Bloomington Progress, Volume 15, Number 5, Bloomington, Monroe County, 18 May 1881 — Page 1

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Tho preliminary inquiry into the circum- . stances of the assassination of the Butt an Ab

dul Azue has been concluded, and twenty per

sons are held to await trial for complicity in

the act. At a meeting of the Parnolllte party of the Home of Commons, at which thirty-six member were present, a resolution to abstain from voting on the Land bill was adopted by a vote of 17 to 12. Some of the members present abstained from voting, and the motion was xjuly carried on PameU's threatening to resign theleadenhip of tho Home-Bole party. The discosaiDn on the motion is eaid to have been anit stormy. And now it is said that even after the withdrawal of tho BritUh from tho Transvaal the Boers will not havo peace. The Cflffres are said to be organising a league pieparatory to making war a the Boons whom they regard as enemies, as soon as the British troops are withdrawn from the Transvaal. There is great want and misery in the $!tate of Bolivia m conscuttenc of the ravages of locusts on the cereals eeipecially rice and Indian corn. Tho I ocas 1 8 have swarmed all over the whole country, even covering up the streets a ad public places. Hie heirs of John Seddon, of Bolton, England, have been awarded .4.000,000 which has been in chancery i-incc 1857. A daughter of Smith O'Brien has caused a profouud sensation in London by a letter to the Pall MnU Gnzette on "The Horrors or an Emigrant Ship. Her statements are based on a personal examination of a vessel at Queenstown, which has carried on one voyage .1,775 persons. : Experiments over the cable between Dover and Calais have demonstrated that the Atlantic cables can be used for telephonic purposes as easily as short land wires. 1 A patent for an electophone has been taken out .'a Paris. A step toward larger liberty has been taken by the Czar in announcing that hereafter his sanction of the laws passed by the Bussian Senate will be required only in cases where the enactments are of especial importance. .Letters from Algiers state that the

'aantsof Col Flatters Sahara expedition were finally driven to take refuge in a cave, where they were starving and resorted to cannibalism. Fifteen were eaten, including a sub-officer. "The Irish Land-Leaguers have no end of trouble. Their leaders- are being arrested in Ireland, where sIeo Archbishop McCabe denounces them in unmeasured terms, and now in England, where the Leaguers are secure from arrest, Cardinal Harming has decided that they shall not have tike use of any of the Cathead society halls. - Princess Stephanie, daughter 'of the King of Belgium, and Prinre liudolpb, the sen and heir apparent of the Emperor of Austria, were married in the Church of St. Augustine. Vienna, by the Cardinal-Archbishop of - league. The occasion was marked by great pomp and ceremony ; so much so, indeed, that the Princess, unable to bear the strain and excitement fcrofce down-utterly during the performance of 4he marriage ceremony, sobbed aloud,, and wept bitterly. Some fragments of vessels and a medicine chest picked up on the coaat of S'cily and on the coaat'of Cornwall seem to indicate that the British, steamer Bucentour and the British schooner Alicia came into collision and were both wrecked. The failure of the Amsterdam (Holland) firm of B. H. Schroder & Co. was followed bv the failure of the firm of A. A B. Schroder, of London, for some 2,500,000. Both firms wer engaged in the same line, the sugar and cotton trade.

.A. Republican Paper Devoted to the Adanvcement of the Iocal Interests of Monroe County.

Established A. D., 1S35

13LOOM1NGTON. INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, MAY IS, 18S1.

New Scries.--VOL. XVT.--NO, 5.

-Peracrtrat. :i '' Hod. Randolph Strickland, who represent ed the Sixth Michigan district in Congress in the session of 1863-70, died recently. Hon. Amel Briggs, Iowa's .first Governor, 4fX tm dsaewtaiaa,-w4iero he has resided for some time. Hon. Thomas Thompson,. Judge of the Eighth Circuit district of South Carolina, died at Abbe7ule, in that State, recently, in his 71st year. He was born in Ayrshire, Scotland. Some- Brooklyn admirers of Bob Ingersoll tried to engage the Academy of Music for some Sunday evening, bnt wvre . refused the use of the building for an infidel lecture. A cable dispatch from Rome states that the Pope has nominated the Very Rev. Dr. John McMullen. Vicar General of the archdiocese of Chicago, Bishop of the new see of Davenport," Iowa, which is cut from' the diocese of Dubuque. The new see is to be part ef the archdiocese of St Louis. The Rev. KUUan C. Flash, Secretary of the archdiocese of Milwaukee, has been appointed Bishop, of La Crosse, Wis., rendered vacant over a year ago by the appointment of Bishop Heias Coadjutor to the Archbishop of Milwaukee A statue of the Confederate Gen. Stone wall Jackson wag unveiled in the Metarte Cemetery at New Orleans, and the tomb of the Association of Northern "Virginia, at the same place, waa also dedicated. -

General Algernon S. Sullivan, a prominent World's fair Commissioner and counsel to the Commission, in an interview, admitted that the fair would undoubtedly never be held. - Earl Granvule has communicated to Minister Lowell the desire .of England for an international copyright treat; whh the United States. The treaty which the Earl Granville favors is such a one as exists between England and European countries, and would permit English authors to copyright their books in America, and American authors to copyright their works in England. . - The Board of Review of the National Trotting Association has decided to reinstate to turf privileges the celebrated trotter Kara, which has been under ban for two years. Acting on the advice of the Secretary of War and Gen. Sheridan, Gen. Sherman has concluded to abolish the Department of the Gulf, and reduce the number of departments to what they were before the recent changes made by President Hayes. Gen. Schofield, who commands the' Gulf Department, is placed on waiting orders, but with full pay. The Gulf department becomes part of the Division of the Missouri, with Gen. Sheridan in command; the Pacific division will be commanded by Gen. McDowell, as at present, and the Atlantic division by Gen. Hancock." The Mexican Chamber of Deputies has given its -approval to Eads ship railway contract. The Monetary Conference has adopted a proposition that representatives shall furnish statistics of the coinage in their 'respective countries. Pierson, the delegate from Holland, argued in favor of bimetallism. Canada will soon have to be on the lookout for a new Governor General." It is reported that the Marquis of Lome will resign his position toward the latter part of the summer, and return to England with the Princess Louise. ' According to the Census Bureau returns, the people of the United States annually spend 926,250,100 for the purchase of dairy papers. The Centennial Commission have purchased a tract of 500 acres for the site of the Yorktown memorial shaft. The selection of the ground is said lobe excellent, and the particular spot on which the shaft will be erected commands a view of the river for several miles, and other parts of the ground will afford ample accommodations for encampments. A committee is now devising ways and means for landing the nation's guests and others who oome by water who are to participate in the celebration. The corner-stone of the monument will be laid on the I8th of October by the Masons of Virginia. Gov. Halilday will deliver the inaugural address the same day, and the President will make the speech of acceptance on the part of the nation on the following day. The house in which CornwaUis signed the capitulation will be fitted up for the headquarters of the President Everything points to this celebration being a complete success,

