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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. S. D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 18715.
VOL. III. NO. 7.
TIMELY TOIMCS.
Hex. Cinder nnd five of hi* officers
were insured in the New York life in-
Hiirnnep company, of thin city, ami an
their Hide* were taken out under a
**|*«cial provision made l»y the company,
the claim* will I** promptly paid nnd in
»i'> way affected by the manner of their
death*. Tho aggregate insurance ol the
*ix officer* is $40,000, nnd in distributed
as follows: Hen. Custer, $6000; Capt.
^ ntes, $6000; ('apt. Keogh, $10,000;
Lieut. ('allioun, $6000; Lieut. Crit
tenden. $10,000, and Lieut. Porter, 6000.
— World.
Liverpool rejoice* in a young living
gorilla, imported by the German Africa
society’* expedition. It in a young
male, in perfect health nnd nlrout three
teet in height. The corre*|iondent of
the London Time* *avs of him; “lie
|>oint* with the index finger, clap* with
his hands, points out hi* tongue, feed*
on a mixed diet, decidedly prefer* roast
meat* to (toiled, cate* strawberries, a* I
h.iw, with delieate apprcciativcnes*, i*
exquisitively clean nnd mannerly. The
palm* of hi* hand* nnd feet nrc beaut 1-
tally plump, soft and black a* jet. He
bas I»een eight months and n half in the
|*t»*oa*ion of the expedition, has grown
wime six inches in that time, and i* sup-
|*osc«| t<> 1k« between two and three years
'1 ill-: state of New York alone lias now
nearly 1000 cheese manufactories, which
use the milk of more than 260,000 cows,
making therefrom 80,000,000 (tounds of
cheese, which i* 1000 |*iuml* for every
three cows. Tho cheese production of
the whole Uni toil States i* now over
260,000,000 |iounds, of which 00,800,000
are exported. England scarcely exports
26,000,000 pounds, while little Holland,
which used to Ik* the principal cheese*
producing country of tho world, exports
at present 00,000,000 pounds. This lat
ter fact suggests tho extent which tho
cheese production of tho United States
may reach in tho course of years, and
the wealth its ex|K)rtation* will bring
back, an the Hollandwrs used to lmnst
that their cheese production was more
valuable than a gold mine, very few of
which surpass the Dutch cheese in tho
profits relized.
The jtyiv Yurk Gra|ihic is authority
for the statement that the experiment of
cooperative living on the socialistic
plan is bi be tried anew shortly in Vir
ginia, on the hank* of Uie Potomac,
where a domain of some seven thousand
acres has been secured at a cost of $.10,-
buu. The property includes finely cul
tivated farms, with thousands of fruit
trees and a valuable water power. Tho
projectors of the enterprise have liecn re
cruited from those in every section of the
country who have an abiding faith in the
l>o**ibility of realizing the dream* of
I*mirier, lirisbane and Owen upon this
continent. The immediate leader* are
Mr. Samuel 1/onvit, of New York, nnd
Mr. Charles Sears, of the co-operative
farm, Silkvillr, Kansas. A monthly
magnzine entitled the Eclectic and
Peacemaker is the organ of the new
"rheme, and w ill naturally excite a great
deal of interest in certain circle*. The
projector* of thi* new community believe
in the sanctity of marriage, and regard
!*>th the Shakers and Oneida commu
nists as social heretic*.
.Jefferson Davis and Repudiation.
The New York Evening Po*t pub
lishes a private letter from Jefferson I >avin
ton lady in that city concerning his al
leged connection with repudiation in
.Mi*ni**ippi. He says:
1 had no more to do with the repudia
tion by Mississippi of tho Imnd* issued
than either of you hail. I was sent to
college when a boy ; from college went
to West Point, from West Point Into the
army, and served on the Indian frontier
until 18.36, when I married and left the
army. I took up my residence in a very
retired place, distant from the country
in which my father lived and where I
had been reared, so that I was a stranger
in Mississippi, seldom leaving the cane-
brake in which 1 lived, when, in 1830,
the last of these notorious bonds were
toned;
It was seven years thereafter before I
was brought into any |*>litical discussion,
and then only in the county in which I
resided before that time—18.33—the
famous Union bank imnd* had been re
pudiated, and though the question still
entered into party politic* it had little
more than historical existence.
Upon the question a* a politico-moral
one I opposed the doctrine of repudia
tion. insisting that governments, like in
dividual*. when claims were made
against them, had no right to make any
other issue than one in fact. Is there a
debt, or is there not ?
For that publicly declared opinion the
party of repndiators made war upon me
in the D'ginning of my political life,
using both stratagem and concentration
of their force* to defeat my nomination
for '-oncress in 1846.
When the federal government sought
to discredit the confederacy in foreign
markets, they sent to England to
represent me as a repudintor. No man
knew better than be the falsity ol his
representations, for he was nri active ttol-
itic-inn in Mississippi when repudiation
iK-cnrred, an«l it was years afterward be
fore he knew of my existence.
A New Jehsky editor lost his best
gold pen and holder a few (lays ago.
\fter making a thorough search all over
tie- office, and accusing a dozen tramps
with in theft, he liapimned to remember
where he last placed it, and bending
down the top of his ear, discovered no
less than fourteen penholders of various
styles which he had lost during the past
ten yean.
latest news.
mouth amo nrsT.
'Pho motto ol tho Dawson, (la., girls
I* to " let no singlcinnn escape.”
