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J. TAJf 8LYKE ft SON, ILLINOIS EfcKLY IEWS REVIEW. I- «fa»< fit AS: t*y \\ih U Hs< *41" » "' „ • t'AKNBLL and Dillon, the Irish agita­ tor*. w«re warmly received by the Pfailadel- pfalaM, and treated to rfcaointions of a liberal irtitratHfif ... Prank Leslie, the well-known New IMH publisher, is dead. THK&X have been in all seven deaths ntaltibg FROM THE recent explosion in the cel- l|MD works at Newark, N. J. The verdict of Coroner's jury mildly censures the pro jtors for carrying on dangerous experiments , room crowded with workmen ana supplied imperfect means of escape. REPORTS from Menlo Park are to the «ffect that EdisoA'S Carbon horseshoes are breaking rapidly, and that their manufastnre Will be discontinued. The great inventor now hopes to overcome the newly-discovered diffi­ culties in time to introduce the light in New Yoirk city next winter, and wishes the public to Buderstand that his lamp is yet an experiment •(RLJ on WHICH he works every day. THE WIS* , 'THERE is said to he muoh suffering •iSfeig the negroes who have emigrated from the South and settled in Kansas. There are about 15,000 refugees in the State at the Sreeent time, and from twenty to fifty coming T every day. About one-fifth of these wen aUi to buy a little land, and the rest were in ALMOST a starving condition. There ME over 700 destitute negroes IU barracks at Topeka, an<i disease and destitution ARE rap­ id ly L ' o d u c i u g t he i r numbers . . . . Prof . W i l k i n ­ son, ie&der of the band at the Milwaukee blanch of the Soldiers' Home, fatally shot his wife and himself, the tragedy growing out of domestic troubles caused by whisky and iu com­ patibility. * MAJ. MORROW, in command of the de­ tachment of cavalry pnrsuing Victoria's band of hostiles in Mew Mc xioa, bad an engagement with the savages, on thwtith insL, in which he rooted them. A DARtNO robbery was perpetrated in tfee streets of Chicago, a few days ago. E. B. Wells, paymaster of the South Side Gas Com­ pany. was driving along Deering street, in the southern section of the city, when three foot- pate jumped into bis buggy, knocked him •enseless, seized $4,000 in specie which be had b bis possession, and made good their eBcape. T1XK 80I7T]| . SENATOR LAMAR, of Mississippi, was atrfeken with paralysis at his home in Missis­ sippi on the 12th last....An oyster war has broken out on the Rappahannock river in Vir­ ginia, and the people living on the shores of that stream have made a requisition on the Governor for arms, An ontaiae vessel, - he crew of which is supplied with long-range rifles, is the cause of the trouble. A FIRE at Augusta, Ghk, destroyed a WMrehoua® containing 1,560 bales of cotton. liOM, 980,000. SINCE the 1st of January, whan navi­ gation of the Mississippi river was resumed between 9t Louis and New Orleans, more than 1,000,000 bushels of corn have been atarted for Europe by way of the Gulf of Mexico. More grain would have been shipped this way but for the scarcity of bai-ges. LOUISVILLE adds a oase to the great national list of defaulting savings-bank cash­ iers. His name is J. H. Bhorer, and the insti­ tution from which he stole •100,000 is the «*vi»!gs Bsnk. GEMEItiUU THE steamship Aragon, whieh it was thought had been lost at sea, arrived eafely at New York last week, after a rough voyage of twenty-thi*e days... .Victoria and 100 Apache warriors, who were driven into Mexioo some months ago by American troops, have just crossed into the United States, hot .T pressed by Mexican soldiers. The Federal and Territorial forces are x»-operating with the Mexicans. Naws comes f mm the West Indies of terrible flsods on the island of St Kitts, by whicfc 200 XrWhkfi been lost, property to the. extent of f9BA,000 destroyed, and the whole island watted St Kitts has known of no each eataarity since 1722, when a terrific hurri­ cane iissrly destroyed the island. J A HEAVY judgment for damages has hap rendered at Toronto against the Canada ' 'KlgP Sf; "V-- m •*$%>} Wife • vifa1' • f-M It?1' w*. ' >. - v ,-^t ifc; -' >• , I* y : 't# /«& H' V ;•> . ' elected ̂ fssiAnM^ the Chamber of Ittpwtie* ....Atondisa dliwateh says the ax-ltaiprefs Eugenie has nottipd the steamship ewnptuy thatsbs wiilsmbark. with a smallmfDVe, on boaM the steamer GemasL for the Cape of Qood fiojpe, on therSBIfc«**areh. Arrange­ ments will be made to expedite the voyage, so as to enable the «x-Smpress ta arrive at the smfce of the Pilaw Imperial** death by the 1st of June, tho aaatvecMr? ottkat went, , MADRID advioea foreshadow a chapge in the polioy of Spain toward Cuba. The Cab­ inet, among other things, baa authorised tba submission to the Cortes of a bill for the mod­ ification of import duties on sugar and mo- la«R<w from f\u»a. A BERLIN dispatch reports A serious quarrel at Kalisch, Poland, between Russian and German officers. The officers of a Rus­ sian regiment stationed at Kalisch invited the officers of Prussian regiments stationed on the other side of the frontier to dinner, and, in the course of a political argument, the Russians used insulting language to Germany. Blood­ shed wae averted by the Russian Colonel send­ ing home the German officers nndor escort Serious riots have occurred at Pesth. in Han­ gary, in consequence of the fatal shooting' of Vehoray, a leader of the people, by an aristo­ crat, Baron Maithenyi by name. It is claimed that the nobihtv sought to destroy Vehoray, and put forward the Baron, who "is the best pistoi-shot in the empire, for the purpose.... A Cork dispatch states that sixty able- bodied men, with their families, were ad­ mitted to the KiiUrney workhouse. A woman applied for admission with three chil­ dren, one of whom was d*>ad in her ai ms from hunger and exposure. A Ixjndoa dispatch says that all accounts agree that the situation in the distressed districts is becoming extremely crit­ ical The Mayors of Sheffield and Brighton, and other to mis, have opened relief subscrip­ tions, but the universal opinion is that private relief cannot cope with the distress. -- THE situation in Ireland GROFRO more critical with each day's news. In some dis­ tricts starvation is staring the poor laborers and their families in the fp.ee. In others, they are thronging to the workhouses for relief. Iu still others, private charity has had to come to the rescue, though it is insufficient to cope ,]j||k,t}ie distress. THE NATIONAL COK&KE88. "• •- _ (Oaptral railroad. It was fox #100,000, for lum- : ber destroyed by fire kindled by a spark from . a locomotive. WASHWCJTO*. THE annual report of the National Board of Health, containing an account of the operations of the past year, has been transdj mitted to Congress. The work of collecting Information and advice from the principal sani­ tary organizations Kid sanitarians of the United mates as to the best plan for a national pubtfo-bsalth otgudsatton, including the subject of quarantine, both maritime and in­ land, is reported as having b en quite suc­ cessful, and, after oarefali? examining data thns collected, the board is of opinion that tie conclusions heretofore published by the American Public Health Association at the meeting of tbat body at Nashville in November, 1879, may ha taken as fairly representing the epinkns of leading sanitariaim and ~ " important sanitary organizations of try. It baa been decided by the for the present complete quarantio'C lishments are oaly needed at Boston, New York, Philadelphia (near the mouth of the Chessptaks bay), Charleston, Savannah, near BrnaswtekL Oa, or Feruancina, Fla., near Ship island, Mia*., and at some point on the Texas coast It is the opinion of the board that if s during the present winter, at all points where fever has prevailed during the past sum­ mer, eare be taken to obtain thorougu ventila­ tion and expdsure to cold of all the houses *:#|p and inclosed spaces, and all bedding, elotbing, £$*•'* etc., sAdlf local sanitation he vigorously and \f&: ' properly earried ont there will be little danger. , fwl Of epidemic yellow fever next jfey from causes ••H'iJ* now existing in the country. f* *.•_ THE Senate Committee on Privileges anil Elections has resumed the taking of teeti- .2^ jnoey in ^he Kellogg Bpofford caaa. * A WASHINGTON telegram says it hss determined to send Ouray, Jack, and one i other chief back to Colorado, in charge of an agent, for the pufrnose of bringing on, if pos- •ible, tbe twelve Ute murderers, or aa many of itaem as can be induced to ooate. POLITICAL. THE election in the Seventh Missouri district to choose a Congressman to fill tbe va­ cancy oocaskmed by the death of A. M. Lay has resulted in the election of Col. John F. Phillips, Democrat, over ex GOT. McClurg, Republican apd Greenback candidate. . GEN. GARFIELD, United States Sen­ ator-elect from Ohio, was given a reception at Colnmtrae last week. He made a speech, in which he recalled many incidents of his public life and feelingly thanked the representatives of the people for the honor conferred on him. Before concluding he paid a high tribute to Mr. Thurman, whom he styled one of the broadest-minded, fairest, and moat generous ana Ohio Sad ever produced. ' • - • •* A , . y „ • • t O B E N f t , i - ' ADVICES from Afghsnimtb' ®*at Mohammed Jan, a chief of more than usual ability, has placed himself at the head of af­ fairs and is raising a large new army, having recently been reinforced by several thousand . . «?'iere AJi'8 men. He is acting in the name of Musa Khan, whom he claims to be the right­ ful Ameer, and has sent emissaries to Tur­ kestan to stir UD the people there It is reported that Austria and Germany will ask Russia why she is concentrating troops in Pftiatid, and if the answer is unsatisfactory they •ill mass troops along their eastern frontiers. RUSSIA having been questioned by Gsrmauy relative to the concentration of troops ia Poland, replies that as there is no longer any danger of a collision with Turkey, the sol­ diers are put ia Poland as a more convenient district than ftesasrabia The distress hi Ireland is increasing. Five hundred people in the county of Limeriek are on the brink of starvation. Stringent or- * dsns have been given to tbe police to suppress < hrsad riots. 6AXBEZ?A (Republican) has bean re- •ifh Bills were introduced in the Senate, on Jan. IS, as follows: By Mr. Paddock, to find out by a commission the losses to citizens by Indian depre­ dations; by Mr. Sanders, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to allot lands in severalty to the Indians; by Mr. Butler, to inquire as to the expe diency of establishing a Territorial Govern­ ment for Alaska; by Mr. Davis (111.), au­ thorizing the payment of the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy railroad for mail transportation ia 1876. The Vice President laid beiore tne >6uaie an estimate of @77,404 for the construction of officers' quarters at Omaha. Tbe Military Academy Appropriation bill was passed, as were several pri­ vate bills... .In the House, bills andresolutions were presented: By Mr. Warner, to limit the paper cur­ rency of the country to ils present volume; also, that the United States notes shall be of denomina­ tions not less than SI nor more than $1,000, as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem twst. but not more than 15 per cent, of such notes shall be in denominations larger than $10C; also, directing- the Secretary of the Treasury to report when and how the treasury became a member of tho New York Clearing House; also, whether or not that Clearing House accepts treas­ ury certificates payable in silver coin in set­ tlement of the balances: by Mr. Ballon, to rednce the tax on deposits subject to pigment wilh per­ sons and associations engaged in banking business: by F. *'ood. to facilitate the refunding of tho na­ tional debt; by Mr. i?'or*ythe. to increase the cir­ culation of national banks, and to relieve them from the payment of a tax on circulation, to liqui­ date the national debt, and to strengthen the pub­ lic credit; by Mr. Shelborn, t< r the tiansterof the Indian Bureau to the War department, by Mr. Davis, to restrict Chinese immigration; by Mr. Updegraff, tixing the time for counting the vote for President' and Vice President; by Mr. ('»• - well, for the issuing of certificates of the denomi­ nation of $1 atnl and 5(1 and 25 cents: by Mr. Crittenden, for a national jail and prison; by Mr. Cox, relative to a monument t> Tuomas Jeffer son; by Mr. Clyster, exempting from taxa­ tion promissory notes issued for wages: by Mr. Willis, for the erection of a monnmeut to Zachary Taylor; by Mr. Dibrell, declaring all public mads postal roads; by Mr. Sprinper. repealing the law for the Issue of "request" envelopes; by Mr. Gunter, to equalize homesteads, also, to graduate ana reduce the price of public land* to actual settler-; by Mr. Willtts, extending the