Lieut Ihtflk, of the Twenty-fourth infantry, commanding the Seminolo 'scout, reports from his camp, about ten miles south of the Pecos, in Texas, that at daybreak he attacked an Indian camp, killed four bucks and one squaw, and captured ono boy. Various articles found in the camp wont to Hhow that the Indians were the same who killed a family named McLtnrin in Frio canon some time ago, The Pennsylvania State Senate has passed a resolution which provides tor the transfer of the remains of Wil'ixra Penn from their present resting-place in Buckinghamshire, England, to Philadelphia. Typhus fever and small-pox show no sign of abatement in New York city. During the past week fifty-nine new cases of small-pox and twenty-i'ino new cases of typhns fever were found in the ci'y. The centennial anniversary of the victory

of the American Revolutionary army over tho

British at Cowpens was celebrated, May 11, on the battle-ground.1 Gov,' Hacrood, Thomas

Wontworth Higgineon, Senator Wade Hamp

ton and representatives from several of the thirteen original States made speeches. There-

was a review ox tue soma uaroana mmua, and on the whole the affair was very sue essful.

The fifty-fourth annual meeting of tho

Home Missionary Society was held in N-w

York, recently, under the Presidency of the

Rev. Theodore D. Woolsey. Tho receipts of the society for the past year amounted to $290,953 and the expenditures to $284,414. There are 1,032 ministers in the employ of the society. Political- ' The Civil-Service Reform Association held its annual meeting at New York, recently, Georgo William CurtiB presiding. The report showed that $2,219 had been spent in the cause, and not lo.-s than 219 addrcs had been delivered in its advocacy. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : President, Georgo William Curtis ; Vice Presidents, Benjamin H, Bristow Howard Totter, Oswald Ottendorfer, Gen. George B. McC'el!an, John Jay, Robert B. Minturn, George B. Bniler. The Iowa Democratic State Convention oill be held at Des Moines June 16.

Chairman Jewell, of tho Republican National Committee has issued a circular inviting expressions of 'Opinion from Republicans throughout the country in regard to tho best methods or rules which should be adopted for electing delegates to the next National Convention in 1884. The' Mississippi Democratic State Contention will be held at Jack bod, Aug. 3. The IowaOreenbackers will nominate Stati offices at MarshaHtown, June 1 and 2.

JPinancinJ and Industrial. During the year 1880 there were manufactured in the United States 1,460,837 tons of steel rails. This was the largest amount manufactured in any ono year in the history of tho country, and is 3 L percent- greater than the production of 1879. ' : The Chicago Times prints an exhaustive review of the condition" and prospects' of the wheat crop. An expended acreage and strong growth are reported from Dakota, Minnesota and Nebraska, while Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin have not sown as largely f s usual, and the crop is not up to tho overage in condition. In the region nearest to Chicago the farmers show a decided preference for wintcr.grain. G. T. Simmons, a carriage manufacturer of Cincinnati, has made an assignment, with liabilities of $43,000. The Caughnawaga Indians who are cmployed in piloting rafts down the Lachine rapids, on the St. Lawrence near Montrea', have

struck. They demand $2.50 per day, and that

none but Indians be employed at the work..

Wirem and Casualties A very destructive fire at Ottnmwa, Iowa,

destroyed J. L. Taylor & Co.'s drug and" bcok- .

house and the First National Bank; The loss will reach 150.000. ' . v Twenty miners were confined in one of Green's coal shafts at Carbondale -Kan., by the burning of tho timbering of the shaft.

Fourteen were rescued alive, the others being suffocated.

While some school children were playing

under a small tree, near Winona, Miss., lightning struck the tree and: immediately, killed three of them.

A freight train on the Green Bay and Minnesota road came upon a burning 1 ridge at

Elm Lake, Wis., too late to save itself, a no ten

loaded cars were piled upon the locomotive and

consumed. Anton Seims, tho -engineer, was

seriously- injured. It is thought .that rthe

bridge was fired by an incendiary.

The Mississippi river at Alton has gone

down. It is estimated that 30,000 acres of cultivated land was overflowed in Madison county,

IhV

ij'onr negroes at work in the Alabama and Great Southern construction, near Tuscaloosa,

were buried alive by the caving of the bank.

A row-boat containing a fishing party of four was capsized near Trembly point, on' Staten Island sound, and Frederick Stark, Charlei Stark, his son, aged 6 years, and David Roac1 were drowned. Pires :r The Niagara Falls papr '-nulls, loss 200,000, insurance 550,000 ; a large shop -in the Missouri penitentiary, at Jefferson City, loss $60,000 ; the Rocky Mountain brewery, at. Denver, loss $100,000 ; insurance f 60,000. Crimea and Criminal. A party residing along the Hocking Valley road, -in Ohio, chartered a car to attend a concert at Logan. While running through the mining town of 'Gore, a crowd of ruffians emptied their revolvers into tho coach, and a son of Edwin Booth was shot through the lungs; Robert McKelvy, wben arraigned in BosLon for burglary, took into the court-room a rope made from the ticking of bin bed. He fastened it to an iron bar in tbc window nnd managed to get outid but the frail snppoit gave way, and befell forty feet to the ground, breaking his spinal column. Two chivalrio Georgians named Hart and Register fonght a duel with knives in Sumter conntv. The duel resulted in the death of both. In Dooley . county, in the same . State, Joe Stovall was . indulging in the pastime of bearing his wifewhea his brother Jeff interfered, whereupon Joe shot Jeff, inflicting mortal wounds. An engineer named Sackerieder became insane in the camp of the American railroad contractors, Palmer & Sullivan, near Acambaro, Mexico, and, attacking two brother engineers, Martin and Jones, killed -them. The maniac murderer was afterward shot dead by the chief of the party, Mr. Filley.

PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.

