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*J» ft #' * •« ><<». +*"»*•**»»•<•« «v .«-, / , THfcJtard brother, wh6 attained to ••munenviable notoriety throtif!»U*lr eon- IjeWoa with Jetwe James and otlwrgentlo- i of the bqali, added to their reputation I tn a rather undesirable manner. [ feoen engaged of late in repeating "•mm-iSkm *lage> wifirtoy jAW» mad dull kxdvea, the life they were wont to lead in the baekootmtiee of Missouri. They ware < the gallery in a Boston plaoe of amusement when one of the audience " iwubured to remark that the dramatic efforts ef the Ford bom were not quite up to the Beaton standard. The retlxed outlaws heard «%he remarks and at once returned to their Aid profession. Jumping from the £tagt% they emptied their re­ volvers in true cowboy style, and cleared the house at once Boston policemen, how­ ever, proved more active than Missouri Sheriffs, and the redoubtaMe outlaws were marched off to the station-house While watch-night servioes were being held in a *tih&Kh at Reading, Pa., twenty young men Kecked a latg>e cannon against tne building and fired it The front wall was crushed in and every pane of glass was shattered down vpoii the congregation. Several of the faiBchief-m&kers are in jail. THSKE laborers WERE killed at Auburn, / Y., by the caving in of an earth bank ,v* tfarough which they were cutting for a new -'"Trlteeet -- • : ; I ON the 1st of January the standard em tflver dollars in circulation amounted to88,- •, §08,238--an increase of 8,117,195 over the n .eaxne date in 1882 Fire in Hood, Bonbright ' *« Co.'u dry goods store, at Philadelphia* •aused a dam«ge of $50,000. LU. *J. SEVERAL companies of Union volun- •ears from Rhode Island were only mustered •f , 4Wt hMt month, and an officer of the oom- » . mad claims nay from the War Department to the date of discharge. A Vermont regi- " 'Snailt was similarly forgotten at the close of unpleasantness. :V*»' THE WBST. THK Friend building ad Milwaukee, aJie kogeat mercantile Mock in that city, „«,jpras swept away by fire. The total loss is , #000,000, most of which was sustained by Friend Brothers, although the stocks of A Co. and Straw, Ellsworth & Co. to a degree not exceeding 5 per it, of their value. 0 IN the County Court at Denver, by agreement between the attorneys, Mrs. Ta- 4 'kof was given a divoroe from the Iieuten- t ant Governor, on the grounds of desertion, ̂ with #260,000 alimony. ,SIMEON H, WEST, a Democratic mem- Iter of the Illinois Legislature from McLean f,'ltoanty,prints a letter declining toaocept 31 tan Wutaal pass from the Alton road. *T. 1OM6E R. MCGONKEY, County Treas­ urer at Hamilton, Nev., was found dead on .tte floor of his office, a pistol lying beside „ him and his safe door open A fire at fit. * Joseph, Mo., destroyed an unused elevator - aad ibe old passenger depot of the Hannibal * jpad, beaide several loaded cars,. the loss ̂ iggregating #ioo,oou ' Two BOILEBS in a box factory at * jtfuBkegon, Mich., exploded** killing John '^ifenhors, engineer, and his sons John and ! ' Fifed, aged 14 and 4 years; also seriously in- | ? faring John Hawk and Bilaa Blodgett, who are ' not expected to live The buildings, engine, •' eta, are a total loss, estimated at |10,000 • St Xary'a Provincial School, at Knoxville, 111. the largest Episcopal institution for girla in the country, was destroyed by fire, . She km being #100,000. There were'sixty and twelve teachers in the building, or reached the ground by means of Mfea Gillette, ot Buffalo, had a leg n, and MSm Hosford, of Dubuque, was d^y^U.wead ê apparelaad LUCKY1* IBALDWHC, the well-known San Fraactebo millionaire, was shot in the arm by a woman named Fannie Baldwin, Claiming to be his cousin, who has been " "tsaiililiili; school on his ranch in Los Angeles wbantv, where, die alleges, he assaulted her 4glminaUy. , ,„a THK SOUTH* •j- A race riot at Ooonee, Oa., resulted I the fciiiimip of aeveral white men... .Blu- 'j id Smith, a colored man, who killed Chaa. ! snser. was taken from jail at Tazewell < MM House, Va. ,and riddled with bullets.... 1 ave Aoberts, a negro, charged wtih cotton , sealing and murderous assault, was taken iSOsfe Abbeville <& C.) Jail by a mob and ii md*&. A GREAT fire at Pine Bluff, Ark., >ved property valued at #125,000. A between the city and firedepnrt- resulted in the one steam fire engine aliened to get out of repair, and the Itee vktully burned itself out Twenty ~ oonvict* of North Carolina, who were " tn excavating a railway tunnel in ooonty, were drowned while at- iptang to arohn a river in a leaky fiat THE Bait more and Ohio railway re- shops at Mount Claire, Md, burned, to- with a number of coaches and the *>f th£ employes. The loss is placed at fioiMiua WASHINGTON. • •/. rubber factories of the mJmmmyj c®p«nif prta^ofmakii>ga»a5,<»Q,( to handle the eattie oropoC and Wm OOoke, of Little Bide% Opaarta, ware brutally murdered, _ai*i wutTiem Oeocfe ami Willie and daoghter Xttioa daugtaoealy weaadad, bythatrman-aervant THF. bark Star of the West, from New York for Bremen, was lost at Bea, the offioarsand craw, fifteen in number, perish­ ing. THK popular little actress, Miss Annie Pixley, has made a big success of her char­ acterization of Zara, in the play of that title. She played to large houses at McYick- er's Theater, in Chicago, last week This week she appears at that house in her old part of "M'liws," in which she has achieved her greatest fame POLITICAL. > Wn&iAX H. Bm.Ki.BT, the Republi­ can candidate at the last election for Gov- ornor of Connectiout, has declined under any circumstances to aocept the office in case the Democratic "black t>allots" cast at New Haven Khali be rejeoted. J. D. TAYJ.OR, Republican, has been «lectcd to fill the Congressional vacancy from Ohio caused by the death of J. T. Up- degraff. His majorfty is about 1,500 Oen. Joseph Wheeler, Democrat, has been elected to Congress from the Eighth Alabama