Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 March 1871 — Page 1

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tion inaugural' by the Evansville

uisuon Council.

THE Trustees of State Agricultural ^Perdue University 1 meet at Layette

on the 3d proximo.

that the breechin'

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broken in Indi-

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the natural

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THE Worthingt2'imcs mournfully remarks that the in

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'be North &

South Railroad beg

drag again.

THE initial numl°f 'be New \oik Illustrated Christian is received. It makes a very prf

THE

b'e appearand

proprietor

'be incennes gi

works wants to sel

era 10

$20,000.

'be city for

AUTICI.ES of asso""30 F° the Warsaw "Woolen Mills Cornf have been filed in the oflice ol Secri' State.

THE Lal'lai... a new and beautiful hotel, at Viines, was formally opened, with appf..e ceremonies, on Thursday evening.

THE official bo OF Roberts and Simpson Chapels, Cncastle, have both adopted the report 'be committee fa

voring consolidatio

CHICAOO claims' Miss I'KANeis E. .Wi I.I.A Hi), a reside Evanston, a suburb of that city, is ie best female lec

turer of this era."

YKS! the Indiar'lis census swells wonderfully.— hid.mercial. Correct It is gely made up of

"swells."

THE Joint High mmission is fully tonvinced tbat it's a big contract hand, and

don'tjicet

to see the end

tat an early day

E Michigan Enterprise learns at,-the Kev. AAH WOOD is to retain position as Mi' Instructor at the

te Prison North.^'u hope this information is correct.

IU-SHANDS win: domestic relations ire not satisfactory

ill

Gild an excellent

'mode of adjusting by consulting "a "'arm ballad" public! in this issue. It is worth reading.

JilSrS THE Journal mill indorses W. C. DE-t'AL-w for Governo There seems to be a concerted

movent,

in the same di

rection, on the °f the Democratic press of the State.

THE REV. DK.'AKPF.R, having bad liis census prope retaken, has left Indianapolis to er on his duties as jjmstor of the NortKroad Street Church, )f Philadelphia. 1) pi' wickedly remarks My yartMfcell conBis 807 inhabitants, )-l of tbnumber were before

I Jury, at the other three were jn account sickness.

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.S"OHKAT scarciivf Bibles is reported Jnckson townp, Putnam counJ.y. An Agent wliohtisi't visited one hundred and eighty the families, found one hundred and fifty)! them without the (iood Book in theinomes.

A SHIP, recenllvrrived at San Francisco from Kio Jieiro, brought a live guanaco. In stippl of a popular superstition, the Captai reports that during the vovage of l'.1 days, the animal did not drink a drop mater. From this fact the Lafayette Jotw.il logically infers that he must have bceta Democrat.

IT IS annotmcd that the Rev. L. HAY, who, for thi'ast six years, has been in charge of the inking Fund Department of tiie Atulitr of State's oflice, will retire from that ition on the first prox iiiw, and will bescceeded by Hon. J. V. II:MFSDAI ft:tt, O Brookvillc.

Tin: Episcopalims of Chicago are manifesting much interest as to what will be the issue with

rofr-encc

Si*IMPOSING it to lie a constitutional necessity for the Yincennes Sun to attack somebody's character, it is well that BAitNArAS C. Ilouns should be the person selected for there is no

OfR colored friends, in their State Convention, did an unlimited business in resolutions. Among a miscellaneous astorlment, we lind this:

Lesored, 'I hat. in o'• opinion, women should be admitted to all the lights and privileges, bolli civil and political, now exercised bv men

PuiviXi. United Stales officers out of the Smith is a prominent feature of Ku Klux operations, and there isn I a ingle Democratic paper in the North that lias a word in condemnation of Mich outrages. Worse than ibis, even, is the approval of Ku Klux murders which disgraces the IVmociatic press.

THE Cincinnati Uazcitc thinks the election of Mr. KIM of the Baltimore A Ohio, and Mr TOIUU.NCK, LEPRESEIRMG the Niw Yoik Central in'ereMs, as Di rectors of the Ohio Mississippi Rail road, indicates a clos.e alliance betwee.i ihysc two lines ai ihe Ohio iS: Mississip the transaction of business, us the F.i'

TERMS $2.00 A YEAR}

THE resolutions adopted by the colored people in State Convention at Indianapolis declare that none of the avowed purposes of the Republican party should be abandoned that the interest of the government and safety of the loyal people of the South, white and black, reqniiethe continuance of the test oath that the re tention of the word "white" ln the Constitution of the State is anti-Republican and contrary to the Constitution of the United States indorse all the reconstruction acts of Congress claim for the colored people of the Slate an equal share in the benefits of benevolent institutions declare that the only hope oft he South lies in the enforcement of Republican principles and the rigid execution of the laws of Congress that the late war furnished all needed elements of reform that they will aid no party not pledged to the enforce, ment of the principle of equal rights for all they regret the present condition of the laboring portion of the race, and recommend emigration to the West-^declare the late Legislature will ever stand preeminent in the history of legislative bodies for duplicity, obsequiousness and servility lament the rupture between SUMNER and the friends of the administration, and finally urge Congress, in view ©the fact that State Courts will not enforce the laws in the South, to give protec! ion to the loyal people thereby extending to the LInited States Courts full power to try all classes of criminal cases.

Tin: Kentucky Senator and Representative, STEVEKSON- and KECK, are not endorsed by the tisvillc Commercial in their attempt to gloss over matters in regard to the treatment of the mail agent on the Louisville & Lexington Railroad. Tbat paper says the "dispatches indicate that Mr. BECK is either not acquainted with the facts or that he is playing a disingenuous part. According to them he savs that an agent Svho dc.s not insult the people' would be safe on the railroad between here and Lexington. TTr~-o never in-ulted the people, anil yet he would not be safe an hour on the road. GIIISON never made himself obnoxious to anvbodv. He simply went along and minded his own business. Nobody objected to his presence except ruffians and outlaws, and Mr. UECIC will hardly mainlain that their views should be consulted. We will not judge either Mr. BECK or Mr. STEVENSOX till we are more fully advised, but it seems now as if tbev were doing what Mr. STEVENSON, in his speech,

as reported by telegraph, charged upon the Republican party, i. c., playing a part ior political effect

THE first annual report of the Louisville and St. Louis Air Line railroad has been made public. The President thinks the prospects for a remunerative business on the line when completed are very good indeed. So far there have been finished ten miles of the road from Princeton to Mount Carmel, Illinois. These ten miles are operated regularly, and pay expenses. The road from New Albany lo Princeton, 102 miles, has been put under contract. The work on he Knob division is the heaviest on the route. It is being pushed forward expeditiously, however. The line of the road in Illinois is progressing favorably. Gen. WINSLOW has finished seventy-six miles of his road to Mount Vernon, and the seventy-three miles of road from Mount. Vernon to

.Mount

to the ptoperty

now owned b_v Christ Church, in that city, in the event of the church withdrawing from the diocese and establishing itself upon an indepemleut basis.

man

"on God

green earth" wlio.-e solid integrity would oiler more rtfecuial resistance to such asfaults. 1 he Sun "iiaws a file.

l'.VEKY hundred dollars expended now,

or during the next few months, in aying for good Republican papers, to be sent into the families of voters, will do more towards injuring the success of our party in 17li than a thousand dollars spent in keeping up ihe excitement of the cam- anxious paign eighteen months hence. grocers have many such patron

and Pennsylvania »'erv

Coi.. FoRNr.V proposes cdi:i_..tion as a panacea for all the evils that afiiiet the South, including Ku Kltixism. We fear such medication would not be suffioii•:"lv expeditious. If the Colonel were a Southern Unionist, in momentary expectation of feeling a Ku Klux halter draw, he would think the proposal to establish schools for the civilization of iiis assassin enemies a very slow remedy for ihe mo:al disease in question.

