Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1878 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

Tn vote in Utß Senate, on the paaeate or the Itamwads bill, to regulate the counting of tbs Electoral vote for President sndVlre Preotasat, was as follows >lxf tiJuukT* ■ <>g *?’ ygna. ftSSm., IWler: ytatas. Mania, HeiwfMd, (Fl*.). ThSmn. Voortera. wSA Wtmo at the Poller InrortljiUng Committee wuteld, in Washington, on the leth. Upon the application of Att’y-Gen. Cooke, of Florida, for permission to introtees evManoa corroborative of his statement, loot winter, that he had seen Gov. Noyes and Gov. Stearns tone out of the room where the Board of Canvassers were In session, although lor an hoar or more be had been unable to obtain admission, which statement was emphatically denied by Messrs. Noyes and Steams, ths committee decided that, as this coatfct of veracity did not involve any material paint in the subject of inquiry they vronMnothaaranywitneeaes concerning it An order was mode, however, allowing Cocke to die ec parte affidavits in support of his statemont, and granting the same permission to tbewtber aide. If it ahall be desired. The RrpuMfcaa members of the committee have selected Gen. Cox to represent them on any aabcommtttce sent to Louisiana. Gen. But tar wan not present at the meeting of the committee, and no allusion was made to the cipher telegrams. Tta yros sad nan on the passage, in the Senate, of the resolution of Senator Blaine providing for an Investigation as to whether, at the recent elections, the Constitutional rights of any citizens were violated, in any State, were as follows: ttantty, OockrelL Ooke. OonUinc. Dans (LIU Qbym (W* Vb»). IMwps, Ite&ute Fcnj, Garland. Gordon. Hamlin. Harris. Hereford. Baar, Howe, Hralls Jones (Fla.). Kellon. Kernan,kirkw«Bd, McDonald. McMillan, McPberSm. Matthews, Maxey. Merrimon, Mitchell. Mcr rill. Ogteby. Paddock. Pattentm, Randolph. Bansem. Bollins, Saundem, Spencer. Teller. Vonteas. Wadletah. Wtadtam. Wilber*-56. Hill, MoCreety, Morgan, WalJtesraGtoitt and Saulsbury said they ’ were paired with Plumb and Conover upon political questions, but didnot say how they would have voted on this resolution. Mr. Davis (HI.) anns on sad that if the Senator from Ohio (Thurman) were present, he would vote aye. Ox being informed, on the 18th, that gold tad again opened at par with greenbacks in New York, Sec’y Sherman remarked to a newspaper correspondent that this was as he expected and said he did not believe gold would again be above par with the amount of gold on hand and the near approach of the time for paying It out, and he thought it imposaibie for a premium, however smell, to exist He thought that, within a short time, greenbacks would be at a very slight premium above gold, owing to their greater convenience. Sbc’y Shkrman has issued a call tor *lO,996,100, being the rest and residue of the bonds outstanding under the act of March 3, 1865, consols of 1865, not included in former calls. Ox the 18th, Sec’y Sherman authorised the payment of coupon interest on the public debt falling due Jan, 1,1879, without rebate, and tn coin or currency as the holder may desire.

«u Daniel McFuor, sixty-four years old living in East Cambridge* Mass., concluded a qoarrel with his wife, on the 17th, by braining her with his ax. Fx-Fxxsident Morton, of the Philadelphia Market Street Railway, and Sam R. Huhiq Secretary, have been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment in the Eastern Pennsylvania Penitentiary, having pleaded guilty to the charge <d over-issuing the stock of the corporation. Jack Kehoe, the “King” of the “ Mollie Maguires,” wm hung at Pottsville, Pa., on the 18th, for tbe murder in 1862 of a collieryboss named Langdon. At that time Kehoe belonged to a murderous organization known as tbe u Puckshots.” Kehoe died of strangulatien, and his death struggles Wive liorrihle. Patrick Rourke and his family of five children were burned to death in the City of Cohoes, N. Y.. on the night of the 18tli. A calx, has been issued for a conference of the Representatives of the National party, in New England, at Boston, on the 3d .of Jannan- .. Cold closed in New York, ou Dec. 1-ssh, st par. The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, 96«96Kc; No. 2 Milwaukee, Oats, Western Mixed, S'Ml’OX*- Corn, Western Mixed, 4GJ4S4Bc. Post, Mess, *[email protected]. Lard, *5.95. Flour, Good to Choice, White Wheat Extra, *4.55@Y25. Cattle, *6-s)@ MMX) for Good to Extra. Sheep, &.7A Hogs, *[email protected]. At East Liberty, Pa., on Dec. 19th, Cattle brought: Best, *[email protected]; Medium, *4 00 04.50; Common, *8.0003.75. Hogs sold—Totters, *2.7002.85; Philaffelphlas, *2.930 3,0). Sheep brought *2.0004.25 —according to qualityAt Baltimore, Md., on Dec. 19th, Cattle brought: Best, *4.5005.00; Medium, *3.2503.75. Hogs sold at *3.7504.12% for Good. Sheep were quoted at *3.5305.00 for Good.