district, over MoClellan, Independent, by 8,000 majority. THE inaugural of Gov. Butler at Bos­ ton attracted a throng seldom seen on such occasions. The galleries and aisles of the House of Representatives were packed with people, special provisions having been made for ladies and invited guests. President Crocker, of the Senate, administered the oath, after which the Governor delivered his inaugural address, containing many sug­ gestions of hew statutes for the welfare of the Htate. ' FOREIGN. SIB CHARLES DILKE, having been opposed by the Queen on account of his earlier radical tendencies, now announces a complete change of front, and In his eager­ ness for official position declares that all those republican theories were but youthful follies which he has long since outgrown. A , POST-MORTEM examination of the remains of Gaxnbetta shows that his death was the result of hepatophthisis and pericarditis. Any surgical operations would have been dangerous and unjustifi­ able. No lesion was discovered in any organ except the intestines. The post-mortem ex­ amination was held in order to oontradict the rumor that his death was caused by a bullet in the abdomen Biggar, M. P., was committed for trial at Waterford on a charge of high treason, founded on recent utteranoea He was re­ leased on bail A party of bailiffs, who were attacked by peasants at Upper Cross, Countv Tipj>erary, fired on their assailants and killed one man Five arrests were mado. THE floods in Germany and Austria; created great havoc. More than 300 houses were wrecked at Badenheim, Rexheim, Horsch and Oppau. At Robstadt and Fri- sfenheim the roofs of the houses were cov­ ered with the waters. Thousands of people were driven from their homes, and starva­ tion is imminent The central tower of. the ancient cathedral at Peterborough, En­ gland, is to be demolished because of gaps in the walla. THE Czar is said to have found in his bedroom a letter from the Revolutionary Committee demanding that promised re­ forms be commenced ..; jGambetta'a weighed 1,100 grammes. brain R. Miss JOSEPHINE C. MEEKER, who 6|raa for aome days a prisoner among the Jtttea in olorado, died of pneumonia at *Waidungton, where she was employed in the •tfKoe of the Secretary of the Interior. ^ IN the star-route cases at Washing­ ton, Mr. Chandler moved to place on the jteoorda of the oourt the verdict of the jury i . ... urial uooj&ruig Peck not gUut>y. •p utlge Wylie ordered the counsel to hif seat, Sud declared that there was no verdict ren­ dered in regard to Pock. GR SEOKETAKV LINCOLN, in reply to an inquiry from the House of Representative*, liays that in many instances the Nubxiantial f)fenetit« to commerce arising from the ex­ penditure of public money on river and aarbor improvements have been so obscure pM insignificant as ti- Hititifv a doubt of the amsdom of makitig the appropriation The Enates of th« Engineer Department for Improvement of rivern and harbors ..... * the next fiscal vear agtrregate $:*!,- U*V uud to mon\ of the items Mr. Lin- reoords his objections. GENKKAL. " an article on mercantile failures for 18S1, lirad*lrrvC* tsays that the business 'ifrtaMtera of the year numbered 7, ATI, against ^«»in 3881: and 4,350 tn lWft. being an in- ,*reaae.«|f)l,6*B over the record of last vear. The paper says: The feature of these re- ?i»'orthjr of special comment in the iacreaee during 1883. This increase tly occurred during the last (juarter of tar, while the general readjustment of to a lower range of prices hti» been on. The numbers reported Jlor €rst, second, third and fourth era of the year were respectivaly 2,14«, 1,058, 2,007. It will be noted that the 3T Of trade disasters was exceptionally 4a both (he first add last quartern of ir, whan the blunders of the twelve- I'hafre had time to culminate. The re- .̂_ that ha« been going on throughout ionintlT must be regarded as a sign of Ifrlt/iiigr health. T%ere is now good reason _ yi^e battel that the country is re- ftozBlur. bv gradual steps rather than a viotent movement, to a point www the swelling tide of trade will lyiwy. a tnew tiinow of disastera".... iBba Oourt of Queen's Beach at Toronto, mm haa nnaaimourfy decided that the laws <af thaPrav1aOe plaoe no xeMriction on the •aeagaca by land or water on overruling a decision thirty haeld thai it was illegal for on the Lord's Day,... * Garden show the ar- 4granta for the past earthquake swayed at Hwlfav, in some a panic among watch-night CAHYA8S. ir * ,a ' •• ia i recapitulation of the t'iMM|| on the 3d inst, ngdNM ̂ iwroeuta laareenati 1 ....» sa.sM,ra JJO.l <V*I TSU M) 85) MM6 .9S0 • 4 4 I Ha** P«W»IFL® taiatjijl"" H.'IUJ.IOO PHnMpaJ Interest Matnred debt-- FRTADPAL ^ ||>WT0!L Interest MIU« Doht Ixwrlna no tuterent-- Old demand and leva)-tender notes. 8M,74o. !ii Certltteaten of daponit 9,c8l>, 00 Gold and stiver eertllioates 1ST,4> h,ao> FmctkMial CTUTfnoy 16, 9m, OS X<eas amount estimated loet or de­ stroyed T,025,«14 n k iigtbeii Whi«ky MIL Was taken up and We. -- gradual adopted. A the staf Demoerata in the appi ooo, ooa > - _ Wthe biU whole, it for the pay oorps to took plaoe over HiaoMdi tiiat the Ion letfcdeficiencies amounting to #i7,- Debt, lesa caah fta JSB. 1. 1883 ..$J,«0t/i1,ST8 Daa l, istn Decrease of debt during month. 16.41 <,'2.9 Deereaeeof debt ntnoe Jane ao^lWSL. 81,370,783 Current lUbiUtim-- Internet doe and nnpald... 1,498.913 Debt on which interest has oeased... 14^<7,0X5 Interest thereon. 44IM14 Gold and silver certificate* UT,M 1^500 United States noten beld for red emo­ tion of certificates of deposit.... •,6S5.ow Mi bslsnoe available Jnn. 1,1068.. Uf.im.rn Total... Available Oash in treasury...... , Bonds issued to Pacific Hallways-- Principal outstanding. Interest aeerued and not vet paid... Interest paid by United Htates Interest repaid by companies-- By transportation service. By cash payments,6 percent net earnings Bal^io|of interest paid by United $ SU ,02t,<H6 I13^M.01« 84.