Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1874 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER UNION. Published livery Thursday by HORACE E. JAMES, JOSHUA HEALEY, PROPRIETORS. Office over Wood’s Hardware Store, Washington Street. Subscription, 92.00 a Tear, In Advance. JOB WORE Of every kind executed to order la good style end at low rates.

GOOD-BY. Good-by, good-by I It Is the sweetest blessing That falls from mortal lips on mortal ear, The weakness of our human love confessing. The promise that a love more strong is nearMay Ged be with you I Why do we say It when the tears are starting? Why must a word so sweet bring only pain? Our love seems all-sufficient till the parting, And then we feel It Impotent and vain— May God be with youl Oh, may lie gnide and bless and keep you ever, lie who Is strong to battle with your foes; Whoever falls, His love can fall yon never. And all your need He in His wisdom knows— May God be with you 1 Better than earthly presence, e’en the dearest, Is the great blessing that our partings bring; For in the loneliest moments God is nearest, And from our sorrows heavenly comforts spring’ If God be with us. Good-by, good-by I with latest breath we »ay it, A legacy of hope, and faith, and love; Parting must come, we cannot long delay It, But, one in Him, we hope to meet above, If God be with os. Good-by I ’tls all we have for one another. Our love, more strong than death, is helpless still. For none can take the burden from his brother, Or shield, except by prayer, from any .1— May God be with youl ■ —Sunday Magazine.

Thea-Tea.

The tea plant grows from three to six feet, having numerous branches and a denre foliage. The wood is hard and tough, the leaves smooth and shining, of a dark-green color. The plant flowers early in the spring, remaining in bloom about a month, its seeds ripening in December. The leaves are first gathered from the plant at three years old. The plant reaches its maximum size about the seventh year, and thrives, according to care bestowed upon it, from ten to twenty years. There are two great varieties of the plant, viz.: Thea Bohea (black tea), and Thea Yivldis (green tea), though both black and green tea are manufactured from either bush; the quality of the soil, the state of the leaf, the degree of heat applied in its curing, and the method of manipulation producing all the differences perceived in the cured teas ofcommerce. ■- Appreciating, then, the degrees of delicacy that may arise from the different periods of gathering the leaf—from the just-opening leaf to its maturity—we will look at the modus operand! of preparing the leaf for market. For black tea, the leaves after being gathered are spread out to the air for several hours, and are tossed about until they become flaccid, then put in large pans on steady fires and roasted five minutes, then rolled by hand, then exposed to the air in their soft and flaccid state', and, lastly, dried slowly over charcoal fires until their black color is fairly brought out and fixed. For green teas, the leaves are subjected to the roasting process immediately after { been gathered; after five minutes they become flaccid, then are rolled by hand, then returned to the roasting-pans and kept in motion over the fires for about one hour, when they become well dried and have their green color. The dark hue of the black tea is due to the exposure to the air oxygen on the leaf juices. The Chinese give a peculiar metallic luster to the green teas by an artificial coloring of indigo or gypsum in small, innoxious quantities. This is “to give force” for the foreign market. In order to impart the delicate flavor of the finest teas to the commoner sorts, the Chinese scent both green and black teas. For black teas, sprinkling with the chucan (chloranthus) flowers just before the last firing of the leaf. For green teas, placing alternate layers of the leaves and fresh flowers until a basket is full, covering the basket and letting it remain twenty-four hours, then firing it in a lined sieve, and sifting the flowers out before packing for market. Frequently these highly-flavored teas are mixed with plain teas to impart a delicate flavor, say about one catty (one and one-third pounds) to ten catties of the plain tea. The cultivation of the flower for scenting teas is a branch of agriculture of considerable importance. The tea plant is cultivated in all the Chinese provinces south of the Hoangho —“Yellow River." The “Bohea hills” and the “ Sungho hills” are celebrated localities, as producing the finest black and green teas of commerce. Such, in brief, is an accurate account of that delicious leaf from which a little boiling water ever evokes a spirit potent to soothe and smooth most ills that mind is heir to. — Geo. Rodgers, in Chicago Journal.

A Bee-Story.

The following illustration of the power possessed by insects to communicate their experiences to one another is given by a lady correspondent of the London Spectator : “ I was staying in the house of a gentleman who*-was fond of trying experimfflftb and who was a bee-keeper. Having read in some book on bees that the best and most humane way of taking the honey without destroying the bees was to immerse the hive for a few minutes in a tub of cold water,-when the bees, half drowned, could not sting, while the honey*was uninjured, since the water could not penetrate the closely-waxed cells, he resolved on trying the plan. I saw the experiment tried. The bees, according to the recipe, were fished out ol the water after the hive had been immersed a few minutes, and, with those remaining in the hive, laid on a sieve in the sum to dry; but as, by bad management, the experiment had been tried too late in the day, as the sun was going down, they were removed into the kitchen, to the great indignation of the cook, on whom they revenged their sufferings as soon as the warm rays of the fire before which they were placed had revived them. As she insisted on their being taken away, they were put back into, their old hive, which had been dried, together with a portion of their honey, and. placed on one of the shelves of the apiary, in which were five or six other strong hives full of bees, and left for the night. Early the next morning my friend went to look at the hive on which he experimented the night before, but to his amazement not only the bees from that hive were gone but the other hives were all deserted—not a bee remained in any of them. The halfdrowned bees must, therefore, in some way or other have made the other bees understand the fate which awaited them.” All dresses continue to be made gored, short in froHt and just sufficiently long behind to touch the ground.

