Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 15, Number 13, Jasper, Dubois County, 25 April 1873 — Page 2

Salvador murder and pillage accompany the

confusion of great oartbquukes, and as the frightened citizens leave the town, dusky Indians from the forest prowl for prey into it, only checked by the bayonets of the (ioveruraent troops. These were jiosted in squads at short distances all over Kan Salvador. TUE XODOO IIUTCHEHY. The Murder of Cieit. Canity aud Two Pcare CommUnlone r by t'upt. Jack and hU Band. A dispatch from the Lava lleds dated April 11 given the following particulars of themassacre of fleii. Canbv. Dr. Thomas and Mr.

Meacham ly the treacherous Modocs : On yesterday afternoon live Indians and four squaws came into our camp and were made presents of clothing and provisions by the commission, and a message was sent out hy

the commission asking for a talk this morning, at a point about a mile from our picket line. Later in the evening Bogus Charley came iu. and told the pieket that he could take his gun : that ho (Charley) did not intend to go back any more. Tho picket brought him iu and took him to the tent of Gen. Canby, where Charley left his gun aud remained at tho tent of Frank Kiddle during the night. .This morn iu:; Boston Charlev came in. and told thn aa.

the death of Lieut. Sherwood. SSSTL 5 g miBioU ,hat Jack and ,ive t,ther I utimhilntmii tf rhu r . ..I. ..... ,.-.'...1.1 t 1 . ... .

I u,.. oi uciujno i wouia meet the commissioners outside our i be disappointed, and that he would not bo sur- linos.

I prised if it took several weeks to make a finish I of them. He says that the erv of "On to the

Ehe Jlasprr tfouvicr.

(1 IK4 K E, Fl-BLISUER.

SEWX jy BRIEF. Tin: vast. Two Conan mills belonging to the Pwight Manufacturing Company, at Chicopee. Mass., have beeu destroyed by tire. Lost., upward of a million dollars The Government ha brought suit against Cakes Ames for j-aoO.tKKt, aid to 1 due on an eld cotton transaction during the war. Tn pews iu Dr. Hepworth'a new church, h Sew York, rent for 250,000 a year Senator Morrill haa given his back pay to Vermont, to be applied to the reduction of the State debt. Tarn advertising agents of the country were in session in New York last week. Sixty persons were present from various parts of the country. 8. M. Petteugill was chosen President. Tu bodies are being rapidly recovered from the wreck of the Atlantic. The Domiuiou Government, hearing that the White Star hue

have not made provision for the burial of the dead bodies vet to be recovered, has ordered the Collector of Customs to attend to it at the public expense. tiik rcr. A fibe in Detroit, last week, destroyed the offices of the Detroit Tribune, Commen-Ml Alrrrii.ier. MirMfan Farnurr, and Calvert

Lithographing Company. Total loss about 9125.000. Chioaoo haa made another move in the interest of law and order. Her Common Council has decided, by a vote of two to one, that liquor saloons must be closed at half-past eleven o'clock at night A party of four Nebraska drovers were recently robbed in a Chicago hotel of money and tapers valued at The remains of Geu. Cauby will be interred at Indianapolis, beside his father and

mother A serious riot recently occurred at Knightsville, Ind.. betweeu striking white miners ami colored miners imported from Virginia. A dispatch from Col. Giilem, commanding

the forces operating against the Modocs, an

nounces

Meacham is oat of danger. Col. Giilem says he will use every endeavor to prevent the escape of the Modocs if possible, and not an Indian shall be left to boast of having murdered Gen. Canby. The Snake and Pitt River Indians axe still quiet, but watching the contest with great interest. The funeral ceremonies, on the 12th of April, over Geu. Canby and Commissioner Thomas, in the camp, were Terr impressive. The troops were drawn up and received the remains in the enstomary manner, with salutes and muffled drums. A PosTomcE clerk is under arrest at La Crosse, Wis., for burning letters to save the trouble of distributing them A serious riot among the Chinese of Sacramento. CiL. occurred last week. Pistole were freely used, and several persons were dangerously wounded The war against the Apaches goes bravely on. Mai. Randall, of the Thirtv-

third Infantry, recently attacked a band and killed 41 warriors and captured a number of women and children. Large numbers of the worst Apaches are suing for peace, promising to surrrender and go on the reservations. . . . Secretary of Interior Delano was recently hung in effigy by the people of Yreka, Cal Spring brought Nebraska the hardest snowstorm of the last sixteen years. It lasted three days, destroyed a large numler of cattle.

