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MESSAGE ON THE SPECIE. Preniilent (Jrnnt Forwarded to CoitKreKs tli following Mmagea* IndiciultaK tain view on the Speedy Ke?um?:Uoii of Speei Payment. The following i8 the President's mes sage on the subject of the resumption i specio payments : to the Senate and House of /tei>r( xentatives: By the act of Congres approved January 14,1875, "To provid for the resumption of specie payments, the first of January, 1879* is tiled as tli dale when such resumption is to begin It may not be desirable to fix an earlie wl.on it uh.,11 i.,?. gatory upon the governiueiit to redeet its outstanding legal tender notes in coi: on presentation, but it is certainly mos desirable and will prove most beneticis to every pecuniary interest of the conn try to hasten the day when the pape circulation of the country and the gol coin shall have equal values. At a late day if currency and coiu should retail equal values it might become advisabl to authorize a direct resumption. I be lieve the time has come when by a sim plo act of the legislative branch of tin government this most desirable resul can be attained. 1 am strengthened ii this view by the course trade lias takei in the last two years and by the strengtl of the credit of the United States at homi and abroad. Por the tiscal year ending June 30 187G, the exports of the United State; exceeded tlio imports by ?120,213,102 but our exports include 840,569,621 o specie aud bullion in excess of the im ports of the same commodities. For th( six months of the present liscal ycai from July 1, 1876, to January 1, 1877 the excess of exports over importamounted to $107,543,869, aud the im ports of specie and bullion exceeded th( imports of the precious metals by 86,192,' 147 in the same time. The actual excess of exports over imports for the sis mouths, exclusive of specie and bullion, amounted to 8113,737,040, showing foi the time being the accumulation oJ specie and bullion in the country amounting to more than 86,000,000, in addition to the national product of these metals for the same period?a total increase oi gold and silver for the six months not far short of 860,000,000. It is evident that unless this great increase of the precious . metals can be utilized at home in such a way as to make it in some manner remunerative to holders, it must seek a foreign market as surely as would any other product of the soil or manufactory. Any legislation which will keep coin and bullion at home will, in my judgment, soon bring ".'oout practical resumption, and will nul the coin of the country to the circriating medium, thus securing a healthy "inflation " of a sound currency to the gre at advantage of every legitimate business interest. The net to provide for the resumption of specie payments authorized the secretary of the treasury to issue bonds of either of the descriptions named in the act of Congress approved July 4th, 1870, entitled "An act to authorize the refunding of the national debt," for not l?ss than gold. With the present value of the four and one-half per cent, bonds in the markets of the world they could be exchanged at par for gold, thus strengthening the treasury to meet the final resumption and to keep the excess of coin over the demand, pending its permanent use, a circulating medium at home. All # that would further be required wonld be to reduce the volume of legal tender notes in circulation. To accomplish this, I would suggest an act authorizing the secretary of the treasury to issue four per cent, bonds, with forty years to run before maturity, to be exchanged for legal tender notes whenever presented in sums of Sol) or any multiple thereof, the whole amount of such bonds, however, not to exceed ?150,000,000. To increase the home demaud for such bonds I would recommend that they be available for deposit in the United States treasury for banking purposes under the provisions of the law relating to national banks. I would suggest further that national iw>.i wit..;.. ? ?mi irvo uu icuuucvi iv iviiuu a uuu p i cent, of the coin interest received by them from the bonds deposited with the treasury to secure their circulation. I would also recommend the repeal of the third section oj the joint resolution for the issue of silver coin, approved July 22,187G, limiting the subsidiary coin and fractional currency to $<30,000,000. I am satisfied that if Congress will enact some such law jus will accomplish the end suggested they will give a relief to the couutry instant in its effect and for which they will receive the gratitude of the whole people. U. S. Grant. Executive Mahsiou, Feb. 3, 1877. The First White Child. In 1697 Jasper Dankers and Peter Sluyter, two travelers, appeared in New York, who had been sent from Europe by a religious sect, called Labadists, to find some suitable place for a colony. Tne founder of the sect was Jean Dp Labadie, a nativo of Bordeaux, and he had not many converts to his doctrines among persons of learning. His public declaration that he was inspired and specially directed by Christ tilled the clergy with dismay, and caused him and his followers to bo driven to Westphalia, and afterward to Denmark. The two envoys landed about four o'clock on a September afternoon, and were invited to a supper by a fellow passenger at the house of his father-in-law Jacob Swart, where they were invited to spend *iie night, and graciously accepted t ne invitation. The next day was Sunday, and, after partaking of an appetizing breakfast of ilsli and fruit, they went to church " to avoid scandal," as they said. In the afternoon they were escorted by Mr. and Mrs. Swart to a tavern, where their daughter lived. Toward evening they called upon ouc of Mr. Swart's neighbors. His name was Jean Vigne. He was the lirst male child b >rn in New York, of European parents. The date of his birth, according to these travelers, must have beeu 1G11, the very earliest period of v.hitt settlement. His mother owned a farm near Wall and Pearl streets. lit was at this time in possession of the old homestead, and kept an ancient windmill constantly at work upon the hil back of his house. He was a brewer, as well as a farmer ; and lie was one o: the great burghers of the city. He tilled the office of schepen in 1(553, in 1655 aui in 1656. He left no children; bu the descendants of his sisters are scat tered through the country. Down in a Coal Mine. The difficulty of obtaining coal a greater depths than those now reacliet is more formidable than is comtnonl; supposed. It is well known that at i depth of fifty feet below the surface o the earth English geologists mark a zon< ni tpmnerature. the thermomete there showing fifty degrees. Observa tion shows, too, that this temperatnr' increases at the uniform rate of one tie gree for every fifty-five feet; so that a the depth of 1,700 feet the temperatnr is about seventy-eighf degrees. On mine in England, 1,640 feet deep, is, i is said, already worked to great disnd vantage, owing to the inability of th miners to endure the steady heat. Ii the colliery the shaft is 2,37G feet deep and the temperature is ninety-eight de grees, or blood heat, and there pro longed labor is impossible. The limi of profitable mining, therefore, is be lieved to be about 1,700 feet, and a 1,000 additional feet mining is impracti cable. At the depth of 4,000 feet tin temperature would, according to this be not less than 122 degrees, and at 10, 000 feet it would be at the boiling point if not higher. irrfri m>uMnii&ju.u'nijjaryr in United Slates Senate. j | Wo give below the full roll of the | lC United States Senate as it will be on* 'H Monday, the fifth of March. Repnbli- j 'C J.l T) . Tk i.? 1 iTiUtfe in XWHUUII ii?iiur , jLfimuc wrui*? ; (3(51 in italic: ?" AI.ABAMA. i MISSISSIPPI. >f ' 1^79. Geo. E. Spencer. 11881. Branch K. I'ruco. | i iss:i. John T. Morgan; 1883. Q?. C, /Miliar, .. I ARKANSAS. I MISSOURI. j l?7'.l. S. W. lV.iv:cy. 1870. Let r in I". Borpt. i lss;). ,|. //. fiarlanrl. |18h1. / '. M. Crocket. | c ! aumnxiA. | sew iiami'suiui:. 1870. Aaron A. 3nrgtnt.|187<.l. 15. Wsulkigh. 0 j 1881. Newton Booth. |]883. E. H. Rollins. COLOHADO. I NEW JERSEY. I 1881. J. 15. Chaffee. 1S81. T. I'. Randolph. ; 1 I 1883. Henry M. Teller. 18s;). ./. R. McPhcrson. [~ | CONNECTICUT. | NEW YORK. * ii 187!). Win. J I. Hamuli i.,187t). Hoscoe Conkling. | ; 1UJ1 ll\., II" frVt/ri.. 1 KVnn/x'c AVili/llJ I * Delaware. Nebraska. 'l j 1S81. Thos. F. Bayard.1881. A. S. Paddock. j 1883. Eii Saulsbury. 11883. Alvin Saunders. l* i florida. i NEVADA. r I 1870. S. B. Conover. 11879. John P. Jones. | 1881. Charles A. Jones. 