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McHENRY. . : : : e _ - s ILLINOIS EPITOME OF THE WEEK. • Condensed Telegraphic News. • t- \JT } { THE Russians entered Adrianople a " ' *»oon on the 20th. The Turks lost several *"" • """ rtn>|ou aaA a vast nwmnt of war Negotiation* for peace have been bat the propositions of the Plenipoten- es Rre said to be greatly at variance. AN Athens (Greece) telegram ot the aaye the insurrection in Thessaly was as- large proportions. A considerable force had been sent to the frontier. ACCORDING to the estimate of the 5 rt' "" ttfinister of Finance, the extraordinary ex- fit . V|>enses of Russia, occasionecl bj the war, ag- k;v .i&regated 483,000,000 roubles. " \\ F»F ^UM. tiie AMERICAN -•has been expelled from Berlin. A HAGUE telegram of the 30th says ' A ^|narria8e wa8 contemplated between the Prince *>f Orange and Princess Beatrice, the unmar- '*l ' "4%ied daughter of Queen Victoria. ^0- A CONSTANTINOPLE telegram of the gayg the Turks were arranging a new line defense, to cover Constantinople, but the * f? *%eneral opinion was that the Russians would • vii i 4»ot advance beyond Adrianople. It was be- < bi<fis 'ieved ^hat the Porte would purchase peace at pnj price. THE London Royal Geographical ety has resolved to give a banquet in han- • tor of Stanley, and to invite him to read a ,in®ii«|>«per on his exploration?. T R S T U F C C L E O P A T R A ' S NEEDUB arrived at ^-jQvaveeend, Eng., on the 21st . ; ̂| VIENNA dispatches of the 22d say ||i^08Bia had taken the fate of Boumania,' fier- - ' f:Montenegro into her own hands, and I ' none of these Powers would be represented in >0 * ̂ negotiations with Turkey. This was causing v rf •% atjeonsiderahle feeling at Bucharest. The Serv­ ians were striving to occupy as large a por- ; i iiltirfcton of Old Servia as possible before the ces- ,s|n^:,jM*lon of hostilities. , A CONST ANTINOPU: telegram of the 23d says a veritable panic prevailed in that city, and the excitement was houiiy increas­ ing. *>«• *** A RUSSIAN official dispatch, published "»4on the 22d, says that Gen. Gourkohad fought i,T!--v - ^Suleiman Pasha for three days, and finally driven him into the Rhodope Mountains. The Turks lost 4,000 killed and 8,000 prisoners. THE Russians have appointed the Archbishop Governor of Adrianople. 'ft IT is officially stated that the Rus- .. (:3K, tt.i. aian losses in the war, up to the 10th of Janu­ ary, were 82,195. RUMORS prevailed in Constantinople, " *§»!*? on the 23d, that the Russians were marching * m " wt upon GaMipoiL This intelligence had greatly • ^ « -»{«xeited the British, and additional complica- tions were feared. The Turkish Parliament, , ,tj ' ]on the 23d, voted an address to the Sultan, *'*:•*»;;*:asking that the conclusion of peace be hast- •* ened, or if that be found impossible by reason M»U liof the onerous conditions imposed by Russia> * faf» v,-<that then resistance be organized to the bitter end. f>ii i ? • iJii ^HK Turkish troops in the Quadri- , ?I* ^Jhteral have begun to concentrate at Schamla. •;•(»»»••>«, THE Greek Ministry has been reor- . ganized, under the Premiership of M. Cou- " ' . • " anoundoures, who is supposed to represent the "War party. THE Italian Squadron has been or­ dered to the Levant., ' '•<E!IW C ALFONSO, Kin .̂of Spain, and the ;PrlnceBs Mercedes, third daughter of Duke de r $«£^Montpensier, were married, at Madrid, on the 23d. The attendance of representatives of orr. "'Foreign Powers was great.' The Pope sent " J "wedding-ring and a rose of diamonds. The . $i])uke de Montpensier gave his daughter 25,- ••••>WWi.>-i®00,000 francs, in addition to a great quantity diamonds and a rich trousseau. . LONDON dispatches of the 24th say all England was profoundly agitated over the Eastern question, and that the indications una a were that the time had arrived for the inter- *•> 3{«*!P°sition of Great Britain. The Cabinet had ... •#$,,, announced that they considered the approach * * .of the Russians toward Gallipoli as a camu belli, •J** Jfi & anahad given notice that they would ask Par- ' >|.H.-?iiliament for a liberal credit for war purposes. -?r'«f #« ;Order6 of a belliKerent nature had also been fe#' dispatched to the Mediterranean fleet. The question of a division in the Cabinet had *' been raised, and it was reported that the Earla * C ' of Derby and Camovan had tendered their res- C.J • . tli "yp no* • nt igsation. A TELEGRAM from Crete, received on : t the 24th, says the Christiana hold .all the opes . country, the Turkish attempts at conciliation having failed. A CONSTANTINOPLE dispatch of the ( 25th says the Porte had substantially accepted Russia's conditions of peace which were: " The independence of Servia; Montenegro to in have Antivari, Nicsics and Spuz; Russia to j j v'f; hold Batoum, Kars and Erzeroum until a war indemnity of £20,000,000 is paid; the Darda- . nelles to be opened to Russian men-of-war; - the autonomy of Bulgaria; the Russian Army to eipbark for home from Constantinople; the ;' x final signing of the treaty to be at Constanti- the independence of Roumania, RIW WOBIA. A DEATH from hydrophobia occurred • at Shenandoah City, Pa., a few dsys ago, the victlm -a masi sneering intense agony dur- t -• 5 Vl X -k3l i '• - h . i • I; Lsl 0r! •- -jiaO to \ r-i'v . >*» - ' s4w.,: •UK IIfcv ••• • ;W* ^ * « ¥ u > - • 'J.