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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W, S, D. WIKLE & 00., Proprietors.
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, MONDAY, MAY 8, 187(5.
VOL. If. NO. 47.
TIMELY TOPICS.
M«. Moody, it in announced, will bo
K> n revival services in Augusta, Ga.,
May 1, to continue one week. The
Charleston, 8. C., Young Men's Christian
association have invited hint to visit
that city.
The Dreadrcn News insists that Prus
sia spends too much money on the army
and too little on schools, and nays : “ In
that kingdom (Prussia) are to Ihj found
15,000 children who learn absolutely
nothing, ltecause no masters, not even
bad ones, are provided for them. About
one. hundred nud fiity thousand pupils
are confided to women, for the most part
ignorant, and to boya, and about two
hundred thousand more are instructed
by masters of other schools than their
own, when time ami circumstances |>cr-
init. In a large number of the Prussian
schools it has been found necessary to re
duce the studies to half a day on account
of the want of tutors, and the situation
of them' institutions Itccomcs worse
daily.”
Mihh Emma Pai.mkk is the last “me
dium” exposed—this time in Washing
ton. Hho materialized flowers and ex
temporized {stems. A sharp observer
substituted another sheet of paper for
one on which she had, Ik* fore leaving
home, extemporized n poem in pen and
ink, and an assortment of flowers was
found in a long pocket under her hustle.
Then, without blushing, she declared
that malicious spirits had surreptitiously
built the |s>ckct there on purpose to
“give her away and then spiritualists
were delighted and paid her more money!
Exposures are of no more urn to consti
tutional spiritualists than eyes nro to n
cave bnt.
A number of German savans were
lately taken in and done for by speci
mens of pottery manufactured in Jerusa
lem, and sold at a high price to the
Berlin museum as genuine Monbitlsh
antiquities. English and French scholars
exposed the forgeries; hut the clearer
the imposture Ixraine the angrier the
German savans got, like the professors
who stood sponsors for the Cardiff giant
in this country. Prof. Mommsen said
of the controversy, the other day, in the
Prussian Diet: "I know of no interna
tional scientific controversy which was
ever fought U|>on cither side in so tingen-
tlemanly a way as this by the German
professors,”
A qt KHTioN concerning the origin of
the phrase 44 lllnck Friday” elicits va
rious answers from correspondents of the
New York Evening Post. It was on
Friday, the 8th of June, 1(588, that King
James II. sent the seven bishops fo the
tower. The dny was long called “lllack
Friday" by nearly the whole English
nation. Again, the Loudon panic of 18fifl
wns at its height at mid-day on Friday,
May 12, and that day was named “ Mack
Friday” by the London Times. Jim
Fisk's ” Black Friday” was the last, and
fell in the month of September, 1809.
It may lx* worthy of note that the panic
of 1873 also broke out in the closing days
of September.
It seems that the London financiers
have played a pretty sharp trick upon
the Pnrisiau Bourse and have unloaded
immense quantities of English securities
upon French capitalists. The English
ap|*enr to have taken advantage of Mr.
Cave's report, of which they first ap
preciated the significance; and by dex
trous manipulation the Paris oficrators
wen* induced to bite at the gilded bait
offered by their shrewd English rivals.
So enormbus w ere the ojx*rntions and so
terrible the losses that real distress has
been suffered by those interested, and
an nppeal was made to the French gov
ernment to help them out of the scrape.
Put President MacMahon and jhi* min
isters could do nothing for them, and
loud are the outcries against 44 perfidious
Albion.” This is not the first time that
the English have showed themselves too
smart for their continental rivals.
MfKHTAR Pasiia has been badly
whipped in his last attempt to succor
the Turkish garrison of Niksiki, and the
fate* of those half-starved wretches is
sealed. The Turks have rarely obtained
any advantage in fighting the insurgents
of the western provinces. Ft is a most
difficult country for regular military
operations, and as the insurgents fight
after the fashion of guerrillas they have
the advantage. The mountains of Her
zegovina form deep hollows, at the bot
tom of which are frequently found
streams, the banks 'being in many in
stances 8,000 feet nigh. The roads are
mere bridle-paths, and riders have to
dismount going down hill. In many
places only two men can march abreast,
and gfxid sharpshooters, stationed among
the overhanging rocks, can do deadly
work. In certain places, as at Nevesinje,
large plateaux are found, and to keep
the Turks from operating on such van
tage ground has been the aim of the in
surgents It is likely that Mukhtar
Pyha has been forced into the fatal
gulches, and the dispatch probably cor
rectly states,that his army wiil Ik? anni
hilated. In the meantime the porte is
hurrying forward recruits from Asia to
continue the warfare against the “Chris
tian dogs.”
LATEST NEWS.
VOI’TII AND WKMT.
< >nly on« million dollars wns tho cost
of tlio residence in Han Kmneisen of Indnnd
Sanford, president of tho Central Pacific
railroad.
The Atlnntic and Pacific telegraph
company will at once build new lines from
Washington to New Orleans and Mobile,
taking in several cities on the way.
