Bloomington Telephone, Volume 7, Number 38, Bloomington, Monroe County, 2 February 1884 — Page 2

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BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA. WALTEB & BRADFUTE, - Ppbt.tbtteb. THE NEWS CONDENSED. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. Several petitions were presented in the Senate; Jan. 21, asking an investigation of the divorce legislation of the respective State, and others praying for a law to give ox-prisoner of war the benefit of the public lands. In secret session a resolution to discuss the Mexican treaty with open doors was defeated. Mr. Edmunds introduced a bill to amend the act granting' lands to the Union and Central Pacific roads, and to secure to the.Urrited States the indebtedness of the companies. Mr. Morgan offered a resolution, which was agreed to, that the Committee on Foreign Relations inquire into the subject of settlements in the valley of the Congo river. Africa, and report snch action as is necessary in furtherance of our commerce. A bill was passed permitting retired army officers to hold civil office in the Territories. There was a lengthy debate on the bill to establish civil government in Alaska. The House suspended the rales and passed Mr. Hotman's resolutions declaring that all forfeited land grants should at once be taken by the Government; that ail laws tending to dispose of "public lands in blocks should be repealed and speculation suppressed; that all agricultural lands should be reserved for actual homesteaders; that the Committee on Public Lands should at once report bills ooverlnjr the above sentiments and enacting them into laws, snch measures to have precedence in debate over all save revenue and appropriation bills. The vote passing these resolutions was 251 to 18. The House also passed, under a suspension of the rules, a bill repealing the law prescribing the iron-clad oath. Mr. Davis introduced a bill to appropriate f 50,000 tor the erection of a building in Chicago for the use of appraisers. Bills were introduced to make the fees of attorneys in pension cases $10, and to authorize the extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio road to Fortress Monroe. The subject of foreign disc-'" at against American commerce was discussed in the Senate Jan. 22. The Committee on Foreign Relations was Instructed to prepare a report embodying measures which, when enacted into law, will protect American interests. 'Recent tariff legislation by France, Germany, Mexico and Brazil is also to be Investigated. The Committee on Indian Affairs reported adversely on the petitions for the openine of the Oklahoma lands. Mr. Hoar introduced a bill to prevent the circulation in the mails of lottery advertisements from foreign countries. The Senate in executive session confirmed Emory Bpeer, of Georgia, to be District Attorney for the northern district. A bill which is cf considerable interest to farmers and others passed the House. It provides' that, a person who buys patented article in the market, without knowing it to be patented, shall not be subject to suit if he only buys it for his own use, and not for safe or manufacture, and that' no liability shall attach to him until he bas received notice that the article is a patented -one whereon no royalty has been paid. The House also passed the Greely Relief Expedition MIL The committee on public lands reported a hill for the forfeiture of the Texas Pacific land (rant. A bill was also reported for the erection of a public building at New Albany, Ind. The bill for the relief of Fits John Porter was reported favorably to the Senate by Mr. SeweU, Jan. 23, and Mr. Logan handed in a minority report. Mr. Sherman asked immediate consideration for a preamble and resolution reciting the circumstances of the recent election troubles at Danville, Ta., and . the killing of Mathews in Copiah county. Miss., and calling for a foil investigation of the whole matter, bnt Mr. Cockrell objected. A resolution was passed giving a clerk at $1,000 per annum to each Senator who is not chairman of a committee. Mr. Plumb secured the passage of a resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to report the status of land in Indian Territory not occupied by the five civilized tribes. A joint resolution was passed to permit a young naval officer named Reynolds to accept a decoration from the Emperor of Austria for saving the lives of twelve men. The House of Representatives passed a joint resolution of thanks to Capt. Gabrielson and Lieut. Rhodes, of the revenue steamer Dexter, for heroism at the wreck of the steamer City of Columbus. Joint resolutions were also passed appropriating $50,000 for the support of destitute Indians at the Crow agency and the forts in Montana, and calling for information as to the expenditure at Hot Springs, Ark., and the condition of the work of improvement. Mr, Hewitt offered a resolution of inquiry in regard to the trade between the United States and Mexico. A bill was reported appropriating $3,790,080 to pay rebates on tobacco and $21,965 for the expenses of the Leeislature of New Mexico. A bill was introduced for the erection at Helena, Ark., of a public