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■* /arfnr> KSTAliLiISHED IN’ 1643. idiuiu in this sectioi W. BWINEHL, Proprietor. Wednesday Corning, Oct. 17, 1877 Mr. J. R. Christian, formerly of the Sparta Times and Planter, has become assaciated with Capt. Moseley in the editorial management of the Bulletin. We welcome him as a citizen, and wish him success. Chicago is trying the plan of “still” alarms for fires. The chief of the fire department has allowed no bell-ringing since the recent riots, and the plan works well. Great crowds at fires are prevent ed, and better work is done by the un hindered firemen. Mr. Alvin Johnson, publisher of “Johnson’s Encyclopedia,” who has the most elegant private residence in New York, except, perhaps, Mrs. A. T. Stew art's is entertaining Alexander H. Stephens. Mr. Stephens is an assistant editor of the Encyclopaedia. The rate of taxation in New York city for the current year has been fixed at 3.65 per cent. This, with the State tax, will make probably 5 per cent, upon the assessed value of property, and there are complaints that there as elsewhere property is assessed above its market value. This is one of the in gredients of “hard times,” and a con siderable one. Nearly the whole country sutlers from it. The New York Herald very truly savs : “Although the policy of Presi dent Hayes is entirely right and wise, it is nevertheless a bitter pill for his party. It embodies a different political doctrine from that on which Republi cans have been nourished. While is is consistent enough with their national platform adopted last year, it is not consistent with the spirit in which Mr. Hayes’ canvass was conducted by his supporters.” It is expected, says the Nashville Ran- ncr, that the President will decide this week who is to be appointed Judge of the Supreme Court, to fill the place made vacant by the resignation of Judge Davis, The appointment seems to lie between nersehel V. Johnson, of Georgia ; Mr. Harlan, of Kentucky, Bristow’s law part ner, and Judge Iluut, of Louisiana. The latter accompanied the President on his late New England tour, by special invi tation, and from this circumstance it is inferred that his chances are the best. James T. Fields says that an admirer of Shakespeare discovered among his friends a Bostonian who had never read the plays of the immortal 'William, and advised him t“ do so at once. Several months later the giver of the advice again met his friend, asked him if he had read any of the plays, and what he thought oC them. Yew, he had rAnd them, all, and he added, with effusion, “They are glorious, sir—far beyond my expec tations! Why, sir, there are not twenty men in Boston who could have written them.” DEV’OCHATIC CAUCUS AT WASHING TON. Last Saturday night the Democratic members of Congress met in Caucus at Washington City and proceeded to make the usual party nominations for officers of the House. Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, nominated Hon. Samuel J. Randall of Pennsylva nia, for speaker,and on the first ballot he was chosen by the following vote : Ran dall 107, Sayler, of Ohio 12, and Goode of Virginia 23. The nomination was made unanimous. There were two . nominations for Clerk : Adams of Kentucky and Cald well of Alabama. On the first ballot Mr. Adams was nominated, receiving 79 votes to 69 for Mr. Caldwell. For Doorkeeper, Mr. Polk of Missou ri was nominated on the third ballot Rev. Dr. Poisal of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Ct urch received the nomination for Chaplain, As the Democrats have a sufficient majority to carry these nominations through, the selections by the Caucus are equivalent to an election by the House. The nomination of Mr. Randall for speaker appears to us a happy augury for the future of the Democratic party, and as a consequences of the country. As between him and other gentlemen we had no personal preference, and our satisfaction at his re-nomination arises not from the tact that we thought him better fitted than all others for the nosition, but from the fact that he was speaker of the last House, and as such was more than once called upon to act and decide upon questions without precedent to guide him, in all which we beleive he was governed by love of country and right principles. It will be remembered that he was the most formidable competitor of the lamented Kerr for the speakership of the last House. Yeihling gracefully to defeat at the time, he was elected to fill out the va cancy occasioned by the death of speaker Kerr, and he has now been honored by a nomination, with more than three-fourths of the members present at the Caucus voting for him on the first ballot, for speaker of the present Congress. His opponents were both good and true men, and either worthy and well-fitted for the high po sition in which their friends desired io place them, and their defeat, we think, was not so much the result of their own weakness as the disposition on the part of the Democrats to show an un divided front. Hence we hail the nomination of Mr. Randall as an indi cation of harmony among the Demo cratic members of Congress, and of the whole party. THE COUNTY CONVENTION. ‘ > Next Saturday, the 20th, is the day named by the Democratic Executive Committee of Floyd county for the ap pointment of delegates from each mili tia district to the County Convention which is to assemble here at Rome on the succeeding Saturday, the 27th. \Ve call attention to this fact for the purpose of urging upon the Democrats of the county not to let the call pass unnoticed, but to