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•" "•'• - #" ^ ^ " "" i '"- 5<t /? •/- r' , *t v * ^ 7 | / f?"lM •"^ ' • '* ?r;. •;* -f. xvv *"• V*f \'^*^:» ̂ '<W*i i»q*» -V- > V * <!' -!^ Jito* <* a i*4 . - ; ; * : / ** u x. *A*^» S *-<#«9T*gt I J. TiK SLYKE, Editor * I»«MI«her. McHENRY. « : : ILLINOIS. - * • • • * t' vl _ , UJ EPITOME OF THE WEEK. i , V* *' Condensed Telegraphio New«. f . % < • • } *„w^k». • ^ . - \ Jl CONSTANTINOPLE telegram of the ' rV;5.v ~ 16th says the Porte lias been informed that '\ ' if>* Russia desires to negotiate directly with ,(,?*, ' Turkey, and that mediation would only make ***,-. theiorms harder. GREAT discontent pervaded the In­ habitants of Stamboul, on the 16th, and there were fears of violence. A PERA correspondent telegraphed, / , - ^ **• on the 16th, that the Turkish powers of resist- .J,. _ 44- ;• '?2ance Were obviously exhausted and the Gov- v * ij /'emment would gladly iuake peace on reason- ^^.bletenn* ^ p, . THE Servians have occupied with J artillery the Heights of Topolinitza and Zcan- near Nisch. THE Italian Ministry tendered their ?"* ' 1SJ resignations on the 16th. I THE steamer Mexican, which sailed , from Port Royal, 8. C., for Liverpool, is miss- ^ ^ - if ei ing. She has not been heard from since her departure, and.it was believed at the latter 4' * *. port, on the lftth, that #l»e had foundered with all on board. ; - ' ' , % l « f A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the %s\ >. " 3v>^ 17th says Germany and Austria had refused #v . Turkey's request for mediation. England had / «*; \ also notified the Porte that she would con , tinue to observe strict neutrality. France and Italy also declined to interfere to bring f> if: about an understanding, but offered to second the efforts that might be made by other ijl Powers more directly interested. ' THE Turks have evacuated and , f1J burned Elena, which was immediately- occu- hy the Russians. ' > THE Porte has decided to grant fuller •. #flJ autonomy to the Cretans, in the hope that the " i: discontent will be allayed. ' h" THE Russian losses to Dec. 13 were I ' i t n m w r n . J • • '^- v- m >W rt t V'1 " t ' l A large majority of the Northum- | berland (Eng.) collieries have stopped work, ; I In consequence of a proposed reduction of 12}^ * per cent, in the rate of wages. A LONDON telegram of the 17th says P the British Cabinet was divided on the sub­ ject of intervention in Eastern affairs. It was g said to be no see ret that Earl Beaeonsfield favored an immediate declaration of war with ' % Russia- It was stated that the Cabinet had decided to ask Parliament to vote a grant of A ! . money for increasing the army aad navy. It rfc; ijj j fas officially announced that Parliament [ < \ • » w o u l d m e e t o n t h e 1 7 t h o f J a n u a r y , I ^ EBRONEOUS interpretations having L. ^>een given to the late circular of the Porte in- \ viting mediation, it is officially explained that - Turkey does not ask the interference of the ' V , < Powers as a vanquished State, since she holds yet two lines Of defense. The object of the » circular was simply to express the willingness > 1 of the Turkish Government to consider the •j. #p* pcopotols made at the Cqpstantinople Confer- &'•; ' - > ence before the war was entered upon. C THE Servians ha\% effected a junc- \ , f - ' , t f c m w i t h t h e R u s s i a n A r m y . . A d l i e , w h i c h had been evacuated by the Turks, has been /^ occupied by Prince Milan. 9 * * - A BEKLIN dispatch of the 19th says iAt-i that, while the German Government was de- , , , sirous of the termination of the war between - v&' ; Turkey and Russia, it would itself neither ad t & vance any obstacle, nor, so far as It could pre- vent, permit any other Power to hinder the ^ extinction of Turkey as an independent Euro- t pean Power. THE Porte has instructed its Minister ^: at Rome to ask for an explanation of the increas- / : ingly intimate relations between Italy and i.l' Greece. ' || THE Montenegrin insurgents have fceen defeated by a Turkish column, which Was, « the 19th, marching for the relief of „s Scutari and AntivarL THE Servians lfave c^tured Fort %Inramor, near Niseh. . . A ROME (Italy) telegram of the morn- ring of the 30th reports the sudden death of j Countess Mirafiore, the wife of Victor Kmmin. I Bel, King of Italy. RF ̂ A CONSTANTINOPLE telegram of the 20th says the course of England had had a bad _ effect in inspiring hopes that the long-delayed - assistance of Great Britain was about to be ** offered. It was stated that Turkey was less -W willing to negotiate a peace than during the days immediately foUowtng the capture of Plevna. THE calling together of the British Parliament is considered, in St. Petersburg, as tantamount to a declaration of war. -Kti ij ' ' • L i , - THE THE NEW WORLft. Legislature of Wyoming ad- . ̂ jouraed, on the 16th. A fEW days ago Ml armed and masked mob took possession of the Town of Osceola, f t -f Mo., went to the Court-House and carried ft; n *wa>' all the documents relating in any way to - ,y. tax matters. The, trouble grew out of a rall- :f road tax levied to pay for past-due interest on '/v railroad bonds. ' " HON. RICHARD C. MCCORMICK has nominated by the President, and unani- '-ff: mously confirmed by the Senate, to be United States Commissioner-General at the coming • , . a | Par is Expos i t ion . ,*5F^ A CAB laden with oil took fire at yj J PWerson, N. J., on the 17th, and the burning liquid flooded the streets and' destroj'ed sev- \ i eral liouses, some of them half a mile away :.3j Three oil-cars burst in succession and several II others were destroyed. Many houses were consumed and their Inmates rendered home­ less. Bo great was the heat that the paint on booses a mile distant was blistered. THE publishers of the Atlantic Monthly celebrated, in Boston, 011 the 17th the seven­ tieth birthday of the poet, J. Greenleaf Whit- tier. Oliver Wendell Holmes read a poem. "Mark Twain," H. W. Longfellow, Chas. Dudley Warner and othenrtook part in thecer- em^pies of Uie occasion. J. F. FARLEY was, on the 17th, nom­ inated for United States Senator, by the Dem­ ocratic caucus of the California Legislature The vote 011 the final ballot stood: Farley, 42; . McDonald, 18; Hager, 18. Mr. Farley was ; subsequently elected by the Legislature, by a 11-strict party vote. ANOTHER coal combination by pro djlfttv was formed in New York, on the even ing of the 18tli. The quota of production of each mine was assigned and a penalty fixed for over-production. A Board of Control was or­ ganized and a Coal Exchange established. A committee was also appointed to regulate the quota of shipments by each interest. W. F. ENDICOTT, President of the late Central National Bank, of Chicago, is found to be a defaulter, and has left that city for parts unknown. It seems that, like Spencer, he unloaded by selling to the bank his capital stock for cash, leaving behind worthless notes. It was thought, on the 18th, that stockholders would realiie nothing, and depositors in the suspended concern little. THE Springfield (111.) Savings Rank has suspended. Liabilities to depositors, about $175,OCX). Two HUNDRED delegates to the Na­ tional Reform Convention, to secure express acknowledgment of God in the-Constitution of the United States, assembled at Rochester,"?*. F., on the 18th. THE Fort Benton Rccord of the 17th reports that Sitting Bull, with his Sioux fol lowing and the unsubdued Ncz Perces, had re- crossed the frontier, an^y were then encamped in large numbers on Gen. Miles' battle-field. JOHN A. JOYCE, convicted at St. Louis of conspiracy to defraud the Govern­ ment of taxes on distilled spirits, has been fully and unconditionally pardoned by the President. A BOY named Willie Hopkins, ten years old, was recently abducted from his home at Braddock's Fields, near Pittsburgh, Pa., by a man supposed to be a tramp. He is 6aid to be a pretty boy, with full face, light complexion and liair, and rather stoutly built. The abductor is a tall man, with face pitted with small-pox. The parents of the boy are in great distress over his disappearance, the mother being almost insane from grief. REV. G. F. SEYMOUR was, on the 19th, elected Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield, III. Bishop Seymour is a brother of Horatio Seymour, of New York. THE proprietors of the Wilkcsbnrre (Pa.) New* have been fined $700 each and sentenced to ten months' imprisonment in the County Jail for an alleged libel upon the Sheriff of the county. A like sentence was Imposed upon the same defendants for libel­ ing one George B. Kulp, a citizen. NEWS received at Gen. Sheridan's headquarters, in Chicago, on the night of the 19th, from Capt. Blair, report that the Texas Rangers at San Elizario, in El Paso County, Tex., surrendered on the morning of the 18th. Judge Howard, agent for the salt mines, At­ kinson and McBride were shot, and the rest of the Rangers disarmed and liberated. The mob had dispersed. It was composed entirely of native-born citizens of Texas, and no help was given them from the Mexican side of the river. A BOILER in the candy factory of E. Greenfield, on Barclay street, in New York City, exploded, 011 the afternoon of the 20th. The boiler was located under the sidewalk, and when it burst it tore away the entire front of the building, and scattered the wreck in all directions. Fire immediately followed, and the walls of the building fell in. There were 200 girls and boys employed in the building, a large number of whom lost their lives. Many others were seriously burned, but escaped with their lives. The property destroyed was val­ ued at $500,000. ITOHN VAN HOESEN, the reputed ring­ leader of the Albany (N. Y.) railroad rioters in July last, has been found guilty and sen­ tenced to seven years' imprisonment. THOMAS ROONEY'S house, at West Point, N. Y., was burned, a few days ago, and two children, aged three and five years, per­ ished in the flames. They were locked in the house during the absence of their parents, and were found, lifeless and charred, clasped in each other's arms. A FEW nights5* since, three children of Mrs. Catherine Ryan, of Randolph, Mass., were suffocated by coal-gas, and also Mary E. Burry, who was spending the night with tlieni. Mrs. Ryan, herself, was alive, when discovered, but was not expected to recover. • THE troubles in El Paso County, Tex., are said to have grown out of a dispute as to the ownership of extensive salt mines in that section, at which the people of the sur­ rounding country have obtained salt from time immemorial free of Cost. A number of Amer­ ican speculators, Judge Howard among them, set up a title to the mines. In attempting to maintain this Judge Howard quarreled with the people in the neighborhood, and at last shot and killed a man who espoused the cause of the resident Mexicans. He then fled the country, but recently returned, and was cap­ tured with his adherents, and three of them, including the Judge, were killed as already announced. THE Woman's National Suffrage As­ sociation will meet in Washington, D. C„ on the 7th of January. ON the 20th, Maj. J. B. Jones, com­ mander of the Texas State troops, telegraphed to Representative Mills, at Washington, that his Lieutenant at El Paso had Informed him that 150 of the mob at San Elizario, to whom the Lieutenant was forced to surrender, and who subsequently killed three of their prison­ ers, were Mexicans from over the border. A CALL has been issued for a Demo­ cratic State Convention to meet at Indianapo­ lis, Ind., on the 20th of February next. THE Legislature of South Carolina has ratified, bj over a two-thirds vote, the amendment to the State Constitution levying an annual tax of two mills upon all the taxa­ ble property in the State for the support of free schools. CONGRBSSIOIfAfc. SENATE.--On the 15th, a secret ses­ sion was held for the purpose of considering the difficulty which had occurred tn« day be­ fore between Messrs. Conkling and Gordon, during the Executive session. Alter the doors were ^eopened a paper was made public, signed by Messrs. Hamlin, Ransom, Howe and McDonald, to the effect that the words uttered during the misunderstanding alluded to by Messrs. Conkling and Gordon, were mutually felt to be unkind; that the reports of the inci­ dent which had appeared in the papers were inaccurate and unjust to both gentlemen; that, upon careful inquiry as to what was said by each speaker, and what was understood to be said by the other, it Is certain that the. first of- fensive words were inspired by an honest mfe- understanding of what had been innocently said by the other speaker; all that was offens­ ive was the outgrowth of misapprehension. The na per concludes as follows: "We, who are the mutual friends of both Senators, are of opinion that it is due alike to the Senate and the speakers, that whatever was felt to be unkind or offensive in the remarks of cither should be treated as if never uttered, and, we are now authorized to state, are mutually'and simultaneously withdrawn."....Adjourned to Jan. 10. HOUSE.--The Democratic side en­ deavored to force a vote on the resolution of Mr. Wood for wholesale investigations, but the Republicans interposed dilatory motions, and a motion was finally agreed to to postpone the matter until Jan. 10 A resolution was adopted authorizing the Committee on For­ eign Affairs to sit during the reeess in the in­ vestigation Df liie Mexican border troubles.... The Senate amendments to the Post-Route bill were concurred iu....Adjourned to Jan. 10. --The fashion of wedding the man with a ring, as well as the woman, has been started in Strong-minded New England. * " ' ILLINOIS STATE NEWS. • TH* following were the postal ehanges In Illinois during the week end ng Dec. 8: Estab­ lished-- llroadlands, Champaign County, Will­ iam Warters, Postmaster; Malvern, Whiteside County, William D.'Haves, Postmaster; Tom- liuson Station, Champaign County, M. Killlon, Postmaster. Postmasters Anointed--Barry, Pike County, George W. Ohrysup; Calmar, McDonough County, J. W. Wilson; Crater's Ford, Montgomery County, Samuel Cassel; Hoyleton, Washington County, E. E. Welborn; Ripley, Brown County, Adam E. Martin; Suu- beam, Mercer County, Henry W. Nevins; Troy Grove, LaSalle County, Mrs. Harriet M. Fos­ ter; Wayne City, Wayne County, Frauds A. Scudamore. THE college building of the Lake Forest University, a handsome four-story structure of considerable size, was burnt to the ground at an early hour, on the morning of the 10th, and there Is too much reason for believing that the fire was caused by an Incendiary. Loss, about $50,000. " ^ SADIE NICHOLSON,' of Macon County, fell on the ice, the other day, while skating, and received fatal injuries. HBXKY WABD, four years, old, was drowned the other day in Bear Creek, near (Jiiincy. His parents were viciting friends, when the boy wandered off and was drowned as stated. A TWO-YEAB-OLD son of William Korr, liv­ ing near Loralne, recently swallowed an ounce of hair-dye containing nitrate of silver. At last accouuts he was alive, but considered past recovery. AN'DHEW L. PECK committed suicide at his residence, near Otterville, in Jersey County, on the night of the 14tli, by shootiug himself, through the temple with a revolver. Ox the morning of the 15th, an accident oc­ curred to the east end of the railroad bridge* at Rock Island. One of the wrecking der­ ricks of the company had been repaired at the Chicago shops and was being sent for use on the Iowa Division. In its reconstruction the swinging arm had been left about four inches too high. This, coming into contact with the eastern end of the bridge, the beam doubled, throwing out the second supporting posts, the east end of the span falling upon the road be­ low. Conductor McFarland was thrown on the bridge below, receiving severe injuries. A Fit AN KLIN COT;XTY farmer's car-load ol hogs weighed on an average 435 pounds per head. * . . WIXTEK wheat crop iu Saline County prom­ ises well. THE general crash has struck Springfield, and the Springfield Savings Bank has laid down. A meeting of the Directors was he'd, on the evening of the 17th, and the conclusion reached was t hat the bank could 110 longer con­ tinue business. The liabilities amount to about $1(53,001). The resources of the bank, added to the personal liabilities of the stock­ holders, makes the payment of all its creditors certain. W. H. SWETT, Chief Grain Inspector at Chi­ cago, reports the following movement of grain during the year ending Oct. 31, 1877: The total grain inspected into store for the year is as follows: Wheat, bu..... 12,CC0,90C Cora «.632,(KKJ Oats. ....I D.S-Vyrf C Rye tfll.SlK! Barley 5,800,(KX! These figures represent the lading of 158,099 cars and 921 boats. The grain inspected out of store for th<?yeai is thus stated: Wheat.hu. ...13.748,352'Barley 2,219.758 Corn .39.1* KM 271 Oat*. 5,66*,fi57 Total. 63,517,435 Rye 1,945,541 j The entire storage capacity in Chicago on the date of the report is stated to be 15,000,000 bushels. THE store of J. H. Weaner, at Pulaskiville, was burned, on the eveuing of the 17th. Loss, $3,000. EARLY on the morning of the 17th, at (Petersburg, an incendiary fire was discovered in a frame building 011 the north side of the Public Square. The property was owned by Philip Rainey, and occujfled by John Wilkins as a saloon. The fire communicated to the adjoining building, occupied by J. H. Bowen as a grocery store and the United States Ex­ press office. Both buildings are a total loss. Wilkins lost everything, even to his books. Bowen's loss is trilling, principally by water. No insurance on anything. Total loss, about 125,000. Ax Incendiary fire at Rock Island, on the 16th, caused the destruction of Sawyer's sta­ bles and the loss of three valuable horses. Loss, $2,000. DB. RACCII, of the State Board of Health, has issued already 1,900certificates on applica­ tions from physicians. By Jan. 1st 2,40(1 will have been filled out. ( A LATE fire at Neoga burned J. Wilson's and S. Z. Bland's dry goods stores, McCart­ ney's harness shop, two shoe stores and the livery stable of J. Waller, including all the carriages and horses. The families residing over the stores escaped without their cloth­ ing. f THE State Superintendent of Public In. structlou has recently decided that a teacher's certificate must bear the same date as the ex­ amination, and cannot legally bear any other. The date of (lie examination and that of tlie certificate must agree on the books in the of* flee of the Superintendent. ' Ix answer to the questions whether a teach­ er can be paid from the public-school fund for services rendered without a legal certificate, Sup't Etter says: The Directors have no au­ thority given them to issue an order to a teacher in payment of services for teaching prior to the date of his certificate; nor can a Treasurer legally pay such an order If drawn by the Directors. Every teacher must, pos­ sess 9 legal certificate : sa license to engage in the work of teaching in any public school. The law carefully guards the people's money, and both Directors and teachers must complv fully with its provisions before they can per­ form their several duties legally. THE first meeting oi the Illinois Bar Asso­ ciation will be held at Springfield, on tho 3d of January next. Hon. Anthony Thornton will deliver the address. THE first prisoner received at the Joliet Penitentiary was in 1S5S, and since that time about 13,000 prisoners have been committed. The largest count was on Nov. 26, when they numbered 1,805. THEY arc trying to introduce water as a bev­ erage In Springfield. The movement will be a success until the Legislature meets. The Egyptian Love of Something Big. The notion of bigness seems to have held a closer grip over the despotic Egyptian mind than over any other psychological specimen with which we are acquainted. It does not need a journey up the Nile to show us their fondness for the immense; half an hour at the British Museum is quite suffi­ cient. Now, why did the Egyptians so revel in enormous works of art? This question is usually answered by saying that their absolute rulers loved thus to show the v«|stness of their power; and doubtless the answer is very true as far as it goes, and quite falls in with our theory given above. But it does not always happen that despotic monarchs build pyramids or Memnons, and the further question suggests itself--what was there in the circumstances of Egypt which determined this special and exceptional display of architectural extravagance? As we cast about for an answer, an analogy strikes us at once. Taking the world as a whole, I think it will be seen that the greatest architectural achievements are to be found in the great plain countries, and that mountain districts are compara­ tively bare of large ^dilices. The plain of Lombardy, the plain of the Low Countries, the plain of Chartres, the lower Rhine Valley, the Eastern coun­ tries--these are the spots where our great European cathedrals are to be found; and if we pass over to Asia, we shall similarly discover the country for pagodas, mosques and temples in the broad basins of the Euphrates, the Ganges, the Indus, the Hoang-Ho and the Yang-tze-kiang. No doubt castles and fortresses are to be found every­ where on heights for purposes of de­ fense; but purely ornamental architec­ ture is most flourishing in lt*yel expanses of land. Now, there is no level expanses of land in the world habitable ,by man so utterly unbroken and contin­ uous as the Valley of the Nile. Herein, doubtless, we have a clue to the special Egyptian love for colossal undertakings of every sort.--Comhill Magazine. k Fashion Story. , THINGS that are novel are liable to be regarded as nice. Once accepted, no man can tell how long they are going to remain. A good many years ago, a married couple, of noble tendencies-- we refer to their birth--were descend­ ing a stairway, in Paris. The lady was was dressed quite simply. The gentle­ man blunderingly stepped on her dress and tore the same from her waist in the rear. The lady hit him savagely with her parasol, breaking the handle of that article. " What shall we 4o nowP1' she said, with a sob. " I'll tell you, my dear," he replied, with that cheerfulness and adaptability to circumstance which married men know so well how to assume quickly. "Drop your shawl to your waist, so covering the rent, and there you are," " How ridiculous!" she replied, shed­ ding tears copiously. "I shall look like a fright. I shall never dare to ap- Fear on the street again. You wretch! shall be the talk of the whole town." "It cannot be helped, I am afraid," remarked the gentleman, ruefully. "We must get home somehow. And really, my dear, I think the dress will look quite nicely. It will be a novelty, anyhow." " My new silk!" exclaimed the lad):, wringing her hands. "It will be utter­ ly spoiled. The skirts will sweep up unutterable filth. It will be loaded with mud, and nutshells, and straws, and little sticks, and dust, ami every­ thing. You abominable person! You have ruined me forever." "I hope it is not so bad as that," said the poor man, trying to smile. "But, see here, my dear! I am as un­ fortunate as you. Observe how ridicu­ lous you have made this hat. You have battered it out of all shape with your parasol. It looks--it looks like a sec­ tion of* a badly-used stove-pipe. I am ashamed to be seen on the street with it." " And the parasol!" continued the lady. " The stick is broken off nearly up to the shade. 1 dare not go out without it, but it looks so absur.a that I shall be the laughing-stock of all we meet." The couple were a long distance from home. The ludicrousness of the situa­ tion finally overcame their timidity and vexation, and they laughed. This put them in such a good humor that they became bold. Marching out to the street, they went on their way looking as if nothing had happened. People stared at them curiously. But they were known and respected, and there were no smiles and 110 questions. The ladies of Paris occasionally look around for a back view of the ladies they have passed. It is a custom peculiar to no other part of the world. In this in­ stance the backward glances were numerous, but by no means alarming, " Why, look at j^the Countess1 dress!" was the general remark. "It sweeps the walk at least a yard in her rear. How sweet! The folds of the dress fall so gracefully! It is evidence that there is no stinginess in the Countess1 family. It shows that art will have its way re­ gardless of expense. It is the consum­ mation of grace. And observe the Countess' parasol! The shade is down to the tip of the Countess" nose. There's utility for you. What is a shade for but to keep the sun off? What is the use of a yard of stick? It is an unnecessary weight and it serves to let the sunshine in under the shade. It is the sweetest and best of parasols." The Count had no less reason to be happy. "By Jove!" remarked the gentlemen who looked at him. "The Count's hat is a stunner this time. Looks as if it had been accidentally elongated. That's art. Studied care-, lessness, you know. Seems to be stiff, too. That's art. Seems to have a superfluous amount of vacuum; but what's a hat unless you have enough of it? Wonder where the Count got it? His own invention, probably. Just like him. Nobody knows how to dress tastefully equal to the Count. It is the hat of hats. It is the brightest and most artistic and most valuable hat that ever came from the maker's." This was centuries ago. A week after the event all Paris had a peculiar parasol, and likewise the trail and the stove-pipe hat. Since then they have traveled all over the world, and, dear children, they are with us yet. We stepped on one of them a moment ago. Our hat was banged with another of them, as H remit, sufficiently to make another fashion in that article. But, alas! we are not a Count.--Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat. % ¥ --A Greenville (S. C.) man's cow fell into a thirty-foot dry well, and he couldn't get her out, until an ingenious colored individual suggested that he fill the well up. This was done, and the bo­ vine kept on top of the dirt until she was high enough to leap out. Webster's Method of Examining: Wit­ nesses. Mr. Webster's method of examining witnesses may be judged from the fop lowing scene which occurred in a dis­ puted will case. Among the witnesses was a bank cashier, to whom Mr. Web­ ster said: " You say you think this is not Mr. Tuft's signature?" " I was cashier of the bank of Which he was President, and used to see his signature in all forms; and very often *0 obligations and notes and bills." " And you think this is not his signa­ ture? Please to point out, if you will, where there is a aiscrepancy?" " I do not know as 1 can tell." "But a sensible man can tell why he thinks one thing is not like another." "Well (examining the note), in the u the top used to be closed." " Gentlemen of the jury, you hear: The top was closed. Go on." "The s at the end of his name was usually kept above the horizontal, line; this is below." "Well; any Other?" "Not any other." Mr. Webster then took one of the fortj genuine signatures which were in the Court, and stating to the jurors that it was admitted to be genuine, showed them that the very things the witness had testified Mr. Tufts never did, were to be found in this signature, and in nearly every instance. The witness looked chop-fallen and took his seat; and nearly all the wit­ nesses were floored in the same way. At last they came to William P. Win­ chester. He sat opposite to me and looked at Mr. Webster with an air that said, " You won't get any such answers out of me." He took the stand and testified that he did not think the sig­ nature genuine. "Why?" asked Mr. Webster, "I can't tell," was the reply. "Rut, Col. Winchester, an intelligent man can give a reason for his opinion. Pray, don't give such a statement as that without offering a reason for it." "I can't give a reason; but if you will allow me to make an illustration I will do so." "Certainly." "Suppose," said Mr. Winchester, " some distinguished man at home or abroad should be seen walking, on 'Change; suppose you were there at high 'Change; it would be very natural to point out Daniel Webster and say, 4 There goes the defender of the Con­ stitution!1 Everybody would mark him, and nobody could mistake his identity. They would always know him after­ ward. But if, in the afternoon, some man brought me a head and two iegs and two arms on a platter and asked me to identify them separately as be­ longing to Daniel Webster, I could not swear to them. In the same way there is something about this signature that does not look genuine; but I could not swear to the particulars." Mr. Web­ ster smiled at this reoly and told the witness that he might be excused.-- Harvey's Reminiscences of Daniel Web­ ster. Wall-Street " bucket Shops." THE term " bucket shop" is used in Wall street to describe a v blackboard exchange." " Blackboard exchanges" are of recent origin, having sprung in­ to being since the Stock Exchange ad­ vanced brokers' commissions, and since the numerous class which formerly speculated in stocks has become so im­ poverished as to buy or sell as much as 100 shares of stock with difficulty. A "blackboard exchange" is a con­ cern where a firm or individual opens an office and receives orders to buy or sell any amount of any stock dealt in at the Stock Exchange; in some as small an amount as one share can be bought or sold; in others five shares is the lowest amount dealt in. The pro­ prietors of the " bucket shop" sell all the stocks ordered bought and buy all the stocks ordered sold--at least, this is the theory; in reality, no stock is bought or sold. The profits made by the " bucket shops" lie in the fact that in a large majority of cases specula­ tors are wrong, and therefore the "bucket shop" -wins in say eight cases out of ten. ' The bets (or purchases and sales) are made by customers as the prices come out on the teldgraph tape; tney are then immediately clialked upon the black­ board and customers make their bets. Hence it will be seen that the telegraph tape reports are important in the busi­ ness. To break up the business, the Stock Exchange have adopted the system of mixing up the quotations as they go over the tape--that is, to take quota­ tions for ten minutes, reverse them and send them out in a bunch. There are twenty-six " bucket shops" and a thou­ sand members of the Stock Exchange, who have, say, 505 telegraph instru­ ments in their offices; these latter are all disturbed by the course taken by the Stock Exchange to kill the "bucket shops," and brokers say that the course adopted by the Stock Exchange^ Com­ mittee, in this matter, is not different from what it would be for a man in his night-clothes to stand out on the ice, in a December night, for the purpose of freezing to death a dog of which he wished to be rid. It is considered unfortunate, by the members of the Stock Exchange who reflect, that such prominence should have been given to the subject by the Stock Exchange, as it brings before the people the fact that stock exchange speculation is so unsafe for outsiders that it is perfectly safe for anyone to take whatever bets the public choose to make on the prices of stocks--and not only safe, but profitable, for those who act in exactly tlie reverse way to the public. # The reason that the concerns are called "bucket shops" is that for a small sum of money a* person can go through all the stages of intoxication which follow speculation, while at the Stock Exchange a fortune may be nec- esuary to get the same experience. At the real "bucket shops" in the old Five Points enough liquor could be got for ten cents to intoxicate a whole com­ pany. The Wall-street' name is an adoption of the old Five Points name,, and for reasons that are apparent. The most frequented of these ex­ changes is on the first floor of a build­ ing on Broad street. On pushing opexi a door well curtained with green baize* the stranger finds himself in a long- room^ running the whole length of the 1 building. Half of this room is the ex­ change, and the other half is used by; , the bookkeepers and cashiers who stand, behind wire nettings making good thef . exchange's losses and receiving the! margins. Four lines of chairs extend from the windows on Broad street back to the cashier's desk, and from ten to three o'clock.there is scarcely a chair vacant. On the wall is a large black­ board divided into columns a few inches wide : at the head of each column k is the name of some stock, and the quo-J tations are marked beneath.as they comet^ from the stock indicator and are snouted!, out by a watchful clerk. Cigars are handed around by one of Che estab­ lishment's boys, and the room is full oti; smoke. Three young men patrol from one end of the line of chairs to the other, and take down on a slip of papeii^ the orders to buy or sell. The persons^ who occupy the ehairs are broken-dowii: operators, merchants' clerks and boys.? The calling of quotations, the orders to*, sell or buy and the Stock Exchange jar-f* gon of nearly a hundred excited men make a noise which renders the greater part Of the transactions which take f place unintelligible to a stranger. To§T give an idea of the working of thi& "bucket shop" a description of the fol4 < lowing transaction may ba useful: Nextfe to the reporter of the Evening Post sat»- • a young man, apparently not more thai? twenty years old, flashily dressed and evidently at home. When Lake Shore, stock was marked on the board as att- 591, he gave an order to buy five shares, and handed one of the walkers five dol­ lars, for which heireceived a sort of re­ ceipt for his shares, which cost him 59|. When the stock was next quoted on the board it was at 59J; he had ah oppor^l tunity to close the transaction and make exactly sixty-two cents, which he did#l apparently satisfied with the result ofP his speculation. The greater number of the speculators are not 'so lucky.-- Ar. Y. Evening Post. 1 _ " • " •/ .tr.' iif'rtf.:.§* IF no accounts have beeiv kept, a be-Wt ginning of a better system should be ' made now. At the close of the yeaifr ' make an inventory of every artiele, and value them, and also put down ' debts owing and due. This will shew" how one stands at the close of the year. By keeping strict account of one's busi­ ness, it is not only known what goe^- outand what comes in, but by noting" every expenditure and income we can readily find where we gain or lose; foolish or unwise spendings are thought over a second time, and this naturally leads to avoiding them in the future.-- Practical Farmer. mar*' moon*.. When the telegraph announced the discov­ ery oy Prof. Hall that our neighboring planet" had two satellites, and the dispatch ivas read next morning at ten thousand American break­ fast tables, what think you was the effect upon the hearers? Some colloquy similar to the fol­ lowing was sure to occur: "Mars has two moons, hey? Pass me the milk, Kitty. Stranee, isn't it, that astronomers never saw them be­ fore. Another chop, please. I wonder what they'll discover next? These corn cakes are- excellent. What's the latest f.om Europe!" We have become so accustomed to startling discoveries and announcements, that we take them as a matter of course. Even truth must appear in flaming colors to make herself seen. 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