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W. E HAD P, f* Usher. VOLUME 1 Tories OF THE DAY. Makt of tlie oignrettes of the day are made from picked-up cigar stump*. There seems to be no diminution in the frequency or temper of cyclones. It cost something over $1,300 to lecure a jury in the Malley murder case. The President has called the attention of Congress to the troubles ip Arizona. To ALT. appearances we stand sadly in need of anew and more effective Indian policy. Ex-Secretary or State Blaine holds that the United States is reponsible for the Chili-Peyu yat. Poob Captain Howgate ! He is still lost. Marshal Henry had better increaso that SSOO reward to S6OO. The English aesthete will be enter tained by Mr. Beecher at ITis Peekskill home in June. Two of anything make a pair. The English Government gives Prince Leopold $50,000 a year to support bis new wife—a splendid salary for the work lie does. A- The Prince of Walos wrote in tho au graph album of the historian, Bancroft, “Not ‘Ours, ’ but yours truly, Albert Edward.’’ j A New Yoke* company is making ar rangements for heavy importations of ice from Norway the present year, to supply the demand. It is reported the outlook through the State of Kentucky taken as a wholo, is very promising, and crops bid fair to fully make up for the disastrous season of 1881. ' The lack of good faith on the part of Indian Agents may have had something to do with the recent outbreak. Such things have been heard of in the past. And now we have it that Miss Nellie Arthur has large brown eyes and short brown hair, and that she is as chubby as a cherub—altogether, a very delicious morsel. The Government hangs three Indian murderers, whereupon the Indians, in re taliation, murder a hundred innocent whites. This is “Indian Policy” with a vengeance. A bill has passed the Rhode Island Senate providing that no license to sell intoxicating liquors shall bo granted in those towns where, at the anuual town meeting in April, the people shall vote to grant no licenses. Mon law is becoming almost too com mon a thing in Indiana. If matters keep on as they have been going the past few weeks, it will not be long before the judiciary iu the State u r ill be entirely dispensed with in criminal matters. The National Forestry Convention at Cincinnati lias excited considerable inter est on the subject of tree planting. Wo shall expect within the next few years to see the country dotted with young groves. Land can be put to no better puspose. The proprietor of a restaurant at Fre mont, Ohio, who found an onyx pin, set with diamonds, and failed to return it to the young lady who had lost it, was bound over to Court in the sum of SSOO, on the charge of larceny. The trial of. the Malley boys for the murder of Jenh'io Cramer is now in pro gress at New Haven, Conn. Miss Blanche Douglass, also implicated in the murder, is said to be an intensely in terested listener to the testimony as it is adduced. ol , A Cincinnati woman visited a small pox patient, despite the protests of her husband, “ just to see what the disease looked like.” Sho caught the contagion ind conveyed it to her husband and only shild. Both parents died and the child survived. Her curiosity was doubtless gratified. Hon Will Ccuback, of Greensburg, Ind., g ves it as his opinion that tue mob who hangOd Garrett at Greeusborg were KentftfcanV hailing from the former home of the murdered man Walton. He bases his opinion on the public feeling at St. Paul, the home of Walton and Garrett,where he says, there was no disposition to do injury to Garrett since his acquittal as as acces sory tt the crkne. Wotlb the Government is catisidfrjpg' the feasibility of protecting American subjects in Ireland, and the advisability of going to war with Russia in behalf of the persecuted Jews in that country, it will do well to give a moment’s thought to the unprotected frontiersman of our own land. If it can’t protect subjects at honie ) it were worse than folly to talk of seeming freedom and happiness for the perseCited in foreign lands. Thu message of rebuke to the Cabinet, sent by the citizens of Tucson, Arizona, asking that better protection be afforded them against the murderous Apaches, and less money expended on the grand military display anticipated at Fortress Monro*, U wr fitting and doubtless 4*- THE JACKSON NEWS. served. A great deal of inansy is ap pended on more than worthless displays, which it would he humanity to use in the protection of those who are in con stant peril of their lives. Susie Green, says a contemporary, had tier pick from among the young meu oi Lexington, Ky., for she was handsome and rich; but she preferred a gambler oi the flashiest kind. He was known to her for a month as a stock broker, and at the end of that brief courtship she married him. They stopped at a Louis ville hotel on their bridal tour. He brought her a lemonade in her room, and she