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WEEKLY EXPRESS.

TEStRE HAUTE, IND.

Y»'educstlay Morning, Oct.

Fi'.OM our exchanges it is apparent that Chicago was preached about in

several thousand pulpits last Sunday.

HL "Nation" still

i!ie only effectual iceans whereby the

people of New York can rid themselves

of the thieve-:'.

Tins afternoon the Methodist State

Sunday School Convention meets at Indianapolis. An interesting and profitable =e si on is conCdeutly expected.

UR President gineral ACK.S ON," is the ballot said to have been cast by a number of IJerks county "Diniecrats" at the recent State election in Pennsylvania.

ONTRARY to hopes heretofore esprc-??-ed, the labor troubles at Newcastle, England, still continue, and with no prospect of a settlement.

Tin- ".Journal" surveys the routed

hosts of Democracy with an "l-told-vou. HO" expression of countenance, and calmly predicts further disasters to its

party in November.

IIox. 1. KHH met with such a stormy voyage from Liverpool to New

York that he has been indispo-ed since his arrival, and confined to his room at the St. Nicholas Hotel, New ..ork.

GOLDSBOiiOUtiii & ILL, proprietors of the "Indianapolilan," have purchased

the "Saturday Evening Miiroi" of W. 13. ViCKKlts, and merged the "Jndianapoli-

tau" with it. The ".Mirror" will appear

hereafter as an eight page paper.

miti Kailroad, and adds: "If the road concedes all this, it seems to us Terre Haute will be getting her money back, and more."

HE November number of "Scribner's Monthly" opens the third volume splendidly. To those who contemplate adding to or changing their supply of periodical literature, we heartily commend this ably edited and beautilully ilhtstnited magazine. Among its contributors are some of the best writers of our day, and the publishers spare no expense that promises to increase its attractiveness or substantial worth.

T111: Evansville "Courier," hitherto the

mo.st earnest supporter of IKNIJKK'KS, expresses a willingness to have the Dem

ocracy make no nomination for the Pres-

idencv. It s-aya: "It may be that the policy proposed by the'St. Louis "Republican" will lind favor, anil if so wo shall not demur, as we are persuaded lhat the future good anil grea-ne-s of the American republic depends largely upon the defeat of the Radical party at the next general election."

aJiaSZL

1871.

HE Indiana Slate Convention of Baptists will meet in Indianapolis on the 2-lth iuat.

MA^UEL .U .MDEIITS was knocked c'own and robbed in F.vansville the other night.

A wiUTKit on railroad accidents thinks

misplaced switchmen are ihe most fruitful cause of these disasters in this country,

and they arc likely to continue so while tiie responsible position of switchman is

intrusted to those of little intelligence, because such men are ccntent lo labor for

lo.v wages through twelve or fifteen hours of each d«y. When railroad companies pav their switchmen better wages, and reduce the hours of their service, they

will obtain better switchmen and nave money by having lewcr accidents.

HK Cincinnati "Commercial" wisely hays: "While citizens are contributing of their abundance for the relief of Chicago, they ought not to forget those who have sulTeted evun more severely in isconsin and Michigan. The destruction has been quite us complete, and the loss of life probably greater, There are many thousand people in the neighborhood of Green Bay and in the tipper part ot Michigan who arc utterly destitute, having neither houses nor clothing nor food. Relief, to be valuable, must be immediate and constant."

LLUIUNI: to the proposal of the St. Louis Republican that the Democratic parly make no Presidential nomination for 1K72, the "Journal says: "If the Democratic party is to be used as a mere cats-paw in the elections of next year ihe masses of the organization mav as well disband and be done with it"

Recent elections indicate that "the masses of the organisation arc being

"disbanded," or mustered out, with great rapidity. Be patient, neighbor, and the

job will be consummated 111 good time.

HE city editor of the Evansville ''Journal" assigns the following satisfac torv reasons for suppressing names in his police court reports:

Four miserable drunks were lined from 81.-•" to ST 2o One name is omitted, because the young man has very respectable relatives another, because be is respectable himself, when sober the third is omitted because it wouldn't look fairto publish him and let the others oft, and the fourth is omitted because it is not of much account anyway.'*

So far as our observation has extended, more evil than good has resulted from the

publication of names of parties guilty of

petty oflences.

Tn "Hatn Conner complimentary resolutions" have never appeared before ihe public any newspaper print. Wliy don't the "Express" publish lh.it emior-e-ment of the ex-S:a!e Printer'.'—J01•una/.

The resolutions to which the "Journal"

ness. Mr. ONNKK resigned the Chairmanship of the State Central Committee, and, upon his retiring, his associates

passed the usual complimentary resolutions—lhat is to say, they com pi men led

him for the manner in which he had dis charged the duties ol" ihe j^osition which

he resigned

tend' rs to an acei

HK Governor has refused to commute the sentence of JAJCES BUOOKS for the murder of A. W. SLATER, in Logansportj in May last, and he will be executed on the 27th of October, at Logansport.

AST Sunday, while all the world was thinking about the awful work of the fire fiend in Chicago, Wisconsin and Michigan, a ICew Albany parson pod angered his hearers with a learned discourse upon the transformation of Mrs. LOT into a saline pillar.

lriis at violence as

ITH certain defeat staring the Democracy Sr the face, it will not be an easy inatiet to find any prominent leader of the party willing to accept the martyrdom ol

Pre-idential nomination. The move-

merit in favor of no nomination is likely to gain strength.

IIL November Galaxy i.? received from the publishers, SHKLJJON & Co., New York. It con'uln.-i two hundred pa^es of the very eieam of current literature, and for variety and excellence is not excelled by any magazine on cither hide ol the Atlantic.

Qui. I N OLTZ, of Buffalo, and It. Si'iiOL'LK, of Indianapolis, will start an

afternoon paper in the latter city, to be entitled ihe "Indiana Slate-man." It will

be rigidly Democratic, and the initial number will bei.-sued on the first of No

vember.

HE evidences which England has lately shown of a slow but steady change of climate are being 1 eproduced in Iceland where the mean temperature is falling at a rale tiiat will soon render the island uninhabitable. No explanation of the change is as yet attempted, but the fact la fully acknowledged.

No HAND of charity should be held back on account of the noble response thus far made to the appeals from Chica

go. The latest reports icceivtd indicate much greater disties: limn any account*

hiiher!o published, I contribution

inn Evansville "Journal cnmue.ates

the conditions on which the city of l'erre ilaute subscribes one bundled thousand dollars to the Torre Haute :r.d Citicin-

From the number of old Indies who "remember quite di.-tincily lo have seen

and spoken with WASHINGTON,'' it would seem that Gi .:otit i: must have devoted a

good portion of his life to making the acquaintance of little girls.

A GENTLEMAN now resident in Phila

delphia, but who has been for thirty-six yeais a le-ident of the South, writing con

cerning the murder of Professor CATTO, makes tins pertinent and forceablc reflec

tion: "It is remarkable that a Democrat h: never been murdered for his political opinions North or South. The victims arc

those lhat maintain the moral, religious,

and true political issues of this Government. The demon that shot Mr. CATTO would assassinate a LINCOLN, a fin

people agitate.

NOILS AN II CLI1'P1X05

TEN millions of the national revenue come from tobacco raised and manufac tured in Virginia.

ANT,

or a WASHINGTON, if but the least rebel pretext should offer itself."

OK all Ihe shapes the Chicago relief has taken the most singular is that of giving halls in aid of the great, charily. There seems a strange incongruity between the means and iheend We suppose to make ihe hall a success the dancers will keep before their minds the inspiriting thought of a c'ty in ashes, and the hundred thousand destitute and homeless ones shivering among the ruins.—Evansril'e Journu't.

