Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 November 1871 — Page 2

WREKLY EXPRESS.

,, TERRE HAUTE, IND.

Wtv.lnesday Morning, Nov. 15, 1871.

HVANSVILLH puckers pay S3 50 gross Tor hogs. v/i"**

EVANSVILLE PACKERS are making hog ftii' fly ai a lively rate.

EVANSVILLE wan under "the 'bucheful' Know" yesterday morning.

TIIK REPORT of a visit to several schools is deferred until to-morrow.

HKNKY BAKKDALL is on trial at Columbia City, this State, for tlu murder of his wife,

LAFAYETTE is terribly "tore up" about a ward election to fill a vacancy in the Council.

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JIMMY O'HURN, Evansville, tried to kill himself with a revolver yesterday, lie was living when our informant left.

AFTER that terrible, double-leaded, two column spasm ofSaturdav, the morning Democratic luminary is calm again.

TIIK impeachment of Mayor OICEY IIAI.L is proposed as the next exercise on the Reform programme in Ne York.

TIIK Baltimore papers announce that IIEVEKEDY JOHNSON has been retained TO defend the Ku Klux lately arrested in South Carolina.

TIIK Board of Trustees of the Evansville public schools have determined to enforce the rule requiring all children in attendance to have been vaccinated.

TIIK crack of the "Jo-irnal's" party lash reverberates among the orchards of Sullivan and through the hills of Greene! "The discipline of principle, my boy!"

TIIK Commissioners of Marion county have signed the contract for the use of the North Vernon stone in the construe tion of the Court House now building ii Indianapolis.

WILL our lower Main street neighbor please let us know when "the discipline of principle," alias the party lash, is to be applied to the rebelious New Departurists in these parts

ON SUNDAY, at Indianapolis, a colored woman, .Mrs. ELIZA CURRY, poured coal oil on afire. The blaze communicated with the vessel, exploding it, and inflictinjuries upon her, from which she died.

SPEAKER BLAINE says he will not be in Washington till the 1st of next month, and that as yet his list of committees is not made up, and will not be ready to announce for a week or ten days after the session opens.

THE December "Galaxy," just out, closes the 12th volume of this peerless magazine- The publishers announce many attractions for the next volume, which we shall have occasion to notice at another time.

THE "Journal" having emphatically declared that it will not accept the Fifteenth Amendment, we beg to know what our cotemporary proposes to do about it? Please state your intentions mildly, so as not to terrify the people.

THE "Journal" continues to protest against the proposed postponement of the Democratic State Convention. But our Neighbor might as well save his wind. The Convention will not occur on St. Andrews dixy.

THE "Times and Chronicle" thinks the Ku-Kltix could not have secured abetter man for their defense in court than "the other JOHNSON," provided only they keep him off Ill's f8ad. If he once gets at a dinner-table, it's all up with REVERDY.

THE Louisville "Courier-Journal" condoles .villi Judge Doolittle upon his Wisconsin defeat, and tells him that there is a future for him yet.—Exchange.

And there is little comfort in that, for it's the future that such fellows dread more than all the ills of this life.

War. SCOTT DAVIS, who shot and killed GEO. W. GRAHAM, at a peach-pear ing in Gibson county, some months ago, has been captured and is in the Prince ton jail. After the murder he escaped to Missouri, where he was found by the

Sheriff of Gibson.

W E ARE credibly informed that when HENDRICKS read the "Journal's" two column double-leader, commanding him to abandon his "heresies" or leave the Democratic party, his knees smote each other a la BELSHAZZAH. But he had no occasion to send for DANIEI. to interpret

he awful message.

AN Evansville paper grieves that there is a clique of young men in that city, who seem unable to distinguish between a church and the Opera House. At the Opera House they are accustomed to gather in groups and chatter, to the disturbance of the audience, and church goers complain of them for practicing the same evil habit in church.

TIIK "Journal" plaintively laments that the Democratic party has departed from "that noblest and best of policies, which is founded upon honest convictions-" Seeing that most of the great Democratic leaders are likely to he honestly convicted of felony, the party is in a fair way to get enough of "honest convictions" in the course of time.

SENATOR HAMILTON, of Texas, has written a letter to officials in Washington, charging that CLARKE, member elect, and KRWI'OMN, Secretary of State, have started North with the purpose of putting abou' seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars of Texas bonds on the market in New York, and that the whole transaction

will be illegal.

A WASHINGTON OOKIIK.SFONDFNT learns that papers charging PROSPER, Postmaster at Nashville, with presenting claims against the government while a tuember of Congress, and sharing the proceeds, have "been laid before the PresidentThe latter, after examining them, sent them to the Postmaster Genera! with directions that immediate action be taken

upon them.

ONE DAY last week— .-ays the New "1

ONE year ago at this time the sky was everywhere lit up with Democratic triumphs.—Journal.

And since that time, in many States of this Union, "the sky" has been "lit up with Democratic triumphs"—the flames of burning school houses, cottages and churches, fired by Democratic KaKlux!

THE Evansville "Journal" announces that the building of the new hotel in that city, hasai last been secured, after severe efforts the last few hundred dollars necessary to complete the amount required, and not yet subscribed, being guaranteed by Mr. HEILMAN, io addition to his own sulfaiption. ir^'t

WE know that this so-called amend* ment has never been legally ratified. It is a fraud upon the Constitution and upon the American people.—Journal.

Well, what are you going to de about it? That's the question. Willitbeconvenient for you to rise and explain "just at this juncture"?

Gov. HOWARD recommends closing all that remains of the Freed men's Bureau, on the ground that all s.uch work as remains can be done by the other dejiartmenis He further recommends that the payment of bounties to colored troops, which now constitute* the principal work of the Bureau, be made through the same channels as bounties to white soldiers.

A THOUSAND instance* may be cited of gigantic larcenies committed by prominent Kadicals with no loss whatever of respectability or influence amongst their tribe—Journal.

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"Times"—W. M. TWEED, the "Boss "thief, w.is seen to alight from a train at Nor walk. The other passengers on the plat' form instantly set up a cry of "stop thief," and kept it up until he was out of sight. At this rate "politicians," big and little, will soon begin to think that plundering the public is not, after all, a very profitable business.

A MONO "the old watchwords" which the "Journal" says must be passed along the lines," is this ancient Democratic

motto: "White husbands or none!" And this nice "old watch won!" must not be forgotten: "Fathers, save us from negro hi^bands!"

Nor must this be overlooked: "Down with the nigger!" Just imagine Mr. \OORHEES in the Year of our I-ord, 1S72, passing those "old watchwords" "alofig thfr lines!"

Bah!

We defy you to Bame a single instance out of the thousand that you allege. Name a prominent Radical who has committed "larceny" if you can. And we further challenge you to mention a single case in which any Radical has been shown to be a defaulter without losing both character and influence. Yon rave as wildly as a maniac, and show a contempt for truth that is truly "Democratic."

AN EXCIIANGE rejoices in the discovery that, despite all that is put forward to the contrary by jealous writers, civilization is progressing steadily in Russia under the enlightened and liberal direction of ALEXANDER II. The Czar has just appointed a commission of jurists to examine and report upon the feasibility of abolishing corporal punishment in the Muscovite domain. Under the harsh law of the Northern Empire, as it at present stands, any criminal judge may award a penalty of one hundred lashes on any offender that may be brought before him. There is little doubt that the barbarous penalty of the knot will be interdicted in Russia as soon as the commitee just appointed to investigate it make their report.

HON. D. W. VOORHEES is out in a card against the New Departure. He attributes the disasters that have befallen the Democracy in the late elections to the ill-advised policy of Mr. Vallandigham and his followers.— Vincennes iun.

That is a mistake. Mr. VOORHEES is not "out in a card against the New Departure." He simply authorizes the "Journal" to commit him against it, which action is entirely consistent with his public and private utterances, in this city, since the first appearance of "the Dayton doctor's nauseating dose." DAN is the most intense Bourbon in the entire North, and is quite willing that his friend, the editor of the "Journal," should so proclaim him. The "Sun" is hardly fair iB failing to discriminate between an editorial and "a card." We have reason to know that the article in question was a fair exposition of the "Journal" editor's opinions.

No IDEA could be more loathsome Jo the voters of the Democratic party, and in fact to at least one-half the honest followers of the Republican party, than that of negro suffrage.—Journal.

Nonsense, you ancient digger in the graves of dead issues! The Republican party, to a man, is gloriously proud of having given the negro LIBERTY jtnd its inevitable sequence, THE BALLOT. And you needn't go far to find thousands of honest Democrats who rejoice in the Fifteenth Amendment as part of the righteous settlement of questions growing out of the war. The world has been moving while you have been poking in the mould of those cold graves.

THE "Journal" seems very confident that the Democratic State Convention will be held on St. Andrew's Day. The Evansville "Courier," however, yields to "the powers that be"—which means R. J. BRIOHT—and remarks:

As the convention will be deferred till next spring or summer we are disposed to fall in with the suggestion of the Vincennes "Sun," and say let us not make any State nominations till after the National Convention has adjourned. We shall then have the advantage of the voice of the Democratic party of the whole nation for our guide, and we cannot very well make anv mistakes.

How does the "Journal" like such white feathered timidty as that?

FROM the Lafayette '"Journal" we learn that a man named STEWART HOLLER was shot and mortally wounded, about half past 6 o'clock on Friday even, ing, at the residence of a Mrs. RITTENOUR, of Shelby township, about six miles west of Lafayette, from the effects of which he died at 4 o'clock Saturday morning. The shooting, it is supposed, was done By one WILLIAM MATHEWS a son of Mrs. RITTENOUR by a former husband. As to the cause of the shoot'ng there are three or four different stories, neither of which we shall attempt to give. They all agree that HOLLER came to the house of Mrs. RITTENOUR at the time of shooting, and was met in the yard by MATHEWS, who told him to come no further or he would shoet. HOLLER insisted on going into the house, when MATHEWS rai«d a shot gun and fired, the charge taking effect in the abdomen, infiiciing a fearful wound, from which the bowels protruded.

THE Ein|ieror of Brazil having emancipated his slaves, is applying to our Educational Bureau for information relative to the organization of free schools at the South. The Governor of Kentucky says in his last message: "I will never consent to the giving of one dollar for the education of the blacks in the State." The Emperor of Brazil acts like the ruler of a eivilized people, who desire to extend the ble-*ung of education to all his subject--!. The Governor of Kentucky talks like a barbarian who regards education as a curse to manhood.—Ind. JoumaL

And the Mate of Indiana talked and acted like just such "a barbarian" until the Republican Legislature of 1S69 established schools "for the education of the blacks in the State." It was an act of strict justice and sound policy so tardily performed that there wrs little credit in the performance and there is not the degree of pleasure in the retrospect that a good act promptly done always affords. The most disgraceful pages ol the history of our State legislation are those which bear acts of cruel proscription of the colored race. Let us have charity for Kentucky Bourbanism- Civilization is advancing, even in that State. A wiser and better generation is coming upon the stage, and the Bourbons are dying off. In a few years .Kentucky will do justice to her colored people, and will be as much ashamed of her present '"barbarism" as (he best citizens of Indiana are of the pro scription formerly prscti&d here.

IN the "Journal's" celebrated doubleleaded surrey of the national political fieldvit says: "We have a strength snfficient for victory."

If that be true, what the deuce have you been doing with this "strength" since 1856? If our memory is not at fault, you have been beaten in every national canvass since that date. y**4 r-

SAYS the Cincinnati "Commercial:" "The "Enquirer's" nomination of TnoMAS A. SCOTT, of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad, is a blunder that every one is able to perceive outside that office. There has been no name put forward for the Presidency which has been received with so liitle relish by the Democratic press. All the influential Democratic papers in Ohio pronounce against it." *«.«?{!

AWED by the lesson of the late election, the "World" has taken to quoting scripture, and endeavors in a conple of columns of serious double lead to find ont something in the way of political salvation. The Philadelphia "Press" thinks this is vain, and remarks that the simple platform which the Democratic party needs now is repentance and confession. Let it lake down the stars and bars and hoist the saclccfeth.

FOR our part we call upon our own ranks to close up, and stand firm —Jownal.

But the split is so wide that your ranks can't hear your "call." Were you to take up a position midway between the Bourbons and the Departed, even then your lusty lungs would not be able to send forth a shout that would reach either faction. If you would "call" effectually, you must be able to excel the founder of your par ty, who "called so loud that all the hollow deep of Hell resounded."

ARTICLES of Incorporation of the "Buckeye Canal Coal Company" have been filed in the office of the Secretary of State. The principal place of business of this Company is to be Cincinnati, Ohio, with a branch office, in charge of the Superintendent, at the mine in Daviess county, in this State, where the mining and manufacturing operations of the company are to be carried on. The capital stock is to be$100,000 dollars, divided into 1,000 shares of one hundred dol lars each.

THE British troops doing garrison duty in the fortifications at Quebec are about to embark for England. They are the last of the English soldiers to leave the Dominion, and with their departure the colony is left to its own military resources. All the forts, military stores and armaments now in the Dominion, not including, of course, the arms and equipments of the regiments about to sail for Europe, will be transferred to the Canadian authorities. And now our Northern neighbors will have an opportunity of showing all the world how well able they are to take care of themselves.

THE "Journal" of last Saturday lurnished many a text for the "Express," of yesterday, and we suppose Deacon Allen took up pretty much all Sunday in writ' ing out his sermons thereon!—Journal.

It is a matter of deep regret that we are compelled to grieve the devoutly pious soul of our lower Main street cotemporary by preparing matter for Monday's paper on Sunday and Sunday night Could we do so without injustice to our readers, we would refrain from this SO' called "sinful practice," and, following the worthy example of our "truly good" neighbor, would go to the Sanctuary and lift up a cracked voice with his rnelifluous tones. But a profound sense of duty to the patrons of the EXPRESS crushes personal inclination, often at the expense of a full Sunday's work—extend ing far into the night. To atone, in some degree, for the personal IQSS which this involves -deprivation of all those good influences which our friend of the "Jour nal" finds in the House of the Lord—we have sometimes indulged in what he calls "sermons"—articles which treat of serious matters in a serious way and our sense of responsibility is not lightened by the reflection that our audience is many times more numerous than are the congregations that assemble in all the churches in our city. The man who can send a good thought to his fellow man through a newspaper, six times a week, liaB a chance to do vastly more good than any clergyman in Terre Haute. If he does it, his Sunday work will not condemn him.

