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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W, S. 0. WIKLE & 00., Proprietors,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA. MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1876.
VOL. 11. NO. 3D.
TIMELY TOPICS. LATEST NEWS.
Madamf. Gravikr, sistcrof M. Thiers,
died recently in Frunco id the age <>l
seventy-nix. li was she who in 1846
kept a sort of eatingIioii-m* with a board
»i the entrance (tearing tho wools:
lable d’hote kept hy the sister of M.
Thiers.' 1 The latter brought an action j
against lier. and, having gained Ilia suit, 1
obtained an order to have the obnoxious^
notice removed.
A very important document relating,
Dt the colonization of North America in
I .. r i00 has been found in the A norm. The
Portuguese settlement* are com memo
rated in it,and it is said will throw much j
light on the vexed question of early
American discovery. The author was:
!• rancesco do Suiza, who wrote in |.'»70,
and his manuscript was hitherto sup-j
|*>sed to have l*cn lost during the Lisbon
earthquake of I Too.
Pmiii Koval is dearly on the up
grade as a naval station. Nine vessels j
ire there already, and others coming,
and in a short time there will Is* assem
bled in this magnificent harbor the finest 1
fleet ever gathered in an American bar
Iso. I he four-decker, New llam|>shire,
will soon Is* on hand, with Com. Glitz,
the ranking officer The fleet at Port,
Koval will help the prostrate state and
the southern railroads, as large pur
chases must l*e made and a good deal of
traiiK|NirtatiiHi used.
Nini; countie* in Minnesota destroyed
'•6,836 bushels of locust larva* last sum-
•nor, at a cost ol $K7,5B5 in Isiunties
paid. The county which started first
suppressed them completely, ami the !
whole movement wns a fair success. It
was not necessary to pay so high Immiii-
ties, however, and the legislature of the
state is asked to recoup the counties for
half the expense of their inox|K*rieure.
It is claimed that, in the light of this
experience, it would not Is* difficult to
frame a general gras»li<qq*er law which
would render these devastations iin|h
sihle in the future, if adopted hy the
states of Minnesota, Iowa,Nebraska,Kan
sas and Missouri.
A MAMMOTH grain elevator is now Is-
inp erected for the New York Central and
Hudson river railroad company: The
elevator is accessible hy water on three
•ides, and extends from Sixtieth loSixty-
-ecoinl street. Il in 351 feet in length hy
100 feet ill width, and i* to Is- 160 feet
high. It is to contain 261 bins, each do
feet high, mid having a capacity of 6,non
bushels, or an aggregate capacity ol over
1,500,000 bushels. The foundation of
the building is composed of ulmtiL seven
thousand piles. It ,h stated that the
only grain elevator on the Atlantic sea-
lioard of equal size to this is one in Haiti-
more. There arc -everal at tho west of
equal capacity, and one in St. lands
capable of holding a million bushels more.
Tin: ohm* and rapidity with which the
Boston forger, Winslow, wa* raptured
while fleeing from justice is another il
lustration of how nearly as one the!
whole civilized world now is, and how
closely it. approaches to being one or
ganism lor certain definite ends. There
is hardly a nook or a corner to which a
criminal can retreat with assurance that
he will not be dragged from it by the
officers of the law. lie i absolutely
hedged in. Almost before lie is out of
port the telegraph has ignaled his flight,
so that when lie arrives at a place where
a few years ago he would have been in
security, he is collared hy a policeman
and presently sent home again. Prob
ably lie fore n decade shall have passed
wc shall have extradition treaties with
all governments, and thus render it al
most a miracle for a fugitive from justice
to esca|»o its clutches.
AXII W IAT.
A hill has passed both houses of the
Alabama legislature ratifying the settlement
of the stale debt made hy commissioners.
This settlement will bring the entire indebt
edness of the state inside of ten millions, at
a low rate of interest.
Six men, four ol them Indians, one
negro and one white man, have been con
demned by the United States court, and are
t<> be executed at Fort Smith on the 31st of
April next. There were six hnng at the
same place on the 4th of September Inst.
.Sin Francisco now mauufacttires fire-
•crackers instead of importing them from
China. In two factories with $1.1,000 capital
invested and using raw material to the amount
of $7,.TOO, firecrackers to the value of $30,000
were turned out last year at an expense for
labor of $5,(H>0.
McKee, of tho St. Louis Democrat,
convicted of complicity in the whisky frauds
m that city, is likely to have another trial on
the ground that a 1‘ikc county juror declared
before he left home thal*MoKen wns guiltv,
and after the trial was over that it “was
mighty hard work to get him convicted.
(ten. Sheridan has received orders from
(lie president not to diaturh the millers in the
Black Hills. 'I bis is good news for the pros
pectors, and will doubtless he the signal for
a general exodus of the unemployed in our
large cities to the new Eldorado. Several
expeditious are now forming in Chicago,and
detachments, large mid small, are leaving
daily for the frontier, where they will organ
ize and move In large bodies to the gold
fields.
