Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1875 — Page 2

nmLAETI WON. JAMES ft MEALEY, ProprietorsRENSSELAER, - INDIANA.

THE NEWS.

King Alphonso Issues a Proclama- , Hon of Amnesty. Spain Exacting Indemnity from the CaTltsts. Special Message of the President on Coast Defensea Propesed Constitutional Amendment Relating to Presidential Elections. Election by Stole Legislatures of United States Senators. Inter»stin« News From All Quarter*. FOREIGN. A Madrid dispatch of the 18th says Castelar had declared that be would not take his seat In the Cortes if Tie is required to swear allegiance to the Monarchy. The Spanish squadron had arrived at Zaranz. Its commanders had been instructed to exact from the Carlists Indemnity for the owners and crew of the German brig Gustav and the punishment of her assailants. Dispatches of the 19th state that on account of the flagrant outrages on railway trains and employes the Spanish Government had determined that every armed Carlist found in the vicinity of any railroad should be shot. A delegation from the Carlist Committee of London had gone to Spain to inform Don Carlos that the English bankers with whom the Carlist loan was lodged had refused to make further advances. It was understood that Spain would pay Germany an indemnityequal to the value of the Gustav and cargo, even if she be unsuccessful in exacting the same from the Car lists at Zeranz. A Paris dispatch of the 90th says thatleading Spanish Republicans were arranging with the Carlists to bury their political differences and unite in a general uprising against the authority of King Alphonso, and that, should the project succeed, it was proposed by a plebiscite to decide between a monarchy with Don Carlos as King and a republic. A boiler explosion occurred in a Yorkshire (Eng.) factory on the 21st, which killed five and injured fifty persons. Spanish dispatches of the 21st say Alphonso’s civil list has been fixed at 28,000,000 reals. Forty-seven Carlist officers had given in their adhesion to the Monarchy. Russia, Germany and Austria had agreed to recognize Alphonso without waiting for the proclamation of the Cortes. A London telegram of the 22d says the British Government had demanded an explanation and apology from Peru for removing a passenger from a British steamer at CallaoOn the 23d King Alphonso issued two proc lamations—one addressed to the inhabitants of Navarre and the Basque provinces, and the other to the army. In the first he says, while he longs for peace, he will fight for his rights; that he represents the dynasty which their fathers swore to obey; that he is a Catholic, and devoted to the church; that if they will lay down their arms he will give them full amnesty. In the second the King demands abnegation and energy. Rev. Charles Kingsley died in London on the 34th. • A Vienna dispatch of the 24th says the difficulty between Turkey and Montenegro had been compromised. DOMESTIC. At Bucyrus, Ohio, a few days ago, Mrs. Heilman attempted.to kindle a fire with coal oil, and was fatally burned. A dispatch was received by Secretary Belknap, on the 18th, from Gen. Sheridan, in which the latter gives an epitome of a report from Maj. Merrill, stationed in the Shreveport district, concerning outrages said to have been committed in that section. The report states that threats made before election against persons who should vote the Republican ticket were being carried •out; that White Leagues were being rapidly formed; that'all citizens not belonging to the Leagues are ostracized, etc., etc. The Methodist preachers of Boston and vicinity have passed a resolution indorsing and thanking the President and Gen. Sheridan for their action in the Louisiana t roubles The New York Republican Central Committee have adopted resolutions sustaining throughout the action of the President, and setting forth that even if what was done was illegal it was done without the knowledge of the President and with the sincere desire on the part of the officers of the Government to perform simply their duty. A New Orleans dispatch of the 19th says the Patrons of Husbandry of Louisiana and Mississippi had issued an address to the Order throughout the United States indorsing the report of the sub-committee of Congress. A Washington Associated Press dispatch of the 30th says the President's special message, repealing the recommendation in his annual message relating to the armament of our fortifications, and in time of peace to prepare for war, had naturally raised the question among members whether there was any probability at anr with a foreign power, and whether the President had any knowledge leading him to meh apprehension. Some members could see no ground for fear, while others thoeght probably some serious difficulty might arise between the United States and Spain, and it was therefore proper that our ports in the Gulf should prepared against sudden assault from Spanish vessels in the event of hostilities growing out of the Cuban question. One of the most disastrous and wide-spread storms ever known in the West swept over Colorado, part of Utah and California on the 90th. There was loss of both life and property. Several costly radway bridges were destroyed, and several towns submerged. Announcement was made in Chicago’on the 19th of the suspension of thetook County National Bank, B. F. Allan, President As- | aurance is given by Mr. Allen that depositors yrill ultimately be paid in full. Jt is said that 300 miners are at work in the |

