Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1874 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNION. JAMES ft HEALET, Proprietor*. RENSSELAER, ’ - INDIANA.

THE NEWS.

The Carlists Resume the Siege of Irun. Seventeen American Seamen Drowned in tjje River Clyde. Cool and Daring Express Robbery in Cincinnati. Bismtty of Another Boy Resemhline the Abducted Charlie Ross. The Arkansas Imbroglio— The President „ Will Not Interfere. Many Lives Lost by the Sinking of a Steamer at New Orleans. Addrrw from tho Kansas Slate Contrml Relief Committee. Other Interesting News Items. FOREIGN. e . A Berlin dispatch of the 16th says that Von Arnlm’s trial had been set for the Ist of December. Meantime he is ordered to remain at home under police surveillance, his physl cian having certified that confinement in the jail would shatter and destroy his nervous system. A Glasgow dispatch of the 16th savs Disraeli had been re-elected Hector of the University of Glasgow {by 700 votes, against 500 for Ralph Waldo Emerson. A special to the London" Rtanetard of the 16th says the Carlists had returned to their old positions before Irun, and were again besieging the cify. Vienna dispatches of the 16th say riots had recently occurred in Poland on account of the appointment of priests by imperial authority. Troops had been sent from Warsaw, and a number of rioters arrested. A Dresden dispatch of the 16th says that Saxony had forbidden the practice of cremation. A London telegram of the 17th says the English Government haddecided to organize'another Polar expedition. ■2 A Berlin dispatch of the 18th announces tile defeat of the Government uj>ou a proposed bank bill by a vote of 127 to 158. The President of the Reichstag tendered his resigua- . lion. • - i : Thirty-two of the Turks charged with the recent murders of Montenegrin Christians, according to a Vienna dispatch of the 18th, have been convicted and sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment, A "London telegram of the morning of the 20th says that on the preceding day a boat belonging to the American'ship Aurora had been run down in the Clyde and seventeen men drowned. A vigorous cannonade, according to a Hendave dispatch of the 19th, had driven the Carlists from the vicinity of Irun once more. Late advices from the Cape Coast, received in London on the 19th, report that King Coffee, of the Ashantces, had been dethroned and his nephew installed King in his stead. __j An explosion occurred i;ga chemical factory near Paris on the 19tli, which destroyed the building and the railway station near it, and killed three aud seriously injured fifteen of the workmen. A Constantinople dispatch of the 19th says information had been received that an Egyptian force had captured Darfour aud killed An explosion occurred in the Warren vale (England) coal mines in Yorkshire on the 20th, which resulted in the killing of twentyfour men. The remains of ten had been recovered on the morning of the 21st.

OOHESTIC. The American Express office in Cincinnati ■was robbed, on the 15th, of a safe containing about $30,000. The safe was smuggled into a trunk and carried off by two men. Abe Monroe, an ex-messenger of the company-, was left for a short time, in the office, in the absence of tfte express clerk, at the time the safe was placed in the trunk, and is under arrest as being: implicated in the robbery. A Supervisor of Registration and a CourtClerk were arrested in St. James Parish, La., on the Kith, charged with being engaged in altering electron returns. They were bound over in 1,0(W each. Arrests were being made in other localities. Gen. Emory issued an order on the 16th for the removal of the troops ___ from the State House in New Orleans on the morning of the lTth. Lieift. Hodgson had, been ordered under arrest, and would probably be court-martialed on -the charge of cutting telegraph wires hud overstepping his duties iu making arrests and guarding prisoners. • • President Grant discussed the Arkansas case with the Cabinet on the 17th, but stated that he would not interfere, except to keep the peace, until he was further advised of the facts. ' ». In a mine at Pittsion, Pa., on the 17th several miners were crushed to death by the falling of a rock. A steam tug exploded her boilers near the Government works in New York city on the 17th, and five of the crew were killed, and the Captain was fatally injured. The steamer Empire, heavily loaded with sugar, in the Mississippi River at New Orleans on the 17th, and from thirty to forty lives are reported to have been lost The Eastern railroads are reducing the wages of employes. The New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company have ordered a reduction of 10 per cent, of all day laborers, and have discharged 1,500 workmen, or nearly one-sixth of the whole number employed. Troubles are reported in some of the mining regions of Pennsylvania, growing out of differences between the miners and their employers on, the question of wages. Two men named George Black and E. J. Hackney have been arrested as being concerned with Monroe in the recent robbery of the AmericaafExpress office in Cincinnati.