THE National Council of Congregational Churches, which meets at Oberlin, Ohio, to-day, is regarded as very important by that large and influential denomination of Christians. Two distinctive principles of ecclesiastical order are held by the Congregational Churches, viz: Self government and Fellowship. According to the first, they hold that each church is a body competent to manage all its affairs, and owes obedience to no human power outside of itself. The voice of a majority of the members of any church is decisive on all points, and from it there is no appeal. Yet they are not independent, because, according to the principle of Fellowship, they believe that in all matters of importance, and of common concernment, such as settling or dismissing a pastor, the advice—not the consent—of the neighboring churches should be asked. In accordance with this principle of Fellowship, they have District and State Associations, or Conferences, in which Pastors and Delegates of the churches meet at stated times. These are entirely voluntary in their nature, and possess no ecclesiastical power whatever. They consult upon matters of common interest and discuss practical questions concerning Christian work and doctrine. It is proposed that this National Council, or Conference shall be to the nation, what the State Associations are to the State. The "Advance" says: "The principles of our churches on the subject of ecclesiastical methods art so few, so simple, and so pronounced, that the limits of such a body are virtually defined beforehand, as they also are by the existing wants of the denomination. We do not need, and our principles would not allow us to have, a national body to exercise even the least power over the churches. But we do need something which shall stand related to the churches of the whole country, as does each State Association or Conference to the churches of its State—a point of common meeting, fellowship, and consultation. In no other way can we effectually bear our part in the work of Christianizing the United States and the world for to do that we must lay wise and comprehensive plans, which shall be carried out by our united resources and this again depends upon our growing into oneness of character and spirit."

In reference to learning and talent, the Council will embrace many of the finest minds in these churches, and in the country, and will include not only prominent clergymen, but many names prominent in civil and educational circles. This denomination, being the mother of American colleges, very, appropriately there are ten presidents of colleges among the delegates. There are also two BEECHKRS, Dr. EDWARD and HENRY WARD.

This State is entitled to four delegates, two of whom are from this city, Rev. M. A. JEWETT, D-D., and Rev. E. F. HOWE. Deacon HENRY ROSS is also an alternate. Dr. JEWETT and Mr. HOWE bdtll expect to attend.

SEVERAL of otir exchanges print ,a letter of Judge NIBLACK to the editor of the Rockport "Democrat," announcing that he is not a candidate for Governor. One of the principal reasons urged by Mr. NIBLACK against accepting the nomination for Governor, is, that he doubts his ability "to yield as leadily and gracefully to the new order of things, as might be expected of him, and as others may do, who are less committed on most of the questions of the day than he is." This— remarks tiie Evansville "Journal"—is a pleasant way of saying that he still re gards himself a Bourbon Democrat, and can't gracefully go the "new departure."

WEGIVB fair notice to our Democratic brethren of Indiana that ihe old faith of the party must again be subscribed to if we would hold the confidence of the people.—Journal.

The advance of civilization ha* knocked "the old faith of the party" higher than a kite. When slavery fell beneath the sturdy blows of the brave Republican party, the mission of Democracy was gone. Since then Democracy's wretched ghost has walked the earth,—a shame to our age,—a/eproach to our civilization. The history of the party is a long series of foul blots upon humanity's record. For a whole generation it fought only to perpetuate the diabolism of slavery. Its sweetest music was the sound of the lash falling on the backs of human chattels, mingled with the cries of writhing victims under the lash. The only commerce it ever encouraged was traffic in human beings. The only progress it ever favored was the advance of slavery into new Territories- And when this last design was fruslratei^by the election of LINCOLN, then Democracy raised its parricidal hand against the nation's life, and fought for four long years to destroy the Government in order that a new Confederacy might be erected .with slavery for its chief cornerstone. Defeated in this, the traitor party still dared to live in the face of such Bhame and disgrace as should have sufficed to kill a colony of hyenas. It has even gloried in its infamy, and has added thereto by pursuing the negro with the malice of devils, the malevolence of jlell. And even yet the pursuit is continued, but the object of its hatred is beyond the reach of Democracy's fiendish fury. Then "subscribe to the old faith of the party" as soon and as often as you please. You are impotent for further evil, and can hardly do anything that will augment your own political damnation. Your old victim, the negro, scams you, while he grieves that the annals of the human race are disgraced by such a party! It is some atonement for this disgrace, however, that the colored people of the

United States have shown and are showing many of the noblest qualities of mankind and best achievements of our times. Let them continue to do well, that the historian of this country may find in their conduct a partial offset to Democratic infamy.

A Proclamation of Thanksgiving. STATE OF INDIANA. 1 Executive Department, In pursuance of the President's proclamation, of the 28th ultimo, I, Conrad Baker, governor of Indiana, do cordially recommend that Thursday, November 30, 1871, be observed by the people of this State as a day of thanksgiving and praise to God for His boundless and innumerable mercies to the State and her people. "O, praise the Lord all ye nations praise Him, all ye people," for "praise is comely," and "His merciful kindness is great toward us "O, give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good because His mercy endureth forever."

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seal of the State, at Indianapolis, this 7th day of

[SEAL] November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seven-ty-one. Attest: CONRAD BAKER.

NORMAN EDDY, Secretary of State.

After the Fire.

THE SCHOOL FESTIVAL.—Quarterly magazine, devoted to original matter, for Day School and Sunday School Exhibitions, and Public Occasions.

The October number of this popular Magazine (which was destroyed by the great Chicago fire, when all ready to mail,) has been reprinted, and has juet reached us. As its subscription list was burned, the Publishers request lis to ask their subscribers to send their addresses, stating what numbers were yet due them, and to remit their subscription for next year. Let all teachers and pupils subscribe now, for the School Festival—they all need it. It costs only fifty cents a year, in advance, or fifteen cents for a single number.

The Publishers were very heavy losers by the great fire, but they don't propose to allow their subscribers to lose anything.

Send, by mail, to Alfred L. Sewell & Co., Publishers, Chicago, 111.

A WASHINGTON correspondent learns that Gen. Ballock has had his account adjusted at the Treasury Department Controller Brodhead, who says that this transaction is wholly irregular, also announced that the only basis on which these accounts could be adjusted would be toallow the government six per cent, interest on the sum converted into bonds and deposited by Ballock for a period of eighteen months. As the amount of bonds which Ballock had in the safe deposit company and treasury was two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, he was compelled to pay the sum of twentvtwo thousand five hundred dollars in addition to restoring the bonds. The latter sum was to make good the value of coupons which had been clipped.

The Masonic Temple.

