin county, was killed on the 20th by falling on a circular saw,

PEWS in the Presbyterian churches, at Indianapolis, are disposed of at annual auction sales.

THE Lafayette Courier complains that the city is full of idle boys—young can didates for the penitentiary.

MR. LESLIE DwfaiiT, Ripley county, has a Canadian horse thirty-eight years old, and not yet out of service.

Miss MARY IIARFETH, Adams county, was fatally burned, a few days ago, by her clothes taking fire at a cook stove.

THE Lafayette Courier learns that there is great excitement in Newtown, owing to the fact that two persons have been bitten by rabid dogs. Fifteen or twenty head of cattle have been bitten and gone mad, and many sheep were bitten, some of them having gone mad. The people have decided to kill all the dogs in the ..-ighborhood, and were out on Monday with their guns shooting all the dogs they could find. The excitement was running verv high and some of the owners of dogs refused to have them killed, but were compelled to submit to the will of the crowd, who seemed to be intent on killing all the canines in that vicinity. 1 he persons bitten had not shown any symptoms of madness but were in great mental agony, owing to the fear of being attacked. It is s-aid that a mad dog passed through the village some tims la.st summer and bit a la-ge number of dogs and some lock It is now supposed that some of the dogs that were bitten at the time have just gone math

ONLY one marriage license issued by the Clerk yesterday: James Hook and Sarah C. Swords.—Jnd. SenlmeJ:

What might reasonably be expected as the result of such a marriage?

Aunco Cow THIZT ternoon officer Vanderver Fourth street, a colored man

THK Chicago Journal gets after the St. Rrt'&EN PAERIS, Eikhart county, lost INDIANAPOLIS LETTEB. Louis Democrat in this way. honre and oth'er buildings by fire on The editor of the St. Louis Demcpxt wrote a book a short time since airing lys political wisdwm, entitled "Does Protection Protect?''

Saturday night The fainily narrowly •escaped with-their lives.

ELIJAH GRACE, Steuben county, has,

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speech and hearing, after having been a deaf mute for sixteen years.

THE school fund ol the States amounts to $8,575,047 49, an immense sum to look at, but still inadequate for the requirementT of a liberel school system.

COL DEHART, of Lafayette, has a divorce client seventy-eight years of age. The plaintiff is of the male persuasion, and wants a divorce on the ground of desertion.

TUB Kvtthsville Journal learns that Mrs. John Llewellen, of Tobin township, Perry county, gave birth to triplets— boys—one day last week. One of them subsequently died.

EVANSVILLE boasts of a sprightly turkey, that, being accidentally shut up in a tight place without food or drink for four and a half weeks, came out "alive and kicking."

THE completion of repairs on the canal, at Indianapolis, gives work to several hundred employes of various factoriess who have been out of employment for some lime past.

Miss LUCY HARLEM, of Noble county) is .'.aid to recite Greek poetry in her sleep, wilh perfect accuracy, though ignorant of the language when awake. There is no compulsion about believing such a marvelous tale.

THE body of a stranger, with a bullet hole through the head, was found by some boys, on an unfrequented road, in Lagrange county, last Friday. The corpse was that of an old man, and was dressed in the "shabby genteel" style.

THE remains found in the woods, near South port, Marion county, have been identified as those of Hickman B. Hall, of New Elizabeth, Hendricks county, who mysteriously disappeared from Indianapolis, on the 23d of last December. He is believed to have been murdered.

SARNINGHAUSEN, an Allen county member of the Indiana House of Representatives, himself a German immigrant, voted, the other day, in favor of taxing German immigrants for the benefit of Tammany. Sarninghausen will not be likely to appear on the list of the next General Assembly.

AT the meeting of the Trustees of the State University held on Friday, the only official business transacted was the acseptance of the resignation of Professor John Reubelt as Professor of Modern Languages and the election of Professor Herman B. Boison, a graduate of the University of Koenigsburg, Germany, to fill the vacancy.

IRA GALES, a Jasper county youth of fifty-nine years, has departed from his home and family, on the appearance of a pair of twins in the house of a neighboring widow. There is great commotion in the usually quiet rural locality in which Ira has hitherto shone as "a bright, particular star."

SPEAKING of the infamous conduct of the Senate in the Burson case, the Indianapolis Journal says: It remains to be seen how long honest Democrats are willing to follow the lawless counsels of a leader who never belonged to a party that he did not desert, and who never hesitated to betray his political friends whenj by so doing, he could gratify his selfish aims, or satisfy his personal malice.

ROBERT STEWART, better known as "Old Uncle Bob Stewart," was found dead, sitting in his chair, a few nights ago, at his residence in the Flat Woods, about two miles west of Jeffersonville. "Uncle Bob" was one of the pioneer citizens of Clarke county, and accumulated considerable property. He was worth about twenty-five thousand dollars in real estate at the time of his death. His exact age he did not know himself, but he was about eighty-eight years of age.

DOCTOR T. A. BLAND, of Indianapolis, the -eat agricultural author of the age, is sevs.ely down on Kellogg's singing The doctor is perfectly at home when he writes about fertilizers, and shows a pretty level head in discussing the distinctive qualities of any particular breed of swine but when he sets up for a musical critic his "brays" are not by any means "bonnie." In the matter of quantity, nature has done enough for him in the"auricular line, but his coarse allusions to Miss Kellogg's singing disgracefully advertise his want of a musical ear. A crow should not attempt to criticise a nightingale.

THE Cincinnati Commercial says there is no abatement of the terrible excitement in Richmond, Indiana, about the misconduct of Mayor Tom. Bennett. All the papers seem to be against the Mayor, and they teem with editorials of the most personal character. We can not think of any crime short of highway robberv, arson, or murder, of which Mr. Bennett has not been accused. His admitted offense, it may be remembered, was that of "putting a head on" a loafer who seemed to be solicitous to have something of the sort done.