attend the meeting in their respective districts, and see to it that men are selected who will at tend the convention, and who will rightly represent the wishes of the peo ple of their districts. Let this be done, and the candidates chcsen will have the satisfaction of knowing that they are endorsed by the people, and they can go into the race with such a feeling of security and cer tainty of the result as will cause it to be unnecessary for the race to become a mere scramble for the office. We have so strong a love for the grand old party, and such a veneration for its achievements in the past, and hopes so bright for its future, that we desire to see its phalanx unbroken, its columns every ready for action, and its streaming banners kissed by the breezes. There is work in the future for the Democratic party. The Government has to be re established upon the foun dation of the Constitution, the States have to he reassured of their lost rights, and the people satified that the poor and the rich are equal in the sight of the law, and the mission of the Demo cratic party is to do this. GEORGIA GUMPSES. Gen. Toombs has returned home. MR. STEPHENS ON HAYES’ TITLE. The four planets usually yisihle to the naked eye may now all he seen "in the early part of the night, and will continue tobevisiblenearly all the rema inder of the present year. Jupiter will disappear first; he may now be seen in the southwest. Venus in the west and Mars and Saturn in the southeastjthelast named are now about half an hour apart —Saturn on the left—and will gradu ally approach each other until the 3d of November, at about S o'clock, when the} - will appear to almost occupy the same place, or Saturn will get behind Mars, and afterward appear on the right. 1’rince William of Prussia, now on a visit to his grandmother in England, was called, in the nursery, “Water hat ing Will,” because of a decided dislike to the tubbing-process; so, at least a grave doctor, formerly a professor of His Imperial Highness, tell us in a work called “Education at the Court of Berlin.” Water-hating Will was also fond of being saluted by the sentinels about the New Schloss. The Crown Prince, perceiving this, gave general orders for the guards not to notice the voung hydropliobist. Nettled at this neglect, the Queen’s grandson ran to ask his father for an explanation, and was told that he, having, of his own will descended to the unwashed classes) had lost rank in the eye of the army, who could not recognize a Prince in a diriy-lianded boy. HOME AS A COTTON MARKET. For the benefit of our readers who have cotton to sell we have made a careful comparison of the cotton mar kets at Rome nnd other cities in this State and Alabama, so far as we could, taking our figures from the local papers of each city, and last Saturday as the day. We find the markets quoted in the several papers of Sunday morning as follows: . Atlanta 10 cts. Augusta 10k “ Columbus -—1-OalOl “ Macon 10 “ Selma, Ala 10 s “ Rome lOiialOi “ The figures for Selma, Ala., are those of Saturday morning, but it is not like ly there was any difference between that morning’s quotations and those of Sunday’ morning, as there was no change on Saturday at other points. , It will be seen by a survey of the above that Rome is paying higher for cotton than any of the cities above named, and as the buyers at Rome are always in the market with orders from consumers, and do not buy on specula tion, it is to be presumed they will con tinue to pay the highest figures for cot ton. We believe the cotton receipts here will be largely in excess of those of last year. Is it unreasonable to ex pect it to be so when there is so much to attract cotton here?! Mr. Alexander H. Stephens is a man that we admire, but he has always had something of eccentricity about him. The affections of the people of Geor gia entwine around him so closely, and he is so well assured oftheir faith in him as_a citizen and statesman that he, no Ou uot, feels, he can do and say things with-Impunity that would be the po litical ruin of other men. It will he remembered that Mr. Stephens magnanimously come to the aid of those who voted for the “back- salary grab,” by endorsing the act when it was done at a session of Congress previous to his election, and there was no necessity for such public endorse ment by him. And, again, Mr. Steph ens constantly kept it before the peo ple that Gen. Grant was a great man, and that he had faith in him, while President Grant was doing what the Southern people believed was “his very worst.” And now it is said Mr. Stephens goes so far as to say that Mr. Hayes’ title to the office of President is better than that of any of his predecessors, giving as a reason for his opinion, that Ila; yes’ title was settled by a high court, created and assembled for the purpose of settling the question of title to the office, while none of hip prede cessors ever had their right to the office adjudicated and settled by so high a tribunal. Well, that is strange logic to us. It is simply this in essence: One man goes into office, nobody doubting his right, and another goes in with a ma jority denying his right to the office, and goes in, too, with a suspicion of duplicity on the part of the one man whose casting vote puts him there, and still we arc to think his right better than that of a man whose title was never disputed. We have never reach ed that advanced stage of ratiocination that enables one te grasp such an idea. White frost was visible in Hart coun ty on Saturday morning last. The farmers of Polk County are talk