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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W, S. D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1876.
VOL. II. NO. <10.
TIMELY TOPICS.
l HiNKsr. cheap labor i* again working
ruin in California n* it did in the days of
Ah Sin who fell beneath the brawny arm
of Nye. The contractor for the road to
the Lick olmervntory haa taken the con
tract ** tow that he can only afford to go
on it by employing Chinamen.
Tne white workmen of San Jose, how
ever, object to Mich a step; and Lick
has made proclamation that if a China*
man in employed in building the road he
will revoke hie bequeat.
Expuirationh of the (Jreat Sahara
continue to l»e made, lairgeau, the in
trepid French traveler, haa recently eon
eluded his preparations Air a second
tourney across the great desert, lie will
accompanied by three travelers, a
merchant with goods, a native guide, an
eight native servants and camel driver
Even by the best known route, the
have in prospect a ten days’ journo
without water over burning sands. Tli
greatest danger is from intense beat an
sudden changes of temperature.
I wo arctic cx|>cdiiioiiH are promis'd
already this year. The British admiralty
have made arrangements with Mr. Allen
Young to communicate with the entrance
«»f Smith’s sound next summer, in |im|x>
"t obtaining some information of the
proceedings of the absent explorers. A
Russian capitalist has subscribed 2/>,000
rubles toward the «->*t of starting Prof.
Nordcnskjold mi another trip to the ex
treme north for the purj*o*i'of ascertain
ing if there is a direct communication
lietwcen Behring’s Hav and the was
north of Kussia.
*>x the hanks of the Iowa river, nl<out
• cvcnty miles from the Mississippi, is a
s-olony or people known as "Amaiuv.”
Tlmy mimlier about 1,300, and hK’nted
there nearly twenty yearn ago. Origi
nally they emigrated from (ierinanynnd
sett Ini in tiie vicinity of Buffalo, lieing
known <t» the “ Elx*nczcrs ” — a quiet,
monil^ 'industrious |>ooplc, devoting their
•'■■orgies chiefly to agriculture. But
'about 1KJM1 they moved to Iowa. All
|*ro|ierty is held in common by them, hut
each family has its separate dwelling.
1 hey ap|>cur to have no vices, commit no
crimes, have built school-house* and
churches, and made many improvement*
in th« vHIngm they have httilt. German
is the language used in business and so
cial life, blit English is taught in their
schools. Their religion is similar .to that
of the Quakers.
LATEST NEWS.
A gentleman in Great Barrington,
Mess., has a geography published in D*n-
don in 1740, in which California is dc-
wrilied as an iglaud. and a map is given
showing it to Is-entirely surrounded by
water. The book tells of a tree in Flor
ida “the leave* of which, if-bruised and
thrown into a large pond^of water, all
the leasts which drink thereof will swell
up and hurst asunder.” It says that ” Mu
nir of Pennsylvania i* generally granted
to l»e clear and sweet, the heavens lieing
seldom overcast with clouds,” and that
the “ length of days and nights j* much
%»IITM AN» WKftT.
'Uic Cairo and Fulton railroad com
pany in vigorously preparing to build a
branch rend from l.iitlo Rock to Pine Mil ft’.
K. .1. Schenck, cashier of the Iron
Mountain linuk, in St. Ixniis, ooiuiuittcd Mil-
cid.- in (lint city by ahooting himself. Hi*
wife committed suicide in the same manner
a few days ago, which it \w supposed led the
husband to I he net.
Thirty-three mines in Colorado luivo
been Opened »n a depth of from 100 to 900
feet sinee I KAO. Fire of them were idle last
year, but the rest produced ore valued at
nearly (2,000,009. Sinee their discovery they
have yielded (20,080,000.
The Delaware, I-ackawanua and West
ern railroad company have begun prepara
tions for the ehiingo of their truck from the
old broad gangs to the narrow gauge. It is
estimated that the cost of the ehango, which
is to he effeeted before the first of June, will
cxrccd $1,000,000.
The Macon, (in., Telegraph and Mes
senger says that there has been more guano
sold in Mnuou this season than has been soli
any season since 1K7U. The farmers are emu
iug for it from far and near, and buying it b
llie very last limit thair credit will reach
They promise to pay for it in cotton, deliv
ered next fall, at fifteen cents a pound.
A special to the Courier-Journal from
Mount Sterling, Kv., says that a most won
drrful phenomena transpired in that section
on the 8th. The correspondent says during
sunshine and clear sky there fell fron
heavens quivering flesh, which came down
in largo quantities, and tilled many acres of
territory. Hogs and chickens eagerly de
vour the llrs.li, specimens of which have been
sent to this city for icirntillc examination.
KANT.
In Philadelphia, on the tilli, the .lone*
burial ease was decided in the supreme court.
The authorities of Mount Moriah cemetery,
last autumn, refused to allow the body of
Henry Jones, a colored man, to he buried in
the eenictery, although his widow owned a
lot there. The matter was taken into court
and the authorities were ordered to permit
the burial. They appealed from the decision
and carried the case to the supreme court
The division of the supreme oourt to-day
afllriiiM the finding of the lower court, and
the burial to he made in the cemetery.
CONGRESSIONAL
.’MKNATK.