The Senate in executive session did a remarkably good day's work, on Thursday, tho 6th inst Both Chinese treaties were ratified by all but unanimous votes; also, an ei tradition treaty with tho United States of Colombia, and treaties with Italy, Morocco and Japan. The Senate also confirmed eighty-four nomination of which the following are the mart important: William Walter Phelps, New Jersey, Envoy Kxtraordtoarr and Minister Plenipo

tentiary to Austria; Corlz Feiwndcn, of Itome, Mich., ITuiU'd States Surveyor General for Dakota ; Richard W. Montgomery, Receiver of Public SJtuieys for Bloomiiifiton, Neb.; Goldon M. liroutou, routinns tnr for Menawha, Wis.; Ionel A. Sheldon, of til: to. Governor of New Mexico Territory; Edward S. Mover, United Klnten Attorney for tlio Northern district of Ohio ; Henry 3?mk, United Stntes Marshal for the Eastern district of WinconBin; Thomiis Wilton, of the District of Columbia, Consul at'Obcnt; John 1? Jenne, of Sow .Jersey, Ooilfuil at Nuevo Laredo ; E. C. Jc ve;t, United States Aesayer at St. Louie. Surveyors of Customs Joseph L. Gapton, of Chattanooga; John R. Ionard of Imlianapolif. Ind. Collector Of interilM tie venue Man' us Hoggs, Eleventh district of Ohio. Registers of Land office William Letcher, at llitehell, Dakota; John P. Owene, at Taylor'a Falle, Minn.; Charles B. Tyli r, nt Tracy, Minn.; Ttiomaa H. Cavanangh, at Oberlin, Kan.; Christopher H, SmitbOYorthingtcn, Minn. Receivers of Public Monoyfe -John I.iml, at Tracy, Minn.; ChArlcsi;, Chandler, nt Oberlin, Ka;i. A moMago vas received from the President withdrawing the following names, who are regarded as friends of Senator Conkling : Stewart L, "Woodford, United StateB Attorney for tho Southern dintrirt; Asa W. Tennoy, United States Attorney for the Eastern district; Lewis F. Payno, United Stiles Marshal for the Southern district; Clinton D. McDongall, United States Marshal for the Northern district; John Tyler, Collector of Customs for the District of Buffalo. President Garfield nominated

Georgo P. Pomeroy, of Now Jener, Secretary of the .United States legation at Paris; Mrs. Julia P. Woolfork, Postmistress of Jackson, Tenn.; William R. Puttie, Agent of Indians, La Poiute Agency, Wis ; M niacin Rrebp, Indiana, Receiver of Public Moneys, Boie City, Idaho. In tho Senate on tho morning of Friday, May G, Mr. Dawes made ah attempt to secure action on the resolution for the election of Senate officer", but tho Democratic Senators resumed their tactics of alternating motions to go into executive notion and to adjourn, until Dawes gave up the fight for the day, and, upon his motion, the Senate went into ex ecntivs seaaion. When the doors reopened the Senate adjournedOn the meeting of the Senate on Monday, the 9th Inst, Mr. Hansom called up the resolutions offered by him March 15, directing the Committee on Commerce to Inquire Into the condition of the Potomac river front of the city of Washington, the navigation of said river, and the effect of a bridge across the same with regard to navigation, floods and the health of the city, and to report at the next session what steps, if any, should be taken with reference thereto. Adoptcl. Mr. Kellogg offered a resolution calling on the Postmaster General, Secretaries of War, Navy, State and Treasury for tho names of all clerks and other employes in their respective departments, toRether with tho date of their appointment, tho Stale to which each U charged, and the persons on v.liote recommendation each was appointed. On objection from Mr. Ferry, the resolution was laid over under theruloH, The Sonate, in executive session, conflrnied Postmasters Henry Davin, of Bedford, Ind.; Benjamin W. Sholty, of Decatur, Ind.; George Z. Wood, of Mitchell, Ind., and It fnc T. Brown, nf Columbus, ind. After a very short session a caucus of Republican Senators was held which remained in BCEsion about six hours. Senator ConUliog iu.-tead of going into caucn-, entered a committee-room and remained there until the cdiicub sent a request that he would join in its deliberation. A proposal or suggestion to rule out Robertson's ense for action by agreeing to art t nly rn nominations to fill existing vacancies wan speedily dipcarded, as such a rule wouid include fully half the nominations made. However, a geueml ditcu sion arose, pa rticipa t ed in by Messrs Blair, Hawley. Frye, Edmund!", Dawee, and, in fact, by nearly all the Senators present. The discussion took a wide range, and embraced all the topics now of intcrrt to ilie Republican party. Much of the time was consumed in debating tho policy of continuing the. light for the ejection of Gorhnm and Rldd'euergcr. Some Senators opposed the policy of renewing the fight, and several v. ho are warm friends of the President declared that they would not again join in the fight for Gorham and lUddlobcrger; that new and more acceptable nominations would have to bo made to induce them to resume their former stand. Conkling made a speech of over an hour, stating his objections to Robertson, adrmfing that Arthur and Tlatt carried' his ultimatum to the President, and appealing to tho Republicans to sustain him Ho dwelt more particularly on what ho called the 44 President's usurpation and invasion of the. Senale's rights and privileges," nd said: "If the Senate dirt not malntntn its rights, they would be taken from that body." Edmunds and Dawes, it is understood, spoke. Baying that, if the President attempted to usurp any functions of the Senate, they would resist, but their sjteecbeB were rather noncommittal, though some construe them as favorable to Conkling. The caucus adjourned finally without reaching aay conclusion, to meet again next day. The Senate met at the usual hour on Tuesday, May 10, and at once went into executive session, and confirmed the following nominations: Gen. Longetrect, United States Marshal for Georgia; Absalom Rlythe, XTnited States Marshal for South Carolina; Samuel W. Milton, United States District Attorney for South Carolina; Philip H. Emerson, Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Utah; and Albert R. Woodcock, Collector of Internal Revenue for tho Third district of Illinois. The President nominated Judge Thomas A. McMorrie, of Colorado, Commissioner to accept and ratify the agreement submitted by theVto Indians of Colorado, Also, the following Postmasters: Jerome II. Fee, of Adrian, Mich., and Joseph C. Dickey, of Waterville, Kan. The Republican Senators were in caucus again foriienrly six hours, and, contrary to expectation, reached no conclusion. No committee was appointed to-day to wait upon the President, nor was any lime fixed for an adjourned caucus. Everything was left to fntnre conni deration, aud the caucm adjourned subject to thecaUof the Chairman, Mr. Anthony. During the protracted setwion near y every Senator spoko. No speech exceeded five minutes in length. The burden of all the speeches was a great desire to avoid a split in the pnrty, und a consideration of the various propositions was of compromise. Tho Senate went into executive session poon after the hour of convening on yVednesday, May 11, and confirmed the following nominations: Michael

.J. Kramer, now Minister to Denmark, for Minister

to Switzerland; George P. Pomeroy, of New Jersey,' to bo Secretary of the United States Legation at Paris: Thomas A. 31. Mor is, of

