Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1878 — Page 2

The Rensselaer Union. —•-» RKNBSELAKR, INDIANA.

General News Summary.

WO* WAHHUIUTON. A Washinoton dispatch of thr 17lh says officers of tlM> rwtoffice D«|>Mtmrnt e«U mated that the revenue* of the Department were aafferiuK wot lean than 1350,000 a month bj the food Of stamps sold by Postmasters at amall country offices at a discount, for nsr in ciUea and towns. The Postmaster *t 8t Lout* ah»« showed that his office was being defrauded of revenue to the amount of f 18,000 per month in that way. Ox the 16th, the United Staten Treasury held 6640,837,560 in United States 1 Kinds, to secure National Bank circulation, and 113,493,000 In bonds to secure public deposits. National Bank drculaMon outstanding: Currency notes, 6330,008,515; gold notes, 11,432,130. The Income tax of 187(1 produced a revenue of #BJWO,OOO, and was paid by 75,000 |ieople. Cosnmiaaioner Baum has recently expressed the opinion that the renewal of such tax would not now yield over half that, amount.

A Washington telegram of the 30th says the A per-cent, loan was being taken up at the rate of 11,000,000 per week. Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker had a hearing before the Senate Committee on Prlvieges and Elections in Washington, on the 33d, relative to the question of woman suffrage. A number of wives of Senators and other dlatlnguishod ladies were present. Mrs. Hooker replied at considerable length to the argument* usually made against granting political rights to women. A KKSOLt'Tiox was adopted by the Natioual Agricultural Convention, In session in Washington, on the 23d, declaring that the Government ought to control the eutire State commerce, and that Congress lie asked to take some action in regard to it. f*B BAST. _ A EIRE In New York City, on the evening of the 17th, destroyed a six-story iron front building, known as Excelsior Block, on the south side of Twenty-third street, near Second avenue, and two Presbyterian Churches adjoining. The total loss was estimated at from *500,000 to *1,000,000. A max in Boston, Mass., named T. Herbert Chase, has been found guilty of the poisonous adulteration of candy, and has taken an appeal. A gormaxii, of New York City, has recently accomplished the feat of eatiug a roasted quail at noon of each day for thirty consecutive days. The ashes of Mrs. Benn Pitman.cremated at Washington, Pa., arrived at Cincinnati, on the 13th, in good condition, and* were taken charge of by her husband. They weigh a little over four pounds. By consent of all the parties interested, an order was entered in the Supreme Court of New York, on the 20th, discontinuing all the proceedings in the Lord lunaey matter, a compromise having been effected. Ix the Maine Senate, on the 21st, a bill to allow women to vote at municipal elections, was indefinitely postponed. Uolu closed in New York, on Feb. 23d, at 1< The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring, Wheat, #1.26*;<2L26; No. 2 Milwaukee, #1.27%<£1.28. Oats, Western and State, 35®88c. Corn, Western Mixed, sU&@s3!„c. Pork, Mess, #11.25. Lard, #7.60. Flour, Good to Choice, Winter Wheat, <[email protected]. Cattle, #8.50(210.8? J* for Good to Extra Sheep, #[email protected]. Hogs, #4.40 (84 50. At East Liberty, Pa., on Feb. 22d, Cattle brought: Best, *5.25(35.50; Medium, #4.75@ 5.00; Common, #4.30(34.50. Hogs sold— Yorkers, *4.10(24.20; Philadelphia*, #4.30(8 4.40. Sheep brought *3.oo(24.9o—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., mi Feb. 23d, Cattle brought: Best, *5.00(26.00; Medium, Hogs sold at *5.53(26.05 for Good. Bheep were quoted at *4.00(26.50 for Good.

WEST AND SOUTH. A New Okleaxs telegram of the 18tli say 6 fifty-three Republican members of the Louisiana Legislature had signed a petition asking for Executive clemency in behalf of Cien. Anderson. No decision had vet been reached in the case of Anderson’s appeal for a new trial. Destbvctive floods have recently occurred in many portions of California. Great damage was done in the vicinity of Sacramento. The Village of Washington—opposite Sacramento—was under water on the 30th. The Indiana Democratic State Convention assembled at Indianapolis, on the 30th, and elected ex-Gov. Hendricks Permanent Chairman. The following nominations were made: For Secretary of State, John G. Shankliu; Auditor, Mahlon D. Manson; State Treasurer, William Fleming; Attorney-General, Thomas AV. Woollen; Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. H. Smart. The platform adopted demands the retirement of National Bank notes and the issue of greenbacks to lie a legal-tender for all debts except when coin is stipulated: the remonetisation of the silver dollar of 412* grains, and its free coinage the same as gold; favors the repeal of the Bankrupt act, and the making of employes’ wages a first Uen on the property of a corporation; denounces those Republican leaders who were engaged in the alleged Presidential fraud whereby Messrs. Tiiden and Hendricks were wrongfully kept out of the position to which they had been elected. It is stated that fears are entertained at the Mar Department in Washington that when spring opens there will lie another general Indian M'ar with the Sioux. Several hundred lodges hare left the Spotted Tail and Red Cloud Agencies, and are said to be roaming in Northern Dakota, where it is thought they will he Joined by Sitting Bnl! in the spring, or at least by a part of his band. The Indiana State Board of Agriculture has decided to hold the next State Fair in the last week in September, immediately preceding the 6t» Louis Fair, and has fixed the price of admission at twenty five cents. The Ohio State Prohibition Convention was held at Columbus, on the 31st, and nominated; For Secretary of State, K. N. Roblnson; Judge of the Supreme Court, M’m. F. Roas; Member of the Board of Public M orks, Delmont Lock. The platform adopted expresses sympathy with all engaged In temperance work; demands total prohibition; the abolition of official patronage, and the election of all dvO officers br direct vote of the people; appropriate labor fur those confined in Jails: a law giving laborers first lien on property for work done; declares against subsidies of land to corporations; demands equal suffrage and eligibility to office without regard to sex, and the repeal of all laws against the civil rights of women, etc. The Illinois State Central Democratic Committee have called a State Convention to meet at Springfield, on the lltb of April, 1878. 1* Chicago, on Feb. 23d, Spring Wheat No. 3 closed at $1.10(31.10* cash. Cash corn closed at for No. 3. Cash oats No. 2 sold at 24#c; and 27'4c seller May. Rye No. 2, Barley No. 8. «©4fl*c. Cash Mess Pork closed at $10.35. Lsrd, $7.87)£. * Beeves—Extra brought [email protected]; Choice, #4.23(34.50; Good, $8.75@4J»; Medium Grades, #[email protected]; Batchers’ Stock, 2.350*. 00; Stock Cattle, etc., $2.00(33.25. H«l»-Ooo<l to Choice, $8.75<§0,06. flheepfoor to Choice, $*.00(34.7*,