- ing hie last hours. TEE Methodist clergy of Chicago, at a recent meetin?, unanimously adopted a res­ olution reaffirming their belief in the future endless punishment of the wicked as distin­ guished from the theory of the restorationists on the one hand, and from that of the anni •hllationists on the other. tVii. M. TWEED has made application the Supreme Court of New York, for his discharge under the provisions of the Poor Debtor act. THE Keokuk Packet Company has recently voted to dispense with the sale of . liquors on all boats belonging to the line. These bars have heretofore yielded the com­ pany a net profit of about tl2,000 a year. THE reported appointment of U. S. Grant, Jr., as Assistant District Attorney in New York City was denied by the Attornev- General on the 23d. THE Senate, on the 22d, rejected the nomination of Michael J. Waldron, to be United States Marshal for the Western Dis­ trict of Tennessee, vice Eaton, resigned." ON the 22d, the Iowa Legislature re-elected Hon. Win. B. Allison United States Unm received 67 Miller 28 and Gates 8. THS Supreme Court of South Car­ olina has decided that Circuit Ju$re« must be elected by ballot Instead of tftea i«oe«. This de­ cision ousts all Cheutt JiAfea elected prior to 1877 by the Republican Legislature, and re­ tains the two elected last year by the Demo­ crats. Chief-Justice Willard dissented. JACOB AND J. A. HONTMNGSE, bank­ ers at Pottsville, Pa,, have been sentenced to two years' imprisonment in the County Jail for conspiracy to defmwd depositors. . AT the State Prohibitory Convention, held at Concord, N. H., on the 23d, Asa S. Kendall was nominated for Governor, and strong prohibitory resolutions were adopted. A BISMARCK (D. T.) dispatch of the 29d says a report had been received there that Sitting Bull was encamped On French Creek, with 1,000 lodges, including the escaped Nex Perces, and the recent deserters from the agencies, numbering 280 lodges, with 800 war­ riors. Sitting Bull's own camp contained 9.;t00 warriors and 5,000 women and children. They were well mounted and armed, and all the principal hostile Chiefs were with them. A southern movement was indicated, and it was believed that an attack upon Port Keogh was meditated. Gen. Miles had only 500 men to oppose them. IN reply to a communication from Mr. Glover, Chairman of the House Commit­ tee on Expenditures in the Treasury Depart­ ment, relative to the proposed investigation fnto alleged abuses in said Department, Presi­ dent Hayes stated, in writing, on the 21st, that he should be glad to co-operate heartily with the committee in such investigation, and to that end would issue such proper directions to all officers of that or any other Department as might be required to secure prompt and effective assistance in the conduct of the inves­ tigation* He further gave assurance to all subordinate officers that the fact of their testi­ fying truly and fully before a committee should not be used to their prejudice. A WASHINGTON telegram of the 24th says the Government: would not release the Syndicate from its last subscription of $10,- 000,000 of 4 per cent, bonds, as previously lie- ported. A NEW five-dollar counterfeit note on the Farmers' National Bank of Virginia, III., was discovered at the National Bank Re­ demption Agency,in Washington, on the 24th. The plate is evidently altered from the one from which the five-dollar counterfeit on the Traders' National Bank of Chicago was print­ ed. The charter number on the counterfeit discovered is l,40Tt While that on the genuine Is 1,471. v • A CYLINDER containing gas for a calcium light in a Baltimore theater exploded, on the 24th, just before the beginning of the matinee performance, and three men, attaches of the theater, were fatally injured. A RECENT New York dispatch says it had transpired that the "Colorado Stone Man," which had been claimed as a petrifac­ tion, was manufactured by the man who con­ structed the " Cardiff Giant," some years ago, and planted in Colorado, where it was oppor­ tunely "discovered" by the fabricator. DURING the first century of its ex­ istence the United States Government has paid pensions to its soldiers and their widows and orphans amounting to $423,000,000. A New Orleans dispatch of the 25th says the application of the members of the