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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-09
american Consula.le Guaraea-

gunboat and transport, to be used in case
Of war.
American Consulate Guarded
The HerdIFs Havana special says lhe
American Consulate is quietly guarded. a1
attempt was made on Thursday night 10
burn the Virginius. Regular soldiers have
been sent on board to protect her..
No DereIictiOn ON the Part OF Spain.
WASHINGTON, Dec. THE protocol,
signed by Admiral PalO with Secretary
Fish on the 10Th of November, vas with
the full appreciation of his government,
after mature deliberatfon OF all It's collSe-
uuences, and since that time 1t has express
ed no inclination whatevertor an eXchaIlGe-
of its terms. The excitement in the Island
of Cuba, and the alleged threats concerning
the Virginius, gave a reasonable foundatlon
for fear on the part Of many persons that
the vessel and her surviving passengers and
crew would not be promptly delivered TO
the United States authorities according TO
the terms of the agreement; but such ap-
prehensions have net been shared by the
Executive branch of our government, Tor 1t
can be positively stated that there Is noth-
inc to diminish its confidence mthe SINGER
ity of purpose of the Spanish Government,
or its ability to execute its engagements.
FINAL Arrangements Completed.
The DELAY of transactions has been una
yoidable, and only recently the arrange
| ment for the consumation of the terms has
been completed.
Whatever may have been suggested here
| tofore as to the programmes, it can be
now asserted that the Yirginius will be de-
| Iiyered to one of our naval vessels within
the next ten days at a Cuban port in open
| dav. and the surviving passengers and crew
| will be transferred to United States ship at
Santiago de Cuba in an equally open man
ner. The vessels to perform these services
| will soonibe, if they lave not already been,
/ designated by the Secretary Of the Navy.
| This is the condition of affairs tonight,
which has served to inspire hope of con-
| tinued peace with Spain in order that the
| United States may continue to give their
| moral support to the CASTELAR, Govern
ment in its efforts to established arepnblic.
Captain.GeneraI JOveIIar.
Admiral Palo has lately received COM
munication from Captain-General Jovellar,
in which there is no reference to thesubiect
of his alleged resignation.
Ordnance Sent to Pensacola.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 1.-THE ordnance and
war material sent from here to Pensacola
consisted Of $500 26 13-inch mortars, 4S
to 1O-inch guns, 13 100-pound PARROTS,
$50 IS and 2O-inch shells, 1,S00 8 to 20
solid shot, $500 hand grenades and 1850
1O0-pound shells.
Crisis Imminent ut Madrid.
LONDON, Dec. s, s \. MA special dis
patch to the Daily Ne,cs, from Madrid, says
that a Cabinet crisis is imminent. Great
Indignation is manifested at President
Grants message and Senior Castellars al
legged pandering to the United States.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-09

GOLD was strong in New York yes.
terday, selling up to 1095, and closing
at 1893.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-09

In some fields near Doncaster' Eng
land. thc following warning is posted;
Remember the Sabbath day to keep 1t
boIy. Beware, my friends! your names
are all known; if you trespass on !; ThGSe
fields or touch my rabbits, you viii be
prosecuted according to law. mere
follows the name of clergyman-one
of the richest in the district.
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HOUSE.

The House proceeded to the first bust
ness in order, Mondays call Of States for
bills. for reference only. Under the call,
large numbers of public and private bills
were introduced and referred.
BY Mr.. McKee-For the admission Of
Colorado as 4 State.
Bv Mr.. MonrOe-To provide 25,0OO,O0O
additional bank note circulation Tor States
having less than their due proportion.
Bv Mr.. Bundy-For the payment CT
losses by the Morgan raid.
By Mr.. Arthllr-To repeal the bill TO en-
force civil rights.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-09

A coLoREp preacher, in tran5latinS TO
his hearers the sentence, Inc harvest harvest -
not $ sayed," put it: ..De corn has been crib
hrl. dere amt any more work, and de deb
biI is still foolin' wild dis community.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-09
The VILE du HaVre.

LONDON, Dec. S.-Latcst accounts Ill
the English papers in regard to the conduct
of officers and crew of the Vile du Hayre,
are confused and contradictory. One re-
port says charges rejecting on Capt.
Surmantare are untrue, and that those
against the crew are greatly exaggerated.
The Spanish Reserves.
MADRTD. Dec. S.-The Minister of War
reports that the reserves recently called OUT
number 10000 men.
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IOWA.
Patrons Of Husbandry.

