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Miscellaneous Reading. THE OLD BROWN HAND. ax MBS. D. HA BBT FBIXH Thb band that pressed my fevered brow Was withered, wasted, brown, and old, Us work was almost over now, As swollen veins and wrinkles told. No longer brushing back my hair, It gently rested on my wrist; Its touch seemed sacred as a prayer Just by the breath of angels klssod. I knew ’twas thin, and brown, and old. With many a dcop and honored seam. Wearing one little band of gold. The only trace of youth’s bright dream; And yet o'er every mark of care. In every wrinkle’s mystic line, I fanclod jewels gleaming thero That wore a beauty all divine. Another handjny fingers pressed—- " Twas like the Illy dipped In snow; Yet still It gave a wild unrest— A weariness that none should know. There pearls with costly diamonds gleamed, And opals showed their changing glow As moonlight on the lco has beamed, Or trembled on the stainless enow. caught again the old brown hand, And smoothed It lcndly In my own— A woman’s, though so old and tanned; A woman’s, brave and fearless crown. Aye, It had labored long and well To dry the tear, to soothe the pain. Its own strong nerve to all would tell That life has work which brings no sharno. Wo lovo the pretty hand that rests In gontle fondness on our own. With nails like rosy calyx pressed ( Upon a pearly, stainless cone; But sacred Is the hoalthrnl palm Which smooths the Ills that round us band ff Tho many feel Its sacred balm. And holy seems the old brown hand I —Herald of Health.

DETECTIVES AS THEY ARE.

Bomb who have read the highly-spiced fictions purporting to be reminiscences of detectives, may take it for granted that a halo of romance o’erhangs the life of a professional taker of thieves and murderers. But in actual experience it Is not so. Contrariwise, the life of such a man is rather prosaic than otherwise; nor, in nature, does the detective go about in those wonderful digghises the bboks we have referred to so ejglirge upon—disguises only to be met jg Ith On the stage and ia novels,. He is truly "A plain clothes man,” «n<Hs sp spoken of by the members < f the force, just as,railroad people always speak of eoaobea- and not “carriages,” as the outer world does. The veteran Btrairiitforward assures mo that he has never adopted what could he legitimately called “a disguise” on any occasion. “Why,” said he, “I should not have got half way down the street or past a aoul I knew, -before one of the coves would have twigged me.” ‘‘Hollo t” he would have thought, “what’s the Servant got them togs on fort” And then it would have been all up with my little game, for the “office” would at once have been given, and my bird flown. Not I; I never used any disguise. I went out just as I was—plain clothes, of course. No; disguise is all bosh. When I wanted my man I always know where to put my hand on him. In fact I only had to go to his house of call at a certain time, beckon him out, and he would come with mo as quiet as a lamb. Did I ever have any cases of resistance or assault? Not many. If they were saucy I used to put the handbolts on them; ana if I thought they intended a blow I gave them one for themselves first. I can give you an instance how 1 used to manage my “ obstropolous gents.” I took one, not more than fifty miles from here, in a place he was well known, but not for the thief he was. I ordered him to carry his box before me to tho station. ’ He refused, till I tola him if ho did not do as I told him I would hire a cab, chain him behind, hand-bolted, put the box inside, and walk leisurely on the pavtment behind him, giving all the townspeople who asked questions their full of answers. Ho knew I would keep my word, and ho trot ted before mo to the terminus with his box on his head, as quiet as—well, as a lamb. “ I Interrogate the Sergeant upon the matter of burglary, and he instances a ‘representative’ raise. A message arrives at tho police office from Mr. Orecne Jones, saying his premises have been broken into, and c-. rtai n moneys or properties stolen. Tho chief sends myself and another dotective to the place. After a few minutes’ survey, wo glance at each othor in a peculiar way, wherenpou the proprietor of the stolen property looks uneasy and perturbed. ‘Well, officers, what do you make of it ? The marks are plain enough, are they not ?’ Mv mate—you know Driver, sir—whistles and swings from one hand to the other the polished holly stick ho alwas carries with him. I kneel down, Driver having made his inspection first, and examine some marks on the- Window sill. ‘ That,’ says Mr. Jones, ‘was evidently done with the chisel found in tho garden.’ “ I thought it wae rather too strong that ho should talk to us who knew what was what like that, but determined to bo even with him by and by. Bo I went on asking a lot of tom fool questions. After a bit he said : ‘ Well, what’ll you tako to drink ?’ My mate said that he thought a toothful of rum—Driver is partial to rum —wouldn’t poison him, while I gave a name to brandy hot. I remember it quite well. Ho asked us into a little room behind the shop. His wife wae thero, nursing a young child—an infant, in fact—and she looked, poor thing, awful down in the mouth. The husband hadn’t been long

