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Russia is recognizing her army, which, in
war time is to consist OF 900, COO men, be-
sides 66 CossAck regiments, and l 900 ad-
ditional guns. she has Invaded Soungsris. a
large country on her eastern border, because
OF the refusal Of the inhabitants to extradite
q fugitive A year OF var in Cuba has cost
spain <62 0OO 90. vet she has sent more
troops 70 the Island, and. wants SD COG, 900
worth Of credit for military puIposes.-The
international Soc ETY., said to be now spread :
ing sociAlistic doctrines In EuglaDd " it'll great
freedom, has been Matching a conspiracy at
Barcelona, which, however, mas been detected,
great stores OF bOmbshells, ETC., captured,
and at least 20 Of the scoundrels arrested
About one in every 100 OF the French Com
munists have been sentenced, and something
like 10, 900 are released.-Cold weather threat
ems to drive the Versailles Assembly into
Paris.-Pdnce Napoleon has been speaking
in Corsica. and Count PAIikao has published
q justification OF his acts during the last 10
days OF the late EDpire.-Dutch workmen
are striking In Client. and Saxon operatives
have blocksded business in % Chemnitz
factories, because they dislike TO labor more
than 10 hours q day, and want pay for over
work.-Sw zerland has bill OF $500 600
against France for board and lodging furnish
ed to Bourbakis army during the difficulty
with Bismarck.
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The Newcastle Engineers.

From the Reform.
The settlement Of this long-pending in
dustrial battle has virtually decided great
national question. 1t is impossible to con-
meet local ideas with the struggle Just fin
ished; for though the five months war has
been waged between workmen and employ
ers on the Tyne, the issues have been
watched and will now be accepted as in
volving consequences destined to affect the
whole industrial population of the country
and to affect it permanently. The rec
ognized hours Of labor have now been re-
duced by one per day and the workmen
throughout the length and breadth of the
land will ere long be in the enjoyment Of
blessings which Increased leisure are likely
to produce. The engineers of Newcastle
have fought for their brethren in all depart
ments of labor, and the British artisan,
wherever placed, will, when his turn comes
to share in the fruits of this victory, re-
member with gratitude the heroic efforts
and splendid endurance of the men of
Tyneside But workingmen viii not for
get that with increased privileges there is
ever involved an increase of duty. An old
book tells US that where much is given,
much will be required, and we may feel
sure that the text will not be a stranger %
the wOrkman's ear, if he fails to show by
his future bearing that he appreciates and
is ready to improve his expanded oppor-
tunities. We know that the habits OF
twenty, thirty, or forty years are not to be
cast aside like an old garment The work
man who has been long accustomed to ex-
cessive hours of labor will not all at once
be able to throw off its enervating effects
he will find that the profitable expenditure
of his leisure hours is an art to be learned
as well as a pleasure enjoyed. Then, again,
if this boon is to be productive of solid adj
vantages to the engineer, he must not rest
content with what has been achieved. If
he continues as hitherto to work far into
the night, and if his dear-bought victory
has only secured the continuance of extra
time and extra pay, it will be, to large ex-
tent, conquest of barren results. Extra
time even with its increased remuneration,
has always been a great curse to the work
ingman, and as this system has prevailed
among the engineers to larger extent
than in any other class, and as il seriously
affects the position Of the trade, while il
exhausts and demoraliZes the individual,
we hope that this peculiar institution will
keep company and depart with the ten
hours day. But it has been urged that the
workman will accomplish as much in nine
as in ten hours, by the increased diligence
and spirit he may be expected TO throw
into his work, and, since the contest is over
there will be no lack of critical eyes 10
watch the fulflment of this augury. We
Lave no fear Of results in this respect. II
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to the Superior Court. The council for 7 o.
ltical reform have named George C. Barrett
or the Judgeship Of the Supreme Court, the
aforementioned Curtis aud Harper c. Van
Worst for the Superior Court, Gen. sigel for
Register add O'Donovan Rosa aud Daniel r.
Tieman for the Stste Senate. The Committee
OF Seventy looks on approvingly, Ben Wood
shouts applause, and the Greeley Republicans
join with the Murphy men in adopting the
city nominations Of Reform Democrats. In
Ohio the Cincinnati Enquirer is proposing
Col. Thomas q. scott Of Pennsylvania, q fair
man and once Stanton's Assistant War Sec
Rotary, for the Democratic Presidential can.
didacy next year.
