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IN extend me- bhiphf N ihf Wheeler n
Wilson sew lnf mhcblnG 1htfe Was n
ytfy efnnll majority M zoe eunnllieo
I Nv laepf Dfllic report N sct fntll that
alien wilson proprietor NJ the mflc-
/ ulnf patent under consideration, lana
already realized slW,UuU FROM ilir pat.
eni, HAT u linH run II long aefios ~
yenrr; flint he parted with Ills oppOrtu.
| nifty Ia make u greater sum Ia ~ cOn-
linntltli which has cleared III least
! $1,000, 900, hnd there was no fault on
the pnrt Of the public that be had not
realized much larger sum. The case
Inns been pending before the commit.
tee for over u year. The adverse re-
port was adopted 10y the house without
u division.
Judge Kelly believes that the dis
trcss which the country Is suffering Is
mainly owing to the failure OF congress
to adopt his peculiar views upon the
finances. He has no hope whatever,
that business will speedily revive. On
the contrary, he IL Of the opinion that
we shall go from bad to worse under
the operation of the law which was
passed in the BEGINNING of the present
session, looking TO the resumption Of
specie payments. He has prepared
I'LL, Inch lie will introdice at the
| first opportunity, in which IL Is pro-
posed to repeal the sixth section OF the
act OF June, 1874, limiting the green
| back circulation to 1882, 0UO, 600, and
| the first and third sections OF the act
approved January ii, 1875, or practi-
cally the whole act. In lieu of this he
| l,., IL
troconvertible bond scheme. Mr.. Kel-
ley has no idea that his bill will be
passed by the present congress. He
thinks, however, 1t will SO commend
itself to the country during the next
twelve months that 1t will become q
law in 1875. He will deliver speech
on the subject before the session closes,
expressing his dissent from the present
management of the finances by the adj
ministration.
The senate committee on the Texas
Pacific railroad are evenly divided,
Messrs. Scott, Ransom, Ramsey, West
and Hitchcock voting for the measure,
and Messrs. Howe. Frelinghuysen,
Hagar, Hamilton of Texas; and Cragin
in the negative. Mr.. Huntington, of
the Central Pacific railroad, is on the
ground, and is said to be backed up in
his opposition to the road by promi-
nent California financiers, and parties
connected with the Bank of California.
Senator Dorsey, from the senate
committee on postal affairs, reported
a bill making the Geographic wires
post roads, and prescribing the rates
which they shalt charge for news and
other matter. a similar bill has
been agreed upon by the judiciary com
mittee of the house, which will report
it as soon as called. a large number
of senators and representatives, the
latter led by General Butler, are quietly
working to secure the passage of this
measure. IL. ~
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MARKETS by TELEGRAPH.
GALVESTON.

