Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 16, Number 50, Jasper, Dubois County, 22 January 1875 — Page 2

WEEKLYCOURIER C. DOAXE, Publitber. JASrEK. - INDIANA CUKKKNT XKAVS.

I riTHit. He 1 anxious to abdicate, and think i ' the best way out of the difficulty will be to ! ! have new flection tr Mate oincer and the j ' leiUtature uiJer Federal ausjice. Congress j j iain the enabling act. He doubts, how- j lever, that such an election could lie fairly , held without the general ueof troops, and J thiuVs that under rmocratic rule there I wouul I absolutely no protection for the i I neproe , an! that a w hit, man w ould not dare j to be a Kepubllcan.

The thermometer showed :Vi degree below I

W lllUTO. The sub-committee appointed by the Iloue

sipc-ia! iViumittc on Southern Affair re-1 zrro t Kort Ijirarnie on the !Uh,

turned to Wa.-hin(tton from New Orleans on j The Nebraska Legislature met and organic h th. According to an Associated Pr j jzed on tne 7tb. The Coventor's message i di-patch of the 10th. there is an entire unan- j Ute that the iopulation of the thirty-sixth imity of opinion among the members of the j suu, doubled in the last ktwo year. aub-committee a to the principal point in intimated population tow, sj,ts; total the controversy. T-j dispatch nays : The j of thp jiUte, tt2,!Vl ; delinquent taxes ! ac'ion of the tteturntn lioard in throwing , llue tlie ate, over a half million dollar; j

out return of certain parishes in wnicn total valuation fr taxable purposes, f),0s Conservative were elected, and ivint (yj,). Wnile the value of taxable property ex certificate to some Republicans who were eniptcd from taxation Is estimated at .... i . .. in ii

Dot elected, will 00 comietiinru as u mr-ai (mo.oon. i and unwarranted exercise of authority. T s-j The Missouri I-eisIature met on the Cth, i timony taken before the committee, doe not nd oriranled on the 7th, when the (iovern-1

sustain the charpea of violence and ir.tiuiida

tion toward ncjrro voter, but rather tend to establish the t. t that a larjre aurober of negroc voted the iH-uiocratic ticket froui conviction, and that in o doiugthey were advancing their own interest and the Interest of the State. It it a mere matter of con iceture what course, of policy the committee will recommend, but the probabilitira are that it will he in the direction of a new election. Excitement prevailed In New Orleans w hen the committee left that city, but there wa no likelihood of iu being manifested In any general outbreak. The Kellogg Government In submitted to only under pressure of the military power of the United State, and in the exrrctatbc s-J br!icf that Congress will devis and adopt some measure tLat will restore the commonw ealth to the control of it wn citizen." It N stated from Washington that a majority if the Houe War Claim loiniuittce have, upn a question in i-ntnt, decided to reject elaim for losses by destruction of property by the army during the war, on the ground that, aa a matter of law, the Government, in tht exercie of the war power possessed by every government a a matter of e If-preser

vation, may and destroy the property

or' menage wan read. The Illinois legislature met on theotb.and the House organized on the Tth. The organization of t)e S-nate wa delayed by quite a lengthy contest for the office of President, to which Senator Glenn (lH"m.) wa finally elected on the .Uh ballot. The Indiana Legislature met and organized on the Tth. The Republican and Independent in the Senate compromised on a division of the offices. In the House, Hon. Havid Turner, Democrat, of Marion, wa elected Speaker by a strict party vote of six majority, over the Uepublican and Independent nominee. (ieneral Sheridan, in dispatches of the Tth and Mb, reiterate hi former statement in regard to the condition of affair in Louisiana, and said be would soon forward to the War Hepartment more partic ular report of the actual condition of affair. A lengthy memorial and protest, nlgned by L. A. Wilu, Speaker, and P. J. Trezevant, Clerk, toetbcr with the sixty-two otherConservative members of the loulsiana Hou.e, ha been preentedto Congrea. tieiieral SlieriLin transinitti d t-i tin S.vreI irv r AVnr. mi III.' '.II Ii nn ! v t. li.l. il n-IMtrt nf

