Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1870 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the 15lh, a bill was Introduced, ordered printed and placed on the calendar, to simplify and redneo the rate of poetage, abolish the franking privilege, limit the cost of carrylngthe malls, and regulate the payment of postage. Tho bill makos a reduction of postage to one cent for one-balf ounce letters, and enbstltutes for the franking privilege a system of stamped envelopes... A Joint resolution was introduced and referred, directing that Census Marshals shall not be required to take any oaths other than the one prescribed in the Cenfos act of 1850, and one to support tho Constitutions of the State and of tho United States. ..A bill amendatory to the Census law was jiassed, providing that Censns Marshals shall include statistics representing surviving officers, soldiers and sailors of the war of 1813, and their surviving widows, concerning their pensions, etc.; fixing tho time within which returns shall bo made as to population and mortality; Incroaso of tho compensation of Marshals, and giving to all Marshals eight cent* for each page... .The Georgia bill was taken up, and it was agreed that tho dual vote on the bill should be taken at six o’clock on the 19th... .Adjourned to the 18th. In the House, on the 15th, a report was made from the Conference Committee on the Deflcloncy bill, and, after discussion, the report was agreed to—lo 9to T 0.... District of Columbia business was considered, and a large number of bills were disposed 0f.... Adjourned till noon on the 18th. In the Senate, on the 18th, bills were reported—to aid In the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Columbia River to Great Salt Lake, with amendments; granting lands to aid ths constrnctlon of the McGregor & Missouri River Railroad, with amendment; to amend the laws regulating trade marks, adverse report; to reward good iiehavior of prisoners serving out sentences of United States Courts, by shortening their terms, favorably; to prevent prize-fighting, reported for Indefinite postponement ; to Increase tbe number or .Judges of the Supreme and Circuit Courts, and to establish the boundaries of Judicial Circults.adverso report; to amend the laws rcgulntiug trade marks, adversely; for tho relief of the survivors of the Oneida, favorably... A bill was introduced, appropriating land for the navigation and improvement of the Upper Mississippi River by the preservation of tho Fulls of St. Anthony ...A Joint resolution was Introduced and referred, providing an amendment to the Constitution that the President shall have power to protect any State against domestic violence, sufficient proof being presented to him of the existence of such violence, and Congress shall have power to enforco tho amendment by appropriate legislation.... Resolutions wore adopted—lnquiring what legislation Is necessary te secure equal rights on the Orange M Alexandria Railroad; instructing the Committee on the ,Tudiciaty to Inquire whether any attempts have been made to corruptly influence the votes of Senators on the bill for the admission to representation of Georgia, with authority to send for persons and papors.,. .The 1)111 to amend the act to protect the rights of actual settlers on public lands was passed . The Georgia lull was taken up and debated.... Executive session and adjournment. In the House, on the 18th, among the bills Introduced and referred wereproviding for observations In Asia and Europe of the next total eclipse of the sun; proposing an amendment to tbe Constitution preventing donations to sectarian schools; relative to tho improvement of tho DceMolnes Rapids; granting lands for the Green Bay Lake l’epin Railroad ; authorizing tho Southern Minnesota Railroad to connect its line with the Northern Pnctflc Railroad .. A bill was passed— SB lo 88—for the apportionment of members or Congress, flxing the nnmher at 375, exclusive of representatives of States to bo hereafter admitted, no Slate lo sutler a reduction till after the Fortysecond Congress.... A report was made from the Committee on Elections, that J. H. Sypher is entitled to the seat from the First District of Louisiana....A memorial of surviving soldiers of tho Twenty-ttflh Pennsylvania Volunteers was presented, and a resolution provld ing for a suitable mednljor each member of the battalion, the flret to arrive at Washington from Pennsylvania, on tho 18th of April, IStil, was offered and referred.... A resolution was adopted, instructing the Secretary of War to report the number of American citizens murdered hy Indians on the frontiers of Texas since January, 18fi9....The Tariff bill was further considered iu Committee of tho Wh01e.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 19th, bills wero introduced—disapproving certain acts of the Idaho Legislature; lor the Improvement of water communication between the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan, by the Wisconsin and other l ivers; flxing the time for holding terms of the Circuit Court iu West Virginia; to establish certain post roads iu Virginia....A resolution was offered and laid over, directing tho President lo appoint two or more commissioners or other diplomatic agents to open negotiations with (he people of the Winnipeg country with a view to the annexation of that district to the United States, either as a Territory or a State....A substitute was reported for the joint resolution relative to the voyage in the Arctic regions under tho auspices of the government.... a; joint resolution was reportod providing for the sale of certain lands In Kansas allotted to tho New York Tndtans who removed thither... .The Georgia hill was taken up, and an amendment was adopted—B7 to 31-declarlng tbo existing government of Georgia provisional, constituting it the T'htrd Military District, and providing for an election lor a legislature on November 15, 1870; and tho hill was further amended, by striking out the Bingham proviso and omitting the part relative to a suspension of tho writ of habeas corpus within the limits of municipalities, and repealing certain laws so as to permit the organization and calling Into service of tbe militia of tho State of Georgia; the bill was then read the third time and passed—yeas,37; nays, 25.... Adjourned.

