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CEDARTOWN RECORD. W, S, D, WIKLE & 00,, Proprietors, CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 187(5. VOL. III. NO. 10. TIMELY TOPICS. I'mi.nnKN die in Now York a* sand flies do on in miner evening*. The wife of an undertaker told a reporter last week that she had with her own hand prepared nno hundred and thirty infanta far burial in three days. Tiik last words of Charlotte Cushman are more authentic, but leas heroie than last words usually are. Her nephew had raised her, and offered a stimulating drink with the words, “Come, auntie, here is your milk punch.” She smiled, ami quoted the first line of the eele- hrnted street ear jungle, “Punch, broth ers, punch with rare.” Then she fell in to a deep sleep from which she never awoke, s. man Mt rap’s condition is pitable indeed, if accounta fn»m Constantinople arc true. A correspondent of the Men Niger du Midi wmls to that |>a|ier a let ter purporting to lm\o l*cen written by the aulU’.n'a physician, which says that " M Wad is dying from dcloriuni tremens, bp,light on by lianl drinking, principally 'absinthe, reckless debauchery, remorse for bis uncle’s death, ami dread of a Rus sian invasion, or attacks on bis palrce by Mussulman fanatics.” Till? Houth Carolina planter whose ImmI* was recently burned on an im mense pile of green wood probably caught the idea from a wealthy batchclor near Charlestown, who had a cast-iron coffin made, and directed liis overseer to have the remains reduced to ashes on a pyre of twenty cords. The key was drop|>ed into the casket through a small bole made for that purpose, ami the isix was thiown into the Cooper A TRAIN on the Pennsylvania railroad leaving Pittsburg Thursday with military for the centennial encampment at Phila delphia, was added to on the main line, ami Northern Central branch until it numbered one hundred and ten cars in eleven sections, car/ying over five thous and passengers, being the largest passen ger train ever run over the road. It arrived without any detention oruccidcnt, ami without any interference of the reg ular trains. It has now been proved boyond dis pute that (Jen. Custer was not seal pod, that hi* l*ody was not in any way niiiti* kited and that his uniform was not stripped off by the Sioux. Hut it is a fact that, Buffalo Hill, white man and killer of Indians, has just sent to bis friends in Rochester the scalp which he <•01 from the head of the Cheyenne brave, Yellow Hand, after be had killed him, and the blanket, head-dress ami girdle which he took from the lardy of Yellow Hand after death. Tiik marquis of Halnmancn, a rich banker of Madrid, ennobled by queen Isahellivsbas sont to this country one hundred and thirty-five pictures, mustly old ones, which he desires Ur sell. His gallery is said to contain fifteen hundred paintings, mid these arc what ho wishes to get rid of from among the nnmlier. They fa*nr the names of celebrated mau lers, such as Rubens, Murrillo, Raphael, Vandyke,Tintoretto, Won vermans, Paul Veronese, Teniers and Velasques. They are to lx* sold at auction, and their gen uineness is officially certified. What they are really worth cannot ire told until they are exhibited, but it nia taken fur certain that they will sell cheap. There is no market in thine try for the old masters. < ».\ the evening of July 10th the pre sentation of the flitch of bacon took place at Ihimm.iv. England. The flitch i- at the dix|tosal of any couple who sweat that they have lived together unbroken fidelity anil affection. T couples sent in claims, the Rev. Samuel Marriott Smith, Vicar of Harwell, Berks, and his wife, Caroline, and Mrs. James Rooxey, clerk at Trinity church, Vent- nor, ami his wife. The former couple were unable to appear. Mr. and Mrs. Boo-ey were escorted from the station to the scene of trial by a band of music The trial took place in the presence o afamt .'I,(K)0 jieople. The jury, composed of an equal numticr of bachelors an maidens, considered the answers anti factory, and awarded the flitch of baco to the worthy couple, who were chaired to a high platform, where, kneeling upon sharp stones, they took the ancient oath, and the flitch was handed to them amid loud cheering and the firing of cannon Some of the worthy people who go to Saratoga are accompanied by their imiUhle children, and the little have dancing parties. Says a recent let ter : “One sight was that of a little three-year-old, who was dressed in a colored silk, with a yard ol hrrmarnma’s p dnt-Uice flounce for an over-skirt, and who wore tiny white gloves, hearl fan pendant, pink silk stockings ami with kid boots the same color. Well, this baby started off well pleaded to dance with another baby of her own age, but seeing a companion of the like tender years dancing with a boy several years her senior, she came down the lawn with her mouth wide open ami her hands spread in frantic fashion, screaming vig orously, and, when she reached her anx ious mother, yelled out with the passion of an enraged child, ‘ I want to dance with a boy ; won’t dance with a girl!’ ” LATEST NEWS. fVOVTH ANIt WMT. Senator Sharon, in applying for the reduction in the valuation of liin palace lin tel, San Francisco, which was put at $2,000,- ', said tlml it was not paying, and was nut likely to. It cost, lie said, $5,O0O,OOO, but ahor and material were then high, and it ■ouhl not he sold for half that sum. Stillborn railroadsare reviewed by tho Chicago Railway Ace, August ltd. The rail road mileage is given in 1800, 1805, 1870 and 1875: ii i i i Tutsi niilrsu'- y,l*'J if,M3 i M'.s'i |\'t|» During the war the south huilt only four hundred and fifty miles. The sixteen thou sand miles in the south now represent prnh- altly $000,000,000, and the system of rail roads is in its infancy. The Railway Age concludes the people of the south are fully awake to the importance of increased facili ties for transportation. The end of the next ten years will see n vast addition to the pres ent railway mileage and a corresponding in crease in wealth mid prosperity throughout the garden region of (lie south. News has been received by way of tho Red-Cloud agency of the arrival of an Indian from the hostile camp, who says that Sitting Hull is fully prepared and eager to meet Generals Crook and Terry, or both combined, and feels eonfldent of his ability to whip them. He further stales Unit reinforcement* are joining the hostile* daily from North and Itrilish America, and a few from Miune- Re|*orts received at the war depart ment from Gen..Sheridan states that many of the Indians now coming into the reserva- eapt ril froi the mth cavalry in die late Custer massacre. The July report to the national cotton exchange from eighteen counties in Middle Tennessee and ten of Worth Alabama shown more fnvnralde “lands comparatively to last year. The plant iN forming and blooming well. Nearly all reply that cotton is fruit ing liettrr than last year, while a few com plain of too much rain and a few complaints of grasshoppers. A despatch from the Big Horn expe dition, on Goose creek, via Fort Fetterman, says Gen. Merritt, with his forces, fins joined Gen. Crook and they lire now ready for ag gressive action. This united column ha* over twenty-one hundred fighting men. Fu ller the new orgttOlzntion, Merritt is the ranking officer of cavalry, and Col. Cham bers commander of infantry. The entire column, with the paek-traiu, will move at once toward Tongue river with its three hun dred pack-mules, one hundred and fifty thousand rounds of ammunition and twen ty-five thousand rations, and forage. This is the lightest marching condition. Men ami horsesnro in the lines! possible trim. Scout- ing parties have discovered large fresh trails of Sioux leading toward the lower Tongue and I’owder river. It In believed that the savages are in need of victuals,as the picked carcasses of dogs are found around their camps. They have tired the prairies to ruin pasturage nud render (lie cavalry useless. Gen. Terry lias nut been heard from for a month. He is believed to have nearly two thousand men. MAT. The debt of the city of New York, ac cording to controller Green’s monthly state ment, published till instant, has risen to the gigantic figures of f I>52,INK),000. Increase ill six months $17,500,000. Of the 15,000 unemployed New York working men lo parade Thursday, and wait upon the mayor and hoard of aldermen to demand relief for their present necessities, only about seventy-five formed in line, and marched to the city hall, where about two thousand others soon gathered. In reply to an address of the workingmen, the mayor said they had his hearty sympathy, hut he had no power to give employment to any roHKiux. The ox-queen Isabella, who left Paris last wreck for Santander, means to make her self dear once more to Spain. Her son is putting the splendid palace of the Alcazar in Seville in order for her residence, and the changes and repairs she has insisted upon have already cost nearly $100,000. The Times considering the capture of Giirgnzovatz a severe, if not a fatal blow I the Servians, say* the Turkish ininisle must he solemnly warned Hint they will m he allowed to make wanton use of their vi lory. If they think that on the soil of Se via their troops may commit one hundredth part of the atrocities perpetrated in Bulgi they are the victims of an Infatuation, will Turkey he allowed to make much use of her victory ns to cancel .Servian freedom, Hervia is under the protection of the great powers, and with them will he the duty of imposing any needful restraint on the im petuous spirit of her people. Stanley, under date of Lake Victoria, Uiaanzi, July 29tb, 1875, furnishes another chapter of his experiences in Africa, and re lates the story of his fight with a hand of savages, in which foqgfeen of them were killed and eight wounded. The woman who attempted to kill prince Gortaehakoff refuses to give any ex planations of her motives for the act, hut it i* understood that she had certain grievances against Russia, and was unable to get jus- It is reported that Disraeli fa about to he raised to the house of lords, with the title of the earl of Beaconsfield. Speaker Kerr fa better, but not yet able to sit up. Ifallet Kilbourne baa entered suit against the speaker of the house, sergeant- at-arms and members of the real estate pool committee, claiming $150,000 damages for injuries sustained by reason of imprisonment without cause. CONGRESSIONAL. NRNATH In the senate, on tho 5th, Mr. Morton noved to take up the resolution to print ten thousand extra copies of the president's message and accompanying document* in reference to the recent trouble at Hamburg, The motion to take up the reso.ution was agreed to; yeas, .111,; nays, 15. A strict par ty vote. The discussion became entirely political, and was continued through the morning hour, being participated in by Messrs. I’attersoli, Thurman, Cameron, Gor don and McMillan. The elvir then present ed unfinished business, the hill lo establish post routes. On motion of Mr. Edwards (lie regular order, the p.»-t route hill, was laid on Hie labia; yea* 32, nays 17, and (lie consid eration of Mr. Morton’s resolution was re ceived by a vote of 32 to 18. The report of the conference committee on the hill to pro vide for the sale of Osage ceded lands, etc., was here agreed to - yeas 27, nays 18, and discussion of Mr. Morton’s resolution and for the punishment of the perpetrators of the Hamburg crimes. Adjourned. In tbc senate, on the 7tl», a joint reso lution in reference to the wreck of the ,’mon itor Tcoumscll in Mobile hay, and lo provide for the burial of persons carried down when she sank, passed. On motion of Mr. Sher man the amendment.* of tho house to tho senate hill extending the time lor redemp tion of lauds sold by the United States for direct taxes were agreed to and the hill passed. The house hill making an appro priation for the payment of claims, reported allowed hv the southern claims commission er, passed w ith the amendments proposed by the committee. The senate then resumed consideration of unfinished business, the resolution of Morton to print 10,000 extra co pies of the message of the president and the accompanying documents in togntd to the recent trouble at Hamburg, Houth Carolina. I'euding the discussion Allison, from the conference committee on the river and har bor appropriation hill submitted tho report that llie committee had agreed upon the Ingalls, Oglesby and McCreary a eonfere committee on the hill to authorize the secre tary of the interior to deposit certain funds streasury i senate resu f the resolution of Morto addressed hv senator Eaton. Before Eaton concluded, the senate went Into executive session and soon after adjourned. In tin* somite, on tin* 8th, tho chair laid before the senate a communication from the secretary of war, enclosing a letter from lhr chief of the engineer corps remonstra ting ngaiiist the proposed amendment to the river and harbor appropriation hill limiting the availability of the appropriation for the improvement of the southwest pass of the Mississippi river. Ho expresses the opinion Hint il die amendment should he liniilly adopted, it will stop tho work of dredging and interfere with the commerce of New Or leans. Ordered to he printed and lie laid on the table. Mr. Hitchcock called tip the sen ate hill to establish the territory of Pembina, ami i<» provide a temporary government therefor. The proposed new territory con sist* of tho northern portion of the territory of Dakota. After a brief dismission, the bill wns passed; yeas .11, nays 1!». The senate then went into executive session and soon adjourned. In I hr senate, on the Dili, During the morning hour a number of bills uu the cal endar, not objected t<, were passed; among them a house hill to allow homestead settle to make proof of settlement before the courts as well as before the receiver. The nmciid- llients of Hie house to the senate hill lo provide for the sale of the reservation ol confederate Otolw** and Missouri Indians in Kansas and Nebraska were agreed to,and the hill passed. The senate then resumed con sideration of unfinished business, the resolu tion of Mr. Morton to print ten thousand ex tra copies of the message of president and necoiiipanyiiig documents in regard to Hie recent trouble at Hamburg, mid Mr. Falter- son resumed his remarks. Mr. Ilnmlin moved that the senate at 5 p. hi. lake a recess until 7:30. Agreed lo. and Mr. Wallace look the Door upon Mr. Morton's resolution lo print extra copies of the president’s message, etc., hut before concluding hisargument the sen ate took recess. Evening session Upon re assembling, Mr. Edmunds, from the commit tee on the judiciary, rcportcTl with amend ment the house Joint resolution proposing an amendment to (lie eonstilutioj of Hie United Stale* prohibiting the appropriation of money for tl.e support of schools of any religious seel. Flared on the calendar. He gave notice that lie would call it up for con sideration to-morrow morning. Mr. Wallace continued his remarks on the resolution of Mr. Morton, and was replied to by Mr. Hlier- man, but before the latter concluded the senate adjourned. Tim actinic on the I Dili resumed con sideration of unfinished InisinessN, the reso lution to print ten thousand extra copies of the message of the presiedent nnJ accompa nying document* in regard to tin* recent dif ficulty at Hamburg, H. C. Mr. Hliermau re sumed his argument at the point where he suspended last bight. Mr. McDonald then replied to the argument of Mr. Hliermau. The senate went into executive session, and soon adjourned, In the. senate, on the 1 ]ill, tho bill to eataldish post routes taken up. Mr. Bogy submitted an amendment to continue (lie fast mail service from Cliicngo to Ht. l/mis, Agreed to. Mr. Withers submitted an amendment as an additional section, author izing the postmaster general to contract for $100,000 for that purpose. Agre.^d I’addoek submitted an amendment as addi tional section to the hill to restore the frank ing privilege reported by him from the com mittee on postofliers and post roads, on (lie 25th of May Oast. It provides that it shall lie lawful to transmit through (lie mail free of postage, letters, packages, or other matter relating exclusively to business of the gov ernment of Hie United States; also, tha.sen ators, representatives and delegates in con gress, the secretary of the senate and clerk in the house of representatives maysend and receive through the mail, free of postage, letters and document*. Mr. Howe, favored the restoration of the franking privilege, and moved an amendment so as to allow senators, representatives and delegates in congress, the secretary of the senate and clerk of the house of representatives, to send and receive letters and documents only, and not pack ages and other matter relating exclusively t< public business. Agreed to. The amend rnent of Mr. Poddsck, restoring that privi lege, was agreed to. Yeas, 30; navs, 15, ns follows: Yens—Messrs. Allison, ilunflide, (.'hristinnev, Cooper, Cragin, Davis, Dawes, Dennis, Edmunds, Freiiiighuvsen, Gordon, Harvey, Howe, Ingalls, Kelly, Key, Maxev, Merriinon, Mitchell. Norwood, Paddock, I’attersoli, Randolph, Ransom, Haulabury. .Silencer, .Stevenson, Wallace, West and Wither*—30. Nays - Messrs. Anthonv, Bogy, Booth, Cameron (Win ) Clayton, Cockrell, Ferry, Hamlin, Korean, Logan, McCreerv, McDonald, McMillan, Morrill and Oglesby— 15. The bill was reported to the senate, and the amendment* made in committee of the whole were agreed to. The bill was read third time and passed— you. 25, nays I Evening session.—Mr. Edmunds called |‘ udment of the judiciary committee it was agreed to, yeas 27, nays 15, us follows; Yeas—Allison, Anthony. Booth, Boutwell, Burnsides, Cameron. (Win.), Christiauev, ’oukllng, Cragin, Edmunds, Ferry, Freliu’g- htivsen, liiirvev, Mitehcoek, Howe, Ingalls, Logn*, McMillan, Mitchell, Morrill, Oglesby. Paddock, Futtcraon, Sargent, Wadlelgh and West—27. Nays—Bogy, Cockrell, Cooper, Davis, Eaton, Gordon, Kelly, Kcrnan, Key, McCreerv. Maxey, Norwood, Randolph. Ran som and Stevenson 15. Clayton, Wright, Morton, Robertson, Cameron, (Pa.), Sherman and Windom, who would have voted Inllic affirmative, were paired with Merriinon, Dennis, McDonald, Wallace. SauUbury, Thurman and Ihiyurd, who would have voted in the negative. The uucstiniiUicii being on ordering the joint res .lnfinn n« amended to the third reading, it was agreed to. Yens, 27; nays, 15. Tho senate, by a vote of yeas 27 to nays 12, ordered that the joint resolu- .d the third time at t o'clock to morrow. The senate receded from Hn disn* lit to the amendments of the house hill to punish counterfeiting of trademark goods and to prohibit dealing in such goods. '1 he amendment* of the house Were agreed to and the hill passed. Then senate went lo executive session and soon adjourned IIOUNK. Iii tho Iiouho, on thb 5th, Mr. Blitiul’a silver bill was taken up on the regular or der. The morning hour having expired, the hill went over without action. Mr. Cox chairman of the committee on hanking and currency, reported a bill to repeal section 3 of the resumption net of January I t, 1875, which directs the secretary of the treasury the legal tender note then outstanding, and proposed to allow an hour ami a half for it* discussion and a like time for the discussion ol a further hill which ho was directed to report, providing for a commission on the subject, lie would decline, however, to allow amendment* to lie offered, lie opened tho argument by declaring his belief that the fixing of a day for resumption wan a hopeless menace to prosperity; that it effected no good, and that It was utterly useless for all practical pur poses. The best business men of tho coun try had said so, and said so to his committee. The hill which it wa* proposed to repeal in part had passed congress as a party neces sity; under the whip and spur of the previ ous question. Mr. Goode, of the hanking committee, advocated to repeal. Mr. Hew itt asked Mr. Cox to let him offer as substi tute a hill providing for a committee oil the subject. After some time wasted in call of house, (’ox allowed Hewitt’s proposition to lie offered as substitute, nud the previous question was seconded without objection. The vote was then taken on Hewitt's sub stitute, which provides for a commission of three senators, three members of thu house, and three experts to ho selected by and as- sociated with senators and member* to con sider what measures are necessary ami prac ticable in order to bring about resumption of specie payment, lit the earliest pnssihL,' time consistent with due regard to the inter ests of the country, and to report hill em bodying result* ol its investigation on or. before the 15th of December, 1870. Finally' the vole was aiinoiineeJ, a* yens, 1)2; nays, 101; so the substitute wiih rejected. The vote was then taken on llic hill reported by Mr. Fox, from the committee on hanking and currency, it was passed; yoga, 100;- nays, 83; as follows: Yeas—Ainsworth, Anderson, AIkins, Hanning, lllaiid, Boone, Bradford, Bright, Brown,, New York; Brown of Kansas; Coboll, Caldwell, of Ala bama; Caldwell, of Tennessee; Campbell. Cannon, Coson, Cute, ('alfleld, Clarke, of Kentucky; Clarke, of Missouri; Clvmcr, Cochrane, Collins, Cook, Cox. Dihrcll, Doug ins, Durham, Eden, Evans. Faulkner, Fel ton, Finley, Forney, Fort, Franklin; Giiuse, Goode, Goodin, Gunter, Harrison, Hartwell, lluymoud, llcnklc, Hereford, Holman, Hooker, Hopkins, House, Hiihhcll, Hunter, Hurd, Jones, of Kentucky! I.undcrs, of In diana; lame. IxiwrOliee, Lewis, Lynde, Mnekey, Marsli, MeFurhiud. MeMalmn, Mil- liken, Mills, Morgan, Miitclilur. Neal. New, Fay lie, (’helps, Fopplelon, Randall, Rea, Reagan, John Reilly, Rice, Riddle, Robin son, Havage, Hlienkley, .Singleton, Hleinons, Hmith, (Ga.), .Southard, Springer, Stringer, Htevcnson, Stone, Thomas, Throckmorton, Tucker, Turner, Van Voorhes, Vince, (Ohio) Waddell, Walker, (Va.), Walsh. (III.), Whit- thorite, Williams, (Iml.), Williams (Ala.) Wilshire, Wilson, (West Vn.). Yealcs and Young—I Off. Nays—Abbott, Adams, Rugby, Hitglcy. .1. H. Ilaglcy, Baker. Ballou, Hanks, Ill'll, Blair, Burcliard fill.), Caswell, Cliillen- den, Hanford, Davy, Durand, Eamns,* Ely, Freeman, Frye, Gibson, Hale, Hnhcoek, liar- ticuhurgh, Harris(Mass.), Ilcniicrson, Hew itt, (N. Y.) Hour, I logn, Hymen, Joyce, Kns- son, Kclir, Kimball, Lamar, Liphuui, Levy, Lynch. MucDougiill, McCrary, Meade, Met calfe, Miller, M< uroc, Morrison, Nash, Nor- Ion, O’Brien, Odell, O’Neill, nicker, I’age, Fierce, Fiper, Flail, Fottcr, Fmve.ll, Frail, Rainey, lloss, Rusk, Hamiison, Schleicher, ■Sinnieksoii, Smalls, .Smitli, (Fa.), Htmvcll, Thompson, Thornburg, Townsend, (Fa.), Tufts, Walt, Walter (New Ifiimitolllro), While, Whiling, A. *S. Williams, of Michigan, Wil lis, Wilson, of Iowa,and Wnnifburn -83. Mr. Cox then reported a hill for IIh: commission of three senators, three repreienlaliveH and three expert* to inquire, firstintothu change tlml ha* taken place in relation to the value of gold nml silver, the cause thereof, whether permanent or otherwise, the effect thereof in trade, commerce, finance and the productive Interests of the country, anil on Ihestandard of value in this nnd foreign countries. Heeoud, into the. policy of the restoration of a double standard in this country, and if rr- stored, what the legal relation between the two coins, silver and gold shall lie. Third, into the question of the policy of con tinning legal tender notes concurrently with the me tallic standard, and the cfieri thereof in the labor, industry and wealth of the country. Fourth, Into the best manner of providing for facilitating resumption QUpCcio payment, the commission to report oi or before the 15th day of January, 1877. An hour nnd a half delate took place, turning ehielly on the question whether the hill demonetizing silver wan or was not passed through the house surreptitiously and with out reading, the nfliriuntivi being held by Bland, Holman and Fort, tnu the negative by Ka.s“on, of Iowa. Finally the question was taken and the bill pnised. The report i>l the conference committee on the hill for the sale of Osage lands in Kansas to actual settlers was made by Mr. Ojodin and agreed to, and the house adjournei. In the house, on the Dili, the holme discussed political subjects, and wa* ad dressed by Mr. Hoar, wh« commented on Mr. Lamar’* speech. Coitisel wa* author ized to defend the speakei and officer* *f the house in the Ha'lctt Ki'bournc suit, ad journed. In the houHe, on the 10th, Mr. I/ml offered a resolution reciting that the right of suffrage prescribed by the constitution* of the several slntes is subject lo the fifteenth amendment, and that the exercise of nv.'u\ right should he faithlull) maintained and observed by the Uuited .Shies, and that iL is asserted that the exercise <i said rights is, in some stnteH, not withstand! ig the effort* of good citizens, resisted aid controlled by fraud, intimidation and vhjence, so that the object of the fifteenth amendment is de feated, nnd that all citizen*, without distinc tion of race or color Tire eitltled to the right* conferred by said arnendiwut,and declaring that all attempts, by foice,-fraud, terror, in timidation or otherwise k> prevent a free , exercise of tiie right «f Mil rage, should meet ! with condign and effectual punishment, nud iliac iq any case which hasfierctofore occur. red, or may hereafter occur, in which vie* leiice or murder Iiiin been or shall lie com mitted by one class or race on another, a d punishment ol the ciimiual* is im- vely demanded, whether the crime he one punishable by a tine and imprisonment or ono demanding the punishment of death. Mr. Lord asked unanimous consent to make a statement Imt objection was made by Mr. Hereford. Finally the resolution passed, yeas 174, navs 2, those voting nay being Messrs. Bland, of Missouri, and Rengi pro- 31. hir. Beebe, chairman of the committee on expi nditiircH in the navy department, Kiihmittod the majority report of said com mittee, together with their resolution. Mr. Conger called for the reading of the report*, pending which Mr. Hereford made a confer ence report on the river and harbor hill. Af ter some dilatory proceedings the conference report was agreed to—yeas 101, nays 55. The house then resumed consideration of Mr. Reehe’s report. The reading of tho report uas dispensed with ami without discussion or division the resolutions were agreed to. Mr. Townsend addressed tho house on the uhicct of currency. Thu majority and mi- lorlty ft ' r " nia alia journed. In tho house, on tho 11th, on motion of Mr. Running the senate hill repealing no much of the army appropriation hill us lim it* the number of Indian scouts to three hun dred ami; continuing in force the statute which nulhori/.cH the employment of one housaiid scouts, wnH taken from the speak ers table, mid lifter an explanation hv him, passed. The speaker pro tern, laid before the house a message from the president, with communications from the secretory of war, Gen. Sherman mid Geo. Sheridan, recom mending an increase of the cavalry force of the army byfivo thousand men, or authority tin call out live regiments of volunteer caval ry of one thousand men each. Referred. .1. 11. Ilogley, New York, lOlldo the conference report on the hillto punish counterfeiting trademark on goods. After argument the conference report was rejected. Yeas IIH, na.ys83. Till* is equivalent to defeat of the Mr. Morrison offered a resolution fur lliiithidiutirnmunl Monday next at 1 o’clock. Agreed tow itliout discussion nr division. Mr. Singleton, from the committee on print- mtr, reported hack the senate hill for print ing 100,(MSI copies of agricultural report* for each year of 1871 nml 18/5, and appropriat ing $1,180,000 for that purpose, Passed, Ad journed. Will* im It \\iih null im it In. Tho following Is an extract .from imnd- drcHH boforo tho Yalo law hcIiooI: Homo two thousand yonraboforoOhrfat wo read that a certain king, ono of tho klnga of those times—tho head of a tribo or city—Imnstod, “Three sooro and ten kings, having their thumbs and great toea cut oil’, gather their meat under my ta ble.” When the men ol Judah made his royal mutilator a c.iptlvo according to the received lex talionis of the ago, they eiitoff'hfa thumbs and -great toes, cast him into a dungeon at Jerusalem and left him to die of hunger. When No- oiiehadue/./.ar took Jerusalem he slow tho Rons of king Zedckiah before his face, carried him to Babylon, put out faith his eyes and left him to end hfa daya in prison. At the close ol the long Jugtir- tliino war, Marina brought Jiigurlhu lo Rome, and, in accordance with theoHtah- lfahod usage of tho Roman triumph, chained to liis chariot wheels this deposed king, this gallant soldier, dragged him in triumph through tho atreetn, amid tho insults of tho populace, and when he turned Ida chariot from tho forum to iih- cent! the oapitol, he unchained the royal prisoner from Ilia chariot wheel, mat him nearly naked into a dungeon, where he was not strangled until lie had contended six days against famine. Wliou Carthage was taken it was blotted from the map of nations, ita past destroyed, ita ships hurtled and ita inhabitants sold as slaves. Tho campaign against Corinth ended in the extinction of that luxurious, mag- nillcent city and the enslavement ol all il* inhabitants. Tho oiiracwhioh Joshua pronounced against the man who should presume to rebuild Jericho, “Cursed la; tho man who ahull lise up and rebuild this city Jericho! llo shall lay the foHiidnt ion I hereof in Ilia first horn, ami in Ilia youngest sou he shall set tij» tho gates of it,” was hut tho expression of the common sentiment—the common law of ancient timea; at the height of Crock and Roman civilisation, alter a lost battle, every man, woman and child —every human lasing, not slain—became an exile or a slave. A campaign UHtially ended in the destruction of a city; a war in an extinct nationality. Ixit us skip over two thousand years to our preaent civilization. Tho nine- tcNUili century saw all Hiiro|>o under arms, from Siberia to Archangel, from the Atlantic to tho Vistula; ships bat tered one another to pieces in every non. When these wars closed, by a treaty of fMMice, some fammlaries were altered, some dynasties were changed, but is not necessary to say that all priaonora wore released and no property destroyed, for such is the settled law of Christendom. Ani^when l * l(5 nllica took Paris by siege each Cossack paid for a cup of coffee handed him by the French waiter, and tho publicists and moralists of Euro|>e got angry in discussing the refined ques tion as to whether the allies had.a right, under tho law of nations, to restore to museums and galleries of Italy and Hol land the pictures and statues that Napo leon had taken from them as trophies of war. When our late war closed, we held ourselves responsible to tho world, to history, that our only nrisoner, and ho tho instigator and head of tho rebellion, should he lodged and fed in accordance with the most refined rules. When at las', proceedings against him ceased, a nortnern abolitionist became his bonds man, ho took a trip to Europe as an American citizen, protected by an Amer ican passport. Loiifahum Sugar Prospects. New Orleans Price Current. The prospects of the I/misinna sugar planters arc much brighter than at this period last year. On the subject the editor of the New Orleans Bulletin says: “Tho present crop is in a finer condition than that of last year for tho same date. Though, from all accounts, the acreage in plant'canc is somewhat less, and tlm stand thinner, still the superiority of the stubble over that of last year apparently equalizes this difference. Even if the present crop should fall a little short of the amount produced during the past season, there are other circumstances which indicate that the returns will fa- fur larger.” Such facing the ease, it can not fa:denied that tho outlook is very favorable, as it fa generally conceded that the Cuban crop is 30 per gent, short, nnd, lit about tho time tho lamfahum cron is ready for market, it is very probable there will bo a short supply of Dublin, which to a certain extent must ho made up by the Louisiana product. This will naturally crcato a hotter demand, and more favorable prices than last year, if tho t rade fa not affected the other way by some causes at present unforeseen. The Bulletin further re marks that, “if tho present prices re main firm or advance, which there is a strong prospect of their doing, until the present Chilian crop comes In: if tho Louisiana crop averages ffjc, which, from present appearances, si etna very probable, our planters will r alizo such, amounts as will enable them to cultivate again all tho ahamlnnod sugar lands, bring in lauds tliat never have been in cultiva tion, and the success and (tcrnmucnl prosperity of ono of our greatest indus tries will fa' regained and reassured.” Npeculntions Regarding the Nun. Newark Afiverllhpr. Our knowledge of the orb of day fa yet but superficial. Spots have been dis covered upon its surface, but no ono knows whether they are rifts in its gas eous atmosphere, showing tho main body beneath, or the products of awful storms and whirlwinds. The spectroscope has detected traces of some known minerals in the rays of tho sun, hut that is only of indirect value. Powerful Instruments and acute observation have given to tho world nothing but what lies upon the surface, nml everything that science has really demonstrated can he put in a paragraph. The sun is 85(5,000 miles in diameter, and it would takeufaml 1,100,000 worlds like our own to make up its hulk. It has, so far as wo can learn, a surround ing envelope of fiery gases 50,000 miles in thickness, hut there is no definite in formation of what lies beneath, t’er- tninly if there Ik a fiery otivt lope of that size nothing solid, of a material charac ter, can maintain itself within, and no life could he predicated as existing. And, according to some astromers, there art! appearances which in other spheres would iudicato volcanic action, tongues of flame darting upward 60,000 miles, and ltiminouH matter often ejected 1(50,- 000 miles. A sublime and magnificent glolx*, truly, hut whence came it and what supports It? II tho sun is a ball of lire requiring a constant supply of fuel, where does that supply come from? Hir John 11 erscholl states that it would require the enmhustion of 130,0(H) jHimufa ol coal per hour on ouch square loot of the sun’s surface to produce the amount of heat constantly radiated, a total for the whole which no figures could definitely present to the mind. Profes sor Mitchell acknowledges that scionco has given no satisfactory account of tho origin of solar light and heat. Home astronomers think that the Him fa con stantly attracting to itself millions of wandering stars and floating nobulru. stray musses of solid substance which fall into its fiery omhracc and die that stahlo worlds like ours may live. Hitch theories are, however, little better than wild con jectures. This Luminous orb, tho parent, as science has almost proven, of all the other orbs that come within its influence and belong to its system, luuf existed an unknown and certainly a very long peroid, and to make it depend upon a daily Httpply of material would not only rendor its light and heat variable, hut would expose it to tho possible catastro phe of a sudden extinction. The mind that created tho sun, wc may he sure, left nothing to chance,and wo know well that tho sun that shone last week was quite up to tho mark of tho luminary that first rose upon a created world. A philosopher who lived more than a century ago ftttomntfd to solve the mys tery of the sun, out he did it alter a fitsliiou so metaphysical that he obtained hut few adherents, and even his namo is but rarely mentioned among tho scien tists. He asserted that the sun is pure fire, by which he meant that it is in itself self-sustaining, and needs no ex traneous help for combustion. It is, ac cording to him, tho nearset visible repre sentative of wluit lies beyond in tho Httiritual world, and corresponds to that “divino love which warms the heart and that divine wisdom which illumi nates the understanding.” From this he extracted many ingenious and fanci ful theories, which we have not room to dwell upoii, and which are not pertinent to our subject. Tho question is still an open ono, tho sun is st ill an unrovcnled mystery. Perhaiw it fa well that wo should grope in the dark. Tho world is getting materialistic quite fast enough, and faith fa of value as well oh knowl edge. Law for the People. Money paid under a misapprehension of facts, may he recovered hack. Money voluntarily paid with it full knowledge of the fads and eircitinstiinccs of the case, though in ignorance of legal rights, cannot Iks recovered hack. The assignment of a note, tho payment of which is secured by mortgage, carries the mortgage with it. Payment to one partner is a payment lo faith, unless strictly forbidden. A debtor has the right, at the time ol making a payment, to direct as to wluit debt it shall ho applied. II a debtor fails to make such appli cation, tho creditor may apply tho money paid upon any demand against the debtor which ne may choose. Where there is no place of payment agreed upon, the debtor must seek Hie creditor at his domicil or place of busi- Upon the sale of an nrticlc, payment is to ho made on delivery, unless t other time he specified. Allowing time for payment will not, however, vitiate the contract. In ease of two Hales of personal prop erty, both eoually valid, his is tho better right who first gets possession of property. No man can, by his sale, transfer to another the right of ownership in a tiling wherein ho himself has not the right of property. Tit Kit K is little doubt that RaHtoul and the sixteen communfats-who escaped with him last year 1 rum New Caledonia on a rude raft were drowned. The frag ments of tho raft have been found, and Mine. Rostoul, who lor many months lias Iwcn waiting for tier husband at Kidney, has at last abandoned hope of hfa safety, FACTS AND FANCIES. Ba yard Taylor is the author of tho following dangerous parody: Where the MomMnckmnuHntlr Four* It* witters In tlu-Skiinltc, Met along tlm tore*! side RIrani Hoover, Ilutdnli Hytlo. Mlie a maiden fair and ilnpiter, He, a red-liaired, stalwart trapper, It it n t i lift I leaver, mink and skunk, In tlm woodlands ot tfepiedimk. Mlie. Pawtucket’* pensive diuiolitcr. Walked In-side IlieMkiuiUi- water (lallierlnir, In her nprnti wet, ’ Hiinkcioot, mint and liomii'liia Imt. " Why," lie murmured, loth to teavo her, "»Ini her yartis for i hllls and fever, When a Invverhnld and Iran only walla (nanlhei you?" I fear Clod, nnd nwxl to (lod 1 chiefly fear him who fears Him not.—Saadi. How far that little candle throws its benum! ho shines a good deed in a naugh ty world.—fihahjmrc. Tiik grave is, I suspect, tho sole com monwealth which attains that dead fiat of social equality that overy pri nciple sw heartily ftbllOfa.—JUtlwcr Lytlon, A young lady on being asked what business her lover was in, and not liking to say the failticd soda, answered, “ He’s a practicing fizzieinn.” Bukt IIahtk’h play, “Two Men of mdy Bar,” was withdrawn in Chicago at tho ond of a week, and is to ho exten sively altered Iwforo it is again acted. Tin; hugs that are dating carpets in the northern states lire thought to come from the nests of sparrows, which are said to swarm with them. Olkrqyman to Tommy—“ What shall I give you for a present ?” Tommy, who respects the cloth, also truth, hesi tatingly—" I—I think I should like a testament, and 1 know I should like a popgun I” Cynical citizen to waiter, after sur- oylng tho glass of milk ho had ordered : I say walutwl Would you bo so kind iow, inn boy, as to put h* lit lo mor milk in this wattah? Jus a trifle please.” Tho waiter retires to consider whether tho man is drunk or crazy. “ Ai.phonbo, dear, what is tho difler- ico between our Thanksgiving and those . volting Turkish provinces?” “ Really Clementina, I cannot say. What is it'/ 4 ’ “ Why, you see, hero wo have turkey in ohrfatians; thorn they have Christians in Turkoy.” A HUNDRED years ago when you called on a girl sho kissed you good by. Now if you suggest anything of tho sort her father calls you into the library and asks you wluit you ware worth. Are we a na tion? Ami is tills progress?—Norwich Bulletin, Hir teeth fa'gau to chatter over tho ice cream. Mo buttoned up his jacket and swallowed another mouthful. That settled it. Ho jumped up from tho table and started to whore the sun could shine him, exclaiming, “ Wlioopo I Plenty cold grub I No cooko nufT! Flcczo Chinaman all same like ico wagon.” Onk hardly over sees a Yankco with out a whin. Not one-tenth of them can read writing, and still fewer can write. This art belongs, asido from literary men, exclusively to tho female sex. The wo men are well educated, and therefore know hotter than any oilier matrons in tho world how to govern tho men. Tho men all want to bo politicians, and love, therefore, tho taverns and tlio grog-bowl; behind tho latter of which they transact business, drinking from morning till night.—Baron llicdemt, in 1770. A Pennsylvania philosopher fa of tho opinion tlml petroleum is tho result of codfish. Ych. codfish. These fish were once plenty in tho ocean which cov ered tho place where Pennsylvania now in. They wore caught by a certain ava lanche of land, and tiie millions of decay ing codfish caused tho potrolouin oil. This accounts for thu saltwater found in oil wells, being tlm result of salt codfish. It also accounts for tho resemblance of petroleum to cod liver oil, and tho num ber of fish stories told of immense for tunes which wore never realized. A RATEWAY TO THE SEA. Memphis AvhIpiicIio. The Barutaria canal—projected by Ciipl. John Cowdon—fa attracting tho attention of business men not only in Mississippi valley, Imt in England. Capt. Cowden recently declared it will “ bo morp useful to the people of tills valley than mere politicians and their rotten, meaningless, two-faced platforms,.” The commercial results of tho building of tho Bandurin canal will he the reclamation of tho lowlands; the Florida and Tohu- antepee ship canals; and tiie trade of China, East Indies and Houth America. It will save twenty millions annually to the earnings of tiie south, nnd to tiie west one mind red millions. On every too of grain shinned to foreign (Kiris there will lie six (follars saved over trails- portion via rail. It will make the Mississippi valley tho manufacturing contor of tiie continent. It will open the gates of free trade, and constrain tho mills and simps ol New England to locate near the. cotton gin houses. Build this canal, and New Orleans will l>o made tiie first commercial nnd maritime |>ort of Am«ricn, and Memphis will be one of tho great distributing cities of the valley, and a inanuracturing mart of the interior. When all tho vast productions from the foot of tho Alleghenies on the cast, or tho Rocky mountains on the west, are transported down the Mississippi river to the markets of the world for less than half tiie expense it now costs via rail, tiie commercial nnd political map ol this continent will he changed. PnrNT Clotiih.—Tlio death of Mr. Garner is likely to have a very impor tant effect on the dry goods trade, especi ally in tho lino of.print cloths. He was one of tlio largest manufacturers of' these goods in the country and also an exten sive buyer and speculator. As is well known the market is burdened with cot ton prints, and if it should ho necessary to settle up Mr. Garner’s estate at once, it is probable that a very large stock would have to lie sold at a sacrifice, pro ducing a material effect on the general tradg.