The mammoth |tuaaonger steamer Mary
Hell, hound from Memphis to New Orleans,
owned hy (’apt. L rank Hicks, her commander,
and Alf. (Jrissom, her chief clerk, took lire
and was burned to the water’s edge at Vicks,
burg on the 27th tilt. Tho fire occurred under
or near the forward steps. The origin is tin
know it The boat was taking on cotton below
the elevator. The boat and cargo of 6,000
hales of cotton, many thousand Micks of cot
ton seed ami sundries, and the baggage of all
her passengars, numbering about 200 in the
cabin, destined 'or the New Oilcans Mnrdi
(»ras, are a total loss. No lives are known
to have been Inal and none injured. The
Mary Bell was the largest steamer on the
Mississippi river, about six months old, and
valued at $00,000, mid insured for $30,000
Die .
Tho MluwnchiiKetts senate, hy a vote of
10 to II, refused on the third rending of the
hill to give uoiufen the right (o vole on nupij.
elpal affairs in cities and {mini and to hold
\Vi
itance. of his dishonesty is denied hy tho
pastor of the church to which the forger's
parents Munged. Writing to the Bos
ton Herald he says: I knew both Mr.
Winslow’s father and mother. I was
their pastor two years in Ware, and was
• •Hen in their family. Mr. Nathan Cur
tis Winslow, the father of Ezra, was a
man of feeble health. He hail the con
sumption for years, and was able to labor
hut a-mall part of his time,consequently
they were |»oor; hut he was an honest,
upright Christian man. Mrs. Winslow
was by no means a ‘ she devil.’ .She was
a kind lady, a careful mother and a com
panionable wife. The feeble health of
her husband put a heavy burden on her
hands, and her life was one of toil, care
and sacrifice. .She was a Christian wo
man, without reproach in the commu
nity where ahe lived, and ought to Is*
held responsible in no way for the flagrant
sine of her unfortunate son, Ezra. The
connections of the family were respect
able. and all stood well in the town, ho
far as I ever knew. They came from the
town of Barnard. Vermont, and are not
from the family of Winslows from Barre,
Massachusetts.
The Turks were totally defeated in a
great hnt'le fought recently near VnsMtgo
virli, in Herzegovina.
Don Darios has almost reached the
••id of Ids rope, lie and Iris men are re
ported as trying to gain the Ercnch frontier,
while large bodies of Alfonsisls arc in close
pursuit.
Don Darios has fits sled Paris with cir-
ciilars stating that lie has md relinquished
Ids claim to lie- thrum; of Spain not van-
quislicd, hut awaiting his time to renew the
The jury at the inquest over the bodies
of the victim* of the late Ntralh-f’lyde disas
ter, have returned a verdict of manslaughter
against the captain of the steamer Eranconia,
which ran down the Btrath-Clydc.
A Berlin letter nays Hint the colossal
statue of Hisiuarck will l.e sent to the ceil-
tenriiil exhibition at Philadelphia. A copy
is to he erected at Kissengeu, oil Ike spot
where Kullinaii attempted the chancellor’s
life.
The F.nglish courts have derided that
a wife divorced from her husband for cruelty
cannot sue him for damages. The judges
held that the right to bring a civil action
against each other, which was destroyed hy
marriage, was not revived hy divorce.
Statisticians say that 7,000,000 men
will soon he in arms on the continent of Eu
rope. Russia will have 2,000,000, Prance and
tJermany each l,. r »00,n0o, and Austria and
Italy I,turn,0(X) each. The Saturday Review
thinks that the statistician* arc far wrong in
this estimate, and that so large a total is
bt is stated on g<s*l niilhorit
Col. (J. Bynn, explorer, is returning t
Egypt. Various reasons are assigned
step, among which arc the following
llm
Ibn
with r
icllio
mb.
thinned his forces. The Egyptian troops do
not arrive at all. Blacks are always readily
recruited, and also want of harmony between
(‘ol. < Jordon and the Egyptian administration
for permanent rvntrol of equatorial Egypt.
It is probable that Egypt will temporarily
abandon the development of her equatorial
It is officially announced that eight
t’arlist battalion* have refused to lire upon
the royalists. After a conflict between the
officers and men, the forte was disbanded
udercd
Tolo!
lie the end of this month before they are re
paid ; and, if so, their profits on this little
transaction, in which they ran no risk, and
out of which they may make, and probably
have made large incidental gains, will he
about $750,000; that is, $500,000 for commis
sion and $250,iXXi for three months’ interest.
Tho chief cause of tho present insur
rection of the Herzegovinians against Turkey
in, at bottom, tin* impossibility of obtaining
iustiee lor Christians in Molianimedau court*,
so that il is useless for the former to become
legal proprietors of land. The Turks and
Slavonic Mohammedans hate mid despise
Christians, and gone rally lin'd (hut they have
no rights that true believers are hound to
respect. They may legally acquire lauded
properly, and may legally testify in court,
hut the Turks pay no attention to rights or
oaths, and do w ith them as they choose. Tho
judges are, without exception, venal to the
last degree. The great reason why the term*
of the Andrassy note are not accepted hy the
insurgents is that they know the sultan can
not enforce them even if lie is so inclined.
