Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1873 — Page 1

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OUR COMPACT: AND HOW WE KEPT IT.

BY HATTIE HALL.

“ A me nil Y heart goes all the day, Your sad tires In a mile—a.”—A Winter's Tale. “Girls, do you kuow it’s almost housecleaning time again?” said I, one bright October morning. “Why, so it is!” exclaimed Kate, looking up from her writing; “I declare, it doesn’t seem six weeks since we scrubbed this old bouse froth garret to cellar!” ‘“Well, it’s all got to be done over again, and pretty soon, too.” “I just hate it!” Nell spoke up, edergetically; “it’s just over and over again, and I don’t see, that we are one bit the better for it.” “Oh, now, Nell, you know you like a clean bouse as well as any one, and only last spring you said you rather enjoyed it when you once got into it,” said Susie, our youngest, invalid sister. “Well, so I do, or should, if it would only stay clean 1 ” admitted Nell, looking down somewhat; “but this turning a house upside down, and making everybody uncomfortable for a week, and then having to sweep and dust the very next day, just as usual, is what I abominate!” “Ob, I don’t feel so,” said Kate; “I rather like it; but one does get so dreadfully tired after washing paint and nailing carpets five or six days.” “And dreadfully cross,” I added, laughlug. “There is no time in the year so trying to me; and do you know, I’ve been thinking, lately, whether things would not go smoother, and we get through this semi-annual trial easier if we -were to do our best to —keep our tempers?” “Oh, yes, it’s very well for you to talk, who never lose .yours.” ““Nowyon are too kind, Nell; I’m no more amiable than the rest of you, only I am inclined to he sullen, while you talk it out and have done with it. Now, I propose we all make a special effort this fall.” "Well—l’ll try,” said Nell, soberly; “and, 1 ’ she added, with a laugh, “if ‘old Flash,’as Tom calls me, can keep her temper, I’m sure the rest of you can.” “Ladies and gentlemen,” began Kate, jumping up and striking an attitude. “Whereas, in the opinion of this family here assembled, ebullitions of temper greatly impede the work of renovation;” (cries of “Hear! hear!” from Nell;) “and Whereas, it is the ambition of the family aforesaid to clean house in the easiest way; therefore, Resolved, That each mem- * her herewith bind herself to keep the peace—so far as in her lies”—with an arch glance at Nell; “and furthermore, Resolved, That the forfeit for a failure to do the same shall be a supper prepared by her own fair hands.” “I second the motion!” shouted Nell, clapping her hands and danoing about. “And I third it,” cooed Shsie, from her sofa-corner. “You precious little dove!” said Nell, dropping down beside her, “there’s no danger of your having to get up a supper. But poor me! —girls, where is the cookery book?" There was a shout at the pretty affectation of despair, which brought in Tom from his smoking on the veranda. “I say, girls, what mischief are you plotting now?” “Only resolving ourselves into a Society for the Promotion of Amiability,” replied Neil; demurely. ' - - “Happy thing for us, eh, mother?” said saucy Tom, shrugging his shoulders, and , glancing back at mother, who had followed htnyrir. “But come, girls, toll a fellow what it all means.” Kate proceeded to explain, while mother beanfod approval. “Whew! honey ana pie!” ejaculated Tom. “Well, I guess I’ll ‘jine’ too,-if you admit masculines. Of course, I can’t hope to he as angelic as you girls., hut I’ll do my ‘level best.’ ” -- “And you won’t bolt if you’re asked to heat a carpet?” queried Kate. “Not. atalL”- 1 “Nor growl if you have a cold dinner?” said I. . “Or your slippers are missing?” added , Nell. “Just you wait and see,” answered Tom. _ “But,” said lie as a sudden thought struck him, “/ can’t cook a supper.” “Oil, you provide the oysters, and we’ll cook them.” “All right! But when does this thing go into effect?" “Not until house-cleaning.” “I’m glad of that. I say, Nell, where are those confounded slippers?” “Look till you find them, Sir," retorted she, pertly. “Perhaps it might be as well to practice a little beforehand,” suggested mother, smiling. "That's so mother!” 3uid Tom, and changing liis voice to softest cadence, ‘ASweet sister, couldst thou tell me where I might discover my trmjjnt slippers?” And so, amid jest and repartee, and yet, withal, an —undertone of earnest- purpose,- “Our Oompact” was made. Perhaps it might be well to state, more particularly just here, who “we” are. There are five children of us, a, 11 arrived at “years of discretion.” Kate, our eldest, is tall and handsome, a little inclined to presume upon her seniority and dictate to us younger ones, which I, being thirteen months behind her, am quite disposed to resent. Tom usually calls her “Lady Kate,” and when she is particularly lofty, “Her Royal Highness.” She is literary in her tastes, and lias written, some very good jliings. Tom, who is sodulously cultivating a mustache, has some vague ideas of the “Superiority of Man,” but they get pretty well rubbed out of him among so many sisters; father lias lately taken Turn' into his law office, and he is rather more impressible than usual. Nell, a brownhaired, black-eyed little gypsey, Is the life and fun-maker of the family, qutok and' impulsive, but with a noble character; while Susie, our beautiful, fair-haired darling—just budding into womanhood—fades like a snow-wreath from our midst. “-Tiie