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V J' .- ^g(Ttc«rji fHaiutlcalcr I. VAN SLYKE, Editor end FuM^sher McHENRY, 3 I ILLINOIS. •EEKLY IEWS REVIEW. THE EAST. Two XOBK of the men injured in the bettor explosion at liuffalo have died, nukinp eight victims Tho peper-mannfacturing e«tal>li8hmen of Tilcston & flollis^svrorth, at Hyde Park, Mam., WM destroyed by fir*, •analog a loss of $65,000 Four ip®11 drove up to the residence of Miss Eliza­ beth Roberts, of Brooklvn. N. Y., and rang the beiL On entering they instantly bound the lady an i her servant and demanded their valu­ ables. Tliroe bonds of 61,000 each were handed aver, and jewelry to the valne of $500 was taken from a sleeping-room. Threatening to murder their victims should tho alarm bfl given, tbe robbers took their departure. THE New York Legislature unani­ mously adopted a resolution that tho moral, political and social sentiment of the State and country have heard with profound sorrow of thp death by assassination of Alexander IL, and the putting upon the record their abhor­ rence of the crime of all official murders, re- mrding them as hostile to liberty, to civili­ sation and Chribtiftnity, and the worst possible foes of all reforms. Tin Communists of New York held a it4ing to rejoice over the murder of the Czar •f Russia and extend congratulations to the Nihilists. In the course of a speech, William J^rurv, a French Communist, referred to the late Emperor as the greatest tyrant Rus­ sia had ever known, ana said that he re­ joiced that he had been killed. Resolutions end an address to the Nihilists breathe litr a similar spirit, were adopted. One para­ graph in the address encourages the Nihilists to '• kill, destroy, assassinate, annihilate, even to its very germ, tho aristocracy."....John O'Neil, Secretary of a loan association at Taunton. Mass., having been detected in a course of systematic embezzlement, killed him­ self with a revolver. THE Ashuelot Savings Bank, at Win­ chester, N. H.,has unearthed a deficit of $100,- #00. The Tre asurer, Elleroy Albee, haS as- signed his property to the institution. A MOST startling and extensive rob­ bery is reported from New York city. In broad daylight two or more men succeeded in entering a large apartment house filled with people on a populous street, evading the servants with which the house was supplied, and, breaking in the apartments of one of the occupants, car­ ried off bonds, certificates of stock and jewelry to the value of nearly $1,000,000. After completely ransacking the rooms in the ab­ sence of the occupants, they escaped without detection with their valuable booty, and left absolutely no trace behind them. The victim ©f this bold raid skillful robbery is Mr. Abrain E. Simons, a stationer and printer, who had been printing bonds and stock certificates for some railroad companies, and nearly 51,000,000 worth of these securities he bad taken to his rooms for safe keeping and concealment. They are unsigned by the proper officers, but it is mid were oihorai-e complete. Every one of these bonds and certificates was taken, togeth­ er with $2,0 0 worth of jewelry and valuables belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Simons. DR. CHARLES OSGOOD, of Norwich, Ot., President of the New London Northern Bailroad Company, is dead, leaving $1,000,000 to his heirs Bartlett's mills, in Newburyport, Mass., were destroyed by fire. It was the largest conflagration seen there in seventy yean. THE WEST. THB paymaster at the Muscle shoals improvements was robbed of $5,000 hjr three men, who escaped capture....The steamer James Howard, one of the largest boats on tho Mississippi river, was burned at the levee at St. Louis. She had just arrived from New Or­ leans. There were fifty persons on board when the alarm was given, but no lives were lost. She was valued at $75,000. MAGGIE DOE, an inmate of the fe­ male department in the jail at Racine, made her escape by burning through the floor with the handle of the enal shovel... .Rumor® are afloat in Chicago that a syndicate of ten per- sods 1s being secretly organized to consolidate the Northwestern, St, Paul and Northern Pa­ cific roads. IT now appears that the purchase of the right of way through Bear Butte canon to the B1 .ck bills had not been consummated by the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, and the publication of the matter interfered with the negotiations, The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul people are now trying to secure the road. GEN. EMOBT UPTON, of the United States army, committed suicide in San Fran­ cisco. Grief at the loss of his wife is sup­ posed to have led to the act. He was the author of "Upton's Tactics," which is the text book of almost every mili­ tary organization in the country Hon. Edward Sere, Consul General of R. lgium to the United States, has arrived in Chicago to investigate what may be termed the pork scare. It is said that representatives of Spain, Portu­ gal and Austria will soon be there on a similar errand The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway has filed at Des Moines a mortgage for $4,000,<)00 in favor of the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, of N<:w York. THE Cincinnati Price-Current pub- fishes an extended report on the winter-wheat crop, embracing reports from nearly 400 points in the winter-wheat belt. The Price-Current says : " Taking all the evidence into considera­ tion, with an indication of some increase in the acreage, the crop may now be considered gen­ erally promising, with a prospect for a yield not much, if any, less tuan the preceding year." A MISSISSIPPIAN named Peter Cook -was murdered a few days ago, in the Indian Terrivorv, by his brother-in-law, a Looisianian named Tony Pino. At the close of the war Cook and three other men, disguised as Uniied States cavalrymen, raided Pino's premises, robbed his safe of $1,600, and outraged his wife. Pino has been searching for Cook tar fifteen years, and has just found him, and accomplished his revenge A dispatch from Tombstone. Arizona Territory, says the " stage coach was fired at near Con­ tention by t«o highwaymen. The driver was diot dead aud one passenger badly wounded. ployed in a banking-house, after taking break­ fast with his family, returned to his room, ar­ rayed himself ncat y, lay down on his bed, and blew out his brains. THE Arkausas Senate has defeated the prohibition amendment which recently pss-ed tho House Col A. G. Hodges, of Lonisvill«, ono of the oldest Masons and jour­ nalists in I he Southern States, is dead A oompany with a capital of $400,000 will erect a cotton mill at Charlet-ton, 8. C. Ax unprecedented occurrence is re­ ported from Florence, 8. G. Mr. James Best was overtaken by a severe storm, and was hur­ rying across a field to a placo of shelter, when a" terriuc crash c ime, killing hiui instantly. The strangest occurrence in connection with the affair is that the lightning, after killing Mr. Host, dug his grave, tearing up the earth to a great depth and burying the body. The poor lellow had to be dug out with spades K brief di«natch from Monroe, La., announces that " a difficulty " occurred on the Bayou do Sand, and F. L. Ludeling, son of ex-Chief Jus­ tice Ludeling, of the Supreme Court