It is proposed to locate the new Masonic Temple just south of the new hotel, on Pennsylvania street. Judge Martindale proposes to put in the lot at $50,000 and take $25,000 stock. There is a ten years mortgage on the property for §25,000, and he proposes to take that amount in stock and let the company assume the mortgage. It is thought $100,000 additional can be raised, which will be sufficient to build a handsome and substantial temple.—Ind. Es'g -Yare. t'::

vi* The Clem Case—Bail Refnsed. A dispatch from Lebanon was received in this city yesterday afternoon, from Mr. R. B. F. Pierce, Prosecuting Attorney of the circuit, to the effect that Judge Davidson, of the Boone County Court, had given his decision on the motion to admit Mrs. Nancy E. Clem to bail, in view of the disagreement of the last jury before which she was tried. The decision was adverse to the motion so Mrs. Clem will remain in jail until another trial of her case is had, at least.—Ind. Journal

A YOUNG man named Strieker, a 'bus agent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad, between Leavenworth and Lawrence, committei suicide on Monday night. His father was kindly remonstrating against his dissipation, and remarked that he would rather follow his son to his grave than see him a drunkard. The young man replied, "Here goes, father," and instantly put the pistol to his head and discharged it.

IN Russia, medical quacks do not rate very high. On the contrary, vigoroumeasnres are sometimes employed to repress them- In Moscow, for example, a "doctor" of this description was lately ordered by the police authorities to depart from the city. Having a large number of customers, he failed to obey the mandate, and was consequently flogged and sent to the work house for a year-

THE Mexican law of libel, bears a very close resemblance to the French. It anthorizes the prompt seizure of all printed matter having a tendency to interfere with private or public character. The effect of it is to shieid swindlers, and prevent the newspaper press of the conntry from performing its proper functions.

EMERSON ETHRIDGE, a Tennessee mummy, has unswathed himself without the slightest provocation, and is now advocating 'possum tactics for the Democracy in Nashville.—Ind. Evg. Journal.

CURRENT NOTES.

CHAUNCEY is not to be annexed to Lafayette. THE Boston "Pot" has entered upon the forty first year of its existence.

FORTY cents' rise on the gallon of oil has been one consequence' of the disaster to the Arctic whaling fleet.

WHAT a splendid republic France is M. Thiers has prohibited the circulation of newspapers among the army.

LONG ago a broken "ring" was held as a pledge of love but in New York it is considered an emblem of purity in city government.

THE Judges of the Supreme Court of Indiana have adjourned for one week. The November term of the Court commences one week from Monday next.

MRS. WHARTON, the Baltimore Borgia by accusation, is to be brought to trial at Annapolis, on the 4th of next month. She has already been transferred to the jail^at the Maryland capital.

THE suit against Henry C. Hord by the Receivers of the Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lafayette Railroad Company for §248,000, brought in the Superior Court of Cincinnati, has been dismissed by tbe plaintiffs.

THE Czar is very shrewd. In the extensive system of railways that he is now building he uses a different gauge from any adjoining country. Prussia ran her own cars and locomotives to the very walls of Paris.

THE coolest thing1of late years is Dion Boucicaull writing to the London "limes" concernicg copyright, and complaining bitterly against plagiarism and imitation. It is pretty generally admitted throughout the world that he is the greatest liter\S H'!-Km WMJWW ary tlnef living.

A NEW Justice of the Peace in Kokomo, is thus referred to by the "Republican": "Ben. Boon is about as well qualified to fill the important position of Justice of the Peace, as the editor of this paper is to perform the duties of AdjutantGeneral for the armies of Heaven."

IN the Atlanta "Sun," on the morning after the New York election, A. H. S. has one of his brief leaders, headed "Cheerful Sentiments from the East." Evidently the old gentleman wrote and went to bed, before the "Sentiments" were all in. He may now as well retire for good.

THE "Tribune" notices that American women are importing their learned degrees from Europe. Another has been added to the list of women who have secured these honors, a Miss Dimock, an American student, having just received the title of Doctor of Medicine at a Swiss university. Our own universities will, by and by, make this foreign study for women unnecessary.

THE New York "Standard" proposes Mr. Jones, of the "Times," for Mayor of New York. Whereupon the Cincinnati "Times and Chronicle" justly observes: To the bold and energetic course of that journal, and to the genius of Thomas Nast, the comic artist of "Harper's Weekly," the great victory over Tammany on Tuesday is largely due. Such services should have emphatic recognition by the people-

WHILE our leading journals have amused themselves by pointing out the evils of England's opium trade, and how it was reacting upon her own people, there has been a little traffic in this drug growing up on our western coast worthy of notice. During the first six months of this year 318,413 dollars' worth (32,350 pounds) of opium was brought into San Francisco from China and Japan, and more than two-thirds of this was used for opium eating and smoking. A comparison of this six months with tbe same ones of the past year shows an increase of $110,000 in the trade.

AN INTERESTING FEATURE of the recent New York election was the defeat of Governor Seymour for the Assembly in the Nineteenth District by Thomas C. Fields, Central Park Commissioner and member of the Thieves' Ring. To add point to the ignominy of such a defeat, this man Fields is a fugitive from justice, and at the time he was being voted for as one of the law-makers, the officers of the law were searching for him to put him in jail on the charge of fraud, corruption, and embezzlement. Governor Seymour has the additional mortification of knowing that it was to the influence of this fugitive thief and his associate thieves that he largely owed his nomination as the Presidential candidate of the Democracy in 186S. '.

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TIIE action of the United States Government in Utah meets the unqualified approval of the London "Times." That journal not only warmly indorses the legal proceedings thin fi. .lirecte.] a^' ist the followers of Brigham Young, demands, in the strongest terms, that ihose found guilty by the courts be punished in the severest manner permissible under our laws. In dealing with the Mormon problem we quite naturally attract the attention and criticism of E.trope. The old monarchical governments have Jong been marveling how we would get rid of the excresence which Brigham Young had fanned upon the Republic. They could th'uk of nothing less than a wsr in Utah, an 1 the extermination of the Mormons. We shall manage in our quiet, bloodle-s, but none th« less efficacious way, to remove Mormonism out of the path of our westward moving civilization.

ALL the gossipping European letter writers unite in saying that Paris is as gay and as thronged with opulent pleas-ure-seekers as it was before the downfall of the Second Empire, the only signs left by the siege and Communistic reign being large forces of workmen clearing away the ruin wrought by the hands of the "Reds," and restoring, as expeditiously as possible, the charred and calcined buildings to their former beanty. As in the bright old days, Americans predominate among the floating population of the brilan re is an in ad of being presented at court or purchasing the Parisian knicknacks of the Napoleonic era, our pecunious countrymen now invest in relics of the seige and insurrection. The supply oftbese interesting souvenirs seems fully up to the demand, without any apparent sign of ever being exhausted.

SAYS the New York "Tribune": "Those Heathen Chinese at Belleville have been at their vain tricks again, and have furnished another illustration of their peculiarly dark ways. Their employer at that place lately finished a Isrge barracks for them, the lower floor of which was unoccupied. A few nights ago he observed mysterious lights in the rooms on this floor, and, suspecting mischief, cautiously approached the building, fully armed and prepared to punish the supposed maraud* ers. He reached one of the rooms in which the lights were burning, and pushed open the door—to discover that the wicked and unchristian wretches had carpeted the apartment, furnished it with a large table, placed in tbe center of the floor, and that a score of ihem were gathered about it deeply intent, with the aid of the forewoman and her daughter, on acquiring the English alphabet It is not believed in the immediate vicinity of Belleville that thece mysteriou* actions on the part of the Chinamen seriously threaten the peace or demoralization of the neighborhood."

