Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 7, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 February 1876 — Page 4

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Thnrsday, Febrnary 10, 1876.

A MARYLAND red bird caught, and died from the small pox,and "Come, Birdie Coine," has ceaged to be a popular song among tbe maidens of 'My Maryland."

IT REALLY does look as if Ben Harrison would seriously interfere with Mortons Presidential prospects. "With two Hoosier candidates before, the Convention, no Iiidianiin co'ild hope to get the Ilepublicau nomination. A game of euchre between the high contesting parties might settle the matter.

AND so the Princess Beatrice is in search of a husband. If her amiac ble mother, Victoria of Englar d, will send her out here we will try to introduce her into society and secure lor her a suitable consort. There are several young men in Terre Haute who are out of employment, and fancy

TIIK G* ZKTTE is glad to discover that the cruei war which has been waged for over a fortnight among its wicked contemporaries, has about come to a conclusion. White winged peace once more reigns on tbe Wabash. The sword has been beaten into the plow share, and the spear into the pruning liook, and a whole deu of lions ha« laid down with a flock of sheep. This is sweet and pleasant, to the OAZKTTE, nud the not least grateful feature ot the happy scene to it, is the blessed con nciousness that it has striven Its best to pour oil upon the troubled waters, anu to calm the storm. The bene diction of the peace makers belong1' to it and we are happy in our virtue. Selah.

A MEMORIAL to Congress has been prepared and numerously signed petitioning that body to declare the 12th day of Febuary a legal holiday. Abraham Lincoln was born on that day in the year 1809 and the 12th ot Febuary this year will therefore be the 67th anniversary of his natal day. What action Congress will take in the aiatter it is difficult to say, though it is a matter of very doubtful propriety, this making of legal holidays. Worshipful and hard work, on the 12th of Febuary will be the best tribute a grateful people can render to the memory of a man, who spring from the hum blest walks of lift?, and by the sheer force of native intellect and a tireless industry so raised himself, that when the assassins bullet sent him to meet his maker, he stepped from the highest round of lifes ladder into the Bkiea.

WASHINGTON dispatches begin to Intimate that a growing feeling ot animosity exists between Grant and Bristow. Ulysses don't like the very prompt and hearty fashion in which the Secretary of the Treasury is in terpreting that little piece of Presidential buncombe about letting no guilty man escape. Anything but pleasuie pervades the Presidential breast at the prospect of his confidant and pal, Gen. Bancock, being forced to walk the plank with McKee, Joyce, McDonald and the others of that ilk. It seems that ho is now disposed to chide Bristow for not understanding that his expression of fierce de termination to prosecute the revenue robbers was only intended for the people, but that his own retainers and intimates were not to be touched. We have faith to believe that Bristow will adhere to his purpose and push the prosecutions with the tireless activity which he has eo far exhibted. Grant dare not remove him for the fearless performance of his duty or if he does, the people will take oare of him.

LordLyttons Lack.

If troubles come not singly, but wave on wave, no less true is it that good fortune has a fashion of doubling up on a mar, once he is in luck Now, here is Lord Lytton, better known to Americans by his literary name of Owen Meredith. He has but lately been the recipient at the hands of Disraeli, of the Vlceroyship of India. From a third rte embas* syon the continent of Europe, be was taken by the British Premier, and placed in charge of an Empire outrivalling England maoy time9, in extent of territory and population. Hitherto, the Viceroyship of this -vast Empire, which has steadily been growing in area, under the fostering care of British statesmen ship, was considered the zenith of human ambition. It was the last honor conferred by England upon her most tried and trusty statesmen. Most of the men who have filled the place have acquired great fortunes, and, by their acts, made for their names a permanent place in English history. Lord Lytton comes to this mighty estate ID bis own youth, and at a time when possible complications between Russia and England, for control cf disputed ter ritory, makes th® position more difficult, and therefore more houorable.

Quick upon the heels of thi» appointment comes the death of John Foster the biographer of Dickeus. He was a friend of Lord Lyttons father, and to the son he leaves an ample fortune. What new favors the fickle goddess has In store for him, time will reveal, She lias be gun well

Bowen Ys Beecher.