the prtM-ci'dingscorfiiecU d with the usss4-iii!ling I

of any private clti.-n without liability ' j f th- Iiuiiauu Legislature on the 4th. He

damage. humors of eriou (ii.agreement among the membr of the Cabinet, in reference to the President' forthcoming mese on Louisiana affair, were current ia Washington on the Iltb. A number of Cabinet meeting bad been h' td. but it wa understood that Secretary Fi.h refued to indorse the action of the President, a ml so did one or more other member of the Cabinet. The Il.iu-' Cmniitts on Kl'i'tioti have a rrfd to n-j-irt favorably the bill d-lring J..hn i. Cannon, the Mormon D li'ate from

I't.th. ineligible to a at in Congrt. Cannon i a polyganiit a well as Mormon.

in

eavt. New York, on Jan. 12

at

liol 1 closed

llJX-f. Thomw Kayrnvn, a postal clerk, wa turned to death in a postal car on the Italtimore and Potomac Railroad, on the night of the Tth. The passenger train to which this car wa attac hed co'.l.dd with a freight train, the postal and express car took fire, and both were entirely destroyed, together with most of their content. Another man wa severely burned. The Mipen!on of mining operation in Pennsylvania hi become almost general. An immense indignation meeting, to protest azaint the recent action of the President In referent to Louisiana affairs, wa held at Coopr Intitu'e, New York City, on the evening of the lltn. Mayor Wickham pre-iI-i. and pee he were made by William Cullen I'ryant, Hon. Wm. M. EvarU. Hon. Jarne S. Thayer, Hon. Wm. K. Iodge, leorge Tick nor Curti and ex-Governor Salomon. The following dinpatch, signed by McIInery and other, wa read at the meetin?: Iuiiana sends greeting to-night. Her i-eople will not be goaded into conflict with I'nited States troop. A committee I preparing evidence to refute the slander of FherM vn. We rely on the moral support of our siter State to restore to us, a American freemen, our right of self-government. A jury wa completed in the Tiltn-Is h-r !-, and the tri:il fonnally In gun. on the 11th. Governor Tllden of New York sent a apeclai menage to the Legislature of that State on the 12:h. in reference to Iuilana matter. The tscsjire conrlu.!e a follows: "New York, the first of the Commonwealth of the American Union in population and resources,

and In military power, should declare her sen

say that he wa nut iu command of the military depart incut until A o'clock on the evening of the 4th, but that be fully indorse and I w illing to I? held r'sjnsi?ile for the acts of the miiiiary as conservator of the public peace utHin tlit day. Saturday, January 9, a the coldest day

of the season, and probably the coldest for

several years, in most section of the country. Report from variou place give the number of degrees below zero, a follows: Cleveland, 11; Chicago. 25; Peoria, 2T; Louiville, 1; KK'k Itand, :W; St. Joteph, 2U; Cheyenne,

Tin Western Iiotd at Sacramento, Cal., ' burned on the night of tin- !nh. Time or

more men perished in the flames. Lieutenant J. II. Winters, who wa sent out from Cheyenne with a company of troop to survey and measure the route thence to

the lied Clou 1 Agency, reported from Fort i Laramie on the Hth that he had leen driven

in there by the severity of the weather, after retting a far a the old Ked Cloud Agency. The snow wa deep and drifted badly, the

thermometer ranging from 20 to 40 degree j

below zero in the daytime. Apprehension were felt for the command undr Captain Henry, who left Fort Laramie a few day previously to drive the miners out of the P'.aek Hills.

