Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1876 — Page 2

[ AJVD JABPJBK REPUBLIC AN.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

*tm« of extraordinary excitement on the y L «we«t w f . l* iur ism piUfs of « oecreo granting complete . Munxue characterized those favoring tk» mottoa m Ini of the Commune,” «M Of the CnM*M owe some Indulgence •odMAMMMDOI Of the Commune.” M. Casmwm Iminsffiataly sent a challenge to M. At TueU, recently, on attempt woe mode to awaeataete ike Italia* Oenoul. The wouldba amaaeia teaa alaln by the Consul’s drogttnen. The «stives were greatly excited at and troopa were colled out to koU the mob In check and protect the OtWlaliß. . The Invitation of the American Team to MbOOt'htthe Centennial for the championship Of the wofid, has been accepted by the Irish The MU conferring the title of Empress of India open Queen Victoria passed the British Housed* Commons on the 83d—309 to 184. Paul Dahlgreen, United States ConsulOeneeal to Italy, died at Rome on the 2Sd. He was- a son of the late Rear Admiral Dahlgtwen. _ \

■lt "Woe stated in Washington on the 90th that the Treasury Department would reoetve daring the week, from San Francisco, feurteen tone of silver coin to prepare for the •BbwtUtlon of silver. This will amount to 9M0,000. The amount of silver iD the vaults «f »he Treasury was less than $30,000. Orders ware received at the Department on that day fractional currency. The amount of fractional currency still in the vauTfewas* 99,000,000, though none had been printed aiuce the . middle of last month. Sinsa that time the requisitions upon the Treasury from banks and other offices for fractional currency bad amounted to 93,000,000. A fire in Charleston, 8.C., on the 30th, defrayed all the buildings on both sides of Hlng street from Columbus to Line street!,, and extended up toe King street road for three-quarters of a mile, the houses, fences -and farm buildings along the road being burned. Hundreds of persons were rendered homeless by toe fire, which inflicted a pecuniary loss of over $300,000. Insurance $85,-T<he-National Council of the Order of Sovereigns of Industry met at Cleveland, on the iSHat, eleven States being represented. The j -official reports show the order to be in a flourishing condition. An explosion of 400 pounds of “Jupiter" •powder occurred in a powder mill in Washingtanville, In the northern section of New: Turk city,- on the 23d, and four men were 1 literally blown to pieces, hardly enough of their remains being collected on which to hold an Inquest Six or seven other persons were severely injured. The mill was blown to pieces, and buildings in Its immediate ' vicinity were considerably shattered. The . sound of the explosion was heard for milee around. The explosion is thought to have resulted from too great a friction in rubbing together solid and fluid components. >lt is reported from Fort Laramie that eevemt persons m route for the Black Hills wandered off during recent severe storms, got dost and perished. ’ Newa-Waa brought to Fort Laramie, Wy. *l., on toe ujght of the 21et, by a parQ from ■ Custer City, of a fight between miners and .Indians on Dead wood Creek, sixty miles northjof Custer. The miners attacked the Indians and tolled thirteen. One white man was killed. The Indians had been running off stack. More trouble was expected.

j Surly on toe morning of the 23d a boiler in the Uolon Jfeciflc Company’s rolling-mill at Laramie City, Wy. T., exploded with terrible iforce, completely wrecking toe south half of; toeunill and instantly killing four men and! seriously wounding ten others, one of toe ■wounded dying soon after toe accident. The toiler yeas Carried through the stone wall of dhemm and deposited on the prairie a quarter of smile distant Mrs. Catherine Lehert, of Chicago, used keno Mae oil to build a fire, on toe 23d, and ■tea fatally burned. , At*Bait Lake, Utah, John Wigging has fcam-aeatenced to be shot June 28, for the ■nuder.ot John Kramer, the prisoner who ysse given toe option, choslng this mode of death in preference to hanging or' decapitaA. bookkeeper named Hedden, of the Marten Bank, of New York city, has absconded, and-an examination of his books shows that teebb&nk, has been defrauded of $38,000. It appears that whenever Henry Bode, a customer of toe bank, sent his book for deposit, Hedden would raise toe amount, say, from ssoo to .$1,500. Bode hae been arrested, charged with being In collusion .with Heddeu AiFbttadelphia dispatch of the 34th says a teggejuimher of honnterfdk fives on toe Merehßntfs.'Natiosal JBajok of New Bedford, Maes., are in. circulation to that cHy-

Sn.tbeiUaited States Senate, in executive aaaaion.on t}»e. 21st, the j-Forefen Relations Committee reported back the ncminatlon of HtohanllP. Dang, Jr„ to be Mirister to Bnffamtt. with the recommendation that it be net ftealdept Grant on the-. 22d dominated John A. Bentley i pf Wisconsin, ,£> be Commisaktaer of rPswsions, vice McGiU, resigned on neaennt of. inadequate salary. Caleb*. Marsh was in Washing** on the 23d, and,testified farther before the .investigating nammittee concerning the Celknap affair, his foamef testimony by saying that the pfriated account of it was correct. He thinks his first payment sris to Mrs. ln<|riia|i. one-half the second to the Aeeretaty himself; had made-eome payments to him fa person,. supposed Belknap knew where the rnoot y came from without any conaersaUon on the subject In,bl* testimony befona the sab- judiciary Committee on the *O4, Mr. Mar*,stated that he had, is 1878, conversed with Ba;retary-A f - War Belknap concerning an article publish* traderships at Port Bill, and the payment by Bnhs to Marsh otgt&OOO for the place, etc. Witness Mid he went to Cfeudatbectuse he apprehended, when tie read the debate Jn the House, on the morning of the day he ta?t for Mew York, that he might b« indicted for criminal offense. Testimony was giyan by other witnesses before the committee relative iMMCMtnenU of poat-trader* for polities 1