We think codfish balls arc ihe only

kintl really adapted lo this terrible emergency, although we confess to an inclina

tion to bawl every time the awful picture of ruin, want and wretchedness comes be-

foreour menial vision. But these may be old foggish notions, and if dancing will bring the desired relief, let the young

"TIIIUTV .SI.VEN DAYS OF PERIL" is the caption of an article in "Scribner's Monthly" for Novcmberl'which we think will interest many of our readers. It is a narrative of the terrible experience ol Mr. EVICUTS, who stalled with the lale General I!I:NKY D. WASH UUKN and his associates on the Yellowstone expedition in the summer of 1870, but got separated from his companion*, and, after enduring greafprivaiions and escaping many dangers, was rescued almost in the last ex tremity. The story is well told, and though stricily true, reads like an exciting romance. So warmly are the leader's sympathies enlisted for the lonely wanderer in the almost boundless wilderness, whose fugitive horse has robbed him of gun, fishing tacklc, blankets and all the essentials ol forresl life, lhat the narrative is followed with intense interest to ihe chve, and you lee! a thrill of joy at the linal deliverance of the unassuming hero.

Again Decided.

By the recent State elections it has

again been decided that to the Republi can party the people are determined to

intrust the government of this country. Ihe popular verdict of general confidence the principles of Republicanism has been repeated with mot decisive emphasis. Among the causes of (his, and perhaps

the most piominent, is the fact lhat the rebellion record of the two parties is still l'rc-h in the minds of the people, and it is

the misfortune of the opposition that as an organization they were arrayed against union and freedom. If their policy had prevailed secession and slavery would

have been successful. It was the Republi can party who saved the Union, who declared that all men, without di-tinction

of race, color or creed, should be equal before the law. They went back for their inspiration to those self evident truths of the Declaration of Independence truths that are as vital to dav as thev

refers were not an "endorsement of the I were a century ago. The Republican ex-State Printer," and did net, in any party has an element of strength v,av, touch upon the State Printing busi- also in its resolve to pay, dollar for dollar. the debt incurred in the suppression of the slaveholders' war. In this

particular ihe Opposition was not trusted —can not be trusted. The sense of ihe

American people is always honest. That

which they justly owe they mean to pay,

no matter what sacrifices are invo'ved in doing it. When the question of repudiation first entered into politics the Op

position contended for it, and the result was that ihey were themselves repudia-

HOSK A MAT 1:1: scientists ho a year ago frightened timorous people with the prediction that the sun was on the point of calcining this busy teeming, planet of ours, should act upon the counsel ol the Philadelphia "Inquirer" and forthwith step to the front and explain the cause of the dropping out of the bottom of canals and small lakes. These breaks have extended from the New World to the Oid We read in our latest foreign exchanges of a small lake in Lithuania, long famous for the number, size and excellent flavor of its fishes, suddenly disappearing, leaving a basin of drv earth as a memento of its previous existence. There are, of course, reasons lor the sudden ui.-ap[car-ancc of small bodies of water, bi.t like the magnetic FIIU storms, real science finds it exceedingly diflicult to account lor them in a satisfactory manner. And the pre- affiliated with it The victory has been 11 rate knowledge of all a great one, and it was earned by the

ted, and they have never po-ve-sed tlie general confidence since. Again, 110 I working man can afford to pport the I anti-lariiV principles of the Democratic

party. The intelligent, manly, independent mechanic of the United Stales must be protected against the competition of 1

the pauper labor of Eutope. And further,

the recent disciosme.- of Tammany frauds in New York, ihe woikof the leaders of the Opposition in that ci:v, warned the people against placing in positions of!

responsibility and hoi.or the Opposition leaders elsewhere. Tammany by its monstrous iniquities and tlie tacit indorse men of i:s frauds In- the Democratic

THE Lafayette "Journvl" announces lhat the wife of SENECA SMITH, of thai city, supposed to have been lost in the Chicago fire, has been found alive and well.

Mit. LADSTONE, finding that the management of England doea not aflord suffi

cient exercise for his intellect, proposes

writing a series of papers for an Ameri

can magazine.

IT IS not only the 70,000 destitute of Chicago that will have lo be fed and clothed through the winter, but half as many more from burned districts of Michigan, Minnesota and \Vi-consin.

IDA LKWIS, though now Mrs. Wilson, still slicks to Tier tiden name Thrnngh devotion to her aged mother she still resides at Lime Rocks, in the vicinity of which she has saved so many lives.

IT IS reported '.hat, a few days ago, some one overturned a chair in Judge Barnard's court room in New York, when his honor remarked—"Be careful and tiot break that piece of furniture, as it has already cost the city 3400.000 to repair it." Call you this sustaining your friends?

For. Ihe November "Galaxy," the Hon Gideon A elles, Lincoln's Secretary

of the Naw, furnishes the first of two papers on "Farragut and New Orleans."

He writes in a clear and simple historical stvle and gives and "inside" view of

the fact ol the capture of New Orleans. Incidentally his purpose seems to be to wrest from Butler some of the laurels

the latter claims.

THE election of one Republican Senator from Hamilton coun'y makes the Ohio State Senate a tie The Republican Lieutenant Governor will make all right when necessary, by his casting vote. When Mr. Sayler, of the MontgomeryPreble District, gels Ihe seat he was choused out of by a gross partisan outrage on the legal voters at ihe Soldiers' Home, the Senate will stand: Republicans, 10 Democrats, 17.

should continue on the most generous scale.

HOMPSON reports the- case of a

i(]v

|he |rogpn

ilress of four er.ei alion her great grandchild being about nine years old. The venerable ladv is the mother of '."•'quire T. W. Marvel, Fort Branch, i- ninetyeight years old, and 'emembers quite distinctly to have seen and spoken with Wa.-liington. Evannville Journal.

ERMANY is not yet satisfied. Two more men of war, of proportions equal to anything afloat, are tobe built with the greatest rapidity, and lo be named Sedan and Metz." Mr. Ilismarok's orgfin, in describing them, closes with the following suggestive sentence: "The Government is desirous of placing the country in asecure position for all eventualities that may arise, even as regards first class naval powers."

THERE is truth in the remark of the Cincinnati "Times and Chronicle" that it would be difficult to find a class of people who work so hard for their daily bread, and are yet so ready to share it with the needy, as those of the dramatic profession. From no calling has there come a more generous response to Chicago's call for relief, and none have given so freely according to their means. Compare, lor instance, the "benefits everywhere, and the SI,000 gifts of Lester Wallack, Mile. Nilsson and I'arepa, with theS200 donation of Win. B. Astor, the richset man in America.

IN ONE of Beadle's excellent letters to the Cincinnati "Commercial," he states that the recent prosecutions of Brigham Young and other Mormons, are not founded upon the United Stales laws in regard to polygamy, but upon an old Territorial law, passed ten years ago, and bearing the signature of Brigham Young himself, as Governor. It was framed to operate against Gentiles who might try lefthanded polygamy, or who failed to take it, in the regular way, and one Gentile has actually been punished under it for marrying two wives The law now returns to plague its inventors, but with what effect remains to be seen.

THE THIERS Government could have hit upon no happier expedient for raising money than an impost on decorations, military orders, medals of honor from foreign powers, &c. Above all things, the genuine Frenchman is proud of a decoration. The lavish hand with which the crosses of the Legion of Honor and »-imilar baubles are and have been scattered, renders their value no less in Gallic eyes. Every true son of France will be glad of the opportunity of paying a lax which, though a severe burden on his purse, perhaps, still distinguishes him from ihe undecorated multitude, upon whom, with all his aspirations for fraternity and equality, he looks down with pitying contempt.

