Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1870 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER UNION. =-L- - Beery Thursday by EmCE E. JAMES, ) Pralipl . lap , J9SHEA HEALEY, f Proprietors. office in snrunt’s bittldtng opposite THE COURT HOUSE. Bubtwipilon, 82 # Year. l n Advance. JOB WORK Of eren kind erented to order In £ood «tyl* Md st low rate*.

Mwollaiieeiis Heading. OAidTLHS IM THU AIR. by m. r. buuumuami:. A uniATH of rich perfume <'mm: drifting <>u the ulr. From ro.es' crimson bloom And waxen lilies fair, Along Hie nznro height Were banks of snowy clouds, Which quivered tn th,e light And hastened on in crowds. Upon th ■ gram we lay. And I uilt In every drift, Ai d paved a golden way In every ehlLtpg rift. * Wo pictured kings and qneena, And -Tutely courts ana thrones. And vales and momsin scones, A. d moats and mossy stouee. We hnflt of fabric fair A hou-e for each alone, A “cas'le In th air," Which lime has overthrown. And there we mirrored all 1" e hopes and hlgh detires Which y ■u'.htnl hearts in hrall Ard burn liko ve.-tal fires. From idle visions wake; * l> - Ishor Ist IM turn, . Fo we can win and make The best lor which we yearn. Disrobe of needless glare, and strive with all our might, And ■‘cu-tli.- in the ilr” Become abodes of light. —Merry’) Museum.

A TRAVELER’S STORY.

BY QUIBBLER.

While sitting upon my front porch one day, a matt rode up to my gate, dressed in a traveling suit of gray ; he hastily dismounted, and, coming up to my side, asked me, without further ceremony, if I ■ remembered him? I replied that I did not; whereupon he said that we met, once upon a time.-at a State Fair in. New Hampshire, where he learned incidentally that I was at all times eager to gather up a good story, and, as somithingof interest had happened in his neighborhood, he had come all the way from the State above mi ntioned to tell it to me, together with the whys anti wherefores. Surprised and delighted by this generosity, I ordered his horse to be taken care of, another easy chair, and a box of prime Havanas, when after lighting a cigar, he proceldedjWlth bisnarrative In the following manner: There Hvedmpon a farm adjoining my father’s a mWtt by the name ,of Solomon Jones. He was a good-hearted being, in easy circumstances, and had one-child, a beautiful daughter. He took great pains to educate this girl, spending money lavishly in all sorts of ways in order to put her in possession of such knowledge as was deemed requisite for her future welfare. But, with all her accomplishments, she failed to gain humility, and grew up a proud, capricious beauty, having all things gehi rally her own way and per"plexing fii'r father at times to such a degree that fie almost wished he had given her no education at all. At length, when she cai e to womanhood, ho began to cast about to find, her a suitable match—a man who would, in the main at least, make her happy, for she appeared, of herst If, to have little regard for all that is true and noble in the opposite sex. In this business he used his ordinary good sense and foresight, overlooking the vain, pretentious characters of the neighborhood, and fixing his choice upon a plain, honest young man. ,whom he knew would make, a good husband for any sensible woman—-tiny woman who had the least respect for ipddstry and truth, which is, all tho good there is in either man or woman. These conclusions he communicated to his wife, saw at once the wisdom of the project. But it remained, of course, to bring the two young people together in l<fve before any serious step could be taken in the matter. This had to be done as speedily as practicable also, for the young lady had taken a fancy for a foppish singing-master, who had more whiskers than sense, and unless her desires could lie fumed about, or at least counteracted, she would, in all probability, manage to nfiffry the noddlehead, and so give the whole hdnfie something to repent of t'-o ' uigest day she lived, and herself as Well. Having matured his plan, the old gentleman set out for the village just before hay harvest, aud< having laid the matter candidly before the young man whom he desired _for his son-in-law. and who, by the lived with h|m once, and at ouatiins been in great favor with the daughter, whom he loved yet, secretly, he instructed.him in regard to the part he was to play, remarking that a little deceotion must be u.sed, which, in pease involving th<- Happiness of so many persons, And for the purpose of foiling the intentions of one who cared not for their welfare, as he truly believed, would not be out of place, so'as to make the schema a successful one; and t hen he engaged him to come on in a' few days and work for him the remainder of the year,—all of which was done without the knowledge of Miss Priscol I a Jones, of course. “ I shall havp to get some one to help me tbr<>pjj(f|a&ting,">- said the farmer as he sat at The breakfast-tatia one morning. “ I wonder if John Simpson is employed anywhere. He was a good, steady hand wiki WO had him before.” “ I think yo# inay'get John," answered the wife, “if you try. I wbuld see him—h« is industrious and ,tru u ty, too." Soon an'catnc young Simpson, an intelligent, jWrthy, hut unassuming young man, with a bran new Scythe, and went to work ialhcJiay. Down went swath after swath, following each other in straight lines acrdss<the brerafl'fadd; until all was laid low. Out came the horse-rake, and soon Tittle mounds dotted the stubble. Tifen thu oxen. ,slowly, brought load after load, uqfalfoh# whole was stowed away in the bam,. Presently tha. harvest was done, and John shouldered his scythe and was getting ready to depart. “ Yom might stay a week longer,” said farmer Jones, “if you so desire. The stone dfw* on the hill Wants to be hauled off. Yoh have no particular need of going away so soon." “ 1 dam's know," replied John, casting a sly look at Priscella, who sat sewing while he stood fit Ihb door resting the cornet of hi*scythe Upon the sill, “as 1 care to go away particular; only I thought I would rather WBJlic balance of the summer down 6nfyiC Wuc Fork. I have an uncle down there fa short of help. 1 think I will go to film. q ' “N< ver mind, young man; stay with me a wfi’ef, longer, and then I will talk to you about that. Take the oxen. John, afid gmejown on the hill and haul off the sto’ic. By the time that Job is done, I gu 'so, wj.fic, ,X can get along without you.”

