Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1870 — Page 1

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'*‘ PR A Tjt'R AND POTA V9R&, . , r’./w" 1 * •■ » U. »s-<.ua- • I ’'’* ” ' 'A »Xb«ok MMt J!«\'M ■■' il'ti ■■ , ■Ma u-.J, ..J, „ ~, <yl> , . ' «• Tr a Brother or sitter be naked, and. deetUute of ’ -daflr -food,- tad ene. pf yon lay .-Übto Uom, t Jleuart In, peace, be ye warmed and flqea; notwltnefandlng J® give Imm not thdxb things Which are needful to the bedyi-what-deth tiprofltt— Jaiuca n; 15. 1«. gj , /J. , z [(,»/ ’ An old lady ent tn bet old atm . c h/ir,.. x With wrlujd*<l vjssgo and disheveled hair, An< hunger worn features; For d*v ß an d f,w we<lM her only fare, A» sh e „ a t tliero In her old arm chair, Had been potatoes. Tint now they wve gpne : pt bad or good Not one'wasWforTlimbMJirtJ’Wftd And she iighed?«iX«?d'. i Wltkt»fofl» T 4.1 Where ahull I ecnd,<anlVtO wbvflitduUl I go For more And aha thought,-of tho deacon over the way, .Uho rfjjitOh to ready Jo worship and pray, ■ v-slr. WU<>ku collar wasSaftUl of potatoes. And she “"Id: "I will rend for tho deacon tfl come; Ho’ll n0..,1 much to give me soma « : ,t Of such a More * A?! l l*! 0 cleiron came oyer as fast aa be could, «3 1 hiukl iig to do the old Judy aottap good, lint never, for or.ee, of potStbes; ' her nt °hce what was het chief want. And uhe, simple sent, expecting a grant, :• « Immediately adHWered "Potetyef.;! 'But the dear.on'i religion didn’t lie that way; Ila war more accustomed to preach and to pray, „ ■'' .'fh'.n tn-giye of .hi# IrenKtedpoteUws: I' Bo; not hearing; of course, whatirhe old lady eald ; He ro,s,e v> pray, with uncovered bead, But she only thought of potatoes. Hitprayed sihd wisdom, and grace, But when he prayed •' Lord give her peace,’.’ Khe audibly sighed “ Gove potatoes;” . And a_Vtho end of each prayer which beeaid, He heard. drlhdiigficK heard in Its Stead, That same request for potatoes. The deacon was troubled; knew not what to do; Twas Very embarrassing, t o have her act so About ” those carnal potatoes]” So, ending his prayer, he started for home; Sr' •Huh’ m tire dao- closed behind hfm,. bo’hoara a deep groan, . , . ‘ 0, yice lu CM hungry, potatoes !" And that groan followed him all the way home ; in the nddst of the night it haunted hir room. ~ o, give the hungry, potafoeer'’•“."JIIdCbCM jj no Itqger ; arose and dressed ; 1 1'val frfa B’ellfllkd eellar taking In haste "f A bag 01hie best potatoes. . Again he went to the widow’s lone hut; z Her sleepless eyes rhe had not yet shut: m , gluMherp she satin that old arm chair, With the same wan features, ths same sad air, And, entering In, he poured on the floor A buslidl or mptn lx>>ui bls goodly attirn; ”*'OfchoteeSt potatoes. -r •, The widow's heart leaped up for joy. Her face War haggard and wan no'more. ■ And lie knotted mm (ioWon the gander! floor ‘ Where he had poured his jopdly Ft ore, And such a prayer the deacon prayed; As never before his lipa essayed; *- <. No longer embarra sed, but free <md full. He poured out the volpe of a liberal soul, And the Widow responded a loud “amen!* ; Bht said no more of potatoes. And would you, who bear ibis simple tale, Pray for the poor, and praying “iftvwill?’ Then preface yopr prayers with alms and good deeds. Search out the poor, their wants and their needs; Fray for peatfe. and grace, and spiritual food, For Wisdom, and guidance, for al! these are good, Bat don't J'oryet the potato**.

