Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1874 — Page 1

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Frightful Colliery Explosion in LancasjUre, Eng. Austrian Bishops Withdraw From the Reichsrath. Arrival of the Remains of Dr. Livingstone at Southampton. r Ju lAaerican Sentenced tft Death In Havana. Dismissal of Archbishop Ledochowskl. Revolutionary Proceedings in Little Rode, Ark. Strike of the Iron-Workers of Pennsylvania. C. 3 . .. ' ' Gov. Vm. B. Washburn Elected Senator from: Massachusetts. A Practical Illustration of Cremation : In New York. <; ■' - ~ Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc. THK OLD WORLD. The upper house of the Austrian Keichsratb, on the 13th, passed the Ecclesiastical hills, whereupon the Bishops withdrew in a body. A Vienna dispatch of that date says the Emperor had sent a conciliatory reply to the Tope’s recent protest against the bills. The Brazilian Government has pardoned the Bishop of Pernambuco, who was recently imprisoned for refusing obedience to the command of the State in ecclesiastical matters. A Madrid dispatch of the 13th says the Carllst forces before Gerona had retired, the municipal authorities having paid them 100,000 reals. I)OKing a hurricane on the 14th the Atlantic cable of 1866 ceased working. The fault was said to be about twenty-five miles from Valentis, Ireland, In shallow water. A shocking explosion occurred on the 15th lu a coal mine at Dunkenfield, Lancashire, England, by which a large number of miners were killed and Injured. Fifty bodies had been recovered up to midnight of that day. One hundred miners had been rescued. The explosion was caused by naked lights. Thb remains of Dr. Livingstone reached Southampton on the morning of the 15th. —Fifty thousand persons witnessed the landing. During the passage of the procession from the dock to the railway station ininute guns were Bred and bells tolled. AbchbishopLbdochowski, the contumacious Bishop of Posen, has been dismissed from his see. M. Db LEBSBPS bas declined to accept the rates of toll fixed by the International Commission for the use of the Suez Canal, and the Khedive has decided to keep It in order should he persist In his declination. A Madrid dispatch of the 17th says that Gen. Concha had declined the proposition to take 8,000 men to San Sebastian and attack the Carlists at Bilboa in the rear. Thb funeral of Dr. Livingstone was ob served in Westminster Abbey on the 18th, and was attended by a large crowd of notables, Including a full representation from the Royal Geographical Society. Madrid dispatches of the 18th say that active operations had been resumed before Bilboa. i A Berne dispatch of the 19th says that the returns so far received Indicate that the plebiscite taken on the revision of the Federal Constitution of Switzerland had resulted in a - majority ot over 100.000 for revision. A Berlin telegram of tlje 19th asserts that the Bishop of Nancy had been heavily fined, for his charge to the clergy in July last. THB NEW WORLD. Onb of the New York Cremation Society’s members having recently died, the organization have practically applied Jtheir idea of disposing of the dead. The body waa put upright in a fire-proof receptacle, through which intensely-heated air was forced. The father of the deceased paid the bill —$3.85 — and now has the ashes of his son in an urn on the parlor mantel-piece. Thb iron-workers of Pennsylvania, according to a dispatch from Fottsville on the 13tb, to the number of 10,000, were on a strike, because of the refusal of the masters to accept the schedule of prices recently adopted by the Puddiers’ Union. The membership of the iattejr organization Is between 50,000 and 60,000, and the treasury is said to be sufficiently well supplied with money to sustain the members a long time should the strike become general, as It threatened to be. Hon. Schuyler Colfax has written a letter peremptorily declining to become a candidate for Congress from his district next fall. r. The first decision of the new Chief-Justice ot the Supreme Court was delivered on the . 13th on a case appealed from Chicago, affecting the right of the State to tax the shares of National Bank stock held by non-resident owners. Judge Drummond decided that the State had not that right, but Chief-Justice Waite reverses this decision and declares that such shares are taxable by local authorities. The question involves the validity of taxes levied by municipal as well as State, authorities. Thb Secretary of the Treasury, in compllance with the resolution of the House, reports the cost of refunding the national debt into 5 per cent bonds, authorized by acts ot Congress of July 14, 1870, and Jan. 30, 1871, etc. The whole amount of bonds refunded was $814,416,150, as follows: Bonds bearing 0 per oent Interest to bonds bearing 5 per cent. Interest $300,401,150 ; bonds bearing 5 par cent, loan 1858, to hoods bearing 0 per oent, funded loon ot 1881, $13,955,000. The cart thereof has been $1,440,792.

