Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 February 1871 — Page 2

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BRET HARTE'S "Heathen Chinee" lias

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COL. ISAAC N. EASTHAM,of Vincennes, t~. died at his residence, in that city, on

Monday.

SEXATOI MORTON" and General TE:IJ^UELL arrived at Indianapolis 011 Salurday. r'^

°^T THE State Temperance Alliance naeets at Indianapolis to day. An interesting ^'avl secsion is anticipated.

THE occasional Indianapolis letters of ''B. R. S. in the Evansville Journal, are j& about as good as the "T. T." B-rie.s in the NN0C"I: EXPRESS.

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"0wnK I--appointment of General MILEOY ''ng c/Jj^?ns Surveyor General of Montana, which

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THE HON. .JESSF. D. BRIGHT,one of the most decidedly cr of all the ex-Senators, has been vi.si ing his friends in Indi'.napoiis.

THE Philadelphia Inquirer mildly expresses a fear that General PJ.EASANTON, the new Commissioner of Internal Reve* nue, may lose his official head.

THE work of retaking the census of Indianapolis will begin to day. If it is not satisfactorily done, we suppose another enumeration will be ordered, and so on ad infinitum.

EVAXSTII-LE has a Congregational Methodist Society, or church, it being Methodist in doctrine and form of wor- *....• jhip, but Congregational in form of Church government.

THE Chicago Btpublican claims that its city circulation is already in excess of lie Times and but a few hundred behind (he Tribune. This indicates a very rapid increase under the new management.

WHETHER HUGHES has captured the ""TOemocratic party of Indiana, or the party captured him, is a question on which the from Lawrence and Monroe and

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our M. take diametrically opposite positions.

DELEGATES to' the Board of Trade Convention, which meets in Indianapolip, to-day, will be returned, to their homes 3 free of expense over the roads by which they reach the city.

/$* THE population of the State is now UijjjL fixed at 1,679,132. The Indianapolis af .Journal explains that this change is owing to the fact that when the table pubislieol a few weeks since was made, one subdivision of Warrick county was overlooked, containing a population of 3,086.

IE Fort Wayne, MuncieA Cincinnati ailrpR has been purchased by the Fort Wayne, Jackson & Saginaw Railroad. This gives the Michigan Central road, which controls the Saginaw road, a direct line from Jackson, Michigan, to Cincinnati, via Fort Wayne.

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THE Nation is responsible for the statement'that "a story has been long current and is tolerably well authenticated that antipathy to and distrust of Mr. MOTLEY were first aroused in the President's f'\ breast by seeing that he parted his hair in the middle."

A BILL is before the Pennsylvania Legislature which provides that female tax-payers of the Commonwealth, over the age of twenty-one years, who shall have resided in any school district for more than one year, shall be eligible ^therein for election or appointment to the office of Director of Common Schools

IF THE Journal must persist in poking Messrs. MACK and DON IT AM about' postage stamp and whisky business, we shall leave those gentlemen to settle the matter with their own party organ. ^"~It might, however, not be impertinent, "on our part, to suggest that the Journal lias carried the joke far enough.

J*1 BECAUSE the editor of this paper isn't L..J-ft*constructed" to suit the Journal, that sapient'and erudite sheet wants the city to tfaste one hundred thousand dollars in building six miles of useless railroad.

T]L6 very intimate connection between ly-^Tremises and conclusions is a rare specimen of Journal logic. It showed its sagacity in the same way the other day when it defended Messrs. MACK and

DONIIAM against an imaginary charge of ng whisky bills with the State's postage stamps. .• \l To THOSE who propose hampering the city's subscription to the Bloomfield railroad with conditions that will render that subscription worre than useless—a tax rather than a benefit—it may not be amiss to suggest that the same thing was itried in the ease of the Danville road, ^and that the Company decided to reject rather than comply with the ons. A repetition of this nonsense

It be productive of any good. To Ight of way and build a multiplicity parallel road beds is to needlessly squander money in the creation of nuisances.

An Interesting

Old Man. antiquarian re

"The commendable

searches ot the Boston Times have brought to light the oldest surviving member of Congress in the person of the Hon. SAMI'ELThATI'iii'.u ofHangor, Me., who served as a Representative from Ma -achuetts from 1802 to 1805. He is al-o the oldsurving graduate of Harvard College, -"•-graduated in 170: He was born tidge in July, ITTt'i, two davs bcforethe Declaration of Independence, and is therefore now in his 9.jtl'i year. He suffers, of course, from the infirmities of old age, but nevertheless retains considerable bodily vigor. Mr. THATCHER was also a member of the Massachusetts Legisalture before Maine became an independent State, and is therefore now the Oldest surviving member of Harvard, of Congress, and of the Massachusetts Gen"eral Court.

Tv-o'ee night's rent*. -1 "of# fourth^ vAymeut in Kind?'partsof our vast country, where 1^^ie are primitive, payment of debt is

L.yet made "in kind but not always with the best effect. The Pitubw tj Di.-patch "peaks of a clergyman incumbent upon a tng village whose pari-h recently offered to payhis salary for the past

Bix months in the following articles: Ten feet of stove-pipe, two papers ofcornstarch, one felt hat, three kegs of varnish, six curry combs, one paper collar, four palmleaf fans, and two bundles of bedslats. But the clergyman had i:o use for Lstich articles, and soon shook o.T the dust *nE Wttffffthe period, as a memoiial [against that primitive people. A Ilos'on iper, commenting on the -story, suggest ithat he should have remained where he ,, \fas, for the field evidently was one in "j-whieh much good could have been done self-denying public tenchcr. briu^ a-/ilir df of grading the

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Ursf jjanie in the Democratic party, the State and scores of rural leaders are rushing to the Capital City as firemen rally to their engine houses at the .sound of an alarm. When it is understood that the Senator's vidit has no political significance, the big scare of the Democracy become* somewhat amusing.