«n.KlS l^as.7o> 066,198 HkS<5,«93 Statement of UM (^nptraOn sf UM Cvr- reney. /" The following la the statement of the Comptroller of the Currency, showing the amounts of national-bank notes and of legal- tender notes outstanding at the dates of the passage of the acts of June 20, 1874, Jan. 14,1815, and May 31,1878, together with the amounts outstanding Jan. 1,1883, and the increase or decrease: NATIONAL-BANK KOTBSL Amount outstanding Jim- 20, 1874... .1849,894,189 Amount • utstandintf .Tan M, 1KTS 361,861,450 Amount out tariding May :i, Iu78.... 322, Amount ou'standlns »t date*. 861,9 l,4«0 Increase dnrina the last month. 12 , J9l Increase since Jan. 1.1 *2. 4.I7.8M) IJ5GAI.-TENDEB WOTEa Amountont^tandintrJn e 20, 187 ....f»82,'X)0,0m Amount outsla'-.d • e Jan. H, 1875 382,000,000 Amount retired under a t of Jan. 14, 187, t May 31,1-7 86,318,984 Am unt outstsndingon and since May 31,1878 .. 846,681,016 Amount on de? osit. with the Treasurer of the United States ro redeem notes Of in'-olv- nt mid liqnidat'nif banks and retirinecirculati munder ac' of June ixi, 18 4 99,940,816 Increase in deposit dating the last month 1,560,401 Increase in deposit since Jan. 1,1883.. 10,404,873 •Cinmlation of national gold banks not Iv'ndwl in .he above, $729,7u9. 0B1TIART. I. LAKOTBY had for her opening tn Chicago an audieme large innum- 7> - • > ij'j. ^ .< ' . . The KMe of the Quakers in Rngliirt. vTbe esllt half of the eighteen IS# teii- ttrry in England was one of the cnlniin- ating epochs in its history. For nearly one hundred years a disintegration of society had been going on, kept in eheck only by strong bonds of repres­ sion ; at last these bondB were broken, the popnlar will took a positive shape, and blow after blow fell upon the social structure of the old, overthrowing it and tearing it away to make plaoe for the new. The Society of Friends was a natural outgrowth of those times. Taking its rise at the period of general upheaval and dissolution of existing customs, re­ ligious, social and political, holding in its doctrines principles similar to those formulated by the leaders of the period, bnt carrying them to far greater ex­ tremes, .finding no prescribed check npon the free and unlicensed express­ ion of its theories, it reached a fecund of radicalism compared to which Puri­ tanism itself was conservative, and which all classes combined to oppose with an intense animosity that brought a deluge of persecution and abuse upon the devoted sect. The Puritans were willing to decapi­ tate a king that stood in the way of tne advancement of progress. They did not hesitate to tear down an existing re­ ligious institution, but even the most extreme Puritan never advocated such measures as the entire abolition of all clergy, the levelling of all classes, whether monarchical or aristocratic, Into a universal brotherhood, or the un­ dermining of all laws, whether national or civil, to make place for a law of brotherly love that alone was to guide all mankind. But this virtually was what the new sect demanded. They were religious Nihilists. But, they maintained, man must pre* Eare himself to be a fit agent to govern is own actions. He must depend u|K)n the word of the Lord for guidance, therefore he must open his heart to re­ ceive that word, and in such a way that the truth shall not be distorted by the lusts of a carnal heart. To ao prepare himself ho must abjure all the joys of this world that else might tend to turn his heart toward it and away from the world to come. He must live upon the simplest food, and dresa in the plainest garments. He must obey none of the mandates of the world, even in their smallest observances, for the ways of the world were the ways of man, and not of Ood. Personal cleanliness and chastity must be observed, for, said they, if the outer man is unclean, how can the inner man be otherwise ? Only to the man who had followed Buch a life as these principles pointed out could the word of the Lord come in all its strength and purity; but when it came to such a one it must be obeyed im­ plicitly, no matter to what it directed. This was the doctrine to "inner light." Above all other institutions, the cler­ gy, whether Episcopalian or Presby­ terian, was most obnoxious to this sect. However, it was not the clergy alone that were thus attacked, but ail other existing institutions at the time. Courts of law were entered, and justice such as they believed in demanded for the peo­ ple. _' Legislators and those in power received communications calling upon them to come down from the vanity of their place, and veil their stomaclis in humility. Prominent officers of the army also were called upon to give up the ways of blood and wickedness, and live in peace with all mankind. Of course, persecution followed, swift and terrible.--Howard Pyle, in Harper's Weekly. " • Xieon Oumbetta. K Leon Gambetta, the chief representa­ tive of modern French Democracy, died at Paris on the first day of the new year. De­ ceased was born at Cahors in 18:S8, and be­ came a member of the bar of Paris in 18591 At the fall of the empire he Was made Minis­ ter of the Interior, and in October, 1870, he proceeded to Tours, and was for some months dictator of those provinces of France, which remained free from the German invaders. By the death of Gambetta France loses her greatest, if not her wisest. staSesniKE, Sel­ dom has a man dying at the age of 44 achieved a more prominent place in the world's Matnry. He had hardly been ad­ mitted to the Parisian bar before he ac- Suired fame as a forensic speaker, and in ae year 1809, when he was only 80 years of age, he was Immensely popular in the city of Paris on account of his eloquent advocacy of advanced Republican principles. But it was during the-dark days of the investment of the French capital,* by the Germans in 1870, that Gauibetta attracted to himself the attention