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MisceUaneons Beading. T-H®. ALARM-BELL OF ATRT. J»X W. LONorILLOW. At Atrl In Ahruzzo. asmall town <n ancient Roman aato, hat (cant renown, — One of those little places that have ran JUir np the hill) beneath a blazing snn. And then ant down to rest, as If to tax, „ ** l climb no farther upward, come what may ; “he Re Giovanni, now unknown to fame. So many moqarcha.slnce have homo the name. Had a (treat bell hang til tho market place Beneath a roof, projecting some small space, *y way or shelter from the ssn and rain. Thou rodo he through the streets with all nls train. And. with the blast of trumpets loud and long, Mado proclamation, that whenever wrong Was done to any man, he should hut ring The geest bclHn tho square, and ho, tho king. Would cause the Syndic to accldo thoreon. Such was the proclamation of King John. How happily tho dayetn Atrl apod, What wrongs wore righted, need not hore bo said. Suffice It that, at all things mnst decay, The hempen rope at length was worn away. Unravelled at the end. and strand hy strand, Loosened and wasted In the ringer's hand, Till one, who noted this In pissing by, Mended the rope with braids of brlnny, So that the leaves and tendrils of the vine Hong like a votive garland at a shrine. By chance it happened that In Atrl dwelt A knight, with spnr on heel and sword In belt. Who lovod to hnnt tho wild hoarln the woods. Who loved his falcons with their crimson hoods. Who loved his hounds and horses, and all sporta And prodigalities of camps and courts;— Loved, or had loved them; for at laet, grown old. His only passion was the love of (fold. He sold hi* horses, sold his hawks and honnds, Rented his vineyard", and his garden-grounds. Kept but one steed, Ms favorite steed of all, To starve and shiver In a naked stall, And, d-.y by day, sat brooding 1n his chair. Devising plans how beßt to hoard and spare. A.t length ho said: *• What Is the use or need To keep at mv own cost this lazy steed, Bating his head off In my stahlea here. When rents are low and provender Is dear! let him go feed upon the public ways; Iwant him only for the holidays.” So tho old steed was turned Into the heat Of the long, lonoly, silent, shadowless street; And wandered In suburban lanes forlorn, Barkod at by dogß, and torn by brier and thorn. One afternoon, as In that sultry clime It Is the custom lathe summer-time, WlffiHh'oTTeir doors, and wlndow-shnttcra closed, Tho Inhabitants of Atrl slept or dozed; When enddenly upon their senses fell The loud alarum ortho accnsiog bell 1 The Syndic started from his sweet repose, Turned on his couch, and listened, and then roie And donned his robes, and with reluctant pace. Went panting forth Into the market-place, Where tho gre-t bell upon Its cross-beam swung, Reiterating with persistent tongue, la half-artleujate jargon, the old song: “Some one hath done a wrong, nath done a wrong I" Bnt ere he reached the belfry’s light arcade. He saw, or thought he saw, beneath Its shade, Ho shape ofhnmunform, of woman born, Bnt a poor steed dejected and forlorn, Who with uplifted head and eager eya Was tugging at, the vines of brlony. “Doraeneddiot” cried the Syndic straight, “This Is the Knight of Atri’s steed of state I He calls for justice, being sore distressed. And pleads his cause as loudly as the best.” Meanwhile from street and lane a noisy crowd Had rolled together, like a summer clond, And told tho story of the wretched bf ast Iu Uve-and-twenty different ways at least. With mnch gesticulation and appeal * To heathen gods, In their Hreesafve zeal. The Knight was sal>i and qnsdtloned fe In reply Did not c >nfess ne feet, did not deny; Treated tb- matter as a pleasant Jest, And *£i at nanght the Syndic and the rest, V atniaining. In an angry undertone, That he should do what pleased him with his own. And thereupon the Syndic gravely feed The proclamation of the King; then said: “ Pride goeth forth on horseback grand and gay, But cometh back on foot, and begs Its way; Fame Is the perfnma of heroic deeds, Of flowers or chivalry and not of weeds I These are famtllar proverbs; but I fear They never yet have reached yonr knightly ear. What fair renown, what honor, what repnle Can come to yon from starving this poor brute ? He who ssrvos well and speaks not merits more Than they vdho clamor loudest at the door. Therefore the law decree*, that aa this steed Served yon In youth, henceforth you shall toko heed To coinrort his old ago, and to provide Shelter install, and food and Held beside.” The Knight withdrew abashed; the people all laid home the steed In triumph to his stall. The King heard and approved, and laughed In glee, And cried aloud: “ Right well It pleasoth me I Cburch-bcllß at best but ring us to the door; But go not Into mass; mv hell doth more; It cometh Into court and pleads the cause Of creature* dumb and unknown to the laws; And this ehall make, in every Christian clime, The bell of Atrl famous for all lime.” —Atlantic Monthly.

DICKENS.