building costing not to exceed $100,000. A joist resolution providing' for the removal of the ranains of the late Maj . Gen. E. O. C. Ord, from Havana, where he died, to Washington, passed the Senate Jan. 24. The joint resolution for the relief of the Greely expedition, with an amendment that the party be volunteers, was also passed. The resolution in regard to clerks for Senators was amended to ' provide that they receive $6 per day and be appointed only for the session. Bills were introduced for the preservation of forests on the national domain, and to authorize the President to pay back the indemnity fun l to the Chinese government. Some work was done on the Alaska Civil Government- bill. In the House of Representatives, a bill was Introduced providing that pensions tor total disability be $20 per month, without regard to rank. A bill was passed making an appropriation of $3,760,000 to pay the claims for rebate on tobacco. A bill was reported appropriating $100,000 for a public building at Chattanooga. A joint resolution was passed authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to detail an employe as assistant clerk of the Committee on Pensions, The House refused to concur in the Senate amendment to the Greely relief bill. Mb. Bilaxb introduced a bill in the Senate Ism. V, for the free circulation of newspapers within the State where published. Mr. Cameron presented a petition from the Merchants' association of Milwaukee for retaliatory legislation against French and German wines. Mr. Beck called up bis bill to prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury from purchasing bonds above par, which was referred to the committee on finanie. The bill for a civil government In Alaska was passed, with a prohibitory liquor clause. An adjournment to the 18th was taken. The House went Into sommittee of the whole- on the Fitz lohn Porter bill, and speeches were made by Messrs. Taylor, Bayne Keifer, and Ray. Afterward, the Senate bill for the removal to Washington of the remains of Gen. Ord was passed. The Speaker presented a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, stating that ao service was rendered the British navy, during the bombardment of Alexandria, by American jfficers or men. THE EAST. The jury in the case of James Nutt, at Pittsburgh, returned a verdict of not guilty, because of insanity at the time be removed Dukes. The result was received with cheers within and without the court-room. Judge Stowe ordered Nutt back to jail, where a medical inquest will determine whether it is necessary, for the safety of the public, to immure the prisoner in an asylum, or set him at liberty. "Senator Voorhees was chief counsel for the defense John Frazer, a lumber merchant of Liverpool, was found frozen to death on a doorstep in New York, the morning of his arrival. Two of the crew of the United States snip Speedwell have been ordered under arrest at Portsmouth, N. H., by Commander McRitchie for robbing the body of a victim of the City of Columbus wreck A careful examination of the mental condition of James Nutt by Judge and jury shows that be has recovered his reason since justice was meted out to the villain Dukes. This accords with public opinion in the matter. Nutt is now a free man Edward J. Meany, who has disappeared from Brooklyn, Js a defaulter to the Holders' Union of North America for over $20,000 A. bill has been Introduced in the New York Legislature for fining speculators in theater tickets $25 for each offense in selling seats above the advertised prices. ELMER Weib, 10 years of age, while skating at falera, Massachusetts, broke through toe ice. A Newfoundland Hog, which the family bad sared from starving, made his way to the edge of the water, dived after the boy and dragged him to the land, where he was soon resuscitated. Selah Spbaoue, a farmer of East

Meadow, on Long Island, was attacked in his barn and nearly murdered by a mulatto. The villain then went to the house, struck Mrs. Spraa-ue, and began a search for money. The neighbors heard the woman's screams for help, and they scoured- the country until they captured the robber. Mr. Sprague is not likely to survive his injuries. A piece of ice getting into the puddling machine being experimented with in the- Western iron mill at Phoenixville, Pa., resulted in an explosion which wrecked the machinery and injured several persons. THE WEST. A eailhoad official at Indianapolis says Samual Sloan is determined to secure an extension to Chicago for the Lackawanna road and will parallel ona of Vandorbilt's lines unless the latter will sell a track or make a traffic arrangement for ninety-nine years. . . . California reports the driest season for seven years, with bad indications for the growing crops. A Lincoln (HI.) dispatch says that "interest in the Zora Burns homicide has been revived during the week by the investigation in progress before the Grand Jury, and was heightened when that body presented an indictment charging Orrin A. Carpenter with being the perpetrator of the horrible deed. The defendant came into court with Mr. Hodnett, one of his counsel, and appeared somewhat excited when called before the bar. He was immediately arrested