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PUBUSHICD BT TH3
EV1XST1LLE JOIRSAL COMPANY,
THURSDAY. JULT 14, IS70.
It was rumored, Tuesday, that the
demand of the people that the loca
tion of the "Water Works be changed
f'om Lamasco to some point above
t i e Eewer3, was becomiog irresistible,
iicd negotiations were pending, if not
actually consummated, for the pur
chase of some lots up town. Inas
D" .ich, however, as the contemplated
cbmge involved the necessity of a
consultation with Mr. Weir, the con
tractor, Mr. Van Riper started on the
mcrning train to interview that gen
tleman. We presume it will not take
that distinguished engineer long to
tell Mr. Van Riper the difference in
the cost of the drift pipe and laying
the same above town, and in the place
designated in the contract eleven
hundred and fifty feet from the inter
section of Leet and First Streets.
The difference will not be more than
twenty-five or thirty thousand dol
larsa mere bagatelle, in the esti
mation of great financiers.
Strategy Profound.
The Water Works Committee are
givicg out through their friends that
the sections of the Weir-Van
Riper contract, indicating that the
Water Works were to be located be
low the seweis, are merely strategical
put in to enable the Committee to
secure good bargains up town. The
strategy was most too profound to
meet the approbation of the people.
With common sense obtuseness, that
must be painful to the astute Com
mittee, the people persist in asserting
that the Committee ought first to have
secured a good location above the
sewers, and then made the contract
This could have been done easily
with proper management. As the
case now stands, all the owners of
property have been notified of a rare
chance for bargains, and one or two
important sales have already been re
corded, baaed, no doubt, on the Cour
iers declaration that the Works are
to go up town.
Similar strategy is being developed
in the Bala of the bonds. The Com
mittee first give the financial world
notice that the city of Evansville
mast raise two hundred and thirty-Jive
thousand dollars in cash, from the sale
of bonds, by the first of February
next, and then gravely issue the
bonds and asks capitalists to pitch in.
This strategy, like that with reference
to the location of the Works, is so
profound that the people fail to com
prehend its wisdom. On the latter
point, however, they havo the word
of the Chairman of the Water Works
and Finance Committees that the
tocds Bhall not be sold for seventy
i cents or eighty seven and a half
cents, meaning thereby, no doubt,
tlat they must bring ninety or fifteen
jer cent, more than the same Com
mittee obtained for the wharf bonds.
II the Chairman makes his promise
gcod, we shall be the better able to
comprehend the strategy of his ope
rations. The Weir-Tan Riper Contract.
This celebrated isstrument in
volving the city in an expense of
over three hundred thousand dol
lars, was conceived in secret,
and, as Mr. Richardt tersely re
marked, under "suspicious" circum
stances." No opportunity was offered
the people or their representatives in
the Council to scrutinize it, as such
contracts ought to be examined. It
was written by the man who expect
ed to obtain the benefit of its provis
ions, and it was forced through the
Council on the same evening it was
presented, another most improper if
not equally "suspicious" circum
stance. No other resource was lefc
the people but to examine the docu
ment, and comment thereon, after it
had been "signed, sealed and deliver
ed". This the Journal has done
fearlessly and candidly. It is a re
markable fact, that the tax-payers
can not have failed to
observe, that the Water Works Com
mittee have met none cf our objections
to the contract with good argument.
Loose and garrulous not to say
bibulous declamation against the
men who have signified a willingness
jo construct the Water Works for
from twenty to forty thousand dollars
less money than the contract obligates
the city to pay Mr. Weir, is all the
defense the Committee has to offer.
We are not surprised at this. The
conduct of the Committee in awarding
the contract without publicly solicit
ing bids, or competition, is utterly in
defensible, and no one is better aware
of this fact than the Committee them
selves. Yet the Courier impudently
asks "Whether the Water Works
Committee have done aught of which
they should be ashamed."
We published the full record of the
Committee's operations, the other day,
and to that record we continue to call
the attention of the tax-payers. We
challenge the Committee, or any of
its friends, to find a similar record of
ring manipulation, involving a public
improvement of equal magnitude, in
the history of any city in the country.
The Evansville Water Dog is an ani
al without a peer.
Tub very loose and unbuainess like
manner in which our Democratic
County Commissioners have conduct
ed advertising and letting of contracts
for bridge-building attracts much at
tention. To advertise for bids on
such works, without plans and
specifications, is a piece of folly to
put it mildly that is far from credita
ble to those officers. It deprives tho
county of fair competition, which i3
grossly utjust ; and it affords an oppor
tunity to bring accusations against the
CiVt-fui.-:1-icno rx wMc'i f ! r ijtlerr.cn
shvil-J la?e avoided. We propose ij
look Into tli3 matter fully, and if tbCf S
is aDy party jobbery in it, the people
shall bo duly notified thereof. Io the
meantime we advise the Commission
era to conduct public business with at
least an approach to such fairness a3
would be required of them in private
business trausactiocs Tirre
Express.
Haute l
Pshaw 1 your Democratic Commis
sioners are behind the age. Our City
Council can learn them several things.
Down this way, we let the contractor
make out the p!an3 and specification?,
and give him the contract at his own
price, without the annoyance of com
petition. More than that, we pay
him ninety per cent, of the work
done every two weeks, on his own es
timates. If that is not an improve
ment on the V?gi Commissioners, we
cin't tell an improvement when we
see it.
A WRSTfRX
GLANCE
SCENES.
