Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 December 1877 — Page 4

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THURSDAY. DECEMBER 13. 1877.

'DEEMING it prudent," is a conUgiou6 disease among the national banks.

PLEVNA has fallen, and the Russians are now preparing for their Thanksgiving day.

MODEL winter weather, this. Let us «s give "Old Probs," or rather' Young Indications" credit for it.

CLOUu with a silver lining is

gather

ing over'the devoted head of John Sherman, secretary of the treasury.

IT went against the grain with the Conkltng^fcrew, but Harlan will be a justice of the supreme court all the

Fame.

HARPER'S WEEKLY has a cartoon of Voorhees in the chair of Morton. It is mistaken about the size of our Daniel. But tnavbe he doesn't need so much of a 'chair 'seeing a6 how' he can 6tnnd up on occasion.

EUSTIS was sworn in as senator from Louisiana yesterday. At la9t no 9tate is unrepresented in the senate., Now that tody 6tands thirty-nine republicans, and thirty-seven democrats, counting David Davis with the latter.

TH® Tennessee legislature is considering a proposition to compromise the 6tate debt on the basis of 6o cents on the dolla#.' Holders of bonds are given the alternative of taking that or nothing. Sixty cen|r"bea's nothing all hollow."

BENJAMIN F. BUTLER—he of the hat ^fcltof bricks—has reported a bill from (theJudiciary

committee of the house of

representatives, granting to women lawyers the right to practice their profession in an* of the United States courts.

MACMAHON appears to be getting more and More obstinate every day. If France get* isd of* him without bloodshed it is to be hofed that she will be as careful about electing a soldier to the presidency as we in America propose to be. Grant taught Americans what MacMahon has taught Frenchmen*

PCR'HAPS the best thing the Democratic majority in the Ohio legislature can do neat winter is to elect Stanley Natthews as his own successor. He appears to be a pretty good Democrat on the silver question, and he might engineer •the president into the Democratic party, -On other questions he is sounder than

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R. C. BF.LL, attorney for Allen county, Indiana,—Fort Wayne is the county ,-sea*—proposes to test the constitutionality of the vagrant act, passed by the last legislature. Mr. Allen was a member of s^f the state senate fiom Allen county in the legislature which passed the act, and having been beaten there he proposes to »f take the matter before the courts. In the interest of public peace and quiet it is "be hoped that he will be defeated in his proposed action!

A BATTALION of 184 soldiers has beeti isent to tight 1.000 Indians investing Deadwood. The New York Sun still thinks the United States army should be cut down to ten men. Fools not all dead, as long as the editor of the Sun survives—neither are the 'liars mute.'—

St. Louis Evening Dispatch. But by the great horn spoon, and the beard of Tecumeh Sherman where are the remaining 24,816 soldiers of the regular army? Are they so busy, defending themselves with their drawn salary in their hands against an infamous congress that they can not fight the Indians? ... Send them to the front, and let the Sioux be. eaten up.

IK ST. LOUIS has a sensation. A district attorney, of an inquiring turn of mind, concluded to bore into the main piers of the new custom-house, which were re quired to be built of solid stone, with fc view to ascertaining their contents. A short examination showed that only the outside shell was of stone, the contractor, with the connivance of Superintendent

Walsh, having filled the interior with a cheap -quality of concrete. As the piers are built, and the parties responsible for the fraud are "respectably connected," it is a problem with St. Louis people what to do about it.—[Cincinnati Gazette.

We are not so sure avout the parties being "respectably connected." Orville Grant, brother of ex-President Grant, is a partner of the contractor. Fraud has been hunted to the very doors of the house of Grant so often that the respectability of that mansion or of its occupants Is a very doubtful quality Let justice be done. Theie will be no pardons from the white bouse now.