under a bench warrant, to which Counsel Beach took exceptions and argued before the court that such a proceeding was unnecessary and not in accordance with the practice in such cases. The exceptions were overruled by Judge Herdman with marked emphasis, who said: "I cannot and will not admit the defendant to bail. He must go to jail. The Sheriff will take charge of the prisoner" which was immediately done. The prosecution claim that sufficient is before them and known of to convince any jury of the defendant's guilt of the crime.... On a farm near Elgin, 111., some difficulty occurred between William ! Coombs and his wife. The latter goon made her appearance at a neighbor's in a crazed and bloody condition, and reported that her husband had attempted her life and then killed himself. It is generally believed that Mrs. Coombs cut her husband's throat in selfoefense. She was a Mrs. Green, from Chicago. Coombs' brother died in the insane asylum of Michigan The twin babes of Isaac Martin, of Liberty Mills, Ind., who had been placed to sleep in a cold room at night, were found frozen to death in the morning. John Anderson and Zachariah Snyder, for the murder of James Van Wye Aug. 17 last, were hanged at Mt. Vernon, Ind. The criminals, who were mere' boys, appeared to be penitent, and the execution passed off without unusual excitement. One of the jurors in the Emma Bond case spends considerable time in crying; another runs from his house when visitors approach it, and a third has been dismissed by a beautiful woman to whom he was engaged. THE SOUTH. Burglars at Terrell, Tex., crawled under a sidewalk and tunneled through three different brick walls until they reached the foundations of the bank vault of Childress & Harris. They blew off the outer door of the safe, but failed to destroy a six-inch steel door and its time-lock. The dense smoke caused an alarm, and the papers in the outer vault were found by the officers to be on fire. The safe contained $150,000 in money, which the robbers failed to obtain. Ten prisoners at Wheeling, West Virginia, disarmed Jailer-Colby, beat him in a brutal manner, and escaped to the roof. The citizens heard the alarm and began firing at the prisoners, who went back to their cells. A raft was drawn into a whirlpool in the upper Cumberland river near Carthage, Tenn., and nine men were drowned. The body of Mrs. Elizabeth Holliday, who died at Baltimore, was left unburied by her two brothers, and when the house was visited, two days afterward, rats were found feeding upon the corpse, and with difficulty were driven away. The ears, hands, and back of the head had been devoured. The city authorities interred the remains. The directors of the Kentucky Central road elected C. P. Huntington President. Miss E. R. Paine, residing near Winchester, Va., one of the best-known ladies in the Shenandoah valley, has created a huge sensation by declaring herself to be a man, and applying for a marriage license. He is 3S years of age, and of excellent business abilities. WASHINGTON. Fred. Douglass, the well-known colored leader, was married at Washington, last week, to Miss Helen M. Pitts, a white woman, formerly of Avon, N. Y. The first wife of Douglass, who was a colored woman, died about a year ago. The woman he has just married is about 35 years of age, and was employed as a copyist in his office while he was Marshal of the District. Douglass himself is about 73 years of age, and has daughters as old as his present wife C. W. Tyson, a committee stenographer of the last Congress, testified before the House Committee on Accounts that Speaker Keifer forced him to resign, in order that the place might be given to the Speaker's nephew. .. . John C. New states that he has resigned the Assistant Secietaryship of the Treasury, and will give his attention to his private business ;n Indianapolis. The Government directors of the Union Pacific road report to the Secretary of the Interior, that the management has given them the fullest information as to its workings. The funded debt of the company was, on June 30, $83,947,880, and the face value of investments held is $59,933,40, The directors pronounce for steady and fixed rates, even if high, rather than fluctuating charges brought about by competition. Washington dispatch: It is a fact that there will be two tariff bills submitted by the Democrats to the Ways and Means Committe one by Mr. Morrison, the other by Mr. Mr. Hewitt. Hewitt's bill will consist, largely of a comparison of rates in tabular form, with the recommendation that the lowest rate be taken. Mr. Morrison's bill will be a short one, providing for a horizontal reduction of from 15 to 25 per cent, on the average, with large additions to the free list, particularly in raw materials. POLITICAL An address to the political parties.has been issued by the National Temperance Society asking the nomination of a President and Vice Vice President who favor prohibition. Senator Allison has been re-elected United States Senator by the Iowa Legislature, every Republican member voting for him. It is rumored at Leaven-worth that Senator Ingalls will be chosen to fill Judge McCrary's place on the Federal bench, provided Gov. GHck