Carmel, of which lion. KOP.EKT HELL is president, is under contract. The whole is to be completed by January 1, 1873.

THE Cincinnati Commercial's Washington special mentions an impression that seems to have obtained in some directions that the legal-tender controversy has not been finally disposed of by the Supreme Court, because it is alleged tbat in the cases already adjudicated a full bench was not present, and upon a lecommendation by the whole Court there is a probability of overruling the former decision but the fact is, (says the correspondent), thai, although there were bu', seven Judges present when the adjudicated cases were heard, live of these Justices agreed on the decision that was rendered, and these five constituted a majority of the entire Court So the legal-tender question may be ecu.-id red as finally de termined, so far as the Supreme Court is concerned.

A I'OURESI'ON UK-NT Wants to 1I10W LLOW it is that a retail grccer always finds out when the price of anything goes up, but never learns tbat it has gone down? Give it up.— Lafayette Courier.

Your correspondent may be like one who, some time ago, addre-.-ed a similar inquiry to us. !. ing information from headquarters, we took his note to a leading ictail grocer, who. upon reading it, turiud to his ledger and showed us our inquirer's account only ten months in arrears! 1 occurs to us that if fellows

Nor more suddenly did the Southern I who are always grumbling and seldom Confederacy collapse than has the spirit paying—they can hardly be expected to

of this Radical party vanished. It has yielded up thegbost.—-Xtir Albany Ledger Just keep on thinking so, and you'll see the healthiest old "ghost," by and by, that ever made Democrats quake in their boots. After that vou will cease to be the I *«territied."'

ell their goods at "bottom prices

THE Christian Union hopes that the Republican party will not stiller diminution on account of the removal of Mr. Si'MNEII fiom the headship of the Commence of Foreign A (Fairs. Speaking of '"the moral and thoughtful men of the party," it says: "They will not. at anv rate, abandon the party on such slender reasons as the dispossession of a trusted and honored man from a place of intlilcnce." And as for the rest: "Mr. SIWINEII is not a man to win per.-onal influence among the common people, or to create popular enthusiasm toward

himself.''

AN Indianapolis correspondent savj a very vigorous effort apparently is being made to deiend the law passed for the distribution of the school fund in the hands of the State Auditor, but those who know assert that it is all cry and no wool it was never intended to let the monev

ENGLAND

pass from the control of the ring now running the State offices. Tlice is much wailing among the bucolic Democracy in ^,'p Ku Klux in 1S71. consequence.

has become such an inviting

tnriti for the shafts of ridicule that even her own press makes fun of her. One nnorotis paper advertises a rare show in which "JOHN

BULL

begs to inform his

friends, the public, the heads of families and teachers in infant schools that he is prepared to exhibit on very reasonable terms his celetuated British lion (quite ame)."

AN Indianapolis correspondent s-,vs women's rights are to receive a substantial recognition in that city, bv a move" ment looking to the election one or more women as members of the School Board under the-new law passed by the last Legislature.

THE pupils of the Kentucky Blind Asylum receive instruction upon that splendid instrument, the sewing machine. They have made remarkable progress in learning its use, and so far from seamstresses being needed, as heretofore, the only trouble now is to provide work for the many skilled and enthusiastic operatives.

THE amount of cereals now in store at Chicago is above seven million bushels, and forty-one vessels await only the opening of the Straits of Mackinac to convey this treasure to eastern and foreign markets. The amount of grain now on board the vessels in harhor there is 949,408 bushes, of which 754,068 bushels is corn, and the balance wheat. The total amount in store at that port at the corresponding season of 1S70 was 5,337,822 bushels.

THE Greeneastle Banner announces tbat the Presbyterian Church of that city has engaged Rev. Mr. SUM.MEIIVILLE to assist Dr. FlSK in his pastoral work, in order that the Doctor may have more time to devote to the Indiana Female College. The College has just received a donation of $20,000 to its endowment fund, from JOHN S. JENNINGS, one of the oldest citizens of the place, which make the entire assets of the Institution about §00,000.

COLONEL J. C. WHARTON, United States Attorney for the District of Kentucky, publishes a card in which he .-avs that while STEVENSON "was Governor of Kentucky, murders and outrages were committed almost in

sight

of ihe capitlo,

and the Senator who is so swift to charge others with dereliction ol ollicial duty was in the midst of these troubles, as feeble and helpless as a babe, while Federal officers within the knowledge of the Senator were endeavoring, but without success, to obtain facts upon which to base a pro-ecu!ion against the offenders, so far as the Federal Court had jurisdiction."

Colonel WJIAKTON thinks "Lhe attempt of Senator STEVENSON to create the impression that' there docs not exist in Kentucky an organized band of lawless men, more powerful in some portions of the State than ihe civil authorities, wil[ create surprise if not contempt with all candid people in this State, many of whom know, as I do, that the intimidation of the Ku Klux has in its effects even reached the Grand Jury of the

Federal Court."

THE question how far a citizen may go in defending himself against personal violence, whether threatened or fulfilled,

has

just been settled by Judge BEDFOKD, of New York, in an eminently sensible and satisiactory manner. As there are some ruffians in our own city, llis Honor's opinion may be of interest here, and we give it as we find it ill Eastern exchanges. "The evidence in the case before the court showed that three men went into the bakery of a Frenchman for the purpose of stealing bread. The baker naturally objected, and carried bis objections so far as to strike one of the thieves on the head with a billet of wood. This induced the party to retire, but tbev mbsequently returned, when the person struck threatened to shoot the baker in return for the blow delivered in the pro tection of his property. Not to be behind time at business so important to his health, the baker made a hole in the ruf fian with a bayonet before he had time to draw his pistol. 'Ihe result ot this alertness on the part of the baker was one thief less in New York. Judge REDKOHD, in charging the jury, lolly sustained ihe defendant in what he had done, holding to the good old doctrine that a man's house is his castle, and that self preservation is the first and highest law. The jury took the same view of the case, and returned a veidict of not guilty. Criminal classes will please take nolice tbat a luan acting in self-defense, need not wait to be attacked, but can kill (he aggressor before the overt act is committed.

