Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 19, Jasper, Dubois County, 14 June 1872 — Page 2

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C. PO AXE, PuBLiuit. NEWS SUMMARY. The East. taWAi employe oo the Delaware sad Lackawanna railroad hare been arretted for embezzling the company of large sums ot money riunnr the post two Tears The grest'strikc the New York "woraiognien till continues, with every prespeet of suece Late advices frorii New York täte that Mr. Jnes Gordon Bennett, the :'.uuder and proprietor of the Herald, is hopelessly ill. Iii death may b expected at any moment The tirst jury impanelled under the New York State law providing that the reading of a newspaper hall not be a capital offen m a j iror, has been drawn at I'ulaski, in that State. Tbk strike in the Eastern cities for eight hours' labor snd ten hours' pay have been practically successful. The effect upon the employers will be less serious than was at first exited, since but few contracts have yet been made without reference to the possible advance in wages The New York Court House Commissioners, on Saturday, discharged all the workmen employed on the new court-house building. The men hsd not received any wge for the past nine months Tbe 'Daily Register has been acted as the official paper of New York city, at $90t a year. The successful bidder wis never hearu of before Dr. W;,liam Pitcher died at Hudson, N. Y., on the 1st inst., from poison introduced into his system while attending an erysipelss patient. Geo. Latery, convicted of murder in the second degree for killing officer Lambrecht, has been sentenced, at New York, to the State prison for life Wm. H. Wadleigh, discount clerk in the Merchants' National Bank, Boston, is a defaulter to the amount of $$7,000 Fred. Douglass' residence, a Rochester, N. Y., was burned on Sundsy, June 2. At Roshester, N. Y., on June 5, a floor of a brewery gave way, with a large quantity of grain, snd an immense mash-tub filled with boiling liquor. FiTe men were fatally injured, two of them being scalded to death. On Monday nigni, June 3, Mrs. Jane Farley, in a fit of jealous despondency , cut her throat at a friend's house, in New York, dying in a few moments The German Brewers' Association met at New ifork, on Wednesday. June 5. Brewers were present from every State in the Union. They represent a capital of S300,ft,00 Herr Franz Abt, the great German c mposer, is on a tour out West, where he is being feted like a prince. Eleve thousand dollars in United States bonds was burned in the house of Frederick Douglass, at Rochester, on June 2 The workingmen of Boston are about to inaugurate a movement looking to the establishment mt tee eight-hour system. The Philadelphia mechanics are also beginning to agitate .he matter Alfred Eugene La Grave, a Broome street New York; merchant, has left for parts unknown, leering unpaid debts amounting to $300.000. A. T. 8uwari, H. B. Ciaflin Jr. Co., and other large dealers, r re sufferers A Bridgeport (Conn.) dispatch sta'es that Capt. Colvocoresses, of the United States Naval Retiring Board, who was murdered on the night of June 3, was robbed of his watch and about fdO.Ouo. Capt. ColTocoreeses had iaurance on his life amounting to over $100,000. Tib famous La Garde Republieaine Band, of Paris, arrived at New York on the 6tn inst., en route for the great Boston Jubilee. The band numbers tifty-five pieces, - nd is esteemed the tin- st mus csl organisation in Pans Mr. and Mrs. Boucicauit will open at Booth's New York Theater in September. A dxring attempt to rob the Firs'. National Banc of Jers-y City, on the niht ef June 6, was disc-ver.d and frustrate! by the vigilance and sagacity of a wuman A New Yrk dispatch announces that just before the landing of the French band, about seventy-five French Commun.sts made hostile demonstrations against them at the pier, but the police dispersed the Communists and furnished the band with an escort to the Boston boat The Philadelphia gas works stokers are on a strike, anl tears are entertained that the city will soon be in utter darkness The vicinity of Boston was visited by a severe storm on the night of tue Mn inst. Sever 1 vessels are reported wrecked, and many lives lost The eighthour strike in New York