ONE hundred and twenty-eight convicts will be released from the Southern State Prison during the coming year, by reason of the expiration of their terms of imprisonment. —Krcha ngc.

Many of them might be induced to live honestly and honorably the balance of their lives, if some good man would take each in hand, as he comes from the prison, and give him proper employment There ts no better field for Christian labor than this.

THE Petersburg Press understands that Elder W. Sturgeon is going to bring suit against Elder L. Loveless on charge of disturbing a religious meeting. It appears that Mr. Loveless charged Mr. Sturgeon with drinking whisky, whereupon the latter called Mr. Loveless a liar. Mr. Loveless remonstrated with Mr. Sturgeon and wanted to settle the matter amicably but failed to make any impression on the irate Sturgeon. Deeming it a duty, Mr. Loveless produced certificates thai Sturgeon had not only been drinking, but carried a bottle full of whisky in his saddle bags, and was seen by several persons at a bar in Petersburg drinking. Sturgeon seeks justification through the law.° The difficulty took place in the Baptist Church at Hawthorn's Mill.

OFR neighbor of the Sun, Gen. Kise, we perceive, has sold a half interest in the.^iw establishment to Dr. A. J.Thomas our Auditor elect. This is well, for the reason that Gen. Kise was nearly five years in the Union army, which had a iamaging effect upon the General hereabouts, the rebel element strongly predominating, but now "everything is lovely, and the goose hangs high." Dr. Thomas was an officer in the rebel army all through the contest, thus neutralizing the Union proclivities of Gen. Kise, and 'honors arc easy" now.— I ineennes Times

THE present Legislature must be much given to letfr writing, as the warrants for postage stamps already drawn amount to $2 207. It has been noted as a very peculiar fact that those who have never been known to write a line are as prompt in drawing their allowance of these perquisites as others who seem to carry on quite a correspondence.—Ind. Journal.

We are informed that the keeper of a saloon, not far from the State House, has several hundred dollars' worth of postage stamps forsale.

oi mr.1jucnij' nuuuuuu, uu nuiui iuuteenth street, was entered sometime duting Sand#, night and »cape and shawl, Thomas PowelL cbarzed wilh jterfnejaXP0!' the cost of the Crowe, fry Officer

known cause, recovered his

on Sandajr morning and evening. A re-

Hant« and Indianapolis Railroad. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 21.

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Neither house is in session to-day, and I may as well improve the vacation to pick up a dropped link in the history of our legislation, which the women's movement yesterday made me overlook for the mament. Two measures were introduced yesterday morning, one in the House and one in the Sebate, both looking to the name thing, the compelling the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad Company to comply with the terms of its charier. That instrument requires that all dividends above fifteen per cent, shall be paid into the school fund, ahd that ih time of war the Statfc shall transport troops, munitions, provisions and war material generally, free. The company has neither paid the excess of dividends to the School Fund, though it has unquestionably received them, nor transported troops, &c., free. In the House, twoyears ago, a committee was appointed to investigate the matter, with the result of insti* tilting a suit in the Putnam Circuit Court, not to recover the money, but to obtain a forfeiture of the Company's charter. The resolution of the House, yesterday, authorized and instructed the Governor to collect, by suit, the amount due the School Fund and the State from tlieCom pany, and required that he should not

Cortiprbnii=e any of the claims. It was introduced by Mr. Martin, of Putham. The Senate joint resolution, introduced by Mr. Hughes, was general in its terms, not specifically directed against the Railroad Company, though that was its real object, and it authorized and directed the Attorney General to'collect, by suit, all claims, debts, &c., due the State. He amended it finally, so as to allow the Attorney General to act with the advice and consent of the Governor. It passed in that shape by 44 to 1. That in the House was made the special order for Wednesday next at 2 o'clock. It matters little which of these may be finally adopted. Either will put sufficiently in charge of the State authorities the suit pending in Putnam, or the institution of others to settle the liability of the Company to account for its excess ot dividends and'its charges for the transportation of troops." The opinion is entertained by some of otir ablest men that the State will take nothing by any suit or legislative action. The charter of the Company is a curiosity of adroitness, of bidding for legislative support by a show of liberality and dodging all the consequences by requirements in which the State would be very likely to fail. It first allowed the Company to loan the whole amount of its capital stock with ten per cent, added, and after that agreed to pay the excess over fifteen per cent, to the School l1 und, but the State was to exercise some regulating or supervising authority. '1 he capital stock and ten per cent, have been obtained beyond doubt, and more than fifteen per cent, of dividend made every year, but it is quiie likely that the State, having exercised no authority over or in connection with the road, may have failed to entitle itself to the benefit resting upon that condition. 1 have not seen the charter recently, and do not remember its provisions precisely, but in a general way I think they are as stated. This seems, to be regarded as the obstacle to the collec tion of the amount due the State or School Fund. The transportation of troops, another item in the claim, is resisted, I understand, on the ground that the troops transported were not State but national troops, either mustered in or on the way to be so, and the charter gives no immunity to the national government from payment of tolls. If the Putnam suit shall bring out a declaration of for feiture the payments will be made, we may be very sure, whether they cotild be enforced or not. The School Fund will get a splendid bonus if the Legislature will reinstate the charter. Wednesday's debate will probably elicit something of interest in the matter. T. T.

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 23.