mother," whose placid, lovely face is just shaded by, son, gray curls, is our friend, confidant and counselor, entering into all our plans with a zest prompted by a heart young and sweet to the core. The conversation which I have given above took place on Saturday, ana the next week, after the washing and ironing was out of the way, bright and early Wednesday morning the work began. Mother always believed in taking hold of the worst end of a job first; so Kate and Nell went up into the garret, while mother and I undertook the cellar. It was a lovely, sunshiny day, end there was a crisp sparkle in the air that was wonderfully exhilarating, and everything went on as “merry as a marriage bell.” So energetically did we work, that not only were the two extremes of the house set in order, hut the girls finished the spare chamber, Susie’s room and the upper hall (taking up no carpets) while mother and I cleaned the kitchen and diningroom, pantries and

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the china closet. That evening, when we gathered xound the grate inJhe sittingroom, we felicitated ourselves greatly on the wonderful success of ohr plan; while father, who now heard of the “compact” for the first time, somewhat chilled our enthusiasm by prophesying that every one of us would have to pay a forfeit before the week was over, and added, with a laugh r “80 much feasting will give us all the dyspepsia.” The next morning I found, on rising, that I had taken cold in my subterranean labors, and was dreadftilly stiff and lame, and Kate’s heavy eyes and listless manner at the breakfast table betrayed that one of of her headaches was coming on. We lingered at the table, and after prayers did not “spring to” as we had the day before. Still, Tom volunteered to stay at home all day, and the way he beat carpets, moved heavy furniture and made himself fenerally useful, was quite o, in spite of aching,head and rheumatic bones, we finished all the chambers, taking up the carpetß. Susie, of course, oould not join in the work, but her trial lay in her lonely hours and the inconveniences she was often subjected to in the general upheaval; and what wonder if the poor, helpless child sometimes grew a little fretful! I was racing down stairs for clean water that morning, when she called from her room:—“Bessie, won’t you shut my door?” “Yes, in a minute, Sue,” I answered, and hurried on. While I was in the kitchen, mother wanted me to peel the potatoes for dinner, and that done I went up the back stairs to my cleaning, quite forgetting poor Sue. In about half an hour I had occasion to go down again, and as I passed through the hall I heard Susie’s soft voice, this time a little tremulous: “Bessie, dear, you forgot to shut my door.” “Why, bless your heart! so I did!” I exclaimed, going in; and there the dear child lay, curled up in a heap, and with a great newspaper spread over her. “It’s lucky I had this big paper,” she said, trying to smile; “there is such a draught, and my fire’s all down”—and not a word of reproach did she add. But my heart smote me as I tucked the silk comfortable around the wasted form. I poked the fire, brought her a new book from the sitting-room, and with a penitent kiss left her once more alone. Friday morning came dark and lowering, and we AH Felt the depressing effect of the general gloom. Tom declared he had urgent business down town, and took himself off right after breakfast; and worst of all, Susie had taken cold, thanks to my carelessness, and was suffering one of her painful attacks, ami mother could only leave her a few minutes at a time. She gave us the hall, parlor and sittingroom for that day’s work, and we knew it was doubtful whether we could finish it; but we went to work with a sort of grim determination that was quite a contrast to our frolicsome mood on the first day. Instead of song and merry Jest, almo# complete silence reigned among us. I felt myself growing sullen and irritable, and thought despairingly of “Our Compact.” But 1 shut my lips, firmly resolved that however I might feel inside, there should he no outward sign; hut towards noon, as I was passing through the hall with my arms full of hlankets to he aired, Kate cstteiToutr— —— “~7“ “Here, Bess, you may polish the stair" rods.” ———- —7—Her authoritative tone irritated me. I knew “Lady Xate” disliked staining her white hands with such work, and would have been glad to humor her iiad she asked me kindly; but I was about to make her an angry retort, when I caught a roguish glance from Nell, and checking myself just in time, I marched off without a word. By the time I had the blankets all hung out I had recovered my equanimity, ana was able to speak pleasantly as I gathered up the stair rods, and Kate, whose back had been turned, never knew how near I came to incurring the forfeit. Half-past twelve came and we were still hard at work. Nell, perched on the high step-ladder, was dusting hooks on the top shelf of the secretary, Kate was nailing down the drugget in the sitting-room, while I was oiling the furniture, when suddenly Tom appeared in the doorway and surveyed the scene with a prolonged whistle of astonishment. “Ain’t dinner ready yet?” “No, it ain’t, sir,” responded Nell, curtly, but not offering to stir. “Well, step round lively, girls, for I’m in an awful hurry,” said he, roughly, but not ill-naturedly. I was just leaving the room, hut looked back as Nell- exclaimed with flashing eyes 1 “Get it vour—” Tom clapped his hands