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From the Home Monthly Magazine.
THE BANKRUPT MERCHANT.


The cloud has burst, the storm ,,as come.
And ewept my house, but not my home
Silver and gold, and rank and pride,
smile to see them swell tho tide
Ny eteeds ere in another stails.
My arbles grace another hhhs'
Ny pictured gems. 60 rich aud rare
Have left my walls al! cold aud bare.
What care for the empty roou'
leave il to its chill and gloom;
Nv household gods were never made
To live in sunshiue-die in shade.
n,ss along the crowded street.
Men turn aside who used to greet
What care | for their altered mienf
lam, what have ever been
4 man, If not millionaire
A breather Of the self.eame air,
A dweller on the selfsame sod.
A creature 0fthe selfsame God
Turn with me down this narrow street,
No lordly mansion here we greet,
Yet proudly fing back my door,
Bankrupt in wealth, am not poor!
For here are household treasures three;
And clothed with sweet simplicity
Comes che 70 greet, who yesterday
Could aipR the gold like dust away.
Her broidered robes, her diamonds rare,
The setting. not the jewel we're;
A new Cornelia, bat to me
Sac 10 the gem Of all the three.
From the sweet shelter Of her breast
Ny babe springs forth TO be caressed:
Ny fair haired girl leans quietly
With timld clasp against my knee.
Well may I smile at scattered wealth!
Coutentment, love and hope and health
Are store enough to bless one hearth
With all the real weslth of earth.
And bstter than this home of love,
We seek q surer rest above;
Where sbet' ring wings around us cast
Shall hide US from the stormy blast.
And what ONE should press before,
And enter at the open door;
We will bat trim our lamps anew,
And wait TO greet the bridegroom too!
JANUARY, 1858. HELEN L. PARaELEE
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arown 81 3, c.psrc-. ca-i~e. Carter ci T. 60 and
Gonrct Davidson, Glmcr Graharr Grant, linckley,
iIsncock, Raymond, Heath. Hckom, HoGe. Howsry'
Johnson OF =. Johnston OF A., Keen, kcmbc MnEtIaer'
Isilory Mass:r q Augusta, McCuc MchenncJ Mehtl'
zje Miller Moody Nottingham, rsrrl. flymae, PoreL'
Powell OF Hampshire. Preston. liidiick segsr, Sfhn'
s:slnsher swssny, 1hornhnrg Woods. Word shu iei'
by-5s. I'll AZ Mn
Tla a., H., ,;,.5
On motion of Mr. McKRSzIE. the House adjourned
Nnrr Tbs r,,nes Of Melsrs. HARDY and E4YAoNp,
were Inadvertently omitted yesterday in the report OF the
affirmative vote on the TO yas Hs .ns
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ST. Louis, April 1.-The steamer Sultan wss
burned this morning Dear Cape Girardeau. Fifteen
or twenty lives we're lost, including two gent!em. n
and two ladies who were passengers bound to New
Orleans. He. entire cargo Has Loaf.
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STEIMHI RI1RNT-

BuaLissroR, April 2.-The Pioneer Mechanics
workshops we're destroyed by fire last might. Tire
loss 10 about $780, 00a. They insured for &l6 ono.
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FRIDAY. APRIL 2, 1888.
RFN ATE

ing hour.
he AMENDMENTS were read.
Mr.. Green, without further explanation, said he
would submit his motion to Disagree, TO the direct
vote of the Senate.
Mr. Biger took the floor. He said the amendment
involved clear violation Of the Democratic princi
pie Of noa Intervention, hence he would vote against
Mr Douglas made an appeal to all parties to unite
and peas this amended bill ready way to settle
all difficulties.
Mr.. Pugh explained The reasons why he would
reject the amendment
Dir. Green's motion was then put and csrrled-yess
81 nays 23 and thus the Senate decided to disagree
to the House amendment. The nays we're as fol.
lows;
NAYs-Messrs. Bell, Broderck, Cameron, Chand.
ter, Clark. Collamer, Crittenden, Dixon, Doolittle
Douglas: FessendeD. Foot, Foster, Hale, Hamlin
Harlan, King Seward, Simmons, Stuart, Trumbull,
Those absent were Messrs. Bates, Davis, Durkee,
Henderson, Reid Sumner, and Toombs.
Mr.. Douglas made an Intellectual attempt to take
UP the Minnesots bill
After several caliings of the yeas and naya the hill
was brought before the Senate.
MIR. Macon moved an adjournment to Monday,
whoh prevailed.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
AIR. Goode, from the committee for the District of
Columbia reported back, without amendment, tie
Senate hill to acquire certain lands in the District of
Conm6ls needed for the Washington aqueduct.
ON the deficiency bill.
Mr. Jones OF Tennessee whilst opposing various
items, particularly for the army said incidentally
that there was no evidence of rebellion in Utah.
He would send civil officers hther and If the Nor.
mons did not cooperate in the administration OF the
government, he would repeal tho organic Law and
give Brigham Young and his company ialr notice 70
qnit orr soil
Various gentlemen took part in tho debate on the
anbject OF quartermaster's supplies but without
coming TO vote the Housa adjourned
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VIRGINIA. LANDS *;

