Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1874 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNION. Jins * BEAUT, ProfriWtert. RENSSELAER, • INDIANA.

THE NEWS.

Bismarck Tenders His Resignation. His Differences With the Reichstag Finally Adjusted. Count von Arnim Sentenced to Imprisonment. Another Great Fire in Shooting of the Abductors of Charlie Row. The Minnesota State Grange —Officers Elected. Lynch Law at Des Moines—A Man Hung to a Lamp-post. School Troubles in New Orleans—White vs. Colored Pupils. Other Interesting News Items. FOKEtttl. The German Com mission for the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia has already been appointed. Dr. Jacobi is made President A special to the London 7»»n« of the 17th says a storm had been raging in the Bay of Biscay for eight days, and showed no signs of abatement The loss of vessel property and human life had been immense. From the port of Santander alone several boats and seventy persons were known to have been lost s A special to the London Morning Post of the 18th says that Bismarck, weary of the opposition he had encountered in the Reichstag, had tendered his resignation as Chancellor of the Empire, which the Emperor refused to receive. ; He afterward conferred with the leaders of the Ultramontane party regarding the future conduct of affairs in the Reichstag, and an understanding was secured. . / . The roof of the market hall in Anges, France, fell on the 16th, in consequence of the weight of snow upon it, and several persons were killed and injured. Late accounts of the famine in Asia Minor •ay the prospect was appalling. Many were dying, and thousands more would die unless help reached them. Count (von Arnim has been sentenced to three months’ hupr UonnaenL A Berlin dispatch of the 20th says both the Government •nd Count von Arnim had appealed the case to a higher court It is report*! that Bismarck has received from the police information of a fresh plot against his life. The London Morning Standard of the 21st has • dispatch from Spain reporting the total defeat and routing of the Republican Gen. Lopez Domonquez, in Catalonia, by the Carliste trader Tristany, with heavy loss in killed and wounded. The iron-works of the Great Western Railway Company at Reading, England, were burned bn the 19th. Four hundred persons were thus thrown out of employment. MIHESTIC. The five children of John Jlattericli, ranging in age from six to sixteen years, were drowned on the 18th while amusing themeelves with a sled on a pond near their parents’ residence at Preakness, N. J. An effort was made in New Orleans on the 14th to introduce live or six colored girls as pupils into the girls' upper high school, which resulted in the withdrawal of over fifty of the graduating class. A little before midnight on the 14th a tire broke out in Plympton street, Boston, which was not subdued until several large warehouses and their contents were burned. About four o’clock on the morning of the lath three other alarms were sounded in the immediate neighborhood, in Warehain street, where-’ sparks from the previous tire had lodged unperceived by the firemen. Owing to the combustible nature of the building in which this last fire started the flames spread in all directions, and in a short time Wareham street was almost entirely devastated, everything being swept away that lay in the path of the fire between the point of starting and the wharf, except a large piano factory. The loss from both tires is variously estimated from $600,000 to $750,000. During the progress of the Boston tire, on the morning of the 15th, the neighboring city of Charlestown suffered a loss of $150,000 from fire. Two men named Mosher and Douglass were shot on the 13th at Bay Ridge, on Long Island, while committing a burglary at Judge Van Brunt’s residence. Mosher was instantly killed. Before he died Douglass made a statement that Mosher was concerned in the abduction of little Charlie Ross. The two burglars have since been identified, and there seems no doubt that they knew of the whereabouts of the stolen child, who was believed on the 15th to be in the vicinity qf New York city. The Champion cotton-press and other property in Charleston, 8. C., valued at $250,000. were burned on the 15th, At Des Moines, lowa, early on the morning of the 15th, a party of disguised men to the number of over 100 forced their way info the jail and took possession of Charles Howard, sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder, in June last, of John Johnson, in that city. They found Howard in bed, and when they undertook to lay hold of him his wife made desperate attempts to protect him. but despite her entreaties and agonizing screams they put a rope about his neck, led him into the street and bung him to a lampP<»t ■ f ‘- The Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s affairs were being investigated by the House