of Louisi­ ana, wasinsiantly killed, and B. Milchenor and Frank Dirk Grave seriously wounded. No other particulars are vouchsafed William E. Fitzgerald, an insurance agent at New Or­ leans, prominent in the Knights Templar, shot himself in his parlor. THERE was a bungling execution at Marion, S. C., the victim being a negro mur­ derer named James Black. As the trap fell tho rope broke, ind the unfortu­ nate man fell to the ground, bleed­ ing at the mouth and begging for water. Eighteen minutes later he was hanged.... The tow-boat John Means exploded her boilers near Osceola, Ark., and immediately sunk. Four ot her crew wero drowned aud four in­ jured. Her tow of five barges floated on for fifty miles Tho Savannah river rose t venty- four feet in twelve hours, flooding a portion of the city of Augusta, Ga. WASHINGTON* MRS. PRESIDENT GARFIELD held her first general reception on the afternooa of the 12th inst. There was an immense number of visitors. Mrs. Garfield wore a very rich garnet- velvet dress, and was assisted in receiving by Mrs. Secretary Blaine, Mrs. Secretary Linooln, and Mrs. " Secretary Kirkwood. Col. Casey made the introductions The Secretary of the Navy has decided to pay $10,000 for the whaling steamer Helen and Mary, to be senfout in search of the Jeannette. in command of Lieut, <?reeley, of the Signal Office. PRESIDENT GARFIELD has selected J. Stanley Brown for his Private Secretary. SECRETARY BLAINE has already com­ menced active negotiations with the British Government relative to the fisheries question and it is said (although dispatches from the old country contradict it) that there are indica­ tions that that Government iB disj>osed to leave the whole subject of the Fortune bay outrage and other grievances growing out of the Wash­ ington treaty to three umpires, of which Sec- retarv Blaine aud Sir Edward Thornton, British Minister at Washington, shall be two, the third to be chosen bv the mutual agreementof these two. .... Secretary Blaine has received from St. Peters • burg a message thanking the President and Senate of the United States for their message of sympathy. GEN. JOHN W. FOSTER, of Indiana, formerly our Minister to Mexico, and now Min­ ister at St. Petersburg, has been cabled by Sec­ retary Blaine that the President desires him to remain. POLITICAL. THE Pennsylvania House of Repre­ sentatives passed a resolution thanking Presi­ dent Garfield for recognizing the claims of Pennsylvania by the appointment of Wayne MacVeigh as Attorney General Gen. A. J. Edgerton was appointed ap United States Sena­ tor from Minnesota to serve out the unexpired term ot Secretary Windotn. THE new amendments to the constitu­ tion of Indiana, which were voted upon by the people of the State on Monday, March 14, have been adopted by a majority estimated, at this wilting, at 100,000. Tne vote was very lights probably not half as large as that cast in No­ vember last. One of the amendments provide, for changing the time of the State election from October to November. A recent Washington telegram says : " Presi­ dent Garfield said yesterday to a Senator from one of the Middle States that be would send very few nominations to the Senate before the adjournment of that body. He would only iill vacancies. It would be sixty days, at least, before be began to make any important changes. He also outlined the policy that he intends to pursue in the se­ lection for offices in ihe different States. He thinks the best judges as to who shall be se­ lected for such positions are the Senators and Representatives most interested. He said that they knew better than hn possibly could who Bhould be appointed, and he intended to rely in the main in making his selections upon them." SENATOR EDMUNDS has paired with Senator Vance for the remainder of the ses­ sion, aud gone to Florida in search of robust health. GENEBAL. AMONG the deaths reported are those .of Gen. Joseph Pinkney, of New York; Lieut. Com. Edward Eeyser, of the United States navy; 8amuel M. Gales, Superintendent of the Memphis Cotton Exchange; and Charles H. Buck, ot St. Louis. THE subscription to the perpetual fund to provide for a life income to the oldest ex-President of the United Slates has been completed. It amounts to $250,000, of which $216,000 has been paid up, and so invested that it will yield an annual sum of $13,160. George Jones," of the New York Times, who was chiefly instrumental in raising this fund, says that an analysis of the list of subscriptions in his possession shows the following distribu­ tion of amounts: Two subscribers of (25,000..... ... .$ 60,000 Throe subscriber!* of $10,000 30,000 Eighteen Kubfcribere of $5,000 90,000 Three subocribers of (2,~>00 7,500 Two subscribers of $'2,000 4,000 Foity-eigbt nubecribere of $1,000 48,000 One wibfcribwr of $750 7i0 Twenty-one subscribers ol $500 . 10,500 Twei, tj-seven subscribers of $*250. 6,750 Five snbBcribers of $200 ' 1,000 Thirteen sub-enbers of $100 1,300 One • ubscr;ber of $50 50 Various subscribers for small amounts. 150 Total $250,000 When it becomes necessary to piovide for the B. N. Paul. Wells & Fare's agent, returned ! disposition of the fund a meeting of fV.v; the fire, causing the horses to run awav, and saved tne passengers and the treasure' from robbery." ELLEN M. STRATTON, a teacher in a public school at Omaha, aged abont 35 years, has eloped with Charles Duke, a lad of 18, son of a prominent nurchant, in whom she has long taken preat interest. She borrowed of various persons nearly $500. THKBE were slaughtered in Chicago, during the season just closed, the enormous immber of 5,752,191 hogs The White River Utes are seguing all the guns and ammunition possible, and there are grave fears of an early outbreak. The troops have completed a sul>- stantiil block-house near the agency An estimable lsdy of Terre Haute, Ind., Mrs. Mary Hog- re, while delirious from an attack of the ineaUes, sprung into a well and was dtoowaed. THE SOUTH. THE United States Deputy Marshal with ten men made a raid into Letcher county, Ky., in search of illicit distillers. The moon­ shiners, apprised of his approach, organized, and, taking a six-pounder brass cannon, left there by John Morgan during the war, masked it, and awaited the approach of the Marshal. When the Marshal and his party en­ tered the pass, tbey fired the piece--charged with nails, scraps of iron, and the like---but •vershot the mark. The Marshal's party, none •f whom were hurt, dismounted, captured the piece, and drove tho assailants across Perrv oountv into Breathitt county. The Marshal and turn assistant* were puivuing tho fugitives in Jtoeathitt county at last aocojints. AT the spring meeting of Louisiana Jockey Club, by means of electric illumination, it îs ̂proposed to have some fine racing at A FEUD engendered by litigation eeueed & wagon-load of men to be fired upon ambnsh at Princess Ann Court House, Va. itii Old and William Whitehorst were in­ ly killed. ^plMTT.iCA« Bin, ol Keif Orleans, em- subscribers will be called. THE Philadelphia Press prints a letter from Gaboon, west coast of Afiica, giving news about Stanley^ the explorer. Stanley's party, when last seen in November last, were on the 0.,o ve rivtr, f t in the interior of Africa. They were in a mountainous country, and obliged to