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Miscellaneous Heading. ROMANCE. BY OLIVER WENDELL UOLME3. Dili .lie wns n maid of lmiKhln* eyo, And alio Uvea lu a qai-rot cold and Ulqh ; Ami ho wan a threadbare whistknred boau, Aud lie lived Hi a collar damp ami low. Hut thu rosy-liny of tho cherub wing, liar many a share In lilm .lender airing, And the youth below-Mill the mahl abovo Were’touched with thi naahlng darts of lovo. And alto would wake from her troubled sleep, o’er bln tender billet-doux to weep! , Or etadh liko u statue bright and fair, And gaze on n lock of his bright red hair. And he who was so tall and prond. With hla step ao Arm and hli laugh ao load. Ilia heard grew long and hla luce grew thin, Anil he pined in solitude over hla gin. Hut one soft night In the month of Jnne, An she lay in the light of a cloudless moon, A voice came floating uofi and clear T* the startled maiden's listening oar. Oh, then from her creaking conch she sprung, And her tangled treaeea hack she flung, She looked from the window far below, Aud he stood beneath, her whiskered bian. Hltc did not start with a foolish frown. Hut packed her trunk and scampered down. And there was her lover, tall and true, lu his tlirendl'nrc coat of the brightest bine. Tho star that roso in the evening shade looked sadly down on a weeping maid; The sun that came in hla morning pride Mied golden light o'er a laughing bride.

THE SURPRISE.

BY MISS HANNAH E. LUNT.

A gloomy Miii'ch morning had dawned on our villago, aud our neighbors in the small brown house, near to the corner of our street, were more blue and dismal than the day. Mr. JamesSymonds had scolded his wife because bis breakfast was five minutes Tate, and because one button had come oil" his workiug coat. Breakfast was always behindhand; ho was always late at bis work, unless, he hurried fast enough to break his neck; his buttons were always shillingolF for want of a stitch, something that wouldn’t take half a minute! When Mr. Symonds had said this he shut the door hard, and went miserably down the street. Our neighbor’s bad temper seldom lasted ten rods beyond bis bonne; his repentance often came before he was well starred on his walk ; and even while he was uttering reproaches lie was dimly feeling that he Bhould be miserable that day—he always was wretched when there had been a fuss at borne, lie always bad visions of Mary taken suddenly ill, and of the house filled with neighbors trying to help her; or of Johnnio terribly hurt, or of the baby sick with croup. All such days he trembled and turnud pale whenever a strange head appeared at the top of the open stairway ; anil he would catch himself listening taany strange voice in the, shop below, dreading lest a messenger had come to summon him on account of some tearful calamity. The shop was too far off for him to go home to his dinner ; he always took that meal with hint m atin pail; and when he had gone to his work in a pleasant mood, he and half a dozen fellow workmen sat down together, talking over the news, and comparing notes of tamily expenses; or, when tiio boys were away, telling •stories of their children’s progress iu walking, tulking, etc. When, as it often happened, tilings went wrong in the morning, Mr. Symonds found that ho must do errands at noon ;-then, after hurrying down a few mouthfuls, he went out and walked all the rest of the hour, lie could not bear laughing aud talking freely witli his comrades while his wife was unhappy. Many a time he would gladly have gone all the way to his house just to see that Mary and!,ho children were all right, only he was ashamed to show her how troubled and anxious he was; and he could no more have put into words his sorrow for ill temper (so he thought) than he could have changed to a real angel, then and there. Mary, for her part, would have died sooner than have helped him on with any such confession. She always shut her lips last together, and weut about her work with tho air of a martyr, while her husband was in the house. The forenoon was always passed in recounting to her- - self the wrongs and injustices of which she was tho victim ; the number of things which she had to do, cooking, washing, ironing, sweeping, mending with two troublesome children always to look after —one just, running about, the other in its cradle; how could any woman see to buttons, aud get mculs to a minute,-when her hands wen; tied half the time! So at home Mrs. Symonds dwelt bn her troubles, and worked her husband’s unkindness into the dish-washing, the sweeping, the cleaning up generally, even into the washing and dressing of the littleones. The sense of injustice met her in all the familiar objects in her little kitchen ; and when she had carried Johnnie up stairs, and had set him in a high chair, out of harm's way, While" sho made the beds, her enemy had gone up before her, and meeting, tortured her there. She wondered how it would be if she were to die, whether James would theu he sorry ; whether he would learn how much Nhe had had to do, and 41' lie would not feel that he had been dll to "blame! 1 Buj by tind-by, when the housework was done up, her hair combed and her dress changed, as the afternoon grew on, sho thought jess of herself and her troubles, and more of Johnnie’s little speeches—wlint pain it gave her to think how little she had noticed them at the time; of the way baby was beginning to hold tilings; aud sh,e lmiged to tell James tluflfe small marvels.,' Sue knew herself too well to presume that she would do anything of the sort. Had not her husband’beeif cruel and unjust? Was it not his place to make advances ? lie Bhould at least say that he bad been wrong, just that, and she would overlook all. But «bo would like to have one talk with him, and show him how things really were; sho did think hooughttosee that; now lie only thought of late breakfastsaud missing buttons, never of her thousand duties and cares. Perhaps, after all, it would be better it she or one of the children should die; tjicn these miserable troubles would come 'to an end; sho shuddered us she said this about the children, ai\d didn’t mean it at alb Mary, too, had really her fears about something dreadful happeningto Jamesorthe little ones, but (the kopt it farther away, and pretended that she was courageous. Late that afternoon James, going near the front shop-windows, saw a man in a chaise below, leaning forward and talking eagerly tp one of the firm. He could not be mistaken; he saw his master pblnt straight up to the window' where his own bench stood, fthd he distinctly heard tho question, “ What does the doctor say ?” The answer dfd not reach him, but James turned.deadly pale and sick ; he staggered shudderingly back to his little corner, his