The pay of members of tho Texan leg
islature ban been reduced to two dollars per
day.
The schooner Lily of the Valley, from
Milln, bas arrived at New Orleans with the
crew of the schooner Lizzie, of Mobile,
wrecked recently near the hallzr.
There Is on exhibition at Marietta,
On., three solid bars of gold, worth one hun
dred nnd sixty dollar*, from Dobbs’ gold
mine, loented four miles north of Marietta.
Reports from nil part* of Kansas agree
that the crops this year will be the largest
and finest ever harvested. Most of the small
grains are already harvested. Corn prom
ise* an abundant yield. Weather very favor
able.
The cotton worm Itn* appeared In great
abundance in nil the unitor, fields in middle
and southern Alabama. They seem to be
general nnd fears are entertained, owing to
their advanced state at this date, of the total
destruction of the crop. The corn crop will
be the best ever mnde.
A s|>ccinl from lllimnrck say* the state
ment that Sittlug-llnll was killed in (lie fight
with ('uster is confirmed from Indian sources.
Crazy Horse and black Moon were also
killed. The statement that Mttiiig-buil’s
hand of I'nippnpns lost one hundred and
sixty killed, nnd that the total loss of the In
dians will reach nearly four hundred, is re
ceived.
Advices from Los Angelos state that
daylight was let through the Han Fernando
tunnel on the 1 r »th. This is tho longest tun
nel in the United Htntes except tho lloosne,
ami the last completed oil the line of the
Southern I'neitie railroad between Sail Fran
risen and I<«* Angelos, by connection of
the now separated lines through I lit* Idg tun
nel there will he n continuous railroad from
this city to to Fort Fnan, a distance of over
six hundred milos.
roitr.ioM.
The Suez canal company declared It*
first dividend at the meeting of its stock
holders on the 27th lilt. The dividend was
1 88.100 frillies per share, which, as the
shares rnte at about 76(1 franc* each, is hut
n trifle over one-fourth of one per cent,
which is the sole and entire return upon,
the entire investment since the enterprise
was begun. The total receipts for the year
past were 30,827,104 franc*, ami the total
outlay, including interest account,20,737,047
francs, leaving a balance of 1,100,147 francs
—*220,020 gold -to he distributed among
the shareholder*. During the year, l,4!H
vessels, of the aggregate measurement of
204,708 tons, passed through the cniml, and
the successful passage of the F.uglish ship
llnrknow, drawing 8 4-100 meters (nhi lit
28'-; feet) is cited as proof of its excellent
working order. The proposition for the
neiilralixntloii of the canal, and for its pur
chase, or rather its support, by the maritime
powers by annual contributions in lieu of
toll, according to their respective tonnage, is
now fnvornhlv discussed by both the English
nnd French journal*. This would cost Eng
land an annuity of H,8on,nOO francs, France
of 1,842,000 francs, and other nations in pro
portion, according to the extent of thuir
merchant marine.
NINeia.l.ANK«(!N.
Lieutenant Nat Cunningham, U.8.A.,
who Mas recently tried at Columbus, O., for
conduct iinhceommlng an officer and gentle-
innn, has been restored to duty.
IIAYWOOI) CHANT.
n< HrleMN. Arbmiiiu.
Haywood Grant, who wan executed at
Rome, Georgia, a few day a ago, wn*
born in Ohio, in 1614, of free parents,
but afterward Is'nuiie a slave of hi* own
accord. According to hi* own confes
sion, lie had murdered several men. In
1806, while employed upon a western
river, on the steamer l’otomac, he killed
a deck-hand with a billet ol wood ; some
months later ho killed another deck
hand on the steamer Boston n. and threw
him overboard. He committed many
theft* nlxmt thi* time, and next inur
dered an Irishman in Memphis, and rob
bed him of one hundred and forty dol*
ars. Then he stole a mulejniid wan
ent to the penitentiary and escaped,
n 1876 he was tried in Memphis for
hooting at a while man and killing a
policeman. He waa sentenced again to
the penitentiary lor half a lifetime, and
was hired out with other convict* to
work, ami escaped. <)n the twenty-fifth
day of September, 1808, general Thomas
C. Hindman, late of trie confederate
army, was brutally murdered. No clue
to the murder was ever found, though
large reward* were offered. Grant con
fessed lie fore hi* death that he shot gen
eral Hindman in the neck with an En
field rifle. He also shot and killed Wil
liam H. llandsborough, of Richmond,
Virginia, in a Tennessee town, but wax
never found out. A* much a* twenty-
five thousand dollars in rewards were
offered for the arrest of the criminal who
committed some of the crime* above
enumerated.
Sitting Hull nnd hi* Jlruvos.
Gen. Sitting Bull and hi* Lieut. Jtain-
in-the Face, Crazy Horse and the other
horoe* of the Yellowstone massacre, were
armed by the United State* with Win
chester rifles, that were more effective
than the arms of our own troop*. They
were supplied by the United State* with
ammunition, stores and horse*. The
blanket* given hi* command by the
Indian agency were freshly supplied,and
were all new and marked “ U. S. Indian
department.” While Sitting Hull and
lieutenants were killing Custer's men,
the United States was kindly feeding
and caring for their squaws and papooses.
It now appear* that, since Custer’* de
feat,the Indians are wearing their elothex.
Perhaps it would do well -now for the
United State* to keep on with the farce
it is playing, pension the Indian widow*,
and present Sitting Bull with a sword
and the freedom of the whole Indian
ountry.