travel overland, for the riv« r was fuli of rapirls. Their progress was slow. There were no pro- vi-tious to b-a had whore they were. The men were eating rice and the donkeys corn and hay, all brouc hi from Europe. THE names of three of the gentlemen who made up the Grant fund are Jay Gould, William H. Vanderbilt, and J. W. Mackay. They are down for $25,b00 each. foreign* ALEXANDER IL, Czar of Russia, has at ast meyhis death at the hands of Nihilist as- sa»irw. On Sunday afternoon, March 13, while riding with the Grand Duke Michael in a closed carnage, guarded by eight Cossacks, a bomb was thrown, which tore out the back nai t of the vehicle. The Czar and his brother sprung out, when a bystander drew a revolver but was prevented from discharging it At this instant a second bomb fell near the Czar, shattering both his legs. With a cry for help he fe;J, find was taken to the Winter Pal­ ace, where troops kept back the throng. The sacrament was administer* d to the sufferer who survived his injuries but an hour. The two assai-sins i-tood on opposite fides erf the roadway, disguised as peasants. One was so roughly handled that be has cince died. The other gives the namo of Roussakoff. The dead Einperor was born in 1818, and was allied to the throne while Russia was en­ gaged in the Crimean war. The chief event of uis reign was tho emancipation of 23,000,000 serfs in 1861. Attempts upon his life were made by Karaksoff, in Moscow; by BerezowHki, in Pari*, during the international exposition; by a Nihilist, who filed at him in tho streets of St. Petersburg ; by the explosion of a mine under the Winter Palace, and by means of an infernal machine beneath tho railway track at Moscow. Alexander, the heir to the throne, was Lara in 1845, and wodded the Princess Dagmar, of Denmark. The Grand Dnke Alexis and the Duke and Duchess of Edin­ burgh have left London for St. Petersburg. Telegrams of condolence have boen received from nearly all the leading countries, the United States being among the first to offer its tribute, A TELEGRAM from the Russian frontier states that the attempt to assassinate the Czar was not unexpected, as the police had received an intimation of the existence of a conspiracy. Several domiciliary visits in search of politic >1 criminals were made the night preceding the murder. Tho Czar was warned not to attend the parade A1 the European Cabinets and the entire European press express profound sorrow for the death of tho Oz»r. The Emper­ or of Germany is said to be inconsolable. Gladstone, Hartington and Granville called on the murdered monarch's son-in-law, tho Duke of Edinburgh, to express condolence, and Presi­ dent Grevy telegraphed his sorrow to St. Petersburg. Messages of condolence were also sent from the Other European courts Kussakoit, one of the parties who threw tho bombs, one of which proved so fatal to the Czar, had been a student at the St. Petersburg Mining Academy for two years. The second bomb-thrower is also a young man,'apparently of the student class. Both were disguised as peasants. Twenty persons were more or less injured by the bomb explosions. The Czar re­ ceived Lbe holy communion according to the rites of the Greek church. The Czarowite as­ cended the throne on the 14th inst., and issued the following manifesto to his subjects : We, by the grace of Go<l Alexander III., Einperor aud Atxtoorat of all the Ruseios, Czar of Poland, Grand KuUe of Finland, etc., hereby make known to all OUT faithful subjects th«t it has pleased the Al­ mighty, in His inscrutable will, to vicit KiiHwia with heavy "blows of fate, and to call her benefactor, tho Emperor Alexander II., to Hinise!f. He fell by the hands of the impious murderers who had repeatedly sought his precious life, and made their attenipis because they saw in him the protector of K .ssia, the foundation of her greatness, and the promoter of the weifare of the Russian peo­ ple. Let us bow to the unfathomable will of Di­ vine Providence, and offer up to the Almighty our prayers for the repose of the pure soul of our be­ loved father. We ascend the throne which we inherit from our forefather*-the throne of the Russian empire and theCznrdom and Grand-Dukedom inseparably con­ nected with it. We assume the heavy burden which God has imposed upon us with a firm reliance upon His almighty help. May He bless our work to the welfare of our beloved fatherland; and may He guide our strength for the happiness of all our faithful subjects. In repeating before Almighty God the sacred vow made by our fathers to devote, according to the tes­ tament of our forefathers, our whole life to carc for the welfare and honor of Rustdu, we call upon all our faithful subjects to unite before the altar of the Al­ mighty their prayers with ours, and commend them to swear fidelity to us and to our successor, his Im­ perial Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke Nioolai. AIXXANOROVITCH. Given at St. Petersburg, Anno Domini 1881, and the first year of our reign. A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the 15th Bays that Bussakoff, the person arrested ou tho charge of being an accomplice in the assassination of the Czar, has recognized one of the bodies of those killed as that of his ac­ complice. In the house where Russakoff lived a proclamation has been fonnd announcing that the Czar had been assassinated by two persons. The male occupant of the house shot himself dead when he saw the police approach­ ing. A woman who lived with him was ar­ rested. also a person who was seen to enter the house, but the latter was not captured until he had fired six shots and wounded three policemen.... Gladstone, in moving the address relative to the assassination of the Czar, Bpoke of the noble self-forgetfulness with which, after the first attack, he lingered to care for the wound­ ed. The crime showed the deepest ingrati­ tude. The sole labor of tho Czar's life was for the benefit of his subjects, and his reign would always be regarded as illustrious and memorable. By freeing 20,000,000 serfs he had conferred upon mankind one of the greatest benefits that had ever been peacefully accomplished, and he had tollowed up this great reform by the establishment of local government and trial by jury The most important arrest in Ireland under the Coercion act is that of P. J. Sheridan, one of the tavers- ers, who was seized at his residence in County Sligo. ON information that a mine had been laid near the palaoe of the Czar at St Peters­ burg, a detachment of sappers was set at work. The mouth of the mine was fonnd under an ottoman in the dwelling-room of an absconded shopkeeper. The excavation led to the riding- school whence the murdered Emperor was re­ turning at the time he was assassinated Austria has followed the example of I ranoe, and prohibited the importation of American pork One of the results of the Czar's assas­ sination is seen in the expulsion from Berlin of persons suspected of entertaining Socialistic sentiments. The anarchic, element, though unsoen, is said to be more vital and vigor­ ous in the German empire than when the Socialist law was passed Paul Kruger, in his letter to the President of the Orange Free State, says the Boers desire ah honorable peace, but cannot cut their own throats by declaring