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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-24
GRADUAL RESUMPTION.
The specie Payment Bill Agreed Upon by
the Democratic Caucus COMMITTEES.

The specie Payment Bill Agreed Upon by
the Democratic Caucus Committee.
Subjoined is full copy of the bill
agreed to by the majority of the demo-
cratic cailctis cotnmittee, and reported to
the caucus by Mr.. Payne
BE 1t enacted, etc., That it shall be the duty
of the secretary of the treasury, during each
and Every year from and after July l. 1876,
and until the legaltender notes of the United
States shall be appreciated at par value with
gold, and shall be convertible into coin, to
cause TO be set aside and retained in csia
an amount equal to three per cent. of such
legal-tender notes outstanding, and from the
date of such convertibility, as aforesaid, the
amount of coin set aside and retained as
afofesaid; shall be held as a resumption fund
in respect to said legal l-tender notes, and
shall at no time be less than thirty per cent
of such outstanding legal-tender notes; pro-
vided, however, that the coin so set aside and
retained as above provided shall be counted
as part of :he sinking fund for the purchase
or the payment of the public debt as required
by section 1884 of the revised statutes.
Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of each
national banking association, during each
and every year from and after July l, 1876,
and until the full and complete resumption
of the payment in specie of its circulating
notes, to set aside and retain from coin re-
eeivable and interest on the bonds deposited
with the treasurer OF the United States as
security for it's circulation, an amotnt equal
to three per cent. of its circulating notes
issued to stlch association and not surren-
dered, and from the date of its resumption
of specie payments as aforesaid, the amount
of coin to be held and maintained as re-
fund shall at no time be less than
thirty per cent. of its outstanding circula-
ton; that the coin by this section directed
to be set aside and retained shall be part
of the lawful money reserve which said asso-
citation are by existing laws required to
. Sec. 3. That so much of section of an act |
entitled " An apt to provide for the restf1p- !
tion of specie payments" approved JANUARY |
II, 1875, as reqi1ired the secretary of the |
treasury to redeem legal-tender notes to the |
amount of eighty per cent. of the sum of |
national bank notes issued to any banking |
association increasing its capital or circula-
ton, or to any association newly organized |
rs provided in said section, and also so much |
9f said section as relates to or provides for |
he redemption in coin of the United States |
egal-tender notes on or after January l,
S79, and all other provisions of law inco
Iistent with this act, are hereby repealed.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-24
GERALDINE,

Only a rosebud,
All fresh with the dew; o
Awee bit of Heaven escaped from the blue
Only flash
OF the bright, golden morn;
But the earth grew in glory the day she was born,
A grain In Hfe-sandsj
A leaf on the tree;
But whole world of lUTe i5 my darling to me.
Only elean
OF the sunshine to come,
To tinge with new luster the day-dreams OF home
Only a drop
In flies deep-roIling sea,
But that drop is an ocean of joy unto me.
Only a unit
In earth's census-roll.
But what Is all space to my little ones soul?
Two tiny feet, waiting
Iifrs ladder to climb,
Just pressing the verge OF the causeway Of Time;
Bright ewes full of wonder
And beauty and grace,
Looking out on the Infinite forth into space;
smile lingering ever
Yhe angels last kiss
As SHE passed through the gate between that world
and this.
o dewdrop of Heaven,
Sent down from above.
o fresh life, GOd-giEen, to Hearts full OF loTe
Oprincess OF babies
o sweetest of elves
10 here at thy altar we pledge thee ourselves!
To crown thee with wisdom
And rear thee in truth
Shall be our one task through thy oncoming youth
Only an atom,
monad clOd!
But gleamn, and glowing with life, fresh from God
Only mite
And a little one too;
But without her, o wise man! say, what should
do?
t1hit d whisper
In life's shifting scene;
But she's still my own daughter. my wee Geraldine.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-24
How Mrs. Belknap Looked and What
She Wore

