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Year: 1875




WASHINGTON, Monday, Feb "a, 1875


The precedent established by the House last year
of passing the River and Harbor Appropriation bill
under suspension of the rules. thus cutting OH al
debate and the opportunity for offering amend
ments was followed to-day. This bill is one OF the
most difficult Of all the general appropriation bills
TO manage in the Committee of the Whole when 1t
is opened for amendment. Almost every member on
the floor feels bound to make an effort to obtain an
additional appropriation for some river or harbor IN
his district which the Committee has omitted from
the bill and some Of these amendments are always
agreed to- making the amount of money called for
bv the bill as it is passed considerably greater than
was required by il as reported The passage OF the
bill under suspension Of the rules IS therefore eco
noIncal in two senses-t saves time In the House
and money to the Treasury. The vote on the pas
sage of the bill to-day was 2N to 49,


NEW PROSPECT OF COSTLY EXPERIMENTS.
The Secretary Of the Navy has found another OPP
portunity for trying experiments Of costly charac-
ter with Government money In an official letter TO
the Chairman of the Senate Naval Committee, he
speaks in high terms of q system of mounting and
protecting counterpoise guns, known as the "Ridg-
wav Battery" and he thinks it would be very ad-
yantaceous to the service if the Department could
arm at least one of ronclads according to this
new system, which he thinks would relieve the yes
sci from the necessity of carrying heavy turrets aud
allow tho ship to DO moro heavily armored. lie
thinks the Puritan would be the proper rOnclad to
select for the experiment He asks for $5O0OO, and
c0scs by saying that ship armed In the manner ne
desires would add very largely TO the efficiency OF
our naval force aud that an appropriation would DC
AL act of wise statesmanship.


IScr Rsevar ROri Of coagrsa Proosssr ~ sseesd pasl
Year: 1875

Charles Knight, the originator OF
the Penny Magazine, was the son OF
bookseller in Windsor, near the Royal
palace, to whose shop the King FREE
quently came to look over the new
publications. One summer morning,
before the shop was fully opened, the
voice of the King was heard under the
windows, callings +" Knight Knight


Knight!n His father came down as
soon as possible, and found the King
deeply absorbed in reading a work
which had Gomez down in a parcel
from London the evening before.
What was his horror and consterna-
ton to discover that the King had
taken up Thomas Paine's Rights Of
Nan, in which the author defended
the French revolution, and attacked
the institution of monarchy. The
King continued to read for half an
hour, at the expiration of which he
laid down the book and left the shop
without a word but also without
ofiense, for he continued to be as
friendly and frequent visitor as be-
fore. Mr. Knight also reports that
the King was as much amused as any
one at the caricatures of the day, in
which he was broadly burlesqued, and
that he was quite capable of being
amused at Peter Pindar's poems of the
Apple Dumplings and Farmer
George He was indeed, in private
life, as good-natured and amiable a
gentleman as ever misgoverned
Kingdom or spoiled a family. MIR.
Knight tells an amusing story in
point. One evening, after having
Joined the family in the drawing
room, the King went back to the
library where he had been writing,
and found the wax candles still burn
ing. 1t was curious rule of the pal
ace, as of great houses generally in
that day, that wax candle should
never be lighted a second time, and
the unconsumed portions were usually
the perquisites of some servant or offi-
Ger of the household. These particu-
lar wax candles blazing away in the


Kings library were the perquisites of
the Kings page, named Clarke, whom
the King met on his retnrn to the
drawing-room. "Clarke, Clarke,p
said the King in his rapid manner,
"you should mind your perquisites.
blew out the candles" 1t cost the
English people at that time 100000 a
year to provide Windsor Castle with
wax candles. The government of the
Royal household was as wasteful and
corrupt as the city of New York used
to he.
Year: 1875

Mr.. Curran was once engaged in a
legal argument. Behind him stood
his colleague, a gentleman whose per-
son was remarkably tall and slender,
and who had originally intended to
take orders. The Judge observed that
the case under discussion involved a
point of ecclesiastical law. "Then,"
said Curran, Il can refer your Lord
ship to high authority behind me,
who was once intended for the
church, though, in my opinion, he
was filter for the steeple.n
Year: 1875