Gen. Sabert Oglesby, who lmd com
mand of tho division of Andrew Jackson’s
army nearest the river in the battle of Now
Orleans, is still living in Trias. He was one
hundred years old in February.
An EnglhOi agent representing a cap
ital of fifteen million dollars is in Charlotte,
S’. considering the expediency of estab
lishing a smelting furnace for the treatment
of Kulphurcts and refractory ores.
The City National lmnk, of Chicago,
owing to n run, has suspended, and will go
into voluntary bankruptcy. Liabilities, $800,.
000; assets, $130,000 over all liabilities. The
other banks of the city nre seriously affected
l»y the failure.
John Bannock, while working in his
field, near Forrest, Ohio, about a week ngo,
became enraged nud killed his little son, in
the presence of his little daughter. Tho hit
ter told some neighbors, and on searching
the field tile body was found. Hanuoek was
jailed.
Gov. Coke, in his annual message to
the Texas legislature, in referring to the
Mexican raids, says there is no hope of any
better condition of affairs ns long as the Hiu
Grande remains the limit to which the
thieves can be pursued. Ho favors pursuit
ou Mexican soil.
Orders have been issued to command-
ing officers at Fort Laramie to, as fai ns pos
sible, protect travelers between that point
and Custer city, hilt their force is Inadequate
to the task other than occasional scouting
parties. Herious trouble is apprehended from
sinnll hamU of Indians, who will not attack
large welt armed parties.
i/ouisiann this year it is said will have
tin* largest crop of native hammas ever
grown. The winter has been so mild that
the fruit continued to grow throughout the
season, and while tho leaves were badly
burnt by the ice, the fruit was entirely un
injured, nnd large clusters of half-grown
han.-inns ran he seen upon many trees.
A dispatch received by General Sher
idan from General Crook says the Indians at
Hod Cloud nre on the verge of starvation,
owing to neglect in forwarding supplies;
that unless immediate steps are taken to
supply them, they will nil leave the reserva
tion, and fenrs lire entertained from their
present temper, they will make a raid on the
whites.
The latest reports from the agricul
tural districts of Louisiana indicate an im
provement in the plnuting operations and
the condition of the growing crops. The
severe storm* early in the season done much
damage to outhouses nud fences, and the
cold snap immediately following killed a
I good portion of the corn nnd garden vege
tables in a number of districts. The favor-
j able turn ill the weather during the last week
! or two has done miieh toward making good
| the damage done, hut us yet seeding opera-
; lions are a week or two weeks late. In the
i district in nnd around the pnrisli of I'lnquc-
I mines, sugar eane is ngnin bearing leaves.
Hire planter* nre plowing blit as yet, hut
I little has been sown. In the vicinity of
Point Coupee fnrmcrs lire actively engaged
in plow ing cotton and corn land, w hile sugar
planting is nearly finished. Farmers in this
I district are planting more cereals than ever
! before, but the acreage of cotton will prole
| ably be up to the average. Inoth^f <JJflnctH
the condition of planting operations about
the same an at the place* named.
Farm lalxircrs in Vermont are engag
ing themselves at fifteen dollars per month
and hoard, where last year twenty-five dol
lars was paid.
Besides the losses from the unparal
leled falling of! in immigration, New York
has lost one-fourth of its import trade in four
years, an the suhioiued table will show:
187:* 3 ..$325,015,000
1873 -1 280,100,000
1871-5 270,107,000
1875-0 240,883,000
These lost imports were not diverted to
other ports, nearly all the other importing
cities in this country showingn proportioned
'Hie New York Herald publishes a list
of church and other property in New York
exempt from taxation. It shows that fifty
thousand lots, valued at one hundred ami
twenty-six million one hundred nnd seventy
thousand dollars, pay no tax to the city gov
ernment. The cost of gas to the lumps kept
burning before the churches at the expense
of the city, is fifty thousand dollars. These
figures and facts nre grouped as a note of
warning on the subject of church taxation,
which threatens at no distant dny to be one
.o! the leading questions of the great political
parties.
The New York Herald takes a cheerful
view of the business outlook. It thinks the
htismcK* prospects of New York are better
now than many have anticipated. There has
been a depreciation in the value of property,
bnt owners of real estate prefer to hold their
investments to selling them nt panic prices.
44 Altogether,” siys the Herald, 44 we may feel
that we are to have n Better year than we
have had for some years pas*. There is the
cetilennial as an artificial impulse to help ns
as well as our plucky and well deserving city
of Philadelphia. We shall have the election,
also, in its wav a stimulus to business activity
and enterprise.”
FOREIGN-
The plague in Mcsapotamia is increas
ing. .Since last report there have been five
hundred nnd thirty-three new cases nnd two
hundred nnd eighty-eight deaths.
A dispatch from Harbadocs says forty
persons have been killed and wounded, nnd
five thousand prisoners taken. Rioting is
suspended, but the position is threatening.
1'onfidencO in the government is entirely
gone.