Saws the New York World: This lady
has been the object of general admiration
since first she came to Washington six
years ago to visit her sister, the former
wife of Gen. Belknap. Her handsome
face and figure and witty conversational
powers at once made her a central figure
in any assemblage. She is tall, has a
well-developed and rounded form, and
graceful carriage. Her features are reg
ular, her complexion clear and fair, while
her hair is black and her eyes black and
very bright. When first she came to
Washington, Mrs. Belknap was the widow
of a Mr.. Bowers, who had died some
months before in Cincinnati. Her fam
ily name was TOmlinson, and she was a
native of Harrodsburg, KY. Her father.
DIR. Tomlinson, was an eminent physi-
clan, and highly connected. He had a
large family of sons and daughters. All
of the latter were noted for their beauty
and were reigning bellies of their native
state. The mother of Mrs. Henry Clews,
of New York, was one of the sisters, and
the second and present wife of Gen. Bel
KNAPP another.
All shades and colors are becoming to
Mrs. Belknap's s'vle, and she INDUCED IN
Worth's most effective combinations. AT
the many entertainments she has at
tended this winter, she has looked equally
beautiful, whether attired in pale rose
colored silk, with soft, creamy lace, or
turquoise blue silk. with long garlands
of flowers trimming the low corsage and
very short sleeves, as well as the tablier
and trains of ivory-tinted silk trimmed
with fringe and lace, or even her car
riage costumes-one of black velvet and
lace, another of blue velvet trimmed with
bands of pheasant's feathers. She has
many other toilets of the richest mate
rial Mrs. Belknap is dainty frorI head
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-24
How the Awards will be Made at the
Centennial,

The system of awards adopted for the
centennial exhibition at Philadelphia is
praised by the London Times as the first
fair and thorough system yet devised. 1t
is generally approved by exhibitors and
by the commissioners from foreign coun-
tries.
First.-Awards shall be based upon
written reports attested by the sigma
lures of their authors.
Second.-Two hundred judges shall
be appointed to make such reports, one
half of whom shall be foreigners and one
half citizens of the United States They
will be selected for their known qualifi-
cations5 aud haraeter;5epd will Ike e.x-
perts in the departments TO which they
will be respectfully assigned. The for
eign members of this body will be ap-
pointed by the commission of each
country and in conformity with the dis
tribution and allotment to each, which
will be hereafter announced. The judges
from the United States will disappointed
by the centennial commission.
Third-The sum of $1,000 will be
paid to each commissioned judge for per-
sOnal expenses.
Fourth.-Reportsa and awards shall be
based upon inherent and comparative
merit The elements of merit shall be
held to include consideration relating TO
originality, invention, discovery, utility,
quality, skill, workmanship, fitness for
the purposes intended, adaptation to pub
lie wants, economy and cost.
Fifth.-Each report will be delivered
to the centennial commission as soon as
completed for final award and publica-
ton.
Sixth-Awards will be finally decreed
by the United States centennial commits
sion, in compliance with the act of con-
gress, and will consist of diploma with
a uniform bronze medal and special re-
port of the judges on the subject of the
award.
Seventh-Each exhibitor will have
the right to reproduce and publish the
report awarded to him, but the United
States centennial commission reserves
the right to publish and dispose of all
reports in the manner it thinks best for
public information, and also to embody
and distribute the reports as records of
the exhibition.
The method of tne selection and ap-
pointment of judges in many respects
differs radically from the systems hither-
to tried in international exhibitions.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-24

to foot Hats and boots match each cos
tune. Her foot is the smallest in Wash
ington. She wears a number one and
half shoe, though she is five feet six
inches IN height. Slippers and boots of
satin for these dainty feet come from
Paris, and are always enough seen to be
admired. The jewels Mrs. Belknap most
frequently wears consist of string of
large pearls around her neck, with beau
tiful pendant of diamonds. Her ear
rings are two solitaire drops for each,ear.
An aigrette of diamonds is the only orn-
ament she ever wears on her shapely
head, amid the puffs of dark hair that
are always arranged to suit the contour
of the handsome face. Prior to her mar
ria.e with Gen. Belknap she spent
eighteen months in Europe, ard brought
her wedding trousseau with her ON her
RETURN
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-24

In Philadelphia, on the 9th, the Jones
burial case was decided in the supreme court.
The authorities of Mount Moriah cemetery,
last autumn, refused to allow the body of
Henry Jones, colOred man, to be buried in
the cemetery, although his widow owned a
lot there. The matter was taken into court
and the authorities were ordered to permit
the burial. They appealed from the decision
and carried the case to the supreme court
The decision of the supreme court to-day
afirms the finding of the lower court, and
orders the burial to be made in the cemetery
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-24
The London Press on the Belknap
Scandal.