Henry C. Bowen has at last found his tongue and speaks this afternoon in the telegraphic columnsof the GAZETTE with considerable emphasis. His text Is of course Beecher and his sins. Bowen's testimony as given in his letter/is significant. He says that he has been the repository ot secrets, similar to that of Tiltons, from very many other persons resident in Brooklyn and parishonersof Beccher. He refuses to give names, as it is of course right and proper he should. The charge of course is of tbe gravest possible character, not ouly proving, if true, or capable of substantias tiou, that Beecher is guilty of the charged upon him by Tilton, and of all the concomiauts which follow in the trail of that case, in the perjury, hypocraoy et, id, omn genu!:, but holds him up to the community as a libertine and debauchee, whose common practice it has been to euter the homes of his parishioners as a a pastor, and leave them a lustful libertine.

It is one of the sad features of this much muddled case, that Mr. Bowen will not give tbe names of any of the parties, whose secrets, of this nature, have been confided to him.

Of course it is impossible to deny that, in withholding those names, he not ouly acts entirely within the limits of propriety, but that a disclosure of such secrets by him would be a gross breuch of confidence, and altogether wrong. Nevertheless, while his silence is right and proper, it is another of the many misfortunes attending this colossal and all pervading scandal case. If, for example, it were possible for him to tell one such instance, and the parties would come forward and corrobarate his statement, or without any disclosure on his part they should accuse him openly and of their own free will, that, taken in connection with the Tilton case would Rettle beyond all per-adventure, Beechei's guilt and quite break him down. As it now rests we merely have Henn C. B:wens testimony added to that of the others who testified in the great trial, with certain dark hints thrown out by him of other cases in which his pastor was a villain and a scoundrel.

But all this rests "merely upon Mr Bowens word and there are several very queer tilings about the man. After disclosures to him as he alleges ofall sorts of villainous practices by Mr. Beecher, practices not only unbecoming a man, but unworthy even an ordinary villain, he still continued to remain a parishioner of his, and to take communion at his hands. We know that since Beecher withdrew his support from the Independent, and became identified with another newspaper, which has been a successful rival to Bowens property, that gentleman has, at heart, not entertained for him the kindliest regard. We know further, that Mr. Bowen, in the conduct of the business part of his newspaper, has not been oblivious to certain sharp, and unprofessional practices forgathering sheckles, which even the better class of wicked secular papers, long ago decreed to be wrong. In a sentence we know Henry C. Bowen 1o be an unscrupulous financier—to draw our phrase as mild as possible— nursing a loss of money which he attributes to Beecher, attending bis church aud taking communion at his bandstand fin ally delivering a stab, which if the world can ever be brought to believe his story, will effectually remove the object of enmity from all rivalry with him. Mr. Bowens testimony is startling hut not convincing sensational but not reliable. Who believ eel id Beecher's innocence before, will believe in it still, who doubted it, will bo confirmed in his skepticism.

Specie llcsanpt.'on.

New York is determined to resume, no matter what tho rest of the coun try may do. A curious feature of the New York State laws is reve tied in tha following editoriai extract from the recent issue of the Tribune. It says:

There is a complication in taking backward steps on specie payments, which they do not seem to have thought of in Washington. Whatever course Congress or the United States may pursue, the State of New York has made her election in favor of a sound currency. New York in 1838 was the first State to enact and enforce specie payments and, at tbe last sess ion of the Legislature, she took another decisive and important stop in 'the same direction.

There is more gold here, or easily obtainable, than is needed for tbe wants of the State and the less competition wo encounter from the other States and the National Government, the surer and easier would seem to be our first steps toward resumption. There are more than 11,000 school-districts in this State and the total tax collected, both State and municipal, amount to more than $55,000,000 annually A law, then, requiring all taxes, including sohool-dibtrict taxes, to be paid in coin, or coin-bearing bank notes,will practic ally soon produce specie payments.

No State can long retain a currency which is not receivable for Slate and local taxes. The power of collecting taxes in gold has been the great and powerful instrumentality of maintain ing specie payments in Texas, Colorado, Oregon, Nevada and California The United States Supreme Court, in the case of Lane county vs. Oregon (7 Wallace, 71) has decided that a State can enforce the collection of taxes in gold, and that "The clauses in tho several acts of Congress of 1S62 and 1863. making United States notes a legal tender for debts, have no reference to taxes imposed by State authority."

If a tax collector in tbis State should fail to collect taxes in the currency (or even in any article) designated by liw, his willful omission would be a misdemeanor, and tbe penalty might be tbe same as was imposed upon Tweed. Therefore it is to be presumed that the following State law, approved March 22,1875, will be rigidly executed.