»'<»T AN* ••OTM. I x Custer County, Neb., a few day* sgo, two men named Mitchell and Ketchum, respectivdv, charged with being'eattle-thievei-, were taken from the custody of officers by. a band of masked Texan cow-boys, cruelly tortured in the Indian fashion and then burned to death. It has since transpired that they were innocent of the offense for which they were arrested. Thb Gubernatorial nomination in Ohio was recently tendered to Senator Thurman by some of the leading Democratic politicians of that State. Thia nomination Senator Thurman declared, peremptorily, he would not accept, even though ratified by a State Convention. His health was poor, and he would not make the canvass Anu in the business center of St Louis. Mo., on the night of the 17th, destroyed property valued at ♦250,000. Among the sufferers were Jaccard A Co., Jewelers, Powell a Co., carpet-dealeraond Alexander, druggist. Ths banking-house of C- F. Adae a Co., at Cincinnati, Ohio, suspended on the 18th. LSaMlfttes, *780,000. The depositors are mostly 1K Chicago, on Dcc. 19th. Spring Wheat No. 2 dosed at cash; 88#c for J*ntmrv; Fnbrtwy cwt Com dosed st «l«e tor No. 2; 31* c for January; ®3f c Joe May... CMhOste-N&g add at 20c, aod2oj<c seller January. Kye No. 2, UM®- ®" Ie T No- 2. flfc for cash, We tor January. Cash Mees Pork closed at 5M0®7.75. Lard, *5.55. Beeves —Bxtra brought Choice, *4. lo (gM-86; Good, *[email protected]; Medium Grides, 98.00(38.40; Butchers’ Stock, to Choice. Bh«fp ■=■ Poor to

ro*Bial KWWM&MSSBUNta. Vuutna dispatches say the Chiefs of tbe Albania* Leqtue had demanded that all Albanian Districts be incorporated as autonomous Provinces They declare that they shall act on tbe defensive, aud tn the future ignore the authority of the Porte. Aooowding to a St. Peteraburgh dispatch of the 14 th, the Czar had announced bis Intention to appoint a collectlvely-responslble Cabinet. It was reported from St. Petersburg, on the 14th. that the Czar was opposed to the Issue of a new Turkish loan, on the ground that tbe revenues of the latter country should be bekKlirst, or the payment of her old iudrbteduess, including the war indemnity. It was time enough to contract new debts after tbe oM were paid. J Tn Investigating Committee into tbe Condition of. the West of England and South Wales District Hank, which lately suspended, have submitted a report showing that the whole capital and reserve funds have been lost, and that there is a further deficiency of •1,300,000, for which the stockholders are Hable.

The Russians are pre|M>rlng to evacuate Adrianople in January. On the 16th, the shareholders of tbe Odessa (Russia) Commercial Bank, one of tbe moat prominent financial Institutions of Continental Europe, decided to go into Immediate liquidation. London telegrams of the 16th say that a message of condolence on the death of Princess Alice had been received from tbe Csar. An assurance was also given that the Russian operations in Mery were directed only against certain local tribes, and that Russia would not Interfere in the war between Shere AU and Great. Britain. St. Petersburg advices of the 16th were to the effect that war was imminent between Russia and China, in consequence of complications arising out of the Kashgar occupation. Tub House of Commons, on the 17th, adopted without division a resolution declaring that the expenses’ of the Afghan War should be paid out of the Indian revenues, and Parliament adjourned nutil Feb. 13, 1879. Willtan Anderson, Superintendent of the Eastern Telegraph Company, was recently municred at Candia in Crete. A Pf.shawuk dispatch, received in Ixmdon on tbe 17tb, says information had been received that Gen. MacPhcrson’s brigade liacl occupied Jelalabad. Dispatches from many portions of England and Scotland, received on the 18th, say the distress and suffering caused by the lalior depression was appalling. Thousands were receiving aid, and daily meetings were lielng held all over the Kingdom to raise funds for the relief of destitute workmen and tbelr families. Several heavy failures were announced al Stockholm, Sweden, on the 18th. It was thought a bank panic impended. The Bank of England advanced its rates for discounts, on the 19th, to 7 per cent. Aocokoinu to a Constantinople telegram ol tbe 19th, Romer, the American, charged with conspiracy against the Sultan, bad been or would shortly be expelled from Turkey. AN unprecedented gale prevailed in Con stantinople and vicinity, on the 19th. Many buildings were prostrated and numerous lives lost On the afternoon of the 19 th, the steamerByzantine, from Marseilles for Constantinople, collided, near Galata, with another craft, aud over 150 persons perished. United States Minister Bayard Taylor died at Berlin, on the 19th. The fatal symptoms came on suddenly. Mr. Taylor had been indisposed for several days, but was out of bed, and was transacting Ynisiness with the officials of the American I .ge at ion, on the 18th. His death was peaceful and painless.

coxtttttasaioxAi. prockwdinmn. The Senate was not in session, on the 14th. in the House, the Senate bill authoriziug thb issue of duplicates of registered bonds stolen from the Manhattan Havings Institution, in New York, was passed... The Indian Appropriation bill was reported and made the special order for the 18th... .The Senate amendments to the Military Academy Appropriation bill were nearly all non-oonenrred in.... A resolution was adopted, reciting the late Indian raids in Kansas and Nebraska, and the capture of marauders, and calling ofi the Secretary of the Interior for information as to wh,v be had not surrendered the gniltyand responsible parties of such Indian bands to tbe authorities of Kansas and Nebraska ....The Geneva Award bill was further discussed. .. The Senate bill to regulate Presidential elections was referred to a committee on the subject. In the Senate, bn the 16th, a number of bills were introduced and referred.. ..The Consular and Diplomatic and the Naval Appropriation. bills were reported, with amendments. .... A motion to lake np the Pacific Railroad bill was rejected -yeas, 2fi; nays, 32 . The resolution of Mr. Blaine in regard to elections in tlie South was taken np. ana a motion to lay on the table was rejected—yeas. 3; nays, 66- Messrs. Davis (W. VaJ. McCreery and Wallace voting m the affirmative. Tbe amendment of Mr. Thurman was then agreed to without division, after which Mr. Conkling submitted an amendment, which was agreed to—36 to 27 -to have the investigation made by a special committee of nine Senators instead of the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Blaine then submitted an amendment authorizing the committee to take testimony by itself or any sub-committee, and to visit any portion of the country when such visit may, in their judgment, facilitate any portion of the object of the inquiry'. Mr. Batler moved to amend the amendment so as to provide that the committee and sub-committees thereof should sit with open doors. Mr. Butler’s amendment was opposed by Mr. Blaine, and, after delnte, was rejected—yeas, Si); nays. 30. Mr. Davis (W. Va.)then proposed an amendment that the committee and sub-committees should sit with open doors when requested to do so bi' any member of the committee. After a lengthy debate this amendment was also rejected—yeas. 28; nays, 29.... An Executive session was then held. Among the bills introfiuced and referred in the House were the following: Providing for the payment of duties on imports In United States notes; reducing the charge for Postoffice money orders to five cents; for the exchange ol standard for trade-dollars; to limit the coinage of the standard silver dollars to five dollars per capita, according to the census about to be taken, and to make them a legal tender to the amount of twenty dollars for all debtor providing for tbe free coinage of silver; proposing a penslty of *I,(KO to be imposed upon any National Bank for each offense in refusing io receive or pay out tbe standard silver dollars the same as other lawful mdnejr; providing for the circulation of National Bank notes of less than five dollars after resumption, the same as before; to abolish tbe Bureau of Military Justice District of Columbia affairs were considered.

