Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1876 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

mom VASHiNom. Ax exciting scena occurred between Messrs. Blaine and Knott, before the Judiciary Committee tn Washington on the 7U>, relative to the OaldweU telegram, Mr. Blaine demanding of Mr. Knott his reason for not Informing the oommitten or the public of its reception. Mr. Knott explained that he had made Inquiries as to Mr. Caldwell’s whereobento, and had been Informed that he was in Italy. When the telegram in question wss received it contained no day of the month and gave no nddreta in London, and he was unaware of the custom of the Cable Company of retaining the address at the point from whence a dispatch la sent, and not sending it over the cable. He read the dispatch to four members of the committee, and believed It to be a trick, and on that account had not made It public. Had the dispatch said Blaine was guilty—he (Caldwell) had got the bonds from him—lt would have been an Injustice to Mr. Blaine to have given it to the public. Mr. Blaine here intimated that, had it been unfavorable to him, the dispatch would have got out pretty soon. Mr. Huntan and other members of the committee, confirmed the statements made by Mr. Knott ▲ spirited controversy occurred between Messrs. Blaine and Knott on the subject of the former having communicated with Caldwell during his present sojourn In London, Mr. Knott stating that ho had no evidence to that effect and never pretended to have any. The following la a copy of the telegram received by Mr. Knott, on the lat Inst, and whteh he fantehee for publication: London. To Chairman Houe Judiciary Committee, Wuhtlfton: Have last reed In Hew York paper* Scott > evidence abont our bond transaction. and can fully corroborate It. I saver gave Blaine any Fort Smith Ball road Banda, directly or otherwise. 1 have three foreign railway contraction my bunds which make tt Impossible for me to leave without great pecuniary less, or would gladly voluntarily come home and so testify. Can make affidavit to this effect, and mail It If desired. Josuu Caldwell. THK BAST. A Nxw York dispatch of the 3d says a large number of counterfeit flve-dollar bills were In circulation in that city and Brooklyn. Among them were counterfeits on the First National Hanks of Chicago, HI., Paxton, 111., Canton, HI., Peoria, 111., Aurora, 111., Galena, BL, Louisville, Ky., and on the Traders’ National Bank of Chicago. The best bills are ou the Chicago banks—First National and Traders’ National. Some of the others are fairly executed, but not sufficiently so os to dceeivs anyone who is on the lookout for the “ queer.” There is no such bank u the First National of Galena, HL A woman named Wllhelmins Weickhss been sentenced at Buffalo, N.Y.,to be hanged ou the Slat Inst, for the murder, last September, of her step-son. Tub reunion of the Grand Army of the Potomac wss held at Philadelphia on the fith, Gen. Hancock presiding. The welcoming speech was made by Mayor Stokely. ExGov. Dix, of New York, delivered an eloquent oration, and spirited addresses were nude by Gens. Sherman, Sheridan and Hooker, Gov. Hnrtronft and ex-Gov. Curtin. A commemorative poem—“ The Voice of Silence"—was read by William Winter, of the New York Tribune. Tn Boston Jem tag Journal announces in a recent number, that tt had been Informed that J. C. Ayer, the patent medicine manufacturer, hod been sent to on insane asylum in New Jersey* Gold closed in New York, on the 7th, st 113. The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 3 Chicago Spring Wheat, [email protected]; No. 8 Milwaukee, $1.20 S1.80X; Oats, Western S2X@»4c; Mixed, Oom, Western Mixed, 57*59e; Fork, Mess, $18.90; Lard, 10){c; Flour, good to choice, $5.4005.75; White Wheat Extra, $5.80*7.75. Cattle, 9®lo*c for good to extra. Sheep (shorn), Ax lost Liberty, Pa, on the 7th, cattle brought: Best, $5.25@5J»; medium, $4.75 9&00; common, s4£s@4£o. Hogs sold— Yorkers, $5.90@A00; 8.10. Sheep (shorn) brought [email protected] according to quality.