DUriMMJ Announcement was nude at Philadelphia on th«£3d that Bayard Taylor is to he the GflDtAUttli! DOfll The 4*tfc o/ ChleWdstlee JTicholson, of TennOMop, was announced by telegraph on the «9d. jlto wu formerly s United States SpVSL*"” * “* Fomtal judgp«fut in the case of Lieut. Gov.' Davis, of MfosisatpH, was ptonounced on Mia 83d, befog removal from office and disqualification for aver again bolding any «m$ Pf km?r ifMi M Upon re-

quest of the House the Senate discontinued proceeding* against ex-Superintendeut of Hi—III from nil toepbwtffi In NeW liampshtf* but two gWe Cheney (Hap.) s' plurality over Maief<Dsm.)der Governor, of 8,898, and a majority of 8,273. In the Legislature the Republicans will have a majority of thirty, oar on Joint ballot. In the South Carolina State Senate, on'the 21st, Montgomery Moses, Judge Of toe Seventh Circuit, waa found guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, and formally dismissed. The New York Republican Btate Convention met at Syracuse on the 23d, and selected to the NfittOTf 1 Convention. Resolutions were adopted commendatory of the present National Administration, advocating retrenchment and reform, and the unsparing pursuit, exposure awd punishment of public frauds and official dishonesty; favoring sound currency of coin, or paper convertible Into cola; and presentlngto the National Convention the name of Roecoe Conkllug as the choice of the New York Republicans for President of the United States.

The Democratic State Convention of Pennsylvania was held at Lancaster on the 23d. Delegates to the National ■Convention were elected, and a platform was adopted declaring that recent exposurea of fraud and corruption call for a t thorough and searching investigation into the conduct and condition of every branch of the public service; favoring a general amnesty; declaring that it Is impossible for the Government to comply with the law tor the" resumption of specie payment on the Ist of January, 1879, and that gold and silver are the only true basis for the currency of the RepubUc, and that Congress should take suck steps fortoe resumption of specie payments as wUI most-surely and speedily reach that result without destroying the business interests of the people. The Wisconsin State Prohibition Convention met at Oshkosh, on the 21st, and appointed delegates to the National Convention . tQ-hs.hrid.at Clevelandof Providence, has been placed on the Rhode Island Democratic ticket for Governor, in place of Gen. Cooke, who declined the nomination. The Rhode Island Republican State Convention met at Providence on the 28d, and renominated the present State officers, headed by "Henry” L. Epplt rdr *GoveraorTt-DeTe gates to the Republican National Convention at Cincinnati were also selected. The Governor of California has approved a bill parsed by the Legislature, providing for the punishment of wife-beaters by public whipping.

CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on too 20th, w amend, jnent was agreed to to the House but to supply the deficiency for feeding the Sioux Indians, such amendment aubetltntlngslso,ooo In place ot SIOO,OOO, for such pnrpoße. The hill to provide for counting the votes for -President and VicePresident was taken up, and amendments were offered and debated. A Committee of Conference on the Senate amendments to the Military bill was ordered and appointed.... Among the .bills introduced in the House sere several relating to the currency question. A motion to suspend the rules and pass-the bill for the repeal of the previsions of the Resumption act which authorise the Secretary of the Treasury to redeem and cancel United States notes, and to sell United States bonds for that purpose, was made and rejected—lo 9to 108, not two-thirds in the affirmative. Several petitions were introduced in toe Senate on the 21st, among them from Good Temolars and other temperance' organizations, praying for the passage of a Prohibitory Liquor law in the District of Columbia and the Territories, and also for a law prohibiting the use of liquors among the officials of the civil, military and naval service. A Conference Committee on the Military Academy bill was appointed. The bill to provide for the countingtof the vote for President and Vice-President was further considered.... Among the bills reported in the Honse was one from the Judiciary Committee making It a misdemeanor for any employe of the Government to solicit or distribute funds for election purposes, or to canvass in ■ State, County or District elections. An amendment was offered by Mr. Blaine to include Senators and Representatives in the bill, which being objected to a motion was made and carried—toil to 54—to reconsider the vote .by which the main question had been ordered, and Mr. Blaine's amendment was then offered, as were also several other amendments. A resolution was adopted authorizing Messrs. New, Glover and Smith, of . the Real-estate Pool Committee, to appear before the Grand Jury of the Districtand testify under a summons which had been served upon them. The Senate, on toe 22d, resumed consideration of the bill providing for the counting of votes for President and Vice-President, and -several proposed amendments were rejected.... .In the House, the Senate amendments to the bill to supply the deficiency in the appropriation for certain Indian tribes werenon-concnrred in. The i bill reported irom the Judiciary Committee prohibiting contributions to election funds by Government officers and employes was taken up, amended and passed—yeas, 173; mays, 8. The bill as passed provides that no officer or employe of the Government shall solicit er receive from or give to any other employe or officer, or other person, directly or indirectly, any money or ather valuable thing for political purposes, under penalty of being dismissed from service and being deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and, on conviction, or being lined not less than SSOO nor more than 8,000, and imprisoned one year or less; it is also made a misdemeanor to. nsc force, duress, menace, violence or bribery to influence the election of President, Vice-President, Senator or member of Congress; United States District Coarts are given jnhsdicVien of the offenses created by this act. A bill was introduced in the-Senate, on to prohibit the transportation oi liquid nitro-glycerine, and to regulate the transportation of dynamite. The bill to regulate the coanting of votes for President and Vice-President was amended in its phraseology without materially aliasing Its meaning Bills were passed in the House—prohibiting the catting of timber on any Indian reservation or lands to .which an Indian title or the right of occupancy has not been extinguished; to -reduce the extent of the military reservation at .Fort Laramie, Wy. T., to an area of fifty-four square miles; repealing the law forbidding the appointment to say position in the army of any person who servedtiß any capacity in the military, naval or civil service of the Confederate States ,<n the late rebellion. A bill was introduced for the relief of settlers on public lands within railroad limits. The Legislative* Judicial and Executive Appro-priation-bill was considered in Committee of the Whole. The donate, on toe 24th, insisted. upon its amendments to the, bill on the Siomxilndian deficiencies, and a Conference Committee.was appointed. The- fwMbmtv bill was amended and passed. Mr. Morten's bill providing the manner for counting the Presidential vote was passed—32vto 85—and a motion waa made to reconsider. Adjourned to the 27th. ..A hill was passed in the House'to supply a deficiency of $61,(100 for -the manufacture of rostal cards for the year coding June 30,1878. The Legiafisiive, Rexecative*na Judicial Appropriation bill .was considered in Committee of the Whole, .and amendments were disposed of. Adjourned to the 27th.