and probably some human life, although but one death has been reported. rar WO Put Is Henry county. Ky.. a few days ago, a band of masked men called Richard Williams, a fanner, to his door, and commenced shooting at him. Williams returned the fire, killing one and wounding three of the scoundrels A man named Vaughn has been arrested at Memphis, on the charge of having murdered Gen. Thomas C. Hindman. at Helena. Ark., some six years ago. It is said he has confessed to the deed A graveyard on the Arkansas river. 20 miles below Little Rock, recently caved into the river, and upward of 1,000 bodies were washed awnv. Dr. Ckaio and Judge Pullem. of Atlanta. Ga.. put aconite in their drinks, instead of elixir of orange. The formcv died in great agony. Pullem still lives, but with little hopes of recovery . . .The Memphis and Little Rock railroad has been seriously damaged by the Mis-issippi overflow It is stated that the Kellogg State Ooverment in Louisiana intend applying to the Federal authorities for troops to preserve order in that State. A fTHLie meeting of the citizens of Rich

mond. Va., was held last Week, at which resolutions expressing sorrow at the death of Gen. Canby were passed. WASBiyGTOX. It is intimated that most of the troops in the South will be transferred to the Texas and Indian frontiers The following appropriations were mads by the last Congress for the improvement of Western harbors ; WTWCOSSIK.

For (imn Bar For Two Rivers ., For Manftrrwnr For sh.li. .vxan For Port Whlngtou For Milwaukee gll For Kacmr ...,,.,...," For the i uri.. . of !riirhur oat thi Lav nf

Hnperior from the natural entrance to the docks of superior sad Dulutli, ait prewrvinir both entrance) from the like

J? 100,000

INDIANA. Fur Michigan City Barlvr SO.HW ON Iii, For ToletloaarNir Um.oiK For Sn..ik harbor Vim I i Vermilion harbor V-'.nou tor ttlack Ul. r narlor. '.o,'Mi for (tsv.-iana lntrhor lisi,UUU f. r ububula lurber lMWU For i oim. aut harbor tov A rosromc has just been established at Jamestown, Vs., for the first tune, although Jamestown was the first place permanently settled on this continent All available 10eiints have been ordered to the Indian frontier to reinforce the cavalry regiments doing duty there, the Government evidently fearing that all the military forces that can bo concentrated at Hiuts of danger should be forwarded at the earliest practicable moment. Ski hktahy ok Interior Delano behoves that, notwithstanding the Modoc massacre, tho

ponce policy towards the Indians will be con

ation ( half-past I

warning, that a great , ;vrt

light shocks of earthquake had occurred, but no serious apprehensions were cntortiiined. It was on the afternoon of the -tili of M.irvh.

o'clock, Rod almost without

i the city wiiM re

duced to little more rh di tuins. The giotuul heaved like it ship in tho galo : a terrific tbiuideriug bum froia under-Toot ; walls wore shattered and rent iu many places with wide crevices, and roofs sank, mid tiles, etc., were precipitated to the ground. Lamps, pitchers, basins, glass, etc . were overturned aud broken. Three violent shocks followed in succession, and the servants commenced to scream piteously and could not be pacified. Wild birds flew to the houses ; horses grow frantic in stables, and dogs, howling, slunk away for protection. Every few minutes shakings of less violence occurred. The scene beggars description. Ruined

tinned. .. (it'll. Jefferson C. Davis bus been houses, panic-stricken people, men, women,

directed to assume the command made vacant by the death of Gen. Canby. . .The following

is the dispatch sent by Gen. Sherman to Gen

and children, flooiug to the fields with valuables, hastily collected by them: the ringing

of the alarm-bells and the beating of drums

Giilem, commanding the troops operating calling all tlie soldiers under arms, for in San

against the Modocs : M Your dispatch announcing the terrible lose to the country of Gen. Canby by the perfidy of tho Modoc land of Indians has been shown to the President, who authorizes me to instruct you to make tho attack so strong and persistent that their fate may be commensurate with their crime. You

will be fully justified in their utter extermination.". . . .Tho President has issued an order discontinuing tho landofllces at Council Rlnffs and Fort Dodge, Iowa, and tho land districts of the same name, and transferring their archives and business to the Des Moines district. From fifteen to twenty-five tous of free matter leaves the Washington Postofiieo for the States daily George 11. Stuart, of the Roard of Peace Commissioners, says that tho mur

derers of Gen. Canby and his party will be properly punished, but that the act of Capt. Jack will not alter the policy of the Roard. The Postofliee Department announces that it will commence issuing the postal cards on the 1st of May next The President has appointed Dorrasu R. Eaton, of New York, and