Section 1. All taxes levied and confirmed in this State on and after Jan. 1,1879, shall be collected in gold, United States gold certificates, or National Bank notes which are redeemable in gold on demand.

Sec. 2. Every contract or obligation made or implied after Jan. 1,1879, and payable in dollars, but not in a specified kind of dollars, shall be payable in United States coin of tbe standard, weight- or finenwis established by tbe laws of the United States at the time tbe contract or obligation shall have (•eon made or implied.

["The laws which exist at the time and place of tbe making of a contract, and where it is to be performed, enter into and form a part of it. This embraces alike those which affect its validity, construction,discharge, and enforcement."—Walaer vs. Whitehead— 16 Wallace, 314]

Gold-contracts are valid, and are not prohibited by the United States Constitution or tbe legal-tender act as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court, and therefore* the above law of this Stata "will enter into and form a part" of every contract made in this 8tate after Jan. 1, 1879 and will thus make all contracts made alter that date payable In coin, unless some other currency is designated In the contract. Whatever party-managers elsewhere might be willing to do for the sake of temporary popularity or tocal success, we know of no party in this State which would dare to go before the people in the campaign of 1876 lo advocate such a step backward as the repeal of this law lor resumption in New York in 1870.

THE St. Louis Globe-Democrat has so far overcome its reticence in the mstter of the misfortune which befell Its chief proprietor as to give utterance to the following editorial paragraph, It appears to be game still. "The Republican, which is never so bright as when it borrows a few of the Globe-Democrat's cast off phrases, should hasten to inform us that the "actual damage is irreparable." Isn't it, though.

MRS. THOMASBON seems to be the object of a very great deal of unnecessary sympathy. From the way she has been commiserated, and made the recipient of charitable bequests, a heathen might get the notiou that it paid to be the wife of a dynamite devil.

HENDRICKS ANI WOOLET.

From the Indianapolis Journal. The Cincinnati Enquirer has the following letter from Colonel C. W. Woolley, better known as ''Buckeye.".

Cincinnati Jan. 31, 1876.

To the Editor of the Enq direr: Some one has been kind enough to Fend me a copy of the Indianapolis News of the 27th instant, containing the result of an interview with the Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks in regard to my charge against him of breaking his promises in 1868 to the friends of both Mr. George H. Pendleton and Gen. W. S. Hancock. Mr. Hendricks was pleased to say in the "interview" that our conversation respecting his promise to Mr. Pendleton was held in the presence of member of his family, aud that he cannot, therefore, repeat it. Whereupon tho News indorses his position as exhibiting "a feeling both commendable and manly" I would pass this by but for the fact that it iufen entially represents me as removing the social cover of a family con versa' tion. I went to the house of Mr. Hendricks on the night of the 4'.h of Jan., 18G8, equipped with an introductory letter from Mr. Pendleton, and asked at the door only for tho Governor—then Senator. The letter stated plainly that the object of my visit was to ascertain the position of the leading Democrats in Indiana as to a candidate for tbe Presidency before the approaching National Convention in New York, and my four hours' talk witli Mr. Hendricks upon presenting it was strictly confined to the subject in hand.' There was no wine ank upon the occasion, neither was bread broken, aud if any one was present during the visit it was by 'right of possession, or upon the invitation of the Governor. Although the fact of my virtues may have no abidingplace in the memory of Mr. Hendricks, I feel that he knows I could not be provoked by him to do such an ungallant and unmanly thing as to involve the estimable person to whom he alludes in a controversy between him and me. It therefore seems to me (most harshly, I admit) that be has himself deliberately committed an impropriety which another would scorn, in order to save himself from adding falsification to falsehood, orof making a most shameful cons fession.

How about tbe engagements with General Hancock? Was there any one present when they were formed to se^l his lips, too?

The Indiana Democracy did, on the 8th of January, 1868. indorse Mr. Pendleton for the Presidency, and Mr. Hendricks did, then and there, make a speech approving its action. Why, then, was he at a Hancock conference in Washington, about four days afterwards, in company with Col. L. D. Campbell and others? Why did be tell Gen. Steedman, on the 1st of May following, that he opposed the expressed choice of bis own State and wanted Hancock? Why did General Hancock tell me on tbe last of June that "those Hen* dricks fellows" had betrayed him, too? and why, in view of these facts, was Mr. Hendricks a candidate himself before the National Convention?

The "News" man should try his reportorial spoon again. C. W. WooLIiEY.

MR. HENDRICK'SSTATEMENT. A Journal representative last evening called upon Governor Hendricks with a view to getting from His Excellency, if possible* a statement in regard to the above letter. He found the Governor seated in his library with Col. A. T. Whittlesy, secretary of the Democratic State Central Committee, and in a reply to a question the Governor said: "This man," referring to Woolley, "came. to my bouse and was shown into tbe sitting room, whsre myself and Mrs. Hendricks were seated by the fire as usual. She was present during the whole of the conversation, and what it was is known only to we three who were present. Under these ciicumstances, I can't have any controversy with him on the subject. His intimation that Mrs. Hendricks was present "by invitation" is entirely gratuitous and uncalled for, as we were seated together when he was introduced into the room." In regard to the intimations of the letter tbat he had betrayed the other candidate?, or "sold them out," the Governor would say nothing.

BULLTJD.

Bold Abroad and Gentle at Home-

RAKING FIRE ALONG THE LINE.

Tho Combatants Still Refuse to Accept the Gazettes Advice and Lie Down

Together.

Tbe Gazettes Diclilon.

It grieves the GAZETTE greatly to reproduce from its cotemporaries the mass of quarreling literature which has accumulated since our last issuo. We could wish that they would cease scratching each others eyes out, and having learned to love one another, turn from their wicked ways tor those paths of pleasantness and peace, where wisdom and the GAZETTE: may be found walking together, in tbe cool of the evening.

Our design at tho first, in republishing what they said, was that they micht serve as a warning to papers for alllime, of the unprofitaoleness ot quarreling. Afterwards we found that tbe people relied upon the GAZETTE, and the GAZETTE alone, for the consecutive chapters, and wbolo particulars of this bad serial story. In the others, here, there, and everywhere, they would find it, in parts, broken, and disjointed, but in the GAZETTE full and complete.

It had even come to such a pass that in order to keep the run of the story, people would have to take two editions of the same paper, for tbe Mail was wonderfully courageous last week in a paper it printed on Thursday and sent to a lew of the neighboring towns. Its courage however, "petered out" before Satur day and it suppressed at home what it sent abroad. Now this discrimination upon its part against its homo readers, the GAZETTE cannot allow, nor is it willing tbat tho Mail should seem as meek as it presented itself on Saturday.

Moreover, we are in the condition of a person who prints a serial story. Hav ing carried the plot ta its climax, we are under bonds to carry it through. People who rely on the GAZETTE must not be dissapointed.

First, then, is an admission by tho Mail of plagiarism. This appeared Thursday but not Saturday. It reads "A CONFESSION.

I may here remark tbat a series of articles written by Georga William Curtis for Harper's Bazaar many years ago,under the title ol "Manners on the Road" was palmed ofion an innocent and confiding public by tbe godly and righteous Mail iu "Town Talk" as original.—[O. J. Smith in Sunday's Express.

T. T. 'fosses up. He admits the charge —that is, it two articles may be called "a series"—pleads guilty and throws himself on the mercy of the court. The two articles,—at a time when tbe epirit force was low, and T. T. was bard up,— were appropriated—"adapted" is. the more polite term with jounalists. One was "a talk to young politicians." the other on "ostriches," showing how like are some people to this bird. As remarked they were not exactly stolon, but "Adapted." Some local remarks were slung in so that George Willitra would scarcely have recognized them."

Following this is a little allegorical anecdote. It appeared in Tuursday's issue of the Mail, which, as it seems, is intended to inspire our cpuatry cousins with the feeling that our Perry is always victorious in iiis town squabbles, and a very lion in valor and fury. Tbe story reads: "THE NACQHTY ORLANDO—A NICE LIT

TLE STORY FOR BOYS.

Once upon a time there was a little boy by the beautiful name of Orlando, who had an ugly habit of throwing snowballs at people as they camo away from church. He did not really, at first mean any harm by it, and, perhaps, if the truth were known, did it more than anything else, for the purpose of bringing himself into notice. He had been petted and indulged a good dear and may have been a little spoiled was

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a little vain. To throw snowat well-dreised, respectable people, seemed to him not only Tory amusing, but rather a daring, heroic kind ot business, quite out of the general line, and one which would give a boy'a reputation for independence and spirit, a reputation which be undoubtedly coveted.