The Payne Finance Bill.

The Fayae. bill, as adopted by the noceut caucus of the Democratic mejnbejs or Congress, is as follows: A sill to provide for the gradual resumption of. specie payments. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Bep~ retenlaiivet of t/te, United States .of America in Congrtu assembled,', That jt shall oe the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury duuug each and .every year, from and alter July 1, JfcTti, and unti!. ■ fie leval-tender notes of the United States shall he appreciated to par valve with gold and shall ha convertible into .coin, to cause to be set aside n*i retained In coLu an amount equal,to three per cent, of such legal tender nates outstanding; and frtaa the date of sucb convertibility as aforesaid, the amount of coin set aside and retained as aforesaid shall be held as a reetimptio# fund in respect to said legal-tender notes, and shall at no

time to less than thirty per cent, of such outstandint legal-tender notes; provided, however, th*t the coin so set aside and retained as above provided shall be counted as a pan of the sinking fund for the purchase or payment of the ppbiic debt, as waired by Sec. MU of the Revised Statutes. • Btc. if. That it shall be the duty of each National Banking association during each and every year from and after July J, 16t7q, and until the tt® and eomplete resumption at the payment is specie of its circslatlng notes, to set aside and retain from the coin receivable at interest on the bonds deposited with the Weaaffiy of the ffSltedT H cates St security for its circulation an * mount equal to throe per cent, of its Circulating notes, issued to such associate, n and not Surrendered, and from the date of it# resumption of specie payments it a fore-aid the amount of coin ipbe

held and maintained aa a resumption fund shall at no time be loss than thirty per cent, of its outstanding circulation: provided, however, that the aate by this section directed to he eat Mid* and frisluafi shall be conutnJLas afifttoi tbe lawful money freer vv which sail esnolmtlons are iff existing MWi required to tnlluUlau . 880.9, That so much Jltc.bf an act entitled “An act to provide ror tot resumption of sparkpayments," approved J pn. 11*1875, aa requires thtrSecrstanr of the Treasury to redeem legaltender note* to the amount of eighty per cent, of the sum of National Bank note* Issued to any banking association, tnoreaaina its capital or drualatlon/ar to any psaAclatlom ndwly* organised or provided in said aecUoa, an! also as much of salu Sec. Has relates to-or-provides for theredemptton in coin of the United State* legal-tender notes on and after Jan. 1, 1812, and all other ptovtatons of law Inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. «

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Edward Braman, a brakeman on the In* dlanapollc & Vinuennee Railroad, waa killed cfc Worthington, on the 18th, by falling from the train. Policeman Schmitz was shot twice and fatally wounded, at Newtown, the other night while attempting to make an arrest. A lodge of too Sovereigns of Industry was organized at Loganaport on the night of the 18th. Henry A. Flammoxd was arrested a few daye ago neat' Rockville, Parke County, for the alleged murder of Peter Remy, at Junct, Belgium, In the winter of 1873. He had’ keen located at Rockville for the past six months. A few days ago, two Indianapolis cattle dealers wont to Greenfield to purchase fat cattle and milch cows. They spent the night at a farmer’s residence. While they were sleeping, some person entered their room by the window and carried off their pants, containing nearly S7OO in greenbacks. The Commissioners of Warrick County have discontinued paying premiums on foxscalps. The treasury gave out under the heavy drain.

• Robert Dale Owen Is on his mental legs again. He will sail for Europe about Juno 1. Since the May' meeting of the Grand Lodge, F. and A. M., dispensations for four-’ teen new lodges have been issued from the .office of tlifi.fiiMnd Secretary.,. The fruit crop of Washington County is regarded as in a safe condition, except that part of it which is on low land. The Auditor of State is sending outhlanks for assessment-of railroad property. There’s a strike among the coal miners at Carbon, Clay County. . .At Indianapolis,-on toe-night- of thelOtlir during the snow-storm, several very distinct claps of thunder were heard. Thunder in a snow-storm is somewhat singular. The whole of Pike County is up in arms beeause one of its County Commissioners held court for two or three days while get-ting-up a virulent case of smallpox. : *-