'Colorado, to he a member of the Ute Com

mission, vico J. B. Bowman,, resigned; George w. Atkinson, United States Marehri of Wett Virginia; John B, Ktickncy, DiHtrict Attorney for Northern Florida; Charles M. Wilder, to le Po--m aster at Columbia, K. C. ; and A. Newton Ki in bill, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Jackson, Mife. The catc of Stanley Mat:! ewn, nominated for J ml :o of tho Huprcmc Court, then came up, " Me-f-rs, Bayard and Edmunds made strong npeccheK opposing ' the confirmation, saying that Matthew bad not the neces-ary qualifications for the exalted position of Supreme Court Jndge; that he was only a more politician. Mr. EdKertnu, the new Senator from Minnesota, aleo spofce against Mattbcwti, claiming that he was not acquaint' ed with the circuit to which he had been nominated. He hed that the nominee shoukl come from among the lawyers of that circuit. Mr. Ingalls made the principal speech In favor of Matthews, Senator Khermat put a few questions to the opponent of Mitthews in order to reply to points made against him. . . . . - A Live Man A prominent citizen of Western Texas was in Galveston, aud was introduced to Gilhooly. They got to talking about the frontier telegraph. Gilhooly said it w is a gretit blessing to the people of the frontier, bnt the stranger shook his head, and said it had caused the arrest and imprisonment of his uncle." "What did he do?" "Nothing only robbed a stage," "Well, you know that is an isolated case," "Yes, that's so; he has been isolated ever since."' "But, you know," observed Gilhooly, "that the Government allows private individuals to use the wire, and that is a great convenience to people on the frontier." "That's where you are fooling yourself. I used a few hundred yards of the wire to make a wire fence of, and I have been subjected to all sorts of expense and inconvenience. You just go West, and try it, and you will change your mind about that telegraph company being any comfort to a live manr" Gfaveston News. Russian Wolves. I have seen wolves show more boldness in tho pursuit of dogstheir favorite food, according to my experience than on any other occasion. Setters and retrievers are frequently snapped up within 100 yards of the sportsman, and in broad daylight, when shooting in thick forest ; and wolves will prowl around the villages at night, and come right into small towns after howling puppies. The peasants seldom show fear of them, and an old woman I knew ran out once, in the lightest of garments, on a bitterly cold night, only armed with apiece of tin and a stick with which she atrucK H. slioutinpr loudly to drive off three mrudor-v i'h.i uouled tinder

her window, whither they had come in the hopes of finding her dog- outside. Some watch-dogs, however, know their enemies and defend themselves mont bravely, and I saw a big mongrel Newfoundland who showed honorable scars gaiucd in franguinnry lights with wolves. One fine morning I 'met a young wolf trotting down the high-road in such a peaOftil, inoffensive manner that I took him for a large dog, and ho lost my chance of a shot by not getting belaud covert in time, The London Field-.

(3A11FIKLD CONKLING.

Political Circles in Wanhinffton Excited Over tlio Withdrawal of the Now York dominations Afisoeinted Press Telegram. The meesago of tho President withdrawing the New York nominations which' are regarded as belonging to tho stalwart wing of the party is tho only fmbjoct of public interest here. Everybody is talking and speculating about it. A Western Associated Press reporter, in seeking reliable informationi saj representative men of both sides. The President is firm and determined. He has been urged by close friends for , some time to take aggressive measures, but hesitated, hoping that come way of maintaining haiinony in the party, consistent with bin honor and dignity, mipht be found. He could not surrender any ptrticle of his executive prerogative, bo he has held, by withdrawing Robertson or consenting to any compromise. He expressed himself on all occasions itt anxious to do full justice to both wings of the New Tork Republicans. When Senator Conkling carried through tho Republican caucus his policy, which was directly antagonistic to that of the administration, with regard to Robertson, the President felt compelled to take some action. - Vice President Arthur and Senator Piatt w?re at the White House this morning, by the President's request, and ho talked frankly to them. When the President learned positively that nothing short of permitting Robertpon'B nomination to lie unactod upon would wUiffy Senator Conkling, he informed Mr. Arthur what he intended to do. When the message wns opened in tho Senate Air. Arthur was in the Vice Pre identfi room, in the rear of the Senate chamber. A Senator wont in and told him of the message. Arthur replied that he had been expecting that message. Senator Halo said to-night that the President ought to liavo taken thU step several weeks ago. Tho President's purpose is declaivd to le to fill ali the New York Federal office with men who villi not fight the administration for Conkling. He dors not intend to make war ou Conkling in New York, bnt at the same time he will not put power in Coukling'i hands for him to use against the administration. When the message was read in the Penatc Conkling was reading a paper aud did not look up. Ho knew beforehand what it was. His friends, who have talked with him to-niht, say he is' not dismayed ; that he is' contlaent the stalwart will rally closer around ; that ho considers the message as an implied warning to Republican Senators that if thuy don't vole for Robert-ion their patronago will be cut off, and that " honorable Republican Senators can't

-be bulldozed in that way."

Senator generally agree that this forces the fight on ltobe.teon's nomination, nnd those who nre for Robertson claim he will be confirmed next week and that he will get not hs than forty-five voted. The President's aggressive Htaiid has had the effect of bringing wavering Democrat-; Senators tohi9 side. Tho Democrats all npplnnd toe Prcfidni't's course, aud one of the most experienced Senators on tint kido Moid to-night that not over three Utmo

cratic votes will be cast against Ruber's ?n.

AN HISTORIC CONGRESS.

Closing: Scene off tho Thirty-third CoiifrrrjMjxiie Birthniffht of tho Itfpiibiican party.

From the National Republican. The recording angel over the hall clock of the old House of Representatives never, entered on her dusty record of 0on greseional events a inore notable of impressive scene than -was witnessed there on the night and morning of the 4th of March, 1855. The Thirty-third Congress of .the United States was drawing rapidly to a close. Great events were staring the nation in the face. The old Democratic party, that so long wielded absolute sway over the destinies of the republic, was silently melting away before the grand influences of that mighty M'ave of human freedom and national intelligence. On that sight the great Democratic party held its final levee to the world. On that night North and South shook hands and parted, never more to meet as friends. It is just a quarter of a century since we stood in the ladies' gallery, looking down at the sea of heads that moved restlessly to and fro over the carpeted floor, and heard the echoing voices of the speakers, as they pressed successively each amendment of the Civil and Diplomatic bill, occasionally pausing to enter into a rambling discussion that was soon checked by the presiding officer. Let us return to- the old House and glance retrospectively as it appeared on that 4th of March, 1855. The scene is an imposing one the brilliantly