In the House, on the 19th, a resolution was offered and referred, abolishing the income . tax.... The contested election case for tho First District or Louisiana was taken up and debatod... Tho Tariff bill was further considered in Committee of the Wh01e.... Adjourned. In’the Senate, on the 20th, a motion was adopted that the privileges of the floor be extended to the members of tfro Ohio Legislature.... Bills were Introduced and referred—to Incorporate the Pacific Submarine Tolcgraph Company 7 authorizing tho Mouth Minnesota Railroad Companj to conneet Its lino with the Western Pacific Railroad.... The Pacific Railroadbiltwastaken up, and an amendment to strike out the additional land grant allowing the company to make np Its present deficiency from sections on each side bf the road ten miles beyond present limits, was rejected—lo to 41-anil several other amendments wore offered and rejected, and it was agreed that the kill should be disposed of on the 215 t.... Adjourned. In the House, on tho 20tli, the Postoffleo Appropriation bill, appropriating (5,740,000, was reported and mado the special order for the 20th.... Bills wore Introduced and referred—for the Improvement of water communication betwoen tho Mississippi river and Lake Michigan, hy the Wisconsin and Fox rivers; to reduce the duties on Imports. .. A resolution of Inquiry was adopted as to the expediency of issuing new silver coin of the current value of twenty cents....A bill was reported and recommitted, granting ponsions to certain soldiers and sailors oi the war of 1813.... A vote on the resolution to admit J. B. Sypher to a seat from the First Congressional District of Lonlstana resulted in yeas 78, nays 78, and Mr. Sypher came forward to take Iho hath, when a motion to reconsider tho voto waa carried—Bs to'79-and a resolution was adopted IUO to (19—declaring that there was no valid eloction held in the First Congressional District ot Lonleinna on the 3d of November, 1888, and that neither Sypher nor Martin was entitled to a seat.... Tho Senate substitute for tho Census bill was nouconcnrred in, anil went to n Commltteo o!Conference....The Senate substitute for the Georgia hill came np, and was referred to the Reconstruction Committee, together with a substitute agreod upon between Messrs. Logan and Bingham, providing that the election shall he held In Georgia In 1870, for member* of tho General Assembly provided for In tho constitution of that .State, adopted by Its convention March 11, 1889, at which persona who, by the constitution, are electors, shall be entitled to vote, and doc'aring tho State entitled to representation in Congress... .The Speaker announced the appointment of Mr. Trimble on the Pacific Railroad Commltteo, Instead of Van Trump, and Van Trump on tho Post-Office Committee In place of Trimblo.... Lucre was asked and objected to, to Introdnce a Joint resolution to aunex tho Republic of Dominica... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 21st, bills were introduced—to amend the revenue laws so that taruuirs who soil their own produce shall uot be taxed; for the collection oldebts due the United States from certain Southern railroad corporations, and relating to suits of the United States against the same ...Tho bill Incorporating the Cincinnati * Chattanooga Railroad Company, with the capital stock of (10,009,000, was reported ravorahly, without aiqendmeiU; also, the Bouse blit declaring the lowa River north of the .town of Wapello, uot *. public highway ...The joint I reaolutlon authorizing the Postmaster General to proscribe an earlier time for the execution of con-

tracts by accepted bidders, waa passed.... The Northern Pacific Railroad bill waa taken up and amended, by providing that lands not sold five {'ears after the completion of the road shall be auboctod to pre-emption at 33 SO per acre; that Amercan Iron and steel be exclusively need In the construction of the road, and that Congress may, at any time, alter or amend this Joint resolution; and tbo bill tben piaeed-40 to 11.... Executive session and adjqurnment. In the House, on the 21st, a resolution providing for a notification of tho Governor of Louisiana of the vacancy in the First Congressional District In that State, was tabled... .The bill to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes relating to patonta and copyrights, was amended to as to rednee the salary or Librarian of tbe Patent Office to $1,800; First Assistant Examiner to (1,800; Examiner in charge of Interferences to (2,500, and the bill was passed... .The Naval Appropriation bill, appropriating (18,041,845, waa considered In Committee of the Whole... Adjourned. FOREIGN. In the Spanish Oortes, on the 14th, General Prim intimated that a certain time would be allowed during which the clergy must take the