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It was a beautiful, warm rammer aft er - ’ noon'among the Harz mountains. I was going to the Brocken, and loltefedthrough a little valley, along a narrow path which led to the mountain side. A poor old man with thin, snow white hair was sitting by the wayside ; he had along, IrfxHtn from a blackthorn, between nre knees. I eat down by hint, asking his name and way of life, and the old man told me that be had formerly bepn a forestkoeper,; thett was no rock which could Wciinibed, and" no ravine ho had not over and over ag-iin Explored. “ Anu do you see,” he said, “ those fir trees up there? I planted them, livery day when I went to- the ‘mountains, I carried my game-bag full of earth up with me, and there in the crevices where the rocks gave me the least chance, I fixed it firmly; and then I waited till the grass and briers grew out of it, and made the earth cling closer to the rocks; then I carried the saplings up and planted them. My Fabian, my eldest, who was long in the army, and at last was killed by a falling tree, often helped me about it. If you come up you can see the trees; I can’t see them now very well.” “ And with whom do you live now ?” I asked. “ With whom? with whom?” repeated the old man, gasing at me. “With nobotly. Ihave nobody left in the world. Tea, I have a son left, he may be in the world, but I don’t know!” “ And what do you live on ?” “I have my pension, twenty-four thalers a year; but everything is so dear how.”' “ But doesn’t your son write to you, or sendhriything?” ■ ■ “He never learned to write, and one can only Send when he has Anything himself., But he’s the best fellow in the world, a good child, a faithful child, he left me his whole property. But I don’t touch it, it’s just as it was. lam no spendthrift. No, Henry, your father won’t rob you of your money?’-.... . - With many digression* I heard the following stih-y* ■. ■ # < Jt might be about eighteen years before, ' perhaps longer, for the old man was very upcertain in his figures—“ thirty years Ago," he said of cveryuiing, tvhich might have taken place oulymjo ,or three years before—the youngest son of the keeper had been tgmpt©d»to emigrate to America, the country where, as the old man expressed hirttfelf, there were, great forests that had neVer t;ceh arf’axe, to be cleared away before tho Settlors., .The son had an inheritance from hie mother, amounting to a hundred thalers. The old man ivoulu nothear of anything but Henry taking his money with him; it belonged to him, and he did not know how much he might want the snare cash over there in the strange land. His son had t<r But on Saturday, before hiedeparttitc, he • went to take leave of the pastor and got him to Write down for him the mittiber of the peplm which Was to be sung next W/’A church- In the night he hade M father good-ijytf, and his fast words were: "Father, when yob sing the psalm to morrow in church, thtiHk kindly oHnc.” In thonight the old map* who was now alone, got up several tbnes; it seemed to him that lift heard his son moving about in tlio Aittlng room, but no one was there. Hl’ had certafrily forgotten something, thought the old' man,’and now his spirit is edmihg to find it arid take it away. The ~.<44-iW/it not free fWm’ superstitions, pnd Wonfff be no kindness to On the Window Bill, where roaenaary amj .pinks .wejjp blooming, a bupch ot which the wahderer had' sfiidt ■ip lift hat, lay the old man’s hymn-book, wrapped up as his wife nad always kept ~ it, piece of potton; on this », cotton J4ie moonlight, shining down from n J . ... « v

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the mountains. played so strangely and the old.&MtUa hhv Knf CKK’nWit gave him something to grasp. At last he went back to bed. IpßSfc <j>frh|ng, Whenrrthe bells were ringing, the old fna’n'wrtit to church with his hymn-book under his arm ; he did not data jt nntrfLUs. apyer till he was in ' Mli3rfn,'tfieifiafclre<l<i the number of the psalm which was hung up and began to turn over the leaves slowly with h|s and his exclamation sounded: above the t ® L 9<BEPi'£ < t¥lN T X' what havfc you done? ■’rnenniiy tire hundred thaler note of the wanderer, and it was his’wlMftiproperty—there it Jay between the leaves. “ Henry put it there, and thatil the* BBMw.tibafche.Baid yesterday : ‘Father, when you sing the psalm to-morgow; think, kindly of me? ’’ The old man could not join in the first verse, but with the second he began as if he had the voice of his youth again. AS they? tttne out ov«hurch, fcl< were talking of the goodness and faithfulness of the wanderer to his father. The old it hurt him, but this he scarcely noticed, 'initfvnttie money stiJL ed it, and it still lies in the same place Where he put it.” 1 60 said the phi. phn, and I had to go to the village with him rfhft 1 itftoibis little house. lay, tire hymn-book on the window sill, wrapped in h White catton cloth. Thu roan took the book out, and to be sure, at the psalm numbered 134 lay the hundred' thaler Mote? < ■ .zvß... r , *’ Why haven’t you put it out at interest,” I asked. The old man laughed, and replied at last: “That’s what air the’pWifle say, everybody, one’s just as wise as another, thiiik will “ You have the best interest from the meqey, you. feed yoyrself on the good thought that your Sort Is' stf nxeeilotit,” I answered.. ... . ■ “There," tn<fr&!” cried‘the bld man, “you are the first person who has understsofl iU »,X9»iJhust certajnly have enjoyed much kindness from people because •jtou understand so well. ..You’re not stupid, I saw that directly.” " The' bld man wswqnite hap.jy £o find a .man as shrewd as himself. And when I 'askeft him left. the. book lying tbqre so openly, whether he was not afraid ’tnat sonie one mfght break a pane of glass and steal it, as might easily be done, lie ■answered smiling— Aiid Uip smile lightpd his withered face wonderfully: one would, do that. Tho people here about know what is in ft,‘and any of them would ratherreut off his hand than steal thb brfok.* But do you mean that those who don’t know? People d°n’t steal hymn-books, this guards it better than bolts and bars.” , .The old tpaa wtuit back with me a part of the wsy-lo the place Wlierp I had first met him. Then we badc each other a friendly good-bye. When I was in tho Harz mountains again last year, I did not find the old man in his plaice —he lay under the sod. But his byinn book with the monepis ip the pastor’s keeping, and in a public advertisement the son is summoned to receive it, otherwise both will Uli to the nearest re.-, lations.

