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Newspaper Page Textaswr. XMJv: apis arJCt 4fxmK«al & itujjsstertgst:,. Futttnic It In * mid W*Y. Courier-Journal. What Is called respectability is a mat help to many men. Onto they have attained tt they can j>u t it In lie where It will do the most good. < Univcysnl Innrnucc. Xtte Haven Rea liter. Some unscrupulous rascal has taken oat a policy for 35,000 on tho life of the late lTrsMetit Garfield's jnoiher for his own benefit. As the old lady bus famed so yean, tlic speculator on hcfflfo thinks he 1ms a climieu to make quite a sntn with little trouble and expense. Contempt for Hin Frnmlnlewcy, •Veto Uaven Reg liter. Republican Senator Ingalls referred to the late R. B. Hayes in debate, reeeiHSy,*as "an alleged Republican President.It is not stsangc that Republicans should feel ashamed of llaycs. but Mr. Ingalls seems to be too hon est to repress his contempt. A Dangerous Experiment. lUashingt m Star. The experiment of lighting railway cars wKh electricity has been tried iu England, and though it was by no means a pronounced suc cess. It has turned the attention of Inventors iu this country to the subject. The plan of mak ing the engine supply the power to generate the electricity necessary for lighting lm> been slian- donod, as the current would ccnsc with each slop of the locomotive and thn« extinguish the light The Idea iiuwP tielng worked upon is to store cloctrie energy In a l*« or sonic other ves sel In the cars. This plan may afTonl a light, tint may also furnish Ignorant or meddlesome passengers with the means of doing considera ble mischief by turning this “stored power" loose In the wrong direction. ‘ “A New Chapter In Wtlde Western Scene*.*’ Chicago Ti - ft The bounding Oscar Is coming West—that Is, it he can really make up bis urind to move on time. "I hate traveling," says this languid young man. “I hate punctuality, and I hate time-tables. The railroads are all alike to me. One Is simply intolerable: another Is siinnly unbearablc. However. If the gentle youth doesn't “die of a rose In aromatic pain,' and the railroads will consent to make trnus- ]iortation tolerable by dressing their smoke stacks with sunflower* and things, and attiring their conductors in knee-breeches, It is proba ble that lie will reach the breezy. Ill Chicago some attention ' might lie shown him by invltiiig lilm to witness the process of plg-stlck- ing at the stock yards. A Ward to Fattier* and Mot tier*. Columbia Enquirer. Then it should lie a question with even- pa rent. Iiow can such destinies Is: averted? Every home should be a home of training nnd the great lesson to be taught is moral strength—a knowledge not only to apprecMc what is right anil despise wrong, hut to nave the courage mi ller all of life's circumstances to take a position for the right. A boy or a girl should havegissl principles that are so Arm that neither life's trials.its advcraitles nor Its temptatlonscan move them. Teach the boys and girls Hint they have a mission In life to make the world better and . 1 nippier, and they will bless the world by tln-lr words anil acts. It is the man Hint is too Indo lent to eiim nn honest living or too proud to pursue the avocation for which he is licit fitted tluil rolm tils neighlior of tils earnings or in comes a sponge main the means of others. Then teach flic child that work is honorable, rear him to habit* of industry mill hom-sty. The boys of this country want the moral mur age to stand up nnd dan- to do right. This must collie from tlic training hand of fat* anil mother. together we rolled down lupi the front ofllce, both of us being badly- bruised. Then ,mr pis tols being of no further use, he having fired all the charges in hb pistol, wc dropped them on tho floor. Then we scuffled out to the ilave ment, w I lore people come. I should have said that Jttd ,-e Mauley, who was sitting at inyiiesk, v ®eatcd his scat when Hotel,In came In, nnd left with Mr. Conger. 1 hail my severest trial after Hoteldo was shot, for I was wounded anil had to struggle desperately with jounc Boteldo. I do not want to tackle any suvk lusty young fel low again.” / Mr. Ration said afterwards that the elder So- if Ido mode an dibit to get something from Ills ngjiHmnd breast pocket during the melee, but did not succeed. Hoes not think the elder So- teldo fired a shot. “If I bud shot boteldo,” lie said, “I would have slmt him in the abdomen, for I pressed my weapon against him there." Moral Surrounding* Sccmary. Philadelphia Xeics. The question whether a layman may rare homes without sin is ligfore n Troy church. It will pmably lie decided that he can li the owners of the track have a few big pumpkim on hand to look at lietwecn the races. A Man tritlia Superfluous Snowball. To the Editor of the Timet: Will you please Inform me who was the in ventor of the first snowball? lent one in the ear yesterday anil don't kuow whom to make offerings to. Me. (iaiagtololntifly Vault os. The Pilot. r;nite«!t. "thetydeal American," a« the Lon- •lon Sato lav he eta cal- him, will have an ojiportnnlty of tv- oming i-'-qualnteil with u select lot of tjrplcui EnglD of next June. men after the TOth Row < Daily l iter. Keic ll.iven Reg iter. The latest agony; A very recent agony is for a young lady pi forward bv n district telegraph boy a tiny sleigh belt to a well-thought-of gen tleman friend. This signifies: "Vim can put one hand In my muff this evening, if you will only bring out the sleigh." How coolly utter, Au Electrical Effect. C Sri's nati Commercial “Rlnina isB’t safe." Ha was tho clearest- headed man at Garfield's bedside, ami, during the trying mouths following the assassin's shot, and made no mistakes He wits the Republi can leader in Congress for many yearn, and his work stands. Mill, his name now makes a stal wart's teeth chatter anil his brass mesial rattle. Armed Matrimony. Tnat Siftinge. A Texas couple stood up to lie married a few days ago. uml the officiating clergyman, notic ing the butt of a pistol protruding from the (Micket of the groom, suggested that, out of res pect to the sob.sou ceremony about to take place, the weapon should lie laid aside. The request ta-ing complied with, the bride de murely drew nn eight-Incli bowle from her bo som anil tossed it beside the other weapon. Burdette on Ingeraoll. Xtie Tork Sun. "I believe Col. Ingersoll's position Issotind.” Then- was a moment's hesitation and nil the tittering stopped. "I know,” continued the speaker, "it isn't the thing to any In this hall uml to this audience, hut I have said it. and I won’t go back on anything I have said.” It a)i|M.-areil for a moment that Mr. Iturdctte's candor had got the tietter of his discretion. He continued: “ltut that is the trouble with In- gcr-oll; it is all sound, like a luiss drum, and no sense.” The orthodox audience was reliev ed. and ex pressed ‘ The Want* and fifoce.isllle* ol Ire land llotton IlcraUl. The ilesiro for local self-government is a nr»i>- cr one for Irishmen to entertain and work for. In that Is the essence of lltierty. Ireland docs not need, could not properly use, lndc[>cndent natloiinlitv. It would lie u weak power under the wingiif a strong one. It would, however, profit by local sclf-govcniment ns a part of the great empire whose annals Its sons Imve done so much to Illustrate. We believe that Mr. Hoyle O'Reilly Is right when he says that the demand for local nclf-govcmmcnt would lie sustained by the sympathy of nil peoples, and csp<-chilly of the American people. But to make local self-government desirable or useful It must lie noeomiianied by national loyalty. To get the right of self-government, it Is neces sary for Ireland to show that It is not likely to abuse it to the Injury of the empire. That Is the point we have frequently raised. We have never been able to sec how Irishmen were working for the cause of Ireland by resistance to existing laws. If it was necessary to call sharp iittciitlnu to 1 rein lid's needs, that has licen accomplished; the land laws are giving material relief: the next step ^Jti onlcr. As It cannot lie revolution. It ihraMe toward res toration of confidence In Irish loyalty and ca pacity for self-government. What Do They Want With Them? Xeir York Herald. The singular request was made n few days ngo by the coinage committee of the House of Representatives at Washington that a complete set of our gold, silver, copper and nickel cur rency should lie purchased for their benefit cud charged to contingent expenses. As tvm- gress seldom rejects a |ieUtiou which Involves the ex|ieiuliture of money, the application of the committee wns, of course, granted. It puz zled a good many memta-rs of the House, how ever. ami it will probably puzzle the country to know what they were going to dowith the loose change thus scattered around the committee rooms. A heart-rending rumor that no more credit Is given even to Tongressinen in what vns at one time known as the "hole-in-tlic- ill” nt the Capitol, was. It Is said, quietly Mspcrcd Into the legislative ear, nnd tho pro- Raton for a rainy, or rather a dry, day was pru dently made without a dissenting vote. What Is t4c use of having a coinage committee If it cannot ixenjjonnlly lend a quarter to on Impe cunious law-giver? A Netv Hampshire Woman . Untie n Journal l iving in-a town in New Hampshire Is nn Amazon, not In the sense of apparent masculin ity, but In urtiml strength nnd agility, and tier enterprise is equal to her endurance. It was reported in the itapers of the county Hint she 8 