Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 April 1870 — Page 2

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TEBRE HAUTE, IND.

Wednesday

Morniner, April

JOHN D. EVANS. TKEAFCLLRK OK STATE, UOBEKX II. MILROY. JUDOKS OFsrruKMK ro HT,

JEHU T. KiiLIO'IT.fi It. 0. fiHEOOKY. :CHAKLE8 A. KAY, AiN'UKEV.' L. OSBOKXF.

ATTORNEY GENERAL,

NELSON TKUSSLBR.

SCl'F.KINTKSOF.ST OK rCW.lC INSTRUCTION, EAKXAISASC, IIOBiJP.

THE General Government has allowed tlie State of Indiana a claim o( $481, 000, in payment of the spoliation com milted hy'Morgan's raiders. Here is hint for our Ohio sufferers, who failed before the Legislature.—Cin. Time#.

The Times is mistaken. The General Government lias not allowed the State of Indiana one cent on account of MORGAN raid claims, and is not likely to do so, as K'.scli a course would open up a broad and straight road to National bankruptcy Let the principle be once established that l»yal citizens are entitled to compensation for spoliations committed by rebels du ing the late war, and we should have claimants by the thousand in every bor der and .Southern State. It is not unieas onable to suppose that the amount of such claims would exceed the pre-ont National debt, and would bring swift and irreme diable ruin upon the country. And sup

pose

the Government, while in Republi pan hands, should set up this principle of compensation to loyal incii, how long would it take the Democracy, should they gain the ascendency, to decide that the other side—their friends, I lie rebels are entitled to compensation for losse: and damages sustained by the operation of the Union army?

It is not safe to count upon the penna nent domination of any parly. 'Ihe party now in power, despite its glorious achievements, it.- incomparably magnifi cent record, may yet be compelled togiv place to the opposition and it is the part, of true wisdom not only to set up no piece dents of doubtful propriety, but to giv no pretext for wrongful use of power any parly that may hereafter control the government.

However hard it may have been for citizens of Indiana and Ohio to have their property taken away or destroyed bv MORGAN'S ragged marauders, it was part of the sacrifice which a Democratic rebellion entailed on them, and there some satisfaction in the thought that portion of the sufferers deserved even worse treatment than they recievcd. This class were "Copperheads," whose notori ous disloyalty invited MORGAN'S invasion When that bold raider came, he was found to be no respecter of persons, but took the portable property of his friends and enemies with perfect impartiality. Now suppose the General Government to un derlakc the settlement of those claims.— Would it be right to pay for the losses of those same "Copperheads"? Certainly not. Well then, suppose that only loyal men receive the appropriation, does anybody fancy that the very first Democratic Congress would not hasten to p'lt throu a bill paying the other class? And liav ing settled with Northern "Copperheads, for damages sustained by a raid which they invited, how long would it bebefor all the rebels on (he line of SHERMAN': grand march through Georgia and the Carolina* would be dealt with in the same way? And how long before every other rebel would have his claim allowed

The only safe and proper course for the General Government to pursue, is to let the whole matter most severely alone for the very first claim of the kind that is allowed will be the longest stride that any country ever made towards utter and hopeless ruin.

The claim of S-181,000, to which the Timts allude-', is a State claim for money expended in putting troops into the field It was, for a long time, in dispute, and was finally settled by a Commission ap pointed, under act of Congress, by President JOHNSON. The Treasury Department claimed the right to go behind the report of that Commission, and to inspect original vouchors. This was successfully resisted, and the award of the Commission was declared final. So, after many years' delay and the expenditure of much time and money, the State get- back the amount which she actually paid out Simply this and nothing more.

Till-: SI:IIOOI. lloAitu of this city will we are sure, have the nearly unanimous approval of the people, whose interests they are endeavoring to serve, in the oreet'on of the two proposed school buildings. There is a pressing and iucrcasin need of mere extensive accommodation for tnu pupils of our exeellent*public schools. All who know anything about the matter, admit that we must have additional school rooms. Conceding that we nuiot have the buildings, it seems to us that true economy demands die erection of substantial and handsome edifices, of a character tli.it will not only be permanent, but will look well a dozen or twenty years hence There is no reason why Terre Ilaute shoi'ld not rank with any other utv in the State in respect to her sclioi 1 architecture. While extravagance should, and will, le avo'ded, the Hoard will find strong popular support in their efforts to give us such school buildings a- will com

pare

favorably with those of Evansville, Lalavet.e and other cities of wealth and population approximating our own.

A OTEMI'OKAKY finds an excellent indii.iti of the thrift that prevails among the industrial classes in this country .in €L: the number of savings banks established in various Spates, and the vast sums depo iteil in them. In New York full $150,-

Ot''1,000 is deposited in the savings insti1 tu.ion by about 500,000 depositors. In i-.achusetts, there were KU savings ink- having deposits to the amount of $111,000,000. This is eipial to all the value of all the corporate capital invested in cot,yu, woolen, iron and textile nianufae'ures nearly double the appraised wilt orall the railways, and exceeding by ^,000,000 the capital of all the banks ^of discount in that State last year. In

New York and New England it is estimated that about 533.0,000,000 arc debv over 1,000,000 deposi-

posueo to'

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Kly express

20, 1870

Republican Shite TicJid. .*'h• fi y.. SJPTUKT-IKY S711K.

MAXF. A. HOFFMAK. M'NITOH OK PTATR, I

Mates savings and will in due

In Iiio We've: are ilourHnnu

lime compare favorably with th-e of the older States. When well managed they are of great value to those who would la\ by something for a "rainy day."'

Tin: New York <Tribune> says: "Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts, is the latest advocate of the insane idea that the success of manufactures is at the cost of agriculture, and he does not wish to see manufacturers flourish in the West as long as land is cheap there. This new advocate of agricultural interests generally is also an ardent defender of Lynn

ardent dexndcr of Lynn

shoemakers particularly.

THE St. Louis Democrat notices, as A somewhat rcmatSable coincidence, the fact that the agitation of the female suffrage question reached the American Congress and the British Parliament almost at the same time, for nearly simultaneous with thejpropbsition in. the former body,of Mr. .JULIAN, of Indiana, toamend the Federal Constitution so as to allow females to vote, was presented in the latter, by Mr. JACOB BRIGHT, a "Bill to remove the electoral disabilities of women."

The friends of the movement in both countries are, to say the least, Very persistent in their efforts, and seem determined to carry their point. Whether, if gained, it will add anything to the loveliness, the happiness or the usefulness of the female sex, is still a debatable question.

PATRONS of the U. S. Postoffice Department, in the course of a very few days, will see upon their letters still another new series of postage stamps. The unsightly ones now in use are to be replaced by their discarded predecessors, which bore the counterfeit presentiments of FRANLIN [sic], JACKSON, WASHINGTON and JEFFERSON, with the addition of that of LINCOLN. The old colors are also to be restored, but with a change. The three cent stamps, adorned with a profile of WASHINGTON, are printed in green, and the two cent JACKSON'S in brown. But, better than all, we are assured that the gum on the new stamps is guarranteed to stick—an improvement as desirable as any that the Postoffice Bureau could have attempted at this time. =====

POLITICAL NEWS AM) NOTES.