I'KESIUENT THIERS has given serion= oflense to the Republican journals of Paris by the appointment of Periere to the Ministry ol the Interior. M. Periere, though an able man, is a Bonapartisl, and the friends of freedom would prefer not to see an important office of the Republic, erected on the ruins of theEmpire, in the hands of a shrewd and energetic lmperi alist. Itouher may be called on next to aid the new President, and perhaps Oiii ver. Monsieur Adolphe Thiers iscertainly cnacting a singular role. He may be sincere in his devotion to the Republic, but his actions are not calculated to inspire friends of freedom with any great amount of faith in his desire 10 perpet ua:e the cause of free government in France.

MAYOR FOX, of Philadelphia, who lamentably lacks the quality that his name suggests, is indignant at the terms of the Sheriffs proclamation offering a reward lor the arrest of the murderer of Octavius V. Catto. He declares that his officers have been diligently seeking the murderer, that they took steps to find bis whereabouts and make the arrest, eic., etc., Whereupon the Philadelphia "Inquirer," with commendable plainness, remarks th-U "Mayor Fox ought to know by this time that his police are not under his control that ihey pay little attention to his orders that they pretend that they are obeying his directions when they are not, and that really they have no respect for him whatever. In his presence they may put on a hypocritical appearance of deference and submission, but as soon as bis back is turned they do what they please."

MR. COLFAX'S aitic'.e in the Independent is r-iguitieant and important. In pressing ihe claims of ihe reforms to to which he calls attention, the claim which he particularly emphasizes is the evident popular demand for them. Thus of retrenchment he says: "Ihe present Congress will doubtless earn and receive the heartiest public approval, when they adjonm next summer, for having brought down the future national expenses below $270,000,000 per year, perhaps event $10000,000 less." Of subsidies he remarks: "Nothing seems more certain than that, while the people have to bear the burdens of taxation caused bv their great national debt, ihey are not willing that their annual appropriation bills should be swelled by subsidies, meritorious as i-.me propositions of this kind mayhave seemed." Of land grant#: It is equally clear that there is a resistlessly strong public desire that railroad land grants should cease, aud that the Republican homestead ptinripk of the reserva-

Convention a! Syracuse, arrayed honest men of all parties throughout the countrv against those who were in any manner

I mast unHnng exertions. It also gives

mast untiring exertions, a:«o gives

phenomena are doubtless deterrrd Irctn I assurance lhat in 1872 the Re •idvmcin" ihtir numerous opinions in the |, b)io:i 11 candidate lor President of (he f::ec of (heir rcccnt lamenlal-L United Matw "ill be

tion of the land for the Iree use of ihe

actual settlers, inaugurated by it on its first advent to power, should be ttsaiti-

tained ahd preserved inviolate." Of am nesty "The undoubted public opinion

of the country is that the time for general

amnessty has arrived." Of civil service ic-form. "The Republican party can not

afford to ignore or condemn that growihg sentiment which demands that the in compeSent and unworthy should not be

appointed to office, no matter, what may

be their political ciaims."

A RECENT report from Rome, since corroborated, states the troops of the King had occapied two of the convene

and virtually forced the nuns to vacate the premises, and that he wants another conTent for a stable. The most remarkable feature of the continued invasion of the

Pope's territory is the popularity which attends it. Rome, the very fountain head

of the Roman Chinch, gives its adherence not to the Spiritual head of ihe Church,

but to ihe King against whom has been

launched ihe most terrible anathema of the Church. There were times in the wori'ds history when excommunication

was able to bring the excommunicated to

his knees to sue for pardon and remission, but Yicior Emanuel goea upon his way as

regardless of the curse as of drops of fall

ing rain.

atsm= maam

Si'EAKiNu of the fires which have

caused such destruction ol life and prop

erly in Wisconsin and Michigan, the New York "Tribune" says: "There is ,-omethng more awful in the thought of a burning lorest or a prairie iii flames than even in a catastrophe such as that which has fallen upon Chicago. The most stupendous effort-* of man seem hopeless of arresting a conllagraiion which 1 ages unceasingly through two or three entire months, and sweeps in its lierco wraih over thousands of square miles of territory. Nothing checks such a visitation but the exhaustion of the comb'i.-iible material, or the blessed rain, which at lust stayed the flames in the woods ot Michigan, just as it quenched the glowing tinders of Chicago. The destruction of the great commercial city of Illinois was a disaster of almost incalculable pecuniary magnitude, but it will be rep iired in a few years. The burning of the gtand primeval forests means far less to the binker and the tradesman but it is a misfortune which can never be repaired. In the loss, too, there is individual suffering, not less -cveie, but fortnnatelv less generally difsed ilian 1 ha) which is now attracting ,0 Chicago the chatity of two continents. At this hour of beneficence, the poor lumbermen of Michigan and Wisconsin should not be forgotten Let some re sponsible official pe Brn near the scene of disaster ascertain their needs and tell us how relief can reach them, and we doubt not that the country will promptly an swer the appeal."

Stonewall Jackson Assumes Command. The ordinance ol the Virginia Convention removing the militia officers above the rank of captain had given gre-.t offence to our volunteers, who theiefore, in old American democratic style, h.id elected all their officers, either directly or through 1 heir repre.sentatives and the idea of having these popular favorites superseded was abhorrent to the rank and file. It must be remembered that our volunteer uniformed companies, a sort of holiday soldiery up 10 that time, were made up of our he.-t voting men, who f"lt they had certain inalienable rights, among which was the right to elect their own officers and glorious good fellows weie these officers in times of peace, and many of them rose to high positions dining the war—but there were some unfit for their places in time of war, and to get 1 id of these the Convention had to make a clean sweep of all.

Up to this lime our little army at Harper's Ferry was a curiosity. We had about one thousand rank and file. There was one major-general in command, with three brigadiers under him, and a corresponding number of field and stafl officers all were magnificently attiied and epauletted— splendidly mounted, and surrounded with gorgeous retinues. Troops were scarce, but as for officers wa were simply magnificent in numbers and display. When, therefore, Colonel Jack.-on, a quie* and taciturn gentleman, appeared uponlhe scene, with only an adjutant, who was also from the Institute, and both clad in old threadbare undress uniforms, and took a little room at the village hotel, and issued a short, simple order, assuming the command, and dismissing all our generals, and colonels, and lieutenantcolonels, and majors, and a multitude of staff officers "like unto the sands upon ihe seashore," there was great commotion, constetnation, and indignation, all of that night arid ihe next day a mass meeting was called of the troops and deposed olficeis to consider what was best to be done. Jackson knew what was going on, but kept quietly in his quarters awailing orders from Richmond. These were brought by me from General Lee, and were ihe fruit of General ILirptr's despatches which I had taken to Richmond. I delivered them to Colonel Jackson and repaired to mv camp. My men were not much excited, because my battery was independent, and was not affected by the decapitation of officers. But the indignation meeting was in full blast hard by, and delunct officers were denouncing the action of the Convention. Among theorders I had brought to Colon el Jackson was one directing him to muster all the companies into service for a year or during the Wiir, at their option. 1 called my men together and explained this order, and they unanimously decided to muster in for the war. On reporting this to Colonel Jackson a half hour later, he was much gratified, and had the company mustered in that evening He then gave the first exhibition of his qualities as a commander by issuing a peremptory order lo captains to muster in their com panics bv ten o'clock next day, and never was the moral power of a determined will more clearly manifu-ted than in the re suit of 1 his oider. The mass meeting had adjourned until next day. It never met again, for there was not an officer or man who dared resist the Colonel's order. —"lieminisccnMS 0/ Lee ani Jackson," by J. JJ. lmboden in November Galaxy. wm 1

OME men move through life as a band of music moves down the street Hinging out pleasure on every side through the air to every one. far and near, who can listen. Some men fill the air with their presence and sweetne-s, as orchards, in October days, fill the air with the perfume of ripe fruit Some women cling lo their own houses like the honevsuckle over the door, yet, like it, fill all the region with the subtle fragrance of their goodness How greit a bounty and blessing it is so to hold the royal gifts of the soul that ihe.v shall be music tosome. and fragrance to others, and life to all. It would be no unworthv thing to live for, to make the power which we have with us the breath of other men's joy 10fill the atmosphere which they must stand in with a brightness which they can not create for themselves.