Irked nnd marketed -too quarts <>t hlucticrrics le last season. She assured the writer that the quantity wns much larger than reported. These berries she carried on foot two miles to the vil lage, and peddled them out to the residents. Recently she wheeled a wheelbarrow two nnd one hall miles over a rough nud hilly road, nnd returned v.itlfrTt. trundling home two good sized pigs. She perturaaj a feat a few weeks since that few :ae*t WTtald undertake, vet she accent pi lslum iu without ailo or dffll- eulty. ItavliM^atureliaMsl at the village nn Vutsbfedwelimg-liousc door, one nnd n half i nehes thick, sire placed It on her Imck nnd carried It to her home, n distance of two long miles. Yet she is slender In form, nnd agile ami elastic ns a deer. She is often seen walk ing In the street engaged in knitting, her fin gers ami feet moving as if in vigorous com|ietl- t Ion with each other. When not encumbered, in passing to and from the village, she frequent ly strikes Into a run. sometimes maintaining It up the steepest hills and for most of tho dis tance. Occasionally site essays Journeys of ten or fifteen miles Into the neighboring towns, if not'nt a corresponding speed, yet nt one sur prising to people with ordinary poWerx of loco motion. A Strong OMMriMta*. A'eic York Sun. The Mvtanry commission recently agreed bpoa by the great railroads, for the purpose of k-ttllng the dlfllmlt question of differential rates, U composed of men of eminent nhllity nnd character. Chief Justice Cooley, of Michi gan. Is one of our most distinguished writers upon legiil subjects; and although be has never been In public life except as a judge and a uni versity pmfCfcsor, his reputation is as extensive ns It is solid. Mr. Thnrman, of Ohio, nnd Mr. Wnshburtte. of Illinois, are more generally kflown to all classes of the people, from hav ing been long conspicuous lu politics, one as n Democratic Senator, the other as a Republi can Representative In Congress and minister abroad. Perhaps the most remarkable tiling about this commission Is that all its memlier* arc men who have never been suspccted of any special sympathy with the great rallwax^orpo- ratlons. Mr. Thurman fs the author of the eel - 1,rated law of Congress under which the Pacific railroads arc compelled to settle with the gov ernment. Mr. Wnshbume was noted through his long anti Industrious career as a member of Congress for his determined opposition to the pretensions of the land grant railroads, nnd for his persistence lu holding them most strictly to their contracts with tho treasury. The fact is nnturallv ob-erved that the commissioner* arc all Western men. This, however, we do not regard ns important. It is much more es sential that they should be just and discrim inating In their views, than that they should reside in any particular port of tho country. Tire Plucky Editor. IVaehington Star. When a Star reporter called on Mr. Barton this morning the liaUetit extended Ms hnnd from under the bed covering and remarked, with n smile: "I am a little disfigured, but Mill In the ring.” ' ... "I would like to know Jnst how it Happen ed?" snld the ro|Hirtcr. "Well. I will tell you. I wns sitting nt my desk, when Sotcldo nnd his brother entne in. They were both drunk. Mr. Mnnly sat oppo-1 slto me at tlic same desk, nnd Mr. Conger sot at! the side of the desk. When Sotcldo nunc tot the door, 1 spoke to him nnd snld ‘come In.’ I He grabbed n chair, nnd coming nronnd, sat! down boride me. I had a desk <lni»cr nt my | right hand out. s<> I was cornered. His brother, stood up, nt the other end of the room. Sotcldo ' pulled out a paper, and I said, 'If this is a card, give It to Mr. tiorlinm.’ ‘This Is not n curd,' lie said; ‘read it.’ I replied, ‘Idon't care for IL’ Then bs said, ‘You don't,don’t vonT nnd struck me on the head, knocking me down in the cor ner. Then when I jumped up he grabbed me by the throat. Before I had a chance to defend myself tlic vouug Soteldo. who was standing j near the wall st the c*ther side of the room, ta- gnn firing. I grabbed my pistol from a drawer. ' hut found that I could not use it. Several shots , were tired. I don't know whether I fired or not. After the brother had tired two or three times Sotehlo dropped while still strug cling with me. I then ran over the prostrate' 1,.mi for the young fellow, and ho ran into Mr. Howe's room adjoining mine. N'ot Icing able to use my pistol, we scuffled to the hea l of the step*. Here 1 turned lieeause I feared the other man was following me. not knowing how badly he wt* Injure:!. When 1 tunesi the young man attaches! me again, and grappling orflmeat New York Sun Home citizens ol Dakota have presented a very serious objection against tlic admission ol that Territory as a Elate. Dakota has attempt ed, iim um-ssfully, to repudiate outright 2U0,- 01*) of her binds issued to help build a railroad, and, though the I'nilcd Stales Supreme Court has decided against her, she has of late refused to pay the Interest. If Dakota can once become a State, with the precedent now wgabllshed by Miihouc and the Republican party, she will probably find lit tle difficulty in carrying out her scheme of re pudiation. This possibility Is foreseen by those prudent citizens who resist her admission into the Un ion, mid they pray that the sovereign powers of a State lie refused. There is no valid reason for making this Ter ritory Into a State anyway, but if she must come in, let it be with clean hands. Tbo Credit System. New York Timet The failure of so many small country mer chants demonstrates one fact which ought to lie useful nnd institutive to the South. It proves that even with the extortionate rates of interest charged the Southern credit system is not a safe one for the merchant. The average advance on rush prices charged by the mer chants nlro fumlsl) supplies on security of the crop Is in Georgia about 05 per cent., and iu other States not milch less. This most usurious charge, of course, keeps the planter always in debt to the merchant. Something more profi table than cotton nt ten cents a pound Is re quired to enable him to pay this tax and make lioth ends meet. But it seems c.t even 65 tier cent, the merchant takes too great u risk. The I irofiLs of trade under this system must lie fur css soliil Hum they seem or the Southern mer chants would not lie seriously embarrassed l»y a single short crop. The farmers arc rapidly learning that the Inlying of supplies on credit nt from .50 to 75 |icr pent, interest is one of the things, and the chief one. which keeps them always |ssir nnd prevents thnir rising from the eondltioii of tenants to Hint of land-owners. The merchants and factors will learn from their present troubles that the credit system has its dangers furtlu-m also—something lew of them have ever suspected. Sirs. Ynndcrhilt's l ove letters, ,V«i To k letter to De troit Preu. Commodore Vanderbilt’s widow came origi nally from Mobile, and had a great influence over the Commodore. She has lived a very quiet life since the Commodore's death, spend ing most of her leisure time in opening love letters anil prosecuting tlic charities which he undertook. She frequently sits up with licr secretary till midnight answering the letters, not the love letters. The niimli«rof proposals she lias received for her well endowed hand since the I'ommndorc was taken from her side is estimated by those who are nearest to her to Ik: lietwecn .TOO and 2,000. Many of tlu-in nre nccninimiilcd by photographs which wildly and vaitily endeavor to set forth the elmrms of the writers. These missives furnish no end of amusement to the family at No. 10 Washington place. But Mrs. Vanderbilt, though barely thirty-six, nnd a prc|sisscsslng woman, declares that slie will innrry no more, nnd she smiles upon no suitor, (,'osstp—innny-eyed and many-tongued—Is not even busy with her name. A Tar-heel from the western fnrnlluas is among the most recent who have sought her hand. He naively and innocently assured her that lie had knocked together a little cabin of his own uml if she would only lie his he “would support her as long as she lived." ACiMeof Charity. Del nit Free Prat. One of Detroit's millionaires was walking homeward yesterday when he encountered a lame man with a greasy paper in his hand. As the pair came to a halt the lame man said: “Will you do me the favor to read this pa per 7” “Can't do It—left my eye glasses at home,” was the reply. “Then I will state the contents to you." "No use; no use. I'm so deaf that I couldn’t catch more than one wont out of three." “I'm a jioor man with a wooden leg, sir." “Yes: I sec, I see. Lot* of poor men have no wooilen legs. You a-e lucky, sir, nud I con gratulate you. Must nave cost you fifty dollar*, and I presume it Is a nice leg?" "If you had any clothes, sir?” “Yes, hut I haven't.” “Or old boots?” "I'm wearing my old boots, you see. You are Just six months too early to got ’em.” ”f haven't bad « meat since yesterday." "Nor I either. We are cleaning house, - and for the last three days I’ve had to cat a cold lunch off the piano." “Then you could spare* nickel?” “How can I? Ain't I walking home because I haven't money to ride on the car?” "Is that so? Then we’re are both hard up.” "Of course we are.” “And tielng you are Hie worse off, here's a cold stowage 1 got at the house below, and hero's a nickel to ride on the car! I tell you, us poor folks has got to have more pity for the rich and do liettcr by 'em, or we'll all go to the poor house!” Wild Cat Bank*. AT. 1'. Sun 1833. Tlic hanks of the various States quoted ns uncertain, broken nr below par arc In numlier as follows: New York, three, including the Bank of Albany, quoted at %; Massachusetts, all its tanks except two at %. Including Boston, Springfield, Birmingham and Nantucket: Rhode Island, one broken, nil others %\ Dels- Charleston and nil others, )i tot: District of Columbia, Merchant*' and Farmers' Bank of Alexandria broken. Bank of Columbia 25 to 30. Maine, six bank.