The hey* do not believe that firman* of lib
eral import are seriously intended, and pay
m. heed whatever to carrying them out.
*i x nil*.
A bill has passed I he house of repre
sentative* limiting the cost of the custom
house at Memphis to $100,000.
The Babcock trial was brought to a
close by the nci|iiiltill of defendant, after the
jury had been out hut a brief period.
Tho president has signed the net ns
amended admitting < (dorado ns a state on an
equal footing with the rest of the states.
In repairing the direct Atlantic cable,
it was discovered Hint it had been raised and
cut with a hatchet, either in malice or wan-
The total
aim.nut to the
of the 205 insurance
dm ss in New York city
i of $0,323,732,-
•a Inst year was
Heavy snow storm
Virginia, Nevada, and
the niouiitains in the i
One train reported \
graph w ires down.
The signal scrvic
Italian hark hound for
. pnllol
ns are reported near
u-veral snow slides on
cighhorlmnd of Cisco,
reeked and all tele-
•e rc|>ortn that the
Baltimore, which went
aslmre near Tvl.ee island oil the night of
March 1st, went to pieces Mm. Ii 2d,and nine
of the crew of thirteen, and a life-saving
crew attempting to hoard the luirk, were
drowned. .Six bodies have been recovered;
nine are still missing.
Lieut. (Jen. .Sheridan Iiiih written a
letter to the military committee of the house
in regard to the Black Hills. He rceoin-
mends the establishment of two fort* - one
at the mouth of the Bin Until and tho other
at the mouth of the Tongue river, fu this
way he proposes to protect the miners and
open the hill* for settlement.
The house of representatives has passed
Mr. Fort's bill to prevent the iieedlcssslaiigh-
t. r of luifiiiloes. This measure forbids any
person not an Indian l<> kill or wound any
female l.iillalo of anv age, or lo kill or wound
a greater number of liuflhlncs than is needed
for the food of such person, or can he pre-
I'd f..|
Any
r the
Fit OXI WINIIINOTO*.
The house appropriation committee
w ill iindoiihtedly attempt to largely cat .low ii
the naval estimates for the ensuing fiscal
year, liobesoi wauls $20,871,066 for the
naval establishment and $l,72. r >,000 for pub
lic works under the direction of his depart-
uieiil, making a total of about $22,. r >OO l (KX).
Emm $.'1,00(1,000 lo $i;,(XXi,000 will lie lopped
oil.
'The I’nited .Slates house* committee
on appropriations completed the fortifica
tion bill, appropriating for the protection,
preservation, and repairs of fortifications
and other works »r defense, $100,000; for the
conversion of heavy ordinance, $100,000; for*
projectiles of heavy ordinance, $25,000; for
carriages for heavy guns, $15,000; for proving
ground and proving cannon, $25,(XX); for tor
pedoes, $50,(XMi. The estimates were $.1,000,.
0(Xt, hut the committee nil down the appro
priations lo $315,000,
In compliance villi a request from I he
house of representatives, the secretary of
and cost of buildings rented l.y the govern
ment for the use of the army. Tho total
annua 1 rental amount* to $182,008, of which
$72,722 are for buildings in the division of
the Atlantic, $66,57-1 in the division of lliu
Pacific, and $16,W0 in the division of He
i. For
York
I of
adqtlH
ofli.K
Mn. Punch being naked his opinion of
tlie present ladies’ dress, replied: “I
highly approve ot the present fashion,
comprehending as it doc* the highest
grace* of the two most distinguished
models of female beauty—having in front
the Venus de Medici; behind, the Venus
de Hottentot! ‘
week. The t'arlists are soliciting amnesty
by the thousands. A dispatch from the roy
alist (Jen. Martinez Campos announces that
nine battalions have surrendered at Faoqie-
Inna. It i* generally believed that a com
plete break up of the remaining Carlist forces
is imminent and the war is regarded as vir
tually ended.
The Rothschilds made a very good
thing out of the British purchase of the kin -
dive’s shares in the Suez canal. They ad
vanced the $20,000,000 to pay for the shares; I
for this they are to receive two and a half j
per cent, commission, $500,000, and they are
to have five per cent, interest on the $20,000,- <
OCs) advanced by them until the government j
repay* it. The Rothschilds paid $1,000,000
to the order of the khedive on December I, i
and tile other $16,000,000 has been paid dnr- j
ing December and January. It will probably |
CONCRESRIONA L
lii the senate, on tho 25th, after wmc
debate, that body passed, without amend
ment, the bill* reported by the finance com
mittee on Wednesday, to amend nets of July
M, 1870, and January 20, 1871, to authorize
refunding of the national debt. The hill, as
vide that the amount of bond* hearing four
and one-half per cent, intcri-t, authorized
to he issued, he increased to $500,000,000, and
that they Ik; payable at the. pleasure of the
I’nited States after thirty years from the
date of their issue instead of after fifteen
vear*-. It also providi s that the act shall not
he construed to authorize any increase of the
total amount of bonds provided for hy the
acts named, nor to authorize any increase
whatever of the bonded debt of the United
.States. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, from the
committee of revolutionary war claims, re
porter 1 adversely on the hill to provide for
the settlement of claims of officers of the
revolutionary army, and the widows and
children of those who died in the service,
and it was indefinitely postponed. Mr. Fre-
linghtiysen, from the. committee on agricul
ture, reported favorably on the house resolu
tion to print extra copies of the report of the
commissioner of agriculture for the year
1873. Plowed. Mr. Allison called up house
bill making appropriations for the support of
the military academy for the fiscal year end
ing June 13, 1877. First amendment re
ported hy th*' committee on appropriations
was for additional pay of professors for
length of service $6,800. Pending discussion,
the senate went into executive session, and
soon after adjourned until Monday.
