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THE sCHENCK CONTEST.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial, writing from Dayton, Ohio,
says:
There is considerable talk about
Schenck's contesting Campbell's seat.
The friends of Campbell do not seem the
least disturbed. In fact it is said that he
is quite willing the contest should be
made, so that he may have an Opportu-
nifty to prove up the Republican corrup-
tons and make Congressional 'sPub.
Doc to the damage of Schenck and his
party. l learn that G. has already had
the matter quietly investigated in most of
the townships, and will be able to present
budget of testimony that will be rich
and racy, and will present many promi-
nent Republicans in a very unenviable
light before the country.
But it is proper to say that the Repub-
licans are not gushingly in favor of a
contest. The general impression among
them is that Campbell was fairly elected
and that Schenck owes his defeat to his
persistent high protective doctrines.
They refer to the fact that if Scheck had
carried the strength of the party he would
have been elected. The majority for the
Republican State ticket in the district
was 1874 and for Campbell 53-showing
that Schenck was behind his party whilst
Campbell was 1T stronger than the
Democratic State ticket. This they at.
tribute to the tariff issue, and they gay
| if Schenck contests and the race is ruI
over again Campbell will beat him on,
thousand votes in the district.
The class of men in the district whit
urge contest are chiefly the Fedora
office holders-Postmasters, "Revenut
| Bummers, etc.
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CONDENSED KILOGRAMS.

Partial returns of an election for men,
bers of School Board in London, Eng
land, yesterday, show that Miss Garrett
was chosen from Marylebore by vote
of $4,000. Mrs. Gray, for Chelsea, and
Miss Davis, for Greenwich, are probably
elected.
The ship Varselzer, for Hamburg, with
cargo of guano, has been captured by a
French man-of-war.
William McGrawar, one of the Oldest
and worthiest citizens of Knoxville, Ills,
hung himself in the courthouse of that
Ttity on Tuesday night. The cause of the
suicide is supposed to be his grief over
the arrest of his son, Postmaster at Knox
vile, for embezzlement.
In New York yesterday the cotton
warehouse of Hopkins, Dwight, Trow-
bridge & Co., IA and I6 Desbroses street,
was burned.
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MISSOURI.
II. GraIZ Brown SerenRded-He InS
vOIEes Harmony, and Predicts n
Bright Future.

II. GraIZ Brown SerenRded-He In
vOgEes Harmony, and Predicts n
Bright Future.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 30.-At the Gratz
Brown serenade last night, the Governor
elect, in reply to q cOngratulatOry speech
by Thos. p. johnson, reiterated the state
ment that SSthe battle was fought for equal
freedom and rights to all men. Hesaid that
there are significant signs that the late
opponents to the liberal movement are
accepting the situation, and that there
viii be no further hostility; that there
should be unauimity among the whole
American people on this point. He con-
graduated his friends that Missouri had
taken the initiative in this direction. He
repeated that the Democrats had been as
heroic as the liberal Republicans, and
urged all to go forward TO the problems
of the future with an eye single
to the highest development of in.
dividual freedom and equality in
the several organizations. He added
that more triumphs are to be achieved in
the hereafter; that we are only on the eve
of the greatest Of social Developments and
concluded by saying, 81 can only recog-
nize now that the State needs absolute
peace, the Internal development of her
resources, a wise adaptation of laws TO
labor and an absolute honesty of admins
tration. These | can promise you, so far
as the executive influence goes. If the
people will help, before God l will give
them new era in Missouri and the great
West"
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DURATION OF SIEGES.

