Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 42, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1874 — Page 2

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.:::n:THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL.1 TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1874.

ARB WE GROWING BETTER? BT A. r. BRITX5B. 'cr The Sentinel. " Ton glorloui bow f t freedom, bended by the band of God,Is spanning time's dark burges." ... Kvor It Jm as the years' glide by That some. In their vain repining, JVwall the 1 ol the olden titer When kindlier sans -wert- shining. They ee In to-day no virtuous aoal; . . And, clad iu th raiment of sorro', - - 'JViey shut the doors of their achlutf heart. A nd. sighing, turn from to-morrow. ... They have no faith In the human heart, ' In Its generous deed ani action, , BMlevlcp; it firmer bound each day In the letters of seltUh faction. They yay that the man Is a hardened wretchIs a lost .abandoned creature: He giving the reins to sin and crime They give to the ages feature. How dark are the picture' crlnnon dyes! Did the pen of truth but trace it. Well might we luanile our heads in grief Till pity hereelt eilace it. But In the scheme of the great I Am Is Ood In Ilia wisdom erringt Man is commissioned to lead the ran Hedemption' glfw conferring. When at the lsst a sinful world shall own the work of saltation, HI orowtihall wear, as IU conqueror, The laurel of coronation. And, true to the Master's lilh command, He leads where the altars, blazing. Illumine the mountain' lofty peaks. Where the eye of faith is gazing. AVith vision turned to the beacon light The ku m iB It h nart, though slowly : Jlis march is over the mangledlorms Of creeds and dogmas unholy. Ant ever the world Itself moves on" To this mark of hijth endeavor, Its chariots gliueriu blades of steel The ranks of opprefsion sever. IWore thera fall the proud and the great Tho frinr4 r ihpir own aDDOintintf.

Whose head are moist with the liquid df0p8 Of satan's vile auLointlng. Th? chair of empire's fallen state Is robed In its laded glory ; . . T.ie haughty heart of the sceptred one teats low 'neath the ermine gory. The conquering tread of the people's might Over tyranny's grave is sounding. The chous of wu shattered realms -into ireedom'a form is rounding. Tke chains are broken that bound the tlare. 1 he oppressed exult,, discerning Hope's radiant star, like a idgnal blaze u er tue surges of darkness buxaiotf. Alreadv the sate of morning glow Wim'the sunbeam's golden spUndor: The shield of the vanishing night is pierced With its lances tall and slender. In lien of the midnight's rayles gloom That brooded one o'er the a-es - Behold the heraldlnj flame of day ihe flash of the printed pages! And soon through the orient's azure bars The day hall litter resplendent, Flooding the world thut slumbers below With a light, Indeed, transcendent. Urekncastlk, Ixd., March 11, 1S7I. CHAPPAQUA DAYj. " HINTS FROM GREELEY'S HOME. "THK STORY OF A SI MMER" A NIKCK OF THE GREAT BDITOR GOSSIPS ABOUT HIS HOME LIFE. "The etory of a summer," is an artless and entertaining series ot every day pictures of domestic life at Chappaqua, the borne of Horace Greeley, by his sister's daughter, Miss Cecilia Cleveland. The author is a miss of sixteen or seventeen, possessed of rare gifts ol beauty and culture, and she throws into the sketches ol her uncle's favorite retreat, all the sentiment of girlhood, sobered by the skill nil touch of mature discrimination. The surroundings of the place,the every days do ings of the Misses Greeley, the strange letters which they received from utter strangers from all parts. of the country containing oflers of marriage, requests for pecuniary assistance and innumerable other messages ; the people who came to see the family, in ddents in the lile of Mr. Greeley, as related by his sister; all these are described with the utmost minuteness. The book is written !n almost too simple a style and its perusal seems very much like reading another person's letters. One pood ellect of the, volume will be the dispelling of a vast number of myths which have been built up on the boyhood and personal manners of Mr. Greeley. To the great armv of admirers of Mr. Greeley, the little boofc will be of great interest, and to tbose who care to read it, some sketches will to a better introduction than columns of criticism. Here is a picture of the day at Chappaqua: At half past 8 a little hand-bell, silver in material and tone, summons us to the breakfast room. This room is on the ground floor, and is one of the prettiest in the house. Four windows give us an extended view of our Dame Chatelaine's sloping meadows and wooded hills, and the carriage rad winding oil toward the pine grove and the house in the wood. We have several , pictures on the walls first a portrait of my dear uncle; a boyish lace, with fair hair, deep blue eyes, and an expression angelic in sweetness. No one would imagine it to be the faco of a married man, but it was painted, mamma says, when he was thirty years old. Two large and admirable photographs, taken early last summer, hang opposite it. A striking contrast they are to tiie pensive, fragile, blonde boy; these are impressed with the vigor and mental and physical activity of his busy lile, but the broad, intellectual brow, and the almost divine expression that plays about the mouth, are the same in each. Breakfast is followed by a turn upon the piazza, a little stroll to the spring, near which delicious wild strawberries nestle in a backgtound ol sweet clover, bright buttercups and fielddaisies, or a game of croquet under the grand old oak trees "After the sun has dried