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Heading. “ WB." Oa! love liJsR In bygona ytm, _ Yet there tae been no broken vow. “ it'll” met of yore; ’tie“you end I" That soinetlmea meet each other now. A quite Ind! flbrent Ar and «Ar, Though once enshrined In lover’e “ tor,” That time, 'tie now long, long ago— Ita hopes, !ta Joy a all passed away; On life's calm tide three bubbles glow. And pleasure, youth, and love are they. Hope paints them bright aa bright can be— Or did whep you and! were " «*•” I paredlaed somo woodland cot: I bnllt great “ castlee in the air; And pleasure was, and grief was not. In cot or castle lAou wert there; Yet it was not alone for thee. For Fancy always whispered “we. The distant Isles of future years Gleam brightly through the golden baae; Time’s sea a reflex heaven appears. In which the stars are happy days; At least 'twas always so with mo When lovers you and I were "we." My life was all one web of gold, where thoughts of thee like gems were set; But soon the light of love grew cold, And gems and gilding faded; yet The “ gilt ” and “ paste ” seemed true to mo, But ’twas when you and I were “ we." Long, long ago, with life-hope shone These faded fancies; now they seem Wild fragments of a gladness gone. The memory of a pleasant dream. And Wunder whl* are, “ Can It be That over you and I were ' we V ” —livery Saturday.

The Cardiff Giant.

llis feet are swelling rapidly, but his intellect is unimpaired. In a fconversation with him yesterday he expressed a regret that he had been dug up at all. The novelty of travel has ceased, and his only prayer is, “ give us rest.” Time, and in fact everything else about him, hangs heavy on his hands. The show business is wearing on him. He rolled over a little on one side to show us where it had worn .on him. It was humiliating to him, he said, to leave a world of full grown men, and then, after the expiration of only a thousand years or so, come back and find the human race reduced to dwarfs—to be picked at by pigmies. lie spoke of his travels; said that he felt deeply humiliated in Chicago because there wore so many more hardened men what let was. He laughed at the pifttense of a Chicago stone cutter that he cut him out of gypsum. lie was cut out once—but ho was “ cut out" of his girj, Wc might not believe it, he said, but, hard as he now is, he was once “soft” on the girl question. “ Th'e first man who came to see me in Chicago,” continued Mr. Cardiff, shifting his position a little to rest the tub he was lying in, “ was a Chicago lawyer. He wanted to know if domestic infelicity brought me there. “1 told him no, I was brought there by Colonel Wood. “ Then he wanted to know if I lived unhappily with Mrs. Cardiff—said if I did, and wanted a divorce, he would leave no stone unturned until I got one. I thanked him, and told him Mrs. C. was all right. She was at home carrying on the petrification business during my absence.” When he was in Cleveland he tried some *of the Cleveland whisky. He felt as though his inside was eaten away worse than his outside was. At Columbus one-half of the people who came to see him fell to peeking him. He understood it when informed that the Penitentiary was Jqoatqd there. They were so used to ptcfciM they couldn’t avoid It when opportunity offered. Mr. Cardiff wasn't prepared to say how he liked Cincinnati; hadn’t been here long enough to form an opinion. He regretted that Hine’s “’sleeping beauty” was here at the same time. If he had known that estimable young lady was coming he would have kept away. He believed in people in the same line of business not interfering with each other. He wouldn’t attempt any rivalry with her, not if he nude it. To a casual remark that he would find the weather very hot here, he remarked that he expected it—he came dressed expressly for hot weather, and in fact had a trunk full of just such clothes as we saw hip l in. He said he could spruce up as "♦relFis anybody when he wanted to. He holds himself subject to the ‘“code,” and if any one feels aggrieved at any thing they have said about him they can always find him in his office by paying a quarter off a dollar at the door. — Cincinnati Times.

Will He Succeed!

’ In nine cases out of ten, no man’s life will be a success if he docs not bear burdens in his childhood. If the fondness or the vanity of father or mother kept him front contact with hard work; if another always helped him out at the end of his row; «f> instead of taking his turn at pitching off, he mowed away all the time —in short, if what was light always fell to him, and what was heavy about the same work to some one else ; if he has hqen pemjtted-tp shirk till shirking has become 6 ’baßit unless a miracle is wrought, his life will be a failure, and the blame will not be half as much his as that qf, weak, foolish parents. Oh the other hand, if a boy has been brought upto do his part; never allowed to shirk any legitimate responsibility, or permitted to dodge work, whether or not tt inade his back ache, or soiled his hands, until bearing heavy burdens became ai matter o| .pride, the heavy vend of the wodd his from choice—parents, as they bid-hi in good by, may dismiss their fears. Ilisllfe Will not be a business failure. The elements of success are his, and at some time and in some way the world will recognize his capacity. Take ahMher point. Money is the object of the world's pursuit. It is a legilinrate object. It gives bread, and clothing, Shd hftnes, and comfort. The world has not Judged Wholly unwisely when it has A. position a man occupies to Mage more or less On his ability to earn money, and somewhat upon the amount of his possessions. If he is miserably poor, «objc defect inhisbuslftessabiiity, some recklessness in his expenditures, or a lack of fitness to cope with men in the great battle for gold When a country-bred boy leaves homo „ n 18 generally to enter upon some busiues thb rad of which is to acquire property ada Me win succeed Just in proportion a he has been made to earn and save in hi childhood. If all the money he has had has come of planting a little patch in the spring, and selling its produce after weary months of watching and toil in the fall, or from killing woodchucks at six cents a head, or from trapping musk rats, and selling