Scarlet fever prevails to a considerable extent in Indianapolis. * Secretary Heron is sending out large numbers of circulars calling the attention of manufaettixcrs and exhibitors in general to to the State Fair and Exposition of 1876. The Cass County C< mmissioners are engaged in ditching about 16,000 acres of land in Boone township. The main water course, seven miles long, will be at some places thirty feet wide and sixteen feet deep. The average width will be twelve feet and the depth slX'feet. The ditch will have five tributaries, each several miles long, and almost as large as the main ditch. The average of these tributaries will be ten feet wide and five feet deep. The total length of these ditches will be about thirty-two miles, and the cost of digging them estimated at $26,000. The Sixth Mass Convention of tbe Seventh Congressional District, under the auspices of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, was held in Mooresville, Morgan County,in few days since. The convention was well - attended, all the counties in the district, except Putnam, being fully represented. .The reports from the various unions and other organizations were encouraging. Horticulturists throughout the State, on the 20th, reported the buds of all the smaller fruit as killed. It was thought the buds of the apple trees were not so far advanced as to be affected by tbe lqte cold weather. All toe rivers in the State are full, and railroad men run very carefully now over bridges and trestle-works. There are 280 pupils at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, at present. Up to the 20th, the total receipts from seventy-two counties, on behalf of the State exhibit at toe Centennial, aggregated only $9,766.40, and the Executive Committee of the State Finance Committee have issued a stirring appeal for remittances. A singular freak of lightning occurred at Williamsburg, Waytie County, the other day, by which Thomas Smith was seriously injured. Be was sitting with one foot on the stove, while he “ rode’’ an infant on liis knee, and was talking to an older child who stood hard by. The lightning struck the chimney, and traversing it, followed down the stove-pipe, and tearing the sole completely off his boot, shot through his foot like a rifle ball, producing a very similar wound. The little girl who stood near him was felled to the floor, as was his wife in a far-off part ttf toe room, but both, like the infant on his knee, were unharmed, and no damage was done to either the house or furniture worth speaking off. Upon the farm of Mrs. Agar, pne mile north of Princeton, between a quarter and a hnlf an acre of ground, upon the side of a small hill, has been sinking squarely into the earth for some time past. It is now ten feet below the surface of the ground surrounding, and about, fifteen feet in the middle of the sunk -space, and still sinking at the rate of six inches every twenty-four hours.

The Madison County Democracy have instructed their delegates to the State Convention to vote foe Ltmders every time. At Nbblesville, an .the 23d, a laborer was run over by a construction train while attempting to get oat,of-a cow-pit, and fatally Injured. He lived fcutiwo hours. Tom Barker, win, »vuf sentenced to the Penitentiary from Hamilton County, died recently, und on his death-bed confessed that he was the murderer .c-f Mrs. Foulke, for which her husband was sentenced to a life-long-imprisonment. By some means Foulke secured a second trial and was acquitted. Barker said he shot Mrs. Foulke to prevent her giving an alarm wheat, with others, he \was making the attempt to rob her husband. The latest reports from Cincinnati give ike following as the current prices for leading staples: Flour, [email protected]; Wheat, $1.15@L25‘, Corn, 48@50e; Oats, 87@43c; Barky, duff and nominal; Bye, 78075 c; Pork, [email protected]; Lard—Steam, 18X@ JBMc; kettle, U@UKc; Hoga—Light, $7.75 0&8C; Packing. [email protected].

Mr. and Mrs. Marsh Before the Investigating Committee.

Wachihgtov, March 21. Mrs. C. P. Msrsb, who arrived this morning, came into the room of the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department to-day, accompanied by her Husband. She was swan* as a witness, and under the examination ot Mr. Danford, testified that she left Cincinnati in 1885, ■where she had formerly resided, and has lived in New York most of the time since that year. She had known Mrs. Bowers, | {now Mrs. Belknap), since lfcfiO, and had | been At the same hotel with Jut Id Cincin- 1

anti for four years. Cincinnati was her home, ami she visited that city twice a year, staying than two or mdre weeks. She met Mrs. Bower* in New York, where Mr*. Bowen win her guest. Mrs. Bowers w%s a widow at the time the, witness commenced housekeeping in Now York, in Ihe summer of 1871. She, went

to Europe, in company with Mrs. Bowers, the last of June, 1873, and knew Mr. Pendleton's name was on the - list of passengers. The witness was naked whether •he had any conversation “ &t~ any time - , with Mrs. Bowers, now Mrs. Belknap, relative to her interest in too Kentucky Central Railroad claim? The answer was:’ ** Two or three weeks ago, at the Arlington Hotel.” At that time the witness asked Mrs. Belknap whether she had ever received any money on account ot toe claim. The witness told her she had heard that she received 970,000. Mrs, Belknap replied: “The claim was for only SIO,OOO, and how could I receive 9~0,000?” During that conversation, Mrs. Bclkfmp was in a state of excitement and distress. Mrs. Belknap was a friend ot hers, and the witness felt much interest in her account. She had simply mentioned to Mrs. Belknap an idle rumor. Sire had always talked to Mrs. Belknap as she would to her sister. She had

heard rumors for over a year. She re. latod to Gen. Kiddoo the conversation between her and Mrs. Belknap. She did not know of Mr. ’ Pendleton’s paying money to Mrs. Belknap on account of the Kentucky Railroad claim, or of making her presents. She never heard the Secretary of War say anything about the contract between her husband and Evans. On her cross examination by Mr, Robbins, the witness said that she understood Mrs. Belknap as denying that she received anything, and meant to convey that impression. In response to a question by Mr. Clymer, the witness said that she saw Clymer but once, and that was three weeks ago. it was at toe breakfast table at the Arlington Hotel; her husband presented her to Clymer. Their short conversation had no reference to coming before the committee. Mr. Marsh was recalled and testified to the effect that Mr. Clymer had told him, ,on.toe.occasion of his former evidence, that there was no danger to him (witness), as he could not be sent to prison for anything he had said before the committee. Witness went to New York feeling easy; but when, on Friday morning, he read the remarks in the House, that the Secretary of War was not only liable to imfeachmeat. but toa criminal prosecution, e thought he (witness) was in danger as well, and hence his trip to Canada. Mrs. Marsh, being interrogated as to why she went to Montreal, said that she saw in a morning paper that her husband j had jumped off the train. She followed the next morning, fearful that he had been injured. .

The Turk and the Peasant.

