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WASHINGTON.
the French Arms speculation.

WASHINGTON, March 10 -Squires testi-
fed before the Senate Committee to-day
that the Remingtons were allowed five per
cent. commission by the French for The
arms they bought. Witness inferred that
they were commission merchants, not
agents of the French. He showed Gen.
Dyer a dispatch of Oct. Is, 1870, from
which Secretary Belknap inferred that the
Remingtons were French agents, because
he wanted 10 facilitate sales and shipments
after an order forbidding sales. He didn't
consult any middlemen. He did put in an
other bid after the order. 1t was not then
known that Remingtons ruled. He didn't
want it known. w. S. Smoot while on
six months leave of absence from the ord
nance department, was sort of agent for
the Remingtons. Smoot resigned after his
leave was up.
Mr.. Logan explained that officers who
are going 10 resign got leave of absence.
Witness believed the arms purchased by
Richardson would fall into the hands of
Remington.
The House Committee on the Sale Of
Arms and Ordnance Stores meet again to-
morrow morning when the testimony of
Secretary Robson and Commodore Casey
viii be taken.
Another DefsuIter Detected.
Gen. David L. Stanton, Collector of the
Fifth Maryland District, has been arrested
and dep0sed of his position charged with
being a defaulter in from $4,000 to $780,
900
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100 MICH SEED,

A man pays one dollar for one pound OF
some new variety of potatoes; cuts it,plants
one eye in hill, gives extra care and culti-
vatiOn, and reports great yield of an extra
quality of potatoes. Now, suppose we take
the same course with some old variety, and
report the result.
One Of the most successful potato grow
ers ever knew in Ohio says he finds one
eye in a hill always enough.
Hon. Z. g. Jones, of Delaware, o., in an
agricultural essay on "Delaware Comfy"
says one Ofthe most successful oorn-grow-
ers iDstrVcts his dropper when he comes to
the intersection of the furrOw or the hill:
'There do you stop, and stand there till
the day of judgment if necessary, until you
there deposit three grains. Mark you, not
from three to six, but three; no more, no
less"
In field of wheat One-half sown, short
one and half bushels per acre yielded
twenty bushels per acre; the other half, one
and five-eighths bushels of seed per acre
yielded sixteen bushels per acre.
One field of corn, four to six grains of
seed per hill, yielded forty bushels (by meas
ure) of small ears and nubbins. Another
field. three to four grains per hill, yielded
forty=ive bushels large ears per acre
Prairie Former
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THE STONES THAT. GATHER NO
MOSS.

Many Of our readers have doubtless
heard of the famous travelling stone of Aus
trala. Similar curiosities have recently
been found in Nevada, which are described
as almost perfectly round, the majority of
them as large as walnut, and Of an irony
nature. When distributed about upon the
floor, table, or other level surface, within
two or three feet of each other, they imme-
diately begun travelling toward a common
center, and there huddle up in a bunch
like lot of eggs in nest A single stone,
removed to distance of three and half
feet, upon being released, at once started
of, with wonderful and somewhat comical
celerity, to join its fellows; taken away four
or five feet it remained motionless. III y
are found in a region that is comparatively
level, and is nothing but bare rock. Scat
tered over this barren region are little ba-
sins, from foot to a rod in diameter, and
it is in the bottom of these that the rolling
stones are found. They are from the size
of a pea to five or six inches in diameter.
The cause of these stones rolling together
is doubtless to be found in the material of
which they are composed, which appears to
be loadstone or magnetic iron ore. "ROll-
ing stones gather no moss"
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CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