THE New York "World," after much fervid assertion of its satisfaction at the defeat of the Tammany Ring, abruptly swoops down from its tnblime height, and says: "But, nnfortunately, the Republicans will have a two-thirds majority, and the negative of the Governor will be of no account.*"* To see the point—says an exchange—is is only necessary to recollect that Gorernor Hoffmaff^was nominated and renominated aa Tammany's pet^jthat lie was elected. acid' reelected by Tammany's frauds and that, until very recently-^«n* it'Segah lo be' quite unhealthy—he' iias been Tammany's ever-ready tool. Thereby hangs the tale of the great 'popular decree'that Hoffman's vote shalt be of no effect.

About two and a half miles north of Wilmington, Delaware, and skirting the Brandywine for three miles lies a narrow strip of land, known as the Dupont Pow-der-yards, wherein thebeautlea of Nature and the toils and dangers of industry are strangely mingled. Long avenues of greenest willow shade and turf, soft as velvet and spangled with daisies, give to this enclosure an almost park-like appearance. Here grow the bluest violets of the spring-time, and, from the opposite woody shore, Autumn's gay banners droop glowing to the water's edge.' Fefns, rivalling the choicest pets of the conservatory, are found in the mossy ravines,.And the scarlet flame of the cardinal flower lights up many a shady retreat. But as a suggestive contrast to the surrounding beauty, throughout the length of this Eden run the iron lines of a horse railroad, and here and there, crouching back against the hill-sides, like grim giants bracing themselves for a spring, stand structures of heavest masonry—the powder mills.

Properly speaking, the powder works consist of three distinct yards—the upper containing one, the lower two, and the middle yard, or Hagley, three sets of mills. In the upper yard there is a large refinery for the preparation of saltpetre and the clarifying of the acids extracted from the willows.

From the coal-houses, where the wood is charred, the composition is carried forward through a succession of rolling and graining mills, thence to the glazing mill and dry-house—gbihing in dangerous properties with each change—until finally it reaches the packing-house and the acme of its fearful power. "Only a rolling mill,"' is a reassuring phrase in time of an explosion, but the word "packing-house" carries a thrill of horror to every heart. The consternation in tjie neighborhood on such occasions is most distressing. No sooner has the violent burst sounded forth in terrific alarm than the whole population is out, with eyes raised to the sky. Sometimes several seconds elapse ere the smoke rises but, when at length the heavy, sullen islbuds roll up with the cry, "Lower yard!" "Upper yard!" or "Hagley!"as the case may be, shrieking women and sobbing children rush simultaneously to the scene of the disaster. But a wise and necessary precaution has been before them. The gates are locked. And, though their anxiety is a sight to move the stoutest heart, they can only wait till a loved face appears to relieve their anguish till a dear one's mangled form is carried forth or worse—until the sadly significant news that such a one is missing passes tremulously from month to .mouth. Only those who have witnessed the silent, subdued men gliding along tbe creek side, carrying staffs and saltpetre bags, and searching diligently among the brushwood and withered leaves as boys seek for nuts, know fully-what that word missing means.

The danger being so great, and the acr cidents so terrific, it seems almost incredible that men should be found willing to engage in the business- But there is seldom a scarcity of hands. When Paddy grows tired of "working on the canawl," the light labor and good wages of,the powder-mills offer a tempting change. And, though Nora may bewail the sad fate of herself and "the childer" in case he should be "blown up," it generally ends in Patrick running the risk.

A provision, amounting almost to the dignity of life insurance, may have some weight with the more thoughtful. The liberality of the Messrs. Dupoat 'does much to soften the suffering of bereavement. It was their custom during many years—and I presume is still, to give to the wives of powdermen killed in the works one hundred dollars per year and a free house so long as they remain widows. To a frugal, energetic woman, this is of great assistance, and there are well known cafes of widows who have been able to bestow upon their children the advantage of a liberal education.

The month of May is the harvest of the willows. Coming from all directions toward the powder-works, wagons may then be seen piled high with willowbranches, some in their natural green state and tufted here and there with leaves others peeled and looking at a little distance like huge masses of yellowish ivory. There is scarcely a far met for miles around but has a group of willows shading his spring-house, or a line of their green boughs fringing the brook in his meadow pasture. Every three or four years the faithful trees are deprived of their branches and left standing like dejected Samsons shorn of their locks. But it is not for long. Before the wildroses of June have vanished from the hedges, the ugly scars of the hatchet are hidden by a growth of fresh young twigs, which, when another summer comes around, will be well on their way toward a second harvest. Few crop3 are more remunerative—six dollars per cord being the price given for green branches, or eight dollars he bark is removed. The greater part ol

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peeling, however, is

done in the iui.nediaie vicinity of the works. Here and there along the creek side, scattered about in tlie'glad May sunshine, are seen busy groups—old men whose white locks float in the gentle breeze, brisk matrons, and deft-handed children- It makes a pretty picture, especially when the little ones, grown tired of the monotonous task, run away for a chase after butterflies, or to gather the golden dandelions by the margin of the stream.

Two dollars per cord is the price given for peeling. When the branches are large, this pays excellently, but a load of slender boughs is a sore vexation. The bark is also the property of the peeler, and, throughout the summer, the aromatic fuel keeps tbe pot boiling in many a cottage home. In the evening when tbe bright snnshine has vanished, and the songs of the birds are stilled, when the glow of a lantern hung i/pon a tree above each band of workerR reveals their whereabouts, and adds to the feetal appearance, the force is largely increased. Young men from thei }wder-yards, maidens from the factories, and ervants from the neighboring farms, gather there then for pastime and company. It is their casino. When Kale ushes the lint of the loom from her dark curls, she ties a bright ribbon around them, and Molly, hurrying through her dairy work, dons a fresh, white apron. For who knows whom they may meet among the willows? "Mony lords' an* lasses' fates

Are there o'nights decided." It is now that popular peelers prosper. An old man with a large fund of anecdote, or a shrewd woman who will promise tbe young folks a party when the season is over, gains much help from these merry ameteurs, and the lagging cords of glistening branches are poon piled high by their dexterous fingers. Until a late hour their laughter, echoes, over the quiet creek, and the lonely nighthand going to "change his mill" far down the yard, is cheered by the gay songs borne to him along the water.

A prominent characteristic of these people is their superstition. Living in the mid't of hourly danger, and familiar with sudden and awful calamity, it is little wonder that their'crednlousnatures seek to lay hold upon the unseen and supernatural. If you have a taste for ghostly legends, leave the merrier company and go where the gleam of a lantern falls upon a group of withered crones and awe-faced children. Take a seat upon the fragrant bark, and listen to their conversation. From it you may learn of spectral forms who nightly face the scene of their earthly labors. You will hear that no explosion ever took place but it was foretold by these fearful visitants, and that no poor powderman was ever rudely summoned to the spirit-world, but was first called thither by the well known voioe of a departed comrade.

INCIDENTS OF THE GREAT FIRE.— Send, by mail, fifty cen's to Alfred Sewell, Chicago, 111., and receive, post paid, a copy of his cloth-bound book of Incidents of the Great Chicago Fire.