lighted hall, the galleries on both sides

crowded to sunucation by an immense army" of femininities, and the noise and confusion on the floor of Congress reminds one of a party caucus rather than a dignified body of our nation's legislators. South Carolina, spurred and bonneted for secession, has her fit representatives in Preston S. Brooks and Lawrence M, Keitt, They are conversing earnestly together, while John C. Breckinridge, negligently reclining in his chair, is apathetically sharpening hi pocket penknife on his boot-heel. Win. H. English, with no ambitious dreams of the Vice Presidency, is writing a lot ter, apparently to his constituents, while Thomas A. Hendricks, undisturbed by the phantom of a Tilden, is gazing on the scene, the picture of dignified serenity. Calvin M. Ingersoll is laughing at the wit of some brother member, while extra Billy Smith is dozing quietly in his arm-chair. Tom Benton, the venerable ex-Senator, is engaged in an exciting colloquy with an Ohio Bepresentative about poor, plundered, defamed Fremont, and Hon. Caleb Lyon, of Lyondahi, the literary representative of the House, is vindicating the claim of Brown, the dragoman of Turkey, to extra compensation. Here arc scores of legislators, who year after year linvpi tfikpn a Rpfit. that nre ffazintr for

1 1, M ..V.. I.-,. 1, 1. . i O O

r?J5 V; i5 t the last tune on a session of the United Senators speak out more frewv, as each feels . i - 1 1 l i . ' . a. i - -j ' . .i : Shirks ilniifrrpRR nam nra min fin insiT-

inni m must htiimuri ma

taao or tuis ihfup.

Republicans who warmly cspouso one sidt) or

the oiher talk of the injury the fight will do to the parly in New York, but cooler hed point to the former contort with the York Custom Honxe, find predict, that this one will terminate similarly ; that the defeated side will submit, and no great break in the party will bo caused. Tolfgram to Chicago Inter Ocean.) Henceforward Mr. Conkling and hia followers may be relied upon to fight the administration, and the President has thrown down tho gage of battle. In conversation with an intimate friend of the President, who speaks by authority, the reasons wliich impelled the President to withdraw the nominations wersgivn. ThiBgon-tlema-n Raid : " The President has not taken this step withontdclibersUon. It is in no spirit of revenge that ho has recalled the names of Mr. Conkling friends! The cancua had decided not to connider the nomination of Mr. Itobertsou. He alone of all the New York nominations was singled ont for destruction. It is no secret that

as soon as the present executive busincR is

States Congress ; here are men so insig

nificant as scarcely to deserve a passing notice, that, as years wing their way, will be tho cynosure of admiring eyes and the theme of newspaper praise and comment. Standing near tho hoary Kentuckian, Lynns Boyd, is a young man, a few years back a humble operator in the mills of Waltham, ' Mass. , and now a Bepresentative from his district, whose name, ore long, will be re-echoed from month to mouth a the first Republican Speaker, young Nathaniel P. Banks. There, too, is old Joshua Giddings, the lono star of abolition, whose stalwart form and hair, silvered with the breath of time, was always seen in the front of political battle as tho tried ard faithful friend of constitutional liberty. The able and accomplished Richard Yates, afterward Senator and Governor

of lus native btate, and Francis B. Out

disposed of the Senate will adjourn nine die. i ting, with his tall, commanding figure - It 1 , Ml . . ' V . i ' 11 1 . 1

or the members will eo awav and nave

the Senate without a quorum. "Mr. Conkling would have had his friends installed in oflico and the one man representing the independent element in State politics would have been laid aside until next winter. The question was one of Senatorial courtesy versus executive right. By withdrawing the nominations of Mr. Conkling's friends the President has putjsll the vacant offices in the State on an even footing. All Conk ling's men will go in the same boat with Mr. Bobcrlson."

Jt.kes of the Drngftist. Drug clerks will have their little joke, especially where on one is hnrmed, says a prominent New York druggist. Woe be to the fellow who comes in and asks for love " powder, or the stuff to make moustaches or beard grow. Jjove powder is one of the few things that is different in every store that I have clerked in. Sometimes it is plain powdered sugar, sometimes opsom salts, sometimes flax seed meal, and now aud then it is ginger or charcoal. We generally pick up the handiest thing thatis lying around. No thoroughbred clerk will decline to supply a want of that kind, especially if he en joys a joke. Customers of this kind are always simpletons, and they go away happy with anything you give them. We generally make theni swear on a pile of almanacs that they will newr divulge the secret, under penalty of their going to tho penitentiary. Having taken the oath, all you have to do is to tie up anything that is lying around, and they are contorted. I have frequently given them a good dose of tartar emetic. If that don't produce love, I don't know -what will. I have never known ono of them to come for a second dose, so it must do the business. When fellows come around after a "beard grower" we give them a box of some waste ointment. Anything at all in the shape of grease satisfies them, and they depart with a look of mingled contentment and guilt. One day an old gentleman asked me to make up a hair dye according to a formula wliich he handed me, which I did. In an hour he returned with bis whiskers, which were formerly snow white, of a deep blackhtie. The next morning he again came back. But what a change! His hair and beard were a bright carmine? Ho was wild. He charged me with playing a joke on him. But soon I convinced him I had not done so. The only way lie could get out of the scrape was to go to a barber shop and have his hair and beard dyed black with nitrate of silver dye, which always gives a kind of a rusty appearance to anything it is applied to.

Yotjno Hayseed, a knowing young fellow from the country, was in town tho other day and "put up" at one of the first-class hotels. Alter dinner he strolled out to the office, and, picking up a toothpick from the box on tho onice counter, used it vigorously on a set of tobacco-stained grinders, and then replaced it carefully in the box, saying as he did so, " Some fellers would put that air sliver in their pocket and kerry it away, but their ain't nothing mean about me, I kin tell you," ffoton Commercial Bulletin,