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CURRENT ITEMS.

A Bt. Louis cat bit a boy and he is mad —the boy is. Brack satin fans trimmed with white lace are something new. A foolish lady sent a bride a white satin pen-wiper as a gift. Reading, Pa., is catching dogs and measles with equal alacrity. Gray hairs seem like the light of a soft moon, silvering over the evening of life. Stiff, straight hair and beard indicate a coarse, strong, rigid, straightforward character. Don Piatt says: “ Humor is to a newspaper what a tail is to a kite—very absurd, but very necessary to its ascension.” . Washington Territory is agitated by the Oriental magnificence of “ the first brick residence” ever erected within its boundaries. Henry Ward Beecher says collecting autographs is an alarming literary intemperance, for which the only remedy is total abstinence. The legislator who wanted to make kissing a misdemeanor probably never had the pleasure of seeing a miss demean herself under the operation. IF women would study housekeeping as their husbands study law, medicine and book-keeping, there would be less complaint of bad servants. It is said that the essential oil in onions is so powerful that if a man were to die shortly after eating one his brain would exhale the odor of the vegetable. Mrs. Seha Spicer, of Tipton, Mo., aged seventy-eight, recently employed a mason to repair her chimney, and herself carried all the mortar and brick up a ladder. The English sparrows which were introduced into Albany five or six years ago have become so numerous and annoying that they are pronounced to be an unmitigated nuisanv. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., has a stoneyard, and requires each tramp soliciting alms to earn his food and lodging by breaking stone. Applications for charity have fallen off. A fish-farmer in Illinois gets seventyfive cents per pound for his trout; thus a small string offish will bring as much as a sheep, and they require neither grain, hay nor stabling. The snow-fence on the Kansas Pacific is being taken down for the purpose of saving it from the fire which passes over the prairies every summer. It will be replaced in the fall, as usual. Peter Baker, of Indianapolis, is about discouraged trying to raise a nose. It has been broken four times, and he has about concluded to pack it away in tissue paper for the balance of the year. In San Francisco, Judge Louderbach has just fined a man S6O for insulting an editor. This goes to show that however loud you may talk to a California journalist ho can always talk louder back. A Fort Dodge (Iowa) man lived in this world of sin and deceit sixty long years before he found out that a stranger on a railway train, borrowing on the security of a bogus check for an immense amount, is a snare, a delusion, a fraud. He will never see his SBO or the gentleman he loaned it to again. A Detroit gentleman prides himself on his fine fowls, and his neighbor is equally vain of a fine coach dog. The dog worries the life out of the chickens. A lew days ago the owner of the dog received the following note: “Friend— You keep dogs. I keep chickens. If my chickens worry your dogs, shoot ’em." When fuel is burned in an open fireplace at least seven-eighths of the actual or potential heat passes up the chimney unused; about one-half being carried oft with the smoke, and one-fourth with the current which flows in between the man-tel-piece and the fire, while the remaining loss is represented by the unburned carbonaceous matter in the smoke. A man about thirty-five years old died recently in Kentucky who, since the termination of the war, has been making tri-weekly pilgrimages between two churches ten miles apart, always making the journey on foot, fasting with great severity, and keeping silence during the whole of his long walk. He would never disclose whether the penance was selfimposed or what it was performed for. A little girl who fell off Long Bridge and nearly drowned was rescued by a young man. It is condoling to think that as the child is only five years of age the usual denouement may be averted, but we advise the young man to emigrate, or she will go for him as soon as she is old enough, and girls do grow so fast in this country.— San Francisco News Letter. Harby 11. Baugh, of Quebec, fourteen years old, fell desperately in love with a little performer in a variety show several months ago, and ever since has been following it about, though the girl won’t pay any attention to him. He is quite penniless, and has begged his way about the country, but finally brings up at Taunton, Mass., where he has been handed over to the Board of State Charities. A Kentucky Grange has had its little romance. Recently a young brother and sister of the Order walked to the front of the Master and were united in marriage. The entire audience were taken by surprise, having had no intimation that there was to be a wedding. Soft eyes began to dart love glances around the Grange, and diffident bachelors exclaimed that the new Order exceeded their most sanguine expectations, in providing lifepartners for the faint-hearted. A Washington man proposes that a suitable-sized, cannon be kept at- all dangerous river reservoirs or dams, to give instant and general warning of breakage, by which, as in the recent calamity in Massachusetts, many lives and much property might be saved. The trouble, says an exchange, is that when the moment came for the cannon to be exploded it would be found to be loaded with black sand, duly certified to sb the best powder by a County Commissioner. A recent letter from Sargent, Kan.; to the Topeka Commonwealth contains the following: “ Large numbers of wild horses abound on the rivers. They are of all sizes and colors, and are the wildest of all wild animals. They nsually roam in bands of from six to twenty, and will run at sight of a man two miles away. A great many domesticated horses, as well as mules, Which have strayed away from their owners have taken up with the wild ones. After running with them for awhile they become as wild as their untamed companibns. Various methods have been adopted to catch them, but have generally proved fruitless. A scrub