Mr. Farley, the author of several works on Oriental Matters, in his recent volume, “ Turks and Christians,” tells this terrible Story: “A short time since, the inhabitants ot a little village in Roumelia were called upon to pay the taxes, at which they had been assessed by the authorities of the district in which toe village is situated. When the principal inhabitants had assembled, they did what probably many others would have done in like circumstances : they rather discussed the means by which the tax might be evaded than the mode of paying it. After many schemes had been suggested, the only means which appeared satisfactory to those who were present was to compel some inhabitant who was not present to pay the whole assessment. In tho outskirts of the village resided a Christian peasant who owned a small strip of ground which he cultivated for his maintenance. He was industrious and was supposed to possess a hoard of money. Indeed, as he had only one child—a son who assisted him in the cultivation of his rood of ground—how could he spend all his earnings? It™ evident, so his Mussulman neighbors argued, there must be a store somewhere, and it was resolved that he should be compelled to pay the whole amount at which the village was assessed. By tills means it was clear that the claim of the Ferte would be satisfied, and the rest of the villagers would be lightened from the burden about to be imposed upon them. The discussion took place in the presence of the Cadi. He assured the assembly that it was a matter of indifference how the money was procured, provided that it was duly paid to him. After some deliberation as to the best means of wringing the whole sum from one peasant, the following plan was suggested, matured, and finally carried out. It was agreed that the rest of the villagers should seize his only child, a lad of some sixteen years, and imprison him until his father should ransom him for the sum at which the whole village was assessed; and that the Cadi should suspend the collection of the tax until tods means had been tried.

“In order that this functionary should not, however, pocket the ransom himself, ana then levy the tax upon the villagers, a deed was drawn up and witnessed according to the forms of Turkish law, by which the Cadi covenanted to accept the money thus to be wpung from the parent, in lieu of all claim upon the rest of the villagers; to hold the boy in Ms custody until the ransom should be paid, and to release Mm as soon as this should be done. It was seed-time, and the lad, wholly unconscious of the plat, was employed with his parents in plowing and sowing their little pieoe of ground, when he was seized, carried off’ to the Cadi, and, amid the cries of hie mother and the entreaties of his father, thrown into prison, with the intimation that he should be released when •the money was paid. The village was but ill-supplied with pri&on-buUdings, and the boy was thrust into the small dome, of some six feet square, which covered an unused welL

“Day by day the parents came, but could not weary the patience of the unjust but impassive judge. The only answer which they received was that when the money was brought the boy should be released. The parents were not wealthy; the had ro hoard: the supposition of their fellow-villagers was unfounded; they had nothing save the small strip of land which they cultivated for their daily needs. The last thing which a peasant will give up in Turkey is the privilege of being aland,ed proprietor. The" father, who loved his son, clung, however, to his bit of garden ground, and exhausted all other means of raising the required sum before selling his land. He appealed to the authorities of the district. He was referred by them for iTed ress to the Cadi by whom the wrong was done.

“ Despairing of any other means of delivering their child, the wretched parents now endeavored to collect the money which the Cadi required. Their furniture was tint sold, then their tools and implements of husbandry were parted with. The sum thus obtained fell so far short of the am(wnt required that it was at length evident that the rood of ground, the family estate, must be parted with. This also was sold, sad still there lacked a portion of the total sum required. The Cadi was inexorable and rigidly upright. Tbs Government expected so much -from the village, and so much must be brought before the lad coidd be released. At length the last piastre was procured and the wretched parents hastened joyfully to the Cadi with the whole amount. “ All this had taken upward of ten months to collect, and for so long a time; the poor lad had been subjected to the horrors Of solitary confinement, in total darkness, and in a dungeon only a few

fleet In extent, in which it wto* impossible to stand upright. The floor, partly of rough atones and partly of mud. was equally cold afed damp, and on tlilf he had tat and (Win, an d'lJn and sat, for more than ten months. ' S “ On receiving the mofcey tlia Cadi assembled the villager*; the dead waa recited, the money exhibited, and the legal instrument duly canceled with all the mocking formalities of law. And now the priaon-doar, or what aefved fbr a dotfr, was uhbarred to the parents, and they were permitted to look again upon their child. For a time nothing moved within the narrow limits of the cell; the call of his mother could elicit no signs of life in the poor prisoner. At length & bundle of humanity was dragged out; it breathed, it stirred; but these were the only tokens of life which could be seen. Signs of hu-

manity there were none. The limbs had been contracted by cold, wet, rheumatism and by the crouching posture which the poor lad had been compelled to assume, and he could only crawl on all fours like a beast. His face resembled a skull covered with dirty parchment, and he was hopelessly an idiot. How long since reason had given way his jailers could not tell. He was now a slabbering, jabbering idiot. The light, and Joy, and hope oi his parents’ cottage was not merely quenched, it iiad become a palpable and noisome blackness. Amid the wails of the parents, and the ‘God is great’ of the persecutors, the crowd dispersed, some cursing more deeply than over the despotism which rendered them liable to atrocities such as these.”

The Meanest Woman in New York— A Useful Society.

She lives in a fashionable quarter of the town. And this is what she did and does. In the name of charity she gave out some dress making to the inmates of one of the reforming institutions of the city. When the work was done, and well done, the fashionable and charitable lady was not ready to pay the bill, which amounted to the enormous sum of twelve dollars. The same work, if it had been done at a fashionable dress-maker’s, would have cost her twwtj'-flfe, HWy dollars. She had no complaint to make of the manner in which the work was done; but she haggled about the price, and as she gave out the work in charity, she thought, probably, that the charity should be extended to her and not to the poor sewingwoman who had earned the money. One month passed away, and aaether, and six more, while this wealthy and charitable woman, with one excuse and another, put of paying the poor girl who was seeking to earn an honest living and turn from her evil ways. But she could not get her hard-earned money from this lady patroness. Finally, in deepair, she had recourse to (he law. by the aid of an agency of which I will write to you, (a society to protect working women in their rights to what they earn), and the prospect of exposure, in the character of the fraud, brought the lady to terms, and she paid the full amount! " And I have styled her the meanest woman in New York. If any one knows of meaner men or women than they are who defraud in the name of charity, who do wickedness under the pretense of benevolence, let them mention the facts, and I will modify the opinion. Further: women, as a general thing, are so much better than men, more sympathetic, charitable and liberal, that a business like this is meaner in a woman than it would be in those hard old tyrants called men. When a pious woman of fashion, a leader perhaps in the benevolent operations of the church, first directress of this society, and manageress of that, and treasurer of another; who thinks nothing of paying SSOO for a dress for one evening’s wear, and, to be very charitable, employs a poor fallen woman struggling with poverty and honesty, and then neglects to pay her wages, She deserves to be labeled as among the meanest of her sex. Her standing in the church and society only increases her meanness, and draws upon her the aggravated contempt of all rightminded ladies.