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their skins for a shilling; setting snares in the fall for game, and walking miles to see them in the morning before the old folks were up; husking corn for a neighbor, moonlight evenings, at two cents a bushel; working out an occasional day that hard work at home has made possible—he is good to make his pile in the world. On the contrary, if the boy never earned a dollar; if parents and friends always kept him in snendlng-money—pennies to buy candy ana fish-hooks, and satisfy his imagined wants j -and he has grown to manhood in the expectancy that the world will generally treat him with similar consideration, he will always be a make shift; and the fault is not so much his as that of those about him, who never made the boy depend on himself—did not make him wait six months to get money to replace a lost jackknife. E verybody has to rough it at one time or another. If the roughing comes in boyhood, it does good; If later, when hab its are formed, it is equally tough; but not being educational, is generally useless. And the question as to whether a young man will succeed in making money or not depends not upon where he goes or what he docs, but upon his willingness to do “ his part,” and upon his having earned money, and so gained a knowledge of its worth. Not a little of this valuable experience and knowledge the country boy gets on tRe old farm, under the tutelage of parents shrewd enough to see the end from the beginning, and make the labor and grief of children contribute to the success of subsequent life.— Hearth and Home.

Death of Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens is dead. The announcement will come as a shock of grief to thousands of homes. He has left no brother among mortals whose loss would be so keenly and so widely felt as a personal affliction. No other man has enthroned himself in so many hearts; no other man has visited so many households and been so welcomed there as a beloved guest. Charles Dickens was essentially and peculiarly the friend of the poor; the representative of the common people. Before his time, the great popular writers had contented themselves with painting the upper classes; the weaknesses and strength, the greatness and littleness, the friendships, trials, scandals and amours of the nobility. Over all the novels of the ante-Dickens period, was thrown the glamour of the purple. Walter Scott dipped somewhat into the lives of the lowly people of his time, but even his novels were written for a far different constituency than those of the author of Oliver Twist Bulwer rarely stepped down from his majestic height to talk with the povertystricken wretches of his time. But with Dickens came democracy in fiction. And he not only wrote about the common people, but he wrote for the common people. He let in light to all the dark crannies and rookeries of low life in England. He led twenty million readers through the leprous dens of infamy and blight, and gave them no rest until they carried relief. For thirty years the inmates of English._prispnß have been less oppressed; the urchins of the ragged schools have been less meanly clad and fed; the plundered victims of the Chancery Court are less persecuted; the helpless creatures in the alms-houses have been less wretched in their misery, because Charles Dickens was their champion. He moved constantly in their behalf in palace and hovel, in the church and at the bar, .at court and in all the seats of power, and his appealing voice had a potency that no other human voice had ever yet attained.

Charles Dickens has gone hence—but what a family he has left! Up and down the world they troop, representatives of every variety of the human race. As Mrs. Dombey left her character transmitted in her child when “ clinging fast to that slight spar within her arms, she drifted out upon the dark and unknown sea that rolls round the world,” so has Dickens, weighing anchor and trimming sail upon the same sea, left a wonderful procession of immortals. Pickwick and Sam Weller, flanked by the devout but bibulous S tiggins; the unpleasant Darker, the wonderfill little Cleopatra, and the florid Joey B.; Thomas Gradgrind, with his extravagant love of facts, Josiah Bounderby, -Esquire, of Coketown, and that miserable little comfort Sissy Bleary; Scrooge, shadowed by the ghost of Marley, escorted by the ghost of Christmas Past, and followed timidly by Tiny Tim; the diabolical Squeers, and Nicholas, Nickleby, giving him his dues; stalwartand generous Johnjßrowdie, starved and frightened Bmike, the embarrassed Kate at her first cooking, and the Brothers Cheery bledrepresentatives of the grandest men that God ever sent to bless the world; Pecksniff and the party at Todgers’s; the jolly Mark Tapley and the melancholy Bairey Gamp; David Copperfield, Little Emily, Uriah Heep, Micawber, Little Dorrit, and all the other marvelous creations —they defy death, and live forever to tell the world who Charles Dickens was. No peed of a eulogist, when a soul going to the sunny land leaves such eloquent witnesses. Dickens will be mourned, but he will not be forgotten. He wrote for all the world, and tor all time, and he will be tenderly remembered as long as the English language shall retain its form, and humor and pathos shall move the heart of man.— Chicago Post.