ing of arranging for a Fair at Cedar- town. The Eagle and I’henix Factory at Columbus is receiving large boxes of new machinery. A mail route has been opened from Franklin via Pearceville and Whites- burg to Douglassville. Mark A. Moore announces himself in the Calhoun Times, as a candidate for Representative from Gordon county. Savannah citizens living on the su burbs have organized a patrol club to protect the outskirts from depredations. A bill has been filed in the United States Circu’t Court by the second mort gage bondholde.’s praying an order for the sale of the Atlantic and Gulf Rail road. Mre Moore and Miss Nellie Moore, the wife and daugter of Mr. Jerry Moore, the country jailer and well known citi zen of that place, were buried together in Lagrange on Thursday. Rev. Jacob Young, of Irwin County, has discovered a new variety of oats which he says will stand freez is, and weighs several pounds more to the bush el than the ordinary rust-proof oat. It is of a red color, will not rust and is very prolific. The citizen of West Point have hope of increasing the prosperity of their town, at no distant day, by having the Chat tahoochae dredged. Col. Harris has promised to use his best efforts to have an appropriation made by Congress for that purpose. The managers of the Greensboro Fair have made ample and thorough arrange ments for rendering their approaching exhibition a success. It commences Tuesday, October 23, and will continue four days. A large attendance and much enjoyment may be expected. the temporary roof is in an advanced stage of completion. Nothing particularly new or interesting has been received from the Nez Perces or from the mob of “greasers” who inau gurated the reign of terror in El Paso counfy, Texas. October 12. Much interest has been awakened in cultured circles here relative to Stanley, the African explorer, by two dispatches received at the State Department, por traying his destitute condition and that of his little army on their nearing the west coast; how ho sent a note to parties at Imboma, stating that unless sOc- cor was immediately furnished they must perish of starvation, and how it reached them just in the nick of time. When it is recalled how expedition*, thoroughly equipped under the auspices of Govern ment and Geographical Societies have returned to their starting places baffled and discouraged, his achievements in fighting his way against a hundred hostile tribes, venomous serpents and poisonous reptiles through the pestilential swamps of equitorial Africa from the east to the west coast, seems little short of the mar vellous; and from a scientific, commercial and social point of view they are regard ed as of more importance than the 6UC- cess of the Howgate Polar Expedition would be. The timber thieves all stand a good chance of couvictivu if the result of trials already had are to be regarded as precedents. In the recent trial in Min nesota, the prayer of defendant’s counsel that the Jury be instructed to find for the value of the timber standing (SI per 1,000 feet) was refused; and instead, dnmages at SO per 1,000 feet were as sessed. In the many cases on the docket for trial in several States, the proof is said to be conclusive; and Mr. Scbuiz expresses a determination to break up this system of public plundering. At a meeting held in New York and attended by those interested from all parts of the country, a committee of five was appointed to urge on the President and Congress, the great importance to our commercial interests of accepting the invitation of France to participate in the Paris Exposition; and it is believed the subject will claim early attention at the extra session. Ksol. The United States Senate. The following roll of theSenate, show ing at a glance the political classifica tion of that body, will be of interest at this time, in view of the organization of the new Congress. DEMOCRATS. John T Morgan, Ala, A H Garland, Ark, Chas W Joneg, Fla, S E McDonald, Ind, LQC Lamar, Miss, REPUBLICAN. Geo E Spencer, Ala, S W D<#rsey, Ark, 8 B Conover, Fla, * O P Morton, Ind. B K Bruce. Miss, Francis Kornan, N Y, Roacoe Cockling, N Y, Washington Correspondence. Washington, D. C., Oct. 10. Republican supportersof the “South- TI1E RESULT IN OHIO. The latest news from Ohio assures us that Bishop, the Democratic nomi nee for Governor, is elected by a ma jority of twenty-five thousand, with a strong probability of it going over thir ty thousand on a full count of the votes. ThS best informed are of opinion that the Legislature will be Democratic by a majority of forty on joint ballot—fif teen in the Senate, and twenty-five in the House. Somebody says that the Democrats and anti-Hayes Republicans are all liappy over this result. We confess that we are happy as a Democrat, and also as a friend and advocate of everything that Mr. Hayes has done, or may here after do, in the direction and for the purpose of returning to a constitutional administration of the Government. The anti-Hayes Republicans attribute the defeat of the party to the fact that Mr. Hayes has virtually let up on the bloody shirt programme. And we freely confess that has had much to do with it. A party built up and held together by a common feeling of hatred toward those whom they, themselves, have wronged, cannot, in the very nature of things, be expected to huzzah loudly for one whom they honored and put in high places because of a supposed sim ilarity of sentiment, alter the one thus honored and trusted has allowed him self to be governed by principles of justico and right. ern policy” are