WESI AHB NOTH. Tic* fast special train from New York for Ban Francisco arrived at the latter city at 8:85 am the morning of the 4th, making the distance in eighty-three hours and thirty-four minutes, nearly four hours ahead of the schedule time. On one portion of the route the train made sixty miles in fifty-seven minutes. Tux regular Florida Republican Btate Convention, held on the 3d, nominated M. L. Steams for Governor and I). Montgomery for Lieutenant-Governor. Of the eight delegates chosen to the National Convention seven are for Blaine and one for Conkling. A bolt was made form the regular Convention, the bolters nominating Senator Conover for Governor and a Mr. Lee for Lieutenant-Governor, hut ehoalng no delegates to the National Convention. A Cincinnati dispatch of the 4th says letten had been received from members of the two expeditions from that city to the Black Hills, which show that the reports of the killing of eleven members of Col. Stone’s party were false. Both expeditions arrived safely at Custer City without being molested by Indians.

A majority of the fire Circuit Judges for Cook County, 111., to whom the question of the legality of the election of Mr. Boyne u Mayor, was submitted on the application by Mr. Colvin for a writ ofym> warrmto, decided on the sth adversely to Mr. Hoyne. Judges McAllister, Rogers and Williams concurring, and Judges Farwell and Booth dissenting. The decision is to the effect that there haa been a vacancy in the Mayoralty ever since the expiration of the term for which Mr. Calvin was elected, and that the failure of the Common Council to call an election for Mayor nullified the vote of the people for Mayor at the recent city election at which he was chosen. It is also decided that the Common Connell can still call a special electtao for Mayor to All the vacancy. Ox the 4th Inst, Mr. Moody preached his ' Ant sermon in his new tabernacle in Chi* cago to a forge congregation. Tax Chicago Trtbmme of the 7U» says it had been finally decided by the Eastern railroads tomake no further redaction in passenger rates. That paper also states that there is

no probability that the present rates will go up again before next winter. Auuixui J. H. Hildreth, of Chicago, appeared before the United States District Court in that city on the fith and plead guilty to two counts of the Indictment against him tor being, concerned, while gauger, in the whisky frauds. Tn Wisconsin Democratic State Convention met at Milwaukee, on the 7th, and chose delegates to the St. Louis Convention, of whom seventeen are said to be for Tilden and three uncommitted. The Convention adjourned without adopting any platform. A dispatch from Portland, Oregon, received In San Francisco on th« 7th, says that State hod undoubtedly gone Democratic. The Democrats claimed s majority of twelve in the Legislature on joint ballot The Minnesota Prohibition State Convention, held at Minneapolis on the 7th, adopted s platform and chose a State electoral ticket in behalf of Smith and Btewart, the nominees of Mm Notional Convention for President and Vice-President lx Chicago, on the 7th, spring wheat No. 3 closed at [email protected] cash. Cash corn closed at4sJfc for No. 3. Cash oats No. 8, sold st 29}{@30c; July options were sold st 80c. Rye No. 2, 7t)@7lc. Barley, No.* 56®57c. Cash mesa pork closed at SIB.OO @18.85. Lard, $10.05® 10.70. Good to choice beeves brought [email protected]; medium grades, $4.35@4A5; butchers’ stock, $8 50® 4.15; stock cattle, etc., $8.75®4.10. Hogs brought [email protected] for good to choice. Bheep (shorn) sold at $4.00®5.00 for good to choice. »

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. London dispatches of the 3i state that England had sent Admiral Drummond to the East, with orders to prevent the forcing of the Dardanelles. The unfinished ironclads were being completed in great haste, and regiments were under orders to be ready to start at a moment’s notice. The Berlin telegraphic agency in London asserted that England had concluded an alliance with Turkey and guaranteed the latter’s integrity. It was officially announced at Constantinople on the 4th, that the ex-Sultan, Abdul Aziz, had committed suicide that morning by opening the veins of his arm with a pair of scissors. An official dispatch was received in Athens, on the sth, from Constantinople, which states that Abdul Aziz committed suicide on account of the seizure of his private funds. The Porte has officially notified the foreign ambassadors of Moursd's accession and demanded recognition. A Constantinople dispatch of the fith says tbs Grand Vizier, on behalf of the Porte, had issued a letter granting full amnesty to all insurgents who would offer their submission, and in order to give them time to do this, consenting to a six weeks’ armistice. A quarrel was reported between the new Sultan and the Khedive of Egypt, and the latter bad been ordered to Constantinople. A dispatch from Melbourne, Australia, by way of London, received on the 7th, announces that the Fenian prisoners held under surveillance in West Australia had escaped on board an American whaler. Tilhobams from various points in the Old World, received on the Bth, give assurance that there was no immediate possibility of war. The Great FOwers were represented as being in harmony with respect to the Eastern question. A Ragusa dispatch of the 7th announces the defeat of the Turks near Carkeviko, with a loss of ICO killed and 3,300 taken prisoners. A Stockholm dispatch of the 7th announces the death of Josephine, the Queen Dowager of Sweden. CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the 3d, the Senate bill providing for an agreement with the Sioux Nation in regard to a portion of their reservation, and for other purposes, was amended and passed —BO to 8. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill woa farther considered, and all the salary reductions mode by the House were non-concarred in, including the one fixing the President's salary at $15,000 a year from and alter March 4. 1877, the Senate voting—Bl to 11—In favor of the $50,000 salary ...The Indian Appropriation bill was taken up in the House, and several proposed amendment* were disposed of; a point of order was raised on that portion of the bill providing for the transfer of the Indian Bureau from the Interior to the War Department, on the ground that It changed existing, lavra and did not on its face retrench expenditures. A report was made from the Committee on Wave and Means in regard to the Alaska Fur-Seal Fishery lease, exonerating the officers of the Government and Compan'y from all the alleged frauds.