found it bitter. He had put an opiate in it. When she was unconscious he stole her purse and $2,500 worth of diamonds, and deserted her. One Methodist clergyman in Cleve land said that the newspapers of to-day are a powerful ally of Christianity. Another said that editors would not dare talk as they write. A third said that he knew a reporter who became a Chris tian and found he could not continue in the business. Doubtless all spoke the truth. As to the reporter, probably he liad never taught himself to write truth fully, aud was therefore a disgrace to the profession. The other two statements are accounted for upon the presumption that one of the clergymen in question took a respectable paper, while the other was a patron of one of the few disrepu table sheets that are published in the country. Mrs. Tabor, the wife of the Lieuteu int-Govornor of Colorado, has filed petition in court asking that the fine house in which she lives, said to be worth $150,000, shall be set apart as ber exclusive property, and that $50,000 a year be granted her for living expenses. Her husband is worth, or is said to be, from $7,000,000 to $3,000,000. She ac cuses him of infidelity, while lie repre sents himself as willing to give her a divorce, the house and $3,000,000 if she will sue for a separation, which she re fuses to do. “The case,” it is alleged, “will hardly go to trial as it would cre ate a fearful scandal, in which the best people would be involved.” If such people are “the best” in Colorado, what must the worst be?” It mas be interesting to our lady readers to know how Princess Helena, of Waldeck, was dressed at her marriage a few days ago to Prince Leopold, the last son of the Queen of England. The wedding dress was given to the Princess by her sister, Queen of Holland, and was made in Paris. The petticoat was of the richest white satin, with several small openings near the bottom, showing a thick wreath of orange blossoms and myrtle underneath it, trimmed with two robings of the costliest point d’Alencon lace coming down either side, turned with square corners toward a white satin train, in the draperies of whch it disap pears. The train is of immense length, and literally sown with flakes of silver, white large bouquets of fleur de Us in re lief, embroidered in silver all down the center of it. It was edged with shell like flutings of satin, intermingled with point d’Alencon. The dress has short sleeves, trimmed to match, with point d’Alencon and wreaths of myrtle and orange blossoms. .TtroaE Belfoed, Representative lx Congress from Colorado, has had an in terview with the President in regard te the persecution of Jews in Russia. The Judge showed that tha atrocities prac ticed on Jaws in Russia has taken the form of destruction of property by plunder and Are, injury to person, mur derous assaults, outrages on mothers, wives, and daughters, and deliberate murder. As nearly as the results of thess atrocities can be ascertained and stated in figures, it appears over two hunered women have been violated, sixty men were killed, seventy wounded, twenty thousand rendered homeless, and about $75,000,000 worth of property stolen and wrecked. Judge Belford reminded the President that intervention in such a cause had been practiced civilized nations the past two centuries He cited a number of cases where intex vention had occurred in late wars, among them being that of Russia on behalf of persecuted Christians in Turkey. The intervention of Russia in behalf of Greek Christians in Turkish Dominions was an avowed justification for undertaking the Crimean war, and agaiu in 1877 the intervention of Russia in behalf of Christian subjects of the Sultan was the single pretext for the Russo- Turkish war. In reply to Judge B jfcpl* the President said he felt deeply interested in the cueepf the persecuted Hebrews, ahd was 'determined to-do everything that could be done with propriety to induce the Russian Govern, ment to extend the furies- protection to this class of its subjects. He had within the past few days addressed a communi cation to our representative at St. Petersburg, directing bim to invite tha attention of the Czar to these, reported atrocities, to express the abhorrence that was felt in this country in relation to their perpetration, and entreating him to exercise his authority to prevent their recurrence. The President further said that he was determined American Hc -1 brows temporarily residing in Russia -houid receive the care and protection of their Gownuaeut Devoted to the Interest of Jackson and Butts Countv. JACKSON. GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY. MAY 10, 1882. THE FACTS AT LAST. HOW THE CONFEDERATE SPECTE WAS DISTRIBUTED. An Authentic Account by Gen. Dl brel l, Who wss in Command of the Davis Escort and Money Train. [Washington Post ] [Gen. G. G. Dibrel! —now a member of Congress from Tennessee—contributes tlie following authentic and circumstan tial account of the disposition of the Confederate specie about which so much has been said since the publication of Gen. Joe Johnston’s first statement. — Ed. Post.] On the 12th day of April, 1865, I re ceived a few miles below Raleigh, N. C., an order from Maj. Gen. Wheeler to proceed at once with my cavalry com mand, composed of a part of my own Tennessee brigade, commanded by Col. W. S. McLemore, and the Kentucky brigade, commanded by Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge, and Wigcin’s Arkansas j Battery, to Greensboro, N. C., and there report to Gen. John C. Breckinridge, the Secretary of War, and President Davis. We had that day at Butler’s bridge, he low Raleigh, learned certainly of the disaster of Gen - Lee’s Army. In obedi ence to that order we passed through Raleigh and marched fifteen or twenty miles that night. The next night we camped above Hillsboro, and the next reached Greensboro about 12 o’clock at night, and reported in person with Col. Breckinridge, first to Gen. Breckinridge, and then to Mr. Davis. We left Greens boro the next evening, moving south. At Lexington we awaited dispatches from Gens. Breckinridge and Jos. E. Johnston in regard to the surrender or terms of surrender proposed by Gen. Sherman, and then moved on to Char lotte. N. C., where we were joined by the commands of Gens. J. C. Vaughn and Basil W. Duke, which had come across from western Virginia. After wards we were joined by Gen. Fergu son's brigade. At Charlotte, Gen. Brock inridge, who was a Major General in the Confederate States Army, assumed com mand of all the troops along in person and gave orders. Up to ttiis time my command of Tennesseans and Kentuck ians had done all of the guard, picket and scouting duty, and continued to do so until surrendered. On leaving Char lotte we marched on through South Carolina, encountering large numbers of Gen. Lee’s soldiers who had been pa rr led ind were <n tkdi wuj U; their k*BN. At Abbeville, 8. C„ on the 2d of May, after having gone into camp, Col. Bragg sent for me and showed me the terms of surrender agreed upon by Gens. Sher man and Johnston, which included all of Gen. Johnston’s army. That night a conference of officers was held at the residence of the lion. Mr. Burt, in Ab beville, at which were present Mr. Da vis, Gens. Breckinridge, Bragg, Vaughn, Duke, Ferguson, Col. Breckinridge and myself. After a full and free discussion of the situation, the condition of the troops, etc., it was agreed that we would move at 11 o’clock that night across the Savannah river into Georgia, near Washington, and there surrender such of the cavalry as did not wish to go to the trans-Mißsissippi department. It was also agreed there that the troops should the next day be paid a part of the specie on hand. When orders were issued to move, I was requested to fur nish transportation for the specie, and the quartermaster furnished four wagons. The specie train was placed immediate lv under the control of Gen. Duke, who delivered it safely the next day to Gen. Breckinridge at his headquarters, where it was divided as heretofore published. In the conference cf officers held the night previous, Mr. Davis inquired par ticularly as to the condition of each com mand, whether they could be relied up on in an emergency. I remember stat ing for my command, commanded by Cols. Mcljemore and Breckinrigde, and the artillery commanded by Capt. Wig gins, that they had remained true and intact, were under good discipline, and never refused to do duty either as scouts, picket, or guards and were as ready to march to battle as taev had always been. Each officer was asked in turn in regard to his command, and my statements were corroborated by Col. Breckinridge when ho wss interrogated. Mr. Davis had had the corefpanv of Capt. Given Campbell, of the First Kentucky cavalry, as an escort, and he decided to leave next day with his es cort, staff, and a few others. On going into camp near Washington, Ga., on the 3d of May, the specie train was parked at Gen Breckinridge’s headquarters, and that intended for the troops was turned over to Maj. E. C. White, chief quartermaster of my command, he being the ranking quartermaster present,, who, after counting the money turned over to him, and receiving the pay rolls of each command present, paid out and furnished me a statement of the amount, which I had misplaced, but Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge having retained a copy furnished it to me. which is as follows, to wit: TANARUS amount received of Confed erate States government... $108,322 90 By. amount paid Capt. Br ggj, A. Q. M., Dibrell’s brigade 29,677 00 Byarnountpaid Maj. W. .1. Brad ley, Q. M., Breckinridge’s • brigade 1',342 30. By amonnt paid Capt. Clay Price A. Q. M., Ferguson’s brrig ade 23,477 96 By amount paid Capt. J. D. Floutt. A. Q. M., Vauahan’s brigade 12,781 80 By amount paid Maj. D. fl.Flew cllen, A. Q.M., Duke’s brig ade 17,192 00 Byampnntnaid Capt. W. F. Bell A.' Q. M., Ninth Kentucky Regiment 100 00 By amount paid Gen. J. C. Breckinridge and twenty four men 630 00 By amount paid thirty-one en gineer troops with Gen. 8... ,314. 