All three of the parties have confessed, and « colored man named Briggs has also been ar> ratted and confessed to having helled to concert the Stolen motley. All but about $9,000 ha 4 bean recovered up to the 19th. At thtVeceut Session in Cleveland of the Women** Na l ion a 1 T«ai pe ran ce Con ven ti on a constitution was adopted and a permanent organization effected under the name of the “ Woman’s National Christian Temperance Union.” All temperance organizations in the land are invited, by resolution, to co-operate with this body in its efforts for the overthrow of intemperance. Annual meetings of the Union are to lie composed of one delegate from each Congressional district, to be chosen by the auxiliary Union of such district. The Kansas State Central Relief Committee have issued an address appealing for aid for the sufferers in their State and cautioning the public against placing their benefactions in the hands of unauthorized and irresponsible parties. Parties soliciting aid by authority will .have the indorsement of.Uie.Govcrnor of the State, and-such indorsement will lie- a guaranty’ of their responsibility. The appeal closes ns follow s: ft Individuals or local committees desiring more specific information concerning matters connected with the relief of nur people should address directly the Secretary of the committee, and all remittances of funds should he made to tho Treasurer at Topeka. With emphasis we assert that our suffering people are not wanting in enterprise, nor courage, nor any of the ele- • meins of true - manttuGl. The uncomjdttiningpatience with which even women and children are enduring the misfortunes that have fallen upon them Is nothing short of heroic. Our people have mu losi faith in themselves nor in the resources of the Mate in which they live. In their behalf we confidently appeal to the liberality ojT those who considvr it a privilege to minister to tile wants of the suffering. (Signed) o K. S. Stovuh. l.iouteiiaul-doverttor. find .President of the Kansas Central Relief Commission.' A Little Koek dispatch of the 20th says peace and quiet continue. Smith had not yet been found, PERSONAL. A plain marble slab has been placed on Locust Hill, in Greenwood Cemetery, to mark temporarily the grave of Mr. Greeley. It bears the simple inscription: “Horace Greeley; born Felt. 11, 1811; died Nov. 29, 1^12." A Washington telegram of the ISth says Senator Dorsey denies having received certain dispatches purporting to come to him from H. M. Cooper, Secretary of the Arkansas Republican Central Committee, relating to affairs in that State. He disclaims the responsibility for their statements. Tbe~suiTbf Tfieepore Tilton against Henry Ward Beecher has been set down for Dee. 8. The Methodist Episcopal Board of Missions closed its session in New York on the 18th after appropriating $821,( 00. The Illinois Anti-Secret Society Association recently held a convention in Chicago, at which resolutions were adopted condemnatory of all secret organizations. F. W. Peyton, of Huntington, W. Vu., recently claimed to have hi his possession a hov resembling little Charlie Ross", the missing Philadelphia boy, who had been left with him by a family passing through that town. Peyton said lie would give up the hoy for SS,(XXL Henry.C. Bowen’s libel full. agalnst-DemSs-Bantes, of the Brooklyn A rgvs, lms' term Orated iu a verdict of acquittal, the jurors holding, however, that while the defendant was legally exempt from conviction the printed matter Iu the Argus relating to the deceased Mrs. Bowen was atrocious and cruel. wtunvAh. The official vote for Governor in New York State is as follows: Tilden, 416,343; Dlx, 361,406; Clarke, 10,214, Tilden- over Dix, 54,937. Sufficient returns had been received up to the 16th from the Ninth District of Kentucky to insure the election of J. D. White, Republican, to Congress by about 500 majority.. The Alabama Legislature met at Montgomery ou “the 16th. Anderson (Dem.) was chosen Speaker of the House. The North Carolina Legislature also met on the 16th. Col. R. F. Armfield was elected President of the Senate. This virtually makes him Lieu-tenant-Governor of the State, owing to the recent death of Gov. Caldwell. John 1.. Robinson was elected Speaker of the House. The' House stands 84 Democrats, 34 Republicans and 2 Independents. The Senate, 38 Democrats and 12 Republicans.