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The lxmdon Observer of the 17th believed that Russia had represented to England that the United States, aa a great marttime Power, should participate In the coming Congress. England had not objected, but suggested that Greece also be Allowed to take part. A Paris dispatch of the 17th says two Ironclads from the French squadron at Smyrna had gone to the entrance of the Dardanelles. A Pera correspondent of a lxmdon newspaper says it was reported that the Circassians, when retreating before the Russians, suffo rated with sulphur 800 women and children who had taken refuge in a cave. Tint Porte lias Informed the Powers that Um (tracks have again crossed the Turkish frontier, near Arts, in Albania. Princess Chari/ittk, daughter of the Crown Prince of Germany, and Princess Eltzahrth, daughter of IVlnec Frederick Charles, were married, on the evening of the 18th, to the Prince of Saxe-Meiningen and the Prince of Oldenburg, respectively. The ceremonies were solemnised at Berlin. Ax official telegram from Zanzibar, in Africa, annouuees the death there of Messrs. Mars andCrespel, who were sent by the King of the Belgians to explore the Interior of Africa.

A Pehtii (Hungary) diaputch of the 18th says the Hungarian Ministry was in complete accord with Count Andraasy, the Austrian Premier; that Austro-Ilungary would defend her interoats diplomatically In the European Congress first, and that falling, she would, if necessary, use all the force at her command. A Bemi.ix telegram of- the 19th says the Servian Premier had presented a memorandum to Russia, claiming the whole of OldServla, and stating that Servia would not give up any of the conquered territory unless forcibly expelled. A collision between Russia and'Sends was deemed likely. Athens dispatches of the 19tli say the Thessalian insurrection was rapidly increasing. It was reported that 6,006 Tttrtts had been defeated near Volo, after a desperate battle, in w hich 600 Turks were killed. Ix the Austrian Reiehsrath, on the 19th, Prince Auspcrg, President of the Council of Ministers, said Austria was opposed to the peace preliminaries recently concluded between Russia and Turkey, because they contravened the conditions of the Treaty of Paris. He expected an early meeting of the European Congress, and hoped that the interest* of Austria would be fully considered. He was free to say that his Government unalterably opposed such conditions as would Involve an alteration of the balance of powrer In the East. The Chief of the Hungarian Cabinet made a similar declaration to the Hungarian Diet

Ox the 19th, in the German Reichstag, Prince Bismarck made a speech on the Eastern question, in which be ssid that the Interests of Germany were unaffected by existing complications. He did not believe in a European war, and thought the European Congress, which would meet not later than the middle of March, would be able to harmonize all differences. Germany did not Intend to intervene, and had no ambition to Income the arbiter of Europe. A Loxdon dispatch of the 19th says it was stated on authority which could not be questioned that 70,000,000 human beings were then starving in the famine-stricken Provinces of Northern China. According to Vienna telegrams of the 20th, the recently-expressed opinions of Bismarck and Prince Auspcrg had increased the belief that war with Russfn was probable. A Negotix special of the 20th says the Turkish Commander at IVldin had refused to surrender to the Roumanians. Server Pasha, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, has been removed and Safvet Pasha appointed his successor.

The Conclave of Cardinals at, Rome, on the 20tb, elected Cardinal Joachim Peeci as the successor of Pope Pius IX. The Pope-elect, who will assume the title of Leo XIII., is a native of Italy, sixty-eight years old and was created a Cardinal in 1853. He is said to be a Moderate, and enjoyed the confidence of the late Pope, by he whomwas appointed High Chamberlain of the Vatican. Hiseleetion was accomplished after three ballots by the method known as “bv adoration.” The Ultramontanes are said to tie furious over the choice. A Loxdox telegram of the 21st says England and Russia had readied an agreement not to occupy either shore of the Dardanelles, and to maintain for the present the existing condition of affairs. A Constantinople dispatch of the 21st says recent events had shattered the Sultan, intellectually and physically, and there were grave apprehensions that he might not recover. , .—. ; Suleiman Pasha has been arrested and will he court-martialed. The Governor of Erzeroum telegraphed the Porte, on the 21st, that he could not surrender that place at present, because the snows were so abundant in that region that lie would be unable elsewhere to obtain supplies for his army. According to Madrid dispatches of the 21st official announcement had been made there that the Cuban Rebellion was ended. Flags were flying all over the city, and, in the even ing. there was a general illumination. It was stated in the Cortes that Cuba would have the same legislative privileges and representation as Porto Rico. London dispatches of the 21st say that Earl Russell was alarmingly ill, and his early demise was expected. Late Capetown advices report that tl»e backbone of the Kaffir Rebellion had been broken. According to a Constantinople dispatch of the 22d, the Czar had telegraphed to the Porte that would occupy Constantinople unless the treaty ceding Armenia and surrend ering the Turkish fleet were signed without further delay. Ox the morning of the 22d, Rev. Henry Dodwell, of Brighton. Eng., attempted the assassination of Sir George Jesel, Master of the Rolls. Dodwell was arrested. A Paris telegram of the 22d says the Spanish Government had withdrawn 18,000 soldiers from Cuba. -

FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS The Senate continued in session up to five o'clock, on the morning of the 16th, at whifch time the Silver bill was finally passed, as mended, by a vote of 48 to 21, the yeas and nays being as follows: Yeas—Allison, Armstrong, Bailey, Beck, Booth, Brace, Cameron (Pa.), Cameron (Wis.l, Chaffee, Cockrell, Cook. Conover, Davis (11L). Davis (W. Va.). Dennis, Dorsey,' EnatiaFeny. Garland. Gordon, Grover, Here ford, Howe, Ingalls. Johnston, Jones (Fla.), Jones (Nev.l. Kellogg Kirkwood, McCreery, McDonald, McMillan. Matthews. Maxey, Memman, Morgan. Oglesby, Paddock, Plumb, Saulsbury. Saunders Spencer, Teller, Thurman. Yoorhetn, Wallace, Windom, Withers--48. Nays—Anthony. Barnaul. Bayard. Blaine, Burnside. Christiancy, Conkiing, Dawes. Edmunds, Hamlin. Hoar, Kernan. Lamar. McPherson, Mitchell. Morrill. Randolph. Rollins, Sargent, Wadleigh, Whyte—2l. Messrs. Harris and Patterson, who would have voted in the affirmative, were paired with Messrs. Hill and Batter, who woo Id have vrited in the negative, and Mr. Banaom, who would have voted in the affirmative. waa absent on account of sickness... .Adjourned to the 18th. 7— — _ ; - lx the Senate, on the 18th, bills were introduced and referred—to provide for the election of a Territorial Governor, Secretary and other Territorial officers in the several Territories; to reinstate certain officers of the United States Army ... A bill waa passed for the relief of settlers on the phblic lands under the Pre-emp-tion laws, providing (hat a settler who has occupied a tract of lands year or more-may change his settlement and take up one under the Homestead law. and the time spent on the former tract may be counted aa part of the fiv«years required under the Homestead law. The Silver bill, with the Senate amendments, was received in the Boom and placed upon tbs Speaker’s tah]e... The bill

compensating George H. (lidding* for mail service rendered prior Id the war waa prosed 163 to 90....8UM were introduced-to prohibit the or(anMan.Ml of National Bunking Association* •ndar existing laws; to promotekhr dep-nit of savings and refunding of the National debt; to incorporate the National nirific Railroad; to provide for a more thorough investigation of railroad accident*. ~i »—• Among the hills introduced and referred in the Hcnatr. on the 19th, wna one to reorganise the life-aaving and c<nut-guard service. ....The bill granting pensions to soldiers and sailors of the War of 1812 was passed 47 to 8 In a dehate on the hill to regulate the compensation of Postmasters, and for other ptirpnma, several Senators expressed themselves in favor of the restoration < f the franking privileges. Tiif. contested election case of Acklin r*. Dnrrail. from the Fourth Louisiana District, was called up in the House, the majority report favoring the contestant (Acklin), and the minority report being in favor of the sitting memlier (Dnrrail). A lengthy debate t<K>k place on Ismisisna affairs, in the oounte of which the President s Kouthern policy waa freely diactwaed. In the Senate, on the 20th, the bill to regnlate the compensation of Postmasters, and for other purposes, was taken up, and an amendment wn* agreed to—B3 to 21—providing that thr President and Vice-President, United Htatea Henators. Representatives and Delegates in Congress, Secretary of the Senate and Clerk < f the Honor may send and receive free, through toe mail*, all written amt printed communications not exceeding two ounces in weight. A second amendment was then agreed to, without division, granting the free transmission of official mail matter to *H officer* of the General Government, except Pension Agents and those who receive a fixed allowance as compensation for their services, inclnding expemvw for postage. The bill, as amended, was then parsed.

In the House, the Louisiana contested election case of Acklin r». Dnrrail was again called up, and, after considerable dehate, the majority resolution, declaring Acklin (contestant) elected and entitled to the Reat, wn* adopted without division, and Mr. Acklin was then sworn in. taking the irun-clad oath. A bill was introduced and referred in the Senate, on the 21st, to provide for a military post for the protection of the citizen* of the Black Hills region... The House hill to author ize the granting of an American register to a foreign-built ship, for the purposes of the Woodruff Scientific Expedition Around the World, was reported from the Committee on Commerce, with an amendment—two members of the rommittee dissenting from the favorable report .... Adjourned to the 26th. . ■ Bills were passed in the House dividing Missouri into two Judicial Districts providing that when a woman shall have been a member of the bar of the highe-t court in any State or Territory she shall, on application, be admitted to practice before the United States Suprcfne Court —lB9 to 64; exempting from seizure on executions or attachments issued by any United Btatc* Court the same property that shall be exempted fiom levy and sale under the laws of the State in which defemlant shall reside.... A majority report was made from the Committee on Elections in the Massachusetts contested election case of Dean »•*. Field, that Field, the sitting member, is not entitled to the seat, and that Dean, the contestant, is—Mr. Candler, of Georgia, presenting an adverse minority report signed by himself und all the Republican mem liers of the committee.. The Senate amendments to the Silver bill were debated and concurred in by large majorities, the bill going to the President for nis approval or objection .... Adjourned to the 25th.

THE NATIONAL PARTY.

