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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. S. D. WIKLE & 00., Proprietors.
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1870,
VOL. II. NO. 41.
TLM EL Y TOPICS.
Forest planting is thriving in Min*
nesuta. The St. Paul nml Pacific railroad
haa not out over four million young
trees, and altogether it is estimate*! that
twenty milliomi have been planted on
the prairie lands.
The recent murder of the captain uml
pilot of a German schooner by Chinese
pirates has aroused the ire of Bismarck,
and he will require alswdute satisfaction
town the Pekin government. The claim
vs supported by the American and Eng
lish representatives, and Admiral Ryder,
of the British navy, has tendered his
squadron to aid tlm German war ships if
necessary.
The great Hebrew’philanthropist, Sir
Mosoa Munteilore, has returned from .Je
rusalem Tor the seventh time. He is now
in bis 93d year, and has received the
promises of the American and French
consul* that they wilt do all in their
power to protect the dews in the holy
land against Turkish oppression. Sir
Moses gives a favorable account of the
skill of the Hebrew mechanics, watch
makers, lithographers, engravers, sculp*
tura, goldsmiths, etc., in the holy city,
one of whoai presented him with a grain
of wheat nn which 19 lines were written,
forming hii acrostic of the philanthro
pist’s name.
A very important invention has
toeen made by Lieutenant Makaroff, of
the Russian navy, which is intended
prevent the sinking of ships in ease*
collision or other damage. It consists of
mats, which can 1» effectively applied
immediately after the occurrence of a
leak. The main are practically inde
structible when exposed to the ragged
edge of iron plates, however large the
apertunj or severe the pressure of the
water* nicy are perfectly water-tight,
and continuous submersion only tends to
et’.engthcn thoir qualities. The Russian
navy is now supplied with them, and
several *hi|m have been raised through
their agency.
Mr*. Swihsiiei.m says, very |>ertiiient-
ly, concerning the Belknap affair: '• It
is right that the women who havo tempted
those dearest to them to i)o wrong should
l»e.tr their full share of the punishment,
and the best way to cure the evil they
represent is to make it odious, and let
them have their full share of the odium ;
but the great mass of the American pco
pie are called to repentance by these de
velopments; and men more than women
need to cultivate a taste for simplicity;
for women will always strive to Is- what
is most, agreeable to them, and if men
had not admired the reckless extrava
gance which led Belknap to ruin, that
extravagance would not have existed.
Let the press stop its cunning flattery of
stunning toilets and the work of regen
eration is half done.”
A NEW electric light, experimented
upon some weeks ago on the rcsif of the
Siemens-Halske works at Berlin, proved
m» s.ieressful that ordinary writing could
l»o rend by its aid at the dislni
mile. When the light was tlin
ward the cVmds by means of a mirror a
luminous, train appeared thereon, which
much resembled the tail of n comet
drew together great crowds of spectators
i" '.he street*. Signals made by
grumrnt were also refloated upon the
rl >uds, becoming thus visible at a ver
great distance. The experiments wer
made in the presence of a large immlie
of ofliecr* of artillery and of other
branches of the government service, and
were continued for nearly two hours.
The instrument, which is provided with
a locomotive engine will lie set up in
the Tcgel artillery polygon for further
experiment, the German war department
having the intention of purchasing sev
eral of the machines for militnry use,
both afloat and ashore.
The Portuguese are preparing to exer
cise a little coercion on the Chinese.
Portugal never makes much stir in the
world, but when her trade, is interfered
with she is very apt to do a little light
ing or protesting on her own account.
The mail from Shanghai brings the intel
ligence that the Portuguese authorities
at Macao “threaten to remove
nese obstructions to the trade of that
port by an armed force of five thousand
troops.” The “obstructions” consist of
the vessels of the Chinese revenue service,
which have been trying to prevent the
prosecution of the maritime trade of the
city. Macao is situated on a narrow
isthmus on the Chinese coast, at the
mouth of the Canton river. The place
was given to the Portuguese in 1585 by
tbc emperor of China as a reward for
their services in repelling the invasions
of Japanese pirates. In 1845 the port
was opened to foreigners, but the Chi
nese were subjected to a tariff until 1849.
f'ntil 1874 Macao was the great point for
•-hipping coolies to the west, hut the Chi
nese Mopped the traffic at that time.
The |wipulation is 100,000, of whom 90,-
000 are Chinese. In the event of a war
growing outof the overt acts of the Chi
nese government, the Portuguese would
doubtless lie triumphant.
When* a man empties the (lockets of
his coat preparatory to laying it out for
repairs, there’s nothing that make) his
conscience get upon its hind legs quick
er than the sight of the letter his wife
gave him to mad two months ago.
LATEST NEWS.
•mt’TII aXl* l»MT
An English company Is buying tip
1,900,000*1*** ot the wild lands of (Scoigiu.
Dh \V. F. {southern, a well-known
dentist of Memphis, died on the 12th iiiMant
of hemorrhage.
Cincinnati has voted in favor of issuing
$6,000,000 in bonds in addition to $10,000,000
already iasm-d to construct the Cincinnati
Southern railway.
•n. Gideon Pillow's property was
■old at bankrupt aale in Memphis, and par
'd by gentlemen who promptly pre
sented it to Mrs. Pillow.