* broken, all others 10 to 12; Vermont, all banks )6 New Jersey, one broken, two uncertain and a score or more from % to *<; Pennsylvania, tanks of Philadelphia and ten others%ln%, tiroensburg broken, Gettysburg. Chambcrsburg, Carlisle and Pittsburg li. all oilier* 5 to 50; South Carolina, Charleston lit Georgia, Augusta. Savannah and Darien, from .*'£ to 3 and 4; Ohio, five banks. 5; Kentucky, Bank of Kentucky and branches and alt other* uncertain; Tennessee. State and Nashville bank* uncertain; Louisiana, New Orleans 5 to 0; Mississippi and Alabama, C: North Carolina, 2 to 2H: Canada, Kingston uncertain, all other* 2Kto3. | Am Incontrovertible Fart Eg the Fat Contributor. It Is the dnty of every man to make his home pleasant mid ns ntrmctive os ixi'Mhle. A good ucwspaiicr. pure lu tone and elevating in its characteristics. Is A most essential requisite to that end. The Weekly Tf.i.kmmI'II and 'Mes- sENijKit, with its avll-flUed sixty-four columns, meets just such a demand, nnd no family In middle or southwestern Georgia should be without IL In addition to the carefully selected miscel lany from the dally edition, and the market re port*. there Is every week u splendid story: also valuable extracts for the "Farm anil Home" department, sjieelally prejmred for the Weekly, Terms—one year 12: six mouths 31. flubs m tell to one address 315 a year. Agents wanted at every post -office. TI:o Ingalls' BesoitiUon. Courier-Journal. Senator Ingalls’ defense of the arrears of pen sion* bill was a remarkable effort, The defen ders of Unit enormous grab of 31,230,000 (for it will uiilmatelv require that sum to meet the provMSnsof the btiliare not as numerous as they were. The loading ltcpublicah papers have gone back on their jiet measure, and de nounce it as "roblicry,” and some of them have taken particular pains to point out the element of fraud in the distribution of this enormous sum. We Observe Ui»t the Sacra mento Record-Union Is moved to remnrk that "the truth ts that the arrears of pensions bill was passed by the lobbying of pension agents, and that these men and their accomplices of vari ous kinds have ever since been swindling the g overnment at au enormous rale. The swindle as now become so monstrous that Congress can tin longer afford not to understand what is going to. ward;' but even now. cs shown by Senator Ingalls' k >ccoh the other dny. there is «o much dems ; goglstu abroad that Senator* are afraid to ofler vigorous resistance to the steal lest their mo tives should be misunderstood. Thu thieves «re thus falling back upon the real soldiers for protection, and it bxs become necessary to in form the ln'.ter of all the facts, that they may abstain from affordInjf any assistance to these impudent robbers ot the Treasury. There is no question of tho interests of the- soldiers and sailor* nt is-ue. They will be protected a« a mutter of course. But they must not make the mistake of Identifying their interest* with those of the rapacious knaves who are plun deriug the Treasury to the amount of hundreds of millions under the cover of their names. On the contrary, they must repudiate these thieves promptlv. and applaud those who are trying to bring them to justice and to stop their larcenous proceedings." Nevertheless, the ft. A. K. has never repudiated the "thieve*;” and isthe v.urmest defender of the entire outrage. Another Victim of Inspirutlou. St. Louie Xewe. "Johnson." exclaimed Judge Cady last Sat- urday, carefully wiping Ids spectacles and placing them on the bridge of his nose, “you nre charged with slipping into John T. Rut ledge'* yard last night and stealing his chick ens from the chicken house. Now, what have you got to siy in defense of your conduct?" '. "Well, Jeugc.” replied Anderson Johnson, costing hi*eye* in every direction and scratch ing his woolly head, “it am inoughtv funny 'boutdem dar chicken*, an' cf you’ll 'low me 1 11 try 'u '*i>!niu 'zacUy.how I cum to take 'em. You see, ! didn't feel well no how l,i*' night, 'ti when I sot down be(o' do fire iu ile house I kinder sorter fell Into a doze. I hadn't tnorc'u bobtail my head ’round once or twice when I liceredsom'iin holler in my car, 'Chickens! chickens! chicken*!’ an' ut the same time u arm were reached 'round my middle, an' It shuverl uie ont'n my clinr, frit a door, right olter do fence into de yard wbnr iloin chickens was. Well, t-ord hies* your soul, .lodge, l couldn't no mo' help hikin' dem chickens dun you could help smackin’ your lips when ydti tackles a po'tcr house steak whl dc juice knocked out. But wliat troubles di* chile is dnt I no mo’n toted dem chickens home when de spirit left me an' I kuowed 1 Imd done wrong an' was gwinc to tote 'em back, when Mr. Rutledge come in and coiclwd me wid ’em. Jcdge, it war iuspirasliiin sho' dnt made me do it.” "Well, Jonnson," remarki.il the Judge, "I have listened carefully to your statement, uml must say that your ingenious argument is not without some weight in my mind. I, too, be lieve iu inspiration: I, too. am sometimes in spired—in fact, 1 feel myself passing into that suite of mind now. The spirit has takcu com plete control of my will-power nud compel* me to sentence you to one month iu the Work House, which 1 herewith do.” Xlse Long-Haired Ann. Dob Burdette. Robert J. Burdette, iu a recent lecture in New York on Hie “Pilgrimage of a FumiyjMan,'' said: "But 1 am rather fonil of the fnrolities and freshness or the average young man. fiVe must not forget Hint these couectil rather than pro claim the man. Those youths who were part ing their linir in the middle and whispering airy nothings in the palace of Whitehall be came the men who followed the fiery Rupert to the charge,'nnd inarched to the Held of carn age with the conquering spears of Cromwell. 1 have long ago go! over the idea that 1 could tell all about a mnti by looking nt him. 1 got over it during the civil war. 1 went down there to help General Grant whiptthe rebels. The Gen eral had a command and 1 had one. Mine was the horse and accoutrement* of a private sol dier, nnd If General Grant's command-had caused him one-half the trouble mine did me 1 believe he would have resigned. I wanted to resign,but the government would not let me. Well, otic dny when 1 was trying to make my rnmnmiid keep up with the com mands iu front of me, a cavalry officer rode by. I was never more disgusted in nil my life. Such a fop— finical nnd priggish to the fast de gree. Not a wrinkle in the glittering uniform that encased the slender form. White gauntlet gloves reaching nearly to the dhow, a long Spanish sword and longhair. Long liairiu that region! And what was worse lie curled it and wore it fal!ina*uvcr his shoulders and down his buckJikc a woman. Yellow hair ft wns. The most glorious gold that ever sunlight shone upon. 1 believe it now—but yellow I called it then. I was loo much disgusted even to n*k the name of the officer, and rode along a little piqued that the government did not make offi cers of siu-li men as me instead of such fellows as the one just ]iasscil. 1 saw him again subse quently. We were studying geography—trying to find how fur it was from one place to anoth er by going there. When we had most got where we wcregoiiigiveonmcton lougllnoof marshes with n creek running through them, and cross ing :hc marshes wits n causeway with a bridge over the creek. Across the marsneson a hill was ti party of gentlemen in gray ulsters having n picnic. We hud never been Introduced to one of Hii-m, but they shot away nt us just ns socia bly its if v. e had kept hens alongside their latek yards for ten yearn." Mr. Burdette tlidti gave mi account of the mametivn-s, of the cavalry ami the agonized waiting while the right went on near it. "Till finally," he said, "with a rush inula roar the fight wns on us. Then I saw that form again. Forward into the hell of the battle, and, ride hard ns we would, those yellow curls were always in advance, leading ns on. Above them I saw the flash of the sabre, cutting circles of light in the air, and where he led we followed; for who would not ride gayly, smilingly to death when Custer led the ivuy?" [Applause.] The Centra: Uni I rood. Augusta Chronicle. The Chronicle has no desire to inter-mcddle ill the financial |io!icy of the Central railroad. It recognizes that the majority of the stockhold ers have the legal right to manage the I'.iqierty, and make such disposition as it deems best ot thccarnings of the company. Only in so far as the interests of the ptihfic are concerned lias ii newspaper a right to criticise the acts of its management, tin account of the publicity given to the affairs of the Central railroad, growing out of the effort to Issue bonds on the Uecuii Steamship company, uml tlic- legal stcqis to proveut tlic same, tlie Chronicle has some thing to say. It Is manifest that a largo nud powerful iiirporation like the Central should lie managed with more than ordinary care in order to make its service effi cient mid sitisfaetory to the people who E tronizc it ns well as remunerative to stockholders. Tliut differences should arise as to its