Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 June 1871 — Page 2

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7 -1871.

THE Sentinel make a frantic appeal to Bui JEFF DAVIS to incorrigible.

^^THE campaign in Kentucky is getting very lively, with a prospect of splendid Republican gains.

THE Common Council of Lafayette did three long columns of business on Monday evening.

THE monomania of the Mayor of Jeffersonville is undergoing judicial investigation at Indianapolis.

THE CLEM case is again on trial before the Marion Criminal Court, Judge I?of Johnson county, presiding.

CAN any Democrat point to a single instance of malfeasance in office on the part of any of "Mister GRANT'S relations?" Let us hear.

WILLIAM JOINT, a deck hand on the ste.iuier Charmer, at Evansville, valked overboard on Saturday and was drowned before assistance could he rendered.

THE certificate of incorporation of the Mechanic^' Savings, Loan and Building Association, of Fort Wayne, with a capital of $100,000, was filed on the 2d inst.

A. WASHINGTON DISPATCH states that the trial of Bowen, for bigamy, closed on Saturday, with a verdict of guilty. A motion for a new trial is pending. Meanwhile BOWEN is a: large on ?•-1,000 bail.

SUCH reluctance to part with one's auFtograph is seldom seen as WHS shown by •[Governor HOFFMAN, of New York, who refused his assent to one hundred and prty bills, passed by the recently assembled Legislature of that State.

^TIIK Lynchburg Virginian, like the -Terro Haute Journal and the Memphis Appeal, refuses to "depart." ft "accepts """nothing," in the language of Mr. DAVIS, |y and says that it is necessary now, more tlfen ever, to unfurl "the spotless banner white man's party."

and

ABUASOKMESTS have been made for holding a grand peace festival in Indianapolis on the 20th, under the direction of thp Druiden Siengerchor, in which all the German musical societies of the city will participate.

Democratic party hi in no way

responsHWU^for the utterance of Mr. Davis. —Sentinel• The Deinocratic^arty isn't "responsiIble" for anything. It hal? been bankrupt more than ten years.

THE editor of the Lafavetle Courier, Iho has recently visited Madison, state* pat the manufacturing industry of that pdead" city averages about a million dolors a month. It is certainly "a lively Jiorpse."

t'FiN, of the Vincennes Gazette, is a lof noble generosity. He offers to coat to General KISE, of the wear to the next editorial convenIWith such an inducement to at^the General cannot well absent If on that interesting occasion.

[P any wickedness appears in the ExEffi this week, it must be charged to account of the Evansville Courier.

Sunday edition of that paper has iifd to come to hand, and we are thus ived of our accustomed religious

Philadelphia Post sensibly reathat papers which "intend to lay the New York Jferahl calls 'The nidations of Democratic Success,' had ter fight the party openly, and cease to 1 themselves Republican while they doing their best to help (he Democto#in."

IET JEFF. DAVIS alone"—says the miati Commercial—"don't harm a if his head. He has been wonderreserved for good works—that is if the perpetual preservation of the Republican party is a good

iChicgigo Times addresses another ISPFE JEI DAVIS, by saying "he bis country and the few .i, by keeping his mouth ..is not a representative

Democrat, we would like is? O 'upturn HALT, finds a Nortliof what use will it be? Is •est of humanity that will such a discovery? If not, ut there is criminal folly lalile lives and spending such a dangerous enter-

new departure, a new klress, the New Albany an elegant appearance, [a change of principles to il for good. Hoping for its lion, we wish it that degree lli generally follows such

Inergy and commendable shown in its management

trcury "on the rampage" •i.ineties, and threatening lti'ude, we are disposed to

leti&ay evening cotemporary enjov^ly of religious controversy amj&is tl more readily because

Jo inaccuracies of the most jits sta.cnients, respecting the is papri', will be readily dcintelligent readers.

of the manner in which the i. for" its dignity ii the sto-

frohi a famine of water, for water, and reBoard of Public hundred gallons eighty can besupplied. •fully eomphins that is mute, the gaping

Jlded perch, hydro'i no longer indulge ,„s brain, and Hfe given way to whis--spect is no', at all a

be running sadly tsisvillc Courier. iny envious people 1 ii^e to believe very solid fact

These facts

sines

factories,

It-'low

—«ng"7nnd

^^*rT~SSioiig the several counties under the act passed by the last legislature. The law has been submitted to the Supreme

Court to get their opinion upon its va lidity.

AN observing gentleman, who has been traveling through the rural regions of Vigo and adjoining counties), assures us that "the country Democracy don't depart any to speak of." He thinks the course of the Journal, in clinging to defunct issues, is generally approved. In Nevins township, he found not a solitary new chuter.

TUP: lawmakers of Pennsylvania do not appear to have a very exalted opinion of the reverend clergy, or the Legislature of that State would not have deemed it necevarv to pass a bill relating to clandestine marriages, which pnnishe- clergymen for "knowingly and wilfully marrying persons not entitled to that rite."

THE Evansville Journal states that a considerable commotion was caused in that city, on Saturday, by the report that MORGAN, READ & Co., wholesale boot is."^

shoe dealers, had failed and gone into I .... „J I L' tnce to the Constitution as it i-, swear bankruptcy. Their liabilities are reported to be about $300,000, and their assets

§150,000. To some the event was not unexpected, but to the pulic generally it came with something of a shock.

A COTEMPORARY, who believes in giving honor to whom honor is due, reminds the public that great credit should be given to MCMAHON, who, after the humiliating surrender of Sedan and, as many supposed, the loss of everything, honor included, hastened from retirement to the aid of France, and, crushing the Commune, planted the national banner again upon the ramparts of Paris. 0

WE know that Mr. Tend ricks is the choice of the Indiana De mocracy. Sentinel.

And we know that the defeat of Mr. HENDRICKS would not be regarded as a party calamity by many prominent Democrats in this city, county and District. I'KNDLETON has a strong hold on Democratic affection in this portion of the Wabash Valley. He is the first choice of a majority of the party.

TROUBLE exisis in Newton county between the settlers and the government over a question as to the title of lands reclaimed by the diainage of certain ponds and small streams. The settlers claim pioneer rights to the grounds, while the government resists, and has ordered the reclaimed lands to be sold as public land. Commissioner DKUMMOND has, in obedience to a telegraphic request from the Governor, suspended proceedings until the case can be properly heard on both sides.

