Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 7, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 May 1876 — Page 4
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(R A'/K'i'TK, Kc»rrt» Huuto, lnl.
'B'liurhiia'. .12uy 4? JH7(N
Till" lleiu'ers ha\e been caught
TWO-TIIIKIIS of his time, now.Grant is sick. So the man has some nerve alter
all, and doe feci the shame that has cr.v
ered his administration in these latter
davs, as with a mantle. fill THE Indianapolis Journal CHARGES
James D. Williams with having bought
his way into the State Senate several
times on the capital of his being a farm
er. Not a verv bad kind of capital to
trade on.
OVER ze dons Inentls are trying to bring ou' ISishop Simpson as a candidate
for President. We should dislike to have
investigating committees overhaul the
records of the parsons. I hey had bettor
continue at their chosen calling.
I would seem as if Morton was en
vious of Blah and his investigations
and had lent a helping hand in the pro
posed overhauling of his accounts as the
war governor of Indiana. lie would
like to get before the country at this time
the story of his marvelous activit in the
prosecution of the war. aaMiunwi
]?i,.\t\r. has made another explanu
tion. With every explanation the gen
tleman from Maine make*friends. Once
the conviction hccomcs general that
Blaine is being persecuted—we will not
say for righteousness sake, but to kill
him oil"as a IYcsideniial candidate—and
all the "gates of he'd" can not prevail
against him in the Cincinnati Conven
tion.
tmTOWHWMWRi I nillllWllWill
AN exceedingly interesting review of
a monograph of General Pleasanton ap
peared in the New ork 1 lerald, day
before yesterday. We republish it
another column. For several years
General Pleasanton has been investiga'
ting the subject of heat, light and e'.ec
tricitv, and has formulated a theor
on tiie subject at once
novel and startling. lie directl
controverts all the present theorie
on those subjects and in doing so contro
diets such eminent authorities as New
ton and Tyndall. We have reason to be
leve that the origin of heat will be an
teresting topic at this present time when
we have been witnesses of such marve
ous evolutions of it in the conduct of the
municipal campaign. We have an ide
that Plcasanton's theory will not account
for the tempest in a teapot raging here
Pure c.U6sedness is at lli bottom of it all
IN his speech before the New York
Democratic State Convention, at Utica
the other day, ex-Governor Seymour
struck the key note of the coming polit
cal campaign. There is a deal of truth
in the following paragraph which we rc
print. He said:
"Peacc has brought to us more that has made us sad and sorrowful, more that has been hurtful to our national character, more that has suppressed honest labor and thwarted the interests of those who attempted to build up our national prosperity than ever war did with all its sufferings. It needs no spirit of prophecy to tell what the future historian, when he tells the events of the past fifteen or twenty years of our country, will dwell upon when lie comes to this period. He •will warn all nations that a people may live against armed rebellion. It will teae'i the lesson that forcc can not destroy a Government when it is strong in the affections of a people, and it will teach the other great lesson that corruption in reference to public virtue and greed for gold will destroy those institutions that were powerfufto resist all outward pressure and all belligerent attacks."
A POLICEMAN.
What any white man would want to
be a policeman for, is more than we can
fathom. It is a mean business, a dirty
business, and a dangerous business. The
pay is not any more than
is given in hundreds of trades,
and not nearly as much as in many kinds
of employment. And for these things a
man's character becomes public property.
1 le is nagged and picked at and abused.
We expeet him to exceed the devil in
punishing vice and imitate the parsons in
preaching virtue. In very truth we conduct ourselves in an absurd and ridiculous
manner is this- matter.
Perhaps some of the youths of the
citv have been evcited to envy by
the spectacle of blue uniforms and brass
buttons, and have had their ambition
fired to such a pitch that now their loftiest
aspiration is to become a policeman.
We have observed that the number of
persons who want to be policemen is al
ways large at election times, and an
amount of work is performed, in pulling
•wires to become one of these miserable characterless curs whom we all
kick, which if directed towards
some honest industry would make
a nice account in the savngs bank, The GAZETTE, therefore, as th« guardian
and next the friend of the ambitious and
high spirited youth of Terre Haute,warns
them against fostering the unworthy hope
cf becoming a policeman. Any honest
employment is better. It you learn a
trade and become competent in it. you
are
always sure of a living. Each ad
ditional year that you work
it, you become inore skillful.
