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J! 'J 3 1 SHL'T?.: 1 Froze Person How to Treat Inemv rv j. - x - . : ; . . ....
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PIETBO CUtfEO, Editor huA Proprietor. Office in Cuneo'i Bnlldlng, orcr the Poit OBIce. TERMS: 03.OO per Annum."
;t VOL. XXVIII. - UPPER-SANDUSK- Y, OHIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY .30, 1873. NO. 12.
The morning brought no relief, howeron, 18; Wallace, 11; Wright, 1; Marshall, The Credit Moblller Investigation.very active In securing space and providingaccommodations for exhibitors from the
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persona an liable to suffer from severefreezing. - It ia well, therefore, that allshould know how to ear - properly forone who is near perishing from exposure tointense cold, or wno baa severely irozemsome portion of his body.
The first effect of an exposure of thSwhole body to severe cold, is an almostirresistible impulse to sleep, which, ityielded to, ia soon succeeded by coma orlnaenaibilirT. and death. During thiseomatom state the body is pale and cold.uie piuae uu uie reepirsuQU are uuiwimperceptible, and the pupils are dilated;but the limbs are flexible as long at Ufaremains, unless the degree of cold bevery great indeed. Person! who navubeen exhausted by hunger, watching orfatigue, acd those who indulge in spiritu-ous liquors, exhausted as they are byperpetual stimulation, are much moreliable to suffer from cold than are others. ,
Whenever a person has been exposed toa great degree of cold, and seems likely tosuccumb to its Influence, the indicationsfor treatment are, 1st. To induce mod-- ;crate reaction, and restore the circula-tion and the sensibility. 2d. To avoidexcessive reaction, which would surelylead to violent and dangerous inflamma-tion.
To fulfill these indications, the bodyshould first be rubbed with snow, andafterward, when the warmth and sensibility are somewhat restored, it should bewiped quite dry, ana well ruooea wimfar or flannel. Tiro patient should now "'be put into a cold bed, in a room withonta fire: a stimulating enema ot commonsalt and water, with a few drops of oil ofturpentine, may n administered, and, asoon as be can swallow, a little wine orspirit and water should be given.
The after treatment must be regulatedby the state of the patient, but mild cor-dials and stimulants, with nourishingfood, will be sufficient ia most cases. ,
Caution. : Do not bring the patient into awarm room, or apply artificial heat inany way, until complete reaction hastaken place, and all danger of excessiveinflammation has passed oy.
The term froet-int- e is applied to cases lawhich only some portions of the body, asthe feet, hands, ears, etc., are frozen. Insuch cases the parts affected should berubbed with snow, for while the friction,restores the circulation and sensibility,the snow prevents excessive reaction.After a short time cold water may be --
substituted for the snow, and the frictionmay be brisker. These applicationsshould be made in a room without a fire,and a high or even a moderate tempera-ture must be avoided for some time, ifthe patient would escape the subsequent '
inconveniences of chilblains and running "sores.
If the freezing has been so severe thatmortification and sloughing ensue, stimu--latlng poultices, washes, ointments, etc.,will be important. A poultice made ofyeast, or of carrots, with a little pulver-ized charcoal, a wash of diluted carbolic .
acid, or of creosote, or an ointment in .
which creosote or carbolic acid is an in-gredient, will be useful.
Cliiliiain consist in a peculiar inflam-mation of the skin, induced by suddenalternations of temperature. Repeatedlywarming the hands and feet by a firewhen cold and damp, is the most com-mon cause of these troublesome aflections.' -A great variety of things have been reo- -ommended for chilblains, among the bestof which are, soap liniment six parts, ,tincture of cantharides one part; a lini-- .
ment composed of lime water two parts.linseed oil one part; a wash of muriaticacid one part, water seven parts; dilutedcreosote, or carbolic acid; and cold footbaths. J. D. Stedman, M. D., m CountryGcntitman.
Facts from the Census,
The first volume of the new census contains many curious as well as importantstatistics, in loosing over tne taoies tnemost striking feature is the number of nationalities represented in our population.We have three Oreenlanders in the UnitedStates, five negroes born in Sweden, sixDora in Kussia, 673 wnites Dora in Amca,and 2.638 persona who are without a native countrv, having been born at sea.Five and a half millions of our popula-tion are of foreign birth. Of these
are Irish, and are distributed inthe greatest number throughout Massa-chusetts, Connecticut, and in the vicinityof New York city. The Germans number1,61)0,410, and are most numerous in Jiew"i ork. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio,Illinois, Wisconsin and Missouri. TheEnglish number 650,904, and are themost numerously located in andabout New York, Philadelphia, Bos-
ton, and in the vicinity of ProvidenceR. L They 'are also found in .
considerable numbers in Rochester, Cincinnati, Chicago and Milwaukee, and inthe coal regions of Pennsylvania. TheWelsh number 74,533, and the Swedesand Norwegians, 211,574. The two latterreside largely in Minnesota, WisconEinand Illinois, and are very numerous inand around Chicago. There are 493,834persons enumerated as born in BritishAmerica, and tnese residents are natural-ly found in largest numbers near theCanadian line, though they are well rep-resented in the larger cities and in themanufacturing districts of Massachusetts.The Chinese, about whom so much adohas been made, number only 62,674, andare mainly confined to the cities and min-ing districts of California and Nevada.The French number but 116.240, theSpaniards but 3,701, and nearly a third ofthe latter live in the city of New Orleans.There are 17,149 Italians and 41,308 Mex-icans, the latter nearly all residing inCalifornia and Texas.
The total population of the country is38,925,593. Of these 9,439,206 are malesover the age of 21 years; 12,505,923 ofthe entire population are reported as engaged in "galniui and respectacle pur-suits. " Taking into consideration thatthe number of persons in the countryabove the age of 10 years is 26,288,945,the fact above stated seems strange; bntan examination shows that a large por-tion of those thus reported are femalesunder the age or 16. Ul males oeiweenthe ages of 16 and 69, of which there are10.429.150. there are 9.486,734 reported tobe engaged in some gainful occupation;while 989,516 above the age of 60 arealso properly accounted, for. The restare composed of the vicious and idle, thesick, the studious, and those who haveretired from business. There are in theUnited 8tates 2,885,996 agricultural labor-ers, 2,977,711 farmers and planters, 136apiarists, 8,550 dairyman aad dairy- -women, l.Ubo norms, si,x garaenersand nurserymen, 1,112 wine-gro-
ers, JS.iXkJ actors, as.un arcmiecis,2,266 auctioneers, 458 authors and lectur-ers, 23,935 barbers, 94
. 1,220 billiard. ...and bowling saloonAn tiltkeepers and employee,
12.785 boarding-hous- e keepers, 587 boot-
blacks, 73 chimney-sweep- s, 65 chiropo-dists, 43,874 clergymen, 7,839 dentists.975,734 domestic servants, 26,394 hotel--keepers. 940 hunters and trappers, 353 inventors, 5,286 journalists, 276 lamp-lighter-
40,736 lawyers, 1,1 86 mid wives, 10,976nurses, 62.383 physicians and surgeons,250 sculptors, 1,151 sextons, 154 short-hand writers, 15,010 musicians andteachers of music, 2,873 whitewashers,10,631 bankers and brokers, 14,363 barkeepers, 7,262 commercial travelers, izu,-75- 6
draymen, hackmen and teamsters.473 mule-packe- rs, 2,003 newspaper carriers, 884 pawnbrokers, 56,(564 sailors,1,996 undertakers, 93 wreckers, 27,61bakers, 141.774 blacksmiths, 44,854butchers, 22,286 cigar makers, 34,233 en-gineers and firemen, 152,107 miners, 89,-8-
printers, 436 161,820tailors, tailoresses and seamstresses.lnter-Ooea-
General Carrington's Polytechnic Institute, attached to the Female Collegeat Wabash, lad., has received a donationof a complete set of all the mechanical,scientific and mining works published bythe British Government; also a completeset of Patent-Offic- e Reports of the sameGovernment, the whole valued at $30,000,making it the finest collection of thatclass of works in tbe country.
