Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1875 — Page 1

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JRistclhm MY LOVE AND. I. We never spoke a word of love, We never named its name, As through the leafy wood and down The shadowed path we came; And yet—and yet—l almost think, Although I can’t tell why, Hi* love fi mine, and mine Is hie: We’re cure—my Love and I. Here let me sit and live in thought Those blissful hours again, And ere I hoard them in my heart Their sap and sweetness drain. The bluebells hung their fair young heads Beneath the bluer sky, We talked of trivial, common things, We talked—my Love and L And once—how well I know the spot— We stopped beside the brook, And saw the gurgling waters as Their sunlit way they took. My eyes met his, the soul of love In that brief glance did lie, Mv eyelids drooped—we watched the stream Flow past—my love and I. And now, I’ve nothing more to say, My heart won’t let me tell The silent talk our spirit* had, The charm that o’er us fell. I am not sure, but still I think, Although I can’t tell why. His love is mine, and mine is his: We’re ours—my Love and I.

REDEEMED.

The fact is, we were both too young to marry. She was eighteen; I was barely out of my majority; but she was a poor, desolate little orphan sent out into the cold world to do the best she could for herself as a governess; I was madly in love with her, and I was my own master; we had no wiser heads to advise us and no more experienced hands to guide us—so we took our own way, as was but natural, and married on my clerkship of three hundred a year. I need scarcely say we were happy. For the first two years indeed it seemed to me as if I had never really lived until now. Our pretty little home at Kilburn was bright and cheerful. Edith was always affectionate, always good-tempered, and like Annabel Lee seemed to live “ with no other thought than to love and be loved by me.” My work sat on me easily; ana being young people of moderate tastes we had money enough for all we wanted. There was not a flaw anywhere, and the days were scarely long enough for the toy that filled them with sunshine from beginning to end. All this continued for two years, and then my wife became a mother. This was the first break in our manner of life, the first shadow cast over the brightness of our happy love. It changed the whole order of things, and the change told heavily against me. Edith was no longer my companion as she had been. The baby was delicate, and her health also gave way. She was obliged to go to her own room quite early in the evening, sometimes at seven o’clock or so, and even when she was well she was up in the morning with the child, and the evenings hung on me heavy and long. I was no student in those days. I was social, and if not inordinately yet undoubtedly fond of amusement; hence, sitting alone for all these hours after my solitary dinner —for Edith dined early by the doctor’s or ders—was dreary work for me, and I grew daily more fretted by the dullness of my once sunshiny home. I tell the 'story just as it was; not to excuse myself, but to explain. Also, too, the desire for more experience natural to my age began to make itself felt, and more than once I found myself confessing: “We married too young.” Yet I did not wish for dissipation;! was not conscious of a reserve of wild oats that I was longing to sow, but I did want a little change from the dead monotony of my spoiled home. I was yearning for the society of men of my own age and standing, and naturally the boy, though I loved him well enough—for all that I thought him the ugliest and oddest little imp I had ever seen—was not to me what he was to his mother. To her indeed he was everything. The mother had superseded the wife, and the husband was nowhere in •omparison with the child. Edith was angry too that I did not, as she phrased it, “ take to him more,” and I was angry that she took to him so much. May be that I was jealous. On looking back I should say that I was. Just when Bertie was three months old a fellow in our office introduced me to Jack Langhorne. Handsome, well-man-nered, rich, gay, good-tempered, generous, Jack was just the man to fascinate a comparatively raw lad, as I still was. He knew everything, being one of the kind who start at seventeen as men and “ see life” systematically from that time. There was not an .accomplishment in which he was not a proficient; not a game he could not play, giving long odds and winning. He was lavish of his money, and a gambler by inbred instinct. He was always staking his fate on chance, and hitherto chance had been his friend. He used often to say that he had been too lucky, and that he should have to pay for it before he had done. Nevertheless the day of payment gave no sign ©f dawning, and Jack went on staking and landing, backing the right color and the winning horse as if he had a private Nostradamus at hi© elbow, and could read the future as other men could read the past. I dare say many of my readers will laugh at me for the confession, but I had never seen a race until Jack Langhorne took me down to the Derby on his drag. It was a day both of great enjoyment and great excitement to me, for under his auspices I netted fifty pounds and I felt a millionaire. I was wild with pleasure; perhaps, too, the champagne counted for something in my hilarity as I took home to Edith a sixth of my yearly income, made in fewer hours than it took me to earn my paltry diumial guinea. Visions of fortune, golden and bright, passed before my eyes, and already I saw Edith queening it in the park with her high-stepping bays and faultless turn-out. She should have everything money could command. Whatever else my visions showed me she was always In my thoughts and highest in mv hopes. Hut when I gave her the money she turned away from me coldly and a minute after had buried her face in the pillow of the sofa where she was lying and was sobbing. I was a good deal surprised, a little shocked and greatly hurt —I had better use the harsher word and say vexed—at this outburst. I did not see the good of It and Ldid not understand it. Besides jt chills a man sb painfully to be received with boldness and tears after such a day as I had spent!

