Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1874 — Page 1

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Another* OaiHat'Defeat in North-; . e rn Spain.* .'lam ibttl - , • Four feimiHardtr' Shot ■Wf I’titmu Insurgents. *» .tmap-i in • sqaat ,Ti«!v««{ 51 The Thieving Russian Prince Banished ,H 3. for Life. r * .'7AJ H —££ v •" An Important*Gptattn by the Comptroller - to sbu of the Currency. V- 1 ■>; r an !'V.» ’ '.•H SBlluUj ,<v Itfa-JK.J - ' Interesting Personal, Political and jffe'|jrs Vr 'l_ .SMKKUMW tloß I.n. » OnjJhq* 2#lrth« FrcHols Goveryiinmik insued' ibPoAlir ■‘forbidding tfle 'distribution of'thephoto graph* tef the Prince' Imperial. On the 25th the French A'ssiAilbfjr' ratified without debate the postal convention between fttiiift PffPthfeUJulSiilffliWsf • JfiTaris (lispsUJitrf, tUegCgli says.tjiat pie.police, on tli«-pr<MT(lithrflsy, lioade domiciliary visits to tlie j<iunnyls and the residences of well-known Bonapartists, and seiJbd sdvhriil important documents. A DlSfiA-rdH wWffcoeiVed from Pernambuco, Brazil, on thq 2#,;anjm'Hl''ingrthe auecessfui laying, jjf Brazilian cable. >( * Tub English laborers are being shipped to Canada auiftlie United States In large munberS.”*'' '' * The Sublime Porte has forbidden the circulation of the Bible In Turkey. An EiUini.nnd a ,valuable collection of diamonos wsrfe-pnAented to the Pope on the 22d by the Amerieftn pilgrims. On tlie evening of tlfMßttfc tßerfc were aati-papai demonstrations in Rome, a time created considerable uneasiness. Tlie ringleaders were arrested and qtiiet was restored. The Spanish commander has decided to build, a scries of fortifications extending across Spain, so lbcdted as to confine the Carlists withbi nsinall area destitute of the means of : sustenance.- ■ According to Madrid dispatebes .as the lMtli tliaCarliats had captmred Beltnioiuit oil the preceding day. Tliey luid cstublisbedtheir intrenched Hues near Estella. BaydilfieHttpatohos of the Sfith say the Carlists had raised the seige of Flgueras, near tlie French frontier. , Gen. Concha’s attack on Estella was hourly expected. Don Carlos was tlie defense in person. A Madrid telegram of the 27th announces the defeat of 10,000 Carliats under Prince Alphonzo, after two days’ fighting. Gen. Concha, on the 28th, surprised and captured three of the outlying defenses of Estella. It. was thought the Carlists would retire to Alriva. Acoordino to Calcutta telegrams of the 25th the distress consequent on tlie famine in that country had measurably abated. 'Tuf. nepliesv of. .tlie Czar who stole his mother's diamonds and squandered them upon an American adventuress has been banished to Caucasus sos life. RuMOUs wctc current in St. Petersburg on tlie 27tlr that' the Ameer of Kashgar, in Ceiftral Asia, seized a Russian envoy, nnd menaced tlie frontier with 10,000 men. Earthquake shocks were felt in Constantinople on the 37th.- * , THE NEW WOULD. tTna Mil for tlie distribution of the Geneva nida’pd, which passed both houses of Congress on tlie pt-ovldes for five commissioners to diatjriijute and limits tlie time of service ami a half. On tile 22d notice was given that the Prosb den(.MidVij|ned't|e Cymnejrbill. New Yqug dispatches of tlie 22d say that aigijwg of tlie Currency bill had caused giwatdmoyaucy in the railway, share market. Gtsr 900,006 SWareS changed hands at from }£ to 5 per cent, advanep.^ AMONG the lulls passed by the late Congress ana that the rate shall be two cents per pound on weekly pagers, -ou4 tliree cents per pound on all publications less frequent thwiff Mat Ftttuft 9» public .documents vWilFMfften cfrftstifeC vfffihnC. —~On tlie,23d,tlie f rejidfpt nominated Alexnndcr Ri Shepherd, late Governor of The District of Columbia; William A. Dennison, of Blow, of Missouri, formerly member of Congress from that State, and a/tesward Minister to Brazil, as a Commission to govern the Dis- , °hiBWKXf havebeen prepared and adopted. The last two namqd confirmed .but tlie nomination of Shepherd was defeated by a vote, of she to thirty-six. Subsequently cxSenator Cattell, of New Jersey, was nominated and coqArmqd.j rr », < ( - • : The fofiownig ari tßbinutri bills which go over till the next session of Coumy ci i \ r r < i \ 1 f f Hr thefelef |f ownen and pnlchaArs of land sollfordpdit tSXiVin tjfcnrractihnarS States. - Amending the section of the Act approved Jnly 13 concerning.deuqsita.in savings banks. GrantingSoUrvlam iti tire T<u*itqHb», the right of way through finblrc’latias tn the lAllied States. To enable the Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railway Company to submit It* claim against •the United States under the existing laws to decision of the Supreme Court. . * de£s “ WDK ' the Southern Trans-Continental ! Tb-famvlde ror the Snore efficient administration of lawterataring topnbllc land. Aineodjitorj of Ihu Civil Rights taw. To anthorize the organization of national banks wlthqhf chhatattam ' . To establish the Territory of Pembina, and provide a eoyemment therefor. of the Tariff and Internal Revenue fi Foradmlaflon of New Mexico and Colorado as Repealing the Pre-emption and amendatory of the Homestead laws. To protect the ditfgable Waters of the United State*4t«in injury and obetractlon. The bln granting pensions to afl soldiers of the war of 181-J and their widows and children. For the constmction and repair 6f - the Missta transportation. House ®tiramendatory pf the Steamboat law. Senate Mils for the abolition of compnlsfiiy pilotage and to authorize tho organization of narional honks wftbont eireOiatlon. Jdl tand-grant bills and many hundred bills for the relief <A individuals. There were in the United States, on the fit of June, lfi.fffe subordinate Granges of the Paijrous of Husbandry.