Black Hills gold regions, and that some parties are meeting with great spccces. Several casual ties arc reported Tin Utah, the result of recent heavy snow-slides in the mining regions. In the Big Cotton!od Canon six men were carried away an avalanche and killed. Tho bodies of pqpsons Who were killed by a snowslide in the City of Alta bad been recovered. Many were supposed to have perished, but their bodies are covered to a great depth by the snow, and probably they will not be found for some time. In one demolished house was found the body of Mrs. Carey, sittlng in a rocking-chair, with an infant clasped in her arms. Near them were the husband and a little girl. All had been suffocated by the snow. A New Orleans dispatch of the 23d gives a document signed by eight Northern cottonbuyers and merchants at Shreveport, Jan. 28, expressing astonishment ..at the statements made by Gen. Merrill and others, representing that community in aconditlon of anarchy and its people lawless and defiant, etc. Gen. Merrill’s statement* are pronounced outrageously false and groundless, and the document asserts that the only disorders there known to the signers were caused by Merrill, just before election sending his soldiers raiding over the country and ariesting unresisting citizens for imaginary offenses, who had not been held for trial because there was no evidence of guilt. News from California on the 23d was to the effert that the heavy Tatns still con tin ued, and that great damage had been done by the floods.

PERSONAL.

The three Republican members of the House Committee on Louisiana Affairs left Washington for New Orleans on the morning of the 18th, and were followed by Mr. Marshall, one of the Democratic members, in the evening. Mr. Whitelaw Reid, of the New York Tribune, was before the Pacific Mail Investigating Committee in Washington on the 18th and was subsequently arrested for libel at the suit of ex-Gov. Alexander R. Shepherd for having charged him (Shepherd) with bringing bankruptcy upon the District of Columbia by fraudulent practices, etc. The direct testimony of Francis D. Moulton in the case of Tilton vs. Beecher closed on the 18th, he having been on the witness stand for over a week. His evidence was mainly a reiteration of his former statements. His cross-examination was begun on the afternoon of the 18th. The court-room is crowded daily by a large concourse of spectators. The Michigan State Grange recently held its annual meeting at Grand Rapids. There are 565 Granges in the State, with a membership of over 50,000. On the 21st Richard B. Irwin appeared before the Committee of Ways and Means, investigating the Pacific Mail subsidy business, and told to whom he paid the money.- In regard to the amounts, he said he might not be exactly accurate, but was nearly so. The following is a list: Charles Abert, $7,000; O.J. Averill, "$10,000; J. G. Berrett, $10,000; E. IL Cormack, $2,000 or $5,000; Amasa B. Corwin, $3,600; L. E. Chittenden, $5,000: B. H. Cheeyer, $5,000; Hamilton G. Fant, $12,000; John W. Forney, $25,000; Samuel A. Hatch, about $30,000; S. R. Ingham, $10,000; Alex. W. Randall, $10,000; John H. Rice, $2,500; William B. Shaw, $15,000; Chas. 11. Sherrill, $500; John G. Schumaker, $300,000; A. H. Whitney, SIOO,OOO. Witness said the above list comprised the , names of all persons by him, and that he knew of the employment of only two others —William 8. King, to whom he paid $125,000, and Richard S. Parsons, who was Stockwell’s personal attorney. Witness paid Parsons SIO,OOO on Stockwell’s account. He gave