management is to bc-Tc-x- pcctod. For some years the road has been very prosiierous, but there was a perils), preceding the present, when the stock of the road sold very low. For four or five years no dividends were isihl to stockholders, ami thest<s-k during that time ranged from forty to seventy dollars. As soon ns dividends were renewed the stock began to appreciate and advunec to high fig ures. Those who favor the issuance of more bonds should not shut their eves to the contin gencies that may arise. Ill a few year* the Cen tral may hnve formidable roinjKMitfnn. There may lie laid crone and commercial depression, and there mnv be other unforeseen causes to ojierate against the road mr.king money to pay intercst on its sccuriUes. Hour hind-sights were equal to our fore sights fewer mistakes would be made by indi viduals os well hs by those entrusted with tlic management of large cor]-orations. The issu ing of I.IIOU.IJUO debenture bond* was a mis take. The wise thing for the Central pcoplc to have done was to purchase from time to time the- stock of the Southwestern road. Tlic best tiling for General* Alexander and his friends to do now is to alntudon tlic idea of issuing 3,aU0,tzt) income bond*. The stock of the Central will lie worth more to investor* if the bonds are not issued. The new bonds, ns a matter of fact, would not be a lien upon the company either for the principle or interest. In this uncertain condition the security would not la- sought for as nn Investment. We under stand that in view of the doubts and uncertain ties attending the issue of bonds, even admit ting their legality, that there is n strong proba bility of a settlement of the whole matter. It has been suggested that a good solution of tlie trouble would lie the payment of such a divi dend to the stockholders, at stated times during t'u- vear, ns will satisfy all parties—the dividend to bo conditioned ujxm the well-known ea- juieity of Hie company to cam it. The Chronicle suggests to Colonel Wndlcy anil General Alexander to come together upon some *uch liosi*. As a preliminary step to a settlement, let tlic stcamshlpdlrcctor* abandon the issuance of boinls, and, us they control the directory of the Central, pay such n dividend ns the earning* warrant. This, it seems, should tie satisfactorv to all interests. It will enhance the value of the stock and give confidence to the public in tiie safe and wire management of the Central. Tlie present oomplicMious can lie readily removed upon some such lauds a* here in suggested. General Alexander is in a posi tion to settle the present difficulties. The Chronicle suggests that the present and future interests of the Central rood will be best sub served by abandoning the idea of issuing any more bonds. Uotteau at Home. Daltimore Sun. Guilcau had anoUier levee at hi* cell In the District Jail to-day. A number of ladles nnd 'saying. ‘Guiteau. a lady wants a picture.’ The autograph was at Hie bottom of tho picture. The photograph was delivered and the money in pockctin leas Uiati thirty seconds.” Guiteau was arm veil to-dny in the new suit which he received yesterday, anil looks very neat, anil prides himself ui*>n it. Hi* health Is excel lent anil hi* appetite again grown voracious, especially of apples, sometimes eating half n peck a day. He lias two cells, otic of which he uses for his office and Hie other as a sleeping- room. “I never knew n busier man iu my life," snvs Dr. McWilliams, tlic assistant physi cian of the jnil: "whenever I come upon him he Is writing, nnd writing fast, too.” He bos during r. portion of the day besides bis two cells tne whole corridor forexcrciso, and makes good use of it, racing up nnildowu. The crowd I which called ui>on him to-day will probably I bo increased as the Sundays grow.warm sc, ar.d | Lincoln Park, now little frequented, will In the spring and early summer become tinwlbly a ixiptilar resort as on the route of the coming summer .-■iiuduy pilgrimages. ituavieiEs The Paris Bourse is heavy. Gold is Be ing withdrawn on foreign account from the Im perial Rank ofGermanr- In a slander suit in Oregon tho couit held that “an honest man Is a roan who won't steal tire-wood on a cold night.”—Detroit Free Press. “A wb'sky-aud-sugar young man, A brandy-and-water young man— A nervous, unsteady, red-eyed and hoauy. Empty-in the-pockcts young man.’ Puck sajs: “Miss Mary Anderson is a fortunate actress; her diamonds have not vet been stolen.” Nor her character, either, a con dition of thing* that furnishes more matter for congratulation.—Bottom Courier. “By shimminy, how dot p°7 studies grammar,” was Hie remark of a German when his sojv called him a "knock-kneed, pigeon- toed. seven-sided, glazed-eyed sou of a saw horse.”—Cambridge Tribune. A thoughtful and generous act is placed to Uie credit of a New York police in specter name Byrne*. Receiving a reward of $i0U for the capture of n murderer, he gave the entire amount to the widow of the murdered man. The condition of the appropriation bills 1* as follows: The fortifications bill has been paused, the jiost-olllee bill is under considera tion in committee of tlie whole, nnd four other appropriation bills—the consular and diplo matic. the Indian, the military academy, and the immediate deficiency-—are on the calendar awaiting - action. Two littla brothers broke through the ice on which they were skating in Cincinnati. \ ille they were clinging desperately to the edge of the ire niul efforts were being made to reach them, the elder one cried out: "Be sure nod take WiUleont first." But both Willie nnd his generous brother were drowned. The sensuous philosophy of Franca lias been grafted on Uie sturdy oak of Saxon stolid ity, nnd lias liorr.c such hermaphrodite fruits as Kents nnd Swinburne. The hybrid seeil was trapxplnnted to Irish soil, and there grew up that cross between n sunflower uml a fiend of cabbage, Oscar Wilde.—From a St. Louie See no*. FK0M WASHINGTON. [By Telegraph.] Wisaixnvm, February 13.—In the Sor- ata .dr. Ilarriiou introduced a bill for a public building at Chattanooga. The Senate, onJer tha Anthony rule, took up and continued the consideration of bills on tho otlandar nnobjected to until 1:30 o’clock. The folljwing bills were passed: To Emend article 103 of the rules and arti cles of war (imposing a limitation of two y6or* from the date of enlistment against profecst’ons for desertion.) To promote thv efficiency of the navy (making drunk- eune=s or incapacity arising from miscon duct, or not contracted in the Un<» of dnty, sufficient reason to prevent any offioer of the navy being placed on the retired list and allowing him, upon discharge by tbo President, one year’s pay,) Tho pension arrears resolution came up Up os unfinished business, bat was laid aside temporarily. Mr. Dawes, by special arrangement, then addressod the Senate in favor of civil sorvioo reform, his remarks being made upon the reference of his bill providing for tho entrance into and pro motions in tho ci«ril service of tho govern ment by competitive examination, which was taken op to enable him to bo beard nipofi it. Mf. Pendleton aUo spoke on the same subject, after which the ssbjoct wa3 dis posed of by the reference of the bill to the committee on tho civil service. Mr. Plumb, from the oommittee on pub lic lands* reported favorably on the bill to provide for the payment of what is known a* uie fi per cent, claim of tho pnblic land States in regard to lands entered within their limits by military scrip and land war rants. Additional bills were introduced 03 fol lows: By Mr, Vance, for the relief of offi cers on the retired list of the army and navy. (It empowers the President to detail such retired officers as may apply to him for employment in the Indian and pension bureaus, lifs saving service or other branches of the civil service, such officers to receive while performing this duty the full pay and allowacccs of their rank, and no more.) , After an executive session, the Senate ad journed. HOUSE. Mr. Reed rsked that tbo Geneva award bill be mtide the special order for Tuesday, the 21st inst. Mr. Uuekner objected. Mr. Williams, of Wisconsin, chairman of tho committee on foreign affairs, reported a resolution calling on the Secretary of State for all correspondence relating to the perils to American missionaries in Persia, and for information us to the propriety of establishing diplomatic relations with Per sia, Adapted. The House passed a bill providing for the payment of claims of clerks in the censns btfrtau which were assigned to other par ties before the appropriation for th-ir pay ment was made. Under tho call of the States a number of bills were introduced and referred, among them a bill by M r. Ellis,of Louisiana,'to au thorize tho construction of a ship canal to connect Lake Ponchartrain and the Missis sippi river; by Mr. Carlisle,of Kentncky, to amend tho laws relating to internal reve nue and filing the taxon each proof gallon i:t fifty cents; by Mr. Herndon, of Ala bama, granting a right of way over the pub'iu lands in Alabama, and to grant lands in said State in aid of the Gnif and Chicago Air-Lino railway, and for the ben- tit ol thapublio schools in said State; by Mr. Watren, of Tennessee, to repeal the law chartering national banks and to abol ish national banks. TLe Senate amendment to the House bill for the relief of colored immigrants was concurred in. Mr. Anderson, from tho committee on agriculture, reported n bill enlu-ging the M ot the Department of Agriculture. on the House calendar. The morning hour was Jispen- od with, and the consideration of the npportionmentbill W03 resumed. Mr. Prescott was directed by tke committee on the census to call the previous question when six hours more had been consumed in debate, A very noisy discission arose as to whsther the time de vote! to debate upon the bill could not be so limited that u vote coaid be reached to morrow evening, tut there was groat di versity of opinion as to the exaet limit to bo placed upon the debate, and no definito fettbmaut was arrived at, although Mr. Prescott gave notice that h: would call the previous question at the end ot six hours’ debite. The bill was debated by several me fibers until 430 p. m., when, without action or taking up other business, tbo House adjourned. WisnixGTON, February 13.