L'. or Nott^Censul

"Th. is it-is said, embraces seventeen Who woold be a censa 't ef-wridfnee paperJnsfctbi"' seventeen miQIoas,

KespK-i -t stt with mnldplieAobarms A host .ble wOtaen Rashiiiv-yfdflt into your arms I Coming after another.

Faster than flakea of snow,

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Myriads hurrying np to be kissed And waiting for others to go. ..

Just think of it—seventeen millions ITrojlfevery land nnder the skies Maltuulinous types of figure and faee,

A world of wonderful eyes.

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AMONG THE WILLOWS.

Think—seventeen millions Who? -jJK?.! Bat stop! These seventeen millions,

From every I'andlitider the skies, .Can't all beadorable women— Can't all have wonderful eyes. There-are faees an pleasant to laokat.r-•

Complexions decidedly had. Heaps on heaps who never had beanty. Or have lost the little thfty had.,9Y

There aro wemen who seowl and who sqialnt. And look opposite ways at a time. And blinking, blear-eyed monsters.

Whose kiss weald be kin to a erimej '.'* There are horrible objects with wens, And features twisted awfy, -ii-a .Termagantsarmed with a broomstick,

Shrews who smack of the sty.

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There are women with tnrned-np noses. And noses bent down flat. And features drawn and teeth all gons^rio.

And cheeks like a knocked-in nat. There are anatomical women, With most.of their bones outside, And women like magnificent tumors,

Whom you could not embrace if yoa triod.

There are women all padded and painted, More humbug than women, I'm toW Manufactured of cotton and offered for sale

At current prices of gold. There aro women with hair that comos off, And teeth that they have to pnt in. Who drop slowly apart like a bundle, o» t?

As you pull out each separate pin.

Tin."?, are women with brains like a baby's, lint tv.*"Caes enough each for ten Women :rho Live by abusing eaeb other.

And women who feed upon men: Amaxons, cannibals, Jexebels, hags, Flatterers, simpletons.shrews, Say sixteen millions of such, and about

One million a fellow might ehoose.

You must take them, though, Just ns they eome. As fast as they pleaso to rush in On the whole 'iwould seem,' viewing it calmly.

As best, perhaps, not to begin, It's a pity to give up the good ones. But think of those others, my friend 1 And as soon as you start at the head of the line.

You are in for it, down to the end.

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It strikes me you'd better not do it, In view of tne risks that you run The feeling of constant anxiety fiiu'?

Must take off the edge off the,lun. The fact is. the more one reflects, The more one's constrained to reply, irtho question comes"Who'd be a census? "I thank you most kindly, not I." BUS

Fo- myself, if they ask me the q'icslioSt' I answer as echo does," Who? And reply, "By your, leave, Mr. Census,

There are seventeen million.-for you. I wish you all joy of vour bargain, .. And a quiet nijrht's r«twhen yon vo done I'll both .nklui my name ii not Census,

And rest peacefully happy wish one."

'I :ir: CllAIlLESTO tVN Til.UJEDY.

A Vihoio Family bavotheir Bruius jj, ii cut en out with mi ax.-i£jj]£

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.] Charl* stown, Indiana, was thrown into the most intense excitement about twelve o'clock yesterday, by the news that Cyrus M. Park, his wife, little boy, and two daughters, had been most brutally murdered with an ax, some time during Saturday night. The murder was done in Mr. Park's residence, on the Cliarlestown and Brownstown State road, about seven miles from the former place, and about three miles from Henryville, Indiana.

The whole matter is involved in the deepest mystery, and no clue has yet been obtained to the identity of the murderer and his accomplices. As soon as the terrible-news was announced a party of citizens started lor the scene of the tragedy. Parties coming from the place report a great multitude of citizens gath« ered there from all parts of the country, and the greatest excitement prevailing.

Mr. Parke is a native of Clark county, Indiana, and was fortv-tive years of ageHe was a member of the Presbyterian church, and Superintendent of the^Sabbath School Within a quarter of a mile of his house. He had the key of the school house, and yesterday morning, the whole school was waiting and wondering why Parks, hitherto so zealous and prompt, was not at his post of duty. At length a man named Joseph" Young went to the house of Parks, and found the second daughter, a girl fourteen years of age, sitting in the door, with a' number of frightlul bruises on her head. She remarked to Young that her father had not yet got up, and said somebody had struck her with an ax. Young advanced into the young ladies' sleeping room, and there found the oldest daughter, a girl of nineteen, sitting in a chair, with4her head mashed and mangled in a aost frightful and indescribable manner. She was not sensible, and could say nothing. Horrified at his harrowing discovery, he turned, only to behold another still worse feature. There lay, in another bed, the lifeless form of an innocent boy, but ten yearS of age, with a frightful and ghastly gash across his forehead.

The fearful truth now broke upon Young's mind that a wholesale, coldblooded, midnight murder had been committed. He hastened to the room of the parents, only to be more and more shocked and horrified at finding two more bloody corpses weltering in their gore in the same bed. The father and mother were lying side by side, facing each other, with fearful gashes and fractured skulls, silent, dead, and covered with blood and brains, a sickening sight.

Wild with the excitement of the scene, the voung man ran from the house, yelling at the top of his voice, that a horrible, cold-blooded murder had l»en perpetrated there. He almost flew to the Sunday school, and terrified everybody by his half frenzied manner, as he announced, with excited word* and gestures, the tidings of the fearful deed. Immediately the appalled multitude started to the scene to behold with their own eyes one of the most diabolical assassinations ever heard of in this section of the country.

The news spread with an amazing rapidity that seemed to equal the telegraph, and old and young were soon coming from all directions, on horseback, in vehicles, and a foot, all eagerly in]uiring after particulars, and looking with blanched faces and fearful expression at each other as they conversed about this most foul and repulsive murder.

Dr. H. II. Ferguson, of Henryville, was the first physician who arrived to render what little aid surgical skill could give under such awful circumstance*. He was soon after joined by Drs. u. H. Combs, Sam. T-aggard, V. Iluddell and A. J. Hay, all of Cliarlestown, and Dr. Applegate of .Memphis- I order to give a clear idea of the nafnre of the wounds and the portion of the parties, we give the desription as given tons by Drs. D. II. Combs and A. Hay, of Charlestown:

THE FATHER •'R

was forty five years of age. He was a quiet, peaceable, Christian gentleman. The murder was discovered between eight and nine o'clock in the morning, when Joseph Young went for the key. Mr. Park was lying with his bead to the northeast, and had received a blow on the temple from the poll of an ax, and a little higher up, on the side of the head, he had received another wound, apparently with the blade of the ax. The blows were both of them from a powerful hand, and resulted in the instand death of the victim. .w.. j, ,,

THE MOTHER

was found lying upon her right side, facing her husband with a like wound to that on his head. The blow had driven the ax through smashing bone and brains all into a mixed and horrible mass. She had not known what struck her, as death in her case, as in her husband's, muct have ensued instantly.

THE SON,

James W. Park, a little boy but ten years of age, had received a fearfnl blow with the poll of the ax on the upper and back part of the right side of the bead also another blow with the poll of the ax on the front and left side of the forhead, making a most frightful and instantly fatal wound.