A Little Roek (.Ark.) special of the 17th to the Chicago Tribune says Henry M. Cooper, Secretary of the Republican State Central Committee, denied the authorship of a telegram received at Washington and purporting to come from him, in which it was stated that many editors of Republican papers had been arrested without warrant, charged with treason, and imprisoned and refused bail; that tlie Republicans were organizing for self-defeirse, and unanimously sustained the claims of Smith to the Governorship, and that the people did.not sustain Garland. He knew of hut one man who had been -arrested. The Associated Tress dispatches of the 17th sav that ail was quiet throughout the State and that in no ideality were there any disturbances or any attempt to organize men in the interest of Smith. Judge Poland, of the Congressional Investigating Committee at Little Roek, had, been summoned to Washington by Atty.-Gen. Williams. Neither Smith nor Wheeler had . yet been" found. A Washington dispatch of the 17th says Senator Dorsey had received a dispatch front the editor of the Republican, at Little ; Rock, in which it is stated that “business i. throughout the State is almost entirely suspentled, and the White Leaguers' militiaxoam at largxn Jf we are to tight we wish to know it. The earlier the matter is settled the better It will be for all." Gov. Garland had telegraphed to the effect that all was quiet, and that he would have no collision unless it ! was forced upon him; that all classes of peoi pie—all parlies—avere supporting him. A Madison dispatch of the 18th says full ; official let urns of the Eighth Wisconsin’Congressional District give Me Dill, Republican, 9.444, and Cate, Reformer, 9,446. This does : not include the vote of the First Ward of the 1 city of Grand Rapids, nor that of the town of \ Lincoln, Wood County, which gave majorities i for McDill. The rejection of these precincts 1 will l>e investigated. 1 ” ' The Arkansas Legislature on the 18th passed a bill authorizing Gov. Garland to otter a reward of st,oop for thearrest of criminals, which amount would probably be offered for the apprehension each of Messrs. Smith and Wheelet. The Nevada Legislature is composed as follows: Senate —Republicans, IS; Democrats, 7. Assembly—Democrats < 16; Republicans, 31; Independents, 3. A Little Rock special of the 19th states that all the State officers of Arkansas elected on the ticket with 1 Lieut.-Gov. Smith, except the Secretary of State and Attorney General, had telegraphed to the President indorsing Smith's application for recognition as Governor. A St. Louis dispatch of the same date announces

the arrival there of Judge Poland, who is represented as saying that he, regarded the issue affecting tlie validity of the new Constitution of Arkansas as one of very grave itnpor, tance, and, as it is a strictly legal question, he ' gave no opinion whatever respecting It. • Chamberlain’s majority fox Governor of South Carolina is 10,667. The Arkansas question was before the Cabinet in Washington *on the 20th, and the opinion prevailed that nothing had occurred to alter a former decision not to interfere In the present controversy in that State, as the Government had no such information in its. possession as would justify such interference.

Report of the Commissioner of Pensions.

Washington’, Nov. 16. Gen. J. H. Baker, Commissioner of Pensions, under date of Oct. 15, 1874, has submitted his anuual reporf(othe Secretary of the Interior. During the year 5.758 applications for army invalid pensions were allowed, at an aggregate annual rate of $39,332:50; the' pensions of 8,063 pensioners of this class were increased at an aggregate annual rate of $410,257.50; the josses to this roll from death and other causes ,were 6,105, whose pensions with the amount of reduction of the rates of other invalid pensions aggregated $377,452.55 annually. On the 30th of June, 1874, there were 102,457 army invalid pensioners on the roll. Tlte aggregate annual pay of this class was $10,058,377.54. The increase in the number of this class w.,s 2,653, and the aggregate increase of pensions was $431,137.45. During the year 3.051 new pensions for army widows and dependent relatives were allowed, at tin aggregate annual rate of $116,433, and the pensions of 12,932 pensioners of this class were increased at an aggregate annual rate of $403,111.22. There were stricken from the roll of this class of pensioners, 7,623 names, whose pensions aggregated sl,250,113.05. On the 30th of June, 1874, there werrt .on the roll of army widows and dependent relatives 107,516 names, at a'n aggregate annual rate of $13,587,195.56, the decrease for the year being 4,572 names; and the decrease of pensions of this class being $424,568.03. On the 30th of June there were ,1,551 navy invalid pensioners, at an aggregate annual rate of $169,492, an increase in the year of 121 in the number of pensioners, and $18,954.25 in the annual rate of pensions of this class. On the 30th of June there were 1,785 pensioners on the navy roll of widows and dependent relatives, at a total rate of $287,534, an in* crease for the year of 15 in the number of names, and $6,984 in the rate of pensions.

