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The Star of the 9th says :: A meeting o.

The Star of the 9th says "A meeting Of
the Collectors of U. s., Customs stationed
along the Northern frontier took place yes
terdlay in the office Of Hon. Nathan Sargent,
Commissioner of Customs. The meeting was,
called for a consultation on the subject Of
amending the United States revenue laws, in
order to secure more prompt and efectual
suppression of smuggling The stubborn
persistence and the fertility of invention with
which these public offenders devise new
methods of evading the United States revenue
laws, call for correspondingly vigorous meas
ures on the part of our government officials.
Mr.. Sargent shows himself to be aware Of
and equal to the emergencies of the case
The citizens of Chambersburg, Pennsylva-
mia, have petitioned the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature for aid in rebuilding the houses de-
stroyed at the time Of the rebel invasion.
Admiral G. H. Davis Superintendent Of
the U. s. Naval Observatory and Hydro
graphical Office, reports to Secretary Welles
the discovery of new comet by H. P. Tut
tie, on the evening Of January s.
The Hon. O. A. Lochrane, of Macon,
Ga, has c0me out in letter against Fee
nianism.
John {. Eldndge was arrestedat CAatts-
nooga recently and taken to Blount county,
Tennessee, on the charge of murder and rob-
berry. He had been in the Confederate army.
-On the2d instant the prisoners contained
in the Joncsboro, Tennessee, Jail escaped.--i
All were recaptured, except ]. b Cody, who
killed DR.. Hunter at Broylesville last sum-
mer. One of the prisoners, William n Mel
son, was killed in the attempt
On the 30th ultimo at Lafayette depot,
Fayette county, Tennessee, Samuel Howell
was most brutally murdered by negro in
his employ. The negro escaped.
The Savannah papers make their frst NJ.
port of chad caught in the river on the. s0th
ultimo. Alasl that the railrOad connection
between this city and Savannah p broken,
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"A white woman was recently

"A white woman was recently murdered
near Mobile by an old negro employed in
chopping wood for her. The lady and the
negro started from the opposite side of the
bay to Mobile. on fiat boat containing
thirteen cords of wood and quantity of
cedar posts He was directed by her. on
their arrival, how to sell the wood and posts,
which he did, returning to her the sum of
$27, and keeping the rest for services render
ed. When they landed on their return, the
lady was lying insensible in the boat, and
her person bruised in a shocking manner
She was carried to fisherman's hut on the
shore, where she shortly afterward died.
On these representations the negro was ar
rested.
The United States Treasurer on Monday
signed draft for $4,000, payable to the
widow of the late President Lincoln.
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The Secretary of the Treasury has COM
municated to the Finance Committees of
Congress his financial bill, prepared in con-
formity with the views and recommends
tons of his report. This bill provides for
funding all the floating debt of the Govern
ment, in the shape Of seven-thirties, COM
pound-interest legal tenders, plain legal
tenders, certificates of Indebtedness, &C., into
forty-year bonds, bearing interest at rate
not exceeding six per cent.
There is no doubt that this scheme will be
adopted. The Secretary will, of course use
the powers to be thus given him, at his own
discretion, for the bill does not limit has ac-
ton as to time or amount. The provision
for the loan is not limited as to time. 1t is
not probable that the Secretary will put
loan on the market, under this bill, till next
June or July meanwhile there will be con-
siderable pressure unon the Treasury for
funds to pay off tine army, &c.
Some financial men think, however, that
by next April or May there will be such q
plethora of money in the commercial centres
that hundred millions could easily be con-
verted into the forty-years six. per cent
bonds.
Our Government securities ABROAD commune
to improve, under the favorable aspect of our
financial affairs, and fve-twenties, in large
amounts go out to pay for imports, instead
of gold OF mere produce Gold has there
fore declined already to 1876 or 137.-Nat.
Lateliigencer.
RECEPTION OF Mr.. BURLrNeAME.-A re-,
ception was. given last evening to Arson Bur-
lingame, United States Minister to China,
by Mr. Elliot c. Goodwin, at his residence in
West Thirty-frst street. The occasion was
one of much interest and, from the distin-
guished guests assembled to meet him, high
ly complimentary to Mr.. Burlingame. Among
those present were General John a. Dix,
George Bancroft, Daniel S. Dickinson, Gen.