jurisdiction of United States Circuit and District Courts over crimes committed by Indians; by Mr. XJpson, to prohibit and punish the sub-letting or transfer of niail-lettijgg; by Mr. Belford, to "create a Mineral Bureau; by Mr. Knott, conferring upon United States Cir­ cuit Courts jurisdiction in war claims: by Mr. ('lardy, to pot salt on the free list: by Mr. BUi*, subsidizing ',a mail route, to Sciftland: 'by Mr. Henckie, for a monument to Baron De K&lb. A resolution was adopted providing for the appoint­ ment of a special committee of seven to examine into the method of tbe payment of pensionR. The resolution directing the Committee < n Expendi­ tures in the State Department to investigate the facts relative to the Consulate at Hong Kong was adopted. A eomxnnnioatton was laid befoss the Benate from the Postmaster General, Jan. 13, asking a de­ ficiency appropriation of $101,000, and a .number of petitions on various subjects were presented. Mr. Morrill offered the following resolution, which was laid on the table, and he) announced hi* in. tention to speak upon it on Thursday: "That the Committee on Finance be instructed to inquire as to tbe practicability of refunding the national <Jebt at a less rate than 4 per cent, iuterest, and also as to whether or not some effective provision can be made whereby bona-fide subscriotiouH for sums in moderate amounts may be a\ ailable, and report by bill or otherwise." The bill in regard to certain Ohio court* was passed. A recommendation from the Secretary of War for an increased appropriation for copying the Confederate records w»s referred. Bills introduced: By Mr. Morrill, regulating the authentication and UBe of proxies in meetings by Na io al Bank Associations: by Mr. Salis­ bury, to preserve the secrecy of telegrams; by Mr. Plumb, to establish an additional land dis­ trict in Kansas; by Mr. Vest, to prohibit Clerks of Federal cuirts from taking fees for copying rec­ ords ia common-law actions in tbe book called the "Final Record." Mr. Bayard, from the Committee on Finance, reported favorably the bill to admit f • ee of duty articles intended for the Millers' Interna­ tional Exhibition iu June. Pawed. Official nom- inatioie: Land officers. William B. Lambert. Re­ ceiver of Public Moneys at Norfolk, Neb.; Edward 8. Butler, Register of the Land Office at Norfolk, Neb.; Thomas M. Gibson, Register of the Land Of­ fice at Dxrdatielle, Ark In tho House a bill waa reported to regulate the manner of counting Pres­ idential votes, and it was made the special order for Jan. SO, lhe Hot Springs Reservation billi was passed, as was an appronriation for furniture" for the House, and for the purchase of works for the library. A number of executive communications were laid before the House and referred, among them one from the Postmaster General as to the use of the mails for lottery purposes. The House then went into committee of the whole on the rules, and a long debate waa Indulged fn. Afterward the following bills were introduced: By Mr. Shallenberger, authorizing the refuncfinK of the national debt, reducing the annual interest thereon and improving the public credit; by Mr. Willis (Ky.(, for the relief of depositors in the Freedaseo's Bank. A large number of petitions for a constitu­ tional amendment giving the stiff -age to women were presented in the Senate on the 14th inst., by Messrs. Davis (HI.), the Vice President, Williams, Allison, Kirkwood, Baldwin. Ferry, Davis and Pendleton. Petitions in favor of the Bayard reso­ lutions on the curreupy, and for a temperance commission were also presented. • bill to re­ lieve the United States Treasurer from the amount now ,charged to him and de­ posited with the several States was reported; and the bill to increase the pensions of totally-dis­ abled soldiers and sailors from $50 to $72 per month was passed. A bill was introduced by Mr. Hoar, providing that the Stat's which have claims against the United States shall present them be­ fore the Court of Claims by the 1st of March, 1881, or bo forever barred. Mr. Voorhees presented a bill to carry into effect the treaty with the Osage Indians. The following nominati ns were sent in: B. Pomeroy, Unl ed States Attorney for the Terri­ tory ot Arizona: Elihu A. White, Collector of In­ ternal Revenue for the Second district of North Carolina; Henry M. Atkinson. United States Surveyor General for New Mexico. Iicglsters of Land Offices--Isaac H. Wing, Bayfield, Wis.; stepnen H. Alban, Wausau, Wis.; H. W. Parker, Beatrice, Neb.; Joseph B. Bloss, Detroit, Mich.; Samuel W. Mailoy, Camden. Ark.; Felix G. Clarke, Des Motnes, la....In the House, the bill for tlie freeamportation of classical an­ tiquities was passed. Mr. Huckner. Chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee, reported a bill that the National Bank act be so amended aa 'to require • every banking association to keep in trold ot silver coins one-half of the reserve fund now required by law. The bill remitting the duty oaan altar from Rome for In­ dianapolis was passed, as was a bill allowing free lmporti >n of article*'for exhibition at the Cincin­ nati Millers' Exhibition. Bills and communica­ tions introduced: My Mr. McC.iid. to establish a Board of Conamissoners of Inter state Commerce: from the President, a report of board for testing metals: from the "secretary of the Treasury, rela­ tive to tobacc • dealer*: from the Secretary of the Navy, asking for g 10,000 to complete Vinnie" Ream's •tatue of Farragut. Another batch of suffrage petitions was pre­ sented to tbe Senate on the 15th Inst, by Messrs. MpPherson and Baldwin. Mr. Allison, from the Committee on Finance, announced tbat he waa di­ rected by that committee to report adversely on a joint resolution for the withdrawal of the compul­ sory legal-tender power of tbe United States treas­ ury notes. Mr. Bayard, from the same committee. ' sfefo. p. - in favor _ f by Messrs. »aHace and isSsrvsl «M I^ SRSwAmeat. Mr. Mr. Morrill cailwi ap tor eonwMtoatioa h<s wwlillos Instructing tbe Finenea Committee t» inquire Into the praotteaMUty of rstatttta* the public debt at a lew sate of lUMMSS than 4 per otat- and made a speacn thereon. The UU for the maml of all of the obstructions in Delaware Breakwatsr kafew was pas--a. the Mil to lish a MIW land district in Dakota waa journed to- Monday....In some astjKallansotts business, consideration waa resaiMtt of the bill requiring one-half of the reserves of the national bank* to be kept in gold and silver «*!»