ACCORDING to the IndianapoHs Journal Emdry P., that is to say, our Beauchamp is a candidate for the vacant mission to

Belgium^ v^Martindale,

of the

Journal, is understood to be pressing his claims, for the place, being rather anxious to get Beauchamp out of the state, and the country, that an important rival of his for the lost leadership of the Repub lican party in Indiana may be disposed of. The Judge's tactics for obtaining the Morton successorship seem to be to get rid of the idols of the people by sending ihem abroad. Considering the meagre effects of the Republican party here in Indiana, the GAZETTE would counsel Consul Beauchamp, as his friend, that it is not worth administering on. If he can keep the place he has, or get any better one anywhere eUe, he had better take it nther than accept the leadership of the Republican party in Indiana, though it* should be tendered him on a silver salver and by Judge Martindale himself

THE MEXICAN QUESTION. A long debate was indulged in by the house of representatives Monday on the question ot our relations to Mexico. It arose on a motion ot Wood, chairman ol the committee on ways and means, to refer that portion of the message of the president relating to Mexico, to the committee on foreign relations. The debate developed a very general expression of opinion on the oar of members in favor of preserving friendly relations with Mexico, if it was possible to ao it. Her weakness in a military point of view and inferiority to the United States in that respect, was urged, and very properly the GAZETTE believes, as an especial reason why an effort should be made on this side of the border to compromise any existing difficulties

between the countries.

For us to take advantage of dissensions 'n the Mexican government, and press ungrounded or even well founded claims against her, partakes not a little of the nature of dishonesty.

But what was especially note-worthy in the debate was the feeling it exposed that there was in certain quarters a dedesire to ferment trouble with Mexico. A double motive is in that desire. It would in the first place serve as a pretext for an increase of the army. Nothing is riiore certain than that with peace and quiet for another year the army must inevitably be reduced to 10,000 men or even a smaller number. All that body of gentlemen who are interested pecuniarily in the maintenance of the army at the! ^lareest^ ipossible figure, the officers in command of it the department at Washington which provides for it the post traders and sutlers, and haogei&-on aod commissioners of nothing particular who are ready to perish with their drawn salr ries in their hands nobly defending the establishment to the last extremity, all these gentlemen want a war with Mexico to defer ^fthe inevitable -j-y reduction. '"•^''-'•Another class' want to stir up a fight, to have it stir up trade. Right and wrong

nothing. Prosperity,

which come6 from peace and thrift, is dry and substanceless to their pampei ed tastes. War creates disturbance and anything out of the ordinary way helps them. These gentlemen went war.

Possibly too President Hayes has a lurking suspecion that a victor}' over alien enemies would be a neat addition to the triumph of his administration in the reconciliation of friends. Having clasped hands with brothers over a bloody chasm, maybe he thinks that would be a good thing to step across the Rio Grande to thresh some miserable Mexicans.

But whatever he or any body .f else may think or vish to do, congress has resolutely set its face against having any trouble with Mexico, if it can be honorable avoided. It is certainly to be hoped that they will persist in that belief. What this country wants is peace. Our national debt must be got well in hand, so that it can be paid off during the life time of people now living. And prosperity must come to the people.

THE SILVER OUESTION. In this connection will be found a caustic letter from James B. Colgate & Co., bankers of New York, to John Sherman, secretary ot the treasury. It will be remembered that a week or more ago, a letter from Sherman to Colgate & Co., was made public. They had, it teems, written to him asking if they could buy $150,000 of 4 per cent government bonds, principal and interest payable in silver. It was desired by them to buy the bonds 'at par paying for them in* silver. Sherman's reply was along letter arguing the question and committing the government as far as it was possible for him to do it, to the policy of paying the bonds in gold and gold only. It seemed to the GAZETTE, at the time, as if it was an understood tiling between the bankers and the secretary, gotten up for the express purpose of enabling the secretary to commit the government to the gold policy.^ But it seems that in this we were mistaken. Colgate & Co. wrote in good faith, as witness their letter in reply:

New York, Dec. 3,1877.

To the Hon. John Sherman, secretary of the treasury: Dear Sir—Yours of the*istinst.^is this day received. As it was published in the evening journals of Saturday last, a copy was doubtless procured from your office, from which source ours of the 20th ult. probabably obtained Its publicity, as we

urnished no copy for press. We simply inquired of you whether you would accept an offer for "$150,000 United States 4 per cent, bonds, interest and principal payable in silver dollars, of 412^ graii.s standard fineness, and we to deposit in the United States as.fay office an amount of bullion which would produce the sum required to be paid in such silver dollars at par." We look for a simple answer— ves or no. We were atji loss to know "what ulterior ends you haa to serve in replying to our letter in such an extraordinary manner and so early furnishing a copy to the pres6.