OLERIDGE, in a lecture twenty years ago divided readers into four clas^ev The first he compared to the hour glass, their reading being as the sand—it runs in and out and leave* not a vestige be hind. A second clas--, he said resembled a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly ihe same state, only a little diriicr. A third class, likened to a jellv bag, snd retains only the refuse and dregs The fourth class, of which he trusted there were many among his auditors, hecompared to the slaves in the diamond mines of Golconda, who, cast ing aside all that is worthless, preserve only the pure gem.

HE American woman has long been regarded by Europeans as the most beau liitil woman in the world This she is and has been for twenty five years, without doubt and as the circumstances of her life become easier, her labor less severe, and her education belter, she will become more beautiful still. America never possessed a more beautiful genera tion of women than she po-sesses to-day, and there is no doubt that the style of beauty is changing 10 a nobler type. The characteristic American woman of the present generation is larger than the characteristic American woman of the previous generation.

COMPETENCY means, to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dre--s, courtesy of manners, opportunities of education, the delights of leisure. aBd the bliss of giving. I

I'KOM StA 9 SKA.

Ths folldwing ringing lines are from Jpaau'n Miller's poem "From Sea to t-ea, in Scribner's for November: Shake hands

I kiss hands in haste to the sea.

Where the sun come? in. and mount with me The matchlesf steed of the strong New World, Ashe champs and chafes with a strength unt'ild.— And away, to the West, where the waves are curlcd. And kt*a white palms tt? tho capes of gold I A girth of brass and abreast of steel, A breath of fire nn'l a fiamine mane. An iron hoof and a tt el-t-lad heel. A Mejican bit and a massive chain

Well tried and wrought in an iron rein: And awav away with a shout and yell That hadatricken a lecion of old with fear. That had started the dead in their graves whilere. And startled the damned in Hades as well.

Stand up stand out l^where the wind comes ini And the wealth of the seas pours over you. As it- health flo ds up to the face like wine. And a breath bl ws up from tho Delaware And the Susquehanna. We fiel the micht Of armies in us. and blood leaps thrnueh The frame with fresh and a keen delight As the Alleghanies have kissed the hair. With a kiss blown far through the rush and din. By the chestnut burs and through boughs of pine.

0 seas in a land I 0! lakes of mine By the lov- I bear and the son-'sl bring Be gla'i with me I lift your waves arid sing A song in the reeds that surround your Isles A song of joy for tr.is sun that smiles. For this bin I love and this age and si*n For the peace that is and the perils passed Tor tbe hot.e that is ani the rest at last!

heart of the world's heart! West! my West I l.nok up! look nut! There are fields of kine. There are clover fields that are red as wine: And a world of kine in the fields take rest, An'l ruminate in'he shade of trees That are white with blossoms or brown with bees. $ 0 A rash of rivers and a brush of trees. And a br"ath blown fur from Mexican seas, And over the great heart-vein of earth

By the South Sun-land of the Cherokee. By the "cnlp lodze of tho ta'l Pawnee, And up the La Plutte. What a weary ^dearth of the homes of men What a wild delight Of space! "f room What a sense of seas. Where the seas are not! What a salt-like breexe 1 What dost and tuste of quick alkali!

Then hills I treeu, brown, then black like night. All fierce and defiant against the sky

THE »EAI IjETTIIR.

DVJOIISO. SAXE.

And can it be! Ah. yes, I see, 'Tis thirty yarj and hetter Since Mary Morgan sent to mo

This musty, musky letter. A pretty hand (,-he eoiildn'tspel!). As any mau uius vote it And 'twas us I remember well,

A pretty hand that wrote it!

How calmly now I view it all. As memory backward ranges—The talk-1, tho walks, that I recall,

And then—the postal changes How well I loved her I ean guess (Since cash is Cupid's hosJaee)--Jus* one-and-sixpence—nothing less-—

This letter cost in postage

The lovo that wrote ntsuch a rate (i!y Jove it was a steep one Five hundred notes (I calculate)

Was ce tainly a deep one And vet it died—-wf slow deelinc— Perhaps suspicion chill-d it I've quite forgotten if'twas mine Or Mary's flirting killed itl

At Ust the fatal message came ''.My letters—please return them And yours-of course you wi«h the same,

I'lfseiid them iaek or burn them." Two precious tools. I must allow. Whichever was the greater I wonder if I'm wiser now.

Some seven lustres later'.'

And this aloneremains Ah, well! These words of warm affection, Tho laded ink, the pungent smell,

Are fooii 'or deep reflection. They tell of how tiie heart contrives To change with fancy fashion, And how a drop o| musk survives

The strongest human passion —Harper's Magazine for Rorcuber.

Farragut's l)Pcis oti

On the dav when intelligence was received that the ordinance of session lutd passed the Virginia Convention, Captain Farragut determined lo abandon Norfolk and the Stale. Collecting hastily a few valuables, he placed his wife, sister, and their children in a carriage, put his loaded pistols in his pocket, and within two hours from the reception of the news that Virginia haddecided to secede he proceeded to the Baltimore steamer, then at the wharf. Leaving all else behind, he resolved not to be denationalized or lorn from the Union he would know no country but that which he loved and served from his childhood. The next day he passed through Baltimore, then in excited insur rection. The ordinary channels of travel bv steamers and railroads were interrupted, and in the general confusion it was diflicult. to procure means of translation or to leave the city. He found by accident that a common canal boat was leaving the cilv. On his boat, which had indifferent accommodations for about eighteen persons, there were crowded nearly three hundred—fugitives like himself and family, seeking refuge in the North. He reached New York after some annoyance and inconvenience, with but slight pecuniary means to sustain himself and his exiled and dependent family. Deing on waiting orders—for the Depart merit, which did no', then know these particulars, was moving with cautions, vigilant, and wary steps, careful and wary steps, careful an! guarded whom to trust, and ill the employment of Southern officers particularly circumspect— Captain Farragut fell his pecuniary resources insufficient for his support in the great metropolis. Always modest and anobtrasive, and almost a strangrer in New York, he found a resting place lor a few days under the roof of aftiendwhom lie had previously known, until he could obtain a secluded place outside the city, adapted to his limited means. He sue ceeded iii getting a modest cottage at Hastings on the Hudson at a rent of $150 per annum, which be plainly furnished, and to tohich, with one servant, h^ retired lo await ewnt—ready, ho- -er, and anxious to serve his countiy a Jve himself to her cause—"Admiral tgvl and New Orleans," by Gideon Hel'e.i' in November Galaxy.

I'olato Il.ieing.

