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lypcnrg |foindcalcr J. TAN SLY EE, EMSOS AXD PUBLISHES. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. $&r? ft- It pp 'XFT OUR JUVENILES. * The BomA to atumber-ZmniL •' "Wfcat is the rod to Slumber-land ? and when doea p/'iuz. the baby go T 1H» road lies straight through matter** arm* when the sun is sinking lW. , Hagoeebjthedroiwy "land olBod" to theUad *• a t "lullab#* " | 1 " ' | men all wee lambs ait «ala In the fold, airierthe evening sky. I*. • • , A soft little nightcown, <|eaa aad White; a faee F. washed sweet and fair; ?%" A toother brushing the tangle* out of the silken, ; golden hair. Ihro little tired, eattney feet, from the ahoe and the f atockiBc freaf Tare little JiaacU together* clasped at ttw mother's If-;; patient knee; " Some baby-words that are drowsily lisped to the tender Shepherd's ear; * kies th»t only a mother c*a place on the brow I,; -- of IMP baby dear: £.: ; Alittle round head which nestle* at last oloae to t ; . t h e m o t h e r ' s b r e a s t , /; And then the lalUby soft aad low, staging tha aong |1 of rest; • - -And close and closer the blue-Veined lids are hiding g. ; • : *' the baby-eyes, t v , Asover the road to Slumber-land the dear little traveler hies, , . lor this is the way, through mother's arms, all little * babies go | tto the beautiful city of Slumber-land when the aun " is sinking low. Vrnrmmrmi Air ' V1 ? . ~ . I* Poll# Hereey** fat. was Polly's--whatever anybody tfiAj s^y--f6r she baited the trap and eet it, and caught the little fellow, and fed him afterward, and named him John Henry. t He was a young rat, not mneh bigger than a goose's egg, whioh everybody knows the size of, of course. He was soft and silky--delicate shades of slate color losing themselves in the tenderest shades of gray--and a tail about the size of a bran, span, new slate-pencil-- Jhd such ears! They looked like little brown shells, in which was the daintiest shade of pink, and they were so thin that Polly could see the light shining though them. As for John Henry's ej68, they were no better looking than two jet black--no, black jet beads-- ' and they twinkled, and twinkled, and twinkled. Such hands as John Henry had! Delicate little fingers, about as big around as fine zephyr needles, and about as long as Polly's eyelashes. I have drawn John Henry's portrait carefully, because he was for some time quite an important member of our fam­ ily, and Polly's chief pet. He was a baby rat when she caught him in the cage-like trap, but he grew wonderfully and became very tame. He must have been in the trap for some time when i Polly discovered him, for he was nearly starved; his hunger made him lose all fear and take food directly from Polly's hand, and Polly fed him with all sorts of nice things--bits of cake, pieces of meat, scraps of cheese--and, finally, topped off the fine meal with a thim­ bleful of milk, whioh he drank so greedily that we could see him " swell­ ing wisibly before our wery eyes." And from that day--when, sitting up on his hindrlegs and washing his dainty hands with his pink little tongue, he looked into Polly's face and saw the goodness there--he and she be­ came fast friends. Polly wasn't afraid of him--not a bit. Bhe would put her hands into the trap and stroke his rat- ship's back, and even tickle his ears with his toil, without remonstrance. -John Henry grew tamer and tamer. He would run and find Polly in any part of the house *f she called him, and he would search Polly's pockets for sweet­ meats, and sometimes he would crawl into the depth of her cloak-pockets, nestle down there among the gloves and ^ the handkerchiefs, and take a nap. You see Polly's cloak hung just over the hall register, and was always warm and com­ fortable. One Stmday morning, just as Polly was starting for Sunday-school in all the glory of her new sealskin cloak, it. began to rain, and, as a wetting is rather bad " for fur, Aunt Elinor was forced to insist on Polly's changing her new cloak for her old one. !'The idea," said Potty, "of anything wearing an every-day cloak to Sunday- school! Nobody ever heard of such a thing. I shall be ashamed All the time." But Aunt Nell insisted, and so Polly made the best of it, and off she went, brushing a great tear-drop from her eye as she shut the door. It was late when Polly reached the Sunday-school, and the services had be­ gun. They were just singing. Polly took her place in her class as quickly as she could, and got settled just in time for the superintendent's prayer. The school was very quiet ;»it was a very gOod school, and you might have heard a pin drop while Mr. -------- was pray­ ing. Polly had bowed