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ing cases. and | feel great confidence that
such will be the opinion of the Senate
Very truly yours,
GEo. F. EDMUSDs.
The Hon. p. W. Hitchcock, {. ). Senate,
The Washington correspondent of the
Springfield Republican says
1t Is pretty certain that the House bill
repeating the bankrupt act will not be con
Cured in by the Senate. Petitions are
pouring in by the bushel against that repeal
The fact Is, the House played the TOOL IN
this matter to perfection. by hVe-s.AthS
vote. il repealed the act and utterly refused
IN fake copnizance of the large class OF cases
forced into bankruptcy by the recent panic
Inst a the House was about TO do some
,hinG for this class, somebody who hates
Law Cooke a Co. cried ont that the leglsla-
ton proposed was for them, and there was
an instant stampede The Senate is going
IN act with more sense and fairness. | see
that Mr.. Edmunds, the chairman OF the
Judiciary committee, and certainly one oil
The ahle-t and most conscientious lawyers
in that body, says that not only Is re
troactire legislation constitutional anu
nroper but he is in favor of 1t. y lew
men in the House so hate Jay Cooke y
Go. that they would rather not have
repeal than allow them to receive any benefit
from H. | trust the Senate Will insist That.
if there Is any action at all by way oil repeal
or amendment, that wise provision when
regulates the proceedings to Just ends an
ns1d,,,g clScs" will he made-tO use the
words of Mr.. EdmundS The sentiTent
which seems to animate a few Congressman
toward the Cookies Is disgrace 10 human
nature. and think it was emnently BIT and
prnner that the member who led the brutal
charge upon them should be man who,
last March. voted 5000 into his own
pocket The Cookies may have done IN
proper things Tor all know, but doubt
If they are any worse now that they are
bankrupt than they We're few months ago
when they were supposed to be worth mil
lions. At all events, if the bankrupt act is
cruel and oppressive, the Cookies are Just as
mach entitled 70 relief as anybody else,an
if the antpathy to them in the House Is 50
great that this cannot be permitted, then !
trust that the law will stand as it is till
this tcndi>h spirit Is ahatod.
>ahiui saw f.. l.. Davenport play Hamlet
4hile in Philadelphia, and it Is reported
that. a. the curtain fell. he rushed behind
the scenes. and. taking his brother artist in
his arms. kissed him on both cheeks, ex-
claiming. Soul soul soul - 1t Is re
lated. too, that, having had his photograph
taken 10y Gutekunst, he was 80 pleased Wit
the proof that he embraced the photograph
er warmly. to the no small alarm however,
of that gentleman, who had seen him IN
Othello, and remembered with shndder
his manner Of dealing with lago. Not I'M
Outstanding Italian, he thought with hor-
ror Of his fate should the proof be unsatiS-
factory.
Rev. Newman Hall, while on visit to
President Fairchild, of Oberlin College,
left his boots ut his bedroom door, and the
President took the hint and the boots and
BACKED the latter.
Col Robert Morrow, paymaSter OF one of
the Arizona departments of the army, and
formerly private secretary to President
johnson. committed suicide in the Occiden-
tai hotel At san Francisco, Thanksgiving
Day
DR.. Storrs', Church. New York City,
from it, steeple. is known As the Corn Cob
DR.. Bellows As the Church of the Holy
Zebra. and we have also heard it called the
" Church of the Infinite Beet Steak
while Baptist church is christened the
Wash Tub 4 Calyinistic tabernacle the
Furnace O. B. Birmingham the lnsur-
ance Office
Prof f. \ Sophoces. OF Harvard Col
lege. has gone TO Europe for few months
visit. Probably gone to see old Damocles,
Pericles, Ripides, Cantharides and other
>ucha-these.
Hon. Jonathan B. VIM, OF " obun. a
member of the Executive Council of Massa-
cnuSett-, d.ed on the 10Th inst, at the age
Of ~ ytars.
Col j Frank Miller. of Portland, Me,
died on the l2th inst. tie was mayor of
New Orleans and afterwards assistant ad-
jutant-general of Virginia and North Caro-
lima, under General Butler
Bull-Run Russell describes Marshal Ba-
zaine as - sensuous, carp-like sort Of
man. with a good deal Of swagger cafe,
4 billiard kind Of a general. all feathers and
boots, like W infeld Scott"
\ BGEA,H MADE II THE Wall OF CAR
THAGESA Special dispatches from Car
thagena to the London papers announce
that Fort san Julian. one OF the strongest
dcienceS Of the city. has been preached. An
accidental explosion in the ferial battery,
on Wednesday, killed 20 officers and men of
the besicgins force.
The town o! Woodfori, Bennington.
County. Ioi years old, has Just dedicated
its first churcn.
Ara recent meeting of the New Hamp-
shire II historical Society at Concord Rev Dr.
Bouton. State Historian, read paper
showing that New Hampshire formed the
first state government and took the first
step toward the declaration of independence
INy,ltp PsVsiovs-Mr Nudge. bird
veteran. has visited Washington. and had
a hearing h-torc the senate committee on
invalid i'eu-ion,. Tor the increase of pension
10 th,-t who have lost both arms or the
sight OF both eyes. Mr. Muige was kindly
treated 10y the President, who has written
to the Congressional committees strongly
urging the increase, which in his opinion
should be SIS per month, instead of $50, as
agreed upon by the House committee The |
pension now paid is $3l per month
II was the calm and silent .shti
Seven hundred year aud fifty three
Had Rome been growing up 10 mig ht
And now was queen of land and
No sound was heard of clsshing walls
Peace bTooded Ger the hushed domain
Apollo, Pallas. Joye and Mar
Held. und sturhed, their ancient fel "a.
In the solemn mdni gif.
Centuries ago.
1t is the calm and solsmn night!
A thousand bells ring out and throw
Their Joyous peals abroad to smlte
The darkness, charmed aud holy now
The nj sht that erst no shame had worn
To it happy name is given;
For in that stable lay, newborn,
The Peaceful, Prince of earth and heaven
In the solemn m din ght
Centuries ago.
RAILROAD AocIDENTs.-JOseph ST Johns,
a brakeman on a freight train, fell between