In the Senate, on tho 28th, Mr. .lottos
presented the credentials id his colleague
Mr. Sharon, to ho United States seualor from
Nevada for six years, front March 4, 1875.
Bills were introduced and referred as fol
lows: To authorize tho third auditor of (lie
treasury to examine the evidence of the pay-
the
video
troops, xvhieh
*nle (’lark Mills for a piaster model of Hen
end Itawlins. Mr. Sargent presented a pc
tltloil front llm national wntmm'H Htlfl'nige as
soeiation, asking that the women of Utah he
protected in exercising the right of the
live franchise. Referred. The senate took
up the house bill to amend net of Mutch I,
1875, toenahle the people of Colorado to form
a constitution and stale government, and foi
tin* admission of said state into the Union on
equal footing with original states. The hill
was read a tltlfd lime and passed. I he sen-
ale then resumed the consideration of un
finished business, being a hill making appro
printioiiN for the support of the military
academy for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1877. Tlie following amendmeuls w ere agreed
to: For additional pay of professors
length of service of $0800; for tlie pay of
instructor of practical military engineer
in addition to pay as first Hotitomwit, of f'.'im,
appropriating $!'00 extra pay for
struotor of ordnance; $-t(HKi for pay of eight
assistant protestors, in addition to their pay
as first lieutenants; $1500 for extra pitv ol
three instructors of cavalry, artillery ami la
the senate went intai executive session and
soon after adjourned.
In the senate, oil the 2‘Jtli, Mr. Ituynrd,
from the committee oil finance, reported
favorably on senate hill ‘extending the time
for tho redemption of lands held hy Hie
United Slates under the several nets levying
direct taxes. Panted. Th ’
time for redemption of hii
the 1st of February, 1877
stunt'd consideration of the hill mskiug ap
propriations for support of tho milit.xry,
academy for (lie fiscal year ending June .'in,
1877, mid the following amendments were
agreed to: For pay of military academy
hand, $14,880; to increase the appropriations
for repairs, improvements, etc., Iroui $12,(MX)
In $1-1,500; appropriating $I,6(X) for clerk to
adjutant and tin* same sum to clerk to Irons-
nrer; Increasing appropriation for tlie de
partment of natural and experimental phi
losophy from $1100 (o $1,01X1 ; providing Hint
the professor of law may he eoiiiuilssioned in
the same milliner ns other professors, and
increasing the pay of librarian’s assistant
from $1,200 In $I,.MN); to increase the appro
priation for contingencies fnrsupcriiitcmleut
of the academy friSm $2,(XX) tn$2,5(M). Amend
ments made in llm committee of the whole
were concurred in, and the hill was read the
third time and passed. Adjourned.
In the senate, March 1st, Senator Fu
lingliuyscn, from tlie committee oil agricul
ture, reported adversely to the senate hill to
piovide for an investigation as to (lie Imbits
of tlm Rocky mountain locust or so-called
grasshopper. He also reported, from the
ndar. A hill was Introduced nod referred
appropriating three million two hundred
thousand dollars for the purpose of rejiair-
I in pari rebuilding the levees of llm
ippi river, providing lor the expend!-
in for other purposes. Referred. Hen-
Cooper, from tlie committee oil public
of additional g
Nashville. Passed. Th<
cccdnil to consider tlm resolution for the
admission of Pinchhiii'k as senator from
l/ouisiann. Senator Alcorn urged I hat the
credentials of Piuchhnek were in due form
ol law, and upon them he should he sealed.
IB' spoke at length in favor of Mr. Pinch
hark. .Senator Norwood said that tin; sens
or from Mississipni had, as a member of tin*
(nominee on privileges and elections, rr
ported that the election in Ismisliiiiii was an
organized fraud, and lie [Norwood! did not
•w an organized fraud could elect, a
I States senator. Other remarks were
made, hut no action taken. Senator Boul-
a motion In reconsider the vote
hy which the lull appropriating
In thi! w*im(r, on tin* 2d, Mr. Dnvi
resented the petition of citizen* of Wes
ing hour, lit** eoiisideratloii of the resolutio
for tlm admission of Piuehlnick was resumed.
By request of Mr. Edmunds, who was en-
, reported adversely t
<'Il I onii in| eclc-
ion was agreed to. 'lie following lolls
3 passed : To reduce the uuiiihe
[• the •
id I lie I
’ the l
I'd lea
for additional ho
28, 1866. Adjourned.