in business, and. we. knew that business' had been queer with him for sometime. He had to send out for the stuff, which ho did by a little slatternly' servant' girl. While he was away talking; to tho girl, my mate was led to pump tho missis j but I stopped him, for I saw how the land lay us clear as mud. Bhe began, however—uneasily, I could soe—to talk of it herself, saying it was strange they had hoaTd no noise, that tho servant had always slept at her mother’s, and bo on. When her husband returned, followed soon after by the girl, ho had in hot water, and mixed the grogs—stiff ones they were, too, though it was only about noon., By tho time we had all three finished our second tumblers our man got maudlin, fl/st sniveled over his losses, and then talked big all in a breath, as the saying is. This was more than I could./stomach, though I had had his grog; so, when my mate and I went out, Driver being in front—'l suppose, said he, 'you have ap idea who dirt this V “I can give a shreWdtKh guess,” said I. “ Ay! IhaVe heard yon detectives are clever chaps and know a man’s work, as you call it, by the way Jhc goes about tho job. Now, who do yon suppoeodid Oust” “ You!” said.l, looking him full in the faco. You should have seen his countenance change, sir—first as white as that pipe, then as red as that bar curtain; ana all of a minute. 1 never saw Buch a thiDg. Had I wanted proof of the truth of what

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I had s&ld, 'twas written there in red and white. “ What I” he blurted out, trying to gulp down a something that seemed to stick In his throat “Met How dare you lay such a thing?” “ I dare say anything that I know is true. You asked me a plain question, and I gave you a plain answer.” Calming down a bit, when he saw I was not cowed or taken aback at all, he says: “ Do you think I should be such a born fool as to rob myself?” , “That’s another plain question; So if you want another plain answer, here it is. Not yourself exactly,, but your creditors. That’s about the breadth of it” Then he began to bluster again. In the midßt of which I left him and walked after Driver, who said: “ What were you a-jawing with the cove about ? ’Twas his own crack,” “Right you are,” said I; “and what’s more, I tola him so.” “You see, sir,” s&id the detective, in explanation, “the marks on the window-sill were all made from the inside.” It will astonish the unsophisticated reader to learn that the proceeds of a robbery are often not recovered, because it would not pay to recover them. A detective is sent for the day following a burglary. He receives a description of the spoil. He knows by what channel—as we shall presently show—intelligence may be conveyed to the present holder of the booty that the person robbed will give so much for the restoration of his valuables. But where nothing is offered, the plate goes to the limbo of the melting pot. With watches, the rogues melt the cases, and having erased name and number on the works, put them into fresh cases. Rings or bracelets they denude of stones, which they dispose of on the continent, or even at home j except in some cases, when they send them as they are, if bearing no name, crest, or mark, to the richer colonies. Indeed, it is a well known fact, that the wife of a very high official had a bracelet offered to her in one of the first shops in Melbourne that had been stolen from her house in Park lane, London, but fifteen months before * Even bank notes, though stopped, can be got rid of; and there is plenty or machinery for doing so. A stranger lost several Bank of England notes for fifty pounds each -in A certain pro vincal town. Notice was given to the Branch Bank of England in the same place of the loss, the number of the notes being also supplied to the district manager. Now, Bank of England notes, when once paid into Threadneedlc street, are never re issued, even if they have left the bank new the same day. No fear was folt of their getting abroad again, if they once went “ homo;” so a duplicate list of the lost notes was forwarded more leisurely to town. In about six weeks, news was sent down to the provincial town to the effect that the notes had reached home. They had been paid by a bank in the provincial town to their city agents. The country bank had received them from a professional gentleman, and they had been paid to him by a tradesman in a large way of business, who had been long suspected by the police of being a buyer of stolen notes. There tho clew abruptly stopped, and could be pursued no further. The tradesman said he could not tell whom he had the note from. Invited by the police to attend before tbe magistrates, he repeated tho same tale. Asked particularly by the magistrates’ <flerk if he took so many fiftypound notes in a day that he could not tell whence they came, he replied, generally, that he often took fifty-pound notes without indorsing them, and this must be one; and he positively could not tell how the note had come into his hands, except he knew It must have been in the regular course of trade. And so it ended. Now, if this had been a man in a small way of business, be could not have got off by such an excuse. The police were morally sure the tradesman had bought the fifty-pound note, but they could not prove it. The'vastness of his business protected this man; whereas the petty trader, being unable to urge such a plea, would have been caught and trounced. — Chambers' Journal.

