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Reflux of European Emigration.

The European steamers for Europe
continue to take out large numbers of
steerage and second class passengers,
chiefly artisans and mechanics and labor
ing men, who are said to be returning
home, unable to find employment here.
On the other side, it seems, there has
been some incredulity as to these
r, asons fer this rehux of human tide,
and so correspondent of the London
Daily News, determined to ascertain the
truth of the matter, boarded one steamer
on her arrival at Queenstown, which had
four hundred and fifty steerage passen-
gers on board, and the following is the
version of the causes of the British exO-
dus from America: He says he found
both hopeful and despOndent people
among them, but on the whole the san
Cuine had the best of it in numbers and
in argument. The few described America
as going to the dogs altogether. There
was no work to be got, and they were
coming hsme to try their luck once
more in the land where, when they went
away, they believed no luck was left for
them. The majority, however, had come
back with more or less of saved money
i'm ther pocket, some tn visit their friends,
some to live on their little store until
times got better in America. and others
because the low railway fares produced
by the centennial exhibition, and the
general holiday temper that event seems
to have aroused, gave them such an oP
pOrtunity as might never recur of visiting
England eheaply and without inconven-
ience. There were among them all sorts
and conditions of men and women, but
the bulk were quite contented with
their lot in the land of their adoption,
whittier they intended sooner or later to
raturn
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-28

static of General Custer in Washington.
BY Mr.. Landers: for the immediate titililiza-
ton of gold and silver bullion by Certificates
Of valHe tc encourage the coinage thereof,
and to make the standard silver dollar le-
gal tender. Referred to coitifiittee of the
whole on motion of Mr.. Banks. BY Mr..
Eafnes: an addition to the bill for the re-
sumption of specie payments, requiring
six per cent. of the amount of standing legal
tender notes to be set aside every year until
the legal tenders are of equal value with
gold. The resolution of Mr., Piper toF the
appointment of committee to proceed
to California, after adjournment, to
investigate, conformity with a senate COM
mittee, or otherwise, the extent and effect OF
Chinese immigration, was adOpted-ayes 1855,
nays ID. A bill TO remove the political dis
abilities of ?. G. T. Beanregara passed. Mr..
McDougal introduced bill granting PEN
sions to the heirs of the officers and men
killed in Clusters recent battle with the
Sioux at increased rates, prOportiOnate to
that of fifty dollars per month, to the legal
pension of a lieutenant colonel. Referred.
Mr.. Lane introduced bill to pay the states of
California and Oregon the expenses incurred
in suppressing indian hOstilities in 1872 and
1873. Passed. Adjourned.
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THE BLACK HILLS:
Report of Indian Inspector Van

Report Of Indian Inspector VandeHVere.
Indian inspector Vandervere reports
that at council with the Indians of the
Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies,
June 18th, the chiefs and others ex-
pressed a willingness to relinquish the
Black Hills country on the terms offered
by Vandervere. The chiefs all promised
to keep their people at home and to re-
main about the agencies. They declare,
and evidence here sustains their declara-
ton, that very few Sioux are absent,
and that it is chiefly Cheyennes who
have committed depredatiORs in this
neighborhood and who have gone north
to Join the hostiles. The inspector says:
"Ths Arrangement with the Indians
that | regard is practicable at the pre-
sent time is an agreement between
them and the government by which
they shall ,relinq uish all rights to the
Black Hills, and consent to such di
minished boundaries Of their reseTva-
ton as shall secure this object. In
consideration of this REIMBURSEMENT,
the government shall guarantee to
continue the supplies of food and other
articles to them, as under the former
treaty, for five years from date of new
agreement. | would further stipulate
with the Indians that they shall, when
ever the government requires, consent to
the removal of their agencies from their
present location to any point that may
be designated for them on or near the
Missouri river, where better farming
land can be found, or to wherever the
government may choose to transfer them
to better their condition. As an induce
ment to their consent to such removal or
transfer, there should be offered them a
reasonable supply of stock, cattle, oxen,
farming implements, lumber for houses,
cooking stoves and utensils, wagons, etc,
to be distributed to those only who take
land and settle upon it for cultivation,
or who engage in stock raising or other
useful industry. Provision also should
be made for schooling the children and
for the instruction of the young men in
the mechanic arts. Law should be es-
tablished among them and the jurisdic
ton of our courts extended to them the
same as to white men. would give the
Sioux tribes the privilege of sending one
of their own people to sit as delegate
in congress. Nearly the entire force of
the agency Indians are here now and are
anxious for peace. Statements repre-
senting a different state of things are not
entitled to credit. Nothing could be
more unfortunate than to stop the
rations OF these Indians at the present
time, and thus drive them to the altern-
alive of stealing or starving"
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There are twenty exhibitors of champagne
n the AGRICULTURAL building. There is fine
collection of sugar loaves from beAts in the
same department, from France. The writer
has seen the beet-sugar in general use upon
the continent of Europe. SOfiie of these SUI
gar beets grew to TIE weight Of eighty-four
pounds in Belgium. The sugar is lighter,
and seems whittier and more acid than ours.
In the Hawaiian department. are, collections
of dried ferns, samples of cloth like the
mulberry paper of Japan. 1t is made of
stribs of the inner bark of a tree, moistened
and laid side by side, and then beaten by
han 1-bats of different patterns. This is
called wanke.fire; it is made into bed cloth
ing, and is of different tints, red, white and
blue, all hand-work. A waterproof cloak is
also exhibited, made by fitting leaves of
grass broad kind called "t tea leaf over
each other, like feathers on this paper cloth.
They make a rope from fibre called olona.
They also make a haDd-braidea ecrd, very
flexible and strong. 1t has strange appear
ance,, white and blask speckled, resembling
a snake at first glance.
In the agricultural building is seen the
India rubber tree with the crude gum. In
this connection can De contrasted the gums
of the West Indies and Africa. Oregon ex-
hibits the section IF q ttee-the red cedar.
The tree grew to the height of three huhidred
and twenty-five feet, and measured at the
center of its height twenty-five feet in diam
eter. Another sectio.ssis rom the fir tree.
which measured fifteen feet nine inches in
diameter. at a distance of one hundred aud
ffty-eight feet from the butt. Specimens of
shingles thirty inches wide, cut from spruce
or white pine. that yielded one hundred
thousand shingles and ffty-eight cords of
fuel. The specimens of alder wood are
beautiful. Belgium exhibits in the main
building pulpit of carved wood sixteen feet
high, composed OF eighty pieces. lthaS five
fronts, all exquisitely carved. Italy has a
necklace of twanty-four rubies, forming
twelve pair of earrings, thing of beauty"
price 100000 gold. A set of diamond head
ornaments $4,000 gold. The celebrated
vases from Berlin are worth: The German
Model of Peace, S., 900; the Aurora, $4,5OO;
Otho'S Visit to the Vault of Charlemagne,
5000. They are superb; No visitor should
fail to see them. j. B.
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House Flies.

Those who live in comfortable homes
with all the necessary protection against
flies, do not realize the annoyance of this
insect. 1t is true, they are great scaven-
gers, and for filthy house-keepers they
are important to health, to have them eat
up the grease and filth about the kitchen,
cellar, poultry and back yards, and ward
off disease. But to the clean housekeeper
they are only nuisance and can be
abated. The best way is to procure
frames for the doors and windows and
cover them with gaSIze wire or MOSQUITO
bars. The things arc not in the way
when the family once becomes used 20
them.
But if the dishwater, potato peelings,
cabbage leaves, meat bones, mellon rinds,
soapsuds, &c, are thrown in the back
yard, or in a hole near the hOttse, 10
breed disease, it is right and proper to
have flies, and no one should complain
of their presence. They are there for
pood purpose, and if they get into the
house to annoy the occupants, it is only
To inform them that they are dirty and
careless housekeepers. If they get into
your face, eyes and mouth, and add
largely to the variety of your soup-dish,
look around your premises and inquire
what filth and garbage attracts such
swarms of them. The neat bousekeeper,
who keeps her house, yard and all her
surroundings clean and sweet, seldom
complains that she has more flies than
her neighbOrs. But there are few more
disagreeable places to visit than a seven
story house, on a hot day, with the doors
and windows all open, flies in greedy
swarms, with the back yard, out houses
and kitchen reeking in filth and mias-
matte vapors, the wife scolding, the chill,
dren weak, feeble and cross. 1t is all
right. The neat and tidy should not be,
and are not annoyed, while the lazy and
the slatterns are, and should be, plagued
by flies, even if they come in clouds lake
the grasshoppers of Colorado.
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The Discoveries in Tehauntepec.

The Boston Transcript has letter
from the City of Mexico which says:
"We have seen, in 1859, some dozens
of the gold images which were excavat-
ed in Central America, weighing alto
gether it calculated, two hundred and
twenty pounds, and which came out of
four thousand graves which the prOfane
hands and spades had violated. Now
we have had the pleasure of treating
here in the city with the intelligent ex
plorer, Captain Mailer, who has been in
Tehauntepec, and who brings two very
interesting gold pieces which were exca-
waited a tew months since in the house of
Sonora DOna Georgia Toledo, in the city
itself, while making repairs. With these
gold objects, value 1000 as their price,
were some skeletons which fell in powder
on exposure to tie air. There are dishes
in clay. Some of these figures were
bought by the United States consul,
Thomas Carlock, who sold them to the
purser of the British ship-ofwar Fan
tome, Mr.. Tom Clayton (the name is
given in the diminutive as the pur er
seems to prefer this form, ami has writ
ten it so himself) One of these is
(5ainches), representing king seated on
his throne, with d crown upon his head,
a sceptre or mace in his right hand, and
a shield in his left. He wears pendants
in his ears, and on his breast the head of
a demon from whose neck is suspended
three eoscabeis or pendants which will
rattle; this doubtless represents, says
Capt. Mailer, the Cocique, whose bones,
after a sleep, perhaps of thousand
years, have been sacrilegiOusly scattered
abroad. A pendant or earring 12} cen
timetres (44 inches) long, represents the
face of a woman like unto that which
adorns the breast of the king, and from
which this and the crown which she
wears on her head, we take her to be
queen. Many other objects were found
and melted up by the descendants of
these Cepateco goldsmiths, who did not
more respect the beautiful work of their
predecessors in their craft, or perhaps
acted under orders. The most-to be-
req stted object thus lost to history was
gold plate about foot long, covered
with hierogIyphical writings, doubtless
about the people of the time, and their
names and history. Capt. Mailer IS Sc
we're on the governor and project OF the
city, who did not buy these objects
But the lady who sold them may be
justified. as she knew that if she offered
them for sale to these authorities she
would run some risk. :"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-28
The UeaItbfuIness of Lemons.

When people feel the need of an acid,
if they would let vinegar alone and use
lemons and sour apples, they would feel
inst as we'll satisfied and receive no in
iurv. And a suggestion may not come
amiss as a good plan when lemons are
cheap in the market. A person should
in those times purchase seyeral dozen at
once and prepare them for use in the
warm days of spring and summer. when
acids, especially critic and malic, or the
acids of lemons and ripe fruits, are 30
grateful and useful. Press your hand on
the lemon and roll it back and forth
briskly on the table to make it squeeze
more easily; then press the juice into A
bowl or tumbler, never into tin; strain
out all the seeds, as they give a bad
taste. Remove all the pulp from the
peel and boil in water--a pint to a
dozen pulps-tO extract the acids. A
few minutes boiling is enough; then
strain the water with the juice of the
lemons; put pound of white sugar to
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-28
Powder and Shot.

The ieaIousies of great men have
caused more sorrow and ruin TO the
world than have the iniquities of the
lower classes.
/ believe mankind generally are
prouder Of their bad luck than of their
good fortune.
Habits, even the smallest of them, are
most arbitrary. The peg we hang our
hat on, the corner where we stand our
cane, are as necessary to us as our coffee
| for breakfast.
Those people who watch their health
or the weathercock too closely, don't
generally watch anything else much.
If this life were To be the end of mans
existence he would not be filled with de-
sires for something he hadn't got and
couldn't define.
In case of doubt ask your wife about il.
Happiness, after all, is gift from ma
ture. All the world given to some
wouldn't make them happy, and taken
away from others wouldn't make them
unhappy.
Disease and pain are great Jewelers.
the highest and the lowest have the collie
Just alike.
1t is the little things that show CHAR
! acter. When / see man pick up a
piece of orange peel from the sidewalk
that some thoughtless cuss has dropped
there and heave it into the gutter,
want to kiss that man and call him
cousin.
"Mother," Home" Child" are
the three tenderest words in any Ian
guage.
Building air castles is kind of gam
bling which at first excites, then de-
praves and finally eXhausts the energy.
People who have nothing TO do are al
ways in great hurry to do it.
The human heart is like a very rich
piece of ground-capableo of producing
great crop of weeds or flowers, just as it
is hoed or neglected.
Humility is the best teacher ] know
of; it is always safe and generally sure.
1t is harder work TO be a second-rate
hypocrite than to be irst-class chris
tian.
IdIeness is the great bane Of life. The
devil always enters the idle mans house
without knocking.
Ingratitude is the devils creed.
The most comfortably matched family
team that / ever saw hooked up, has
been where one ef the party wanted
everything their own way and the other
party was willing they should have il.
1t is a noticeable truth in the market,
that the value of all our luxuries de
pcnds entirely upon the price that other
folks put on them.
The hardest lesson to learn, and the
easiest one to forget, is humility.
There are but few folks who are as big
fools as other people think they are and
there are less who are as wise as they
think they are themselves.
1t is always best TO give it up when we
get beat, but it amt always necessary TO
acknowledge it.
The man who looks to his own con-
science for pap, is always sure of getting
all that is due him.
Millions of books have been written TO
teach mankind how to be vigtuous and
happy. The following little sentence is
worth more than all OF them put together:
"Do as we would like to be done by"
If we could live our lives over again,
even with all the experience we have
gained to guide us, the best we should
do would be to make a new set Of blum
deTs.
Hypocrisy is not only the most diff
cult 10 detect in others but is one of the
most difficult things to detect in our
selves.-sIOsh BiUinJS.
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Country Parsons Odd Thoughts.

For preaching, which will come home
to mems business and bosoms, which will
not appear to ignore those things which
of necessity occupy the greater party OF
an ordinary mortaPs thoughts, commend
me to the preacher who has learned by
experience what are human ties and
what is human worry.
There is no more sunshiny inmate OF
any home than the happy tempered one
who has the art of putting all things in a
pleasant light, from the greater mis!or-
tunes in life down to a broken carriage
spring. a servants failings, or a child:
salts and senna.
When little child on being offered a
third plate OF plum-pudding, says with q
wistful look, No, thank you," think o.
vourown childish days, think what plum
pudding was then, and instantly send the
little man another slice.
Many men, when they go into the coun
try. put off frOck coats and stiff stocks
and pitch away the vile, hard hat of city
prosperity, and replace them by lOos'
suits, soft handkerchief and the yield
ing wide-awake, and thus do mental,
pass through process of reliet.
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Boston and Her Population.

The Boston Herald gives some very in
teI esting statistics from the report OF the
auditor of that city. 1t shows that the
total population OF the city in 1873 was
three hundred and forty-one thousand
nine hundred and nineteen, of whom one
hundred and seventy-nine thousand six
hundred and fifty-seven were women and
one hundred and sixty two thousand two
hundred and sixty-two men. Boston has
drawn much more than is generally sup
pOsed upon other towns for the increase
of It's population. Only about thirty
three psr cent. of the inhabitants were
born in the city, the number being one
hundred and fourteen thousand one hun
dred and sixty-four; born elsewhere in
Massachusetts, fifty-six thousand four
hundred and thirteen; born in other
states, fifty-twO thousand seven hundred
and sixty; born out OF the United States,
one hundred and seventeen thousand
and FIVE; place of birth unknown, fifteen
hundred and seventy Thus IL
will be seen that the foreign-born inhabit-
ants of Boston outnumber the natives
by twenty-eight hundred and forty-One.
The census shows that the negroes of the
number thirty one hundred and twenty
six, the mulattOes eighteen hundred and
forty. three, the Chinese forty-five, Japa-
nese five and Indians ffty-seven. Since
the census was taken the Chinese popu-
lation has somewhat increased.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-28
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.