AT EASTERN
Scutari and a Turkish Cemetery
Aya Sophia, and other Hosts
Stamboul, Hippodrome Square and
Adjuncts The Museum or the Jan
izaries Russians and Turks Com
paredfarewell to Constantinople
Entrance Into the Dardanelles
or Hellespont.
is diana Statk University,
Blcomisgton, Ind., J ace 14, 1570.)
Editors Journal :
Returning from the Crimea to Con
stantinople, we crossed the Bcsphorus
to the Asiatio side, in order to visit
SCUTARI AKD A LARGE TURKISH CEM
ETERY. Ascending the heights of Scutari,
which are, perhaps, five hundred feet
above the Black Sea, we had a mag
nificent panoramic view. On the
north the hazy Euxine seems stretch
ing illimitably to mingle its dark
waters with the cloudless azure of the
vaulted sky; while oar western gaze
is greeted by the glories of the Bos
phorus and Qolden Horn, including
a city and suburbs containing three
quarters of a million inhabitants, en
closed by high walls, fortified by two
hundred and fifty towers, and pierced
with twenty-eight gates. As we turn
toward the south, tall Moslem mina
rets seem to vie with the originally
Christian dome of St. Sophia in
sending up reverential worship to the
Heavenly Throne; incense which
even the most devoutly Evangeli
cal Frank must deem immeasure
ably in advance of the polytheism
which flourished formerly on the
Asiatic shore. Tho spectator has but
to move his eye from Europe to Asia,
across the sea of Marmora, in order
to discern even from these Scutari
heights, in the dim distance, the
peaks of the mountains amid whose
Olympion clouds, heathen mythology
assembled in council Jupiter and
other gods to deliberate and decide
on the fate of men and nations.
As we descend, we wander through
one of those large Turkish cemeteries,
of which so many surround the city
of Constantino. Tho Americans have
separate places of burial, and they, as
well as the Jews, usually have hori
zontal slabs to mark the resting place
of their friends, whereas the Turks in
variably erect a vertical column, shaft
or slab, surmounted by a turban to
denote a man's sepulchre, while for a
woman the summit is carved into a
wedge-shaped terminatiou. Tho cem
eteries are usually kept in good order,
and every grave, even the most obscure,
seemed marked by these vertical
stones ; numerous stone cutters reside
ing always close to the graveyards.
Their practices of having interspersed
throughout vast numbers cf the cy
press tree, the Cypressus Thyoides,
sometimes called white cedar, not the
Taxodium Distichum, which last is the
cypress of our Southern States, im
parts a deep shade, and greatly adds
to the mournful aspect of their very
extensive cemeteries. Not far from
here the English have buried many of
those who perished during the Cri
mean war, hospitals being erected
near Constantinople, and ha ve ereoted
a fioe obelisk to the memory of their
departed heroes.
But let us return to the more gay
Stamboul and examine
ST. SOPHIA AND OTHER MOSKS.
This magnificent Cathedral was
erected by Constantino, for Christian
worship, at a very early date, A. D.
325, but afterwards it was destroyed by
fire, then again rebuilt more megnifi
cently than before, by J ustinian, who,
after making distant regions contrib
ute the finest marbles to its structure,
and expending immense sums in its
erection and decoration, had it con
secrated A. D. 532.
When Constantinople was taken in
1453, by the Turks, the conqueror,
Mohammed the Second, entered the
Church of St. Sophia, according to
some authorities, where many un
armed Christians had taken refuge,
and slaughtered them until a pyramid
of dead was raised in the centre, up
which he climbed: and the Turks,
somewhat exultingly, show to" this
day a pillar on which the bloody
stains are said to be from the Sultan's
hand, and another column having a
gash, claiming to have been produced
by a cut from his unrivaled scimetar.
Others consider this apocryphal and
say they were onlv made prisoners by
the Janizaries. Then the Church of
St. Sophia, was transformed into the
Mahommedan Aya Sophia, having
still on the interior vault of its mag
nificent dome a splendid gilt sun and
representation of the dove-like Holy
Ghost.
It has two series of stone-benched
galleries and numerous highly orna
mental columns, some of verd-an-tique
marble, alto much rich Mosaic
work on parts of the ceiling. One
pillar has a hole in it, rendered
smooth by the frequent application of
the finger to it, as a cure for inflamed
eyes. A regular sermon was being
preached to a small congregation in
side, while we were there, lasting over
three quarters ol an hour, and in the
outer court a reputed living saint was
manipulating the sick who applied to
him.
t The Mosk of Achmet has six
minarets; large broDze doors, from
Bjzantine times, taken from an old
Oreck temple; four colossal fluted
columns, not monoliths, however, but
hollow inside, so that pipes conveying
water are led und&rground to them,
end send it flowing into large basins',
for the purposes of religious ablution.
This is, in some respects, the finest of
Constantinople's hundred and fifty
Mosks. . - .
We next visited the Mosk and
Tomb of Solyman the Magnifi
cent, also a very hoe structure,
with cplendid stained windows
cent from Alexandria in Egypt.
O.-.f l-.jr Vvir. cn!ap. on a t;ir-j-c-fi
? ?.oot, the jiUn's large
tomb, or rathor massive coffin, shaped
like a small house; and near by arc
those of his wives and some children.