Ways snd Means Committee on the 16th. The testimony of Irwin, in the employ of said company, was to the effect that In the winter of 1872 he was employed as agent of the company for the purpose of procuring a subsidy for the Chinamail. The contract was most of It In letters from the-company to him, by which he was to receive certain sums of money in full of all expenses in obtaining the subsidy. The 'amount to be paid was not to be. finally liquidated until the entire service was performed, as not be ascertained until thaCtime. A silk factory at Hartford, Conn,, was destroyed by fire on the 16th. ].<»•* $200,000. A report from Indian Agent Brigham, dated Nov. 25, from the Cheyenne River Agency, states that he was in pursuit of white men going to the Black Hills, He was accompanied by a military for< <- fr.'in Fort.- Riceand Sully. A Philadelphia dispatch of the 17th says a gentleman attending the spiritual seance of Mr. Holmes and his wife, at which the noted spirit Katie King was wont to appear, had traced the supposed Katie to a boardinghouse, and, after long-continued effort, persuaded her to confess the deception she had been practicing and to produce the gauzy dresses she wore at the manifestations. The production of a letter with large, quantities of jewelry, etc., tliat■ had been presentod to Katie at seaneeA induced Robert Dale Owen, and Dr. Childs, two leading Spiritualists of that city, to publish and repudiate the swindle. The students of the Central Boys’ High School, in New Orleans, appeared at the Lower Girls’ High School on the 17th, to'compel the removal therefrom of a number of colored pupils. A committee of five entered the school and stated the purpose of their visit, threatening to use force if necessary. All the colored girls present promptly and quietly left the building, and the boys returned to their own school. It was believed the School Board would establish an additional High School for colored children, thus obviating further t rouble. According to Washington dispatches of the 19th Irwin’s testimony in regard to the disposition of the $750,000 of Pacific Mail money is to the effect that he spent it in Washington to secure an additional subsidy, but he refused to state to whom he had paid it. It was declared that Irwin Would be sent to jail and kept there until he would testify as to who were the recipients of the money. The Secretary of the Treasury says the estimate of the Director of the Mint shows a gain in specie and bullion in the last two fiscal years of about $38,000,(XX), and the stock of specie in the country is said to be about $166,000,000. This, in connection with the annual production of about $70,000,000 of precious metals, affords encouragement that the stock of coin may, within a reasonable time and with favorable legislation, be accumulated to aii extent sufficient to enable the resumption of specie payment to be undertaken and maintained. The new mill-daiu recently constructed at Haydetisville, Mass., to take the place of the reservoir which broke and devastated that valley last spring, gave way on the morning of the 19th, the rashing water sweeping everything before it. It is thought no lives were lost. Some excitement has been caused in Milwaukee by the reported discovery of gold quartz in the northern wilderness of the State. Some specimens, it is reported, had yielded at the rate of SI,7W per ton. At New Orleans on the 18th the boys of the High School repeated their visit to the Lower Girls’ High School and forced the colored girls to leave. Their action produced some excitement in the neighborhood of the school-house, but no violence. The School Board passed a resolution dismissing all the public schools until after the holidays or until further notice. PKRSMIHAL. The new A,newspaper,- New Yorkcity, has suspended publication. Among the nominations continued by the Senate on the 15th was that of Marshall Jewell as Postmaster-General. King Kalakaua was formally presented to President Grant o,i the 15th. The members of the Cabinet, Col. Grant, Gen. Babcock and Mr. Lucky, private secretary, were assembled in full dress for the purpose of receiving the King. Mayor Cobb, of Boston, was re-elected on the 15th by 18,000 majority. The President and Cabinet Ministers returned the visit of King Kalakaua on the 16th. Lieut.-Com. Cushjng died at Washington on the 17th, in the insane asylum, of which he ' had been an inmate about two weeks. Wm. M. Tweed was before,the New York ■ Oyer and Terminer Court on a writ of habeas j corpus on the 17th, and the ‘questions were J considered as to the expiration of his first sentence, the illegality of--the subsequent sen- I i tences, the want, of jurisdiction of the court ! which tried lym, and that the jury was not i impaneled according to law. .The ease was | finally adjourned to the 22d, and Tweed was • remanded to prison. The Hon. John B. Rice, of Chicago, Member of Congress from the First Illinois District I died at Norfolk. Va., on the 17th,. at the resi- ! deuce of his daughter, where lie had been j visiting for his health. He was sixty-tive ■ years of age, ■» The Minnesota State Grange met at Man- • kato on the 17th, about 400 members of the L Order being present. The-atidress of Grand- - ' Master Parsons shows that 142 Granges have been organized in the State during the year j making a total of over spo. The election of [officers for the ensuing year resulted in the selection of Seth Adams, of Wright County, ; for Grand Master; Geo. L. Parsons, Grand Lecturer; T. T. Smith, of St. Paul, Secretary; I L. Hoy:, of St. Paul, Treasurer. W»UTW-.t Petitions from the National Temperance ■ Society and other* temperance organizations and churches, representing over 300,1X0 petitioners. were presented in the lower house of | Congress on the 17th. asking for the early passage of the bill to provide for a commis- ■ sion of inquiry concerning the alcoholic [ liquor traffic which.passed tbtT Senate last ses- | sion. , , .3 j The Mississippi legislature met at Jackson lon the 17th. In his message Gov. Ames claims that the recent Vicksburg troubles ! were brought about by violent white men for j political purposes, and says: “ At this moment the State and county authorities are successfully resisted, and the- free action of officials is impossible.” He closes by requesting the Legislature to take steps to arrest the insurrection in Warren County and prevent similar occurrences. ', . 1 r' ' v A Washington telegram of the 18th savs Atty-Gen. Williams was beginning to receive returns regarding the troubles in Mississippi,