The Senate adjourned on Friday to 2A o'clock this afternoon, but, no quorum being present, adjourned till to-morrow, doing nothing at all. In the House the time was consumed in reading bills on the second reading, or reported from Committees, and in debating a bill which seemed to be a sort of consolidation or codification of the game laws. It pro. vides for fish as well as "birds, beasts and four footed things," and, if objectionable at all, it is for the reason that the oppoai_ tion is not likely to be, speaking scienti. fically, "homogeneous." Some will oppose the game law also would favor a separate fish law, and soon would let the fish be swept away torever by seins and traps while looking eagerly enough after quails and prairie chickens. The consolidated bill might, therefore, get a united opposition of members equally opposed to each other, who, if the bills were separated, would vote their choice, with those who will vote for both, and thus carry both. The fish law prohibits seining and trap ping absolutely and forever, and it is right. Seines have been the means of depleting our rivers to the extent that every fisherman now appreciates so thoroughly and deplores, with tangled line and drooping rod whenever he is tempted to try his luck. An efficient law will repopulate them in a few years, for no creation, of palatable food qualities, breed so rapidly as fish. In Europe, where their destruction had been pretty well completed, and one of the most important of food supplies reduced below all certainty or dependence at any price, it has been proved to be the part of wisdom to restock the streams by artificial breeding, at a heavy expense. England is restoring the annual abundance of salmon which wasteful fishing has emptied out of the Clyde and the Severn and the Tay, and other salmon streams, till they are as guiltless of a tin as Hughes is of a political conviction. And the effort begins to be seen on return of the former and almost forgot'en migration of great shoals of these most nutritious fish. France has vast establishments (if the Germans have not eaten them up) for breeding fish, and thought the outlay wise and economical as it was. Germany is in the same work. So is New England, with a heavy impropriation, and New \ork with one ftill heavier. All these old States, European and American, see that fish are a necessity, and it is cheap to pay any cost to get them, when they are sure of get ting them. Fish in abundance, as they were here twenty years ago will keep down the price of butcher's meat and bacon. Nine families in ten will have fish two or three times a week instead of beef or mutton, if they can get them when they want them, and get them at a reasonable cost. That will reduce the consumption of meat one-seventh, and what that will be for 1,600,000 mouths, one mav guess to be somethidg big, without a calculation. But seining has spoiled fishing, and will keep it spoiled. A seine denroys ten fish, too small to be useful, for one that it takes of markc value, and it thus operates not onlv against the present year, but against three or four or five years to comet Every housekeeper knows that his meat illl is his biggest inevitable expense, and. possesses the singular quality of never getting smaller. It is like a gas bill. You mav bum ten lights a night and pav for the month any given sum shut off six of them, and pay just as much the next month use but one, and find your bill coming up with the same fixed and unalterable features. That is the way it is here. If it is not so with you, you have a gas company that deserves canonization, an apotheosis, a place among the coastellations, or you have not got any at all. A weekly meat bill is just like this. Send away a growing boy to college, and a hearty girl to a distant seminary, put vour wife away with some disorder that keeps her on "spoon diet for six months, don't eat two ounces of steak a day yourself, and vou shall find your meat bill as invariable as the compensations of the solar system, with a tendency to grow. Now in this state of things, natural or conventional is no matter, a decided, continuous, effective competion with butcher's meat, becomes a question better legislators'attenlion than any political maneuver ever devised. Fish will supply that competition if thev are given a chance A good law now will enable them to do for themselves what New \ork and New England are doing for them at a great expense. We don't need to re-stock our streams, if we will protect the stock that is left. We can begin now, for nothing, at the very point which those States have reached with much care and ootlky

Hadn't we better do it? The old law though incomplete and inefficient, did real good, but it was impaired by its own limitation. Now we want one that will run as long as the streams do, and that will hang every seiner in his own apparatns, with a cold "sucker" in his month.

A bill is now pending to amend the law in regard to the equalisation of railroad appraisements. That law requires the appraisements to be made by the counties along the lines. If the company thinks the road Is rated too high it can appeal to the State Board of Equalization for a reduction. But if it be rated "villainously low" the State cannot appeal. The one can have an appraisement reduced, but the other cannot have it increased. The company thus has a most unfair advantage. There Is no reason why railroad property should not be fairly 4P praisfed. the comtfdny ruiis it for its owh behefit, and precious few associations of any kind pay less regard to any other consideration or profit more by public tolerance. There is no "claim to exemption in any of them yet they are exempted, by silly or corrupt appraisements, and the possession of an unjust advantage to a degree thaf would make a universal clamor if individual property were the beneficiary. The railroads in this State in 1860 were returned to the census marshals—fairly, no doubt, for there was no tax to be fixed upon thb estimate—^at $70,000,000, cost of construction. It will hardly be doubted that they were worth what they cost. Since 1860 the number of miles and the value have been doubled or more. There are, on a moderate esti mate, in this State $150 000,000 worth of railroads. Yet the whole of them were appraised in 1869 at $i0,000,000! This is simply an infamous outrage on the people, who are compelled to pay the heavier taxes for the escape of the railroads from adequate taxation. The law needs amendment, too, so as to allow appraisements of extensions or additions to roads, made after the quinquennial appraisement of real estate. If it is not done, an extension worth a million dollars may escape taxation for three or four years, until the next five years appraisement comes round. T. T.

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 24.

You have heard of the fellow whose constitution was all gone, and was left to "live on the bye laws." Our Legislature is exactly the opposite. It is living on constitutions. The Setiate dined and supped ontiie amendment of the State Constitution prohibiting legislation in regard to the Wabash Canal, and now it is subsisting on the Fifteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, while the House has taken the scraps from the Senate's table and is munching upon the Canal Amendment. It is all constitution to-day at both ends of the Capitol. In the Senate Mr. Hughes introduced a resolution declaring that the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified under duress by Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Georgia, and was never ratified at all by Indiana, and demanding by Congress a call for a convention of the people of the United States to undo all this illegal work and set the Constitution right again. I think it was referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. What the vacillatin "Jeems" expects to accomplish by this maneuver, is more than I can guess. He certainly has no idea that any Congress present or future, will call a national convention, and if he hopes to affect the amendment at all he is far more sanguine than the practicability of hia action would lead one to imagine. He will make a saucy, defiant, very Democratic, Anti-"nigger" speech, spiced with the proverbial propriety of renegade, made doubly precious by double desertion, and if he does anything more he will sur prise me, at least, more than his immediate return to the Republicans would )do. Hughes is beginning to show with no diminution of intellectual force, a growing weakness for notoriety