In the senate, on the 3d, the chair
presenter! the credentials of James It. Beck,
United Kink's senator from Kentucky, for n
period of six years from March 4, 1877. Bead
and laid on the table. Bill* were introduced
and referred o* follows: Fixing the rate of
postage on third-class mail matter and for
: the franking priv-
ilhcr purposes
liege.
repeal of llm net of January
abolished it, and for its immediate renewal
in the form in which it existed at the time of
the passage of said act. Mr. Morton pre
sented ii petition from the colored men of
Texas, representing that tlm present stale
government of Texas denied them ample
school facilities, and asking for such Icgisln-
will compel the stale to maintain a
system of free schools. Referred. Mr. Mor-
submitted a resolution appropriating
XXi out of the contingent fund ef the
le to defray the expenses of investjga-
iuto the facts attending the election of
U. E. Spencer as U. H. senator from
of tlie
and announced tin; action of the house in
gard to the impeachment of Senator Bel
knap. Mr. Edmunds willed up the resolli
tis from the house in regard to the ini-
aehrnent of the late secretary of war, which
re read, with a statement of the committee,
ve mentioned, and referred to a select
committee of five, consisting of Messrs. Ed
munds, t'onkling, Frclinghuysi
After
the
IIOCMK.
In the house, on tho 25th, Mr. Swann,
mi the committee oil foreign afl'airs, re
ported hack the correspondence furnished
that committee hy tlie state department in
ence to the connection of Hen.Schenek,
American minister to England, with tlie
non mine and Maehadoc claim. The cor-
pondencc was ordered printed, and was
referred hack to (he oollimittc
aflair* for further consideration. Tho house
went into committee of tin* whole o
private calendar, and after passing a
her of hills, the I'liiuiuiltee rose mid the house
adjourned. The
general debate oi
In tho house, on the 28th, Mr. Ilolntun
presented a memorial signed hy nlnete
hundred and sixteen soldiers of ludinniiiu
the late w ar, asking for equalization of boun
ties. The following hills were introduced
and referred: Directing cumpensalii
the use of properly during the lale i
aid the completion of the Washington monu
ment; for tho jirolee!' '
the injuries nt inset*
Mills open to exploration ami settlement
to reimburse the slates for expenses iuourroi
in the late rebellion. Th
called the states for hills. The following
were introduced: Authorizing the payment
lo the executor of Henry Wilsi
president of the United Alnti'a, a sum equal
In the salary of the vice-president for the nil
expired term for which he was elected ; le
define the powers and duties of officers of he
ternal revenue, and lo further provide for the
collodion of taxes on distilled spirits; lo sim
plify existing laws imposing duties on im-
jiorlH and to reduce the rates thereon; au
thorizing payment for all cotton received
after May, 1865. Adjourned.
In tho house, on I ho 29th, Mr. Knlor,
from the committee on public lauds,
ported a hill to iiniciid the net to encourage
the grow th of timber on the western prairies;
tllso a hill explanatory of the timber-culture
act. Recommitted. The house took up the
hill, which was up a few days ago, limiting
tin* cost of the custom-house lit Mcmphi
Tenn.j to $ 100,000, and it was passed- 171 I
57. The house then went into committee i
the whole, with Mr. Blackburn in the clmir,
mi the hill amending the law granting pen
sinus lo soldiers of the war of 1812, (hi
question belli}' on a motion lo strike out I Ik
section restoring to (lie pension rolls the
names of pursons stricken therefrom mi ac
count of sympathy with the rebellion. Mr.
Neal advocated the motion to strike out, iiud
Mr. Rliiine opposed it. Mr. Jenks moved to
amend the section hy prodding thill no
Iirrears of pensions shall lie paid for any pur
lieu “f lime during the existence of Hie
rebellion to any one who either participated
in tlie rebellion or held any office under the
southern confederacy. Mr. Cook insisted
llial hy the decision of tlie supreme court tlie
"’hole question of the right of these pension
stored to (lie pension rolls had
been settled, and that after (lie president’s
1 '' ‘ “ lose of the rebellion all
stored. Mr. DuuuelJ
lamnlioii
legal rights
tlionglit that tlie house ought
compromise on the measure, and that ii fair,
just and generous compromise would he '
tirld,
IKSlffi
Mr. Iliirlhurt said lie was willing to signalize
this time hy restoring to the pension rolls
those wlio had been dropped during the
rebellion, not I they deserved it, tint
because lie wished the iiiagnaniniltv of (lie
nation to stand unquestioned before tlie
when lie was asked to vole for
arrears of pension, ho refused to do
In* believed that the public Hcullmcnt
of the country would never hear with any
DJiich paltering with plain principles of Jus
tIoi*. Mr. Hooker mlvooated tlie passage of
fhi» I6IC, nnd *«M frtfft fm had lm.,1.,1’Urtt Ju
tlie eeiiluntiiaJ period the Atiier'eau people
would inunifcsl a desire (o throw the iiiiiutlc
of oblivion over the lale contest. Mr. Nance
regarded opposition to the hill as essen
tially In soldiers ns to the plain men of the
south, who had taken up arms against tlie
government. Mr. Hill expressed his regret
that the gentlemen from the republican Hide
of the house seemed th go hack on theil*
record of last session, when a Idll similar to
• he pending one was passed by the house.
Bf hud canvassed the stale of Uenrgin
lignins! secession and lie hud always found
.,'iinrd soldiers standing hy hi* side
and opposed to soenr ‘ ‘
finally ordered lo he
•nation, reported a hill authorizing the pres
■ centennial eommissioii-
Ihe iiomiiniHou of the
governor, in plncc of those now lifting.
Passed. Mr. Foster, from the committee on
appropriations, reported a hill transferring
Duly of certain Indian trust funds
lary of ilie interior
treasury of the United State 1
Kiihsou from the commit
railroad, reported a hill i
Mr.
Kiihsou, from the committee oil* tlie Pacific
indalory to llm
relative to the filing of reports of railroad
i! then ml jon
IniiiKC, on tho 2d, Mr. Saylor,
ommillccmi public lands, reported
a hill declaring valid all suspended entries
of public land* in which tin* eonimisHioilerof
ciicrnl laud office lias decided (lint paU
shall isHiic, and which have been eon*
firmed hy the. secretary of the. interior and
allorney general, and repealing section 2152
' revised statutes. Passed. Mr. Sayler also
ported a loll to amend the not of the l.'llli
of .March, 1874, lo encourage the growth of
linlier <oi the western prairies. Il pro-
ides that the proper plaining of seeds or
nllings shall he in compliance with the liui-
icr culture act. Passed. Mr. (looiliii, from
lie committee on public lands, reported the
hill declaring forfeited to the United States
hjeet only to homestead entry, all
lands granted hy tlie net of March 6, 186.3, to
i the construction of railroad from
nworlh, Kansas, to Neslio river, such
grants having been forfeited hy limitation
d Jaw. Passed. Mr. MeDill, from the same
onimiUcc, reported (lie hill to extend time
J pre-emption on public lands. Tlie hill
xtends the time two years. Passed. Mr.
•lynier presented resolutions of impeaeli-
nent against Win. W. Relknao, late score-
nry of war, for high crimes ana niisdeme in-
rs in office. Mr. Ulymer then nroeceded lo
read the lesliniony of Caleb P. Marsh, taken
sturdily before tlie committee, showing
at he had paid .Secretary Belknap about
0,000 in consideration of Ins appointment
jiost. trader at Fort Hill, Indian territory,
ic resolutions were adopted unniiiutniisly.
Tho judiciary committee will, to-morrow,
draw op articles of imtieneliriient and report
to the house, and when adopted hy Hie
Hint body will, headed hy its speaker
and high officers, proceed to tlm senate chain-
and tin; impeachment id Mr.
Belknap. Then the senate will, in parlia
mentary phrase, take order for the impeach-
cut. Adjourned.
In the ho it ho, on the 3d, the judiciary
mmittcc began preparation of articles of
impeachment in flic ease of Gen. Belknap.
Mr. Hunter, from tlie committee on pensions,
ported hack the hill to amend tlie law
granting pensions to soldiers of the war of
1812. Ordered printed and recommitted. A
number of senate hills were taken up
eferied to appropriate committees. .Mr.
Banning, from the committee on military
affairs, reported a hill in regard to leave of
absence of army officers. It authorizes leave
of absence to officers on duty for sixty days
i two years, for three months once in
cars.and for four months once ill four
without deduction of pay or nllnw-
PasHCil. Mr. Banning, chairman of
the committee on military affairs, reported »
(dution calling for copies of all telegrams,
lers and correspondence relating to the
military court of inquiry in the ease of (Jen.
Babcock. Adopted. The house then ad
journed. Tlie session to-morrow is to be for
debate on the Hawaiian treaty only.
IIATTI.INH WITH THE (K EAN.
Tho following account is quoted hy
(In* London Times from the Stockholm
paper, the Dogens Nyhotor, of n
ngeous net. performed hy the filling
hamlet of Crcsswoll, on the const of
Nortthuiuherhind, in rescuing tin* erov
of tho OuHtnve, Swedish slenmcr:
On the 5th of January last, at five it
the morning, the slcnmer (lustiive, (’apt
A. O. Anderson, went ashore, in conse
quence of the fog and the set of tho cur
rent, nt tho little village of (’rcsswoll, on
the const of Northumberland, five Fug
lish miles north of the town of Newbig-
gin. The son was breaking heavily, and
the vessel struck violently at every
wave. The discharge pine hurst very
shortly, ami the vessel drilled helplessly
among I he breakers, which now broke
over her. Two of the boats were stove
at tho outset, and the third, which it
wns contrived to launch, and in which
three men were lowered, wns
jured and east away by a sea, and east
ashore in tho midst of the breakers.
Every one in Ibis little village-men,
women and children—hnstenco, tin wit
nessing the misfortune, down to the life-
I mat station, and at three o'clock the
lifeboat was got afloat and manned by
thirteen out of the fifteen. Only two
old fishermen were now on tho shore,
ami lhe women, who had to wade out
into the water lo get the lifeboat afloat
After an hour's fruitless endeavor lo
get on hoard, the lifclioat had lo come
on shore again, and n message was sent
to the nearest lifeboat station, Newhig-
gin, lo feleh a rocket apparatus, with
which to attempt the rescue of the crew.
The tide was rising, and at 4:30 the life
boat was launched once more, and at
last succeeded in getting alongside of the
steamer and saving the crew. Hevoml
of the men had by tliis time been injured
by lIn* breakers, lint all were able to get
into (lie lifeboat, and (lit* last of all the
master, who left his fine and hitherto
fortunate steamer with (loop emotion.
Onshore the shipwrecked men were re
ceived in the most friendly manner;
whatever the jsior people had they
placed al their disposal; the crow wore
sheltered in the fishermen's huts, and
I he owner of a noighlmring estate, Cress-
ell Hall, invited all the crew lo dinner,
.atcr in the day tin* crew's things were
ived.but much injured hy the water.
A touching incident in the shipwreck
deserves especial mention. The writer
of this heart] of it on the following day,
and was attracted to the spot hy cries for
help and of pain. On hurrying lo (hi*
place whence the cries proceeded, lie was
received hy a venerable couple—steers
man of the lifeboat and his wife. “It’s
poor Bella,” he said; ‘‘she was not satis
fied with being in tho water like the
oljicrs; ut night she was wet through for
six flours, rind fins mov gftfc one of her
attacks of cramp on returning from New-
biggin.” It was this littlo pale fisher
girl who, wet through,oil a cold night in
January, had rushed along the beach,
wading through several bays hy tho wav,
and at length had reached the next life
boat station to claim assistauco for the
shipwrecked people, and to accomplish
this feat she had been compelled to go
ten English miles. Who those sliip-
—k«*ii people were was unknown to
, to wlmt country they belonged was
all the hhiiic lo her; it was n question of
human life that might he rescued by licr
means. I o|>cucd the family Bible, tho
sole ornament of that unassuming room,
and there read the mum*, “ Isabella
Brown, horn it^ 1853.” On the wall
hangs a silver medal, awarded to tho
father for saving life. Everything in
the little Inimlot Imre witness to n long
struggle against the ocean.
Fortunate the country which possesses
■ii and women like these who, on that
icy January night, flew to the rescue of
the Swedish steamer f.Jnslavo and iIh
National Debts of (lie World.
The world is nothing now if not statis
tical, as well as critical, though in the
line of its figures exactness is sometimes
problematical. A statistician bills tho
public something that iaquitc imjKjrttint
If true, that the various stales or govern
ments in Europe and A morion have now
piled up tho enurtnona aggregate, hii in of
$26,000,000,000 of in tores L-bear ing liabil
ities. How lo pay interest alone seems
lo have developed into a financial pu/./.lc.
It seems unaccountable that govern
ments should have shingled the earth
over with mortgages in a ratio direct
with Iht* increased production of gold.
Britain has somehow contrived an escape
from llm modern mania for national dent
inflation. She has paid as she went for
the luxury of her wars during sixty
years, or since the victory at Waterloo;
and what tin* nation owes British capi
talists own; in other terms, it iH the
right hand owing the loft, which keeps
tin* money at homo and in circulation.
That was a fearful but useful lesson
which sus|M>nsion ami inflation taught
those islands in the years I8I6-I8H),
Distress then touched a lower depth
than ever before, hy reason of scarcity
produced by deranged finance, disordered
commerce, and disorganized labor.
Britain insisted upon resumption and in
flation at the same time; and hut for
Deorgn (-'mining, the. people would have
drifted along upon the follows of infla
tion. Like Mr. (Jrcoloy, he insisted thnt
the way to resumption was to resume.
When (-‘aiming prevailed, that country
returned to com payments a year and a
half IK*.fore, the eventful day fixed hy
parliament. Now I hat rulers of the na
tions have buried the people in Jay
(ooke’s blessing, so railed, that is public
debts for posterity to pay, it may Is*
hoped that they will not soon return to
their old indulgence, the luxuries of
Blkhhf.d is the man who knows enough
to keep his mouth shut. Some ]>eoplo
live sixty years without learning the
art. Imired the older they grow the
wider their mouths open. A man or
woman who is a gabbler at forty-five is a
dreadful nfilietion to a house, or church,
community. There are two things
this ago needs to learn when to say
nothing, and when it says anything to
say it well. ‘‘If any man among you
seem to Is* religious, and hridleth not his
tongue, this man’s religion is vain.”-—
Qoldcn Rule.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
Every man’s life is a fairy tale, and
written hydod's linger.— /Am* Andersen.
Mann Kit is of importance. A kind no
ih often more agreeable than a rough t/re.
Ah the (Irook says, “ Many men know
howto Haller, few men know how lo
praise.— Wendell /7tilli/>.«.
rnKttr. has been a goo*I deal of fun
nuuh* over tho Chineso birds’ nest soup,
hut it is said hy Americans who havo
lasted of tlio dish that It will yet he
served at our restaurants.
Tilt: Two Livkh.
• ) life below how brief anil poor imiU sad,
Otn* heavy sigh.
O life above how long, how fair, ontl clad I
An endless joy.
(>li, to hu done with daily dying here!
oil, lo begin tho living in yon sphere!
O day of lime, Imw dark ! O sky and earth,
How dull your line I
O day of Christ, how bright I O sky and
Conic, brighter Hnlcni, gladden all Hie scene.
Wi: are all sculptora and painters, and
our material is our own flesh and blood
and Ihiiics. Any nobleness begins nt
mice In refine a man’s features, and
meanness or sensuality lo imhrute them.
-Thoreau.
Camilla Uiiho has a violin more
than two hundred years old, valued at
$2.800; and another made about 1700,
worth $1,800. Hht* uses both at her
concerts, changing them according to the
music she is to play.
llot’K Jh Iht* last thing (hat dies
in iimn, and though it is exceedingly de
ceitful, vet. it is of this good use to us,
that while we are traveling through life
if conducts us in an easier and more pleas
ant way to our journey's end.— lioehr-
foucauld.
Wincur man’s thought* are all noble
and generous; woman’s feelings nro gentle
and pure, love may follow, il it does not
precede; and if not—if the roses ho
missed from the garland, one may sigh
for tlm rose, hut ono is safe from tlm
thorn.—Htilwer.
A DlVoitUKi) woman of Danbury ro-
•cnlly married again, and shortly lost,
her second husband hy an accident. A
ighbor, on hearing too shocking news,
observed: “It’s awful, awful indeed;
but then,” she added, with an encouraging
nod, “it is not so had as it might lie.
She Inis another husband. It (ain't as
had as if slit* had lost the only one she
hail.” The friends took comfort.
Fame.
Six hundred stalwart men,
From English vale and Scottish glen,
To brave tlm battle's thunder ;
An order pushed that was not given,
An awful crime that cries to heaven,
That Balnklnva blunder.
A poet 'neiitli his vine*, PV
Weaving the lale in rhyming linen
Thai set the world lo weeping;
That bring a wave of golden store
I Into the island cottage door,
Into tbr poet's keeping.
Willi tin* “ Light Brigade, in tin* famous
Alas, for earthly glory I
In tlm village of New Holstein, Cain*
met county, Wisconsin, there occurcd, a
short time since, in ono family, three
Idings, namely: A golden wedding,
a silver wedding and a linen wedding.
The old folks celebrated their golden
wedding, their oldest son and wife cele
brated their silver wedding, and their
<on and wife celebrated their linen wed-
ling, and their chrld was baptized.
“ I’ll ho a good man and give up
cards, and smoking and chewing and
drinking and give you a diamond engage
ment ring,” said the lover. “() Edward I
—you are so good !” and she leaned
frizzes on his shoulder. And there
they sat and sat, until the soft arms of
night, that dusky nurse of the world,
had folded I hem from sight—pondering,
planning, thinking, she of the diamond
ring, and In* of how on earth he was lo
get it.
Thu following essay on “Fish” the
Boston Herald attributes to a Cambridge
boy: “Fish live in the Atlantic ocean,
Charles river, and some in Buzzard’s
When they are small they are
d codfish and herrin, and sieh ; but
when they grow up they are culled
whales. The fat of whales is cut up and
Idled and in tide into kerosene oil lor gas
light; their hones are made into whale-
hones for ivory pinner keys and dom-
; also for jack-knife handles and
horn buttons. I wish a whale would
swallow my school teacher, you bet.
Fish is always eat on Friday—darn a
fish, I Imte ’em; there's too many bones
fo pick out; I’d rather eat a paper of
pins, fried in lard, you bet.”
Thic provident Indian, says the Austin
(Nev.l Reveille, covers his hat with a
lirty handkerchief to protect it from the.
mow. The improvident Indian hasn’t
got hat or handkerchief. The provident
Indian is the one that- is suceessful at
pokdr. When the red man gambles be
plays for nil that's out. As tho boys
‘lie's blooded;” and when luck is
, ist him he plays of hat, coat, hoots,
horse, wife, everything, When lie Iiiih
had a run of bad luck and the weather is
re, he liqs down beside, n woodpile
and takes his solemn oath that he will
r loud} another card as long as he
lives; hut wsm recovers from his fit of
lespondeney and hunts a job to earn
money with which to again woo the fickle
goddess.
Tilt; following curious advertisement
ns published in Londonderry, Ireland,
1783: “ Whereas, on February the
14th, 1783, it pleased kind providence to
confer on Matthew Neely, of Burnally,
pariah of Tiimlughtfinlngan, and county
of Londonderry, a tnunchild, whose ap
pearance is promising and amiable, and
hopes the being who first caused him to
exist will grant him grace. Also, in
consideration and in remembrance of Hie
many heioir deeds done by that univer
sally renowned patriot, General Wash
ington, the said Matthew Neely hath
done himself tho honor of calling the
Ha id murichild hy the nanio of George
Washington Neely, ho being the first
child known or so called in this kingdom
by the name of Washington, that bril
liant western star.”