WOULD GRAY be likely to recognize his elegy, chopped up like this sample which we find in the Lafayette Courier, credited to the Indiana Jo&rnal of ComTiieiccf "Knowledge, *j her ample page,

Rich with the spoils of -5

I ti Time did ne'er unroll." ?i«i

THE Lafayette Courier learns that the mad dog excitement still prevails in the niegliborhood of Newtown, Fountain county. At last advices about seventyfive dogs had been killed. The Courier thinks that, while this is pretty hard on the canines, it would be better that the entire race be exterminated than that one human being should suffer with that roo't terrible of all things—hydrophobia,

THE St. Louis Democrat, in a recent issue, calls attention to the unusual facilities afforded in Missouri for the building up of manufacture*, and urges the encouragement of immigration, especially the immigration of skilled labor. "A world of dead wealth is ours," says the Democrat, "and over the sea i* another world of dead skill. Only the union of the two can give life to both, and make Missouri the imperial State she should be, and one of the first duties of er legislators is to hasten that jubilant union."

In reply, the Philadelphia Press says: "This is excellent political economy, but what surprises us is to read it in a paper hopelessly given over to the pernicicu fallacies of free trade, whose cardinal principle affirms it to be the duty 'of our legislators' in Congress to repeal all protection, and thereby stifle the manufactories we already have, as well as so decicase wages that the skilled artisans of Europe will no longer find it their interest to come to us. The Democrat aeems to be tearing down with one hand1 while it builds up with the other."

QUIT your grumbling, and present as strong a case to the Department, if you can, that great errors were committed in the making of the census of Terre Haute, and von will doubtless be accommodated with another enumeration.—Ind. Sentind.

We can't "quit grumbling," because we haven't commenced it but it seems a little queer that the census should have been so incorrectly taken at Indianapolis right under the eye of the United States Marshal for the District of Indiana!— And again, how are we ever to know when the work is done, if it is to be ripped up and done over to satisfy gramblers? And finally, where is the legal authority for r'e' taking the census of any place? We confess our inability to find it. If a second enumeration can be had, why not a third, or a fourth, and so on ad infinitum.

THIS plain talk is as just as it'is severe. We quote the Chicago Bepublican of the 28th:

Congress seems at last about to realize the fact that the National Institute for the encouragement of Loafing, situated on the Hudson river, and popularly known as West Point, may be dispensed with, and the country suffer no severe loss. The recent "troubles" there, which have arisen mainly from the refusal of a colored boy to submit to insult and wrong at the hands of the other cadets, have attracted attention to the utter uselessness of the entire concern. The ordinary product of West Point to the nation is an an nual crop of graduates in the art of living without honest work. For this it is hardly worth while to be compelled to draw half a million of dollars from the national treasury every year. Abolish West Point, and let military education be acquired, as other special educations are at the private expense of those who are ambitious to acquire them.

As our State Legislature seems inclined to devote much of its time to instructing Congress, we hope it will not overlook the National Nuisance on the Hudson. The people are sick of the whole thing and want it "wiped out." Let our General Assembly make its voice heard at Washington in favor of abolishing the Military Academy. There need be no fear that the army will lack officers. Promotion from the ranks will induce the enlistment of a better class of men than now throng recruiting stations, and the army itself is the best of military schools.

The Journal's Logic.

In reply to what we deemed a proposal, on the part of the Journal, to waste the city's subscription of §100,000 to the Bloomfield Railroad, we printed this briet editorial paragraph:

The Journal wants the §100,000 that the Council voted to the IJloomfield Railroad to be misted in buying the right of way, and constructing a road-bed and track to Young's Station, when the company enn get a good road for that distance without costing a cent. For our part, we wish all the lines centering here could use one bed.

And here is the grandly comprehensive and luminously logical style in which the Journal answers us:

The above is the say-so of the editor-in-chief of the K'preBeing himself put up on the narrow-guage principle, nothing better for the best interests of the county and city could be expected from such a source.

So powerful an argument as that cannot fail to convince all the Journal's readers that a separate road should be built to Young's Station! We do not recollect ever to lir.ve seen a better railroad article —in the Terre Haute Journal.

A Modest Senator.

At the Hebrew Fair, in Indianapolis, last wctk, according to the Journal of that city, there was quite an animated contest between the friends of several gentlemen who were being balloted for to decide which should be the recipient of a gold-mounted cane. For two or three days the voting had been very close between Messrs. CVMBACK and FTUGHES, and within an hour of the closing of the polls there was liule difference between them. From that time on, however, the Senator received votes by the hundred, one man who was never known to have more than two dollars and a half of his own, recklessly purchasing five hundred nronrs tickets at a single lick. According to programme the stick was then sented to Senator

BROWN as monial of bis popul aVity^Hn in turn presented to Senator BKOWX by Senator IIUIUIES as a recogni11 tion of the greatness and nobility of the rising statesman from the Jackson diocese. Taken altogether, the Journal says, it was a very touching instance of the "tickle me and I'll tickle you"' style of doing business.

But the funny part of the business is th --t the Journal claims, and introduces evidence to prove, that HUGHES furnished money to buy votes for himself! The Journal concludes by stating that:

In order to settle that question definitely, our reporter will interview Mr. Huges at the earliest opportunity.

And the Saturday Ereninj Mirror solemnly remarks: The Journal reporter who interviews Judge Hughes in regard to the "cane"! business will do well to have his nose securely battened down before h- Marts on hi« mission,

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TUB Cincinnati Gazette's Washington correspondent thinks the bill to create the office of an additional Assistant Attorney General is likely to become a law. It is understood that this officer will have the especial duty of attending to legal questions arising on and affecting the internal revenue service ..

To THOSE of our readers who are unacquainted with Mrs. LIVERMORE, we wish to say that she is a ladg of fine sense and rare culture, a most pleasing speaker, and will give a lecture, next Monday evening, that everyone will be the wiser for hearing. She has nothing in commori with—in fact she is the very opposite of —the masculine womeh and feminize men whose advoci'cy of "womans rights" has had a tendency to bring a good cause into bad repute. We hope this excellent woman will have a good audience, for she really merits such a mark of public respect.