We thank you, hO#ef«h for the calculation ot" profits, specious as it is, which you suppose we would make, provided our offer had been accepted. We think it however, entirely uncalled fer, as it is generally conceded we are tully compe tent to make our own calculations. As one good turn deserves another, will vou please excuse us if we make a suggestion how the treasury could profitably use the 150,000 silver dollars we offered in paymen!? These silver dollars, from the ear 1862, at which time the government began freelv to issue its 6 per cent, bonds were always at a premium above gold until they were dropped from the list of :iuthorized coins in i873~4»

and a* which

time they were worth about par in sold. We suggest that the treasury could now use the 150,000 silver dollars, and make Irom it $160,3S1 02 subsidiary coin and dispose of it to the people at par in currency, thereby making a clear profit to the treasury of $10481 02 but we would ask. Do you 'think this fair or honest.'

The treasury has gained millions of dollars the past tew years minting subsidiary coin and selling it at par in currency to the people each $1,000 of which weighing 55^ ounces less than $1,000 of the discredited dollars of our fathers, and we would ask, Do you "think this fair or honest?"

Why not issue a silver bond? We have about $64,000,000 of currency bonds, interest and principal payable in currency, and about $1,700,000,000 of bonds, interest and principal payable in coin, now gold, because the silver dollar is demonetized, and why not have bonds payable in silver? The constitution of our country has deprived the several states of the right of coinage, and makes gold and sil •er only a lawful tender. This being so we would, with all due respect inquire why one man who digs $ 1,000 ot gold from the earth should have the pro duct of his labor made into coin without expense, and another digs $1,000 of silver, and the product of his labor be reviled stigmatized as a swindle, and refused coinage? Do you "think this fatr or honest?"

Our proposition wa6 distinct, that the principal and interest on the bonds should be paid in silver dollars. The intimation, from so high an authority as yourself, that the governmeht might reduce the value of*the dollar, and might find this expedient to pay a cheaper dollar so "convenient that it might think it better to adopt the Latin'' ratio, 15K silver to one of gold, and coin a dollar "of 400 grains with which to pay you." Or it might think "a subsidiary dollar containing 385 grains is good enough "to pay a bondholder." This intimation i- exceedingly painful to us, as it must be to others.

We should not have written the above had you simply declined our offer, but as you launched out into profits, fairness, honesty, etc., we deemed it proper to reply. With great respect, truly yours,

TAMES B. COLGATE & Co.

TAXING BANK DEPOSITS. The attention of the general reader but particularly of the rag-baby reader, who frowns at the thought of national, banks absorbing all the profits of busi*. ness, and laughs when they break, is directed to an article on "taxing bank deposits," from the Phiadelphia Record, which we publish herewith. The GAZETTE is under no sort of obligation to national banks, collectively or individually, and yet it recognizes a fact which can not be misunderstood by any one who takes the trouble to. investigate the subject, that instead of making undue profits, they are struggling for existence and many ot them breaking, The article is as follows: "The national tax "up'5VT bank deposits was imposed during the war, when the Government blindly grasped at every available source of revenue, sometimes in defiance of right and often without regard to justice. It has bt en retained in consequence of the prejudice of the people against banking corporations. This prejudice is, to a great extent, shared by representatives in congress, who are either willing to defer to popular clamor or ignorant of the injustice they perpetu ate. The comptroller says that the deposits of the banks amount to $2,000,000,000, an amount more than twice the whole amount of the paper currency and coin in the country. The deposits do not, therefore, represent money, but commodities, to a large ex tent not subject to taxation. ''The wheat and flour which are shipped from Minnesota to the east are taxed in the banks of St. Paul if their avails are represented by a bill of exchange upon Chicago. If the same commodities are re-shipped from Chicago t* New York, a tax is again imposed in the former city upon their representative bill of exchange, and again in New York, when they are exported to a foreign market. The same is true of the .avails of cotton shipped from the south and of manufactures sent from the New England and other states. According to the treasury regulations, deductions of amounts re-deposited are not "allnwable in estimating the -Vs- taxable depos tr.— The individual and bank deposits of every bank must therefore be returned withaut allowance of such moneys as are deposited by any one bank with its correspondents. A temporary resident in Florida draws his check upon his deposit in Boston which is already subjected to taxationThe bank at Jacksonville transmits the check to Savannah, the Savannah bank to Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia banker to New York and the New York banker to Boston, where the check iscolected. Under the regulations referred

