Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 7, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 January 1876 — Page 4

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Thursday, January 27,1876.

SENATOR SHERMAN, of Ohio, is anxious to have a national commission investigate the whisky question in ail its beariugs.

IT now appears from a letter of Ptot. Moses C9H Tyler that the sensational article of the New York Sun, wherein was stated the fact that he was cognizant of Jieecher's guilt, was largely a fabrication.

THE books of the Treasury Department are to be investigated but not by a special committee as Senator Davis proposed, but by the Finance Committee which doBen't believe any irregularities exist, and has no desire to llnd any.

MORTON still has a email peiceof his shirt, very red and very dirty which he hopes to make shift to shake in the breezes. Bad health and other pressing matter prevented his holding the whole garment up to the pablio gaze at one and the same time.

BLAINE has views on the financial question to which he hopes to give vent in a few days. In fact the gentleman from Maine seems to have occupied all his leisure moments during the summer, and even sat up some of nights writing out speeches upon all imaginable questions.

THE more one reads thaf amnesty debate, the greater becomes his regret that some accident of war did not make an angel of Jeff. Davis. Facts have come to light which his future biographer cannot pass over in silence, and they will not embalm the name of the ex-President of the iofal reiueiuDr&nce of future generations.

ONE would have thought that tdfrn and distracted Cuba, had suffered enough during the past few bloody years at the hands of warring factions, A heavy hand has now been laid upon her by divine interposition. It appears that owing to the protracted droughts, the sugar crop witl be 30 per cent, less than last year, and the tabaoco crop, far below the average. She will find the next year a hard one to bear.

VAUANT General Banning, chairman of the Military Committee of Congress, proposes to cut down the expenses of the officers of our army some $600,000, Before he gets through he hopes to enable Belknap to spend a million dollars less per annum. If he would dispense altogether with the services of one-half of the officers, the nation would possibly survive, considering that ours iBthe most officered army in. the world.

GENTLEMAN GEOKOB as Buck* ES delight to call George H. Pendleton, is traveling for his health through the south. In the meantime he appears to be keeping hie weather eye on Washington. His speeches to the sons of the south, and the daughters too for that matter, for Gentleman George is a gallant personage, seem to bear about them a faintsuggestion that, "an they pressed him hard," he would not decline the Presidency. Hendricks should hasten bis steps southward.

IK, at any time, or for any cause, the world.has been led to believe that the Louisville Courier-Journal was not a *tauncb champion of the dowli trodden, and oppressed, the following manly protest uttered by It, against the indecorous nagging of one of its friends,should forever settle that suspioion. It says: "In the haste incident to $l'i*4$#per work an occasional atrocity is unavoidable bat is time for some other protest to be made against the abbreviation of the name of the Gallatin Examiner. No Journalist, however hard pressed for time, oan be excused tor referring to any paper as the Gal. Examiner."

JOHN BRIQHT'S health seems to have been almost, if not quite completely restored. He made a ringing speech to bis const! tn tuts at Binning* ham Eogland on Saturday night. He proposes to abolish the English law of primo geniture which keepe the weath of great families in the hands of (he oldest child, at a sacrifice of the rights of the j'ounger members. The inequality of the Enftlish system of representation in parliament, came in for a stirring denunciation at bis hands. His own city of Birmingham, it seems, with 40,000 electors, has only three members In Parliament, while there are seventy members whose united constituencies does sot exceed sixty ihou?and, ^'4 ir

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Hendriek's and Morton.

From all the present indications, the prediction the GAZETTE made over a year ago, is likely to be realized. Every day only serves to make it plainer, that the Presidential candidate for the two great parties of the country, are to come from Indiana. Those two men, it is needless to say, are Hendrlck's and Moiton. It will bea contest not altogether dissimilar to that between Douglass and Lincoln, in 1860, which had its first start in their memorable canvass of the State of Illinois, for the Senatorship.