when she stopped suddenly and burled her face in her dust-cloth. “Bravo, Flash!” he cried; “you“shall have a premium for that.” A hearty laugh did us all good, and we bustled about with such hearty good-will that dinner was soon on the table. Tom made amends for his exasperating speech by starting the fire, getting the; ice-water, and carrying Susie’s dinner up stairs. Greatly refreshed by a good cup of tea and the pleasant chat at the table, we went hack to our tasks in much better humor. We accomplished wonders in that short afternoon, but night drew on rapidly—much too fast to suit our purpose—and we got into a desperate hurry. Nell was frantically dusting and setting hack the parlor furniture, when suddenly something went—crash! “What the dickens is that!” exclaimed Kate, as we both hurried to the scene of the disaster. But when she realized that it was her marble bust of Clytie—the apple ot her eye, bought with the first fruite of her pen—her wrath broke forth: “ You careless, miserable—” I sprang to her, and putting my hand over her mouth, entreated, “Oh, Kate, Kate, remember!” ; ... Whereupon she burst info tears and same in a heap on the floor, witli her battered Clyde in her hand. Poor Nell threw herself on her knees beside her, and put her arms around her, reiterating, through her tears: “Oh, Katie! I’m so sorry! I’ll buy you another, indeed I will l” “No, no;” sobbed Kate. “I don’t want it—it would never be the one I earned.” Our nerves were probably somewhat unstrung—we were so tired— for I could not help crying ia sympathy, and we must have presented rather a lachrymose appearance when father and Tom came in. “Halloa!” exclaimed that incorrigible brother, what’s going on—a second deluge?” “0, Tom!” said Nell, rueftilly, “I’ve bean and gone and done it, this time/’ “What! smashed Lady Kate’s idol! Well, that a bad job. But coins, Kate; a little cement will fix it out-better than a whole barrel of tears.”

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Kate managed a rather watery smile, and then slipped up-stairs with her mutilsted treasure, and if she was gone a good while we were carefol not to notice it, There was no pleasant gathering in the sitting-room that night, for it took us nearly all the evening to put things to rights, and then we girls were glad to take refuge in bed. “Thank fortune, this is the last day!” . said Nell, yawning and stretching, as the rising-bell sounded Saturday morning. “Do you think we can finish to-day?” I queried, doubtfully, as I buttoned up my boots. “We must,” declared Nell, facing round quickly, brush injhand; “there shan’t be a speck of dust in this house to weigh on my conscience to-morrow if I can help it.” “Well, I guess we can bring it, if mother canhelp,” la&seafod- “I’m glad it’s a pleasant day; the weather does make ’such a difference in house-cleaning.” “Come, girls; ‘buckle to’—time flies,” Kate called out, giving a thump on our door as she passed. “Brevity, thy name is Katherine,” parodied Nell, as she opened'the door and scampered after her. Yes, it was a mercy the sun shone that day.' As if was, the work went hard enough, and only tin: thought of the end so near at hand enabled us to persevere. Kate and Nell had a little difference of opinion at the very outset, the former insisting that the kitchen must be left over for another week, while the latter declared that every nook and corner should be cleaned before Sunday if it took her till twelve o’clock; and the discussion was getting quite heated, when I rose, went to the book-case, and taking down Miss Leslie’s “Recipe Book,” I laid it solemnly in Nell’s lap. “No, I haven’t!” she said, hastily,pushing it from her; “take it away! I’m just as amiable as I can be!” Kate laughed, and peace was once more restored. Nothing special occurred that day. Mother put her shoulder to the wheel, and by tea-time everything was donle—kitchen and all. The polishing of the silver fell to my lot, and oh! how it made my arm ache! But if a few tiny drops moistened the whiting as I rubbed away at the spoons, they only made them shine the brighter. Nell took upon herself the kitchen, for fear it wouldn’t get done, and Tom staid at home again and shook the dining-room carpet. Kate devoted herself to the finishing of mother’s room, and mother herself lent a helping hand wherever it was needed. That was a tired hut happy group which gathered in the family room that evening. Susie, whom father had brought down for the first time since Wednesday, lay on her couch, which was drawn close to the right of the grate; father in his easy chair at her head, was reading the evening paper, while with one liana he stroked tenderly Susie’s golden curls. Nell, sib ting on the floor—her favorite seat, by-the-way—leaned her head on Sue’s pillow, where she could watch the flitting color in her cheeks and the rare smile steal over her wistful, patient face. Mother occupied the post of honor on the opposite side of the grate, with Tom by her side, resting his arm on the back of her chair in a loving, protecting way; for Tom was mother’s dariing, and his manner to her was more that of a lover than a son. I lolled in a low, easy ehair, almost too weary to raise my head; while Kate, our queenly Kate, the pride and center of our circle—sat gracefully efect, disdaining any such weak compromise with fatigue. We were none of us much inclined to talk, and there had been quite a long silence when father suddenly asked, as lie turned liis paper: “Well, girls, how