I Hon. Samuel Shellabarger, of Ohio, to till tho

vacancies in the Civil Service Commission caused by the resignation of Messrs. Medill aud Curtis A Washington dispatch says: A military officer of hii.'h rank savs that tho

Rostou and Rogus then mounted a horse, and started for the lava bed. About an hour

SOU yards, when they met what they supposed were only two Indians, who said they wanted to talk to " Little Tyse," Col. Mason. They were told they did not want to talk, and fur the Indian:, to go back to their camp and thuj would return to theirs Ah they turned around tlio Indians, four in number, fluni upon thuin, wounding Lieut. Sherwood hi the aim and thigh; the latter being a very serious wound, the bono having been shattered by a bullet. ('apt. Alldersou who was on duty at the signal station on Hospital Itoek, saw plainly the attack uimhi Col. Mason's front, and telegraphed to Gsu. (iillem to notify the Peace Commission immediately. Col. Riddle, who was at the signal station at Gillem's hcadqiiarel's when this message was received, at oncot placed his field glass upon Gen. Cauby, as tho party sat together about ouo mile distant. Very soon I ho whole party scattered. Ho followed the General's course with his glass wliilo

he ran about 50 yards, throw up his arms, and fell backward dead. Two of the Indians who were following him jumped upon him, one believed to bo Capt. Jack, stabbed him in the neck, and he was completely stripped. Dr. Thomas was also eutiroly stripped. Hs purse, containing about c-tio, was found under his body, the Indians having dropped it. Mr. Meacham was shot in three places, one ball entering at the inner corner of Iiis right

eye, another on the side of his head. Those are both ot lieved to havu lodged within his cranium, a third passing through his right fore-arm. He also receivod a cut in his left

arm, aud a scalp wound five inches in length. He was found about 50 yards from tho spot whore the slaughter began, in a direction opposito to that taken by Geu. Cauby. He was entirely stripped and bewildered iu mind. Meacham says he thinks he shot Schonciiiu in the abdomen, and blood was found, which indicated that one of the Indians had been wounded. The soldiers who wero ready started on a double-ijuiek immediately upon the firing of the shot, met Ovar and Riddle and his wifo before they were half way to camp. Tho Indians retired to their retreat about (U)0

yaids in advance Of. the soldiers, who followed them half a mile beyond tho murder ground, and there remained until dark, and were withdrawn, as th ' wore not provided with supplies.

fOMMIQti UOBBIP, Tiik Mh tnule of London, Wllici, i ..1. ... A IfiUt iUo

in: iui. . 1,111,(111 prop,,., lueoutroUi .l ,v alafMlt twenty rtU'll.

IHK

Tmk EliKlisJl Adininil

supply of KmgH for

wr mis o

smiors

rdcrcil a

Willi a

lava bods'' reminds him of the cry ot " On to after their departure Geu. Cauby, Dr. Thomas

20,000 lajON 'JO.IIOO 10,0110 15,0t a) 10,000 20,000

For the improvement of the Fox and Wiiu

cosain river..

300.000

ru.rsom. For rhiraffn harbor no.OOO For Calumet harbor 40000 For Illinois Mr er .'!'.!.'.'.""." looiooo V T II... . .

wm Manwter harbor. . .

For Luilitiirtoii harbor

For White River harbor For Frankfort harbor r r Uraiol Haven harlK.r.. For Iback Ijtke harbor For HatifSturk harb.rr For Mouth Us ren harbor ....,.,.,.., For Monro harbor f ' heb-iyiraii harbor V r IVntwater harbor For the liuj.revosjent of the Ht. Clair Flats ransl JTr the Improvement of Ht. Mary's Fali

10,000 mIobo 7,000 10,000 7-VHIO II I SSI 10,1100 20,000 15,000 15,000 20,000 100,000 200,000

Richmond," raised at the begiuning of the late civil war. The lava beds are almost impregnable, and it would be the height of rashness and folly to seud men for them to be shot down by the savages lurking in the caves aud fissures. Tor. Supreme Court has unanimously decided that aliens who domiciled iu the South during the rebellion, and who weie guilty of

acts of treason, come within the amnesty proclamation of President Johnson of Dec. 25, 1868. and are therefore freed from the taint or

odium of treason. The matter came up on an appeal from the Court of Claims iu the case of Carlisle vs. The United States. The decision settles a number of claims pending for cotton taken, amounting to ?30u. 000. FOSSWK. Bidwelx, one of the Bank of England forgers, under arrest at Havana, has escajied. .. . .A dispatch from Rome dated the 13th says "The Pope, after suffering many hours of great pain, is now in a lethargic state. His physicians have forbidden the issue of bulletins, and the clerical papers have been ordered to alistain from making reports. It is