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Away went John to his work, leaving Priscella to wonder if he really did want to go down to the Blue Fork. She wondered also why he was so changed from what he used to be in the old limes. No j ikes now, —no laughter, as of old. He treated her civilly—almost coldly. He was essentially changed. What was the reanon y She wished she knew—that she did. A week passed by and young Simpson again made ready to go away. “ Tut, tutl” said the farmer, “go over to the new ground, man, and take out the roots so that I can plow in the spring. You may as well work for me as any one else. Go over to the new ground for a week ; at the end of that time we will see what we will see " John went as desired, and worked away with a will, while Priscella was left a sec ond time to wonder why he so desired to go down to the Blue Fork. She owned n her own heart that she was glad that he had resolved to stay a time longer where he was. But she wished she knew why he wanted to go away, or if he really d’il want to go. She was so pleased, however, upon the whole, that at dinner she showed extraordinary good spirits, insist ed on the young man taking two pieces of pie, and in various little ways unwittingly gave evidence that something had hapnened that chimed decidedly with her feelings. “ A good boy John Simpson is to work,” said old Mr. Jones, coming in. one warm aft“rnoon to take a short rest upon the shady side of the portico where sat Mrs. Jones and Priscella sewing. “ But I suppose I shall have to lose him. He is determined, it seems, to go down to his uncle’s. Well, I suppose he will have to go." “ What does he want to go away for?" asked Priscella, gathering up the hem of her apron ; for she knew how -to make such an article, and wear it, too, with all the rest. “ How do I know, sis ? He is bent on going, that is all. I twould like him to stay all summer and fall here if he would." “ I think you had better give him more wages,” said the farmer’s wife. “He always wants the best chance he can get— John does—that trait will make him well off some day. It may be he can make more by going away, and that may be the secret of his desire. “ I think you bad better keep him, too, some way, lather," put in Priscella, who had occasionally a word of advice to give when she thought the old folks in any way needed it. “ Have him stay, father There is no reason for his going down to the Blue Fork, It is only a notion he has got into his head.” It is hardly worth while to say that John “ stayed." Week after week went by—still be “ stayed ” Priscella began to be quite friendly with him, for she had always admired his industry and honesty of heart,— points which always are admired in secret, if not openly, for the reason that the human soul is not capable of exactly shutting its eyes upon the true and beautiful. Meanwhile Mr. Pink Vansmoozle, the singing master, pressed his suit. He rode out with Miss Jones on horseback; whirled her up and down the road in his buggy —or a hired one—and sought, with solt talk and polite palaver, to win her heart, which he considered a very easy task. But when fall Came on, she had, by constantly comparing the silly commonplaces of the perfumed fop with the few solid words of wisdom uttered by Simpson, became slightly disgusted with the former, despite his mustache and cane. To conclude in her own heart that John was much the-best man all around, and would make the most loving and lovable husband, was a short piece of work for her ; still she had no. idea of ever being his wife— no t the least idea of that But one thing she did know— she wouldn't marry Mr. Pink Vansmoozle. As for John, he needn’t think she would have him either —for she wouldn’t—laws! no. “ Well, Priscella,” said the fanner, “ when are you and the singing-master to be married ? He has been coming here a long time. Vansmoozle is really a young gentleman of character. So I am informed." “ Father,” said the young lady, looking up to see if he was in earnest, “ I’ll never marry that noddlehead. If he means anything more than flirtation with me he is sadly mistaken. If I cannot find a better man than he is for a husband, I will live and die an old maid.” “He said several things to me to-day, when I met him in the lane,” said the old man, soberly. “ I shall expect you to be guidedby parental authority. Yon are old enough to know what is for your own good. If you do not, others will know for you.” “ Father,” exclaimed the daughter, with considerable emotion, “I would not marry Pink Vansmoozle if he were the last man on earth. Don't urge any such absurd thing, because I could never love him. He is a shallow, self-conceited fop. There I Why, I would marry Jojyi Simpson ten times tyj’ore I would marry him.” “You will not marry John Simpson I” said the old man authoritatively; “you will do as I say, my girl. John Simpson will be sent off to morrow, if that’s your whim. I did expect you to listen to reason when it came to choosing a husband This was the last straw. The poor girl burst into tears and went to her room, where she staid the remainder of the day. She did not appear at the supper table, for fear her red eyes would be noticed by John, The next morning she felt better, having been comforted somewhat by her mother ; still she was firm in her resolution never to marry “ that singing master.”