I think it has always been a weakness, but it is becoming a fatuity now. does things purely for sensation. seeking fame in the lobbies. He is hungry for the digito vionstrari—don't spoil this in the type, for it is all the Latin I know —and counts tergiversation and political brigandage a cheap price to pay for the glory of having a girl ask, pointing her skunk muff at his glossy skull,shining with an exudation of self-complacency, If that is the famous Mr. Hughes?' His face brightens with a glutinous joy when he hears some fellow whispering in the West lobby, "Which is Hughes? Show me Mr. Hughes." 1 think he would not hesitate a moment to bring in a bill requiring evcry m.in worth over ten thousand dollars to set fire to his house, if he thought visitors would be more curious to. find him out, or stare at him with eyelids wider spread. Certainly political principles and honest convictions cannot be the impulse of his conduct, for a man can hardlv have convictions who shifts the profession and expression of them with every pair of breeches. If notoriety 13 not what he is after he is a worse puzzle than the arrow-head hieroglyphics of Nineveh or the quadrature of the circle.

The resolution appointing a committee of four, two from each party, to investigate the condition of our court system, and report to the next Legislature, was brought back from committee this after noon and Mr. Bobo of Adams, Mr. Brown of Jackson, Mr. Steele of Grant and Mr. Iladley of Morgan—the last two Republicans—were made the comnrttee. Mut the resolution was sen.. Lack to tin -mmittee on the Organization of Cou:' possibly because the selection of appointees was not acceptable. Certainly Mr. Brown possesses no qualifications for such an important andjonerous duty. lie is merely a noisy politician, with little knowledge of law and less knowledge of eve rylhing else. A gift of what Mrs. Partington calls a "fluidity of speech," makes him useless for anything but talk, and useless for any talk that informs anybody, suggests anything or reaches iny conclusion. But he has^ no lack of self-assurance and self-assertion, and he makes aserviceable tool for a sort of work that better won't do or are ashamed to be seen in. This fits him for a leader of the Democracy, who are never troubled about abilities if they can find plenty of confidence and few scruple5. Our court svstem needs a thorough overhauling, but it is not to be done by a tupenny conntrv lawyer.

In the House the Senate amendment to the State Constitution prohibiting all leg islation affecting the Wabash Canal, was debated this afternoon without result and without much decided diflerence of opinion. There was little upon which to base a guess as to the tendency of Democratic Representatives regarding the provision for the unsurrendered bonds, but tK-.i little was not encouraging. Mr. Miles, of Sullivan, was quite emphatic in his opposition to what he called this "needless legislation." He is walking along-with the Sentinel, and with the twenty-one Democratic Senators, who also voted that those bonds should never be paid. The Sentinel insists upon an extra session to make provision for Garrett's judgment, and this seems to be the inclination of its partisans. They know very wel 1 that it is as easy to make a conditional appropriation here—a provision that the amount of the judgment may be drawn from the Treasury when the State authorities are officially notified of it as it is to make an appropriation for State printing or the contingent fund, and that^it will cost nothing. An extra session will cost prettv well up to $100,000, which will be more than naif as much as Garrett's claim. Thev demand, therefore, an expense of $100,000 to provide for a claim of less than $200,000, when the provision can be just as well made to* morrow, or next winter, or next decade. "Why they should urge so senseless a course I can't see unless they .want to aave a chance to come back again beiore the election of 18*2 shall displace them, or unless, as I fear is the case, the money and management of the canal owners is staving off a provision for Garrett's claim and for the protection of the canal, in order that it may be attached, and a legal liability thus created on the part of the State to pay them cash. The Sentinels course looks very much as if this latter motive were directing it. I am confirmed in the apprehension I expressed a few days ago, that the Democracy will make a party question of a^ provision for Garrett's claim and this will defeat it. What the effect of that will be it is hard to sav, but we know that it will not be a security against the sale of the canal and the liability to pay $18,000,000. The other course would crcate just that securitv.

T- r"

•OXTROSB FARMERS' CLUB.

MONTBOSE, Jan. 16,1871.

The Club met, President Parker in the

West Point.

When we proposed, in a recent article, the propriety of abolishing, or cutting off the appropriation list, that nursery of aristocrats and traitors called the "United States Military Academy," and urged that it had not merited a continuation of its unprofitable life, we supposed the remedy suggested for the cure of the national nicer was so radical that we should stand alone In its advocacy. But her* comes the Chicago Republican with aa earnest recommendation entirely harmonious with our own "Our very decided opinion is, that Mr. just as much Colored Cadet Sniith has ju right to all education at thejsJtpCnse of the government, as Mr. White Cadet Jones. If, however, the effect of Mr. Smith's remaining at the Military Academy shall be to bring about the ntter disuse and abandonment of that institution, we see additional reason to continue* him there, and cause for profound gratitude to the wise Congressman who sent him there Unless the establishment of an order of genteel vagrancy in this country is desirable, we see no good results, past, present, or future, to compensate for the immense expense incurred by the

West Point establishment. It is true it gave us Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, in the late war but it gave us the war, too. and gave the rebels Davis, Lee and Johnston. So, as to this important matter, the honors are easy."

It is conceding too much to admit that West Point "gave us GRANT, SHERMAN and SHERIDAN." True.they received their education there but GRANT and SHERMAN resigned their commissions, and went into thai better school, the practical, business world, long enough before the in. ception of the rebellion, to get rid of certain West Point habits and ideas the retention of which is, in most cases, fatal to success in any calling.