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Bix ballots were had for United States Senator in the Massachusetts Legislature on the 14tb, the first (being the twenty-third regular ballot) resulting as follows: Whole number of votes, 966; necessary to a choice, 134. Dawes, received 87; Hoar, 71; Curtis, TO; Adams, 18; Bullock, 9; Banks, 6; Sanford, 3; Pierce, 2; Washburn, 3. The last ballot (twenty-eighth) was as follows: Whole number of votes, 840; necessary to a choice, 121. Dawes received 69; Hoar, 34; Curtis, 62; Adams, 37; Waahburn, 20; Bank 3,8; Sanford, 2; Pierce, 2; Pitman, 2; Whittier, 2. The Directors of the Sam ana Bay Company met In New York on the 14th and adopted a resolution appealing to the Government to reinstate them in their former position. New Orleans dispatches of the 14th ssy that the river had risen three inches during the preceding twenty-four hours, smd was about seven inches above the flood of 1871. On the afternoon of the 14th a Chinaman who was Implicated In the murder of Bornstein at Connne, Utah, was taken by a mob from the officer having him in charge and hung to the railroad bridge east of the town. A servant girl named Isabella Peterson was burned to death at Hyde Park, 111., a few days ago, her clothes having been set afire by the explosion of a kerosene lamp. A Mr. Mnlroy was severely burned in attempting to save the life ot the unfortunate girl. The Delegate Convention of the State Grange of Illinois met at Bloomington on the 14th. The meeting was called to adopt or reject certain changes proposed in the constitution of the National Grange. The proposition to make Kelley and others life members was rejected, and the other proposed amendments wore agreed to. Abßistant-Secrbtart Sawter voluntarily appeared in the Sanborn inquiry on the 15th and denied much of Solicitor Banfleld’s testimony concerning himself. He stated that the Solicitor was regarded by tho department as being something more than a clerk and that his opinion and counsel as to the interpretation of any contract or as to the propriety of any action done under It were sought by the Secretary of the Treasury. When the question as to whether a contract should be made had been decided, the making of the contract, the carrying on of all correspondence in reference to it, and the modes of doing business under it, with the exception of the receipts of money arising from the collections, are committed to the Solicitor as agent ot the Secretary for this purpose. The dwelling of John Stewart, of Marblehead, Mass., was burned a few nights ago, and the daughter of the owner periahed in the flames. The Brooklyn Presbytery has reaffirmed its decision that the preaching of Mbs Smiley In the Rev. Dr. Cuyler’s ohurch was a violation of the injunctions of the General Asaembly. The Industrial Congress in session at Rochester, N. Y„ adopted a series of resolutions on the 15th protesting against the expansion of currency issued through the National banking system, uid demanding the issue of a National circulating medium by the Government directly to the people/without the intervention of National Banks. The Illinois Republican State Central Committee met'in Chicago on the 15th, and decided to hold a State Convention at Springfield, Wadnanday, June 17, the basis of representation to be the vote cast for the Republican Presidential Electors in 1872, to-wit: One delegate for every 400 votes snd one for each fraction of 150 votes. The candidates to he nominated at said convention nre for State Treasurer and for Superintendent of Public Instruction, "----- — The Illinois State Grange adjourned on the 15th, after voting on the proposed amendments tothe constitution, nearly all of which were adopted, Including that providing for county organization. According to advices received on the 15th from the Indian Peace Commissioners, who had reached Omaha on their way home, there is no disposition on the part of the tribes visited by them to engage in war. The Commissioners assert that the warlike reports forwarded during their absence at the agencies were in the Interest of certain speculators and contractors. The Ohio Constitutional Convention on the 15th took the female suffrage question from the table and killed it—4l votes against to 49 votes in favor, being 40 less than the constitutional majority. A terrific tornado visited Nashville, Tenn., and other places in that latitude on the 15th. Great damage to property resulted in Nashville, and it was feared considerable loss of life. The storm crushed in the fronts of buildings, snd lifting a large livery stable from its foundations carried it into the back water of the”river, drowning several horses. The damage in the city was estimated at SIOO,000. Joseph Brooks, who claims to have been elected Governor of Arkansas in 1872, took the oath of office on the 15th, and within five minutes from that time took forcible possession of the Governor’s office and ejected Gov. Baxter by force. The following dispatch from Gov. Baxter to the President indicates the grounds of thb proceeding : Little Rock, Ark., April 131874. To the President iff the United State*: I have been advised by pnblic rumor that In the Btate Circuit Court for thb county, in a longpending suit brought by Joseph Brooks tor the office of Governor of thb State, a demurrer to the complaint was overruled and immediate Judgment of ouster against me given. This was done la the abaence of counsel for me and without notice. Immediately thereafter the Circuit Judge adjourned his court. The claimant haa taken possession of the Stale buildings and ejected me by force. I propose to take meat ores Immediately to reanme possession of the State property, and to maintain my authority aa the rightful Governor of the,State. Armed men, acting under thb revolutionary movement, an now in charge of the Government Armory and Capitol hmldlng. I deem it my duty to communicate this elate of affairs to tne President. I trust the revolutionary act may be settled without bloodshed. I respectfully ask the support of tha General Government in my efforts to maintain the rlghtfnl Government of the State of Arkansas, and that the, commander of the United States Arsenal at thb poet be directed to Sustain me 10 thb direction. I respectfully request a reply to thb communication st an early moment. (Signed) Elisha Baxter, „ Governor of Arkansas. A later dispatch says that Gov. Baxter had taken possession of St. John’s College as headquarters, that he had declared martial law, «nd that an onward movement would be made upon Brook* and the party holding the State House on the following day. 1 RieL, the member of the Dominion Parliament from Manitoba, against whom an Indictment for murder has been found, was expelled, on the 16th, by 194 to 68 Totes. Dockery, once Collector of Customs st Jacksonville, Fls., was lately arretted tn Cube tor communicating with the insurgents, triad by court-martial sod sentenced to death. An attempt was being made, on the 16th, to in-

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duce the Captain-General to commute hb sentence. It b announced in a Washington telegram of the 16th that “In consequence of recent statements that certain bounty laws have been btely passed by Congress, the Second Auditor’s office b flooded by letters of inquiry and requests for blanks for application. Up to the present time no bounty law has been passed by thb Congress.” . On the 16th John L. Pendrey, a practicing attorney of‘Leavenworth, Kan., testified before the Sanborn investigating committee that when he was at (me time seeking a contract to collect moneys due to the Government by certain corporations Secretary Boutwell referred the subject to Banfleld. The witness oalled on Banfleld from time to time, and at his request produced the papers on which hb charge was based. Boutwell went out of office without arranging the matter. Then the witness called on the President, who said that he would see Secretary Richardson. In the meantime Mr. Richardson informed the witness that he fully understood the case. Banfield had stated that there was a great deal of money in the case, and said he would allow witness 50 per cent, on the first SIOO,OOO and 25 per cent, on the remainder. The witness, during hb examination, said every contract he asked for had been given to Sanborn on the recommendation of Banfleld. After the conclusion of Pendrey’s testimony ,the committee closed the investigation, reserving the privilege to Secretary Richardson and Mr. Coughlin to appear if they desire to do so. Twelve of the printers engaged in the alleged conspiracy of the Typographical Union of Titusville, Pa., against the Daily Courier, ot that city, have been sentenced to twentyfour hours in jail and a fine of forty dollars each. The thirtieth ballot for United States Senator for Massachusetts was had on the 16th, wlththe following result: Whole number of votes, 268. Dawes, 92; Hoar, 88; Curtis, 72; Adama, 4; Banks, 8; Washburn, 1; Sanford, 2; Whittier, 1. The Oregon Farmers’ State Convention assembled at Salem on the 16th and nominated: For Congress, T. W. Davenport; for Governor, Thomas F. Campbell, editor of the Chrietian Messenger; Secretary of State, J. H. Doughitt; Treasurer, B. Beach; State Printer, Willbm M. Hand, publisher of the Mountaineer ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, M. M. Oglesby. The platform adopted asks for the building of the Portland, Dallas & Salt Lake Road; the improvement of rivers and harbors ; the completion of roads already begun ; favors the proper encouragement of transportation companies, corporations and persons engaged in legitimate business, all under subjection to law; that freights and fares should be fixed by the Legislature; considers personal character the criterion for fitness for office; that the General Government should pay the losses and damages of settlers by the Modoc war ; favors tha Local Option and Civil Damage laws; Indorses the Granger efforts against extortions and monopolies, etc. A delegation of planters from the river parishes bordering on the Ouachita and Red Rivers, as well as from parishes bordering on the Mississippi River, waited on Gov. Kellogg at New Orleans on the 16th, stating that theli cattle and stock had all been drowned, their lands and houses inundated, and themselves and'their laborers reduced to destitution by the unprecedented flood. They asked that the United States military authorities be requested to bsue rations to the sufferers. According to Little Rock, Ark., dispatches of the 16th there was little change in the condition of affairs. Gov. Baxter still occupied St. John’s College and was making preparations to sustain himself. Mr. Brooks held the State House with two pieces of artillery and about 200 men. Brooks issued a proclamation defining his position, and Baxter a proclamation declaring martial law. The latter had surrounded the State House with a cordon of sentinels, and it was thought would have 2,000 men at his command by the following day. A later dispatch says that GoV. Baxter’s forces had just taken possession of the telegraph office. The President had replied to the demand of Gov. Baxter, asking for the support of the Government, that his call' was not made In conformity with the Constitution and laws of the United States, and that he could give no aid under the circumstances. To Mr. Brooks, who made a similar demand, he made reply declining to comply with his request, on the ground that his right to hold the office had not been fully and finally decided by the courts of Arkansas. The commanding officer at Little Rock had been Instructed to take no steps whatever to interfere in the pending troubles, except to preserve the public peace. A coxHirrax of citizens from New York waited upon the President on the 17th, and presented tohlm a petition signed by about 2,500 bankers, capitalists and merchants of that city, asking him to veto the Senate finance bill, or any other bill tending to expand the currency. Gov. W. B. Washburn, of Massachusetts, was elected to the unexpired Senatorial term ot the late Mr. Sumner on the 17th. This result was rcached.on the thirty-third ballot, as follows; Whole number of votes cast, 267; necessary to a choice, 134. William B. Washburn received 151; Curtis, 04; Dawes, 26; Adams, 15; Loring, 4; Banks, 4; Wendell Phillips, S. N. Gifford and J. G. Whittier, 1 each. A dispatch received from Raleigh, N. C., on the 17th reports severe and heavy rumblings in Bald and Stone Mountains on the previous day. The trembling of the earth was felt more than 100 miles from the mountains. The shocks were more severe than before, and it waa firmly believed by scientists that an {eruption was imminent A Little Rock dispatch of the 17th reports little change in the situation in Arkansas. Both Governors were surrounded by bodies of men armed to the teeth, but both evidently considered discretion the better part of valor. Tbs Federal troops had been ordered to watch events, taking sides with neither, but ready to prevent bloodshed. The Postmaster had declined to deliver mail matter to either, but had telegraphed to Washington tor instructions. Judge Whyiock, of the Circuit Court, had overruled the motion to set aside the judgment. In the Brooka-Baxter ease, snd sustained s motion to correct the record so as to show that the demurrer was submitted without the knowledge of Baxter or his attorneys. Tbs bar held a meeting on the 17th and passed severe resolutions against Whipple, Brooks’ attorney, for his non-professional conduct, and also against the court fonts action in tbs absence ot tha Governor’s eounssl. The citizens <4 Little Kotik

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had issued a proclamation reciting recent events and calling upon the citizens of the State to sustain Gov. Baxter. Late in the evening the Postmaster-General instructed the Postmaster at Little Rock that letters addressed to “ Governor Baxter” or “ Baxter, Governor of Arkansas,” should be delivered to Baxter; letters addressed to "Governor Brooks” or to “ Brooks, Governor of Arkansas,” should be delivered to Brooks. He was Instructed to retain all communications addressed to " the Governor of Arkansas” until further orders. A late Rio Janeiro dispatch says a rupture had occurred between the Argentine Republic and the Government at Montevideo, because President Sarmiento had closed the River Uruguay against vessels from Oriental ports. Former reports that the Bishop of Pernambueo had been pardoned are denied. His sentence had been commuted to simple imprisonment. President Grant has pardoned Leander and Byron Fox, convicted last year of sending obscene books through the mails, and sentenced to oxe year’s imprisonment and aflne of SSOO each. The President ordered their discharge on condition of their paying the fine and costs. They claimed at the time that they had bought the hooks as purely scientific medical works, and were not aware of their containing anything that could be construed into mere obscenity. The Civil Service Commission, in a recent report to. the President, say : “ Regarded as a whole, the situation and prospects may be stated as favorable. To arreat the naw system now, when It has encountered all possible obstacles, and has surmounted mOBt of them, bnt has net had time to develop the experience required to exhibit the best application of its methods and full result of Us influence, would he In every way inconclusive and unfortunate. To carry on the reform for another year there is needed an appropriation of $35,000. It is desirable that the appropriation should be in snob language as to no longer leave doubt among people whether it be the intention of Congress to allow the new system a full and fair trial. In addition to the increased prestige and vigor which an unmistakable indorsement by Congress would impart to the new system it is plain that, in the language of tne President's message, December, 1872, it will require the direct attention of Congress to render the enforcement of the system binding upon my [his] successors.’ We cannot better express our convictions than by adopting the language of the highest officer elected by the people: ‘ There Is a pnblic feeling in this country, founded on reason, comprehending the best interests of the country, which demands reform in the civil service, and the ‘ elevation and purification of the civil eervice of the Government will be hailed with approval by the whole people of the United BtateaT’ ” A Washington dispatch of the 18th says Mayor Kramer, of Little Rock, had telegrahed Attorney-General Williams for aid in preserving the peace of that city in view of the extraordinary condition of affairs, and had been answered that the officer commanding the United States transport Little Rock had been Instructed to prevent bloodshed. The Attorney-General, in his reply, asks if the people of Arkansas have not patriotism enough to allow the question as to who shall hold the State office to be settled peaceably and lawfully, and not bring upon their State the disgrace and ruin ot civil war. A neat attempt to swindle a New York life insurance company haa been recently thwarted. A Dr. Ullng last summer procured a policy on the life of a Miss Louisa Germs for SIO,OOO. She was lately reported as having died, and a coffin supposed to contain her remains was duly buried. The suspicions of the officers of the company-were aroused and the coffin was disInterred, and found to contain a quantity of bricks. Uling, Miss Germs sad the undertaker who officiated at the burial have been arrested. The undertaker admits that he had entered into the conspiracy for the sake of $250, which Dr. Uling promised to pay him when the SIO,OOO should be received from the company. The Industrial Congress adjourned its session at Rochester, N. Y., on the 18th. A resolution was adopted inviting all the officers of the several international and national trades, labor and industrial unions to use their influence to organize the industrial classes under the Industrial Congress of the United States. Indianapolis was selected as the place in which the next session of the Congress will be held. A telegram has been sent by the