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The Osceola times., 1878-03-23
Bull Run,

General Mcdowell, the federal COM
mander at Manassas, and trained soldier
of unusual requirements, was so bounded
and worried by ignorant and impatient
politicians and newspapers, as to be
scarcely responsible for his acts. This
may be said of all the commanders in the
beginning of the war-notably of the
confederate General Albert Sidney John
ston-whose early loss on the field of
Shiloh was irreparable, and, may hap de-
termined the fate of the south. Nc
Dowell's plan of battle was excellent,
and its execution by his mob no worse
than might have been confdentially
expected The late Governor Andrew,
of Massachusetts,, observed that his men
thought they were going to town.
meeting. This is exhaustive criticism.
With soldiers at his disposal, Mcdowell
would have succeeded in turning and
overwhelming Beauregard's lett, driving
him from his rail communications with
Richmond, and preventing the june
ton of Johnston from the valley.
II appears that Beauregard was, to
some extent, surIrised by the attack,
contemplating movements by his center
and right His exposed and weak left,
however, stubbornly resisted the shock
of the opposing masses. Beauregard,
whose personal daring and coolness were
most inspiriting, brought up assistance
from the center and right, and the
ground was held until Johnston, who had
skillfully eludcd Patterson, arrived, and
began feeding the fight with his people,
when the affair was soon decided. There
can be little question that, with a strong
brigade of soldiers. Johnston could have
gone to Washington and Baltimore.
Whether, with his means, he should
have advanced has been too much and
angrily discussed already. Napoleon
held that, no matter what the confusion
and exhaustion of victorious army, a
defeated one was hundred-fold worse
and action should he based on this. As
suredly, il there be justification in dis
regarding the axiom of Napoleon, the
wild confusion of the Confederates after
Manassas. to which | have alluded
would afford it, Gen. Dick Taylor.
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discussed at length, and Mr.. Thurman sub.
mitted motion TO recommt TO the com.
mittee on claims. Pending the discussion
the senate adjourned.
In the senate, on the 18th, bill in,aid
Of the polar expedition, designed by James
Gordon Bennett, passed unanimously with.
out debate ..... The house bill for the relief
of VIM. A. Hammond, late surgeon.general,
was taken up, and Mr.. Plumb spoke in
opposition. The bill then passed without
amendment. Yeas, SO nays, l-Mr. Plumb.
...On motion Of Mr.. Thurman, the bill
reported by the committee on judicisry in
regard TO the Pacific railroad sinking fund
was taken up, and he spoke at length in
favor thereon. The senate went into ex.
ecutive session, and when the doors were
rsopened adjourned.
In the senate, on the 18th, Senator
Kellogg introduced q bill to aid the New
Orleans and Pacific railroad company, which
was referred also, to establish a mint at
New Orleans, authorizing the coinage of gold
and silver thereat, and making an appropri-
alton therefor Referred, ,.... The West Point
appropriation bill was taken up. The bill
was then reported to the senate, the amends
ments made in committee of the whole agreed
TO, and it was read a third time and passed.
bill supplementary to the act in ieIston to
the Hot Springs reservation in the nste OF
Arkansas. IL continues the commission ap.
pointed by that act TO hear the cases Of
claimants, etc, until the first of October,
1878, and provides that they shall each re-
ceive compensation at the rate Of Eve thou>
sand dollars per annum. Senator Dorsey
moved to amend the bill SO as to continue
the commission until February /, 1879, in.
stead OF October /, 1873. Agreed TO. He
also submitted an additional section author.
izing the superintendent OF the reservation
to lease the site, with its privileges of fur.
nlshing baths, etc, TO the Hot Springs
mountain water company, giving TO said
company the right to construct reservoir
on Hot Springs mountain to supply the
reservation with hot water, etc. Agreed to.
The bill was then read the third time and
passed .....Senator Conkling called up the
house bill to make persons charged witt.
crimes and ofienses competent witnesses in
United States and territorial courts. Passed.
Adjourned.
In The senate, on the l4th, Mr.. Noor.
hees introduced bill providing for the
payment of all customs duties and all other
debts due the United States in legal tender
notes at par, except in cases where il is
otherwise stipulated on the face Of the
obligation or contract. Referred ........Mr
Teller introduced bill to regulate psssen.
ger fare and freight traffic on the Denver
Pacific and Kansas Pacific railroad. Re-
ferred ..... Consideration was then resumed
OF unfinished business, being the bill in
regard to the Pacific railroad sinking fund.-
and Mr.. Matthews spoke in favor of the BILL
Pending the discussion of this matter, Mr..
Gordon, by request, introduced a bill to
authorize the construction of narrow
gauge railroad from Bismarck to the Black
hills. Referred ..... Mr.. Christisncy took the
floor to speak on Monday, on the sinking
fund bill, and the senate adjourned till tn
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The Vivern, turret ship built for the
southern confederacy, which was detan
by the government and has ever since been
moored in the harbor, has been brought to
the Devonport dockysrd to be prepared for
commission.
Russia has intimated her desire that
the congress meet on the 30th of March, the
22nd anniversary of the signature of the
treaty OF Paris. The Austrian government
trmly anticipates that the congress will
assemble on that day.
After lapse of seventy years the her
rings have returned en- p.dse to the shores of
Sweden, and the fisheries are now in their
glory again, to the great relief of the coun-
try. The last disappearance was in 1908,
and according to tradition they should be
plentiful for sixty or eighty years to come.
The Paris correspondent reports that
Servia has formally claimed admission to
congress. 1t is now certain that England
has unreservedly adhered to the French
proposal for investigation into the financial
affairs of Egypt and administrative reforms.
Nobody will oppose England freeing Egypt
from vassaage If she acts in accord with the
other powers. All the powers have agreed
that The questions relating to Egypt, Syria
Tunis and the holy places, can only be
raised at the congress with the consent of
France and within the limits she preserbes
A Vienna correspondent says that
Russia does not contest the right of congress
to decide what clauses of the treaty involve
European interests. England demands that
the congress shall have power to discuss all
the clauses. Neither power seems disposed
to give way, and thus, unless. compromise
is arranged, fresh difficulties, and not formal
ones merely, may arise, causing delay, if
nothing worse. Italy and Germany, while
asserting the principle of the admission OF
Greece to the congress, think congress
should formally decide the matter. Austria
coincides, but is willing to have the matter
decided before the meeting, ii the question
of the admission of the vassal states is not
thereby preiud,cad
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An Interesting Young Mau.

