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ii is inexpedient to change tho tariff law this
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New puDlicat' ,i.s.

HAEPER's New No. MY MAGAzINE.-The
February nun 'H lhis popular serial comes
to hand We, -l,y. By those who can get it,
its perrr will be through with before Feb
ruar, comes in. The leading article is the
Rev Joseph F. Tuttle's interesting sketch of
Il chapter of Revolutionary History-the
winters spent by Washington and his Army
in and about Morristown \. j. The pro-
fuse illustrations of the Follies of Fashion
can he seryccablc to many, if they choose,
who will figure in strange costume at the
coming Costume Party of Feb. 4. To those
who prefer the equally fantastic dress of the
day, rs it will be consi cred fifty years hence,
the article will furnish abundant amusement.
Thackcray's Nirginilns is continued. The
Editors Fable contains the usual supply of
furniture. and the Editors Drawer has as
many scraps in it as ever. The carlcatures
at the end Of the number are as insipid as
usual, and, on the whole the number appears
Fullcrs.
The ATLANTIC MONTHLY, for February,
contains the continuation of Mrs. Stoves
new serial, - The Minister'S Wooing' The
tale entitled I'm a Cellar reads SO like a
French affair, that we do not wonder at its
being suspected at first to be a translation
from Bilzac OF some other celebrated French
novelist. Ii is said to b. from the pen of
Yankee girl, Miss Harriet Prescott of
Ncwburyport, who certainly shows remarka-
BILE ability in a particular line of storytelling
" Bulls and Bears - is continued with in
creasing interest. We cannot make out the
Professor and his set quite equal to his pred
ecessor, the " Autocrat" and his associates
around the Breakfast Table, though there
are spots where the author shows his former
power. There ie "a continuation of the ,iit-
ique on Whites hakspeare-elaborate and
readable.
Yourus BIBLE SroRIEs-Part 5th-The
Gospels,
ENGLISH AND GERMAN PRMAR;
BETHLEHEM AND HER CHILDREN;
IilsToRY OF THE PATRIARcHs-in English
and German;
SIXTEEN WAY-sIpE Books;
The Ten COMMANDMENTS, on illustrated
Cards.
The above is a collection Of small volumes
and tracts on religious subjects, beautifully
Tract Society of New York. The titles will
in most instances, indicate their subjects
For sale by Fuller
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~ u MBER THIRTY FOUR

!. !. mas Of rcasonablcnees,s simplicity and intel
i,9'olility' than by tie traditional absurdi-
'ies which hang about it in Europe.
Leaving Vienna for Prague. the train pas
scs over the bloody battlefield of wagram,
where in the first days of July, 1909, Napo-
Icon, with Bcrnadotte, Davoust, Massena,
Marmont, Oudinot and Vandamme, and
loO,0O0 troops fought the Archduke Charles
with half as great force, and defeated him
after loss of p 900 killed and wounded on
each side, which practically ended his war
with Austria. In q few short months he
rcpudlated Josephine and married Maria
Louisa. lie yielded himself up a willing
sacrifice to the legitimacy which had been
the enemy of his power and glory and over
which he had trumphed in every victory
lie threw away the opportunity and the pow
cr Of building un. fortifving, perpetuating
and gloriiying during his whole lite a Sapv-
leonic France, an empire such as the world
had never looked upon, and leaving it to that
France to choose his successor When we
thinl; Of what Napoleon might have been,
and might have done and what he did, and
how he dragged out his last years, a poor and
desoate prisoner, his own heart corroded and
wasting by disappointment and repning, we
cannot help thinking that
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XXxvth COSGR ESS.---Second sc,,iou

WASHINGTON Tuesday, Feb. 8, 1889.
SENATE. Mr.. Bigler attempted to bring up
the resolution, that in the opinion of the
Senate, n large public debt, in time of peace,
is inconsistent with the true policy of this
country, aud that Congress should, without
delay, proceed to adjust the revenue and ex-
expenditures.
Messrs. Mason and Bayard objected. but
the motion was carried-23 against l3
Mr.. Bigler then addressed the Senate, ad-
vocatng mixed specific and ad valorem
duties.