oath of allegiance. The clergy still persisted in their refusal to swear allegiance to the constitution. Senor Olosaga has been appointed President of the Council of State. Dispatches from the United States Consul at Havana, received in Washington on the 18th, represent affairs there unfavorable to the insurgents. The impression was that the rebellion would not last much longer. Recent advices from Asuncion report that a Provisional Government has been formed for Paraguay, under the patronage of Brazil. The boiler of a large linen fectory near Brussels, Belgium, exploded on the 18th. Twenty men and women were either killed outright or frightfully scalded The factory was burned to the ground. The city of Lisbon, Portugal, was visited by a fearful tornado on the 19th, which caused great lose of property. Some per sons were killed, and many Injured in the streets. The shipping in the Tagns suffered severely. Many vessels were wrecked, and nearly all more or loss damaged. No American vessels are reported lost. The Canadian Government has paid over the £300,000 agreed upon as payment to the Hudson Bay Company on the surrender of their title. The United States Consul at Zanzibar reports 15,000 deaths from cholera on the island within six weeks. A long-threatened strike began in Paris on the 20th. The foundrymen and moulders—about 15,000 strong,—the tailors, sugar refiners, and hatters had joined in the strike. M. Barberel, Director of the Marseillaise, has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, and to pay a fine of 4,000 francs, for the publication in that journal of a congratulatory address from the workmen of Lyons to the workmen of LaCreuzot. The death of Lopez has been confirmed, an account of the same having been ofll ■ daily published in the Anglo Brazilian Times. The family of Prince Henri de Bourbon have refused to accept the indemnity of SO,OOO imposed upon the Duke of Montpensier by the Council of War. DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on the 21st at 113. The tow-boat Raven exploded her boilers at Cincinnati, on the night of the 15th. There were twenty-three persons on board at tho time of the explosion. Three were badly injured, five known to be saved, and the remaining fifteen were missing. Every business block but two in Medina, Ohio, was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 15th. The loss, it was thought, could not be less than $200,000, the insurance on which would not exceed onethird of that sum. Many persons were burned, some severely, hut no lives were lost. jWashington dispatches of the 16th state that “official information is received of apprehended Fenian designs on Canada, but there is nothing on which the government can act. Many prominent gentlemen believo that the Canadian authorities are moved by fears rather than facts.” “ Nothing whatever has been done here toward the reopening of tho Alabama claims question. Our government will probably await the movement of Great Britain.” A Washington telegram of the 17th states that public business in Congress was very much in arrears, and no one thought of ending the session before the first of July. The First Congregational church and some adjoining buildings, at Nashua, N. H., including the post-office block, were burned on the night of the 16th. Loss SIOO,OOO. Two firemen were slightly injured. /'* Over seven thousand immigrants arrived at New York during tho week ending April 16. A heavy frost in Georgia on tlje night of the 17th caused great damage to cotton, corn, and vegetable crops. Advices from the canebrake or cotton belts arc very unfavorable. Several hundred ship carpenters In New York and vicinity were on a striko on the 18th against a reduction of wages from $4.00 to $3.50. The O’Neill Fenian Congress assembled in New York city on the 19th. Between fifty and sixty delegates were present, representing circles in both the Eastern and Western States. The , proceedings wore mostly unknown, but tho report l was current that some twenty or thirty officers were to leave on tho night of the 19th for the frontier, to take command of the advance guard. The Supreme Court, on the 20th, unanimously allowed the withdrawal of two of the legal tender cases, and decided not to rehear the argument on the remaining one, viz t Hepburn m. Griswold, Tbt! decision