will appoint a Republican to the Senatorial vacancy thus created. The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention will be held at Harrisburg, April 16. The Democrats hold their convention at AHentown, April 9. A Washington correspondent telegraphs: "There is a good deal of talk among members of Congress about the meeting of the National Democratic committee to be held in this city Feb. 23 to select a time and place for holding the next Democratic National convention. But two cities for the convention aro mentioned prominently; they are Chicago and St. I ouis, with the preponderance of sentiment in favor of the former. As to the time, it is generally taken for granted that it will be about twenty days after the Republican convention.". .. .The Virginia Senate 23 to ll! passed the resolution requesting Million? to resign his seat in the United Slates Senate. A meeting; of the Pennsylvania Re

publican State Committee was held at Philadelphia last week, when it was decided to hold the State a convention .at Harrisburg on the 16th of April next. Nothing was said giving any clue. to the .action of the Pennsylvania delegation at the coming national convention, and it is believed that no instructions will be given by the State convention. The Ohio Senate refused to confirm the appointment of ex-Gov. Foster as one of the trustees of the Toledo asylum, and it is understood that Gov. Hoadiy will not press tho nomination. A CLUB has been organized by the Republicans of Baltimore to secure tho nomination of Senator Logan for President. NECROLOGY OF THE WEEK. EX-CONGBESSMAN GHEEN ADAMS, of Kentucky; Mrs. Eliza Quincy, of Boston, granddaughter of Josiah Quincy, of Revolutionary fame; Judge Robert H. Forrester, a prominent Chicago lawyer; Gen.W. C. Plunkett, a prominent manufacturer, of Adams, Mass. ; Hev. Edward Fontaine, of Louisiana, who first suggested the building of jetties for the mouth of the Mississippi; Judge John Randolph Bell, a leading citizen of Mieoouri; Commodore Timothy A. Hunt, U. S. Navy; Samuel T. Glover, a leading lawyer of St. Louis; James F. Clark, a wealthy citiaon of Cleveland; Earl Grosvenor, son and heir of the enormously wealthy Duke of Westminster; Sidney P. Walker, a well-known Chicago insurance man, nud a former member of the famous Ellsworth Zouaves; Stnator P. H. Smith, a pioneer of Sheboygan county, Wis. ; James Hryden, of Franklin. Pa., cousin of Premier Gladstone; Henry Moss, of New Orleans, well-known humorist; Judge W. A. Porter, an eminent lawyer and old citizen of Southern Indiana. THE WEEK'S FIRE RECORD. A week's fires: Matheny, Haynie & Co.'s hide store, St. Paul, Minn., loss $75,000; the Klaus block, at Green Bay, Wis., loss $25,000; the Johnson Harvester works, Batavia, N. Y., loss $50,000; eight business houses at Neosho, Mo., loss $50,000; t wo store at La Cross), Wis., loss $10,000; two hotels and a store at Savery, Kan., loss $30,000; two stores at Memphis, Tenn., loss $20,000; a tobacco warehouse at Quarryville, Pa., loss $25,000; a hardware store at Kenney, 111., loss $20,000; a block of business houses at Fayette, Mo., loss $75,000; the steamer J. D. Johnson, at Pittsburgh, Pa., loss $20,000; tho Yazoo Woolen mill, Providence, B. I., loss $20,000; a soap factory at Clinton, Mass.. loss $30,000; the Empire Brewery, Fond du Lac, Wis., loss $35,000; the Montezuma hotel, Las Vegas, N. M., loss $300,000; a fine hotel at Suwanee Springs, Fla., loss $125,000; Kuaffman & Bachrach's clothing store, Eau Claire, Wis., loss $50,000; a brokers' building in Exchange court, New York, loss $200,000; several business houses at Canastota, N. Y., loss $75,000; a banking building at Providence, R. 1., loss $100,000; the depot of the Indiana, Illinois, and IoWa railroad, at Kankakee, 111., loss $10,000; a paper-board mill at Lockport, N. Y., loss $60,000; the opera house and postoflice at Washington, Kan., loss $20,000; two stores and the postoflice at Junction City, Kan., loss $20,000; a hammer manufactory at Newark, N. J., loss $30,000; Cox Brothers' flour-mill, Portersville, Ind., loss $10,000; a manufacturing building at Cincinnati, loss $103,000; Norton's ' galvanized cornice works, Toledo, loss $10,000; Farnham s canning factory, Corfu, N. Y., loss $10,000; one-fourth of the business section of Leipsic, Ohio, . loss $35,000; twenty-one stores and shops at Lowell, Mass., loss 525,000; Tomlinson's flouring mill, Lucknow, Out., loss $12,000; 1,145 bales of cotton near Minden, La., loss $50,000; Haight's woolen mill, Newburg, N. Y., loss $80,000; Pendleton & Owen's drug-store, Racine, Wis., los3 $10,000; the St. Charles Hotel, Paducah, Ky loss $30,000; thirteen stores and shops at Minneola, Texas, loss $41,000; a Presbyterian church at Toronto, Canada, loss $40,000; Schneider's candle factory, Chicago, loss $150,000; one-third of the business part of Clio, Mich., loss $35,000; a business block at Memphis, Tenn., loss $15,000; a public school building at. Elgin, III., loss $15,000; two stores at Hot Springs, Ark., loss $15,000; Holt & Paar's wholesale grocery at St. Paul, Minn., damages $20,000. COMMERCIAL FAILURES. The following failures were reported by telegraph during the week: Liabilities.

