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MrHESRV ^RC(|enrg fllamdfalfr. J. VAN8LYKK, PUBUSHDL ILLINOK. fcHE NEWS CONDENSE*. THE EAST. Tiro Borderers were hanged at PiUsbor^b, - - ,Pa., on the 6th inst--Fred. Myers and William Murtay, convicted of the murder of Gottehardt IT -- Wahl, a German farmer, near Alleghany City, "Vin November last--John Stephenson A Oo., the well-known oar-buildera or New York, have tailed. • i r^m" boy who has recently been pawing himself off at St. Albans, Vt, for •*?V*M lOharley Roea, turns out, me was expected, to be a bogus utiariey. He was taken to Milford, N. II., the other day, where he was recognized by his mother as Jimmy Blanchard. He is a u . *;«preoociou8 young rascal, and will some day HBet intCh the I'enitoutiary, or Congreas, or some ^ f^M>er bad. plaoe. GOT. TIUDEN refuses to pardon Stokes. Samuel G. Howe, an eminent scientist and >hilanthropist, died at Boston last week, aged years. Dr. Howe was the inventor of the raised letters for the blind. All the churches invited by Mrs. Monltnn to the atutt! Council have been heard from, and all ive accepted. The list is said to include some f the most eminent clergymen in the denom- * *. ?:r-iJnatioti. ;,.l 1'JIK famous Singer will ease haw been decided "» ,in favorof MTH. Isabella Energie Singer, named **ffi propounded. The Judge rules that f s-^ she WHS the widow of thedeceased, andherchil- " . dren his legitimate offspring. The application v of Mrs. Mary Singer (Misa Foster), the second wife, who claimed that she is entitled to a widow's dower, is denied. The amount involved is between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000. OOKERSHAUSEN BROTHERS. sugar refiners, of Mew York, have failed. Liabilities, $375,000. Messrs. Shearman & Stirling, counsel for the Bev. H. W. Beecher, in the suit brought against bira for malicious prosecution by Fran- ess P. Moulton, have eerved on Gen. Pryor. couDBel for plaintiff, a demurrer upon the ground that the complaint does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. TBE Treasuterof Pennsylvania, in his re­ port, figures the State uebt at $13,766,564 The New York papers state that the counsel for Joseph Loader is making preparations for » suit against Henry Ward Beecher, claiming damages for malicious prosecution There is no diminution in the attendance at the Moody •nd Saiikey revival meetings in Philadelphia. THE WEST. .Tun is believed to be imminent danger of an Indian outbreak at the Bed Cloud Agency in consequence of an insufficient supply of pro­ visions At Osborn, Mo., a ' sw nights ago, burglars broke into a drug f ore and stole a quantity of chloroform with which they drugged the whole town. They went through both hotels, all the stores, and many private resi­ dences. They secured several thousand dol­ lars and escaped. ADVICES from the pktes report an immense herd of buffalo, 80 miles long, in the vicinity of Cheyenne Biver Agency A very rich de­ posit of gold has been struck in the Centennial lode, near Laramie City, Wyoming Territory. TIMOTHY KIRBY, an old citizen of Cincinnati, died lnJtfc week. «ged 81 years, leaving an estate •estimated at between $2,000,000 and $3,000,- <000. Among the few heirs are Oonn Piatt and •Congressman H. B» Banning....Missouri isioast^ of eight murderers under sentence of vieattu THE Centennial Mine, situated near Laramie City, Wyoming, is pronounced the richest gold jnine ever found on the continent....k bill to provide for compulsory education has been introduced in the Ohio Legislature. J. K. HAIXOWKLL, a well-known citizen of Kansas Ciiy, Mo., was fatally wounded, a few nights ago, by the accidental discharge of a pistol which he had placed under his pillow jppon retiring St. Louis affern her new and " iom Merchants' Exiraange Hill for the of the Democratic and republican National ^Conventions if they will meet in that city Urick Porreroy is going to start a daily .Demo­ cratic newspaper in Chicago. THE SOUTH. FIUDAY, the 7th inst., was a good day for hanging in Tennessee, and four murderers were swung into eternity--Bill Williams, col­ ored, at Bartlett: Frank Scott, colored, at Mem­ phis, and Milton McLean, white, at Jackson. THE City Administrator of New Orleans re­ ports the debt of that city over §21,000,000. JACK Low and Mike Knuckley were shot and billed by Tom Picket, a barkeeper at Pass Christian, Miss., one day last week' The dis­ tribution of troops in Alabama, Mississippi, Ar­ kansas and Louisiana on the 1st of December last was as follows: Alabama, 5 companies ; Mississippi. G ; at Little Bock, Ark., 2 companies; in Louisiana, 19 companies. Total. 32 com­ panies, comprising 1,241 men....The Gulf Hotel, at New Orleans, has been destroyed by lire. H. WASHINGTON. SECBETABY BKIGTCW gives it oat that no com­ promise with the Chicago whisky thieves will be tolerated. A WAHiirc Tow telegram says there is to be »n immediate concentration of our available iiiivai force at Port ltoyal, 8.C... .An important 'bill has been introduced in the House of Repre­ sentatives by Mr. MeCrary, of Iowa, to reor­ ganize the judiciary of the United State.*. The purpose of the measure is to facilitate the ad­ ministration of justice in the Federal Courts. This is a-re form imperatively demanded. The business of the Supreme Courtis fully two years in arrears, and is constantly increasing. There are over 800 cases upon the docket now awaiting consideration. Mr. MeCrary proposes a plan by which both the Circuit and Supreme Courts can bo relieved without creating new offices, and yet the right of appeal be preserved Representative Whitthorne, Chairman of the House Naval Committee, is said to bo in favor of the abolition of all the New England navy yards, and the committee will probably report bills looking to that end. THE following are the principal points of Mr. Morrison's new financial bill, introduced into the House: The first section requires the Sec­ retary of the Treasury to retain all gold not re­ quired for interest on the public debt until the pe? ^ of the outstanding United States notes. The second section re­ quires the banks to keep 30 per cent, of all in­ terest received on bonds in coin to the account of the legal reserves and also SUCH other addi­ tional sum as, added to the amount of them- serve, will equal 30 per cent, cf .he bank cir™ lation. The third section repeals the WaT tender act to take effect when the 30 oent. of the first and second sections is reached and repeals, to take effect at once, so much of the resumption act of 1875 as fixes Jan 1 1879, as the date of resumption* ' Speaker Kerr has appointed the following committee to investigate the Bio Grande troubles: Schleicher. A. 8. William* (Mich ) Lamar, Bauki and Hurllmt. The following m the select ermmittee on the Freedmen's Bank failure: Doug lasts, Eradford, Stenger, Riddle, Hooker, Bliss, Farwell. Frost and Bainey. Ms. DAVIS, of West Virginia, has introduced in the Senate a resolution asking for a com­ mittee to investigate the Treasury bookkeep­ ing between the years 18C9 aud 1872. He claims that during that year the books were manipulated so that do not accurately repre­ sent the conuition of the public debt.... Euloeiea ripon the life and services of the late Andrew Johnson, United States Senator from Tennessee and t x-Piesident of the United States, were delivered in both houses of Con­ gress, on the lltli inst. In the Senate Mr, Morton was the second speaker. He paid a bfgfctribnte to the honesty and bravery of Mr. Johnson, and to his service®, alluding with j graceful dignity to the impeachment trial, and asking for the dead that his faults be buried and his osefulnisa only remembered. J THE House Judiciary Committee have agreed to report a constitutional amendment fixing the term of the offioe of President of the United States at six years, and making him ineligible to hold the same office again A delegation of Cherokee, Choctaw. Creek and Seminole In­ dians called upon the President the other day to express their opposition to the proposed Territorial Government in their country. The President informed them that no bill passed by Congress for that purpose would receive his approval without the consent of the Indians. GENERAL. TBB Commissioner of Agriculture, in his last monthly report figures the oottoa, crop at a minimum of 4,050,000 bales. ADVICES from the City of Mexico report that Cortina, the notorious Bio Grande bandit, has been released by the Mexican authorities. Now look out for a renewal of the cattle raids. .. .James Hamill, the well-known oarsman, isdfead The tariff for first-class railroad freight from Boston to Chicago has been ad­ vanced by all lines from 30 to 75 cents, the Grand Trunk being a party to the new consoli­ dation. ANNOUNCEMENTS are made of the deaths of Maj.-Oen. Gordon Granger, the Hon. John Wilson, formerly Commissioner of the United States General Land Office, and the Hon. Win. Butler, ex Treasurer of the State of Illinois. POLITICAL. THE President has sent the following nomi­ nations to the Sfrtiite: Cyrus C. Carpenter, of Iowa, Second Comptroller of the Treasury; Reuben Williams, of Indiana, Deputy Second Comptroller. Indian Agents--John Young, of New York, Fort Peck, Montana ; H„ W. Mars- ton. of Missouri, for the Consolidated Indian Agencies, Indian Territory ; George L. Betts, of Michigan, for the Michigan Agcncv in Mich­ igan. Receivers of Public Money--D. L, Quin, Wausau, Wis.; O. M. Ballard, Indianapolis, Ind. Begisters of Land Offices--S. H. Allan, Wau­ sau, Wis. ^Edmund Brown, Indianapolis, 2nd. The democrats of lxraisiana held their State Convention at New Orleans last week, and adopted a platform which, in brief, declares eternal war upon the Kellogg govern­ ment. Of all the ills that Commonwealth is heir to, they consider the present Governor the chiefest, and the one for the eradication of which they will devote all their energies. They also adopted a memorial to Congress, praying for the removal of Kellogg, and the seating of John McEnery in the gubernatorial chair L. Q. C. Lamar has been elected United States Senator from Mississippi. In the Democratic caucus he was nominated by acclamation, all the other aspiiants having withdrawn. THE Democrats of Texas have nominated Richard Coke and B. B. Hubbard, present incumbents,' for Governor and Lieutenant- Governor. GEN. JASPEK PACKAHD, of Indiana, has been appointed an Internal Bevenue Agent A Washington correspondent says the friends of Charles Francis Adams are actively canvassing his chances for the Presidency, and that in the event of the nomination by regular parties of men who cannot control the full party vote, the Massachusetts statesman will be trotted out as a third candidate. THE Washington correspondent of the Chi­ cago Tribune says: "A strong movement h&s been commenced within the Democratic party to defeat Bayard and secure the success of Thurman for the Presidential nomina.ion." THE Louisiana Legislature has elected J. B. Eustus United States Senator. There are now three claimants to one Senatorial seat from that State, namely, Pinchback, Marr and Eustus A Washington dispatch says: "The Bepublican Senators held a caucus to-night to consider Mr. Morton's bill to provide for and regulate the counting of votes for President and Vice-President. The caucus, after the subject had been discussed, agreed to abolish the twenty second joint rule, and support Morton's bill in lieu of it." TOE President has appointed Charles E. Brown, Pension Agent at Cincinnati, and John C. Myers, of Nebraska, Consul General at Shanghai, China The New Hampshire Dem­ ocratic State Convention met at Concord, laat week, and nominated Daniel Marcv for Gover­ nor, and Thomas Urns more foe Batlrowi Com­ missioner. „ ' FOREIGN. A COLOSSAL bronze statue of Grattan was un­ veiled at Dublin, Ireland, on the 6th inst. amid much pqmp and ceremony. THE cable furnishes intelligence of a terrible landslide in the Isle Beunion. bixty-two per­ sons were killed and manv wounded. Buildings and plantations were destroyed.... A force of 2,800 Herzegovinian insurgents recently made an attack upon ths fortified town of Mostar, but wt-re defeated and almost totally an­ nihilated by the Turkish troops... .Mon­ tenegro and Servia are rapidly arming.... Austrian troops have beon ordered to be in readiness for an emergency... .Turkey protests against foreign intervention in the Herzego­ vinian troubles... .Charles Sutlers, a Lanca­ shire cotton spinner, has failed for $1,000,000 Medical experts certify that Count 'Von Ar- nim is too ill to go to prison, but Bismarck is inexorable, and the Count will have to return and undergo his sentence. THE thrilling intelligence is brought by cable from India's distant clime that "while the Prince of Wales and his party were " pig-Btick- ing "--whatever that means--" Lord Carring- tou had bis collar bone broken!" The dis­ patch being sent from Luclcnow, we arc led to infer that the momentous event happened in that vicinity. The world still moves Russia furnishes a shuddering horror in the shape of a railway accident near Odessa, where a train of cars plunged down an embankment, and the unfortunate passengers, mostly military recruits, were burned and mangled to the number of over 100, sixty-eight being killed outright. M. LEON SAY, the French Minister of Fi­ nance, has resigned at th* request of President Mac Mali on. IT is stated that the Gbrman Government has determined to liberate Cardinal Ledochoweki unconditionally at the expiration of his term of imprisonment, but he will be closely watched and again ai raigued if he attempts to exercise his episcopal functions or otherwise infringes the ecclesiastical laws. WE have melancholy news from South America. There were thirty-seven earth­ quake shocks in Peru on the 4th and 6th of December, and one town, Abancav, was entire­ ly demolished. A severe flood is also reported t*> have occurred in Chili, the loss in property and damage in the city of Valparaiso alone amounting to $1,500,000 The South Ameri­ can Republic of Chili has taken steps in *d-! vance of the United States. The women therA have become voters Queen Victoria will visit Germany in April The Marquis of ltijxm, the English nobleman who recently embraced the Roman Catholic faith, has presented ti^e thorUin# the aale of the Hot Soring* reservation, in AriuMM**. " v ifovxc-BiUs introduoed: JBy Hopkins, appropri­ ating f1,500,000 to complete the 0»ni«ni>jai bnild- ing; by W. B. Williams (Mich.), foe ffeg jparvey of a ship-canal aero»« the State of Michigan; alao for the improvement of the harbor* of mtite River, Mnftkciron, fli-und Haven, Black Lake and Sangiw tuck; by Duraiid, a reaotuttan eae&Wmning the prac­ tice of makiiiK aaseMmenta oa Government em­ ployee for political purposes, (adopted); bv A. 8. Williams (Mich.), for the improvement <£ Thonrdcr Bay, and for a of lights at the mouth of the Cheboygan River; by MoCrary, to regulate commerce by railroad among tbe «"everal NtateR. and to cxtabiiRh a. Bureau of Gomraerra- 5 by Oliver--an amendment to the Constitution to elect a President, Vice-Preaident and Senators by a direet vote of the people; by Matfanin-- for the sale of timber lands in the" Territories; alao, to promote education is the Territories.... A resolution was adopted authorizing a (select committee to inquire into the Mexican outrages along the Rio Grande in Texas New offered a resolution declaring that the fraternal feel­ ing and good will existing in all sections of the country, and the manifest disposition and purpose of the men who battled against each other in the late civil war to join hands as nm> rw>nrii« in the future, in a most auspicious uehering in of the Centennial year, and that while the people are thus making an honest effort to live together in peace, and to uphold the same flag of an undivided coun­ try, their representatives in Congress should do no act which would unnecessarily disturb the patriotic concord now existing and increasing, nor wantonly revive the bitter memories of the nast. Unani­ mously adopted.... Several view investigations were ordered by resolution; among them one to asce r­ tain whether the pay of army officers can be reduced; one to learn what custom houses do not pay expen­ ses and can be abolished ^ one inquiring into the management of the war department; one into the character of the obligations of the District of Co­ lumbia ; and one into the present condition of the Indian servioe Adjourned to Monday, Jan. 10. FHIDAY, Jan. 7.--SENATE--Allison introduced a bill for the sale of certain Shawnee Indian lands. Wright introduced a bill granting pensions to officers of the war of 1812.... A.n effort was made to got up for action the resolution to proceed to the election of a President pro tern, of the Senate, but it failed....Adjourned to Monday, Jan. 10. House--The House was not in session. MONDAY, Jan. 10.--Senate--Sargeant pre­ sented the petition of 26,616 women of Utah, asking for the repeal of the Anti-Polygamy law of 1862 and the Poland bill, and that Utah be admitted as a St ate into the Union.... Thurman presented a petition of citizens of Ohio, asking for the repeafof the Re­ sumption act Conover submitted a resolution declaring that the President be requested to main­ tain strict neutrality between Spain and Cnba. Or­ dered printed.... Morton submitted a resolution declaring " that the Hon. Thomas W. Ferry, Senator fr )in Michigan, who was elected President pro tem­ pore of tlie Senate at the last session, is now Presi­ dent pro tempore by virtue of said election." Or­ dered printed and laid on the table, House--Wood (N. Y.) introduced a bill to " facili­ tate resumption of specie payment without con­ traction."... After considerable parliamentary sparring between Blaine and Randall, a vote was reached on the bill granting full amnesty to all who took part in the rebellion, including Jeff Davis. The bill was rejected--yeas, 172; nays, 97; not the requisite two-thirds in the ma­ jority. After the vote had been recorded, Blaine secured the floor and delivered what Cox termed " a red and fiery speech." He said that " of the 18,000 disfranchised by the Fourteenth Amei d- meut, on'y 760 still remained under the disability of their treason, and he declared himself ready to enfranchise these, save only Jeff David, aud he would exempt him, not because he was the con­ spicuous and inefficient chief of the Confederacy,, but because his murderous crimes at Anderson- ville had placed him beyond the recognition of hu­ manity, and had made him the rival in barbarous atrocities of the Duke of Alva, or th<j instigators of St. Bartholomew, and of the authors of tbe Spanish Inquisition." Cox replied to Blaine, char­ acterizing the latter's speech as ill-tempered, un- statesmaulike, and a demagogical bid for the Pres­ idency. TUESDAY, January 11. -- Senate -- Pad­ dock introduced a bill to enable New Mexico to come into the Union fts a State.... Bogy introduced a bill to establish a branch mint at St. Louis.. . Dorsey offered a bill for the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi at Memphis The death of Andrew JobnKonww an­ nounced, and the usual eulogies pronounced. House--The debate on the Amnesty^bill was con­ tinued, Ben Hill (Ga.) replying to Blame's f pee.'h of yesterday Morrison introduced a bill to prtpare forthe resumption of specie payments....The pen­ sion Appropriation bill was reported from the 10m- mittee. It appropriates $25,533,500. WEDNESDAY, Jan. 12,---(Senate--The Senate spent the entire day in the debate on Morton's reso­ lution regarding the Presidency pro tem. The r< so­ lution which was under consideration, and vhich was the only one of special importance, wan that declaring that the Senate could at any tim« elect a President pro tem. This was adopted JgHLsote of 34 to 15. . < , , House--A large number of bills were introduced, including the following: By Morey, to strengthen the credit of the reconstructed Statefe and afford them financial relief; by Durham* to permit tobacco growers to sell to coasumers to­ bacco of their own growth without license; by Dibrell, to make it a misdemeanor for United States officials to demand contributions to election funds ; by Landers, to establish a mint at Indian­ apolis ; by Caulfleld, to establish a mint at Chicago ; by Burchard (111.), requiring national banks to pre­ pare for specie payments; by Whiting, to cltvide the State of Illinois into three judicial dintacts: by Wilke, to settle the accounts between the United States and the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois; also for .a (public building at Quincy, 111.,. The House resumed consideration of the Amnes|f< bill, and was addressed by Garfield. f Pope with £10.000 sterling. FORTY-FOURTH COXttRESS. THUBSDAY, Jan. 6.--The Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections reported on the ques­ tion of the Presidency pro tem. of the Senate, this officer was chosen 1>y the Senate, he couia bo removed or changed at will. i he msnor- y.c'f the committee (the Democrats) dissented ana took the view that as Mr. Ferry was President pro rem. when the Vice-President died, he cannot now be divested of that office... ouerman presented 6U<i petitions, signed by 29,896 *le™one; praying for the abolition of the bank-check ff..r?vL "" 'Slortwn l,resented several petitions •r, »i ?PP3latment of a commission to inquire as « ? i!lc h<1"or tra®c... .Wright introduced u •?iilliry of th<: President of the United n f l i o r f " 1 a d d r e s , e . i t h e S e n a t e i n s u p p o r t of hiB bilk for the rederuution of Mhprrrmr^ , to»owed, Scuton ~ThuTmau" Athletic Sports. | Commenting upon the late wreajing matoli that came off in Detroit, tbe Tree Press indulges in reminiscences of ftrty years ago, as follows: "In 1836 tlere lived in this city a Canadian named tn- toine Beaufaut, who had located lieri as a blacksmith, but more particularly b)re a reputation as a wrestler, being caled the champion of Canada. He cane from Montreal, and it ^vas said lad thrown every wrestler from Quebec to the Falls. About the same time a yoiMg man named Lewis Ronney arrived jn this city as a peddler of essences, le was not particularly large, but ws strong, wiry and healthy, and w<Ve, rather modestly, the title of ' Wrestliag Champion of New England.' It chane that Ranney and Beaufaut met at a ho which stood where the Mansion Ho now stands, corner of Atwater and G: wold streets. Tbe hotel was then ke_ by a man named Washington Heath, an through the influence of Mr. Heath match was made up between Banney Beaufaut, to come off in the barn con riected with the hotel. The stakes were simply the title of champion, and the rules designated that the contest should be square hold, two falls in three. Im' mediately Beaufaut went into trainings Banney meantime continuing to tramp about the city dispensing the essences brought from Massachusetts. On the day of the match Banney weighed 170 and Beaufaut 185 pounds. The barn was crowded, fully two hundred persons being present, and at 2 o'clock in the afternoon the contest began. Twenty minutes later it ended, Baaney having thrown Beaufaut twice in succession. " Mr. Banney, now over sixty years of age, arrived in this city, having come from his home, a short distance from Hillsdale, Mich., expressly to see the contest between McLaughlin and Benja­ min, and at the close of the exhibition at the Opera House last evening he ex­ pressed himself by saying : 'Wrestling lias changed somewhat in forty years, principally in the fact that the men work up better, depending more upon science, while muscle is used with greater judg­ ment.'" A RICHMOND man bought SOME clothes so as to be in readiness for the funeral of his mother, who was supposed to »»e dy­ ing; but she recovered, and he returned the apparel, claiming that the purchase was conditional. Tlin merchant re Tuned to take back the goods, and has been sued fa tHe money paid for them. WASHINGTON, The National Capital Aesthetically Coii- •Idered--National Harmony sad the Cur­ rency--The Centennial, Ete., Kte. [From Our Own Correspondent.] WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 1876. This city is headquarters for American politics, and is therefore interesting to most Americans because our people, being themselves the *W1 governing power, must pay large attention to pub­ lic affairs. But Washington is an in­ teresting city for other reasons also. One may every day see here not only the great representative men--the President, members of the Cabinet, Senators and Bepresentatives in Congress--but here, and in the Capitol itself, is the most ex­ tensive library in our land, access to whioh is free to all during all hours of the day, with the privilege of examining books and papers. We have here an art gallery also, owned by a wealthy private citizen, but whioh is opened to the public a portion of each week and at all times on the payment of a nominal ad- m'Ksiott fee. This, the " Corcoran Art Gallery," is one of the finest in America, and will probably become the very best of all before many years. We have here, besides, the Smithsonian Institute, which may be briefly described as a mammoth academy of sciences, where are great collections of almost ail manner of tilings which men look into and study in the pursuit of kno wedge. The Patent Office also is a place well worth a visit. There are models of about all the patent- right machines that have ever been invent­ ed, and a great number of curious historic relics, all arranged in one vast room oc­ cupying two squares of space. There are a great many other places and matters of interest here, bat after all our people look to Washington more for political intelligence than any thing else. Hence, this correspondence will be largely devoted to the mention of political affairs, to the sayings and do­ ings of the Government in its different branches. I ought to say right here, however, that I shall have 1*0 word of party politics and no bias for or against any man or men because of political opinion. I shall be a perfectly impartial observer of goings-on at the National Capital, with the object of giving your readers a fair and trustworthy account of the more interesting ana important events as they occur. THE FORTY FOURTH CONGRESS. The present Congress, being the first since 1860 in which one branch is op­ posed to the other in general political doctrine, must needs attract the general attention. Very little has as yet been done, a fact which does not subject Con­ gress to adverse criticism for two reasons. First, because nothing of consequence ever has been done, since the rail­ way era camo in, before the holidays* You can't expect men, in view of a jolly good time in the bosom of their families and plenty of turkey and mince pies, to disregard a "time-honored precedent" for the sake of the American eagle. But, secondly, legislation is a thing which has to be quietly considered and matured before it is acted on. It thus happens that nine-tenths of the palpable legislation of almost any legislative body is nearly always done, so far as the pub­ lic knows, near the close of a session. In reality the heavy and important work has preceded this. So now, though but one act--a trifhng Tmatter of routine-- has been passed, a good deal of prepara­ tory work has been done. Members of the Committees on Elections, Ways and Means, and Appropriations, especially, have been getting " a good ready " for Work, and I think we shall soon see that much has been set agoing, notwithstand­ ing the holiday season. Still it is yet too early to predict what will be the probable estimate in which the House ought to be held, as com­ pared with the average of its predeces­ sors. There are many more new mem­ bers than usual, and it always takes at least one session, generally more, for a new member to thoroughly understand the parliamentary ropes. Let us hope that the antagonism of the two branches of Congress in party affairs may result in no harm to the country. If the action of the session should be of benefit to the people generally, it would be especially gratifying, because in that case the credit therefor would fairly be divided between the two parties, and, as a great statesman used to say, "everything would be lovely and the goose hang altitudinum." NATIONAL HARMONY AND THE CURRENCY. I miy observe, however, that on two tOT ics of general interest the sense of the House has-been taken in such way as to shovthe evident feeling of a majority of botl parties. A member from Indiana offereda resolution fully recognizing the return if harmony and good feeling be­ tween the different sections of the country and it was unanimously carried. This miy be regarded as an autnoritative admission by the Bepresentatives of both tte Democratic and Bepublican parties hat the last relics of our civil war have ben buried, and that our future conflictaare to be peaceful. On tb currency question the expres­ sion haehot been so emphatic, but it lias been snlciently so, perhaps, to indicate the feeing of the House. A Missouri memberintroduced a resolution con- demnin^ny contraction of the currency, and ofy 54 members voted to suspend tie rules upon it--but a little more thjja one fourth of the House. It is belwred, especially since this vote, that if Anything shall be done by this Cosjress to change existing leg­ islation <k the currency, it will only be that wlii<M will aid Secretary Bristow to resume spcie pa,> ments in i879, accord­ ing to tMteruiS of the act of the last Congress! I do not say that this will certainly |e the ca«e, but the action of Congresslhus far clearly indicates this, and I giv&t to you as matter of current intelligent}. New light and returns from fnrtfer precincts often interfere with calcuktions. THE CENTENNIAL. Perhaps the proposed centennial at Philadelpl^t ought to be regarded as a nijonal affair. In that case, whatever Congress may do in relation thereto may be considered as of genenl intex«st. I think it is perfectly sat* to pre»i\ct (hat the bill ap­ propriating 4l ,5<M>,00(wor the completion of the Centmni-.l buildings will K)on be probably within a week or ten days. There is no one who doubts thai the proposed exhibition will be one of vast magnitude, and will result directly and indirectly in great good to the country. There are some who doubt the constitutional power of Congrees to ap­ propriate money for such a purpose. It is not believed here that these are numer­ ous in Congress. So the bill will surely succeed, and the success of our grand national jubilee may be set down accord­ ingly among the certainties of the fu­ ture. L. M. N. w f KE«r TE.IB8 IN 18861 ^ • A Remlnisc enc« of Paw Paw, Stlch., as Related in the Chicago TImea. In 1836 Mr. Peter Gremps came West for the purpose of selecting a home, and arrived as far as Schoolcraft, where ho met Mr. DeBosier, a Frenchman, who was engaged with the Indians in the fur trade. In conversation with this gentle­ man Mr. Gremps remarked, " I wish I could find a piece of land on which was good water-power." " I can take you to just the place you want," said Mr. DeBosier. Ihe following day, mounted on their ponies, they started on their journey through a dense forest, their only guide being an Indian trail, and traveled on until they reached the banks of Paw Paw River, at the place where there was an excellent water-power, and where Mr. Gremps decided to pitch his tent. Paw Paw Biver was named by the In­ dians, from a fruit which they called paw paw, which grew in abundance along its banks, and the town of Paw Paw took its name from the river.. Mr. Gremps and Mr. Daniels entered a tract of land for whioh they paid $1.25 per acre, when Mr. Gremps returned home and consulted his wife on her feel­ ings about going West, telling her she could either go with her family, or have her oldest son and nephew go and im­ prove the land. Mrs. Gremps, having all herfamily at home with her, C ould not agree to a separation with any of its members, and at once decided that they should all go together. In 1833 Mr. Gremps again came to Paw Paw, accom­ panied by Enos Barrett and family, and remained a year making various im­ provements, when he went to his old Eastern home with the intention of set tling up his affairs there and bringing his family to their new abode. In 1834 they bade farewell to their friends and neighbors and proceeded on their jour­ ney. All the guide they had from De­ troit to Paw Paw were the blazed "trees, marked with the letter H, for highway, but by keeping these in view they reach­ ed their destination in safety, and found that the three families had increased to fiVe, there having been two marriages while Mr. Gremps was absent. The family mansion was built on the corner of Main and Gremps streets, and was taken possession of on the last day of the year 1835. One of the young men informed those recently arrived that on the next day they would receive New Year's calls; that the callers would be friendly, and come witu the expectation that their friendship would be continued through the year; they would bring presents, and would expect gifts in return. As he would not tell them to whom they would be indebted for New Year's calls in that new and sparsely settled region, they were, especially the younger portion, anxious and eager to ascertain who their visitors would be. , On the morning of the first day of the year Mrs. Dodge was alarmed by the sound of guns fired close to the house. Bunning into the front room to ascertain the cause, she was confronted by a party of Indians--men and women--who en­ tered smiling and greeting her in their own language with "A Happy New Year." The Indians surrounded her, and each insisted on the privilege of kissing her, as a part of the programme of the day. - Mrs. Dodge vainly declined the honor, and struggled to free herself from her copper-colored admirers, but finally suc­ ceeded in making her escape and ran into the back room to seek the protection of her husband, but she found, to her dismay, that the squaws had surrounded him, and each demanded a kiss, as her due on this festive occasion. She then ran out of the house and over to Mr. Gremps' to warn them of the New Year's callers, but she was too late; the Indians were there as soon as she was, and the Gremps family, both old and young, had to submit to the fashionable callers of the new country in which they had taken up their abode. The younger ladies of the family threw their aprons over their faces, and tried to escape, but all in vain; the brave Indians were not to be cheated out of their dues, and the pretty white girls had to pay the penalty of invading new territory. Just imagine, for a moment, the cpn- sternation there would be among the beaux and belles of Waba?h and Michi­ gan avenues if they were visited by such a bevy of callers on the first day of the year 1876-the terror, the dis­ gust, the faintings--and yet, without such pioneer men and women to develop the great West, Michigan and Wabash avenues would probably now have no existence. Pearls from Emerson* A Remarkable History. Augustus Hemenway, of Boston, one of the richest men in America, who has lately resumed business, after thirteen years of retirement from the world, has had a remarkable history. When a lad, he was sent to Valparaiso, to manage the affairs of the late Benjamin Bangs, and, after a few years of importing South American products and exporting American manufactures on his own hook, he returned a richer man than his former employer. Overwork induced a mono­ mania, and he fancied that he could not meet his liabilities. But he bad sense enough to take the advice of physicians, and he retired to Litchfield, C<»nn., where, for thirteen years, he remained in what was supposed to be hopeless insan­ ity. A year and a half ago, his reason suddenly returned, and he telegraphed to his 'brother, " Bring on your trial balance," and sure enough, he was able to review the history of his house during his long absence. He is now at his old desk, and dropped a $l,0Q0-bill into the contribution box on a recent Sunday. A YOUNG man who started life as a billiard-liall keeper in Harrisburg, Pa., recently sold his interest in a Nevada mine for $298,000. The only teller of news is the When he sings, the world listens with the assurance that now a secret of God is to be spoken. The poet discovers that what mm value as substances have a higher value as symbols; that nature is the immens* | shadow of man. | The prayers of nations are rhythmic-- ^ have iterations and alliterations, like the . marriage servioe and burial service in our liturgies. The writer, like the priest, must be esefhpted from secular labor. TTia work Heeds a frolic health; he must be at the ix top of his condition. Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing; to pass the brute body and search the life and reason which causes it to exist. Is not poetry the little chamber, in the brain, where is generated the ex­ plosive force which, by gentle shocks, sets in actions the intellectual world ? A symbol always stimulates the intel­ lect ; therefore is poetry ever the best reading. The very design of imagina­ tion is to domesticate us in another, in a celestial nature. The humor of Falstaff, the terror of Macbeth, have each their swarm of fit thoughts and images, as if Shakespeare had known and reported the men, in­ stead of inventing them at his desk. Rhyme, being a kind of music, shares this advantage with music, that it has a privilege of speaking truth which all Philistia is unable to challenge. Musie is the poor man's Parnassus. Malthus is the right organ of the En­ glish proprietors ; but we shall never un­ derstand political economy until Burns or Beranger, or some poet, shall teach it in songs, and he will not teach Mal- thuseanism. There is no choice of words for him who clearly sees the truth. That pro­ vides him with the best word* If your subject do not appear to you the flower of the world at this moment, you have not rightly chosen it. The impressions of the imagination make the great days of life ; the book, the landscape, or the personality which did not stay on the surface of the eye or ear, but penetrated to the inward sense, agitates us and is not for­ gotten. Outside of the nursery the begin­ ning of literature is the prayers of the people, and they are always hymns, poetic--the mind allowing itself range, and therewith is ever a corresponding freedom in the style, which becomes lyrical. Events or things aria on>y the fulfill­ ment of the prediction of the faculties. Better men saw heavens and earths; saw noble instruments of noble souls. We see railroads, mills, and banks, and we pity the poverty of these dreaming Buddhists. The act of imagination is ever attended by pure delight. It infuses a certain volatility and intoxication into all na­ ture. ft has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance. Our in­ determinate size is a delicious secret, which it reveals to us. We must learn the homely laws of fife and water, we must feed, wash, plant, build. These are the ends of necessity, and first in the order of nature. Pover* ty, frost, famine, disease, debt, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to common sense. ' . Nature is the trnte idealist: When site serves us best; when, on rare dayB, she speaks to the imagination, we feel that the huge heaven and earth are but a web drawn around us ; that the light, skies, and mountains are but the painted vicis­ situdes of the soul. Man runs about restless and in pain when his condition or the objects about him do not fully match his thought. He wishes to be rich, to be old, to be young, that things may obey him. In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the for­ est, he finds facts adequate and as large as he. v> 1 EDWARD KELTIY, WL^A had been an in­ terested spectator at a Catholic fair in Luzerne County, Pa., suddenly dropped dead in a crowded room a few days Ago. THE MARKETS. KEW YORK. BEEVES............ ............ 9 ® 11 HOGS--Dressed 8 0 9 COTTON -HIT FLOUB--Superfine Western 5 10 (a, 5 46 WHKAT--No,2 Chicago 1 22 <§ I 24 CORN 65 @ 67 OATS 46 6® Byk I M ® 91 POBK--New Mess ......21 00 @22 TO LAUD--Steam 12X<^ •CHICAGO. , CSETES--Choice flraded Steers 6^0 0 25 Choice Natives 5 CO @ (S 00 . 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