Louisiana Returning Board to transfer their cases to the United States Court had been that day refused by Judge Whittaker, who thereupon, in the absence of defendants, dt- clared their bail forfeited, and issued a capias for their arrest. Up to midnight they had not been taken into custody, and were sup­ posed to have taken refuge in the Custom­ house. Defendants' counsel gave notice of an application for a writ of habeas corpus. THE following was the vote on the Matthews resolution declaring the right of the Government to pay its bonds in silver, adopted by the Senate, on the 25th: Aye*-- Allison, Armstrong, Bailey, Beck, Booth, Bruce, Cameron (Pa.), Cameron (Wis.), Chaffee, Coke, Conover, Davis (111.), Davis (W.Va.), Dennis, Dorsey, Eustis, Ferry, Gor­ don, Grover, Hereford, Howe, Johnston, Jones (Fla.), Jones (Nev.), Kirkwood, Mc- Creery, McDonald, McMillan, Matthews, Max- ey, Merrimon, Morgan, Oglesby, Plumb, Ran­ som, Saulsbury, Saunders, Spencer, Teller, Thurman, Voorheee, Wallace, Withers--48. Noes--Anthony, Barnum, Bayard, Blaine, Burnside, Christiancy, ConkUng, Dawes, Eaton, Edmunds, Hamlin, Kernan, Lamar, McPherson* Mitehell, Morrtll, Paddock, Ran­ dolph, Rollins, Sargent, Wadleigb, Windom --22. COiraRBSNONAL. SENATE.--Bills were introduced and referred, on the Slst--to establish a mint for the coinage of gold and silver at Indianapolis, Ind.: authorizing the coinage of a standard silver dollar, and providing that gold and sil­ ver jointly, and not otherwise, shall be a legal tender.... .The Matthews Silver resolution was taken up, and Messrs. Jones and Cockrell spoke in its favor. HOUSE.--Among the bills introduced were the following: Authorizing the coinage of the silver dollar, and declaring gold and silver jointly, and not otherwise, to be full legal-tender; to incorporate the National Rail­ road Company, for the purj>ose of construct­ ing a railway from the Atlantic seaboard to Chicago, ot. Louis and Council Bluffs; to prevent further reduction or retire­ ment of United States Treasury notes, and to keep them, after resumption, ae the paper currency of the country; to suspend for five years the operation of the law requiring the purchr.ee annually of 1 per cent, of the debt of the United States; for a Constitutional amendment providing for the issue of legal-tender notes, and regulating the amount thereof ; for the relief of actual settlers on the Sao and Fox Indian lands; tot the relief of settlers in the Black Hills.... A joint resolution of the Missouri Legislature for the removal of the National Capital was reported back adversely, and laid on the table. ....Amotion to suspend the rules and pass the bill authorizing the payment of custom duties in legal-tender notes "after Jan. 1, 1879, was defeated--yeas. 154; nays, 96--less than two-thirds in the affirmative. SENATE.--On the '22d, several peti­ tions were presented And referred--A bill was reported from the Finance Committee to remit taxes on insolvent savings banks....A SENATE.--A large number of peti­ tions were presented, on the 23d... .Mr. Blaliie introduced a bill providing Tor the coinage of a silver dollar of so many grains «uifehe Diree» tor of the Mint shall, from time to time, pre­ scribe, to be a legal-tender in common with gold coin up to and including live dollars, and for all sums exceeding five dollars the debtor shall have the right to tender, and the creditor to demand, one-half of the amount, in gold coin and one-half in silver coin.. ..The Mat­ thews Silver resolution was further debated, Mr. Cockrell finishing his remarks in its favor and Mr. Randolph speaking in opposition. HOUSE.--A bill was introduced--re­ lieving bank deposits from the internal rev­ enue tax The Senate resolutions in honor <fl the late Senator Bogy were presented and eulogies were pronounced, a|te^ which the resolutions were adopted. SENATE.--After the transaction of some unimportant business, on the 24th, the resolution of Mr. Matthews to pay the inter­ est and principal of Government bonds in sil­ ver was again taken up and debated, Mr. Lamar making a lengthy speech in on position thereto. Mr. Conkling favored and Mr. Thur­ man opposed an amendment to make the res­ olution a joint instead of a concurrent one, a joint resolution requiring the sanction of the President as well as both houses of Congress. HOUSE.--The bill amending the laws eo&eerQiag commerce and navigation, and the regulation of steam vessels, was considered, ana several amendments were disposed of. SENATE.