themselves rebels. They insist upon a republic under a British protecto­ rate.... The Tekke-Turcomans, without excep­ tion, are said to have submitted to Russia. A POLICEMAN on night-duty at the Lord Mayor's residence, in London, seeing a spark on the ground, fonnd a wooden box con­ taining forty pounds of gunpowder, with which a fuse was connected, to which lighted paper had been recently applied. The corporation has offered a reward of £100 for the discovery of the perpetrators, and addi­ tional policemen have been stationed at the Mansion House and Bank of England Advices from Constantinople indicate that very little confidence is felt in the success of the Greek frontier negotiations, and the Porte is proceeding with military preparations Hie Pope has issued an encyclical letter proclaim­ ing a jubilee until the 1st of November for Europe and until the end of the year for the rest of the world It is asserted as a fact that with the sanction of the late Czar a meas­ ure had been prepared tending toward repre­ sentative government The new French 3- per-c* nt. loan was takon several times over. THB Russian Foreign Minister has addressed a circular to the Russian represent­ atives abroad relative to the policy of the new Emperor. It sets forth that he will first give his attention to tho internal development of the state, and that only the duty of protecting her honor or security will divert him from this work. His foreign policy will be pacific, and he will act in common with all other govern­ ments in maintaining a general peace France yields to tho request of tho United States that pork shipped before the passage of the decree shall be subject only to inspection. In consequence of the refusal of the Aus­ trian and Hungarian Diets to pass resolutions of condolence ou the occasion of tho Czar's mur­ der, Baron von Haymcrle has resigned the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs. CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY. In the United States Senate, the oath of office was taken, on the meeting of that body on Monday March 14, by Messrs. McDill, of Iowa, and Cameron) of Wisconsin. Mr. Morgan offered a resolution de­ nouncing aeaaasinaUon as a means of redress for any grievance. On the question of organizing the Senate speeches were made by Messrs. Pendleton, Coniling and Hill, the latter inqtii lng particularly what Senator chosen by Democrat* would prove false to his trust. Mr. Mahone took a position in front of the Vice President's desk and declared that lie should vote aa he p'eased; that he owed nothing to the DemocroU, and that the Demo^ra'ic party had done more in jun­ to the South than anything e:te. Mr. Vooi-hees offered to be one of two Denio- cratsto pair off with vacant Republiciin wuts. The President nominated Stanley Matthewe/if Ohio, to be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; Don A. Pardee, of Louisiana, 1o be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Judicial Circuit; John W. Powel1, of Illinois, to be Director of the United States OeoloKical Survey; Or.ando II. Brew­ ster, Louisiana, Surveyor General of the United States District of Louisiana. Postmasters-- George J. Williams, Youngstown, Ohio; Thomas " J. Anderson, Topeka, Knnsa«; Jacob M. Wells, Marion, Ind.; John R. Dowd, Rockvi' e, Ind.; Mrs. I'rescilla W. Wilson, Hraid- wood, IU.; G. W. Mitchell, Charleston, III.; James H. C arkel Mattoon, IU.; John Kennedy, Hastings, Minn.; Eaen N. Lavens, Fa;ihau)t, Minn.; Frances W. S^eley, Lake City, Miiin.; Edward Rus e!!, Dav­ enport, Iowa; William C. Hswley, Manchester, Iowa; George Crane, Dubuque, Iowa; Justus T. Moak, Watertown, Wis.; Frank Patterson, Junction City, Kan.; William Mulienix, Bristol, Tsnn.; Henry W. Turner, Lexington, Ma The Senate session was very brief on Toes- day, the 15th Inst Mr. Voorhees called up his reso­ lution asking the Attorney General for the names of Deputy Marshals appointed to guard the polls at the October election in Indiana. It w*a amended so as to call also for Information as to the necessity for their appointment, and in its new shape was adopted. An attempt was made by Mr. Pendleton to call up his reorganization resolution, but it failed, and the Senate adjourned. Senator Edgerton, of Minnesota, took his seat on Wednesday, the 16tb inst. A resolution was adopted calling for ths correspondence between Mszioo aad the United gtatss, front KM# to Utfl, la reference fc> % proposed treaty. The Democrats went through the motion of calling up the organisa­ tion resolution, but did not attempt to press tt to a vote. There was a little filibustering on the part of the Republicans, after which the Senate adjourned. The President nominated 8. Dana Horton to be Secretary to the Commission to attend the Iut-niUHtjonal Monetary Conference at Paris. Also the fol.owing Postmasters: William H. Hart- man, Waterloo, Iowa, and Gcorjje 1'.. RoichneXer, Wyandotte, K.is. Surveyors of Customs: John H, Leonard, Indianapolis, Ind., and Joseph L. Gaston, Chattanooga, Tenn.. ̂ nd B. J. Watson to be Naral Officer at (tan Francisco. Hie credentials of Senator Edgerton, of Min­ nesota, were- presented to the Senate on Thursday, March IT, and he took the oath of office. Mr. Pen­ dleton said lie had rsoelved information which in- duoed him to believe that it would be Impossible to obtain a vo'e upon the pending resolution this morn­ ing, and he therefore moved to adjourn. Agreed to. Tho appointment of Hon. James A. Wildman as Pof tmaster at Indianapolis was sent to the Senate this afternoon bv the President. CoL A. F. Rock­ well was also appointed as Commissioner of Public Buildings and Grounds. The Senate was organized by the Republi­ cans, on Friday, the 18th inst., Mahone voting with them, and David Davis with the Democrats. The vote stood 37 to 37, Edmunds and Vanoe being paired, and Vice President Arthur gave his casting vote in favor of the Republicans. The committees as arranged by the Republican cauous, were then ap­ pointed. As soon as Senator Frye was sworn in, Mr. Anthony, Chairman of the Republican caucus, offered the list of committees pre­ pared in the caucus as an amendment to the resShitfon offered a number of days ago by Mr. Pend.eton. The vote stood 37 to 37, and the Vice President said that, the vote being a tie. he would vote in the affirmative, and declared the resolution adopted. The President nominated Philip Doppier to be Collector of Internal Revenue of the ixth district of Tennessee; George H. Starbuck, of New York;, to be Supervising Inspector of Steam Vessels for the Second district, and the following Postmas­ ters: James C. Sherman, Menominee, Mich.; Jo­ seph E. Wilkinson, Sid ey, Ohio; John G. Magaw, Coshocton, Ohio; James A. Wildman, Indianapolis, Ind., and William L. Harvey, Minneapolis, Kan. The following are the Senate Committees as elccted, the first named on each committee being the Chairman; Privileges and Elections--Hour, Cameron (Wis.), Teller, Sherman, Frye, Sauisbury, Hill (Ga.), Vauoe, Pugh. Foreign, Relations -- Burnelde, Conkling, Ed­ munds, Miller, Ferry, Johnston, Morgan, Hill (Ga.), Pendleton. Finance--Morrill, Sherman, Ferry, Jones (Nev.), Al.ison, Piatt (N. Y.), Bayard, Voorhees, beck, Mc- Phorson, Harris. Appropriations--Allison, Logan, Dawes, Plumb, Hale, Davis (W. Va.), Beck, Ransom, Cockrell. Commerce--Conkling, McMillan, Jonos (Nev.), Kellogg, Conger, Ran*oin, Coke, Farley, Vest. Manufactures--Conger, Hale, Jewell, McPhersen, Williams. Agriculture--Mahone, Blair, Plumb, VanWyck, Davis (Wr. Va.), Slater, George. Military Affairs--Logan, Burnside, Cameron (Pa.), Harrison, Sewell, Cockreli, Maxey, Grover, Hamp­ ton. Naval Aff iirs--Cameron (Pa.), Anthony, Rollins, Mi ler, Mahone, McPherson, Jones (Fia.), Vance, Farlsy. Judiciary--Edmunds. Conkling, Logan, Inga!ls, McMillan, Garland, Davis (IU.), Bayard, Lumar. PostofficeB and Pott-Roads--Ferry, Hill (Col.), Piatt (N. Y.), Sawyer, Mahone, Ma-xey, Bault>bury, Farley, Groome. Public Lands--Plumb, Hill (Col.), Blair, Van Wyck, McDill, Jones (Fla.), Grover^ Walker, Morgan. Private Lund Claims--Bayard, Jones, Call, Ed­ munds, Allison. Indian Affairs--Dawes, Ingalls, Saunders, Logan, Cameron (Wis ), Coke, Pendleton, Walker, Slater. Pensions--Teller, Piatt (Ct.), B.uir, Mitchell, Edg­ erton, Groome, Slater, Jacksou, Camden. Revolutionary Claims--J. hnston, Jones (Fla.), Hill (Ga.), Anthony, Dawes. Claims--Cameron (Wis.), Frye, Teller, Hoar, Con­ ger, Pugh, Jackson, George, Fair. District of Columbia--'ngalls, Rollins, McMillan, Hawley, McDill, Harris. Butler, V&nce, Gorman. Patents--Piatt (Ct.), Hoar, Mitchell, Edgerton, Coke, Call, W:ilti:uns. Territories--Saunders, Kellogg, McDiU, Sawyer, Butler, Garland, Vest. Railroads--Kollopg, Saunders, Teller, Hawley, Sawyer, Sewell, Lamar, Grovor, Williams, Jones, Brown. Mines and Mining--Hill (Col.), Jones (Nev.), Van Wyck, Miller, Hampton, Fair, Camden. Revision of Laws--McMillan, Piatt (Ct), Hale, Davis (111.), Pcnd eton. Education and Labor--Blair, Morrill, Bnrnslde, Edgerton, Mahone, Maxey, Brown, George, Fair. Civil Service--Hawley, Roiling, Jones (Nev.), Hill (Col.), Butler, Walker, Williams. Contingent Expenses--Jones (Nev.), Piatt (Ct.), Vance. Engrossed Bills--8aulsbury, Call, Conkling. Ru es--Frye, Hoar, Sherman, Call, Gorman. Improvement of the Mississippi River--Mitchell, Kellogg, Van Wyck, Frje, Jones, Cockrell, Jackson. Transportation Routes to the Seaboard--Harrison, Cameron (Pa.), Blair, Piatt (N. Y.), Beck, Voorhees, Camden. Joint Committee on Public Printing--Anthony, Hawley, Gorman. Joint Committee en Enrolled Bills--Piatt (N. Y.), Bo.lins, Pugh. Joint Committee on Library--Sherman, Hoar, Voo hees. Joint ConupittMen Public Buildings and Grounds --Roffios^ Cainero^ (Wis,), .««ttes Civil Servioe^Sawj-er, Rollins, Dawes, Hampton, Groome, Census--Hale, Morrill, Cameron (Wis.), McDill, Pendleton, Morgan, Harris. Epidemic Diseases-- Harris, Lamar, Garland, Jonas, Teller, Miller, Sewell. Nicaragua Claims --Davis (W. Vs.), Grooms, Johnston. Hawley, Mitchell. On Erection of New Library Building--Voorhees, Butler, Morrill. BANES AND BONDS. Text of Secretary Window's Dccisien Relative to the National HanltN. The decision reached by the Cabinet on the request of the national banks to withdraw their legal-tenders deposited to retire circulation maintains that the precedents of the depart­ ment in similar cases should be adhered to, and no return of legal tenders made. The text of the decision is as follows t TRKASVBT DEPIBTMIRT,! WASHINGTON. D. C., March 11,1H8I. f President Merchants' National Bank, Cieveland. Ohio: SIB : I am in receipt of your letter of the 6th init stating your bank had, during the previous week, deposited with the Assistant Treasurer at New York fl80,000 in legal tenders, with a view of retiring that amount of its circulating notes; that bonds to secure the same, amounting to $200,000, had been forwarded from the treasury in this city to New York, and that the bank now desires to return them to the treasury of the United States, aud receive back the above amount of logal-tender notes. As the action taken in this case would establish a rule by which the department would necessarily be governed in regard to similar requests from other banks, some delay in answering your letter has oc­ curred. It seems since the 19th ult. about 419,000,000 in legal tenders have been deposited by the banks for a purpose like that mentioned by yon. Of this amount about $l,000,00u was returned by the Treasurer, tho request there­ for having been received before any re­ demption of notes had been made or security bonds delivered. In such cases, the transactions being incomplete, the de­ partment had clearly the right to return the notes, as has been done. Of tho remaining amount, about $18,000,000 security bonds therefore have either been surrendered or re­ demptions i gainat the amounts deposited have already boen made, and transactions have been so far coni|jJ»ted that it has been decided that the precedents of tho department in similar cases should be adhered to, and no return of legal tenders bo mado. In tuis connection it should be stated no apprehension of unfavor­ able results need be entertained in this matter. Since the 25th uit. the department has paid out for bonds purchased about 46,500,000, and is to-aay paying out on like account an additional amount of ®5,000,(100, In addition to these payments there has been advanced from the treasury since the 1st inst., to meet payments of arrearages of pensions, the amount of $7,683,H14, and on tne 1st prox. there will fall due of interest more than $7,00o,000, aud there are on baud of Incomplete national-bank notes, which can be issuod . t once to the banks, to the amount of $4,000,000, whicn in aggre­ gate, will bo- observed, take an amount from the treasury largely in excess of the amount ' of legal-tender notes which have beeii/deposited by the banks •inee the 10th ult., and which, it is now de­ sired, should be returned. Letters have also been received asking if the identical United States bonds held as security for circulating notes which were recently withdrawn by the na­ tional banks can bo re-deposited without trans­ fer. This ri'ijucKt will be granted if the bond bears no assignment except that of the Treas­ urer of tho United Htatod to the bank returning it Very respectfully, H. F. FRENCH, . Acting Secretary. The decision, although signed by Acting retarv French, was actually rendered by S tary Windom. Seo- Secre- NEABLY all of Ireland's 1,740,291 acres of bog and marsh belong to tiie great bog of Allen, which spreads over the central portion of the great limestone plain of Ireland, and occupies a large portion of the counties of Roscommon, Gal way, Westmeatli, King's and Queen's counties, and Kildare. This vast bog formation varies in depth from twenty- five to forty feet, and is full of stagnant water. ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE. RmmnAY, March 12.--SENATE.--The few Senators iu town met and revived a few bills in tho morning, nothing further being done. B.lls were introduced as follows: A copy of tbe Park Priycwny bill; providing that here­ after no hfo-m^nrance policies shill be is­ sued in this State except upon a net valua­ tion of 3 per cent, compound interest; a bill designed to cut off appeals in criminal esses fioru Ci.ur.ty Courts; permitting appeals from decisions of town authorities where they rtfime to disconnect nroDeity from their limits; cha]it,riii!; the methods of appeals from County to Cir. ii.t Courts in minor details; a bill drawn by the lieveuue Committee of the Senate, pro­ viding that, in addition to other taxes, railroad companies shall pny a tax of 2% per cent, on their gross earnings; appropriating $8,600 for additional land for (he Institution for the Feeble-Minded at Lincoln. MONDAY, March 14.