A physician well known hereabouts
was recently called TO see lady who was
reported to be suffering with terrible
pain. The physician FASTENED To the
residence Of the lady and found her in
bed. He felt Of her pulse, looked at her
tongue and commenced writing a pres
crip,ion. She said TO him: doctor, /
don't think you understand my cas-" !"
"Ob, yes I do" said he, II understand
il yery WE'LL" After little while the
lady remarked to him again: "Docter,
don't think you know what's the mat
ter with me; that you understand my
condition" The Doctor replied: "Oh,
yes do, madam; have a patient up
town, a young man, just in your fix,
suffering with the same disease" An
hour afterwards the lady gave birth to a
ten pound boy. How the young man
got along our informant did not say
TSan Juan (Cal.l Times.
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FACTS AND FANCIES.

EVERYDAY absurdities-not 10 10 TO
bed when you are tired and sleepy, Be-.
cause 1t is not bedtime. To make your
servants tell lies for you, and Afterwards
be angry because they tell lies for them
selves.
Emerson says that a man touches
hardpau when he gets beyond wondering
how he can keep his neighbor from
cheating him, and begins to wonder how
he can keep himself from cheating his
neighbor.
AN INPossIBILITY-"Has any theologi-
cal point ever been definitely proven?"
asks correspondent of the New York
Commercial And it replies: "Well,
yes. We take 1t, for instance, to be an
axiom in polemics that . eolored camp.
meeting can never be held in the vicinity
of poultry show without seriously
retsrding the work of salvation"
GENTLEMEN" said an auctioneer
who was selling piece of land, ait is
the most delightful piece OF land; II Il
the easiest land to cultivate, IL In %
light, 70 very light. Mr.. Parker hero
will corroborate my statement. He
owns the next patch, and will tell you
how easy it IL worked" Yes, gentle.
men, said Mr.. Parker, "it's very easy
to work, but it's a plaguy sight easier 70
gather the cror."
NINE. MoBJEsKA tripped and fell the
other evening on the stage in Boston, and
paper Of that city says: "The swift
little smile and motion in which she
conveyed TO the relieved audience that
she was not hurt, chat the was herself to
blame for not taking care, and that she
was grateful for the sympathy expressed
all this in one look and one step
were an inimitable and indescribablo
exhibition of her ars." And then
with one other little smile and ono
little step she clearly conveyed to the
audience the idea that the villain Of
the play WAS TO be circumvented in the
end, that the Princess Vilette would In
the next act find her child trundling Q
cart for red,headed rag picker in the
Rue st. Antoine, that the stolen necklace
would be discovered In the stomach Of Q
dyspeptic Goldfish caught on the shores Of
Labrador, by the Archbishop Dutry
disguised as a fisherman, and that tina
acoundrelly Duke was doomed to be
lashed to the mast by the pirates, and
kicked to death by a mule travelling for
his health-the way in which she con.
veyed all this by one little smile and one
little gesture-why, 1t beats the tele>
phone.-l New York Graphic.
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The New York Graphic, the afternoon
daily illustrated paper, is doing somewhat
better financially, but it has sunk $4,000
since it started
No masquerade ball has been given in
Boston for six years, because of state law
providing for the imprisonment of persons
taking part in such entertainments.
A fse-cent luncheon room has been
opened at Washington, where a nickle will
procure for the guest quart bowl OF rice
soup, slice OF boiled beef and bread, or a
piece of roast meat, potatoes and bread.
The tables are furnished with excellent
crockery, cutlery, spoons and cruets, and
those VIII bring cans or dishes can take
their portions home.
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English clergyman relates that two

ANEnglish clergyman relates that two
English sisters had an audience with the
late Pope Plus TX, and As they were
withdrawing one Of them fingered. Tho
Pope asked her what she wished, and
,he. being a convert TO the Roman
Catholic faith, answered: "Tbe prsyen
Of your Holmes that my sister may be
converted from Protestautism, % that
We may not be separated after death"
The Pope placing bis hand upon her
clssped hands as she knelt, answered !:
/" Daughter, those who love God will sot
be separated In The usxt world.
The Osceola times., 1878-03-23

MIR. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN is called
an "ungrateful son of Boston" He said
not long ago: at was my misfortune to
he born in Boston. apologize to Bos-
ton forit, A meaner place | never knew
II was founded by q miserable lot of
pilgrims kicked out of England into
Holland, and then paid to keep away
from Manhattan Island"
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tiary for three months, aud fined one
hundred dollars, for selling an obscene
picture.
NEARLY all our native rice comes from
South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana.
the former state supplying one-half the
entire product of the country, and Geor.
gia going seven million pounds ahead Of
Louisiana.
The New York Bulletin states that the
turkish national debt amounts ipdiyid.
ualiy to three dollars per head of the
population; wilhelm Russia the proper.
ton is eight dollars, in Austria nine
dollars, in Italy eleven dollars, and in
the United States eighteen dellsrs.
Miss THOMPSON, the young woman
who was so lavish with her money as to
satisfy the rapacity of Niagara Falls
hackmen and who shoed her horses feet
with golden shoes, has been placed in an
ASYLUM for the insane in Great Britain.
she Is Scotch woman, and daughter
OF a former civi! official in Dumfries.
BAYARD TAYLOR SAYS that the secre
OF his enormous power of work is an
unfsiling appetite, capacity for smoking
tobacco interminably, and eight hours
good sleep every night. So imperative
has the habit of sleeping at a regular
time become that, when now and then he
has deferred to 20 to bed at the usual time
and has tried to induce wakefuluess by
drinking two or three cups of the blackest
coffee, and by other means, he has
nevertheless dropped asleep while work
ing at his desk.
FEW people not directly interested
have anything like an adequate idea of
the great Importance of the productive
and commercial importance represented
by the national cheese, butter and egg
association. The value of the aggre gate
product in the United States for the last
year is computed at sS4S, 900, 900 in but.
ter and cheese, $4,000, 900 in eggs, and
sos 200, 900 in poultry. A large portion
oi this product is exported to Europe,
where it is sold at good prices, and the
demand is continually increasing.
THERE are sixteen directors OF the
bank Of France. Nobody can be di.
rector unless he owns twenty-five shares
OF the bank. Now, ss each share is
worth 5000, each director must have $685.
900 invested in the bank the great ma
jority of the directors have two or three
times this amount in bank shares.
The Rothschilds, Holtinguers and Says
are among the largest shareholders, and
as they bought their shares when they
were worth only s400 or $500 each, their
dividends on the money invested are an
enormous per centum. Only the two
hundred largest shareholders are allowed
to be present and vote at the annual
meeting gof shareholders, it being assumed
that the interests of all the shareholders
would be securer In their hands than if
every holder Of share had voice in
the bank management. These two
hundred shareholders consist of eighty
nine persons who own one hundred and
one shares and upward thirty-one per-
sons who own one hundred shares, and
eighty shareholders who own above sixty
shares
The Osceola times., 1878-03-23

NEARLY all our native rice comes from
South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana.
the former state supplying one-half the
entire product of the country, and Geor.
gia going seven million pounds ahead Of
Louisiana.
The Osceola times., 1878-03-23

CHAs. f. BLANDoN, lawyer of New
fo'k, has been sentenced to the peniten.
tiary for three months, aud fined one
hundred dollars, for selling an obscene
picture.
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MISCELLANEOUS,

megs, but some of the most valuable and
useful articles now manufactured.
The Osceola times., 1878-03-23

The New York Bulletin states that the
turkish national debt amounts ipdiyid.
ually to three dollars per head of the
population; whilo'in Russia the proper.
ton Is eight dollars, in Austria nine
doiiars' in Italy eleven dollars, and in
the United States eighteen dellars.
The Osceola times., 1878-03-23

MISS THOMPSON, the young woman
who was so lavish with her money as to
satisfy the rapacity of Niagara Falls
hackmen and who shoed her horses feet
with golden shoes, has been placed in an
ASYLUM for the insane in Great Britain.
She is Scotch woman, and daughter
OF former civi! official in Dumfries.
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SENATE.

The senate, on the 1lth, resumed
the consideration OF unfinished business, IL
being the bill referring the claim O! Benz.
Holiday 70 the court OF claims, which was
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SEEsENGTFg OF MATERIALS.

Gold may be hammered SO that it is
only 1,300G00th of an inch thick. A
grain of iron may be divided into 4000,-
000 parts. Still chemistry tells Us there
are ultimate parts called atoms or
molecules, which are absolutely invisi-
bic. These atoms are attracted to each
other by the attraction of cohesion, and
repelled by the force of repulsion. BY
the action Of both these forces the atoms
are kept in a state Of rest. The solidity
of solid depends On the fact that each
pair of atoms is in this state of euuilib-
rum. An iron bar would support its
own weight if stretched out to length
of 81 miles. A bar of steel was once
made that would sustain its own weight.
ifextended to length of l3I miles. Our
ideas Of great or small are no guide to
be nsed in judging of what is truly
great and small in nature The Bunker
Hill monument might be built over
mhe high, without crushing the stones
at its base When bars of iron are
stretched until they break. those which
are the strongest increase in length less
than the weaker one. A piece of wood,
having breadth AID thickness of four
feet, if supported at its ends, would be
bent one mllioneth of an inch by a
weight of three pounds placed at it's cen
tire, and a weight of one tenth of an
ounce would bend it one seven m.lli0neth
Of all inch.
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A DIVE S'al3G DE aaaSSasRffH COED.

George Jones, a negro sixty-one years
of age, living in Nashville, who believes
himself possessed of the supernatural
power of defining the situation of min
erals beneath the surface of the earth
is working in cave he discovered few
weeks ago near Fort Negley. Jones has
only one man working with him now,
and is blasting through the door, which
is of cement and soapstone. The first
cave is twenty feet long and fourteen
wide. A door opens into the second
cave, in which six-horse wagon could
turn around. The treasure is in this
one, and stream runs between the two
veins of metal, which are fifteen feet
apart.
He has cave on the Clinton turnpike,
where he worked several months, but
was unable TO reach the hidden treasure.
He leased the property upon which it is
situated for twenty years. He has five
caves in Halley's Bend, fourteen miles
from the city by land, and near the
banks of the Upper Cumberland. He
has dug thirty feet in one Of these
caves, which is sixty feet long and fif-
teen wide, and found everything to lie
just as he said it was bsfore he COM
menced work. A large bank is in the
centre of this cave, with tWo-foot path
around it. 1t is situated directly over
the vein of gold, which is from four to
five feet below tie level of the floor of
the cave, and under large stone, through
which he will have to blast ere he secures
the fortune,
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they understand the meaning of what
they say. There is, indeed, well known
and often repeated story of parrot in
Brazil which excited much speculation
200 years ago, and which Locke thought
worthy of place in the minds of grave
philosophical discussion in his Essay on
the Human Understanding, which has
been regarded as indicating something
of this kind; but it is not more wonder
full than many other trustworthy anec-
dotes of parrots, which may easily be ex-
planned by supposing these birds to pos
sess-as they certainly do possess, in
common with many other animals
memory and association Of ideas. Locke
quotes the story from Sir William Tenn
ple's Memoirs of what passed in Chris
tendon from 1872 to 1879. Sir William
Temples says: ~ had mind to know
| from Prince Maurice's own mouth the
account of common but much credited
story that had heard so often from
many others of an old parrot he had in
Brazil, during his government there,
that SPOKE and asked and answered
questions like reasonable creature; SO
that those of his train there generally
concluded it to be witchery, or posses
sion.' He accordingly asked Prince
Maurice about the matter, who told him
that having heard of the parrot, he sent
for it; and that when it was brought
into the room where hewas, with great
many Dutchmen about him, it present.
ly exclaimed: what company of white
men are here" They asked what it
thought that man was, pointing to the
Prince. The parrot answered: "Some
general or other?' When they brought
it close to him, he asked "Whence
come you?' 1t answered. ''From Marin
man." Tie Prince then said: "To
whom do you belong?" The parrot re-
piled: ''ro a Portuguese "The
Prince asked: "What do you do there?"
The parrot said: 81 look after the
chickens" The Prince laughed, and
said: "You take care of the chickens ?'
The parrot replied: Yes; and | know
we'll enough how to do it," and began
TO cluck like a hen calling chickens.
The parrot appears only to have been a
well-trained bird, accustomed to say
certain things, and ready to say them,
but them only, on occasion such as arose
from the presence Of the Prince and his
attendants and the questions addressed
to it.
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MCCE1-A UCTEON SEyENDi,EEES IN
,NEsY YoEsN.

Mock anctioneers occupy a prominent
place in the category of swindlers who
flourish in New York. Years ago the
Peter Funk fellows did thriving busi-
ness along Chatham street and lower Broad
way They dealt chiefly in dry goods and
pinchback jewelry, and nine-tenths of their
victims were country greenhorns. After a
while the press took them in hand, ham
mered away at them for some time and
finally obliged them to shut up shop.
Then the furniture swindlers came to the
fore. The plan of these harpies was to
hire vacant houses, put good furniture in
to them-and then announce an auction
to the effect of ''wealthy family going
abroad, )" or something of that sort. They
generally sold the furniture at good prices,
delivered very common furniture made in
imitation of it, and of course pockcted
large profits by the fraud. At last the
most notorious of these swindlers, one
Leno Burnham, husband of a literary wo-
man of some celebrity, known as an. H.
B." got into the hands of the police, and
his forced retirement to Sing Sing so dis
couraged others in the same line that the
business has been almost, though not
wholly, abandoned.
Recently the mock auction fellows
turned their attention to horses, and went
into horse auctions on quite large scale.
Their modus operandi was to hire "sale sta
bles" in reputable parts of the city, most
ly in the neighborhood of Broadway and
Fifth avenue, and issue flaming announce
ments of importation sales Of the best
stock in the country. AT one time the
sale was by order of executors, at another
it was mortgage sale, again well-known