To calculate on the duratlen of the
siege of Paris would be at once specula-
tive and uncertain. In Napoleon's me-
moirs, dictated to Count Montholm, in st.
Helena, he declares that, in the time of
Louis XIV, ''Prince Eugene lost cam
paign in btsieging Lille; the siege of Lam
drey gave occasion to Villars to bring
about a change of fortune" Wellington
was over twelve months (l811-12) before
Badajoz, and finally had to raise the siege
and retire into Portugal, though he finally
took that fortress with loss of 5000
men. But the only proceeding of this
sort in later times took place at Antwerp
and Sebastopol.
The Belgian troops entered Antwerp
during the revolution of 1880. The
Dutch commander retired to the citadel,
after dreadful combat, and fired upon
his own city with shells and red-hot balls.
Two years after this 10000 French
troops appeared upon the scene, and de-
manded the surrender of the citadel. De-
tense was hopeless, but the stout Dutch
man in command, being at once stubborn
and stolid, thought it his duty TO resist.
The defense lasted for a month, and
then had to give in. The garrison
was composed of only 5000 men,
commanded by Gen. Chase, and
the ordnance consisted of only $50
guns. By singular arrangement be-
tween the respective commandments, the
town of Antwerp with its outwOrks was
considered neutral ground, the approaches
| of the besiegers being confined 10 the
| open country to the northeast of the cit
adel, and the fire of the besieged to be
| TUNED only in that direction. At the
present time, how few remember even the
name of Chase, with which Europe once
rung. Yet with only 5000 men he kept
60, 600 French soldiers at bay during
twenty-four hours of open trenches,
| during which the fire, both of artillery
and fire arms, was incessant and be-
siegers and beseiged were alike standing
to their guns day and night, during the
seventies of a rude season in the depth of
winter. OF still longer continuance and
severity was the more recent seige of
Sebastopol, which lasted eleven months
| October, 1854, to September, 1860,
during which there were several lombard
ments, ending with the capture OF the
Malakoff and the Redan. In the course
of our own civil war there were many
sieges, among which the most important
were those of Fort Sumter, Charleston,
Beaufort, Mobile, Fort Fisher, Richmond
and Vicksburg-the latter ending in the
capture of the place by Gen. Grant, being
one Of the most remarkable, enduring and
successful exploits of the war-one OF
the most memorable, too, not merely be.
cause it gave an opportunity for develop
ing the great military genius of Gen.
| Grant, but because the surrender took
| place on the National holiday, the Fourth
of July, 1863. Looking back at former
sleges, it is impossible to arrive at an ap
Proclamation of the time which the pre-
sent investment of Paris may occupy.
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SUSAN b. ANTHONY
speaks a Piece Of Her Aainsl.

speaks q niece OF kteE Hsfn0.
DETROIT, Nov. 30.-In the Woman''
Rights Convention to-day Miss Susan B.
Anthony said in the course of shorI
speech that at present the national Con,
gress daily insults the womanhood Of the
country by permitting ignorant negroes
to vote while they disfranchise intelligent
and refined women. In the Senate Trum-
bull, of Illinois, is Chairman of the Ju.
dietary Committee and in the House
Bingham, of Ohio. AS yet they have
kept in their pockets the claim of woman
for the right of suffrage and have failed
utterly 10 present reports upon the sub.
ject through which the question might
come up for discussion and action. -
Miss Anthony believed that the women
of the Northwest might, during the COM
ing year, cause Trumbull and Bingham
to tremble for their positions and compel
them to make these reports which shall
insugurate the desired agitation in Con-
gress. She declared her conviction that
the Republican party wasno more worthy
of sympathy from the women of the
country than the Democratic party, and
she cared not whether relief came to
them from the Democrats or Republicans.
Miss Anthony announced that in the fu-
ture bureau for woman suffrage would
be maintained at Washington.
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TELEGRAPHIC.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Our Relations with Europe
Health Of Chief Justice Chase
GOv.Vance Elected Ex-senator
Speech from B. Gratz Brown
Health Of Chief Justice Chase
WASHINGTON.
INC coming Message.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-The Presi-
dents message will be telegraphed on the
day of its transmission to Congress to dis
tant newspapers, which, according to the
present indications, win be Monday next.
$4,000 Offered for BoutweIrs Report.
A gentleman who holds a subordinate
position in the Treasury Department was
called on at his lodgings night or two
ago, and offered SO, 600 for an advanced
copy of the renort Of the Secretary of the
Treasury.
Amnesty.
There seems now to be no doubt that
She President will urge upon Congress in
his forthcoming message the enactment
OF a general amnesty law. The better
class of Southern Republicans all indorse
q moVemek of that character, and the
measure will receive great support from
the West, whose deep feeling in favor of
such law is reported to the President 10
oe constantly on the increase.
The Navy.
Unless Congress early in the session
passes g law authorizing an additional
number of enlistments in the United States
navy, there VIII not be men enough by
any means to fit out the vessels now being
prepared for sea service at the different
navy yards.
The Only Minister.
According to recent official advices
from Paris, Mr.. Washburne is the only
diplomat now there. All the other min
listers withdrew promptly from the scene
of privstion and stern interest, giving as
reason that they were following the
Provisional Government to Tours.
The United states and European
Affairs,
The Cabinet have for several meetings
discussed the question of this government
participating in European peace confer
ence, and to-day decided that it would be
inadvisable to respond to any invitation
Of the kind.
AGeneraI Indian War Impending.
An official letter from prominent
military officer in the West row declares
his impression that the Indians will enter
upon a general war On theI opening of
spring.
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DICKENS WOMEN.
Kate Field Defends the NoyelIst's
EemnIe Chara ciers.