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, ■ (V Vs WWwhole body resolved into tho actoflisten ing. He km w that the strango a»an was coining to .ffnjl JMvaftd l»e only waited to hear the dreaded step upon the stairs, and tp hear one of tho boys delightedly point quOdmself as„a person of grout consequent that-moment. A minutes went by ; ho had not hoard the chaise off, but nobody caiqc for him. Half an hour had passed, when one of the boys rushed excitedly in, to say that i lie old building was really lo bo altered now; he had neara Mr. Cilfey talk it all over with one cf the owners, and it was all settled, ho guessed; he should not wonder if workmen were there next Monday. Then’Janies Syiriond’s blood ran freely once more; the man in the chaise, the pointing up at his window, the question about the doctor, who had hitherto gone against any change, were explained, Dr. Bent was one of the owners. Was wer any man so relieved and happy before? Grateful tears would come into bis eyes as lie bent over his work ; and he made a swilt, but earnest, humble resolution tliat,very moment. On,-that same afternoon, Mary, in trying to find some new playthings for Johnnie, had /jyitrturned on the table a box containing her own little treasures, things which hail not seen the light for many a year. Among these were some small re-ward-cards, with texts and mottoes, which she read over as «he took them up, recalling the old time when she had carried them home in triumph, and learned all that was on them before night. Now, while She was sewing again, and Johnnie was playing with bright shells and her ovm cup-aitd-ball, the words kept running in hi! mother’s mind, "In honor prefer one another. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory ; but in lowliness of mind let each’ 'tfsteem the other better than himSclf. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.” What docs looking on the things of others mean * 'thought Mary to herself. Putting the versus together, sue could not help seeing that to esteert others first, and to look not on one’s ownibings, were exhortations to unselfishness; and following out her attempt to get it clear, sho thought: it must mean that weshould try to think how otlior people feel about theso things, instead of always thinking how we feel. It is not just what we do to others, that is good for evil, but it is seeing how things look to them, that is right. Now, if James saw tilings asl do—but he doesn’t ai all, and so he finds fault. But then like a flash came the thought, “■ Do I see things as he does ?” and when she tried to put herself in her husband's place, by remembaring like conversations they had held, and little things she had heard about his work and his companions, with what she knew of herself, sho did seem to see batter how a (fairs must look to him, than she had ever done before. His time was not bis own ; he must be punctual at his work, or lose his place; their house, and bread, and clothes, their very living, depended on his promptness. Of course he wished to go neatly dressed to his work; she would not have him disgrace her orliiniselt; thonhis button* must-be looked tO-ln.JUiasou, .for_ when he put a garment on there was no tioic for repairs. Then he had wood to split and water to briDg, after the day’s work was over; so that bis time was almost all spoilt out of the house. She could manage many things to suit herself; he must please other people, and people whodidu’tcare for him as shedid ; and then she felt that her husband might Lave a hundred cares and perplexities which she did not know. So for half an hour, Mary had really been looking not at her own interests, but away from them, at the iuterostsof another.’ Thatkalfhour put a new aspect on the whole range of her affairs. Two days later Mr. Si monds was splitting wood while his wife was getting breakfast; everything seemed determined to stop by the way ; James came in hungry and cold t* find his wife nervously trying to make tho kettle boil, to finish setting the table, and quiet the fretting baby all at one*; and just at that moment Johnnie had managed to knock down a dish to break in twenty pieces against the Btove hoarth. Mary looked up in mute despair,.as her husband came in, expecting a storm, and feeling that there was enough to raise one; but a cheery voice cried out, “ Pick up the pieces, my boy !” and sho saw James catch up the baby, tossing her and quieting her in a minute. The fire burned, the kettle boiled, and breakfast was quickly on tho table. Mary had not spoken a word, for wonder; but her husbaud, looking up quickly as she handed him his cup of coffee, saw tears shining in her eyes, and ho knew that tjmy were tears of joy. What a reward lor a minute s self control! These two never talked matters over, or tolcLcach Other what changed their minds; ten to one if they had, tho peace had been brokon before it was fairly concluded. But they practised tho lesson which they had received. Though each person is to consider the interests of others, he is not called to make the other see his interest in return. The moral of this is not that persons should be kind at home lest some calamity overtake their families, and they themselves sliffer remorse. It might be; Let each person be just, and seeing a lault correct it, Ha, he wjji.uot be a slave to fears of evil tidings. Or let mo man or woman hesitate to say, “lam wrong," when there is odcaai A to mak« inch confession. — Old and JVlnj. __ __ * What a million is worth in some minds may be judged from these two bon mots, 'which have just come to light. Hope, life celebrated London banker, who was suffering from an inexorable malady which prevented him from eating, seeing a friend at work upon a chop, exclaimed with accents of emotion, stopping his friend’s hand as it was convcyiug a piece of chop on a fork to his mouth, “Cherished friend, I Would give a million to bo able to eat that chop as thou art doing !” And M. Nathaniel UothlClfild, who was par-, aly/.ed, on hearing of life accident to his brother from A faU’from his horse, exclaimed, “ Air! how happy he must be to by able to get on horseback at the risk of even breaking his neck by a fall! I would give a million to be able to risk as much!” Th» women of Vineland, N. J., such of them as believe in wonuin suffrage, nominated, as usual, a full ticket for tqWti officers previous to the late election. The whole number of officers voted lor was twenty-nine, and of those elected thirteen were on the woman’s ticket. The whole nsnnberof voters'at the election''Was 410, and of these fifty : qqe voted the woman’s ticker entire.' The women, according to their custom, ca6t their ballots in a separate box. The whole number of theso ballots was 101.