about that supper?” “Oh, father, we have all been so good,” said I. “A ifost of cooing doves couldn’t have been more peaceful,” added Tom. “What! even my little spit-fire kept her temper?” said father, roguishly, laying his hand on Nell’s head, and drawing it back till he could look into her sparkling eyes. “Well, papa,” admitted truthful Nell, “we did come dreadftilly near losing it sometimes, but we didn’t quite, you see.” “And how much easier the work went for it,” I said. “Yes; I don’t think we ever quite finished in four days before,” said Kate, slowly. ——• • —‘ “Since you find the plan works so well,” mother remarked gently, “suppose you keep it Tor every day use?” “I’m agreed,” said Noll; “only there must be no forfeit, for it isn’t in human nature not to give way once in a while.” “80 I’m to be cheated out of my supper?” said father, as he resumed his readmg. “No, father, that you shall not!” exclaimed Tom. “We must celebrate our victory, girls, and I’ll send up the oysters Monday morning, and you must get up a royal good supper.” Anda “royal good” one it was. Each contributed her share. Nell the chocolate cake, which was her specialty; Kate the wine-jelly, and I the biscuits and sponge cake; but the crowning feature of the table was the charming center-piece arrang. ed by Susie’s deft fingers of fern and autumn leaves. Father surprised us by a basket of luscious grapes,-and mother stewed, scolloped, and Tried Tom’s oysters. It was a merry company that gathered around this “feast of good things,” and Tom’s toast, to “The Rival of Barnum’s Happy Family,” brought down the house. Rural Nob Yorker. A Detroit woman called upon a credulous family in that city the other day, introduced herself and began a conversation. Suddenly she fell out of her chair, very sick and feeble, and faintly said that she had no money and could not go to the hospital, and they would have to keep her through the run of the fever. They gave her three dollars to crawl out and try to reach the hospital, and she has a new blue sash. A car-load of live fish, consigned to the California Fish Commission at San Francisco, to stock the streams in that State, was wrecked in Elkhom River, twenty miles west of Omaha, and the entire car of forty thousand trout, lobsters, eels, etc., emptied into the stream. It 1b safet to be the best stocked stream in Nebraska at present. The cause of the accident was the wash-out of tike bridge of the Union Pacific Railway. Within a week after the commission of his offense, a New York burglar, who was caught by one of the ladies of a house he had entered after he had fired two shots at her, has been sentenced to thirty years’ imprisonment. ; . ; See, in another noiunra, the advertisement headed “J will help any own.,”

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General News Nummary.

THE OLD WORLD. Urbano Rattazzi, the Italian statesman, died at Frosinone on the morning of the sth, aged 65. The Chamber of Deputies voted national mourning for two weeks because of bis death. The American Department of the Vienna Exposition was opened on the morning of the sth, and steam applied to the machinery. The novelties surpass those from other countries. President White, of Cornell University, and ex-Governor E. D. Morgan, of New York, are Chairmen of the Bureaus of Education and Commerce, respectively. In a circular letter addressed to the representatives of France abroad,—the- Duke de Broglie, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, declares that the difference between the majority in the Assembly and Thiers was on bis domestic policy , which did not offer sufficient guarantees against revolution. The policy of the new Government, he continues, will be moderate at home and pacific abroad. All attempts at revolution will be vigorously opposed without attacking existing institutions. Pietri, formerly private Secretary of the Emperor Napoleon, denies the authenticity of the appeal of the ex-Erapress Eugenie to the -French people, published recently in the London papers. A special from Berlin on the 6th says the Emperor William was seriously sick, and his physicians advised him not to undertake a journey to Vienna. News was received at Madrid on the 7th that a portion of General Velarde’s troops in Barcelona had mutinied, and he had saved himself by flight, and subsequently resigned. The Cortes on the 7th elected Senor Orenz President. Figueras announced to the Cortes his determination to return to them the powers with which the Assembly had invested him as President of the Provisional Government of Spain. He said that the conditions of the tenure of his grave responsibility had become more difficult than heretofore. Senor Pi y Margall was nominated to form a new Cabinet. On the Bth the Cortes passed a resolution proclaiming a Federal Republic, by a vote of 210 yeas against 2 nays. Prince Jerome Napoleon called upon President MacMabon in Paris on the 7th, and left his card. The President returned a message acknowledging the courtesy with his compliments. - ~ A cable dispatch of the 7th says the holera had disappeared from the country adjacent to the Danube. Recent letters from Vienna report that the following United States Commissions had been assigned to arrange and supervise the exhibition in the American Department: Very few of the exhibitors from this country were present: On Mining and Metallurgy—Howard Painter. Agriculture—J. A. Warden. Food —E. M. Horsford. Iron and Steel —G. Mendenhall. Paper—G. W. Silcox. Machinery —G. A. Stanberry. Philosophical Instruments —R. R. Lines. Musical Instruments—N. M. Lowe. Education—J. D. PhUbriek. A New York dispatch states that the Geneva «ward of $15,500,000 is to be paid September 14 of the present year. The Alexandra Palace, near Loncjpn —a magnificent exhibition establishment named In honor of the Prineess of Wales—was destroyed by fire on the 9th. Loss $3,000,000. Several persons were injured. At the municipal election in Lyons, France, held under the act recently passed by the Assembly, 35 out of 36 Radical nominees were chosen. At a secret session of the Spanish Cortes, on the evening of the Bth, Senor Margall proposed a new Ministry. After an excited discussion, and amid much confusion, Margall announced that he would withdraw bis list of Ministers. A great uproar followed, and, after order was restored, the Cortes appealed to Senor Figuerand he finally consented to do so. A vote of confidence in his Ministry was then adopted. A Ministerial circular, addressed to the Prefects of Departments, suggesting confidentially the employment of subsidies and such other means of influenoe as could be secretly brought to bear for the control of the Press, was read in the French Assembly on the 10th. M. Bcule, Minister of the Interior, admitted the authenticity of the circular, and accepted the responsibility for issuing the same. After a protracted scene of confusion and excitement, a motion supporting the Government was carried by a vote of 389 yeas against 315 nays. The result shows that the coalition of the Conservatives was still unbroken. A report was current in Paris on the 10th, that Count Von Arnim, the German Ambassador, had been recalled, because he made unnecessary calls upon President MacMahou. The Spanish Ministry tendered their resignations on the 10th, and during the afternoon the Cortes entrusted to Senor Figueras the organization of a new Ministry. After consultation with his friends and with leading members of Cortes, Benor Figueras reported that he was unable to form a Cabinet. Senor Orense has re signed the Presidency of the Constituent .Cades The New York Daily OrapMe of a recent date contains an extract from a private letter) dated Rome, May 15, which gives a rumor, prevalent in that city, that Pope Pius IX. had died some days previous, and that his place was filled by an old and astute priest named Abbate Minati, who is said to bear a striking resemblance to the Popa. The letter says: “The Pope died, but, instead of their announcing this fact to the public by bulletins from the Vatican, they began to inform the outside world that the Holy Father was getting better, and finally that he was quite well again, the fact being that the remains of Pius IX. were hidden away in some of the secret recesses of the Vatican cellars, and that Abbate Minati quietly stepped into bis place.” Several French officials tendered their resignation on the Uth, in consequence of the circular issued by the Minister oT the Interior suggesting the subsidizing of the Press. Commissioner Schultz, General Van Buren’s successor at Vienna, In a recent letter says the American Department of the Vienna Exposition would be in complete order by the 15th of June, which could not be the case with that of any other nation, not excepting England, which had the advantage of a corps of workmen brought to Vienna to hasten to completion and perfect that department. The Austrian Government, lie says, should have taken another year to prepare for the Exposition. Not only were the gronnds not finished, but ail those facilities which they had promised were incomplete. THE NEWWORLD. ~ Gold closed in New York on the Uth at mx@llT*. Information was received in Washington on

the sth that Santa Rosa, an American citizen who had been imprisoned in Cuba, had been released. The Polaris survivors arrived in Washington on the sth, and were interviewed J>y the Secretary of the Navy. The President, Secretary of the Interior and General Sherman, in a consultation on the sth, came to the conclusion that the qnestion as to what should be done with the Modoc prisoners, whether they should be tried by military commission or remitted to the civil courts, would be submitted to the Attorney-General by the military authorities for his opinion, which will govern the law in the case. Governor Straw, of New Hampshire, was inaugurated at Concord on the sth. He recommends the Local Option law as the best method of restraining intemperance. In the recent election for Judges of the Supreme and Circuit Courts in Illinois the candidates supported by the Farmers’ Conventions were generally successful. In the Fifth District, where the most bitter feeling seemed to exist, Judge Alfred M. Craig, of Knox County, was elected to the Supreme bench by, a majority of over 2,000 over Judge Lawrence, the present incumbent. Governor Grover, of Oregon, has ordered General Ross to deliver the Lost River murderers (Modoc Indians) in his possession to the custody of the Sheriff of Jackson County, and all other captives to the commanding officer of the United States forces in the Lake Basin. President Grant and his family and General Babcock left Washington on the 6th for Long Branch. Wright, the Washington murderer, who was to have been hanged on Decoration Day, but was respited out of respect to its commemorative character, was executed on the 6th. Hon. John Printiss, the oldest printer and newspaper publisher in New England, and perhaps in the United