Female Characters
Miss Kate Field recently delivered her
lecture on ''Charles Dickens" in the Globe
theatre, Boston, and 10 a very large
audience, though it occurred in the after
noon. The lecture has attracted general
attention for its analysis, and it may be
interesting to quote her remarks on female
characters, which were as follows:
But Dickens never yet drew a
woman, sings the old refrain. l have
often heard that Shakespeare has never
done justice to woman. Without insti-
eating comparisons where there should
be none, it seems to me that the two
charges are almost equally well founded.
If Shskspeare's and Dickens men play
the more prominent part, is there no
reason for it, Drama and novel demand
action, and the sphere of man up to
this year 1870, being broader, gives
to him the greater variety of char
acter. Neither writer dreamed of
the coming woman But shall they
be reviled for this? They took the
characteristics of women as so far de-
veloped, and fashioned such beings as
their genius created. If there are few So
called ladies in Dickens novels, thee are
fewer gentlemen, aud shall we ,.1srrel
with Hogsrth for not being Sir Joshua
Reynolds Are we to judge genius by
what never was intended to be or by what
it is? His stories are for the most part
homely, his people are homely. If his
women are not large-brained, they are
what is infinitely better, large-heaIted,
and in endeavoring to reach the ideal in
his own mind he feared that he blotted
their characters.
Dickens, the editor, had hearty well
come for the woman of brains as for the
man of brains. His valued friend, Mrs.
| Gasken, was his first contributor to House
hold Words. He discovered the talents of
Anne Adelaide Proctor, to whose legends
and lyrics he wrote a touching preface. He
was first to welcome Mrs Thomas Adolphus
Trollope, whose novels of 'Aunt Mar
garet's Trc ubles, 'tMsbe's Progress, ETC.,
are attributed to his own dau liter The
| friend of these women, of Fanny Kemble,
George Elliot, and Miss Burdett Coutts,
| to the last of whom he dedicated
Martin Chuzzlewit, and whose private
| donations in certain quarters he managed
for years, could not disbelieve in feminine
intellect. Indeed, I am old-fashioned
enough to be grateful to Dickens for his
| female characters. He has conceived silly
women, weak women, inconsequent wo-
men, cold women of society, women per
verted by circumstances or rendered un-
lovely by miserable inheritance, but he has
never drawn a thoroughly bad woman.
Even the worst Of all, worst in the worlds
eyes, redeems herself at last by devotion
and self-sacrifce, and her vice is but the
| excess of virtue"
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CHAUCER'S TABARD INN.
An Interesting Relic.