Trowbridge & Son, flour and grain, Albany, N. Y $20.00C W. C. Howland, organs, Chicago 10.00C Wade fc Cummings, clothing, New York. 15.00C Suffolk County Bank, Patchogue, L. I. 150.00C Geo. Keller, provisions. New York 26.00C City Bank, Leadville, Colo 100,000 Thomasi & Sons, coal miners, Evansville, Ind 13,000 Lake Bros., bankers, Grenada, Miss. . . 65,000 B. F. Crook, merchant, Forest, Miss... 10,000 Jas. Manson, dry goods. St. John, N. B ; 80,000 I. & H. Henly, millinery, Cincinnati. . . 10,000 Wm H. Guion, steamship agent. New York. 2,000,000 F. W. Chipman, dry goods, Kentville, N. S 55,000 Mayer Bros., cotton brokers, Vicksbnrg, Miss 175.000 Willett Bronson, lawyer, New York 700,000 E. J. Berminsham, publisher. New York 17,000 A. F. Pickard, furniture, Loekport, N. Y 15,000 H. J. Miner, clothing, Cheboygan, Mich 10,000 Cleveland (O.) Woolen Mills 20,000 Eberly & Bowman, dry goods, Columbns, O 25,000 B. H. Chamberlain fe Co., dry goods, Geneseo, 111 20,000 Grant fc Co., dry goods, Garysburg, N. C , 20,000 First National bank, Leadville, Cola . . . 350,000 Clancey Bros., dry goods, Eau Claire, Wis.. 48,000 A. Conway, iron, Erie, Pa, 10,000 H. G. Razall fc Co., paper box maufaotnrers, Milwaukee 15,000 Roland, McLean & Co., looking-glass manufacturers, Boston 40,000 W. W. Littlefield, general store. East Saginaw, Mich 10.000 GKNEK.4L. In denial of statements published in a Washington paper, General Grant states that he had no personal interest in the ratification of the Mexican treaty; that he was not in partnership with Romero in any Mexican enterprises or speculations, but that the relationship between himself and Romero was based upon the fact that each believed closer lelations would he of great advantage to both nations The express companies have extended their money-crder system. Fifty-dollar orders, payable to bearer, cost 20 cnts, payable at 6,000 offices. Business failures in the United States, according to Bradstreet, last week numbered 310, being eleven less than the previous week, but twenty-one more than for the corresponding period in 1883. Bradstreet reports that prices for all commodities are generally firmer, and that the movemont of merchandise throughout the country has increased in volume. FOREIGN. Over 600 of the O'Donnell vengeance fund raised in New York has been forwarded to London, and English detectives are endeavoring to traco tho holders. Warnings have been sent across the Atlantic that, fresh outrages are to be perpetrated. ...One thousand African slaves have been landed on the west coast of Madugast-ar by Aral s.... The coffee crop in Jamaica is an entire failure in some parishes. The making of sugar is retarded by the scarcity of labor The excitement attending Moody and Sankey's meetings in England is increasing to something like the revival of 1875. The Nationalists of Loughrea, Ireland, notwithstanding a proclamation by tho Government and tho presence of 200 police, hold a mooting Sunday in tho yard of the Catholic chupel, where three priests advised the assemblage to join tho loasuo. Sir Samuel W. Baker, who formerly led an expedition against the slave-traders of Central Africa, says tho British Govern

ment's abandonment of the Soudan is a national humiliation Russia has made a formal demand upon Turkey for 250,000 indemnity still due on account of the war. At Florisdorf, Austria, Detective Bloch was shot dead by a man who, when captured, was found to possess a dynamite bomb, a revolver, and a poisoned dagger. The assassin shot a citizen twice who assisted, at his arrest, and attempted to explode the bomb to destroy himself aid his captors. . . . The Captain of the American steamer Brooklyn was not allowed to land in Madagascar unless he would make use of a French boat, which he declined to do,.... Col. Coetlogon asserts that Khartoum has sufficient provisions to last 6,000 men five months.