THE ELDEST DAUGHTER, EVELIHE, a young lady, nineteen years of sge, had received three wound-", one in the upper and front part of the head, and another about the middle of the head, about the median line, that must have been inflicted with the sharp edge of the ax. The temporal bones seemed to be torn loose from the base. A third wound was on the back part of the same side of the head. The latter wonnd was done with the poll of the ax. This Dr. Furguson, with the assistance of the other surgeons present, trepanned, and the depressed bone was raised, thereby relieving th?

brain of prasrare from blood and skall. The young lady will certainly die within a few days.

THV tOUKOE» DAUGHTER,

ntw Mary Bark, a girl of fourteen, had received three wounds. The first was over thp left ejre, the frontal prominence being broken la, aid nmuroas pieces of the skull driven into thehrain to the depth of three inches. Dr. Combs, in examining the wound, had to run his fingers into her brain, and took oat six fragments of the bone. A considerable amount of the brain Wfs ooziifg ont. The second Wotiad Was upoti die occipital bone, or npon the back jiarL.QLihe heiul. It was.a fearful frac* ture.w ttn considerable depression of the sknll, and the wound was of so serious a qature that the dotitor thought it unadvisable to raise the bones, as it could not (oafiibiy save the patient's life- The third wonnd w"as about the crown of the head, with a fracture and depression of the skull and scalp. There was no careful Examination of the latter wound, as there was not the least shadow of a hope of affording any relief. The wounds were nndouotedly made with the poll of an ax. hni A CLEW TO THE MURDERESS. 5

The latest intelligence brings no reliable clew to the perpetrators of the foul de«l. Eveline, the eldest daughter, was standing at the door when Young approached the house. He asked after Mr. Park, and she said her father and mother had not yet got up, and remarked that somebody hadstruck her, but that was all she could tell. It is the opinion of Dr. Hay that the girl was partially insane, ahd wandered to the door, not knowing what she was doing, and not having suffi-. cient discretion-to discern her murdered brother who lay dead on a lounge in the same room, nor to recognize the friehtful condition of her mangled sister who sat by tbe fireside with her brains oozing out of her head. The only faint clew that has yet been obtained was found in footprints leading toward the back fence. These foot-prints measured eleven inches in length and fonror five inches in width. On the rails of the fence were discovered marks of heavy hob-nails. There was also found in the yard a half-pint whisky flash, which contained about a gill of whisky. A glove was picked up in the yard, but it is thought by some that this may have belonged to Joseph Young, who had not returned to the scene Of the tragedy up to tbe time our informant left.

THE BLOODY AX

was found in theyard, near the wood shed. It had evidently been driven in the ground for the purpose of cleaning off the blood, but the attempt at concealment of the instrument was futile, as it was smeared both with the blood and hair of the victims. The ax belonged to Mr. Park, which seems to indicate a singular fact, viz: that the assassin did not come prepared for the murder yet no rational being can conclude that such a frightful slaughter as this was a mere impulse, especially when there was evidently not the least resistance on the part of the vietitns.

THE MOTIVE.

The murder must have been the result of premeditation, and for some imagined offense or merely for the sake of robbery. Yet the theory of robbery does not appear well founded, for, if robbery had been the only motive, that doubtless could have been accomplished without shedding a drop of innocent blood. Especially would there have been no necessity to murder the wife and children. While the coroner's jury was in session something was said about introducing a witness upon the stand to

prove

that threats of violence had

been made against Park by some person, but the witness was gone and the question was not asked: Mr. Park is a native of Clark county, Ind and has lived all his life in the neighborhood where he was murdered. He was remarkable for his quiet and inoffeneiye manner. Nobody knows of him having any difficulty with any body,1and the people of Clark county find it impossible to understand the motive, of the murderer and his accomplices —for it is believed that one man did the fearful work, while at least one more watched to see that no one approached to interfere with the accomplishment of the dreadful deed. i-"'

WAS IT ALL FOR FORTY DOLLARS? Is there any way of accounting for this a^fuldeed! Was it done for the paltry suin of about forty dollars, which Mr. Parks wis known to have had previous to the eventful night? The money belonged partly to Lebanon Church, which was dedicated only two weeks ago, and partly t6 the Sabbath school. That money is tnissing, and doubtless the bloody fiend took it with him. But it does not look reasonable or even plausable, that this was the only object. A thief will not add to the crime of burglarly that of murder, except under very extraordinary circumstances, and there seems to be a total lack of inducement in this case. From all, the surrounding circumstances, the terrible thirst for Wood, the vindictiveness, the ntter disregard of age or sex, the fiendish rage of the slayer, and tbe evident intent to annihilate the whole family, there must have been eome cause beside money. That cause, it is asserted, must have been revenge for an imagined insult or wrong.

The money has probably been taken to aid in escape, or it may have been taken to cover up the, true cause of themtuder, and lead the State astray in its investigations, and it may turn out that the money was not taken, after a more thorough investigation of the matter, when the present excitcmept eools down.

THE COROSiJR'S JOKY.

fSquire E. B. Gurnsey, of Henjryville, was upon the grounds, accompanied^ by James K. Marsh, Proseciitor of the Criminal Court of Clark county. They proceeded to the work of holding an inquest over the bodies of Cyrus M. Park, the father, Mrs. Park, and John Wesley P.irk, the son. The investigation was continned up to sundown, yesterday, after which the jury adjourned until this morning.

THE PARK FAMILY.

Cyrus M. Park, the murdered father, was a son of the late John Park, one of the early eettlers of CUrke county, and had a wide circle of friends in this section of the country. John Park, Sr., was once a preacher of the Pnnkard persuasion, but latterly preached the tenet of the Christian or Campbellite Church. Cyrus M. Park, deceased, had four children, three of whom we have already mentioned. The fourth is Marion Park, a young man who, on last Tuesday, married a daughter of William Hartman, living in the same neighborhood, Marion Park, at the time of the tragedy, wan with his father-in-law, Mr. Hartman, and yes terday, upon receiving intelligence of the sad fate of his father, mother, brother and sisters, he had paroxysm of heart disease and became insensible, in which condition he remained all day. It may be that when he revives some circumstance of his father's life may be learned that will throw Borne light upon thi* inexplicable mystery.

Cyrus M. Park has four brothers living in Clark county, three at Maysville, viz.: Andrew, James and John Park, and a fourth, Jervis Park, at Memphis, Ind. The information of the terrible event doubtless reached them sometime yesterday. s1

THE TIME OF THE MURDER

cannot be ascertained with any certainty. The clock was stopped at half-pant ten o'clock, but whether this fact had any connection with the murder is not yet known. The prevailing opinion seems to be that the murder was comitted between 12 P. M. and 3 A. M., but this is all surmise.*

THE editor of the New York "World" is of the opinion that the acceptance of any post of honor or profit nnder any city, State or Federal Administration i- incompatible with the duties an^ interests of an independent journalist.

Mr. H. II. MARKHAM, of Milwaukee, would put his powder can under the seat of his boat, when he went out duck shooting. Still he killed one duck, by swooping down on him ont of tbe upper air, after the manner of theospiay. Chi eago Pott.

THE old woman who, if she lived* nil next St. Patrick's day, will see her 101st birthday, drives her cow a quarter of a mile to pasture every day, in all weathers, and does her own sewing without artificial aid to her eyesight, has got: round to Pittsfield, Mass.