--SENATE.--No quorum was present, and after the introduction of the following bills the Senate adjourned: Amend­ ing the Chancery act; taxing express compa­ nies 2 per cent of their gross earuinga. HOUSE.--The abscnce of a quorum prevented much business in the House. The Committee on State Institutions reported back a large number of bilis. They were referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Bills were in­ troduced : Appropriating 685,000 for tho pur­ chase of additional land lor the Institution for the Feeble-minded at Lincoln: to prohibit the pernicious habit of treating; permitting private warehousemen to sell un­ claimed goods; punishing all those who may maliciously destroy trees; to extend the juris­ diction of County Courts; to protect the moneys of minors in the hands of guardians. A reso­ lution was presented calling on Dr. Rauch to vaccinate tne members of the General Assem­ bly. It was promptly lost. TUESDAY, March 15.--SENATE.--The special order, the bill to amend the Exemption law, was sent to third reading, as was the bill re­ garding witness' fees and a few other unim­ portant measures. Bills were passed: To amend the law iu regard to the administration of estates; changing the practice of proving wills of foreign persons. The bill giving the Com­ missioner of Claims exclusive jurisdiction of claims against tho State for the damaging of private property by tho Slate for public pur­ poses was read a third time and faital to pass. Bills were introduced as follows : Amending the Insurance law of the State by requiring a deposit of $50,000 from piate-glass insurance companies, instead of $100,000, as at present; an impropriation of $10,000 for the educat on ot deaf aud dumb children in Cook county ; permitting gas companies to lay their pipes "in streets of incorporated cities and villages; malting a uniform charge of 25 cents for tele­ graph messages of ten words within the limits of tne State ; forbidding the licensing of sa­ loons except on a petition signed by the majori­ ty of the legal voters of cities and villages. HOUSE.--The Committee on Roads and Bridges proacnted a long bill on the highways, winch was made the special order for next week Wednesday. On the order of Becond reading, the Dentistry bill was killed, as was the one allowing County B jards to license Orugguts to sell liquor on physicians' pre- scrjiiLions. Bills were sent to tiurd reading: To prevent adu.terations in food, driuk and medicines; to prevent accidents by gas; the Anti-Pooling bilL Bills were in­ troduce! : Punishing a person who procures liquors under false pretenses; for the relief of a workman oh the Jacksonville Insane Asylum ; to prevent life insurance companies not authorized to loan money iu Illinois from do ng business in the Slate ; on the adultera­ tion of articlns of food ; to appropriate $10,000 for tho support of tho Doaf and Dumb School in Chicago, now under the management of tho Board of Education; requiring tiro-insurance companies to pay the fuiitaceof tho poliev ; giving railroad com­ panies the "privilege ' of constructing drains and culverts under their tracks ; to encourage ttie planting of trees; to regulate treigui rates and to prevent discrimination, rebates aud tiie overloading of cars; to reduce the rates of five-days' storage from 1% to 1 cent per busheL WEDNESDAY, March 16.--SENATE.--The Gov­ ernor nnt the following nominations to tho Senateforconflrmation: C. W.Marsh, of DeKalb, to be his own successor as Trustee of the Northern Insane Hospital at Elain; John L. Donovan, of Iroquois, to succeed William F. Murphy as Trustee of tho Eastern Hospital for the Insane at Kankakee; Edward P. Kirby, of Morgan, to succeed John Oordon as Trustee for the Central Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville; John G. Monohan, of Whiteside, to be his own successor as Trustee of the Deaf and Dumb Institute at Jackson­ ville ; Archibald C. Wads worth, of Morgan, to be his own successor an Trustee of the Institu­ tion for the Education of the Blind at Jackson­ ville ; Graham Lee, of Mercer, and Etlielbert Callahan, of Crawford, as Trustees of the Asylum for the Feeble-Minded at Lincoln, to be their own successors; William H. Fitch, of Winnebago, to be his own successor as Trustee of the Eve and Ear Iutirmary of Chicago; John L. ltinaker, of Macoupin, Tru-tee of ttie Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Nor­ mal, to be his own successor ; Thomas S. ltidg- way, of Gailatm, as Trustee of the Sou,hern Illinois Normal University, Carbondale, to bo his own KUoeoH- or ; Samuel L. Iugles, of Bond, as Trustee of the same institution, to sucoced L. M. l'helps, deceased; Solon Kendall, of Henry, as Trustee of ttie State lteform School at Poutiac, to be his own successor, J. C. Corbus, of Li Salle, and William A. Grimshaw, of Pike, as members of the btuto Board ol Public Cuarities, and T. B. Haller, of Fayette, as member of the same board lo suc- coed J. N. McCord, resigned, aud 8. P. McDo.e, of Kane, as Slate Fish Commissioner, to suc­ ceed J. South Biiggs, whose term bus expired. The General Appiopnation bill aggregates about $2,600,0*M). Oi this amount $0uu,0uo i* appro­ priated for the salaries of State ottijeiv, t*c. A resolution was passed ordering the issuance of a warrant to the Sergeant-ai-Arms for tne ariest of J. T. Santord and Charles M. Gray, who reluse to attend the railway invesiig it.on as witnesses. Bills were introduced as foil JWS : To prevent the spreading of contagious dis­ eases, pleuro-pneumonia, eto., and providing, tor tho appointment of a State Veterinary Sur­ geon ; prohibiting loose women from going buggy ndiug ; providing for the appointment ot a Bureau ot ttt-'am-Boiier Inspectors ; regulat­ ing gas companies. HOUSE.--The Senate bill to appropriate $18,250 for printing, heating the building, etc., was read a third time and passed without any opposition. Bills wero passed: Changing Caihoun and Jersey counties to the Central Grand Division of tho Appellate C ant; ex­ tending the time of bruising suit en a judgment obtained iu another State livm Live to ten years; appointing extra terms of court in Williamson couuiy in Apii and October ; providing that iu all cases ot ap­ peals and certiorari ttie court shall have tne power to appoition ttie costs according to tiie justice ot the case. Again tha House defeated Mr. Collins' bul for a con­ solidation of Chicago's three townships. Bills were introduced: liaising tax ation for county purposes from 75 cents to $1 on tho $100; to provide for tho sale of land by foreign executors aud administrators iu certain cases; to remove the $5,000 limit to compensation for injuries resulting in death, and to leave the whole question of damages to the jury; to extend the conditions on which taxes may be refunded; to appro­ priate $10,000 for land and buildings for the Northern Illinow Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, in Chicago ; to create the Northern Illinois Normal f&hool, and to appropriate $60,000 therefor ; an appropriation of $21,450 to accommodate more patients at Elgin ; to legalize Quaker marriages; to revise the law in regard to sureties. THURSDAY, March 17.