A correspondent of the Ronton "Advertiser" writes from East Wilton, N. H., about the potn'o-raec:

It is a M-.y curious trial of speed and strength. Three lines of potatoes are laid. Each line contains fitty potatoes, each aid from each other. O: course each Iii• is forty nine vatds I^ng At ihe end each line is a basket, by which at the s'.itt aconteslant stands. In this case the were three competitors At ihe word "go," each one begins where he chooses on his line to pick tip potatoes to bring to the basket, lie mu.-t pick up but one on each mp and in turn carry it to the basket. This involves seven thousand three hundred and fifty feet of run ning, with such deductions as may be made for an outstretched arm, when one comes to his basket, and with ihe addition of two turns for every potato, or one hundred turns in all.

The contestants entered, and one of them performed the feat in little more than nine minutes. The other two were close behind him. It von ever have occasion to try the game, let me I el 1 you that the scientific wav is to make your long tun first when your wind is gocd When you want to retain voor breath, lake your short run--, which involve the delay of turning, but are easier for breathing.

Xast.

The country owe? the arli-t Thomas Na-t a debt of gratitude. lie is a public benefactor. His courage is great, but his skill isgreater. Upon ihe ravenous quartette, Tweed, Hall, Sweeney and Connolly, he has lavished his wonderful powerful powers, until they are at once inlamous and immortal Whenever we see them they are recognized at a glance. And thf-n we see I hem presented in such a variety of methods, with such a delicacy of touch, such effective grouping, such natural truth of expression that even weieitnot for the service rendered to mankind by thus making scoundrels odious, we should really grudge (he King the skill of which ihey are the subjects. With each comint, ol "Harper's Weekly" the first object of interest is Na-ts cartoon. He has turned the great eye of the people upon a set of plunderers whose booty, wiih a few more year's accumulation, would lebuild Chicago. Yet these fellows are recognized Democratic lead ers, who, with all the clamor of a few disgusted ones, have had their sweet wills of ihe late Democratic State Convention of New Yoik.—Ind. Journal.

DEMOCRACY this year has carried three States, only one of them legitimately. New Hampshire, lost through Republi can dissensions, can be easily redeemed Kentucky we admit is and will remain Democratic while Texas, if we convict a di zen or more Ku Klux, will reverse her recent decision.

The Stales canied by the Republicans are Connecticut, North Caiolina, Maine, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, and Iowa The-c settle in advance the Presidential contest r.ext year.— i'hil. Prat.

EVERY DY TO BLAME.

BV GAIL HAMILTOS.

Of ail the details of the late disaster which have set the whole country astir nothing is more graphic and lerrible than the testimony ot a passenger on the wrecked railroad car, who said that he saw suddenly shining upon the face of a gentleman near him the head-light of the on coming Pullman train, and jn that light the expression of the face changed to one of perfect horror. We have even not the small consolation of believing that death came to the victims without warning and without dread, for the same witness affirms lhat when the crash came nearly all the passengers had left their seats and were in the aisles The agony of that one moment of expectancy the mind can neither comprehend nor repel at will.

Of the sufferers living and dead, who so happy as they went together, in the spring time of life and love, one in heart and purpose in death not divided? Whoso illfated as they who ood "on the heights" in the fuilnessof vigor, with life's responsibilities wound closely around them, and with the strong will and power and pleasure to meet them all the husband -nd father, who left his home .-o reluctantly, as if the shadow of coming doom hung already over him who took such lender lingering farewell of his family. and returned to press once more, all unknowing for the last time, the lips he should never touch again? God grant somewhere compensation for the wrench of i-epiiration, the dread, the horror, the life-long death, the deadened life. "Nobody to blame" is a verdict which has passed into a proverb but as I have read from day to day the evidence presented at inquests, there aopears never to have been a case in which it could be more justly declared that every body was to blame. I can not see that the weight of guilt falls with crushing power upon any one, while scarcely any one -seems to be wholly exempt. It is not simply the engineers, station master*, president, directors it is the passengers upon the road, the whole traveling public—every body who baa from day today seen negligence, confusion, deficiency upon this or anv road and has held his peace. 1 am to blame, who have again and again been at the gteat city station, and found no placard and no guide to direct me to the proper train or car, yet have never advised the authorities of the deficiency. You are to blame, who have again and again gone over the road six, eight, ten times, and have been obliged to siand all the way, yet have only grumbled to your neighbor, but made no complaint in the proper quarter. We Americans are to blame in that we bear all manner of personal inconvenience and petty cheating rather than.take the,trouble to rebuke iniquity and require justice. We lament sometimes the growing power and deprecate the intolerable tyranny of railroad monopolies but public opinion is alipowerful. Before an awakened public sentiment, an aroused public resolution, the railroad corporation bows down its head like a bulru«h. When the Swampscot committee of five wailed upon the president of the Eastern Railroad with a draft of suggestions and requests covering ihe most obvious dangers which now beset railway travel, the president gave his unqualified assent, and pledged immediate action on nearly all, and regarding ihe remainder promised I he earliest practicable compliance. If the same committee, appointed by ihe same assembly of citizens, men of substance and influence, had waited upon the president a year ago and requested him to provide seals for all passengers, modern brake?, guards at the staiion and or. the curves, and to banish kerosene and camphene from the cars, would he have failed to assent? But these defects existed long before the Pullman engine plunged into the fated car. We saw them and felt them, and went our way. Not till thirty-two human be ings had been crushed to death before our eves would we take the trouble to exercise the power we possessed just as surely, if not just as directly, as did engineers and directors. We are verily guilty concerning our brethren.

In all the suggestions for future safety I regret to see none regarding the means of heating cars. The winter is coming, and before long tho-e little black imps which we call stoves will be set up, and turn into glowing, glowering red-hot fiends waiting to devour us. I never see one heated, poisonous coach but the shimmering thing seems to be sentient and savage, eager and gloating over the woe and the death he holds in waiting for us. What do we gain by banishing kerosene for a few hours in the day, while all day and all night we carry a reservoir of lire which in five seconds can wrap us in flaming death, or in it horror for which death is the only outlet? Must it be so? Can not the ingenious American mind invent some way by which the trains shall be warmed by steam generated or water healed on the engine? Our stoves are abominable even when ihev are[not diabolic. They produce an atmosphere unequul and intolerable. The feet are benumbed with cold and the head throbs with heat, llot water pipes, cov ered with rugs, running along the floor, make an equable and agreeable temperature, and,~if their source could be securely lodged, would add nothing to the dangers of a collision and yet through the whole country the wild train will go swaving. "With hell in its heart ar.d death in its hand.

Daring the doom of the I nknown Land. How many railroad coaches must become chariots of fire, how many human beings must sutler the tortures of the Inquisi tion, without the moral support of dying for a cause, before we shall contrive a way out of the jaws of death!

We ought to strike while the iron is hot—if possible before it gets hot. Kailroad managers no more wish harm to their passengf-"' than do the passengers themselves. -y are as good citizens, as upright, as !1 meaning, as tenderhearted as we. But the price of safely is eternal vigilance. We have .ill been apathetic togeiher. Now that we are aroused to a sense of past remissness and ever-present responsibility, now that those in authority are peculiarly open to suggestion and desirious of imptovement, let us not demand, hilt devise and sectne, every possible change that promises immunity, not to say comfort and for one ihing, let every slove be sunk forty fathoms deep rather than lift its horrid front a railway carriage.

And let us all—men and women alike —remember lhat the safety and the nior als of the community are ihe monopoly of no corporation, but are given in trust to every member of the community and that where, out of regard to hi" own case, he permits neglect or tran-gre siun to go unnoticed, he becomes a partner in the crime, and helps to demoralize the society which it is his duty to uplift.

The liighi-Kuihrny.