THE mysterious announcement, not long since, that an officer of high rank in the arm)' was about to be tried by courtmartial, undoubtedly referred to Brigadier General Totten, whose trial for absence without leave commenced at Louisville on Friday. Gen. Totten is Assistant Inspector General of the U. S. Army.

Tin Cincinnati Gazelle'* Washington correspondent says the Census bill that went through the Senate last Friday isn't worth consideration, because an understanding was reached that the House should disagree to it, and insist upon its own bill, for the purpose of throwing the whole subject a Conference Committee.

THE Springfield Republican, in alluding to the circumstance that the F.fteenth amendment had been proclaimed too late to save Connecticut to the Republicans, says that the Republicans could have made the colored men of the State vo'ers, years ago, if they had wanted to, and have nobody but themselves to blame for the loss of that assistance now.

Of ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS appropriated in 18G2 to assist freedrnen over to Africa, twenty-live thousand of it got into Senator Pomeroy's hands, and he is unable to account for eight thousand of it byjproper vouchers. He however, swears that it was all used for the purpose contemplated, and on his oath he seeks a discharge. The matter is now under consideration.

THE amount of internal revenue collec'.ed under the administration of President Grant during the nine months of the fiscal year, from July 1 to March 31, just passed, was one hundred and ninety-four millions—twenty and one-halt millions more than for the .corresponding nine months of the previous year. The rate of taxation is in no respect increased. The result can come only from a more economical and thorough administration of the laws.

THE Chicago Republican believes that "not only imperialism, but monarchy, in continental Europe, is doomed. Republicans principles arc winning their way, and soon will be in the ascendant. Napoleon cannot much longer maintain his autocracy. We think it is certain that he cannot demit his crown to his son. His death will signalize the last of his imperial dynasty. When Louis Napoleon dies, the end of absolutism in France will be reached. Then we shall have the beginings of a Republic, and the United States will be looked to and furnish a model of goverment."

OUR government has concluded anew postal treaty with the North German Union, by which, from and after the first day of July, 1870, important reductions will be made in the postage on letters passing between the United States and North Germany, including the Austrollungarian Kingdom, the Kingdom of Wurtemburg and the Grand Dukedoms of Luxemburg and Baden. At present

the

postage, pre-paid,Tin letters sent to these countries direct, is ten cents under the new treaty it will be seven cents.— And letters sent to these countries in closed mail via England, which now requires fifteen cents, will, under the new treaty, be only ten cents.

A WASHINGTON SPECIAL to the Cincinnati Gazelle states that the House Naval Committee, on Friday last, finished their bill for the reorganization of the line and staff of the Navy. "They entirely rearrange and somewhat reduce all the staff corps and iix the rank of each grade of officers. The principal feature of the bill is that it gives the staff a positive rank just as it has in the army, and thereby ,-errules Admiral Porter in all his plans and notions. Line officers are to have precedence in command, and stall officers are not to exercise authority in the line bv virtue of their rank, nor in any staff corps except the one to which they belong. Line and staff officers are to take precedence according to rank, in processions on bore, at court martials, on the Board of Survey and all other courts and boards.''

IT WOULI' have been more satiifactorv had the Senate brought itself to a full concurrence with the House in theaboliion of the Franking privilege. Honorable Senators cling to their old right of burdening the mails with dead matter with a wonderful pertinacity. They seem disposed to make any sacrifice for their country rather than pay for postage stamps. Mr. Sumner proposes to modify the House bill, by providing the M. C.'s with stamped envelopes, and the Senate will debate this propodiion at leng.Ii, and probably pass it, which will, in addition to the present expense of carrying Congressional mail matter tree tax the freasurv with the cost of the stamped envelopes in which Mr. Sumner proposes enshrine the voluminous corre-pon-

leu ot J»enaton« and ivepicsen.-'.ti. e-

Bvitrri's n-.ocK, on Columbia M.eet, •if ivette, was uurned 3'onda\ morning, lie building was occupied by Messrs Murdock, groceis, J. Eris.nan Io., iddle and harness makers, and J. UI1man, dealer in hides. M^st of the stock of ihe Murdocks \as sa\ed, while the hole of that of E-iman & Bro. was taken out in safety. Mr. Ullman's stock is insured for $S,000, and will prove a total loss. He had some $5,000 worth of pelts in an upper room and $3,000 or $1,000 worth in the cellar. The building is a total loss, nothing being left except

the walls* 0'*

THE STATE.

HON. A/B. CAELTON, of Bedfoi about to remove to Slew Albany. A CONSIDERABLE QUANTITY of coal is being tram-ported by the I. & V. B. B.

IT IS proposed to make the new hotel, at Vincennes, a large and elegant structure.

MARION COUNTY frnitrgroTere »xepoit fruit uninjured by the recent cold wither.

AN INDIANA WOMAN thrashed the conductor of a railroad train, in MisswsipiM a few days ago. He deserved it. -A

THE New Albany Ledger intimates that only two gentlemen of that city have procured wives fiom Evansville.

"FROU Fr.ou," will be served up at the Indianapolis Academy on Thursday evening.

JENNINGS COUNTY Republicans have renominated John Overmeyer, for Repre sentative.

THE grading of tke Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western Railroad will be completed from Crawfordsville to Covington in about three weeks.

RECORDER WILLARD IS supposed to be insane by some of his friends. He is reported to have been measured for his coffin, under a hallucination that he is about to die!—Evansville Courier.

IT IS probable that the three railroad companies, whose lines pass through Vincennes, will build a large union depot at that place.

Miss MARY NEWLAND, of Bedford, has been engaged by President, Rev. E. Rowley, as one of the teachers in DePauw College, New Albany.

JACOB GARRATT, champion, has named Monday, May 9, on which to play the game for the billiard championship of the State, with Parker Byers,.of Lafayette.

A WOOD-CHOPPING match is announced to come off, next Monday, between two young ladies in Steuben count\. "May the best man win."

THIS is the pleasant manner in which the New Albany Ledger speaks of a coming event in this city:

The white mokes, of the radical persuasion, arc to orate at the Amendment celebration at Terre Haute.

HALF FARE has been secured on the E. & C. Railroad for delegates to the State Sunday School Convention, which meets in Evansville June 8th. We will publish a full programme of the Conven tion in a day or two.

Gov. BAKER has appointed A. Smith Folger, of Rush county, Prosecuting At torney of the Twenty-second Common Pleas District, to fill the vacancy caused by the removal of H. M. Spalding, Prosecuting Attorney of that District, from the

.State.

THE New Albany <Ledger> says Vigo county now has sixty eight representatives in the Southern prison, while Floyd county, situated within sight of the institution, has but nineteen.—<Exchange>.

The inefficiency of Floyd county juries was sufficiently notorious before the <Ledger> advertised it. ——————

MAJOR J. E. SIMPSON, Assistant SU perintendent of the T. H. «& I. R. R., has gone to Washington to attend to matters connected with the transfer of a piece of the ground upon which the company are intending to build. The portion alluded to belongs to the Government ard was used as a burial place for the rebel dead. Some 1,800 bodies will have to be removed to another part of thv. burial place.— hid. Journal.