In the Senate, on the sth, a new Con* ference Committee was appointed oh the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill,the former .com mittoe having reported a disagreement. All the committee amendments to the Legislative, Elective and Judicial Appropriation bill were disposed of, most of them being adopted, and other amendments were offered.... a resolution was offered in the Boose declaring T. W. Bennett, the sitting delegate from Idaho, dot entitled to the seat. Mr. Neal ofltred a bill to repeal the Resumption act of Jon. 14, 1875, and called the previous question on the bill. Mr. Blaine spoke on the subject of the investigation into the Union Pacific and Northern Pacific transactions in which his name had become in volved, and mode a lengthy statement and argument In his own behalf A petition of Gen. G. T. Beauregard, of Louisiana, for the removal of his political disabilities, was presented and referred in the Senate, on the 6th. A number of private bills were passed. In secret session, an order was agreed to that on the 6th of July the Senate, acting as a Court of Impeachment, will proceed to hear the evidence tn the Belknap c05e....1n the House, a proposition was agreed to—lls to 87—to change the rules so os to allow the Committee on Banking and Currency to report at any time—the object being to aliowsuch committee to report a bill for the repeal of the Resumption act. The point of order against the section of the Indian Appropriation bLI to transfer the Indian Bureau to the War Department was overruled by the Chair, and the bill was reported from the Committee of the Whole and passed.

