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C0TOBE8S10NAL PROCEEDINGS. Arm two weeks debate, the Senate, on Feb. 35, pmed the Mcpherson banking bill by a vote of 43 to IX The text of the bill is printed elsewhere. Mr. Ransom offered a joint resolution to appropriate $100,000 to relieve suffering In the traoa of the recent cyclone in the Southern States. Mr. Voorheee handed in a resolution instructing the Judiciary Committee to report' now much money has been paid into the Treasury for leases of lands tn the Indian Territory for grazing purposes. Mr. Harrison introduced a bill to pension all disabled soldiers who served honorably for six months In the war of the rebellion, and to increase the pensions of their widows. A bill to authorize the construction of Additional steel Teasels for the nary was laid before th ? Senate oy the residing ofllcsr. tn the House of HeplestutaUtes Mr. Elha, of lioutaiana, entered a eoleran denial of the charge that he received a fee from star-route contractors. Resolutions were adopted calling on the Secretary of the Treasury to state the reason of delay tn paying tobacco rebates, and askintr the Judiciary Committee to report whether the taxation of railroads In Dakota doe- not conflict with the organic law, A jo jit resolution was introduced appropriating $30,000 for the distribution ot seed along the inundated Ohio valley. Bills were introduce! to prohibit aliens from owning land; to authorize coinage under the metric system; to aid the common schools; to provide civil government for Alaska; to appropriate $500,000 for sufferers by the overflow of the Mississippi: to establish an interstate railway transportation bureau; and to simplify procedure in pension claims. Some debate ensued on the pleuro-pneumonia bill. Bjjcxs were formally reported to the Senate, on the 26th nit., to prohibit the mailing of newspapers containing lottery advertisements, and for the relief of Fltz John Porter, the latter to come up March 12. An adverse report was made on the bill to abolish the military reservation at Port Rice, A joint resolution was passed expressing the appreciation by the nation of the generosity of Great Britain in presenting the Alert for the Greely relief expedition. A resolution was passed calling upon the Secretary of the Navy for in formation regarding the progress of work on the Panama CanaL The bill to authorize the construction of additional steel vessels for the navy led to some debate. In the House, Mr. Cobb asked unanimous consent for the passage of the joint resolution of thanks to Great Britain for the gift of the arctic steamship Alert, but Mr. Robinson objected. The pleuro-pneumonia bill was discussed to the hour of adjournment, ft being argued that the measure was full of unconstitutional provisions, and was in the interest of a ring now being formed to control the cattle trade Boas were introduced in the Senate, on the 37th nit,, to improve the channel between Galveston and the Gulf of Mexico, and to incorporate and aid the Yellowstone Park Railroad. A resolution was passed calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information as to the rumored lease of the Crow Reservation in Montana. The bill for the construction of eleven vessels for the navy led to a hot debate. Mr. Tan Wyck asked immediate consideration for a resolution directing the Fostoffiee Committee to inquire whether at anv time the Western Union and the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Companies had negotiated for consolidation. Mr. Plumb offered the resolution, and it was referred to the Postoffice Committee. The bill to rr peal the test oath which passed the Senate some time ago, was passed by the House. The House adopted a resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury to state how much money there Is in the vaults, and to report what amount can at present be applied in liquidation of the public debt. Mr. lie Tevre offered a resolution directing the preparation of a bill to prohibit option trading in grain or provisions, but Mr. Cox objected. Mr. Itoaixs, of Kansas, introduced a bill In the Senate on the 28th ult. to remove the injunction of secrecy from the memoers of the Fits John Porter court-martiaL The remainder of , the session was spent on the bill to authorize the construction of steel vessels for the navy. An amendment that the number of ships be reduced from seven to four was defeated bv 17 to 34. In the House, two German-Americans, Messrs. Deuster and Guenther, rose, by unanimous permission, and delivered speeches which they believe better express the true sentiments of the German people than did the contemptuous act of Prince Bismarck. ,Mr. Kasson, of Iowa, was promptly on his feet to regret the speeches of the gentlemen from Wisconsin, and to urge that a resolution adopted by members of the Reichstag and presented by the previous speakers should be smothered in that yielding pillow called the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Kasson'a notion prevailed. By a vote of 156 to 127 the pieuro-raenmonia bill was passed. Eulogies upon the late Representative Haskell were delivered by several members. Tbb bill for the admission of Dakota into

the Union was favorably reported in the Senate ea the 29th ult. Mr. Ransom reported back adersely the joint resolution for an appropriation of 1600,000 for the cyclone sufferers in the South, the distress having been overstated. The bill for the construction of steel cruisers was passed by SS to 13. Adjourned to March S. The House of Representatives adopted a resolution asking the Secretary of the Treasury if additional clerks are r squired for the tobacco rebate claims. A resolution was offered directing the Committee on Public Lands to report whether the grant of the Portage Xjake and Lake Superior Ship Canal Company is liable to forfeiture. In committee of the whole it was resolved that Gen. Pleasonton be retired with tile rank of Colonel. The postoffice appropric -tion bill was reported. An evening session was fceld for the consideration of pension bills.