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BRAZILIAN TURTLES The SIZE Of Braz Ian
turtles may be imagined from the fact that
the nippers and feet Of one, in crawling over
the sand leave q track OF two irregular
grooves three or Iour feet sDart, as though
or at wagon with cog wheels had been driven
over the ground. |. is an easy matter to Ind
a turtles nest by this track. She comes out
o! tine sea and travels far up on the beach TO
lay her eggs in the sand, digging hole foot
and half or two feet deep for the nest
Professor Hart, who was in Brazil with Pro-
fessor ACassZ saYs that he saw a turtle
deposit 143 eggs 10 one OF these nests. The
eggs are all laid at one sitting, then covered
up closely with the sand ard left to hatch.
Tue eggs are rather larger than hens eggs,
round, and covered with tough, white Skin.
The BraZlians eat the eggs, and also the nesn
CT the turtle The creature is captured in .
curious way. Two persons go behind II, ara
taking hold OF the shell. turn the animal on
Its back, in which position It Ii ut the mercy
of its eaptors, a. it Il impossible for it to turn
ON its feet again. The hunters are obliged 70
creep up behind 1t cautiously, for % soon %
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TIE Ohio returns are'in showing the Re-
publican majority tor Noyes over McCook for
the Governorship to be 20. l5s. Stewart, the
Prohibition man, received 4,0S4 votes.-In
Georgia GOV. Bullock has re signed and gone
to New York, in the midst OF great cxcite-
meut, and the President Of the Senate, Benz
Conley. took the vacated place at 3 o'clock
last Monday aftersoon. Gov. Bowen, OF
Idaho, has resigned also. and Gen. Thomas W.
Bennett, OF Indiana, succeeds him BY appoints
ment-In New York Gov. Horatio seys
mour il running for the Assembly 10 thar city
against Mr.. Tom Fields, Tammsnyite,
Mr.. 0'Conor was offered the nomination, but
declined 1t because he thinks he can
be Of greater service elsewhere. The
sDemocntic ReIormeS have nomiuak1d
WIN. R cHFsis and John aed9WldHI
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ABOUT $50 cases have been, or are to be,
Instituted against the Staten Island Ferry
ComPsny by WestHeld sufferers, who claim
from $1,000 to SIS 600 damages apiece
The Ludlow street jail In New York is being
cleared Of its inmates, some OF whom are
discharged and bers directed to prepare
statements. One paraly tic has been discovered
among them, and discharge has been asked
for one who was let out for the purpose, on
habeas corpus. on the ground that the ''debt
ors' prison" is, sanitarily, an unfit place for
confinement Supreme Court at Wash
ington affirmed the decisions, on Monday and
In the case OF Chilo's directed Judgment to be
entered against the United States, in matter
relating to stores furnished to the army Of
the West-Mr. Evans is discharged on the
accusation OF embezzliug Pennsy lyania War
claim funds, but is under bonds to respond to
a capids. Certain frauds on the government
in the Department of Bounty Claims are rails
ing an uproar, and one Powell, clerk in the
second Auditors office, and one
Stokes, a Tennessee Supervisor Of In,
ternal Revenue, have been arrested
The sum vanished is not ye. known,
but may reach $10O, O0e. Stokes gave $4,000
baiL-Col. Whitley Of the U. 5. secret service,
has made the most important arrest Of eoun-
terieiters recorded in the history OF American
finances, He has captured in New York city
the only man and the only machine outside OF
Government employ, that are supposed to be
capable Of making fibre paper. He his found
4
go $40 and g, and fractional currency bills.
a stamp for fac-simile treasury seal, and
f45, 600 counterfeit money.
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FIRE has swept like q storm from far to the
westward. aud is now scorching the State OF
ofNew York. consuming barns, nourirg mills,
tam rack swsnps aud thousands OF tons Of
hsy. In the north west, it has interfered with
teitgraphic communication. l. has left so 900
OF the people Of Michigan and Wisconsin
shel,er'ess, suffering for warm clothing, and in
want Of buiiding-tools aud materials as well
as money. The telegraph reports three
large fires on the 3Oth Of October, in F1It
Wayne. Ind. Concord, y. H., and Florence,
Mich, destroying IN the aggregate Sos, coo
worth OF property.