I feared the recovery of tho Pope is impossible. I It is believed that his death will be kept secret i until the conclave has elected a successor, to I avoid the interference of Germany aud Italy. Ail the Cardinals save two are now at the

Vatican. There are 4o0 Papal troops tasido, and orders have been given to allow no one-to enter. ' O'Keu-t. the Hi raid' Cuban correspondent has leen released from prison, lews having an important leariiig on the

future of the Khivan expedition has been received at t. Petersburg!!. Internal dlOM sV toons have broken out iu Khiva. The reigning Khan has executed his chief counselor, and imprisoned his nnele and other iuriuMitial Khivans who were enemies of Russia. He has also relea.-od the Russians long held as prisoners in Khiva, and ent them to mwt the detachment of the oxpedition which is advancing from Orenburg. Advices f rom Madrid state that many Carlists are surrendering to the Government troops in

tho North, in the hope of amnesty. It is re- j

ported that the Rnl" of Seville, who joined the Carlists. was killed in a late engagoment. The Government has received news of the crushing defeat of a Carlist force at Ban Lorenzo de la Muga, in Gerona The reports that the Pope is in a critical condition are false. His physicians believe that his indisposition will iast some time, but is not dangerous. The holy father's spirits are excellent. The Vienna Exhibition building is in a backward state, and will not be completed before the middle of May. . . .A telegram form Hingalore. India, says : The Atcheen war continues.

A second assault was made with partial success. The Dutch carried two forts, bnt were repulsed from the principal fort. They are now besieging the Sultan s palace. The fighting was desperate. The Dutch commander, Kohler, was killed, trgether with 200 of his men ... .A painful rumor has reached London from Alexandria, Egypt, that Sir Samuel Baker aud wife have been murdered in the interior of Africa by natives. 8ir Samuel, accompanied by his wife, took an Egyptian expedition up

Mr. A. B. Meacham and Mr. Dyer, with Frank Riddle and his squaw for interpreters, started

for the place sppointed. Tho party arrived at

tho appointed place, and were closeTy watched ly intrenched themselves iu the Court-Honso, by the signal officer, Lieut. Adams, from the I and built breastworks three or four fA.i hi,..'

signal station on the hdl overlooking our camp. About half an hour after tho party had arrived, a cry from the signal station was heard, saying that the Indians had attacked the Peace Commissioners, and that au engagement iiad commenced between the Indians and Col. Mason. In a moment the troops were under arms, and deployed as skirmishers under command of Col. Green, and orders were given to forward double-quick. Very shortly after Mr. Dyer returned, and told us that the Indians had attacked them, and that he thought that he was the only ono who had escaped, but in a few momouts after Riddle and his squaw were seen within tho picket hue. From him wo gather the following account of how the massacre commenced :

Meacham made a short speech to the Indians, followed by Geu. Canby, aud then Dr. Thomas. Then Capt. Jack made a speech, asking for Hot Creek and Cottonwood, the places now occupied by Fairchild and Dorris, for a reservation. Mr. Meacham told Jack that it was not possible to give him what he asked. Sehoiichin told Meacham to say no more: that he (Meacham i had said enough upon that subject : and w hile Sehonehiii was speaking. Capt. Jack got up and walked behind the others, and turned back and exclaimed "All ready." drew his pistol, and snapped a cap at Geu. Canby, cocked his pistol again, and tired. Gen. Canby fell dead, shot under the right J eye. Sohonrhin then shot Meacham iu the right shoulder and head, but he is still alive.

uoston naney and another Indian shot and killed Dr. Thomas. Hookey Jim chased Dyer for some distance, but Dy r turned upon liim with his pistol iu hand, and Jim ran. An Indian knocked down Riddle's squaw and took her horse, but ("apt. Jack made him return it. and then another Indian chased Riddle and shot at him. THE I'KEMN'O M WASHINGTON. A Washington dispatch of the 13th savs i

The feeling of indignation against the Mo

view of tiuir mlnption in tho ,luVui

ICUIIUIIfr-HIIlIIH. Timld coinage of thoQerman Empire had attained, on the 1st ultimo tho lurgo sum of $144,813,075. Tili iucroaso in duo to the Kold received iu payuumt of tho Frölich indemnity. Tim high price of iron jH onihnrniHsiiiK Uritirdi Hhip-buildors. Vfodiao, they could nut safely take contracts

one firm, the most extensive on thejTuv recently discharged 150 of their workmen. Thousands of Chinamen, we read, lire employed at railroad building n Costa Rica, and have contracted to work for eight years for the liberal sum of $1 per mouth, three ouita of clothes ler MUraa, aud a free paaaago home. If they do a fair amount of work, their employers canuot very well complain ,i these terms. A report recently presented to the English Parliament gives the dailv aver

age pay of mechanics us follows: Austria, 1 ; lielgiuiu, GO oents ; France, 81.10; Denmark, (it) couU; Italy, .Rj cents ; Netherlands, 75 oents ; Norway, 80 ceuts ; Sicily, M ceuta ; Portugal, 40 cents; Trossia, 75 cents ; Uiutsiu, 75 cents; Sweden, CO cents; Switzerland, 'ill cents. Thk will of Nnpoleon ITI. has been proved in Englnnd. His personal property is sworn ut under $1:4J,JU, and this he leaves to tho Empress without reserve. To the Trine Imperial there is only one bequest, we are told the imperial crown. If this be true, we have here a certain violation of the fcfee X,i. poieontetme, according to which any Bonaparte may govern who is called by the voice of the iieoplo. And the Ein

st about 1:30 o'clock this evening, brings stir- peror's will is in this respect an importriiiir .iii.l Isaai as a sal i i ........ At i . i I . ... . 1

ant manifesto Ut the Imperialists. A Mm was recently fought in Paris between two women living in the Uoiilevard de Cou reelles. The cause of dispute was rivalry for the affections of a man named Juglin, and the two women agreed to decide their dispute by means

of a dud with knives. The frightful conflict was waged in a private house, and the result was one woman mortally and the other dangerously wounded. The cause of this dreadfid contest, Ute man Juglin, has been arrested. A most extraordinary woman was passenger on a horse car iu Cleveland Mareh 4, 187:1. She had with her a pet poodle, and oho had something else with her, as we shall see presently. The gentlemanly conductor stated to her in the mildest manner that dogs were not

Tilt; WAR Of HACKS.

A DESl'ERATK BATTLE BETWEEN WHITES AMI BLACKS IX IthANT I'ABISH, LA. A New Orleans dispateh of the 15th says: The steamboat Southwestern, which arrived

ring and important news from Orant parish.

Tho whites have retaken Colfax, and there is not a negro to bo found for miles around. From passengers ou tho Southwestern ws glean the following : The negroes had strong-

There were, it in Maid, about 400 men. armed

and equipped thoroughly. On Sunday, at about 12 o'clock, about 150 white men. who had gathered from surrounding parishes, made an attack on the breastworks, and a brisk fight was kept up until somewhere new o'clock. The breastworks were then stormed and captuOed. the negroes taking refuge in the Court-House. the doors of which were barricaded. After some further fighting tho negroes threw out a flag of truce, and several detachments of men advaured on it. when they were fired on by the benieged party, wounding several, ono of whom was ('apt. Hodnot, who was shot in tho bowels, and, it is feared, fatally wounded. They retreated on the outside of the breast -

they were ho as they came from the traightwav MOt drew a revolver from ing building. It is reported that between i Jf i j V id IM negroes were killed, and there were ! fe" nd "ft,d' Vnlfm -1 (lriv

the Kile.

A FEARFUL KAHTUqUAKE. THt eiTY OF SALVADOR ENTIRELY IltSTROYED. The city of Salvador, in Central America, has been destroyed by an earthquake. Eight hundred persons perished, and 12,000,000 worth of property was destroyed. The earthquake was followed by a conflagration, and many buildings were burned. The following are the particulars of this terrible calamity, as telegraphed from Havana: For a few days

awn murderers, as attested by convorsatioi

with all the loading oflicials in Washington,

reaches a degree of intensity which no Indiai

troaciiery has ever heretofore created. Every memls;r of the Cabinet here has alluded to the necessities which the outrage have pre

cipitated, and it can bo said that there is no difference whatever as to the policy that should now be pursued toward this particular band of

Indians.

The feelings of the President and Oen. Sher-

mau at the sudden announcement were of the

mont intense sorrow and indignation, aud there was not an instant's hesitancy in the

declaration that tho Modocs shall be made to

suffer to the severest extent for their crime

it is now evidont that the act was long pre

meditated, aud this fact adds to the deep sense

of wrath that the massacre has aroused. The

President has unreservedly expressed his sanction of the severest measure now necessary to properly punish the Modocs, and his views in this respect hare been fully stated to the authorities acting under the War Department. Oen. Sherman has also telegraphed (Jen. Sehofield instructions to move the entire fores at once npon the Indians.

THE MURDER OF HEX. CAMnAD-

DITI0XAL PAliTlClAKS. The following additional particulars of the massacre of tho Peace Commissioners have been furnished: Capt. Anderson was at Col. Mason's camp when the attack was made on the peace-commission party. He says Lieuts. Sherwood and Doyle were attracted out from tho camp by a white flag. They went 400 or

works, and as the only means of dislodging pennitted to ride in that cur, ami that the negroes, the Court-Uouso was set on lire, j hers must be put out. The damsel

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none to ls fonnd for miles around. Tho Captain of the st amlwvat Southwestern makes the following statement : "We arrived at Colfax on Sunday evening about 8 o'clock, and found that the white people and sheriff's posre at their head had eapttm d the town, after having had a conflict with the negroes. It was reported to me that about 100 negroes had been killed and manv others wounded. We

saw from the boat about IS or 20 lying around on the banks dead. One white man was reported killed, whose name I did not learn, and two very seriously wounded Messrs. Hodnot and Harris. " Mr. Hodnot was shot through the bowels, and it is supposed ho is mortally wounded. Wo brought Messrs. Harris and Hodnot down from Colfax to Alexandria Three or four other whito men arc slightly wounded. About V) negroer escaped, but it was reported the whites were still pursuing them. All of tho leaders of tho riot scaped, especially the white men. Tho negroes barricaded themselves iu the court-house, and the whites, find

ing that there was no other modo of attack left them, fired tho building. The whites numbered in the neighborhood of 150 men. Tho fight lasted from about 12 m. until near 5 p. m. Tho whites are now in possession of Colfax, and wheu I left late last Sunday night, everything was very quiet."

Late English papers record the particulars of an extra irdinary case of selfdestruction near Manchester. Three young men were practising blank firing at chandeliers, with rifles, as was their daily custom, when one of them, named Alfred Roberts, passed his rifle to a fellow-clerk, and reqnested him to aim at his heart. The friend did as desired, and, to hit horror, Roberts fell dead at his feet, pierced by a bullet, the suicide

having, nnperoeived by his companion, loaded tho gun with a ball cartridge. In

his hand was found the following letter :

' I am very glad you have saved me the

trouble of fdaooting myself. I know

you are anxious to liecome a marksman

in tho corps ; perhaps I will be of serv

ice to you by making a target of myself. Wishing success to your first shot, I re

main yours respectfully, Alfred Roberts."

MicnioAV put out seventy-two million

shingles last year.

on without molesting my dog I'll make

you eat this straw." There was scene. Ladies left the car. Rut tlie woman with the pistol didn't. And the dog didn't. The postal ear difficulty between the Postmaster-General and the railroads, that had threatened to withdraw these cars from the roads, has been satisfactorily arranged for the present. The railroad companies had even- desire to make an isauo with the ( rovenmient ;

but the decided stand taken by the press of the country, and the certainty that their interests would have probably been seriously jeopardized by tlie action of Congress at its next session, led them, doubtless, to reconsider their course. The settlement temporary though it may be is fortunate ; but it is, we take it, more so for the railroad monopolists themselves than for the people. The ISoston Ulobc takes a lofty stand and protests against such a full sway of the inventive and descriptive powers as the following idicates, and which we are told originated in a Weston paper : "The Mayor galooted up the church aisle, swashing and gyrating like'n Chinese Joss with the jim-jams." And this:

"John Harper was arrested on Tuesday for attempting to lunatic Mrs. Green. Fortunately ahe dodged the shot and escaped being lunaticked on this occasion." The American mind is eqnal to detecting the meaning of all this, but what, as the Globe says, is to become of the poor foreigner who, thinking he has mastered our language, stumbles upon such newly coined words f A Remark able Invention. One of the most important improvements ever

perfected in musical instruments lias lately been introduced by Geo. Woods v Co., in their improved Parlor Organs. It consists of a piano of exquisite quality of tone which will never require tuning. The instrument was lately introduced at a musical soiree in Baltimore, and received the cordial applause and indorsement of the many eminent professionals present. lionton Journal.