On Mr. Dickens’ first visit to this country be made a speech at the dinner given him in Boston, in which he thus to Little Nell: “ There is one other point connected with the labors (if I may call them so) that you hold in such generous esteem, to which I cannot help adverting. I cannot holp expressing the delight, the more than happiness,4t was to me to find so strong an interest awakened on this side of the water in favor of that little heroine of mine to whom.your President made allusion, who died in her youth. I had letters about that child, in England, from the dwellers in log huts among the morasses and swamps, and densest forests and deep solitudes of the Far West Many a sturdy hand, hard with the axe and spade ana browned by the summer’s sun, has taken up the pen and written to me a little history of domestic jov or sorrow, hlwafs coupled, I am proud to say, with something of interest in thatlitue tale, or some comfort or happiness derived from it; and tlpr writer has always addressed me, not as a writer of books for sale, resident some four or five thousand miles away, but as a friend to whom he might freely impart the ioys and sorrows of his own fireside. Many a mother—l could reckon them now by dozens, not by units —has done the like; and has told me how she lost Such a child at such a time, and where she lay burled, and how good she was, and how, In this or that respect, she resembled Nell. Ido assure you that no circumstance of my life has given me one hundredth part of the gratification I have derived from this source. I was wavering ■ at the time whether or not to wind up my clock and come and see this country; and this decided me. I feel as if it were a positive duty; 'as if I were bound to pack up my clothes and come and see my friends ; and even bow I have such an odd sensation in connection with these things that you have no chance of spoiling me. I feel as though we were agreeing—as indcod we are, If we substitute for fictitious characters the olamesfroro which they are drawn—about third parties, in whom we had a common interest. At every new act of" kind ness on your part, I say it to myself, That’s for Oliver—l should not wonder if that was meant for Smike— I have no doubt that it was intended for Nell; ahd so became a touch happier, certainly, but a more sober and retiring than ever I was before ” There are none, we think, who will not, after reading this allusion to the child who has so long been a reality to many minds, take a sad interest in recalling the final scene of her life: dkatp or Lima mux. She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and isalm. so free from trice of pain, so fair to look upon. Site needed a creature, fresh from the band of God; and waiting for the breath of life; not oat who had

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lived and suffered death. Her couch was dressed with here and there some winter berries and green leaves, gathered in a spot she had been used to fltvor. “ When I die, put near me something that has loved the light, and had the eky above it always." Those were her words. She was doad. Dear, gentle, .patient, noble Nell was dead. Her little bird, a poor, slight thing the pressure of a finger would have crushed, was stirring nimbly in its cage, and the strong heart of its child-mistress was mute and motionless forever! Where were the traces of her early cares, her sufferings, and fatigues? All gone. Sorrow was dead, indeed, in her; but peace and perfect happiness were born, Imaged in her tranquil beauty and profound repose. - . And still her former self lay there, unaltered in its change. Yes t the old fireside had smiled upon that same sweet face; it had passed like a dream, through the haunts of misery and oare; at the door of the poor schoolmaster on the sum- " mer evening; before the fnrnace Are Upon the cold, wet night; at the BtiH l?ed side of the dying boy there had same mild and lovely look. So shaltwf'' know the angels, in their maiestKi-draff death. The old man held one languid arm in hi 9, and the small, tight hand foldedJAhls breast forvwarmth. It was the hatjd sh*t bad stretched out to him wSflrhier lass smile; the hand that had*3fifr bimon through all their wanderings. Ever and anon he pressed it to his lips; then hugged it to his breast again, murmuring that it was warmer now, and, as he said it, he looked in agony to those who stood around, ass if imploring them to help her. She was dead, and past all hope, or need of help. The ancient rooms she had seemed to fill with life, even while her own was waning fast, the garden she had tended, the eyes she had gladdened, the noiseless ’haunts of many a thoughtless hour, the paths she had trodden, as it were, but yesterday, could know her no more.

“ It is not," said the schoolmaster, as he bent down to kiss her on the cheek, and gave his tears free vent, “it is not in thin world that Heaven’s justice ends. Think what it is, compared - with the world to which her young spirit has winged its early flight, and say, if one deliberate wish, expressed in solemn tones, above this bed, could call her back to life, which of us would utter it?” She had been dead tWo days. They were all about her at the time, knowing that the end was drawing on. She died soon after daybreak. They had read and talked to her in the earlier portion of the night; but, as the hours crept on, she sank to sleep. They could tell by what she faintly uttered in her dreams, that they were of her journey ings with the old man; they were of no painful scenes, but of those who had helped them, and used them kindly; for she often said “God bless you!" with great fervor. Waking, she never wandered in her mind but once, and that was at beautiful music, Which, she said, was in the air. God knows. It may have been. Opening her eyes,.at last, from a verv quiet sleep, she begged that they woul«|iiriss her once again. That done she turned to the old man, with a lovely smile upon her face, such, they said, as they had never seen, and could never forget, and clung, with both arms, about his neck. She had never murmured or complained; but, with a Suiet mind, and manner unaltered, save list she every day became more earnest and more grateful to them, faded like the light upon the summer’s evening. * * Along the crowded path they bore her now, pure as the new fallen snow that covered it, whose day on earth had been as fleeting. Under that porch where she had sat, when Heaven, in its mercy, brought her to that peaceful spot, she gassed again, and the old church received er in its quiet shade.