Tourists and holiday folks who wish lo get to the top of a mountain without latigue, will perhaps take pleasure in ihe fact that the railway up the Righi is opened to a height ol -1,000 leet. It is to be extended to ihe very summit mean while, parlies may visit the baths, or as cend lo the Kulm, and enjoy ihe prospect, and return to Lucerne or any other toivn on the lake easily within the day. Bui the making of the line has not been easy. It commences «ith a turn table at Viiznau, a few yards from the shore o' the lake, and ascends the i-lope at 100, an angle which soon becomes 25 in which may he considered as a steep gradient and at this rale, it zigzags lo the upper terminus. At ihe height of 1,000 feel, ii :s.-es through a tunnel, and next crosses a deep ravine hv a viaduct, which, in addition lo its angle ol 25 leet in 100, has a curve of 180 metres radius.

The trains on thi- curious railway com} prise tiie engine and one carriage. The carriage has two floors or stories, with seals lor eighty passengers, and in the a cent is pushed by the engine. The distance to be traveled is three and a hall English miles, and ihe time requited for the journey is more'ban an hour from which it will be under-tood thai the distance is not gieat. Hut now thai iliei* is no war lo intimidate travelers, we may expect that hundreds, if not thousand.-, will take a trip by the Righi Railway during the present season.

TIJE checrfiil man is a douu'e ble-s-ing—a blessing (o himself and to ihe world around him. In his own character his good nature is the clear blue sky of his ow- heart, on which every ar ol lalent shines out moreclearly. Toothers he carries an atmosphere of joy and hope and encouragement wherever he moves. His own cheerfulness becomes infectious, and his associate* lose their ruoroseness and their gloom in the amber colored light of ihe benevolence he casta around m.—Exchange.

WHEELING is pivement busine:

Ho:-

in the artificial stone

I \SON, the Mayor of Chi---ihe lerrible calamity which 11. Chicago, occupies, a posi-

cago, has Cf.i*"tion o! Mass:u i.i civil ei'i."building

I at est responsibility, was a ..v. man. He was educated a and connected with the

Ilousatonic Railroad, and

chief en. t!ur of the Sew York & New Haven Railroad during its construction, and has always maintained a high character for integrity in all trusts committed to his keeping. He was also chief engineer, for a number of years, of the Illinois Central Railroad.

NAPOLEON once entered a cathedral and saw twelve silver statues. "What are these?" said the Emperor. "The twelve apostles," was the reply. "Well," said he, "take them down, melt them, and coin them into money, and let them go about doing good, as their master did

A MR. CKOSEMAN, of Huron county, Michigan, awoke one night from a great dream of peace to find a swarm of little busy bees in bed with him. Th»y had taken possession of thefdeeves and.other dependencies of his shirt, and were making themselves sociable. lie vacated that linen with alucrity.

REV. DR. -SEEYLE, of Easthampton, Massachusetts, recently said that his church hid given np the afternoon service, and as an influence on the keeping of ihe Lord's day the stable-keeper told him last week the service must be resumed or he must buy more horses.

THAT third parties do not pay the originators, Tuesday's election proved most conclusively. Spangler and Wheeler, the Temperance candidates, did not poll five thousand voles in the State, and yet we have fully fiftv thousand temperance voters—Phil. Press

BEAUREGARD has declared in favor of "the New Departure." He is "tired of living only for defeat on obsolete dead issues.*'

ALTHOUGH a man's affection may not always be wrong, they arc sure somehow to be Mist placed.

BY TELEGRAPH.

Ureal Storms and China.

Floods in

Three Thousand Persons Reported to ive Perished.

Destructive Fires Northwest

CORRECTION.

Isui.-. "AI' )ijis, October 10 state

ment pu'porting lo be a telegram from this city published in some of the newspapers west of St. Louis, and perhaps

elsewhere, to the effect that W G. English, the wealthiest man in Indianapolis, contributed but one dollar to the Chicago

relief fund, is not correct. There is no wealthy man by that name in Indianapolis. W. II. English contributed one

hundred dollars, which is the amount generally contributed by our more

wealthy citizens. Individual contributions here aggregated nearly $'25,000, besides S5,000 in supplies, and $20 000 by

the City Council. Signed K. 15. MARTINPAI.K, Chairman of the Chicago Relief Com

mittee.

*TN GLAND. RELIEF I'L'.N'D.

LONDON, Oct. 17.—Subscipticns lo the Chicago relief fund received at the Man

sion House up to lasL night amount to twenty-three thousand and six hundred pounds. The Committee ol American residents in London, also receiving subscriptions, has made arrangements for the immediate dispaich of money and goods contributed. At a meeting at Bradford, two thousand pounds were re ceived. At Dublin twelve 'hundred pounds. At Malver, Ilamplon and Glasgow, one thousand pounds each.

EARLS.

The Right Honorable Frederick Temple Blackwood, and Lotd Dulieiin, Chan cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Paymaster General," have been created earls.

RAILROAD ACCIDENT.

A dispa'ch from Maryhill, County Lanard, three miles from Glasgow, an nounces ihe wrecking ol a passenger train, by which two persons weie instantly killed, and tilteen seriously wounded.

E.YTh'.NSlVE FIRE.

Advices from Odessa state that eight hundred buildings in ihe town of Bagoosloo liave been burned by incendiary fires, believed to be the woi of lanaiical op pressors of the Jems, l'he great proportion of the inhabitants ol the town are of the Jewish faith.

STOli.MS AND FLOODS IN CHINA. Details received here of recent storms and floods in China represent the loss ol lite and property as very great. Al least 3,000 persons are said to have perished.

STEAAIEK SAFK.

QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 17.—The steamship Ciij of Paris is safe and in good older. The report of her being disabled was a mistake. Signal, 1'elegrapher.

CHOLERA.

Advices from Constantinople state lhat the cholera has again made its appearance in that city and suburbs. In iwo days 00 persons died from the epidemic, 10 of whom were Englishmen.

T11E CHICAGO CALAMITY.

The destructive fire in ihe city of Chicago is still the all-absorbing talk here Newspapers still continue their appeals lo the people, and it desr-evea lo be said that ihe people respond gloriously. Ihe Mayor publishes ihe statement this morning, acknowledging ihe receipt, of a multitude of small (lonaii-ns not included in the total already reported. The .Mayor appends to the statement an exhortation lo continue subscriptions until the amount of donations to ihe cause shall be worthy of ihe eneigy which cull- on the liberality ol the city of London. '1 hi- morning the subset i'plions in Liverpool leached £10,000, Leed- £400, ork £400, Dublin £1 600, ilanley £400. Bii ininghain has alteadv lorwaided the tirst installmeut of £2,000, and further subscriptions are being made.

A relief meeting was held at Shetue.d today, the Ma\or p:esiding, at which £2,000 A ere collected in a lew minutes, l'he newspapers comment at length upon the fires in hicigo'and in ihe Northwest, and deplore the paucity of details. In ^ch ca-e the exce.-sive' laiill chaiged by the Atlantic

cable

tortune.

becomes a public mis

BERLIN.

THE K1.KIISRATH.

BERLIN, Oct 17.—After the specch of the Empetor \esterday the Krichsrain adjourned without transacting business, there being no quorum present.

2:^ H' AH S-i.

MURDER TRIAL.

NEWARK. N. J.. Octobei 17.—The trial of George lions, this morning, on cio-s examination. Mrs. Wilson developed the grounds of ihe defence to be ihe prison

er's irresponsibility at the moment of the tragedy, aud lhat the pistol was discharg ed accidental!* in a scuffle.. Mrs. Wilson testified tiiat she was engaged to mar rv Bolts on obtaining a divorce Irom her h"u-band, and she told him that Hals lead was acting only -s her lrwyer, to get such divorce. Tha she bad lived with Boils as his wife, and he had introduced her to his familv as such, that he had suppotted her, iad that she had twice broken the engagement on account of intemperance. The Court adjourned till to-mor-row.