ADDITIONAL NEWS. John Murray, aged 17, thinking that Ms mother was inside their burning house at New Orleans, rushed to her rescue, but was crushed under blazing timbers and burnt to a cinder, Mrs. Murray had already escaped from the building James Foley, better known us "Billy the Kid," one of the most notorious deperadoes of the "Wild West," was fatally shot at Fort Worth, Tex., by Henry Hittoon, a farmer. The quarrel , which resulted in tho kiUiug was over a game of diee. , According to the latest reports but little damage was done to fruit in Michigan by tho recent severe weather. On the other hand, fruit-growers in Central Illinois say that the storm had a serious effect on the cherry orchards Fifty-five Apache children loft the San Curios Agency, in Arizona, for tho Carlisle Training School in Pennsylvania. Ex-Speaker Keifer was examined by the House Committee on Accounts. He admitted that in appointing Tyson a stenographer it was with the understanding that at some future time the position should bo vacated, and that his demand for the resignation was merely a reminder of the agreement. According to the Iron & Steel Association reports the total production of pigiron in this country during the year ending Dee. 81, 1883, was 5,146,972 tons Herr Most, the German Communist, predicts from the safe distance of New York that there will be more Socialistic murders in Vienna.... The salary of Robert Harris, as President of the Northern Pacific road, is $20,000 per annum. The entire session of the House of Representatives, on Jan. 26, was devoted to debate on the bill for the relief of Gen. Fitz John Porter. Mr. Thomas, of Illinois, was the first speaker. He said "the evidence before the House proved conclusively that Porter had been fairly, folly, and justly tried and convicted. In the name of Abraham Lincoln, in the name of the court, in the name of the great Secretary of War, in the name of the men who fell in battle on Aug. 29, he protested against the passage of the bill. He protesed against it because it was making treason and insubordination honorable and putting bar-sinister condemnation on the record of the men who saved and preserved the nation." Applause on the Republican side. Mr. Belford, of Colorado "I want to know whether the gentleman's judgment in the Fitz John Porter case is better than that of the greatest soldier this world has seen from the time of Julius Caesar down to this time. I mean Ulysses S. Grant." Applause on the Democratic side. Mr. Follett, of Onio, had hoped the question would not be discussed as a political one; but he discovered in the speech of the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Thomas) the animus of the case. It was not treason against the Government that Fitz John Porter was charged with, but treason against Pope. If there were any men on the floor capable of passing impartially en the merits of this controversy they were the men who had not had their prejudices, passions and feelings aroused by personal antagonism between two men, each of whom occupied a conspicuous position in the army of the North. Applause on the Democratic side. Mr. Belford said Gen. Grant was the greatest soldier that hud appeared since the time of Julius Caesar. Pompey was conquered. Hannibal was conquered. Napoleon was conquered. But Grant never lost a battle. Gen. Grant has fully examined this case, and has paid injustice had been done Gen. Porter. On the judgment of that great and wonderful soldier, he proposed to predicate his vote in favor of this bill, Applause on the Democratic side. He believed in doing justice to a man. It was the sweetest attribute io humanity. It was the sweetest attribute of God Almighty Himself. He proposed to bury the prejudices of the past and do justice to a man whom the greatest General on the face of the earth declared to be wronged and outraged. He would follow Grant's judgment against that of Captains and Colonels of militia. Laughter and applause. Mr. Horr, of Michigan., said the trouble with Fitz John Porter was that he became disgruntled and refused to give Pope the hearty support he ought to have done. One reason assigned for the passage of this bill was that Gen. Grant had written a letter saying Porter ought to be restored. He had believed in Grant many years. It had been his pleasure to come as near to worshiping him as he ever did any man the country i-roduced. Laughter. The gentlemen on the other side had been vilifying and slandering Grant, calling him all kinds of hard names for years. Now, these same gentlemen came in and asked: "What are you go'ng to do with Gen. Grant?" He would tell them. The grand old man had made a mistake, and as long as it was the only mistake of his life he (Horr) was going to stand by him longer than the gentlemen on the other side would. They had not agreed with Grant for a minute except in this one case, when Grant happened to agree with them. Mr. Horr stated that when it was expected that this bill would come up, at a prior Congress, Gen. Garfield was preparing a speech against it. Mr. Horr then concluded as follows: "In the name of good dicipline in the aroiv, in the name of the loyal men of the North, in the name of the thousands of men whose spirits were calling Congress to do its duty to their memory, he protested against the passage of this bill." Applause on the Republican side. The Senate was not in session. THE MARKET. NEW YORK.

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A FAMOUS RACE.