« of the Waited. Stmt*". Mr. Price, of To«'&, spo&e 5jt support ot the oil:. Be declared himself opposed to any tfathering with the cWrwioy, either as to the quantity or quality of jmper which was circulating. He wai also op- poled to the away of thelegal-teiider quality of the greenbacks. All prudent men spoke it? thunder tones, Mid said: '-Lot welt enough alone.* Mr. Lewis also spoke in favor of the bill, which went over. The House th' n went into committee of the whole upon the rules, and consumed nearly th« whole day without reaching a decision. Mr. Converse introduced s bill for the establishment of titles ta the Hot Springs reservatfoa. Mr. Sparks, Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, ia the House, on the morning of the lHth. report d a resolution calling on the tfeo- retary of War for information as to the number, rank, names, and annual pay of every officer oa the rdtired list of the army. Adopted. The whole day was occupied upon the private calendar. Mr. Sanford, from the Commit­ tee on Claims, reported a bill refunding to the State cf Georgia $35.0(10 expended for oom.non de­ fense in 1777. Mr. tsrfght. Chairman of the Com­ mittee on Claims, reported a resolution calling on he Secretary of the Treasury for a statement of the Bums of money covered into the tr- asury frosa the pruceeds of the .sale of lands for direct butes in »mth Carolina. Adopted. A bill passed donating condemned bronze cannon to the Morton MounmeUt Association of Indiana. THE MAINE MUDDLE!* Matters wore a quiet look at the Maine capi­ tal on Saturday and Sunday, the 10th and lltb. The House adjourned early on Saturday for Irani of a quorum, all the Republicans being .absent. The State Treasurer refused to pay Out any money, and declined to houor two or­ ders passed by the Senate. Eight armed men were discovered in the library of, the State House, apparently concealed, and guard­ ing a quantity of arms and ammunition. At the demand of tbe police authorities these men were removed. The arms taken from Bttugor to Augusta were returned. Will­ iam R. White, of Winthrop, who waa charged by Representatives Swann and Harrimau with attempting to bribe them to Slav away from the Legislature, issued a card making a positive denial of any such transaction. James IX Lameon, President of the Senate, assumed the duties of Governor pepding the eleotiou of a successor to Oaroelon, whrnt term expired on the 9th. * Gen. Chamberlain, commando# of the State militia of Maine, issued a proclamation on the 12th inst, refusing to recognize the President of the Senate as acting Governor of the State. He also insued a proclamation creating "the military division of Maine," designating him­ self as Commander-in-Chief, warning all armed bodies of men not regularly enrolled as militia to disperse, reproducing the order of ex-Gov. Gar colon, in which he authorized Chamberlaiu to protect the properly and institutions of the State until his successor was duly qualified. The Republican members of the Legislature were greatly encouraged by these two mani­ festoes. and in tho evening they tiled into the Capitol and quietly took possession of it Both houses were duly organized, and resolutions passed in each appointing a committee to wait on the Supreme «kmrt and ask its opinion at, the legality of the proceedings. The Fusionist Legislature had | brief MS- sion on the 13th. bnt made no attempt |o trans­ act lousiness. The Republican members were not in session, having adjourned at an early hour in the morning, after an all-night session, until the 17th. The Fusionist committee ap­ pointed to investigate lhe bribery charges met and took considerable testimony. A eousin cf William R. White swore that an effort was made by the latter to bribe, hfan, and that he himself told White that Swann oonld be bought White refused to obey a summons to appear before the investigating committee, alleging that it was not leg&ilv ^ saninsd, and had no author­ ity to administer oaths or compel the attendance of witnesses. Haj. Qeu. Chamber­ lain w«s formally* called on to reeognizd the authority of Acting-Gov. Lamson, but refused, basing his action on the order of Garcelon directing him to take charge of the institutions and property of the rvate. O. 1). li* kers coun­ sel for the Republican Advisory Committee, delivered an opinion to the effect that there was no Acting Governor, as Lamson, the claim­ ant, was not President of a constitutional Sen­ ate The situation at Augusta was virtually un­ changed on tbe 14th. The Legislature met at tbe usual hour* the Republicans remaining away. The Bribery Committee feet, but transacted little business. The Election Committee reported In favor of unseating Dunuell, Republican member from Westbrook, and the seating of Stiles, Dem* ocrat, on the ground that Bunnell had but twe majority, and three men at least voted for him who had no right to do sa Aotion on the re­ port was postponed. Everything was quiet at Augusta on the 15th. In the House the Committee on Elections re­ ported, giving the seat of Donnells, of West- brooke, Republican, to Mcrritt W. Stiles, Dem­ ocrat The report was carried without oppo­ sition, and Stiles qualified and took his seat Acting Governor Lamson issued an or­ der to the Shot iff of Kennebec county, informing him that his deputies were no longer required to pro­ tect the public buildings, and directing him to dismiss them. The Sheriff refused to obey the order. The House Bribery Committee continued its investigations^ but elicited nothing of importance. s The Maine Supreme Court, on the 16th inst, answered all the interrogations submitied to it by the Legislature. The deciston was in favor of the Republicans and adverse to tbe Fusion- ists upon every point Tbe Legislature went into tue eltolion of a Governor, fhe choice fall­ ing on Maj, Joecph L. Smith. Other Statu offi­ cers were also chosen. In the House, the re­ port of the Election Committee declar­ ing William Murray, Fusionist. of Vas- salboro, elected to a seJt instead of Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Butler, Republican, was adopted, thus bringing the members of the House to 77. Gov. Smith delivered a brief in­ augural address, and a *o i-sued an order re­ lieving Gea Chamberlain from the command of the State militia. The Bribe, v Committee continued its investigation Tbomas B Swann repeated in rreater