' '-Thi Paris (Jaloie of-a raccht date gives an account of a horrible and mysterious affair in Spain, which it says it would not believe had nqt the details been confirmed by a letter from its own correspondent. The story is that on February 17 a band Ofipeopjff broke into a houeo id AJeirca village, In Valencia,' by 1 making a hole in the roof. The owner of the house.was M. Baluda. He was in bed with his wife. The invaders pulled them out ot bed and put gags in their mouths, and then they went.to the rooms where six children were sleeping, whom they bound/■with cords, and then in sight of their parents, tore out their eyes and tongues. Afterward they cut off the feet of M. Baluda and his eldest son, named A’incent, but purposely left a tendon near the hejjl unsevered, and then they hung them lip head downward. After this they ransacked the larder, made a good breakfast, jeering at their Victims all the time, and left the house lit daybreak. Two of the villains had been arrested. A young man, named John Bradshaw, was accidentally killed while recently gunning with some friends near Lynchburg, Va. All but one of his companions started for town to obtain assistance, the other remaining to watch over his remains. Two favorite hunting dogs of his, however, at once Approached their dead master; andby piteous moans Mhibited theif j'rief, and in the most savage manner drove off the youth who had been left They then took position close by the body, arid even when friends from the city, reached the spot, they refused to let any of them come near; and it was only after rough means were adopted, and one gentleman suverylv bitten, that the digit driven off, an<£ the body cared for. Tna shortest sermon on record was once preached by the Irish Dean Kirwan. He was pressed, while suffering from ase- • vrire cbkJ, to preach .a charity sermon in St. Peter’s Church, Dublin, Jor . the benefit of the orphan children of the parish school. Ti>e church was crowded to suflocation, and the good Dean, on mounting the pulpit and announcing his text, pointed with his hand to the children in the aisle, and simply said: “There they aret” The Collection exceeded all belief. Tnq Prjnce at WaLeffionce when on a spree in Ireland, ting cassoclj. orxkjat of heavy coarse Irisi cloth. He hardly ever wore it, whgn at home, but one cold night took it as »comfortable garment, in which to attend the theatre. After the play, he was seen with it on at White’s Club and on the street, and within a week every loyal subject, who pretended to dress “ in the fashion," was wearing a long, tight coat of coarse cabman’s cloth. 3PATTO J ..... jjflsw ii. —• . A Boston young man, a Catholii* ifi. tended to be married on the evening of the Ist inst.; 'but at the last moment, " recollected that he had forgotten' 1 to procure a license. He dashed out of the house in pursuit Of the prized paper, but it was too tafcc. The office was closed. Lent began the next day, and, for forty fiays he must pine, as no marriage can be celebrated in his church during Lent. I'hk Legislature of Maine having mooted the question of' removing tho Btate Capital from; Augusta to Bangor, upon the iconsideratkwl /of one hundred thousand dollars being contributed by the dljl twenty-fivegentlemen have promised to furnish the dealrfca sum without delay.

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, MARCH 17, 1870.

Weekly News Summary.