An old familiar story is brought to mind by the death of Bishop Kemper. It was in his family that an incident happened which has been often told, in prose and poetry. Jacob Kemper, the Bishop’s grandfather, with his young family, had settled, two years after coming to the country, on a farm at Beekman, in Dutchess county, N. Y. While - living there, the little Maria Sophia, about six years oi ago, was in the habit of eating her bowl of rice and milk, after dinner, seated on the door sill, and used to tell of “ die sdiaiM Schlange" (the beautiful suakc) that came and ate her rice. Her mother watched to see what the child's strange words could mean, and, to her horror, saw a large rattlesnake with its head in the bowl eating with the child, who, when her visitor took more than its share, slapped it on the head with her spoon. When the meal was finished, the snake went quietly away. The intimacy was too dangerous to be allowed continue, and Mr. Kemper killed the snake. The rattle, with eleven or twelve rings, was long preserved in the family.

An English sailor boy. not jet fourteen? sh it and killed another lad, on the levee at New Orleans, a few days ago. The young desperado had to pull the trigger several times before his pistol Wfcft off.

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Weekly News Summary.

‘ CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the 10th, the bill relative to the central branch of the Union Pacific Railroad for a land anb.ldy wae taken up, and an amendment was offered, agreed upon by both parties, and which would not grant the central branch any lands within the limits of Nebraska, but all such lands should be given to the other branch company, and the bill was recommitted .Buis were passed—for the sale of lands In Kansas which were ceded to the United States tn trust by the Cherokees; making uniform the salaries of Chief-Justice and Aseoclate Justices In the Territrrles; extending six months after the passage of' the act the time for presentation of claims for additional bounty.... The report from the Committee of Conference on the bill to provide artificial limbs for disabled soldiers was adopted....Tbe resolution granting right of way to the Memphis, El Paso Pacific Railroad Company was Indefinitely postponed.... A joint resolution was reported, to pay the expenses of the delegation of Indians visiting Washington during 1870, and appropriating <50,000 for the purpose, which includes the purchase of presents. .. .The Franking bill was further considered .... Adjourned. In the House, on the 10th, a bill to create a new Judicial district In Kentucky was reported adversely and tabled.... The Senate bill to regulate credits to prisoners for good behavior was passed....A bill was Introduced—donating four pieces of condemned cannon to the Soldiers' Monnmeut Association of Adrian, Mich.... Bills were reported and passed—to create St. Joseph, Mo., a port of delivery, attached to the collection district of New Orleans; amendatory of the acta for the removal of causes in certain cases from State to Federal Comte, by extending their application to cases of ejectment, where the parties In Interest are citizens of different States.... The vote tabling tbe Naturalization bill was reconsidered, and the bill recommitted to the Judiciary Committee.... The Senate amendments to the Legislative Appropriation bill, numbering 556, nearly all adding to the appropriations, were considered, and a statement made that the Committee on Appropriations opposed all the amendments increasing salaries; also those for the new State Department and enlargement of the Capitol grounds, though the committee were unanimous for the retention of tbe Capital at Washington; and also that excluding persons who participated in the rebellion from the Court of Claims. The report of the committee recommending concurrence or non-concnrrence was agreed to, except that a separate vote was demanded for the Senate amendment excluding from the Court of Claims persons who participated in the rebellion,’ and a substitute was adopted, that no pardon or amnesty be admitted in cases before that court except when granted for tbe discontinuance of active operations of the rebellion, under tbe proclamation of President Lincoln. To the Senate amendment making compensation to females in departments the same as males, a substitute was offered, simply throwing open all classes of clerkships to competent women... .Adjourned.

In the Senate, on tbe 11th, the joint resolution to pay the expenses of the delegations of Indians, appropriating <60.000 for presents, was called np and passed.... The bill relating to the Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad, making a land grant, was taken up and, after discussion, was passed—S2 to 18. In the House, on the 11th, leave was asked to report from the Judiciary Committee a bill to repeal theTenure-of-Offlceact....The Ser-goant-at-Arms produced Patrick Woods, alias Dooley, charged with an assault upon Mr. Porter, member of the House from Virginia, committed in Richmond, and, on motion, the matter was referred to the Judiciary Committee, with power to eend for persons and papers, the prisoner, meantime, to be retained in the custody of the Sergeant at-arm«. A resolution directing the Speaker to employ counsel for the prisoner was offered and referred to the same committee.... The Legislative Appropriation bill wns taken up and the Senate amendments, appropriating <500,000 for the commencement of a now building for the State Department, in relation to the extension of the Capitol grounds, appropriating sICO,OOO for the expedition to the North Pole, and Increasing the salary of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, were severally rejected, and an amendment increasing the appropriation for the Agricultural Department was concurred in; a substitute for tbe Senate amendment putting female employes In the departments on the same footing as men was adopted, with an amendment, that hereafter the compensation of such officers, clerks and employee who are females shall be the same as is now fixed by law for males of the same class. Tbe bill was then referred to a Committee of Conference, Messrs. Dawes, Niblack and Logan being appointed on the part of the House.... The bill for the reorgan'zat.ion of the army wae presented from the Conference Committee, providing for a standing army of 80,(00 men from the first of July, 1871, and providing for the pay of officers and for their Sromotlon, all officers not assigned by the first of annary next to be mustered out, and the bill was agreed t 0.... Adjourned.