UENERdL BROKERAUE Ma
TINE undersigned having locsi peppGyEgt5
IL conducting GENERAL nR noni, ID
purchase and sale of Real Estate, no i, 81
Land Warrants, &C., &c, and Sa.,' ,,ep: Z,
Virginia friends, who may need an OF ~
city to make purchases, charter ye' s.. res
GINA lands or their products ne EN- ~So ~;
about farms in Virginia, by parae' SI !, !, Z
improved and unimproyed lands; az 81 to.s:
ers for several places If they e sn II II ca.
dress ~ Iiosr
March l6-ciftt NO y, - Il
ROUND ALUM sALT..Ece 9s'
" March 81
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GLANCE AT TINE RAIL ROAD MAP OF VIRGINIA.
We have taken especial notice of the Central, and
Southwestern routes through Virginia, as grand
tynk lines, and an account Of the immense influence
they are destined 10 exert on the commerce of this
State and not because they deserve more credit for
usefulness or value according to their length than
the older aud more active roads, Indeed the palm Of
merit belongs 10 those who first mads the breach
through popular prsjudces, their roads through
comparative wilderness, and paid for the experience
which their followers now enjoy as the result.
Among the linea, however, that gather the produce
OF distant provinces to our capital the Richmond and
DanVie at present perhaps the most productive Of
good; whilst the Great Southern route from Washing.
ton to Weldon may be the most useful. Yet after all,
they cannot in their comparatively narrow limits, give
that impetus which the commerce of Vireip. now re
quires But the long lines before mentioned. with
their connections made aud proposed, and their
hundred feeders in embryo, not only drain hair of
Virginia, but also. If We may he allowed to use 40
large word-hnf tie prodxetire area Of the Union
1t may not be generally koowp that there are a,
present about 100 miles Of rail road constructed and
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cAMELS FOR THE ARMY.

WASHINGTON, April 2.-The Government hGs
made contract with citizen Of Texas, for the pr-
chase of $2 900 worth Of Csmss, for the use of the
army.
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CORN PLANTERS.

II wells simple and efficient CORN fLa.s
machine opens the land, drops. covers ah'', :,
same operation, and insures Il full stand O.
any re-plandng. ..n,g
CAurIos.-l see that Baldwin L. Cdrd"s,4, =,
Va, have advertised to manufacture Ah!
Planters. Farmers purchasing OF them. et,
my Planters, will be deceived, as .ha; hfm :;
ity from me for manufacturing " selling ~
SUGAR MIL LS.
| am manufacturing three sizss suuar
grinding Chinese Sugar Cane. They are '. ..;,.
and at low prices, and fully warranted ~ "
form satisfactorily. +. ~
Orders forwarded early will meet VIE r. (.
ton. J. J. 80
March 30-c6t. AYlet,'s King WIN
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THURSDAY, ArhIL !, ls5s.-( Deferred Proe<eiinss)
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
The House met al 10 O'clock A. NJ pursuant 20 adjourn