Lithe somite,on thofitli, Mr.Edmunds,
from the select committee to which was re
ferred the resolution and mes.mge from the
house of representatives in regard to the iui-
peiielniient of W. \V. Helkimp, late secretary
of war, reported a preamble and resolution
declaring that the senate will take order in
the premise* according to Its standing rule,
and directing the secretary to notify the
house ,.f representatives. Agreed to.’ Mr.
Jones submitted a resolution instructing the
commissioner of agriculture to fnniish thr
senate, trout siirh data a* is now III possession
'V hi" department, the following information:
W lmt are the geographical limits and nren
within the United States, the soil and elinmte
of which is adapted to the cultivation and
growth of stalk and liber of Sea island or
long staple cotton, on which said cotton inn-
a perfect growth ? Also the geograph
each of the several
the <
chaple
Ne
Jcr*c
The
devoted to “rarities of
York,” in which it is said that in <
parts of New York (esjmrially those
unto and upon the banka of the
Connecticut) grow* n sort ol *tinkc-’
whose root i* much esteemed of fu
biting of the rattlesnake.''
Wi
rounding the i
fifty part* of
the sidewalk*
prinklcd with : The beys dn
id, diluted in | «nd impmt
aler. A large sprinkler
?d for the roadways and j
are sprinkled by hand. I
The grounds of neighboring yards arc !
similarly treated, and the privy vaults
FOIIKIUN.
Intelligence has boon received at Bom
y that the plague ha* appeared on lit"
lianks of the Euphrates.
Undich, on the part of Austria,
ha* |ii(oini«il U«e lierxwgciviiitan iusurgvuU
that their conditions were Inadinissuble; that
Austria would maintain a complete neutral
ity ; strictly guard the frontier, and cease to
relieve refugees at the end of March.
1’ho Herzegovinian* answer the Turk
ish bulletins by battles, and have plastered
the proclamation of proposed reforms all
vrr with dim til's bends. The Austrians'cry
>f peace was responded to by a sanguinary
ngngniuent in which KOOTurka were killed.
This is the insurgents' way of reforming the
government and punctuating the policy with
h the great powers are settling the cast-
piestiun. (live the people a chance and
they will give the sick mail a funeral that
I leave no possibility for a resurrection.
I’lio chief cause of the present innur-
t ion of the Herzegovinian* against Turkey
at bottom, the impossibility of obtaining
justice for Christians in Mohammedan courts,
for the former to heeome
legal proprietors of land. The Turks and
Slavonic MohainnieduiiN bate and despise
Christians,and gene-ally ludd that they have
no rights that true believers are hound to
respect. 'Jhcy may legally acquire landed
property, and limy legally testify in court,
but tbc Turks pay no attention to rights or
i oaths, and do with them ns they choose. The
judges are, without exception, venal to the
last degree. The great reason w hy the terms
j of the An dr assy note are not accepted by the
I insurgents is Hint they know the sultan enn-
I not enforce them even if he is so inclined.
believe that firmans of lib-
seriously intended, and pay
•r to carrying them out.
<li*infcct«<l with a solution of xinc-ii
chloride. At the termination of time
by death or removal, the infected npr
merits are fumigated with Milphuri
eft June l-lth.
t ha* nominated Richard
of Msssnehilsi tt>, to take
The dcmoc
Arkansas will r
The preside
II. Dana, jr.,
Sehenck’s place in London.
Mr. I/'wi* Jennings, the late editor of
the New York Times, has sold out his inter-
hloride. The extent of the eat,which consisted of nine shares, for $100,-
ground disinfected is according to the the purchaser being Mr. George Jones,
lapse of time since the appearance of the , * u ‘ P u Wisher.
fmer. n.e Client of the ,li«inffction A home for indigent perwiu in Broolt-
ah.ng the ground i. alwut fnrlv or fifty l" rtWI Z d.Mo.yrd l.y fire la.l *»ek,
fee, daily. » that after - daya' delay ? p '" t,linK , "","T "! ca t Uu " r , 0 '
; - | was the burning to death of some twenty or
the Whole xrjnare mu.t Ik- cnclnaed with tllir ,,
a (liHinfccting hand and the enclosed J 0n Wcdneaday, March l«t, the liouae
surface sprinkled. j Pacific railroad cominillrc adapted a reNoiio
tlon postponing indefinitely the Texas Pacific
The proposed tunnel under the Eng- j ami Southern Pacific railroad bills, 'fhis is
lish channel will prove to lx* a work of virtually a defeat of both bills for this sen-
much greater difficulty than the Suez I B,on>
canal, which has made the name of Fcr-j Turkish legation at Washington
dinand dc I.o»cp* fnmsu*. The Bound- [ “I™ '. h 'T " r ' »nthnri,.rd to deny elm reporta
inp* last fall, one thousand five hundred
and tweiitr-two in number, revealed the !
fact that four-fifths of the way across a
thick stratum of gray chalk cxfct*, pre
senting a favorable condition for exca
vating purpose*, hut it will require the
greater portion of the present year to
complete the preliminary investigations. |
M. Igivelly, the French engineer, who
made a report to the French directors,
indulges in the assertion that when the
tunnel in completed, one million trav
eler* will annually pass through it, and
the revenue from that source alone will
amount to two millions of dollar*. The
revenue from freight* by rail will be
much larger. It may be safely said of
this tunnel, however, that it is a ques
tion of time.
