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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,