Mr. johnson of Tennessee offered resolu-
tion to the effect that the President be re-
quested to call on the heads of departments
to submit estimates, so as to bring the ex-
penses of the government within $50, ,000,-
600 annually, exclusive of the interest on
the public debt
HousE.-Mr. Faulkner, from the Military
Committee, reported resolution prelmi-
nary to a final settlement of the Oregon and
Washington war claims, and laying down
the Piles to be observed in adjusting the
amounts.
The resolution was adopted and the House
went into Committee on Appropriations.
Mr.. Lovejoy move to strike out the appro-
priation for the safe keeping of prisoners, re-
marking that it was for fugitive slaves, till
their trials came on, and characterized their
capture as odious and abhorrent to the free
States
Mr.. Singleton of Mississippi said he would
be glad if Mr.. Lovejoy would return the ne
gro he had stolen from one of his constitu-
ents.
Mr.. Lovejoy replied-Ais constituent never
owned negro for every being God made
belonged to himself. lie had no hesitation
to declare that he did help the fugitive slave,
and would always give food and shelter to
necessitous whites or blacks.
Mr.. Singleton asked-What is that but
stealing?
Mr.. Lovejoy-Stealing is taking man
and keeping him as a slave.
Mr.. Phelps of Missouri said if the amend
ment prevailed every man arrested as acrimi-
nal would be turned loose, and Mr.. Lovejoy
would be the general Jail deliverer of many
Infamous persons.
Mr. John Cochrane of n Y. humorously
remarked that Mr., Lovejoy' objection might
be obviated by making the clause read "free
prisoners" daughter
Mr.. Lovejoy's amendment was rejected
Mr.. Singleton subsequently, said, as Mr..
Lovejoy had admitted he had participated
in slave-stealing, he regarded him as a dis
grace to the nation
The Chairman (Mr. Barksdale of Miss.)
declared him out of order.
Exclamations from the Republican side
"Let him go on ~
Mr. Giddings Of 0hio-IIe is perfectly in
order, and move that he be permitted to
proceed (Laughter.)
The Committee rose, and the House con-
CURED, by casting vote of the Speaker, in
an amendment striking out S67 ,379 for the
Congressional Globe, and binding the same,
and reporting the proceedings.
The vote was then reconsidered, and the
amendment rejected by 0 majority,
Pending the question on the other amend
ments, the House adjourned.
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TIre:11ae Nrea,5
BURLINGTON:
FRIDAY MORNING, FEB. Is, 1853.
From the Burlington Sentinel.

"Tho Vermont Standard of last week has col
umn Of comments the burning alive of two
slaves for the murder of their mastcrs, in Alabama
and Missouri. Of course tho Standard thinks such
an act is mn awful outrage upon humanity and
rights. We would suggest, that IT has dispos-
ed Of that mntto. that it give it. readers homily
upon the late tragedy in Sing Sing, N y prison,
whore black man died in consequence of the
application Of cold water punishment. This
latter, however, occurred in the north, and may
not have attracted the Standards notice
The accounts of burning men ahro. referred
to in the above paragraph, in til, slave
states by forocious mob, and in the pre-
scnce of an assembled nluititodo. are too
horrible to quote. 1t is quite enough to
know that such things are done in our day,
III nur own country, .u' tl, / 'ilnns
itself to the worit us IL ian If liberty and
law. without curdling tlc blood of our
readers by a narrative Ui the shocking de-
tails. The case OF destroying conyict's life
in New York State prison by excessive
showering (though nobody supposed Il fatal
result was intended) has been severely com
mented on by the public press, and made Il
subject Of official examination in that State
and so far as we have seen, the treatment of
it has been quite alike by papers of all kinds.
Were we to say in direct terms, that the
writer of the paragraph at the head of our
article meant to produce in the minds of his
readers the lcclng that II ',. u' ,rv had an
affair after all, to 6tra nt.yro.S dlSre, ..' would
doubtless say we did him iniustic'. Yet any
man Of sense must know that in young uIads,
and in minds too careless to Discriminate,
such must be the natural effect of what he
has said
We do not quote the paragraph as II very
remarkable one. 1t is one of hundreds in the
same spirit be found in the democratic papers
of the day, which serve to illustrate the undc-
niable truth that they consider it part of their
business, where they do not boldly advocate
the systom Of slavery. (as some. even in Ncr-
mont, do), to be ready at all times to point a
sneer at every attempt to set it forth in Its
true character.
