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PARIS, May 27.--Gen. Uhlrioh, who
waa BO severely censured by the commis?
sion on capitulations, in their report on
the surrender of Strasburg, has been re?
lieved from active service in the army.
LONDON, May 27.-The Government
has determined to pardon the Fenians.
Despatches announcing the passage
by the United States Senate of the reso?
lution advising President Grant to nego?
tiate an additional article to the treaty
of Washington, for the settlement of the
indireot olaims dispute, were received
here yesterday. Tho effect of the favor?
able vote ia seen in the market for Amo
rioan securities, this morning, which
opened ?rmer, with an advanoe on the
prices of Saturday last. The London
journals comment at some length npon
the result of the Senate's deliberations.
The Times says: "The action of the
United States Senate is important, as
justifying England in the eyes of all the
word in the position she has taken with
relation to indireot olaims. America will
find it hard to uphold the demands which
she herself confesses are doubtful. Grant,
in consulting with the Senate before
aoting npon the proposition of Gran?
ville, has greatly strengthened his own
position."
The Telegraph says: "Am or i ca has
proved that she prefers justice to na?
tional vanity. The love of honest deal?
ing and mutual consideration exhibited
by both England and Amerioa, promisee
well for the future of the world."
The Standard thinks it better to mode?
rate its congratulations, and suspend itt
opinion, until it knows more of the arti?
cle to be negotiated, and what it wil!
commit England to do or pay.
PRAGUE, May 27.-Heavy and de
strnotive rains have prevailed in thii
vicinity for the past few days. Th?
stream of water which fell was so grea
?s to inundate the surrounding country
Several villages and the growing cropi
have been swept away, and numbers o
. lives have been lost, but it is not state t
exaotly how many.
/vincilean inteingccco.
. WASHINGTON, May 26.-The statemen
I made some days since in a portion of th
Western press, that the river reports o
the signal bureau were to be disoonti
nued after the 1st of June, is incorrect
Instead of being discontinued, they ar
to be materially improved on that date
so as to render them of even greate
value to the river interests than at pre
eont.
The endorsement by the Senate of a
additional article to the treaty of Wast
ington was governed by a strong desire
in which the President Bhared, to remo?
the differences whioh threatened the prc
seoation of the arbitration under tb
treaty, whioh a year ago the same Senat
emphatically ratified, and whioh was di
signed to settle, in an amicable manuel
all causea < of difference between tb
United States and Great Britain. It \
known, from offioial and private advice,
that Great Britain was determined i
withdraw from the arbitration, shoul
the United States persist in the presei
tatton of olaims for indireot damage
and it is further known that the Unite
States was, for- some time, nnder thei
circumstances, disposed to throw the ri
sponsibility of the threatened failure i
the treaty upon Great Britain, our G
vernment insisting that it had a right \
I present these olaims with the others b
fore the tribunal, in order that the pri
I * oiple involved might be settled, thouj
not expecting to receive a moneyed co
sideration, and Great Britain, with i
B view of tho case, was disposed to thrc
I the responsibility of the failure
' arbitration upon the United States. Tl
fi vote taken last night in the Senate ian
fi garded as an expression of the views
fl a large majority of the Senate agaii
I olaims for indireot damages, in view oi
fi like admission on the part of Great B
B tain against the United States in a fate
H contingency, and nnder oironmstanc
i similar to those in whioh the objectioi
H ble class of olaims originated. T
President, aa thus advised, has airead
H by the Seoretary of State, taken BK
|?v sores, through the Atlantic cable,
BL proenre the assent of the British Gove;
H meat to the article as amended by t
H Senate, with a view of patting in trei
BB form a declaration against indirect <
MB mages, whioh the United States hi
'"fi now abandoned, and whioh Great I
SH tain asserts she never claimed for herc
Wm ?3 against other powers. During 1
ag consideration of the subject in exeoat
j session, it was thought at times that I
/ j article would fail of receiving the req
fi j eite vote of. two-thirds, owing to t
I contrariety of views presented. Not 1
I than six amendments were offered
W efleat the desired ond. Conflicting
||| j ports prevailed aa to the vote advia
. i and consenting to the President's ne
fi tiatiBg a treaty on the proposed ba
B9 but forty ogaiuBt niue seems to be
BS moro reliable statement-a number
I Senators, though present, not voti
B The article, as endorsed, is chang?e
fil phraseology from the original, thoi
BJ preserving the principle sought to
? ? established by the two Governments v
fi regard to consequential damages. '
Bj precise language of the article will
Bj be officially made known until it a
; hove been ratified, and it is certain 1
i if the doable injunction of seoreoy
B^ posed on Senators shall be respected
all of them, it cannot be known thro
that source. Althoagh many Sena
lust night declined to givo any hint,
even refased to converse upon the i
jeot, the result of the action of the
nate was known by those whose busi
it was to seek for the information, wi
half? an hoar after that body had te
nated their nine hoars' continuous
sion, with the doors dosed and goer
and other precautions taken to pre
unauthorized disclosures. It is beli
. Great Britain will assent to the modi
tion of the article, as she now, witt
1 United States, is anxious for the trib
of arbitration to proceed without foi
hindrance. According to report,
debate on the aabjeot before the Senate
was earnest throughout, tbe majority of
those who participated in it being influ?
enced by a desire to rom ovo o bstr no?
tions, in a way which would preserve
the national dignity; while a few others
were inflexible in their opposition, as if
assent to the waiving of the claims for
indireot damages woald bo lowering the
American flag to the dost and allowing
the British to walk over it. The subject
will next come before the Senate on the
ratification of the article. The Senate
having concluded the interrogation of its
members regarding cure in preventing
their copies of the seoret correspondence
and proposed artiole from reaching out?
side parties, it may now prosecute the
investigation concerning the publication
of the dooument, with a view to emphatic
aotion in the premises.
NEW ORLEANS, May 20.-A salute was
fired thiB evening, ia Lafayette Square,
and there was a Greeley and Brown
ratification mooting at St. Charles Thea?
tre, largely attended.
NEW YORK, May 27.-Paul Lowe, son
of ex-Governor Lowe, of Maryland, has
been arrested. Ho admits using u re?
volver in defence of a friend, whereby
three persons were wonnded.
A mass meeting of the Eight Hours'
League, composed of oabinent makers
and others, was held this evening* at
Harmony Booms, and another of the
trades in general at the Assembly Booms,
at whioh congratulatory speeohes were
made and resolutions adopted, over the
success of the recent strikes.
An immense meeting of Quakers was
held, yesterday morning. Samuel Jan
ney preaohed against the doctrine ol
atonement, and Luoretia Motte delivered
an eloquent address on the peace of na
tiona.
It is said the cotton oom mission house
whose failure was announced on Satur
day, was the firm of Dibble, Worth k Co
It is reported that nine Greek crimi
nais, of the worst class, have beei
released, on condition of their emigrat
iog to the United StateB, and are now 01
their way to New Orleans, via Falmouth
England, in the Italian bark Agamem
non. Tho gang inoludes some of th
Marathon murderers.
A Havana dispatch says Venezueliai
advices received via St. Thomas stat
that President Blasco hau captured Ya
lenoia, and Halagar, the ex-rebel ohiel
tain, has been captured, court martiale*
and shot.
WASHINGTON;, May 27.-The doy c
adjournment is not certain. It is snr.
posed the Senate will ask the House t
extend the session at least till Monday
otherwise the tariff fails; the House
however, has oontrol, and should a mi
jority refuse, or a minority fillibuete:
the session closes at noon on Wedneeda'
The probability is that the House wi
indulge the Senate.
CAMAROO, MEXICO, May 25.-G en er
Covallos has received news from Mont
rey that the revolutionists are fortify ir
rapidly. Apparently Trevino and Que
roga will make a stand. Gen. Quere:
is near Le?ares, with a small foro
Oorrella and Zepeda are near Saltill
and will soon be io front of Monters
It is doubtful if Gevalloa' cavalry will 1
remounted in time to move against tl
enemy.
Nsw YOEE, May 27-Evening. -T
9 A. M. train from New York, on t
New Jersey Central Bailroad, was ri
into by the 7.10 A. M. train from Phil
delphia, on the Pennsylvania Cent]
Road, at Elisabeth, this morning. T
Central Road train was standing at t
station, its rear oar extending over t
Pennsylvania Road. This oar was stra
by tho looomotivs of the other tra
turned over and almost demolish?
Six persons were injured-soma severe
The engineer of the Pennsylvania tn
says bia patent air brakes would i
work, and he ooold not atop the traiu
The tug boat Epaalon exploded, t
afternoon, her boiler, in Eaat River, <
posite pier 19, killing the engineer, 1
captain and hia brother, named Hollai
Beok, and two others, names unknov
A man standing ou pier 18 waa wound
it ia aupposed fatally. Tho tug ha
ahip in tow.
A barouohe containing four men, vi
escaped, killed a boy aged eleven.
The new boiler of the bleaohing wo
on Crease street and Girard avenue
ploded to-day, killing a man, fate
wounding a girl and hurting six perso
In the Methodist Oonferenoe a mot
is pending that tho restrictions pla
upon Bishop Roberts, who presides o
the Liberia Conference, in Africa,
removed, and he be elevated to the
dignity of Bishop, and admitted to I
Oonferenoe. A oolored delegate
dressed the Conference on the qaesl
of a Seoretary of the Freedmen's
Society, and said he was sorry to se
this Oonferenoe a disposition to k
oolored men off the committee. He t
moved ' that the seoretary be a ooh
man. An eleotion waa then taken,
resulted in the choice of Rev. Dr. R
Rust. R. L. Dashiel, L. M. Eddy
J. M. Reed were eleoted missionary
retarles. Dr. Kioette was eleoted Se
tary of the Ohuroh Society.
. BUFFALO, May 27.--Rev. John
Robie, editor of the Christian Advo
one of the oldest Methodist ministei
Western New York, died suddenly,
terday, at Cowlesville, of apoplexy.
ALEXANDRIA, VA., May 27.
-freight train oh the Orange, Alexei
and Manaaaaa Bailroad ran over a <
aboal eight miles from here, thia e
ing, throwing the engine and cara of
track, killing two brakesmen and
ooaly wounding the fireman.
PHILADELPHIA, May 27.-St. Jc
Oommandery of the Knights Tee
left for Boston, in fall uniform, t
absent a week.
MEMPHIS, Maj 27.- John Whi
[Colored man, who killed two men
wounded several others, abbat <
months ago, while resisting arres
President Island, has been found g
of m arder iii thu firat degree. He
apneal to tho Supremo Court.
WASHINGTON, Moy 27-EveuiDg
.
the Senate, a bill waa reported for the
payment of Kentucky's war olaims, and
unanimously adopted. The Judiciary
Committee was discharged from the con?
sideration of petitions allowing foreign?
ers to become President, a constitutional
acknowledgment of God, and the exclu?
sion from office of persons addicted to
liquor. The tariff and tax bill was re?
sumed. The discussion developed the
faot that the Senate had determined to
hold baok action on appropriation bills,
thus compelling the House to prolong its
session.
In the House, the Brazilian steamship
subsidy waa discussed, when au in?
creased subsidy was again rejected, by
79 to 112. Dawes moved to suspend tho
rules, and adopt a concurrent resolution
extending this session till noon, on the
3d of Jisne, at 12 o'clock. He said he
had no doubt that unless the session
were extended, there would be an extra
session of Congress, to whioh there
would be no limitation. He believed
that the Senate would get through with
its business by Monday next. The reso?
lution was adopted, by 133 to 24. The
Conference Committee on Postal Appro?
priations Strock out the Brazilian steam?
ship subsidy, and the bill was passed.
Lieut. Henry Porter, of the revenue
marine, is dead.
Probabilities-Clear and pleasant wea?
ther with Northerly winds will prevail
on Tuesday North and North-west of the
Ohio Valley; clear and clearing weather,
with Northerly to Westerly winds, ovei
the South Atlantic, Middle and Ne*
England States. Au aroa of cloudy ano1
possibly threatening weather, will extern'
Eastward over Arkansas and lower Mis
souri. Clear weather will continue ovei
the Gulf States.
HAVANA, May 27.-The steamor Edga:
Stewart, the United States steamer Wy
oming, and the Spanish war vessel Bor
Ria, left Kingston on the 16th. Tin
Wyoming, being slow, dropped astern
when the Borgia gained on the Stewart
whioh refuged in the shoals and escaped
The Stewart was seen five leagues fron
Santiago de Cuba, and was fired at b;
the gun-boat Gaoetta.
Financial an.-* Commercial.
LONDON, May 27-Noon.-Consol
93^. Bonds 90?$.
FRANKFORT, May 27.-Bonds 96%.
PARIS, May 27.-Rentes 55f. 52o.
LIVERPOOL, May 27-3 P. M.-Cotto
opened firm-uplands ll)s@ll%; Ol
leans 11%@11%.
LONDON, May 27-Evening.-Conso
93%@93%. Bonds stiffer.
FRANKFORT, May 27.-Bonds 96%.
LIVERPOOL, May 27-Evening.-Co
ton closed unchanged; Bombay shij
menta to the 27th, siuce last repor
21,000 bales.
NEW YORK, May 27-Noon.-Steel
steady. Gold steady, at 13%. Mont
steady, at 6. Governments very strou.
State bonds firm and quiet. Exchange
long 9%; short 10%. Cotton nominal
higher and exoited; sales 2,996 bales
uplands and Orleans 2.5%. Flour ai
corn dull. Pork ?dull-mess 13.65(
13.75. Lard quiet-Bteam 9%?9 5-1
Freights quiet and steady.
7 P. M.-Money active, at 7. Sterlii
firmer, at 9%. Gold 13%@13%. G
veramente advanoed %@%o. Tenn?
sees firm; North Carolinas, old, wea
South Carolinas, new, steady; marls
dosed very quiet. Cotton unsettle
sales 3,610 bales-middling 26. Flo
quiet-common to fair extra 8.60(?ll.(
good to choice 11.05@13.25. Whisk
dull, at 92. Winter wheat a sba
stronger; spring steady. Corn low<
some inquiry for future delivery. Cofi
quiet and nominal, at 15@18% for R
Sogar easier-fair to good refining 8(2
Cuba 8%@9%; Havana 9. Molasses
fair request-Cuba 82@35. Rice qui
at 8%@9%. Pork dull, at 13.50@13.<
Beef quiet-7.60@9.50 for plain me
10.00? 12.00 for extra. Lard steady,
8%@9>?. Freights to Liverpool wi
out decided ohange. Sales of futur
to-day, 26,250 bales, as follows: li
24%, 25%; Jone 24%, 25 5-16; J
25 1-16, 25%; August '21%, 25)?; S
tomber 22%, 23%; Ootober 20%,
November 19%. 20; December 19
19*.
CINCINNATI, May 27.-Flour etea
Corn drooping, at 51@52. Pork t
and nominal. Lard quiet and
changed-kettle 8%. Bacon demi
light and firm-shoulders 5%; si
7%(?)7%. Whiskey exoited, at 88.
?T. Louis, May 27.-Flour qn
Corn lower. Whiskey higher, at
Pork quiet, at 12.75. Bacon only
limited jobbing demand. Lard firm
9%.
LOUISVILLE, Mny 27.-Bagging
maud light, but holders firm. Flour
aotive and unchanged. Corn qui?
sacked and delivered 67(3)68. Pr
sions quiet and unchanged. Pork 12
Shoulders 5%; dear Bides 7%. Pac
lard 9@10, with %o. advance on oi
lots. Whiskey firm, at 86.
BALTIMORE, May 27.-Cotton sti
-middling 25% @ 25%; receipts
halon; sales 1,398; stock 4,522.
BOSTON, May 27.--Cotton etroi
middling 25%; receipts 416 bales; t
500; stook 15,000.
GALVESTON, May 27.-Cotton qui
good ordinary 20%; receipts 34 b
sales 172; stook 5,742.
MOBILE, May 27.-Cotton firm
diing 23@23%; receipts 127 bales; >
800; stook 9,576.
PHILADELPHIA, May 27.-Cotton <
-middling 25%@25%.
SAVANNAH, May 27.- Cotton firm
ia go jd demand-middling 23%
oeipts 282 bales; Bales 450; stook 8,3
WILMINGTON, May 27.-Cotton fi
middling 23; stock 2,180 bales.
CHARLESTON, May 27.-Cotton sti
unsettled and nominal-middling 2
ooipts 565 bales; salen 50; stook 8,35
NORFOLK, May 27.-Cotton qu
middling 23%@23%; receipts 321 t
sales 50; stook. 1,669,
AUGUSTA, May 27.-Cotton firm
diing 23%; receipts 47 bales; sales 1
Naw ORLEANS, May 27.-No
doing in flour. Corn 75@7t>.
dull-mess 13.12%. Bacon dull, i
@8>?; Bugar-oared hams eoarce, ai 11%.
Lard quiet-tierce, packors 9; refined
9X@9%; keg, kottle 10%; rofined 11@
bagar quiet and firm-fair to
fully fair 8>?(a)9^. Molaasea firm-in?
ferior 30@32?^ ; common 35@40. Coffre
-ordinary l?>?; fair 17%@18; good
18%(#18>?; prime 18>?@19. Cotton
strong-middling 23j?; receipts 1,238
bales; sales 3,500; stock GI,566.
"THE SHOUT AND SIMPLE ANNALS OF
THE Poon."-It would be impossible to
tell a more harrowing story than was re?
vealed to a coroner of tbe Wost end of
London at the inquest held upon the
body of a journeyman shoemaker, who
had killed himaelf and four of bia chil?
dren. One of the surviving children
gave tho following puthetio pioture of
the deserving poor:
"My father, before he killed himself,
used to work for Mr. David Moore, shoe?
maker, of EdgwareRoad; ho could not
get much work to do, and sometimes he
was so ill when he did have it, he could
hardly do it at all;.he had a pair to make
on Saturday, and they were to have
been rights and lefts; roy father made a
mistake, and made them both for the
right foot, and when he took them in on
Saturday night they went on at him;
then my father told them that be would
make them two lefts to match, bat his
master said he couldn't be bothered with
him in that way, and that my father was
to take the lasts back, and all the mate?
rials that he had got, and that he should
not give him any more work; then
when be came home oe Saturday night,
he told mother he didn't know whatever
he should do, and that he wished he had
never como to Londou, and that he could
get back again to Plymouth, where we
could have a house all to ourselves, like
we used to have; be said he didn't liku
us living and sleeping in those two little
close rooms, where we couldn't get any
air, and now that tho master had took
bis work away, we should all be starved.
My mother then told him to never mind,
as we hadn't been quite starved yet, and
we shouldn't quite starve as long as she
could go ont and get a day's washing;
and then she said ho musn't be down?
hearted, as his master's wasn't the only
place in the world, and she dared say
that after a bit, he would be able to get
a bit of work somewhere. They were
talking in that way when we went to
bed; and then, on Sunday, when
my father got up, he was very
ill, aad said his head ached BO
bad he didn't know what to do; then all
Sunday afternoon my mother was bath?
ing his head with vinegar, and telling
bim to never mind, aa we should get on
all right after a bit; he said he woald not
care if he coald get some work himself,
but he coald not bear the idea of mother
having to go out to work for all of UH;
he then told mother be thonght he
should make way with himself, and he
was going on so bad on Sunday night
that mother put his razor away, and we
went to bed; I don't know whether he
went to the work-house to get some re?
lief on Monday morning or not, but I
think he went out for a little while; I
was ont when he killed my brothers and
sisters, and did not know anything of it
till little Joey Minnear come and told me
ho saw blood under the door, and I
fotehed my mother."
A day or two since, Wm. Beard sent
word to Gen. Cooper, United States Re?
venue Collector for this District, that
daring his absence some ene had left a
barrel cf whiskoj st his place of busi?
ness, and as it was unstamped, and he
didn't wish to get into any tronble, be
hoped the General would send down and
remove it. This was enough for the
collector, and, accompanied by a deputy,
Gen. Cooper proceeded to Beard's store
and asked to be shown "that barrel of
whiskey." Mr. Beard, with a twinkle
in his eye, pointed to a fellow snoring
in a oorner, dead drunk, and told him
that waa tho whiskey he meant, as he
judged from his adaptability to inebriety
that he wonld hold about a barrel. Gen.
Cooper resembles John Randolph in
point of piety, and persons passing
thought he had gone to see a lady who
had disappointed him from his allnsion
to "Helen'Blazes." That liquor wasn't
gauged.-Knoxville Chronicle.
REVOLUTIONARY RELIO.-A corres?
pondent of the Abbeville Press and Ban?
ner, writing from Ninety-Six, says:
Ninety-Six is full of revolutiouary
memories, and these were brought to
mind a few days since by the discovery
of an old gold coin, ploughed up in a
field near the "Star Fort," having the
head of ono of the Georges and the date
1716. Its intrinsic value was estimated
at ten dollars. It is now in the hands of
Mr. Hale, an enterprising merohant of
the town.
The Marianna (Fla.) Courier says that'
the County jail of Calhoun County has
not had an inmate in over four years,
and the County Commissioners have de?
cided to let it be used for a better pur?
pose-a oorn orib. It hus accordingly
been converted into that useful adjunct
tc a farm, and Calhoun believes that
she has made a good trade of it.
Ia tearing up the roof of tho court
house at Edwardsvillo, III., last week,
tho workmen discovered the skeletons of
pigeons piled op by the hundreds. ?
defeot in the cornice enabled the pigeons
to get in, but they were unable to get
out again.
Burklin, the St. Louis man who Bhot
his wife and then fired a ballet into his
own brain, still oarries the bail in hia
brain. He ia in perfect health, and has
nothing to remind him of the shot but a
red apot in hie forehead andan occasion?
al uneasy feeling in the baok of the
head.
The elegant residenoe, No. 242 South
Twelfth street, near Hpraoe, Philadol
phia, has been engaged and fitted up as
the headquarters of the South Carolina
delegation to tho National Republican
Convention, whioh meets ia that city on
the 5th of June.
CAPT. KIDD'S TREASURE.-The for
tu no-hunters of New Jersey have some
?ew discoveries to speculate upon, and
if the assertions of some recent finders
of coin are to be believed, one of their
number has at last definitely located the
spot where the pirate Kidd concealed his
treasure. From Cold Spring, Cape May
County, comes a story of the discovery
of a chest containing $30,000, on the
Diok Thompson farm, near Fishing
Crook. Two men, one of whom bears
the name of Qarrotson, wore digging
ditches on the farm, whioh is now owned
by Oarretson, when they hauled up the
mouey ohest. The coin, they say, is eo
old that it is scarcely possible for them
to tell the exact value of the pieces, but
the larger part is gold, the coins being
about the size of twenty dollar gold
pieces. It is said, furthermore, that
Capt. Kidd's namo was found imprinted
on the chest. There has been a periodi?
cal excitement in the place for the last
forty years, and this report has caused a
sensation that has affected the country
for miles around.
Au oysterman, Jeremiah Yan Pelt,
also claims to have found traces of Capt.
Kidd, or somebody else, near Elizabeth
port. While dredging for oysters off the
shore, on Saturday, he raked up three
silver pieoes, the inscriptions upon which
are scarcely legible. Money has often
been found at the same spot before, a'nd
about forty years ago hundreds of trea?
sure-seekers dug np the land before the
sea had encroached upon it.
TUE SUCCESS or OUR STEAMERS.-The
steamships leaving onr city for Northern
ports are doing an extensive and profit?
able trade, giving the best assurance of
their good management and popularity.
Tho favorite steamship Champion, of the
"Adger Line," left on Saturday with
about 100 passengers, among whioh our
German citizens were well represented,
and whose friends were on the wharf in
large numbers to seo them depart. The
Champion had also a valuable freight,
among whioh were 1.U15 bales cotton
and 2,347 boxes vegetables. The steam?
er Sea Gull, for Baltimore, took a good
cargo, among which were .202 bales cot?
ton, 89 tierces rice and 500 packages
vegetables.-Charleston News.
SMASH OF THE WOODHUTITJ-CLAFIJN
BANK.-The New York correspondent of
the St. Louis Republican says:
The Woodhull-Claflin banking house
is going (or has gone) to smash. Yon
never heard of any business transaction
ever occurring there, except when some
unfortunate school ma'am from the in?
terior wanted to join the Human Bights
party, and put her hard-earned 8500 in
Victoria's bony elaw to invest. Victoria
talked margin like a curbstone broker,
and the behool ma'am has had a margin
for reflection upon her permanent in?
vestment ever since, that law suits have
failed to reoover.
lt is now authoritatively stated that the
Philadelphia Convention will consist of
714 delegates, 412 of whom are pledged
to vote for Gen. Grant. Should nothing
occur to change the aspect of affairs in.
the interval, his nomination will be a
?ero "matter of form." Greeley's, on
the contrary, was "a matter of reform."
First Soot-"Wha has been hitting
Sandy Johnson? He bas gotten a wafo'
black eye." Second Soot-Ay, ry; young
Aleck an' me saw him coming along the
road last Sabbath day, whistlin'as happy
like as if it bad been the middle of the
week, so we jual tuma'uei Lim wee!, but
we didna ken till after we had dan it
that he was only whistlin' for his dog."
Colonel G. was very fat, and being a
bankrupt, was met by one of his cr?di?
tera with a "How do yon do, Colonel?"
"Pretty well; you see I hold my own
yet." "Yes," said the other, "and mine,
too, to my sorrow."
A oollege student being examined in
Locke, where he speaks of oar relation
to the Deity, was asked, "what relation
do we most negleot?" He answered with
the utmost simplicity," "A poor rela?
tion."
AU the liquor shops of Washington
arc dosed on Sunday. The only place
where you can get a drink on that day
is at tho White House, and then it is to
your advantage to be a brother-in-law or
cousin.
Fort Wayne, Ind., loves the memory
ot her dead soldiers. At a recent meet?
ing held to arrange a decoration day
programme, two persona were in attend?
ance, one to report the prooeedinge.
Wm. T. Davis committed suicide at
Powhatan C. H., Va., Saturday, by
shooting himself in the mouth with a
gun. Pecuniary embarrassment is the
supposed cause.
"No woman ain't got no right to set
on a jury, unless she is a man, and every
lawyer knows it, and I don't believe it
anyhow," was the conclusive argument
of a Wyoming statesman.
"My dear," said a husband to his bet?
ter half after a quarrel, "you will never
bo pormitted to go to heaven." "Why
not?" "Because you will be wantdd as
a tormentor down below."
Conneotioat should bo credited with
the laziest fisherman. The individual
in question is a "fifteenth amendment,"
who ties his fish-line to his dog, and
when he gets a bite, kioka his dog.
Tho Newark (N. J.) Journal publishes
a letter from Montgomery Blair, show?
ing how, in his opinion, the Democrats
can support Greeley.
A Philadelphia oity passenger railway
oar was stopped by highwaymen on
Wednesday, and the conduotor robbed
and beaten so that he will probably die.
The Mormon paper at Salt Lake City
says that the monster petition of the
Utah womeu to Congress agaiust the ad?
mission of Utah as a State was a fraud.
600,000 sewing amohines, amounting
in valuo to $25.000,000, are annually
Bold in this country. Sew industry
thrives.
AMNESTY AND THE TEST OATH.-A de
spatch (rom the South, which represents
that the test oath of March, 1862, still
continues to operate disfranchisement,
notwithstanding the passage of the
amnesty Aot, is quite a mistake. The
test oath Act was modified in the last
Congress so as not to apply to those
whose disabilities have been relieved by
tho aotion of Congress. Therefore,
every person who is relieved by the
recent amnesty Act is eligible to any
office on simply taking an oath that they
will remain loyal to the Constitution and
tho Government, and that they will BO
swear, without any mental or other
reservation whatsoever. It is not true,
therefore, as the despatch alluded to
states, "that the great mass are still
barred from holding the most insignifi?
cant clerkship in the gift of the Federal
Government." The only class still dis?
franchised is that speoially excepted by
the law, which went into effect on yes?
terday. Tho best proof of the con?
trary is, that it enabled Mr. Rodgers, of
North Carolina, to take the modified
oath and his seat in Congress. The
passage of the amnesty Act will dispose
of a number of cases in Federal Courts
where suits are pending against persona
who have held office contrary to the
fourteenth amendment. One of the
most important of these is that pending
in the United States Supreme Court
against ex-Senator Nicholson, of Ten?
nessee, who holds a seat on the supreme
bench of that State.
[ Wash. Cor. Baltimore Sun.
STATE DEMOORATTO CONVENTION.-We
notice in the FHONIX, a call made by
the State Executive Committee for a
Convention of the Democratic porty,
for the purpose of sending delegates to
the Baltimore Convention. With our
present convictions we are sorry to see
thiB call made. In our opinion, no good
will come to us by taking part in this
Convention, or in the contest whioh is to
follow it. By taking part in it, we com?
mit ourselves to abide its aotion, and wo
offer a pretext and cn opportunity to
noisy politicians to embroil us in a poli?
tical excitement, from whieh nothing
but evil oan como. If we are to have a
State Convention, let ua pass resolutions
condemning any farther nominations and
send no delegates to Baltimore.
[Carolina Spartan.
If distance lends enchantment to the
view, it muat surely be admitted that it
as often lenda to indifference. The hor?
rible events which for six montba and
more have been passing in Persia have
not, we will venture to say, caused many
inhabitants of New York very poignant
sympathy. Yet history reoords no more
terrible epoch in a nation's history. A
telegram from an officer of engineers,
dated from Teheran early in the month,
aaya that he arrived safely, as he tra?
veled with a considerable force, but-for
the famine has completely disorganized
the eonntry-the road waa very nnaafe
for small parties. He proceeds to aay
that the orops are magnificent and the
water abundant, but the final stage of
faaaine ia more terrible to witnesa than
the first. The road ia strewn with half
eaten corpses, and cannibalism ia com?
mon.
THE DUMB TAUGHT TO SPEAK.-It ia
said that Prof. Rising's "Institution for
the improved instruction of deaf
mutes," in New York, baa succeeded so
well that a class with only six months'
training can pronounce words with re?
markable faoility and clearness of utter?
ance. An oldei class at the exhibition
oould read the Professor's commanda by
the motion of bia lipa, and repeat thea
after him, or answer them rapidly, audi?
bly and distinctly. He says it ia hard to
teach them to speak aleud, but it
has been demonstrated that the dumb
can be taught to apeak, and the deaf to
aupplement their aurioular defect in a
large measure by lip reading.
On Thursday a terrible aeeident oc?
curred st Centre village, Broom Coun?
ty, N. Y. It seems that, while Major
Joseph A. S.Austin was in the saw-mill,
at that place, the sleeve of bis coat
caught in the large ci rou lar saw, draw?
ing him around and about it, and out
ting hie arm from the shoulder. He was
seen to raise himself, whan he staggered
I toward the saw again, which caught him
in the bair, cutting off bia bead. The
Major was seventy-three years of age,
and had ever made himself respected and
beloved by all.
The oity editor of the Jacksonville
Journal, io writing au obituary of a
"highly respectable oitizen," says: "He
has gone to that undiscovered burn."
The sorrowing relations of the highly
respectable are now looking for that
man.
An editor, who had been solioitiag
"short articles" from the subscribers to
his paper, lately received a baby's un?
di r-g&r menta, somewhat dilapidated, but
short enough? doubtless, to meet all re?
quirements.
A billiard-room keeper was bound
over to the Atlanta City Conrt to answer
to the charge of allowing minora to play
at billiards.
A young girl, fourteen years of age?,
living near Rookbridge, Va., oan repeat
nearly the whole of the New Testament.
Notice.
MR. P. B. JA.OOB9 is authorized to collect
money of the subscribers to ausist in
th? building of a Synagogue.
HANDY 80LOMON,
President of Congregation "Dareka Amatb."
May 28_l_
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