A Little Story with a Pretty Moral.

•Onco upon a time, two citizons of the Republic—both Caucasians—made with each other a wager as to which of the two could saw tho greatest number of cords of wood in a day. The trial was had. One man sawed ten cords, and the other eight. Whereupon the eight-cord man insisted that his competitor “ was always a lucky mss /” Gen. Grant defeated the rebels at Fort Donelson, capturing their army. Again, at Vicksburg, capturing their armies there. Again, at Chattanooga, and finally at Richmond, making prisoners of Lee’s army at Appomattox Court House. Maj. Gen. Geo'. B. McClellan made a masterly backward advance on Harrison's Landing,; with 100,000 men succeeded in holding 4,500 rebels in check at Yorktown; but be and his friends insist, whenever a comparison with Grant is instituted, that U. 8. " was always a lucky cuss/"

Under the administration of Gen. Grant the national debt has been reduced many hundred millions of dollars; taxation has been reduced; tho finances of the country placed upon a comparatively sound basis; the Union restored; and its physical resources developed in the largest degree. Under Democratic 'Administration the debt of the city of New York has been Within a few years more than doubled. Taxation has been so far increased to pay for bold and'reckless jobp that it has become well high uaendurafolfc. Private rights, both of petsop. and property, are inadequately secure. TJie temples of justice are polluted by a corrupt judiciary ; yet where those comparisons are made,, the Ohisfsof Tammany assure ns that the Republicans were always lucky cusses. Once upon a time a sound Democrat of tho name of Thompson, shouted to an acquaintance across tho street; saying: “Dan Oopp, come over here and I'll whals you. Thompson, in telling the story, says: “Dan Oopp came ovor, but I’ll be blowed if be’dian’t while me." One cannot alwayß tell. It is barely possible that the progress of free ideas ana the possession of military genius have as much to do with the success or failure of armies as luck. It is poselblb that an honest desire faithfully to administer the affairs ot government contributes to its success as greatly as luck,. Quite probable that muscle bad n« much to do with wood sawing as luck. However that may be, suppose that wo Stick, to a parly that hat been "lucky", enough to crush out rebellion—restore the Union—establish the national credit and demonstrate the success of the experiment cf self-government.— Chicago post.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SEPTEMBER 8, 1870.

Weekly News Summary.