Chaucer's Tabard inn is still standing
in London. The Echo says: Hard by
SaViour's in Borough High street, less
than five minutes walk from London
bridge, there may yet be seen some poor
remains of what was once Tabard inn.
You turn from the street into one of
those courtyards which in the east of
London are so frequent, and find at once
that the very name has felt the influence
of time. Following in the wake of
''The Coat and Compssses" once
was 'God encompass us"-the ''Tabardn
has undergone phonetic decay, and now
known as the talbot" The claims of
history are, however, recognized by an
inscription which hangs over the door
way of the Talbot, announcing the house
to be, in spite of its name, the "Ancient
Tabard Inn." The whole yard is redo
lent of dilation. Facing one, on enter
ing, there is an interesting block of old
buildings, forming part of the left side
and the bottom of what was once an am
pie courtyard. This part of the build
ing contains not improbably the shell of
the corresponding portion of the inn. The
doors of the first floor all open into one
of the wide ballustraded galleries or We
randss so common TO the genuine old
English hostelry. Up to about a year
ago the landlord of the small public
house, bearing the name of Talbot, which
forms part of modern mass of brick
building blocked up the rigm side and
part of the center of the courtyard,
rented the rooms that surround this bal
lustraded gallery. They were let out as
bedrooms, and kept in good repair. They
are at any rate on the site of the very
rooms tenanted by the twenty mine Can
terbury pilgrims on the eve of their
immortal pilgrimage; one of them
still bears the special name of
"Chaucer's ROOM" and the gallery, as
far as the mere looks goes, differs proba-
bly, but very little from that scene of the
hosts anxious labors, when in the morn
ing he acted as "Chanticleer, and went
round to rouse each pilgrim from his bed.
But some twelve months or more ago the
landlord of the public house became in
solvent; even the paltry tavern, where
what remained of the old "Tabardn hos
pitality, was shut up, and the bedrooms
were dismantled. In that plight they may
now be seen-empty, dusty, dresry-
above ranged ground floor premises which
do duty as q parcels conveyance office,
and abutting on mean and kept yard.
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EMANCIPATION.

To the Editors Of the Union and American:
The immigration convention which is
TO assemble at Indianapolis on the 23d
inst, to devise means for the better pro-
lection of the immigrant when he lands
on our shores, is decidedly one of the
most suspicious movements that could be
inaugurated. From time immemorial the
enigrant has been great sufferer at the
hands of a lot of sharpers, who are to be
found in nearly every city in the Union,
seeking whom they may devour, and in
numerous instances the unfortunate emf
grant has been left penniless in strange
land, depending on the cold charities of
those with whom he came to unite his
destiny. To obviate this cruelty and to
secure means by which the emigrant can
find home among strangers, and be sent
on his way rejoicing, is the purpose for
which the convention is intended.
Many things will doubtless be suggest
ed in the interest of immigration, among
which is the appointment of agents rep
resenting the different States, whose duty
it will be 10 proceed to Europe and en-
courage, by every means in their power,
the bone and sinew of Europe to emf
CRATE.
Heretofore the majority of European
immigrants have known but little of the
advantages to be obtained in the Southern
States, and more especially the State of
Tennessee; therefore it is highly essen
tisl that agents be sent from this State to
Europe, to invite immigration. This
would certainly be move. IN the right
direction
During a. visit to Europe q short time
since, the writer of this met several thou
sand who contemplated inmigratilg, and
arc only waiting to procure the necessary
means and receive sufficient evidence from
this side of the Atlantic that when they
land on American soil they are to receive
all the protection to which they are enti-
tied.
These fertile lands and salubrious eli
mate have only to be known to the emf
grant to be appreciated; and as soon as
agents are sent abroad to invite immigra-
ton to Tennessee, and to represent the
Southern people who have been so long
misrepresented, the Southern States viii
prosper more than ever before, and Ten
nessee will be filled to overlooking with
the bone and sinew of Europe.
Nov, 90, EURRKA.0
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INVENTIONS OF CIVILIZATION.

Commerce and art tend to produce all
new and rare objects, and tt Is the lux
uries of one age become the lacessities of
the next. Carpets and chimneys belong
now to every cottage, but Queen Bess
herself swept her ermined trains over rush
strewn floors, and noblemen once sat
blinking in the smoke that curled alOug
the rafters with no chance of escape.
The potato came first to be started as q
curious tuber from South American wilds,
and tea was slipped at great entertain.
ments, two hundred years ago, as the
rarest and costliest of drinks. We re-
member that nails and pins had their day
of value, when we see in old houses the
floor boards fastened down with wooded
pegs, and consider that pin-money meant
the greater part of the expenses of the
toilet
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A NEW article of import into this coun-
try is bamboo fiber, which is now being
received to considerable extent. It is
used as a substitute for palmetto leaves,
the fiber of which was used some time
since for mixing with any material for
the manufacture of textile fabrics, but
which was abandoned on account of the
difficulty of producing sufficient guam
tity to supply the demand for il,
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NORTH CAROLINA.
Ex-GcV. Vance Elected United States

