Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1876 — Page 2

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thi «sinm At bliciwn. The Republican* hi New Orleans fnam the Northern and Western States replied, on the l«th, to the coausuuication of the visiting Domocrate requesting a conference, saying that they joined heartily with them In counsels of peace and In the expression of an earnest desire for a perfectly honest »nd just declaration of the results of the recent election In Louisiana by its lawfully constituted authorities; and they add that they know of no reason to doubt that such a declaration would be made; but they dM not see the propriety or utility of the conference proposed, for they had no such duty imposed upon them, and were without power er legal influence In the matter. They quote from the laws of the State relative to the canvassing of votes, and state that to reduce the question to the mere clerical duty of counting the votes actually cast, in distinction from rotes legally cast and returned, irrespective of the question whether they were fradulently or violently east, or otherwise vitiated, involved a nullification of the provisions of the laws of tbuHm* which had already been adjudicated as valid by the Supreme Court. They, therefore, declined to consent to the proposed conference. On the 17th the Democrats Issued s rejoinder to the address of the Republicans, in which they state tbyt they were fully aware that the organisation and action of the Returning Board of Louisiana were beyond any authoritative control from without, and that it would be the height of folly and arrogance on the part of those not citizens thereof to attempt to alter the laws of a State; but they had supposed, nevertheless, that there was an influence which might be rightfully exerted, even by citizens of this

Republic who are strangers in the State, and had taken it for granted that the presence there of the Republican citizens of other States, in response to the suggestion of the President, was a recognition Of this fact They conclude by saying that, “notwithstanding your refusal to co-operate, we still cherish the hope that the Returning Board, warned by the history ot the past, and conscious that its actions are being observed by the whole Nation, will discharge its delicate duty with such circumspection, fairness and impartiality as will give satisfaction to the American people. To this end we shall continue to labor." The vote in Ohio, as officially declared, was as follows: Total number of votes cast ■659,757; of these Hayes received 380,698; Tilden, 323,182; Peter Cooper, 3,057; Green Clay Smith, 1,636; and James B. Walker, an-ti-Masonie candidate, 76. Hayes’ plurality over Tilden, 7,516. The New Jersey Legislature is said to be Democratic on joint ballot by a majority of one; thus securing a Democratic United States Senator to succeed Mr. Frelinghuysen. A New Orleans telegram ot the 17th says several hundred affidavits had been received there from negroes, and some from Republican officials in Ouachita and other “ bulldosed” parishes, showing a peacabls and quiet election; also, the intimidation negroes who desired to vote the Democratic ticket, but did not do so for fear of violence from Republicans of their own color. The Republicans had counter-affidavits in many cases, showing violence and intimidation where the Democrats had sworn nothing of the kind existed. V

The total votes in Missouri for President and Governor are as follows: Tilden, 164,026; Mayes, 111 ,959; Phelps (for Governor), 163,646; Finkehnburg, 112,992. Democratic ma. jority for President, 52,067; for Governor, 60,654. The Northern Republicans in New Orleans replied on the 18th to the Democratic note of the day before, stating that they were gratified to learn that they had misapprehended the language and spirit of the Democratic communication of the 14th, and that they were in error in attributing to the writers of such communication a purpose to interfere with the legally constituted authorities in Louisiana in the discharge of their duties. They conclude as follows: “ We Shall be happy at all times to confer with you,and as individuals to co-operate in whatever shall be right, but concerted action for the purpose of influencing an official Board we hold to be beyond our privilege, and we shall hope that all may come to pass which good citizens can wish without the use of any such means.” The official count of the vote in Illinois gives the following result for President: Hayes, 276,360; Tilden, 258,347; Cooper, 16,122. Hayes over Tilden, 18,013; over both Tilden and Cooper 1,891. The Democratic majority for President in Virginia is 44,244: in Maryland, 19,799. Tilden’s majority in Alabama is 34,383. A Montpelier (Vt) dispatch of the 218 t ays: “The County Clerks met to-day to canvass the votes cast in the late election for President Their powers are simply ministerial, and, therefore, they decllned to hear or receive evidence outside of the certificate of votes by the proper authorities. Under this decision Mr. Sollace, Postmaster at Bridport at the time of the election, will receive a certificate of his election. An injunction is to be applied for.” '