In the Senate, on the 13th, a bill was introduced, regulating the manufacture of brandy from grapes, apples, peaches, and other fruits.... Messrs. Drake, Edmunds and McCreery were aprointed a new Committee of Conference on the nvallds’ Pension Appropriation bill, the committee appointed having failed to agree; and Messrs. Morrell (Me.), Morrill (Vt.), and Bayard were reappointed a Committee of Conference on the Legislative and Judiciary Appropriation bi11....8i11s wore passed-granting lands to aid the construction of a railroad from Brownville, Neb., to Denver, Col; granting land tor a railroad through Dakota. amended to prohibit the company taking any land in any Indian reservation or running through the same without consent of the tribe occupying, or of the President of the United States ....The Apportionment bill was taken up, and, after discussion, the amendment Increasing the nnmber of representatives to 800 was con curved In—Bl to 31; further amendments were offered and adopted—requiring a report by the Superintendent of Census to the Secretary of the Interior of the results of the enumeration of the population, so that the Secretary may ascertain he basis of representation In the States; that In any State in which, by the new apportionment, there la an Increase In the nnmber of representative s, the additional nnmber shall be elected to the Forty-second Congress on the general ticket, unless the rttatoß yhave otherwise provided. Other amendments reported by the Committee on the Judiciary were also adopted.... The Vice-Presi-dent laid before the Senate a message from the President on Cuban affairs, which was read, and, on motion, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

In the House, on the 13th, bills were Introduced and referred—requiring the substitution by certain National Banks of United States bonds, for second mortgage bonds of the Union Pacific Railroad deposited In the Treasury; declaring Indianapolis a port of delivery; to authorize the sale of pine timber on the lands of the Menomonee Indians, In Wisconsin.... A bill was introduced and passed—l3o to 48—to amend the Naturalize on laws, making false swearing in applications, perjury, and punishable as such; punishing false personation and use or possession of forged records, or certificate, etc., and giving to the United btates Courts Jurisdiction of all offences under the bi 11.... A motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill removing all political disabilities imposed by the Fourteenth amendment was defeated-MI to 110.... The River and Harbor Appropriation bill, anproprlatlng $8,738 0(0, was taken up, after consideration in Committee of the Whole, and passed... .The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President condemnatory of the atrocious manner In which the conflict In Cuba Is carried on on both sides, representing the object of the Cubans who urge their recognition as belligerents by the United States in the war with Spain, declaring hla Inability to see. In the present condition or the contest there, those elements that are required to constitute war tn the sense of law, and inviting the attention of Congress to all the bearings of the question. Referred to the Committee qn Foreign Aflalrr.... Adjourned. * In the Senate, on the 14th, the House resolution of inquiry relative to trade with the British provinces, was passed....Billswore reported—the Postal Appropriation bill, with an amend ment striking out the clause restricting appropriations for the letter-carrier system to cities having forty thousand Inhabitants; without amendment, the bill to regulate a grant of land to the State cf Alabama to aid in the construction of a railroad from the Tennessee River to Gadran; the Army bill, from the Conference Committee—ordered printed....A resolution was adopted, requesting of the President alt the information In poMeeslon of the Government relating to the seizure of American vessels oa the high seas, or the confiscation or embargo of the property of any American citizens, during the hostilities in Cuba, and as to what steps, if any, have been taken in rcferonrd thereto....A joint resolutloa was Introduced and referred, giving construction to the acta of Congress granting lauds In the State of Wiscon till, to aid the building ofoillroade.... Bills were passed -author, zing the construction of a bridge acroes the Arkansas River at Little Rock; to amend the act to regulate diplomatic and consular systems, fnrtber amendments being agreed tv » Polishing the Consulates at Moscow and Revel,