Americans read more newspapersthan any other people, but do not readmore books. Probably because the aver-age newspaper is better than the averagepook.
"How would I lova my LeveVians said.And lifting ap her sonny head, . .
To mark the glances on tier bent,The Stfnl color came and went,"Tbe rammer Illy to the tailGives all the- - sweets she has to give; - -
Fer nun alone content to lire,bloom when ay is done. - --
So wonld I poor ray offering free :If. spurned, would die as silently." '
Anayonf The dark eyes prondly bright,HeM in their depths a changeful light- ,- .. iAs with a sodden, indrawn breath, ,"O, I coold give, in life or death,A tore too passionate to speak,The strongest words are strangely weak.Bat I could brave a dnngeon's gloom,Oe meet, unmoved, a martyr's doom, -
For lore's dear sake. It would bat beA triumph and a Joy to me.-- .
Bnt if the kve--I claimed sbooM faH,"on her cheek grew pale, ' ' '
And kindling in her sudden ire, --
Burned the dark eyee with dangerous fire:"The measure of my love would mateTe equal measure ot my bate;My heart would grow as hard as stone, .'And I should, ask revenge alone,"
Then sboke 'the third ; a tranquil rayShone in her eyes of steadfast gray.'How would I lovel'! She paused a space
New beauty touched her peaceful face.Then In a low and tender tone:li love I dream of rest alone;
Xy heart would find a sheltering homefei'rom veering winds that rave and roam.But if sad change, some dreary day,Shonld sweep my refuge all away, .
And bid my peaceful rest depart,I would but seek with earnest heartFor love so pure from earthly taint,So free from selfishness and pride.That it can bear to stand aside,Nor breathe a murmur or complaint"A silence fell upon the three,Befor their eves they seem to seeThe garden of Gethsemane, .Where One, in agony profound.His royal brow with blood drops crowned.The saddest ef all vigils kept;The while his csreless followers slept.They saw the Christ, ss bowed ana bentBeneath the heavy cross, He wentTolling np Calvary1 steep ascent, v
While those whose burdens He had borneFollowed afar in fear or scorn.And, echoing through the twilight dim,They seemed to hear the voice of HimWho thus had proved what love might be ;"As) I have loved, even so do ye."
Christian Union.
CLaEENCK SRaSK'S abtenturk.bt8. p. phichakd.
"Come, Clarie, it is almost dinner-tim- e,
and I want jron to run to the depot andget me a time-tabl- e of the Erie Railroad,"said Mrs. Abram Shank to her son Clar-ence, on the fifth day of January, 1872.
"I've my old clothes on, mother." saidClarence, who had been working in coalthat morning.
"Never mind, Clarie ; put your overcoat on, and run along."' - -
Clarence obeyed, and went out fromhis father's house, on his way to the rail-road station, in the city of Binghamton.Dinner-tim- e came, bat Clarence had notreturned.
"L don't see where the boy can be,"said his father, as he arose from the dinner-
-table.
"O, hell be here before I get the tablecleared off," said his mother, anxious toshield her boy. "I dare say the ticket-maste- r
was busy,, or something has kepthim."
Mr. Shank went away to his work.Mrs. Shank left Clarence's dinner uponthe table, but it had grown cold, and hewas not come. Two o'clock, and stillthe loving face of Clarence was not seenin his home. As the mother worked andwaited, the fear that some accident hadcome to her son, grew until it become ahorror. He might have been, injured bya passing train. . .
A messenger was hastily 'sent to the!railroad station. He soon returned, say-ing that no. accident had happened there,and ..that Clarence had not asked theticket-maste- r for a time-table- . He couldfind no person who had seen the lad aboutAt 1 - -sue jJitMjc.
. '.'What can it mean? Clarence wouldnot go away anywhere, for he had oldclothes on," said his mother, "and he hadno dinner either. I'm sure he would notrun Oat"- ? - : - - ' v? . :
Then the father and the older brotherswere sent for, and a family council washeld. One said "he might have been car-ried off on some train." This suggestionseemed very plausible.
"Then we must send the telegraph afterhim," said Mr. Shank; and he went up tothe office, and messages were sent east,west, north, and south over the railroadsthat center at Binghamton. The answerscame speeding back over the lonely milesof wire, and each one said, "No bey car-ried off on my train.".
When every conductor had been heardfrom; the ' father went home.. Friendswere at his house tryingtto suggest somenew possibility.- - The coal-pit- s weresearched, Cellars were examined. Allnight men went up and down a mill-rac-
They"UTied lights and thrust their longpoles into the dark water, but no one ofthem stirred the body of Clarence Shank.
Saturday morning came, but not a rayof hope came with it, to tell where thelost nemight be. . -
No child in ail the beautiful city ofBinghamton was loved so much that dayas waff the lost Clarence Shank. Of allthe mothers' boys in all the world! thereneeerwas one like her lost darling, thotightthe tear-lade- n heart of Clarence's mother;but neither searching, nor lamentationnor tears availed to bring the faintestthread of news; - g -: :
Saturday night came. Then it wasthat tomebody said, "Don't you remem-ber, the Gypsies passed through Bing-hamton on Friday t Can it be that theycarried Clarence off with them ?"
The very romance of the thought lentits charm to the new direction ofsearch, and men eagerly offered to startwith the dawn of Sunday. The Gypsybund was encamped- - twenty miles away.They ,migbt offer stout resistance ; there-fore, as Saturday night was intenselycold, all the piaSrwere made with ref er-n-
to daylight.v
- claebncb's stobt.Clarence was hungry when he started
for tharailroad station Friday noon, butthat was of. little moment. He wouldcome back he thought in a few minutes,and dinner was all ready, waiting for hisfather and brothers to return from theirlabor. As he looked into the passenger- -room, the ticket-agen- t was busy sellingtickets for an out-goin- g train, so Clar-ence went upon the platform to wait un-til he could get a chance to ask for a time--l.Vl.'i 1 Amuie. a. uumoer oi grain cars werestanding upon a track near by. One ofthem had been used to carry corn, and itsfloor was strewn with the long, thin ker-nels -- that had grown in the far fertilewest. '. - - -
"What a waste that is!" thought Clar-ence, havintr in mind the horses at home.and remembering how much they wouldlike to taste the corn. "It won't take mebut a minute to fill my pockets," he saidto himself; and, with a dexterous leap, hewas mside the freight car. In a farthercorner of it he stooped down to draw thecorn into a little pile, and was fillinffhispockets, when he suddenly found himselfin total aarKness. , Tie car was shut, andthe fasteaing-pi- n was in, and, in spite ofcries ana xnpcKS mat no one neara, Clarence BnanK was a prisoner in an emptygrain-ca- r that was bound for the GreatWest , .
