Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1869 — Page 1

THE UUUBR UNION. wftaQds ntPosiTß M a Tmr, I. liva.ee. in <o*4

Selected Miscellany., TO TUB LOOOMO'ITVX. BY Spa BAHIAN.' h i, , *», Hello, old KtamtEiirinel 1 '■ Why J Why Hputtor and Bw.ie. k And make inch a fnas J Arn’t yen '-on time." '■ . !’■ That canaea your Barry ? I'm thinking, good Jcllow., i, Sin a mighty big hurry. . MortMc*, a real queer thing u J;-1 For you moke and you chan. And are “ aomo ” on the ring. . A i*l though often hard run * Yonrar«y*»edfwv. ! f i j 'Wonder Tmi don’t huftf ‘ , - J I •• ah that, Old ScreechrfA -7? -wYou often get" dtftAsd." vrffo' fiXUttSlSZerr ■ El-o Why hi thairorlj ” <>n yon'bc sj mnclr —fondsa" 1 -- Ereuse rfa, dear 1 ' blowhard," > ' But I have a bad congh, ~ And can oply say farther Before T v ‘switch -off,” ' That while mailing along ' With the “Thaougb Day Exppqes” May your big, looming shadow , , , Nover, never grow lees. “ WuUmXMroad Gantte. > i • '!> , > > ;

CURRENT ITEMS.

J ißKßK'arc miles of.teipgraph in France. San Francisco lias a co-opcrattv e boot fitters’association. n iTfiKRE is a town in Colorado named Purgatory. • . Poor Carlotta’s case has been finally decided as being hopeless. At a recent fire in Gorham, Mq., [the engines were worked by women. Georgia grows the tallest men in the United States; New York averages the shortest. • 1 The bridal tour of a Richmond eouple consisted ip a walk to jail, they having stolen furniture. ' , The chess-players of Michigan intend holding their Seconi annual tournament at Detroit, January 18. Angelina H owe vsvcxtE Thistledown is the name ofa beautiful youngs lady of Provklenee, R. I.' The Rev. Henry Boehm is the oldest living Methodist itinerant preacher. His age is 95, and; f0r,63 years he has been in s -the*minirttyt 'Hi ■public schools of Columbus, Ga., I hate recently received $1,500 ,frqm the Pdabody fond, Waving had S4,OQQ, and are now free from debt. . " 4 . iA hhsgar ill England carjits V tfliysiican’s certificate, which, when decipnered, is found to testify that the bearer is afflicted with “liypoensy and iazitjMk’’l»! Among the curious bequests of the late . Jabez C. Woodman, df Rutland, Me,, was his half of a picture 1A Ms wife, which was originally presented to them both by a friend. ■ • ■‘tf • • & In Marshal freil’s wiH’occfifsthfe ing passage: “ I recommend to mv dear children, , after the fear and love,o| God, honesty and probity, which have been always hereditary in our family.” In France money orders are now transmitted by telegraph. The amount is , limited to SI,OOO. The*exptnse is the cqst Jof an ordinary tclegraih. so Svhiili fa added the ordinary mail rats for The growth of tea in North Carolina-is pronounced a fraud by tfle tyarth and tfomc, wipe!} says that the plant is an annual, coarse-growing, native weed, whose Jcayes are worthless even for the adulteration of genuine tea. Thebe are ,2,814 lighthouses in the world. The coast of Europe (has; 1,785; America 674, and Asia and Oceanjca 193. In Europe, the best lighted coastsare those of. Belgium and France, while the Unittd States comes next in this respect,