Bills were passed in the Senate, on the 7th—House bill extending for one year the provisions of the act of Dec. SB, 1874. so as not to deprive homestead settlers, driven from their homes by the locust plane, of their rights; establishing Cheboygan, Mich., as a port of delivery; the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, with amendments, among which was one providing that. In making the redaction of force, the heads of departments shall retain those persona who may be qualified and who have become disabled in the military naval service of the United States, and the widows of deceased soldiers; the Fortification Appropriation bill. A resolution proposing a common unit of money and accounts for the United States and Great Britain was passed....ln the House, bills were passed—repealing that section of the-revised statutes which confines the disposal of public lands in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Florida to the provisions of the Homestead' law, such repeal not to impair the right of any homestead settler, and said lands to be offered et public sale as soon as practicable; providing* penalty for mailing obscene books, and prohibiting lottery circulars passing through the mails; authorising a railroad pontoon bridge over the Missouri Hirer at Nebraska City. Speaker Kerr asked and obtained lenve of abeenee for tec days, and appointed Mr. Cor to preside during his absence. The Geneva Award bill was considered. Would you believe it? The area of Texas Is 274,365 square miles, or 175,594,660 acres, and is one-fourth large? than France.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —A seedy occupation—The florist’*. — Nobody is ever so happy or so unhappy as he imsginoa. —Otir passions are the ouiy orators who are certain to persuade us. —Many complain of their memory, but none complain of their Judgment. —“ Sweden is overrun br rata,’’ they any. Probably trying to regain their native gnaw way. —Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and evils to come, but present evila triumph orer philosophy. —Whatever good the world may say of us, it never says anything of which we were not previously aware. —A little Eastern boy, whose father is •lightly bald, haa just discovered that his “ pa bus gut a hole in his hair.” —The New York Aquarium is fortunate in being ablo to start off with two choice white whales caught expressly for it. —A Brooklyn girl was asked by a very thin gentleipan it she didn’t think she could learn to love him. “ I might if you was stuffed” was the laughing reply. —John Henry woke up from a terrible night-mare, last night, and remarked to bis wife that it was easier to sleep on a spring bed than on a spring chicken. —Tliey are very strict, in Kentucky, in enforcing the law about concealed weapons. The Chief of Police took up a flower, the other day, which he caught carrying pistils. —Times are so dull with the New York hotels that the clerks are on the verge ot reform, and the occasional traveler is astonished to find himself tor once an object of interest to those great men. —The Texas Legislature has enacted a law by which it is made a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine ofsloo, forany person to use profane language within hearing of the occupants of any private residence. —“ Harry, give me a bite of your apple,” said oae little fellow to another. “Ho. 1 ; refused Harry, eating away rapidly. “You wouldn’t like this; it is a cooking apple—and I never give a fellow a oite of a cooking apple.” —A Bad Spell.—“ Thomas, spell weather,” said a schoolmaster to one of his pupils. “ W-l-e-a-t-h-i-o-u-r, weather.” “ Well, Thomas, you may sit down,” said the teacher. “ I think this is the worst spell of weather we have had since Christmas.” —A boy playing about the United States mint at San Francisco recently, lound a brick of gold, worth about £I,OOO, which had been thrown out with the ashes and cinders. When found it was too hot to be held in the naked hand. The officers of the mint made several fruitless efforts to regain the precious brick, but the child’s mother informed them that she had put it where it would be safe, and that if they recovered it they must do so through due process cf law.” —The Country Gentleman advises gardeners, after planting their beds, to stick a small cross in each, to show that it is planted. If they neglect to do this, however, and forget whether the beds are planted or not, a good way to tell is to turn a stray cat into the garden. If the beds are planted the cat will proceed to race round and dig into them, and act as if it had relatives in China whom it- is anxious to get at, while, if they are not, it will sit down calmly in the path and oeem to be meditating on the progress of missionary work in Armenia. A cat’s instinct seldom deceives it in this matter.— Norwich Bulletin. —Verbal blunders of the Mrs. Malaprop and Mrs. Partington kind have been invented ad nauseum, but tliey are never so funny as the simplest originals. The Indiana Congressman, some years ago, who wrote about bis speech as having been “ outrageously mncilated by the press,” did better than either of the old ladies. There is a W r estern New Yorker, who always speaks of “ Herculanean strength,” and stopping at the “ Metrollopan Hotel,” and a man in Michigan who suffers so from the “ moralogy” that he sometimes becomes “ nearly uuconshewous,” and a lady in Connecticut whoordered her house built “with a-refrigerator in every room,” as she wanted it thoroughly warmed during the winter.— N. Y. Tribune. —See, isn’t this about the season of the ?'ear to start the original and veracious tern about the woman whose child fell into the well, and while she was fishing it out the screams of her baby called her to the house, where she had found it had pulled a tub of water over on itself, which was writhing in the agony of death, the child was, not the tub, and then when she ran to call. her husband from the field, met the hired man bringing in all they find of him after a short but vigorous Graeco-Roman wrestle with a reaping-ma-chine, and then as she turned in despair to run into the house again, stepped on the teeth of a hay-rake, causing the handle to fiy up and hit her in the back of the head with such violence that it broae a bran new comb that she gave three dollars for only the week before? It appears to Us that tli is is about the right time. — Burlington Hawk-Eye. —We found a girl’s pocket lying on the sidewalk yesterday, and give an inventoiy for the purpose of enabling the proprietor to obtain the pocket: Two white cotton the hems of which are bigger than the balance; a candy fish, of many colors; one short slate pencil, black, chewed at the end, too hard at the other; one slate pencil, mode color, chewed at both ends, and very short and slabsided; one bit of sky-blue ribbon; two hits in currency; one garter, without buckle, very elastic, but not long; one piece of short, black, scolloped ribbon; two short pieces of barber-bole candy, pne of peppermint, the other lemon; one pair of small black kid gloves; one parasol tassel; a camel’s hair brush; one love letter, very tender, praising the recipient and running down another girl, hence very valuable; three hair pins; one horse-hair ring, unfinished; one perfumery bottle stopper; a box of breath perfume; a ball of floss and a broken crochet needle; a small piece of raw cotton full of white powder; the left heel of a No. 2 gaiter; one stocking with a hole in the toe; a thimble and a nut cracker. The pocket is of yellow nankeen, and can be obtained on application at this office.— Omaha Herald.

Messrs. Blaise and Kerr's Statements.