THE fact that the Republican party has performed its mission, and is doomed to ellectnal annihilation at ihe next Presidential election, is daily becoming more and more apparent.— I*iHOCH/US ituii.

A Demociatie gain of a few hundred votes in a Sfe election has completely upset the reasoning powers of Democratic editors and "spouteis." Because that party failed to be thrashed, as usual, in a skirmish, they think our great Republican army has "gone up." Poor fellows! 'l'hev had become so accustomed to being beaten that whenever our line charged on them, from sheer force of habit they would turn and present that portion of th°ir organism least liable to fatal inoiry from blows. These well-drilled pupils in the school of aflliction, missing, tor once, their customary chastisement, sipping a single drop of the wine of victory, spilled bv Republican carelessness, have become lunatics, and we hear them raving wildly, as the 6'wn does in the paragraph we have quoted.

It will be soon enough to talk of the Republicnn party having "peiformed its mission," when there is any other party that will give evidence that il is fii to be trusted, for an hour, with the responsibility of conducting the government when the Democratic party shall be able to come before the world without (hiunting the blood-red banner of revolution, and inviting the people of this Democratic-war-cursed Republic to an other Democratic feast of blood.

Republican leaders may have done some impolitic things, and may yet do others, but the patriotism of (he Republican party has never been questioned, and the people will trust it still to rule the country which its valor saved from destruction at the hands of Democratic traitors they will always trust it unless the Democracy shall learn either to exorcise or' effectually disguise the spirit which took ihe form of open war in 1S61 ami which sneak* in the assassin garb of

So long as Democratic Senators apologize for these infernal assassins, so long as Democratic organs encourage them in their helli.-h work, so long as Democratic Legislatuies trv to break down the consiitutional barrier# between regulated liberty and ana.chy, in short, so long as the Democratic party retains anything which has characterized it since it sought to plant the damning blight oPslavery on the great he: "'age of freedom, and failing to do that idwfal means, lified its parricidal hands against the nation's life—so long, we repeat, as that party retains aught of what it has been during these long years of its shameful history, (he

people

will con-ider it ihe mission" of

the party of freedom and rogrcss to control this government.

WE infer from an elaborate effort by the editor of the Ohio Slate Journal that

GRANT

is the only man who can save the

country.—Cin. Commercial. It was generally conceded, by all parties, a few years ago, that GRANT, more than any other man, did "save the country." There were times when that silent soldier was worth more to the country than a thousand thundering newspapers and forty thousand noi^y orators. Whether it will be his mission to "save the country" again, time alone can determine. There is no need of any

particular hurry about trotting out candidates for '72. The Republican party lias no lack of men fit for the Presidency^ and GRANT will not. beg for re-nomina-tion. Lie didn't do any thing in that line in *GS, but gracefully accepted a nomination that sought him, not one which he had sought.

Those who profess lo be Republicans should try to be just towards the man whom we persuaded, in 1S63, to give up the best oflice—a life position—under this government,because we believed bis nomination absolutely necessary to insure our success. The Commercial did its full share in convincing the public mind tbat GRANT only could lead the Republican party to victory. GRANT did lead us to victory, and has been true to the party. Whether we re-nominate him or not, let us be honorable enough todo him justice, and let lis not forget tbat we needed him more than be needed us in '08.

A RECONSTRUCTED rebel paper, published at Montgomery, Alabama, in a significant article ^n the Presidential election of 1872. says:

Now we can not be wrong in declaring that in the present constitution of parties in the light of ihe history of tiie past ten years, and particularly of the past six in cmsideration of the known chaiacier ot lhe men on one side, and those on the other in further consideration of an alteady ascertained and settled general agreement among us all, North, South, Fast, and West, on many absorbing and vital questions, it would be infinitely better to accept Democra'ic success without the mahiii'j and publication of any platform at all, than to be overwhelmed, ileteated, ruined, and swept into "utter darkness," as it were:

The Philadelphia Press commends this as sound advice, which the Democracy vr mid do well in heeding. It will be st for their own sakes for their own ikes for them to conceal their revolutionary programme until they elect a President and secure a House of Representatives. Its publication might arouse another uprising of the loyal masses, akin to that of 1SC0, which will crush out the last vestige of trea on.

NUMEROUS

skeletons, supposed to he

those of Indians, have just been unearthed near Indianapolis.— Exchantjc. There is another fortunate contribution to the "swelling" census of that city. Next!

aspiring

N'EW.S AM) NUI LNU

THE Temperance ticket at Indianapolis is falling to pieces. CAMERON supported Forney for the Collectorsbip of the Port of Philadelphia

THE Wabash & Frie Canal was opened for transportation from Coal Creek, forty miles south of Lalavette, to Toledo, on the 23d.

GOVERNOR PALMER vetoes only half the bills pas.-ed by ihe Illinois Legislature. In a good season for vetoing it is thought he might do still better.

THE San Francisco Chronicle objects to the latest fashion in that city of shooting

ie nose off the face of a tobacconist who demands pay for his cigars. The Chronic!c is too fastidious.

CALIFORNIA in ecstacies over the champion voter of the Pacific States, who, attended by his seventeen son-, walked to the polls, where the family threw in eighteen ballots lor State and uuty officers.

A PETITION representing almost two hundred and fifty millioiH of dollars, has been presented in the New York Legislature in behalf of on appropriation to aid in the erection of a Homeopathic Hospital.

A "COLORED UROTIIER" put a question in the Washington Chronic e. He wants to know whv the colored barbers of fli it city, who clamor for social and political equality and seek oflice for themselves, refuse to shave their fellow darkeys. That colored b:other is impertinent.

WHATEVER else may be the result of the San Domingo investigation, it is qui certain that it will remove all doubts as to the entire groundlessness of the charges of jobbery which have been maliciously made against General I! ibcock, and fully demonstrate the wi of lhe Domnican people for annexation, as well as their utter repudiation of the outlaw Ca'oral.

IDIA\A STATE XOKMAL SCHOOL.

History of the Normal System.

ITS I.NFLUEXCE An BEARING ITO.N CATiO.N.

The first institution worthy of the name of a Normal School was established in Siettin. Prussia, in 1735. more llian one hundred years before the first one was established in America. Frederic the Great, established the second one at Berlin in 17-1S. Others soon followed in various parts of Germany, and at the beginning of the present century, they had been introduced into nearly every German State, and in all but three instances, were supported wholly, or in part, bv the government. Since that tune, they have been rapidly multiplying in number, and advancing in the requisites for admission. Although the course of instruction is usually extended to three or four years, yet in nearly all the German States, the great majority, and in Prussia more than ninety-three per cent, of the teachers are graduates of the Norma! Schools. Here education lirst assumed the form und name of a science, and ai the pre-em lime, Germany possesses ilie most perfect and successful educational ganization to be found in any counl. y. One of the cardinal principles of the sv'siem. and one to which much of tiie -ucce-s is universally attributed, is the recognition of the true d'.gnity and importance of the otiice of the teacher in a svsiem of public instruction.