A weeks ago, a singular brcaeh.of promise case jwas tried is LdM<V>6. The plaintiff was a woman of 55, and,, the de- ' fondant a gouty, oklmin 4 of ’ll. The promise, W?S alleged to have been given 19 years ago. The woman,! jvHo was in-, trodpeed to the court nsthe affianced bride' of tnc rdeetfred £SO. * v e Choate,, tho NetVburyportfl rebug, was cap lured, • atul while he lujsbeen in jail awaiting trial, several fires have taken place lathe city, kindled, it by his friends, to show that the actual criminal was still at large. pf these fires, a brother of Choate lost his life, and his fcther had his leg broken. j •The fires in the United States, from January 1 to November ;l r ft has been estimated, involved a loss of $33,534,000, divided among the respective iqonths as follows: January, $3,294,000; February, $2,637,000; March, $2,892,000; gsiril, $4,372,000; May, $3,830,000; June, $1,960,000; July, $|,617,000; September, $3,242,000; m - >'/. The following “personal” was recently published in the admitting columns of the Chicago 7Hfo»n«; A young, I llinciss , gthtllman, that luub travebejd rmostaU tru the world itn<l only 25 'of age, po stay in the WHd Mountonco and. is rery lone^, some at time, would like to bpeira correa- 1 ponflpneo vfith sdme young lady, objick frindshlp and"past times. Photographs UX«h»nge.”) -• J j, ; . The pillow of a Japanese bed ts a wood-. .An bbjrawut four inches inches long, and two inches wide at the top. It isoqW’jcJwiJh aomhion of folded papers; and instead of serving as a head-rest the Jfock qnly 4a »supported, .the -elaborate style of dresslhg the hair,-Especially anpjpd the women,-fogluddiug the press- . ure or the head against apiltow. . Tee Melbauttm Argu» reports the (Aire' of a dangerous injury by the use of dry earth.alone, r A Mr. Pratt wm kicked in , the leg by a horse, and the wound only partially healed, se that itisoan broke out again, and spread until the Whole of the lower leg Wawaffeetad. Some earth was applied,tA the wmfnd, and she result was that* the swelling was immediately reduced, and at the end of three weeks the wound was quite healed. • The Pantin murder fe still ranging the greatest excitement in France, and TftUp mann she murderer, is the hero of the day ht Paris, where sentimental ladies adore him. Although sure of suffering the deat> penalty, his avarice has prompted him to go into a speculation with, Ms photographs, which he sells for three francs apiece, advertising at the same time that those sold for half a f«Ocare not genuine and are a ev.indie. Jvrr itacy a group of. medical iWi Bounttag the pulse of a patient ftnirtew j»He» my. yet W wai whM wm ckm« a

THE RENSSELAER UNION.

nhwv of Balem.exhtbited to his class the pulsations of patients in the Boston Hospital, fourteen miles off,. 4- telegraph wire on “the pulse recctVrtl IhCpnlwt tons’-and' record-! cd them in the diStarft leeturo-room by ths oscillations of a my of magnetic light. At the performance of Btfllachini, in Berlin, they** have -a. speaking machine, Whteb has created the greatest sensation amOiig the spectators. The sounds producetl by this machine are very similar to the.hnman its alphabet contain? only fourteen lettqra all’ fee words' of tl}<? different modem languages and complete sentences cap bfe pronounrad without inconvenience." with the exception of the guttural sounds and the usual U4O speaking machine is a great success. It is a curias'riMsfratiOn of ihe bad-peaa-ofthe dimes in Ehgtaml, that’the marriage rate there" this year is this lowest recorded in any corresponding season during thd last quarter" of ts Century. It has been* long noticed in EngMnd that the fise or fall of the ndrtber o? marriages is in tolerably strict a&ordance w|th Um |n crease or decrease qf the means of living. When the times arc good, young .couples begin housekeeping; when the times are bad they wait for better. The depression of t rode, whieh.thua reacts.upon thfi_marriage ratp, is universal throughout Great Britain 1 this year add its result in the dlmlnhftied number of marriages is c«reJiHjy noteaby ttt’e Registrtr General.

Mb. Chbrvin, the founder and head director of the Paris Institution for Stammerers, has written a report for the Mhiistcr of Public Instruction, whercyi, he araw that this defect has altfiosr In variably a moral cause. A violent ■agitmioa leaves its trace deeply printed ia.a young brain. This trace is often indelible; it reappears even long afterward on the slight.-j est emotion, and paralyzes the act of speakr. ing. Ijt the opinion of Mr. Chervin, stammering often takes its rise in the arms of the nurse, who, screams in the ear of the child, devours it. with embraces, flings it in the ajr to prevent it crying, and StagsIt also in ths air to .make it |augh. Later on the,imagination of the poor little beingisstlll serhitouslv tormented With the phantoms of fear.', , St. John’s, N. 8., has a young lady Who. may be pronounced a Vefy'safe companion Jpt-lt journey along unsafe ways. A local paper says: *' A young man was attacked, while escorting a young lady home front church, in Sackville, a few Sunday evenings ago, by a gang of rowdies, who attempted to ul-trcat lUm. He would, probabljt ijave been severely injured .but for Ms' fair rampanioa, who came to his Assistance and-uMd heir -'flats with.'such vigor and precision sis to bring down three of Jus assailants to mother earth, while he, encouraged by her brayery, inflicted sundry wounds on several -of the-others with a rusty pocket knife, the only weapon in his possession. The rowdies, surprised at this unexpected resistpnrak and finding themselves outflanked, suddenly decamped, leaving the young coapfctogoon their way,in peace?’ ' "

The Man-Beast.