The Circuit Court of Tallahassee, Fl*., on the 21st, temporarily granted an order applied for by the Democratic managers, restraining the Governor from canvassing the returns of the Electoral vote, or issuing his certificate to any Elector or Electors unless by order of the regularly appointed Board of Canvassers, and another in the shape of a mandamus to the Returning Board ordering them to proceed at once to a canvass of the votes. The Governor was ordered to show cause on the 23d why the injunction against him should not be issued permanently, and the Returning Board to show cause at the same time why the mandamus ordering an immediate canvass should pot be issued. ■he vote in •,384,148; nith (Pro 4 ■ V■i j . of South Supreme rsons who J votes for dndidates. ate was a ding that sgnlarities Republiwrected, Laurens

and Edgefield Counties, which gave large Democratic majorities,should be excluded on account of frauds and intimidation. On the 22d the Court made an order commanding the Board to issue certificates of election to all the persona who wore shown by the report of the Board to have received the highest number of votes for members of the Legtelatare, Including the Counties of Edgefield and Laurens. The Court ateo took up the case of the Electors, and issued a rule on the Board to show cause why they should not correct the statement of the County Canvassers by the precinct returns in their possession. Pending these proceedings of the Court, however, the Board held a session and Issued certificates to all the members of the Legislature, except for Laurens and Edgefield Counties, thus securing the majority of the Legislature to the Republican side, and the defeat of Hampton and election of Chamberlain. The Board also issued certificates of election to the Hayes and Wheeler Electors and to all the Republican State ticket. The Board then adjourned mu* die. A Columbia telegram of the 22d says this action of the Board had created much excitement, “ but the citizens are determined to rely upon the Courts ana exhaust all legal means of redress.” Gen. Hampton issued an address to the people of the State reciting the action of the Canvassers, in defiance of the Supreme Court, pronouncing it a high-hand-ed outrage which could .have no legal force whatever, and appealing to the citizens to maintain their character as an orderly and law-abiding people, stating that the matter had been carried to the higher court of the State, and they were willing to abide by its decision.

The Louisiana Canvassing Board finished the canvass of fourteen parishes, which were not contested, on the 22d, the totals being, Hayes, 19,684; Tilden, 13,53*. T|ic clerk reported that returns from fourteen parishes had not yet been received. The returns from the parishes not yet counted will probably be contested in nearly all cases. The Democratic counsel entered a protest against the rules adopted by the Board. A Columbus (Ohio) dispatch says the Democratic State Central Committee, and a number of representative Democrats from various counties of Ohio, met in that city on the 22d, for consultation. A series of resolutions was adopted declaring that patriotism demands of every good citizen a spirit of ready acquiescence in the result of the Presidential election as fairly ascertained, and deprecating all partisan feeling in the discussion of fact and law on which that result depends; demanding of the Senate and House of Representatives to exert, if necessary, the Constitutional powers vested in them, jointly or severally, to the end that whoever has been fairly chosen by the people shall be declared and inaugurated President of the United States; declaring the coficentration of the regular troops at Washington by the President, on the eve of the assembling of Congress, as an act calculated to throw discredit upon the disposition ‘ of the people to obey the law and submit to the results of the Presidential election as legally ascertained, and to excite unnecessary alarm as to the stability of the Republic, thereby imperiling peace at home and the public credit abroad; recommending a correspondence with other State Democratic Committees, with a view to a full understanding of the facts and perfect concert of action in maintaining the rights of the people in the late Presidential election, as determined by the proper legal authories. ; The official returns show Hayes’ majority in Minnesota to be 114,008.