A ms meeting to protest against the I

rvi-cnt action of the Fisderal authorities in reference to lMii-iana an".ur was held in St. Iui on the 1 1th. There wa a revolt in the Nebraska Penitentiary, near Lincoln, on the 11th. A number of the prisoner made a simultaneous rush upon aud overpowered the guard, shooting one and wounding him severely. The Warden wa absent at the time, and hi wife wa seized and confined in an upper room. The convict then had full control of the prison, but, strange to say, none of thepi attempted to get away, probably from fear of lieing frozen by exposure should they attempt It. A soon a possible a posse of armed men were collected, who surrounded the prison, and finally induced the inmates, who had stoutly barricaded the place meanwhile, to urrender themselves to the authorities, upon promise of being leniently dealt with. It wa reported from Denver on the 12th that a serious snow blockade existed on the Kna Pacific Ktilroad, and Cat no through train ha4 arrived there since the previous Thursday. The train were anw-bound at

King Kalakaua and suits arrived at Chicago on the 12th, when the Mayor and City Council give him u formal reception. Kx-Govemor Thoiua K. Itramlette, of Kentuc ky, did at hi residence lu liulsville on the 12ih, after an illness of several week. A passenger train on the Frt Wajne, Munde and Ciiu Innatl K ii!road wa throwu from the trai k near Huton Station, In I., on the afternoon of th i;:th, caused by a broken rail. One car wa thrown olf a bridge twelve feet high, swashing tV tar and injuring fifteen passenger, one at least fatally. An castern-lMiund past nger train on the .southwestern Division nf tin Chicago, IJock Island and Pacific Kailrnad, bit the track wln-n tilMiut one mile vvet of Columbu Junction on the l;Uh. Two passenger coaches were precipitated down an embankment twenty fe t high, injuring many of the passengers, some seriously. .Mr. Sharon has Ihvii elected I'nited States Senator by the Nevada legislature. The capital of Montana Territory ha been removed from Virgtnla to Helena. The Legislature of Mississippi has adopted

resolution heartily indorsing the course of General Sheridan in New Orleans, and ex pressing the opinion that if the present policy i carried out peace and security for life and property will follow. roKKiu-. The French Cabinet Ministers tendered their resignation on the Tth. but President MacMahon declined to accept them until ho ha succeeded in forming a Cabinet out of the new majority in the Assembly. The Prussian Diet has been summoned to meet on the pith. King Alfonso arrived at Iturcelona on tlx !th, and wa received by the civic authorities. Mild ttii lilliu-i-lic assemblage of the coplc. He left for Valencia on the following day, en route for Madrid, where he cxpcctd to arrive on the J.'tli. The steamer Kathleen Mary, from Odessa for Falmouth, ha Inch lt at sea, and twenty 1 peroiis drowned. The Itriiish steamer Bride, from Alexandria for Hull, ha been lost, and twenty of htr crew and passenger drowned. Congressional Promding. In the Senate, on the Tth, the resolution in regard to Iuiiana affairs, offered by Mr. Thur- ! man on Tuesday, was takeu up and discussed at length. Mr. Hamilton, of Masyland, ocucd the iletate on the iHtnorratie eMe, anil wa replied toby Mr. I .ova ii. A the debate proceeded, the rpeitkcr were riveted witli applause ami hisses Irom U.e galleries, and the I lunr, upon motion ordered tliem cleared, but Anally ns"lU-i tlie order, alter considerable debate

in rclereiice llien-lu Adjourned. In tlie llon-e, Mr. White askul leave to offer a resolution thnnkin; the I'remdeiit lor the prompt and pflicieiit measures adoj.Uil by turn for ttte prvventun of violence ami lor the maintenance of law and onler iu I-oui.-iaua, anl pUslKing hiui the hearty co operation of tlie lloust- ia suslitiniug his cltorts in that U-hHU". Mr. Itnmibcrir objectet. Messrs. lieck, lUndall aud oUier lemocrr.ts deinandisl the yen and nays on tlie rcsoluUon. '1 ! ie.ikcr rutl tlmt, obJs lion beingmade, the rHsoluliou wn not Is'tore the House. Mr. I irom li-rir then w ithdrew Ins oliju-tmii . Imt the withdrnM'al a tst Inte, and tlie resolution w as not mvivetl , . Mr, lleek iiitroluiit a bill to provide a niiitorm currency fur tlie retiring of national bank nutct, and lor t!'re-titiiiioiiof siMi ie na