--On the 25th, Mr. Blaine made an explanation with regard to the Silver bill introduced by him on the 23d, to the ef­ fect that he had purposely left the number of grains in the dollar blank because he had not felt willing to vote for a dollar of 412J£ grains. Be had been erroneously reported as leaving in big, bill the number ofgralns in the dollar to be determined by the Director of the Mint and the Secretary of the Treasury, when it was the price of silver bullion per ounce be left to be publicly fixed, as near the market value as possible, by such officers. The bill was or­ dered to be reprinted....The resolution of Mr. Matthews, declaring the right of the Gov­ ernment to pay its bonds in silver, was again taken up, and the amendment making the resolution a joint, instead of a con­ current, one was rejected--yeas, 23; nays, 39--after which Mr. Edmunds' amendment providing for the payment of bonds in gold or its equivalent, and declaring that any other payment, without the consent of the creditor, would be in violation of the public faith, and In derogation of the creditor's rights, was rejected, after considerable debate --yeas, 18; nays, 44. Other proposed amend­ ments were similarly disposed of, when the resolution as submitted by Mr. Matthews was agreed to--43 to 22. The preamble submitted by Mr. Edmunds, on the 14th, and that, of Mr. Morrill, on the 15th, were rejected, after which the preamble of Mr. Matthews was adopted--42 to 20... .The House bill to author­ ize the free coinage of the standard silver dollar and to restore its legal-tender character then came up, but, without further discussion, an adjournment was had to the 28th. HOUSE.--The bill revising the Steam­ boat laws was further amended and passed-- 173 to 80,... .The bill extending the time for the withdrawal of distilled spirits in bond, until July 1,1878, was considered in Commit­ tee of the Whole, and a spirited debate en­ sued A report was made from the Judiciary Committee on the subject of the arrest and imprisonment of Congressman Smalls, of South Carolina, to the effect that there was in such arrest and imprisonment no breach of the privileges of the House... .Adjourned, the session on the 26th to be for general debate only. A Cable Mile. PROF. BERNSTEIN, an eminent nat­ uralist in Berlin, Germany, gives the following graphic description of one German geographical cubic mile (one mile equals 10,126 \>ards) to illustrate the size of our earth, which contains only 2,662 such: "Imagine a box one mile each way--long, wide "and deep-- and let us try to fill it up. Berlin is handy, we take the city as if it were a toy and throw it into our box. We go to Potsdam, pick up all the villages on our way also, and put all in. The bot­ tom is not covered yet. We will take Paris, with all her columns, towers and churches, which helps4ittle, so we must take London also. Vienna must go in too, and, not to disturb the peace, St. Petersburg follows next. All this stuff lies at the bottom. We begin now to take up all the cities, towns, villages, forts, farms, everything that human hands have built in Europe, and all the ships floating on the sea. It helps nothing! We must go to old and new worlds, throw in the pyramids of Egypt and the railroads and factories of America, and everything else made by men in Asia, Africa, Australia and America--lo! our box * is not half full yet! We will shake up the things a little to make them even, and as we are bound to fill the box, let us see whether we cannot do it with people and lay them in like herrings. One row will require 12,000, and 4,000 rows make one layer of 48,000,000--just enough for North Americans. To make them feel more comfortable, we will put between each layer a bed of straw and leaves, say thirty feet thick, which will take all the straw and leaves in the world. Upon the Americans we will lay 8,000,000 of Australians and 45,000,000 of Asiatics, another layer. There are about 800,000,000 more Asiatics; thus we proceed until all the rest of mankind are in--1,400,000,000, in about thirty layers. The box is now about half full, and it would require about fifteen times that number of peo­ ple to fill it. What shall we do? Ani­ mals, of course, are still left. Take the whqle animal creation, yet it is not full: and all this is only one geographic cubic mile, of which the earth contains 2,662." SAN FRANCISCO now figures with a ILLINOIS STATE NEWS. says the presence of so many non-assimila­ tive Mongolians. One year ago there were 82,000 of them here, and there are probably about 40,000 now, nearly all of whom are males. This reduces the white population to 290,000. In 1876 there were 100,360 white males over bill was introduced and referred to repeal j twenty-one vpars of age, and the pres- that portion of the National Bank act whidi ent number is" about 111,000. While imposes a tax of 10 per cent, upon the circu­ lation of State banks The statue of Win. King, the first Governor of Maine, and which was contributed by that State to the National Statuary Hall, was accepted, and Messrs Ham­ lin, Biaiue and others made addresses. HOUSE.