FROn WASHINGTON. A Washington dispatch to the New York Evening Post says the following statement, taken from the books of the Department, shows the receipts and expenditures forjhe fiscal year ending June 30,1876, and will form the basis of the annual report of the Postmaster-General: Receipts ftvm all 50urce5529,644,197.50 Increase over last year 1,t52,836.91 Expenditures of all kiuda 88.203,487.58 Decrease from last year 347,821,87 Excess of expenditures over receipts 4,619,290.08 Excess of expenditures for previous year was:. 6,472,126.99 Nearly the entire receipts of the Department are derived from the sale of stamps, stamped envelopes, and postal cards, the receipts from these sources being <26,879,512.10. Among the items of expenditure the following were the principal ones, viz.: Inland t r anspcrt«tion<l4.74s,Bss.9s Compensation of Postmasters 7,897,397 91 Ofierks for Post-Offices 8,4-’0.73 1 '.15 Letter carriers 1.980,795.62 Railway clerks 1,2=3,7.0.19 Manufacture of stamped envelopes, postal cards and wrappers. 680.610.86 Foreign mail transportation 279,123.26 The revenue from money-order business was <120,000. In the case of Admiral Porter and others of the North Atlantic Squadron against the rams Texas and Beaufort and ten other Confederate vessels, in which <1,500,000 were claimed, a decree was issued in the United States District Court at Washington, on the 18th, declaring that for want of proof, the captors are entitled to but one-half of the proceeds of the prizes, and that the value of the Texas was <55,520 and the Beaufort $12,000. Secretary Morrill, on the 22d, issued an order suspending the Bureau of Printing and Engraving until he, could make an investigation concerning e’ertain alleged irregularities.

The several departments of the Government have called fox appropriations for the ensuing year amounting, in the aggregate, to about $175,000,000, against *150,000,000 appropriated at the last session of Congress. A Washington dispatch of the 22d says Gen. Barry had arrived there from Fort Monroe, and was in command of the United States soldiers stationed in that city. There were no arrivals of troops on the 22d, and Gen. Sherman said none had been ordered to Washington, except the eight companies or batteries then in barracks at the Arsenal and Navy-Yard. - BAST. NbwYork dispatches state that it is estimated that there is an aggregate of *2,500,000 held in the pool-boxes In that city, wagered on the result of the Presidential election, *1,250,000 of which amount is in the establishment of John Morrissey. House of Representatives* bn the 18th finally passed a bHI for filling the vacancy in the Electoral College—lß9 to 19. The act is specially designed to meet the case of H. N. Sollace, said to be ineligible. ■ -* ' ~ It is announced in the New York papers that the remains of Joseph Henry Louis Charles, Baron von Palm, Grand Commander

of the Sovereign Order of the Holy Sepulcher at Jerusalem, Prine# of the Roman Empire and Knight of St. John of Malta, will be cremated at Washington, Pa., on the 6th of December. Gold closed In New York on the 22d ■at 109%. The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. *2 Chicago Spring Abes t (New), <[email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee (New), <[email protected]; Data, Western and State, 38@52c. Corn, Western Mixed, 56@60c; Pork, Mess, <17.06; Lard, 11c; Flour good to choice, <[email protected]; White Wheat Extra, $5 [email protected]. Cattle, 8%@!0%c for good to extra. Sheep, 4@6c. Hogs, 5%@6c. At East Liberty, Pa., on the 22d, cattle brought: Best, <[email protected]; medium, $4.50 @4.75; common, <[email protected]. Hogs sold— Yorkers, <[email protected]; Philadelphia*, <5.90@ fl. 10. Sheep brought <[email protected], according to quality.

west and sorrn. A hand-grenade was thrown into the Bitting room of the residence of Wm. H. Price, of Davenport, lowa, on the night of the 16th, which exploded with considerable violence, forcing out the wall of the house and demolishing the ceiling. It fortunately happened that no lives were lost. It was thought by some that the object of the perpetrator of the outrage was to kill Hon. Hiram Price, member-elect of Congress from the Davenport District. Elmer Washburn, ex-Chlcf of tfie United States Secret-Service Bureau, with several detectives, oh the night of the 17th, effected the capture of Jack Hughes, alias J. Smith, and Terrence Mullen, alias T. Durnam, in a saloon called the “ Hub,” at 294 West Madison street, Chicago, upon the charge of attempting to rob the tomb of Abraham Lincoln, at Springfield, 111., on the night of the 7th inst. The parties arrested had divulged their designs to a supposed friend who proved to be a detective and aided in their capture. The object of the scheme was to secure a ransom and the release of Ben Boyd, in State Prison for counterfeiting. At Sacramento, Cal., on the night ofj the 18th, during a performance at Moore’s Opera House,whichWas situated over a livery stable, the floor gave way, and the entire audience of about 1,000 persons, was precipitated into the stable below. The lights were extinguished by the concussion, and a scene of fearful confusion ensued. Eight persons were killed outright, and about 100 ethers were injured, many probably fatally. United States Marshal Leffingwell, at St. Louis, received a dispatch from Atty.Gen. Taft on the 18th to the effect that Presdent Grant had signed the pardon’ of William McKee, and authorizing the Marshal to release the prisoner at once. The Marshal immediately repaired to the jail where McKee was confined, and liberated him without delay. Win. O. Avery, ex-Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department, in prison at Jefferspn City, Mo., has also been pardoned oift and released from confinement. At Faribault, Minn., on the 20th, the Younger brothers pleaded guilty to an indictment for murdering Heywood, the cashier of the Northfield Bank, and were immediately sentenced to imprisonment in the State Penitentiary at hard labor for life.

The Christian Convention ’ of the Northwest assembled in Chicago on the 21st. A large delegation was present. The chief object of the assemblage was to take counsel concerning the further prosecution of the great revival in the West inaugurated by Mr. Moody at Chicago. In Chicago, on the 22d, Spring wheat, No. 2, closed at <[email protected] cash. Cash corn closed at 45%c for No. 2. Cash oats No. 2 sold at 32%@32%c; December options were sold at 38c. Rye No. 2, 65@ 66c. Barley No. 2, 69@70c. Cash mess pork closed at |[email protected]. Lard, <[email protected]. Good to choice beeves brought <[email protected]; medium grades, |[email protected]; butchers’ stock, <2.75 @3.30; stock caVJe, etc., <[email protected]. Hogs brought [email protected] for good to choice. Sheep sold at <[email protected] for good to choice. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE:, According to Berlin telegrams of the!7tb Prussia was about to mobilize two army corps in Posen and Silesia. A London telegram of the 18th says the Rothschilds had loaned a large sum of money to Russia. A Constantinople dispatch of tire 18th says Turkey had unconditionally agreed to a conference. According to a St. Petersburg telegram of the 19th, the Czar had issued an imperial ukase asking subscriptions fromlyssubjeets for 109,000,000 rubles.

A Vienna telegram of the 19th says that all the ships of the Russian Black Sea Navigation Company had been impressed into the service of the Russian Government. Full details of the effects of the stormwave of Oct 81 were received from Calcutta, India, on the 20th. The previously reported loss of life proves not to have been exaggerated, such loss being variously estimated at from 150,000 to 800,000. Three large islands and many smaller ones were entirely submerged, as was also the mainland for six or eight miles. The stench from the unburied putrefying bodies was becoming intolerable, and a general outbreak of cholera was feared. The disease had already appeared in the district of Nookholly. A London telegram of the 21st gives the full text of the remarks of the Czar of Russia to the British Ambassador at his court, in which the announcement is made that Russia does not desire war with Turkey; that she has no ulterior designs either 1 upon Constantinople or India, and that het only desire is the protection of the Christian subjects of Turkey. It was reported that the Russian authorities had sunk torpedoes off the harbors of Odessa, Kentch, Sebastopol and Eschahoff. It was also stated that the Austrian and Hungarian Governments, in view of possible warlike complications, ha prohibited the exportation of horses. The Pall Mall Gazette, Standard and other leading conservative London papers contained editorials, on the 22d, expressing their entire distrust of the Czar’s recent pacific assurances. -

A Sbmltn telegram of the 22d announces the resignation of the Servian Ministry ( n a body—cause not given. Since Nov. 1 over *7,000,000 in gold have been sent from London to the United States. Nearly *500,000 were shipped on the 22d. James Rian, of Peterboro, Ont, canTicted of wife-murder and sentenced to be hung on the 22d, had his sentence commuted to imprisonment for life on that day. Ryan is one of the millionaires of Canada, hk ?«. tate being valued at *1,300,000.