In vain he shouted, in vain he thrusthis stout boots against the doors. Theold locomotive engine, puffing away iniront, may nave leit the tnrui in its steam--
chest, but no one's heart was touched toopen the doors and let Clarence out. Sothe wheels began to roll, and they rolledfaster and faster, and the journey began.
The boy did not know whether he wasgoing east or west. All that he could tellwas, mat tne road was rough and the carjolted terribly. He stood nn mil rinnvfast to its tides to keep from being thrownabout. V"What will mother think at. r.gaspedwCIarence, trying in vain to find acrevice out or wnicu ne could peep atine surrounding country; ttis countrywas blackness and darkness just then.The time seemed days, the way endless,and then the thudding rumble grew lessand "less. The car was standingstill. Ha? g renewed; ; his knocksuna snouts ana bucks, dui noone camBi-And- - after a few moments theold motion begun,agaon.,flHe. held, fast,until his hands were eore from-- the-- friction. The. tears came .nii roller!his dSefeks, fpf hecoutd not let go to wipethem frbrh tfiff" eyes'. "After another hoarthe train stopped again, ind he felt the
motion of backing; then all was still inthe car, while the great locomotive throb-bed itself into the distance. -"If I could only see where I am!"
thought Clarence. But not a sound washeard. The car was "switched off"somewhere and left; but where was it?
"What if nobody should come and letme out! What if I should have to stay inhere till I starved and died!" And thenthe thought of all the sore trouble his ab-sence would make at home. He listenedattentively for the sound of a footstep,for he was growing very cold, and hewondered if it was night
At last they came, the sweetest soundsthat Clarence had ever heard, and yetthey were but the tramp of heavy feet onfrozen pound. The boy forgot to cryaloud, he was so eager in his listening.Yes, they were coming; he could hearvoices, as of men talking. Then heknocked with feet and hands; he shoutedaloud, but his voice was wellnigh drownedin the dark, close car.
"What's this?" said one of the men."There's somebody stolen a free ride inthat car, I reckon." The pin was takenout, the door shoved back, and Clarencewas nearly blinded by the full light ofday, for it was not yet four o'clock.
He had not been imprisoned quite fourhours, but the journey had seemed to himthe length of the United States.
"Where'am If" asked Clarence."At Barton. Meant to steal a ride did
you?" asked one of the men."No, I did not. I got carried off," re-
plied Clarence, with indignation."Well, you'd better start, back pretty
quick, boy. Where did vou come from?""From Binghamton. How far itat 1""About forty miles. Take that road!"
And the men went on their way, think-ing little of their careless words to theboy. -
He started, and walked until it was almost dark. Then he reached Tioga Cen-tre. He passed through the village, andwent on until it was so dark that he couldnot see. "
A farm-hous-e was near bv. but nofriendly light gleamed out from itClarence thought the folks had gone tobed. He did not like to wake them up;beside, he was afraid they would thinkhe was a beggar boy. Near the barn-yard there was a large stack of hay witha fence about it, to keep the cattle fromgetting in. Clarence jumped the fence,pulled out some hay. made a berth forhimself, crawled in, and, with the sum-mer's red-to- p and clover for bed andcovering, he fell asleep. The tears stoleout from his tired eyelids with the lastmoment of consciousness, after whichsleep warmed his cheeks and dried histears, and sweetly freshened every tirednerve and muscle for the great trial ot themorrow. There lay between his hay-stack bed and his home thirty-fou- r milesof frozen lands and Clarence was onlyeleven years old, and had eaten neitherdinner nor supper that day.
Light came from over the east, andwith a quiver the boy's eyelids opened.He sprang up fully dressed ; no smokecurled from the farm-hous- e chimney; no-body was astir so early. He started forthe long march. In his pocket was th6corn that he had gathered vesterdav.Hunger was strong, and the lad ate a fewkernels, Wondering why horses seemedto like it so well.
At Oswego some bovs sent him twomiles in a wrong direction. He met anold man who told him he must go back.That made four extra miles to walk.
Clarence cried with cold and hungerand weariness, yet he never thought tobeg a ride back by rail, or to ask a pieceof bread even, at a house door. "Thev'llthink me a beggar if I do, and I'd rathergo hungry than beg," he thought
So he passed on mile after mile, whilethe day went its round. His cheeks werefrozen from the flow of his tears, his toesand heels were touched bv frost, but hehad reached Union, and that was notmany miles, he knew, from home. Inall that day he was overtaken by but twowagons. They were so heavily ladenthat their drivers walked; therefore hecould not ask a ride of either of them.It was after dark when the friendly lightsui xuDgnamton were seen.
- Clarence thought he could not get home.The last few blocks were longer than themiles had been, and yet he knew if hefell down there, somebody who knew himwould be certain to find him.
He came dragging himself wearilv udto the house. No one saw him until heopened the door. The house was full offriends and kindly souls who were cometo sympathize with his mother.
uiarence opened the door and surprisedthem all. With one shout thev cried.
Here comes the lost bov!" while hismother sprang forward and clasped himin her arms.
Clarence was too tired to tell his storv.just then. They- - gave him food, for hehad eaten nothing but a few kernels ofcorn since Friday's breakfast and hadnot drunk even one drop of water sinceleaving home.
inus ends this true storv of ClarenceShank's ride in the grain-car- . How niceit would be if all the lost children couldcome home, as Clarence came: if never ahearth-ston-e remained cold for the wantof the living touch of the little feet thatstray and come not again! '
Clarence thinks his home a far nicerplace than a grain-ca- r on the Erie road;and the roof of his father's house a bettershelter, - in January, than red-to- p andclover. Our Young Folk. : ,
Across the Atlantic in a Balloon.
accobding to tne new i otk nun. anaeronaut by the name of Donaldson isnow constructing a series oibauoons withwhich he purposes to cross the Atlanticnext summer, starting from Union Squarein this city. He claims that a flying ma-chine is within the range of possibility,and is not discouraged by the many fail-ures in this field. His theorv is plausible.He remarks that when Fulton built thesteamboat to run in water he did not imitate the action of the fish, and then heexpresses the opinion that to navigate theair it is not necessary to comply too close-ly with the movements of birds. The living bird represents aerial locomotion inits primitive state. The idea is to improve upon this, just as the steam engineis an improvement upon the power andspeea oi tne norse. Having had largeexperience in oailoomng, Mr. Donaldsonis earnest in the belief that he can travelfrom the setting sun at all times, "for ata certain neignt, say two and a half miles,there is a constant current of air blowingtoward the East." - By ascending to therequired altitude, be is confident that thisstrong current will safely bear his shipfrom New York to the shores of England.He is also of the opinion that, when onthe other side, he will find another cur-rent which will waft him home again.We may pronounce the attempt to crossthe ocean in a balloon foolhardy, but letus not forget that such "foolhardy"efforts heretofore have led to the mostimportant discoveries. Science requiresher sacrifices. If we never ventured outof the old grooves we would make noprogress. If we ever succeed in con-structing machines which will navigatethe air, it will be through that spirit ofdaring which animates the bosom of Mr.Donaldson. Tf he attemnta the nrononerlfeat and perishes in the undertaking, wehope that his failure will not deter othersirom makinz jdaneerous experiments inthe same direction- .- Turf. Field andFarm. . ?
e huptiala of Kiraand Eliza Can-- ; nineteen, were celebrateda vueater, ra.f tne'otner dav;
General News Summary.CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate, on the 17th, bills werepassed appropriating (300,000 to. defray the expenses incident to a representation of the UnitedStates in the Vienna Exposition; repealing the actfor the relief of certain Indians in the Sioux Su- -perintendency Tbe resolution instructing theCommittee on Elections to inquire into the de-fects of the present Electoral system, andthe best means for remedying them, was takenup. and Mr. Morton spoke at length in behalf ofthe resolution, giving his views of thedangers attending tbe Electoral plan nowfollowed in the election of President and
He was followed by Mr. Trumbull, whoagreed with Mr. Morton as to some of tbe defectsand dangers of the existing Electoral system, butdissented from some of his views ss to the prop-er remedy Adjourned to the 80th .
In the House, on the 17th, a largenumber of bills of a private character were report-ed from the Committee on Claims, and disposedof The Senate bill confirming certain railroadlands in Iowa to tbe Mississippi A Missouri andthe Chicago, Bock Island A Pacific Railroad Com-panies, was taken up and debated, and the mainquestion was ordered 88 to 73. ...Adjourned.
In the House, on the 18th, bills werepassed to revise the Pension laws; to quiet landtitles in Iowa, providing that the title to lands inIowa heretofore approved and testified by the Department or tne interior ror rauroaa purposes toaid in tbe construction of a railroad from Davennort via Iowa Citv to Council Bluffs, under grantsmade by Congress, according to the adjustmentthereof made at the General Land Office, shall beconfirmed to the Mississippi & Missouri RailroadCompany and tbe Chicago, Rock Island A Pacificitaiiroaa company, ana tneir assigns, ine corpora-tions to whom lands were certified this act to beconstrued as conveying only any reversionary orother interest which the Unit4 States may havein the lands, and all lands settled upon in goodfaith and now occupied by homesteads or pre-emption settlers are to be excluded from its opera-tions A lares number of bills of a private character were disposed of.. ..Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 20th, a petitionwas presented for a prohibitory liquor Jaw....Several bills to amend the Bankrupt law were reported adversely irom tne Judiciary (jommittee,and a majority of the committee reported a newbill repealing the Bankruptcy act of March t, 1867.and all supplementary and amendatory acts, saidrepeal to t on the 1st day of next July,provided that the repeal shall not in anyway affect any proceedings in bankruptcy com-menced before the 1st nay of next July. ...A billwas introduced fixing (2.80 as the minimum priceat which the Government shall sell all the landsremaining to the United States, within the limitsof grants for rail or wagon roads, excepting landswithin the indemnity limits, and the claims of pre-emption settlers, and the privileges accorded bythe existing homestead laws to soldiers andsailors.
In the House, on the 20th, bills wereIntroduced providing for bringing suits forclaims against the United States in the UnitedStates Circuit Courts for the distribution of theGeneva award ; organizing the Tndian Territory ofOklehama; to repeal the law taxing deposits insavings banks; to punish pretended counterfeitersof United States currency and coin.... A bill waspassed repealing the Bankrupt law.
In the Senate, on the 21st, bills werepassed for the protection of owners of saw-mil-
on the Mississippi River; for the erection of pub-lic buildings at Nashville, Tenn. ; for the sale of aportion of the lighthouse reservation at Fort Gra-tiot, Michigan ; to enable the Commissioner of In-dian Affairs to purchase certain improvementswithin the Nez Perce? reservation in Idaho ... Billswere introduced legalizing the titles of seven
ears' seiners on lands to wmcn Indian titlesad been extinguished : authorising the Texas &
Pacific Railroad Company to make parable in law-ful money the bonds which it has hitherto beenauthorized to isBue The credentials of P. B. S.Pinchback as Senator-elec- t from Louisiana werepresented. ...The bill to authorize the construc-tion of six new sloops of war was taken up, andan amendment was agreed to limiting the aggre-gate tonnage of the vessels to 10,000 tons and theaggregate cost to $4,000,000.
In the House, on the 21st, the Committee on Appropriations were instructed to inquireinto the present value of existing telegraph lines,the costof ttiiJftiucting the same, smd the probablecost oi new lines.... a Din was passea, auinonz-in- g
settlers on untimbered land to enter fortyacres of timbered land for everv hundred and sixtyacres of untimbered land, at (1.25 per acre Areport was made from the Committee on Electionsthat Mr. Niblack, a contestant, was entitled to theseat from Florida, as against Walls.. ..The bill forthe admission of Colorado was taken ud and debated The bill reported from the Committee onCommerce, for the encouragement of the foreigncommerce of the United States, was considered.
In the House, on the 22d, bills werepassed to amend the act granting the right ofway to the Walla Walla & Columbia River Railroad Company: appropriating $113,500 to supplythe deficiency for the expenses of the United StatesMixeu commission on American ana tsntionclaims. ...The bill for the admission of Coloradoas a State was-take- up and debated. .. A messagewas presented irom tne president, vetoing tne actreducing from two years to six months the time inwhich new trials may be, on motion of the UnitedStates, granted in the Court of Claims.
In the Senate, on the 22d, bills werepassed House bill abolishing the grades of Ad-miral and of the Navy; to authorizethe Secretary of the Interior to negotiate with theCreek Indians for a portion of the lands occupiedbv them : euDDlemental to the act incorporatingthe Texas Pacific Railway Company; to providefor the construction of ten new sloops of war; toabolish the franking privilege on the 1st of Julynext 88 to 16V. . A substitute for Mr. Morton'sbill to regulate the distribution ot the Genevaaward was reported from the Judiciary Committee....The bill to allow women to vote and holdoffice in the Territories was indefinitely postponed....rne creaennais or Mr. mcjnitian, elected d;the Warmoth Legislature to fill the unexnireiterm of Mr. Kellogg as United Stages Senator fromijontsiana, ana tne credentials or Mr. Kav. electedby the Kellogg Legislature, were presented andrei erred. . .
In the . Senate, on the 23d, Mr. Westwas appointed to fill a vacancy on the Committeeon Pacific Railroads, and Mr. Ames on the Com-mittee of Commerce. ..A bill passed appropriating $30,000 to the expenses of the investigationsin regard to the elections in Kansas,Louisiana and Arkansas .. Petitions werepresented for the repeal of the Bankrupt law; from soldiers, for thepassage of the Bounty Land bill.... An amendment to tne Appropriation Dill, tor increasing tnepay or members oi congress to s&uuu. was tabled
ai to is.In the House, on the 23d, a bill was
passed relieving from taxation all alcohol usedfor scientific purposes. . . .A resolution was passedreciting the allegation that members ofthe House who have been interested withthe Dabuntie & Sionx Citv Railroad.which has received a subsidy in lands, had beenmanaged by the Credit-Mobilie- r, and directingthat the Select Committee, the first Committee ap-pointed (Poland's), Investigate the nutter and re-port what members have been interested with theDubuque & Sioux City and the Central PacificRailroads.