--The Fortification Appro­ priation bill was reported and referred.... A resolution was adopted instructing the Com­ mittee on Banking and Currency to ascertain the amount of gold and silver coin and bull­ ion owned bv the United States, the amount of bonds which had been sold by the Secre­ tary of the Treasury for coin, the amount of gold and silver coin, bank notes and legal- tender held by banking institution*, and such other facts as will tend to inform the House when and by what method it will be Practicable and consistent with the public wel-are to resume specie payment... .The 8en- ,'s 4. *«5 V. r. Miliar, u. in toe House, Al-1 passed. { the number of Chinese would not be of any great consequence if there were as many women and children among them as among the whites, the fact that out of a total Chinese population of 40,000, at least 35,000 are adult males, making one-fourth of the total adult male popu­ lation of the city, is full of significance. It shows the nature of the competition our laboring men have to withstand." --Mr. Lawrence Barrett says, in the Galaxy, concerning Charlotte Cushm an, that to those who were permitted to know her well, there was a sweetness, a gentleness, a soft womanliness about her which the world never suspected, which judged her only by her public performances. THE water used in Chicago, last year,aggre gated IS,980,000,000, or about 120 gallons daily to each man, woman and child. SIMON SHI FFEI.BAKGEK, of Pope County, has been lately fined £100 for beating an old lady out of about $900 due her for the back­ pay and bounty of a deceased relative. He made restitution before sentence and was let off with only a fine. TUB State Grange, recently in session at jPeoria, elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Master, A. C. Forsyth (re­ elected) ; Overseer, J. Jt. Thompson; Lec­ turer, S. J. Davis; Steward, John Odell, (re­ elected); Assistant Steward, A. T. Strange; Chaplain, John Swanzey; Treasurer, J. S. Armstrong (re-elected); Secretary, Mrs. J. M. Chambers; Gate-Keeper, B» Easterly; Ceres, Mrs. J. 8. Armstrong; Pomona, Mrs. Green; Flora, Mrs. Trott (re-elected); Lady-Assistant Steward, Mrs. F. L. Myers; Members of the Executive Committee, G. W. Curtis and John Swanpy. JOHN C. SALTBB, of Jacksonville, has been appointed Warden of the new Southern Illi­ nois Penitentiary.' THE Governor has>ordered a special election to be held on Feb. 16, in the Thirteenth Cir­ cuit, to till the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Heaton. The Circuit is one of those formed by the General Assembly last winter, and is composed of the Counties of Jo Da­ viess, Stephenson, Winnebago, Carroll, Ogle, Whiteside and Lee. It will be remembered that the question whether the act which formed this and other Circuits is Constitution­ al is involved in the suit against Judge George. Wall, of the Third Circuit, now pending in the Supreme Court. THE following Postofflce changes occurred In Illinois during the week ending Jan. 19, 1878: Established -- Summerville, Peoria County> Mrs. Eliza Pinkerton, Postmistress. Discontinued--Middle Grove, Fulton County. Postmasters Appointed--Belleview, Calhoun County, Bailee S. Jennings; Bellrnont, Wabaoh County, F. C. Manley; Boynton, Tazewell County, William Codding; Burr Oaks, Ford County, William A.Jacket; Cowden, Shelby County, George W. Cleveland; DaMgren, Hamilton County, Ira A. Goodridge; Dart, McLean County, Samuel S. Cary; Enterprise, Wayne County, Jeremiah Murphy; Hawthorn Station, White Connty, Theophilus Parker; Irving, Montgomery County, John C. Knight; Lilly, Tazewell County, James A. Williams; Mapleton," Peoria County, Frank Newsam; Morrisonville, Christian County, J. W. Camp­ bell ; New Burnside, Johnson County, James A. Smith; Richfield, Adams County, William T. Branson; Strout, Pike County, Elijah B. Collard; Veni, Effingham County, D. B. Rig- don. THE reports of the crop reporters of the several Tcounties to the State Department of Agriculture show the winter wheat area for 1878 to be 2,032,843 acres, as compared with 1,729,296 acres in 1877. The corn crop for 1877 was planted on 8,935,411 acres, the av­ erage yield per acre was 30 bushels, the whole crop was 269,889,742 bushels, and the estimat­ ed value was $77,562,879. The figures for 1878 compare as follows: Acreage, 8,915,791; crop, 208.112,910 bushels; value, $62,992,541. ADVANCE sheets of the quarterly report of the Secretary of the 8tate Board of Public Charities show the expenses of the State in­ stitutions for three months prior to Jan. 1 to have been: Northern Insane Hospital, $35,5 251.26; Central Insane Hospital, $45,225.65; Southern Insane Hospital, $22,952.98; Deaf and Dumb Asylum, $37.510.52; Blind Asvlum, $7,861.53; Fceble-Minded Asylum, $25,092.70; 8oldiers' Orphans' Home, $13,301.25; Eye and Ear Infirmary,' $10,236.17; State Reform