HENSSELABA- - JASPER 1 COUNTY, INDIANA, MARCH 31, 1870.

Weekly News Summary.

. CONGRESSIONAL. is In the Senate, pn the 18th, a majority report was rondo from the Corprofttoo onJlloctlon* that (Ten. Amos, or lil'silsaippl, Is qpkollglbty to n scat In tho Untted States Senate.... Tho bill to legalize tho apportionment of the Legislative A*, eemltly of Arizona w»aparskd A.(llbtiwarM Introduced— providing that arter the till qjt November. Ig7o, there shall be no payments from'tho TroA-ttry In fractional part* of dollars, except in ooln; to' Increase the pension of the widow or tile late General Rousseau . ..Tho vote lniafluituiy postponing the bill providing lor the. transportation of Imported morchanlre from the port of drat Arrival wilfalp the lintted States to certain Western cltlts without examination aud appraisement, was reconsidered and the bIU placed upon the Resolutions of the Minnesota Leglsiaiure relative to the Fort Itidgely Reservation and (helSanlt N»«. Mario Canal ware presented....A memorial of the Choctaw Nation against the enactment of bills-to consolidate the Indian tribes and organizo a Territorial Government for them, and lo anthOrizb th« construction ot a railroad through the Indian Territory, was presented . The GoprgiV'bTTr'Was taken op. and an amendment agreed toreneaUng So mnch of the army aet of 1887 as prohibCs the organization and calling ont of militia by Governors' of Southern States. Other proposed amendments wore discussed, and tho Senate adjourned to the 21st. In the nouse, on the 18tli, several patent bills and several biUa relating to the District of Columbia were passed.. ..A petition was'pTcsenlep from cltlzeus of Ohio, for a donation of tRMKHIot the allowaucc made by Congress for the edacatlod of the freodmen of the Sonth in behalf of WllbOA force University, near Xenia, Ohio ...The Tariff bill was further considered In Committee of tne Whole....Adjonrned, the session on the lllthto.be or general debate on tho Tariff bill. ; r ' In the Senate, o« the 21st, bills were pissed—arranging the time for holding Clrenit and District Courts for Wisconsin; providing lor tho distribution of arms among the Southern States, according to quota, undsr existing laws ....Several petition* and memorials on different subjects were presented and referred.... A bill was introduced and referred, providing that Supervisors of Internal ueveuuo shall be appointed by the President, and conflrmad by tho senate, .i.The Georgia bill was further considered ....Executive session and adjonrninent. In the House, on the 21st, bills were introduced and referred—for support of the government in the payment of the entire debt and reduction of taxation; dividing Tennossee into two Judicial Districts; donating certain conquasi ordnance to the LyoirMoimment.Associalipn; incorporating tho Indian Tolritory & Gulf Railroad Company; authorizing Jbc, water gauges to bo established and observations made on the Mississippi Rivor and tributaries’, with a view to obtaining information for tho protection of alluvial lands from overflow and to- improving navigation; authorizing terms or the Vhftcd States District Court to lie heldfat Helena, Ark.; remedial of JAw* that do injustice to ioyalmaii of the re-,, bellion; for tho promotion of commerce ana amity between people ol the United States and Mexico by encouraging American cltieens to aid Mexico in the development of her resources; relative to captures made by tho United Suites gunboats Conestoga, Lexington and A. O. Tyler, on the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers in April and May, IMS; to promote commerce among the States, and cheaper transportation ol' the mails and military stores, etc.; relative to the Income tax on the proceeds of building and saving associations; explanatory of tlie tenth article of the treaty with the Shawnees, of February 81.1867.. .A resolution was offered and referred, c filing lor a redistribution of National Bank currency or an increase of existing bank circulation in States and Territories having leas than their due share.... Resolutions were adopted-declaring It to be the duty of Congress to provide for funding the national debt at a lower rate of interest, aud to extend the time of its payment to a period when It will be leasr oppressive to the people, and that the intereat-bcanng debt shontd not be Increased bv causing the sucrender of any part of the circulating medium not bearing Interest, and by the substitution therefor of interest-bearing bonds; declaring it a« tin- judgm-nt of the House thtt the policy of granting subsidies in public lands to railroad and other corporations, ought to be discontinued, and that every consideration ofpnblic policy and equal justice to the whole people, requires that the public lauds be held for the exclusive purpose of securing homesteads to actual settlers nnder the Homestead and Pre-emption laws, subject to a reasonable appropriation ofbueb lands fen purposes of education.... Bills were passed—for taking the ninth census; reqniring Information to be