The Senate, on the 17th, insisted upon its amendments to the Military Academy Appropriation bill, and a Conference Committee was appointed... .The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was amended and passed.... A favorable report was made on the bill to quiet the title of settlers on the Des Moines River land* in 10wa... .Mr. Blaine's resolution regarding the Constitutional rights of citizens was then taken up, and, afterdebate, the amendment, authorizing the committee to visit any portion of the country when such visit may, in their judgment, facilitate the object of the inquiry, was agreed to without division. The resolution as amended was then further debated and finally passed—yeas, 66; tiays.6- the negative votes being Messrs. Eaton. HUI. McCreery. Morgan, Wallace and Whyte ...The House resolution for a holiday recess was amended so as to have the recess fnun Dec. 20 to Jan. 6. and passed as amended. In the House, after the introduction and reference of bills, the bill appropriating *450.000 to meet the deficiency in tha appropriation for the Postal-Mail Service, and prohibiting any increase in the Postal-Car Service during the present year, was considered in Committee of the Whole, and a sharp debate ensued, after which the bill was reported to the House and passed. Ik the Senate, on the 18th, tlie House .tall giving twenty condemned cannon to the Custer Monument at West Point was passed, as was also the House joint resolution appropriating 060,0(0 to pay the necessary expenses of the Yellow-Fever Investigating Committee ..The hill reported from the Committee on Military Affair, to amend the ptme comftaim clause of the Army Appropriation bill for the present year, so as to provide that it shall not be construed to apply to any part of the army, or any portion thereof, engaged in the protection of life and property in the States ana Territories subject io Indian insurrection, was amended so a* to name the States of Nebraska. Kansas, Colorado, Oregon and Nevada, and the Territories fcbjeot to such insurrection, and the bill was then passed... .Committees of Conference Were tadered on tbe Consular and Diplomatic and the Fortification Appropriation bi 115.... The Pension Appropriation tell was passed without material - In ths House, the Senate amendments extend: mg tea reesss pec, 30 toJM, 7 Ate con.

curred in Tbe bill appropriating WO.OOO for tbe expense* of the Committee on YaHow-Fever Epidemic, wna' passed ...Tbe Henate amend menta to the Fortification and Consular and DiplMnatie Appropriation bill* were non-con oumd in. Tbe Indian Appropriation bill waa considered in Committea of the Whole. ..A joint regulation was paiwed axtending until the 18th of Febrnary the t ime within which the Joint Cooimittee on the Transfer of tbe Indian Bureau may report Bill* were introduced— giving jurisdiction to the Ifintrict and Circuit Cxrarta of Kaniaa over the Indian Territory; for the improvement of the Yellowstone National Pkrk. A bill was introduced and referred tn the Henate. ttn the 19th. to reimburse several State* for interest on the war loan, and for other purpose* .... The House bill amiropriating *460,000 fur tbe transportation of mails by railroad* waa passed... Tbe bill* to amend the Patent law* and for tbe feormniyation of the army were taken up and ronaidared. • The House joint resolution extending the time for the Joint Committee on the Transfer of the Indian Bureau to report waa paused.... The Heleet Committee to inquire whether tbe Constitutional rights of citisen* were violated in the recent election*, in accordance with the Blaine rew.lotion. wa* announced ns follows: Messrs. Teller, Cameron <Wts.\ Kirkwood, Mitchell, Plumb. Bsyard, Wallace. Bailey and Garland. Meoara. Wallace and Plumb asked to tie. and were, excused, and Messrs. Hoar and McMillan were appointed in their stead.... A in r** age was received from the President relative to the postal and commercial intercouise between the United Htates and r'outh America. In tbe House. J. <l. Young took the seat made vacant by the death of J. J. of the Fifth Louisiana District... The Indian Appro priation bill was considered and amended in Committee of the Whole, reported to the House and passed ... A report waa made and unanimously adopted that an investigation into charges made against certain members of the House, that they received money for aiding in the passage of the bill providing for the payment of mtereatbn the 3-66 District bonds, had shown that there was not a particle of testimony to sustain the charges, and that the publication of the same in the Washington /’os t was a wanton and wholly unjustifiable attack on members of the House.

The Things We Have Not.