School, $16,342.21. Tothl, $213,774.27. Total number of days' board furnished in all insti­ tutions, 227,408; average number of inmates, 2,471; average cost per capllk for the quarter, $61.44. , THE Supreme Court has just, decided the long-fought case of Martin Allen m. the* School Trustees of Lake View. Allen's son, with his father's consent, omitted the study of grammar. After he had been admitted to the High School, it was discovered by the teachers that he was deficient in grammar, and they re­ quired that he study it and pass in that branch also--keep up in all grades. Not complying with this demand, he was expelled. Judge Gary, of Chicago, decided that It was for parents, and not schoolmasters, to say what branches children should study in the public schools, and it was optional with the parent to have a child discontinue a study if he (the parent) so pleased. This decision of Judge Gary's, which was rendered a year ago, has now been affirmed by the Sudreme Court. Hitherto, in the city schools, as well a* elsewhere, a scholar exceedingly pro­ ficient in one branch has been held back in a lower division because deficient in another branch, and his progress has thus depended on his proficiency in that branch for which he had the least capacity. Under this decision of the Supreme Court,, however, that constant difficulty can be done away with, and if a father decides that his child is utterly inca­ pable of learning arithmetic he can direct him to discontinue that study without its interfer­ ing with his advancement in the schools. A. ZIMMEKMAK, a grocer, at Mound City, Pulaski Connty, was called to the door and shot by an unknown negro, on the night of the 22d. Ox the 84th, the Supreme Court decided the case of The People v*. George W. Wall, ap­ peal from 8t. Clair County, affirming the de­ cision of the Court below, and thus sustaining the Constitutionally of the law creating the Appellate Court System, which was passed by the last General Assembly. JUDOE J. M. BAILEY has been appointed to fill the vacancy in the Second District Appel-' late Court, caused by the death of Judge Heaton. 8KCTION 1 of an act to appoint a Commission of State Claims provides that it shall consist of one Judge of the Supreme Court and two Judges of the Circuit Court, to be appointed by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court, therefore, on the 24th, appointed Judge A. M. Craig, of the Supreme Court, and Judge Van Dever, of Christian, and Judge Goodspeed, of Will County. The first session of the Com­ mission will be held in Springfield on the sec­ ond Monday of August, and every two yoara thereafter. WILL WESTOX, engineer of the steamer James Fisk, fell overboard, at Cairo, on the 28d, and was arowned. Mnnafactaring Celd Air. PROF. GAMGEE is exhibiting, in Cali­ fornia, a machine for making cold air, by means of which he hopes to be able to reduce the heat of mines; to keep the holds of vessels at a freezing tem­ perature while conveying fresh meat; to maintain a floor of ice in a skating- rink during the hottest weather, and to perform many other similar wonders. An ammonia machine, last summer, did such work for a brewery in New Jersey, situated near the line of the Delaware & Lackawanna Railroad None of these devices we too In cooling air. In & recent work, by Mr. Robert Bciggs» on the "Re)i§tati of Moisture in Air to Health and Comfort," lie shows, by a mathematical calculation, that the quantity of ice needed to cool; an apart­ ment in a Imt summer's day to .the tem­ perature of spring, might be, thirty times the quantity of coal needed to heat the apartment on a cold winter's day; even under the most favorable conditions, when the air is so dry that no moisture would have to be removed, the proportion of ice to coal would have to be fifteen to cue. Cooling by means of compressed air, suddenly al­ lowed to expand, would, Mr. Briggs thinks, be far less expensive than the, use of ice, but still too costly, for ven­ tilating purposes, to serve practically in making our houses cool iu th» sum­ mer.--tf. X Tribune. * C ' V':TMII Skins. •'"H'V I'U ' w** sensitiveness is fi mwk of a refined temperament, but in view of the roughness of everyday life, we can but think that too much of it is a posi­ tive misfortune. The sensitive man is never thorough­ ly happy. He is too thin-skinned to bear with equanimity the temperature of the world at large. He is always getting slighted by somebody. He is always having his feelings hurt. Some wrong is being continually done him. He is always left out when he should be counted in, and vice versa. If Mrs. A., who is near-sighted, and would not recognize her own grand­ father three doors off, meets him on the street and does not bow--he. is slight­ ed! Mrs. A. has cut him! If Jenkins has a party, and invites a dozen