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by colt or a broken-down mule is, as a general thing, the only reward for all the time and labor. Settlers on the frontier woulifhail their speedy extinction as a blessing, for when domestic animals get with them their recovery is simply out of the question. ” A marriage was recently solemnized by telegraph, and now the news of a wedding ceremony performed in a barnyard comes from New Hampshire. A young lady living at Flatbrookville, in that State, fell in love with one of her neighbors, a young man, and he reciprocated the passion. Desiring to get married, they notified the ’Squiro, and he consented to “ splice” them. Shortly after he arrival of the ’Squire the mother of the expectant bride, who had been absent from home, returned and discovered the situation. She objected with a piece ol board, and proceeded to belabor the parties concerned. The groom went one way, the ’Sqpire escaped in another direction, and the blushing bride fled to the garret. Later in the day the lovers were seen together, and the result of the stolen interview was that early the next morning they presented themselves before the ’Squire in his barn-yard. He asked them to go to the house, but they declined, stating that the bride’s mother was on the war-path and in hot pursuit of the flying pair. Without further delay the twain were made one, the only witnesses to the ceremony being the wondering cattle that surrounded them, silently chewing their cuds.

Alligators as Pets.

The New York Times has an article on household pets, in which it playfully and somewhat sarcastically suggests pet alligators as a variety for the house. Now, absurd as the alligator may seem for a pet, it so happens that we once had some of them, and very pleasant little pets they proved to be. It was during a residence, some years ago, in a Southern city, not far from the bayous, where alligators, great and small, are to be had by the hundred thousand. Instead of going in person to catch the little fellows, we secured the services of an aged American citizen of African descent, who knew more than we did about keeping out of the way of the parent alligators. He scooped up a dozen or two baby ’gators and brought them in, his face ornamented with a broad grin of delight in anticipation of the dollar he had been promised for catching them. For several months a number of these lively little fellows occupied a neat aquarium tank in the library window, where the sun shone on them. They were as lively as little cats, and quite as playful. Equally happy in the water and out of it, hey would frisk about like so many monkeys when they felt so disposed, and when they felt lazy (for alligators, like other folks, are subject to attacks of laziness) they would stretch themselves out, or lie in a heap, one on the other, and bask in the sunshine. They had a habit of eating almost any eatable thing that waa given to them, their principal luxury being live flies. In catching these insects they exhibited great dexterity. Large beetle cockroaches also afforded them muctfcpleasure. There was an abundance of these in the house and the alligators considerably reduced the stock. These alligators were in their first summer, and were only a few inches long. They would run over people’s hands and clothes, and climb upon shoulders with great liveliness. We gave some of them away, and the rest, probably pampered by petting and overfeeding, died. We once owned an alligator which was six feet long. But he frightened an old lady out of her wits, and so We gave him away. He was too large for a pet. But in their first or second year ’gators are pleasant pets and no more dangerous than kittens.— Christian at Work.

An Unfortunate Ghost.

If is strange what risks some men will incur just for the skke of a little amusement. A case in point is that of Mr. BaDgs, who thought to have a little private fun at the expense of his wife the other evening. He has not fully recovered from the effects of that fun yet. He was aware that Mrs. B. never used a light when me went down cellar after dark, and he determined -to take advantage of her oversight to carry out his own plans. Accordingly he arranged himself in a sheet and a tall hat, went down cellar and took his position in the darkest corner. He had scarcely completed these arrangements when Mrs. B. appeared, carrying a broom, as Bangs soon afterward learned. She halted immediately in front of Bangs, and appeared to be regarding him with some interest, when Bangs, thinking this as favorable an opportunity as he would get, slowly raised himself on end and uttered what he considered a very unearthly groan. Mrs. B. didn’t faint, nor shriek, nor go into hysterics, as he had confidently expected. On the contrary she merely poised her broom for a moment in mid air, then let it descend on Bangs’ head with a force that nearly capsized him. At first Bangs thought that he had died ana been landed among the stars, from the immense number of them he saw shooting about through space; but a few more well-directed blows from Mrs. B.’s broom soon recalled him from the contemplation ofthls lofty theme to things of a more earthly nature. He immediately gave up all idea of making any further attempts to frighten the wife of his bosom, and set about demonstrating the utter impossibility of dodging a broom-stick in the hands of an earnest and excited woman. When the family next door got there Bangs was performing circles around the house at the rate of a mile a minnte, and endeavoring to allay the irritation in his head by friction with his hands. This was about the time that Bangs had expected to be splitting his sides with laughter, but he found it impossible to even smile now under the circumstances. Mrs. B. emerged from the cellar triumphantly wavirfg about half a foot of the bald end of a broom-handle, tmd weeping because there were no more Bangs to brooih. It took two. new dresses and twenty yards of ribbon to convince her that Bangs didn’t mean to frighten her; but he has failed so far to explain the presence of the sheet and tall hat to her entire satisfaction. Bangs has employed the services of his physician by the month to ptit the necessary repairs on his face and head. —John Oliver, in Banbury News. Thu is said to be a remedy for cab-bage-worms: Shorts and bran sprinkled over the cabbage. , —The total Grange membership in the I United States is estimated at 1,250,000.