nnd aristocratic address, are both men

of note, though destined to be pushed into political oblivion by advancing time. There is the little consequential Charles J. Faulkner, of Virginia, with his choleric son-in-law, Bocock, full of wine and wit, and erratic Judge Caskie, of Richmond, the incarnation of Southern suavity and deceit. Trominent amonor the representatives of the slave power is a pale, thin, boyishlooking man, on whose thoughtful, anxious face is imprinted the plain, legible history of the future. Alexander H. 'Stephens, who twenty-five years after was to be wheeled into the House of Representatives the only-remaining survivor of the mutations of a xuarteroentury's time. Cool and wary in council, fearless in debate, sarcastic in scorn and bitter in recrimination, no man in public or private life was to be more execrated or more beloved. There is another member, eating an apple a coarse, large-eyebrowed man, somewhat inclined to corpulency, whose history might make a capital romance. John b. Maky, of Wisconsin, five years before had visited Washington as a humble lobbyist, and, while staring from behind the green curtain that separated him from the sacred floor, formed the determination of obtaining a seat in Congress. Emigrating to Wisconsin then almost a wilderness he ingratiated himself with the country people, and by the judicious exercise of those potent influences familiar only to unscrupulous politicians was elected to the coveted position. Defeated for reelection by Joseph Billinhurst, he m now serving his last term in the Thirtythird Congress and forever bidding adieu to the honors and emoluments of ciUcial station. Thomas H. Benton, who had been thirty years in the United States Senate, and remorselessly deprived of a seat he had bo long and ably filled by a formidable faction of his own party, had secured a vacant chair in tne House, and was with the coming morrow to retire, the last glimpse of the old scenes vanishing from his sight. " Let mi not forget in this brief record the brilliant, accomplished, but unfortunate Mike Walsh, who, like others, had failed to obtain a renomination, and was drifting out with the receding tide, a few years thereafter to be found cold and lifeless, in an obscure alley in one of the lowest sections in New York city. We shall never forget the sallies of his pungent humor, his cheerful voicet his eloquence, and his wit. Poor Mike 1 His only fault was the social glass. He was a good fellow and deserved a bettor fate. But among all the moving, restloss forms of these 160-odd members there is one whom few know a silent, grave, long nosed man, with a cunning eye, almost piercing in brightness, a personage hardly known beyond his own district in New York, but who was to play an important role in the world's history, to be courted and feared, wielding pOWer I'i-v'ut Si 0!-) fll destined e v vet r-i clu. !. tye. ignominjoti .iv iw,Mipnon .iis, "un-

i vigorously, ivein, wjio is a ia iu existonco a leUer written by Presi-thick-set man, with small feat- , , a . , . D , , . . , ;rokes his long beard, glares nav- lenfc ld to Brady during the late l - ii t i ; i- i - J. i i

wopt, unhonorcd and unsung. " Few who pause to converse or shake hands carelessly as they pass up the aisle of the House dream what an unholy, ambitious heart is closed in that burly frame, the future boss of New York, tho pride of the Democracy William M. Tweed, But the uproar of the House recalls us back to the scene on the historic night. The Civil and Diplomatic bill is up, and the amendments ai'o under consideration. Keitt, of South Carolina, is in the chair, Thomas H. Bayly, of Virginia, has retired from the noie and confusion of tho hall, disgusted and sick. An amendment providing for the continuation of the work on the Washington aqueduct passed by a close vote 86 to 74 and the gallei,es cheer and

applaud vigorously. Keitt. who

short,

ures, strokes

agely at the galleries, and. in his pom

pons way. announces that "the chair

must declare that this tiling is disgracea . i: -i-i .

mi, a muuuu iu maue uy a gentleman from Ohio to clear the galleries; but sensible Jones, of Tennessee, overrules it on the ground that the galleries are more orderly than tho House. Jones is quite correct. The din and confusion increases with the approach of midnight; a hundred members are on their feet shouting "Mr.. Speaker!" and, amid the clamor, C. Lyon, of Lyondale, is seen brandishing high in the air his Senate bill for the relief of a poor old woman of Revolutionary antecedents, and unavailing attempts to catch the Speaker's eye. The ladies are fast disappearing from the galleries as the evening advances, the lobbies of the House are monopolized by an unauthorized crowd of spectators, who crowd into the hall and press into the sacred space of the floor, Davis, of Indiana, calls the attention of the House to the infringement of its rules, and, in a short time, old Glossbrenner makes hia appearance, and, with the aid of the Doorkeeper, clears the floor of the obnoxious intruders. They are mostly Southern men, from Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama, and resist and struggle unavailingly in the strong grasp qf the Sergeant-at-Arms. Some attempt to avail themselves of. the acquaintance of members ; others sneak into snug quarters by the Speaker's chair ; but one and all are hustled out, and the House begins to wear a calm after the storm. Baldheaded Bernhisel, the Delegate from Utah, is" smiliugly conversing with a member, who mournfully conveys the information that his nomination is a doubtful thing. Extra Billy has improvised a night-cap out otitis pocket-handkerchief, and looks grim and combative even when wrapped in ' Morpheus sweet embrace. Bocock is shaking his fist in Skelton's face, who coldly retorts; "Don't you ever speak to me again." McMullen is sternly following a member with malignant fury in his eye, and the aforesaid member, with a heavy cane clinched iu his right hand, stands in the aisle, waiting for him to advance. Lwis D. Campbell is roaring impolently "Mr. Speaker," in unison with fifty other loud and boisterous voices, while the Clerk looks wan and very sleepy indeed. The galleries are thinning off, many members have slipped out, and the yelps and shouts of "Mr. Speaker" ore the ouly sounds that can be heard. Then there is a long pause. The House is waiting for a- quorum. The night has passed, morning is struggling iu through the dome and from the windows behind the Speaker's chair the morning of the 4th of March, and with it the final decade of the slave power. On this beautiful Sabbath morn, the loveliest ever seen, the Democracy of the North and South, with friendly grip of hand and affectionate parting words, separated for their various homes, unconscious, as the fingers of the venerable clock pointed to the hour of 12, that the scepter of power they had so long wielded was to pass forever from their grasp, and thai when they ne.it mot they were to be confronted by a new party the offspring of liberty, the child of freedom the grand Republican party of America.

thing similar to the boiling of a washerwoman's kettle. Six or eight years ago Commodore Hitchcock, of the United states Coast Survey, was passing this placo, and his attention was directed to the spring by the restless upheavals of tho water, which threw his ship feni her course as she entered tho spring. His curiosity becoming excited by this, circumstance, he set to work to examine its surroundings, and found ix fathoms of water everywhere in tho vicinity, while the spring itself was almost lathnless. . , , The President and the Star-Rout Ring. The ." star-route" ring has been throwing out mysterious hints from Washing

ton during the past few days that there

ISDIANA

A Pleasing Incident. ' There is a lady living in a little fourroom cottage in the environs of Boston, whose name is well known to literary people. She depends wholly upon her own exertions for the support of herself and children, and does all her own house