A Portland correspondent says: It is not a little strange that so few people in tfic vicinity kqow of the wonderful case of “Jimmy.” The keeper of the Westbrook (Me.) Poor-house will tell you that, twenty years ago, and the day following the arri val of the Sarah Sands in Port land frofe' Liverpool—the first iron stosnwhip that ever camo to this eastern shore from across the water—a strongly destitute and stolid cfeaturc was found in a barn in that town, with his limbs sd terribly frozen that hie feet were almost literally shapeless, and the life nearly gone out of him. ,He was, of <xuirse A taken so the charity faym; and/ there; in the old, vreather-stained buildings, in ali outstanding hovel in summer, and id Warm quarters in winter, he has liyed these twenty years, attracting some mgldsity at first, but, for fifteen yewfs> apparently forgotten. After his removal thither his frat were cut off, one at the ankle, and one straight down across the Jnrtep.

lu in appearance hfl was about 20 years old when found, but every attempt to tnceouthi& history failed,, Not even a guess waA ever made as to -hfeformer station in life, his • habitation, or even race, except that he came over In the Sands as a stowawav, or was cast adrift here to git him out of the way, as has been done by interested barties many* a time before, mayhap, When found on the hay in the barn he was almost totally naked, what clothing he had being torn into shreds, J and Jits whole'person nearing ; tokens half way between lunacy and idiocy. Ner could he speak a word, though every trial Was made to make: him At times he was very fierce, “and 1 is -so still, striking savagely at lha keeper,, who is obliged to watch his mddtlk pretty wwreftilly; but, in no one es his varying moods has he ever articulated a word, and evidently has no power to do io. He p>yq $o attention to .visitors except by an occasional bravado, kpd-igimoUiatelyicrouching away. His hair Is black and very thick and coarse, giving him a wild air. In features menso as would-be supposed,btttalfms habits are of the basest and molt beastly kind. On the cold and (Jay wlpml EFBM 0 - B*® 8 *® hto » he was crouched awAy .inTm immense bunk of.ips hovel; with* twb> Ihrge air spaces immediately over him, and nothing on bfitn but A Altered blue drilling shirt or frock, and this the keeper spid had not been on him,an hour. He had a quilt Which was new two or three months before, which was picked and torn to tatters-, hanging together by a few shreds, libeos tern fleece of wool, or a chafed and broken net. He is thrust dht into the yard occasionally ahd ■ exercised,” but he soon hobbies back to his- filthy abode. When the severe weather Of winter comes, they take him Into a, warmer place, but this is intolerable except in the reign of the frosts. . ~ > He haa little beard except on his upper lip, and this makes a becoming moustache, though never touched for twenty years at what cramped and withered, he is apparently strong and healthy. There may be found, possibly, as Curious cases as .this In soffie of the charity houses in the land, but when it is remembered that no possible hint can be'jHVen of the first half of his strange-life, ft has seemed to me to surpass in Interest any case I have seen— Boston AWw,' JVoromfter 22. _' j , so -f, —Three national camp meetings for 187 U have already been appointed by the Methodists. uOna will be, .at the Chieagp Dittrict grounds, Augu«t one osar jsa&auv* ”

RE^sfejLAKft‘ I .xfAS.FER COUNTY,,INDIANA,LfiEQEM^ER'2, 1869.

Weekly News Summary.

■ 1 ' ’ at! I The Cuban Junta have puhlished thc new Constitution for the Republic of Cuba. It pAoteotiflUefraHdenweftrcligion the press, public mVctfogß;BdHcAtto«; WK the inalienable right* of, tbe pwplq,'| Tli* Suez, canal inaugqration- fieetj -consisting of forty-five steamers, arrived Suez on the 21at, having n* difficulty in navigation except ow!l>g to their numbed, wfth eachother apd were crowded on the banks. The water between ,Twite found to be folly twenty feet' deep at the shallowest spot. .. V'A ‘ : 1 VJnrant Colder Ms San Francisco with a petition from prommcht citlMa to the United fitotrax r W *' Advices frbm Jauinel to the- 10th state that the ipsurgentA iff the south of Hayti were victorious 'Salnlvft’s trfdst ; tifadtod Generals had dese'rUff hiln and joined ? the insurgents, who were his abdication. ; , The English ship> Royal Standard was recently, wrecked off Rio ‘ Janeiro and eight passengers drowned. Jpcycnty-threei saved. I . i