inenls. deferred . . The House then t.s.kiuithe

Inthc Senate, niitliel2th, Mr. Wright called up Hie House bill to abolish tho Western District of Arkansas, and suliruitU'd nn niiu ndiiicnt In the uiituri of a substitute, which was agreed U), and the bill passed I'liflnished business being tic ti - order, tlie n'solnlion o Mr. hiir in rcfcrr.ce n I.ouisiuua nlt.ni was again taken up, a.u Mr. Howe, of Wisconsin, addresMil the senate at groat length tn reply to Senator schurz. The latter senator, be said, had advertised himself as belli shove party prejudice or passion. Ha had left all parly ties and political aspiration iH-hind, ami from that Mint the senator screamed to the country two charges against the party to which he '(Mr. Howe) Im--louged charges winch were a monstrous, ami lie believed a groundless, as the senator (Nchur) could possibly huve fabricated If lie had dedicated to the work, not merely the holiday recess, but the w hols summer vacation. The Vice-1 n'Siitetit laid before the senate a communication from the Atlorney-tteneral, inclosing the n'port of thn 1' Lilcd Mutes Attorney for the Westcm District of 'I ennessee, in regard to the trouble in Ui:it wi lion u-it suimuer. It was ordered printed, and to lay on tlie table. AfU'r an executive Mvsion, tlie si-natc- adjourned. luUie IIhum, Mr. Towusend, I'liairuian Coiainittst on Puhbe lands, reported a general bill, f;rantinr torailway eoninnie the ritchtof way through public lands. After roniili-rable dlusl.ll Die bill was passed a a substitute for the senate lull. It irives Uie ntild of way to the mad one hundred fnt on each side of the central line of the road, mid the niflit to Like from the adjacent public lands earth, stone, tiinler, cU1., necessary lor the conslruclion of tlie road, also ground for station, not to evretsl twenty acres for each station, to the extent id one station for every one hundred miles of road. A pnivision wns inserted on motion of Mr. Holme, that tlie states in which a railroad may tni built, uudc r the provisions of this bill, hall have authority at all times to regulate ami limit the charges for transortatioii ; and unother provision wa inserted, on motion of II K. Hoar, that all such riht of way shall Is- subject to the authority of the Mutes through w Inch roads may pa.- Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 13lh, the President's message on Louisiana affair wa mad and ordered printed.... The aoiisideration of Mr. Schurx's resolution In n-fcrenra m Ixiuisiana affairs w a Itien tnkenupaa unllulshisl business, and Mr. Loiran aiidn-ssed Um Senate tliereou. He reviewed therircumstance w hich tHk place iu New Tlean en the 4th hiht . , and said the act of the Wiltx l.eifislntum wen the acUol a reToUitionn ImmIv. iiny. Kellogir Uwik no action whatever uutil the I.e)(islaturo liad Ikh-ii Uikcn ponM-ssion of by a moh. As the Governor of the State it was Iu duty tdiso to do all in his owerto preserve xve and order. It was kcllopr Inmself who tisik the responsibility of calling on the trisips. I'resblent t.rnnt had nothlnK lo do w ith it; Mieridan had nothing to do with it, and the Senate had nothing to do w ith it. Themfore tho denunciation liened upon I'resblent tiraiil by Hi-inoerat for usiiijf Uie arniy went for naught, for be km w no mon alsut it than the lieinocrats did until he saw it iu Uie public prints After an executive session the senaU adjourned. ln the House, after some uniiiiportanl business, tlie President's messaire was read. ...Tlie Indian Appropriation lull was then considered in (. MiiniilU'e of the Whole, but wiUiout making much pnirres Uie House adjourned.

ArLansa Affairs.

