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BflsceUaneons Selections. A VISION OF ST. ELIGIVS. i. I Bee my house, but I am blown about, A wind-mock- ed Uto, botvvccu tho earth nnd All out of doore-al- asl of thy doors out, Ana drenohcd In dows no summer suns oan dry. For cvci y blast Is passion of my own i The dews colli sweats of selfish agony; Dankvnpnr steams from memories lying piono; Anil all my soul is but a stifled cry. n. Lord, thou dost hold my string, else wcro I drlv-- Down to some.gnir whoic I were tossed no No turmoil' telling I v as not in heaven ; Ko billows raving on a blessed shoro. Thou stimdest on liy door sill, calm as day. And all my throbs and pangs are pulls from Hold fast tho string, lest I should break away, And outcrdark and silence swallow me. hi. No longer fly thy kite, Lord ; draw mo home. U'hou imll'st Use string through all the distance bleak j lord, I am ncarlng thee 5 0 Lord, I come ; Thy pulls prow stronger and the wind grows weak. In thy remodeling hands thou tak'st fhv kite 5 A moment to thy bosom liold'st me fust. 'Ihoii llmgoat mo abroad : lol in thv might, A sti ong-wlng- od bird I soar on every blast. February Scrtbncr. Climate to Order. Mautc Twain, in a 'otter to the New York Tribune, says: I spent several months in U10 Sandwich Islands six years :io, and if I could have ray way about it I would go back there and remain tho rest of my days. It is paradise for.an in-dolent man. If a man is rich, he can live expensively, and his grandeur will be re-spected as In other parts of the earth ; if lie is poor, he can herd with the natives and live on next to nothing ; he can sun himself all day long under the palm trees, and be no more troubled by his conscience than abuttaMy would. When you are in that blessed retreat you are safe from tho turmoil of life ; you drowse your days away in a long, deep dream of peace; the past is a forgotten thing, the present i3 heaven, the future you leave to take care of itself. You are m the center of the Pacific Ocean ; yon are 2,000 miles from any continent; you are millions of miles from the world ; as far as you can see, on any hand, Oie crest-ed billows wall tho horizon, and beyond tliis ban tor the wide universe is but a for-eign land to you, and barren of interest. rJ.'ne climate is simply delicious never cold at the sea level, and never really too warm, for you are at the half-wa-y house that is, 20 degrees above the equator. Hut then you may order your own climate for this reason: the eight inhabited is-lands are merely mountains that lift them-selves out of the sea a group of bells, if you please, 'with some (but not very much) "flare" at their basis. You get the idea. Well, you take a thermometer and mark on it where you want tho mercury to stand permanently forever (with not more than 12 degrees vaiiation) winter and summer. If 80 degrees in the shade is your figure (with the priv-ilege of going down or up five or six de-grees at long intervals), you build your houses down on the "ilare" the slopinsr or level ground by the sea-sho- re an3 you have the deadest, surest thing In the world on that temperature. And such is the climate of Honolulu, the capital of the kingdom. If you mark 70 degrees as your meau temperature, you build your house on any mountain-side- , 400 or 500 feet above sea-leve- l. If you mark 55 de-grees or 00, go 1,500 feet higher. If you mark for wintry weather, go on climbing and watching your mercury. If you want snow and ice for ever and ever and zero and below, build on the summit of Mauna Kca, 10,000 feet up in the air. If you must have hot weather, you should build at Lahaina, where they do not hang the thermometer on a nail because the Bo-lder might melt and the instrument get broken ; or you should build in the crater of Kilcaua, which would be the same as going home before your time. You can not lind as much climate bunched togeth-er anywhere in the world as you am in the Sandwich Islands. You may stand on the summit of Mauna Kea, in the midst of snow-bank- s that were there be-fore Captain Cook was born, maybe, and while you shiver hi your furs you may cast your eye down on the sweep of the mountain-slu- e and tell exactly --where the frigid zone ends and vegetable life begins; a stunted and tormented growth of trees shades down into a taller and freer spe-cies, and that lit turn into the full foliage and varied tints of the temperate zone ; further down, the mere ordinary srretn tone of a forest washes over the edges of a broad bar of orange trees that embraces the mountain like aJbelt, and is so deep and dark a green that distance makes it black; and still fuither down, your eye lests upon the level of the sea-shor- e, wheic the sugar-can- e is scorching in the sun, and the feathery cocoa-pal- m glassing itself in the tropical waves; and where you know the sinful natives are lolling about in utter nakedness, and never know-ing or caring that you and your snow and your chattering teeth are so close by. m m The Modoc Defeat. The Modoo war is again teaching us that when tho Indian expects to die he will die game. " The telegraphic accounts from the Pacific coast give us the outlines of a battle fought between the troops and the Indians on the shore of Tnle Lake, in Oregon, which ended certainly in the de-feat of the civilized combatants. Captain Jack, the Modoc Chief, appears to have simply posted his two hundred men be-iiii- Kl rocks along aline two miles in length and awaited attack. Tho position must have been singularly well chosen, for. al-though the troops outnumbered the am-buscaded Indians two to one, they were repulsed with severe loss. Whatever plan the leaders of tho troops had agreed on. it seems to have been imperfectly carried out, as we learn that in consequence of Captain Bernard, who commanded one detachment, having prematurely given battle, General Wheaton " had no alter-native but to move to the aid of Captain Bernard without the Are of tho howitz-ers." The troops fought an invisible foe from eight o'clock in the morning until dark unlcr a terrific fire. It is evident that from the broken nature of the ground among the lava beds, the troops could not advance with any rapidity, and the folly of exposing and wasting valua-ble life throughout an entire day, without any prospect of success, seems at present a most reprehensible blunder. If the movement was a reconnoissance in force it was very clumsily executed. It is now announced that it will require a force'oi one thousand men to dislodge the Modocs from their strong position, and that the operations until reinforcements arrive will be confined to beleaguering Captain Jack, Thero should be 110 delay in sending for-ward sufficient troops to make the reduc-tion of this band certain. Aloss of forty in killed andwounded.includingtwo offi-cers of the regular army, is a high price to pay for such a barren result, and we hope to hear of no moremch experiment-ing. In theprescnt state ofIndian affairs we cannot afford to allow the bad Indians to score a victory against the Govern-ment, The extermination of Captain Jack ana iiis band, is a disagreeable ne-.,- !? "Will stand as a warning to oth-- S, , lvlVvi6h to follow in the foot-5- 5 woModocs. It is cheaper to feed mSehn'ltSGSrfwnt??1;Cnr!?stavwthheen Pthceefpnodliiachy cMomSmmainndTJrMegu.tlaUr,Hra?t b1ush.eaads twhaetll hues full mTttowTi!,'0 kcep Wra iuiet-- murder just as much as a white2a5 that in the strong arm continuously kW ing him in subjection lies the only ch of the good nurse to spoon-fee- d him with their philanthropic pap. The Oeroat makes it imperative on the govei nment tc teach nil the savages a lesson, througr their Modoo brethren. N. Y. Herald, A gentleman signing himself "Pro Bono," gives tho following recipe for the cureof coughs, which will befound accept-able : Seneca snake root, 3 oz. ; slippery elm, 2 oz. ; liquorice, 2 large sticks. Put in two quarts of water, and boil down to one quart ; strain, and add 2 lbs. of sugar; let it simmer for about ten minutes; after which bottle for use, and put in a cool place, The dose is a tablespoonful whenever tho cough is troublcBomoi - . ; - , r , r VOLUME XIII. ROLLA, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1873. NUMBER 34. "AN UGLY DOG." " Splish splash," went that wretch-e- d dog through the mud, his ears hanging down and his tail between his legs. " Oh t tho ugly dog I" cried two young girls --who were carrying home clothes from the wash. "Oh ! the ugly brute!" shouted a cart-er; and he gave hia whip a loud crack to frighten him. But the dog took no heed of them. Hovran patfenfly on, only stopping at the crossings whero there were too many carriages for him to pass, but not seeming to busy himself at all as to what people said, or what they thought about him. He ran on so for a long way. No doubt of It, he was an ugly dog. He was lean and scraggy. His coat was of a dirty gray color, and in many places the hair was worn off In patches. Neither were there any tokens that he had ever been a handsome dog, and that his pres-ent state of wretchedness was owing merely to sudden misfortune. He looked, on rhe contrary, as though he had always been an ill-fe-d dog, having desultory hab-its, no home to go to, and seldom any-thing better to, eat than a chance bone or a crust picked up in the gutter. Yes, ho was certainly a miserable dog. But I wondered to sec him run so ob-stinately in the middle of the road, when there was room In plenty for him on the pavement. He was a small dog, and by trotting close under the shop fronts lie coulddiave slipped unnoticed through the crowd, and not have exposed himself to be run over by the cabs arid whipped by tho carters. But no ; he preferred the road where the mud was. and he ran straight before him, withoutlooktngrMit or left, just exactly as if he knew his way. I might have paid no more attention to this dog, for there are enough of whom I take no notice; but I observed that he had a collar round his neck, and that to this collar was attached a basket. This set mo thinking; for a dog who carries a basket is either a dog sent out on an er-rand, or a runaway dog who has left his master, and does not know where to go. Now which could this one be? If ho was a dog that ran on errands, why did not his owners Hed him better, so that his ribs should look less spare? But it ho was a dog who had left his master, and run away into the world to face care and trouble alone, what hardships or what cruelties had he had to suffer, that he should have taken such a step in despair? I felt I should like to have these. questions answered, for there was something of mystery in them; I therefore followed the dog. We were in Oxford Street, in that part of it which lies between Marble Arch and Duke Street, and the dog was running in the direction of the Regent Circus. It was a dull wet day in winter ; the rain had been falling. A gray fog was spread-ing its vapors along the road, and every one looked cold and un somfortablc. A few shops were being lighted up hero and there, for evening was setting in. But the contrast between tfe glare of the gas and tho occasional glow of the red coal fires, burning cheerily in the grates of ground-flo- or parlors, only served to make tho streets more dark and dreary. And yet tho dog went pattering on, going at a sort of quick jog-tr- ot pace, keeping his cars always downj and paying no atten-tion cither to the omnibuses that rolled by him, tho costermongers who swore at him, or the other dojs who stopped at times with a puzzled air, and gazed at him with silent wonder. I hacf to step out fast to kcep up with him. It is aston-ishing how that squalid dog could trot! I was afraid more than once that he would distance me, but, thanks to the knack he had of always keeping to tho middle of the road, I was prevented from losing sightof him. Wc passed North Audley Street, after that Duke Street, and we thou came opposite a small street which forms a very narrow and dirty thorough-far- o at the end which is newest Oxford Street. Hero the dog paused for a mo ment and appeared to hesitate as to what ho should do. He made a few steps fjr-war- d, then receded; but, finally, seemed to make up his mind and entered the street, still trotting. There was no one there. The dim drizzling rain, which had begun to fall again, the cold, and the fog had all scared away the habitual frequenters of one or two sordid cook-sho- ps that line both sides of the way. There --vas only a rag-and-bone-- man