MIBCELLAIfEOCH ITEMS. —A little praise upsets a little mind. —Time is the rider that breaks youth. —Antelopes are slaughtered solely for their hides in Wyoming. —An epitaph on a negro baby at Savannah begins: “ Sweet, blighted lily !’* —A man named A. Hora keeps a saloon in New York, a taking name for a sakxmkeeper. —Brooding over our troubles will pay no debts. But faithful work will induce the creditor to wait. —Winter is coming on Jtwt Hie same as though there had been no election whatever. —The price of brass bands has declined more than forty per cent, since election. —The Boston Herald says that ■” the man who takes up his morning paper, and doesn’t find an account of a new murder in Vermont, knows it is the fault of the newsgatherers and not of the Vermonters.” —Vanity is a confounded donkey—very apt to put his head between his legs and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow travelers. —Marry at. —The Boston Transcript tells of a high-toned baby that is trundled around in a carriage on the roof of a six-story building in sight of that office. The Transcript reporters watch it with peculiar fascination. —No more Sunday trainsin Canada,." The Dominion Government has issued orders that no trains shall be run on the Sabbath Day except in case of great emergency, and then only on direct order of the Government. —A Portland paper printed an article on the good effect of the abolition of capital punishment in Maine, and headed it sarcastically, “Murderers Wanted.” The same night occurred the Bucksport tragedy, by which three lives were lost. —An old woman who is crossing the street has a narrow escape from being run over by a hearse. “I am not at all superstitious,” she says to her reseller, “ but it has always seemed to me tliafit would be unlucky to be killed by a hearse.” —Col. B , who was very fat, being accosted by a man to whom he owed money with a “How d’ye do?” answered: “Pretty well, I thank you. You find I hold my own.” “ Yes, sir,” rejoined the man; “and mine, too, to my sorrow.” —A Boston woman had prepared to elope, but yyhen her husbnud, hearing of her intention, came forward with his check-book and offered her money for her expenses, while his face was illuminated witli unbounded joy, she reconsidered the matter and concluded not to go. It took all the romance away. —Albert Rhodes thinks men make the best cooks. Then Albert Rhodes never saw a man howling and dancing like a maniac in front of a kitchen stove, shielding his blistering face with one hand, and with the other making frantic dabs with a steel folk at a blazing sausage, that’s all. —Burlington Hawk-Eye. —Not a thousand miles from Richmond, Va., a wife lay in a dying condition. Having brought up a clever orphan girl, who was grown, the dying woman called tiie young woman to her, and said: “ I will soon leave you my little children motherless. They know you and love you, and after I am gone I want you and my husband to many.” The young woman, bursting into tears, said: “We were just talking about that.” —After he had gone she found on the floor a little piece of paper that had dropped out of his pocket. It read: “Four -rounds of best Acme, $2; one roil nd of S. O. P. brand, 75 cents; one pocket-pistol, Otard Dupuy, $1 ” And the poor woman went into hysterics thinking her darling husband had gone off to commit suicide, and carried enough rounds of ammunition to make the work certain.— New Orleans Bulletin. —Referring to a notice which appeared in the Times of Saturday, headed, “A Strange Cemetery,” Mr. W. S. Price, late of the Indian Civil Service, writes to us from Blackheath as follows: “The dead bodies of Brahmins are never buried, and, therefore, the body which was exhumed must have been that of a person of inferior caste. Cremation is the method adopted for the disposal of the dead bodies of Brahmins, and I may add that no Hindoo, however inferior his caste, is buried, unless his friends are too poor to afford to purchase fuel to burn his dead body. The ashes, etc., of the funeral pile are usually consigned to some sacred stream.”— Lon don Times. —Some prospectors have recently discovered and are now engaged in prospecting an extensive cave in Prospect Mountain, Nevada. The mouth of the cave, says the Eureka Sentinel, is situated on the southeast side of the mountain, about 200 rods south of the mouth of the Prospect Mountain-Tunnel, and consists of a small aperture in the top of the ground. Through this aperture a man was lowered, fastened to a rope, and found himself in a large, dome-shaped chamber. In the flobr of this chamber he discovered another opening, leading downward further into the ground, but this aperture was not at that time entered. Subsequently a tunnel was run into the mountain fromt he surface at this side, which opened an entrance into the chamber which the man had entered, and here a windlass was put up and further explorations commenced. The man was lowered down ior a distance of about 100 feet, when he rested on the floor of a large cavern, distant from the natural entrance of the cave at the surface about 100 feet. On the floor of this cavern was piled a bank of snow about eight feet in depth, and here were found the skulls and • bones of coyotes and deer. Some of these bones, which are covered with mud, which has dried on them, were brought to town by Mr. Berg. There is a third aperture leading into the ground from this cavera, which will be explored by the parties who discovered and are working The cave. There is a possibility that a mine may be encountered in the explorations, as Prospect Mountain is veined and dotted With mineral deposits, and if ore is found the parties who find it will have a ready-made shaft to work their mine with.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Mr. B. P. Shillaber (Mrs. Partington) is again very ill. He has rheumatism, and erysipelas badly affects his head. —O’Leary has walked 503 miles in less than six days at the Liverpool (England) rink, and now challenges the whole world at leg lifting. —Queen Victoria has twinges of the rheumatism now and then, and the good old body begins to wonder if the world will miss her very much. - —Prince Metternich is a student of the newspapers, and a wise one. He says he notes what they do not say. Their silence is often mere eloquent than their speech.