Schumaker $275,000 in New York and sent $25,000 more from California. On the 22d Irwin added to the list as follows: Mr. Morris, of the Chronicle, $1,500; SIO,OOO to $15,000 to, William Moran for writing letters, etc., and $35,000 to ex-Postmaster-Gen. Randall for the special purpose of buying off the Washington agents of a combination of New York stock operators who were fighting the Pacific Mail subsidy while it was before the Senate. POLITICAL. Balloting for United States Senators began on the 19th in eleven Legislatures; Elections were virtually made in Indiana, Maine, Missouri, New York and Pennsylvania. The successful candidates in these States, in the order named, are: McDonald (Dem.), Hamlin (Rep.), Cockrell (Dem.), Kemin (Dem.) and Wallace (Dem.). Unsuccessful ballots were had in Michigan, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Nebraska and Tennessee. The Connecticut Republican State Convention, at New Haven on the -20th, nominated: For Governor, Jas. Lloyd Green, present Mayor of Norwich; Lieutenant-Governor, Charles L. English; Secretary of State, Col Augustus Fenn; Treasurer, 0. B. Arnold; Cqjnptroller, Gen. R. B. Crawford. Among the resolutions adopted was one indorsing the President’s special message to Congress on Louisiana affairs. The Massachusetts Legislature on the 20th elected as United States SenaJor Henry L. Dawes, on the second ballot. The Michigan Legislature, on the 22d, elected the Hon. J. P. Christiaucy (Rep.) to succeed Mr. Chandler (also Rep.) iu the United States Senate. Mr. Christiaucy received the Democratic vote, and a sufficient number of Republicans voted for him to defeat Mr. Chandler, the regular party candidate. • ' The Illinois State Farmers’ Association held its annual meeting at Springfield recently, and adjourned to meet next year at Bloomington. A report was received from the State Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners that there is no law by which an injunction can be obtained to prevent railroad companies violating the Railroad laws of the State. The committee of the association disagreed with this opinion, claiming that the right of in junction is a common law right. The committee think the present law should remain intact and be enforced. Thomas F. Bayard has been re-elected United States Senatof by the Delaware Legislature. Ex-Gqv. A S. Paddock (Rep.) was on the 23d elected to the United States Senate by the Nebraska Legislature by a rote of 37 to 11 for Gen. Thayer and 2 scattering. The Kansas House of Representatives on the 23d adopted resolutions indorsing the President’s recent message on Louisiana affairs and the course of Gen. Sheridan at New Orleans, sad declaring them entitled to the thanks and confidence of the countrv. A proposition was made at New Orleans on the 23d by the Conservative members of the House returned by the Returning Board and those claiming to have been undoubtedly

elected but defrauded by the Board, to have the Congressional Investigating Committee take the returns •of 1874, together with all fair and relevant testimony, and upon such returns and evidence dedare what members of the Legislature were fairly elected. The Chairman of the committee took the matter under consideration. The election in the First Illinois District to fill the vacancy in the Forty-third Congress caused by the death of Hon. J. B. Rice occurred on the 23d. Bernard G. Caulfield, Democratic memuer-ciect ot the Eorty-tourth Congress, was the successful candidate, he meeting with no regular organized opposition. ,7

(ONGR ENKION A L.