OXTTt COUNTRY AND OUR, UIVIOIV.

LATEST NEWS.

Another Marine Horror Near Australia. Attempted Assassination in London. ' i ' The Views of the President Upon Specie Payment. Suit to Test the Validity of the Wisconsin Railroad Law. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc.,. Etc. THE OLD WORLD. According to Madrid dispatches of the 2d a demonstration was making against ,Ban Sebastian. It was thought the CarlUts would capture that city. According to Madrid dispatches of the 4th Lequeitto, a Biscayan maritime town, had been bombarded by a Republican vessel because a foreign vessel laden with articles contraband of war had been admitted into the port. On the sth 500 of the Intransigente insurgents who some time since escaped from Cartagena to Algeria re-em-barked for Spain on a Spanish steamer. Over $200,000 in gold were recovered. According to Bayonne dispatches of the 6th a serious mutiny had broken out among the National forces at Guipuzcoa. It wasrumored in Madrid that the Carlists had been defeated in Gangia. The Prince of Saxe-Welmar was fired at by an unknown assassin on the evening of the Ist, as he was leaving his residence. Jle escaped serious inlury. The ship British Admiral recently went ashore on King’s Island, near Australia. All of her passengers and crew were lost except nine persons. There were eighty-five in all on board. According to a Paris dispatch of the sth the council of war had sentenced to death Deputy M. Bloncourt, of Guadaloupe, for participation in the acts of the Commune. M. Bloncourt escaped from France several months ago. On the 6th 110 Deputies united in a manifesto calling for a proclamation of a definite French Republic or a dissolution of the Assembly. The excitement in Paris was very great, and the situation was considered very grave. The owners of the Durham collieries, according to a London dispatch of the 4th, were evicting large numbers of their striking tenants. Capt.-Gen. Concha has decreed that the price of gold in Cuba shall be regulated by a notice which he will give every morning. The Catholic Episcopate of Bohemia has resolved to array It. cl I against the Rceiesiasticsl laws. _ * THE NEW WORLD. On the Ist a solicitor of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company caused papers to be served on the Attorney-General of Wisconsin and the Railroad Commissioners, notifying them that an injunction would be applied for in the United States District Court fOPthe Western District of Wisconsin, to restrain them from instituting any proceedings or taking any measures for the purpose of executing the act of the last Legislature regulating railroads. This action was brought in the name of the creditors of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company, who claim that their securities are weakened or destroyed by the law. At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, held in Chicago on the 4th, a resolution was adopted approving of the action of the Directors in contesting the recent Wisconsin legislation. A Milwaukee Judge, on the 4th, decided the Potter law to be constitutional, in an action brought by certain Oconomowoc parties against the St. Paul Railway. The case was appealed to the Bupreme Court. The Wisconsin roads have decided to adopt the plan of requiring all passengers to prepay their fares before entering the trains- The hearing on the application for an injunction restraining the officers of the State of Wisconsin from enforcing the Railway law until Its validity can be determined has been postponed until the third week in June. The resignation* of Secretary Richardson was accepted on the Ist, and Gen. Bristow, of Kentucky, nominated as his successor. Mr. Richardson was nominated to fill a vacancy in the Court of Claims. Mr. Banfield, Solicitor of the Treasury, also resigned. Gen. Bristow was confirmed as Secretary of the Treasury on the 2d, and the nomination of exSecretary Richardson as Associate-Justice of the Court of Claims was also confirmed. On the 4th Gen. Bristow assumed the duties of Secretary of the Treasury, and Mr. Sawyer tendered his resignation as Assistant Secretary. A man natned McCullaugh fell from the bridge on Three Sisters Island, Niagara Falls, on the Ist, and was carried to the brink of the falls, where he lodged against a rock. He was subsequently rescued by a fellow-laborer, who tied a rope to his body and was let down by persons on the bridge to where McCullaugh was clinging. The public debt statement for the month of May is as follows: Six percent bonds... $1,*13,967,900 Five per cent bonds..... 510,879,100 Total coin bonds.....' $1,794,445,900 Lawful money debt. $14,578,000 Matured debt 4.881.800 Legal-tender notes 882,075,177 Certificates of deposit 86,050,000 Fractional currency 46,588,649 Cota certificates 88,179,500 [nleresj v 88,864,098 Total debt 52.a9<456,119 Cash to Treasury— Coin $81,968,979 Currency...,.' 11,177,708 Special deposits held for redemption of certificates of deposit ss providedby 1aw....... 56,060,000 Total In Treasury. $149,186,6e2 Debt, lees cash to Treasury .$5,145,868,437 Decrease daring ths m0nth........... $4,458,835 Bonds Issued to the Pacific Railroad Companies, Interest payable to law- * ful money, principaloutstandimr.... $64,888,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid.. .. . 1.615.587 Interest paid by United States.. 28,886,691 Interest repaid by transportation ol mails, etc..... 5,095,450 Balance of interest paid by United States 17,291,20 The wife of Michael Dwyer, of Brooklyn, N. Y., killed her three children and seriously hart her husband on the. morning of the 3d. Shewaa insane.