sorting broken bottles at Tils door and coughing wheezily from old age and misery. The dog went on. The street grows wider as one proceeds, and the houses also become better and cleaner. I asked myself whether the dog could possibly have his homo about here, and whether he would not suddenly dis-appear down an area, iu which case the romance of the thing would have been ended; and I should have had my walk for nothing. But no he turned abruptly off at a mews, and, after a few seconds of the same apparent hesitation as before, slack-ened his pace and stopped opposite apub-ll- o house. A mews is never empty. There are al-ways grooms loafing about in doorways, or stable-boy- s going in and out of wash-house- s. At the moment when the dog and I appeared, a coachman was harness-int- r two horses to a brougham, and a couple of men were helping him. Oppo-site, and exchanging remarks with them from the threshold of the public house, stood a servant in breeches smokingalong clay pipe ; the dog was standing still ; but all at once, before I hail had time to sus-pect what was going to happen, he rose up on his hind logs and commenced walk-ing gravely round in circles. , The man with the breeches and clay pipe uttered ;i cry of surprise. Tho two others and the coachman raised their heads, and, upon seeing this strange sight left their work and clustered up to look. A few more people attracted by the noise came and joined us. We s'oon formed a ring. J It seemed to please the dog to seo us all around him, for he gravely .wagged his tail once to and fro, and tried to put more spirit into his exercise. Ho walked live times round on his hinder legs, looking fixedly before .him like a soldier on duty, and doing his best, poor dog ! I could see that to make us laugh. For my part, seeing the others remain speechless hi their astonishment, I laughed aloud to en-courage him; but shall I say the .truth? I felt more ready to' 'cry. There was something inexpressibly sad in the seri-ous expression of this" lonely dog, per-forming by himself a fow tricks thatsomc absent master had taught himj and doing so of his 'own accord, with some .secret end in view that he himself could only know of. After taking a moment's rcs't he set to work again, but this time on his fore-fee- t, pretending to stand on his head. And what a poor, intelligent head it was, as almost shaving the ground, it looked appealingly at us all, and seemed to say : "Ploase do not play any pranks with me, for really I am not doing this for fun." When he had walked round on Ills head until he was weary, ho lay down in the midst of the ring and made believe to be dead. He went through all the convul-sions of a dying dog, breathing heavily, panting, suffering his lower law to fall, and then turning over motionless. And I he did this so well that a stout, honest- - I faced woman, who had been looking on without laughing, exclaimed, "Poor I I beast 1" and drew her hand across her eye." I ho rain continued to fall, but not one J ws thought of moving, only the dog, n!i i lmcl ain de'"1 a minute, got up anu Phonic himself, to show us all that tbo S,i 2-mi-meo ms ended. Ho had displav-flxtat,- of whilt e knew, and now lS? rcccive ' f. He Stood Zh nn nnnfli,md lps "Wto n. walking to ?, (,fVs,scPilratc,y. assumed the pos-X- w .it S Vopnaily known as "beg- ging." I was the first to whom he cam". He gazed at me inquiringly with his sofi eyes wide opened, and followed my banc) patiently to my waistcoat-pocket- , Th basket round his neck was a round one with a lid to It tied down with a string, and a little slit in tho lid through'which to put in mon y, I dropped in a shilling and stooped down to read a bit of crum-pled papi r I saw hanging loosely from the collar. It bore these words, written in a shaky hand : "This Is the dog of a poor man who is bed-strick- en ; he earns the bread of his master. Good people, do not keen him from returning to his home." The dog thanked me for my offering by wagging his tail, and then passed on to my neighbor. Human nature must be kinder than people think, for there was not one of the spectators not even he with the breeches and the clay pipe, whose face had impressed me unfavorably but gave the dog sometUng. As for him, when he had gone his round, he barked two or three times to say good-b- y, and then pattered contentedly away at the samejog-trotpacehoha- d come. He went up the street, and I followed him, but when he had reached Oxford Street he quickened suddenly, and began to run hard, as if his day was ended and he wanted to get home. Evening had quite fallen by this time, and I felt it would be useless to go after my four-legg- ed mystery on foot, so I called a cab, and, said: "Followthatdog," very much to the driver's amazement, It is a long way from Oxford Street, in which we were, to Tottenham Court Road, where the small dog led me. But I should have understood thejourney had it not been at such a furious pace. The dog never once looked round. Twenty times I thought he would be crushed by Eassing vans or carriages; but somehow e got through it. Ho had an extraordi-nary tact for" finding a passage between horses' hoofs, and like a true London dog as he was, he showed intimate familiarity with all the tnfrlcacles of crossings. Still, it was some relief to me, both on his own account and on mine, when I saw him branch off at last. I was beginning to fear that he wouldnever stop, and thathc had something of the Wandering Jew in him. It seemed impossible that, without taking any rest, without pausing for an instant to draw breath, such a very lean dog should keep on going so long. Tot-tenham Court Road (this was about eight-een months ago) used to be a sort of fair at night-tim- e. It Is a lengthy highway running amidst a tangled network of sor-ry streets, the population of which, from dusk until the hour when the public-hous- es close, used to spread hungry and idle amongst the countless booths which had then not yet been swept away, and where shell-fis- h, sour fruit, and indigest-ible looking meat were sold by yelling costermongers. On the night in question, when I went there in pursuit of the dog, I foresaw that I should bo led to one of those sickly nests of fever, where pover-ty, disease, and misery have their abodes set. up in permanence; and I was not' wrong. The dog, running fast-er than ever now, as if he felt more afraid for his basket amongst these raven-ous crowds than he had done at the West End, suddenly bolted up a narrow side street, where there was no room for a cab to pass. I paid tho driver, and jumped out. It was a filthy street but that was a secondary matter. Where tho dog went I would go ; and thus I dodged after him, first down a crooked alley, then through a foul court, and lastly up a passage whero it was pitch dark. Here I groped ray way along a damp wall, and stumbled upon the first step of a staircase. Being a smoker, however, I had some vesuvians about me. I struck one, lit a piece of twisted paper with it, and by the mo-ment's flame I thus obtained descried the dog making his way up a creaky flight of wooden steps, battered in places and rot-ting from mold. He barked when ho saw the light, and growled uneasily. But I softened my voice, and cried out, " Good dog I good dog !" trying thereby to ap-pease mm. I suppose his instinct told him that I was not an enemy, for he turned round to sniff my trousers, and ivhon T struck mv second vesuvism he consented to my following him without doing auvthing else but continue his snif-fing. We went up three stories in this way, until we readied the garret floor. There w re two doors face to face, and one of them had a latch with a piece of string tied to it. The string dangled with a loop at its end to within a few inches of the ground. The dog raised one of his forcpaws, pressed it on the loop, and by this means opened the door. We both walked in together. There was a rushlight burning in Hie neck of a ginger-bee- r uottle. There was an empty saucepan in the grate without the fite. Some tattered clothes were hanging on the back of a broken chair, and some bits of plaster, fallen from a cracked ceiling, wcro encumbering the floor. On the splintered deal table was a plate with a solitary bono on It, and next to it a cup with tho handle gone. I turned from the sight of, these things to a mattrass laid in a corner of the room. The light was rendered so flickering by the gusts of wind that swept through the winaow to which bits of newspaper had been pasted for want of glass that I could not at first distinguish very clearly whero I was, and what I saw. I could only hear the affectionate whinings of the dog, and vaguely see him leaping upon some one against whom he was rub-bing his head, and whose face he was licking with au exuberance of love. I heard a voice, too but a voice so husky and broken, that it resembled a whisper-rep- eat feebly, "Good dog good Jim!" and then I saw a hand untie the basket, and heard the sound of money poured out on the couch. ' Good Jim I good Jim I" went on the cracked voice : and it went on, counting, "One, two. Oh, good Jim I good Jim ! here's a shilling. One-anu-thr- ce pence, one-and-ni- ne pence, two shillings. Oh, good dog ! three and a penny, three and " But hero followed a terrified shriek. '" Who's that?" cried tho man, covering up the money with his sheet; and he looked at me livid and haggard with the ague of fever. "Don't be frightened," I said; "I am come to do you no harm. I am a friend. I have followed your dog home, and I de-sire to help you if you ore in need." He seemed to be a man of about fifty, for his hair was not nil gray ; but the ghastly hollowncss of his cheeks, the emaciated condition of his body, and, above all, the gleam of disease in his burn-ing eyes, made him older than a man of ninetv, for they told more plainly than words could have told that he already had one foot in the grave. " My tone and my appearance seemed to to reassure him; but he continued to hide lus money. "I am a poor man, sir," he gasped, "a very poor man. I have nothing but what my dog earns me, and that's noth-ing. He goes out to idle; and if he picks up a few pence" (here he had a lit of bee-tle coughing) "if he picks up a few pence, sir, It's all ho do pick up." I felt my heart ache, for I guessed the truth. "He's not an idle dog," I said. "Has he not earned you more than threo shil-lings to-day- ?" "Oh, no, sir no, sir; it's threepence," protested the miser, trembling. "Its threepence threepence, sir. Look and sec." And he h?ld up three copper coins from out of his covering. " You aie very 111, my man," I said, approaching his mattress. "You must let me send you a doctor." " Oh, sir! no, no ; I I've no money to give them. Let me nlono, please. I'm not ill ; I shall be well to-morro- w. It's nothing but a cold a a cold." His dog was continuing to lick his face. I remembered that the poor brute had not . eaten. "Your dog must be hungry," I oh-- ; seived; "shall Igivo him this bone? He has earned it well." i "Oh, Goill-- oh, God! Lot thht bone alone," faltered the unhappy wretch, try-ing to rise : " it's my supper for to-nig- ht. Jim doesn't want anytning; he picks up plenty in tho streets. Oh I oh I I shall starve if you give him th it bone." " I will buy you something to eat, I an-swered, taking up the bone, to which there was no particle of flesh left. " Here, Jim," said I,holdingitout. Butthedog, instead of accepting the bone, looked wistfully at his master to ask for leave. "No! no! Jim," panted the miser fear-fully ; and the dog turned away his head, refusing to be enticed. " How long have you been laid up like this?" was my next question, I was growing sick at heart. 