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On the evening of the 23d, at Syracuse, N. Y., a strawberry festival was being hold at tho parlors of tho Central Baptist Church, when, without any premonition, the floor gave way, precipitating tlie room-full into the story below. The parlor was on tlie second floor, and the room underneath was also full of people. Fourteen were killed and about two hundred injured, many of them dangerously. Joseph A. Titcomb was- nominated by acclamation for Governor of Maine by the Maine .State Democratic Convention on the 23d. Resolutions were unanimously adopted—fuvuring the early resumption of specie payments -/declaring for free trade; condemning the recent course of the Republican majority of the United States Senate In attempting to establish a censorship of the press of thecountryat the Rational capital; denouncing tlie Republican party for Interference with the .government of the several States, and tlie course of the Republican Congress on the subject of civil.serylce reform. On the 21st of June there were 481 Grangers in the State of Wisconsin, with an aggregate membership of 25,500. According to a recent decision by tlie Supreme Court of Wisconsin the Legislature had the right to repeal a clause of the charter of the West Wisconsin Railway exempting certain lands from taxation. Tho friends of recent Wisconsin railway legislation claim an application of the principles-enunciated in that decision will end all doubts as to the constitutionality of the Potter law. Tlie West Wisconsin Railway Company officially denies a recent, report that they liad issued an order for trains not to stop at Hannnond, Wls., be.cause the station agent there liad beenJined so violating one of tlie provisions of the Wisconsin Railway law. ills resignation to the President on tlie 24th. It was accepted, and Hon. Eugene Hale, of Maine, was appointed as liis successor. A State Prohibition Convention was held at Auburn, N. Y., on the 23d. Myron S. Clark was nominated for Governor, Horace V. Howland forjudge of tljc Court of Appeals, Daniel Wnlford for Canal Commissioner, and Ira Bell for State Prison Inspector. Theodore Tilton published in the New York Times on tlie 25tli a long article relating to wliat lias been called the Beeelier scandal. The statement concludes as follows: “After I liad been for fifteen years a member of Plymouth Church, and liad become meanwhile an Intimate friend of tlie pastor, the knowledge came to me in 1870 that lie bad committed against me an offense which I forbear to name or characterize. Prompted by my selfrespect, I Immediately and forever ceased my attendance on liis ministry.” The corner-stone of tlie new Custom House in Chicago was laid on the 24tli, under tlie auspices of tlie Masonic fraternity. A large number of persons and organizations from abroad participated in the ceremonies. Tlie lowa Auti-Mouopoly State Convention assembled at Bes Moines on tlie 24th. Bcv-cuty-six counties were represented by between 200 and 300 delegates. Tlie following persons were nominated for State officers: Secretary of State, David Morgan, of Ma. lmskii; State Auditor, ,T, M. King, of Dubuque; State Treasurer, J. W. Barnes, of Des Moines; Attorney-General, J. T. Kcatley, of Pottawatomie; Clerk of the Supreme Court, George W. Ball, of Polk; Supreme Court Reporter, J. M. Weart, of Buchanan; Registe of the State Land-Office, M. Rodarmul, of Story. Resolutions were adopted—indorsing the doctrine of tlie inviolability of State and individual rights, and denouncing the Administration in that it bad interfered in certain States with matters with which it had ho proper concern; condemning the—extravagance and —waste of the Government ns now administered, and its total incapacity to meet the vital questions of tlie dqy; declaring that the faith and credit of the natioh must be maintained inviolate ; that the public debt, of whatever kind, eliouid be paid in strict accordance with the law under which it was contracted; insisting that tariffs should be imposed for revenue only; that railroads should be subservient to the public good, and demanding such legislation as will secure (lie industrial and producing Interests of tlie country against all forms of corporate monopoly and extortion; deprecating any action' calculated to retard railroad enterprises or work injustice to these invaluable auxiliaries to commerce' and civilization; favoring tlie limitation of tlie Presidency to a single term and the election of President, Vice-President nnd Senators by direct popular vote; demanding a modification of the Patent, laws; insisting that the personal liberty and social rights of the citizens should not be abridged or controlled by legislative enactment, except so far as may be necessary to piomote the peace and welfare of society; favoring tho equalization of bounces to soldiers and sailors, nnd advocating such legislation ns shall grant to cacli one of them or to his widow nnd children a homestead of 100 acres of land,. Lvman K. Bass, tho Buffalo (N. Y.) Con. greasman who was appointed nnd confirmed as Assistant-Secretary of tlie Treasury, declined the appointment on tlie 24th. Despairing of electing a United States Senator, the Rhode Island Legislature on the 25tli adjourned to meet in January next .Hon. Henhv L. Dawes, of tlie Massachusetts Eleventh Congressional District, has written a letter to his constituents declining a rcuoniination to Congress. The Democratic State Convention of Vermont was held at Montpelier oil the 25th. The following candidates were nominated:’ Governor, Hoa. W. H. H.‘ Bingham; Lieu-teliant-Govcmor, Henry Chase; Treasurer, Otis Chamberlin. Resolutions were adopted renewing devotion to the Democratic party, favbrjng the repeal' of tho prohibitory law and adoption of astringent license law, and hailing With joy the prospect of the early completion, of tlie Oauglmawaga Canal, as beneficial alike to the farmer, manufacturer, producer and consumer, A convbnti on of the friends ofthe. improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers was held at Oshkosh, Wia., on- the 24th. Col. C. D. Robinson, Of Greeiv Bay, was chosen President, with A. J. Turner, of Portage, and Cur. Us Reed, of Menaslia, as Secretaries. A scries of resolutions waa adopted urging the importance aiid necessity of the proposed improvement of said rivers. A letter was road from Gov. Taylor, stating that the object* of the convention had lvis hearty approval. The official vote for Congressman from Oregon U reported as follows: #,642; Williams (Rep.), 9,340; ' Davenport (Ind-X 6,350. ■ , • Elvina Rlazieu, a Lincoln (Neb.) maiden, recently attempted to light a fire with the aid