Now it happened that when Mr. Jones met Vansmoozle in the lane, M, the farmer, considered It a good opportunity to speak a piece of his mind, something he had for some days been thinking about, so he out wlthjt in as good language as he could command. The gist of the matter waa that he did not desire that fine young gentleman to keep company with his daughter any longer. Ho did not consider hint, from what he heard, a proper companion for any virtuous girl. He hoped he would take the hint in time and not darken his door again, foriif he did, there would certainly be uaed a stronger argument than mere words. Thia waa coming to it at pretty close range. The perfumed young gentleman twisted his' immaculate mustache with one band, twirled his cane with the.other, flashed his black eyes, and demanded to know the author of such a monstrous scandal upon hia fair name. At this the old man put him in mind of a transaction that happened not forty .miles away—the facts concerning which he had procured that very morning—that dimmed materially in the eyea of all

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well meaning men the brilliancy of the name Vansmoozle as it applied to him. The singing master now changed his tune again to suit the promptings of his education, and after indulging in certain remarks about an “ old codger,” a “ crusty oly fudge,” that lowered him still more, as he deserved to be, in the esteem of the well-meaning farmer, minced away. John Simpson worked on. The days went by. It was rumored about that the singing-master, who was wont to strike his harp in the village below, had gone away. Old Mr. Jones wondered mightily at this, especially when Priscella was by. Still he declared by word and looks in a thousand ways that his daughter should not marry the inan who was putting in wheat in the bottom fields. He was well enough in his way, John Simpson was. But he desired his daughter to look a httle higher for a husband than a common farm laborer, though he owned he had once been one himself. Priscella still insisted on making John happy; that is, if John was willing ; and tbe mother siding with her, they had a hot time with the old man whenever he got upon his high horse, which was parental authority. What made it worse for him betook to going to bed very early in the evening about this time, and that left the sitting-room with its cheerful fire almost solely to the use of the two young people. There they sat, one evening after another, talking about the moon and looking in among thejblazing coals wuh just as much audacity as if the whole country was in favor ot their loving each other. Strange the old gentleman should overloook this very important proceeding. 1 don’t suppose he ever left the stairdoor ajar, or put his ear out from under the bedclothes to listen. No, I s’pose not. It was February, I think, that saw tre ■ mendous signs of preparation about the Jones’ residence; pies had been baked, pastry prepared, and more than one box of raisins and oranges had been put slyly away upon the shelves of the pantry. I’he old gentleman had become somewhat reconciled to the match, still he blustered out occasionally upon his favorite theme, “ parental authority.” The whole house was against hm, however. Where ever did any one oppose with any sort of success two wonun! Not on the Jones’ p>cmises, that’s certain. All things were made in readiness. The morning dawned, the eventful morning that was to make John and Priscella one; ten o’clock was the hour. When the sun went down that day the friends and relatives had retired with ample supplies of cake and knickknacks. The newly-married pair were sitting again by the fire alone, but this time closer tog ether than ever before, probably. We ave no right to listen to what is said, but for once we will, as it is about the old gentleman : “John, dearest,” began somebody, throwing her arms about the manly form beside her, “ wasn’t it strange that father opposed our marriage ?” The husband made no reply, save to imprint a kiss among the curls that nestled upon her bosom. “ Another thing, John, since ten o’clock, what has made him laugh so f"—Cincinnati limes.

Slips of the Pen.

BY JOSH BILLINGS.