The Supreme Court OF Mississippi de-
cdes that payments by railroads to the
State in Confederate money during the
war were Illegal, and must be paid over.
The testimony of Collector Murphy be-
fore the CustOmhouse Committee, yester-
day, gave a racy account of Grants under
hand war against Greeley's ASPIRATIONS.
Walter Evans, President of the recent
Kentucky Radical Convention, publishes a
card annihilating the notorious Gen. Bur
bridge in genteei fashion.
The Wisconsin Legislature has caught
Vanderbilt making a big railroad cJnsoli-
dation contract on condition that the Wis
consin land grant now pending in Congress
be not renewed.
New York papers estimate Monday
procession at 80, 900 to $4,000 souls.
A wealthy family near Baltimore has been
mysteriously poisoned. The mother is
dead but the five children may recover.
The Cincinnati-Newport bridge was test
ed yesterday with five locomotives-13O
tons-greatest detection Il inch in the 4Ot
eet span.
The negro Pinchbeck conyokes the
Louisiana Radicals in State Convention Oh
May 2.
The Bureau Of Statistics reports our i'm
ports for 1871 at $3.50, ,9Os, ,729, and exports
at S537 ,973,OS+
Typhus is prevailing in Brooklyn; there
are AZ cases at the House of the Good
Shepherd, and four Sisters of Mercy have
died.
The railroad war between Iowa and Ne
braska continues and the bridge at Omaha
remains an idle monument of architecture.
FOREIGN.
A motion Of Sir Charles Dixie to inveSti-
gate the Queens expenses since 1888, Great
ed great uproar yesterday in the English
Commons. After great confusion and three
efforts 10 count the House, the vote was de-
clared to be ayes 2, noes 274.
A serious workingmen's riot occurred
Yesterday at the Rothschilds' Tuines in
Wilt-Kowitz, Austria. The troops killed
four Of the rioters.
Eleven hundred Spanish reinforeements
have landed in Cuba.
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CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.


Mr.. Ferry of Michigan, presented a re-
monstrance signed by 1,4OO citizens Of
Michigan against the Chicago Relief bill.
The bill for relief of the officers and crew
Of the Kearsarge passed. 1t directs the Sec
retary ofthe Treasury to pay them $4,000
prize money.
Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on
Finance, reported adversely bill to substi-
tute compound interest notes for legal ten
der notes.
Mr.. Pomeroy moved to take up the bill
to extend the time for the completion of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.
Objection was made and it went over.
Specie Payment.
Mr.. COrbett called up his bill to facilitate
specie payments by compelling banks to
hold their reserves in coin, and addressed
the Senate. He said it was the duty of the
administration to take some step toward
the resumption ofspecie payment, and ad-
yocated this bill as gentle and safe mea-
sure for that purpose.
Mr.. Sherman, from the Committee on
FiEance, reported the following bills adj
veISely, and on his motion, were indefi-
nitely postponed:
Mr.. Coles bill to abolish the income
tax; Mr.. Summers bill to reduce internal
taxes and abolish the Office of Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue, and Mr.. John
sfon's bill to provide an adequate supply of
circulating medium to States needing it.
Chicago Relief,
The Senate then resumed the considera-
ton of the Chicago relief bill.
Mr.. Sherman gave notice that if the Chi
cago bill should not be disposed of to-day,
be would insist on going on with the tariff
bill.
MIR. Scott said he was as willing as any
body to vote to relieve the Chicago suffer-
ers, but insisted that this bill was uncon-
stitutiOnal.
Mr.. Howe opposed the bin, but said he
was willing to vote direct appropriations.
Mr.. Wright argued that the bill was con-
stitutiOnal and ought to pass.
Mr.. Chandler again argued against the
bill
The amendment offered by Mr.. Morrill,,
of Vermont, specifying the articles to be
20.
Mr.. Ferry, of Michigan, offered bill, and
advocating his substitute, appropriating
100000 for the relief Of the sufferers by
the Chicago fire.
The amendment was rejected-yeas, II;
noes, %.
The substitute reported by the Finance
Committee was agreed to-yeas, "A; noes,
IA.
1t was unanimously agreed that the final
vote on the bill would be taken at o'clock
tomorrow. Senate adjourned.
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ROUSE.
Spanish -OutFages.