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the engineer be allowed 10 emmy IN The
full the great Blessing which he has novy
won the nine hours will turn out AN NH
vantage To the employers rs well a. N fba
men in the quality and quantity of tbe
work produced The British engineer bas
been frequently threatened with the intro
ductiOn Of foreign workmen into this
country. That experiment has now been
tried, and its wOrthlessness proved by the
total breakdown Of the schemes by which
the employers sought to supplant the native
Workmen. OF this industrial New
Lealander we are not likely TO hear again
IN the present generation. The EMPLOYERS
on the Tyne have doubtless found bv
tne experience of the last few months.
that their Continental protege il
tather expensive and somewhat unsatis-
factory product. and will be careful in the
future not to put him in the balance
against British experience. skill and
muscle And now that this well-foupht
campaign Is finished, now that right has
once more won IN the strife. we can lock
into the future, and with unminOled rIea-
sure contemplate the certain outcome ~
the struggle. In this country every branch
OF trade and every class of tradesmen will
and must reap advantages Of the highest
and noblest kind. But the results viii
not be confined to our own shores. The
impetus thus given to ennobling endeavors
will be felt over all the European CONT
nent, and workmen in every country will
feel the renewal within themselves of an
elevated confidence and hope that will
point the way TO greater triI mphs, while
II tempers and refnes the mode Of war
iarei and mOderates the exultation of accu-
mulating successes.
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ID 10 pursuit Of four or I've baLkruptinsuranCe
companies which he wants TO dissolve, and
has filed bill against the 4" Republic" which
Is allowed to escape temporarily, to give it
chance 10 collect unpaid stock. An unsuc-
eetsiul attempt to bun an Episcopal church
took place last Thursday, and the Incendlsry
Wss not caught. Il is some satisfaction TO
know that many OF those who were burned
Of the great Dire were greedy thieves. who
were cut OF by the flames while searching Tor
undtr
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AMERICAN READING.-Io my ear, the great
defect in American reading Is its want Of
nsiuralness and simplicity il lie too lsbored,
too intense, too self conscious. In England,
we sin exactly in the opposite way. An in
durable slovenliness, arising fro 10 the fear OF
appearing suited or theatrical, or from a
lethsrgic or indolent nature, sTols the read,
ing OF many even of our best schools. Tue
articulation OF Americans generally IL very
distinct; their SPEAKERS ana preachers rarely
fail into our bad h8bit of dropping the voice
al the end OF the period. thus cutting OF, to
the listener. the thought at its most vital
point English Report
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CURIosITIEs OF MEMoRT.-Robert Dillon
could repeat IN tue morning six columns Of
newspaper be had read overnight. Daring
the repeal debates IN the House Of Commons
81 years ago one OF the members wrote out
his speech, sent IT TO the newspapers, and re.
peated it to the House in the evening 1t was
found to be the same verbatim as thai which
he had written out John Fuller,a land agent
10 Norfolk. could remember every word
OF q sermon and write it Out correctly after
gong hCme this WAS tested by comparing
his written account with the clergymah's
manuscript Scsliger could repeat leo versts
or more after having read them single time.
Seneca could repea. 900 words on hearing
them once. Magliabecchi, who had prodI-
gious memory. Was once Put to a severe test.
A gentleman lent him q manuscript, which
was read and returned. Inc owner, some
time Afterwards pretending he had lost It,
begged Aagliabecchi to write cut as
much as be could remember; where
upon the latter, appealing to his
memory, wrote out the whole es-
say. Cyrus, II some Of the old bistorisns
are to be credited, could remember the name
OF every sollie in his immense army. There
was Corsican boy VINO could rehearse 4O,r
600 worcs. whether senee or nonsense, as they
were dictated, and then repeat them In the
reversed order. without making single mis-
take, A physician OF Massachusetts abous
cat century ago. coult repeat the whole
of a. Paradise Lost without mistake. although
he had not read 1t for 20 years. Euler, the
great mathematician, when be bt came Uilod
could repeat ihe whole OF Virxi's Eneid, y
and could remember the first line and the last
line on every page OF the particu ar edition
which he had been accustomed to read before
he became blind.
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PRoGREss OF RAILROAD BUILDING
Texas will hold this year $50 miles Of rail
road The State within the last three
years has given $25,000000 to railroads,
amounts from the Legislature and counties.