The conclusion of the Republican's article is good reading: "Buckle very truthfully says that the British army is officered by such of the worthless sons of English noblemen as are deprived by the laws of primogeniture of any share in the paternal estate. When they can't 'buy a living' for them in the Church, they buy a commission for them in the Army. Something very similar is happening in this countrv, under the inducements held out by West Point as a graduating school for a life of idleness in the regular army.— Ambition there can be none, with the prospect favorable to dying of old age, while waiting for promotion out of a second lieutenantcy. The regular army was full of gray-haired lieutenants in 1861. To a few, the war gave good rank and deserved distinction. But the outlook today is not encouraging to young men who thirst for martial fame. We ho|je and believe that military operations in this country for the next half century will be confined to scalping Indians ar.d 'defending' the frozen and foeless frontiers of Alaska. Is it unfair to presume thaUhere is more of the loafer than the hero in the youth who deliberately enters upon this career? This being the case, we respectfully suggest that the best thing to do with West Point is to convert it into a first-class machine shop, for educating the rising generation in arts which will be useful to them and to the country. As a manufactory for generals, it has not been an entire success. Its product did not 'pan out well,' from the fact that some of its best specimens gave us good reason to regret the fine finish we gave them. But as an institution for the training of good molders, boiler makers, and the like, it might be made of vast service to the country."

In all seriousness and candor, we commend this view of the subject to the consideration of Congress. Those studies which are made a specialty at the Military Academy, are now embraced in the curriculum of every respectable institution of learning. If it should be our unhappy fortune to need miliiary engineers, we shall be as likely to find them among the alumni of Wabash College, as in the regular army. Experience has shown that great commanders are not made by any system of education. Our chief reliance, in case of war, must be upon the patriotism of the masses, between whom and West Point there is not, and never as been, the slightest semblance of ai! ni'.y.

The cost of sustaining this useless and pernicious institution is no small item to a people burdened as we are with debt and taxation. Let us dispense with a thing that is neither a luxury nor a necessity. We already have an immense "crop" of army officers on hand and if we cease to turn out an annual installment, promotion from the ranks will well supply any possible Jfuture want in this line.

IT IS estimated that the new Capitol at Albany, if finished in accordance with the present plans, will cost the State of New York twenty millions of dollars, or jnstfive times more than the original. The Sun says: If the building were to be an imposing one, we might feel in some degree compensated fer this frightful expenditure but as it promises to be one of the most hideous structures that ignorance and a depraved taste ever combined to devise, popular feeling would almost be in favor of preventing, by the payment of an annual subsidy if necessary, or by whatever oth-.v ncans the plunderers of the State Trea might elect, the consummation of tin! architect's design. New York has not had much reason of late years to boast of her legislative bodies, but the building which is hereafter to be the scene of their deliberations is likely to prove the most glaring monument yet erected of their folly, extravagance, and supreme indifference to public opinion. The mosi e'laritable wish that anv person of taste ouId entertain would be that it might be burned down, or blown down, or swallowed by an earthquake for its successful completion will make Albany the laughing-stock of the country.

ABOLITION of slavery seems to be giving the lie to the old time theories of slave holders and apologists for slavery. The clinching argument ever was that white labor could not be used in the Southern States. We notice that white labor is now in demand for the next years' crop, on the plantation near New Orleans. The Picayune savs orders are constantly received from the cotton and sugar planters for white labor, and that white hands will be emploved next year to a much greater extent than ever before.

THE St. Louis Democrat says: "One reason why all Republicans ought still to act together is simply this, there is no other party in the nation to which they can afford io trust for the defense of Republican principles. It would be a ba.-« betrayal of those principles to leave them to be "maintained by a party which has thus far been persistently hostile to them."

A BERLIN CORRESPONDENT of the Boston Advertiter, in a long letter reviewing the effects of the war, ascribes the apprehended scarcity of food to the same canses which threaten disaster to the industrial interests of the more favored of the combatants, vis: the difficulties of transportation. Hungary is to Germany what the great Northwest is to the Atlantic States, the source from which it draws its supply of breadstuffs, live cattle, and other indispensible articles of food. The last harvest in Germany having iteen a failure, this year it has been all the more important to draw upon the inexhaustible fields of the Lower Danube. To fill the demands of the Government for the transportation of troop! and supplies to the bases of operations in France, has taken nearly the entire rolling stock of the railroads engaged in carrying the breadstufls of the Lower Danube to Germany, and the traffic has almost entirely ceased. Unless the Prussian military authorities shoi-tlv relax their demands upon the rolling stock of railroad companies, trying times are in store for Germany.

Albert E. Frazier, a full-blooded Indian, is in Highland University, Kansas, preparing for the mini^try and there are said to be ten others desiring to enter for the same purpose.

•letiu

KT BRET HABIKv

Whni A jr *t the engines »ii,. Piit't" head to head Fur1***11 Uio single track. Ha. 1 11 behind each back Th ft ivn the engines said, Unrc}#*-~u and unread! Witt" ro..ttorr screech, In a f.d western speech^'--' Said the engine from the West: "I am from Sierra's crest And, if altitude's a test. Why, 1 reckon. It's confused That I've done my level best. Said the engine from the Bait: "They who talk best work the least. 'Spose you whistle down your brakes: Wnat yau've done is no great shakeePretty fait—bat let our meeting Be a different kind of greeting Let these folks with champagne •tunng. N re "Listeh 1 Where Atlantic beats J"69-? Shorts of snow and Summer Beats I AVhere the Indian Aatumn skies Faint the woods with wampnm dies, I have chased the flying snn. Seeing all he looked upon Blessing all that he has blest '*'1 Naming in my iron breast All his vivifying hoat, A11 his clouds about my srest And before my flying feet Every shadow mast retreat. 1/ Said the Western engine: "Phew!" And a long, low whistle blew "Come now, really, that the oddest Talk for one so very modest— You brag of your

East! You do

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.—Recorder Meyer put upon record last week the following transfers of real estate:

Robert A. Gillcrees, Commissioner, to Wm. J. Woodsmall, 31J acres in Honey Creek township, for $1,513.

Margaret AVood to Samuel F. Flald, four lots in Jewell's addition for $1,400. Wm. J. Paul to Thomas H. Biddie, lot in Rose's subdivision for $2,000.