Among nil the various kinds of charm, whether inherent in the objects of our desires or woven around them by fine threads of association and circumstance, is there one more subtly enthralling than that which belongs to the things which we do not possess P We can scarcely tell how much of the ethereal beauty of . youthful dreams depends upon their inaccessible distance, for many other things conspire to steep them in a magical atmosphere. But when we have long ago emerged from that enchanted ground, and have reached the level table-land of middle life, there still are visions haunting us some more, some less, but not wholly absent from the busiest and sternest lives; there is still a halo surrounding some objects which we could not even if we would entirely dispel. And of all the favorite spots about which the glamor hovers there is none to which it clings so persistently as to the things we have not. In a sense this is true, of course, of what we have had and have lost. But that is a comparatively intelligible feeling, made up largely of regret, mixed with love and self-reproach, and bound up with many personal and perhaps even arbitrary associations. It is not the same as the strange bloom of ideal beauty which we have not, and never had, nor can hope to have a share. Such things wear a kind of remote impersonal grace which can be scattered by norude touch of change or chance, and withered by no closeness of grasp. Our thoughts of them are culled from all the most perfect instances, aud combined into a type which perhaps transcends experience. There is an incident in “Transformation” which shows how fully alive Hawthorne was to this idealizing faculty as exercised especially by those not in possession. In looking over Hilda’s picture, some of her friends pause at one of a child’s shoe, painted, as the. author tells us, with a care and tenderness of which none but a woman who deeply loved children wojtld have been capable, and which no actual mother would have been likely to bestow upon such a subject. Actual mothers, no doubt, have enough to do with their children’s shoes without painting them. Possession brings an object into many disenchanting relations. Children themselves, however idolized by their mothers, can scarcely have for them that abstract visionary charm wlnch thev possess for the childless. No doubt the joys of possession are far more intense and more richly colored than those of contemplation; but they have not the same half-sacred remoteness, the same unchanging luster. They are purchased by so many cares, often so much toil, and exposed to so many r*sks, that enjoyment is often obscured by fatigue and anxiety. However, we need not disparage the delights of possession in order to enhance those of mere contemplation. These are pure enough and keen enough to need no adventitious aids. But their comparative excellence can scarcely be appreciated until after a certain rather severe discipline.— London Saturday Revieto.

Locomotives Without Fire.

Machines on the above-named principle are now at. work on the tramway from Rueil to Marly, near Paris, and with very satisfactory results. The system in use is one introduced by M Francy, an engineer, and is based on the fact that water boils at a lower temperature proportionately to the reduction of the atmospheric pressure. Most of our readers are aware that although water requires a heat of 212, deg. Fah. to boil at the level of the sea, a much lower temperature is sufficient to produce ’tile same effect on the top of a mountain. We will now explain how that physiological fact is practically employed. Into a reservoir of thin steel—we cannot call it a boiler, for it has neither fireplace nor fire, is introduced 1,800 liters of water at a temperature of 200 deg. Fah., and then covered up hermetically. The steam it gives off at once fills the superincumbent space, and produces a pressure of fifteen atmospheres. As soon as any of the vapor is turned on for moving the machine the pressure is reduced, and the water then begins to boil, producing a fresh supply of steam. Of course, that process is of but limited extent, as, at the commencement, the liquid only contained a certain amount of heat, which is gradually diminished as the reproduction of steam takes place at lower temperature by the exhaustion of the superincumbent pressure. So far a machine of this description would be obviously totally inadequate to any very prolonged journey. But for short transits it has been found extremely serviceable. As the amount of pressure required to work the engine is only five atmospheres, a series of valves are so arranged as to prevent a greater ataount of force issuing from the reservoir than is necessary, and thus retaining as far as possible the heat originally contained in the water. The driving part of the machinery is nearly identical with that of ordinary locomotives, with a few modifications, with the purpose of guarding against the useless waste, of the heat originally introduced into the reservoir.—Galignani's Messenger. Punctuality begets confidence, and is the sure path to topor and respect.

MISVELLA NEO IS ITEMS. t-Man who are always promising very seldom accomplish anything worth recording in history. ’ —Only 17.20 worth of soap was ised in the public buildings of Cincinnati in the last six months, while SB4 worth of dusters were used up. —Next to a seal-skin sacque, nothing will please a woman of thirty so much a* to be mistaken for her niece of sixteen. — Brookville Democrat. —London, Ont., has an Inspector of Anatom)', whoso business it is to take charge of unclaimed corpses, and, if necessary, appropriate them for the advancement of medical sciehoe. —The Georgia liquor-dealers are organizing throughout tbe State to defeat the passage of tlie projx>sed Bell-Punch bill, claiming that the adoption of such a tax will make honest men dishonest. —“ Eugenia, Eugenia, will you still insist on wearing the hair of another woman upon your head?” “ Alphonse, Alphonse, do you still Insist upon wearing the skin of another oalf upon your feet?” —A young gentleman went in bathing at Cane May last summer, and some naugnty little boys threw stones at him, and now heTias joined a church choir and sings “Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep.”

—When a man, going home to dinner, sees a carpet on a line in the back yard, he regards it as a “ cautionary off-shore signal,” and sneaks down town and buys a soda-cracker lunch at the corner grocery.— New Haven Register. —“Be ever ready to acknowledge a favor,” says a writer. We are, sir; we are. What troubles us is that on one side we are completely loaded down with readiness, while on the other side opportunity is painfully scarce.— Rome Sentinel. —ln a certain street are three tailors. Tlie drat to set up shop hung out this sign: “Here is the best tailor in this town.” The next put up: “Here is the best tailor in the world.” The third simply had thiss “ Here is the best tailor in this street.” —A woven book lias been manufactured at Lyons, the whole of the letterpress being executed in silken thread. Portraits, verses and brief addresses have often been reproduced by the loom, but an entire volume from the weaver’s hand is a novelty. —ln the “ Society of New Jerusalem” formal installations of ministers are unknown. When from one church a preacher goes to another, he merely shakes the hands of the people be leaves, and finds at the end of his journey other lands stretched out to —The confusion which is always apthis country ip the matter of wearing apparel at the changing of the seasons, is obviated by Government supervision in China. A recent decree of the Governor of Canton gave notice that the wearing of winter hats would begin on the 25tn of November. —There is very ■ little that is really original in literature. That apparently most original song, “ Whoa, Emma,” is, after all, only an expansion of Dr. Holmes’ idea,;,. ’■ Think, think, thou cruel Emma, When thou shalt hear my woe. And know ray zad dilemma. That thou naat made it ao.” —Harvard Crimson.