But when little boys commence snow-balling under such circumstances there is

no

telling where it will end.

Now if Orlando, in making his snowballs, had only confined himself to snow, the result might have been different. Of course the people who were hit, as well as those who were only in dread of it, would be very much annoyed by the repeated attacks, but nobody would have thought seriously enough about tbe matter to have cared to punish him. But pretty soon Orlando began mixing mud with bis snowballs, and it wasn't long after that before it was discovered that he was throwing more mud than snow. Now this was very wrong in the little Orlando, and it was worse still when be got to jumping up and down before the church door and screaming, "I'm a heathen." "I'm a Theodore Tilton." "You're a set of contemptible liars and hypocrites."

And there is where Orlando made a great mistake for about that time little boy by the name of Frank lit in to him with a dozen or more good sized snow-balls and cleaned him out. He not only cleaned bin out, but he threw him down and rolled bim over and over in the snow and "washed his face*'' And that made-Orlando very an gry indeed, and he threatened if Frank ever did it again he would tell Frank's mother on bim. He didn't mean that be would tell hor that Frank licked him, but that Fjank had done some other very wicked, naughty thingbad, in short, told a lie And Orlando kept repeating this terrible threat a long time, and at last when be found that lie couldn't scare any body, be did tell Frank's mother, and it turned but tbat Frank wasn't a liar after all, and everybody laughed at Orlando for being a big booby and trying to save himself from being licked by "threatening to tell a boy's mother on biro."

What came over tbe spirit of bis dreams after this the GAZRTrE knows not. Perhaps his courage "petered out" herhaps he wearied ot conflict, mayhap his heart filled to overflowing with uraco, mercy, and peace. At all events this allegory was invouiincn tly surpres^ed.

It is pr«jer to remark that the original "Bigblow" article wiw aiso pri.it

in tbis bloodthirsty Thursday edition bat—well tbe faar of tbe law is tbe be ginning of wisdom. It was not printed Saturday.

So mnch far the brave but obscure Thursday Mail. Now in Saturday's edition appeared the following card from Mr. Howe. The felicity of the idea of arguing with a man tbe propriety of ridiculing bim four years before, will suggest itself to every mind. Tbe article reads: "A CARD PROM NR. HOU." "AB Dr. Read has called at the Mail office to inquire who was the author ol what is known as the "Dr. Bigblow" article, which appeared nearly four years ago in the T. T. column, I infer tbat he feels agrieved thereby, and, being the author of that article I am bound by my offer of la9t week to make a "public apology or a public defense." As I cannot truthfully make HD apology, I mast put in a defense.

First. I dtsire to say that the article was not prompted by malic ). I had no spite to gratify, as my casual relations with tb« doctor had always been of a friendly nature.

Next, I am bound to say that the article was not written simply in sport. I hold every man's feelings too f-acred to be trifled with in the way of ridiculing bis eccentricities, weaknesses, or even faults, merely for the fun of the thing. Disclaiming sincerely all malice and trifling, I will, in a manner as unobjectionable to the doctor and his friends as I am able to command, give my reasons for writing the article.

I had long felt that the Doctor not only held, but was constantly pro claiming publicly, sentiments and principles, and makiDg unwarranted assertions which were prejudicial to the best interests of society. This ho was doing with what seemed to me an assumption of wisdom and knowledge which, with many unthinking people, and especially with the young, carried the conviction that his statements and principles were correct. It was impossible to counteract this influence by argument, for with him tnere is no possibility of arguing, but only of listening. Of course the public must judge for itself whether I was correct in the conclusions at which I arrived. But with these opinions firmly settled in my own mind, I determined to use the power of the press, in my regular and legitimate connection with it, to counteract what I thought to be, and still think to have been, an evil influence.

With Dr. Read in my mind, I penned tbe article representing, in a fictitious laracter such a man as be seetnsd to me to be, combining especially the traits which gave him, what I regarded as his harmful power. My purpose was not to hold bim personally up to ridicule, but by means of tho article to vindicate bis pretensions, and so lead people to think twice before they accepted him, or any one with such traits, as an oracle. I was honestly surprised to fined tbat the original of my fictitious character, was so soon, and so univorsally recognized and this more than any thing else, made me doubt whether my article was needed.

The grounds then of my defense are, that tbe article is truthful in its representations, and was, as I thought, demanded by the public good.