of the world. He was nominated Minister of the Interior in the Government of the National Defense, and exhibited the highest qualities of administrative ability. How he pa<»ed the German lines sur­ rounding Paris in a balloon, BO as to confer with the Delegate Government at Tours, la fresh in the mind of every reader. He then became almost dictator of that portion of France which was not overrun with Germans. But the raw, undisciplined army with which he sought to drive the Germans from French soil melted away before their trained and veteran enemies.' From this time on the ca­ reer of Gambetta has been intimately asso­ ciated with almost every change in the many changes which have occurred to the French republic. He was a jiower among the people and in the Chamber of (Deputies BUftha Allen. Elisha Allen, the Hawaiian Minister and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, fell dead at the White House, in Washington, where be had attended the President's New Year's re­ ception, the supposed cause of death being heart-disease. Mr. Allen was a native of Salem. Mam, and was in his 7«th year. He was Speaker of the Maine Assembly nearly fifty years ago, and was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congr ess. In 1849 he was appointed "Consul at Honolulu, since which time he has been prominently identified with Hawaiian affaira Mr. Allen possessed the full con­ fidence of King Kalakana, and was largely instrumental in obtaining the passage of the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty with tfcia oonntzy. XLYHTH CONG! Mlawere passed by the House, at lteaes- aion on the 31st ult, to extend for one year the time for filing claims for horses or equip­ ments lost by officers or soldiers : to pay the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern rail­ road #M,570 for carrying malls, and to appro­ priate fTR.Ouo to reimburse the States of Or­ egon and California for expenses incurred in suppressing Indian hostilities The San- ate was not in aesskm, The President laid before the Senate, at its session on the 2d inst., a communication transmitting the report of the Mississippi Biver Commission, with maps, eta Ordered printed. Mr. Garland presented the re­ monstrance of certain merchants of Arkan­ sas against the increased dutv on tin plates. Referred. Several }>etitiens were presented for the passage of a bill giving an Increased [tension to one-armed and one-legged soldiers. Mr. Oar land, from the Committee on Judi­ ciary, reported the original bill as a Hubsti- tute for the bUl# referred to that committee, providing tor the forfeiture of certain rail­ road land grants. The bill cancels all gnuiGK ft land to railroad companies which have made little effort to complete their tracks within the time specified. Mr. Logan delivered a three hourn' «peech in opposition to the Fitz John Porter bill In the House, bill* were introduced to transfer the revenue-cutter service to the Navy Department, and to limit to one year the presentation of clalma by States for moneys expended in nuppro -R- ing Indian hostilities. Bills were pawned: To place tobacco exported by rail on the same footing as that sent to Europe by sea. and to permit Canadian farmers to 'have grain ground at mills on this side of the border. Mr. Logan finished his argument in the Fitz John Porter case on the od inst., and a motion for an indefinite postponement waa lost--'•» to ao--Mahone and Cameron, of Pennsylvania, voting with the Democrats. A number of petitions were presented for a constitutional amendment to prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquorsi A Btatement from the Commission­ er of Internal Revenue estimated the amount required to refund taxes on tobaooo and matches at $;Jfi,C8ti,71<>. In the House, a telegram was preH^ated from the St Louis Mercantile Exchange. Principal $ t«0,si 6,886 Unclaimed Paci&o railway intareat.. 6,xw Total debt-- Principal.... Interest... Total. Cash in treaaory 4tJ8T,8M,SIK) 1V19.341 $1,9* , 67,f>9S 814,924 016 Ha West Point Appropriation bill waa passed by the SawiHpB the 4th inst Mr. Morrill reported IktSnae bill to reduce in­ ternal-revenue *T'»nW4'i> with an amendment for an entire revision pf the tariff and of the machinery for ita oofijeotion. The Sherman bill extending the bonded period for two years on whiskv in ware­ houses waa paaaad by a vote of 28 yeas to 30 nays. In the House, Mr. Kasson, of Iowa, Chairman ot the Committee on Civil Service Reform, reported back the Senate bill to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States, and spoke in favor of the measure, Mr. Reagan, of Texas, Kpoke in oppoaition to the bill, on the ground that it was uot efficient to remedy the evils complained of. Xr. Townsnend, of Illinois, favored the provision of a penalty for the violation of the clauM! forbidding political assessments by public otiicera Mr. Buck nor, of Missouri, favored the bill, as it would tend to break up the iniquitous assessment system. Mr. Calkins, of Indiana, regarded the bill as a turning point to perfect civil reform If the Democrats could stand this bill now he was sure the Republicans With their fellows in ofiice, could. He admired his Democratic friends who could, take medicine in the shape of a Civil Servioe Reform bill after having wandered far twenty-four years in the Desert of Sahara For this veason and many others he favored the bill Mr. Thompson, of Kentucky, moved to re­ commit the bill with instructions to the com­ mittee to report it baek with an amendment prohibiting the aaseasment of public em­ ployes by private persona Loet--yeas 85, nays 114. The bill then passed--yeas 155, nayB 47. Of the 155 affirmative votes, 100 were Republicans afild 49 Democrats--40 Democrats and 7 Republicans voting in the negative The Senate devotXl the principal part ot the day, at its sessiotf^n the 5th inst., to the discussion of the Presidential