Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1876 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

ntM WAIHINGTOIt. Tn FTOsMenthas refused to algn the hill amendatory of the Poetofßcc law*. The reason* assigned tor this veto are (riven In a statement of Postmaster-Gen. Tyner, who regrets exceedingly that a mistake should have been made In the title, and enacting clause of the b!U, which renders Inoperative. Its provisions In relation to straw bid. ding. Tnn President, on the 33d, nominated George F. Talbot, of Maine, to fee Solicitor of the Treasury, vice Blaford Wilson, end Thomas J. Brady, of Indiana, to succeed J. N. Tyner as Becond Assistant Postmaster- > General. *■ Pnnwin Ouirt, on the SMth, signed the Silver-Cola and Army Appropriation bills. Uhitbd States Senator Allan T. Cafrrton, of West Virginia, died In Washington on the 98th, of angina pectoris, brought on by hot weather. He was sixty-six years of age. Bis term in the Senate would have expired In 1881. Tax position of Commissioner of Internal Revenue having been formally declined by Congressman Mac Doug *ll. of New York, was, on the 96th, offered to Gen. Green B. Raum, of Illinois, and accepted by him. The majority report of the House Committee on Naval affairs is a very lengthy document, and concludes with a statemant that, upon a full review of the facts ascertained by the committee in the administration of the naval service during the last seven years, the law has been disregarded . and violated in the letting of contracts; in the purchase of supplies; in the destruction and sale of property belonging to the naval service; in the failure to cover into the treasury the proceeds of the sales of property; in the expenditure and disbursement of the appropriations made for the support of the navy; in the application of the sums appropriated for that branch of the public service; In exceeding the appropriations made by Congress for given fiscal years, etc., etc. The majority submit a resolution to the House that the legal questions and proof be referred to the Judiciary Committee, who shall examine aud report whether the violations of law referred to in the report be Impeachable offenses, under the Constitu ion, and, If so, then they shall report articles of impeachment against George M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy. The minority report alleges that the majority report Is unfair In its statements, fallacious in its conclusion, and is evidently promoted by a partisan spirit, ignoring entirely testimony favorable to the Navy Department, and presenting other portions in such ways as to indict gross injustice upon the Secretary and other officers Orders were issued from Washington on the 96th- for two battalions of artillery, of four companies each, from the First and Second Regiments, to be sent from the Division of the Atlantic to the Dopartment.of the Missouri, to report to Gen. Pope. TUB BAST. A colored man, giving his name as George, and Baying that his home was in Utica, N. .Y., was in Philadelphia on the 21st, and sought an interview with the police authorities- He said he had seen Charley Ross, alive and well, within live weeks, and also that he was the servant of the gang of the asaoclates of Mosher and Douglass, who had charge of the stolen boy. He claimed to be able to restore the child, and said be was after the reward, but did not dare come forward before. Little confidence was placed - in his story. Ms. Blaine; left his home on the 91st for Rye Beach, to recuperate. His health was not much improved, but he was physically.a little stronger. The call for * National Liberal Republican Convention to be held at Philadelphia, July 96, has been annulled by Ethan Allen, Chairman of .the National Committee. The yacht Mohawk waa struck by a squall, off Staten Inland,-on the afternoon of the ■9oth. Of those on board seven were drowned. It is supposed they were all in the cabin, as.it .was raining hard at the time. Among tbs lost .were Com. Garner and his wife, Mias Adele Hunter, of Hunter’s Point; Frost Thorne, brother of Mrs. Gamer; two cooks and a seaman. The sailors of the jacht.charge the blame for the accident to the sailing-master, Capt. Rawlings, and he was put .under arrest. Ex-Gov. Haile, oT Ncw Hampshire, died at Keene on the morning of the 23d, aged sixtyxiae years. Several vessels were in quarantine on the 934 in the lower New York Bay, because of the alleged prevalence of yellow- fever, on DIE'S Island. Several deaths are said to h|ve occurred from that disease in that locality. In the case of the yacht Mohawk calamity at New York, the Coroner’s jury have rendered a verdict that Capt Rawlings was not guilty «f any .criminal Diligence aud he was at once discharged. A raw days ago, Ada Applegate, a twelve year old girl, of Eaionto*n, N. J., in the absence of her mother, endeavored to kindle a fire by using kerosene ail, when the can from which she was pouring the fluid burst, and she was shockingly burned. A Mrs. Caityle, living in the same house, was severely burned about the neck and arms while attempting to smother the flames. Tuxa was a slight frost a few miles north of Port Jervis, N. Y., on the nightof the 3Sd. A Philadelphia telegram of the 25th says the average daily expenses of the Centennial Exhibition, since the opening, had been about 89,000, and the average daily receipt* $12,285.05. , The banking firm of Jay Cooke A Co., having gone through the bankruptcy court, "have been discharged, their creditors mat Png no objection. Jambs Nolan’s shoddy mill, in Philadelpi via, was homed on the morning of the 90th. Three women in he upper part of the mill at the time of the fire were frightfully burned, and two of them jumping to thegitmnd from the third story were Instantly* killed. The third got hold of a rop , by which she sUd to the ground, but she was so b adly burned that the ski* came off fr*m ahm»st her entire body, aud her recovery was doubtful. The mill, stock and machinery were entirely destroyed, Involving a Gold dosed in New York on the 26th. at UIJ*. The following were the closing quotations for prodrtee: No. 9 Chicago Spring

