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. v** 1 1 1 '1 ITEMS OF_INTERSST. Nearly all the coal mines In Wyoming Territory are worked by Chinamen. A till to establish the whipping post for wife beaters has been introduced in the California Legislature. Dishonesty in llureka, Nevada, runs in btrange dire etions. The best hearse in town was recently stolen. A premium is annually given in Oregon to the person who kills tho largest number of squirrels during the season. Lord DufTcrin wants tho Dominion to erect a vice-regal palnco or Hummer residence for him at Quebec, at a cost of $100,DUO. New instruments have boon tin plied i?i the tunnelling of Mount St. Gothard, and the work is proceeding more rapidly than heretofore. A bill providing f?n- the abolition of the death penalty and the substitution of imprisonment* for life has passed two readings in the Mexican Senate. An effort is to be made to transplant solos and turbot to the waters of tiio United Stales. 1 hese tish are very valuable, ami rank high uiuong table delicacies of England. The largest polished plate over exhibited was the work ot the Thames l'luto Glass Company of England, measuring nineteen feet live inches ' long, an 1 ten feet three inches wide. The Eov. Mr. Noble, a Free Mot ho* ; cl 1st preaeher of lVrtage, Wis., has purchased a steamboat, in which ho travels up and down the "Wisconsin river holding revival meetings at every landing. Four artists arc forever at work in the UP.ik.i Palace at Florence, copying u picture of Fra Angelieo, a "try- i ptich," v.ith a border oT heavenly musicians. It takes eight days to nmko a copy, which sells for sixty to eighty francs. In France tho average salary of workmen (without board or lodging) is slxt y-clght cents; iu tlernmny, Italy and Swit/.erhind, thirty-cight cents, in Kngland, eighty-three cents, living 1 >inthirty \ or cent, dearer than in Franee. The llev. Dr. Cuylor, reckless of accuracy, says: "This nation is spending more money for intoxicating drink than for all the bread it eats, and all the clothes it wears, and all ilie books it reads, and all the churches it has ever built." During last summer 1,700 persons, mostly tourists l'roin the Fast and from Furope, visited the pet rilled forest in Santa Ilosa township, California. Tin J forest contains about three "hundred trees, the largest of which is eleven feet in diameter at tlio butt. The plan finally adapted for rectifying the course of the Tiber contemplates shifting the bed of the river, removing the bridges which impede its downward flow, and straightening its winding course below the city. The approximate expense is ten millions. Charles Francis Adams says, in a letter to the Quinoy (Mass.) 1'utriot, that three-fourths of the books in brisk demand at the public libraries aro "vapid and sensational." lio thinks that parents ought to guide the children's tase in tho choice of reading more than they do. In the reconstruction of the Hotel de Villo, Paris, a machine is used for cutting stone which does in one day the work of lift-Hen men. It is composed of two revolving cylinders furnished with marble hammers, by means of which the stone is separated with great rapidity and precision. 'l iie l- roneh town or r>orruo Is about to be 1 ij_rlit??J by gas made from cork waste and cuttings. These tire distilled in a close vessel or retort, and the gas obtained is sai l to be brighter and whiter than that of coal. Tho blue or non-luminous zone is smaller, unci the gas itself has a greater density than that from tho ordinary coal. A horticulturist sells Baldwin apples tit $10 a barrel. He takes a slip of paper and cuts children's names; then places the paper around tho apples when they begin to color, and in a week or two Mamie, Jamie, Johnny, Minnie or Susie appear on the apples in large red letters. These picked and barrelled by themselves bring fancy prices. The Emperor of Russia is quite foung in comparison with his most important, contemporaries. lie is in his fifty-eighth year. His uncle., Kaiser Wilheim, is twenty-one years older. While Alexander is much attached to his uncle of Germany his son and heir hates Germany and the Germans. Honco the Czar's comparative youth is a good thing for Europe. The suit of .. prominent gentleman ajid his wife, of Chicago, each seeking for a divorce from tho other, is novel in the character of the witnesses. Tho husband's own daughter, by a previous marriage, testified against him, and against the wife appeared her mother, sister and brother. A clergyman is introduce 1 as the writer of improper letters to the wife. M. Lavally, President of the French fioeiety of Civil Engineers, and inventor of the dredging machines for tho Buoz isthmus, announces that.the flf. teen scientific soundings taken bo* i v ? ? i?i ?1-. i-ween I ciiiM * iiwii.vs uunciusiveiy prove that a tunnel uniting England and France is feasible. TJiC matter now in only one of time and money. The eruptions of Mount Veeuvitm, which is again active, amounted according to the historians, to nineteen from the first to the seventeenth eontury, when twenty-three were rccordedIu the eighteenth century twentythroe took place, and in the present century tilt-re have already heen twenty Ave or one every throe yeurs. '<aL . Tlii; IHOKRY NE\V8. T. \\ . llliA'l'V, Kimtou. j SATUliD \Y, Ai'UlL 15, 18 7 (>. Hon. lilair's Lcllcr on (lie Presidency. Wasiiinuton, March 18, 1S7G 1)kai; 1 have your letter reouesiing lor | iildie.ition the views ex i p essed I > \ mm: in a lecein con v ersa-ion Willi i'eSJjeOt to I 11C* | M lldlUg l'll-sidfll j i lial contest. I 'Jit.* stun oi iluin was that we ought id eontiuuc the contest as we In g in in 1872, when \v?' agreed i to toregu ail other issues save that ot j j reform in the admiuistration ol the I (tovei'unienl, 'I lie adversary then j struggled and still strives, with l lie 111 11 > u! lite 1! on. Hell. lidl, to keep alive the issues ol the war lor the purpose ol prolongit,g abuses which, I however great, go uiiohei ked while! sectional striie holds the putdic mind. | \\ e did not carry the election in 1872, ! because we were not tally sucoesslul j in making the issue ot rebuilt. l?ul i we m ule such a beginning that the victory of our adv ersai ies has proved \ a hatred one. \\ e so far succeeded ' tiiat a show ol investigation had to be i made. i iio Credit .Motdlier Iran I, which, though well known before tor a I i public incn, count not coin maud public attention, now absorbs it. .spoliation was checked. .lav Pooke A: Co., who had largely advanced the no>n y t'? can y the elections, could I not bo I'ciiiibui sed hv Congressional Hub uscineni ol the Northern l'ucilic ! Railroad hot. Is, and then-lore tailed. 1 tie .so-called inves igaliou commit- , lees, organized not t-> convici, wen?! i experts in finding out how not to do < it, and the Department helped then ! assiduously; but the' liulependiuil 1 Press did the work so elVeetually ih t a large I h inoei a; ic majority wis rei turned to ihe present i louse id Kcpro- i ; seulatives. C uiotInnately ibis tide ol I success, w hich nssuicd the rcloruier.i | ol tin.' Oo\ei niucnl, this yeai hrs been 1 ariested and turned hack by the in ! trusson into tin. eauva-s, last hill, oi anoi her issue, id which the Radicals have eagerly and sueeesslully availed themselves. And their cH'orl is to hold mi that issue, ami make tin? Presidential election turn on the question ol resumption, upon which j | they have won, instead ol upon the question ol reform, upon which they have lost tlie day. 11 they succeed in ' | this, tile result will iuvaiiuhly be tinlorlunatc tor us. Our Iriendi having been beaten on this issue, last kill, in i i he ^Stales where niiuresuiuption was strongest, our vote in New Yoik, ? / , ? I | even ^w ithout which success lor us would l>e hopeicss,) having been largely alVccleil by the attitude of our j tiicnds iu those hiatus, do rational iniud can tail to see that such an issue I I would dcb'tlL us. It is ?>lain, lruui this brief statement | ! ol lliu situation, lliat our success dc- i :pcnds upon ouruhili.y to reinstall the issue ol rot01 in as the issue ol tin- j canvass; ami il is equally plain lliat j j tilts is uol to he done by resolution, | but by such action as will not only I j proclaim ii, but will ol itsell verily it as 1 lie i*sue to all men, The nomination ol Tildrn will, ol , itself, lorcc llns issue, ami make the I election turn upon it. The Irieinl ol j , other candidates object to the nomina- j j lion ol a citizen ot New York ami j | claim the nomination tor the \\ est. ; 1 > u i Jackson was not selected because i be was a citizen ot Tcnntesce, or Jet- j I terson because lie was a citizen ol YirI ginia, or Gram, because he was lor a i I short lime in Illinois. Selection on | I such ground has no political signili j cance, and ignores altogether the only j consideration upon wnicli a candidate I ought to he selected, viz., as the representative ot the idea sought lo he ad- I vanced. My pretereiico lor Tiblen is j only because his nouiination would u| | I ilscll lorce on the issue ol relonn, I i \> iik;ii n uui mii c uai u in nil1 | canvass. 1 do not doubt that t lio ! I ol her gentlemen spoken ol would ! prove vigorous reformers, ami 1 hav c; no personal preference lor Hideo o\ei 1 J any one ol llieng but neither ol thein j is so identified with "rclorin" in the , { public inind as Tiklen. They have i either not had the opportunity, or j j have not availed themselves oi it, to | ; manifest the resolute purpose he has | i shown to purge the male of iraud I | and jobbing. They have not joined . j hands with political adversaries to j ! overthrow und arraign and convict as j ! criminals the master spoils ol their own party w hilst they seemed to be I linpregnably intrenched in the control j j ol its organization, and have not by such Conduct been lilted into power | by l he support ol large bodies ol poliI tical opponents, even against a repubJ bran whose integrity was not <pa s, lioncd, but who had not manifested ' the same zeal in ihe cause ol reiorm. ! | Nor have they, alter reaching power, ^ H i? . i.. ~ ? : - - 1 nw ciKimil/.uu i.lllMI 1IU 111) II1SI I'UllOl) Uy unsparing war on jobbery. By this course Tildcii has mat It* himsell, more than any other man ot our clay, the representative man 01 the idea to which thu Democratic party ho empl:?i ieally pledged llsell in 187'i, and his noiuiiittlloii would be accepted, ' not only hy the Liberal liepunlicuns, who then acted with us, but by tlmus- ! amis wlio then held back, as -a sure j ' | guarantee that the pledge would be lailhtuliy redeemed; ami his war iocoid ami his linancial views would elfeci uaby j revciil diverhion hy Mine issues. 1 he a< tivr euniity which Tildcii <iun piifVokcd, in his ow u pally, sel ves . ?: iiuniil WKhJKIA' ly to attest lii.< fitness for the occasion. So man i-vcr dtove more men out ot tin* Democratio party 1)1:11; Jackson; but no mat; ever recruited it ho rapidly from tlit* true men m tho ranks ol I.is opponents at the *aiue time. Ami tins vilali/.uujj process must be renewed i lie eon I'm? ol llie 1 )einoerut io j party lias been us Tweed. 'I lie j Miviiolli of iis opponent-, who use llie (in\ cruiuent lor class asjfor ludiscmcnl, j is derived from vast expenditure, by corrupt ing t lie people in one form or anot Iter with tin ir own money, and by misleading them wit It lalse issues, liul old Uuliiou ne\ er said anything iimce 1 rue than that "Tim democratic party, to be strong, must be clean.' Tilde n is I lie t \ pn ol the men who were honored by 1 lie part y in the days ol its sireiioth ; and his commabeimjj a sure bond for a return to their policy, will issue its return to power, 't on 1 s t rtilv, M ON'Riil.M KHY '' I. AI It. SAMUKL M.SHAW, bid 1 tor breeiiuirls >/our.% (loojxi'stobc/t A*. faxes, and llills of the Hank of lite Slate. The Horry AV/r*, ol the Ni instant, says that "the county auditor has instructions from the eotnpi toller-i?en? i.'fal to :nld the 'JO peril lit. penally on ati taxes not paid, when? stale fulls 1 have been tendered 111 payment., 1 In iv will now l>il at?out i nil i v days in which i In* lax with penally may Ikpaid, aller which executions will be issue l." Coinp".rollcr-(icneral i iiiiii 11:?i-1 wi>)i to annoy, embarra-s ami per<c? jute tin* down trodden taxpaycis ol the slat , by Ihrnwing ditlicullicH in their way, ami piling additional luirllicns on them. No one Lnmv.-t, 01 ought to know belter, I liae i he ooinp ii'ttller, 11 in V i lie supreme court ol the I tilled Mates has .h-cidcd I hat tile slate is umlei' obligat ici? to receive llie lulls ol i he bank ol the sta c in payment til taxes due t?? the Male. No one knows, or oii^ni to know I letter, than Captain l).?nn, that the courts ot this stale have in everv instance wlu re the ease lias heen made followed the law as laid down by the snprenie court ol the I niled relates. Now, what docs the law otlicer ol the state say on this subject ? Attorney< i en era I .Melton, iu hi-* report to the last, or rather, present legislature, says: "The data lor ascertaining the amount ot bills tendered are not at baud, but it is estimated to exceed one hundred thousand dollars', ami in ev? ry instance during l.iie past year wile re a lender has been made, the ta v remains unpaid?the courts in every instance cxeici-mg jurisdiction to Mijoiu the eiiloreenieiit ol cxcculion. Indeed, it is mere idleness to Joicc tlie properly id the citizen to sale or turlciuirc, where he h is teinb red in payment ol taxes iliat. w h'eli, iu obedience to the decision ol tile supreme court ol the I in ed Males, the stale is under obligation to receive; and where the title, cil lu-r uii.b-i- k-iL. or lorlciiurc, would not lor a in une.it survi\e the U hlnl judn i.il inquiry." Tins would seem in be conclusive ol ilie matter, but it seems to be nut with those who are bent on lurilicr plundering our people l?y unlaw luil\ exai ting hum tuein llt.il which the law doc8 not demand. The object o? the coinplroller ill issuiiitr an order to add penalties, issue executions, and sell property, the taxes on which have been paid, or lendeied in paynuii', in hank ol the state lulls, is perlcvily plain. It is to elleet a dishonest purpose. Jt is to lofee those who are either unwilling or uuahlc to stand a law suit to eomply with the illegal requirements ol the legislature. 1 lie comptroller knows that the state will lose every case which in ly hereafter lie* contested, as it lias lost every one \vliii-li 1' .s been heretofore a ijmticaled. in tin* language ol the attorney'gen* oral, it is mere idleness to force the jiropertg of the citizen to snle or forJ'eitnre, irhcre he h<is tendered in pugmet it of ta.ecs t/int which, en obedience to the decision of the snj/retne court of the ( 'nited states, the state is under obligation to receive/ ami when the title, cither tinder sale of forfeiture, tconld not for a moment survive the test of judicial intjiury. ll the stale desues lo add to its ?lebl by an neemnuialioii ot costs in the at tempt to resist law, it certainly can proceed lo nominally sell and lorlcit, but. let no one who has tendered these bills he alarmed at such sale or lorleitlire, tor either would he as hunting as an execution against property 111 New York.? Georgetown rimes. [Special (Jul res|M)iuleiieo of the. Horry News. I Washington, April 10, 1^70. The disclosures ol the lust week, while they are not so startling as the Belknap affair, are ot much greater importance. Before All. (Jlymer's eoinmiltee it has been proven, that President Grant himself sent a spy to .*M. Louis to prevent the convieiiou ol Bain oek. The witness lh ll, who was the spy, tried to protect Grant, his old commander, hut his testimony and that ol Bahcoek, Lnek'-y, Bradley and l'irrepont of Washington ami ol Air. Dyer and Gol. Broad head the proseen. ting lawyers in the whiskey eases, leaves very little donht m the minds ol those w ho have read the testimony, thai it was the intention ol the 1'resti dent i?? do ail in his power to proii ei his guilty secielary and ne o.d this alter Ins spy had imorinid him 111 it ' there was no douht ol Balicoi k's guiit, j A spy was even kept in the Grand .lei) room and Grant was informed oi HEWS: APK1L 1">, all that was done there, so that trom tin* beginning he could not have been in doubt an to liabeoeU's connection with t he w lii-U? y ring. The naval committee have taken an immense amount ol testimony ami have unearthed such a allow ol corrup| lion in tiie manner ol eoiulucting that department, that the country will stand absolutely appalled when it is I made public. .Score I a i v liobesoii ha* not. only diverted the public lumls | I lioin iheir legitimate use but he used I million* ol the government money ami J risked its loss to sustain the sinking i loitimes ol the house ol .lay liooke, .Met ulloch A: Co., ol Loinlon when lie | knew that house to be virtually bank* ] rii|?t. Large amounts will be lost by , ! criminal conduct. The navy yarils every where were use?i as | 1111c-:11 I machines to torwaril the election ol i Uadicals ami the tumls that blnuihl have been expended in building sli ps w;is n>c to secure votes. Ko'jeson's niciil, C.i'lell was paid live per ecni. on a'l con! raels and no one desiring to I sell any thing to the navy department j | eouhl do so without submitting to this | black mail. j 1 hiL i lie Indian committee have do i I nioiislrated t veil more ol rrscalilv than ! cooid be lound in the navy depart- j | im-nt, in (lie treatment ol the Indians. { i Kvcry species ol venality that could l?e de\ised and the existence ol a ring j 1 wiiicn permeated every department, in- | ! to '.lie very coiuiniltee room where the . examination was being made. Con- i igiessinaii Page ol Cuiilornia is one ol [ Hie i 11 11 411 com notice and was oi:e i t ! the s?d>. eomiuiiUe over which Wd , sliilc ol Arkansas nresldrd. \\ llAmi. i I - - X I : has been imtsi 111 i11>11 i o 11 > 111 hunting , 1 up hands. lie is a good lawyer an 1 j ! understands I?*?w lo extract tin* I r it I li j j Iroin even ai? unwilling witness. Page was emit 'mindly brow beating \vu* , j nesses la-lore l.'io eominttlco and had , I to oe reproved more iliau oiiec lor hit. 1 ? I conduct. it lioallv came out liiai he i I had a reason !oi ii:s action. as one ol ] iiii- witnesses Mr. Meckel* a correspon11?*111 '?l liie lli-rald swore Inat he had i been inlonneil that Page was 11i111?c*!I * a member ol I In* Imh hi ling. Meckel* | I retu>cd lo the name ol his nihil* j ; mauls and I'a^o Mustered about, hav. I | ing him taken helore liie hon>e ttnd , Colli Jiel led to answer, hut lie has ll-il : done so nor does lie .intend lo. .""Hades and \\ llslni'e ??l A i U insas ile- i serve credit lot* the manner in whieli iliey have conducted tins investiga I nm. The post oHice committee have also proven that contracts were lament in i the most shauielnl manner, iiom high- i est oilieials in tile department. Some ol the paid cm ployces ol the Postmasle-1 i<M:eral ae?l a^si.-taut I'. ,M. (.opera!. j Kv erv day ne-.v rev elat ions are being 1'iade and new in vesi igatPms ordere-l, j lull the bnsiness ol I 'ongress is not neg- j Icel cd on I it is accon n I. 1*111' I louse sii s I ilaily Irnm noon until tive or si.v P. .M. j a i>< I has three night meet tugs per week I I , , The discussion on legislative, lvxec1111v e io-tl J ndieial hill is prolonged as I the Uepubitcnus are using every elVorl l<> deb-ai. the proposed saving ol six j millions oi dollars made by the hill as icporied hy the coimiiiiii-e, hut it will ! dually pass about as originally report, i ed. il is said that the Texas and J 1'actlie will be reported next week in i he only opposition lo it. now, comes] Iroiii ilir U itiuit Central Paetlie railroads which do n??t want their monopoly broken down. Col. .Iuiik'S O. Broadheud ( { . J.ouis who is not favorably spoken o| as a compromise candidal c I>* 1??ri; the >t. Louis convention is Hi Washington lo testily to the whiskey trials. No name presented to the convention is entitled l?? higher respect- than thai ot Col. Broadband. lie is a gentleman i ot ntinnpeaehable integrity, has never j been te.ixed Uj> with any disreputable truucvciioiis, was a union man and a ; war democrat and is the peer ot any man in the country in ability, i Bayard, Judge Davis ami Hendricks j are much talked ol, but. it is too soon i to even conjecture who will be either | the St. Loom or the Cincinnati noun- \ | nee. Blaine seems to still be a head ol j | alt the ollu r radicals, the New \ oik / ? Tribune which is strongly lor Biis-j L >w admitting that Blaine will gel the I I irgcHl v?nu on the tiist ballot. The executive committee is working well ! as the result in Connecticut shows,) i and tlie exposures being made hen? are beginning to tell. It properly banidled ami they will be, the people will scarcely repudiate Radicalism this | fall. The revolution m Mexico is still pro- | j gresiuo lavoraoiy lor 1'iris. I lit' g"v-j I t*i*i11liftiL papers admit that there arc 1 ! 10,001) iniMi in the tield ami railroad j conimiinication between Vera Crux I ami ilit* city <o Mexico has been inter! riipied. The Kmperor ol Hra/.il and I ! his wile will airive at New York in a lew days. They will spend Hume months in the country. The home exhibitors should hurry up their articles lor the Centennial as the buildings are about ready and it is desired to have everything in '-place be-j tore the 1 Olh ol May. IS KMO. OUIl NEW YORK LETTER. j All Cold mid Dark?The Deficient Appro* j priation?Our i'juekj Postmaster*? Holding tUe Fort The (Quaker Mabel [Kroin Our Own ConespotuU'iil.] N'icw Apiil 7, )S7(>. ! (Joiisiilil'l l?ie M'lif.ll i(.|l wan (Tl'Ml c<l | l?y fho eiiciiiiir of ill" fecialary <>i t in* I rcasni y to ilio Postotlico aiul Custom 187 G. House, staling that owing to a lack oi uppi npriutioii to rover such expense's! tin* sapply 01 coal, water, ami g??? to 1 those buildings inuH bo at once <lis- j continues li may not seem so great a thing to he itcpnvcil ol these comimiilitiis lor a lew Gays, excepting lor tlie i:n:oveiiicnce to clerks, but its mo iousticss will l<c realized at once il I one reflects lor a moment on the rela- | lion which the 1'osl ollice bears to the ! commerce ol New Vork City, ami through it to that ol i lie whole country. So perfect ami regular have become the workings ol our postal system,' that our banks ami merchants have (Mine to rely as implicitly upon the punctual arrival ol their mail lemit* lances to tfleet clearances ami meet | obliga' ions, as though the easli was being hurried to them by special measeng r. So true is this, that the detention for an hour or two of a European or other important mail, J ill crowd the ollioo with anxious business men clamoring to know the ifuson of the* delay, and imploring the j utnnmt despatch possible. The largest j portion o? the clerical work, which rentiers possible this prompt and eilieieiiL service, is done at nioht. or in p u ts of the building where gas is a const aiil iiceessit v \\ it li these points to muni, one can easily imagine the consternation and distress which the el tsing ot the' Post-ollico lor even i one night \v .>t?i?I cause; and that il such interruptions should be continued tor a single week, numerous failures must result. ihit ptst this was what the order Iroui Washington meant, and as no ?Iis.irra111!eine111 ol mails had followed, your correspondent called at tiie Postollice to learn Itow the dilliculty had tieeu sui mounted. Here in his elegant ollice in- louiid Postmaster James, a slrikingtN tine-looking man, with short iron-griy hair, dark eyes and tnouslashe, a hearty voice and a cordial manner, with executive ability written all over bun, and Irom hiniself and his secretary karm.d the iullowing tacts in t lie case. The Postmaster also holds the position u! Custodian ot the Building, an odiee in which his immediate superioi is the Secretary of the Treasury, and a hu h, while il involves immense additional responsibility and the giving ol extra bonds, is tilled by Postmaster James without salary. It was in this capacity tin re to re, mat lie received the I above-mentioned circular. His reply was prompt, and to the elicet that as Custodian he should carry out the orders at once. As Post-master, however, his course was very dillcrent,J:iud consisted simply in becoming personally responsible lor the indispensable supplies, ol which gas is, ot coarse, the main item, amounting to some thing like I no per day, and he remain* so at the present writing. This prompt action on the part ol Mr. James, which averted losses and damage to trace which would have cost us dear, in | lully appreciated by the business com-I iiiunity, and the oliiee is in receipt ot ! nuiiur<MiM letters testifying its gratitude. Through the courtesy ol the HostmasU r, your correspondent was also allot ded an opportunity ot inspectin"' i he building Iroin sub-basement to n ~ cuoola, and also the interior workings & * O ot the dill'erent ciepartiuents. Many ot the particulars, when learned, would be ot interest to your readers, but must be leserved lor another letter. At the Custom House little trouble was experienced, there not being ilia saute necessity there tor night work. . ? n t and everything there is running as smoothly as possible, cousidcting the recent cutting down ot the lorce which wa> rendered necessary tiy the spasmodic economy ot the Government. Sixty Chi/'loycx have been discharged tliis moiitli, and 11ni Collector stales that, as a result, the Government is being cbtated ol ten times the saving llius ellected, through the iiisutlicieucy ot the remaining lorce to watch the importing business. L'iymoutit can no longer boast the only lirst-i lass church disturbance in this vicinhy. -V darkey Methodist eoiigregation, also located to Brooklyn. is exerting itself strongly to attract Jts I humbler share of notice, ami is meeting with encouraging success so far. This noble society has a pastor, who, some weeks s nee, offended liis Board ol Trustees, and then deliberately Bcotled at their cordial invitation to him to step down and out. This naturally angered that august body, who determined to no longer follow the leadnigs t)i their contumacious shepherd, but to lock the church doors against him. lint lhey had reckoned without their host, lor the preacher getting ahead of them took possession ol the sacred edifice and locked himself in, taking with him a body-guard from the faithful of the flock. Then the trust.es, being only mortal, got mad and stormed the sanctuary, but the J good man "held tho fort," and the besiegers retired with the loss ol a man or two who foil into the hands of the .,.i 'in.- i> j ? jiwm.v;. i iiu ivuvereim Murray??tor ! such is the hero's name?still remains ! master o( the situation, but doesn't venture outside tho sacred precincts U>r tear ot the wiles ol the enemy. And in order that the spiritual growth ol hiinseb and charge may not sutler by tiie deadlock h? holds nightly revival meetings, in which praying, { shunting, and singing resound till a 1 I.tie hour. Whether the parson will ever come out ot his stronghold is ' uncertain, but it lie does, it will doubtI less be with victory upon hia banuers. From Philadelphia we hear thit'tho louv "1 workmen on the Centennial buildings and grounds has been doubled, in order th it as many ot the tiuish ing touches as possible may We put on be lore May 10th, ami the ixposition opened in as complete a condition as possible. The appearance ol iheVtieets is already as much Kuropcan as Auiciican, owing to the great iiuinber ol foieigners composing ami connected ^ with tlie <litl\'reut eomuiisMoiis. in walking a single block, one day last week, a gentleman beard live ditlereut languages in llie ordinary conversation around him, and the Babel ol tongues grows more contused every day. About the Centennial buildings themselves has sprung up a separate ami populous town; a mushroom growth, to be sure, but one that will be extremely prosperous while it lasts. In spite ol all that has been said ami written on this absorbing subject, no one can realize, until be stands on the grounds and sets tor himsell, w hafc- a stupendous a Hair the Centennial is going to be. It will not only be magnificent and entertaining, but instructive and u->elul to an extent which makes it almost a duly on the part of every one who can, to see it. It will be the best substitute the country has ever seen for a voyage round the world. 11A 1)1 x. Latest News. The. Republican Cimvuntion has elected the following delegates to the Cincinnati Convention. 1st District?S. A. S wails, J. II. llainoy. liil District ? II. v_i. Worthiinjton, \V. J. Mckinly. ? lid District?II. C. Corwin, \V. R. Nash. <tui umrici 8. Wallace, John WinHmith. 51 li District Uobert Smalls, I.auronoo Caiue. At large li. 13. Eliott, D. II. Chainbet lain II. II. 0 leaves, .J. J. Patterson. "A Ditoi* of Jov in Kviiiiv Woito." Fi.kminoto.n, Hunterdon Co., X.: J., June gt>, 1874. l>r. K. V. 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