A TEXAS stage coach is warranted TO
run man into a robber gang straighter
than an Indian can shoot.
WHY is it that a dirty pair of cuffs
protrude much farther than clean ones,
despite all endeavors to hide them
" What no more ammunition ?" cried
the captain of military company, on a
field day. No; no more" replied the
men. Then cease firing" replied the
officer.
AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL: "Ques-
tion-Will the editor please inform me
how the HOllanders salt cucumbers
Answer-The most common way, as we
observed when abroad, is to salt them
with salt"
PROFESSOR "Where is Buckingham
at this time?" Junior: " He was
abroad" Professor: Yes, he was
absent from England dead in fact"
Chorus of cheers from the men who
were about TO funk next.
AN old negro was raid his weeks wa
ges in New York, recently, receiving
the most of it in silver half dollars. he
looked benignly at them as they lay in
his palm. chuckled as though in triumph,
can't chaw
EMILY SHOMBERG, the Philadelphia
belle, is soon to be married. She has
gone so far as 20 select the man. 1t
used to be said that Miss ShOmberg had
vowed never TO marry until she had re-
ceived one hundred offers. This must
be the one hundredth.
/" You needn't take down any more
goods" she said 10 the weary-looking
clerk, who was half submerged in his
wares. "I don't want to buy any, but
my husbands sisters niece is going to
New York, and she sand she'd buy me
what | needed there if the prices were
enough lower than here to make it worth
while Chicago Journal
THE following affecting lines were
wrung from the tempest tossed heart OF
a Burlington boarder. There are one OF
two egg-shelent ideas covered up in the
poetic verbiage. The efusion is built
in the ancient Sunday school air, There
is a Happy Land, " TO which it may be
sung with or without notes. Dedicated
to boarding house keepers by the author:
There is a boarding house,
Not far away,
Where they had ham and eggs
Three times a day.
Oh, how the bOarders veil
When they hear the dinner.bell.
oh, how the eggs do smell
Three times day.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-07-28
A Hcartrending Disclosure.

Very recently, a gentleman giving a
dinner party was persuaded, much
against his wishes, to allow his young
hopeful, a spoiled child, to join the COM
pany.
Thinking that many of the rich dishes
TO his partaking of them, but eventually
gave way on the child threatening :
q If I am not allowed to have it, I'll
tell ~
This went on for some time, until the
father made a stand, refusing firmly to
let the boy have any wine, adding
And you may tell, if you like"
Amidst roars of laughter, the child at
once called out with glee:
NV new knickerbockers are made
out of a pair of mas old curtains %
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An Evidence of Immortality.

l find that what is called great and
powerful life-the administration of large
affairs in commerce in the courts, in the
the state, is prone to develop narrow and
special talent, but, unless combined with
a certain cOntemplative turn, taste for
abstract truth, for the moral laws-dOes
not build up faith or lead to content.
There is a profound melancholy at the
base of men ofactive and powerful talent,
seldom suspected. Many years ago there
were two men in the United States sem
ate, both of whom are now dead. ] have
seen them both one of them ] personally
knew. Both were men OF distinction, and
took an active part in the politics Ul
their day and generation. They were
men of intellect, and one of them, at a
latter period, gave to a friend this anec-
dote: He said that when he entered the
&c nate he became in short time init
mate with one of his colleagues, and,
though attentive enough to the routine
of public duty, they daily returned to
each other, and spent much time in con-
versatiOn on the Immortality of the soul.
When my friend at last left congress they
parted, his colleague remaining there,
and, as their residences were widely dis
tant from each other, il chanCed that he
never met him again until, twenty five
years afterward, they saw each other
through open doors, at distance in a
crowded reception of the presidents
house in Washington. Slowly they ad
vanced toward each other As they could,
through the brilliant company, and at
last met, said nothing, but shook hands
long and cordially. At .ast his friend
said: "Any light, Albert?" None !"
replied he. They looked into each 9th
er's eyes silently, gave one more last
shake to the hand they held, and then
parted for the last time. Now, | should
say that the impulse which drew these
two minds TO this inquiry through 50
many years was a better affirmative
evidence than their failure to find a
confirmation was negative.-R. W.
Elneraoll