FOREIGN. Cable dispatches on the 86th state in substance that the Prussians were steadily advancing on Paris; that eight departments of France were In possession of the invaders; all available approves to Paris were reported to be undermined; Bazaine was surrounded in Metz by Prussian troops, and was expected to be compelled to capitulate, being short of provisions ; Prince Napoleon’s demand for assistance had been declined by Italy; the French Chambers had adopted a law providing that all able-bodied men, between 20 and 85 years of age, be enrolled for military duty without liberty to procure substitutes; sixty thousand dollars had been received at Paris from French residents in the United States for the wounded, and a large sum from Constantinople ; the bombardment of Strasbourg continued, and the besiegers were making rapid progress; tbe town of Kehl, on the German side of the Rhine, was nearly razed to the ground by the shells thrown by the French from Strasbourg. Baron Gerolt, Minister at Washington of the North German Union, received a telegram from Berlin on the 26th, charging the French with having fired upon a flag of truce sent to Toul to procure surgical assistance in behalf of wounded French soldiers. The fortified town of Vitry surrendered to the Germans on the morning of the 26th, with a French loss of 16 guns and 850 prisoners. M. Thiers, after a long-fbhtinued refusal, has yielded to solicitations, and accepted, amid much applause in the Corps Legislatif, the tendered position on the Committee of Defense, conditioned on the hearty sympathy and co-operation of the Chambers. A Paris special to the New York Herald on the 28th states that one hundred and seventy thousand men had been killed or wounded so far during the war. It was reported in Paris on the 28th that on the 25th the Prince Royal of Saxony, with 10,000 men, had made an unsuccessful attempt to capture Verdun. McMahon’s main a?my was at Sevoy on the 28th. Tho Emperor was at Renionville, and the Prince Imperial at Rethel. Prussian scouting parties were at Meaux, one hour from Paris, on the 27th. Austria has concurred in & declaration of neutrality, as proposed by England and accepted by Italy. The Prince Royal of Prussia has issued a proclamation to the people of France, wherein he says: “ Prussia makes war against the Emperor, and not against the people of France. The people have nothing whatever to fear.” He also says: “ Only surplus food will be taken for German troops; that only which is not required by the peaceful French.” Paris telegrams assert that the invaders “ commit fearful pillago and unheard-of outrages as they move along." According to official dispatches received in Berlin, a great battle was fought In the neighborhood of Stenay, northwest of Montmedy, on the 28th, which is said to have terminated in a victory for the Prussians. It was rumored in London on the 29th that the Emperor Napoleon was shut up in Metz, where also were 10,000 peasants and 15,000 wounded soldiers. The opinion was gaining strength on tho 29th, that the movement toward Paris was only a feint, the real object of the Prussians being to envelope McMahon with their left wing and crush him. Heavy fighting had apparently been going on between Chalons and Verdun since the 25th, tho forces of McMahon and tho Crown Prince being engaged. A great battle near Mousson was begun on the 28th. A Berlin dispatch of the 29th states that the prisoners of war arriving there were already so numerous that the fortresses were full to overflowing. Camps were formed at Wittenburg and elsewhere to receive them.

A dispatch from the Prussian general headquarters, dated at noon on the 28th, declares that Bazaine’a communications were completely ent off, and all telegrams printed in Paris as from him wero manufactured there. News from the French War Office on the 30th states that Bazaine was not shut up; that he had 120,000 men that MacMahon was 180,000 strong, and that they wore stealing two marches on the Prince Royal, who was two days ahead of Prince Frederick Charles Another dispatch says: “Not only has MacMahcn failed to form a junction with Bazaine, but a wedge of Prussians has been driven between the two armies. This human wedge is now thicker than ever before, and MacMahon now finds himself 1 separated from Bazaine by two powerful German armies instead of one." Late advices from Shanghai state that the negotiations for tho settlement of the Tientsin affair were progressing. The Imperial authorities of Peo Chu Lee admit that the conduct of the missionaries at Tientsin was inoffensive, and that they were wantonly attacked. Paris is reported as being fully prepared to resist an attack. Gold was again circulating on the 30th. An American newspaper correspondent writes that the treatment of American journalists and travelers by the Germans, as well as by the French, has bean most flattering when compared with that bestowed upon people of other nations, and testifies to tho popularity of this country in all parts of Europe. Fighting is reported as naving occurred on tho *3Olll, between Mantmedy and Sod an. .. Csblo dispatches oi the 31st announce