THAT good story of an Indianapolis grocer pocketing a cool million must be discredited. A dispatch from New \ork denies that H. W. CALDWELL, the reported millionaire, has settled with the property owners in that city for any such sum of money. The fact seems to be that Mr. CALDWELL did settle and that he receiv

receiv-

A CORRESPONDENT of a New York paper now in South Carolina gives this as the language of an intelligent white man: "We can't endure this nigger Government much longer. No while man would stand it to be ruled by ignorant niggers. Our people arc driven to desperation, and a desperate people don't care what tlicy do. We had rather die than live tinder nigger rule all our lives,and if it can't be got rid of in any other way, something desperate will be done." This is the the storm JEFFERSON DAVIS is brewing —the storm that threatens another civil war.

AT THE opening of the session of the United States District Court of Montgomery, Ala., the Grand Jury reported that in their District there have been frequent and outrageous violations of law and that, without provocation, both white and colored persons have been beaten, whipped, shot at, wounded, and some killed, by persons in most instances disguised, and whom it has not been possible, from the evidence, to identify." Of course there are no Kuklux-Klansmcn in that particular district

SAYS the Tribune: "While Mr. VALL\NDK IIAM and the IIVM are trying to pursuade us that the Democracy is a brand new party, which has forgotten all the past, frankly accepted the restiits of the war, and made a fresh start in life, Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS, who certainly knows the Southern Democrats "better than either of those eminent Northern leaders, is industriously proving that the party is just what it always was, pursuing the same objects now that it pursued ten years ago, holding fast all the old doctrines, and ready for another rebelion whenever the time seems ripe."

"Force and Fraud.''

The St. Louis Republican and many other Democratic organs, declare that the Amendments were adopted by force and fraud," albeit they are willing to accept them as established facts. And Hon. P. H. LESLIE, Democratic candidate for Governor of Kentucky, said, a few days since, in a campaign speech The Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Censti-

investigaJ^ion, the ^-ptingtield tutional Amendments were forced upon the country by fraud and violence, and his party recognized them as law, but only until they were decided unconstitution.il, which the intended to prove at the first opportunity.

'ij started out magniii Dimity, but came back id dirty like a min itoa street fight with a nfstove pipe hat, and orn to piece-, and the

A not In* Version.

Here is another brief version of the new departure platform: "We approve ihe great works wrought by the Republican i!2rty. We vehemently damn all that we have said, done, or tried to do since the Republican party came into power. Will the dear people turn out the party that has v.rcnched from our reluctant lips this indorsement, and put us in their places? True, we are wolves, and very hungry wolves, but we indorse the conduct of the good shepherd-dogs, and beg to be permitted to take their places as custodians of the sheep."

Spiritualism.

Spiritualists v.iil bear in mind that the fifth annual convention of their State Association will be held at Indianapolis or. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 1G, 17 and IS. Each Society will be entitled.to three delegates, and one additional delegate for each ten members over twenty—and eacli county where no societv exists will be entitled to three delegates. Some of the leading speakers of the denomination are expcctcd to be lv- nt. Half-fare arrangements will be diana cfketev. iie railroads, and good

bean witi ished at reduced rates.

seem

learns wis

•ansvillc Courier.

3 Whie^ means that"^Xlr. JEFFERSON DAVIS" is too honest for what our neighbor, the Journal, calls a "policy Democrat." He hasn't "learned" that sort of "wisdom from experience" which enables its possessor to think and talk in opposite directions.

A Sensible Departure.

Last Thursday night,—as we learn from the Vincennes Times—the prisoners con, fined in the Knox county jail, sawed one of the bars off in the grate to a window, and four of them escaped. Among those who took this departure were MOSES WRIGHT, of Nashville, and PARKER CRANE, the latter of whom was tried last August for the murder of ALFRED AGEE, of Pike county—the jury returning a verdict of guilty, and fixing his punishment at death.

Returned to The'n* Allegiancc. The Indianapolis Sentinel says: "The great mass of the people of the South, and we refer to those who were in active sympathy with the secession move* ment, and we may add that the exceptions are rare, accept the results of the

war

in good faith, and have returned to their allegiance to the Constitution as it

'returned to their alle-

that if this "return" places them in power again, ihey will soon set aside the amendments that "have been made parts of the Constitution by violence and fraud, and arc. therefore, revolutionary and void," and will speedily restore "the constitution as it was." Bah! your disguise is too thin.

Hanging in Evansville-

The Evansville Journal of yesterday contains a carefully written editorial in favor of hanging. If ibe editor of that excel lent paper will cast his eye over his own city he will see that the manner in which the law imposing the death penalty is enforced there, i.s a good reason why it should be repealed— though there are better reasons which we haven't time to mention now. As in other commercial river cities, murders are of frequent occurrence in Evansville. But how many murderers have been executed there during the last dozen or twenty years? We can recall but one who was legally killed, while two others suspected of that, or a worse crime, -were executed by a mob. One of these was unquestionably an innocent man. All of these three victims of capital punishment were friendless negroesIn the same city, the editor of the Jou~ nal can see a number of white men who are known to have murdered their fel-low-citizens, walking the streets with perfect impunity. They had money. They had friends. Consequently their trials were mere farces. It seems to lis that a candid consideration of these facts would convince an intelligent observer that a milder law—one that could be enforced—would be better for ali concerned.

rainfnlly Inharmonious. In the last issue of the Mail, the lead ing editorial, devoted to "The EXPRESS and the Catholics," contains this statement: "Now, the truth is that the Mail has denounced every movement of the Com

rallne

ed authority to draw on three parties for resistance to the Versailles Government to its final suppression, except the one act of destroying the Column Vendome."

the specified million, the Fulton street gentlemen, however, having a mutual understanding to the effect that he could keep on drawing until he had bccome a noted artist before he got any money. In the meantime they have the valuable papers and documents.

from the'first day of its organized

Let us see how this positive assertion harmonizes with an equally positive utterance of the same paper two weeks ago. Speaking then of the recent destruction of the Column, our neighbor said: "This movement of the Commune is the most admirable iu their history. It is the most marked expression of their detestation of the unhallowed ambition which had it finest memorial in the destroyed column."

We respectfully submit—and every pupil in our schools who has made any progress in grammar will see the correctness of our position—that to declare one of a series of movements "the most admirable," is to pronounce others of the series, "admirable." This point is so clear that there is no occasion to urge it further. Having, then, described the acts of the Commune, tip to and including the destruction of the Column, as "admirable,' how can our cotemporary now assert that it has "denounced" all those acts?

Duplicate Shafts.

A statute in Pennsylvania, wickedly violated in the case of the Pittston mine, where t!ic horrible tragedy ©f Avondale was recently repeated, requires two outlets for every mine where twenty or more men are employed. This statute is almost an exact copy of the duplicate shaft act of the British Parliament, and had it been enforced, not a single life would have been lost by the burning of the Pittston shaft.