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Russia, and Nantes, France, and adding a Consulate at Port Said, Egypt, with a salary of SAMO ; for the Improvement of Western communication between the Mississippi and Lake Michigan by the Wisconsin and Fox Rivera.... Adjourned. In the House, on the 14th, a joint resolution was passed granting pieces of condemned ordnance for a soldiers' monument at Quincy, 111 ... Bills were passed—fixing the compensation of grand and petit Jurors in the United States Courts, allowing <8 a day and five cents a mile traveled, and providing that jurors shall not be summoned more than once in ten yean; relating to the effect of writs of error to the Supreme Court of the United States....Tbe Senate Currency bill was taken up, and several amendments were offered and rejected.... The Cuban question came up on the joint resolution reported from the Committee on Foreign Aflhlrs, Instructing the President to declare and maintain strictly Impartial neutrality on tbe part of the United States In the contest between Cuba and the Government of Spain, giving the Cubans all the benefits of the Neutrality act of 1818, and requesting the President to remonstrate against the barbarous manner In which the war In Cuba has been conducted, and. If ho shall deem It expedient. to solicit the co-operation of other Governments In such manner as he may deem necessary to secure from both contending parties an observance of the laws of war recognized by all civilized nations. Amendments to tbe resolution were offered, and a lengthy debate ensued,! Mr. Banks, Chairman of tbe Committee on Foreign Affairs, leading in the discussion, in advocacy of the resolution. The discussion continued into the evening session, and it was agreed to eontinne it during the whole day on the 15th, after disposing of the Currency bi 11... .Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 15th, a Florida Railroad grant bill wae passed.... The House bill defining the duties of Pension Agents, providing for quarterly payments of pensions, etc., was discussed and laid over.... A bill was Introduced, that nothing in the act of May 18, 1870, relative to tbe Northern Pacific Railroad shall be construed Into a guaranteee of its bonds by the United States, and that It shall not issue mortgage bonds exceeding in amount <59,000,000 ...Bills were reported —unfavorably, conferring jurisdiction to the Court of Claims In the suit of the city of Carondofet t>». the United States; granting lands to the North Louisiana and Texas Railroad. In the House, on the 15th, the bill to relieve coal from all taxation was reported from the Ways and Means Committee, with a motion to refer It to the Committee of the Whole, and a minority report was also made, with a motion for the same reference, when, on motion, the bill was recommitted....Reslntlons were adopted—reciting the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention at Springfield, HL in favor of the removal of the national capital, referring the same to the Committee on Public Expenditures; Instructing the Committee on Military Affairs to Inquire as to the amount drawn from the Treasury on account of the National Asylum for Disabled Voluteer Soldiers, how expended, etc... .The Currency bill was then taken up and all the proposed amendments were disposed of, when the bill passed—9B to 88 ....The consideration of the Cuban question was resumed, and after considerable debate, the vote by which the main question was ordered wae reconsidered, and a substitute for the resolution of the minority was offered, consisting of the third section of the resolution of the majority, modified as follows: “ That the Preeid. nt Is hereby authorized to remonstrate against the barbarous manner in which the war in Cuba has been conducted, and, If he shall deem it expedient, to solicit the co-operation of other Governments in ench measures as he may deem necessary to secure from both contending parties an observance of the laws of war recognized by all civilized nations.” The previous question was seconded, when the House adjourned. In the Senate, on the 16th, a substitute was reported for the bill to facilitate the transportation of European, Asiatic, and Australian merchandise to Interior cities of the United States and across the continent, providing only for the transportation of goods in bond across the continent ....The Naval Appropriation bill was reported, with amendments....A joint resolution was reported, pledging the faith of the government to construct a suitable breakwater and harbor of refuge at lhe eastern entrance of the proposed Cape Cod Ship Canal, the entire expense to the government not to exceed <-,000.000, on condition that the said ehip canal be forever free to the vessels and property of the United. States .....A btll was reported, without—amendment, to repeal the act of March 17, 1800, declaring the assent, of Congress to certain acts of the States of Maryland and Georgia....A statement was made that the House, after being Informed of the appointment by the Senate of new managers as a Conference Committee on tbe Invalid Pension Appropriation bill, had, contrary to all parliamentary courtesy, re-appointed their original managers, and the Senate Committee therefore asked to be excused from further service, which request was granted, and Messrs, Morrill (Maine), Nye and Stockton were substituted In their places ... .Bills were passed— authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver to'any city or municipality condemned Iron or cannon lor soldiers’ monuments, when not detrimental to the public service; the House bill to establish a Department of Justice ... .The Franking btll came up in regular order, and a motion to postpone tbe subject till next session was rejected -17 to 31 —and an amendment was adopted—B6 to 17—continuing the present provisions of the law relative to the free transmission of newspapers, and an amendment was offerred continuing the franking privilege to persons upon whom it was especially conferred by law, to tbe Executive Department and Agricultural Department, and notice wae given of a substitute Tor the entire bi 11.... Adjourned.