--SENATE.--Bills were introduced: Appropriating $35,600 for the relief of James Lilley, a contractor of tho Eastern Illinois Hospital for the Insane at Kankakee; for tho organization and supervision of sav­ ings-banks; a new Dog Tax .aw; amending tho Canal lawn; amending the law of ad mini at ra­ tion of estates. The bill giving County Courts equal jurisdiction with Criminal Courts in certain cases, the special order, was discussed mid sent to third reading. Qnite a number of other measures followed the t-iune course. The bul giving State's Attorneys power to bring Huila on written complaints of extortion nnd discrimination against railroad companies was made the special order for next Wednesday. The joint resolution providing that when the Lcgis.ature adjourns on Apnl 15 it stand ad­ journed until Fob. 15, 1882, was adopted. HOUSE.--The House took up the special order of the day--the consideration of the Linegar Revenue bill, which proposes a tax on the gross receipts of railroad, express, telegraph aud insurance companies, in hen of all other taxes from such corporations. A long debate ensued, and the bill was killed by 69 to 53. Bills were introduced: To allow cor­ porations to elect "other offioexs" in addition to Trustees, managers, etc.; to make wages dne servants or labor ers for serv­ ices performed for a decedent dnring the next year preceding the decease preferred claims in the administration of estates ; to authorize the formation of companies for the detection an ' apprehension of horse thieves as well M felons, and for mutual protection. FRIDAY, March 18.--SENATE.--The writ of attachment for C. M. Gray and J. F. Sanford was discharged. The Senate bill fixing the salary of the Supreme Court Reporter at $3,000 per annum and regulating the distribution of his reports was, read a^hird time and killed. Upon a motion to reconsider the resolution relative to adjournment April 15, the matter was made a special order for Wednesday next. Pills were introduced as follows : In regard to reporting the decisious of the Supreme Court; providing that dealers of faro-banks and gambling devices shall be im­ prisoned in the penitentiary; appropriating $550 for the relief of George L. Kimpson. A Lit! was then passed which provides that iu all cases where complainants setk to enjoin the collection of taxes they mnst deposit the full amount thereof with the County1 Treasurer. The bill taxing beds of mineral was lost on third reading The bill transferring $134,7! 8. the balance of the Illinois Central railroad fund now in the treasury, to the general revenue fund, was passed. HOUSE.--A resolution was presented calling ou the Railroad Commissioners to revise th6 schedule of railway charges, which was made the special order for Wednesday next. A reso­ lution cutting off new bills after the 25th inst W/H presented. By a vote or 120 to 3 the Houso passed the bill making an additional ap* propriatiou for the pay of members of the General Assembly. A bill was introduced to ameud law relating to bonds of Town Co!/ectors. Bills were passed: To appropriate $5,000 to eompleto the National Lincoln Monument at apringfleld and to improve the grounds; ap­ propriating $4,798 for the completion of the Douglas Monument at Chicago; amending the AppullateCourt act so as to give the court theclear n^ht to issue writs of mand«mus; to pay Ather- ton Clark $600 for land damages growing out of the construction of the Henry dam; to require County Clerks to turn over the tax books to tho Town Collect' rs by the 1st of December or tea days thereafter; allowing Winnebago coun­ ty to hold court hereafter in Marcu, June and November; requiring railroad companies to build and maintain fences on both sides of their road and cattle-guards at crossings; a resolution asking the Illinois delegation to " boom" for Emory Cobb as Commissioner of Agriculture : allowing tho use in divorce suits where tho bft is taken as confessed of deposi­ tions of non-resident witnesses; allowing a woman alimony pending a suit for sep­ arate maintenance, and upon appeal or writ of error by the husband ; providing that the court may for good cause shown in any case require bond and security from the surviving partner or part ners ; pro­ viding that State's Attorneys instead of County Judges shall make out and transmit to the Governor petitions for requisitions; amending the criminal code which makes juries in all criminal cases judges of the law and the fact by declaring it error for a court to qualify the section by instituting any com­ parison between court and jury as to the jurors1 knowledge of law. A resolution calling on the Illinois delegation in Congress to procure the enactment of laws to protect innocent par- chasers of patent machinery was adopted. Bills were introduced : Allowing City Coun­ cils in all cities to license, tax, regu­ late, suppress and prohibit hawk- era, peddlers, pawnbrokers, auctioneers, keepers 6f ordinaries, theatricals, and other exhibitions, shows and amusements ; giving the Supreme and Appellate Courts the power to is­ sue writs of mandamus to the lower courts ; re­ ducing the penalties for the redemption of land sold for taxes; restricting the number of saloon licenses to one for every 600 inhabitants in a city, village, town, or county, and requiring an additional bond from the saloon-keeper in the sum of §500. NATIVE AND FOREIGN-BORN. The Census Bureau has issuod a bulletin showing the relations of native and foreign- bora persons in the several States. As to I11L nois, it shows that, of its population of 3,078,- 769, 2,495,177 are native and 583,592 foreign- born, or about 14,080 foreigners to every 100,- 000 of population. In no State doea the foreign element equal the native, although in many it bears a very large proportion. In the United States as a whole there is a relative decrease of the for­ eign element. The increase of tho foreign ele­ ment has been in New England, where the growth has been in the direction of manu­ factures ; in Dakota and Oregon, whose wheat delds have invited settlement; and in Colorado and New Mexico, where extraordinary develop­ ment of tho mining industry has taken place since 1871. The largest number of foreigners is in New York--1,211,438 ; tho next largest in Pennsvl- vania--6s7,5ii8; Illinois comes next, and with almost as many; then follow Massachusetts, Wisconsin, O!iio, Mi higan and California. The largest number in any Southern state is in Texas, but in all the South there are not as many foreigners as in Wioconsiu alone. The followmg table will exhibit the relative number of natives and foreigners ii 1880: State* and Territories. Salive. Foreign. Uu.ted Scutes 6,«77,ifi0 Alabama. 1,253,121 Ariz.nitt 24,41'J Arkauww. * 79'2,J69 <:aiit«ruia 572,006 Colorado 154.86!) Connecticut....' 49 J, 8 9 D.ikota 83,387 Delav.'me 137,182 District ot Columbia 160,5^3 Florid*. 257,631 Georgia 1,528,733 ltlhtao 22,629 Illinois 3,49j,177 Indiana 1,831,597 Iowa 1,363,132 Kansas 886,2Ct Kentucky 1,589,237 Louisiana £85,964 Maine 69K,076 Maryland 851,984 MunsHcLiuKtti 1,339,919 Michigan.. Minnesota. 