1881. William Sharon, j | OEORGIA. I NORTH CAROLINA. j I 1879. John 11. <iordon. 1879. .1. S. Merrimon. I 11 | 1*83. licnj. H. Hill. 18S3. Mat. H". Hansom, j B ILLINOIS. OHIO. - | 1?79. It. J. OgleKby. 1879. John Sherman. . j 1883. David Davis. 1881. .4. <!. Thxirman. ? j INDIANA. i OREGON. L ' 1879. Oliver P. Morton. 1879. John 11. Mitchell, i " i 1881. J. K. McDonald. '1883. L. B. drover. 1 j IOWA. 1KNNSYLVANIA. 1 j 1879. Win. }?. Allison. 1879. Simon Cameron, j j ; 1883. S. J. Kirk wood. 1881. ll'w. .1. Wallace. | _ j KANSAS. RHODE ISLAND. } 1879. John J. Ingalls. 1881. A. E. Burncide. 1883. Preston 15. Plumb. 1883. II. B. Anthony. , j KENTUCKY. SOUTH CAROLINA, s 1879. Tho. C.McCrecr;/. 1879. J. J. Patterson. i 1883. James II. Her/:. 1883. I). T. Corbin. } j LOUISIANA. I TENNESSEE. 1879. Ji-nies P. Lewis. 1881. James Bailey, i ' ' 1883. W. P. Kellogg. 1883. Ishatn <!. Harris. I i ! MAINE. ! TEXAS. r I 1879. Hannibal I'nmlin. 1881. S. II. Max< >/. 1881. James G. Blaine. 18S3. I{ichar<l Coke. MARYLAND. i VERMONT. ' 1879. (itonje /{. Dennis. 1879. Justin S. Morrill, j " 1881. IF. A While. 1881. Geo. F. Edmunds. | ! i MASSACHUSETTS. j VIRGINIA. . I 1881. Henry I.. Dawes. 1881. Iiohert E. Withers, j . i 18s;j. George F. Hoar. il883. J. IF. Johnston. MIC1UOAN. ! WEST VIRGINIA. k ; 1881. I. P. Christiancv. 1881. Frank Hereford, j i 1883. Thomas W.Fcrry. 1883. Henry <}. Davis, j : MINNESOTA. t WISCONSIN, t ; 1881. S. J. II. McMillan. 1879. Tim. 0. Howe. |1 180. William Windom. 1881. Angus Cameron. ! i ! Remarkable Cures. (t.-u. A. .1. Pleasonton's theories con- i ; | ceritiiur tlie influence of blue and sun- J j i' light upon life and ilisi nse are attracting < ' much attention. A correspondent of the ; ! Chicago Tribune has recently striven to j j renew public interest in the matter by J; j relating some <>f the remarkable cures : j which have been wrought by means of ;! blue glass. For instance, two old friends ; of Gen. Pleasonton were afflicted with ; rheumatism in the forearms, from ilieir 11 elbow joints to their linger ends, so se- I vere nt times that thov were unable to j hold pens. Thev obtained a pkx-a of | blue glass and set it up loosely in one of j ' their windows. For three days thoy j ...iml their arms and held them in the j associated blue and sunlight for thirty | : minutes. Each day brought them re' lief and at the esd of three days the ' rheumatism had disappeared. A little , . child that had, from its birth, scarcely ! any use of its legs, was taken to play : daily in a room where blue glass formed ; a portion of one of the windows. In a ; very short time it obtained the use of | its logs, and learned to walk and run j without difficulty. The correspondent i ' gives a page from his own experience, i " A lady of my family, about six weeks ! ago, had a violent hemorrhage of the j lungs, and for ten days raised more or ! less blood daily. She was very much weakened by the loss of blood, and con- | siderablv frightened withal. I obtained j some blue glass and placed it. in the win- j dow where she was in the habit of sit- j | ting, the blue glass constituting one-half ; of the lower sash of the window. The i lady sat daily in the associated lights, al- : 1 lowing the blue rays especially to fall 1 upon the nerves of the buck of the neck , for about an hour a day. The second day, the sun's rays being unusually \ j strong, she pot too much blue A'lass, and I at night felt peculiar sensations in the j back of the neck, among the nerves, and ; : au unpleasant fullness in the head. , These sensations wore ?>ff next day, a'.i^J ; sinx1 then she has not remained so long : at a time under the blue glass. 3Jut i from the first slip begun to grow strong- j er, her face soon gained its natural full- , i ness, and in a week she was io all ap- |J lw.nvnwAs us well as over. Of course : i she was not cured of the trouble in her j i lungs in so short .1 time, but the sore- j { ness in her chest has passed away and i ' she begins to feel well again." Another lady who had lost her hair sat under ; glass and regained it. Another?but a j , paragraph, like all other good things, j < must come to an end sometime. 1 < 1 ?- - 11 The Troops in Washington. j] A Herald dispatch says: Anticipat- : < iug a request for information from the ! 1 special committee on the use of the ! 1 j army in certain of the Southern States j as to why troops were concentrated in ; t Washington, it is understood the Presi- j} dent lus instructed the secretary of war J? to answer that in November last, when 1 the order was given for troops to come ' here, there was grave apprehension lest A I the negro population of the District of < Columbia, then represented to be in j 1 great destitution, should attempt a raid j1 I on the treasury building and otherwise i j endanger the peace of (he citizens of | j Washington generally. That there was;-, great political excitement growing out ; < of the Presidential vote, and the exi- 1 ! geucy demanded the presence here of an >1 armed force which was brought here at j j very little extra expense over that of [ < transportation, and that on the whole a i] change of station had been beneficial to i1 the troops. Any political intent is dis- 1 claimed for the order bringing the ! troops to this city. A Fervent Appeal. ,, A good story of j! hospital Sunday ser- I mon was told an exchange. Iu a district inhabited by wealthy |??*< ?ple, but mostly connected with trade, and in which " commercial credit " is everything, the clergy- ! man in question profac\] his discourse with these words : " .liefore commencing; i lay appeal to your purses, my friends, I j ! v.-ill mention a case of conscience which : has been put to me this morning by an esteemed member of this congregation. I He is, he says, to all appearance a rich , man, but in reality is on the verge of f bankruptcy. Ho would wish to put his 1 So note in the collection phite as usual; 1 but would it be honest, he asks, seeing t that what money he has left is, in fact, - his creditors', and not his own. I have ' advised him, dear friends, not to give; and if any of you are in a similar unhappy plight, I also say: ' Be just, before you are generous.' Those in good circumstances will, on the other hand, give according to their means." It is ' siid that so many $5 notes were never ^ seen in the collection plate before as 0:1 1 J the occasion of tlnit. sagacious appeal. e * r A Change. When you feel disgusted because the 0 street cars are cold and your office chilly, * savs a city paper, imagine yourself a * le . 1 ?i_ " larmer out watering a drove ui m e u creek fivo milos from homo, with llio B i ico twenty indies thick, the Know two * i feet deep, the mercury clear down in the * boots of zoro, the wind blowing like a e 1,000-horse fanning mill from the north 1 east, and every animal in the crowd try> ing to horn you in the back because you * don't chop holes fast enough. t """ Tuns About.?"Going into partner-; t ship with Jones ! I should havo thought - you'd had enough of partnerships, after 0 Brown." "Ah, you see, when wo first , became partners, Brown had all the ex perience, and I all the money. Now, , Jones has all the money, and I've all the , experience." i NEWS ITEMS. Whnt Is Doing In the Old World and tho New. Detectives havo succeeded in arresting two men in Missouri who have been operating with a gang in throwing railway trams from the track and robbing the passenger and express cars The revenue officer of tlie Fifth Virginia district seized 179 boxes of North Carolina tobacco at Max Meadows station, on account of fraud. Two other wacou loads of illicit tobacco was on the road to the same destination at the lime, hut were scared off by the seizure Keeper Cosier, of Aubnni prison, was killed and horribly mangled about the head by a convict named Wm. liarr. who had just come, from the insane asylum During January the public debt was reduced t2.0C1(,,CC.!?.71. February 1st the total indebtedness was *2,220,">70,579.28 New York's annual charity ball was attended bv the elite of the city's society, and was a grand success, in spite of the hard times. The net result is put at SI2,000 The officers of the broken New York Security Ins. Co. were indicted by the grand jury for ombezzlement and perjury During a drunken carousal at Bay Shore, Long Island. Thos. J. Points was murdered by a comrade named Evans, who drove a carpenter's gouge between the victim's ribs, cutting the main artery A dispatch from Madrid states that negotiations have commenced between Spain and the United States for a revision of the treaty of 17U5, so that i.. fu ure citizens of either country, when in the other, can be judged only by the civil courts, even in Cuba, unless taken in armed rebellion .. The king of Sweden, the Crown Prince, and Prince John, of Glucksburg, have been initiated into Free Masonry. Three Christians have been appointed provincial go\ ernors by the Turkish Porte J'y a collision between the Mississippi steamers Charles Morgan and Aggie, two of the hitter's pavengcrs were killed and a third seriously in' n'/.J ilm. It'AnfnMft* line J1"*-" *"" recognized Nicliolls an governor of Louisiana by issuing a requisition upon him for the return to Kentucky of Maurice A. Schwab, arrested in New Orleans for alleged fraud committed in Louisville Comptroller Kelly reported to the State Senate that New York city's debt is ?148.107,557.79. and the sinking fund is *28,17!?,102.7!) The Sioux and Arrapahoa scouts who fought for the government during the last Indian campaign have received their pay and been discharged. They wore well pleased with their treatment, and have become convinced that loyalty "pays" better than hostility A ship carrying one hundred immigrants sailed from New York for New South v\ ales to open a colony under the authority of the Australian government. The colonists consist of mechanics mid laborers out of work John F. Chamberlain, the noted gambler of New York, has [(one into bankruptcy with immense liabilities und trilling assets Henry E. Speir, a New i'ork merchant residing in Jersey City, committed si\icide by shooting himself in the right temple on account of business embarrassments. Marvin's safe establishment in New York was iainaged .$20,000 by lire. An explosion of gas in tlie cellar severely injured five firemen Minnie and Annie Strilev and Nellie Voorhuse, ij.'cd live, eight and ten years, were drowned it Salem, Mass., by breaking through the ice. A project is on foot to inaugurate a line >f steamships between New York and Brazil. The Tennessee supreme court lias decided ailroad property to be subject to State, county ind municipal taxation James Flood, of >c\v York, who had been separated from bis vife for years, kept close watch of her and earned of her intimacy with a German storekeeper. One morning recently, suspecting she van in the German's sleeping apartment, he ;nined access to the door, which he attempted o force, i he woman instinctively knew who he intruder was and putting on a skirt ran out" nto the street. The husband heard her, and iished after her by a different passage. The voman ran to the door of a house opposite, 'raniically screanrng '".Open the door." As ilte reached the steps her husband caught up vith her and plunged a long, sharp steel mstrunent into lief breast, in the full sight of the icighbors who had been called to their windows jv the woman's screams. Mrs. Flood lived but t few hours. The murderer escaped A arge building in Trenton. N. J., used as a sheler for rolling stock, was destroyed by tire, with :ight locomotives and three cars belonging to he Pennsylvania railway. Loss, >200,000 L'rain wreckers threw a train from the track of lie Western Maryland road near Canetown, kid., but no one was injured. Midhat Pallia, has been dismissed from tlio >ftice of grand vizier of Turkey The steamship George Washington, of the Cromwell ine, running from >*ew York to St. Johns, touching at Halifax, sailed from the alter port January ISth, and three days aftervard went ashore on Mistaken Point, Capo lace. The vessel went to pieces, and it is bui>Hiscd th-* entire crew, consisting of twentyhree persons, with the two passengers on joard, perished. Fourteen bodies have already vashed ashore. The Washington was a wooden screw steamer of one thousand tons, and her :argo consisted of sundries. The George L'romwell. of the same line, has been missing or over a month, and fears are entertained for ler safety.. ..Thomas It. Agnew, a wellmown New York grocer, has been declared a wmkrupt on his own petition. The liabilities uo put at *881.000; assets, i?4CO,G00 The i5ritis'i iron steamship Ambassador collided vith the American ship George F. Manson, off lie East Indian coast, and sunk in consequence, arrying down twentv-two of the crew. The Hanson was dry docked at Bombay for repairs. .Some one of the patients in the insane isylum at Northampton, Mass., killed a keeper tamed D. E. Barret The directors of the ;reat bridge between New York and Brooklyn ire buying the ground on the New York side for an approach to the structure. The Apache Indians have committed many It predations of late in southeastern Arizona, Hid Gov. Safford. in a message to the legislature deprecates the inefficient movements of bo regular troops, and suggests that the legisature memorialize Congress to furnish money :o equip and pay a band of border scouts and Indian lighters, who would soon put an end to :ho outrages. If something is not done soon, ,hc governor fears that portion of Arizona will lave to be abandoned by the settlers Many etters having been stolen while passing through Connecticut, detectives were Het to work to oihjover the offender, and nrrestod the postmaser at Southington, B. S. Hicock, a hitherto lighly respected citizen, who confessed his nine The general superintendent of the Lake Shore road testified that evidence went to iliow that eighty persons lost their liven and sixty-nine were rescued from the ruins of the Ishtalmla bridge. He contradicted t' e report >f his having forbidden the use of water on the jurningcars A collision between a freight ind a coal train on the St. Louis and Southeastern railroad caused the inntant death of Frank Wilson, u br.iueman, and severo injuries ,o tlio engineer and several brakemeu The smallpox deaths in London are on the inirease?103 occurring in one week Three nen were instantly killed and one seriously njured in an iron mine at Ilensingerville, I'm., by earth caving in upon them Hear \dmiral James Alden died in San Francisco of congestion of the brain A mail bag containing : 25,000 in checks and drafts was stolen 1 let ween Newport, Ky., and Cincinnati. No :lue has been obtained as to the robber. Of tho thirty-two students who were arrested in Itunsia during the latter part of 1870, for unfurling a red Hag bearing the words " Union and Liberty," in the cathedral of Kazan, all but three Jiave been sentenced to penal servitude or transportation. Eleven of them were young women Ten men were killed bv an explosion in the Pass colliery near Bolton,England Successive rains have severely damaged the cotton crop of the presidency of Bombay, India The British steamer Ethel, bound from Bilbao for Newport, Wa'.es, went ashore on Lundv island and became a total wreck. Nineteen persons were drowned The report of the superintendent of New York city's public schools shows there are 157,-123 scholars enrolled on the books, and that an average attendance of 102,304 issccured. Those are under the tuition of 3,247 teachers An incendiary fire at Nanticoke, Pa., destroyed five buildings belonging to the Susquehanna Coal Co l'he planing mills of Martin. E. Murphy in New York city were destroyed by liie. Loss, ?50,000 1'lio amount taken by the cashier of the Franklin (Ind.) National bank amounts to $140,000- being tho entire capital of the bank. He hud been earning on his irregularities for years, covering them up by false entries in his books. How a Woman Orders a Cliosl. Hohokus -writes : During our married life inv wife has insisted that we couldn't keep house properly without a large eliest, for bed eiothes and odd traps. Last week I took the dimensions from her, questioning as follows : " How long?" "Well, say ten feet," and she held her hands about a yard apart. " How wide?" "Well, pretty wide, say six feet," measuring it 011 her apron. " How deep ?" " Oh, have it deep, I guess eight feet will be about right." Bridget arrived while we were at tea. "Sure, sir,"r.aid she, "that Ryan, the storekeeper, is here wid a small barn on a sthone boat. He's torn down both the gate posts drivin' in. I think it's a ehisl he calls it, and he says where'lyez have it ?" I've succeeded in proving by the original mem. of measurements that there was an error somewhere. The " chist " has a window in it, and contains the cow, cali' and one bale of hay. Wife says she is going to find a man that knows how to build a chest and not make it large enough for a cattle barn. UNITED STATES CONGRESS. Henatc. I Mr. Robertson (Rop.), of 8outh Carolina, 1 presented resolutions adopted by a meeting of the white and colored citizens ef South Carolina, which was held at Barnwell court house on j January 15, and asked thattbeybe read and ro. fnKvnJ it\ r*n npiVIIrirwu ftllfl itiltu iw W.HUli.VVV V.4 ? ww I ! tions. The reading commcncea, but Mr. Sar- j I gent (Rep.), of California, objoctcd, declaring they were not in respectful language. The ! senator from South Carolina was required to sign the resolution", and they were then read and referred. The report net forth the roasons why those who assembled at the time mentioned voted for Wade Hampton for governor. Mr. Windom (Rep.), of Minnesota, called up the House bill appropriating $20,000 for the j relief of the District of Columbia, and it was j J passed?yeas, forty-live; nays, nine?Messrs. Alcorn, Booth. Cockrell, Cooper, Hitchcock, J MeCreerv, Maxey, Ransom and Withers voting j in the negative. * Mr. Ingalls (Rep.), of Kansas, introduced a bill to enable Indians to becomc citizens of the ! United States, and it was referred to the committee on Indian affairs. The Senate after somo discussion passed a bill reported by the committee on nnance relating to public accounts, which provides that h11 claims against The United States which tho ac- | counting oflicers of tho treasury, or the heads | of any department or bureau, are authorized to I examine and decide, shall be barred unless pre| sentcd within six years from tho time the same j accrued. j The credentials of nenry G. Davis, re-elected United States senator from West Virginia for six years from March 4. 1877, and of Alvin Saunders, elected United States senator from JNebraxkn lor six years irom ."uarcn 4, ion, 10 succeed Mr. Hitchcock, were presented. Mr. Hainliu (Hep.), of Maine, from the committee on post-offices and post roads, reported favorably on the Senate biH to amend section eight of* the Post-office Appropriation bill for the year ending Juno 30,1877, in regard to the i i compensation of postmasters) of the fonrth j class, so as to fix their compensation upon the | basis of stamps canceled, instead of stamps sold. Placed on the calendar. Petitions were presented in form of a bill granting arrears of pensions ; in favor of tysixtei-nth amendment to the Constitution, prohibi- , ting the Several States from disfranchising ] ; citizens on account of sex, and increasing the | number of judges in the second circuit, cm- I j bracing the States of Vermont, Connecticut and | : Now York. Mr. Windom (Rep.), of Minnesota, reported j adversely on the House bill to nrov.de for the payment of James B. Eads for the construction of jetties at the south pass of the Mississippi river. It was placed on the calendar with the ' adverse report. It authorizes the secretary of the treasury to pay out of any unappropriated j money in the treasury ?500,000 to said Eads j whenever the secretary of war shall determine I that that amount is due Eads by the terms of j his contract, etc. Mr. Wallace (Dem.), of Pennsylvania, in dis- j cussing the bill for a sinking fund for the | Pacific railroad company to reimburse the United States government, said bonds were j issued to the companies named in the bill of the Judiciary committee, amounting to about ?G4,- I 000,000." The government had paid interest on I them to the amount of about ?34,000,000. Of j tl in we had been reimbursed but about ?7,000,- i 000, leaving thy amount actually advanced to ! date about ?01,000,000. We pay for them annually about ?3,800,000 in interest. The bill j of the Judiciary committee proposes to reimburse us annually about ?3,500,000, and even if [ it should be adop ed we fall behind annually I over ?300,000, and apply nothing towards the I past, while the bill of the Railroad committee j provides for reimbursing but ?1,700.000, and j tlie government advances annually ijz,iuw,uimi j more than it will receive if that Hhonld be 1 adopted. The former bill comet) from the Law committee, and in well considered. The question of law may be a close one, but it is better to Holve our doubts in favor of repayment as ; soon as possible, for at the best we fall behind : in payment. 1 Mr. Windom CI top.), of Minnesota, called up : the Lill appropriating ?350,000 to supply a de; ticiency in the appropriation for printing dur! ing the current lineal year. ' Mr. Anthony (l?ep.), of Rhode Island, said people were constantly applying to the committee 011 printing for situations in the government j office. The printers in that oflice controlled j the typographical association in Washington, j but he had been informed that, the government ! ' priuters allowed those in private offices to work j for u less amount than that paid in the govern- j ' ment office. After further discussion the Senate refused to concur in the amendment?yeas, 20: nays, 1 ; -* floUMi;. 1 Mr. Wood (Dem.), of New York, introduced a j i bill repealing all taxcH 011 bank capital. Ite- : ; ferred. .Mr. Foster (Rep.), of Ohio, moved to amend | the Legislative Appropriation bill by striking ! ! out of the first section the paragraph which ! fixes the compensation of senators at ?4,600. j j The amendment was agreed to?133 to 31. | i After an argumont a like amendment was made ! : in the items for salaries of members of the j : House. The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President on the financial question, ; which was referred to the committee 011 ways j j and means. It recommends that no earlier date j shall be fixed than that now provided fpr by | law for the resumption of specio payments, lint ; ; that Congress shall pass a bill authorizing the ' issuance of four per cent bonds, to run forty ; j years before maturity, to be exchanged for i 1 legal tender notes, the whole amount of said i bonds not to exceed ?150,000,000. j Mr. Bliss (Dem.), of New York, presented ft i memorial of many eminent citizens of Brooklyn ! asking for an appropriation for a monument ; j over tlie remains of the victims of British cruelty on board the prison ships in New York har- t ] bor during the Revolutionary war. The amendment to the Legislative Finance j bill fixing the salary of senators at $5,00'?, was i ! agreed to, as was like amendments in regard to j ! tlio salary of members of the House. The j amendments increasing the compensation of j tlio President to 850,000 was defeated?yeas, 47 ; nays, 1*23. Tlie Appropriation bill was then i passed. ! The House in committee of the whole, JTr. [ Eden of Illinois in the chair, took up the dei ficieucv appropriation bill Mr. Waldron (Rep.), j j of Michigan, said that the bill appropriated ' i 81.417,000. The two largest appropriations j | were one of 8500,000 for a deficiency in ,'tlie j I navy department, and one of $217,100 appro- ; ! priated for pensions to soldiers who have lost a j ! limb. i Mr. Vance (Dem.), of Ohio, chairman of the | ; committee on printing, offered an amendment j | to the Printing bill providing that after the | close of the present Congress no greater price j : shall be paid for labor by the government priu- i i tor than is paid in the cities of New York, ! j Philadelphia and Baltimore. He explained that [ ; ho had, in conjunction with the chairman of j i the committee on printing of the Senate, ad- j dressed a letter to the public printer in August ' j last, advising him to adopt some such rule in i ! the management of the printing office. If that ! advice had been followed, there would not now j have been a dollar of deficiency in that depart- ' went of the government. Mr. Conger (Ilcp..), of Michigan, thought i i that the proposition was impracticable, and j j that it aimed a blow at the most faithful labor- | ! ers of tlie government. The amendment was adopted bv yeas, 118: j ' nays. 105. and the bill appropriating ?350,000 i for deficiency in the printing appropriation was ; passed. The Electoral Tribunal. The Electoral tribunal commenced its pro- j eeedings with the query from the presiding j justice : ' What is this case?" He would take ) the liberty of saying that it consisted of three j certificates from the State of Florida, which the joint convention of the Senate and House c.r Representatives -lieiug unable to settle bad sent before that tribunal, lie laid down the rules of procedure in managing the case, and Mr. David Dudley Field made the opening appeal for Tilden. He said the election iu Florida on the seventh of November last was quiet and orderly, and the result of the election was a majority of votes in favor of the Tilden electors. Nevertheless a certificate conies to the tribunal in favor of Hayes. He proposed to show how this was accomplished. In his argument he rested the whole case upon ; the returns from Baker county, and proposed that the commission should examine into the | facts concerning the throwing out ot the prc' cinots there. Mr. Tucker, who followed Mr. FioM on the same side, argued that the judi1 ciary <.f Florida and its Legislature were a part of the legal machinery tor determining me results of elections, and that their action must therefore be taken into account. The two speeches for the Republicans were made bv Mr. Kassou and Mr. MeCrarv. Mr. Kassoifsaid that the arguments of the Democrats raised three questions: First, is the.commission a general canvassing board torecanvass tlie vote of Florida ? Second, is it a national court of apnea' from the board o/ State canvassers? Third, is it a judicial court of appeal from the State courts of Florida in quo irar~ rnnln proceedings V 7'lie Democrats had assumed an affirmative answer to all those queff' tions. Mr. Kassou maintained that the commission had no power to inquire how the people had voted in any State; it is not popular votes but doctoral votes that Congress has power to count; if it should be held, however, that the commission could investigate the county canvass and the voting in the precincts, he would be piepared to prove frauds in the interest of the 'J'ilden electors of the grossest ' description. He hastily ran over a number of counties which could bo brought up to offset tin; single one selected bv Sir. Field. Mr. McCrary followed up the argument against the ! power of Congress to go behind the returns, citing authorities to show that the proceedings on a writof 7no warranto do not invalidate the j acts of a public otlicer done before the ease is determined. Arguments were made by Messrs. O'Conor, 1 Merrick and lilaek. in behalf of the Democrats. and Stanley Matthews and Mr. Stonghton in i i behalf of the Republicans, on the question of ! | going behind the Florida certificates, and ad- | mitting evidonce. The most notable arguments ivero those of Mr. Merrick and Judge Matthews. Mr. Merrick, in behalf of the Democratic counsel, pointed out that there were two propositions with respect to going behind a duly authenticated reborn of a State. One was, that the Federal government conld invalidate the return, or in other words, reject a vote on its i own motion, withont the consent of the State. | r*rrmrka?finn woo nlfnrrpthf>r difffir- I lent. It is tHat a .State itself may undertake ; proceedings to invalidate the certificate of the governor. After a State, of its own will, has I impeached the governor's certificate, the Fed! ernl government may go behind it. This ho j claimed had been done in the case of Florida, | where the State had done everything in her j power to overturn the Hayes certificate, and lias made it the duty of the commission to complete that work. Sir. Merrick claimed that the power of counting votes, granted by the Constitution, carries tho power to determine what are votes, and that this determination is the | first duty of the commission. Charles O'Conor fcade an offer to produce j evidence before the commission, but this was ' objected to by Mr. Evarts. Judgo Matthews in his remarks reviewed tho I series of acts by which electors aro appointed, | asserting that the final declaration by tho le- | turning board is in the completion of tho ap- ! pointment. That appointment completed, can- j not be set aside, except in the interval of time between tho final act of appointment and the | day on which, under the law, the electors per- j form their functions by casting their votes. The authority of tho State over the electoral 1 vote closes, he said, when tho electors hav? i voted. Whatever is done wi(h the votes after i that time is done in accordance with the Feder- | al Constitution and Federal law. In respect to ; counting the votes the question is not who i shall count them but how they shall be counted, j The commission had a certaiu discrimination, j but it must be careful not to undertake a jndi- | cial examination such as is required in trying a i writ of (pio irarranto, which involves going to the very bottom and ascertaining the number of legai votes cast. If the court attempted to sift the facts concerning tho States submitted J to them to the very bottom, how long a time I would bo required? He declared that this J power was not conferred upon Congress. The j only question for the commission to determine ' was, who were tho 'le facto electors in Florida . on the sixth day of last December. Mr. Stoughton spoke for half an hour, follow- j ing Mr. Matthews, and declared that the Florida ! returning board was the final authority estab- ! lislied by tho Legislature of Florida to declare ! who were the electors, and the tribunal had no 1 power to go behind the appointment by the ' State as declared by tho provisions of State law. j The commission was appointed to count electoral votes, and not to count the votes by which j electors were elected. Mr. F.varts, when he addressed "IP ) iody, \ spoke with unusual deliberation?so slowly, indeed, that a rapid long hand writer could have written down every word he spoke. He emphasized liis words curiously, drawing thein out, ; seeming to pronounce them syllable by syllable, i He assumed that the Hayes electors were <lr facto possessors of the power to cast the electo- j nil votes of Florida on Pec. G, 1870, and there- ; fore the quo warranto proceedings could not undo their acts, because the judgment, of the court was subsequent thereto. He contended . with Mr. Matthews that the choosing of elector.) was not complete till tho canvassing board had passed upon the returns from each county, or in other words that the act of the people of the State was inchoate till the vote of the State was consolidated end promulgated by the canvassing officers. A point on which he <lwelt at considerable length was that Congress did not possess judicial powers, and could not confer it upon a mixed tribunal like the Electoral commission, because the Constitution vests judicial powers j in the courts alone. Mr. Charles O'C'onor followed Mr. Evarts. Ho struck out on an entirely novel line of : argument in his interpretation of the twelfth i article of tho Constitution, by claiming that j the word certificates was the governing one in | the sentence, "the president of the Senate ] shall, in the presence of the Senate and House ; of Representatives, open all certificates, and ' the votes shall then bo counted." He met the ; argument of Evarts and Matthews in regard to j ftm/mri innrmnJci nrfVPP<1inPH. nnrl that ! I Lie net of tiie electors was not completed till their votes were received by the two houses of ; Congress and counted, and hence their casting ! their votes for Hayes was not an accomplished j deed done by drfacto officers. Following the remarks made by the gentle- : men on both sides was a secret session of the i commission. The following is a copy of the ] minute on the official record of the commission: 1 On motion of Mr. Justice Miller, ordered: ' That no evidence will be received or considered j by the commission which was not submitted to j the joint convention of the two houses by the ] president of the Senate with the different cer- i tificates, except such as relates to the eligibility j of F. C. Humphreys, one of the electors. The vote was as follows : Yeas?Bradley, j Edmunds, Frelinghuysen, Garfield, Hoar, j Miller, Morton and Strong?8. Nays?Abbott. Bayard, Clifford. Field, Hunton, P^ne and Tbiirman? 7. On motion of Sir. Abbott, resolved, That in ilie case of Florida the commission will receive the evidence relating to the eligibility of Frederick C. Humphreys, one of the persons named in certificate No. 1 as elector, Yeas?Abbott, Bavnrd, Bradley, Clifford, Field. Hunton, Pa'vno and Thurman?8. Nays?Edmunds, Frelinghuysen, Garfield, Honr, Miller, Alorton and Strong?7. The secretary of the commission was instructed to inform the counsel on the respective sides that the commission wan prepared to hear argument on the question of the eligibility of Frederick C. Humphreys as an elector. Mr. Humphreys is "one of the Bepublican electors, and thequestion raised as to the eligibility is that he was at the date of his election a United States shipping commissioner, which is alleged to be such an office of trust and profit as to disqualify him from acting as elector, but which oft-ce, it is asserted by tne Bepublicans, he resigned before the election. The committee by their decision have before them in the Florida ease three sets of papers, namely: First the certificate of the Hayes . unnnml tlmf nf tlu? Tilden nud third, the paper containing the record of the circuit court of Florida on the quo warranto and the subsequent action of the legislature of that State. The Ashtabula Slaughter. Char lea Paine, general superintendent of the Lake Share and Michigan Southern railway company, testified : He has a list of those supposed to have been on the wrecked train at the Ashtabula I bridge ; some of whom were at first re- j ported as missing have been ascertained not to have been on the train ; some were ; simply mistaken and some were fraudulently so reported ; the list contains the 1 names of seventy-two adults and eight children supposed to be lost and sixty- \ nine saved ; some are marked doubtful ; this list includes the names of all known to have been on the train, both passengers and employees, many of whom have not been identified by any articles found among the remains ; have no means of ( knowine how manv were on the train ex eept l\V conductor's report; be reports 128 adult passengers, cix train hands, live sleeping car hands, three expressmen, two baggage men, and one newall: iy ; concerning the rumored orders abouttlie use of water on the fire, he did not issue any such orders, and- knows of no such orders having been issued by any officers of the company ; Mr. Collins never expressed any distrust of the safety of the bridge to him, and, on the contrary, said to him that its only fault in his opinion was its great surplus of strength. An Extraordinary Story. The New York Herald publishes an extraordinary story, of which the follow: ing is a very brief synopsis : Elizabeth ; Mary Sanx'ay was bom hi Mulberry | street in 1827, and was married in 1841 ; to her cousin Louis Gordon Keith, a | naval captain in the United States ser; vice. On the death of her husband she remained in Baltimore under the care of ! her cousin Archbishop Eggleston, who | placed her in supervision of St. Vincent's I Asylum for Oqjhans on First street in that city. The institution was formerly I in charge of the Black Cap Sisters, who j refused to retire until threatened with legal process. A year later Mrs. Keith ; and her infaut daughter were kidnapped, and conducted by one Lovegrow to the Mount Hope lunatic asylum, where the mother was forcibly detained for seven years, being mourned as dead by her relatives. She finally regained her ' liberty through the interference of A mliln'clinn TTpihIviVks. nnd returned to ' her father ill Now York. In se;irch of i health she wont to Williamsbnrgh, Vn., : wliero she was again kidnapped, and ! confined in a lunatic asylum for eighteen | years. She was finally liberated by a ' military commission, appoinod by Majorj General Hanoo?k, by which she was j pronounced sano. Even then she wns detained on various pretexts for some months, but was finally restored to her brother E. Selby Sanxay, who had been informed of her existence. Tho lady who is said to have undergone this terrible j experience is now living in East Twentyeight street, in New York city. j Ruining' a Bank. The first national bank of Franklin, Johnson county, Indiana, has closed its doors, the caahier, Richard T. Taylor, having absconded after a long series of forgeries, which have nearly absorbed j +I10 onfirn /vinitnl nf tliA innfitntinn An i Indianapolis letter says : The defalca- ! tion is the largest ever perpetrated in the ' State, and the full particulars have not i yet been disclosed. Taylor was in this > city and sold $16,000 worth of exclmngo j belonging to the bank to the Indiana j , banking company, ?10,000 on New York, | $3,000 on Louisville, and $3,000 on Cin- j cinnati. He kept $10,000 and left $G,000 i ! to the credit of the bank. He was last seen going toward the dep?t and said he was going home. His disappearance led to an examination of the affairs of the bank, and it was ascertained that he had taken out $25,000 of the reserve, and that the running money of the bank was ' $3,000 short. The bills receivable are about $02,000 short, and the supposition is that he discounted them and used the money, as many foreign bankers have lately been writing here making inquiries about the bank. His brother, Elmer Taylor, who is assistant cashier of the bank, received a letter from lnm explain- ! ing that the affairs of the bank were in a worse condition than one would imagine; that he had been forcing balances and deceiving the bank examiners for*a long time, and had been paying dividends to stockholders without earning tliem. He took with him the general ledger, in which all the accounts of the bank were kept, and therefore it is impossible to tell the condition of the bank. The bank is the fiftieth national bank in the United States and the second in this State, and had a capital of ?132,000 and a surplus of S18.000, making a : total of $150,000. The deposits were . probably a few thousands less. The : bank is owned by rich farmers of the 1 county, who know little about banking ! business, and Taylor has been cashier . and general manager of it since 1870, and lia^l almost unlimited control of its i affairs. Ho is about thirty-two years of < age and has always stood high in the : community. He leaves a wife and one : child behind him. He had good habit?. : It is thought that he lias been operating j1 largely in Chicago margins, anil this is j1 supposed to be the cause of his downfall, j It is expected that he has absorbed the entire capital of the bank, and as he was ! not required to give bonds the farmer j stockholders will have to stand the loss, j. It is feared that an examination will re- , veal that some of the banks of this city j will lose by his defalcations, as the bank ; had almost unlimited credit. Such an | excitement was never known in the town j of Franklin before. ? How Wc Take Cold. Getting wet, and wet feet, occupy a ! very serious place in the list of colds; I and there is no doubt that damp and cold i applied to the general surface is the most I efficient means of producing chill and j vital depression, with congestion of the | internal organs. It is necessary that cold be combined with moisture to pro- j cluce this effect. Even if all the clothes ' on tlie body are wet, no harm will come i so long as they are kept warm; and this ! suggests the very great value, to all persons liable to exposure to wet, of light j waterproof overalls. They may either be put on to keep the underclothing ! dry; or if the underclothing has become j wet, either by weather or by perspiration, they may bo put on to prevent too rapid i evaporation and consequent reduction of temperature, especially when the person | is about to remain still after getting warm j with exercise. In this variable climate, therefore, schoolgirls, governesses, shop ! and factory girls, and all women whose occupations call upon them to brave the weather, ought to carry with them complete waterproof mantles, made as light as possible, but extending from the neck to the ankles, which can be put on or not as required; and boys and men, similarly exposed, should carry waterproof over- i alls. Apples being so abundant this season, j tlie sheep may be treated to a feed once ; 1 a week. There are none of our domestic j | animals who feel the change from green ' food to ilrv so sensibly as the sheep, and they need a feed of turnips, apples, cabbage or something of that kind quite | ! often. This prevents costiveness or j ! stretches, an ailment common to sheep ' in this country but unknown in Great i Britain, where turnips are fed daily, i Salting sheep in quite as important in tbe | winter season as in any other. Indeed, i all animals should have access to salt | daily. The Gospel of Merit. Where there is ho much rivalryas in the rnnnn facturo of family medicines, he who would sucI ceed mnst pive positive and convincing proof of ; merit. This in an age of inquiry. People take 1 nothing for gi'anted. Tehv must know the i "trhyx" aiid "wherefores" before acknowledg! ing the superiority of one article over i another. Among "the few preparations 1 that have stood tho test, those lnanufaci tured bv 1!. V. l'ierce, 31. D., of the World's dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y.. have for many your s been foiemost. The truth of any statement made concerning them can be easily ascertained, for Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy and Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery are now prescribed by many physicians in curing obstinate cases';of catarrh and incipient consumption. The Discovery has no equal in curing coughs, colds, bronchial and nervous affections. It allays all irritation of thi' mucous membrane, aids digestion, and J when used with Dr. Tierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets readily overcomes torpid liver and cons ipation,while the Favorite Prescription has no rival in the field of prepared medicine in curing diseases peculiar to females. If you wish to "know thyself" procure a copy of ' The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser." an illustrated hook of nearly J,000 page*, adapted j to the wants of everybody. Trice $1.50, postage nrepaid. Address the author. It. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N, V. [From J. IT. Jackson, Esq., of Oroton, N." Y.] " About six years since, my wife was attacked ! with a difficulty of the lungs and stomach, spitting of blood, etc., accompanied by great sorci ness, and was thought bv all to be in a danger; ous condition. She was under the care of a skillful physician for more than a year, and ! afterward tried many of the most popular : cougli reined es. but she received no permanent relief until Wist ait's I!ai-sam was u?cd, a few bottles of which restored her to her usual health. I would add that this balsam has been used by other members of my family, and I can truly say that I know of 110 other cough remedy ' in which I have so much confidence. I would recommend Wistah's Balsam of Wild Cherry to all in need of a safe and reliable cure for ' coughs, colds or any other diseases of the throat aud lungs." 50 cts. and ?1 a bottle. Sold by all druggists. Nothing Like It I It Stands Hone J Such is the verdict of the medical world and i the public, 011 Ifale's Honey of Horehound and Tar. (loughs, colds, influenza, all irritations of the organs of speech and respiration vanish under its influence, like fogs before the sunlight. Sold by all druggists. l'ike's Toothache Drops euro in one minute. "We understand that the wlioopinpr cough is <piito prevalent in the towns around us; but that 110 cases have proved fatal. Some families use nothing but John ton's Anodyne Liniment. Our doctor. however, says a little ipicac, to produce vomiting, would be an advantage. There are more than one thousand different kinds of pills in the United States. Some of them are worthless and injurious, others are good and be?eticial. Old Dr. Parsons invented the best anti-bilious pill we ever saw or heard of. They are now sold under the name of Parsons' Purgative Pill*, Is there one reader of this paper suf ferinp from rheumatism ? If ho write to Hclpliciistiuc <t Bentlev, driiKfjistn, Washington, D. C., for a circular of JJuraug's Iilieui matic Itemed}- This medicine iri taken internally, and will positively cure any case of rheumatism on the face of the green earth. Trice, one dollar a hottle. Conundrum for St. Valentine's day : Was Sr. Vai.f.ntise A Varnish Maker? Vpcetablo Pulmonary Balsam, th- ureal New England cure far coughs, colds and consumption. Cutler Brofj, & Co.V, Boston, only genuine. Our readers -who may visit New York on business or pleasure will find the Trenjont House, -665 Broadway, between Bleeoker ind Amity Bts., pleasantly and centrally located, conducted on the European plan ; good rooms at 75 cents and one dollar per day. A first-clast restaurant, with very reduced prices. The pror?rtnfr*ru nnrl flnrlr* nr? mirl nhlimnor and-any one going from tliiu section will dowel] to give them a call. Stanford's Rad'ad, Cure for Catarrh ie a local Mid .onntitutional remedy, aud in prepared by <!i>tillation. Not a particle of woody liber or caustic chemicaln enter* into ita cornpohition. It tlmH differn from other remedies. The Markets. NKW Tons. Beef Cattle? Native 11\ Texan nnd Cherokee... 03X0 M Mitch Cows 45 CO @70 00 HogR?Live 0 h? 0 \ DriKncd 07Jt@ 07V Sheep 0 05? l.ambs ? (8 ? 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Flour "00 @10 00 Wheat?JJo. 1 Milwaukee....' 1 60 @ 1 60 Corn?Mixed 52 V @* 53 Dais <2 @ 'i Kye (<i Oil Barley f 5 (Vn i-5 Barley Malt 1 ()0 @ 1 10 rHILAHKLPHIA. Beef Cattle?Kxtra 00,^(3 Pfl# Sheep 04 (Si 07 IIORS? Dressed 08>tf(?. Flour?Pennsylvania Kxtra 7 tO <& 7 2'> Wheat?Ked Western 1 45 <3 1 50 Bye 77 <g 78 Corn?Yellow f(l <3 M M'Xed . 5S (? 56 Oats?Mixed 3 ($3 Petroleum?Crude .15 (rf 1.'..'^' R-ftued. ...2ri\' WATKRTOWK, MASS Beef Cn'tle?Poor to.Clioice I (4 ?S' Sheep 2 75 $ 6 '.'5 Lambs .... 2 7* (X 6 25 Sulphur Soap eradicates Alt. Local Skin Diseases-, Permanently Beautifies the 1,omplkxion, Prevents and Hemedies Rheumatism and Gout, Heals Sores and Injuries op the Cuticle, and is a Reliable Disinfectant. This popular and inexpensive remeX) accomplishes the same results Af costly Sulphur Haths, since it permanently removes eltuprions and Irritations of the Skin. Complexional blemishes are al ways obviated by its use, and it ren lpra thf> nitirlp wrniHrmisIv fair and smooth. Sores, Sprains, Bruises, Scalds, Burns and Cuts are speedily healed by it, and it prevents and remedies Gout and Rheumatism. It removes Dandruff, strengthens the roots of the Hair, and preserves its youthful color. As a Disinfectant of Clothing and Linen used in the sick room, and as a Protection against Contagious Diseases it is unequuled. t'iiysicianR emphatically endorse it, i'lticss, -25 and 50 Cents per Cake, I'eu Box, (3 Cakes,) 60c and $1.30. V. B. Tjereii economy In buying the large caket. Sold by all DruggiiU. << Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye,"' Black or Brown, 50c, 61. CtlTTBSTOil, Prop'r. 7 Sirth A>. I.I. QOK A DAY to Agents. Sample fit*. 32 page Catalogue. L FLETCHER. 11 Pey SL.N. Y. 4 -vrv second-hani) school rooks All ? mailed post-paid, upon receipt of half pub lished price. A. S. clark. 06 Nassau St. New ^>rk. WAMTCn SALESMEN to travel and sell Good* All I uU {0 Denlcrn. Salary liberal. All traveling expenses paid by tirm. Address II. (i. hooker tfc co.. Cincinnati. Ohio. I have aold more dozens of Hatch's Universal Cough Sj-rtip for the past year than I have ever sold of a similar medicine during the same length of time. I have on my nhflvos thirteen different cough remedies, comprising most of those considered staple in thin section. WESLEY RULISON. Evans Mills. Jeff. Co.. N. Y. Tfl T A TT flT?Q t Tlie American Fiutbloii 1" lAiJjUIiO i He view, I fir I.ttidinq He/inrt of Cm In' Ftuhiont published, now ready for Spring and bummer, comprising hmdsome Chromo Plate (18 Figures) and supplementary Vest Plate (H Figures), Patterns of Leading Garments and "Standard Coat System," never bofore published. Yearly Subscription to Quarterly Report, SOiOOi Single Copies Semi-annual Report, *2.00. Addross JNO. J. MITCHELL. Publisher, P. O. Box 3065, or 788 Broadwsy, New York. 3"KT/?tTr DnnVa for Fowl-Raisers and Fanciers, i\ew hooks by G. p. Bumham. 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Address, ^ FARMERS' UNION the best medium in tho Northwest. f\ACTS WANTED FOR HISTORY A| lENTEN'L EXHIBITION It contains nearly 400 tine enjrravings of huilding: nn.l scenes in tho fire.it Kxhibition, and is the onl: :>utiicntio and complete hi.-tory published. It treats o the grand buildings, wonderful exhibits, curiosities ijreat events, etc. Very cheap and sells at sight. Oni Agent si i|<] 48 copies in one day. Send for our extri terms to Agents and a full description of the work. Address, NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO., Philadelphia, Pa. f I A TTTTrnff Unreliable an:l worthless books 01 IAwH. tlio Kxhibition aro being circulated Do not be deceived. See that tho Iwok you buy contain over JM)0 pa^es and nearly 400 fine engravings. AMERICAN fjewspaper Reporter AND ? PRINTERS' GAZETTE, Published Weekly. Hr.!* ii large subscription list among printer*. Conttin* weekly reports of the establishment of new new-papers. suspensions, consolidation*, enlargements and improvements. l.s relied upon by advertising agencies and all othen whoso busino-s interests require tiieiu to keep informed up >n newspaper c.lr.nges. Adverti-era who with t< mike proposals to publisher* --offering some book or other article in exchange foi advertising-will do well to make atri;lof its adverti* ing columns. Tliom wishing to embark in journalism, either by th< purchase of an established p iper, or the selection of t location, will come in direct communication, through the Rkpok run, with retiring publishers or communities eager to have a home p'i|>er in their midst. Publishers retiring from active business find no medi utn eipinl t'i tile Rki'OIITEU in assisting them to find ? purchaser for their olfices and printing material. Kvery printer lisiks to it for advertisements of " Rar Kains," and not a copy is sent out that does not contair something choice in that line. ADVERTISING RATES: TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A LINE. EACH INSER TION. ONE PACE IS COUNTED AS TWO HUNDREE LINES. AND COSTS ?30 EACH INSERTION. Subscription Price?$4.00 Per Year, IN ADVANCE. PUBLISHED BY GEO.P.ROWELL&CO., Advertising Agents, 41 PARK ROW, NEW YORK. ? I ?EC O A Week to Agents. 810 OutAtFrf. BS OOP H Q< 4 P. o. VICKERY, Augmto.Main*. Ml Sfifi ?*e?k In Tonr own town. Terms uidSJC.Outfit 9fi <uo free. H. HAIXRTT * CO.. Portland. BUL?. fflC 1 i /2Vu?i\ RPRfinr s?t fa t*? wsrtt t?.i ,?*?*,?* . ffl 1 j MTHMA0'"'"'''* T. POPHAM *C0..H8.8tb8t..PhU?..F?. BM ' A fiTTTM" A Th? <">ly sure remody. Trial package 9H I ' ' fTM. L. .SMITJNIGS;, Cleveland, O. Wfl ' 1 <fe K OUTFIT FREE. B?tt chunco yet "Write at BBB j tjPtJ onoe to F. NASON, til Naaoau Stre?t.NewYork. Bfl ?IP; In COfl Por day at homo. Samples worth gA 93 IU OCU fee. STIX80N4CO.,IVrtlandtM*lS[ Bfl ' t ??r? O i/\ A )VKEK. Catalogue and Sample FREE. HB g'fU FKLTU.V it CO., I Iff Kanao sT.NewYofk. H ' Drum lfC0S7Bbot?3.OO,7O?t7lw. Jll.Cat.frti. H n fc f U L T CII wmtuw qto wosm, chic?co. m? hi 61 Q a day at bome. Agent* wanted. Outfit and iuj f%)A.?l tnna free. TRITE A CO.. Angtiafca, Maine. BH \f ^AIT?V Rn.?ily made with oar Stencil and MB ItHJIi HiX Key Check Ootrtt. Circular* Frte. SB ft X. & Abthcb .STAFFOnp. 105 Falton St.. KewYork. Bl 1,1 ftp fl ^ Month.?Agents wanted. 36 beat aeO* ,H Jillnjl in* articles in the world, One sample free. EH . yVVlJ Address J IV HKOXM(>N, Detroit, Mich. BB ; All WATCHES. A Great Sonaation. Sample |H Xjf Watch and Outfit free to Agents. Better than IB I mil i ,i a a nnnrTDu inn <-n-i W W nwu ooa n. \s\s%jiUiOtt U> VUi?HW. PFMMONS *s*? mnttor how slightly diuiblod. In r L,Uv7l\JHv3 cr64Jie!, now puid.- Advice and circnlar frro V. MoMichaeu Atty.. 7Q7 Smv>mSt., Phila-.Pa. !SMOKY 1 cored, fuel mved, and best increaa- j^H fiTTTWDXye? applying tho Spiral Draft. vH I In Jl JCi I o\ Send for circnlar (with tertimonlala) to Henry Collonl. 726 Stnapm St.. PhHa.. Pa. Sore relief o rnrnil ulDDER'S PASTILLES.b^L StoweiliCo, B _?rlM"^T^hj?j5^own, Mm. Q/JAA A Yenranrt Kxpennc* </>K?od Aoehts, OV"" wbo are w.intod evetywlie'ra in" a atriotly lcirititnHt? and ple.iannt h'lsinoso, Pirticulva free. i Addreaa J. AVQHTH >fc CO., Sr. J,out* PLo. ' |lf JMTCII?Men to solicit order* fur ourqeoda-. nil I ?Upermanentrmplojmrnl;good VW salary. Traveliiij; rxiani'u'* |iaui by Company. ; | "* Union Indmrtrlal WorUa, < lnciimatt,Q iMrtolflC a day aire m?d? by Amli MlUaf our Chteaxx, in IU * mZ O Crayont, Plctura and Chrmno Canlt. US ??^ r'" worth $5. wnt n ?t,-wl<t for 854*. Illailr* 1 tfjCaialimaS^. J. H. POFFORD' 8 SONS. BOSTON. MASS. I HIT HI Ml TIMM ? w, Collendar, BlLLlAKli 1 ABLtS. ' Broadway, New York, M/inufnctnrer of Standard Amerij cj.n Billiard Tables. IHmtratod Catalognea Bent by mail. ! m? mode rapidly cnnraMinff. Money ***v 1/ Oapit.il. Now Bnainoaa. JAH. T. WIJXIAOTi*<>X, Cincinnati, Ohio unnv l a 0* ihiimi f.-JW????_ BIBLE AuMiO Circuhrs n^d extra H I tcrmi on the "New Tlluitraled BibT* for (he Ymmg " (on a n.iwpUn). IjureeCommission*rni Promlnms.' : O. W. GRAY ? SON, ION, fifth St., Phiuvuzlphia. : |P? vnil MTM to distribute some of oar circa |h I vu i4rBt We vrill send you a Chromo in II Gilt Frame, and & 16-page, (^column, illustrated , piper.free for 3 months. Inclose lO c?nta to pay ; postage. Agmli Wanted. KENDAL jc Co., Boston.Maaa. Mf^CMTO ItKostteato the merits of Thalllus. AhtNlA trated Weekly before^determining . HWiklV I 1# upon your work this fall and winter. The combination for this season surpasses anything heretofore attempted. Terms sent free. Address, CHAS. CLnCAS A CO.. 14 Warren fau. New York. , lfrof. Hall's Mmlc ConpooM * tt? only preparation, one package of whictt W"* ft will force the beard to prow thick and hear; on the smoothest hee (Without injury) ir xf ; days in every rase, or money ehrerluU' r?> ^HV? ftindfd. 19 c*nta per narka^e. postpaid t 3 ftr ! WMlj? to cents. E. W. JUNES. AjnlandiMsss. A BOOK for the MILLION. ! MEDICAL ADVICE WWfiSttSSt : Dancer, Catarrh, Rapture, Opium Habit, etc., SENT ! FREE on reoeipt of stamp. Address Dr. Butt*1 Dispezvury, Wo. 18 Nortu 8th Street, St. Louis,Mo. i %MM M UTVTk SALESMEN to travel uid noil to zffC R Rfl 1J*m Dealers our Unhreakableor Eureka ; WW BMW Glass Lamp Chimneys,. Monitor Safety I lumers, Antomatio Extmgnishprs, Limp Goods, etc.; ! 81,800 a Car, hotel and travelingexposes paid to H i ?<x>d men. So peddling. No risk. Best selling ?t?ods in the American market. ! " H. UOBU tfc CO.. CINCINNATI. OHIO. ! 'Voting America Press Co., > 63 MURRAY Sx? New YORK. < tfiSSk - X I Ih KWijIilW MukWI Ik AflR] M chcnpcat and b?*t hand and Wlf'Mm n' ; teif-fnklng printing prwi?i. ' XmK?^' W. ?ll . .?7Hr? br TWO bOLLAJU. ud . IflL^ir'V/pLISWC^Joub'IT'pVMiniT. ; grwtoftM. BpadnwBcdicfTypo, fat?,6o.tiaci3tiJ IIaRRY HAZEL'S ' tff a 2||#ff"P The matchless Htory and ! faNKPr Sketch Par ,r- Fall of eqtwuic; I I Nlinhh ing, mirth pfuvnkmg and OMftl _ _ _ _ matter. *i.W a year. 3 cenU i Ml fin!. I ???P/ o' i'ewsdealers. S*nd 10 llL Ullt 2 ett. for 3 tample eopie?. JONES I Mhwaih A CO., 4 LibertySq.,Boston,Mate. ^SS&S^B^. The Beat TraaawlthoDt AjjUi. , ir- TT'jMLNi Metal Springs erer in;, anted. ?*5 ?Vlft11or CT^H No hnrabag claim of a cortain radical cure, bat a guaran tee of * comfortable, so-' ance. We will taJco back and ^># D*J fall price far all that do nut suit I Prioe, (faxla.lik* out, 841 for both aides, Sfl. Sent by I mail, post-paid, on receipt of price. N. B.?This Triiwi ! will cure more Rapture* than any of thoee for which i eitraTagam claims are mads. Circulars free. _ . : POME ROY TSP88 00.. 746 Broadway, New York. 44 IT 8ELL.9 A.T SIGI*T." FSA1 LESLIE'S HISTORICAL fiEHSTEE ?or THECENTENNIAL EXHIBITION Is the only complete Pictorial History of the Centennial I p.ibli-ihad. A inimm-it'i panorama. 1,000 largo enjjraTinn, m my of thym b?in< 11 '4 br 2V$inohet. Agenta Want I'll. Aidrcsi, Ajftmcr Dopirtment, SHANK LESLIE'S PUBLISHING HOUSE, 037 -Pearl Stnwt, New York. A LUCRATIVE BUSINESS. W WE WANT BOO MORE FIR8T-CLA88 8EWING MACHINE ACENT8, AND 800 MEN OFENERCY AND ABILITYTO LEARN j THE BU8INESSOF8ELLINCSEWINCMAI CHINES. COMPENSATION LIBERAL, BUT | .V ARTinu Mwwvnvinw i u HDibi I if vnnn i ACTER AND QUALIFICATIONS OF THE | AGENT. FOR PARTICULARS, ADDRE88 i Wilson Sewing StecMne Go.. Cincago. 327 A 829 BBOADWAT. Vtv ??k. or aw Ot!wa? L*. msw WIIiLCOX & GIBBS MTOMATIO r Tltlil | Only machino !and\Sfv7\| ? intk^ru ^'Odnclng \f|8y \jjv Antomatle jiarveloua Tension and Trade Mark la t?M Of every machine. SILENT SEWING MACHINE, Send Postal Card for Illustrated Price List, <fcc. "Willcox & Gibbs S. M. Co., (Cor. Bond 8Q 658 Broadway, New Yorl TO ADVERTISERS! BEALS & FOSTER, ; No. 41 Park Row, NEW YORK, ! GENERAL AGENTS FOR I THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ONION LISTS i OF CO-OPERATIVE NEWSPAPERS. ; ? > Advertisers desiring to use either of the Lists (not I published in their onto city) may communicate with J Messrs. BEALS A FOSTER direct, as all order* will 1 hereafter pus through their hmH*. c A. J. AIKEN'S, President * American Newspaper Union. _ ; REPUBLICANS! DEMOCRATS! CREENBACKERSi All who wish an able, newsy and fair-minded paper, , representing the best phases of Southern Republican J r- bui, ouid read the : LOUISVILLE COMMERCIAL, 1 the leading and representative Republican journal oi the South. Daily Commercial, 810 per year, 85 cent* per month. Try it one month. 1 Weekly Commercial, neatly arranged, clearly printed, carefully edited?a capital family newspaper; 9 82 per year, 81 for six months. In Clubs of five. 81.GO each, per year; Club's of ten or more, 81*50 each. One copy of either edition sent free, post-paid, to any address. An Agent wanted in every neighborhood, to whom we ? Pay 20 per cent, cash commission, or a handsome and valuable premium. Send for Special Circular to Agents. ? Best Advertising Medium in the .South . RrUw. and quantity and quality of circulation couaid)4red. I^te card and copies of luwrfr^ , " ^ Address. A. II. ?IEt.FRIEI>, Manager Commkucial, _ J_,oulsv iltCi lw. Music Books! Eurli Hook may be nafety received m ainomt the very best. , THE SALUTATION. "KffiS: First-clasa Church Music liook. I THE ENCORE. "i ;B'o!Suo.. First-class Singin^suhool Book. i WORLD OF SONG. Unrivaled Collection of Songs. ; GEMS xiIE DANCE. > The Most Brilliant Piano Music. ; PERKINS' Anthem Book., An easy Anthem for each Sunday in the Yea" 1 Perkins' Glee and Chorus BookT^l Superb Collection. (81.25. S12 per dor). * Male Voice Glee Book.<81) pEBKra8. Brief, Aew, Spirited Glees in abundance. Emerson's Chorus Book. (fJr?u The Host Sacred and Secular Choruses. 1 Either Book mailed, post-free, for Retail Price. OLIVER DITSON & CO., Soston. C. II. DITSON ?fc CO., 711 Ilroftdway, New York. J. E. DITSON ifc CO., Successor* to Lee 4 'Walkeb, Philn. , N. Y. N. U. _ No. 7 _ I . ir niDifrivn m, t a iw i. it ' _ % iJ * ' * i"** IU AI'TJ^Jkl 1> ; f> p euHK tiny tii.il jou ?<\*r the r.dvrrtir-cLir.u l.i till* paper