States, died at Keene, N. H., on the 6th, in the 96th year of his age. He established the New Hampshire Sentinel in 1799, and conducted it for forty-nine years. A report was sent from New York on the 6th that Victoria C. Woodhull had died suddenly of heart disease. A subsequent dispatch stated that she was not dead, but in an unconscious state, and could not recover. An enterprising individual writing to the Government from Tiffin, 0., has offered to pay $60,000 for the privilege of exhibiting Captain Jack throughout the country during sixty days. The jury in the case of Mrs. Charlotte Lamb, the Wisconsin poisoner, has found her guilty of murder. The recent Jubilee in Chicago, in commemoration of the re-building of the city, was in all respects a success. Over 50,000 visitors from different sections of the country were in the city on that occasion. The musical concerts were largely attended. A dispatch from General Davis’ camp on the sth says preparations had been made by General Davis for the hanging of about a dozen of the worst of the Modoc gang, when an order was received from Washington to hold the prisoners. This stopped the contemplated execution. The feeling in camp was one of profound disgust at,the result. -_ . News was received In San Francisco on the 6th of an outbreak among the Apaches at the San Carlos Agency, in Arizona. Lieutenant Almy, of the Fifth Cavalry, had been shot and killeth and an attempUwas made on the life of Agent Larrabee. At Raleigh, N. C., on the 6th, two murderers, Griffin and Mordecai, after preparing for the gallows, and while at their devotions, received commutations of their sentences to imprisonment for life. A large crowd had gathered to witness their execution. A Washington special of the 7th says: “From statements thus far made in the Folaris investigation, the separation of the vessel from tho ice-floe was purely accidental, instead of being effected with premeditation; that there is not the slightest reason, from the testimony thus far taken, to suspect any poisoning, mutiny or heartless desertion, and that Esquimaux Joe never told any such story as has been attributed to him in regard to the death of Captain Hall.” The opinion of Attorney-General Williams was announced on the 7th, to the effect that such of the Modoes as are charged with offenses against the recognized law of war, might be tried and punished by a military commission. The War Department would, in accordance with this opinion, send instructions to General Davis, through General Scofield. ' A large portion of the Hyde Park woolen mill, near Boston, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $500,000; insurance, $400,000. About a dozen stores were burned in Toledo a few nights ago. Loss about $200,000. The Springfield (Ill.) State Hegister of the 7th, gives the following list of Circuit Judges elected at the late Judicial election in Illinois. The list embraces all the Districts excepting the Eighth: First District—William Brown, of Winnebago. Second—T. D. Morphy, of McHenry. Tbird-W. W. Heaton, of Lee. Foorth—Sylvanus Wilcox, of Kane. Fifth—G. W. Pleasants, of Rock Island. Sixth—E. S. Leland, of LaSalle. Seventh—J. Mcßoberts, of Will. Ninth—Joseph W. Cochrane, of Peoria. Tenth—Joseph Sibley, of Adams. Eleventh—C. L. Hlgbee, of Pike: Twelfth—John Bams, of Marshall. Thirteenth—N. J. PUteburv, of Livingston. Fourteenth—Thomas F. Tipton, of McLean. Fifteenth—C. L. Davis, of Vermilion. Sixteenth—C. B. Smith, of Champaign. Seventeenth—Lyman Lacey, of Mason. Eighteenth—Cyrns Epler, of Morgan. Nineteenth—Charles 8. Lane, of Sangamon. Twentieth—H. M. Vandever, of Christian. Twenty-first—James C. Allen, of Crawford. Twentn-second—William H. Snyder, of 8L Clair. Twenty-third—Amos Watts, of Washington. Twenty-fourth—T. B. Turner, of Jefferson. Twenty-fifth—Monroe C. Crawford, of Union. Twenty-sixth—David J. Baker, of Alexander. A fire doing $170,000 damage occurred in Cincinnati on the Sth, burning 1,400 barrels ol coal oil, twenty-five freight cars, mostly loaded, a lumber yard with 3,000,000 feet, chfefiy hard lumber, and seventeen dwellings, most of them small frame cottages. Mrs. Boddy and Mrs. Scheera, two women widowed by the Modoes, were at General Davis’ camp a few days ago for the purpose of identifying the murderers of their husbands. They recognized Hooka Jim and Steamboat Frank as having been concerned in the massacre. These two Indians had turned Btate’s evidence and assisted in the capture of others of their gang, and were consequently at liberty and armed. The women became excited, and, losing all control over their feelings, began crying and started In for desperate work. Mrs. Scheera drew a pistol and started for Steamboat Frank, and Mrs. Boddy drew a knife and dashed at Hooka Jim. General Davis stepped in and secured both weapons. During the struggle the General received a slight cut in the palm of the hand and near the thumb. Hooka and Steamboat stood like statues. Neither spoke or offered to resist A Nashville (Tenn.) dispatch of the Sth says it was very evident that the disease which some call cholera was subsiding Fewer cases were reported, and milder. A Washington dispatch of the 9th announces _i; i ~

that General Schofield had been instructed by telegraph to appoint a Military Commission to try the Modoc prisoners. The residence of Mr. Joseph Dalrymple, near Goshen, Ind., caught fire one night recently, and was entirely consumed. The bodies of Mrs. Dalrymple and two children were burned to cinders.