FELIX PUATT escaped from Paris in a coffin and in a hearse. He was attended by a mourning widow, whose lugubrious aspect changed as she and her defnnct found themselves secure on board an English steamer off Havre.

A TURTLE passed through Bainbridge, Georgia, the other day, with this incription attached to him: "Please let thitraveler pass to the banks of the Throna teeska. He owes no one nothing neither is he a politician."

ENGLAND.

THE FIBS AT GENEVA.

LONDON, November 13.—The fire at Geneva to-day destroyed two blocks of houses. A quay and the Hotel Couronne were destroyed. Tremendous consternation prevailed, but the military preserved orders-?-

UNTRUE.:^:".*,...

The statement that the Pope requests a residence in France is untrue* CHOLERA.

Letters from Constantinople represent the cholera as spreading in that city. The number of deaths increases daily.

THE SOCIAL MOVEMENT.

Scott Rassell writes to the pnpers to* day, giving the history of the so-called 8ocial Movement. He says if Prince Albert had been living he would have its leader. The movement originated io the proposal for a union between Peer# and workingmen. He denies most phsitively that its object or methods were political or revolutionary. He strongly advocates perseverance in the effort in the interest of social.progress anil reform.

PENSION.

The British government has

granted a

pension of three hundred jwunds to the children of Dr. Livingstone, the African explorer.

LIVINGSTONE.

Livingstone when last heard from w.is slowly making his way toward the coast.'

CONSTANTINOPLE. rUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. CONSTANTINOPLE, November 11.—A firman has been issued by the Sublime Porte, directing the Minister of Public Works to inaugurate a comprehensive system of public improvements in view of a number of works projected by foreign capitalists in Ottoman dominions. Harbors are to be improved, rivers made navigable, new roads are to be built, old ones repaired, and every effort made to establish lines of connection wuh new railways from all parts of tbe country.

MADRID.

CONFIDENCE VOTF.

MADRID, NOV. 14.—The mo'ion for vote of want of confidence in the pnvernment, which the supiMirter* of Zu illa propose, will be considered at the special, request of the Ministers themselves.

WRIATHER.

It has been raining all day. i-.-

FRANCE. AMBASSADORS. '*'-'*5

PARIS, NOV. 14.—Goulard has hem appointed Ambassador from France to Italy. Picard, late Minister of the Interior, has been appointed Minister to Belgium.

S S E S

BELGIAN CHAMBERS-

BRUSSELS, November 14.—The cession of the Belgian Chambers was opened today. Prince De Ligne was made President of the Senate.

X4s LODIsVlLLK,E

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THE HENRYVILLE MURDER. LOUISVILLE, NOV. 14.—Last night dozens of Henryville, Ind near where the brutal murder -of the Park family occurred on Saturday night last, put a rope around the neck ot Geo. Johnson, a neRi implicated in the murder, and telling him that the crime had been traced to his hands, demanded to know his accomplices. Johtiion thinking all had been discovered, made full confession, 'tw^o negroes named Squire Taylor and Davis planned the murder, wilh himself, believing that Park had four or live bundred dollars of church money in his house. Johnson says he watched outside, Davis held the light, and Taylor committed the bloody deed. He says his partners refused to divide fairly with him. They got only a hundred and forty dollars. The whereabouts of the accomplices was learned, and a parly immediately started to effect their arrest, which was done. Excitement was so great ihat the officers had to take the murderers through the woods to avoid the mob and bring them to Jefferson ville, where they were lodged in jail to-day

ATTEMPT TO KILL.

Wilev Miller, of Jessamine connive Ky., was to day held in $2,500 bail, by the United States Commissioner, charged with shooting with intent to kill Samuel Strange, colored.

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CHIiAUO.

MUKDER AND SUICIDE.

6HICAGO, NOV. 14.—At Kanfiw,' Wisconsin, this afternoon, R. F. Morris, an old resident of that city, shot his wife in the left side, killing her instantly. lie then placed the muzzle of his gun in his mouth, and blew ofl the left side of his head. No cau*e is assigned for the terrible deed.

OlifJEROSITY.

Governor Fairchild, of Wisconsin, has authorised the furnishing of three thousand feet of lumber, free of expense, to every family who will rebuild on their lots recently devastated by lire.

A88AULT ON AN EDITOR.1

C. E. Mcintosh, defeated candidate for the Assembly, at Appleton, Wisconsin, on Saturday made an assault on Sam Ryan, Jr., editor of the Appleton Express, strik­

ing

him a fierce blow on the head from behind, with a heavy stick. A LUCICY BOOK BINDER.

The Fon Du I.ac, Wisconsin, Commonwealth says, George C. Chase a book binder in that establishment has established his claim to a fortune in ICngland, which will give him one_ million, live hundred thousand dollars.

HT. JLOUIM.

J— A KKK9TEP.

ST. LOUIS. NOV. 14.—A whisky soaki beast named J-J Klanter, who was moving west from Cuniberiand Gap, Tennessee, is under arrrest hcie for llie terrible violation ot a step (laughter fifteen years of age, some milts from here, last Saturday. The brute first attempted^ arrange wilh the child's mother, his nife, for the prostitution of her daughter, but falling in this he sought his opportunity and forced the girl into the brn-h by the road side, and after a severe snuggle in which the child attempted ilnee times in stab the monster, he lellcd her in-rnsible to the ground with the bun end of^his whip, and accomplished his pm [»i- e. Ihe child is the grand-deughier of John Newlee, a highly respcclable farmer at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee.

Uriit 'Jif™,. EitnsJ A a ELECTION., ST. PAUL, MINN., NOV. 14.— Ofboi.tl returns of the late election air not et all in, but enough to sh«w that Governor AIM tin will have a majority of at least i: 0U(l. It has now reached 10,600. and the I'M-* estimates that the districts from which there are no returns, will give 2.SIH) more. The legislature stands on joint ballot 101 Republicans to 4(5 Democ-mis, the Senate 31 Republicans, 10 Democrats. The House 70 Republicans, 38 Democrat.

SNOW.

The first snow of the season fell testerday to the depth of about one inch and a half. Weather this morning clenr.

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A SAVAGE ASSAULT.

MKMPIIIS, NOV. 14.— While the Susie Silver was lying at the tvharf last night, a negro, Sarii Owing", made a -avage assault on ii deck passenger named I'at

wilh a razor, inllicling a danger­

ous wound. In the affray, als^ wounded Thos. Hollinger and Gemge lv«w. He was arrested ancf committed io jajl.

PltOVIS

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CO UN RE UK EI KR AH I ST FC PROVIDENCE, It. 1-, Nov. 14—William Keech was arrested ihis afternoon by an officer of the secret s'ervice. as confederate of the Miner Couch l'ariy, in ilu-ir counterfeiting operations.

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tiihti 'I, J'J J" MURDER. CINCINNATI, Nov. 13.—John' R. Murray, a farmer at Pleasant Hill, Miami county, Ohio, was murdered on Saturday night by John Cecil. Cause whisky-

PIIILADKI-rillA.

HMAI.L pox.

PHILADELPHIA, November 14.—The Board of Health report shows the ni.mbrr of cases of small pox lasi week at 4«JI, showing a falling oil fiom the pieviuun week of bo cases.