that the insurgents had been
ful in Herzegovina; that the Turkish troops
had nothing to eat hut dry bread ; that Cl
linns had been murdered in Bosnia; and that
new reforms promulgated throughout the
empire ha,I not been enforced in Thessalia
A statement made by the adjutant-
general, giving the nationality of men enlisted
in the United States army from Jan. 1, 1 805,
to Dec. 31, 1871. shows the largest enlist
ments to have been from the natives of the
following countries:
United Btates 07,000
Ireland - 38,000
England
Canada.;
Scotland
Switzerland
There have bee
nearly every othe
4,703
VJffii
i smaller enlistments from
nation on the globe.
leal limits
i, the soil mill climate of which is mini
o the cultivation and growth of said
cotton, and in which said cotton matures to
a perfect growth of fiber and stalk. Agreed
Mr. Bout well called up his motion to
mushier the vote by widen the house hill
provide for the purchase of material, and
for the continuation of work on the building
for a eustoin-hoiisn and poatofficent St. lauds
was passed, and it was agreed to. lie then
submitted two aiaeiuliuoiita, authoririug the
architect to use in his discretion such portion
of the appropriation ns is needed for the per
formance of the contracts authorized by the
lull as may he ahsolutclv necessary for the
|>mi,er preservation and progress of said
building, and providing that contract* an-
thorired to he made by the hill shall not
exceed in the nggrcBnte'$7fi,000, which were
agreed to, and the bill ns amended passed.
After the expiration of the morning hour,
Mr. Sherman called up the resolution of the
New York chamber of eonimeree, presented
last week, nad spoke in regard thereto. Mr.
Sherman, in Ids speech, took strong ground
against anv repeal of the resumption net of
187 5. Adjourned.
In the senate, on the 7tli, Mr. Frellng
hiiyseu called up the senate hill for the pro-
teetion of agriculture against Injurious in
sect.*, which authorizes the appointment of ii
commissioner to Investigate and gather in
formation relative to the Rocky mountain
locust, chinch hug, army worm, hessian fly,
potato Img, nml other insects injurious to
vegetation, in order to devise successful
methods for their destruction, etc. The hill
was amended so ns to include the cotton
w orm, tobacco worm, etc., and passed. Mr.
Hitchcock moved that the hill to enable the
people of New Mexico to form a constitution
government, ami for the admission
into the union on an equal foot-
ill tlw house, on the 7tli, the senate
amendment* to the house bill to provide for
the purchase of material and for eontiuuaiio
of work oil the ellsloni hoiise building at St,
laouis were concurred in. Mr. lawronee
trodueeil u bill to prevent monopoly and ...
orbltant charges in trading establishments lit
military posts, and to secure good order ii
the same; also a hill to protect witnesses oi
trial of impeachment oases. Referred. Mr
Banning presented resolutions of the Gin
cinnnti chamber of eomsiercc adverse to aui
law requiring a draw to be provided in even
bridge nereuiler to he built across the Ohio
river. Referred. Mr. Walling reported a hill
t" amend the homestead act, by authorizing
proof of residence, occupation, cultivation,
etc., to he made before the judge of any
court of record in the county nml state iii
wliirli the lands are situated.' Passed. Mr
I’lymer, rising to a question of privilege
stated that a sulqncnu had been served oi
build
bring i
liurgei
•tI* him all papers, ebooks,
to., and to testify in regnrd to the
pending in that_court against the
‘“a colleagues had
Ho (Clyinerl had
l, and had statci'
law he appeared at it
f said
iug with the original
the committee on territories. Agreed to.
ic senate then took un the resolution for
o admission of IMuchback, aud Mr. Chris
tiaiivy addressed the senate in opposition to
•he resolution, arguing that Uiuelihaek had
not a prlma facia case, ami Kellogg was not
governor of Lmishum dciurc. Mr. Ilowe
spoke in favor of the admission of I'inelihaek,
bill without coming ton voto the senate went
lo executive session and adjourned.
In thocounts', on thp filli.Mri (Janirfdli,
of Wisconsin, presented a petition by over
Ili,0fl0 persons in regard to secret societies.
The petitioners declare their opposition to
all secret organizations. At the expiration
of tho morning hour the chair laid before the
cnatc (lie iintinixhci! business, which was the
('solution tor the admission of I'. II. S. Pinch-
incl; iis senator from Louisiana. Mr. West
poke in favor of the admission of I’inelihaek.
I he debate was lengthy mid was participated
in by Messrs. Logan, Harvey and Morten, who
favored themliiiissiou of I’iiiehhne.k, and I’ad-
dork, Morrill [Vt.j.nnd Edmunds, who op-
mi it The question being on the Amend-
il of Mr. Edmund* to insert the word “not”
•re I lie word “ admitted," it wasagieedto
J to 1M». The question heiu • on the reso-
«n as amended, it was agreed to by the
io vote. The senate then took up the hill
liable I lie people of New Mexico to form
institution ninl stall-government and for
lissiou of said state into the union, so it
■ Id i onic up ns unfinished business to
morrow. After executive session tho senate
joflmcil.