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of kerosene oil. The usual result followed. Tho young woman was fearfully burned, and died next morning. Geo. F Hoar has, according to a Worcester (Mass.) dispatch of the 26tli, determined not to run for Congress or any other position next fall. A New York telegram of the 36th says that Mr.Beechcr had stated that he should not break the silence he had heretofore observed in rer iation to tlie Tilton matter. Another dispatch of tlie same date says: “ Mr. Beeelier, in conversation with a reporter, said he had at present no intention of saying anything in reply to the recent statements. Tie liad a large pastorate under liis charge and had no time for personal controversies. If, however, the examiners of Plymouth Church should decide that it would be well for him to speak out in regard to the recent letter, he would do so without hesitation.” All the agents of tlie civilized Indians have bocn relieved, except the agent of the Clierokees, and a central agency has been located at Fort Gibson. An official opiniofi has been given by the Attorncy-Gencral of lowa that the State Railway law is valid and its enforcement feasible. The Cuban insurgents recently sliot 400 Spanish prisoners in retaliation for like exo* cutions of insurgent soldiers. Secretary Bristow, according to a late Washington dispatch, had declined the gift of a coach and a pair of horses recently tendered him by one of liis personal frieuds. The Comptroller of the Currency has given tlie following construction to tlie clause in the new Currency law relating to bank reserves: My construction of the act of Jane 20, 1874, in reference to the reserve of the National Banks is that the reserve upon circulation is abolished, hut that the National Banks are required to keep reserve upon deposits, as provided in Sections 31 and 32 of the National Bank act, certain proportion of which must be kept on hand, and certain other proportion with the reserve a«ents in the cities enumerated in the sections referred to. The hanks arc also required to keep au amount equal to 5 per cent, of their circulation on deposit with the Treasurer of the United States, which amount may be deducted from the aggregate amount of the reserve required to be kept upon the deposits. A butcher named McCormick died a distressing death in New York, recently, from hydrophobia, caused by tlie bite of a small dog a month before. An organization lias been recently formed by Brooklyn ladies for tlie suppression of corsets and other anti-health modes of dress. The Chicago Tribunt of the 29th publishes reports of the condition of the crops at stations along the lines of the Michigan Southern and Chicago & North western Ruilroads. According, to the reports the prospects for all grains in Indiana and Michigan were excellent, but in Ohio wheat was in bad condition, varying from one-third to tWo-tliirds of a crop. There is not more than two-tliirds of the average yield of hay iu any of these States. Fruits were doing remarkably well. Returns from tlie country traversed by the Northwestern Road -tnA9lsenstp, lowa and Illinois were to the effect that tlie acreage of grain was large, tlie prospects better than for many years past, and the amount on hand at the stations small. Senor Aveli.aneda has been elected President of the Argentine Confederation. » the: markets. Juke 27, 1874. New York.— Cotton—Flour— Good to choice, 56.304M.80; white wheat extra,s6.Bo® 6.10. Wheat— No. 2 Chicago. [email protected]; lowa spring, $1.41® 1.42: No. 2 Milwaukee spring, *1.44® 1.45. A vs—Western, $1.07®1.14. Ilarleysl.so® 1.55. Corn—Bo®B2c. Oat* -New Western, 61@62V4c. /'or*—New mess, [email protected]. Laril—i Woof—Domestic fleece, 45® 68c. Beeves— [email protected]. Hogs— Dressed, $7.75 @7.874. Sheep —Live, [email protected]. Chicago. — Beeves —Choice, [email protected]; good. [email protected]; medium, [email protected]; butchers' stock, [email protected](0; stock cattle, [email protected]. Itons—Use, [email protected]. Sheep —Good to choice, [email protected]. Butter— Choice yellow, lfl@2lc. Eggs- Fresh, 12@124c. Pork— Mess, new, $17.30@17,40. Z«[email protected]. Flour— White winter extra, [email protected]; spring extra, $5.124@6.«0. iFAcrtf-Spring, No. % [email protected]. t’orn-No. 2, 60y@614c. Oats -,-No. 2, 454@454(c. Ays—No. 2, 83®84c. Barley —No. 2, $1.25. Woo/—’Tub-washed, 45@53c; fleece, washed, 40@44c; fleece, unwashed, 30@33c; pulled, 3<@B9c. Lumber— First clear, $50.00® 05.00; second clear. [email protected]: Common Boards, $11.00®12.00; Fencing, [email protected]; A" Shingles, [email protected]; Lath, $2.25®2.374. Cincinnati.—F/0vr—[email protected]. IF A sot—sl.23 @1.25. Corn —63®65c. Ays-86@87c. Oats- 48® 50c. Ba Wsy--$1.40@!.45. Por*[email protected]. Lard— lo4@ll4 c. St. Loui*.—Ca/Z/s—Fair.to choice, [email protected]. Hogs —l.tve, [email protected]. Flour— XX Fail, $5.00® 5.50. ii’Aetj/—No. 2 Red Fall, $1.3001.32. CornNo.’2, 6Q@6o4e. Oats- No. 2,490494 c. Bye—--79@6oc. Barley $18.25018.50. £qnf— Milwaukee.— Flour— Spring XX, [email protected]. BVisof—Spring, No. 1, [email protected]; No. 2. $1.22 @1.224X. (lorn— No. 2, 60®60*c. Oats— No. 2, 444@45c. 7/ye—No. 1, 83@tHc. Barley—Ho. 2, Cleveland.— Wheal— No. 1 Red, $1.30®1.31; No. 2 Red, [email protected] Corn—7o®72c. Oats— No. 1, 58@55c. Detuoit,— JFAsof—Extra, [email protected]. Corn—66®i»>7o. date —soos24c. Toledo.— Wheat— Amber Mich., [email protected]; No. * red, $1.«[email protected]. Corn-Mixed, 65@654c. (ta/*-53@5Sc. Buffalo. — Beeves [email protected]. 5 Are/J—Live. $4.5005.00. Fast Liberty.— Cattle ■— Beat, $6.12406.50; medium, [email protected]<). 7/ooe-YoriterH. $5.5006.00 r Philadelphia, $6.350.6.50. Sheep-best. $5.00® 5.75; good, $4.2505.00. CONGRESSIONAL. In tlie Senate, on the 22d, the Tariff bill was amended and passed, and a Conference Committee was subsequently appointed on the amendments, ami their report at the evening session was agreed t 0... The conference report on the Postofflce Appropriation bill was rejected and a new committee was appointed... The conference report ou the Geneva Award bill was agreed t 0... .The Honsc hill granting the right of way to the Arkansas Valley Railway Company was passed... .A Conference Committee was ordered and appointed on the Senate amendments to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bi 11.... A rwoiutiou of the House extending the session of Congress nntH fonr o'clock p. m. on the 23d was agreed toIn the House,- on the 22d» several of the Senate amendments to the Sundry Civil Ap* propriation bill were nun-concurred in, and » Conference Committee was appointed.... Tho conference report on the Geneva Award bill waa agreed to.. .The Senate amendments to the Tariff bill were non-concnrred in and referred to a Conference- Committee.... A concurrent resolution was adopted extending the session nnlii fonr p. m. on the 2M... Senate bills on the Speaker's table were disposed of as follows: To prevent hazing at the Naval Academy: passed. To set apart a portion of Mackinac Island, Mich., as a national park; laid on the table. To oxeinpt military bounty land-warrants and lands obtained thereby from sale or execution: referred. F*r the better oreanization'of the United States District Coarts (n Louisiana; left on the table. In tiic Senate, on the 23d, a message *was received from the House announcing the non-concnrrence of that both- In the report of the Conference Committee on the Tariff Mil and asking a new conference. A morion In postpone the biQrrill next Decemberyvas agreed t 0.... Among the bills passed were: House bill authorizing and requiring lasnance Of patent for certain lands in Scott County. Mo.; Ilonse bill to extend the time for eompleting entries of Osage Indian landa In Kansaa; In relation to courts and judicial officers In the .Territory or Utah, with amendments; providing for the sal# of Kansas Indian lands In Kansas to actual settlers and for the disposition of the proceeds of the sale; House bill to confirm the agreement made with tho Shoshone Indians, Eastern hand, for the purchase of a portion of their reservation In W.yomfiu. Territory.. ..The bills providing for the admission