detail the state­ ments previously made by him iu regard to the methods adopted by Wallace R. White to induce him to stay away lrom tue H »use or re- bigu hifjseat Solon Cliasc corroborated Swann's testimony in certain particulars. James O White, member of the Legislature and cousin of Wallace R. White, testiiied that the latter offered him $l,00o to stay away from the Legis­ lature. Wcntworth and Cushman, members of the House, swore that efforts were made to bribe them to absent themselves from the State House. White River Massacre Investigation. The Committee on Indian Affairs in the House of Representatives are eugaged at Washington in iiprestigating tbe cause of the Ute outbreak at the White River Agency in Colorado. Gen. Adams was the first witness examined. He eimply told the story oft his personal connec­ tion with the Indian troubles--a story whieh liss already been often told in the newspapeis. It comprised his appointment by Mr. Schurz as a Speci.l Agent of the Indian bureau last fall, while Mr. Schurz was in Coorado. At that time Adams was an employe iu tbe Postoflice De­ partment He went to Lou Pines, and w»« con­ versant with the incidents of the Thoinburgh light and the Meeker massacre. He tbiuks Meeker was largely to blame for tho-e calam­ ities. He was a cranky olu man, with set no- tious, and frequently embroiled himself in quarrels. On one occasion two youug men wen* out into the prairie and set the^grass on fire, with the intent to scar© Mteker. The latter at onoe sent for soldiers. Tliete oame and Thornburgh's ill-fated expedition was the result. The Indians became very much alarmed. In one of the subsequent quarrels between thetn and Meeker he met his death. Ad A in ft told hie story from beginuicg to c.ose with few interruptionft. Ho otftrtd no oiin- ions on the situation, bor was he asked to. He is known to be a Arm friend of Mr. Schurz. LCXT will begin on the 11th of Feb­ ruary, and end on the 27th of March. (Irani** Estimate of Sherman, SbeiWan lieadv and Uncoil*. PMm '<>hn RnaoeU YounaM "Around tbs World witli Grant.'J . ' , "Sherman," said the General, "ia iot only a great soldier, but a great tfcan. He is one of the very great men lit our oountrv'e history. He is a rouny- aided man. He ia an orator with lew superiors. As a writer he is amopg the first. As a General I know of no man I would put above him. Above all he has & fine character--so frank, so sin - cere, so outspoken, eo genuine. There is not a false line in Sherman's char­ acter--nothing to regret. As a soldier I know biis value. I know what he waa before Vickfburg. You see we had two lines to paintain. On one side was Pembertoii, his army and his works. That I was watching. On our retir was Joe Johnston, who might come at any time ahd try and raise the siege. I set Sherman to keep that line and watch him. I never had a moment's care while Sherman was there. I don't think Sherman ever went to bed with his clothes off during that campaign, or allowed a night to p«te without visiting his pickets in person. His industry was prodigious. He worked all the time, and with an enthusiasm, a pa­ tience, and a good hnmor that gave him • great power with his army. There in no man living for wtiose char­ acter I have a higher respeot than for thatol Sherman. "As for Siheridan," said Gen. Grant, "I have only known him in the war. He joined my old regiment--the Fourth infantry--after I left it,and so I did not mfjet him. He is a younger man than Sherman o9 myself. He graduated ten years after me at West Point. Conse­ quently he was not in the Mexican war. The firet time I remember seeing Sher­ idan was when he was a Captain and Acting Quartermaster and Commissary at Halleck's headquarters in the. march to Corinth. He was then appointed to the Colonelcy of a Michigan regiment. We afterward met at a railway station, when he was moving his regiment to join Gordon Granger. I knew 1 had sent a regiment to join Granger, but had not indicated that of Sheridan, and really did not wish it to leave. I spoke to Sheridan, and he said he would rath­ er go than stay, ot some such answer, which waa brusque and rough, and an­ noyed me. ,1 don't think Sheridan could have said anything to have made a worse impression on me. But I watohed his career, and saw how much there was in him. So when I came East and took command, I looked around for a cavalry commander. I was stand­ ing in front of the White House talking to Mr. Lincoln and Gen. Halleck. I said I wanted the beet man I could find for the cavairy. ' Tnen,' said Halleck, ' why not take Phil Sheridan?' 4 Well,' I said,'I was just going to#say Phil Sheridan.' So Sheridan was sent for, and lie came, very muoh disgusted. He was just about to have a corps, affd he did not know why we wanted him East, whether it was to discipline him," said the Genera!, laughing, "or not. But he came and took the command, and came out of the war with a record thut entitled him to his rank. As a soldier, as a commander of the troops, as a man capable of doing all that is possible with any number of men, there is no man living greater than Sheridan. He belongs to tne very first rank of sol­ diers, not onlj cf our country, but of tho world. I jrank Sheridan with Na­ poleon and JP'^erick and the great commandtrs w^isidry. No man* ever had such P faculty of finding out things as Sheridan--of knowing all about the enemy. He was always the best-in- formed man in his command as to the enemy. Then he had that magnetic quality of swaying men which I wish I had--a rare quality in SL General. I don't think any ond can Sheridan too high praise. When I made him Lieutenant General there was some criticism. Why not Thomas or Meade ? I have the utmost respect for those Generals; no one has more; but when the task of selection came I could not put any man ahead of Sheridau. He ranked Thomas. He had waived his rank to Meade, and I did not think his magnanimity in waiving rank to Meade should operate against him when the time came for awarding the higher hon­ ors of the war. It was no desire on my part to withhold honor irom Thomas or Meade, but to do justice to a man whom I regarded then, as I regard him now, not only aa one of the great sol­ diers of America, but as one of the greatest soldiers of the world, worthy to stand in the very highest rank. "I have read," said the General, "what George Meade has written about his father, and his promotion in the army. His