The Times says, editorially, of the
Belknap scandal: This event is more
grave because it is cOnfirmatOry of suspi
cion which has lsng prevailed among
American people. Even we Europeans
cannot but be struck with the altered
tones in which Americans speak, If not
of their institutions, at least of the men
who have present direction of them"
The News, alluding TO the same sub
iect, says: American political life
seems to be in anything but healthy
condition" 1t refers to the whisky
fraud trials, the Emma mine scandal,
and the downfall of Belknap and says
that these scandals lift the veil from a
class of society which it was hitherto
pretty generally supposed had as yet cs-
capped the impurities of the social strata
below. and they lead one to fear that
some of the worst vices of the municipal
government may be percolating into the
federal administration"
'The Telegraph says: Disclosures
after disclosures, charge after charge
VARYING in degrees of truth, but with
the same ugly and untoward character,
have lately darkened the commercial, re-
ligious. judicial and administrative insti-
tutions of the United States. Some have
proved false, others true, and more await
evidence. But the general effect beyond
denial has been and is TO bring the blush
of shame and anxiety to the faces Of all
honest Americans, and TO make the
countless friends of the republic in this
country silent and sorrowful when its
enemies rejoice over these recurring reve-
lations."
The Standard says: Happily, the
countries are few where so gross an abuse
of trust would be possible"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-24

tuition and should be regarded as being for
ever extinguished by the result of the recent
civil conflict. The yeas and nays were called
for and the resolution was adopted-150 to
AZ, Mr.. Wells offered a resolution calling
for the information as to the cotton claims
presented aid paid by the treasury depart
ments since January, 1885; requiring the
ha1ies and residences of the original owners
and of the attorneys also, and as to the MAN.
ner of paying fees in such cases, and whether
there has been any combination to defraud
the government in respect to such claims.
Adopted, and the house adjourned.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-24

A TINE FOR CARE-SeriOus danger
lies in the unhealthfulness of an unus-
ually mild winter, with its dampness
and sudden changes of temperature.
This will undoubtedly be felt both by
man and beast. The health of the farmer
and his family should be guarded by the
utmost care and the most INSCRIPTIONS
cleanliness. No foul surface water should
be permitted to ooze unnoticed into the
well or the spring. Fouled drinking
water, emanations from decomposing,
moist, unpleasant collections of vegeta-
BILE or animal matter, pools of stagnaIt
water in the pathways or around the
dwellings, leakage into the cellar beneath
the house, and other such unwholesome
influences, affect the health of country
residents mere than any other evils.
Where pure air and water are supposed
to be the rule they are, on the contrary,
the exception. There could be ne better
season than the present for the exercise
of care in this respect, and no worse one
for the discovery of abundant opportu-
mites for it. The majority of those
farmers who know the need for the drain
age of their fields, and spend money
literally to keep their crops in good
health, will leave their houses and yards
undrained and endanger the health of
their most precious harvest-their chill
dren.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-24

THE BIBLE FOR THE BLIND.-The
Boston Advertiser says: In the year S43
the Board of Managers of the American
Bible Society completed the entire Bible
in raised letters for the blind. The cost
of preparing the stereotype plates for the
Old Testament was not far from SIC, 900,
so that the cost of getting up the plates
for the entire scriptures amounted to not
less than $4,000. The entire Bible,
comprising both the Old and New Testa-
ments in raised characters, consists of
eight very large folio volumes, and is
sold at the present time for $50, which is
much below the cost. The whole work
is one of the most interesting triumphs of
modern art, and is a noble memorial of
the christian philanthropy of the present
age. Few men in our times have
wrought out a more substantial claim to
the gratitude and admiring love of their
fellow-men than DR.. Howe, whose name
stands in such prominent relation TO
this enterprise; and few efforts are more
commendable than those of the Ameri-
can Bible Society to prepare and scatter
these sacred pages among all classes and
conditions of the blind.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-24

A statement made by the adjutant-
general giving the nationality of men enlisted
In the United States army from Jan. 1, 1865,
to Dec. 81, 1874, shows the largest enlist
ments to have been from the natives of the
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-24
HOUSE.