N. P Banks, Hon. Bradford r. Wood, late
Minister to Denmark; John E. Ward, former
Minister to China General Robert h Pruyn,
late Minister to Japan; Paul s. Forbes, A.
A. Low, Senators Murphy and Sessions, Pc
ter Cooper, Judge Daily, DR.. Francis Lieber,
Samuel B. Ruggles, Judge Bonney, 8. s. Cox,
Henry L. Pierson, Elijah Ward, Dr. Bellows,
Judge Brady, Franklin H. Delano, Rev. DR..
Fabers John c. Hamilton, Major General j.
G. Barnard, Rev. Dr. Osgood, David Head
ley, Professor Charles A. Joy, Judge Kirk
land and Others Mr.. Burlingame will return
to China in a few weeks, by way of Califor-
nia.-N. Y. Post Of Saturday.
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IMPORTANT JUDICIAL QUESTIONS. Judge
Mcfarland, one of the Texas State District
Judges, appointed by Provisional Governor
Hamilton, lately had the following questions
brought before him, in several cases:
i. As to the effect of the law known as
the Stay law, passed by the Texas Legisla-
ture under the Confederate rule; and, also,
as to the effect of the act passed by the same
body suspending the statute of limitations. :
2. As to the power of the Provisional Gov
ernor to appoint provisional judiciary, and
to organize provisional courts.
g. As to the relation in which the provi-
sional courts, so established, stand to the
former district courts Of the State, organized
under secession auspices.
A. As to the effect to be given by the pro-
visional courts of the interlocutary orders
and DEGREES of the secession district courts in
suits still pending.
The Austin Letelligenoer, of the 9th ultimo,
says:
Upon these questions his Honor was UNI
derstood to have ruled substantially, that the
authorities having the control of the State of
Texas from February, 1861, to June, 1866,
constituted, for all practicable purposes,
government de .facto; and that while, as
political fabric it fell to pieces with the sur
render and dispersion of the Confederate
armies, and all its political legislation ceased
to be of force, yet the private and individual
rights that may have grown up under these
acts remain unimpaired, and are still valid
and binding between individuals, and will
be so held until the succeeding government
shall see fit to alter them. He further held
in this connection, that the order of General
Granger, declaring illegitimate all acts of the
Governor and Legislature since secession, and
the further proclamation of the Provisional
Governor declaring such laws imperative
and void, and putting in force the body of
statute laws in force prior to secession, did
not necessarily have the effect of multiplying
and rendering invalid transactions between
private individuals during secession rule
He further held that the replication that the
s ay law forbid the institution of suits, was
a good and sufficient answer to a plea of the
statute of limitation.
He further held that the Provisional Gov
ernor was clothed with the power to organize
a provisional judiciary; and, in the same
connection, he overruled a motion in pend
ing suit to set aside interlocutory orders, de-
crees, &C., that had been rendered in such
suit during the rebellion; but, as no attempt
was or has been made to enforce any order
of this character, this point may still be re-
garded as an open question. As to how far
the provisional courts may be regarded as
the successors of the secession district courts,
and as to whether or not, if called upon, in
Judgment, to enforce such decrees, the pro-
visional courts would enforce them, we un-
derstand to be still an open question.
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FEELING AMONG THE NORTH CARROLL
N1ANs-W William E. Chandler, Esq, Assis-
tant Secretary of the Treasury, writing from
Wilmington, N. c., on the LIST inst, says:
My impressions of the country and people,
SO far, are such as to induce wonder and pity
wonder that they held out so long after
being SO reduced in men and material, and
pity at their utter weakness and restitution.
Some of the people talk foolishly; but we
can well afford to laugh at them rather than
take offence at what they say The Southern
men who are trying to make trouble are the
"Pollards," who did not fight, and not the
officers and soldiers who did. The latter
talk and act well in almost every case that we
have seen or heard of It would be little
unpleasant for Northern men to come here
and live but the South must have Northern
capital, and feel sure this unpleasantness
would soon wear off
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Gov. Brownlow made a speech in Nash
vile on the 9th, at the dedication of a school
for colored children. He advised the teach
ers of colored schools to be exceedingly pru-
dent and cautious.
He also stated that if Gen. Thomas were
to take his troops and leave, the predominant
party would not allow. them to occupy the
school week, and that the Legislature over
which be was placed would be broken up by
mob in forty eight hours. He does not be-
lieve in reconstruction, and says he is in for
the fight during the war.
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Government Horses and Mules.

Our people are very much disturbed be-
cause the horses and mules loaned to them by
the government, are being taken away and
sold. But few are able to purchase, owingto
the scarcity of money. These horses were
captured by Gen. Sherman's army the best
were carried of, while the ordinary stock
that remained fell into the hands of the peo-
pie again, by gift, or loan, or purchase. 1t
seems hard under these circumstances, and it
is hard, that these remaining horses and mules
should be taken from the people and sold
but the officers in charge have no discretion in
the matter. The Quartermasters must sell,
or become responsible on their bonds for the
value of the stock.
These sales are made in accordance with
law, and we do not see, therefore, that even
the President can do any thing to relieve our
people. The law binds him as well as 9th.
ers We are sure if he could interpose, he
would. The remedy is with the Congress.
If that body would only pass law giving
10 the people of the insurgent States all the
horses and mules now in their possession,
and have those that have been sold restored
us far as possible, it would do an act that
would give rise to general thankfulness and
rejoicing. And herein we perceive and feel
the great inconvenience and distress which
attend our present condition, in having no
one to represent us in the halls Of Congress;
for we verify believe that brief and truth
full statement of the condition of our people
in this respect, joined to knowledge ythe
members of that body of the great suffering
in this State as the result of the war, would
at once be responded to by the enactment of
the law referred to- But it is too late, we
fear, to hope for any remedy. The horses
and mules are being rapidly gathered up and
sold, and before any action could be taken
by Congress the animals would be dispersed
in the hands of new owners in all directions.
Those who have lost their stock will have to
bear the loss as patiently as they can, and
set about making crop with such means as
they can raise.
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The Vacant Seat in the supreme cou,

The Vacant Seat in the Supreme Court.
Among the prominent names mentioned in con-
nection with the vacant Supreme Court Judge
Trigg, of Tennessee, and Judge Sharkey, of
Mississippi whit chances seemingly in favor Of
the first.
We clip the above from the n Y. World,
of the 9Th inst. Should the President think
proper to look to this State to supply the
vacancy on the Supreme Court Bench, he
would find two of the most learned jurists in
the United States, Hon. B. F. Moore and
Chief Justice Pearson. The appointment of
either OF these able gentlemen would be a
source OF pride and qualification to the citi-
zens of Nerth-C Carolina.
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LETTER FROM Hon. A. H. STEvENs-A
letter from Hon. A. Fl. Stevuns, dated at
Charlottesville, Ga, 25th ultimo, contains
the following paragraph:
GAS to how am doing, can only say
that, in the matter of health, have improv-
ed greatly since my return home; but the
country find in worse condition-phy
ically, moral! and politically-than / ex-
pected. The general desire of the people is
for a speedy restoration of civil law and har-
mony, and l am engaged in doing all can
to effect that result. do trust that wisdom,
moderation and true patriotism will rule the
councils at Washington. Mean
while, it is the duty of every one to do the
best be can; the wise and the good will al
ways take things as the find them, and do
the best they can with them as they present
themselves"
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Thomas Wilson and Joseph Mount, two,
respected citizens of Montgomery, Alabama,
died on the SOth ultimo.
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There have been received by the Adjutant
General at Washington about eight hundred
applications for share in the rewards offered
for the capture of the assassination conspira-
tors. The rewards now ready for distribu-
ton amount to about 100000 Arrange
ments are being made by the claimants to
get possession of the rewards offered in the
several States, amounting to over million
of dollars, as soon as it is announced by the
Government who are entitled to a share of
the money.
I'm Macon, Ca, and its vicinity there have
lately been many robberies.
in the correspondence produced at the
trial ofthe Lamars for bribing federal officials,
young Lamar tells his uncle that he "must
bleed freely" and the ldgentleman responds
that he'll :. willing to give twenty per cent.
of the note"
General Longstreet isa commission mer-
chant in New Orleans
The Star of the 9Th say:
Congress commenced work to-day in good
earnest, with indications of getting at the
important questions to come up before it at
an early day. Nearly all of the Senators and
members have returned from the holiday
visits, and both Houses this morning well
attended.
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?rofessiunal Cards.

[ MARBLES J. BEATTIE, Attorney and
- Counsellor at Law, Pontiac, Livingston county ILL.,
aug 20. '65-lys
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TiIe Anc-iSi;r. susso,si OF p n n Il in&
EE-.2Oo.

There IS penalty acc0mTa TaGying personA
dstiac,ion ~ America not inflicted ~ other
coaatries-Isa,nely.h hand shaking ana hand
siueeMnr la i:aroue and generally else
whore iu this hemisphere, i. IS almost as
uuusua! as contracting, aud tor an utter
stranger 70 seize the hand OF person to
whom IL is presented, occasions uot oHly
amuzcmcut for the moment. bat almost
alarm Abroad a courteous sala'aton,
manifested by an inclination Of tue head or
rsmO...l OF the ha;, Is considered Iaite suii-
c;eut: while the more social iaku4g OF the
hand /, reserved for oh friends anltintimatc
acguaiutuuccs. The custom. 4, II exists
among oursclges. IS irequen y the cause of
the rlo.t ridiculous Consequences. Scarcely
IS the ssereutvpel expression uttered which
..iEtrJd lces"-as il is terme1-;wo iadiyilL-
ais, wLo, until That moment, were not con-
scious o. the existence OF each other, than
they rush forward. and crasping hat bis. con-
vulsivc,v shake them for the space 0 several
seconds and then relapse into their normal
stale Of mutual inditierence Not unfrc-
/ qucutiy presentations are made while the
/ parties are inconvenienily separated by a
/ t. be or other obstacle. and when DIS hap
peas it is truly lsugAabe to wit lness the
! awkward haste with which the pa rites
! deayor to get Al one another, either by reach
/ ing across or tro',inE around twenty-five or
/ thu: y feet OF mahogany
/ Moreover, who among these promiscuous
/ hama shakers ever pauseS to reflect whether
| his hand Is at the moment. in suitable cen>
! dition to be offered? Who j. there that has
not at some time felt shuddcr run through
! him 1t lla"ing a hand--wet. cold and clam
mv-paccd within his Own, suggestive If q
cold Leefsteak or II defunct porky?
But there is another class Of hand uquisi-
tors that are not, perhaps, 50 disgusting as
the former, but are far more terrible. Such
are those insenSihla w.etchcs wno seize your
hand aud crash your insseera in their. orawny
paws. like macclr1u beneath the feet of All
elephant. 1t is Of this class that Lieutenant
General Grant had occasion some time since
to eXplal TO a gentleman, while he was
unde' sing a public exhibition of hand
tortu-e:
- -, if ii were not that | fear the people
pres :. would tear Jon to pieces. | would
KNOCK Won down.
Is 1t not high time that this painful anf
ridiculous custom should cease, be dth in pri
vate and public Intercourse, and thh bit hereaf
ter all mmi!tees being IN charge for tht
time being-of the life and limbs of distin
guished persons, announce III advance o
and at all receptions that visitors Ihust keel
their hands of? ?-N. \. Eceaing Post.
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From ia. Rev r. T. Fenda Assistant Editor Christina
Chronicle, P.ilaclpllit.l
hay. derived decided benefit from the Of II oonands
German Filters and fe. il my privilege recommend
them a valuable tonic, TO all who suHsr.lS
general debility from dea.-s arising from do
rAngencI.t uf the liver. Yours truly.
L. D. FENpALL-
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Congressional.

~ aSHibglOn. hGrcn lU.
The Senate was not ia session. In the
House, speeches were made, on general
gucstious," by Orth, Ste7ens, Goodyear
Ashley, and Holmes. The speech OF Thad.
Early racy." and he's given all radicaldom a
violent fiji of cacbinarisn. = consisted of
mock defence of the Presi lent ana the fol-
lowing is specimen brick:
Stevens was going on in his mock way to
laud the President, when he was interrupted
by
Mr.. Price-When ! lear him speak in
such warm terms of the President, and when
l remember that the public press Of TIE
country has been for the last few weeks
using the name of certain Thaddeus Ste
vens having been mentioned by the ;'r 81
dent in speech in front OF the White House
and now when l hear the gentleman whom
supposed to be the Thaddeus Stevens referred
TO speak IN such strong terms III favor of the
President, l want to hear him say with his
own lips, whether he is the same person or
some one else. Laughter.
Mr.. Stevens-Mr. Speaker. does the learn
ed gentleman from Iowa (Price) suppose for
one moment that the speech to which |
irort Of rho WLiIa Uonsa ,yas ~, a..-,'T 50
U.n,,h, f;-a
n,sn r;gb, Wh,,gI o., ,o,, ,,";r-' 1"'
bowevcr d, NOT vi-r, to La,,e r.rI,r''l j.
