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Addresslalliletters WH. C. BALL AC CO. GAZETTE. Terre Haute.

THURSOAY, OCTOBER 16. I879.

THE Ohio office-holders have to vote to-day and Washington is like a desert waste and wild.

A RUMOR is current again to the EFFECT fiat or tech alt off, the Russian Bismarck, is about to refeign.

IRON in England has imitated the example set it in this country, and J|i£| materially adyanced in price.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS has formally accepted the .nomination for Governor tendered him by the Massachusetts Democracy.

GERMANY and the United States have concluded an arrangement relative to post-office money orders, which will greatly tacilitate business between the two countries.

GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, editor of Harper's Weekly., has resigned his position as Chairman of the Richmond County, New Ycrk, Republican Con vention. He says he does not indorse Carroll, and will not vote for him. Hundreds, possibly thousands, will follow hi lead in this matter.

IN Chicago is being tested a machine tor scraping hogs. A porker was pta$d in the apparatus and in a very few min utes came out with only a few odd hairs on his head and legs. In fifty-seven seconds seven hogs were passed through the machine and came out scraped. It is expected that it will clean 6oo hogs ao hour.

IN a recent issue of the Rockville Tribune, we find the following editorial paragraph: "Someday, if our readers will excuse the egotism, we may give a sketch of our five months in Washington under the Grant regime, and what disgusted us with it. We hope to never see the day again when offices and official favers are bought and told like cheap goods, and that by men so near the President that a Republican can not criticise them without being accused of 'astacking Grant.'"

This is what the people would like to hear. No time so opportune for the publication as the present. Let us have the sketch.. S

WHIN Patrick Shannon, who "claims to be a Democrat from principle," and who is a Democrat from principal and interest, next addresses his Democratic fellow-citizens in a card, we trust he Wil answer these questions:

Did or did he not work against and try to defeat James M. Sankey, the regu_ lar Democratic nominee for County Treasurer in

1870?

Was or was not his

reason for so doing solely that Mr. Sankey had beaten him for the nomination? Did or did he not try to defeat the Democratic legislative candidates last Fall with a view to defeating Mr. Voorhees for Senator^

Did or did he not oppose portions of the regular Democratic city ticket at ^he election last spring?

When we ask these questions we include the Ledger and S. D. Terry, the reader of ether people's letters, both of which things Shannon controls absolutely.

When he answers these questions, we have W*oe harder oaee.

THI partial change in the partnership of *.he ispress, announced in the GAZE rT« of yesterday, is stated this morn* ing in the Express itself. Mr. James H. McNeely, formerly of Evansville, has bought an interest in and assumes the active management of the paper. He is spoken of by his friends as a gentleman and a writer of ability. It i» understood that he will take charge a columns, assisted, we presume, by Col1 Hudson. It is also understood that there will be no changes in the business or the local depaitments, which have been conducted with ability and success since the paper first changed hands. r. Youndt, the business manager, is an old newspaper man, at once an ornament and a credit to the profession in which he is engaged: Though not long a resident of Terre Haute, he

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has made many warm friends, and is thoroughly respected by all who know him or hate had business with him.

As to Charley Anderson, well Terre Haute journalism-would be lost without him, and we are glad to believe he is a permanent fixture here.

The GAZETTE congratulates its neighbar on a final rest from its changes and perplexities, and hopes a prosperous course is open to it for' all the future.

A STORY comes from. Colorado relat. ing how Governor McCook, one of the family of the fighting McCooks, managed to outwit an Indian chief, which is worth repeating, as follows

Gov. McCook is'.the man who caused Colorow's deposition as a chief. During his administration Colorow and a band of Utes came to this city and camped on the outskirt. One day the (Chief sent word that he wanted anew tent. McCook dispatched an agent to see in what condition Colorow's tent was, and the report was that he did not need anew tent, and McCook, accordingly, refused him. In the afternoon, while the Governor was in his office, Colorow came in, half drunk with a revolver in his hand, and came over where McCook was writing, and sat down. The Governor took in the situation at a glance, but did not look up.

McCook, liar!",said Colorow. The Governor went on writing. "McCook, dam liar!" repeated the chief.

Still McCook. continued with his work. "McCook, G—d—-m liar!" said Color* ow, reaching a climax.

Neverthefssc, McCook would n6t look at kim. By this time Colorow had concluded that there was no fight in the Governor, and allowed the hand containing the revolver to drop to his side. The move was a fatal one. In an instant McCook seized his wrist, knocked the weapon away from him, and catching the astonished Indian by the neck, kicked him down stairs and out into the street where there were a number of Utes standing about. With great tact McCook pointed to the prostrate and humiliated form of Colorow, and turning to the Utes, 6aid: "No man to lead braves. Colorow an old woman. Get a man for a chief." Then turning on his heel he walked up stain. The next day the, mortified Utes deposed Colorow.