Succession bill Senator Garland, of Arkansas, made an earnest plea for the passage of the meas­ ure, declaring that "after the 4th of March next, the life of President Arthur is the only life between order and anarchy." He favored a Presidential terra of six years. Messrs. Jones, of *, Florida, and Mor­ gan, of Alabama,. lngalls presented to 1 the admission of Di Vest submitted a n lowstoue Park. Pre _ posed the bill Mr. ie Senate a petition for l^ota as a State. Mr. port in relation to Yel- lent Arthur nominated to the Senate Gustavfla Goward, of Illinois, to l>e Sacretary of the American Legation in Japan. The House took up the District of Columbia bill, whieh appropriates #3,443,847, and passed it r r , STATE LEGISLATURES. Ibe New York Legislature assembled at Albany on the 3d of January. Alfred CL Chapin, Democrat, was elected Speaker of the House, and Grover Cleveland, the newly- hiaugarabed Governor, delivered his first message. He opposes the expenditure of v large sums in the altera­ tion of the canal* until the effect of the abolition of taills is fully apparent; favors frequent vimaUons and the most thorough examination of prisons and insane asylums, and reform In the civil service: de­ nounces special legialation, which interferes with the administration of local govern­ ment, and advocates the Btxiotest eoonomy in the public funds. The Pennsylvania Legislature convened at Harrisburg. John £. Reyburn, Cameron Re­ publican, was elected President pro tem. of the Senate, and Faunoe, Democrat, was chosen Speaker of the House. Gov. Hoyt states, in his message, that the finances of the State are in a u%hly satisfactory condi­ tion. He favora equalization of taxation upon all classes of property, and is particu­ larly impaesaive tUM corporations should pay their share of the burden of taxation. The Nebraska Legislature met at linoolu. A. EL Connor, Ajat£Sjtonopolist, was elected President*pro temtimhe Senate, and G. M. Humphrey, RepubUowa; was chosen Speaker of the House. The Legislature of Minneaota assembled at St Paul. Loren Ifletcher, Republican, waa chosen Speaker of the House. An adjourned session of the Ohio General Assembly began at Columbus on the 3d inst Gov. Foster, in his message, recommends the passage of a uniform liquor-license law, under which the premises, and not the in­ dividual, will be licensed. He confesses the failure of the existing law, which places the liquar trade under the ban of prohibition, and believes that the plan suggested will prove acceptable to all olasses. The Connecticut Legislature met at Hart­ ford, and organized by electing Robert Coit, Republican, as President pro tem. of the Senate, and Charles H. Pine, Republican, as Speaker of the House. The black ballots were declared valid votes, and Gov. Waller and the other Democratic officers were in­ stalled. Gov. Waller, in his message, a strong plea for civil-service reform. The Legislature of Indiana assembled at Indianapolis and organized by electing W. D. Bynum, Democrat, as Speaker of the House and A. J. Kelly Secretary of the Sen- The North Carolina Legislature was or­ ganized at Raleigh by the eleotion of Demo, cratlo officers in both- branches. Gov. Jarvis, in hispiessage, reports that of the unsecured debt ?8,8'Ai,0fl0 has been compromised for #3,000,000 in 4-per-cent. bonds, and #o,806,000 of the old bonus remain outstanding. The Florida Legislature oonvened at Jacksonville Charles Dougherty, Demo­ crat, was chosen Speaker of the House The Governor's message shows a full treasury and recommends a reduction of the fttaje tax to 5 mills. pious ~ Y . , . paper by describing it. It is no more c gan Legislature assembled at intended to eat than the horns and s < iL, Lansing. Sumner Howard, Republican,̂ was elected Speaker of the House, and: Edwin S. Hoskins, Republican, was chosen Secretary of the Senate. Mra Josephine Robinson waa elected Postmistress by acclamation. The Legislature of Massachusetts met at Boston, organized by selecting George G. Crocker, Republican. President of the Sen­ ate, and Edward A. J&exnocrat. Speaker of the House. The Maine Legislature met at Augusta John L. Cutter, Republican, was elected President of the Senate, and Manchester Haynes, Republican, Speaker of the House The Tennessee Legislature organized at Nashville by the election of Demo<Aratio officers in both houses. Each adopted a resolution directing the Comptroller and Treasurer not to pay interest on the State debt under the act to fund it at Wi-iM-V-a About half of the #27,tKK),000 ha* been funded under that statute. It is thought the Legis­ lature will not go higher than 504i, with thirty-year bonds. It is evident that the Legislature will pass a law authorizing the apiK>intment of Railroad Commissioners. The General Assembly of Ulinois met at Springtield, and effected an organization on the Recoud day, by the election of W. J. Campltell as President pro tem of the Sen­ ate and Lorin CL Collins aa Speaker of the House, both Republicans. The Missouri Legislature assembled at Jefferson City, and organized for business by choosing J. T. O. Morrison, Democrat, for President pro tem. of the Senate, and J. H. Richardson, Democrat, for Speaker of the lower house. Gov. • Crittenden, in his message, calls attention to the report of the Commissioner of Laboi J street-car employes are com pelled to work from twelve to seventeen tiotiTH per day, and argues that it is againxi jRe interest of the State to permit such de Luanda to be made upon any class of citizens. Iho fourth Legislature of Colorado assem bled at Denver. Stretler, of Boulder coun iy, was elected President pro tem. of thr Senate, and Davis, of oounty, Soeakei of the House. * EVERT man is in one sense AN histor - cal production. The ideas wh ch form h<s life have oome to him thro igh the oourse of development iu wliioh he moves. .J„. flhnoa Cameron's Account of How Llaeola'i Seooud Nomination