'Ten weeks, sir oh, ton weeks," groaned the man who had caught the one out of my hand and thrust It under his pillow " ten weeks; and when I fell ill, the dog went out one morning and brought me back a penny in his mouth. Since then, I bought him a basket, and he goes out every day .... but he's he's idle sir he's idle; he brings mo nothing to what lie used to do when we went out together. Yes oh, yes he's an idle dog ! General News Summary. Personal and Political. The indications are that tho will last made by Mr. Greeley will be sot aside and the one made in 1871 sustained. TheVice-Presidetath- as concluded to em-ploy counsel in the Credit Mobilcr busi-ness. He still adheres to his original story that he never received $1)200 in dividends from Oakes Ames on account of his pur-chase of stock. ' Contrary to general expectation, Pome-ro-y was defeated for Senator from Kansas, on January 29. He went into joint session with OS votes, and came out without one. Just as the voting was about to commence, Senator York arose and made a speech which turned the whole tide against him. His friends deserted him in a body, and John J. Ingalls, the choice of tho anti-Pomcr- oy caucus, received 115 of 132 votes cast. The excitement during the ballot-ing was intense, and the final result was received with loud demonstrations of ap-proval. The new Senator is a man thirty-eig- ht years of age. and resides in Atchison. He is a native of Massachu-setts, a graduate of Williams' College, and has been in Kansas since 1S58. lie was a member of the Constitutional Con-vention of 1856, has strved in the State Senate, and had been twice a candidate for Lieutenant Governor, in politics, he is a Republican of the most radical type. Senator Pomeroy has been arrested on a charge of bribery, and held to bail for trial on Januai y 31. He denies the charge mado against him in every particular. JudgeWright has been again indicted for defrauding the Government in connection with Indian bounty matters. He was ar-rested a few days ago and held to bail in the sum of 510,000. The lobbyist Stew-art is now taking Ms meals in the base-ment of tho Capitol. His Fpeech to die Hoase, its length and weakness, effectu-ally destroyed any sympathy for him which might have otherwise existed for a less known and more picpossesslng recus-ant. The House, on January 31, by an al-most unanimous vote, relieved several prominent Southern gentlemen of disa-bilities, including, among them, Hon. Will. A. Graham, John Forsyth and D. C. De Jarnctt. Ex.Governor Joel A. Matteson, of Illi-nois, died at Springfield, on January 31. S. B. Conover (Republican) was elected U. S. Senator from Florida, on January 31, on the fifth ballot. The Tweed jury, being unable to agree, aro discharged. Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, has waived examination on tho charge of bribery and given bail in the sum of 20,-0- 00 for his appearance at tho June term of the court. The Senator has issued a card denying the charge and asking for a sus-pension of public judgment until the case is tried. There Is a great deal of innate, un-suspected delicacy in the hearts of the working poor. These rough and uncouth but kinuly natures, tended the graceless miser in his sickness. They brought h's food for him, they washed his linen, and they asked for no payment for what they did. As for the unhappy man's gold, it was at their mercy; but the thought of touching it never seemed to cross their minds. "Only," said one with a naive accent, "I think, sir, 'twill be better when he's laid in tho ground, nis money might bo good then to some as would make use of ft." "And the dog?" I murmured reflect-ively. "The dog's his friend, sir," was tho neighbor's answer, "and he won't live long when his master's gone." And these words were prophecy. I sent for a doctor, for a nurse, and for nourish-ing food, to battle against death ; but our efforts were useless. The miser lived a week, and upon each of the seven days the dog went out according to Ms habit, with his basket round his neck, and re-mained out for ten or twelve houis, till dusk. Sometimes I followed him from morning till evening; seeing which, and remembering my face a that which stood daily by his master's bedside, he wagged his tall at my approach, and consented to walk at my heels. One night the miser died, and on the morrow Jim did not go out. He had missed Iris master the night before, and guessed that they had put him In the long black box that stood in the middle of the room. When the men came to carry away this long black box, the dog went after them, and cried. He followed the coffin to the cemetery, where he and I were tho only spectators besides the curate, the sexton, and the un-dertaker's men. When the earth was thrown in, ho looked at me plaintively to know what it meant, and when the burial was over, he wished to remain near the open tomb, waiting till his master should rise. I took him home with me, but he would not cat, and next morning at sun-rise he howled for his basket. It was no use keeping him, so I tied the basket round his neck, and sent him out. That evening, foreseeing what would happen, I went to the cemetery. Tho do" arrived at nightfall, with his basket full of pence, and turned them all out upon the grave. "Come home, Jim," I said, with tho tears rising to my eyes ; but ho whined mournfully, and tried to scratch up the earth. Twice more he went out like this all day, and brought back money for h's master; but ou the third evening, finding that the pence on the grave re-mained untouched, he suffered me, with-out rcs'stancc, to take off his collar, and lay down at his full kngth near the mi-ser's last sleeping-plac- e. The next morning he did not co on his rounds, for ho was dead lCornhill Maga-zine. Macaroni-Makin- g. You would never guess how macaroni is made if you had not seen it. You imag-ine, no doubt, that they make it like pipes, roll it on wires, or spin it out like glass. If you are iu Naples, and you arc quite sure you don't care very, very much for macaroni, you had better go and clear up the mystery. The moment you have passed the Ponte della Maddalena you see on cither side of you trestles in front of the shops, supporting canes which are covered with a double fringe, long and yellowish. This Is macaroni hanging in the sun to dry. The flics know it very well and dot it in thousands, and the little boys know it very well and crawl under the fringe, and just clip the ends and pick up stray morsels that may drop. I saw it hanging just so while the ashes from Vesuvius were still blowing about Porticl. Nothing seems to harm it, nei-ther boys, nor dust, nor flies ; they add to the flavor. Now, how do you think it is made? Just peep beyond the trestles there into the shop. "Why, by Jove, they aro all naked." No, not quite. "What aro those three fellows doing, jumping up and down as if they wcro on a see-saw-?" Kneading the macaroni paste. A friend of mine says he has seen them kneading it as they aro doing now, but without the beam. "And thathorri-bl- e old Spagnoletto in the bin?" Ho is performing the first operation to tho paste treading it. "And this troop of maniacs in front, rushing madly back-ward and forward at the end of this pole, threatening to capsize us every minute ?" Why, dont you see, they are turning tho screw of the press, and below there out comes the macaroni ; while the boy in the hole fans It directly as it is presented to the world. Then he nips it offwhen it has dropped u certain length and hands it to a lad who spieads it on the canes, and then the sun, the dust, the flics, and the boys. If you wish to know any more take away this importunate foreman who keeps jogging my elbow while I draw, anil insisting on taking me to look at ev-ery detail, while I only want to sketch the whole scene at a distance. He will show you the yellow corn, He will tell you it comes from the country near Brlndisl, He will make tho wrinkled Spagnoletto put water hot water, mind on the flour, and tread it under your nose. He will bring you the bra's molds at the foot of the press, through which the paste is forced, and fit bits of macaroni into the holes. Ho will not, perhaps, know that these molds are made in",England. By-the-b- y, do you observe how the master, play-ing cards yonder in a corner, keeps look-ing at us a little suspiciously? He half thinks we are learning the secret of macaroni-- making, to take it to America, and set up a rival manufactory. Never fear : In America we have not got the Neapoli-tan water, and that is no great loss. Above Castellamarc, they say tho beBt macaroni is made, but I don't know on what the excellence depends. "Macaroni is only flour and water." That's all. It can't be the substance, then, that delights theNeapolltans; it must be the form. There must he somethmg in the long, snaky strings which tickles the Neapolitan throat and palate. An omissive missive in an evening co-tempor- ary is made to read that, " --the small-po- x in Washington is becoming in type and more tractable." Prom what we've seen of the Washington stylo of beauty wo can understand that small-po- x may bo rather "becoming in type" than otherwise. . V Tnn "elder clause" is what is troubling ' the Maine prohibitionists. Politicians arc obliged to take one side 'r t'other. " , Kansas, is getting up (in onti-tobtc-co ) colOHYi Crimes and Casualties! Hon. B. W. Norris, ex-memb- er of the Forty-fli- st Congress, from Alabama, is dead. On January 27, Mr. Lynch and Govern-or Warmoth testified In relation to the ir-regularities In Louisiana. The latter's statement is said to bo damaging to the fusion board, and the former's statement equally damaging to tho Kellogg board. It now looks as if the bottom would be knocked out of everything relating to the Louisiana election. The counsel for Stokes have presented their bill of exceptions . The grounds on which they claim the right of a new trial are that ono of the jurors during the trial visited the Grand Central and examined the stairs to convince himself as to the possibility of Stokes avoiding Flsk if he so desired; that another juror visited a pistol establishment to test the truthful-ness and falsity of certain witnesses ; that Justice Boardman during tho trial left the court room, and that the prisoner did the same during the examination of an im-portant witness; alo that five of the ju-rors were hostile toward tho prisoner. After a short argument Judge Davis granted an order to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and made It returnable before Justice Boardman on Friday morning. The splendid residence in Springfield, 111., known as the Governor Matteson mansion, was burned on tho evening of January 28. Loss $50,000. The National Theater, at Washington, D. C, was burned on the morning of Jan-uary 28. Loss $100,000. Captain Jack, the leader of the Modocs, attacked Colonel Bernard's camp, at the lower end of Tule Lake, a day or two since, ne was repulse J. The troops suf-fei- cd no loss. Another range explosion occurred in St. Louis, Mo., on the morning of Janu-ary 29, causing damages estimated at $2,-00- 0. The accident occurred in Bonnet's restaurant, on Fourth Street, between Pine and Chestnut. Thompson's Crescent City Sugar Re-finery, at New Orleans, was burned on Jan 30. Loss $200,000. An explosion of a gas main in the re-pair shops of the Manchester Print Works, at Manchester, N. H., occurred on the morning of January 30. Six persons were seriously injured. The trial of Mrs. Boycc, at Chicago, for the murder of Calvert H. Johnson, was concluded, on February 1, by a verdict of Involuntary homlcideand fixing the punishment at five years in the Peni-tentiary. Thrcemen working in agravel pit.about twelve miles north of Chicago, 111., were killed, on February 1, by the caving in of the banks. Mrs. A. Schumann and a man named Dr. J. P. Welder, who has been boafding with hor, were arrested on February 1, at Peoria, HI., charged with poisoning the husband and son of the former. The warehouse of Wood Bros., No. 710 Broadway, New York, was burned on the morning of February 1. Loss $400,000. The dwelling house of Mr. Henry Catrnes, near Jefferson, Iowa, was burned on February 1. Mr. Cairnes, two children, and his brother perished in the flames. A Lowell, Mass., dispatch, says that ' several female employes of tho Mcrrimac street dollar store, have been made very sick from eating cake given them by ti young woman recently discharged from the store. The cake was found to be arscnicated. The Pacific Flouring Mills, at Omaha, were burned on February 2. Loss $20,000. The mill and forge buildings of tin Lako Brie Iron Company's rolling mills at Cleveland, Ohio, wore completely de stroyed by fire, at noon, on Fcbtuary 2. Loss very heavy. A man named Alfred O. Love, residing at Boston, Mas3., shot his little daughter and then killed himself. Domestic trou-ble was the cause of the tragedy. A party of Chinamen at Carson, Ne-vada, fought with knives and pistols, on February 2, on account of a woman. Three wcro killed and a largo number wounded. Domestic Intelligence. Gold, in New York, closed, Feb. 1, atll3T. A heavy seizure of smuggled goods has been made in New York, consisting of $50,000 worth of Alexander kid gloves. The cases were consigned to Pings & Pinner. The