73 Bv amount, paid a!vrt*six rarm'. . of various commands per or dor of (ten. Jsi uekiariclg4r, r l ,ft WOO" Bv amount paid <?en. Bibroll ami thirteen officers at di vision headquarters 841 25 By amount paid twenty - six scouts, DibreH's division, . .. 882 50 By araound paid tventy-six courriers, Dibrcll’t division #8! 50 By amount paid Wiggin”s bat tery, eighty four men 1,205 00 By amount paid quartermasters department, Dibrell’s divis ion, twenty two men 377 50 By amount paid C. 8. depart ment, Dibrell’s division, fourteen meu 809 50 Balance 66 8-1 $108,322 90 After this money was paid out upou pay rolls made out by the officers pres ent, our command went into camp to await a Provost Marshall to whom we could surrender. Some of our men went on and were paroled at Augusta, and in all our march from Greensboro to Washington, Oa., the two brigades above were well organized, well armed and equipped and splendidly mounted, and were, all iu all, equal to any command in either army in every respect. They had done as much hard fighting, hard marching and suffered as much hardship as any troops in the army, and when the last days of tlie Confederacy came they surrendered in good faith like true and gallant soldiers, and, I have no doubt, hae respected their paroles to this day. lam induced to speak thus of my command on tiiis march, because several parties writing upon this subject have characterized the cavalry along with Mr. Davis as irregular cavalry, and have stated that they clamored for a division of the specie. This, so far as the gallant Kentuokv and Tennessee brigades and Wiggin’s Arkansas battery is concerned is untrue. They were regular cavalry and artillery under good discipline and remained true to the very last. The division or payment to them of the small amount, received was unsolicited upon their part; was in accordance* to an agreement made by the officers with Gen. Breckinridge the previous night without their knowledge orjprocureinent, There was no halting or speech making until the Savannah river was crossed and a general halt ordered. Capt. Lot Abraham, of tlie Fourtli lowa Cavalry, was sent from Augusta to parole us. The paroles were all made out on the 9th of May, when Capt. Abraham notified me ho had been in structed by Gen. Upton to take all the horses from the private soldiers. I de clined to surrender to him, and told him I would march hack to North Carolina and surrender to Gen. Sherman ; that all of our horses were private property, and under the terms of Gen. .Tohuston’s surrender all private property was to be respected. At his suggestion, Gen. Vaughn, Capt. Coffin and McKenney went, with him to Augusta and telegraphed the situation to Gen. Wilson, who telegraphed bark to allow the soldiers to keep their horses, all of which were the private property of the soldiers. On the lltli of May we were all pa roled and stated for our bpmes in a body. Near Cleveland, Tenn., we were mStby a request fiom the provost marslia. at Cleveland to come by that place Ve did so and were immediately surround ed bv an infantry guard, and a vigorous search of the person and baggage of ev ery soldier instituted, until stopped by Col. Smith, of the One Hundred and Fifty fourth Illinois Regiment, ail ex ceedingly gallant and clever gentlemin, but wo were sent under guard to Chut tanooga, where Gen. Juda was com manding, but a certain provost marshal named St. Sargent took all the horses from the soldiers, allowing the officers to retain theirs, claiming to^ act under orders from Gen. Thomas, which proved to be false. The soldiers thus dismouit ed contrary to the express terms of tie surrender and the instructions of Gai. Wilson, left immediately for th<ir homes, some bv rail and the balance in foot. Gen. Williams having joined is, proceeded immediately to Nashville aid got an order for the return of our horswi taken from Breckinridge’s brigade, and Col. McLemore got our order for ins, anil they both sent hack and got most of their horses, but before the order ras received and the others sent for, he Tennessee brigade had lost 25C hea< of valuable horses The quartermaster lad turned them in a dry lot without fiod or water. Many had died and a lum ber were too poor t’travel and were lift by the wayside. The loss of 250 held of horses was a serious ioss to the gtl lant soldiers, who had just returned!*) their desolated homes, pennilem aid with nothing with which to start alym. The following is a copy of* TilMjk official order issued by me, whiqh V/s furni-hed me recently by Lieut. Join A Lewis, Adjutant of the Ninth Ken tucky cavalry, viz : Beadhii a ifkicits Cavalry Division, Msv 5, 1865. —Commanding officers will imme diately make kno wn to their commands (hat thev are expected to conduct themselvt-F as soldiers nnd centlemrn. All vbo are un willing tis do this are respectfully icquested to seud up furloughs for approval end will leave their command. No depredatioas will he allowed, either now or npon the march, ’ or after they are paroled. All soldiers guilty of offences will be turned over to th civil sutherities. Soldiers who cannot refrain from shooting in anil around e.-mpsaie re quested to take furloughs and go where llieir shooting will not endanger the livss of their comrades, or violate the ru'es of good ord r aLd discipline. Read this to all your men. ■* G. G. Dibrfix, Brigadier General. Official: J. M. Hines, A. A. Gen. and C. - ■ , Every officer and soldier who sow this command, nd mi fed jfs good disciplim and soldierly bearing, and all who sa them in'battle admired their gallantry Commanded by such officers as Breckir ridge"* and McLemore and a splendi corps of regimental and line officers, the could not be othewise than under goo discipline an.T brave and gallantxoldie) and whefc they .-in good faith laid dost their arms anil accepted a parole, as tru brave and good a set oFjnen as eve' breathed'the breath of life, beeanu good citizens. Justice to their memory demands thftbl should say this and de ! fend them against the charge of beinj ! irregulax cavalry or clamorous for any thing. ' • J •& G. Dibrki.J. | Washington, April 12, 1882. Fooling M. Thiers. Spies do not always render services proportionate to the pay they draw, and their employers are no doubt often sorely vexed by the blunders they commit through overzeal. In 1872, when the Count de Chambord had gone to hold a sort of court at Antworp, and was gen erally thought to be on tlie ove of getting restored to the Fronoh throne, M. Thiers sent spies to watch his movements. One of these was so übiquitous that he ended by attracting the attention of two of tlie Bourbon Priuoe’s supporters, who were young noblemen fond of fuu. Theso gentlemen, keeping their eyes on the spy, found that he was in the habit of •pending his evenings in a certain cafe on tlie Grande Place. Repairing to this establishment they seated themselves near to their man, and began talking about the Count do Ohambord's doings in whispers just loud enough for the fel low to hear. The spy, of course, pricked up his ears, and soon he must have been convinced that he was discovering most valuable secrets. Tho young men re lated marvelous stories about tho Prince's plans, the number of adherents lie was gathering in France, and spoke of a grand coup d'etat which was being prepared for him by a number of statesmen and Generals who hoped to take tho country by surprise. In great excitement tho spy flashed the news to Versailles, and M. Thiers, who had no wish to see tho Count de Chambord restored, communi cated them to his private organ, Le Him Public. That orednlous newspaper be came remarkable during tho next few days tor publishing the most extraordin ary news from Antwerp. Every- day tlie spy had something new to relate out of what he piokod up at his a a/a, till at length one of his hoaxers having let fall a letter as if by Occident, tlie spy dis covered (as he fancied) tu elnliorate plot for kidnapping M. Tliiers. Tho letter stated, in effect, that the Count de Cliam bord, having resolved to seize upon the throne, was going to liavo M. Thiers ap prehended in the middle of the night by a certain General, whose name was men tioned, and that meanwhileanother Gen eral would arrest M. Gambetta. M. Tliiars was a fussy little man who had a great belief in plots, and on reocipts of tho tidings which apprised him that his liberty was in danger ho must have experienced a moiuout’s consternation ; but before he could take any stops to prepare for the coup d'etat, tlie Union, a Legitimist paper, published a chaffing letter from Antwerp, iu which tlie hoax played upou the spy was related in de tail* M. Thiers aud tho editor of tho Lc Hien Public (which always pre tended to have no official connections) then looked very foolish. As for the spy, I*. my 1c doubted whether, on his re turn to Paris, he was received with smil ing thanks. —Oornhill Magazine. Uow Some Poet* Worked. How Dryden worked I can not, find recorded ; doubtless at any time and all times, whenever the need of money pressed him. Pope always required his writing desk to be sot upon his bed be fore he rose. Gray, the author of the “Elegy,” was, perhaps, of all writers the most curiously minute in his method. It is said that he perfected oaoh line sep arately, amending and rewriting it over and over again, nu'd never commenced another until the first had wholly'satis fied his fastidious taste. Byron sul down to write without any premeditation ; his ideas flowed with liiu ink, nml one line suggested the next. But after the poem was completed, and during