In the house, on the 9TH, the senate
amendments to the house bill to provide for
the purchase of material and for continuance
of work on the custom-house building at st.
Louis were concurred in. Mr.. Lawrence in
trodueed bill to prevent monopoly and ex-
orbitant charges in trading establishments at
military posts, and TO secure good order at
the same; also bill to protect witnesses on
trial of impeachment cases. Referred. Mr..
Banning presented resolutions of the Gin
cinnati chamber of commerce adverse to any
law requiring draw to be provided in every
bridge hereafter to be built across the Ohio
river. Referred. Mr.. Walling reported a bill
to amend the homestead act, by authorizing
proof Of residence, occupation, cultivation,
etc, to be made before the Judge of any
court of record in the county and state n
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-24

4 GENTLEMAN in Great Darlington.
Mss, has geography published in Lon
don in l749, in which California is de-
scribed as an island. and a map is given
showing it to be entirely surrounded 10y
water. The book tells of a tree in Flor
ida "the leaves Of which, if bruised and
thrown into a large pond of water, all
the beasts which drink thereof will swell
up and burst asunder." ii says that "the
air of Pennsylvania is generally granted
to be clear and sweet, the heavens being
seldom overcast with Clouds" and that
the "length of days and nights is much
the same rs in New jersey" There is a
chapter devoted to "rarities of New
York." in which it is said that in divers
parts of New York Especially those nigh
unto and upon the banks of the river
ConnecticuD grows a sort of snake-weed,
whose root is much esteemed of for the
biting of the rattlesnake."
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-24

DWELLINGS OF THE LAPLANDERs.-
The Lapland dwellings are constructed
on the simplest plan; they raise four
pieces of wood. which support the build
ing; these are joined to another plank at
the top, which serves as support for
number of other planks, giving 10 the
hut a figure shaped like bell. Around
the whole frame is wound a Aarse cloth.
The rich employ a double covering of
cloth, the better TO preserve them from
the rain and the wind, while the poor
employ turf. The fire is in the middle
of the hut, and the smoke goes out at -
hole at the top. This fire is continually
burning. The pot-hanger descends from
the root above the fire; sometimes the
pot hanger is Of iron, but commonly it is
a branch Of a birch-tree, at the end Of
which hook is fastened. A pot flied
with water is always hanging over the
fire; and when any one wishes 10 drink,
he fills a large spoon with snow and
sprinkles boiling water upon IL till IT X
melted The floor of the hut is made of
branches of the birch-tree or the pine.
Here the old and the young, male and
female, live together; they all sleep pro
miscuously and quite naked, upon the
skins of reindeer. The door of the hut
Is 30 low that one must get on ones knees
Go enter il; il faces the south, 80 as to
be sheltered from the north wind.
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Effects of the Sun ON LunatIcs.