—“Who was it rang, Bridget?” “It was a man, ma’m.” “What was his name?” “Idoan know, ma’m. He axed fer yer husban’, ma’m, and he is not got home.” “ Wliat kind of a looking man was he?” “Bure, ma’m, he was a—he was red-headedy ah’ tall, an’ he had a—a predicament in his spache, ma’m!” —At the marriage of a rich corn merchant of seventy-two, in Southport, Eng., to a woman of sixty-seven, the wedding guests were bidden to two taverns, where each received a basin of porridge, a potato pie, a bannock and cheese and a pint of ale. Then both houses were thrown open to them to order what they pleased at the bridegroom's expense. —Since our proof-reader heard that Mr. Bancroft gave SSO for the discovery of an error in a Latin quotation, be has been estimating the nß&ber of like errors he has corrected hi correspondents’ manuscript, and »ow sends in a bill for $2,764,893.02. But we think we are equal to the emergency. You should have seen bis countenance fall when we asked for a bill of particulars.—Boston Transcript. ’ - —ln May, 1784, a bill intended to limit the privilege of franking was sent from Ireland to England for the Royal approbation. In it was a clause enacting that any member who from illness or other cause should be unable to write might authorize some other person to frank for him, “provided that on the back of the letter so franked the member doth at the same time gite under his hand a full certificate of his Inability to write.” —The Journal of Chemistry asserts that tea is not the simple, harmless beverage that is generally supposed, but that its effects, in their character, may -rightly claim to be classed with those of tobacco and alcohol. The paper also adds: “ Many disorders of the nervous system are the direct results of excessive tea-drinking. Tea is a ‘narcotic;’ its essential principle, theine, is allied in composition with such poisons as strychnine and morphia. It first excites the nervous system and then exhausts it. Experiments show that both in man and other animals it impairs power in ttte lowei extremities; so that it affects the ‘ understanding’ in a double sense—literally as well as figuratively.”

Useful If Not New.

The following simple rules for preserving health and promoting personal comfort, if not new to some of our readers, are none the less important to every one. The object of brushing the teeth is to remove the destructive particles of food which, by their decomposition, generate decay. To neutralise the acid resulting from this chemical change is the object of dentifrice. A stiff brush should be used after every meal, and a thread of silk floss or India rubber passed through between the teeth to rempve particles of food. Rinsing the mouth in lime water neutralizes the acid. Living and sleeping in a room in ■which the sun never enters is a slow form of suicide. A. sun bath is the most refreshing and life-giving bath that can possibly be taken. ’ Always keep the feet warm and thus avoid colds." To this end never sit in damp shoes or wear foot coverings fitting and pressing closely. 'The best time to eat ’fruit is half an hour before breakfast. Afulbbath'Shouldnot betaken less than three hours after a meal- Never

drink oold water before bathing. Do not take a oold bath when tired. Keep a box of powdered starch on the washstand: and, after washing, rub a pinch over the hands. It will prevent chapping. i If feeling cold before going to bed, exercise; do not roast over a fire.— Scientific American.

The Senate Electoral Count Bill.

The following to the bill introduced by Mr. Edmunds and passed by the Senate, on the 14th, making legal pro. visions for regnlating the counting of the Electoral votes for President and Vice-President: A ant. to ament! anntlry pn>vl«lon« or Chap. 1, Title 8. of the Revised Statute! of the United Ftatea, relating to Presidential election!, and to pm v id<- for aad regnlale the counting of t he votes, f r President arid V*c%President, and ths decl -ion of titter Ilona arising thereon. Jir it marled by the tirnaU and Home of Reurnrntntloee qf the United Slatn of America, tn Conyroee tuoemhUd, That the Elector* of President and Vice President rhall lie atnxdnted In each State on the first Tuesday In Cct<d>cr lu every fourth year -ncceeding the election of a President and Vice-President, and ou the same day In October whenever 'here shall be a vacancy In Itoth the unices of President and Vice-President declared and certified as hereinafter provided; but no Senator, or Repre«entatlve. or person holding «u office of frost or profit under the United States shall he appointed an Elector. Rec. 2. whenever there shall be a vacancy !r both the offices of President and Vice-President occurring more than two months next preceding the first Tuesday of any month In October other than that next preceding the expiration of the term of eflfee for which the President and Vice-Presi-dent last in office were elected, the Secretary of State shall forthwith cause a notification thereof to be made to the Execntfve Of every State, and shall also canse the same to be published In at least one of the newspapers printed In each State. The notification shall specify that Electors of Preah'ent and Vice-President of the United Stales shall be appointed in the several Statesonlhe firs' Tuesday In October then next ensuing. Sac. 8. The Electors of each State shall meet and give their votes on the second Monday in January next following their appointment at such plan In each State as the Legislature of such State shall direct.