DES MONIES, Iowa, Dec. S.-The State
Grange Of Patrons of Husbandry meets i'll
this city tomorrow. There will be three
hundred delegates, almost two-thirdS Of
whom are here; the remainder will arrive
on the morning trains. The public
gains but little inside view Of what is to be
done.
The Hog Crop.
Farmers now here estimate over two
thirds Of the hog crop of Iowa gone forward
if not three-fouIths They say, however,
the best and heaviest hogs still remain un-
sold. As to the corn crop they invariably
report it light, much lighter than they had
estimated it in the fall before husking.
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A Proposed Gunboat.

New YORK, Dec. Tt is said at Ha-
vana that the steamer Merida, the fastest
vessel on the coast, will be altered into a
gunboat and transport, to be used IN case
Of war
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whisky and Tobacco.

BY Mr.. Whitthorne-To repeal all the
taxes on whisky aud tobacco and to pro
vide for the deficiency in the revenue
thereby occasiOned.
BY Mr. Farwell-To provide for cheap
transportation between Chicago and New
York.
BY Mr.. Field-F6r the issuance of Ma
tional currency and 65-100 Government
bonds to be interchangeable.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-09
The Steamboat Law.

Mr.. Negley introduced and asked toput on
its passage a bill modifying the steamboat
passenger act by allowing tow boats Oh the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers to carry $50
pounds of steam pressure in place Of l1O
pounds on standard boilers Of fOrty-two
inches in diameter, with plates one-quarter
of an inch in thickness. He explained the
bill and stated it did not change the exist
ing law, but only extended it, as the law
would expire by limitation very soon. The
bill was passed.
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GU BA.
Two Days Developments.
The Virginiiis to be Surrendered
Within Ten Days,
AT Cuban L It in Open Day.
All Serene if CASTELAR, Doesn't
Collapse.
The Quarrels of Fish and Sickles.
The American Consulate at Ha-
vana Guarded.
GU BA.
The QuarreIs of Fish and sickles

HAVANA, Dec. 6.-Gen. Burriel leaves
here tomorrow Sunday for Santiago de
Cuba, to resume charge Of that depart
lIleIe.
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Jefferson Davis

might not obtain a seat in either house.
G.'F. Hoar enquired whether the Com
mittee on Rules had right to report such
an act of general legislation.
The Speaker doubted very much whether
that committee had the right to report it
except under call.
George f. Hoar said he would not insist
on the point.
Mr.. Butler, of Massachusetts, said he
would.
Mr.. Maynard moved to suspend the rules
and receive and pass the bill. In reply to
Mr.. Lawrence's question, he said the late
President of the Southern Confederacy
might as well as the Vice-President have a
seat in either house, provided the people
should think proper to send him.
Mr.. Butler said he would not object to
the bill if it had been examined by and was
reported from the committee.
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supplementary.

Mr.. Morey moved to suspend the rules
and pass the supplementary civil rights bill.
After the exhaustion of dilatory mo! irons
on the Democratic side to prevent ACTION
on the bill, Mr.. Willard, of Vermont, ap-
pealed to Nr. Morey to let the bill be re-
ferred to the Judiciary Committee. SO re-
ferred with leave to report at any time.
The House at o'clock went into Com
mittee of the Whole. Resolutions dis
tributing the Presidents message among
the appropriate committees were presented
and adopted.
Mr.. Myers, of Pennsylvania, offered
resolution requiring information as to the
effect of the abolition OF the franking privi-
lege. Adopted.
House adjourned.
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Universal Amnesty.

Mr.. MAYNARD from the Committee on
Rules, reported bill removing all disabil
tiles imposed or remaining on any person
by the third section of the fourteenth arti-
Gle of amendments to the Constitution and
substituting for the iron clad oath the mod
flied oath now administered to persons
from whom disabilities had been removed.
Mr.. Lawrence asked whether under that
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r d IL Z GIN u.
a Russian Draft.

n RUsSlsth UItIN
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. S.-A Ukase has
been issued requiring that six men out OF
every thousand inhabitants of Russia, III
Guiding the Polish provinces, will be drafted
into the army.
Nothing.
ROME, Dec S.-VictOr Emanuel and
Cheyalier Nigra, the late Italian Embassa-
dor at Paris, had long conference this
morning. 1t is understood Nigra will re-
turD To Paris
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SickIes' Squabble.

There is a reluctance in official quarters
TO talk about the anticipated or actual res
ienation of Minister .Sicllles pending the
protocol. There is no doubt it was owing
TO the unsatisfactory conduct of Sickles
that the negotiations were cOnsummated at
Washington between Secretary Fish and
Admiral PalO.
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ordnance sent to Pensacola.
yestergav,sDi Dispatehes.