—Tho crippled and disabledex-Federnl soldiers employed at the capital met to-day and passed reso lutions of thanks to Representative Honk, of Tennesseo, for his efforts towards the equalization of the salaries of the House nnd fc'ennte employes, and appealing to the sense of justice of all members of Con gress to adopt tho necessary legislation to do away with tho existing discrimination against the House employes. 'J be Senate committee on pnblio build ings and grounds yesterday authorized Seujtor Jones, of Florida, to report for passage the bill appropriating |1CO,000 for tho erection of a pnblic building at Key West, fer a court bouse, post-office and federal courts. Senator George to-day introduced a bill ic illation to the division of tho State of Mississippi into two judici-1 districts, the notihern and southern, and to provido for th .i . o-i and places of holding tho United States District courts in tho northern dis trict. Tbo Senate confirmed John Gallagher, Jr.,of Pennsylvania, to bo consul-gener.fr at Kio de Jenerio, and the following post masters: Charles S. Moss, Franklin, Tenn.; Owen T. Holmes, Leesburg. Vn.; Wm. A. ‘Pattio. Warrenton, Va; Lenus North, Brunswick, Ga.; Madison Davis, A than”, Ga. Also Thomas B. Johnson, to bo collector of customs at Charleston, S. 0.;Commouore Frediger, to be rear admi ral; Capt. John L. Davis te to commodore; Col.D. H. Rucker, to be quartermaster- general, with the rank of brigadier gen eral, Senator Cell, of Florida, introduced a bill to grant the right-of-way .over the pub lic lands and military retervattan to the Jacksonville, St, Augustine an! Halifax Railway Company. Representative Uibion, of Louisiana, in troduced a bill in the House appropriating $150,000 for a pnblio building at Morgan City, La., and Representative Darrell a bill appropriating $10,000 for a marine hospi tal nt Morgan City. Representative Ellis, of Lon siana, in troduced a bill directing tho Secretary of War to cause a survey to be made for a ship canal from a point on the Mississippi river near Carrollton to connect with Lake Ponchartrain, said eannlto bo not less thau 400 feet wide and 30 feet deep, The President nominated Joseph R. Banks to b: postmaster ot Forsyth, Geor- Kenator Allison,Jzbair-i’an of the Senate committee on appropriations, has received a Utter from tho'president of tho Pennsyl vania railroad company in which, respond ing to an inqniry ou the subject, he says: "Otir company l ad not at the time, nor have they now, any intention to make oclaim for eoa-ponsatioa for the courtesies extended to the lato President and hie fnmriy, or to tho government. W o folt it to be not only aduij but a pleasure to do what we could to iucroaee the comfort and aid in restor ing tlie heaUh of President Garfield.” The res gnations of Morton, cier- of the Lighthouse Board, and formerly an ac countant in tlie Custodian's office, and Skeen, foreman of tho laborers at the treasury department, have been received by the Seoretnry of Treasury. Hatch, store keeper, refused to resign and has been re moved, These changes are the result of developments made before the Senate committee investigating tho affairs of the treasury department. Washington, February 14.—In the Seur.te, the committee on civil service was authorized to send for persons and papers upon a statement made by Mr. Hawlejr that tlie committee desired this authority so as to enable them to pay the mileage or several gentlemen whose pres ence tb<*y desired. At 12:30 the privileged morning bust- an Voorhis, tried nt Hockcnuck, N. J., (or became the regular order of business un- Few people who sit in front understand the embarrassment* umlcr which the actors frequently work. Sickness is a lame excuse; ileutii in the family is little lietter. Physical ailment which would keep ordinary men from work nnd send ordinury women to tied count a* nothing with them. In driving storm* and through mountains of snow tlie delicate and ailing force their way. Stage life is not all that general funcy paint* Us. In the Church of the Hely Trinity, Brooklyn, N. Y., Sunday morning, the ltov. Dr. Hull, before the sermon, said that a* Guiteau had I icon convicted and sentenced to death lie would on frequent Sundays read the collect to be found iu the prayers for persons under sen tence of death. While, lie added, there were not two opinions us te the righteousness of the tlie sentence, it was in his opinion right to read this collect. The latest census bulletin makesacom- parison lietwecn tlie native and foreign-bom population of certain Northern nnd Southern States. In Alabama, with a total population of 1,252,771, there nre only 'J,"H of .foreign birth, while in New Jersey, with u total population of 1,131,11(1, there are 221,700 of for eign birth. In Delaware, out of a total of 11!'.,- fioti there nre '.*, KVs foreigners, and in Rhode Is land, with n total of 27(i,5:>l, there urc <3,'.Ml of foreign birth. St. Louts has a Chinese Sunday-school, which was organized in 1878, and during the past year lias hail an average attendance of 31 pupils. The school differs from others in the fact that each scholar requires n separate teacher. The scholar* do no: aiqiear as yet to liavo yielded to the civilizing influence of Uie Sunday-school in tlic way of adopting Christian names, and among the appellations are such a* Ah Som, JuFawn, Gunn Goon, SooHoo, Ju Joe and tWong JTic. All the teachers nre ladies, mid nil tlie Chinese scholars are vouug men. A Virginia City (Nevada) letter, con trary to the popular notion, says: “Mining don't |uiy. If a fortune is made of raining every one hears of it; but they don't hear of tlic thousands w lio nre made and kept poor to make Hint fortune, for it is rarely made out of tlie ground, but ou: of tlie pocket* of the unfor tunate shareholder*. There is not a mine on the Comstock, or in Storey county, that pity* expense*, or has done so for tho last three year*. In the whole of Arizona there nre but three dividend-paying mines, nnd the three together pay only Sl.VMMl n month. Mining is not con ducted honestly, nud if i' were it would no: pay ps a general tiling. The Turf, Field and Farm says that the get of imported Glen Athol ‘‘have iron more races, in proportion to the number of starts, than any stallion iu America, nnd llicy havc made a record in point of time with ight which will not be excelled for years to come, liis sons and daughter* must prove val uable in the stud. In ls»l six of his get started in ninety-four race*, of which they won twenty nine, were second in nineteen, third in four teen, unplaced in thirty-two, and placed to tlielr credit the sum of $2S,M*>. thus showing the few est number of starters, with the best aggregate proportion of winning starts over any stallion iu tlie stud.” The tvar between the students and fac ulty of Maryland College still continue*. Twen- ty-tlirce students who were expelled for not ad mitting a colored boy ns a member of n literary society, nre returning to their homes. Some have remained in Maryville to uwuit further action of the faculty. 4T1‘ C >' claim Umt this so ciety is entirely independent of the college and acuity, uml are privileged to refuse admission o any otic they sec fit. Much indignation is ell at President Bartlett's action In the mutter. He proposes to amalgamate the races by cilu eating them together. Many of the boys anil girls who attend Maryville College are from Re publican families, and say that they can stand n g<Mxl den! of ibis kind of business, but not everything. Representative Dezendobf, of the Portsmouth (Vn.) district, has published a card u regard to the bestowal of Federal |>atnmuge ii Hint State. He says it looks "just a little bit unreasonable for Mr. Mnhonc to step into the two Itepuhlicau districts iu the State and single out his political victims." Commenting on Mr. Dezendorfs wail, the Washington Post ays: “When Mr. Mahone sold Virginia he did not sell it by counties or by square miles. He transferred it In n lump, mountains, cities and towns. Nothing was snld about districts in the bargain. The entire State was offered up as a sacrifice to political greed, very much as n butcher would sell a (nt calf, and it Is as reason able to suppose that Mr. Mahone could give up a district as that the butcher* should agree that the tail of the calf lie not included in the gene ral barter." Major Sciieibert, a German officer, was at Gen. Lee’s headquarters ditringjho Get tysburg campaign, studying the art of ivnr ac cording to Confederate tactics. In a recent pri vate letter to Ilcv. J. W. Jones, of the Southern Historical Society, Major Schclbcrt writes "I am proud to say that tho combined efforts of Hero* Von Rorckeand myself liavo brought it about that in the Gcrmati-Prusslan