The wizest thing about a man is his conscience—edukashun don’t improve it. Ifyu want tu find out the ruling pashun ov a boss, feed him high on oats—it iz jist so with mankind. Aza gineral rule, the best way is to decide yureeelf what bizness in life it iz best for yure yung one tew foller, and then stick him at it while he iz limbermen alwus pole vines before they begin to run much. The only way for me to git out ov a tight spot iz tew git into it fust. Sum folks kan tell exakly how a thing feels by not tutching it, but I kant. The more babies in a family the eazier and better they are raized —onechicken alwus makes an old hen more clucking and scratching than a dozen duz. It takes an uncommon smart man, nowdaze, tew make money by telling the truth—it iz aktually an evidence ov genius. It iz a very small spot in the lightning bug’s tale that shines; it iz the darkness ov the nite that makes it so brilliant—it iz jist bo with virtew. Nussing revenge iz like missing a yung hedgehog—the older he grows, the sharper hiz quills. The good man iz like an old-fashioned Nu Englund clock—hiz soul iz the pendulum whose regular moshuns giv life and grace tew hiz hands and face, thus shoeing the good works that are inside ov him. Most ov the epitnffs on the tombstuns lead lik ■ guide-boards tew the grate citty, and without them a great menny would take the wrong road. Most people travel to see and be seen ; but few to compare. The otily way tew truli enjoy ennything iz tew be willing tew quit it when the bell rings. Time iz like a fair wind—if we don’t set our sails we lose that breeze forever. We are often ridikuled for telling old truths. The 10 commandments’ are old enuff tew be wore out with truth, but who follers them F Waking up in the morning to a virtuous man, is the same thing as being born again. " Necessity iz the mother of invenshun,” and Pattent Wright iz the father. Death iz the only thing ih this life that iz certain; and oven that iz not always a safe investment. , "IX . . , Humor iz a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up. Virtew, backed up by courage, iz the perfekshun ev human natur. I don't reckon meroy nor pity always amung the virtews; they are often amiable weaknesses. Justlss iz the square root ov awl the virtews. I wouldn’t hav enny mercy nor pity hove out for rubbish; wither would I have a man think, because he melts at the anguish of the vicious, that it iz virtew that ails him. Bachelors are always a braggin ov their freedom!-freedom tew darn their own stockings, and poultlsa their own shins! I had rather be a widdower once in 2 years, reglar, than tew be a grunting, old, hair-dyed bachelor only 90 days. The lazyest man that I kan think ov now, waz Israel Dunbar, of Billingsville. He dried up a new milch cow in milking her 3 times, and planted an aker of beans, last spring, awl in one hill. He iz 45 years old and haint had the meazleS yet; he has alwvz been too lazy to ketch them. This boy died, when he wsz 18 years old, in crossing a korn field ; the pnnkin-vines took after him and smothered him to death.

OUR COUNTRY A2ND OUR UNION.

Weekly Neva Summary.

CONGRESSIONAL. Tn the Senate, on the 18th, resolutions of the Illinois Constitutional Convention for the removal of ibe National Capital to the Mississippi Valley, we re presented .read and tabled... Bills were Introduced and referred— snppl- montary to the Civil Rlu’htß act. giving equal lights to all cltixens on railroads, steamers, and public conveyances,hotels, public schoo a theaters, Ac., and providing penalties for infraction; granting land to aid In the construction of a railroad from Chippewa River, Minnesota, to Dakota Territory... Bills were reported—tosuspenddri liking houses in the Die rlctofColumbia. and to regulate the sale of intoxicating Honors; making appropriation for the temporary relief of the poor of the D'»t.rict....A bill was passed, appropriating $225,0X1 for the construe lon ofabreakwsferat Luwea, Deliware....The Legislative Appropriation bill was proceeded with, and several smenSmonts were disposed ot. .Adjourned to the 16th. In the House, on the 13th, a motion was entered to reconsider the bill for pensions to the children of Commander Williams, of the Oneida, which bill had been reported adversely and tabled ....The report of tbe Conference Committee on the Arkansas Hot Springs Reservation bill was agreed t0....8i11s were passed—for the relief of the widows and orphans of tbe Oneida victims, allowing twelve months’ pry from the date ofthe loss; appropriating $325.101, gold coin, to be paid the British Government, under award of Commlaslonira to settle the claims of the Hudson Bay and Puget Sound Companies, the Baird fixing the payment of ftTO.OOO. in two annual inslalwents, the first of which is to be paid September 10th; for the restoration of Captain Dnmlnjck Lynch to the active list of tbe navy: for the re appointment of Lieutenant Commander Joshua Bishop, who had been dismissed .. Several minor bills from tbe Naval Committee were also passed ....Messers Davis, Judd, Degener, Cox and Getz were appointed a commutes to represent the House at the invitation Of the Washington German associations, at the laying of the”corner stone cf the monument to General Steuben, at Schu'zen Park, on the 16 h.... The Tariff bill was proceeded with in Committee of the Wh01e.... Adjourned to the ItJtb. In tbe Senate, on tbe 16th, bills were passed—granting public lands In the State of Alabama to the Decatur & Aberdeen Railroad; granting lands to aid the construction of a railroad from the wes'ern boundary of Minnesota, at the junction of the Sioux Wood Riverwith the Red Kiver of the North, to the Winnipeg district of British America... The bril tu repeal all exist!; g laws authorizing the transportation and exporta'ion of gooes, wares, and merchandise in bond to Mexico overland and by inland waters, and for other purposes. was reported fav. rably from the committee .... rhe Appropriation bill was passed over—S4 to 23—aud the Franking bill wasalso laid aside—32 to 23—ami the hill to enforce 'he Fllteenth Amendment was taken up and considi red atlength... .Executive session and adjournment.