The society (above mentioned) sends its officers to reason with employers, in behalf of complaining women, and seeks out the truth, which is not always on the side of the complaint. It often succeeds without using pressure. But when soft words fail, it uses force. Mary Thompson was employed to make a bridal dress, and when the wedding day came, thirty dollars were still due to Mary for her hard work; but she couldn’t get it. The bride was married in the dress for the making of which the poor sewing woman was not Said; and the happy husband was not so appy when the bill was soou afterwards presented to him, with $14.50 costs added to it. His bride was dearer to him than he had ever thought. It is pleasant also to hear that a lawyer of our city had a taste of tlie excellence of his own profession, by being sued for the wages of a governess. Being himself a lawyer he managed to stave off the payment of $17.75 until the costs carried up the bill to $32.25, and then he had to pay it all. Verdict, served him right.—“ Irenms," in N. F. Observer.

A New Capitalist.

He didn’t look as if his pockets held fitty cents, but a rich man has a right to dress as he chooses. He loafed up Gris, wold street until he saw the right sort of a fact, and then he asked: “ Can you show me a bank?” “ Yes, sir—three doors below, or just across the street, or right back there.” “Thanks. I’d like~to put some money in some bank, but I’m a little afraid of banks- I always did prefer a note of hand to a bank.” The citizen pricked up his ears and asked: “ You have some money to lend, have you ?” “A trifle,” was the answer. “Doyou know of anybody who’d like to take some and give me a note for a year at seven per cenlTr'T thuik" df“gbTng To Mexico' for awhile.” “Let’s see?” mused the citizen, “I don’t know but I’d take some myself.” git a drink and then we’ll talk,” said the stranger. “ Yes—certainly—come on,” replied the citizen, and the two went into a basement. Drinks were ordered by the citizen, one after another until his slunplasters felt lonely. He said he could make good use of a few thousand dollars for a year, and some of his friends might, also take a few thousand more. The stranger put down gin, whisky, lager and brandy until his legs gave out. The citizen laid him on a bench and tyied to sober him, but the fellow went dead asleep while they were trying to force vinegar down his Throat. The bar-keeper paid he was an old loafer, and a policeman was sent for to take him to the station. When they got him down there and searched him they found four oents, a’ brass-backed comb and a door key in his pockets, and the citizen who wanted to borrow a few thousand dollars went softly around the comer to see if the mail had come in .—Detroit Free Pr'eas.

' There &i! saying of Schopenhauer that “ women remain all their life big children; they have an eye for the thing which is nearest to theifa; they attach themselves totlye present: they mistake the appearance for the reality; and they set’aside the most momentous question for the veriest rifle.” ~ A farmer in Santa Clara County, California, will set out 590 coffee trees this spring. ;

Senator Sherman’s Speech.

In an editorial review of Senator Starman’s recent tpeccnou thpcurrentf question, the (JpiCKo Tfmr-Ocfftn saysj,. The SfcniiiMiks in gold In orger to strengthen s pulin* iirskn abrasul in-Pot, In oar view, well founded. The repeal of the orlitlnul redeemable quality of the greenbacks In IIKIB was what sent our bond* abroad. Mr. Sherman admits that “It waa a moat false Step," and that he feels more regret for that set of hi* official career (voting-fur this measure) than for any other. It was that act (the repeal) (which forced down the price of the greenback und forced up the price of gold. Then bonds began to flow out of the country, and England began to see that she could be the taskmaster us our/peoplc. By that act we consented to mortgage our resources to the magnates of Lombard street. Mr. Bhesman says; “ Not 'otfly 1* the gold of the world open to our competition, but we are the largest gold and silver producing country In the world.’’ This U all true; but we have mortgaged every dollar of the gold and silver product, and It flows awav from our shores aa fast as It Is mined, and must continue to soflow away until ourforeigndebt is paid. The gold of the world may be open to our competition, but only at a fearful sacrlllce. The only competition we have been able to maintuin for the gold of the world has heed through bonds, not commodities. Shull we borrow gold with which to resume? If we do wo must pay the price demanded by the lender. IVIU ho not make us pay dear for the whistle? Tills is thu true situation, and Mr. Sherman thoroughly comprehenda it; comprehends that resumption of specie payments now cun only be brought about by immense contraction, 110