Twelve enormous candles and candle
Bticks stand around, and the richly
ornamented tombs or coffins, glitter
ice with silver flowers on the black
velvet covering, are surmounted by
turban and shawl tor the bultan, and
paariy ornaments ior iue wives, u"
sides precious relics, from Mecca,
there is a fine model of a pilgrim
band journeying to that city. Else
where wo saw, of similar character,
the tomb of Mahmond Second, who
had the Janizaries murdered in 1826;
and we also descended to the vast.
r ai r T
vaulted, so called. Cistern of Philox
enes of Byzantine times, with its
treble tier of columns (only the upper
ones, however, now visible) number
ing in all six hundred and seventy
two. The arches are built with flat
tile brick, and are reported to extend
to the vaulted substructure ot et.
Sophia. They were using this under
ground structure for the manufacture
of long cords or gotd and Dine, em
ployed in decorating military uni
forms. THE HIPPODROME, ALMEIDIAN OBE
LISK AND BURNT COLUMN".
The laree Hippodrome, laid out by
Severius, is 750 feet long and 450 feet
broad. It is southwest Irom Aya bo-
Ehia, and the mosk of Achmet is
uilt partly within it. Uotil 1204,
the bronze horses, now in St. Mark's
Palace, Venice, ornamented this Hip
podrome; but since then the mono
lith Obelisk of Egyptian granite, 50
feet in hight, and covered with hiero
glyphics, is the chief attraction. The
Burnt Column stands in Adrianople
Street, and is composed of several
pieces of porphyry, with inscriptions
partly obliterated by fire, but yet in
dicative of its Roman character and
great antiquity. Not far from Aya
Sophia is, perhaps, the fioest of the
numerous fountains which grace the
city. It is cf marble, highly carved
and polished, and in many parts gor
geously ornamented with gut designs.
THE MUSEUM,
in whioh are preserved all the relics
of the Janizaries, as well as countless
wax and wooden figures, exhibiting
the various costumes and arms of
earlier periods, is well worthy cf a
visit. Besides curious chain armor.
and repeating cuns. which they claim
furnished tho idea of Colt's revolvers,
they exhibit weapons or every descnp
tion, as well as musical instruments
and costumes. Here are large kettle
drums to be carried on camels, and
figures of quiet looking musicians
there a field piece with forty barrels,
pistols, guns, lances, swords and
hatchets of every size, shape and
pattern. Here, again, the figure of the
chief of the Janizaries, and of a Cap
tain who receives small coin, while
the cooking is going on, I suppose
from those who expect to eat; there
postillions, pugilists, and attendants
on! the Seraglio. The only female
figures represent slaves, and at the
termination of the long gallery is the
modern soldier, in red fez and blouse
and blue pants, with a good nf.ed
musket, who has replaced the fur-
baned Janizary with clumsy match
lock or flintlock. While I was taking
notes, the guide came up and looked
over my shoulder, informing me,
throutrh the Dragoman, that no one
was allowed to make sketches of any
items; but hading 1 had only written
notes, he allowed me to proceed
THE RUSSIANS AND TURKS.
When contrasting these nationali
ties it is rather the lower than the
upper classes of each whose peculiar
ities are adverted to, there being al
ways, between the inhabitants of ru
ral districts in separate countries,
much greater difference than is foun
amonir citizens of their respective
cities. In both nations there is yet a
good deal or ignorance and supersti
tion, in both external forms e appa
rently a great way in the discbarge of
religious duty, lhe Kussian peasant.
with many crossings and genuflexions.
occasionally places the iorencad on
the ground, and depends much on ex
pending money for the purchase cf
candles to be burned on the altar, or-
ten praying for the intervention of
the Virgin Mary, or of some favorite
saint, although he believes in Christ.
The Mahometan Turk prostrates him
self, after ablution, in apparently fer
vent and impressive humility .constant
ly kneeling and often bowed to the
dust; but he prays chiefly through
his worshipped Prophet.
The Russian may drink as much as
he pleases, but he must only have
one wue, yet ne may treat ner very
roughly and sometimes does so. The
Turk is forbidden to taste wine, but
polygamy is permitted. Yet, as far as
wc could learn, tho Turkish immoral
ity, outside of the law, is less than
among the others.
As regards cleanliness, there docs
not seem much to choose between
them, both appearing deficient; and in
education both are yet far behind the
other civilized nations, although con
siderable steps have been made re
cently in the way of progress. In
front of the hotel windows from
which these remarks were written,
October - 6th, 1869, th;re is a fine
lar ge college, from which numerous
students, all in red fez, issue at regular
hours to the tap of the drum, and
nv rch to their various classes, and the
building betokens good educational
facilities.
It would be presumptuous to con
tend that the necessarily short visit
to Russia and Turkey could furnish
sufficient material for a matured judg
ment on all points of comparison,
therefore the remarks made should
rather be received in the light of first
impressions.
The manners of both are quiet and
undemonstrative, but of the two, I
think the Turk has more natural or
acquired suavity. Notwithstanding
the abolition of serfdom in Russia,
there is great deference to authority,
especially when emanating from a
uniformed official. This cannot be
surpassed by the Turk, even when he
bows with head to the horizon and
face to the earth.
Both arc fond of embroidery and
gay colors, the Russian naturally
using more furs and woolen goods,
the Turk more silk.
Coffee is drunk in Turkey, while
the Russians consume laTge quanti
ties of tea, the ladies frequently
placing the loaf sugar lump in the
mouth, while the tea is slowly passed
over it, and thus economically sweet
ened. They contend it is because the
6ugar is so bard to dissolve, that they
have adopted this practice. Most of
the bread of both nations is excel
lent, although they make also a dark,
clammy bread, which sells at low
prices.