THE OLD WORLD.News from Livingstone, dated November
30, state that the last train of suppliessent out had reached him, and that he hadbegun another march into the interior ofAfrica. .
Decissey, French Minister of War, haswritten a letter to Marshal McMahon, prohibiting the circnlation of Bonaparte addresses in the barracks of the French troops,and urging the severe punishment of personsfound distributing such papers.' The number of emigrants who left the portof Bremen for the United States, last year,was 80,000. Emigration from Hamburg, during the same time, 50,000.
A grand reception was given on the 16th,at Chiselhurst, by the Empress Eugenie andNapoleon IV ., to 1,100 soldiers, Statesmenand other distinguished Frenchmen. TheEmpress and her son passed through roomsfilled with people, all in the deepest mourntag, and gave their hands to be kissed. It is
aid the Imperialists expect a speedy res-toration ot the Empire, with the Empress asBegent. . ; . ;
The Right Hon. Edward Bulwer Lvtton(Baron Lytton) the well-know- n English antrior, died in London on the 18th, aged 67,
The London Daily Sem of the 90th saysof the lease of Saraana Bay to an AmericanCompany, that it is not likely to give riseto any . diplomatic complication, but thewholesomenees of this tendency to acquireterritory beyond continental limits is doubt
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The Turkish Government has sued theLondon Timet for libel in pnbllsbjng a communicfttion, alleged to have been signed bythe Turkish Minister London, containinguatrna. statement iwith. reference id thefinances of the Government of Turkey.
- tt¬her of England's distinguished publicmen is' dead the Right, Honorable StephenLushington, the venerable statesman and jur-ist, aged 61 Tars.'1-- - -
The World's Exhibition at Vienna willopen in May. The American Commission is
ever, as the storm had Increased so thatnothing could be seen ahead. He ereptout of his snowy nest, but not daring toleave, he crawled back again only toshiver and suffer, as his clothes had beenwet, and were now frozen.
Mr. Payne's pony stood sentinel withintwo rods of him whinnying, and he gotup and tried to lead her, but could not.He followed the fence to a track whichled to a granary, stacks and a stable. Hestaid In the stable from about ten o'clocka. m. until three p. m., thinking the own-ers would come to feed the stock there,but fearing they wonld not he started toSad the house, which he supposed not fardistant. He was lost once more, but aahe was about to burrow in., a drift hefound the fence and from that the stableagain. During his absence the ownershad been there, fed the stock and fasten-ed the stable so he could not enter. Hefound an empty shed covered with snow,in which he stayed that night without hisrobe.
Thursday morning the storm had sotar cleared that he could see the house towhich the stables belonged, and whichwas not ten rods distant. He had beenall around it the day before, and had lainwithin twenty rods of another house thenight before. He was kindly cared foruntil Monday, when he arrived at hishome in this city. One of his ponies remained until Thursday morning near thesieign, ana tne otner was iouuc not sixtyrods away, and hoth perfectly safe andsound.
Mr. Payne thinks that he will lose halfhis toes and part of his heels. 8L PaulPioneer.
The Census Religion and Occupation.
It has already been mentioned in commenting on the census that the six NewEngland States, with a white populationof 3,445,043, have but 6,421 . churches,while the six Southern States upon theAtlantic, with a white population of 3,--450,903, or virtually the same, have 11,- -667 churches. But apart from this amazing revelation there are other items of interesting ecclesiastical information to begathered from the report. The population oi tne thirty-seve- n estates is38,115,641, and the total number ofchurches for this multitude is 62,522,with 21,393,543 sittings, leaving 16,- -720,099 or our people apparently un-provided for. The truth is, however, that the population of ten yearsor age and over amounts to Z7,ea,55,which leaves but 6,503.993 persons otchurch age, so to speak, Who could findno accommodation, should every man.woman and child in theUnion be simultaneously moved onbrightf
Sundayvi
morning. , to attend relig--
ious worsnip. Dim tnat aa many as6,503,993 persons, or about one sixth of ourentire population, have nochurch accom--uwuuua is sv prcgnmus ruccuud lurdivines. The aggregate value of thechurch property is $:S49,61,780. In theTerritories and the District of Columbiathere are 660 churches, with 209,520 sittings, and a church property worth f4,- -863.801.
Coming to particular denominations.the disciples of Wesley and Whiteneldtower, in point of numbers, above all;the Baptists come next, the Presbyteriansnext, then tne uathouca, the unristians(Campbellites), the Lutherans, the
the Episcopalians andthe German Reformed, in the ordernamed. (The number of churches of theseand some other less prominent denomina-tions in 1870, 1860 and 1850 is as follows:
, LA met. ,Denomination. lfrm. ima 1SW.
Methodist tl.lOT r.eKS 13.0tBaptist 13.9ft 14,150Presbyterian-"- 7.071 6.i 4.859Catholic &.) xAVI . 1.iChristian S.Krt X.0W? 875Lutheran S.77S .!! l.tttCongregational x.715 X. 1.725Episcopal 1.801 $,145 1.459German Reformed.... 1,145 - S76 MlFriends 66 72 72Unlversalist 60S 664 BWUnitarian... . 310 M 348Mormon 171 S4 ISJewish 15. 77 M
The several rates of Increase or decrease for the two decades are as follows:
iace-60- . ifloo-7-o.
Methodist . JO orBaptist ST .isPresbyterian........ SS .10Catholic 1.09 .49Christian....... .... 1.89 MLutheran. 78Congregational M .Episcopal .4 .91German Reformed... .9 .69Friends dec. .00rniveisalM SS dec. .09Unitarian 08 .17Mormon. ...... h. SO D.S9Jewish L14 .97
It will be seen that none of these de--
nominations, except the Mormon andUnitarian, maintain in the last census decade the rate of increase shown in theone prior. The falling off in the case ofthe Methodists, the leading denominationIn point of numbers in the country, isparticularly great, as notable, in fact, asthe portentious growtn oi Aiormonism.The wealth of the leading denominationscompares as follows:
iMnomtnaaau. caurcsea, value.Methodist tl.KTT $sn.S4,ttCatnouc o.98556Presbyterian 7.071 to.if&XABaprst is.ta 4i..iwEpiscopal S.601 86.514.548Congregational 1715 95.069.6S8
It is a comforting deduction from thecensus that, while we may not build asmany churches in proportion aa we oncedid, they are every way more costly andrespectable looking edifices. The plainbrick Ebenecer seems giving way to amore ornate structure. Ihe number ofchurches in 1870 is sot yet double thenumber in l&jtf, but tbe value or ctrurcnproperty now is four times greater thanit was twenty years ago.