The lirst Normal School in France was established at Strasbourg, in 1S1U. This school exerted a powerful influence upon the cause of popular education in that section oi France, and in aicpo upon education, made to the King in 1833, it was s'ated that i! was jar in advance of anv other section of the kingdom, both in "the number and euperioi ity of its ,-chools, and it was the general conviction of the people that this superiority was mainly due to the existence of this Normal School.

Later, Normal Schools were established in all lhe principal countries of Europe. There are now more than one hundred and fifty in Prussia, ninety in France, forty in England, thirteen in Switze land, and a proportional number el-ewhei e.

To Professor Dennison Ol instead, of Cor.neciicut, belongs the credit of first ptiblicy advocating in America, the ne

cessity"

of a Seminary for the tiaining of

teachers, in an oration delivered in 1S1(. In 1.-25 there were almost simultaneous, though unconnecied efforts, made by several prominent friends ot education in Connec icnt, Massachusetts. New York and l'ensvlvania toward- ihe establishment of seminaries for the education of competent teachers. From this time, ihe importance of the professional education of teachers, and of institutions specially devoted to this object, began to attract the attention of statesmen and educators and at the clo-e of a quarter of a century, the idea practically realized in each of our lour Slates in which the enterprise

was

TIIE New Yoik Times "can conceive no greater misfortune for the country than tbat which would be involved in i'.s re lapse into Democratic hands. Compared with the danger of its falling under Democratic rule, all other dangers, and all oilier is.lies, seem hardly worth a moment's consideration. What are local or personal causes of dissatisfaction in com parison with the disasters which would certainly overtake us within a twelvemonth after the restoration of the Democrats to power?"

THE II(s/tT5 Educational lieview is in favor of compulsory education, and thinks that a law compelling the daily attendance at school of every child from the age of five to eighteen years would have a most salutary effect and that it is not only the imperative duty of the State to provide a full and free education, but to,see that every son anil daughter re c.'ives the benefit of that education.

Then, and not till then," says the Re visit', "will pauperism and crime, penury and want, social discord and puolic strife, political perfidy and official corruption cease to distress the land.

A coitRE-POXPENr of the New Yo Commerci.tl Adrertiser, writing fimi A-pia wall, mikes the astounding announcement that theD.irien Fxpbuing Kxpediti is unprovided with the sitnpl

the

lirst propo-ed. Although (list prnpoposed in Connecticut, Ma-^acliusetts ac ed with greater promptness and liberalitv, and through the munificence of one of her citizens, Kdnuind Dwiglit, ol Boslop. who gave tc-ti thousand dollars, upon condition ol theappn.priation of the same amount by tiie hiate, lie first Noi ma! School in America, was opened in Lexington, July 3, 1839, with luce pupils A second was opened at Bane in September of

the

same year, and a third at Bridgewater, lhe following year. Four are now supported by the State of Mas.-aehusetls

Horace Mann once -aid of Normal Schools, ihat they had to come to prepare a .wav for themselves, and to show bypractical demonstrations what they were able to accomplish Like Christianity itself, i.' they had wailed till the world at large called'lor them, or was ready lo receive tbelli, they would never have come. Notwithstanding the somewhat inauspi cious beginning in this countiy, the many prejudices to be overcome, and the many obstacles to be surmounted, their practical litilitv was soon demonstrated, and there has been a constant moving onward and upward, to higher degrees of prospeiity and usefulness.

In a little more than thirty years cightv-oiip have been established in the United States. There is now a chain of Normal Schools from Maine to Florida, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Every Stale in the Union, except North Carolina. has contiibuted one or more links to this chain. In all but six of the States, he-e ai govet nu'eu' institutions, (ieoraia and L'.wi have Normal departments •o ihe State Universiiie- in all other case- iho-e maintained by the ta!c aie separate institutions. Experiments, both in this country, and in Europe, show that attempts to engraft Normal depart men's

upon

existing schools have ptoved failures. Tbev have never succeeded, in accomplishing anv important re-ults. and have, in most in-tance.-, been discontinued after a slinrt inic.

struments needed to perform lhe work for which

expedition was organized

and sent out. This writer savs thai '.vhe-. Commander Selfridge was at Aspinwall he was very anxious to borrow a level.'' a ,d that the chief engineer of the party positively stated that he had no reliable apparatus wherewith to take elevations. These revelations seem improbable, but if iion

Our Normal Schools have accompli-lied much toward realizing the expectation of ilio-'c w11o were mot active in (heir organization, bif are yet far Irom meeting fully the need of the times, and it remains with the people, Legislature, and liberally disposed men. to meet these wants by increased appropriations to existing schools, and the

es.tabli.-hmfnt

tional ones. The inlormaiion, the culture and refinement which might thus be diffused among the muss of the people, would increase lhe prewperitv, elevate the character, and promote ihe happiness of the nation, to a degree attainable in no Other way.

Bui. when we consider that ninety-four onto! every hundred of the two hundred thousand teachers in the United States enter lhe ranks but slightly comprehending the laws of physical, mental, and moral growth, and of the development in harmony with these laws, that tbev are eniiielv without any special preparation for the work before them, and that many of them have but little appreciation of its magnitude and responsibilities, it must be apparent lo every thoughtful mind that much lemains lo be done before such g-eat resnlis can or will be accomplished. The Prussians say: "Whatever you would have appear in ihe li'eofa nation, you must put into its schools." If follow- ol neces- ii v. that whatever you would put into its schools yon must first put into it* .cachets, for '"As is the teacher, so is the -et'ool." Following out the teachings of ibis maxim. Prussia gives more than nieetv three per cent, of her teachers a professional education, while in the United Suites more than ninety-four per cent, of the teachers have no? such an education. Surelv, what has been accom--pli-hed in this re-pect bv a monarchy, ought to be accompli-hed by a republic, in which the need is so ninth more im perative, for the intelligence and virtue of the people are the only support oi the

Government. No on? is thought competent toer.gage in any of the ordinary mechanical occupations, without some special prcpr.ra-

tbev have the least foundation in fact the prenticeship for before a ni3n will trust him to shoe liH hors- nn.- wmiltf hp

Ditrien route seekers are on an expensive and useless tour. As to the truth or falsity of the deficient oirfi of the expedition, we shall be able to decide when letters or preliminary reports i.um Commander Selfiidge and Engineer Barnes come to hand.

A'blacksmith must serve an ap-

nor would he

entrust bis watch to a K^t-.Liaaker who had not devoted years to the study of his art. The same is.true in the professions. The physician, the lawyer, lhe clergyman, must be educated tor their respective professions, to entitle thcrn justly to enjoy (he public confidence. Whatever a man undertakes, the impro- couldn't get it.

TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 29 1871. (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE

EDI*.

Aii Essay by Miss Mary Ot'koy, Tcrrc-IIaute.