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another disastrous French defeat near Beaumont The Prussians had attacked McMahon’s army and drove it back upon the Belgian frontier. The French camp had fallen Into the hands of the Pruasians. The pursuit of the French troops was continued for several miles, and waa interrupted by the number of cannon and prisoners which were taken. In his dispatch to the Queen the King of Prussia states that twelve guns and some thousands of prisoners and .material of war were captured. The slaughter is reported to have been immense. A French position on the heights betwen Vouziers and Altigny, which was held by a body of Turcos, was taken by storm on tlie 80th. Napoleon had left Oarignan for Sedan, where the Empress was reported to be seriously iIL Public meetings were held all over Prussia to sustain the government in prosecuting the war to the end, and to discourage all attempts at premature negotiation. Tho Paris Patrie of the 81st estimates the Prussian losses, so far, at 145,000. German advices say tho French were so sure of victory at the opening of the campaign that they made no arrangements to save their baggage in case of retreat, and hence they have been compelled to abandon it in great quantities. Cable dispatches of the Ist confirm the reports of MacM&hon’s defeat on the 30th ult, and state that the Prussians captured over 10,000 prisoners. Fighting was reported near Sedan all day on the Ist. A London telegram of the Ist says the siege Qf Strasbourg continued. Great slaughter had been occasioned by the vigorous bombardment. The garrison made a sortie mi the night of the 29th nit., and drove the Germans several miles. The rinderpest is reported as spreading in the south of England. The shore end of the West India cable has been successfully landed at Santiago, Cuba. DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on the Ist at 116$*. A Washington telegram of the 26th says the Pension office is receiving many inquiries in regard to rules governing the furnishing of artificial limbs. Where soldiers elect to receive commutation, an order for payment of the amount at the rate of $75 for a foot, SSO for an arm, or other apparatus, will be issued at the Pension Office, and paid through the nearest agent. Such soldiers,as have not heretofore been able, from the nature of their injuries, to wear artificial limbs, are entitled to the benefit of the act. Payment at the rates named is made in all eases every five year a Direct correspondence by applicants, with the Pension Office, will secure the benefits of the act without employing an agent The United States Express car on the Missouri Pacific Railroad was entered by two disguised men on the morning of the 26th, seven miles west of Jefferson City, the manager was badly beaten, bound and gagged, and the safe robbed of SIO,BOO in money. The New York Commercial Bulletin of the 26th produces facts and figures to prove that our country is receiving no commercial advantages from the war. A duel was fought a few miles below Memphis at sunrise on the morning of the 26th, between Major Ed. Freeman, a young merchant, and Ed. Hamlin, a young lawyer, both of Memphis, with Derringer pistols, at fifteen paces. Both fired simultaneously, and Hamlin was shot through the body and died in ten minutes. A New York special of the 28th says: “ The feeling in the produce market is that breadstuffis will continue to improve. The demand from Europe for the French and German armies promises to be active. This, if taken in connection with the falling's in the estimated receipts at the lake ports, would argue better prices. The breadstuff market will bo very materially affected by the length of the war, and everything now points to a long war.”

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Richardson issued an order on the 28th for the purchase of bonds and sale of gold for September as follows: The purchase of one million bonds on Thursday, September 1, and on each alternate Thursday, and two millions on Thursday, September 8, and each alternate Thursday—seven millions in all; the sale of one million of gold on each Wednesday of the month—four millions in a}l The Cincinnati express train ran off the track at Greenbush, N. Y., on tho 27th, Of eleven coaches in the train, five were smashed terribly. A'brakeman belonging to Rhinebeck, and a woman passenger from lowa, name unknown, were killed. A boy had an arm broken. Several other pasaengors received slight injuries. An accident occurred on tho Camden & Amboy Railroad, at Lawrence Station, N. J., on the 29th by which the rear car of an express train was thrown from tho track and demolished. One passenger was instantly killed, a brakoman fatally injured, three Other persons seriously and several slightly hurt Three Cars of the train for New York, on the Morris Sc Essex Railroad, were thrown from the track near Newark, on the 29th, and several passengers seriously injured. The cats were nearly demolished.

A Washington dispatch of the 30th says “the Assistant Attorney General has telegraphed to the United States District Attorney of West Virginia, to dismiss all prosecutions under the act to enforce the’ right of citizens of tho United States to vote In the several States, when tho office is not within the distinction forbidden in the second section of the same. In Kentucky and West Virginia it seems that parties have brought suit against Regis-1