In the House, on the 16th, bills were introduced and referred—to prevent cruelty to animals while in transport by railroads, etc.; relative to the qualifications of Assistant Marshals to take the census, so as not to exclude women; authorizing the construction of a nr'dee across the Ohio river at Metropolis; granting lands for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Arkansas River, along the thirty-sixth parallel; to incorporate tbe International Society of the United States for the promotion of protection to Immigrants; granting the right of way to the Green Bay & Lake Pepin Railroad Company across the Outlda reservation tn Wisconsin; to prevent the extermination ot the fur-bearing animals of Alaska ; imposing a tax on spirits distilled from apples peaches aud grapes exclusively, and to regulate the dis'illation thereof; to increase pensions to invalid sold ers, widows, and minor children; to change and more effectually secure tbe collection of revenue taxation on distilled spirt’s, and provide for the exportation of spiri-s from the United States: granting bounty to enlisted men in ihe Ordnance Corp, who served through tbe rebellion: to repeal the provision of the actof April 12, 1R66, which authorizes the secretary of the Treasury to fund the public debt; for the appointment of a select committee to take action concerning Indian outrages on th* Western a id Southwestern frontiers in viola ion of the Kansas Treaty of 1867 .. A resolution was offered and referred, instructing the Reconstruction Committee to report for> hwith.a bill for general amnesty .. .A bill was reported from the Committee of Waysand Means, aud recommitted, to reduce internal revenue taxes—among other changes, modifying the income tax by increasing the exemption to 5t,500.... A motion to pcstpone all prior nnsfness until after the Appropriation bills are disposed of, thus viriua'ly postponing the Tariff bill indeflfii.itttly. was agre. d to—92 to 75 ...On motion, the rules were susp nded, and a bill was rep irted sh m the Judicb rv Coramitv e and passed—l3l to 41—to enforce the right of citizens of the Uni ed Sta’es io vote in the reveal Sta es of the Union, whobavo been hitherto denied that right, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude;-... Adjourned. :

In the Senate, on the 17th, a memorial wae presented for a general abolition of taxation on product.iona... .A bill waa reported, ordered printed and p'aced on the calendar, as a substitute for the Marshall A San Diego Railroad bi I*, granting twemy altarna’e sections of l ind on each side ol the line in the Terrtorie'*, and ten sections in any State through which the road may p'Sa....Thc Fifteenth Amendment bill came up and was debut < d at con-iderable length.... Executive session and adjournment. In the House, on the 17th, the consideration of the bill to revive American commerce at d navigation was resumed, and notice given that n vote would be called for on the 19th....Tw0 petl'lons were presented and referred, against Stephen J. Fieid, Jus'lce ot the Supremo Court of the lu. ted States, and Ogdbn Hoffman, Judge de faelo of Uie United States f r the D strict of California, and praying that articles of impeachment be pre en ed against them ... A bill was pre* nted and referred, inc.>rporating the Texas Facile Kauroad Company, and granting lauds then to. ...1 he Naval Appropriation bill was taken up. and debated In Committee of the Wh01e.... Adjourned.

In the Senate, on the 18th, petitions were prvsonteA—for the removal < f political disabilities ; in favor ol tbe Samani Bay treaty ; to make Vadejo, Cal., a port < f eutry; in favor of a slip canal across tbe Is'hmus of Darien ..A bill was unreduced, to facilitate the tran-misston of Asian, Auvtralian end European merchandise In bond to and acro-s the territory cf the United States •Kesoluiii ns were adopted—request.ng the President, to comn niilcite copies of auy c rrcspondence or psp.-rs in the State Uepartmo.it relating to the passage of any English or Canadian steamers through the ,caual at Sauk Ste. Marie; calling for information c iiiierning the recent correspondence ol Mr. B ancroft, Unite d States Minister at Berlin, relative to politic I quest ions in Germany; setting apart the lain Friday and Saturday of the present mouth for District ot Columbia business, and providing for three evening ees-ions in each week hereafter for bills on tbe calendar. ...3he House bill to enforce tbe Fifteenth Amendment was taken up, and ou mo.ion the Senate bi 1 on the same subject was substituted and considered as thu pending amendment... .Adjourned. In the House, on the 18th, » bill was passed, to allow honorably discharged soldier* and Bailors to inter under the Homestead act quarter sections of lands in alternate reserved sections of public land along the lines of railroad aud other public works to which publis lauds have been granted ...The bill to revive the navlgat on and commercial interests of the United States was taken np aud debated. ...A report was made from the Committee < n Elect ions In the contested election case of Wallace against Simpson, from the Fourth Cougre-slonal District of South Carolina, declaring Wallace entitled to the seat... The Naval Appropriation bi.l aas considered In Committee of tbe Whole and several amendments were dl-poaod of, when the b 11 was reported to- the Hunds and pasted... Adjourned.