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IT IS generally conceded that t^e tortysecond Congress will unquestionably convene on the 4th of March. There are speculations, of course, as to the organization of the new House. It seems to be conceded, however, that BLAINE will be re-elected Speaker and MCPHERSOK Clerk. Both of these officers are justly popular by reason of their courtesy and efficiency. So certain is then re-election that no candidates have had the temerity to enter the lists in competition as yet. There area number of gentlemen in the field anxious to serve the State as Sergeant at arms, Doorkeeper and Postmaster.

THERE is now a most encouraging prospect of a speedy organization of the Terre Haute and Bloomfield Railroad Company and the prosecution of the work of construction with all jeedful dispatch. We are assured that conflicting views and rival interests in regard to location, are in a fair way to be harmonized, and that every obstacle to the success of this important enterprise is likely to be surmounted. Let us hope that a spirit of mutual concession will pervade the meeting soon to be held in this city, and that all will join heartily in the work of adding another and greatly-neeedd line of railway to the magnificent channels of com merce and social intercourse converging here.

WE VENTURE to predict that the Journal will make an entiie failure in its e:fort to have a hundred thousand dollars of the city's money, or bonds, wasted in building a new road-bed, parallel to the E. & C. Railroad, from this city to Young's Station. The Council is not so destitute of common business capacity as to attempt to hamper its subscription to the Bloomfield road with a condition, or conditions, that would render such subscription worthless. There is intelligence enough in the Council to understand that not only two, but a dozen, railroad com panies, may use the same road-bed wherever their lines coincide, and by so doing serve both their own and the public's interests. There would be just as much economy and propriety in building a multiplicity of turnpikes or canals., side by side, as in constructing railrcu-is in the same way.

IT IS said that Mr. Cullom, of Illinois, on being given a private view of the Lincoln statue, (most members of Congress have been given private views,) carae to Miss Ream with tears in his eyes, exclaiming, "I can say nothing to you, except that your work has caused these tears."—Cm. Commercial.

The historical exclamation of a French officer when asked to surrender, upon a certain memorable occasion, would be a fitting comment on CULLOM'S tears!

THE New York Sun tells of a very lively sensation that recently occurred at Lewistown, Pa. A negro minstrel company inraded that quiet village and hung its posters on all the outer walls. The pustor of the Lutheran church, at his Sunday evening service, took occasion to caution his hearers against being led astray so far as to attend the sinful exhibition, which he characterized as low, vulgar and indecent. It so happened that a half a dozen members of the troupe were present and no sonner had the parson concluded his denunciations than the manager jumped up and proceeded lo argue the matter, asserting that his show was an eminently moral one and to settle the matter, he triumphantly informed the astonished congregation that he, the speaker, was a church member, and knew how it was himself. The result was a dumbfounded minister, a perplexed and somewhat excited congregation, and an overflowing audience for the minstrels the following night. That showman will be likely to be heard from hereafter.

The Census.

The following table will be found very interesting to those who desire to analyze it, and convenient to all for reference:

Population Population Inc. in 1870.1—

Now York 92H.341 1'hiladelpbia C74.022 Brooklyn .399,600 St- Louis 310,804 Chioago 298.9S3 Ba 1 ti more 2G7,354 Boston 250,526 Cincinnati 216.V39 New Orleans 191,322 San Francisco 149,482 Buffalo 117,715 Washington 109,204 Newark 105,078 Louisville 100,754 Cleveland 92,846 Pittsbure 86,235 Jersey City 81,744 Detroit 79,580 Milwaukee..... 71,499 Albany 69,422 Providence 68,906 Rochester 62,385 Alleghany City 53,184 Richmond 51,087 New Haven 50,840 Charleston 48,956 Troy 46,471 Syracuse 43,051 Wo

in 1860. SOS,658 565,629 266,661 160,773 109,260 212.41S 177,810 161.044 168,675 56,802 81,129 61,122 71,941 68,233 43,417 49,217 29,226 45,619 45.246 62,369 50,666 48.214 28.702 37,910 39,267 40,522 39,235 28.119 24,960 36,827 22,648 26,060 29.152 18,611 9,223 23.162 18,554 19,586 20,081 4.418 29,258 26,341 21,258 17.639 13,768 25.065 19,083 14,026 15,199 16,988 22,529 14 W?

orcester 41,105 Lowell 40.928 Memphis 40,226 Cambridge 39,634 Hartford 37.180 Indianapolis 36,565 Scranton 35.093 Reading 33,932 Columbus 33,745 Patterson 33,582 Dayton 32,579 Kansas City 32,260 Mobile 32,084 Portland 31,314 Wilmington 30,841 Lawrence 28,921 Toledo 28,546 Oharlestown 28,323 Lynn Si'??! Fall River. Shi?? Springfield Nashville 2o.S72 Utica 2o.!98 Peoria Covington

Salem 24.117 "''BEAfST&cy 24,053 Manchester 23,536

u- THE STATE.

per ct. 15 20 50 94 174 26 41 34 13 165 45

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Harrisbnrg .... 23,109 Trenton 22,874 Evansville 22,830 Now Bedford" 21,'i20 Oswego 20,910 Kiizabeth 20,$JS Lanc-ster 20,233 Savannah 20,233 Camden 20.045 Davenport 20,042 St. Paul 20.031

Decrease.

LAFAYETTE has an "Academy of Music."

A NATIONAL JBAKK is about to be establuhed'at Tipton.

THE, Spirilla lists, in Fountain county, are still enjoying a great revival.

Nf XT Monday the United SUtea Courts will be organized at Evansville.

SENATOR MOKTOB'S visit to Indianapolis affiicts the Sentinel inexprtssably.

CAPTAIN N. COLUNS, df this State, is promoted to the rank of Commodore U. S.N.

WARSAW is rapidly recoverine from the devastating effects of the recent conflagration.