army noth ing concerning the civil war iu America is so In fashion a* accounts of the deed* of Southrons. Sherman and Grant, the pets of ten years ago, are forgotten, and Lee, Jackson and Stuurt are now the favorites Heroes of our officer*.' Your friend* will lie interested hy the statement that many of the Southern organizations have been a patient of ours. For the first time theca vnlry hns studied Stuart's innvemeuts, and Gen. Voti Schmidt, the regenerator of our cavalry tactics, has told me jliat Stuart was the model cavalry leader of this century, uml has questioned tne very often about his mode of fighting.” VE/MOXAL. —The trial of thu Maliey .boys and Blanche Douglass goes over until the April term. .Manager Ernest Gyc, of London, has been engaged as the manager of the new opera house in New York. —Sergeant Bush, of the Tenth Cavalry, being reprimanded and ordered to the guard house, blew his head off. —Mrs. Abigail Cofitnan, of Rocking ham county, Va., died lost week, aged HI year*. She was a near relative of (he late President Lincoln. —The Forte has addressed a circular ..tier to the power*, stating that it has instruct ed the Khdctve toolcerve international treaties and to maiutalu order. —Freeman, Uie English historian, now lecturing in tills country, says that 'pon Ids word ho never heard of Oscar Wilde before ho came te the United States. —Joe Dunlap, of Fraukiin, Ind., last week, married the girl that carried water to ids regiment in Virginia when he was a soldier b jy nearly twenty years ago. —C. Mundinger, assistant manager in the retail department of B. Lowcnstcin & Bros.' ilrv good* store, Memphis, Tenn., bos been ar rested, charged wiUi embezzling 50,000. embezzlement, after being out twenty-four hours, foiled to agree, and were discharged. —General Uraut is reported to have written Captain Ends to complain of having been imposed upon In tho ship-canal proj ect, and withdrawing from tho, board o( direc tors. —The House of Representatives has authorized Uto pit rcliaso of a complete set of dertbe Anthony rule uutil 1:30. Mr. Edmuuds moved to suspend all standing orders to lake up the auti-polygamy bill. Discussion on this proposition used up the morning hour, but tlie motion was voted down by 21 to 20. Upon the ex munonzenuiepoicuasu wi u cmhimimot tuuru uunu -- — — -• the gold, silver, copper and nickel coins of che D t P -,i on of tbe morning hour, the pension United otatea, for tho tae of the noramlttac on I P lr *(‘ 01 ‘ B J .. , coinuse. , ! arrears resolution come up as unfinished —Professor Wendling, in a lecture in i business. Mr. Edmunds again moved to New York. Monday, put it wcU.when h# raid 1 pr(K . ae d w ith ilk. auti-polygamy bill, but that professional Infidels nlwais h.ol the same . , . i. • ■ ,e ■ vote on the m - — antipathy to a minister as professional burglars V ld bfl „ i J I..H imd to a policeman. tiob until several Senators who bad given notice of set speeches on other subjects to day bad been heard. By unanimous consent the unfinished business was then informally laid assde, and Mr. Slater spoke upon the importance to the com merce of the northwest pt the improve ment of the Columbia river. Mr. Vance took the floor for a speech ou the tariff. He deplored the existence of our high protective policy, which fell with tiie greatest weight upon the agricultural class, and did more to teiard tho growth and impair the wealth of tha South thau auy other cause. This policy, lie thought, illustrated the general drift of Congres sional legislation, which was to enable one section of tho country to absorb aud utilize tbe emoluments and beuefits of the government to the exclusion of another section. This tendency was manifest in the disposal of public lands. Oftho total given in aid of tho cons Hurt ion of rail roads the North secured the lion’s shate of 21,488,000 acres, as against 12,000,000 acres allowed to the States of ttio South. as tiie railroad corporations in the Nvith had received for building railroads 139,- 341,000 acres, while the only Southern corporation that had received anything, if by a poetic stretch oftho imagination tiie Southern Pacific could be called a South ern corporation, was given 0,520,000 acres. Four million five hundred thou sand acres had been given in aidof North ern canals and not a solitary acre f jr this purpose in the South. As to the amounts for educational purposes the disparity was such, Mr. Vauce thought, as to put to shame the man who accused the South of illiteracy and boasted of the North’s superior intelligence, because while 70,217,000 acres of the common property oftho people had been given for tiie support of schools iu the Northern States, only G,434,0.0 had gone to aid tbe South. Upon Northern internal improve ments tlie government bad expended $59,001,000. A calculation showed as the grand total of iuojey ard bonds ex pended hy the government for ‘.he benefit of tlie North $275,362,OOO.against $94,814,- 000, and the donation of- 240,449,000 acres of laud against 28,319,000 acre*. Besides this seven-tenths of all the emoluments of the public offices were enj *yed by tiie Northern people. Denouncing protection as robbery and referring to the text of the Supreme Court decision in support of tlic assertion that this term had been applied by tbat court to the present system, Mr. Vance ridiculed what be called the hy- pocracy of tho manufacturer’s cry of “pro tection to American labor.” He deuied tbat protection built up a home market except for the manufacturer. Upon the conclusion of Air. Vance’s re marks tho pension arrears resolution came up, and Mr. Call, who was awarded tbe floor tipou it, deferred his remarks until to-morrow. Mr. Edmunds then asked for a vote upon his motion to take up the anti-polygamy biii, and after au arrangement which entitles Art-. Call to retain tiie floor for his speech to morrow ou pensions, the motion prevailed, and the bill was taken up and laid over as the next business in order after Mr. Cali shall have fiulshed his rc-inark*.- A bill was introduced by Mr. Call to ex empt vessels of less than twenty-five tons in the inland waters ot the United States and not engaged in the transportation of passengers iiom inspection and license. Mr. Morgan offered a resolution, which was referred, requesting the President to bring to tho attention of the government cf Nicaragua the necessity of arranging by convention for a final settlement of all unadjusted claims existing between Nic aragua tin! the United States and of the citizens of either of said governments against the other government. The Sen ate then adjourned, • HOUSE. Under the call of committees, the fol iowing reports were submitted: By Mr. Willets, ot Michigan, from tho committee on the judiciary, to prevent persons living in bigamy or polygamy from holding auy civil office of trust or profi*. iu any of the territories of tho United States, and from being delegates to Congress. Placed outlie House calendar. By Air. Ham mond, ot Georgia, amending section 1090 of the revised statutes relating to the in terest cn judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, so as to provide that iu cases where (be judgmert applied for is in favor of the claimant, or the same is affirmed by tlie Supreme Court, inter est thereon at the rate of 5 per cent- shall be allowed from date of its presentation to the Secretary of the Treasury for pay ment. Placed on the House calendar. Bills were reported as follows: By Mr. Vauce, of North Carolina, from the com mittee on patents, for an extension of let- te'rs patent for an improvement iu the Eclipse cotton gin. Private calendar. Air •Orth, from the committee on for eign affair*, reported adversely a resolu tion (originally offered by Air. Robinson, of New York), calling on tbe Attorney General for his opinion as to whether, if Joseph Warren Keifer, Alonzi B. Cornell or Charles Carroll, should be arrested in thpBritish Empire without having com mitted any crime, tho English govern ment, by suspending the writ of habeas coipus, could lawfully arrest him on an indefinite suspicion, without trial or with out ihe right of the United States to de mand his release. Mr. Robinson, of New York, desired to debate the resolution, but the Speaker held that tho pending motion to lay it upon tbe table was not debatable. Tbe resolution was tabled— yeas 117, nays 103. Mr. Orth also reported adversely ^the resolution request lag the President to com municate all correspondence with tho British government on file iu the State department in reference to the case of D. H. .O’Connor, a citizen cf the United States, now imprisoned in Ireland. Mr. Orth stated that the papers referred to had already been asked for by a previous resolutiou of :he House under the guise of a parliamentary inquiry. Mr. Cox, of New York, managed to get in a few remarks in support of both these resolutions. Tho House refused to lay the resolution upon tlie table by 71 to 79. Mr. Cox thereupon offered au amendment requesting the President to obtain for D. H. O’Connor aud the other American cit- zens now imprisoned under the suspen sion of the habeas corpus by the British government In Ireland without trial, con viction or sentence, a speedy and fair trial or prompt release. A point of order was raised that the amendment was not germane to tbe sub ject, aud tbe Speaker sustained the point This started a lively debate, in which Mr. Robinson, of New York, led off and bore the chief part. He questioned the man hood of any member who would vote to table such a resolution. He declareU that he had not been able to get fair play on this floor. He had bccu repressed aud sat upon. The committee ou foreign affairs and tiie State Department aloue seemed to bo unaware of t he fact tbat American citizens were imprisoned in Ireland, air. Robinson then proceeded tu name some of the citizens imprismed in Ireland. There was Mr. McSween, of California. He had a certificate of naturalization on which was engraved the American eagle, bat the tyrannical despot paid no more attention to it thau if it were a crow or cormorant. Another prisoner was Michael Hart, of Alassachusetts. Would Massa chusetts stand uy and let her citizens rot in foreign prisons? No country, ancient or modern, bad ruled with an iron hand so terribly and tyrannically as did Eng- j land to-day. Rereiring to newspaper crit icism upon bis course, he said he could not gel the representatives of the press to j do him justice. He was not talking about Inland, but about the unjust imprison ment of American citizens. He wanted to say nothing about Ireland, aud yet be was represented as spending the time of the House in talking about it, Mr. Robinson’s remarks took a very peroonal turn and were principally directed against Mr. Robeson, of New York.