Senate tiili to nnV ide lor the resumntion of sis-cie

nny nients, winch was passed eas, li'i, nays.

l vijourneo,

an.i in mimary power, snou.a uec.are nrsen-. w.llaeeand Deer Trail, and all the cuts were timenu on this oxasion with a distinctness. ... , .,.,. Th ..-ritr of the

dimity, and solemn emphasis which will j wrslher h, cmUWHl Bllffering In the command the thoughtful attention of j gTh orPer refrion, and many case of death on;res, of her aister States, and of , b renorted. A man. wife and

the peojle of our whole country. With the same unrnimity with which shs upheld the arm of the I'nion in the last conflict, he should now addn s herself to the gn at and nn-t sm rl duty of re-itabli-hing civil lilwrty and the MTnnal ribt f indiv Iduals, .f n-storing Idea and habit of fpulotii, and of n-ass.1ing the supremacy of the civil autboritie over the niili

tary jsiwer through tin republic.'

by freezing were reported. A man, wife and

two amall children, while driving in a wagon west of Hutchinson, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Uailroa l, on the sth, were frozen to death. Many hunter and rattle men

have had their limbs frozen, requiring ampu- j

taflon. Four lin n and three team wen drowned in crossing the Missouri ltivcr nt Omaha, on the 12th. A bin snow-slide occurred a few dav since

The Pennsylvania Ilou-e of r.epn - nta-, in Hig Cottoiiwi-sl, Ctah. carrying off one j

tiveJ.j a strict party vote of 102 Democrat

to N ICcpubliran, ha adopted n's .lut ions nuring the ris. nt action f the Federal authorities in n fcn n- to Iiuiiana afTairs. WTMT AM SlOt TII. Jlovemor Brown of Tennesaee, Governor (iastin of JIas huetts, and Governor

house and killing four nieii. Other ! fatal;

atTiileiit of the kind were aNo rejHrti from otln-r localitie. The Kellogg legislature ha re-leclcil Pin bback Senator from loui-iana. The Kans Igi-laturo convened and organized on the 12th. The annual retsirt of the San Franel-co

Woodson of Missouri, ia their annual mes- I Wool Exchang give the product of wool sagea, all allude to the Louisiana troubles, in California for 1T4 at nearly fortv million

and ak tbefr respeirtive Legislatures to protest against the action of the Federal authorities in connection therewith; and Governor Allen of Ohio has sent to the Legislature a Mscial msoae on the same subj.ct. (Jovernor Kl'.p has authorized a correpon ientof the St. l,ouW Vmocrof. aoronling to a telesrrara In that Journal of the sth, to

rate tuat he U w -Hung to resign, and believe

pound, a largv Increase over any p rev ion y ear. The Texas legislature convened at Austin on the 12th. Hon. It. II. Hubbard called the Senate to order and delivered an address.

He congratulated the people on the great j

prosperity of the State and the gradual reduction of the State debt, I'oder the system of finance now ados ted, he said, Slate bond.

thst the othsr Uepublican Sut officer will j mild almost at par, are restoring credit at