—-W. H. Brown, of Pittsburgh, who lately-died, is “the representative Atjierican” who in early life dug anal at one and a half cents a bushel—and departed this existence the possessor of $3,250,000. —When Richard Grant White discovers a man on the street with the word “ pedlar” painted on his wagon, he immediately goes out and labors with lhat Son the deep sinfulness of wrong ng. —John Brougham greatly admires the nobler sorts of brutes, and talking the other day of high-minded lions and mean men. he epigrammatically said: “ Man is a monopolist of an immortality he is not sure he possesses.” —Adeline Patti is afraid to go to St. Petersburg because her husband lives there. So it is not the temperature of the Russian weather that interferes with her engagement, but the iacom-Patti-bility of her husband’s temperament. —Prof. Huxley’s only regret with regard to America is that his stay there was but seven weeks instead of seven months. Both he and Mrs. Huxley declare themselves especially delighted by the glimpses they got of American home and social life.

—Mr. Horace Capron, ex-Commissioner of Agriculture, who went to Japan, there to organize an agricultural department, received for this service $20,000 a year in gold. Now he is go jng to live in Washington, and has built a beautiful house, filled with rare and costly Japanese furnishings. —Tht great commentator. Dr. Lange, has been fifty.years_a professor. He was the son of a peasant and in his boyhood sold milk. Failing in love with a young lady of high family he resolved to make something of himself that he might win her. He borrowed, books and studied and soon became known as a brilliant scholar. In later years he married the girl of his early choice. —Protests have been addressed to Lord Derby with reference to Mr. Stanley’s butcheries of natives in Africa. His Lordship has replied that he has read the re- 1 ports with regret, but hopes that Mr. Stanley may oe able to offer some justification of them. In any event, the British Goveanmeat-^Mmefr’-interfere, as Mr. Stanley is not a British subject He has not the right to employ the British flag as he has done, and will be so informed as soon as he communicates with the coast. —The young lady who was engaged to marry Stanley, the explorist, has taken another man for better or worse. She is evidently afraid that Ujijiji’s habits are not such as would warrant him to be the kind of a man who stays, home evenings. She has reason to fear that if she had waited and married him, some evening he would have just stepped down to the postofflee to get a cigar, and she wouldn’t hear of him agaiiruntil the first mail from the North Pole. — Burlington Hawk-Eye.

A Court Incident.

A very singular affair in the history of our Common Pleas Court occurred.yesterday. On Monday Judge Watson adjourned the court until yesterday afternoon at three o’clock. It was expected that at that hour Judge Finefrock would be here to open the session, but that afternoon Prosecuting-Attotney Lee received advices from Judge Finefrock, who had gone to Fremont, to the effect that he had been taken ill suddenly at his residence, a mile and a half from the city, and Could not come here to open court that day. This caused quite a flutter among the attorneys. The case of The State i’s. John Martin. Jr., of Kelly’s Island, who is under indictment for assaulting William McGettigan,»of that island, with intent to kill him, had been set for trial that day, and the witnesses were all in the courtroom awaiting the coming of Judge Finefrock. If he or Judge Watson failed to be here and the court were not opened that day, the Common Pleas Court of Erie County, according to the provisions of the law, would stand adjourned for the present term, and all the criminal cases set for trial would of course be continued to the >ext term.; This was a pretty state of affairs, and as a matter of course the legal fraternity were considerably exercised over it. Telegrams were sent to Judge Watson, who was holding court at Fremont, asking hiin to come here as quickly as possible and open and adjourn,court. According to law this could be done any time before twelve o’clock last night. Immediately on receipt of information in relation to the situation, Judge Watson left Fremont on the cars, but could come no further by rail than Clyde. At the latter place he hired a team of good horses and a driver, and as it was then very late, he made the man drive the horses as rapidly as they could go, in order to reach here before midnight. He arrived at the Court-house at twenty minutes to twelve o’clock, and hurrying into the court-room, where the Sheriff and prosecuting attorney were waiting for him, he opened and adjourned court as the law directs, and thus averted a foiced sine die adjournment. It was a pretty close call, but the Judge was equal to the emergency, and got here on time. The court was ad- 1 journed until Monday morning at seven o’clock. Judge Watson left here for Clyde in his carriage shorty after twelv o’clock last night. He will proceed from Clyde to Fremont and hold court there to-day.— Sandusky (Ohio) Register.