Hendrlck's and Morton, have for years, been the two leading men in Indiana polotics. Pitted against each other for- years in the arena of state politics and lepresenting as they do the opposite doctrines of the two great parties which have ruled the country, it is altogether probable that their rivalry will now be transferred to .. /,! of the nation, and the whole country be called upon to decide upon their merits as -states men. The nomination or the prospect of the nomination of either one, is sure to suggest hid rivals name for the opposing place, and thus, if the nomination for the. Presidency may be considered as the realization of an ambition, leaving out of the question the certainity of one or the other being defeated in the election, each one of these life long opponents may truly be re garded as the others best friend. Here in Indiana we may well regard with complacency a conflict which, whatever the result is, is sure to end in the triumph of a son of our soil. Further pride may be taken in the fact that the election of either is certain to place in the Presidential chair an occupant, who, in all the attributes of manly vigor of intellect, will be immeasurably superior to the stupid dolt now there, who has nfo idea outside of his own family and its aggrandisement, and whose mar velous retention of office in the teeth of blunders, which would have ruined a man of infinitely more force, has demonstrated the power of inertia, and exemplified anew the fable of King log, Let the candidates be

Hendricks and Morton, and we shall, at any rate, have a lively and interesting cbntest.

A Hard Case.

The hearts of Radical editors are obdurate beyond discription, and their ways past finding out. A day .or two aiio.. heard them howling dismally at the proposition to make amnesty unlveisal and complete, by act of Congress without any necessity for asking fpr

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could equal the derision they heaped upon the notion, that it was, in any sense, a hardship for an ex-rebel and traitor to ask for a pardon, If it was not worth the asking, said they with a fine phrensy, then let them go without it, a position it must, he said, which i& not altogether untenable, if we disregard the idea, that an act of mercy or grace, if granted ungraciously is no mercy at all. Qui cito dat, bis dat, says the old latin proverb, and equal* ly true with the phrase that, he who gives freely, gives twice, is its converse that ap unwilling giver, gives not at all But it was not so much' to argue this point, that the topic was introduced, as to call attention to the fact that these parties have blocked up all the .avenues of approach to them, and being busily engaged in'sursing their wrath for old time rebels, are determined not to be pleased. It wou'd naturally be inferred, from the tenacity with which they have adhered to the idea that a pardon should be asked for, before granted, that being asked for,-it would be graciously granted. Now here is the Evansvllle Journal, which we presume, is a fair sample of its olass, sneering, and jeering at Beaufetrard for asking for a pardon. It wouldn't consent to pardon him without asking and now that he has complied with its wishes in this regard, attributes basy motives to him apd for ought we know or it has said to the contrary, thinks him mean spirited and craven for asking to be reinstated as an American citizen.

Now the GAZETTE is not of that olass which will willingly permit a renewel in the halls of Congress or elsewhere of that old time ante war, swagger and bravado of the southerness, which was their disgrace in the perpetration aad our humiliation that It was not. sooner reseated. Speeches of the B«n Hill kind must receive and on the spot the swift condemnation which their demerits deserve. But when men of the sooth do comply with the laws whiob we have established for pu ing away the taint of treason, andlt is done decently and in order, aB every attendihg circumstance of this petition of Beauregards shows it to bave been, It is equally mean spirited, in us, the victors, not t6 receive soeh advances in (be' temper they are tendered, and to try and outstrip competition in the warmth of our welcome. No room is left for oensure where just praise may not be bestowed. Moreover, in this matter, of reconciliation, the first advances and the greatest should be made by the North. Victory was ours, and it is always «asier to be

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enerous after vietory, than just after Far our part and (ot we ate ready to forgive fee South Aeely and tally for the fo«! wrong tbey did the nation. It is theluty cf the fcour to try and forget thekuaM semes of a fratricidal strife.

The Cosgreseicf al Becortf Congressmen have a habit of correcting the proo6 of their speeches before tbey are printed fn "The Record." It is called -correcting the proof, but it really is a revision of the speech, and often' extends beyond a mere change in the mode of express sion, and Includes what with elision ami substitution, the publics* tion sometimes of almost a new speech. A remarkable instance in point, is the Bpeecb, or speeches, of Ben Hill of Georgia, for there were really two of them. He made, as the readers of the GAZETEE T? ill remember from the telegraphic report published, a very bitter speech in reply to Blaine. It abounded in vituperation, was filled with mlstatements concerning the treatment by the North of rebel prisoners, defended Andersonville, as a very decent and orderly place, pretended that the North had been more brutal in the care of prisoners than the South, and geuerally bore evidence that its author was an unregenerate rebel, who, having done no fighting during the war himself, felt wonderfully pugnacious now that hostilities were ended, and who having been as a rebel Senator, the author of a resolution iu reference to the treatment of our soldiers, which would have disgraced Captain Jack or his blood thirsty Modocs, had the effrontery to talk in an American Congress of the brutality of the North, to the more than human leniency of which he is a living monument. Such a speech was the one Hill delivered in Congress. His speech in "The Record" if it be not a shame to drag an innofensive horse Into such bad company, is a horse of an entirely different color. It is bad enough there, but nothing compared to the spoken speech. He has gone over the whole with great care and made out a new epeeeh by means of which be hopes to cheat the future historian into the belief that he had a little decency left. It is something to his credit that he made the change, though wo should have expected as much of a cannibal if by the accldency of our elective system be had found his way to Cdngress and had had the great misfortune to deliver such a speech. It would be a good change, however, in the rules of our Congress if •-•••, the spoken speech and the record were made to correspond pre. clsely. The truth of history should not be falaefled in this open and bra-r zoo fashion. Men should be made to stand by their utterances, or if they will not sustain them, then fall by them. v*