accordingly says: , Now. sir. If ought to be confessed; for It 1* true, flint any plan for specie resumption will, when it Is about to take effect, produce sumu contruciion of the paper currency. Hut lie claims Unit the witeut of contraction requisite to the end “is greatly exaggerated.” Tills is in substance what Ricurdo said to the Parliament of Great Britain of Peel’s Resumption bill of 1819. He declared that the bill was not worthy of half mi hour s consideration; that it was a question of three per cent., this being his estimate of the fall in prices that would ensue. But Ricardo either knew not what lie said, or eared not wliat should result. The bill produced nlin almost absolute, and had to be enforced at the point of the bayonet. Such things cannot be in this country. Mr. Sher-man-mffiTtyWat thc rrasmi of tfvc large con. traction that has taken place since ilie adoption of the Resumption act ($4:1,01H),000), in little more than a year, is the caution of the banks againßt the demand for redemption that will be made upon them in the event of the carrying into effect of the act. Is not this large contraction, three years btfore the time fixed for resumption, and in the face of “the bite popular belief that the Treasury holds a reserve of nearly $100,000,000 in gold, significant of a degree of contraction during the next three years which must prove utterly ruinous to almost every class in the community? Mr. Sherman assumes still that the gold Treasury balance amount* to $37,1:30,772.78. This is a misapprehension, We think we have shown conclusively, in a previous article, that, so far from this being the fact, the Treasury has gold demand claims upon it to the amount of $44,343,734, and that it has, to meet these demands, in gold and silver coin and bullion, only $27,535,041. In a word, the Secretary’s recent report shows that the Treasury is short of gold and silver, as compared with its imiuediate liabilities, $lO,808,693. The last monthly report shows that the Treasury has only $9,529,404 in currency; so that it is actually Insolvent is apparent. Jn fact, it (the Treasury) keeps its head above water solely by virtue of Its $38,000,000 of coin certificates—yellow paper. Note Mr. Sherman’s plan of resumption, based on the assumed fact that there are nearly $40,000,000 gold In the Treasury available for specie payments. He says: Suppose (what I regard as «n extreme case) that we add to this reserve $100,0(10,000, $50,000,000 In coin certificates and $50,000,000 in coin, does anybody doubt but it will be ample to redeem any note that is presented? Confidence bei»u once established tn tbeir redemption, who wilt want the gold for them} They can be, and no doubt will be, reissued without or with the legal-tender clause, as the law may hereafter provide, and with their credit secured, established at par in coin, they will not only circulate in Texas and on the Pacific elope, as well as in other parts of the United States, but, like the Bank of England note, in all countries that have commercial rela tious with ns.

It will be observed that Mr. Sherman pro poses to accumulate only $50,000,000 In gold and this is to constitute a fund for tlic redemption of what? Of $372,000,000 in greenbacks. But this is not nil 1 He proposes to Issue. $50,000,000 additional coin eirtificates. There are $33,000,000 already outstanding. Let us see how the account will stand: Greenbacks $372,000,000 Coin certificates J3,000,0()0 Total ...$155,000,000 Nor 1b this all: We have shown that the Treasury* is short on its immediate gold liabilities $16,000,000, counting the silver coin and bullion as gold. But it is proposed to divert the silver to the redemption of fractional currency. Adding ita amount—sl4,000,000 —to the amount of the gold and silver shortage, we have $30,000,000 to be provided for in the proposed specie resumption scheme In addition to the $455,000,000 already specified, making a grand total of $485,000,000. This vast aggregate of currency and demand liabilities of the Government is to be floated and kept at par with gold on a reserve of $50,000,000. And on what theory is the proposition based? On “confidence.” Mr. Sherman says: “ Confldence being once established in their redemption, who will want the gold for thern f" Mr. Sherman says that they (the greenbacks) can be and no douot will be reissued without or with the legal-tender clause, and with their credit secured, established at pat in coin, they will circulate in all commercial countries of the world. This is a very attractive picture. It might convince very many in the absence of the analysis we have heretofore furnished; but it can scarcely do so now. Four hundred and eighty-five million dollars' of paper money circulated at par throughout the civilized world on a basis of $50,000,000 in gold would be an unusual spectacle. Ten dollars in paper to one in fold ha* sometimes served In Issue-banking. ut the collapse was sure to come and overwhelm the Issuer and ruin the holder of that kind of paper notes. Calm reflection will demonstrate the f illacy of this theory of resumption. We have at liaml a practical Illustration of It. Mr. Sherman claims that the Treasury holds $37,000,000 in gold now. That is to say, if his assumption is true, the Treasury holds one dollar in gold for every ten dollars of greenback issues. Why are not greenbacks at par with gold? The Treasury has precisely tlie same ability to redeem them that it would have to redeem them under the plan proposed by Mr. Sherman! Would confidence be any greater than now? Will the Senator tell us?

“ Rag Currency.”

The enemies of the greenback currency delight to call it a rag currency, and contemptuously call greenbacks Well, suppose they are rags—what ot it ? The star spangled banner itself is only a rag; our Bibles and our hooks are rags; the world’s history is written and printed on rags; the mural tablets of literature are only graven rags; the monumental tomes of classic lore that shed their beacon light from the world’s dawn are rags from base to’capital; the papyrus rolls of ancient Egypt anil the ponderous folios of Confucius, that antedate tradition itself, are rags. All these are rags; and yet the gleanings of the ravished mines of Golconda, ail the gold of Ophir, and the fa mous wealth of Ormus and the Ind, would not weigh a pennyweight against their value. Suppose, then, that some people do call the people's money rags!"—Pittsburgh Post. “ Economy, my dear, economy,” said he. “ It’s all right for you to have plants and all that, but there is reason in all things and there isn’t a particle of sense in paying fifty cents for a flowerjjot when there are a dozen empty cigarßoxes about the house,” and, taking the last “ Havana” from another box. he handed her the box to put an oleander in, lighted his cigar and wen t out. —Hurlington Uavft-Kye. Mbs. Gen. Shehidan says its hard to break a soldier of Thu habits of the camp, but she does yvish that Phil wouldn’t knock the neck of the bottle with a saber whenever 'she wants him to open some more soothing syrup. ,■ J

Royal Brides.