Waa Brought Abaat. rHorriabtu-ff (Pa.) Cor. Boston Herald.) President Lincoln's fear that Ben Wade, Chase, Beward, and the other Republican leaders were organizing a movement to defeat his renomination is familiar history. Mr. Cameron was just homo from Europe in tlio midst of the intrigue which so disturbed the Presi­ dent. He called Gen. Cameron to his side and recounted his fears that the Republican leaders who were plotting against liim would defeat him for a second term. "It can't be done," was the emphatic reply of Mr. Cameron when Mr. Lincoln had told his story. "The sentiment of this country is over­ whelmingly for you and it must find expression before the convention meets." "How can it be done?" waa the swift question of Mr. Lincoln. "Easy enough," said Gen. Cameron. "I remember during Gen. Jackson's first term, while I was building the Lake Pontchartrain canal into New Or­ leans, I was called home by Mr. Eaton, Secretary of Wars, to assist in the cam­ paign for the re-election of Jackson. You will remember that Jackson had pledged himself not to run a second time, and the first point to be gained was to decide what means should be taken to remove this obstacle. We had a consultation, and it was suggested that some State Legislature should start with a petition asking Jackson to become a candidate for re-election. This could be followed by others, until all the Democratic States, through their representatives, had spoken in his behalf. His great popularity made this an easy task. The Legislature of Penn­ sylvania readily signed the request asked, and the other States followed in quick succession. He could not, of course, decline such a call, and he was re-elected. The people naturally sup­ posed it was a spontaneous uprising in his behalf, whereas it was a carefully- prepared plan to arouse and direct pub­ lic sentiment. This can be done in your case, and will begin with Pennsylvania, as we did for Gen. Jackson." Do you think it can be done, gen­ eral ?" asked Mr. Lincoln. "Of course," was the reply. "I will show you how easily." And the two then parted, with Mr. Lincoln very much pleased with the abiding faith of his new ally. Mr. Cameron returned to Harrisburg, and in a day or two sent Mr. Lincoln the petition of the Pennsylvania Legis­ lature, asking him to be a candidate for re-election and pledging him the vote of the State. Very soon State after State followed this lead in rapid suc­ cession, and each additional recruit gave Lincoln great pleasure. It was not long afterward before Gen. Cameron called at the White House on a recep­ tion day. Taking his place in the line he was pushing his way slowly to the place where the Executive was receiv­ ing his guests. The latter saw Mr. Cameron some distance away in the column. Holding up his great hand, encased in a cheap cotton glove, he in­ dicated with three long fingers the suc­ cess of their scheme and shouted: "Simon! We've got'em 1 Three more States in to-day." The crowd looked at the President in astonishment, but they little knew how the receipt of the news from those three States had relieved tlife mind of Mr. Lincoln. Another phase of tills presi­ dential contest of 1864, which is just now interesting and exceeding apropos, follows the story of how he was con­ vinced he was to be chosen for a second term. After he was satisfied that his nomination was % certainty, he was very anxious -concerning the man who was to have second place on the ticket. After looking the country over, he decided that he would like to have Ben Butler on the ticket with him as Vice-President. He sent for Gen. Cameron and asked him to be his envoy in carrying his de­ sire to Gen. Butler, who Was then in command near Fort Monroe. Mr. Cameron accepted the mission, and he, with Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, went down in a government vessel to inform Gen; Butler of Mr. Lincoln's wishes. The meeting with Gen. Butler, Mr. Cameron said, was exceedingly pleasant, t ut when Mr. Lincoln's desire was made known to him, his reply was: "I would not accept a place a presiden-* tial ticket with any man, although I ap­ preciate the compliment the President lias done me in making the request." But for this positive declination of Gen. Butler, there is no doubt he would have been Vice-President, and succeeded to the Presidency instead of Andrew Johnson. The Tripe Eater. How oh earth anybody can eat tripe is a mystery to nine-tenths of the human family. Tripe is made from the large --well^you all know what tripe is, with­ out otir defiling the columns of hoofs, and persons who eat it, do it to be eccentric. Occasionally you see a man order tripe at a hotel, but he al­ ways looks hard, as though he hated himself and everybody else. He tries to look as though he enjoyed it, but he does not Tripe is indigestible, and looks like an india-rubber apron for a child to sit on. When it is pickled it looks like dirty clothes put to soak, and when it is cooked it looks as though the 'oook was boiling a dish cloth. On the table it looks like glue, and tastes like a piece of oil silk umbrella cover. A stomach that is not lined with cor­ rugated iron would be turned wroug side out by the smell of tripe. A man eating tripe at a hotel table looks like an Arctic explorer dining on his boots, or chewing pieces of frozen raw dog. You cannot look at a man eating tripe but he will blush, and look as though he wanted to apologize, and convince you he is t.iking it to tone up his system. A woman never eats tripe. There is not money enough in the world to hire a womm to take a corner of a sheet of tripe in her teeth and try to pull off a piece. She would starve before she would place the section of internal raw­ hide between her lips. You see a man eating tripe and he tries to cut off a slug of it, and he acts as though he hopes the knife will fail to do its work, and when ho gets it off, and puts a piece in his mouth, he chews it with long teeth, the way a girl with an ulcerated tooth chews rubber gum. Any man but a confirmed tripe eater had rather eat the two heads of a snare drum, sticks and all, then to tackle a piece of bullet­ proof tripe. Those who eat tripe are men who have had their stomachs play mean trioks on them, and tbey e t tripe to get ev< n with their stomaolis, and then they go and take a Turkish bath, to sweat it out of their system. Tripe is i sape stition handed down from a for­ mer generation of butcher*, who sold all the meat and kept the tripe for them­ selves and the dogs, but dogs of the t day will not eat tripo. You throw a piece of trijpe down in front of a dog, and see if he does not put his tail between his legs and go off and hate you. Tripe may nave a value, but it is not as food. It may be good to fill into a burglai-proof safe, with the cement and chilled steel, or it might answer to use as a breast plate in time of war, or would be good to use for bumpers be­ tween cars, or it would make a good face for the weight of a pile driver, but when you oome to smuggle it into the stomach you do wrong. Tripe! Bah! A piece of Turkish towel, cooked in axle grease, would be pie compared With tripe.--George W. Peck. Colnmbns and his 8a!!or£f̂ A When we think how superstition, gradually retiring from the world, still keeps its grasp upon fhe sailors of to­ day, we can imagine how it must have ruled the ignorant seaman of Columbus. The thoughtful, lonely ways of their ad­ miral made him only an object of ter­ ror ; they yielded to him with wonder­ ful submission, but it was the homage of fear. The terror reached its climax when they entered the vast "Sargasso Sea," a region of GulfAeed--a tract of ocean as large as France, Humboldt savs--through which they sailed. Here at last,, they thought, was the home of all the monsters depicted in the charts, who might at any moment rear their distorted forms from the snaky sea-weed, "Like demons' endlong tresses, thev sailed thronwrh." At the very best, they said, it was an inundated land (tierras anegadas)-- probably the fabled sunken island At- lantas. of which they had heard; whose slime, tradition said, made it impossi­ ble to explore that sea, and on whose submerged shallows they might at any time be hopelessly swamped or en­ tangled*- "Are there no graves at home," they asked each other, accord­ ing to Herrera, that we should be brought here to die?" The trade- winds, afterward called by the frairs "winds of mercy," because they aided in the discovery of the New World, were only w inds of despair to the sail­ ors: They believed that the ships were sailing down an inclined slope, and that to return would be impossible, since it blew always from home. There was little to do in the way of trimming sails, for they sailed almost on a par­ allel of latitude from the Canaries to the Bahamas. Their severest labor was in pumping out the leaky ships. The young adventurers remained list­ lessly on deck, or played the then fash­ ionable game of primero and heard incredulously the daily reports told by Columbus of the rate of sailing. They would have been still more incredulous had they known the truth. "They sighed and wept," Herrera says, "and every hour seemed like a/fyear." The same Spanish annalist compares Columbus to St. Christopher in the legend bearing the infant Christ across the stream on his shoulders; and the explorer was often painted in that char­ acter in those davs. But the weight that Columbus had to bear up was a wearisome and unworthy load. Some­ times they plotted to throw him over­ board by a manoeuvre (con disimula- cian, Herrera says), intending to say that he fell in while star-gazing. But he, according, to Peter Martyr, dealt with them now by winning words, now by encouraging their hopes (blandte> modo verbis, ampla stpe modo.) If they thought they s»w Isuu, hs sacouragsd them to sing an anthem; when it proved to be but a cloud, he held out the hope of land to-morrow. They had sailed August 3,1492, and when they had been out two months (October 3,) he refused to beat al>out in search of land, though he thought they were near it, but he would press straight through to the In­ dies. Sometimes there came a contrary wind, and Columbus was cheered by it, for it would convince his men that the wind did not always blow one way, and that by patient waiting they could yet return to Spain. As the days went on the signs of land increased, but very slowly. When we think of the intense impatience of the passengers on an ocean steamer after they have been ten long days on the water, even though they know precisely where they are, and where they are go­ ing, and that they are driven by me­ chanical forces stionger than winds or waves, we can imagine something of the feelings of Columbus and his crew as the third month wore on. Still there was no sign of hope but a pelican to­ day and a crab to-morrow; or a driz­ zling rain without wind--a combination which was supposed to indicate near­ ness to the land. There has scarcely been a moment in the history of the race more full of solemn consequences than that evening hour when, after finding a carved stick and a hawthorn branch, Columbus watched from the deck in momentary expectation of some glimpse of land. The first shore light is a signal of success and triumph to sailors who cross the Atlantic every three weeks. What then was it to the patient commander who was looking for the first gleam from an unknown world?