Elections do not haunt you like a night
mare, and you are not liable to be kickcd
out of employment between two days.
Be ides when you do lose one job in trade
ou can get another, for you are skillful
but the training one gets on the police
forcc disqualifies for anything else.
Again, vour character is your own
private business, and if anybody slanders
ou. it is your high privilege as a citizen
ire watched, ant! the general impression
is that you are a thief and a scoundrel.
No, voung man, do not encourage your
desire to become a policeman. It is a
dog's life. Beneath those brass buttons
a-e aching hearts, and these blue coats
shelter bosoms where peace and re -t can
never dwell and hope never comc.-*. that
comes to all. Study the beauties of the
shovel and learn its ways. Court the
ses of the plow with assiduous attention.
Conquer the secret of impart
ing a polish to boots. Drive a sprinkler
or a street car. Woo the wood pile with
tuneful saw, or become an artist in white
wash, but if you hope for happiness on
earth or a good name among men after
life's race has been run, do not be
come a policeman.
A LETTER of Carl Schurz to the editor
of the New York Public appear., in this
issue of the GAZETTE. Like everything
emenating from the pen of Mr. Sehurz it
is well worth perusal. Mr. Schurz would
be more or less than human if he did not
feel a sort of frendish delight in the evil
times that have fallen upon the adminis
tration which used all its power against
him and Charles Sumner.
Mr.
shoot him in broad daylight
whereas, if you are a policeman you will
compelled to wait perhaps for months
intil you can catch your traduccr in a
dark alley and gratify your revenge.
In private position, and engaged in an
lonest trade, you are a respectable citi
zen. You are as free to go and come as
the winds of heaven, and no one can say
you nav. It vou are a policeman, you
„rcd
TIIE House yesterday expum
the record the resolution of censure ot
John Young Brown, of Kentucky. It will
be remembered that Brown once upon'a
time ok occasion to say very harsh and
true things of bold Ben. Butler, the pa
triot of Massachusetts. It was or.lv half
as hard on Butler as he had been per
mitted to be on others without censure.
Is NOT this system of running hacks to
the polls to carry voters, something ot a
fraud? Is not the voter really the person
interested in tnc result of the election?
Is it not his affair? Can he not and does
he not walk about his individual business?
MASSACHUSETTS, it appears from the
official tables, is god-father of about J5
ger cent, of the patents issued in this
countrv. Yankee ingenuity there finds
its greatest growth and highest develop
ment.
GEN. Si."HENT: really is not quite sure
whether or not he ever ceased to be min
ister to England. This is a point on
which he ought to be satisfied at once.
BELKNAP, let it be remembered, did
nothing except to follow in the footsteps
of his illustrious chief, the President of
the United States.
IT was an inspiring sight to see the
stalwart American citizen riding in a
hack to the polls smoking a cabbage leaf
cigar.
SAM Cox is speaker pro tern of the
House, Speaker Kerr having left the city
on account of ill health.
THE waters of the Wabash run still to
th: Gulf as they did heforc the city elec
tion.
YESTERDAY'S election was
"pokaire" Bob Schcnck would
draw.
Adjonrned.
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THE TffRRR HA UTti WEEKLY GAZETTE.
FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Tarbox wants to investigate the Union Pacific.
\MEXD3IEMT OF THE RECORD OF J. YOUNG BROWN.
Mr. Payne Proposes to Change Silver lor (ircciilmckH.
MORTON RISES
TO
A
PERSONAL
EX-
P.ANATION IN THE SENATE.
HOUSE.