~ST. IjOUIS.

FIBE3 IN NORTHERN KANSAS. ST. Louis', October 17.—Accounts from Northern Kan-as say that destructive fires has been raging Been Creek and Harrison Creek valleys, extending to Jefletsan county, Nebraska. Several houses and barns, &c, large quantity of grain nnd other crops has been destroyed and many milesof fence burned, e-tiinated stS'0,000 to v30.00?,

"MW-y

A JEW VOHM. ...

EXCITEMENT.

iNrvv ORK.. October 17.—A .Herald dispatch from Gloucester, Mass., states that there is great excitement there. A few days since the schooner E. A. Horlon was taken from the harbor^of Genyboro, Nova Scotia, by a bandilta of men who are believed to have been sent for the purpose from Gloucester, and that the vessel is now due at that port. It is now said a British gunboat sent in search of the schooner, arrived off Cape Ann yesterday, with the intention of recapturing and taking her back to Nova Scotia. A telegram to the Charleston Navy Yard, retmlted in the sending of an American gunboat to Gloucester, which, after taking several United Stales oflicialsand the owners of the schooner on board, started last evening on a cruise to prevent the schooner being molested by a British vessel in American waters. Several officials and citizens of Gloucester have gone to Boston lo interview President Grant upon the subject. The affair is believed to be one of great gravity.

MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS.

The Times states lhat the report of the sub committees on city funds have been finished, and will soon be made public. Their reports fasten conviction at last upon the thieves who have robbed the citizens. The same paper also states that the fact has leaked out that the laborers on the public parks and boulevards are nn dergoing a course of military drill for anyemergency that may arise in the coming election. The public, however, know nothing of it. A movement is also on foot that a mass meeting of citizens be held in Cooper Institute, to make arrangements for a general suspension of business for one day, and a parade of a committee of 5,000 citizens, who shall wait upon Mayor Hall and demand proper safeguards for the purity of the election in November.

MURDER.

James Snowden murdered Charles Cooley last evening with a razor. Cause, jealousy. Both colored.

GREAT GRIEF.

Mrs. Seguin, while performing in Parpa's troupe last night, was taken with a paroxvsim of grief, and removed lo a hole! in consequence of the announcement that her daugher, Mrs. Fntdnham, was killed at the Chicago fire.

ROBIiEKY.

Coerce and Brothers' lace establishment in Brooklyn, was robbed last night of S10,000 worth of rich laces. No arrests.

RACING MATCH.

A ma'ch has been arranged between American Girl and the gelding Judge Fullerton, lor two thousand dollars, at Fleetwood Park, within a fortnight.

FIRE RELIEF.

James Feely was fatally injured by Thomas Carey in a political row in the Twenty-second Ward last night. The latter was arrested.

SUSPENSION OF WORK.

The Newai Zinc Works, having been enjoined from using anew patent lurnace, will slop work. They throw 400 woik* men out of employment.

REFUGEES.

A number of refugee ladies from Chicago are at the newsboys lodging house.

GOLD HOARD.

The gold board yesterday elected W m. A. Grisson Pi evident, and W. A. Ilorst Vice President

REVENUE SEIZURE.

Up to noon over 300 barrels of whisky were seized and carried ofl, and fifteen illicit distilleries broken up in Brooklyn, by revenue officers, supported by 800 troops, who were stationed on the roof and oilier advantageous points, to prevent the mob from attacking the officers. I here was great excitement, and the raid was not finished before dark.

FALSE RERORT.

The Custom House officials slate that there is no truth in the reported resignation or removal of Collector Murphy.

DEMOCRATIC MEETING.

At a Democratic meeting last night Samuel J. Tilden, Chairman of the Dem ocratic Slate Committee, denounced Tammany as a den of thieves.

CHICAGO A IP.

A privotc letter, from Chicago states that ladies of wealth there are sending what remains of the rich wardiobes and jewelry to New York for sale, to raise money to help the sufferers.

ILLICIT DISTILLERIES.

Revenue officers supported by government troops mtide a raid this morning on illicit distilleries in Brooklyn, and captured several stills and oilier property.

BASE BALL.

The fifth and deciding game for the championship between between the Bostons and Mtiluals was played in Boston yesterday The contest was so close that eleven innings had to be played. Bostons were winners by a score of 5 to 4.

BROOKLYN DISTILLEUIES.

The property seized in Brooklyn by revenue officers is valued at §50,000 to $75,000 and included over 500 barrels of whisky, thirteen stills and two large rectifying establishments.

INSURANCE COMPANIES.

The Security Insurance Company of New Yotk, has suspended, and A. F. Hastings appointed re ceivar The los-es exceed a million and a half The Lorillard company has discontinued business, and holds a meet ing to-morrow to consider the proper course in view of heavy losses. An injunction has been granted by the Supreme Court, at the instance of the stockholders of the Excelsior Insurance Company, and M. Ilodgesappointed receiver. Nearly every Stale attends ti Insurance Con vent ion to-moriow. Action doubtless will be taken to relieve in a great measure the strain upon the companies.

JEROME PARK.

The first race, free handicap, sweepstakes, one mile and one-eighth, was won by Tutsman in 1:50.

Second race, handicap, sweep-takes, won by Aureola in 2:57|. Third race, purse §500, 2 year olds. of a mile, was won bv Woodbine. Time 1:17 :|.

Fourth race, purse §1,200, entrance §90, 2 horses, four miles. Entries were Bahcock's Ilelmbold, I). McDamel's Abdel Karce, John Mortissy's Defender From tlie start Abdel *Korce look ihe lead, and kept it to he finish, winnin

IVANIIIXUTOX.

COTTON REPORTS.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—The (fficial report ol ihe Agricultural Bureau »avs, the cotton reports for October are not covered by the average of September, or sus-ained in no States, being for the first weik in October seventy five against eighty per cent. in September. The injuries reported are from rust, shedding of bolls, prematurely cool weather north ern localities, floods in Florida and Georgia and the army worm in portions oi Mi-sissippi and more Western States. Losses by in-ecis not very serious The general diotu orca-iuns more depreciation, than any other eati-e The present indication are lhat ihe crop will no! exceed three million bales, and if the remainder of the .season is unfavoiable mu-t be ftuallcr.

CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. The Civil Service Commission conconvened sessions to day, Mr. Medill absent, owing lo ihe hieago calamity. Mr. Callell detailed on business will be here in a day or two. Discussion on the opinion of the Attorney General upon questions projKiunded him will continue for several days.

KU Kl.u.x.

A dispaich from Corinth, Mi-w., reports ihe arrest ol live Ku Klux in Ti.-homingo county, with complete disguises. It is believed the gang will he captured. They shot a white man and a woman two weeks ago, injuring both seriously.

BOSTON.

A NAVAL MATTES.