.o tiie tame u this course is desired by Con-1 home and abroad

In the Senate, on the sib, the Navul Apropriation bill was passed The resolution of Mr. Tlitimi.in in nderence to the Louisiana troubles a then auaia Liken up, Mr. ISayard neninsr the debate in a p-crh of aome lenirth, clurnu w Inch be asked the Senate, and tlie American eople, if President (.rant bad lea! warrant to interfere in the orir.iulalmn of that IicisUiture, aud lUi lanil this ileluite would close and no lawyer would Ik able to pnducc any statute showing a warrant for such action. Mr. schu r sai.l lie desires I f scak in n-jrird to Ixniisiaiia, but wa too much indisposed to do so to-day. He then offrreil the follow ing resolutiou, and itave lHlice that b' would call it up for consideration Monday : " Urtolmt Thut the onunittee nn .ludiciarv I1 instructed to inquire w hat legislation by Cenzrcss is necessary to seen re the people of Ixuisiana their riht of self iforeminent under the I on-titulion, and to n-(.rt. w lib the least possible delay, by bill or thewin." TIm question then lieing; on tlie amendment of Mr. Conklm?, to insert in theresolution of Mr. Thumian, culling on Uie President for information in retrnnl to the Ixmisiana trouble, the word "if uot imvimpnlible with public lnUTet," it wa mrm-d to yeas, .ti; nays, St. In the debate ujsin the amendment, Mr. Sarifent said that hen the story ot these fearful outrages in the South came to n- fully und rsUssl. public, opinion would condemn the liemorratie party, lie howd the senate would have Uie infomintiou reuirnl ts?fore coiitinuini; the lelMrt.....Mr. Clayton submitted a n solution reiuestintr Uie Attorney-trt-neral of Hie I nitl Mates H roininunicate to the Senate a eopv of the n s)rt of the ( nitd Nfitc Att-irney for 'tin Western Oistrict of Triim si-, n latiinr to the u.-tsncre in that district last suminer. Mr. Cooper sulinitt4i an amend nient so a to include all communications on that subj'-ct which passed betwtsvn th- Kveeutire ol the state of Tennesaer ni the President of the t iiibsl states. The amendment wa ae ceptel and the resolution agreed to . . Adjourned till Mond.-.y. In the House, Mr. fhillcr of MassachuwtU intnslue-d a bill lo pnvide lor a leiral and lair election in Louisiana, and to IfuarHnUs? to that state a republican form of irov eminent. I.vfcrred to the Judiciary Committee. The Mouse went Into Committee of the Whole on the Priv ate ( nlendar. ithouldisjiosinjr f any hill, the coiuiuitu-c nc, and soon alter tlie ll.iiii' adjourncil. In the .Senate, on the lltli, resolutions were adopted n)uest'ng the Secretary f War to transmit lo the Senate the report of tieneral Kmory and of Major Iwis Merrill in reference to the Louisiana trouble Mr. Sherman introduced a till chartering the Fortv first Parallel Itailnd Company ot the I'nited suites of America, fnim Lake t.'rie to the Missouri Itiver, and to limit the rates of freight thennn. Inferred to the Committee on Transportation Itoutes. Mr. Miennan said ho intrrsluced the bill by request, but he w a very far from committing Inmself lo its pnivision .. Mr. Sehuri railed up hi reo. lntion offen-d on Kriday , instructing the Judiciary Committee to Inquire what leirislaUon of Congres l tMsressary to M-eure to the issojile of Louisiana their right of self -irovemnieiit under the ConstltuUon.itnd pnsiHied lo address the senateat length, in favor thereof. He said be approached the eoldect in no party spirit. Atiout to retire to ftrivate lite, toe success of no party would benefit urn, nor the defeat of any injure lum. T he subject now before the senate was so gn at, that passion or pre) ud ice should find no place in the bn'ast of Senators in discussing It. Mr, SVhun's address received the closest attention fnm the large assemblage who had gathered to hear him. It wa replinl to briefly by Mr. Morton, alter which the senate adjourned. In the House, among the bills iutnsluced and referred were the following: To refund losses nn deposit in the Kroilinan's Itank ; to alsdish the office nf Lieutenant ieneral of the army; to pn-aerve In the Government the right of possession nf all arms issued to stile .. Mr. Cox Introduced a resolution, which was referred to the Judiciary Committee, declaring the Intervention of the officer and soldiers of Uie I niled Stales in Louisiana aff.iirs, on the 4th inst. , lo lie in violation of tho Kederal ConstituUon, and demanding the Immediate w ithdraw al of such triKipt from said state. ...Adjourned.