The name Normal, which is derived from a Latin word signifying a rule, standard, or law, was first applied in Aiistiia. Schools of this character were originally denominated Normal Schools, either because ihey were designed to serve in themselves as the model or rule by which o.lier schools should be organ ized and instructed, or because their object was to teach the rules and mcbods of instructing and governing schools. The name was afterwards adopted in America being already in use to designate similar institutions in Europe, and becan-e it applies exclusively to schools of this kind and prevents their being confounded with anv o- hers.

tance of his knowing how to do it, and the time spent in acquiring a knowledge of it, increase in proportion to the magnitude of the imereits involved, and the difficulties to be overcome.

Consider the important of the interests committed to the uachers! It is not the cultivation of the intellect alone. Every child entrusted to his care, is endowed with a physical, mental and moral nature between which are mysterious sympathies and connections, that reciprocally govern and are governed. He has organs of sense, which are the inlets of knowledge. He has perception memory, imagination and reason. lie can learn and apply rules understand propositions, and in simple examples, see the connection between premises and conclusions. He can be stimulated and swayed by motives, and is peculiarly sus ceptible to their influence. He is also susceptible of a great variety of opposite emotions, as hope and fear, joy and sorrow, love and hatred. Every child has a moral as well as a rational nature —has a conscience. He can discern between good and evil knows the difference between right an'd wrong between truth and falsehood. He has within him all elements of high re-po:isibility, all the faculties of an accountable and immortal being. But these faculties ars yet to be unfolded to be cuhiva ed, to be educated. 1'he understanding, the memory, the imagination need it, the conscience and ihe heart need it. To reduce these various elements to order, to arrange and apply fundamental principles, to mold lhe mind and stimulate it to high and noble aims, to draw out its powers, lo teach it its own strength and capabilities, to symmetrically cultivate all lhe powers and facilities of the pupils mind, to train him up to the love and practice oi ail the virtues, is the noble and responsible work of the teachcr. How absurd to suppose that the teachcr can understand the nature of the powers of the mind, and ihe laws and order of thuir development, without any prcviotia study or preparation

There has been for some lime a growing conviction in the minds of many that teaching ought to bo elevated to the rank of a liberal profes-i'-.n. If so elevated, there must be institutions where it may be studied as a profe-sion where the special object shall be the preparation of teachers for the work before them. This is the field of the Normal School—one occupied by no other school.

With increased

fitness

will come a

higher appreciation of the dignity and importance of the office of the teacher, and the bestowal of asocial po-iiinn, and compensation that will com pate favorably with those gained by educated labor in other departments. Noslatlon of so great importance, has ever been so unjustly estimated. Il teachers liemselv&sgenerally bad a clear and definite conception of the responsible position ihey occupy, and liltted themselves for it, there would bean inoreasedfelf-rcspeet and consciousness of well doing,which could not fail to produce an influence on the profession itself, and on all classes in the community,causing them to understand more fully the worth of the competent teacher, and more willing to honor and reward it. One of the profoundest thinkers of the age, has said: "One of the surest signs of the regeneration of society will be the elevation of the art of teaching to the highest rank in the community."

Anecdote ol' lieu Wade. A decent regard for truth compels us to admit that reverence for exalted position is not characteristic of the political society of Washington. And if ever there was a man who regarded with entire indiflerence the mere formal conventionalities of society, it is the late acting Yicc-President, ex-St nator Wade, of Ohio. During the impeachment trial, ihe following is reported to have occurred between himself and hiel justice Chase, who presided. The session was lo open at twelve o'clock jr.. and it was wiihin twenty minutes of that time, and the Chief Justice had not made his apappearance in the Vice-President's loom, which, for the time, was used by Mr. Chase as a rr.bing-room. The bands of the chick crept slowly but surely nearer the figure "XII ," when suddenly the the door was thrown open, and in stalked the Chief Justice, lie walked hurriedly tolhe wardrobe but his robe ol otiice was not upon its accustomed peg, nor on anv peg What was to be done? Pages were summoned ibis, that, and the other room, desk, and diawer were examined, but no robe was discovered. In the midst of this excitement, the grim, honest old hero, Ben Wade, made his appearance. with a nod and a grunt, to the Hurried occupants of the room. He walked to the bat-rack, and afler depositing bis hat went to a sola on he other side of the room to

Ave his umbrella in a safe, place. The excitement was slill going on, when Wade, after learning the cause ol the trouble, without entering inlo the flurry of the hum, leaned over lhe sofa and with his umbrella (looked up an uncer-tain-looking black tndle. Seeing it was the long-looked-t. robe, he held it toward Mr. Chase with, "Here, Clam— here's ycr darned old frock you're been mahitvj such a coiifounnrd about The pages smiled a smile. The Chief Justice was too ovet joyed (o do anything but speedily get

inside

of addi

of his robe and

if on

that

morning the heated, crowded audience saw he Chief Just ice look redder than usual tbev now know the cause of it. It was all about that "frock."—EDITOR'S DitAWi.it, in ilarjiei's Magazine or April.

Tin: Democratic papers of Indiana continue lo harp on tiie disappoint men1, of ex-Congressmen Orth in no! being appoin'ed Minister to Berlin, accusing him of having suppor'ed ihe Sjn Domingo scheme on the expecta ions ot that mission. The fact is thai Mr. Orth took oilieial action in favor of the project even before General Grant became Prc-ident. The proposition was, in fact, made by Andrew Johnson in his last annual message lo Congress. Ihe present Administration is .-imply carrying out the plans of iis immediate predecessor. This fact seems to have cscaped attention. It is a conclusive answer to those tradticers who charge upon President Grant and his friends the concoction of a corrupt job.

We may find in this a good illustration of the fairness of the two parties. When a Democratic President advocated annexation, it did not meet with much favor at the same time the opposition brought no charge of corruption. It was simply pronounced an error of judgment. But no sooner did his Republican successor indorse it than the opposition fell to calling names and inventing lies, in the hope of iking political capital out of it. The Democrats will find lliii bad policy in the end. They are drifting to the doom of ihe boy in the fable who cried wolf, wolf, when there was no wolf.—Chicago Journal.

I'ork Packing.

George H. Morgan, Secretary of the Me chants'Exchange in St. Louis, has made a complete compilation of the hog packing in the West during the past season, of which the following is a condensed statement: Illinois Oiiic Missom Indiana

Kentucky Wiscon-in

Tennessee Kansas and Nebraska... Minne ota Detroit... Pittsburg Atlanta West Virginia

2-JO.r.l 7 081.03!) 459.315 433,813 274,257 •211,200 100,-183 4ft,004 27.S!t2 12 009 25,000 15,000 3,000 8.6'00

Total 3,015,110 Average Weight, 22S 05 100 pounds, which is equal to 4,018 15i hogs of last season's weight.

TIIAT the nomination of Mr. Sumner as ihe Presidential candidate of the Democracy would result in the overwhelming triumph of ihat party no one can doubt.—A". V. Sun.