In the senate, on the Bill, Mr. Cragiu,
mi the committee on naval afliiirs, reported
hack the hill authorizing the payment of
prize money to (lie officers of the Farragut
led, and asked that it he referred to the
onimittee on appropriations. Ko ordered,
he house hill granting a pension to Eliza
beth B. Dvcr, widow of Alex. B Dyer, late
igadicr-general and chief of ordnance II.
A., missed. Mr. Gordon called up the
solution submitted by him Tuesday, in
structing the committee-on finance to nseer-
if possible, wlmt amendments to our
•line laws are necessary to secure ceon-
and a certainty of collection of the in
ternal revenue, and to’preveutthe recurrence
of official frauds in that branch of the public
crvice. Mr. Gordon said the resolution pro--
posed a radical change in the revenue law*,
lad tills resolution been adopted eight years
go even Joyce would have been compelled
o act as an honest man. The whiskv dis-
illers would have paid the tax and the
whisky ring would been impossible. Money
i'll would have been saved to the
to pay the cost of one hundred
iininl exhibitions or build the Pacific road
it only to California but around tho world,
if there, was land lo sustain it. He believed
that there should have been received into the
treasury since IWH over (I ,”00,000,000 from
lax on whisky, but instead of that only about
(U/1,000,000 had been received. Mr. Morton
said the senator (Gordon) had declared that
$ 1,000,000,000 had been stolen. Some money
had been, stolen but the senator was rather
xtravag uit in his figures. The government
n KuhxLiutially i
the hands of the de
\hM, 1867 and
•olleeted so whisky during the
h follows: In 1866, (38,268,000; in'l8(J7,
(38,r> 12,000; 1868,(18,0/)/),000. And this with
x of two dollars per gallon on whisky. In
3 the tax collected on whisky was $52,-
000,000; in 1874, (49.000,000, and in 1875,
('>‘2,000,000, and this with a tax less than one-
half as much a* that imposed under the
Johnson administration. After further dis
cussion the senate went into executive ses
sion and adjourned.
In the house, on the 6th, the following
bills were introduced and referred : To pro
vide the manner of taking proof and deposi-
'.ions before tin: southern claims commission;
to exempt from criminal prosecution wit-
nes«c* testifying before cither house of con
gress, or any committee of tho same; to
extend the time within which the court of
claims shall hear and determine claims of
officers and soldiers of the late war growing
out of services therein; for a continuous
line of railway from Norfolk through V
ginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkani
and the territories to the Pacific coast, ai
to incorporate the Atlanta, Oklnhania ai
Pacific railway company; to pension all
soldiers of the Mexican war
sixty years of age, and all under it as soon as
they arrive at that age. A message was re
ceived from the senate announcing that in
the presentation of the articles of impeach
ment against the secretary of war the senate
would, according to its standing rules and
orders, take proper order the ' ’ ’ ’
title notice would he given
Adjourned.
late secretary of
been slnillarlv atihi
appeared before tl
that in obedience I ,.,. t
bar to obey ils order, hilt that, as a ineiith
of the committee of the house, he fell it
would he prejudicial to tho highest interests
of the country that his colleague and hiniselt
should he compelled to state w hat had trans
pired in their committee-room. Mr. Lnumr
oflerod a resolution reciting the history of
Ihc ease, declaring (lie iiiaudate of tho court
to he a breach of tho privileges of tho house,
aud directing the iiieinhers of committee to
disregard such a mandate. The resolution,
alter a long and acrimonious debate, was
passed—13(1 to 7fi. Mr. Wliitlhorne, from the
committee tin naval affairs, submitted to (lie
house the testimony of E. F. Wolf, formerly
book-keeper to N. p. & .\. |t. Brown, navi
eontraotors aud olaini agents, in wliieh he
declined to answer the following questions
r take any money from Brown
, Did ) „
wml hand it to aiivhmly VoailCtded with the
naval servieo? 2. Did you know of anv
eoiuuiissiou money having been in any way
paid to anvhodv connected with tiin uaviil
service? Mr. \\ hitthorno idso offered a reso
lotion directing the speaker to issue Uis war
rant directing thr sergeant-at-arms to take
into eustody (ho body of Wolf and bring him
to tho bar of (he house to show cause why
ho should not he punish'd for contempt.
Adopted. Adjourned.
Iii Ilia In him*, on the Kill, tho rccilHiiiit.
witness, A. B. Wolf, who had refused to an
swer certain questions put to him by the
committee on naval afliiirs, was brought before
the bar of the house, and Mr. Whittliorue,
chairman, was proceeding to stale tlmt the
xvituess had this morning appeared and nil-
■wired, mid that lie might therefore he dis
charged from eustody, when the witness
himself fell on the floor in an'epileptic Ilf.
