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tries producing them have increased the
export duties.
A large delegation, representing the main
interests affected by the bill, has already
arrived, and others are on the way. 1t is
too early to judge what complications may
arise in the House during the debate on the
bill.
Talk AbOut ExreIliiis Congressman
u II Rnflnr
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The Supreme Court Of Massachusetts, ha
rendered decision in the case of Jesse H.
FomerOy, the boy murderer, Overruling the
exceptions and rendering judgment on the
verdict. Pomeroy will therefore be SEN
fepced 70 death.
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As A member of the last General
Assembly; Mr.. Cunrmins was a stern
and uncomprOmisiug opponent of the
Funding bill; but when the faith of
the State has been solemnly pledged
for the payment of her obligations, he
does not propose to disgrace Tennessee
IN the eyes Of the civilized world by re-
Pudiating that pledge. His course in
the House, yesterday, viii commend
him to the admiration of every man
who holds as a principle that when
honor is lost, all is lost.
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We give a very full report Of the
discussion IN the House, yesterday, on
Mr.. Gibson's bill making State bonds
and Past-due coupons receivable for
taxes. at the rate Of sixty cents on the
dollar. 4 good many meubers-but
not by any means a majority Of the
Legislature, as we believe-mis-
take the popular impatience Incl
dent TO paying taxes when the times
press upon ali Of US so hard, as indi-
eating that their constituents are ripe
for Reputation. 1t is proper that the
people should know how grossly they
are being misrepresented IN this regard.
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civil Riehts I'm the senate.

The Senate Republicans seem to be in
no hurry to pass the Civil Rights bill, but
this is not TO be construed as any indica-
ton Of a change Of purpose on their part.
There is good authority fer stating that
they will pass the bill, and very probably
in the shape it came from the House. The
President stands ready to sign any bill that
may be sent to him, and viii be glad 20 get
a lick at the South.
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HANGING is brisF, but with a falling
tendency.
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PINCH is certain he will squeeze in.
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Rev. John Baptist Galldin, of the Jesuit
College, is dead.
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speeial to the Cincinnati CommercIsl

opeoIdl y NC NlnclnlaU UOmmerciaI.
There will be a minority. report in the
SUgg Fort case, signed by four members of
the House Committee on War Claims,
which will recommend the expulsion of
Congressman r. r. Butler, On account Of
his fraudulent completely with this claim.
The majority report will recommend no &C
ton by Congress, for the reason that the
Secretary Of the Treasury already referred
the hiatter to the courts,
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WASHINGTON, Feb 2.-Representative
Beck had his wrist broken by 4 fall On the
ice last evening, and is confined to his house
to-day.
Supplying the GrassbOPPsr Sufferers.
A general order from the War Depart
ment, with reference to carrying out the
provisions Of the act of Congress approved
February 10, 1875, to provide for the relief
of persons suffering from the raySges Of
grssshoppers upon the Western frontiers,
says it is ordered BY the President that the
commanders Of Che departments Of the
Platte, the Missouri and Dakota,
shall cause 20 be made as soon
as practicable an enrolment Of the
Inhabitants Of the States sBd Territories
within those dePafttaeHIs who have been
rendered destitute by the ravages aforesaid,
which enrolment viii as far as practicable,
group families together, giving the name Of
each person entitled to relief children TN
der y years to be rated separately. Appli-
cants for supplies should make a statement
or blanks furnished them, of their resources
convertible with safety to their families
into a supply Of food, and the naaes Of
such persons as may be found to have re-
sources so convertible, shall not be placed
on the rolls until such resources are ex-
hauSted.
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PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
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MOOted Expulsion orr. R. Butler
Accident % NJ. Reck.

DOings of the Radical Caucus.
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serious AecIdent to Dc. BeelE.

Mr.. Beck, Of Kentucky, slipped on the
icy pavement in front of the Ebbitt House,
this evening, at about half-past II, breaking
both bones Of his right arm Just above the
rr-rtuA
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To he Amended.