THE AST A jury at Syracuse, N. T., convicted Mrs. Hoyt of murder in the first degree, and the court sentenced her to be hanged April 18. Her crime was the murder of her invalid husband in order to secure a policy of insurance on his life. Two previous husbandB and her father had years before died under suspicious circumstances after having willed their property to her, and there is a strong belief that they all died by her hands. The murderess is nearly TO years old. There is little sympathy for her In the community where she resides. In a beer saloon at Boston, Col. B. J. Fox, a wealthy but dissolute New Yorker, married Hannah J. Siverett, an adventuress. Both got drunk niter the ceremony, and all visitors to the place were free to imbibe at the bridegroom's expense. A three-story frame house was burned on Stanton street, in New York city. Cornelius Van Riper, the occupant, and his three children perished within the building, and his wife, jumping from toe third story, was killed instantaneously By the burning of Powers & Wrightman's chemical works, at Philadelphia, a loss of $1,000,000 was incurred. Hundreds of people quitted their houses, anticipating an explosion of chemicals, and burning oil flowed in all direction through the streets, citizens being called on to extricate the fire engines and hose. Every are company in the city, save one, was on duty. New York dealers advanced the price of quinine, owing to the large amount of that article destroyed in Powers Wrightman's establishment. THE WKSX. Lieut. Habbeb, who brought back from Siberia the bodies of Be Long and his comrades; was given a public reception at Youngs town, Ohio, whicn was attended by 5,000 persons.. ...The National and Nashville hotels, at Denver, occupied as lodginghouses for railroad laborers, were burned, and four men perished in the flames. .... A land dispute in the vicinity of Humboldt, Kan., led to the murder of James Harchcrode and Robert McFarland by Hugh Guillond and his three sons. The people of Omaha were startled the other day by an explosion that shook the entire city. Buildings everywhere trembled so as to cause persons to run out of doors. It was soon learned that Steele, Johnson & Co. 's powder-bouse, a short distance south of the city, hod ex ploded and killed four boys: Chris Madsen, Jack Stitt, William Abney, and William Melius, None of them was over 17 years old. They were bunting around the powder-house, and

were blown to pieces. The head of one was blown off, another's legs were gone, one was found with his arms torn away, and another's remains were scattered in every direction. An immense hole in the earth was caused by the explosion, and trees were blown into small fragments. . . .At Toledo, Ohio, Robert B&itey (colored) was convicted of marrying a white girl contrary to the statute of 1840, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment and $100 fine the full penalty.... The Hebrew Relief Society of Milwaukee reports SOtl Russian refugees near Jifsmarck in a condition bordering on starvation and nakedness, and will endeavor to raise $5,0C0 for their relief. . . .Harry Tuttle, one of the men engaged in the recent affray with deputy marshals, was taken from the hospital at Spenrflsh, D. T. while in a dying condition, and lynched. The late defendants in the Emma Bond trial are ostracized in their homes in Christian County. Merchants and business men decline to have anything to do with them. Mrs. Shanks, a wealthy Milwaukee widow, has began suit against Marshall Field & Co., the well-known Chiougo dry goods firm, and one of their clerks, claiming damages In $10,000, for an alleged disgraceful scene in their Chicago store, a 60 cent picca which Mrs. Shanks received atone counter being rejected and declared counterfeit by another clerk The Woman's Christian Temperance Association of Chicago proposes to secure a charter and issue bonds for $350,000 to erect a seven-story building. Orrin A. Carpenter was last week removed from the jail at Lincoln to the jail at Petersburg, 111., there to await trial for the muider of STora Burns. The Lincoln County Board of Supervisors have employed a Petersburg lawyer to assist in the proseoution. The Sheriff at Jackson, Ohio hanged Luko and William Jones for the murder of Anderson Lackey. They were taken out of the front door of the jail to an inciosure surrounding the scaffold. William Jones struggled until his limbs touched his brother's body. . THE SOUTH. The lumber used in the scaffold on which John Brown was hanged was used to erect a porch for a br'ck dwelling at Charlestown, W. Va. Last week the material was carefully stowed away by Col. John M. Coyle. The law is suspended at Hot Springs, Ark., and the Committee of Fourteen, some of whom are under indictment for crimes in other States, control the city. Twenty person were driven out at the point of the bayonet in one day, and it is alleged that Editor MoBe Harris must also move By the consent of nearly all the creditors, the city of Helena, Ark., has compromised its debt of $280,000 at 60 per cent.. . . .A whale which was captured near Port Royal, S. CM ffave birth to a young one. Above and below Shreveport, La., for a hundred miles, says a Southern dispatch, the country is a shallow sea. Tht planters lose heavily in fences, stock, and horses, and the colored population are in great distress. Thbee United States Judges sitting en banc at Nashville, Tenn., have pronounced unconstitutional and void the Tennessee law which erected the State Railroad Commission. The law is held to have attempted to regulate interstate commerce; and to have discriminated against corporations in favor of individuals; and to have been directed against railroads alone, whereas it should have cmbraced within its provisions regulations for all common carriers and to have teen too indefinite. The court, refused to canvass the question of vested rights, the reasons for the railroads' victory over the State being already numerous enough. There is talk of a special session ol the Legislature to frame a statute avoiding the legal pitfalls which awaH any attempt on the part of the txsople to protect themselves.. ..Ben Gillian was hanged at Bayboro, N. C, for killing Henry Carter with a club. William Moore, a negro, was executed at Franklin, La., for the murder of a Chinaman. The Sheriff found, after the condemned man had been swung off, that his feet touched the floor, and he was raised to the platform and the rope shortened. .. .M. T. Polk, the defaulting State Treasurer of Tennessee, died quite suddenly of heart disease at Nashville. WASHINGTON, Secbetabt Lincoln has sent to the House a report which details the immediate necessities of the Government works at various lake harbors Horatio C Burchard, of Illinois has been reappointed Director of the Mint. His term is five years. Commissioner Loring is emphatic in the belief that there is nothing un healthful in pork, and nothing connected with the industry tending iri any wise to disease. These sentiments are embodied in an official report submitted to the President The House Committee on Banking and Currency refused to consider Buckner's bill for the issue of Treasury notes, and ordered the McPherson bill reported as it passed the Senate. . . .A petition asking Congress to authorize a collection of statistics of divorce from the records of the several States, signed by all the Judges and many prominent lawyers of Chicago, has been received at Washington, It is announced from Washington that the Public Lands Committee of the House has voted to recommend the forfeiture of all the granted lands along that portion of the Northern Pacific Railroad which was not completed July 4, 1879, which was the limit of time fixed by the act of Congress. The total area of the lands which would be included In such forfeiture is about 38,000,000 acres, and the value thereof is estimated from $2 to $2.25 per acre, or, in round figures, St0,000,000.... Information comes from tho White Hon he that there has been no thought of recalling Minister Sargent from Berlin. Bepresesentive Brewer has been directed by the House Committee on Manufactures to report favorably his bill to impose a fine of not more than $100, or punishment by imprisonment for three months, on any person interfering iu any way with a commercial traveler selling goods by sample. POLITICAL, The Iowa Senate has passed the Don nun bill prohibiting the manufacture of ale, wine, beer, and all intoxicating liquors whatever, by a vote of 35 to 13.... The Governor of California is about to call an extra session of the Legislature to take action in regard to the unpaid taxesrof the Central Pacific Road, which aggregate $1,074,000. Leading Republicans in Nebraska decidedly favor Blaine for first choice for the Presidency; Logan, Arthur, Edmunds, Conkling. Lincoln, Gen. Sherman, Harrison, and Gra it coming next in tho order mentioned. Secretary Lincoln is almost the unanimous choice for Vice President. Gen. John B. Henderson returned to St, Louis last week from a trip of several weeks through the East. He thinks Arthur will carry New York and the other Middle States, Edmuuds most of the Eastern States, Blaine will have the support of the remainder of the Eastern States, and a good many delegates from tho South and West, also Pennsylvania, in cage that State don't go for Arthur. He looks on Sherman aud Logan also as strong candidates. The Copiah Investigating Committee adjourned .sine die at New Orleans on the 27th ult, after examining 152 witnesses Tho Indiana Democratic State Convention will bo held at Indianapolis, June 25. A bill has been introduced in the Iowa Senate to extend aid to farmers protective associations engaged in contesting the legality of barbed-wire patents. President Arthur last week sent to Congress the report of tho Civil Service Commission. Tho document admits that there have been several violations of tho law in regard to political assessments, but the

I amount collected was not one-fourth as ' much as formerly. It is still possible, say j thn pAinmicalAnAra tr nrnmisn ttia cnrtil a nft

100,000 offices as rewards for party victory, but the civil service act I a success, and has passed its most difficult point The Ohio Republican State Convention bus been ca'llei to meet at Columbus, on April Ii3 Tho Rhode Island Republican Convention wi.l meet March Q Rodney D. Wells, a relative of Chauncey I. Filley, has been appointed Postmaster of St. Louis. THE WEEK'S FI RE KECOKD. The fire losses of the week, as re ported by telegraph, are as follows: Six large stores at Shelby vil e, Tenn., loss$30,000; five buildings at Wlmmac, Ind., $15,000; three stores at Woodstock. 111., $20,0C0; four icsidcnees at Pittsburgh. $10,000; fifty-two houses at Mayaguso, Porto Kico, $50,000; a woolen machinery mill at Worcester Mass., $50,000; three line residences in New Orleans, $30,000; street oar stables at Pittsburgh, $15,000; a business block at Cassvillo, W. Va., $J0,000 ; several shops in the Reformatory Prison at Ionia, Mich., $15,000; Union Hall Block, Jackson, Mich., $200, COO;, a warehouse at St. Paul, Minn., $125,000; a hotel, newspaper office, and five stores at Henrietta, Texas $5,000; a large clothing store at CorsJcanu, Texas, $50,000; a dry goods store at Green Bay, Wis., $10,000; the hoist bouse of the Calumet Iron and Steel Works, South Chicago, 111., $30,000; two hotels at Denver, Col., $15,0J0; u hotel at Com p ton, Canada, $15,000; a clock manufactory at Louisville, ' Ky., $60,000; a flouring mill at Osceola, Iowa, $20,000; general business houses tit Greenville, S, C., $30,000; a brush factory tit Toledo, Ohio, $15,000; a flouring mill ut Nicholas vilie, Ky., $30,000; a store and residence at Harrisburg, Ohio, $20,000; the St. harles Hotel and other buildings at Lincoln, Neb., $75,000; a portion of Hunter's cotton mill, Philadelphia, $30,0t0; two hotels and other property at Duluth, Minn., $40,000; a wool warehouse at Boston, $80,000; Powers & Wrightman's chemical works, Philadelphia, $1,000,000; tho Richmond (Va.) cedar works, $00,000; some shops at Fairbault, Minn., $10,000; a warehouse and contents at Paris, Ky., $20,000; a wagon factory at Racine, Wis., $35,000; manufacturing property at Dostou, $200,000: a flouring mill at Eldorado, ()., $20,000; tho business section of Iredell, Teas, $50,000; a carpet mill at Philadelphia! $25,000. GNKAL. Following is the text of the Mcpherson National Bank measure, which passed the United States Senate by a vote of forty-three to twelve, and now goes to tte House for action: Be it enacted etc.. That upon any deposit already or hereafter made c t any United Statis bonds bearing interest in the manner required by law, any national-banking association mailing it shall be entitled to receive from the Controller of the Currency circulating notes of different denominations, in blank, registered and countersigned as provided by law, not exceeding in the whole amount the par value of the bonds deposited, provided that at no time shall the total amount of such notes issued to any such association exceed the amount at such time actually paid in of its capital stock, and that ail laws and parts of laws inconsistent with t he provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. fcEC. 2. That an association organized for the purpose of issuing nofr pavable in gold under the proviiisions of Sec. 5185, Hevlsed Statutes of the United States, upon the deposit of anv United States bonds bearing interest, with the Treasurer of the United States, shall be entitled to receive circulating notes to the amount and in the manner prescribed in the act for other national banking associations. Sec. 3. That all laws and parts of laws of the United States inconsistent with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. Recent deaths; Ex-Gov. Samuel Price, of West Virginia; J, A. Warneck, of Dixon, 111., who fought at Waterloo under Napoleon; Col. L. A. Hardee, of Jacksonville, Fla., proprietor of the largest orange grove and nursery in the world; Judge A, M. Chadwick, a leading citizen of Omaha, Neb.; Col. George Bowers, of Nashua, N. H., an officer in the last two wars; George A Ingalls, a prominent lawyer and pioneer citizen of Chicago; Gen. W. T. Spicely, of New Albany, Ind., a veteran of the Mexican War; Col. Henry 8. Pratt, of Detroit, a veteran of three wars; Pierre Michel La Pice de Bcrgondy, of New Orleans, a soldier of the War of 1812, and an immensely wealthy cotton and sugar planter ; Dr. Richard G. Radwaj', of New York, the well-known patent medicine manufacturer and advertiser; Prof. S, W. Williams, of Yale College, a famous Oriental scholar; Samuel Donaghy, once a prominent politician in Pennsylvania. Hon. William H. Hunt, United States Minister to Russia, died of dropsy it Bu Petersburg on the 27th of February. Mr. Hunt was a native of Louisiana, and came of a prominent family. When the war broke out he adhered to the Union and remained a steadfast supporter of the cause to the end. He was first brought into prominence when he became the counsel lor Gov. Kellogg In his contest with McEnery, He subsequently became a candidate for Attorney General on the Republican ticket, and was elected and served one term. He was re-elected as Attorney General on tho ticket with Packard, but was thrown out of office through the influence of the. MacVcagh Commission, which overturned the Packard Government and installed Nicholl while preparations were being made to seat Hayes in Washington, ttoon after this Mr. Hunt was appelated a Judge of the Court of Claims at Washington, to till a vacancy caused by death. Thoush this was a life pisition ho resigned it on March 5, i81, to become Secietary of the Navy, and received the appointment as Minister to St. Petersburg April 12, 1882. John Lowe, Secretary of the Canadian Department of Agriculture, was examined by a special Parliamentary eommitb?e at Ottawa, and swore that tho statistics issued from Washington as .to the immigration to the United States Jrom Canada were incorrect, and that American customs office rs had been instructed to fraudulently au lament the number of persons leaving the Dominion The steamer Norseman, on arriving at Boston from Liverpool, reports having steamed along a solid wall of ice for 110 miles. lOREIGN. Bkdlatgii and two thousand other sympathizers siood ut the gate of a London prison to congratulate Footc, the blasphemer, on his release. .. .James R. Partridge, for some years in the diplomatic service of the United States in South America, committed suicide at Alicante, Spain, . . .Russia has made propositions to Germany for a joint reduction of forces on the frontier.... Another dynamite explosion created consternation iu the Victoria railway station, London. The explosion at the Victoria Railway Station, London, threw the great city into a state of excitement similar to that which it experienced eleven months ago, before Dr. Gallagher's expedition had gone to its reward. The Superintendent of Explosives has looked at the ruins of the depot, and says dynamite did the business. His reason for this belief is that the greatest damage w is done laterally, which is not likely to characterize the effects of more powerful explosives. The damage is $20,000. . . .The British House of Commons elected Arthur Wellesley Peel Speaker. The London police found a large quantity of explosives under the Charing Cross Railway station, and a olerk discovered in the clouk room a box thouirht to contain dynamite. A statement vas made in tho House of Commons that an infernal machine of American manufacture fcud been found it the Paddington Railway station Prince Krapotklne, tho anarchist, imprisoned after a trial in Southern Franco a year ago, is u bo banished from the republic. This clemency is the rosulfof several influences. The Prince is a great echolar, and hi health is very bad Russia and tho Pope have conto to an understanding, and a Uw-aitui Minister to tho Vatican will ho appointed. The police authorities of Paris are convinced that the 3rl; h revolutionists have

made that city the headquarters in Europe for the perpetration of their dy n ami to schemes C. A. Selmer, the Norwegian Minister of State, has been impeached, aud sentenced to forfeit his plac3 and pay costs of $5,000. The English Government is about to send to Washington a courteous dispatch relative to the countenance and assistance given to dynamiters by American citizens. The clocks discovered in tho London railway (stations are said to have been made in the United States, and in one of the valises was a copy of the New York Sun of Feb. 6. The police arrested three meu and seized their stock of dynamite, on information that they intended to blow up the courts.

ADDITIONAL NEWS The Citizens' Committee, of Hot Springs, Ark., has banished from that city Moses C. Harris, editor of the DaHy Horse William Ryberg, a bartender in Boston, while suffering from delirum tremens, killed himself by ripping open his abodman and shaving a slice from his thigh. The opinion is said to prevail in England among the Irishmen that the dynamite outrages endanger Irish lives far more than English: that even if successful they will result in the death of ten Irishmen for that of one Englishman, aud will arrest all Irish reform for years. The Tories already use dynamite as a strong argument against tho extension of the franchise In Ireland, and the opinion is universally expressed that an appeal to the American Government by Lord Granville is now certain A bust of Longfellow was unveiled at Westminster Abbey, in the presence of Earl Granville, Minister Lowell, and the Misses Longfellow, and placed in the Poets Corner Tho French Government has decided to expel suspected dynamitards from France. THEf election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of D. C. Haskell in the Second Congressional District of Kansas, came off on the 1st in si., and E. H. Funs to a, of Carlisle, Kan., the Republican nominee, is elected by about 4,000 majority over Samuel A. Higgs, Fusionist, of Lawrence. The vote was the heaviest for years.... The prohibition bill passed tho Iowa House by a vote of 52 to 41 all the Republicans and one Democrat voting for the measure. There belnjr a prohibition majority of twenty-four in tho Senate, its passage in that body is certain. In the Illinois Penitentiary at Joliet, Frank Rande, tho notorious criminal, crushed in Deputy Warden McDonald's skull with a poker and slashed Keeper Madden on the arm with a knifo. He was then seized by two convicts and thrown to the floor, where he was held until Assistant Deputy Warden Garvin arrived, when he was ordered to proofed to the deputy's offtje. On the way he seized a knife from the work-table and attacked Garvin, but the latter llrst broke his cane over Rande' s head, and then shot him in the ribs, Keeper McDonald at nearly the same time shooting nt his head, but the bulletonly plowed around the back of the skull, rendering Rande unconscious. There are hopes that dipt. McDonald will recover, but it is feared that Rande has not been fatally injured. During the melee the conduct of the other convicts was praiseworthy. . . . Judd Crouch and Dan Holcomb were arrested last week for the Crouch murder, penetrated near Jackson, Mich., Nov. 21 last. Officials claim that tho circumstantial evidence against the men warrants the a i rests. The victory of the British troops at Tcb, near Trinkitat, und?r the command of Gen. Graham, was complete. It appears that tho English force, numbering about 5,000 men, formed itself in battle order in an oblong square, with the Highlanders in the advance, as they were at Tel-el-Kebir, and commenced its march on the Arab army. They had proceeded but a mile when the Arabs opened Arc upon them, at the same time slowly retreating. Tho British steadily advanced for three miles, until they came in sight of the Arab earthworks. The Highlanders, cheering, moved ' forward until they were within S00 yards of the works, and waited for their ranks to close up. The Arabs were on their Hanks and in front in great numbers, but still the Scotch pressed on. The Arabs charged them with their spears, only to be mown down like grass in great numbers. Having cleared the space in front of them, the British army stormed the works and carried them, and after four hours' fighting the whole camp was in their 'possession, together with the cannon which Baker Pasha's Egyptian sheep had lost three weeks before. The Arabs retreated, with the British troopers pursuing them. In spite of the fierceness of the Arab attack, the British are reported to have lost but fortyfour killed and 142 wounded, while the Arabs lost 1,0J0 killed, besides the wounded, the number of which is not given. Gen. Graham's force advanced ai:d occupied Tokar within a few hours after bis victory at Teb.

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ot Representatives, on the 1st Inst., calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information relative to the fencing in of public Sands in severral States and Territories. Bills were reported to provide, for the issue of circulating notes to national banks, to establish a Board of Interstate Commerce, to increase pensions, to provide for a canal between Lake Union and Puget Sound, and to construct the Maryland and Delaware free slujp canal. Several speeches were made on the naval appropriation bill. There was no session of the Senate.

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Turkish Justice The Cadi goes out in the morning Without making known his intended route; takes his walk witli suitable attendants, and stops at the first bazaar. He seats himself at random in one of the shops, and examines the weights, measures, and merchandise. He lends an ear to all complaints, interrogates any merchant accused of infraction of law, and then, without court or jury, aud especially without delay, pronounces judgment, applies the penalty, and goes on in quest of other delinquents. In these cases, however, the punishment is of a different character, notwithstanding the identity of the crime, lie cannot treat the offending merchant as a common thiet ; that would have a prejudicial effect on commerce. The penalty is graduated thus : The mildest, confiscation; the moderate, closing th-d shop ; the severest, exposure. This last is inflicted in a singular manner. The culprit is placed with his back against his shop, and is compelled to raise himself on his toes until the weight of his whole body rests on them ; his ear is then nailed to the door or shutter of his shop. This punishment lasts two, four, or six hours. It is true, the criminal may abridge its duration whenever he chooses to let himself down; but the Turkish merchant is jealous of his reputation, and nothing but the last necessity would induce him to resemble a thief by the mutilation of his ears. I stopped in front of one of these wretches, who had just been nailed up. I was disposed to compassionate his case, but Mohammed told me he was an habitue, and that if I would observe hiti ear closely, I should find it was like a cullender. This changed the current of my sympathies, and, as he was to re main some time longer, I ceased to regret his sufferings and rejoiced in the opportunity of making a sketch. I drew forth crayons and paper, and begged the rest to continue their route with M. Mayer, leaving Mohammed to assist me in my embarrasssment. But Mayer would not quit me; so we three remained, and the others proceeded on their way. My picture was composed; the criminal, nailed by hid ear, was standing stiff and motionless on the extreme points of his great toes ; and seated near him, on the sill of the door, was the guard, charged with seeing the punish ment duly executed, smoking a pipe. The quantity of tobacco in the pipe seemed to be graduated to the time the punishment was to continue. Around these two personages was a simi-circle of idlers. We took our places at one side, and I commenced my task. After a time the culprit, finding he had nothing to expect from the crowd among whom, perhaps, he recognized some of his customers hazarded a word to the guard. "Brother," said he, "one law of our holy Prophet is, that men should help one another." The guard seemed ;to take no exception to the precept in the abstract and continued quietly to smoke. "Brother," resumed the patient, "did you not hear me?" The guard made no other reply than a large puff of smoke, that ascended to his neighbor's nose. "Brother," still persisted the man, "one of us can aid "the other and do a thing acceptable to Mahomet." The puffs of smoke suceecded each other with a regularity that extinguished the poor fellow's hopes. "Brother," cried the dependent, with a dolorous voice, "put a stone under my heels, and I will give you a piastre w No reply. "Two piastres." A pause. "Three piastres." Smoke. "Four piastres." "Ten piastres," said the guard quietly. The ear and the purse of the man held a parley, which was visible in his countenance At length the pain conquered, andtheteu piasters rolled at the feet of the guard, who counted them with great deliberation, put them in his purse, rested his pipe against the wall, and, picking up a pebble about as large as the egg of a tomtit, placed it under the man's heels. "Brother," said the culprit, "I feel nothing under my feet." "A stone is there, however," answered the guard, resuming his seat and pipe, "but, it is true, I selected it in reference to your price. Give me a tatair (five frames) and 1 will place a stone under you so appropriate to your

necessities that you shall sigh for it when you reach paradise." The result may be anticipated the guard had his money and the merchant his stone. How the affair terminated I do not know.

Compulsory i n1ioii. "As at present instituted it is a piece of tyranny, an attack upon the chief of those indiduai rights that should be beyond the reach of the majority the right of a father to be the guide, master, and law-giver of his child. It is only excusable when confined to the purely mechanical part of education, such as reading, writing, arithmetic, and gymnastics; but it is destrole when it becomes, in the master's hands, a school of ff.lse views, .historic lies, and mutual hatred, or a means of electoral propaganda and of making proselytes to a sect." He also falls foul of the excessive number of subjects that young children nowadays are forced to study. "It is not wise," he says, to exact too much from a child. The true method is to teach him only how to frrasp an idea and how to form his own judgment, thus maturing also his will and conscience. At present children only get into their heads rules and tables, so that if some were not idle there would bo soon not a single thinker in all France. Then, also, the premature learning of foreign languages is replacing the national idiom by a cosmopolitan jargon. For a man our system would bo homicide; what must it be for a child of six or thirteen?" AL Kmile Ollivier, in his ra-mphlct on Church and State. It is well enough to be rich, but to parade your riches is contemptible. A man may bo proud of his horse but it is not necessary to ride on a ridgo pole: Kays the proverb.

SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE. 1 i Let clothes thftt fade ftoak over night ' in one ounce of.jpga? oC.lead ia a pail of water. White Spots m Fubxiture. A hot shovel held over furniture, it ia aid, will remove white spotcu A little borax pot in the water in which scarlet napkins and red-bordere 4, towels are to be washed will preveirt&A them fading. Papered walls are cleaned by being wiped down with a flannel cloth tied 5 over a broom or brush. Then cut off a f thick piece of stale bread and rub down with this. Begin at the top and go straight down. . A stbip of plush is now lightly bound around a flower pot on a drawing-roofh or dining-room table, and finished off with a bow, or by merely tucking tho $ end in. Ruby plush around a pot containing maidenhair fern looks partjeularly well. Thick brown paper should be laid under carpets, if the patent lining is 3 uot to be had. It saves wear and prevents the inroads of moths, which, however, will seldom give trouble if salt is ( sprinkled around the edges when the carpet is laid. There is no better way to clean rusty knives than putting into lime water. .Che knives can be placed in a tin pail of pretty thick lime - water ; they must tand up so that the handles will be dry. They will have to remain some lime, a ad then be clewed with brick or napolia A serviceable match-holdjBr may be made for the hail chandelier by crocheting a small bag of pink and white nrochet cotton, and fitting it in a goblet from wrhieh the handle has been broken. Two tassels should depend from (lie bottom, and a prettily twisted cord fasten it to the chandelier. A very pretty tidy is made by sewing

strips of valenciennes insertion until

ou have the desired sze for a tidy;

e this with ribbon oi different colors,

and it mav be of a different widths ; finish with a lace edge. The ribbon need not be entirely smooth, but must be ironed smooUL Great difficulty is often found in entirely freeing velvet, felt, beaver and broadcloth from dust and the fibers of wool that follow the use of woolen veils, scarfs and robe linings. To do thi& satisfactorily dip the brush in dry, newly-fallen snow, and note the readiness with which every particle of dust and lint may be brushed from the black goods. A shoe-bag is a very handy article for a bedroom. A tasteful one can be made of some pretty chintz. Cut a piece a half a yard wide and two-thirds of a yard long, bind it with scarlet braid, and put on a smaller piece for the pockets, stitching it in three divisions, the smallest in the center for slippers. The most convenient place for this article is to nail it on the inside of the closet door. It is not a good plan to have the white lawn and cambric dresses "done up," as the phrase is, to lay away for the winter, for the expectation that they will look fresh and be ready for immediate wear in the spring will be disappointed. Of course, they should not be put away dirty, but the starching and ironing may well be left till spring; only common calicos should be starched and ironed before packing away. Behoving Stains. A mixture which is excellent for removing grease spots and stains from carpets and clothing is made of two ounces of ammonia, two ounces of white castile soap, one ounce of glycerine, one ounce of ether; cut the soap fine ; dissolve in one pint of water over the fire; add two quarts of water. This should be mixed with water in the proportion of a teacupful to one ordinary sized pail of water. Mix thoroughly, and wash 'soiled garments in it. For removing spots use a sponge or clean flannel cloth, and with a dry cloth rub as dry as possible. Woolen goods may be made to look bright and fresh by being sponged with this. Something New n Glass. A New York co-respondent of the Hartford Times says: Among the latest new ideas is a glass bath-tub. The idea is not yet quite perfected, but I am assured that it soon will be. The persons working it out are confident that it will be a great success. The chief difficulty is that of providing for expansion and contraction. And this, it is said, is nearly overcome. The manufacture of malleable glsss is counted as one of the lost arts, but if what is alleged as to the experiments with

glass for bath-tubs be all true, it will 1 soon be recovered. The process of an-

i nealing glass so that it may bfe used j for this purpose and many others for 1 which it has not hitherto been available

is the invention of Mr. C. W, McLean. I The Hydraulic and Sanitary Plumber speaks of it as "one of the most beneli- ( 6ial discoveries of the ogc." Professor $ Dormus savs i4its crreat sanitarv valve 4 .

is beyond question." If glass can be successfully used in the manufacture of bath-tubs, instead of copper and zinc, there is no reason why it should not be available for sinks, tanks, wash-tubs, refrigerators; even for burial caskets and

also for various building purposesJrj N

me case 01 articles usea in aweiungts it would certainly have the advantage of being a great deal clearer than copper and zine receptacles now in use. Porcelain comes next m cleanliness, but that is easily fractured, while the an nealed glass, it is said, is as strong and durable as steel. Extremes of heat and cold do not affect it, and, in fact, its discovery is of the highest importance. The plumbers are much interested in it, as a matter of course. It looks improbable at first glance that gl iss cap. ever be made to take the place of ordinary metals in the household or oirfttide, but it would not do nowadays to sav that it is impassible, by any means. Who knows but the time "is near when even the glass houses of the well-known moral axiom will be substantial realities. ' Mere bashfulness without merit is

awkward; and merit has a double claim to acceptance and generajly meets witli

as many patrons asholders. Hughes