the dew." Then we separate, each to our own room and our diöerent occupations. Rut it is already 1 o'clock and dinner hour. The afternoon passes mticb like the morning. We have letters to write, and much reading aloud. I have two books in progress Plato's Dialogues." and Madame de Stael's incomparable "Germany;" the latter I read aloud while in Munich, but it is a werk that can not be too often studied. At half-past six we dress and go down to the post-otfice (about a hundred yards distant) for the evening mail. Halt an hour later we sup, and then follows, as I,. K. L. would say, "a struggle and a sacrifice." What could be more delicious than a game of croquet, a drive in the cool twilight? But Chappaqua, lovely though it is, possesses a malaria that is dangerous after sunset, they say, and much as I love to drive when nature is bathed in the last ruddy flush of day, and during the stRgray hour that succeeds it, I must heed the prediction of chills to all who Indulge. The evening is alwavs devoted to music. Ito.h Ida and Gabrielle are very fond of the piano, and Ida is rapidly becoming quite proficient in the divine art. She commenced the stddy of music when a little child under an excellent teacher,' and also took lessons while in boarding school; but one studies the piano under difficulties while in the routine of a Eensionnat, for the hour devoted to it must e taken from one's recreation time or from some other lessons. Our friends will re member, too, that dear Ida was taken out of school while yet very young, to become the devoted nurse that she has since shown herself to her mother, and from the time she left

the SacreOecr until this spring she has never opened the piano. Now, however, she

practices regularly and conscientiously, ana brings to her music all the enthusiasm of her loving nature and the intelligence of ber superior mind; consequently when her fin gers are well trained I shall expect to see her a thoughtful and brilliant pianist. HORACS GRKKLKT'S YOUTH. Ilere Is a conversation between Miss Gabrielle Greeley, the youngest daughter of Mr. Greeley, and Mrs. Cleveland, the moth er of Miss. Cecilia: "Auntie, isit possible," said Gabrielle. indignantly running into mamma's room with an open volume in her hand, "that papa was as homely and awkward when a boy and young man, as the writer describes him? 'Tow-head,' gawky 'plainand 'clownish,' are some of the most complimentary epithets applied to him. ; lie is described as 'having white hair with a tinge of oran ge at the end?, and as 'eating as if for a wager,' while grandpa, the writer says, was so poor that papa had to walk bare-footed over thistles, without a jacket, and In trousers cut with an utter disregard of elegance of fit, and it was remarked that they were always short in the legs, while one was Invariably shorter than the other. Was it possible that grandpapa could not afford an inch more of cloth to make poor papa's trousers of equal length, and was it true that papa never had but two shirts at a time until be came to New York, and that be never had any gloves? When he was an apprentice in Portland every one used i to pity him, Mr. says, as he walked shivering to The Spectator office en coid winter days, thinly clad, and with his gloveless bands thrust into his pockets to protect them from being frostbitten !" ."My child, you overwhelm me with your questions,", said mamma. "Let me take them Bingly, and I will do my best to refute this Writer's unpleasant statements. "First, as to . personal appearance.. -You say he styles your papa 'plain' as a boy. That is absurd, for his features, like mother's, were as perfect as a piece of Grecian sculp tare. ! 'Towhead' is also a misstatement. Brother's hair never was at any time tow color, and the tinge of orange at the end ex isted only in the author's imagination. Tow color, you know, is a sort of dirty white or I gray; whereas brother's hair, until be was thirty year old, was like Raines, pure white. After that time it commenced to change to pale gold color, which never, however, deep ened into orange. What was your next question, my dear?" "About papa s wardrobe," said Gabrielle. her cheeks still Hushed with excitement, were you indeed so miserably poor, aun tie?" i ' "We were certainly verv poor after father failed." said mamma, firmly, "bat we were by no means -reduced to abjectnees. lean never .remember the time, in our poorest days, when the boys had not, besides their brown linen working shirts, cotton shirts for Sunday, and father bis 'fine shirt.' to wear to church and visiting. Your papa was dressed suitably for our station in life neither better nor worse than the sons of neighbors in our circumstances. As for going barefoot, all the country boys at that time did so during the summer months, vour Dana was not anexceDtion. You aneak of his gloveless hands. I never saw a pair of kid gloves . worn by farmers while we . lived in Vermont or Pennsylvania; and certainly they would have been very inappropriate for a boy farmer or a printer's apprentice to wear; but brother was always, both at home and at Poultney, supplied with warm wool en mittens.of mothers kniting. As for the cut of his trowsers, I am surprised that any sensible author should use so unfit a word as 'elegance' in speaking of a poor farmer's clothing. I told yon the other day that our wardrobe for everv day wear was spun. woven, and made by mother, and it is not to be expected that home-made coats and trow sers should have the cat of a fashionable New York tailor; but they were at all events warm i and comfortable. That brother's trowsers were always short, and especially n one leg, is an absurd