A 9earaboat Race Which Excited Interest Throughout the Civilised World. No steamboat race ever excited so much intesest throughout the civilized world as that which, took place between the Robert E. Lee and Natchez in June, 1870, from New Orleans to 8t, Louis. On the 24fch of that month Capt. T. T. Leathers telegraphed Capt. Perry Tharp, of this city, that the Natchez had arrived at St. Louis, having overcomo the distance fvom New Orleans, 1,278 miles in three days, twenty-one hours and fifty-eight minutes. From the time tha t sho was built at Cincinnati much rivalry in regard to speed had been exhibited between her and the Bobert E. Lee, which was built at New Albany during the war and was towed across the river to the Kentucky side to have her name painted on her wheelhouses, a measure of safety that was deemed prudent at that exciting time. Both boats had their friends and admirers, as did the captains of both. Capt. John W. Cannon, who died at Frankfort, Ky., about a year ago, commanded the Lee, and Capt. Thomas P. Leathers, owner of the present Natchez and her half-dozen or more predecessors of the same name, commanded the Natchez of that time. Both were experienced steamboatmen, but, as the fiequel proved, Capt. Cannon was the better strategist. While both boats had their friends, the name of the Bobert E. Lee -was most honored and most popular along the Mississippi river. Before the return of the Natchez to New Orleans Capt. Cannon had determined that the Lee should beat the record of her rival, the fastest that had ever been made over the course. He stripped the Lee for the race; removed all parts of her upper works that were calculated to catch the wind, removed all rigging and outfit that could be dispensed with, to lighten her, as the river was low in some places ; engaged the steamer Frank Pargoud to precede her a hundred miles up the river to supply eoal; arranged with coal yards to have fuel flats awaiting her in the middle of the river at given points, to be taken in tow under way until the coal could be transferred to the deck of the Lee, and then to be cut loose and float back. He refused all business of every kind, and would receive no passengers. The Natchez returned to New Orleans and received a few hundreds tons of of freight and also a few passengers, and was advertised to leave again for St. Louis June 30th. At o'clook in the afternoon the Robert E. Lee basked out from the levee, and five minutes later the Natchez followed her, but without such elaborate preparation for a race as had been made on the Lee, Capt. Leathers feeling confident that he could pass the latter within the first one hundred miles. A steamer had preceded the racing boats up the river many miles to witness all that could be seen of the great race that was to be. The telegraph informed the people along both banks of the river and the world at large of the coming struggle for supremacy in point of speed, and the world looked on with as much interest as it would had it been an event local to every part of it. Wherever there was a human habitation the people collected on the banks of the mighty river to observe the passage of the two steamers. The Lee gained slightly every 100 miles as the race progressed, which gain at Natchez, 300 miles from the starting point, amounted to ten minutes, attributable more to landings than had been made by the Natchez for fuel than anything else. The people of the whole city of Natchez viewed the race. At the bend at Vicksburg, although the two steamers were ten miles apart by the course of the liver, the smoke of eaeh was plainly discernable from the other. Thousands of people were congregated on the bluffs. At Helena and other points it seemed that the population for miles back from the river had turned out to witness the greatest race of this or any other age. At Memphis 10,000 people looked at the passing steamers, neither of which landed, the Natchez having by this time having adopted the Lee's method of receiving fueh At every point where there was a telegraph instrument the hour and the minute of the passing steamers were ticked to all points of America that could be reached, and newspapers throughout the country displayed bulletins denoting the progress of the boats. The time of passing Memphis, Vicksburg and Cairo was cabled to Europe. When Cairo was reached the rie was virtually ended, but the Lee proceeded to St. Louis, arriving there in three days, eighteen hours and fourteen minutes from the time she left New Orleans, beating by thirty-three minutes the previous time of the Natchez. The latter steamer had grounded and run into a fog between Memphis and Cairo which delayed her more than six hours. When the Lee arrived at St. Louis 30,000 people crowded the wharf, the windows and the housetops to receive her. No similar event had ever created so muoh excitement. Capt. Cannon was tendered a banquet by the business men of the aity, and was generally lionized while he remained there. It was estimated that more than $1,000,000 had been wagered by the friends of the two steamers. Many of the bets were drawn on the ground that the Lee had been assisted the first 100 miles by tho power of the Frank Pargoud added to her own ; but men of cooler judgment have ever since regarded the Natchez as the faster boat, but outgeneraled by the commander of the other. "Cincinnati .Enquirer. What a Boudoir Is. Boudoir is not an English word or an English creation. It is purely Frenoh. According to Littre, boudoir is derived from the wordbouder "to sulk," and "is so called because ladies retire into their boudoir when they wish to be alone. The word was not extant before the eighteenth century, but .since then poets, novelists and writers have thundered against those luminous temples, and with all these insinuations and gallant associations, we are carried far enough from the verb "to sulk," the