Delegates to the Convention of the National party met at Toledo, on the 22d of February. A permanent organization was effected by electing Judge Francis W. Hughes, of Pennsylvania, as President, anna number of Vice-Presidents from different States. Ralph E. Hoyt, of Michigan; G. H. Jones, of New York, and G. W. Mnrphy, of lowa, were cnosen Secretaries. The following platform was adopted without debate and by a unanimous vote: Whereas, Throughout our entire country the value of real estate is depreciated, industry paralyzed, trade depressed, husinesa incomes and wages reduced, unparalleled distress inflicted upon the poorer and the middle ranks of our people, the land filled with fraud, embezzlement, bankruptcy, crime, suffering, pauperism ana stfti ration; and, Whereas, This state of things has been brought about by legislation in the interest of and dictated by money-lenders, bunkers and bondholders: ana, —rl- - While we recognize the fact that men in Congress, connected with both the old political parties, have stood up manfully for the rights of the people, nnd met the threats of the money power and the ridicule of an ignorant and subsidized press, yet neither the Republican nor the Democratic parties in their National policies propose remedies for the existing evils; and, Whereas, The Independent Greenback party and other Associations, more or less effective, have been unable heretofore to make a formidable opposition to the old party organizations; nnd

Whereas, The limiting of {the legal-tender quality of greenbacks, the changing of currency bonds into coin bonds, the demonetizing of the silver dollar, the exempting of bonds fiom taxation, the contraction of the circulating medium, the proposed forced resumption of specie payments, and the prodigal waste of tne public lands, were crimes against the people, and so far as possible the results of these criminal acts must be counteracted by judicious legislation; Therefore, We assemble in National Convention, and make a declaration of our principles, and invite all patriotic citizens to unite in an effort to secure financial reform and industrial emancipation. The organization shall be known as the " National Party." and under this name we will perfect without delay National, State and local associations, to secure the election to office of such men only as will pledge themselves to do all in their power to establish these principles: 1. It is the exclusive function of the General Government to coin and create money and regulate its value. All bank issues designed to circulate as money should be suppressed. The circulating medium, whether of a metal or paper, should be issued by the Government, and made a full legal tender for all debts, duties and taxes in the United States at its stamped value. 2. There shall be no privileged class of credit. Official salaries, pehsions, bonds and all other debts and obligations, public and private, shall be discharged in the legal-tender money of the United States strictly according to the stipulations of the laws under which they were contracted. 3. The coinage of silver should lie placed on the same footing as that of gold. 4. Congress snail provide said money adequate to the full employment of labor, the equitable distribution of its products and the requirement of business, fixing, a minimum amount per co-pi tg to the population, as near as may be, and otherwise regulating its volume by wise and equitable provisions of law, so that the rate of interest will secure to labor its just reward. 6. It is inconsistent with the genius and spirit of popular government that any species of private property should be exempt from bearing its lust share of thefpublic burdens. Government bonds and money shonld be taxed precisely as other property, and a graduated income-tax should be levied for the support of the Governin' nt and the payment of its debts. 6. The public lands are the common property of the whole people, and should not be sold to spei ulators, nor granted to railroads or other corporations, but shonld be donated to actual settlers in limited quantities. 7. The Government shonld, by general enactment, encourage the development of our agricultural, mineral, mechanical, manufacturing and commercial resources, to the end that labor may be fully and profitably employed, but no monopolies should be legalized, 8. All useless offices should be abolished, the mo»t rigid economy enforced in every branch of the public service, and severe punishment inflicted upon officers who lietnty the trusts reposed in them. 9. As educated labor has devised means for multiplying production by inventions and discoveries. ana as their use requires the exercise of mind as well as body, such legislation should be had that the number of hours of daily toil will be reduced, giving to the working classes more leisure for mental improvement and social enjoyment, and saving them from premature decay and deatb. 10. The adoption of an American monetary system as proposed herein will harmonize an aiffcrCnoe in regard to tariff and Federal taxation, reduce ana equalize the oostof transportation by land and water, distribute equitably the joint earnings of capital and labor, secure to the producers of wealth the results of their labor and skill, muster out of service the vast army of idlera. who. under the existing system, grow rich upon the earnings of others, that every man and woman may, by their own efforts, secure a competence, so (hat overgrown fortunes and extreme seldom found within the limits 11. Both the National and Stkte Governments should establish bureaus of labor and industrial statistics, clothed with the power of gathering and publishing the same. 12. That the contract system of employing, labor in our prisons and reformatory institutions works great injustice to otir mechanics and artisans, and shonld be prohibited. 13. The importation of servile labor into the United States from China is a problem of the most serious importance, and we recommend legislation looking to its suppression, A National Executive Committee, to be composed of one member for, each State, was then ordered and appointed, the committee to have permission to fill vacancies which may occur in its membership. The committee is made up as follows; Massachnsetu, Charles McLean; Rhode Island. ( J, CTVallett; Connecticut, Al*xandqr sw^