"PNECMATIC PARALYSIS," whatever that may be, has made its appearance at Crawfordsville.

MISS JULIA CATHAY, Ripley county, is reported to have been rendered hope' lessly insane by the receipt of several anonymous letters centaining horrible threats.

WELLINGTON BCXTON, Elkhart county has a sweet little girl who amuses her self with bonfires, made of hundred dollar grenbacks, and valuable papers from her papa's pocket-book.

MOSES LONGLEY, a Bartholomew county pedagogue, caresses young lady pupils with small cord-wood sticks, and occasion ally gets "a head put on him" by the big brothers and beaux of the caressed.

COMES now the Indianapolis Sentind with a vehement and indignant denial of the charge that Judge Hughes furnished money to buy votes for himself, in the prize cane business, at the Hebrew Fair.

FRANK KIRCHENER, of Evansville, on Sunday morning, tried the very novel experiment of kindling fire with coal oil. He will not try it again for some weeks, being pretty well roasted, although not quite dead.

ANSON PEPPER, Newten county, got severely hurt in leaving a young lady's chamber the other night. He went through the window, taking the sash with him, and carrying a charge of shot in his back.

AT THE present writing, we have no in formation that the House of Representatives at our State Capitol proposes to in vestigate the charges preferred .by the Indianapolis Journal. The Journal wins an easy and graceful victory. When will the House gnaw another file?

AT Indianapolis on Saturday night, Miss Jennie Parker was severely, if not fatally, burned by her Mohair head dress taking fire from a gas burner, near which she was standing. The Sentinel says: "She was terribly burned about the neck and face, and also on the arms and hands. It will be fortunate if the eyesight is not totally ruined, and if she recovers without hideous disfigurement."

THIS, from an Evansville paper, indicates a pleasant state of aflairs in that city:

The bummers were out on a_ rampage last night, and raising a terrible noise, smashing windows, Ac. We heard of no arrests.

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115 67 180 74 80 11 36 30 85 35 29 22 18 52 63 10 82 57 24 96 280 48 82 71 62 633 9 19 45 64 107 13 48 91 76 52 14

WHEEL1HO.

A MAN KILLED.

WHEELING, W. VA.,—Last evening, about six o'clock, John Duffey, boiler in the Belmont Mills, was killed by a blow from a coal digger's pick in the hands of Thomas Harrington, the instrument penetrating some five or six incha*, causing death, in a few minutes. Harrington boarded with Duffey, and both had been drinkiug during the day. On returning to Duffey's honsethey got into a quarrel, which resulted as above.

COTC1WWATI.

A RUNAWAY.

CINCINNATI, January 31.—The horses of the California to-day, throwing the ^•s*^f|driverI Daniel Wallace, to the ground,

49 8 76 17

EVASfSVIIXE.

INSTANTLY KILLED.

EVANSVILLE, Jan. 30.—Patrick Tinley, an employe at Bingham Bro's. distillery, was crushed by the fly-wheel at that establishment early this morning. Stepng from a ladder into the wheel in the dark, he was instantly killed. «ERMAN SALCTE.

The Germans fired a salute of 34 guns day in honor of the victory of Germany.

WEATHER.

lWtather like spring, snow #11 gon^

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fatally injuring him, and bruising several passengers

ST. LOUIS.

TWO MURDERERS EXECUTED. ST. Louis, Jan. 28.—Charles Jolly and John Armstrong, the murderers of the Lepine family, five in number, near Potosi, in November, were publicly hanged in the court house fqnare at Potosi, yesterday afternoon. A very large crowd of people, some ot them coming from twenty to thirty miles, witnessed the execution. j.ly's head was nearly severed from his body by the rope, and Armstrong died by slow strangulation, from some derangement oftbenocse.

THE STEAMER ARTHUR.

The steamer Anhur, owned here by Stillwell, Powell & Co., Jno F. Botinger and Harry Brolaski, was valued at $94,000, insnred $45,000 in Pittsburg, Wheeling and Cincinnati office. The owners decline to give the names of the officers. The boilers of the Arthnr were nearly new, and were extra heavy. Her whole outfit was unusually gcod, and she was furnished with all the required applianfor safety of Iife ur.d prnperty.

INDIANAPOLIS

and weeping willow tree* are

to be planted in the National Cemetery at Jeffersonville.

THE creditors of E. J. Thompson, Plymouth, Marshall county, want him adjudged a bankrupt.

county,

GEORGE RICE, Vanderbiirg goes to the State Prison fbr life for the murder of Mis Clara Carson.

A SCARCITY of religious reading makes us regret frequent failures to receive the Sunday edition of the Evansville Courier.

AFFAIRS at the House of Befuge, in Plainfield, are quiet, orderly and prosperous The institution is an honor to the State.

THE Legislative Committee on the Southern Prifon visited that Institution Saturday. The Sentinel says they express themselves well pleased with the conduct of the prison.

A SOMNAMBULIST, clad only in his usual nocturnal gear, walked into a church, in Versailles, during service, the other night, creating immense com motion.

A CHARMING young widow, of Perry county, being unable, or unwilling, to decide which of two lovers to bless with her hand, induced them to settle the question by cards, "old sledge," best two in in three. Accordingly, the candidates met at the lady's residence, one night last week, and in the most amicable manner played the momentous "rubber," the loser retiring with a benediction on his successful rival and the prospective bride.

TIIE Crawfordsville Review reports that the Montgomery county jail is rapidly filling up. On last Thursday aftemoon three gentlemen living in Founuin countv, who for several months had been engaged in the manufacturing business, were consigned to its gloomy cells. Their wares, five cent nickels, not being able to compete with the product of the Philadelphia mint, the proprietors retired from a losing business. They will probably resume work at Michigan City.

Swlaillng Meatares—Political Measures.

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan?28.