The names of 571 new pensioners were added to the roll of survivors of the War .of 1812, and 1,217 of this class were lost by death, leaving on the 30tli of June 17,020 pensioners of this class at a total annual rate of $1,691,520—a decrease for the year of (540 in the number of pensioners anti $62,001 in the rate of pensions of this class. 'The names of 813 widowsof soldiers of the war of 1812 were added to the foil, and 554 were lost by death during that period, leaving ou the 30tli of June 5.312 pensioners of this class—tin increase for the year of 259 iu the number of pensioners and $24,804 in the rate of pensions. -. . The total number of pensioners of all classes on the 30th of June, I_S74, was 230,241, a decrease of 2,170 during.the year; tlie aggregate annual rate of pensions of all classes on June 30 was $26,a decrease from the preceding year of $5,645.13. The roll contains the names of 410 widows of soldiers in the Revolutionary war.

Certain specific increases allowed to invalid pensioners by laws passed at the last session of Congress, and the steady increase of the number ou the invalid pension roll, will probably bring the disbursements to invalids for the present fiscal year up to those, of last year; but' in the payments to widows, minors, etc. a reduction may reasonably be expected. . During the year 234 claims for bountyland warrants were allowed, the warrants" calling for 35,640 acres of land. The number of applications for bounty lands received during the year was 529. There are now upon the suspended tiles of the office nearly 100,000 applications for bounty lands. Of this number 330 cases were prosecuted during the year. The existence of suspended claims is a temptation to unscrupulous agents to fabricate testimony with a view to obtaining the allowance of claims not admissible upon existing known evidence, The last act *if Congress granting boun ty lands lias been in force for twentyyears, a sufficient time for all those who are entitled to tlie benefits to avail themselves of its provisions. It would, therefore, in the opinion of the Commissioner, be consistent with justice, and for the interest of the Government, that a limit should be put by Congress to the period during which the various acts granting bounty lands shall continue in force. During the last fiscal year the Special Service Division has performed important set-vice in the detection and prevention of fraud in the prosecution of claims for pensions. Claims were investigated by this division numbering 1,203, and during the year thirteen persons were convicted*of violation of the law relative to the prosecution of claims, and five awaited trial at the close of the year. An account is given in the report of the services of the medical division of the office, -and the Commissioner says there can be no doubt that if higher fees were paid to examining surgeons better talent would be at tlie command of. this branch of the service, and, while more exact justice would be done to individual pensioners, a saving to the Government would be Effected. ,He therefore recommends that by proper legislation the fee for ordinary examinations, and certificates therefor, be fixed at $3, and that in all cases requiring special skill and the use of instruments the fee be fixed at $5. ° The amount of appropriation that will oe required for the pension service durj ing the fiscal year ending June 30, 187 b, I xvill be $30,500,000.

Internal Revenue Report.

i Washington. Nov. 19. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Douglass reports receipts for the last j fiscal year at $102,644,747, or $2,644,747 :in excess of the estimate. The estimate | of Mie current fiscal-year is $107,000,000. ! The total drawback on spirits, tobacco. and general merchandise for the past | fiscal year was $52,346, and -for 1874, j $35,495. No spirits were exported for drawhaek during the last year, and the quantity of tobacco was very slight com--pared with the amount exported in bond. ; The amounts refunded for taxes illegallv | collected were $018,667 in 1873 and : $239,749 kt 1874. The receipts from dis- | tilled spirits for the fiscal year bf 1874 j were $49,444,090, a net decrease of $2,*655,280. The receipts from special taxes