" In his statement and explanation in the House on the sth, Mr. Blaine claimed that he had rightful possession of the letters obtained by him from the witness Mulligan, who had do right whatever to them. After lengthy remarks hi which he stated that the whole inquiry of the committee investigating specific railroad companies had been aimed personally at him, he proceeded to read the letters and memorandum in question, and made pasting comments upon and explanations of various points in the several letters. He introduced the reading of the letters with the following remarks:

“Many of these letters have not the remotest bearing on the Subject, but some of them will require a little explanation. Some of them may possibly Involve humiliation, but I would a good deal rather take that than take the evil surmises sod still more evil inferences that might be drawn if I did not act with this frankness.’’ After the yeading of the letter* and memorandum the spewer wont on to say that there bad not been a particle of proof to convict him of the specific charge against him that he was a party in Interest to the $64,000 transaction. These letters, he said, were picked out off a correspondence extending over fifteen yntre, and the most intimate business correspondence of his life; the man Mulligan hod done his very worst. Mr. Blaine then charged that Mr. Knott, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, had suppressed a telegram received bv the committee completely exonerating him (Blaine) from the charge against him, and demanded of Mr. Knott to know if such telegram had not been received by the committee. He then offered a resolution instructing the Judiciary Committee to report forthwith to the House whether such telegram had not been received from Mr. Caldwell, or whether the committee had heard from him (Caldwelll in any other way. In answer to Mr. Blaine’s insinuations against him, Mr. Knott stated that there had been no wrong done to Mr. Blaine by the committee. So fares the letters were concerned, the committee had not decided what should be done with them, but Mr. Blaine had been positively astaired that he would not be martyred by me committee. Yet, in defiance of all parliamentary law, an ex-Spcaker of the House had, in the House, under pretext of a personal explanation, taken the matter away from the jurisdiction of the committee. As to the cable telegram from Mr. Caldwell, Mr. Knott said he hurled the falsehood back Into the teeth of any man who suggested that it had been suppressed. He said: “ I have it. 1 did not suppress it at all. In less than thirty minutes after I received it I read it to several gentlemen, but there was no particular addrese in London from which it pur-* ported to come, end I did believe, and am not altogether certain yet that I do not believe, it was a fixed-up job.” in answer to requests from the Republican side to read the dispatch from Caldwell, Mr. Knott said: “I have not the dispatch here. Jt is at my house. The contents of it are substantially as stated by the gentleman from Maine (Blaine). Ido not know that I can repeat it in the exact terms. The pur. port of it is that Caldwell had seen Thomas A. Scott’s testimony in the New York papers and that it was substantially correct; that he hod not let Mr,. Blaine have any bonds and that he would send an affidavit to that effect, but that he was engaged in a railroad enterprise over there and could not come to give his testimony without serious pecuniary loss. This is substantially what is in it, afad if the gentleman had only waited that dispatch would have been presented to the committee for whatever use the committee might see {iroper to make of it. I had no desire to inure the gentleman from Maine personally, and especially not politically, but I desire that the truth may be told.” Mr. Blaine moved the previous question on his resolution, and attempted to make further remarks, but was prevented by loud calls to order and by the Speaker pro tern. ruling that he was not entitled to the floor for that purpose. The House refused to second the previous question, and then the motion of Mr. Blaine was referred to the Committee on Judiciary —yeas, 134; nays, 97. On the sth, Speaker Kerr appeared before the Committee ou Expeditures in the War Department and, through his counsel, presented a statement in relation to Harney’s charge that he (Harney) had paid him (Kerr) $450 to secure the appointment of A. P. Green to a vacant Lieutenancy. Mr. Kerr stated that, in 1866 or 1867, he was called upon by Mr. Green in relation to the appointment. He did not recollect that he was introduced by Harney, and had no consciousness of ever having known Harney. He (HarDey) had never visited him anywhere, and had never paid or proposed to pay him money for his influence or for any purpose whatever. He (Kerr) had told Green, after examining his credentials, that if he could •procure the names of certain New York parties whom he knew,'be would aid him. Green did procure the indorsements desired and he (Kerr) wrote the letter to the War Department which secured the appointment. Mr. Kerr remembered quite distinctly that previous to recommending the appointment of Mr. Green, he had offered the recommendation to two of his constituents—Col. Thomas J. Jackson and Maj. Thomas Morrison —both of whom had rendered gallant service in the volunteer army. These gentleman had both declined, and Mr. Kerr was not aware that any Democratic soldier had ever applied to him for the place. He held the appointment at the service of the people of hia district or State, if any should apply; but none did so apply, of whom he has the slightest recollection, and when the long session of Congress was well advanced, and the time for these appointments was passing away, he was called upon by Green, and had recommended him for the position, without fee or favor.