- The latter obtained the floor aud replied iu tho same strain. Air. Itobinscn yielded the floor to Mr. Orth to allow him to demand the previous question upon tlie resolutiou. The confusion, which had been all day very great upon the floor, was Increased as Mefsrs. Randall, Cox and Hooker, of Mi.- sissippi, rose with points of order against j the Speaker a«ardingthu floor to Mr-j Orth, contending that as the reromtnecs [ daiiou of thu committee on foreign atfurs ! had not been agreed to, the control ol the ■ measure had pasted out of '.ue hands ot ! Mr. Orth, aud that the Speaker should ' recognize thu opponents of the committee's recommendation. The .Speakeroverruled the point of order, and bold that as uc ono had claimed the floor to take control of the measure he was obliged to recognize tlie gentleman from Indiana (Orthi to demand the previous question. Fiom this decision Air. Cox appealed, but tlie | appeal was tabled by yea* 139 to nays ' 112. Air. Blount, of Georgia, a member of tlie committee on foreign affairs, staled tbat he had never hoard the resolution considered iu commil'.ee, nor had any other member of the minority members don6so. Mr. Williams, chairman of tbe com mittee, stated that ho had not understood that the resolution lead be- u considered, and nothing about it appears ou the min utes of ihe commiuee’s meet.ng. lie had been informed, however, that just prior to the adjournment or the meeting Mr. Orth imd stated that if there was no objection, he would report tlie resolution to tiie House, aud that hearing none, he had dune so. Mr. Rtndsll then raised the pointer order, that as the resolution was not a report from the committee, it was not in order. The Speaker held that the objec tion came too late. Mr. Randall stated that he wished to cat! the attention of tlie countiy to the fact that the resolution had come to the House without the con sent of the committee. Mr. Cox moved to recommit the reso lution, with instructions to insert therein' the namc-s of Miclmci llart, II. I*. Ma honey aud John AIcEnerv, and to add a clause requesting tho President to de mand of the British government Uie prompt trial of those citizens or their prompt release. Mr. Orth stated that ho had bo objec tion to that action, aud tho resolution was accordingly recommitted with instructions as staled. Mr.Hoblilzer, of Maryland, introduced a bill to provide for Uie construction of the Aiarylaud and Delaware ship canal, to connect Chesapeake and .Delaware bays, for military aud naval defense, aud for commercial purposes. Referred. A proposition for a night session was voted down, and the cousideiaiitm of the apportionment bill was resumed. Mr. Oates, of Alabama, gave notice that he would move to recommit the bill, with instructions to the committee to report a bill fixing the number of RupresetqaUves at 259. Mr. Herbert, of Alabama, proceeded to argue iu favor of a small House, but tho great confusion in the hall prevented bis being heard, ami he yielded to a motion to adjourn, which was cirried. Washington, February i4.—John P. Gould, of New York, is here with a me morial more than 5,000 feet long aud signed by merchants, manufacturers, me chanics. farmers, tax-payeis and others, tesiding in nearly every State in the Un ion, which will be presented to tho ways aud means coiumit-.ea to-morrow or next day. It asks tbstthj^M^^mukdepusks and two cen. sf ' may be abolished. _ The Fitz John Porter cate was under consideration at the cabinet meeting to. day, aod It is believed tbat action will be taken towards having it reopened. All, the members were present except the At- j torney General. The President nominated John C. New, of Indiana, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; James U. Jally Collector of Customs of tho District of Teche, La; Augustus S. Seymour United States Dis trict Judge of tits Eastern District ot North Carolina; )Vm- F. Patton Uuited Stales Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, and Andrew McClamus Attorney for tne Middle District of Ten nessee. The House judiciary committee to-day Authorized the report t? the House with a-favorable recommendation of a substi tute for Representative Blount in regard to tbe duties of tbe clerks of the circuit ind district courts in the soclberu district of Georgia. Tho substitute provides that the circuit and district judges of that dis trict shall appoint two clerks, each of whom shall be cleikof the circuit and district court, one of said clerks to have his office at Savannah and the other at Macon. Washington, February 15.—In tlie Senate, Mr. Miller, of California, made au adverse report upon the Senate bill to confer a positive in place of a relative rank on officers of the engineer corps or the. United States. Indefinitely post poned. Mr. Jackson introduced the bill present ed by Air. Morgan in tbe last Congress for the relief ot book agents of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. It appropriates one huudred and fifty thousand dollars in compensation for property connected with the publishing house of said book agents in Nashville, which was taken or de stroyed by tho United States iu 1804 or at any other time. A resolution, offered by Air. Call, was referred to the committee on foreign rela tions directing the Secretsry of State to open negotiations with Spain for remitting tho tax on cattle imported into Cuba from the United States. Tlie resolution reported by Mr. Platt, from the committee on contingent ex penses, to provide messengers for each of ihe committees ou finance, post-offices, pensions, claims, judiciary aud engrossed bills, was discussed. The absolute ne cessity of some provision to facilitate committee business was generally con ceded, and on motion of Mr. Ingalls the district committee was included iuthe resolution. Mr. Morgan offered and advocated an amendment providing a messenger for each Senator who is not chairman of a committee. Ue said that by reason o: the onerous character of their duties, many Senators were iiteially working themselves to death, their labors being from twenty-five to thirty times as great as those devolved upon members of tho House. He thought the resolution in troduced by Mr. Jfrowu, for a clerk to every .Senator not already supplied wiih ouo zs a committee chairman, ought to be passed. Several members attacked the resolution as calculated tc iucrcase the already too ’ numerous army of useless employes of Congress. Air. Morgan’s amendment was rejected by ayes 10, noes 28, and the resolution as modified, ou motion of Mr. Platt, was passed—ayes 33,' noes 15. It directs tho appointments to te made by the sergeant- at-arms upon selections made by the com mittees, provides that the messengers »o appointed shall not be pajd for that part of tbe year durmg which the Senate is not in session, and regulates their pay at tbe rate of Sl.409 per year. The Senate then, at 2 o’clock, took up and teropsrarily passed over the regular order (the anti-polygamy bill), and Mr. Call, on leave, ^ddrcsseJ tho Senate in support of the propo.ed amendments to the pension arrears resolution declaring in favor of pensions to survivors of tbe Indian wars prior to 1845. He said that every argument in favor of the granting aud couliuuauce of pensions to soldiers of the late war applied with equal force in behalf of the disabled of the Mexican aud Indian wars. At 2:35 tlie auti-polygamy bill, to amend scctiou 5352 ct the revised statutes of the United States iu reference to bigamy and for oilier purposes, was taken up, and tlie amendments proposed by tbe committee ou the judiciary wete read. The sections and a’Cenaments were agreed to up to the fifth section, which .authorizes the President to grant amnesty to tho classes of offender* guilty before the passage of the act'of bigamy, polygamy or unlawful cohabitation cn such conditions as he shall think proper. The wholesale exercise of the pardoning power contem plated m this section was objected to as touching upon the legislative prerogative, but after some discussion the section as amended and the ren aiuing committee amendments up to section eight were adopt jd. The eighth section provides for the conduct of elections, registration and canvassing of votes, etc., iu the ter ritory until p.wision for the same is made by tlic legislative a-sembly provided for iu the bill, by the appointment of k board of five person?, to be appointed by the Preiident and confirmed by the Senate, all of whom shall not be menders of cue political party, e'c. Mr. Brown moved lo amend so is to require that not more than three < f the beard bhali be of the saute political parly. Several members debated this section un til 4:50, when a motion tor executive session was lost by ayes 21, ’toes :>0 cite.