NEW YORK. Dec. S.-A Cuban mass
meeting in the cause OF humanity, will be
held here Friday evening next.
The War Steamer Kansas Gets as Far
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-18
evening Shte Sa,,rnal.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TAYLOR has

ATToRNEY-GEN TAYLOR has
given his opinion, in response to an inquiry
from the Auditor of Public Accounts, as
to the receivability of coupons for taxes
and debts due the State. He regards the
decision of the Supreme Court of Appeals
as final in the case, and gives it as his
opinion that all coupons to which the re-
ceivability clause is attached, must be re-
ceiyed for State dues. This idea, that the
action of one legislature, in matter vital
to its own existence, is binding on all flu
ture legislatures, no matter whether it re-
quires possible or utterly impossible
performance or not on the part of
the body polite, is one that might
reasonably have obtained among the
Modes and Persians of old, but it
can never be q popular suggestion in
the practical working of our State insti-
buttons. We have had our ''say' on the
public debt question, and propose to let
the Legislature work out its own saliva
ton, if that be possible, in treating the
subject hereafter. What the State is
legally and equitably bound to pay, it
should pay !; but this should is imperative
only as the State may have the means to
pay with. Let the funding bill advocates
first provide the means, and then talk
about payment. As our financial matters
rou, etand the State NAV nav out its
"bottom dollar" without seeing another
in its place for the next thirty years,
unless put there by doubling up indebted
ness on the backs of the people.
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THE LATEST NEWS.

The Mississippi river is now open for
navigation.
The stage horses and elks in Nevada
have the epizooty.
General Hartranft will be inaugurated
governor of Pennsylvania on Tuesday
Next.
The number of emigrants who left
Bremen for the United States last year was
$4,000. Emigration from Hamburg during
the same time reached the unprecedented
figure of $4,000.
The Spanish congress has appointed
special commission on the abolition of
slavery in Porto Rico. All the members
of the commission are avowed abolilionists.
The testimony in the Wharton trial
grows daily more and more interesting,
and the impression at Anannapolis yestcr-
day was the state was making out very
strong case. The testimony of Mrs. Van
Ness was especially very strong against
Mrs. Wharton.
Yesterday on the Little Miami railroad
defective rail threw train from the track,
and half dozen persons were badly bruis-
ed. Near Wells village, Maine, a construc-
ton train smashed into rock and twenty
men were hurt. On the Allegheny Valley
road train was thrown off and one man
killed. On the Allentown road portion
of track sunk just after the train had passed
over, and the incident is recorded as mar
row escape from frightful disaster.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-18

PROF. JONES' LECTURE.-Prof. Z. S.
Joynes, of Washington and Lee University,
who has been visiting the public schools of
the city for the last few days, attended a
general meeting Of the teachers this morn
ing, a. the high-school rooms, and adj
dressed them upon the subject of teaching
reading. He commenced with some very
complimentary remarks upon the condition
of our schools, as he had observed them !;
and the feeling and earnestness with which
he spoke proved that he was not using the
language Of idle compliment.
His theory of teaching reading is that it
should always be addressed to the ear and
book at a time should be open in the class
and that should be the book of the read.
er-that the teacher, like the flea, should
be agood skipper" and should so skip and
select, from the text book, and from other
sources, as always to furnish the class with
interesting and Ineligible reading matter
He claimed that the ordinary method O
teaching reading was violence to nature
"You may drive nature out" said he
with pitchfork, but she will try all tn,
while to come back" He claimed
that there is a divine and salu
tary power in nature that will make goot
readers of our children if we only will no
hinder her. The Professor was listened tt
with the closest attention, and as appeare
from remarks which followed by State Su
perintendent Ruffner and various principal
Of schools and teachers, his views carrie
conviction. 1t is avery gratifying fact ths
many of the leading educators of the stat
In the higher institutions are so much il
terested in our public schools.
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A Grave Mistake.