Yon published the other day a revelation mode by the oleaginous Senator from Fayette, Mr. Elliott—whom the DeinS1* crats used to grease the* Senate organization with, so that 'the Republican hold upon it slipped—to the effect that he had" been offered *$15,000 by E. S. Alvord, Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, and the very man to use the argument of the pocket effectively, if there ever was one outside of Washington or New York—if he would*vote for three bills, the canal swindle, the Morgan Raid abomination, and the redistricting of the State. If one other be added to these you will have a pretty accurate idea of thb £femocratic programme for this session. I mean the bill, noticed heretofore in this correspondence, to separate the township from the general elections and send them back to their old location in April. What the advantage, personal or political, of this movement may be, is more than I can guess, for it makes needless expense, and makes it as much for one party as the other, but the Democrats seem resolved on carrying it out. Probably their most potent motive is merely a desire to overturn Republican legislation. Anyhow, it is one of the four things laid out for this session's work.

The other three are bigger, every way, and it i. as certain as anything can be that is not revealed from Heaven er proved by mathematical demonstration, that the Democratic party—not all its individuals, but the mass—are 'v a string" to carry the first two and to make the Treasury pay up the arrears of plunder accumulated tbrongh ten years of Democratic atrophy. What the canal swindle will do, your readers know pretty well.

The Morgan

Raid bill will take about a half million, if it is honestly watched, and twice as much if it is not. The beneficiarie's of it are mainly in the Second District and Democrats. Let the Legislature decide to compensate them for Morgan's plunderings and forced contributions and the way the claims will multiply will astonish even a man who has seen a flock of Utah grass-hoppers. Every man who lived within fight of Morgan's line of march, or lo3t a chicken anywhere from a week before he came till a week after hi was in the Columbus penitentiary, will have a claim, and it will be paid. Of course, for the sake of appearances, it will not be allowed in full some reduction will be made to show how vigilant the Commission is and the claims ,vlilbe enlarged, like a "8lop"-shopman's price of a coat, to meet the chance of being "jewed down," but enough will be paid to make the Treasury, with a Republican surplus now of $600,• 000, feel as empty as last year's "shucks." It will be, in fact, a capital way of rewarding the party loyalty, the rebel sympathies and the invincible majority of that Democratic Gibralter. A district in which, as Horace Ileffren testified as to his own county, "every Democrat is a Son of Liberty," and ''nobody but Democrats were allowed to be Sons of Liberty"—"if we knew it," he adds with the charming naivete of an old Democratic politician sei to telling the truth, is certainly entitled to something good when the parceling out of fat things takes place. There is, therefore, a party benefit in the measure, as well as the personal benefit of skinning claim allowances. The.°e are strong influences, and you need not be surprised to see the Morgan Raid bill, which made a very desperate and dangerous fight last session, victorious this session. It and the canal swindle are the paying projects. Redistricting the State is a subordinate scheme to keep the pay, by distributing the State into convenient Democratic connections. Both parties have done this sort of thing more or less, and it may be set down as a not very unfair exercise of party power. T. T.

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 30.

Neither house was in session on Saturday, nor to-day till this afternoon. The House has been taking up bills on the third reading, none of them of any con sequence, however, except one which authorizes the holder of a note given for a patent right to sue the maker directly in stead of proceeding first against the assignor. Patent rights are peddled by agents who so often make a sale, take note for it, discount or trade it off, and then run where no legal process can find them, that the requirement to sue him as assignor before proceeding against the maker is a serious annoyance, and not unfrequently the cause of losing a recovery altogether. The bill has, fhe-e"re, some merit.

In the Senate the preamble and resolution of Mr. Hughes arguing the invali- Proxdity of the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, and demanding of Congress a call for a National Convention to rectify things, which was referred to the Comnuuee on Elections—a strange reference, accounted for, however, by the fact that Hugho- is a member of it,—and not to the Committee on Federal Relations, as I stated, were reported back, with a jority reportfrom Mr. Bobo, of Adam-, short and unimportant, except as endorsing the resolution and with a minority report from Mr. Scott, of your city, which very happily showed up the absurdity of Mr. Hughes' project, and the inconsistency of his present party. The reso lution declares the ratification null and void. Then, asks Mr. Scott, what is the use of calling a national convention to annul a nullity? The Democrats, he further argues with incisive directness, are estopped from denying the validity of the right of negroes to vote, by electioneering with them, courting their alliance and deferring to them with the proverbial facility and fawning of a Democrat after an office. It would be as misplaced to declare the nullity of the abolition of slavery, or the acquisition of Louisiana or Texas or California, as the nul'!' this ratification which ev^ moral's have accepted aspHshed fact. "Political ®5p^^».tei'ty" he says, "is right ^^unless ^Declaration of Independence .in be wrong, and being right, and having been declared by the only branches of

the government competent to make tbe declaration, it is too lato for any political party to file special demurrer to the manner in which this grand result was accomplished." As a third point he opposes the call for a national convention as demanded, "because no defect in the constitution as it now exists is pointed out, and in a matter of so much importance it is but reasonable that Indiana, if she solicits the call of a national convention to amend the constitution, should indicate some particular in which that instrument requires amendment. It is also to be feared that such a convention, if called so recently after the abolition of slavery, and if animated by the spirit of the so called Democracy, might, in the name of Democracy, attempt to restore slavery, or declare against the political equality of the citizens of the Republic." For these reasons the minority recommend «he indefinite postponement of the whole affair.

Very few legislative documents have pc.s8 within uiy range'in the last twenty

A-

year?, so compactly constructed an clusiveljtargued as this. I have gi you tfl! substance of the first point anf the exact language of most of the second, and of all of the third, and your readers can eee for themselves that their Senator has "done the job neatly and welt.''