its passage) through the press, he was continually altering, interlining, and adding. ‘The first copy of “The Giaour” consisted of only 400 lines; to each new edition .wnro added new passages, until it swelled to nearly 1,400 lines. During tho printing of “The Ilrido of Abydoa” he added 200 lines, unil many of the original were altered again and again. One of tho most constantly la borious writers of whom we huve any account was Southey. In one of his let ters he says: “Imagino me in this great study of mine (at Gesta Hall, Kes wick), from breakfast till dinner, from dinner till tea, and from tea till supper, in my old black boat, with corduroys alternated with tho long worsted panta loons and gaiters in one, and the green •hade, ana sitting at my desk, and have my picture and my history. * * * My actions are as regular as those of fit. Dustan’s quarter hags. Three pages of history after breakfast; then to tran scribe and copy for press, or to make my selections and biographies, or what else suits my humor till dinner time ; from dinner till tea I read, write letters, see the newspapers, and vary often indnge in a siesta. After tea Igo to poetry, and correct, and rewrite, and copy till I Am tired, anil then turn to anything till supper—and this is my life, which, if it be not a merry one, is yet as happy as heart could wish.”— Argosy. Bringing Drowned Bees to Life. A lady in Providence relates the fol lowing storv: Hw father once brought home a molasses hogshead to ho used os a water tank. On washing day her mother said: “Let’s throw the snds in it to *onk tho molasses from tlio bottom. Tho instant she had dotio so she ex claimed: “Oh I hve drowfiod hundred'; of our neighbor’s bees. ” The hogshead was Mack witli bees that were busily appropriating tiie sweet from ■wJat they quint have considered an enor pfJUs blossom. The good lady made haste with her skimmer to skim the bees from tho top iff tiie watet and spread them on a board in the sunshine, but they seemed drowned and nearly dead, and sho was very sorry. The bees that were around - the hogshead lwd flown away at tiie drush of the water, bait iy u few minutes they returned, accompanied by scores of others. Then lrtlgon a cu rious jrQrk They immediately went to work on the unfortunate' bees, turning them over and working on them con gtantlyvith tlioir heads, feet and anten nae. The result of their busy labor was that one after Woodier gave signs of life, stretching the limbs and wings, crawled about and dried itself in the sun, and flew; away. The lady said thero were a hajf-piptat first, and that there remained only about a dozen helpless eases beyond lit* iiwuuiy •Bolts oi their brothers. Halles of Cabinet Officer*. Tho Secretary of the Treasury hiu ; cliargo of tho national finances. Ho di- 1 gests and prepares plans for the improve ment and management of tlio reveiiuc | aud support of tho public credit. He superintends tlio collection of tho revenue aud prescribes the forms of keeping and i rendering all public accounts, mid malt- j ing returns; grants all warrants foi money to be issued from tho Treasury, I in pursuance of appropriations by law: j makes reports, and give information tc { either bruueli of congress, as may bo re- , quired, respecting nil matters refereed tc ' him by tho Satiate or House of Ropro- j sentatives, and generally performs all such services relative to tho finances ns lie is directed to perform; controls tbs 1 erection of public buildings, tho coinage aud printing of money, tho collection ol commercial statistics, the marine hos pitals, the revenue-cutter sorvioo, the life-saving service. Under his superin tendence the Liglit-house Board dis charges the duties relative to the con struction, illumination, inspection, and superintendence of light-houses, light vessels, beacons, buoys, sea-marks, and their nppeudages; makes provision foi the payment of the public debt undei enactments of Congress, and pubhshei statements concerning it, and submits tc Congress at tho commencement of each session estimates of the probable receipt* and of tho required expenditures tor the ensuing fiscal year. The Secretary ol War performs such duties us tho Presi dent, who is tho Commander-in-chief, may enjoin upon him, concerning the military service, and bus the superiutcu donee of the purchase of army supplies, transportation, etc. - The Secretary oi tho Navy lias the gonoral superinten dence of construction, manning, arma ment, equipment, and employment ol vessels of war. The Secretary of tlie Interior is charged with tho supervision of public business relating to patents foi inventions; pensions and bounty lands; tho public lauds including mines; tlie Indians; tlio census, when directed by law; the custody aud distribution of pub lic documents, and certain hospitals and eleemosynary institutions in the Distrioi of Columbia; ha also exorcises certain powers and duties in relation to tlio Ter ritories. The Postmaster General lias the direction and mauagomont of the Post office Department; he appoints nil officer* and employes of the department, exoepl tho throo Assistant Postmasters General, who are appointed by tho President, by and with the consent of the Senate; ap points all postmasters whose compensa tion does not exceed $1,000; makes pos tal treaties withforeign governments, by and with the consent of the President; awards and executes contracts, ami di rects tlio management of tlio domestic and fdreign mail service. The Attorney Gonoral is the head of the Department of Justico and tlie duel law ollleer or tue government; he represents tho United States in matters involving legal ques tions; ho gives hU advico and opinion on questions of law when they nro required by the President, or liy the heads of the other executive departments, on ques tions of law arising upon the acjministrn tion of their respective departments; he exercises a general superintendence and direction over United States attorney* and marshals in all judicial districts in tho Stilton and Territories; and he pro vides special counsel for tho United States whenever required by any depart ment of tho government. Recently we gavs ft statement of tlio duties of the Secretary of State, In regard to ques tions of policy and matters of importance, Iliey consult’tho President, and are of ten consulted by him.— (fyucago Inter- Ocean, , Discoveries nt Pompeii, A woman with a ohilil has been dis covered at Pompeii ill a narrow street twelve feet above the level of the an cient pavement. It is well-known that the cubudqoplie of 7t> A. D. commenced with a thick shower of small pumice ■tones, by which the streets of Pompeii wore covered up to tlm roofs of the houses. Htones were succeedeiLby adieu, which became solid owing to the action of successive showers of boiling water; anil these ashes now form the top layer of the materials which covor the ruins of Pompeii. Most of the unhappy be ings who remained in the houses after the eruption first reached tho town made tlieir escape through the windows, but the greater part of these fugitives could have taken but few steps, and must have been quickly snftoeatod by the poisonous fumes. With one arm tho woman whoso skeleton has now been found was damp ing the legs of the child, whoso body shows contraction in the arms arid legs, and a general emaciation, which lead us to suppose that thochUd must have been very ill. It was a little hoy about ten years of age. Doubtless the woman was the mother of the child. Homo jewels found on the female skeleton indicate a person of condition ; two bracelets of gold encircled the arm which hold tho boy, anil on the hand were two gold rings, tho one sot with an emerald on which is engraved a horn of plenty, and tho other with an amethyst liearing a head of Mercury. A Soldier’s Danglitcr. IndianniMilis has had a romance in real life that is a wide, departure from the ordinary line. During the war a lit tlo girl, tho daughter of an Indiana soldier who fell in battle, was placed in a Soldiers’ Orphans Hoino. There she became the friend and confidant of the ilanplit; r of (hi; superintendent, but in tho coursn of time was tiansferreil to an other institution and lost trace of her friend and also of her mother. 'When about seventeen years of age she went to live with a family, who gave her a plhas aut home. Among the members of the family was a young tnan of good address, who fell in love with flic girl and tho end was her disgrace. Leaving her home she found her way to the Homo for Friendless Women m Indianapolis, and was transferred to the City Hospital, where her babe was l>orn. Home weeks later, a lady visitor to the hospitid sprung toward the girl, now an invalid, with a cry of recognition. She was tho old friend and confidant of the Soldiers’ Homo, and through her efforts tho gill’s mother was found and mother and daughter united. Then came the lover, and they were married. A- few hours after her muring*, Use young wile died. lUUMN: $1.60 per Anuuw, NUMBER 35. HUMORS OF THE DAY. The man who is corned is very apt to jet on his ear anil stalk off. A man cats cloves between acts so that not breath of suspicion may be cast on his temperance character. Always look on the bright side; a mighty ugly hired girl can ring the bell for a mighty good dinner. It may be said of tho “belle of the ball ” that when she hows assent to an invitation to the dance, “she stoops to couenr. ” Bartendeus are the most sooiable set .on earth. They break the ice oft sner aud finer than anybody.—Bloom ington Eye, Don’t throw away your old flour-bar rels. They are useful. It has been 1 found that an ordinary flour-barrel will hold 678,900 silver dollars. Wherein is the average church con gregation better than the highwayman? : Does it not make tho poor preacher stand and deliver every Sunday? "The muses kiss with bps of flame,” savs a recent poet of tho hew order. Then we are thankful that wo are not courting any of tho muses just now. Wo don’t wish to have our mustache, burned off. “You just ought to see howl was pay ing attention to Miss Flapjack .out at tho picnic!'’ “ Did you speak to her ?" “O no ; I didn’t proceed to that extreme, but I patted her poodle dog on the Lmk when she wasn't looking.'*— Austin Sift-' ings. “Dear, dearl” jsxolaimed Mrs. Brown. “I have just been over to see Clara. Poor child! She is dying of criAui." “Why, how you talk!” cried Mrs. Home spun; then, ’adding, ns she moved away from her visitor: “Mercyl ’Tain’t ketch in’, is itl" “Gentlemen of tho jury,” said ft blundering counsel, in a suit about a lot of hogs, “there were just thirty-six in the drove. Please remember the fuot — thirty-six hogs; jnst three times as many as in that jury box, gentlemen.” That counsel didn’t gain his ease. The lecturer began: “There is a for tune lying in wait—” Up jumped a bullet-headed fellow in tho northeast corner to remark: ‘‘ Well I guess you’re Tiout right, there, mister. There’s Bill Jones, tho butcher. Throe years ago he wasn’t wufli a dollar. He’a got a fortin now. Got it, as you nay, by ly ing in weight.” The hullot-headed man said no more, but the lecturer was ill at ease during the entire ovoning.— Boston Ti (Mscript. Bhf. was bright eyed and rosy cheeked; in fact, very pretty, Sho arranged two our scats so that she might have abund ant room. Then she opened her book satchel and began to take notes ol tier morning lesson. How charming to see the young female mind develop, thought we. Hhe took notes just three minutes, and then, oil, horrors ! sho unfolded a (lash story paper anil road hluhli for half an hour. * Her ln-auty faded so rapidly that when she left the oar we thought sho was tho plainest jieraou we ever saw. “Good morning, Fogg,” said Brown, briskly. “ How did you like the opera lust night ?” Oh so-so,” answered Fogg, moodily; “ nothing striking about.it, excepting the drum-sticks.” “Gome, come,” returned Brown, “bo sorious. Didn’t you think that bravura passage pizzicato nml nppogiatura embellish ments were lovely I” “Guoss I didn’t see it,” replied Fogg ns'leforo; “ there was only feathers anil flowers and things on tiie one in front of me,” “ What are you talking about, man?” exclaimed Drown. “That girl’s hat, of opurse. Wusu’t you?” “Good morning, said BiOwn, ns he turned the corner. The Actor Versus the Flay. It, is certainly the idea of all drama tin representation that the play itself is the one important thing. The aetors re by rights only cunning and sdert lay fig iili s, that surround thenisclyoii with tho scenes, anil endure their aetihg With the passions of one play Alter another.;, If this is ilotie with much power and art, it is so much the mitre creditable to the actors anil delightful to the audience. If it is done but poorly, thon still the play has its own vitality and ite own claims to respect. 1 In the same way it may even lie pleasant to read from a tom anu dirty volume, if tho words them selves are fine. Thin, without doubt, is the natural and reasonable way of con sidering playfi anil play actors. For merly it was tlie universal one. It was the tine new play tiled (hat drew the orowd—not tho line now actios*. But all this is changed no< Tho glorifying of one actor to the degree oil making a “star” of him ; the “ personiti magnetism” element ; and the attention given to the matter of dry goods, have all tended to make most dramatio shows nothing more than the exhibition of the gifts of on? actor or actress. The charm of that one person is the thing relied on. The plays of such are fitted to them on the saino principle that their clothes are ,_ t* set off their natural grades. " Whether the play itself is a fine literary work is a matter of small consequence. The result of this sort Of thing has been that the number of plays populitejy given- has become constantly smaller nntl.smaUer. It has come to be known that certain dramas are best of atl ’ adapted to the display of pleasing elec tion, personal peauty, and fine dresses. > These, then, are the Ones to'be Chdfcen, and they uro given over and over in the i same season, while hundreds of better ones are ignored and forgotten.- As things are at present, a-person who de sires a familiar acquaintance with that broad range of literature which has been put in the form of dramas, must content himself with reading the volumes in whi?h these things are printed. He may, however, if lie choose, have the pleasure of witnessing “ Camilla” perfectly acted and splendidly dressed a dozen times in one whiter. ’I A lady who had been traveling iff Italy Was asked by a friend how she liked Venice. “Oh I very much, in. deed,” was the reply. “ I was unfortu nate enough, however, to urrivo there just at tho tilde of a heavy flood, and wo hful to about | tlia streets ip