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It makes the contrast between life inside and outside the home too sharp, and only sends him further off instead of drawing him nearer. However, tears were too scarce yet for me to or withstand them, so I kissed my vflre'hnd did my best to soothe her, and by degrees brought her round so far that she left oft crying, and began to kiss the baby as if it was something quite new and she had never kissed it before.

Though I was sorry to see her cry this vexed me again. She had not seen me all the day, and she had had the boy. I thought she might have paid a little attention to the one who had been absent, to put it on no other ground. But when I remonstrated she only answered: “ 1 know, George, you do not care for baby. You never have cared for him, and if it were not for pie he might die of neglect.” I began to laugh at this. It struck me as too comical that a wife should reproach her husband for not taking care of the baby; for surely if there is such a thing as “woman’s work” in the world, ana they are not meant by nature and the eternal fitness of things to be soldiers and sailors and lawyers and doctors and the Lord knows what besides, that work is to be found in the home and the nursery. But she was angry when I laughed, and raising herself on her elbow drew such a picture of the infamy, ruin, degradation that was to follow on my taking to bad courses, founded on my not caring for baby and my having won fifty pounds at the Derby, that I seemed to be listening to a maniac, not the Edith I bad left in the morning and had loved for so long. Perhaps I was too impatient and ought to have remembered that if I found my life dull hers was not too gay; I ought to have made allowance for the morbid nervousness and brooding fancies of a woman left alone for the whole day; but I was younger then than I am now, and the thing ended by our having our first grave quarrel, wherein we were both silly, both unjust, and neither of us woula give way.

The bad blood made between us tonight grew worse as time went on; and the circle we were in was a vicious one. I kept away more and more from home because my wife made it too miserable for me by her coldness, her tears, her complaints, her ill-humor; and the more I kept away the more she resented it. She took an almost insane hatred and suspicion of my friends and my actions, and did not scruple to accuse me ana them of vices and crimes because I was often late, from no worse cause than playing pool and billiards. Her reproaches first wearied and then hardened me; and by degrees a kind of fierce feeling took possession of me—a kind of revengeful determination that I would be what she imagined me to be, and give her cause to denounce me as she did. Harmless amusement became amusement not so harmless, petty little 'stakes of half-a crown and a shilling grew to gold; the glass of beer became the glass of brandy—and more than one; ana the facilis descensus had one more self-direct-ed victim on its slippery way. Work was intolerable to me. What I did I did badly, and I shirked all I could. I was often late, I as often left too early; and my employers were really good and lenient. As it was, however, I wearied out their patience, and they remonstrated with me firmly but kindly. This sobered me for a moment; but I had gone too far to retreat —until I came out at the other side I must go on. Th© fortune which had so long befriended Jack Langhorne deserted him now, and with his fortune his nerve. Where he had staked with judgment he now backed wildly, recklessly, and the more he lost the more recklessly he staked. His fortune seemed to influence mine. Hitherto I had been immensely successful; now the luck ran dead against me, ans I lost mere than I could afford, ana soon more than 1 could pay, and so came face to face with ruin.

During all this time the estrangement between Edith and myself grew daily wider. She took the wrong method with me, and being a woman she kept to it. She thought to dragoon me back to the quiet of my former life, and made my private actions personal to herself; seeking to force me into rendering an account of all my doings, and of every item of expenditure, then taking it as an affront when I refused to answer questions. But now there was no hope for it. I must perforce confess. With that writ out against me it was useless to attempt concealment, and if marriage is not feminine Buperiority yet it is-partnership. You may be sure it was a bitter moment for me when I had to tell my wife that all her worst anticipations were realized; that she had been right throughout and I wrong, and that the destruction she had prophesied had overtaken us. In her temper ijf so many months now it was doubly *Ard. But it seems that I knew as little of women as she of men, and had miscalculated the depth of her goodness underneath all her wrong-headedness, just as she had miscalculated my power of will and truth of love when fairly pulled up. She heard me out to the end without making a sign. There was no interruption, no angry expression, no scornful look. I saw the hand with which she held the child tighten round his body, the one playing with his curls tremble. But that was all. When I had finished she looked up and said quietly: “It is better to know the worst, George, for then we can meet it Now that 1 know the worst I know what to do.” And you do not reproach me, Edith?" Tasked.