TnE State item editor of the Indianapolis Journal, admitting the abortiveness of his at.empt at humor, remarks:

While.the enterprise of Greencastle is to be commended, we do not yet rank her alongside of our big sister, Terre Haute I There, shake!

Suppose the "shake" to be amicably concluded.

WM. IIANNAMAN, for the past several years State Agent for the! collection of soldiers' claims, has been released by his own request, and the Governor has issued an order complimenting him upon the satisfactory manner in which he conducted the business intrusted to him. His books have been turned over to Adjutant Greenawalt, who will attend to the bu^.1 ness hereafter.

A FATAL ACCIDENT happened at Ladoga, on Thursday last. Mr. Oliver, of

the firm of Thompson & Oliver, proprietors of a saw-mill at that place, was working the saw, when a splinter got caught in it. He took a wooden handspike, always kept at hand for that purpose, and was endeavoring to remove the splinter, when the saw struck the handspike and whirled it around with such force as caused it to penetrate the breast just over the heart, killing him instantly. ——————

ARTICLES of association of the Empire Stave Company, of Monroeville, Allen county, have been filed in the office of the Secretary of State The company is organized for the purpose of carrying on the business of manufacturing staves and heading, and all other articles appertaining to the cooperage business a.id any .other kind of woodwork, and ha* a capital stock of $10,000, divided into shares o' $50 each.

WE do not blame the Terre Haute 2£r-prc-v for taking earnest an item in the Journal of tln^city to the effect that "the dome of the State House is about to be eilded-" '1 he prevailing impression here that the statement wa» intended as a joke: but the Jw-nol must take to label ing its joke-s if it wants them understood as such.—l»d. Aftr,.

That is a ^ood suggestion. Let the Joanat, with its "jokes," follow the ex. ample of the "artist"' who painted an etpiine monstrosity and placed over it, in huge letters, "This is a horse."

MORE than two millions of dollars will beexpended in Indianapolis,during 1870. for buildings and improvements. Of this sum, more than one million is for public buildings.

ON SATURDAY the North Indiana Conference, took a Vote upon the question of Lav Delegation, resulting in a majority of 40 in favor of the measure—100 voting for and 60 against.

'I ae body of Jacob Hermann—who disappeared from Evansville a few days ago—has been found in the Ohio river near that city. "Accidentally drowned" is the verdict of the corone.'s jury.

THE graduating class of Old Asbury have been measured for commencement suits. There are eighteen of "the boys," and their new clo'es will cost about $1,000.

THE Ledger says New Albany has received the present spring, and will receive during the next two or three weeks, many valuable additions to her population— men of capital, enterprise, intelligence, and influence. tf,

OAT

THE City Council of Indianapolis is about to abolish the chain gang.

tto

ywmg Wloir,

northern line flf JwMr coonty, wm treated to a ^osi of tar aw fcalliMi, a few nighUago, at the hands of four

Cox, £nii$ed in the State Prison at Jefferson ville, succeeded in making his escape from that institution. The New Albany Ledger learns that after wandeEr ing about Kentucky six days he concluded to re.nm, and consequently pat fai an appearance at the prison on Saturday, and was assigned to his old quarters.— His experience entitles him to be counted among the "trusties."

Is OUH friend of the New Albany Ledger quite sure that he found the story of Luella Snively in the Vevay Demc eratf and that he cut the account of the ghost-shooting affair from the RuthviBe Jaektonianf Our reason for asking is not that we have any bone of contention with the Ledger, which always means to "tote fair," but having written up these articles, from facts obtained through our own correspondence, we are curious to know how the Democrat and Jacieoniaa could have appropriated them so speedily, especially as we do not exchange with those papers.

THE State-news editor of the Indiana poli* Journal has something to say about "the outer cuticle" of the editor of the Emms, Will the Journal tell us what it means by that term From, our limited knowledge of anatomy we had been led to suppose that there was but one cuticle. As there is a Medical College at Indianapolis, the Journal will be able to get the assistance of learned Professors in defining "the outer cuticle." Meantime we will suggest to our anxious friend that, if hens troubled with anything except clothing, outside of his cuticle, ho will do well to use soap freely.

OF THE Indiana Reformatory School for Women and Girls, now being erected at Indianapolis, the Journal of that city says:

It is Bituated just north of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and, when completed, will measure 525 feet extreme length: Only a central portion will be erected this season, comprising a two-story brick, with basement and Mansard roof, 174 feet in length. The main building will have side and transverse wings at each end, the latter measuring in length 169 feet. In front of the central portion of the building is a three-story dwelling, with basement, connecting with the Reformatory by a passage way on the first floor. A building in the rear will be occupied wich boiler and bath rooms, and connects with the main building by passage ways on first story and basement. A brick ventliating stack, 70 feet in hight, will be erected here. Contracts to the amount of $26,500 have been given out, for carpenter work, plastering, cast and wrought iron work, slate-roofing and galvanized iron work, which is about half the amount appropriated.

GEORGE DAVIS, who murdered A. Jolley in West Virginia, was tracked to Indianapolis and, on last Saturday, was arrested and escaped. The Indianapolis <Journal> tells the story thus:

Bennett arrested him, and took him to the police office, where he was held from ten until three o'clock, when he was removed to jail. The Sheriff's deputy told the officers that he would hold Johnson there until Lieutenant Paul could take the requisition to Gov. Baker, and get a warrant, and that if it appeared that the Sheriff could not hold him without a warrant, that he would so inform the Lieutenant, who would remove him to the police office for safe keeping. Gov. Baker decided it was necessary to have a warrant from West Virginia for the detention of Davis. In the meantime Sheriff Parker had returned to the jail, and finding the man in there, with no warrant for his arrest, immediately ordered his release.

On learning this Lieutenant Paul hired a buggy, and accompanied by Pryor Duval, rode out to Wright's farm, and searched the house where Johnston had lived. He found the wife and child of the fugitive, but no clue to himself. Yesterday, Johnston's wife made a full confession to Wright, that her husband's real name was Davis, and that he had committed the murder with which he was charged, and that she had received the letters directed to Mary Carroll. She asserted that she had no idea where Davis had gone.

Lietenant [sic] Paul had telegraphed to Sheriff Shrewsbury, on the arrest of Davis, and he will be here probably this morning, but too late to catch the bird, who has flown to some place, of which there is no clue.

It seems to have been a very bungling operation, and the Sheriff deserves severe censure for going back on the reasonable and proper promise of his deputy. =====

A Hard Story

A Philadelphia paper says: There is a doctor in the northwestern part of this consolidated city who is especially remarkable for being, as the woman term it, "short and crusty."