Too Much “Petre.”

A practical Joke of a serious nature, which, however, ended Inla providential manner, was perpetrated in a small town in the western portion of this State, a few weeks since. It appears that a man named James Linkinwater wished to purchase a small quantity of and for that purpose visited a grocery store kept by Thomas Alexander, who had in his employ a boy named John Peterson. Linkin water has been a frequent visitor at Alexander’s store, and has taken pleasure in nicknaming the boy John, by calling him “ Peter," much to the annoyance and confusion of the lad, when the store was filled with customers. The bov could not prevail upon Linkinwater to discontinue calling him “Peter," and so warned him that if he did not stop he would play some jokes upon him which he would not like. This had no effect on Linkinwater for when he entered the store to purchase his salt, he called out to the hoy: “ I want a pound of salt, Peter.’’ The boy got genuine saltpetre and gave it to his customer, who took'it home. The mind of Peterson was not altogether easy after the departure of his customer, and as soon as his employer came into the store (for he was absent at. the time Linkinwater was there), the boy went to Linkinwater’s house only to find that the saltpetre had been, used, and that Mr. and Mrs. Linkinwater were complaining of feeling ill. But he arrived in time to prevent a fatal termination to his practical joke, for a physician was called, who succeeded in averting death, which wonld undoubtedly have occurred had it not been for his timely arrival. As fkr as Peterson is concerned, he has determined never to perpetrate another practical joke; and Linkinwater has learned a lesson he will not soon forget. —Boston Times.

There is astory going the “ founds ’’ of the press, detailing how a young lady, in the excess of love for her father, who had been unfortunate in business, donned male clothing, stained her hands and face, and cut off the locks, “ which had been the pride and admiration of numerous beaux," and meandered to the oil country. Her success was most astonishing. In a short time she had amassed a considerable sum, and retired to Cleveland, provided a home for«her aged sire, resumed the habiliments of her sex, and, as the author of this most interesting sketch says, “with hands and feet enlarged by toil, she passes in her nnenade the worthless butterflies of ion, with a proud- consciousness of her superior worth.” Curious are the means of self-defence witbwhich animals and insects are provided. A butteifly never, when apprehending danger, lights on a green tree or shrub, but flies Into a clump of dead leaves, and so adjusts its wings oh a twig as to look exactly like a shriveled leaf, and defy discovery by its foe,

RENSSELAER, JASPER QOUNTY, INDIANA, JULY 7, 1870."

Weekly News Summary.

CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the 34tlp bills werereported—with amendments, the Army Approprl atlon bill; for the* relief of the National Homestead at Gettysburg for orphans of soldiers and sailors; favorably, to require National Banka going Into liquidation to retire their circulating notes; a Joint resolution directing the return to the Government ot China of the unappropriated anrplns of J4oo,orn In enrrency, being pari of the snm received from that country for the aettlement of claims of American citizens under the convention of 1898....Billswere Introduced—to dissolve the tribal relation* of tho Miami Indian* after four year*, and for other purpose*; to establl*h tranaAtlantlc postal telegraph service hy the American cables; for additional representation In the Fortysecond Congress, providing that any Btate fn which the representative population or the ninth census shall exceed ISO.OOO or more that of the preceding census, there may he one additional Representative In the Forty-second Congress for each IRO.OOO of snch excess, and for each fraction thereof exceeding 1*5,000....8i11s were passed—declaring thh bridge between Philadelphia and Camden a post rente; authorizing the 840 <KH) appropriation In 1860, for the survey of the Isthmus of Darien, to he expended under the direction of the War and Navy Department, at th*. discretion of the President: designating January l. Julv A. and Thanksgiving-Day legal holiday* In ,tbe D!strfct, of Columbia; to revise, consolidate ■Mpolnend the statutes relating to patents and -vfcpyrights; to establish the Western Judicial Dls--trict nf Wisconaln ; to-require the holding of addltlonaJUnlted States, Circuit and District Courts in Indiana, and concerning District Courts, in lowa iAnAßhe substitute for the House resolution op JCjlqin affairs was taken np and dismissed.... The Aonsldoration of the Tax and Tariff bill was resumed. and the sections to continue the Income Tax were stricken ont—vea*, 84; nays, 23—when, after discussion, a motion was adopted to postpone further consideration of the bill to the 97th .. .The Naval Appropriation bill wa* considered In Committee'of the Who'e. the amendments reported from the Naval Committee were agreed to, and the bill waa reported to the Senate.... Adjourned. In the House, on the 24th, the Senate bill to anond the act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to license pleasure yachts, waa re’ ported and passed.... The consideration of the Gcdrgfc hill wae-resumod, and amendments were disposed of, and a substitute for the Senate resolution was agreed to, declaring that the State of .Georgia Is entitled to representation In the Congress of the United States, that nothing In this act contained shall he construed to deprive the people of Georgia of the right to an election for members of the General Assembly of the said State, aa proyldod for In the Constitution of said State, and repealing the law prohibiting the. organization, arming, or calling Into service of the militia forces In the States of Georgia, Mississippi, Texas and Virginia .. The Speaker announced Mi ssrs. Garfield, Jones (Ky.), and Sheldon (La.l as the Committee of Conference on the Currency Mil. ...A large number of pension hills were reported and acted upon. A bill was Introduced and referred, for th* Improvement of water communication between the Mississippi and the lakes, via Wisconsin river .. Adjourned.