much dejected over the adverse verdict rendered in Ohio yester day, and Democratic supporters are cor respondingly elated over their party suc cess in the President’s own State where Administration Republicans had insisted on making Mr. Ilaycs’ endorsements a feature of the campaign. The signifi cance of the result caunot be winked out of sight or disposed of by saying that it was one of the ordinary vicissitudes of party politics. Nor do the votes drawn off by the greenback and workingmen’s movement, satisfactorily account for the Republican apathy or the heavy Demo cratic majority reported, which has equal ly astonished everybody apparently. Some Republican growlers insist that Mr. Stanley Matthews should accept a por tion of the result as a personal rebuke, while others claim that Mr. Garfield can not fail to take a part of it to himself as implying something of the feeling of dis trust entertained toward him for consent ing to sacrifice principle to expediency. Be that as it may, neither can reflect upon the result with complacency a?, atone fell blow, it dissipates the pleasing picture of Senatorial honors. It seems to be on the programme to dismiss Collector Arthur from the New York Custom House, and to compensate him for his loss by a foreign appointment, because he has shown himself faithful and competent. Now there are a good many censorious people inquiring why, if that if that is the character he has earned in the Custom House, he should be re moved at all, and give place to an untried man, who,however honest and competent,, must spend months in familiarizing him self with the work of the office; but if this certificate of character is all a polite romance, just put out to spare his feelings, it is stupidly urged that he is not eligible to any office under our nobly reformed civil service. The second storm that came to flood the unprotected rooms of the 9th andGstreet wings of the Patent Office, appears to have aroused Mr. Schurz to the fact that some sort of a roof or protection to the valuable records left by the fire might be desirable before they were wholly destroy ed by the fall rains. Accordingly he ad- Allen G Thurmin, L C Grover, Oregon, W A Wallace, Penn, W W Eaton, Conn, W II Barnum, Conn, Thos F Bayard. Del, Eli Saulsbury, Del, John B Gordom, Ga, B II Hill.Ga, Thos C McCreary, Ky, James B Beck, Kjr, G R Dennis, Md, W P Whyte. Md, — Armstrong, Mo, F M Cockrell, Mo, Stanley Matthews, O. J H Mitchell, Oregon, Donald Cameron, Fa, J B Chaffee, Colorado, HM Teller, Colorado, W B Allison, Iowa, S T Kirkwood, Iowa, John J Ingalli, Kansas, P B Plumb, Kansas, Hannibal Hamlin, Mo, Jus G Blaine, Me, M L Dawes, Mass, G P Hoar, Mass, 8.1 H McMillan, Mi Wm Windom, Minn, Theo F Randolph. NJ, A S Paddock, Neb, J R McPherson, N J, Allen Saunders, Neb, A 8 Merrimon* N ft, M W Ransom, N C, J E Bailey, Tenn, I G Harris, Tenn. Samuel Mnxoy, Tex, Richard Ccko. Texas, John W Johnston, Va, R E Withers, Va. H G Davh, W Va, F Hereford, W Va. John P Jones, Nev, Wm Sharon, Nev, B Wadloigb, N H, E H Rawlins, N H, E B Anthony, R I, A R Burnsides, R I, Geo F Edmunds, Vt, J S Morrill, Vt, T O Howe, Wis, A Cameron, Wis, It J Oglesby, Ill. A A Sargent, Cal, J J Patterson. S C, T W Ferry, Mich* ocrats...~ 31 Republicans 37 INDEPENDENTS. Newton Booth, California. David Davis, Illinois. J P Cbristjanoy, Michigan. CONTESTED SEATS. J B Eustis, Louisiana, Dem. W P Kellogg, Louisiana. Rep. W T Spoffjrd, Louisiana, Dora James Lewis, L »uisana, Rep. M C Butler, South Carolina, Dem. D T Corbin, Soctli Carolina, Rep. It will bo observed that, as at pres ent constituted, the Republicans have a majority over the Democrats of four votes. When, however, the Democrat ic contestants from Louisian and South Carolina are seated (for their titles can not now be successfully disputed) the Republicans will have a majority of one vote, and the balance of power will be held by the three Independents. The terms of the following Republi can Senators expire iu 1879, and, as they now misrepresent Democratic States, will besucceedcdby Democrats: Spencer, Dorsey, Conover, Bruce, Conk- ling, Sargent, I’atterson. Changp of Tune. Coming from the Cincinnati Gazelle, the following is very good : “There are also some that cite Grant as having maintained Republican gov ernments in the South by soldiers till Hayes ordered them off, whereas Grant had neutralized the soldiers and permitted the Democratic govern ments to take possession, and was with difficulty restrained by his cabinet from making full recognition of Nich ols. And the worst is that he was led to this by proposals from the Nichols government to elect Brother-in-law Casey to the United States senate.” If, six months ago, says the St. Louis Republican a Democratic journal had intimated that Grant’s latest move ments in the Louisiana case were dic tated by such purely selfish considera tions as a desire “to elect Brother-in- law Casey to the United States senate,” with what alacrity and zeal would the Gazelle have denounced !