work, yet her cottage is the focus of the

campaign, wnicn, wnen made public,

would furnish conclusive evidence that Gen, Garfield was aware of the existence

of a corrupt rmcr of contractors and

postoffice ollicials, and that lie knowingly availed himself of their assistance to promote his election, The Democratic papers have naturally shown unwonted enterprise in their efforts to secure Euch a letter, and one of them has obtained a copy of the alleged letter not to Brady but to Mr, Hubbell, a Michigan member of Congress, which is alleged to. be tlie "damning evideuce" against Garfield, The following is a reproduction of the document as printed ; Private. Mestob, Ohio, Aug. 23, 1880. Tlie Hon. 3. A.nbbeH, Washington, T0. M Dear Hcbdell: Yours of the 19th inet received imd content noted- Please say to ftratly that I hope be will give us all the assistance poHtiible. I think ho can help effectively. Pleaso tell me how the departments generally are doiog. As ever oure, J. A. Gab FIELD. It will be very evident, upon a fair scrutiny of the conditions, that this letter, whether bogus or genuine, does not furnish the proof of Garfield's connection with tho " star-rout"' ring which was promised, and that it will not create half as much sensation as tlie dark and pregnant insinuations which: the ringsters have been industriously, circulate ing. The attention of Gen. Garfield having been called to the above letter in an Eastern paper yesterday morning, he said: There was not a line in the letter that he would have the slightest objection to giving to the public; that the star-route contractors were neither mentioned nor thought of;, that it waa simply an expression of a hope that Brady, a citizen of Indiana, who was reported to have made an imiiieuse fortune in telephone stock, would respond from his ample means in aid of hhi party iu the Ufo-and-death struggle in his own State. If it be admitted that the letter was written in the precise language quoted above, there is nothing in the circumstance to convict Gen, Garfield of any knowledge of a "star-route" ring, or of any purpose to -avail liimself of any fund that had been corruptly obtained from the Government. The letter from Hubbell to wliich this was an answer and it was entirely natural that a candidate should be in constant communication with the Chairman of a National Campaign Committee may explain the whole matter. At all events, the very worst construction that can be put upon the letter, as it stands, is that Gen. Garfield, as a candidate, assented to an ancient practice, inaugurated originally by tht.Democrats, and transmitted by them to the Republican party, of soliciting campaign contribution from Government officeholders and employes. Any one who supposes that the late campaign, or any campaign since the days of Gen. Jackson, has been free from the practice which the above letter seems to admit certainly enjoys an exceptional condition of verdancy. The time has not yet come when private individuals, animated solely by motives of patriotism or party loyalty, will put. their hands in their pockets and furnish all the money necessary for Presidential campaign purposes, and leave the official classes exempt from any such demand upon them. When that time shall come around, if ever, it will bo contemporaneous with the political millennium, and no longer so much as a suspicion shall attach to any officeholder,-from the highest to the lowest. Chicago Tribune. ' ' " A Leadville Minister. Tho following remarkable report of Protestant Episcopal life in Leadville was made by the Rev. T. J. Mackay, a mis-

sionarv m cnarcre or mat cnurcn, on a

best society of the locality. A gentle- j recent Sabbath in one of the large

cnurcnes ot that denomination vr. Newton's), in Philadelphia. After stating that'when he went to Leadville, he found, instead of a hamlet, a thriviug town, v itli churches of every denomination, five banks, five daily newspapers, etc., he said: My first vestryman could drink more whiskythauany mauin the town. Shortly after I made my avpearance in the town my parishioners invited me to a church sociable, and upon going I wasastonished to see the worthy people waltzing and dancing in the most scandalous manner. To add to this there are two streets whose entire length were mado up of low dance houses. How was I to overcome such a gigantic evil? 1 1 secured a hall, had the floor waxed, and after engagiug a band of music, I sent out invitations to all the young men of the placo to come down and have a dance. I instructed my floor manager who, by the way, mado lots of money and skipped not to allow any waltzing. The result was, after enjoying square dances until 11 o'clock, the purt.ieiiauts.quietly dispersed.. Home few said: "Wait until the preacher goes, then we'll have a waltz," but I was too smart for them I carried the key of tho hall in my pocket, and did not leave until all had departed. Kvery other week I gave such a sociable, and the results are remarkably good. This character of mission would not do in Philadelphia or Boston, but it will do in Leadville. It may seem ungodly to practica such a course, but it is the only way to reach these people. When I first went out there the congregation used to apr plaud me when I was preaching, but I finally got them ont of such an unholy habit. No matter who dies, the prooes sion is headed by a brass baud. When I buried Texas, Jack, the partner of Buffalo Bill, the cortege was beaded by a brass1 baud of forty two pieces. Leadville is nlso a great placo for titles. Kvorvlody has atith Captain is pretty good hut to command attention one must 1)0 a Colonel or a General. I am a sort of a General. I belong to five military companies, and in my capacity as a militiaman I watch , over my congregation. ...

man calling there recently was received

at the door by a daughter of the lady, who told him her mother was too busy to be colled, but that he could see her in tho kitchen if he pleased; and he followed her to that room. Tho lady greeted him without the least embarrassment, though she had on a big apron aud her sleeves were pinned back to her shoulders. She was cutting a pumpkin into strips for pies; and there sat a venerable gentleman gravely paring the strips to the accompaniment of brilliant conversation. I was asked to guess who the gentleman was, and, after several fruitless attempts, was told that it was the poet Longfellow. While the pump-kin-pnring was a success, another distinguished poet called, and he also in sisted upon being impressed into the service. It was a dreary day outside, and no one cared to leave the pleasant cottage, so they all stayed to lunch, one of the pies forming the piece do resistance of tite occasion. Speaking of this incident afterward the lady said: " My friends are kind enough to come and see me, though they know I cannot leave my work to entertain them. Visiting and work must proceed together, and when I set my callers at work Avitli me we are sure to have an agreeable time. "Lippinvolt, A Fresh-Water Spring in the Atlantic. Says the Savannah (Ga.) New: One of the most remarkable displays of nature may bo seen on tho Atlantic coast, eighteen miles south of St. Augustine. Off Matanzas iulet, and three miles from shore, a mammoth fresh-water spring gurgles irpfrom the depth of the ocean with such force and volume as to attract tho attention of all who oome in its immediate vicinity. This fountain is large, bold and turbulent. It is notice aid to fishermen and other passing in small boats along near the shore. For jut uy years this wonderful and mystoriyj freak of nature has been known to the peoplo of St. Augustine and those living along the shore, and some of the superstitious ones have been taught to regard it with a kind of reverential awe, or holy horror, as the abode of supernatural influences. When tho waters of tho ocean in the vicinity are otherwise calm and tranquil, tho upheaving and troubled appearance of the water shows imiwi -'.aki'b' 3 evidences of internal com-'i..:-tio.is. An area of about half an acre h tiu troubled appearance some-

Is the harbor of Wisenar, in the Baltio, animalcules increase and muitiply at a great rate, for 17,000 cubic feet of mud are formed there every year, and every grain of this mud contains 100,000.000 of the beautiful siliceous remains of tfett infusoria,