In the Senate, on the 18th, bills were introduced—to establish a mint for the coinage of gold and silver at Indianapolis; to amend the act of March 8, 1813, authorising the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Louis: to authorize the construction of a bridge across the same river at or near Grand Chain... Mr. Schurz" Louisiana resolution came up as unfinished business, and a motion was agreed to to lay it aside und proceed with the Legislative Appropriation bill. Among the amendments to this bill proposed by the Senate committee was one authorizing the organization of a Bureau of Commerce and Statistics, to be attached to the Treasury Department, which amendment was debated at considerable length ....Adjourned. In the House, on the 18th, among the bills introduced and referred were the following: To prevent the issue of United States and National Bank notes of greater denomination than $100; limiting the taxon bank deposits: in regardNo the collection of drafts and checks; aitthorizing the use of information received through the Dead-Letter Office when its use will prevent or punish crime; to amend the National Currency act; to establish a mint at Cincinnati; for a special distribution of seeds in the districts devastated by grasshoppers; to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis... .The resolution of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives relating to military interference with the organization of the Louisiana Legislature was presented and referred.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 19th, a memorial of citizens of Michigan, protesting against the proposed Canadian reciprocity treaty, was pre seated and referred... .The Legislative, Judicial and Executive Appropriation bill was further considered, and a proposed amendment providing for the organization of a Bureau of Commerce and Statistics was stricken out —29 to 21—and the amendment continuing the present Board of Statistics was agreed to, with amendments instructing the said bureau to collate and report annually statistics and facts relating to commerce with foreign nations and among the several States, the railroad systems of this and other countries, the cost of construction and operation of railroads, and the actual cost of the transportation of freight and passengers on the railroads, canals and rivers of the country. Other proposed amendments were disposed 0f.... Adjourned. In the House, on the 19th, several members made indignant denial of charges that they had oeen implicated in the Pacific Mail subsidy scandal .. .A committee was ordered and appointed to inquire whether the privileges of the House had been violated by the arrest and detention of Whitelaw Reid at the suit of Alex. R. Shepherd while Reid was in the District of Columbia under a subpoena from a committee of the House... .Charles A. Wetmore, correspondent of the Alta California, was brought before the House charged with contempt “in retusing to answer questions put to him before the Waysand Means Committee in the Pacific Mail investigation, but further action was postponed and the House adjourned. In the Senate, on the 20th, tho memorial of the Conservative members of the Louisiana Legislature, giving their views of the dis . t urbances attending the organization of the Legislature, was presented and referred, as was also the memorial of the General Assembly of that State In regard to the recent disturbances... .A bill was introduced and referred to protect each State against invasion and for other purposes.... The joint resolution of the Ohio Legislature condemning the expulsion of the officers and mem bers of the Louisiana Legislature by military power, and the protest signed by the Republicans of the House and entered upon the journal of that body, were presented and ordered printed... .The Legislative Appropriation bill was further amended and passed. - . The Fortification Appropriation bill was passed without amendment. ..The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was amended and passed....A motion was agreed to to take up the proposed amendment to the Constitution providing for the election of the President and Vice-President by a direct vote of the people, and, pending its consideration, the Senate adjourned. In the House, on the 20th, a resolution was adopted rescinding so much of the resolution of Jan. 6 as required the Sergeant-at-Arms to keep Irwin in the District of Columbia jail ... A bill was passed appropriating $30,000 for the special distribution of seeds to portions'’of the country that have suffered from grasshopper ravages... .The memorial of Conservative members of the Louisiana Legislature as to the difficulties concerning the organization of the Legislature was presented and referred... .The Indian Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Whole, amended and reported to the House, and rejected—yeas 111, nays 120—the appropriation of $600,000 for the Chociaw nation being the protable cause of the defeat of the bi 1(.... A message was received from the President, and referred, calling special attention to the absolute necessity of providing proper armament for sea-coast defenses ... .The recusant witness, Wetmore, was declared .11 con tempt, because of insulting language tothe House, and Conducted to jail... . Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 21st, the President’s message relating to coast defenses was received and referred... .An adverse report was made from the Civil Service and Retrenchment Committee on the bill to reduce the salary of the President... .Mr. Morton spoke in favor of his proposed amendment to the Constitution in regard to the election of PresidenLaml Vice-Pres-ident. and Messrs. Thurman and Conkling advocated some additional provisions designating the tribunal for the settlement of contested election cases in the Electoral College. In the House, on the 21st, the vote rejecting the Indian Appropriation bill was reconsidered and the bill was referred to the Committee of the Wh01e.... Charles A. Wetmore having made satisfactory apology, was, on motion, discharged from custody.... A report was made from the Committee on Elections to exclude the Delegate from Utah (Cannon' from his seat on the ground of polygamy.. ...The conference report ouVvhatis known as the “Little Tariff""bill was made and, alter debate, agreed t 0—136 to 99. In the Senate, on the 22d, the credential? of P. B. S. Pinchbeck, as Senator-elect from Louisiana, were presented, and referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections... .The credentials of Senator Bayard, of Delaware, were also presented.... A bill was introduced and referred to establish a court for contested elections... .The proposed amendment to the Constitution in regard to Presidential elections was debated by Mr. Anthony in its favor, and its further consideration was postponed to the 27th.... Mr. Sherman addressed the Senate in defense of the Administration'in its connection with the Louisiana difficulties. and was briefly replied to by Mr. Johnston. In the House, on the 22d, many bills of a private character were introduced and referred. .-.Leave was asked, and objected to, to offer a resolution calling on the President "to state by what authority the courts or officers of Mississippi, at Vicksburg, had been interfered with by the army....A number of private bills, were passed.... Adjourned to the 25th.