sti.l progresses. Orer 40,000 men baTe tsken part in the strike since the middle of May, and fro.i 13,000 to 20,000 still remain id.e. The West. Joan Soteb is under sentence of death, st Pontiac, 111., for the murder of William Rollings P. D. Banks, of Page county, Iowa, has been sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary for robbing the mails A little girl fell into a barrel of scalding slop, at Peoria, 111., last week, and was so badly burned that death ensued shortly afterward. Henslee, the wife-murderer, has been sentenced to twenty years at bard labor, at Jacksonville, 111 The Supreme Court of Indiana has affirmed the decision of the Franklin Circuit Court by which Werner Bailey was sentenced to imprisonment for li'e far being an sccompiie of MscDnald Cheek, in the murder ot Thomas Harrisin, near La renceburg,in 1870 A son of Col. Tsyior, Paymaster United States army, stationed at Leavenworth, Kansas, was foully murdered in that city, by some unknown parties, on the night of the 31st ult. Tbe vicinity of Springfield, 111., wss Tisited by an unprecedented rainfall on the night of the 2d inst., doing a vsst amount of damage A terrible thunder storm, accompanied br rain and wind, passed orer Terre Haute, Ind., last week, doing immense dumsge. Tbe office of the Gazette was unroofed It is announced that the murderers of Hon. Sharon Tyndale, at Springfield, 111., have bwM discovered, after a year's ceaseless search by shrewd detectives. Charles Dunning and James Kennedy, at present serving out sentences in the penitentisry,sre said to be tbe guilty parties. Joel T. Griffin. Postmaster at Omaha, Neb., has plead guilty to the charge cf appropriating to his private use mail bsgs belonging to the postal servi e Auburn, III., was visited by a destructive fire on the 31st ult. Loss about $30,000. No insurance. A Lanes portion of the village ol South 8lon, Madison county, Ohio, was destroyed by fire on June 1. Loss, $20,000; partially insured On the 22d of May the Apaches murdered Theodore Prits, s herder, almost within sight ef Presrott, snd ran off with 300 sheep. Frits formerly reported for the

press of St. Louis. His body was horribly mutilated Hou. Ben. J. ßtänton.a prominent politician and formerly Lieuteuant Governor of Ohio, and for eight years member of Congress, died at Wheeling, W. Vs.. on Mouday, June 3, aged 03 A dispatch from Gen. Howsrd to the Secretary of War states that at a council held with the Mexicans, Poppsgoes, rimoe, and Apaches, m Arisona, a peace has been agree I upon, the Indiaus agreeing to stop further raids and aid tiee.Orook in capturing incorrigible It.disns. Gen. Howard says that success r ow appears sure A most daring und successful burglary was committed it Chicago ou the night of" Saturday, J uns 1, the storo ! C A. Morse, 223 West Maditou street, having been robbed of jewelry au I silver plate to the value of $2i,uOO. The More w as . -ompletely gutted of every thing BXSX pt the clocks. Strange to say, tbe burglar y was not discovered till Monday morning. No clue to the perpetrators had been discovered a' last accounts. At Dubuque, Iowa, on the night of the 3d inst., a negro named Blatchford was shot and instant lv killed by his son, who mistook him for s burglsr The house o' David Dsnley, at Fsrley, lows, was struck by lightnin; and burned down, last week Five Michigan railroads the Flint and Pere Marquette, the Bay City snd East Saginaw, tbe Holly, Wayne and Monroe, the Flint River, and the Cass River have been consolidated into one corporation, under the

nameot the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad Company John McLane, a Decatur, Ind., broker, "was shot snd killed by a man named Z.mmerman on the 4th inst., lor alleged intimacy with the latter' wife The fourth trial of Mrs. Clem, the alleged Indianapolis raurdereee, was commeuced at Lebanon, Boone county, .Ind., on June 3. ..Andrew Bauer fell i'oto a privv vault of the St. ictaolss Hotel, at Pittsburgh, on June 4, snd was suffocated in the excrement. An unknown man was run over by a train of cars at Bloomington, III., on June 4, and literally torn to pieces On June 4, an unknown Swede waa run over snd killed by a constructiou train at Moline, III Tbe switchmen on the railroads