on rectifiers and dealers show an increase of $799,413. The production of spirits during the year was 69,572,062 taxable gallons. Seizures Amounted in value to $476,862. Thd amount of distilled spirits remaining in warehouse Sept. 80, for payment of tax, was $12,577,096, making a decrease of $3,240,613 from June 30. The amount remaining for export was ! reduced in same time from 2,145,010 j gallons to 1,047,714 galloils. The annual receipts from all sources ! relating to fermented liquors forthe year j were $9,304,679. Receipts from tobacco in all forms, $33,242,875, a decrease of $1,143,427, due to the closing out Of bonded warehouses in the early part of the year and the effect of the panic. From November to the present time there has been a steady increase of collections oyer any previous corresponding period. The largest amount collected in any quarter was the first quarter of the present fiscal year — $10,162,754. The receipts of the fiscal year from this source are expected taaggregate $36,000,000. • * • • The production of tobacco for the last fiscal year was 118,548,619 pounds, an increase over the preceding year of 2,107,684 pounds. Tire number of cigars, cheroots, etc., on which taxes was collected was 1,886,697,498, or 75,662,852 in excess of the previous year. The quantity of tobacco removed without payment of tax for exportation.for the.fiscalyc.ar was 10,800,927 pounds, an of nearly three-quarters of a million pounds over the preceding year. ■ The Commissioner considers it indispensably necessary to control the movement of' raw or leaf tobacco by the continuance of the leaf clauses of file »3t of June C, 1872. The receipts from other sources were: Bank deposits, savings banks, capital and bank circulation, $3,387,000; adhesive stamps, $6,136,844; penalties, $364,216; articles and occupations formerly taxed, but now exempt, $764,880. The Commissioner extols the working of the system abolishing Assessorships and leaving the whole matter with the Collectors as securing more prompt payment and a larger amount of tax. — The tax against banks and bankers realized $3,000,734, an increase of $403,013 over the previous year, notwithstanding the financial disasters of the fall of 1873, and is largely due to the new system of assessment, the results of which are still more apparent in the rise from collections from special taxes the last quarter of the fiscal year 1872, when they amounted to $3,303,539, against $5,855,581 in the last quarter of the fiscal year 1874. The Commissioner suggests that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, hereafter, upon liis requisition, furnish all the stamps necessary under the law except proprietary and documentary, and asks a positive provision from Congress upon the subject. Should Congress wish to abolish stamps on bank checks, etc,, perfumery, cosmetics, patent medicines, matches, etc., which yielded last year $6,136,844 (but he is still of opinion that the revenue cannot be reduced with safety), the Commissioner says an equivalent could be had by increasing the tax on spirits ten cents per gallon, which would yield s<>,957.000,0 r four cents a pound on tobacco would yield $4,612,000.

EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS.