ROSCOE CoifKLING spoke in Brook lyn, New York, last week. Various criticisms have been made on his effort by the leading journals of that section. Among the criticisms made on the pompous and grandiloquent manner of the hero of Narragansett Pier, none cover the ground so well a6 the one we find in the editorial columns of the New York Evening Ptst, a Republican pa per. It ''says of the effort of Senator Conkling that "they who stay at heme and who read Mr, Conkling's speech will probably think better of it than they who heard it. The senator is not an impressive speaker There is, indeed, about him an appear anee of impressiveness very likely to de. ceive for a few moments but the illusion is soon lo6t, and the result is monot. ny and fatigue. Effect is so carefully calculated, so 6teadily aimed at, that is missed amid the machinery which is used to produce it. The orator, no les8 than the actor, if he would move 'men, must now and then forget himself in his subject or at least seem to do so. Mr. Conkling never forgets or seems to forget himself. He is not off exhibition for an instant. He constantly reminds his auditors that he is on exhibition, and let6 them know that he knows the fact. He delivers himself in the, large, orotund, pompous way, which is as much out of fashion as the Kemble school of acting—0 far as we of this generation know anything of that school. The same allowance of elocution is meted to all parts of the speech, which therefore moves along a dead level, although the. level is artificially forced to a sort of a high table-land. The commonplaces of an address, the asides, the subordinate parts are given out with the measured magnificence and delibera-, tion which may properly belong to important utterances and eloquent climaxes. If Mr. Conkling were an actor he would deliver a footman's "My lord, the carriage waits" with the same pose, the same precision, the same volume which he would giye to Lear's curse or Othello's address to the Senate. His method is the reverse of popular. It is opposed to the naturalness and the simplicity which the taste of the time demands in all kinds of an. We miss the relief, the nice proportion, the real repose which is the last charm of oratory."

A CURIOUS complication in reference to marriage laws has been developed in England. Anew and formidable embarrassment has been added to the previously existing difficulties in the way of launching a craft on the matrimonial sea. It appears from an exchange that "the British Parliament recently passed a law (the New marriage Notice act) to simplify and render less expensive the preliminaries to matrimony. Instead of haying banns published, all that the bridegroom expectant has to do is to post upon the registrar's house his name and address and those of his inamorata with a declaration of their intention to enter the holy estate of matrimony, snch notice to be displayed for seven consecutive days. At the expiration of that period the registrar gives him a certificate, which is the clergyman's warrant to proceed with the cer-

emony. Some jealous or waggish person has torn down the notices exposed at the registrar's house in one district, and as the registrar cannot certify that the notices were displayed for. seven consecutive days, all the weddings have been put off and the interrupted process has to be begun agat^» de novo, with the further complication c\a quarrel between the registrar and the bridegrooms as to whose duty it is to protect the notes from defacement On thif face Of it we should say that it was the bridegroom's place to see to the safety of' the important placard. If our view is correct, the intending husband will have to cimp for a week at the foot of the tiotice board, with a bludgeon and a' bull-dog to prevent rivals and practical jokers from adjourning his nuptials from week to week through all the secular, and there is a strong probability that'he- will have to 6uffcr the consequences it a thunder-storm or hurricane shall tear away hi6 proclamation. A nother illustration of the unexpected, though apparently easily to be foreseen difficulties which will present themselves to prevent the carrying out of the most beneficent and benevolently inte ded laws!"

NOT long ago the New York Gham. ber of Commerce appointed a special committee to investigate the subject of railroad transportation. Letters of in quiry were addressed by them to the presidents of several of tht- trunk lines of road. In response to their request Thomas A. Scott, President of the Penn.' sylvania, wrote a letter which, besides giving some infotmation or. the present status of the question, makes some valuable suggestions. After an introduction, he says:

GENTLEMEN: 1 beg to acknowledge the receipt of your favor ot September 18th asking an expression of my views upon the question of the regulation of in terstate commerce by Congress and in closing a copy of your letter to the Pres idents ot the New York Central and New York, Lake Erie and Western railways, in which you suggest that a bill having that end in view should be prepared by the executives of the' trunk lines, gather from your letter that what is desired to be accomplished is to prevent unjust discrimination between shippers and secure to them reasonable, equitable and permanent rates of transportation. The subject to which your communication refers Was discussed very briefly to wards the close of the last session ot Congress, but the tenor of the'discussion made it quite clear that no thorough in vestigation had been made into the matter, and that tne bill then pending was not one which in the language of your letter, "white protecting the public would be just to the railroads." It was then suggested in the senate that a commission of experts should be appointed by the government for the purpose of examining fully and carefully into this question, ascertaining all its bearing, collecting the data essential to its proper consideration and fram ing a bill for presentation to congress bince that time the trunk lines, with the view of preventing the differences that in the past have been detrimental alike to the railroads and the public, and of doing equal justice to all shippers, hate selected a Board of Arbitration whose experience and ability they betiev1 to be «uch as justly to entitle them to the confidence of the public.