her head with the rest, and was trying to understand every word of the prayer, when the lit­ tle girl next to her shrieked, and then another little girl shrieked, and then all the little girls of Polly's class jumped ' Of on the benches, and then the teacher screamed, and then the boys in the next class began to say: "There his goes Here he is--under this bench. No, he ain't; he's out in the aisle "--all speak­ ing right out in Sunday-school, and flinging Sunday-school books and hats and anything else they could lay hands on at something on the floor. They made such a rumpus that nobody knew when the superintendent said "Amen;" but presently he was among them with a cane, jabbing' it under set­ tees and under the book-cases, and any­ where else he could jab it under. Then the sexton came with a poker, and he and the superintendent rattled and banged away like everything. Polly was bewildered -- she didn't know what they were after, and what it all was about; and she opened her eyes very wide at such a confusion in Sun­ day-school. She had just made upher mind that it must be a rat, when he jumped right out from behind the book­ case. Polly saw him, and gave a little cry. fsi T t , "My/my," she said,John Henry!" And SUM enough it aad Polly caught him easily enough, poor little fellow, all bruised and bleeding, and frightened almost to death. And Polly rolled him up in her pocket handker­ chief, and walked out of school, with a sense of personal injury on her fao such as I never saw before. . " The idea," she said, " of being afraid of John Henry!" And poor John Henry was sick for a Jong time afterward. He never wanted to go to Sunday-school again, you may be sure. And you may be equally sure that 4he superintendent didn't want him there. Polly bandaged him and bathed his bruised nose, and fed him on spoon- food for some days, and, to the delight of her dear little heart* John Henry re­ covered. He is now a very dignified and gray old rat, and Polly says he winks knowingly, as much as to say, " Bather not," whenever he hears Sun­ day-school mentioned.--William M. F Bound, in St. Nicholas. 4 SLOW TRAIN. We are frequently indebted to our friend CoL Yard, of the Monmouth Democrat, for aneodotes illustrative of the character of the peculiar people who live in New Jersey. He sends us this: The Hon. G. T tells a good story of a slow railroad in the northern part of the State. He says he went there gunning, and came to a short line of road on which was run a single car, the forward end of which was parti­ tioned off for baggage. He took his dog in the car with him and put him under the seat. Presently the con­ ductor came along, and insisted that the dog should go into the baggage- room, which, after some altercation, was done; but here the baggage-master de­ manded a fee of 50 oents, which was de­ nounced as a " swindle," a " put-up job," between the conductor and the baggage- master, and that sooner than pay it he would tie the dog to the train and let him "Work his passage." The con­ ductor assented, and the dog was hitched to the rear of the train. The dog, so1 T says, kept along easily with the train, but the conductor began to get uneasy, making frequent trips to the engineer, urging him to increase the speed of the train, and back again to watch the effect upon the dog. The latter began to show signs of fatigue, but after a while caught his " second wind," and was keeping along as before. The conductor now ordered the en­ gineer to heave all the coal into the furnace and stir up the fire, which being done, the speed was perceptibly in­ creased. The conductor again went to the rear of the car to observe the effect, but the dog had disappeared, where­ upon he triumphantly called T 's at­ tention to the fact. The latter, after taking a glance at the situation, quietly pointed to a crack in the floor of the car,44 and there," says he, M was the dog, comfortably trotting along under the car, and licking the grease from one of the axle boxes!"