-; oo,;d,,,t;.,r ,.,,,.-...,;..:
and nrasrr,a nI vii y,nI,t
deuce reposed in him by repeating it. Sir,
r,.r.Io,n.,, S., I,,.. 81 II, r. -
s.ons;Jer,bIe r.,, aj y.f',,t I,. ,, .,.,
;.,,rass,on on the r,Ihlic ,,f,,,r n,.g ,,,o ~
Nh. rr,nIast I.o,v.t ,.sf Ls. 90, r., ,,.~-
natr9.ad md ,,r.. s,7...,T.;,I -, ,,, ,ii.r
excent the one which / an 81. d..-;..ad
noany a<tu,o os+r,,o,,.rs fT..'..I~.l-i
am now rIaJ Of an onaorr,,,,iry .7,b[.a,Ilb
ter', wish il to 90 f,rta nn65..Ir ls.t nv
motive ,uigf,f he n,.sI,,l,.rs-c,l "a -.
alta. the President from, .y.. h,.,i,,.l ,,,',i..
that sna,.ch I.,ue.h,ar I, = ~
,b.. cnnr,ir,, I,.r;v,,,c,,, h. ,,.,-.,i.....l
nartv which has b .rn Trr.cig, ni,. -
dent since tbe .itL Of !iar,I. i--i5 T,ri",
an ADVANTAGE Of an or.,orr-.... ar.;.j,..,,
which haDpencI On that. .accasi.p. fbev INV.
been ever since constantly dagauncircr hin,
as addicted 10 Ip,y and rerr.,,jrr,., Il .. <,.,
If these SANDERS c,uid 1a,I,. H.. ,,a,,r,l l.
lieve thai the President ever uttered that
speech, then they have made out their cas- -
icontinned laughter: bat We kuoN: tl.t the
President never did utter it. Il Is not posi-
BILE and am glad Of this opportunity to
relieve him Of that oiium. They had Injecd
wrought up tn whole story in i very canning
way.
Mr. Winfield, Of Mex Iork-Mav | hope
that the injunction Of secre<F vii! be re-
moved from ihi= earnest and s:rlcere defence.
iLspgater.
Mr.. S;egens-w.lh seriousness Of mas
ner that irresi tlJ.y provoked LAUGHTER, ex.
ci.imed OH | hope not. sir: hon, the
.,entienea viii not violate ;h,. CONFIDENCE
h;ci, h.v. ,,isced in him and in otber. in
this cor,f,;,.nI;.l CON- ur.ication. Now. Mr.
Sneaker. tI,av hal worked uy the whole thing
rTattv cunriI,ojv-. cIrnin.-ly enough to i'm
pose upon the people. For instance. they
-. mt, .ir.,.,,t- ,,t;.i .o,,,uts 10 IN he
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Useful Flint TO E7OuSeh h cepe ers and
Others.

An article in a late number Of ah English
magazine, on the s.lbject OF the fracture nf
polished glass surfaces, says
at is ttct known to the philosophical
instrument makers that, if metal wire be
drawn through a glass tube, few hours
afterward the tube will burst into fra agments.
The annealed glass tubes nscG for the water
guages of steam boilers are sometimes de-
stroyed in this way, after the act of forcing
piece of cotton waste through them with a
, wire, for the purpose Of cleaning the bore.
This will not happen If piece of soft wood
is employed. The late Andrew r. SIS informs
ed me that Oh one OCCASION, late Ia the eve-
ming, he lightly pushed a pi=ce OF cotton
| wool through number of barom meter tubes
| with piece of cane, for the purpose of
| clearing out any particles Of dust The
next IN orning LIE found most of the tubes
broken up into small fragments, the har !
silicious coating of the cane Hroving as
destructive as he had previously known a
wire to be. :.
In these times, when glass lamp chimncys
are in such wide use, it is of no little impor~
tauce that this fact shonld be male known.
Thousands of persons who have been IN the
habit of using wires, table>torks, and Varie'
ty of metallic articles IN the Washing OF
these chimneys will, IN the above Stated TACT,
find the reason of their chimnets SO often
swapping to pieces on the lamp.
! sa TThis IS rather too general. Merely pass
ing rod through the tube will rot break il
unless the surface technically ctiled ..hrs
polshalis scratched.-Ns. Scientific Ana