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NEW YORK. LITERARY GOSSIPIXGS. IHK VPRII, MAGAZINE OEMS OK THE MONTH LI PPINCOTT ATLANTIC ET AL WISE AND OTHERWISE. ( Fium t:e Ri'tTilar Correspondent of the fcenllnel.) Xv York, March 19. How unpleasant it must ba not to have, and to indulge a taste for desultory reading! Before me lie the advance sheola oi the Atlantic and Lippincott's, ind a I cut the cleanly folded leaves, speculating upon the possible treasures hidden there, I can't help wondering what becomes f those very proper people who don't believe in periodical literature. Is their fortitude proct against the manifold attractions nd distractions of our magazines? As for me, lielag eminently of the age, ephemeral, I gladly leave those misguided ones to their course of reading," while I give myself to the dear delights of that evanescent, yet regularly recurringoccupation turning the ie:T (vj or the monthlies. How short they wako the months seem, unless you are reading tbe srials, in which case there i-i nothing for it but to wait patiently üil it shall be settled whether she marries aim or not. At this season, which is as bad for editors as for housekeepers, ail the periodicals are visited by tb:it dreadful epidemic, prn" poetry. There seems to benoes.ape from it and I know that I but crystallize the dparing thought of every editor in the laud, when 1 quote thai old composition ol an aoitioas vouth: "There is tour seasons; spring, summer, autumn and winter; some folk inav like spring best, but as tor me, give me liberty, or give death." 11 it were not lor the wast basket, I think many an editor would "sink into the fcilent tomb" gladly at each repetition of the iniliction. of course the magazines under consideration cannot form exceptions to the rule, and in lappincolt's we have "April," bv Mary B. Dodge, lu the Atlantic, -To-dv," by Julia C. 11. Dorr, and in the Galaxy, A freak of March," by Nettie M. Arnold. Not one of these rises above medocritv, except, perhaps, a stray line or two, and one cannot help wondering why? Vhv cumber tbev the pages of these popular favorites? O young men, and especially maidens, take the pledge we beseech you, and vow that you w ill never more put pens to paper iu praise of spring! All merry juipsandgav conceits are exhausted, and were exhausted long ago; let us have peace! And now I may say that the general average o: the April maggazines, poetically vjwakirfe, is high ; the neatly, almost princely dressed Galaxy bides under its quaker lorf a rkh variety ot vere, consisting in part of some striking additions to llayard Taylor's studies in versification, under the genera! title of "Summer Night," (not spring night, ibauk goodness!; There are lour movements in luis poeucai stman, auuuta. Adagio, Appassionato, and Capriecioso, and they ure all marvels of style and rhythm thewholo forming a love song of unusual lieauly. M. K. W. S. had not doue lir.-lt justice in the somewhat rugged verses entitled "Why?" Hut it is not to be expected that Jier prose and poetrv translation and creation should prove alike excellent. If she will take a word or two oi Jrieudly advice, 1 could av, let her translate poetry and write prose. William Wiutr contributes a sweet pnhetic, peom which, though it is called, "At Peace, " yet has. like most of his writing, more of strife thau of the beuodietioa waioh fallows alter. . I give it entire: AT PKACK. ' . ' : '': ' ir-er. t -res, and quiet Held. "and sunset light With hfj'y Kileuce, ave for rlrpiins? leaves. Anil bir1t that twitter of the e mlnij niht, tailing their mates, beneath my cottage eaes These Fau hath granted for a little space -To be CDiopaulonsof my pilgrimage Tilling my grateful heart with ratnre's grace. II. ; , ' ., .Not itnremernbered here the garish Ktaije, .Nor tbe wild city's uproar, nor tue race Vor pun and iower in which we all engage; Hut here remembered dimly, lu a dream. As somtbiiii fretful thai has censed to fret Her, n-heie tim lapses like a eutleatreaiu. Hid inthe woodlanu's heart, aud I forget To note its music and Its silver learn. in. But ne er. never let me cease to know, O whispering woods and dahy-piinkled grass, The tx'Raiy and the peace that voa bestow. When lUe wild fevers of ambition pas. Aud tbts worn spirit, la Us gloom aud grief, Sinks on our bosom and there finds relief. "A query," by M. is ao exceedingly rough in versification that I may be pardoned for saying that tha Ide is neither new nor brillianl enough to redeem tho etting. Among the prose articles in this number is one entitled, ''Womeu as Women," by the GtliÄ.VT INS VITAHLE. Junius Henri Brown. Will he and the Galaxy never part company? For countless months Lu woman essaya have dragged their slow length along, and now there is a prospect that they will cease from troubling. Nobody cares, (would that nobody knew!) what J. H. 11. thinks about women; and he can't know anything about them more than Jones and Robinson know, yet they , kindly refrain from giving us their ideas on the subject. But he who runs may. or may not, read, just as he pleases; be it our blessed privilege not to read, this time, but to turn our attention to the better part of the table cf contents. Last month the Atlantic et the example of publishing a -postbumoius article by Kaph Keeler, aud a tribute to the writer by bis friend I lo wells in the name number. This month the Galaxy gives us, My private grief aeainst George Sand," by Charles AstorDristed, and follows it up with Richard Oram White's curious, ' half elegiac, half critical article, in rwhlch the lamented - author' Is ; considered as he was, and as he might "have Leen as the scholar, gentleman and true friend he was, and the classicist