and affairs bere reported to be in a deplorable condition. It is said that at Ute city election in Columbuf,on' the Sth of December, much intimidation was usqd, and many assaults, were made. A New Orleans dispatch of the 17Ui Raj's the Returning Board had decided upon returns from twenty-three parishes, besides the First and Second Congressiohal Districts, and would promulgate them. These give in the House: Radicals 33, Conservatives 37. At its recent session the Minnesota State Grange resolved that 'the present State law for the regulation of railroads is expensive and useless to the people and vexations to the roads, and its repeal is demanded; and, in the name of 30,000 voters, the Grangers dei mand the passage of a law that shall guaran- ■ tee cheap transportation for the productions of the farm, especially wheat. The annual report of the Kansas State Treasurer shows nearly $65,000 in the Treasury and no warrants outstanding. The permanent school fund of the State is over $1,000,000. (ONGIiENSIONAL. In the Senate, on the 14th, a petition of the colored men of Indiana was presented, protesting against the recent decision of the Supreme Court of the State on the question of educational rights; and asking that the proper law officer of the Government be directed to appeal the case to the Supreme Court of the United States... A conference committee was ordered on the bill, postponed from -last Session, to niucud the < usroms aud Internal Revenue laws and for other purposes ...A bill w»« reported and passed providing that settlers who left their lauds on account of. the ravages of grasshoppers shall not be deprived of their rights to such lands, and authorizing the Commissioner of the ;' General Land Office to modifv the Homestead law in their fr.vor. The provisions of the bill are also made applicable to settlers who may be compelled to leave their land for the same cause next year .. . . Messrs. Cameron and McC'reery were appointed as the Senate committee on the reception of King Kalakaua.... Adjourned. In the House, on the 14 th, several -brils were introduced, among them the following: For free banking and to retire legal-tender notes; reducing letter postage to one cent; for the relief of the Southern States by compromise and the settlement of their debts: to rcpealttie law requiring prepayment of newspaper postage; to aid Irrthe construction of a narrow-gauge railroad from tide-water to St. Louis and Chicago; making appropriations for lighthouses in Michigan; for free banking and the resumption of specie payments.... A resolution for the appointment of a select committee to inquire whether any official or other persons have sought to obstruct the administration of law in the District of Columbia, especially in the case of the so-called “ safe-burglary conspiracy,” was lost for want of a two-thirds affirmative vote—the vote being: Yeas 139. nays 87... A resolution was adopted, after considerable debate, for the appointment of a select committee of fiver, to proceed to Vicksburg aud investigate and report all the fads relative to the recent troubles in Mississippi, especially in Warren County.... Messrs. Orth. E. R. Hoar aud Cox were 1 appointed as the House committee on the receptiou of King Kalakaua.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 15th, a bill was introduced and referred, limiting the time in which applications for bounty land shall be received, aud disposing of suspended cases after a certain date.... A joint resolution was submitted and referred for an amendment, to the Constitution providing that the President aud Vice-Presi-dent shall be elected by a direct, .vote of the people, and each hold his office for six years; that the President shall be ineligible for re-election .. .A favorable report was made on the bill to provide for the relief of personssufl'ering from-the ravages of grasshCppers... .Adjourned. In the House, on the 15th, the following bills were introduced: For a narrow-gauge road from Lake Erie to the Missouri River; regulating the prosecution of libel in the District ol Columbia: to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to settle and pay certain accounts between the United States and various States arising from the appropriation -of certain public lands in such States for permanent Indian reservations, etc .The following select committees were announced by the Speaker: To visit Vicksburg—Conger. Hurlbut, Williams (WisA, Speer anti O’Brien. Ou Louisiana and the Southern States—G. F. Hoar. Wheeler (N. -¥.)rFFve;-Foster (Ohio), Phelps (,N. J.), Robinson (Ill.). and Potter . .The Legislative Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Whole ... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 16th, a bill was passed for the relief of the Allegheny River Railroad Company . ..Bills were introduced—extending the provisions of the act entitled “An net to settle certain accounts between the United States and the State of Mississippi and other States,’’ approved March 3. 1857, to the States admitted into the Union since that date: to aid the Washington. Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad Company to construct a narrow-gauge raiLsvay Yrunr ride-waTefdo the cities of St. Louis and Chicago.... A communication was received from W. L. McMillan, claiming to fie Senator from Louisiana and asking speedy action in his case... Mr. Pease was announced as a member of the Com--mittee on Claims, rice Boreman. resigned.. ..Executive session and adjournment. In the House, on the 16th, a supplementary Civil-Rights bill was reported from the Judiciary Committee, ordered printed aud recom mitted... The Legislative Appropriation bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole-, and several amendtnents were disposed of -the question of the restoration of the franking privilege coming up incidentally on a motion to strike out the items for the purchase of official postage stamps for the Money Department, which motion was rejected—yeas' 71, nays 77... .Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 17th, bills were passed—appropriating §30,000 for the special distribution of seeds: to enable the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to proceed with its jury business... .The bill to provide for a better government of the District of Columbia was under consideration, and considerable discussion ensued on an amendment offered by Mr. Morton that the proposed Board ot Commissioners (to consist of three members) should be elected by the qualified voters of the District instead of being appointed by the President. as contemplated in the bi 11... .Adjourned. In the House, bn the 17th, bills were introduced—to establish the judicial district of Oklohama, in the Indian Territory; making provision for the payment of the sinking fund The Legislative • Appropriation bill was further 'Considered in Committee of the Whole, considerable discussion being had on a proposition to increase the clerical force of the Bureau of Education, which proposition was rejected, as was also a motion to strike ! out the entire appropriation for said bureau...... Adjourned. . ■ In the Senate, on the 18th, no business was transacted, but a motion was agreed to for a recess until one o'clock, and to proceed in a body to the House of Representatives at 12:15 to take-part-in the ceremony attending the reception of King Kalakaua. The Senators were then pre- 1 seated to the King in the President’s room, and i at 12:15 joined in the ceremonies in the'House ' i .... Adjourned to the 21st. In the House, on the 18th, there was an immense crowd of spectators in the galleries and corridors to witness the ceremonies on the I occasion of the formal reception bf King Kalakaua, and ladies were admitted to the hall. The • King was presented to the Speaker at 12:15 by ■ Senator Cameron, aud Speaker Blaine re- ! sponded in a short welcoming address, to which a reply of the King was read..., j The Senate bill for the relief of certain settlers I on public lauds who suffered from grasshoppers was passed... The Legislative Appropriation I bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole: all the proposed amendments * were disposed of and the bill was reported to the House and passed, an amendment to abolish the Capitol police and substitute watchmen being rejected ... Mr. Fort, of Illinois, announced the death of his...colleague. Mr. Rice, at Norfolk. Va., and a committee of five was appointed to accompany the remains to Illinois ... Adjourned to the 21st. °*