The Fourth of July in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, June S. The programme for the Fourth of July celebration has been finally decided upon. At sunrise there will be chimes and bells, and a salute of 100 guns. The ceremonies in Independence Hall will begin with a selection of National airs by the band, after which there will be a reception by President Grant and an introduction by Gov. Hartranft, when the original Declaration of Independence will be presented to the President by the Mayor. An adjournment will be then taken to Independence Square to take part in such ceremonies as the city authorities may decide upon. Thence, a procession will be formed, the prominent men in carriages, by way of Walnnt street, under military escort, to Fairmount Park. The order of International ceremonies will be as follows; Salute of trumpets and salvos of thirteen cannons. Invocation by Bishop Stevens. Anthem by the orchestra and chorus. Declaration i of Independency read by Richard Henry Lee, of VUfcinia. Grand Chorus. Oration by the Hon. William M. Evorts, of New York. Airs of all nations by the orchestra. Poem by Bayard Taylor, of Pennsylvania. Congratulatory messages from different States an*i Nations of the world. Prams of peace by orchestra and chorus. Benediction. Salvo of thirty-eight guns. ~

Punishment Enough.

In the Police Court, yesterday, was a witness who had refused to obey a subpoena, and who was accordingly brought to terms with the aid of an attachment When the Police Justice asked him what excuse he had to offer for his contempt of court, he replied that at the time they wanted him in court he was standing at the altar “ gittin’ married.” “ May it please your Honor, hurriedly interposed a bachelor lawyer, who had overheard the apology, “ I respectfully suggest that the man is already sufficiently punished, and I beg the Court to deal with him mercifully in view of his recent affliction.” “ Ah,” replied his Honor, “soitstrikes me. You can go. You are discharged, sir, and may heaven have mercyonyou!” —Detroit free Preu. To maintain their hold of Metz the Germans maintain a garrison of 12,000 men there, and provisions and war material sufficient for 40,900 men for three years. -- - 1

Another Arctic Expedition.

An expedition la now being fitted out in which several famous investigators oi the polar seas participate, which is likely to open up a new branch of commerce between that section of the world and the more civilized quarter*. It appears that during the search ot the Tigress tor the ill-fated Polaris, over a year ago, rich veins of graphite were discovered In Cumberland Inlet. On the return to St. Johns, Lieut. W. 21. Mintzer, United States Naval Engineer, chartered a small steamer and went back and continued his mineral survey. He found large beds of graphite ana mica, bat owing to the lateness of the season was unable to bring any away. The topsail schooner Era has been recently fitting at New London, and will sail next Monday under Minlzer’s command, and under Government auspices, to get a cargo of these minerals and make further collections of Arctic flora and fauna for the Smithsonian Institute. Capt. James Buddington, of Groton, Conn., who brought the English ship Resolute into New London in the winter of 1855, and was the ice pilot of the Tigress when she sought the Polaris, is the Era’s sailing master. Esquimaux Joe, who was with Capt.JHall on several expeditions, and with Tyson’B party on an ice-floe for 190 days, and whom the English papers incorrectly represent ns having sailed last week on the Pandora from England to the north pole, accompanies this expedition, as do other Arctic voyagers of long experience. The Era is a vessel of 160 tons burden, built for the coasting trade, but has made whaling voyages to the polar regions under Capt. George Tyson, of Polaris fame. She is well provided with mining tools and laborers for quarrying, and as deposits are situated some distance up the mountain side they will take 3,000 feet of tramway in order to more easily load the vessel, and a quantity of lumber to erect tool-houses and buildings for the purpose of observation. Mineral is found in almost inaccessible places, and the deposits, though almost pure, are under rock as hard as flint. Provision, therefore, is made for blasting on an extensive scale.— Norwich, Conn., (May 30), Dispatch to N. Y. Times.

Have Faith in Your Children.