Al IMPORTANT CONFERENCE BETWEEN THE COCN-


sEL-THE DEFENDANTS LAWYERS ANXIOUS TO


CALL IN THE JURY AND INFORM THEM OF THE


CONFESSION OF PRICE AND ARREST OF LOADER


TIE PLAINTIFFS LAWYERS RkFUsE-THE EXAM


INATIOS OF LOADER-HIs STORY CoNTRADICTED.
The jury in the TiltOn-Beccher suit did not come
70 any agreement yesterday. They made no COM
nunication to the Court, and gave no sign of how
thew stood Nothing known of the division of the
tury. The examination of Loader for perjury was
begun before Justice Riley. and is TO be continued
this morning.
Year: 1875

THEIR DELIBERATIONS UNINTERRUPTED-THEf "Ahh


NO COMMUNICATIONS TO TIE COURT.


The court room yesterday was almost deserted. 1t
presented the ordinary appearance at the close OF
dull term The interest was centercd in the Judges Is
private room, where q conference of counsel was
going on and in the jury room, which was watched
Is usual with great anxiety by the reporters


The iury sent no communication of any character
70 the Court and gave of the Signs of the dlv-
sion which have been 50 strangely and differently
construed by the various newspaper reporters Moth
ing whatever is known of the division among theIn'
OF of the points upon which they differ and DEBATE
Guesses as TO how they stand have given place i'll
popularity among the hangers on to speculatlon' as
20 the probable length Of their further stay IN the
fury ROOM Conjectures upon this differ as radically
rs upon the division of the jury.
Year: 1875

WHAT To Do WITH THE TRAMPs.-In
every part of the Eastern and Middle
States, especially within walking distance
of our chief cities, the tramp is everywhere
male, and female, limp, lazy, insolent.
Every country road swarms with them,
and country people begin 10 look upon
them as an inevitable infliction, less dan
gerous when fed and sheltered than when
hungry and al large. Refuse them food,
and your hen roost pays the penalty; deny
them a bed in the barn, and they set it on
fire. They travel in gangs, and disperse 10
forage, levyiug contributions right and
len. Their vagrant life suits them aud,
miserable as they seem to be, no profler of
honest wages for honest work. will induce
them To leave the road. Every season
their number increases, and competition
only Increases their audAcily. Unless the
evil is differently dealt with, it will soon
become rs intolerabe as it was ia Pavaria.
Fix the penalty for begging at ten days
labor on the highways frr each olIense
there is no danger of failing demand for
that sort of labor for the next fifty years.
Give to every citizen the power TO make
arrests in cases Of vagrancy and for every
ten days labor by the party SO arrested,
credit the person making the arrest with
five days toward the working out OF his
road tax, For his labor, give the tramp
decent board and lodging, and from ten to
finy cents day as wages, according TO his
efficiency. Let such a law to be rigorous
ly executed, and in little while we should
have better roads and fewer tramps. The
honest seekers for work would suffer less
under such a system than they do now
when they are apt 10 be coniounded with
professional beggars, who are always in
search of job somewhere else. II Sc
riously in need of work and money, the
temporary tramp would simply have TO ap
ply TO the road master, who would never
be without employment to give and fifty
cents a day to pay for it. The work hun
ter would not be long in acquiring enough
to pay his way further or to support him
self until he found work In the neighbor-
hood. Farmers aud others in want of helT
would soon learn to resort 10 the road
gangs to pick their men, the volunteers be-
ing free 10 engage themselves at any time
those under arrest when their ten day.
were up.
Year: 1875

A TRAGEDY AT SEA.-The ship Glance,
when on her way from Adelaide to Lon
don, was driven by contrary winds out of
her course, and in latitude 40 TO As degrees,
discerned ship ahead of her flying a flag
of distress. This vessel proved TO be the
ship Jessie Osborne, bound for Falmouth.
This was on the morning of Sunday, June
9th, about s O'Clock. The captain of the
Glance at once had sail shortened, and his
ship hove TO. A boat containing the male
and two seamen Of the Jessie Osborne, put
Off from the vessel and came alongside the
Glance. Having come on board, the mate,
pointing TO the fore cross-trees of the Jes-
sic Osborne, called the attention of Captain
Barrelle To the figure Of a seaman, half
clothed, swayng TO and fro upon them.
The crew of the Glance could see that the
sailor in question was hacking with some
instrument at the rigging of the ship, and
that blocks iad pieces of ropes were falling
on deck. The male of the Jessie Osborne
told Captain Barrette that this sailor had
fallen sick on the voyage and was now in
a state of lunacy, that he had been aloft
three days, and that no sailor dared ap-
proach him, that his conduct was imperil-
ling the safety of the ship and preventing
the crew navigating her, and that the cap
tain and officers had decided TO shoot him
in order to save their ship. The Glance
was tnen brought close alongside the Jes-
sic Osborne as soon as possible, and the
captain of the latter shot the unfortunate
man with his revolver. After he had been
wounded several times, and as two OF
three sailors of the Jessie Osborne were
about to run up the rigging 10 bring down
the apparently dying man, the latter fell
upon the deck a corpse.
Year: 1875