She rose from, her seat and came over to me. Her eyes were full of tears, her lips we»e quivering, and yet there was more love, more softness in her face through its sorrow than there had been for all these long, bad, dreary months, passing now into years. She slid the boy from her arms and pressed them round my neck. “ Why should I reproach you?” she said. “Is not your burden heavy enough without that? While I thought I could help to keep you straight I tried—if clumsily and to no good, yet loyally. Now I know that all is over I have only to try and help you both by my work and my love.” Something seemed to choke me while she spoke. I could have been hard enough if she had been angry, but this sudden return to the old- love—this unexpected magnanimity—was too much for mp- Still, lam thankful to say I did not break down. I was man enough for that. “ Will you trust me, Edith?” said L hi a tone sq rough and husky I scarcely recognized it qa my own. “ Love me as you uled, be to me what you were, and I swear you shall never have cause to re-

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proach me again. I am young, I can work, I can be resolute. I have bought my experience of life and I find the taste too bitter in my mouth. A man may be a man and yet not be ashamed to think of his wife©* well as of bis pleasures, and I will think of you now.” She sighed and then she smiled. “You come back to what you left,” she sard in a tender, caressing kind of way that seemed as if it buried now forever all that had gone wrong between US. Of course the struggle was a tremendous one. I lost my clerkship and every sixpence I possessed, both in goods and money. My wife had to give lessons and I had to accept anything that would keep us from starvation; but we pulled through in time, and the suffering we had encountered was perhaps a good thing in the end. It taught us to value each other in a deeper and truer manner than ever before; and it gave us a friend. For dear old Jack’s luck turned with his uncle’s death, and he used his influence to get me a situation that began at 600 a year, and has steps upward in the future. Things have gone well with me since then. Edith’s health has come back, and my boy is at the head of his class. I have traveled a good deal, and lately I have taken up chemistry as a study. Edith declares I will blow the house up some day, but I have not done so yet, and I think I am on the track of a discovery that will do a great deal of good—make me a name, and bring in a lot of money. I find that as one grows older work is a more satisfying thing than pleasure, and knowledge goes further than excitement; and Edith finds that a wife’s influence is greatest when least visibly exerted, and that when a woman abandons the persuasion of love for authoritative command, anti tenderness for ill temper, she loses her power and *only deepens the unhappiness she aims at preventing.

Sing More.

Cultivate singing in the family. Begin when the child is not yet three years old. The songs and hymns your childhood sang, bnng them all back to your memory and teach them to your little ones; mix them altogether, to meet the similar moods, as in after life they come over us so mysteriously sometimes. Many a time and oft, in the veiy whirl of business; in the sunshine ana gayety of Fifth Avenue, and amid the splendor of the drive in Central Park, some little thing wakes up the memories of early youth—the old mill; the cool .spring; the shady tree by the school-house —and the next instant we almost see again the ruddy cheeks, the smiling faces, and the merry eyes of schoolmates, some grayheaded now, most “ lie moldering in the grave.” And anon, “ the song my mother sang” springs unbidden to the lips and soothes and sweetens all these memories.

At other times, amid the crushing mishaps of business, a mere ditty of the olden time pops up its little head, breaks in upon the ugly train of thought, throws the mind into another channel; light breaks in from behind the cloud in the sky and a new courage is given to hs. The honest mangoes singing to his work; and when the day’s labor is done, his tools laid aside, and he is on his way home, where wife and child and tidy table and cheery fireside await him, he cannot help but whistle or sing. The burglar never sings. Moody silence, not the merry song, weighs down the dishonest tradesman, the perfidious clerk, the unfaithful servant, the perjured partner.— Hall's Journal.

National Platform of the Independent Labor Reformers.

The platform adopted by the National Convention recently in session at Cleveland, Ohio, is as-follows: Oar Government is founded solely upon the consent of the people, and its powers are subject to their control. The evils we now live under have resulted from the acts of unfaithful representatives, who have set the interest* of party above those of the people. These evils are chiefly displayed in our monetary system and the monopolies which it has engendered; this system being monarchical in its principles and subversive of republican government; and as experience demonstrates that we can have no hope ,of reform from existing political parties, it becomes our imperative duty to organize a new party, to the end that we may resist the encroachments of the money power upon tiie rights of the people, stay the tide of cornwtion and extravagance which overflows the land, and place the control of the resources and finance of the country in the hands of the people. We, therefore, establish the Independent party, and declare its principles to be as follows: 1. It is the dmy oi me Government to establish a monetary system based on the faith and resources of the nation, in harmony With the genins of this Government and adapted to the industrial and commercial needs of the country. To this end the notes of all National and State banks should be withdrawn from circulation and paper money issued by the Government directly to the people, in payment of the Government obligations. without the intervention of any system of banking corporations, which money shall be legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, duties on imports included, except that portion of interest and principal of the present public debt that is by express terms of the law creating it made pavable in metallic money: this money to be interchangeable at the option 6T the holders with registered Government bonds bearing a rate of interest not exceeding 8.65 per cent, per hnnnm. 2. This system of finance will, by stimulating our Industries and commerce, soon make the United. States the depository of the precious metals of the world.

3. The adoption of this system, by furnishing sufficient money at low interest, will solve the question of cheap transportation, because it will enable railroads and the carrying trade to relieve themselves of their loads of debt and lower their rates, and enable the people to construct additional line* wherever internal commerce may reqtur*. 4. It is the doty of the Government in all its legislation to keep in view the fall development o. the agricultural and mineral resources of the country, and its manufacturing interests. 5. The great Interests of the productive industry claim their just recognition at the band of the Government of the people, and through the monetary system here proposed all these interestscan be fully secured. 6. As the public domain is the rightful heritage of the people, it should not be distributed to speculators or corporations, bnt reserved tor actual settlers. 7. It is the duty of the Government to equalize the bounties of soldiers and to bring to speedy settlement all other just claims arising from the late war.

. 8. All the rights, privileges, and immunities recognised by the Government should be based on the fact of citizenship, equal rights before the law being secured by the Constitution. 9. We insist upon and demand severe retrenchment and economy in all branches of the public affairs 10. Rivers and harbors, being under the jurisdiction of the Government, should be by it improved when necessary to the commerce of the people. 11. Through the monetary system herein proposed there will be established between the citizens of this country a firm and lasting bond of union by giving common interest in the common Government, and bringing peace and prosperity to each and all its inhabitants. 12. A* all special privileges, immunities and powers conferred on corporations of any kind or nature are granted at the expense of the people these privileges and powers mast be held subordinate to thejighta of the people and subject to the sußversfon and control of the power granting -—Col. Jose Navarro, the only surviving signer of the declaration Of Texan independence, lives at' San Antonio.

LATEST NEWS.

Aii American Prelate Constituted a Cardinal. Shocking Volunteer Outrage in Cienfuegos. Twenty-two Cubans Murdered in Cold Blood. The Chicago Evangelists Create a Sensation in London. Rienzi, Miss., Nearly Destroyed—-Foar Persons Killed. The Crusaders Recommence Operations In Chicago. The National Independent Reformers la Council. Late Official Vtteraneef Concerning the Black Hills. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc.

THE OIxD world. Thebe was a heavy gale on the English and Irish coasts on the 9th, which greatly damaged the shipping and caused the loss of many lives. On the 10th it was announced tbatM. Buffet had succeeded in forming a new French Cabinet. The rumor that Prince Gortschakoff had demanded the recall of Wm. Schuyler, United State* Charge Affaires at St. Petersburg, is declared to be untrue. On the 11th John Mitchel was re-elected to Parliament from Tipperary by about 2,368 majority. U. S. Minister Caleb Cushing presented his credentials to King Alphonoo on the Uth. According to the Voce de Verita, of Rome, Archbishop McCloskey has been appointed a Cardinal, “not only on account of the personal merits of that prelate, but because the Holy See is desirous of honoring the Catholics of America,-and of marking the progress of Catholicism in the United States.” On the 12th, in the French Assembly, M. Buffet, the new Premier, read a declaration in behalf of the new Ministry that its policy would be eminently conservative. Gbeat disorder prevailed in Tipperary on the night of the 12th on account of the refusal of some of the citizen* to illuminate their dwelling* in honor of the second election of John Mitchel to Parliament. Several house* were sacked. A Berlin dispatch of the morning of the 15th say* a large consignment of horses recently purchased by French dealers in East Prussia for the Frenoh army had been stopped in transitu at the Berlin depot by order of the German Government.

A London telegram of the 15th says that immense crowds were in attendance upon the revival meetings in that city under the direction of Messrs. Moody and Sankey, the Chicago missionaries. On that night there were 20,000 people present, and thousands were turned away. Duke D’Andifret Pasquier has been elected President of the French Assembly. It was reported that twenty-two young men of Cuban birth, residents of Cienfuegos, had been recently arrested in their homes in that city by volunteers and shot outside the walls without the form of a trial. THE SEW WORLD. On the 9th Hon. Godlove 8. Orth was confirmed as Minister to Austria and Hon. Horace G. Maynard as Minister to Turkey. The twelve general appropriation bills passed during the last session of Congress aggregated about $175,000,000, apart from other bills containing appropriations. SamublE. Belcher, a Deacon in Plymouth Church, testified on the 9th that Mr. Tilton had read to him at the time of the Bowen difficulty certain papers alleging improper proposals on the part of Mr. Beecher to Mrs. Tilton, which Mr. Tilton asserted she had repelled. Mr. Tilton told witness he bad informed Mr. Beecher of Mrs. Tilton’s charge of improper proposals and that he had said it wes false and the woman must be crazy. The witness also stated that Mr. Tilton said his wife had retracted the retraction she had given to Mr. Beecher, who had confessed and apologized. Several witnesses were examined relative to the Winsted affair, whose evidence confirmed that given by former witnesses for the defense.

The Ohio State Grange met at Columbus on the 9th. Over 200 delegates and about 300 visiting members were present. The annual report of the Secretary shows that there are 1,146 Granges in the State in good working order, with 65,000 members. Gov. Garland, of Arkansas, has issued a proclamation appointing Thursday, March 25, as a day of thanksgiving for the blessings showered upon the State during the past twelve months.

The vote in New Hampshire at the State election on the 9th was the largest ever polled in the State. The latest news indicated that there bad been no Choice for Governor by the people, and that the Republicans would have a majority in the Legislature, thus insuring the election by that body of Cheney, the Republican candidate for Governor. Jones (Dem.) is elected to Congress in the Third District; BeU(Dem.) in the Second, and Blair (Rep.) in the Third. St. Clair McKblwat, of the Brooklyn Eagle., Oliver Johnson, of the Christian and Isabella 8. Oakley testified in the Beecher suit on the 10th. The defense sought by their evidence to corroborate the charges against the plaintiff of Immorality, irreligion, and neglect of family. Mr. McKehcay testified that Mr. Tilton had once told* him Uta story in the f >rm of an allegory, in which the charge against Mr. Beecher was that of improper advances. A. C- BprLic ence correspondent of the St.

Loads Republican, who vie Indicted by a District of Columbia Grand Jury for libeling In the Detroit JVw Press ex-Benator Chandler some months ago, was lately arrested at St Louis under the provisions of the “Poland Press-Gag** law, taken before a United States Commissioner, and on hearing remanded to the custody of the United States Marshal of the District of Columbia. By agreement, a writ of Aatea* corpus issued out of the -United States District Court of Missouri, and, after argument extending over several days, Jndge Treat, on the 9th, rendered hl* decision, holding that the Press law did not apply to the Buell case, and that recourse must be had to the law of 1788. Under this decision Buell was released, the United States District Attorney giving notice of appeal. Thb following changes in department commanders are announced from Washington: Gen. Augur goes to New Orleans, to succeed Gen. Emery; Gen. Ord to San Antonio, Tex., to succeed Gen. Augur; Gen. Crook to the Department of the Platte, to succeed Gen. Ord; Gen. Kautz takes command In Arizona.

Tub National Labor Reform Convention met at Cleveland on the 11th, about sixty delegates being present M. M. Hooton, of Centralia, Hl., was chosen permanent Chairman; Andrew Cameron, of the Workingman's Advocate, Chicago, Secretary; J. T. Campbell, of Illinois; C. W. Campbell (colored), of West Virginia, and R. J. Treveffick Vice-Presi-dents. A committee on resolutions was appointed. A general discussion occurred on subjects before the convention. St. Louis was decided on as the place for the meeting of the next convention. Gem. Ord has Issued orders that the military shall occupy the districts in the Black Hills, dividing into small camps and employing a large number of Indian runners, so that no persons can enter the district without discovery, and when found they will quietly be escorted out. Gen. Ord says the treaty with the Indians shall be fully carried out, so far as is in his power. ASt Paul telegram says Gen. Terry, commander of the Department of Dakota, ha* announced that he shall deem it his duty to disperse and oppose the movement of any and all parties intending to encroach upon the forbidden territory. Thb newly-appointed Captain-General of Cuba, Count Valmaseda, reached Havana on the 11th and was received with the usual ceremonies. He brought a reinforcement of 1,000 soldiers from Spain. According to a Washington dispatch of the 10th, the departments have issued circulars announcing the abolition of the civilservice reform rules governing their respective departments wherever operative, and announcing a return to the former method of appointing employes. A large number of delegates from Ohio and Western Pennsylvania met in convention at Columbus, Ohio, on the llth, to take some action relative to the adoption of a religious amendment to the Constitution of the United State*. Lengthy resolutions were adopted, expressive of their peculiar ideas. Thb Ohio State Grange elected the following officers on the 11th: 8. H. Ellis, of Warren County, Worthy Master; J. W. Ogden, of Champaign, Overseer; W. W. Miller, of Erie, Secretary; R. Stevenson, of Green, Treasurer; M. N. Kimmel, of Montgomery, Chaplain; H. 8. Piatt, of Logan, Lecturer; Thomas Fletcher, of Clermont, Steward; Frank Ford, of Portage, Assistant; Mrs. 8. H. Ellis, of Warren, Ceres; Mrs. A. J. Love, of Knox, Pomona; Mrs. E. J. Malster, of Washington, Flora. It was reported in Washington on the 11th that the President had issued an order to the heads of the several departments instructing those officers to recognize the present Government of Arkansas.

Thb recent act of Congress fixed the rate of postage op mall matter of the third class—in which is included transient newspapers and magazines, hand-bills and circulars, and merchandise—atone cent per ounce or fraction thereof, which must be fully prepaid to insure transportation in the mails. Gbn. Sheridan left Washington on the llth for New Orleans, via Chicago and Leavenworth, Kan. The main witness in the Beecher trial on the llth was a Mr. Charles Cowley, an attorney of Lowell, Mass., who testified to having been at one time counsel for Mrs. Woodhull, and that in 1871 be was introduced to Mr. Tifton at her house, and there heard them avow their sentiments regarding the marriage relation. They also told witness of the alleged immoral doings of Mr. Beecher, Mrs. Tilton, and other members of Plymouth Church, and how Mr. B. was to be coerced into presiding at Mrs. W.’s lecture. This witness thought Mr. Tilton and Mrs. Woodhull evinced great tenderness towa*d each other.

Two young girls, Caroline and Lizzie Germain, who were recently returned to the Cheyenne Agency from their captivity among the Indians, tell a horrible story of their treatment at the hands of the heartless savages. During their captivity they endured almost every species of torment known to savage devils. They give a detailed account of th© horrible massacre of their parents, brother and invalid sister at Smoky Hill, Kan., in September last. Two colored waiters of a Chicago restaurant went into another restaurant in the city on the evening of the llth and ordered supper, whieh was refused them. On the 12th the Ohio State Grange adopted a resolution refusing to sanction the action of the National Grange recommending Congress to grant Government aid to the Texas Pacific Railway. Brigham Young refused to comply with the decree of the court granting alimony to Ann Eliza, and was fined $25 and imprisoned one day for contempt of court. He subsequently paid the fine and submitted to tjie judgment o< the court by advice of bls friends, who wish to carry the case to the Supreme Court

The National Independent Labor Reformers, in session at Cleveland cm the 12th, adopted resolutions, and voted to continue the National Executive Committee, giving them power to add to their number and to select a sub-committee of thirteen. The committee was Instructed to issue an address to the people of the country setting forth the ideas and platform of the party and asking their co-operation and votes. The committee is also to decide upon the place for holding the Presidential Nominating Convention. - w Tms Louisiana Arbitration Committee met in secret dSsetou in New York city on the 13th. fiAMTJL Wipnftpff, cne of tb ® publishers

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of the ehrMMm Union, and Rev. Edwere the witnesses in the Beecher trial on the 12th. Wilkeson testified that he drew up a copy of the tripartite agreement, and that Mr. Tilton’s complaint against Mr. Beecher at that time was that be (Beecher) refused to help him when he was in need of aid because of his discharge by Bowen. He said Mr. Tilton denied the greater crime charged against Mr. Beecher, saying all he accused defendant of was improper proposals. On the cross-examination witness stated that In April, 1872, he had told Mr. T. that Mrs. Stanton had asserted that Mr. Beecher had committed the crime with which he is charged, and that Miss Anthony had told him that Mrs. T. had confessed the same to her. To this Mr. Tilton said Miss Anthony’s mind was always dwelling on morbid subjects. Mr. Eggleston’s testimony was to the effect that he had been at Mr. Tilton’s house on one occasion when the latter’s attentions to a certain lady were the subject of remark. Thb steamer B. B. Hart sunk near New Orleans on the night of the 12th, and ten or fifteen lives were lost.

According to a Cheyenne (W. T.) dispatch of the 13th four more Black Hills miners had reached Fort Laramie, who brought specimens of gold-dust with them, and also specimens of silver. They gave glowing accounts of the Black Hills regions. Numerous test suits to settle the constitutionality of the Civil-Rights bill have been initiated In different sections of the South and West Hotels in some of the Southern cities have been closed by the proprietors, who preferred to do this rather than submit to the requirements of the Civil-Rights bill.

Two thousand colored laborers, together with a few whites, marched In procession to the Executive Mansion in Washington on the evening of the 15th, for the purpose of making complaint that certain money appropriated by Congress for the use of the District Government had been paid to contractors instead of to the laborers employed by them. The President declined to receive them and they withdrew. On the 15th the Secretary of State communicated to the Senate the correspondence between the United States and Spanish Governments relative to the claim for indemnity for the execution at Santiago de Cuba of Americans who were on board the Virginius. This correspondence shows that the British claim was originally £SOO for each white and £3OO for each colored man, being a total of £7,700, which was finally reduced to £6,700. The original claim of the United States was $2,500 for each of the crew slain, regardless of color, and a larger sum for each officer killed. The claim was strenuously pressed and Spain agreed to pay SBO,OOO in gold, unconditionally, the money to be distributed by the United States. On the night of the 15th a violent hurricane passed over the town of Rienzi, Miss., nearly destroying it Five persons were killed and several were dangerously and many slightly wounded. A Cook Countt (Ill.) Grand Jury has recently found four criminal indictments against the proprietor of the Chicago Times, three of them for the libel of individuals and one for the publication of an alleged obscene article. It has been recently stated by Gen. Sherman that expeditions to the Black Hills country will be prevented from entering that region, or if any get in they will be driven out as soon as the weather will permit. A Washington telegram of the 15th says the Government would endeavor to extinguish the Indian title at the earliest practicable moment, but until that is done all persons would be prohibited from going there, and those now there would be required to remove. Thb anti-liquor crusade began again in Chicago on the evening of the 14th, several ladies visiting a billiard and liquor saloon and engaging in singing and prayer. The proprietor was appealed to to abandon the traffic. The crusaders were treated with respect by the proprietor and the large number of spectators present.

CON6BRSBIONAE.. In the Senate, on the 9th, a communication w*s received from the Vice-President annouEcing his absence from the city for s few days, and a ballot was had for President pro tern. of the Senate, which resulted in the election of Senator Ferry .of Michigan, by a vote of 89 to 65 for Senator Thurman, of Ohio ...The list of standing committees was read, after which Mr. Morton concluded his speech upon the Pinchback resolutions. ...Mr. Merrimon, of North Carolina replied thereto.. ..Executive session and adjourned. In the Senate, on the 10th, Mr. Merrimon concluded his argument on the Plnchback resolution, and Mr. McCreery, of Kentucky, obtained the floor, bnt gave way for executive *•*- sion, after which the Senate adjourned. - In the Senate, on the llth, the question of the appointment of a committee to visit the Indian Territory was discussed, after which, the whole subject was tabled—B9 to 22... .Executive session and adjournment. In the Senate, on the 12th, a memorial was presented from the heirs of Wm. K. Sebastian, U. 8. Senator from Arkansas in 1861, asking that the resolution for his expulsion be rescinded ....The Pinchback resolution was debated by Messrs. McCreery, Saulsbury and Christiancy, all in opposition to its passage.... Executive session and adjournment. The resolution for the admission of Pinchback came np in the Senate on the and Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, moved that the' word “ not” be inserted before the word “ admitted” in the text. Messrs. Thurman and Whyte spoke against the resolution.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 15th, a resolution was adopted requesting the President to transmit to the Senate any information he may have concerning the proposed emigration to ths Black Hills, and what measures will be taken to prevent it The Pinchback resolution was debated by Messrs. Feny of Connecticut and Wen of Louisiana... Executive session and adjournment.

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Senate Committees.

Thb following is a list of the new standing committees in the United States Senate: Privileges and Elections— Morton, Chairman; Logan, Alcorn, Mitchell, Wadleigh, Cameron (Mas.), McMillan, Saulsbury. Merrimon. Foreign Relatione— Cameron (Pa.), Chairman; Morton, Hamlin, Howe, FreHughnysen, Conkling, McCreery, Bogy, Johnson (Tenn.). Finance— Sherman. Chairman; Morrill (Vt.), Ferry (Mich.), Frellnghuysen, Logan, Boutwell, Jone* (Nev.), Bayard, Kernan. Appropriations— Morrill (Me.), Chairman; Windom, West, Sargent, Allison, Dorsey, Baton, Wallace, Davis. Commerce— Conkling, Chairman; Spencer, Boutwell, Cameron oVis.), Burnside, McMillan, Gordon, Dennis, McDonald. Manufactures— Robertson, Chairman; Booth, Bruce. Withers. Wallace. Agriculture— Frelinghnysen, Chairman; Roberts, Harvey, Davis, Gordon. Military Affairs—. Logan, Chairman; Cameron (Pa.), Spencer, Clayton, Wadleigh, Ransom, Burnside, Randolph, Cockerill. Haval Affairs— Crsgln, Chairman; Anthony, Morrill (Me.), Sargent, Conover, Norwood, Judiciary— Edmunds, Chairman; Conkling, Frellnghuysen, Whyte, Howe, Thurman, Stevenson. Postoffices and Post Roads— Hamlin, Chairman; Ferry (Mich.), Dorsey. Jones (Nev.), Dawes, Faddock, Saulsbury, Johnson (Tenn.), Maxey. Public Lands— Oglesby, Chairman; Windom, Harvey, Boutwell, Paddock, Booth, Kelly, McDonald, Jones (Flaj. Private Land Claims— Thurman, Chairman; Bayard, Bogy, Ferry (Conn.), Allison. Indian Affairs— Allison, Chairman; Oglesby, Morrill (Me.), Ingalls, Clayton, Bogy, McCreery. Pensions— lngalls, Chairman: Allison, Hamilton, Booth, Bruce, McDonald, Withers. Revolutionary Claims—Stevenson, Chairman; Johnston (Va.), Goldthwaite, Morrill (Vt.), Wright. Ctotow—Wright, Chairman; Mitchell, Wadleigh, christiancy, McMillan, Cameron (Wi*.), Caperton, Cockerill, Jones (Fla.). district of Columbia— Spencer, Chairman; Sitchcock, Robertson, Dorsey, Ingalls, Merrimon, aton.