Mayor of New Orleans to all the large cities of the United States asking for aid for the poor people in New Orleans drowned out by the Mississippi overflow. The situation in Arkansas on the 18th remained substantially as previously reported. Brooks had issued another proclamation, in which he admonished Baxter’s troops to go home to their families. The Federal troops had taken up their position between the opposing forces, so as to prevent bloodshed. On the 19th the commander of the United States troops took possession of the telegraph office and relieved Gov. Baxter’s guards. Gov. Baxter thereupon telegraphed to the President asking that the United States troops be removed. To this dispatch no answer had been received at midnight of the 19th. The situation was essentially unchanged. CONGRKBBION AL. In the Senate, on the 13th, Mr. Chandler waa excused from further service on the Committee on Mines and Mining, and Mr. Jones was appointed in his place. ...Bills were introduced—to authorize the Secretary of War to credit the several States and Territories for arms and munitions of war, under the act of 1808; to change the time of holding courts for the Eastern District of Wisconsin at • Oshkosh. ....The bill to provide for the incorporation and regulation of railroad companies in the Territories of the United States was taken np and debated aud several amendments were agreed to, when the bill as amended was finally passed—SO to 18.... An amendment was submitted to Mr. Carpenter's bill to provide for s new election In Louisiana, and considerable discussion was bad on the question of taking np and considering the bill, after which notice waa given that the bill would be called up on the 14th. ... .The House amendment to the bill to authorize aliens to act as engineers and pilots, which provide* that they shall have previously resided six months within the United States, was concurred 1 In the House, on the 18th, several bills and resolutions were introduced and referred among which were the following: To regnlate the service la the collection of customs at the various ports of entry in the United State#, and the disposition of fines, penalties and forfeiture* incurred nnder laws relating to customs; In relation to rates of freight and passengers on the Pacific Roads; for the construction of a ship canal from the Mississippi to the Golf of Mexico; for Improving navigation at the month of the Mississippi River; resolutions of the Illinois logiala tore asking for legislation to secure to the people or the United States equal advantages and facilities aa to rates, time and transportation on the Union Paetflc Railroad and Uaseveral branches.... The bill for the free exchange of newspaper* between publisher*, and free transmission of newspapers by mall within the conoty of their publication, was passed—l7B to 41. The bill provides that “from and after the passage of this act the following mail matter shall be allowed to pass free In the malls: First—Newspaper*, periodicals and magazines reciprocally Interchanged between publishers, and not exceeding sixteen ounce# in weight, to be confined to a single copy of each publication. Bscond—Newspapers. on* copv to each actual subscriber redding of reeefving um same within the county whet*

the same is published, bnt carriers shall not be required to distribute such papers unless postage Is paid npon them at nsnal rates”....A motion was made to suspend the rules and adopt the resolution reciting gross abnses and Irregularities in the letting of mail contracts, and providing for the investigation thereof, bnt the motion was not seconded by a majority. Quite a spirited debate ensued on the alleged abnses and irregularities, at the close of which It was understood that the resolution waa referred to the Postoffice Committee.... Adjourned In the Senate, on the 14th, the Finance Committee reported the Louisville & Portland Canal bill, and recommended that the snbstltnte passed by the House be concurred in. with certain amendments.... The Civil Rights bill introduced by the late Senator Sumner was reported from the Judiciary Committee with a recommendation that it be passed as amended... .A bill was introduced to regnlate bids for goods, supplies and transportation on account of the Indian service... .The bill to provide for a new election in Louisiana was taken np and debated... .Executive session and adjournment In the House, on the 14th, bills were reported from the Civil Service Committee—to provide for a commission to reorganize the customs service; for the reorganization of the Treasuiy Department. ...A bill was passed abolishing the office of Appraiser of Imported Merchandise at Providence, Portland, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Memphis, Evansville, Louisville, Norfolk, Mobile, Toledo and Pittsburgh, providing that there shall be only one Appraiser of Imported Merchandise at Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston and Savannah... .A joint resolution was introduced and referred, submitting to the Legislatures of tbe several States an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the election of United States Senators by the people of the several States... .The Currency bill was taken np and the previous question was seconded—ll 4to 88— and after the rejection of proposed amendments the bill was passed—l2B to j16....The Senate bill to amend the National Currency acts and to establish free banking was taken np and passed—: 40 to 102—and the bill now goes to the President for his signature, while the House bill has to await the action of the Senate... .Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 15th, the Houße bill amendatory to acts to provide National currency and to establish free hanking was referred tothe Committee on Finance.... The House bill making an appropriation of sW,7Gofor the payment of teachers in the public schools qf the District of Colombia, and providing for the jevy of a tax to ’reimburse the same, was passed..NA. bill was introduced and referred to reimburse the State of West Virginia for moneys expended in arming and equipping militia to aid in suppressing the rebellion. .. .The bill to provide for a new election in Louisiana was farther debated.... Adjourned. In the House, on the 15th, a hill was passed—lß6 to 49—to abolish the mileage of members of Congress, and providing that thay shall be paid their actual traveling expenses to and from Washington once each session.... The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Wh01e.