Dispatches from Boyle’s Camp, received in San Francisco on the 9th, relate the particulars of the mgssacre of some Modoe prisoners, supposed to have been done by some Oregon volunteers. On the morning of the 7th, James Fairchild and about a dozen other men left Fairchild’s Ranche, Cottonwood Creek, with seventeen Modoc captives, women and children, including Shacknasty Jim, Bogus Charley; Tehee Jack, Pony and Little John. The Indians were in a wagon drawn by fqpr mules. At the crossing of Lost River the party encountered the Oregon volunteers, under command Of Captain Hiser. The soldiera gathered about the wagon and questioned Fairchild, who told them that the Modoes were all Hot Creeks, except Little John, and that there were no charges against them. Fairchild undertook to push on) to Boyle’s Camp, and the volunteers retired to the camp near Crawley’s. On the road he noticed two men ahead, riding to Rocky Point, as if to Intercept him. When the team approached, one presented a needle-gun at Fairchild and ordered him to dismount Every male Indian prisoner was Ihen deliberately shot and killed. The warriors shot were, unarmed. They were not charged with murder. The news of this massacre was received in San Francisco with surprise and indignation. A New Orleans dispatch of the 9th says the cholera was thought to be on the increase in that city, though there was no marked increase in the mortality. The recent Tennessee Industrial Exposition, hold at Nashville, is said to have been a great success. A dispatch from Washington to the Associated Press oh the 10th says: “The reports of the proceedings of the Board of Inquiry at Vienna, while they do not impugn the honesty of General Van Buren, show his incapacity for the business placed in his charge, and hence the ‘irregularities’ which led to his suspension.” The New York Court of Appeals have unanimously granted Stokes a new trial. The lower Court is held to have erred in charging the jury that the law presumed murder from the fact of killing, throwing the burden of defense on the accused, and in the exclusion of gome testimony offered, and the admission of certain other evidence. A large fire occurred at Newburgh, N. Y., on the 9th. Loss $250,000. The Now York Grand Jury have found an indictment against young Walworth, the parricide, of murder in the first degree. • By an explosion of fire-damp at the Henry Clay Colliery, near Shamokin, Pa., on the 10th, a number of miners lost their lives. There were fifty men in the slope at the time of the explosion, ttoty-fiy&Jbf whom were known to have escaped." Up Vo ten o’clock ten dead bodies had been takers out. The sixth annual session of the lowa Press Association met at Cedar Rapids on the 10th, and was largely attended. Several resolutions were passed, among others, one condemning the acceptance of free passes from railroads. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Judge E. H. Thayer, of the Clinton Age; Vice-President, John Mahin, of the Muscatine Journal; Secretary, A. C. Swalm, pf the Jefferson Bee; Treasurer, Walt Parrott; Executive Committee, J. P. Allen,-of the Clinton Bee; Andy Felt, of the Nashua Poet, and L. B. Raymond, of the Cherokee Leader. In New York City, Dr. Julius E. Julian has been sentenced to one year’s imprisonment and to pay SSOO fine for sending obscene publications through the mails. George Edmonds, a coal miner of Steubenville, Ohio, recently bought a twenty-five pound can of blasting powder and put it in a cupboard in his dwelling. While he was at work and his wife out on an errand, his children found the can and set fire to it. Three of them were killed outright, and the fourth go badly injured that it could not live. The children were all under ten years of age. The house was almost destroyed. ,At a recent term of the United States Circuit Court at Des Moines, lowa, Judge Love dismissed the action, commenced last fall, against.C. Augustus Haviland, of the Soldiers' Friend. It seems Mr. Haviland had paid out $9.75 in the prosecution of the pension claim, and received only $9.70. According to a Memphis dispatch of the 10th, the cholera was undoubtedly increasing in that city. The interments that day were 18, against 11 the day before, while the undertakers had received, at six o’clock, orders for 14 for the 11th. The Postmaster-General has decided not to abrogate the postal-card contract, but to give the contractors Ume to obtain better paper and continue the work. The remains of the late Minister Orr were received in New York on the 11th, and were escorted by the Knights Templar and a detachment of police to the Governor’s room at the City Hall, where they were to lay in state. The New Hampshire Legislature has chosen the following State officers: Secretary of State, B. F. Prescott, of Concord; State Treasurer, Solon A. Carter, of Keene. Frank H. Walworth was arraigned in the Court of Oyer and ’{erminer at New York on the 11th, on the charge of having murdered his father. He pleaded “Not guilty.” Dr. Lewis E. Meyers, a dentist of Middletown, N. Y., while drunk recently, stabbed his father in the breast, near the heart, with a sharp instrument. It was thought the wound would prove fatal. A reeent Issue of the Chicago Journo? says: “In every instance where, previous to the recent judicial elections in this Btate, the farmers and anti-monopolists nominated a distinctive candidate of their own, and then united in his support at the polls, the ‘farmers’ candidate’ for Judge was elected.” It is reported that Captain Jack, in an interview with General Davis, said: “Bogus Charley and Shacknasty Jim killed General Canby. Allen David, the Klamath chief, advised them to kill General Csnby, so they did it. lam telling the truth. I did not kill him. I had it done, but did not do ik I don’t lift. Bring the men that saw me do this thing. I want to face them. If I had my chains off I would tell ail the men who did these things.” * The massacre of the Modoes is denounced in unmeasured terms by the Oregon papers. The Illinois Press Association commenced Ms ninth annual session at Quiney on At the opening of the session there were about fifty editors present. The newly-elected officers of the Masonie Grand Lodge of Wisconsin are as follows: B. Delos Palford, of Mineral Point, Grand Mae-

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ter; H. E. Hubbard, of LaCroese, Bentor Gr*nd Warden; J. 8. Burroughs, of Fond dor Lac, Junior Grand Warden; W. H. Htoer, of Fond du Lac, Grand Treasurer; Geo. E. Haskinson, of Green Bay, Grand Secretary. The Ohio State Medical Society, at Columbus, on the 11th, selected Toledo as their next place of meeting, and elected H. J. Harriek, of Alvond, President; M. J. Conklin, of Dayton, Secretary; H. Edwards, of Lancaster, Assistant Secretary; and 8. 8, Gray, of Plqua, Librarian and Treasurer. In the case of Dr. West, the alleged murderer of a negro in Delaware, a report of which was published at the time, the jury brought in a verdict of not guilty, on the ground of selfdefense. -Joshua Nicholson and his accomplice, Hallahaa, have been sentenced, at Annapolis, Md., to lie hung on the Ist of August, for the murder of Mrs. Lampley. The ehelera at Nashville was abating on the 11th. There were twenty-four interments at Memphis on that day, against eighteen the day before.