The Proposed Constitutional Amendment.

The following is the full text of Senator Morton’s proposed amendment to the ; Constitution providing for a change in the manner of electing the President and Vice-President of the United States: Resolved by the Senate and House Representative*, in Congress Assembled, Two-thirds of Each House Cpncurring Therein, That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United . States, and when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States shall be valid to all intenU and purposes as part of the Constitution, to-wit: Article 1. The President and Vice-Presi-dent shall be elected by direct vote of the people in the manner following: Each State shall be. divided into districts in number to the number of Representatives to which the State may be entitled in Congress, to be composed Of contiguous territory, and to be as nearly equal tn popula-

| tlon aa may be; and the person having I the highest number of votes tn iach district i for President ahall receive the vote of that I district, which shall be counted one PresiI dential vote. •■<■ 2. The person having the highest number of votes for President in the State shall receive two Presidential votes from, the State at large. 3. The person having the highest number of Presidential votes in the United States shall be President 4. If two persons have the same slumber of votes in any State, it being the highest number, they shall receive each one Presidential vote from the State at large, and if more than two persons shall have each the same number of votes in any State, it being the highest number, no Presidential vote shall be counted from the State at large. If more persons than one shall have the same number of votes, it beiii" the highest number in any district, no Presidential vote shall be counted from that district. 5. 'flie foregoing provisions shall apply to the eieetion of Vice-President. 6. The Congress shall have the power to provide for holding and conducting the elections of President and Vice-President, and to establish a tribunal for the decision of such elections as may be contested. 7. The States shall be divided into districts by the Legislature thereof, but Congress may at any time by law make or alter the same.

The President’s Message on Coast Defenses.