Wm. C. Lynn to Gearge W. Light, 20 acres in Riley township for $500. Archa Roberts and others toThos. P. Trueblood, 30 acres in Prairie Creek township for $900.

John G. Chambers to William B. Tuell, lot in Ease's addition for $8,000. Wm. B. Tuell to Andrew J. Crawford, lot in Rose's addition for $700.

James M. Allen, executor, to George C. Dny, 14 lots in Grover's subdivision for $5,212 50.

Wm. McQuilkin to J.tmes Leake, tract of land in Fayette township for $350. Marion P. Cash to Lucius Ryce lot in city for $3,500.

Lucius Ryce to Elizabeth J. Cash,same property for fame price. Wni. L. Ewing to Trustees of Common Schools of Terre Haute, two lots in Ewing's subdivision for $1,800.

Loran Smith to Mary M. Jewett, lot in Jewett's .ubdivision for $500. David Patterson to same, lot in Bame subdivision, for S345.

Mary Linton to R. N. Hudson and Fred. A. Ross, lot in city for$25,000. Wm. II. Bryan to Geo. C. Ruggles, 140 acres in Pierson township for $4,200.

Jane Gordon to Elijah Staggs, 64 acres in Riley township for $100. Firmin Nippert to Ernst Ohm, two lots in Nippert A Evans' subdivision for $650.

Elizabeth C. Defrees to Wm. B. Tuell, lot in city for $8,000. Wm. B. Tuell to L. A. Burnett and John F. Meacham, same lot for $10,000.

John F. Meacham to Wm. B. Tuell, two lots in city for $5,000. L. A. Burnett to Wm. B. Tuell, lot in city for $4,000.

Wm. P. Carter, guardian, to Amos Elwell, the undivided l-6th of 40 acres in Nevins township for $80.

Wm. C. Holmes to Ellen M. Parks, lot in Tuell & Usher's addition, for $160.

In Memoriam.

At a late meeting of the State Editors and Publishers' Association, the death of F. S. Bedell, of the Crown Point Register, was reported also that of W. A. Winter, of the Indianapolis Sentinel, and, on motion, a committee of three was appointed to draft and report suitable resolutions of respect. The action of the committee is herewith transmitted to the press.

W. B. VICKERS, Secretary. RESOLUTIONS.

WHEREAS. TWO of our number—F. S. Bedell, of the Crown Point Register, and W. A. Winter, of the Indianapolis Sentinel —have been removed by the hand of death since our last meeting be it

Resolved, That in their death the association has sustained a serious loss but while no words can fitly express our sor« row, we trust that He in whose hand are the issues of life has ordered wisely in this dispensation of His providence.

Resolved, That as we remember the many virtues of the departed, forgetting whatever was found amiss in them, may we be led to extend each other a more cordial sympathy in the relations of life.

Resolved, That as many journals as favor the fraternal interest and fellowship of our association be requested to give the«e resolutions a place in their columns.

IXDIlXAI'OIilS.

BOILER EXPLOSION

FOXJR. ME IV KILLED.

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 23.—The boiler of Stevenson's saw mill, near St. Paul, Indiana, exploded at four o'clock this afternoon. Horace Stevenson, Abe Demontf James Ralleford and Samuel McCarty were instantly killed. Two of the bodies were blown over one hundred yards. Cause unknown, but supposed to be low water in the boiler.

HIV'ASA.

CABLE STEAMER.

HAVANA, Jan. 24.—A dispatch from Jamaica received here to-day reports that the steamer Dacia, belonging to the Panama & West India Cable Co., has returned to the Island for provisions and ballast, having been unsuccessful in the attempt to grapple the last cable, on account of the heavy weather. In about a fortnight the Dacia will have been provisioned and ballasted, when she will Bail again to attempt to recover the last cable.

ARRIVAL.

The United States steamer Severn, flagship of the Norih Atlantic Squadron, has arrived, all well.

BUST09.

WOMAN SUFFRAGE CONVENTION. BOSTON, Jan. 24.—The Massachusetts Women Suffrage Convention assembled to-day in Tremont Temple. Lucy Stone Blackwel! presides. A note from Gov. Claflin was read, expressing sympathy with the causes, but excusing his absence on account of other engagements. The attendance this morning was very small.

VICTIMS OR FIRE.

The remains of Mrs. Thurston and Mrs. Newton have been found in the ruins of the fire yesterday. A.younj Irish woman serving as a domestic is missing, and is supposed to be a victim to the flames.

TRENTOW.

VXITED STATES SENATOR.

TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 24.—Both Houses of the New Jersey Legislature thia morning elected Frederick T. Frelinghuyaen, United States Senator, by a joint vote of 42, againat 32 for Gov. Randolph.

ST. JOHN.

CABLE FAILURE.

ST. JOHS, N. F, Jan. 24.—The submarine telegraph between Placentia, N. F., and the French Island of St. Pierre, belonging to the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company, failed yesterday. It will be repaired as soon as possible. This accident will not interfere with European business, as that is all sent by the sub marine cable direct from St. Pierre to Brest, France.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS SPECIAL NOTICES.

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Why, bring the East to von I All the Orient, all Cathay, Find through me the shortest way. And the snn you follow here, Rises in ray hemisphere. Really—if one must be rode— Length, my friend, ain't longitude. Said the Union: "Don't reflect* er^t jj.,. I'll run over some director. Said the Central: "I'm Pacillc. But, when riled. I'm quite temflc. Yet, to-day we will not quarrel, Just to show these folks this moral, How two engines—in their vision— Ontfs ba^e met without collision." That is what the eftgises said, Unreported and unread Spoken slightly through the no«c» With a whistle at the close.

DR SCI1KXCK ADVISES COXSUJOX TIVES TO GO fd fidniDA nr

WO IY 0 CLASS are now oruor

lelanSaiflM tlM Ce*. ul l!ie Facile Ball tfaribaluians Win a Near Dijon

Victory

rate Condition of the neh Army of the North.