aud philologist he might have been had be poessed less money aud more physical strength. Mr. Sherwood also' gives some touching reminiscences of bis lile, and a picture of his last moments. She says; "He loved his Mends and was never tired of serving them;"- and now his friends are sbowing-1iow deeply they loved and appreciated- him Taeir words are his best epitaph. . . That charming writer but unpronounceable man, Bjalmar, Iljorth Uoyesen, sketches in a most enter; tainlno? wav the - Russian novelist Ivan TourgenciT, and teil how the great man enjoys American literature and especially llawtherne's works; also how it pleased him to hear of his popularity in America. Then there is "A Break last with Viclorine 8ardon,' a bright.entertainingsketch,and an Interesting chapter of travel by Henry James, Jr., called "A Ball at Delmonico'a," A Personal Matter," and ' Austin Chasuble's Lore Chance, all pleasant reading, if nothing mere. The only M heavy " article, strictly speaking, ia Dr. Coan ' Tree of Life," which Is less a re- . ligious than a scientific growth, though it Is both in a degTee. There ia an excellent review of The Parisians," by the late Lord X.ytton ; this story has the sorrowful interest always attaching to the last work of a great author, but itls.aside from that, a great work. To Americans the most curious and interesting part of it must always be that

which deals with the American character a exemplified Ic Colonel and Mrs. Morley. No other book that I remember ever to have seen gives such a revelation of the astounding ignorance of the Knglish people with reference to our country. That a man of Lord Lytton's position, aud his genius and culture, should be so easily imposed upon as to believe in the conventional "Asa Trenchavd" Yankee being the typical American gentleman almost passes belief; yet it is true, as witness his putting into the mouth of Colonel Morley tba word "kinkle," and then gravely explaining in a note that it meant notion ! And now for a trip across the Atlantic. After "Prudence Palfrey," that last and best of Aldrich's stories, comes "The Lord's Day Gale," by Edmund Stedman; bnt even that can't make the passage rough, though its metre is fairly stormy, and as rugged as a stone light-house on a a rock. It haä a certain power, but does not equal some of its author's previous eflorts. There is a fine poem by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, entitled "Congratulation," but it is almost too long for quotation. "The Cohaney Tea fiht" is a very smart little story of the olden time, told by a Quaker grandma. I extract the ibllowihg dialogue: "Aunt Elizabeth had looked uneasy for a few minutes, and, as grandma paused to take up a stitch, she said mildlv, 'Some people would say, grandmot her, that it is not very wise to be putting love-stories into the heads ol these young girls. Grantlmother looked up. aud her bricht eyes twinkled a little. 'Elizabeth,' said she, 'does thee know that the white kitten had her nose in the cream this morning?' 4Yes.' answered Aunt Elizabeth; 'I saw her. 'Did thee show her the way to the milk, Elizabeth?' 'No,' aid Aunt Elizabeth, surprised. Oh!' said grandma, 'I didn't know but some one had put it in her bead.' Aunt Elizabeth smiled and went on with her hem-stitching." "Life in the BacKwoods of Canada" has come to an end, as 1 should thiuk it must alwavH, alter reading this account of " the bush"," technically o called. "Baddeck" keeps on with its quaintness and its Evangeline glamour. There are articles on Liszt and on Mistral's "Calendan," and one entitled "A Modern Financial Utopia." "Mose Evans" is continued; and there is a bright article upon the "Rritish Upper Class in Fiction," by E. S.Nadal. The reviews and criticism are, as always, tine and true, and the number closes with gossip about art, music, and so forth. Among other noticeable things in Lippincott's, for April, is an expose of the commonplace SPIRITUALISTIC PHENOMENA, not especially remarkable in itself perhaps, but made so by the writer's evident honesty,

and by his friend's immediate discovery of the frauds practiced. They went to pray, and reiuaiued to scoil', and their conclusion of the whole matter is that thongh there is a force as yet uncompreheudud, it has nothing to do with spirit, but is certaiuly dependent on the medium hansel!. Iu the department ol fiction tLis magazine is rich indesd, for beside its leading serial. "Malcolm." by MacDonald, there is a sort of character study in semi form, called "A Modern Cressida," which is exceedingly interesting, albeit it has a certain weakness suggestive of the school ol "Ouida." Its heroine is a species of modern Undine without a soul, and whom even Love himself could not dower with one. A short tale by the author of " Blindpits," is told in a telicitous style, and is a more than ordinarily good story. It is called " Mrs. Burnet's Störy, as told "by My Wife." There is another called "A Pair of Fugitives," and there are more reminiscences of Wal terSavageLandor, told this time by one, who knows whereof he speaks, Thomas" Adolphus Trollope. "Florida lieefs and Keys," a continuation of the "New Hyperion," and, With Count Beanvoir in Japan and California," 'l UP the remaining paAes, with the exception of the space allotted to an imaginary dialogue in verse, between llaüaelle and Giulio ltomano in the Sistine chapel in 1517. It would be easy, in many cases, to find fanlt with our periodicals on the score of their choice of subjects, for there is too often a monotony in the table of contents, and, a triteness not to be desired. But it is ditlicult, if not well nigh impossible, to be unhackneyed in these days of much ink-slinging; therefore, let us "be aisy, and if we can't be aisy, be as aisy as we can." As a pendant to this talk about periodicals, I wish to call attention to a new leature in that excellent weekly, Harper's Bazaar. For somo months the admirers - of that paper have observed excellent but unobtrusive woodcuts on the last page, illustrative of New York gamin life, or as a friend happily called it, Gavrocberie, after the little hero of Les Miserables. WolT, the draughtsman in question ought to make himself fatious, it lie does not, by his wonderful sketches ot the "small boy," aud the small girl tt Gothan. These little creatures always have on clothes too large for them, by several sizes, and are otherwise conspicuous foi disproportioned "cheek," and a generally Celtic cact ol countenance. The humor of these pictures is of a kind not to bear transferring by means of pen-photography, put to be laughed at, needs but to be seen. N. B. Phis Wolff Is no relation to the one that ate up Little Red Riding Hood; instead he would have handed her down to fame in one of hii inmitable sketches, also in an overwhelming cloak and with her maternal aunt'.i shoes on. CS. N. Senator Sumner's devotion to Harvard college was shown by his presentation to it within five yoars, of 7,000 pamphlets and over l,0t0 volumes, some of which were of great value. Infallible mad-stones for the cure of mad dogs bites and also for incipient hyprofhobia are becoming quite numerous. The atest one discovered is in Paris, Iowa, and it haa lately cured a son of William Connor, ot Knoxvllle, Illinois, who was bitten by a mad dog some fifteen years ago. This madstone is said to have already cured five bun dred persons who have been bitten by rabid dogs. The owner ol such a treasure as this ought not to hide it in such an out of the way place as an Iowa country town. ' ' ' " '. ! m In 1S70 there were in the United States 1,096 professional undertakers, of whom 20 were women.1- Besides these, there were 265 coffin-makersv these' classes tcgether making a total ot 4,36l persons, who lived during the year by the deaths of 2M,r,73 neraons.' Doctors and dress-makers counted out,, about-Sixty deaths avail- to -keep -one person alive daring toe year, ir the crema tors should establish their1 methods, these classes would be obliged to seek new vocations by which to keep up the animal actlvitr fjr the traditional lease or nie. . ' "1 1 ..I TA". ' Another Infant orator has appeared Jn San Francisco, named EUlef Brown,' and aged five years. His declamations are really astonishing, lie has spoken many times in public, before large audiences, reciting the most difficult and lengthy pieces in a manner unsurpassed by many of cur distinguished orators. lie has a full voice, and he speaks distinctly, and with the most accurate pronunciation. , It is only necessary to read to him a piece two or three times to enable him to commit it to memory, andH what seems so strange, he does not forget any of bis 250 pieces, . ... . .. i . - t a

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, . MARCH 24, 1874

SHOWED IN. A SIERRA BLOCKADE. A FRIG IITFIIH.SI EU E ON THE PACfKIC RAILROAD. snow rrxnvs ad storm parties a ta&k OF-imtAI. AND DANOER. A correspondent of the New York flörld, writing from,Suimit, on the Central Pacitie road, ander date of March 10, describes the blockade and'the consequences: "Here in the very top. ot the Sierra, 7,150 feet above the level of the sea, I am seated in wLat was the second story or the Railroad hotel;, but which is just now the basement, wiUv-suow above, snow below, and snow all around me. Jnto tae window of tbis aeon jstorv Into tlw window of tbis sec"n jstorv f basement a leeble gleam of light penetrates down an i inclined plane oli snow. The railroad station, hotel, a-nd" all the shops- and houses of the raiVrrad employes are- built within the snow-sheds which here line the Central Pacifjc-road for twelve continuous miles. All tiiese are literally buried in the snow. I wriUed from the station- to the hotel ou a plank which is laid twenty feet above the solid eath a step to one siile r the other would literally have buried me alive and on either sioe the terrible snow was piled above in solid bulwarks forty feet high. To a New Yorker, to whom ' three or fiu r feet of t he "baautif uifseenw ter rible, these lUuies mav appear of the Mun chausen orcr. But I assure- vou I have not exaggerated the situation, in the least. It has snowed more or less here continually kies the first of December, but the; great storm of the season began last Tuesday. It continued throupjk Wednesday and Thursday, subsiding at intervals, took a rest on Friday and a port im of Saturday, and then began again- on Saturday niprht with redoubled violence. It is still snowing, with no signs of cessation, and the railroad pments a scene of natural grandeur such as 1 never expect to witness again. I started from San Francisco in the overland train n Friday morning, reached this point,, and then scenting trouble in the distance, determined to remain here and see the trouble to the end. I have be?n awarded in witnessing the buttles waged batween man and nature. I have peen them conquer, only to be again conquered in his turn. I have seen the tri umphs oi mechanical engineering undone by the grand power of nature in one short hour, and finally I have been taught to re alize, as I never realized before, what it means to run a railroad across the Sierras what it means to attack nature in her own giant strongholds. SCENE OF THE TROUBLE. Up to this time during the winter the Pacific road has been kept tolerably clear from the suow, and the trains have generally managed to grt through on time. The snowplougns have been in constant use, and have succeeded in keeping the track in an available condition. The last great storms, however, has more than taxed the combined efforts of plough?, shovellers, engines, and engineers. The greater bulk ot the snow lies between here and Blue Canyon, a distance of twenty-seven miles, all of which is, so tar as human skill can do it, protected by long rows of snow-sheds. As I came down the other day, witn eleven engines and two snowploughs ahead of me, the wlute snow was piled up on either side of theroad fully forty feet. The glistening mountains stood there, forming solid bulwarks to a narrow avepue, through which the long line of iron monsters puflM and snorted its tortuous way. ' Words fail to express the significance of a scene like this.