CONGRESSIONAL.
MKN AT*.
In tho senate on the 14th Mr. Slier*
iiitin submitted the report of tli» conference
committee on the joint resolution for (lie is
sue of silver coin. Mr. Jones spoke ilioppo
sitlon, when the report m iis agreed to ami the
impeachment trial resumed. Evans being
still absent the court adjourned till Monday
with the understanding that the trial shall
then proceed. The senate resumed consid
eration of the rlverand harbor appropriation
hill. Tho amendments proposed of t lie com
mittee Mere agreed to and the senate ad
journed.
In the senate on the 16th, a hill, re
ported on Monday last by Mr. Wright, to
extend the duration of the court of commis
sioner* of Alabama claims, mum passed with
mi announcement making the time January
2, 1877. Tho river mid harbor appropria
tion hill was taken up. Mr. Paddock sub
mitted mi amendment providing for $45,000
of $125,000 appropriated for the Improve-
went of the Mississippi, Missouri and Arkan
sas rivers shall be expended ill improving
the Missouri. Agreed to. Adjourned.
Ill the senate on the 17th the impeach
ment trial was resumed, hut owing to the ab
sence of Evans the senate siting as a court
of impeachment adjourned till Wednesday.
The senate then considered the river and
harbor hill. Mr. Thurman said it wan true
that the Idll had broken down all jiartv lines.
It broke through everything, lie slid not
think the government could afford to appro
priate more than $4,000,000 this year for the
rivers and harbor*, and it M-asagreat fallacy
to advocate the extravagance on the ground
that the resource* of thi* country were
boundless. The dehate wun continued liy
Logan, t'aperton, Wallace and Morton.
Pending the discussion the senate went into
executive session nnd soon adjourned.
In tho Hcnnto on tho 18th four thous
and copies of the testimony wore ordered
printed, wliioh wnn taken by the special
committee to inquire Into the circumstance*
attending the late election in Mississippi.
The morning hour having expired, the chair
laid before the senate unfinished business,
being the river and harbor appropriation
hill, the pending question being on motion
of Mr. Thtiriiinn to recommit the bill to the
committee on appropriation, with instruc
tions to report the hill, reducing the aggre
gate amount for improvement of rivers and
harbors to a sum not to exceed four million
dollar*. Pending the disenssinn the elmir
announced senators Freliughuyseu, Ed
munds and Withers as a new committee of
conference on consular and diplomatic ap
propriation bill. .Senator Allison submitted
a substitute for the river and harbor appro
priation bill wllluh approriates $5,220,000 for
that purpose. Ordered printed. Senate went
into executive session mid soon adjourned.
In tho senate on tho Ifith considera
tion of the article* of impeachment wnn re
sumed, mid John H, Evans wn* nworil. Tho
imnenchment proceedings were temporarily
suspended, and legislative buNine** was re
sumed. Mr. Windntn, from the conference
committee on tho nundry civil appropriation
Dill, submitted a report M'hlcli was read in
explanation of the report, lie said the hill
a* it originnlly panned the house appropri
ated $15,250,431. The senate added $4,120,•
700, and a* now reported appropriated $10,-
22tt,777. The total amount of reductions
made from the bill a* it passed the senate
mm* $4,160,165. The sundry civil service
bill lust year appropriated $20,044,350, or
$10,414,572 more than the present hill. He was
unable to nee any great saving to the gov
ernment. In the reduction made in confer
ence committee from the bill mm it pnnsed the
senate, no fsr as amounts Mere concerned,
concessions wore all made by the senate con
ferees- lie Mas not satisfied with the hill a*
agreed upon in conference, but he thought
it Mil* the best Idll that could he gol under
the circumstances. Ho then mentioned
items constituting the reductions, among
them the following: Public printing
and binding, $4111,770; general expenses ol
the District of Columbia, $600,000; revenue
cutter service, $26,1140; court* in Utah,
$223,0()0; Hnillhsonian institute, $20,000;
examination of rebel archive*, $0,000 ; II. H.
postal guide, $10,000; mint* and assay
offices, $04,000; public buildings at Cincin
nati, $50,000; Chicago, $260,000; nmv build-
ings at Kt. Louis, $160,000; navy yard* and
station, $685,000; improvement of capilnl
grounds, $100,000; tcmporaiy clerks in the
treasury department, $00,000; signal service,
$100,(KM); testing iron and stool, $60,000;
survey of public lands, $72.000; collecting
revenue from the sale of puldic lands, $100,-
110; purchase of Frecdmcn's hank building,
$325,000. He commented on vnrious items,
ami argued that it would lie necessary to
pnss a large deficiency hill for next year. As
the hbl had been agreed upon in conference,
it piovidcd that the public printer should be
appointed by the president; that officer had
hitherto bean elected by the senate, but the
house had for several years disputed the
right of the senate to do so, and the senate
conferees thought it best to yield -the
house had receded from its provisions the
repealing of the election law. After long
nnd tedious effort* this hill has been agreed
on, and he hoped the report would be
agreed. The report waa then agreed to —
yeas 31), nays 12. Those who voted in the
negative were Anthony, Bruce, Conover,
Edmunds, Hamlin. Harvey, Hitchcock, In
galls, Logan, Mitchell, Morrill and Hpeneer.
The impeachment trial wiin then resumed,
nnd Crosby, chief clerk of war department,
recalled nnd testified. Mr. Carpenter an
nounced that this clased the case for the
defense. Manager McMahon stated the
managers had nothing to offer in rebuttal.
Mr. Carpenter asked that some arrangement
be made about Humming up tliejciise, and
announced that three of the council for the
defense desired to he heard. Manager I/ord
suggested that the time for argument he
limited. He said only two of the managers
desired to he heard on the question of met,
but if there were to he an argument a* to
the effect of the two-thirds vote on the ques
tion of jurisdiction a third mnnager desired
to he heard. Mr Carpenter said the counsel
for the defense would argue all there was in
the case, and lie regarded this as one of the
best point*. Mr. Conkling submitted an or
der ilint three manager* and three counsel
may be heard in order a* they may arrange
among themselves. The order of Mr. Conk-
ling was agreed to, amt the Hcnntc, sitting as
a court of impeachment, adjourned until to
morrow. I/egislative business was resumed,
and without important action, the senate ad
journed.
In the senate on the 20th Mr. Patter
son submitted a resolution ,requesting the
president to communicate to the senate, if
not incornpatiahle with the public interest,
any inforiuantion he may have in regard to
the recent slaughter of American citizens in
South Carolina. Agreed to. Soon after the
consideration of the articles of impeach-
.raei.t were resumed and .Mr. Blair, of the
counsel, opened the argument for the de
fense. In conclusion Mr. Blair urged that
iiis client should he dismissed because there
was not a legal two-thirds vote of the senate
asserting jurisdiction. After some discus-
1 B ion as to whether ft mnnager should go on
(lie government
I reduced a hill authorizing tho
printer to continue the public printing ft
with the argument on the side nf the prose
cution In the absence of Mr. Carpenter, who
reply, the senate, Hitting
ion of Mr. Conkling, took
.ante*. Upon re-nssombllr ,
proceeding* were suspended tempura
rijv and legislative hiiHlnes* resumed. Mr.
Windum introduced a hill to continue lor
ten days from date the provisions of the net
it> provide temporarily for the expenses of
*' •* * Mr. Anthony lo
ir the congressional
i (Idle printing for a
jtcriud of (tin days hi advance of the regular
appropriation. Fussed. The impeachment
trial was then resumed,and It wn* announced
that manager Lnphnm, who had been un
signed to open for the prosecution, was ton
sick to go on tr-duy. Ills place was taken
by manager Lynda, who commented on th
effort of a vote of less than two-third* of th
neunte in favor of the jurisdiction, and ar
gued that on the impeachment of judge
Barnard various senators who voted i^niiist.
jurisdiction voted in favor of Ids convic
tion. The question of jurisdiction in thi*
ease Ims boon decided according to law, and
was binding upon all senator*. He quoted
various legal authorities in support of Ids
views, and when lie concluded, the senate
sitting as n court adjourned until to-morrow.
Legislative business was resumed, and a
message was received from the house an
nouncing the passage bv that body of a hill
July 31st, and the senate concurred therein.
Adjourned.
In the senate on the 21st, the impeaeli-
incnt trial was resumed, hut oil the state
ment that Mr. ('arpenlcr nnd manager
Dalhani were sick, the senate, ns n court, ad
journed till Monday, nnd continued to dis
cuss the river and harbor hill. Vhe hill re
moving the political disabilities of George
W. Jackson, of West Virginia, passed. The
senate return'd to the question properly he-
'yinmitmeut of the
In tho liotiBo on tho 14th a roHolution
was adopted directing the secretary of tho
navy to prevent the dcHtruuUon of the wreck
of the monitor Tecumaoh, sunk in the Mobile
harbor, and to repurehase tho wreck if lie-
cessary. The house then went into commit
tee of the whole, Mr. Blackburn in the elmir
on the private calendar. The hill to nonfirm
certain laud claims in tin* state of Missouri
was discussed hut no action reached. Mr.
Lyildc, from the conference committee on
hill to amend bankruptcy net, made a report,
which waa adopted. House then adjourned.
In tho Iiouro on the 16th Mr. Uannon
suggested that the committee on invalid pen
sions should an early day report a hill
granting a pension to the children of the
men who fell under the lead of (Sen. Custer.
The house then went Into committee of the
whole, Mr, Monroe in the elmir, on (he Idll
for the protection of the Texas frontier. Af
ter a short discussion, Mr. Dunnell opposing
that part o the hill which allows ILK, troops
to pursue murdorers iulo^feiic.o, the emu*
mlltco rose fora few moments, and Mr.
Ilusk, of the committee mi invalid pen-
finiiH, reported a hill granting, a pension of
fifty dollars each to the father and mother
of Gen. Custer'ami brother*, and it was
passed without division. Mr. Conger moved
that the committee on pensions be instructed
to report a hill for the relief of tho families
of those who fell under Gen. (-lister, hut Mr.
Jinks objecting the house again went into
committee of the whole on I ho Texas lull.
After a long discussion (he committee voted
the Idll hy sections, the first section provid
ing for a military force on the Hio Grande,
wan amended in several particulars. With
out coming to a vote on tho amendment tho
committee nroso and the house adjourned.
In tho house on tho J7tli Hit' following
were among tho bills introduced and re
ferred: By Mr. Hoskins, appropriating
$100,Off) for Ihn continuance of the Wash
ington monument. By Mr. Phillips (Kan
sas): authorizing the president to accept
of volunteers from Kansas, Ne
braska, Wyoming. Golorado, Dakota and
Utah against the Sioux Indians. By Mr.
Waddell: for the erection of an equestrian
statue of General (’uster in Washington.
By Mr. Landers: for the immediate utilllizii-
lion of gold and silver bullion hy certificates
of value to encourage the coinage thereof,
and to make the standard silver dollar a le
gal lender. Referred to committee of tho
whole on motion of Mr. BankH. By Mr.
Karnes: an addition to thu hill for the re
sumption of • specie payments, requiring
mount of standing legal
l aside every year until
per cent.
the legal lenders are of equal value with
gold. The resolution of Mr. Piper 'or the
appointment of a committee to proceed
to California, after adjournment, to
investigate, conjointly with a senate com
mittee, or otherwise, the extent and effect of
Chinese immigration, was adopted—ayes 185,
nays 14. A hill to reinovd the political dis
abilities of P. G. T. Beauregard passed. Mr.
MeDougal introduced a hill granting pen
sions to the heirs of the officers and mei*
killed in Custer's recent battle with the
Hinux at Increased rates, proportionate to
that of fifty dollars per month, to the legal
pension of a lieutenant colonel. Referred.
Sir. Lane introduced a bill to pay the states of
California and Oregon the expenses incurred
in suppressing uldinii hostilities in 18.2 ami
1873. Passed. Adjourned,
In the house on the 18th a bill waa in
troduced providing for the election of a gov
ernor, secretary, treasurer, auditor and su
perintendent of schools in the several terri-
torlea. Mr. Kelley introduced a hill for the
coinage of the standard dollar, the weight to
ho 412M grains as provided for in the act of
January 18, 18.37, and to make it legal ten
der for all debts both public and private.
Referred. The senate concurrent resolu
tion making special committees of the two
houses on the coolie question a joint com
mittee. was concurred in. The house then
went into a committee of the whole with Mr.
Monroe in the chair, to protect the Texas
of South Carolina, in connection with the
Hamburg troubles, that no troops shall he
withdrawn fiojn South Carolina. At. the
close of debate Mr. Hancock moved a sub
stitute for Mr. Kmalls’ amendment, to the
effect that no troops shall he taken from any
state or service where the public interest re
quires their continuance. Mr. Emails ac
cepted the substitute, and it was agreed to
hy 80 to 83. The committee then proceeded
to the consideration of the hill authorizing
the president to order troops to cross the
Rio Grande in pursuit of robber*. Without
action the committee rose and the house ad
journed.
In the house on the 1 Dtll the bill ex
tending the duration of the court of com
missioners on lliu / laharna claims until the
fust of January next, passed. The house
then considered the Mouth Carolina con
tested election ease on the unanimous re
port of the committee that neither the sitting
member, Mr. Mackey, nor the oontetitan',
appropriation Idll. The motion in regard to
reorganizing the army nnd the reduction of
the pay of the officers, which Ims been the
point of dilfieully between the two houses, is
referred to a commission, which is to sit
•luring recess. The report was agreed to
nod the hill now goes to tho president for
IiIh signature. The house then went into
committee of the whole, Mr. Monroe in tin*
chair, on tho hill for the protection of the
In tho house on tho 20th, tho hill for
the protection of the Texas frontier passed,
after the rejection of the second section, hy
a vote of yeas 8!>, nays Oil. The following Is
the text of the hill: Thai for the pm pose of
giving efficient protection of the country be
tween Uin Grande and Nueces river*, in the
state of Texas, from cattle thieves, robbers
and murders from the Mexican side uf the
river, the president of the United State* he
and is hereby authorized and required to
station, and keep on the Rio Gramle river,
from the mouth or the river to Fort Duncan
and above, if necessary,
..... regiments of
avalry for field aorviee, in addition to such
infantry force ns may ho necessary for garri
son duty, and to assign recruits to said regi
ments, so as to fill up each troop to number
of one hundred privates, and they shall he
up to that strength as long as they shall he
required In that service. Mr. Randall made
a conference report on the sundry civil ap
propriation hill oml explained it. After n
long discussion the report was adopted. The
hill now goes to the president for signature.
Mr. Itandall from tho committee on appro
priations reported a hill appropriating $7,000
lor the expenses of tho Joint select commit
tee on Chinese immigration. Fussed. Also
a hill extending to the thirty-first of July
the bill making temporary provision for the
expenses of the government. Fussed, Mr.
Sampson from the committee oil patents, re
ported hack the Neunte Dili to punish coun
terfeiting of trade marks. Fasseil. The
house tlien adjourned.
In tho house oil tho 21*t, a number of
private hills were reported and acted upon,
when the house went into a committee of
the whole on the private calendar, the first
hill being one conferring certain laud claims
in the slate nf Missouri. After discussion
the eu leting clause was stricken out and the
ported to the house, which coil-
PHILADELPHIA LETTER.
The Itrewery IIiiIIiIIiik .Iiiiuiii Jiipniicm*
Curmic.r I’nrc-liilii. Cmiuilc*.
tcr.v Vi-Ri'lnliln Wn* The Me
ri'lnry'i Oillee .vilMccllitti.r.
TilH IIUKWEUY IIIJILDINOH.
TIiIh i* failed the brower’* building,
and to tho vi*itor who will survey it*
protontioUH architectural display, * and
then ciitor, and wonder at the ninny hop*
required to advance this intoront to it*
preHont poHition of importance, he will
readily conceive bow grandly signljlfeuiit
i* the onward march of lager; how weak-
kneed drink*, Hoda, elder, and cobbler*,
yield in despair; and bow tho more vital
lluid*, cognac, whiHky, and absinthe,
treinhlo at tho vieloriou* progress of
king Gamhrinti*. Wo arc becoming a
jM'ople of modified drinker*. What once
wish Hpooinl and violent—ensuing result*
from strong liquor, and their attendant
pernicious example*, ha* changed to gen
eral and conservative, tending to stupid
ity (in exec**, I mean,) anil harmless
rivalry. I cite tho Teuton who drank
seventy ghi**0H on a wager, and then
Haiti, “ Now, Hlicntlcincn, I drink* for
m I no pleasure.” I* lager beer intoxica
ting? Oh, no, of course not! Hut, thi*
wiih a German who drank thtiHly. Could
American do likewise? I can’t Hay.
m’t; can you? Then leave the ques-
tion open to temperance social debate,
for it will be coiitinuouH. “ In medio
tiitisHinuiH,” “ keep tho middlo cour*o,”
i* good advice, not to ho intomperuto nor
intolerant. Who can ? I can't. A* Homo
HiiggCHtod during our Into war, had
hung a Hcoro of loader* on each *ido,
would have rattled it. So, do you
think, to hang a wore of temperance or
a nil-temperance leader* will Hollln tho
question? I think not; ho let u* turn
to the brower*’ building again.
The building j* an immciiHc affair to be
devoted touHpocialty—two hundred and
seventy-two hy ninety-nix feet of wood.
The contents are malt , hop*, barley, feed
mill*, masher*, wankers, valve*, malt bag*,
ice Hwimmers, hop kiln*, kegs, hogsheads,
malt hIiovcIh, barrels, rin*ing machine*,
steep tub*, vats, tank*, funnel*, yeast
uievc*. cement floor*, *enmlc*K bags, com-
Miiinil for lining barrel*, Hlovc* to dry
iopH, and all the material that is necos-
sary to sot up a first-class brewery,
lienee, any of the reader* of thi*, hy
cutting it out, will always have a guide
for establishing mi establishment hy
which, when their thir*t becomes so ar
dent and unquenchable a* to demand
largo quantities, they can absorb it at
wholesale rale*. The exhibit* in the
building represent two hundred nnd thir
teen breweries and lieercries, scattered
over Europe mid America, the principal
of which in the latter country arc those
of the city of New York, city of Phila
delphia, and the stale* of Wisconsin,
Ohio, Maryland, New Jersey, Michigan,
and Illinois.
JAPAN.
I have made frequent allusion to thi*
country. Her marked sympathy with
the United State* in the centennial
movement, also her material aid rendered
in the variety and value of exhibit*, thi*
in itself will allow a more extensive no
tice of a country, and a people, with
whom our relations, social, in a certain
sense, educational to a degree ; ns I no
tice a great interest in the Japanese in
the matter of educating their youth in
our country, and the increasing extent of
our commercial relations: lienee it will
he of value to the general reader to know
a few details hot found in the school-
books.
J he emblem of the Japanese empire
consists of the sun represented by a gold
en ball on a red ground for the imfierinl
standard, and by a red ball on a white
ground for the national flag. In ancient
times the flag* bad a double crest, the
sun and moon crescent-shape, the flag
HhajK-d like a pennant. The Shioguns,
of the Ahlikaga family, introduced the
vertical flag* four hundred years ago.
Under tho Shioguns of the Tokugawa
family, the emblem of the sun alone fig
ured on tho flag, and ha* now been
adopted for the new flag* of the different
departments.
JAPANESE rCUUENCY.
The Japanese adopted the decimal sys
tem for weight* and measures, many
conturics before the Chinese. Tho unity
of the weight is called the ” Monte,” or
t he modern name of “ Son,” which Is the
same us thoOhiliese “Mace,” and iscqual
to three grammes, 760,621. This unity
is divided into 10-100-1000 parts. Ku-
war-ino I* the highest unity and equal to
one thousand nuunoor threo kilo*, 760,-
621. For vnrious kinds of goods the
" kin," called catty hy foreigners, is used.
It is equal to one hundred and *ixty
illume, or six hundred nnd onegramme*,-
01, or nearly one nnd a half pounds, En
glish. It varies according to tho nature
of tho goods and the locality. For their
measure* of capacity lor cereal*, liquid*,
etc., they have the knku—11 Do—100
Kho—1000 Go—048,2000 Japanese cubic
lines, or one hundred and eighty litres,
thirty-nine, and are in the whape of
wooden siiuare boxes with a diagonal iron
rod stretched across the top, the upper
surface of which is on a plane with the
rim of the lwx. £Onc of the richest ex
hibit* of the Japanese !h their “ Iknnlm-
ri,” from the name of the inventor.
KomcLhingjlikc “Pnpir Macho,” only that
this l* made from numerouH layer* of
their paper, which are adhered hy glue,
prepared from fern roots and unripo per
simmons.
JAPANESE POnCKLAlN, CKItAMICS, POT-
This !h tho most important feature of
Japanese industry. Janune*o legends at
tribute the invention of pottery toOosoi-
tsuml, who lived in tho time of Oaiui-
much-no-nilknto, six hundred and sixty
B. G. In twenty-nine B. C., Injnnui
figures wero formed of clay and buried
with tho deceased members of the impe
rial family, tliUH obviating the necessity
of their servants accompanying their
masters to tho grave. I am assured thi*
idea wn* heartily relished hy the servants
who as compensation for living imperi
ally in tho kitchen, wore reimirod to he
buried in the same grave with their mas
ter*, while alive. In tho Oth century u
Coroan tile manufacturer came to the
capital to touch hi* profession, and from
that to the 10th century continued to
flourish. At this period a now articlowas
introduced called raku, by aCorean. It
was a common black eartbemvuro. The
beginning of tho mnkingnf real porcelain,
was under direction in (loro
diiyu Shonsui, a native of I so who wpnt
fco Chinn, where lie Htudied tho art.
Oil Id* return he settled in tho province
of I lizen, which i* to-day the most im-
iKirtant centre ol tho porcelain industry.
The dilleront kind* ol porcelain manu
factured hy this pioneer and continued
to tho present are, Homo-tsukl or blue,
are painted with [cobalt oxide under
the glaze ; the Kanyu or 11 ilki
Cragull; tho Seldzi or Seladon wi
Arkai, ortho red ware ; and tho Gosai,
which latter mean* five colors. This i
used for tho porcolnin painted with vitri-
liablo colors uj>on tho glazo. It is liotT
.called Nishkhfo. In 724 A. I)., a prlont
named Giynki, introduced tho potter's
wheel into Jupnn.
VEGETABLE WAX.
This is a valuable production nf .Japan,
which seems to have escaped tho atten
tion of correspondents. It is produced
from tho fruit of several trees, belonging
to tho genu* Rhus, amongst wjiich the
Rhus Huccedrlcu is Important. Tho lac
quer tree. Rhus Vcrnlclfora, also yield*
Tho Rhus Hylvostrl* is the wild
tree, The cultivated wax tree*
inmorlod from tho Loo Choo Is
lands. The berries, the size of a Hinall
pea, and united in hunolie*, contain* the
wax between the kernel and tho outer
*kin. They are crushed, winnowed,
steatnod, placed in licmp-cloth hag*,
steamed again, and afterwards pressed in
a wooden wedge hy Imnd. To facilitate
the flow of wax, a jier cent age of To no
alitiral (oil from Porilla of oimoidc*) m
added. This wax i* made into candles;
thu art was introduced from I*>o Choo
towards tho end of the 10th century.
Another tree yielding a kind of vegeta
ble tallow is the “ Cinnaniomum Pedun-
eulatum.” There is also an Insect pro
ducing a kind of wax exclusive of the
honey lice. They are identical with tho
Chinese “poln.” They livo ii|M>n the
Ligustrum ” Ilmtn. It i* wonderful
the variety of design* mado from thi*
ego table wax. Candles are painted and
f a variety of shapes, crude and artistic.
Tills wax tree a* well as the wax Insect
could he introduced into the United
States with the mo*t productive fruit*.
There is nothing known to tho varied
flelds of agriculture or horticulture, and
assaults in any part of the world,
an l»e reproduced in America, and
ocossity for thin introduction is ap
parent, when we consider how diflbrcntclo-
merit* exlmii*t themselves, and a balance
of powor cart alone he preserved hy pro-
muling HUppInnting gift* whose strength
will take the place of tho effete produc
tion of a coil devoted to a specialty for
generations. I*!t our people study Japan
and her resource*, and the consuqnonce
will he a resulting profit.
the hkcbetahy’b office.
This i* really the executive head of
the centennial movement, n* from it* flat
there seems to bn no intelligent tvppeu!.
Tho experience of the secretary and the
competent expert* lie lias gathered in the
(urination of Iiis clerical staff, renders all
the rulings of the Mon. Jno. L. Camp
bell acceptable to the commission. Thu
staff of the office have liccn selected for
their intelligence and addrem, a necessity
in this case, ns contact with the brains
and manners of the educated and pol-
i*hed of the circle forming the upper
strata of international society do*
innnds corresponding ability. Chief
of tho office, I . C. Do Sample. Chief
auditing clerk, Wilfred I’atter*on; E. H.
Fletcher, chief bureau of correspondence;
W. II. La ridel 1, head of mulling depart
ment; D. C. JInuxhurHt in charge of the
contract department. These gentlemen
are the prominent aid to the office. A)
correspondent of the Newspaper Union
I am indebted to them for many courte
sies, and the country is under obligation
to these gentlemen for their efforts in
accomplishing the to be desired great
ends of the centennial exhibition of 1870.
MJHCELLANY.
A UHtria exhibits some rare specimens of
parquetry. Some of the patterns are
I neautiful. Austria exports largely of
this specialty to northern- Germany,
1 Russia and Greece. Vienna send* from
one baking establishment thirty varieties
of biscuit. Russia exhibits bitumim
coal from a mine that ha* been on
I since 1700, and it still burn*—how
wonderful it is, can be appreciated by
hose who liavo experienced tho boat of
I'hiladclphia for tho past two week*.
Hero we we tho sun's rays, that pene
trated tin' earth thoiiHand* of years ago,
when solidifying into carbon his intense
heat, has awakened from hi* torpor, and
bursts out in lire and smoko from Ills
tenement to destroy or defructlfy. Ger
many make* a splendid exhibit of
ecrumies. I have alluded to tlume of
Japan. The immense value of those of
Germany deserve sjiccliil mention. The
ceramic productions are prepared in
small furnace* and gas mil flic-furnaces.