Sec. 4. Each State may provide, by law enacted prior to the day in this act named for the appointment of the Electors, for the trial and determination < I any controversy concerning the appointment of Electors, before the time fixed for the meeting of the Electors, in any manner it shall deeig expedient. Every such determination made pursuant to snch law so enacted before said day, und made prior to the said time of meeting of the Elect'. re, imall he coneliiHlvc evidence bl’trie lawful title of the Electors who shall have been so determined to have been unpointed, and shall govern in the counting of the Electoral votes, as provided In the Constitution and as hereinafter regulated. She. 5. it shall be the duly of the Executive of each State to cause three lists of the names of the Electors of such State dnly ascertained to have been chosen to be made and certified and to be delivered to the Electors an or before the day on which they are required by this act to meet. Sue. tl. Congress shall be in session on the second Monday in February succeeding every meeting of the Electors. The Senate and House of Representatives shall meet in the hall of the House of Representatives nt the hourof one o'clock in the afternoon on that day; and the President of the Senate shall be their presiding officer. Two telkvg shall be previously appointed on the part of the Senate, and two on the part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate, all the certificates, and papers purporting to be certificates, of the Electoral yates, which certificates and papers shall be opened, presented and acted upon in the alphabetical order of the States, beginning with the letter A; and said tellers, having then read the same in the presence aud hearing of the two houses, shall make a Hat of the votes as they shall appear front the said certificates; and the votes having bvu.ni ascertained aud counted as in this act provided. the result of the same shall be delivered to the President of the Senate, who shall thereupon announce the state of the vote, and the names of the persons, if any, elected, which announcement shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persona elected President and Vice-President of the United States, and, together with a list of the votes, be entered on the Journals of the two Houses. Upon such reading of any snch certificate or paper the President of the Senate shall call for objections, if any. Every objection shall be made in writing, and shall state clearly and concisely, and without argument, the ground thereof, arid shall be signed by at. least one Senator and one Member of the House of Representatives before the same shall be received, when all objections so made to an V vote or paper from a State shall have been received and read, the Senate shall thereupon withdraw, and such objections shall be submitted to the Senate for its decision; and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall in like manner submit such objections to the House of Representatives for its decision; and no Electoral vote or- votes from any State from which but oue return has been received shall be rejected except by the affirmative votes of both houses. If more than one return, Or paper purportin'’ to be a return, from' a State shall have been received by the President of the Senate, thora votes, and those only, shall be counted which shall have been regularly given by the Electors who are shown by the evidence mentioned in Sec. 4 of this act to have been appointedt but in case there shall arise the question which of two or more of such State tribunals, determining what Electors have Keen appointed, as mentioned in Sec. 4 of this act, is the lawful tribunal of such State, the votes regularly given of those Electors, and those only, from such State shall be counted whose title as Eleetorsthe two houses, acting separately, shall concurrently decide is supported by the decision of the tribunal of such State so provided for by its I.egislatnre. And in such case of more than one return, or paper purporting to be a return, from a State, if there shall have been no such determination of the question in the State as aforesaid, then those votes and those only shell be counted» which the twd houses, acting separately, shall concurrently decide to be the lawntl vote's of the legally appointed Electors of such State. When the two houses have voted they shall Immediately again meet, and the presiding officer shall then announce the <i«cision ot the qnestionssiibmitted. No votes or pnpi-re train any other State shall be acted upon until the objections previously made to the votes or papers from any State shall have been finally disposed of. Sec. 7. That while the two houses shall be in meeting, as provided in this act, no debate shall he allowed, and no question shall be put by the presiding officer except to either house on fi mo lion to withdraw; and he shall have power to preserve order. Sec. 8. That when the two houses separate to decide upon an objection that mav have been made to the counting of any Electoral vote or votes from any State, or other question arising in the matter, each Senator or Representative may apeak to such objection or question five minutes, and not oftener than once; but after such debate shall have lasted two hours, it shall be the duty of the firesiding officer of each house To put the main question without further debate. Sec. 9. That at such joint meeting of the two bouses seats shall be provided as follows: For the President of the Senate, the Speaker’s chair: for the Speaker, immediately upon his left; the Senators, in the body of the hall, upon the right of the presiding officer; for the Representatives, in the body of the hall not provided for the Senators; for the’lvllexs, Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk ot the House of Representatives, at the Clerk’s desk; for the officers of the two houses, in front of the Clerk’s desk and upon each side ot the Speaker’s platform. Snch joint meeting shall not be dissolved until the count of Klectoi.il votes shall be completed and the result declared; and no recess shall be taken unless a question shall have arisen in regard to ccuntiug-any such votes, or otherwise under this act, in which case it shall be competent for either house, acting separately in the manner hereinbefore provided, to direct ;t recess of such house not beyond the next day, Sunday excepted, at the hour of ten o’clock in the forenoon. Bnt if the-counting of the Electoral votes and the declaration of the result shall not hnve been completed before the fifth calendar day next after such first meeting of the two houses, no further or other recess shall be taken by either house.

—A story of a mean bridegroom comes from Wilkesbarre, Pa. It was on one of the stormy evenings, a few days ago, that a smooth-voiced man, leading a serious-looking woman by the hand, entered the parsonage and asked the good minister to unite them in marriage. Nothing loath, he complied. While the storm raged without the ceremony was concluded, and the bland groom placed in the pastor’s hand an envelope in settlement for his services. Borrowing an umbrella, which he would return in half an hour,”' with many thanks he bade the trusting family good night; -since when nothing has been seen of the genial man, umbrella, or serious-looking bride. The minister* in the midst of his household, opened the package and found a strip of white paper two lay four inches in size. , r —A brakeman, the other day, “for the fnn of the thing,” threw a lump of coal at an. Italian image vender's collection as the train rushed through the Springfield (Mass.) depot, and almost ruined the poor man’s stock in trade. The Italian was sharp enough to take the number of the car on which the brakeman was riding, and he reported his grievance to the railroad officers. The matter was investigated, and the brakeman was abruptly discharged. To a young man struggling with a still younger mustache, the “darkest hour'is just before the down.”—Hackentqck Republican.