The French Gazette des HOpitauX
contains curious article on this subject.
DIR. PonZa, director of the lunatic asy-
lum at Alessandria, (PiedmOnt,) having
conceived the idea that the solar rays
might have some curative power in dis
eases of the brain, communicated hls
views to Father Secchi, of Rome, who
replied in the following terms: he
idea of studying the disturbed state OF
Iunatics in connection with magnetic
pertubations and with the colored, espec-
iallv violet, light of the sun, is of re-
markable importance, and | consider it
worth being cultivated" Such light is
easily obtained by filtering the solar rays
through a glass of that color. Violet"
adds Father Secchi, "has something mel
anchOly and Oppressive about it, which,
physiOlogically, cause low spirits; hence,
no doubt, poets have draPed melancholy
in violet garments. Perhaps violet
light may calm the nervous excitement
of unfortunate maniacs." He then, IN
his letter, advises DIR. Ponza TO perform
his experiments in rooms the walls OF
which are painted of the same color as
the glass panes of the windows, which
should be as numerous rs possible, III or
der to favor the action of solar light, so
that it NAV be admissible at any hour of
the day. The patients should pass the
night in rooms Oriented to the east and
to the south, and painted and glazed as
above. DIR. Ponza, following the instruc-
tions of the learned Jesuit, prepared
several rooms in the manner described,
and kept several patients there under
observation. One OF them, affected with
morbid tactiturnity, became gay and at
fable after three hours stay in n red
chamber; another, maniac who re-
fused all food, asked for some breakfast
after having STAYED twenty-four hours in
the same red chamber. In blue one,
highly excited mailman with straight
waistcoat was kept all day; an hour af-
ter he appeared much Calmer. The ac-
ton of blue light is very intense on the
optic nerve, and seems TO cause sort OF
depression. A patient was made TO pass
the night in a violet chamber; on the
following day, he begged DIR. Ponza to
send him home, because he felt himso I
cured and indeed he has been well ever
since. DIR. Ponza's conclusions from his
experiments are these "ghe violet
ravs are. of all Others, those that possess
the most intense electro chemical power I;
the red light is also very rich In calorihc
rays; blue light, on the contrary. ~
quite devoid of them as well as chemical
and electric ones. Its beneficent influ-
ence is hard to explain as it Is the alb
soIute negation of all excitement, it sue
ceeds admirably in calming the furious
excitement of manlacs."
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-24

r. REVoLUTIoNARY relics are keeping
the manufacturers busy, so as to have
them IN time for the centennial.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-24

THE proposed tunnel under the Eng
lish channel will prove to be a work of
much greater difficulty than the Suez
canal, which has made the name of Fer
dinand de Lesseps famous. The sound
ings last fall, ole thousand five hundred
and twenty-five in number revealed the
fact that four-fifths of the way across a
thick stratum of gray chalk exists, pre-
senting a favorable condition for exca-
waiting purposes, but it will require the
greater portion of the present year to
complete the preliminary investigations.
NJ. Lavelly, the French engineer, who
made report to the French directors,
INDUCES in the assertion that when the
tunnel is completed, one million trav-
clers will annually pass through il, and
the revenue from that source alone will
amount to two millions of dollars. The
revenue from freights by rail will be
much larger. 1t may be safely said of
this tunnel, however, that it is a ques-
tion of time,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-24

On the banks of the Iowa river, about
seventy miles from the Mississippi, is a
colony of people known as "Amanes."
They number about 1900, and located
there nearly twenty years ago. Origi-
nally they emigrated from Germany and
settled in the vicinity of Buffalo, being
known as the " Ebenezers "a quiet,
moral, industrious people, devoting their
energies chiefly to agriculture. But
about 1856 they moved to Iowa. All
property is held in common by them, but
each family has its separate dwelling
They appear to have no vices, commit no
crimes, have built school-houses and
churches, and made many improvements
in the villages they have built. German
is the language used in business and So
cial life, but English is taught in their
schools. Their religion is similar to that
of the Quakers.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-24

WHENEVER case of yellow fever oc-
ours in New Orleans the streets sur
rounding the square are sprinkled with
Calvert's No. 5 carbolic acid. diluted in
fifty parts of water. a large sprinkler
on wheels is used for the roadwavs and
the sidewalks are sprinkled by hand.
The grounds of neighboring yards are
similarly treated, and the privy vaults
disinfected with a solution of zinc-irun
chloride. At the termination of the case
by death or removal, the infected apart
ments are fumigated with sulphurous
acid of chloride. The extent Cf the
ground disinfectcd is according to the
lapse of time since the appearance of the
fever. The extent of the disinfection
along the ground is about forty or fifty
feet daily, so that after some days DELAY
the whole square must be enclosed with
a disinfecting band and the enclosed
surface sprinkled