srPPRRssioH oP SMALL NOTES
Tho order ofthe day WAS then ia up, being asDsss
bill TO suppress tho circulation Of Of cscain de-
nomination
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NoTK-alr. CowAS voted sgainst the denomination
bill" His accidentally omitted from the pub
shed list OF the votes for and against the measure.
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tenn had answered admirably in every respect and u was
policy to lst well enough alone Let us hoid iast
to what is good" 80 -.
Mr. EpsuSD, advocated the passage of the bill on the
ground that 1t would exclude from cFcu,nioa the ufe
deernabl Issued By the Banks In neshborng states
which would otherwise superseds to a considerable
extent tie issues the Virginia Banks when they re-
sumo specie payments He believed ns .s r.
would elevate the currency aud expand the circulation oil
our banks and adduced arguments in support CT this
proposition
The question indefinite postponement was then put
and determined In the negative yeas 10. nays 49,
The section offered by Mr.. EpMusDs was theh adopted
Mr. ANDERSON moved 10 amend the bill 50 as 10 strike
out that feature prohibiting the circuson OF notes oi
less denomination than go, after 3st December, 1853
Having witnessed the good results OF hs Jaw
notes Of a smaller denomination than %, be was willing
extend the operation of that Inv 10 Tue hVes ous was
unwilling to experiment beyond inns.
The discussion was continued by Messr'. kEMPER,
JOHNSON OF T., and KEKs.
The previous que, tion was then ofdefeu on ouoh oil
Mr. DUcKwALL ,
proposition. and resulted as follows:
AYHs-Messrs. Alexander Anderson Asnetl' arnold
Bailey, Ball, Barbour OF NJ. Bass, Bird Boyle, Bowlss
Brown of u. Byrne Carter OF R and W. Carter OF r +,
Chapman, Christian, Clarke, Cocke,ie .oHinne Con
of E. Garrett, Gilmer Graham Hancock, Harper, Has
kius, Hamond Heath, Hickam, Elcse. Hunter Johnson,
Johnston Jones Of Kes1e; hemSls Mnsru1s1; aslio
Moody Moody Morgan, Nelson Nottingham Parril Ply.
male Porter Powell of Preston, RIddick RTe' Sersr,
smith salhsker stevers Sweeney la'er "oods horn
NoEs-Messrs. B,;ss..u, Boreman, Brown Of Car.
penter, Dabnsy. DuckwuI Edmunds, Faunleroy, Gate.
wood Grant, Hardy Jones Of A, Jones OF g. Kaufman,
Mock, rsxton Seldom Shepard, Splitter, ssurn, Tkomp.
son. Tomlin anG Yancey-D.
The amendment being agreed to- several consequential
amendments we're adopted, and, under the operation Of
the previous question moved by Mr. DucKwALL the bill
reectedysas 49, nays So The vote was recorded
follows
YE,a- Messrs Anderson, Barbour Of Culpercr, Bois.
sesu Brown OF Petersburg Brown Of Upshur Carpenter
Cox Dsbney Deant Dejsrneste Dickinson of Prince Ed
ward, Duckwall. Edmunds, Faunileroy. Garrett. Gste
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Jones of NJ kaufman, Kemper, Lee, Long Lundy, Lynn,
Marz Mason Ms.sie of Rockbrdee, Mays. Morgan, Mel
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and Young-s.
EAYs-Hsssrs Alexander, Arnett, Arnold, Bailey Ball,
Barbour Of NJ, Bass Boyle, Bsrenan, Bowcock. Bowles
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MATRIMONIAL INFELIcIrY.-There is a curl
Gus difficulty now in progress in one of our col.
ored churches, the facts of which we give as
nearly as we can from a somewhat roundabout
hearsay. Two members Of the church-man
and wife-are so unfortunate as to live unhap-
PLY. The husband-whether npdes Othello
pangs OF Jealousy or simply because be was wor-
ried by colored Xantippe-found his life SO
uncomfortable that he resolved to take some
means to rid himself Of his conjugafities. and
be once more a man and brother but not a
husband. There being no Jo. Biegler at hand
to whom he might apply for "a cup of cold
pison," and having a distaste for any of the
more vulgar means of divorce, such as are said
TO be prevalent in Rochester, the "culled
pusson y in question falls back on the Fugitive
Slave Law as resource. His wife was u fugi.
tive who came here by under ground railroad
he wished she had staid under grOund-and SC
he writes to her master down South, imploring
him to come North, prove property, pay char
ges and take his help meet back to CHAINS aud
slavery. The fact leaked out and the matter
is now dividing the church. We learn that d
portion Of the elders think that this remandinp
his own wife back to slavery was not Just the
fair thing, while others looked upon it as justi-
fable. They argue that the husband may have
suffered so severely under the bonds of wedoek
that the bonds of slavery would he no more
than asuficient punishment for the wife There
the matter stands. The church divided and
distracted. and where it is to end no body car
tell.-BnHaiO Com. Aduertiser
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TUNNEL BETWEEN ENGLAND AN d France
Some time ago French engineer, NJ. Thome
de diamond, published plan for uniting Eng
land and France by means of a tunnel beneath
the sea, from BoulOgne-sur-Mer to Dover. We
learn from Paris that the Emperor of the French
regards such a tunnel as both desirable and
prscticable, and that by his orders NJ de Gam
mond plan was re:erred to n commission of
Government civil engineers, all eminent men
This commission, after examining the scheme in
all its details, have come to the conclusion that
it is feasible, and ought to be seriously enter
tanned, ana IL mas recommended the Govern
ment to disburse f20, 900 for the purnose Of
making new investigations respecting it. The
same commissioner recommend that the English
Government should be requested to saw IL Il
be disposed to take any part in these investisa.
uoss.-L0adon Literary Gazette.