House Committee on Banking will prepare a bill embracing the following provisions : tho redemption of treasury notes in coin after May 11, 1874 ; authori-zing the Secretary of the Treasury to is-sue bonds bearing not over six per cent interest, and exchange for coin; and third, free banking under the National Currency act, after July 1, 1873. Prominent citizens of Oregon and Cal-ifornia ore in Washington urging a com-promise with the Modoc Indians, and that Capt. Jack's band be allowed a small res-ervation for which they are now fighting. The House Committee on Judiciary has agreed to report a bill fixing salaries as follows : President, $30,000 ; Vice Presi-dent, Speaker of the House and Justices of the Supreme Court, $10,000 each; Chief Justice of the Supremo Court, $10,-50-0 ; Senators and Representatives, $8,000 each. By this bill tho mileage system is abolished, and only actual traveling ex-penses to and from the Capital allowed. The increase of pay of members is to date from March 4, 1874, and that of executive and judicial officers from March 4, 1873. The Attorney General has decided that suits brought against importers to recov-er duties on goods paid to Confederate of-ficials be discontinued. That officer takes the ground that tho Confederate Govern-ment was a de Jado government at the time, and that as importers were unable to resist its demands, it would be unjust for the United States to require a second payment. The Board of Police of tho city of Chi-cago has deposed Superintendent of Po-lice Washburn. They charge neglect of duty, Incompetency and disobedience of the rules and regulations of the board, and have appointed as acting Superintendent, the S3cretary of tho Board. Washburn refuses to recognise tho authority of the acting Superintendent. The Mayor has increased tho complication by removing two of the Commissioners, but they re-fuse to give up the positions they hold, alleging the want of authority on the part of tho Mayor to remove them. The repeal of the franking privilege will result in amaterialieduction of the allow-ance for public printing, accoiding to a Washington dispatch. A New York dispatch says the reports of diseased sheep being sent to that mar-ket arc greatly exaggerated. A movement is on foot to send Elijah Steele, a prominent citizen of Yreka, with other citizens, to the Modoc camp, to treat for peace. Gen. Gillcn announces his de-termination to attack the Modocs as soon as reinforcements arrive. The poiico imbroglio, at Chicago, con-tinues. A bill will bo introduced in the ' Illinois Legislature, to abolish th board of Police Commissioners of that city. The present prospect is that the entire police force will be reorganized by the mayor. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided upon giving producers of leaf tobacco tho right to sell their pro-- ; ducts without talcing out dealers' or man-ufacturers' license.- - The Government will send a Peace Commissioner to the Modoc Indians, charged with ample power to hear and adjust all differences. The President has approved the act abolishing tho franking privilege. The Attorney-Gener- al has received a dispatch, from Foit Clark, Texas, an-nouncing the arrest of raiders on Mexican Territory. The only new developments in the Chi-cago Poiico War, are the deposition of two of the recalcitrant police captains, and the appointment of two sergeants in their places. The following is the comparative cot-ton statement lor the week ending Janu-ary 31: Bales Receipts nt all ports for the week 115,71,1 Samctimo Inst year !3,0'i7 For the year 2,3((i,C!)t Last year 1,911,502 Exports for tho week 80,531 Snraetime last year 39,372 For the jcar 1,101,41(1 Last year. ., 1,021,13'i Stock at nil U.S. ports 571,1)72 Last year 510,912 At mtciior towns )l , hg Last year ,. 90,01.) At Liveipool :.. 454,000 Lastycnr 4C),i 00 Afloat for Gi cat Britain 285,000 Lastyear 2)1,000 The following Is the public debt state-ment for the month ending Jan. 31 : Six per cent bonds 81,311,448,700 Five percent bonds 414,5i7,30O Total com bonds $1,750,010,(100 Lawful money debt 10,003,000 Matured debt d,5AJ,420 Legal tender notes 351,008,138 Certificates of deposit 28,93 1, 000 Fi actional currency,, 40,057,091 Coinceitillcatcs 24,210,600 Total without interest $ 457,307, ii32 Total debt 2,223,494,753 Total inteicst 27,448,8SO Cash m treasury coin 02,,112,604 Cuncncy 7,007,4.1 Special deposit held for icdemption of cei tillcates of deposit as provid-ed by law 23,935,000 Total in Treasury $ 08,285,053 Debt less cash in treasury 2,l(i2,0J8,5M Incicase dm ing month 400,213 Bonds issued to Paciilo 11. R. Cos. , Intel est payable in lawful money, principal outstanding 64,023,513 Intel est accumulated and not jet paid 323,117 Interest paid by United States 8,500,280 Interest repaid by transportation, mails, etc............. 4,118,432 Bolanco interest paidbyU. S 14,300,848 The Secretary of the Treasury has ad-dressed a letter to the heads of depart-ments, asking what appropriations are necessary to meet the postage of official business, on account of the abolition of the franking privilege. Mews from Abroad. A Rome, Italy, dispatch, of January i 26, says, a decree has been promulgated ' whereby tlio State formally takes posses-- i bion of sixteen convents in Rome, i The yellow fever is raging at Rio Ja--: nciro. Prince Napoleon disavows all responsi--, bility for the recent newspaper announce- -, ment of his views in regard to the future policy of tho Bonaparte family. 3 A special from London announces the , tn rival ofSir Bartle Frerc at Zanzibar. :-- A Constantinople dispatch, says an cmeute of an alarming character occurred on January 30, near ltustchuk, a fortified city in Bulgaria, Hfly-iW- e miles cast of Nl-copol-is, In which thirteen Bulgarians and ten Greeks weie killed. The cause of tho disturbance has not transpired. Durhi" tho riot the streets were crowded with the furious populace, and the authorities found it necessary to intervene. Guns and pistols were freely used, and besides tho killed, a number are reported wound-ed. Order was finally restored, and sev-eral leading rioters arrested. It Is reported that the American bank-ers of London loaned Napoleon 2,000,-00- 0, to facilitate a coup he was Intending, and that since his death the money has been returned to them. Daniel Redding, convicted and impris-oned for participating in the Fenian riots at Manchester, in 18C7, and who has just been released from custody, has prose-cuted his prison doctors for gross cruelty, which ho alleges were practiced upon him. Redding has made affidavit in sup-port of his complaint, in which he charges that while he was suffering fiom a par-alytic stroke, the doctors pricked his flesh with hot needles, and also burned him with a hot iron. The Queen of Spain, on January 30, gave birth to a son. The building occupied by the Bank of British North America, at Renfrew, Can-ada, was burned on the morning of Jan-uary 31. Three persons were burned to death. A spinning mill in Glasgow, Scotland, employing 400 hands, was burned, on the morning of Jan. 31. A London dispatch, of January 31, says that it has been ascertained that it was the steamer Mnrillo which ran into and sunk the Northfleet. She did not sink as many supposed, but has arrived at Cadiz in safety. Her destination was Lisbon, for which port she had a cargo, but upon entering that harbor, she was signalized not to land, as there is an extradition treaty between Portugal and Gicat Brit-ain. The Orleans Railway Company of Franco has been notified that railway communication with Spain has been inter-rupted, on account of the Carlist insur-rection in the latter country. The library of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, England, was burned on February 1. Less 230,000. Latest dispatches from Spain, would seem to indicate that the Cariists are gain-ing ground. Communication between France and Spain is altogether suspended except by water. Thero has been au attempt to create an Insurrection In Hayti, for the purpose of preventing an election for President. The demonstration was soon suppressed, and sixty of the Insurgents being arrested and five executed. Disturbances are apprehended in the district surrounding Prague, in Bohemia, aud troops have been sent thither. The Sultan has decided to attend the Vienna Exposition. The engineers and stokers on all Portu-gese railways arc ona strike, and the run-ning of freight trains is suspended. The first snow storm of the season oc-curred on February 1, at London, Eng-land. A London dispatch, of February 2, says that the snow storm which visited the British Isles on the preceding nijrht. de veloped into a storm of remarkable sever-ity. The snow was six inches deep in London and in some sections of tho island It was over three feet deep. Many wrecks have already been reported and there has been a fearful loss of lives, especially off Torquay. The steamer Clan Alpine went ashoro on Black Head and became a total loss. It is feared that all on board per-ished. The ship Sarah was wrecked on tho Irish coast near Bailey ganon, and fourteen of her crew drowned. An acci-dent occurred.'on February 2, at Stafford, on the London and Northwestern Rail-way, by which several persons were killed. The journeymen house painters of Ber-lin have struck for higher wages. It is thought the strike will become general. Congressional Proceedings. In the Senate, on January 27, the Com-mittee on 1'ubllo Buddings and Grounds were in-structed to inqune into the expediency of using the executive mansion foi other pinnoica. and of providing another residence for tho President. . . . The bill requiring National Banks to restore their capital when impaiied, and to amend the Nation-al Currency act was passed . . The Legislative appropriation bill was taken up and debated, anil, ntthc expiration of the morning hour, laid over... Uemonitranccs weio picsentedfrom the Boston board of tradn and the Boston boot and shoe dealers against the repeal of the Bankrupt act The bill to refund differential duties on ar-ticles actually on shipboard in licnch vessels destined for the United States, on November 5, 1872, was passed. . . .Bills were introduced as fol-lows: directing the Postmaster-Gener- al to con-tract with the Mcditenancan la Oriental Steam-ship Company lor caiiymg mails to European poits, and to indorse the bonds of said company to the amount of $3,000,000; making loads now In use on any Indian or military reservation, publlohlghwnjs . Mr. Stewai t, of Novada, of-lev- ed a resolution dliccting the Committee on l'a-cillcRalho- ads to inquire into the condition of accounts between the seeial P.icillc loads and the United States, growlngout ot the provisions of the act of 1872, leniin ing that after the comple-tion of the roads, live per cent, of their net earn-ings shall be annually applied to the payment of the bonds and interest until they are paid. Mr. Edmunds offered an amendment, piovidingthat payment for freight anil transportation ocrsuch roads be withhold until the payment of such In-tcic- at, and authouzlmr the biinging of n suit by such load to recover for such fi eight and trans-portation. This amendment prevaded by yeas 19i nays 1. .. .The Senate then adjourned. In the House,on January 27, a resolution was adopted instructing the Committee on Appro-priations to negotiate for the puichnso of Carpen-ter's painting of the signing of the Emancipation I'loclamatlon. . Aicsolution instructing the Ju-diciary Committee to levise the salaries of U. S. Clrcuitand Dlstiict.Tudgcs,was adopted Abs-olution was adopted instructing the same Com-mittee to examine into the pay and emolument of the several oOicers oftheExecutive, Judlcinland Legislative departments, and repoi t a bill for the proper gradation of the pay of such oOicers. . . . The following bills and memorials were Intro-duced and appropriately referred : Limiting the number of midshipmen at the naval academy! prohibiting the publication or importation of ob-scene books or books of comiual cboractcr: to repeal the act appointing shipping commlssion-ci- si A memorial of theXeglsfn hire of Virginia protesting against the lcpeal of the bankrupt uct; memorlafoftho Legislature of North Carolina iu relation to pensions to soldiers of 1812: repeal-ing the law Imposing a tax on dealers In leof to-bacco; t authoii the Secretary ol War to pro-vide ortdlclol eves for ofllceis or soldiers who have lost one or both eyes in theseivice; to ad-just the rank and pay of officers In the retired list ot the army; to refund the tax on raw cotton; tor the relief of tne widow of Humphrey Mar-shall; to completefbc Washington national mon-ument; a joint resolution of the Legislature of West Virginia, in l elation to the sale of filter privileges at Harper's Ferry; Joint resolutions in favor of the James liver und Kanawha ca-nal; Memorial of the colleges of the United States asking; the return of tho Japanese In-demnity lunrt to the government of Japan. . . .On motion ol Mr Chlpnum a Committee ol ihhtcon was nuthou.cd lo confer with the na-tional Monument Association, to Inqiiho " "" Monument can bo finished by July 1870 . lhe Ways and Means Commiltce w.is diiectcd, on motion of Mr. Niblack, to inqune Into the expe-diency of repealing nil laws allowing compen-sation to inlormers . The bill abolishing uu. franking privilege, amended bv the Senate so as to go into operation Julyl, 187.1, W' l"'''''.! the ninendmant concuiird In, and thcl'M, t"" F" by yeas 113; miB IS Mr. bargent introduce.! a bill repealing all laws utithoi iing the 1 nt i g public documents tor dhtiibution byi emu(.rs of Congress, and moed to hti-pe- nil tlioHi ' I "i I pass itflost; vs (17; nays OHnot tWO-tlllu- tS no-ting yei. , . .Adjourned. In the Senate, on January 2S, Vice Presi-dent Colfax asked the appointment of a commit-tee of senators to investigate into bis connection with the Credit Mobilicr. Mr. 1'ratt moivdthat such a committee, to consist of five persons, be ap-pointed Mr. Thurmun of Ohio opposed the mo-lio- n and It was lost, Mr. Pratt alone voting je.i. . . . 