Private advices received in Washington on the 21st say that sugar cane crushing ,in Cuba was rnubh more extensive -than the Havana authorities )u& yet adfijitthd. The work, it is added was, to be made general. " . A destructive earthquake has visited the [Philippine Islands. Buildings "were thrown down, andthe lqsa Qf .property wABj Vcry great. At Manilla, eight • personsj were kiHed. .. ' • • ' A telegraph ckbjb Irpltn port Said to Buez iaito be laidaJong thg df the. Suez Canal. .<■ l ». ■ All of Victor Emanuel’s ministers have" resigned. . . ''' y The recent ■ soppUmeptary; in* Rochefort, editor of First Circonsdription; CrOmitux in- the Third, and Arago in the Eighth. No candidate legal majority tn the Fourth. West India advices' received on the 22d state that" the chdleia, 7 yellbw fever, vikE small-pox were raging fearfelly >t j tiagd de CfabA,' 300 having died fromcholera alone within a month. ,-Tluj Governor 'of Bortbay’recently iwratved- 'li&ingstone, dated May «, jFhjtoator -w&" Uieh in gbod health and’ bverftimire well treated. ' . President Cespedes writes that since the sth of .July 12,000 men have enlisted im the Cuban army; that the' army is confix dent of success, and willing to submit to hardships. They need arms And ammunition. Recently the Spaniards took 122 native Cubans in a swamp, and filled them all. Mt. Burlingame has arrived at Berlin with the .Ghiocsc Embassy. , News from an insurrootion which has been going on for some tiuiq/fii the Red River Settlement, B. N. A., np to the 10th, is to the emet that the Insurgents hadjaken possession of the stnrehoura?, of the Hudson Bay Companjc, and wm distributing rations daily. Fort Garryand the whole country was in. possession of the rebels, and thfiif,object was not to throw off their .allegiance to the QUeenibut to oppose annexation so Uatiada. A special from St. Paul to the Turon I# Globe on the 24th, says the JSfigiitfe 1 half-breeds. ‘attd whites take little- or no part in the demqtfeitafidn.ci. Tftc Jnsuhgente chiefly French. .Jjalfibreeda. The Canadian officials, who h arfhecn excelled from»4h» I Red'Rivcr regions, were at Pembina offtfeb -10th, and Governor MpDpiigall had rc#tefl a house amt Settled down for fee winter. It is reported from! the insurrectionary district that there is a strong orgaiiization there, including many-half-breeds, ing a favorable opportunity to declare in favor of Gov. McDougall.' ""

Gen. Dulce, late’ Captaili-Genera^.<jf Cuba, died in Madrid on the 23dO’Donnovan Roesa, in prison fo< anism, has been elected to the British, ]Pas> liament from. Tipperary. The Ldhdon TWs'of'the 26th considers IheeieAiOri of Rochefort to thq Corps' Legislat'd as the last impotent protest of -qn angry populace, and adds: “The gapiins have sent,one pf to' ..the;Chamber, hill th|s Boffo not prove that FaancWis 4pe for a gafcriin A New'York telegram of the 26th says: “,Aimsafta ietfoi. wdtar *taMh timt the Captaln very low spirited since his return -frqni ap fo ur to< Cienfugos. Twenty Estates'were burned near Cienfrigoß, and |hm Spanish garrison, there dare not lekvd io‘attA<m the Cubans in the vicinitf. Fires are raging throughabout leaving for Ha vans,-to remain *at' hbrnaJ* I. ClOOi) | .u,, DOMESTIC. 1 y , Gold dosed in New York oil tlfo«6th at 124%. ' i ,• J * It is estimate<i’aboutlK,ooower^present, at tbs opening of tha Georgia ftfoto Fafr,’ on the 18th. • .1/5 ) It js Stored/hat decided upon by both oopipmtte ß berae jiufttimt; of the: Union: and Central Pacific Rail-’ Yha fowqr portion of thedtyW Seorgef-* town, Colqrado, was destroyed by a tornado bn the 18th. One fife. { lost and I many perlons seriously, inJu red. , The foss of property is estimated st $50,000. Propd l l<4 Bmle wasl burnfed tn thq water's edge; off’FWrt 'Wieliingtbn, Win, on.the 20th,. There WW, Arsons on board, nt-i.whom iM and the wt’f‘’Maa;.Qin«:let Jtfin*, rfoi, were toit< 1