- The grade is very steep, and the road winds in and out among the towering peaks of the Sierras, now skirting some deep canyon and again threading ' the tortnous windings of the mountain?. The snow flying in blinding sheeta before the great iron plough which preceded us, now rolling with a mighty crash down the sides of some precipitous canyon, aud again piling itself aloug the sides ot the track; the grinding, groaniog, agonizing engine puffing their slow way along, the murky smoke mingling with the fleecy spray, all this combined to create a scene which can be witnessed nowhere and at no time but in the Sierras, and at this season of the year. ' THE MONSTER SNOW-PLOrOH. ' The snow-plough of the Sierras requires some description. It is not one ol the puny arrangements which are brought Into requisition on your .eastern .roads, when two or three feet of snow interferes with travel. It is a curiosity in itself, and does noble work. It is a massive structure; the smallest in use in these mountains weighs 45,000 pounds, and the laagest 50,000 pounds. It is about the size of a two story bouse, and is composed entirely of iron and steel. It is of a peculiar form, and so constructed that it throws the suow, when under full speed, fifty feet in the air, hurling it off into the canyons with tremendous iorce. The plough in front is shaped like vbe iron prow ot an iron clad frigate. Near the ground this changes into a flat surface. Attached to this flat surface is a smaller prow, known as the "apron." The attachment is by means of hinges, so that it may be raised or let down at pleasure. When the machine is in operation the smaU " apron " rests upon the track, sliding smoothly along under the snow, which la thrown up; this being caught upon the huge, sharp prow above, which is divided, much as the water is divided by the prow of a ship, and cast with great violence to either side. The steam plows of the Central Pacific railroad are master-pieces of mechanical skill. Two engines are always used to push them forward, and during the present storm eleven have been attached to one plough. A PLOUGH OFF THE TRACK. .: The train which is to bear this letter is now waiting at Emigrant Gap for the road to be cleared between that station and Blue Canyon. An unfortunate accident occurred tbis afternoon which may give the snow an opportunity to win the battle and blockade us all yet. So far, human energy and human endurance have conquered, but to-day. while the storm waa at its height, one ot tbe nton ster ploughs fumped the track about a mile west ot Blue Lanvon. It was followed bv one of tbe two engines which were pushing it forward, i his was most unfortunate, as lully- three . feet or ;now--.were ; then on the-track..) The; engine backed up to Blue Canyon for-help, Another engine Was obtained and. a squad of one hundred men. and a start -was made. for the disabled plough. Tbe two engines rolled abont fifty ; yards, and there they stack fast in the snow The telegraph tells me that they are now digging ! them out tor a fresh start. In tbe meantime every : minute ' tbmi waited increases the .chances of a blockade,- The plough and engine across the track are being fast, snowed ; up, and the track - itself, with nothing to clear it, will soon be impassable. You will learn by telegraph the result of tbe operations long before you receive my letter. Aa it stands no w I the road is blocked and four hundred men are digging away to get it clear again. . I -r.fi..;-: r- ;'.?.''. '', I ! NO THOROUGHFARE." .': ' ,' 'Nature has triumphed over all the sklli and energy which man could bring to battle against her, and four feet of solid snow, lie

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between this place and Alta station. The engine and snow plough, which jumped the iracK bo unioTtanateiy, ana thus gave the storm time tain upon the mev now lie buried under K) feet of snow, whieb has accuinuiatea chIy from drifts. All night long 400 men have been digging and working on the tresis in the vain hope of reaching uu clearing away theobstmctionAU night long the pov.-7s of nature have been working against them. and continually gained upon them. Slow!? .but suiely, unwillingly but certainly, w. are forced to the conviction that the road .1 blockaded and that no human effort ca raise the blockada until the storm ceasers- Two westward and two eastward bound passenger trains are now lying, the one t FJko, nearly four hundred miles TFAIY Kama t 1 I . t :L.u.' " ru.?u ia uiocKeu. . s &. t' m l"w'-4w aud J"" "cjouu mo range or mis terrae storm. The railroad men refuse to rjLve up the fight. They sill keep to their work, trusting to the vain hope that they inaygVn upon iutj cucroa.uiue eiemenis. "At iasi " as the superintendent of the division nain to me to-day, "wacau prevent the sto;m from gaining upon ui any more just here at the canyon." I hear the mighty puffing of seven-, monster loconrLivf rinino high above the u ailing of