New York. Ralph Beaumont; New Jersey. John J. Drew: Pennsylvania, F. Orwees; Maryland. Jem Gilmore; Virginia. Mo*es Stearns: West Viiginia. John A. Thompson; Ohio. D. B. fiturgmmt Michigan, Moms W. Field; Indian*. O. J. Smith: Illinois, Alexander Campbell-Wis-ciins.n, Edward P. Allis: Nebraska, Allen Root; lowa, Daniel (hmpb-11; Missouri, Brittan A. Hill; Kentucky, P. 1.. D. Guppy ; Tennessee. Henry Richmond; Arkansas.CharlesK.Cunningham: Isiuisiana, I). Forney; Alabama. J. K WishlkU; Georgia, Daniel H. Pittman; Kansas. U F. Sargent; Texas, left vacant by request until theHtate Convention meets; Colorado. Joseph Wolf; Oregon, Thomas J. Durant; California, left vacant for the present. Tlit* following resolution wan then unnnimoualy agreed to; Reeotnd, That, aa we lielieve in the supremacy (if the law over and above all perishable material. and the nenensity for a party of united people that will rise above old party lines and prejudices, we will not affiliate in anv uegrec with either of the old parties, hut in all cases snd localities will organize anew aa united National men, nominate for office or official position only such persons as are clearly believers in and identified with this our sacred cause, and, irrespective of creed, color, place of birth, or past conditions of political or other servitude, vote only for men who entirely nbandon old party lines and organization*. A resolution waa offered, and unanimously adopted, denouncing the Silver bill, just passed in Congress, as a delusion, and indignantly condemning it as a financial measure. After short speeches by Hon. S. F. Cary, Blanton Duncan and others, and the adoption of the usual resolutions of thanks and the Doxology, the Convention adjourned sine die.

The Silver Bill.

The following is the full text of the Silver bill as amended and passed by the Senate on the morning of the 16th. It is entitled “ A bill to authorize the coinage of a standard silver dollar, and restore its legal-tender character:’’ hf it enacted, «(r,. Section 1, That there shall lie coined at the several minis of the United State* silver dollars of the weight of 41214 grains troy, of standard silver, as provided in the act of Jan. 18.1837, on which shad lie the devices and superscription provided by mid act. which coins, together with all silver dollars heretofore coined by the United Htates of like weight and fineness, shall be a legal-tender at their nominal value for all debt* and dues, public and private, except where otherwise expressed and stipulated in the contract; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to purchase from time to time silver bullion, at the market price thereof, not less than #2.lloo,(Kin worth per month, nor more than #4,000,(0.1 worth per month, and cause the same to lie mined monthly, as fast as ho purchased, into such dollars, and a sum sufficient to carry out the foregoing provision of this act is tiereby appropriated nut of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. And any gain sir seigniorage arising from this coinage shall be accounted for and paid into the Treasury, ns provided under existing laws relative to the subsidiary a innge; provided, that the amount of money at any one time invested in such silver bullion, exclusive of such resulting coin, shall not exceed #6,000,000; and provided, further, that nothingin this act shall be construed to authorize the payment, in silvor, of certificates of deposit issued under the provisions of Sec. 264 of tne Revised Statutes. Sec. 2. All acts and ports of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Ski. 3. That immediately after the passage of this act the President shall invite the Governments of the countries composing the Latin Union, so called, and of such other European Nations as he may deem advisable, to join the United States in Conference to adopt a common ratio hetecn gold and silver, for the purpose of establishing internationally the use of bi-metallic money and securing a fixity of the relative value between those metals; such Conference to be held at such place in Europe, or in the United States, at such time within six months as may be mutually agreed upon by the Executives of the Governments joining in the same, whenever the Governments so invited, or any three of them, shall have signified their willingness to unite in theHame. The President shall, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint three Commissioners, who shall attend such Conference on behalf of the United States, and shall report the doings thereof to the President who shall transmit the same to Congress. Said Commissioners shall each receive the sum of #2,500 and their reasonable expenses, to be approved by jthe Secretary of State, and the amount necessary to pay such compensation and expenses is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otheiwise appropriated. Sec. 4. That any holder of the coin authorized by this act may deposit the same with the Treas.urer or any Assistant Treasurer of the United States in sums of #lO, ami receive therefor certificates of not leas than #lO each, corresponding with the denominations of United States notes. The coin deposited for, or representing, the certificates, shall be retained in the Treasury for the payment of the same on demand. Said certificates shall be receivable for customs, taxes and all public dues, and when so received may lie re issned.

Library of the State Department at Washington.

The library is the gem of the bureau. Architecturally, the room is the pride of the building. The work is of iron, without any appearance of heaviness. The airy grace of the balconied interior is heightened by the pure white and delicate pearl-colored decorations, touched here and there with gilt. It is illuminated by a square dome, through which the softened sunlight falls upon the tiers of literary treasures. This library was founded by Jefferson in 1789, and many of the earlier purchased works bear his impress and autograph. It was in September of that year that the Secretary of State was empowered by Congress to procure the laws of the several States. Now one tier of the three roomy galleries is devoted exclusively to the collection of the laws of the States, and is very complete. The library contains the best and the largest collection of books relating to international affairs that can possibly be obtained, including the great work of Dumont on international law, the first ever published on the subject, and made up from the most ancient sources, and from all the kpewn Governments in the world; and the works of the great writers of all ages, down to the latest publication of to-day. We might mention, as illustrative of the scope of this alcove, the magnificent folio statutes of the realm of Great Britain; “ Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates,” in sojuc 300 volumes; the State papers not only of Great Britain, but of other foreign countries; the “ Mirror of Parliament?’ in twenty great volumes, upon which Charles Dickens was employed; a series of forty or more folios devoted to Russian law; and Thomas Rvmer’s great work, which contain? the treaties, leagues, manifestoes, capitulations, correspondence and other public documents of England and the various countries of the world. The department of history is equally full. Our National book Collectors have done themselves credit by the manner in which they have culled jewels from all parts of the earth. Histories of all Nations and in all languages grace the shelves. One curiosity is a universal history from the creation, called the “ Nuremberg Chronicles,” printed in 1493. The cuts display singular artistic talent; they were executed by the master of Albert Durer, and before Ptis time. The artist was so enamored of -his own pictures that he often used the same one again and again, as in the case of a fine representation of Jupiter, which he afterward repeated for St. Paul, A later acquisition is an “ Abridged. Universal History,” produced in Japan. It contains historical sketches of all the Nations of the world, with portraits of distinguished public characters, which are quickly recognized in spite of Japanese peculiarity’ of execution—; Charles It., Napoleon, Lincoln, Victor Emmanuel, Christopher Columbus, the Emperor of Russia, Washington, etc., etc. It is neatly printed in Japanese characters, and intended for the use of their normal schools. In the alcove devoted to biography, memoirs of all the notable Frenchmen of every’ age indicate somewhat of the length of the catalogue.— Martha‘J, Lamb, in Harper's Maqazine fdr "March. Corn bred—Poultry,