In the Senate, on the 25th, a majority report was mado from the select committee on the petition of Dayla Hatch, in connection with the Dominican treaty, with the testimony taken In the case, and recommending the Indefinite postpone'ment of the subject, when an announcement waa made that the views of the minority of the committee would he presented, and a joint resolution was Introduced relative to the complaints of Davis Hatch against the Dominloan Republic, which was laid over and ordered printed.... The report of the Committee ofConferenco on the Bankrupt bill was submitted and adopted....A bill was introduced, authorizing the consolidation of the Western North Carolina Railroad, Wilmington, Charlotte A Rutherford Railroad, and Spartan hure * Union Railroad, under the name 01 the Westorn North Carolina Extension Railway Company, for the purpose of reconstructing the railroad to Cleveland. Tenn., and establishing a continuous railroad communication between the Atlantic ports of North Carolina and South Carolina and the Pacific Ocean via the Southern Trans-Oon-tlnental Railroad. ...The resolution from the Committee on Foreign Relations on Cuba was taken up, and debated . The House Naturalization bill was taken np, and, after dlscnselon, was postponed to tho 97th upon condition of then being finally disposed 0f... .Adjourned.

In the House, on the 25th, a report was mido from the Conference Committee on the hill to amend the Bankruptcy law, and waa agreed to ... .A bill was Introduced to encourage the building of ships for foreign trade....Senatehills were passed—to change the boundaries of land districts; to Incoporate the National Bolivian Navigation Company; to reorganize the marine hospital renter. and to provide for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, w'.th amendments changing the dates from Bay to Angnst....A report and resolution were submitted from tho Judiciary Committee for the punishment, of Patrick Woods for an assault on Representative Porter, by three months’ Imprisonment In the Jail, District of Columbia, which, with the views of the minority, were ordered printed.... Tho Senate amendments to the hill to revise, consolidate. and amend the patent and copyright laws, were non-concnrrea In and a Committee of Conference nrdei ed... .The Senate amendments to the Bnffalo Bridge hill wore concurred 1n... .The Sundry Civil Service Appropriation bill was considered In Committee of the Whole, and several Causes were disposed 0f.... The death of David Heaton, member from North Carolina, was announced. and after the customary eulogies, and the adoption of resolutions, inclndmg one providing for a committee of five members to accompany the remains t o the National Cemetery at Newborn, N.«C., the House adjourned. , In the Senate, on the 27th, the Tax bill came up as unfinished business, and the income tax section was stricken out, without division, and other amendments were agreed to, among them one to continue the tax on corporations and salaries during this year, and a motion to strike out the reduction of the tax on sugars was rejectedyeas 88, nays 80. .. .The Texas Pacific Railroad hill was taken np and amended sous to make the gauge of tho road uniform at five feet from Marshall, Tex., to San Diego, Crtl, and authorizing the Southern Pacific Rallroad of California to connect with the Pacific by a branch road, and provld'ng that all Iron and steel used shall be purchased laths United States—and the bill was passed... The House resolution announcing the death of Hon. David Heaton Representative from North Carolina, was received, end eulogies were delivered and the usual resolutions of condolence were adopted.... Adjourned.

In the House, on the 27th, bills were lntrodnced—to regulate the manufacture of brandy from grapes, peaches, and other fruits; for the establishment of a Department of Revenue; to punish the collection of Illegal taxes on passengers; to authorize tho issue of 4 per cent, bonds, exchangeable for and convertible Into legal-tender notes, at par; to abolish the tribal relations of the Miami Indians.... A hill was passed, Jor the distribution. pro rota, of all moneys paid or to bo paid by the Republic or Venezuela for claims of citizens of the United Btatos, under the awjto of the mixed commission... A preamble and ' resolution were adopted, directing the Committee of Wavs and Means to report forthwith a hill reducing the present duties on all clashes of salt 50 per ceat....The Senate amendments to the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill were non-concurred In, and a Committee of Conference waa ordered.... The Senate amendments to the toll for additional terms of United Stores Courts In Indiana were concurred 1n.... The Speaker presented a telegram announcing the death. of the Karl of Clarendon, English Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. .. The Senate bill to change the judicial circuits was reported adversely and tabled... .The Sundry Civil Expense Appropriation bill was farther amended In Committee of the Whole . ..A report was made from the Committee of Conference orrthe Currency bill, with notice that it would be called up on the 88t'n.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 28th, an amendment to the Atlantic X Pacific Railroad bill waa agreed to—9* to 20—that neither the original nor present land grant ahall apply to lands within the Indian Territory, end requiring full compensation to own era for lands taken from Indians for depots, etc. ....The Tax hill tyae further considered, and several amendments were agreed t 0... .Adjourned. In the House, on the 28th, bill* were pasaetj—consuming Section 55 of the National Currency act of June 8,18 A4 V which provides penalties for . offences against It, to apply to evory President, Director, Ca-hler, teller, clerk or agent of a National Bank; to regulate the appraisement and Inspection or Imports In certain cares, allowing the transportation of imported articles In bond, except wine, distilled spirits, and perishable and explosive articles,from New Totk, Boston, Baltimore, - Art Huron, and New Orleans, to any seaport, or to Portland, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis. Evansville, urn Milwaukee; Senate bill granting priority 1« Cnlteit Suites Conrt* 10 certain ease* In which a Slate Jr puny... .The “nndry Civil Herriee Appropriation bill was considered in committee of the whole, several amendments were adopted and the I MU wm pasted... A WU waa reported attd retorted