the wind. lhose even monsters represent a tremendcua-brute force, and. yet they puff and snort and push and tug rail are unable to move six. consecutive feet -icon a level. Unless tha storm abat' s soon I shall not be surprised .to read this letter iaThe World on the fourth of July. Four trains arn sno-v-bound i:itbe bieak Sierras. The passengers will lon; have causo to reiriCtnlr their trip across th continent in tha sprin-r of 1S74. A TERRIFIC ADVIJTIRF, This evening I met Mr. Tarboy, one of the gentlemen who accom-ianied the snowplougbwhicb is now wracked, just beyond here, luid who nearlv lott ids- life when the ploug'j jumped the track.. His story of the adventure is interestinR,.and L transcribe 1 for yur benefit. Mr. riioy said: I stood witn my teeth clenchedmy fingers grasping the 3le-rope and my eyes fairly starting from, the sockets. I held mv breath and wondered if the thiig would ever stop. Once only I ventured U. look around. The eigii was awful. Th great, black engines, their tops almost even with the high banks of snow, were rushing on in hot pursuit, aid screaming out tkeir delight in the snort in tones which shcok the earth and echoed fcr miles in the taightv gorges through which we 8pet With unslackened speed the plough rashed on to Blue Can yon. There, stiff with cold, my face cut aud lacerated by the fiercely' driven show, mv neck and hair tilled with fleece, I descended from the plough and mounted to tbe first engine to thaw mjseli out. Tne great plough rushed along, rounding the steep embankment at Dutcn Flat Ditch. e had just passed it whan I saw the huge structure in front sway like a drunken man. Somebooy cried, "She's off!" There was a rush for safety. The engine gave a short, sharp, frightened srream there was a thud, a heavy surge to the right, .a violent shock, and then tiere came a crash. Everybody oleyed nature's first law the instinct of self-preservation. I made one Irantic leap through the wiudow and tprarg wildly into the snow. I came out all right, but I don't want to repeat the experiment in a hurry. THE I'.LOCKADE RAISED. IIlvb Canvon, March 108 p. M The fjlockade is raised, and the Pacific road will soon bo clear agaic. This happy termination of the difficulty, which I could not have believed when I wrote last night, is due to two causesfirst, the indomitable energy with which the men have worked through ail ol last night and to-day; and second, the grand clearing up of the storm and bursting forth. of the glorious sun. Tbe piercing rays of the god of the day have done more to extricate us k from our difficulties than all ' the labor and snow-ploughs aud engines combined. The snow which filled tbe uta was', fast becoming ice, and twentv-lour hours more ot the blockade would have settled us here in the Sierras for at least a week. Happily, this morning broke clear and bright. - The hard snow yielded to the melting appeals of the sun, and the huge snow-plows, attacking the enemy when at his weakest, tore a passage througn and the overland trains are once more run ning. THE LAST OB SAT SC E'E. The great snow-plough started from this station at ten tbi morning. At the same time another started from Alta. Each was propelled by eight forty -five ton engines, and the objective point of each was the sam; the wreck near Emigrant Gap. Each did its work well, though under great difficulties. The snow had become soltened to a certain exient.and the prow of the huge monsters clove through it for some miles at a rea sonable rate of speed. But the snowking declined to give up . the fight until thoroughly beaten, and twice the Filough from this point became last n his icy grasp. The eight engines struggled and groaned and puffed and quivered to no purpose. Tbe shovels were Drought into play and the monster was resurrected. Then a fresh start was taken, aud tons of snow were burled over into the canyons, roilingdownlbe mountain side with a noise like the rumbling ot mighty thunder. At length the wreck was reached and a way had beeu cloven through from Alta to Blue Canyon. The snow-plow.was got upon tbe track again,and the euginewhioh ia utterly ruined a shapeless mass of iron and wood was removed. 'This 'cleared the road, and the workmen, who have labored almost continouslv for 4S hours, gave vent to their Joy in loud huzzas and. wild gesticulations. -The battle has been fought and man is now tri umphant. From other parts of the line come the news of victery ' The road is now open throuznont its entire length to Qgden. , ,Tbe delayed passenger trains are now movingon ward to the east and to the west. The snow has been fairly varnished after fmr davs ot hard figlultg, and unless another? turious storm burnt upon u to night the blockade is at an end. The late ax-President . Fillmore took les sons in French 'while in Fans." ;,lle was most indefatigable and good natu red while in pursuit of the stodyi bat he could not remember or pronouuee correctly the most trilling words. .Tu: 'A Tiondon Utter attributes to Qneen Vic I tori a piquant ben niot,1' Some pne apoke disparagingly of Sir Chaiies Dilke's -criti' citftns of the civil list: whereupon the Queen remarked .Vit i strange for t remembar having him as a boy oa my knee and strok ing his hair. ' I suppose," added her majes ty; after a "moment's ' tausey "V must -have stroked it the wrqngway." f f ' The new postage law brings a considerable revenue 'from the, New .York advertising agencies. Geo. P. Rorell A Co. 's quarterly bills Upon newspapers' received exceed f 130 those of 8. M. fetten gill & Co. are above 1 350, while the agfjncles ot W. J.-s Carlton Bates & Liocke, V. W Sharpe, and others most prominent, pay from one-fourth to one-eighth of uje above amounts.