French Loss in the Late Sortie Less than 3,000.

Farre to Attend the London

Conference.

Permission Granted Him Pass'the German Lines.

Letter From Emperor William

Elf GLAND.

FAVRE WILL ATTEND THE CONFERENCE. LONDON, Jan. 23—8 r. X.—M. Jules Favre will attend the Conference, Count Bismarck having in his capacity as Chan* cellor and political chief of the German Empire, refused safe conduct to M. Favre through the German lines of investment surrounding Paris, the latter renewed application to the military authorities, who have granted a pass so carefully worded as to divest it of all inferences of a political nature. M. Favre has probably left Paris.

FRENCH ARMY OF THE NORTH The French Army of the North is arriving at Arras, Douai and 'Lille, ih a totally disbanded and discouraged condition. Mi,",,

INDKTNATION.

ThS citizens of Lille are indignant against M. Gambetta, whom they charge with deceiving them as to the state of the army and the country.

COUNCIL OF WAR.-

A council of war, which lasted many hours, has been held at Lille, under the Presidency of Gambetta, arfd resulted in the dismissal of General Palm, who commanded one of the divisions of the Army of the North.

FRENCH LOSSES IN THE LATE SORTIE. Advices from Paris, of the 22d, state that the losses in the sortie of the 19th, have been officially ascertained, and sum up less than 3,000 killed, wounded and missing.

Gen. Trochu has issued an order today, which speaks in the highest terms of eulogy of all the officers and soldiers who participated in the engagement.

OAllIBALDIAN VICTORY.

LONDON, Jan. 24.—A dispatch froni Lille of the 23d says, M. Gambetta received a telegram to the effect that __Garibaldians gained a victory near Dijon, and that the enemy abandoned a strong position previously held, together with large material of war. Many prisoners fell into the hands of the Garibaldians who are actively pursuing the enemy.

KAIDIIERBE MAKES REPORT. Gen. Faidherbe made a long report to Gambetta covering recent operations in the North. He says therein that he lost no artillery or prisoners in the battle at St. Quentin, and that the only persons captured by the enemy were stragglers.

GAMBETTA.

M. Gambetta left Lille on the 23d, and will make a visit to General Chanzy at Laval, before proceeding to Bourdeaux.

EXPULSIION.

News has been received that 1,200 Germans have been expelled from Marseilles.

FAVORABLE OPPORTUNITY. A semi-official declaration has been received from Vienna, on the 23d. that while the Austrian Government appreciates its duty to strive to restore peace between Prussia and Fiance, it is still deemed advisable to await a favorable opportunity.

LETTER FROM EMPEROR WILLIAM. LONDON, Jan. 23.—The Emperor in a letter to the Grand Duke of Baden says, "Germany, which has become strong through the uriity of her Princes and people, has recovered her former position in the council of nations. Germany neither wants or is inclined to transgress Ler frontiers. She seeks only independence and the welfare of nations by extension of her commerce."

The Markets.

CINCIMXATI MAItKKt.

By Telegraph.J CINCINJUTI, Jan, 24, COTTON—Steady, with moderate demand. Middling 14^.

FLOUK—Demand fair, prices advanced. Family 6 25a6 50. WHEAT—Demand fair, prices advanced. Red 1 32al 35.

CORN—Quiet and unchanged, RYE—Quiet and unchanged. OATS—Quiet and unchanged, BARLEY—Quiet and unchanged. GROCERIES—Steady. LINSEED OIL—Demand fair, and market firm, 92a93.

LARD OIL—Demand fair, but at lower rates, I 08al 10. EGGS—Scarce and firm,2oa26.

BUTTER—Scarce ar firm, 21a29. CHEESE—Steady, with moderate demand,

Sfihl3-Unchanged. PROVISIONS—Opened flat, but closed wxtli a firmer ffclinir and some demand.

POKK—Sold at 22 0. cash, 22 50 for March. LARD—Held at 12)4 for steam, kettle lc3° offered

BULK AiEATS—IleM at 6^', 10, 10V*a. 11.

NG8RhE'S

MEATS—Sold nt 7y,n9'A-

BACON—lleld at ll'Aa.12, hardly any demand. HOGS— Demand fairnnd prices advanced 7 60a" 80 alive 7rat 00 dressed.

WHISKY—Demand (air and market firm, 88. HOLD-10^.

EXClIAN'tiE—Higher, 1-20 jiremium buying. MONEY—Easy.

VIS1Y YOitK MAIt th 1

lly Telegraph.] NiwYoBK.Jan. 2t. COTTON—Market quiet, prices unchanged. Middling 15J4-

Jb'liOUR—Demand active, prices advanced. Superfine Western State, S 00a6 Z5 common good extra, 6 t5a6 7o good choices SO.i White Western extra 7 25a" tf& extra Ohio 6 80a7 83 St. Louis, 6 8Ua8 bO.

RYE FLOl R—4 00a5 65. CORN MEAL—Quiet. WHISKY—Advanced WHEAT—Demand fair, prices advanced, Receipts 7,000 bushels new spring 1 52a 1 54%: red amber 1 o5 White Michigan 1 62.

RYE—Demand fair and market firm, BARLEY—Quiet and unchanged, State 85. CORN—Den and lair, market firm. No. 1, mixed,84aS5 yellow 85'/.a.«i, Receipts 22,W)U.

OATS—Quiet. Western Ohio 62*io. COFFEE—Demand fair aud market firmRio 13%al6%- Salci of 2.000 bags on private term*.

SUQAR—Demand fair and market firm.

C^0LASsMi—Demand

ranced. N. Orleans 65a72. mam —Crude 14al4V«: refined 24%.

PORK-Mesa firmer, 22 75a23 00 old 22 6o prime 19 00 prime mess, new, 21 50. BEEF—Steady. Mess 10 00 a 15 00 extra 15 00a)7 50 prime mess 26 uOa^S 00.

