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^ *r ** - ^ ^ apir jE pf^ppi '•'T'r . . : :'vL,p'r-'" «. IS. A.-., £•*». J? ,**..••*. v- .#•> «*->"=*. * #*# **.«••** ^.fc*jpv^ , < •.•#».»/>- ,< «•>. •"•IK+'I ••*<•»•««• ;9NM <$& .SfttUwra ftom&alar. J. YJJf SL.TX1, Pvatflonot. *«Pt8NBT, ILLINOIS. =-̂ ttE,JflBWS CONDENSED. rasp** *iy« book-kMper of &t Marino Bank of New York city, Deaden by namfr has absconded $88,000 of the institution's funds-- flersnton, Pa., has Just experienced a de­ structive conflagration. Loss estimated aft #150,000. 4 BOLD ATTEMPT to rob the lint National i»«ir of Chaimbenbazg, Pa., WM frustrated the other sight. Tiro man entered the bank on a pretense of making a deposit, and when the cashier opened the safe they knocked him <rt#4$ m- .m am •, f ! N*? #<***«" R*<?l '* A CJO I" ft fci!> r- ^i " J.fTiNi down, eeiued'a $30,000 package, and attempted to escape One of them woinHIed down as he was poaneed ttfxm tibi who happened to be Mid fftll hie exit, and wis [ by a faithful darkey *. Ek confederate was panned and oaptared twenty miles Horn Ohaffibersbtuf, and all the money recovered. .. „SI-6OT. James G. Smith, of Rhode Island, it dead. ^SrrKBK storms and floods in the New Eng­ land Stctee have earned serioos damage to mill property. At BuTrlllvillo, Conn., a mill and numnftaitnrinig property vatawi at over $200,- 000 were swept away. Some damage ia also reported from New Jersey. At Canton, Vflrrwtfr ooonty, Mass., the Mossy Fond dam gav# way, deetrqyine mneh valuable mil! pro­ perty, and almost obliterating the miMmfaotnr- Ing village of FallervUJe. Fortunately, the loss of hie was not largo. It is estimated that the dunage to property in New England by the freshet will reach f1,000,000. Vomn miners left Scranton, Pa., the other den for the Black Fills. They were aeoom- paaied to the depot by a bimm band and a crowd of about 2,000 men, women and children. The goid-hanters were provided with arms, ammnnitiaii and mining implements, and were legnlarly officered. ^.AOTJir ^ Oo.'g boot and shoe factory at Hopkinton, Mass., has been destroyed by fire. Low, f900,000. «V «t* : rawww. .41 M. wobmm. in the Union Pacific Railroad Com­ pany's rolling-mill at Lanmii City, Wyoming, exploded the other day with terrible foree, com­ pletely wrecking the sooth half of the mill, in- alautly killing four men, and seriously wound­ ing ten others. Maws eomes from the Blaek Hills, via Fert , Laramie, of a fight between miners and Indi­ ana. on Dead wood creek, sixty miles north of Caster. The miners attaoked the Indians and killed thirteen. One white man was MlledL The Indiana had been running ofT stock More trouble is expeoted. Itas section of the expedition against the hostile Bious wbieh started out nndsr Gen. Beynolds has returned to Fort Reno. It was anoeesefal in punishing one of the turbulent bands. Moaz snow fell in the Upper Missouri ooon- dhoiing ttMBmonfli ef Mttdi tiam ww erer be- fore kxiownht the ,..M^ieesfrora Fort Fetternum state that Gen. Crook's victory over Crasr Horse was a oomplete one, and that many of the Indians who escaped most starve, as au their provisions, ammunition, etc,, were destroyed. Tins Cincinnati Price Currmti twenty- annual exhibit at pork-making in. the West, shows the number of hogB packed the past winter to have been 4,880,135, '**» a nmm *i m,m compared with last w% year.. Avarage net weight per hog, 217.71 pounds, an increase of 7.24 pounds, or 3,78 • r'!:' -per cent. The total pounds of hogs show a jtaw falling off^of 105,0^,436 net weight, or a de- • u«rv Of 2 p<oi' Tuu iTtoTSigu JiOi iijl " kinda of lard per hog is 35.45 pounds, an in- ill* creaao of 1% pounds. Total potrndn of I&rd 173,(OCtfi0O pounds, a decrease of 17,364,027 ponnds, equivalent to 74,269 tierces, equal to •MP** **•*» << the prodnefc. <?ti j" Ilk T* ft *»» ym'/l -iu*8 IV I if I Xv" rlllfl .•Isi t \i*t *ial' r JW . *>ai *v 9d* tTf'> IC(? !>b I* I Mw ,MI' SOUTH. :K CBTEP JITBITCE'A. O. P. NICHOLSON, of Ten­ nessee, is dead, Deceased was United States Senator in 1840, member of the Southern fOonventfcm of 1850, and editor of the Wash- iqpton Union during I'ierce's administration. Two BOLD highwaymen recently attacked a atage-coach between Austin and San Uarcos, llif ^TexaH, and compelled the driver to quit the and drive into the WOOSB, where the pas- aaog»*4 eight in number, were made to give ap their money,and watches. Thev then rifled the jjpaU-Donchcs, took twoof t'oe stage-howee, eafxne telegraph wire and left. a ' * Tax impeachment of Gov. Amca, of Mfesis- itl Bsppi, asme to a sudden termination at Jackson -J& fh» OSMT day. A togain WAS etruek under • fhish ihe l^giiiMare reminder! tlie artieles of isjpcschr^snt, and tberenpon the Go^orsor rc- .9* • "signed his office. Ihe President of the Benate . _<& . "^s at »K) acticg -Governor. The * - **---ocrate, for the first time., since tha war, have possession of the State. VT&SH1HOT0M. . MaaHH, refreehing his memory, regiments, the matter being left optional with the Secretary of War. The amendment whioh will te offered propoese to rupeal this law Geo. nahanok M explained to the Hooae dbo- mittee cm Foreign AfTaira his ooimeotioo with the BAs ftleuJa expetas tfiwn selyee ^atiBfied with Us explanation. CAUEB P. _ l't"'fioMr reootiecta distinctly having talked with '*• Secretary Belknap about the article upon poet> n' - tradership extortions which were published in <) . ttia New Yosk Tribune in Feteuary, 1872 5 and . that be. interned the Secretary that the oon- tract with Evenn was then in foroe. Marsh has -c alaa eipMned to the Cknunittee of Ckmgress the reason that impelled H»m to ran off to Canada. He says when he read the debate in *the Home upon the proposed impeachment of Belknap, he was led to apprebetki that he ought I* arrested and prosecuted on a criminal Se. *.a *THB bill lbaking appropriationa for rivem *' ••d harbors for the ntxt fiscal yeer, skg pre- .sj ipdedby a sab-committee of the House, ealls • • : fjPF ®bout ^6,000,000... .An indictment has 5 * * •n#*®r tti® questions of the House ' ^areh, in her testimony •Mbre the Caymer committee, said she under- glydthi^^he Fort Bill tradership was a matter ^^n Mr. Marsh and Mrs. Belknap, and that r~--J e-®~ nwvhinK aiKmt it, BO far as ^Mknem ShecontradictedPendletenm regard if* t» his denying having gone to Eurooe with Tfcf. Bowers and l.eweff and h« &aS «' - Shey all went together, in June. 1871 she .. , |»}W,^iogabont Pendleton's railroad claim, ilia nid no knowledge that lbs. BOWSHML e#«ed any part of it. ^ ^tomnritiee on Military Affaire have •open Bepreeentatlve Banning's bill ' y&k .Mtu® aaaendments, for the reowsniza* , tymrf# *1 d4f» aot redQce the pres­ ent effective force of the army, but it reduces ttnrStftlAMr of Infantry regiments from twenty. J^to twenty, and the cavalry frosa ten to * * A RECEKT Washington dispatch says: "per. 'tftths who have talked with the President lately timt lie is v«ry decided in his opinion that jd|>llaai«M^«hottld not be repealed; &ud Mfc .heeiutaui to say that if Congress repeal the ect he would interpose hk *IHer«r is no probability of the Senate pg , to repeal the aet, cvan if the House so." tduse Cktmmittee on MDHtary Affaire has offer an amendment to the Mil mak • tog reduotiom) in the foroe of the UniM States army, looklng to a dlscontinnanea of the regi- HinWi»f eoicred troops in the service. Ihe jf .ijiaWthgiliiw provides for ciis cseathmof colored HSTCEFOBTB the manly and oourageous pas­ time of wife-beating will be attended with •teas napless*"! <v>»*«^fiMioea in .California. QOT. Paoheoo has affixed hia rignature of ap­ proval to the net which provides that men found guilty of wife-beating dtall be publicly whipped It ia reported tram Washington t axnv headquarters are to be "removed from 81. Looia, and re-established at the oapi- tal. A WASHINGTON dispatch says the House Com­ mittee on Military Affairs is pushing vigorously the headstone investigation. M. J. Waldi, of New lurk, one of iue UJIBUGC-**«OFT! bidders, has testified that he submitted a bid to furnish the stones for soldiers' graves in the National cemetery for $728,000. The con tract was awarded to one Bridges for $900,- 000, or f177,000 more than Walsh's figures in the schedule of bids made up in the Quartermaster's Department Bridges'bid was net included, but after this scheotue was sent to the Secretary of War it was inserted, and Bridges got the contract. Another witness tes­ tified that the night before the bids were to be opened Bridges snowed him letters from Secre­ tary Belknap, saying that if lie (Bridges) got the contract he wosiM he allowed to save con­ siderable expense by abbreviating some words of the inscription^ on the headstones, and also that he woula not be required to round the cor­ ners. It is a very ugly piece of business, and places Belknap in a worse light than the Marsh affair. WHIT to do about Window ie a question whioh threatens to cause a spirited controversy between Great Britain and the United States. England stands ready to surrender the Boston forger, but imposes as a condition that he shall be tried only for the crime for which he was extraaictea--such being the provisions of a law enacted by Parliament in 1872. The United 6tates, on the other hand, insist upon the strict observance of the treaty of 1842, and deny the power of Parliament to modify or alter its terms in the manner indicated without the concur­ rence of the United States. The British Gov­ ernment even goes so far as to require tbat Congress shall pass a corresponding law before Window ia rendered up for extradition a de­ mandwhich will prooably not be complied with... The Emperor and Emprem of Brazil are now en route from Rio Janeiro to New York, where they are due the 20th of April. They will at­ tend tne opening oeremonies of the Philadel­ phia Centennial Exhibition, after whioh they will make ^ tour of the United States. THE Supreme court of the United States has reached a decision in the Grant pariah, La., oases, whioh were carried from the Louisiana Circuit court for final determination. The lower court had decided that these oases did net properly oome within the eoope of the en­ forcement acts; that they related to offenses of which the State courts would take cognizance. In other worda, it was intimated that offenses of a similar olass have always been punishable under State laws in other sections of the Union. This ruling the Supreme court affirms in a lengthy decision, in which the whole subject of intimidation and election frauds ia exhaustively treated. THE Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church of the United States have appointed Friday, April 28, as a general day of fasting and prayer for the members of that denomina­ tion. ... Blair, who was kidnapped in Nebraska aM run off' England, some months «igo, on what appears to have been a trumped-up charge of felonious frand. hm been released by the British government, and is on his way back, breathing vengeance against the Chicago detectives who were concerned in the Job. FOIJMCAJL. WASHIWOTOI* advices report that there is a proposition on foot among Congressmen for the formation of a non-partisan finance com- mrniee. The ^laa, It Is stated, far to re-enact the law allowing the holders of United States notes in sums of 950, or any multiple thereof, to fund them at their own option into a gold bond, bearing interest at the rate of fonr ner cent.,, and payable after thirty or forty years. All notes thus funded the Mil will provide shall be canceled and destroyed, snd shall never be reissued. THE Washington correspondent of the Chi­ cago Tribune telegraphs that there is a pros­ pect of union of sufficient number of Repub­ licans and Democrats of the House upon the proposed non-partisan currency bill to secure its passage. THE Bhode Island delegation to the Republi­ can National Convention is pledged to support Senator Conkling for the Presidency. REPUBLICAN State conventions were held in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Vermont on the 29th ult. In the first-named State the delegates to the National convention were instructed for Gov. Hartranft, Ohio declared for Gov. Hayes, while the Vermont delegation goes to Cincin­ nati unhampered, though they are under­ stood to have a strong leaning toward Blaine and Bristow. The Pennsvl- vnni& platform is silent on the financial question, and calls for a higher tariff. The » Ohio resolutions favor " a tariff for scvenue, witti incidental protection io American indus­ try, rocognize gold as the true stacid&rd of valuta, and the only steady and Bi»fe basis for a circulating medium, and declare that the policy of finance should be steadily pursued which, without unnecessary injury to business or trade, will ultimately equalize the value of the coin and paper dollar," The Vermont platform calls for a speedy return to specie payments. IT ia said Secretary Bristow has a great gun in reserve whioh he proposes shortly to fire, in the shape of terribly damaging exposure of corruption in the New York Custom rOfQUQK. Tax members of the Irish «i<V> Association have unanimously voted to aooept the invita­ tion of the National Rifle Association of America to oompete for the championship of the world After an animated debate in the British House of Commons, the Royal Titles bill, making Queen Victoria Empress of India, lias passed to its third reading. The vote stood 809 for the bill and 134 against it. A of the English House of has given notice of a formal inquiry as to the truth of the report that the United States Gov­ ernment holds a surplus of the Alabama in­ demnity, for whioh a legitimate olaimanb can­ not be found... .American merchants in Mata- moras have appealed to the Washington Gov­ ernment, through the oonsul at the port, for protection from the banditti of the oentral government, who are attempting to oolleot a forced loan in the city. SouDiBBsof the late Carlist army as well as others, are ^ Spain in great numbers for service ia Cuba... .It is reported from St. Petersburg that the Gear is about to abdicate in favor ©f hw son The ocean cable reports a terrible flood in Holland, an unusual freshet having broken through the dykes and inun­ dated a vast region of country, rendering thou­ sands of people homeless. QCEEN VIOTOBU has left England for a brief sojourn in Germany. She is accompsnied by the Prinoess Beatrice. AJ>V?€KS received in TfflMlwi go* port that the steamship Jowad, from IShehr, WM wrecked in the Arabian sea. She had abimixi 500 pilgrims, ohiefly Persians, whowere bound to BoBhire Three men, supposed to be the only survivors, have reached Hodeid Five channel tunnel is being rapidly subscribed The treacherous Abyssiniata having teokeo trade with the Egyptians, have reoeived an­ other seven defeat. FOBTT.FOURTH COS«RTG»J TimRsms, March 28.--Senate.--The Senate devoted another day, without reaching a vote, to the consideration of the bill prescribing the nrW1* of counting tbp votes for Presidant sad Vioo-Preal- deut. - Hoim.-L. 8. William* (Mioh.), from the Mili­ tary Committee, reported a bill authorising commissioned offloen to make deposits under the act of May 16, 1873. PasMd Also a bill repealing the law which forbids the sp­ in the army of any per- any capacity in the military, naval, or civil service of the Confederate States in the late rebellion, passed.... Banning, from the same committee, reported a hill regulating Die pay of army offloen. The bill flies the pay aa follows: General, $10,0(3); lieutenant-general, S8.000; Brig - adter-genemi, $-1,000; Colonel, $3,Su0! Iientinant- oolonel, $3,000; Major, $2,500; Oaptain (mounted), $3,000; Captain (not mount­ ed), $1,800; Adjutant, $1,800; First-lieu­ tenant (mounted), $1,600; First-lieutenant (not mounted), $3,500; Second-lieutenant (mounted), $1,500; Second-lieutenant (not mounted), $1,400 Phillips (Kansas) mtroduoed a bill for tne relief of settlers on public lands within railroad Baker (Ind.) introduced a bill to promote the min­ ing resources of the Untted States....The Bouse went into Committee of the Whole on the legisla­ tive, Executive and judicial Appropriation Kin, and several speeches were delivered. FRIDAY, March 24.--Senate.--Thf. Chair laid before the Senate the Bouse bill in relation to po­ litical contributions, On motion of Howe, it was referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elec­ tions.. ..The bill to regulate the counting of the Fresidential vote was passed--yeas, 81; nays, 26. Hottse.--The morning hour was devoted to a wrangle between the Committee on Indian Affairs and the Committee on Territories, as to % question of jurisdiction over the bill reported by the Indian Committee providing for the organisation of the new Territory of Oklahoma, while the remainder of the day was devoted to the consideration .pi the General Appropriation bill. MONDAY, March 27.--Senate.--The Ohair laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of War inclosing a communica­ tion from the Commissioner-general of Sub­ sistence, anting for a deficiency appropriation of $300,000 for the subsistence of the army. Referred..... The Consular and Diplomatic Appro­ priation bill was under consideration, and anataend- ment was adopted restoring to $17,000 each the salaries of the minister* to Great Britain. Stance, Germany, and Russia... .Hamlin, from the Com­ mittee on Postofflces and Poatroads, repotted a bill fixing the rate of postage on third-class asil mat­ ter. It provides that the rate for third-ctftsa mail matter shall be one cent per ounoe for any distance not exceeding 1,000 miles, and two cents gier ounce for distances over 1,000 miles; and that tMaoient newspapers and magazines shall pay postage for any distance at the rate of one cent for every three ounces, and one cent for each two ounoes or fractional part of two ounces additional. Morton desired to call up his resolutions direct­ ing an investigation into the recent election in Mis­ sissippi, but the San&ie refused- yeas, 38; nays, 81--to take them up for consideration... .A resolu­ tion was adopted giving all Government employ?* a holiday on the 14th of April, the occasion of the inauguration ef the Lincoln monument. Houie.--A bill was introduced by Willis to restore the national credit by fuming the non-Interest bearing debt into 4 per cent, bonds, and to repeal so much of the Resumption act as requires the Secre­ tary of the Treasury to redeem all outstanding legal tenders by January J, 1879.... A motion to suspend the rales and pass what is known as the Payne Fi­ nancial bill was defeated--yeas, 81, aU Democrats; nays, 166, of whom 93 were Bepublicsns snd 63 Democrat*. TUESDAY, Msrch 28.--Senate.--'Ihe proceed­ ings in the Senate were destitute of interest. Three hours were spent in executive session on the nom­ ination of Dana, but no action was taken. House. --Holman offered a resolution s«*"g the compensation of witnesses summoned before the House Committee at $2 per day, and a milesge of live oents per mile. Referred... .Hoar Introduced a bill to permit the importation, free of duty, of books printed In any foreign language. BSfferred. ...Gordon offered a resolution directing We Ju­ diciary Committee to inquire into the expe­ diency of preventing the use of the Unlteft States mails in carrying lottery advertisements. 4£n*ed. THE PIEBREPONT LETTER. iie in carrying iotti .OtoseroOared ai jit-at-arma of the geant-at-arms of the House nf to deliver Halfett Kilbourne, the recusant real estate pool witness, to the custody of any person or any tribunal until the further order of the House. Adopted. WEDNESDAY, March 28.--Senate.--Hie Diplo­ matic Appropriation bill, with every item of reduc­ tion made by the House restored to the old stan­ dard, was passed.... The bill for the transfer of all the Indian trust funds from the personal custody of the Secretary of the Interior to the care of the United States Treasury was also passed. House.--A resolution was adopted authorizing the Speaker to appoint one additional member to each of the committees on Territories, Indian Af­ faire ana Public Lands from among the delegatee from the Territories Bilta were passed providing for the expenses of the admission of foreign goods to the Centennial exhibition; providing mat unused stamps bhall be redeemed when properly presented; and authorizing the Secretary ol the Treasury to convert into coupon bonds five per cent, of the registered bonds necessary to pay the judgments of the Alabama Claims Com­ mission.... A resolution was adopted fixing the compensation of witnesses summoned to appear be­ fore the committees of the House at $3 per day, and allowing five cents per mile for mileage The House considered, without action, the bill to regu­ late the pay of army officers, the bill for the issue of silver coin instead of fractional currency, and the General Appropriation bill. for* w> bring about a peaos treaty between Tur- insurgent provinces has proved a A LOKDOW dispatch says the ospttal required for testing the practicability of the Political Calendar. J The following political conventions have been called to ittuefc on the days named: State. F*rty. Where held. Dots. Ohio Greenback Oolnmbn#..... April 6 Utah. Democratic.... Salt Lake... ^. April 8 S. Carolina... Bepublican... Columbia..... April 14 Virginia Republican.... Lynchburg. ..April 12 Indiana.. Democratic.... Indianapolis.. April 19 Colorado. Republican Denver. April 20 New York Democratic.. ..Ctica April 20 Ma«miM3iiuata..Republloan.... Boston April M California ... .Republican Sacrameuto . .April 26 Oregon.. Democratic.... Salem......... April M Arkaueot,...... Republican.... Little Book.. .April 27 Oregon... Republican....Portland. May 3 Michigan. Greenback.....Jackson May S Maryland Republican....Frederick May 4 B. Carolina...Democratic....Columbia May 4 Kansas... Greenback Topeka........May 4 Michigan Republican....Grand Rapids.May 10 W. Virginia...Republican....tilarkaburg.,..May 11 Alabama. Republican.... Montgomery.. .May 16 Indiana. Greenback..... Indianapolis .. May 17 Ohio Prohibition.... Cleveland May 1? New Jersey...Republican... Trenton. May 17 Tennessee... .Republican.... KnoxviUe. May 17 Ohio. Democratic... Cincinnati. May 17 Kentucky Republican Louisville May 18 Illinois.. Republican....Springfield.... May 24 Alabama. Republican... .Montgomery... May 24 Minnesota....Republican St. Paul.. May 24 MinBouri Republican.... Jefferson City.May 24 KawBSB. Republican.... Topefea. May 24 Michigan Democratic ... Lunsiug. May 24 Kansas.. Democratic.... Topeka. -.May 24 Colorado..:., .Democratic... .Pueblo. May 24 jv.'uiucky Democratic Louisville May 80 Louisiana..... Republican ....Now Orleade.. May 30 wa Republican.... Des Moines.... May 31 Alabama Democratic.... Montgomery... May 31 Virginia Democratic... .Richmond May 81 Miuuefsota.... .Democratic.... St. Paul June 1 Nebraska. Republican.... FVemont June 1 ••••Democratic....Milwaukee.. ..June 7 W. Virginia...Democratic....Charleston.. ..Jane 8 National .Republican.. .-.Cincinnati... .June 14 Arkansas. Democratic... Little Book.. .June 14 N. Carolina.. .pemooratio....Raleigh. June 14 *T 1J1 ; Democratic... .Quinsy.....Juno 21 National Democratic....St. Louis June 27 Louisiana.....Repablican.... New Orleans.. June 27 Nebraska Republican... .^ncoln Sept. 26 A. Fish's Yitality Illustrated* The Miitier, of Georgetown, Idaho Territory, relates the following : "Borne three months ago the man in charge of Mr. Cushm&j s fish-breeding house re­ moved all the fish from a box except one, which was inadvertently left. The water in the box froze, and the fish was encased in the ice, and remained in thin condition nearly three months, when the ice was thawed and the fish cam© out alive. The other fish have ,grown con­ siderable during this period ̂and have silvery scales, but this little fellow is of just the same size and color as he was when the frost chilled his blood." The Attorneycenenkl's Kxplanation ol. How It Came to be Written ami Pah- , lished. Attorney General Pierrepont was ex­ amined by the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives the other day in regard to the alleged Executive interference with the late crooked- whisky trial* in the West, Pi«rrepont'g aooount bf his circular letter to Distriet- attorneys is that the President was very much. disturbed at the constant receipt of newspaper slips, and letters, and per­ sonal statements, giving information of attempts on the part of Governmant of­ ficials in the West to compromise fraud on the revenue, and that the President spoke to him on five or six different oc- rtftsrifirm ftxpressmg his fear that minh things, if allowed, would bring ucandal on the administration. Pierrepont him­ self was rather inclined to treat these statements as exaggerations, and did not believe that District-attorneys or special counsel of the Government- would be guilty of anything improper in the mat­ ter. He had, therefore, rather warded off the President's advances until finally the President suggested that the Attor- ney-gt!iiera! had bcttui write to the Dis­ trict-attorneys on the subject. Pierre­ pont had, therefore, prepared and for­ warded a letter couched, as he said, in terms that were rather tame. Nobody hail made a draught of this letter, and he had not submitted it to the President; in fact, the Eresideni knew nothing of it for three or four days afterward, when, he asked Pierrepont whether he had taken anv action in the matter, and then he told him he had written this letter, and he sent him a copy of it. A couple of days afterward, on discovering that the letter had been published in Chicago papers OH the 1st of February, himself y, wouldn't come, but he made a very jj singular noise, whioh induced Miss Mitts * to afek if the hone in the ftable beck of the house had heayea. Then Peter Mid he thought somebody most have plug­ ged the bugle up with something, and he asked his sister to light the gas in the entry whilo he cleaned it out. When she did so the ear trumpet became pain­ fully conspicuous, and both the girls laughed. When Miss Mills laughed, Peter looked up at her with pain in Ms faoe, put on his hat and went ant into the street, where he could say over som sensational language to himself. He is courting another girl now, and learning to play on the piano.--Phila­ delphia fiulletin. and Mr„ Bristow expressed great indig­ nation in the presence of the President at the gross impropriety of giving pub­ licity to it, and then the President, who did not manifest any feeling whatever on the subject, remarking that he had never read the letter. Pierrepont further stated that Gen. Babcock admitted to him on the 8d of Maroh that he was instrumental in giv­ ing publicity to the letter, and defended himself op the ground thatther w^re trying to destroy him, and that he had the right to defend himself. He (Pierrepont) called the President's at* tention, the next day, to Babcook's ad­ mission. The committee wanted to know why Babcock did not call for a oorat of in­ quiry to ascertain whether he had been guilty of conduct unbecoming an offioer and gentleman ; whether he was still Commissioner of Public Buildings and Grounds, etc., but Pierrepont was un­ able to give information on those poiata, - Ladies' Sumner Styles. Mrs. Mary Gordon Gray writes from New York about the coming styles of clothing for the summer : Last summer everybody decked her­ self out in a suit of plaid wool goods, which, though soft and light, were cer­ tainly warm in July and August. For two or three years previous, heavy gros grain silks and the useful but inexpressi­ bly warm grenadines, solid black and Ji*eavily trimmed, were the regulation; costumes for fashionably attired ladies, no matter what the thermometer might indicate, or how imminent the danger of -hydrophobic. Trse, giuiuuiiib will probably be the standard dress for summer again, particularly for large cities, but it will be used largely for vis­ iting and church, while cool, pretty cambrics, percales and ginghams or the delightfully simple old-fashioned lawns and organdies, will be seen for less dressy occasions. To meet the increased demand for wash goods, American manufacturers have quite surpassed themselves, and given us the most refined and choice variety of calicoes, cambrics and per­ cales ever put into market. Not only in quality and finish do these goods excel those of former years, but in combina­ tions of color and pattern, somo of them being really artistic. When it is added that good calico can be bought for six cents, and that the choicest of prints command only eight and ten cents per yard ; that very pretty percales are re­ tailing at twelve cents, and that all cot ton goods are reduced to surprisingly low prices, it needfe no elaboration of speech to prove that economy promises to be a possibility in the dressing for 1876. Furnishing houses are already busy preparing suits for spring, »nd it is pleasant to find that simplicity will be a prominent feature of these wash dresses. The prediction that overskirts would be entirely abandoned this season for sim­ ple suits appears without foundation, though the tendency is strongly toward polonaises and long " Princesse " habits for rich materials. Mr. Skidmove>8 Bugle. Mr. Peter bkidmore, of Germantown, plays a little on the bugle. One night last summer he went into the parlor in the dark and felt over the top of the piano for the horn. It happened that his aunt from Penn's Grove had been there that day and had left her brass ear-trumpet lying on the piano, and Peter got hold of this without perceiv­ ing the mistake, as the two were of sim­ ilar shape. He took it in his hand and went out on the porch, where Miss Tvfiiia was sitting talking to his sister. He asked Miss Mills if she was fond of mu­ sic on the horn, and when she said she adored it, he asked her how she would like Mm to play " Ever of Thee," and she said that was the only tune she oared anything for. So Peter put the small end of the trumpet to his lips and blew. He blew and blew. Theu he blew some more, and then he drew a fresh breath and Hew again. The only sound that cam© was a kind of hollow moan, which sounded so queerly in the darkness that Miss Mills asked him if he was not well. And when he said he was, she said that he went exactly like a second cousin of hers that had the asthma. Then Peter remarked that somehow the horn was out of order for " Ever of Hee," but if Miss Mills would lik* to hear 44 Sweetly I Dreamed, Love," he would try to play it; and Miss Mills said that the fondest recollections clustered about that melody. So Peter put his trumpet to his lips again and strained his kings severely in an effort to make some music, It > 9*be Centennial Fiend, ̂ , xt was only hall au LOOT befoic uie paper went to press, but he walked un­ erringly into the editor's private room and, dropping his hat over the warning placard of 44 Busy Day--Short Calls," seated himself with easy bar-room po­ liteness on the table with the exchanges. He was dressed in an Ulster and soiled ruffled shirt, wore an amethyst about the size of a hock glass on his third fin ger and cluster pin. in bis bosom. He took a ,48even-for-R-q«».rte?5" cigar from his mouth and, placing it on -the editor's inkstand, remarked confidentially: "I am going to spend some time this year"-- The editor clutched his pen like a'dag­ ger, and pawing after the few hairs on the top ol his head, said-- --44 in Philadelphia "-- The young man spat gracefully over his left shoulder on the new carpet* and responded--- 44 Yes, I've done a little writin' in my day, and bein' disengaged (his summer should like to send a first-olass journal like yours"-- ̂ The editor fell back in hia chair, and gasped-- --4 4 some letters about the Centen­ nial." The interviewer nodded and kicked his No. lis pensively against the ven- eeredpanels of the desk. "Would you like to be packed In ioe until your friends call for you?" said the editor, gloomily, 44 or snail we for­ ward your remains in an air-tight casket f" Then gasing sorrowfully at the young man he put his month to a speaking tube and asked-- ̂ 44 Are any of the preesmen at hand ?" Promptly wafted through the tin tube came the reply-- 44 Bed Mike and Big Dan, sir." The would-be correspondent started up aghast, put his hat on, wrong side m front, and buttoned the third button of Ms coat into the second button-hole ; but the newspaper man, taking no more notice of him than he would of a dead head advertisement, breathed through the tube-- "Give 'em a quarter apiece and let them come up here. Tell them there is another of those Philadelphia Centen­ nial fellows here, and then pull in a dis­ trict telegraph boy and send for » hearse." Before the last words were in the speaking-tube the tails of the Ulster coat sailed out of ihe private offioe, and a nervous young man, after trying the door of the coat room and diving into the coal closet, reached the counting room door, looked over his shoulder at two brawny Milesians who had just de­ scended from some region, missed his footing for a dozen stairs, accented his decent with a heavy bump on the first landing, and reached the street as the editor wrote the last word of an ar­ ticle on 44the business outlook" and calmly sent it whirring up in the box to the composition-room.--Motion Com­ mercial Bulletin. Amusing the Prince--Curious STONES. Dr. Russell, in one of his letters from India to the London Times, writes: Some carious things have been seen in Nepaul. To-day the Prince crossed the Sardan and visited Junge Baliadoor's camp. He was shown an enormous boa constrictor, which was dug out of its hole in a lethargic state and roused to some sort of life by buckets of water poured down its throat, which it scorn- sully ejected. It was as thick as a nine- pounder, and some eighteen feet long, and it seemed an amiable reptile ; but dose at hand, coiled round a branch of a teoe, was another python, which was of more evil disposition, for when Jung Bahadoor sent up a man to cut the branch, so that the serpent fell with a heavy thud to the ground, it raised its head menancingly and moved over once or twice as if to attack, but eventually coiled itself round the branch, and, like a true philosopher, went to sleep. The collection of living birds given by Jang Bahadoor to the Prince of Wales is most interesting and complete. It comprises many Impevan pheasants, which the Nehaulese *»11 *' duffs," and argus, which they call44 monal," the name by which the former are known by us, Kaleege, Cogplass and Shickore jungle fowl, in addition to other animals of all kinds, and a delightful little elephant, which the Prince rides as a pony, and which takes up his whip, salaams and performs many tricks. There was also a novel exhibition in fishing to vary the amuse­ ments. Elephants were sent into a pool, at each end of which were upright nets. Outside these nets were rafts of reeds,- on which men sat. The fish, driven up the nets by the elephants, leaped clear over, but fell on the rafts, where they were knocked on the head by the men. A Wrecked Train. The notorious George Francis Train he* gone into bankruptcy. In his sched­ ule of assets are the following curious items! Claim against the British Gov­ ernment, $1,000,000; claim against the Home Railroad Company, of Birken­ head, England, $1,000,000; claim for aiding in the construction of the Union Paoitio railroad, $300,000; claim against James McHenry, for negotiating the bonds of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Company. $500,000; claim for exposing the Beeoher-Tilton scandal, $100^000; claim against the city of New York for false imprisonment, $1,000,000; 5.000 lots in Omaha, and Chicago, $10,- 000,000; various other claims against governments and lots throughout the United States amounting to $8,000,000. A BKTCTBNBX* Oalifornian met a widow in Council Bloffis, courted her np in an hoar, married her before noon, and took her east in the evening. HOME IfiOl THE HTT.T Hr Batoned Fjrospee^oi Hew Gold Fie Ida--W#r k stopped bj r»th- rs' Aeeooat of the A OM'mspoftdent writing from Tiirw^la, £2** P«tieg rending nettr ̂jMat returned from the Black alius,'with, one of whom he had a oon- obtained the following in- " Tk® own belonged to a party of fifty finest gold ever dug. On aed^pmt of the deep snow, they were eighteeen days on the road. The gentleman with whom I conversed, Mf.̂ William Wnffhi «w« thfliw io n-nM *tu-- r,,_ i •! is going to take work to get it out. He did not prospect much, as the snow was too deep for suoeeaMHtoMt. The Hiliq are mainly occupied by old miners, who are working very hard. They have to thaw out the ground by burning lorn, and then they gather up the dirt and carry it to the water, where they wash It out. The gold is of the finest quality aW ooaree gold. There ate now about 15,000 men in the BHHB. Tie roads from the south are ctowdsd with miners and their families going in. Men, TO- men and children are on the route. Cus-' tor City now contains about thirty dwells ing cabins and two skwm - Flour ia worth $28 per owt., and scarce. Sugar sells at .$1 per ponnd; bear meat from 15 to 18 oe&te per pound, and venison five oents per pouucL. There is no bacon to be had, but plenty of bear meat and venison. There is plenty of grass, but it is oovered by such a wilderness of snow that the cannot get at it. The snow is of almost incredible depth. A ten daw1 snow storm ended on the 26th of Pebniary, and Mr. Wright thought it WHS not worth his while to ronuun suv longer at that time, and so came out to await the ooming of better weather. In the gulches there are from six to »igH feet of ice, which must melt out before work mm begin. , •The four men in returning him the Hills, met a squad of atthe of the foot hills, had a fight with them, killed four and got their norsee. Henry rifles and equipments. They ateo met* squad at the White river, but as the par­ ty were mounted this time, they gotottt of the way. At Turtle creek they nm upon another squad, and one gun w*» fired, but Mr. Wright's party took tha back track and made their ©scape. Af­ ter that they saw none but friendly In-* diana The hostile Indians are Brule* " and Spotted Tail's warriors. Mr. Wright says they had muah trouble from snow in ooming horns. They were obliged to oome out on foot, as the snow about the foot billw was very deep. The snow decreased in depth as they journeyed onward toward civilisa­ tion. He advises all oontemplaftifcg a visit to the Hills, to wait until the 1st of June. The rivers whioh are now full will be run down by that time and trav­ eling will be easy. He recommends men going now to take several extra sacks of flour and additional provisions. He is bound to return, and says tm ex­ pects to make it pay well -- "J Secretary Bristow, 7/ In striking contrast to the usual Wash­ ington display one finds Secretary Bris­ tow auietly living in a house on K„ street which is % no means spacious or splen­ did. Now and then he gives a quiet dinner to a few friends, and Mrs. Bris­ tow has held her regular Wednesday re­ ceptions; but there has never been any attempt at show, any apparent desire to rival or outshine others. Yet Mrs. Bris­ tow is an heiress in her own right to hundreds of thousands; she is universally admired and dearly loved by all who know her; so it is not quite necessary to be dishonest. There is only this fact. Where social position and dignity are a matter of heritage; where the signet of refinement and honor is legibly written, and the consciousness of their possession innate, there is very little thought given to outward assertion of pre-eminence. In carrying out our beloved republican­ ism we are too apt to forget this; we like to sneer at the old phrase, *'noblesse oblige we like to assert that one man - is as good as another, if not a little bet­ ter, till sonic day, when have exalted our pet ideas into practical demoiiskar tion, wo find the demonstration tumbling before us.-- Washington Letter. THB Iiondon papers oall him Israel Winslow. That is not 'Israel name.-- Oraphio. THE MARKETS. . NEW YOBK. HSBVES... 9 Hoas-Dteaed 8 OOMON FLOHB--'Superfine Western........ 4 WUKAT--No. 2 Chloego. 1 COBM OATS....................... ....... Bm POBK--New Hew 39 Luu> Mom OHZOAOO. Baavxe--Choice Graded Steer*..... 8 Choice Native# 4 Oowa and Heifers 2 Good Secoad-olsaa Steen 4 Medium to Fair 4 Inferior to Ocmroon. 3 Hooe--Live 7 FLODB--Fancy White Winter...... 7 Good, to choice spring ex.. 4 WtaUT--No. 1 Spring 1 No. 2 Spring 1 No. S Spring........|v CORN--No. i .....4 OATS--No. 3................. ...... RTK--No. 2....................^0.. 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