The Ways and Means Committee to-day
agreed to amend the new revenue bill so
that melado will pay sugar duty.
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ished, she found her walls and table orna-
mented with goOd-by gifts. There we're
the photographs she had most admired,
the books, even the Madonna, ivory
painted and velvet-swung, all left for
her bv her sweet-hearted rival. A mist
of penitent tears dimmed her eyes; but
in spite of penitence and of tears, she was
glad. For Phil, the rattle of the wheels
which bore his charmer away was like
the sound which breaks sharply into some
fantastic dream.
Metaphorically speaking, he rubbed
his eyes. For a day or two he hung
about, vacant and listless; then he
reused, as desirOus to pick up dropped
threads again. Somehow Amy was more
difficult of approach than of yOre. A
little veil rested between them. She was
not always to be had when wanted. We
value what we work for, what we hold
with some trembling sense of insecurity.
As weeks went on, Phil grew to prize
Amy more than ever The knowledge
that he had half lost her intensified his
love. 1t required months to win his
way back to the old place. But at last
And you are quite, quite sure that
you care most for me ?" whispered Amy,
Sauclly, Lhe nlgnI diIoT Ihelr eISdSe-
ment
"Most? Altogether, you mean. There
is no other" g,
2 " Not even Miss Ashurst ?s
Not even Miss Ashurst; though
and Phil lifted his cap as before a queen
-" she is q sumner, a real lady, every
inch of her, and as good as she is beauti-
full Bless herW
And bless her, say we.
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The Hard Times.

The hard times, says the New York
Tribune, have now lasted two full years.
The extreme point of depression may or
may not have been reached. There is no
infallible test. Former experience teach
es that the process of recovery is not a
rapid one, but in the nature of things its
commencement cannot be long delayed.
England is the country which most near
ly resembles the United States in its meth
ods of business and it's banking system. In
England during the last ninety years
there have been seven or eight periods of
strongly marked depression in business,
such as that through which we are pass
ing. In no case, however, has the ex-
treme inaction lasted three full years.
By the end of the third year the exports
and imports, the revenues of the govern
ment, and the rate of interest have in
variably begun to mark some improve
ment. All the accepted authorities on
the subject of commercial crisis have
treated them as reactions following an
excess of speculation. Speculation car
Ties the prices of houses and lots, goods,
bonds, railroad stocks or other cOmmodi-
ties, to level at which they cannot be
sustained, and the resulting fall is. in
proportion to the extent of the previous
speculatiOns and the abuses of credit by
which they have been attended An
abuse of credit takes place where, for
instance, farmer parts with his grain
for a worthless railroad mortgage, or
other security, or where he is the victim
of bad debts
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How James Nesbit Made His VIII on a
Sinking Ship,

The wreck of the Pacific serves as re-
minder of another terrible disaster which
in July, 1865, befell the steamer Brother
Jonathan at point near that where the
former vessel met her fate. The Brother
Jonathan was sister ship of the Pacific,
and while working in heavy sea plunged
on a sunken rock, tore a hole in her bot
tom, through which the foremast dropped
until stopped by a yard crossing the
deck, and in few minutes went to the
bottom. OF the 152 passengers on board
only sixteen survived.
One incident which served to render
that catastrophe memorable is recalled
by the Troy Times. Among the lost
passengers on the Brother Jonathan was
James Nesbit, editor of the San Fran
cisco Evening Bulletin, Scotchman by
birth, whose cOolness in the presence of
inevitable death placed him in the rank
of heroes. After the doomed steamer
began to give signs that efforts to save
her were futile, amid the warning of the
elements, the confusion of the crew and
the wild terror of the passengers, he
calmly wrote his last will and testament
in a small pocket dairy, and proved his
entire nOnchalance by Omitting not one
item of mis- property, and by appending a
request to the authorities to probate the
document, Notwithstanding the fact that
it was written with pencil and unwit-
messed. The chirography of the will and
the firm, bold signature were remarkably
well executed. When his body was
found on the beach, some twenty days
afterward, it was discovered that he had
wrapped the little book in a bandanna
handkerchief, folded cOrner-wise, tied it
L
ward tied his handkerchief around his
waist outside his shirt, the more securely
to confine the will to his body that every
chance should exist of finding both to-
gether. The will was admitted to pro-
bate
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lIISCELLANEOuN-