HOGS— Dressed firm, 9!^a9j. CUT MEATS—Firm. ... LARD—Firmer, l'rime steam 12al3 kettle 135al3K.

BUTTER—Market quiet, prices unchanged25 for Western. CHEESE—Dull and unchanged.

51BW VOKKMUJiKf MAItKKI By Telegraph.] Naw YOB*. Jan. GOLD—Dull and steady. 10*£al0^.

SPECIAL NOT

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A dispatch from Lille, of the 23d, says bombardment ofCambrai by the Germans has commenced.

SPENCER & CWN. T.,

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In frames of the best quality of all materia used lor that parposo.

Their Finish and Durability cannot bo Surpassed! CAUTION —None itcnuino nn)esi bearing their trado markO stamped on every framo.

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CARPETS, &c.

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LOANS—From 4 to 5 per cent, CLEARANCES—*14.500.000. GOVERNMENTS-Quietand firm, MONEY—Easy at 6 per cent.

JIEW VOLTK UKV UUU1* MAKKFCL. By Telegraph.) NiwYoai. Jan. 24. The market is dull, the snow storm having intensified tiie quiet existing, hence there is bat little change to observe in prices. The following are the most important changes that occurred to-day: Allendale 10-4 bleached sheetings reduced from 37K to 36 9-4 do from 32^ to 31 8-4 de from -V/% to 26: 10-4 brown do from 32%to 31 do 9-4 from 2754 to 26 8-4 do rom 25 to 22%. and Laiwaster brown sheetings from 27% to 26.

MARRIED.

BEAUCHAMP—MILLER—In this city, on the 19'h inst.. by Rev. S- M. Stimson. Mr. William T. Beaurhamp and Mirs Hattie Miller, both of Terre Haute.

RIFE—SCHRIEVER—In this city, on the 16th inst., by Rev. Stimson, Mr. Israel Rife and Siiss Henrietta Schriever. both oi Terre Haute.

HICHOLS—KIRTLEY—In this eity, on the 18th inst-, by Rev. S. M. Stimson, Mr. James Nichols and Miss Mary Ann Kirtley, both of Terre Haute.

DIED.

8N0DGRASS.—January 19th. 1871, »t I f, of consumption, in the 49th year of her age, Mary A., wi-e of Marshall N. Snodgrass.

Funeral to take place at the residence, northwest corner of Cheatnut and Thirteenth streets, to-day (Friday) at 5 r. *. Friends are requested to attend.

and

For

Ladies'

the Hoys,

Companions, furnish

Mirls.

Vase Brackets, carv

and plain.

For

the

House.

Velvet and Brussels Rugs and Mats. For your Wife, Ladies and Gents' Traveling: Bags. For your Friend.

Traveling, Work and Stand Baskets. For a Ladies' present

Handsome Brussels, Velvet and In grp.in

A E S

Beautiful Gilt Band

Window Shades!

Bep and Damask

CURTAIN GOODS!

All very suitable und will be offered at REDUCED PRICES during tho Holidays atu

BROKAWS'

House Furnisliinir Store.

SEWING MACHINES.

Glorious Ne ws for the People,

SEW KKA I" THK SKTVIIMI {'1IINK TVOKLW.

THE

ASTONISHING

ju«t

DISCOVERY ha?

been made by all the high-pJicei

Sewing Machine Companies that the llM.lt E SltrTTI.E JIACMIXK i.« fast superceding all others. It makes the lock-stitch, alike on both sides, is far simpler, better and mnif lighter than any 8S5 .Maehino in the market, yet MCII.H fp«m 8-0 to IO rlM-iiprr. W« guarantee it a First-class Machine in every respect, and offer $1,000 for any Fainily Machine that will do a larger range of work. It cews from 11 irness Leather to Muslin without any alteration.

An energetic Agent wanted in every county. Full particulars and a Uighty^inierriting pamphlet mailed FRKK. A VAN DIISEN. ]'!7 We.it Jefferson street Louisville. Ky.

Address KNOWLES fei 0:£5,dw3m

PATENTS.

American and uropeau

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at the i'ateiit Office, prepare Specifications. Drawings, Caveats anil Assignments, and prosecuto applications for Letters Patent at Washington, and in all European Countries. They give social attention to the prosecution of RejCctcd Claims. Appeals, Extensions and Interferences.

•arl'amphlet of the New Patent Law for jiliNN A CO.

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fair and prices ad-

ls70 furnitped Free. Address

37 Park Row. New York.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

A sixteen-page Weekly, devoted to Me chanics. Manufacture.". Invention. Chemistry, Engin»ering. Architecture, and Popular Science. Full ofsplcndid Engravings. TermsS3 (X) a year. Specimen number sent freeAddress. MUNN A CO., decl3 dw3m 37 Park Row, New York.

MEDICAL.

CMSFtDEStTIAl..

-Young men who have

injured themselves by ccrtain secret habits, which unfit them for business, pleasure orthe duties of married life also middle aged and old men who, from the follies of youth or other causes, feel a debility in advance of their years, before placing tbemselTes under the treatment of anyone, should first read tho "Secret Friend." Married ladies will learn something of importance by perusuing the "Secret Fri«nd." Sent to any address, in a scale'f enveolpe, on receipt ot 25 cents. Addre.«« Da. CHAKLIS A. STITAKTA Co.. Boston. *ug2i!-deod-wly

LOCAL NOTICES.

BEAVER MOHAIRS.

We have a complete line of these Celebrated Pure Mohairs. Harper's Bazaar has announced them, editorially, as the best and most beautiful black goods imported for the as on

We feel warranted in giving them our high est recommendation, to the public, and invite inspection.

Tuell, Ripley & Dewing, Corner Main and Fifth street*.

HOTELS.

Jacob Bata. WATIOffAJL Oor. Sixth and Main Street*,

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HOUSE

HautB. ^, Indiaiis.

Jacob Bnfz

This House ha* been It myffld'-