The last rail on the Scioto Valley rail
road, between CoInniliUl, Ohio, and Circle-
villa,wna laid last week, thus completingono
link of (hi* important enterprise.
On Thursday, Kith Inst., the United
•tales marshal made a levy on all the prop-
riy belonging to the Vicksburg and Nash-
illc railroad, at Okoloua, Miss., including
he iron laid down on the road.
The tornado which swept through part
<f the northwest last 1'ridav afternoon was
cry disastrous in its effects, involving not
only great destruction of property, hut the
killing nml maiming of twenty or thirty per
il is stated that since the opening of
the cotton mills at Wesson, Miss., the town
lias doubled its population. Twenty-five
hundred hales of cotton and 225,000 pounds
ool have been purchased t»y the factory
tills season.
A premium of one thousand dollars
will lie paid by forty members of the Mem
phis cotton exchange to the producer of the
best little of cotton front Tennessee, Missis
sippi, or Alabama, to lie exhibited at Phila
delphia in July next. Memphis cotton holes
have already taken prir.es at the principal
world's fairs.
The firm of Woods, Voatinnii *S; Co.,
owners of the Cumberland iron works, and
Stewart A < ‘n., of Tennessee, have suspended.
Liabilities, about $2.70,000. It is supposed
their asset* will probably cover their liabili
ties. A large portion of the debt is owed Hi
Nashville, and other principal creditors arc
in Cincinnati, 1-oiiisville and St. Louis.
Capt. J. B. End* states that the twenty
feet depth has now been carried down one
mile and a quarter from the upper cud of
the works, and tin* channel is cutting out
rapidly. Where the Mattie II. Atwood
groan4ed on the lilt,drawing thirteen and a
half feel,there is now sixteen and a half feet
of water. Capt. Ends is confident that before
the end of the month he will have more water
between I lit- jellies than there is at south*
The latest intelligence from Hazel
Green, Wis., report* these fact*: The storm
struck the village between four nnd five
o'clock ill the afternoon on the west side,
sweeping through the entire village and
leveling
the
•five
building" nml killing outright soiiio eight
persons, besides seriously wounding some
twelve or more others. The carriage is re
ported as terrible. The hurricane was sue-
eeeded by a deluge of rnin and bail, The
village of Hazel Green niw a population of
probably one thousand inhabitants. It is
situated twelve miles directly east of Du
buque. it is almost wholly a mining village,
and is situated in the very heart of the best
Wisconsin lead diggings.
The southern freight railroad rates have
been still further reduced, in consequence of
the oonlintied conflict between the Virginia
and Tennessee Air Line of railroad and the
coast line of steamers. First, second and
third-class freight to Atlanta, twenty-five
rents per hundred pounds* fourth and fifth-
class, twenty cents. The rates to Hchim and
Montgomery have be$n reduced to twenty
cents per hundred pounds for first, seen
and third-class, and twenty-five cents
fourth and fifth-classes. These three pirn
arc to be made the distributing points for
freight destined to Middle, New Orleans,
F.iifauln, etc., and all intermediate points,
and the rates will therefore be reduced to a
responding ratio for all those places.
Capt. J. M. Beck, a retired lawyer of
omit Sterling, Ky., and a gentleman well
town for reliability, arrived in l/ouisville
st week, with specimens of the ilesh which
fell last Friday in Bath county. The. flesh
covered two acres of ground, nud resembled
mutton, nnd left traces of blood on frees and
fences which were touched by the falling
flakes. Chickens nnd lings devoured it with
evident relish. The heavens were dear and
the sun shone, and only floating clouds were
visible at the time—two p. m., March 3rd.
(Inantities of flesh have been preserved.
That brought to Lmisville was given to Prof.
Ijiwrcncr Smith, a well-known srientist, who
says it is no doubt animal flesh. He pur
poses making further examinations soon.
Hundreds of people are willing to attest with
affidavits to the truthfulness of the entire
mutter.
KANT.
The mildness of the winter in the city
of New York has left the distributors of coni
for the poor with 1,000 hnsfiels of surplus
justify their fiction fill the phnfiis'c conitiincd
i tlie sititfifl's ci-ndt* Iff it full mid perfect
quality with the Mohnmmedfins. The sub
lime portc refuses to accept, on the grounds
tlint the Christians arc not to ho trusted in
NINt'KI.I.ANKnitN,
It is considered doubt Ail If an Indict-
cut can he found against Belknap in the
aUnehro ot the runaway witness, Marsh.
There haa been 2,500 hills introduced
the house ot representatives during the
present session of congress.
The patent office at Washington dur
ing its business hours last year granted pa
tents at the rate of one every twelve minutes.
Postmaster-General Jewell statcH that
the revenue rtf his department has been
greater for the pasL/cw months than over
before.
The democratic state convention of
New York will lie held in Utica on the Stith
of April. Gov. Tilden's friends wanted it
held in Albany a few weeks earlier.
An elopement in high life in F.tiglntid
he exciting topic among the stnid John
Bulls. A fast young marquis nud a lord’s
fe arc the parties involved in the runaway
Recent cciihiih returtm give* them fig-
es: New York, 1,060,000; Philadelphia,
SOO,(NX); Brooklyn,. 1 *07,(XX); St. Louis,450,000J
'hiengn, HO,(XX); Boston, 310,(XXI; San Fran-
11 sco, 250,000.