In the House, on the 16th, a bill was reported and referred to the Committee of the Whole, to abolish the duty cn coal, “ bituminous and every other kind’’....The Cuban resolutions were then voted on, the first vote bsing on amendment to construe the Neutrality bill so as to give to both contending parties the same advantages of intercourse and trade with the United Btates, consistent with the law of nations, as have been or may be conceded to the Government of Spainrejected, 71 to 101; a motion was made and rejected that the whole subject be laid on the table, when the substitute offered on the 13th was agreed to. and the resolution thus amended was passed—lo 3to 88....TheHouse refused to concur with the Senate on the Pension Appropriation Mil, and insisted upon Its own position! .rßHfa were passed—granting to the Utah Cent ral Railroad Company the right of way through public lands for the construction of a railroad and telegraph from Ogden City to Salt Lake City; to allow six dollars per day to Registers and Sheriffs in the Fifth Military District.... A bill was reported, granting the’ island of Yerba Buena, a government island in San Francisco Bay, to the Western Pacific Railroad Company for a terminus, provided half the island shall be insured to the United States for fortifications and military purposes, and nothing In the bill shall impair the lawful or equitable rights of private parties to the island.... The Senate amendments to the bill defining the duties of Pension Agents, <Sc., were non-concnrred in and a Committee of Conference ordered... .Adjourned.

FOREIGN. Charles Dickens, the great novelist, died at his residence at Gad’s H’ll, near London, at 6:15 on the evening of the.9th, of paralysis. He was fifty-eight years of age. He was apparently in good health on the Bth, when he wrote several pages of his novel, “Edwin Drood.” The suddenness of the blow intensifies the grief of his friends. There were unusual demonstrations of public grief in and other cities. > A cable dispatch of the 10th says the number of lives lost in the recent conflagration £n Constantinople can bo safely set down at 1,000. Queen Victoria, immediately after the intelligence of Mr. Dickens’ death was communicated at court, dispatched a special messenger of condolence to the sorrowing members of the family of the deceased author. The public Institutions in the city suspended business immediately after hearing of the melancholy event. In his will Mr. Dickens leaves AU the Yew Hound to his son, with many valuable suggestions about its«nanagement. A violent election riot occurred on the Isle of Wight, on the 11th; buildings were sacked, and windows broken. The last detachment of Canadian troops comprising the Northwest expeditionary force arrived at Collingwood on the 11th. In the Spanish Cortex on the lltb,

General Prim laid the government had ■ought a candidate for the throne, but thus far In vain. He felt confident, however, that within the next three months one would be found. He did not mean Alfonzo. He did not apprehend any disorders. The London Times, (peaking of the death of Mr. Dickens, employe these eulogistic words: "The ordinary expressions of regret are not cold and conventional Millions of people feel it is as personal bereavement Statesmen, savans, and benefactors of the race, when they die, can leave no such void. They cannot, like this great novelist, have been an inmate of every house.” The remains of Charles Dickens were deposited in the poet’s corner at Westminster Abbey, on the 14th. They were placed at the foot of Handel, and head of Sheridan, with Macauley and Cumberland on either side. The usual flowers were strewn upon the bier. Dean Stanley read the burial service, and the coffin was deposited in its final resting place. Upon the coffin-plate were inscribed the words: “Charles Dickens, Born February 7, 1812; died June 9,1870.” An earthquake at Yokohama, Japan, on the 13th ult, caused slight damage and much alarm. It was the most violent experienced since 1855. It is reported that several villages in the neighborhood of Vreis were destroyed. The great volcano Asami, in the province of Sinchia, that had been quiet for centuries, broke out in violent eruption, accompanied by a shaking of the earth. The people were terrified jseveralvlllagefl in the vicinity were destroyed. A Madrid dispatch of the 16th says, great satisfaction was felt there at the message of President Grant on the Cuban question. A telegram from Rome, June 16, states that a former dispatch announcing that the infallibility dogma had been adopted was erroneous. -

DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on the 16 th at 113& A resolution sympathising with the people of the British Provinces who favor annexation to the United States, passed the Massachusetts House of Representatives unanimously on the 10th. Commodore Vanderbilt on the 9th reduced his rates on cattle from Buffalo to Albany and New York via the Central and Hudson River lines, from |l2O per car to S4O. The St. Paul Press' Pembina correspondent of the 30th ult. says the Indians were concentrating in the vicinity of the Lake of tbe Woods, with the purpose of giving the Canadians a brush when they penetrated the swamps. Reil’s picket line extended from the Lake of the Woods to Pembina Mountain.