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"The rbcentstotaffon Lake Michigan Is pronounced the most severe that has been experifflteAdJbkJiwralyewa Ort, Receipts of fractional currency for the week ending November 20, 11,007,000; shipments, gfl4J>oOO; amount destroyed, $350,900. 1 Washington telegram of the 21st Sajis: ‘‘The goM bahrrtce in the Treasury to-day is |108,060,7(X), and the currency 'oTthe gold' balance, |3SjfJQO,OOO represents gojd certificates out-'; sUfiding, leading' <78,060,790 actual cash in gold in the Treasury. Since the publication of tliS debt statement at thje‘ dqw-tnxentJ?as void $6,W0,d00 Of ferfld ' arid ’ punfliMed. S7,OOOAMM) : bonds, which are laid away, subject to the action <jf, Cofigleiis.Jieiicfes' <i,6W,oOoffdf the sinkttg» fund.” j The Boylston National Bank of Boston was robbed op the night of the 20th, pf valuables valued at between $400,0f10 and. $500,660, "belonging to individuals wl|o had deposited them jn the bank for safe keeping? "No foiids of the' tank 4rerc taken.

A resolution to : exclude the Bible from ,tjje public schools of Louisville, Ky., lifts President Grant has issued a proclamation discriminating duties heretofore levied upon merchandise impbrtcd into the Uifitcd States, in vessels, either 'from' the cdufitries of its origin or from any other country, ip view of the fact thit thc levying of euch duties' on all merchandise imported into France in. vessels pf the United States, had been discontinued. It was stated in official circles at Washington on the 23d that there is nothing political in ths legal proceedings of our ifebvenhent In connection with the affairs of Cuba. “ The object of libeling the Spinfsh gunboats, now under detention at New Work, is simply to bring the question befofe the court with a view to reienSe th[6 vessels, and is, between the.contractors and; the.goverhmeht, and not in this aspect ipterfered with by Spain through its representative" > A special '.dispatch tram Washington on the 2M asserts that the American squadron in the_ West India waters has been specially in view of the con6tfngen6iesth|t may arise |n eptiraqpencc of the action of the United States in the matter of the Spanish gunboats. A Washington telegram of theS4th says: ’‘ the entire speech of Mr.’Gladstone at the Lord Mayor’s dinner is just received Jiere in the London papers, anff is regarded as friendly to the settlement of the Alabama claims question in a manner satisfactory to the United States.” - A petition praying for the recognition dTCubk fly ’the United States has been ■started by the ladies of Baltimore, to be signed only by ladies, to which 4,000 signatures have been obtained in that city alone.” - • ■. V&ceuA'CoUyp'r, ! Special Indian Com■•mtssioner, arrived at Omaha from Sitka "on the 24th, _ having performed the journey in twewty-twojays, touching all the principal, points. He traveled over 3,000 miles along the coast of Alaska, and found the Jpdipwrtwnamiw qvpr 70.QQ0. They are or a'very superior order, having- large .droves of cattle, raise grajp to some extent, and live in villages, with well-constructed .hausqs,. Tphcy are all peaceful, and partial ’to' AbiCricftns? Mr. Collyer thinks the purchase Of Alaska a judicious measure, j The jury in the Credit Motylicr case at tlifiMidbnrg,*^a!, 'scturned a-vcjalict on the 25th for thefJommonwealth of $407,483 by the -QOmrionwealth was $539,546 87. M

.’BeWfewtYork Canal 'Commissioners 1 ihpxe cfociifo<» 6 dose the canaU in. thatStafo on tire Kffh*'*of -December, unless United states Marshal Harlow, of New {York, on tho *4th took formal possession Jit4&; thirty Spanish gunboats in the North Rivsr, in th? name of the United States bn a'chatge..of an in.tended .vipialiun of Uie neutrality laws. A iWashingUyi jpeqial the Chicago Jburnoi on the £sth statca that* in view of thq W-. a °* Spauish war vessels had a visit toNfov York has^or—for, what purpiw Was not known —the, Governthent At Washihgton. had ordered* deverdi of oilr Heaviest iron-clads to that port to be used ih efoe bostite intentions should be exhibited by the Spaniards.' ; It was 1 •presumed' that tMe deten t ion of 'the newly-built Spanish gunl>oals -hr North River had somettiing to do> with theaetningof the fleet/’ ■, .n.y ;, r; : ' Customs receipts ending Novenahei 20, SixAundml packugep of tea were forwarded by, railroad from SunYrancisco to New York on tiie 25th, , nj A 4 FMWJWfob„3W t ch of ~ the. 26th Navy Deparlmcnt today ordered the Cron-clad Mianton'dfoan.tu reand several otliA dktlona? vessels, to New doubtless superinduced by the approach of the Spanish wrfrvessds to that baibor, not in anticipation of. any trouble, but merely to pssure foreign vieilots of our preparation , for all emer■yuMiM’S >5 7 rn •’ ’• ’Over 5,000 persons 'attended the Alai--3^-Ta^Tril on the 26th and frith The fair is said to have been a decided trt ; The committee which examined the case of Captain Washington, -in connection witji posing the steamer Stonewall without ifoppWg wtate that steamer was burn have r^gthat, "after duly weigh , »iag the evidence, wjh'think Captain Wash.ftlffton cofnnhried a great error, not characwristfo of our Western boatmen undar m he mid bur