Tin* statistical office of tho German
railway line* linn published the returns of
the accidents which happened during tho
year 1875 on all German railways except the
Bavarian lines. There were 755 riinuings-off
the rails and collisions of trains outside, and
11*170 runnings off tho rails and collisions
Inside tliu stations, and 1,350 accidents of
divers natures by which the regular service
was interrupted. These accidents have
caused the loss of tho lives of 500 persons;
1,515 persons were hurt. Tho proportion of
accidents to tho number of passenger trains
was l to 5,304, and to that of goods trains 1
Tho budget of Honor Snlllvorn, tho
Spanish minister of finance, docs not appear
v Encouraging. „ He estimates the reve
nue for the financial year at 033,000,(8)0 pes
etas, or $120,000,000, nnd the expenditures
at 054,000,000 pesetos, or $130,800,000. As
Spain lias n yearly deficit of from $25,000,-
000 to $50,000,000, Salllvera will probably
find his estimated deficit for the present
year far out of the way, especially ns money
has to ho raised in unknown quantities to
carry on the war in Culm. The expenses of
public worship alone, for this year, as an
nounced by the royal decree last January,
nre $103,702,200. Scaur Snllivcrn, however,
proposes to cut down the salaries of the
clergy ns well as those of certain civil func
tionaries, a measure which will, doubtless,
meet with opposition. Spain’s total debt Is
estimated at nearly $2,000,000,000.
CI’.I.I.AXKOIIN.
Tho postofllco Appropriation has been
agreed upon. The amount, thirty-three mil
lion dollars; about three million five hun
dred thousand dollars less than last year.
Tho New York World says; In view
of the fart that the state of New York will
exercise a powerful, if not a controlling in
fluence in the election of the next president,'
the democratic party is more mid more crys
talling about the name of Gov. Tilden.
Tho house committee on territories hns
agreed to report favorably on the senate Dill
for the admission of New Mexico. The only
important nmendmunt provides tlmt no elec
tion for the ndoption of a stale constitution
shall not tie had earlier than June, 1877. The
senate provides not later than January, 1877.
It is stated that tho French minister
of foreign affairs is considering the basis of
a commercial treaty with tho United Slates.
It iN proposed to place French silks nnd
wines «in an advantageous footing ns to tariff
in the United Hiatt**, while France in return
is to subject American cotton to only a small
import duty.
At the beginning of the next fiscal year
a large reduction will he made in the clerical
force of the United .Stales treasury depart
ment, which will render necessary the dis
charge of several hundred of the present
employes. The amount of this reduction
will depend upon the action which congress
finally takes on the appropriation hill now
pending ill the house.
In order to cover the ex|M>nsc8 of the
centennial exhibition, it will he necessary to
obtain $1,500,000 through tlx; medium of ad
mission foes, as (hat is the amount of the
deficit, the total expenses having been esli-
mated nt $8,5(8),(KM), with the following re
state of Pennsylvania $1,000,000
City of Philadelphia 1,500,000
Concessions, gifts and interest 500,(MX)
Ntork subscription* . 2,500,(K)0
Appropriation by the United .States 1,500,000
Total $7,000,000
A Washington dispatch states that
steps are being taken by the atlorney-geiieral
to take possession for the government of the
Hot Hpriogs reservation, Arkansas. Judge
Pierreponl will move for the appointment
of a receiver for these lands. It is under
stood that threats have been made ngninst
persons attempting to take possession for
the government, nud in this event it is cer
tain that troops will ho brought into requi
sition to enforce the decision of the court.
Mr. T. H. Hunt, of Boston, has com
piled some statistics concerning the mineral
wealth of the country which nre really in
teresting. He divides the country hy a north
nud south line at the eastern base of the
Rocky mountain*, upon the Atlantic side n|
which arc coal, iron, copper, lend, salt nnd
petroleum, and upon the Pacific side the
more precious minerals. The grand total of
coal for 1873 he finds to he about fifty mil
lions of tons. In 1872, Iron reached Its high
est figures of production,the total being two
million eight hundred and eighty thousand
nnd seventy tons. In 1874 the Lake Hiipe
ri or mines alone turned out seventeen thou
sand tiirec hundred and twenty-seven tons
of copper. The product o’ petroleum rose
from five hundred thousand barrels in 1850
to ten million eight hundred and sixty-seven
thousand nine hundred nnd thirty barrels in
1871. West of the Rocky mountains the
official figures show that California, Nevada,
Idaho, Montano, t.'tah, Colorado, Oregon,
Washington and New Mexico yielded of the
previous metals, $72,428,205 in 1874, and in
1875, $80,880,037.
Advices from Washington indicate
that there i* a temporary run on all of the
Hub-Treasuries from which silver Jh being
paid out. Hence there is a growing scarcity
of fractional currency nod a slight premium
attached to the latter. The government
commenced paying on Wcdnesdny with
$16,000,000 of coin pieces in the vaults nnd
a capacity of running off $3,000,000 a month
all the time. In a month or two, if neces
sary, that capacity could lie almost doubled.
The amount of silver eoin nnd bullion in
the hands of the government is $20,000,000—
possibly when all is coined $21,000,000—and
payments during the rush have been about
$1,000,COO a day, and it is estimated that the
rush will he kept up for three or four days
longer. It is said, however, that there is no
danger that there will he any scarcity of
silver for the redemption of fractional cur
rency, because there are only $42,000,000 out
standing, of which $10,000,000 or $12,000,000
are lost or destroyed, and $10,(XX),000 per
haps will be floating around lor some time.
There i* only the danger of hoarding, which
is incident to any change in the system of
paper money back to a coin system.
CONGRESSIONAL.
NRNATS.
In tho senate, on the 21th, the hill to
abolish the office of supervisor of iiitcrnnl
revenue was discussed until the expiration
of Hu* morning hour, wU*m the consideration
of the hill to amend the laws relating to
legal-tender of silver coin was resumed, nnd
Mr. Jones, of Nevada, took the Moor. Ho
made n very long argument in favor of the
double standard of gold and silver money,
nud when about ImU through his speech tlu*
Semite adjourned.
In tho senate, on tho 25lh, discussion
of the Dill relating to resumption of speoie
payment was resumed. Ordered printed.
Senator Thurman presented a memorial front
tiie Cincinnati hoard of trade, remonstrating
ngaiiiHt the reduction of tho salaries of tho
officers in the, postofiiee and the diversion of
any revenues thereof to any other purpose,
and proposing that tho revenues of said ulfioo
he expended ill its •wit proper business. Re
ferred. The committee on finances reported
bank with amendments tla* concurrent reso
lution to secure a uniformity in gold coin,
moneys nnd accounts between the United
States and the united kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, and recommended its adoption.
In tho sonnto on tho 20th, Mr. Snrgont
submitted a resolution dircotlug the secre
tory of tho treasury to inform the senate Imw
many persons are now employed iih revenue
nnd internal revenue agents, giving the date
of their respective appointments, the rate of
compensation and expenses paid to each,
nnd also to inform the senate w hether in any
cases special rewards have been paid or re
ceived l»y any of such agents, whether mon
eys have boon disbursed hy any such agents,
whether liny, nud it so, which of them, Imvo
been or are under the direotiou of any per
son other than the secretary and not minor-
dimite to the treasury department, and if so,
hy virtue of what statute or oilier authority.
Agreed to. Mr. Cooper, from tho committee
on public buildings ami grounds, reported
favorably on house Dill to further provide for
building n customhouse, postolfieo nnd court
house at Memphis, Tennessee. Calendar.
The senate resumed consideration of unfin
ished business, Dciug a bill to amend tho
laws relating to the legal tender of silver
coin. Mr. Sherman submitted an amend
ment to the second section, so as to author
ize tin* secretary of the treasury to exchange
subsidiary silver eoin of tho United States
for an equal amount of United States notes,
as well as to silver dollars authorized to lie
coined by hill, such notes to ho retired and
cancelled, and not lie again repla I hy
other notes. Ordered printed. After the
expiration of tlu* morning hour Mr. Morcill
called up the Dill to establish nil educational
fund, and to apply a portion of the proceeds
of public lands to public education, and to
provide fora more complete endowment and
support of national colleges for the advance
ment of scientific nml industrial education.
He made a speech thereon. At the conclu
sion of Mr. .Morrill's speech, Mr. Maxev, of
Texas, submitted an amendment in the na
ture of a substitute, and said it consecrates
the net proceeds of the sales of public lauds
to the support of common schools, endow
ment of colleges, etc*. ItitOos not IllterTorc
with the pre-emption nml homestead laws.
It distributed the money raised among the
several states and the district of Columbia,
according to population, and it in no manner
interfered with the management of schools
and colleges, leaving that to the control of
the states and territories. The bill and sub
stitute were laid aside, and the senate took
up the hill in relation to the Japanese in
demnity fund. Without action the senate
went into executive session, and soon ad
journed.
In the saimlo on tho 27th, tho gallorlfH
were again crowded, two-thirds of the audi
ence being Iildlos. At 12:30 legislative
business was suspended nnd the Impeach
ment trial began. Mr. Carpenter, for the
accused, moved that the trial he postponed
until the first Monday of December next,
and asked that, the lime far discussing this
motion he fixed at two hours for each side.
The request was granted—yens 48, nays 1.3;
nml Mr. Blair addressed the senate in favor
of tho motion. Then tho senate, at 3 o’clock,
retired for consultation, and returned to the
senate chamber at 4:30, where the presiding
* announced tlint motion r
se was denied,and that counsel »ii
spmidcnt would now he heard <i
the
motion submitted hy the iimiiiigers, which is
that evidence in question pending to plea
of jurisdiction he given before arguments
relating thereto are heard, and that R such
plea is overruled, defendant should he re
quired to answer articles ol impeachment in
two days, and that the trial shall proceed oil
the next day after joining issue. Mr. lilair,
counsel for Belknap, rose to open the argu
ment, hill mi motion of Mr. Anthony the
senate, silting as a Court of Impeachment,
adjourned until to-morrow nt 12)'i o’clock.
After executive session, adjourned.
IIOUMK.
In tho liotiMO, oil tlio 21st, Mr. Knott
introduced a hill to regulate the privilege of
the writ of habeas corpus in certain rases.
Referred. It provides that the supreme
court shall have original and exclusive juris
diction to issue the writ of habeas corpus in
nil eases where the party shall he detained or
restrained of his liberty hy authority or un
der orders of either house of congress; that
it shall appear hy petition that the
or United .States judge or court other than
the supreme court award a writ of habeas
corpus in such eases, the supreme court may
award a writ of prohibition, and that if the
supreme court shall not he in session at, the
time, any bulge of such court may take such
action with the right of appeal to the supreme
court. Mr. (Birchard reported a bill concern
ing corporations engaged in the business of
distilling. After a good deal of discussion
the bill passed. Consideration of llic bill to
transfer the Indian bureau to the war depart
ment was resumed. The hill then passed —
13!) to 94. It provides that after the first of
July next the secretary of the war depart-
ment shall exercise the supervising nnd ap
pelate powers and possess the jurisdiction
now exercised and possessed hy the secretary
of the interior ill relation to Indian aflairs;
that he shall from time lo time make details
of arrny officers to administer the affairs of
the Indian branch of the war department;
that the commanding officers of the geo
graphical departments shall be ex-ofllcio in
charge of Indian offairsin their departments,
and shall make details of officers, including
officers on the retired list, to administer the
affairs of the Indian service, and that the
inspector general of the army shall discharge
the duties of inspector of Indian aflairs. The
act is not to lie construed to authorize an
increase in tho number, rank, pay or allow
ances of army officers. All contracts for
Indian supplies nnd transportation «
army. All religious denominations are to
enjoy a free and equal right to erect and
maintain churches and school buildings on
Indian reservations. Individual Indians who
have adopted the habits of civilized life may
become citizens of the (Tilted States without
forfeiting their right t<> their share of triDal
property. Adjourned,
cut value of the bonds deposited hy
Ir. Baylor presented n petition from
eo iminufncturera of Cincinnati nml
III tho house,on tho 24th, tho following
UeHi aiming the bills Introduced ami referred
tinder the call of the nfnfcsl To fcorgntilMo
the navy. It provides that there shall he on
the active list six rear admirals, eighteen
commodores, fifty captains nud seventy-five
commanders, nnd that the promotions In
these grades shall cease until those numborn
shall he reached. To permit the national
hanks to issue circulating notes equal in
amount to one hundred p •
rent market value of “
them. Mr. Baylor p
the tobacco manufacturers of (!
Covington, for u reduction of tax on tobacco
to sixteen cunts'per pound. Referred. Mr.
Blaine took the floor, nnd proceeded to make
ii persomil explanation in regard to tho news
paper charges connecting him with the Union
1'noiflo railrond. in refutation of the charge
that lie hud received, in seme indirect limit*
nor. the large sum of sixty-four tho nnd
dollars in 187It which allegation was based
partly upon the authority of Morton, Bliss
A Go., hankers, of Now York, through whom
a draft for sixty-four thousand dollars was
said to have been negotiated for his benefit,
Mr. Blaine presented a letter from tho firm
denying that any draft, note or cheek had
ever passed through their hands in which ho
was supposed to have any Interest, direct or
indirect. Other documentary evidence was
submitted to the same tenor, and in Humming
up the senator denounced too charges, each
ami all, ns without a shadow of truth. Thu
house then resumed consideration of the dis
trict tax hill, Imt without action adjourned.
In tho house, on tho 25th, tho leg
islative and judiciary appropriation hill
was resumed, hut was interrupted to allow
Mr. laird, chairman of the impeachment
inn lingers, to present the rejoinder to tho
demurrer filed hy Mr. W. W. Belknap.
The paper was read, and is to tho effect
that tho house of representatives, in tho
name of Itself and all the people in the
United .Stales, says that, first, the replication
to (he plea of Mr. Belknap to articles of im
peachment nnd matters therein contained,
are in matter nnd form sulficieut in law for
the house to maintain its nrtieles of impeach
ment, and that the senate ns a court of im
peachment has jurisdiction to hear, try and
determine the same; and that as Belknap
lias not answered such nrtieles of impeach
ment, or in any manner denied the same, the
house of representatives prays judgment
thereon according to law. As to tho first
and second sub-divisions of tho rejoinder to
the second replication of the hniiHe to the
plea of defendant, wherein defendant de
manded trial neoordlng to law, the house in
behalf of itself and of all the people of the
United .States does like; and as to the third,
fourth, fifth nml sixth sub-divisions of the
rejoinder, the house nssertH it ought not to
lie barred from having and maintaining arti
cles of impeiiehianul against the defendant,
heeimse it denies every argument in such
rejoinder, which denies or traverses nets
or intents charged against, the defendant,
nnd it reaffirms the truth' of tliu latter;
and, therefore, the Iioiihu of representatives
prays judgment according lolaw. Tho paper
was approved by the house, and tho clerk
was ordered lo tile it with the secretary of
state. Adjourned.
In the limine ou the 2('itl), Mr. Gibson
offered u resolution for the appointment of u
select committee to make k thorough inves
tigation into the conduct nud iimnngomont
of the ciiHlouihniiHf) and other government
offices, nt New Orleans, and to suggest nec
essary changes nud reforms, with power to
sit in New Orleans, and to report at the
present session, and that the proceedings of
the committee be publish) ' * * * • '•*•
house then went into
whole oil the legislative
commencing with tliu up,
war department. After progressing as far
as piigc 59, leaving only eight pages to lie
disposed of, the committee rose. Mr. Wells,
d in. Besolutions were offered hy
Messrs. Banning and Itaudall calling for in
formation as to the sale of commissary arti
cles and as to the amount of post funds at
the military academy nt West Point. Adopt
ed. Tho house then adjourned.
In tin* house on the 27tli,Mr. Luplinm
Introduced an amendment to the constitu
tion authorizing tlife president to approve or
disapprove of separate clauses or provisions
of a hill. Referred. Mr. Turney made a
conference repot t on the hill excluding Mis
souri from tho net of May 10, 1872, to pro
mote the development of mining resources.
The report adds till* clause: 44 And nil lands
in said states shall lie subject to disposal as
agricultural lands.” The report was agreed
to. After deciding to print all the testi
mony taken before the committee on naval
affairs, the house went Into committee of the
whole, Mr. Cox in the chair, on the legisla
tive nnd executive appropriation hill. Mr.
WhitchotiHC offered an amendment to sec
tion two, prohibiting any employe of the
government from giving to or receiving from
any other persons, directly or indirectly,any
money or thing of value for political pur
poses. Adopted. Mr. Hoar moved nu ad
ditional section providing that whenever, in
the judgment of the head of any depart
ment, the duties assigned to a clerk of one
class enu he as well performed hy a clerk of
a lower class or by a fuiuule elerk, it slinll
he lawful for him to dismiss the number of
clerks of a higher to increase the number of
clerks of a lower grade to the same extent.
Agreed to. Mr. Glover moved to insert an
additional section, prohibiting executive offi
cers of the government from employing any
elerk, agent, engineer, draughtsman, mes
senger, watchman, laborer or other employes
in any of the executive departments in the
city of Washington or elsewhere, except
those for whom specific appropriations nra
made in the hill. Agreed to. Committee then
rose and reported the hill to the house with
out voting on any of the amendments. Thu
house then adjourned.
Tweed’h Hiding Place.—Superin
tendent Walling says that be believes
that Tweed is living somewhere in Can
ada ; that trustworthy information has
been received that points conclusively to
Canada as bis present hiding place.
Nevertheless, the superintendent admits.
Tweed may still he concealed in this
city. He could remain here very cosily,
and none of the persons in pursuit of
him could learn the least tiling nljout
his hiding-place. There were men con
nected with Tweed who would serve him
to the death and never divulge his hid
ing place or say or do anything to attract
the attention or suspicion of the autliori
tic- If he were to Is* taken sick, he
could find plenty of physicians who
would he willing to attend to him and
ask no questions. Where Tweed is, the
superintendent concludes, can only he
conjectured at best, hut it is truly re
markable that nothing positive or de
finite luw l>ecn heard of him since his
escape from custody.—New York Trib.
Never marry a woman with a musical
car; they are fickle. A musical ear can
licdetectcd easily from the ordinary kind;
it is four inches longer.
BETTING ON HAVEN.
Tile lle*|ir<-tl«r Merit* of IWIt II
mimI Aiiirrlrnn Pool*.
Tho Dullsville Ledger says: About
two years since, Mr. George Wilkes, of
the Now York Spirit of the Times, in
troduced into this country the English
system of betting on American race
courses. It Is true Mr. Wilkes did not
himself open the Ixioks, hut hy repeat
edly calling attention to the advantaged
which boons offered, nnd by persuading
John Morrissey first, and afterwards
Kelly nnd Bliss, books were opened in a
few of the leading stables at Jerome
Park and Saratoga.
But notwithstanding the success which
attended the venture, even to this day
Saratoga, Jerome Park and Long Branch
are the only courses whoso stakes ltavo
been honored with a lxxik. Dullsville,
New Orleans, Nashville, Lexington, Bal
timore, nnd, in fact, all other courses, are
dependent entirely on tho old plan—the
American pool.
There are many advantages in tho
English plan which ours do08 not enjoy;
hut on the whole, if wo were to he de
prived of cither, wo should he compelled
to own a preference for tho American
pool. However, as there nro many of
our rondors who have hut a vague idea
of English hooks, wo explain the mutter
a little before saying anything of its
advantages.
In England, tho lHiok-makor is tho
party who lays odds against tho various
horses entered for the stake, and so is the
book plan as introduced among us. Hay,
for example, that Tc n Brooek, George
Graham, Volcano, Emilio Colih, Jack
Trigg, and Judge Wells are entered for
a cup race, at 2| miles. Tho liook-maker
would look at tho recorded performances
of each horse, what ho cotilo learn of his
private doings at home, and then would
set about making up his hotting list,
which Is called tho lmok. From tho lot
aliovo, it would he almost, a certainty
that Ten Broeck would win the race;
hut then he might, break down before
the race took place,or ho might not start,
or might Ik? scratched hy Ills owner, or
some of tho thousand accidents which
horso flesh is heir to, might overtake
him; so tho book-maker would sav: “1
will lay four to ono that Ton Broeck docs
not win.” Diking at. George Graham
with the aliovo chances against him,
added to tho fact that if ho and Ten
Broeck cnnio together all right, that
George would certainly be compelled to
take a second place, ho would lay seven
to ono against him; nlsmt tho same
against Emilio Cobh, with ten to ono
against Volcano, and fifteen tonne against,
Jack nnd tho Judge—and thus would
his lsmk he complete. In this hook ho
limits himself to a loss of ten or twenty
thousand dollars. Of course only ono
horso can win, and as huts nro against
tli/em .all, every lH*t which is hud, ex
cepting the one against the winner, is
cash to the book-maker's pocket. fio also
is a hot which lays on a Jnrso that breaks
down or does not start, and this, In fact,
is 1,1m? chief profit reaped, for in a slnku
of forty horses perhaps only ten will como
to the siring, and of these ton hut one
can will, excepting in case of a dead heat
when half is paid to each horso; and it
is from the largo amounts received from
those which do notwin that Imok-umkers
nre enabled to lay such heavy odds
against tho different, contestants.
'Jlio great advantages in tho English
system nro—one knows exactly now
much money ho will win or lose by hut
ting on any named horse; that ho can
Ik?t, as small or as largo a sum as ho may
desire; that ho has no per cent age to pay
on Ills winnings; that no can place the
1s*t at any lime during tho season when
he has the money to snnro, and is not
crumped all at once, lint tho greatest
advantngo lies, where properly it should,
to tho owner of tho horso, the party who
spends his money and time in creating
s|Mirt. Hay, for instance, that an owner
has a colt which he has entered in vari
ous stakes as a two year old, and which
has rti'i unsuccessfully as did Calvin and
Pennington, hero the owner has run into
great, expense. When the throo-year old
stakes are announced very heavy odds
are placed against his horse. In Cal
vin’s instance thirty to ono was given hy
tho book-makers But very frequently
a colt shows wonderful Improvement at
three over his two year old career. Of
course nt home and hy his owner is this
first known. Aagain, recurring to Cal
vin, in this very manner wnnMr. McGrath
enabled to win $15,000 for $500, as Cal
vin won his tlirco year old stakes right
off tho reel, while as a two year old ho
was worth nothing at all.
Under tho pool system this would
have been absolutely impossible, for as
the. colt had been galloped on the trade,
half the hummers of the town would he
lying in fence corners catching Ids time
and tolling of the discovery made.
Htill English hooks have many disad
vantages, as wo have already shown, ami
licsides, to those who have no means of
knowing anything about tho horses, a
personal observation is necessary to
such as wish to place their money intel
ligently, and not altogether from chance;
while in a heat race, one has a chanco lo
hedge, which is something unknown to
tho English practice. Hedging, in fact,
is always possible in pools if ono will
only take tlio time to wait his chances,
as [MmiIs constantly vary during an even
ing s selling to so largo a |x;r cent, in
fact that wo would not like to namo the
figure for fear of not being believed.
But tho greatest impost which is placed
on the American pool is the per centnge,
a sum on a week’s racing so enormous
as to frighten anyone that will take time
to calculate it. Three per cent, four
times a day is twelve per cent., and on
tlio six days is seventy-two j>er cent.,
provided one will bet on every race, and
as every race has to nay the per centnge,
the pool-seller actually gets that amount
during the week, ana Huh is what en
ables Morrissey to nay the jockey club
$10,000 a year and have a little to spare
for himself. _
44 My boy, tell us what you know about
‘rattan?’ said tho committeeman. “It
is sometimes called the 4 calamus rotlang;
comes from Penang, Hnmarangnud Pa-
dang, and is used hy the master in this
school too dang often.”
Mihh Emma Snyder, a revivalist, who
has been laboring with success in the
towns of Southern Illinois, has adopted
the original expedient of publishing in
t he local newspapers tho names of the
new converts.
FACTS ANB FANCIES.^
Tint extreme height of misery Is a
small l>oy with a now pair of boots nnd
no mud puddle
Nature Is nature. You can’t alter
the crook of a dog’s tall much nnd pre
serve the length of it too.
A it an drome time-piece, with a cheek
for XI5,000, is to Ik* presented to Dr.
Lindsay Alexnmlor, Congregational min
ister of Edinhugh.
11 El.to ion is the dominion of the soul.
It is t Do hope of life, an anchor of safety,
tho deliverance from evil. Wlmt a ser
vice hns Christianity rendered to hu
manity. Wlmt n power would it still
have tlid its ministers comprehend their
mission 1—jYajtoieon.
IIIIOKRN RHYTHM.—
My ours keep time to half a rhyme,
That slips ami slides mvny from me;
Across my mind, likt? idle wind,
A lost thought henteth lazily.
Adrcntn, nfiont, my little boat
And I alone steal out to Hon;
One vanished year, O lost nnd dear I
You rowed tlio little boat for mu.
Ah ! who oiiii sing of anything,
With none to listen lovingly?
Or who mitt time the ours to rhyme,
When loft to row nlonn the sea?
The expenses of the late Alexander T.
Stewart’s funeral are not Imlieved to Ik?
more than $12,000. Many persons thought
they would reach from $30,000 to$50,000,
Tlio estimate Includes the undertaker's
bill, the music, flowers, attendance, etc.
—A r . Y. Telegram.
Briikiet—“Sure, Maria and me wns
diseushin over wlmt was tliiin things in
the pitcher over the mantel.” Mistress
44 Why, Bridget, those nre Raphael's
angels.” Bridget-— 114 Och, thin the lioth
* wuz wrong ; I said they wuz twins
and Marla said they wuz hats.”
“May they always live in pence and
harmony.” was tin* way a Yankee nmr-
riago notice should have wound up; hut
tho comjKisitor, who couldn't rend manu
script very well, put in type, nnd horri
fied the happy couple hy milking* it rend.
“May they always live on pea* nml
hominy.”
nut I hnd Aladdin’s lamp;
When I could not sleep for cold,
I lmd lire enough in my hrnlii,
And huilded will* tools of gold,
My beautiful castles in Spain !
Hlneu then I have tidied dny nml night,
I have monov and power Rood store,
But I'd give nil my lamps of silver bright,
For tlu? one that is mine no more;
Take, Fortune, whatever you choose,
You gave, and limy snatch again;
I have nothing ’(would pain ma to lose,
For I own no more nasties In Bpnln!
If wo look at a disappointment as a
lesson, wo smut tnko the sting out of it.
A spider' will teach us tlmt. He Is
wnteiilng for a fly and away tho nimble
fellow goes. Tho spidor runs round his
not to soo whether there ho any holes,
and to mend them with tho pious ejacu
lation of 44 better luck next time.”
St. I.oiils anil the Gotten Trade.
Tho Ht. Louis papers toll of further
fforts to be put forth hy tlio morcnntilo
interests of tlmt city with a view to
nlarging its cotton trade and (lcscrll# a
‘new* method” of handling cotton us ono
of the agencies to In? employed:
It is proposed that on the arrival of
cotton at warehouses it shall Ik? sub
jected to a rigid inspection after tho hug
ging and tics arc removed, and two sam
ples drawn from tho hale and marked
and numbered to correspond. Compres
sion will Immediately follow inspection,
and ono sntnplo will bo given to tho cot
ton factor ami tho other carefully sealed
and deposited with tho secretary of tho
cotton exchange. Tho cotton thus in
spected, sampled and compressed on ar
rival, will ho stored away reudy for ship
ment promptly to any part of tho world,
while under tlio present system of in
spection and compressing after a sale is
made, there is sometimes a delay of seven
to ten days before shipments go forward.
For tho loss in weight hy drying out
after compression, tho trade nre expected
to agree upon a certain jKsr centnge per
month which will bo establish d as the
rule, and cotton will lie sold l>y tho
•ights on tho certificates given after
n.prcssion, less the per centnge nbovo
mentioned. Of tho advantages of this
plan, tlmt of lessening tlio cost of in
surance is one of tho most important.
More than this, all classes of buyers will
receive their cotton fully a week earlier
than under the present system, nnd will
also he relieved from the troubles now
experienced to sscertain what portion of
a lot of cotton is to Ik? rejected. Interior
shippers will he promptly informed of
the exact condition of their shipments,
and if any hales prove to bo fraudulently
packed the planter ran Is* immediately .
advised of it. Water wicked, cotton, if
promptly examined ami picked over on
arrival, cun Iks saved from serious dam
age, while if it remains in the ware
houses, under the present plan, perhaps
for months ljcforo It. is examined, tho
damage extends throughout the hale.
The compress companies will Ik*, required
to employ competent inspectors, for
whose conduct the companies will l»o re
sponsible.
The Mongolian Influx.—The fol
lowing statement of Chinese arrivals at
Fan Francisco since 18(18 1ms been care
fully compiled from the lxxikn of tho
custom-house:
1808...
1859.. .
1870.. .
1874
1875
1870—
January..
, 10,024
11,710
9,0< 0
4,804
. 8,812
, 10.005
, 11,74»
, 18,000
1,170
, 1,197
. 1.872
95,763
10,280
13,661
10.311
4.004
9,377
17.121
12,950
1,197
1,87;!
100,019
Totals 05,763 4,’JM
The largest influx, it will he M*cn. «as
In 1878 and the smallest in 18/1. I ho
figures relate only to the arrivals direct
from China, and have nothing to do with
those, not a few, who came here from
various Mouth American ports. The
number of arrivals of Chinese women in
IHfiO is phenomenal, and we know of no
explanation of it. It may lie remarked
here, hy way of comforting assurance,
Hint the steamer D)tus is now fully due,
bringing 887 more of the “ thrifty ” Mon-