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Adjourned until Tue'day afternoon at
oInlocl-
In Montana.

HELENA, Mont, July 5.-The Montans
constitutional convention assembled Of noon
yesterday in the court house In this city
AS II stands politically the democratic have a
majority OF tarec and q plurality OK four over
the republicans. Consequently the organ
zation OF the convention will be made by the
democrats, who will probably eject for presi-
dent William A. Clark, OF Butte, who pre-.
sided over the nstitutional convention OIL
1854 and was the democratic nominee 1or
delegate TO congress at the election last fall.
Party lines will not be drawn closely In the
convention, although the republicans allege,
and will attempt to make It appear, that the
democrats will EEK TO make a partisan ap,
portionmcnt fer The election OF members OF
the legislature. 1t Is probable that the or
gsnization viii not be completed betore cat
urday.
oRGANl2A1IoN EFFECTED,
HELENA, Mont, July 6-The constitu-
tionsl convention met at | o'clock yesterday
afternoon. After brief preliminaries a per
Inanent organization was effected. hon
w. A. Clark was elected president and W
n. Todd chief clerk. Seventy-tbIee OK the
seventy-fve members answered to roll call,
divided as follows: Thirty-nine democrats,
thirty-two republicans, two scattering.
No further action Of Importance was trans
acted and the convention adjourned TIL today
ELECTED MINOR OFFICERS.
HELENA, Mont, July THE convention
reconyened at 10 o'clock yesterday morning.
After the election Of some minor officers the
committee on rules reported substantially the
same rules as the convention Of 1854. Inc
con then adjourned Ill! Monday after
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One by one the roses fall, but "Tansill's
Punch &c Cigar outlives them all.
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II afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac
~Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell 1t.
Csc.
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OhltMArY.

ITHACA, N. y, July 6.--Mrs. Adams
wife of President Charles Kendall Adams
OF Cornell university, died this morning
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RAY's NJ

has been introduced its sale II rapid and 1,
gives perfect satisfaction. Address with ref
erences and &c stamp,
RAYS GERMIcIDE Co,
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Mrs. Harrison attended the Episcopal
church at Cape May, instead Of the Presby
terrain.
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Red Cloud is opposing the signing Of the
| treaty at Pine Ridge agency.
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Ten hod carriers at Washington, d. c..
have heen indicted for conspiracy.
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"A careful estimate places the number o
lives lost at YOUNGSTOWN at 4,125.
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MONEY q YOU,

We want to establish one or mere branches
In this county for the sale OF RAYS GERM
eide, and would like to CORES nd with per-
sons In business or unemI loyed TO take the
exclusive apencc. Where
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SEATING THE DELEGATES.