assistance, tp those in the water, imd others who had succeeded In J ' 4 ■ ■: 1 Hon. E. Rumsey Wing? of Kentucky, has received hie ootiNiiission as Minister to Ecuador, I The. the motion for a now, trial of Marrow and Dougherty,’convicted bf on Brooks, and dfdeTed'therh to pay a fine of $1,006, and Sentenced them ’ toitqprisonmetoforsoverrvears. . , f ■!Daniel. N„ Tompkins has bqn appointed Deputy Collector of the New York Ous torn House, ince 'BS’T. Dlatclifafd, resigned. Pert Hyamnflre' arrived in Boston on tile 19th; anrt.wM tht .guest pf Robprt,C----.’Winthipp,..•-» . ? • L yiee{Prei3idcnt Colfax and wife were tffi Baltimore pn thc'fesd, 'to attend fed' ; open-;! ifig of the*(fair for thfe -benefit bf Ike inebriate Asylum. ; i; I a Ex-United..States Senator Benj. Fitzpatrick, of, Alabama, .died as his fqsidendc, near Montgomery, on the 20th, aged 70 I yeait's. • ; ‘ < !i " ■■■*'' ■ > : ' ■ The hew Haytien Jd blister was four ally presented ito the President on,, the 22d, by Secretary .Fish. .He was in full diplomatic uniform, 'file usual friendly salutations were exchanged , President Grant has promoted.. Robert M; Douglas, son of the ifele Senator Douglas, tobp ids Private. Secretary—Jamcs T. Ely,f,of Chicago, taking Mr. Douglas’ former position of assistant.Prrvate Secretary. j;:d •

Tkc fiftUth anniversary bf the marriage of Dlr; and .Mrs. Reverfly Johnson was rqqeijtly, celebrated al Baltimore. He is in his 74th. and' she in hcr "67th year. Thef hive tdfl'children living; . The President has appointed James H. Marsh asrPostniMrter at-Knoxville, 111., in piacd'jtif Curtis McGowan,. arrested fer robbing the post-office there. 1 General J- H. Idrfe has been elected a Delegate to Congress from Alaska? * 1 On the 23(1 Deputy Collector Blatch fdird, chftVged with thp perpetration of gross frauds in the drawback department of the; New York Custom House, presented a verbal resignation, through a friend, to Mr. Grinnell, who accepted it The whereabou t s of Mr. Blatchford had not been ascertained by tfee.Deputy Marshals who had been in pursuit of him for several flays, but the presumption was that he 1 was concealed somewhere In the City.' n ; ■ ■ .. GeneraiJUutler :has-giv4n bail in $15,000 Upqn |he,. charge of Miss Florence, of misappropriating the Twiggs swords and certain plate. It is Stated that the alleged defalcations in the Mfethodisl Book Concern in New York have been thoroughly investigated by a committee, who report that in the , general management of the Concern there is nothing to coniplain of President GranX has appointed Samuel A. Wheelwright- Consul at Rosario, Argentine Republic. lAlbert D- Richardson, formerly war dbrrespondent and 1 Tong an attaehe of the ,New York TTtbUne, was shot, and, it was feared, fatally wounded, onl the evening of the 3bth, by Paul McFarland, a lawyer by profession,-between Whom had existed for a'consM&able time past aa estrange•mciiij IfiMbed try the alleged intiotacy ofthe former with the latter’s wife- The chanties for the reooveryof Mj. Richardson were considered favorable on the evening of the 26th. McFarland had been committqd to prison to await the result.