Inhuman Meanness.

In a certain town in Rhode Island the parents of two children, a boy and a little girl, died, leaving them to the cold charities of the world. A meeting of the local authorities was held tb decide upon action that would relieve the town of the expense of supporting the children. The matter was discussed freely, and at an adjourned meeting, held at a private residence, the children were required to be present; and this was the way the

case .was managed : The boy was told to go into an adjoining room, whore he would find a man asleep, in a certain described pocket of whose clothing was a five-cent piece, which he was to bring to the committee. The boy obeyed the order. The girl was sent to another room where a woman was sleeping, from -whose pocket a piece of money or scrip was to be taken. She also obeyed the instructions given her, and the children were afterward arrested upon a charge of petty larceny, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to the State reformatory school during their minority. Corrtr spotiderirt Providence Journal.

Immigration and Commerce.

Washington, Dec. 14. The report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics has the following table, containing a comparative statement of immigration by countries ethnolqgically grouped for the four fiscal years from July 1,1870, to JunqßO, 1874:

I Year ended./une 30. Count rice ethnologiA catty grouped.' 1871.' 1872.: 1873.; 1874. England. Scotland aud Wales*Bs.4ssi 83.8»4j 89.482: 61.999 Ireland : 57,439': 68.732; 77,344' 51.707 Teutonic: Germany, i Au-tna aud Neth-) -I erlands | 88,431447.200'159,347 J 97.623 Scandinavian: Bwe-| den, Norway and; ! i Denmark...’< 22,132 ; 28,575] 35,4811 19.178 Latin: Belgium,; j i .Switzerland. Italy.] | -- Erance. Spain and | ( Portugal... 9,833 18,860; 28.361: 21,694 . Sclavomc: - aud Polandl 1.208 ; 2.641' 4,898 1 5,7.55 China 7,135' 7.778 20.292; 13.776 British North Amer - ican Provinces.... 47,082 40.176 37,371! 32,960 Spanish and Portuguese Colonies: -—Mtrxrco; —South: America. Cuba and; Porto Ricol 1.218 1.500 1.760 1,536 All other countries..] 1.417 4.440 5,067 5,111 T - | —; 1 "Tcffal immigrants. |331,350'4(M.t8)6;459,803 313.339