Morton and Blaine. 4^, ,^}

Bl&lhe unlike the prophets is not without honor in'hls own coun try. In the State convention of his party he)d at Bangor last week he was de. olared to be the choice of his partisans for President. They will make a strong fight for him in the National Convention and strive their hardest to secure for him the-nominatloa. I) Is interesting in this connection to compare bis prospects with those of Morton for the Presidentual nomination. Indiana Republicans will of course stand up for Morton. He will be their choice first, and all the time, as long as there remains the shadow of .a1 chance -of his receiving 'the nominatiou. As yet, Indiana is the only State which can be confidently counted on to sustain, while Blaine's adherents are also narrowed down to those whom state pride allys among his partisans. Now, according to the call issued by the National Republican executive committee, the convention will be composed of two delegates for each Senator, and Representative in Congress. Indiana has thirteen congressmon, and this, with her two senators, entitles her to thirteen delegates in the National Convention. Maine will be represented there by only fourteen delegates. So Morton will have at the start more than double Blaine's number of partisans. Tnis initial advantage may be made to serve him in good stead, and togeth*. er with the fact of the convention being held so near his own State, would make it seem as if be had the inside track in his race with the gentleman from Maine. Perhaps, however, above them both will rise the man on horseback in the White House and then two JoUgty champions be again compelled to fight in the harnes, for a man whose superior, they both must feel themselves to be.

Journalistic Morality.

Considerable space is given in todays GAZETTE to theli ttl a controversy at present Wing waged between our bellicose neighbors. Each one of tbem insists that it Is more moral than its rival. It might strike the average reader that their joint stock of morality Is hardly a matter worth fighting about .but that would only show how slight the average reatfem knowledge of human nature i*,not to know that a man will figbtforhl9 last penny mere vigorously not to say valiantly, than for a hand fail of penny* out of an abundant store.

One fact about the controversy}of parly.

pleases the GAZETTE, and that is that these doughty champions have, at last, been aroused to the point of standing np, however feebly, for the side of morals. This result, we are inclined to attribute to the efforts— we speak modesty as becomes us—of the GAZETTE, ably assisted as it has been by the Horticultural society. In time we hope to have our 'wicked morning contemporaries make open, confession and stand up valiantly and always, for the side of deoency and morality. Assisted by them* we do not despair of reforming the wickMail Into this|controversy our morning contemporares it will be observed that Rev. E. F. Howe has been dragged. Without going into the merits of the controversy to any extent, or caring to discuss it, one or two things may be eald and that distinctly. First, it is neither fair nor manly to hit a man behind his back or from under cover. Second, it is not decent journalism to with' hold the name of a correspondent who attacks anybody, from the party attacked, unless the editor fathefs the article himself. Both these propositions are axiomatic and need no demonstration. If a person can't see them at first 'sight they never can be reasoned into him. The congregation is dismissed.

P. 8. In continuing the controversy, we must caution our contemporaries to boil their articles down, or in reproducing them the GAZETTE will be compelled to do it for themIn a word, draw it short and strong.

An Unwelcome Guest.