centering in Chicago sre on a strike for an increase of wages. Newcastle, Ind., had I $25,000 fire on the night of June 3 Late advices from Dakota Territory state that the workmen on the Northern Pacific railroad have no trouble whatever with the Indians, and the men are healthy and happy, with the work rapidly progressing The Oregon election has resulted in the success of the Republican ticket. A REGt larly organized band of river pirates hes been discovered to exist on the Mississippi, whose operations extend several hundred miles above and below Sjt. Liuis. i Their depredations, since the opening of navigation, are said to amount to over $i0,ut0. The chief and three others of the; gang have been arrested atSi. Louis Mrs. I Anesta, aged 4, was thrown from her buggy j and instantly killed at Jersey Landing, III., on the 6th "inst The Detroit Board of. Trade protests against the bridging of the ( Detroit river at Grosse Isle A serious cave-in occurred in the Emma Mine at Little Cottonwood, Utah, on the 4th inst., carrying away nVors, aggregating about fifty : teet. mere were n' lives lost wiynaua young grasshoppers have appeared in Weber county, Ltah The Sooth. George F. Clark, attached to Noyes' circus, in making an ascension in a bslloon, at Memphis, on the 31st ult., struck against t!ie Jockson block, when the ropes supporting the trapeze on which he wss seshd parted, letting him fall to the ground, a distance of 50 feet, cutting and bruising him in a horrible manner. Little or no hopes of his recovery are entertained. His parents reside at Columbus, 0. The twentieth annual session of the International Typogrspical Union assembled at Richmond on the 3d inst. Eighty-one subordinate unions were represented, including three from the British provinces. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : President, Wrn. J. Hammond, of New Orleans; Vice Presi.leu's, E. C. Crump, of Richmond, and Robert G. Strcater,of Deeret, I'tah ; Secretary ami Treasurer, John Collins, of Cincinnati; Corresponding Secretary, R. A. Hamilton, of Philadelphia A. O. P. Nicholson, an oldtime politician of Tennessee, has just had his political disabilities removed. A fire in Pulaski, Tenn., on June 5, destroyed $20,000 worth of property James Parker was killed, and several others injured, by the explosion of a locomotive boiler, at Sanderson, Fla., on the 5th inst. The yellow fever has made its annual appearance at New Orleans, and the United States tro ps have beeu removed. Commercial circles sre very much depressed, as it is the general experience that an early advent of the fever is an indication of an extended epidemic The employes of the Texas Central railroad are oit a strike, and nearly all the engines are disabled by the removal of portions of the work? The Tennessee editors were in conclave at Nashville last week, and had a jelly . ood time. Washington. Both houses of Congress have reconsidered their resolution to adjourn on June S, and extended the time to June 10 The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the Assistant Treasurer at New York to withdraw $1,300,000 of three per rents It is announced that the civil service regulations resoectiug the appointment of clerks in the departments are completed The United 8ttes District Court at Wnshingto- has directed the payment to three parties of the proceeds of the sale of their property by the government under the confiscation act. This ruling ccords with the Amnesty law. The President, on Saturday, vetoed the billto pay Dr. Milton B.jst, of Kentucky, the value of his house, destroyed by Union troops during thn war. This clones thedo-r against, a isrge class of loyal claims pending in Congress. The latest advices from the capital leave no hope for the success of the supplemental article to the Washington Treaty The conference committee of the two houses of Congress on the Tax bill have ppreed to report a consolidated tsx on spirits of 70 cents, and to fix the duty on tobacco st 20 cents. Ex-President Johnson has gone to Washington, in response to a summons from the House Military Committee, to testify with reference to the missing Buell court-martial records. The President's proclamation, just issued iii accordsnce with the amnesty set, dismisses all penal prosecutions against those persons coming under its provisions, who, it is alleged, held office in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitu

tion of the United States Rumors that Secretary Fish is about to resign are again rife at the capital. A Washixoton dispatch announces thst the Spanish Government hss notified its Minister to this country that the only condition upon which Dr. Housrd can be immediately released is that the l i.it i Slates ask for it as a favor, anil not on the grounds that ha is a e t a n of the United States An effort is being made by the State Department and the British Minister to make some arrangement to svo the treaty of Washington The President has signed the Tsx and Tariff bill The Presolent has vetoed another bill grauling relief for property destroyed by Federal troops during the war. on tbe same grounds as those in the Bett ease, Lamely : tint its payment would iuvite the presentation of claims for very large amount, and that it is a matter of bounty rather than of right. Foreign. The race for the Oaks stakes took place at the Epsom meeting, London, on Friday last, and was won by Reine Six persons were killed by the explosion of a powder magazine, in Shropshire, England, on the 31st ult Clara Louise Kellogg, the American prima donna, sings in Buckingham Palace on tbe 20th of June The weather throughout England is fair and favorable for growing crops Advices from Spain state that the excitement which was occasioned by Marshsl Serrano's lenient treatment of the Carlisis has subsided, and a better feel

ing prevails in the Cortes. It is now stated that Serrano will assume the-uliesof President of the Council The London Lancet says that the report of Bismark'a serious illness is unfounded. AnvicES from Spain represent that Serrano's leniency to the Carlist chiefs has utterly disorganised the insurgonts, who begin to suspect their leaders of treachery. Letters from Havana, dated May 31, state that a formidable plot of the volunteers to attack and burn the Spanish Bank and exchange offices had been discovered and frustrated. It is also stated that several Cuban chiefs had been detected in intrigues t' deliver their commands into the hands of the Spanish troops, several of whom had been condemned to death and hanged to trees, heads downward Advices from Mexico announce that Gen. Trevino, the revolutionist lender, had been attacked at Monterey and badly routed, barely escaping, with a small guard, to the mountains The Lucas cotton nulls, near Rouen, France, were burned on the 2d inst., involving a loss of 1,000,000 fnnes and throwing 1,000 operatives out of employment A duel was fought at Paris, on the 2d inst., between Paul de Cassagnac and M. Lacroy, editor of the Rappcl. Toe latter was 'slightly wounded Hon. John Sandfield Macdonald, late Primier of Ontario, died on the 1st inst., at Cornwall, Can. Triesteis Gerstaacker, the celebrated German traveler and author, died at Vienna, on Monday, June 3, aged 57 Charles Lever, the celebrated Irish novel. st, died at Trieste, on Monday, June 3, aged ß.. The British Parliament is still engaged in debating the supplemental article to the Washington Treaty The Empress Eugenie wi'l leave Eugland shortly, a visit to Spain. The Irish National Bind, numbering forty pieces, will sail for the Boston Jubilee this" week A railroad collision between Basle and Mayencc kilied nine persons ami injured many others. The weather throughout England is unfavorable to tbe growing crops Marsha' Serrano's lenient treatment of the Carlist insurgents has been almost unanimously approved by the Spanish Corte, and the Marshal has been installed as President of the Council and Minister of War, in the new Ministry Gen. Wm. T. Sherman and Lieut. Fred. D.Grant were in Berlin on June 4 Advices from Camargo, Mexico to June 4, state that after the fight near Monterey, on the 30th ult., Trevino rallied all bis forces, and on the following day attacked Corced in tbe suburbs of the city aud completely routed him. Dispatches state that the Government troops logteverything, their entire force being killed, wounded and scattered. The campaign of two month' pre paration against the northern frontier is thus ended. It is supposed that Trcvino's retreat, on