Washington. May 2. Wells, ol Mississippi offered a resolution directing the committee of the real estate pool to rccept the offer of llallett Kilfcorneto apnear before s.iid committee to answer relating the to real estate
pear befor anv question!".
pool. Randall moved to lay the resolution on th table, protesting that that was the only proper disposition to make it. 1 he
resolution was laid on the table, yeas 138 navs S3—a party vote. Landers, of Indiana, asked leat to oner
a resolution" for the appointment of a select jmmittee to consider the state of gold and silver coin, foreign and domestic, and to report amendments to the existing laws concerning coin, and to investigate the best means of making coin and green
back at par with each other. Mr. el ley objected. Mr. Tarbox asked unanimous consent to offer a resolution reciting the fact that the Union Pacific railroad company, in 1S71 or 187 2. became the owner of certain Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad bonds, for which the Union Pacific company paid a consideration largely in excels' of their actual or market value, and
that the di-ectors have neglected to investigate the transaction, although urged to dcTso, and therefore instructing the
Judiciary jmmittee to inquire whether "sue 1 a transaction took place, what ere the circumstances and inducemfcnts under
which such bonds were obtained, on what consideration, and whether the transaction was with corrupt design or in lurtlurance of any corrupt obe:t. Unanius consent was given, and the 1 evolu
tion was adopted. The resolution of censuro ot Mr. J. Young Brown, of Kentucky, in the last ho i.-e. was rescinded and expunged and the contested election case ol Lemyone vs. Farewell, was taken up the report of the committee being that 1' arewell, the sitting member, not entitled to a seat, and that Lemovne. the contestant, is the legal member. After discussion, the case weut
over until to-morrow. Pavne, from the committee on banking and current:v bill, reported a bill author izin 1 the secretary of the treasury under such limits and regulations as will best sec are a just and fair distribution ot silver coin throughout the country, may issue silver coin now in the treasury, to an amount not exceeding $10,000,000 in exchange for an equal amount of legal tender notes, and providing that the notes received and exchanged shall be reissued onlv on the retirement and destruction ol a like sum of fractional currency received at the Treasury department, in payment of dues to the "United States, and that
hat
call a
OXCK more our police breathe freely.
Johnny Davenport explains.
Washington. May 3.— Before the committee on expenditures tn the department of Justice, John J. Davenport testified that he could not produce any particular set of vouchers that would cover the sum of $ ,ooo received from Whiteley but he could furnish vouchers running from the time he first received money in 1872, up to the time he had expended in 1S71, and covering every dollar he received. He produced vouchers and the committee desired the witness to produce every other voucher in his possession, so that he might be able to say to the committee that he had produced every voucher he was able to produce.
Obituary.
New York, May 3.—Mss. Mary A. Ford, wife of Augustine Ford ofthe Irish World, known in this country as poetess under the noni De phime. of Uno,is dead.
such fractional currency, when so sub stituted. shall be destroyed and held as a part of the sinking fund, as provided the act April 17, 1876. llolman suggested that the bill should
be amended bv striking out that portion which provides that the legal tender notes should not be reissued until a corresponding amount of fractional currency is can
celled. Pavnc without replying to that suggestion went on to explain that there was a necessity for the passage of the bill, on account of a sort ot panic that had arisen in regard th small change, which frac tionai c.irrency was now commanding premiu of from 2 to 2!« per cent. The process of exchanging fractional curren cv for silver coin was so slow that the supplv was not equal to the demands ot business, and therefore the bill proposed that the silver coin should be exchangea ble for legal tender notes that was the whol: purport of the bill which had been drawn in accordance with the suggestion.of th secretary of the treasury.
II witt asked what arrangement was madj in the bill to prevent greenback which were received for silver being paid out again instead of being .reserved for
the sinking fund. Pevne replied that the committee had not thought it necessery to legislate under the idea that the Secretary ©f the Treasury woul.l bj likely t'o violate
the law. Blount objected to the consideration cl the b'll. and the house adjourned.
SENATE.
MORNING SESSIoV.
Washington. May 2.