Hygiene of Plants.

An article in the American Naturalist on the “ Hygiene of Plants” commends the wholesome effect of growing vegetation in living-rooms. It asserts, with reason, that, if forests purify the air about them, a group of plants in the house will do the same. It remarks that “ Many gaseous and other substances affect animals and plants in a similar manner ; and, in manv cases, an atmosphere in which one will not thrive is hurtful to the other. Many injurious gases that are too often found in our dwellings affect plants even more readily than they do man, so that, to a certain extent, plants become tests of the air we breathe; and, when it is found that plants will not grow in a room because of gas from chandelier or furnace, it is surely true that such rooms are unfit for man’s occupation, and that they cannot be used without certain injury to the health. In green-houses, where a large number of plants are shut up in a small amount of air, it is true that the amount of carbonic acid is, even at night, less than outside. Florists, who spend much of their, time in greenhouses, are, as a class, unusually healthy; and sometimes these people sleep for weeks in the greenhouse, with not the least evil effect. Physicians who have had much experience among florists have uniformly testified to their' general robustness. It is also a, well known fact that asthmatic persons often find great relief as they enter a C -house and breathe its air; even whose complaint prevents comfortable rest elsewhere find little or no trouble in sleeping in a green house. ’ ’

Postal Statisties.

Wasrixoton Nov. It. The following interesting statistics are gleaned from the report of Gen. Barber, Third Assistant Poateaster-Generel* being extracts from the reports of the several bureaus in his offlda, (or the ending June 30, 1876: Four million seven thousand efchkhundred and aeveutean letters were registered during the year, itfid fees rocived Sher eon amounted to <335,416.60. Of the fetters registered, upon which fees were paid, 3,198,981 were domestic; 155,285 were sent to foreign countries; 668,651-were transmitted through the mails without payment of the registry fee. The losses of registefed mAtter have been very small. Of the total number of letters transmitted, only LIMB, W, .about one in 4,000, were absolutely lost These Josses occurred from various causes; Some by robberies of the mail, others by burning of postal-cars and poat offices; most of them by unavoidable casualties to the service, and no traces of the letters or their contents ever obtained. " • The number. of ordinary letter postage stamps issued to Postmasters for sale to the public during the year ending June 30,1876, was 698,709,u90, valued at <18,778,454; of newspapers and periodical stamps, 1,280,847, valued at $945,254.75; ordinary stamped envelopes, plain, 82,4(17,000, valued at <2,280,818 74; stamped envelopes bearing A "return request,” 64,554,500, valued at <2,079,578.80: ot newspaper wrappers, 18,498,750, valued at <273,723.50; of postal cards, 150,815,000, valued at <1,508,1w; official postage stamps for the use of the Executive Departments of the Government, 17,682,665; valued at <429,11().'.'3, making a total number of 1,049,797,507 valued at $26,958,421.72. The increase over the previous year was as follows;.Ordinary postage stamps, valued at <501,974, or 2-74 per cent.; o) newspaper stamps, <129,352.28, or 15.85 per cefit.; of ordinary stamped envelopes, plain, <234,207.39, or 11.44 pci; cent.; of special request stamped envelopes, $287,892.05, or 16.06 per cent.; of postal cards, <481,990, Or 40.14 per cent. The net increase in the value of stamps issued over the previous year was <1,578,469.48, or 16.47 per cent. There were issued also within the year 4.025,450 regi stored envelopes; 8,618,975 I'ostonice envelopes., and 1,572,000 dead letter envelopes, making a total of 14,271,425. JTJte amount collected from newspapers on. papers sent to regular subscribers was <l,(»G,_154.27, an. increase Of or 4.24 percent, <. The NeW York Postoffice alone during the year mailed 15,724,015 pounds, amounting to <347,875.56, an increase of <12,286.24; or 8.66 per cent, over the previous year. Gen. Barber, in his report, estimates that the Government loses nearly <3iPQ9> 000 a year by frauds, which consist mostly in the washing of stamps, and, reviewing all the experiments made to secure an indelible ink for canceling stamps, thinks the preventive to fraud is in the exclusive use of stamped envelopes. !j The issues of stamps are almost tte only revenue of the Postofflee Department, and represented last year nearly $27,000,000, the cost for their printing and preparation being less than <1,000,000. The following table shows the operations of the Dead Letter Office for the fiscal year ending June 80,1876: Description, No. received. Value Letters containing money... 35,612 <54,691 89 Containing drafts, bills of . - exchange, etc... 13,644 1,884,911 15 Total. ~9,156 <W,603 04 Containing jewelry and other property.... ........ .. 20,367 Containing receipts, bills of lading, etc.. Cj.,,.a, 25,7 j» , ■ Containing photogranhs 81.318 ’Containing postage stamps.. 87,054 Ordinary letters without in**; A t; : ■ c105ure53,829,979 Foreign letters without inclosures•’•••«, 203.553 Letters held for postage 307,359 > —t TetaL.....<,904,744 The work of the office < shows that there were 1,835,472 ordinary letters without inclosures, containing nothing important, destroyed, there not being anything in them to Indicate persons to whom they could be returned. There were returned to the owners 1,391,223 letters containing iqclosures, valued at <1,751,646.22, or about cightesn times as much as the Dead-Letter office costs the Government; 15,900 are nowavVaiting returns of notices sent to writers.