Mr. Knott made ii report on the impeachment
ease of the late secretary of war, and offered
" resolution instriieting a committee on jujll-
iary to prepare article* of impeachment,
with power to take further proofs, and to
report at any time. He also recommended
the immcdiiite iiassago of a hill to proleul
witnesses who shall he required to testify in
‘"•linin cases. After a prolonged debate the
IJ was pinguid—2uu to ity t /idjqm
offered a resolution Instriieting the committee
on Indian afliiirs to inquire into tho expedi-
coy “f opening up the Indian territory for
settlement, etc. Adopted. Mr. Clark, from
postoffieo committee, reported ii hill to regu
late the eompensntion of postmasters, which
was made the special order for Thursday
next. It provides that the maximum salary
and compensation of any postmaster shall
not exceed four thousand dollars, except in
New Dirk, where it shall lie six thousand
dollars. Mr. Ntowell, from Hie poslolliee
uumilfee, reported a bill authorizing (he
•ndcr of any third-class mail matter to write
a the outside of the wrapper his name and
Idress with the name and number of mli
es enclosed, IVscd, Mr. Caulfield, from
the judiciary committee, reported hack the
substitute for senate hill fixing the terms of
the United Htates courts in West Virginia.
PiuiHcd. Mr. Ilurd, from the same committee,
reported a hill to regulate the removal of
suits from slate courts. After nil explana
tion the bill passed. Mr. Lewis offered a
resolution reciting allegations Hint Charles
HityH, of Alabama, member of the Iasi con
gress, hud nominated Gav Roosevelt Beards-
cadet to the United Htates military
Of I lo* lirlglil, K'dileo innrii;
Hat the earlh grew la uloiv llu>day tdi« wuh Ihiiii,
A grain In Ilfc-sand*;
A l' iif on tho lns*;
Mill a wlinlc world ol love I* my darling lo me.
Only a idcam
Of the ftiimdiino lo come,
To llage with new luster tho dsy-diram* of home
Oiilv a drop
In life's deep-rolling sen,
I n hot is all spin e lo n
■lust pressing llm \
i the liillntle, forth into s|
smile lingi-i lug ever,
Odmrdropof lleavin,
Sent down from nlsive!
(lod-glven, to hearts full i
o sweetest ol •
o now ii then with wisdom
Vnd rear then III trnlh
o task Ihnmgli thy oinomlng youth.
V mound, a clod!
Hilt I'lcnmln • and glowing with IHc, fresh from God.
I•!'llfo’s'slifflmg seeim ;
Hot she's otIII my own daughter, my v
COMMON SENSE.
l'l»s* Itrlllsli ’IInIsIoi 'h ■ ■111111, NeltliiK i»
thHHl ■:\nn<|ilo.
Tlio Wiisliiiigton COrroH|K)iuloiit of tho
.•imiiiiim'U (Inzetto writo* that Sit Ed
ward Thornton and fiitnily set a most
oxoi'llen!. oxnii.plo, in th« matter ol’droK*.
WiiMhiiiglon society, and one that
Americans generally might heed toad-
"milage. Till* declaration is called out
y an incident which occurred on the
venue a lew bright day* ago, when all
of fiudiioiiuhlu life here that could get out
wow oil tho promenade. The imiliucc at
• he principal theater wiih ju*t pouring
out il* crowd, made up largely of young
Indio* dressed in all tho agonic* id the
Htylew, to hwoII the tide, when the Kn-
gliHh mini*ter and two duuglitoi* ap-
pearod upon a ero**ing which led diag
onally along the line of tho live hundred
bedecked American women. Ah if by a
common inipulao tbo whole crowd eauglit
the Might, aud all caught theniHelve*
faking a look at once. Sir Edward
Thornton i* known to all in Wtuthinglon.
Hi* I* a striking figure, and lie walk* and
ride* ho often that every one roeognize*
him. 11 wiih not hi* appearance, Imw-
, that drew muoIi Htitltlcn utlenlion
from thin crowd of HilkH, lacea, leathern
'» 0,1 UirfMlH, m Tierce him. There wiih tho titlm
'udeniy from the fourth cotigresaloaul <li*-
trietuf Alahanin; that Bearilsiny was not an
tuui lioua fide resident of the district for
four year*, hut that Mr. Hays had falsely
certified that he was; and also llmt Heards-
ley’s mother had paid I lays $3,iKhi for (lie
appointment, aud directing a thorough In
vestigation to be made as to the (rutIi of the
allegations. Referred, and the hotisu ad
journed.
GRADUAL RESUMPTION.
Subjoined is a full copy of the hill
agreed Gi by the majority of the demo
cratic cmictiH committee,mid riqmrtcd to
the caiicii* by Mr. Payne:
Hr. il rimrlnl, rlr., That it shall lie the duly
of the. secretary of the treasury, during each
and every year from and afler .lull’ I, 1876.
and until the legal-tender notesof the United
Htates shall lie appreciated at par value with
gold, and shall lie convertible
cause to be set aside and retained
an amount equal to three per edit, of Hindi
legal-tender notes outstanding, and from the
date of such convertibility, as aforesaid, the
amount of coin set aside and retained, as
aforesaid, shall he held as a resumption fund
of such outstanding legal-tende
Tided, however, that the coin so set aside and
retained as above provided aim 11 be counted
a* a part of tbe sinking fund for the purehase
or the payment of the public debt, iim required
by section 3694 of the revised statutes.
Sec. ‘2. That it shall he the duty of eaeh
national hanking association, during eaeh
1 after July 1, 1876,
'dilating
«4..u7£ full aud
of the payment in sp
notes, to set aside and retain from com re
ceivable aud interest on (lie bonds deposited
with the treasurer of me United .States as
security for its circulation, an amount equal
to three per relit, of its circulating notes
issued to such association and not surren
dered, aud from the date of its resumption
of specie payment* as aforesaid, the amount
of coin to lie held nad maintained ns a re
sumption fund slutll at no time he less than
thirty per cent, of it* outstanding circula
tion; that the coin by this section directed
to he set aside and retained shall be a part
of the lawful money reserve wliieh said asso
ciation arc by existing laws required to
maintain.