There arc two trivial circumstances calculated to raise doubt as to the success of this nice littls programme. 1.

CRCMSO.

What iiro tho days but islands. So many little islands. And sleep the sea of silence

Tbat flows about them all? Thero, when the moon is risen. The peaeelul wnters glisten: But yonder plashing— listen!

It is the souls that fall.

Tho little boats are skimminc, The wind led boats areskimmin?. Each in its silver rimminr.

Apart from flee' and shore. Thero not an oar is tping— With just a cable's slipping Glides nut the phantom shipping

That wanders evermore.

Every day's an island, ., A green or barren island, A Io« land or a highland,

That looks upon tho sea. Th«ro fruitful groves aro crowning There barren cliffs are frowning. And rocky channels crowning

The littlo boats that flee.

IIow many aro tho islands, Thu teeming, talking islands, '1 hnt in the sea of silence

Tho roving vessels find? Their number no man knowcth Their way the curre-t showoth The tide roturnloss floweth

As each is left behind.

Tho sailors long to tarry— For rest they long to tarryWhen at some isle of faery

They touch and go ashore. With songs nf wistful pleading They follow fato unheeding. And with the tide's receding

Are drifting as betore.

lint sometime, in the sailing. The blind and endless sailing, 'ihey puss beyond the hailing

Ot land beyond the lee Tiie lowlands and the highlands, And all beyond the islands. Behold the sea ol'silence— liehold tho great white sea. —CARI. PKNCER, in Jlarjtrr'e Magazine for Avril.

[From the Toledo Blade

,TSY AND I AKK OI L-A S AK.1I ISA 1.1.AD.

11Y WILL M. ItLKTON•

Draw up the papers, lawyer, and make 'em good and stout Things nt home are cross-ways, anil Betsy and 1 tire out. Wo who haie worked toge'her so long as man and wife Must ull in single harness the rest of our nat'ral life.

"What is the matter?" say you? I swan it's hard to tell! Most ot the years behind us, we've passed by very well: 1 have no other woman—she has no other man, Only -ve've lived together as long as we ever can.

So I have talked with Betsy, ami Betsy has 1.1 Iked with tiie So we've agreed together that we can't never agree Not Unit tvtt'vc eatelied each other in any terrible crime We've been a gatherin' this for years, a littlo at a tiine.

There was a .stock of temper wo both bad, for a start Though we ne'er suspocted 'twould take us two apart I had my various failings, bred in flesh and bone. And Betsy, like all good women, had a temper of her own.

First thing 1 remember whoreon we disagreed Was something concerning Heaven—a difference in our creed. Wearg'ed the tiling at breakfast—wo arg'ed the thing at tea— And the more we arg'ed the 'luestion, the mero wo didn't agree.

And tho noxt that I remember was when wo lost a eow Sho had kicked the bucket for certain—tho question was only iw? I held my own opiuiou, and Betsy, another lt.-i'i And when we wero done a talkin', we both of us was ma I.

And tho next tbat I remember, it started in a joke But full for a week it lasted, and neither of us spoke. And the next was when I scolded because she broke a bowl And sho said 1 was mean and stingy, and hadn't any soul.

And so that bowl kept pourin' dissensions in our cup And so that blamed old eu« was always a coniin' up And "o ihat Heaven wearg'ed no nearer to us got, But it gave us a taste of somethin' a thousand times as hot.

And so tho thing kept workin', and ull the solf-ii ni" way Always sometbin' to arg'e, and somethin' sharp to say. And down on us come the neighbors, a couplo dozen strong, And lent th' ir kindest service for to help the thing along,

And there has been days (ogcUicr—and many a weary week— We was both ol us cross and spunky, anil bolh too proud to speak. And I have been thinkin' and tlunkin'. the whole ol tho winter and fall, If I can't live kind with a woman, why, then

I won't at all.

And so I have tali.cd with Betsy, anil Betsy has talKcd with mc: And we lave agreed together, that wa can't never agree And whit is tier's shall be her's, and what is in ine shti II be mine. And I'll put.it in the agreement, and take it to her to sign.

Write on the paper, lawyer—the very first par ..sraph---Of all the farm and live stock, that she shall have her half For she has helped to earn it, through many a,weary day. And it's nothin'more than justieo that Betsy has her pay.

Give her the house and homestead: a man can thrive and roam. But women are skecry critters, unless they have a home. And 1 have always determined, and never (ailed to say, That Betsy never should want a home, ifl was taken away.

There is a little hard cash, that's drawin' tnl'rahle p:iy C'.uple of hundred dollars, laid by for a rainy day Safe in the liand.s of good men, and easy to get at Put in ai.otb' clause, there, and give her half of t:.at.

Yes, I see you smile, sir. at my givin' her so much Yes, oivorees is cheap, sir, but I take no stock in such. True am! fiir I married her, when she was biithu and youn.: And lletsy was al'ays gooC to u.o, eseei-tin' with her tongue.

Once, when I was young as you, and not so smart, perhaps. For mo sh: niittene a lawyer, and several otnor chaps: And all of 'cm was flustered, and fairly taken down, And I for a time was counted tho lu-kicst man in town.

Once, when I had a fever—I won't $irget it soon— I was hot as a basted turkey and crazy as a loon— Never an hour went by inc, when she was out of suht Sho nursed me trtirt anil tender, and stuck to mc day and night.

And if ever a house «a lidy.and ever a kitchen clean. Her house and kitchcti was tidy, as any I ever seen. And I don't complain of Betsy or any of her a-ts, Exceptin' when we've quarreled, and told each other facts.

So draw up the paicr, lawyer: and I'll go home to-night. And read the agreement to her. and see if it's all right And then in the inornin' I'll sell, to a tradin' man 1 know. And kiss the child that was left to us, and out in the world I'll go-

And one thing put in the paper, that first to mc didn't occur: That nhen lam d* ad at last, she bring mo back t) her: And lay me under the maples I planted years uio, iVhcn fheandl was happy, before we quarreled so.

And when she (lies, I wish that she would bo 1 id ine And lin' together in silence, perhaps we will agree. And ever meet in heaven, I wou.dn think it queer If we loved each other the better for what we have quarreled here.

HILLSDALE. MICH.

ONE

SCSINER

wouldn't accept the position of "Presidential candidate of the Democracy." 2. He

Prepare for 1S72.