GALVESTON, February ll.-Money
steady. Gold quiet at l3I@l144 buying
and selling; silver easy at lO7a@lOS4
buying and selling.
| EXchange-Commercial bills. in scam
supply; rates very firm. Commercial
| New York sight, currency, par; gold
nominal New Orleans sight, currency
par; gold, nominal. Sterling, sixty
days, s. 40. Bankers New York 81 ht
currency, premium gold, nominal
MUM; gold, nominal. Sterling, sixty
days, 50 80.
Hides steady. Dry flint selected, IS!
(1losc; rs they run lSi@lS!c; We
sailed selected &c; butchers green ia
Sc; dry salted sold as dry flint with al
lowance for salt; & tie stock, . cents.
Cotton-Marllet quiet and firm. Or
dinary, 1859; good ordinary, l3sc
low middling, l4sc; middling, l5sc
good n,iddling, l5sc. Sales, Else bal es
receipts, 2, All bales; stock, 1921 bnles
NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, February ll.-Cottor
L-Demand fair. Sales $3.50 bales
Prices irregular. Good ordinary to STRIFE
good ordinary, I34@l4c low middlina
to strict low middllng, l4!09 l5c; mid
ding to strict middling, l5lc; COCO
middling TO nliddiing fair, l5sGelGsc
Receipts 5,756 bales; export CONT
nent. l,9S9 bales; stock, 2a2, 60S bales
unsold last evening, Isl 400 bales; on
shipboard, l37, 500 bales
Gold, ll4l. Sight par. Sterling
SIS 5l4.
NEW YORK.
NEW York, February ll.--Noon-'
Gold opened at ll4l.
Cotton dull. Sales l47 bales. Uplands
l5Sc; Orleans, l6c.
Exchange Long, 81 ST.; short
81 S7I. Governments duh and lower
State bonds dull. Stocks dull. Money
p per cent. Gold 1l4l@ll42.
Futures opened steady. Sales 47,O0(
bales. February, Is ll-l6@l5ic; March
Is 10 l6@l5 27-S2c; April, l6s@l6 3-l6c
May, '16 7-l6@l64c; June, Is $500
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THE governor. it is said by the Waco
Examiner, whose editor is supposed to
have the ear of his excellcncy, win lie
a lion in the path Of the International
eompromise bill. 1t is claimed that
the close shave Il had In both houses
will not permit Of IL passage over the
governors veto by two-tbirds major
ity. The governor is credited with
taking the position that the state either
owes six millions upon the completion
Of the road or nothing. II the former,
she should not discount her obligations.
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Mr.. JOHN VANDEEoRAFF, lawyer,
has been arrested In Austin. He Is ac-
cused of having murdered John Lance
10 1858, in saloon In that city. Van
dergraff WIS admitted to bail shortly
after the affair aud has been out Of the
state for some years.
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ssnalp Mll appiOpilatlhg f5No ~
lmplpyr The ohpilm Bfuundy, PaHtd,
lllll Incorporating Oiisi0ii, Ehai Md
West TeNns fnlifnnd company wns
taken up Postponed toTneedny next,
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THE store Of Mr.. II. L. Loekeli, Of
Breuham, was burned on the 7lh. Loss
thirty thousand dollars; insurance
twenty thousand dollars
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To Hon. James Young, 81. Charles Ho,e
Chairman:
Propositions not accepted. '''s
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WAsnISoroN, Fcbrtasy li.-In the
senate Mr. Hamilton, of Maryland, pre-
scented n minority, report from the
committee on privileges and elections,
sigued by him and Salisbury, against
the admission of Piitchback. Ordered
printed aud laid OH table.
In the senate, Mr.. McNreery, OF
Kentucky, introduced bill setting
forth that il bad been reported in a re-
spohsihle medical journal of the United
States, that Cpoiis snip from Calcut-
tn, had become infected with epidemic
cholera during her voyage, ana it had
been ANNOUNCED IN a newspaper OF the
state of Texas that disease resem-
bling cholera was rigging. in Mexico at
no great distance from the frontier OF
the United States. therefore, directing
the secretary of the army, under Toe
direction OF the surgeon general, 70 IN
vsstigate, carefully, the matter OF said
reports aud IL they shalt be found to
be based. on facts, he shall,
through the surgeon general, give due
and timely notice af the advance aud
spresd Of the disease, aud should it
threaten to reach the United States
during the present year, it shall be the
duty Of said officer 10 compile records
OF the epidemic. and report the same
10 congress. The bill proposes an APP
preparation Of five thousand dollars To
defrsy the expense ~ the investiga-
ton. Referred to the committee on
appropriations. - rfsr 1stf ~ 49,
The houze committee on pstents re-
ported adversely upon tbs proposition
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Nav YORK TRIBUNE.

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Bloomington Nursery /!
WhalceaIe and netaii.

Fsfab lished ~ years-0Do acres In nursery
sfoek-3 plint houses- We have large
amount Of stock Ia sheds. which can Dc ship
ed at any time. New spring catalogues viii
be sent on application. Adtr-ss
J. r PHOENIX.
IsHfg . Bioorni rfon, Illinois.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-01-07
THE PEASANT BOY.
by CHARLOTTE cUsIIMAN.

There's poetry. boy In that stop of thine,
Firmly and free on the green sward pressed;
And the locks that over thy temples shine
Flow wild in the wind Of the soft sou'west.
Care turks not, boy, in that laughing eye;
No frowps o'ercast thy forehead's snow;
And the mellow tints Of the morning sky
Lend to thy cheek an eloquent glow.
Thy heirloom is pure, unbroken health,
cheerful heart to endure thy toll;
And all thou needst Of this worlds wealth
Thou can'st sturdily win from the grateful soil.
with tho lark's first song thou art up and away,
Brushing the dew from the glistening sod,'
And chanting the simple roundeay
Which innocence sings to the ear Of God.
From the ardent sun of coudess noon,
Thou seekest the shade OF q sheltered nook,
Where the ring-dove murmurs it's amorous tune
To the answering sound of the gushing brook.
There, resting thy limbs on the mossy brink,
Thou takest In peace thy poor repast,
Bending thy feverish lips TO drink
From the wave that glideth 80 cool and fast
Then to labor again, Till the waning sun
Fadeth away in the western sky,
And the shades Of twilight are creeping on,
They are coming to meet thee the peasant band,
The fair-hared girl and tawny boy,
While the baby prattler clasps thy sand,
And breathes thy name in isping joy.
To tho cottage away! to thy mothers knee,
To thy fathers side thou art welcome there;
That mothers smile is ever for thee,
And that father gives thee his warmest prayer.
And thou shalt rest in sunber sweet,
Pilowed beneath the raftered caves,
While the summer rain-irops gently beat,
And the night winds atirs the woodbiue leaves.
There's poetry, boy, in that form Of thine,
And the g0zer cOyets thy painless life;
Would that thy stormless lot were mine
Passioness, careless, and FREQ from strife.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-01-07
ABOUT MINKS.
A short Dip Into Natural History.

One sunny morning in summer, down
the pathway, still sparkling with the
dewy moisture, came stealthily moving
the long, 1.-the form of mink. Hel
fur looked worn and rusty when the
sunlight struck her as she skulked be
tween the tussocks OF grass. Occasion
ally she halted to look about her, alert
for anything eye could see or ear could
hear; but hearing nothing but the
sweet notes of eong-sparrow and the
complaining cry Of cat-bird among the
alders, she again moved on. As she
reached the muddy edge of the brook,
che trod more daintily, then, winding
among the pickerel-weeds, swan down
stream, hardly disturbing the water,
only making q long, wedge shaped wake
as she stole into the shadowy edge OF
the brook. Suddenly she came up,
struggling with something that swayed
and pulled her about, disturbing the
quiet stream, and sending muddiness
down with the current. But she bore
the almost unmanageable wriggling eel
(for this it was) to the stone wall, and
drawing herself and burden up ont OF
the water on the large stone, read
iusted her hold, and seized the creature
back of the head. Then bracipg her
self to suck the blood, the thrashing,
struggling eel grew gradually weaker
and weaker, until it looked perfectly
limp and lifeless. Then she jumped
from the wall, dragging the eel longer
than herself, up through the grass, tax.
ing a different and more concealed way
than the ono by which she came, and
soon disappeared altogether.
In the thick-banked wall of this barn
on the hillside she had her young; and
after they grew large enough to require
something more substantial than natures
first provision, the mother used to bring
them fish of different kinds --eels, ducks
and like prey. SO slyly and stealthily
did she keep herself, that she was not
seen until the young we're half grown,
and looked like little fawn-colored wea-
sells; when she betrayed herself by
bringing this food, which impeded her
movements. BY travelling the same way
SO many times she grew bold.
These mink are very destructive to
fish; and when the brook is low they can
be tracked for long distance by the
dead cells, pickerel, sinners and some
times trout, lying along the bank, the
mink only sucking the blood and leav-
ing the fish unmutilated. One autumn
some small sinners, meant for bait in
pickerel fishing through the ice, were
kept in an old tub set in the spring
near the brook, and one night all these
fish were killed by mink, who left
them laid in row on the ground. They
looked precisely as if some person had
so arranged them. But through the
back of each fish, near the head, wele
four tooth marks, this being frequently
the only mark the mink makes on his
victim.-Old and NeW.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-01-07
FROM WASHINGTON.

Four hundred men and women were
Saturday discharged from the Engraving and
Printing Bureau Of tho treasury, in conse-
quence Of large part Of tho work Of the
bureau having been transferred to New York,
The total amount OF mutlated cur
rency received from the treasurer and comp
troller since the passage Of the act of June
80 last, is sil 0S6, ,SO5, nearly the whole amount
of which has already been issued in new na-
tional bank notes.
The commissioner OF Indian affairs
has received an urgent petition from Red
Cloud to be allowed to come on to Washing
ton. with some forty Sioux ajherents, and
settle up all troubles about the Black Hill
reservation and hunting on the Platte river.
Commissioner Smith replied that on account
Of want Of funds to pay the expenses Of the
would be negotiators, their proposition must
be declined.
A Cleveland detective named Gilbert
s. Perkins, has filed with tho secretary Of the
treasury claim for $4,000 for the arrest Of
Tom Ballard. He was considered the most
dangerous counterfeiter loose. II will bo re-
membered that he made proposition that, if
his crimo was condoned. he would give the
government secret which would render the
successful counte,feiting Of notes impossible.
His offer was rejected by Secretary Bristow.
The receipts from internal revenue
for the month ending Dec. 31st, were 5S,9S4,-
$50, and for the fiscal year to date, S53, 273,-
430. The amount Of national bank notes
received for redemption Dec. 31st was $685.
440. The total receipts for the six months
ending Dec. 3lst are $56, 6,072, ,O7O. The GUS
toms receipts for the week ending Dec. 26,
were az follows: New York. 81, ,0s1, ,2OS; Bos-
ton, S165,2O9; Philadelphia, 1884, Dalti-
more, $s7, 116; New Orleans, for week ending
Dec. 1S, $50, 1860; San Francisco, s10O 260.
A careful canvass Of the finance COM
mittee OF both houses show that the passage
of tho bill restoring tho tax upon tea and cof-
fee is very probable, and that consequently,
there is little prospect Of any increase of tho
tax on whisky. 1t is expected that the restor-
alton Of tho tea and coffee tax will provide
for all necessary additional revenue without
changing the whisky tax. 1t is the desire of
both finance committees not to change the
whisky tax if sufficient revenue can be Gb-
tanned by other means. The little tariff bill,
which will doubtless pass, will slightly increase
the revenue.
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A Mother of Criminals.

Some of the most curious and re-
markable criminal statistics ever oh.
tanned have Just been given to the pub
lie by DR.. Harris Of New York. His
attention was called, some time since,
to a county on the upper Hudson which
showed remarkable proportion OF
crime and poverty to the whole popula-
ton, ,-480 OF its 40, 900 inhabitants be-
ing in the alms-house, and, upon look
ing into the records little, he found
certain names continually appearing.
Becoming interested in the subject, ho
concluded to search the 9enealOgies of
these families, and, after thorough in
vestigation, he discovered that from q
young girl named Margaret, who
was left adrift, nobody remembers how,
in village of the county, 10 years ago,
and, in the absence of an alms-house,
was left to grow up as best she could,
have descended two hundred crimi-
nails. As an illustration Of this remark
able record, in one single generation Of
her unhappy line there were twenty
children of these, three died in infan-
cy, and seventeen survived TO maturity.
OF the seventeen, nine served in the
state prisons for high crimes an aggre-
gate term OF fifty years, while the others
were frequent inmates Of jails and peni-
tentiaries and alm-houses The whole
number Of this girls descendants,
through six generations, is nine hun
dred, and besides the two hundred who
are on record as criminals, large num-
Der have been idiots, imbsciles, drunk
ards, lunatics, prostitutes and paupers.
A stronger argument for careful treat
ment Of pauper children than these
figures could hardly be found,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-01-07
EAST

y Diptheria has o firm hold in New
York. For the week ending December 10,
there were 154 deaths from that disease
against 1870 tho week previous. Smallpox in
creased from 81 to 81 fatal cases, aud scarlo
fever from SO to so.
A drought has been prevailing for
some time in New England, and large sections
are suffering serious Inconvenience from tho
lack of water Many mills have suspended,
and in some localities farmers find it quite
diiilcult to get water enough for their stock.
Statistics Of the working of tho pro
hibitory system in Maine during the past year,
show that fines to the amount of $50, 900 we're
imposed and collected for violations of the
law. There have been 27G convictions in the
supreme court for selling liquor, and forty. one
offenders have been committed to jail;
larger number than in any previous year. 1t
is claimed that this rigorous enforcement of
the law has resulted in decrease OF crime,
the number of convicts being twenty-five per
cent loss than ten years ago.
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Pecious Jewels.

IIncy Hooper writes from Paris
"Ameng the maivels displayed in the
jewelers. windows on the Rue do la
Paix, I noticed the other day an i'm
mepse pearl oyster shell, lined with
mother OF pearl Of the most exquisite
smoothness and purity, and with two
large spotless, lnstrons pearls adbering
to its surface. The larger OF the two
was about the size of small marble,
but slightly elongated in form the
other was OF somewhat emailer dimen'
sions "a, 500 was the price affixed to
this beautiful work OF nature. A smell
ing bottle formed entirely OF niassed
pearls, with one large one in the CEN
ter Of the side, ard with hool. and chain
to correspond, looked like II tasteful
gift for millionaire TO offer to his lady
love it was valued at 81 200. Then
there was locket represcntioe tor
toise. the back OF the animal being
formed of single large tOrquoise,
while the head, feet, and tail were
com posed of diamonds. l was
shown lately an exquisite pdrure
OF lilies of the valley, gotten up as a
bridal gift to the young daughter of an
eminent Partisan banker. Nothing more
lovely, more artistic. or more girlishly
pure aud simple with all its maguifi-
cence can be imagined. The flowers
were formed of single pearl each, the
broad leaves being composed OF small
diamonds, and considerable art had
been shown in overcoming the natu.
rally stiff look of the leaf. The set
comprised ear rings, broocli-pendanl, u
bracelet, and spray for the hair. The
bracelet was particularly charming, be.
ing literally small wreath OF ioweled
flowers"
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open boat, subsisting part Of tho time on the
flesh and blood Of others who died whilst in
the boat. The Cospatrick was burned on
November II, off the Cape Of Good Hope
The ship Cospatrick was from London for
Auckland, New Zealand. She sailed Septem-
Der IA. It is now estimated that four hundred
and sixty-five lives were lost by the disaster.
Advices from Paris are to the effect
that Alfonso, son Of ex-Queen Isabella, has
been proclaimed king of Spain, and that tho
event is hailed with rejoicing by tile Span
iards. Isabella, in response 10 dispatch of
Gen. PRIMO dc Kivers, sent the following tele-
gram: "The king proceeds to Spain mme.
diately." Alfonso has telegraehed to the
pope, asking his blessing, and promising that
he will, like his ancestors, defend the rights
Of the holy see. He did not pass through
Paris, but has gone to Spain direct. He will
disembark either at Cadiz or Valencia. Addi-
tional disF atches from Spain state that Princes
Alfonso has been invited to visit the army of
the north. The ships in the harbor Of San
tander have hoisted the royal flag. Marshal
Serrano acquiesces. The minister OF the in
terror has sent the following dispatch to the
governors Of provinces: "Alfonso XII. has
been unanimously proclaimed king by the
nation, the army and the ministry A regency
has been formed nnder the presidency of
Conovas del Castillo without portfolio. We
hope your patriotism will induce you to firmly
maintain the great interests confded to you"
The Alfonsoists consider that Carlism has re-
ceived its death-blow. Ex-Queen Isabella has
received the following dispatches: "All the
towns have responded enthusiastically to the
proclamation.
"pRTMo De RIVERA,
"Captain-General Of Madrid"
"We pray your majesty to transmit the
news to your son." "We congratulate you on
this grand triumph, achieved without blood
she'd" This telegram is signed by Gems.
Primo de Rivera and Conovas dol Castillo.