WASHINGTON. MKNnrxo tub moikty . bcshcbss Aor for THK 8IOki-rEN.. HOWARB'S COUKT OK INWASH13&ITK, Masch 23. . In the lioward -court of inquiry to-day.

me hearing of the testimony es to the avtiul facts iu the case was commenced and General Hallach. was. examined. His evidence was in regard to the man&sronent of buronn, orders given by General Howard, the dis-burseiuents-aader them, etcs The comraiUee on ways and means this morning hada conversation oa tbe moiety question and-on the proposed changes in the uuues on wmes. . A maiorUy. of. the aomurnire iavcKiiue sjuu.ooo.OOO oill, but different members have reserved the tiht to a test of the Hause by offering amendments to fix the amount of greenback circulation at f:i0rt,O0O,0OC and $3S2.OU,i0O. The Uoue committee on appropriations this morning. heard a stateiatnt of the acting secretary of. the interior and oouwnissioner of. Indian affairs urg;ag an immediate appropriation of .fclOO.Omj to.provide subsistence lor th Sioux Indians now concre-'ated at lied Qmid and Whiles ore- HtrMirTet This sum i regarded by the lnterfbr depart..Jim - - ui iub utmost loiportance to the preservation of peace witKall the sionx. and also strküy in the interests of economy. The sul'jeri was referred to a sub committwi. TUE DISTRICT INVESTIGATION'. XAMIK3-JOX At a meeting OF LATTA JLÜD. K1LBOCE.NS. of the District ot Columbia investigating committee-to-day, the examination oft Latta was resumed. TT ttiil re fused to answer the qrusfttions p!ked Satur day, relative to the property he 1 fcy him as trusteeand the comniitteo-took. the matter under: consideration in secret sessina. Afif r the doors were reopeaed, Mr. Latta fcr some time oonunued his refusal to aaswer the question, "for whos account he purchased the property referred to, bat finally said be bad ijist received permission to answer and wou'il state that ail except a portion was bought for Messrs Stewart, liilly and Sunderland, was purchased for Hallet Kilbour, trustee. The memorialists to day printed a second list of cbajges against the board of works. These charges contain general accusations, extnvagaut administration by the board, also that the engineers of the beard, have made false measurement of vork done under their supervision, aid that prices for variors ftemsof work were increased by the board, iu many instances, alter the contrac: for said work had been closed. A letter was red from John Frudy, addressed to the chairman of the committee, requesting to. have his name withdraw from the list of - memorialists, for reasons whin be stated at length, one of tbetu being that by the developments of the investigation thus far. HE IS CONVINCED . that the 'charges of the memorialists are frivolons. Whpn the committee assembled Kilbourne was sworn, and inj reply to the question read irom the memorandum shownir all the nroDSrtv purchased bv him as rustee, he said that this property was pur chased from A. IL Shepherd, W. IJ. Parisen, Thomas Younsr. (1. W. Bullock. W. W. Corcoran, J. W. Corcoran. and some others-! The .property referred to rrespectivc ol that 'conveyed to him as trus tee by Iatta. lie stated that he had money placed in his hands with which to make purchases, but declined to ttate by whom the money wa furnished except that Jay Cooke A Co., put up 525,000. Henry D. Cooko was not interested in thee purchases beyond whatever interest he may hive had in the b ink of Jay Cooke k Co. Kilbourne refused to give further particulars unless some responsible party would come forward and charce some unlawful or criminal act committed by the firm ot Kilbourne A, Latta, or either of them, and connect that act with some member of the board of public works. So far as the purchases of real estate by his firm were concerned, they had never, been directly- or remotely, in collusion witn any person or persons who were ollicers of the board of public works. The witness stated that, except in one instance, all tbe parties benefitted, or to be benefitted by the trustees referred to, are non-residents of the District ot Columbia. The witness was told to hold himself iu readiness to answer, should tbe committee determine to enforce replies to questions be hau refused to respond to, and the com inittce adjourned. INCREASING THE VOLUME. THE NEW CURRENCY BILL. Tbe following is the bill reported by tbe Senate committee of finance: A bill to prov.de for the redemption and reissue of United states notes, ana lor free banking, Be it enacted, dc, That the maximum limit of ITuited Htates notes is hereby lixedat fJftV.W, uuo at which amount it shall remain until reduced as hereinafter provided. Sec. 2. That on the nrstday of January, lsre, the secretary of the treasury Is author Iced ana required to nay on demand, at the oflire of the assistant treasurer in the city of New lork.to any bolder of United fetales notes to the amount of one thousand dollars, or any multiple thereof, in exchange for sneli note, an equal amount oi me goia