*16.042 of this number were reported as from “Great Britain, not specified.’’ In regard to the trade with Canada the report -says-, although the pubHshed statenients of the bureau in regard tq the whole foreign trade of - the country and particularly of our exports by water are nearly accurate, yet it has hitherto been found impracticable if nor impossible to obtain full returns of merchandise exported to the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The fact, long known and deplored, is the more, to be regretted now when our commercial relations"with the Dominion of Canada excite much discussion and w’ill soon no doubt engage the-serious attention of the Senate of the United States. The returns from several Custom-Houses on the Canadian border arc necessarily defective owing to the want of legislation requiring persons exporting merchandise by land conveyance to tile manifests of such merchandise'and produce with the Collector of the Customs of that district on the border across which the articles pass into the foreign country, as is now required in the case of all exports to foreign countries in vessels. From the detailed statements by Provinces and ports, as well as by articles and values, prepared by the Commissioner of Customs of the Dominion, the bureau has been able to add to the stated values of articles embraced in the returns of Collectors of Customs of the Districts of Vermont and Niagara the official figures obtained from Canada, which figures are published in the statement of domestic exports contained in the annual report of the Bureau on Commerce and Navigation for the fiscal year 1874, and also in the monthly report for August, 1874. The total value of the articles omitted as above stated amounts, in the fiscal year 1874, to $10,200,059, Canadian or specie values, and to $11,424,066 in United States currency, computed at the average premium on gold in that year. The export of specie in the same period amounts to $3,619,568, as appears by the statements of the bureau, while the Canadian imports show but $2,235,987; the former sum is, however, believed to be correct, the figures having been furnished by the agent of the express company which conveyed the specie to Montreal, and verified by the’undersigned. It appears that during the year ending June 30, 1871, there were exported from the United States to Belgium 17,384,603 gallons of refined petroleum, valued at $4,294,037. The published trade statements of Belgium for the year 1871 (a period of six months later) give the imports for consumption into that country from' all foreign countries as 13,618,000 kilogrammes of “oil ether than for table use,” valued at 14,980,000 f, or 4,289,000 gallons, valued at $2,966,000 (United States measure and value), which, from the high price per gallon, would appear to include a eonsitterable amount of oil other than petro leum. The amount of petroleum and corn exported from this country to Ireland is given below in the second column; the amount imported into Ireland from all other countries is shown in the first column—each for the two_years ending June 30. 1873: z: .. .... Indian corp, bu5he1523.877,766 27.105,930 Petroleum, gallons 1,877,474 13,964,718 The total amount of domestic breadstuff's exported from the ports of Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Port Huron and Toledo to the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario, Dominion of Canada, during the fiscal year ending June 30,1874, was as follows: Quantity. Value. Indian corn, bn5,122.819 §2.599.974 Wheat, bn 8,477.804 10,241.019 Wheat flour, brls 82.316 570.587 Other breadstuff's 267,510 -. Total value . §13,679.090 Out of 7,418,711 bushels of Indian corn or maize exported to the Provinces of Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1873, 7,366.727 bushels were exported from the ports of Chicago, Detroit, Toledo and Port Huron to the Provinces named. It also appears ftiqni the Canadian statistical reports that during this period there were exported from tfie Dominion of Canada to foreign countries 6,242,976 bushels of Indian corn not the product of the Dominion; hence it is fair to presume that it was the product of the United States. . ,

Advice to a Girl Who “Finished.”

Gertrude —Yu tell me yu hav been two years in a boarding school, and hav just finished yure edukashun, and wafit to kno what yu shall do next. Listen, mi gushing Gertrude, and I will tell yu. Get up’ in the morning in good season, go down into the kitchen, seize a potato by the throat with one hand and a knife with the other, skin the potato, and a dozen more just like it, stir up the buckwheat batter, kick to the oven and see how the biscuit are doing, bustle around generally, step on the cat’s tail, and help your good old mother git breakfast. After breakfast put up the yung children’s luncheon for skool, help wash up the dishes, sweep, put things in order, and sumtime during the day knit at least two inches and a half on sum one 3v vure brothers’ little blue woolen stockings for next winter. In other words, go to work and make yureself useful now that yu hav bekum ornamental, and if yu hav enny time left, after the beds are all made, and the duks hav been fed, pitch into the pianna, and make the old rattle-box skream with fi),Bsik. Do this for one year, and Some likely yung fellow in the naberhood will hear ov it, and will begin to hang around yu and say sweeter thingsjrhan yuever heard before, and will finally giv yu a chance to keep house on y«re own hook. Yu follow pii advice, Gertv, amksee if he don’t. Billings, in if. Y. BVatZy

WHEELER & WILSON’S NEW NO. 6 SEWINO-MACHINE.