A week or two since he was called to visit a patient who was laboring under a severe attack of cheap whisky. "Well, doctor, I'm down, you sec completely floored. I've got the tremend ous delirium, you know!" "Tremens, you fool! Where'd you get your* rum?" "All over in spots broke out promis

"Served you right." "Father died of the same disease it took him under the short ribs and carried him off bodily." "Well, you've got to take something imiiiediately." "You're a trump, Doc! Here, wife, I'll take a nip of old rve." "Lie still, you*blockhead! Mrs. B., if your husband should get worse before I return, which will be in an hour, give him a dose of that trunk strap may be that will bring him to a sense ofJtis folly."

The doctor sailed out jjrandly, and within an hour sailed in, and found his friend of the "tremendous delirium" in a terrible condition, writhing and struggling with pain. His wife, a female of the kind but ignorant school, came up, and laying her hand on the doctor's arm, said: "Doctor, I gave him the strap, as you directed." "Did you thrash him weU?" '-Thrash him?" exclaimed the astonished woman, "no, I cut the strap into hash and made him swallow it!" "Oh, Lord, doctor!" roared the victim. "I swallowed the leather, but—but—" 'But—what?"

I swalled the whole strap, but I'm darned if could go the buckle!" The doctor administered two bread pilLsjand evaporated

Arsenic Eaters.

So it is true that there are people in Styria who eat arsenic as the Asiastics eat opium, or the European chews tobacco—as a matter of taste. Travelers had asserted the fact, though the learned denied it, declaring that the white substance .aken for arsenic must have been some harmless mineral, like chalk. But an official inquiry has been instituted, and seventeen Styrian physicians have reported upon the matter and^there is no doubt about the tra/elers' stories. There are people who take doses varying from pellets the size of a millet to pills the size of a pea, of Various kinds of arsenic, the favorite being the white quality know as ratsbane. They will take it daily, or on alternate days, or twice a week, according to circumstances generally they abstain from the luxury at the time of new moon, beginning small doses with the young moon, and increasing them to a maximum by full moon. Why this lunar observance it is hard to guess, unless, as they profess, that the arsenic makes them strong and healthy, they fancy that the waxing moon weakens them and renders the greater proportion of the restorative necessary. The nabit is most commonly found among the lower orders and it begins to attack the youth about the same time as the tobacco taste affects our youngsters. Some few females are fond of ratsbane, but its patrons are mostly of the harder sex. The regular consumers live to good ages, and are strong, healthy and courageous. J5o we have a proof that what is one man's poison is another man's food,—Gentlemen Magar

wrof owed

:ch to place

advertised lor a school in

her daughter, who wasl»th "headstreag and unruly," and she stated in the advertisement, "a school where corporal pun ishment is prudently administered preJerred.". ,In wpljr she Jud letters froni very many priiicipals of ladies' schools,'of which twenty-four stated that they we in the habit of raing corporal pomshishment for all jgrave faults some nied it also for school work and of these seventeen specified the- "birch rod in the oldfashioned way," as the instrument and the mode of punishment

I know several public institutions for girls where the birch rod is used, andseveralmore where it would be used if the managers had their way in the matter, know one very expensive school for young ladies in Sensington, where for certain offenses, whatever their age, the young ladies are birched as follows: Having retired and put on a dress for the purpose, at an appointed hour the young lady to be pnnuhed knocks at the door of the boudoir of the lady principal, who, after serious conversation with her, and sometimes prayer, makes her enter her offense (always a grave one) in a book kept for the purpose, which she does. The lady principal then rings the bell, and the matron of the establishment is sent for, to which the lady principal hands the book in which the young lady has just entered her offense, and below which the lady principal has Inserted the punishment.

As she hands the book sne aays: "Mrs. will you be good enown to give Miss so many-strokes (haming the number) with her finger to the entrv in the book. The matron takes the book and retires. Presently a maid servant enters and says: "Mrs. (the matron is ready for Miss ." The lady prin cipal saying, "I hope this will not occur again," bows the young lady out and the said young lady, her Heart sinking within her, knocks at the next door, the room where the matron expects her. On entering, she is told by the matron to lie across a narrow ottoman, which occupies the middle of the room. Miss (as rule there is no refusal) does as she is directed, and the matron then buckles a strap, which, passing across the culprit's waist, fastens her to the ottoman. She then, without a word, removes the loose dress from below her waist, selects a rod from the stand of rods, and slowly administers on Miss 's bare person the prescribed number of strokes, counting each as she gives it.

When the whipping is over the matron releases her. signs the punishment book, which the Dirched young lady takes again to the principal's boudoir, who takes the book from her, speaks kindly to her, sometimes kisses her, always shakes her by the hand. She -then goes to her own room, resumes her own clothes, and, when she is composed enough, takes her usual place ill the school, and nothing more is said. As I am sure these particulars will interest very many of your readers, I shall be greatly obliged if you will give these somewhat lengthened remarks a plice in your magazine and I am quite sure also, that the more this subject is fully discussed the more will the advantage of generally introducing the birch rod be allowed,and not only I, but societ at large{ will have cause to rejoice in sue! restoration

The Lesson of Life.

From Harper's Weekly. If it is pleasant to contemplate the simple, sturdy, upright character of the late Gen. Thomas—his silent devotion to duty, his sagacity, his modesty, his tenacity—it is not less agreeable to observe the pro found and sincere appreciation of that character upon the part of the country. We area good deal £iven to rhetoric and extravagant expression, and public men who choose the "sensational" style do not want great applause and troops of admirers. But here was one-of the least rhetorical of Americans, and no man could -be more truly admired nor more universally deplored. Everybody felt that the country was stronger because of Gen. Thomas. The quality that held him "pounding away" at Chicamauga when the rest of the army was in retreat, and the day was supposed to be lost, was precisely the quality which commands thesincerest public confidence. Indomitable braverv and good sense, a scorn of pretense and bluster, a character steadfast as a rock—these steadied the whole country when it thought of him.

There is this lesson for public men in the career of General Thomas, and the immense respect and tenderness with which his countrymen have laid him in the grave—that public admiration is as surely won by solid and modest merit as by posturing and shouting. He did nothing tor effect. He had no newspaper at hand to catch every attitude and record every word. He had evidently an antique, soldierly disdain of intriguing for notoriety, either in his profession or out of it, and he could hardly have despised anything more heartily than the conduct of some excellent gentlemen during the war who did not move without a staff of newspaper correspondents, and who kept a newspaper reporter always at hand to transmit tne heroic and witter remarks at headquarters to an admiring public. Without these appliances ana contrivances, without thinking for himself or caring for his reputation, bnt intent -only upon his highest and truest honor, General Thoipas was always at the front of duty and whether supported or alone, whether the lines advanced or retreated, he stood fast and "pounded away" at the enemy, lie *as a soldier, indeed but if

some

civilians would suedi'

tate his career and do likewi. •, they might be sure of the same respect and regard, if they did their work as he did his.

And the national feeling for General Thomas has this further ana kindred lesson for conspicuous men, that it shows how catholic the public regard is. It does not require that one man shall duplicate another, but only that he be honestly himself. Plutarch says that the young Themistncles exclaimed that the trophies of Miltiades would not suffer him to sleep. But if he had, therefore, aimed to become Miltiades instead of Themistocles, Plutarch would never have told his story. The public heart is large enough for every kind of excellence. It admires Webster, Clay, Calhoun but the young statesman need not, therefore, try to model himself upon those men. The' did not model themselves upon eacl other. If the young statesman devotes his powers to the questions of his time with fidelity and industry and the highest purpose, he does all that any statesman can do and in the degree that those powers are great and well used, not in the degree that they reproduce somebody eke, may he be sure ef public recognition. General Thomas' career, and the regard of the country for him, are the fullest vindicaeion of the old proverb, often obscure, often unfairly interpreted, but profoundly true, Honestv is the best po&cy.

THERE are many more than two millions of totally illiterate adults in the Southern States. In the whole country" there are probably five millions of children who are in the condition of the "300,000 Dangers to the State of New York," of which we recently spoke. The pressing necessity of the country, therefore, is the diffusion of education, in which it is a painful truth that we lag behind many foreign countries. The establishment of the Hampton Normal and Industrial School in Virginia was, therefore, a movement worthy of attention and sympathy. It is situated upon the site of the Hospital Barricks of M'Clellan's and Grant's armies, and the spot where the first school for freedrnen stood, and was originated by General Armstrong, who h»d charge of the Freed men's Bureau at that point. The object of the school js to fit youth from the Southern States, without regard to color, for school teachers in those States. The school was opened in 1S68: and President Hopkins of Williams College, General Sarfield of Ohio, Mr. Alexander Hyde of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, and Mr. B. G. Northrup of the Connecticut Board of Education, visited it last summer, and spoke of it in the highest terms.—Ex change.

A lawyer who was sometimes forgetful, having been engaged to plead the cause of an offender, began bv saying: "I know the prisoner at the bar, and he bears the character of being a most consnmnuUe and imprcid#nt RCoandrtL, Here somebody whispered to him that the prisoner was his client, when he immediately continued: 'But what great and good men ever lived who was no calumniated by many of his contemporaries?"

On the 31st of March a party of Sious

or Arraphoe [sic] Indians made a raid in our vicinity, killing six of our citizens. On the morning in question Frank Irwin, about eighteen years of age, and a son of Dr. James Irwin, started on foot a little after 7 A. M., to go Miners' Delight.— He had game about three-fourths of a mile, suspecting no danger, when he was met by a party of Indians. They fired, and hit him in the shoulder with a halfounce ball. He fell, was then taken and stripped naked, beaten fearfully, and then started to run and was shot by three arrows—one penetrating over seven inches. He reached the limits of the town and was met by a man who brought him in.

He had the arrows taken from his body and lingered till the next evening, when he died. He told his parents that they killed another man at the same time and on search being made, the body of Jas. Othick and Birmington were found about half a mile further, Othick had two scalps taken from him and was shot through the head; four arrows and a pick were also driven through. A party of three hunters were then looked after, and they were all found dead at St. Mary's about ten or twelve miles from here. Their names were Jack McGuire, Eugene Forburg and Al. Kellogg.

All were stripped naked. Forburg had tomahawk driven under his eye. McGuire had three scalps taken from, and had eight arrows and twelve shots in him. It was a fearful sight. The five were burried [sic] here on Sunday, the 3d, and Othick was taken to South Pass.

How long the Government will allow this butchery go on without protection, we know not; but each and every man, woman and child pray for the speedy arrival of such men as Sheridan, Baker and Custer, or any such men as they have proven themselves to be. We have rich mines, but the continual harassing of these "poor Indian's" keep miners from working them as they should be. ———<>———

A friend of Dr. Abercrombio dreamed that he had crossed the Atlantic and spent a fortnight in America. In embarkin on his return, he fell into the sea, am awakening in the fright, found that he had not been asleep ten minutes. icv

THE World says: "A first-class distur bance on the occasion of the negro glori fication in this city, on Friday last, would have been a godsend at Washington but, as it happened, this much-maligned Democratic strong-hold looked on poor Cuff's performance with no feeling iqore bitter than mere amusement, and so in peace and good order the black man strutted his little day." When slavedrivers were trying to destroy the Government to perpetuate slayfrjr^ and it was known that many of the militia regiments were away from the city, "this much-maligned Democratic strong-hold" hunted and shot and hung and roasted "poor cuff," and burned the orphan asylum in which the children of his r»fj were gathered. Now that the law and the strong hand of American people protect him, 'this much-maligned Democratic strong-hold" merely insults him. "Those grapes are contemptibly sour/' said the much maligned fox, with his tail between his legs.—Harpei'* Weekly.

Miss MITEOBD, in one of her letters, relates the following anecdote of Lord Byron, which we have not met with before: "A gentleman was with him on a

visit to an old house in the country, which ni ng ghost~st the evening, and in tne middle of the

had the reputation of being haunted They had been telling ghost-stories all

night he was awakened by Lord B., with his hair on end and his teeth chattering, who declared his room was full of strange shapes and strange sounds that he could not return to it and begged his friend to allow him to sit by the side of his bedside till daylight, which he did. I have always thought he would end by being a Methodist? i.»

THE culture of the pineapple is profitable in Florida. A local paper reports that one man in Key West lias sola his crop of pineapples this year for nearly seven thousand dollars. The crop was gathered from less than an acre and a half of ground. The same man has one hundred and fifteen thousand plants, which will !e in bearing next year. These cover i?-s than seven acres of ground, and if sold at the same rate as this year's crop will net him sixty thousand dollars. The pineapple crop of next year, it is supposed, will exceed two hundred thousand dollars.

OLD Judge Aiken, of Greenfield Mass. was quite famous for his extra judicia opinions One of them runs as follows: Presiding at the trial of one Fisk for an aggravated crime, and the jury having brought in a verdict of "guilty," Judge Aiken said: Fisk, stand up. For the crime of which you have been convicted you are condemed to solitary confinement for one day, and to imprisonment during the rest of your natural life—and I wish it was in my power to sentence you long-

A YOUNG lady who was induced to go to Utah with some of her infatuated relatives thus writes to a friend in Bolton, N. Y.: "Aunt C. is in an awful hurry to have D. and I married, so as to keep us here. I suppose she would like to have us marry some Mormon with three or four wives, but she can't come it, you can bet! I have seen and heard enough already about polygamy. They say that if we go back to the States we'll all go to hell, butI don't think we shall get into a much worse place than it is here if we do." ———<>———

THE Van Wert (Ohio) Bulletin relates the following: "A good one is told of Peter D., who lives in Ridge township.— One day last week, while busily engaged about the sugar camp, iie accidentally upset a pail full of syrup, which was about ready to 'stir off.' This exasperated his passion of resentment to such an extent as to lead to self-chastisement.

William B. Alter has 600 in New:

He seiz

ed a club and bruised his own head by a number of blows well laid on,, when be considered that he had been avenged for his carelessness."

A TE**B paper says that when General Reynolds received thedispatchnnouncing the reconstruction of the State, he read it and handed it to a citizen with the remark: "Here, take your State and run it and presently added: "I feel as ifagreat weight lad been lifted from me thank God I am through with the heaviest I ever undertook I have the best I could. I have clear conscience. I wish the people of Texas the greatest prospeiity." _f

"THAT'S a good gun of yours, stranger-' bnt Uncle Dave here has one that beats it." "Ah! how far will it kill a hawk with No, 6 shot?" "I don't use shot, or ball either," answered Uncle Dave for himself. Then what do yon use, Uncle Dave?" "I shoot salt altogether. I kill my game so far off with mv gun, that, without salt, the game would spile before I would get iu"

A MEJCBE* of the Wjromtog, legislature seeking to sustain a point of order, jerked his coat off, with "Mr. Speaker, if Mime reliable man will hold these duds, I'll teach him that he is out of order." The point was sustained^ ..

to let

coal

Mr. James Gordon Bennett is again reported to be seriously ill. Br. J. G. Holland and family will return from Europe early in May. -Kxt-GOveraor Thomas, of Maryland, has very ill, but is now convalescent.

The Qneen of Prussia has declined the Trwideacy of the Berlin Midnight Missions.

Mr. Dixon, the "blind editor0 of Iowa, is lecturing the southern part of that State. N

Fanny Fern is paid $5,000 annually for her! exclusive contributions to the New York Ledger.

Edwin Forfast, the tragedian, will visit Milwaukee and play on the 5th, 6th and 7th of May.

The illness of Professor Agassis is become so serious as to cause grave apprehension.

A volume of Dickens' Festive and other speeches, is to be published in England shortly.

Fanny Janauschek has indicated her intention to settle permanently in the United States.

The police in Dantzig forbade, the other day, a showman that city to exhibit a large group of wax flgtircs representing theUssassi nation of President Lincoln.

Captain John Jourdan, the new Super' intendent of Police of New York, is a journeyman printer, and served his apj^eiiticeship in the New York Tribune of-

The Count of Paris, theOrleanist pretender to the throne ef France, is like Louis the Sixteenth, a skillful locksmith and his brother, the Due de Chartres, is a wood-turner.

Rapidity ef Thesght In Dreaming, A very remarkable circumstances and an important point of analogy is, said Dr. Forbes Winslow, to be found in the extreme rapidity with which the mental operations are formed, or rather with which the material changes, otr which the ideas depend, are excited in the hemispherical ganglia. It would appear as if a whole series of acts that would really occupy a long lapse of time pass ideally through the mind in one instant. We have in dreams no perception of the lapse of time—a strange property of mind for if such be also its property when entered into eternal disembodied state, time will appear to us eternity. The relations of space as well as of time are also annihilated so that while almost an eternity is compressed into a moment, infinite space is traversed more swiftly than by real thought. There are numerous illustrations of this principle on record., A gentleman dreamed that he had enlisted as a soldier, joined his regiment, deserted, was apprehended, carried back, tired, condemned to be shot, and at last led out for execution. After the usual preparations a gun was fired he then awoke with the report, and found that a noise in the adjoining room had, at the same moment produced the the dream and awakened him.

Charles Reed, a bar-tender in Boston, is in jail for marrying a couple last week who thought he was qualified to perform the ceremony, and have governed themselves accordingly.

The English charge the present looseness of the court on Queen Victoria, who, instead of coming out and keeping up the morale of the troupe, intrusts such duties to her graceless son of Wales.

The other day, in the Spanish Cortes, a leader of the Library Unionists told Genend Juan Prim that he was the most unpopular man Jin Spain. "Better unpopular than unknown, .like you," was Prim's sneering reply.

Ex-Congressman Whittemore, of South Carolina, has published a card, in which he says "Aspirants may decry me Democrats may conspire with willing instruments of disorder, but my constituents have proved as well as tried me, and are willing to try me again."

Victor Hugo, it is said in Brussels, will soon be married to a very wealthy young lady of that city.

Ole Bull takes his farewell forever of America. On the 27th ol this month he sails for Europe.

Longfellow and Whittier are the two Americau poets, whose works sell best in the German book markets.

It is said in Rome that King Victor Emanuel is the only Catholic monarch in favor of the infallibility dogma.

Coulter, of Pittsburgh, has accepted McKeel's challenge ttf row a five mile race at Poughkeepsie for $1,000.

Mr. John CollinB, the commedian and vocalist, has been playing an engagement Louis, to

small audi-

atpe Bar's, in St ences. The Presbyterian University at Wooster, Ohio, receives $20,000 by the will of the late Boyd J. Mercer, of Mansfield, Ohio.

John J. Bradley, the present City Chamberlain of New York city, is broth-er-in-law of the Peter B. Sweeny, the late City Chamberlain.

Kennedy, late Superintendent of the New York Police, is to be President of a city railroad company there, for $7,500 a year.

Judge Fisher, of the Supreme Court of the DiiAcict of Columbia, is understood to be an opponet for Senator Saulsbury foJ a seat in the United States Senate.

An Opium Refuge has been opened at Ningpo, China. France claims nearly one-fourth of all the theatres in Europe.

Washington has a batch of harpers and fiddlers direct from Italy. The first detachment of a colony from Poland has arrived in Virginia.

Five persons accused of murder are nowdwelling together in the jail at Salem Mass.

The estate of Dreher, the famous Vienna brewer, is valued at seven million florins.

Donn Piatt says remorse generally meahs the grief of the criminal at being caught.

The city of Paris uses 100,000 reams of paper per day hi her different printing houses,

There are now in Berlin seventeen advertising agencies, which do together business of four million thalera a year.

A Boston paper mentions that a few chips and some pieces of tarred-paper are all that is left of the great Colliseum

The Prussian school-ship Niobe, with a large number of middies, will soon arrive at Annapolis, after a brief stop at Havana

An astronomer predicts the coming of a comet, this year, of such brilliancy that night will be turned into day, and gas companies will be ruined.

The fashion of dancing hat in hand, introduced at Washington, grows popular, having the practical benefit of being the only way to keep the hat.

The Atlanta Constitution tells of a lawyer of that city, habeas corpused a man out of the chain gang, and then sued him for divorce at the instance of his wife.

Three French gendarmes, convicted of having stuffed the ballot boxes at the recent legislative elections in Nismes, have been sentenced to two years' imprisonment at hard labor. —P—— How Booster Bill Escaped from the

Mississippi State Prison. The daring desperado, Hoosier Bill, now securely confined in our Northern prison, has had frequent experience of prison life. An exchange relates that at one time, just before the war, he was for a short time in the service of the State of Mississippi in the State Prison atJackson, Becoming weary of that mode of life, he planned his escape, and accomplished it in the following manner: He observed in the prison yard the long swab-pole used in cleaning out the steam boiler of the engine which drove the machinery of the work-shops, and watching an opportunity, he rawed this pole to the wall, climbed to the top of it, gained the coping and jumped to the ground outside. Hi* escape was soon discovered, »d the warden, mounting his horse, with his bloodhound, started in pursuit. In the meantime Bill had made good use of his legs, and had gained the edge of a canebrake before the bloodhound reached him. Entering the brake a short distance he stopped, and jerking off his waistcoat, wrapped it around his left arm and hand, opened a pocket knife he had managed to secrete, and waited for the approach of the hound. As the fierce animal bounded towards him he raised his left arm, encased as described. The dog sprang upon him and fastened his teeth into the folds of the waistcoat without doing any injury to the arm which it protected, but before the bloodthirsty animal could release its fangs to fasten on another place. Bill had given him a blow with his knife which Laid him dead upon the ground. The Warden by this time had dismounted and was making his way in to the scene of conflict. Bill having no business that he wished to settle with that official, quietly hurried out through the brake in another direction and by the time the Warden had reached the spot where his faithful hound lay, had found and mounted his horse. He rode rapidly away to a railroad station some distance south of Jacka negro's cabin, he exchanged clothes, and disposing of the in for Ni horse took the ne?t train leansi

Ipprere-

iipo#open to the •. The Lont&e first day

I visitors

wemadtoiitMl** aommnon was free in tfie^widMt sense lithe word, for not only was no'charge made, but the escort •ftne verger was also dispensed with. Instead of being hurried round the chapels to the monotonous drone of a verger describing the monuments, people are now allowed to examine the piece at ttoeir Impure, all the chapela being simply thrown open and the visitors left to wander about thev please. Under sucn clrcumstlhces, for the real student and arclneologist Monday is likely to become the most popular day of all. Plans of the chapels and the positons of Uje most celebrated tombs istributed throughout the building for reference. At the shrine ofSt.Ed*otfl an illuminated descriptive card is fixed on each of the objects of interest. There is a verger in every chapel, who is able and willing to answer the inquiries of visitors. He is also placed there to see that none of the monuments are touched by relic-hunters. The Dean and Chapter have decided that the first of these lconoclaste who is detected shall be made an example of as for as the law permits, so as to deter others from repeating the offense

iii-.i A Curious Legend. When Adam was far advanced in years and at the point of death he sent his sen to the angle Michael, who kept the gate of Paradise, for the oil of mercy, so that he could not be healed. The angel answered that it could not be until fifty-five hundred years, but he gave Seth a branch of the tree of which Adam had eaten, bid ding him plant it on Mount Lebanon, and that when it bore fruit his father should be healed. Seth planted the branch on his father's grave: it took root and grew, and from it were made Aaron's rod, anc Moses' staff with which he struck the rock and sweetened the waters of Marah. It also formed the pole on which the brazen serpent was lifted up. and the ark of the tes-' timony. At last it came into the hands of Solomon who used it in building his palace, but it continually resisted the efforts of the builders to adjust it. Now it was too long, and then again too short, The builders, being, angry, then threw it into a marsh, so that it might serve as a bridge. The queen of Sheba would not walk upon it, but adored it, and told Solomon that upon it should be suspended the man through whose death the kingdom should be destroyed. Solomon then had it buried deep in the ground, where afterward the pool of Bethesda was dug, and from the virtues of this tree healing properties were imparted to the waters.

After it had been buried three hundred years it rose to the surface of the water, and the Jews took it and made of it the cross of our Saviour.—Lippincott's Maga

Advice to the Advisors.

The colored people are now citizens there is no doubt of that except among the Democracy of California and Oregon. It is time to do away, ior the most part with Colored Relief Associations, Aid Societies, &c., as organizations to aid the colored people as race, With a little assistance in matter.? of educa'ion they can now make their own way in the world, and will not thank white people for aid under the pationizing air which is so natural from a superior toward an inferior. And even in oftering educational aid it is not best for white people to be too officious. Let the blacks^ do the most of the work in tlieir own improvement. There are already a goodly number of colored teachers more are qualifying themselves for the work as fast as possible, and will soon surpass the "poor white trash" of the So.ith, win are in sore need of instruction in the common branches of education, and of knowledge of how to work. It .is time for those who advise the colored people to work, to also advise the white people to go to work, instead of speculating so much on the profits of Chinese labor. Labor is scarce, very scarce, in the South, and it does not seem to occur to the Southern whites to go to work themselves as Northern farmers do. The most profitable of all labor is that which a man does for himself, and when this fact comes to be fully appreciated and acted upon by the whites of the South, i' will be millions of wealth in their pockets.— Chicago Republican.

The Cherokee Rose.

The legend of the Cherokee rose is as pretty as the flower itself. An Indian chief of the Seminole' tribe was taken prisoner by his enemies, the CherokeS, and doomed to torture, but fell so serious ly ill that it became necessary to wait for his restoration to health before committing him to the fire. And as he lay prostrated by disease in the cabin of the Cherokee war.'ior, the daughter of the latter, a young dark-faced maid, was liis nurse, the fell in love with young chieftain, and wishing to save his life, urged him to escape but he would not do so unless she would flee with him. She consented. Yet before they had gone far, impelled by soft regret at leaving home, she asked permission of her lover to return, for the purpose of bearing away some memento of it. So, retracing her footsteps, she broke a sprig from the white rose which climbed up the poles of her father's tent, and, preserving it during her flight through the wilde-ness planted it by the door of her new home in the land of the Seminoles. And from that day this beaut-'ful flower has always been known between the capes of Florida and thoughout the Sojthern States by the name of tne Cherokee rose.

Conversation Usages in England. In England, letters there are pasted, not mailed periodicals are taken in, not taken a friend on a visit stops, but does not stay you order something to be fetched, not brought you ride on horseback only, never in a carriage foremost men are"clever, not smart a high wind only is a storm, not a fall of rain meadows are uplaids, never bogs or swamps rooked meat may be under-done, never rare Lady-day, Midsummer-dav, Michaelmas and Christmas are the times when all quarterly rents are due, never March 31st, June 30th, September 30th, and December 31st it is the rental of a house you pay, not the rent autumn is the late season of the year, not fall hedge*, shrubs, and trees are quick, not alive and you ask that two or more things may be done at once(o one time), and not necessarily instantly, Cocks and hens, rams and ewes, bulls and cows, stallions, mares, and geldings, jacks and jennies, buclpt and roes, dogs and sluts, still retain their Saxon names, and it is at no time offensive to use them. And women of good blood and gentle breeding, in common with the the other sex have ankles and calves, knees and legs, and do not blush to speaks of them.—Lippincott's Magazine.

THE emigration from Ireland to the United State [sic], by way of Cork, is reported to be very active this spring, and, it is asserted, will be as large as in the famine year. In the first week of April at least sixteen hundred emigrants, of the agricultural class, embarked on the four steamers which called at Cork. The Coercion act, about to become a law, it is alleged, has given an impetus to the movement westward. ———<>———

IT IS now asserted by the Philopieganthropists that the "women whom Baker captured and released probably died by inches with hunger and cold." The tactics have changed. Colonel Baker heretofore has been assailed because he "massacred" women and children. Here he is condemned because he did not kill them, instead of releasing them.—<Ind. Journal>. ———<>———

"I THINK," said Mr. A. Bronsori Alcott once in conversation, "'that when a man lives on beef he becomes like an ox if he eates mutton he begins to look sheepish, and if he eats pork, may he not grow to be swinifch?"

"That

may be," said Dr.

Walker ,of Cambridge, "but when a man lives on nothing but vegetables, I think he's apt to be pretty small potatoes!"