--"Editor's Drawer," in Harper's Magazine for March. TURKISH WOMJC1T. The life of Turkish women Is a pain­ ful one. In the seraglio, discipline is still maintained by corporal punish­ ment. The practice of striking young girls on the soles of their feet has been abandoned, but blows are given else­ where by the eunuchs who execute the sentences, and rods are substituted for the stick. All the young women in the palace--and there are a thousand women there, wives, favorites, relations and ser­ vants, and there are as many more on the retired list in the old seraglio and in courts of the Princesses, all being de­ pendent upon the civil budget--are compelled to dress in light clothing, half decollette being the rule, and in winter are constantly exposed to colds and lung diseases. Whenever the Sul­ tan draws his last breath, oris dethroned, his wives, favorites and all their waiting- women have to pack up and be off within twenty-four hours. A BULL ihat ought to be by the hems--Sitting Bull. • TME THEATER. BT BSV. BBOOKK HEBKFOBD. There is, perhaps, no form of iluAse- ment that has itr. roots so deep in hu­ man nature'as the theater, and yet there is none that has been so often and earn­ estly attacked in the name of religion. The attacks, however,, have never really weakened its hold for more than a mo­ ment; and now, in this day, when so many things luge being looked Into, it is worth considering whether this feeling against the theater has really anything in it. .And, in the outset, to any one who feels that there is something almost sa­ cred in the great facts of nature, the question of whether the drama ought to be is already answered. For the dra­ matic instinct is one of the most uni­ versal and most pleasurable instincts of human nature. Long before sav­ ages have arrived at the possibility of a theater, their very war dances are dra­ matic. You can never find half a dozen children playing in the corner, but probably they are personating their elders, and acting school, or keeping a mimic house. That was what furnished Christ with one of His illustrations. Haye you ever noticed that when He said to the people, about their having first rejected the Baptist and then Him­ self, "Ye are like children playing in the market-pUoe--we have piped unto you and you would not dance; we have mourned unto you and you would not lament," He was simply alluding to their playing at weddings and funerals? And so, though there has been no form of amusement that has been so vehement­ ly opposed in the name of religion, it has never been more than temporarily put down. Nor is this all there is to say for it. There is the still mote striking fact that, at times, the drama has risen to be one of the grand moral influences of man­ kind. *The great tragedians of anoient Greece came, in their solemn verse, the nearest of all Old-World influences to . the Hebrew prophets. Listen to these lines from the "Antigone" of Sopho­ cles : No ordinance of man shall override The settled laws of Nature and of God; Not written these in pages of a book, ' Nor were they framed to-day or yesterday: We know not whence they are; but this we know, ' That they from all eternity have been And shall to all eternity endure I To hear those old Greek plays, thou­ sands and tens of thousands crowded the theater, and the author would have scorned to receive money for them as would Isaiah for his prophecies, his sole ambition being the "crown of wild olive" that was set upon the viotor's brow. And to come to later times, I cannot forget that it is the drama which has given us the plays of Shakspeare, which the greatest critics alike of Germany and England now regard, and I think justly, as the second noblest book in all the world. That cannot be regarded as a very ignoble pleasure whioh, in that Elizabethan era, certainly one of the greatest periods of English history, supplied the form through which the most powerful and accomplished minds uttered themselves! I do not think apy one can read Shakspeare without being bettered, still less hear him well read, and, best of all, hear him rendered by the great masters of the stage! Granted that such epochs and such men are exceptional--still, in many a lesser form the drama has had its place as more than amusement. In the dark ages, the "miracle plays" and "mysteries" and "moralities" were one of the recognized means by which the church taught the people, and, though it is easy to pick out many a bit of grotesqueness from those old miracle plays, they were gen­ uine and real enough for many a cent­ ury, and kept alive some rude knowl­ edge of the Bible against the time when learning should reawaken and religion revive. Certainly, that one curious sur­ vival of those old church plays--the Passion play at Oberammergau--was described by all who traveled to witness it as intensely religious, both in the spirit of its actors and in the impression it left upon the whole people. • XEJBCTREC-SPAMUC PA. A new invention in the art of engrav­ ing, probably suggested by the familiar electric pen, has been brought out in Paris. A copper plate is prepared as for engraving, and over this is secured, in some convenient manner, a thin sheet of paper. The plate is then con­ nected with one pole of a Ruhmkorff coil. The pen (presumably a simple insulated metallic rod or pencil with a fine point) is also connected by means of an insulated wire with the coil. Then, if the point of the pen (which is bare) is touched to the paper, a minute hole is burned in it by the- spark that leaps from the point of pen to the plate. By using the pen as a pencil, a drawing may be made on the i*aper in a series of fine holes precisely after' the manner of the electric pen, except that in one case the holes are mechanically punched out and in the other case are burned out. When the drawing is finished, the paper may be used as a stencil. A prin­ ter's roller, carrying an oily ink, is passed over the paper, and the ink pene­ trating the paper through the reproduces the drawing in ink on the copperplate. The paper may then be removed and the plate submitted to an aeid bath, when the surface Will be cut a way, except where the ink resists the acid, and those parts will be in relief, and thus making an engraved plate ready for the printing-press. By this ingenious device, the artist, drawing upon the paper with the spark-giving pen, performs two operations at once, drawing the picture and engraving the plate at the same time.--Afidunntor Scribner. 0 HOME AMUSEMENTS* NAM* WITHOUT SEEING THE POINTS OF A PAIR OF DICE.--This is a mere arithmetical feat, but is so very good and puzzling that it will pay you to use it. You ask the person who threw the dice to'choose which of them he likes, multiply its points by two, add five to the product, multiply the sum so obtained by five, and add the points of the remaining die. On tyta telling you the result, you mentally subtract twenty- five from it when the remainder will be a number of two figures, each represent­ ing the points of one of the dice. "HEADS AND ^PAILS."--This always 'produces a good effect. The performer borrows four pennies. Placing them on his table, he requests some one to make a pile of them, all one way, say "tail" upward. He next asks some other per­ son to turn the pile over, without dis­ turbing the relative positions of the coins, and gravely announces that they will be found *"head" upward. This appears so ridiculously obvious that the audience naturally smile. "Pardon me," you remark, "it is not quite so simple as you think. I doubt whether you could do so much. Watch me; I will place the coins as before--tail, tail, tail, tail. Is tha| right? Now I will turn them over." He does so, letting his fingers rest on them. HWhat are they now?" The company answer, "all heads." But only three are found "heads" and one a " tail." Again arrange them, placing them this time alternately--head, tail, head, tail. Turn them over, and the natural order wotdd again be head, tail, head, tail; but they are found to be head, tail, tail, tail. Again they are placed, tail, tail, tail,head; when turned over they are found to be tail, head, al­ ternately. The secret lies in the use of a prepared penny, consisting of similar halves (in the case described two "tails") soldered together, so at to be " tail" on either side. This the peif- former conceals, or " palms," in his right hand. After first going through the operation with the genuine coins, he picks them up with his left hand, and apparently transfers them to his right, but retains one in his left hand. He then performs the trick with these three and the prepared coin, when the ap­ parently miraculous results described become a matter of course. WINK GROWING IN CALIFORNIA. California this year produces 7,000,- 000 gallons of wine, and starts a raisin culture of great future promise with a product of 30,000 boxes. All known varieties of foreign grapes that gave any promise of flourishing in Californian soil have been tried, and no expense has been spared in their cultivation. The wine-growers of the Pacifio coast, with a varied experience of twenty years, now understand their business thoroughly. Some of their experiments have proved successful, and some of them have failed utterly; but they have found a dozen varieties of excellent for­ eign grapes that are as prolific ab in their native soil, and turn. out as well It is asserted by Californians that theirs is the great wine-growing territory of America, and that the best wine'and raisin grapes will not grow east of the Rocky mountains. The range is oon- fined, in their view, to California and,, possibly, a part of Arizona, and the dis­ trict capable of producing the best qual­ ity of grapes is said to be no hugger than the wine districts of France. % ' INDUSTRY. It is the duty of every inan, woman Mid child to be industrious. By indus­ try we all add to the happiness of our­ selves, of our families, of out posterity. By industry we are not only adding to the happiness and prosperity of our race, but also to the aggregate knowl- If you see a man going about in rags, with a sour face and cynical manner, you may pretty easily guess that he is not industrious. Bags are not an ac­ companiment of industry; and, although there may be cases in which an indus­ trious person is sour in feature and cynical in his address, such cases are exceptional-. For industry usually brings contentment, and contentment brings a sweet faee. And a sweet-faced man can­ not be cynical. To be pleasant in de­ meanor, is just as natural to a contented mau«4 a sweet odor is to the violet. 1 « ' IN the pfust twenty-three years more than 17,000 pieces* of ordnance have been constructed in the Krupp works at Essen, and sixteen guns only have burst, while of these by far the greater number were destroyed during trials to test their power of resistance, and when leaded with charges heavier than they hdta(i%ere designed to ftre. THE LITTLE GIANTX_ * cot. ttaumf *** . • •* • ^ onger than a common-sized wom­ an in men's clothes was Stephen A. Douglas when X first took him by the hand, in the rotunda of the old Capitol* thirty-six years ago. He was just 30 years old, and I do not think he was bigger than my attenuated old friend, Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, who, in his 67th year, was not much btrger than the celebrated Tom Thumb. And yet, in 1844, when I first met Ste­ phen A. Douglas, he had gone through adventures enough to float a novel by Charles Beade, or put to blush some of the London stories by Charles Dickens. Born at Brandon, Vt., he lost his father while an infant, and became an ap­ prentice to a village cabinet-maker to support his destitute mother. People who talk about the miseries of mechan­ ics in those days have no idea what a Yankee or even a Pennsylvania appren­ tice thirty or forty years ago had to undergo. Up at dawn in winter, eating breakfast by candle-light, doing all sorts of chores in the cold--the same now not even, done by the paupers in our benevolent institutions, under the over­ fed policy which coddles the inmates and enriches matrons and directors-- the old-time apprentice was as bad as the Southern slave. But when Stephen A. Douglas was learning how to make primitive furniture in Vermont, he was training for a greater vocation. >He could not have been more than 13, and he worked so hard at his trade that he lost his health, and he was several yean a student of law, in Ganandaigua, N. Y., where his mother removed; and then he could not have been 18, for I .find that, while he was still a student, he "emigrated" to Clevelaud, Ohio, in 1831, when he was only 19. Cleveland, which is now a lovely metropolis, was then a miserable hamlet on Lake Erie, and the little stripling, evidently dis­ gusted, pushed on to a still smaller town in a still smaller State, Jackson­ ville, HI. Here he kept school, clerked for an auctioneer, and still read law. At 21, he was admitted to the bar, leaped at once into a" good practice, and was elected Attorney General of the State. Honors crowded on the precocious boy. In 1840 he was elected Secretary of State, and in 1841 Judge of the Su­ preme Court of the State, when he was only 27! Ill-health forced him to de­ cline this last office, but, in 1843, he was chosen to the national House of Repre­ sentatives, in his 30th year. There were seven members of the House from Illinois; there are nineteen now. Douglas passed through all the honors hid adopted State could give him, rose to the Senate of the United States in 1847, and served till 1861. On the 3d of June of that year he died in his 48th year at Chicago. I call that putting a long experience into a short space, or, to use an old simile, forcing a quart into a pint. It is worth while, at the present time, to pause and make note how much this brief and busy life has molded and mas­ tered the destinies of empires. He was the absolute creator of a school. There were others who appreciated and culti­ vated the future of Western America; but there was no one man who so fully understood it as Douglas. Benton, Allen, Linn and a few more did much, especially Benton, whose great picture and prophecy of the future of Oregon, in 1846, seemed to indicate that he had caught the inspiration of the coming time. Douglas alone had the good sense to grasp the political or party is­ sue when Kansas proffered the oppor­ tunity. Of all his contemporaries of any distinction one only survives - William Allen, of Ohio. He was born in 1806, in North Carolina, and is still living near Chillicothe, Ohio; but, al­ though Douglas has been dead over seventeen years, his name far outweighs the fame of his old colleague. As Douglas grew in years he grew in size; he broadened, but did not height­ en, and when he rose to speak the first impression was net agreeable, but he soon won his way and never lost what he woh. He had a great following. Older and abler men willingly yielded to his in­ fluence. In making friends he was al­ ways ready to sacrifice' himself. Lead­ ing in all great movements, bold to rashness, far-sighted and prophetic, one weakness was inseparable from such methods. . fte cared too little for the practical objects of life. He enriched thousands, and never stopped to pro­ vide ways and means for his own wel­ fare; and it must be said, if he had, his boundless influence would have been shorn. It was his utter disregard of self that made even selfish men trust him, and naturally attracted to him the enthusiastic and patriotic elements of the country, North and South. the Illinois and Michigan em companies 2 per oent oo gross i a State tax- to levy a tax oa Mls» CLEANSIN&. Don't let scratches on paint worry you any longer. Cut a sour orange or lemon in half, apply the out half to the marks, rubbing for a moment quite hard; then wash them off with a dean rag, dipped first in water to moisten it, and then In whiting. Bnbwell with this rag, dry thoroughly, and nine times out of ten the ugly marks wilt vanish. Of course, sometimes they are burned in so deeply that they can M* - be eradicated. „ 1UUN018 LECHSL1TUB&: TtreeDAY, Feb. la^ram--A lats* an^v- b« of petitions were pnaantad addng ft* tt# repeal of the law instituting the State Bqafd r Health, also the usual batdb of faatpflnM* petitions... .Among the bOte introdnoed were the following: To amend the law relative (ft - garnishments, making process before Jjustices returnable aa in other cases; to provj contingent fund of 1100,000 tor each of years for the Illinois to tax express earnings as a biate tax? to lery graph companies; to authorize all corporations rounded for educational purposes to fond Ikb # indebtedness or borrow money to pay otrtslabS ing indebtedness; for an act to protect rsilwav passengers--provides that platforms "Hall , erected at each station; to mend the law reh*.; *' * tive to Appellate Courts....Cook county, usual, monopolized a large slioe of tho dayfc session, tho Chicago Park bill being the wod| ' in hand. < Ilou>R. --Tlie report of the Secretary of Btafk, was brought to the notice of the Hoaso, an« made the subject of a long wrangle relative fi> the ntatter of its publication... .The report «f the condition cf Ine State Deaf and DEircb Ia- stitute was probated. . It eho-vs theexpeaaaa to have been $74,978 for tho years I8S7 1878....There was a long debate on tlii Senate resolution onrovennn, which was finally referred to th» lievc-nue Committee....Aeoma ̂ what lengthy message waa rueci'ved from Gof, Cullom, m amwur to the Houwo resolution df Feb. <», calling WJJOU him for information as te the cost of maintaining the Railroad and War# ° house Commission. t WEDNESDAY, Feb. 19. --SKNATS. --Benafafr • Riddle offered a letter from A. D. Hsffe .̂ curator of the Historical Society in Chicago .̂ embodying a law to license cremation... .Severfl committee reports were reoeired and acted npoe. ... .The order of the day, Senator Dearborn's resolution relative to the transfer of nanus from State to United States eonrts, was tabled after a long debate,.. .Senator Herd- man offered a bill defining the . crime of rape and prescribing punishment fat the offense. In addition to imprisonment in tbs penitentiary, as now hod down in the nrimfrip- oode, it prescribes castration of the guilty partC ....A bill was introdnoed to amend UM la# relative to wills and administration of eatetea. It allows any person interested to appear at the probate of the will in question and contest ttf' ....Senator Thomas offered a bill intended tO - supply a defect in the present law in regard p., the practice of furnishing proof regarding mis­ laid or lost documents. HOUSE.--A number of new hills wore iatro»». n duced, including the following: To deetrap kucklo-burrs; amending the Oame law; topre» vide for the inspection of coal oil, etc.; mating incurable insanity a ground for divorce; to rSN- vise the law relative to the running at large of criminals; to revise the Vagrant act; to punish the adulteration of milk; three-card monte swindling a penitenttwy. offense: to prevent the killing of deer....*' A long petition was presented praying for Vam abolition of the State Board of Health....A large number of petitions were presented against the passage of the bill oompellina fat* eign insurance companies to deposit tlaO.OQO each with the State Auditor... .Two bim were passed, viz.: To allow appeals from decisions of courts on probate of wills; and to smew ' the Practice act so that a defendant may file liia answer to a bill in a Court of Ohanoery at the next term after his failure to appear, npesi showing good reasons therefor and paying pre* ceding costs. „ . ̂ ̂ THURSDAY, Feb. 30.--SENATE. --Tlie usnrit batch of petitions were presented, the merit ± ^ 1 notable ones being several lengthy protests against the repeal of the law establishing the .. / i State Board of Health The resolution el Senator White regarding the Union Stock ,V Yards and alleged abuses perpetrated th«e- • ' in, was reported back from the COOK . ! < mittee on Agriculture and Drainage, with ̂ recommendation that it do not past*, M; After a long debate the whole matter was re*. , , V '* ,'!C ferred to the Committee on Corporations...« ( V Senator Archer's resolution looking to tht •>' building of a ship canal from Say island to Nelr Orleans was amended so as to include the I " now and Michigan canal in the intended j provemont, and passed Several new were introdnoed, including the follon To amend the law governing hailroad and Wa _ house Commissioner®, limiting compensation to; 91,500 per annum; to prevent the playing of cards or dice in saloons where liquor is soldi' making the offense punishable by Que and in)» y prisoument; amending the law ot' forcible entrf and detainer so that writs of restitution canndl issue within five days from date of rendition dt ; judgment; making it a niisdemeanor to "beat"' a hotel, and providing for the saie of baggage ̂ 8eLsed- £*i»& House.--A number of committee repom were made....Bills Introdnoed: Limiting ̂ taxation to 2 per cent. In cities and villages; «t * ; amend the law in relation to oil inspectors; iip ^ relation to the liability of master to servant)- *v making terms of County Courts slti' on tne 1st ot oacn monui; mak­ ing deeds executed by administrators ev£»* deuce of title; to amend the Schocl law!,' to amend the law relative to running at large ql animals; to emend tlie Election law: to eoneott» ' date the several grand divisions of the 8ai Court at Springfield; in relation totoll-1 ltesoiuuons of respect to the late BMii Foley, of Hie Chicago diocese, were adopted.... , The Drainage bill was discussed daring tho ri£ mainder of the session. r'vw.feig PBIDAY, Feb. 21.--Saturn--The resolution ̂ * offered some days since requesting Oongjeas eat down the salary of the President of the United States from #50,COO to #25,000 was laid on the table by a vote of to ft) The hiB> presented by Senator White, regulating charges on deeping cars, etc., was reported back to up w< Senate with the recommendation that It peaK $ Senator Bent introduced a bill to oomp4| , banks to make public; statements of their con* dition... .Senator McClellan oifeted a Ifi t0}$r the appropriation of bodies of deceased eriB% ' • iuals for uit^eution, for the heaetlt of science.... Sena tor Hunt presented a hill . regulateu junketing" committees... .TheOoin*,, mittee on federal Relations made a funny report ' as follows: u Your Committee on Federal Re* • Nation* has the distinguished honor ef BWklMt %i lira! and only report We are happy 6 ° state that the relations between tlie General Government and the commonwealth of are harmonious; that all is quint on the sloping banks of the Sangamon as on the peaceful som of the Potomac. Your committee „ think of making a tour to Washington to invest gale the Potter Committee and cipher -by patches; to instruct Secretary Sherman how to circulate the dollar of the fcolorial fathers; to urgi the ship canal across the upper poniosula u§ Florida; to connect the gulf and the Carribeae: sea, and to get an opinion on the Drai nage bil ̂ but the fate of other committees at St. Louia» v and at the hands of the independent press ima deterred us. Mr. President, jour committee * met, considered, adjourned sine die. like < ^ Othello, our occupation is gone, and we retirf ' to the shades of defunct greatness. Let us have peace." HOUSE.--The day was a dull aad nnintercsti ̂JI , " _ ing.onc in the Houaa The only bill of im^ portance offered was that of Mr. Day, of Chamj.; paign, providing that capital stock shall b#:, listed as personal property, and as such be sub- ject to levy for delinquent taxes. There was %: long discussion on the JJrainage bill " Or all her Prime Ministers* Qaeen^H, Victoria liked most Lords Aberdeen an#; Melbourne, and Lord John Russell ' least, as he was not a courtier and wa4 always in trouble with the Court. Lowf*4 Beaconsfield at first was far from beiatf a favorite of her Majesty, but since hi#V' ^ second term he has managed to worai^ t * himself, into the royal good graces. 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