Tho lino cruRhing ol glazing and enamel
colors is performed with steam power in
mill contrived fur this purpose. The
soot or lamp hlnek is produced in
furnaces. There are employed two pro
fessional chemists, a painter on porcelain
to try colors on divere ceramic, shards,
lour male and eight female workers in
the artistic part of the factory making
the exhibit. The products for the use of
ceramic* are supplies of liquid and torri-
lied manufactures of metallic ingredients,
gold, cobalt, uranium, Iron, antimony,
chrome, and alloyed with fluxes uml
reduxes. Liquid lustres are metallic
oxides dissolved in volatile oil, nnmtly
applied to glazed articles. Enamel colors
are metallic, oxido alloyed with fluxes in
torrlfied powder, which compounded
with tur])Oiitiuo oil are painted upon
porcelain, or in water colors. When
naked in an oven tho lire, is while heat.
This valuable branch of industry waa
only introduced into Germany in 1808,
ami its progress is an exhibition of what
can ho done hy a nation of workers and
thinkers. Our prttifdf should study this
principle of commies and apply it to our
manufacturing interest; ana thoro fe no
reason why it should not bo that the
vase of Vienna, the ceramic* of Berlin,
or the porcelain of China and Japan,
may not lie excelled in the United States.
The rule in Germany is, that when
working-men are sick, they recoivo one
half pay. medicine and medical advice
gratis. This is another European rule
that should bo adopted In this country.
Austria shows ogrlots from Snalato, from
which the far-lamed Maraschino is pro
duced. Elegant specimens of lace from
Bohemia. The art. school for lace making
in Austria, which country exhibits tho
rare Bohemian lace, was founded in the
year 1866, by her I. It. highness, the
archduchess Sophia of Austria. J. II.
HITTING BULL AND THE SIOUX.
I'ffimounl Nkrlrli «»r Hie Nnvng* ( lifer
I’t-riillitrlllra or Ilia* Till»o Mill'll
on (lie Wnr l*ii(li.
Tho Ht. DmiH Globe-Democrat, of
Saturday give the following sketch of
the Sioux chief, in a conversation with
Mr. J. 1). Keller, of that city:
Mr. Keller was from J8G8 to 1873 dork
tho agent at Standing Rock, and had
ample opportunities to got ncouiunted
with this trllio of bloodthirsty savages.
In fact lie lived among them so long that
ho learned to speak tnolr languago “liko
a iiatlvo,” nnd was a great favorite of tho
big chiefs who camo to tho agency. They
cuTlod in “ Minnehrtn Onltlln,” (tho
writing hoy). Tho word Sioux mean*
" cut-throat." According toMr. Keller’*
statement, the various bands, of Sioux
number from tldrty-livo -.thousand to
forty-live thousand, and are divided irtta
the following different tribes: Unkapapa,
Black Feet, Sans Arcs, Two Kettles,
Upper Yauktonals, Lower Ynnktonal*,
Santoo Sioux, Burgklys, Minneconjon*.
and Gnlkii*. Part of these live east and
part west of the Missouri river. Tutonko
Otnhka, (Sitting Bull), who led in tho
fight against Ouster, belongs to tbo
Unkapapa* (dried bool enters). Mr.
Keller knows him well, and describe*
him to bo about live feet in height. IJo .
lias a large head, eyes and nose, high
cheek lnine*; one of 111* logs is shorter
than the other from a gun shot wound
in the lea knee. His countenance is of
an extremely savage typo, betraying that
bloodthirstiness and brutality for which
ho has been so long notorious. Ho has
tho name of being one of the most
successful scalpers in the Indian country.
There bus Is-en a standing reward of
$1,000 offered for Ids head for the liwt
eight years, hy the Montana people, who
have siHJcial cause to know his ferocious
nature, some of his worst deeds having
been perpetrated in that territory. 1 he
Sioux, when on the war path, black their
faces from the eyes down, tho forehead
being colored a bright rod. When in
mourning, and vory eager to revenge the
doiith of friends or relations, they cut
their hair short nnd daub their faces
with white earth. Their feats ol
horsemanship are. wonderful. they
consider the greatest act of valor to bo
the striking of their enemy with some
hand instrument whileallvo. and, whether
alive or dead, it Is the first one that
strikes the fallen foo that “counts the
coup" and not the one that shoots him.
they do not always scalp. Their object
in scalping is to furnish a proof of their
deed, and give them to their wonien to
dance over. They always attack In a
sweeping, circling line, eagle-like, give a
volley, pass on, circle nnd return on a
(liirerentcn K lc. When thny kill one ol
the enemy there is always a rush to got
tho first crack at him so as to count
the coup," and then some Indian who
was disappointed ill getting a cut at tho
victim while alive scaljis him.
Sioux camp with tepcH (lodges) in a circle,
making, as it were, a stockado, and when
on dangerous ground they picket their
iMinies in the center. Mr. Keller is
familiar with the ground where the
d isastrous engagement of C'u»le(■occurred.
Concerning this he said: My idea of
the Custer slaughter is that tho Indian*
had no wonien and children in their
lodges, and had parapets dug under the
lodges out of sight. Custer, thinking it
a family camp, rushed into the center ot
their fort, where resistance would
necessarily prove fatal. His only means
of escape was, after finding himself in
this fix, to run right through and out,
nnd not stop to fight, but join Reno s
command and retreat.”
A Queer Vehicle?—A New Haven
(•nrringe-mnktrhns just finished a cabriolet
for a missionary in India, with an cx-
tention top bo that it can converted
into a covered couch at night. It will
Ik; drawn hy sacred white oxen; a box
for the driver is prepared where the
whifllctrce usually is, and he guides
the oxen by a dextrous twisting of their
tfijls,