American Institute, New York— Judges’ Report, Nov. 14, 1814. To the Board of Managers: Gentlemen—After a full and impartial eximination of the -articles described, the undersigned judges make the following REPORT—( ABSTRACT): That Sewing-machine No. 436 (Wjtfeeler ’ & Wilson’s New No. 6) was claimed to be so great an improvement, both upon the well-known family machine made by the same company, and upon all other sew-ing-machines, as entitled it to recognition as a new and valuable invention. Under these circumstances an extremely thorough and minute examination became both desirable and necessary, not only of its novelty but of the skill and workmanship manifested in the fitting and adjustment of all its parts. We have risen from such examination with an ample conviction that the claim, in all its essential features, is well founded. At the commencement of our examination we were provided with several complete sets of all the working parts as they came from the manufactory, and were at liberty to make our own selection for the construction of a complete machine in our presence. We thus had, to a large degree, a demonstration of the nicety of the manufacture. Every part was formed to fit every other part with exact precision. So accurately, for instance, did the several rotating hooks fit in the same bearing that, while entering it, each one of them, without such contact as required force, manifestly compressed the air within in reaching its proper Seat. [The judges enumerate and describe some of the points of novelty and excellence of the machine. Among others: The simple and efficient device for producing variable motion for the rotating hook; The independent take-up lever, which secures the lightening of the stitch under the best possible circumstances; The peculiar form of the hook and the use of a bobbin holding a great quantity of the under thread; The simple device for producing and varying the tension of the lower thread; The hollow st-eel needle-bar; The facility of applying and using many useful attachments —the hemmer, binder, corder, ruffler, &c.] Having completed the construction of our trial machine, in the way indicated, it was mounted upon a convenient stand, and submitted to every variety of test as to the range of work that could be executed upon improperly and well, and without other adaptation than simple changes of needle and thread. The mere list of operations performed in our presence without the slightest hesitation or failure, and without the discoverable loss of so much as a single stitch, would convey an inadequate idea of the complete success achieved. Beginning with a needle measuring but 17-1000 inch in diameter, and operating with the finest thread upon lace goods, the same machine passed through all the stages of muslin and broadcloth of all conceivable thicknesses and foldings and ridgings, and then with waxed thread stitching through portions of heavy harness leather. After this demonstration of its range of work we entered upon the nicer tests required for a family and light manufacturing machine. In this department we witnessed all the varieties of work on hemming, felling and braiding, and also a degree of success in single and double ruffling which we believe unparalleled. The varied kinds of work on a lady’s boot were then performed, and each of these with the same marsed success. Indeed, whatever the test, and whatever the work presented, the same unfailing perfection was exhibited, not only in the work as a piece, but in the execution of each individual stitch. With much patient examination we were unable to discover a single defect. —® — * * * * * * * The minuteness of this report is a simple reflection of the care with which we have endeavored to examine these claims. We find the chief advantage of this machine to be in the use of a modified form of the rotating hook as a substitute for the shuttle, the hook carrying the upper thread around the bobbin containing the lower thread, and thus producing identically the same effect as the shuttle. The superiority of this rotary motion over the reciprocating motion of the shuttle ma chines cannot be disputed. The “ lockstitch” which is thus secured has always ranked highest on account of the permanence, beauty, and general desirableness of the stitching when done, and the wide range of its application. To these conceded advantages there have been added, in our presence, the. severest and most searching tests of its capacity and usefulness . upon every ordinarily possible kind of work, and we can do no less than bear witness to thej entire and remarkable success which has attended its action in every part of our examination. It is a machine which, by the yrooffubmitted, we are aatished must nentually »uper»ede all others now known with which it comes in competition. As the only conclusion to which we can arrive after an investigation of the several merits of each of the sewingmachines submitted, an investigation which we have endeavored to make patiently and completely in every respect, and associating these with our best judgment upon the merits of the several machines which are in use but not on exhibition: We recommend for the Wheeler & Wilson New So. 6 Sewing~machine the highest award which it is in the jgower of the Institute to bestow. JOHN A. BASSETT,) MOSES 8. BEACH, | H. W. STEELE, Judges. JOHN MATTHEWS, | REUBEN BULL. J The Board of Managers unanimously approved the report, and Tecommendeil for this machine the Gold Medal of the Institute. The Board of Direction unanimously approved this recommendation, and awarded the Gold Medal to Wheeler & Wilson, the only gold medal awarded for a sewing-machine by the American Institute for many years. A colored hunter in Tennessee has a black sheep that joins in the chase with the hounds, and puts the dogs on the right scent when they have dost it