Mr.. Randall got unanimous consent, and
had passed a resolution calling for informa-
ton relative TO the case of DR.. j. Z. How
ard, a native of Philadelphia, and citizen
of the United States, who has been uuiuStly
arrested, condemned, and transported by
the Spanish authorities of Cuba to penal
settlement in Africa.
A bill relative to the capture of the IRON
clad Alabama was passed.
The Globe.
The bill for publishing debates in Con-
gTess was taken up.
Mr.. Amber offered an amendment di-
recting the Committee on Printing to pub
llsh for three months an advertisement in
at least one leading newspaper in each
State inviting proposals for reporting and
printing the debates of the Forty-third
Congress and also to have estimates made
of the cost of reporting and publishing the
debates by the Congressional printer, and
providing that no debates shall be reported
and published after the close of the present
Congress except on a written contract en-
tered into therefor by authority of Congress.
The amendment was agreed TO.
Mr.. Beatty offered a substitute for the
bill merely apprOpriating $250,000 to be
paid on account Of reporting and publishing
for the Forty second Congress. The sub
stitute was rejected, yeas y, nays los.
The bill as amended then passed without
division.
Mr.. Cox offered a resolution instructing
the Committee on Rules TO report a rule
restricting the publication of debates to de-
bates which actually occurred; agreed to.
Bleeding Kansas.
Mr.. Butler (Mass.) offered a resolution
authorizing the Judiciary Committee to
send for persons and papers, and to take
testimony in the matter of the memorial
and charges against Mark II. Delahay,
United States District Judge for Kansas;
adopted.
The Fisheries.
On motion of Mr.. Banks, the bill to carry
into effect the provisions Of the Washington
treaty iii relation to the fisheries, which
was the special order for to-day, was post
pOned till this day four weeks.
Mr.. Tafiee offered a resolution instruct
ing the Committee on Ways and Means to
inquire into the eXpediency of making the
fiscal year commence on the first of January.
Adopted.
Mr.. Tyner from the Postoffice Committee
reported back petitions from the envelope
manufacturers against the business being
carried on by the Postofiice Department.
Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
WOnan's Rights in the Territories.
Mr.. Sargent presented a petition, signed
by 1000 persons Of California, for the en-
fanChisement of the women in the Terrific
fies and the District of Columbia. Referred
to the Judiciary Committee.
The Chinese Subsidy.
The House went into Committee of the
Whole at 3 o'clock, and the debate on the
Pacific Mail subsidy was resumed, being
restricted to one hour.
Mr. CrocIser offered an amendment pro-
viding that in the event of war the vessels
of the line may be taken possession Of by
the Government, subject to equitable rc-
muneration and pay for them. He spoke
in support of the proposition.
Without disposing Of the bill, the COM
mittee rose and the House adjourned.
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THE CONGRESSIONAL APPORTIOE,
MEET.

We learn that the Apportionment Com
mittee last night agreed that the several
congressional districts should be constituted
as follows:
LIST District-JohnsoD, Carter, Sullivan,
Washington, Hawkins, Greene, Hancock
Claiborne, Union, Granger, Hamblen and
Cooke.
I'd DistFict-Sevier, Jefferson, Knox,
Anderson, Campbell, Scott, Morgan, Fen
tress, Cumberland, White, Putnam, Over
Ton, jackson, Smith, Macon and Clay.
Sd District-BlOunt, LOudOn, ROane,
Monroe, AcMinn, Polk, Meigs, Rhea, Brad
ley. James, Hamilton, Marion, Bledsoe,
Grundy, Van Buren and Warren.
4Ih District-Franklin. Lincoln, Mar
shall, Bedford, Coffee, Cannon and Ruther-
ford.
9th District-ROberson, Cheatham, Da-
wilson, Summer, Wilson, Trousdale and
DeKaSb.
9th District-Williamson, Maury, Giles,
Lawrence, Wayne, LEXIS, Hickman and
Dickson.
9TH District-Montgomery, Houston,
Stewart, Humphreys, Benton, Henry, Car
roll, Henderson, Decatur, Perry, Hardin
and McNairy.
Sth District-Madisbn, Crockett, Hay
wood, Lauderdale, Dyer, Gibson, Weakley,
Obion d nd Lake.
9th Dittrict-Shelby, Fayette, Upton and
Hardeman.
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THE GREENEVILLE TRAGEDY.
Efforts of the COrOner's JurY-TheIr
BabOrs Productive of Important Re-