I do not believe that the merits of the matter could be better ascertained, or conflicting views better harmonized, thsn by a joint consultation between that board and a Government commission appointed as hereinbefore suggested. This joint board could confer with the officers of railways and other transportation companies, with the different commercial organizations, and with the representatives of the fanning and other intere6t6 involved in the question, with the view of taking such action as would be fair and equitable to all parties. While making this suggestion, I beg to say however that I shall be glad in the meantime and as soon as may be consistent with my other engagements, to confer with the presidents ot the other trunk linetyas suggested in your letter, and see what can be done toward tite result desired, and which I.hope may be satisfactorilv attained.

I beg to say in conclusion, however, that in order to protect the interests of your own and other leading commercial cities, it seems to me that it would be essential, that any legislation had in congress, to be effective, should have the concurrent action of the legislatures of the several States which have created the various railway companies and conferred upon them their corporate powers.

SBH-5E5—5555 MURPHY.

THK EFFECT PRODUCED BY BIS VICTORY AT HA VERSTRAW—ABUNDANT PROOF THAT THIS YEAR'S

CROP OF FOOLS IS EXCRSSIVE* from tbe New York Herald.

Harverstraw, daring the Dast week, has been as a town bewitched. The quiet burghers of Catskill were not more astonished when old Rip Van Winkle came down from the hills, after his long sleep, than were the brick-making citizens of the native town of Nick Murphy when it became apparent that he would win the O'Leary belt General demoralizotion resulted from,this unloocked-fbr honor school boys played "hookey' and village tavern loungers for the nonce forgot that great topic. "The fraud of 1876." All this happened as a consequence of Nick Murphy's success. Not alone were the lower orders ot Harverstraw society—Harverstraw is big enough to have two or three orders of society, none of them very orderly, however— moved byJMurphy's success. The great editorial war, so fiercely waged of late between the Messenger and the Herald, lostfall its interests for the reading public, and professional by speaking the {times were blue. Intellectually active was at a discount, local lingo was all of legs and laps. An editorial track was chalked

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in order that Webssterian "language" on the one side, and Juntas-like logic on the other might not be wasted on a crazed and inattentive popalace. The brief bill ourly telegram posted on the village tavern absorbed the whole attention of the town, and time hung heavy between the bulletins. Runners from all parts of the town waited anxiously for the pasting of the telegrams, in. order that they might copy them off and reproduce them on varioas signboards posted in ell parts the village. The old woman who sells "twang, as taffy is called in Haverstraw, had a bulletin in front of her store in order to lure to the vicinity of her sticky shop unsuspecting youngsters with pennies to spend. The drug "shop" also had a bulletin, so had the millinery store, the hardware man, the greengrocer and the undertaker. Crowds of young urchins, emulous of Murphy, paced up and down the streets, and besiness men on every hand pronounced elequetit tribute to tne powers of little Nick. Men who had Men to the Madison Square Garden and returned two days ago had not vesterday afternoon finished telling all tney had seen and heard. The yarns of a returned village who had spent years roughing it in the West, could not equal in improbable brilliancy the narratives of some of the returned sightseers in Gotham. With ten repetitions per minute of "Nick says to me, sez he!" the narrators continued to talk during the live-long day. If one fiftieth part of what Nick was credited with saying were

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enuine he must have spent as many in talking as he did in walking. The impression one received listening to the talk around the taverns was that Murphv could, a* a talker, beat the world

And the gir's of Haverstraw, what do they think of the little brickmaker? Nick Murphy as a carpusher was, of course, below the recognition of the fair creatures of the upper ten, but having been to "York," and having been flattered by the "lumtum" ladies of the metropolis he is npw a dangerous riyal to beaux of more wit and less leg. From this day forth Nick will be a darling and as with all his pedestrian prowess he has grace of form, comeliness of feature and a certain Irish eloquence there is no telling what the next six months will' develop in thrilling matrimonial gossip. As in old Greece, when Home laureled athletic champion returned to his quiet home from the Olympian games, Murpy will be honored among his people. By the way, speaking of Clympian games this go-as-you-please game beats'the ancient a clean twenty-four hours. Five days marked the duration of the Grecian festival, but it takes six days to walk off with a belt and gate money in these progressive times. How the people of Haverstraw will honor their hero not yet appeais. Whether he will be invited to'an indigestible dinner or made miserable by the waitings of a local cornet band no one yet knows, but it is teared that the advocates of each method may come to a compromise and combine their terrors. It is more than probable that Murphy will be taken home on Tuesday or Wednesday by the Wayne Athletic club, an organization to which the boy owes much of his fame.

LAST right the carpenters employed at Seath & Hager's car shops, met at hall ot the Universal Brotherhood to discuss the subject of a demand for an advance of twentv per cent in their pay. A number of speeches were made, but no decision was reached.

A second meeting will be held to-night and the matter settled. This morning five of the leaders in the proposed strike were discharged. There are about one hundred and seventy carpenters employed by the car company. The company maintains that, while the prices they receive for the cars are about the same as formerly, the price of iron has gone up from sixteen, to twenty-one dollars a ton. The men have their side, of course, and will meet and discuss the subject. yuz

NEXT Tuesday is the date of Miss Flora Sage's concert.

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