to, lhi6 check, which is not money, but represents the amount on deposit in Boston, is subject to tax five different times while in transit.

This tax is thus clearly levied upon the indebtedness of the banks, and is in addition to the tax upon their capital and their circulation. In effect it is a tax levied upon the business transactions of the people against every consideration of public policy. As the banks are dependent for their profits mainly upon borrowers, it is tha* class of customers who must make up to them this excessive taxation which reaches not only the source of deposits, but the reserves of fifteen or twenty per cent., which the banks are obliged to hold for the security of bill-holders and depositors."

Not onlv are the banks subjected to national taxation, but to a searching state taxation, which is to a large extent evaded by capital invested in any other business. Foreign bankers doing business in this country are not reached by the laws which impose such heavv burdens upon domestic institutions. This is not just. Domestic capital, domestic savings, as represented by the money in the hands of national, savings and private banksi should only be required to pav taxes to the several states. In anv event, the burden must be shifted from the banks to the persons who find it necessary to avail themselves of the facilities which banking institutions afford, anJ these persons are the very life cf every branch of trade in the country. Probably no tax that is collected from the people bears heavier upon business men than the tax upon bank capital and deposits. Congress ought to investigate and understand the operation of this tax, and then repeal it.

PRESIDENT HARRISON'S MESSAGE. Webster, as secretray of state under Harrison, had a worrisome time about the president's inaugural message. He wrote out one himself, and endeavored to make Harrison accept it, but that worthy was obdurate he had prepared his own, and was determined to read it. Webster told his friend Harvey thai he was annoyed, because the message was, according to his judgement and taste, so inappropriate. It entered largely into Roman histoiy, and had a great deal to say at out the states of antiquitv ard the Roman proconsuls, and various matters of that kind, Indeed, the vord 'proconsul' was repeated in it a great many times. When he found, says Mr. Harvey, that the president wa» bent upon using his own inaugural, Mr. Webster said that his desire was to modify it for as it then stood, he said, it had no more to do with the affairs of the A niei ican government and people than a chapter in the Koran. Gen. Harrison rather reluctantly consented to let him take it. Mr. Webster spent a portion of the next day in modifying the message. Mrs. Seaton remarked to him when he came home rather late that day, that he looked fatigued and worried. Said she, I really hopfc nothing has happened.' 'You would think that something had happened,' he replied, 'if you knew what I have done. I have killed seventeen Roman proconsuls as dead as melts, every one of them.'

A funeral in Marysville, Cal., last week, was the cause of a strange public dispute. The widow of the dead man. John G. Briggs, had a grave dug in the Roman Catholic cemetery, and his brothers and sisters had another prepared in the city cemetery. A Protestant minister preached theserrcon in Briggs' late residence, and the procession started—for which one of the two cemeteries no one knew. The road to both was for some distance the same. When the junction was reached, the inquiring undertaker was told by the widow to go to one, and bv the brothers and sisters to go to the other. Then the widow descended from the carriage and walked beside the hearse to the Roman Catholic cemetery, while the other relatives left the procession and went home. -i

A malignant Washington newspaper reporter fell in with a newly arrived an.! commissioned lady correspondent, and pointed out a little man, five feet six, with a pale moustache, blue eyes, and thin hair, the color of sick moonlight, for exSenator Logan, and she. took up a column in her next letter to describe the general after this manner of a man. Her salary has be«n raised so high she can't reach ascent of it. I1

TICKETS are selling very rapidly for the firemen's ball, to take place on next Thursday night. At the meeting on Sunday it was found that two hundred tickets had been sold already. It is expected that fully five hundred will be disposed ot.