Hoc. 3. That so much of section 3 of an act
entitled “An act to provide for the resump
tion of specie payments,” approved January
14, 1875, as required the seeretary of the
treasury to redeem legal-tender notes to the
amount of eighty per cent, of the Mini of
national hank notes issued to any banking
association increasing its capital or circula
tion, or to any association newly organized
as provided in said section,mid also go much
of said section 3 as relates to or provides for
the redemption in coin of the United .States
legal-tender notes on or after January I,
1879, and all other provisions of law Ineo
sMent with this act, are hereby repealed.
.. . wwoi mmr«r
him. Thorn wmh Llm titled iiiiiilsUir of
of the grcafoHt nation* of the earth,
living here in (lie large*! iimindoii of tho
ity, and giving now and then hiicIi en-
lertaiiiiiioiit* a* eelin*eall other* for their
elegimee. Hi* e*lahli*limeiit i*aHhrme
where all fashion which can obtain ad-
mi**ioti worships. But, for all this here
wore Sir Edward and hi* daughters out
for a walk, and by chance piiM-mg out in
w before hundred* of American wo-
trieked out in all (hat the fa*liion
plates proscribe; aud being out for a
walk, these high-born young Indies were
tting their American ooiiHin* a lesson
which should luivo put ovo-y ono of
“ mu to tiie blush.
The English ladies had on heavy I tool*,
lo begin with, so heavy that it wiih en
tirely iinneeosHury to dodge around the
lamp *pot* in the avenue crossing.
Next, their arm* were free, and not en
gaged in holding tin their trailing
which American female idiots
will porsisy in sweeping through the
tilth of the streets. Their skirls not
only did not touch, hut they were not so
that every step spattered them with
:entrated mistiness. The skirls were
plain, and of plain material. There was
also an nlweno.o of the intricate hump
ing-up. reeling-in, pulling-baek, and
hiirielnng-out which distinguish those
whom Americans adore. But instead of
all this each wore a plain, com for table
and decent walking-skirt. Each had
mi a substantial cloak, hut, horror of
lorror*, they were eiit in tho style of
Avo winters ago. The chances are that
die cut was llmt of three sohhoiih since.
At any rate, that was tho prevailing
opinion in one. group of Americans that
di cussed the question with that eager
ness which its ini|M»rtnnee demanded.
“The horrid tilings,” said one, as she
stepped into a puddle and *plas!icd her
while stocking* and the whole side of a
white lace skirt she displayed a* she was
trying to hold it out or the mud ; “the
horrid thing*, tiles'' cloak* and skirl* are
four season* old, a* I’m alive. And all
the money they’ve got, 1*m» !”
“ Ahoniiiinhle !” gasped another, in
an under tone, a* her own trail of silk
swept ofl* the curb and into the gutter,
where it soaked a moment, “ AlHuuina-
blo! Wlmt can the queen he thinking
about, il she know* what guys her im
mediate representatives make of them
selves in the capital of America?”
AihI so the minister and his daughters,
all the pictures of health and vigorous
life, moved along llio front of that crowd
quite unconscious of the universal atten
tion they were exciting or of the valuable
lesson they were giving those who chose to
learn it. But few of those who did lay
the lesson to* heart will care to practice
it, and probable not one who moves in
the fashionable life of Washington will
have the courage to imitate the good ex
ample of these English ladies of rank.
For if they did, you we, the young gen
tlemen who give the (icrimins—gentle
men who would at any time exchange
their own number svven head* for num
ber four feet—would never he seen with
them on the street, or at the opera, and
would never invite them to those “divine
dances.” “And then what would life
be?’’
How Mrs. Belknap Looked and Wliat
She Wore.
Says the New York World : This lady
has been tho object of general admiration
since first she came to Washington six
years ago to visit her sister, the former
wife of (Jen. Belknap. I fcr handsome
face and figure and witty conversational
powers at once made her a central figuro
in any assemblage. She is tall, ha* a
well-developed and rounded form, and
graceful carriage. Her features are reg
ular, hor complexion clear and fair, while
her hair i* black mid her eyes black ami
very bright. When first she came to
Washington, Mr*. Belknap was the widow
of a Mr. Bowers, who had died son
months before in (’iiieinnati. Her tin
ily name was Tomlinson, aud she was
native of IJarrodsluirg, Ivy. Her fat lie
Dr. Tomlinson, was an eminent phy*i
elan, and highly connected. He Imil a
large family of sons and dauglite
of the hitter were noted lor their beauty
and were reigning belles of their native
slate. The mother of Mr*. Henry Clews,
of New York, was one of the *i*ior*, ami
the second and present wife of 1 «<
knap another.