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of Colorado and New Mexico into the Union were laid aside, objection being made to their consideration.... The report of the Conference Committee on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill waa agreed t 0... .A committee appointed for that purpose reported that they had notlflod the 'President that Congress was ahont ‘to adjourn,'and thatjie had no further communication to send in.... A resolution was adopted tendering thankH to Senator Carpenter for the courtesy and ability with which he had presided over the deliberations of the Senate, and after a few appropriate remarks the presiding officer (Carpenter) declared the Senate adjourned sine die. In (he House, on the 28d, conference report* on the River and Harbor, the Postofflco and the Sundry Civil Appropriation hills were agreed to.. I. Senate amendments to the House bill in rqlwtion to courts and judicial officers iu Utah were concurred in.... Bills were passed— Senate bill extending the time for the redemption of certain lands for direct taxes; House bills, with Seuate amendments, extending the time for completing the entry of the Osage Indian ~ lands—in Kansas; Senate bill authorizing the Committeos on Appropriation of bottonouses to meet during the recess of Congress to make inquiry into the machinery by which reforms can be made in the expenditures of the civil branches of the service .... After announcement by a committee that the President had no further communication to make to Congress, the Speaker pronounced the first session of the Forty-third Congress adjourned sine die- - “

The following is the full text of the new Finance bill which finally passed both houses of Congress and was signed by the President on the 22d: Section 1. The act entitled "An act to provide a national currency, secured by a pledge or United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof,” approved June 3,1864, shall be hereafter known ns the National Bank act. Sec. 2. That Sec. 31 of the National Bank act be so amended that the several associations therein provided for shall not hereafter be required to keep on hand any amount of money whatever by reason of the amount of their respective circulations; but the moneys required bv said section to be kept at all times on hand shall be determined bv the amount of deposits iu all respects as provlded for in the said section. : Sec. 3. That every association organized or to be organized under the provisions of the said act, and of the several nets amendatory thereof, shall at all rime keep and have on deposit in the Treasury of the United States, in lawful money of the United States, a sum equal to 5 per centum of its circulation, to he held and used for the redemption of such circulation, which sum shall be counted as a part of its lawful reserve, as provided in Sec. 2 of this act; and when the circulating notes of anv such association, assorted or unassorted, shall be presented for redemption in sums of SI,pOO or any multiple thereof to the Treasurer of the United States, the same shall be redeemed in United States notes. All notes so redeemed shall be charged by the Treasurer of the United States to the respective associations .ssuing the same, and he shall notify them severally on the first day of each month, or oftener, at his discretion, of the amount of such redemption; and whenever such redemptions of any association shall amount to the sum of $560 such association so notified shall forthwith deposit with the Treasurer of the United States a sum in United States notes equal to the amount of its circulating notca so redeemed; nndali notes of Natiohul Bankß worn, defaced, mutilated, or otherwise unfit for circulation shall, when received by any Assistant Treasurer or at any designated depository of the United States, be forwarded to the Treasurer of the United Stateß for redemption, as provided herein; and when such redemptions have been ao reimbursed the circulating notes so redeemed shall he forwarded to the respective associations by which they were issued; but if any such notes are worn, mutilated, defaced, or rendered otherwise nuflt for use, they shall be forwarded to the Comptroller of the Currency and destroyed and replaced as now provided by law: Provided, That each of Bald associations shall reimburse to the Treasury the charges for transportation and the costs for assorting such notes, and the associations hereafter organized shall also generally reimburse to the Treasury the cost of engraving such plates as shall be ordered by each association respectively, and the amount assessed upon each association shall he in proportion to the circulation redeemed, and he charged to the fund on deposit with the Treasurer: And provided , further , That so much of Bec, 32 of said National Bank act recognizing or permitting the redemption of its circulating notes elsewhere than at ils own counter, except as provided for iu this section, is hereby repealed. Sec. 4. That any asaociation organized under this act, or any of the acts to which this is an amendment, desiring to withdraw its circulating notes, in whole or iu part, may, upon the deposit of lawful money with the Treasurer of the United States, in sums of not less than *9,000 take np the bonds which said associatioa has on deposit with the Treasnrer for the security of snch circulating notes, which bonds shall lie assigned to the banks 111 the manner specified in the nine teenth section of the National Bank act, and the outstanding notes of said association to an amount equal to the legal-tender notca deposited shall bo redeemed at the Treflanry of the United States and destroyed a* now provided by law: Provided , That the amount of the bonds on deposit for circulation shall not bo reduced below $50,000. Sec. 5. That the Comptroller of the Currency shall, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, cause the charter number of the association to be printed upon all National Bank notes which may be hereafter issued bv him. Sec. 6. That the amount of tho United States notes outstanding and to be Issued aa a part of the circulating medium shall not exceed the sum of $382,000.0(0. which said sum shall apoear in each monthly statement of the public debt, and no part thereof shall be held or used as a reserve. >—: —— Sec. 7. That so much of theact entitled, “ Anacto to provide for the redemption ofthe 3 per centum temporary loan certificates, undfor an increase of National Bank notes” as provided that no circulation shall be withdrawn under the provisions of .Sec. 6 of said act until after the *54,000.000 ’granted in Sec. 1 of said act shall have been taken up is hereby repealed, and it shall be the duty of the Comptroller of the Currency, under the dircction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to proceod forthwith, and he is hereby authorized and required, from time to time, as application shall be duly made therefor, and until the full amount of tlie $54,000,000 shall be withdrawn, to make a requisition on each of the National Banks described in said section, and in the manner therein provided, organized in States having an excess of circulation, to withdraw and return so much of this circulation aa by said act mav be apportioned to be withdrawn from them, or, In lien thereof, to deposit in the Treasury of the United Slates lawful niouey sufficient to rei deem such circulation, and. upon the return of the circulation required, or the deposit of lawful money, as herein provided, a proportionate amount of tho bonds held to secure the circulation Of such association as shall make such return ordeposit shall be surrendered to if. Sec. 8. That upon the failure of the National Ranks qpon which requisitions for circulation shall be made, or of any of them, to return the amount required, or to deposit In the Treasure lawful money to redeem tne circulation required, within thirty days, the Comptroller of the Currency shall at once sell, as provided in Sec. 49 ol the National Currency, act, approved June 3, 1864, bonds held to secure the reoeroption v of rife circulation of the association or associations which shall so fail to an amount sufficient to redeem the circulation required of such association or associations, and with the proceeds, which shall be deposited 11l the Treasury ol the United States, so much of the circulation ol said association or associations shall be redeemed as Mill equal the amount required and noLretnrued, and if there be any excess of proceedsover the amount required for such redemption It shall he returned lo the assoclarion' or associations whose bonds shall hare been sold; and it shall he the duly of the Treasurer, Assistant Treasuret». designated depositories and National Bank depositories of the United Slates, who shall be kept informed by the Comptroller of reney of such associations as shall fail to return circulation as required, to assort and return to the Treasnrer for redemption the notes of snch associations as shall come intotheir hands until the amouutrequired shall be redeemed, and,in like manner to assort and return to the Treasury for redemption the notes of such National Banks as have failed or cone Into voluntary liquidation, for tho purpose of winding np the affairs of snch as shall hereafter so fail or go into liquidation. Sec.' 9. Thai from and after the passage of this act it shall he lawful for the Comptroller ofthe Currency, and he Is hereby Ordered, to issne circulating notes without 'delay, aa applications therefor are made, not to exceed the sttm or $55,000,000, to associations organized, or to be organized, in those States and Territories having leas (han their proportion of circulation under an apportionment made on the basis of population and of wealth aa shown by the returns or the census of 1870, snd every association hereafter organized shall be subject to and be governed by the rules, restriction* and limitation*, and posses* the rights, privileges and frabchlses, now or bereafler to oe prescribed by taw to National Bauking Associations, with the same power to amend 1 alter and repeal provided by the Nationalßank 1 att: Provided. That the whole amount of clxcnlatlou withdrawn and redeemed from the banks transacting bnslneaaahall not exceed sss.«»um and that each circulation shall be withdrawn and