Red Cloud and party had a final council with Secretary Cox and Commissioner Parker,on the 10th. Secretary Cox explained the treaty of 1867 to the Indiana, showing them on a map the boundaries fixed in such treaty. Red Cloud said this was the first time he had heard of such a treaty, and did not mean to follow it. He had been asked to sign the treaty merely to show that he was peaceable, and not to grant their lands, and it had never been correctly explained to him. Senator Morrill, of Maine, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, and Delegate Hooper, of Utah, had an interview with Red Cloud on the 10th, during which the Indian Chief said: “There would be no war if the whites waited for the Sioux to commence it. His people, having no food, have to hunt, and when they do that, they were told they were off their reservation, and were shot at. This made trouble, and the Indians get blame, for they have no writers or papers.” At an Anti-Secret Society Convention held in Cincinnati on the 11th, a resolution was adopted that membership in secret societies Is deserving of church discipline in the cash of any person who, after being administered, persists in maintaining such membership. Eleven thousand eight hundred and ninety-two immigrants arrived at New York during the week ending June 11, over 8,000 of whom went West or to the interior.

T. B. Grant, a soldier of the war of 1812, aged 94, was buried in St. Louis on the 12th. Governor Holden, of North Carolina, in a recent proclamation describing a series of outrages alleged to have been committed in that State, has offered a reward of *SOO each for the apprehension of any of the guilty parties. A terrible tornado passed over a large portion of Arkansas and Mississippi on the 10th, commencing near Council Bend, passing down to Peter's Landing, crossing the river, and then extending to Bolivar county, leaving ruin and desolation in its track. It partook of wind, rain and hail, the latter being unusually severe, and utterly destroying the corn and cotton crops in its track, and stripping the forests. Its width was two miles. The crops were unusually promising, com beginning to tassel, but all is lost. On the following day the storm was repeated, traversing generally the same course. The British Minister at Washington has received an official letter from Lord Clarendon, in which the thanks of the English Cabinet are conveyed to the United States Government for the prempt measures taken by the Administration in the suppression of the Fenian invasion of Canada. A recount of votes In the recent special election at Ban Francisco gives sixty-two majority for the one million subsidy to the Southern Pacific Railroad. There was a very heavy snow storm

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throughout Montana on the Sth. In the Gallatin valley it was terrific. All the streams in the Territory were overflowing. Miss Abbie Summers, an accomplished young lady, daughter of a former residing three miles south of Quinsy, 111., was fatally stabbed on the 12th, at Ashley, Ma, where she was engaged in teaching, by Ambrose Coe, of Galesburg, DI., who had offered her his hand in marriage and was refused. He stabbed her through the back intff the chest with a butcher knife, and she died instantly. The assassin gave himself up to the authorities. A New York dispatch of the 15th says: “ The fore to Chicago by all routes was again reduced to day from S2O to $lB, and will probably be reduced to sls to morrow, with a corresponding decline to other points. The fare to San Francisco and Sacramento is $136. Freights to Chicago and all Western points were also reduced 25 per cent, to-day.” At the evening session of the Senate on the 18th, the Apportionment bill was passed by a vote of yeas 80 to nays 10. It provides that from and after the 8d day of March, 1871, the House of Representatives shall be composed of 300 members. Governor Holden, of North Carolina, has issued an order to the different military divisions of the State for the formation of regiments of State troops for active service, to be made up of white volunteers, if they can be obtained, and if not, negroes. He also orders the immediate enrollment of the militia, with instructions to set apart a special number of minute men in each regiment for use as reserve. Judge Nathan Clifford has declared in the United States Circuit Court at Boston that Congress has the power to tax the salary of a State officer. The Erie Railway Company made a further reduction on the 16th in freight and passenger rates; First-class fare to Cincinnati, sl7; to Louisville, s2l. It was expected that the Vanderffilt lines would make an equal, if not greater, reduction. Red Cloud addressed a meeting at Cooper Institute, New York City, on the 16th, reiterating his complaints of deception practiced upon the Indians, and stating that they only want peace and justice. Custom receipts for week ending June 11, $3,346,116.

PERSONAL. The White Stockings, of Chicago, defeated the Actives, of Clinton, lowa, on the 10th—96 to 7. Hon. Sidney Breese has been re-elected Judge of the Supreme Court of the First Judicial Division of Illinois, without opposition. William Gilmore Simms, the novelist, died at Charleston, S. C., on the lltb, aged 64. Spotted Tail and his party were in New York on the 11th, and were engaged in visiting noted portions of the city. President Grant and family were guests of Senator Cameron, at his country seat at Lochiel, Pa, on the 12th. Enthusiastic eulogiums of Charles Dickens were delivered in several of the New York pulpits on the 12th. In New York city, on the 13th, the Cincinnati Red Stockings defeated the Mutuals, of New York—l 6to 8. At Cleveland the Forest Citys, of that city, defeated the Forest Citys, of Rockford—2l to 12. Hon. Geo. G. Wright, of the lowa Supreme Court, and United States Senator elect, has resigned his seat on the bench, to take effect on the Ist of January next