TNE Chinese never have any pockets, the only place answering for such being the capacious sleeves. They regard the low-necked dresses of our women as scandalous. Speaking of the compression of the women's feet, and the painful process of compression, a missionary recently said he regarded it as less revolting and far less injurious than the practice of compressing the waist by lacing.

oy in

lew Or-

his mother that God would not forgive him if he did something, answered: "Yes, he would, too—God likes to forgive little boys—that'n what He's for."

mCOUUI FROM THE HfPBBOX. PAMS, April 18.—The Emperor will rend his printed circular explaining Plebiscite to the different department* to-day.

PARAQUAT.

PAKIS, April 18.—Later advices from Asuncion report that a provinonal Government has been formed for Paraguay, under patronage of Brasil.

WHALE AND SEAL CTS1IE1UES. LOKSOM, April 18.—Vessels returning he^e and to other parts of England report success of the whale and seal fisheries this season. fe

WEATHER.

Weather to-day is warm and delight- ,-v ful. 'l4 CONTRACT.

LONDON, April 18.—Laird has contracted to build two steamers for the Hamburg and New Orleans line.

PLEBISCITE.

PARIS, April 18.—The Senate commences debate on Plebiscite to-day. FROM MONTEVIDEO.

PARIS, April 18.—A dispatch from Montevideo states that an attack fiora the exiled Blanco faction was threatened. Extensive preparations for defence were nuking. 7 SUBSIDED.

MADRID, April 18.—The ill-feeling between the regular soldiers and volunteers has in a great measure subsided.

AT THE RACES.

PAKIS, April 18.—The Em|er6r al- t-rv-i tended .the races at Long Champa to-day. PUBLIC MEETINGS.

It is stated that 6n Monday next a series of public meetings will commence, at which plebiscitina is to be discussed and the people instructed in the Constitu-

tional-changes proposed.

-4 CIXCINNip. *i

8TABBED.

CINCINNATI, April 18.—N. II. Sears, private watchman of the Cincinnati Com- a mercial, was stabbed and dangerously wounded in front of the office last night by Jerry Lynch. A brother of Lynch had been arrested on information fur-: nished by Sears. Lynch sought the latter and struck him, a struggle ensued, ending with the infliction probably of a mortal wound. The murderer escaped, but was arrested at Carthage this morning. Sears had recently been on the police force, and was a brave officer and excellent man. The crime is one of the most infamous that has occurred here for months.

CLEVELMD.

LOSS BT FIRE. JJ

CLEVELAND, O., April 18.—The Ions by the Medina, O., fire is over $200,000. Insurance about $70,000.

LAKE NAVIGATION.

The first boat from Buffalo arrived yesterday, belonging to the Union Steamboat Company, but little ice reported.— Navigation may be considered open on Lake Erie. She is the first vessel with a cargo that has arrived this season. ———<>———

BUFFALO.

ARRIVED..

BUFFALO, April 18.—The Erie Kail-, road steamer Olean has arrived from Toledo with a full cargo. She is the first vessel with a cargo that has arrived thief season.

OSWEGO.

PARIS, April 19.—Discussion of Plebiscite was opened in the 8enate yesterday, and will DC continued to-day. Nothing important has been roached yet, and it is not believed the subject will be finally i{ dispoq^d of to-day. ,lT- »f

SEIZURE OF POWDER.

DUBLIN, April 19.—A large lot of powder was seized by the authorities at the little village of Connellon Lifley Testerday. It is supposed to have been collect- ft ed by Fenians.

IN MOURNING. J,

PARis, April 19.—All the legitimist journals of trance appeer this morning dressed in mo'irning, on account of the death of the Duchess of Berrie, yesterday.

.... WELLAND CANAL.' OSWEGO, April 18.—The Welland Canal opens on Wednesday. Vessels are now. clearing for the upper inkes.

FOREIGN.

PLEBISCITE.

A committee of the International Association of Workmen, at a meeting held last evening, to decide what course it was -j desi.-able to take with relation to Plebi«^t cite, after a short debate resolved to abstain from voting.

IU.NES8 OF BISMARCK.

SENSATIONAL.

BERDIN, April 19.—Count Von Bis-8 marck Is very ill at his countrv-seat in Pomerania. A consultation of physicians ay has been summoned.

PARIS, April 19.—A remark made bySo Viscount Gueronniere in the Senate yesterday excites much comment in diplomatic circles. According to the official^ '. report of his speech he'declared Europe was tranquil only when France was satisfied. To this he added the following words, which do not appear in the jour- inal official—"and that France may be content, e»ch power mnst be in its place." ,:

The Paris journals say the meaning of this may be made clear after the plebis-' citum^ taken.

MANIFESTO.' V**/

A manifesto has appeared sighed by" seventeen deputies of the Left, and seven representatives of the French press, sd-^ vising people to vote "no" on the plebis-". citum. It is asserted that as soon as piebiscitum is adopted Prince Napoleon will-'-be sent to St. Petersburg to urge a general disarmament. i»'.«?*»»,

MEETING OP CARLISTFL.

LONDON, April 19.—It is said the ad-,^,% hercnts of Don Carlos of Spain arc to a»semble in Geneva this week.

TORNADO.

LISBON, April 19.—ThU city was visited by a fearful tornado Sunday night, -. which eansed great loss ef property.^— Soaae persons were killed and panr injured the streets. The shipping in the^ Tagus suffered he)ercly, many vea*el»~'' were wrecked and nearly all more or Jessf,**-, damaged. No American vessels report ed.*?, lost. The British fleet rode out the stormy without injury.

TEMPEST.

A South American steamer reports much loss to shipping at Buenos Ay re*' from a violent tempest, but no vessels^from the United Staves are mentioned.,

ST. LOUIS.

SPECIAL VERDICT.

ST. LOUIS, April, 19.—In the case of*v,4 Berry vs. Ex-Gov. Fletcher and others, in the U. S. Circuit Court, the jury, by order of the Conrt, rendered a special verdict Of not guilty as to Fletcher. Tl»^-®' case will proceed against Gen. Montgom-

ery and other defendants.

FORT WAYNE A PACIFIC R. R. ROCHESTER, IND., April 19.—The elec- «*,. tion for appropriating $60,000 in aid of, the Fort Wayne &

Pacific B. S. through

ROCHESTER.

Fulton county, was carried by a majority of 350. The counties along the line through this State will undoubtedly vote:? their local aid, and the work will begin by the first of June. When completed this will be one of the best roads in the country, being the mo*t direct route from New York to Omaha. -v:

A Cough, Cold or Som Throat

Requires immediate attention, ai neclect often results in an incurable Lang Disease.

Brtsi'a Bronchial Trarhes will moit invariably »ir« in-

•tant relief. For Baoscams. ASTHMA. CATIBBH, Cossoumva and TBBOAT Disaasaa, they have a soothing effect.

SINGERS and PUBLIC SPEAKERS as* them to elear and »trengthen the voice. Owing to the good reputation and popalarity of the Troches, many worthlem and ehemp imitation* are ojfTtd, which an food for mAimg. Be sore to OBTAIN the true. BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES.

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