The Russians use their open car
riages much, such as the drosihkig
and britschki, while the Turks favor
a close carriage, more like a post
chaise, and also the sedan chair.
Both nations have frequently clum
sey wooden wheeled wagons. The
Russians seem rather in advance in
plows. Both use camels and buffa
loes occasionally, and donkeys fre-
i quently. At all events the Russians
j in the Crimea do so, an! tho Turks
near Constantinople. Both have
'f-iri ', vn;h r.ersrs, c
qjah'y.
The Russians are taller than the
Turks, but cannot exceed them in
muscle or in the burdens carried.
Both, however, seem inclined to be
slow and somewhat indolent, unless
called upon to exert themselves. Im
mense weights are sometimes carried
by the Turks on ropes suspended on
one, two, or three poles, twelve or
fourteen feet loDg, resting on the
shoulders of two, four or six men.
The mechanical arts are carried on in
primitive style by both. A Turkish
carpenter sits on his plank and shoves
his plane before him by means of both
hands plaoed on a cross-stick that
moves throueh the body of the plane,
and the ripping is done with the teeth
ot the saw trom the workman, cutting
py tne up strode instead ot the down,
the saw held in both bands.
FAREWELL TO CONSTANTINOPLE.
Regretting to leave so soon, we em
ployed ur remaining time in visiting
the Seven Towers, in walking around
the Seraglio, where the long-necked
Girafle, stretching its neck over the en
closure, licked my hand, and in riding
to the top of the basaltic heights,
back of Scutari, already mentioned,
from which we had a yet more mag
nificent view than from the 260 feet
high Tower of Galata, where they
watch the city and give the alarm for
fire. The Sea of Marmora, on the
south wa3, as before, graced in the
back grounds by the mountains of
Asia Minor, while at our feet lay the
beauties of the Golden Horn, and
Europe's Bosphorus, the countless
mosks and minarets, the forest of
masts, six steamers putting off in two
minutes from one bridge, every inter
mediate ppace dotted with the grace
ful kaiks, as their 6harp prows glide
through the rippling waters, guided
by the brawny arm and oar of a tur
baned Turk, jaunty Greek or sober
Armenian.
The Seven Towers are truly a monu
ment to the powers of the Genoese,
in constructing massive masonry.
The fortifications extend many miles,
and although the main towers and
strength are seen facing the Sea of
Marmora, yet on the land 6ide towers
united by very thick walls are found
at about every fifty yards, interrupted
only by massive gates, the outskirts
irrigated to productiveness, and fur
nishing ample crops of unions, celery,
figs, poBKgranates and egg plants.
We hurry from these scenes to the
church where the miraculous fishers
are kept by the Mohammedans (whose
color changed when the Moslem en
tered Turkey) drink of the holy, or
at least clear water, in which they
swim, and hasten past an innumer
able amount of boxes containing En
field rifles on their way to the jenel,
to take a last look at the "Sublime
Porte," the gate whose name desig
nates the Sultan's Court (as St. J ames'
Palace gives appelation to the British
Court), and make some last purchases
at the wondrous Bazaar. Thence we
pass along the streets of Stamboul,
and over the bridge ot boats to Galata,
casting our last long, lingerie looks
upon scenes of interest we scarcely
hope to see again: Here, a huge
sword fish cut up for market, a fat
sheep or slaughtered ox passing on
the pack saddle of a horse; there
bread strung on sticks, Turkish cheese
in hog skins, a baker drawing his
loaves from an oven six feet from the
street and selling the bread in the re
maining space. Here, a blacksmith
within three feet of the sidewalk,
hammering or filing, while seated
cross-legged about the height of the
street passers' breast. There, every
variety of wares displayed in three feet
spaces of depth at the same height
convenient for observation. Oa one
side a money changer gives you a
pocket-destroying, donkey load of
coppers for a Napoleon; on the other
a sugar baker's apprentice is beating
up a most indescribable compound,
somewhat of a hybrid between mo
lasses candy and gum drops, which
his master retails to you for a para
each cubic inch. In the middle of
the street, three dogs, a flock of tur
keys, a tripod with coffee, a basket of
grapes, are prollered you, and the pur
chase interrupted by a Turkish or
American porter carrying huge bars
or iron, six donkeys with paving
rock, lour ditto with leather casks
of water, and half a dozen ponies
with piles of six foot long wool strap
ped on each side, only kept from
punching out our eyes by the fearful
cries of their drivers O! P! or some
thing very similar.
To the Greek lady in her projecting
second story window, we must say,
in imagination, adieu; to the Turkish
brow and chin vails, yellow boots and
painted slippers, shuffling along the
streets, we mu9t bid farewell; to the
dragoman of fourteen tongues, badly
spoken and sadly mixed, we must pay
our last piastres, saving a few for the
skillful kaikman, who propels us to
the good 6teamer Volga, of the "Mes
sageries Imperiales" line, bound for
Athens; and as she weighs her pon
derous anchor and awaits the last
despatches, we bend in mournful suc
cessive salaam to Scutari's heights, to
Galata'? Towers, to Stamboul'a splen
did mosks, to the fading glories of
the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn,
8S Marmora's Sea opens to our view
and beckons us to the Hellespont
and Greece.
THE DARDANELLES OR HELLESPONT.