r CriSGHESSIOXIL. r In the Senate, on the 4th, the bill repealing the Te.t Oath act of 1818 was reported favorably from the Committee on Disabilities.... A reaoint|o, wMprefented and referred from the Legislature or MIBBIUfppI, asking the apeedv removal of political diramlltlee oC nil eftlzqna of that "Hta’e... .Bills were Introduced and referred—granting lands In Wisoomdn to aid the construction ot a breakwater and harbor, and Connect the waters of Green Bfly with Lake Michigan: gran’lng land In the State of Kansas to atd the construction of a railroad from Fort Scott In the direction of Santa Fe.... Various bills from the Committees on the District ■of Columbia, and Ponsldns, and alainp* were, passed ...Mr. Pratt was relieved from further service, on the Committee on the District of Colombia, and the Chair authorized to fill the vacancy ...A memorial ot the National Association of State and City Superintendents of Public Instruction, adapted at a meeting in Washington on tho 31, was presented apd referred, asking Congress to take measures to inaugurate a system of public instruction by NatlojaLSchoolk slujtlar to. that inaugurated under Rte Ptccdmeti's Btirenn. ...Thb Funding bill was ihiMe the ipeciat order, ibrlbe Ttfc. .-.The hili for the settlement of claims for quartermaster’s and commissary stores'furnished to or taken by the United States 1n rebellion during tho late war, was taken up and debated.... Adjourned to the Tth. In the House, on the 4th, bills were introdneed and referred—to organize the militia in Wyoming; to revive the act constituting Hannibal, Mo., and Peoria, 111, ports of delivery; to create the Southern Judicial District of Missouri.... Several private bills were passed, including one to grantpeneionf tocoloredteaiDSters . A Deficiency bill for foidnig doCTiments. appropriating $17,000, , was passed... .The Senate bill repealing the provMoha cotitalned in tbvact for extending the time for the construction of the Little Kock and Fort Smith Railroad to complete the flnit section •< twenty miles of road, was passed—ill) against 38 ... .The Senate joint resolution prohibiting publication in the Otobe of speeches not made, was referred to the Committee on Rules.... Tho Georgia hill came up, and a proposition was agreed to that it be discussed on that and the following day, and a yoto taken oh the 7th, no other business to be transacted oh the sth .. .Adjourned, Jn ihe Senate, on the 7th, petitions on varions subjects and a resolution of the lowa Legislature, favoring the removal of the National Capital, were presented and referred....A bill to admit the BfetA of Texas to representation in Congress Imposing the same conditions aa In the case of VirgHna, wa« !ntroduccd»nd referred.... A Joint rjisolatton wars introduced and referred, giving officers of tbc army detailed at literary institutions the same pay Ana allowance as those on active duty ....A bill was reported from the Committee on fttdlan Affetre, to provids for carrying into effect the provisions of the treaty concluded betwecn.tns United Htates and the Cherokee Nation of Indians, July ill, 18G6.. ..Bills were passed—appointing managers for the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteers; authorizing, the Secretary of War to take charge of the Gettysburg and Antietam National cemeteries; authorizing the Secretary of War to place at the disposal of the Soldiers' Monument Association, of Rock Island. 111., twelve pieces of condemned ordnance.... The Funding bill was taken up and debated... .Adjourned. In the House, on the 7th, bills were introduced and referred, Inclndingthefollowing: To provide for reclaiming swamp lands In the Mississippi Valley; to facilitate transportation on the Mississippi river, and promote the commerce of the Northwest; to amend the act aiding the construction of the Iron Mountain Bailroad; for the speedy removal of politics! disabilities of all citizens of Mississippi; to divide California Into two judicial districts; to Incorporate the Washington A Ohio Railroad... A resolution was introduced and referred, that, tbe Cherokee, Chickasaw. Chocktaws and Creek Indians, having advanced in oivlliaation and become rich in lands, they be no longer regarded as the wards of tho government; but that they be granted a separate territorial government, with fnll recognition as citizens of the United States, the same as the people of other Territories ....Various resolutions of the lowa Legislature were presented and referred.... A resolution was offered that Mr. Golladay. of Kentucky, lately resigned, be permitted to withdraw his resignation and have shearing of the charges against him, but the Speaker,refused to recognize Mr. G as amembw. and the Hpifse sustained’that decision, and rcfnS-d to entertain the resolution... .A resolution was adopted, instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire and report what action or rule should be established to determine the question whether a member present during the session may resign his seat without the consent of the House, vid thereby evade his duties and responsibilities.... The Speaker announced the assignment of new mymbcfs tp.committees....Several petitions were prestnited and referred... .The Georgia bill was further discussed.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the Bth, bills were reported from committees—making it. a misdemeanor to fit out or equip ships of war with intent that they shall be employ ed in the service of any Unropean Prince or State for the parpose of subduing American colonists claiming independence, and providing for the forfeiture of such ship or veaaei; t<j regulate the foreign and coasting trade bn the northern; ■northeastern, and western frontier of the United States; to relieve public charities from taxation ...Bills and joint resolutions were introduced—amendatory of the act of July So. 18611, granting lands to aid the construction of a railroad from the Central Pacific in California to Portland, Oregon; providin" for the examination and adjustment of the claims of Southern loyalists for stores furnished to the army; in aid of freedmen, and for the purpose of subdividing the public domain In certain States ipto forty acre tracts for homes eads forthe colored race : Jor the redemption of legal-tender notes of the Uelhed States; to promote the civilization of the Indians and prepare them for,the rights of citizenship; for the temporary relief of the District of Columbia... .A resolution was passed, calling upon the President for information relative to the slave trade on the African coast. ..The Funding bill was token np and further discussed ...Executive ses sion and adjournment. In the House, on the Bth, a bill to prevent thefurthor sale of public lands in Dakota, the Pre-emption and Homestead laws for dispoalng-of mineral landsand town sites, was amended so as to make it apply to all pnbllc lands, and t hen rejected—7s to 90.... The Georgia bill was taken up and amended so as to not vacate any of the offices now filled In the State of Georgia, nor extend the official tenure of any officer beyond the term limited by the State con-tituiion, dating from the election or appointment of said officer, and so as not to deprive the people of •Georgia of the right under their constitution to e ect senators and Representatives of the State es Georgia in the year 1870, and tho bill as amended was passed >; A resolution was offered and referred, authorizing the President to furnish a steamer •for Captain C. F. Hall's proposed voyage of ex?t>U>radion and di'covery to the Arctic regions, and appropriating SIOO,COT for the expenses thereof ....Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 9th, a petition was presented and referred, relative to the Illegal Imprisonment by the Dominican Government of De*fils 8. Hatch, a merchant of Ban Domingo, and an American citizen.... Tho House bill to supply the deficiency in the appropriations for contingent expenses of the House of Representatives was passed ... A joint resolution was introduced, laid on the table and ordered printed, declaring that the conduct of the Spanish Guvernment in Cnba in its treatment of captured insurgents and of persona suspected of sympathy with the Insurgents, in mutilating and killing. In disregard of ace, sex and condition, is cruel, inhuman and barbarous.' and deserves the reprobation of the Christian wwld ...A hill was Introduced and referred, to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Marehall, Texas, to Santiago California, with brioches" and com>ectlons....The bill giving the Consent of- Congress to tho laying of tulses or tunnels across the Kant River, from Brooklyn to New York, and across the North River, from New York toNew Jarsey, and making them post roads when constructed, was amended and passed....A resolution was adopted, req isstJug the Secretary of tho Navy to furnish the Senate any Information he may have aa to tho sinking of the United States vessel Oneida by the British steamer Bombay, In tho harbor of Yokohama The House bill to admit Georgia to representation tn Congress was reported from the Jndlciary Committee.. ..The Funding bill, was taken np, and a motion to recommit was dett -ted, and a motion wfce ahoptsd to strike out lhe flection providing for the payment Of eoui>ous at Kttropean agencies.... Adjourned. "In the Home, on the 9th, the bill for an ! idrfllpe.rqijroad between New York and Washingtou’eame Up, and several amendments were agreed to.’..Apetition was presented from the leading business men of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and 2 >C others, irrospo- live o party, asking the abolishment of Na, tioual Ranks, and the Issue of $500.00‘,000 greenbacks, and substitute the same for Natlontl Bank notes, and pay In greenbacks at par s3lo,<ioo,(Mo of matured 520 bonds A joint resolution waa peered, to discontinue the printing of engraving* In I‘afrnt Office reports ...Bills were introdai-ed and referred—to provide for celebrating the one htnidredth anniverreryaif Atnerican Independence by holding a national okpoaltlon of arte, manufactures, and products of the mines, in Philadelphia In 187 fl; for the auditing and payment of claim* of loyal citizen*of the South; to provide homesteads for colored people in the Southern States.... Bills