A gentleman, by the name of Everest, is on ills way from Europe to the United States. Now, ordinarily, the arrival In this country of a gentleman by the name of Everest, would not excite much enthusiasm. In the present instancy, however, his coming is looked forward to with adegreeof interest which approaches excitement. Everest, it seems, in the olden time, was agauger in St. Lou la. In the interval between Mc* grue stepping down and out, and Fitzroy's stepping up and in, Everest officiated as paymaster of the ring. Rumor, even goes so far, as to couple his name with that of the go between, who carried on diplomatic negotiations between the late lamented oratorical Joyce, and the mysterious "man in the country" who, in some occult way, was the recipient of marked pecuniary favors from the manufacturers of sinuous alcohol. When that mysterious and wonderful weather bulletin came from Washington to St. Louis, predicting the coming of the storm, in the terse phrase, that lightning would strike Monday, Everest had a pressing engagement in Europe, which he had neglected already too long, and he winged his flight for a foreign shore. Promises have been made him, it is said, that if he would come back and unbosom himself to his benighted countrymen, he might expect immunity from the lightning stroke which, coupled with hb engagement abroad, had frightened the timor* ous creature from his home. He is coming, and were he an hundred times a leper, or did he carry about his single person the seeds of all the Contagious deseases, from Asiatic cholera to jail fever, he could not be a less welcome guest to his old friends, the partners of bis joys and unwilling partakers, in prospective, oi his sorrows.

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AT the time it was issued, the call of the Republican committee for a National Convention, was published in the GAZETTE. By its terms, each State is to be entitled in the convention to a list of delegates equal to twice the number of its Senator and Representatives in Congress Each Territory, and the District of Columbia, is to have two delegates. By such an arrangement, the total number of delegates in the convention will be 754, and 878 will be necessary to a choice. Tbe number of delegates to which each State and Territory will be entitled, will appear in the following table. Gentlemen who are pressing the claims of particular candidates, or propose to risk any money on tbe event, had better cut it out and paste it in their bats. Amazing possibilities, It will be observed, are presented Jn it. The list is as follows:

States. £el *orth Carolina.-.JM Ohio. Oregon— Pennsylvania.. 66 Khodelaiant„.... 8 Sooth Carolina TeraeMee „24 Taxaa te Vermont 10 Vlr*lnJ*....{. .52 West Vlrgnla.....„.io Wlaooualn 20 Arliona 2 Colorado ...... 2 Dakota „2 Idaho 2 Indian Ty 2 Montana^.. 2 Mew Mexico 2 Utah 2 Dl*t of Columbia.. 2 Washington. 2 Wyoming.. 2

States. -Bel. Alabama..... 23 Arkansas M(Jallfornla...............U Connecticut......^.. IS Delaware Florida Georgia- .....22 IlllnoUi.^.^. 42 Indiana 80 Iowa— Si Kansas Kentucky...^. .21 Lonlataiw 18 Mala*. 14 Maryland 16 Massachosiitts- 26 Michigan, .22 Minnesota.-.- 10 MlMlasIppl Missouri............. JI Nebraska... 6 Nevada. New Uampb8Uo...lU New 18 New York.—— 70 Total- ™..._7W

It may mean Grant, or Morton, or Blaine, or Cockling, or some unheard

7 Specie Payments.

Among the many interesting contributions of Harper's Weekly to current political discussion, not the feast valuable have been a series of articles by Prof. Newcomb on the financial question. In one of bis recent articles he gives Bome facts of great value. They quietly, but very effectually, knock the foundation from under Wendell Phillips' reckless statement that specie payments is a chemera and means cpecie when you do not want it, and nothing but paper when you do. Prof. Kewcomb's statements are clearly and pointedly put and can easily be verified by history. He says:

First Fact—For fifty years past there has not been a day when any owner of an English bank-note could not get gold for it. uor is it likely that scuh a day will be 6een for 600 years to come. Nbr has there, in all probability been a business day at the banks when one or moro persons, and generally dozens or hundreds of them did not want gold. Hardly a business day now passes in which the Bank of England does not pay out gold to the amount of tens, or even thousands of dollars to people wanting it. Remember this when yoa read or hear that specie-payments carnot be kept up on the lim'ited supply of gold now availabio.

Second Fact—Under this polioy the little Island of Great Britain has maintained the commercial supremacy of the world. London has become its great momentary centre, and, in spite of her system of land-tenure and other institutions wbioh tend to the disadvantage of her poorer classes, the average laborer of England, is better off than that 0/ any other country in Europe.

Third Fact—There* is no case recorded in history of a Government taming paper money not redeemable in gold orsilvor, and in quantities sufficient for commerce, without that paper money depreciating* The cases of such attempts and their failures are so numerous that a whole volume of history wuold be required to recount them.