The international will complete 40 miles /;
Texas Central GO; Texas Pacific, 90; San
Antonio and Indianoia, 40; Galveston and
San Antonio, 40; Waco Tan, 30; Houston
and Red River, 40. Grading will be done
on all the roads, and the work completed
first part of next year.
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EVENINGS AT HOME -VsFieey 10 the Arst thing
Aeediul for anus sment. aud little unwritten
pro Gramme which arranged conVcrsation,
music, reading, and Inc round game In their
due sequence, would be simply introducing
into the family party the same principle which
u proved bY experience to be essential to the
success OF any public entertainment Much
again may be done with each OF thes3 elements
OF social enjoyment In themselves. Music,
for instance as 1t IS AZ present employed In
evenings at nome, Is one OF the most irritating
and annoying things In the world. 1t Is
mere chance which piece IL played, or who
tie composer Is, or what the Etyle OF q usic
may be. Imagine little thought given to
the character and succession OF the pieces
played, the devotion OF i've minutes to the
arrangement OF q dexterous alienation Of
vocsl with instrumental m1sic, or the
placing the more scientific pieces at the
beginning OF the little home concert and q
velY glee at the close. We once knew
family where Ssakespere was read in character,
as it were. and each memoer OF the circle
round the home table took a separate
parsonage in the play. Reading OF this Kind
would give a real OASIS Tor conytrsaticn.
There is 10 reason in the world that good
conversation should be so rare as it is but,
men ano women will only learn really TO
converse whtn conversation, IN the true sense
OF the word is familiar 10 them at home. But
to converse-in other words, TO find fresh
subjects and treat them freshly atone Of light
ness and ease without falling into friyolity; 10
know how to avoid mere discussion and con
troveIsy, and yet TO deal with topics OF re
interest and value to perceive when theme
Is socially exhausted, and when the moment
has come for a dlgression; now TO check one
member OF the circle, or ID draw out the
otner ; how to give heir proper place even
to jest and reparLee-sll this Is no easy
matter. 1t requires, as we urged 10 the
former cases, t0rethought and trouble and
little organization. But we can hardly
conceive anything which would contribute In
a higher degree to The happiness ofan evening
at home SIfIrI7u RepiSr
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FRoM the Bureau OF the Interior comes q
Recommendation to that Of war, to turn the
whisky selling whites out Of the Sioux
country, where the big Indian, spotted Tail, is
now disposed to dwell in peace and amity on
the banks OF the North Platte. The Choctaw
claim Of 500 ON is in a way to be attended
to, ard Vincent Conyer reports the Apaches
as starved into q desire for peace, the scouts
hsvirg hunted tn IN away from the Govern@
men. pOsts whenever they came after food.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

GEN. ROBERT ANDERSON. the hero Of Fort
Sumpter died al Nice last hursdsy evening
The Pope's PRIME Minister, Cardinal Antonelh,
is dangerously iil.-In Austria the II ohenWortb
Ministry has resigned. which seems to indi-
cate that Francis Joseph mas s0opted Won
Beusrs ia, As respecting the demands Of the
Bohemian Diet.
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Hon. THos. EWING, LII. D., died at Lam
clster, Ohio, Of heart disease, on the 10Th of
October, ut the age OF nearly 50. He was
Wing Senator In 1881, Secretary Of tie Treas
ufY under Harrison and Tyler In 1S41, Sec
Rotary Of the Interior under Gen. Taylor in
1941s snd Senator again in 1850. He was
fsmoQs e Q lawyer, and appropriate action
hap hs11 taken By the Attorney General. the
Hupteme Court and the Ohio bar, with re-
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A NEW USE FOR DIAMoNDS.-Ihere are row
in operation al the American Institute two
diamond drills (Hanu'actured in this country
under the Lesscnot patents). which seem
likely to rtvolutlOnze the business OF rock
drilling. The invention grew cut Of the diff
ieulties encountered In the prosecution of
the wolk on the Mont Gents tunnel. The
ordinary methods Of drilling with iron or
steel instruments rtce-sltaied a repairing
force greater than that needed to work the
drills. and the application OF diamonds as the
boring or drilling agent Was adopted accord
ingly. The diamonds are embedded in steel
boring BIT, sold Or anIu ar, and are left
slightly projecting so ttar hey present cut
ting points, which no to nation bas Jet been
found hard enough 10 rts.s-. The motion OF
this BORING head Is rotary aud continuous, and
cuts Ger tcuy cylindrical hole OF the same
SIZE, top and bottom. The drill rod Is made
hollow IN order that q volume Of water may
be conducted 10 the bit, at once m0istening
the rock, was hing tie cuttings away and pre-
venting the overheAting Of the diamonds. 1t
is claimed, aud from the testimony adcueed
We cannot doubt il, that these drills need few
il any repairs and the DIAMONDS no sharpen
ing. A specially OF these drills, and an i'm
portant one, is that they produce core from
the rock OF the same slZe as the inner peri
phery Of the nUular bit, which shows TO any
depth the different stratifcaions through
which the drill passes. This product is par
ticularly valusbe in testing the value OF mines
and quarries. We learn that in PotIsville, Pa,
a perpendicular hoe was bored to the depth
OF ISL feet, and another ONE la Northumoer-
land county horiZ lntally 645 feet. We beS
lieve that these are hut Indications OF what
the drill can DO, as il is claimed that there le
no diminutiOn OF power al any depth.
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II lie alarmed 1t thrusts lie fore paddles into
the sand and throws IT behind, so that II rhe
pursuers DO not ouicSIy close their eyes they
are liAely TO be blinded.
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MINERS BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE
VI Association, Of Indiana. meets every fourth
Friday IN each mouth. The officers Of the general
PRESIDENT Dennis Byrnes Treasurer James
rnatrlek; Corresponding Secretary. John Penman.
hour OF meeting, O'Clock in the morning
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VIRGINIA RIVAL or THE YosENIrE.-A
correspondent OF the New York Tribune gives
an interesting account OF the New X yer gorge
in Virginia, through which a railway Is nov
IN courre OF construction. The trad u not
only sleeper anG mo difficult tnan that Of
the Yosemite, but 50 instead OF Two miles
long. Inc sceBerS Is exceedingly Wild. The
rlver rises 10 North Carolina and h)Rs norih~
ward an / wesi ward until II falls into the Kan.
avba, about two mliss above the great falls.
It's water is too warm ~ drink its current
is fierce and trracherous lts course IS full Of
rapids, so that navlE at on IL Impossible, aud
even lumber rats cannot be 1olted on II SAFE
u; Its banks are steep, and in many parts
PERCEPTIONS, and from 500 to 1900 feet high.
l. has, tor a. least 50 miles above the Kan
awhA, absolutely no bottom LANDS or q 1t III ore;
and when the engineers were making surveys
for the line Of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
they had to take their measurements and lev-
els, suspended by rop 5, and transported their
provisions and tools on the backs Of men from
point to point. tunnel, nearly as long as
the Hoosac bore, will be one OF tee features OF
the railway through this canyon.
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EVENINGS,
for their convenience.
Means for Identifying DeposItOra:

When new Deposition first comes to the Savings
Bank. precautions are taken and records made 10
that he may always be identified. and 40 that in
case book lie lost. the owner thereof cannot be
de frauded.
The business Of this institution il confined exclu-
sively TO the receipts and Of Savings Deposts
and Funds deposited ia tru-t- No Commercial or
General Banking businers l. transacted.
certain proportion of the funds are invested by
loan upon real estate in the city Of Chicago. in
making such loans, preference IL always given to
applications from DepoSitors Of small means Who
have accumulated in the institution. sufficient
funds To pay for lot OF ground and desire to Dor
row something more TO aid them in erecting build
ngs 10 be used a. permanent homes for themselves
and families
yB Money RENTED BY Dram to Europe or else
where for DepOsitor-.
Ey- The Plans Of Cheap Cottages. selected by
a committee Of depositorS In this Institution may
ibe at the Savings Bsnk.
PRESENT OFFICE
No. "a South Halsted ST.
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wills.

Printed Forms Of wills have been prepared by the
Counsel OF the Savings Bank. 50 that any DEPOSIT
tor may legally designate some one who may take
charge Of HE Money and Properly. and be guardian
OF HE Children in case OF his Death thus much
Inconvenience and Expense may Ne avoided An
Of1cer Of the SavingS Bank (without anv charge
for his servicesl prepares viii for any Depositor
plying.
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working People.

At the rate Of six per cent. per annum is paid on
all sums Of Five Dollars or more.
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DepOsitOrs,

Whether Fore igners or Cifizens have the same
rights a. e Property, and IN Gaze Of Death any
Money 70 their credit will b. paid 10 their Legal
representatives, whether they are il this country
or elsewhere