MISCELLANEOUS items. —lndolence is the rust of the mind end the inlet of every vice. —A man who is sensitive about hia feet: One who has the gout. —He that calleth his brother fool Is in danger of getting his nose poliod. —Be sure you’re ahead—then go right — N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. —Unhappiness in the married state is not always a sign of genius, says the 8t Louis Journal. —A tramp ninety-eight years old is going through Eastern Massachusetts m several particulars. —When a blockhead falls and breaks his cranium, it is described as an injury in the lumber regions. —A man was sentenced in Nashville to three years in the Penitentiary for stealing three boxes of pepper. —Riches will never take wings and fly away if you sprinkle a little economy on its tail. — Whitehall Times. —“There,” gasps John Bull, wiping his heated brow, “Thank ’eaven that bold hobelisk his landed hat last.” —A full-blown pond lily vfcas discovered under the clear ice by a party of boys skating at North Sandwich, Mass. —“Don’t you think, husband, that you are apt to believe everything you hear?” “ No, madame; not when you talk.” —The first hours «f slumber are the sweetest. If ever a man sleeps the sleep of the just, it is when he's just asleep. —Mr. Jones was advised to get his life insured. “Won’t do it,” he said: “ it would be my luck to live forever if I should.”, • •• —Miss Sedgwick says that the more intelligent a woman becomes, the more judiciously will she manage her domestic concerns. —“Tell your mistress that I’ve torn the curtain,” said a lodger to a female domestic. “ Very well, sir; mistress will put it down in the bill as extra rent.”

—A school-house lot in a New Hampshire district stands in three towns, so that the pupils sit in Rindge, the teacher in New Ipswich and recess is taken in Ashbumham, Mass. —A woman in Dumfernline, Scotland, died recently from the excessive drinking of strong green tea. “The cup that cheers, but not inebriates” is not altogether harmless. —“ln selecting a husband,” said Mrs. Puffer, “ above all things choose a man «of cultivation.” This remark harrowed the girl to such an extent that she went off and married a farmer. —“Who are the bloated bondholders?” inquires the New York Commercial Advertiser. Ask us the opposite of that question, sir, and we shall speak out in thunder tones. — Buffalo Egress —“Do you know,” remarked a rather fast' Newark youth the other day to a stuttering friend to whom he was slightly indebted, “do you know that 1 intend to marry and settle down?” “I do-don.lt know anything about it,” was the reply, “ bu-biitl think you had b-b-better stay single and settle up.”— Newark Call. —A new terror will shortly be added to breach-of-promise suits. A kind of writing paper has been invented that will not burn. It will then be useless to write the phrase “please burn this letter,” for even if burnt the manuscript will rise Phoenix-like from its ashes and thus will let no guilty man oocapo. It is best frhen choosing writ ing paper to see that you don’t get any of the non-combustible sort palmed off on you. A word to the wise is sometimes sufficient.— Detroit Free Press. —“An exchange says: “ Manya worn an is mourning to-day over blighted affections, hopes not realized, love grown cold, and the wail that is ever going up from her tender, loving heart is only the old one that has gone up from a thousand hearts before —‘ it might have been.’ Sad,*sad cry, but thus it has been and ever it will be to the dawning of a better day. But the woman that is up at the early dawn, cooking buckwheat cakes for four grown boys and a growing girl, is not bothered with any such thoughts as these.”

—An accomplished yonng lady, daughter of a pork-packer in Cincin nati, was engaged to bo married to an educated young man. Just beforo the happy day she wrote her intended a note, in which she referred to the “ approaching nupshals,” anda“dimund” ring. The sensitive voung man wept over the orthography, but had about made up his mind to sacrifice himself, when "the dread intelligence came that the father hat' failed, and wasn’t worth a cent. He might have forgiven the orthography, but the failure, never. And so there is in the courts a breach-of-promise case. According to the Journal of the Society of Arts, it is not difficult to determine by chemical tests the presence of oleomargarine, or artificial butter, as an adulteration in genuine butter, the fact being that fresh butter is completely soluble in methylated ether ol specific gravity 0.730 at a temperature of 65 degs. If methylated alcohol, 63 degs. above proof, be added to this, and well shaken, all the lard, beef, mutton, or tallow fats, that may have been mingled with the butter, will be precipitated. Care, however, is to be exercised not to mistake the crystallization of butter out of the ethereal solution, at a lower temperature than 65 degs., for the fats precipitated by__the alcohol. The butter, besides, being so much lighter, occupies the upper layer, is different in character, and is easily remelted by applying the warm liana for a minute or two.

The New Pope, Leo XIII.