OLYMPIA, Wash, July 6.-The constitu
tional convention reconvened at 10 O'Clock
yesterday morning. After a long discussion
the report OF The committee on credcntial,
was adopted This seats Mailman, who
b ars the certificate OF election, though tn
returns in the office Of the secretary OF thu
territory how that he received ten fewel
votes than Travis, his opponent. This fac
was not discovered until very recently. The
latter has not yet become aware OF his victory
consequently is not here TO enter a contest
II was agreed that on his appearance his case
would be heard by .he convention. The oatt
OF Office wac then administered to the dele
gates by Chief Justice Hanford. Hon. Johr
+. Hoyt, OF Kings County, was chosen pres!
dent. During the recess President Hoyt SEN
a M ssage Of sympathy TO the sufferers from
The fire AT Eilensburg, embodying a resolution
OF the convention. The convention elected
FOR remaining officers the nominees OF the re
publican caucus.
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OLYMPIA, Wash, July But little bust
ness OF Importance was transacted yesterday
al the CONT t~utional convention. The com
mit,ee on rules reported o list OF standing
committees. These committees will be ap-
,o!uted by the president OF the convention.
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est of southern atmospheres, and go on through
cloud and sunshine until, at 1000 feet above
the sea- you are landed at Darjeeling, one of
the highest railroad stations in the world. aud
find yourself surrounded by the perpetual
SHOWS of n half dozen peaks nearly twice rs tall
as Mount Blame Mount Everest reaches $4,000
feet above the sea, and it is the spot nearest
heaven on this big round earth. This Darjeel-
ing road is, / am told very profitable. 1t has
its three classes, and il has its cars for women
as well as men. The cars set aside for Hindoo
women are as dark as q dungeon, and are COW
cred with thick white canvas, in order that tho
women may not peep out nor the men peep
in. This seclusion of women is so on
all the Indian railroads and tho Hin
doc lady is carried TO the car in closed
litter by coolies. The litter is set down before
the car door, and, wrapping her sheet-like
shawl tightly about her face SO that ono eye
can look out of hole as big around as nap
kin ring she scurres into tho car and shuts
the door. During my travels in India, was
very anxious to see one of these Simon pure
high class. touch not Hindoo ladies. and
kept my eyes, in tho words of the soldier, well
skinned at all the depots. AT last was re-
warded The sheet-like headcovcring of q
lady who had bracelets up to her elbows, and
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ized hagcOck, aud are usually covered with
grass. Upon them the d0nkeys and the bufa-
OeE feed. and IN most cases there is no stone or
lab 10 mark the name Of the ancestor who rests
beneath. Over each Of these gray,s is sup
posed 70 hover ghost. aud connected with
tyery Chinese family there il spirit which
regulates its daily life. This spirit is called
the Fungsui. and the Chinaman thinks that
She most terrible thing will happen IL il become
tispieased. He believes that il Is opposed 70
railroads, aud that il would resent the build
ing Of road near its Own particular grave
mound, aud this, curious as il seems, is one OF
he greatest influences against railroad build
ing IN China.
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have been discovered above Picking, and the
coal districts Of the country are greater and
better than those Of any other land The Chi
nese are manufacturing nation, and when
they have turned their coal and iron into ma
chiDeTy they Will have a product 10 ship 80
large that Il will need greater railroad mileage
than that Of country populated like ours.
Tie people themselves are natural travel
erE. They are by 10 means aVerse 70
the formation Of stock companies and
they have the business ability 70 carry
On the roads a. well IS the money 70
build them. IL is mistake % suppose that
the Chinese are very poor people There arc
millions Of poor. put there are also millions oil
Tlch, and u tic purchasing power and the
wants o. the people are 70 be taken into con-
EiceratiOn, they are well 70 do rather than
otherwise. Railroads IA China could be run
cheaper than anywhere else in the world, and
The lowest class 81 Chinese travel when the
roads do come Will be the cheapest ia the world
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This Siamese road will connect at Mandalay
with a line running down the Irriwad1y River
10 Rangoon, and it is not an impossibiiity that
in the future line may be built across the
mountains from Aandalay TO Canton. The
road from Rangoon 20 Mandalay is about COM
pleted. IL has only one or two trains a day,
and is, Of course. operated by the English.
The English build railroads wherever they
90. and ia all Of their colonial possessions you
will hear the putting Of the iron horse. There
il At Hong Kong an incined-plane railroad,
like that which goes up Mt. Washington, and
at Singapore ] found steam street-car line.
Australia has thousands of miles Of railway,
and you will End railways, posts and tele2raphs
in Tasmania aud New Zealand. India is COW
cred with a network Of railroads, and ! went
over the smallest narrow gage in the world in
travelling up the Himalaya Mountain. This
TOadas only two feet wide, aud its coaches are
not bigger than EtTeeL-cATs. IL Ii not allowed 10
20 over seven miles an hour. and you rise about
thousand feet ia every hours travel. In
travelling up the mountains you start in the
tropics, ride through jungles where the tiger
turks, move upward through thickets Of tall
bamb00s, and ia the semi-tropical regions on
the sides Of the mountain you find great cur
tains Of moses OF silver aud green, shutting
off your view Of the dense forest. and go
through groves Of ferns each as big as a tree,
and made up Of the noted tFee-fern variety OF
India. You see a cloud in front Of you on the
railroad, the engine pushes It's way into IL, and
you are for a moment surrounded by mist 81
dense that you cannot sec the car III front oil
you. You shoot from this out into the clear
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Japan viii soon have as good railroad facili-
ties a. the United States. The country already
has 400 miles Of railroad. and hundreds OF
miles are DOW being built Toxic contains a
million people. Osaka, which Is the Chicago
Of West Japan, is nearly as large and by the
time this letter is published, the 800 miles of
railroad which connect these two cities ought
" be completed. The railroads are well pat
rOnized la Japan, and all classes Of people
Gravel. They arc built on the English system,
with small engines aud first. second and third
Sass carriages. The railroad stations have, as
arHle stone floors, and they are as fine as the
average railroad stations in America The
hogs which both sexes OF the japanese people
wear, make curious CHATTER as they trot along
these stone floors 10 and from the train, aud
enc Of the funniest things 10 be seen in Japan
Ia pretty japanese girl attempting 10 accom-
@Odate herself for the first time to the seats oil
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The Mcclellan Memorial.