Wheat, 90(&Ufe; No. 9 Milwaukee, 93 «Mc; Oats, Western Mixed, 2fl@«c; Com, Western Mixed, 50®58c; Pork, Mesa, $90.00; Lard, llifc; Flour, good to choice, $A55@4 75; White Wheat Extra, $4.80(37.95. Cattle, 8K«10*c for good to extra. Sheep (thorn), 4){<3sHc. At East Liberty, Pa, on tbc 36th, catt'e brought: Best, [email protected]; medium, $4,754$ $5.00; common, [email protected]. Hogs sold— Yorkers, $5.80®6.90; Philadelphia*, $7.00« 7.10. Bheep (shorn) brought [email protected], according to quality. 1

WKST AND SOOTH. Alderman iullreton, of Chicago, has been sentenced to tlx mouths' Imprisonment In the County Jail and to pay a fine of SI,OOO for his connection with crooked whisky operations. The courier who left Gen. Crook’s command on the Goose Creek on the evening of the tilth did not reach Fort Fettorman until the night of the 23d, he having bad to hide In the timber at Powder River for twentyfour hours to escape a body of 200 Indians, one of whom followed his trail for nine miles. He was out of provisions for two days. He expressed bis fears that the couriers sent from Fettcrman on the 16th with dispatches for Gen. Crook had been Inter-, cepted by Indians, as he saw tbelr trail this side of Powder River, but not beyond. . A serious and probably fatal kerosene accident occurred In St. Louis a few days ago, a servant girl named Pauline Alvina being the victim of her own foolish attempt to kindle a fire by the use of coal oil—tbc customary explosion and consequent burning following in regular order. Tub Colorado Republican Btatc Convention baa been called to meet at Pueblo on the 28d of August. According to a recent frontier estimate, Sitting Bull had 10,000 fighting braves under his control, who were well armed and had an abundance of provisions and ammunition. The troops operating against them number between 8,000 and 4,000. The reported death of Sitting Bull is denied. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs on the 34th telegraphed instructions to the Indian Agents at Red Cloud and Spotted Tall Agencies to turn over their charges to the military officer at Camp Robeson and Camp Sheridan respectively. On the night of the 23d, two ebildren of M. Pritchard, living In Noble, Ind,, were fatally burned by of a can of kerosene, which they were using to hurry up the kitchen fire. They lingeitd about five hours. At Rossville, Ind., on the 21st, the wife of James Golden met with a like a cident. She lived In terrlblelagony until tne morning .the 23d. About nine o'clock Ton the night of the 23d, a cloud burst upon Diamond Range Mountains, thirteen miles east of Eureka, Cal., and without a moment’s warning a column of water two feet through rushed upon a gang of wood-choppers, drowning thirteen Chinamen and a number of Italians. . , By an explosion In the Black Diamond coal mine at Mount Diablo, Cal., on the 24th, six miners were killed and five others badly injured. The explosion was. caused by a blast igniting the accumulated coal dust. It was reported in Washington on the 26th that two companies of the regular gar. rtson left Columbia, S. C., for Aiken, opposite Humburg, itae scene of the recent disturbances between the whites and negroes, on the 22d, and would remain there all summer. This was done in obedience to the orders of the War Department. Two com panics had also been ordered to Hamburg. The Louisiana Democratic State Convention, in session at New Orleans, on the 26tb, nominated Frank T. Nicholls for Governor and Wiltz for Lieutenant-Governor. Gen. Merritt, under date of the2sth, telegraphed to military headquarters at Chicago that he had arrived at Fort Fetterman, and would leave the next day, expecting to join Gen. Crook by the Ist or 2d of August In Chicago, on the 26th, Spring wheat, No. 2, closed at 90){@91c. cash. Cash corn closed at 4534 c for No. 2. Cash cats No. 2 sold at August options were sold at 29j£c. Rye No. 2, 54@')5c. Cash mess pork closed at $18.60 @18.65. Lard, [email protected]. Good to choice beeves brought [email protected]; medium gradip, [email protected]; butchers’ 6tock, 68.00@ 8.75; stock cattle, etc., [email protected]. Hogs brought $6.40@6?0 for good to choice. Bheep (shorn) sold at $3.00@4 75 for good tto choice.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. A Constantinople dispatch of the 21st says the Sultan’s condition, physical and mental, had became exceedingly critical, and that his abdication might be expected at any moment. A (Vienna telegram of the 21st says ;the .insurrection in Bulgaria had revived. All roads had become insecure on account of insurgent raids. The defeat of the Turks at Beljlne, after two days’ hard fighting, "Was offlclaltyannounced at Belgrade, on the 21st A .portion of the town of Gavray, near Cherbourg, France, was burned on the 21st. One hundred houses were destroyed and 400 families rendered homeless. The Emperor and Empress of Brazil arrived at Liverpool on the 22d, and landed without a demonstration. They drove to a railway station and proceeded to London. A Constantinople telegram of the 22d states that the fight in the vicinity of BeL jine resulted in a Servian defeat instead of victory, .as had been claimed by the Servians. The London Neves correspondent at Belgrade telegraphed on the 24th that the Servians wore not losing ground, and that their delay wae no sign of weakness. A Vienna special of the 24th says Austria had demanded of Turkey aatiafaction for its violation of its neutrality at Kiek. The English- Consul at Saloniea has reported to the British Minister, fully aud warmly exonerating the Vice-Con-sul from any participation in the seizure of the girl which caused the outbrekk. According to Constantinople dispatches of the 25th, the official organ had that day declared that Austria would occupy Servia if the war were not ended wfihin a for night. Official reports of the same date say that a Turkish detachment had crossed the frontier, burned three villages and killed 3,u00 Servians. The London Baity Telegraph at the 25th that letters had been received from Stanley, the explorer, dated April 34. He waa tins® within fifteen days’ march of UkihL OUNfiHKiMIANAL In the Senate, on the 90th, a resolution* i wax adopted roqueting tie Praaideut to comma- < nicate, if not Incompatible with the public inter- I