(If the Geneva award, according to the
till now pending, only about $1,500,000 will
go to the actual losers of vessels by (he Ala
bama, while $5,000,000 go to reimburse those
who paid wnr premiums. The remaining
$ I,(XX),(XX) is set apart for the insurance com
panies.
l'he Iioukc committee on the Pacific
railroad has agreed to report and recommend
the passage of a hill to compel a reduction by
tlie Union Pacific railroad company of the
•sent charges of fitly rents per passenger,
ten dollars per car load for transportation
it the (linalm bridge.
The grand jury cannot find any indict-
int against Secretary Belknap, in tin- all-
icc of Marsh, the principal witness. The
assistant district attorney stales that tlie
videnee presented thus far to the grand
jury is insufficient to warrant it in beginning
indictment, and it is more than probable
that until Marsh can lie brought hack to tos-
tify it will lie impossible to punish Bclkuup
through the medium of a criminal proNecu-
Ihtniol Grow, who, in his days of pros-
rlly, was the lion of Wall street (besides
being alternately iijlmll and a bear), has failed
at last, and gone into bankruptcy. Daniel
was worth his millions n( one time, being a
formidable rival of Vanderbilt and Jay Gould
in stock speculation*. Of late years he has
met with a great many financial reverses,
and now in Ills old ngeihe is between seventy
and eighty) he is much worse oil than when
ho started put in his career of speculation.
A I’i.kahant Way Out. Mr. Giant
(colored)—Morniu', judge. I conic on a
circnuiHlancic I want you to dolilcidatc.
Judge Well, out with it.
Grant Well, de cireiiniHtancie oh dc
hisinissam din: You we, judge, in slu-
lierv time, I had tree wife on tree plan
tation. I ley got long lierry well toged-
der, when dev wa* apart , and I wan well
satisfaction, but since rebel time dew
“deviat'd statues” fotch up all dew dern
nonsense laws bout man and wife and I
find I aint got no wife'tall. Fa no joe-
tion to tint, lint jia here I wants your
legal precision. De file is, judge, I
wants to jino de cliueb. Dr I kiss leader
oay I can’t < une it on lew I get legally
inarrid. Now, kin I, 'cordin to law, mar-
rid all tree, or mint I inarrid but one?
FI' you say but one, and I 'tempt It, my
'Htiectable judge, you better l/levn dar
will lie de berry debbil ris on dat VaHion
in dat clutch.
Judge Mr. Grant, under the eirciim-
Htanees, I seriously advise you to rub out
all old worcsaml tiegin afresh. Marry a
CONGRESSIONAL
for
fuel on hand.
FOREIGN.
A letter from Mazatlnn, Mcxioo, says
• revolutionist* gathering in that neigh
borhood are securing arms, horses and re
cruit*.
Tlie recent hurricane in Germany in
flicted so much damage to the telegraph that
hereafter all new lines will be laid under
Gen. Haigo, chief commissioner of Ja
pan, vl ith suite, has arrived in Han Francisco,
bringing a large quantity of exhibits for the
centennial.
News front the City of Mexico is, that
in Yucatan the troops put to death some
revolutionist prisoners, ami the revolution
ists retaliated by shooting some federal
officers.
A new difficulty in the way of peace
has arisen in Turkey. The Christian sub
ject* of the sultan have hitherto been exempt
from military duty, and they now refuse to
pay tlie exemption tax, and offer instead to
give their military service. The Christians
Grant - • Gut's my ban: J g«
you, judge, all tie time. I tell you
white folks is smart. Whar dey can’t
crawfish out, cullitd folks no uw try.
A Man Almoht Bhiiied Alive. An
incident, published in our local items
yesterday, should not Ik; suffered to paw
without further notice. A laborer fell
in some form of a fit, grew stiff and cold
and was supposed to be dead. He was
carried to tlie shop of an undertaker and
put immediately into a coffin and the
lid was screwed down, preparatory of re
moving him to his residence. Before his
removal he recovered from his fit, kicked
the coffin to pieces and returned t« his
work. There would seem to have lieen,
in this case, a want of good judgment,
of common sense, and of consideration
amounting to grow culpability. It must
la; decidedly unpleasant to find one’s
self enclosed in a coffin, and to sonic per-
with some diseases, the shock from
this alone might I*' sufficient to cause
tttal death. In this ease, if the coffin
had been stronger and more perfectly
air tight the man would soon have died
from suffocation. Ho far as oil r^ report
shows theic was no medical examination
of the case and no coroner’s inquest
upon the Wly. Huch an occurrence
should Is* absolutely impossible in any
civilized community.—Providence Jour.