‘the base slam der.” Resumption of Specie Pay ments. In 1S16 an act was passed requiring the British banks to resume specie pay ments in 1823. The effect of this act is thus described by Sir Archibald Al lison : “As the memorable 1st of May, 1823, drew near, the country bankers as well vs the batik of England, naturally pre pared themselves by a gradual narrow ing of their circulation, for the dreaded hour of gold and silver payments ‘on demand,’ and the withdrawing of the small notes. We have already seen the fall in prices produced by this univer sal narrowing of the paper circulation. The effects of the distress produced all over the country, the consequence of this fall, we have yet got to see. “The distress, ruin and bankruptcy which now took place were universal affecting both the great interests of land and trade; but amongst the landlord: whose estates were burthened by mort gages, jointures, settlements, legacies, etc., the effects were most marked and out of the ordinary course. In hun dreds of cases, from the tremendous re duction in price of land which now (oak place, the estates barely sold for as much as would pay off the mort gages; and hence the owners were strip ped of all and made beggars. The effects of thisextraordin-ry piece of legislation were apparent. The in dustry of the nation was speedily con gealed, ns a flowing stream is by the severity of an Arctic winter. The alarm became as universal and widespread as confidence and activity had recently been. Tto offooio of it.;., ouJjon ana pro digious contraction of the currency were soon apparent, and they rendered the next three years a period of cease less distress and suffering in the British Isles. Three years after, the currency ques tion, instead of being settled, as it was hoped, in Great Britan, became again deranged, and the panic did not stop until the bank of England again sus pended specie payments and emitted notes the amount of $25,000,000. Are we threatened with the same dif ficulties as England experienced in her march toward resumption ? The signs of the times would seem to indicate it. We shall pretty soon know how the popular current acts upon this ques tion. As the case stands, the country resembles a blind giant staggering un der an intolerable load which he can not throw ofi'or lighten. If there is not statesmanship enough in the country to suggest a remedy, which shall be equitable to all, one of two things must inevitably happen: The desperate hurling oil' of the burden of a crushed giant, or bankruptcy.— Citron, and Con.. How He Found a Wife. An officer cf the British army who going out to India to join his regiment, recently made all his purchases at a famed London establishment, where the boast i3 that everything can be had there, cheap and of the best The cus tomer was such a large buyer that the proprietor, contrary to usage, stepped forward to thank him, and to express a hope that the officer was perfectly satisfied, and been able to find every thing required. The captain thanked the proprietor, and answered: “Nearly all.” “Not all?” was the quick query of the proprietor. “Not all? I hoped, sir, we could find you everything.” “Why, it is out of your line!” “Out of our line? Not at all sir.” “Oh, you are quite sure of that, are you ?” “Quite certain, sir.” “Well, then,” continued the captain laughingly, “I want a wife.” “Step this way, sir,” and the aston ished military man followed. He went through strange labyrinths and up and down stairs innumerable. En route the proprietor communicated these facts; About three or four months prior a beautiful, highly educated girl, of good family, who had lost her pa rents, and with them all resources, ap plied to him for employment. He had, after listening to her story, though she wa3 a novice to business, been touched by her friendless situation, given her etn ploy men i, and he had found her a worthy and exemplary girl. The captain saw and admired. He bought of her and introduced himself. He came often, bought more, and upon inquiry found ail particulars to have been truthfully stated. Hi? manners and appearance pleased the girl and when he told the story of how his last want had been mentioned to the pro prietor of the establishment, it ended in a hearty laugh on both sides—but after the laugh they were married with in three days, and they are now on their way to India. “The Lovers’ Leap.” Tbe Modern Writing up of the Legetd. Long before the foot of the white man had trod the valleys west of the Apelaehe, or tbe Bine Mountains, there was a noble young chief called, in the beautiful language of his tribe, Chc- wonk Bujune, which signifies, “diving frog,” a surname acquired from his habit of diving under the water when pursued by his enemies. He loved Onaluska, heitess of the Shenanagins, a rich and powerful tribe dwelling on the Blue Water, as New River was called in the Indian tongue. Address ing the object of his affection in the po etic vein, natural to the stately aborig ine, he said: “Chowonk Bujune is great Chief; he can out-swim the bull frog, and hi? war-whoop is like the voice of the long-eared horse with which the pale face pulls his agricultural im plements. But Chowonk has neither lield of maize nor wigwams full of skins Can the daughter of tlio Shenanagins love Chowonk Bujune for love alone? “Alas!” said the maiden, “the shad ow of Chowonk is dearer to the eye of Onaluska than the forn itself of any other man; but there is a proverb in my tribe that says, “Love don’t make the pot boil.” “I’ot boil ?” exclaimed the maddened youth, staggering back. “False Ona luska! farewell forever!” “Don’t!” exclaimed the frightened maiden, as her lover rushed to the verge of the precipice; for they were on the cliff", afterward called the Lover’s Leap. The father of Onaluska was sampling the great medicine fountain, and had o.uii'ica ills mum guuru or me water, when a piercing shriek resounded through the woods. To cast the gourd down and rush to the mountain side was the work of a moment; there, lean ing over the giddy cliff, was his daugh ter, but no Chowonk Bujune. Cruel parent, this is your work,” said