- several effo: s !o secure an am ment for a V'.'c on’.lie bill, ifr< r.--: * with motions to ?. 'j .r", it jo arranged that the in ‘ajure. ■ -..h! ? •: otoded with imtucriUiv a!. morning business to-r.i’.now. um debato upon It cksed a’ 5:3 m. Upon litis understanding Atr. Edi..unds, in charge of tbo bill, "couscuted t an adjournment. Mr. Coke, on leave, itilroUnc j a I ill appropriating SIOajAAJ for oddim: the improvement of Galveston barbo:. :as. At 5:30 the Sonata adjourned. HOUSE. The morning hour having been !is- peusod witb, the House resumed eous: ier- .v.loti of the apportionment ! Air. t T‘ < )»lt | "f ^Istisms, lu opposition to auy increase in t. e mem- berebipof the House. It was said that large bodies Imd the advantage of l eg more difficult to corrupt, but he *5!" ?t I that more members would bring -“.ore schemes. Jus- in proportion as Uie mem bership was increased members would lose individuality and personal j - :lia bility, ar.d would rely upon the « :i>mit- tecs The corrupt man. instead Of endeav oring locjirupt tlie Henze, won’ ‘ 'apply himself iuthe commutes. Tbe commit tees could cot b* tnadr surge coa.' .'h to E ut them beyond tho reach of tempt io favored a constitutional amendment limiting the number of ltrcpre’cnb:::iv?s: The debate on the apportionment bill occupied thefeuiaindrr of tl-f dr.y’a *es- tlon aRer it was taken up, t<> U.<; evelu- s'.ou of all other business. -Mr. Thomp son, of Kentucky, who w as cut Hied to the floor for tiie last hour of the del.ite bcfjra the demand fur the pievt ia, question, was recognized, but feeling unveil he yielded lo a mol on to adjourn, which was voted down by the Republicans. An arrangement was finally agreed to where by at the conclusion of au hour's debate to-morrow the previous question shall be considered as aecoudco, and voting upon tho various propcsijtous begun. A vote will also be allowed upon tbs question as to whether the old or row method of ap portionment shall be’ adopted. The House at 5:10 ad ourned. A Public Ilulldlni; nt St a con. Washington, February 15.—The House committee on public buildings agreed to report favorably the bills pro viding for public buildings at Macon, Ga., to cost $100,000 and Shreveport, La., $100,000. COHftKBCXfL. COTTON MARKET REPORT px Tixtoiurn and Messinaeb. MACON, February 15.—Eveutce. Cotton quiet. Good middling Wfl: middling! W54@ldj<: low middling 10.'4; good ordlvarr titji; ordinary —; stains *@10. Received to-day byxail " " by wagon Shipped ” STATEJIKST. 1 September 1, lssi. to to-day previously JO- 1G 1 32 1.S8T tr. 5.),'.m2-55.868 SUM 1 48,0.1—(MB Stock ou hand this evening 8,353 Cotton Markets by Telegraph. LIVERPOOL, February 15.—Null. Shipped to-day “ previously...... - '.ton dim* xport its low tnlddlutg etaoso, t-32®*}4: Fel>nt:tn£ ana ieh and April r. ll iXt.SH t;i.v:y.'i.M ;; >h>, «nj .1' I.U., easier; middling uplands 6 7-15; Orleans t/'d: sales 10,W.': speculnToii and 500: receipts 20,000; American Futures-Flat; uplands low nih’.tting e'auso, February delivery 6 11--2.5 " Man'll G March ail 1:1-32; Apriiaud May ■ 0 June617-:!2<i% June and July 65 10; J.ify t.rid August few August and September fi 3J-32, LIVERPOOL—1:30 p. in.—Mldii!!n 0 - unload* 6%; middling OrleansCS»-U>. L1VKR1?X)L—5 n. m.—Sales, American, X1M; uplands, low middling clause, Fc'cnarv 01348 GrlBi February and March JUv.’ij V April and May 615-32; Mav mid Jmn- t'!7-: . June ami July til'-KT’. Futures closed .uie:. NEW YORK, February IS.—Noon- Colton a uict; sales GIG; middling upland, 11 <i ; mid- ling Orleans 1113-lti 4B Futures steady; Fobrotuy ll.S; March 1J.41: April 11.53: May 11.70; June 11.87: Jltlv 12.00. NEW YORK—Evening—Net rrrelpts 3J0; gross 3582. Futures closed firm; sales “ t .OOOL as follows: February.—11.46011.48 August 12.5 WV12.2J geptembci October ..q.n.!liitJi November.. H.2w>n.sa December. ,U.23gIU$ March..:..... 11.55&U.:a' ApriL. ...ll.7S@tt.74 Nay........-...U.8SMll.*> June „.t2.03<iil2.01 July.. ....12.17inl2.il Gotten quiet: middling uplands H'J-lC mid dling Orleans 1113-16; rales 3K>. Consolidated net receipts 9,714: export-: to Great Britain 5.- 00; channel : »o continent — NEW YORK, February li.-The easing Potft market rejiort *ays: Future deBvcr'os nt tho the first call o|>cncd 7-100 lower, but ad vanced immediately and the call r!< . d about 1-100 to 2-100 higher titan yesterday nt the ehsn iug. After the call prices rose 'j-lflo— Mav, for instance, from ll.71Mtl.72 to 11.75. but test again uutil May was sold nt 1' ,i'. t. ' At thesco- oud call May brought 11.72Q7L73 andnaaron up after the call at 1:15 n. m. to 11.81. Thl i v. i'l best show the unsettled «.:id '.;reri*h state of tiie market. As noon as the demands f.ti: olf c r orders arrive to sell price, fall, and on the con trary renewed buyingsends them up. Opinion as to the near future evidently dOffem a pood deal, yet on the whole the fecV— would reran to prove at least that the rcccut greti'd- pree- sion has come to au cud. GALVESTON, February Ek-Gbtton in. - ..iar; middling 11*<: low middling le. *: good ordina ry 108fc net receipts 7IH; gross ; liOsaJm; stock 74.1U::. NORFOLK. February 15.—Cotton -i.vJj; middling till: tie: receipt: l.fU4; fcroae ; sales 751: stock 5,832. BALTIMORE, Felrruar? 15 -Cotten qulet; middlliig 11)*: low middling : go, •! ordina ry 10U: net receipts 60; truss 110; rales ; stock 37.051. BOSTON, February 15.-Cotton dull: middling 11%; low middling 11!*; good ordinary lOJft net receipts 551: gross 152',■ -ales —: stock 10,1 -.'.J. WILMINGTON, February Li.-Cuttoa st, ;uly-, middling 11: low middling 149-16; good ore dinary 911-16; net receipts 215; gross— ;ia!a<—: stock 1,129. PHILADELPHIA, February > t.—Cotton dull; middling 11%; low middling 11’;: good ordina ry 10%; net receipts 144; gn.» 237; sales to spinners —: stock 17.603. SAVANNAH, February 15.—Cotton market quiet: middling 11; low middling iqjfc good ordinary net receipts 1213; grow ; sales 2.001; stock 85,105. NEW ORLEANS ,February 15.—Cotton qni-t; middling 1196 low middling 11: good bull: v ry 10>j^netreceipts 2814; gross 3715; nksBO; MOBILE, February 15,-Cntton irregular: mid dling 11)4; low middling lttji: gopd ..r.ll-xry lOttuet receipts TOG; gross ; sales ICO; stock 29,710. MEMI'lIIs, Feb. 15.—Cotton norafnr.t: mid dling 11)<: low middling totfc good stillssir 10)6 net receipts 367: gross IMJ: shipment.-: \ 0; sales 700: stock 90,215. AUGUSTA, February 15.—Cotton dull; mid dling 11*6 row middling 10);; good ordinary Mb' net receipts211;gross ; sales>77. CHARLESTON. February 15.—Ctttno market quiet: middling 11%: low middling 11- .; g *»1 onliin-.rj-10% net receipts EMI; gross sales 10U0; stock Gl.Sio. • MACON MARKET. Frau.—No. 1 mackerel, half bid ;7.f', kits, SUKk No. 2do., half bbls. *5.75; kit, Me.; No. 3. half barrels, it.50: kit-. C.V-. Ifsnsunrox-Osady, ue. l ie*: ., p t» 81.50, per quarts, 82.25. Starch . i-. lb. Cheese. 15. sardines, import, ’ domestic, 89.03. IUce. 7d, n*h, r2.7j,V:.ini: Cuuiie-1, f:.: Dry flint, I0&i2: sailed. < 10. Wool—5V, shul 25-.i:'-5c; unwashed, fr. •• iron, burrs, jok- burry. lOfttls. Tal!.,.v. ,6. Wa v, P. DRY Goods.—Market firm. p..i,t... n. nidnnl i-r grad,-.' t rf jJok- 'ti' 1*A lug* Hi: vn 9 10c. dp- do. ' - ra.-iaUtlrgn— '•hiiinigs—sttiidard six oz. N-. eight ox. 10c. r 7(1;“. lighter Weight. 7', standard G;(5j7. Cfi,-.-k- standard' *eysJ2!6ilL Kcniucky Jean- nv2C do. 25j, tu. Irish Potato**—Ea>t- nt > . .;ii !; active: demand good. Early lb • rich 81.7.5; IVerles- ~:,5il; Sri: .- Peach Blow- 8S.75: Hurbunk* ? 35.00: While 1 >1.75. I’KOVIS!.,N*.—The market i. -. »r continues to advance. Wo Ik sides. 11. Bacon—shoulders sides, WVi—; D. should.-! tallies, 11. Plain Western let. 55,rk pig hams. 15. Lai-h. — Market very 'inn. f'ho'.c } tierces, 1 Pita. 1:1?6 X. Y. It.-fl, Fluke $1 75, ~ ■■ link Hyr active. * —(X in licrc« , 13; tuU. 13 A t n M v Market vit" firm. White com, mixed com. v.. FN w., 7v «>•<*;«•'5- "'.stern t.e J*a>, 51.10; Cteurpi* h&v, 2i ifv rv,.- plain 81; bolted. St.05. 5 * iK— r>i il atu>w Ai-.r.—Market go . i per keg; mule shoes 8>',.50 f]..ill(it,.(6. Trace Ir er It,. Haiman'i (w to.00 per dozen’, buckets *1.50. Cot;, iron 50*5)6*. per »•: refin, ,er t!>. Nails S:;.G5- . , . Trace chains f A met,’shovels 812.«I|ht dozen pi„w f ill'.v Sl.K'k. 81.75 Pott,in . .,rd. - >u rope . , iu; TC.? steel per t1>. Nails* ..er State p*r keg. Blasting p„ ... *e. Perth. Drop shot 82.00 pe ' FUtaik^-Marfcet vent firm; r fancy 88-,0; choice family 5 -.-T' ’ v „ t *8.00: family. ?7>v buckw / " bran, iierewt. #1.30. / ,v lUocijto akuThs-Fi-"/ r , ’ - * P, bagging, all Jute, ue'■ : •* * Ofeei&r. arrow :>■:V" ; , ? Cholce Kio, I.,- prit/ ’■ orA *' uarv, 11; O. G. Ja/v 3 ' 1 ' Si'OAin-Murk/hrm wL Granulated, lo'JAtat.aard/e < '. 10; extra «:/*: j . 10k K. t). vek*w clarittriU<>•-> Molasses Jso sviabr.'—' -e-, > do. good. AVtiouey 'Crista •«*'. fee ’gm -wtotmss. Sai.t.- IJrerpoo!,"UJW; VitgUda 31 I'Rinte./Apples, 8.578B, Orafu'/s. ptV- Mft 2m.1c. Ennons, per bex, JFOtl Leouun tayrt tsins.E.50. i 1- ■ ■: