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W(Wm fflaindfirtw J. VAN 8LYKE, Editor tut PuMWier. McHENRT, ILLINOIS. Wi ,.ar f, fv X a ^ ' i-.- : V # •• 1*1 - , ' $ ' . . I». I TEE NEWS CONDENSED. THE EAST. Massachusetts hoMtoil.^%- 000 of the second-mortgage bonds of the Kew York and New England Railroad upon j which no interest has been paid for a year and a half. The State accepted addi­ tional second-mortgage bonds in payment of the interest, malting the total amount of bonds in the Treasury $1,842,(KM). Upon this sum the lust ^ix months' interest has been 'defaulted. At^ a meeting of the Governor and Council II was voted to place the State's bonds on the market... .The Duquesn# Furniture Factory and Fisher &• Thompson's Foundry at Pittsburgh were destroyed by fire, en­ tailing a loss of $55,000... .Disciples of the mind-cure in Boston are to erect for Mrs. Eddv a church on the back bay costing from $60,000 to $100,000 The exports of mer­ chandise from New York for the week were valued at $(3,120,800. PETITIONS are in circulation in New York to abolish the postoffice in Brooklyn and place the mails for that city under the jurisdiction of the New York office.... The Interocean Improvement Company, a Chi­ cago concern, with a capital of $1,000,000, has filed articles at New York. It will build and equip elevated and surface roads. EIGHT THOUSAND persons gazed on the dead face of John McCnllough the actor, in .•St. George's Hall, Philadelphia, and fully 10,000 people could not gain t admission to Jhe structure. The religious services were conducted by the Rev. Robert Hunter, hymns being sung by Miss Bertha Ricci and Mr. W. H. Morton. The collection of flowers, ferns, and palms was beauti­ ful and tasteful. The remains were in­ terred according to the rites of the Elks in Monument Cemetery Benjamin Franklin bequeathed £1,000 to the town of Boston in 1791, to accumulate for a century, when £100,000 was to be ex- Cnded in some important public work. It s been decided to devote $350,000 to the purchase of West Itoxbury Park... .A mis­ placed switch caused the wrecking of a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train near Pittsburgh, Pa. No one was killed, but be­ tween fifteen and twenty persons were more or less injured. Congressman Boyle was w of 'the victims. - -- %?'_ lfl|| • THE WEST.' A REVISED list of the passengers and of the steamer Algoma, which was wifeked on Isle Royal Lake Superior, shows that forty-five persons perished and fourteen were saved. A NATIONAL Convention of Free-Traders and Revenue Reformers was in session at Chicago last week. Among the more prom­ inent delegates were the Hon. J. Q. Smith, Ohio; Gen. M. M. Trumbull, Illinois; the Hon. J. "Sterling Morton, Nebraska; J. B. Peabody, New York; Henry J. Philpot, Iowa; the Hon. Benjamin Reece, Ohio; Charles S. Cameron, Chicago; the Kev. Dr. Thomas E. Green, Chicago; F. W. Blakie, Chicago; Hon. Frank Hard, Ohio. Gen. Stiles made the welcoming address, saying that the delegates did not come as President-makers, with brass but simpiv as earnest men to see could be done toward tariff reform. J. Philpot, of Iowa, Western of the league, in an address re* the progress of the movement West. The convention displayed rt enthusiasm over the declaration Secretary Bowker that the Ameri­ can public anxiously awaits the birth of a great third party to assume control of the Government. The conference chose David A. Wells President, and R. R. Bow­ ker Secretary. The resolutions adopted declare that under no pretense shall any countenance be given to attempts to in­ crease protective duties, and that articles at the foundation of great industries should be freed from duty. Free ships are de­ manded, and the abolition of restrictive navigation laws. The conference also de­ clared that no further reduction iu the whisky and tobacco taxes should be coun­ tenanced until the existing tariff has been brought to a strictly revenue basis. Two mass meetings held in Central Music Hall were well attended, and were addressed by Henry Ward Beecher, Frank Hurd, and other prominent revenue reformers. THE NATION^ Butter, Cheese, and Egg Convention assembled at Chicago last week. Norman J. Colman, Commissioner of Agriculture, addressed the delegates in relation to the manufacture of artificial butter, and advocated stringent Federal legislation. J. W. Gould, of Ohio, stated that the Health Officer of Cleveland recent­ ly found 33 percent, of vaseline in "butter" sold in that market, and he remarked that it disheartened a dairyman to compete with the oil wells of Pennsylvania. Colonel H. W. Hatch, a member of Congress from Missouri, thought butterine should be branded with a raw head and bloody bones. The Secretary reported that during 1883- .1885 the receipts of butter in Chicago looted up 238,733,000 pounds, and the shipments 250,041,000 pounds. The fact that the shipments were greater than receipts was due ,. to the ship and 1683. The increase over the "yield laat year is most marked in Texas and Georgia. In Ar­ kansas and Tennessee, where the average is usually high, the rate is depressed bv the unfa­ vorable condition of August and September. The rate of yield by States is as follows: Virginia. 15-2 pounds per acre ; North Carolina, 157 ; South Carolina, 142 ;• (feorflin, 150; Florida, 10o; Ala­ bama, 145; Mississippi, 165; Louisiana, 223 ; Texas. 182; Arkansas. 200: Tennessee, 155. The* weather has been favorable for picking, and killing frosts are only reported in the northern border of the cotton belt. The top crop is very li^ht, and scarcely an appreciable quantitv. The past month has beew generally favorable for picking, which is well advanced, more than three-fourths of the crop having been picked. Haiti* have interfered with harvesting more in Georgia and Alabama than elsewhere. With good weather hereafter the proportion to be. gathered in December will be confined to locals ties favore^l with a top crop worth harvesting. JUDGE FO«D, of New Orleans, who is serving a term of twenty-five years in the Louisiana penitentiary for participation in the murder of A. H. Murphy, now con­ fesses that he firod the fatal shot. Patrick Ford, his brother, who is under sentence of death, had made a similar admission. ... .Riley Pyle. who killed United States Commissioner McDonald in Pickett Coun­ ty, Tennessee, sixteen months ago, has been captured, after a desperate fight in which he and two "companions were wounded. WASHINGTON. BEAK ADMIRAL JOUETT recently sub­ mitted to Secretary Whitney a plan for a grand squadron drill off the coast of Flor­ ida. He has now been ordered to repair to Aspinwall with the Tennessee and protect the inhabitants of the isthmus against out­ breaks .... Orders were sent out from Wash- ington for the suppression of the "moon­ shiners" in the South who have recently been murdering revenue officers. Col.. -Chapman has been assigned to the work. The Commissioners of Emigration of the State of New" York have reported to the Secretary of the Treasury as follows:' Dur­ ing the year ended June 30, there arrived at the port of New York from foreign ports 356,906 passengers, of which number 294,- 013 came as steerage passengers and land­ ed at Castle Garden, where they were ex­ amined by the Commissioner. Most of these were destined to Illinois. New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Michigan, Min­ nesota. and Wisconsin. The amount of the immigrant fund collected under the act of Aug. 3, 1882. was $142,210, and the ex­ penses of the commission amounted to $140,031. The Commissioners recommend that the act of Congress to regulate immi­ gration be amended so as to provide for adequate penalties for all violations of the law. GENERAL CLINTON B. FISK and other committeemen selected at the recent con­ ference at Lake Molionk called upon Presi­ dent Cleveland to express their ideas in re­ gard to the improvement of the Indian race. After listening to suggestions, the President remarked that lands should be given the red men in severalty rather than to place schools and agricultural implements on the reservations, and that he hoped to a beginning in the right direction. Mr. Mosler will soon visit the far West to make the necessary studies Members of the Royal Rifles at Limerick broke out of the barracks and attacked with bayonets many people residing in the vicinity, in re­ venge for assaults by civilians. The Mayor and poiice suppressed the riot... .William B. Carpenter, F. R. S.. who ranked high as a physiologist, died in London from burns caused by the upsetting of a lamp. William N. Carpenter, a leading citizen of Detroit, was killed by being thrown from his carriage... .Relief committees at Glas­ gow find it difficult to supply the unem­ ployed ship-builders with food. In the hold of a vessel about to sail for New York were discovered no less than forty- seven stowaways .. .Charles S. Parnell, in acknowledging the receipt of £1,000 from Treasurer O'Reilly, at Detroit, writes that the money will-shortly be of enormous 6ervice in the Parliamentary campaign. ADVICES from Constantinople say that M. Nelidoff, the Russian Ambassador, has been ordered by his Government to press the demand of Russia before the conference for the immediate disarmament of Servia, Greece, and Bulgaria, and the deposition of Prince Alexander, the ruler of Bulgaria. KING THEEBAW. of Burmah, has issued & proclamation declaring that he will not Accept the proposals of the Indian Govern­ ment, at the same time calling on the Burmese to defend their country. POUT1CAL. THE President has appointed Dr. John G. Lee, of Philadelphia, Secretary of Le­ gation at Constantinople. Dr. Lee is a friend of Minister Cox, and is under­ stood to have been appointed on his per­ sonal solicitation. He is familiar with the modern languages, and is said to peculiarly fitted for the place... .Major Bartlett, who lately resigned the office of Second Deputy Commissioner of Pensions because of his in­ ability to attend to the duties, is a brother of the Rev. William Alvin Bartlett, formerly of Plymouth Congregational Church, Chi­ cago, and how of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington.' Last week the President appointed as Maj. Bart- lelt's successor Gen. Joseph R. Bartlett, of Birmingham, N. Y., who is said to be another brother... .The President appoint­ ed William H. Morgan, of ' Nashville, Tenn., member of the board of Indian commissioners,* in place of Orange Judd, resigned. THE President has made the following appointments: George W. Glick, Pension Agent at ToDeka, Kan.; Erasmus Redman, Collector of Customs for the district of Frenchman Bay, Me.; Frederick F. Mans­ field, of Texas, to be Secretary of Lega­ tion at Japan; James Burnes to be Surveyor of Customs for the port of KansasCity; Oscar Valeton to be Assistant Appraiser of Mer­ chandise in the district of New Orleans. The President has also made the following appointments in the navy: John J. Hunker, Lieutenant Commander; Milton K. Schwenk, Lieutenant; William H. Schuetz, Lieutenant; Waldemar D. Rose, Lieuten­ ant junior class. the ment of 12,000,000 pounds of bogus but­ ter. He had collected some statistics about butterine. which showed that from May 1 Of this year to May 1 of 1886 the output will easily reach 20,000,000 pounds. The receipts of cheese in Chicago for 1883-1885 were 119,600,000 pounds, and the ship­ ments 97,005,000 pounds. From November 1, 1883, tfi November 1, 1884, there were received 332,000 cases of eg^s, against 429,000 the previous year. The shipments 1883-1884 were 112,000 cases, against 188,000 cases in 1884-1885. t |$ 1 i THE southl 3^*" ' ̂ THE great American Exposition was re- - Opened at New Orleans on Tuesday, the 5', "• TWth day of November, and the day was * " generally observed in the Crescent City as iv y • holiday. There was a grand civic and military procession, and addresses of wel- ' come were made by the Governor of the f- iv > State, the Mayor of the city, the Mexican ffT..;' Minister, and other dignitaries. Com-^ I r"\ ,plete exhibits froin two-thirds of the States and Territories, and portions . of the exhibits from the others, $#•*:. trere in position. The exhibits of Guate- gtar-v.. mala, San Salvador, Colombia, Honduras, jgVJ ^ » , Venezuela and San Domingo were in po- „ *ition in the main building, while others esj,-were arriving from Brazil, Chili, Peru, and ^ ' the Argentine Republic The counties of p. JDallas, Perry and Bibb in Alabama were fc* pwept by a cyclone, resulting in 'great de- ' '^traction of property. It is 6aid thirteen raS persons were killed outright, and forty to Ifty dangerously wounded. A number of f K , , citizens are reported missing, f/..- fa, AS incendiary fire destroyed the Court­ 's& %, ®0U8e and County Treasurer's office of O H Leon County, Texas, many valuable rec- ! ? ' * ' ? , ® r d R > w h i c h c a n n o t b e d u p l i c a t e d , b e i n g d e - * ;>" * ttroyed.... At Fannin, Clay County, Tex., ; Valentine Sanford, 14 years old. deliberate- V . ly assassinated his mother, and later assist- , « *d his father in Searching for her. When Lr Jj-.the body was found the boy confessed the . j* / icrime, saying he also had determined to ; V-, " ' skill his father, then sell the plantation, and ' * «5' , --become a brigand. THE Department of Agriculture at Wash­ ington, in its November report, say* of the ' «otton crop: :;n,' The cotton returns of November are lo- *al estimates of the yield per acre. They are somewhat higher than those of the last two ' yew®, but materially lower than those of 1880 SSfSXZliT. GENERAL. DURING a blinding snowstorm the Can­ adian Pacific Company's steamer Algoma was wrecked on Isle Royale, in Lake Supe­ rior. Twenty-five of the crew and twelve passengers are reported lost. The surviv­ ors of the wreck, thirteen in number, were taken off the island by the Athabasca. The Algoma was dashed to pieces on the rocks, the waves at the time of the disaster run­ ning mountains high. AN exploring schooner reports the dis­ covery of a field of coal on the Russian shore of Behring Straits.... Sixty families at Point aux Esquimaux, Quebec, are said to be starving, and will die of hunger un­ less relief speedily arrives. THE nineteenth annual session of the National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, was opened at Boston in the sixth degree. All the officers were present except D. Wyatt Aiken, of South Carolina, who was confined at home by illness. The Commit­ tee on Credentials reported that twenty- nine States were clear upon the Treasurer's books and entitled to representation. Worthy Master Woodman's annual address and the yearly report of the Executive Committee showed the order to be in a prosperous and healthy financial condition. Over 150 dormant Granges were revived during the-year. "Not unfrequently," says the report, "the Executive Committee is appealed to by individuals for Jirotectiqn from ' mutual aid associations, or other similar corporations, with which they have no connection. The committee suggests that the National Grange publish a de­ liverance upon this subject, renouncing its responsibility for any association of what­ ever character, unless such as may be found recognized bjrthe constitution and by-laws." A SINGULAR case showing the contagious nature of small-pox was discovered at Mon­ treal the other day. A child who died with small-pox had a pet cat which it fondled during its illness. When the health offi- t3i'oitK--Mess.", cials came to disinfect the house the cat w as found to be covered with small-pox postules, and was taken out and Bhot and its body burned. A SYSTEM of drainage for the City of Mexico and the surrounding country is con­ templated which will cost $4,000,000, and will, it is thought, reduce the death rate one-half. ADDITIONAL NEWS. THESE were 227 failures in the United States reported to BradstreeVs during the week, against 156 in £he preceding week, and 187, 205, 167, and 158 in the corres­ ponding weeks of 1884, 1883, 1882, and 1881 respectively.. About 83 per cent, were those of small traders whose capital was less than $5,000. l*n the principal trades they were as follows: Gen­ eral stores, 48; grocers, 25; liquors, 19; ho­ tels and restaurants, 11; hardware," 10; clothing, 9; carpenters and builders, 8; dry goods, 7; boots and shoes, 6; drugs, 6; car­ riages and wagons, 5; lumber, 4; jewelry, 4; millinery, 4; cigars and tobacco, 4; furni­ ture. 3; iron, 3; hats, 3; harness, 3; oils and paints. 3; produce and provisions, 3. IN its commercial summary for the week, Bradstreet's says: "The past week is con­ spicuous. for showing a remarkable increase in the number of failures throughout the country, the total being 227, against 156 last week, a gain of 71. As compared with like weeks in the three preceding years, a like increase is noted, excepting in the sec­ ond week of November, 1883, in which the total was 205. The general trade situation throughout the country presents few new features. The movement of merchandise has liot increased at any point. In certain lines business continues good; in others only fairly active, and in some it is dull and declining." ' THE resignation of Prince Henry of Bat- tenberg as a Lieutenant of the Prussian Guards has been accepted.... The French courts have at last .pronounced a divorce between Mme. Nicolini and her husband, the well-known tenor, who is married to- Patti under the law of other countries.... Harwood's cotton mills, at Bolton, England, were destroyed by fire. The loss involved was about $200,000. FOUR notices of contest have already been received by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. These contests are in Iowa, Indiana, Rhode Island and Ohio. Protests have also been received from citi­ zens of California against seating the dele­ gation from that State on the ground that they were not legally elected from the dis­ tricts to which they were credited. The member who holds a certificate from the First California District is declared in one protest not to be a citizen of the United States. FOUR counterfeiters were captured at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, while manufacturing bogus dollars. The chief of the quartet is George Harris, of Massachusetts.... The Piegan Indians have left their reservation for a thieving tour in Wyoming... .Jasper E. Sweet, indicted for thei recent murder of Dr. Waugh, in Chicago, arrested in Ken­ tucky, has been brought back for trial. WILLIAM SHARON, ex-Senator from California, died in San Francisco, after an illness of a week, during which time he was unable to. take nourishment. He was in his sixty-fifth year. A FIRE which started on the Strand at Galveston, Texas, swept southeastward with great rapidity, destroying 400 dwell­ ings and residences, many of the inmates narrowly escaping. A high wind which prevailed at the time aided the progress of the flames, which found easy-prey in the wooden structures covering the burned dis­ trict. One thousand families were rendered temporarily homeless, and the financiftl loss will approximate $2,500,000, with less than $1,000,000 insurance. The buildings on forty and one-half blocks, or one hundred acres, were swept away by the fire. PROMPTLY at noon of the 14th, in the jail at Chicago, the three murderers of Filippo Caruso were simultaneously exe­ cuted. They spent the previous night in the library with Italian priests. The bodies were interred in Calvary Ceinetry, each of the condemned men having bequeathed his remains to a benevolent organization. BECAUSE of family troubles William E. Stone shot and killed his wife at Baltimore and then shot himself. The couple had been married twenty years, nine children being the fruits of the union. SIDNEY DILLON, of New York, has sub­ scribed $1,000 to the Grant monument fund. He expressed at the same time a hope that other members of the association j who could afford it would follow his ex- 1 ample. I- THE MARKETS'. 1 NEW TORE. BEEVES Hoos 1...... ! WHEAT--No. 1 White . No. 2 Red ! CORN--No. 2 j OATS--White • POKK--Mess CHICAGO. I BEEVES---Choice to Prime Steers. Good Shipping I Common I Hoos • FLOUK--Extra Spring J Choice Winter j WHEAT--No. 2 Spring i CORN--No. 2 OATS--No." 2 RYK--No. 1 F BARLEV--NO. 2 BUTTER--Choice Creamery; Fine Dairy... CHEESE--Full Cream, new Skimmed Flats EGGS--Fresh POTATOES--Car-lots, per bu PORK--Mess MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 THIRTY-SEVEN DROWNED. •" , • Wreck of the Canadian Pacific Rail- r *** Steamer Alffoma ep fcftfce Superior. CORN--No. 2. OATS--No. 2... It YE--No. 1.... FOUEIGM. IN the Eliza Armstrong abduction case at London the charges against Mr. Bram- well booth, leader of the Salvation Army, were withdrawn. The other defendants were found guilty of indeccnt assault and sentenced as follows: Mr. Stead, three months' imprisonment, Rebecca Jarrett six months, and Sampson Jacques one month --all without hard labor--and Mme. Louise Mourey six months with hard labor.... Henry Mosler, an American artist residing in Paris, has received from H. H. Warner, of Rochester, N. Y., an order to paint two Indian scenes and an American farm within five years, the compensation being $75,000. . A a . : . ' . . - . V i N • TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 CORN--No. 2..:. OATS--No. 2 ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORN--Mixed OATS--Mixed PORK--New Mess CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORS--No. 2....- OATS--Mixed. RYE--No. 2 PORK--Mess... DETROIT. BEEF CATTLE HOGS SHBEP WHEAT--No. 1 White «... CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Red. CORN--Mixed. OATS--No. 2 EAST LIBERTY. 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WHEAT--NO. 1 Hard CORN CAT3M aft *4.50 6.25 3.00 & 4.25< .97 @ .99 ,94 @ .9*5 .55 <a> .5ti .94 & .39 9.75 @10.25 5.50 <31 6.00 4.50 & 5.25 8.50 (!') 4.00 8.00 @ 4.00 6.00 <& 5.50 4.50 (<U 5.00 .87 ® .88 .45 & .46 .26 @ .28 .60 (<il .62 .66 .68 .21 (Si .24 .16 ('<) .18 .10 a*. .10'.; .06 > S<$ .07!*, .19 @ .20 .45 <$ .53 8.50 @ 9.00 .«7 .88 .45 an .46 .26 (<9 .28 .62 C'J .<>4 8.25 <® 8.75 M m .93 .47 & .48 .27 «H .28 .94 <S> .95 .86%® .3716 .26 (<t> .28 8.50 & 9.00 .93H@ .45W(f5 .27 @ .65 <3 9.00 4.50 8.50 2.50 .92 .48 .80 .01 .39 .26 6.25 4.50 4.00 3.75 3.00 .94 .46 .89 .07 @ 9.50 & 5.50 (<n 4.oo ('5 3.75 C<9 .93 .90 & .32 & .91H & .41 & .27 @ 5.75 & 5.25 («? 4.50 & 4.00 & 4.50 Nearly Half a Hundred Persons Find _ i&kteiy Graves--A Terrible Xal* of Shipwreck. • . t A terrible marino disaster, "resulting in Jhe loss of tbirty-seven human lives, oc­ curred near Port Arthur, on I^ako Superior, on the night of the 8th inst., the particulars of which are embraced in the following tele­ graphic reports from the scene 'of the ca­ lamity: The Algoma, one of the iron-clad transfer steamers of the Canadian Pacific, left Owen Sound. Ontario, last Thursday. While rounding Isle Royale the steamer Athabasca sighted the fragments of a wreck on the treacherous reef. A rescuing boat was manned, and, after considerable diffi­ culty. made the shore, rescuing the crew-- thirteen men--and two passengers of the ill-fated Algoma. They reported that thirty- teven passengers had perished in the wreck. The survivors could not have endured the hardships of exposue and hunger much longer. When they were landed at Port Huron by the Athabasca late this evening many of them were dangerously prostrated. Port Arthur is on the extreme northern coast of Lake Superior and distant from here nearly 500 miles. The scene of the * wreck is southwest from Port Arthur thirty miles or more. All the facts known here are gathered from personal dispatches an­ nouncing the loss of relatives or friends, and from two telegram^ to the Canadian Pacific officials, briefly outlining the man­ ner of the catastrophe. It appears that a heavy storm prevailed on the lake Sunday night, one of its features being a dense fog. Shortly after the Algoma rounded into the straits which Isle Royale skirts she crashed into a concealed reef, and ai few moments later the boat was shiv-. ered asunder. It collapsed so quickly that many of the victims perished in their cabins, where they had taken refuge from the inclement weather. Others, who reached the deck, were given no assistance, and clung to the rigging in despair until ingulfed or swept away. The crew, frenzied by the disaster, thought only of saving themselves. With a quick rush for the nearest boat, they flocked in and swung it from the davits before the passengers could follow. Two, however, contrived to crowd in, leaving the abandoned ones, among them several wom­ en and children, helpless and hopeless on the deck of the doomed steamer. The boat was capsized several times by the waves, but was righted again. The survivors suc­ ceeded in reaching land, almost dead from exposure and exhaustion. The scene of excitement is terrible. It is impossible to get any well-defined or completely connected story of the terrible disaster which has brought gloom to hun­ dreds of Canadian households. Mate Simp­ son and W. B. McArthur, one of the pas­ sengers who survived, were interviewed, and a story obtained of which the following is a fair synopsis: The steamer left Owen Sound last Thursday afternoon with thirty-eight passengers, chiefly Canadians, but there were somo few Americans. All went well during the early part of the voy­ age, and the vessel passed up St. Mary's River and Sault Ste. Marie, where ,shl coaled. It was Friday about noon when sho passed the latter place, and soon after steamed out into Lake Superior. Th® »w«ather was calm, but as even­ ing advanced signs of a storm were brewing. When spoken to by passengers Capt. Moore Shook his head ominously, and all realized that a storiaof uiiMMal severity -was blowing. All trusted f^rhe stout steel craft, which was deemed of equal strength to the average sea­ going vessel. Evening closed in, and the Algo­ ma held her course toward Port Arthur, while the storm increased in fury and caused the great waves to pound the vessel, which was tossed about like a feather. The timbers -were heard totsreak, but little danger was apprehended on the score of unsoundness. As night wore on the storm seemed, if possible, to increase in vio- lencOi Snow and sleet descended, and the ele­ ments appeared in their angriest mood. Some retired to their berths, but the majority, who were suffering from nausea, kept watch. At the time when day should under ordinary circum­ stances have broken, darkness continued, for tho snow-storm had not abated and the air was terribly dense. The steamer still held on her way, and as fair progress had been made notwithstanding the severity of the storm, it was thought that the Isle Royale, which is located a short (lis. tance outside of Thunder Bay and about forty- fivo miles from Port Arthur, must bo near at band. The island is long, but comparatively a narrow, rocky one, and its vicinity is treacher­ ous, owing to tho large number of bowlders which exist about it. Tho channel by which tlje bay is entered, runs close to tho island, and Capt. Moore realized tho necessity of progress­ ing with the utmost care. Fog-horns were blowed and signals of distress sounded. The speed of the boat was reduced, but- as the storm continued to rage, it was imxiossible to deterv mine absolutely what course the boat was pur­ suing. Suddenly a great crash was heard, and the vessel rebounded and quivered like an aspen leaf. "Good God!" said the Captain, "she's struck. Our doom lias come!" Ten Beconds later all was tho wildest confusion and alarm. Those who were on deck roared their alarm, while tho shrieks of tho milder sex were terrible. Crash, crash, and the stout ves­ sel pounded tho rocks. Tho crackling of the timbers and the swaying of the vessel warned all that death in a terrible form was upon them. The relentless wind seemed to scream its satis* faction, while the snow and sleet drove against the half-clad passengers. It's no use to describe the scene," said one Informant. "Nothing worse ever occurred on earth. In their madness, when the waves were washing the deck, a number threw themselves Into the foaming billows. Others, when a great wave would pass over the deck, which was swaying from side to side, were swept into tha sea like feathers. A few hung on to ropes or to the masts, but the majority seemed to abandon themselves in the wild alarm and despair. "Even the crew seemed powerless, so stricken were they with tho awful suddenness and stu­ pendous character of the disaster. Meanwhile tho boat rapidly went to pieces, dashed against tho rocks. Tho crew, all of whom except th$ waitresses had clung to the rigging, managed, during a slight lull in the storm, to place them­ selves in a life-boat, cut tho fastenings, and in an instant a wave swept them from the ill-fated wreck. Amid tho awful cries of the dying and tho terrible dashing of tho waves the boat was borne onward. Two of the passengers had managed to place themselves (n the boict before It was cut away from the wreck. Any efforts that had been made to launch boats dur­ ing the early confusion and horror had failed. Meantime the life-boat and its occupants had a terrible experience on the open, storm-tossed lake. All who could bound themselves to tha boat, whilo tlie remainder held on like grim death to the sides. Expecting every moment to meet their death either by drowning or from exposure or cold, which was intense, the half- dead inmates were borne on. Once the boat was turned over with the waves, and one of the crew washed away, but the frail craft righted itsell and was swept on in the comparative dark­ ness. "After half ah hour the boat suddenly struck some rocks. The inmates feared all was over with them, as tho Craft capsized, but, to theii surprise, when thrown out, the water was only a foot deep, and they discovered that they were on land. After remaining there an hour or more, exposed to the elements, tho storm abated, and tho sky cleared. It was then dis­ covered that they were on Islo Royale, and that the vessel hod been wrecked about a milo from shore on the great bowlders that exist near the channel. It was about 10 o'clock in tho morn- inn, and the half-dead crew remained there until lato in tho afternoon, when tho Athabasca camc along and pickcd them up. They were then taken to Port Arthur." The Algoma was a thoroughly built and splendidly equipped Clyde-built steel steamer, lighted by electricity. The gross tonnage is 1,TK0, length 270 feet, breadth 38 feet. It was complete in every detail, the furnishing being as luxurious as that of the finest ocean steamers. The vessel cost $450,(KM), and is understood to have been insured for $300,000. It is one of throe steamers -- the Alberta, the Athabasca, and the Algoma--pur­ chased two years ago by the Canadian Pacific Kail way for the lake traffic, since which time it has been plying steadily be­ tween Owen Sound and Port Arthur, doing a big business. The steamers gave the greatest satisfaction. After the opening of the Thunder Bay branch of the Canadian Pacific Road from Port Arthur to Winnipeg, in 1882, the com­ pany diverted a great deal of freight and l>assenger traffic, which formerly went south over tlie American system by establishing thiq line of steamers. THE NEW CONGRESS. Its Political Complexion--Yiewg of the Members on the Silver ̂ ItirifT Qneatioili. A Majority of the Members Said to Be ih Favor of Carlisle for Speaker. NEW HOUSE. ** j 4* ' Its Political. Complexion. The House of Representatives, which convenes at Washington on the first Mon­ day in Decfember, consists of 184 Dem­ ocrats and 141 Republicans. In this clas­ sification Weaver, of Iowa, Greenback Democrat, is counted as a Democrat, and Brumm, of Pennsylvania, Greenback Re­ publican, with the Republicans. The an­ nexed table shows the political division of the several State delegations: State. Alabama.., Arkansas California. Coforado. Connecticut^ Delaware........ *............ Florida r:; .v......... Georgia Illinois. ..... Indiana ........, Iowa ............. K a n s a s . - v . . . . . . . . . Kentucky Louisiana.........t... ....*... Maine i.. ...... .-.v ........ Maryland........ Massachusetts..... k............ j M i c h i g a n . ' . . . . . . . Minnesota.... »'•»,....... •. i'..... Mississippi.........; M i s s o u r i i . . . . . s , . . . . . Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina ....... ... Ohio...; ;...../ Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island ; South Carolina.. Tennessee ; Texas Vermont. Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin Dem. .... 8 .... 5 .... 1 *2 ,..i 1 . . . . 2 -in 13 ;r 1 WW io .... * 5 *5 . . . . 2 .... T 7 ....12 8 17 11 ....« 0 . . . . 7 .... 11 8 .... 3 . . . . 2 Bep. Total... QUESTIONS ANSWERED. Views of a Large Number of Members on Important Questions. Thf Louisville Courier-Journal recently published letters from 160 members of Congress, 59 Democrats and 91 Republic­ ans. The letters are in response to four questions sent out by the Washington cor­ respondent of the Courier-Journal, as fol­ lows: 1. Would you favor an amendment to the rules of the House providing that the general appropriation bills, except the legislative, sun­ dry civil, and deficiency bills, shall "be prepared and controlled hereafter by tho appropriate standing committees on the several branches of the public service? 2. Do you favor any change in tho laws gov­ erning silver coinage and silver certificates, and if so, what modification would you regard as desirable? 3. To v> hat extent, in your opinion, would a revision of the tariff and "internal revenue laws be desirable at the next session? 4. Who is your choice for the caucus nomina­ tion for Sneaker? In the Democratic responses, forty-seven are unqualifiedly in favor of an amendment of the rules, five give a qualified answer, four oppose a change, and three are non­ committal. " As to the second, or silver question, four favor legislation, forty-nine oppose, and six are non-committal. As to the third or tariff-reform question, fifty-three favor tariff agitation, three op­ pose and three are non-committal. For Speaker fifty-seven are for Carlisle, one for Randall, and one non-committal. The whole number of Republican mem­ bers who responded is ninety-one. For amending the rules of the House, forty- eight unqualifiedly approve, twelve qualify their answers, nine oppose, and twenty- two are non-committal. Sixty favor legislation on the silver ques­ tion, sixteen oppose, and fifteen are non­ committal. Seventy-five oppose tariff legislation, four favor it, and twelve are non-committal. For Speaker, thirty are for Frank His- cock, twenty-three are for Reed of Maine, eleven for Gov. Long of Massachusetts, and thirty-seven are non-committal. The correspondent of the , Courier- Journal, in summing up on officers of the House, names for Speaker John G. Car­ lisle; Clerk, John B. Clark, Missouri; Ser- geant-at-Arms, John B. Leedom, Ohio; Doorkeeper, Samuel Donelson. Tennessae; Postmaster, Lycurgus Dalton, Indiana. A MOUNT MACGREtiOR MEMORY. Another Letter from Gen. Grant to Dr. Douglass. The last number of the Century Maga­ zine reproduced a letter written by General Grant to Dr. J. H. Douglass while on Mount MacGregor, in which reference was made to a previous letter in like strain. Tho prompting causes of that previous letter and the letter itself here follow. Gen. Grant reached Mount MacGregor June 16, and that night he Slept ten full hours, and well. The next afternoon the General sat upon the cot­ tage piazza alone and in deepthought. Sud­ denly, as though after mature reflection he had formed a resolve, the General summoned his servant, and started down the steps and walked to the bluff of the mountain. There he sat upon a rustic chair, with eyes bent to the earth, his features drawn and tense, and an expression of introspection on his face. He had set himself to do a test of his own strength. He wanted a basis for personal judgment of his own condition, and he found himself weak beyond his ex-* pectation. He went slowly back to the cot­ tage, and reached his room discouraged and disheartened, and that evening seated on the piazza, as the sun went down, the General wrote a calm statement of his con­ victions as to his own condition. This he handed to Dr. Douglas, and it was the "previous" letter referred to in the General's reproduced letter in the Century. It is here given; DOCTOB: Since coming to this beautiful climato and getting a complete rest for about ten hours I have watched my pains and com­ pared them with those of the last few weeks. I can feel plainly that my system is preparing for dissolution in three ways--one by hemor­ rhage, one by strangulation,and the third bv ex­ haustion. The first and second aro liable to come at any moment to relieve me of my earth­ ly sufferings. Tho time for the arrival of tha third can bo computed with almost mathe­ matical certainty. With an increase of daily food I have fallen off in weight and strength very rapidly for the last two weeks. There cannot be a hope of going far beyond this time. All any physician, or any number of them, can do for me is to make my burden of pain as light as possible. I do not want any physician but your­ self, but I tell you so that if you are unwilling to have 1110 go without consultation with other professional men you can send for them. I dread them, however, knowing that it means another desperate effort to save me and morn Buffering. GEN. M'CLELLAN'S WILL. His Wife Gets Everything, and After Her Death the Children Are the Recipients. The will of Gen. George B. McClellan has been filed in the Surrogate's office at New York. It is dated Jan. 18, 1873. After providing for the payment of all his debts and funeral expenses he bequeaths all his real and personal estate to his wife, Ellen Marcy McClellan. On the death of his wife he directs that all his estate be divided between his two children, George B. Jr. and Mary M., share and share alike. His military accoutrements he also leaves to his son, and the sword that was presented to him by the city of Philadelphia he leaves to his daughter. He appoints William C. Prime, of New York, his literary executor, to make such uses as he deems best of such papers as the decedent may have. THE POSTAL SERVICE. Aihoal Report of the Fint Assistant < General-&«e J)«. A , livery System, LC First Assistant Postmaster General A. E Steven scfti has submitted to the Postmaster General his annual report upon tho operations of his bureau for the fiscal year ended Juno 30, 1885. From the report it appears that the num­ ber of postoffices established during the year was 2,121, and tho number discontinued 880, mak­ ing the whole number of postoffices at tho end of the fiscal vear 51,252, a net increase mt 1.'235 during the year. The number of offices Subject to appointments by the President (presidential grade) was 2,233, and tho number subject to appointment by the Postmaster General (fourth class) was 49,0:19. The whole num­ ber of api>ointment8 during tho year was 11,203, made up as follows: On resigna­ tions and commissions expired, <5,204; re­ movals andwuspensions, 810; change of names and sites, 207; death of postmasters, 412; estab­ lishment of new offices, 2,221. The increase in the number of postoffices was distributed as fol­ lows : New England States, 48; Middlo States and District of Columbia, 11; Southern States and Indian Territory, 038; the ten States and six Territories of the West and Northwest, 375; the thjeo States and three Territories of the Pacific Slope, 65. Tho greatest increase in any State or Territority was 100 in Virginia. The increase in Dakota for the year was 71, and in Mississip­ pi 59. The only decrease was in Nevada. The total number of money order offices was 0,992, an increase of 749 over the preceding year. The number of changes in postmasters during the year was less than the preceding year, and tho large decrease in the number of cases acted upon during the year, as compared With tho preceding year, was due, says Gen. Stevenson, to the fact that very few changes were made in the offices during the winter months. Under tho head of free-delivery system, the report states that the number of free-del ivery offices at the close of the year was 178. an in­ crease of 19, and the number of carriers 4,358, an increase of 468. The entire corffc of the service was 83,985,952, leaving an unexpended balance of 879,046. The service has now been extended to nearly all cities having a population of 20,000 inhabitants or returning 320,000 gross receipts per annum, and its further extension must, under the law, await the growth of cities to the requirements above noted, or the qualifications must bo lowered by legislation. The First Assistant Postmaster General says that the success of this system, its convenience to the public, and other merits, in his judgment warrants the recommendation that authoritv be conferred by legislation for its extension to places of inhabitants having a gross revenue of *10,000. The report briefly states the advantages that have resulted from tho consolidation of large free-delivery offices and recommends that the same policy be applied to non-free-deliverv offices so as to give them the benefits of free delivery. It is believed that this consolidation would reduce the labor of examining accounts by cutting down tho number of separate post- offices and result in greater harmony in tlie ser­ vice. Under the head of salary and allowance it is stated that the total amount allowed for clerk hire In postoffices was $4,924,509 ; for rent, ^uel, and light of postoffices, $403,939; for sal­ aries of postmasters (2,435) adjusted during tlie year, $3,701,600; for salaries of Presidential postmasters, $3,630,600. Since April, 1884 , 32,- 400 applications for review of salaries of post­ masters under the act of March 3, 1883, were received and filed. The number of salaries re­ viewed and readjusted was 17,521, and 5,!K)0 ap­ plications were allowed, involving the addition­ al amount for compensation or back pay of post­ masters of $378,922. As a result of the annual adjustment of salaries, 14 offices were added to the Presidential list and 134 offices were rele­ gated to the fourth class. The grand total of gross receipts at Presidential offices for the four quarters ended March 31. 1885, amounted to $31,792,220, and the • aggregate salaries of the postmasters will absorb 11.42 per cent, of the revenues. "The postal receipts," says Gen. Stevenson, "forming the basis of the salaries of Presidential Postmasters fluctuate with the favorable or unfavorable condition of the business of tlie country. At tho present time reports show that the country is entering upon an era of prosperity and plenty, and there­ fore no less tlian S3,000.000 will be required to pay the salaries of Presidential Postmasters during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887. The amount of compensation for clerk hire required during the same period is estimated at $5,510,000, making the total estimate for this branch of the service, including aliowances for fuel, rent, furniture, and miscellaneous items, $5,897,000". The First Assistant Postmaster General, in conclusion, calls the attention of the failure of Congress to provide for tlie payment by the Gov­ ernment of rent at third-class postoffices. He renews the recommendation that provisions be made for tho payment of rent of offices of that class, and for the payment of expenses of fuel, light, stationerv, and miscellaneous items for thl >se offices. It is also recommended that Jan. 1, 1887, be fixed as the limitation of applications for readjustment of salaries under the act of March 3, 1883. THE RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE. - From the annual report of General Superin­ tendent Jameson, of the railway mail service, it appears that mileage increased during the past year only 4,007 miles. Tho increase in the num­ ber of pieces of mail matter handled, exclusive of registered matter, was 428,397,500. In a total distribution of 4,948,059,400 pieces the number of errors chargeablo to the clerks of the railway mail service was but 887,704, or one error to each 5,574 pieces handled, being at the rate of ^224 errors per clerk per annum. The average percentage of mail correctly distributed was 99.98. This is tho highest rate attained since the establishment of the service. The general superintendent recommends that Congress be asked to empower the Postmaster General to pay to the widow or minor chil­ dren of any clerk killed while 011 duty an amount equal to one year's salary of tlie grade to which the deceasetl belonged at the time of his death. The estimate for special facilities (fast mail service; oil tho trunk lines for the ensuing year is tho samo in amount as the sum set apart for the purpose for the current fiscal year--namely, $251,725. The amount of tho estimate for railway jtostal cars is $1,888,577, which is an increase of 7 per cent, over the amount appropriated for the current fiscal year for roads other than those that are Ubsidized. The sum of $4,877,060 is asked for with which to pay railway postal clerks. This is an increase of 6 per cent, over the amount of the existing appropriation. The Superintendent strongly advocates the extension of tho benefits of the civil-service law to the clerical forces of the railway mail service. ' THE MONEY-ORDER' BUREAU. In his annual report to the Postmaster Gene­ ral, Supt. (I. F. McDonald, of the Money-Order Jlureau, points to tho growth of tho business from its inception in 1866, when there were 766 money-order offices that issued $4,(XX),000 in or­ ders, down to the last fiscal year, when the 7,355 offices issued orders amounting to about $120,- 000,000. The fees now aggregate about $1,000,000 per annnm. During tho fiscal year 767 money- •order offices were established and 16 discontin­ ued. Since the close of the fiscal year 303 offices have been added and 4 have been discontinued. The total amount of payments and repayments of money-orders was $117,9!Hi,'205, and the excess of payments over issues $137,283. Tho gross amount of fees received by Postmasters from the public for the issue of domestic money-orders was $923,930. These figures exhibit a decrease in the amounts of orders issued and paid and of fees received. COST OF MAIL TRANSPORTATION'. Second -Assistant Postmaster General Knott has submitted to the Postmaster General his annual report of the operations of his bureau during tho past fiscal year. It appears that the cost of mail transportation for the fiscal year ending 011 June 30, 1885, was: For 12,371 star routes, aggregating 232,222 miles in length, 85,- 414,844; star service for the next fiscal year is 85,850,000, slightly less than the appropriation for the current year. The reduction effected by orders in this class of service from April 1 to September 30, 1885, aggregated $148,696. The re­ ductions in steamboat service effected from April 1 to September 30, 1885, by discontinuances and curtailments of routes amounted to $74,256, and the sum deemed necessary for the current year is (870,648. A FATAL GAME-HUNT. The Ohio Ill-Luck Which Befell Two Sportsmen. George Barber is a thrifty farmer living on the outskirts of the city of Cleveland, Ohio. Early the other morning, says a tel­ egram from that city, he and his son James observed the tracks of an animal near their house, which they imagined might be game/ They followed the trail until it was lost in a hollow tree 011 the premises. After strik­ ing a few blows with their axes the tree, the trunk of which was decayed, toppled and fell. The old man was caught under one of the branches and the boy was pinned to the earth by the trunk of the tree. Their cries attracted a crowd and both were re­ leased. The old man's skull was fractured and he was internally injured, while both of the boy's arms were broken and his chest crushed. The latter is dei^ and his father's case is hopeless. Hard Lines for Brave Volunteers# Ottawa (Ont.) dispatch. It is represented to the Government that a large number of the volunteers who ' gave up their positions to fight rebels iu the Northwest are now in very destitute circumstances, having been unable to find employment on their return home. This will have a serious effect on the volunteer system of enrolling the militia for active service, and it may be necessary to change the mode of raising an army in Canada, when required at any future time. The Minister of Militia says that it .is impos­ sible for the Government to render any as- | sis tance to these unfortunate men. FMENDS OF THE INDIAN. A Committee from the Conference m. Mofconk Lay Siege ' V. i' the President. , % * / ' 7 ' : - i T • - ' 3 Mr. Cleveland Assures Them of Hia Kindly Sympathy--Mr. Lamar Also . Wanta to Aid. The members of the committee appointed „ * 1 at the Lake Mohonk Conference to call on the President and the Secretary of the In­ terior were very much pleased by their recep­ tion by both functionaries, though neither unreservedly assented to all that the com­ mittee asked, and the Secretary differed radically from the committee in certain im- Eortant particulars. Gen. Clinton B. Fisk eaded the delegation, and presented the, members to the President. Hon. Erastus • Brooks, of New York, read an address em-~ bodying the views of the conference as to the best methods of improving the condi­ tion of the Indians. He reminded the Pres- , ident of his remarks on this subject in his in­ augural, in which he^aid the Indians should be "fairly and honestly treated aa wards of the Government, and their education ft and civilization promoted with a view to L their ultimate citizenship." He also re- f called the words of Mrs. Helen Hunt Jack- 1 son in her death-bed letter to the President, ,"M to wit: "I am dying happier for the belief I that it is your hand that is destined to strik»: *:M the first steady blow toward righting the' 3 wrongs of the Indian race." The questions, Jf Mr. Brooks said, which seemed to them to ?l demand most immediate attention aro those relating to land and education, homes and' families. What is now needed in regard to lands, he said, is severalty and individuality, with the protection of law for per­ sons and families. This would result in settlements, in homes, and in land cultiva­ tion, and in that way make the Indian a4 self-supporting citizen, endowed with all the rights, privileges and duties of citizen­ ship. The proof of the ability of the In­ dian to work profitably for himself and for the Government is found, said he, in the fact that those who are the most civilized now have under cultivation more than 250,- 000 acres of land, upon which in a year was raised 1,000,000 bushels of corn, 1,000,000 bushels of wheat, and nearly 1,000,000. bushels of oats and barley, besides 103,000* head of cattle, 1,000,000 sheep, 2:15,000 horses and mules, and 08,000 swine. These figures, he said, do not include the products of 60,000 civilized Indians, ready for Ter­ ritorial government. The speaker dwelt eloquently upon the evil effects of the lack of laws to protect tho Indians, and said they needed just( what the white man has--the force of iaw in their ' behalf and the freedom of the ballot. To secure these ends, it was urged that the tri­ bal relations and reservations be abolished, and the diffusion as speediiy as possible of the Indian in the United States encouraged, so that he may secure, by association with his white brethren, pure civilization and full citizenship. Remarks were also made by Rev. Lyman Abbott, Mr. M. E. Gates and Gen. Fisk, each of whom advocated the abolition of the present system of Indian reservations, and favored the adoption of a policy in re­ gard to them similar to that so successfully employed in the case of the colored popula­ tion. The President listened attentively to the speakers, and assured them of his deep in­ terest in the Indian question. He reviewed briefly the many difficulties encountered in dealing with the question, which he ac­ knowledged was a very important one, and said the great trouble to his mind was as to the first practical steps to be taken in im­ proving the condition of the Indian. Shall we give them more schools and churches, and agricultural implements for use on their reservations, or shall we deed them lands in- several ty and leave them to their own re­ source? One trouble he found was to get rid of the influences of the old chiefs. Then, again«vif we leave them to themselves, and one gets hungry, a loud cry goes up that they are starving. How are we to get the Indians to mingle with the whites? We cer­ tainly cannot drive them off their reserva­ tions. Is it better to keep them under tutelage where they are, or could their civ­ ilization be better accomplished in some other way? "The question is surrounded with difficulties," continued the President, "and the most important consideration to my mind at present is, 'What is the most useful thing to be done?' " He said that while it might not be well for the cause to disturb the Indians in their present homes, he said that their reservations would ulti­ mately be given to them in severalty, and the Indians thrown on their resources. The President reminded the committee that the cause which they advocated would require years to consummate, but intimated that he hoped to be able to make a begin­ ning in the right direction during the re­ maining years of his administration. The committee after leaving the White House proceeded to the Interior Depart­ ment, where they had a long interview with Secretary Lamar, and through their chair­ man presented him a written statement of the view of the conference. In reply to a' brief address by General Fisk, Secretary Lamar said he would, in his forthcoming annual report, acknowledge his obligation to the philanthropic and benevolent asso­ ciations and individuals in the work he had to carry on. The ultimate object was the civilization of the Indian. A crisis had been reached in the history of that race that must be met by some methods differ­ ent from those heretofore pursued. His own knowledge of the Indian's wants was as yet too limited to permit him to formu­ late a general policy adapted to the present and the exigencies of the future. The process must be one of improving the Indian out of his present condi­ tion into civilization, y-and it would be a gradual process. The first point should be to secure their reservations to them (either as now located or compressed into a smaller space) in fee simple so that their title shall be inviolable. At the same time he did not advocate the division of the entire reserva­ tion among the Indians, and believed the abandonment of the reservation system at this time would be premature. It was the end to be sought, but the first step would be, after bringing the Indians, with their consent, into limits proportionate with their numbers, to protect them from the destruct­ ive influences of the stronger civilization surrounding them. Whites should be rig­ orously excluded, and when the reserva­ tions had been partially subdivided a con­ siderable portion ought to be left undivided and undistributed. In the transition 6tate the tribal system must be adhered to. It was the normaj condition of the race, and to take the Indian out of it would be to change his social condition before he was fitted for higher civilization. He was impressed with the belief that the Christian religion was the instrumentality for the elevation of this race. He knew that from his own experience in the South and his knowledge of the tribes in the Indian Ter­ ritory. The Indian could not stand it to be thrown out unprotected into the civiliza­ tion of this country. It ^would be almost as bad as extermination. He should be improved out of one condition into an­ other. If the interest of the white people were concerned, the problem could be solved by making the Indian a citizen and j giving him the right, of suffrage. After swallowing four million black slaves and digesting that mass pretty we.'!, we should not strain at this. But, continued Secre­ tary Lamar, to make the Indian a citizen at present would be a sad service to him, and I there would not be much of him left if it I were done suddenly. Those who are ready I for civilization he would push on, ana| those who are not he would protect. A WASHINGTON bridegroom recently I gave the minister a $1,000 biH for tying the | nuptial knot. PROF. AGASSIZ is American scientists. the wealthiest of I