supposed origin of the word. This fact has led a witty countess to remark "that perhaps4he novelistaand poets, being profound observers they aro, had remarked that honeaf women do not sulk, and consequently do not trouble themselves abouty creating a special retreat for that ocoupation." In the dissipated eighteenth century there were plenty of famous boudoirs that fully justified the discredit thrown upon the name then and since. But the idea suggested of having "one's own little den," and the fertile field it offers foir decorative creations, has strongly at. "

tracted tne present feminine fancy. . Mme. de Grenlis declares that in her time a woman of good eompany, would never have given the name bpudpir toany room in her house. These historical allusions to this wicked little retreat will doubtless but make the term more attractive. A Democrat at Court. It has always been a little difficult to harmonize the simple dignity of republicanism with the usage and requirements of European courts; and while some of our representatives have maintained a consistent deportment, others have made such concessions as to render them ridiculous in the eye of their own countrymen, if not of . the world. Our wisest and most diplomatic ministers have adopted such a course a commended them in the eyes of all but the extremists of both sides. A total disregard of the usages of society may indicate firm principle, bnt is sure to make one absurdly and often unnecessarily conspicuous; so that, in certain matters, conformity may be themost prudent course. James Buchanan had some amusingexperiences wlien he represented the United States at foreign courts. He was a stately Democrat of the old school, courteous to all men irrespective of their social standing; but he was wholly unacquainted with law etiquette. In matters of State Gen. Jackson was one of the most severely simple of American Presidents. Gen. Jackson appointed Mr. Buchanan Minister to Russia in 1832. On arriving at St. Petersburg, he was much embarrassed how to conform to established usages. His salary, when all deductions were made for exchange, amounted to about $8,000 a year, and he was called upon to live on equal terms with embassadors who received twice, four times, six. times as much. TheBusianis the most formal courtin Europe, and the rules of its etiquette are cast-iron. Foreign Miuisters were, in fact, obliged to drive a carriage and four horses, with a postilion in livery and a servant riding behind the carriage arrayed in what Mr. Buchanan called "a more queer dress than our. militia generals." This servant, who was styled a chasseur, wore in his hat a plume of feathers. The plume was essential, because it noted the rank of the person riding in the carriage, and notified sentinels and other soldiers to pay him the homage of a salute. He found that the people were not- -impressed by anything but show and " parade, and had not the slightest no-

won oi simplicity and economy except as signs either of poverty or meanness. Without entertaining with some frequency and liberality, he could scarcely hope to accomplish the objects of his mission.. After considering the matter attentively, he arrived at a sensible conclusion, which he explained to a. friend thus: "Without ruin to my private fortune, I could not entertain as others did. Not to entertain at all, I might as well not have been here. After some time I determined that I would give them good dinners in a plain, republican style for their splendid entertainments, and the plan has succeeded. I have never even put livery on a domestic in my house a remarkable circumstance, in this country." Notwithstanding these innovations, Mr. Buchanan soon became a great favorite in Russian society! and wastreated by the Emperor Nicholas and the Empress with distinction so marked as to excite comment. He succeeded, also, in negotiating a very favorable commercial treaty. Youth's Companion. An Aquatic Team. One of fhe most novel teams on record is owned by a boy in Tehama. The young fellow's flyers are nothing more nor less than two large sturgeons, which were caught by his father in the Sacramento river. He has fastened the end of a strong rope to the tail of each fish, and the other end is fastened to the bow of an eighteen-foot boat. Two cords, fastened in some manner to the heads of the fish, serve as reins, and the owner of the team guides his fishy charge up or down the stream atwill. The first day the "water horses" were hitched up they "bucked" with all the energy of thoroughbred untamed Mexican mustangs, jumping and plunging out of the water, and digging down as far as their harness would permit. But they have been broken splendidly, and cause no trouble to their proud driver. When they are not in use, the fish are driven into a large wooden cage, which was made expressly for them, Chico (Cal.) Record. A Good Memory. In an Austin street-car were several gentlemen who passed away the time in telling jokes and anecodotes. Among them was a cranky individual who positively refused to enjoy tho fun, and after each yarn he would remark : "That's nothing new. I heard that years ago." "Did you ever hear the anecdote about George Washington and the railroad conductor?" asked one of the company. "Why, certainly," replied the cranky individual, "although I cannot now remember the circumstances." It was not until the laugh had gone all around that the crank discovered how badly he was sold Texas Sifting Whatever our place, allotted to us, by Providence, that foe us is tho post of duty. God estimates us not by the position we are in, but by the way in. which : w fill it Edwards,