BOSTON, Oct. 17.-A special totheTraveller frcrn Gloucester, this morning says, Collector Filz B. Bobson has telegraphed for the revenue culler Hugh McCulloch, of Pouland, which will reach this port to-day. The Mahoning has already come and gone oui-ide The^e will nuke a fleet of four vessels in these waters, and «nv attempt to seize the Harbor by Fnvc lisii vessels will meet wiih successful resistance. The Mjhoninir is said to have t:djrs not lo let Herton be taken

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AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE,

DETROIT, Oct. 17.—To th|e»'^~v Michigan: While you havigQO1 pied in the noble work of furi/[ 'Cation to the sorely afflicted people oV QJ boring city of Chicago, alar| our own State was being devastf V® same. terrible scourge of fir*, oefeilil conniies havo been almost entirely ruined, thriving cities, towns and villages have been reduced to ashes, giving employment and support to hundreds of families, whole townships of valuable -VS lumber, dwellings, barns, crops and property of every description have been to- ., tally destroyed The destruction of both lite and property has been appalling, Thousands of our citizens have been re^ duced houseless and homeless, and are destitute of the absolute necessaries oI life. The calamity which has befallen our people, terrible as it would be at afty time, is doubly so at the commencement of the approaching inclement season of the year, and calls earnestly upon every citizen of the S.ate who has escaped this sad disaster to contribute promptly and liberally towaid the relief of the.-e. our suffering fellow citizens While coniribuiions lor the afflicted jieople of Miehi- .. gan have been, and probably will continue to be made from other States, such cannot be depended upon. Reliance must be placed uninly upon the people of Michigan to meet this emergency with a degreeof promptness and liberality titcwured only by the urgent neces^.ties of the case. In order that contributions may be di-tributed judiciously and wisely, it has been deemed be-t to appoint two State Relief Committees. One ol these located in the city of Detroit, is composed ot the following named persons: J. M. Garrison, Chairman, Charles Kellogg, Treasurer, Wm. O. Thornp-on .and George McMillan. The other in the city of Grand Rapids, composed of the folowing named persons: Hon. Thomas Gilbert, Hon. II Fralic, and Cap Robert Coliins, It is requested that money, clothing, tooil or bedding be forwarded to one or the oilier of these committees, as mav be most convenient to the donators. The State Committee will appoint one or more persons in the several counties, to whom contributions rotu the townships may be sent, and by whom ihey will be transmitted lo one or the other committees, liemember that it is more blessed to give than to receive. [Signed] C. 1'oX.

SAX FKAxTllS O.

J1URDER.

SAN FWANCISCO, Oct 17.—Two while boatmen murdered and robbed a Chinaman near Seattle yesterday, and escaped.

SHOCKING AFFRAY.

hi an affray at the Dago House, Gihov,

Over §5,000 was subscribed for ihe stif- California, on Sunday night, constable ferers by the Michigan lires yesterday. I FATALLYINJURSD.

W. D. Rersear, shot W. V. Arrow.-miih dead IlerVear was taken lo S.m Jose jail lo prevent being lynched

DEMORALIZED.

The San Franrisco Fire Department appears to be badly demoralized.'

RAILROAD MATTERS.

BANGOR, Me., October 17. -The first regular train over the European and' Norili American Railroad arrived here last night, bringing about oOO passengers, notwithstanding ihe late severe storm which crippled nearly every road in the Slate. The train made time at every staiion. The Masonic fraternity tendered to the railway company ihe use of their banqueting hall for accommodation of the press upon the occasion of (he approaching celebra(ion.

DISTRICT SCHOOLS.

CINCINNATI. October 17.—The Special Board of Cincinnati last night, authorized the teachers in disirict and intermediate schools lo invite all scholars to contribute to Chicago, Wisconsin ahd Michigan relief, and open schools to Chicago children temporarily here, on account of the calamity.

CATHOLIC CHILDREN.

Eighty Catholic childien arrived today Irom Chicago, consigned to the Aiclibishop's care.

IlAJLifr'AX.

SEVEKE GALE.

HALIFAX, Oct. 1G —Great damage was done to wharves and other properly by the gale on Thursday night. The steamer Chase was dashed against the wharves, hill the vessel was not injured Great destruction ol property throughout I lie province. Loss of lite small.

TEL.FG A PII CABLE.

KINGSTON, Oct. 17.—l'he telegraph cable between Barbudoes and Demantra has been successfully laid. Ihe steamer Docia i» now coaling in this port, preparatory to another expedition to pick up the iost cable, which v.as to connect Jamaica with Aspinivall.

MX€3 HAMPTON.

KOLLBEILY.

BLNGHAMPTON, N. Y., October 17-.— The safe of tlie Railway Hotel and Su.-qiiehaiina depot, was robbed of 3o0,700 on Sunday ni^lil. The money WHS the funds of the Erie Railroad, deposited in the safe by the paymaster..

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ASSIGNMENT.

HARTFORD, CONN.,O.'I.17 —The North American Insurance Company lo-dav made an assignment of .« properly to Wm. C. Hasting'. The Probate Court lias appointed the 21st itist., for a hearing upon the acceptance of the trustee.

MONT«J*f:.TI2:gJY.

,JCU COMMITTEE.

MONTGOMERY, Oct. 17.— Ihe sub ICu Ivlux committee, lately in .-es.-ion in Huntsville, airived last niiiht.

To Nebraska, California, aud iv uisn^ aud Ihe 15. M. R. It. Liu.d.s.

The "Hurlingten Koutc." so-colled, lies riclit in the jmlh of tho btar Kinpire. It runn almost immediately in tSe ccnter of tho sreut westward movementut'emi^ration. Crossioic

the race ov half a neck ahead of Helm- Illinois and Iowa, it ctrikes llm Missouii hold. Time 7 .'•) Fifth race, purse §500, mile and a quarter, won by Silina in 2:lo.

river at three |oiuts. These three joints aro tho gateway* into threo great3ectio!is of the trans-Missouri region-

The Northern gate is Omnha, where tho great l'acitie road will take you the land ot gold and KNpeg, sunny mountains, end perpetual summer.

Tho middle gate is Plattunouti:. which open.- upon the south hall of Nebraska, pouth of the i'latte river, a region unsurpassed on the continent lor agriculture and grazing.

Just

here arc ihe l. ft M. liailrooil lands, eoneerniiis *iii Oeo. S. liairis, the land officer at llurlineton. Iowa, eau cive you nil information, acd io the heart of tbem is Lincoln, the State Capita! and resent terminus of the road.

The Southern fcate e-il« to Kana«, by connections with the Kt. ltond at Hamburg. running direct to £t. Joe and Kansas City

The trains of the l'urlington run smoothly and safely, and make all connections. It runs the befct of eoa hes, Pullftiai: Palace and Pullman dining cars, and should you take the journey

for

r«i.

the journey's fake alone, you

will be repaid or :o take it to find a tome or a farm, and you cannot find either be'.ter than among tho li. Jr M. lands, where you can buy on ten years' credit, and at a low

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L. CAL hiOTSCu-J-

In full assortment also lileache Uoods ia New York Mills, Wa insulin. Lor rdale, Hill. Hallev, Slope, Jt.r. I t:ca ami nlthnni f-t, 9-4, ltM Bleai-he.i and Brown heetiriirs.

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[)M1 NISTKATOU'S SAL K.

The undersi'-ned, Adn inistrator of the estate ot £iarah Rogers, deceased, by virtue of an or tcr of the VU'o Common Pleas Court, will offer lor sale to the hiuhest bidder, at ihe Court House door in the city of 'lerre Haute, at'2 o'clock P. M.. on Saturday November IS. 1871. the following real estate, to wit: Lot* number five if) and six (6) in block number seven (7) in Uurnam's sub livirimi ol a part of the west half of section tweiiiy-tliric t-J) in Township twelve t)2) north, ol range nine (SI) wet, said subdivision being acknowledged and reeordid byCuvtnsA Howe, a.-an addition to the city of erro Haute.

T» us or SAL *"ne-ball cash, the residue payable in one year with interest, the pur chaser to execute bis note lor ihe deferred payment with uri'v.

MAgMNi

Oct.lT-wJw Adui'r Sarah Rogers'eft: .•