See for instance, Sumner's "History of American Currency." Fourth Fact—There is now twice as mtich currency per capita of our population, as during the three years preceding our civil war, and yet we are told the country is suffering for want of more. This fact illustrates the statement of the last lesBon, that the greater the quantity of irredeemable enrreney issued, the scarcer money will seem to be,

If you tell these facts to an inflationist he may denounce you vigorously, and scold you for remembering tbem, and say they have nothing to do with the present questionr but he will not dare to deny tbem unless be cares nothing for truth.

A CORRESPONDENT of the &ew York Tribune has caught up that journal on a question of theology. In a recent ^editorial article on "The Red Man and Religion" the Tribune, speaking of one of the Indiana ohiefs not unknown to lame, said, "This Spotted Tafil knows no more of Heaven than the mustang which be expects to ride there." Coming in at this point the correspondent inquires "I do not quarrel with this propo sitlon, but ask what more do any of us know?" Continuing he says "We expect to ride into Heaven on the mustang'of orthodoxy, while the red man expects to ride into and through'Heaven upon the mustang of nature. What is there more in congruous in the Indians conception?^ The Tribune is yet to be beird from in answer.to its inguisit ive correspondent.

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INTERESTING FACTS IN REHAltD 10 TKK EDUCATIONS'- DfcPARTJMfENT OF THE *. 1

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The twenty-tbird annual report of the Superintendant of Public Instruction waB yesterday submitted to the Governor by the present Superintendent, Hon. JAS. II. Smart. Tbe total number of children of school age in the State is 667,763, of whom 840,614 are white males, 317,434 white fdi)i tl43, 4 910 colored males, 4,848 colored females the Increase over tbe enumeration of 1874 being 13,372. The United States census report of 1870 states that there are ih this State 26,783 children between the ages of ten and twentyone who can neither read nor write. By accurate examination this has been found to be Incorrect. In seveniy-nine counties there are but 4,243 snch illiteratures, or, iu the same ratio, 4,922 in the State. Either the census was wrong or the teachers have been doing a remarkable work during the past five years.

The enrollment of children last year shova that there were in tbe schools, white males. 264,041 females. 231,670 colored males, 3,433 females, 3229: grand total, 602,862. The number or ehildren between tbe ages of 6 and 15, enrolled either in pablio- or private schools, is estimated from reliable data at 457,008, or 96 percent of the children of that age.

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CONDITION OF SCHOOL FUNDS. Cemmon school fund held bv counties. June, 1873 ..$2,458,407 81 Non-negotiable beuds 3,904,787 21 Congressional township 1 fund 2-486,000 82

Tbtal $8,799,191 64 Total amount held in June, 1874. 8,711,248 81

Increase Ibr the year. 187,948 84 The total amount of tnitlcn revenue to November 15,1879, was 93.159,46.27. which amount is applicable to ahool purposes for tbe current school year ending November 15.

Daring tbe year 382 school hoosee were erected, making the total number in the State 9,807,in which 13,138 teachers lound employment. There were 399 township and district graded schools. Tbe average compensation per day Is in townships,males, ?2 03 females, 9180 in towns, males, 93 24 females, 9193 in cities, males. |4 49 /females,27. The school property is valued at 910,870,338.18.

MANAGEMENT OF FUNDS.

Nearly two-thirds ot the report is de-

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voted to comments on the management of the school land and revenues. The part ol the school moneys which is made by law the permanent principal' is denominated the "school fund The interest derived from this fond, together with the State tax for school purposes, unclaimed lees, etc., is denominated "revenue for tuition,', and is expended in the payment ol teacher's salaries. This distinction is not always observed, and the terms are used interchangeably, causing frequent errors and complications. It was for a time in doubt as to which class the revenue from liquor licenses belonged, but the Attorney General decided that it should go to "the revenue for tuition, and be expended in the county where levied. The chief sources from whence the school fund has been increased are exhausted, tlio school bonds being noarlv all sold. The addition to the fund trein linos, forfeitures. etc., last year amounted to f&0,014.71. While the dohool fnnd of Indiana is now larger than that of any State, it will not long remain so unless some provisions are made for its mere rapid growth. Although the use of the principal of the common school fund Is strongly guarded by the Constitution, it suffers frequent losses by the loaning of its county officials. Although the law requires that tbe interest 011 all loans shall be paid into tho county Treasury in advance, this is not always done, aud'last year tho counties were required to pay out of their general fundfSO,911.79 to balance the account. Alter consultation with the Auditor of State, the Superintendent recommends that the interest account be made up on the amounts of fhnd held in Jnne of each year, as. shown by the Commissioner's annual repert to him. Reference is made to the Normal School, its work comqllmented, and its support encouraged.