Graceless and thankless mortals
that we are; blessed with the finest
weather on land, so that no day of
sight seeing was interrupted, we can
scarcely brook, without a murmur,
the drizzly, misty atmosphere, which
partially obscures our view as we steam
between the narrow Hellespont,
straining our eyeballs to recognize
Leander's and Byron's swimming
mile, to identify the coast of Trojan
fame, the distant mountain of Olym
pian Jove. Too dim, too distant, alas!
yet how enchanting to note, even
through the haze the supposed place of
Scamander's dark mouth, and dream
of the heroes who fought, of Uly sses
who wandered, of Penelope at home
inlthica; and thank civilization for
unromantic steam.
'a he straits are passed, and Tensdos
bursts on our view, with wind mills,
vitlages and vinyards dotting the dis
tant landscapes. The Moslem still
commands; the crescent banner
waves in oriental, and perhaps not
rigidly oppressive, triumph over the
Grecian Archipelago; but in the dim
distance looms, if not in actual out
line, yet in fancy's fata morgana,
which may prove more than a mental
mirage, Crete gloriously vindicated;
the Isles of Greece emancipated from
Turkish thrall ; Thermopylean Greece
a free and self-sustaining Republic;
the nations of the world just to each
other and themselves.
TURKISH SEAFARISG.
The Tu-.ks are forbidden to become
money changers; hence that business
is chiefly in the hands of the Jews;
the porters and boatmen are many of
them Armenians and Greeks; the
shipping trade is much in the bands
of Frraks, euch as the French, Aus
trians and to 6omc extent the Eng
lish. But the present enlightened
and enterprising Sultan, Abdul Az:g.
resides procuring large quantities ot
Enfield rifles and otnt-r arms for tho
i . u - n. -. t c ' - - t A ! i r J f - - - -. ' m
dctcruiice-i to iu;; ruve bid usry, a ad
begins ly securing the acquisition of j
fine merchant vessels. j
In the steamer, which brought us 1
to Athens, an English Captain was .
returning to his home, having taken i
out a fine vessel, "the Stamboul," i
. .... , r m i t
Duut to oraer ior xurKey, and a sec
ond, called "Galata" is to bo deliver
ed soon. Although ostensibly run
by a company in the Southern Black
Sea trade, it was understood that the
Sultan promoted the adventure; he
was also on board of her during her
trial trip in the Sea of Marmora.
The English Captain manned her
with 33 officers and 6ailors, besides
himself; the Turks retained one or
two subordinate officers, chief engin
eer, an Englishman, and then requir
ed seventy men aa sailors; because if
it blows a little, or they want to
smoke, most of them go below and
let things tafce care oi themselves.
This English Captain said to us that
every English seaman in his employ
ment is returned to his native land;
such being their maritime law, the
Captain therefore engaged and paid
their passage and pays their wages
until they land in England. Their
fare to Toulon averaged about 125
each.
The immense wealth of the Sultan
(his income on account of his Egypt
ian and other dependencies, being, it
is said, greater than that of any Eu
ropean sovereign), enables him to
originate-and pay for gigantio under
takings; but the want ot energy and
enterprise in his oriental subjects, will
be a great impediment to success in
their completion.
Before closing my remarks regard
ing lurkey, 1 ought not to omit the
mention of the kind attention re
ceived from ths Consul General, to
whose experience in Turkey a few
lines of introduction from our distin
guished Speaker of the House had
politely consigned us.
My next letter will bo chiefly on
Aniens, very sincerely yours,
Richard Owen.
P. S. Since rewriting most of the
above, telegrams bring us news of the
destruction by fire of nearly one-half
or .rora and uaiata, with great loss of
lite, and immense destruction of prop
erty, the Turks be'mg badly prepared
io exunguisn ores. t. O.
axiocE.iX;s.
CHARLES VIELE & CO.
UIIOLJ1SAI.E
ra, o o jh
SO ITT II W EST CORKER
?Irst and Sjcamore Streets
EVANSVILLE, 1JJD.
ttu dtf
DAVID MmiM ANr,
I. & I. SI 32131 A
Wnoletale Dealers Is
GROOEBIE8.
Fortxgn and Domatic Liquors,
NAILS, COTTON YARSS, GLASS WAR
Ac, 4o.,
44 Su 46
FIRST STREET,
(NATIONAL BLOCK.)
EVAN3VILLK, IjD.
FISH DEPOT.
o) dtr
MATTHEW DALZELL,
Wholesale Dealer In
Groceries, Nails, White Lead, Lime,
cement, ec,
Xo. 18 Water Street,
EVANSVILLE GROCERY, .
IVo. 130 Main Street,
Has on band, and la constantly receiving,
a lull stock of staple and faniy Groceries,
merit, Plaster, Nails, Ac, Ac., tor Bale l"w.
To Contractors and Bnilders.
First Quality ISaildiug Band
at reasonable rates;
Good Wood and Chips
Constantly on hand.
Also, one new frame dwelling, fronting
on Baker Avenue, between Heveath ana
Eighth Street, at a great bargain.
mhl7 6ra J AH. CKOFTS.
WOOLEN MITJLS.
EvansTlile Woolen Mills.
fTKADK MAKK.J
KAXCTACrTTBXES OT
JEANS, FLANNELS.
BLANKETS.
STOCKING YARN. &c,
Corner Canal and Bond Streets,
Evansville, Ind.
Highest market price paid for
Wool la Goods or Cash.
Orders left at the MERCHANTS' WA
TIOIVAl. BASK by parties wishing to
sell WOOL or purchase UOOD3 will re
ceive prompt attention. mafl 6m
MUSICAL GOODS.