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After passing Brunn, the thriving manu- fac
turing town which is the capital Of Moravia,
we soon rose to the summit level of this part
of Europe, where the streams take north
erly direct ion, and our journey lay for
while along the valley of the Elbe, which
rising in these highlands keeps on its way to
the North Sea. The valley is plain of i'm
mensc extent and of beautiful cultivation
and of great fertility, and seemed to be divi-
ded among few large landed proprietors,
who here and there at the distance Of mile
or so, apart, seemed to be living in sort of
manorial s,yle with tLcir retaiuers or de-
pcndcnts clustered about them in humble
peasant cottages, giving to the whole scene
the appearance Of small villages scattered all
over the great plain. All the hardest of the
outdoor work is dore hy women, who seem
ed to far outnumber the men. We saw few
men and fewer cattle, while the fields and
roads swarmcd with luboring women, young
and old. They We're spreading manure in
the fields Was house being erected, it
was women who carried the hod Of brick and
mortar. while the mechanic laid the walls.
Men sometimes loaded the wheel-barrows
with heavy stones, but it was women that
wheeled the staggorinc load to its destination
They receive almost no wages, ard the coars-
est iare--iour OF five cents day, and an al
lOwance of coarse fish and black bread
enough to sustain life, and position in a class
from which there is no hope of rising.
Yours Z. C..
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HoRsEs AND STABLES. - The Scientific
American says that blindness is very common
among horses in cities, and attributes it to
their confinement in dark stables, and
shading their eyes with harness binders.
Upon these premises it argues that the first
should be abolished, and that all stables
should be dry, roomy structures, provided
with windows to afford abundant light, and
should be frequently whitewashed. The
horse is native of dry, sunny regions, and
requires to be kept dry and warm in order to
attain to the greatest perfection. Close and
confined stables, just like those whic are so
common, are the frequent cause of that
'iolent disease called gIanders. A few years
since, great ravages were committed among
.he .cavalry horses OF France by this disease
but 1t is now almost unknown in that coun-
try. This result has Ibecn brought about by
simply making large stables, doubling the
size Of stalls, and securing good ventilation.
In proportion to their bulk, horses need
more fresh air than men, in order to perform
the functions of respiration, yet they are
commonly cooped up in narrow stalls, which
are not large enough to keep dormouse's
lungs at work.
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EXTENSION or THE SOUTHERN Revolt
AGAINST THE CUBAN ScHENE.-The Louisiana
journals are joining the Democratic organs
Of Virginia in denouncing the Presidents
pet scheme of purchasing Cuba. 1t is seen
on one hand that the acquisition of Cuba
would be utterly fatal to the sugar interest
of Louisiana-and on the other, that the
competition it would establish in the pro-
ducts of slave labor would very seriously i'm
pair the value of slaves in the whole south.
The True Delta predicts that the annexation
of Cuba without the re opening of the slave
trade, would inevitably bring about the a5oI-
iiiation Of slauery in The Souih within twenty
years. The Bee opposes the scheme on the
ground of its proaigacy and impracticability;
and the Virginia Enquirer, the leading or
gan of the Democracy of the Old Dominion,
denounces it with equal vehemence upon all
these grounds
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PRETTY lNcIDENT.-A near neighbor of
ours lost an only son u few weeks ago, Of
scarlet fever. 1t was a bright and beautiful
child, and the parents were indeed sorely
afflicted, They have three daughters. The
Two youngest, a pair of twins, about four
years old, come nearer to the fancy
pictures one often sees. of beautiful angelic
childhood, than any two children ever saw
The parents being people of strong com
mon sense aud not wishing to impress these
darling little ones with that mysterious
power of death that too often pervades the
hearts OF children, talked to them of brother
Eddy as If he had gone to heaven, to meet
with God and Jesus his dear friends. and
that in time they would go to meet him
there.