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were reported and recommitted—relating to the taking of the census: to regulate mileage ; amendatory of the act esubliahlng a Bureau of Education..., Adjourned. In the Senate, on tho 10th, * reaolutlon was adopted. Calling upon the Secretary of the Interior for Information relating to publie lands In Indiana undisposedot; etc....A bill was passed, to consolidate the northern and southern Judicial Districts of Florida ...Billsand Joint resolutions were introduced;—amendatory of the Homestead act, providing that an application to enter we on ad--Jolnfng ftirm a quantity of land sufficient to,make 160 acres, may be granted; for the relief of certain settlers on lands within railroad Withdrawals; for the relief ot sh'p-bullder* and dealere in ship Imllding Interests, and to provide forthe collection of claims against domestic ships and vessels.... The House bill amending the act providing for the sale of a portion of the Fort Gratiot military reservation tn Michigan, was called up and passed . A communication was submitted from General Reynolds, enclosing copies of the newconetitution of Texas, ratlffcanon of the Thirteenth Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment*,- and other papers.... The Funding bill waa taken up and debated, and several amendments disposed of ....Adjourned. ” • In the House, on the 10th, the bill to reduce the number of officers in the army was taken up and passed... .A bill waa reported from the Committee on Railroads and Canale, and recommitted. authorizing the Norfolk, Louisville and St. Lonls Railroad Company to construct their road... Adjourned. FOREIGN. The Emperor of Russia has sent a communication by telegraph to the govern- ■ ment authorities at Washington and Pekin, expressing his profound sorrow for the affliction both nations must bear in the death of Anson Burlingame. The Empress has written a tender and consoling letter to Mrs. Burlingame. Advices from the insurrectionary districts, receivedin Havana on the 4th,confirm a former report of Jordan’s resignation of the chief command of the rebel forces. The appointment was offered to Napolear Anango, who refused it, and it was finally conferred on Bembetta. Seven members of the editorial staff of the Reform* newspaper, Paris, have been convicted of violation of the Press law, and received sentences of one to fOTT. months’ imprisonment atad’totiilt&ies.of: 10,000 francs. M. Baziere, one the ■writers of the Marseillaiu, who, on*seeing the Emperor one day, shouted “ Vive la Republique,” has been condemned to inj : prisonment for three months and fined five hundred francs. In Havana, on the sth, the police arrested fifty-one members of the Masonic fraternity, who were holding mourning services at their lodge. The arrests were made for violation of the law prohibiting assemblies without permiflsion of the authorities. Several foreigners present were not molested J. McLeary Brown has been appointed provisionally Chief of the Chinese Embassy, vice Burlingame, deceased. News from St. Domingo on the 24th ult. states that the revolution was extending and becoming more general on the island. The aid asked for abroad had been received. The revolutionists declare that the majority of the inhabitants of the Island are opposed to its annexation to the United States. The New York World of the 6th publishes a Paris letter of the 21st ult, in which it is stated that, according to the gossip of the French »alon», the Emperor Napoleon 111. died on the 9th of September last, under the knife of Surgeon Ricord, and in his place there reigns the Prince Imperial as Napoleon IV., with the Empress Eugene, as Regent. A Paris telegram of the 10th announces that Rochefort was ill, and his friendE who were not permitted to see him, were apprehensive that his disease was smallpox. I DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on the 10th at A Washington telegram of the 4th states that the official statistics show that the imports into the United States for ten months, ending October 31,1869, amounted to about $400,000,000, against $330,000,000 the same time in 1868. Exports, $365,000,000, against $360,000,000. Of the imports, $275,000,000, and of the exports, $245,000,000, were in foreign vessels. In a message to the Virginia Legislature on the Bth, the Governor shows the debt to be $45,872,000. This can be reduced by selling out the interest of the State in railroads, which would bring into the treasury over $10,000,000.