A lady once told me of a little scene which occurred during her childhood, and, though years of change had come and gone since then, it had left such an impression on her mind that she could never entirely banish it from memory. She was quite a child when it happened, and her mother, a good Christian woman, was yet one of those strict, stern parents who demand and expect, perhaps, too much from their children, forgetting how hard it is, even for us grown children, tried in the rough discipline of life, to submit to our Heavenly Father’s will and yield jnstant and perfect obedience to His laws. But this child was gentle and yielding always. I well remember her mild, amiable manners and sweet disposition when we were children together—ever giving up her own will to that of her parents. Above all, she was perfectly truthful ; never had her lips framed a falsehood, or uttered one deceitful word; she had never tried to screen herself when at fault, or to escape the punishment of her childish errors. And her mother knew this—knew that her child had never spoken aught to her but the plain, honest truth. There came a day at school when it was found that some grievous act of disobedience had willfully been committed by one of the pupils, and, in some strange way, it was traced to this little girl. The teacher accused her, she denied the charge, but the proof seemed strong against her, and the teacher even accompanied her home, carrying the accusation to her mother. It seems an unnatural thing for a parent to do, yet she accepted the teacher’s statement in preference to that of her own child, who had never deceived her, and tried by every means in her power to make the little one confess the fault. “ Mother, mother, I did not do it; won’t you believe me?” was all the reply she could obtain. For a long time she sat by the child, pointing out to her the horror of falsehood, and beseeching her to confess that she had committed the error and ask forgiveness. The child’s spirit became at last so affected, and her whole little being wrought up to such a state, that she actually confessed herself guilty, and asked forgiveness for a wrong she had never committed I From that moment a feeling of reserve grew up between the mother and child, and, though years have come and gone, and the child is grown up to womanhood, she still remembers that dreadful day; not, however, with any undue blame to her mother, “for,” she said, “ I know she thought she was doing right.” Oh, what a feeling cf forlorn wretchedness must come over a little innocent child when it sees its mother looking with suspicions eyes upon it, and refusing to believe its expressions of innocence! Oh, mothers! let your children see that you have faith in them; that you can trust them whether near or far away, and it will be to them a cheering thought that will doubly endear to them the" sacred name of mother—checking them in temptation’s hour, and leading their sonls to lofty purposes and noble aspirations. A mother’s love and trusting belief—what a safeguard it has been to many a boy fighting his way in the world! It has helped him to conquer many an enemy, ana brightened many an hoar of struggle and sadness to know that a loving, praying mother has faith in her absent boy. A mother’s trust has kept many a daughter’s feet from straying, and bound their hearts together in affectionate sympathy and confidence until death alone has broken the tie, and then was left the sweet influence pf a devoted life, as a guiding star. Mothers, h&ve faith in your children! Sarah Kcablct Hunt, in Phrenological Journal.

Method of Teaching in Sweden.

Spine very excellent methods of teaching the common branches are shown in the Swedish schoolhouse. For beginners in geography, for instance, there is a blackboard upon which is paintod an outline of Sweden—simply the coast-line and the rivers being depicted. In place of towns there are only little iron pins fastened into the board at the point where these towns should be located. Accompanying the board is a little box, containing a large number of oblong blocks, each half an inch in length. Upon one side of the block is printed the naifie of some town. On the opposite side of the block is a small hole, fitting exactly the pins on the blackboard. The pupil is required to select a block from the box and place it on a pin which should rightly locate the town printed on its lace. Any one will aee how greatly this simple apparatus relieves the tedium ot study. The pupil finds in it not a dry and difficult task, but an interesting recreation anft ammiejrent • *

In map#, I noticed one set which are worth especial mention. The first, by means of different colorings, showed the location of high and low lands in Sweden. The second showed by the same means the various elevations of the country; the third, the water-masses; the fourth, the river systems; the fifth, the comparative fertility of different parts of the country; the sixth, the density of population; the seventh, the political divisions; the eighth, the post-roads and railroads. These maps are furnished te every school at Government expense. Among other features that I observed was a series of etflored prints, illustrative of the manners of life in the different provinces. These, however, were rather used as adornments for the walls than as a special" study. An arrangement for purifying the air in the school-room was to be seen in the shape of a brass box about one foot square, containing pine-tar. A specimen of the stove in general use isexhibited. It stands twelve, feet high and contains three fennels, ther heat passing up one, down another, and finally up the third in the. middle. Dr. C. J. Meijerberg, Principal of the Stockholm Primary Schools and Swedish Commissioner to the Exposition, told me that, in his thirty-five years of experience in teaching, he had found that the hardest part of arithmetic for a child to understand was the counting from one to ten. Of course, the pupil can master the mechanical process in a short time; but to understand the relations of one number with another—why six should be greater than three, or why nine should follow eight—that was what he was troubled worst to explain 1 In order to facilitate the matter, he had made a contrivance which is here on exhibition. It consists of a board on edge, with rows of holes running across. Beginning at the right hand, there are ten small holes, representing the first ten numbers. At the left of these are ten more holes, of larger size, to representthe tens; and still further on are ten for the hundreds. Accompanying this apparatus are bundles of splinters, each bundle containing one, or two, or three splinters, all the way up to ten. The pupil is required to express ,123, for example. He puts a single splinter in the right-hand hole of the hundred place, a two package in the second hole of the tens, and a three package in the third hole of the units. This involves a double process: first, selecting the right number of splinters; and, second, putting them in the proper position. Of course, the whole affair is of the simplest construction, and is only designed as an exercise of the mind. —Philadelphia Cor. Chicago Tribune.