Hjbtohy and tradition have handed down to nfi wonderful accounts of the magnificent ceremonials and the gorgeoue raiment which have signalized the raiment of by-gone days, though some of the high-born dames of old liavt stood at the altar simply appareled. When Louis XIII. married Anne of Austria, her robe was white satin, and her hair was simply dressed, withoutcrowu or wreath; hut Isabel la of Portugal, as the bride of tlie Duke of Burgurtfly'.wWß ndrtns erf Bplradtd embroidery, a stomacher of ermine, tight sleeves, a oloak bordered with ermine falling from her shoulders to the ground; but she had no ornaments, and her headdress was white muslin. When Anne of France, finding the Archduke Maximilllan tardy In his wooing, gave herself and her dominions to Charles VIII., she appeared at the imposing ceremonial of

her marriage in a robe of cloth of gold, with designs in raised embroidery upon it, and bordered with priceless sable. James I. nearly ruined himself in order to celebrate the marriage of his daughter, tlie Princess Elizabeth, and great and determined was tlie opposition shown by his subjects to the marriage-tax he raised to defray tlie JE53,2t(4 it cost. Tlie ceremony took place at Whitehall with so much pomp,that it has formed the precedent for all other royal weddings in England which have followed. The traiu of the bride’s dress,lwliich was of silver cloth, cost £l3O. Her hair floated on her shoulder, intermixed with pearls and diamonds, and a crown of gold was oil her head. Perhaps, however, the marriage of Henry I. with Matilda, of sicotluucl, carries off the palm, as far as splendor is concerned. Bishop Ansleui performed the Ceremony in the presence of all the beauty and chivalry of the realm. Tlie marriage of Edward I. in Canterbury Cathedral was little less magnificent. Margaret Tudor, when married to James, of Scotland, stood proudly at the altar, as her noble lineage warranted, a crown on her head, her hair hanging beneath it, covered onlv by a cap of gold, and pearls about her neck. The ill-fated union of Philip and Mary was solemnized at Winos two great countries.; Charles 1. was married by-proxy at Notre Dame; and George 111. signalized his marriage with Queen Charlotte, which took place at St. James’ Chapel Royal, by abolishing many of the practices which then held good, but which were opposed to modern taste and feeling. St. Janus’ Chapel Royal has been tlie scene of more royal marriages in modern days than perhaps any other edifice, though it is cramped and small. Queen Anne and William IV. were wedded here, and here George IV. was married at ten o’clock at night, aud Queen Victoria on the 10th of February, 1840. — Cassell's Magazine.

Gentle Woman at the Matinee.

Those who witnessed the animated spectacle say that the scene at the Opera House directly alter opening of the doors for the matinee on Wednesday was the most impressive exhibition of woman’s force of character ever witnessed in this quarter of the distracted world. At about eleven o’clock, awaiting the opening of the doors, Mr. McKenna saw that there were at least four hundred ladies, and they were crowded up against the entrance and on the stairways like sardines in a box, while they struggled and watched and grew feverishly impatient for the first chance to rush wildly into the auditorium. Mr. McKenna accordingly effected unusual precautions in preparing for the rush which he knew’ would come when the doors were opened. Those familiar with the Opera House interior will recollect the square enclosure through w hich visitors pass to the theater after entering the outer door. Well, against the wooden fence around this enclosure Mac stationed eighteen men with instructions to brace firmly against it, for he khew that when the ladies began to surge in they would crusade against the wooden structure with a vengeance, and down would go (lie entire establishment unless the eighteen stood firmly at their posts. It may be remarked that the renowned Mac was quite right, save that he didn’t go quite far enough in his calculations. The eighteen being well braced and all being solidly fixed, Mac gave the signal to open the doors. What liappened next seems now more like a horrid dream than anything else to the noble eighteen. With a rush, a roar, and a sweep like the irresistible whirlwind, the ladies moved into the small space of that small enclosure, as if the concentrated force of all of Jove’s thunderbolts was at their backs. Like the waves of an angry sea they bore down upon the noble eighteen, and lo! in a trice, the noble eighteen were not. They were cut down in a flash, along with the frail fence, and over their prostrate bodies screaming, shouting women rushed into t the auditorium as if life had but one mis- ' sion, one'purpose, one ambition, and that to provide each woman with a front seat. The gentle youths whose business it was to take tickets took no tickets just then, for they went down in the general wreck. McKenna would have said something appropriate to the occasion, but unhappily Fie was also wrecked, absolutely lying on the floor and women stepping all over him, as if he were a Brussels carpet instead of a nobby young theatrical manager. As the ladies rushed along in that sweeping tide they recognized the fact that the ticket-takers were a trifle off, and so throwing their tickets to the four winds they gave the atmosphere tlie picturesqe appearance of being principally composed of bits of pasteboard. Such a time was never before seen, and if the noble eighteen—to say nothing of Mac — don’t remember the incident as long as they live there isn’t anv use in making a guess about anything. —ifew Orleans Times

It is said that a Chinese gentleman thinks it bepeath his dignity to manufacture his own witticisms. He appreciates wit and he is fond of tea. but he would as soon grow his own tea as to make his own jokes. When he goes into society he carries in his pocket a package of prepared witticisms and repartees, which he has purchased at the nearest joke shop. When conversation flags and he perceives an opportunity for saying, something brilliant, he draws a humorous remark from the top of liis package, and gravely hands it to hla neighbor. The latter as gravely reads it, and, selecting from his bundle of repartees the one which is appropriate, returns it, with a bow, to the original joker. The two then solemnly smile in a courteous and undemonstrative way, resume their conversation, feeling that they have acquitted themselves with conspicuous brilliancy.

A great event has occurred at Jerusalem. The Mussulmans have permitted the Christians, who dispute the possession of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, to put up bells in it. Such a sound has not been heard, in the building since the day when the Sultan Saladin entered the city in the twelfth century. The other day a Boston belle rushed excitedly into the house of a friend to exhibit a $175 silk dress she had just purchased, and incidentally mentioned, just before her departure, that her lather had failed the day previous and shut up his store. ’ , • —l- ~ Penn township, Berks County, Pa., boasts of a woman blacksmith. She is a helper in a blacksmith shop, and handles the big hammer better than many blacksmiths do. The other day she was called from the barn, while threshing with the flail, to shoe a horse, which she often does.