In the Senate, on the 19th, a resolution was offered, tabled and ordered printed, requesting the President to open negojations with Great Britain to ascertain whether a uilon can be effected of the British North American Provinces with tbe United States.. .Bills were introduced and referred—for the admission of photographs for exhibition Iree otduly; amendatory of the nre-embtlon laws . Bills were reported—to reduce taxation, with amendments; regulating the rates of postage wlih foreign countries with which International postal charges are not established by treaty.. ..Toe Filteenih Amendment Enforcement bill wae discussed pro tntreon. A repert was made from the Judiciary Committee, and ordered printed, upon the resolution directing an'inquiry whether corrupt meaus.lud been used to Influence tbe votes ot Senators on the Georgia bi 11.... Adjourned. In the House, on the 19th, a resolution was offered aud referred, that ths Foreign Affairs Committee report wkatactlon la necessary to com, pel Mexico to tn 11 1 treaty stlpeliuioiis relative to outlaws aud hostile In<.laus....A bbl was reported I aud pasved, tor tbe sets ol buHdin*aiid grounds of cerudii unused arsenate, East aid Bomb. ...The bill to revive commercial and navigation inter-

ests of the United States waa debated, and went over to the 21th.. . .The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill, appropriating »933,<M7. was taken up in Committee of the Whole, and an exciting personal or hate ensued upon an amendment offered to insert Rome as a place for a Mlnl-ter Resident, after which thu Committee rose and the llonso adjourned. rOEEIttN. A special dispatch from'Paris, May 12, to the New York Tribune, says “theßesult of the plebiscitum disappoints all parties. Republicans and others of the Opposition are surprised at the number of affirmative votes, for they expected not more than 5,000,000 or 6,060,000. The large affirmative vote in Paris was also unexpected, but, on the other hand, the great number who voted ‘no’ in the army equally surprises and alarms the Emperor." The London Times of the 14th predicts that woman’s rights are doomed in this present Parliament. The Madrid government has announced that it will shortly present a bill to abolish slavery in the Spanish colonies. The Marseillaise newspaper, Paris, has been condemned for an offence against the Emperor, and for exciting hatred and contempt for the government, and its publication suspended for two months. The author of the article specified is sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and fined 5,000 francs, and the managing editor to imprisonment for one year, and a fine of 1,000 francs. It has been officially announced by the government that the Kingdom of Greece is now entirely free from brigandage, and that the bands of outlaws who have infested the country for yeais past are at last dispersed. The German Parliament has adopted the Postal Treaty with the United States. The London Pall Mall Gazette of the 18tb, alluding to the case of Captain Eyre, of the steamer Bombay, agrees with the Times in the propriety of his condemnation, and declares the facts sustain the most unfavorable estimate of his conduct. The London Board of Trade has declined to reverse the judgment in his case. The Toronto Daily Telegraph of the 18th announces that the Washington Government had issued instructions that Canada ships should be allowed to pass through the Sault Ste. Marie canal, with all their cargoes, except munitions of war. The Paris Marseillaise appeared on tbe morning of the 18th, aad was seized by the authorities. In it was an announcement that the paper will reappear on the 18th ot July, and that Rochefort will employ the Interval of two months in writing the history of the fast Empire. Recent advices from Heng Kong, via Bombay, give flattering accounts of the prospect of the tea and silk crops, which are said to promise largely above an average yield. The British Consul at Havana has written. to his Government that the Spaniards now in arms are 54,000, and the Cubans 47,000, and that the Spaniards have lost 16,000 men by death since the war began. ~ DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on the 19th at 114%. Including the balance in the Treasury on December 31, namely, 1128,463,237, the receipts of the Government for the quarter ending March 31 were $224,837,243, and expenditures $106,005,029. A Washington dispatch of the 13th says the Ways and Means Committee did not agree with the action of the Senate Finance Committee in reducing the income tax to 3 per cent They were disposed to leave it at 5 per cent., but to Increase the exemption to $2,500.