The Mcclellan Memorial Association, of
Philadelphia, has approved the designs of
Architects Paul J. Pelz and Henry J. ElIicott
for "a monument to Gen. Mcclellan, to be erect
cd on the south front OF the City Hail. 1t will
be portrait figure of tho General in bronze,
heroic in sizc with its granite pedestal, 30 feet
Ia hight. The cost is estimated at 500 900, and
the monument is To be ready for unvailng at
the anniversary of the battle of Antietam, Sept.
~ $780,
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The most Of the Indian railroads belong TO the
Government, and the laws in India are in favor
Of the railways. If COW is killed by train
the man who owns the COW pays fine, aud
anyone who tries 10 get on a train after 10 has
started will be arrested aud fined Railroad
wages are very low, and men working on the
road .beds got from three 10 five cents IA day
Conductors receive about $25 month, and the
engineers who run on extra time make as high
as $40 month. Most of these engineers are
foreigners. while the conductors, as a rule, are
natives India is "a land of forests, and il sur
prises me 10 find that nearly all the ties aud
tho telegraph poles were Of iron. ! was told
that the reason for this came from the white
ants, which eat everything wooden that they
can get against their teeth. They will chew
up pile of railroad ties in night, and au
army Of them will bring down telegraph pole
in the course Of an hour IL may be for this
reason that you find so few wooden buildings
in India. The white ant is everywhere through
out the north, and in western India / saw wire
fences with stone posts, running for miles along
the railroad track.
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The natives in India carry their cooking
utensils with them, and those OF tho upper
classes carry bedding. The average Hindoo is
satisfied with sleeping in his day clothes on a
board or the ground and using his arm for n
pillow. He comes 10 the train early and often,
takes snooze while waiting for IL, lying down
and sleeping on the stone floor Of the depot.
lie is a patient traveller, and if the trains are
full and lac has 10 wait a day or 50 for his jour
ney, IL seems 10 make no difference to him. He
will 90 back home aud come the next day ut
the same time.
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York and Washington, and the two cities sus-
tain much the same relations 10 each other
Ten Tsiu is the New York OF North China. 1t
Is the center OF northern trade, and the head
of its customs department has an income OF
nearly $4,000 year from its business III IS
one of the great shipping ports OF emma, ana IL
will compare lav0rably with the biggest cIiles
OF the world in the amount of business done.
Picking is the Capital Of the Chinese Empire.
Us million inhabitants include thousands oil
rich men. and the living expenses OF these are
Nv no means based on the cost of rice and rat
diet Picking itself manufactures almost MOTH
ing aud IN this IL Is much like Washington,
save that il contains FIVE times as many people.
Still ali OF the merchandise which IS carried 10
&c must he sent by water or on the backs OF
donkeys. mules and camels. it now takes two
days Of horseback riding or three days JoltIng
in the springless Chinese cart 10 get from
Picking to Tien Tsin. and If one would take
the easier method Of water transit, he must
20 By house boat up the winding Peiho
River. and must have himself dragged by sail
ors from Tung Chow along the banks OF the
Grand Canal 10 Picking. This journey will
take him from four 10 seven days, and when
be takes into account his provisions, his bed
and his cook. he viii find that bis outlay is
nearly 500 Think OF paying hundred dol
lars to Get from New York 70 Washington
And think Of taking four days 10 make the
tourney!
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MIIniI 70 nur Hammer. m-

Col. Harrison Willard, OF New York, desires
MS To say that he has some three or four thou
sand copies over Of the New National Hymn
" Hail To Our Banner" which he will be glad to
distribute gratis among the Grand Army Posts
desiring copies. Send full address and number
wished TO +. Lawson, 2l2 East Ninth street.
New York City.
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RAILROADS OF ASIA.
ALI About Railroad Building and Rail
road Travelling in the Far East.

The New Charter Granted by the Emperor Of
ChIua-L Hung Chang's Little Read-And the
Railroad Future OF the Celestial Kingdom-Jap'
nueSe Railroads-AHd the Trouble Which the
Girls Have In Adapting Themselves 20 the For
eign Seattle Nations as Railroad Builders-
Aud How France Tried 20 COddle Circumstances
Railroads-And the New Line 10 BErmah-A
Look at the EarroWest Railroad in the World
East Indian Cars and HindoO Travelers-Ihe
White Ant as a Track Dcstroycr-A Look at the
Railroads OF EgyPt-And How the English Have
Kept Back Line from the Heart OF Africa
Railroads In Palestine, Greece and Turkey
Some New Lines Which Are Being Buitt-Ahu
the Wonderful Possibilities OF the FIXTURE.
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The great drawback
30 Chinese railroad
building l. the super
ftifion Of the people.
The biggest crop pro-
duced BY the land Of
tie Celestials sits crop
Of grave mounds. All
over the great plain
Rnd IN the neighbor-
hood Of every city and
village you viii see
fields Of these mounds.
they are Of the size
md shape Of q good
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dirty and poorly made. Your meals you get at
the station, and there arc no diuning cars.
The coaches are divided up into compartments.
lect the tickets, and he locks you in when You
leave the station. la case you should happen
10 be in company with lunatic or a rohber
this might be decidedly unpleasant. The only
method you have of stopping the train on some
Of the roads is by breaking piece of glass in
the little round watch-like frame which covers
an electric button.
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When the mist crceps up the hill,
Fisher out aud Try your skill.

When ia the morning the dew is heavy and
remains long on the grass when the fog in the
valley Is slowly dssipated aud fingers on the
hillside when the clouds seem to be taking
higher place, aud when few loose cirro.strati
float gently along, serene weather may conf.
IDENTIFY bo expected for the greater part of the
day. This illustrates the effect of rapid night
radiation which develops under clear sky,
comparatively dry atmosphere aud little wind.
These are some of the conditions which indi-
cate the presence OF an antl-cycone thigh) and
therefore the prevalence of fair weather.
There are many other pr0gnostics OF fair
weather which have more or less value. Fine,
light, genial weather raises the spirits and OK
erts an cniivening influence, not only on hui
man beings. but also on animals, birds, insects,
etc. Hence the sayings: If larks fly high and
sing long expect fine weather When seabirds
fly out early aud far to seward, moderate
winds and fair weather may be expected. IL
rocks 90 abroad il will DO fine Cranes soar.
Ing aloft aud quickly in the air foreshadow fair
weather.
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HE Emperor OF Chlna
has just granted a
charter TO a big railroad
company. authorizing
it 10 build q railroad
from Tie Tsin 10
Tuag Chow. t u n &
Cow is within Is miles
Of Picking, and il may
be that Lii II u n G
Changes boast that he
will have a railroad
running into Picking
in less than a year will
be fulfilled. Picking
Rnd Tien Tsin each
contain about a million
people. They are not
as far apart as New
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In Egypt found many Of the railroads made
entirely of iron. Round iron discs of the size
of wash basin took the place of ties, and into
clamps in the top of these the rails were fitted.
The cars seemed to be a mixture of English
and American coaches. with third and fourth
class wagons like cattle trains. The seats OF
the third-class cars were plain benches, which
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THE WEATHER.
Notable Occurrences for the Week Ending Oct. GO
1850.


by LIEUT.. J. r. FINLEY, U. S. SIGNAL SERVICE.
correspondence invited suggestions desired.
aud information ohccrfully furnished. Every ef-
fort employed 10 make this Bureau Of practical
To the readers OF Tux NATIONAL TRIBUNE All
communications should he addressed Weather,
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE Office. Washington, ID. O.
Lows OR AREAS OF WARM. MOIST AIR, CLOUDY
WEATHER WITH GENERAL RAIN or SNOW
AND HIGH WINDS.
Three such areas affected tho weather OF the
United States. Ono continued from last week
one came from tho North Pacific Coast and
one from western Texas Average progressive
velocity eastward % miles per hour. Average
duration 3.5 days.
HIGHS, on AREAS or COLD, DRY AIR AND GEN.
ORALLY CLEAE WEATHER, WITH MODERATE
WINDS.
Three snch areas affected tho weather of tho
United States One continued from last week,
one came from the Northwest Territory, aud
ono from tho California coast. Average pro-
gressive velocity eastward II miles per hour.
Average duration three days.
TempcrdtHe.-Fho greatest fall In % hours
t2ae) occurred at Mortified, VT, on tho 2ist.
The greatest rise t20ol occurred mt Montrose,
Colo, on tho 2lst, aud at Memphis, Tenn. and
Yieksbnrg. Miss, on the 25th. The maximum
(909 occurred no Rio Grande City, Tex, on the
22d, BID and 9th. The minimum (sol occur
red at Sc. Vincent, Mimi. oh the 2ist.
Precipitation. or snow has been report
ed from every State and Territory, except Ar.
kansas, Indian Territory, New Mexico aud
Arizona. The heaviest tower one inch In 81
| hoursl was reported from California, Illinois,
District of Columbia aud Virginia. The maxi.
mum in q hours 1874 inchcsl occurred at Nor
| folk, Va, on the 23d and cath.
! RiUsB.-ffhc maximum rise III inehes) oc-
| Cured at Nashville Tenn. ON tho 2lst. The
| maximum fall ne inchcsl occurred at Vicks.
| burg, Miaa., on the god. Generally speaking,
| the rivers remained about stationary during
| the week.
/ E1ss.tng ConditioHs The principal iop is con-
| trail on tho South Atlantic Coast. Three other
ions arc central rs follows: Nova Scotia, Cali
| fornia aud Manitoba There is but one high
aud that of slight energy, central In Kansas
Rain in California, Michigan. Ohio, North Car
DINA, Alabama aud New Jersey. Elsewhere
/ generally fair weather.
| Facts 10 be Rcmcpbercd.-if mist rises in low
| ground and soon vanishes, expect fair wearher.
| Thin, white, teecy, broken mists slowly AS
! cendinR the sides Of "A mountain whose top is
uncovered by any accumulation Of clouds, pre-
| diet fair day.
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A eff for YnuI

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the Japanese cars. She has not been accus-
toned TO chairs. as at home she has always
squatted on her heels or seated herself with
her legs under her on the floor. Her kimona
or dress, rather scanty and fastened at the
front by gorgeous belt or obi, is not adapted
TO our method of sitting, and she looks in
dismay at the benches. Her cheeks bloom with
bushes as she studies the situation, and, in
some cases she cuts the Gordian knot by climb
ing up onto the seat and squatting down on her
heels. ] saw half dozen Japanese beauties
seated in this attitude in the station Mt Yoko-
hama while / waited there one day for the
train for Toxic. Beside them, squatting in the
same position, were two men who judged
were their fathers, and the whole made very
pretty picture. / rode in the frst-class cars
that day with two Japanese ladies who had
travelled enough TO learn how TO manage their
clothes, and was delighted with their modest
ways and childish interest which they took in
everything they saw.
The English have gotten the monopoly of
the railroad building of Japan, and il was
largely through the English Government that
the charter for big American bank of $780,
00000e, which Ii Hung Chang granted to
Wharton Barker of PHILADELPHIA and other