friends, and leaves our thin-skinned man out, he feels himself aggrieved. If his next- door neighbor has an attack of dyspep­ sia, and wears a long face in conse­ quence, our sensitive man is sure there is something wrong. Somebody has been misrepresenting him! He is always in trouble. As a child his nose will be perpetually out of oint; as a young man his teachers will »e in a conspiracy against him to pre­ vent him from gaining the first honors; and when it comes to falling in love, and going courting, Heaven preserve him! for if there is a marriageable man within ten miles of his " beloved,1' he will be sure to think she favors him. Your thin-skinned man is always taking hints. The old adage says: " If the saddle fits you, buckle the girths." He is continually buckling girths. If anybody laughs behind his Dack, they are laughing at him. If he has a long nose, and noses are mentioned, he is sure he is attacked. If he comes from a poor family, and anybody mentions poverty, he is ready to flare up--they are twitting him with his humble origin! His friends are a source of unhappi- ness to him, for they must talk of some­ thing, and who can manage conversa­ tion so skillfully as not to run against some of the angles of a sensitive man? The minister means him, he feels sure, when he is preaching about special sinners, and consequently he re­ fuses to subscribe fifty dollars to that worthy's salary. Almost every newspaper article he reads hits him, and he is ready to beard the editor and challenge the author in behalf of his wounded feelings. In short, he leads a life of it, and ev­ ery humane person must pity him. Time will, in some measure, wear away extreme sensitiveness, but it is a long, hard process, and if any of our readers are born with thick skins, let them thank fortune for it. For it is a fact that this world will go on just as it has gone on for ages, totally unmindful of individual feelings, heedless of crushed spirits and broken hearts, careless of lost happiness, in­ different to the joys or sorrows of its inhabitants. And the man who is* never slighted, who never takes hints, who is never downcast because of evil doers, who can go on secure in his own sense of right doing, and receive no wounds of feeling or sensibility, is the man whose days will be many, whose sleep will be quiet, whose liver will never require pills or bitters. Happy individual!--Kate Thorn, in A. T. Weekly. flow Some of the Cheap Tea i* Made. IN most of our leading hotels and eating-houses the tea-grounds are saved by the servants, and sold to parties who come round in wagons at stated intervals. What they did with the grounds was for a long time a myste­ ry. Lately, however, the secret has es­ caped. We hear on good authority that they are taken to a factory in the vicinity of Central Park, steeped in acids, and dried in the sun on copper­ plates. By this process each leaf is shrivelled, and made to assume its former shape. The color is beautiful, and the old tea odor, so familiar to all who love this* delightful drink, is plain­ ly recognized. The drying process completed, the grounds are packed in tin caddies or second-handed wooden boxes, and distributed throughout the country, where its remarkable cheap­ ness attracts universal attention. Oc­ casionally a little genuine tea is mixed with this preparation. This adds to the flavor, and the victim is more easi­ ly taken in. Much of this tea is said to be sold from peddler-wagons, and eggs, butter and similar produce are sometimes received in exchange. The tea is not strong enough to in­ jure anybody's nerves, but the acids used may undermine the health arid ?rove extremely injurious to invalids, 'he substance is not extensively sold to customers in large cities, through fetir of injuring the uusinoss of those who collect the grounds. A tea expert can detect the difference between this second-hand tea and the genuine. This faculty comes from his • experience. •'Asa general thing," he says, "the farmer can lay down this rule--the greener the leaf and the brighter the caddy the poorer the quality of the tea." --N. Y. Sun. Execution by Impalement. as at a criminal t to death, i which has» pon most of ;n and wit- (ilb'-m< ham&lgwi was a* anas-I moreor less us induced me ness the execution. Tfiis is whatl«aw:. When I reached the place appointed for carrying into effect the capital sen­ tence, tne unfortunate convict, a fine- looking Japanese,. in thjef prjlne of* youth and strength, was stnpding nn. der a huge post m the mHSIeof aMtle posse of guards. The posMflui^i #ross-, piece. Nearly nude, he^'Vwjsubding erect, but as Motionless fii, a^il^tue, while his fearless but dreajny eyes fazed straight into the distance before im, as if he was looking at/somf .far- off object looBiiM upon & horizon visi­ ble only to his abstracted