fabrication. The story may perhaps have risen from some one who remembers his lameness in Poultney, when he acquired the habit of dragging one eg a little after the other, and that style of walking may have apparently shortened one of the .trowser legs. Have you anything else to ask, little one?" "Yes; anuiio," said uauneue, smiling at mamma's methodical way of answering: was papa an awkward boy. and did he eat vitlgarly?" "1 have told you dear," mamma replied, how we were broujrht on. I never saw your ppa eat ravenously while he was at home; for father was a denpot at table, and any ap pearance at gluttony would have been quickly checked by the dreaded descent of bis fork upon the table, l think it probable that later in life, when your papa became a distinguished man. and every moment was of value, he did eat quicker than was con sistent with the laws ot etiquette, but not when he was a toy. 'As tor bis awkwardness, I can readily im agine that a boy so intensely preoccupied would not appear in so favorable a light to strangers as one who would seek the society of people rather than books, and superficial observer might nave mistakeu his air of abstraction for rustic bash fulness. You know that he was al ways absorbed in a book from the time he was three years old. rather wouia orten send him to do an errand to fetch wood or the like ; he would start very obediently, but with his eyes upon his book, and by the time he had reached the door he would have completely forgotten everything outside of the page he was reading, and it was necessary to send some one after him to remind him of his errand, lie certainly was very unlike every'-day boys, not only in appearance, but In habits and' moral qualities. Never did I hear a coarse or profane word pass his lips ; the-purity of. his soul was radiant in his beautiful, modest countenance ; while his slender boyish figure, with the ponderous white head poised upon his long, slim neck, always reminded me of a lovely,swaying lily." "I have seen recently in some book," said Marguerite, "that uncle was never at ease in polite society, .To be sore, he had not the manners of a dancing-master, but" Yea," interrupted mamma, "this statement is another of the usual exaggerations current about brother. As you say, be had not the manners of a dancing-master, and when Importuned and annoyed by shallow people, may often have been abrupt with them, but when in society, I have always seen his company as much or more courted than that of any other person present, and have never known him to shrink or be embarrassed in the presence ot people ot distinction or rank. Few men have, I think, been more misrepresented, though often with the kindest intentions, than my dear brother." Mr. Theodore R, Tymby, the inventor of the revolving-turret battery, having had great experience In machinery for wielding heavy ordnance, is contemplating the construction of the largest telescopic lens ever made. ' He proposes a lens more than twice the size of that recently made by Alvln Clark for the Washington Observatory. Preparatory steps to casting a .lens of fly feet in diarreter have been taken near Tar rytown, N. Y. If the experiment proves aa successful as he has reason to hope,' Mr. Tymby's efforts will place American aatron omloal science far in advance of that of other countries.

8PRINO.

Chamber's Journal. Thon of the snnny head. With lilies garlanded. And bosom fairer than the blown sf a-foara : O Hpring, In what waste d- sert dost tnou stay While leaves await thy presence to unfold? The branches of the lime with irost are gray, auu an impnonea is i ne crocus gold Come, sweet enchantress, come! Though In the sombre west The s ar ha h lit its crestPale phosphor, fronUng fall the withered moon The violets are sepultured in snow, . Thy daisies twinkle never In the sun. Kude winds throughout the ruiued orests mow. And silent l s t ne dove's nielod ious moan '. , Enchantress, husten soon. White are the country ways, And white and tangled maze, Loved Of the oxllp and thecreeping thyme; tfare shakes the poplar on the sullen rldsre. Cold glooms the spectral mill above the riood ; jioarae torrents stream beneath the ivied bridge. And lightnings strike tbedarkness of the wood enchantress, bless our dime. No bloom of dewy morn. No freshly-blossomed thorn, Giddens the lmportunlngs of sad eyes; The day wastes dreaily, through clotrd and sleet! Over the watered meadows and dark vales The night cotnes down impetuous and fleet, Ana snips ana cities sniver in the gales O fair enchantress, rise; Arise, and bring with thee Tne rathe bud for the tree. The healing sunshine for tho tram pit d grass; Loose tendrils tor the boughs which bl the eaves, And shield the swallows in the rainy hours, The pendent flames which the laburnum heaves. And fault soen Is for the wind-stirred lilac flowers tnchantress, breathe and pass. Men knew, and kissed, of old. Thy garments's glittering fold Thy radiant footprint on the mead or waste; iartn kindled at tblneadvent altars burned And ringing cymbals bade the hearths be gay ; But now, lu sunless solitude lnurned. Thou leav'stthe world unto .reluctant day. on i naste, enchantress, haste : The lark shall sing again. Between the sun and rain. The brown bee through the flowered pastures roam. There shall be music In the frozen woods, A gurgling carol in the rushing brook, An odor in the half-unbosomed bud. And dancing fox-gloves In each forest nook men come, enchantress, come! ; TO EL01SE. " This was the last poem ever written by Brannan. My soul is sunk in utter loneliness. Ihis mad ambitious life has come to nanght; ah ray wuii nopea are now iui wrecas or I nought