Mr. Hughes took the floor to disc} M-gfe himself of the accumulation of two years' of apology, explanation and defiance. Tfie first hour and a half were devoted to fiia political Tecord, the sum of all which was that the Republican party had pledged itself against taking frorifr'the States the control of the right of suffrage, and when it violated that pledge he ceased to be a Republican. The point about which he seemed meet worried was the appirent^ pnblic ithpression that his conversion to' Democracy was recent and unexpected, "when he avowedly left the Republicans two year8ago, and as late as June, 1870, had announced himself a candidate for Congress upon a platform of his own, independent of all parties," and had declared in Terre Haute, that "he would never wear a party yoke again." This was about all, to the purpose, that this half of his speech produced. I do not know whether the oily Senator sees these letters, but if he doe?, I should like to have him explain why there is anything astonishing in the beiie' o. tie public that bir f'ctnocrr'ey very recent date, when he expres.-iy »tattu that a.- late as June, 1870, seven months ago, he had declared his independence of all parties? Surely a man who belonged to no party in June, and belongs to the Democracy in January, as Mr. Hughes admitted he did in his debate with Mr. Steele the olher day, may be very fairly counted a recent proselyte, unless he considers himself a sort of "seven months' child," and like Richard IIT, "sent into" the Democ iu'y "but half made up," and therefore not entitled to claim the rights of a fully developed Democrat. It would have been interesting to have had him explain howhe is so closely knit to D. W. Vonrhecs, whom he believed, two years ago, was a "liar and a coward," and who believed him just the same, with the additional Democratic element of being a "thief." Is it in virtue of this identity of moral composition that they fit together and stick like two halves of a split bullet, by the attraction of Cohesion? Or have they mutually found out that they were mutually liar3 in 1868, when they abused each oilier, and, in that discovery of mutual perspicacity penetrating to mutual but hitherto concealed virtues, find a bond that shall bold them together till a new revelation shall dit-close them to each other's bewildered perceptions a couple of "liars and scoundrels" again? Altogether it is the queerest quarrel and reconciliation in history, romance or the drama. Brutus and Cassius quarrelled and made it up by an explanation "honorable to both parlies," but just here Brutus would have got over it if Cassius had not sent Cinna to him expressly to tell him that he was a "liar, and he had posted on the tabularium his opinion that Cassius was a "thief." Shakespeare hasn't enough to tell us, or possibly he hadn't imagination enough to conceive of a situation in which two such very unkind opinions should need be reconciled he hadn't, it is certainly to be recorded to the credit of the career of Mr. Hughes, so fertile of contradictions and contrarieties, that he has provided what Shakespeare could never have imagined. If, however, the genius that painted woman's feebleness in Anne, and man's depravity in Iago, could have imagined suc!i a sit uation as that of the metaphorical Dan iel and the gluiinons James, he has done the Seventh District Democracy a wrong in not providing a precedent for conduct that certainly has no precedent anywhere else.

The second branch of his argument was directed to the question on hand, the nullity of the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment in this State. His argument was the old one, that there was no quorum in either house,.less than two-thirds voting in both. This has been answered over and over, and irrefutably by Senator Morton's letter on Tvh \t constitutes each "house," nr. whetl)er"!v-thirds of each house.'' iiie:ius uvo-thud* oi all the memb«:. .-eeted. -••itgie.-s alone can judge oi the sufficient ol a ratification, and Congress has decided the ratification ot Indiana good and sufficient. This ends all argument, except such as operates as a party appeal.

When Hughes concluded, the Republicans having notified him that they did't care to debate a dead question, he moved the previous question, and the resolution was adopted by a vote of 26_to 20. How this disproportion of patties comes about I don't know, as the vote was taken after dark, and since I Lave been writing. A moiion to reeoiv-ider was than made and laid on the table, and that pins the thing where it is for this session. The Republicans cared little for it, but Hughes will hear of his record before long in a way that will spoil the easy complacency and languid deliberation and monotony of his talk this afternoon effectually.

Gov. Baker and his wife give the first levee, or public reception of the session, at their house No. 173 North l'ennes.-ee street, on W. dne-day evening, the 1st

'til:

T. T.

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 31.

The adoption of Hughes' anti-Fi:'ieenth amendment resolution yesterday was not so finally and effectually completed as it seemed, and as the Democrats believe. The vote I gave you was that on cohcurring in the report of the committee which, though substantially an adoption, is not finally so, and the resolution itself is open lo a question which may be raised hereafter. The matter was discussed this morning, and concluded by the Democracy with an assertion of the finality of the vote yesterday, and there it will remain for the present. Hughes obtained leave of absence till the 2oth of February, and has meanwhile paired off with Mr Hamilton, of Boone and Clinton, allowing the latter a vote on two bills of local ininterest affecting canal matters, but lying him up in party questions. The eflect of this arrangement will be that the Democracy having one less than a constitutional majority can pass nothing th".'»-^ Republicans object to, till F- ®iL back. -ughes comes

The Metre

iiir

«agjffS^

I gav .. jpoliian Police bill, of which

.eyou a sketch some days ago, aimed at this city as the only practicable way of getting the police force for partisan use«, and as a penalty for thecity's resolute Republicanism, met its death this morningEvansville was the only other city that could have been affected by it, and she was excluded by an amendment which raised the population of the cities subject to be made police districts to 30,000. This left Indianapolis alone, as the avowed object of Democratic usurpation. When the test vote came on a motion to indefinitely postpone the bil\ Mr. Morgan of Vanderburgh- vm-o ":ru This made the a tie. «rd tin mt Governor deciuii'i l«_- voting "aye.''' And this meanest and mo?i wanton oi insults to the capital and leading Republican city of the State, was laid out "as cold as a wedge." Mr. Morgan seems lo have been governed partly by a sense of justice, and partly by the feelings of his people at home, who, having a special charter, which in 1S5S. when ihe

which fit of the I? ffifc:ijr\Yate it ttos jw irTnanfmousIy, tbia rttori

Buspedt 11.11 was atfunfbrttfifate ence to t'ls xn Jerbtilgb Sfenator, ?f Was the mo.ive.. The'bill, am tdld' those who understand the matter puts the Water Works into.$j|e Jb of a"ring,"and gives them a dangerous monopoly for five years. It ought to be beaten -in the House, and the Republicans ought to do it. No consideration of grat. itude should iirge them to subject a city to a mischievous monoply. Saving Indiahapolis from a senseless tyianhy is well enough, a good work well done, but It BUghfuot to be purchased at the expend ttf Evansville. The monopoly is a Dem ocratic operation. w.