So far as we have knowledge of the subject, there has been no legislation in this State for the protection of those working in mines, although some owners, with creditable humanity and wise forethought, have constructed duplicate shafts, and taken every precaution against the occurrence of such awful disasters as have occurred in other localities from burning shafts. But this is a matter of too much importance, when we consider the rapid developementof our mining interests,to be left to the voluntary action of any class of men. The State should provide by law for the protection of the lives of those who delve under the ground, and should not admit a possibility of their being horribly sacrificed to the cupidity of an em plover. Until such legislation is had, miners will do well to insist on their employers' furnishing some means of escape from such an awful fate as that which met the victims of the Avondale and Pittston disasters.

"Hang llcr V'

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services were in most urgent request. They couldn't have been influenced by so unworthy a motive as. fear! Impossible! That could not have kept them near the shelter of the maternal apron! But whatever may have been their motives, certain it is that when thousands of the armed enemies of society, of government, of our country's flag had to be killed, at the

the-e ink-heavers who are now shrieking

the Governor of California, "Han her! Hang her!" kept their precious bodies far from the scene of danger. Now that a single public enemy, and that

lv be kept from doing any more harm in this world, it is fitting that such brav souls should howl in hideous chorus "hang her! hang her!"

6 Gnllovrs.''

Journal sneers at

THE Indianapolis "that high-toned chivalry which shrinks from taking a woman to the scaffold." We can imagine a great deal of "shrinking" at so awful a piece of business as "taking a woman to the scaffold" and choking her to death, or breaking her neck, by due process of law, without much "hightoned chivalry." The ordinary feel* ings of humanity would cause an ordinsrv man to shrink in horror from such a terrible deed. Granted that punishment should be visited on criminals, regardless of sex, yet where can you find a man who would not rather perform legal murder on a dozen coarse, brutal men, than on one beautiful woman, such as LAURA

FAIR, whose case elicits the JournaTs sneer? It is easy enough for an editor in his sanctum, a preacher in his pulpit, or a merchant in his counting room, to in nite editorials, hurl diatribes or crack jokes about the gallows, but when you come to the practical reality of the business, it is full of the grimly horrible There are thousands of men who talk in favor of capital punishment, whom no consideration would induce to take part in an execution. And yet, if capital pun ishment is right, the most sincere Christian should feel that he could cheerfully lend a hand, if necessary, in launching a wicked neighbor into eternity. But how many feel so? How many would consent under any circumstances, to drag a cow «ring wretch from his cell, pull him up the gallows steps, bind his trembling legs and arms, adjust the rope about his neck draw the black cap over his face, and then cut the rope, touch the spring or draw the pin that is to let the trap fall and choke the horrified andj frightencdjsoul out of its earthly tenement into the presence of its God? How many of you who think capital punishment a"Divine institution" would select, as a guardian for your children,—were you about to die,—a man who would willingly be a hangman? How many of you would feel that those qualities of mind and heart that fitted their posses sor for carrying into effect this "Divine institution" would not unfit him to take the place of parent to your orphans after your death? It is hard enough for any

Sheriff—if he is a suitable man to be charged 1 of that high office—to go through the awful details of killing, as the law prescribes, even the roughest and coarsest of hi3 fellow men. The Sheriff of Vanderburg county—a man of nerve and courage—found it quite as much as he could bear to choke the life out of the ignorant and brutalized negro, BEN. SAWYER, whom he was compelled to slay the other

day. But suppose that instead of such a creature, the victim had been a delicate and beautiful woman, would

"A Very Unfortunate Man." Latest advices from Jeffersonville indicate that no charge has occurred in the remarkable mania that has taken possession of the Mayor of that city. He still indulges the harmless hallucination that he is a Director of the

State Prison South,

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NEWS AND NOTES.

VINCENNES

and his friends humor him by permitting him to sign pretended official papers the prison. Taken altogether, this is a things being equal, the paitv which perstrange case, eminently worthy of scientific investigation. The fact that this unfortunate gentleman is entirely sane upon all other matters, so that one might converse with him for hours and never suspect the existence of his mania, unless some allusion was made to the Prison, has been mentioned as entirely exceptional, but those who have read authorities on this subject will find many similar cases reported.

Very Sad.

It is painfuily evident that the "gallant" Democracy of Ohio will have to make their campaign without the sympathy or moral support of the Terre Haute Journal and the Democracy of Vigo county. When VAL led them last to battle with the hosts of Radicalism, they were left on the field, buried beneath a Republican majority one hundred thousand! That was several years ago. Perhaps fifty thousand will suffice this time.

OF TIIE hundreds of country Democrats who have visited our office during the last week not one had taken the "new departure" chute.— Journal.

With all your information on that interesting subject you ought to be able to inform Mr. VOORIIEES' constituents whether or not he has departed with VAL. How is it? The anxiety of the people on this point is too intense to be trifled with.

THE best thing wc have seen in the Journal for a long lime is this pertinent question, clipped from the last issue o^ that matin luminary: "Has any one heard of a radical turning over to the Democracy on account of the 'new departure' doctrine?"

ROBERT TOOMBS is a representative Southern Democrat, and this is what he

Many of our eotemporaries are heartily exulting in the prospect of LAURA I-AIR'S execution on the scaffold. We know a score or two of these chivalrous fellows, now demanding the death of this woman, who demonstrated their own great courage by sticking close to their mothers apron strings when the country called on them to help slay the rebel hordes who threatened to destroy the nation life. That is one style of men who glory in the hanging business. If it is so vastly important to have the enemies of society killed if to protect society, stalwart men must choke the life out of a woman, by due process ot law, how came it that

of the new departure: When vou can tear the live thunder from its home in the burning ether, and bind it a captive at the footstooj of tyranny, then, and not- till then, will I accept the situation.

rast Grand Pendleton.

Political old fogie.s will find much solemn truth in this brief article from the Chicago Republican:

There is a fatality in the case of politicians who have passed their perihelion, and have ceased to be looked upon as living forces—that they are alwaws receiving honorary votes, or getting into honorary positions. They are continually being made presidents of something or secretaries of something receiving testimonials of the distinguished consideration in which they are held, by those who

tion

in wtucn tney are neiu, uj inwc

these men couldn't lend a hand at killing generaUy reverence their characters, but public enemies in battle when their i---° the conclusion that it is tin-

UCIJCIdiM ivv»vwv-

have come to the conclusion that it is unsafe to risk anything on them for the fu-

The selection of Mr. Pendleton for the jjar(j

"post of President of the late Democratic

Convention at Columbus indicates the melancholy fact that that gentleman has lapsed into the

Past

thrust into the

imminent peril of the killers, most of ^ope to thereby give him an appearance

place

high standing for ulterior purposes gj^yg

not impossible—they could not

have made a more grievous mistake. There is nothing more fatal to a politician

tnai a singic puuuu enttu*, ami ui.»i ors is me muum, woman, is safelv immured,and can readi- splendid funeral, testifies that an active terity as a private

has

closed: and

is making a tremendous

effort to suppress the "social evil."