The Recent Domestic Tragedy in New York.

Ngw Tons, Jons 3. The following are the particulars of the shooting of Mansfield T. Walworth, the author, who was a son of the late Chancellor Walworth, by his son, Frank H. Walworth, of Saratoga. It is to be remarked that Mr.’Walworth and his family have for some time been living separately —Mrs. Walworth and her son Frank residing at Saratoga, and Mr. Walworth boarding in this city. The family is one of the oldest and most respectable in New York. It appears that a serious quarrel has divided the husband and father from his wife and son, and the son claims that his father’s repeated and persistent insulting and threatening letters to his mother are what impelled him to the terrible deed: Monday afternoon, about 8 o’clock, Frank H. Walworth arrived in this city from Saratoga, and put np at the Sturtevant House. He wan assigned to room No. 267. After cleaning himself from the dust of travel, he went out and proceeded to the house where his father was boarding, in Fourth avenue, two doors north of Fifty-fourth street. He inquired for Mr. Walworth, and was informed that he was not at home. He then left a note, asking his father to call at the Stnrtevant House and see him, as he wanted to settle up some family matters. When Mr. Walworth reached his house, he received a note which his son had left, and this morning left the house about 6 o’clock to go and see him. At 6 ;15 Walworth entered the Sturtevant House, and inquired of the night clerk for Frank n. Walworth. The clerk sent a little boyup to his room with the card of Mr. Walworth senior to ascertain if the son would then see him. The boy soon returned with the answer to show the gentleman up. Walworth senior then went Upstairs, and in about fifteen or twenty minutes afterward the sound of shots was heard coming from the room by the chambermaid, who ran down stairs and informed the. clerk. The cierk immediately sent out for an officer, but before he arrived Frank Walworth walked down stairs with his coat on his arm, and stated to the clerk that he had shot his father, and asking where the nearest police station was. After receiving the desired information, he went to the telegraph office, sent off a*, dispatch to his uncle, telling him what he had done and asking him to break the news as gently as possible to his mother, before she could hear of it in another way. He then proceeded to the Thirteenth Street Police Btation, and, walking up to the desk, stated to Sergeant Mullen, who was in charge, that he had shot his father, who was then lying dead in the Stnrtevant House, at the same time handing over his revolver, which proved to be one of Colt’s five-barreled. The Sergeant examined the chambers of the revolver and found that four of them had recently been emptied of their contents. Ha then asked the young man why he committed the murder, ana the answer was “Family troubles.” He was then taken back and locked up in one of the ceils, after which the Sergeant went down to the Sturtevant Honseto ascertain the truth or falsity of the statement made by the prisoner. The hotel clerk told him that it was true, and showed him to the room where the body of senior Walworth had been found lying on the floor with a pool ol blood about his head. Coroner Young soon arrived and made an examination of the body and wounds. There were four bullet-wounds—a wound in the left side and one in the right side of the chest; another in the left arm, and yet another in the right side of the face near the ear. There are marks of powder near this, so that the weapon must have been close to the flesh when it was discharged. The Coroner then gave a permit for the re. moval of the body, which was subsequently taken to the undertaker’s at No. 60 Carmine street. Dr. Marsh will make a post mortem examination of the body at the aboVe place to-morrow morning, and the inquest will be held the latter part of tins week. The prisoner will remain at the stationhouse until after the inquest, and should a verdict be rendered against him, he win be sent to the Tombs. He is but nineteen years of age, and treats the affair very lightly. He expresses no regret for the murder, except in so far as the terrible distress it will occasion his mother and family. Dr. Mfcrsh did not find any pistol in the pockets of the deceased, but found the bote left IS him by his son in his breast pocket. The Tribune famishes the following: Mrs- Walworth, a little more than three years ago, imtituted proceedings for divorce and eventually obtained a bill of separation on the ground of cruel treatment on the part of her husband. She received the sympathy and support of the relatives of herself and husband and all friends who were conversant with the facts in the case. Since her separation from him Walworth has annoyed ner in various ways, principally by writing her abusive letters and occasionally threatening her life. He has also reflected upon her character, it is said, in an indirect way, in one of his works of fiction. . Mrs. Walworth is the daughter of General Hardin, of Illinois, a military man of prominence in the Mexican war, he having especially distinguished himself at Buena Vista. Frank Walworth, on a commitment madeont by the Coroner, has been removed to the Tombs. m « i To prevent illegal voting, the OoMtitution&l Convention of Pennsylvania has adopted a provision which requires that each ballot cast shall be numbered in the order of its reception, and each Yot*r, W he pleases, may asan additional safe, guard write his nanw tm tiift back of the ballot. #w „ v „ . . • ... • ? n .’ fciTj./ s