The boot and shoe establishment of M. D. Wells & Co., of Chicago, was entirely consumed by fire on the morning of the Ist. Loss $300,000. Another suit was brought by the Illinois Railway Commissioners against the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company on the 2d, for violation of the Illinois Railway law. Retains received from the Oregon State election on the morning of the 3d indicate the election of the Democratic State ticket and the choice of a Republican Congressman. The Secretary of the Treasury has given notice of the readiness of the Department to redeem 5-20 bonds as follows; Third scries, act of Feb. 25,1862, SSO coupon bonds No. 10,601 to No. 12,100, both inclusive; SIOO, No. 34,001 to 34,400; SSOO, No. 17,601 to 19,300; SI,OOO, No. 41,001 to 46,100; registered SSO, No. 1,411 to 1,450; SIOO, No. 10,561 to 10,680; SSOO, No. 6,301 to 6,390; SI,OOO, No. 25,651 to 26,100; $5,000, No. 8,101 to 8,300; SIO,OOO, No. 10,321 to 10,509. Total, 95,000,000. Interest will cease on the above bonds on the 3d of September next. Col. Scott was elected President of the Pennsylvania Central Railway Company on the 3d. Dr. Patton, the prosecutor of Prof. Swing before the Chicago Presbytery, has taken an appeal to the Synod of Northern Illinois, basing his appeal upon the “ prejudice, haste, injustice, mistakes and irregularities” of the former body. 1—- —— ? - ..... Wjntebmute, who murdered Gen. McCook, Secretary of Dakota Territory, in September last, has been convicted of manslaughter. Gov. Weston, of New Hampshire, was inaugurated on the 4th. The Committee of Conference on the Currency bill, on the 4th, decided to recommend that 37)4 per cent, he the proportion of greenbacks to be retired; the abolition of reserves in circulation; and Jan. 1, 1878, as the: time for the resumption of specie payment. Gen. Sheridan telegraphed to the military authorities on the sth that the Indians in the vicinity of Fort Abraham Lincoln had taken the war-path in large numbers. The Anti-Secret Society Convention, recently held at Syracuse, N. Y., adopted resolutions declaring that in all secret, oath-bound fraternities, including Granges and secret temperance societies, the convention recognizes a conspiracy against all who do not belong to them, and a standing menace to the religion of Jesus Christ; expressing special opposition to speculative Free Masonry; refusing to vote for Masons for civil office, and agreeing to raise SIO,OOO for the support of a general agent and lecturer. A letter to the President was adopted, protesting against the proposed Masonic dedication of the Chicago public building. Indianapolis was selected as the place, and the third Wednesday in August as the time, for holding a National Convention to adopt a political platform. The “ America” is to be the name of the party. Pittsburgh was selected as the place for the holding of the next annual convention. The time Of holding the umo Democratic State Convention has been changed from J uly 15 to Aug. 26. According to Washington dispatches of the 6th and 7th the President’s currency pronunciamento had caused a profound sensation in political circles. The views of the Republican members of the House of Representatives were, it was said, decidedly adverse to those enunciated by the President. A caucus would be held to decide upon the line of policy to be pursued in relation to the currency matter and the Civil Rights bill. Henri Rocheeort left New York for Europe on the 6th. A terrific tornado visited the town of Tampico, 111., on the night of the 6th, and caused the total destruction of twenty-one dwellings and more or less damaged every bouse in the place. No person was killed but several were seriously injured. Cholera is reported to have made its appearance in New Orleans.

THE MARKETS. Juki 8,1074. Nxw Yoke. -Cotton—lß)4@lßJ4c. /Your—Good to choice. $6.35®6.60; white wheat extra, $6.60© 7.00. Wheat— No. 2 Chicago. $1.45®1.46; lowa Spring, $t.46©1.47; No. 5 Milwaukee Spring, $1.47(91.48. Aye—Western, $1.06©1.13. Barley—sl.ss©l.6o. Com —79®B2Hc. Oaf— New Western, «B®63c. Port—New mess, $17.95©18.00. Lard— llVftllHc. Wool— Domestic Fleece, 45© 68c. Beeves —slo.so©lß.oo. flofl*—Dressed, $7.25 ©7.50. Sheep— live (clipped). $5.00©7.00. Chicago. — Beeves — Choice, [email protected]; good, $6.4035.70; medinm, [email protected]; botchire’ stock, $4.0035.60; atock cattle, $8.7536.00. Bogs —Live, $5.0035.50. Sheep— Good to choice (shorn), $4.5036.00. Butter— Choice yellow, 21©28c. Freeh, 12© 12KC. Pork— Mess, new, $17.60©17.65. Lord—slo.9s©ll.oo. Flour— White winter extra. $6.75© 9.00; spring extra, $6.28©8.00. Wheat-Sprint No. 8, sl.l9U@l 20)*. Com —No. 2,57147?58c. Oats —No. a, 4614 ©46c. Ays—No. 8. 86389 c. Barley —No! 2, SL4A Wool—Tab-washed, 45350 c; eece, washed, 35842 c; fleece, unwashed, 26380 c ; polled, 86888 c. CntcmwATi.—FKomt—«.oo©6.B6. Wheat—tl.Yt ©1.28. Com —6s@6Bc. «ys-$1.08®1.06. Daw—so ©67c. AaWey—sl.so©l.ss. PW(t-$17.50a18.00. Lard— l*H©lo*c. St. Louis.— Cattle— Fair to choice, $4.5036.25. Boat —Live, $4.60®5.60. Flour—XX Fall, $6.50© 6.0 U. Wheat —No. 2 Red Fall, $1.37®1.38. CornNo. 2, 58®59c. Oat* —No. 2, 44©45c. 87©88c. Barley $17.00318.25. Lord—loK©nc. Milwaukee. — Flour —Spring. XX, $5.f0©5.90. Wheat —Spring, No. 1, $1.243134)4; No. 2, $1.21 01,22. Conf-Vo.*, 56®56)4C. Oatt-No. 2, 45345)4e. Ays—No. 1, 87©88c. Barley- No. 2, $1.30®1.85. Cleveland. — Wheat —No. 1 Red. $1.39)4®L40; No. 2 Red, $1.8281.83. ttwnr-64365c. Cots—No. 1, 53®55c- , > Demon.— Wheat— Extra. $1.58'A®1.59, Com80@81c. Oat* —50©50)4C. Toledo.— Wh*at— Amber Mich.. $1.38©1.384; No.B Red, $1.55H®1.36. tt>ro-Mixed, 62©63c. Oat* —s23s4c. Bvfpalo. — B*ev*t— $5.75®6.70 Boot-Urn. $5.26®5.85. Steep—Live (clipped), [email protected]. Bast LnsgTY .—Cattle Beet, $6.87)4©6.75; medium. |5.50®6.00. Bog*- Yorkers. $6.80© 5.50; Philadelphia, $6.85®6.40. NAesp—(clipped) -Beet, $5.50®6.00; good. [email protected]. | •

CONORKSHIOBAL. In the Senate, on the Ist, bills were passed—to amend the lain relating to patent*, trade-marks and copyright*; for the completion and location of the naval monument, appropriating $35,000 therefor, and providing that it shall be placed qp the public grounds In Washington, D. C.: making appropriations for the support of •the Military Academy, with amendments.... Several amendment* to the Indian Appropriation bill were agreed t 0... A memorial was presented and referred from dtixen* of the United States, praying for the reneal of the charter granted by Congress to the Masonic Hall Awociation of the District of Columbia; the enactment of law* making the appointment to office of persons bound by oath of secret organization unlawful; according the right of peremptory challenge of Juror* who are members of secret societies, and for a law making a ehapge of venue allowable when the presiding officer 6f the court i* a member of such societies... .Adjourned. 4 In the House, on the Ist, among the bin* introduced and referred war* the following: For an amendment of the Constitution so as to provide for the election of United Suites Senators

by the people; authorizing women, otherwise qualified, to practice as attorneys and counselors-at-law in the several courts of the United States ....Bills were passed—to amend the existing Customs and Internal Revenue laws; requiring the various branches of the Pacific Railways to be run and operated as a continuous line of railway, and providing penalties for making discriminations against other companies, and declaring the Denver & Pacific Railway a part of the extension of the Kansas Pacific Railway; Senate bill to amend the Mining law of May 10, 1872, extending to Jan. 1 next the time for performing work on mining locations so as to prevent forfeitures; relieving saving banks that have capital stock from the payment of taxon deposits as in case of savings banks having no capital; allowing settlers in certain counties in Minnesota and lowa to be absent from their lands, on account of the plague of grasshoppers, for one year without forfeiting their rights.... A Conference Committee was ordered on the Senate amendments to the Banking law ....Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 2d, several bills were reportod from committees and plaeed on the calendar, among them a substitute for the bill to regulate commerce by railway among the several States ...The Indian Appropriation bill was amended and passed.... Executive session and adjournment. In the House, on the 2d, the bill reported some days before from the Judiciary Committee in relation to the courts and judicial officers in Utah, and having in view the suppression of polygamy, was called up and debated, and finally passed—ls 9to 55... -The remainder of the day’s session was given to the business of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and a bill was passed authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to suspend work on public buildings in certain cases. In the Senate, on the 3d, bills were passed—House bill authorizing the appointment of three Commissioners by the Comptroller of the Currency to wind up the affairs of the Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company; House bill relieving savings banks that have capital stock from the payment of tax on deposits as in case of savings banks having no capital, with an amendment; the Consular and Diplomatic and Pension Appropriation bills, with amendments... .The Cheap Transportation resolution, instructing the Committee on Appropriations to report amendments to the pending River and Harbor Appropriation bill to complete the surveys and estimates for each of the Improvements recommended by the Select Committee on Transportation upon the four routes indicated in the report of that committee, was debated at considerable length, and several amendments were disposed 0f.... Adjourned. In the House, on the 3d. a joint resolution was passed providing for the termination of the treaty of the 17th of July, 1858, between the United States and Belgium, which proves detrimental to American commerce.... Several of the Senate amendments to the Army Appropriation bill were non-concurred in, and the bill was sent to a Conference Committee.... The conference report on the Navy Appropriation bill was agreed t 0.... The Senate amendments to the House bills to amend the Pension acts and to increase the pensions of totally disabled men were sent to a Committee of Conference.... After debate on the bill for the improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi River a recess was taken, an evening session being held for debate only. IN the benate, on the 4th, the House bill to remove the legal and political disabilities of Filz Hugh Lee, of Virginia, and the Senate bill to remove the political disabilities of Van R. Morgan, of the same State, were passed... .The Cheap Transportation resolution was further discussed ....Amotion was agreed to insisting upon the Senate amendments to the bill to amend the charter of the Freedmen’s Saving and Trust Company, and a Conference Committee was appointed ....Adjourned. In the House, on the 4th, bills were passed—for deepening the channel at the mouth of the Mississippi River by dredging or otherwise; to prevent the introduction of Infectious diseases; for the further security of navigation on the MisaisstDDi River: to authorize the building of a bridge across the Mississippi at LS Crosse, wis ..The Senate amendments to the bill in regard to savings banks and to the Military Academy Appropriation bill were concurred in... .An evening session was held for„debate on the condition of the Washington monument. In the Senate, on the sth, the bill for the relief of certain settlers on puUlic lands in Minnesota and lowa was passed.... The bill to provide for sales of extra copies of public documents and for the distribution of regular official editions thereof was taken up and several amendments were rejected, and one was agreed to, providing for the printing and distribution of 800,000 (instead of 25,000) copies of the annual reports of the Department of Agriculture—2oo.ooo copies for the House, 75,000 for the Senate and 25,000 for the Commissioner of Agriculture... .Adjourned to the Bth. IN the House, on the sth, the conference report on the Diplomatic Appropriation bill was agreed t0....8i11s were passed—for the Improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi River by permanent jetties, and for the construction of the Fort Bt, Philip Canal and its maintenance as a national highway—l4o to 80; to ascertain the possessory rights of the Hudson Bay Company and other Briiish subjects within limits which were subject of the award of the Emperor of Germany under the Treaty of Washington... .Adjourned. Senate not in session on the 6th... .In the House several private bills were passed, as were also the following: For the sale of the Kansas Indian lands in Kansas; providing for a Commission of Engineers on the Mississippi levees; for the prepayment of postage on printed matter—loß to 78; for adjusting the salaries of Postmasters.... A Conference Committee was ordered pn the Senate amendments to the Deficiency Appropriation bill .. A report was made from the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice in regard to the expenses, disbursements and general management of the West Judicial District of Arkansas Since its reorganization in 1871. The committee finds that the expenditures have been extraordinarily large, and are not in all cases supported by appropriate vouchers. As to the Judge of the district, William Story, the committee says that the records of his court show that parties have been bailed after conviction for capital offenses and while awaiting sentence, and, while motions were pending for new trials, which were never acted on; that, notwithstanding the requirement of the law that he shall examine and approve the accounts current of the Marshal before allowing the same, he has signed, at least in one instance, a blank account current which was filled up by the Marshal for $2,000, the same being allowed and paid at the Treasury. His explanation before the committee is characterized as lame, disconnected and unsatisfactory. The committee recommends the abolishment of the present Western District, the annexation of its territory and transfer of its business to the Eastern District, which consolidated district shall have bat one Judge, one District Attorney ant one Marshal.... Adjourned.

Seasonable Food.

The wholesomeneßs of food depends nearly as much on the time it is taken as on the quantity. We have grown so luxurious in our physical as well as men- - tal tastes that we are constantly tempted to eat things out of season. Yielding to the temptation, as we often do, we pay the penalty, soon or late, in temporarvor chronic derangement of our health. The meat which is excellent in cold may not, be desirable in warm weather; fish is best during spring and early summer; vegetables and fruit are nutritious when they are fully ripened by sun and season, and not artificially stimulated. Nature knows what she is doing; she furnishes for every latitude the productions fittest for such latitude. We need variety, not so much at one time, as from time to time. The delicacies of the season will not hurt us; but the delicacies out of season certainly will, if long continued. The appetite so jaded as to crave oysters in July, or strawberries in December, needs careful correction by the adoption of the simplest habits. The palate naturally relishes what Nature has near at hand. As a rule, not only is the simplest food the best food, but the most seasonable is, in the long run, the most appetising. There is no difficulty in determining what we should eat, since the products of our climate show us plainly month by month Fish, flesh and fruit, by their plumpness, tenderness and ripeness, themselves denote when they are ready to be eaten. A sound stomach will profit by whatever an unspoiled palate enjoys.— ScriHer't Monthly.

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Wabhinotoit, June 5. Senator Jones has obtained permiiaion Jrom President Grant to publish the following memorandum prepared by the latter, expressing his views upon the financial question. The President says: I believe it a high and plain duty to return to a specie basis at the earliest practicable day, not only in compliance with legislative and party pledges, but as a step indispensable to lasting national prosperity. I believe, further, that the time has come when this can be done, or at least be begun, with less embarrassment to every branch of industry than at any future time, afer resort has been had to unstable and temporary expedients to stimulate unreal prosperity and speculation on a basis other than coin, the recognized medium of exchange throughout the commercial world. The particular mode selected to bring about a restoration of the specie standard is not of so much consequence as that some adequate plan be devised, a time fixed when the currency shall be exchangeable for coin at par, and a plan adopted and rigidly adhered to. It is not probable that any legislation suggested by me would prove acceptable to both branches of Congress, and, indeed, a full discussion might shake my own faith in the details of any plan I might propose. I will, however, venture to state the general features of action which seem to me advisable, tbe financial platform on which I would stand, and any departure from which would be in a spirit of concession and harmony in deference to conflicting opinions: 1. I would like to see the legal-tender clause, so-called, repealed ; the repeal to take effect at some future time, say July 1, 1875. This would cause all contracts made after that dafe for wages, sales, etc., to be estimated in coin ; it would correct our notions of values; the specie dollar would be the only dollar known as tbe measure of equivalents. When debts afterward contracted were paid In currency, instead of calling a paper dollar A dollar and quoting gold at so mnch premium, we should think and speak of paper as at so much discount. This alone would aid greatly in bringing tbe two currencies nearer together at par. 2. I would like to see a provision that at a fixed dav, say July 1,1876, thscurrency issued by tbe United States should be redeemed in coin on presentation to any assistant-treasurer, and that all currency so redeemed should be canceled and never reissued. To efiTect this it would be necessary to authorize the issue of bonds nayable in gold, bearing such interest as would command par in gold, to be put out by the Treasury only in such sums as should from time to time be needed for the purpose of redemption. Such legislation would insure a return to sound financial principles in two years, and would, in my judgment, work less hardship to the debtor interest than is likely to come from putting off the day ot final reckoning. It must be borne in mind, too, that tbe creditor interest had its day of disadvantage also when our present flnaneial system was brought in by the supreme needs of the nation at the time. I would further provide that, from and after the date fixed for redemption, no bills, whether of national banks or of the United States, returned to the Treasury to be exchanged for new bills, should be replaced by bills of less denomination than ten dollars, and that in one year after resumption all bills of less than five dollars should be withdrawn from circulation, and In two years all bills of less than ten dollars should be withdrawn. The advantage of this would be the strength 1 given to the country against a time of depression resulting from war, faiinre of the crops, or any other cause, by keeping always in the bands of the people a large supply of precious metals. With all the smallar transactions conducted in coin, many millions ot it would be kept in constant use, and, of course, prevented from leaving the country. Undoubtedly a poorer currency will always drive the better out of circulation. With paper a legal tender and at a discount: gold ana silver become articles of merchandise as much as wheat or cotton. The surplus will find the best market it can. With small bills in circulation there is no use for ooin except to keep it in the vaults of banks to redeem circulation. Daring periods of great speculation and apparent prosperity there is little demand for coin, and then it will flow out to a market where it can be made to earn something, which it cannot do while lying idle. Gold, like anything else, when not needed becomes a surplus, and like every other surplus it seeks a market where it can find one. By giving it active employment, however, its presence can, it seems to me, be secured, and panics and depressions which have occurred periodically in times of nominal specie payments, if they cannot be wholly prevented, can at least be greatly mitigated. Indeed, I question whether it would have been found necessary to depart from the standard of specie in the trying days which gave birth to the first Legal-Tender act had the country taken the ground of no small hills os early as 1850. Again, I would provide an excess of revenue over current expenditures. I would do this by rigid economy and by taxation where taxation can best be" borne. Increased revenue would work a constant reduction of the debt and interest and would provide coin to meet the demands on tbe Treasury for redemption qf its notes, thereby diminishing the amount of bonds needed for that purpose. All taxes after redemption begins should be paid in coin or United States notes. This would force redemption on the national banks. With measures like these, or measures which would work out such results, I see no danger in authorizing free banking without limit. .

A funny mistake occurred the other day through the forgetfulness of *a distinguished clergyman of this city. The cards were out for a wedding to take place at bis church. The day, the hour, the bridal party arrived; the church was filled with invited guests, but the officiating clergyman was nowhere to be seen. The impatient bride and groom waited for half an hour; the bride began to feel a superstitious dread of she knew not what; the groom, strong-minded, only felt annoyance. What was to be done 1 Patience had ceased to be a virtu*. At last a clergyman of another denomination, who was sitting among the guests, was observed. He was sent for, and kindly consented to perform the ceremony. The knot was tied to the satisfaction of all parties, and the fee handed over to the minister who had proved such a benefactor. The money, however, he sent to the clergyman who was to Jiave performed the ceremony, with a note: "‘This is an egg I found inyonr nest. As Ididnt cackle-ate upon it. I send it back to you.” The reason of the absence of the engaged clergyman was a very simple one—he bad forgotten all about the appointment- —Now York I*tUr. —The total value of. dry goods imported into New York during the month of April amounted to $8,505,351. As compared with corresponding periods in former years there is a decline of $94,480 in' comparison with April, 1878; of $3,728,355 as compared with 1872, and of $2,557 108 in 1871. The total importations of _ dry goods during the first four monthsof the present year amounted to $48,481,948 kgainst $58,198,501 in U»e «.rrespondmg period last year; $68,110,808 m 1872, and $58,255,381 in 1871. —London disposes of 180,000 bushels of cinders yearly.

President Grant’s Views on the Financial Question.

An Absent-Minded Minister.