Senator Ferry, of Michigan, president
of the senate pro tenn, will be Vice-President
Wilson's successor.
Considerable activity prevails at the
Gosport navy yard. Orders have been re-
ceived from Washington TO thoroughly fit out
the monitors Lehish and Montank, with all
possible dispatch. r .H
Gen. Ord, in command of the depart
ment of Texas, in his annual report gives a
lengthy account of the border operations of
the Mexican banditti, most of which has
been anticipated by press publications. The
report closes with the following suggestions:
More effectual means must be adopted, than
sending troops to look on, while our people
are being despoiled and murdered; for it is
evident that soldiers, however willing, can do
nothing if confined to this side of the river,
and an order to make reprisals with means
to carry out the order has sometimes resulted
in indemnity as well as security.
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EngIand'S Little Army.

Outside of India, 24,000 British SOL
diers suffice to keep Queen Victoria 5
subjects in order, which is smaller
A late report of the English war Office
gives some interesting facts about the
distribution of the forces. The three
greatest of England's colonial possessions,
Australia, Canada, and New Zealand,
are allowed to get along without any
troops at all. In Nova Scotia, however
are stationed two line regiments and
three batteries of artillery, which COM
prise all the British troops on the Amer
lean continent Gibraltar and Malta,
two of the most important strategic
points in the British empire, have garri-
sons of five thousand each. In Cape
Colony and Natal are stationed some
$500 men in all, mostly engaged in Zulu
fighting. At St. Helena two companies
are comfortably supported, while ut the
Bermudas 1000 men, principally artil-
lery and engineers, are allowed the benefit
of the most enjoyable climate in the
world. One regiment is in China, and
squads of one and two companies over
the rest of the known world, rather more
to sustain the reputation of the British
reveille for "always sounding" than to
serve any legitimate military purpose.
The number of troops quartered on the
soil of England is very small, and might
be smaller still with entire safety to the
kingdom for wars alarms have not
sounded in the eight little island" for
two hundred years.
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a MODEL MAIDEN.