To the Editor cfthe State Journal:
The design of public schools is to bring
the blessing of good education within the
reach of all. The foundation for true
happiness and usefulness is based upon
good health, and no education can be an
equivalent for this first necessity. Upon
health depends the temper and disposition
of the mind, and the want Of it has filled
many a prison cell-freighted many a
scaffold. Let our individual experience
answer whether our moral nature is as
immaterial as many suppose. The play
ground is as necessary as the school-room,
| and should have its hours not minutes.
Grown men and women find confinement
at the desk WEAKNESS. Think, then, of
children and young persons forced to spend
the glorious part Of the day, from s or 81
a. In. until 3 o'clock p. M, with short
recess of fifteen to thirty minutes ut IL
o'clock, and from ten to fifteen at l p. m.
When school closes are these jaded, hun
gry, Tor too weary to be hungry
little bodies, after reaching home, pre-
pared to eat and digest dinner, often taken
alone, cold and uncomfortable family
dining earlier ? Then they are ''kept in "
| for triAes, stern rules requiring them to
study and write as penalty utterly unit
| for either exercise. What time have they
| for recreation and the study required OF
| them in well learned lessons on the coming
day? Is it not subject of serious doubt
| whether a child should study after its sup
per? am satisfied that if our schools
closed, without fail, at one o'clock the chill
dren would learn more and be healthier and
happier.
| Education is not found only in books.
Too much close study impairs the mind
makes it analytical to puerility. Let oul
study be to make body and mind in har'
mony, fit for something good and useful ir
this beautiful world, instead of crucifyine
our children. Put yourself in his place.
should be our heart motto. Would tt
God could be heard for the children.
There is no reason why roses should no
be cultivated on their young cheeks instead
of being bleached out. The Greeks set III
an example, and their poets wrote of healtf
as divine blessing. Public and privat,
schools both are too hard upon scholars
too hard upon teachers.
Fathers, in the press of business, los'
sight Of this matter. Mothers with homt
cares are too often glad to have the chill
dren at school tout of the way" Their
are many, many things to be said in thi
onnection-there is a voice never heart
and that is the child's. | would be thank
full if our city papers would copy this
our citizens read it, and to it / woul
most respectfully call attention of GU
energetic superintendent and our schoo
committee at its next meeting.
e. L. VAN LEW.
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Heavy Freshets at the North.

ALBANY, N. Y, January 1s.-A great
freshet prevails here. The loss is partially
avoided by the timely removal of merchan-
disc. The ice has gorged just below the
city.
CLEARFIELD, Pa, January 1S.-The
food here is the greatest ever known, re-
sulting in great loss of timber. The Christi
ana river is very high. The Delaware trains
are not crossing the bridge. Much damage
is apprehended.
The bridge over Stockport on the Hudson
river railroad is gone.
SuNBgRY, PENNSYLVANIA, January
1S.-The north and west branches Of thu
Susquehanna are broken, and the river is
rising alarmingly. The ice has gorged ii
several places. The Philadelphia and Erie
road is impossible between Williamsport
and Lockhayen.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-18

THE Committee on Finance made their
report in the House, that it was inexpe-
pedient to legislate on the subject of
bringing mining and manufacturing cap
ital into the State /; in other words, they
reported adversely to the proposition of
Mr.. Deneale to exempt mining and manu-
featuring capital from taxes until fairly
invested in remunerative production, and
propose to adhere to the system OF legls-
lation inaugurated at the last session, to
tax all such capital in adrance Of its
coming into the State.
" OF the wisdom of this policy we shall
have word or two to say in our next
issue.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-18

- In referring to the approaching farm
ers' convention in Wytheville, The Enter
prise says: Perhaps there may be found
some farmers, not candidates for office,
who will have the courage to touch on the
awful question of taxing or decimating
the dogs. Perhaps some enterprising
and enlightened member of the ap.
preaching convention may find it Of
vital interest to the agricultural class in
Virginia to collect some statistics in
reference to the production of wool ard
mutton in the state. If such man lie
found, we charge him earnestly to present
this question to the farmers in all its
strength. If he can succeed in his efforts
in the glorious cause of mutton VS.. dog he
will have immortalized himself and gained
title to the everlasting gratitude of the peo-
pie. Let him beseech our farmers to make
one more effort to get rid of the dogs. Let
him show them the incalculable evils that
have flowed from the demagogic fears of
graphing with this question.
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BY TELEGRAPH.
SPECIAL TO THE STATE JOURNAL
F0RTY-sECOND CONGREss..-TEIIRD
SESSION.
Yesterdays Proceedings.

Yesterdays Proceedings.
WASHINGTON, January II.
SENATE.-The Vienna Exposition appro-
pration bill was considered.
Mr.. Carpenter withdrew his amendment
appropriating $500, 900 to the Washington
Monument, expressing doubts of the pos
sibility of completing it, owing to the
softness of the ground under the monu-
ment.
The bill was then passed.
Mr.. Morton made an elaborate speech
upon his resolution directing the committee
on elections and privileges to inquire into
the defects of the present election system
and the best means of removing them.
Mr.. Trumbull replied, agreeing with
Mr.. Morton in some respects, but dissent
ing from some of his views as to the pro-
per remedy. The founders of your gov
eminent, he said, intended to found re-
public, and not pure democracy. 1t
was not intended that the majority should
have all power, and to put government
on that basis would prepare the way to a
despotism. The matter went over.
HoUsE.-To-day was private-bill day.