'lhe Secietiny of the Tieasury, was, bj reso-lution, diiectcd to inform thoSenate as to the ag-gieg- ato amount ofmoney derived fiom lincb.com-p- i onuses una seizures, p.ud since Juno 1, lto'l, to officers, detectives and informers, nnd the nmount lcceivcd by each A bill was intro-duced to pay Dr. Mary L. (Volker for sen ices in the nimy,...ThclIoti5eomendnioutto the Yieniu Uxposition bill, was concurred In.... The bill to pay Japan for gioiind occupied by the United States for Hospital purposes in that empire, was passed ...The legislative Appropriation bill was then taken up and discussed.. .On motion of Mr. , Conkling, the Secretary of the Senate was di-rected to cause a statement to be prepared, showing the action of the Senate nnd House of Representatives iu examining and counting the electoral votes for rresidcnt nnd Vice President from 1780 down....Mr. Buckingham iormilly announced the death of Hon. J.I,. Stiong, late repiescntative from Connecticut, and he and Mr. Feny eulogized the deceased. The oidin.iry i evolutions were adopted mid the Sciute ad-journed In the House, on January 28, the Senate amendments to the Indian appropriation bill w ere disposed or A Committee of Conference was ordered mi tbe disagreeing votes The bill for the admission of Coloindo was taken up and discussed .The death, of J. L. Strong, late Representative from Connecticut, was an-nounced, and the appropriate eulogies delivered, nftervvliich the House adjourned. In the Senate, on January 29, the Secre-tary of War was instructed to inquiic into the expediency or enlisting a company of Indian scouts, to serve aqomst the Modocs in Oregon . The Commitke on Mihtaiy A flail s repoi ted abill E? l!.?,Y.irt(; '9r thu I'rescn ntlon ond cai e of lhe U. S Mllitiij Cemetery noar the City ot Mexico The Committee on Mines and Mining repoiled.i bill to amend the net to promote tiro mining it-sour- ces of the United States ...The LtgiMativc Appiopilation bill w.is taken up under the older ot uiillnished business, and discumd by Mc-sr- s. Kdmunds, Sawyer, Windom, Kobeits, Wright, Morrill, of Maine, Conkling and others, and then laid over under the rule Mr. Logan, of Committee on Military aAairs, reported a bill imlhoriing Uie President to designate a botrd ol tlncc ordnance oiliceis to examine nnd lcport the most suitable sites lor the location of a hu gc in -- senal, a l.irgc construction und lcpau depot, a powdei depot, and grounds for heav y oi dnante .... Alter the transaction of business of no sncoial importance, the Senate went into executive ses-sion, and, soon alter, adjourned In the House, on January 29, the b 11 for the admission of Coloi ado, us a State, wab discussed, nnd after an animated debate, laid on the table, byyeas, 117; nays 01. . . .The Committee on the Ploi Ida Contested Election case reported that Mr. Niblack, the contestant. Is entitled to the scat. The report was agreed to, and Mi . Niblack sworn in .. .Mr. Wilson, the chnirmau of the Select Committee on the Union Pncillc ltailroadand Cicdit Mobilicr Investigation, le-p- oi ted that one of tho w itncsses called by the CoinmittLe, Joseph 1$. btewart, had refusidto answer certain questions as to the disposition ot n huge amount ol bonds given him in Ibtil and 1S05, on the ground of piivilego. The Committee moved for an older that the Speaker issue his vvaii.mt to the Scigcmt-at-arm- s to tike said Stewart into custody. Mr. Bingham moved to amend, by hav ing Mr. Stevvait brought biloic tho House to show cause why he should not be committed for contempt. After discussion, the amendment pieviuled byycasl27j naysOO. lhe resolution as nincndcd was adopted, and the House adjourned. In the Senate, on January 30, Mr. West was appointed to succeed Mr. Kellogg on flic Committee on Levees. .. .The Naval Appropria-tion bill was reported by Mr. Cole, of the Com-mittee on Naval Afl.iiis, with sundry amend-ments . The bill lor tho relief or persons to whom the Tcnitorial governments liavc sold lands which vvtic aftci wards sold by the United States, was taken up, discussed and recommitted ... .A bill v as intiodiiccd Incorporating the Mis-sissippi and Ohio Tunnel and Tube company, with slO.000,000 capital, to construct tunnels un-d- ci tho two 1 iv ers lor the use of railroads . . .1 he bill, exempting the mineial lands in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota from the opeiation ot the Mining act, passed....The consideration of the Lcgislatlv e Appropriation bill was resumed, and, alter debate and amendment, the bill passed. . . . .The Senate adjourned. In the House, on January 39, a resolut-ion was adopted asking information from the Comptiollcr of the Currency regavdingthc depos-its in tho Farmei s' and Merchants' National bank of Washington nnd the Ocean National bank ot Now York, of Paoiilo ltnilroad Bonds by Joseph I!. Stewart . A lingo number of pension bills vveie passed . Mr. Willardol the Committee on Pensions, reported a bill directing lcstorjtion to the pension lolls of tho names ofBiich pensioner of thewarofl812 as vveie struck from the rolls underthenctofFebruary, 1802, on accouiitofh.iv-In- g aided or encouraged the lebcllion, the pm-bio- ns to be paid from the passage of this net ; also n bill entitling such persons to the benefit of the act of February, 1872, granting pensions to the survivors of the war of 1812. Mr. Maynard moved to amend by providing for the payment of aircars to those who furnish proofe of loyally dining the rebellion. After a long discussion, the biU passed without Mr. Maynnid'b amend-ment ...Atl-30- , Joseph B. Stewart, the lccus'uit witness, wlio refused to testify before tbe Ciedit Mobilicr Kommittee, was presented nt the bai ot i the House by the Scrgennt-at-Arm- s, In rcplj to a question by the Speaker, whether he w is 1 eady to answer all pioper inquiries of the Committee, Mi. Stew art spoke for nn hour, denying that he ' was in contempt, and pleading his privilege ns a lawyer. Mr. Dawes movtd the follow -- ing lesolution which vi as adopted with but a sin-gle dissenting voice: Resolved, lint Joseph II. Stcwnit having been heard by the nouse, pursu-ant to an order heretofore made requiring him to show cause why he should not answer the ques-tions propound! d to him by the Committees, has tilled to show sufficient cause why lie should not answer the same; and that said Stew a t be con-sideie- dm contempt of the House for fiiilinetii nuke nnsvveis thereto. Mr. Wilson offeiednn additional resolution providing for the letcntion of Stewart in custody until he shall have appear-ed before the Committee and answered all pioper questions. Mr. Saigent otlered a substitute that Stewnit be committed to the District J nil, and kept there until the close of this Congiess, unless sooner discharged by older of this House. This substitute was rejected bv jeas JO; nays 110. The resolution offered by Mr. Wilson was then adopted und Stcwiut, on reiterating hisrefusil to disclose anything confided to him as counsel, was removed from the hall in the custody of the Sergcnnt-at-Ar- ms ...The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the I'ortiliention bill. The bill anpropnntcs 8399,000. The Com-mittee rose, the bill was passed, nnd the House adjourned. In the Senate, on January 31, a joint leaolution was offered foraconstilutionnl amend-ment electing Scnntois by a popular vote .. The Webb Australian steamship subsidy bill was taken up and discussed Pending action, the Senate adjourned until February 3, In the House, on January 31, the entire session was devoted to tho consldeiation of pu-va- te bills of no public importance Adjoin nod. In the House, on February 1, bills were passed as follows: to secure a more efficient ad-ministration of Indian Affairs; appropriating out of the Japanese Indemnity Fund, $123,000, for distribution among the ofheers and crew ol the Wyoming and Takldugon, as a bounty for the destruction of piratical vessels atSimoncski, Japan The sub-committ- ee of the Select Com-mittee on the Union Paciilo ISttlU'oad and Credit Mobilici, weie authoiued to take testimony in Philadelphia, New York und Boston Aftei disposing of several private bills the House nd-Jonrn- ed. . THE MARKETS. NEW YOEK, Feb. 3, 1873. BEEP CATTLE J-J- O 13.!.0 HOG3-L- Ive .W 5.12 Dressed R.5H G75 SHEEP Live 6V5 S.OO COTTON-MldiU- lng 21X 21S FLOUR Good lo Choice S.i'O 8.f0 WHEAT-Spnng- No 2 1,6,1 1.70 CORN WesterniMixcd o H w OATS Western, New 61 , RYE-Wes- tern ,,S" PORK-M- css, New 1U)iUl2 LARD s 8i CHICAGO. 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Title | Rolla Express Newspaper 1873-02-08 |
Description | Vol. 13, No. 34 |
Subject | Rolla (Mo.) -- History; Phelps County (Mo.) -- History; Rolla (Mo.) -- Newspapers; Phelps County (Mo.) -- Newspapers; |
Coverage | United States -- Missouri -- Phelps County -- Rolla |
Source | The Daily Evening Herald printed and published by Treadway & Albright, St. Louis, Missouri. |
Language | English |
Date | 1873-02-08 |
Item.Year | 1873 |
Item.Month | February |
Item.Day | 8 |
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Collection Name | Rolla Express Newspaper Collection |
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Date | 1873-02-08 |
Item.Year | 1873 |
Item.Month | February |