General Quesada has written for the Cuban Junta, ffi New York, a report of the operations of the Cuban army during the opening scenes of the war. He claims that the governments of the United States and Great Britain are ignorant of what has happened in Cuba, in consequeuce of the facility with which the Spaniards can disseminate false news. Colonel John Wilder, editor of the Kansas City Journal of Commerce, was shot and killed by a man named Hutchinson, on the morning of the 9th. The murderer was arrested. The bill for the removal of the State Capital of Wisconsin to Milwaukee has been defeated in the Legislature. Governor Holden, of North Carolina, has issued a 'proclamation declaring the County of Alamance in a state ot insurrection because of various outrages by bands of men, armed and disguised. The Mechanics’ Bank at St Louis has resumed specie payments. It has about $50,000 outstanding circulation. A Helena, Montana, dispatch says: “ Meetings have been held heHMid in most every town in the Territoryi during the last few weeks, for the purpose of taking into consideration the recent ] action of Colonel Baker, in his endeavor i to suppress the depredations committed by Indians in Montana. In every instance Baker’s'actlon has been fully en--1 domed. Full statistics of the depredations by Indians in tills Territory will shortlyI be reportod, and will show good cause for , the late raid.’’ I A Philadelphia lithographer, named Troubel, was arrested on the 10th, charged

with engraving' counterfeit brewers’ Stamps. , Forty thousand dollars’ worth of plates and stamps were captured. PERSONAL. The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Republican telegraphed on the 4th that the President and Cabinet had decided not to count Indiana or New York for the Fifteenth Amendment, and that the proclamation would bo delayed until Georgia and Texas have been admitted to representation in Congress, when thb required number of twenty-right Slates will be recognized as. voting affirmatively, without the first-named two - The Michigan State debt is $2,529,074; with $408,040 cash in the Treasury. The Legislatures of Minnesota and West Virginia have adjourned tine dfe. The following nominations were sent totke Senate on the 4th: George H. Butler of California, Consul at Alexandria, Egypt; Almon A. Thompson, of Michigan, Consul at Goderich ; F. Packard, of Tennessee, to be Consul at Montevideo; J. W. Mason, of Arkansas, Minister Resident and Consul General to Liberia; Jas. Riley Weaver, ot West Virginia, Consul at Antwerp; David J. Williamson, of California, Consul at Callao. B. F. Whittemore, late member of Congress from South Carolina, has published a letter defending his sale Of the cadetship, and announcing himself as a candidate for re-election. He says that recent developments have satisfied him that his resignation was a hasty and unnecessary step. The trial of McFarland for the murder of Richardson is set for the first Monday in April. The formal reception of Mr. Seward took place at the City Hall in New York cit/, on the afternoon of the 7th. He made a brief speech complimentary to the city as the metropolis of the Western Continent The President has nominated Benj. J. Waters for Chief Justice of the -Supreme Court of Idaho. General Quesada paid his respects to President Grant on the 9th. General Alcorn was inaugurated as Governor of Mississippi on the 10th. Michael Costello, the murderer of Hugh Kean, at Detroit, has been sentenced to solitary confinement in the State Prison for life. Harriet A. Parker was nominated on the 10th as Postmistress for iSinkakee, IIL A cable dispatch from the son of the late Anson Burlingame, at Sb Petersburg, says that he shall alone accompany his father’s remains to America, leaving Hamburg on the 6th of April. Harper, the Sandwich (Mass.) incendiary, committed suicide in Barnstable jail, on the morning of the 10th. ' POLITICAL. The National Convention to secure a religious amendment to the Constitution of the United States closed its session at Pittsburgh on the 4th. Among the resolutions passed was one declaring that “ the present movement is not sectarian, or even ecclesiastic; but that it Is an acknowledgment of the Deity, and assertion of the right of the people who believe in the truth of Christianity to govern 'themselves in a Christian manner.’’ At the recent charter election of Louisville, Ky., the vote for Mayor was: J. Bruce, 5,244; J. G. Baxter, 5,824. At the municipal election in Portland, Me., on the 7th, Benjamin Kingburg, Jr., (Republican) was elected Mayor, securing 2,443 votes, to Putnam’s (Democrat) 2,202; scattering, 5. The Republicans carried the Third, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Wards. The Democrats, the First, Second and Fourth Wards. Republican Mayors were chosen in Rockland, Saco and Auburn, and a Democratic Mayor in Bath. No choice at Lewiston. A Grand Jury on which were several women was organized in the District Court at Laramie, Wyoming Territory, on the 7th, under an act of the Territorial Legislature declaring the political rights of the sex.

Joseph Hinkham was nominated to the Senate by the President, on the 7th, as United States Marshal for Idaho. The Speaker of the House of Representatives on the 7th announced the appointment of the following members on the committees: Indian Affairs—Smith, of Oregon; Adams, of Kentucky, and Van Wyck, of Mew York. Claims—Ayer, of Virginia. Naval Affairs—Platt, of Virginia. District of Colombia—McKenaie, of Virginia. Reconstruction— Dockery, of North Carolina; Porter, of Virginia, and McKee, of MUeiseippi. Poet Office—Fox, of New York, in place of Smith, of Oregon, resigned; Trimble, in place of Adams, resigned, and Van wyck, of New York. Education and Labor-Plerce, of Mississippi. Expenditures on Public Buildings—Grtswo'd, of New York. Freedmen's Affairs-Booker. of Virginia, Accounts-Milne), of VirglnlA Pacific Railroad—Atweod. of Wisconsin, and Covodo, of Pennsylvania. Public Buildings and Grounds—Corode, of Pennsylvania; Morpeth of Mississippi, and Ridgeway, of Virginia. Agricultural—Gibson, of Virginia. Enrolled Bills -Pierce, of Mississippi. Chat. R. Steele was elected Mayor of Waukegan, HL, on the 7th. Governor Austin, of Minnesota, has refused to approve the Female Suffrage bill, for the reason that the clause submitting this amendment to the vote of females as well as males is unconstitutional, as females are not legal voters, and therefore incompetent to vote upon this or any . other subject until their disability is removed by vote of the male voters. The Governor also objects to the proposition as being premature. The Mississippi Legislature met at Jackson on the Bth. A Concord, N. H., dispatch of the Bth states that Stearns, Republican, is probably elected Governor by 1,000 to 1,500 majority. The Legislature is Republican, with majority reduced from last year. John Lutes, Democrat, was chosen Mayor of Rochester, N. Y„ on the Btb,

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by 450 majority. The Republicans elected a majority of Che aldcrinrii,'coufictlmen and supervisors. At the election in Cafnden, N. J., on the Bth, the Republican candidate for Mayor was elected. The Virginia LegiMatnVe has passed a Homestead Exernption bill, making an exemption of $2,000 in property from Execution. Tho constitutional amendment enfranchising cx-Confederatcs and extending suffrage to negroes passrilthe Missouri House on the 10th, by a vote of 81 to 33. It had already passed the Senate. ' The Republican State Convention of Rhode Island met at Providence on the 10th, and the present State ofltcrirs were renominated by acclamation.

Tricks Upon Travelers.

One of the most wonderful robberies ever perpetrated—wonderful, at least, when one considers the means at the disposal of the robber—was tho achievement of a Frenchman, who, for a long time after it, was recognized in his profession, as “ the King of the Bandits.” I His claim to this title was biised upon a single exploit—thorobbirig of a'diligence—which feat he not onlyplanned, bpt carried into successful execution, without any assistance whatsoever. Tp ..dp this, he made all his arrangements with the most/ careful completeness, and, we may be sure, fixed a night for the attack when 1 the cpach carried a freight worth robbing. He studied closely the country through which the journey was to be made, and selected apointon the road where there was a very steep hill, with hedges''krill' uhdefwood at either side. He then procured a number of stout sticks about the length and thickness of the barrel of a gun. These he stuck into the hedges, letting the ends of them appear, as if they were the muzzles of guns directed by persons in ambtfscade behind the hedge. As the diligence now came toiling Slowly up the hill, the driver saw a man standing on the pathway, aad gesticulating violently. On approaching nearer, the man conld be heard distinctly haranguing them. “ Ready > Obey orders! No firing if there be no resist-. ance! ” And then the robber, walking slowly forward, stopped the hones, told the guard to get down and to lie with his face and hands on the ground, and that novltv lence would be offered to him. He then.’ went to the door of the vehicle,and assuring the ladies, who were screaming for help, that they need be under no alarm, begged each passenger, as he stepped out, to hand him his phrse, and then to He down on his face and hands near the guard. While all this drama was being enacted, the robber-chief kept shouting to his assistants not to fire unless there was resistance; not to fire. until they should get his signal. Thus, dne by one, he handed all the passenger* out, each giving np his purse a* if it was a ticket, and then going and lying upon the wet grass side by side with the griard. When the diligence was empty > our highwayman retired with all the movable property he desired to possess himself of, and escaped th rough the wood. The most amusing part of the story was that amongst the travelers were several officers fully axmed, who surrendered their swords at discretion, and joined the other dupes on the grass. It is well to add that the robber was ultimately apprehended, and the i ;reateq J( part of the stolen property was 1 ound upon him. Another very extraordinaiy robbery was one which has only recently been detected ; if it has less adventure in it than the other, it has certainly more system and ingenuity. The enterpriser in this case was also highly thought of amongst his brethren, and was well known to professional thieves as “ Jack in the Box.” His chief residence was in the capital, but he had offices fojr his business in many other towns. His system was thia He had a box so constructed that he could lie down in it with ease, and rely upon always having plenty of fresh air; it could also contain provisions, toojs, false keys, a lantern, etc., etc., and the real mode of opening it was from the inside. Jack, having caused himself to be puried alive in this coffin, would get it booked, say from Chester to Euston Square by a goods train, and carefully tabled, “ This side up; to b« kept till called for.” The box always was put in a train that arrived at the station at night, and was accordingly stored till called tor the following day. It was in this interval that the roboeries were committed. When the whole sfe-

tion was shut up, the porters dismissed, and the place in darkness, Jack emergedfrom his box, lit his lantern, and set to work. He got out his tools ai)d his keys, and took his time, for he had plenty of time to take. We all know what an insecure thing the lock of a trunk is, and how nearly all keys are made on the same pattern. They did not afford much trouble to the robber; he opened box after box, unpacking them with great care and tidiness—for long practice had made him perfect—and selecting as keepsakes the articles that were most valuable, most portable, and most easily disposed of. With these gleanings he. filled the box in which he had himself cotnfc lip to town, and then lay in concealment till the morning. The stores would then be opened, porters would come in to remove goods, and Jack would choose his own time to effect his escape. Later in the day he would call for a parcel that had arrived from Chester by the last goods train of the preceding night, andLthat was directed to be called for; he would take it away with him in a cab, having first* paid all the railway charges upon it. But the day came <hen this little “coup” wastefule fbr the last time, and it was a policeman, and nqt his box, that Jack found waiting for him on application. The'governor ot a County jail ’ showed me a collection of the photo*’ graphS of all the prisoners who had ever been in his charge—“ that is,” said he, “of all except one." That honorable exception waa our friend Jack ; he positively declined] to be photographed! HesaM, with some shrewdness/that. It would ruin his future prospect*— Cfutdl'* Magatint.

A sergeant In Franeefa few years ago) used at midnight to leavejhis quarters and dig up dead bodies in Per® 1® Chaise, which he subsequently devoured. This unfortunate man is now cured, and is but thirty two years of age. He preserves of the episodes of his past life only a qonfushd memory, like the recollections of a ' prinftil dream. In olden times science feared, to approach these sufferers. ” A California papera*ys the Japanese will “ win universal respect by a ffcirt of heathenish habit they haVtVof- minding their own businesk’’ taka

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A New York adtybaak. •. '1 -“WiA Tms British Mweum f&PQO,SixTbrn • locomotive* exploded their boilers lastymri .‘/NW*-- j tip A Pittsburoh yqnpg m*n has papd SSO for kissing a lady 1a th<j |treeL ,Tkk cjnensas of Uie Peabody* Ceremonials in Maine werri about' s7,ww., “ * Tnr: Twrosi bagiproclainK&wwßqlsqjj St. Louis now measures fifteen miles from, her northern to hsr limits. Tng late M. Gronof,' said the wettit hietft 1 Russian mercbqnt, Jalt.qnly $15,000,009. . .. ... „ , A New York negro janitor Wre upllO,000 worth of b ‘ls and soM the leaves ior bld paper. I' I 's r ■ Tot.edo has been sued for $40,00p because it shut down on a canal that 'rnn a In the three days that Jefferson,.Da vis was at Huntsville, Alabama, he took over 500 life insurance policies. ,>r/ " finite, ba., has had (free within a year 1 and Ifta, pojloa have •but recently caught the, rascals that set them . , A D?I. A ware woman h getting a divorce' because her husband jumped oa theback side of the bed A ad aUtrmxg.Uurglarh. ; T! , 4 .,r> A man at Lowell, Maas., has made a □revision ,iu his will that he liyjst be mjiedin a -bui-glat proof ‘rare 'When he dies. ' : ’ ! 5 '■■- d» The upper ten of London< regard} it as bid etiquette to rid* to dhuxebou Bunday, whenever ivia possible, frtyvalK., A WAtH from King Theodore’s head was among the “'objects of interest ” at a late meeting of the London Mictoscopldil Society. . ' ' ’ AnEhgUslftnan suicided at. a/hotel in London, arid the landlord. Ma sped his friends for the - loss of cuijtopji and the trouble. u „ . a kijwv pound .shell, thrown into Vicksburg during the War, was "found in the cellar of a store the ovher day, a part oF the fuse,MiU clinging to ih.nifoa - ■ Tnft nWr' Constitution *f, Tennessee prohibits from holding office, all who deny the being of God, or,a fhture state of eewards and punishments.” One of the Richmond’ riaperspfHits this notice at the head of its editorMl ddlumns: “ We shall bri compelled to treat all nominations for offioe as adver^ssn^ts— requiring payment in advance, * ; .. A nice little game has been Stopped at the New York Custom Hones'*- Some of the men have been accustomed jto wear “stomach canteens." fitting about the body under the coat, into which they would syphon off liquor from casks un- ■ loading, carry , away, empty ft safely and return. The New York J&prsss says:** Every day in March the distance between the earth and the sun is increased 14X17 miles. At the beginning of the monthHhe distance was 92,212,632. Astronomically spring begins on the 20th of March, w hen the sun crosses the equate*.’! > juoflE Higby, of Stratford, Conn., was feeding his fowls the other day, when one of them flew Up and lighted on his shoulder, and, reaching round, picked him in the eye, nearly blinding mm for a while. Inflammation set in, and for a few days it was feared he would lose his sight. There was roeentftt great- excitement in the extreme southern counties of Cali-, fornia over the discovery o/ mew and rich gold fields, abotft sixty nfiles from Santiago. The quarts exhibited is free from sulphnrets and otheg metals, and is literally full of free gold, people were leaving San .Diego and L-os Angeles in large numbers for the new mnres. Pjiof Ttxdaia has a theory that the blue color of tfie sky is, 6r may be, produced by particles suspended dn the air, which are not only invisible to .-the naked eye, but irreducible by the highest powers of the microscope, ifodenmatrates their existence by the light which tley scatter, even after-they hate passefl htterly beyond the range of the microscope. In other words, the made of dust, • ; .i i

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