Coming to the subject of avocations,the census treats us to some rare imaginings. Its dry figures body forth beforeus 12,335,172 men and women, boys andgirls, working away for dear me at everyimaginable occupation the countrythrough. Two thuds of the populationof the United States are drones, accord-ing to the census, for whom the otherthird toils. How it toils can only beseen in its bewildering completeness inthe serried columns of the census report;but here and there a fact sometimes pa-thetic, sometimes enormous, but alwayssuggestive appears even to the hastyglance. One half of the entire workingpopulation is engaged in agricultural pursuits, and of the 2,885,996 agricultural la-
borers, 373,332 are women, tbe brawnyhelpmates of the Scandinavian settlers ofthe .Northwest, or the (southern negresswho has not yet laid down the shovel andthe hoe. Among other curious avoca-tions we find forty-fiv-e female stock-herder- s
(how savage a calling none knowbut those who have seen the lexas "cowbov" dash like lightning here and therethrough droves of hslf wild cattle, like adragoon in a charge), 8 female appren-tices to barbers, 24 women dentists, 3 female hostlers. 2 female professional hunters and trappers, 6 female lawyers, 525femsle physicians and surgeons, 67 female clergymen, s women scavengers.female sextons, 10 female "cartmen," 196women draymen, 1 female piio 6 femaleguano laborers, 4 female s, 33women gunsmiths, 7 female gunpowdermakers, and 16 female ship-ngger- s,
Among the men annear 2.612.664 agricultural laborers. 2.09.1.030 farmers andplanters, 1,046 florists, 22.7-'S- bar-bers, 43,807 clergymen, 40,731 lawyers(an ecclesiastical preponderance sufficient to keep the legal mind down), 61,oV8physicians, 1,976 undertakers, 1.144 sex-tons, 141,774 blacksmiths, 161,485 shoe-makers, 152,061 miners, and soon bv thearmy corps aa mjinuvn, tcw iotk norm.
"Old Talk-Talk- " is what Mark Twainc&us ueorge r raacia a ram.
At the session of Mr. Poland's Committee,on the 18th, B. M. Boyer, of Con-gress from Pennsylvania, voluntarily appeared and said he bad nothing to conceal.He took seventy five shares in his own name,and twenty-fiv- e as trustee for his wife, andhas held them, regarding It as a legitimatestock transaction, irarinar tne time ne wasIn Congress neither the Credit-Mobili- norPacific Railroad required legislation. Allsudsidles and grants had been voted on be-fore he was Congressman. He invites acritical examination ot his Congressionalrecord, and says his Investment In Credit-Mobili-
was consequent upon the recom-mendation of Durani.
James F. Wilson, of Iowa, made a lengthystatement, saying he once bought and paidfor ten shares ot capital stock of the Credit-Mobilie- r,
which he subsequently sold, afterhaving learned that there was a prospect ofcontinuous and serious litigation concerningthe Company. His application to Ames forthe stock was made at the suggestion ofM'Comb. When he entered Congress, In1861, his constituency ware unanimously lafavor of the construction of the railroad tothe Pacific, and he had always earnestlysupported the enterprise. Neither Ames,M'Comb, nor any one else attempted to in-
fluence the action of the witness as a mem-ber of Congress. He did not know at firstwhether he had a profit or loss on the stock.He wonld act again exactly as he did underthe same state of affairs. -
General Banks took his seat with the Po-land Investigating Committee, for tbe firsttime, on the 20th. Sidney Dillon, Presidentor the Credit-Mobilie- r, testified that he knewof shares put Into the hands of Dorant andAmes, to fnlfill previous contracts, but didot remember the names " of the persona.
Ames said he was under obligations to thesame. Allusion was made to Congres-me- n,
but he did not remember the names;thinks Ames mentioned James Brooks;witness said Brooks eame to him, sayingthat he received 100 share from Durant,and under the rule was entitled to !jO sharesadditional, which were finally made overto Neilson, son of Brook. At thesame time Neilson borrowed $5,000 ot him(Dillon) to pay on tbem. Durant paidfor the stock transferred to Neilson by theCompany; ronld not tell whether Neilsonrepaid the $5,000 withont looking at hisbooks; did not know what Ames did withthe stock transferred to him. At aa Interview with Brooks relative to the 50shares, neither Alley nor M'Comb were pres-ent. Brooks had nothing to do with themoney loaned Neilson by witness. Brookssaid briefly that the stock was to go to his
Neilson. and not to him (Brooks).Witness never knew of Brooks having re-ceived any dividends from Credlt-MobUle- r;
did not know where the books of the Credit-Mobili-
were, unless they were in the handsof Mr. Ham; never heard ot Alley's connexion with the transaction or Brooks.
Mr. Burant was recalled on the 21st, andproduced a list of persons to whom he hadtransferred stock. He did not think anywas held In trust for Congressmen. Heproduced the receipt of J. B. Alley for 200shares, atloo.
Mr. Brooks testified to the effect thatwhen he accepted the position of Govern-ment Director of the Union PacificRailroad, he felt compelled to renounce aright to purchase, at par, from T. C Durant,200 shares of Credit-Mobilie- a right belonging to mm in isoo, or eariy in1867, before he was a member of Congress, and which did not become valuableuntil December, 1867. He had transferredhis right to purchase the shares to his son-in-la-
C. H. Neilson. He did not then re-ceive, and has never since received, one centof profit from the transaction in his own orin any other names. He did not give Neil-son the money to purchase the stock, bntadvanced the purchase money asa loan, and held Neilson responsible for paying It back as soonas he could. Mr. Brooks did not wishapologetically to convey the idea that he declined ownership in the Credlt-MobUi-
stock because be was a member ot Congress,for If be had never been named a Government Director, he should probably havebeen owner of a large amonnt of stock tothis day. He naa as mncn rtgnt to ownpaper stock as live stock, or sheep,or spindles, or a lead or iron mine.or barley, or timber, or steam engines,or foundries, with two or three thous-and tariffed articles, largely indorsed by Congressional legislation, tie naa never oeenasked to give, nor had he given, a vote InCongress that was nnlust to the Government, or for the profit ot the Union PacificRoad, nor had he, as charged by McComb,asked Democratic members of Congress tovote for the road, and he did not rememberever to have spoken to anv Democraticmember upon any legislation relating to theroad.
Senator Patterson again voluntarily ap-peared before the committee, and insistedthat what he had heretofore stated was cor-rect, which was that he gave Ames moneyfor Investment in Union Pacific Railroadstock and bonds, and was not aware that thelatter had applied It to the purchase otCredit Moblller stock.
Oiks Ames testified before the Committee,on the 93d. that he agreed to give Mr. Colfax twenty shares of Credit-Mobili- stockin December, 1867. Witness received divi-dends upon it of 80 per cent. In Union Pa-cific bonds, and accounted to Colfax for tnebonds sold ny witness. In March. 18t8,Colfax gave witness a check for $534.73. Hedidn't remember delivering stock to Colfax.The check and proceeds of the Union Pacificstock paid for the Credit-Mobili- stock. Inthe June following he gave Colfax a checkfor $1,900, dividends on Credit-Mobilie- r.
Colfax had never called upon the witnessfor Credit-Mobili- stock, and It is ready todeliver to him whenever he wants it. tiesupposed that Colfax understood the $1,900was a dividend upon tne stoca. witnesshad no recollection that Colfax paid him$1,200. It don't belong to witness. Mr. Colfax, who was present, said that he reassertedwhat he said before in regard to the $1,200.He now gave notice to Ames that be would
tbe negative, and asked that theergeant-st-Arm- a be summoned with his ac-
counts. Ames declared Senators Conkling,Fowler, BavarH, and Wilson, of Masaachu-sett- s,
and Representative Blaine free fromanv connection with the Credit-Mobilie- r.
Dawes and Allison bought and paid forstock, but afterwards returned it. Garfieldtook stock, which more than paid for itselfby dividends: the balance Ames paid himby check for $329. This, he said, was whatGarfield called a loan. Kelly, Scofield andBingham were each owners of stock. Thestatements of Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, he cor-roborated.
Allison testified that Ames must have un-
derstood that the stock accepted by him(Allison) was given back to Ames, as therehave been frequent dividends upon it, bnttbe witness had never received any of themwith one exception.
N. G. Ordway, 8ergeant-at-Arm- s of theHonse of Representatives, was sworn andexamined by Colfax. He had examined theaccount ot Colfax for 1868, bnt saw no entryof a deposit of $1,300 there; had notexamined the accounts ot Ames; hedid deposit some money in 1868; didnot remember if the check given to Allisonwas indorsed; saw a check with the letters'S. C. " or bearer, for $1,900: witnesa does
not pay out or receive money. The payingteller in 1S68 was Thomas B. Chene. Otherchecks were payable to initials. No indorse-ment was reoulred from members of Congress generally when they drew money them- -
selves. The Av payable to "8. W wassigned by Oakes Ames.
Two Tayt Lost Within Twenty Bodsof a House
It was the misfortune of our fellow- -
citizen, Mr. E. E. Payne, to be on theprairie about nve miles south oi na&son,in Dodge County, last Tuesday afternoon,when the storm came on. lie was withinhalf a mile of a house, with the wind onhis back, and losing sight of the dwellinghe was governed by the wind, which,without his knowledge or consent, turnedfrom southwest to northwest, throwinghim entirely out of the way he desired togo. lie was soon lost in the blindingstorm, and after wandering about for anhour, he put np for the night by blanket-ing and turning loose his ponies, wrap-ping himself in a buffalo robe, and sittingdown beside his open sleigh, which wasturned on its side. Bv continually slapping his bands and kicking his feet hemanaged to keep them from freezing.He prayed, and sung and kept up hiscourage. Hoping to nod a House in me
. In the House: Cameron, 60; Wallace, 37.
A New York dispatch of the 90th saysthe full text of the Samana purchase con
vention shows that the Company has ob-
tained absolute sovereignty over the Peninsula, with its inhabitants and private inter-ests. The sovereignty conceded to the com-pany is greater than that of the State ofNew York, or any other State in the Union,for it inclndes the right to levy and collectcustom duties, and to do many other thingswhich can only be done by a sovereign na-
tion. Baes not only sells them these extra- -
ordinary privileges, but he sells them theflag of the Republic of St. Domingo, to useas they may's ee proper."
It is reported that a few days ago Edward8. Stokes received In prison an envelopecontaining a card, on which was written:" Edward 8. Stokes, from a friend. If youwant to commit suicide, suck the back ofthis card, which contains deadly poison."Stokes handed the card to the Warden of theTombs.
In his recent testimony in the trial ofTweed, Garvey swore that his bills for plastering the New York Custom House amount-ed to $395,000. He also stated that only 85per cent, of the amonnt was retained byhim, the rest going to Tweed & Co.
It having been charged that Mr. Bogy hadsecured his election to the United StatesSenate by the Missouri Legislature by bribery, an investigating committee was orderedby the Legislature.
The war with the Modoe Indians, in Oregon, promises to be a serious affair. Thefirst attack on their stronghold took placeon the 17th. The Indians mastered twohundred warriors, and the whites, volun-teers Included, were fonr hundred in num-ber. The skirmish lasted all day, and endedin the repulse of the troop, with a loss offourteen killed and twenty-thre- e wounded. How many Indians were killedis not stated, bnt the probabilities are thatthere were few, if any. They are all practiced sharp-shooter- s, and were so perfectlyconcealed In the cliffs and rocks that scarcely any of them could be seen during the entire day. Nothing further would be attempted until arrived.
The Wisconsin Legislature on the 21st reelected Hon. Timothy O. Howe to the UnitedStates Senate, the vote standing, in theSenate, 22 for Howe to 9 for H. L. Palmer,of Milwankee; in the Assembly, 61 for Howeto 35 for Palmer.
The two branches of the Illinois Legislature voted separately tor United States Senator on the 21st. In the Senate the votestood: Oglesby, 33; Trumbull, 16; W. F.Coolbangh, 8. In the House the vote stood:Oglesby, 82; Trumbull, 60; absentees, 11. Aprotest was made by the Democratic, andLiberal members against Mr. Oglesby's election as being unconstitutional, because ofhis already holding a State office.
The Arkansas Senate has memorializedCongress, asking the passage of a civilrights bill similar to that ot Mr. Sumner's
The House bill to abolish the frankingprivilege, as amended aad passed by theSenate, on the 23d, is as follows :
Be it enacted, etc.. That the franking privilegebe, and the same hereby is. abolished from audafter the 1st day of July, 1873, and that henceforthall official correspondence, of whatever nature,and other mailable matter sent from or addressedto anv officer of tbe Government, or to any personnow authorized to frank such matter, shall bechargeable with the same rates of Dostage as mavbe lawfully imposed upon like matter sent by oraddressed to otner persons: rronata, tnat nocompensation or allowance shall now, or here-after, be made to Senators, members and dele-gates of the House of Representatives on accountoi postage.
In the case of Miss 8nsan B. Anthony,charged with illegally voting at the Novem-ber election, the United States District Courtof New York has denied the application fora writ of habeas eorput and the discharge ofthe lady from custody. The court declinedto decide the question of the right of awoman to vote, and gave Miss Anthony theopportunity which she desired of appealingthe case to the Supreme Court of the UnitedStates for final decision.
The 8amana Bay Company held theirmeeting in New York on the 23d, and adopted the Commissioners' report, and ratifiedthe contract made with the San DomingoGovernment. The following officers wereelected for the ensuing year: A. B. Stock-
ell, President; Paul N. Spofford, Vice- -
President; Henrv Clews, Treasurer; B R.Hazard, Secretary.
The announcement that Foster will behanged had a very depressing effect uponStokes and other murderers In the New YorkTombs. When Foster received the news hesecluded himself in his cell, refusing to seeany one.
The Nevada Legislature has elected JohnP. Jones, Republican, to succeed James W.Nye in the United States Senate. The votestood: Jones, 53; McCoy, 47: DeLong, 1
McBeth, 1.A St. Panl (Minn.) telegram of the 21st
says the reported loss of life by the greatstorm proves to have been greatly exagger-ated. A good many lives had been lost, anda number of persons had been more or lesscrippled, but nothing like the terrible disaster first reported.
The Susquehanna River was rising at PortDeposit, Md., on the 21st, and there wasover six feet of water in the streets. All thehouses on the river side had been deserted.Rain had been falling all day. Women andchildren have taken refuge on the heights,where they built fires to keep from freezing.Ice was gorged opposite the town, and pilednp twenty-fiv- e feet high.
The Georgia Legislature, on the 23d, elected General Gordon United States 8enator.Gordon received 112 votes, Stephens 8G,
Ackerman 14.The storm of the 23d appears to have been
general throughout the Northwest. All therailroads centering at Chicago were snowednp, and trains were so much delayed that itwas thought best to seSd no additionaltrains out to increase the disorder.
The Patent Office Report.