The Rome correspondent of the New York Herald, in a letter to that paper written before the election of a successor to the late Pope Pius IX., wrote as follows of Cardinal Pecci, since elected to the Papacy: > - “Joachim Pecci was born at Carpenetto, in the Diocese of Arragui, on March 2, 1810, and is sixty-eight years of age. He was created Cardinal on Dec. 19, 1853. He is Archbishop of Perouse and Chamberlain of the Pope. His Eminence is a likely candidate for the Papacy, although a “Moderate” —a “Moderate.” ; although a Chamberlain, and a Chamberlain, although an enemy of Antonelli. He was to have been created Cardinal at the request of Protestant, King Leopold 1., of Belgium, to whom he nad been sent as Nuncio by Gregory XVI., but, on the death of the latter, Piux IX., yielding to the vindictiveness of Antodelli, allowed seven years to elapse before he gave him the hat- * “Of high intellect, of a well-tried and energetic nature, His Eminence has made not only an excellent Bishop, but has realized the tvpe of a perfect Cardinal. As an Avrainistrator he managed to clear Beqevento of smug-

gling and brigandage, as well as of the undorhand intrigues of the party of th? nobility. As a man of intelligence he does not regard with such a pessimist eye as his colleagues the reciprocal sensations of the Church and society. He has evidently found a solution iu his own mind for existing and eventual difficulties. “ His Eminence is tall and thin. His features have an aristocratic stamp, and are characterized .by great finesse. He Has a resemblance at once to Voltaire and Richelieu. The voice strikes one disagreeably at first, it is so nasal in its tones, but one soon gets accustomed to this peculiarity, owing to its fullness and resonance. Although simple in manners, His Eminenco is of all the Cardinals the one who carries himself with most Pontifical majesty, resembling in this Pius IX., who, in his early days, passed for incomparable.”

Where the Birds Go.

The prevailing decrease in the number of insectivorous and other small birds is an established fact. Various causes may be assigned for the diminution, but it seems to me the grand one is the inevitable tendency of civilization to annihilate all forms of wild life. It is sometimes said that boys destroy large numbers of brids. It is my observation, however, that lioys wantonly destroy very few birds. The incipient hunter, being anxious to attest his destructive skill, will sometimes shoot a bird, but the popular disapproval that follows the act generally cures him of his ambition to destroy anything, not legitimate game. In some of the Middle and Southern States large numbers of robins and rice-birds (bobolinks) are annually destroyed by hunters. In these places such birds are game, being captured and consumed with every consideration of profit that attend the killing of pigeons and paitridges. I am not aware that the general habits of the community are anywhere direetly opposed to the existence of common song birds, and others not generally regarded as proper objects for destruction; the fact that certain varieties of these birds in a measure recognize man as their natural protector weighs against the proposition. The few birds captured for scientific purposes hardly affect the general number of individuals. The indirect efforts of civilization are strongly prejudicial to the existence and multiplication of birds. The destruction of forests deprives birds of their natural haunts; the relentless scythe, that searches out every nook and corner of the grass lot, frightens them from Qur fields; the con stant modification of physical relations, effected by thorough tillage, destroys the means of sustenance of certain varieties. In general terms, the earth, to support more men, can sustain only less birds. Strange as it may at first seem, certain mechanical inventions are eminently deadly to birds. The tendency of birds to dash into a bright light is well known. One morning, this year, 143 dead birds were found lodged upon a lighthouse near New Haven, Conn. We cannot tell how many hundreds, after striking the light, fell dead into the water that night. Over 200 birds were also found one morning this season on board a propeller in Long Island Sound, many-, if not all, of which were killed by flying against the headlight and smoke-stacks. More than these, the pilotof the steamer Continental, at Hell (late, found. nn» night thu jSG»j2nn, thn rlooU covered with dead small birds. They were swept off in heaps, and, in the morning, over 750 were counted; and this was only a part of them. Bird laws will accomplish something in behalf of the harmless feathered tribes; but it looks as if the time is coming when our native song birds must be domesticated to be preserved. —Manchester (N. //.) Mirror.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Elihu Burritt, the great linguist, of Connecticut, has entirely recovered, and will yet linger with us awhile. —The father of Charlie Ross said to a reporter: “Thi3 makes 375 boys I have been called on to see, or have been written about, and my hundreds of failures to identify each waif as my own have taught me to entertain no sanguine hope. I suppose I shall continue going to see boys till I die; but I don’t expect to find Charlie in any of them.” —While the President’s son, Webb C. Hayes, was on the way to Canada with the Earl of Dufferin, before leaving Albany a wag telegraphed to Schenectady' that the President was on the train and would address the people at the station. On the way he went, through the train, excepting the ear in which young Hayes was, and told the passengers the same story, advising them to get out at Schenectady anti help swell the crowd. When the traih arrived there was a crowd at the station, which the passengers joined only to realize, after a few moments, that they had been deceived. —Gen. John Palmer thus describes the appearance of Stonewall Jackson when he went to West Point, as a “Plebe”; “He was dressed in a suit of jeans—blue trousers and vest and a cut-away coat of brown, He wore a ‘ tile 1 and shoes. Boots would have been expensive for him in his town. In his long arms, his shambling gait and his general appearance was something so ludicrous that a shout went up frdm the assembled ‘things’ its lie appeared ott ground for nis first drill. But with this otitra appearance he had a good, woll-shaped head, full, broad forehead, large, full and expressiye brown eyes, a good mouth which, when smiling, gave an expression of great good nature as well as intelligence.”

—The New York Tribune says: “The former Private- Secretary of President Polk has been discovered, old and poor, in Santa Fe. He knew Andrew Jackson, and describes an incident that happened while he was staying at the General’s house, after the death of Mrs. Jackson. One morning he arose very early and started to walk toward the old family cemetery. He approached rather close to the grave of Mrs. Jackson,, and was surprised to find the General himself kneeling over jt. He retraced his footsteps as soon as possible, but- not* toe-soon tor the quick eye of the old soldier to see him. Afterward he spoke to his visitor about the matter, and said that the act in which he had beheld him was no uncommon one. Every morning, he said, he went to the grave, for he thought it the proper §lace for him to conduct his religious evotions. ’ ’ The Cleveland Leader has discovered that the Catholic Bishops of the United States held $9,000,000 worth of property in 1850; in 1870, it says, this had increased to $60,000,000; now jt is $110,000,000,

The Fortifications of the Dardanelles.