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 16th, a joint resolution was introduced and referred declaring that it has become the dnty of the United States to recognize Cuba as one of the independent nations of the earth, and' that the United States will observe a strict neutrality between the contending parties.... Bills were Introduced—to enable disabled soldiers to receive money commutation npon orders for artificial limbs that are dated before June 16, 1870; amendatonrof the Pacific Railway act, requiring the Union Pacific Railway Company to prorata all freights carried over its line in connection with other railways.... The bill to enable the Mennonttes of Russia to effect a permanent settlement on pnblic lands of the.. United States was considered, and a substitute was offered.... The bill to provide for a new election in Louisiana was farther debated.... Adjonrned. In the House, on the i6th, a hill was reported from the Judiciary Committee, ordered printed and recommitted, for the distribution of the Geneva award.... The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was farther considered in Committee of the Whole, and several proposed amendments were disposed of, a spicy debate ensuing on a motion to reduce the item of the President’s salary from $50,000 to s2s,loo—it being contended by Borne of tbe members that the increase of salaries, including the President’s, at • the last session was unconstitutional. The motion was Onally rejected.... Adjonrned. In the Senate, on the 17th, resolutions adopted at a meeting of citizens of Cincinnati, protesting against any expansion of the currency, were presented and referred. ”. .‘.The bill to provide for the purchase of the bonds of the Louisville A Portland Canal Company was taken up and several amendments were agreed t 0... .The Louisiana bill was further debated... .Adjourned to the 20th. 7 In the House, on the 17th, a resolution was introduced and referred for furnishing rations, forage and clothing to the people who are suffering from inundations from the overflow of the Mississippi River and its tributaries... .The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was farther considered in Committee of the Whole, and an amendment waa adopted to fnrnlsh official pottage stamps to the State Department to an amount not exceeding $50,000.... Ad - loomed. No session of the Senate on the 18th. ....In the House, hills were passed—giving the assent of Congress to the- improvement of Wolf River across the Menomonee Indian reservation In Wisconsin; donating ten pieces of ordnance to the people of Concord, Mass., for a monument tofeosamemorate the first repulse of the British troops at old North Brtd'ge, April 19, 1775; empowering the President to direct the issue of food and diansed army clothing for the relief of the sufferers by the overflow of the Mississippi River.... A bill waa reported and referred to indemnify the holders of pre-emption and homestead certificates within the Dea Moine* River grant, in lowa, on acconnt of failure of title. ... .A deficiency bill, appropriating $3,251,158, was reported from the Appropriation Committee, and made the special order for the 29d...... The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriatio* Dill was debated in Committee of the Whole, and an amendment was adopted that male employes in the department* shall not he paid more than female employes for tbe same services.... Adjourned.

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A MIL 20, 1874. N*w YOBK.-6Wto»-17>4»nHc. Flour-QooA lo choice, SB.B. r 37.10; white wheat extra, $7,103 7.60. lfAaa<—No. 2 Chicago, ft. 6001.60; lowa Spring, $1.6001.62; No. 1 Milwaukee Spring, $1.6231.64. &y«—Western, $1.1031.15. Barley—--51.6531.67. Com— B73ooc. OaU— New Western, 60363 c. Art—New mess, $16.75317.00. Lard —10H31054C. Wool—Common to extra, 40@70c. Beevee— slo.oo3l2.2B. Bog*— Dreaaed, $7.50® 8.00. Sheep— Uve, $6.5038.25. Cmaao.—Beevet— Choice, $5.5035.80; good, $6.2035.40; medium, $4.0035.10; butcher*’ stock, $4.0034.7b; atock cattle, $3.7534.75. Hoot— Live, $5.6036.00. Bheep—G ood to choice, Buttsr—Choice yellow, 30@33c. Kgge— Freeh, 1831414 c. Art—Mess, new, .$16.65314 40. Lard —52.6739.70. Flour— White winter extra, $7,003 $.06; spring extra, $5.0936.50. Wheat— Spring No. 2, $1.2031.27. Corn—No. 2. 64X36614C. OaTa—No. 2, 45345t4c. Bw-No. 2. 92x398c. Barley— No. 2, $1.6331.65 Wool—' Tub-washed, 48356 c; fleece, washed, 86348 c; fleece, nnwashed, 25362 c; pulled, 36340 c. CntcnntiTi.—Aour—s6.76o7.oo. Wheat— $1.40 31.42. C0m—68372c. By«-$1.0531.06. Oau-4H 3575. 80riry—51.6031.66, Ant-$16.75317.00. Zord--W43»Xc. St. Loci*.— Oattte— Pair to choice. $4,7536.3714. Boos—Lire, (4.7035.75. Flour—XX Fall, $6,503 6.90. WSsot—No. 2 Bed Fall, $1.5431-66. ComNo. 2,6636614 C. OoTs—No. 2,50351 c. Bye-9214 ©93c. Barisy—sl.6o3l.6s. Art-Mess, $16.50 316-75. 8ard—9143914 c. Mn-waux**.— FTour— Spring XT, $5.7035.90. WAm4—Spring, No. 1, $1 [email protected]; No. *, SI.BO 31.81. tOm—No. 2,68364 c. OaU- No. 2,45 34514 c. Bys-No. 1, 89»90c. Baley-So. 2. $1.5831.60. Clxtxlaxd. Wheat —No. 1 Bed. $1.5531.56; No. 2 Bed, $1.4631.47. 0»r0~75®77e. Oate-Ho. I, 58356 c. . Dbtboit.— Wheat— Extra, $1.6901.70. Cbm—--76377c. Oats—s43ssc. Touroo.— Wheat- Amber Mich., $1.5101.51 x; No. 2 i^»,, 1 31.5» 1 4. Cbm—Mixed, 73@73!4c. Bvmalo.— Beevee —$5.2536.25. llogt —Live, $5.2536 26. Sheey—lAve, $8.871437.75. Kast Libxktt . dium, $5.2505.87. 7/oo»—Yorkers, $5.6036.80; Philadelphia, $6.5036.67. Sheep—Beet, $7,503 7.75; good, $6.6036.50. —The total number of deaths In Chicago for the year ending April 1, 1974, was 0,557.

CURRENT ITEMS.

Gratitude is the throwing out of our hearts in the light of another’s kindness There are twenty counties in Pennsylnia which do not owe a dollar of public debt. Bringing a Limburger cheese into Denver is punishable by a fine of sl# for the first offense. The Eastern oyster refuses to spawn in the bay of San Francisco. He grows very fat and then dies. It has been decided in Wisconsin that a lady who is kissed by a conductor can bring action against the aompany. A Dubuque man has asked the courts to protect him against three widows who are trying to force him into a marriage. A Brooklyn sewing society fines any member who talks scandal $t for each offense; only the wealthy are able to attend. The Niagara hotel-keepers announce that they are going to put a stop to hack swindling, blit what about hotel swindling? A boy in St. Louis swallowed seven brass buttons because another boy dared him to, and is now laid up for internal repairs. Vermont boys threaten to run away and become pirates unless they are given hunks of maple sugar, and. mothers have to submit. People who propose to explore Africa ought to know that it takes a whole month to dry a dead explorer so that he can be shipped home. “Kind words are wonderful in their way,” says an exchange, “ but so far as children go a boot-jack exerts a more powerful influence.” An agricultural society in New York is discussing the morality of raising hops and is getting rather hoppy over theques] tion. Try rye, says an exchange. “ The human Send in plum-colored kids who spit tobacco on my hat is marked for death,” says John Lane in an advertisement in a Memphis paper. A Detroit paper noting, the fact that a man fell down dead while combing his hair,says: “And yet there are people who will persist in that dangerous habit.” Wood ashes and common salt made compact with water will stop the cracks of a stove, and prevent the smoke from escaping. Pittsburgh is going to cast a cannon twenty-eight feet long. If the ball don’t kill they can punch a man in the stomach with the muzzle of the gun and severely injure him. Braintree, Vt., had but one marriage during 1873. The groom was a gay young spark of 73, while the bride was a giddy thing of 74. It was her second and his fifth marriage. There’s nothing like persistency. John Couch was married in Philadelphia the other day to a girl who had refused him eighteen times. She wanted to see if he really loved her. You may talk yourself into a bronchial affection but you- can’t convince a Vermont woman that there won’t be a death in the family if she dreams of seeing a hen walking a picket fence. The Maine people are waking up to the enforcement of the Fish laws, and a man was fined fifty dollars the other day for merely bringing a salmon to market in Bangor out of season. In a house at Augusta, Me., a rat’s nest recently discovered contained four silver spoons, a three-tined fork, thirteen cotton stockings and a half a peck of butternuts. Quite a stylish housekeeper for a rat. After years of careful study and close observation an lowa professor is able to announce that frogs can see sideways, and that music has more of influence on them than this careless world has any idea of. A North Carolina Judge added three years to a man’s sentence because the fellow hit him on the pate with a quid of tobacco and called him “old hose.” It does seem as if the word “freedom” had no business in this country. A citizen of Vicksburg advertises: “My attention has been called to an editorial in the Vicksburg Herald of to-day, which might reflect upon me. I denounce the author of said article as a liar, scoundrel and a coward.” Mrs. J. H. Blackman, of East Sharon, Mass., who had been paralyzed in one of her legs three years so as not to be able to walk a step, fully recovered the use of her limb a few weeks ago, as she claims, by the efficacy of prayer alone. Two hundred people in a Colorado town recently turned out in a body to. look upon a bedstead with casters, it being the first ever seen in the county. The possessor had his hat over his left ear, and was for a time a greater man than the Mayor. ’Die quickest way we know of to make a man believe that there’s nothing in the world worth living for is to excite him into chasing a cat across a yard where two , or three clothes-lines are innocently swaying in the evening breeze. —Detroit Free Press. The most astonishing case of spontaneous nuptials has occurred in lowa, where a couple were recently married, and after the ceremony the bride was obliged to ask her husband what her new name was. The parties had been acquainted only a few hours.

How rapid is the march of civilization. There is a county in Kansas where only a few weeks ago the buffalo fed and the antelope sported, now showing evidence of mooern civilization by bearing on the docket of thp-©istrict Court three divorce suits.— Exchange. Speaking of cremation, an exchange utters the following: “ And this Is all that’s left of thee, Thau fstrest of earth's daughters; Only four pounds of ashes white Out of one hundred and fourteen and threequarters.” Fashionable milliners are finally indignant, and assert that after this season they will never have “openings.” It seems that the manipulation of bonnets this year has ruined many hundred dollars’ worth of goods, and they say that this sort of thing can’t gq; on forever, more especially as they do not get any orders. “ How much better it would have been to have shaken hands and allow it was all a mistake," said a Detroit Judge. “Then the lion and the lamb would have lain down together, and white robed peace would have fanned you with her wings and elevated you with her smiles of approbation. But no; you went to clawing and biting and rolling in the mud, ana here yon are; It’s five dollars apiece.” Thebe was a“ sewing party” (charity) > at Airs. Basteemup’s the other evening, i and daring the affair the father of one of the young ladles present appeared up6n

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the scene unexpectedly. He was so much gratified at the cleverness exhibited by his daughter with her needle that he then and there resolved that he would never pay another dressmaker’s bill. That young lady has now a strong prejudice against “ sewing parties,” and says she was an idiot ever to attend such an affair. The Brooklyn Eagle has discovered the existence, just beyond the limits of that city, in stables filled with filth and dirt, packed together in the closest possible space and in all conditions of disease, 800 cows fed upon hot swill emptied from an adjoining distillery, and publishes the names of some twenty dealers who peddle the swill milk as “ Orange County milk” to retail dealers and citizens of the two cities. A successful April hoix, or a series of hoaxes, was perpetrated by the attaches of the Howard Athenaeum last evening. A wire skeleton was dressed as a woman and placed in a seat. The pulling of a string caused it to fall to the floor, when several of the audience were deceived into giving the supposititious fainter their assistance. The device worked so well in the theater that it was carried into the streets, and several patrolmen became victims of the hoax, which was oft repeated during the night. One was induced to awaken the women asleep in a doorway ; another was called to the woman dead; and so on, until the effigy was thrown from one of the wharves, and a sympathizing sailor recovered the supposed body. —Boston Transcript, April 2. A Kentucky paper tells this: One night last week Mr. Arch Fuller, who lives on the river, • below Barboursville, was aroused from his slumbers about midnight by a peculiar noise in his yard. He got up and, upon opening the door, beheld standing within thirty feet of his house a large black bear, fie sprang for his pistol and immediately opened fire on Bruin. The night was dark, but Arch could see the bear’s eyes and knew it was a bear. and kept on shooting until Be had emptied his revolver. Having no other weapon about the house he closed and barred the door and sat down to await the dawn of day. 'As soon as daylight appeared Arch concluded that, as he had heard no further noise during the night, he had killed the huge beast and proposed to make a survey of the battle-field. He approached the spot where Bruin had stood, and there, lying prostrate, six bullet-holes through its body, was found —his wife’s wash-tub. Arch had seen the brass hoops on the tub shining, and took them for bear’s eyes.

One day, not long ago, while an English merchantman was on a voyage in the Mediterranean, the Captain was called to the hammock of a dying sailor who had asked to see him. The invalid seafarer desired his commander to draw up for him a last will and testament, wherein the sum of $7,000 in English sovereigns was to be devised to a citizen of Memphis, in Tennessee, U. 8., and the uncontrollable surprise of the Captain in his performance of the request of the sinking man caused the latter to make the following explanation of the past circumstances enabling him to bequeath such a sum of money.- An Englishman by birth, he was a mechanic ih Memphis in the year 1861. No matter about the causes of his expa--triation and humhlc forcign occupation. Suffice it to say he had chosen to be a mechanic in America. Only for a short time, though; tor when the secession war began he enlisted in one of the Tennessee regiments, having been scarcely able to earn a living as an artisan, and being just recovered from a weary sickness of which he must have died but for the generous ministrations of a family of strangers. Shortly after the discouraged convalescent’s enlistment, and before his regiment marched further southward, he received from his family, in England the sum of $7,G00 in gold, which had been left to him by a dymg uncle. Instead of availing himself of this windfall, however, to withdraw from the army and devote himself otherwise than as a soldier, it was his eccentric whim to bury his whole treasure under a tree, in a lot belonging to the fentleman whose family had Been so lnd to him in his sickness, and to neither speak nor act as though he had ever received any such money at all. Leaving the gold thus secretly placed he marched away with his military comrades. Not long was it though before his eccentric character again displayed itself. Becoming speedily weary of the precarious fortunes of war, he deserted from the army into Mexico, and from thence embarked on an English vessel as a common seaman. Reaching England in due time, instead of rejoining his family there, he At once became a sailor oh another vessel for a voyage around the world, and had remained an obscure sailor until the fatal sickness overtook him in the Mediterranean and an expiring impulse of gratitude induced him to bequeath his gold yet hidden in Memphis to those who had so long ago befriended him in that city. Such was the strange, scarcely credible story which he told to the Captain in exolanation of his curious will; and, after signing the latter with another name than that by which he had been known on shipboard, he carried thej-emaining mystery of his career with him into the world of shadows.

The Captain hardly knew whether to regard either story or will as anything more than the diseased fancy of a madman, but, upon reselling port, mailed the document, as he had solemnly promised, to the address of the Memphis gentleman to whom the buried gold had been devised. And, according to a late issue of the Memphis Beg titer, that gentleman’s reception of the will, together with the Captain’s explanation of the foregoing circumstances, has been followed by a realization proving that the dying wanderer of land and sea spoke truly. Tne gentleman in question “had soma time before sold and delivered to another party the lot on which the valuable sovereigns were deposited. How to get at it now without incurring opposition and perhaps litigation was the question which arose in his mind. After taking the advice of counsel he concluded to develop the whole matter to the purchaser and owner of the place and asK for the right to make search. This was done, and the new proprietor generously forwarded hifl wishes and gave him every facility to possess himself of the treasure. On digging at the foot of the tree described in the will the gold, amounting to $7,000, was hapCily found and the new owner made glad y the glittering heap.” Who the departed giver or this little fortune was In his native personality is not known, and the secret is buried with him beneath the Hue waves of the Mediterranean,—* Nm York Graphic.

Bread Upon the Waters.