Christmas morn the mothers heart was
heavy, though she bad struggled hard to
mold down the grief that was tuggng at her
heart-strings. the children noticed this
The little toys and playthings were dstri-
buted, and the little o es were as happy as
happy could he, when Minnie suddenly
dr1ppsd hers and run to her mother, ex-
claiming: 80 mamma, won't our dear
Eddy have a good time to-day? o won't
he have nice times in heaven?'
"Why, Minnie, what makes you think
80 said the lady, brushing away her tears
Because this is Jesus birthday, aud is
not Eddy with Him there Sure they will
haye nice times in heaven, Christmas day"
y ipr the faith and trust of loving, hap
ny childhood. The mother could only an
swer, "Yes, Minnie, Eddy is happy in
Heaven, Ohio Farmer.
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o,:.,,.,, ,rr,,. ID, ,.., D.. Ill., 49,.
oSiN' '''A D'h'--i'''' 'ohi ABDUL :
sailor preacher, relates the following
story of one of his converts to temner
r. johnson, at the close of n cold water
ure, intimated that he must sign the
ge in his own way, which he cid in these
ds
William Jolrson nIo1,o ,ors.If IN
TX no more intoxicatin, drints f,r ono
r."
S, others allowed him a week, and n few
,rs gave him t,yn weeks bnt tho Iond
knew him best and said he was good
soaker.
Before the year was quite gone, Mr..
inson was asked by Mr.. Abbott
Bill, aint YOU going to resume the
dge II
Well, | don't know. Jack. but will. |
se done pretty well SO far will Won let
sign it again INV own way -
'Oh yes, any way so that YOU will not
nix ram"
le writes
Il, William johnson, sign this pledge for
be hundred and ninety-nine years, and If
ing at that time. | intend to make OUT a
sc for life. "
day or two alter, johnson went to see
landlord, who eyed him as a hawk does n
icken,
oh landlord - whined Bin, accompanied
ring the mot excruciating torment, 81
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short gown. The brave girl shrugged for n release,
broke the strings of her dress and springing out of
it, sped with the acetness of deer, with nothing
but .canty chcmse for a covering, and made tho
Tort before she was ovcrtaken,-thus narrowly
saving her life. Miss Jane Maguiio lived to tho
astonishing age Of over one hundred, and has only
within few years been summoned to the better
land. Her children still live here, md OCCASION
ally relate the wonderful escape of their mother.
Yours A. W.
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How THEY SUPPORT CHURCHES IN SoUTm
CAROLINA The following is an advertise
ment in South Carolina paper
son Thursday, 18th inst, will be sold at
the north of the Exchange, prime gang of
ten negroes, accustomed to the culture of cot
ton and provisions, belonging to the Inde-
pendent Church, in Christ Church Parish. :"
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An exchange says that party at a count
ry town was lately visited by the following
persons Two Miss Understandings, three
Miss Takes. Miss Management, Miss Conduct
Miss d, Meanor, Miss b. llavior, Miss For
tune, and Mr.. Philip Buster. 1t must have
been happy gathering.
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From the Boston Transcript.
MIR. PRESCOTT's METHOD OF LITE.
RARY LABOR.

Mr.. Prescott's mode of writing history
was this we will take, for example, his last
work, "Phillp the Second" lie arranged in
his study all the books and manuscripts rela-
ting to that monarch which he had been years
in collecting. at an expense OF many thousand
dollars. They numbered three or four hum
dred printed volumes of all sizes. There were
slso some twenty thick folios ofmanuscripts,
richly bound, which probably cost more than
all the rest of the collection, though some of
the printed works are exceedingly rare and
valuable, the libraries and and bookstore of
Western Europe, from Cadz to Amsterdam.
having been ransacked by agents in search of
everything that could throw light on
the history of Philip the Second. Except die
tionaries and other works of reference, books
not specially related to the subject in hand
were excluded from the study.
With his materials thus gathered about
him, the historian commenced his work.
The secretary first read the old English his
tory of the King ana ils Reign. Notes and
observations were dictated as they were sug-
gcstod by the book. Having freshcnod his r.
collections by hearing this volume read, Mr..
Prescott proceeded to examine the treasures
he had collected. Each book was taken from
the shelf in turns by the Secretary, who read
aloud its title, its table of contents, and II
few pages by way Of specimen of its style
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