NASBY.

I From the Toledo Blade.) CoNraimrr X Hcmum. I Wicb is in the State of Kentucky. Dec. 10. Ifffi. I Mr. Naatoy fi'ttara * Frotaat Agwlnat the “ Hawfrf of the Northern Hepuhilean Frees Over the Prevention of Negro Votlnx i* the South. I foresee trouble. My prophetic sole looks forrerd a year or two, and perceives a cloud a-loomin up in the fucher, wlch bodes ns uv the South no good. 1 foresee a raid wlch will be made onto the suffirin South, and possibly it may be successful. I foresee a renewal uv the hostilities wlch led to fratricidle struggle betwixt the sexshuns in 1861, and possibly gore. The North to not content with things ez they are. The North persists in bleevin that the rites uv the niggers In the South hez bin violatid, and that they hev bin deprived uv the priviliges of freemen,wich they fortify by assertin ez a fact that in the Cross-Roads alone 75 niggers wuz killed for insistin upon votin the Republikin tickit, and that 500 wuz kept away from the poles by force. * At least let the peopto uv the North hev the truth. Onr enemies will find that nothin kin be gained by misrepresentashun and false statement. I will give the exact facts. There wuz only seventy-two killed, the other three bein merely severely woundid. , One uv the wounded may hev died sence, but I am not certin. There wuznt 500 druv away from the poles, the exact number wuz 491. It is by sich falsehoods that the sufrin South is being prejoodist. It is by meens uv sich lies that Congris will be inflooenced agin givin us sich appropriashens ez we desire, and payin the Southern war debt, and penshunin Southern soljers. It is by sich stupenjus lies that the Radikels hope to elect a President in 1880.

Neither will the subsidized Radikel press give the troo reasons, or, ruther, the philosophy, uv our ackshen in this matter. The fact to, we did not deny the rite uv the nigger to vote. No sich thought ever entered our heads. We desired em to vote. We went into ther settlements and implored em, ez they loved Kentucky, to come and deposit their ballots like freemen. We askt em to jine ns in an effort to save the South from hoomiliashen, by sendin up a Clean Dimecratic delegashun, and by sich majorities ez wood teech the Vandal North that the State wuz a yoonit agin thei unholy skeems uv subjoogashen. We reminded em that they hed an ekal interest witli us in prokoorin appropriashuns. “It is troo,” we sed to em, “ that you will not hev contrax on the ship canal, or on the Custom-House at the Corners, nor will you be penshuned for servis in the Confedrit army, but the money will come here, and ez yoo furnish all the pervishens, we not bein fond uv labor, it will git around to yoo in time.” And we reminded em uv a great many more things. They come to the polls on our invitashen four hundred and ninety-one, which wuz a majority. They come unarmed, save with that weapon wich is firmer set and stronger than the bayonet—the ballot. To our horrer we diskivered that every last one uv the black cusses hed Republikin tickets and perposed to vote em! Uv course this woodn’t do. We wantid em to exercise the rite uv suffrage, but they must exercise it ez we wantid em to, . . . . •

We closed the poles immejitly, till we cood hasten home and git our shotguns and revolvers. Then we opened the poles agin and remonstratid with em agin this outrage. We felt that we wuz bein coerced into permittin’ a unholy Radikel majority at the Corners, wich hez alluz bin Dimecratic, and wich shel alluz be. We told em they shood vote, but they must vote the Dimekratie tikket like free men. Es they felt they ooodent do that, they hed better not inflame the Corners and pervoke blood by stayin’ around the poles. One uv em demandid the rite to vote ez he pleased, When Issaker Gavitt, wich is naterally quick, blew the tbp uv his head off with n charge of buck shot. Hevin tasted blood, a general battoo ensued, in wich seventy-two uv em wuz killed, and the rest took to ther heels and refoozedto vote. This is all ther wuz in the matter. Possibly there wuz more uv em killed than wuz strikly nessary. Possibly killin’ fifty, or perhaps twenty-five wood hev answered the purpis jist. ez well. Es so we are sorry and are willin’ to apologize to the friends uv the deceast. We desire alluz to do the proper and manly thing. But when we are asked to permit a Republikin majority at the Corners, we say no! and we will say it at the muzzle uv thd shotgun, es needs be, tho we hed ruther not. We wood much prefer that the misgidid men wood lisen to reeson, and come into the Dimekratie fold by peaceful means, but come they must, or suffer the consekences. Why, look at it! Without hevin a solid South, how kin we sekoor the speshl appropriashens wich we must hev? How kin we drive the North into the payment uv our debt, and the penshunin uv our soljers? How kin we elect the next President, and run the Government in the interest uv the South? With a divided delegashun it wood be impossible. Let the North think uv our necessities, and we are shoor they will approve our ackshen. I do not know that this simple statement will hev any effeck upon the besotted Northern press, but it is all we kin do. Es we are to be made to suffer for protectin ourselves, then so it must be. We at leest will die like heroes. Petroleum V. Nasby, Statesman (Shot Gnn).

Mr. Blaine’s Speech.