ext. any Information in hi* voasotrioa la regard to tha recent alanKhler of American citizens la Sonth C>n>Ua*. The House bill to continue until JnlVi SI the act to provide temporarily for the expenditure of the Government we* concurred In. The Impeachment trial wax renamed, end Mr. Blair opened the argument for the defen-e. end Manager Lynde followed for thu prorecotlou, the former claiming and the latter denying that the lntpexcumeut xbonld be tlixmlaxed because more than one-third of the Senate had voted against Jurisdiction in the caxe. ...In the lloure. bill* were pa**«l-for the protection of the Texax frontier; extending to July 81 the bill making temporary pro virion for the expeneee of the Government; Senate bill to ponixh the counterfeiting of trade-mark- A Conference report on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill wae made end adopted. A Conference report on the bill for the xale of the reeorv-tlon of the confederated Otoe end Aliaaouri Indian* in Kansas and Nebraska wae not agreed to. Trb Impeachment trial was resumed In the Senate on the-Slat, bat Mr. Carpenter and Manager Lapham being sick, the conrt adjourned to tne 84th. The Hirer and liaroor Appropriation bill waa taken up and a political debate enxued. ... .After disposing of a number of private bill* the House adjourned to the 84th. In the Nehate, on the 22d, the bill appropriating SIOO,OOO for the completion of the WaHblngton Monument was amended *o ax to provide for the examination of the foundation, etc., and to limit the cost to 6800,000. and the bill us amended wax pa*«ed. The llonxe bill to regulate the laeue of artificial limbs to doubled soldier*. seamen and others—was amended and passed. Tne Hirer and Harbor Appropriation bill wax further considered, and several xmendmentx were offered and rejected, alter wb'ch. the que» tlon being on agreeing to the amendments ma 'e In Committee of the Whale, the fact wax developed that no quorum wax present... .The House wax not in xeaxion. A resolution was adopted in the Senate. on the 24th, requesting Information from the head* of the Executive Department as to the aggregate number of civil employes In their service duripg the years 1859, ’6l, '63, '65, '67, '6O, '7l, "78and ’75. The Impeachment trial wa* resumed, and Manager Jenkx xpoke on the qaextion of fact. He waa followed by Mr. Black, who stated the point* In the caae for the defense....ln the IIou«e, a motion to anxpend the rule* and pans the bill for the coinage of a xtandard silver dollar, and to make it a legal-tender for all debt* waa lost for want of two-third* In it* Ihvor 116 to 68. Resolution* were adopted—calling for Information ax to the amount or gold coin and bullion in the Treasury; directing a xuxpenxlon until the Ist of February next of all further action iu reference to land* sold for direct taxes under the act of Aug. 5, 1881. Bill* were passed—in relation to postal affair*. being tba amended bill recently vetoed by the President because of informality In the title; Senate bill extending to Feb. 1 the time within which land* held by the United State* nnder the several acta levying direct taxes may be redeemed. In the Senate, on the 25th, bills were Introduced and referred—to establish a competent and uon-pirtisan revenne corps; to amend the revised statute* In regard to con*ptr cv. The Hou-e bill amending the Poxtoflice bill of June 23, 1*74, «nd tta* section of the revised marine* in regard to straw bids, was pa-red. The Impea* hment trial wax resumed, and Mr. Carp-n erb - gun his argument for the defense .... In the House, it was ordered by unan mints consent, tha the ri ports of the Committ e on Naval Affairs should be presented on the »6;h. Resolutions of the Chicago Board of Trade were presented and referred, reciting that Congress, by reason of inadequate appropriations, had crippled the Poe to (Bee Department, and urgently requesting Congress toat once so legislate as to provide for a continuance of the fast mall*. A resolution was adopted directing the Secretary of War not to issue to the Northwestern Indians special patent cartridges, whiv.h are required by the arms used by them. The Impeachment tiialwas resumed in the Senate, on the 26th, and Mr. Carpenter concluded his argument for the defense, and waa fol lowed by Manager Lord, who Riade the closing argument on behalf of the prosecution....ln the House, the Senate bill authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to deposit certain Indian trust funds in the United States Treaanry. in lieu of investment, was passed. The Virginia contested election case of Platt vt. Goode was discussed.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—David Fletcher, a farm laborer, near Fonda, N. Y., was mysteriously shot a few days ago. He was washing his hands after coming in from the field, when a bullet from the caboose of a passing freight train struck him in the side, killing him instantly. —Don’t be too polite. A Brooklyn man stepped from the platform of a street-car, a few days since, to permit a lady to enter, and the car. took off four of liis toes. He has recovered $1,750 from the car company, however, which partly rewards him for his gallantry. —A man named Lovejoy was a witness for the defense in the prosecution, recently, of a Mrs. Cozzens, charged with stealing diamonds from a boarder at the American House, St. Paul, and through his evidence the accused war acquitted. Lovejoy was so unfortunate as to be detected in the act of pocketing a barrel of flour from a freight car at Minneapolis, and was sent to jail lor:thirty days. On receiving his discharge he was handed fifty dollars from Mrs. Cozzens, with an invitation, which he accepted, to visit her at St. Paul, and after a brief interview he took out a license and was married to the grateful widow.