the first day, was a ruse. The I revolutionists are exhilarated, and claim it as n new impetus to their cause. The Gov ernment troops near Mierwere also defeated und driven back The cable annouuees that a bill will shortly be introduced in the German Parliament depriving members of the Order of Jesuits of the privileges of citizenship The Duke of Edinburgh ha 1 an enthusiastic reception at Dublin, on Tuesday Jean Baptiste Philibert Vaillant, Marshal of France, died at Paris, June 4, aged S2. There has been a great inundation of the j river Po near Ferrara, causing wide-spread , desolation and terrible suffering. Immense ' tracts of country are under water, and 40,000 people are h ineless Jan Rudolf Ihornoeckc, an eminent statesman and Ministe- j of Holland, is dead The Duke of Edin burgh opened the exhibition at Dublin, on Juue 5, with imposing ceremonies, in the presence of an iinmensa concourse of spectators. The English authorities have rooked the permission previously granted to the Grenadier Guard Band to attend the Boston I'eare Jubilee The Mexican Geographical Society has elected Gen. Rosecranz and Gen. Palmer honorary members A Havana pap.-r claims to have evidence that the Cuoans in New Orleans sent commissioners to Havana, who, under pretext of being members of the International, pro-noted strike to gain advantages for tbe insurgent cause. CONGRESSIONAL In the Senate, on PROCEEDS US. the 31st ult., Mr Sumner offered a serieaof resolutions on the settlement of international differences by arbitration, and proceeded to deliver a lengthy speech, severely attacking the administration of President Grant House bill to provide for the restoration of the Buell court martial records was passed The Army Appropriation bill was finally disposed of. In the House, on the 31st ult., the pay ot witnesses before Congressional committees was fixed at $4 per diem and 5 cents mileage The foil-wing Senate bills were psssed : To refund the extra duties on railroad iron to the Winona and St. Peter Railroad Company; relative to entry and clearance of ferryboats and bonded cars passing from one State to another, through contiguous foreign territory; to pay $5,000 to the widow of Commander Wood, for au invention in naval gun carriages; relative to homestead settlers burned out in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan The Tariff bill was again under consideration.

In the Senate, on the 2d inst., the House resolution rescinding the order for adjournment ou June 3, and exteuding the time to JuuelO.waseoncurred in The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was again under consideration. An amendment was adopted appropriating $ 15,000 to in teas) SM shad und other lood fishes into theGulf States and the Mississippi valley A bill wan passed appropriating $0,0Ü lor au rqrestriau statue of Gen. Rawlins. Iu ti. e H use, on the 2 i inst.. the res Million to adjourn on the 3d of June was rescinded, atid Juue It) fixd as the day for final adjournment The investigation into the Iudian frauds was ordered continued during the vacation, with power to send a sub-committee to the Indian Territory A bill to make San Diego, Cal., a port of entry, and La Crosse, Wis., a port of delivery, was rejected.

Is the Senate, on the 3d ult., very little business was disposed of, most of the day being consumed in political discussion Messrs. Carpenter snd Logan replying to Senator Sumner's blast against tbe Administration A bill relating to the limitation of steam pressure on tewing and freight bout- on the Mississippi river was passed. The Committee on Elections reported, in the case of Senator Ponieroy's election, that they hsd found no facts to sustain t ie charges. The committee, for want of lime, had not underti ken the investigation of Mr. Coldwell's case. They asked to be dis charged from its further consideration, large number of private claims bills ....X were passed The bill to prevent cruelty to animals on railroads iu transit was tabled 23 to 13. The proceedings in the House were of sn unimportant character. The bill confirming to the Mississippi and Missouri and Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific r .