The,Womtti Suffrage Convention at Cleveland ‘on the 25th adopted * constitution and" elected'permanent officers, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher being elected President The Convention adjourned tine die. One h'ifhdrcd Mormon preachers Arrived at lies llfoincs, lowa, on the 25th, en-raute to different parts of the country to preach Young’s peculiar doc- ' James A. Bayard has been appointed PostiMSter at Athens, O. Gustavus A. Smith, df Alabama, is Appointed-Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of New Mexico, in place of A. P. Sullivan. .The next General Synod of the Reformed phurdh of the Vnited States will meet in Cincinnati, on the first Wednesi day preceding the first Sunday 1n Advent in IM. The fallowing were among tha appointments ahnduribed pn the 261 h: Assistant J. Mittgior, Thirteenth’ Phib District,’and Adam Emerson,' Fifst Ohio. 'Btorekcepcrs-‘-81<phen A. Wood- ■ ;uff r Gunrge Wells, Robact G. Finnell; "William vfstone,’ ahd William Bassett, Seventh Kentucky; John Irwin, Seventh Ohio, and John TWala, Eighth' Tennessee. ; 1 ', ' POUWCAL. [ -It turn out that the Judiciary article ofjhe Neg York State Constitution is adopted by about t 5,000 majority, but the balance of the constitution is defeated. 'The Rcffirtffican majority on joint haliQt pi? is 94. j Thq Ipdiana Republican State Convention will be.held on February 23,1870, at Indianapolis. Joseph B Adams, ’Republican, was elected Mayor of Portsmouth; N, H., on the 23d, receiving’ 965 votes, against 506 far Prapk Jdnes, Democrat, the present incumbent - i , Ths South Carolina State Legislature convenedofc the 23d. In his message.the governor speaks cheerfully of the flnanejaj condition bf the State, Naiipnal Woman’s Suffrage Convention met at’ Cievelitnd on the 24th. Cyi. T W. Higginson, Of'Rhode Island, , Jwas,'t;|ect'e(|- rresfdeht, with one Vicofrom each State represented, (fifteeh'i. ifyji'Bradwe!! and xs

NO.IO.

wore About one hundred delegate* present t , i, -, ) r , The Virginia Republican State Convention met on the 24th, and elected Charlee 11. Porter, Congressman-elect, as President. '■ • I® Minnesota the majority for Austin, Republican, for Governor, if,,about 2/XX).' yate,( Republican, for lieutenant Governor, has about 6,500 majority.' Judge. Gillespie,’of thfe'St. Clair (Ill.) Circuit Court, has declared-the law against -bringing Texas cattle into Illinois undonfeitptioflaL ;j . : . Jr . The Virginia State Convention on the 25th adopted, by a vote of l&g’ to 21' an. address to Cdngress, setting forth that tha election in Virginia was a Confederate triumph, .achieved by intimidation and .The address asks Congress ter “order anew election with the constitution submitted as a Whole, and send a 'Military force sufficient to protect Republicans in tltefrrtg'htk'dr tefaW’W'teSt oath of members of ths Legislature . and.' award the seat* of members unable, to take the oath to eligible .opponents who received the next highest vote.” Tflic defeat of a substitute ‘Tor the address, which asked Congress (or th* immediate mltnisfeop of the State, thirty delegates to .secede from the qoitventibn, and thewithdrawing members held a meeting, and issued iteajl for,"the Hatioriar tfrfion Republicans of Virginia, ‘who arg in flavor of free thought and speech, to meet there the day, following apd periect the organization of the party. 1 ' The call was signed by all the white and colored seocdeta

In the Alabama House of Rephctentatives on the 26th, Mr. Magee, a Democratic member from Mobile, *nd but recently seated v was expelled, on the ground' that during the war he wpsaCounty Commissioner. The credentials of Mr. McKinstry (Republican) defeated by Magee by 800 majority, were sent up, and it was understood that he would be admitted at an early day. The total vote of California in the September election was 06,308—12,000 less than in November, 1868. A meeting of the seceders from the Virginia' Republican Contention on (he 25th was held at the office of State Journal in Richmond, the Republican j Organ, on the 26th. Sixty members were, present—about bne-half the original Convention. All the speaker* at' this meeting disclaimed ,gll; ifoa of forming another party, and only desired to .reorganize Uto orifenow existing. A .committee of six was appointed lo ball a Republican Convention at such time as it utay think, proper for reorganising. Thu official, returns of the Wisconsin election are announced as follows; For Governor —Fairchild, 69,582; Robinson,: 61,289. FotLtewitenant Governor—Pound, 69,608; Gray, 59,728; .Park, 1,289. Secretary of State—Breese, 68,205; Cook, 60,790; Spencer, 1,039. Treasurer—Baetz, 60,828; Black, 69,622. Attorney General —Barton, 69,746 ;Pinuey, 60,510. State Superintendent—Craig, 70,120; Gannon, 60,108. P'rispp Commissioner—Wheelfer, 69,937; Hardee, 60,675. For amendment to the Constitutionhicreasiijg the Govern «Ps salary to <5,000, 47,353; against, 41,764. The President finished his message oil 1 the 25th, apd it was read in the Cabinet on the 26th. I( is said to be my brief. - From the official retains of the Massachusetts election,dtappearslhat the whole number of votes cast was 138,510. For Governor, Wilßatn Claflin had 74,106; John Quipoy Adams, 50,735; Edwin M. Chamberlain,l3,s67. Governor Claflin’s plurality over Adams, £3,371. , t ,

The Cardiff Giant.