tera of Election for refusing to register the votes of some alleged to have been in Confederate service. The second section referred to protects the colored people in their rights, but the third section relates to all classes. who may feel aggrieved by the refusal of registers to receive their votes. It is understood that the same instructions will be sent to the United States District Attorneys in the Southern and border States." On the morning of the 80th, two cars of a train on the Des Moines Valley Railroad were thrown from the track and down an embankment, south of Des Moines, and entirely demolished. Eight men were killed and seventeen seriously injured—all of them being lowa soldiers who were on their way to Des Moines to attend the State Soldiers’ Reunion. New discoveries of extensive and rich silver mines are reported as having been made fifteen miles north of Central City, Col A Bangor, Me., dispatch of the 81st ult says the weather continued extremely dry and the country was suffering severely from fires. Passengers on the Piscataquis Railroad report that buildings were burning along the line of the road, and that whole neighborhoods were out fighting the fire. The outstanding legal tender circulation on the 81st njt, according to the books of the United States Treasurer, was $356,000,000. On hand in the Treasury, notes of the series of 1869, $114,417,168, to supply the place of notes retired. Fractional currency outstanding $40,067,784. Customs receipts for August, $15,645,265. The King River Indians and several other tribes have commenced depredations on whites in Mono and Fresne counties, California. The Indians are reported 3,000 strong. The first spike of the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad was driven at Petaluma, on the 81st, amid rejoicing. A freight and accommodation train on the California and Oregon Railroad was thrown from the trestle work near Flats River bridge, on the 30th. Several passengers were injured, and fifteen cars demolished. The number of immigrants arriving at iTew York this year to September foots up 168,507,28,407 less than for the corresponding months last year. The debt statement for September is as follows* Debt bearing coin Interest $1,970,168,060 00 Interest * 87,016,664 00 Debt bearing currency Interest... 69,896,000 00 Interest 460,67* 00 Matured debt 8 506. 1*7 00 I nterest 458,616 OS Debt bearing no Interest 434,553,675 60 Total principal and Interest.. $3,496,661,804 00 Coin In the Treasury 10*,504,706 00 Currency In tho Treasury 87,136,949 00 Total 5189.640.664 00 Debt less amount In Trea5ury....53,856,931,160 03 Decrease of debt during the past month. Tr. .LT 18.403.836 00 Decrease since March 1,1870 83,407,820 00 Pacific Railroad bonds ontstand- __ lug 64,618,839 00 Interest; thereon accrued and not yet paid 646,188 88 Interest paid by the Untted States. 8,816,846 49 Interest repaid by transportation of ma11a.LT..... ..... 3,384,866 00 Balance of Interest paid by the United States 6,680,489 00

PERSONAL. In a game of base ball at Rockford on the 26th, the Forest Citys defeated the White Stockings, of Chicago—l 4 to 7. The sixth annual term of the Normal Musical Academy of the Northwest, under the direction of 11. R. Palmer, commenced in Chic&goW-ttfe 28d. A very large attendance is reported, representing nearly every State in the Weat and Northwest, and the prospects are exceedingly flattering to those having charge of the management and instruction. The traveling delegation of the Hlinois Press Association arrived at Boston on the 27th. The following Post-Offices have been recently established, and Postmasters appointed, in Missouri: Duncan Creek, Vernon County, J. A. Knox; Stafford Green County, J. B. Dunn; Lawson, Ray County, R. J. Clark; GrunneU, Grundy County, R. Weaver; Elkland, Webster County, J. L. Lee. Three parties named Willey, Mitchell and Roane, have been held in $5,000 bail each for the murder of State Senator Stevens, of North Carolina. Maj. Will C. Moreau, Democratic candidate for Congress in the Eighth Indiana District, was recently stricken with paralysis at Kokomo. His entire left side was paralyzed, and he was speechless.

D. J. Morrell has been re-nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Seventeenth Pennsylvania District. At Rockford, on the 27th, the Atlantics, of Brooklyn, defeated th* Forest Citys In a game of base-ball, twelve innings—l 4 to 13. At Chicago, on the 30th, the White Stockings defeated the Atlantics, of Brooklyn—l 3 to 4. According to the official returns the census of Louisville, Ky., foots up 100,039 —30,000 to 40,000 below the estimate before the census was taken. Between twenty and thirty thousand of the surviving volunteer lowa solans attended the recent re-union *t Dea Moines.

political; All Republican incumbents of seats in Congress from Vermont have been renominated. Congressional nominations on tbe 35th: Republican—William 8. Donnan, Third lowa District ; O. D. Conger, FiP«h Michigan ; CharlesQ. Brown, Twelftli Ohio; W. N. Jones, Delegate from Wj oaring. Prohibitionist—T. B. Ives, Fifth Illinois. Horace Greeley was nominated op the | 36th, for Governor of the State of Nv’W

