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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. S. D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors.
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY (>, 1870.
VOL. III. NO. 3.
TIMELY TOPICS.
In one respect, ami that a most im
portant one, France increase* while Eng*
land diminishes. The oyster fisheries of
“perfidious Albion” are rapidly giving
out. Up to 1862 the price of native*
averaged £2 Is. per bushel. It is now
■t'll and increasing every year. In
France, on the other hand, by judicious
planting, the oyster crop is annually in
creasing, and bids fair to continuo doing
! iiamt, accepting the principle that
the best way to secure |>eace is to bo pre
pared for war, has now a hill lieforo its
legislature, introduced bv (tenoral de
( issy, minister of war, for an appropria
tion „r 260,000,000 frannea ($.■>2,000,000)
/or works of fortification on the frontier,
restoration of the French r.riny, and war
material. In the now not expected
e.ent of a genera’ war, all that is certain
is that, whatever side Oermiuty may
take 1'Vnco will lx> with the other.
Tin an appears to be a Turkish un
pleasantness in Jerusalem. The haughty
lurk Is bullying the Christian |>opula-
tion and barricading has commenced.
I he population of Jerusalem is about
20,ooo and the Turks only number 6,000,
the Jews 8,000, and the Christians the
balance. The pasha who resides there is
subject to the governor general of
Syria. It would seem within the range
of possibility for the Christians and Jews
to unite and administer a severe flogging
to the Mussclmaus; in fact, there never
was a better time for revolution as sul
tan Murad has his hands full with the
formidable rebellion in Euroiiean Tur
key.
England has at last released Wins
low. He is now a prisoner in England,
for it is safe to say that should he land
II pon the continent he would soon bo ex
tradited. Even Holland, without any
extradition treaty, pro|M>scd to drive
him away. A few years since George
Hidwell, Austin II. Mill well and (ieorgo
Mncdonnell, three “enterprising Ameri
cans, ’ lauded in England, and by a
series of forgeries defrauded the linnk of
England of more than a hundred thou
sand |H)unds. One of the parties, and
the most important one, was arrested and
sent back from Litis country, and the
three were sentenced to |H*nal servitude
/•>r life. Had they committed thocrimc
in 1876, the hank of England would
have whistled for the proof and a itortion
of the money.
A most extraordinary disaster occured
in St. Paul, Minnesota, the other day,
in the shape of an eruption of wheat
from one of the bins of an elevator. The
bin is. nr was, twenty by thirty feet in
width, about seventy feet deep, and was
filled with wheat from bottom to top, the
amount l>eing estimated utabout thirty-
four thousand hudiels. Suddenly it was
discovered that the wheat was pushing
out tin* side of the elevator, thirty or
forty feet from the top, and that several
• >f the iron stays had snap|>ed asunder.
Efforts were promptly made to reduce
the pressure by removing the wheat; hut
it was tno late, and soon, with a great
crash, the wooden ti in Iters hurst open
the iron sheathing was ripjx-d off, and
out rushed the wheat in a gigantic stream
twenty feet in diameter. It poured over
the bluff, crushing to fragments a shanty
about fifty feet from the elevator, al
though the inmates had time to escape.
The sight of this torrent of wheat was a
most singular one. The whole amount
discharged from the ragged hole in the
elevator was variously estimated at from
-‘•veil to ten thousand bushels. It took
but a few moments to dejsisit this golden
grain in a pile at the foot of the elevator
about seventy-fivc feet square. A force
of men was at once employed to shovel
the wheat in upon the floor of the ele
vator, In the midst of which process a
shower came. Hut the grain was kept
comparatively dry.
Iowa claims a rival for the California
l"»y who sees what is going on in the
moon. His name is Neeley and he re
sides at Dexter, where he has followed
the humble r»ccupation of a worker on
the road since his release last winter
from the state penitentiary after ten
years’ confinement. Neeley doesn’t sec
the interior working of the moon, but
when asleep he does see—unless his biog
raphers lie like a Mt. Louis letter carrier
—events that are happening miles away.
A few days ago, while at work on the
streets, he informed his fellow workmen
that his sister, who resided six miles
south of I »o Moto, had died the previous
night, for he had witnessed her death
scene during his sleep, and in half an
hour the telegraph operator brought him
a dispatch jeorruborating his dream of the
night before. During his imprisonment
he witnessed the death of his father and
mother, and circumstances connected
therewith. The events were corroborat
ed just as he had dreamed, and what is
stranger still, always before receiving let
ter- from bis wife while he was in prison,
he was always visited in his dreams by
his wife, who conversed with him and
told all that was written in his letters,
so that he always knew when the letters
were coming and what they contained,
and would tell the news before he got it,
to his prison comrades.
LATEST NEWS.
fcoi'Tii and a m.
A falling-off in the wheat yield
throughout rtll nr Georgia in reported.
H'huoley, convicted in Nashville of
robbing the Adman express company, and
sentenced to thirteen years’ imprisonment,
ban been granted a new trial; ball fixed at
$10,000
The Chicago Journal contains twenty-
two sheets, or eighty-eight large quarto
pages, seven hundred and ninety-one col
umns of which w ere filled w ith a list of prop
erty to he sold for taxes.
Farmers in the vicinity of Charlotte,
North Carolina, nre a I armed over the crop
pioapeot of that section. The continued
steady rains for a week past have put w heat,
oats and corn in a had way.
A special train on the Anderson branch
of the Greenville and Columbia railway, in
South Carolina, was wrecked on a broken
trestle, by which the engineer, conductor,
fireman and two train hands—the only per
sons on the train—were killed.
The American ami Mexican authori
ties on the IMo Grande have agreed to act in
concert in suppressing the robbery along
that frontier. The consequence is that the
Mexican general, Kcvueltcr. has already
hung four cow thieves and sent hack to
the Americans four American fugitives from
juNtiee.
John Crabtree killed John Murphy in
Campbell county, East Tennessee, last Sun
day, with an Knlicld rifle, blowing out his
brains. Murphy is represented as having
been a desperado, having killed a man and
broke jail at Knoxville, where lie was con
fined awaiting trial for the deed.
The Augusta Chronicle says: “The
indications are that Hon. Alexander II.
Stephens will he returned to congress from
this section without hnving any opposition,
either in the convention or at the polls. His
health is improving rapidly, and we hope to
hear of him in his Neat before congress nd-
The advance sheet* of the forthcoming
directory of Lloyd, Donnelly A Co., Indicate
the population of tin- city of Chicago at five
hundred and thirlv-wix thousand six hun
dred and seventy-three, an increase over
Inst year of twenty-five thousand. This is
reckoned on n basis of throe and a half per
sons per name.
The Piedmont, S. C., cotton factory,
on the Naltulii river, hns been completed,
and is now in smooth running order, making
cloth equal in texture to the (irniiitcvillv
factory. One hundred hands nre employed,
and the annual consumption of the raw ma
terial will he about four thuiunnd hales of
cotton. The Granitevillo mills made a profit
of $5-1,766.110 last year on a capital of $000,•
000. __
KANT.
Anson Robertson, who ha* served twen
ty years of a life sentence for inunlcr in the
Rhode Islnnd state prison, has just been
found to he innocent of the crime.
roKKiim.
.las. Huird, of Uombuadoon, Scotland,
the millionaire iron master, who recently
gave $2,600,000 to 111** .Scotch church, died
on the 20th.
The manager of Is Mien, a puldic
newspaper of Paris, has been sentenced to
three months’ imprisonment for insulting
the Catholic religion.
Hawaii, the Turkish assassin, it is ro-
ported, intended to kill Ami Kasha only.
Ilossan was known as a devoted follower of
the late sultan, and was formerly aide de
camp to his son YllHMif, who is represented
ns attempting a military revolution.
A dispatch from Msrlin rcftorln that
the Prussian chamber of peers passed u hill
making German the official language
throughout the kingdom. The Polish mem
bers were violent in the opposition to the
measure, and were several times railed to or
der during the debate.
St. Johns, Quebec, was visited by a
most disastrous conflagration. Territory six
hundred feet wide and a mile in length, em
bracing the entire business portion of the
town, is burned. Seven hotels, uinechurches,
the custom-house, the court-house, the post-
office, the United States consulate, two
hanks, the docks, vessels in the river, a por
tion of the bridge over Richelieu river, 8t.
Johns’ woolen mills, stone ehinaware rooms
and tw-o hundred ami fifty store and houses
are reduced to ashes.
niNCKI.I.ANKOtTM.
Treasurer New has written a letter of
resignation, to take effect from July four
teenth.
The Boston Journal thinks that al
though Winslow has been released he will
fail to keep his solemn promise to return to
Boston and have an honest little conference
with his anxious creditors.
An order has been issued by the secre
tary of war relieving General Schofield fmni
the command of the military division of the
Pacific, and assigning him to the command
of the West Point military academy, reliev
ing Colonel Roger. General M’Dowell will
take command of the military division of
the Pacific. The division of the south will
he discontinued. The department of the
south will he under the command of Colonel
Huger.
Mrs. A. T. .Stewart has given $2,.'XX)
to the society for the relief of the ruptured
and crippled, $2,000 to the New York infant
asylum, $1,000 to the working women’s pro-
tectivc union, $2,000 in aid of the New York
eye and ear infirmary, $1,000 to Ht. Ambrose’s
Protestant Episcopal free church, $2,.700 to
St. Luke’s hospital, and $1,000 to the New
York prison association. Mrs. Stewart’s gifts
to charities have already amounted to about
$100,000.
Mexico, like the United .State-, is on
the eve of a presidential election. The deci
sive contest in that republic will precede
that in this coountry by some months. Pro-
nunciamentos, knives and fire-arms play the
same prominent part in a Mexican presided
tial election that dollars and whisky, stump
speeches and ballot-box stuffing do in ours.
The present incumbent, Lerdo de Tejada, is
a candidate for re-election, and it is the earn
est hope of lovers of law and order that he
will be successful.
CONGRESSIONAL.
NRNATR.
tn the senate) on the 16th, legislative
business was suspended at 12:30 and the con
sideration ol the articles of impeachment
against W. W. Ilelknnp resumed, this being
the day fixed to hear any further answer t*
the articles of tiiipeaehmeut. Mr. Black,
counsel for the neeused, rend a long paper
declining to plead further, on the grounds
that respondent has already been substan
tially acquitted as the order of the senate
was not missed hv a two-thirds vote. The
counsel for defense asked that the paper he
filed, but objection was made by Mr. Ed
munds and also by the managers.’ Pending
the discussion it was discovered that a quo
rum was not present, and the senate ad
journed.
In the senate, on the 17th, the consid
eration of the articles of impeachment against
the late secretary of war was resumed soon
after noon to-day. Judge Itlaek, of counsel
for the accused, stated that there were rea
sons why the trial could not go on the sixth
of July as ordered. lie therefore moved it
be postponed until about the middle of No
vember next, and appealed to the managers
not to oppose the motion. He said the man
agers understood the reasons for not going
on w ith the trial, and therefore hoped they
would agree to a postponement, Mr. Lord,
on behalf of the managers, asked leave to
consult with the house of representatives,
w hich was granted, and the senate as a court
of impeachment adjourned. A protest
of leading men of the Osage Indian
nation against the establishment of a
territorial government for Uio Indian coun
try was ordered printed and referred. A
message was received from the president
calling attention to the near approach of the
new fiscal year and the failure of congress
so far to make provision for the ordinary ex
penses of the government; also to tile laws
forbidding the expenditure of unexpended
balances and requiring these to he covered
into the treasury at the end of the fiscal
year. He further stated that if the appro
priation hills are not matured before the be
ginning of the new fiscal year the govern
ment will he greatly embarrassed for want of
funds, and submits a joint resolution to ex
tend tin* appropriations for consuls and di
plomatic and postal services, support of the
army, etc., for the present fiscal year to the
Ordered printed and lie on the table.
Mr. \\ iudoiii moved Intake up the Indian
appropriation hill hut a count of the senate
developed the fact that no quorum was pre
sent and the senate adjourned to Monday.
In the senate, on the 19th, the sonuto
insisted upon amendments to the pnstnflice
appropriation hill, and agreed to the confer
ence asked for by the house. Senators West,
Hamlin and Davis were appointed members
of the committee oil part of the senate. Leg-
islative business was then suspended, and
the senate resumed consideration of the ar
ticles of impeachment against Mr. Ilelknnp.
The senate then went into secret session on
the question of positioning Min trial till No
vember. The question being on the motion
submitted on Saturday to postpone the trial
till some convenient time in the month of
November next, Mr. ’Iliuruinn moved that
the application of respondent for postpone
ment of the trial bo overruled. Agreed to.
Mr. Sherman submitted the following for
consideration: Ordered, Thai the pnper pre
sented by the defendant on the Kith Inst, he
filed in this cause, and defendant having
failed to answer to inurits within ten days
allowed by order of senate of titli Inst., trial
shall proceed on the lilh of July next, as
upon a plea of not guilty. Mr. Conkling
moved to amend further the clause so as to
make it read: “Provided, That impeach
ment can only proceed w hile congress is in
session.” Agreed to. The doors were then
reopened, and the senate sittingas a court of
Impeachment adjourned until Jiilyfith. Leg
islative business was then resumed, and Mr.
Windoui called up the Indian appropriation
hill, hut before it was rend, the senate ad
journed.
In flic senate, on the 20th, the chair
laid before the seiuife a communication from
the secretary of war, inclosing a report and
maps of the last survey by Maj. (’. ft. Corn-
slock, corps of engineers of improvement of
South Pass of Mississippi river. Ordered
printed and referred. The chair also laid
before the senate u communication from the
secretary of the treasury, inclosing a long re
port, showing the mimes of all persons now
or heretofore in the public sorvieu from
whom balances are due to the government,
amounts due from such persons, number of
unsettled accounts, amount of stocks held
by the United States in trust, etc., and list of
such stocks when default has been made.
The chair announced Lint the document
would he laid upon the table and printed.
Mr. Wright reported back, from the same
committee, the house bill to repeal Hie bank
rupt law, and recommend that i» be post
poned until the first day of next session. So
ordered. The senate then resumed the con
sideration of unfinished business, it being
the Indian appropriation bill. Mr. Windoui,
in charge of I lib bill, said ns it came from the
house it appropriated $1,000,112, and the
senate committee had added $ftl»H,09fl. Mr.
D>gan spoke against the transfer of the gov
ernment of the Indians to the war deport
ment. At the close of his speech the senate,
went Into executive session and afterwards
look a recess till 7:30. Upon reassem
bling, the lull having been consid
ered in committee of the whole was
reported to the senate, and Mr. Keruau de
manded a separate vote on the amendment
to strike out the third section relating to the
transfer of the Indian bureau, etc. Mr.
Maxey addressed the senate in favor of the
proposed transfer. The debate whs partial-
pated in by Messrs. Bogy, Edmunds, D>gan,
H indnni and others, {’ending discussion,
the senate adjourned.
In the senate, on the 21st, Mr. Sher
man called up the Joint resolution to author
ize the president to appoint comnilasinncrs
to attend the international conference upon
the subject of the relative value of gold and
silver. I’assed. The senate went into exec
utive session to consider the nomination of
Mr. Morrill, secretary of the treasury, and
the nomination was immediately confirmed
without formality of reference. On the re
opening of the doors, the senate resumed the
consideration of unfinished business, the In
dian bill. The senate then proceeded to
vote on motion of Mr. Ingalls to lay aside
the Indian appropriation hill and take up
the house hill, reported by the committee on
Indian affairs this morning to transfer the
Indian bureau to the war department and it
was agreed to. Yeas, 20; nays, 17. Senate
then look u recess until 7:30. Upon reas
sembling Mr. Windom moved to recon
sider the vote by which the Indian appro
priation bill was laid aside this afternoon.
Agreed to—yeas 26, nays 10—and the Indian
appropriation bill was taken up, the pend
ing question being on the amendment of the
committee on appropriations to strike out
the third section of the house hill to abolish
the Indian bureau and transfer the govern
ment of the Indians to the war department.
The question being on the amendment of the
committee to strike out the third section,
proposing to transfer, it was stricken out-
yeos 24, nays 22. The bill was then read a
third time and passed. The naval appropri
ation bill was then taken up so as to come up
as unfinished business to-morrow, and the
senate adjourned.
In the senate, on the 22nd, during the
morning hour several bills of minor impor
tance passed, and consideration of the naval
appropriation bill was resumed. The bill
having been considered in committee of the
whole, it was reported to the senate, and the
Amendments tllndc in the I'oniiitltteo con
curred in. it whs then read a third time
And passed. Mr. Kdtmuuls gave notice tlmt
lie wouid, to-morrow, cull up the hill to
amend the enforcement net. Adjourned.
1IOU NR.
In tho house, oii the 16th, a number o!
speeches were made, but the proceedings
were without speeial Interest. The tele
graphic bulletin in the lobby, giving thu lat
est news from UinoinuaM, exerted a very
strong attraction. Various phases of the
republican convention were eagerly studied
and diseussed throughout the day
Tho hop***’ on tho 16th went Into com
mittee of the whole on the army appropria
tion hill, Mr. Hlaekburn In the chair. Vari
ous amendments to the bill were offered and
rejected. No quorum being present the
Itouie adjourned.
In the hotiHC, onHlio 17th, Mr. Harri
son called up tho bill to confirm to Chicago
the titles to certain public lauds. I'ansed.
The speaker laH before the bouse a message
from the president explaining the necessity
of having various impropriation hills passed
before the first of July. House went into
committee of the whole, on tho army appro
priation hill. After disiiosiug of nine of the
eighteen pages of tho hill, Mr. Iliirlhut, who
had made several motions for tho committee
to rise, made objection that there was no
quorum voting, as there were only sixty-five
members present. Tho committee then rose
and the house adjourned.
In tho houso, oil tho 19th, tho house
went into enmmitteo of the whole, Mr. Hlaek
burn in the chair, on the army appropriation
bill. After completing the hill the commit
tee rose, and reported tho hill to the house.
The hill then passed. The house went into
committee of the whole. Mr. Naylor in the
chair, on the hill authorizing the repave-
incut of Pennsylvania nvcimc, and the joint
resolution providing for a commission to
frame a suitable form of government for the
ilistriet. After debate the committee rose
and reported the hill and resolution to the
hnusc, and they then passed. The speaker
pro tam. appointed Messrs. Holman,
Itloiiutund Waldron a conference committee
on the pnstnffieC appropriation hill, and the
house adjourned.
In tho house, on the 20th, Mr. Wil
lard reported a Idll to prevent tho sale anil
use of adiiltorative and explosive illumina
ting oils. Passed. Mr. Diinucll reported a
hill to authorize the construction of a pon
toon bridge across the Mississippi river from
some point in Iluffnlo county, Wisconsin, to
somo point in Winona enmity, Minnesota.
Passed. Mr. Lawrence reported a bill relat
ing to land pntents. It provides that when
ever a party is lawfully entitled to n patent,
if he delay to Like out n patent, it shall have
tho same, power as though issued at tho time
tho party was first entitled to It. Passed.
Mr. Douglas, Virginia, chairman of thu com-
mittoo on the Freed men’s hank, made a re
port ill reference to n communication from
the secretary of war ns to the payment of
inonics due to colored soldiers, sailors and
marines. Mr. Douglas moved 'that the hill
mid correspondence he printed and recom
mitted, and It was so ordered. Mr. Kundall,
chairman of the committee on appropria
tions, reported sundry civil appropriation
bills, the lust of the general appropriation
bill. Ordered printed. The bill appropri
ates $14,687,840 against $20,(144,360 in corre
sponding bills Ihm year, a reduction of $12,-
076,610. Tlie bouse then proceeded to the
consideration of the hill equalizing bounties
of soldiers, and was addressed by Mr.Thorn
burgh in favor of the hill. In reply to a
question by Mr. Ilniiuiiig us to the amount
which would neeessurily he expended under
the hill as it stands, Mr. Thornburgh gave
bis estimate lit between nine and ten million
dollars. At tho close of Mr, Thornburgh's
speech the previous question was moved and
seconded. After dahnto the hill passed:
^ oiih, 1 11 ; nays, 46. Mr. Riddle introduced
a hill to repeal the ton ncr cent, tax on the
notes of state banks. Referred. Mr. Law
rence gave notice that under the resolution
of the judiciary committee to-day, the vote
on the hill 'or ii Pneille railroad sinking fund
would not he asked Indore July sixth. Ad
journed.
In the* lioii.se, on tho 21st, the house
went into eoinillittce of whole, Mr. Black-
burn in tlie eli*»ir, on simdrv civil apnroprin
• ion bill mid Mr. Ntengor addressed tli« com-
initfee, in reference to the Kreodman’s sav
ings and t rust company. Mr. Cook made an
address on tho subject of grievances in
south) rn states and in advocacy of refund
ing tho cotton tax. A recess win taken till
eight,tho evening session being for action
Oil the Idll. Till! house resumed session id
eight o'clock as a committee of whole, with
Mr. Blackburn in thu chair, on sundry civil
appropriation hills. Mr. Miitchlcr moved
to strike out the provision in regard to (lie
nay of printers. After ii spirited debate,
Mr. Miihdilcr’s proposition was adopted sev-
enty-eigbt to fifty-seven. The committee
rose, and the house at 11-30 adjourned to II
a. ni. to-morrow.
On tho twenty-sflcorn!, the Iioiihc
met kt eleven o’clock, and immediately
went into a committee of tlie whole,
with Mr. Hlnckhiirn in the rhnlr, oil sundry
civil appropriation Idll, the question being
on the amendment offered last night hy Mr.
Vance (Ohio), to have the public printing
done under contract hy the lowest bidder.
I'ciiding action the committee rose, and the
session of yesterday was closed, and ihatof
to-day formally opened. The civil appro
priation bill was resumed in committee of
the whole, ii ml Mr. Randall’s amend merit in
relation tn the 3.66 bonds. District of Colum
bia, was adopted. After debate, the commit
tee rose in order to close the debate, ami Mr.
Randal! having moved to close it in half a
minute, Mr. Hoar demanded the yeas ami
nays. The motion to close the debate in half
a minute was carried—yeas 121, m. s 76—a
party vote. The house then again went into
committee, when an amendment offered hy
Mr. Chandler to strike out of the section
whatever relates to the enforcement act whs
rejected. The items for public buildings
having been readied, Mr. ('aiiifield moved to
insert an item of $260,000 for a customhouse
and postoflicc at Chicago. 1’emling action
on it, the house took a recess till eight
o’clock. On motion of Mr. Randall the
senate amendments to thu Indian appropria
tion hill were non-concurrcd in and a com
mittee of conference ordered. The house
went into committee of the whole, Mr. Black
burn in tin: chair, oil the sundry civil appro
priation bill. Various amendments were
submitted and rejected, when the committee
rose, having disposed of half tho bill, ami at
eleven o’clock the house adjourned till
eleven a. m. to-morrow.
EXTRADITION TREATY.
The president has sent a message to the
senate and house of representatives respect
ing the extradition treaty with Oreat Britain.
After stating at length the provisions of tlie
treaty', and criticising the action tuken by
the British government in the Winslow and
Brent eases, the president says: It is with
extreme regret tha» I am now railed upon to
announce to you that her majesty’s govern
ment has finally released both of these fugi
tives, Winslow and Brent, and set them at
liberty, thus omitting to comply with the
provisions and requirement* of the treaty
under which the extradition of fugitive
criminal-) is made between the two govern
ments. The position thus taken by the Bri
tish government if adhered to Cannot but be
regarded as an abrogation and annullineiit
of the article of treaty on extradition, (Jy-
dcr these circumstances, it will not, in tny
Judgment, tioillpdrt with tile dignity or sell-
respect of this government to make demands
Upon that government for the surrender of
criminals, nor entertain any requisition of
that character from that government under
the treaty.
It will be a enuso of deep regret if the
treaty wlueli him been thus beneficial in its
practical operations, which has worked so
well ami so efficiently, and which, notwith
standing the exciting and at times violent
political disturbances of which both coun
tries have been the scene during its exist
ence, has given rise to no complaints on the
part of either govcrmciit against cither its
spirit or its provisions, should be abruptly
terminated. It has tended to the protection
of society and the general interest* of both
countries. It* abrogation and annullmont
would he n retrograde step in international
intercourse. 1 have been anxious to have
made an effort to culnrgo its scope and to
make a new treaty which would tie a still
more efficient agent for the punishment and
prevention of crime at tho same time.
I have felt it my duty to decline to enter
tain a proposition made hy Great Britain,
pending Bn refusnl to execute the existing
treaty, to amend it by practically conceding,
by treaty, the identical conditions which
that government demands under its act of
parliament. In addition to the impossibility
of insisting upon the negotiations under
menace of an intended violation, or a refusal
to execute the terms of an existing treaty. I
deemed it inadvisable to treat of only tiic
one amendment proposed hy Great Britain.
While the United States desires an enlarge
ment ot the list of crimes for which extradi
tion may he asked, and other improvements
which experience him shown might ho em
bodied in n new treaty, it is for the wisdom
of congress to determine whether the article
of tin! treaty relating to extradition is to be
any longer regarded as obligatory on the
government of the United States, or iis form
ing n part of the supreme law of tho land,
should (lie attitude of Mm British govern
ment remain iineliangud.
I shall not, without uu expression of (ho
wish ol congress (hat I should do so, take
any action, either in making or granting
requisitions for the surrender of fugitive
criminals, under thu treaty of 1842.
Respectfully submitted,
U. S. ()HANT.
OUlt l’llll.ADFLI’IIIA LETTER.
Till! Arn'iitliin Hepubllr I'mi Amvrlrn
Tlie Orlalnnloi- ol I lie Ontoimliil
l«len K s III Mlora’Atl vert I.Iiik.
TlieTimUInns Inn. Wylnli.
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From Our N|>oelnt Correspondent.
TIIK AHOKNTINIC lUtl'UilMU.
Pmi.Aimi.riiiA, June, 24. Tim interest
taken by Mils progressive South American
republic in our exhibition, justifies nm in
giving a synopsis of thu condition of Um re
public. Tim Argentine republic sends us
specimena of silver ore, a largo collection of
minerals, ores, crystal rock gypsum, cement*,
artificial marble, lead, mineral waters, also
wool and hides, and tlm prodiiutu, salt, beef,
mid tallow. Kmv of our people take notice
of the condition of our sister republic, hence
a brief note of thin Interesting cftuntry may
ho instructive.
The Argentine republic—tlm confedera
tion of the Rio de la I'lnla, or River of Silver,
South America—is a federal union of four
teen provinces and three large territories,
covering mi almost unbroken plain of one
million two hundred thousand square miles,
with a population of about two million in
habitants. It extends from twenty-two de
grees south latitude to the strait* of Magel
lan, and from fifty-nine degrees wcHt longi
tude to the Andes.
Each province Iiiih it* own legislature,
courts of justice, and political government;
hut civil, penal, ami commercial laws are.
common to nil tlm provinces, codes of such
laws having been issued hy the congress of
the confederation.
The president of tho republic is elected for
a term of six years hy tho representatives of
tlm provinces, and is not eligible for re-elec
tion. Thu vice-president, eluded in Mm
same manner, fills the office of chairman of
the senate, hut has otherwise no political
power. The president is nnmuiandnr-iu chief
of the troops, and appoints to all civil, mili
tary. and ju lieinl offices ; hut he and Ills
ministers lire responsible for tlmir acts, and
liable to impeachment before tho senate hy
accusation of tho house of representatives.
Legislative power is vested in a senate, of
members dueled hy the provincial legisla
tures, two from each province, and n house
of representatives, elected hv the people,
mid apportioned to each province according
to population. Tlm senators hold their of
fice for nine years, and Mm representatives
for three,
FREE AMERICA.
No one will question Mm toleration of
Americans ami tlm freedom of action ex
tended to all, when examining the beauties
of Mu 1 Spanish department, to seu Spanish
soldiers on guard, not apparently under any
rigorous discipline, yet, sauntering about
the precincts of their commission mid eye
ing with Argusiati optics the valuable exhib
its. All this with their side arms on, and in
full uniform. If this Ih not liberty, and the
extension of natiomil courtesy to foreigners,
1 don’t understand the term.
TIIK ORIGINATOR OK THU CKNTKNNIAI, IDEA
is the secretary, Hon. John L. Campbell, who
in suggestions followed up hy stirring, epis
tolary appeals formed the first original
thoughts to the grand project, that is now
one of the wonders of tlie world. The hon
orable secretary is a man of quick percep
tive faculties ami sound judgment, and a
mail every way worthy to receive the praise
due him for his sagacity in presenting Mm
world with one of it* most startling beauties,
and certainly one of it* most instructive
thoughts.
Till? TUNJHIANH.
The authorities closed the Tunisian pavil
ion for two days owing to the exactions of
the gentlemen from the Bnrbary stales, for
it h«miin Mint of Morocco, Algiers, Tunis ami
Tripoli, none seem so Turkish-like in their
speculative propensities as the Tunisians.
The fact is these gentlemen labor under the
impression that this being a free country,
they can do as they please. This error in
judgment the management have unclouded,
and from henceforth you can enter Mm Tuni
sian pavilion ami go out without the com
pulsory process of “ Yon no huye coffee, you
no stnyc here.”
JNO. WKLHIt.
Since writing relative to the trouble be
tween the commissioners and tlie hoard of
finance, John Welsh, the president of the
hoard, no* written a satisfactory letter which
assures the country that all difficulties shall
he made subservient to the interest* of the
centennial. He closes by saying:
•‘The centennial celebration must be glori
ous in all its features. Not one of them
will be marred by the action of its man-
Mr. Welsh is one of the master spirits of
the movement, and is a* patriotic as he is
conciliatory and honest.
MISCELLANY.
The formal dedication of the site of the
monument t* the memory of Bishop Allen,
tho first colored bishop of America, occurred
last week. It is located north of the west
end of machinery hall. The base ho* been
laid for the monument. The monument
itself will he placed in position this week.
It was carved in Italy. The colossal statue
of Washington will he placed in front of the
judge’s pavilion. It is supposed thut there
will ho two hundred eminent authors in at-
tomhinoe at a meeting on the second of July
to take steps to write the history of each of
the great spirits, eonueeled with a movement
that Jno. Adams said was tho most remark-
Bblo epoch iu the history of America. The
eoinmltteo will celebrate the anniversary of
the presentation of the resolutions of
Ritdiiird Henry Lee, Juno 7th, 1776. One of
the most attractive ciiginos on tho floor of
the machinery building is a nickel-plated
noiseless angina from Connecticut, it cun
ho placed in a hogshead, and is worth one
thousand dollars.
Texas has sent a water wheel, ear starter,
sharpening file, glass cutter, road engine. A
pair of wheels is shown from Boston, that
ran between Boston and New York, making
a milonga of four hundred and sixty thou
sand mites, and is vet good for seventy-five
thousand miles additional. They hnvo hecn
reduced hy trimming, three quarters of an
inch have worn cut two pnir of axles, and
are now on a third. Brazil ha* twenty-four
canes containing five hundred hugs mid in
sects, each aggregating twelve thousand,
neatly pinned in their mausoleums to its
floors, among bur specialties. Some of the
Byron strawberries exhibited measure four
and a half inches in circumference. The
students of the Massachusetts institute of
technology, camped on the grounds of the
university, occupying one hundred and
eighty tents. Tho two cheese* from Buffalo,
New York, weigh, the one twelve the other
fourteen tons. They arc twelve feet high,
and hound with iron hoops.
The largest prnpcllor wheel is from Phila
delphia. This city also displays valuable
machinery In turbine water wheels. The
hose carriages of the (junker city nre beauti
ful. Now York solids n section of the Cro
ton Aqueduct pipe; It is seventy-two inches
in diameter, and should he cxniuinrd hy all
municipal heads, who confine themselves to
pipes of ten or twenty inches. Tho thirty-
eight varieties of grindstones oil exhibit ion
vary ill price from one dollaraud twenty-live
cent* to one hundred and twenty-live dol
lars. MftMAohusatt* shows among her saws,
(lie best collection on the gioiiml; it speci
men circular one hundred inches in diame
ter. There is an extensive display of bloom
ing engines mid blunt furnaces iu machinery
hull. Tlie fat hoy lias arrived ; lie is fifteen
years of ago, five feet four inches high, mid
weighs four hundred and seventy-live
pound. Jomki'H Ba mil Kit it.
OvorgovornlHg Children.
Children tiro often brought up without
any particular hiibita of aclf-govornmont,
beam ho the governing Ih done for them
and on them. A girl that Ih never al
lowed to hcw, all of whoHO clothes are
made for her and put on her till hIio is
ten, twelve, fifteen, or eighteen yearn of
age, iH spoiled. Tho mother Iiiih Hpoilcd
her hy doing everything for her. Tho
true idea of self-restraint iu to lot tho
child venture. A child's in Ih takes are
often better (Jinn its ito-inistakCH; boeauso
when a child make* mistakes, and him to
correct them, It is on the way toward
knowing something. A child that is
waked up every morning, and novor
wakes himself up: and in dressed, and
novor make* mistakes iu dressing him
self; and is wuahod. and makes no mis
taken About being clean; and Irfcd, and
novor Iiiih any thing to do with hi* food;
and i* watched, and never watchcH him-
self; and is eared for and kept all day
from doing wrong—juich a child might
about ns well he a tallow candle, |>er-
foctly straight, and solid, and comely,
and mi vital, and good for nothing hut to
be burned up.
Tho poor weaver who lias a large fam
ily of children, without bread enough for
half of thorn, and act! them to work ih a
philanthropist. You may gather around
them, and mourn over them ; but blessed
ho tho weaver’s children! Tho twolve
children of the poor weaver will turn out
better than tho twelve children of tho
millionaire. I would rather take an in
surance on tho weaver’* children than on
tho millionaire’s. Blessed tiro those that
learn hy the, hard way of life, what every
man must learn first or last or go ashore
a wreck—namely, self-restraint. Tho
steel that had suffered most is tho best
steel. It Iiiih been in tho furnanco again
and again ; it has been on the anvil; it
has been tight in tho jaws of tho vise ; it
has felt the rasp; it has been heated, and
hammered and filed until it does not
know itself, and it comes out a splendid
knife. And if nten only knew It, what
aro called their “ misfortunes” arc God’s
blessings, for they are tho moulding influ
ences which give them shapeliness, and
edge, and durability and power.
Milk Instead of Notip.
A lady writing to the New York Times
says: “Withoutgiving any recipes for
making soap, I wish to tell all the hard-
worked farmers' wives how much lulior
thoy may hiivo hy not using such vast
quantities of this article. For nearly
ftvo years I have used soap only for wash
ing clothes. In all that time I have not
used one pound of soap for washing
dishes and other kitchen purposes. My
family Inis ranged from threo to twenty-
live. I have used cistern water, lime
stone water, as hard as possible,and hard
water composed of other ingredients be
sides lime, and I find with all these my
plan works equally well. It is this: Have
your water quite hot, and add a very
little milk to it. This softens the water,
gives the dishes a fine gloss, and preserves
the hands; IL removes the grease, even
that from l>cnf,and yet no grease is found
floating on the water, as when soap is
used. Tho stone vessels I always hoi on
the stove with a little water in them
when the victuals are taken from them;
thus they are hot when I am ready to
wash them, and the grease is easily re
moved. Just try my plan, you who toil
•lay after day every spring to make that
barrel of soap, and let us hear how it suc
ceeds with you. I like the great barrel
of soap on washing-days, but am glad to
dispense with its aid on all other occa
sions. 1 find that my tinware keeps
bright longer when cleaned iu this way
than hy using soap or by scouring. The
habit so many of us have acquired of
scouring tin is a wasteful policy; the
present style of tinware will not bear it.
The tin is soon scrubbed away, and u
vessel that is fit for nothing is leftonour
hands; but if washed in the way 1 have
described, the tin hi preserved and is
always bright and clean.”
They had a good deal of trouble with
the Aztec women attached to Barn urn’s
circus, in Providence. It seems that she
wanted her salary raised to seven dollars
a week, hut they told her if they did it
she would also he obliged to appear as
the Siberian malefactor, and she said she
would go back U> Limerick first and take
in washing again at two shillings a day,
and they were obliged to compromise hy
bringing her out as the fascinating Odal
isque of the Orient.
FACTS ANI) FANCIES
Mexico imports cotton goods to tho
value of six millions of dollars a year.
He who expect* a friend without a
fault will never find one.
Tit rue are many recipes for getting
rid of tho currant worm, but thoro is
nothing so sure in its result* as to blind
fold him and hack him under n pile driver.
Momt? otto remarked about a recent de
butante that her mouth was like a “ rose
bud.” “Oh do hot justice,” said Jones,
“her mouth is like a whole bush full of
rose buds.”
A Watertown girl addresses Mrs. A.
T. Stewart as aunty, and tolls how sorry
she is about her pool* dead uncle. About
$10,000 will do lor her, and sho tells
which of the Watertown banks aro tho
safest.
Two ladies contended for precedence
at the court of Charles V. They appealed
to the monarch, who, like Solomon,
awarded, “ Ijit the. older go first.” Much
a dispute was novor known afterwards.
The London World announces thut
Oapt. Hurnuhy, the central Asian lion of
tho London mlnni>, Is about to start for
Africa in quest of Mr. Stanley, who 1ms
not been beard of for over a year.
CONGIIEBHMAN THOMPSON, of the
Gloucester, Mass., district remarked,
when he hoard that tho Old South
church in Boston had been sold, “that
it didn't do for tho AI-m m-mighty to
own n e-c-c-corner lot In B-B-B-Boston.
Some people feel themselves obliged at
this season to get on the heated and
dusty railway and go off to some crowded
and generally uncomfortable watering
place. Happy tho individual who can
afford to stay at home and keep cool.
The following is the population,accord
ing to the last census, of the Hix largest
cities of Kuropp: London, 8,264,270 ;
Paris, 1,791,880; Constantinople, 1,000,-
000: Berlin, 820,841; Vienna, 826,1(16;
and St. Petersburg, 667,02(1.
There is no fooling with life when it
is once turned forty; the seeking of a
fortune then is hut a desperate after
game; it is a hundred to ono if a man
fling two sixes and recover all, especially
if Id* hand l>o no luckier than mine.—
Cowley.
A giieeky party by tho name of John
son proposes to condense 1 Mckcns' novels
hy re-writing them and cutting out
those parts which ho—tho cheeky party
named Johnson—thinks are not worth
rending. We movo to amond by con
densing the cheeky party named Johnson.
A gold pon is n little thing,
But in thy poet Itnnd
It can tako life—it enn take wing—
Become a magic wniul,
More powerful, more wonderful
Than alchemy of old:
It can make iiilinls all beautiful—
Change all things into gold.
Payron, «n bis dying bed, snid to hi*
daughter, “You will avoid much pain
and anxiety if you will learn to truat all
your concerns in God’s hands. * Cast all
your care on him, for he careth for you.’
But if you merely go and say that you
east your cure upon him, you will come
away with tho load on your shouldors.”
They aro experimenting in London
with a gun which weighs eighteen tons,
throws a ball weighing ono thousand ono
hundred and fifty pounds, and consumes
threo hundred pounds of powder at each
discharge. That gun would lie a dan
gerous thing (o leave lying around loose
for childrcd to fool with.
A Lafayette, Ind., man, with u
mania for patents, Invented a dccapitator
and committed snicido with it. On tho
sides of tlie machine were foil ml written
the words: “For sale or rent. Hari-
kari. Patent applied for.” Tho singu
lar instrument is now on exhibition in
tho cheerful waroroom* of a Lafayette
undertaker.
A clergyman who was invited to
preach beforo a medical association re
turned answer that be would do so from
the text: “In his disease Asa sought
not to the Lord hut to tho physicians;
and Asitftlejit with his fathers and died.”
'I’lie time for the delivery of tho sermon
has not yet been fixed.
A MEDICAL authority says that a man
loses one jtcr cent, of vitality every
time he is suddenly waked from Hlcop.
This is what makes a druggist look so
pleasant when he is rung up at two
o’clock in tho morning hy a fellow-citizen
who wants to know if no keeps postage
stamps, and who would like to buy one.
The Wosloyan Methodists have suf
fered severely in tho Fiji Islands front
the plague. Jt anpears fiom the general
returns that the deaths this year among
church members amount to more than
eight thousand, while there aretcu thou
sand less children in the Hum lay-schools,
and nearly forty thousand less attendants
on religious worship.
A pair of silver kettle-drums, ham
mered out of sheet silver, and nine hun
dred and sixty ounces in weight, have
been presented to the Fifth Lancers, a
British regiment. They are not destined
merely for show, lor it is well known
that the “ring” of silver has a peculiar
quality in its sound, which renders it su
perior to sheepskin. Four other Eng
lish cavalry regiments possess silver
drums.
YotJ can buy a cane fish-polo for
twenty five cents, and catch just as
many fish with it as you can with a
jointed ono thatVosts seventeen dollars,
but you can’t take it apart and Hlin it
under your coat when you go fisliing
Sundays a* you can one that's in sec-*
lions, and a religious outside appearanco
is worth sixteen dollars to seventy-five
dollars to most men.
How They Hmoke in Germany.—
The habit of smoking appears to lie un
usual among German men, and I was
told it would be impossible for me to
live or travel in Germany on account of
the illness which tobacco-smoke always
caused me; but I have found that, in
all the smoke, there is so little tobacco
that it gives me no inconvenience. From
the odor I judge that their cigars and
smoking-weed are made of paper steeped
in a weak solution of tobacco ; and this
is no doubt the reason they fe«I no in
jurious consequences from its use. Those
who quote the German habit of smoking
to prove that the use of tobacco in this
way is not unhealthful reason from false
premises. The Germans smoke, and
smoko, and smoke hy tho hour; but
tlicy do not smoke tobacco.