now of age, competent to think and act for


yourself. Make the best of it. If you use


it properly it will set you up in business;


if not you cannot claim anything more


from me-


His lips quivered little, and my


mother covered her face with her handker-


chief. A cold chill passed over me. A


vacancy opened in my heart that nothing


could fill. felt as if was leaving home


to wander in a foreign land forever, took


the money and tried to smile as | thanked


him. looked as wise and manly as


could before my companions. Ii l had


had the power should have made the sun


go back ten degrees at least upon the dial
of my life. .,.. p.
81 was iniudicious with my money and
soon got rid of it. | can scarcely tell


how was proud-spirited and father saw
my struggles and difficulties to get along
in the world. He knew that my heart
longed to get back and nestle in the peace
full, happy old home, but it could not be-
l had already flown and could not return
to the nest. 1t was only after many years,
when had struggled and toiled with
hardships till / seemed to be gaining
ground, that father reached out helping
hand.


at is now nearly twice score of years
since I left behind me that long-looked-tor
twenty-one. But these years have been so
| filled up with cares, anxieties, crosses and
vast responsibilities that a thousand times
I'm sure, when almost driven to despair, L
have looked back to the days Of my boy
| hood and have fervently wished, with
| long, deep sigh, for the return of one care


less, happy day. Only one day back IN


my fathers happy home would have been
to me Paradise regained. Those days
were gone-past forever!


"Today when | see boys impatient un
der the restraints of school or of home,
| and wishing for the age of manhood,
| when they suppose they shall be so free to


think and act as they please l feel ike
advising them to rest contented with their


happy youth. Childhood's days are the


happiest you ever will enjoy. Be not I'M
| patient and escape from them. When they


are gone you cannot recall them, though
you would if you could. Others so free
| from care and so full of real happiness
| you need not expect to find. Stay IN your
fathers house as long as you can; submit
| to your parents counsel when they give 1t,


for they are wiser than you.'-N. 7. Od-
| ep1re1'
Year: 1875

A WRITER in Temple Bar says: " In


Japan, even in the lowest inns, the travel


er,s request for a bath is never met with


that stare of blank astonishment which


often attends the demand in your own and


every other European country. | know in


Ireland once l asked for bath and they


brought me horse bucket, and on another


occasion, in France, could get no nearer
,he article than a horse trough, while in


England and Germany the request has
more than once led to serious breach OF


the peace between myself and the land


lord. In Japan, on the contrary, there


would be much more surprise felt If the
traveller did not ask for one. There were
no preparations required, no rushing
about of cham bermaids, no turning on


this or off that-everything was quite


ready. and was at once conducted to a


huge wooden bath with a small earthen


furnace let in at the foot, and lid inclos-


ing the whole of the top with the excep-
ton of space just big enough tor the


head of the bather to emerge through. IN


one of these contrivances, with small
furnace burning gayly, a japanese, after


his DAVIS work is over, will sit calmly him
self with the lid on, and the water bub-
bling about him at boiling heat. He
seems, however, to like it uncommonly, TO


judge from the pleased expression on his
face, fast deepening under theprocess into


beet -rootlike tints; and when he has at last
had enough-about an hour ofit-he takes
off the lid and emerges as much like a
boiled lobster as human being can De-
come. My bath was quite ready, the
small furnace glowed with live pieces OF
charcoal the water dubbed merrily, and
my companion of the bath, taking of the
lid, invited me to enter Not being, how
ever, either Japanese, a blue lobster, or
a potato, ] did not see any particular op-
iect in being boiled, and so had the iuel
raked out of the furnace and few buckets
Of cold water added before l got in. %
Year: 1875

He was ninety-fve and she was eighty
four They had patiently waited forty
five years for time to free them from their
matrimonial ties. BY that time they had
learned wisdom enough to be satisfied with
d wedding-ring obtained from a pawn.
broker but not sufficient to leave matri.
mony alone.
Year: 1875

The psddle-wheeIs of large steamer
On the st. John River, in Florida, stopped
suddenly, few nights ago, and then came
crash after crash IN the woodwork. A
panic followed, everybody rolling out of


bunk and rushing for the deck, and it was


soon ascertained that a big alligator had
got entangIed in the revolving wheel,
where he was not enjoying life. .
Year: 1875

It IS clear that the Republican Party
Is not only split up in Wilmington, but
the discension extends to the whole State.
The Commercial may attempt to conceal
and deny this; but it is too apparent not
to be known to all who read and reflect.
The negro element is the only solid ele-
ment upon whom the party can now de.
psnd for Its votes, and they could not be
haid in the traces if It we're not for
their ignorance, and the fact that the
Democratic party will not allow them to
commingle in their meetings and take
part in their conventions. And to be
honorable and consistent members Of
our party cannot ask to vote with
them or for them, who they will not
associate with or vote for. When q
Democrat asks negro for his vote, to
be consistent he must promise 20 vote
for negro for Office This is fair. But
the Democrats can only promise the
negro good government. Now the Re-
publican party promise to run him for
Office. but instead thay only give him bad
government. How long will it take,
therefore. to make this element vamoose
the raucfe alsoP Why he is simply now
the patient as that works and sweats,
without being recognized as ga man and
q brother" They have here even been
praved of the Office Of nigh. scavenger,
and it will take all the pleading and
promises that Mr.. Valentine is capable
of to induce them to cast full vote at
the city election. The Republican party
isadsrs have fairly gorged themselves
with plunder through the aid of the negro
element. Without it that party would
have been in the minority all over the
country ten years ago.
Year: 1875

DETROIT, March 1.-The most severe
snow storm of this winter commenced
last night, accompanied by heavy east
wind. The snow, which continued dur
ing the night, changed to fine sleet this
morning ana continued during the day
with no prospect of abatement. The
storm has extended over the whole OF
the lower part of the State to such an ex-
tent as to almost, and on some railroads
to entirly, prevent the running of trains.
Year: 1875

New YORK, March Henry G..
Bowen said to n reporter that he had not
sought notoriety in this Titon- Bcecher
case and sustained the only same relation
to ii as any otherprivatc citizen andn@th-
ing more. He was not in any way II
party to the suit, while amendublc to
criticism for his action and conduct in
the daily affairs OF life He had not in
Identified himself with thi. trial. He hud
believed it his duty to rebuke General
Tracy Tor his mcalicd for and unjust
criticism in his opening speech. lfeither
should call him he would obey the order
OF the court, otherwise it was far from his
wishes to have anything to do with the
tri,l
Year: 1875

On beautiful summers day, clergy
man was called to preach in a town in
Indiana to young Episcopalian con-
gregation. At the close ofhis dis
course, he addressed his young hearers
in such words as these:


Learn that the present life is a pre-,
paration for. and has a tendency to
eternity. The present is linked to the
future throughout creatiou, in the veg
etable, in the Animal, and in the moral
world. As is the seed, so is the fruit;
as is the egg, so is the fowl, as is the
boy. so is the man; and as is the ration
al being in this world, so will he he in
the next: Dives estranged from God
in the next: and Enoch walking with
God here, is Enoch walking with God
in calm and better world. l beseech
you, live, then, for blessed eternity.
Go to the worm you tread upon, and
learn a lesson of wisdom. The very
caterpiller seeks the food that fosters it
for another and similar state, and, more
wisely than man, builds its own sepul-
cher, from whence, in time, by a kind
of resurrection it comes forth in q new
creature in almost angelic form. And
now that which crawled flies, and that
which fed on comparatively gross food,
sips the dew that revels in the rich pas
lures an emblem of that paradise where
flows the river of life. and grows the
tree of life Could the caterpiller have
been diverted from its proper element
and mode of life, if it had never attained
the butterhys splendid form and hue it
had persisted a worthless worm. Con-
slider her ways and be wise. Let it not
be said that We are more negligent than
worms, and that your reason is less
available than their instinct. As often
as the butterfly fits across your path,
remember that it whispers in its flight,
olive for the future"


With this the preacher closed his dis
course; but to deepen the impression, a
butterfly, directed by the hand which
guides alike the sun and an atom in
its course, futtered through the church,
as if commissioned by heaven to repeat
the exhortation. There was neither
speech nor language, but IFS voice was
heard saying to the gazing audience,
Give for the future"
Year: 1875

MAcAULAY's MoTHER.-Lord Macau-
lay, the great essayist and historian,
wrote these words: "Children, look
into those eyes, listen to that dear voice,
notice the feeling of even a single touch
that is bestowed upon you by that gen
tie hand! Make much of it while'yet
you have that most precious of all good
eifts-a loving mother Read the un-
fathomable love of those eyes; the kind
anxiety of that tone and look, however
slight your pain. In after life you may
have friends-fond, dear, kind friends;
but never will you have again the mex
pressible love and gentleness lavished
upon you which none but mother be-
slows. Often do l sigh in my struggle
with the hard, upcaring world, for the
sweet, deep security l felt when of an
evening, nestled in her bosom, listen
ed to some quite tale, suitable to my
age, read in her tender and untiring
voice. Never can forget her sweet
glances cast upon me when l appeared
asleep; never her kiss of peace at night.
Years have passed away since we laid
her beside my father in the old church
yard; yet still her voice whispers from
the grave, and her eye watches over me
as l visit spots long since hallowed to
the memory of my mother.
Year: 1875

SOMETHING New IN WEDDINGs.-The
English fashion in conducting weddings
has become universal in Washington.
Groomsmen are done away with, and
ushers take their place. AS these last
are essential TO the number of eight,
the supply of suitable and available
Young men would be exhausted if eight
more were requisite as groomsmen. Be
sides, the effect around the chancel is
finer if the girls pretty dresses are not
marred by the interlningliug Of black
coats, Gentlemen ought to rejoice that
they do not have to 90 through the
trying ordeal Of kneeling around chan
eel in full view of hundreds of eager,
curious eyes behind them-girls who
attend wedding just for the sake of
the scenic effects. The floating drapery
ofthe bridesmaids appears even to great
er advantage when the fair wearers
kneel in the graceful postures, but the
men look ridiculous with their coat
tails touching the steps, and the soles
of their boots turned upward. At a
glance the observers can easily tell if
those boots are old or new and the
number worn. So groomsmen are things
of the past, aud the best man has only
to stand by the groom until he receives
the bile The ushers, after seating
the guests walk up the aisle of'which
they have charge, after the bridal party
enters, and take side seats. All passes
off smoothly, as these affairs nowadays
are always rehearsed in the church be-
forehand. the minister giving instruc-
tions in regard to the time for standing
or kneeling.
Year: 1875

UNwRIrrES SIDE OF GREAT MEs.-
We always think of great men as in
the act of performing deeds which give
them renown, or else in stately repose,
grand, silent, and majestic And yet
this is hardly fair, because the most
gracious and magnificent Of human
beings have TO bother themselves with
the little things of life which engaged
the attention of us smaller people. No
doubt Moses snarled and got angry
when he had severe cold i'll his head,
and if fly bit his leg while he was in
the dessert why should we suppose he
did not jump and use violent language,
and rub the sore place? And Caesar
isn't it tolerably certain he used to be
come furious when he went up stairs to
Get his slippers in the dark and found
that Calphurnia had showed them under
the bed so that he had to sweep around
them widely with broom-handle. And
when Solemn cracked his crazy bone it
is unreasonable to suppose that he ran
round the room and felt as if he wanted
to cfy. Imagine Geo. Washington sit


ting on The edge of the bed and put
ting on clean shirt, and growing at
Martha because the buttons were off;
or st. Augustine with an apron around
his neck having his hair cut; or iona of
Arc holding her front hair in her
mouth, as women do while she fixed up
her back hair; Napoleon jumping out of
bed in frenzy to chase amosquito around
the room with pillow; or Martin Lu-
ther in night shirt trying to put the
baby to sleep at two o'clock in the
morning; or Alexander the Great with
the bicconghs; or Thomas Jefferson
getting suddenly over fence to avoid
a dog; Daniel Webster abusing his
wife because she hadn't tucked the
covers at the foot of the bed; or Benja


min Franklin pairing his corns with a
razor; or Jonathan Edwards at the
dinnertable, wanting to sneezc just as
he got his mouth full OF hot beat; or
Noah studing at his window at night
throwing brick at q cat.-War Adeter.