Wk owe our thanks to Judge Kelley forthe latest Patent Office report. Wealready have sixteen hundred of theseinteresting volumes in our little library,but they have been read and and reread somany times that we know every page ofthem by heart. This new volume cameopportunely and gratefully, on Christmasmorning, and that night we gathered ourlittle family around the fire, and read itinrougn to them. I he affecting tale entitled "Improvement in Monkey- -wrencnes " seemed to touch every Heart,and when we came to the climax of thelittle story about "Reversible .'
there was not a dry eye between the frontdoor and the stable. During the readingof the piteous narrative entitled "Gum-washer- s
for Carriage-axles,-" the wholefamily gave expression to boisterous emo- -. . ,1 At... V. I I - 1uuii, uiu tuts iiiicu gin was bo tnucii ex-cited that she lost her presence of mind,and went round to her mother's inad verdantly with six pounds of sugar andbutter-kettl- e full of flour, but came homeat midnignt intoxicated. W e can neversufficiently thank Judge Kelley for theinnocent enjoyment thus furnished u.The memory of that happy evening willlinger in our minds very much longerthan that hired girl ever lingers when shelights on a lot of substance which shethinks will suit ' the constitution of heraged parent PhUadphia Sunday Die--
patch
Stokes witnesses were confined inthe JJouse of Detention exactly a year,
United 8tates.It Is reported that a conference has been
held at Chiselhurst, at which it was decidedthat the Empress Eugenie and Prince ffa-pole-
should be the political guardians ofthe Prince Imperial, and therefore directthe movements of the party. It Is said thatno manifesto announcing the Intentions ofthe Bonapartlsts will be issued. The PrinceImperial will not be called Napoleon IV.,bnt be known as Count Plerrefonds. Ha hasadopted as his motto: "Strength, but notimpatience."
Feronllly, Decamp and Benst, condemnedCommunists, were shot on the 23d, on SatoryPlain. Feronllly died without uttering aword. Decamp'a last words ware: "I dieassassinated. Down with false witnesses.lawyers and Thiers I" Benst died cheering
the Republic, the Commune, and the army."Only one volley was fired, as all died in-
stantly. There were but few spectators onthe ground. In the cases of ten other Com-munists, who were to have beea executedabout the same time, the President has commuted the sentence to imprisonment for life.
A London dispatch of the 23d says theemigrant ship Northfleet, bound for Austra-lia, with 419 passengers on board, was rundown in the English Channel on the nlgbt ofthe 93d by an unknown vessel, and only 97persons were knows to have been saved.The London Board of Trade offered a rewardof 100 for the discovery of the vessel whichcaused the fatal catastroDhe.
THE NEW WOKLD.Gold closed in NewTork on the 23d at
113f3118K- -
The President issued a proclamation on the17th to the effect that " from and after thefourth day of March, 1873, except as hereinspecified, persons holding any Federalcivil office by appointment under theConstitution and laws of the United States,will be expected, while holding such office,to hold no office under any State or Territorial gift, or under charter or ordinance ofany municipal corporations, and, farther.that the acceptance or continued holding ofany such State, Territorial or Municipaloffice, whether elective, or by appointment,by any person holding civil office as afore-said under the Government of the UnitedStates, other than judicial officers under theConstitution of the United States, will bedeemed a vacation of the Federal office heldby such person." The exceptions made tothis declaration are Justices of the Peace,Notaries Public, and Commissioners to takeacknowledgments of deeds, of bail, or administer oaths, and "the appointment ofDeputy Marshal of the United 8tates maybe conferred upon Sheriffs and DuputySheriffs, and Deputy Postmasters, the emolument of whoso office does not exceed $600per annum, who are also excepted from theoperation of this order, and may accept andhold appointments under State, Territorial,or Municipal authority; provided the samebe found not to interfere with the dischargeof their duties as Postmaster."
The farmers of Illinois recently held a8tate Convention at Bloomington, whichwas largely attended. A State Associationwas organized for persistent and systematicwork in the interest of the producers, andresolutions were adopted declaring that therailroads in the State of Illinois stand inopen defiance of the laws, by charging ratesgreatly! In excess of what the laws allow,and by nnjnst discriminations and extortions," and insisting upon the enforcementof the State laws bearing upon this matter.
Ferteet, the Chicago hashad his second trial, on a change of venue,at Joliet, and is again convicted of murderin the first degree, with hanging as thepenalty.
The woman's Suffrage Convention, recently in session in Washington, charged anadmission fee on the night of the 18th, andthe District authorities entered the room andcaused the close of the meeting, on theground that the parties had no license.
A supplementary treaty has been enteredinto for the lease of Samana Bay to anAmerican Company. It provides that theeffective capital of the company must be$800,000 in current money of the UnitedStates, divided into 8,000 shares of the valueof $100 each; but said capital aad sharesmay be increased from time to time by avote of not less than the two-third- s part ofthe capital existing at the time. A Washington dispatch ef the New York Harold ofthe 18th states that Congressmen considerthe Samana Bay scheme impracticable, andthe Haytien Minister thinks the Americanpurchasers will find that they have made abad speculation, the bay being fit for nothing bnt a naval station. . -
The next Illinois State Fair will be held atPeoria, to last one week, beginning September 15.
8. W. Dorsey, Republican, has been elected United States Senator by the ArkansasLegislature, in place of Senator Eice, whoseterm will expire on the 4th of March.
News on the 20th was to the effect thatthe Captain-Gener- of Cuba had been anthorized to purchase a large quantity ofrifles in the United States. The politicalpects of the island were assuming a morethreatening attitude. It was reported inHavana that a large expedition of the friendsof the Cuban revolutionists, with arms andammunition, had landed safely near Quants- -namo.
Recent Information from San Domingo isto the effect that most of the valuable franchises of the island have passed into thepossession of the new American Company.
Leading Cuban tories in New York, sym-pathizing with Spain, have forwarded toMadrid a protest against the intervention ofSecretary Fish In regard to slavery in Cuba.
AixewiorK aispattn of the 20th saysthree thousand cases of small-po- were re-ported to exist in Boston, and the percentageof deaths was much larger than by all othercauses combined. Nearly all the burialswere made in the night. The epidemic hada serious effect upon commercial interestsgenerally.
General Lee's birthday was celebrated atSavannah, Ga., on the 90th, on which occasion the first parade of military since the wartook place. General Wade Hampton delivered an address. The day was generally ob-served as a holiday, and resembled the Fourthof July before the war. '
- In the Senate ot the Kellogg Legislature,on the 90th, Messrs. Jenka, Swords and Wor-ral- l,
who withdrew on the 10th, taking seatswith the Fnsionlsts, were expelled.
All post-offic- having a daily mall arehereafter to be supplied with weather reports Issued by the Blgnal Service Office,Frames are to be furnished, and Postmastersare instructed to display the reports publiclyin their offices, in order that all classes mayhave the benefit of the infoEsnation.
In the New York Senate, on the 21st,received 20 votes for United
States Senator; Charles G. Wheaton, 5; Henry R. Holden, 1 ; Wm. M. Evarts, 1. In theAssembly, Conkling received 93 votesWheaton, 26. The election of Mr. Conklingwas ratified in jeint convention on the Sid.- In the case of Foster, the New York car- -
hook murderer,vthe Court of Appeals hasaffirmed the judgment of the Court below.and has ordered the sentence of death to becarried out. ' '
Tho-electi- of jJsited States Senator tookplace in the Pennsylvania Legislature oa the31st, The ToW ptood in the Senate; Cam rooming, as he was near a pair of bars.