The Senate substantially disposed of# another important bill affecting our to-day. This was the House bill creating I a Superior Court for counties of 40,000 or more inhabitants. It is to consist of three judges, who are, by an amendment adopted by the Senate this morning, to original bill, to be paid $2,500 a ye instead of $3,000. the county to pay $2 and the State ?500 instead of $1,0 the House had it. The Court has conc rent jurisdic'ion with the Circuit Cou except in some unimportant matters, a is really intended to relieve the old bunal of the pressure of business pile! upon it by the immense development the city since the judicial system of th State was organized. In the amende^ form it was ordered to be engrossed, an will undoubtedly pass.

A sen ible bill was passed by the House to-day, which enacts that holders of mortgages shall, when satisfaction is made, enter it on the record,and making it a misdemeanor not to do so, punishable by a fine of not less than §5 nor more than foO. This is really making imperative, and enforcing obedience to, a regulation which business meh have generally observed a matter of business caution and fairness. ,,

A bill to repeal the Ia\v 'authorizing the draining of the Kankakee swamps, and the construction of aditch or canal— to straighten and shorten the Kankakee river is under debate. The drainage is said to be a matter of vital importance to that region, one land holder stating that its completion will advance his property from S3 to $70 per acre, a very desirable consummation, doubtless. The ditch pro .ji-cted for this purpose, it is said, has been laid out seventy-one miles in length by fifty feet in width, and will shorten tne

Kankakee river from 280 to 71 miles, or convert the whole crooked, sluggish stream into the ditch. IIow this phenomenal job, of replacing 280 miles by 71, is to be done, I don't know, but it is seriously alleged that it will do it, if the fall is sufficient. And that is the first place where the repeal comes in. The fall is said to be only thirteen inches to the mile, too little to drain a frog pond of moderate dimensions, and hardly better than an elongated puddle. The second opening for the repeal, and the main one, is the charge of the cost of the ditch against the land benefitted, and this, it is urged, will take land to pay the assessment, which may he a good thing for the Kankakee company, but not likely to be eagerly desired by the present owners. Men don't usually care lo give away what they have got to have it made it more valuable to somebody else, unless it is like the Tennessee land of which a traveler remarked that "the owner must be very poor." "Not as poor as he was," said the proprietor's son," "for dad give a feller one-third of it the other day, to take another third, and now he is a heap better off".... T. T.

ENGLAND.

TIIE DA NUBIAN QUESTION. LONDON, Jan. 28.—A telegram from Vienna to the Daily News represents that Turkey is opposed to Austria's introduction of the Dantibiun question in the Conference.

LONDON CONFERENCE.

LONDON, Jan. 20.—The Observer supposes that the Conference will be adjourned on account of the capitulation of I'aris.

CONCERNING INTRIGUES,

LONDON, Jan. 28.—The Times lishes a request from hisclhierst

pubfor a

denial of its statement that intrigues were going on between Bismarck and the Bona pari ists for the restoration of the latter.

BOURtiAKt A Iv tv-S A 1'AIH'KK. LONDON, Jan. 29.—Bourbakiattempted

to kill himself after the defeat at Belfort. His injuries are so severe thai lii.s life is despaired of.

RELIEF OK NON-COMIIATANTS.-' LONIM)}}, Jan. 2S.—At a meeting held at the Mansion Home yesieidav for the relief of non-combatants in and around Paris, the Lord Mayor received a note from Earl Granville stating that Odo Russell had been instructed to ask Count Bismarck to designate a route by which convoys of provisions from England might be sent into Paris, and order that they be not interrupted on the way.

DIPLOMATIC.

LONDON, Jan. 29.—Bismarck alluding to the repeated negotiations be'.w.p»n poleon and the Pri"-:3-says, the

c-'-—

GROUNDLESS RUMOR.

LONDON, Jan. 29.—9:30 p. rumor that on the opening of Pa. D'Israeli intends to challenge confidence in the Ministry is groundless.

FRENCH DIVISION.1

Two new Frcnch division formed of recruits in Havre BEEF FOR PJ

Great numbers of cattl lected by Germans at Luquig, to be driven it capitulates.

S jpreme

Court's decision of the Lafayette school tax case ruined all the free schools in cities organized under thu general charter law, paved theirs, are not very well disposed to see an interference by the Legislature in municipal affairs. But, whatever his motive may have been, his vote did an inestimable service to the capital and to the cause of good srorernment, I do

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£.- \N

lild. left reck,

fire severdl a succeeded in

the tabi®Passenwould have been eight nearly all ptain Brolaski's veral contusions and her little

fe, red.

In the House, the bill requiring suit on notes given for patent rights, to be brought in the county of the maker's residence, and authorizing suit directly against the maker without preceding process against the assignor, was passed. I noticed this measure vesterdav. An attempt was made by the Brown countyDemocracy— a potent influence in legislation in the present position of parties— to repeal the tax on dogs, because Brown is grievously infested with foxes, and without dogs the foxes can't be caught, and with a tax on dogs how shall a Democrat own one? The logical sequence is clear, lilt as most other counties in the State are not troubled with foxes, and are troubled with a superfluity .of dog flesh, animated, latrar.t. mordant and sheepkilling—to ::ti annoying extent, the Brown Democracy may have the advantage of studying the astuteness of their favorite pest from living examples, till they shall acquire enough of their own to match him.

Captain J.

an, who was a his wife were in when the explo a fearful noisfe d, saw the Hate into the cabin., all left but his

He then learned with the life „tion to puttmr idlv tV'zen.ie .ft

A skiff ton bale, survivors, was at cn Grant and Excelsior, picking up planks on that could be tthom were large number is a list of the A. (T. Chenow Henry Moat,

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MILITARY

A considerable for echeloned between Br detachments have Yvetot and Pont

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Is soon as

LOR WILLIAM.