That strew the mountain wave of ray distress. Thy warm and earnest woman nature drew The honeyed sweets long treasured In my heart. The last and dearest drop and now apart In helpless anguish 1 am lost to you, O, lost to you : and more than doubly lost. Since your disdain is all 1 now can claim O, what iriire or love, or name, or fone To my wrecked soul: now' more than tempest toss'd O cruel fate; could no malignant foe But love's fair hand deal out my final woe. THE ABSORBING THEME. COMMENTS ON TUE VETO. THE PRESSURE BROUGHT TO BEAR ON THE PRESIDENT WHAT PROMINENT IXKLA TIONISTS THINK OPINIONS OF SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES ON THK FINANCIAL AND POLITICAL RESULT OK THE VETO MESSAGE. The New York Herald gives the following account of the public feeling and opinion in Washington among the more representative congressmen. When the congratulatory dispatches reached the president, he seemed to be much pleased, and said to an intimate friend: "I do not exaggerate when I say that the desire to conscientiously discbarge my duty has caused me more sleepless nights than anything that ever required my approval. The number of schemes lor the financial relief of the country which have been sent to me, both by friends and those who wish weil for the party would make a little library in themselves. Some of them in their sug gestions were unique; but the great mass of them were as uninteresting as a debate in conirress. I have been compelled to pa tiently listen to the views of senators and representatives, and have listened as well to delegations and arguments of pressing friends: and I must say that if personal in fluence could have any weight with me, I should have signed the bill." As it is probable that the Senate bill vetoed by the president will come up for consideration on Tuesday next, it was deemed advisable by the re publican senators who supported the mea sure to hold a caucus, and agree upon some plan of action. The caucus was held after the early adjournment of the Senate today, in the room of the president pro tern.. Senator -Carpenter, who presided. All the republican senators who voted for the measnre were present, except senator Wright, of Iowa, and one or two others who were absent from the city. The only posi tive measure agreed upon was that every member who voted for the bill should stand by his record when the vote upon whether the bill should become a law is taken. It was argued that to change front now would be a confession that the president's judgment was superior to that of individual senators, and that, as their votes bad been given after mouths of serious debate, adherence to their views could not possibly be construed as intending to antagonize the administration. Senator Camoron also-took occasion to an nounce his determination TO STAND BY HIS VOTE to the last, and from what he had been able to glean from the democratic sen ators they too, would not desert the republican friends of expansion. lie had nothing to regret, and not one word to add in defense ot his position. SenatorFerry, ot Michigan, exhibited most evidently the deep regret and disappointment felt by his brother senators who have co operated with him under the lead Morton. lie said that ne never in nis political me ex perienced so mnch surprise at any actiorrof . v r a f the president as mis. .tsui noimng rash or ill-tempered Is to be done, and no occasion will be given for the enemies of the republican party to think mat mere win ue anv disruption of it. Senator Ferry had no severe or unkind thing so say of the president, but believed he had made a great mistake gone DacK entirely on nis friends and changed his mind, nnder some strange and unknown influences. The friends of the bill were going to stand more firm than ever by It. and will, on no accouuf , yield an iota. There is no question of this, and not one senator will change from the position he . has taken up. . Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, further eaya ol the president's veto : This is the worst shot the republican party has ever yet received ; that it would divide up such states as Michigan, Iowa and Kansas, which are the very backbone of the republican party; and he would not even bo surprised it it would divide up Pennsylvania. He avows himself as very much displeased aDd is in favor of making a bitter fight. Senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin, thought it would postpone the final action on finances until next fall, when a new congress is to be, elected and when , - j ; , THE NEXT CAMPAIGN ISSUE , would be "Inflation," and an Inflation congress would be elected. This would seem to argne that the House, then thinking absolutely and undevlatingly in one way, the Senate would be obllged'eventually to consider the expediency of Inclining somewhat in the same direction. senator iiamnn, or Maine, thougni tne veto me greatest act of Jfresident Grant's life; that It would make the East a unit lor him, and the

democrats would not dare oppose him In the East. The West was not so united for Inflation,