Tine Syracuse Courier of November 17 publishes the’ following letter written by Dr. J’. T. Boynton to Spencer F. Baird, Professor of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C. The letter is dated November 12: • Dear 8m- Your communication. of November 6 is received. The absurdity of the existenoe of petrified human flesh, or giants of stone that once lived, is such that I would not speak of it to men of jfatir experience if the. community were not agitated to its core, and all kinds of opinions expressed, and false reports put in circulation, to keep up excitement, mystify and deceive the public, I am going to make out a full : report of the entire history, proceedings, discovery, resurrection, and jqprncy of the giant to its present resting place. I have accurate,ipapa thade ffom actual surveys, photographs, &e., of ’alt the matter.teat could be obtained. It IS simply a reclining statue, carved tain that Tine block was quarried 1 fhthis country, but think I have the means Of knowing where-it came from. When I first saw it lying in.its mucky grave and nearly covered with water, I. hoped it was a monument that would throw some light on the shadowed history oFthe German,’ Spanish and Fsemeh settlements in the Onondaga Valley, between the years 1530 and 1760. But I tear, that weare not to be enlightened much, for my vederalien for. the high antiquity of the Onondaga Giant is fast waning to a taper. I have been making experiments on the solubility of various kinds of gypsum under different circumstances; and, although it is' laid dqwn in the text books of the quantity of gypsum that will dissolve in a given quantity of water, yet I know I 'Of no statement of experiments showing theqapidity with which it dissolves, As there has been no occasion for investigation in that direction, to my knowledge, I Was somfewbat startled aftej making experiments, to find results as I will now describe. I first took a piece of light-colored gypsum furnished me by Mr. Alvord from his quarry near Fayetteville, in this county, about four inches wide, five long, and two and a half thick; in the centre being of irregular fores, thin attbo edges, and weighingonemsd one-sixteenth pounds, and suspended it from the sportt qf a rainwater cistern pump tad subjected it to the action of running water, such as would bo produced it ordinary use in it family of four, taking ro extra pains more than occaslowdly giving the nuiap a MrfHse «r iWtefOWP ih« Mrßtt

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Pardoning the Innocent-Four Years in Jaft for No Crime.

——W. - • - 7 The customary Thanksgiving injulgence allowed to the convicts of the Massachusetts State Prison was attended last Thursday by an-impressive and., suggestive scene. Ak the clbW-Ot-taome exercises that were facia, thtf wfirdvh of the Prison, Mr. Haynes, annfaunced’tltat twprinen had been pardoned and were at that. moment to xeceive their discharge. At this remark there was a total silence—a stillness almost painW. Bn; none .but the knew upon whom, the mantle of freedom wa* to tall. Mr. Haynes hesitated*bouple of seconds and then Uta rname of- John Long and John Hayes, ’When the excitement fada subside®, nb W«it on to say that footgears ago-tljpscjjogiitf men (one 21 and the other 23 -vArs of age), were convicted of high Way and that they were dentenced do gwenty-five and twenty years’ bard labor in the prison, the heaviest" sentence fellMg ton Long. 1 Now, after having isegyed -tow. years of their time, the fact has been established beyond a doubt that they are tahoeent of the drime charged upon them. they were “pardoned”—pardoned for having borne the suffering of four yedrs orwrongfhl imprisonment and kbe most went aWsy to-their homeb to < recover as best they may frpmthedeadly blight put upon their lives. The thought- offtn irreparable wrong like Vhwi iS'Jtwrtfale, and while it .must Ml ways hoof ppssitoe occurrence, since human justice eppno* be infkllftne, there wifold deem to6&*>4all for the provision of »WW indli « . acknowledgment from Society of its cruel mistake than isUldlV impWttfaie misnamed “pardoning fifr Jj^yictwk— Biff—A horticuJtural aclieolfe to be started i* the neighborhood of Boston. There is to be a farm of twenty itertir; ftte to be used for the cultiwUion rtf f tto'VW, fruits, to be devoted Ito pastonagjg a. towelling house, a barn, and p plaatjtojitae, for fency flowers and early vegetables. it is intended to instruct, the pupitedn All kinds of housework.

THE MARKETS.

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