DISPATCH FKOM^p _Empei.0r LONDON, Jan. jj^llowing dispatch William has sen to Empress A«{*

VERSAiLLES^Fr',£ree weeks was night an arniBj Mobiles are. to be signed.

Peg#aS

nains invested, btit

the Forl#.Wto

rev

ictual as'toon is

will be a|fown The Natiofcal Alarms arqpfcnmlI10nefj

meet at Bfr-

PembI-v.jfrinight.

deaux

tain their respective p#si-

the fieJ»Rro,imj between the opposing

l!on'#e

neutral. This is the reward

ImeiCm, heroism

'on follow. •Hi,]

machine

lie nv ffac

(tie of th'

ident. Sten tttgs Lilt ie ferry boat irll to the scene, t)|!on bales and brought all city, most of •hiiled, and a

Bituatio

The following |r as is known bruised JBln iinois Miss 11. Sloan, Alleghetoffct, Edward "oung, colored, ribble, Kvansand wife, col-

Harman, Ark ny City John Crews, St. Xew Orleans ville, Ind. A ored, Bayou Keough, Lor. Cincinnati

Den his Mc

es L. Dodson n, St. Paul, St. Louis Jno. on, Ills. Mike acine, Cal. II. xasj Nicholas ike Brown, St.

Minn. Lewis Scliuliz, body Finn, Louisvi \V. Robers, Carroll, James

H. MaDonougl Mack, St. Lou Leavenworth, I Atchison D. Tenn. G. W. I F. Wilson and Paxton and G. L. Dow, D^ A. Cameron, St. ersct, Pa. Da St. Louis Rachc phis James League, Golcond

ville, Ark. Sami lgham, Leavenworth, Ind. J. PilotKnob, Indiana P. M. Lee Vatten, Quincy, Ills. Pu n, St. Louis Ed. Fallivcr, co ro William Smith, Louisvllh White, Tim. Young, Chicago ill, St. Louis J. Harper, colorec John Barber, colored, Nasi

fc'v'"

Five persons tot boat immediately titter the fwent ashore,

and turned it ad picked tip by the E: talked of lynching are saved badly Bryan and George] George Reed and neers Kate Murph J. Kearney, St. I. Uniontown, Ky. t'j pon, Wis. Gcorgi Cairo Mrs. Captu the head and chestj arm is sprained ly scalded. The scalded and bruis about sixty were 300 tons of freight,' of cotton taken on about ten years ol 000. Insured ir On arrival of the were taken to hot tion is being showr numbers o' those sa' many unable to ta the first clerk, Bt killed, as he slept

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Louis Ed. Ba Orleans I". Hearn, Jerry 'ole and wife.

Hen M. Ryan, thy, Bartlett, uis Benjamin an. Ky, A. R. adelphia, Pa. Tenn. James

Myers, Somtier, colored, olored, MemLouis U. R. Louden, Hig-

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r, the survivors iThe following dots Joseph W. ge, S'. Louis

Blake, engiermaid Chas. Jeorpe Bowers, "Indson, Waugson, colored, iski is hurt in little sister's jjer, nurse, badte also badly sengers think

E boat had ,- lp 1,200 bales The boat was alued at SSO,for ?50,000. irs here they every attenizens. Large iHflly injured, Vptain thinks *as instantly ^oilers.

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THE LES

TRENTON, X. J., .1 lin, colored Method ton, opened procceiii morning, with pra.M

A bill was introd.i make free all public

Ihe House to

|l. -The.steamState I.ine I city, took Wing at the ||t fire broke ^interior was paras scuttled ffri 'ight, with has lieen ris valued at |iied between Fttti ranee.

PROIDENCK^ er Utility, oG between IklphiiJ fire this tu'ng wharf at 1 Poi out in the and nearly dcsl 'd the and sunk what I the excei* coal

ENGL*

RATIFK

•iflfoo* Jan. 30. fjiiti-.ifion and F' RRORMY INT entire Eugenie, afi

Delta ratines Kreign. 'fr.

KjtTDe

tjovernmei

refers everything

ttieKegency. Bismarck denies lhat has ever negotiated for the restoratioi the Bonapartes, or that be intends to. terfere in the domestic concerns don.

ihe

Shu wis,

ordered

quit her preje urging her ferment of Fra

wee he perent to

CAMS

ITER.—Gambetta mittcd sricide. ntsMM LONDON, Jan. ...arck will leave Fra ing of the National 5 EMPEROK

HIS.

I I«TU

Distre. in

VERSAILLES, Paris is very ways impede-' city. German supplying a their own si

uction of rail- I ailing of the e:tnwfiile aie necessity fmm

LILLE. JR.

prisoners of war.

retained m*.d undertake the The ^'at'onWortler. We occnpy all maintairian*

miM ice has asn.ort of France, predion is rather there is a feel|[be future, and a lions of peace hefor the futu fcNT. Germans have inIwilh.strnding th

tounded ihe hough tiie favorable ol ur.ee d«.«ire lo fore decid

2.n0 M._Last

It is rc

vested ai mMic

A MB ETTA.

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All the arwieVin

PO.—Gainbelia forpelegraph tn day t0 'break the.ilence Iris goveri'iuetit to B'he member wiio^e been announced delay in I:is inuve[pfiti.»e iufoiiuation Fon df 1'nrisj.

sin1! cora.r

and

great siCridces.

for this fresh mere1' «ay

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bleached and Brown

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If It He (ioinl-*i...

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BOOTS and SHOES.

IIATS, «V ., &e.

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iteI to have

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The early retui Berlin is expected, lhat lie will start

Qiperor report

PASSPORT

Germans will regulations durin

col-

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PBIME COST.

MEDICAL.

i"iHr?dt^™^v,es bVc"fr

t. of sec re°t hab-

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