Q. W. WASEtN. THO. OONrNGTOH
Ko 61 MAIN 8TSKET.
VAUUi:. & COXINGTOS,
PIANOS, OilGANS, MUSIC
And Musical Goods of all kinds.
r4er by mail promptly attended to.
1fii ly.
CARRIAGES,
J. B. Gush, F. L. G&kxs
T. XI. GUEEN JSm CO.,
CARRIAGE MANUFACTURERS
Transfer Ornaments at Cincinnati prlo
Jtf,,., Stir&t ht. Fifth rtvt. fH.-rJh,
Jt
;STRECEITEI A SEW STOCK of
BRASS KETTLES,
ENAMELED KETTLES,
ENAMELED SAUCEPANS,
APPLE PARER3,
PARER, CORES, and SLTCERF,
PATENT PEACH ST0NER3.
All of the above at
LATEST REDUCED PRICES
Also a large stock of
BUILDERS' HARDWARE
FRED. P. STRAUB & CO.,
SO. 74 J1AIJV STREET,
Between Second and Third Streets,
BIUN OK THE BKOAD-AXK.
Jyl3 Demokrat, Courier, and Union copy.
SAtrTJXI, OBS. JAXES DAVIDBOH. I.bOU
SAMUEL ORR & CO..
IEOI, STEEL,
Tin-plate, tfibe.
Horse and Male Shoes,
Tinners and Blacksmiths' Tools,
W1G03 AKD bTCGT K0OBWOKS
WBOL'GllT HCBAP IKON Bvt'UHl
At the hlhel market ratea.
Sycamore Street, near Water
innlidtf" fcVANBVILLK. 1N1.
(Hucoesbors to Wells. Kellogii & CV.
IMFOKXEha AND JOJiiJKJvs tr
SIGN UK Tilt
big -jp.oxx:oi.
MES, AXEX,
1XEH, AXES,
A.XKH, AXES,
TA HLE VUTJsAH 1 ,
TABLE CUTLER y,
TABLE CUTL Eli Y.
POCKET CUTLERY,
POCKET CUTLERY,
POCKET CUTLERY,
Truce Chimin.,
Trace OhainH,
Trano Ghnlnw,
Planters' iloos,
Planters' Hoes,
Plan tern lloea,
Mechanics' TooIjj,
51 cell an kg' Tools,
5iecIlalllcs, Tools,
Bl'ILDZKH' UAKDV7ASS,
BLILIUlid' IIAUDWAKK,
bTlLDKliS' HAKDWAKK,
COTTOS AND WOOL CAKin,
COTTON ANUWOOLCAUMK
COTTON AN 1 H'OOL CAHIM
HITHT RUBBER BKI.TING,
BEitT RUBBER BMLTING,
BJtUT HUB BUS. BBLTUSU,
Mill and Cress-Cat Saw,
Kill and Cross-Cat Saws,
Mil and Cross-Cat Sawa.
CAJSM boyrm will And It to their advau.
tags to examine our svook before pure bal
ing fcisewhere.
At the Old Stand, 13 First h;
iQTTICHB, KELI.OtiO & CO.
trie
SADDLERY, ETC.
GEO. TUimNllILL,
MiAr icTtn&Ku or
Saddle, and Huruest
h .10 !n STIiKET, near Main,
KVAN8VILLK, IN1
All Kinds of fine Saddles and HarneM
conjBtanuy on band.
REPAIRING done lu the best manner
and at short n otioe. mU5 dtim
Charles Babcock & Co,
rMPOBTKB ADD DKALXKB IS
roach & Saddlery Hardware
Springs, Axles, Wood Work, Dam
asks, Harness, Enameled Patent
Leatlur Pad SSkins, Skirt
ings, dec, dec,
IV a. S IVXtiin Ntreel,
ma30 EVAJidVILLE, IND.
(No. 1580.)
United States Marahai'a 1'otic?.
TJsited States of America, .
District of Indiana, J88-
WI1EKEAN, a libel of information
was filed la the District Court or the
United mates for tte District of Indiana
on the 28th day of Jaue, 1670. by Jordan
Fields, John Holland, Dock Frank. Tho.
Taylor, John Williams, Charles Robisoo,
and Perry Campbell, by their Proctor
C'has. K. Marsh, against the steamboat
West Wind, her boilers, enalnes. tackle,
apparel, aua furniture, seized at said Dtf
ti ict upon a cause of action civil and mar
itime, wherein they claim as damages tbe
sura of SU14 33, and prylg process agalntt
said goods, aud that tbe same may be con
demned and sold Iberefor.
Now, therefore, la pursuance of the Mo-
nltlon under the seal of said Court to me
dlrect-d and delivered, I do hereby give
public notice to ail persons claiming said
goods, or any part thereof, or In any man
ner interested tberelo.that tbey be and ap
pear before tbe said, tbe District Court of
the United Slate , to be held at tbe city of
Indianapolis, in and for tbe District of In
dlana, ou tbe first Monday of Auguit
next, at 10 o'clock of tbe forenoon of that
day. tben and there to Interpose their
claims and make their allegations in that
bebalf. EES. HPOONER,
M.hhnl rr o
' v PV"FT,r.y, !).'! j
AHi.i: ii-.vhAM, Cra'. iib '
THOS. C. SMITH & CO.
PKtinni: AKI)
Commission HXerch'lM
Dealers in Floor, Hay, Oats, Ora&s
Beeda, and Produce generally,
No. 5 South Water Street.