From the Indiana]'ulis Journal.1 Everydiing indica(es that the Presidential campaign of next year will be one of the most exciting ihat our people have ever witnessed. For the first time in a period of twelve years all the States of the Union will give their electoral votes, and (be animus of (be Democracy, already unmistakably revealed, clearly shows tbat a Democratic triumph would be followed by an attempt to undo and reopen what most people have come to regard as a final settlement of the issues of ihe war. The advocates of the Calhoun doctrine of State Rights were never more active in the Democratic party than now, and of all the leading Democratic papers of the North, the New York

Hor/a' is about the only one tbat is disposed to recognize the validity of the constitutional amendments. The few leaders of the party who desired tbat the next canvass should be made upon questions of finance, (arid'and taxation, have been silenced, and instead of the gospel ol conciliation as preached by Mr. Hendricks at New Orleans, the bugle blast of Blair is summoning the hosts of Democracy North and South to a work of rerolution. These men say that it is idle to talk of ta'ills, currency and (axalion until (he reconstruction measures of Congress, and the Constitutional amendments are trampled under (be feet of (he victorious Democracy. It is easy to see tbat this will resurrcct and reanimate what Northern Democrats have been fondly hoping were the "dead issues" of the war, anil with these revived the perfect and overwhelming triumph of Republicanism is a-i,urcd. In an able leader on the subject the New Vo.'l Tril):i isavs: "Fe.v now living ever witnessed a Presidential contcst which convulsed the country in every part as il will he stirred by the contest of 1S72. "We renewedlv urge, therefore, the Republicans of every State to begin at once their quiet preparations for the momentous struggle, by severally inducing every one whom they fan inlluence (o take and read some Republican newspa per. The result will probably be determined bv the fidelity or lukewarmness wherev. ilh this duly shall be fulfilled in lhe year of silent preparation already well begun. We shall surely triumph if (he people shall be seasonably and generally enlightened with regard to the animus and purposes of our adversaries hile, .should half of them be left in ignorance, we may be defeated. ''We I'car nothing from the argu .cuts, the appeals, lhe sophistries, of the Democratic journals we deprecalc only their systematic .suppression of facts. They habitually and studiously conceal from their readers the most significant and momentous developments of (lie rebel spirit slill active in several of (he late Slave States and smouldering in the rest."

"Only where Republican newspapers are generally diffused and read will the voters be made acquainted with the most essential facts whereon ou. next choice of President should he based. "Republicans who are alive ill off years! you must do the work tbat is now pressinglv needed! Each of you know I from five to fifty persons who will vole in 1872 if then living, yet who are taking no political journal whatever. You can induce a part of them to take a good one, if you will make the requisite ellort. If vou have a good and cheap Republican paper issued in your vicinity, give that lhe preference if you must look further to lind one of the right sort, do not liesitatc if one will lake a certain journal and another another, accommodate each but do not let a month pass without having every one within the range of your influence supplied wilh some Republican journal thai he will take to his fireside I and lead in his hours of leisure. This is the duty of the hour do not postpone or neglect it!" "Men who employ others are often accused of dictating the votes of their employes—generally without reason. He who attempts this is more apt to set the voter against his party than to secure his vote. l!tit every employer might and should do his best to extend the circulation of good political journals among those who work for him. A word in season may induce several of them to take a journal which will imbue them with just views of public affairs, and arm them wilh the facts whereby those views are sustained and fortified. Each ot the voters, thus enlightened, becomes

thereby

of ihe earliest pastoral relations

formed by lhe Trov presbytery, in the early pait of the century, was of one vear's continuance, and the reasons as signed for the dissolution were rather uniq'te: "I

ask,"

said the pastor, to be

relea-ed ftom my charge." His reasons were asked. He replied, "When I was installed the people were divided as to mv settlement, Now they are all united, I wi-h to leave them so." A strange reason," said one. 'Moderator," responded the pastor, ''When I was installed a year ago, part of. lhe people were for me ami against me, now ihey are all

part

a witness for the truth and a dif-

fuscr of light and zeal among his associates and neighbors. This is the right way to help (be (iood Cause and thus the ino.-t quiet citizen may render it most effective service at a

very

canvass

moderate

cost." These remarks apply with special force to Indiana. In no State of the Cnion is the Democratic press so malignant and so ntferlv regardless of truth as lhe most of the papers of that party in Indiana. Calumnies and forgeries about leading Republicans are inven ed, circulated and persisted in with a brazen effrontery that is unparalleled. Rightly presuming upon the ignorance ol their subscribers, the publishers of these unscrupulous journals make the most r.«tounding draffs upon tlie'r crtduliiy. There are some honorable exceptions, which we note with pleasure. When the Nc.v Albany Ledyrr, for instance, was betrayed into the publication of the Sentii:e:'s forgery upon Mr. Colfax, it promptly made lhe correction as soon as that gentleman publicly denounced it but the class of papers of which the Sentinel is a type, v.'uie never known to make amends for such foul wrongs, ami in the next

Republicans may expect a

renewal and repetition of all the filth and falsehoods such papers have been heaping upon prominent men of the Republican parly for years. The best way of encountering and disposing of such calumnies is to circulalc ihe truth. Let Republicans give a generous support to their home papers, and tho-e who are able can do good service lo the cause by subscribing for and sending some good reliable Republican paper lo those of (heir neighbors who are it able to pay for it.

TIIEKE still exists a singular document which was confiscated, or seized, or carried awav, or rtolen, bv Napoleon from Rome in the days of his conquests, but which has since been restored. This is a letter from one Tublius Lentulas to the Emperor Tiberius, which contains a mi— I mite description of the features ofChri-t.

Francis E. Willard places il in the mouth of Powers, the sculptor, as part of the inspiration which enabled him to produce his head of our Lord. The manuscript reads thus: "Con-cript Fathers! There has a man appeared here, who is slill living, named Jesus Christ, whose power is wonderful. He has the title given to him of the Great Prophet his disciples call him the Son of iod. There is an air of serenity in bis countenance which attracts al once the love and reverence of those who see him. His hair is of the color of new wine ftom the roots to bis ears, and from thence to the shoulders, it is curled, and falls down the lowest part ol them. L'pon the forehead it parts in two His forehead is fair, his face without any dct'ect, and his air majestic and agreeable. His beard is thick and forked, his eves gray and extremely lively. Tlicrc is something wonderfully charming in his face, lie talks little, but with great gravity."

HERK are two in-tances of the new spirit kindled, or o!d one revived, in the South by a recent. Demociatic victory:

Give us tiie I rue, the genuine Democracy, that is not afraid to denounce the usnrpa(ions of Congress, in its work of reconstruction, as 'unconstitutional, null, and void ''—Lijrangc Ga. Hej0rter.

Is (lie old L-.-tie dead yet? .Not a bit of jt..

against me: I think I had better leave gaining ground that there is more per- oueof tho I hem." His req:e-t was unanimously sonal. anii09 i'y than patriotism in our i"rliii granted. real.

In nur

county a vanity, a cheat, and a fraud is apotheosized as a "dead issue" in two years after iis successful perpetration.— M'bi'e Rryii'cr.

not add to his

SENATOR SCMNKU will populaii'.v vith Republicans by continuing his pte-ent belligerent attitude towards the Executive. The suspicion is

Mr. Sumner's Case—Execntirc Dictation TS. Senatorial Dictation—Mr. Sumner's Record ns a Dictator.