Washington, Jan. 20. The President sent the following message to Congress to-day: To°thtrßcna.Te and House of Reprc-enmt lves: — In my annual message of Dec. 1, 1873, while inviting general-attention to all recommendations made by the Secretary of War, your special attention was invited to the importance of preparation for war in the arming of our sea-coast defenses. Proper armament is of vastly more importance than fortifications. The latter can be supplied very speedily for temporary purposes when needed. The former cannot. These views gain increased strength and pertinence as the years roll by. I have now again the honor to call special attention to the condition of the,armament of our fortifications and the absolute necessity for immediate provision by Congress for the procurement of heavy cannon. The large expenditures required to supply the number of guns for our forts is the strongest argument that can be adduced for a liberal annual appropriation for their gradual accumulation. In time of "war such preparations cannot be made; cannon cannot be purchased iu open market nor manufactured at short notice. They must be the product of years of experienced labor. I herewith inclose copies of the reports of the Chief of Ordnance and of the Board of Ordnance Officers on the trial of the eightinch rifle, converted from the ten-inch smoothbore. which shows very conclusively an economical means of utilizing the useless smooth-bores and making them into eightinch rifles, capable of piercing seven inches of iron. The 1,294 ten-inch Rodman guns should, in my opinion, be so utilized, and the appropriation requested by the Chief of Ordnance ot $250,000 to commence these conversions is earnestly recommended. W hile convinced of the economy and necessity of these conversions, the determination of the best and most economical method of providing guns of still larger caliber should no longer be delayed. The experience of other nations, based on the new conditions of defense, brought prominently by the introduction of iron-clads into every navy afloat, demands heavier meta!and rifle" guns of not less than twelve inches in caliber. These enormous masses, hurling a shot of 700 pounds, can alone meet many of the requirements of the national defenses. They must be provided, and experiments on a large scale can alone give the data necessary for the determination of the question. A suitable proving ground, With all the facilities and conveniences referred to by the Chief of Ordnance, with a liberal annual appropriation, is an undoubted necessity, The guns ready for trial cannot be tested without funds; and the estimate of $250,000 for the purpose is deemed reasonable, and is strongly recommended. The constant appeals for legislation on “ armament of fortifications” ought no longer to be disregarded, if Congress desires in peace to prepare important material the want of which in future wars must inevitably lead to disaster. This subject is submitted with the hope that the consideration it deserves may be given it at the present session. (Signed) U. S. Grant. Executive Mansion, Jan. 20, 1875.

How They Clean Streets in Paris.

The superficial area of public way which has to be swept daily amounts to 11,000,000 meters (a meter is a yard and one-ninth), and the work must be finished before the hour at which general traffic begins. To accomplish this the operation has to be begun at about three o’clock in the morning. The hands employed muster by brigades at certain points in each district; thence they are subdivided into bands, and proceed at once to their early task. Whatever the weather, whatever the temperature, the street-cleaners must be at their post and at work. These toilers of the small hours are to be counted by thousands. They are, as it were, the chanticleers of the great city. Long before aurora peeps from the east the tramp of their sabots or wooden shoes, and the harsh noise of their stiff brooms are to be heard upon the pavement. At that matutinal hour, when the streets of Paris are under the dominion of the sweepers, you will meet, side by side with them, those nocturnal philosophers who. explore the heaps of rubbish and refuse which incumber the roadside. These two classes get on together fin the most fraternal manner. The sweeper, or the sweepress, is ever ready to lend a willing hand to the chiffonier’s or ragpicker’s investigations, and to contribute to his reaping a good harvest. Your sweeper is. for the most part, both steady and thrifty, and he is rarely to be seen at the public-house. Indeed, he is too glad to get home and to bed as soon as he has got through his fatiguing work. Besides'the hand-broofn there is the ma-chifie-sweeping. More than forty machines for the latter purpose are employed upon the Paris pavement. They require only one man each. This is the driver, who", while attending to his horse, manages a spring from the box where he sits, by means of which he lifts and dets down the sweeping cylinder at will. These machines are chiefly used, on the boulevards, the .avenues, squares and broader thoroughfares, where they are to be seen at work the greater part es the day. In bad weather, more espe cially. they ply their w&y along the most crowded highways, dissipating the mud, half-mel’ed snow, etc. — Journal, ' —A lady in Paris attended a recent ball masque out of mere curiosity. She wore a pretty pink domino which made her particularly conspicuous. She supped, and when she left the ball she found she had drank too much champagne. A .policeman put his hand on her shoulder, and she sank down horrified at the idea of being taken off to the gtation-house. When they picked her up she was dead; she had died from fright. So the body was taken off to the Morgue clad in its carnival finely, and there it was recognized the next May by the husband.

FACTS AND FIGURES.