The New York papers of the 13th give graphic accounts of a terrible conflagra tlon then raging in the woods and among the mountains of Sullivan, Orange, Madison, and other counties in New York State. The conffagration extended over one hundred miles of territory, and the loss was already estimated at $5,000,000. In the night the spectacle of the burning mountains was grand and startling. It was feared a family near Deposit, a station on the Erie Railroad, had been roasted alive. On the 11th, the Canadian war steamer Chicora, from Collingwood, with war material, stores, etc., reached the Sault Canal, and was refused permission to be locked through, in order to proceed on her voyage to Fort William.

A St. Louis dispatch of the 14th says the evidence before the Coroner’s jury very plainly showed that the extra freight train which collided with the passenger train, at Eureka, on tbe 12th, was running outside of instruotions, and had used from ten tfi fifteen minutes more of the express train’s time than special orders had allotted to it, and the Coroner had ordered the arrest of William Odor, the conductor, and he was placed in the calaboose.

A Sioux City dispatch of the 14th says a party of Ogallalahs, dressed in clothing furnished by the government, had, called at the cabin of a settler living on the'Nebraska river,” 120 miles north of Sioux City, and while shaking hands with the man’s wife, shot her, then killed her little son, and took her daughter, aged 13, a prisoner. The husband escaped. The excitement in that region was very great. An Omaha dispatch of the 15th says there was a simultaneous attack from the Indiana, on the 14th, along the line of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, between Kit Carson and Denver. The attack was made at different points tor a distance of fifty or sixty mike. It was reported that twelve men were killed, ten wounded and over a hundred head of stock driven oft'.' A New York dispatch of the 10th says ’ that, from the teat authority that cdiild be obtained, sevtral hundred men belongi ing to the Fenian organizations had left

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the city on the war path within the pre ceding forty-eight hours. The United States Circuit Court in lowa has rendered Judgments to the amount of $350,000 on railroad bonds, against th< counties of Des Moines, Johnson, Powesheik, Lousia, lowa, Henry, Mitchell, Lee and.Wapello, and lowa City and Burlington. The St. Nicholas Hotel, a large fourstory building at Cairo, HL, was burned on the morning of the 10th. A San Francisco dispatch of the 16th says the crops in California looked unfa vorable. The»e had been frost on the mountains and heat on the plains. . The Indian raid on the 14th extended from Kit Carson westward for forty miles. The Indians, supposed to be Cheyennes, were in small parties of five to ten, though at Lake Station they are said to have been 200 strong. They went northwest, and immediate further trouble was apprehended. The Coroner's jury at St. Louis, on the 15th, rendered a verdict that the collision near Eureka on the 12th was caused by the disobedience of orders and culpable negligence of Wm. Odor, conductor, and Joseph Tracy, engineer, of the extra freight train, in running said train at least fifteen minutes behind the time given them through orders of the train dispatcher. Orders were issued for the arrest of Tracy. A snow-storm occurred in the State of Nevada on the 15th. There were several cases of sun-stroke in New York city on the 17th. The entire business part of Henderson, N. C., was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 17th, caused by an incendiary.

PERSONAL. Quite a number of seceding Mormont passed through Omaha on the 13th, on their way to Missouri. The following nominations were sent to the Senate on the 13th: George W. Dent, Appraiser at San Francisco; Postmasters —N. B. Stone, San Francisco; Jesse Moore, Owensboro, Ky.; Susan H. Burbridge, Hopkinsville, Ky. The return game between the “ Red Stockings,” of Cincinnati, and the “ Forest Citys,” of Cleveland, played on the 13th, resulted in a score of 24 for the former to 10 for the latter. Gov. Warmouth has appointed Gen. James Longstreet Adjutant-General of the Louisiana State militia. The people of Richmond, Va, appeal to the benevolent people of the country for contributions of money for the relief of the surviving victims and the families of the killed by the recent disaster by the falling'in of a court room floor. Sixtyfive persons were killed or have since died, up to the 13th, and many of the families of the dead and injured were suffering for the necessaries of life. The Chicago Base-Ball Club played the “ Bluff Citys,” of Memphis, on the 13th, and scored 157 to their opponents 1. The recent municipal election in Provi deuce, R. 1., resulted in the choice ol Thomas A Doyle, Republican, for Mayor, by 386 majority, over Clark, Citizen, and Berth, Democrat. The death of Theo. Clay, son of Henry Clay, who for nearly fifty years has been an inmate of the Lexington (Ky.) Lunatic Asylum, is announced. The decoration of the graves of Confederate dead, at Mount Olive and City cemeteries, Nashville, Tenn., took place on the 15th. Several thousand persons were present, and there was a large and imposing demonstration. The Chicago Base-Ball Club defeated the “ Greve Citys ” of Kankakee, HL, on the 16th—111 to 5. It has been decided to hold the Republican State Convention of Missouri on the 31st day of August. The President has nominated P. B. Hawkins Postmaster at Bowling Green, Ky., E. Philip Jacobson, IJnited States Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi. A large number of Mormons passed through New York city on the 15th, for the West. A new trial has been granted at Chicago in the celebrated Craig-Sprague divorce case. The Grand Jury of St. Louis has found a bill against the late City Treasurer, W. E. Susisky, for embezzlement, and has presented four indictments—two for grand larceny, one for forgery, and one lor false pretenses—against Adolphe Kroeger, alleged io be implicated in the defalcation of Susisky.