--T. W. Higginson in Harper's Magazine. The Secret of the Pyramids. ' Up to this time the mystery of the preparation of the bodies of the Egyptian dead for embalming has never been discovered; it is one of the stand­ ing marvels of the age, how the Egyptians were enabled to preserve the bodies of their dead in such a way as to defy the "tooth of time;" but a patent has recently been taken out in Washington which the inventor claims is a real rediscovery of the Egyptian secret. But the process of embalming has no real utility. The ancient Egyptian believed in the immort.ility of the body, and he deemed it his re­ ligious duty to have his remains so pre­ pared that, when resuscitated, its old lineaments would reappear. The soil of Egypt to-day* is packed with mum­ mies, so much so as to seriously inter­ fere with the labors of the agriculturist. After all, nature knowB best. The perishable character of our frail bodies restores to the soil elements of fertility which it greatly needs. It is said that every atom of earth for many feet over the surface of all China must literally have passed through liuudreds if not thousands of the bodies of Chinamen in the countless ages of the past. The whole earth would be a mausoleum of mummies had the process of embalm­ ing been common among all the races of men since the beginning of history.-- DemoresVtt Monthly. AI>AM FOREPATJOH wouldn't hate Mrs. Langtrv on any terms. He hail a pro­ fessional beauty onoe, and the taffy the press gave her made her sodog-gon proud that she wanted to own the show. RECENTLY compiled statistics plaoe the death-rate from the administration BOW A iwmjsrr WUUaaa BMk*i Method mi 1 William Blaok, the British novelist* says a writer in Harpers MagazinZ. might pass for a member of any pro# fession except the clerical, or for atE ordinary gentleman of the time, until you came to know him well enough t<» ' . - talk to him familiarly, and then yon * would find, as you always do in men- . who have made a mark on the curreai history of the times, in whatever direof tion, something extraordinary in hif talk and in his aptppearance. You woulc first be impressed w ith the bead-lik« brightness of his eyes, and its steadfai ness; and then you would probably _ struck with the fact, if you wrere travel^ ing with him, that every bit of hatoi phenomena going on around him is object of constant interest to Mm; he knows the names of the birds tb you see and their habits; if you are a sea-port, that he knows every class craft, and the name of every rope in iL rigging; if you are talking of art, oi literature, or politics, that he ha# strong, well-formed opinions, and that he is perfectly frank and open in ex* pressing them; and, moreover, that if you do not want to talk, he can be as silent as an oyster. N >• It is in these moments of quiet that Black is busiest. Hlstntifle is reflective!' He indulges in long periods incubation. At these times the nove. is possessed not by one spirit, but many, by spirits both good and ovilfc, and not only by spirits but by .plotsl and not only by plots, but byword#^ and sentences. "Mv method of work," he says, in an* swer to my inquiries, "is, I think, a pernicious one, and I should be very sorry to have it mentioned if it were to lead any young aspirants for literary fame to adopt it. Every man has his own way of working, and mine, I re­ peat, is most objectionable, and a way I warn any young man to avoid. From now until October in every year I writoi. nothing, hardly put pen to paper except in the way of a private letter or to mak» an ocoasional note. But I am at worlt on my next novel. I put it into com? plete shape, even to the construction oif some of my sentences. I often keenf these in my mind for two and thrediS months. I am thus always ahead of or writing to the last. Of course th« method has this advantage: You . 'work in' any incidents or circumstance occurring in the interval that may suit you, and you get familiar with your characters; they become, as it werec part of your family, part of your daily life, which to me Seems the awful part of the business; working in this way you have your story continually on your shoulders, a Sindbad's Old Man of the " Sea." We are at the novelist's chamber* overlooking the Thames embankment. It is April. The afternoon is warm, the atmosphere gray. Sitting with his back 5 to the window, my host turns now anqp"-- then as if to let his thoughts wande#: down the river with the vessels thatpaa* to and fro--now a lumbering barge, novt a penny steamer, now a tug towing along a sort of aquatic procession. "Do you make a summary or preciB ^ of your story before you begin to> |if write?" . *•': ' "Not on paper." , ; . "Do you make notes of scenery, k* calities, atmospheric effects?" = "les, often very elaborate and care­ ful notes, and especially in regard to i mospheric surroundings. If one dc_7, not correctly and completely frame & character or an incident, with all th#' circumstances of the time and place> one gets only a blurred page. For ex- amfle, one may say, 'It was a beautiful day.' But what kind of a beautiful day f It must be described so that the picture shall be truthful and finished. Every human being in real-life has a back­ ground, and must have in a novel if the story is to appear real to the reader." "There is nothing more charming in fiction or in easy-writing, I feel im­ pelled to add, "than the artistic use of natural effects in the illustration of character, and the development and ex­ hibition of incidents, tragic or other­ wise ; the pathos that may belong to a. gray morning or an evening mist, when. woven in with a sad thought or a ten­ der episode, must have often touched you who are so great a student of na­ ture's moods ?" THE English sparrow has appeared. in every State in the Union east of Ne­ braska, and ten years lienee the sight of a robin or bluebird will be something to brag about. A NEW YORK bride will reeeive among^ her presents an order for twenty tons- of coal. The practical-minded donor probably forgot that she would have ft. husband to warm her cold feet on. A PHILADELPHIA butcher says he pells almost all his tainted and poor beef to a. beef-tea manufacturer. THE MARKETS. „ NEW YO&K. BKCVBS. Hoos COTTON. 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