Little maid with downcs5st loOl,
And a glance not yet love laden,
Stand within yon shady nook
BE an old mans model maiden.
Listen whilst he tells you stories,
Tells OF life and all its glories,
Opening upon your view
Past for hin-tO come for you.
Years ago one lived for him
(tiraciOuS how existence passes,
S.ire the light is growing dim:
Sonnet hing has hedew'd his glasses'--
One there lived, from him TO claim
Earih's most yCneratcd name:
Ere his darling learnt to toddie
She became his maiden model.
Years she stay'd with hiri--how few
Seem'd they when their course was iOWlne :
Lived to be as old rs you
Lives on many canvas glowing;
Lives in pictured memory.
Though his eyes no longer see,
Since aloft the angles caught her
His beloved model slaughter,
Little maiden, you must smile
Why, | vow, my models crying =
Nay, tits purely pagan style
When we speak of children dying.
Who would hid the lost ones roam
Farthwards from that brighter home?
Rather live TO join the chorus
OF the loved ones gone before us.
So, my model smiles again:
Clouds and sunshine blend together.
Like clear shining after rain
In the pleasant April weather.
Such of life the motto he,
Still keep childhoOd's purity.
Happier lot than earthly Alden
ALWAYS be a model maidcni
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GEOGRAPHICAL Distribution OF IN
TELLECT.-F Mr.. Cations re-
searches as to the origin of Englishmen
of genius, NJ. COrtambert has lately pub
lished the result of Investigations into
the geographical distribution of intellect
in France The north of France, which
includes Paris, is shown to have been
most productive in this respect, with a
special fertility in the crop of poets, but
a very fair yield Of painters, musicians,
historians, etc; the east comprising AL
SAGE and Lorraine, is particularly distin-
guished in the natural, physical and med
ical sciences, though not lacking in liter
ature and art; the south is chiefly
marked as the birthplace of orators; the
west, less prolific than other quarters,
has evolved noted sailors and travellers /;
in the center, philosophy makes some
show, but, on the whole, and especially
Brittany, occupying subordinate intel
lectual position, fact which Mr.. Cor
tampert fatteringly attributes to the
Celtic origin of large part of the pop
ulation of these districts.-NeO York
Wortf.
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THE bank of England clips every light
sovereign that comes into the bank.
Three thousand are weighed in an hour
with one machine Last year the bank
weighed coin to the amount of $115, ,500,
900, and rejected $4,2OO,OOO, or about
3.6 per cent, as being light gold. For
this amount the bank paid the fullsvalue
making a deduction for the deficiency of
weight, which is generally about six or
eight cents per light sovereign. Mr..
HodgsOn, NJ. p, bank director, says
that in a box of 5000 sovereigns the
number which will be found to have
turned the point of light weight will
generally be about eight, if they have
not been disturbed, and he adds You
are aware that the sovereign which is in
your pocket at o'clock in the morning is
not the same sovereign at II o'clock at
night" After this rather alarming an
nouncement it is satisfactory to find Mr..
HOdgson stating also that the charge for
light weight on the eight deficient SOW
ereigns would be about four cents per
coin, making only thirty-two cents on
the box of 5000; so that " it really
amounts to nothing. "-Erchange.
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NEW LIFE.

Where are the songs and laughs of May?
Nor June might live nor July stay;
To Southern caves our birds have fed
From lilies low and roses dead;
The swallows long have taken fight
From waters wan and lost delight;
All things of summer sweetness die,
Yet JOY why droOp and life why sigh?
Color and hue and sunshine wane,
But only die to live again;
Ever again the lost is found,
The found is lost in. rimes swift round.
Why mourn for loss? Why hold it strange,
Beauty should dim and fairness change?
That, for blue heavens, gray skies should come
For warbling bOughs but woodlands dumb
Why so should fair things fleet? we say;
Why should white winter tomb sweet MaYa
All, senselesS sorrow. Death suppl
A dearer charm TO all that dies.
Were rose and lily always here,
Lily and rose were both less dear;
Hue, o1OT, bloom, and leaf hut waness
And die more dear to live again.
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SOITIl.

The Galveston News says: g 1t is
learned that the total value of the City of
Waco's cargo did notfall short of eight hum
dred thousand dollars, which, with the value
of the ship, makes the total Joss by the dis
aster over a million of dollars-ten times
the loss in and about the city by the late
Storm"
The Jetty commissioners report adj
vises the use of more and heavier stone. 1t
states that much has been done, but much
more will have to be done before any good
results are obtained. They regard the South
Pass of the Mississippi as more susceptible
of improvement than was the Sulina mouth
of the Danube, where a twenty feet channel
has been secured by jettes.
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Official information has been received
showing that in consequence of war in
Liberia, between the Liberians and ma
tives, much distress has been produced. The
LiberianS in the interior are almost in a state
of starvation. 1t further appears that several
natives, students at the theological college
at Cape PaImas, are in sympathy with their
fellow-natives, and give them encouragement
IN their attacks on Liberians, and that a
number of Englishmen are trading with the
natives, supplying them with firearms, am
munition and other means of war.
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ECL1PsEs NEXT YEAR.-There will be
two eclipses of the sun and two Of the
moon in 1876. First, partial eclipse of
the moon, commencing in New England
about 1890 a. m, March 10. Second,
an annular eclipse of the sun, March 20,
the moon concealing the suns disc, eX-
cept a ring around the border. In New
England it will be visible as a partial
eclipse only, beginning about five min
utes before 4 a. m. Third, a partial
eclipse of the moon September 3, not
visible in the United States. Fourth,
total eclipse of the sun, inyisi bic in the
United States, but visible in the South
Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
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GOLD MINING IN GEoRGIA.-Just
now there are a score of fully organized
efforts in progress looking to the full de-
velopment of the gold mines of Georgia.
New gold fields are being discovered
each week, aim 9st, and the interest being
manifested in the gold mining operations
in the state are so genuine and pro-
nounced as to give every promise of bril-
liant results in the near future. The
latest movement is the leasing of gold
mine in Douglas county by company
of Atlanta gentlemen, who are able and
determined upon developing it to its
fullest extent They have been prepar-
ing to embark in the enterprise under
the most favorable auspices, and are now
engaged in arranging for the commence
ment of their operations almost immcdi-
ately.-AtLanta Constitution.
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Michigan roads, Pullman appeals to the
law for redress.

THERE were important disclosures last
week in the trial in ST. Louis of McDon-
aid for defrauding the revenue. The
man who collected the enormous sums of
blackmail from the distillers was on the
stand. He swore that something like
100000 year was collected and dis
tributed among the thieves for four
years; that the "emoluments were more
than S, 900 a week, and that one of the
ring who believed in ssthe policy Of ST
lence" received $4,000. A bad lot all
around, but the worst of them is this
Megram, who willingly made himself a
confederate of theirs for five years, and
now betrays all the rest in order toretain
his own share of the plunder and keep
out of Jail. The St. Louis ring seems to
have been conducted by shrewd and cum
ming men, and it is to be hoped that
their punishment may serve as a warm
ing instead of profitable trick to be
initiated by unscrupulous officials, in
other heavy revenue districts. 1t is pos
sible that there is some CROOKED whisky"
here in New York.
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Utilization Of CObWebs.

Cobwebs have been applied 10 various
uses. The delicate cross-hairs, in the
telescopes of surveying Instruments are
fine webs taken from spiders of species
that are especially selected for their pro-
ductiOn Of an excellent quality of this
material. The spider, when caught, Is
made to spin his thread by tossing him
from hand to hand, in case he is indis-
posed to furnish the article. The end Is
attached TO a piece Of wire, which is
doubled into two parallel lengths, the
distance apart exceeding little the di-
ameter Of the instrument. As the spider
hangs and descends from this, the web is
wound around it by turning the wire
around. The coils are then gummed TO
the wire, and kept for use as required.
About century ago Boa of Langue-
dock succeeded in making a pair of
gloves and pair of stockings from the
thread of the spider. They are very
strong and of a beautiful gray color.
Other attempts Of the same kind have
been made but Reaumur, who was ap-
pointed by the Royal Academy to report
on the subject, stated that the web Of
the spider was not equal to that of the
silllworm, either in strength or lustrc.
The cocoons of the latter weigh from
three to four grains, so that two thou
sand three hundred and ninety-iOur
worms produce a pound of silk; but the
bags of the spider, when cleansed, do not
weigh above the third part Of a grain, -
that a single silkworm can accomplish
the work of twelve spiders.
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LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
EAST.

Full official returns from all the coun-
ties of New York state show majority for
Bigelow. the democratic candidate for secre-
tary of state, over Seward, republican, of
11,S12. The temperance candidate received
9,SS2 votes. The total vote of the state was
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Education in the South.

The fifth annual report of the COM
missioner of education has just been
issued from the government press at
Washington. 81
Fer the sake of comparison, we make
use of the following table given in the
report, from which it will be seen that
Tennessee spends less for public schools
than any state in the Union except Geor-
gla, Alabama, South Carolina, and Vir-
ginia: