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8. Randall, president, directs attention to tfie
connsel given by Gen. Washington to avoid
political alliances in extending its commercial
relations of the country, and states that the
people of Canada now contribute about six
million dollars in gold paid for duties. The
treaty would surrender this sum and add it. to
our overweighed industries and make Canada
a thoroughfare for smuggling for all the world.
The chief of the bureau, oi ordnance,
in his «mml report, recommends the rearma
ment of the navy with breech-loading rilled
cannon, which can be had at a very small oOBt,
in view of the reduced-number of guns re
quired. The present types of foreign armed
cruising ships carry 4}£ to 6 inches of armor,
and at present we have no guns, except the
15-inch, in the monitors, winch would seriously
injure the lightest of these armored vessels.
Substitute a 7 or 8-inch rifle for the 11-inch
smooth bore, which even our smallest ships
carry, and few of them would come oft with
out great damage.
The house appropriation committee
have disposed of the army bill. This bill ap
propriates the same amount as last year, and
makes a considerable reduction from the esti
mates. The secretary of war sent in estimates
for a force of thirty thousand men, notwith
standing the fact that congress last winter
directed the reduction of the force to twenty-
five thousand. He evidently considered the
reduction as temporary, while the committee
consider it as permanent, and have fixed the
appropriation for next year on that basis. The
present number of the force iB twenty-seven
thousand, hut a large number of enlisted men
isoon to be discharged will bring the nnmber
down to twenty-five thousand, as directed last
session.
The supreme court of the United
States has just rendered a decision in which
for the first time thequestion of the power of
the confederate government to make a valid
oontraet has been adjudicated. The plaintiff
had knowingly purchased cotton of an agent
of the Confederate States. The cotton was
subsequently seized by the United States and
their proceeds'covered into the treasury.
Plaintiff brought suit in the court of claims to
recover. This oourt rejected the claim. The
supreme court affirms this decision of the
oourt of jdaiiM cn two grounds: 1. Because
the purchase of the cotton and the payment*
of the consideration necessarily tended to give
aid to the rebellion, and that all such contracts
are void as contrary to public policy. This
was concurred in by the 'whole court. 2. Be
cause the so-called government of the Confed
erate States had no existence except as a con
spiracy to overthrow lawful authority. In
support of this seoond position of the court,
the chief justice and six associate justices
concur. Two—Hr. Justice Clifford and Hr.
Justice Davis—dissent on the ground that its
announcement was not necessary to the deois-
on of thiB case.
The postoffice department has re
ceived the final proofs of the newspaper
stamps, to he used under the provision of the
new law respecting the postage on newspapers
and periodicals. Th9 design prepared by 3d
Assistant Postmaster-general Barbour, and
executed by the Continental Bank Note com
pany, of New York, are perfectly satisfactory
and orders were sent to-day to the Continental
company to commence printing. A short
time ago .circulars were sent to all the post
masters likely to require this class of stamps,
to make out their requisitions, limiting their
estimate to one month’s supply. Tne orders
are now beginning to come in. The depart
ment is of the opinion, judging from the
amount of orders so far received, that the
value of stamps required for the month of
January will not fall far short of a half mil
lion dollars. This, it is thought, will, however,
exceed the average monthly demand. It is
estimated that the aggregate value of stamps
received for the year will not exceed $2,000,-
000. One month’s actnal weight of the news
paper and periodical mail at the New York
postoffice shows a daily average of nearly 60
tons Taking this in connection with 'the ap
proximation of business at other offices, as
indicated by the postmasters’ orders for
stamps, and the above estimate is reached.
The increased business will yield to the de
partment a revenue of about half a million
annually. The statement that the mails will
be used for great distances, and the express
to points near by, to the loss of the govern
ment and the department, is not considered
well grounded. No loss of revenue is antici
pated from this source.
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
WEST.
Chicago having promised to take pro
per precautions against conflagrations, all the
Hartford companies, except the Phoenix, are
The calaboose at Pontiac, HL, was
burned, last week, and Prank and Samuel
Daunrng, who were oonfined in it for indecent
•conduct, were burned to death. They were
the sons of old and respected citizens.
A dispatch dated Deo. 8, from Kansas
City, Ho., says: As the Kansas Pacific train
reached Kuncie, a few miles west of this city,
five masked men flagged and stopped it, cut
off the passenger coaches, moved the engine
and'express car some distance forward and
robbed the Wells, Fargo & Go’s safe of about
$27,000. One package of gold dust, for
Kountze Bros., New York, containing $5,000,
was also carried off. All were large men, rode
bay or brown horses and were heavily armed'
with Henry rifles and revolvers. The express
company offers a reward of $10,000, the Kan
sas Pacific Railway $5,000. and Governor Os
borne $2,500, for the recovery of the funds
and the arrest of the robbers.
EAST.
The long impending strike in the pot
teries of Trenton, N. J., began on the 3d inst.
The establishments of Yates, Benedict &
Allen, and J. Moses closed. The employers
guaranteeing work for the winter at a reduc
tion of 10 per ’cent, in wages, the employes
refused with the above result.
One hundred women employed in a
faotory of the New Brunswick rubber com
pany have struck against a reduction of wa-
gee. They have been employed in stamping
rubber shoes by hand. The company recently
introduced machines for this work, and re
duced the rates on piece work. As the women
. could only earn two-thirds of their former
wages, they struck.
ATthe final conference between the
iron manufacturers and puddlers at Pittsburg,
-last week, the proposition made by the manu-
facturers of $5 per ton for boiling, was re
jected by the puddlers, The result is that a
general suspension of the mills will take place
•n Honday, with the exception of one or two
millB, which will continue at the present price,
- $6 per ton, until their contracts are filled. A
large amount of mnok-bar and finished iron is
held in stock by the various firms in this city,
doubtless sufficient to meet the demand for
some time to come. The result of a contin
ued lock-out will be somewhat' discouraging.
The failure of the two parties to come to an
agreement, will throw out of employment
forty thousand men and seriously affects the
iron and coal mining interest of the state.
SOUTH.
The steamboat Sabine, from Shreve
port for New Orleans, with a cargo of cotton
and a lot of sugar, struck a snag at Creole
Send, last week, and sunk in twenty feet wa
ter. The boat will probably prove a total loss.
The cotton will be saved in a damaged condi
tion. The boat was valned at $15,000, and
insured in New Orleans companies,
A bale of cotton, which received the
highest prize at the Vienna Exposition, was
recently shipped from Memphis to a Chicopee
(Mass.) firm. It is judged to be as perfect a
bale of cotton as ever was or is likely to be
raised. It was done up in blue silk rep wrap
pings, with gold bands around it, and adsmed
with illuminating cards telling what it was and
where it ha d been. Its weight was 438 pounds,
and the Hempliis dealers wanted to buy back
part or all of it from the Chicopee firm, to
keep as reference, being willing to pay twenty
five cents per pound; or even as high a3 fifty
oents if neoessary.
A special to the Courier-Journal sayB
that three negroes were taken from jail by a
band of masked men at Morganfield, Ky.,
Tuesday night, and hanged to trees, near
town. Uniontown, in the same county, was
visited by a destructive fire some weeks since,
and these negroes had been arrested and
charged with starting the conflagration. They
-afterwards confessed the orime, giving as an
excuse that the proprietor of the distillery
in whioh it was started had turned the mother
•f one of the negroes out of one of the
houses in which she was living. The “regu
lators'" were mounted and are thonght to have
come from Uniontown.
The Memphis cotton exchange crop
report for November gives the following snm-
: mary, derived from 107 responses from West
Tennessee, North Mississippi, and Arkansas,
north of Arkansas river: Sixty-four report
damaged by frost; forty-three no damage.
Th§ average damage by frost is three and one-
, half per oent. The average decrease in acre-
- age is one and one-half per cent. Due exer
tions have been and are being made to save
the crop. The average dosing picking season
last year was Jannary 14. This year it will
close about December 7. The crop is being
marketed unprecedentedly fast. The com
crop of this district is abont thirty-two per
•ent. short of the average of the past two
seasons. The aggregate of responses does
not indicate any change in the morale of
laborers. The prospect is that the entire orop
will be saved in better.condition than ever
• known. The committee are of opinion that
the decrease of the cotton crop in this district
from last year, will be abont thirty-five per
•ent.
The executive committee of the Mis
souri state Grange, which has been in session
at St. Louis, adjourned last week after the
-transaction of considerable business apper
taining to the order. They alse adopted a se
ries of resolutions approving the efforts now
being made by the citizens of St. Louis to
-open direct trade between the Mississippi
■valley states and Brazil by a steamship line
ffrom New Orleans and Arkansas, the farmers
of the.valley states to aid in supporting the
enterprise. They recommend the fanners of
Missouri and the other valley states to make
every effort to induce shipments down the
.Mississippi river, instead of by rail to the east,
--and assert it is the policy and imperative duty
•of the farmers to patronize western and
southern railroads in preference to feeding
eastern roads and capitalists. They also re
commend to the granges of the valley states
to adopt resolutions requesting their represen
tatives and senators in congress to give such
support as they can to Capt. Jas. B. Eads’
jetty plan for the immediate improvement of
' - the month of the Mississippi river.
In the cheap transportation convention
• now in session at Richmond, Ya., a bill pre
pared by Gen. Duff Greene, of Georgia, pro
viding for the inauguration of a scheme of
internal improvements to be sustained by a
system of banking connected therewith, was
presented and referred. M. B. Lloyd, of mi
nors, presented his views as to the construc
tion of a double track trunk railway by the
government, to secure competition in the
transportation of freights. Gen. Forbel, of
Georgia, presented a resolution looking to the
establishment aud maintenance of commercial
intercourse between the states of the union,
to revive the commerce of the nation. The
oommittee on resolutions presented a report
based upon a resolution of CoL Johnson, of
North Carolina, in which they declare in favor
of asking Jhe government to aid in the con
struction of the Southern Pacific railroad, and
of the great water lines, such aid to convey
to the government the right to control the
rates of transportation over such lines, wit
proviso that the government guarantees as!
shall be so guarded as to protect the national
treasury from loss. Poor members of the
committee presented a protest against the
adoption of the report, and against asking
the government to aid in the construction of
railroads. .
FOREIGN.
The banking house of the Rothschilds
have advanced 30,000,000 reals to Spain.
A Kingston, Jamaica, letter puts the
damage to that island by the typhoon of Nov.
1st, at $360,000.
Spain has appointed a board of com
missioners, with Castelar as its president, to
represent that country at our centennial expo
sition.
Oapt. Geo. S. Nares, now in command
of her majesty’s ship Challenger, has been
selected to command the expedition to be fit
ted ont by Great Britain, for explorations in
the Arctio regions.
The Spanish coasting steamer Thomas
Brooks, from Santiago de Cuba for Fuantamo,
struck on the morning of the 3d, on the Mo-
rillo near Guantamo, and sunk immediately.
Abont thirty lives were lost.
It is known, in diplomatic circles, that
Spain has paid to Great Britain only part of
the indemnity on acoount of the Virginias
affair, leaving the remainder and other ques
tions to be hereafter adjusted.
The inspector general of the army, in
his annual report, says a regulation is much
needed, inflicting pnnishment oh soldiers who
marry without proper permission. Military
posts are overrun with the wives of the en
listed men; and it is well known that it re
quires about as much transportation to move
four laundresses as it does to move a whole
eompany of men.
lire Mark Lane Express, in its review
of the breadstuff markets, says: Many Bue-
sian ports are closed and will remain so until
spring. The European wheat markets have
been firm and the fluctuations generally small.
In some places a rise of one shilling is re
ported. It is thought that the lowest rates for
wheat have been passed. The weather every
where is favorable for the new crop.
The message of President MacMah on
was delivered to the assembly last week. He
Bays that order has been maintained through
out the country. Relations with foreign gov
ernments are on an excellent footing; no for
eign power donhts her desire to maintain
pacific relations with all nations. The finan
cial condition of the country has improved at
home, thanks to a good harvest. The export
trade has never been so considerable as dur
ing the last fonr months. Everything now
favors the expectation that these most satis
factory results will be at least equaled in 1875.
The president insists strongly on the necessity
of definite legislation with regard to the con
stitutional powers, and continues as follows:
“ Incessantly agitated by a prog&ganda of the
most pernicious dootrine, the country asks you
to guarantee, by measures, the action of the
public powers during the period of stability
which yon promised France.”
The steamer La Plata, from Graveeecd
for Bio Grande del Snd, chartered by Siemens
Bros, to repair the telegraph cable, foundered
off Ushant, on the 29th of November. Sixty
persons were drowned. Fourteen survivors
were rescued by the Garelooh, of Glasgow.
The loss of the ship is attributed to the shift
ing of the grappling apparatus. Of 250 miles
of telegraph cable on board, 150 had been paid
ont, which had to be abandoned. Unavailing
attempts were made to save the vessel by
lightening. The captain, surgeon, three other
officers, the engineer, seven stewards and
cooks, eleven stokers, fourteen seamen and
the whole of the cable staff, numbering six
teen, and including Mr. Biokette, the chief
electrician, were drowned. The chief steward,
whs was Baved, reports that tho fires were all
out by ten o’olock on the morning of the 29th.
A heavy sea carried away two of the boats and
the ship gradually settled by the stem. At
12:30 r. m. she foundered, stem first. The
captain and doctor were on the bridge, having
failed to dear the patent life-raft, and went
down with the crew.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The number of emigrants who landed
at Castle Garden from Jan. 1 to Dec. 1 of the
present year, was 145,362, showing a heavy
decrease.
The secretary of the treasury, this
afternoon, tendered the position of supervising
architect of the treasury* to John McArthur,
Jr., of Philadelphia.
The postmaster-general has issued an
order forbidding letter carriers to distribnte
New Year’s addresses calculated to induce the
public to make them gifts.
The flow of oorrenoy from New York
to the west averages about $2,000,000 a day.
Cincinnati and Chicago are paying out $800,-
000 a day for hogs, all of which passes imme
diately into the regular channels of trade.
Business of all kinds muBt soon begin to feel
the effects of this healthy stimulus. Mean
while the iaot that money is easy and interest
low in New York, notwithstanding the large
efflux of currency from that city, is a signifi
cant featnre of the financial situation.
The report of the commissioners to
prepare instructions to postmasters concern
ing the prepayment of newspaper and periodi-
cal postage after Jannary 1, sustains the
recommendations of Third Assistant Postmas
ter-General Barber. Instead of placing stamps
on the separate periodicals or papers, or on
the package containing them, according to
weight, the forms as already printed show the
current account with the publishers, and after
the printed matter is weighed, the requisite
amount of stamps is pasted on the form of
receipt given to the publisher or his agent at
the time of mailing, the credit and receipt
having corresponding numbers.
The protest against the proposed reci
procity treaty with Canada is about to be is
sued by the national wool growers association.
The doonment, which is signed by Hon. Henry
ses, bnt are not to receive any compensation.
....Mr. Ingalls introduced a bill to provide
that the homestead and pre-emption settlers
in Kansas shall be allowed a year’s absence
from their hinds ravaged by the grasshoppers
without loss of their rights Mr. Hitch
cock introdneed'a bill appropriating $100,000
for the purchase of goods to be issued to the
starving people from the ravages of the grass
hoppers on the western frontier. The hill sIbo
directs the issue of disused army clothing to
relievo'the extreme wants' of those deatitut
sufferers....Mr. Sargeant introduced a bill to
protect persons of foreign birth against forci
ble restraint or involuntary servitude....Mr.
Ingalls submitted a resolution instructing the
committee cm Indian affairs to inquire into the
recent disturbances in the Indian territory,
and to report to the senate what measures are
necessary for the protection of life, liberty
and property, and the preservation of law and
order in that region, and whether the best in
terests of civilization do not demand the im
mediate establishmeat of courts of the United
States in Baid territory, as provided by the
treaties of 1860. Laid on the table until ap
pointment of committees. Adjourned.
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.
December 7. — The senate was
oalled to order promptly at noon by Vice-
President Wilson. Mr. Anthony, from Bhode
Island, offered a resolution instructing the
secretary of the senate to inform the house of
representatives that a quorum of the senate
had assembled, and that the senate was ready
to proceed to business. Agreed to—He also
submitted an order providing that the hour of
meeting of the senate should he daily at 12
o’clock, until otherwise ordered. Agreed to
Mr. Morrill, of Maine, from the joint select
committee appointed at the last session to
frame a government for the district of Co
lumbia, submitted a written report accompa
nied by sundry statutes. It' provides for plac
ing the district under a board of three regents,
to be appointed by the president and confirmed
by the senate, and who shall themselves ap-
po’nt subordinate boards of health, police,
etc., the powers of all being minutely defined.
The people are to elect three members of the
hoard of education. All expenditures are to
be controlled by congress. Laid on the table
and ordered printed The following bills
were introduced, and ordered printed, and lie
on the table until the appointment of the
standing committees of the senate: By Mr.
Sherman—A bill for the revision of the laws
for the collection of custom duties. It pro
vides for a commission of seven persons, to
be constituted as follows: One member of the
.senate, to be designated by the president of
the senate: two members elect from the next
house of representatives, to be designated by
the speaker of the present house, and two of
ficers in the custom service and two citizens
familiar with the custom law, to be appointed
by the president. The commission is to ter
minate on the first Monday in December, 1875,
and in the meantime shall report to congress,
through the secretary of the treasury, a re
vision of all the custom laws, together with
such facts as they can elicit, by examination
and inquiry, pertaining to the trade, industry,
commerce and taxation of the country, with a
view to making changes of rate and classifica
tion and modes of collecting the dnties, in
order to promote the public interests. The
commissioners are also to report ah to the re
lations of foreign trade to domestic industry,
and a mutual adjustment of the customs ana
excess of taxation, with a view to secnrmgthe
requisite revenue with the least hindrance to
the pevelopment of the resonrses of the coun
try, and also the manner In which custom offi
cers perform their duties. In order to conduct
this investigation, the commissioners tfre em
powered to examine the books, papers and ac
counts of any custom officer, and to administer
oaths. The members of the commission are
to be allowed their necessary traveling expen-
HOUSE.
The fhonr preceding the opening of
of the eession was spent by members in greet
ings, handshakings, and expressions of regret
or rejoinin; over the results of the recent
elections. The galleries were crowded and the
corridors almost impassable. Mr. Garfield re •
ported the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill, which was made the special
order for Tuesday of next week Mr. Haile,
of Maine, reported the naval appropriation
bill, which was made the special erder for
Wednesday of next week Mr. Wheeler re-
t orted the army appropriation bill, which was
made the special order for Thursday of next
week....Mr. Longbridge reported the Indian
appropriation bill, which was mado the special
order for Friday of next week....Mr. Stark
weather reported the fortification bill, which
was made the special order for Tuesday, the
22d of December The amount appropri
ated for the several bills is as follows: Legis
lative bill, $19,653,334; navy, $16,976,006;
army, $27,701,500; Indians, $4,861,507; forti
fications, $850,000 Mr. Tyner reported a
bill appropriating $30,000 for the purchase of
scales, for the use of the postoffice depart
ment, in executing the law requiring prepay
ment of postage on newspapers. Passed.
The house then adjourned.
December 8.—The following bills
were introduced, and ordered printed. By
Mr. Wright—A bill fixing the salary of the
president of the United States By Mr.
Edmunds—To enable the supreme court of
tbe district of Columbia to proceed with its
July business By Mr. West—A bill for the
construction of United States government
lines between the cities of Washington and
Boston By Mr. Chandler—A bill amenda
tory of section 10 of the national currency act
of 1864, and section 9 of the act of July 13,.
1866. Adjourned.
Mr. Dorben, from the committee on
banking and cnrrency, reported a bill reducing
the allowances t6 bank examiners and fixing
rates. Passed....Mr. Maynard, chairman of
tho committee on banking and cnrrency, re
ported a bill to amend tbe national banking
act in the matter of proceedings in liquidation.
After some discussion, the bill was recommit
ted with leave to report at any time Mr.
Houghton, from the committee on Pacifio rail
roads, reported a bill providing that the rail
road bridge st Omaha and the approaches on
on the east side of the river, shall be operated
as part of the continuous line of the Pacific
railroad, requiring that half yearly reports be
made of the monthly receits of tolls and
charges for the use of the bridge. The morn
ing hour having expired the bill went over
without action Bills were introduced and
referred to committees as follows: By Mr. Mc-
Croy—For the extinguishment of the Indian
title to the Black Hill reservation in Dakota.
By Mr. Wood—Fixing the rates of duties
on imported merchandise.. f. By Sir. Holman—
To substitute United States notes for the is
sues ef the national banks By Mr. Young,
of Georgia—For the payment of all accounts
for services rendered to the government in the
postal service prior to April, 1861 By Mr.
Myere—To restore the duty of ten per cent, on
certain manufactures of cotton, wool, iron,
paper, glass, leather, eto By Mr. Cronnse—
For an additional representative from the
state of Nebraska By Mr. E. H. Roberts—
Proposing an amendment to the constitution
providing that congress shall not make any-'
thing but gold and silver ooin a tender of pay
ment of individual debts, and that congress
shall pass no law impairing the obligation of
contracts By Mr. Merriam—For free tank
ing By Mr. Sage—Instructing the commit
tee on foreign affairs to inquire whether any
legislation or government action is necessary
to prevent the immigration or importation of
Coolies under contract for servile labor, and of
Chinese women for the purpose of prostitu
tion By Mr. Hereford—For the improve
ment of the Kanawha river By Mr. Town
send, Pa.—To repeal the acts requiring stamps
on back checks, etc.; also authorizing the
president to correspond with foreign nations
concerning the establishment of international
arbitration By Mr. White, of Ala.—To reg
ulate elections in certain southern states; also,
to amend the act to enforoe the rights of citi
zens to vote By Mr. Randall—Repealing
the increase of the president’s salary. By
Mr. Beck—To prohibit senators, representa
tives and delegates in coagress from acting as
counsel or otherwise in suits or proceedings
against the United States. Bilfpassed Mr.
Lawrence offered^'resolution calling on the
secretaries of the treasury and of war for in
formation as to the claim of Sugg Fort, of
Robertson county, Ten., for commissary stores,
etc.; on what evidence it wae allowed, etc.
Adopted, The house then went into commit
tee of the whole and soon after adjourned.
THE PUBLIC DEBT.
Regular Monthly Statement—Decrease
in November, $18314)37.
The public debt statement has just
been issued, of whioh the following is
a recapitulation:
DEBT BEARING INTEBBST IS COIN.
Bonds at 6 per cent $1,167,274,700
Bonds at 5 per cent 552,525,200
Total $1,719,799,900
DEBT BEARING INTEREST IN LAWFUL MONET.
Lawful money debt $ 146,780.000
Matured debt... 18,446,030
DEBTBEARING NO INTEREST.
Legal tender notes $ 382,075,276
Certificates on deposit 47,120,000
Fractional cnrrency 47,385,698
Coin certificates 23,045,400
Total without interest $ 499,626,365
Total debt $2,252,550,296
Total interest 33,251,111
CASE IN THE TBEiiSUBT.
Coin . $ 83,043,702
Cnrrency 16,699.311
Special deposit held for redemp
tion of certificates of deposit. 47,120,000
Total in treasury $ 146,863,073.
DEBT LESS CASH IN TREASURY.
Debt less cash in treasury. $2,138,938,834
Decrease of the debt during the
past month 123,427
Decrease since June 30,1874.... 4,149,907
BONDS ISSUED TO PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANIES.
Principal outstanding .$ 64,623,512
Interest accrued and not yet
paid 1,616,587
Interest paid by United States. 24,825,396
Interest repaid by transporta
tion of mails, etc 5,510,044
Balance of interest paid by the
United States 18,816,352
Louise Kellogg fastens her garters
with $500 diamond clasps. Anna Dick
inson snaps a pair of amethysts round
her little calves, and the widow of Oapt.
Jack ties her old army socks with a
pair of Shaaknasty Jim’s old suspenders.
The Yeritable Lexington.
Your notice yesterday of the famous
Kentucky horse Lexington, reminds me
of an anecdote respecting him, whioh
is at your service if you deem it worth
anything:
In 1863, or early in ’64, large numbers
of condemned army horses .were occa
sionally mustered and sold at auction
in Nashville, Tennessee. On one occa
sion a string of one hundred or so were
hitched to a fence to be sold at twelve
o’clock. A gentleman wanted to bny
three or fonr, and not beiag a judge of
horses, got an expert to point out a few
that would do to recuperate. Of course
they were all in a sad looking plight;
condemned sure enough. The expert
passed along down the line marking
such as would do to bid on. In passing
down he paused at a very ahabby-look-
ing frame of bones, eyeing him for a
minute with apparent interest. After
making the end of the line, he remarked
to his friend, “There’s a horse back
yonder I want to look at again.” So he
begins again to survey the same old
horse.
“There is something remarkable about
the horse,” said the examiner. “Surely
you would not have me to. bid on him ?”
said the purchaser. “ No, but there’s
something remarkable abont him I don’t
understand,” and continued to examine
vary minutely. “ This,” said he, “ is a
high-blooded horse, and worth more
money, five times over, than all the
troop beside. Still, he is a mystery to
me. He is certainly a Lexington horse,
and yet is too old for any of Lexington’s
oolts. I don’t understand it. There’s
something strange abont-him. There is
no such horse in this country, and yet
here he is.” The man had never seen
Lexington, and was not dreaming of
him.
This led to inquiry where the horse
came from. It proved to be the veritable
Lexington himself. He had been cap
tured in Kentucky, thrown into a lot of
others, and, after months of “hard ser
vice,” turns up in a crowd of “con
demned horses” in Nashville. Tbe man
went into ecstaey over him—hugged and
almost kissed him. The case was re
ported at headquarters, and orders were
immediately given to have the old Ken
tucky veteran kindly and carefnlly
treated.—“ Nashville Man” in Wash
ington Star.
Italian Steamers.
Charles Warren Stoddard writes:
“ The same little steamers that ply be
tween Naples, Sorrento, and Capri take
their turn in the daily trips to Ischia,
touching at the island of Procida on the
way. Ischia, being the happy mother
of several hot and mineral springs, has
become the fashionable resort of inval
ids, and many a man assumes a weak
ness, though he has it not, that he may
seek the tranquility of the verdant is
lands and enjoy the luxury of its baths.
The steamer in which I embarked
chanced to be the very same that bore
ns to Capri a few days before, and
though there is no lack of the foreign
element in the market at present, I was
instantly recognized by the officers of
die deck and greeted like a long lost
brother, I expected to. have to pay for
this distinction, bnt was too suspicions
The trnth is the officers of these small
craft have little else to do than be
amiable, and this is therefore their
fashion of killing time. The small
deck of this steamer was divided into
three pens Jor the accommodation
of first, seoond, and third olass pas
sengers. Those of the fiast-olass
were distinguished by the faded red
plush that covered the half dozen easy
chairs in that pen. The seoond class
distinguished itself by smiling compla
cently upon that part of the world that
was running to extremes, being uncom
fortably rich or miserably poor, as the
case might be. A salamander between
two fires oould not be more philosophi
cal or case-hardened, which is it ? The
third-class travelers sat all over every
thing, bnt seemed to prefer a wall of
explosive-looking kegs piled against the
smoke-stack, where they patiently await
ed the hour of their deliveranoe from
this body of living death, poverty—the
life-long poverty of Italy; where the
olimate is not cold enough to freeze you,
nor quite hot enough to soorch you, aud
so you are forced to live out the allotted
term of years in hopeless patience.”
How Perry Met the Bear.
He was watching the movements of a
striped, frisky-tail chipmunk, that wash
ed its little face in the laughing waters
of a mountain brook, and thinking how
happy was that little fellow away off
there in the everlasting silence. Perry
is not a large man, bnt is handsome; he
looked at his face, reflected in the
waters, and wished he was as “ young
as he used to be.” He moaned the fact
that gray , hairs had silvered his head,
and thoughtfully ran over the days of
happy youth. With a prayer for his
descendants, and their descendants, he
turned from the water brook to find
himself in the presence of a bear! Few
words were spoken; both meant busi
ness. The bear reared up laughing, and
Perry reared down, praying. The situ
ation was peculiar—Perry says d—d
peculiar. At it they west, the bear
above, Perry below; each felt the other
a “foeman worthy of his steel.” In the
midst of the conflict the bear became
affectionate, and embraced Perry. Perry
said ’twas a “ fpnd embrace,” and re
minded him of the days of his court
ship. But too muo^ familiarity bred
contempt, and Perry intimated with a
big knife that his preference was that
that bear shonld not hug him just then.
The bear weighed eight hundred and
sixty pounds, and Perry got eleven gal
lons of oil from three-quarters of mm.
—Del Norte Prospector.
Hiving a Hint;
A story id told of a couple of farmers
who lived not a great distance apart,
one of whom was noted for being very
penurious. One day his neighbor called
upon him while he was eating dinner,
bnt instead of asking him to sit down
to the table with him, he kept on eat
ing and talking, just as though the visi
tor had not a month in his head.
Well, what’s the news, neighbor
Brown?” “Nothing much.” “No
newB up your way, eh?” he asked, still
helping mrnnnlf to hin good dinner
while his neighbor looked on with anxi
ety and appetite. “ Well, yes, new
that I think on’t, there is just a grain
of news. Mr. Jones’ oow has got fi
calves,” replied the visitor.
calves! I never heard of such a tttl 78
Why, what the dickens does the fifti
one do while the other fonr are
ing?” “He stands and looks on lfo*‘
darned fool, just as I’m doing En »S
“ Oh, ah! Hannah, put on anotW
plate.” 61
Wm. Brown, who trained for Mr Tor,
Broeck in England, and in recent vea»
for Francis Morris, has been
by Pierre Lorillard to take ohaW„.
Mb extensive stable of " 01
he receiving the largest salaryTvTS
to a professional trainer, five thonS
dollars a year, and a commission of ten
per cent, on the horses’ winnings. alT
Morris’ “ string” of horses will also hi
trained in the same Btable, Mr Loril
lard receiving one-half their winning
as compensation for the training a
penses. This stable, which is at Ran’
ooous, in Burlington county, N. J. mil
be the largest and most powerful’ever
trained in the United States, numbering
over forty thoroughbreds. 8
The Lebanon Shakers, now in session
in convention at New York, are an" ont
spoken set When asked if their doc
trines, carried ont, would not depopu
late the earth in a very brief period
they reply: “Certainly, that is Bre I
msely what we are driving at”
Probably no one disease is the cause
of so mach bodily misery and unhappiness
(and the disease is almost universal AW
the American people) as dyspepsia. Its cause!
are many and various lying chiefly in the
habits of our people. The remedv is B i mp i,
and effectual. Use Dr. Wishart’s Great Amer
ican Dyspepsia Pills. They never fail to rare.
Columbus discovered America, bnt it
has been found that the only economical shoes
for children are the celebrated SILVER TIP
PED. Never wear ont at the toe, and are
worth two pairs without Tips. AH dealers eell
them.
MARKETJtEPORTS.
TOBACCO. Light Clarksville
grades. grades.
Common Inge $ 9 75(310 60 $10 C4K310 75
Good lugs .... ..10 50317 f 0 10 75 12 00
Common Ieaf..„a .12 50914 00 12 50(314 50
Medium leaf 14 50@16 00 15 003*17 0*
Good leaf 16 50320 CO 17 50920 00
Choice leaf.,— Jl 00(323 00 22 50(326 M
Common smoking lugs _ 10 60 312 55
Good smoking logs „ 12 50<314 05
Common leaf 14 509I6 55
Medium leaf.....— 17 00@20 55
Good leaf 21 00(326 50
Fine leaf 27 00*35 0*
Fancy deselections 35 00 342 00
Fancy bright smoking 15 Ollfldl 00
Medium dark wrappers 17 00,319 00
Good wrappers 25 0 <323 M
Fine wrappers 26 00(330 00
Bright wrappers 40 00*100 05
Naihvillt.