A writer In the AUgcmeine Zeituno says: “ The straits at Gallipoli are about a German mile (four English) broad. To the southeast is Lamsaki, on the woody Asiatic shore, just opposite the mouth of the A£goepotamos; a little farther on the straits gradually beoomo more narrow up to Sestos and Abydos, celebrated as the scene of the story of Hero and Leander, and still more as the place where the Army of Xerxes and that of Alexander under Parmenion crossed to the European Bhore. The first Turkish fort is on the adjoining cape of Nagara-Burun.” “The straits then turn directly to the south, and here is their narrowest part, not quite two thousand meters wide, between ‘the Castles of the Dardanelles' at Tchanak-Kalessi, on the Asiatic, and Kilid-Bahri, on the Roumelian side. The old fortifications consist mainly of towers and brick walls, which shortly before the outbreak of the war were armed with big guns of a very old pattern, some with stone projectiles. A short time ago some of these walls were pulled down, especially those to the south of Tchanak-Kalessi, in order to lay down the huge Krupp guns presented by Herr Krupp to the late Sultan Abdul Aziz. The Castle of TchanakKalessi commands the whole of the southern part of the Dardanelles up to the /Egean Sea; and it is therefore the central point of all the maritime defences between Kum-Kaleh on the south and Gallipoli on the north. Beside the above castle three batteries —Medjdio, Kische-Burun and NagaraBurun—have been recently armed with Krupp guns of various calibers and twenty and six-and-thirty-pounders. Kilid-Bahri, on the European shore, formerly also had an imposing park of artillery consisting of old guns, which, however, were of but little practical use. Some of them bore the arms of the Venetian Republic, and there was an immense quantity of stone projectiles. These have all been- removed, and most of the cannon have been replaced by Krupp guns, which are stated to be fifteen in number. There are also in the neighborhood of Kilid-Bahri three shore batteries: Dermen Tabia, with eleven guns (including five Krupps); Tchan-Tabia, with seven guns, and Boali-Tabia, with twenty old twelve and six-and-thirty-pounders. “In proceeding southward from the Castles of the Dardanelles, one perceives on the Asiatic side a lofty and commanding shore, which has hitherto not been fortified, the site of the ancient Dardania, which has given its name to the straits. At the southern entrance to the Hellespont are the two forts of Kum-Kaleh and Sedil-Baliri, the former on the coast of the Troad, and the latter at the extreme southerly end of the Thracian Chersonese. These forts were erected by Sultan Mohammed IV. in 1659, and they have lately been strengthened by several batteries on the Roumolian shore. Their position is not, on the whole, so favorable from a military point of view as that of the Castles of the Dardanelles, and Sedil-Bahri, from its isolated position, might easily be threatened by a land force coming from the shores of the jEgean. “As to the question of the possibility of forcing a passage through tho straits, the writer thinks that such an undertaking, though not absolutely impossible, could in the present state of the fortifications not be carried out by an iron-clad fleet without several ot its snips. He believes, however, that owing to the strength of the current, especially when a north wind is blowing, it would be scarcely possible to close up the channel by means of torpedoes.”

Conflict Between a Man and a Decr.

A few days since Mr. Coyne rode over to Mr. Crouch’s corn-field to salt some cattle which he had there on hire while the stalk feed lasted. After salting and looking over the herd he was wending his way homeward on an easy canter when his horse started suddenly, looked forward earnestly and stopped. Mr. Coyne has not much eyesight left, but he thought he saw something, and; sliding off his horse, he hitched it to a corn-hill and taking a look of closer scrutiny lie saw a large deer standing with its hind feet on abridge and its forward part down in the stream, apparently trying to break through the loe in search of drink. Mr. Coyne’s blood was up immediately. He approached the deer from behind with the ambling gait peculiar to a man with a single eye, stiff arms, lame limbs, broken ribs and rheumatic stiffness. The deer kept busy and so did Billy, so that just as the last swallow was taken, Billy’s last step had been taken, and almost flat on the ground he seized the deer, one limb in each hand, just above the pastern joints. That mo ment the creature gave a frightened bleat and a tremendous bound. Billy says they went floating through the air for a 4 distance of perhaps two rods, and came down together in the middle of the quagmire. After that he says things were a little mixed. The deer got one foot loose on Billy’s lame side, and kicked him black and blue every place but in his “ left eye.” That was mercifully preserved, but he got ahother hold after he had been dragged some distance, and regaining his feot ■he raised the hinder parts of the struggling animal from tne ground, gave it a side twist, and managed to give it such a kick with his boot as to stun it, and seizing it round the neck gathered a convenient stone and knocked it on the hoad. After taking some satisfaction in this way, he mounted his horse, rode to Mr. Crouch's, got a butcher knife, and rode back and found the dear half-way on its feet again. He dispatched it, rode home and sent his boys after the carcass with a wagon, remarking that he was a “ leetle too stiff” to go hknself. —Rock Island (III.) Union.

The managers of a few creameries in New York have adopted a new method in management of their milk. As the new milk is received, night and morning, at the creamery, it is run into large vats, and at once heated to 140 degrees or above, by driving steam into the milk. This drives the odors out and enables them to keep the milk twelve to twenty-four hours longer than it would without heating. As" soon as the heatiug is dime, cola water is run around the milk and through it by a series of horizontal tubes in the middle of the milk, the top tube being just below the cream, to be out of the way of skimming. Thu 3by cooling the milk at the outside and the middle, it is rapidly done and the cream hurried to the surface. The total debt of Philadelphia is $73,615,351, including a floating debt nearly $12,000,000. Its assets are reported by the City Comptroller at SBB,323,194, including the Sinking Fund securities, parks, public buildings, eto.