statements and citations are correct, but he makes a mistake in his inferences if he supposes that I could in any way reflect on his father. It was not my fanlt, nor Gen. Meade's, that Sheridan was confirmed cwfoia him m Major General. I did all I could to have Meade appointed so as to antedate Sheridan. At, the tame lime, when the permission of Sheridan was asked, he gave it in a handsome man­ ner. When the nomination for Lieu­ tenant General became necessary, I would have liked to appoint Meade. If there had been enough to go around, there were otheis I would have pro­ moted with the greatest pleasure. But there was only one place, and Sheridan was the man who had earned the place, i never could have felt comfortable if I had promoted any one over Sheridan, and, when the fact that Meade ranked him was advanaed as a reason, I was bound to remember the manner in which Sheridan had agreed to my wish that Meade should take from him a rank that the Senate had given him, and see that it did not count against him. Meade was certainly among the heroes of the war, and his name de serves all honor. I had a great fond­ ness for him. No General was ever more earnest. As a commander in the field he had only one fault--his tem­ per. A battle always put him in a fury. He raged from the beginning to the Mid. His own staff officers would dread to bring him a report of any­ thing wrong. Meades anger would overflow on the heads of his nearest and best friends. Under this harsh ex­ terior Meade had a gentle, chivalrous heart, and was an accomplished soldier and gentleman. He served with me to the eud of the war, and to my entire satisfaction." I recall many conversations with Gen Grant about those who took a high place in the civil administration of the war, and especially about Lincoln. Of Lincoln the General always speaks with reverence and esteem. " I never saw the President," said the General, " un­ til he gave me my commission as Lieu­ tenant General. Afterward I s*w him often, either in Washington or at head­ quarters. Lincoln,! may almost say, tfpent the lihi 4ays of his life with me. I often VMWM those days. He came down to Oily Point in the la»i month of the war, and was with me all the time. He lived on a dispatch boat on the river, but always around head­ quarters. He wai » fine horseman, and rode my horse, Cincinnati. Wo visited the dliferent camps, and I did all I oould to interest him. He was vary anxious about the war closing; waa afraid we could not stand a new cam­ paign, and wanted to be around when the crash otttne. I have no doubt that Lincoln will be the conspicuous figure of the wur--one of the great figures of history. He was a great man--a very great man. The more I saw of him the more this impressed me. He was in- con testibly the greatest man I ever knew. What marked him especially was his sincerity, his kindness, his clear insight into affairs. Under all this he had a firm will and a clear policy. People used to say that Seward swayed him, or Chase, or Stanton. This was a mis­ take. He might appear to go Seward's way One day and Stanton's another, but all the while he was going his own course, and they with him. It was that gentle firmness in carrying out his own will, without apparent force or friction, that formed the basis of his character." ' Old Nanny's Light in the Window* On the Michigan Central railroad, ten miles from Detroit, stands an old farm­ house, now desolate, and fast going to decay. There, until lately, lived a poor woman, whose husband and sons had been road-hands, and lost their lives in the service. Seven or eight years ago, when her last child left home to meet a violent death on this same road, the men of the rails became interested in that quaint old farm-house. One night they saw a bright light in one of the windows. Its rays streamed out over the flowers, and fell upon the rails along which the wheels thundered, and the engineer wondered over the signal. The lamp was there the next night, and the next, and it was never missed for a sin­ gle night, until one everting a month ago. Old Nan, deprived of hnsband and children, made friends with the rushing trains and their burdens. The trainmen soon found that the lamp was for them, and they watched for it. During the early evening hours, they Baw old Nanny's face behind the light or at the door, and a thousand times conductors, engineers and brakemen have called eheerily through the dark­ ness--" Good-night, Nanny. God bless you!" Winter and summer the light was there. Winter and summor the trainmen looked for it, and the more thoughtful ones often left a bit of money with the station men beyond to help the old woman keep the bright rays shin­ ing. The lamp was not there for one train, but for all, and all men under­ stood the sentiment and appreciated it. One dark night, not long ago, when the wind howled, and the rain beat fiercely against headlight and cab, the engineers missed the light. They looked for it again and again, as one who suddenly misses an old landmark in a city, and when they failed to find it the hand in­ stinctively went up to the throttle, as if danger lurked on the curve below. Next day men went down to the little old house, fearing old Nanny might be ill. There sat the lamp on the window- sill, but the oil was exhausted. In her bed, seeming to have only fallen asleep, was the poor old woman, cold and dead. Life and lamp had gone out together, and men of rough manner and hardened heart repliedftia they heard the news: " Poor old woman I May her spirit rest in heaven ["--Youth's Companion. Dying Words. It is probably natural that at the last the scenes which have made the strong­ est impressions in life should be re­ called by memory. The old mountain­ eer, when he comes to die, with his last whif.per says his enowshoes are lost; with the stage-driver he is "on a down­ g r a d e a n d c a n n o t r e a c h t h e b r a k e t h e miner cannot get to the air-pipe; the sailor says "eight bells have sounded," and the gambler plays his last trump. A little girl died here a few years ago, and, as her mother held ber .wrist and noted the faint and flickering pulse, a smile came to the wan face and the child whispered: " There is no more desert here, mamma, but all the world is full of flowers." A moment later the smile became transfixed. In an Eastern city, not long ago, a Sister . of Charity was (tying, and at last from a stupor she opened her eyes and said: M It is strange; every kind word that I have spoken in life; every tear that I have shed, has become a living flower around me, Mid they bring to my senses an in­ cense ineffable."