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Item.Transcript | BflsceUaneons Selections. A VISION OF ST. ELIGIVS. i. I Bee my house, but I am blown about, A wind-mock- ed Uto, botvvccu tho earth nnd All out of doore-al- asl of thy doors out, Ana drenohcd In dows no summer suns oan dry. For cvci y blast Is passion of my own i The dews colli sweats of selfish agony; Dankvnpnr steams from memories lying piono; Anil all my soul is but a stifled cry. n. Lord, thou dost hold my string, else wcro I drlv-- Down to some.gnir whoic I were tossed no No turmoil' telling I v as not in heaven ; Ko billows raving on a blessed shoro. Thou stimdest on liy door sill, calm as day. And all my throbs and pangs are pulls from Hold fast tho string, lest I should break away, And outcrdark and silence swallow me. hi. No longer fly thy kite, Lord ; draw mo home. U'hou imll'st Use string through all the distance bleak j lord, I am ncarlng thee 5 0 Lord, I come ; Thy pulls prow stronger and the wind grows weak. In thy remodeling hands thou tak'st fhv kite 5 A moment to thy bosom liold'st me fust. 'Ihoii llmgoat mo abroad : lol in thv might, A sti ong-wlng- od bird I soar on every blast. February Scrtbncr. Climate to Order. Mautc Twain, in a 'otter to the New York Tribune, says: I spent several months in U10 Sandwich Islands six years :io, and if I could have ray way about it I would go back there and remain tho rest of my days. It is paradise for.an in-dolent man. If a man is rich, he can live expensively, and his grandeur will be re-spected as In other parts of the earth ; if lie is poor, he can herd with the natives and live on next to nothing ; he can sun himself all day long under the palm trees, and be no more troubled by his conscience than abuttaMy would. When you are in that blessed retreat you are safe from tho turmoil of life ; you drowse your days away in a long, deep dream of peace; the past is a forgotten thing, the present i3 heaven, the future you leave to take care of itself. You are m the center of the Pacific Ocean ; yon are 2,000 miles from any continent; you are millions of miles from the world ; as far as you can see, on any hand, Oie crest-ed billows wall tho horizon, and beyond tliis ban tor the wide universe is but a for-eign land to you, and barren of interest. rJ.'ne climate is simply delicious never cold at the sea level, and never really too warm, for you are at the half-wa-y house that is, 20 degrees above the equator. Hut then you may order your own climate for this reason: the eight inhabited is-lands are merely mountains that lift them-selves out of the sea a group of bells, if you please, 'with some (but not very much) "flare" at their basis. You get the idea. Well, you take a thermometer and mark on it where you want tho mercury to stand permanently forever (with not more than 12 degrees vaiiation) winter and summer. If 80 degrees in the shade is your figure (with the priv-ilege of going down or up five or six de-grees at long intervals), you build your houses down on the "ilare" the slopinsr or level ground by the sea-sho- re an3 you have the deadest, surest thing In the world on that temperature. And such is the climate of Honolulu, the capital of the kingdom. If you mark 70 degrees as your meau temperature, you build your house on any mountain-side- , 400 or 500 feet above sea-leve- l. If you mark 55 de-grees or 00, go 1,500 feet higher. If you mark for wintry weather, go on climbing and watching your mercury. If you want snow and ice for ever and ever and zero and below, build on the summit of Mauna Kca, 10,000 feet up in the air. If you must have hot weather, you should build at Lahaina, where they do not hang the thermometer on a nail because the Bo-lder might melt and the instrument get broken ; or you should build in the crater of Kilcaua, which would be the same as going home before your time. You can not lind as much climate bunched togeth-er anywhere in the world as you am in the Sandwich Islands. You may stand on the summit of Mauna Kea, in the midst of snow-bank- s that were there be-fore Captain Cook was born, maybe, and while you shiver hi your furs you may cast your eye down on the sweep of the mountain-slu- e and tell exactly --where the frigid zone ends and vegetable life begins; a stunted and tormented growth of trees shades down into a taller and freer spe-cies, and that lit turn into the full foliage and varied tints of the temperate zone ; further down, the mere ordinary srretn tone of a forest washes over the edges of a broad bar of orange trees that embraces the mountain like aJbelt, and is so deep and dark a green that distance makes it black; and still fuither down, your eye lests upon the level of the sea-shor- e, wheic the sugar-can- e is scorching in the sun, and the feathery cocoa-pal- m glassing itself in the tropical waves; and where you know the sinful natives are lolling about in utter nakedness, and never know-ing or caring that you and your snow and your chattering teeth are so close by. m m The Modoc Defeat. The Modoo war is again teaching us that when tho Indian expects to die he will die game. " The telegraphic accounts from the Pacific coast give us the outlines of a battle fought between the troops and the Indians on the shore of Tnle Lake, in Oregon, which ended certainly in the de-feat of the civilized combatants. Captain Jack, the Modoc Chief, appears to have simply posted his two hundred men be-iiii- Kl rocks along aline two miles in length and awaited attack. Tho position must have been singularly well chosen, for. al-though the troops outnumbered the am-buscaded Indians two to one, they were repulsed with severe loss. Whatever plan the leaders of tho troops had agreed on. it seems to have been imperfectly carried out, as we learn that in consequence of Captain Bernard, who commanded one detachment, having prematurely given battle, General Wheaton " had no alter-native but to move to the aid of Captain Bernard without the Are of tho howitz-ers." The troops fought an invisible foe from eight o'clock in the morning until dark unlcr a terrific fire. It is evident that from the broken nature of the ground among the lava beds, the troops could not advance with any rapidity, and the folly of exposing and wasting valua-ble life throughout an entire day, without any prospect of success, seems at present a most reprehensible blunder. If the movement was a reconnoissance in force it was very clumsily executed. It is now announced that it will require a force'oi one thousand men to dislodge the Modocs from their strong position, and that the operations until reinforcements arrive will be confined to beleaguering Captain Jack, Thero should be 110 delay in sending for-ward sufficient troops to make the reduc-tion of this band certain. Aloss of forty in killed andwounded.includingtwo offi-cers of the regular army, is a high price to pay for such a barren result, and we hope to hear of no moremch experiment-ing. In theprescnt state ofIndian affairs we cannot afford to allow the bad Indians to score a victory against the Govern-ment, The extermination of Captain Jack ana iiis band, is a disagreeable ne-.,- !? "Will stand as a warning to oth-- S, , lvlVvi6h to follow in the foot-5- 5 woModocs. It is cheaper to feed mSehn'ltSGSrfwnt??1;Cnr!?stavwthheen Pthceefpnodliiachy cMomSmmainndTJrMegu.tlaUr,Hra?t b1ush.eaads twhaetll hues full mTttowTi!,'0 kcep Wra iuiet-- murder just as much as a white2a5 that in the strong arm continuously kW ing him in subjection lies the only ch of the good nurse to spoon-fee- d him with their philanthropic pap. The Oeroat makes it imperative on the govei nment tc teach nil the savages a lesson, througr their Modoo brethren. N. Y. Herald, A gentleman signing himself "Pro Bono," gives tho following recipe for the cureof coughs, which will befound accept-able : Seneca snake root, 3 oz. ; slippery elm, 2 oz. ; liquorice, 2 large sticks. Put in two quarts of water, and boil down to one quart ; strain, and add 2 lbs. of sugar; let it simmer for about ten minutes; after which bottle for use, and put in a cool place, The dose is a tablespoonful whenever tho cough is troublcBomoi - . ; - , r , r VOLUME XIII. ROLLA, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1873. NUMBER 34. "AN UGLY DOG." " Splish splash," went that wretch-e- d dog through the mud, his ears hanging down and his tail between his legs. " Oh t tho ugly dog I" cried two young girls --who were carrying home clothes from the wash. "Oh ! the ugly brute!" shouted a cart-er; and he gave hia whip a loud crack to frighten him. But the dog took no heed of them. Hovran patfenfly on, only stopping at the crossings whero there were too many carriages for him to pass, but not seeming to busy himself at all as to what people said, or what they thought about him. He ran on so for a long way. No doubt of It, he was an ugly dog. He was lean and scraggy. His coat was of a dirty gray color, and in many places the hair was worn off In patches. Neither were there any tokens that he had ever been a handsome dog, and that his pres-ent state of wretchedness was owing merely to sudden misfortune. He looked, on rhe contrary, as though he had always been an ill-fe-d dog, having desultory hab-its, no home to go to, and seldom any-thing better to, eat than a chance bone or a crust picked up in the gutter. Yes, ho was certainly a miserable dog. But I wondered to sec him run so ob-stinately in the middle of the road, when there was room In plenty for him on the pavement. He was a small dog, and by trotting close under the shop fronts lie coulddiave slipped unnoticed through the crowd, and not have exposed himself to be run over by the cabs arid whipped by tho carters. But no ; he preferred the road where the mud was. and he ran straight before him, withoutlooktngrMit or left, just exactly as if he knew his way. I might have paid no more attention to this dog, for there are enough of whom I take no notice; but I observed that he had a collar round his neck, and that to this collar was attached a basket. This set mo thinking; for a dog who carries a basket is either a dog sent out on an er-rand, or a runaway dog who has left his master, and does not know where to go. Now which could this one be? If ho was a dog that ran on errands, why did not his owners Hed him better, so that his ribs should look less spare? But it ho was a dog who had left his master, and run away into the world to face care and trouble alone, what hardships or what cruelties had he had to suffer, that he should have taken such a step in despair? I felt I should like to have these. questions answered, for there was something of mystery in them; I therefore followed the dog. We were in Oxford Street, in that part of it which lies between Marble Arch and Duke Street, and the dog was running in the direction of the Regent Circus. It was a dull wet day in winter ; the rain had been falling. A gray fog was spread-ing its vapors along the road, and every one looked cold and un somfortablc. A few shops were being lighted up hero and there, for evening was setting in. But the contrast between tfe glare of the gas and tho occasional glow of the red coal fires, burning cheerily in the grates of ground-flo- or parlors, only served to make tho streets more dark and dreary. And yet tho dog went pattering on, going at a sort of quick jog-tr- ot pace, keeping his cars always downj and paying no atten-tion cither to the omnibuses that rolled by him, tho costermongers who swore at him, or the other dojs who stopped at times with a puzzled air, and gazed at him with silent wonder. I hacf to step out fast to kcep up with him. It is aston-ishing how that squalid dog could trot! I was afraid more than once that he would distance me, but, thanks to the knack he had of always keeping to tho middle of the road, I was prevented from losing sightof him. Wc passed North Audley Street, after that Duke Street, and we thou came opposite a small street which forms a very narrow and dirty thorough-far- o at the end which is newest Oxford Street. Hero the dog paused for a mo ment and appeared to hesitate as to what ho should do. He made a few steps fjr-war- d, then receded; but, finally, seemed to make up his mind and entered the street, still trotting. There was no one there. The dim drizzling rain, which had begun to fall again, the cold, and the fog had all scared away the habitual frequenters of one or two sordid cook-sho- ps that line both sides of the way. There --vas only a rag-and-bone-- man sorting broken bottles at Tils door and coughing wheezily from old age and misery. The dog went on. The street grows wider as one proceeds, and the houses also become better and cleaner. I asked myself whether the dog could possibly have his homo about here, and whether he would not suddenly dis-appear down an area, iu which case the romance of the thing would have been ended; and I should have had my walk for nothing. But no he turned abruptly off at a mews, and, after a few seconds of the same apparent hesitation as before, slack-ened his pace and stopped opposite apub-ll- o house. A mews is never empty. There are al-ways grooms loafing about in doorways, or stable-boy- s going in and out of wash-house- s. At the moment when the dog and I appeared, a coachman was harness-int- r two horses to a brougham, and a couple of men were helping him. Oppo-site, and exchanging remarks with them from the threshold of the public house, stood a servant in breeches smokingalong clay pipe ; the dog was standing still ; but all at once, before I hail had time to sus-pect what was going to happen, he rose up on his hind logs and commenced walk-ing gravely round in circles. , The man with the breeches and clay pipe uttered ;i cry of surprise. Tho two others and the coachman raised their heads, and, upon seeing this strange sight left their work and clustered up to look. A few more people attracted by the noise came and joined us. We s'oon formed a ring. J It seemed to please the dog to seo us all around him, for he gravely .wagged his tail once to and fro, and tried to put more spirit into his exercise. Ho walked live times round on his hinder