LiTTl.K IliH K, Auk., January T. The following was published to-day: Tothf People of (he I'nited StUe$ Having seen adispa'ch of General Sheridan's to tlie secretary of H ar, In which be s aks o ternirism asevisting in the State of Arkansas, we f.el it to be our duty, iu behalf of Ihc religion rommtiniUcs with which we are connected, to say to the world at Urge that there Is no such thing as trroririin ixisling in this state, ami no auppri-ssioa of public opinion or private action, except that iuios d by ai ordinary cisle of law , and that, since the last of May of tliepat vi ar, the country lias iHin pnifoutully quiet. There have be, n lio x rsrutiou ooliUcal or otln rv Is-, and, as far a we have Imi n able to learn, no V hiu- League., or any otln r similar associations. As li ii. siieridan has not been in Arkansas, ami eoulil only have formed an opinion bv hearsay, this fact may account for his opinioit of the existence of imaginary evils, for w hich he pnpoeeiia remedy w Inch, of its'. If , won Id extinguish law and produce a roiid.iiou of alVairs hich would t e t'inrisiii 111. lied. KlWAKI Mld Kl.l, I'.isho'i of Little UM'k. A. It. VV I.NUM l. Pn-siding Klder of theM. K. Chun h south, Little Kock. II. N. Pikki K, Missionary Ilishop of Arkansas and Indian Territory. " 1 ih. K. t.u II, Pastor of the Pn-sby terian Church. Jx lt I;i!m ii, Jlabbi ol the Congregation of llnai Israel.

Spftlal JlesMap from f.'overuor Alloa or Ohio. Com Miit !. O., January T. (Jovernor Allen tut just gent the following message to the (ieneral Assembly, which was referred to the C mimittee on Federal Kelations: To fhr t'.rnrrul Armly I desire to call your attention to the grave rircumslance of the interfen'iice of Ir ederal tnstpa in the organization and Imicecdingsof tlie Legislature of a sister Stale, f the n-srU-d ai lion nl the military in unseating iM-ron claiming to Im memls-rs of tlie Louisiana (.'ir-lature, ami giving their place to icrson contesting the same, true, and is legal and proH r, Ihen the same interference would le legal and pner here; and ilswins to me to be the iluty of the Iti'prescntatives of the people of this state to at om-e enter a vigorous protest BRniio-t this action, w hich may Iss innde a precedent at some future time for tfie overthrow of the civil government here. If there 1 a law warranting the settling of contested election rase in the state legislature by the use of l- cdcral troops, then, in my judgment, you should request it nnnieniate repeal. If there Is no law lor It. then your iiMlignmit pndest should he heard at washI ington, insi-ling upon such action by Congresa aa will prevent in the future such flagrant outrages against civil lilsertv. Wm. Ali.km. How )Ve Ilreatbo. Agnatic nnlnials brcatlio by means of trili', wliicli art tnt'inbraiici prolonged exteriiidly into lulu or fringes., through w liicli tlii aeration of the blood I ttrcctcil. Insists have a scries, of tuU'H ramify ing; tlirotigti the whole bHly and carryinjj air to the blHKl of every jutrt. In tht human Inn? the sidr or wall of the air-cell!" are constituted of g thin, transparent membrane, and the capillary veaxdn are iituated Ix-twirn the walls of two adjacent cells, u a to be ex"Os4l to the action of the air on both idilc. The nuniU-r of the air-cell of th lunjr hnve N-en t'stimateI at six hnmlreil million. The capacity of the lunijs varie jreatly In difleretit Individual. M. Ilourpery conclude from the inquiries that the developtneiit of the airc'J'. continues up to the ge of thirty, at which time the respiratory capacity Is createst. According to the cxiK-rinients of Mr. Coathuix' about 2W cubic fe t of air pa through tho lung of a middle sized man in twenty-four hours. At the average numtxT of 1 Inspirations rn-r minute, the amount of air received at each inspiration would le 'JO cubic inches. Mr. IIutclii.Hon judge the capacity of thelungs by "the quantity of air which an individual can force out of his cheat by the greatest voluntary Inspiration." Ir. Southwood .Smith, from a series ofextseriments, eat I mates the volume of air received at an ordinary inspiration at ne pint, the volume oriiiiiatily present In the lungs at about twelve pints, and the volume exiielled at an ordinary expiration at a little less than a pint. lie also concludes that In the mutual action which takes place between the air and blood, the air loses 37 ounces of oxygen and the blood 14 ounces of carbon every 21 hours. The lightness of the lungs depend noon the residuary air they contain, and when the lungs have beeu once Inflated by a full Inspiration, no forte or mechanical power