I am sorry to say these things,which, however little the Doctor can care lor me or my opinions, cannot be pleasant to him. The responsibility of creating the ncceasity which calls for this card, must rest with the man who, in malice toward me, and without friendship toward the Doctor, chose to rake up an affair long since dead, and to use him as a "cat's paw" to draw from The Mail office information,Jof which he pretended to be in lull possession before, but which ho did not have, and without which he did not iaro to publish his weak testimony to prove ine untruth1ful. E. F. HOWE."

In addition to this, in Saturday's Mail was some linked sweetness long drawn outti under the head of "Petered out," which text it sought to exemplify in tho article. Its real reply to the Express' charge of falsehood upon tbe part of the author of the Dr. Bigblow article, lies in the following editorial item which it will be seen calls K. S. Tennnnt a liar, and leaves him to be "judged by his own conscience and the public." Tbis really pungent paragraph reads: "Mr. Hewe, in bis card to O. J. Smith, published in the Express of last Tuesday, said, 'If any man, or five hundred meD, testify that I have denied the authorship of any article of which I am the author, ho or they are either mistaken or intentionally testify to what is falso.' We are authorized by him to say tbat this is all tbe answer be has to make to R. S. Tennant's statement and it is all that indefinite and weak statement needs. We must add that it seems very strange to us, as it does to tbe public generally, tbat any man should permit himself to be used by a man confessedly actuated by malice, to destroy character, and that too, when all his testimony is based upon a casual conversation upon the street which took place four years ago, and about which ft is so easy to be mistaken, and when be can not, or dors not. repeat one word tbat Mr. Howe ntterea during that conversation. We leave Mr. Tennant to be judged by bis own conscience and by the public."

Now on the other side, the Express of yesterday satis into the Mail and Rev. Howe in the following article headed: "ANOTHER PERSONAI STATEMENT.

I ought, I suppase, submit to Mr. Howe's case to the public without further discussion, content with tbe feeble utterances in bis favor in yesterday's Mai1 but there are one or two other points which I oan not forbear to use.

The Mail's statement that, to oblige Dr. Reade, it declines to republish the article concerning him, is absurd, since tbe whole public knows tbat it does so to avoid the responsibility of a libel suit promised by Dr. Read in tbe Express of Friday.

Mr. Howe makes a labored and painful effort to explain, softly and justly the attack on Dr. Read. He wrote it, he says, to neutralizi the effect of some of Dr. Read's thoughts and opinions. That is, he answered ideas with personal abuse and ridicule. By m*king such a statement Mr. Howe has given tbe public a deeper and clearer insight into his own character than I could possibly give, and I let tbat stand.

Tbe Mail wanders through a column of slang in which it attempts to show that I have failed in my charges against Mr. Howe. All of my original charges were made good by the evidence of Mr. Westfall and Mr. Howe, who have admitted that Mr. H. wrote "Town Talk" articles, and that he quibbled or evaded or denied tbe authorship of that department. I did not expect in the opening of tbis issue to be called on to prove that Mr. Howe bad denied the authorship of a particular a (ticie that he bad written. It was sharp piecJ of practice to demand ev idence that he bad d«nied being th writer of specific articles printed from two to four years ago. If I bad failed to give such evidence it would not

weakened my case tbat I did advance complete and perfect proof that he denied the authorship of the Dr. Read article, makes the case as strong as I could desire.

In conclnsion I will recur to the real question at issue, stripped of all arttul endeavors to bide or to clond -it. What is tbe "Town Talk" department of the Mail, and what has given it notoriety? Is it literary or moral excellence, or high thought, of useful worthy aims? Tbe sober thought ot tbis people answers no. That department of tbe Mail has been in existence for four years, lacking only a m*ntb, long enough for tho people to arrive at a just arid lair verdict. 1 speak the voice of the reading public of Terre Haute, and without one disinterested dissent, I believe, when I say that the fame of "Town Talk" rests upon a number of scurrilous and objectionable personal assaults, strung together with a series of common-place and uninteresting articles—a few black bulb tons islanding out on a string of odd colors. But for the scurrilous articles tbe department would have died long ago. People did not know that there was a "Town Talk" until Dr. Read was attacked. I venture to say that it is the reccollsction of ninetynine out of a hundred that the ''Bigblow" article was the first of the series. It was the first tbat was noticed, but 1 find by the files that it was really the sixth. The real questions of denial, or of veracity, aside from Mr. Howo's motives in assaulting me, or from my motives in assaulting Mr. Howe, is this— whether the man who wrote such articles and bid their authorship,is a proper critic of the morals, motives or beliefs of other people, and whether such literary work is honorable, or is creditable to him. This question 1 respectfully submit to the verdict of the reasonable and fair-minded men and women of Terre Haute.