Ex-GcV.V Vance Elected United States
Senator.
RALEIGH, n. c., Nov. 29.-At II
O'Clock to-day, in joint meeting of the
Legislature, eI-Gov. f. B. Vance was
elected United States Senator. The vote
stood Vance, "a; Abbott, As.
Democratic Congressman Elected.
RALEIGH, n. c.. Nov. 3O.-Manning
OemocraD beats Joe w. Holden for the
unexpired term in the forty-frst Congress,
from this district by thirty-six majority.
Severe storm on the Coast,
WILMINGTON, N. c., Nov. SG.-There
is northeast storm prevailing, and it is
feared the ship Persia will go TO pieces.
Five TO six hundred bales of cotton were
saved and the crew taken off to day.
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EEW YORK.
CaIlIcut 10 be Released

NEW YORK, Nov. S0.-It is privately
announced that ex-Speaker Callicut will
be released from the Albany penitentiary
this week. The $40, GOO fine has been ar
ranged by his bondsmen.
The Health of Chief Justice Chase.
Chief Justice Chase, now at Narrs
gansett, is reported slowly but apparently
surely recovering his strength. Paralysis
has not in any manner affected his mind,
and he is able TO walk and ride as usual,
but is suffering from great loss of
strength, and his physician has forbidden
any attempt to resume his duties on the
bench for the present, and prescribed total
rest and retoration from all labor.
Heaurcgard.
Gen. G. P. t. Beaurega1d, of the late
Confederate army, sailed for France Co.
day on the Vile De Paris,
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THE ATLANTIC CABLES.
AHitch Somewhere.

LONDON, Nov. 91.-The steamer Robert
Lowe sailed from Hearts Content on
Saturday last TO repair the Atlantic cable
of 1866, which was injured about sixty
five miles from that point. We have just
received information that the cable of
1865 has also ceased working, and that
the fault is ABOUT the same distance from
Hearts Content. 1t is, therefore, prob
able, that the steamer has grappled the
wrong cable. As the steamer is on tie
spot it is hoped that both cables will soon
be repaired.
Although the French cable is able to
transmit westward with about its usual
facility, it is from some unknown cause
unable to transmit eastward except with
great difficulty, and very slowly. Notice
is hereby given that for the present mes
sages cannot be received for any psrt of
Europe. The public will be informed at
the earliest moment when messages can
be received for Europe.
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EINeRNUITY IN availiAg themselves

ElNGRNUTTY IN aValllAg themselves OF the
elasticity of the franking privilege is not
confined alone to patriotic members of
the American Congress. The field mail
of the German army receives no packages;
but all letters weighing less than sixteen
ounces are forwarded free of charge.
A pair of flannel drawers, therefore,
cannot be sent in a letter, but femi-
nine ingenuity has hit upon the plan
of sending one leg at time And, as
for flannel shirts, the sleeves are sent in
one letter and the body of the shirt in
another. This dislocation of garments is
symbolIcal of the disruption of the ties
which bind two loving hearts and theil
ultimate reunion is suggested by the put
ting together of the aforesaid shirts and
drawers on their arrival in camp.
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H.. u.o.o sc Norodo hoo

THE State Of Nevada has sent to Ger
many bar of silver valued at So, 1913, as
subscription for the relief of the wound
ed. On it is inscribed in German: 'For
the German wounded, and for the widows
and orphans of the fallen of Germany in
the war of 1870" and underneath this,
in English: Germany, battling for unity
and civilization, commands the sympathy
of Republican America. We may not
draw the sword with her, but we desire
to help in staunching her wounds
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CRIME, it seems, seldom psys in the
long run. The New Haven, Conn, aim
house has 1874 inmates at present. Of
these all but nine have at some time of
their lives been in the hands of the law
for various grades of offence. If crimi-
nails so frequently bring up in the aims
house, after getting out of prisons, what
inducements can there be to follow 9
criminal course of life If it does moi
"psy," where is the fascination