—One morning, recently, Mrs. Charles Itandall, of Hamlin, N. Y T ., informed her husband that during the period of years in which they had been married she had not been to him what a wife should be, and she had made up her mind to leave that part of the country. She had given the matter much thought, and decided it was, from all considerations, best that she should go away and leave him and her three little ones to live in peace and happiness. This information was of course a thunderbolt to the afflicted husband. The wife calmly prepared breakfast, left the morning’s work unfinished, packed her trunk, kissed her children, and departed—nobody knows where. Mr. Randall is a youngand prosperous farmer, and is a man in every way worthy of the respect of his associates. : ■- —Recently Mrs. C. L. Applegate, living at Toms River, N. J., went to the well, and, becoming dizzy, fell in. When her husband returned to dinner he was surprised to see no signs of life about the kitchen, and searched every part of the house for his wife. When passing the well, which is thirty feet deep, he heard his wife call: “Charley, I am in the well.” He soon drew her up with the windlass, and found that she had fallen in several hours before, and had been standing on tiptoe to keep her head out of the water waiting for him to come. She said she was nearly frozen, as her whole body was in the water, and it was only by laving her head back that she could breathe without drawing in a mouthful of water. Strange to say, she was not hurt by the fall, although she went down head first. _ Recently, Alf. Lent, of Camwell, caught, in the Hudson, opposite Peekskill, a black bass weighing fifty-four pounds, and on opening the fish, eight pounds of eggs were found. This immense sack of eggs, as large as a man’s ann between the wrist and elbow, suggested the inquiry as to the number contained in it. To ascertain, if possible, the eggs were taken to a drug store, and it took 150 of them to weigh a grain on the druggist’s prescription scales. As there are 7,000 grains m a pound, avoirdupois, the ealeu- j lotion is easily made that in the fish above caught there was the almost incredible number of 8,400,000, a number sufficient ip itself alone to stock the waters of the whole Atlantic seaboard, if no allowance ] had to be made for the destruction of the Jeggs and the young fish by natural J causes and the voracity of other finny tribes. j

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. .—Children never lore bad men. —Prof* Peters has discovered another •. —lt doesn't stop perspiration a hit to think of the Polar regions. —The question of the hour: •“Hcrw high’* the thermometer 7” —Grasshoppers are reported thick on i he Union Pacific Railroad. —Firecrackers destroyed a ten-acre grain field in Lehigh County, Pa. —American weather can change quicker than a Mexican can change his allegiance. —Old friends are often lost sight of in the efforts of some people to form new acjuaintances. —A signal service station is to he established on the summit of Grcylock, near South Adams, Mass. —The individual who broke the ice with his maiden speech was ultimately drowned in applause. —The word Sioux is pronounced as though spelled “ soo,” and not “ sighox," as most Eastern people persist incalling it. —A bee-sting, a scratch or misstep will send some men into eternity, while others seem bullet-proof, and may almost laugh at any accident. —There are 40,000 Turks in prison for debt. The Sultan will probably relieve them and enroll them in the army, pardoning their indebtedness. —Forty-one guests of a hotel in Omaha were poisoned, some of them almost fatally, by eating ice cream, the flavoring substance of which contained arsenic. —Bismarck took a Turkish bath once, and when he got through he said that ever thereafter he should prefer going under a water-wheel and over a mill-dam —The Courier-Journal is of the opinion that a regiment of correspondents would give the Sioux a bad shaking up. They would also shake up all the compositors and proof-readers in the country. —William Emerson Baker, an eccentric