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York, by the Workingmen’s Central Union, a local political organization. •* A. J Hunter, of Paris, is the Democratic candidate for Congress In the Seventh Illinois District. The Republicans of the First Congressional District of South Carolina have putln nomination State Senator Rainey (colored), to fill Mr. Whittemore's unexpired term in the Forty-first, and also the full term In the Forty-second Congress. Congressional nominations on the 30th: Republican—Third Michigan District, Austin Blair, re-nominated; Third Illinois, H. O. Burchard, re-nominated. Demo-cratic-Eighteenth Ohio, J. M. Coffenberry. — The New York Democratic State Central Committee haa appointed the 21at of September-as the time for holding the Democratic Convention at Rochester. Congressional nominations on the 81st: Republican-Fourth Michigan District, T. W. Ferry, re-nominated ; Sixth Michigan, J. F. Driggs. Temperance —Eighteenth Ohio, John D. Taylor. At Large, In Illinois, John V. Farwell, of Chicago. The Prohibition Party df Itltnols; In Convention at Bloomington on tho 31st, nominated: For State Treasurer, K. G. Hammond, of Will county; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Prof. D. Wilkins, of McLean; Penitentiary Commissioners, J. M. Smith, of De Witt, and Dr. F.'S. Simpson, of Green. Private dispatches from Dayton, received in Cincinnati on the 31st, state that General Schenck had concluded to accept the Republican nomination for Congress in the Third Ohio District. The Michigan Democratic Btate Convention, in session at Detroit, on the 31st, made the following nominations: For Governor, 0. C. Comstock of Kalamazoo; Lieutenant Governor, J. A. T. Wendell, of Mackinaw; Secretary «r State, Isaac M. Crane, of Eaton; State Treasurer, P. J. Laranger.of Monroe; Auditor General, Charles W. Butler, of Lansing; Attorney General, John Atkinson, of Port Huron; Commissioner of the Land Office, John G. Hubinger, of East Saginaw; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Duane Doty, of Detroit; Member of the Bdsrd of Education, M, J. Bennett, of Jackson. The Republicans nominated Ex-Gov-ernor Newell in the Second, and John Hill in the Fourth Congressional Districts of New Jersey. Hon. John E. Smith has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Fourth Maryland District. Orestes Cleveland has been nominated by the Democrats of the Fifth New Jersey District At the Illinois Republican State Convention on the,lst Gen. John A. Logan was re-nominated for Congressman at Large. Treasurer Bates and School Superintendent Bateman were re-nominated; Casper Butz, of Cook, and Elmejr Washburn of Madison, were re nominated for Prison Commissioners. ) The Republicans of the First Ohio Congressional District have nominated Aaron F. Perry; and Job E. Stevenson is the Republican Candidate in the Second Ohio District. The Democrats have nominated Byron G. Stowe in the Fifth, and J. G. Sutherland in the Sixth Congressional Districts of Michigan. The following are the nominations made by the recent Republican State Convention of Michigan : For Governor, H. P. Baldwin, of Detroit, renominated; Lieutenant Governor, Morgan Bates, of Traverse City, renominated; Secretary of State, D. Striker, Hastings; State Treasurer, V. H. Collier, of Battle Creek; Auditor, General W. Humphrey, of Adrian, renominated; Commissioner of Land Office, Captain C. A. Edwards, of Branch county; Superintendent of Public Instruction, O. Hasford, of Olivet, renominated ; Attorney General, Dwight May, of Kalamazoo; Member State Board of Education, Witter J. Baxter, of Jonesville.