—The highest average net produce per oow reported by the New York factories this season! Mas $58.45, and the lowest $26. This was for six months. The first means jwq/Jt and the last loss. The difference is "attributable to kind of stock and the care given them. —The census of the Delaware Indians now in the Indian Nation has just been taken, and the tribe numbers but 758 persons, all told. Five years ago, when the Delawares moved to the-Nation, their number was 985—a decrease of 227. At this rate it will not take many years for the tribe to become extinct. — Paola (Kan.) Spirit. —The losses of the Gloucester (Mass.) fishing squadron for the last .year sum up as follows: Vessels, 9; value, $59,100; insurance, $45,175; lives, 68. The loss is the smallest in the number of vessels and tonnage of any year since 1868, and the loss of property valuation and life is considerably below the average of the last ten years. —Maine has over SBOO,OOO invested in her canning establishments. The total value of last year’s product is placed at about $1,500,000. One Portland company last year put up 2,400,000 pounds of corn, 2,250,000 pounds of lobsters, salmon and mackerel, 50,000 pounds of clams and 50,000 cans of blueberries. The total number of hands employed, including fishermen, is 3,315. —The bonded debt of Idaho Territory, principal and interest, is $69,625.46; the outstanding warrant debt, less cash in the Treasury, is $60,642.74. The Governor, in his message to the Legislature, advises that the warrant debt be let alone, but recommends the issue of new bonds for the bonded indebtedness, payable ten years after date, bearing interest at the rate of 10 per cent. —No library in the United States contains over 200”000 volumes. The largest is the Congressional Library, the second is that of Harvard University, and third the Public Library of Boston. But how insignificant these seem beside the National Library at Paris, which, according to the recent report of the Director, contains no less than 2,075,871 volumes. In addition to these there are 200,000 manuscripts, 8,000 maps and 120,000 pamphlets. The wood-work of the shelves alone, w r ere it placed end to end, would reach from Paris to Naples, whilst the books piled one upon the other would reach almost out of sight. From the city of Paris alone the Bibliotique National received 31,000 books and papers in the last five months, of which only 1,200 were retained, the rest being sent to the paper mill. Four thousand three hundred readers a month visit the read-ing-room, and the inner alcove devoted to men of letters has a monthly attendance of 1‘,150.

A Shrewd Trick.

The Parisian rogues are the cleverest rascals in the "world and positively elevate their villainy co a science. In no other European capital iis one-half the ingenuity exhibited by this class. The famous Duval eating-houses or restaurants are located in all parts of the French capital, though they are all run by the same company. The professed object of this company is to serve excellent food in a good style and for a very moderate charge. It has been lately discovered that a system of thieving was being practiced upon these establishments, whereby they lost a considerable amount of small silver articles, such as forks, spoons and similar table-ware, but >by whom taken it was difficult to find out. However a careful watch was set, and with the following result: It whs found that a respectable-looking person would enter the dining-saloon and give his order for dinner, of which he partook. During the meal he conveyed one or more articles to the under side of the table, fixing them there by means of wax, with which he was provided for the purpose. Should the servant who waits upon him miss any of his spoons or other articles the rogue is still in no danger and offers himself to be searched with perfect impunity and an air of injured innocence. Of course he is allowed to depart, but immediately after an accomplice enters, orders his dish, whatever it may be, seating himself at the same table, whence he removes the secreted articles to his own pocket, of course taking care that the waiter shall not miss any articles from the table as served before him. There is no reason for suspecting this individual, who quietly pays his bill and departs to share the booty with his waiting confederate. A case of this kind occurred a few weeks since in the Place de la Madeleine, where the superintendent suspected the trick, allowing the first party to retire after apologizing for searching him. He however sent for a detective in plain clothes, and bade him watch that particular table. Presently, after the departure of the first rogue, hm confederate entered, seating himself at the table in question, and while taking his soup began his work, little dreaming that the peaceable-looking citizen opposite, with his back toward him, was watching every movement in the looking-glass through a hole in the newspaper which he held before his face and pretending to read. It was almost as good as a play, and the detective was obliged to restrain himself or he would have burst into a fit of laughter. No sooner had the rogue succeeded in transferring the last of the forks and spoons to his pocket than he rose very leisurely, walked to the cashier’s desk, and took out his money to pay for the meaL But at the , same moment there was a hand laid heavily upon his shout: der and the detective very bluntly slipped a pair of handcuffs upon his wrists. The missing articles were found in his pocket and he was marched off to prison.— Kew York Weekly. Smoke and vapor have for sonje tin* 6 been seen issuing from Bald Hill, at North Fayston, yt.; and the snow has been melted for an acre around, though it is two feet deep in the vicinity. Responsible persons who have examined it declare it to be. a volcano on a small scale. 7 . —An old bachelor says: “ When I remember all the girls I’ve met together, I feel like a rooster in the fall exposed to every weather! I feel like one who treads alone some barn-yard all deserted, whose.oats are fed, whose hens are dead, or all to market started.” Dr. William E. Rossetkr, of Bridgeport, Conn., has just died from the effects of inhaling ether which he was administering to a patient four weeks ago." 1 It produced symptoms similar to those of typhoid fever and diphtheria.