can ajrain dislodge tho air tuifnclently to nmVe tliein sink in water. It iMldi re si luary air which aupivorts life for a few minutes In case of suitocaliou, iiiitiicrsinn etc. Scittict of Health. m Kellrs of Antiquity. Among the most Interesting rcli.-jiof antiquity tiiat have been brought to liiit j,, Home, In the course of the building and restoration that have been carried ou i late ytrarn In the old city, are a number ot writing tibhts, or pugtlUres. These writing tablets were much In use in the tlnii'8 of the (':t"sars, and eonsi-t d of twoleaves of Ivory hinged together book-wixc. The Inner surface of tho lcavc waa slightly liollowisi to admit of a thin layer oi wax, and the outer nurface wan often adorned with elegant carving. ! writing wax executlw1th a stylua having one end jxdnted for the purpose, and the. tther blunt for making erasures. These tablets, called iwgillartM becauste they were small enough to be borne In the hand, or diptycka, because they were double-leaved, were tied, scaled, ami wnt from friend to friend as tokens of regard. They wsre eMvially used by Consuls, w ho presented tliein to their friends on their elevation to olllce. .Iu venal mentions their use by lovers In transmitting tender messages. The missive conveyed In them frequently had the ortrait of tho writer at the coin menccinent. One of the talilet.s recently found In Koine still bore the inscription tit its owner, Mclnius, a favorite ot Julius Cicsar, and crcatetl by him (iovernor oi tJaul. The inscription gives eviil. noe that Liciniua was a man of great w ealth. A quantity of silver fork have also been recently unearthed in Uome. They are o silver, twtsprongi'd, and with handles ol very elegant design. It luw leeti hitherto supposed that the table-fork was a modern invention, and that the Hemani, a-i the (ireeks and other nations, ate wilh their lingers. Much, Indeed, wa the prevailing custom among all peoples c'ov.ii to the fourteenth or llttecnth century. Meat w as generally stewel, or, if roast d, it was cut into small pieces by the carver, so a to be easily managed by the tinker. At sumptuous tables the guest wire furnished w ith basins of water and towels, for the convenience of wahing their hand at the c!oe oi the reiiast. It U said that the Use of forks at table tirst arose in Italy. In the reign of Edward 1 forks were very rare In England. A halt-dozen or so w ere reckoned In the King's treasures at his death In l.'!07. For thri-e centuries later the convenient Implement were employed only by the higher cl tsse. Hence the interest of the recent And " iu Koine. 1 1 corroborated the old taw that then. Is nothing new under ihe suu. o Uangtrs of Denzlne Scouring. M. Dumus, at a recent meeting w the French Academy of Sciences, stated thit.

In cxunining the process of scouring I'lbrics as usually practiced by cletuient of old clothes (washing In benzine), he hid discovered a novel and dangerous cause of tire. Workmen engaged in this industry had frequently complained of the benzine becoming inflamed during the scrubbing; and in order to teat the question, il. Iumascuseil a piece of eo-hmere to la? dipped in for a length of eighteen feet. Every time the stuff parti lly e.ncrged from tlie b.'.th, while being rubbed hot ween the hand, a sharp pricking sensation upon those members and on the face was felt; snd final iv "parks were emitted Irotn the fabric, aufllcient, if the scouring h d Ix-en briskly continued, to have Ignited the InlKinmable fluid. i John Ilogan, a laliorcr, was found frozen to death In the street in C'hkago, a few mornings ago.

THE MAKKLTS.

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