The game of base ball in New York city on the 14th, between the Atlantics, of Brooklyn, and the Red Stockings, of Cincinnati, resulted in a tie on the ninth inning—the score being sto 5. A tenth inning was played, neither club scoring, and the eleventh inning resulted In three for the Atlantics to two for the Reds—the victory being with the Atlantics—B to 7. At Cleveland on the 14th, the Rockford club defeated the Forest City sos Cleveland—24 to 18. Horace Greeley was seriously ill in New York city, on the 15th, threatened with typhoid fever. Hon. Thomas D. Elliott died at New Bedford, Mass., on the 15th. 1 At Tremont, N. Y., on the 15th, the Red Stockings, of Cincinnati, defeated the Unions, of Morrisania—the score being fourteen to none. In the New Hampshire Legislature, on the 16th, Nathan W. Gove, of Concord, was elected Secretary of State; and Peter Sanborn, of Concord, State Treasurer. The State Temperance Executive Committee of Maine voted, on the 16th, that the State Convention be indefinitely postponed. Attorney-General E. R. Hoar tendered his resignation to the President on the 15th, to take effect on the appointment of his successor. Amos T. Ackerman, United States Attorney for Georgia, was nominated by the President to succeed Mr. Hou.

In a game of base-ball played in Chicago on the 16th, between the Chicago Club and the Rockford Forest Citys, the former won in a score of 28 to 14. The Government authorities at Washington decided to comply with the request made by Red Cloud, recently, for horses to carry his party home from the terminus of the railroad, and so notified him in New York city, by telegraph? on the 16th. In reply, Red Cloud informed the Commissioners of Indian Affairs that the intelligence had made his heart very big, and he was very glad and grateM

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POLITICAL.

The Republican Congressional Gam paign Committee recently held their annual meeting at Washington, and chose an Executive Committee, as follows: Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, Chairman (who js also Chairman of the Campaign Committee); Logan, of Illinois ; Cameron, of Pennsylvania; Ketcham, of New York; Chandler, of Michigan; Sawyer, of South Carolina, and Platt, of Virginia. The Michigan Republican State Convention is to be held in Detroit on the Ist of September. The Massachusetts Legislature has voted a separate prison for women. Senator Anthony was re-elected by the Rhode Island Legislature on the 14lh, and Senator Cragin by the New Hampshire Legislature. The recent Delaware Republican State Convention nominated Hon. Thomas B. Coursey, of Wilmington, for Governor, and Hon. Joshua T. Heald for Congress. The J udges of the new Court of Appeals of New York will meet at Albany on July 4 to take the oath of office and enter upon their duties. Judge Folger one of the two Republicans elected, has resigned the Assistant United States Treasuryship in New York, to take effect on July 1. At the Republican Convention held at Shawneetown, 111., on the 14th, Hon. Daniel W. Munn, of Cairo, was nominated unanimously for Congressman from the Thirteenth District. The Republican Congressional Convention for the Sixth Indiana District, on the 14th, nominated Hon. Moses F. Dunn, of Bedford, Lawrence county, for Congress. The recent Republican Convention for the First Indiana Congressional District nominated Capt H. C. Gooding, of Evansville. Hon. H. R. Pritchard has been nominated in the Third, Hon. James N. Tyler re nominated in the Eighth, and Hon. William Williams re-nominated in the Tenth Indiana Districts. In the Tenth District Convention some three hundred delegates withdrew, and nominated General Milo A. Hascall, who accepted, and promised to canvass the district.

Early Made Hay.

Tint practice of beginning to cut the grasses as soon as they are fairly in blossom is rapidly gaining favor. This fovored time comes to many fields in this latitude, from the middle to the last of June. With the improved implements of haymaking—the horse mower, rake and tedder—it is not difficult now for the former to gather all his hay crop at the time when it makes the most nutritious fodder. The early cured grass does not give so heavy a yield of hay to the acre at one cutting, and the same bulk will not weigh so much as the grass cured two or three weeks later. But very careful experiments show that the hay thus treated is much more nutritious; it is relished better by all kinds of neat stock, and nothing is left in the manger. This tender, sweet hay, is particularly important for sheep ana young stock in the winter. If it do not bring so much in market or at the stables, at least the hay that is retained for home use should be early cut. It does not exhaust the soil so much as where the seeds are allowed to mature. If the ground is. very rich it allows of a second catting in August. If* not, it makes a heavy aftermath, end shelters the roots of grass in the winter. The practice is increasing among our reflecting farmers, which is pretty good evidence that it is safe to follow.— American Agrievltwiet.

After a verdict had been rendered in a late trial ip Austin county, Tex, the udge addressed the jury in this way: *By your verdict you have said the accused is guilty of no crime. Your verdict being contrary to law, contrary to the evidence, and contrary to the charge of the court, the court disapproves of your action in the strongest possible manner. It is by such verdicts as this upon the part of petit jurors, that Texas has been brought into disrepute among the other States of the Union."

THE MARKETS.

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