Tbe school system has become a vast and complicated machine, requiting nearly 2,000 employes in its management, and educeting more than half a million of ehildren, at a cost of f4,000,000 annually, but would be worth supif it cost far more. The people

_ave aright to demand great economy in the management, in order not that it may coat less but may produco more.t

BA«NUM'S WOBLD'S FAIR.

AN ENTERPRISE THAT IS TO ECLIPSE ALL PREVIOUS EFFORTS.

The King of Showman's New Museum, Mammoth Menagerie, IIlppodrome, Circus, and Centennial Curiosity Shop Com* bined,

From the New York Sun. 'I am going on the road again iu April," said Mayor P. T. Barnum, of, Bridgeport, yesterday, "and I intend to treat my millions of friends to a show1 a great deal larger than the three immense ones I had last season all put together."

Mr. Barnum's term of office as' Mayor of Bridgeport expires in April, and he intends thereafter to devote himself exclusively to the supervis--lon of his enterprise. Last year be! bad, travelling through tbe country, the Hippodroirie, the museum, menagerie and circus, and tbe museumand menagrie. Three shows were too many to manage properly, and" so, at the close of tbe season, they were brought together at Bridgeport ', and afterwards sold at public auction.'V All that was valuable in the three' «.!»• was bought in by the great showhe man's agents—the rare and costly animals, and those properties which

couid be advantageously retained for use in the one great exhibition that was contemplated. I

Among the animals that wereL brought in was the hippopotamus, which is valued at $25,000. Tais isri., the only hippopotamus that ^as been f4 successfully imported and reared in this country. It had to be ied on the backs of camels across the desert, followed by herds of goats to provide it with milk. Tho journey over the sands is seldom successfully accomplished. Four hippopotamus ^4 perished on the route during the lastM^ 1 season.

Eleven hundred persons will be needed to conduct the exhibition, and it will include 660 horaes, 62: cages of wild animals (double as many as ever travelfed in one show). and it will take 120 cars, constructed eapetially for the purpose, to transport the show along its route.

Mr. Barnum will exhibit at P^lia*delpbia during a small portion of tbq eeason, and will afterward

principal places between Maine, and Kansas City.

Al sole proprietor, manager and director, he will accompany the exhibition, and will be assisted by Messrs. Sm.th, Nathan, June, and Bailey, tbe men whom he bought outlast year. His son-in-law, Mr. 8. H. Hard, who is now tbe receiver of the Third Avenue Savings Bank, will join the show as soon as he is liberated from-his present duties.

Toward tbe close of the season tbe entire enterprise will be transported to Europe for a tour of Great Britain, Germany, and perhaps France* Several sailing veseels and at least one steamship will be required to transport the properties and attaches, "lam expected in England and |1 be well received there," said Mr. —mum, adrtiEHr, "Why do you know that I have got more personal friends in London than I have in New York. Germany knows me also, and, I be* lieve, is ripe for me."

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The European Circus, which was owned by Smith, Nathan, June & Bailey last season, and which Mr. Barnum purchased In its entirety, is "&*l^ to be incorporated in the World^ Fair. It contains some-attractionsVM-^ that Mr. Barnum was without in his -4 last season's *how.

Mr. Barnum's agents in Enrope and elsewhere are contributing wbat-^Jii CJ ever is novel and attractive and at i" the same time purchasable. *1*

The hew World's Fair. Mr. Bar« 4 num's new show, is to consist of a museum, menagerie, circus, and the leading features of the Hippodrome. The menagerie includes a' larger number of animals than were ever K*-*, before collected iu a travelling show.

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exhibiting many objects of Centennial interest. When he. was asked to name one or two as an inde£ to the character of the others, he replied: "Well, I am going to producebut no (hesitatingly)— what's the good of my furnishing brains for tbe other Showmen? There's nothing they'd like better than to get a hint of what I'm going to do."

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