J o -rr . i i v Ji

o. o. n eat u uas peen conuuiBsioneu Recorder of Boone, succeeding Sanlord Peters," deceased. . There is a German woman in South Bend who dresses in men's clothes and goes out as a day laborer Jomr Hahn-, a German, aged 60,; cremated himself in a brush-pile near Sunman, Domestic trouble is the probable cause. A tady residing in Evansville, some

weeks siuco, swallowed a set of fain teeth white asleep,- She has experienced no trouble so far.. Et,peb R. L. Howe haa received th appointment as Postmaster at OharUstown, succeeding M. P. Alpha, who. had held the office thirty-two years. Cot. A. W. Pratheb, a prominent Republican politician of Columbus, bos just been tendered a 82000 position m the Treasury Department at Washington. George Sievbr, a German who had a huckster boat between Louisville and Bethlehem, was found in his boat witlt his throat cut. The murder wfc- evi- " dently committed for robbery. ErDEB MxliiEB, of the Baptist Church, baptized twenty-seven persons in tha Ohio river, near the ferry dock, at Jetfersonville, Sunday morning: The elder was attired in a white robe and he candidates wore white turbans. This Commissioners of Harrison bounty'.' have ordered an; election to be held the

6th of June, for the submission to the voters of Harrison township of a propor m i . i a. et nin x ; a

siuon io appropriate $io,ouu w aiu m

constructing a oranon oi.tneAirmne

railroad. ' " ' k . -. T 1- ---l JS

a YUT'jio Jauy in jouester, naineu Demont: acred about 20 vears. attamnted

suicide by drinking two ounces of chloroform, because somebody twitted her -if not being able to talk plain. : A bat- -tery was used three hours before animation was restored, "UNCiiE BimjY" Spabks, 75 years of age, died at Anderson, lately, of starvation. He had been in infirm health for several years past. About seven years since he was partially paralyzed. He was paralyzed in the throat the 14th ult., since which time he' has taken nothing. The veterans are preparing to bring . suit against the Wayne county' Commissioners to collect a bounty of $100, said to have been granted to each soldier who entered the service in the years 1863-4--5, by an old act. They claim that there is $500,000 due the ex-soldiers from tho

The famous Arabian ring-horse belonging to Prof. Rivers, the equestrian director of Van Amburg's circus, which was left at Cambridge City to be treated, died there. It was 26 years,;, old, and had been around the world

with circuses three times, and was valued at $1,000. . ... An Indian burying-ground .has been . iv .1 ii a1 i i m

unearmea in me noruiwest portion oi

Shelby county, some two miles south of London, on the farm of Jordan Perry. A number of relics; consisting of stone hatchets, darts, etc., have been taken out. Several large skeletons, almost intact, have also been removed. Frederick Hartman died near Centerville. about a month aero, and the old

gentleman's friends suspected that he had a large sum of money that could not be found among his papers-or in any bank with which he did business. A search was made about the old homestead, and $3,000 in small amounts have been fished out. of chinks and crannies about the house. ' Thibteen years ago Ed H. Weaver was interred in the old cemetery near Kokomo, and last week his friends-and relatives had his body takerrup and removed to the new cemotery and interred there. Upon examination it was found that the casket and body was in a perfeet state of preservafcio. i, and the friends say that his appearance was as natural

As a freight train on the L. E. and Wwas approaching a bridge between Bedkey and Albany, the engine jumped the track,' The engineer closed the throttle, J and, with the fireman, jumped justasth-

engine struck the bridge, btrange to say, the engine passed over the bridge on the . ties, without jumping it, and ran nearly three-qaarters of a mile on the ties.' Ths , bridge was severely racked. - ; - Wilson J. WmiiiAMS. President of the

Vincennes National Bank, died at his :

home in that city, last week, of nexvoos disease. Mr, Williams has been con-r . nected with the "Vincennes National(formerly the old State) Bank about, twenty years, and was well known through the State as an active Kepublican politician. He was a candidate for nominal tioh for State Treasurer on that ticket at

r ne last convention, out; was aeieawu Maj. Hill. ; ' ; Dn. HoijLiday contributed to the Con- . nersville art-loan collection a desk with a history. Gen. Herera, while Preeidenfc" of Mexico prior to the annexation of ' Texas, had expressed an opinion averse to the coercion of that State, and was

consequently set aside, but was again recalled to' oppose the United States; arms in the field after the declaration of; war. He met Scott at Cerro Gordo and was defeated. Among other things captured in the tent of Gen. Herera was the elegant piece of furniture referred to. It was appropriated by Maj. Hamilton, who. subsequently, in preparing to remove to

the writing-desk and materials as a present. " . ' - - Cojj. Horatio Woodbury died at New ; Albany, recently, of consumption; aged 48. Col. Woodbury was a native of Maine, but came to Indiana when quite

a youth. He located at Leavenwortn, where he studied law and taught school. At the opening of the war he entered the Union arm v, and was made Lieutenant , Colonel of 'the Eighty-first regiment In-; diana infantry. In 1869 he was appointed by President Grant Secretary of Wyoming Territory, which position he soon afterword resigned. In 1870 he was appointed Collector of the Second, internal revenue district of Indiana, . nn.l liol.l ftiK nnKitnem until the First and

Second districts were consolidated. Be

tiring from office he engaged in the praotice bo law.

The Anti.Smoktflfc.

She was not to be convinced not aha 1 RVip know that tobacco was oison

and nothing bnt poison she didn't care

in what shape it was used ; but she oon- , sidered smoking the worst. "Why," said she j with terrible n- ; ergy, the noxious habit is doing rnor to depopulate the earth than all other causes combined. Look I Look. fo-your . selves and see how smokiuff-0 I the' vile the abominable habit ! See how it is shriveling up and carrying off our people!" - '"

Upon this a young lady present vent: ured to remark, that her grandfather had smoked tobacco ever since she could ; remember that he had smoked in his ' youth and that he smoked it now. And," she added, "ho is 80 years of ..1 t.-Al J 1 .

age, ana as ueuimv kuu nappy .a y.vu could wish to see. "Aye but what of his children? What health have they? " "Good exceedingly good and -they are Jiving every one of them and sey-' eral of them smokel" . . ' "Bah ! You say vour grandfather. ia only 80?" " " ' ? "Yes. He was 80 last March." 11 Well, now mark me. If he had nev-

er smoKeu, ne migut uum uwu w u,yiW this time." ' : " Sklf-resfkov- is the noblest garment

with which a man may clothe himseif the most elevating feeliug.with which the

mindcao be inspurea. :