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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1878.

RICE.

We compile the following from the Annual Circular of Messrs. Dsui Talmage's Sons & Co., New Orleans, La In regard to the crop of 1878-79, they say The planting and growing 8easona were favorable and the harvest was mainly accomplished before the fever reached the country parishes. The yield is hardly up to expectations, bat the crop will be larger than last year. On ac. count of fine harvest weather the average quality will be better than larft season. Lands suitable for rice culture are in demand, and this branch of agricultural indnstry is destined to be of great value to the commercial interests of the State. Crop of 1877-78 was 143,000 barrels crop of 1878-79 ertimated at 155,000 bar rels.

THE SPEAKERSHIP.

From the Decatur News we take the accompanying notice of our fellow citizen, Robert Van Valzah, in connection with hi6 candidacy for the Speakership of the Indiana House .of Representatives. Our townsman seems to be in the Van of all the candidates. The News says:

From a number of sources we have heard mention of the Hon. Robert Van Valzah, of Terre Haute, as a candidate tor Speaker of the House in our state legislature. If knowledge and experience in parliamentary law, honesty and Impartiality as a presiding officer, are desired, the Democracy need go no further. Mr. Van Valiah is a man of education and culture, a gentleman in every sense of the word, and one competent and well fitted to fill the position with equal credit to himself and honor to the Democracy, and the Democracy of Southeastern Indiana would do honor to themselves by giving him a cordial and hearty support.

THE STATE LIBRARIAN. Among the many persons whose names have been mentioned in connection with the candidacy for the position of State Librarian, none have met with more favor by the press of the State than that of Col. B. F. Mullen, of our city. An accomplished scholar himself, he is eminently qualified to exercise a fond and caretul supervision over the literary treasures of Indiana. From the Madison Courier the following mention of him is taken: "Col. B. F. Mullen, originally of Ripley county, for many years a resident of Madison, and now a citizen of Terre Haute, is an aspirant for the position of state librarian. The Colonel has been a life-long worker and orator of the Democratic partv, and is a good representative ot that element which constitutes the largest portion of the organization in the Northern States—the Irish Catholic vote. His election, therefore, would be a compliment to a large number of Democratic workers. During the rebellion Col. Mullen was an ardent Union man,and enlisted a regiment of Irishmen for the service. We remember hearing at the time a remark of the ColoneKs which exhibits the gallantry of his nature. Said he to some gentlemen who questioned his ability to ornanize his regiment—"Gentlemen, if I can't raise a regiment I know I can raise a gun, and if I fail in the first enterprise I won't in the-vecond."

The Frankjin Democrat of a recent date contains the following flattering notice:

This gentleman was once a resident of this part of the State, and will be reccollected by those who took part in the political contests of 1852 and ^856. He is 'now a resident of Terre Haute. Dr. Mullen* is an aspirant for the office of State Librarian. His fitness for the position is unquestioned, and he deserves for his past party services recognition. We know «f no man In Indiana, whose political record is purer and who has received less remuneration for his great services. Betides his fealty to his party, he distinguished himselt in the army as the commander of the cele 1)rated Irish regimen*. The Doctor has iMit little of this world's goods, and the Democratic members of the Legislature should by all means give him the posiHon he asks for.

We are permitted to make the accompanying extract from a private letter from an old and influential Democrat tp Col. Mullen: "If there is anything your old friends can do for you in the way of helping you to secure the position of State Librarian or indeed any office you may aspire to*

Jr.OU,^nLTrit^,° Hon-J" R'

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Craven*, C.'