All shades and colors are becoming to
M r*. Belknap’s style, aud she indulged in
Worth's iiiohI effective combinations. At
the many entertainments she ha* at
tended this winter,she ha* looked equally
beautiful, \vhother attired in pale rose-
ed silk, with soft, creamy lace, or
turniioise blue *ilk, with long garlands
ol flowers trimming the low corsage nml
very short sleeves, as well as the tablier
and trainsof ivory-tinted silk trimmed
with fringe aud lace, or even her car
riage costumes—one of black velvet and
hue, another of blue velvet trimmed with
bunds of pheasant’s feathers. She lias
many other toilets of the richest mate-
I. Mrs. Belknap is dainty fro in head
foot. Mats and Imots nuiteli eaeli cos
tume. Her foot Ih the smalloat in Wash
ington. Who wears a number one and a
half shoe, though she iH five feet, six
inches in height. Slippers and boots ol
satin for these dainty feet come from
I’aris, and are always enough seen to he
admired. The jewels Mrs. Belknap most
frequently wears consist, of a string ol
large pearls around her neck, with a lieati-
• iful pendant of diamonds. Her ear
rings are two soltalre drops for each ear.
All aigrette of diamond* is the only orn-
ameiit she ever wears oil her sltapely
head, amid the pulls of dark hair that
are always arranged to suit, the contour
of the haudsomo face. I’rior to hor mar
riage with Hen. Belknap she spent
eighteen months in Europe, ar.d br< ’
her wedding trousseau with her oi
return.
FA CIS AND FANCIES.
Picture ham
1 rail* are now i
female breast.
Revolutionary relies
the iiiimiifnetillers busy, s«
them in time for the centennial.
The snobbish clergymen of the olnlrch
id England have determined to drop the
keeping
“ Dn* you notice how splendidly 1
went through that last reel at the hall
last, night, Tom?” “ Yes, and I also no
ticed that y ii kept it up nil the way
home!”
“ Don’t you think,” raid a husband In
a mild form of rebuke to his wile, “ Unit
women are |N)Bscshc(I of the devil?”
“ Yes,” was the answer, “ as soon as they
are married.”
Enoaoino child: “ O. Mr. Jenkins,
do lot me see you drink!” Mr. Jenkins:
“ See mo drink ! Wliat for, my dear?”
Engaging child : “ Oh, mamma says you
drink like a fish!”
The. saying that the good die young
seems to gain some additional strength ih
the demise of Mrs. Rogue, of Mexico,
wlm has just passed away in licrnuo hun
dred and twentieth year.
1'ne Mjchting of tiik Waters.—
I saw a shadow fading out ,
Wlmro light saw light in greeting;
A veil eoiiNiiiued between t wo uorlds
Where IIiIh aud that were meeting.
My «
r touched silence where the i
m'ciiii censed its nmauing ;
only where Ihc sen beyond
Began its deep intoning.
r thee
Bow the Awards will he Made at the
Centennial,
The system of awards adopted for the
centennial exhibition at Philadelphia is
praised by the London Times as tho first
fair and thorough system yet devised. It
is generally improved by exhibitors and
by the commissioners from foreign coun
tries.
hirst.—Awards shall he based upon
written reports attested by the signa
tures of their authors.
Second.—Two hundred judges shall
he appointed to make such reports, onc-
IniRof wh<mi.shall bcJmcigoers and ono-
haftT citizens old he Pwitcrt'HkiteM; They
will ho selected for tlieir kniMvn (iiialifl-
eatlons and eliaraeter, and Avill be ex T
pells in the departments to which they
will he respectfully assigned. Tim for
eign members of this body will he ap
pointed by the commission of eaeli
country aud in Conformity with the dis
tribution and allotment to each, which
will he hereafter announced. The judges
from tho United States will henpp'ointod
by the centennial coifamission.
Third—The sum of $1,000 will he
pitid to ouch commissioned judge for per
sonal expenses.
Fourth.— Reports and awards shall he
based upon inherent and comparative
I he elements of merit shall he
held to include consideration relating to
iriginality, invention, discovery, utility,
I utility, skill, workmanship, fitness for
the purposes intended,adaptation to puli
lie wants, economy and cost.
Fifth. Each report will he delivered
i the centennial commission as soon as
>ni pie tod for fund award and publica
tion.
Hixth.--Awards will he finally decreed
by the Unitod^Stales centennial coinmis-
ii compliauce with the act of eon-
and will consist'of a diploma with
n uniform bronze medal and a special re
port of the judges on tho subject of the
award.
h. -Each exhibitor will havu
the right to reproduce and publish the
report awarded to him, hut tho United
Htates cenleimial commission reserves
• lie right to publish and dispose of all
reports in the manner it thinks best lor
public information, and also to embody
and distribute the reports as records ol
xhibition.
e method of the (election and ap
pointment of judges in many res poets
differs radically from the systems liilhcr-
tried in international exhibitions.
I’reehel’s Kindergarten Theories.
Hi* whole method founded itself iijmn
the child’s nature. A child is social,
therefore he must have companions and
not lie left to the solitude of his home.
Ho is active and fond of making—keep
him busy, and help him to produce
things, lie loves the earth -give him a
garden patch. He is an artist—give him
music, imitative action, and oilier appro
priate means of expression, lie is cu
rious—tench him to think aud discover.
He is religious—lead him to trust, in (lod.
On this last, he said : “ God-trust, rock-
firm (bid-trust, hasdied out of the world.
The Kindergarten shall bring it hack so
that the next generation of children
shall he (bid’s children.”