thereon remains as heretofore made. The Chief-Justice announced that the Court will adjourn for the term on the 80th of April. At Dubuque, lowa, on the 20th, the water in the Mississippi was about four inches above the extreme high water mark, and still rising slowly. The Fenian Congress organized on the 20th with General J. Donnelly, of Utica, as Speaker. One hundred and seventyeight delegates were present. A New York dispatch of the 20th says: “It was freely stated by prominent officers of the Fenian organization, yesterday,; that not only will the expedition against Canada depart within a few days, but that fighting will have commenced on the frontier ere the olose of the present Congress. General O’Neill will direct the movements of the raiders.” The number of immigrants arriving at the port of New York on the 19th was unprecedently large—s,o23—and the number passing through Castle Garden was greater than on any one day since the beginning of the year. . Customs receipts for week ending April 16, $4,903,940. A report of the officers at the Grand River Agency, Dakota, for March, states that there arrived at the agency 1,127 Indians, all in a starvlngcondltlon. - Many had to kill and eat their horses. The agent sent them provision to assist in getting them there, and on their arrival clothing was issued. The Indians conduct themselves very well. The Board of New York Canal Commissioners have designated the 10th of May as the time for opening the canals of that State. HA horrible tragedy occurred in Baltimore on the afternoon of the 21st. A Mrs. Catherine Marsh left her home, borrowed a butcher knife, went to a school near by, called out her son James, aged 8, and cut his head nearly off. She then rushed for another little boy, named Barnett, who ran and escaped. She then returned home, went into the yard, seized another son, William, aged 7, from a swing, cut his throat, and then grasped her daughter, Mary Jane, aged 4, and cut her head completely off, She then went into the house and cut the throat of her youngest child, George, aged 2 years, nearly severing the head from the body. She then cut the throat of her own mother, Mrs. Duryea, aged 54, so badly that she would die. Mrs. Marsh was arrested and taken to the Station House. She had always borne an excellent character, and was doubtless insane at the time of the tragedy, although on the evening of the 21st she appeared conscious of the terrible deed. PERSONAL. A Court Martial convened by President Grant, for the trial of Brig. Gen. Totten, Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Inspec-tor-General of the United States Army, met in Louisville, Ky., on the 15th. One of the charges against Gen. Totten is said to be absence without leave. Mrs. Emma Willard, founder of the Troy (N. Y.) Seminary, died at Troy, on the 15th, aged 84. General Order No. 41, from the headquarters of the army, assigns Maj. Gen. Schofield to the command of the ‘.Military Division of the Pacific. The Department of Alaska is discontinued after July 1, and the territory attached to the Department of Columbia, Maj. Gen. Canby commanding. A new department is created which is styled the Department of Arizona, embracing Arizona and Southern California, Gen. Stoneman commanding. Gen. Pope is assigned to the command of the Department of the Missouri when vacated by Gen. Schofield, with headquarters at Leavenworth. The Department of the Lakes is enlarged to embrace the whole northern frontier as far east as Lake Champlain, and Gen. Cook is assigned to the command. Commodore Meade died in New York on the 16th, of apoplexy. By the terms of General Order No. 41, recently issued from the headquarters of the army, after June 1 Virginia is to be annexed to the Department of the East, commanded by Gen. McDowell, and the Department of the Cumberland is discontinued, the troops within the latter to be attached to the Department of the South, Gen. Terry commanding. Maj. Hurlbut, father-in-law of the late Gen. Rawlins, died on the ICth at Danbury, Conn , from injuries sustained from a runaway horse. At [the annual meeting o( the New York Tammany Society, on the evening of the 18th, Win. M. Tweed was chosen Grand Sachem, by a vote oi 242 to 23 v The New York Sun of the 18th says it has trustworthy information that Genera] Jordan has left Cuba on the road to this country. He would probably arrive in a few days, and disprove, by documentary evidence, that he has abandoned the Cuban causo. General Ignatio Agramonte, who lias been in command in the Cuban ranks since tho outbreak of the revolution, has been appointed temporary Commander-In-Chief during the absence of General Jordan. Mills, Republican, has been re-elected Judge in the Fifth Circuit of Wisconsin, by 1,087 majority over Orton, independent E. M. Ycrger was brought before Chief Justice Shackelford, of the Mississippi Supreme Court, at Jackson, on the 19th, on a writ of habeas corpus, and released on giving recognizances in $15,000. The remains of Anson Burlingame, in charge of his eldest son, arrived at New York on the 19th. The Now York Chamber of Commerce appointed a committee of the most prominent citizens to escort the body from Hoboken to the Boston boat, there being a committee from Boston to aocbnflpany the remains to that city.