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OUR BIBLE TRANsLArION.-We cannot right
ly appreciate the work executed by King aines'
divines, unless We know what it was they under.
took. That which they did, is commonly spoke
OF as translation. In using this term, most
persons seem to suppose that the royal scribes
ecuted awork altogether new, ,translating direct
ly from the Hebrew and Greek originals only
aided in the selection of their words by English
versions already in existence. This notion lies
at the foundation of that exaggerated estimate
OF their services, which attempts to make it
appear that what they did was done once for all
and that work so surprisingly excellent has
acquired sort of sacredness which no irrever-
ent hand should venture to touch. This all but
superstitious respect has no better foundation
than mistake. 1t WAS not translation, in
the proper sense of the term, but Il revision that
the EpiscOpalian scholars intended to execute.
Atleast, it is certain that the translation which
we now read, is to large extent, the same as
tiatwhich was made by yndale and published
under Henry VIII. Evidence to this effect
has already been set forth other evidence will
appear as we proceed But neither the King
nor his clerical servants contemplated new
translation; 1t was a revision, not translation,
they designed. This appears in the royal letter,
issued in July, 1904. What else is the i'm
port Of these words !-Dr. Beard
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through the public prints. They destroy conf
dence in public men-they blast private char
acter, and create distrust which no amount of
subsequent proof Of their falsity can remove
entirely.
In this connection, we have a few words to
say OF the public printing, and the value of
Congressional publications. Every survey
when conducted properly, and every expedi-
tion, projected by government, for purposes of
general good, necessarily costs in its prosecu-
tlon large amount of money. It's design Is to
advance the public interests and to contribute
something to the advancement Of national in
telligence, whether strictly scientific or merely
Practcai-whether to open new fields in our
yet unexplored country for the labor of the
husbandman, or to give q correct knowledge of
the capacity for trade or commerce with new
nations.
Can anything he more absu d than the idea
advanced, that Congress, after expending mil
lions OF the peoples money in the prosecu ton
of such surveys or explorations should permit
the results CLEANED, it may be, by years of pa
fient toll, to sleep in manuscript among the
dusty foios of the State, or some other Depart
ment TOR the lack of the few thousands needed
to distribute them among the psople, who pay
Tor their Obtainment?
The SYSTEM OF printing them may lie wrong,
6nt the propriety cannot be matter of doubt
The other day, we noticed in the proceedings
OF Congress, that motion to print certain eS-
ira copies OF the Annual Report of the United
States Coast Survey, was rcjected-said copies
being designed for distribution, by the Com
missioner who has charge of this work The an
nuai appropriations for its prosecution amount
to millions, and yet the House of Representa-
tives actually refused to print the results, be-
cause 1t involved an expenditure of 500, 900
One member from the West said it was of no
use In has district, and he would vote against
1t. May be so; but here, at the East on the
seaboard, 1t as of use. Its charts warn our
mariners, who man our richly freighted ships,
OF hidden rocks, or point them to new and safe
harbors when the tempest RACES. Here is one
OF the practical results Of this war upon the
publication of Congressional documents. Mil
lions are expended to collect the material that
may be useless for want Of few thousands to
publish.
We say to Congress, give the people light
knowledge, intelligence. Publish it under
what system you will, and as economically as
you can-that is right-but give it, and liber-
ally.
We object to the present mode of distribut-
ing the public documents, as least calculated
to advance the purpose designed to be accom-
plished, viz. public information. Members
receive their valuable public books, and dis.
tribute them generally to personal friends, in
whose libraries they lie unseen by any save
their recipients. Let the books be sent by law
to public libraries, scientific institutions town
and schoOl-district libraries, and the various
institutions to which the public have general
access, throughout the Union and our word for
it, the people will endorse their publication
heartily.
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A VIRGINIAN IN PARIs.-A letter from Paris
to the New York Times has the following:
sale is soon to take place in Paris of the
furniture belonging to Mr.. Park Custis, Of
Virginia. This gentleman. who lived twenty
years in a modest apartment of the Faubourg
st. Honore, in this city, had but one mania
that OF collecting portraits Of Washington and
Lafayette. He has collected, it is said, ,176
portraits-engraved, autographed, in bronze
in plaster or in bust, on foot, Oh horse, in all
forms and in all shapes Mr. Park Custis, who
is now IA se.ragenatrs, is a distinguished rela-
ton Of George Washington, and the heir of
George Washington Parke Custis, lately de-
ceased. He has returned to the United States
on account of his death. Mr.. Custis intends to
return here to pack up all his portraits and
leave with them for his new residence-that OF
his late relative-at Bridge Creek. At the
same time he has ordered from his Lrother
Dantan, as ornaments for the vestibule of his
house, tv o colos al statues in marble Of his two
great heroes.