acknowledging the receipt He then spoke of the election in Indiana in 1S62, when the Democrats carried the state by 10,000 majority, and saw their attempt to take from him all'power to organize military and take it out of his hands. T'here was plenty of money in the state treasury to enable him to carry on the operations, but it was locked against him. He made appeals to the people of Indiana, and numerous county banks, and railroad corporations who advanced him the money, but he was
still $250,000 short, which amount was 1
amount received from the general Gov
ernment. At the conclusion of Mr. Morton's explanatian, Mr. McDonald said at some future time he would hava something to say in regard to political history of Indiana, he had nothing to say about his colleagues vindication ot his
own character. The house committee on the Pacific R. R„ to-day authorized representative Philivs to report a bill providing that it shall'not be lawful for the Union Pacific R. R. Companies to charge any special or greater rate for transportation of freight or passengers over the Omaha bridge than that charged for like distance over other portions of its road, nor shall it charge other com
panies more than five dollars for every freight or passenger car and contents over said bridge and in case of transpor tation of coal, salt, grain or lumber ro more than two dollars a: a halt per car shall be charged to other companies Inthe opinion ofthe majority of the committee enactment of this or some simila. measure is required to give effect to the recent-decison of the Supreme Court that the Omaha bridge should be considered and operated as part ot the continuous line of the Union Pacific road. The committee agreed that the amendment •ii2y be offjred to the bi'l by several
iv.cr.ihers when it is reported to the 1 Ionse for action
The committee also took up Culbertsous bill for the extension of time for the completion of the Texas Pacific railroad. Throckmorton offered a substitute proiding that fifty miles of road per annum shall be constructed westward and 20 a ear eastward from the respective termini. No action was reached.
Randall and Hale, sub-ccmmittee charged with the preparation of the naval appropriaticn bill, completed it to
day. Anthony spoke in commendation ot the course of Morton when Governor of Indiana, and considered the investigation on one being made, lie stated that witnesses were ciestressed, employes broken down, contractors,illicit, distillers and disippointed office seekers perilcntiary and mad. The House had given up their dead in this general ressurrection ot false swearing and foagerv, Camerois also
approvep coursc of Morton whtn Governor of Inciana and said tno man did more to give victory to our cause.
Consideration of the unfinished business bill in relation to the Javanese indemnity fund was reumed.
Morrill, of Maine, called up the House bill authorizing a transfer of $ 16,000 to pay light-house keepers, and to maintain light-house service 011 the Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri rivers. Passed.
HOUSE.
MORNING SESSION.
Washington, May 3.
Jt number of bills having been received md referred, the Illinois contested election case was taken up, the report of the
committee being that Farwell, a sit ting member, is not entitled to the
seat and that harrangue is after debate. A vote was taken on
the report offered by the minority of the committee as substituted lor the report ot the majeritv of the comm'ttee, and it was rejected", yeas 79, nays' 129. The question was then received on the report of the majority, declaring thnt Farewell's is not entitled to a seat aid that Removne is dlected.
Crimss and Casualties.
MURDER CF A STATE SENATOR IN LOU ISIANA.
Baton Rouge, La., May 2 —A. Con quest Clarke."the governor's private secretary, received the following telegram thi* afternoon
Couchatta, May 2.—Senator W. II. Tvvitchell was mortally wounded, and George King, his brother-in-law, killed, while crossing the river at Couchatta, by an unknown partv. [Signed.[ LIEUT. WESTER
CleiK of Court Red River Parish Other dispatches state that an unknown man rode through the town of Couchatta to the river bank, and commenced firing with a repeating rifle at Tuitchcll and King, who were 011 a flat-boat being ferried over the rive r, with the result as above stated. The negro ferryman was also wounded. Senator Twitehell was one ofthe holding over Republican Sena
tors.
SUICIDE.
St. Louis. May 2.—Thebo.lv of C. D. Affleck, cashier of the Bremen SavingsBank, who disappeared Saturday last, was found in the river at the fo.ntot Brooklyn street this p. M, A large rock was found buttoned ir.side his coat, and there is no doubt he committed iicide.
T1IS FATAL RAIL.
Fritz Pagel. 65 years of age and an old resident of this city, was run over and killed by a train on the St. Louis Iron Mountain railroad, in the southern part of the city, this evening.
HE DIED.
Wiii. Ccopce, who shot and killed Mollie Dean 011 April 21st, and then shot himself, and who has since lain in the hospital with the bullet buried five inches
in his brain, died yesterday, MURDER AND ROBBERY.
Omaha. May, 2 —A special dispatch from Seward, Nebraska, to the Herald, this evening, says Nathan Clough, aged 49. brother of the proprietor ofthe Blue Valley House, was found murdered in bed this morning. His head was crushcd in with three heavy blows from an ax. and a deep gash cut in his left cheek. He had $(*25 in currency, and is supposed to have been murdered for his money. No c'ue to the guilty party. He slept in the hay of the stable. The coroner's jury held an inquest, and
After the reports from various committees were received, Morton rose to personal explanation he had read an article published in the New'York World in regard to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars received frem the Government and expended by him in organizing Indiana troops itnd food in the spring ot 1S63. The President of the United States advanced to him $250.0001 ire still taking eyidence. The deed v.as to enable him to carry forward military -Jone lust night and was not discovered operations in that stale, of that amount until this morning hen the body was he expended $133,332.91. and the balance stiff and cold. ol $116,697.09 was returned to the treas-J $300 WORTH oi-" rux. urv. He had read letters from the secre- .. tarv ofthe treasury dated April. 1S65' Columbus, O., May 2.—The police kwledging the receipt of money, forcc went on duty again to-day. lne only trouble thai occurred during their one night's rest, was the destruction of $300 worth of window glass in the north end by rowdies.
A PAPER CARRIER SHOOTS HIMSELF.
Chicago, May 3.—Anthony Gehring a carrier for the morning papers shot himself and wife this morning. It appears that sbout half-past seven this morning after having delivered his papers he went to the house of his mother and dropped his bank book containing a
a
advanced to him by the genenal Gevern-1
note asking decent burial and pardon
or
meut. A joint Committee ot Legisla- immediately went home. He shot his tion, composed of same of the :nost' ife twice/killing her instantly, and by prominent Democrats, examined his ac-1 the same means committed suicide. The Counts, and reported they were corn bodies were discovered soon afterward, •ft cent, including all expenditures cf the, weltering in blood, in their rooms at No.
what he was about to do, and then
S:3 east Madisou street, where the woman kept a laundry. These people were Germans and had been married only about eight months.
Gefring is of a most violent disposition, was verv jealous, and without cause, ot
his wife! The coroner's jury returned a verdict sn accordance with the facts.
The event of no action being taken in the matter by General Grant, there is grave reason to fear serious disturbances at no distant dav.
Preparing for the Grand Cererocny.
Philadelphia, April —Governor Hariranft, accompanied by Attorney General llaer and eighty members of the Legislature, will arrive in the city this r. M„ and proceed to the Centennial grounds under the escort of Mayor Stokellv. for the purpose of inspecting the State buildings and preporations for the State exhibition. At a session of the
United States Centennial commission vesterdny. the question of opening the
exposition to the public on Sunday, :s Ireeiy discussed. A vote taken on the question of Sunday opening, resulted oppositio'.i to Sunday exhibiti.m. nine Stales onlv votk.g in favor of tne propostioii.
Mil AGKITl'I,'LTl"RAf. SOCIETY.
Joseph Gilbert Defonrt.s it ilyainst the Aspersionsofthe Wieked Mail.
Terre Haute, May 1st. 1S76.
To Hie iitors of the (Jazette. Knowing you to be friendly to the Agricultural Society, I wish you to publish the following:
The Saturday Evening Mail has 011 two or three occasions of late, contained articles abusive of the society, anil among other charges, has accused the society of repudiating its debts. I have been connected with the society most of the time
since its organization in 1S66. and I know that such charges are entirely untrue.
The society has never repudiated one cent of its indebtedness, and I defy any
one to prove to the contrary. The society is a corporation, and is responsible and can pay all jnst claims.
For several years the society has adopted the policy of making the Fairs self supporting. They have made all necessary arrangments and said to tke people you must support the fair. We have offered liberal premiums with the plain understanding that the receipts ,of the lair musl pay the expenses.
All the receipts of the Fair including the show license fund, after paying the necessary expenses of carrying on the Fair have been devoted to the payment of premiums and where the amount was not sufficient the premiums were paid pro rata. This understanding was always plainly and prominently printed in the Premium
Lists. The society has this year decided to pay its premiums in full, and the Mail savs that "the Exhibition ought to quire us to give bond for the faithful performance of our obligations." This is on a par with the charge of our repudiation and is uncalled for, and unjustified by the facts, and a slander on the persons man
aging t'.ie Socicly. Twice v. hen the society agreed to pa its piemiums in full it was compelled to
borrow the amount necessary, and the Directors became individually liable for the money, and paid every cent awarded
One year they borrowed $700 and another
$225." 'There has been great difference of opinion in regard to the policy pursued at the fairs, and the policy is at all times
open to criticism. The fair is held for the benefit of Terre Haute anil Vigo county, and not for any one class of people. All classes should take an interest in. and help sustain it. It is not intended for the lx:nefit of the farmer alone. Of the 129 shares of sto.-k 60 are owned in Terre laute. and the books are open for any one to subscribe who wishes to.
The assertion made by the ^Iaii, that the business men ought all to assist in getting up the fair, or they would he "spotted,' by the farmers, is another uncalled for slur upon that class of people.
They, as a class, know their rights and their friends, but are not around levying ••black mail" on the business men of the
citv.
Yours truly, jos. GILUER r.
Dennison Uarlings. DENMSON, III., May. WEDDING AT DENNISON.
The usual quiet city of Dennison was in a state of excitement yesterday, not over a cat-fish story or any thing of the kind, but over the wedding of Mr. Erick Erickson. formerly of ri'.i. of Dennison, now of the Vandalia railroad, to Miss Charity Goie, of this city. The nuptial ceremonies were conducted by the Rev.
John Page, at the residence of Charles Larrabe, this place, where the bride has been making her home. A large host of friends of both bride and groom were in
attendance, many from Terre Haute. The dinner given was something gorgeous, and will not soon be forgotten by those present. Turkey, chicken, and other fowl siyved in various ways, cakes, pies, preserve and sweetmaets of almost every imagit.„b!e description were served in abundance. Of the pies we wi.sh to mention that the lemon pies were the best any of the company ever had the pleasure of testing their praises before and the cake were all very fine such as the golden cake, silver cake, and the fru.'t cake and jelly cakes, and last but not least, the cocoanut cake, lrcii w: "the"' cake. They were all served under the supervision of Mrs. Cha-s. Larrabe, who has the reputation of being the best cook in the country, and the bounteous feast which she has just prepared, goes to prove it.
The bride and groom, arc both highlyrespected and beloved by their manv friends, and we wish then: much happiness in their new relation, and hope their happiness may last^forever.
FAILURES. A SAVINGS BANK.
WATERVILLE, Me., May 3.—The watervjlle savings bank closed this afternoon HATS.
Columbus, O., May 2.--H, G, Potter & Son, hat dealers made an assignment today Assetts, $7,800 liabilities unknown.
THE BANKRUPT KHEDIVE.
Alexandria, May 3.—The daira propertv. the Khedives private estate has been
adjudged liable to execution. Rivers Wilson returns to England owing to the
acceptance by Egypt ofthe French finan
cial schcme.
What Makes the Depreciation.
II. V. Retlfleld in (. inrinnati Commercial.
Did you ever notice how enormously property in some of the Northern States was enhanced in supposed value from 1S60 to 1870? This unhealthy increase in wealth—too unhealthy to be substantia!—was caused by the immense volume of paper money injected into the veins o' trade. Everything was swelled beyond its natural size, and the panic of 1S73 and its after effects are only agents in bringing the patient hack to a healthy basi-. The process is painful, but must he borne, for no man ever had wit enough to che .: nature out of any thing.
For instance, we hear a great deal about the depreciation of reul estate in New York how it is from twenty to forty per cent, lower than four vears ago. Men shake their heads dismally and sav the country is going to the bad whe 1
property in its chief city sinks so rapidU but instead of really depreciating, some
ol the false value is being knocked o:, and property accommodates itself to the henlthy b:»'-is towards which everything now Lv.ds.
I wish to call your attention to so:r.i startling figures which indicate -recise!-
what is the matter, an.l tell of t?e terr ble evils of an inflaten currency. The wealth ofthe State of New Yori rea! and pers KV.'.was returned iti tiiecen sus of 1S50 at #'. ,309,216. Very we!I That is no doubt just about what it wa-. for business matters were on a healthy ba-'is about that time. Ten years after, in iSf.o, the census report showed it t"
heve increased to$1,843,338,517,
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C:l'n
seven hundred and sixty-three :.-.i!lions of dollars in ten years, a re:r. .rkahSe healthy growth to be sure, *ba un
reasonable. From 1S60 to 1S70 was the paper 11101: ey period. Notwithstanding :-vc thousands of millions of dollars of jvopert was lost in waste of war, of \\V,eh share fell upon New York—for tiie lo--of war falls on all those engage'i in it whether victors or vanquished- notwith standing the enormous drain :o supp'\ the waste of war the property ia the stat of New York increased to $6,50^,841,26.' Think of that! Within $600,000,000 of much as the whole United S'.&tes :. worth in 1S50. Here is an increase fron 1869 to 1870of £$4,657,00c,xa, notwitli standing the waste of war, whet the crease from 1S50 to i860, a time of prosperous peace as, but $765,000,000. 1 other words the increase in the war an. paper moncv period was abo six tinu faster than for the period of peace ar, hard money, and a generally health business between 18^0 and 1
Study these words well, case. Tin will repay you. You will no longer won der that property "depreeif,vs'' in Ne\ York and elsewhere. It is merely sc: tling back where it belongs, that is ai I give the real figures, and leave it to an candid man if he believes :he real crease in wealth in New York was six seven times greater for tin en years en*
ing 1S70, than it was for :he ten yea: ending 1S60. The idea t'v.a the net
crease in wealth in ten years in one sta should be more than one half as much
the whole United States was worth 1850, is simply preposterous. Ami th.\ too, during the period of ,t gigantic ci\ war, when over five thoe^atuls millions
dollars of property was cie-troyed—as terl wiped out as if that amount of go! had been sunk in a bottomless sea.
Pennsylvania is another example of ti beauties of inflation, and over-valuatio which is sureiy followed by the so-calh. depreciation, though really it is only tl settling back cf property where it belong The increase of wealth in that Sta from 1S50 to 1S60 v.as 694,000,00. From i860 to 1870 it was if-2.391,000,01 or more than three times as much, an that, too, embracing a period rf war whe five thousand millions of dollars' wort of property was wasted and destroyed I
Is it possible to increase in wealth such a tremendous ratio, and at the s-~ time conduct a wasteful war
The simple truth is the balloon of fiation and speculation and fancy pric has bscn prieked, and things are mere! settling back to a healthy "bottom." Tl people of the United States are not wort as much as they thought they were. Tl wealth of the country as it will show the census of 1S80, will be less than w-as reported in 1S70. Ten years not suffice to repair the waste of war at the greater waste occasioned by an in mense an irredeemable volume of pap currency. We have been on a spree a are sobering off. The process is painft but there is 110 escaping. We are not rich as we were, but we know a gre deal more. We have learned that cannot waste the property accumulatio of a decade in a costly war, and at t! same time grow rich with smithing
pidity.
Saturday Night.
IIow many a kiss has been given, he many a curse, how many a caress, ho manv a kind word—how many a promi has been broken, how many a heart been wrecked—how many a loved o. has been lowered into the narrow chai her' how many a babe has gone for from earth to heaven—how many a ci or cradle stands silent now, which Ii Saturday night held the rarest of all trer ures ofthe heart! A week is life, A we is a history. A week marks events sorrow or gladness of which people nev heard. Go home you heart erring v. an erer! Go home to cheer that awaits wronged waif of life's breakers? home to your love, man of toil, and one night to the joys and comforts fast fl ing by. Leave your books with com pi figures, your dirty workshop, your bu store. Rest with those you love: for only knows what the next Saturday will bring you. Forget the world ot fit and the battle of life which have furrow the week, Draw close arouud the
ily hearth, Saturday night has awai your coming in bittered tear and silen Go home to those ycu love, at.d as bask in the loved presence and meet" return the loved cmbrace cf your hear pets strive to be a better man, and bless God for giving his wearv chijdr so dear a stepping ttane
in the river
the Eternal as Saturday night—[M. Pomeroy,
The Massiltn Mining Strikes*
Cleveland. May 3.—Every thing qu at Massilon and other mining distri this A. M. Last evening threats made, and several shots fired ington mine, but was here this ber of new Wanningtcn mine and are workir.g
at War
nothing mo
morning A nu
miners *ent into
der protection of the Militia. Old stri ers still declare that they ill never to work under the reduction^ ...