i-ei-:iaiij. mmol-, inaiana anaomo. ineir in terestsare identical with the other Northern states, tie appears to be alone in the belief that the veto Is the breaking up of me aemocratic party In the Ea-t. Judae Kelly, of Pennsylvania, says the veto or the bill is unimportant. The doctrlns of the message are fatal to the republican party, inasuutu its mo reiuem s pottiuon thai there must be no increa-ve of treasury or bank notes until they shall b? interchangeable with gold, makes an appeal to the people necessary and inevitable. The cunency question will be the Issue next, in ma coming congressional elections. when the republicans of New England and the naru money democrats of the country will coal ese, while the republicans of the center, Wtst and Sonth. will coa esce with liberal democrat, such as liolman.of Indiana, Beck, of Kentucky, im nucKuiy. m .Missouri, uno peiieve in irebanklng and the right of the people to the benoo fit of the national credit, as against the mo nopoly, held ü7 the national banks of New Enar land and New York city. Senator Kenton freely and fully in a conversation to-day expressed his opinion on the veto message and Its probable consequences upon the legislation of congress and upon the republican party. 'First." said he, 'In common with all clasnes of our New York people, i rejoice in the good fortune to the country of this veto message, but thera are several points in it in which l think THE TRKSIDENT IS MISTAKEN, and one In which he assumes an untenable position. It Is thlsv-The 511,0(10,000 of greenDacKs,ne says, nave atways oeen regarded as a reserve to be used only In case of an emergency, suck as baa occurred on several occasions and such as must occur where, from any cause, revenues fall below expenditures, such reserve Is necessary, he says, because the fractional currencv of jo.otmjotio is redeemable in legal tenden oa call. "Here," said Senator Kenton, "the president assumes his rieht, establish. ed under ihe law. to the lull control of the greenback reserve, which I consider a grave mistake. It is a dangerous power to assume, and a power which, if the president can be lustifled lnexereising it underexUtlng laws, snould be taken away from him, for It is a power of fcll.oco.Ouo expansion or contraction. Again, the president says that paper money is valuable exactly In proportion to ihe amount of colli into which it can be converted. This Is true of small Bums of money, but not of the volume of paper curren cy in any country. For instance. In the volume of our paper money fi m eold to 83 In paper brings paper to par with gold, in France, with a much smaller proportion than one-third of gold, their paper money Is less than one per cent, below cold standard. We can never have resumption upon the theory that it requires a dollar In gold for every dollar we have in paper. Public confidence will cover two-thirds of the stock needed for redemption. Nevertheless, the veto rests upon the true ground of fidelity to our pledges." Senator Pratt, of Indiana, one of the steadiest supporters of the vetoed bill, appeared to day seri ously, perplexed with the sudden and unexpected change in the situation. He had but lit tle to say to inquisitive visitors, beyond the ex pression of a hone tht some way out of our existing financial difficulties satisfactory for the time being to the West and South would be discovered and,adopted before the close of the sion. .lie is EVIDENTLY MUCH DISAPPOINTED In the president's unexpected line of action on not know what to think about the president's action. It has confounded and disappointed all his friend. He has killed things jn Illinoisand has created a great deal of dissatisfaction among the people th re. He can't say what wid be the effect of it financially, in Illinois, but he thinks the president has acted in direct contravention of the wishes of the republican party there. Senator Ilamsey, of Minnesota, says that his people will not suffer very severely from this veto. because they are not involved to any great extent in hazardous speculations, l hey are, nowever n common with the other states of the Northwest, In need of more currency, though the senator has had very few memorials from them in regard to this bill. He understands that In Chicago.where speculation is apt to run a Utile wild there is great excitement, und also at Indianapolis, another speculative center, especially In railtoad enterprises. Hpeaking, however, for the people of Minnesota, he thought they would weather this Btorm without any serious disturbances, financial or joliiieal. The veto, however, would evidently create a wide political commotion, but he hoped there would be nodUastrou results, pnlit leal or otherwise, to the general in?eieisof the country. Senator MitchelLof Oregon, regmds the veto as a great pollticd mistake. His state is by no means a unit for hard money. The lack of currency on the Pacitlc slope is as serious y felt as in the West and South, and it was tor this reason that he supported the Merriinon amendment. What theelN'Ct of the veto would he ultimately ne would not at present attempt lo say. Mr. Sawyer, of Wisconsin, one of the shrewdest men on the floor, who Is the only an i inflation republi can from his state, put the position In this wise: WE DON'T WANT ANY QUARREL. I think myself the president might have signed thlablll as the best compromise, without Ioüs of principle or Inconsistency; but he did not think so, and we ought to acqulese. I never thought the bill amounted to much, and voted forlt ouly because I am really convinced the people of the West demanded snaethlng of the sort." Mr. Sawyer's view is dt Meulyof theroothingorder As far as the Northn rstern republicans are con" cerned they are openly hostile to the veto, al bat two, Mr. Sawyer and Mr. Waldron of Michigan, of whom the remaik la made, "He is a banker and, of course, could go no other way.? Thedemocrats divide evenly, Mr. Eldridge going for Inflation and Mr. Mitchell against. It was openly said that there would not be a congressman re-elected who accepted or acquiesced in the president's views in the;three Northwestern 8ta'es. The same assertion is made of the central West. Ohio leans by a small majority to the president by direct sympathy. A canvass of that delegation gives two or three majority in la the delegations of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, In all 58 members, of whom 17 are democrats. Theie are but 10 known of either partv aa opposed to some measure or inflation, juage tiucuner, or Missouri, who i a democrat, has taken a prominent part lu suggesting a war on the national bank system and in favoring a treasury currency instead. He said in conversation to-day that the large majority of the democratic members had In conference resolved to make antagonism to the national banking system their war cry. This was, he said, the poilcy of the democracy in the West and South. lie said also that in his opinion the excitement over the poller of rigid resumption Indicated In the message, rather than th- veto of the bill, would in the West and South almost obliterate party lines, and it was sustained by others of eltner party. THE ILLINOIS WHIRLWIND. HOW IT CAME HOW IT LOOKED WHAT IT DID AND HOW 'IT DISAPPEARED. A terrible whirlwind lately visited south ern Illinois, in the vicinity of Alton, and some strance phenomena accompanying it. are thus graphically described by an exchange ; About 6 o'clock the sky was half obscured by the dense mass of clouds; then, what seemed to be lighter clouds were detached from the upper mass and swept through the air with inconceivable rapidity, while the atmosphere on the surface of the ground was almost perfectly still. At 6:10 a heavy cloud in the shape of a funnel fell, apparently from the great mass, swept across the rivger as quick as a flash of lightning, the suiall end of the funnel dragging along the surface of the water. In a second the cloud struck the river front, swept by in a flash, bounded like a ball, passed over the hills, toward the north-eat. rose again and broke into fragments. .When it struck tb buildings, a terrible rumbling crash resounded, which was distinctly heard a miie distant, then came the rush and roar of the tempest, blindiug rain, and rattling hail; tbeairaeemod all in a swirl, almost total darkness closed in and hid the scene of destruction. The time occupied by the passage of the whirlwind from tee rlverthrough the valley was not over two seconds, and all the damage was done within that time. , Tbeonly part- of tb.town touched by the tornado-' was the main busl ness part, dire,ctly1rr'the;Vall6y. .-.The .course, of the i Btorrf-ctdiVjyamosl" eiratio. -It was, as we have fcaiuUiMiDbel-Bhaped, small end down. Whatevei object that Bmall W1 touched was emashed to' " atoms. :It TOse;' fell, darted höre and there,'1' .nd finally .rose up and broke into fragments.:, The diameter Of the small end of t the funnel was only a few feet. The storm-cloud, as it swept over the river, was ol greenish-white tinge, but when it rose again into the air it was densely, black like a column of ink,"

BLUE AND GOLD. Grizzly bearded, swarthy and keen, Sitaaleweler, cunning and cold; Spectral eyed. I ke a Bedouin, Counting his gerat aud gold. Counting his chapUls of Syrian Jet. The odorous amber, steeped in the sun, The golden circlets, turtjuoi set, A dowry every one; Blood red rubles, pearls like grapes, Inclusterwof purple, black and whiter ' Cameo rlrdles for exquisltesbapes; Diamond drops of light; Jeweled masks and filigree fans. In carved croes of tropical wood ; Aspic brticelets, buckles and" bands, . CoAsps lor mantle and hood. Dreaming a dream of sorded p!n, Tneinercoam keen-eyed, conning and coli, Smiles In thought of a vei;owrln.

uncata ana seqy Ins oi gold. Trailing her robes of vel et and lce, Thiongh the luminous dimness glows, Viola's turm ot girlish grace. And face like an Alpine rose. She comes to look at the baubles new, To look at the rubies and strings ot pearls, t 1th light In her eyes of turquoise blue. And light In her golden curls. She fans herself wi.h the filigree fans, Opalhaudled, with flame and duskGiving the palms ef her slender hands The scent of ot tar and musk. She tosses the chaplet of Svrian jet And amber by, with a carelesi air, And looks in vain for a Jeweled net Vor her beau tlf a golden hair. Grizzly bearded, with Bpec;ral gleams In the merchant's keen ej e.cunnlng and bold Through the long day he sits and dream - or mingled blue and gold Countlnghls wealth of baubles and toys, Of the hoarded coin which his coffers held, A share for the eyes of blue turquoise Aud net for the hair of gold. SHE WALK8IN BEAUTY. " LORD BYRON. She walks In beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's beet of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less. Had half impaired the nameleas grace Which waves in every raven tress. Or softly lighten' or her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, Ho soft, so calm, yet eloquent. The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in good De spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent. WASHINGTON. FINANCE. TMK HEW 15 1 LA. IN FULL, A SUBSTITUTE FOB THE HO USB CURRENCY BILL SPECIE PAYMENT TO BE RESUMED JANUARY 4, 1877. Washington, May 6. Mr. Sherman re ported the following from the Senate finance committee to-day as a substitute for tte Ilouse currency bill: Be It enacted etc. Section 1. That the act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds and to nrovide for the circnla tion and redemption thereof, approved June 3, 1S74, shall hereafter be known aa the national bank act of 1864. Section 2 That section 31 of the national bank act of 1SC4 be so amended that the sev eral associations therein provided for shall not hereafter be required to keep on hand anv amount ot money whatever, by reason of the amount of their respective circulations, but the moneys required by the said section to be kept at all times on band, shall be deter mined by the amount ot deposits In all respects as provided in the said section, and such national banking associations now organized or hereafter to be orgauized, shall keep and maintain.as a part of 'their reserve.one-lonrth part of the coin received by it as interest on the bonds of the United States deposited as security for the circulating notes or gov ernment deposits. Section 3. That sections 31 and 32 of said act be amended by requiring thateach of the said associations shall within !0 days after the passage of this act, keep its lawful money reserve within its own vaults at the place where its operations of discount and deposit are carried on, and all provisions of the said sections requiring or permitting any of the said associations to keep any portion ot their lawful money reserves elsewhere than in its own vaults,orreqniring or permitting the redemption of its circulating notes elsewhere than at its own counters, except as provided for in this act, are hereby repealed Section 4. that section- 'M of the said act and the several amendments thereto, 80 lar as they restrict the amount of notes for circulation under the said acts be and the same are hereby repealed, and the proviso in the first section of the art approved July 12, 1870, entitled an act to provide for the redemption of the temporary three percent, loan certificates, and for an increase of the national bank notes, prohibiting to BANKS THEREAFTER ORGANIZED a circulation Of over five hundred thousand dollars, and the proviso in the third section of said act limiting the circulation of banks authorized to issue notes, reedeema ble in gold coin, to $1,000,000, and section six of said act, relating to the redistribution of the $25,000,000 of circulating notes be and the the same are hereby re poaled.' That every association hereafter organized shall be subject to, and be governed by the rules, restric tions and limitations and possess the lights, privileges and franchises, now or hereafter to be prescribed by law as to the national banking associations, with the same power to amend, alter and repeal provided by the national banking act of 1864, Section 5. That every association, organized or to be organized under the provisions of the said act and of the several acts in amendment thereof, shall at all times keep and have on deposit in the treasury of the Unilea States, In lawful money of the United States, a sura equal to five per cent, ot the circulation to be held and used only for the redemption of such circulation, and when the circulating notes of any such organization or association shall be , presented for redemption in sums of fl.OOO or any multiple thereof to the treasurer of the United States, the same eh all be redeemed in United States notes. All notes to redeemed shall by, charged by the comptroller of the currence to the respective associations Issuing the same, and be shall notify them severally on the first day cf each month, or ofiener at his discretion, ot the amount ol such redemptions, whereupon each association so notified hall forinwithdepcsitwitb the treasurer of the United States a sum equal to the amount ot its circulating notes so redeemed and all the notes of the national banks worn, defaced, mutilated or otherwise unfit for circulation shall when received by any assistant treasurer of the United States, be forwarded to the treasury ol the United States for redemption, as provided herein, and when nuch redemptions have been so reimbursed, the circulating notes so redeemed shall be forwarded, to the respective associations, by whom tbey, were issued. But if auch notes are worn, -mutilated, defaced or rendered otberwise;unfit for use they shall be 4orwarde.4tq ta'ertfröler of the currency and destrOvedAndiianlaoed as now provid ed by lawv provided that each of said assoianpos snajl.reimppre tne treasury me .v nl CHAJWJÜS tJa IBAiraruniAiiu! , aß d"the 5bstr for' assorting the said notes; and the associations hereafter organized shall also severally reimburse the treasury the cost of engraving each plates aa shall be

by each association respective!. and tie amount assessed upon each association shall be in proportion to the circulation redeemed, and be charged to the lund on deposit with the treasurer. Section 6. That any association organized under the act of which this is an amendment, desiring to withdraw its circulating notes In whole or in part. mv on deposit of lawful money with thetreathan p 000, take the bonds which the said association hss on deposit with the treasurer for security of such circulating notes, which bonds shall be assigned to toe bank in the morir!iP6Ced in. he "taction of the act of 1S64. The outstanding notes of said association to an amount equal to the legal tender notes deposited ahni.i the treasury of the United States, and destroyed as now provided by law, provided that the amount of the bonds on deposit for circulation shall not be reduced below f 30,Section 7. The comptroller of tbe enrrenry f hall, under such regulations as the secretary of the treasnrv - "- uumuerQnne association to be pnmeu upon an national bank notes which ujr uwaner De issued by bim TTotÄ That the entiro rnoont of United States notes outstanding and fn eircnlation at any one time, shall not exceed Ifc'X - pOO.OOO. within SO day. alter tbe circulatinsr nntm tn tho .. - - 1100,000,000 shall from time t tm be issued to the national! banking associations under this act, it shall be the duty of the secretary ol ihe treasury to retire an amount of United Stafcs notes equal to 50 per cent, ot tbe circulating notet so Issued, which shall be in redrrct'on ot the maximum amourt of 3s2,tje;cxx fr.n bhls section and emch reduction. it S'S? DDtil tho maximum amount 2fJ?S5f2i 168 note8 oaistaading shalt bo .OOO.fJOO, and for that punose he isauthorired to Issue and sell at public sale,. alter ten days notice of th t im. i."!.. sale a sufficient amount of bon is of the Uaited States ot tbe character and description prescribed in this act. for ttu...o, .."." to be then retired aDd cancelled.. . oection v. That on and after the yiRST DAT OF JANUARY, U77. any holder of United States bonds to the amount of one thousand Hollo-. - multiple t be reo f, may present them' for payment ai the office of tbe treasurer of tha United States, or at the office of the asaistant treasurer at the city of New Vork, and inereupoii to secretary of the treasuryshall, ia exchange for the said notes, deliver to such holders, an equal amount of coupons or registered bonds ot the United States in such form as he "1? prescribe, of the denomination of fJi or some multiple of that sum, redeemable in win of the present standard value at the pleasure of the United States, after 10 years from the date of their issue and bearing interest payable quarterly in such coin at the rueor 5 per cent, per annum and the secretary of tbe treasury may issue United State notes so- received, or if they are cancelled be may ' issue note to the same amount, either to purchase bonds or to redeem the publicdebt at par in coin or to meet the current payrneats of the pablie service, and the said bond and interest thereon shall be exempt from tbe payment of all taxes or duties of the United States, as well as from taxation in any form by or under state, municipal or local authority, and tho said bond shall have set forth and expressed upon their face the above spet hied conditions, and shall, with their coupons be made payable at the treasury of the United States, provided, however, that the secretary of the treasary, in lieu of such bonds, may redeem said notes in gold coin of the United States. Section 10v That nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize anv increase of tbe principle of the public debt of the United States. BOUTH CAROLINA. MINORITY REPORT or THE JUDICIARY COAT""i1"' t-WUNTION Of THAT PAINTED. ST ATI Washington, D. C, Mty C-Mr. Eldridge, from the Judiciary committee, to-day submitted a minority report on the condition of allairs in South Carolina and it is generally concurred In by tbe entire minority of the judiciary committee. The renort says that it is impposible to turn a deaf ear to tbe supplicating wail of 300,000 oppressed and despoiled citizens of that onee-prosperous and happy state, fraying only that inquiry be mads into their alleged wrongs. We cannot find in the reproaches ol tbe conduct of the memorialists in the past any reason or justification for refusing the hearing they now rf quest. Their fidelity to the constitution and laws is now unquestioned and this plea is made in respectful terms. The report recites briefly and pointedly the list of grievances compJained of, and predicates from them th it the charges of the memorialists are true, a id concludes as follows: In view of the whole, can we or can we not hesitate to recommend the appointment of a committee of both houses of congress with power and authority to go intotbeState of South Carolina and fully inquire and investigate into tbe condition of the 6tate and the charges and complaints of the memorialists. To do less, we feel we should violate and neglect a most solemn and imperative duty. The cry. of that outraged and helpless and suffering people ihas reached -our hearts, as well . as . our , understandiog. , That once prospering and beautiful state is on tbe verge ol ruin. She is indeed already prostrate. A horde of thieves and robbers, wor e than any that eyer infested any civilized community on earth, has her by the throat and are fast- sucking ber life blood. -Three hundred thousand of her cit izens, descendants of those who fought and won with our fathers the battles of American independence and liberty, are crying to congress : for redress and help. They have suffered all that humility can endure. They have exhausted every resource , and are utterly helpless of themselves. To refuse their request is to drive them to despair and ruin. .; . .. , - ' .The expense of living, in Alexandria and Cairo, has increased about fitty per cent, since 1SC2; but the expense of a voyage up the Nile is from two to three times as much as then. A large dahaybeeyeh, then costing $250 per month, now commands $750 which, considering that the value of the boat is about $3,500, is enormously exorbitant. Luxurious travelers are chiefly to blame for this state of things, and I imagine that tbe stars and stripes cover quite as much ostentation as any other flag. The steamers take parties of twenty or thirtv at 46 apiece, to tbe Firt Cataract find back in time weeks. These parties generally return in a state of violent contention, even (tn one case this winter) with pending duels, which is rather a dismal view of human nature to one who has seen Abydus and Karuak. Bayard Taylor. There are a good many educated and elo Prof. W. D. Whitney ot Yale College has recently won several gratifying tokens of appreciation from the learned bodies in Enrope. .The University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, has Just conferred upon him the degree ot LI. D., and within the past two years he has also been appointed correspondent of the Royal Academy at Berlin and corresponding member of tbe German Oriental Society.

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