Lynch-Law at Des Moines.

Associated Press dispatches of the 15th give the following account of the recent lynching at Des Moines, lowa, of the murderer, Charles Howard: Monday afternoon, in the District Court of Des Moines, Charles Howard was sentenced to life in the State Penitentiary for the murder of John Johnson in this city in June last. This morning at three o’clock some 500 Vigilants, with their faces blackened, surrounded the jail, overpowered and bound the jailer hand and foot and took his keys, and then overpowered in jthe same manner the Deputy Sheriff and the of five men who had been detailed by the Court to guard the prisoner; unlocked the doors and made their way to Howard’s cell, where he was in bed with his wife, the latter being now under indictment for complicity in the murder. The woman, seeing them coming, threw her arms aboqt the neck of her husband, but was soon thrown off, and a rope thrown about Howard’s neck. He was immediately jerked out of bed, six or eight Vigilants leading him with the rope. At the door some twenty more took hold of the rope, and he -was dragged, with no clothing on but an undershirt, through the hall, down the steps, and out through the Court-House yard, the jail being in the basement of the Court-House, and hung to a lamp-post at one of the gates. The whole thing did not occupy fifteen minutes. They stood about the body about five minutes, when they departed. The night being very dark, they were soon out of sight. When the policemen reached the body life was extinct. It is supposed the lynching was done by three anti-horse-thief societies in this county, aided by accomplices. in the city, but nothing definite has been decided yet. The excitement which has led to this foul outrage has been growing for some time, several mysterious murders having been committed here recently—seven in the space of four years. The trial of Howard was protracted.and exciting, the jury being out for nearly four days, finally compromising on a verdict of murder in the second degree. It was feared Howard would be lynched last Friday night, the jury not then having agreed, and it. being .generally thought they would agree to disagree. But precautions were taken to prevent it then, and on Saturday morning a verdict was returned. Monday afternoon he was sentenced, and Judge Maxwell imposed upon him the extreme rigor of the law, imprisonment for life. Everybody here in the city seemed satisfied, and the lynching fell upon the" city to its surprise and horror. But Howard’s behavior during the reading of the sentence, laughing in the face of the Judge and receiving his doom with firmness, and his attempt to smuggle a revolver into the court-room nor the purpose, as avowed after Ward, of shooting .the Judge as he w r as delivering the sentence; his boast that he would escape the Penitentiary before six months, and return and kill all who had appeared against him in the trial, and the appeal of his case to the Supreme Court —all these reached the ears of the Vigilants last night, and the result was as stat.ed above. The whole proceeding is most bitterly felt tiy the citizens here, and the perpetrators are denounced in the most unmeasured teims. —There are 12.000 windmills in Holland and Flemish Belgium, each from six to ten-horse-power service, according to ttie strength of the wind, and working tw T enty-four hours per day, and every .day in the month during the rainy season, and when the snows and ice are melting and the streams are high. The annual cost of the windmills in Holland is $4,000,000.

THE MARKETS.

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