Massachusetts millionaire, has placed in the hands of ex-Gov. Gaston and four oth<gr trustees a farm containing fifty acres of land and $50,000 for the "purpose of founding a college of cookery. —Since this warm spell began the wheelbarrow fiend everywhere has concluded to suspend operations. Even the heavenly strains of the hand organ are mute in the presence of Old Sol’s intensity of indignation. — N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. —Conventions are becoming fashionable. Brigham Young’s wives have decided to hold one for the purpose of coming to an understanding as to their course in case of Brigham’s ultimate death. It is understood that each goes into the convention pledged to stand for her thirds. —A St. Louis letter says: “The Board of Education, by the decisive vote of twenty-seven to three, has amended the table of measures in the arithmetic, so that it reads: 12 lines—l inch. 36 inches—l yard. 3 yards—l si. Louis foot, etc. —A correspondent writing from Macon, Miss., to the Columbus Index, says: “We have in our town probably the strongest man in the State. He goes by the name of ‘Wild Jimmy’—is a medium sized, compactly-built man weighing about 160 pounds. I have seen him lift a hogshead of bacon out of the cars, aud as for a bale of cotton, lie handles It like he would a playMiing " —A model in wood of the State of New Hampshire has been constructed, and is on exhibition at Concord. It is fifteen feet in length, while the vertical scale is 1,000 feet to an inch, five times greater than the horizontal scale, in order to make the smaller elevations noticeable. The model is to be colored to show .the geology of the State, and will also have township lines, streams, railroads, etc., marked upon it, and will be put in the museum of the Agricultural College at Harvard. —We have frequently said that a skirt made with narrow box-plaited flounces, headed with a bias one bound top and bottom, and laid in three knife-plaits, one just over the other, leaving the lower edge flaring and the upper one caught down between the plaits, was just the thing needed iu this country, but some one who overheard us was mean enough to mention it in Paris, and now the French people have introduced it and are getting all the credit of the idea.— Norwich Bulletin. —An old bachelor at New Orleans tells how he was deterred from committing matrimony in the following way: “Thinking over the subject, and particularly of the expense of maintaining a family, he Bet the table in his lonely abode with Slates for himself and imaginary wife and ve children. He then sat down to dine, and as often as he helped himself to food he put the same quantity on each of the other plates, and surveyed the prospect, at the same time comparing the eost. He concluded tb remain single.” —During the first half of every month, while money is plenty with the miners of Virginia City, sixteen gambling saloons in that place never close. Three sets of dealers a day and assistants keep the games going without cessation. It became common for restaurant and lodging-house keepers, grocers and others to sue the miners for debt, and this gave the clerks of the,mine companies so much trouble going to and from the Justices’ Courts with their books, that an order was given to dismiss any man on whose wages a garnishee was placed. This rule has hurt the businessof the gamblers, because the miners are less reckless with their wages. —One of the most extraordinary spots visited on Sunday last, when the mercury in the thermometer marked 104 in the shade, was the “Stony Clove,” or “The Notch,” in the Shanaaken range of the Catskills. Four Poughkeepsians passed through the Notch at noon of the day mentioned, and ten feet from the roadway, where the mercuiy marked 100, three Poughkeepsians stood in a little group in a rocky chasm where it was so cold that the breath of all became frosted, and a chunk of ice as big as an ordinary hat was chipped from the main bowlder of ice in the chasm. This in July is extraordinary, and yet ice is found in the Notch all the year round.— Poughkeepsie {N. Y.) Eaale.