Patents— Ferry (Conn.), Chairman; Windom, Dawes, Johnston (Va.), Kernan. PwWie Buildings and Grounds—Morrill (Vt), Chairman; Cameron (Pa.), Paddock, Cooper, Territories— Hitchcock, Chairman; Cragin, Patterson, Chrlstiancy, Sharon, Cooper, Maxey. Bailroads— West. Chairman; Hitchcock, Cragin, Howe, Hamilton, Mitchell, Sargent, Dawes, Hansom. Kelly, Caperton. Mines and Mining—Sargent, Chairman; Hamlin, Alcorn, Haryey, Sharon, Goldthwaite, Rand< ot the Laws of the United States— Boutwell, Chairman; Alcorn, Chrlatiancy, Caperton, Wallace. Education and Labor— Patterson, Chairman; Ingalls, Morton, (Ferry (Conn.), Bnrnside, Bruce, Gordon, Baton, Maxey. Civil Service and Retrenchment— Clayton, Chjdrman; Wright. Oglesby, Sherman, Patterson, McCreery. Randolph. To Audit and Control Contingent Expenses of the Senate—Jones (Nev.), Chairman; Dawes, Dennis; ’■ ‘ Printing— Anthony, Chairman; Howe, Saulsbury. Library— Howe, Chairman; .Edmunds, Ransom. Bules—Ferry (Mich.), Chairman; Hamlin, Merrimon. Engrossed Bills—Bayard, Chairman; Withers, Bills— Conover, Chairman; Kelly, Robertson. Transportation Routes to the Seaboard—'Windom, Chairman; Sherman, Conkling, West, Conover, Norwood, Davis, Johnston (Va.). On Lapses <f the Mississippi Biver— Alcorn, Chairman; Clayton, Harvey, Cooper, Cockerill.

CURRENT ITEMS.

' One of the most perfect of mechanical motions is that which lifts a lump of sugar from a grocer’s barrel. A cabkful medical authority estimates that a man with a sore throat swallows ten times to where a well man swallows once. “ Thebe is one thing about peanuts,” observed a man who was helping himself from his friend’s pockets, “ and that is the shells.” Douglas Jerrold used to say of feminine writers: “If you once dip a woman’s finger in the ink-pot she will go on writing forever.” It must be unpleasant for a stuttering man in Berlin to hail a street car, because there they call a street car a pferdestrasseneisenbahnwagen, for short. New Orleans announces the advent of the first ice-cream cart of the season. We have all the requisite material for icecream, but don’t want it. It may do very well f©r New Orleans, but it is quite too ordinary for this locality.— Rochester Democrat. It’s setting pretty near time for the oldest inhabitants to predict that there will be no apples next fall, the frost having killed the buds. This is a great comfort to our aged citizens, but it doesn’t seem to discourage the apples worth a cent.— Fulton {N.Y.) Times.

Ik Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County, N. Y., is mi extensive gunpowder manufactory. The successive buildings in which the drying of the powder is done have been blown up at the rate of one a year for ten years. Three men are required to operate this part of the works. Ln the ten years five men have been killed and seven mangled by the explosions, the last accident occurring a few days ago. Yet, notwithstanding the deadly risk of the employment, more men are constantly offering their services than ate needed, and the wages are low. The fascination which danger has foi some temperaments is the only explanation of this strange fact. . A lady residing in the extreme southern part of the city a few years since was left a widow with a family of small children. Of course for a while she was inconsolable, and religiously taught the little ones that papa was‘‘up in hearen,” She is to be married again in a month, and, while not allowing the children to forget their father, she instructs them to view her intended husband as their father in a secondary sense. Yesterday a gentleman called at her house. He is very intimate with the widow and the little ones. So he ventured a question. “ Muriel,” said he to the youngest, a blue-eyed, ruddy-cheeked, five-year-old girl, ** where is papa?” Said the little thing abruptly: “Up in—down town.”— Chicago Inter-Qcean.