Making the Best of Things.

Fussy people want everything just so, and expect that the sun, moon and stars are going out of their way to oblige them. The first lesson of wisdom is: Accept cheerfully the inevitable. You can scarcely understand how much sweet and wholesome wisdom lies in simply making the best of things. If we fancy we are going to make circumstances bend to us, we shall be continually run-' ning our heads against a stone wall. The wall will never stir out of our way, but we can easily go round it. We cannot help or hinder that very independent thing, the weather. It will rain or shine, be hot or cold just as it was sent. I have seen foolish people who made themselves quite miserable about the weather. It was never going to rain again, or it would rain forever! The wind blew too strongly, or else they were suffocatingfor a breath of airl Their time was filled with complaints of things they could no> more alter than they could alter the earth’s orbit. There are others I have known completely conquered by dust, flies, or mosquitoes. Such things are troublesome and annoying, to be sure, but can we avoid them by fretting and fuming? Flyspecks are bad enough, but a fretful disposition is a thousand times worse. Let the flies buzz and the mosquitoes bite, if they must, but, try and keep yourself sweet and tranquil. I remember reading of a philosopher, who was so very poor he had everything stripped away from him but a miserable straw bed and one wretched blanket. The weather became intensely cold, and to prevent freezing to death he wrapped himself completely in the blanket, and cut holes for his eyes, nose and mouth. Here, he says, he'not only existed, but. was very happy. You have heard the story, perhaps, of two little street beggars who, on a bitter cold night, crept under an old door. Instead of lamenting over their misery, one says to the other: “Ah, Pete, what do you s’pose the folks do who hain’t got any door?” Such examples of cheerfulness under great evils, should surely help us to meet the little evils of life in the right spirit.— Times of Blessing.

The Leaf of Life.

Thebe’s a certain curious member of the plant family, very common in Jamaica, I’m informed, called the life plant, or leaf of life, because it is almost impossible to kill the leaves. You may cut one off, and hang it up by a thread, where any ordinary leaf would be discouraged and dry up. It will send out long, white thread-like roots, and set about growing new leaves. You may cut otT half a ieaf and throw it into a tight box, wnere it can get neither light nor moisture (necessaries of life to other plants); the the spirited little leaf puts out its delicate roots all the same. Even pressed, and packed away in a botanists herbarium — the very dullest and dryest place you ever did see^—lt will keep up its work, throw out roots and new leaves, and actually grow out of its covers! I’m told that botanists who want to dry this pertinacious vegetable are obliged to kill it with a hot iron or with boiling water.—” Jack-in-the-Pulpit,” St. Nicholas for June. At a recent meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, in Calcutta, a piece oi telegraph cable was exhibited, showing that the india-rubber covering had been pierced by grass. The piercing was socomplete, and the contact of the grass with the copper so perfect, that the “ dead earth,” as it is technically called, was produced, and the efficiency of the coble destroyed. The species ot the grass, owing to its dried-up condition, could not be determined. It was suggested, as a probable explanation, “ that the seeds trod become attached to the core when under water, and had afterward germinated when the core was stored.” An average of about 100 bars of silver bullion, each weighing about 180 pounds, addressed to the United States Mint, Philadelphia, and dozens of boxes of coined silver from the Carson Mint, addressed to the United States Sub-Treasurer at New York, are expressed eastward over the Union Pacific daily. The Humboldt (Kan.) paper-mill makes-wrapping-paper from ordinary grass.