O. J. SMITH."

The evidenco being all in the GAZETTE renders its decision. The plaintiff has 1st, knocked the Journal out of time. 2d. Proven the Mail to be weak kneed and grandmotherly* 3rd. Proven Mr. Howe to have written some personal and anonymous articles which to all fair-play loving Americans is not regarded—we are speaking now very mildly—as tho square thing. 4th. It has treated "P" very cruelly in not noticing bim.

Per contra. It has failed to prove Mr. Ilowe guilty of falsehood. "Let us have peace."

A FEW WORDS TO KKKBLE, DELICATE W0JIE. By R. V. Pierce, M. of the World's

Dispensarv, Buffalo, N. Y- Anthor of "The Peoples' Common Sense Medical Adviser," etc., eto. Knowing that you sre sutjet to a great amount of suffering, that delicacy on your part has strong tondency to prolong it, and the loDger it is neglected the more you have to endure,and the more dillicuii to cure your case becomes. I, as a physician, who am daily consulted by scores of your sex, desire to say to you that I am constantly meeting-with thoso who have been treated for tboir ailments for months without being bonefited in the least until they have become perfectly discouraged and have almost made up their minds nevjr to take another dose of medicine, or bo tortured by any further treatment. They had rather die and have their sufferings ended, than to live and suffer as they have. They say they are worn out by Buffering and are only made worst by treatment, of any thing more disoouraging we certainly cannot conceive, and were there no more successful mode of treating such difficulties than that, the principles which teach the reducing and depleting of the vital forces of the system, when the indications dictate a treatment directly the reverse of ,tbe one adopted for them, their case would be deplorable ind ed. But, l*dy sufferers, there is a better and far more successful modeof treatment lor you one more in harmony withfhe laws atid requirements of your system. A harsh, irritating caustic treatment and strong medicineB will never cure you. If you would use rational means, such as common-sense shoulddictato to every intelligent lady, take such medicines as embody the very best invigorating tonics and nervines, compounded with special lel'erenc# to your delicate system. Such a happy combination you will find in my favorite Prescription, which has received the highest praise from thousands of your sex. Theso languid tiresome sensations, causing you to feel scarcely able to boon your feet or ascend a flight of stairs tbat continual drain that is sapping from 3'our system all your former elasticity, and driving the bloom from your cheeks that continual strain upon your vital forces that renders you irritable and fretfulnay all overcome and subdued by a persevering use of tbat marvelous remedy. Irregularities and obstructions to the working of your system are romovby this safe and mild means, while periodical pains, tbe evistenca of which is a sure indication of serious disease tbat should not be neglected, readily yield to it, and if its use be kept up fur a reasonable length of time, tbe special cause of the pains is permanently removed. Further light on these subjects may be obtained from "The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser," ia which I have devoted a large space to the consideration of all forms of diseases peculiar to your sex. This work will be sent, post-paid, to any addaess on receipt of $1.60. My favorite Prescription is sold by druggists.

CONSUMPTION CUBED! An old physician, retired from active practice, having had placed in his hands by an East India Missionary, tbe formula of asimple Vegetable Remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and all throat aud lung affections, also a positive aud radical cure for nervous debility and all nervous complaints, after having thoroughly tested its wonderful curative powers in thousands of cases, feels it his duty to make it known to his sufferiag fellows. Actuated by this motive, and a conscientious desire to relieve hu man suffering, he will send (7fee of charge) to all who desire it, this receipt, with full directions for preparing and successfully using. Sent by return mail by addressing with stamp, naming this paper.

DR. W. C. STEVENS,

Muuroe Block, Syracuse, N. Y.

MorTt-loHS Result!

Josepn Collins, Waterford, N. Y.,bad Catarrh and Lung Disease twenty years Doctors Wt bim to die! H#says:"WisHART'S PINE TREE '1'AK CoRiiAL saved his li/e Also (says "many others have been cwred byits 'B.ood Purifying properties." Icf allible Rumdy loiCoughs Colds and Consumption!