The Currency Bill.

! redeemed aa shall he necessary to supply the cir- ’ dilation previously issned to the hanks ill those StiUeshaving less than their apportionment: And provided f urther , That not more than $30,000,000 shall lie withdrawn and redeemed, as herein contemplated, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. The title of tlie bill is amended to read as follows: “An act to. fix the amount of United States notes, provide for the redistribution of the National Bank currency, and for otlior purposes.”

The Syracuse Horror.

A Syracuse (N. Y.) dispatch of June 24 gives the following particulars of tlie recent accident in that place caused by the giving way of tlie Central Baptist Church building, in which a festival was being held: The list of killed numbers thirteen. The number of wounded foots up 100; of whom twenty are serioiydly injured. The occasion of the gathering last night was a festival given by the ladies of the church, and a concert by “ The Little Old Folks.” At the rear of tlie "church are Sunday-school rooms, occupying the first floor, and the church parlors, occupying tlie second floor. This part of the edifice was in use for the festival and concert. At tlie time of the accident supper was bciqg served in the central parlor, which had been prepared for the occasion -with tables, etc. This room, which was forty feet square, xvas filled with people, the session-room below being deserted save by a few persons. The number in the supper-room is variously estimated at from 250 to 500, mostly grown persons. At the time the floor gave way tlie children of the congregation were in one of the ante-rooms, being prepared for the “Ancient Concert.” But for this fact the list of dead must have been very much larger, as many of Hie helpless little ones would have been crushed to death in the mass of humanity crowded into the “V” shaped vortex formed by the fulling timbers. At the moment of the falling of the floor the scene within the parlors was one of happy enjoyment, While all were pleasantly engaged, without a single sign of warning, the floor suddenly sank beneath them, and in an instant all were buried in a mass of struggling humanity, intermixed with falling timbers, furniture, etc., and in utter darkness, the gas having been extinguished by the breaking of tlie gas pipes. An instant after the fearful descent liad been made, all was silent as the grave, but immediately after heartrending appeals for help were to be heard from hundreds of those who were in agony. Immediately after persons were seen issuing from the doors and windows, which were smashed out by frightened people, and an alarm was sounded. The uninjured within tlie church who were able to free themselves from the mass began at once to assist in rescuing others. The firemen and police were quickly at hand, and labored nobly in tlie work of rescue. The scene within the building was terrible in its details, and that without the edifice heart-rending indeed. Fathers and mothers searching for tlicit children, husbands looking for wives, wives inquiring for husbands, brothers for sisters, and children for their parents, of whose fate all w'ere uncertain and in dread. Quickly and rapidly the work of extricating the people was carried on by aid of lanterns. As fast as the living and dead were rescued they were passed out through tlie windows apd doors, where ready hands assisted to convey the dangerously injured and dead to thq physicians’ offices and neighboring houses. The excitement -without the church was terrible, and as the bodies were being carried to adjoining houses tlie mass surged back and forth, all terribly anxious to ascertain who they were an(i whether dead or alive. At the height of the excitement not less than 10,000 people were crowded into Montgomery and Jefferson streets and in adjoining premises. The floor which fell was suspended by iron rods from a wooden truss under the roof. These rods went through the lower, but not through the upper chord of the truss. The lower chord had been spliced the wrong side up, and that side was the first to give way. The floor, having no props beneath it, sunk in the form of a letter V. The most of the deaths werre efttwed by falling timbers of the truss; some, however, were smothered by plastering. Tlie floors of tlie church were supported originally by the pillars. A short time ago the Church Building Committee, with the consent, as they say, of tlie architect, removed tlie iron pillars. The truss was very* imperfectly constructed, besides being spliced. The most prominent builders in the city declare that it was rotten. It was put in green, and has the dry rot.

A Persian Story.

A terrible story conies to us from Persia. In one of the districts a laboring man had been sentenced to be bastinadoed for sonic oftcMo, receiving 150 blows on the soles of’his feet. As lie sank down on his knees alter the sentence had been carried out, and it was believed that liis injuries were of a serious character, lie called the Judge to liis side, intimating that lie had a terrible secret to reveal. As he could only speak in a whisper the Judge placed his carlo the lips of the fainting man, when the latter seized it with liis teeth and in his agony hit it completely off. In. Persia the loss of an ear, no matter under what circumstances, is considered a lasting disgrace, an(J the Judge so felt it. He at once orders to have the prisoner carefully cared for, assuring the physicians that if they did not save liis life their own should pay the penalty,, and they succeeded. When the prisoner had fully recovered he was sentenced to have liis teeth pulled out one by one in presence of the mob. and this frightful sentence. was carried out, two days being exhausted in the .work. No pains were taken with the horrible job, and the jaws were broken and crushed and the whole lower part ot the man’s face was a mangled mass, and liis sufferings were so great that many of the men fainted in w itnessing the operation. Two days after the little life in the man won beaten out of the soles of hitt sect, and the Judge, having fully satisfied his thirst for vengeance, committed suicide. [ . Tmc Oswego Time* says: “ The cormorants who tried, to shut the public oqt from a view of the Niagara L alls have succeeded Ticyond their expectations. In consequence of charging twenty-five cents admission to the bank where a good view of the falls is obtained, people are zealously staying away this summer. The hotels are still empty. 1 *

CURRENT ITEMS.