BaBOrS PRODUCTIVE OF AnfpOrGant he
suits.
From the Knoxville Chronicle, March 10.
From gentleman just from GreeneviIle
we learn that the perpetratOr of the murder
and arson at Greeneville last Wednesday
morning has been discovered beyond all
reasonable doubt, and though for the pres
sent he has managed to elude capture, yet
precautions have been taken against his es-
Gaping justice.
The jury are energetic and faithful men,
and consists in part of the following: George
Jones, James O'Brien, A. w. Walker,
Emanuel Wilhoit and James GalbTaith, with
! Mr.. James Lyon as coroner, who have I'M
earthed important facts.
The evidence adduced goes to show that
a disreputable fellow who lives near
GreeneviIe committed the horrible deed
after mature deliberation, and had tried to
persuade young man named Fry to be an
accomplice. He detailed his plans also to
another young man, we are told, who
spurned it as Indignantly as did young Fry.
The plan proposed to both were carried out
to the letter, according to our information,
with what result we are are also too well
aware.
The scoundrel, after making the afro
ciOus proposals, upon finding them proof
against his murderous scheme, threatened
them with death if they should divulge
what he had said or might do, and since
this evidence, has been seen lurking around
Fry's residence, doubtless with the inten-
ton of putting an end to his life, on the
principle that ''dead men tell no tales"
The murderer was seen near Blue Spring
yesterday morning, and it is thought he is
alarmed and is trying to put as many miles
between himself and Greeneville as pOssi-
bic. He is a man of bad character, a war
rant against him for stealing being in the
hands of an officer before MIR. Mason was
killed. In fact the whole family are trif-
ling set and desperate withal, brother of
the fellow having set a church on fire in
Greeneyille before the war.
Our informant derived his information
from a reliable source, and we hope during
the day TO hear that the ruffian has been
taken.
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PARIS As CAV As EYER.

The light hearts and light heads of Paris
do not seem to be made heavy even by
enormous taxes Or spiked helmets. The
journals bristle with epigrams and per-
sifiage, the theaters are bright with novelty,
and the spring fashions are ehattered over
with an air Of exquisite enjoyment. A
grand demi-monde dinner was given at a
famous restaurant on the night of Feb.
10. The money to pay for it was won at
a race. Two distinguished golden youths
Of the capital competed for five thousand
francs on velOcipedes. The course was from
Ciehy to Vincennes, and the Vise0unt De
Q-wOn by three hundred yards. The
stakes chiefly, no doubt, in the shape Of
truffles, champagne, and flowers, were duly
enioyed by some of the most dazzling and
disreputable women of Paris; and pobOdy
suggested the nobler gse thai might be made
of the money by giving it to reduce the
German indemnity.
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As rubber plates and rings are used al
most exclusively for making connections be-
tween steam and other pipes, much annoy
ance is experienced by the imperfection OF
an air-tight connection. This is Obviated
by employing cement which fastens well
both to The rubber and TO the metal OF
wood. 1t is prepared by a solution Of
shellac in ammonia. This is made by
soaking pulyerized gum shellac in ten times
its weight Of strong ammonia, when a
Shiny mass is obtained; in three or fouI
weeks it will become liquid without the use
Of hot water. This softens the rubber, and
becomes, after volatilization of the am
monia, hard and impermeable to gases and
fluids.
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GREAT BRITAIN.
Another Alabama AIarm.

LONDON, March 19.-The press of this A.
NJ, commenting on the statement in the
House last night by Gladstone, relative to
the reply Of the American Government to
Granville's note, generally express the
opinion that the communication Of the Pre-
mier viii create disappointment and appre-
hension throughout the country. The Gov
ernment is urged to bring the present diff
Guilty with America, arising out of the
claims for incidental damages, to an AMIGA
bic and honorable solution.
The Lincoln Handicap.
The triumphal event at the Lincoln races,
which were inaugurated yesterday, was the
Lincolnshire Handicap, which was won by
Chaplen's bay horse Grey Dorrell, beating
in a field Of 80 starters.
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UTAH.
The Primary Election.