--Virginia C Nev. J Enterprise. Smllhinglon and His Wife. • Smithington'a wife is not kind in double harness, and not suitable for a gentleman to drive.- Smithing ton was talking to Potts nbout the way people went on--and off nowadays. " What would you do," said Potts, who was strong on the pistol theory, "if some other fellow ran away with your wife? Excuse the illustration; but I want to bring it home to you." " I shouldn't hesitate an instant," re­ sponded Smit'nington. " You'd kill hei?" " No, sir; I think I should refrain from unmanly violence." " You'd kill yourself?" " Like never mind I would." " Well, what would you do then I" " Make friends with the victim right off, and give him some substantial testi­ mony of my esteem. Only, begad, if I ever invited him to dinner, he would have to oome ulone.:' An Ante-Belium Poker Story Retold. On one of those steamers that plowed the waters of the Mississippi in days gone by a quiet party was deeply im­ mersed one evening in the mysteries of that somewhat uncertain game called poker. Ono of the party, a Colonel or Judge, or ]&ajor--history does not re­ cord which--in a fit of abstraction took the four %ces from the pack with which the game was being played and laid them on his knee. The game progressed, and the Colonel almost "raised" his antagonists out-of their boots. When the H draw" came, he threw away his legitimate five, called for one, and reached for the four aces on his knee. They were gone I Rising, he cried in toned of virtuous indignation : "Gentle­ men, this thing has gone far enough. There's cheating going on around this Urt>le!"--Mobile (Ala.) Register. FUMES from the smelting of lead are now passed through a very long line of pipes and woolen bags, and condensed into lead again, as steam is converted into water. The lead thus obtained is a powder of exceeding fineness which makes an excellent blue paint. * Corporal I'rjof N. Cotrauir, 'The history of the various trials of Pryor N. Coleman, corporal of Com­ pany G, First Tennessee Federal eav airy, during the war, for the murder of Mourning Ann Bell, alleged to have been committed on the 7th of March, 1865, is one of the strange romances of the land. He was charged with the offense, tried by court-martial, convict­ ed of mnrder in the first degree at Knoxvjpe, on tho 27th of Match, 1835, and sentenced to death by hanging. The judgment was approved in due form, bat he escaped from the military author­ ities and thus defeated the execution of the death sentence. Nine years thereafter, when civil au­ thority had been fully restored in all the Southern States, Coleman was ar­ rested, indicted, and tried in the Crim­ inal Court of Knox, county, Tenn., for the same murder. To the indictment his counsel pleaded not guilty, and a former conviction by a court-martial for the same particular offense. A de­ murrer to the plea was sustained on the ground--first, because the defend­ ant's conviction by court-martial under the-laws of the United States was not a bar to an indictment for the same offense; and, second, because he was al­ so guilty of an offense against tho laws of the State. The trial then proceeded, and Coleman was again convicted of murder in the fifllt degree for killing Mourning Ann Bell, and sentenced to death. An appeal was thence taken to the Supreme Court of Tennessee, and, after elaborate argument, the ruling of the court below and the death sentence were affirmed. Pending the appeal to the Supreme Court, a writ of habeas corpus was applied for to bring Cole­ man before the Circuit Court of. tho United States for the Eastern District of Tenuessee, and his discharge from the civil authorities demanded on the ground that he was unlawfully re-* strained from his liberty by the Sheriff of Knox county on the charge of mur­ der, because he had been previously convicted by court-martial, for the same offense under the laws of the United States. The Circuit Court decided that Coleman was held in contravention of the laws of the United States, and ordered his release from custody. The order for his release was presented to the Supreme Court of the State with a motion for the discharge of the prison­ er, and on the 5th of February. 1867, the court decided that the Federal courts had no authority to interfere with the exercise of jurisdiction over offenses against the laws of the State, and declared the order of release a nullity. The case was then finally appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, where it was argued during tho October term of 1878, and Justice Field delivered the decision of the court in June last, pending which Cole­ man remained in the custody of the civil authority of Tennessee. The Su­ preme Court held that the ruling of the State Supreme Court must be reversed and the prisoner discharged from the keeping of the Sheriff of Knox county; but, as the record proved that, he had been lawfully convicted by a court- martial under the laws of the United States, he must be delivered back to the military arm of the law, from which he escaped in 1865, for the execution of the death sentence. This decision brought the question of his execution before President Hayes, and ids order of June 6, 1879, directed that, "in con­ sideration of the long delay which has intervened einee the trial," the sentence should be commuted to imprisonment for life, and Corp. Pryor^N. Coleman is now in the Albany penitentiary for penal servitude during the remainder of his days. Altogether the case of Coleman is one of the most remarkable of tho many in­ teresting complications in the adminis­ tration of justice which has arisen dur­ ing and since the war. One of the pe­ culiar legal romances of the law is in the fact tha^ until the issue was finally brought to the highest judicial tribunal of the country, where conflicting judg­ ments in lower courts could be over­ ruled, the prisoner escaped the death penalty by pleading in the State courts that he had already been condemned for the same offense by the military courts of the United States; in the Federal District Court he claimed im­ munity from the judgment of its laws because he was already condemned in the State courts. Between the dis­ puting jurisdictions he saved his life until