obtained from insurance, railroad companies, etc.; appropriating F 20.000 to the Sisters of Our Lady of Meroy, in Charleston, S. Ct, fog the purpose or rebuilding their orphan asylum, which was burnt during the war; to facilitate the administration of Justice tn Texas, ptovidiag that on Die resignation of Judge Wntrous, of the Eastern District of Texas, by reason of- his incapacity by sickness, Ills salary is to continue during life... The Senate bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury, whenever there is a default in the payment of the Interest on tho principal of State bonds bold by the United States, to deduct the amount from moneys due from the United Statei to such States, was amended and passed.... A petition was presented And refeited from the Ctncinnati Chamber of Commorou relative to the Louisville anaN^’ortland Canal.... The Tariff' bill was further considered in Committee of the Wh01e.... Adjoumedy i, ■; . ; • »«• - . In the Senate, on tne 22d,"bills and joint resolutions were introduced—extending tty) provisions of the laws relative to tho selection of swamp lauds in Missouri; extending the time for tho completion of the first section of the Cairo ® Fulton Railroad: dividing Virginia into two Judi clal districts.... Bills were reported from tees—to promote tho civilization of tho Indians and prepare them for the duties of citizenship; for the relief of J. Ross Brovme, late Minister to China; Honse bill, with amendment, to amend tho Mineral Land act of Jnly W, INWI ...Joint resolutions were passed—directing tho Secretary of Stato to pay out of the Japanese .* .indemnity fund tl\c damages to tho steamer Monitor, fired into by the batteries of the Mikado in 1801; providing for the construction of a single-track bridge across the Mississippi, iuatcad of n .double-track one, by the Keck Island Railroad.... Resolutions were adopted—instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the propriety of providing for payment by law of the oxpenses of claimants sh suits for solaiew' bounties; for printing 15.00> copies of the report of the Committee on tho Declin* of American Commerce.. .. 4 bill to strengthen the legal reserves of banks was reported from the Committee on Finance, and indefinitely .postponed.... The report of the Judiciary Committee on the case of General Ames, Senator-elect from Mississippi, was discussed.... Adlonrned. In the House, on the 22d, the morning hour was qonsumed in the discussion of the bill relative to the Sutro Tunnel, In Nevada, on which adverse and favorable report* had previously been made....A report was made from the sub-Com-mtttee on Elections that Booker is entitled to retain the soat from the Fourth Virginia District, and noitco given for a substitute declaring Booker dlttquallfled by ucls in support of the rebellion... .Petitions were presented. Including onu favoring a diversion from the fund appropriated for the freedmen of fVJ,OtH) for the Wilbcrforce University, Ohio.. .The Utah AnU Unlygumy bill was takt-n up, a motion to Isy.o* thi rSnlo Was.rejected—4o tot 21-and|the bill was dismissed, with the understanding that n final vote should be had on the- 23d ....Adjourned. ! . In the Senate, on the 23d, resolutions of the Legislature of Blew Mexico, asking anthority to raise two regiment* of cavalry to operate against the Indians, were presented and referred....A memorial was presented and referred, from W. p. Rosecrans, asking the incorporation of a company to trausact bnstnesa ip Mexico lo couaocUon wjth railroads and telogmtibs... .The bill reported «n Inc 22d, tp prdmole.tWclxiljzatlonof the lodtafis. was passed and a motion to reconalar wee engett-d . .. A bill was introducedjmd relty-rW, 'iatabllshingaport or entry at Vallejo, (Mtttbrrila... .The Joint resolution concerning callegua for tho benefit of thifagricnltnral and mechanic arts, providing thal (here shall be riio .dhujafUon, therein on account of race or color,'whs nlscassed during the morning hour... The. case or General Anns, rlena-tor-clcct from Mississippi, came Up and was further considered.... Aojourned. In the House, on the 23d, hills were Introduced aud referred—pensioning the widow of General Mower; authorizing the Uresident to accept tho resignation of arty Judge of any United .Stales Court.... The Sutro Tunnel hill was discussed and tabled—l 26 to 4t....8i11s were reS tried for the removal or the Brooklyn a\y Yard; appropriating 71,110.734 for tho Consular Bnd Diplomatic service.... Tho Secretary of the Treasury was asked for a detailed statement of the expenditures or ttm 7100.000 appropriated. In 1V,2, Tor tho colonization of freedmen ... A spfeelal message was presented frdm the President npontho subject of American ronoiiuerce, declaring it« national humiliation that ’this eodntry IS now compelled to pay from Jf2o,- ; 000,000 tomtmooo a year, exclusive of-passage money, for freight which should be shared by American citizen* with the j>eople of other na-’ lion*, and urging an early consideration of the nutyect. He honeyed a direct money aubeidy