vision. There was no token of terror in lus de­ termined face, no sign of shritflWig in his quiescent but tensely-strung body. Presently there was a movement among the little knot of those surrounding him. His jailers moved aside and there strode into the circle a gaunt, repul­ sive-looking native, clad from head to foot in a dress of dingy yellow. The executioner--for it Was he--war ac­ companied by a conpte of assistants, who carried some naif-dozen long, round bamboo rods, about !k couple of fingers thick at their largest end* sand tapering to half that size at the' other, which was sharply pointed. The rods were laid upon the ground, and the trinity of death clapped hold of the living statue before them. In a trice the human effigy, who made no attempt at resistance, and who, as far as I ob­ served, never even opened his lipfej was grimly dangling on the post, his arms Stretched out Tight and left along the cross-piece/ There j was now a slight pause. The execution­ ers dallied with tile bamboos, ;an4 the poor creature spread-eagled on the post still looked into the shadowy dis­ tance, still was dumb; but I thought I could detect a yellow pallor stealing up- his face. Perhaps he w'as collecting all his resolution to meet the terrible or­ deal he knew was close upon him,' The principal executioner, who, mean­ while, had selected a couple of bam­ boos to his npnd, now stepped to the- left side of his expectant victim, spat upon the point of one of his weapons,, and with a twisting, pushing motion, thrust it easily into the ffesh about half-way between the hip and the arm­ pit. The poor wretch upon the cross- turned his gaze slowly down upon his- tormentor, and his lips slightly opened. But he made no struggle-- he uttered no cry. His resolution, his. courage were superhuman. I looked at the executioner. He was calmly con­ tinuing to push and wriggle the bam­ boo further and further into the body. In a couple of minutes, though it seemed much longer, the bloody point of the instrument emerged from the top of,the sufferer's shoulder. There was a slight exclamation of satisfaction from the crowd, just tlie sort of hum that escapes from those watching a daring swimmer when his head ap- Sears above the surface after a long ive; and the fiend at the other end of the bamboo stopped wriggling, let go his hold, and stepped back. Now, I thought, he is going to give th^ poor tor­ tured creature nis coupde grace. * Not a bit of it. He crossed to the opposite side of the post, calmly inserted the second weapon in the same spot on the suffer­ er's other flank, and worked away till it, too, came out above the armpit. All this time not a single groan, not one despairing cry for mercy, escaped the man thus doubly impaled. His head drooped a little upon his chest, and his eyes were half closed, but he was evi­ dently alive and conscious. At this moment, to my amazement, £he"execu- tioner and his assistants, picking up the unused bamboos, began to walK away. "What," I asked, "is the execution ended? Are they going to leave the man in that fearful agony?"" "Oh, yes," I was told, " alF is over. The criminal is finished with. Hd will die presently--in an hour, tw*D hours, or, as he seems very strong, perhaps not till nightfall; but nobody will touch him any more. The bamboos will be left in him, and when he is quite ex­ hausted he will expire. " I could hear no more. I was powerless to interfere, but, sick at heart, I turned on my heel, loathing the barbarous cruelty I had just witnessed, and cursing the damna­ ble civilization that permitted it. 1 learned afterward that the unfortunate wretch had lingered ten long hours be­ fore Death (which in Japan would seem as brutal as Justice) remembered and released him. His slow death is accounted for by the fact that a Japanese executioner is carefully taught to avoid the vital or- fans of the criminal he has to impale, he more slowly the victim expires, the greater the reputation of his butcher.-- London Hornet Annual. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. Jan. 25. 1818. @$11.25 •5.00 % $6.25 - @ 4.75 the use of misrepresenting things. Several unscrupulous papers are saying Mr. Lord is an old fellow of eighty-live, while in truth he is a rising young man of eighty. --Exchange. LIVE STOCK- Cattle K.50 Sheep.,-- Horn. 4.25 FLOUR--Good to Choice •....., 6^0 WHEAT--No. 2 Chicago ..... J.25 CORN-Wertern Mixed........ ,48 OATS--Western and State...., 55! i RYE--Western .70 PORK--Mess.'. 11.90 LARD--Steam.. ,7.€5 CHEESE... •••! - JH WOOJLr--Domestic Fleeoe.... ... ,3a CHICAGO. BEEVES--Kst» Cu0106 Good... Medium HOG&--Live--Good to Choiae.. SHEEP--Coin inon to Choice •• • BUTTER--Fancy Creamer?. ! Good to Choice...... • EGGS--Fresh.. , . FLOUR--Choice Winter.....v.;.' 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