KVANSVILLE.
Orders promptly attended to. a.lOlly
C. C. Lyok. E. C. Machej.
Produce and Commission
2VX j r c li n i i t e ,
Dealers in Uay, Corn, Flour Oats and
Produce Generally.
So.30 North Water Street,
nov!3 Sm EVANSVILLE, IND.
E. H. FAIECHILD.
JOHN W. BINGHAM
FA1BCHILD & ULGIIA?.I,
Commission Mercli'i
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
Personal attention, and prompt returns
gosranteed. fnovSrtfim
BUSINESS CArtDS.
UHDorno.
S32
O
ST
o
cr
o
27 jLoenst Street.
Osborne,
SIGN PAINTER.
Owborno's
Show Cards.
Junl2 dtf
CO
SYATIQIIERY.
JOHN II. 8C0TT,
JSiooktK5lier,itatioaei
X U H H IK A U E K,
Xo. 53 MAI5 STKEET, cor. ftccond,
anis diy ETAnevii.LS. larp.
mis . hkUTMu
Wioiaaaie Boobjfiliera ft Stationers,
SCHOOL BOOKS.
' BLANK BOOKS,
MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS,
PA PEP. ENVELOPES.
S nernl H tntl cm vry,
Emisvllle, Indiana.
UaTIOIIS,ETC.
Clement, White Co.
WllCLKSALK
DRY UOODS and NOTIONS
2 a und 21 I'lICST NT.,
KVANRVf r,T,K, TNI.
INSUKANCE.
NEXSEN & BAKEK, .
tioneral Insurance Agents.
Awn
ADJUSTERS OF LOSSES,
No. 10 Main Street, Up-Stalrs,
EVAJJHVILLE, 1NU.
Dwelling UouHeii injured for m term of
years at greatl reduced raten.
Three Fears at the Price of Two
Five Years at the Price of Three.
JLlfo . Insurticive Specialty.
Total Cash Aaacta Represented
Over Twenty-Seven Million Dollars.
The following are amone the (Jomnanleji
STWA Insurance Co. of Hartford. Conn.
Oanh Ashets ff,500,OOO.
PIIK.IX 1ns. Co. of Hartford, Codo.
Cash Aaseta . ..!, 7 VU.900.
tO.MISEMAl, Ins. Co. of New York.
Cash Aaeots . ....82,350,000.
NORTH AMKHICAS Insurance Coo.
Hartford, Conn.
Cash AGfieta .... 500,000.
MERCHANTS' Ins. Co. of Hartford, Ct.
Cash Assets ....... ..S0,000
NOKTlf AMERICAN Insurance Co. of
New York.
Cash Assets , , y
HESU Ins. Co. of lizootlsa N. Y.
Cash AsheU... 1,0U 0O.
YONKEKS A N. TO Hit Tire Ian. Co.
Cash Asnetu MUUV,00.0O
AETNA LII'K 1ns. Co. Of Hartford, Conn.
Cash Assets... i t.ouu.uuo.
NEXSEN & BAKER, Agents,
10 XAIA STBET, ETaniTtlle, Ind.
Jan30 dly
STANDARD
SCALES
Of U kinds. HOHNBROOK A CO.,
No. North Water Hlrea'.
e'31tm Kvansvilla. lnd
iiglcHido Coal Mines
CHEAP FUEL.
TO FACTORIES wanting cheap fuel,
we Oiler Black at the Mine at one cent
par busoet; delivered, 8o; Hazel Coal at
the Mines jonr cents per ouHhel; deilrered
six cents. Nut Coal, at the Mines, six
cenU per basbel ; delivered, eigbl cents.
Kor contracts on Cieru Lump Coal,
please apply to our oflico. "We are pre
pareJ to furnlch a ciener article than
ever before. JNO. IWOLK, Jr., k BON.
apz3 8m Proprietors.
DEIITISTS.
Oer First National Bans,
Coreer Ualn and First Streets,
Eransville, Ind
niTANl'FAOTFKEB OF CONTINT.
ciinlte, Coral lie, and Amber Elates, Carveif
rtnu ilnm Wnrfcr tir ,9 Ullwa. Vnli
w orx, Arunciai raiaten, so.
ADMINI8TRATOR of Nitron Oxld
(an excellent and safe anmetbetic). Chl
roiorm, t-tber, and also several local part
lystera.
NKUUALUIU Arreotloua treated.
MY FAClLlTIiil are aa good and rr
eetabllshment as large (oonsiNtlng of riv.
rooms) aa any in the United Utaleo.
..-rn-ioearaeeivad daring the past i
KWui ' :i v. , s
1 HKTUKN MY THANKS for the es-
IV VLm JiOiiTI. Kii.
8. II. KENNEDY & CO.,
Comiumsioii I2er-f it .
J OK THE SAI.K OV
Flour, Previsions, Ccrz, '
And We item Produce ge ner a My,
65 and R7 1'OYfutAM S'j ;r r:i t,
NKW t) Ill-LAN-,, LA.
ConHiriineaU solicited, and Ulmrai -,t-ad
van (-!. una ie on fcblprm-ntK to t?ij a .
hon, by W . M. AKifc
oc21 ding KvAV iYi i.i k, m
FOSTCS & GWYN,
COMMISSION MERCHANT.
07SSAGAZISI-: nti:i:; r.
A'A ft' OllLEAX i
"JNPEC IAI, ATTI ISXIO.', ,J r: ;
imA Western Prod nee.