THE

Cincinnati Commercial has estab

lished a branch editor at Indianapolis.

THE

Emmettroupe are playing at Fort

Wayne "I

not of those who accept the situ-

tion. I accept nothing."—J person Davis, at Atlanta, Ga., May 27,1871.

THIRTY-FIVE

applications for divorce

are on the docket for the June Term of the Marion Superior Court.

THE

Indiana Horticultural Society ii

holding its annual session at Indianapolis. IT is expected that all the Atlantic Cables will be in good working order in a few days.

THE plaintiff in the Milligan case has filed a motion for a new trial. It will be argued before Judge Drummond at Chicago some time during July.

THE editor of the Indianapolis Journal facetiously remarks that among other signs of progress in the Capital City is the marked increase in the numbers of able lawyers! "You honor me only as the representative of your cause. That cause is dear to me—more precious even than life—and I glory in its remembrance."—Jefferson Davis, at Augusta, Ga., May 25, 1871.

DEMOCRATS and "soreheads" are hard to plexse. They worry as much over Grant's summering at Long Branch they did about' his summering in the Wilderness. Neither seems to please them.

AT a^congregational meeting of the members of the First Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis, on Monday evening, a unanimous call to the pulpit thereof, was extended to the Rev. J. P. E. Kumler, of Evansville, at a salary of $3,500.

THE year is rife with pestilence. The fearful ravages of the yellow fever in South America aro followed by smallpox in London, Paris and New York, and now Russia reports cholera, and fears its rapid spread. Savants are trying to connect the epidemics with the French slaughter

A CLASS of twenty-eight candidates was confirmed at St. Paul's Cathedral Indianapolis, on Sunday morning, the rite being administered by Rt. Rev. Assistant Bishop Talbot. In the even ing of the rite of confirmation was administered to a class at Christ Church

THE distinguished literary gentleman who writes political editorials for Harper's Weekly—Mr. George William Curtis—has declared for the renomination of President Grant. The Independent follows suit, saying: "The party wants its strongest man, and that man is ULYSSES

there have been any "hightoned chival- S. GRANT." On the other hand, the .. in his "shrinking" from the du ty of taking- her to the gallows We don't believe the editor the Indianapolis Journa would "enter on his list of friends" the name of a man who would not "shrink" from such a duty. We don't believe that the Journal editor, or any other gentleman, would care to cultivate the acquaintance of a man who couid unshrinkingly drag a trembling woman from her cell, pinion her limbs, shut out her last look from this world and choke the life out of her frail body. And we don't think there are many of the Christian men and women who "believe in hanging," who would

New York Tribune favors a change, and Republicans of the city and State, under of the lead of Senator Fenton, arc preparing to bring ont Horace Greeley,as the Presidential candidate for 1872. "I HAVE been punished for mv crimes, and have experienced the worst which could be imposed. In the cant language of the day—punishment with me is 'play'ed out.' The worst that can be done has been done, and I have no more to fear.—Jefferson Davis, at Augusta, Ga., May 25, 1871.

COMMENTING on the carpenter work of the Ohio Democratic State Convention, the Chicago Republican remarks that it is

O-

like to stand by as spectators and invoke strange, in the construction of platforms, God's blessing on ihe deed.

that men whose lives have been a series of failures in that avocation should still continue to believe that, if allowed the opportunity, they could lead the people, and dissolve and reconstruct parties by means of a series of resolutions. This, while, if a balance were struck of the account how much party force has been gained and how much lost through such creations, the result would be found to be largely upon the losing side. Other

sistently refused to make any declaration whatever, and went into elections simply upon the strength of its organization and candidates, would, in a large majority of cases, be successful. The plan of supplementing a bad ticket by a parcel of trimming or double faced resolutions, a poor device at first, has become worn out, until it no longer serves either to pursuade or to deceive and the body of effete platform makers in Ohio will find, to their disappointment, that their array of wordy, threadbare and specious propositions will have no better fate than a long array of its predecessors.

FILLED with that jealousy which springs from the knowledge of their inferiorty and of the justice of your pretensions, and conscious of broken covenants and a violated Cons!itntion, they [the Loyal Men of the North] mistru- .- very movement, and tremble with fear when they think that right may again prevail." —Jefferson Davis, at Augusta, Ga., May 25, 1871.

THE Saturday Review is one of the "powers that be" in English journalism, and if any one doubts that our delegates in the Joint High Commission gained a complete victory, let him read the leading ariicle in that paper on the 20th ult. Admitting that there is little doubt of the ratification of the treaty, admitting also the strange commendation that it has received, from press and people, urges with much bitterness that the Ministry has pursued the same courre as with Russia, and purchased peace at the cost of honor and national security. Granted, it says, that peace with the United States cost* only a small pecuniary consideration, the principles established for the future are more dangerous than the controversy in the present. It is the first case, the Review goes on to say, in which e.r post facto rules have been established to govern arbitrators and it will result in every nation which thinks itself aggravated by England in the past, demanding a law in the present which shall retract on the past, and render her liable for wrongs which did not exist. The article closes with the reiteration that peace is dearly bought.

COEFOKAL FISHBACK, editor of the Indianapolis Journal, doesn't hanker after Adjutant General Terrell's Report. In fact he is severly down on that ponderous work, and lets the world know why. It appears that in the summer of 1864, moved by the patriotic appeals of Governor Morton and others, he went for a soldier as "a hundred days man." Under the broiling sun at Stevenson, Alabama, and the umbrageous shade of the chestnut trees surrounding Judge Catron's summer residence at Tullahoma, Tennessee, he drew his rations of beans, pork and

tacjci while

(:prpral

Grand condition, and

has reached thestage at which politicians are regarded by their party as rather ornamental than available. If Mr. PendleMI,P

tou was

THE Texas State Fair managers hav ing made a good card out of Greeley, the Louisville Agricultural Association propose also to make a good thing, and "conciliate" the North by inviting Henry Ward Beecher to deliver an address. Don't it seem odd to see the South run* ning after Greeley and Beecher?

TOLEDO has a new sensation'."" Some thirty-eight persons who had purchased portions of a very fine cheese at a corner grocery, ate thereof, and, like Eve after her apple experience, came to the conclusion that they should surely die. It affected them most around the region of the waistband, and their hearts grew very sick. The chemists and doctors are nonplussed, as the cheese looks well enough and is from one of the best factories. It has caused such great excitement that even the newsboys arecrying "cheese it!'