SXOUB—Superfine $ 3 50 A 3 75
XXX 6 25 <3 5 50
Family .. 3 75 * 6 00
COEN MEAL.
CORN
OATS
WHEAT..-.
HAY—Beet
BRAN
PEANUTS
BACON—Clear Sides
HAMS—Sugar Oared
LANG
BUTTER
EGGS
GINSENG
WOOL—Unwashed
Tub washed
WHISKY—Common
Robinson County
Bourbon .
Lincoln County.™
HIGH WINES..
COTTON
Ordinary.....™
Good Ordinary.™
Low Middling
1 00 * 1 06
85 9 1 00
66 * 68
1 10 13 1 12
25 00 a 27 00
20 GO * 23 00
90 9 1 10
u <9 lljf
33 9 -■
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2 2
21 9 22
1 25 *3* 1 30
22 9 26
35 (3 40
90 * 1 CO
1 76 * 8 00
1 26 * 6 60
1 75 (3 2 25
1 00 @ ....
1«X
6 9
11 9
12 *
13 9
6 00 @
3 75 *
2 50 9
11X
Timothy
Orchard Grass..
Blue Grass
noulavllie.
WHEAT—Bed and Amner $ 1 00 9
1 GO * 1 75
1 M
CORN—Sacked.
OATS
BUTTER—Choice...
HAY—Timothy
GINSENG
FRUIT—Apples. Green. 151 *3 2 25
Lemons, per box_ 8 75 <3 905
Oranges 8 5.) (3 9 00
PORE—Mess 20 0 a 21 (5
LARD 14X9 IS*
BACON—Clear Sides 10 * 10X
CHEESE—Choice 16 <3
FLOUR—Super due..
Extra family.
Fancy 6 00 @ 6 50
WOOL—Tub-washed 60 a 62
UnwaehecL
POTATOES—Irish, ^bbl
OOTTON—Middling..’.'.'.
Good Ordinary
Mew Orleans.
FLOUR—Extra $ 5 00 9
Family, 7 00 13
CORN 85 9
OATS 67 9
HAY —. 25 00 9 2* 00
PORK—Mess 2000 92100
9 55
60 9 62
34 9 38
18 00 « 22 OO
1 30 9 1 40
3 GO a 4 00
6 00 * 5 25
35 (3 36
2 75 9 3 00
3 CO 9 3 50
14 9 MX
13 9
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6 00
15 9
15X9
98 9
1 00 9
13 9
14 9
9 is*
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99
1 02
13*
14X
BACON.
TTAMfi
labd
SUGAR—Fair to Prime.
wriiMKY—Louisiana..../
Cincinnati
OOTTON—Good Ordinary
Low Middling
Cincinnati.
FLOUR—Family *5 00 9 5 10
WHEAT 1 65 9 1 10
COEN 70 9 13
OATS 55 9 60
PORK—Mess 20 60 9 20 50
HAMS—Sugar cured 10}f9 1’
BACON—Clear sldee 10X® ,0 X
WISHART’S
PINE TREE TAR CORDIAL.
XT is now fifteen years since the attention of tbe
1 public was first called by Dr. L. Q C. WIshart
to this wonderful remedy, and so well baa It stood
the test of time, that to-day It not only has the
confidence ol the entire community, bnt is mort
frequently prescribed byphyslcans In their prac
tice than any other proprietary preparation intc«
country. It is the vital principle of the Pine Tree
obtained by a pecnliar process in the 'distillation
of the Tar. by which its highest medicinal proper
ties are retained. For the following complalots.
.inflammation of the lungs, coughs, sore throat
and breast, bronchitis, consumption, liver com
plaint, weak stomach, disease of the kidneys, uri
nary complaints, nervous debility, dvspepsia. ana
diseases arising from an impure condition of tn®
blood, there is no remedy in the world that has
been used so success.‘ally or can showsuch a num
ber of marvelous cures. The following will servo
to show the estimation In which this sovereign
remedy Is held by those who have used It.
Consumption for Ten Years Cured.
Da. L. Q. C. Wishart: Dear Slr-I am gra“jj£
to you from the fact that you nave made a meai-
cine that will cure the disease of the longs.
icians had told me that tney conld only patch Pfi
up for the time being. She was confined “her
bed, and had been for some time. I he.rdof yo
Pine 2Tee Tar Cordial and secured one borne , it
relieved her cough. She has now^
fourth bottle and is able “do the work ror «e^
family,and may God speed^on ^with year
great discovery and cure yon _
munition. Bev.E. H. HoPRiNa.
* Jackson Centre.Shelby Co., Ohio.
From St. Louis, Mo.
was suffering from a severe cola, ana ™>
to take a bottle of your rinejTee
which had the effect of capng me In a rew u»r
1 are at liberty to use it. ,
Yours respectfully, John