513,107 MiRHiwfiijipi 1,122,424 Missouri 1,957,664 Montana 27,642 Nebraska 355,043 Nevada 36,623 New Hampshire 300,961 Now Jersey 909,398 Now Mexico 103,408 New York 3,872.371 North Carolina 1,3'.(6,»'8 Ohio 2,803,496 Oregon 144,327 Pennsylvania. 3,695,253 Ithrxte Inland ^02,598 South Carolina H87,981 Tennessee. 1,525,881 Texan 1,478,058 Utah 99,974 Vermont..*. 291,341 Virginia. 1,498,139 Wanhiugton 69,250 Wont Virxinia 60U,214 Wisconsin 910,063 Wyomiug 14,943 While tho foreign-boms of no 8tato equal the uative-borns, yet if the minor children of foreign parents born in this couutry were sub­ tracted from ttie native popnlatiou and added to the foreign it would give the latter tbe ma­ jority in nil probability in Minnesota and nearly half in Wisconsin. 9,673 16,022 10,2u6 292,080 89,780 129,804 51,793 9,472 17,115 9,720 10,313 9,982 593,692 143,7«5 2111,488 109,796 69,171 54,139 68,H60 82,648 443,098 388.346 267,690 9,168 211,'^40 11,515 97,3V0 75,042 46,923 221,585 9,9.12 1,211,438 3,070 304.743 30,4:9 687,533 7;i,!t20 7,(141 1K,5U 111,516 43,932 40,940 14,>67 15,8(11 18,229 405,417 5,845 Two Women Wedded. The Boston Herald prints the follow­ ing strange Btory from a correspondent at Dover, N. H., and it is given for what it is worth. The writer vouches for its truthfulness: Ten years ago two persons were united in marriage by a Congregational clergyman of this State. The ceremony was performed in a small town noi many miles from this city. They lived together as husband and wife for more than nine years, having resided in several different places, a part of the time in this place. A few months ago tho wife petitioned for a divorce on the ground that her husband was a woman. On examination it was found to be as she had said. That she dressed in female apparel when she first became acquainted with her, but told her she was a mmi. It was proved that she was the divorced wife of a merchant of New York, and had one child. THB best way to prevent cliildren from reading books and papers that have a bad influence upon them is to supply them with plenty of books and papers that will have a good influence upon them. The mind hungers for food of some kind and if good is not supplied it will take the first that comes within its reach. j JPTEKILB 1TTR; £ SAID a school teacher: apples, and give you five and your big t j brother five, what will be left f" "111 i be left," responded the younger brothet I " for he will get away with all of them. WHBN Theo was 5 years old, she, hav­ ing been taught that it was rude to stare at people, was heard calling from a i room in which Bat an exceedingly stout , i lady, "I'm not staring, mamma; bat isn't she fat ?" ON a rainy morning, a small boy, Who has exhausted all his excuses for not putting in an appearance at school, opens tne door and sivys to the aston­ ished master: "Sir, ma says I can't come to school to-day--it's raiding too hard." " JOHNNY, you don't know how proud. I was to have you at tiie head your class, and now you have fallen back ever so far." " You aie to blame for it, ma.* " How so, Johnny ?" " The Bible says ' ' pride goes before a fall.' Your pride went before my fall. Besides, it is some other boy's mother's turn to feel stuck tip." • GENTIUEMAN asked a little girl, "Which lovest thou best, thy kitten or thy doll ?" She was about to reply- aloud when a discreet second thought came to her. She whispered softly iu the questioner's ear: " I love my.. kitty best, but don't you let Dolly sus­ pect it, ,01 there will be a fuss, in the ' family!" HE was: tiie only son of his mother, the pride, the hope, the apple of her eye. Over his fair face scarce three summers had passed. " And be sure, < Peter, and recollect this," said his fond and only parent, as she shut up the good book--" never put off till to-mor­ row what you can do to-day." "A-h," , said Peter, with glistening eyes, " then let's finish up the pudding to-night, mamma !" A LITTLE girl in Belfast, Me., dropped her doll and broke its arm. The doll was a favorite one, and the accident was to the child & calamity of the severest nature. The tears started, the little lip? were trembling with grief, when a bright thought struck her. With a beaming * face, Bhe exclaimed, "Papa, I don't know as I care, after all. Perhaps it will be put in the paper." An Audience with Qneen Bees. Among the archives at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris is a curious doc­ ument which will be quite as interesting to English as to French readers. It is an accouftt by Hurault de Maisse of the English Court in 1597. His first inter­ view with Elizabeth took place on the 8th of December in that year, and is de- scrilied with graphic minuteness. One of the court carriages came for the Am­ bassador of Henry IV., and conducted him to the Thames, where a boat was awaiting him, whic|^ immediately put off and deposited him at the entrance to Whitehall. He was then conducted by the Lord Chamberlain through a dark corridor--the obscurity of which evidently made a great impression on his mind--to a private apartment in which was the Queen. Her Majesty was sitting in a low chair at the top of the room, alone and retired, at a distance from the crowds of lords ' and ladies in the lower part ot the cham­ ber. When he had made his reverence she advanced five or six paces to meet him, and took both his hands, after he, on his part, had humbly kissed the lower Eart of her dress. She then excused erself for not having received him be­ fore by alleging an inflammation of the right side of her face. " She also made , me her excuses," adds the Ambassador, . "for bei*g found in her night-dress, and -A began to reproach her attendants, say­ ing, 4 What will these gentlemen think to see me dressed in this guise ? I am truly grieved that they should see me in this state !'" The gown in question was a ciose-fitting dress of white and carnation, with a profusion of silver gauze. " It had open sleeves lined with ^ red taffeta, and was girt with other little sleeves which hung down as far as the ground, and which she kept tying and untying from time to time. She had the front of the robe or mantle open, and often, as if she felt the heat, separated with her hands the sides of the said man­ tle. She had on her head a garland of rubies and pearls, aod underneath a great thick wig of a reddish color, with an infinity of gold and silver curl-papera- and a few pearls which hung down ovet her forehead."--London Qlobe. Diameter of Cyclones. Cyclones extend over a circle frdm 100 to 500 mile.3 in diameter, and sometimes 1,000 miles. In the West Indies they are sometimes as small as 100 miles in diameter, but on reaching the Atlantic they dilate to 600 or 1,000 mileB. Some­ times, on the contrary, they contract in their progress; and, while contracting, they augment fearfully in violence. The violence of the wind increases from the margin to the center, where the atmos- - phere is frequently quite calm. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. Bkkth tS 60 <311 33 HOOH (O) <3 7 78* COTTOIF 10J£(£ 11 Fi.ot:n--Snperflne 3 6u 0% 4 10 WHB4T--No. 2 Spring 1 12 1 IS No. 2 Winter 1 23 & 1 26 CORN--Ungraded "" ~ OATH- Mixed Western PORK--Mess LOU) CHICAGO. 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