AN attache of a firm in New York was drawn as a juryman, and a letter was written by the copartner to Judge Benedict, saying that the man would lose his situation if compelled to serve. The judge took pity on the man and excused him but stated that his employers were amenable to the law, which imposes a large fine and imprisonment on any one who attempts to obstruct the course of justice, and the Attorney General was ordered to prosecute accordingly.

THE extreme foolishness of Americans abroad, in literally throwing away their money, has frequently been the subject of remark in fact it is sufficient justification for a tradesman or landlord to double his charges when he knows that his customer or guest comes from the United States But the greatest fool we have heard of among our countrymen for some time is a New Yorker, who, according to the Boston Times, offered 2000 francs for the privilege of being the last man to ascend the Column Vendome before it was pulled down. The Commune, despite the low state of its finances, refused to sell this silly privilege, no doubt to the deep dis appointment of the blockhead who ask ed it.

THE Indianapolis Journal notices the intcresiing fact that since Jeff Davis" recent manifestations there has been a marked change in the tone of the Dem ocratic press on the subject of amnesty. The Democratic leaders are getting to be of the opinion that Jeff, would not be a very useful member of Congress or Uni ted States Senator. He is entirely too demonstrative. He declares, in his re cent speeches, that he can not think one way and talk another, and his inability to do this clearly unfits him for a leading Democrat of the new school. Hendricks and Vallandigham are the Talleyrands who are adepts in the art of using language for the purpose of concealing their thoughts. Outspoken gentlemen like Frank Blair and Jeff. Davis are invited to take back seats while the work-«f reconstructing the principles of the Democratic party is in progress.

AT THE quarterly meeting of the "Hicksitc Friends," commonly called "Quakers," held in New York last week, a long report was read from the Executive Committee having charge of the relations of the Society to Indian affairs. It is quite clear from this report, that President Grant, in reposing in the hands of Quakers a portion of the Indian Agencies, made a long step in the right direction. The efforts of the agenti have awakened in the Indians a sense of the advantages and duties of civilized life. They have supplied schools, taught industrial arts, especially agriculture, directed the labors and protected the interests of the Indians with fidelity, and generally with intelligence. But their greatest service has been in convincing the Indians that while justice to and by them would be insisted on and applied, that while crimes against them would be vigilantly guarded against and promptly punished, it was their duty and their interest to expose and surrender those of their own number who were guilty of wrong to the whites. Among the novel results of the course have been, with the innebagoes, the institutions of Indian police, the surrender by them of accused parties, the successful deposition of chiefs opposed to civilization and their replacement by more progressive ones, and the voluntary assumption by many of the young men of

the

Sherman and his army,

hundred miles awav, were fight-

several hundred miles away, were fighting Johnston and Hood. At the end of his term of service he returned to his home, and delivered over his virgin muik'et or rifle, or whatever it was, as bright and untarnished as when he re-

in question R,

j,v hi* especial friends and backers, in the ceived it. To be brief, he was a Corporal,

an the

than'lo be a rwipient of unprofitable hon- Tmazement and chagrin at finding that It is the last tribute, which, like a nffipial record transmits him to pos-

while

ii HCUUIU IUUW. »».]

life has closed and while the mourning mav be verv sincere, it does not necessarilv'indicate'that the departed should return and disturb the heirs with fresh complication".

requisite number of chevrons on

the sleeve of his blouse proclaimed his rank to the world. Turning to Adjutant General Terrell's report, what was his

his blouse proclaimed hi

the official record transmits him to pos

E0'd'"n

g®

the mourning the book in disgust, and has never opened

it since. It seemed- to him that there had been "a studied effort to put him down," and of course he has been badly graveled thereat ever since.

costume and customs of the whites. The agents have been aided by the gen

erous

contributions of the Quaker Society in clothing, food, implements, and charts and books for object-teaching in the schools. Altogether, it is an exceedingly good and proming work.

THE]SCHISJI in Germany over Papal Infallibility ha3 only been spread and intensified by the excommunication of Dr. Dollinger. Three prominent professors of Mr -h —Muller, ^larcus and Walther—wh- .e joined by others in high positiou—have published a declaration against the Infallibility dogma. They express the opinion that the Government of Bavaria "will not only oppose all illegal action on the part of the spiritual authorities, but summon a new Landtag as soon as possible to regulate the relations of Church and State in a liberal spirit." In an assembly at Neustadt on the Haardt, a resolution was passed, raising a committee to co-operate with the committee of action at Munich, and to put itself in connection with all the greater towns of the Palatinate. A delegate convention at Kairserslautern is to decide on the necessary steps to be taken. A meeting of Roman Catholics at Erlangen, according to the "Tferlin Correspondent, has "protested against the legality of the Bishop of Bamberg's steps, and the excommunication with which all who have signed the Munich address are threatened. The magistrates of Munich have resolved to petition the authorities of Uppper Bavaria to forbid Mr. Streber continuing to give lesions in the public schools, as he bad made the dogma of the infallibility of the Pope a part of his religious instruction. They have also decided not to grant positions to any new teacher of religious subjects who refuses to sign a declaration against the new dogma. Should the priests refuse to conform to this condition, layman will be appointed. The magistrates further resolved to adopt measures with respect to the protests made by parents against the practice of teaching the dogma of Papal infallibility in elementary schools, and to ask whether the absence of children from religious instruction which is attributed to the teaching of the dogma is to be punished as willful absence from school, as well as what steps can be taken against the teachers who insist on teaching it."

AMONG the rumors in Washington is one that credits General Cameron with aspiring to the Vice Presidential nomination on Iheticket with Grant.—Sentinel.

SIMON will have to aspire a long time before he finds himself nominated for Vice President with GRANT, "or any other man."

THERE are twenty-four boot and shoe manufactories in Milford, Mass., and the whole number of boots and shoes manufactured there during the past year was 1,400,000 pairs, and the amount of sales reached $4,091,000. The greatest number of pairs made by one firm wa3 233,632. and the smallest 4,G44.

i..." rant's Statesmanship. ::ica£i Journal.] v.v-.--nl opinion at Washington

From t! The thu tors is emi» it, the) great C.-

Has distanced all competiManlike judgment. Hisenit Caleb Cushing has done •t tell us, however, if the 30 good an adviser, why

they uoi. wit enough to seek his counsel, nor do they explain how Grant, if he has no wit, as they pretend, was shrrwd enough to secure masterly counsel, and to beat them by Caleb at least, if not by his own sense. The fact is that the Presidlnt is thinking, and is taking counsel with himself, while most of those aronnd him are gambling like a bevy of gossips, and when he gives an opinion they awake to the fact that

It would be better, undoubtedly, if our President could beopen and affable and yet preserve his habit of profound reflection, and fearless, independent decision he might then be a politieian with the politicians, as well as a statesman among statesmen. But we can not make over our great men and it is very likely that the making over of Grant, if it could be accomplished, would make him acceptable to the politicians at the cost of ^destroying his judgment and courage as a statesman. As the matter now stands, wc have in President Grant by far the most thoughtful and uncompromising. yet judicious and popular, of

American statesmen. It may suit the purposes of reckless journalism to sneer at the head of the Government the intelligent deliberation of the country will none the less settle down upon the conviction that Grant is no less a state-man than a soldier, and as able to settle en ii as military perplexities.