There have been large reductions in the numbers of letters received at the deadletter office this year, which is accounted for by the Superintendent, Mr Dallas, as follows: ~ 1. That the use of envelopes bearing requests or is becoming more general, and thus postmasters arc enabled to return an increased number of unclaimed letters direct to She writers. 4. The increased efficiency of the letter carrier service in large cities. 3. The action of .this office in calling the attention of postmasters to cases of mistreatment of correspondence, and thereby providing against a repetition of the error. The present manner of treating held for postage-letters, which was introduced in April, 1875, and referred to in my last report, vte.: holding them in the Dead Letter Office unopened, and requesting the addresses to furnish the necessary postage, has proven a success in this, that the department now receives its revenue upon this class of letters, and yet does not encourage the non-payment of postage by the writers, the delay in delivery being a Sufficient hardship to incite greater precaution in posting letters. Of the 307,559 letters held for postage 20,225 were either also misdirected or, addressed to foreign countries to which prepayment of postage is imperative, and hence> were opened and returned to the writers’. Notice to persons addressed was,sent in 278,357-Cases and 203,203 were' successfully delivered unopened. The balance, 68,201, were Anally 'opened, after haviilg been held the usual Seriod subject to "'the . orders ot the adressees. . • The whole number of applications made to this office for missing letters during the year was 8,405, and in 2,!)75. of jhese Cases the search was successful,. The anient of money taken from letters, which could ppt be restored to the owners was which re verts to the United States Treasdty. The amount .realised from the' auction sale of property found in dead letters in; January last was 12,853.17. H / ■■ t ■ . '’-n ■. The population of i Constantinople, with its suburbs, it is now estimated at 800,000, and the burdens of vessels clearing the ports at about ,4,000 tons. The Roumelian Railroad connects 4he city with the northern ponces, passing through, a wonderfully rich but wretchedly cultivated country, and before long there Mill be a more direclppwmunication with Europe'by- a* line meeting the Ruschuk-Varna Railroad and crossing the Danube at Gurgievo, to Join the terminus of the Roumanian trunk line.

Th® emancipation of the serfs in Russia has resulted in great poverty among their former owners. In the Transcaucasian Government of Kutais the last census gives 105 nobles to evfflyl,W Of the population, or in all 38.000 meinbers of toe nobility, of whom 24,000 are without any means of support, the act of emancipation having deprived them of toe greater part of their estates as well. as. the ownership of the laborers. w ■ o»—A private letter from London says that E. P- WinslOw, the Massachusetts still living near the Strand, and occasionally visits Bowles’ American Exchange. He has ft bdarfl, and looks like his former self, but he evidently feels his lost position acutely, and says that his mental suffering in prison was terrible. Some people’s backbones, like some railroad are put in on a curve.