com oi in United states, or in lieu of coin ha may, at his optionJssue in exchange of said nolean equal amount ol con poos or registered bauds of the United states l u sticn lorm as ne iaay preset ire and of denominations ot nity aouajrs or some multiple of that am, tedeemaitle In coin ot the prenent standard value at the pleasure of the United state or ten years from th oate or isnoe and heart nit Interest payable nuaxterlv. n wich coin at the rate of five per centani, and the sec retary or the treasury may a&sxm l mved States notes so received, or ir l bey are candied may issue i nlted Btates notes te tne samr , amonnt either to purchase or redeevithapub do debt, or rottet tbe current paymenut ioe na public Ker iriiw. .nil thA aulrt hAnn fnrl IntAf .. . 1. nwun shall be exempt from the pu-ter,t of all taxes . 1 V- I BUV. wuw tT. U . 1 1 t . V W or duties of the united, states, a j well as fnsm taxation m any form, by or aauer state, mnnioipal, or local aiuuoruy;. ana tue said bond sbail have set fourth aud expressed uionthel face the above specif:1 d. SAftdJ Hons, and shall with their couiKins. ae maAy payable at the treasury oftb V nit4.staaa' - .sec... That nattouai t Us klng associations may oe organizni many tu teor territory, or in tb District of Ooouibi ix ,l havinc a propor tion of a national bAukeir.uUtion eau:U to. that of the state of xew iwtk,. according to the ap portionment mAa-upon he basis of population una wen 1 1 ii ny iae cuuap roller or tne currency uutllA&cb 8tAt-aa4 tecvitorv. and the said dis circulation eanal tosu cb proportion of the notes now puieianuins in s .estate ot .m-w iora;ana all banks organlaed tinder this aeetlo. shall be subject te, aud governed by the roles, restric lions, limitations, vjj possess the riehts. privl leges, and (raueuiaf a now or hereafter to. be prescribed by law, as to national banking asscclaUonA,and section six of the act entitled an act to provide for U . redemption of the three per centum tempor ary loan certificates, and for an increase Of th'j national bank notes approved J uly 12, bCO, b j a nd Is hereby repealed. ... , ; ec - Thr4t within thirty days after the circulating r ntt to the amount of one million dollars anal', be isaued to the national bank lug associations 'under the preceding sectlon.lt shall be the doty of the secretary of the treasury to retire an amotvut of United States notes equal to 70 per centum. of the circulating notes so Issued, which shall br In redaction of the volume of fto3,UuOW fixed by the preceding section, and such reduction shall continue until the aggregate amount nf finite! Utataa . nstui mitjitji.nirnep 8hall.be fJü0,(XAW0, aud for that purpose he Is authorlze'a

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!,o!6JrRr J!eU ftt Puhiic sale after ten days' notice rthtime aid p-arof sale.a uncint amouni of the bood of the United StiteS of the second section of thin at for United WaLST ? retired and canceled. ' .iX5 That HCh national banking a&ioclashall Expand maintain aa a part of the revive Kvita interest on tH hm..i. r ,k- i.-...t fciAX.pasited a security lor circulating nötti on-roMth of the reserve now prescribed bvdavr for nations bankin ascn:iaUonTKnaÄ k ti.''"""" oelnUfin aval-able for o5 f 1U CirCUlaUn e!tl THE REBELLION. v A. DIRTSrUiXT KTim V I -rr-r TltK JAP TIRED OF FROTECTION. . . The revision of the Japanese treaty ukes but little procress. Notes have pas;eiietweea the foroien minUtera ml tu i.neee governK?nt.but theüatter is uh:nu itsendeayots to have the ex-territoriai in-nsia-tion abolishe!. which ixiint th m' ters have leen instructed bv their respective governtaents not to concede. NetrotKtir.ti may be said at present to be in a dead lock. It is said that tee budget for 1874, prooared nv the minister of finance, nhnw tvorabk? state of the national finance, 'ireat nxiety was felt for the Patitle Mil xmi... ship Aka. which did not arrive here till he evening of the 5th, nine davs over the contract time. The delay was caused by oaa weat&er. A schenie is under consideration ..im proving the harr by Ixiililiu-r r.icrso a to sheller the tm-lior:' (rum Lh inJ In a corresjk.u Un-Ss sumuiary. cl ,Tap- . anese nows jut received, he gives cji. ac count of an ait-iurt nixm the lifA of th wakurA, and t-ao tfiat some of hir. a.isai!anbi were discoverd and arrested toward the end i Jnuiy, while othera.till remain at larg. It is understood their mo tive was one of political hostility T7 Ich ia felt toward Iwakura bv manv nernoiiri nf rious degrees of rank. There is .no sub picion, however, that the assault waanf tioned by any of the leaders of the antagc ulstie parties. These ' leaders made a mud MORE FORMIDABLE DEMONSTJUr gainst the government, of which he is most important meuiber, by movis of u me morial to tbe Mikado, attacking the administration iu violent terms, and proposing radical and immediate reiorin chie.Ii jn the establishment of a national legislative body., ue intemperate