The Trials of Journalism. Whitelaw Reid, the managing editor of the New York Tribune, was once editor of the Xenia, Ohio, News, and like most country editors had his experiences. We let him tell his own story in his own words. He says here is one thing in the Tribune ofuua which grieves him, and thai is proof rending. And this is his story:

I can manage pig-iron for my chief, but 1 inuot manage the proof readers. And ab nt once a week I get an injunction :i him that I must dismiss a proof reader. And that recalls my early experience *. hen I learned it in a small way. After 1 had learned printing in a country hon.-e I went and bought out a good printing office. In those days we had college advertisements, which came into the office with the explanations that "this is to be inserted in case you give an excellent editorial notice along with it."

One day we had an advertisement of the Columbus Commercial College and the foreman came to me and told me there must be an editorial notice of it. My time was short. The forms were wailing, and I wrote it straightway ''The Columbus Commercial College is an excellent and well deserving institution. The advertisement appears in another column." I sent it to the proof-reader, and went home. I got up late the next day, and the edition had all been mailed before I saw it. You can imagine the perfectly amiable stale of my feelings when I "read "The Columbus Commercial College is an excellent and Ae/i dc serving institution." You can't believe it, but to this day the bill for that adver

one of those rare instances in the ex per ience of country printers when a man came into the office to thrash me. I had then arrived at the mature age of eighteen, but I was not as vigorous as_I am now. In the course of some police items in a country town I had occasion to note the fact that a certain Dutch butcher, height six feet, age 39, weight 200, had whipped his wife, a proceeding to which I objected, and commented on with the severity which I hope the enlightened press of this country will always exhibit on such occasions.

The next day the butcher came in and proposed to "interview" the writer of that paragraph. He looked at me and inquired if 1 wrote it. We think quick in great perils and people in danger of being thrashed can do a very small amount of ratiocination in a short time. I saw there was no use of arguing with the fellow, and I said to him: "Hans, are you a subscriber to this paper?"

Hans, who understood thoroughly that he had been maligned, was not so sure on the subject of subscription, and he shook his head and asked me what I meant. "Hans, arc you a subscriber to this paper?" Hans scratched his head again and believed he was not. I said loudlv: "Put your hand into your pocket-book, and give me two dollars to pay your subscription! Until you do, I would like to know what business it is of yours what we say!"

I escaped the thrashing that time, and commend it to the attention of all who put such things in their papers.

Kl'FUS CHOATE.

The Way lie Befriended a Yonng Man TYlio is now a U. S. Senator. [From John W. Forney's Anccdotcs of Public

Men.J

The answer of Mr. Choate was characteristic. He said: "1 honor your determination, but was selfish enough to hope that you might remain with me. yet as you have resolved upon this Etep you can always rely upon my frendship then aked if he bad any money, to which the young man replied that he had no means to purchase his law library, whereupon Mr. Choate said, "Go to Little & Brown

(the

Our young practitioner started for the West, and opened his office, but, as bad luck would have it, was stricken down by one of the dangerous fevers of the countrv. Of course he could not pay the note when it fell due, but Mr. Choate kindly and carefully protected bis credit. With unbroken spirit and restored health, he

vi w—parati

began the

hU kith or kin."

LET

Jeff Davis' Protest Against The New Departure. Hon. Jefferson Davis has contributed his help towards answering the question: Do the Southern people in good faith accept the situation? The Atlanta New Era

of the 28th reports the reception and remarks of that personage at Atlanta on the 27th. We confess to the feeling of sadness and suprise'on finding that in the course of his speech of acknowledgement, Mr. Davis-expressed himself, or is reported by the

New Era—a

has mas

tered the subject, and thereby become master of the situation. This evident superiority of the silent man in the White House to all the politicians about him, satisfies even those who personally have no cause to love him, that the country cannot possibly do as well as to keep the best General of the war, and the most judicious administrator since the war, at the head of the_Government. Large numbers of politicians hate to think that this must be, but they concede that it is inevitable. Mr. Greeley's idea that a man is fit to serve at all in such a position will not serve honestly if he has either hope or fear in regard to re election before his eyes, is certainly inapplicable to the case of a man who actually errs in the other direction in not taking sufficient pains to conciliate persons, and in putting all his trust in the sincerity of his purpose to do right.

I heard a very pleasant incident, some evenings ago, related by a distinguished Senator in Congress from one of the Western States, who was himself the parly immediately benefited. Anxious when quite young to complete the study of his profession, lie visited Boston and called upon Mr. Choate, and offered himself as one of his students. Struck by the earnestness and frankness of the appeal, the great lawyer took him into his confidence, and soon realized that he could be made useful. At the end of two years, the student informed the preceptor that he intended to begin the practice of his profession in the flourishing State of Wisconsin.

old-established law publishers), select vour books, and refer them to me as security Elated by this renewed mark of his esteem, he laid in what he conceived to be a good assortment, and took the list back to the great man, who, glancing over it, said, "Your list is too small,," and, taking out the legal catalogue, lie designated with his own hand a very much increased collection, amounting to some four or five thousand dollars, adding "with these tools you can begin something like effective work."

our Republican friends who have

had any doubts about the real purpose of the Democratic party study the lesson now being taught by Jefferson Davis in Georgia. In the light of this study they will, nnless we wholly misunderstand them, cease all complaints, st&p all dissensions, and close up the ranks for the great campaign of 1872, in which the vital question is to be decided Are we to have another rebellion under the command of the old traitor, or shall we preserve the Government under the lead of the man who did the most to save it from destruction?—J'hil. Ptest

paper friendly to

him—to this effect: "There was a good deal of'talk about 'accepting the situation,' but ns far as he was concerned he would accept nothipg. These miserable phrases about accepting the situation because our rights had been submitted to the arbitrament of the sword and lost, were the excuses of dunces and cowards. No one had any right to jubmit the liberties of a people to the arbitrament of the sword. The representatives of the Southern people had never been authorized to do anything of the kind. As their chief Executive, he had never been so authorized, nor did he ever claim to be. He did not like to be un derstood as advocating resistance. On the contrary, he counseled submission to existing laws. He knew very well that the conquerer was too powerful to be successfully resisted by the South. It was the duty of Georgia and of the other State to keep aloof from politics and attend to the development of their internal resources. This was all that could be done at present.

The true friends of the South will read these words with sorrow. Their import can not be understood If this man is not regarded as substantially insane and his counsels as those of a monomaniac if the ovations tendered to him are what he assumes them to be, ovations not to him personally, but to the cause he represents if he speaks influentially to any considerable portion ot theSouthern people, a startling fact is presented for contemplation. The situation is not accepted. Resistance and rebellion are refrained from because the South is too weak and the government too strong. When this condition shall be regarded as having changed, then another rebellion mav be in order! This is clearly the meaning of the remarks of Jefferson Davis above quoted—too clearly to permit the possibility of question.

Now, wo are reluctant to believe_ that this madness is shared by any considerable number of the Southern people. But does it not look as if Mr. Davis had_ entered upon his tour, at the crisis^ in Southern opinion, with a purpose and as if he were deliberately swinging "round the circle" in order to head oft the Vallandigham programme? One or two sensible journals of the Southern press have been preaching acquiescence and acceptance for a considerable period, and their influence has been evidently growing, until, under the pressure of Northern Democratic policy, a considerable number of the Southern papers have formally declared for accepting the Amendments and "burying the dead issues." Another considerable number, however, have refused to do this, but the most of it not all of these have at least yielded the right of secession. While this progress of liberalism is at the most promising^ stage it has yet reached, and when patriotic citizens of all parties are hoping for its complete and genuine triumph, Jefferson

Davis reappears, engages^ in a_ tour of principal Southern cities, is received with almost boundless revereuce and enthusiasm, and declares that "these miserable phrases about accepting the situation because rights have been submitted to the arbitrament of the sword and lost are the excuses of dunces and cowards."

How far will this protest affect those Southern journals and men who were about making up their minds to profess acceptance? How will it influence such staunch Bourbons as are represented by the Memphis Appeal, Mobile Register, Montgomery Advertiser and Mail, Savanah Rcpubicdn, &c., &c What light does it shed upon the sincerity and reliableness of much of the Southern acceptance thus far? What does it suggest as the propriety of transferring the government into the hands of the copperhead party of «. the war, whatever its professions?

Mr. Davis complains that his utterances are used to the injury of his people. We

tisement is running. And that reminds furmshed by me of one other incident. I remember

an At

?anta

pa|)er

friendly to him, and

the words he U3es are exceedingly plain. If they injure his people it must be through their being understood in their unambiguous and obvious sense, and for

such injury who but himself can be blamed? Yet while thus speaking, lie professes to be reticent, and to refrain from expressing himself fully, from the fear that the South would suffer if he did. Then it is reasonable to conclude that he had no modification of the above language to offer, and that if he said more it would be rather an aggravation of it.

Mr. Jefferson Davis would certainly render a very great service to his Southern countrymen, and some servicc to his own reputation, by ceasing to act the part of a cunning fomenler of discord. If lie is anxious, as he seems to be, that the his tory of the country shall vindicate and make glorious the rebellion of which he stood at the head, let him take counsel of a little common sense and he will discover that the thing is impossible. He has perpetrated ruin enough. Tlier is no particular necessity that he should now devote himself to the worst conceivable work in his power, that of strengthening the hope in the South, and the ap prehension in the North, as a resurrec tion of "the lost cause."—St. Louis Democrat.

Modern Democracy

Alluding to the recent wedding of "Boss" TWEED'S daughter, at which half a million dollars worth of gifts were vulgarly displayed, the New York Times says:

We have allowed the organs of Mr. Tweed to tell the story of the great event which recently happened in his family, and a very pretty story it is. The Herald rather proudly boasts that royalty has been eclipsed by the Boss, and that

has rivaled

the splendors of the byville George

have published fully justify all this glorification. Peop hard to provide bread, will be interested Mr. Tweed, who was a bankrupt chair maker a few years ago, can afford to spend of money on a wedding sufficient to keep hundreds of poor families for a twelvemonth. He has caused his journals to relate that a member of his family was a "mass of priceless gems," and that her very boots were covered with diamond buttons. Many of the dupes who keep him in power would be very glad if they could get boots without diamonds for their children. What pays so well as the "profession" of politician? Farmers work hard—so do laborers in the city. But if you want to grow rich "beyond the dreams of avarice," you must get a city to plunder, and call yourself a "Boss." The moral of the story which we have quoted from Democratic papers will not be lost on the public—or even on the poorer class of Democrat. Some dav they will ask why one man should beable to boast that his children are able to button their boots with diamonds, while their own children go in rags.

I'ERRFXAL.

Ex-President Fillmore will spend the summer at St. Catharines, Canada. Senator Sumner is in Washington, revising his works for the new edition now publishing.

Nasby is not the author of the popular Earm Ballads. Miss Nileson will sing in Chicago on the 14th and 16th of June, for the benefit of the Swedish churches of that city.

Mrs. Margaret Lucas, of London, a sister of John Bright, has been attending the woman's suffrage convention and other anniversaries.

Senator Schurz has taken his family to

unbroken spirit anu resiureu uca..ii, uv Bethlehem, Pa., where they will reside

practice of law, and, at the end (juring the summer. The Senator will of a comparatively short time, earned

enough money to liquidate his obligation "but," said he, "as long as life lasts 1 shall never cease to cherish the name of Rufus Choate, and I would walk from

remain

St. Louis most of the "heated"

term.' TIIE Imperial Library of Paris—called Royal or National, according to what

here to Boston barefooted to serve any of government i3 in is declared, to the Iicic .... nroni nloi.nrs nf lie lilprarv world, tn great pleasure of the literary world, to have escaped the ruin of Paris. To

Americans, who are just founding great have libraries, its contents are simply incrediisc of ble. In 1715, when Louis X\ died, there were 70,000 volumes. Now there are 1,500,000 printed books, 300,000 pamphlets, 125,000 manuscripts, 300,000 maps and charts, and 150,000 coins and medals. It has been and will be the great resource of French scholars, and still gives to Paris the palm of all the world. It is wonderful that in their rage for destruction the Communists did not apply the torch to it, for its establishment der water, is the work*of former monarchs, and it is rich in French history.— Philadelphia Inquirer.

'I was with Grant." Democracy "departed'

Communist

LONDON,

l«t

one third of the delegates i^j. i!a P/\nt«jnl

yuv

-^mocratic Convention,

BY TEfcs"^'981^

preat family of Ass d« fining two thirds conwith a declaration^

'-8fcv5J "J

Transports, Caledonia,

Commercial Relations ljj Germany and 1

Resnnie^ ^0

Hundred Cfrin to Hare J&e Lost at Sea.

INDIANAPOLIS

INDIANA NORTHERN RAILROAD. INDIANAPOLIS, June 6.—Articles association of the Indiana Northern Rai road were filed to-day wjth the Secretary of State. The road will extend from NewCastle, Indiana, to Farmland, Indiana, connecting with the Cincinnati and Martinsville railroad, extending to Bloomington, Ind.

ENGLAND.^,- .- WELCOME.

LONDON, Jane

6.—The Times welcomes

Minister Schenck. ORLEANS PRINCES

June (5—A special dispatch

to the

Times from Versailles says, it is the intention of tbe Orleans Princes to decline the seats to which they have been elected in the Assembly'

DEAD.

Fuguste Vermolel, a well IfAOwn poetical journalist of Paris, is dead. DIPLOMATIC CORPS.

Members of the Diplomatic Corps, are returning to Paris. FRENCH LOAN.

A French loan of 100,000,000 francs is proposed. BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

LONDON,

June 6.—The House of Lords,

has passed a bill authorizing Canada to organize territorial governments in the country lving between the Dominion and Pacific coast.

FROM NONG KONG.

Advices from Hong Kong, May 26, report a coolie vessel from Macas, for Callao, was burned at sea and COO Coolies perished in the flames. Particulars are con^ ilicting.

PRANCE. THE NEWS.

THE ORLEANS PRINCES.

VERSAILLES, June 6.—Thiers, in his conferences with the committee appointed by the Assembly, to consider the bill concerning the Orleans Princes, urged that conditions should be attached by which the Princes were not to hold office before expiration of

two

WITHDRAWN.

The bill introduced in the Assembly for rebuilding the column in Place Vendome, has been withdrawn.

POSTAL SERVICE.

PARIS, June 6.—Postal servicc is completely restored. COMMUNIST PRISONERS.

It is announced that 20,000 Communist prisoners will be transported to New Caledonia. The discovery of important documents, rendering new indictments necessary, has delayed trials by court martial at Versailles.

... BUCHAREST. THE CHAMDEKS. ... BUCHAREST, June 5th.—The sessions of the Roumanian Chambers were opened to-day by Prince Charles, who met an enthusiastic reception.

-J HOME. UIC1II MASS. ROME, June G—By order of the Pope solemn high mass was said to-day in honor of Ithe French Priests assassinated by Communists in Paris.

POPE'S JUBILEE.

ROME,-June 6.—An Encylical letter has been issued, calling on Catholics throughout the world to give thanks to God on occasion of the Pope's Jubilee.

BERLIN. ~S-

R" COMMERCIAL RELATIONS. BERLIN, June 6.—Commercial relations between (Jiermany and France have been restored to the same footing as before the war.

ST. JLOUIS.

ST. LOUIS, ALTON AND TEKKE HAUTE RAILROAD. ST. LOUIS, June 0.—The annual meet-, ing of the board and stockholders of the St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute Railroad Co. was held here yesterday, and the following directors, whose terms of service had expired, were re-elected. Levi Davis, Alton Anthony Thornton, Shel-

"Great Mogul." The accounts which we Ihomas Dowling, Terre Haute. illy justify all this The new directory organized by the ile who find it rather election of Chas. Butler, of New York, their children with President George A. Parker, of Illinois, ested in learning that Vice President W. G. Broughton, Gen.,o Kn.iL-rt.rt olin 1 eral Superintendent W. W. Bomas, Secretary and Auditor, and II. S. Depew,

-4-

ijb

PARIS, June 6.—Several of the officials under the Empire will become candidates at the supplementary elections for t'he»ATURALTREATAssemblv. The Verite thinks all the "matorrhea Ministers who belonged to the government of the -1th of September, should'' leave the present Cabiflent. The same journal expresses its opposition to Plebiscites. The Journal Des Debats praises the course pursued by the English government and the people during the .war. The fortresses proposed for the interior ot Paris have been located at Montmartre and:,Chaumont, and the engineers have already commenced work upon them.

Parker, Charleston

General freight and passenger agent. The main line ot this railroad is leased by the Indianapolis Railroad, but the company still operate the Belleville & Southern Illinois line, extending from here to Duquoin, Illinois, whence it is contemplated to extend it to Paducah, Ky. The superintendent's report shows the earnings of the Belleville and South Illinois division to be $3G2,87G, rent of the main line and Alton branch $482,953.

RESIGNED.

Ira Duvali, State Superintendent Public Schools, has resigned on account of ill health. Mr Duvali was for many years superintendent of the public schools of this city, and was largely instrumental in bringing them to the high state of effeciencv for which they are famous.

SEW OltLEAKS.

TLLB FLOOD.

NEW ORLEANS, June 5.—The flood is increasing. Water is up Canal street to Rampart street, with the exception of neutral ground on Canal street, which is entirely covered east of Claiborne. There is an unbroken sheet of water irom Villoy street to the Metairie bridge, and from the old and new basin, and an area of five or six square miles, including about 100 thickly settled squares. The sufferings of the inhabitants of this quarter, especially among the poorer classes, is very great. Thousands living in single story houses, have moved out, while most of those living in second story houses have been compelled to move back of Claiborne street, on to Canal. There is an average depth of two feet of water. The city authorities seem to be doing all they can to alleviate the sufferers. Every available boat and skiff' has been brought into use, and policemen are moving in every direction, rendering such assistance as they can, moving those who arein danger, and distributing to those who need provisions. The damage by this overflow cannot be estimated. Shrubbery and gardens have all been ruined, houses damaged and property depreciated. The overflow directly from the Lake in the Gentilly road quarter, has caused heavy loss in the destruction of many fine market gardens. The Wilrebourg and Ponchartrain railroad Gentilly station is still overflowed. Water in the Lake is receding slowly. A train came through from Mobile yesterday on the Chattanooga railroad. A passenger reports about four miles of the road un-

A passenger over the Jack-

son railroad, who came in this morning,

./v.. VWU, "..V %.uuib Jill wim

reports that the road is under water for seven miles north of Pass Mancho.

nrtiiiiii I'll IIITi

3E nd

irs

ormatorrheal tnry Kuiis'l •limciiU ••.•'ipnnimii-, 1 1'hysi-1

yeais, and were liable

to expulsion from France if they engaged in any intrigue looking to their restoration to the throne. It is now said that Thiers has ceased to insist on these conditions.

Vbusc,