The Valle of Education.—Jake
was heard calling across the fence to his
neighbor’s son, a colored youth who goes
to school nt the Atlanta colored univer
Hity: “ l/ook hyar, boy, you goes ter
school, don’t yer?” “ Yes, sir - ’ replied
the boy. “ Oittin’ eddykashun,
yer?” “Yes, sir.” “Lamin’ ’rithme-
tick and figgerin’ on a slate,eh ?” “ Yes,
sir.” “ Well, it don’t take two whole
days to make a hour, do it?” “ W’y
NKNATK.
lit the senate, on the !0th, the elmir
presented a coiittiiutiionUott from the com-
inissinaer of agriculture III alumer to a reso
lution recently ruluuitled lit- SUiiattir .lottos,
rtf Florida, in regard lo tile growth of Sea
Island ortlton. (Irdered printed and refurrodi
Senator Sherman presented the resolution of
tlie (’iiiohiunli chamber of commerce tqqms-
ultnttgb lit tile JlroSciU law requiring
in any bridge to he erected over the
Ohio river. Referred. TDuscnnte then re
sumed tlie eonsiderutiou oi yiilinislicd liusi-
being a hill to enable the people of New
co to form a nonstltutlpn and state gov
ernment, and for the ndmiuHlon of said ter
ritory into the union on an equal footing
with the original states. The hill provides
that the eonxlUlltion to he framed, republican
in form, etc.., shall he submitted to the people
of the territory for their ratification or reten
tion, nt an election to ho held in November;
and if such constitution is ratified, the acting
governor shall certify (lie same to the presi
dent of the United States, who shall there
upon Issue his proclamation declaring the
state admitted without any further notion
whatever on tlie part of eungress. The hill
was rend a third lime and passed. The
amendments of the house to the hill changing
the time for holding terms of tlie district
court of the UuRod State* for the district of
West Virginia, were agreed to, and tlie Dill
passed, hut HuiiHcqueutly Senator Edmunds
I. J
i (he
, . 'hair then
announced that the eonslderallon of titioli-
Joe tod hills on tlie ealeiblar would lie resumed
at the point where it was left oft' yesterday
United States to that of twenty-live thousand
dollars per nnmitn, hot boforn it was consid
ered the senate went into executive session
ami adjourned to Monday.
In the mm ale, on the URIi, tho bill to
provide for and regulate the counting of
voIoh for prenident ant! vice-president came
up. Mr. Bayard briefly addressed the son
ata in opposition to tho bill. Mr. Morion
said tbit tho hill presented three important
changes from tlie old method, which he pro
posed to point not. The Dill provided for
franohiaoment of any of the states,
provides that the vote of everv stale shall lie
counted. Mr. Bout well said lie had not the
faith in tlie wisdom of the Dill that the chair
man |Morton] had, although lie should prod-
nldv vote for the hill. Mr. Thurman said it
was time that some such measure was adopt
ed, for he could easily foresee that the voles
of the states might sometime he thrown out
to such an extent ns to plunge tlie country
ith the Sioux ImllniiH in regard to a portion
of their reservation. The senate wet ' ' *
executive session and soon luljonrnctl.
In tho senate, on tIin' , 14th^Tno bill to
amend the revised statutes s« as to permit
national hanks to organize with a capital of
ffci),(xxi in towns, irrespective of population,
was stricken front tlie calendar and indefin-
itelv positioned. Mr. Logan presented the
petition ot three thousand ex-soldiers asking
for the passage of a Dill for the equalization
of homilies similar to one passed liy the Inst
congress. Referred. The loll fixing the salary
of president was taken up and passed.
In tho senate, on tho 15th, a petition
of citizens of Kansas in reference to Indian
depredations, was referred. Mr. Wright,
f'om the committee mi elainiH, reported ad
vcrscly on certain claims for damages arising
from Morgan’s raid, and asked that the cm
milieu he discharged from further emiHide
ation of the. subject. Agreed to. Mr. Coe
rcll, from the committee on claims, reported
adversely on the claim of TIioh. I 1 , .loiirdni).
Adopted. The hill to incorporate the Citi
zen's Diiildlng association of Washington win
taken up, and after considerable discussion
the ameiidiiieiit* of Mr. Ingalls were agreed
to and the hill passed. A hill was passed to
exclude Missouri from the provisions of the
i et to promote tlie development of the min
ing resources of the United States; also il
Dill to further the administration of justice
in Colorado. Mr. Allison, from the commit'
tee on Indian affairs, referred with amend
ments a hill providing for an agreement with
the Hiotix nation in regard to a portion of
their reservation and for other purpose
Ordered printed and placed on the eiileiiilar.
After executive session the senate adjoiirm
In tho senate, on tho Kith, Mr. Wi
•loin introduced a hill for establishing the
territory of Feinliinii. Beferred. Mr. Bmitwell
introduced the following resolution : That the
secretary of the treasury he requested to fur
nish, for the information of tin- senate, tlie
aiinmil product of gold and silver in th
United States, from in 15 to 1875 inclusive
• ' ’ otlie
i emi noc thin
ropria ions for tlie agricultural
. , o of the Importance oMIax grow
ing interests in his state, which he said would
be seriously Interfered with if Mr. Morrison’s
tapin'hill should become a law. Mr. Hunter
made a speech on tlie currency question,
debt, and in advocacy of the Dill introduced
establish a uniform rate of in-
the United States. Ad-
by l.ii
tcreftt through'
Jouriied.
In tho house, on tho l'Uh, Mr. Camp
bell presented a petition of seven hundred
and thirteen citizens of Illinois, asking for
the repeal of tho resumption net; referred.
Tho following hills worn introduced nud re
ferred: I’rohiliiliug contributions from offi
cers and employees of the government for
political purposes; allowing three months’
jiny to officers and soldiers of the Mexican
war; for the Dcnclit of distillers of a less
quantity than live hundred barrels per year;
granting the right of way to railroad
Monday.
icssion, the >
idjourncd until
My t-nimd Is nut death tail liglii." he said ;
I ere I answered, pnssliiu out <•( sight,
Oil Ids celestial embassy He sped.
Then fell upon tho house a sudden gloom.
A shadow oil whose features fair slid thin ;
Arid softly, Loin dial hushed and darkened rooi
AlllsoIUod! II lie hill wave Ills hand,
I lie minis rolled, tlie ratu falls tlilek and h in'
Till with a smile oi light on sea and land.
(rum llie departing eloud.
Angels ot
WIC
if tin,
inmpiuilcH through the Imlinu territory,
. 'S'
Mr. Baker offered u resolution that tlie
people of the Untied States constitute one
nation and not a mere confederacy of states
nations; that tho constitution was formed
by the people acting in their primary and
individual capacity through their delegates
(hereto duly constituted; that the govern
ment under the constitution is one of the
people, hv tlie people, and for the people,
and that in its appropriate sphere the gov
ernment of tills nation is sovereign and hii-
irciiic; that in its nature il ls permanent and
tidisHolulilo except by tlie action mid cou
nt of the whole people; tlmt no Htate Inis
i.v right or authority to judge of tho consti
tutionality of laws unacted by congress, or to
nullify (lie execution of tlie* same, and tlmt
rt acts by any state, or pcniilu thereof,
ssion therefrom, or of rebellion against
the same, constitute treason, and that tho
rar of the rebellion for the dismember-
of tlie Union was causeless and inde
fensible on any theory of right or of consti-
tutlonnl law. Ho called for the yeas and
i, which were ordered. The resolution
rejected—111 to 72- -two-thirds not voting
in the affirmative. Mr. Cox then tillered the
following: That the people of the United
States constitute a nation in the sense and to
(lie extent and for the purposes defined ill
the Federal constitution; that the govern-
ral slates in their sovereign'rapacity
that the rights and powers of the United
Stales government are defined and limited
by the Federal constitution, and these right
and powers cannot lie enlarged or dimin
ished except by nn amendment to the con
stitution; that tho right* of the status have
ral government, and tlmt local domestic
overiimeiit by the several stales within tho
hails of the constitution In absolutely lice-
essary for the preservation of tho liberties of
itixun ami tlie continuance of our popu
lar system of government; that tho doctrine
any state has the right to secede from
tho Union is in conflict witli tlie idea of per
pctmil union as uoiltonqilated by (lie const!
iulion and should lie regarded as lieing for-
•vor extinguished by the result of (lie reepiit
Ivll eontliet. The yens ami iiavs were called
for nnd tlie resolution was inlopted-
12. Mr. Wells ollered a resolution calling
for tho information as to the cotton claims
presented and paid liy the treasury depart
ments since January, 18(15, ’ ’ “
ye •
' Yei
An 1
it’s bin two days scnce yer borrowed it.
Now, what good’s cddykaahuu gwine ter
do you thick-skulled niggers when yer
go to school a whole year an’ den can*
tell how long it taken to fotch back
hatchit?” The lxjy got mud and slung
the hatchet over the fe
through an ash barrel.
! and half way
IIOIINK.
Ill the house, on the 10th, Mr. Ct
red a resolution reciting from the reports
of tho secretary of the treasury, that between
the 31st of January nml the 24th of February
there was an Increase of coin ami bullion in
the treasury to the amount of over eighteen
million dollars; ami that between the24th of
February and the 29th of February there was
a redaction of over twenty million dollars:
that these great fluctuations, within so short
a time, require explanation, and instructing
tlie committee on ways nml means to examine
the hooks of the treasury department, if nec
essary, and the officers thereof, It* ascertain
tlie causes of such fluctuations, and also Dm
ascertain whether legal-tender notes reeci-ed
for tlie redemption of national bank notes
are kept as a special fund, nr whether they
are held in common with other money. Be
ferred. The house then wentlntoeommittec
of the whole on the legislative and judicial
appropriation hill, and was addressed by Mr.
Phillips
i, requiring the
of tlie original owners
ami of the attorneys also, and as to (lie
nt-r of payioig fees in such eases, mid whether
there has born any combination to defraud
the government ill respect lo such claims,
Adopted, and the house adjourned.
In the house, on the 14th, Mr. Atkina
reported hack the senate iimcmlmciitn to tlie
pension appropriation hill, which were com
•urred in. Mr. .Junks offered a resolution
'ailing on the secretary of the interior for
information ns to the defalcation of Win. T.
'ollins, late pension agent in Washington
Ity. Adopted. Mr. Ilunton,from tlie (mil
iary committee, reported a resolution calling
hi the attorney-general for copies of all lei-
ers, telegrams ami papers asking for the
removal of Judge Bedford, of Colorado.
Adopted. The house then went into et
milieu of t he whole oil the legislative npp
prlntion hill nml was addressed hy Mr. Ben
nett, of Idaho. Adjourned,
In the house, cm the I5llt, Mr. Wall
ing offered a resolution Instructing the
milieu on District of ('oluinliia lo iuqtii
to the new assessment of personal lax in the
district, authorized In the net of March 3,
1875. Adopted. Mr. Faulkner offered a
lotion instructing the committee on foreign
afliiirs to inquire into the powers et
mi A. B.Mtelnliorger as special agent
inissioncr to Haiiiaon or Navigators’ islnml
The house then went Into committee of the
whole on the legislative appropriation hii',
ami was addressed liy Mr. Felton. Speeches
were Mimic hy Mr. Atkins in favor of the
Texas ami Pacific railroad hill, liy M
rant) in advocacy of reform ami economy, hy
Mr. Miller in favor of soiiml specie cur
rency, and hy Mr. Junks in favor of the
transfer of the pension bureau from the In
terior to the war department. The rnmmil-
tco then rose and the house adjourned
In the house, on tlm Iffth, the hill for
the distribution of unappropriated moneys
of the Geneva award was recommitted and
made the special order for Mareli 29th. The
hill to provide for holding terms of the dis
trict nml circuit courts of the United State
at Jackson,Tenn., passed. Mr. Jlunton, from
the judiciary committee, reported hack tlie
resolution directing the attorney-general '
transmit to the house all tinners ami letle
asking for the removal ot Judge Bedford,
district judge for the territory of Colorado,
and tin- appointment of Judge Slone; nlso,
all papers appertaining to the alleged en
rapt rulings of .fudge Stone. Adopted. M
llnrd,from tlie judiciary committee, rcporle
a bill providing for holding terms of distrii
and circuit courts at Chaltaanooga, Teal
Passed. The hoiiao then went into eonimitle
if the whole, Mr. Savler in the chair, on tli
hill to supply the deficiency in the currency,
printing and engraving bureau of the treas
ury department, nml for the issue of siIvc
coin in place of fractional currency,
hill appropriates $1(13,000, ami directs the
sretary of the treasury to issue silver co'
redemption of ail fractional currency oi
standing. Mr. Linders offered a rcsojuti
to restore the elective government in t
District, of Columbia. Beferred. The lion
then adjourned.
latter said the only relation the government
should sustain to hanking should be Insecure
these three ends- first, uniformity; second,
convertible into coin; ami third, absolute
security to hill holders. Adjourned.
Jn the house, on the I Ith, Mr. Atkins,
from the committee on appropriations,
ported a bill appropriating $l(N),000 to supply
the deficiency in tho appropriation for certain
Sioux Indians. Passed Mr. Cook, from the
committee on military affairs, reported a Dill
to equalize bounties of soldiers of tlie late
war. Referred. Mr. Morgan offered a
lotion relating to the grant of lands by the
United States to the Southern Pacific railroad
ouipnny, and the condition, disposition and
IMIKI. VINIT.% Vf,
Amt lisleneil, (nr I lliought l hiaut <mmI m
lowing wlmlmi’cr He seal was best,
neither lo liitneiil aoi to rejoice.
h a smile, that till'd tlie house with light,
Without Ills leave I
e and death alike are Ills :
Against Ills messengers to shill the limn ?
Tin: GRAND KFITBI.IC.
Nliuniuotti Nlcmitci- Ntoinge Itonin tor
I,nilO Holes of Cotton.
I’lte sloamor Grand Republic, Captain
tit. II. Thorwogiitl, will, when ahocom-
tiuuicos her career of tiHofulncsa, create a
sensati'in along the western and Houthcru
waters. Much interest already centers
iu her future, and therefore tho follow
ing particulars of her construction and
jirogrannuo of her prospective travels will
lie read with pleasure hy the (fiends of
the gallant captain and his enterprise :
The dimensions of the sleaiuer are:
Hull, 850 feet in length, 101 feel, width;
heap), 56 feet 8 inches; 54 feet 0 inches
floor; hull, 10] feet deep in the clear;
bottom plank, l]c inches; floors, II] hy
•I] inches; binding streaks, 8 by 10; deck,
inches; entire deck frame, outriggers
and imams, oak ; all lints are plateil and
doublet bolted ; frame is double fastened
with i} iiiul fc inch snuaro IriHh; knuckle
kelsons, 12by I<1 incites; main kcIhoii, II
by 2-1 inches.
The engines are Hnrtupoo compound
engines. The two large cylinders are 5(5
inches; the smaller ones are 2(5 Inches
dinmotor, with 10 feet stroke. Connected
ith them are two of A. F. Blake A Co.’s
(Boston) improved air-pumps, which are
12x28x80 inches. (These pumps, iu ease
ideal, can be used to take water
from the hull, and are capable of throw
ing 50,000 gallons per minute, throwing
a 20-inch solid stream each. They are
tho largest and finest, wrecking pumps in
the western country.)
two doetor engines, with
two (1-iiieh ptfmpH each. There are t wo
lire engines, one midship and one for
ward, which throw a -1-inch stream each
o any part of the boat. There are two
'iigiues to the forward capstan, one en
gine to the after capstan and one engine
to the freight elevator, making fourteen
distinct engines.
Tim Ifoilorft, seven in number, are 28
feet long, -12 inches in diameter, and
have two return flues 15 inches indium-
They, with the steam drums, are
made of the best steel. The fire fronts
and doetor engines rest in boiler-iron wn-
I'he chimneys are 72 inches in dinme-
•, 7(* leet high from the hurricane
deck, and 118 feet from tlmwater tntheir
tops.
The shafts are 20 feet long, 18]
the journals; four flanges on cad:, 22
ns in the flanges; wheels, .'18 feet in
diameter, 18 feet bucket.
saloon cabin is 270 feet in
length, 80 foot iu width, and 15 feet in
height ; has 50 10-feet rooms and 2 15
feet, bridal chnmhors.
The cabin is very handsome, being in
tho Gothic style, ornamented with col
umns,'scroll-work, etc.; thoroughly ven
tilated, with extra skylights, with many
passageways from the ealiin to the nviin
and upper decks.
The, toxns or upper cabin is large and
roomy; has accommodations for one hun
dred passengers, and will he thoroughly
furnished for our colored friends.
The steamer Grand Republic, built,
commanded and owned byCnpt.Wm. H.
Thorwegan, is the largest steamer ever
built in the world (o navigate inland wa-
Him has capacity for 5,000 tons of
cargo, and stowage room for 15,000 hales
if cotton; will accommodate 400 first
•ahin and 500 deck passengers. Him is
dcgantly furnished and outfitted for the
traveling public, iH first class iu every re
spect--without doubt, the finest steam*
Isiat ever built. Him Iiiih all tlm late im
provements to secure safety known at the
present day. Him was Imilt to run be
tween Ht. Louis and New Orleans. Her
draft of water is very light, drawing but
thirty-three inches forward, and four
feet t wo inches aft. In couscqucnco of
light draft, she will run regularly
between tlm above named cities, leaving
Ht. Louis about every twenty-one days
during tlie entire year, except when the
r is obstructed liy ice. Him will lie
plated about the 25t h of this month,
immediately enter her trade, paying
sit to the Lads jetties, at tlm moil lit
of the Mississippi river. On her maiden
trip, she will carry a full string and brass
hand, and make, this excursion trip
of pleasure to all on board. Him is to be
facts and fancies.
When a malt detects a missing button
after getting on a clean sbirt, no one in
the house is aware of tlie fact. Ho takes
oil’ tho shirt and puts on another, quiet
ly smiling all tho while. Ho never,
nover speaks to a soul. Oh, no!
A COUNTRYMAN went to see his lady
love,and wishing so bo conversational, oli-
hotved, “The thermomokron Ih twenty
degrees above scion this evening. ’
“Yes,” innocently replied Mm maiden
“such birds do fly higher some seasons of
the year than others.”
Wall street brokers who advertise in
country papers and send out circulars
asserting that money in sums of $50 to
$5,000 invested by thorn In their way
tends to fortune, cautiously omit t<> "t«do
wito gets the fortune. It is not tho man
who furnishes the money.
The Prince of Wales is a mighty hunt
er. Nimrod is no where. Boxed up in
a lMimh-proof tower, he actually killed
a tiger driven towards him hy heaters,
and all Albion rings with uccInnmtioijN
of praise and rejoicing. Unless ho is
belled, however, bo lias bunted the
tiger when tho beast got nitteU the best
of him.
Tub membership of trades unions in
New York city has fallen from 48,01)0
. ....... . i .1- ti... nr. moo
the first boat formally through the jolt ii
in 1878 to 18,000, and of the 75,000
artisans, mechanics and laborers in tho
dty about one-third are out of emjiloy-
all of tho building
trades have coino down to a day,
and those of laborers nnd ’longshoremen
to $1 a day.
Negro women iu Jeffersonville, Indi
ana, sell babies for old rags. A rag ped
dler discovered one in a sack of old rags
which ho had purchased. It. was white,
ami the negro woman said slm was hoard
ing it, for a white woman. Her story is
that the child crawled into the bag, and
slm did not know it was there when she
Mild it. The li« tie waif was nearly smoth
ered when found.
Home young ladles of Whitmore lake,
Michigan, undertook to get up a dona
tion for Rov.T. L. Fierce, by retailing
kisses, and succeeded ill disposing of
ninety, for which the aggregate receipts
woro four dollars and a half. But the
investors complained that the girls
pinched up their lips, and skimmed the.
measure to such a degree that they mado
a profit of one thousand per cent.
“ A man,” says the. New York Times,
“may he a failure as a United States
senator; he may even disgrace his coun
try iu a foreign official position ; or lie
may steal the people’s money, wear
prison stripes, and still manage to rub
along very comfortably through life.
But to fail as a*ear conductor is to bo a
social and moral wreck. To havo one h
bell-punch and twenty-five dollars de
posit titken away is to bo sent upon a
cold and heartless world a vagabond.
A model for a wonderful ferry across
the British channel and the Atlantic lias
been tried in England. Tho structure
consists of three parallel tubes, far enough
apart to allow paddles to work between
them, f lic whole lieing linked together to
form a single vessel, covered hy a deck,
on which tho inventor, Mr. Edgar ton,
proposes to carry railway trains and a
thousand head of cattle at a time. 1 he
channel passage iH to he made with these
ferries iu an hour and a half; and flit It jo
are to he transported across the Atlantic
at the rate of two pounds a bead.