tbe daughter, pointing below, where a quivering mas3 of distorted Indian corpse marked the last of poor Cho wonk. “But I will show you the faith of an Indian maiden.” Saying which she extended her arms in the air, cast one long lock down the awful abys: and before the father could prevent, had turned and walked off in the other direction. Popping the Question. Good Times Coming Again in Congress. The Country to the President. There is an old story of a traveler sitting at a Western hotel table. He ordered beefsteak for his breakfast, and the waiter presently brought a small piece on a large plate. The traveler turned it over, inspected it carefully, then said to the waiter; “Yes, that’s the kind; now go and get me some as soon as you can.” That is what the country is saying to the President, It has been looking at the little dish of civil service reform he has brought, and it likes it Now it wants enough for a square meal, and it would like the President to know that it has waited a good while, and is hungry.—N. Y. Herald. A Richmond criminal who heard . Wm. M. Evarts speak at Lynchburg, justed his eye-glasses, and then sat the ga y g be didn’t utter a sentence that was contractors at work night and day, and I shorter than ten years. Burlington Ilawkeye. There is very little news and very little interesting reading in the papers now, we know, but do not grumble, do not be severe upon the over-taxed ed itor. Be patient, and in a few weeks we will he able to give you the grand iloquence, the deepest thought, the clearest logic, the most dazzling brill iancy, and brightest scintillations of wit that can spring from the greatest minds of the nation. For instance: Mr. Jeffreys—Will the gentleman al low mo— Mr. Dilkes—I will allow nobody nothing. Mr. Jeffreys—But if the gentleman— Mr. Throats—You are a falsifier 1 The Speaker—The gentleman is un parliamentary. Mr. Doper—I have here a bill to pro vide for tunes of “Order! order!”] The Speaker—The Sergeant-at arms will clear tbe floor of the House. Mr. Flopos—May I ask if the— [Cries of “Sit down ! sit down !”] The Speaker—The gentleman from Ohio will sit down. Mr. Throaks—What is the special order for— The Speaker—The Clerk will read the— Mr. Comegar—I rise to a question of per— Mr. Scroggins—I appeal to the Chair. If I am to be called a dog I have my— [Cries of “Question ! question !' ] The Speaker—The House is adjourn ed— From the Danbury Nowa. One of the Danbury young men who had occasionally escorted a young lady home en Sunday evenings, and went in for lunch, after performing both ser vices last Sunday night, suddenly said to her: “Do you talk in your sleep ?” “Why—no,” she ’answered in sur prise. “Do you walk in your sleep?” he next inquired. “No, sir.” He moved his chair an inch closer, and with increased interest asked: “Do you snore?” “No,” she hastily replied looking un easily at him. At this reply his eyes fairly sparkled. His lips eagerly parted, and as he gave his chair another another hitch, he briskly inquired. “Do you throw combings from your hair in the wash basin ?” What’s that ?” she asked with a red face. He repeated the questson, although with increased nervousness. “No. I don’t,” she answered in some haste. Again his chair went forward ; while his agitation grew so great that he could scarcely maintain his place upon it, and he further asked : “Do you clean out the comb when you are through ?” “Of course I do,” she said, staring at him with all her might. In an instant he was on his knees before her, his eyes ablaze with flame, and his hands outstretched. “Oh, my dear Miss, I love you,” he passionately cried. “I give my whole heart up to you. Love me as I love you and I will do anything on earth for you. Oh, will you take me for your lover, your husband, your protector, your everything ?” It was a critical movement for a young woman of her years, but she was equal to the emergency, as a woman generally is and she scooped him in. How Silver was Demonetized. Queer folks, these protectionists! In the United States they want a protect tire tariff to keep out Canadian goods, and in Canada a protective tariff to prevent the home market from being ruined by importations of American wares. In fact, in Canada they don’t exactly know what they do want. Sir John A. Macdonald, leader of the Con servative faction, which goes in for pro tection, has made one speech at Co- bourg in favor of “a moderate and suf- nwifpiitinn 5 ’ to Canfldi&n indus* fleient protection" to Canadian indus try; and another at Nepanee, about for ty miles away, in favor of “reciprocity of tariffs.”—IV. Y. World. Gen. Sherman has left San Francisco for Washington City. The demonetization of silver was ens of the most iniquitous measures that Congress has ever passed. It deprived the country of half of its metallic money, thus “increasing the purchasing power” of gold; or, in other words, depreciating the value of property. The measure was not called for by the country. There was not a petition in favor of it. It was huggermuggered through Con gress, so that a chosen few only were aware of its passage. Laws deeply af fecting all interests, from which the crafty can derive large profits, that are uncalled for and passed without discussion or no tice, it is not unfair to presume, owe their existence to corrupt and sinister influences. The New York Mercantile Journal has the following on this subject, which cer tainly contains significant implications: In 1873 the English bankers having in view the intrinsic value of our green back, its probable speedy return to par, and the American production cf silver as opposed to the almost exclusively English production of gold, raised purse of half a million of gold coin and placed it in the hands of Mr. Ernest Seyd. Mr. Seyd came to this country In a very mysterious manner a bill pur porting to be for “the better regulation of the Mints” was introduced and passed without discussion. * * * * This was the bill which demonetized sil ver coin, after it had been a legal tender for ninety-seven years. What use, asked, was made by Seyd of that $500,- 000? The reader bearing in mind the Credit-Mobilier, can draw his own conclu sion.” The facts here given suggest the pro priety of a Congressional investigation. The Mercantile Journal is a paper of high authority and does not deal in groundless sensation. Admiral Semmes. Scenes at His Death-bid—His Mind Wan dering to Scenes of Battle. From New Orleans Delta. Grief, heartrending grief, was de- picted on the faces of that beloved group around his bed, and as the old veteran gazed upon them, and as con sciousness gradually faded from his mind, a sob escaped bis murmuring lips, and a teardrop gathered in his pa rental eye. Soon his vision became en tirely obscured. The agonies of death had taken possession of him—be was delirious. In the awful solemnity of the moment, ob'ivious of all around him, he looked up and ordered every window closed that the rain might not be blown in and delnge everything. Then, after a few moments of silence, still unconsc : ous, he turned to some one near him and said: “You will see the J mice about it; the case has not been decided properly. 1 ask tor noth ing but juv.ie ; -houhl I not have it? Promise me to attend to this matter, since I cannot do it myself.” Then his countenance changed from a look of appeal to one of stern command and fixed determination. Another sudden revolution had taken place in his mind. He imagined that he stood upon the deck of his gallant ship on the high seas preparing for battle. His language clearly indicated the great danger and importance of the occasion. His com mands were quick, comprehensive and positive. He conversed with hi3 offi cers near him on the appearance of the enemy, evidently preparing for a deci sive conflict, yet confidently awaiting the shock of battle, and elated with the conviction of victor/. TLo character istic scene speedily passed away, and a short period of return to consciousness followed, during which the brave Ad miral, thoroughly conscious that this, indeed, was his last battle, calmly bade farewell to each member of his family. Death did not close his eyes or stop his breath, however, ere he pronounced his confidence in God. and his hope and belief in salvation. Echoes from the East The most important news from the war this morning is that of the revictu alling of Plevna by Chefket Pasha. This beleaguered town is likely to be come as famous in the history of the war as Nicsics, the hungry fortress of Herzegovina. From Russian official sources comes the statement that a Tur kish monitor has been blown up off the Sulina mouth of the Danube by a. tor pedo. The bridge thrown across the Danube by the Turks near Silistra has been destroyed and the attempt to enter Roumania abandoned. It was an ill- timed effort anyhow. From Armenia comes the news that an indecisive bat tle was fought eastward of Kars on Wednesday, both sides losing heavily. It is evident the Turks have lost some ground during the past week in the sev eral engagements reported. The ob ject of the Russiaus is to outflank the Turkish left and throw it southeastward and so cut off Moukhtar Pacha from Kars. As the fighting will probably be renewed some bloody battles may be fought in this region before winter calls a truce. A correspondent at Buch arest state that the Russians have now two hundred and thirty thousand men in Bulgaria, but that their losses by sickness and exposure are enormous.— N. Y. Herald, 12/A. ‘ General Curtet’ BPnne ^ The obsequies of Gen On* once worthy of his own S'** services and of the gratS,?®* country The saying that‘ l ungrateful is untrue, and w£? llll ' s the fact that they cannot a Jf natei l as quickly as monarchies ffi.S of public servants. But the A S people never forget a hern ' r: < has been again proved by th’eH^ toCnjhrtmemory, crowned^] ably by the last tribute of affect? k- yesterday in the funeral at The day was beautiful and of people assembled to witWi?* emn event The ceremonial w«l erly entirely military in iu ZJ* and was the more impressive £ ofxte dignified simplicity. qC' 1 no oration, nor was there need??' for the draped flags, the muffled/! 8 tne imposing procession, the titude of spectators, and, more th 5 the bier upon which laid the mains of one of the bravest of u eloquer * can soldiers, had great military school where hev-' ucated for the service of hi* C J by the side of the stately riverh e i( in the sepulchre he had chosen f~ al Custer’s remains have f 0U5 /' I resting place. Fit be dust to dr, I is consecrated earth where tea and if ashes to ashes, so it is elr glory. All that now remains f 0 . countrymen to do in expression o'- esteem is to place over bis grave a ' ument that shall commemorau* worth as a man, the splendor oit reer and tho otr«n K o «uj tragic qJ of his death.—N. Herald. i: of: Gr- cft) I 9k The Republicans are getting much worried over the prospects Democrats obtaining control o'B Senate. Their papers exhibit a cessive anxiety to convince peopl the Democratic Senators are so t iously virtuous that they won!; take advantage of an opponnr:-- reorganize that body if the chancel offered. Every day or so the? some Senator who says he won : 1 anything to do with “any apppic-J disaffected Republicans,” but don't seem to think that diaj. Republicans may do a great li the way of making approaches tot ocrats. There is Booth, of Calif* for instance, who was elected bv! ocratic votes, and now manifests returning consciusness of the dues owes to his constituents. If ht q that the Senate go into an elect; officers, with the avowed pu~.> ousting Secretary Gorham, is the imaginable reason why Dec should not vote for his motioD, eJ he has persuaded several others fected Republicans to join hh. would be absurd to say that «rr ceivable code of morals would m the Democratic minority to refrai;; voting for a reorganization, if theca i« presented in this way, and then strong probability that 'this is ec how it will come about.—Him publican. ell Bravery of the Nez Perces. Chief Joseph and his band have been captured, but he exhibited a generalship and courage in his brief campaign that is rarely equaled. The oppressions of whites forced the war on him, and since it was inaugurated he has proved himself equal in the art of war to any of the re cent savage leaders, and far superior to most of the United States officers who op- josed him. With a force, never num- jering over three hundred warriors, he has killed more than that number of sol diers and settlers. He defeated Gen. Gihbon, cleaned out Bureau Howard iu a pitched battle of two days and cap tured a number of his cavalry horses, and has fought several drawn battles with Generals Sturgis and Miles. The latter officer finally headed him off in a defile, surrounded and forced a surrender. Gen. Howard was as usual behind. Miles went direct for the Indians, and did not loiter Howard-like at the telegraph sta tions to dispatch what he intended to ac complish. No Indian with the ability of Joseph should be allowed freedom in the territories. He made a brill’ant fight while he was at it. Here is a chunk of wisdom fai T Barnum: “I have seen a good many;* humbugged during my life, ar.d 1 been humbugged myself, but I noticed that more persons, on the • are Lumbugged by believing in nai than believing in too much. One Harvard student is payif way through college by turnip room into a stationery and book? and another graduate from Wei University, is meeting his expos the law school by working in a shop. wit’ .Sf» the cztc- intc: Dalt dow; The Lizzud. Hints to Young Husbands- Love and appreciation are to a wo man what dew and sunshine are to a flower. They refresh and brighten her whole life. They make her strong- hearted in everything affecting her home. They enable her to cheer her husband when the cares of life pas3 heavily upon him, and to be a very providence to her children. To know that her husband laves her, and is proud of her, and believes in her ; that even her faults are looked upon with tenderness; that her face, to one at least, is the fairest face in all the world; that the heart which to her is the greatest and the noblest holds her sacred in its innermost recesses qbove all women, gives her a strength, and courage, and sweetness, and vivacity which all the wealth of the world could not bestow. Let a woman’s life be pervaded with such an influence, and her heart and mind will never grow old, but will blos som and brighted in perpetual youth. [Essay on the Lizzud, read before the Hawkeye Association for the benefit of cruelty to animals, by a boy of 40.] Tbe Lizzud is a dry land aligator on small skale. He is a male and female. He has four legs aud one tale and two eyes and can climb a tree. His princi- ble business is settin on fense rales and ketchin flize and skerrin horses by run- nin threw the leves. Wun skeered my horse yistiddy. Lizzuds is principally negative animals. The}’ doant go to skule, doant belong to rcturnin bodes, doant set on lectorial commisshuns, and drant be presidents. Uv all the be&tla that fly io the a*r. The horse, the cr-w. the buzznd. The duck, the janny bug. th* bare, I’d rather be e. Lizzu *. Ilopin these few lines may find you all enjovin the same blessin. Joseph W. Harper, of the publishing firm of Harper & Brothers, lately mar ried Mrs. Wands, a lady whose hus band hail an unsavory reputation, and from whom about a year ago she was divorced. Being free, Mrs. Wands obtained a position ns matron in the Middletown Insane Asylum. Here Mr. Harper saw her, becarr e acquaint ed, and finally proposed marriage. Mr. Harper is about fifty-five and his wife thirtv-two. The Krupp cannon work.? in Ger many are of immense dimensions. They send their armaments to all parts of the world, and employ an enormous capital. A striking feature of the es tablishment is a hundred thousand pound trip-hammer. The Emperor William recently made a visit of in spection there, and 6,934 workmen turned out to receive him. The Winchester (Ky.) Democrat finds heavenly consolation thus: When the Master of tbe Universe permitted Tilden to be counted out He knew what He was doing, although some Demo crats thought He had made n mistake. His ways are not our ways. Rather grim consolation for Mr. Tilden, though. On Monday, at a meeting of the min ers employed by the Susquehanna Coal Company at Nauticoek, tb? men, by a unanimous rate, decided to resume work. They will receive a slight ad vance. Operations will begin as scon as the mines can be put in order. There is a certain decorum m grief; for excess of sorrow is as a as profuse laughter. Shutting oat the Euein). 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