The President has nominated Mrs, Elizabeth Brown Postmistress at Logansport, Ind. The caso of Joseph A. Berry against Gen. Bacon Montgomery and others, for $50,000 damages, for false imprisonment and destruction of plaintiff’s newspaper office, in 1866, by State militia for alleged disloyal publications, was decided on tho 19th, at St. Louis, the jury returning a verdict against Montgomery, assessing SSO damages, and finding the other defendants not guilty. The members of the Ohio Legislature, on an excursion to Washington, reached that city on the morning of the 20th Senator Kellogg, of Louisiana, has been added to the Senate Committee on Claims. The President has nominated Adam Badeau for Consul General to London; Edward Phelpt, Marshal of Arizona; Fred Morley, Register of the Land Office at Detroit A grand reception was given the Ohio Legislative excursionists, by the Ohio State Association, at the Masonic Temple, Washington, on the evening of the 21st. The case of Postmaster Jones, of New York, charged with retaining letters addressed to an alleged swindling concern, was dismissed by Commissioner Osborn, on the 21st. Owing to the illness of the Recorder, the McFarland trial was adjourned on the 21st to the 25th. The Red Stockings Base Ball Club, of Cincinnati, en route for New Orleans, stopped over in Louisville on the 21st, and beat the Eagles 94 to 7. POLITICAL. A torch light procession paraded the streets of Washington on the evening of the 15th, in celebration of the ratification of the Fifteeth Amendment and in favor of the proposed change of Government for the District of Columbia. About 5,000 persons were in line. A number of residences of prominent citizens were illuminated, as also the house of ViceProsideut Colfax. President Grant was serenaded, and in reply made a few remarks, expressing the hope and belief that those who have been enfranchised by the new amendment will prove themselves worthy of it, and that all classes will be benefited by the new order of things.

In the Illinois Constitutional Convention, on Jfce 15th, a proposition to strike out the word “ male ” in the suffrage article was rejected—l 2 for to 46 against. In the Illinois Constitutional Convention on the 16th, a proposition providing for a submission to a separate vote of the people the bare question of woman suffrage, was adopted—4o to 21. The argument on the legal-tender question in the Supreme Court at Washington did not take place on the 18th, but was postponed to the 25th. The General Assembly of Ohio adjourned on the morning of the 18th. During the session seventy-three general, and forty-three local, laws were enacted; also, fifty-six resolutions adopted. The Georgia Legislature met at Atlanta on the 18th. The Georgia Legislature adjourned on the 20th to the 25th. A member of the House stated that Gen. Terry opposed any legislation while the Georgia bill was pending before Congress. James Atkinson, Democrat, has been re-elected Mayor of Newport, R. I. The Massachusetts Hotlse of Representatives has rejected—by 133 to 68—the proposed amendment to the State Constitution enabling women to vote. The Maine Republicans will hold their State Convention at Augusta, in June. The next Legislature will elect a United States Senator. A Washington telegram of the 21st says; “At the instance of General Butler, nearly all the members of the Reconstruction Committee have promised not to act upon the Georgia bill until his return from Massachusetts on the sth of May.” The bill repealing the Registry law, except in New York city, passed the New York State Senate on the 21st; also, a bill removing disabilities from colored voters. The Massachusetts House of Representatives, on the 21st, rejected tho Ten-Hour Labor bill—l 73 to 38. A resolution was adopted by the Mississippi Legislature, on the 2lJt, to appoint a joint committee to prepare an address to the Governor asking the removal from office and impeachment of Judge Shackleford for releasing Ycrger on bail. . An English Parliamentary paper shows that the cost of all the dependencies and colonics of the British Empire at the expense of the Exchequer, in 1859, was £2,920,000. In 1866-07 the charge had risen to £4,101,355, which was reduced iu 1807-68 to £3,907,000. The Imaintenaucc of Gibraltar cost last year £420,000, and that of Malta £414,000, large sum 9, but