Till! Scientific American says ol tlm
(Ireal Britain,” one of the first made
,1-011 vessels, and olio of the earliest to
ply between New York and Liverpool,
that she has recently arrived at Liver-
1KH.I roimpletct lior U.irty-iMxtli
trip im.uiiil Uio world. Hio (Imilt
llnliiin ” wiik built III Bristol, Knglunil,
and in duly, IMd, mado her mnidmi
voyage from Liverpool to New York in
fourteen days. Hinco IKK!, Independ-
onlly of her employment in llje Orlmet
during IKM nnd iMili, idle linn nailed
over ono million imntlenl miles, nnd
when recently surveyed elm was pro-
mimed one of Hie slrongenl vessels In
io mercantile marine.
.. Wn know tlm puldie is down upon
„s," remarked flro old milkman, ns Im
dipped mil the desired quart from one ol
losing onus, •• hutlhe puhlm.smis nken.
In the liiel plnco we pul in n leetlc wn-
ter—only u bit, lo mnke up for shrlnk-
11 goes lo tlm log dealers, and they
In bit keorfu! when they git to pour-
in water. They Hells it to the gro
om, arid they put ill chalk with one
hand and water with tho other,and they
thinking of politics midget in too
much. The servant gal goes after milk
fur the family and drinks a third of it,
and she puts in water to make up the
measure; and, you see, when the family
gits it, flic taste ain’t there, and they
goes for us poor old men, whoGuinn t.u
dishonest hair in our heads. I hat s the
way, mister—geo up, were, Homer.
HoMEttoDY relates this little story for
the benefit of Christian tradesmen : A
gentleman wandering through the ba
zars desired to buv an embroidered
handkerchief of a Turkish riiopkccj>er;
Internal Beauty.—“ Handsome
that handsome does,” is an old adage with
truth in it; as witness the boy who wa
sliding down hill on his sled last wintc
iu the street, and ran into a lady’s dress.
Hpringing to hit feet, ho expressed his
regret at the accident, when the lady
kindly remarked, “There’s no great harm
done, my boy; you feel worse about it
than I do.” “ But your dress is ruined,”
said the lad. “ I thought you would he
very angry.” “ Better have a spoiled
dress than a rufiled temner,” the lady re
plied; and as she passed on the boy ex
claimed to bis eomtmnions: “ Isn’t she a
lieauty?” “Gull lier a beauty,” said
one of them; “she’s more than forty and
got wrinkles! ” “I don’t care for that,”
mras ■53KZS: tEE'E reuirtc.1 the hd, “tor noul is Handsome,
*, into committee of the whole ou the anyhow.
He asked the
“ Heventy-five
Worth Knowing.- Prof. Wilder, c
Cornell university, gives these short rule
for action in ease of accident: For dust
in the eyes avoid rubbing; dash
water in them ; remove cinders, etc., with
the round point of a lead pencil. If
move insects from the ear hy tepid wale
never pul a lut'd instrument into the
car. If any artery is cut compress it
above the wound ; if a vein is cut,
press it below. If choked go upon all
fours and cough. For slight burns'dip
the part in cold water; if the skin i
stroyed, cover with varnish. For
iilexy raise the head and body ; for faint
ing lay the person flat.
A Detroit lady was trading at a
Woodward avenue dry goods store the
other day, when she ran short of money
and asked tlie clerk to put the balance
on the liooks. He cheerfully agreed,
and said lie would send the* bill to her
husband. “ You’d better send it to me,”
she said, as she figured up the cost.
“ I’ve got a peculiar husband. If that
hill reads eleven dollars for sugar, coffee
and tea, he’ll give me the money with
out a word. If it reads for balance due
on dry goods, he’ll see you iu Texas be
fore he pays it. Make it out for groce
ries. It is my duty as a good wife to
pander to his feelings.”
,m„u- that it is usual among all traders,
whatever their creed, to ask at. first
more than the value; “ that is too much ;
1 will give you soventy;” and as the
dealer seemed to assent he counted out
the, money. But great was Ids surprise
whoji the honvy-benrded Osmauli,
gravely pushing hack to him twenty
piasters, observed : “This is more than
the just price. It is always the custom
here to bargain over a thing down to its
fair value, and us fifty piasters is mjr
fair price, those twenty belong to you.
Home curious relics were found in tlie
old elm of Boston Common. A flattened
bullet was discovered imbedded in the
trunk eighteen ring.- from the center,
and beneath the tree was a medal wmen
is described as follows: “ It is of a large
size, of copper or bronze, and has a me
dallion head on one side, and on the
other figures of justice with scales and
sword, and of religion with a cross,jin
,i circular IcmijiIc hi the Background,
with a date which seems to bo 1604, or
M l), -HII 'The obverse side ol tno
mt .<lal Issini tho following ImcrinUon:
Front! I. Par. ct Pine. Dux, which in
English would read Francis I., duke of
Parma and Piacenza. There is also a
head of Francis I. On the reverse are
the words, ‘Juguntur ut impereat,
.i :-i. itt.»« °joined that they
which mean, ‘They i
may rule.”*