The Republicans of the Fourth District of Louisiana have nominated General Jas. McClerry for Congress. United States Judge Hugh L. Bond, at Baltimore, has recently decided that Federal courts do not properly have jurisdiction in cases arising under the provisions of the act for the enforcement oi tho Fifteenth Amendment, and that Congress did not intend to interfere with each State’s qualification of its voters, except to remove those imposed by race, color, or previous condition.

ty A statement has been prepared at [ the Treasury Department at Washington, giving a comparison between the expenses of the Government under Buchanan and Grant. It ahowa that during the last fiscal year of Buchanan’s Administration the expenses, per capita , were $3.01. In estimating the present population at forty millions, and deducting from the present expenses such as arose directly from the war, so as to compare such items as make up the usual expenses of the Government, the cost for the fiscal year 1869, per capita, was 1.64. This last amount is made on a gold basis at the average of the year, which was taken at 88 per cent.

rtf- The Scranton (Ponn.) Jfcpubhcan says: "The Democratic padfln to-day la particularly anxious that the history and record of the two neat parties during the past decade should not enter into tit# eniuing campaign—in short, that it should be forgotten. This is not unnatural, though positively unreasonable. That the Democratic party should desire to forget its record is not to be wondered at, for its works during tee war, andsfoce, constitute the crowning shamealtu infamy or its existence.” ff It cost two dollars a head under Buchanan to run the gojcr nmeu Grant it cotta but St-64. Another cyi dence of the failure {of tration. He is no such royal apendtfolft as his Democratic predecessofcaMvti been. . r

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Do Bees Make or Simply Gather Honey!

Whitdcb bees ma*< or limply peOsr honey, seems yet to be s disputed point. There are writers who assert that the nectar of the flowers gathered by the bee is simply a portion of Its food and drink, and that the honey deposited in the cells come from the honey-secreting glands, which are analogous to the milk-secreting glands of other animals; that the honey bag of the bee performs the same office as does the udder of the cow. In other words, that bees make their honey. Such writers argue that if it were not so, when a bee gathers molasses it would deposit molasses, etc., while the fact is, that the various kinds of materials upon which the bee works, simply modify the character of the honey. There are others who reason quite diferently—who assert that the bee simply gathers honey formed by Nature in the flowers.. Such persons attribute the difference which is observed in honey that every kind of flower secrets a melliflo substance peculiar to itself, partaking, to a greater or less extent, of the properties of the plant upon which it is found. Hence, some kinds of honey are very ob-noxious-others even poisonous In some loosllties, people think it is not safe to eat honey at all, until after It has been boiled —a process which is thought to evaporate the poisonous qualities. When “doctors” so disagree, it might be considered presumption for even the Scientific Pm* to decide. So we leave this matter still an open question. We believe, however, it is generally agreed that bees never mix the different kinds of honey when depositing them in the hive. If they commence to work on white clover (which makes the best honey), so long as that kind of “feed” can bo obtained, they will work on nothing else; and all the white clover is deposited in cells by itself. When they leave that for buckwheat or any other food, they commence depositing in adjoining cells, or on a separate piece of comb. Experienced bee-kesperS, who arc aware of this instinct, often remove too combs which are filled during the continuance of the clover; because after toe cells are all filled It is difficult to distinguish this from any other. Exhibitors of honey at fairs not unfrequently take advantage of this to secure a choice white article, with which to secure the highest prize, when the balance or average of the stock would be quite inferioj,—Scientific Press. _ it« admitted on all hands that Grant’s administration is a failure. It has failed to be as extravagant as Johnson's, as weak as Buchanan’s, as ignoble aa Pierce’s, and as obstinate as Jackson’s. Bat it can’t be denied that toe President smokes cigars. He has saved the country w hundred millions of money, but he continues to puff! Let toe Democracy make note of this horrifying fact. It is about the only consolation they have got. —Chicago Poet. Iy The Democratic papers are inclined to question the correctness of the census returns of New York city, aa it k now probable that the population of the city proper will not much exceed 875,000 when all the returns are in. The Timet says: “It is not strange that Democratic organa should cry ont against the .official proof that onr population is not increasing, for it affords damaging evidence that their heavy major ities in the city are chiefly fictitious. |3T It being charged that a Louisville negro voted twice at the recent election, the New York Commercial remarks that it could put up will* theft, murder, elopomeat with white heiresses, and all ether claims to social equality, but when me negro sinks to a level with the Democratic repeater, there is room for the apprehension that emancipation may prove a failure indeed. j Iy Hon. James 8. Orr has published a letter announcing his adhesion to the Republican party in South Carolina. He says that for many years to come that party must control the State, and opposition to it will only augment and .perpetuate existing evils.

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