Cor ularnrnf nt.i of Flonr, Corn, 1'..
and all kind 1 of Wetern Produce oil -if
Liberal ca h edVHuof-n made on Kli
rxxents, elthtr for Bale in New Oilim.1
shlpmenl, to New Yori.
rosT.sn, ci W yn a to.,
CommlNHlou Jlorcbm!
41 WATEB STKEET,
novl-dSci N7r YORI
R. K. I:tjj KERSO! J. K. HANK!
K. E. DUNEEI1S0N C(.
Forwarding z Coramir :i
2V Torch .TJtfv
AND (1ENERAL AUEh
!
AT
FAST FREIGHT UUl
OVK.H TUB
KTANSYIILK & CU.l WFORIISVf t
TKKliK 1IUTK & J.DIi.Ar;Lh
BKLLXI OMALYK,
LAKE JiSOIiS & ESIE EAILI1CI
EVANSVILLE, INI
Liberal t..u advances made on
mcnUi. lu n i i
t. 0. DTJBOTJC HIT, It. C OJJ.I.
DUscDcnzT & gil:z;;v,
UENKUAL
COMMISSION M Ell CH A N 1
Wo. E3 Poises Street,
SKW OI'.LK.V- i
Orders auj consignments pollcil: J.
Jy5dtf
IIarmiv J. PHKi.pa, of New Orlthi
J. ii. .McUulixmui, of Loubivlhv, K
K Norr, of JS'ew Orleans.
Phelps, ElcCulloch & i
PR OD UCE, PRO VISION
ABD GKSIBAL
Commission Horciiarr-
112 GRAVIES 6IEEET,
nom dtf new oi: i.v. i
win. c. unowN & co.,
FormirliBj? and C
IVlorcLtttnt
V7HARI?0AT PUGPrJLlOK
Railroai and Tast Fi-bf-kt
Agents,
E VAN'S VI I.I.K, I I.
Jangdlr
A. S. IIAYIIUUST.
PHOJUOM, V02iMU.-;lOX .4.V.'
WA RDINO ilKK VilA X T.
No. B - .riouth Wu'
Dealer in Flour, ll.-tcott, Huy,t'.i;.v
and Coumr Produce.
F. V. HUMPHREY. OEO. J. I
O. W. KE.HNltr.
UUJIPJir.EY. LKWI3 A
FORWAKBINU A.VD COU
MERCHANTS,
I'roprictorM of m t '
1y
L. at. bA!U.
. . ..u. e. . ..
i i A Ik 'i
da inn
NENEKAI. AUKMS, i4:.M
3" Porwardlne and Ooiurj i-
cuunut, l.,vi UKVlile, IikJIhij i. turn
Q, Wtieeler, l'nm'U X iimI i- .
and Hara l orr, Vloe i'rwiitcuit ....
National Pwna.
AtentsXor 11h-ii C.ty -Sh'I C ..!
V 1. i mx i: xt ,
frle;:
i3d-aiid former iiai.ioiit. i i;
are on blhtiT WTivli k'V, our. t...,r i
Vine, ueitt io L. 1 ie
in tbe trade of JUI y UuliU, 7c-6:,"
M.titilUlti, dec. aud shi.uid l i,i-iu
see them. h. It. ALIA-.
II 1. AJiJjS.'j t;i .
FCSWARDINU Alii) CL;;
MEKUlIA.Ms,
KKCTIFIEI. and Who;.ai l-...
Liuuoas, rjL'ji;::,
F I R S J S T R E h
Ouedoor be ow Vino, next !o L. 1'!.'
I in Mat ;.,
fc-VAUxvi i.r.H.
anl diX
Johnson's Real Itit3 a .1 V,
Agency.
BI'RIXESnil DWKLLINO Ho
Uuildlusf Lois and h'arriiH, him) u
ed JhijiIw, cli';, aud ou t-,y tti tin.
stsoi a.i iiuuD procur'i.
ALV Ail JOHN - ON
Real Ktilste nd PHtt-ut Atrt-nt o,i
Third ttrnt KvhdnviIIh. Irnl. Imii
goni:ni .nu for kvmiyc.
at k:ii I. Ki'EEitvt !::
wtiLTIOM fc lOHfc;, can te found, t
tuo laretiNt d1 I.ehL u.Hhoric 1
Irurs, Pmleot Meiiicln, and Mm
Wines in lb W(t, tbe following ii;
SPECIALTIES:
pongee and Chamois HUins.
3 obi ad lis and Toilet Powdem.
PxtractH, Colognes, and Toilet W'i
loudray'a Sucbet Powders.
Jndla Rubber Byrlugcs and lirtitxt
11 kln.lsol Combs aud Ualr l!rr,
yadlts' an 1 Gentlemen's Pocket
rrtootb, Nail, and Flesh IiruMicn.
Jntt Hunt and Match afcs (,-,
pocket.
Enttlisb, French, and Aratrlcan
faoaps.
1 boulder I'.races, Trusses, and Su
ers.
All of tlieitbove arliclt-4 will be
very low jirl .
KKMKMiii.lt THE PLACE,
tOn.lEK JIAIN AM) KI.ON!
Jm-1 flm
AIICUITZIC
C A 11 D,
BOYD & WOO
AROHITEC
No. 7 Chandler's IIIciI
Corner Flrjt and Ioeust Htreet,
KVAN3VILLK, .
h,oTt,;loH0 uJ 'eouabie itirimi
rr-