amply repaid by tho security these strong.holds give to British commerce, to the Levant and the East Indies.” Canada cost £939,546, a sum which will be considerably reduced this year. The charge for Western Australia was £79,932; for South Australia, £1,975; Queensland but £300; New South Wales, $3,763; Tasmania, £35,556, and New Zealand, £173,255. The San Francisco Bulletin reports a serious fight among Chinamen in a cigar factory in that city, in which pistols and long knives were freely used. A Chinaman who was employed at the place explained the difficulty, as follows: “ One man he hap got cousin, cousin hap muchee money, one man, aH same white man, wantee copin die. He no die, he try kille he. No gotxl, too, many men try stopee he, policee come, all gone.” More than GtJUtp bk Expected.— Some people seem so utterly stupid that one feels relieved even to hear tuem say that they hare “ hfiJf a mind.”

• CURRENT ITEMS. A State dinner in China consists of fifty-two courses. Seven Philadelphia girls married bogus Counts last year. Mrs. Smith & Husband Is the style of a Terre Haute, Ind., firm. The Cincinnati officials won’t allow laborers for the city to smoke during working hours. One of the cruel “ April fool” Jokes in Paris was the announcement of the arrival of the steamship City of Boston. The number of horses consumed as food in Paris daring 1869, was 2,758, which furnished 1,006,200 pounds of meat. In a stage combat at a French theatre lately, the wad from a gun broke an iron helmet, and wounded the head inside it. In the city of Asuncion, Paraguay, there are three women to every man, and in the country places there are fifty women to each man. The number of workingmen in Paris is computed at three hundred thousand. Thirty cents a day is the average pay they receive. 111-treatment of the mother-in-law by the husband is one of the grounds upon w hich a divorce is asked by a lady in Richmond, Va. At Colebrook, Conn., a few days ago, a man followed the example of his grandfather, father, mother, brother and wife, and committed suicide. A San Franciscan, who sued the city for SIOO,OOO on account of the death of his daughter, who was run over by a fireengine, has recovered $5,000. A forty-milk velocipede race has recently taken place in France. Fifteen competitors started, and the winner accomplished the journey in 8 hours and 44 minutes. Within two weeks recently six persons and numerous animals were severely bitten by mad dogs in the vicinity of Sassafras Neck, Cecil county, Md. A lot of land in Hartford, which was sold twelve years ago as a pasture, for SI,OOO, is to-day held by the proprietor at $75 ,000, and lie has been offered $50,000 for it. The stocking of a child who fell out of a second-story window, in Newport, Vt., a few days since, caught in the fastening of the blinds and held her until she was rescued. There is a man at Peoria, 111., who has spent the last twentyyears of his life upon a machine to which he is trying to give perpetual motion. He dresses in rags, and is half-starved. Disgusted with one of the stamps that will not stick, a Providence letter-writeF recently dropped a letter into the Postoffice with the stamp securely fastened with a pin. A Philadelphia Judge delivered a decision recently, in which he established as law that the name of a newspaper is a trade mark as much as a label stamped upon a bale of muslin. A few days ago a beggar stopped at a house near liavenna, Ohio, over night, and the following morning died from heart disease. The Coroners jury found sl,000.85 sewed up in his ragged clothing. Usury law 3 have been abolished in Maine. Parties can lend and borrow at such rate of interest as they may express in writing, Wherethere is no legal agreement in writing, six per cent, is the legal interest. Mr. Samuel Smiles, in an article of the British Almanac for 1870, gives the total yearly cost of drinks ana tobacco in Great Britain and Ireland at £100,248,514, or more than £lB for every adult male in the kingdom. The King of Italy pardoned last year two hundred and twenty-five criminals; the Emperor of Austria, one hundred and ten; and the King of Prussia, forty-five. A teacher in one of the Boston public schools has resigned after several years’ service, because she has conscientious scruples against teaching on Saturday. She belongs to a sect known there as “ Bible Christians.” A steamer, named the Italy, of 4,200 tons burden, and 600 horse power, built for the National Steamship Company, was recently launched at Glasgow, Scotland. She is said to be the largest merchant screw-steamer yet built, with the single exception of the Great Eastern. * One of the oddest defenses on record has just been made at Hamburg by a man who had murdered his wife from motives of jealousy. According to his own account he had not murdered her, but “had killed her in a fair and honorable duel, as he had placed a pistol in hfr hand and told her to shoot at him. Thk ceremony of laying the cornerstone of the new Masonic Temple in New York city will take place on the Bth of June next. The Temple will be one of the most imposing buildings in the city, and the largest Masonic edifice in the world. It is to be built directly opposite Booth’s Theatre, on Sixth avenue, and will cover a whole block. A hoy, seventeen years old, in Lampeter township. Pa., a few days ago deliberately cut off his foot, and when asked why he did it, replied that we are told if our hand or our foot offend us, we should cut it off. He had struck three blows, and, picking up the foot, hurled it some distance from him. The mutilation proved fatal. Nillson, the prima donna, recently lost her voice for a day or two in consequence of her nervous terror and anxiety at witnessing in the streets of Paris a fatal accident, by which a young man, mounted on a velocipede, was run down by a carriage and killed on the spot. The opera in which she was announced to appear on the evening of the day of this disaster had to be postponed.

The New Postage Stamps —The one. cent stamps have a profile bust of Franklin, color blue. The two cents, a Jackson profile bust, color brown. The three cents, Washington profile bust, color freen. The six cents, Lincoln profile uSt, color cochineal Ten cents, Jett'erson profile bust, color chocolate. The twelve cents, Clay profile bust, color, neutral. tint purple. The fifteen cents, Webst& profile bust, fcolor orange. The twenty-four eents, Scott profile bust, color pure purple. The thirty-three cents. Hamilton profile bust, color black. The ninety cents, Commodore O. H. Perry profile bust, color carmine. The Bfchenectady (N. Y.) Star mentions the following singular accident in connection with the fail of Senator Stanford's building in that city, and the death of a man named Jeflrcy : "The persons who went to break the news of Jeffrey’s death to his wife this morning, instead of telling her that her hatband was Wiled, told

her that he had been hurt. She *tt*d lately told him that her hatband waa killed. She said she had dreamed the night before that the building had fallen on him, and had told him of the dream in the morning. He laughed it oft, hi wed his wife anachildren all aronnd, and went to his doom.” A lady in Berlin bought six yards of green tarlatan for a ball areas fbr her daughter. The mother, who assisted In making the dress, and the daughter who wore it, at the same time fell dangerously sick and had a narrow escape from death. Tho medical adviser of the fiunily at onoe discovered poisoning by arsenic. The green dress was chemically analyzed, and ft was found that the coloring contained thirteen per cent, of arsenic. The merchant was summoned before the criminal court; but he was acquitted, for the reason that he conld prove he had advised the purchasers of the poisonousquaUty of the color used to tint the tarlatan. A lady was recently out walking, accompanied by her nurse and two children, near St. Lonis, when one of the latter was missed for a few momenta. On being called he answered from a little distance, “ Here I am, mamma, behind the stump. I’m playing with a beautiful big worm. I’ve got a chip, and it opens its mouth ever so wide when I touch its teeth with a chip.” Anxious to see the character of the child’s playmate, the two women hastened to the spot, when, behold! they saw a rattlesnake, two feet long, coiled against the bntt of the stump, and the child thrusting a chip against its head. The snake appeared perfectly passive, not even giving the usual warning with its rattles. It is needless, perhaps, to say that the mother was frightened beyond the power of motion. The nurse quickly removed the child, and a man in the vicinity dispatched the dangerous playmate.