That our readers may have "the other side" of the GRANT-SCMNER affair, we cheerfully comply with the request of a Republican by printing this extract from the New York Times' correspondence:

WASHINGTON, Saturday, March 18,1871. In the discussions by the Press upon the removal of Mr. Sumner, I observe a great many allusions to so-called "Executive dictation," which some peeple affect to believe had much to do with that event. But I venture to say that no one Senator can be produced who will say that the President ever reque3ted him to vote or use his influence to. effect Mr. Sumner's removal. There are many Senators who felt the situation of affairs much more keenly than did the President, and (hey needed neither dictation from the Executive, nor from any other source, to induce them to take the step they did. But suppose, for the sake of argument, that there was dictation. Are not Senators always dictating to the President who shall compose his Cabinet, and what course he shall pursue on public measures? Are they not always tendering their advice whether invited to do so or not? And if we examine Senator Sumner's records, do we not find him guilty of Senatorial dictation in its most conspicuous form? A few facts from the history of Mr. Lincoln's Administration will show that Mr. Sumner's hostility to Secretary Seward at one time went so far tbat he proposed a resolution in a Senatorial caucus attacking Mr. Seward, and calling upon Mr. Lincoln to remove him from oflice. On the ltitli of December, 1862, in a Republican Senatorial caucus, the question of Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet was considered and a resolution against Mr. Seward proposed by Mr. Sumner as above stated, received the vote of that gentleman and fifteen other Senators, while thirteen Senators voted against it. Subsequently, at another caucus, the resolution was modified, on motion of the late Mr. Collamer, so as to express the sense of the Republican Senators that the Cabinet should be reorganized, but no names were mentioned. A committee of nine, of whom Senator Sumner was one, was appointed to lay the matter before the President. In the meantime the late Preston King, then Senator from New York, had told Mr. Seward of what had been done. Mr. Seward promptly placed his resignation in the President's bands, an act which Mr. Sumner, in his own case, has failed to imitate. The Committee waited on the President, stated their case, and were invited to call again. They did so on a .subsequent evening, and to their surprise met every memberof the Cabinet save Mr. Seward. Mr. Lincoln had invited them for an interchange of opinion and they again stated their case. Mr. Chase, then Secretary of the Treasury, indignantly said tbat he bad not come there to bearraigncd by Senators for bis conduct, but sub sequently placed bis resignation in the hands ot the President in order to leave him free from embarrassment. But Mr. Lincoln dismissed his Senatorial dictators with fleas in their ears, remarking that he thought he was the best judge of the miiiisteria: conduct of his Cabinet advisers, and thereupon requested Messrs. Seward and Chase to withdraw their resignations, which they did. The whole attack, so far as Mr. Sumner was concerned, was leveled at Mr. Seward, and in the attempt to force him out of the Cabinet by Senatorial dictation, M^. Sumner was chief dictator. Now I am far from expressing any opinion whether the "dictation" of Mr. Sumner and his brother Senators at the time was justifiable or not. But if a majority of the Republicans in the Senate may say to a President, through caucus action, regarding the formation of his Cabinet, "that such selections and changes in its members should be made as will secure to the country unity of purpose and action in all material and essential rtspecls," may not a majority of the Republican Senators in caucus say also that such changes and selections should be made in theforniation of one of the Senate committees, as will produce like results? And if tiie President is known .to sympathize with such a movement, is he to be held guilty of encroaching upon the domain of a co-ordi-nate branch of the Government?—and to be charged with dictating and controlling such changes by the power of Executive patronage? Sober reflection by some people who have been using very hot language on this subject, will convince them tbat il ill becomes Mr. Sumner and his friends lo cry out against "dictation," especially when there is no evidence of any. HKNKt WA lit) ItKF.CltKR ON't'IIK HI'.MoVA I.

OK SUMNEI!.

Mr. 1'iceclier writes in (lie Chiistian I'nioi: on the Removal of Mr. Sumner: It is not enough that the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations be honest, learned, and patriotic. He must have the gift of working harmoniously with other men. I'v his knowledge he is to guide his fellow-Sen-ators, and by his advice he is to aid the President But, if his disposition be of a cast so severe and inelastic that lie can conform to neither, but preaches to one and dictates to the other, all his tood qualities will fail at just the point on which everything turns. A man whose conscience is in supreme sympathy wilh itself, may be an admirable expounder of morals but to be a manager of affairs one must be in sympathy with men as well as with ideas.

The Senate of the I'r.ited Stales has decided the public good required that tinother man should lake Mr. Sumner's place as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. We presume this step was taken on purely admini-trative grounds. It was believed that at a critical period in the negotiation of affairs important to a degree seldom surpassed in the lifetime of a nation, the Administration and the country could be better served by another man, who, though he would not surpass Mr. Stunner in noble integrity, nor approach him in learning, might have the capacity of being a hotter counselor, and a temper which should not cfi'eud the s.elf-respect of those who were obliged to maintain confidential rel.iiions with him.

The whole truth, we suppose, lies in this, that, with all his eminent excellences, Mr. Sumner does not know how to yield anything to others. He does not know how lo have a conscience supreme over himself without making it supreme over others. It is no news that the eminent Senator is a man of singular puriiy of life, of eminent disinterestedness, of irreproachable fidelity, of great kindness of heart, of unbounded industry, and of great learning. But it is less widely known that he makes his own convictions the imperious law of other men's, that he is apt to regard as personal foes all who do not accept his judgments, that he is a poor leader and a worse follower?

It is to be regretted tbat ibis

action of the Senate took place, and still more that it was necessary to have it take place. But the country will hold the President responsible for the settlement of the difficulties which have long threatened to embroil two great nations tbat ought to be helpful to each other, and whose falling out would be hailed with delight by every despotic throne in Christendom. The Anglo-Saxon race should stand together, over the whole world. In negotiating an honorable and lasting settlement of threatening difficulties, tbe President has a right lo demand that be shall have tbe friendly help of the best men in the Government, and no man whose temper will not permit him to

peak to tbe President should consider it strange tbat another is put in his place who knows bow to treat'the President as a gentleman.

It is our opinion that Mr. Sumner in his former position was constantly liable to endanger tbe peace of tbe two countries, and that his subsidence into tbe body of the Senate will be favorable to a just and amicable settlement. It is feared by some, and hoped by others, that a deadly wound had been given to lhe Republican party. If that p.triv has soskndera hold on the country that the change of a Chairman ir a Senate committee can des'rov it, it is time that it "he destroyed. But we have no such belief, and have no fears as to its danger. Mr. Wilson spoke with tbe exaggeration of excited feeling when be declared that ninety in a hundred in the party would be oflended by this action.

In fact Mr. Sumner is not a man lo win pc:.sonal influence attong tbe common people, or to create popular enthusiasm toward himself. The men who will regret this history are themoial and thoughtful men of the party, and .-uch men will revise their fust impre.-Mons. Tbev will not, at any rate, abandon the panv on such slender reasons as ihe di po-session of a trusted and honored, man from a plarc of influence. 1 bis political whirlwinds to which arc subjeel, \vho?e vorv vifilei.^i will make it of iboit duration.

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