• POLITICAL. In the Virginia House of Delegatee, on the 13th, the proposition to strike the word white from the tax bill was defeated, 22 to 57. The Illinois State Constitutional Convention, having completed its labors, adjourned nne die on the 13th. The Constitution prepared by it is to be submitted to the people for their ratification or rejection, on the 2d of July. A State Mass Temperance Convention will be held at Auburn, Maine, on the 17th of June, to nominate a candidate lor Governor. The Republican State Convention in Delaware, to nominate candidates for Governor and Congressmen, is called for the 9th of June.

In the Tennessee Legislature, on the 16th, the Senate passed a bill on its first reading prohibiting the intermarriage of white and colored persons. The total vote of New York city at the o? i > non the 17. h was 104,287, of which Church, Democrat, reedved 82,191, and Selden, Republican,- 22,188, Brooklyn gave about 9,0(W Democratic majority on the State ticket, and elected a Democratic

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city ticket by between 6,000 and 7,000. The indications on the 18th were that the Democratic majority in the State would be about 50000. The total vote was comparatively light. The registration in Richmond, Va., closed on the evening of the IJth. The whites were 680 ahead. At the preceding registration the blanks had a majoritf of several hundred. The West Virginia Democratic State Convention is to be held at Charleston on the Bth of June. The Maine Republican State Convention will be held on June 15. A New York dispatch of the 19th says : * The latest returns leave no doubt that Hon. Charles J. Folger is one of two Republicans elected Justices of our naw State Court of App< all. The other is probably Charles Andrews, Mayor of Syracuse, but it may be Hon. Charles Mason, of Madison county." Ohio is to have a State Temperance Convention, to make political nomination** at Columbus, June 1.

Chinese Customs and Contrarieties.

I am writing by the light of a Chinese candle, which is a curiosity in its way. It is not over six inches long, thicker than ours, and for wick has a straw wrapped with paper. The candlestick. Instead of being a tube in which the candle is stuck, is a stand with a sharp nail sticking up, on which the candle is skewered. On taking the candle off I can blow up through the straw, and lengthen the flame as a blowpipe would. It is like a small I Argand l imp, but they lessen its value by spiking the straw tube. As the candle is I a specimen of the contrariety of Chinese customs and things to ours, I will mention some others The muleteers I continually hear say “ Gee ” to their beasts to turn them to the left, and “ Ho” or ‘ Hon ’’ to turn them to the right. To start them forward and to stop them, too, they are always saying “Ho!” When they meet each other on the road they keep to the left, instead of the right as we do, and in mounting a horse get up on the right side, instead of the left, as we do. While I am writing, Mr. M is close by me studying a book of Chinese phrases, composed by a Chinese scholar as simple sentences. The one he is at work upon now says: “When people are too young to have beards their fact s have to be scraped with a razor.” The writer’s Chinese teacher being requested to write his first name, Edward tried to pronounce it, but after several attempts gives it up in in despair, saying, “ Mv belly has no such sound in it,’ the usual Chinese way of Baying “ I cannot pronounce it." Yesterday one of our ass stants was sending off a letter, and as their envelopes have no gum attached, he deliberately scraped his teeth with his finger nail, and used the tartar he collected as so much mucilage 1 As these natives generally use no tooth brushes, he carries a supply with him. I learn that this is their usual way of sealing letters. Dentists are unknown among this people, and the mouths of most you meet tell the story of their destitution.—Letter from China. In speaking of Mr. Jones, the missing Superintendent of the New Hampshire Refer i. School, the Concord Patriot relates that his elder brother, when quite a young man asked his father one day for money The father replied, “ You ought to earn it You have never paid for the salt you have eaten.” That day the young man disappeared. He returned after some weeks’ absence and offered his father several dollars, saying “This will pay the salt bill.” Subsequently, taking offense at something done in the family, he again left without notice, and has never been heard of since. A cask of death from starvation under remarkable circumstances is reported in the New Jersey papers. A young man of Bergen City, a few weeks ago, was told that a fatal tumor was growing and Dressing against his entrails, and that he would starve to death. There was no surgical remedy, as nothing could successfully remove the cancerous ulcer. Gradually it compressed the passage way, and then digestion ceased, and starvation ensued.

THE MARKETS.

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