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to Committee of the Whole.to reduce 1 be tax on all klndsor salt fifty per cent... The report of the Conference Committee on the Currency MU wa* called np and disc ujsed.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 29th, a memorial waa presented and referred, upon the Importance of making a foil appropriation for the LontivUle Canal, according to the engineer’s estimates. ... a bill waa Introduced to divide the State of Tennessee Into two Judicial districts.... A motion to reconsider The Texas Pacific Railroad bill waa defeated—ls to 81.. ..The bill to authorize the Kansas Pacific Railroad Company to extend Ita railway and telegraph line to El Paso, New Mexico, was considered,, and a substitute offered.. ..The Tax and Tariff hill was proceeded with, and several amendments wen egreed lo; the paragraph maklng)the duty on bituminous coal and abate 50 cents Bor8 or ton of twenty-eight bushels, eighty pound* to ie’bnahel, w*s defeated and rejecu-d—lß to 98tbe rate remaining as under tha present law; a motion to strike ont tho flat# on Beasemer steel rails gave rise to discussion, and, wlthoet action upon It, the Henate adjourned. > "*• lit the House, on the 29th, Senate hills were paeeed—amendatory to the act of July 97, 1868, to protect the right ot actual settlers on public lands; to establish the Western Judicial District of Wisconsin; to amend the act to establish and protect national cemetarlea; to regulate the foreign and coasting trade on the northern and northwestern frontiers of the United States; to regulate the effect of a vote Of thanks of Congress "upon promotion In tha navy; In relation to unsold lands In the conntlea of Porter and Lake, Indiana; to establish an additional land district In Kansas; for the admission of photograph’s for exhibition free of duty; giving the consent of Congress to the reception of a certain bequest by the Slate of New Jersey under the will of the late Edwin A. Stevens; for the disposal of lands within the Fort Ridgley military reservation a In Minnesota; authorizing construction of a bridge across the Arkansas river at little Rock ; to amend the act of 1860 to carry into effect the provisions of treaties between the United Statee and China. Japan, Siam, Persia, and other countries; giving certain Judicial powers to Ministers and Consnle, and other functionaries of the United States; to repeal certain sections of acts pasted by the Territorial Legislature or Wyoming....A reBort of the Conference Committee an the 111 for the relief of certain officers of the navy, to atrlke ont the second she-' ilonof the bill, which referred to retiring officers, was agreed t 0.... A report waa made from the Committee onElecriaciaiuthe Mieeourf contestedelection case, t haFßycr, the sitting member. Is not entitled to the seat; aua that Wm. B. Bwttaler, the contestant, is, and notice was given that it wonld be called np for action on the 7ih or July, and the views of the minority of the committee, with opposite conclusions, were also presented.. ..A resolution was adopted, directing the doorkeeper to retain In the service daring the recess the crippled soldier* now employed under him.... Consideration of the Conference report on the Cnrrency bill waa resumed, and after considerable discussion the report was rejected—Bß to 189—and on motion another Conference Comm ttee was ordered.... The Senate amendments to the Indian Appropria tlon bill were reported hack from the Committee on Appropriations..... Adjourned.

FOREIGN. According to a cable dispatch of the 26th, the Emperor Napoleon had been advised by physicians to go to Coutrexvllle tor three weeks and take the mineral baths there. Queen Isabella, on the 25th, signed her abduction of the throne of Spain in.favor of the Prince of Asturias. Captain General De Rodas telegraphed to Havana on the 26th that he had captured the second cargo landed by the steamer Upton, on her return from AspinwalL It was more valuable than the first " Serious disturbances have recently occurred in Cork, and on the 26th the troops and police occupied the streets in force. During the riots barricades were erected and defended. They were finally captured by the cavalry. Many of the police were injured, and a soldier had his skull fractured by a stone thrown by a rioter.

The Earl of Clarendon died quite suddenly in London, on the 27th. Riots broke out in Cork again on the 26th. The strike had become general on the 27th. Laborers in all departments of iodustry were leaving or threatening to quit work, and the situation was considered dangerohs, and the excitement and anxiety were intense. The Mark Lane Ebepress (London) of the 27th reviews the prospects of the wheat crop, and comes to the conclusion that the crop is sate. A Montreal dispatch of the 27th says that a great independence mass meeting was held in that city on the night of the 25th, and the sentiment “ that the time had now come when Canada should sever the connection with Great Britain, and become an Independent nation,” was lustily cheered by the greater part of the vast assemblage. A collision occurred on the Belfast A Bangor Railway, England, on the 28th. Sixteen persons were seriously injured, but none killed outright. The loss of property by the recent great fire in Panama is estimated at sl,000,000. Four lives were lost and several persons were wounded.. It was reported in Florence on the 29th nit. that General Garibaldi was quite ill.