time had so softened the hand of justice as to secure a commutation of his sentence. site in the arm-chair ant1 tells to. grandchildren the story of his last fij --Concord (N. H.) Patriot Keeping Children After School. There is one common practice of tb» public schools which ought to be abol­ ished at once and everywhere without- question or parley. That is the praefcioo of imprisoning the children in the school- houses beyond the school hours. Pretty near J y every school-house in the land io- thus turned into a penitentiary in wliich. children are immured every day, some* of them for imperfect recitations, othera- for faults of deportment. This method of punishment might, if the teachera were all judicious, be resorted to occa­ sionally with good effect; but teachers are not all judicious, and thousands of children are thus detained every day to whom the detention is a serious injury and a grave injustice. For some tritiing^ breach of order, like turning in the seat, or dropping a pencil, for some small failure in a recitation, and often for no fault at all--whole classes being kept on account of the indolence of some of their members, and the innocent thus suffering with the guilty--the children are shut up in the school-houses, some­ times during the intermissions, often after the close of school. Thousands of: children in delioate health, to whom the regular school hours are too long, are permanently injured by this system of confinement. If only the stupid and the willful and those in sturdy health were thus punished, there would be lesa reason of complaint; but any careful investigation will show that such dis­ crimination is not generally made, andr. from the nature of the system, cannot- well be made; and that the injury to' the health of pupils resulting from tho practice more than outweighs any goodl that may result from it. The health of the pupil is a subject to which the aver­ age school-teacher gives but little con­ sideration ; any practice, therefore, whieh ia liable to result in the impairment of the pupil's heal thought to be forbidden by law. This plea is based upon an observa­ tion of the working of this system in several towns and cities; and upon the concurrent testimony of many medical men. In some places the rules of the governing boards forbid the imprison9' ment of children, but the rules are gen­ erally set at naught by teachers. They ought to be enforced. It must be that there tee methods of discipline for schools less injurious and more effectual than imprisonment.--Good Company%. the Darkest Day of Grant's Life* "Tbe darkest day of my life," said the General, "was the day 1 heard of Lin­ coln's assassination. I did not know what it meant. Here was the rebellion put down in the field and starting up in. the gutters: we had fought it as war,, and now we had to fight it as assassina­ tion. Lincoln was killed on the even­ ing of the 14th of April. Lee sur­ rendered on the 9th of April. I arrived in Washington on the 13th. I was busy sending out orders to stop recruiting, the purchase of supplies, and to muster out the army. Lincoln, had promised to go to the theater, and. wanted me to go with him. While £ was with the President a note came from Mrs. Grant, saying she must leave Washington that night. She wanted to go to Burlington to see our children. Some incident of ~a trifling nature had made her resolve to leave that evening. I was glad to have the note, as I did not want to go to the theater. So I- made my excuse to Lincoln, and at the proper hour we started for the train. As we were driving along Pennsylvania avenue a horseman rode by us on a gallop, and back again around ohr car­ riage, looking into it. Mrs. Grant said: ' Tnere is the man who sat near us at lunch to-day with some other men and tried to overhear 'our conversation. He was so rude tbat we left the dining-room* Here he is now, riding after us.' 1 thought it was only curiosity, but learned afterward that the horseman was Booth. It seems that I was to have been attacked, and Mrs. Grant's sudden resolve to leave deranged the plan. JL few days Eater I received, an anonymona letter from a man, saying he had been detailed to kill me, that he rode on my train as far as Havre de Grace, and, aa my car was locked, he couid not get in. He thanked God he had failed. I re­ member that the conductor locked our car, but how true the letter was I can­ not say. I learned of the assassination as I was passing through Philadelphia. I turned around, took a special train, and came on to Washington. It was the gloomiest day of my life."--Younff** "Around the World with Grant." > A Rural Romance. Michael Kelley, oi Mike Kelley as he was usually called, was an eccentric old farmer living in one of cur suburban towns. Born of poor parents, by indus­ try and perseverance he had become possessed of one of the finest faims in that section, of which he was justly proud; but no prouder was he than of nis own physical strength and agility, that had assisted him in accumulating lis property and made him a most ex­ cellent boxer and wrestler, and he had a corresponding contempt for men of inferior powers. One spring,when help was unusually plenty, he determined to have the farm run that year by a strong team. So, when a man presented him­ self and asked for work, after inquiring of the man as to his habits, etc., he would finish up by asking him to fight. In this way he disposed of quite a num­ ber o^applicants, and was beginning to despair of getting bis "strong team," when, one morning as he wai standing in the barn door, a young man came up the road, and,seeing him, called oat: "Good mVrning, sir." ' Good morning," graffly. "Do i ou want to hire a hand to work on your farm, sir?" "Perhaps sp; want to hire out?" "Yes, sir ; I am looking for a job." , "What can you do?" "All kinds of farm work, air; I was born on a farm." • "Can you fi«ht?" "What, sir?" " "Can you fight, I oay; can yon lick me?" "I don't know, sir, whether I can or not; but I can try." And he did try. The first thing Kelley knew he was on his back on the floor, with two teetlf down his throat: the next, the man was astride his stomach, with a fist in each eye, and his nose was bleeding. Then he let him up, and was just picking up his bundle to start off, when he was called back and set to work, and he proved to be as trusty and industrious us be was brave. 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