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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.”