-i! roads the lands granted in lows for a railroad from Davenport to Council Bluffs, via Iowa City, was defeated 93 yeas to 58 niys not twothirds majority The bill was passed making la Crosse, Wis., a port of delivery. A bill amendatory of the Bankrupt act, extending it to the insurrectionary" Slates from 1871, was passed. In the Senate, on the 4th inst.. petition was presented, signed by 100.000 workingmen, against the repeal of the Eight-Hour law The bill to prevent cruelty to animals in 'ransit on railroads was passed. It goes into effect Oct. 1 At the evening session the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill occupied the sole attention of the Senate. In the House, the Conference report on the Tariff bill was submitted by Senator Sherman He explained thst the total re,de was $53 1 oOrt.oOO. Some opi iHi. hut !he reriort wi. hna - auction ma position was made, but the report was final ly adopted The House alourne-i over until Friday, to allow members to attend the Philadelphia Convention. In the Senate, on the öth inst.. nearly the wiiole day, and the entire evening session, were devoted to the discussion of the item in the Sundry Appropriation bill to pay South-rn mail contractors for services rendered in carrying the mails before the war. Without action the whole matter was postponed till Friday Tbe House bill to grant th-- right of way to the New Mexico and Gulf railroad was passed. The House was not in session. In the Senate, on the ftth inst., the following bills were taken up and passed : To prevent and punish attempts to obstruct the administration of justice in the courts of the United States : to facilitate clearing bouse exchange ; the bill authorizing inquiries into the causes of boiler explosions ; the bill to reimburse Kansas for expenses incurred in raising troops to suppress the rebellion ; the bill amending the act providing for National Cemeteries, providing that "here known, the S cretary of War shall have a he.id board, with his name and State, put over the grave of each soldier. The House was not in session. Public Debt Statement. The following is a recapitulation of the pit! lie debt statement for the month Mid g May 31 : Six p. rrent bon.ln $l.i'.l e Five per r nt In-nils lit, 3m Total min boa Is Lawful money deht starve' deht I.eual tender nute Kr tioBal currency ' in re tifltatea. T. tul. xilh.'Ut mt.rvsL Total leb Total aeerjHSl iniereat rh in Treasury : Coin - .............. Currency - Total in Treasury -.. 4i l.'.ec.:-: .. .V.T.Vai.W. 4.'.3in.MT ..$2.:"-'.u..o iMai7 ..$ tijtmjn .8 Mjta,!i Del't lens caah in Treasury J2,193.MT."peerSBM luring the month 4,I2l,'il Bond' isue! to the Pacific Railroad Companies, ititermt pastile in lawlnl money : Principal outtandintt M.1ZV.72 lütere! accrued aad not )el paid Interent paid liy the I'nited Slate Inten-! repaid ty transportation of rnailii. etc rUlanr ol inteien paid ly the I'nited States 3.SI2.V97 I".'.'--."-' An International Postal Service. It is reported that a Congress will be shortly invited by Prince Bismarck to Berlin to discuss the desirability of instituting a system of international postal irrangements. Prince Bismarck will lay before the delegates the following resolutions i 1. That all the States of Europe, Russia, and Asia, Turkey in Asia. Canada, the United States, ami Algeria shall I orm a Postal Union. 2. That throughout the union there shall be a uniform postal rate f r letters of 4 cents per IihII ounce ; and B, that newspapers, printed matter, patterns, etc., shall be conveyed for 2 cents per two ounces. 4. Trat to all countries not included in the Postal Union, double the above rates shall be charged. 5. The uniform registration fee for all parts of the world shall be 4 cents. A New Medical Periodical. The latest candidate in the field of journalism for popular favor is the Science, of Health, a new monthly magazine ot siztv pages, issued by S. H. Wells, .3Sy Broadway, New York. His devoted especially to Ethnology, Phrenology, riiyiognomy, Psychology, Sociology, Science and Art, and the preservation and restoration of health on hygienic principles. It is well worth the price $2 per annum. Tub white hat epidemic has broken out among the gentlemen very suddenly.

Ienth of James (jordun Bennett. .l imes (ionlon Bennett, the veteran elitor ami founder of the New 'o,i.