The boys will entertain some twentyfive guests, fifteen from Indianapolis, and ten from Evansville.

Mr. Charley Chapmen will furnish the supper on the night ot the ball, and Mr. J. H. Chapman will board the guests,

Scandal in the Oates troupe. Laurent, the high-toned singer, is sued by his wie for divorce, she accusing him of wrong with his managress, Mrs. Oates. The suitison docket in New York courts, while the troupe is traveling in West Virginia nnd Ohio. Friends of the dainty opera-bouffe singer say that the allegation ot Laiurent's wite is a most unlikely story. ..

I A horse expresses his characteristics through his feet and his neck. If he feels his oats he dances gingerly and curves his neck. If be feels proud he makes a circle with all the precision of an engineer. If he is impatient or playfiil he makes specific and probably readable stampings with his fore feet If you tease him he takes your photograph with his hind legs.

The champion

4don't-know'

witness

turned up last week in Troy. He said he was unable to give the date of either his first or second marriages, having taken but little interest in the affairs. The judge then asked him if he reme.nbered when the rebellion broke out. His response was: 'Oh, judge you misunder stand—I don't see what tha* has to do with the case but believe that it began some time ago I don't jrst recollect when.' The witness was here dismissed.

HOW ONE MOUSE SAVED ANOTHER MOUSE. From the Corinne (Utah) Record.

Our attention was attracted by several lusty squeaks from the inside of a pail al most full of water, into which a halfgrown mouse had fallen. The alarm had hardly died awav when four or five mice appeared on the scene, and began clambering to the top of the pail. For sever al moments af er gaining the top of the pail, and catching sight of the mouse in the water, a squeaking confab was held* First one mouse and then another would cling to the rim ot the bucket with his hind legs, and while almost touching the water with his nose squeak out consolation or advice to the immersed, but while all this was going on the swimming pow er:. of the unfortunate mouse in the pail were rapidly giving out At last a happy thought seemed to strike the biggest mouse, and almost without a squeak he firmly fastened his fore feet on the edge of the pail, and let his body and tail hang down. The drowning mouse saw it. and making a last desperate effort for his life, swam to the spot, seized the tail of his brother mouse, and amid squeaks of delight from all the mice present, was hauled high and dry out of the water and over the edge of the bucket.

Thirty years ago, Myrtilla Miner, a young white lady, opened the first school for colored children in Washington. Her school house was stoned, and set on fire, but the fire was happily extinguished before it did much damage. Miss Miner herselt was threatened with a mob, if she did not desist, but she was not to be frightened off. Friends at the north helped, and she was able to collect donations at length, to the amount of $4,000. She bought a square of ground, and built a schooi house tor her colored pupils. Her school prospered finely, but she did not live to see the best results of her good work. She died in 1864, and the school she found still went on. A few years ago the propert she paid $4,000 for was sold for $40,000, and a new and handsome school was built which was finished this fall, and dedicated under the name of the "'Miner Normal School," a bravu monument to the brave woman who founded it

SENATORS' AGES.

FIGURES THAT WILL SURPRISE THEIR FRIENDS. Washington, Dec. 5,1877.

I have taken considerable pains to collect and compile the ages of senators. One familiar with their faces and figures will be very much surpised with the result as some of the eldest looking men are the youngest in years, and some of the most aged 6how less than many of their youtiger colleagues the 'corroding hand ot care' and time. The following list will 6how the names of senators, and the vears in which they were born: 1S09—Hamlin. 1810—Morril. 1812— Vrmstrong. Christiancy. 1813—Thurman, Kirkwood. 1815—Anthony. 1816—Dawes, Eaton, Howre, Kernan. 1817—iiaulsbury, Saunders. 1818—Harris, Johnston, Barnum. 1819—McDonald. 1820—Vice President Wheele!1.^ 1821—Sharon, Withers. 1822—Beck, Dennis. 1823—David, of West Va., Hill, Grover. 1824—Matthews, Morgan, Oglesby, Rollins, Whyte, Burnside. 1825—Lamar, Marcey', Hereford, Booth, Chaffee. 1826—MacMillan, Randolph, Ransom. Cameron, of Wis. 1827—Windom, Ferry. 1828—Edmonds, Bayard, Voorhees. 1829—Conkling, CokV Allison. 1830—Blaine, Jones, (Nev.), Merrimon, Paddock, Patterson, Teller, Kellogg. 1831—Wadleigh. 1832—Gordon, Garland, Jones (Florida). 1833— Ingalls, McPherson, Mitchell Cameron, (Pa 1S34—CockerelI. 1836—Spencer.

l&37—Plumb.

1840—Conover. 1841—Bruce. 1842—DorseV. *. •. Wallace, Davis, of Illinois, and McCreery, of Kentucky,' 'declined to give their ages.

Edmunds is the oldest looking man— one would take him to be a centenarian, at least, and he could sit very appropriately for th« wandering Jew. Ferry, who sits behind him, and is one year older, looks young enough to be his son so does Booth, who is two years older.

Dorsey is the youngest n«an who eyer sat in the senate ne has been there nearly five years, anu came in at the age of thirty as young as is allowed by the constitution.

Vice President Wheeler, Booth, McDonald, Anthony, Burnside, and Cameron, of Pennsylvania, are unmarried.— [Chicago Post.

LOVE'S REVEII LE.

Love in a lethargy once siept A week without awaking j' And day r.nd night his mother wept,

As if her heart were breaking. The Graces pinched the boy in vain: He never felt the stinging. They sang to him a Paphian strain

He slept through all their singing.

To Jove at length the goddess soared, Most miserably crying, "Oh, save my son, heaven's mighty Lord!

The God of love is dying!" "To earth,'' said Jove, "once more repair. And cease your cries and weeping, A friendly leech will meet you there

Who'll cure Love's over-sleeping Venus flew back the boy was free For Jove, on special mission, Had sent him green-eyed Jealousy,

Juno-'s own state physician. The cure, uiuch worse than the disease, Oly mpus shojk with laughter For Love was never at ease,

And never slumbered after.

Mrs. Brasher, the mother of Mr. Tom Brasher and Mis. Slaughter, who was buried yesterday afternoon, was one among the very oldest citizens of our city. But very few houses were as yet built when she first came here. Sugar, coffee, and other groceries were purchased at Vincennes.

Old Uncle Peter Mallory, who died a few years ago, has, in early days, walked from what was then the fort (the Smock farm now) to Vincennes, from son to sun. It was a case of necessity, for if he was caught on the road after dark it was certain death.

TERRE HAUTE MARKET.

Terre Haute, December 1a.

In the correction of prices made to-day it will be seen a new list haa been added for wild game, that is now becoming very plenty in market and makes an excellent addition to the luxuries to be found in our city. The corn is reported direct bv telephone to thi6 office by Hulman & Fairbanks.

A few catawba grapes are yet to be had. Oranges are again becoming plenty.

GRAIN AMD FLOOR. CASH RETAIL PRICKS*

FLOUR—Summei, $6.00 extra fine $7.50 per bbl. WHEAT—Choice, $Y.ao common* red. $1.15 a few lots at ft.ia fe

CORN—32 to 35. OATS—33)^ to 35Cts oer bushel. RYE—45 cts.

AY—Baled $10 pef': ton ltfote Ott wagon $8(&io per ton. BR AN—70 cents per 100 lbs.

POP CORN—Choice 40c per peck common 25c. IMPORTED FRUIT.

ORANGES—40^50 cts per 50 for LEMONS—35 cts per doa 40 cts choice selections.

DAIRY AND POULTRY. CASH RETAIL PRIOBS.

HONEY—New country, 35c per lb. BUTTER—Western Reserve. 40 cts. choice table (country), 25 cts good cooking, 20 cts inferior, cts.

CHEESE—New York dairy, 20 to 32 cts. prime. EGGS—25 cts 4^ do*, for $1.00.

POULTRY—Choice spring (live 25 cts old 25 cts. dressed 30 cts for choice.

GARDEN PRODUCE.

SWEET POTATOES—Best selected, 40 per peck $1.40 per bushel. CABBAGES—5 cts per head or 25 to 40 cts. pr. doz.

POTATOES—Peachblows 50 cts per bushel. ONIONS—Best silver skins, 30c per peck $1 00 per bushel.

SOU ASHES—10 cts each. CELERY—Fresh, 75 cts per doz 3 stalks for 25 cts.

PUMPKINS—10cts each. DRY FRUITS. CASH RETAIL PRICES. A Dried peaches, good halves, I2)^c. .v quarters, 10c. .. ,peeled, I6%@20C. apples, 8Wc.

prunes, Turkish, I2)fj@i5c. French, i5@2oc. currants, new, I2^c. old, 8^c. Raisins, new Muscatel, 20c 6 lbs for $1. laver,

California, 12 ^c. MEATS. CASH RETAIL PRICES.

SHOULDERS—'Sugar cured, 10 per lb plain, 7^ cts per lb. BEEF—Dried, by the piece, 16% per lb small cut6 20 cts.

BREAKFAST BACON—12 cts per lb. LAMB CHOPS—io to i2^c per lb French chops (a new thing in Terre Haute markets, recently introduced by a colored cook from Washington), 15 to 17)^ cts per lb.

MUTTON—io@i2)$ cts per lb. VEAL— io@i^ cts per lb.

MARKETS TO-DAY.

CHICAGO.

By Telegraph. Chicago. December 12, 12 p. M. OATS—Steady, 25 Dec 25^ Jan 28^ May.

RYE—60 cash Dec. nominally 57 January. BARLEY—Sales 6x@% January.

WHISKEY—Cluiet sales reported 100 at 105)^. MEATS—Loose, lower, long clear 5% short ribs 5% shoulders 4^4 short clear 6J£.

PORIC—Steady, i2oy}4@l2l° LARD—Quiet, 782)$@785 Jan 792% @795 Feb.

WHEAT---108Jan. CORN—41% Jan.'

CINCINNATI.

By Telegraph.] Cincinnati, December 12. FLOUR—Dull.

WHEAT—Dull and t.ominal. CORN—Quiet, 39@4i. OATS—Firm, 30(^33. COTTON—Dull, 11. WHISKEY-Quiet, $1 05.# PORK—Dull, 12. LARD—Easier, 780 bid. BULK MEATS—Dull, 4^, 6, 6#. BACON—Dull, 7, 8,8^. HOGS—Dull and lower, packing 400 @420 receipts 15,000.

I NEW YORK. By Telegraph.] New York, December 12.

FLOUR—Dull, receipts 19,000 sales 12.000 quotations unchanged. WHEAT—Dull, %%c lower receipts 26,000 saies 72,000 145J4 No.

winter red Tan. RYE—Steady. CORN— Wer receipts 36,000 sales 80,000 57fe @64^ mixed western.

BARLEY—Quiet and firm. OATS—Dull, receipts 8.000 sales 25.000 39@43£ mixed western.

P^RK—Dull, 1325(^1350 new mess. LARD—Lower,832^. WHISKY—$1 10. PETROLEUM-Refined 13^ crude 8.

SOUND REASONS FOR FAITH. The American people are shrewd and observant. They are not often decei /ed by sham pretensions, tmt when they are, they aoon discover their error* It Hostetter's Stomach Bitters had been a sham, they would long since have discarded it: but finding that there was not a claim put forth in Ita behalf that iu curative properties did not jtwtify, they immediately gave it the preference to every arttcleof its class. Time haa only served to strengthen their faith, and. has increased its popularity to an extent almost beyond parallel. even in this rage of successful propr etary medicines. It ranks foremost among the standard pr*parations of the d«7, and ii endorsed by the medical fraternity and the newspaper press. It overcomes ana prevents fever and ague an'l other

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ieves gout, rheumatism, and affections of the bladder and kidneys.

New song for the coming orange and banana seaeun: Watch for the Rind.-

RAILROAD travel is now very light