Here is work for a child, not against
the grain, hut with il; not in violation
of God's law in the child’s nature, hut,
in loving obedience to it. Instead of
punishing the lad who makes plot
it|K)ii his slate, the loving Kindergarten
master put* him to making pictures, aud
gently shows him how to produce with
Ids fingers the pictures that float in his
brains. Instead of rebuking his eurio.dty
and eonstruetiveness, the Keilhaii school
master yokes them to his purpose,
stead of cheeking the child's sweetest
pulse—the impulse to play—he eo
crates it. Jean Paul lias said: “ I ’lay
is the child’s first poetry.” It w
wise and poetic saying of a poet.
Frocliel was not a poet, hut a schoolmas
ter and philosopher, lie went dc
and said the supreme word about play
when he, called it “ the first work of
ohildho":d.” It is the child's chief I
ne**, Use play to serve the ends of cdu
cation you may, hut to do away with it
is the unpardonable sin of the prevalent
method of teaching.—K, Eijijlcutou
Scribnor for March.
Tim veil iliseloscH. tlm music tiles,
Bill after that tiie glory.
The Hue/, canal has heeome so much a
cause of jealousy between England aud
Franco that Sir Daniel Lange lias been
dropped from the direction of tho compa
ny. This gives rise to much ill-feeling,
which is justified by English interests in
the work.
A PLACARD with tin’ words “FaIso
alarm—-no daugwr," whit for yea ro ii regu
lar part of the stage furniture of the old
Chicago museum, and was once or twice
used with effect. It is suggested that
theaters and public, hull* ho provided
with them as a means of preventing
panics.
The average Milwaukee reporter hav
ing found the skull of an Aztec with a
gins* eye, now I'iikIh in Lake Michigan n
serpent with lins striped like the
American ling. Two drinks more would
put H|)ectaeles on that skull ami
made tho reporter sou stars iis well as
strlpon.
Mamma,” said ii'youtbful youngster
the other day, “how old shall I he next
birthday?” “Six, my son, if you llvo."
“ Well, suppose I don’t live, can’t I go
light on having birthdays liko Georgo
Washington?” There are some older
lsiys who like lo have their liirthdayH
“go right on.”
An enterprlsiiig Chinaman of Gold
Dill, Nevada, recently mounted tho fol
lowing sign, handsomely painted, on his
newly established wash house: “ Ah
< 'liarli *; washing done dam cheap.”
Virtuous public opinion soon obliged
him to take down the sign ttiul put up ono
with less scripture in it.
A man popped into the postoffieo and
wanted to know how much merchandise
ic could send in one parcel. “Four
lotiuds,” was the reply. Then he said
e thought lie would send out to Arizona
four pounds of those red toy balloons,
inflated; hut he had difficulty in gutting
out of the door in lime lo dodge n mail
hag.
Maikter,” said an old Scotch ser
vant, “is it. glide manners when the gen
tleman gicH a glass o’whisky, to take a
drap or drink off* the linill o't?” The
master having, in homely Scotch phrase,
judiciously replied to this jiosor that the
courtesy consisted in imbibing tho
whole, the man exclaimed, with a sigh
of relief: “ Then Glide bo thankit, I was
mannerly I”
•: unerring exactness with wliieh
llm sperm whale will pursue his way
icrosH the ocean for a whole day without
luviating from his course a single point
of the compass, as whalemen have often
remarked them lo do, is truly astonish-
The manner in which their reason
instinct guides them on such an unva
rying course must needs he a matter of
conjecture.
the 8th of October, 177(*. John
Adams wrote to his wife, from I’hilndcl-
pliin: “The spirit of venality you men
tion is the most dreadful and alarming
lummy AinoHea lias to oppdeo. It is as
rapacious and insatiable as the grave.
Iliis predoniinnntavarleewill ruin Amer
ica, if she is ever ruined. If God Al
mighty does not interfere by his grace
to control this universal idolatry to the
mammoth of unrighteousness, we slinll
he given up to the chastisement of his
judgments. I am ashamed of the age I
inp Justice Ryan, of Wisconsin,
would rather see a woman Hiip|*orting
her husband and children by honest la
bor at tho wash-tub than sawing the air
court room. Says the great chief
justice: “Nature has tempered woman
little for the judicial conflicts of the
court-room as lor the physical conflicts
of the battlefield. Womanhood is mod
eled for gentler and hotter things. And
it is not the saints of the world who
chiefly give employment to our profes
sion. It has essentially and habitually
to do with all that is selfish and extor
tionate, knavish and criminal, courHQjftid
brutal, repulsive and obsco. c in human
life.”
An honest farmer once led his two tur
keys into his granary and told them to
eat. drink, and bu merry. One of these
turkeys was wise, the other foolish. Tho
foolish bird at onto indulged excessively
in the pleasures of the stable, unsuspi
cious of tlm future; and the wiser fowl,
in order that he might not he fattened
and slaughtered, fasted continually, mor
tified his flesh, and devoted himself to
gloomy reflections ujkiii the brevity of
life. When Thanksgiving approached,
the honest farmer killed botli turkeys,
and. I*y placing a rock in the interior of,
the prudent turkey, made him weigh
more Limn his plumper brother. Moral
—Dam vivimw vtvamiii,