! HeaU. died at New York on Su unlay I Junv 1, ir. the 77lh year of h.s Mr. Bennett had for Beverul day m in an uneonoious t.ite. aud was sustain i d only by the free adiniimieriujj 0f Miiiuil.nl-'. lie pn-i-ed Friday night I tranquilly, and was thought to he betI ter on the morning of Saturduy, hut in I the afternoon sank rapidly, ilia end w;t- pninle-8. When his lat hour if, rived he sank to sleep in death calmly , and peacvahiy, and hi. soul passed away i wit hout a struggle. Five years ago Mr. Bennett entirely withdrew from the active mai agement of the BmUL out, although inlirm, hit general health had been remarkably good, while his line intellect remained unimpaired, and his interest in events of the day continued unabated up to the moment of his fatal illness. Jame-t iordon Bennett was horn in lTW, in Scotland. He received a strict classical and ecclesiastical education at the Koman Catholic Seminary at Aber deen. and waa intended for the clergy. In April. 1819, however, abandoning all ideas of joining the priesthood, i e came to America and commenced work u- a cuooi-teaciier at itaiilax, va Scotm. Thence he moved to Bon'on. It with difficulty that he secured the means of existence ; indeed, report has it that only his finding a .-liver quarter in one of the walks on the Common, at Boston, saved him from starvation or suicide. In the fall of 1M9 he becan a proof reader in the publishing hou-e of Wells I Lilly. In IMS he removed to New York. In New York he wm identified most closely with the old CotinVr and Enquirer, then the leading journal of the country. Half of its ma ter and ail of its spice flowed from the facile pen ol the needy young Scotchman. It was him who inaugurated the Washington correspondence, giving it a lively personal and social tone, which was a generation in advance of his time. After a troubled life, during which he apeared a a writing-master, a lecturer on politic-.; economy, and au instructor in short-hand, and after one ortwoenI dt-avors to st irt a DSUrtV oruan. notahlv tjie penntylvanian. at Philadelphia Mr BmM founded and started, in Mar, ..... ... . . ' l?oD, the .New lork Herald. Iiis currently rejorted that, had his then editor possessed discernment sufficient to sat how valuable an as-istant he had, the Herald would never have lne.i started. A diflerence ot $2 a week no small item when a man was paid $la week and contemplated matrimony lo-t a good sub-ediur to the Courier and revolutionized American journalism. The Herald wa first sMIMd in a cellar in Ann s'ret-t. the editor's desk consisting of a Lou i placed on two fi.ur harrels. A II vei lisenients were wiiiten out for the MlVDM of the new p iper by its indefatigable editor. Exhaustion' seemed to him an imposibility. Besides his of fice work, fiom six to eight columns of matter of the most widely varied character flowed from his pen da:ly. A a paragraphist he was without eer or rival in his Iay : he was prompt to size upon the popular side of every question, and utterly regardless of clamor or consist ency in its advocicy or opposition. A fortunate contract with a popular phy-i-ciau floated the Herald over the tin. in cial difficulties which invariably atten i the starling of a new iper. It became t 't-hionahle to decry . ie Herald, which was the first step toward reading it. In its columns appeared the first coinnier cial article ever published in Americi, which in that en of wild cat drew an immense nutnlr of readers. The great tire in New York in, IKiö. afforded Mr. Bennett an unusud opportunity, of which he profited to the full. His history after l4i when the Herald became a power in the laud is the history of the Hera'd. His motto was, " News, news, news," and carrier-pigeon, ony express, telegraph wire, steam yacht, all were pressed into the service. SineI MjT, Mr. Bennett lived in complete retirement at his country-seat at Ford ham, occasionally and only occasionally directing the course of his paper by telegraph. Two Thousand Building' Societies la England. It is estimated lor exact returns cannot be procured that there are 2,00" building societies now in existence in England and Wales, the total number of members being H00,U0), with a subscribed capital of over 1,0X.0K). a loan and dejiOMt capital of over Xti.OOO.W. total assets to the amount of l6,(MDO,O00, and a yearly income of more than C 1 1 ,000,000. One society has nearly 17,00 members, and another 10,000. The income of a single society is over a million and a half ot pounds. So great is the confidence of the public in these enterprises that many of them have re duced the rale of interest to four, and even three, per cent, in order to check the influx of deposits which still come flowing in. In various districts the banks find it difficult hi compete with them. The Saturday Review says: " We hear of single advances, not only of thousands, but of twenty and thirty thousand pounds, being made by build ing societies, sometime on the security of mills and factories ; and there seem to be no doubt that they have become, to a large extent, middle class orga.i izations. On the other hand, the commissioners report that the societies still do business mainly with the working classes, or with a class only slightly superior to them in station. In Birming ham, iu Ashton under-Lyne, and tlM where, they have greatly encouraged the construction of houses for the work ing and lower middle classes. The stv tistics of these societies show that, not withstanding our national teput.ttion for improvidence, there is yetrly sn enormous sum in the shape o! savinc seeking a safe investment."