Coal oil, us a rule, is down, but it goes up occasionally. Go to Culpepper, Va., and live. Not a case of consumption there for forty years. The woolen mills of Salem, Or., arcnow the property of the Bank of British Columbia. Boston is running parlor palace horse cars that are pronounced perfect in point of beauty and luxury. Bald Mountain is likely to become more bald than ever; worn by the feet of many tourists, particularly ladies, who think a volcano is “ so sweet.” The potato bug lias crossed the Allegheny Mountains, and the Harrisburg papers chronicle the arrival of the Colorado conqueror at the capital of Pennsylvania. The number of old bachelors and old maids is greatly on the increase. Club life is taking the place of home life. In Massachusetts there are 200,008 old maids. A youno lady in lowa having contracted a bill of twelve dollars for chewing gum her unreasonable papa refuses to liquidate the debt, but he says she can if she choose. California has a libel suit in which no damages are claimed. The plaintiff is a District-Attorney, and simply wants to settle his reputatidn. This is what might be called a model libel suit. Nashville, Tenn., recently celebrated tire success attained by the tobacco in dustry there, the quantity of tobacco received having increased from 900 hogsheads three years ago to 3,700 last year. A LApGK frog, whose age is placed in round numbers at 1,000 years, was recently found ten fret below the surfnee at Hodus, N. Y. He jumped away quite lively as soon as he could remember how lie used to do it. As a bride and bridegroom were about to leave Cleveland, a constable stepped into the car with a new attachment and seized the bridegroom’s beautiful plug hat. The dishonest groom went on with his matrimony barehead. The quiet services in a colored church at Vicksburg, Miss., were rudely interrupted on a recent Sunday evening by two women, who, after glaring at each other a few moments, sprang at each other, and before the rest of the congregation knew what was going on, were lighting like two wild-cats. They were separated by their friends and then left the church. . ~~ As a young lady was preparing to retire in Augusta, Me., a few nights ago, a cat overturned the kerosene lamp in her room and set tlie table on Are. The frightened girl hid herself in the closet, closing the door after her, and screamed, but could not be heard by the other members of the family, and as no one came to her rescue she threw the door open and, with a woolen quilt, put the fire out. Two years ago Thomas Pearce ran for Justice at Eola, Oregon, and wns tied with bis opponent. The law directs the casting of lots to decide, and Mr. Pearce won, with dice. The contestants gambled for it according to law, and they we likely to resort to the same expedient again, as Mr. Pearce and another opponent are tied again on the vote there for Justice of the Peace. This is a significant thing to happen twice to the same man. Unless the Reno Crescont exaggerates, Senators Jones and Stew-art may be left some day without a constituency. The amount of water accumulated in Lake Tahoe is more than a thousand-times that ‘which devastated the Massachusetts valley, and this inland sea is held back by an artificial dam. The . Crescent thinks that it is only a question of time when the dam will give way and the valley be overwhelmed by a roaring Niagara. TnEiiE is a party in Northeastern Mexico Which for the last fifteen years has favored the establishment of the Sierra Madre republic. Gen. Vidaurre "in 1861 desired the Confederate Government to assist him in carrying out that enterprise. President Davis, through fear of involving the Confederacy in a w r nr with Mexico before the final triumph of the former was. achieved, refused the aid solicited by the ill-fated Governor of New Leon. It is now stated by a correspondent of the Galveston New, who w-rites from the City of Mexico, that the Mexican secessionists afe still alive and active, and that Lerdo de Tejada will soon send a force of 5,000 regular troops to be stationed along tkc Rio Grande border, for the purpose, of maintaining order and treaty’ stipulations with the United States, but in reality with the object of overawing the party which favors the new republic. An incident occurred near the old Mohawk bridge the other day during the sudden rise of the river which showed the intelligence of the mice and the care exercised by the mother for her young. The mother evidently had'a nest In the stone wall near the bank, in the garden of Mr. Van Epps. As soon as the water reached the nest, or near it, the mother was seen to come from the wall with one of her young in her mouth and deposit it beneath a tree on the ground out of danger from the Hood. She went back and forth, taking one of her young each time, until tliey were all saved. On another occasion" at the same place, an old mouse did Ihe same thing and more. When she had rescued a part of her young the water had risen so h* to cut oil* communication with lief nest, but this did not stop her. She plunged into Ihe water, swam over to the nest and brought away several young mice in fhis way, holding them ip her mouth above water while she swam with them to dry land. This feat-was witnessed by several persons.— Schenectady (N. Y.) Union. -

A Mustache.

By all means raise one! .My young masculine friends, if ypu have heretofore neglected it, attend to it at once. “ Delays are dangerous.” *' Procrastination is the thief of time.” Nowadays, to succeed in life, it is necessary that a man should have a mustache! Witness Ihe following advertisement, copied verbatim from one of onr city dailies: •• Wanted.—A .voting gentleman to act as clere in a drv-2<>od« store. Must be experienoca fn tntwsinw, of Rood address and prepossessing ap pcarance. One with a mustache preferred." Brains, you see, are at a discount, but bair on the upper lip is at a premium. Everybody appreciates a mustache; but few people have wit enough to appreciate brains, even when they come into the

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vicinity of them—which, by the way, is not often. A mustache makes itself evident at once, unless it be of a pale yellow Mind which requires the observer to use a microscope in order to detect it. Brainq are not supposed to be visible, and, indications of them are not always surface indications. Blonde mustaches are all the go with novelists; tawny they are sometimes designated, but pever red. Somehow, nowadays, everybody seems to avoid correctness in everything, and it would be dreadful to describe a hero with a red mustache. So, young man, if you desire to be in style, raise a tawny mustache. Let it grow long, so that' your mouth will be submerged—so that nobody will know for certain that you have got a mouth, it will teach lookers-on a lesson of faith in things unseen. Young ladies like mustaches. Of course they do. A hero with chin whiskers or mutton-chops would be nowhere. So, young gentlemen, to go back to first principles—by all means raise one! Oil it. Perfume it. Comb it. Brush it. Wax it. Curl it. Twist it. Twirl it. If necessary dye it, and on no account Stop stroking it, for if you do you will show the observing world that you are thinking of something else, and what fashionable young man ever forgets the existence of his mustache ?—Kate Thom's Homilies.

The principal provisions of the new Bankrupt law passed by Congress are as follows; Forty days are allowed to elapse before a merchant or trader who fails to pay his commercial paper is liable to- be thrown into bankruptcy- The assent of one-fourth in number and one-third in value of the creditors is required to throw a debtor into bankruptcy. I‘his provision relates back to the first of last December. Proceedings may be discontinued whenever the debtor pays those secured debts which were the ground of throwing him into bankruptcy, or whenever the consent of the court can he obtained and a majority of tlie creditors shall ask for a discontinuance of the proceedings. In order to set aside hypothecated pledges or loans on the bankrupt’s estate, it must appear that the party dealing with the bankrupt knew that lift intended to perpetrate a fraud on the Bankrupt law, and that he intended to go into bankruptcy. When a loan is made to a "bankrupt in good faith, and security taken, with the intention of aiding him to pttll through, it shall be considered as having act ual value, and the security shall not be invalidated by proceedings in bankruptcy. A voluntary bankrupt may have bis discharge if his estate pays 30 per cent, of his debts, or provided he obtains the consent of the same number of his creditors as is necessary to throw him into bankruptcy. An involuntary bankrupt can get his discharge if his conduct is free from all fraud and he is innocent of any violation or infringement of the Bankrupt act. Assignees aTe prohibited from dividing fees witli other persons engaged in the case. Compromise fry creditors may be made with the assent of the debtor, providing a majority of the creditors join, when approved by the court, for the release and discharge of tlie debtor. The fees and expenses are reduced one-half until the Judges of the Supreme Court shall establish a permanent reduction and simplify the proceedings. All the acts of the persons connected with the execution of the law shall he made public in the full and minute reports from the Clerk, the assignee, the Marshal and the Register. Original jurisdiction is conferred upon the Territorial Courts, with an appeal to the Supreme Court off the Territory.

The Tale of a Dog Who Lost His Tail.

Mn. G. W. Stapi.es, the proprietor of tlie New York Market, is the happy owner of a shepherd dog that docs honor to his kind, which are renowned for their fidelity, gentleness and sagacity. Saturday afternoon, when on the Enterprise road, near the Pine Creek bridge, Mr. Staples had occasion to get out of his wagon and leave his team standing on the road for a few minutes until he went into the barn to look at some cattleHearing a noise a moment after going into the barn he Iqpked toward the road and saw his team had started to run away. His faithful dog,seeing the horses were doing what they ought not to do, immediately dashed out into the road and at the heads of th* horse#, trying to stop them in tlie same manner lie does cattle, but, failing hi this, Be astonished his owner by grabbing the lines, which had been dragging on the ground, with His teeth, and' then bracing himself, pulled back on the horses as a .person would, trying to stop them- But alas! the horses were too strong for him, and soon were jerking him head over heels over the rough road. Still the dog held fast. At last a sudden jerk ‘threw him under the wlieCls, and in less than bo ‘time that tail—that beautiful tail which he in all his dogging pride used to curl so handsomely over liis back—was no more, but, on the contrary, decidedly less by about six inches. The dog lei go *f the Unts.—THwieille (Pis.) Courier,

During the months of July and August the new comet, which is approaching both the sun and curth with a constantlyaccelerated velocity, will be a very conspicuous and beautiful object; in the western sky. This stranger was discovered at Marseilles, France, on the llth of April last. It is now visible U> the naked eye all night, being situated directly beneath the polar star, about twenty-five degrees from it. The comet will-soon be seen only in the early evening hours, setting in the northwest. Ffof. Lewis Smith writes the following about one celestial Visitor: “ If at the time of its nearest approach the moon should be absent, we tnay expect, from present indications; to be treated to a cometary display which may rival the transit of Venus in popular as well as in scfentifc interest, Tb* comet wiU be brightest On the evening of Aug. 3, being then 245 times aa bright as at the time of discovery, while now it is only five and a half times as bright, and in the absence of the moon it will to subjected to spectroscopic analysis under circumstances more fhvorabk than may ■again occur in many years.”— Cbieogo In-trr-Ocean. aZZi L°Yi SnS.'s much, however, to the firmer*’ joy, for its successor is a red headed bug, an Inch long, and with an appetite marvelous Ibr its keenness.

The Bankrupt Law.

The Comet.