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was less liable to abuse than an indirect aid. and reunmmcndcd the passage of two bills reportod by the select committee. The message waa referred and ordered printed.... Consideration or tho Anti-Polygamy Mil was resumed, and the sections, making the la vml wife of an accnaod person a amnpotent witness against him; providing that the sLdute of limitation atyill not hor a prosecution ; authorizing tiidcobtlseStlMi of property of persons qbnvictod; for the temporary relief of persons reduced to destitution by the enforcement or this law; and'authorlzlng the employment of 48.000 volunteers, were all stricken out, and tho bill was parsed—Vito 32.... A fetborlty report was made from tho Committee on Elections, In favor of Ijunt,i the c intoetutir, and agaltfst Sheldon, in'one of the L<*»lslaua contested election cases ...The Tariff bill was debated in Committee of the Wh01e.... Adjourapd-, Immediately after reading tlie journal dn the 24th tho Senate went into executive sessiob. *!.'.! i In the House, om the 24th, a special message from the President in reference to American commerce Was referred.... A report was made from the Mffittyy Committee on thesubjcct of cadetships, stating that tho committee had taken evidence In many oases, and brand the existence of irregularities in appointing cadets outside tho districts of members appointing; that In several case* money has been paid to parties negotiating each apuointments, bnt except in the cases acted on none appeared to have been paid to members, and that the facts proven are not sufficient to warrant the committee reporting the cases to the Honse. The Committee also reported a hill making two years’ residence on the part of the cadet in the District from which he la appointed requisite, which was amended to make the term one year, and passed.... Resolutions were also proposed by the same committee, and adopted—declaring that General SchcrflT, one of the leading Patent Office Examiners, was engaged in lending himself as a medium for the passage of money for corrupt purposee, and requesting the Secretary of the Interior to remove him from his position as in Improper person to bavo or hold ao responsible a position under the government; directing the Speaker to oxclnde from all privileges of the floor, committee rooms, cloak-room, and ail' the galleries of the Honse, any porson who has been or may be proved gnilty of having been engaged In corrnptmg, or attempting to corrupt, any member of Congress by directly or indirectly offering any valuable consideration, with a view of influencing his action in any way pertaining to hla official duly; that tho evidence showing that Commander Upsher, of the navy, had sought, by the nsc of money, to proenre the appointment of a son to the Naval Academy, •be transmitted to the Secretary of tho Navy, with a request to convene a court-martial to try Upsher for condnct unitecoming an offlesr. ..A bill was passed, to authorize Legislative Assemblies of Territories to pass general acts of incorporation, and for educational purposes.... A bill was reported, donating the Marine Hospital at Natchez to tho State of Mississippi for educational purposes.. The Tariff bill was’eousidered in Committee of tha Wh01e.... Adjourned* FOREIGN. An alleged cable dispatch of the 18th says a collision between the mail steamer Normandy and the steamer Mary, from the Danube, has occurred in the channel on the Guernsey coast. The Normandy was sunk, carrying down with her the Captain and thirty persons, who were drowned. _ , . , , St. Patrick’s Day was celebrated throughout Ireland, on the 17th, in the usual manner. So far as heard from on the 18th no disorders occurred, and the extra precaution taken by the authorities to guard against rioting was needless. The High Court for the trial of Prince Pierre Bonaparte, for the homicide of Victor Noir, convened at Tours on the 18th. Prince Bonapaite arrived there on the 19th in charge of an officer. The city was excessively crowded with strangers, eager to witness the trial. News from Yokahama to February 23 states that the affair of the Oneida had agitated the community for an entire month. Captain Eyre was allowed passage in the Bombay, notwithstanding repeated requests to prevent him. There was great pressure upon the British authorities for his arrest, criminal trial, and punishment. The sentence of the court suspended Captain Eyre six months. The vote in the city of Ban Domingo, on the question of annexation to the United States, was 1,006 for'to 9 against InTorro the inhabitants are said tor he largely in favor of annexation. The trial of Prince Pierre Bonaparte commenced before the High Court of Justice at Tours, France, on the 21st. The Canadian Parliament on the 22d, by a large majority, voted to open negotiations with the United States, through the British Minister, at Washington, for a commercial treaty.