Senator Blaine never speaks upon any momentous question without saying that which commands the attention of the Nation. His speech recently delivered was a discussion of one of the most momentous present and future issues in American politics; and what he said will not fail to command universal attention, whetherit be of agreement or of dissent. This speech is one of the most powerful ever delivered by the illustrious orator. It is all the more powerful because it is exceedingly compact and brief to contain so weighty an argument, and because it is sb free from the fiery energy which so often pervades Mr. Blaine s speeches. On the contrary, jevery sentence of this speech bears evidence of a restrained power, which makes its repressed hw diguation and its stern severity all the more effective. It will be noticed that there is in this Eh no “waving of the bloody ” and only the most bare ana necessary allusion to the shameful

wrongs inflicted upon the Southern Republicans, white and black. The key note of the argument to the great wrong done to the white voters ot the North ' by the fact that the Southern Democrats, by seizing the entire colored vote of the South, and adding it by fraud to the strength of the Democratic party there, have enabled the five and a half millions of white voters in the South to wield as much political power as to wielded by ten millions of white voters in the North—have given to every white voter in the South twice as much power in electing the President and Congress, and in settling all our financial and other National legislation, as the white voter in the North possesses. Thus, in the bull-dozed Southern States, 60,000 white people choose a Member of Congress, while it takes 182.000 white people to choose a Member of Congress in Michigan. This has enabled the Democratic party to come into power In part; this gives the solid Solid power to settle what shall be the tariff, the' currency, the navigation laws, and all the other laws affecting business, for the commercial and industrial States of the North. It to hot merely a question of the rights of the negro—it is a question of the rights of Northern white men. And Mr. Blaine very forcibly and justly warned the South that, whether the North paid, much attention to the rights or the negroes or not, the North will certainly not long patiently submit to be ruled by the South through fraud, and have a Southern white man's vote count for twice as much as the vote of a Northern white man. The speech needs to be read to obtain a full conception of its power and argument. It will be read by the whole country with that attentive consideration merited alike by the reputation of the orator aud the importance of his theme.— Detroit Post and Tribune.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—United States Senator Chaffee, of Colorado, is the owner of a new silver mine which is said to be yielding $9,000 a day. —The recent rumor that Senator Christiancy, of Michigan, is rapidly failing, both physically and mentally, is authoritatively denied. : —Since S. Angier Chace has fallen from his high position and gone to prison, it to remembered in Fall River that eight of his mills were burned within sixteen years, and all were fully insured. —ln regard to the profits of Senator Jones from his stock in the Sierra Nevada Mine, it is said that before the recent rise he held 5,800 shares and sold out for S2OB a share, giving him sl,106,400. —ln the year 1854 Horace W. Tabor was a stone-cutter at Augusta, Me. Now he is Lieutenant-Governor-elect of Colorado, whither he went in 1859 to engage in mining, and is reported to be worth $3,000,000. —Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the son of the poet, is spoken of as a probable successor of Judge Lowell, of the Massachusetts District Court, should the latter, as has been intimated, be made a United States Circuit Judge. —John Welsh, the United States Minister to England, has called the attention of Gov. Rice, of Massachusetts, to the fact that collegiate honors are offered for sale in London purporting to come from the New England University, of Boston.

—Judge Herschel V. Johnson, who ran for Vice-President on the ticket with Douglas, in 1860, was holding court at Scriven, Ga., on Thanksgiving week. Instead of adjourning over until Friday to observe Thanksgiving —a proceeding which would have caused much inconvenience to witnesses, jurors and litigants—he had the court opened on Thursday with religious services, conducted by a Methodist Episcopal minister, and then went on with the court business. ——The placing of a medallion memorial of the late Dr. Horace Bushnell in the Park Congregational Church at Hartford, Conn., brings to the mitid of a correspondent of the Springfield Hcpublican the following stories about the dead preacher: “At the council called to dismiss the Rev. C. M Wines (since gone over to the Episcopalians) from the pastorate of our Fourth Church, at which Dr. Bushnell was a delegate, in giving his reasons why a severance of relations was desirable, Mr. Wines gave a long statement of the pros and cons of the difficulties in the church. Whpn he had closed Dr. Bushnell broke out, ‘ Why do you leave?’ ‘I supposed I had answered that question,’ said Mr. Wines, with equal abruptness. ‘ls it because you don’t wish to stay any longer?’ said Bushnell. ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘Then, why didn’t you say so?’ retorted Bushnell, in a manner that led Mr. Wines and the whole council to burst into a laugh which restored good feeling all round. On another occasion, while the doctor was an invalid, he was driving with a friend in the suburbs of the city, when an immense Shanghai rooster sprang upon a fence by the roadside and crowed lustily. Gazing at him an instant the doctor ejaculated, after one of his coughing fits: ‘ Don’t you think the Creator must have bad a streak of fun in him when he created that fellow?”

—Not long since, a widow living in Virginia received $3,500. She took it to a prominent stock broker and askid his opinion as to. the best investment for the money. She was told to bdy Sierra Nevada, then selling at S2OO, and Mexican at S9O, and did so. .During the decline which followed immediately thereafter she was called upon for more money, but was unable to respond. She had, however, some rard diamonds, which she had saved from a high estate maintained by her husband and herself in an early day of prosperity on the Comstock, and these she gave in keeping to the broker, and felt easy. During the late crash she was again called on for more margins, and being still unable to comply with the request, was sold out. She had lost her $3,500 and her diamonds, which are now worn by the broker’s wife. There is no romance in the foregoing, but rather an instructive reality, and but_ohe of many such now existing on the Comstock.— Gold Hill (Nev.) New-4 When Johnny was questioned as to why his engagement with Miss H. had been broken off, he rolled bis eyes, looked very much pained, and groanbd, “ Oh! she turned oat a But he forgdt to mention that he was the deceiver whom she had turned Ait.— Puck. .. . »■ - « fit —A carpenter of- ; Liadoonvarna, County Clare, Ireland,has justntethis death in a curious manner. Hft was riding on' a bicycle and was upset. He fell on a chisel and was so badly wounded that be died by the roadside.