DOMESTIC; Gold closed in New York on the 28th at 111**. • • At a meeting of the Workingmen’s Union in New York city, on the eveining of the 24th, the introduction of Chinese labor into this country was forcibly denounced as a continuance of slavery; and tho Massachusetts men were declared slavers, deserving the punishment of death. Seven thousand four hundred and eighty immigrants landed at New York during the week ending June 25. Advices from Fort Supply, Indian Territory, to June 12, say a band Of fifty to sixty Indians attempted to run off a herd of working oxen belonging to the Fort, on that day, but were driven off and pur- , sued by a company of cavalry, and six of them killed. On the Bth one hundred Indians attacked a train near Buffalo Creek, but were defeated by Lieutenant Bodemer with a troop of the Tenth Oavai ry, and two killed and tiuee wounded. Corporal Freeman and Private Winchester were wounded. ’About twenty animals were killed. Tho- last spike in the Denver Pacific .Railroad was driven by Hon. John Evans on the 24th. The spike was solid silver, and waa presented by the citizens of Georgetown, Cal. Harris Bailey, residing aear Somerville, Tenn.. poisoued Unwell and three children on the 25th, by giving them bedbug poison, thinking it WM whisky. .The

children are all dead. He would probably recover. Shocks of earthquake are reported as having been perceptibly bit in New York city and Brooklyn between 6 and 7 o’clock on the morning of the 26th. A New York dispatch of the 27th states that the Cubans were purchasing war material for another expedition fitting out in that city. The capture of the Upton’s second cargo waa discredited then. A telegram from Rawlins, Wyoming, says that forty-six Sioux warriors passed there on the 26th, going south. They stole five horses and killed one man. Lieut. Young and thirty-five soldiers started in pursuit of them the following night. Fifteen cases of sunstroke) four fetal, were reported in New York city on the 28th. * The Southern Pacific Railroad bill has passed the Texas Legislature. A very disastrous oil fire occurred at Pittsburgh on the 28th. Two large oil tanks were struck by lightning, one of them exploded, and the burning oil es-' caped and set fire to several buildings, other oil tanks and the Sharpsburgh bridge, which was totally destroyed. Total loss probably $500,000. A clerk in one of the oil refineries was burned to death.

PERSONAL The following nominations were sent to the Senate on the 24th: Joseph P. Root, of Kansas, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Chili; E. Stanislaus Goutier, Consul at Gap&Hayti; Joseph C. Bennett, of Kansas, Consul at Chihuahua; Charles T. Gorham, of Michigan, Minister to the Hague. The Boston excursionists left San Francisco on the 24th, for home. The United States Grand Jury at Canandaigua, N. Y., on the 24th, presented indictments against Starr, of Louisville, Ky. of Albany, and Mannix, of Malono, separately; and one against Thompson and Starr jointly. No other Fenians were indicted. At Oswego, N. Y., on the 24th, the Chicago Club defeated the Ontarios 108 to 12. At Baltimore, the Red Stockings beat the Pastimes—Bo to 8. The National Division of Sons of Temperance closed their annual session at Newark, N. J., on the 24th. The Order numbers 1,970 divisions and 87,226 members. The following nominations by the President were sent to the Senate on the 25th: Alonzo B. Cornell, Assistant Treasurer at New York city; Postmasters—George W. McKeag, Cairo, I1L; Wallace. Lewis, Loudon, O.; A. G- Born, Ashland, 0.4-C. H. Winters; Yellow Springs, 0.; James Cork, Waynesbury, Pa.; George W. Merrick, Wellsborough, Pa.; H. M. Mage, Cynthiana, Ky.; J. H. Steffer, Georgetown, Ky. Hon. David Heaton, Representative in Congress from North Carolina, died at Washington on the morning of the 25th. The Red Stockings, of Cincinnati, beat the Marylands, of Baltimore, on the 25th, by a score of 30 to 13. The Chicago White Stockings defeated the Eckfords, of Syracuse, N. Y.—Bo to 15. On the announcement to the Secretary of State on the 27th of the death of Earl Clarendon, the President directed a message of sympathy and regret to be transmitted.

On the 27th the President withdrew the nomination of Alonzo B. Cornell as Assistant Treasurer at New York. The following nominations of postmasters were made: Wm.D. Hitchcock, Alpena, Mich.; W. W. Webb, La Crosse, Wis. A. J. Allen, Berea, Ohio. Spotted Tail’s favorite wife died-on. the 20th, just before the Chief reached the agency. All of the presents given him by President Grant and others he placed in her grave, and it was thought he wonld kill his favorite horses. “Spot” says going*to Washington'was “bad medieine.” Francis B. Cutting, a distinguished

New York lawyer, died on the 26th. .The Fenian trials at Canandaigua have \>een. postponed till the 12th of July. In a game of base-ball at Troy, NT. Y., on the 27th, between the Chicago Club and the Haymakers, of Troy, the score stood on the 9th inning 21, to 21. A tenth inning resulted in 4 for the former to none for the latter, the Chicagos winning the game—2s to 21.

N. Y., dispatch states that at the examination at West Point Military Academy, ctfaduded on the 28th, forty-eight out of the eighty-six failed, and would be sent home. It is said to have been the most rigid examination ever held. At Boston, on the 28th, the Chicago club defeated the Lowells—43 to 25. In Washington the Bed Stockings beat the Nationals in a seven-innings game—3o to 10.

The President sent to the Senate on the 28th the nominations of Edward E. Douglas, to be United States Marshal of Northern Alabama, and John C. Burton, Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Fourth Indiana District A duel w»s fought on the Arkansas shore, four miles below Memphis, on the 28th, between George R.- P Hsian and James Brizriolom, two young mWyers of Memphis, with Colt navy repeaters, at fifteen paces, resulting in Brizziolora being shot in the left breast and arm, perhaps fhtally, in the second round. The game of base-ball at Boston on the 29th, between the Trimountains and White Stockings, resulted in fhvor of the latter club by a scorer of 86 to 16. The grand Musical Jubilee at Belvidere, 111., commenced on the evening of the 29th OR.

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The “Red Stockings,'’ of Cincinnati, reached home on the evening of the 29th ult. A Memphis dispatch of the 29th ult states that Brizziolara, who was wounded in the duel of the day before, was improving, and there were strong hopes of hU recovery. a magnificent flag, made of California silk, and designed for presentation to Congress, reached Washington on the 29th ult., in charge of Jas. O. Neanan, of San Francisco. The following nominations by the President were sent tapthe Senate on the 29th ult: J. H. Pierce, United States Marshal for the Northern District of Missouri; Jo>n M. Oliver, formerly of Michigan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Postmasters

—George M. Ruff, Napoleon, O.; N. M. Hoyt, Yankton, Dakota; George Miller, Booneville, Ma; Charles H. Austin, Portage City, Wis.; Charles A. Holmes, Jefferson, Wis;; Thomas D. Abbot, Laramie City, Wyoming; Geo. W B. Dixon, South Pass City, Wyoming; E. Trask, Emporia, Kan.; Jno. Kensler, Connersvllle, Ind.; J. Osborn, Greencastle; Ind.; a. W. Delong, Huntington, Ind. ;. George F. Coomley, Chenoa, I1L; N. C. Kenyon, Chatsworth, Ill.; Geo. H. Jenkins, Minonk, Ill.; Jno. W. Coventry, Edwardsville, Ill.; Z. Baety, Watseka, HL

POLITICAL. The South Carolina Republican State Convention ie to be held in Columbia, on Tuesday, July 26. The Republican State Convention of Nevada meets at Elko in September. The Maine Democratic State Convention, at Portland, after a long and animated discussion, adjourned on the 28th, to meet at Bangor, August 16. The Michigan Republican State Convention is called to meet at Detroit oh the Ist of September. Hon. William Smythe has been renomi nated for Congress by the Republicans, in the Second District of lowa. The recent Republican Convention of the Eleventh Indiana Judicial Congressional District nominated Hon. Jasper Packard for re-election, The Republicans of the Second Congressional District of Maine have nominated W. P. Frye, of Lewistown, for Congress, the name of the present Representative, Hon. L. P. Morrill, being withdrawn.

CURRENT ITERS.

Mare Lemon has written sixty plays. A Philadelphia woman has eleven hundred flower pots surrounding her house. Forty Chinese attend the school of the Five Points House of Industry in New York. The Washington Life offers all the advantages of a stock and mutual company combined. Melvin Foster kiHed a mad dog with his billiard cue at his saloon it Norwich, Conn., the other day. “ Washington’s body servant ” hasn’t all died yet, but one of him is still living at Syracuse, aged 113. Each policeman of New Haven has been presented with a two dollar Bible by a kina hearted old lady. Andrew Stafford, late mail agent, has been sentenced, at Baltimofe, to three years imprisonment for embezzling a letter. A poor woman in Utica, who owns three houses and is building another, sends her children into the street daily to beg.

Harvbt Hawks, of Rutland county, is the name of the solitary voter for female suffrage in the recent Vermont Constitutional Convention. In accordance with the wish of Mr. Dickens, the weekly journal, All (he Tear Round, will remain under the charge of his eldest son. Nkithkr minister, lawyer, doctor nor liquor dealer has a local habitation or a name in the town of Weatporte, Maine, with a population of 1,200. During the late session of the Massachusetts Legislature, the Governor signed 409 acts and 87 resolves. Last year there were 466 acts and 103 resolves. A yellow in Philadelphia has been sentenced to fifteen months’ imprisonment and $325 fine for the embezzlement of S3OO in soldiers’ pension money. Tw*htt thousand kegs of beer, or 2,000,000 glasses, were consumed in Cincinnati during the recent Sangerfest week, which yielded to the retailers SIOO,OOO. Ik you were to die to-day, would you leave your family independent of charityt Insure in the Washington Life Insurance Co., of New York.

At Harvard College the very suggestive motto far dull clergymen of “ He giveth his beloved sleep,’’ has been chos en to adorn the walls of the new chapel. Happy the man who, free from care, flndeth his wife content to wear the dresses she last season boqght, and this year troubleth him for naught A Cincinnati census-taker, who Was also employed by the Marshal in 1860, says many of the ladies have grown younger during the past ten years. . Norwich, Conn , hu 7.W7 namesin her directory, a tax list of $18,500,000, 2,182 dwellings, $10,060,00) invested in stock companies, and ss*ooo,oooin savings banka a

Tnn following epitaph was written by an exemplary wife for her own grave: •• Oh, huaband sweet-rinse I, thy lotto* wife. Untimely thus most tekkmy Veete ofllle, I orny Jnst beaten to eanSradd to thine The happy yean I fondly seckoned mine 1 The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad has been mulcted in SBSOO dnm•ages, on account of the death of Charles N. Bennett, a fireman, who w» knocked from his engine by a mail-catcher, near Cliola station, last September. , Akkroskn* lamp explosion <*CKrf«d recently at Rocky MbunS N. G, setting fire to a blanket, which was hastily thrown out of the window. It turned out, however, that a baby was wrappcd up in the blanket, and died of the falL A lunatic in a New England town was discovered one day lately aS the grave of

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his father in'the cemetery, having dug to the ooffln. He had the Ud open, and wae calling on the old man to get up, telling him he had laid there long enough. ' A clergyman list summer visited the celebrated Hoosac tunnel, and encountered a sprightly Irishman, who, in reply to the question, “Do yeu thiak’ this work will pay t” promptly replied: •" Faith, no I but thin it’ll be a great ornament to society.” * A Conhkoticot paper reports that a town clerk la that State has been accustomed to sign marriage certificate! in blank and to give them to a certain clergyman is naively remarked, “doffl much marrying”), to be filled out . and used at his discretion. Aw Irish correspondent o t the New York Herald relates how an old woman, named Gore, was driven into the streets in a snow storm by an agent of lan lady, the Marchioness of Ely, and allow to perish. She was unable to pay the Marchioness her rent Texas is ahead, and Washington's body servant is nowhere. Texas reports that'a negro woman died in that State on the 7th of June, who was 138 years ojd, who. was “one of the oldest inhabitants of Texas,” and who was “ formerly a servant of General Washington's mother.” A widow lady in Durham, Be., said that If the town taxed Women for repairing highways it must allow them to work, out their tax like men. She accordingly presented herself on the regular roadmending day, with a horse and cart, and proceeded to haul dirt and stones with as much facility as the rest of them. Iw Newark, N. J., the other day, one Thomas Flannigan appeared at the jail office, and desired to be committed, to escape the tongue of bis scolding wife. The request could not be entertained, so he went into the street andhurled a stone at the window, thus committing a breach of the peace, when his wishes , were complied with. A young lady reached a town in Maine, a few days ago, direct from Germany, and on the second day after her arrival was married to a happy youth, who was engaged to her six years ago in the old country, and who, after securing a house in Maine, sent for her to “ come over the water to Charlie "—only his name was Frederick. Dr. Stein, while lecturing recently at Dresden, on the preservation of meat and food, produced a tin canister of. good size, containing butchers’ meat preserved by Appert’s method, and prepared by him' self in 1851. Os opening the canister, which had been filled nineteen years previously, the meat was found to be as fresh and full of flavor as when it was first placed in the canister. A young factory operator In Lawrence, Mass., borrowed $2 of a lady friend recently, and subsequently took her to the circus. On pay-day he refunded the amount very promptly, after'deducting fifty cents her circus ticket cost him. ,He was not certain he was going to have her. After that shd was quite certain he wasn’t - A young man in Nevada had courted a young lady in New England by mail ana exchanged photographs. An engagement was made and the young lady started over the Pacific Railroad to meet and marry her affianced. On her arrival, however, she promptly declined the alliance, avowing that while his face looked well enough, she “ would never wed Aith such a little spud of a fellow as him-’’ . . ' r A ludicrous mistake hafl been discov* ered in the bill to incorporate the New Bedford & Fairhaven Railroad Company, which passed both branches oi the Massachusetts Legislature a fsw weeks ago. The bill, among other things, was intended to repeal certain acts of previous )ears, and one of the chapters specified referred to the organization of an independent company of cavalry at Holliston, which is now repealed by this bill. The average velocity of different objects is found in the following: —^ Milas per boor, pereec. A man' wslks * * A horse trots . V *5 A horse runs f” S A steajnboat JJJ A sailing vessel runs "f Slow rivers flow ® Rapid rivers f10w... •••• J lx A moderate wind M0w5.. .....if ‘ v . A storm moves 2 A hurricane moves •••• , . TZI A rifle boll moves L“0 l.G* Sound moves "WoS Ml AM Light moves V’-JSS* Seam Electricity moves . ...SW.OW

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