tone or this document would have deprived it of all wtigbt, had it not leen signed by some of the most popu lar men in the country, among them l'ovezima, a former vigorous minister $ foreign aifalrs. lreat surprise was expressed at finding the name of this statesman, aud those cf some others of euual eminence. ppended to a seditious memorial. . r.ut no action was taken beyond the publication of brief answer to the enect that tbe subjects alluded to bad long been under the govern ment s consideration, and the establishment of a parliament had for . some time been decided upon. Imrnedialejy af-. fr the . appearance ol this i memo rial, the country waa stirtled by the report )1 insurgent gatheiings In Sngaken, better known as the old province ot Hizen. reports which W6re wildly exaggerated and distotted ; by the lokohama newspapers. Tbe real lacts of the iusurrecüou up , to there?ent time are not of; a .disturb-. ns character and first broke out in the . neighborhood of the city ol 8ego. It has not. . etpre:ul to any considerablemstauce. I he . - ostensible motion of 'the rising was to . demonstratthedCsireof theSactiuraiiu that ' Hpeiiiuforawir with Corea, but that is, believed to be only the nominal rallying, . the real grievance being , . . THE REX DOUBLED HASTHIS,. which the political cUnte-of the last three ears have brought upon the military cusc . Although Sago is tho state to which Soyezluia beiongs.no charge, ot complicity in . this movement is made against nun. be continues to reside at freedom in .Yf ddo. . There is reasan lor believing, however, that many of the disanvct-d have taken. advantage of the momentary' excitement, caused by his memorial, to ma'aj.-tbis. demonstration more eiV.ctiv t liar; it other-. wise might Ik. The jinYnr.iiii in I an a-te.l . with great promptness, and thus for, witu , th-rough success. In i nji oontusuvii ,"1 ihe-, uprising of some live thj-aiiI rf fi:. iertain inevitable casua'tkt It.ipi et ru.. b-iue otneials were e:zed,.tt.bank . wc-attaokedi and an old castle was burned, nlout the. middle ot the month Uvops wtr-ialvOd aud , dispatched to the so ot the . JLsLurbauet and a hich civil omül, Okubo .mlni.-ter oithe interior, was charged with the task. oi. instituting oraclai inquiries sxa tue spot . Onthe22d and 2Cd of this mc.th news wav. receiyed of the firifc encounters between th national troops and the insugenis. "bfBi. took place probably on the 2lst audi iid. at the smaU , towns o.Toderdaifa and. Abvoma. in the near vicinity of Saga, wtsich4 latter city has ben in the -jcssessiouof.therebels for several days, ine r.umoer oi i;ov-. ernment troop was smaU. not excodmg a few hundred, the nrst ürt amvoa. in6 resistance ofred them was so slight. thaU the affair is-aardly coufLdered evu in the. iht of a serious skirmia. 1 be tc-st rcsujw. aptear to have been tb proofs of spirit ani loyalty shown oy tne nawonai scuitra. o.: rebels ret;ated in, ca!usion toward ba,. on whicn. their assaibaits. wer-j advancing U the lasi accounts. The dissatisfaction is not believed to have spread beyondi tbe very limited spaue in which u first - MA.NIX-SSTEn IlS.'SiK , A messenger is. xxiown to. have btea sent to eommunicato with Saraitao Sitauma buVhewas ordwred out tS the- province b ; haste. ' Samiza Saburao. the old ruler . Satsnma, waa knxoedi&toly seat southwart . at his own request, to watch the affairs it -

our district.. This la absolutely an oi ln. portanc- tkat has transpired to tho present, date. Tbe statements in many of the Yokohoma papers are without foundation and do. not create much excitement. ., These , foreign representatives who always seek; , for opportunities of display have been, encouraged 1 by several r characteristic demonstrations,'- and; the citizens .ofi.; Yakoboma hive agitated the question oear tablishing volunteers for their own defence. It is important to understand that sot aw" single onebt the reports' with wbichi that. settlement has overüowed; during Liß-pasü o two.weeks have been comUrined,. aWt only . certain facts relating to . the hostilities, aie . '. known. The treasury department has pe-' ' sented an earnest protest atrainsrvhe futnre ' regulation of the tarilf by treatUK Inward i; the last of January one hundredand twenty- A five thousand dollars have"bec3 paid to each of the three foreign representatives who had ' announced a determination toiexteud the balance ol tb3 Simeoneset-indeunity-in casecertaincommercialaiidotherooncessiOD -should not a granted hy the Japanese. Thes ( installments were for England, France and, Holland. No part of the amount duetbl United States was oflered to Mr. BingharaJ . accorr'anco with his wishes to thai eltect.

Yenomoto starta for St. retersnurg nexv mc.Qth, and will carry out the irguiationa A (sacrhallftn thA Tre- " JUCTJI 111UK 11C"K1" l - - 'dminaries of which were entrust to iionaibosa, the eecretary 0t -the, , jegatwa .m December last.

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