A. Worbly, Esq., or myself, what vou (want done, and it will be cheerfully 'attended to. You see by the Indianapolis

papers that the services you have rendered, not only the Democratic party of the state ar.d the country in general, but to the city of Madison and county of Jefter son in particular, is not forgotten. You may depend upon a'solid support oi the Democracy of Jefferson county if you ed it." -•tm 5 a A

A COOL PROCEEDING. Greenland must be a very delightful place for persons tond of cold weather. All who are fond of balmy breezes should under all circumstances give it a wide berth. What, for example shall be said of a country which is impenetrable forty-five miles from its coast, and solely because the frigid climate has piled up impassable mountains of ice and snow. And yet until this last summer no adventurers had been bold enough to penetrate the interior for even the short distance of less than half a hundred miles from the West coast. This expedition was organized by three Danish gentlemen, under the direction of the commission for scientific exploration in the Danish colony. They made the bold attempt to explore and survey the coast between Godhaab and Frederikshaab. Several mountain heaps rising out of the ice was the objective point of the expedition.

A London, England, paper says: that "the baggage was placed in three small sledges of the travellers' own, and the toilsome journey commenced on Jnly 14. After two days the loose snow accumulated on the surface of the ice to such an extent that the journey became very dangeroufi, while they continually sank in concealed crevases and holes, saving themselves only by adopting the Alpine expedient of attaching themselves to each other with a rope. The surface of the ice was generally undulating, but there were also many rapged parts an chasms which rendered the journey a very difficult one. It was foggy nearly the whole time, and on July 25 a snow storm came on. On the 24th the expedition reached the foot of the mountain referred to above. Then came on another storm which lasted for six days with continuous snow and fog the travelers were snow blind. The weather cleared on the 31st, when the ascent of the mountain might be undertaken with some prospect of success. The height was estimated at about 5,000 feet above the sea level, and on the other Fide of the mountain, as far as the eye could reach, ice sheets and glaciers were seen, 'and not the smallest speck of land free from ice. After finishing their observations the expedition returned, and reached their starting point on August 5, having been away for twenty-three days. The mountain referred to was forty-five miles from the coast."

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THE WORLD'S FINANCES. The near approach of the date fixed for the resumption of specie payments in tlie country is awakening very considerable interest in the question of coin money. It becomes important just now to know what the other countries of the world are using. With us it is an open question whether we are to have a single standard of silver or gold, or a double standard, consisting of both. The following table gives the present condition of affairs:

Nations. SILVIR. Population. Centra] America 2,900,000 Ecuador 1,800,000 China 426,000,000 India 190,000,000 Mexico 9,000,000 Peru 4,600 000 United States of Columbia 2,700,000 Tripoli 1,200,000 Tunis 2,000.000 Venezuela 1,4CO.OOO

Total 640,000,000 GOLD. Great Britain Canada Australia Portugal Persia Argentine Republic

SHto:::.::::::::::::::::::

82,000,003 4,OCO,OCO 2,000,000 4,250,000 6 000,000 1.800,000 8,000,000 8,700,000 41,900,000 4,230,000 1.3)0,000

German Empire Sweden Denmark Norway l,7M,0j6 Chill 2,100,0(0

Total

Total

Turkey Brazil Russia Austria Italy. United States

ToUl

..111,660,009

GOLD AMD SILVER,

France. Belgium Bolivia Greece Spain i' Switzerland

.. 86,000,000 .. 6,100,000 .. 1,800,000 .. 1,600,000

.. 16,6* 0,000 .. 2,700,000 68,100,000

28,600,000 10,000,000 87 000,000 86,400.000 26,800,000 44,000,000

281,800,000

It will be thus seen that paper comes next to silver, so far as the populations using it are concerned, gold next to paper, and gold and silver last. Japan is not assigned to any place in these tables, for the reason that it is not easy to determine to what column it belongs. But it should be stated that the metallic future of the nations using paper is fixed by law at present as follows:

GOLD.

Tnrkev Brazil

United States.

28.603,000 10,000,000

siLra.

Russia.. Austria

89,600,000

87,000,000 86,000,000 128,000,000

GOLD AKD mm,

France.. Italy

88100,000

28,800,600

*2,900,000

DOUBTFUL.

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THE XERKE HAUTE WJ3EKLY GAZETTE

In some of these nations the date of resumption is so far in the future that nobody has the courage to calculate it. Austria has been trying to resume for a entury. The war in which it was lately engaged will not hasten resumption in Russia. Before the war began it was not an element of financial caculation. The same remark applies to Turkey, whose financial system has never been very clearly defined. We seem also to be on the eve of a similar change. But Italy's financial regeneration is not near at hand. It is considered to be an event so remote that it is not discussed.

ERRORS IN QUOTATIONS. There is a large class of sayings which lend themselves readily to the currency of small quotations, of which people do not seem to understand the original parntagi. We question if the English language contains many phrases with the wide popularity of Dickens's "Not to put too fine a point on it. Yet, it would be enexpressibly shocking to the host of Dickens's worshippers to be told that it was old as Cervantes, the Spaniard, in he novelette of La Gitanella, saying, 'Do not put too fine a point on your wit le6t it should be blunted." The couplet, too, which almost invariably connects itself with "Hudibras"— 6% f' "For he who fight a and runs away

May live to flgnt another day—"

people will continue to the end of time to quote as "the property ot* Butler, whereas nothing can be more certain than that he is not the author of it. When Dodsley was appealed to as the arbiter of the bet made at Boodle's of twenty to one that the lines were to be found in that poem, he dismissed the di' fficulty by saying, "Every fool knows they are in Hudibras." In response, however to George Selwyn's polite request, as "an old fool, who is at the same time your wise worship's very humble servant," to be informed of the canto f/in which they were to be found, the worthy bibliopole took down the volume, but could not find the passage, and, when his industry on the next day was similaily unproduc tive, he was obliged to confess that a man might be ignorant of the author of this well-known couplet "without being ab solutelv a fool." v"

Everyone is familiar with the phrase: "The Lord tempers the wind to the shorn' lamb." Even to those who hear it for ^he first time it has a familiar sound, like a dimly remembered strain of an old song heard years pgo. Everybody whose attention has been called to it fr the first time has said, and everybody whose attention ever Shall be called to it willl- ', probably say that it comes from the Bible. The language and sentiment seem peculiarly biblical Yet it was the facile pen of Lawrence Sterne that gave it birth, and not the Holy Ghost inspiring prophet or apos tie.

A writer in an English magazine gives an instance of misquotation whieh( considering the prominence of the blunderer, is both curious and interesting: "Once upon- a time," said Voltaire, "there was a farmer-general of taxes and with that he stopped. "Go on,' cried his hearers, "go on." "I have nothing more to say," was the reply all robbery, it was assumed, being summed up in the mention of that scandalous official Lord Broughman telling the story, gave it thus "At last the story came round to Voltaire, and he began, 'Once upon a time there lived a generalcomptroller of finance and then he stopped, and, resuming after use, said: 'Pardon me, gentlemen, I have forgotten the rest which'we take to be as atrociously clumsy treatment of the fine Voltarian satire as the ingenuity Of man is capable of devising and well might Fonblanque, with whom the story is an old favorite, desiderate a law for the prevention of cruelty to jolies.',

CHEAP FOOD.

Washington in the political capital of our country. But that is not all it is. More and more it has gathered within its limits each year a larger number of people prominent in all the walks of intellectual life. Following in their wake has assembled there man "persons of wealth. And from these last an ostenta lion for vulgar display has sprung, which has given to Washington the name and reputation of being a recklessly extravagant place. This undesirable fame was added to during the administration of Grant, when men in high official life, their wives and families, ran an unrighteous race with one another in aping the glitter of foreign courts.

It seems strange, therefore, that Washington should be the place where a radical reform in the direction of the strictest economy should originate. And yet this is so. About a year ago a Mrs. Roberts, who had been a clerk in the Interior' Der partment and was a regular contributeto the papers of that city, started at Washington what has been known since as the "penny lunch" "She conceived," says a Washington correspondent, "the idea of supplying hungry people with a lunch for a penny, and from a very smaTj beginning she lias made the lunch a success and increased its advantages until now it is a permanent institution, and one.

of the most-6ensible and practical charities in the country. Mrs. Roberts was aided in the undertaking by some friends, who aporeciated lier energy and knew he kindness other heart. She began by soliciting, personally, small contributions from thr: business m»n, a bag of flour here, a bushel of beans there, a barrel of meal of one person, a load of coal of another, a hundred loaves of bread of another, corned beef of another, tresh meat ot another, pork of another, a load of wood of another, and so on through the city. She refused nothing, but patiently kept at work, in due time she had money enough to rent for a month two small rooms in a back street. She bor rowed a 6tove, begged a few plates, bowls, cups and saucers, spoons, knives and forks and other necessary implements. She had printed a number of 6mall tickets, reading: "One Cent. Good for One Lunch. No. 1215 E street." Those tickets are popularized by selling them in packages of fifty and one hundred to ladies and gentlemen who in turn gave them to beggars and destitute persons in the streets.

Mrs. Roberts started very modestly giving her entire time to the enterprise and working with surprising zeal and patience. At first she gave a plate of soup and a piece of bread for a penny, and before she knew it she could not supply the wants of those who called. Many laboring men with large families and no work came regularly and sent their wives and children with their pennies to get a "square meal." It became the popular thing. W. W. Corcoran and many of the other rich and aristocratic people visited Mr6. Roberts and ate her soup. It was pronounced excellent, and there were many money contributions as a result. Of course the expenses of such an establishment as Mrs. Roberts could not be paid by charging only a penny for a lunch but the contributions from the peopl were so small and spread over so wide a surface that the expense was not felt by anybody. One man promised to give fitty loaves of bread a week during the winter, another promised to give two dozen soup-bones per week, another promised to give one dollar a week, and a large number of subscribers were obtained at fifty cents and wenty-five cents a week. The number of people fed by Mrs Roberts last winter I can not pretend to give, but the total is enormous. She now feeds about four hundred (people twice a day. Her quarters are necessarily cramped, and only about twenty can be accommodated at once. From a lunch in the middle of the day she has enlarged her plan and now furnishes breakfast and dinner For breakfast her bill of fare is mush and molasses, coffee and corn-bread. Occasionally, if contributions are unusually liberal, she will give boiled beans and a little pork, or some potatoes. The most rigid econoiry is practiced, and every scrap of food is made available. She pays heKcook eight dollars a month, and with the assistance o( two or three colored boys, who work for their board, she gets on pretty well. Ofcourse the board ers are not as particular as some might be under other circumstances. Each day at 8 o'clock in the morning and 3 in the afternoon, the crowd gathers in front of the building. Details of policemen keep the hungry ones in order, and a line stretches far along the street—men. women and children. I saw the crowd to-day. There were as good faces in it as you would see on Chestnut street or anywhere else. There were both men and women who were decently attired and who were evidently gentlemen and ladies. Hunger is a great leveler."

SECRETARY SCHURZ AFTER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. A beginning has been made in wha* may develop into "a very pretty fight,' between the Interior and War departments of the Government. Secretary Schurz sometime last summer ordered the closing of the Fort Sill agency and its consolidation with the Wichita agency. General Pope, in a communication to the Secretary ot War, censures the Interior department for this change, and General Sheridan indorsed the communication. stating that he was well satisfied after an experience of more than twenty years that the principal objection to troops at Indian agencies, and the removal of Indian agencies away from military posts, had for its main motive a desire to cheat and defraud the Indians, by avoiding the presence of officers, who would naturally see and report it.

All this coming to the knowledge of Secretary Schurz, has aroused that gentleman, and he is likely to demonstrate to the epauleted gentry that they have a very different person to deal with in him from what they had when Zachariah Chandler and Columbus Delano were in power under Grant. Secretary Schurz at once addressed a communication to Secretary McCrary which will furnish food for reflection not only to Sheridan but others in that branch the seirvice. We condense from his letter some pertinent points:

He says: "The removal of the Kiowas and Comanches was done by an executive order by the President, under date of Aug. 9 •Hd that the reasons which led to this action were: that the water in the vicinity of Fort Sill was bad,

and the location occupied by the Indians unhealthy. The land was of inferior quality and comparatively unproductivie, atjd the buildings were old and dilapidat ed, while the buildings at the Wichitagency were comparatively new, and the land in that section of the country was much better adapted for the purposes ot cultivation, and the water of an excellent quality. Under the provisions of sections in the revised statutes, by the consolidation of the agencies, the services of one agent and a considerable number of employes would be dispensed with. There had also been some complaint on the part ot the Kiowas and Comanches that their stock had been stoien by raiders from Texas, within one mile of Fort Sill. It was believed by the Secretary of the Interior that by removing those tribes to the Wichita agency, they would be thirtyfive miles farther from the Texas border, and Fort Sill would be between them and Texas. The Secretary then discusses the statnte laws of the United States, providing for the employment of the military forces in apprehending persons violating the intercourse laws.

It was^ with great regret that Mr. Schurz found himself compelled to take notice of the supercillious and offensive tone in which military officers not infre. quently, in their official correspondence referred to the acts of those entrusted with the conduct of the Indian service He then says "I beg leave to call your especial attention to the endorsement of Lieutenant General Sheridan, on the request ot Indian Agent Hunt (of Wichita

Agency). Of the reasons which had induced this department to determine upon the consolidation of the Kiowa and Comanche and the Wichita Agencies, the Lieute ant General was evidently ignorant. And knowing nothing of these reasons, he jumped at the conclusion that objection to troops at Indian agencies and the removal of Indian agencies away from military posts,has for its main motive a desire to cheat and defraud the Indians, by avoiding the presence of officers who would naturallv see and report it. And this in the face of the fact that Indian Agent Hunt in this instance had addressed a request to the department commander not to keep away the troops from

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agency so 'as to avoid the presence of military officers,' but to have troops stationed at the new agency, so that •the officers might make all tnspectionR, etc., thereby avoiding the weekly^ "ride from Fort Sill

Wichita Agency, as heretofore. It seems, therefore, that wten writing an indorsement containing so insulting an insinuation, Lieutenant-General Sheridan had not even taken the trouble to read the request of the Indian, agent upon which* the indorsement was made. You will oblige me by informing Lieutenant General Sheridan that the consolidation of the two agencies was ordered by the President of the United Slates upon my recommendation as Secretary of the Interior, and that my recommendation to the president was made upon consultation with the commissioner of Indian affairs, at which the good of the service and the interests of the Indians were carefully ^and conscientiously considered. "It would, furthermore, be well for the Lieutenant General to understand that the gentlemen who determined upon this measure are, in point of integrity, honor, and of duty, fully his £sense equals, and that to indulge in opprobrious reflections upon their motives is an act of impropriety so gross that it cannot pass without a corresponding rebuke among gentlemen, and especially among high officers of the Government." __

All this was forwarded to Sheridan through General Sherman, and a weak and evasive reply has been returned. But the very vigorous manner in which Secretary Schurz has opened his campaign leads to the belief that he will fight it out on that line to the very end

PETITIONING AGAINST POLYGAMY. Readers Of the GAZETTE are familiar with the fact that a few weeks ago Caroline Owen, of Salt Lake City, brought suit against John Miles, alleging in her complaint that at the time he married her he wedded two other women. For some technical flaw in the proceedings the suit was dismissed. This much was published at the time in the telegraphic columns of the GAZETTE. From the Salt Lake Tribune, of a recent date, it appears that Mrs. Miles, nee Oweu, has since made up her quarrel wjth her triple married mate and gone to living with him again. As was to have been expected this excited not a little disgust among the gentiles who rallied to her assistance during the time her suit was in progress. It is intimated by the Tribune that she was not so much enraged, in the first instance,' against her husband because the was one of three wives, for •he had been married to him at the same time and by the same ceremony with the others, but because she was not the favorite in his harem. Her agitation of the subject of polygamy was not so much aimed at the institution itself, as it was at her husfcand, whom she wished to frighted into accoidin her the first plac

in his divisable affections. Having accomplished this purpose she has once

more consented to be taken itj^o his household and placed at its head.