A London telegram, of the 23d says the testimony given by the officers of the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Bombay, before the court of investigation at Yokohama, had been received. It goes to show that no one of the Bombay was aware of the condition of the Oneida, while there was mfach alarm for that of the Bombay, and it was deemed necessary to make for shoal water with all speed. According to the news received from Paraguay by the recent arrival of the steamer Mcrrimac, from Rio Janeiro, the country was one vast ruin. Towns were depopulated, and the peple were literally starving. Gangs of deserters were prowling through the country, robbing and murdering. Lopez was in the mountains, succored by tho Indians, but the Brazilians held possession of the whole coun try with that exception. ■ During the proceedings in tho trial of Prince Bonaparte on the 24th, one of the lawyers for the prosecution used an expression offensive to the Prince, and the lattor denounced the lawyer and his party as a faction, whereupon Fonvielle called the Prince an assassin. At the conclusion of the argument for the prosecution, Fouvielle was sentenced to ten days’ confinement for contempt of court. The San Domingo correspondence in the New York World of the 24th states that the vote in favor of annexation waa large, but the government had apparently facilitated ballot-box stuffing by its agents, ami there was a strong feeling against Baez and annexation in San Domingo, in spite of the reportod vote in favor of the scheme. .* " domestic. Gold closed in New York on the 24th at 112? a. The Providence Annual Conference o Methodists on the 18th voted on the question of lay delegation—s 9 for, 48 against. Tho vote of the laymen in several district* was reported as 1,788 for, and 531 against. i Dr. 8. P. TownScnd, of sarsaparilla fame, died at Feltville, N. J., on the 15th. Total shipments of treasure from San Francisco since January 1 up to March

18 went 19,333,000, including $3,418,000 sent to New York overland. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided that farmers are required to make returns of produce »old within a year; but not required to return produce raised until the same is sold. Orders were received at the Charlestown (Mass.) Ntyry Yard, an the 19th, to prepare immediately for service the steamers Shenandoah, Worcester, and Palos. According to a New York dispatch of the 21st, over one hundred thousand men are out of employment In that city. “ The numerous stores to rent in Broadway and other desirable loeslities, are evidence of the depression in general trade.” Francis A. Walker, Superintendent of the Census, has published a circular, announcing that tho act of May, -1850, requires that the Assistant Marshal shall be the actual enumerator. On tho morning of the 22d the boiler of the coal breaker of the Wolf Creek Diamond Company, near Minersville, Pa., exploded. The building was demolished, and the boiler carried over ono hundred yards. Three hoys were instantly killed, and several other persons were seriously injured. A Nashville, Tcnn., dispatch of the 22d says: “Numerous contracts for building in Nashville have been suspended on account of the proposed Congressional interference with the government of the State. Governor Senter declares that ho is opposed to such interference ; that he calls upon the President for 'military aid merely to be prepared for emergencies.” The latest intelligence at San Francisco on the 23d, from the San Diego gold fields was somewhat unfavorable. The Milwaukee & Bt. Paul Railroad repair and machine shops in the city of Milwaukee, were destroyed by fire on the 23d. Several cars, four locomotives, a large quantity of black walnut and seasoned pine lumber, and all the tools and "machinery, are a total loss. Loss estimated at $125,000, which is covered by msurance. " ~~~ ” ~ ~~— The Governor of Massachusetts has appointed the 7th of April as fast-day. A letter from J. W. Douglas, Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue at Washington, decides thal persons vending prize candy boxes arc liable to the same tax as individuals engaged in gift lottery enterprises, namely $l5O per annum. A terrible explosion occurred on the night of the 21st, at the colliery of W. G. Andereid, in the Schuylkill mining region. A large boiler attached to the mine blew up, killing several men and badly wounding a number of others. The engine house was blown to atoms. Customs receipts for week end ing March 19, $3,405,090. Four spans of the Central Pacific Railroad bridge over American river, near Sacramento, were burned on the night of the 23d. Arizona advices are that a shock of an earthquake visited Prescott and its vicinity, March 11, bping the first since that country was settled by whites. The oscillations were southeast to northwest. No material damage was done.