Annual Report ot the Commissioner ot Education. • , The United States Commissioner of Education has published his annual report for 1873. Notwithstanding the disasters which have fallen upon the industries of the country, he states that on the whole the past year was one of substantial " progress in educational matters. In Alabama the Board of Education has labored under great embarrassment, from the difficulty of securing from an impoverished people the needful funds for tlie support of free schools. Arkansas has labored under similar embarrassment with respect to funds. Louisiana has struggled through the year under kindred financial troubles with the two neighboring States just "named. The new State Superintendent of Instruction in Florida reports an increase of fifty-six schools in 1873,- making, with 113 added in 1873, an addition of 169 to the 331 previously existent. Georgia, after a cessation of public-school teaching for a year (except in certain towns), has again set her.schools in operation, and an earnest Superintendent is doing obviously his best to make the new effort a success. "South Carolina shows an increase of 98 free schools and 147 aew school-houses oxer 1872, xvitli an additional school-attendance of 7,421, and an additional expenditure of $113,981.37 for public schools. North Carolina has increased by about 74 per cent, her receipts for free schools and by about 190 per cent, the attendance of them. Kentucky has friends of education who have pressed forxvard, amending her School law, advancing the qualifications of her teachers, improving and taking steps toward a general education of her colored population. In Virginia, though there has been a slight falling oil’ in receipts and expenditures for school purposes, as well as in enrollment and average attendance, there are 501 new schools, While a great number of school-houses were built during the year. The returns from Tennessee are imperfeet, | but enough appears to indicate that the organization of the State system lias gone steadily forward under the direction of the Superintendent. * Maryland has lengthened her school year sixteen davs; expended for teachers’ salaries $14,000 more than in 1872;. for school-houses $7,000 more, and” for general school purposes $97,083 more; at the same time adding 12,198 to her school enrollment and making fair j beginnings in an effort to give her colored j children equal advantages for education xvitli the whites. Delaware still remains without any State supervision of schools, but in her two lower counties some improvement is observable. j Pennsylvania shows an increase of twenty- j two school districts, of 306 schools, of 309 , graded schools, of 721 teachers, and of six | days in the average duration of her school ; term, with an aggregate of school property estimated at $21,750,209, and a total expenditure for school purposes of $8,812,969.25. New Jersey reports eighty-three nexv school- ; houses/with great improvement iu the con- ; dition of the older ones; an increase of three ! days iu the average school term; a liberal ad- ; viihce in teachers' salaries; $74,244.74 beyond i 1872 for building and repairing schools; ! $283,998.18 beyond for general school purposes, and $588.(H0 beyond the estimated value of, school property’ New York reports a receipt ot $11,556,037.80 for public-school purposes, aud an expenditure of $10,416,588 for the same, with a total expenditure of $116,652,930.57 in twelve vears past. Of the grand anuual expenditure nearly $7,000,000 hax-e gone for the salaries of nearly s2,<l)o,ooofor building and improving school-houses: $174,339.23 foi supporting eight normal schools, and $7,690.94 for supply of school instruction to the few litdiaus in the State. Connecticut publishes a decade-table showing that, though the number of children enumerated has - increased only 21,257 in teu years, the increase of interest in public schools has been such as to raise the amount secured for them from all sources to $1,442,669.01 in 1873 against $390,454-220 in 1864. Rhode Island, shows that id 4863 her towns raised nearly SIOO,OOO for the support of j schools, and’ that in 1873 the same towns’;

raised over $300,000 for the same purpose. The increase of schools in the same time was 807: of teachers, 9«. The returns from Massachusetts for the school year 1871-’72 show $5,476,927.66 raised by taxation for public schools alone. The estimated value of school-houses in the Btate was Over $20,000,000 at the close of 1873, against $13,770,0(59 at the beginning of 1870; 176 high schools and fifty-eight incorporated academies are returned. Maine shows a smaller number enrolled in | schools, but a decidedly better average attendance. New Hampshire presents 222 new or newlyI repaired school-houses, 44 new schools. 67 additional graded schools, but a diminished average attendance. Vermont, reporting biennially, makes no statement as to public schools for 1873. Ohio having changed the legal school age from 5-21 to 6-21 exhibits, probably from this cause, an apparent falling off in school population of 81,566. She raised in 1873, for school purposes, $7,705,603, against $7,420,338 in 1872. Michigan raised for school purposes, in 1873, $3,939,528, against $3,563,479 in 1872.The condition of the public schools is reported to ’ have much improved under county supervision. . Indiana, without giving full statistics for 1873, claims a net increase of school revenue amountingto $165,581 over 1872, with 465 new school-houses, built at a cost of $872,900. The permanent school fund has been augmented and more than the usual amount raised by taxation. Illinois shows a school population larger by 27,135 than in 1872, a smaller enrollment in -schools, turban average- attendance about the same. Her school revenue, $9,269,441, has' been $1,759,319 beyond that of the preceding year. Wisconsin, for a comparatively new State, without the aid of large and wealthy cities, has raised for school purposes $2,028,027, and expended for repairs of school-houses $307,934. Minnesota, out of 196,075 children scattered over her great surface, shows the fair proportion of 124,583 enrolled in her free schools, with about 3,358 more iu pay schools. During the past year 228 new school-houses have been erected, at a cost of $203,311. lowa reports $4,519,688 raised to instruct a school population numbering 491,644, of whom 347,572 are enrolled in public schools, and 12,135 in private ones. The sum of $1,169,954 has been expended in this State in the erection of new school-houses aud supply of libraries and apparatus. In Missouri the enrollment in public schools is 389,956 out of 673,493 children of school age, and the amount raised for the support of schools is $1,790,314. -ttA" —. Kansas has 121,690 in her schools, out of a school population reaching only 184,957, and has devoted to the education of this number $1,863,098, with $515,071 for school buildings and repairs, the increase of school-houses for 1873 being 696, and that of enrollment 15,027. Nebraska, with a school population of 63,108, has on her school rolls 37,372, and has raised for school purposes $798,660. Nevada returns 5,675 children.of school age, and in her seventy-six schools 3,478. Educational activity in Oregon has been very greatly stimulated during this the first year of the service of the State Superintendent. The establishment of graded-sehool systems in the towns has not advanced as rapidly as could be desired. California justifies the general sense of her importance by reporting a school population of 141,010 and a school enrollment of 107,503, her school revenue reaching $2,551,799, or "about $23.70 for each enrolled child. Clear evidence of popular favor toward her public schools comes iu the fact that- within eight years 15,294 children have been transferred from private schools to them. For the first time reports, more or less complete, have b,een received from all the Territories. The exhibition is encouraging, evincing a desire for educational advantages and efforts to secure" "them even where present circumstances are unfavorable. Excluding Alaska, the Territories give an aggregate of 69,638 children in the schools, and of $838,820 for the instruction of them. The District ofColumbia stands first among the Territories as respects the number enrolled as' scholars, 16,770. Utah comes next, reporting 15,839; while in the amount raised for educational purposes Colorado heads the list, her school revenue, for a school enrollment of 7,456, being $257,557, against $220,514 in the District of Columbia. The most striking progress is presented in New Mexico. This Territory is able to report 5,304 scholars iu the schools. Hopeful progress is manifest in the growth of special schools for the training of teachers for our public schools. Statistics are given of 113 normal schools and normal departments, having 877 instructors and 16,620 students. Eleven of these were established ,or organized in 1873, the most notable being the Massachusetts State Normal Art School. The Commissioner estimates the population between the ages of six and sixteen in the thirty-seven States and eleven Territories at about 10,228,000. Massachusetts heads the list with an expenditure per capita of $21.74; Nevada, $17.35; California, $14.92; Nebraska, $11.92; Connecticut, $11.00; Rhode Island, $11.60; Illinois, $lO.lB. North Garoliua shows the smallest expenditure, the amount per capita of school enumerations being fifty- - five cents; Alabama, $1.21; Florida, $1.49; South Carolina, $1.60. Colorado heads the list of Territories with an expenditure of $17.50 per capita of enumeration, Montana coming next with an expenditure per capita of $9.43. In the District of Columbia the expenditure per .capita was $9.42; in New Mexico, $1.77. Allowing forty pupil’s- to each teacher, r the number required to teach the youths betweensix and sixteen years of age is estimated at 260,000. It is estimated that the public school teachers in Massachusetts teach oil an average three years. Perhaps this period of service would be a high average for the whole cotin- j try. Hence, coufining the estimate to the school population between six and sixteen j years of age, the number of new teachers j which shoultklae prepared each year to take i up the work would be 86,666. , The report presents a summary of the sta- | tistics of 1,039 schools for secondary instruc- ! tion. commonly denominated academies, : seminaries, institutes, etc., including college ; preparatory schools. The number of instruct- i ors in these schools was 5,748; number of stu- j dents, 131,057; total number of volumes in library, 559,1881 - The number of Institutions for the superior instruction of women' reporting in 1873, not including the five colleges for womgn in the , State of New York, was 205, with 2,120 instructors and 24,613 students; 107 of the number are designed as colleges; 6,821 of the students were in the preparatory departments, 17,267 were reported to be in regular or advanced courses of study, and 1,025 in special and post-graduate courses. The number of volmpes reported in the libraries was 213.675. The number-of schools of science (including special scientific of universities) embraced in the JAunmissioner’s tables is 68. j reporting 650 professors and instructors, 6,396 I students in regular coßrses, 533' in special I courses, 98 in post-graduate courses, 1,426 in ; preparatory courses; 193,000 volumes in Jibra- |" ries, about 14,000 volumes having been added i to them during the year. The number of schools of theology in the country in 1873 was lit), havings73 professors and 3,SIS students; volumes in libraries, 562,484; increase in libraries during tlie year, 36,303 t volumes. The aggregate corporate prop- | erty of the schools, as far as reported, was j $7,768,498; endowments, $5,455,097. Of the i 110 theological schools and theological de- j ; partments of colleges in the United States, 20 are Presbyterian, 16 Roman Catholic, 16 Baptist, 18 Lutheran and Reformed, 10 Protestant Episcopal, 10 Methodist, 8 Congregational, 2 unsectarian, and 1 each Unitarian, Moravian, ; New Jerusalem and Union Evangelical. In advocating drawing the publicin : schools the Commissioner says: “ Whoever succeeds in having all the public,sehool children of the country properly trained in elementary drawing will have done more to advance the manufactures of the country and more to make possible the art culture of the people than could be accomplished by the establishment of a hundred art museums without this training. Just as libraries are worthless to those who cannot

read so are art galleries to those who cannot comprehend them. Just as all literature is Opeu to him who has learned to read so is pH art to him who has learned to draw, whose eye has been trained to see and his fingers made facile to execute. We have begun at the wrong end. We asked for art galleries when we needed drawing-schools; but the evil is not irremediable. - Let drawing be generally taught and our art galleries and museums, poor as they are, will at once grow more and more - valuable, for they will then begin to be of use.” There are in the United States forty institutions for the instruction qf deaf mutes. The number of instructors employed in them is 289. The number of inmates’ under instruction in 1873 was 4,534. The number of asylums for the blind is 28, having.s4s teachers. The number of inmates under instruction during the year was 1,916. There are probably more than 400 institutions for orphans and homeless youths in this country, sheltering not less than 45,000 poor and unfortunate children. Information concefning 178 of these asylums is given in the report. They were under the supervision and care of 1,484 persons and contained over 22,000 inmates, most of whom were probably under instruction. —" r " ■u\.The number of institutions distinctively known as Reform Schools which furnished information to the bureau was 34. The number of commitments during the year was 6,858. The number who received instruction in reading in the year was 1,675; number taught to write, 1,908. Number of volumes reported in the libraries of tnese schools was 27,747. The number of instructors in all classes of educational institutions in 1870, according to the census, was 221;042; number of pupils, 7,209,938. According to the Commissioner’s report there were in 1873, iu all classes of institutions about which information was Obtained, 246,932 teachers and 8,723,945 pupils.

“ All’s Well That Ends Well.”

Years ago, and yet not so many, for it has been since the war, some disagreement arose between a couple of married folks in one of the old States, and after much pain and suffering and public exposure of family affairs in the courts a decree of divorce was obtained, and they who had stood at the altar of Hymen to be joined in union were parted at the altar of justice, to which they had appealed. Their own way each of them turned and long years have come and gone since then. The husband and father traveled with his burden to the golden shores of California, and there, no doubt, tried hard to forgive and forget. The wife and mother, with their babe, struggled with the skeleton of her deadened life and in time came to Texas. By some fatality her husband came to Texas also. " Last Friday they were both-aboard the train bound from Galveston to this city. The little daughter, while looking curiously over the car at the strange faces, suddenly caught that of her long-gone father. Before her mother could stay her, she rushed to him, crying “Papa, papa!” The greeting of father ardchild was touching and beautiful. All the old emotions, all the smothered love of wife and child came back in an instant. “ Mamma is here,” said the little girl; “ come and go to her.” And site-led her father to the astonished mother, and a poetic predestination was accomplished. They met and talked as of yore, and soon all was well, with them again. Chastened, as by fire, they seemed to know each other better. The sequel is soon told After reaching Houston the services oi the Rev. Mr. Hackett were called for, a license obtained, find the marriage vows reassumed with a far better understanding of their nature and sanctity. And thus it is that “ all’s well that ends well.” —Houston (Tex.) 'Telegraph. —The telegraph is being introduced in Turner’s Falls, Mass. The other day hardly five minutes had elapsed after the erection of one of the posts before some enterprising genius posted a bill thereon, and soon two street Arabs were attracted to the spot, when the following dialogue ensued: “I say, Mickey, what an invintion the telegraph is.” “ Yis, an’here’s a dispatch broken out on the post.”

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