The Sioux Indians.

The Sioux tribe of Indians are by far ! the largest body of the surviving aborigines in North America. Not only are there over forty thousand of these savage people in the United States, but across the line in British America are to be found no less than twenty-five thousand more, making in all something like sixty-five or seventy thousand souls. As a tribe, the Sioux are noted above all existing Indian band 4 of any size for their warlike inclinations, their skill and lheir cunning. A few of the minor tribes of American Indians, sack as the Utes, and others along the Rocky Mountain Range, are quite as ■ • • - ■ \ #*

bloody. Matured, but being comparatively insignificant as bands, are not to be ranked with the Sioux for general ugliness and dangerous strength. The Sioux IndiaHs formerly ranged East of the Mississippi, but were driven with much difficulty to the Western reservations some twenty-five years ago. Since their settlement upon their vast lamia in Wyoming and Dakota, they have been a constant source of expense and complaint, it being their weakness to never tire of making demands upon the Government or weary in robbing and killing the Indians of oilier tribes in that locality, which also arc cared for* by the Government. In this way they have done more to keep the Indian question constantly agitatea than all the other Indian nations of the country combined. While a few leading chiefsof the Sioux, such as Spotted Tail and Young-Man Afraid-of-His-Horscs, have been inclined to be friendly and keep peace with the whites anti reds, an influential number of such chiefs as Sitting Bull, Black Moon and Crazy Horse have steadfastly pursued a hostile course. With these last the young wumors of the tribe have generally been allied, making up just the element that lias precipitated upon the country its present Indian war. With these bad chiefs at their head, some 10,000 young Sioux started out in the spring to go beyond the limits of their reservation, with the sole intention of robbing smaller tribes and killing and robbing whitefinen and Government soldiers. If the reports be true that the three hostile chiefs named above were killed in that bloody encounter with Custer’s command, then “ is retribution cheated of its food. If these be dead, there will be little or no more fighting, for Indian braves are totally at sea when their chiefs are gone, and almost invdriably return to their reservations and sue for a cessation of war, until some other of their number, by superior bravado and bloody accomplishments, inspires them to follow him into other troubles. It is a notable fact in connection with these savage Sioux Indians, that their squaws are more bloodthirsty and brutal, if possible, than the males, and there can be no doubt that a greater portion of the mutilation inflicted upon the dead of Custeris command was the work of tiie.se beastly and vulture-like red females. But, male or female, the Sioux Indians are certainly too untamable and fiendish to deserve a place upon the earth’s surface, though the sentiment of humanity in the American citizens’ breast will probably not only grant them a place to live, but feed and clothe them for a century to come, or until the last descendant of the present 40,000 shall have fallen into his grave as a victim of his own innate vices. —Chicago Journal.

The Brilliant Meteor of July 8—Meteors in General.

The visible flight of the meteor (seen from Chicago and many other Western points, on the evening of July 8), is estimated to have occupied about four seconds of time, which gives an average of twentytwo to twenty-three miles per second. When first seen, it was already moving with a diminished velocity, having passed through several hundred miles of highlyrarefied air, which continually retarded its motion; and that retardation was continued during and after the time the meteor was visible. When first seen, its relative velocity was not far from twentyfive hitles, and when it had passed beyond our atmosphere its relative velocity had diminished to considerably less than fifteen miles per second. This is equivalent to saving that its motion in space was reduced to zero. After it had left the neighborhood of the earth, the meteor was powerless to proceed farther, its vis viva having been destroyed by the passage through the upper air.

The body which had previously been revolving in space around the sun, perhaps for thousands of centuries, as independently as the earth itself, if not of so much consequence, was thus brought to a dead stop, as it were; and what then? The solar attraction, which had hitherto drawn it away continuously from a tangent to the momentary direction of its course, now operated without hindrance to draw the wanderer to his own bosom. At first it responded but slowly to the invitation, falling through only the ninth part of an inch m one second of time. But the motion is an accelerating one. It is now moving much more rapidly than that, and will continue to increase its speed till (and not until) after the lapse of sixty-six days from the date of its encounter with the earth, that meteor will plunge into the fervent embrace of the sun with a final velocity of nearly 879 miles per second We can calculate the time to a nicety, so that we could turn the telescope upon the sun at the instant of the concussion, but probably without being able to witness the catastrophe. It would require a very high magnifying power to render it visible at the vast distance of 92,000,000 miles, and the contact will recur at a point on the solar surface which will then be more than sixty de-| greesfrom the center of the dire —the earth having moved so far in her orbit during the time of the fall.

It is certainly possible that enough forward motion was left after the collision to permit the body to sweep around the sun in a very narrow orbit, instead of falling to him. In this case the aphelion point of the new orbit would be near the place in which the earth destroyed the former orbit, and the meteor might again make our acquaintance in the future. But it ip more probable that the meteor is now falling directly toward the sun. There is good reason to believe that many meteors and comets have been turned out of their former paths by the larger planets, and forced to revolve in new orbits, the aphelia of which lie near the path of the revolution-maker. How many been swallowed up by those planets, or hurled directly toward the sun, we cannot say—probably innumerable millions. It is probable that of all the meteors, large and small, .which come far enough within our atmosphere to be heated to self-luminosity, not more than one in thirty, perhaps not so many, avoid falling to the earth. So much heat is generated by the friction that nearly all the meteors explode (especially the smaller ones, and those which are not chiefly metallic in their composition), and the debris is scattered in all directions, the forward motion of most of the particles being destroyed by the explosion, and by the greater atmospheric resistance due to ificrease of surface in proportion to the mass of the particle. The fragments' fall to the earth, chiefly in the form of dust, which is literally ashes, being a product of combustion. Many of the meteors are so smail, probably* weighing no more than a single grain, tfyat they disappear in falling without exploding, being burnt out before they arrive within forty miles of the earth’s surface: If, however, the mass be large enough, and sufficiently cohesive, then it is not a difficult problem in mathematics

to calculate which way it will move, if we can know its original direction and rate of travel. We may illustrate by reference to the familiar fact that the earth attracts a stone dear her surface with a force capable of making it fall through sixteen feet in one second, sixty-four feet in two seconds, 144 feet in three seconds, and so on. From this, and knowing the size of the earth, we can calculate that in five her surface bends just about as- much as the stone would fall in one second. Therefore, if a meteor be moving near the earth’s surface, and parallel to it, with a velocity of less than five miles per second, it will fall to the earth; If its velocity be greater than five miles, the earth’s attraction will not bend the meteor downward so rapidly a 3 the earth’s surface curves, and the meteor will recede from the earth. In the present case, the meteor was trav*. eling far mere rapidly than this limit when moving parallel with the surface, therefore passed out again into space. The principle above stated is applicable in every case, though the calculation may be sometimes a rather tedious one. The friction of the atmosphere made the meteor incandescent; and this can also be made the subject of calculation —almost as close as we please. We know that the force needed to stop a velocity of 228 feet per second is equal to that required to raise the temperature of an equal weight of water, one degree Fahrenheit; and, as in the other case, the force required increases with the square of the velocity. An ordinary body, when at the temperature of about 2,600 degrees above the actual zero, glows with a white heat. Calculating on these figures as a basis we find that the conversion of a velocity of two miles per second into heat, gives the equivalent of incandescence. In the case of this meteor we have the motion retarded to the extent of some twenty miles per second, which developed not far from 26,000 degrees of heat. In a large body the friction must heat the surface much more rapidly than the interior, which causes unequal expansion, and a breaking up of the exterior, as the surface of a rock is pulverized by frost. These incandescent particles were left behind—swept off, as the wind sweeps off the dust from the rock, —and formed the visible trail of the meteor, which “lasted’’till those particles Bad cooled down below the incandescent point, by radiation into the surrounding air. The tremendous eflect of this lieat-making “destruction” of motion may be interred from the fact that some observers saw that incandescent trail —witnessed the continued luminosity of the separated particles, —for fully forty-five minutes, and one or two saw it for even a longer period; though in the intense cold of the upper air the cooling process must be much more rapid than at any temperature we experience on this earth’s surface. [Some of the debris may be driven off in lumps, and be projected some distance from the line over which the principal mass travels. One such lump is reported to have descended at South Bend.] The past two weeks have been unusually prolific in brilliant meteors. One was seen in the East the (Sunday) night after the appearance of the one which excited so much interest in the West—and the published reports indicated that it was almost equally brilliant. Several others have been seen in this section—from all of which some persons have inferred that “ there is something the matter.” As they understand the conclusion, they are altogether wrong, and just as foolish as the seafarer who should infer that some dire saw a few larger fish than ordinary playing around the sides of his ship. Kepler suggested that there may be as many comets in the heavens as there are fishes in the ocean, and modem soience confirms the idea—associating meteoric bodies with the comets. The universe is swarming with matter, as our world is teeming with life; and it is only under unusual conditions that we can become cognizant of the one, just as we are obliged to employ the microscope in order to 'perceive the existence of the other fact. The occurrence of two or three unusually brilliant meteoric exhibitions may be of more interest to us, but is of no more importance in the economy of Nature, than the falling of a few extraordinarily large snow-flakes during a storm. The idea that they have increased the temperature of “ the heated term” is equally ridiculous with the fancy that the rushing of the meteor of July 8 was heard by those who witnessed its passage. Heat is chiefly communicated upwards; and the sound of the meteor would occupy about five minutes in traveling to our ears through a distance of sixty-five miles. — Chicago Tribune.

A Carious Marriage.

A curious fact in regard to the marriage of John Kemble, the actor, is told m Bannister’s memoirs. One of the daughters of a noble lord, formerly holding high office, but then living in retirement,, had fallen in love with the graceful and actor, merely from seeing him on the stage, Kemble was sent for by the father, and, to his astonishment, acquainted with the circumstances. The noble lorfl told him further that it was in his power to do him either a great evil or a great favor; and that if he would do the latter, by relieving him from all apprehension of the lady’s indulging her fantasy, and relieve him effectually by marrying anyone else for whom he might have an attachment, his wife should receive a dower of £5,000. Kemble immediately proposed for Miss Brereton, a pretty actress in the company, and the marriage toefc place without delay. But the amusing part of the tale is, that the afflicted and magnanimous father instantly recovered his spirits and lost his memory. On being applied to for his thousands, he declared that he had no recollection whatever of the compact, nor indeed any of the idea, further than some general conversation on such matters with the “ very intelligent person in question ;’ J adding “ that if he was to pay £5,000 for every whim of his daughter he must soon be a much poorer man than he ever intended to be. ’ ’ It is believed that Kemble never got a shilling from this very sensitive nobleman, and that, for the rest of his life, he attached a new value to the vulgar etiquette of signing and sealing beforehand, even with the most plausible of mankind. A Cork for Burns.— The following is one of die best applications for bums or scalds, more especially when a large surfece is denuded of skin. Take one dram of finely powdered alum and mix thoroughly with the whites of two eggs and one teacup of fresh lard; spread on a cloth and apply to the parts burned. It gives almost instant relief from pain, and excludingthe air prevents inflammatory action. The application should be changed at least pnee a day.— Am. Manufacturer. South Carolina proposes to engage in the cultivation of jute, the coast lands being favorable for it, while the planters are becoming tfred of raising Sea Island cotton and rice.