PERSONAL. Among the nominations by President on the 18th is that of S. D. Atkins as Postmaster at'Freeport, 111. The President has signed the joint resolution appropriating one year’s salary of an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court for the benefit of the widow and children of the late E. M. Stanton. Major Wm. W. Leland, who caned George Wilkes on Broadway, a few days before, was assaulted in the street, on the evening of the 19th, by aH unknown desperado, who struck him a violent blow in the face with a brass knuckle. Wilkes denies all knowledge of, or complicity in, the affair.. Collector Bailey, of New York, who hasjibscondcJ, is discovered to be a defaulter, and his books exhibit a large deficiency in funds belonging to tlie government. The sum is believed to exceed $80,000,. and the evidence of fraud i? said uTbe overwhelming. The Senate, on the 21st, by 40 to 9, confirmed Joseph O. Bradley, of New Jersey, as Associate Justice pf the Supreme Court of the United States, and General Plcasanton. Coiicctor of the Thirty-second District, New York, vice Bailey, removed, Yerger returned to Jackson, Miss,, on the 20th, and delivered himself up to the authorities. He stated that he had learned that the Sheriff, his subordinates, and perhaps the Governor, had been censured for his escape, and unwilling that they should suffer for it, he had concluded to return. The amount of the defalcation in the office of Collfetor Bailey in New York is ascertained to be $120,000. Tlie deputy collector, 'chief clerk and cashier) have been arrestod for their guilty knowledge of these frauds. The Grand Jury in Chicago have indicted the members of the Board of Public Works qf that city and the architects concerned in tlie construction of the new Court House, for having established and maintained a common public nuisance in tho build ng of tlie said Court floUfo, a* portion of which recently fell in, and the balance being in a supposed threatening condition. ** The fund being raised for the bemfit of the family of the late Edwin M. Stanton had reached, on the 22d, $150,000. Of this sum, $55,000 is in contributions by New York, $55,000 by Pennsylvania. $25,000 by persons in Boston, and $15,0 „ by persons in Washington. Generals Grant and Sherman have*a<S ceptcd an invitation to attend the annual reunion of the Army of tho Potomuc in Philadelphia.

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Associate Justice Strong has been assigned to the Third Judicial District, embracing the Stages of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Associate Justice Bradley will be assigned to tho Fifth Judicial District, comprising tho States of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas. This district has been for some time past attucherl to the Sixth District, to which Judge S wayne has recently been reassigned. Lafayette Burns, of Syracuse Mo., anil Jas. W. Long, of Brunswick, both Postmasters, have been sentenced by the United States District Court, at Jefferson City, Mo., to ten years in the Penitentiary, for taking money frprn letters. Hon. W. D. Hill, of Defiance county, is the Democratic nominee for Congress in the Tenth District of Ohio. Alaska advices state that General Davis; arrived at Sitka February 28th. Lieuten ahf L. C. Cowen was killed at Sitktyon the 28th nit., by a drunken soldier, dishonorably discharged. In tlie quarrel, Colonel, Dennison fired a pistol at him, but missed, the shot taking effect on Cowen, killing him instantly. The seventy-first annual session of the New England Conference of Methodist ministers, opened at Springfield, Masa, on the 23d. Sixty Mormon converts left Lopg Island on the 23d for Salt Lake. The President has withdrawn the nomination of Geo. 11. Hand as Secretary of Dakota Territory. The Mormon Conference has been postponed to the sth of May. POLITICAL. Considerable excitement was created in Richmond, Va., by the recent appointment by Governor Walker, of a new Common Council, which at once appointed H. K. Elly son Mayor,and chose new Chief and Captains of Police. The new appointees on tho 17th took steps to enter upon their offices, but were resisted by Mayor Chahoon and his police organization, the appointees under United States Military Government who claimed that they were legally in possession of the city government until their successors shall have been elected by the people. Both Mayors had interviews with Gen. Canby on the 18th. Mayor Ellyson’s police had possession of the citybuiTdinp,wttb "the exception of the station houses. A Richmond dispatch of the 20th says that dense crowds ot blacks had been standing around Cliahoon’s headquarters all day. The streets were so blockpd up at night that Mayor Eliyson sent a fopce of : men to clear them away. They* were fired upon by negroes, and Richard Rush, a member of the special force, was instantly killed, and Captain William Knox woundcd The E Hyson Police then fired - on the crowd, who, after resisting the attack, were driven off. Governor Walker had stated, in a communication to Gen. Canby, that “ as chief executive officer of the State he will see its laws faithfully performed, and when he finds the power of the State inadequate, he will call in the aid of the United States. He that in a municipal difference in New York neither General Canby nor any military officer would have interfered, nor should it be done in Virginia, a State that stands on the same footing in the Union with any other.” About 100 negroes registered at St. Louis, on the 21st, as voters, notwithstanding the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment had not been officially promulgated. Gov. Stevenson has Issued a proclamation, which orders an election in the Third Congressional District of Kentucky, on the 25th of April, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of J. S. Golladay. Tho Kentucky Legislature has adjourned to meet in January, 1871. Affairs were quiet in Richmond on the 21st. In General Canby’s'reply to Governor Walker’s letter, he says lie concurs fully in the Governor’s statement of constitutional and State laws in relation to the employment of the military arm of the government against domestic violence, but says his instructions from the President and Secretary of War relate to exceptional cases. The Republican Convention held at Napoleon, Ohio, on the 22d, nominated E. D. Peck, of Wood county, for ReprescntaUve in Congress from the Tenth district, to fill the vacancy caused by the "death-of Hon. Truman 11. Hoag. A Richmond telegram of the 22d states that the conflict between the rival Mayors was at an end so far as force, was concerned, and the matter would be judicially settled. The case of Chahoon against Eliyson, for the Mayoralty of |ltichmond, was heard on the 23d, by Judge Underwood. During the argument the Judge expressed an opinion that the enabling act was unconstitutional. The Ohio State Central Republican Committee have resolv ed to "hold the next State Convention on Wednesday, the 10th of August. After a third trial, Lewiston, Me, succeeded In choosing a Mayor, Wm. H. Stevens, the citizcna’ nominee.

There is a small grey-hoi! ml at Greenfield, who is very fond of dolls. The little girls in the family of liia master J»n»elimes allowed him to carry their tlcmS around the parlor in his mouth, and be went through the operation wagging his tail with great vigor. One day, an older sister made a doll expressly for the greyhound, and made him understand that it was his own property. At once he ran off and hid it where it could not be found. I Several davs after, seeing the children plating with their dolls, he begged to be let out of the house. He went directly to a cornet'of the yard where he had buried liis doll like a bone, dug it up, shook it j free from dirt, and rejoined the group in the house with his pet in his mouth, and I his tail more active than ever.

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CURRENT ITEMS.

Thb Czar appends S 3 titles to bis name on imperial decrees. Two years of courtship to one wedding is the Vermont rule! Savannah,- Ga., runs special streetcars for colored people. Tartar-emetic pit) detected a luncii thief in a Vermont schpol, Emigrants at the rate of a thousand a day are pouring into Kansas. Montreal gives its poor 1,000 quarts of soup and GOO loaves of bread every week. In Liverpool, a boy of eleven earns a living by delivering curbstone phrenological lectures. Forty years ago, Hon. George Dawson, of the Albany Journal, set 22,022 cm* of type in thirteen V urs. Two nqw vel -cipedes sold #>r flvo dollars at a late sale of unclaimed express packages in Washington. In Nevada they fined a “ minister” $25 for performing a mock marriage, the victim being a girl of twelve years. At a fire in Rutland, Vt, recently, a young man threw away a pail of water, remarking that it was too hot to do any good. An English sportsman lately killed no fewer than sixty-five geese with two shots, and sold his game in London fbr forty dollars. At a late fashionable Hotel do Villeball, in Paris, it is estimated that the ladies present wore 1,800 pounds of false hair. In Williamsburg, Va., a few days]ago, a horse threw two young men, who had mounted him in a frolic, and killed them both. A lady, compositor on the Janesville (Wis.) Gazette recently set 12,500 emsf of solid nonpareil in ten honrs. Two competing stage lines in California advertise ” free meals and free rides,” each hoping to drive the other from the course.

In a recent breach of promise case of Dickinson against Fields, in Brooklyn, damages laid at 110,000, the jury rendered a verdict for plaintiff, Marietta Dickinson, ullowing SI,OOO. Tub Episcopalians have a "* Clergyman’s Mutual Insurance League,” numbering 529 members. On the death of any member bis brethren each send $3 to the heirs. Benjamin Godby, sentenced to be hung at Waynesboro, Ga., was reprieved by Governor Bullock, but the reprieve was not received till the day after the execution. Tite colored janitor who tore elegant and valuable books ffom their rich bindings and sold them for paper stock, in New York, has been sentenced to the State prison for sou- wears for his vandalism. When Maine entered me Union fifty years ago, her population was 293,885. In that time it has much more than doubled, being now about 700,000, and she has sent to other Stales more than 100,000 of her people. The base-ball season will open at Cincinnati on the 10th of April, between, the Red Stockings and a picked nine. The Red Stockings will bat m the same order as last year, and will occupy the same positions. A New Yoke policeman lost his nose the other night, while attempting to quell a riot among a gang of roughs. The fellow who bit it off boasts that it is the filth proboscis he has served in the same manner. A man in Louisville, for whom there was a letter containing a sum ot money from his mother, was asked at the Postoffice, as a means of identification, to give his mother’s name. He was unable to do so, and stated as the reason that he had been away from home so long.” A man attempted to take possession of the office of a New York line of ownihHSes; the other day, claiming to have bought it for $7,000,000. Me was a maniac on the subject of cheap transportation, and was so frantic at being refused possession that he had to be taken to an asylum. There is a family al Colchester, Conn, some member of which applies at the postoffice for a letter from four to six times a day, rain or shine, oftentimes as the office opens in the morning and the last thing at night, while but one letter has been received for them during the last six months.

THE MARKETS.

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