SALT LAKE, March 19.-Fhe constitu-
ton is elected. The female Mormon vote
was immense, believing that States admls-
sion would be the death Of polygamy.
Geutiles not voting,
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Amadeus has presented the Count of
Flanders with the identical collar worn by
Christopher Columbus as a knight of the,
Golden Fleece.
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WHEN Gen. fitzpatrick Withdrew from
the contest as a Radical candidate for Gov
ernor of New Jersey, and left the track
clear for Walsh, it was stated that his price
was $4,000. The allegation was made so
circumstantially that it was never denied.
1t appears that he is now operating on the
same line in New Hampshire, as witness
this little hint which we find in an Exeter
setter TO the Boston Globe: "The demand
of Gen. Fitzpatrick for four hundred dollars
and expenses, for four campaign speeches
in this State before election, is not received
with the best grace by his political asso-
ciates throughout the State"
THE Montgomery (AIs.) 1drertjser
says:
at was Judge Davis who delivered the
judgment Of the Supreme Court in 1866 in
the celebrated case of Miligan, Bowles and
Horsey, grhO had been condemned TO death
IN IudjGad by military commission held in
the very presence Of the Civil Courts. BY
CHS opinion the Supreme Court saved the
lives OF three citizens from Radical ven
geance, and trampled down these military
tribunals"
The Cincinnati Enquirer says: "There
is a mistake here, which it is well for the
truth of history to correct. The men afore-
said were indeed condemned to death, but
their sentence was commuted to imprison-
ment for life in the Ohio penitentiary by
President Andrew johnson. The decision
of the court restored them their liberty; but
their lives would have been lost, but for the
interpOsition of Andy johnson about eigh-
teen months before
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A coal field was recently discovered in
Bastrop, Texas, which promises a yield of
5000 tons per acre, and extends over an
area Of u, 900 acres.
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Spiritual photographs are being taken by
the more highly gifted mediums in Mem
.phis.
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A CURIOUS divorce case has just been de-
cided in San Francisco, brought by Capt.
Elisha Freeman against his wife Charlotte.
Freeman alleged that previous to his mar
Iiage he was insane on the subject OF spirit
Ualism, and believed that he naVigated his
ship under direction of the spirit of an old
Spanish pirate. He visited the defendant,
afterwards his wife, who Claimed to be a
clairV0yant and medium, to consult her as
TO whether the spirits were genuine or not.
She assured him that they were genuine
and said further that in two days he would
see at the foot Of his bed the woman he
must marry. He saw at The time and place
gDtSdicted the medium herself, and under
ihe direction of the spirits, Interpreted
1hrouga her, married her, much against
7iS will. H)u this showing, a divorce was
afaMted. Freeman is wealthy.
new metal has been discovered, con-
sish,1g of an alloy, OF which the COM
position is a secret known only to the
d.scoyereT. 1t carries the color Of eighteen
carat gold, has the greatest ductility and
malleaLility, aud hence can be rolled and
Suun, ,r cast, TO advantage. 1t Will not
,aorrode by water or the atmosphere, and is
not influenced by the action Of sea water,
and tllus offers advantages for roofing and
,sbeathing for vessels, and particularly for
vyater-pipes. It's dUctility presents facilities
flor stamped WsEG, while the sharpness Of
che castings made fr0hs i render any finish
unnecessary. Its cost is tWSs.ty-siN cents
per pound in ingots, as compared With the
present price If copper, and will range
about three cents per pound under that o.
fngot copper. For buildeUs' harcware, such
as knobs, escuteheons, butts, etc, the spec
frsns shown sslrpass in beauty and can be
offered at Just half the cost of the bronzed
ware of this class now on sale.
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If the Democracy were to disorganize,
how long would it take Grant with his
martial law" bis "regular army of forty
thousand" the ''national debt, " ''the seven
teen hundred National Banks with capi-
tai Of three hundred and fifty Millions" +"
with his 'sarbitrary and irresponsible inter
nal revenue bureau" Of which the Banner
speaks, to Radicalize Tennessee and put it
in the same condition it was when under
the Brownlow rule? According to cur cal
culation It would take but little longer time
than viii elapse between now and the No
Yember election.
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CorroN is dull in New York at 22sc for
middling.
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QueenSWare, China or Glass,
Chandeliers, Lamps, Lanterns,
AND FIXTURES.

STUDENTS LAMPS of the best and most ap-
proved makes, for Coal, Lard and Cotton Seed
Oil; a large and handsome variety some very
handsome Also