A Unique Exhibition in Paris.

A very interesting exhibition is now open in the Palais de ITndustrie in connection with that of “ Fine Arts Applied to Industry”—-it is the retrospective museum of the costumes, a vast display of the garments of bygone ages. Here maybe seen the brocades and cloths of gold and silver of the reigns of Louis XIV. and XV., the milk-maid caps and linen fichus of the Revolution, the spangled crape and embroidered cashmeres of the Directory. Here, too, are numbers of old household articles pertaining te the middle ages, silver-mounted escarcelles, suspended to silver-studded belts, portable silver cases containing fork, spoon and (oh, horror of horrors in such companionship!) sometimes a comb as well; tiny knives in sheaths of silver or embossed leather; these two last being adapted to be suspended to the fair owner’s girdle; specimens of the graceful feather fans so familiar to our eyes in Venetian pictures, with handles of silver or of ivory, sometimes studded with precious stones, fans of the Louis XV. period, some painted by Boucher or by Watteau, some with a peep-hole ingeniously contrived on their pictured surface, were among the most interesting articles. A model of a poor little baby of the middle ages, swathed in swaddling bands of silver brocade, as tight and stiff as ever was an Indian papoose, made me wonder how the poor creatpres ever AUJtfeatment" and lived to attain years of maturity.— Paris Correspondence.

For Love of an Empress.

Lucy H. Hooper writes to the Philadelphia Press from Paris: 1 have heard lately the following melancholy and romantic little story relative to a royal lady whose personal charms and sweet and graceful manners have rendered her as.unconscious’y dangerous to her masculine adherents as ever Mary Stuart was of yore. It appears that during the latter years of the Empire the attention of the Empress, who ever has been distinguished as an intelligent and munificent patroness of art, was called to the works of a rising young painter—a Spaniard or an Italian by birth—who had just completed his studies and had achieved admission to the salon. She jvas pleased with his pictures, purchased several of them, and gave a commission for two or three others. Finally, at his earnest solicitation, she consented to sit to him for her portrait, which proved to be a striking likeness and a most admirable work of art. From that time forward the young painter haunted assiduously every public place where he could obtain a glimpse of his fair and royal patroness. When she went to the theater or the opera he invariably occupied an orchestra stall in front of the imperial box, and when she drove out he sought to cross her path in order to obtain from her one of those graceful bows and one of those sweet, melancholy smiles which she always bestowed with such courtesy upon those who saluted her. At last came the war and Sedan and the Republic, and park and theater and opera-box knew the fair face no more. Deprived of even those passing glimpses of the imperial lady, the young artist became morose, gloomy and misanthropical; he shut himself up in the solitude of his studio and employed himself cheifly in reproducing his portrait of the Empress —a work which met with a ready sale among the friends of imperialism in Paris from its intrinsic merit no less than the fidelity of its likeness. The other day he was found lying dead in his studio, with a pistol shot through the head, and with the discharged pistol still clutched in his lifeless hand. —The public school system of San Francisco, which was first* founded in 1849, now embraces 48 schools, 500 teachers and 25,000 scholars.

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