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ut the agitation which her suit excited beyond her control. People may feel contempt for her as an atom of humanity falling far short of the full stature of true womanhood, but they recognze the hideousness of the social organization from which, if but for a short time, she lifted the veil. Nor are they likely to Ht the matter rest until after such discussion and ventilation as shall effectually put a stop to this vile form of prostitution, lurking under the shadow and hiding among the meshes of drowsy laws. When this woman, Owen, brought her suit, the pure and decent Gentile women of Salt Lake City determined to call a mnss meeting for consideration of the question. In pursuance of this intention they met and after deliberation concluded to indite an address to "Mrs. Hayes and the Women of the United States." At the time this was done the telegraph announced the fact. From the Salt Lake .Tribune, just received, we are enabled to lay the whole address before our repders as follows: To Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes and the

Women of the United States: It is more than thirty years since poly,my was planted on the shores of the great S&lt Lake.

During these y£affe Congress has utter*" lv failed to enact efficient or enforce existing laws for the abolition of this great crime and we believe that more of these unlawful and unhallowed alliances have been consummated the past year than ever before in the history of the Mormon Church.

Endowment Houses, under the name of Temples, are being erected in different parts of the territory, costing millions. It is impossible to ascertain the exact number of polygamous marriages, for they are contracted in these Endowment Houses, an institution no Gentile is .permitted to enter, where the brotherhood and sisterhood are sealed and bound by oaths so rtrong that even apostates will not reveal them, and to maintain which witnesses on the witness stand unblushingly perjure themselves, and on the jury violate all considerations of oath and duty. Considering all our surroundings, polygamy has never taken such a degrading and debasing form in any nation or among Any people, above the conditions of savages, as in Utah. It is degrading to man and woman, a curse to children and destruction to the sacred relations of family, upon which the civilisation of nations depends and there are things that cannot be repeated or printed that reduce the system to the lowest form of indecency. That it should be practiced in the nam and under the cloak of religion that an Apostle, a polygamist with four acknowledged wives, is permitted to sit in Congress, only adds to the enormity of the crime and makes it mere revolting to our common Christian principles.

Our legislature is composed almost entirely of polygamists and members of the Mormon priesthood, and they ha've thrown around polygamy every possible legislative sate-guard in their power, and the right of dower has been abolished to break down the distinction between lawful wife and concubine.

The Mormons are rapidly extending their settlements into Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico and Wyoming they have the balance ot power in two territories, and are, without doubt, plotting for it in others.

We call upon the Christian women of the United States to join us in urging Congresr to empower its courts to arrest the further progress of this evil, and to delay the admittance of Utah into the Union until this is accomplished, and we ask you to circulate and publish our appeal in order to arouse public sentiment, which should be against an abomination that peculiarly oppresses and stigmatizes woman* It is our purpose to ask names to a petition designed for Congress, and we hope also that every minister of the Gospel will commend' it to the women of his congregation, and that all Christian associations will do what they can to obtain signatures.

With the cordial co-operation and concerted action of the Christian women of our land, we may confidently hope that the great sin of polygamy will be abolished.

At the same time this address was. promulgated they alsodopted a form of petition to Congress praying for effective legislation for the ^suppression of polygamy. A committee of their number was appointed and instructed to mail a copy of the address and petition to the press of the country and to the clergy, with the urgent request that the latter cause

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matter to be presented to

their "congregation the petitions to be circulated for signatures and when signed, forwarded to their respective Congressmen.

It is likely the mltter will be presenfep to the churches of Terre Haate by their respective pastors next Sunday. There ought to be no trouble here in securing sufficient signatures to a petition showing our Congressmen what the convictions of the people are in reference to this, monstrous iniquity.

MAXEVK my have been the individual 1 preference of the people during the late European unpleasantness, everbody will be in favor of Turkey to-morrow. Nor is this to be understood as indicating the direction of our polititical sympathy. Far from it On the contrary we merely declare we cannot ate the Russian bear on Tanks* giving day.

THE statement that the Central and Union Pacific railroads are to be consolidated proves to be unfounded. The rumor was probably started ip the interest

of some

spectators in railroad stocks.