legs, looking fixedly before .him like a soldier on duty, and doing his best, poor dog ! I could see that to make us laugh. For my part, seeing the others remain speechless hi their astonishment, I laughed aloud to en-courage him; but shall I say the .truth? I felt more ready to' 'cry. There was something inexpressibly sad in the seri-ous expression of this" lonely dog, per-forming by himself a fow tricks thatsomc absent master had taught himj and doing so of his 'own accord, with some .secret end in view that he himself could only know of. After taking a moment's rcs't he set to work again, but this time on his fore-fee- t, pretending to stand on his head. And what a poor, intelligent head it was, as almost shaving the ground, it looked appealingly at us all, and seemed to say : "Ploase do not play any pranks with me, for really I am not doing this for fun." When he had walked round on Ills head until he was weary, ho lay down in the midst of the ring and made believe to be dead. He went through all the convul-sions of a dying dog, breathing heavily, panting, suffering his lower law to fall, and then turning over motionless. And I he did this so well that a stout, honest- - I faced woman, who had been looking on without laughing, exclaimed, "Poor I I beast 1" and drew her hand across her eye." I ho rain continued to fall, but not one J ws thought of moving, only the dog, n!i i lmcl ain de'"1 a minute, got up anu Phonic himself, to show us all that tbo S,i 2-mi-meo ms ended. Ho had displav-flxtat,- of whilt e knew, and now lS? rcccive ' f. He Stood Zh nn nnnfli,md lps "Wto n. walking to ?, (,fVs,scPilratc,y. assumed the pos-X- w .it S Vopnaily known as "beg- ging." I was the first to whom he cam". He gazed at me inquiringly with his sofi eyes wide opened, and followed my banc) patiently to my waistcoat-pocket- , Th basket round his neck was a round one with a lid to It tied down with a string, and a little slit in tho lid through'which to put in mon y, I dropped in a shilling and stooped down to read a bit of crum-pled papi r I saw hanging loosely from the collar. It bore these words, written in a shaky hand : "This Is the dog of a poor man who is bed-strick- en ; he earns the bread of his master. Good people, do not keen him from returning to his home." The dog thanked me for my offering by wagging his tail, and then passed on to my neighbor. Human nature must be kinder than people think, for there was not one of the spectators not even he with the breeches and the clay pipe, whose face had impressed me unfavorably but gave the dog sometUng. As for him, when he had gone his round, he barked two or three times to say good-b- y, and then pattered contentedly away at the samejog-trotpacehoha- d come. He went up the street, and I followed him, but when he had reached Oxford Street he quickened suddenly, and began to run hard, as if his day was ended and he wanted to get home. Evening had quite fallen by this time, and I felt it would be useless to go after my four-legg- ed mystery on foot, so I called a cab, and, said: "Followthatdog," very much to the driver's amazement, It is a long way from Oxford Street, in which we were, to Tottenham Court Road, where the small dog led me. But I should have understood thejourney had it not been at such a furious pace. The dog never once looked round. Twenty times I thought he would be crushed by Eassing vans or carriages; but somehow e got through it. Ho had an extraordi-nary tact for" finding a passage between horses' hoofs, and like a true London dog as he was, he showed intimate familiarity with all the tnfrlcacles of crossings. Still, it was some relief to me, both on his own account and on mine, when I saw him branch off at last. I was beginning to fear that he wouldnever stop, and thathc had something of the Wandering Jew in him. It seemed impossible that, without taking any rest, without pausing for an instant to draw breath, such a very lean dog should keep on going so long. Tot-tenham Court Road (this was about eight-een months ago) used to be a sort of fair at night-tim- e. It Is a lengthy highway running amidst a tangled network of sor-ry streets, the population of which, from dusk until the hour when the public-hous- es close, used to spread hungry and idle amongst the countless booths which had then not yet been swept away, and where shell-fis- h, sour fruit, and indigest-ible looking meat were sold by yelling costermongers. On the night in question, when I went there in pursuit of the dog, I foresaw that I should bo led to one of those sickly nests of fever, where pover-ty, disease, and misery have their abodes set. up in permanence; and I was not' wrong. The dog, running fast-er than ever now, as if he felt more afraid for his basket amongst these raven-ous crowds than he had done at the West End, suddenly bolted up a narrow side street, where there was no room for a cab to pass. I paid tho driver, and jumped out. It was a filthy street but that was a secondary matter. Where tho dog went I would go ; and thus I dodged after him, first down a crooked alley, then through a foul court, and lastly up a passage whero it was pitch dark. Here I groped ray way along a damp wall, and stumbled upon the first step of a staircase. Being a smoker, however, I had some vesuvians about me. I struck one, lit a piece of twisted paper with it, and by the mo-ment's flame I thus obtained descried the dog making his way up a creaky flight of wooden steps, battered in places and rot-ting from mold. He barked when ho saw the light, and growled uneasily. But I softened my voice, and cried out, " Good dog I good dog !" trying thereby to ap-pease mm. I suppose his instinct told him that I was not an enemy, for he turned round to sniff my trousers, and ivhon T struck mv second vesuvism he consented to my following him without doing auvthing else but continue his snif-fing. We went up three stories in this way, until we readied the garret floor. There w re two doors face to face, and one of them had a latch with a piece of string tied to it. The string dangled with a loop at its end to within a few inches of the ground. The dog raised one of his forcpaws, pressed it on the loop, and by this means opened the door. We both walked in together. There was a rushlight burning in Hie neck of a ginger-bee- r uottle. There was an empty saucepan in the grate without the fite. Some tattered clothes were hanging on the back of a broken chair, and some bits of plaster, fallen from a cracked ceiling, wcro encumbering the floor. On the splintered deal table was a plate with a solitary bono on It, and next to it a cup with tho handle gone. I turned from the sight of, these things to a mattrass laid in a corner of the room. The light was rendered so flickering by the gusts of wind that swept through the winaow to which bits of newspaper had been pasted for want of glass that I could not at first distinguish very clearly whero I was, and what I saw. I could only hear the affectionate whinings of the dog, and vaguely see him leaping upon some one against whom he was rub-bing his head, and whose face he was licking with au exuberance of love. I heard a voice, too but a voice so husky and broken, that it resembled a whisper-rep- eat feebly, "Good dog good Jim!" and then I saw a hand untie the basket, and heard the sound of money poured out on the couch. ' Good Jim I good Jim I" went on the cracked voice : and it went on, counting, "One, two. Oh, good Jim I good Jim ! here's a shilling. One-anu-thr- ce pence, one-and-ni- ne pence, two shillings. Oh, good dog ! three and a penny, three and " But hero followed a terrified shriek. '" Who's that?" cried tho man, covering up the money with his sheet; and he looked at me livid and haggard with the ague of fever. "Don't be frightened," I said; "I am come to do you no harm. I am a friend. I have followed your dog home, and I de-sire to help you if you ore in need." He seemed to be a man of about fifty, for his hair was not nil gray ; but the ghastly hollowncss of his cheeks, the emaciated condition of his body, and, above all, the gleam of disease in his burn-ing eyes, made him older than a man of ninetv, for they told more plainly than words could have told that he already had one foot in the grave. " My tone and my appearance seemed to to reassure him; but he continued to hide lus money. "I am a poor man, sir," he gasped, "a very poor man. I have nothing but what my dog earns me, and that's noth-ing. He goes out to idle; and if he picks up a few pence" (here he had a lit of bee-tle coughing) "if he picks up a few pence, sir, It's all ho do pick up." I felt my heart ache, for I guessed the truth. "He's not an idle dog," I said. "Has he not earned you more than threo shil-lings to-day- ?" "Oh, no, sir no, sir; it's threepence," protested the miser, trembling. "Its threepence threepence, sir. Look and sec." And he h?ld up three copper coins from out of his covering. " You aie very 111, my man," I said, approaching his mattress. "You must let me send you a doctor." " Oh, sir! no, no ; I I've no money to give them. Let me nlono, please. I'm not ill ; I shall be well to-morro- w. It's nothing but a cold a a cold." His dog was continuing to lick his face. I remembered that the poor brute had not . eaten. "Your dog must be hungry," I oh-- ; seived; "shall Igivo him this bone? He has earned it well." i "Oh, Goill-- oh, God! Lot thht bone alone," faltered the unhappy wretch, try-ing to rise : " it's my supper for to-nig- ht. Jim doesn't want anytning; he picks up plenty in tho streets. Oh I oh I I shall starve if you give him th it bone." " I will buy you something to eat, I an-swered, taking up the bone, to which there was no particle of flesh left. " Here, Jim," said I,holdingitout. Butthedog, instead of accepting the bone, looked wistfully at his master to ask for leave. "No! no! Jim," panted the miser fear-fully ; and the dog turned away his head, refusing to be enticed. " How long have you been laid up like this?" was my next question, I was growing sick at heart. 'Ten weeks, sir oh, ton weeks," groaned the man who had caught the one out of my hand and thrust It under his pillow " ten weeks; and when I fell ill, the dog went out one morning and brought me back a penny in his mouth. Since then, I bought him a basket, and he goes out every day .... but he's he's idle sir he's idle; he brings mo nothing to what lie used to do when we went out together. Yes oh, yes he's an idle dog ! General News Summary. Personal and Political. The indications are that tho will last made by Mr. Greeley will be sot aside and the one made in 1871 sustained. TheVice-Presidetath- as concluded to em-ploy counsel in the Credit Mobilcr busi-ness. He still adheres to his original story that he never received $1)200 in dividends from Oakes Ames on account of his pur-chase of stock. ' Contrary to general expectation, Pome-ro-y was defeated for Senator from Kansas, on January 29. He went into joint session with OS votes, and came out without one. Just as the voting was about to commence, Senator York arose and made a speech which turned the whole tide against him. His friends deserted him in a body, and John J. Ingalls, the choice of tho anti-Pomcr- oy caucus, received 115 of 132 votes cast. The excitement during the ballot-ing was intense, and the final result was received with loud demonstrations of ap-proval. The new Senator is a man thirty-eig- ht years of age. and resides in Atchison. He is a native of Massachu-setts, a graduate of Williams' College, and has been in Kansas since 1S58. lie was a member of the Constitutional Con-vention of 1856, has strved in the State Senate, and had been twice a candidate for Lieutenant Governor, in politics, he is a Republican of the most radical type. Senator Pomeroy has been arrested on a charge of bribery, and held to bail for trial on Januai y 31. He denies the charge mado against him in every particular. JudgeWright has been again indicted for defrauding the Government in connection with Indian bounty matters. He was ar-rested a few days ago and held to bail in the sum of 510,000. The lobbyist Stew-art is now taking Ms meals in the base-ment of tho Capitol. His Fpeech to die Hoase, its length and weakness, effectu-ally destroyed any sympathy for him which might have otherwise existed for a less known and more picpossesslng recus-ant. The House, on January 31, by an al-most unanimous vote, relieved several prominent Southern gentlemen of disa-bilities, including, among them, Hon. Will. A. Graham, John Forsyth and D. C. De Jarnctt. Ex.Governor Joel A. Matteson, of Illi-nois, died at Springfield, on January 31. S. B. Conover (Republican) was elected U. S. Senator from Florida, on January 31, on the fifth ballot. The Tweed jury, being unable to agree, aro discharged. Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, has waived examination on tho charge of bribery and given bail in the sum of 20,-0- 00 for his appearance at tho June term of the court. The Senator has issued a card denying the charge and asking for a sus-pension of public judgment until the case is tried. There Is a great deal of innate, un-suspected delicacy in the hearts of the working poor. These rough and uncouth but kinuly natures, tended the graceless miser in his sickness. They brought h's food for him, they washed his linen, and they asked for no payment for what they did. As for the unhappy man's gold, it was at their mercy; but the thought of touching it never seemed to cross their minds. "Only," said one with a naive accent, "I think, sir, 'twill be better when he's laid in tho ground, nis money might bo good then to some as would make use of ft." "And the dog?" I murmured reflect-ively. "The dog's his friend, sir," was tho neighbor's answer, "and he won't live long when his master's gone." And these words were prophecy. I sent for a doctor, for a nurse, and for nourish-ing food, to battle against death ; but our efforts were useless. The miser lived a week, and upon each of the seven days the dog went out according to Ms habit, with his basket round his neck, and re-mained out for ten or twelve houis, till dusk. Sometimes I followed him from morning till evening; seeing which, and remembering my face a that which stood daily by his master's bedside, he wagged his tall at my approach, and consented to walk at my heels. One night the miser died, and on the morrow Jim did not go out. He had missed Iris master the night before, and guessed that they had put him In the long black box that stood in the middle of the room. When the men came to carry away this long black box, the dog went after them, and cried. He followed the coffin to the cemetery, where he and I were tho only spectators besides the curate, the sexton, and the un-dertaker's men. When the earth was thrown in, ho looked at me plaintively to know what it meant, and when the burial was over, he wished to remain near the open tomb, waiting till his master should rise. I took him home with me, but he would not cat, and next morning at sun-rise he howled for his basket. It was no use keeping him, so I tied the basket round his neck, and sent him out. That evening, foreseeing what would happen, I went to the cemetery. Tho do" arrived at nightfall, with his basket full of pence, and turned them all out upon the grave. "Come home, Jim," I said, with tho tears rising to my eyes ; but ho whined mournfully, and tried to scratch up the earth. Twice more he went out like this all day, and brought back money for h's master; but ou the third evening, finding that the pence on the grave re-mained untouched, he suffered me, with-out rcs'stancc, to take off his collar, and lay down at his full kngth near the mi-ser's last sleeping-plac- e. The next morning he did not co on his rounds, for ho was dead lCornhill Maga-zine. Macaroni-Makin- g. You would never guess how macaroni is made if you had not seen it. You imag-ine, no doubt, that they make it like pipes, roll it on wires, or spin it out like glass. If you are iu Naples, and you arc quite sure you don't care very, very much for macaroni, you had better go and clear up the mystery. The moment you have passed the Ponte della Maddalena you see on cither side of you trestles in front of the shops, supporting canes which are covered with a double fringe, long and yellowish. This Is macaroni hanging in the sun to dry. The flics know it very well and dot it in thousands, and the little boys know it very well and crawl under the fringe, and just clip the ends and pick up stray morsels that may drop. I saw it hanging just so while the ashes from Vesuvius were still blowing about Porticl. Nothing seems to harm it, nei-ther boys, nor dust, nor flies ; they add to the flavor. Now, how do you think it is made? Just peep beyond the trestles there into the shop. "Why, by Jove, they aro all naked." No, not quite. "What aro those three fellows doing, jumping up and down as if they wcro on a see-saw-?" Kneading the macaroni paste. A friend of mine says he has seen them kneading it as they aro doing now, but without the beam. "And thathorri-bl- e old Spagnoletto in the bin?" Ho is performing the first operation to tho paste treading it. "And this troop of maniacs in front, rushing madly back-ward and forward at the end of this pole, threatening to capsize us every minute ?" Why, dont you see, they are turning tho screw of the press, and below there out comes the macaroni ; while the boy in the hole fans It directly as it is presented to the world. Then he nips it offwhen it has dropped u certain length and hands it to a lad who spieads it on the canes, and then the sun, the dust, the flics, and the boys. If you wish to know any more take away this importunate foreman who keeps jogging my elbow while I draw, anil insisting on taking me to look at ev-ery detail, while I only want to sketch the whole scene at a distance. He will show you the yellow corn, He will tell you it comes from the country near Brlndisl, He will make tho wrinkled Spagnoletto put water hot water, mind on the flour, and tread it under your nose. He will bring you the bra's molds at the foot of the press, through which the paste is forced, and fit bits of macaroni into the holes. Ho will not, perhaps, know that these molds are made in",England. By-the-b- y, do you observe how the master, play-ing cards yonder in a corner, keeps look-ing at us a little suspiciously? He half thinks we are learning the secret of macaroni-- making, to take it to America, and set up a rival manufactory. Never fear : In America we have not got the Neapoli-tan water, and that is no great loss. Above Castellamarc, they say tho beBt macaroni is made, but I don't know on what the excellence depends. "Macaroni is only flour and water." That's all. It can't be the substance, then, that delights theNeapolltans; it must be the form. There must he somethmg in the long, snaky strings which tickles the Neapolitan throat and palate. An omissive missive in an evening co-tempor- ary is made to read that, " --the small-po- x in Washington is becoming in type and more tractable." Prom what we've seen of the Washington stylo of beauty wo can understand that small-po- x may bo rather "becoming in type" than otherwise. . V Tnn "elder clause" is what is troubling ' the Maine prohibitionists. Politicians arc obliged to take one side 'r t'other. " , Kansas, is getting up (in onti-tobtc-co ) colOHYi Crimes and Casualties! Hon. B. W. Norris, ex-memb- er of the Forty-fli- st Congress, from Alabama, is dead. On January 27, Mr. Lynch and Govern-or Warmoth testified In relation to the ir-regularities In Louisiana. The latter's statement is said to bo damaging to the fusion board, and the former's statement equally damaging to tho Kellogg board. It now looks as if the bottom would be knocked out of everything relating to the Louisiana election. The counsel for Stokes have presented their bill of exceptions . The grounds on which they claim the right of a new trial are that ono of the jurors during the trial visited the Grand Central and examined the stairs to convince himself as to the possibility of Stokes avoiding Flsk if he so desired; that another juror visited a pistol establishment to test the truthful-ness and falsity of certain witnesses ; that Justice Boardman during tho trial left the court room, and that the prisoner did the same during the examination of an im-portant witness; alo that five of the ju-rors were hostile toward tho prisoner. After a short argument Judge Davis granted an order to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and made It returnable before Justice Boardman on Friday morning. The splendid residence in Springfield, 111., known as the Governor Matteson mansion, was burned on tho evening of January 28. Loss $50,000. The National Theater, at Washington, D. C, was burned on the morning of Jan-uary 28. Loss $100,000. Captain Jack, the leader of the Modocs, attacked Colonel Bernard's camp, at the lower end of Tule Lake, a day or two since, ne was repulse J. The troops suf-fei- cd no loss. Another range explosion occurred in St. Louis, Mo., on the morning of Janu-ary 29, causing damages estimated at $2,-00- 0. The accident occurred in Bonnet's restaurant, on Fourth Street, between Pine and Chestnut. Thompson's Crescent City Sugar Re-finery, at New Orleans, was burned on Jan 30. Loss $200,000. An explosion of a gas main in the re-pair shops of the Manchester Print Works, at Manchester, N. H., occurred on the morning of January 30. Six persons were seriously injured. The trial of Mrs. Boycc, at Chicago, for the murder of Calvert H. Johnson, was concluded, on February 1, by a verdict of Involuntary homlcideand fixing the punishment at five years in the Peni-tentiary. Thrcemen working in agravel pit.about twelve miles north of Chicago, 111., were killed, on February 1, by the caving in of the banks. Mrs. A. Schumann and a man named Dr. J. P. Welder, who has been boafding with hor, were arrested on February 1, at Peoria, HI., charged with poisoning the husband and son of the former. The warehouse of Wood Bros., No. 710 Broadway, New York, was burned on the morning of February 1. Loss $400,000. The dwelling house of Mr. Henry Catrnes, near Jefferson, Iowa, was burned on February 1. Mr. Cairnes, two children, and his brother perished in the flames. A Lowell, Mass., dispatch, says that ' several female employes of tho Mcrrimac street dollar store, have been made very sick from eating cake given them by ti young woman recently discharged from the store. The cake was found to be arscnicated. The Pacific Flouring Mills, at Omaha, were burned on February 2. Loss $20,000. The mill and forge buildings of tin Lako Brie Iron Company's rolling mills at Cleveland, Ohio, wore completely de stroyed by fire, at noon, on Fcbtuary 2. Loss very heavy. A man named Alfred O. Love, residing at Boston, Mas3., shot his little daughter and then killed himself. Domestic trou-ble was the cause of the tragedy. A party of Chinamen at Carson, Ne-vada, fought with knives and pistols, on February 2, on account of a woman. Three wcro killed and a largo number wounded. Domestic Intelligence. Gold, in New York, closed, Feb. 1, atll3T. A heavy seizure of smuggled goods has been made in New York, consisting of $50,000 worth of Alexander kid gloves. The cases were consigned to Pings & Pinner. The House Committee on Banking will prepare a bill embracing the following provisions : tho redemption of treasury notes in coin after May 11, 1874 ; authori-zing the Secretary of the Treasury to is-sue bonds bearing not over six per cent interest, and exchange for coin; and third, free banking under the National Currency act, after July 1, 1873. Prominent citizens of Oregon and Cal-ifornia ore in Washington urging a com-promise with the Modoc Indians, and that Capt. Jack's band be allowed a small res-ervation for which they are now fighting. The House Committee on Judiciary has agreed to report a bill fixing salaries as follows : President, $30,000 ; Vice Presi-dent, Speaker of the House and Justices of the Supreme Court, $10,000 each; Chief Justice of the Supremo Court, $10,-50-0 ; Senators and Representatives, $8,000 each. By this bill tho mileage system is abolished, and only actual traveling ex-penses to and from the Capital allowed. The increase of pay of members is to date from March 4, 1874, and that of executive and judicial officers from March 4, 1873. The Attorney General has decided that suits brought against importers to recov-er duties on goods paid to Confederate of-ficials be discontinued. That officer takes the ground that tho Confederate Govern-ment was a de Jado government at the time, and that as importers were unable to resist its demands, it would be unjust for the United States to require a second payment. The Board of Police of tho city of Chi-cago has deposed Superintendent of Po-lice Washburn. They charge neglect of duty, Incompetency and disobedience of the rules and regulations of the board, and have appointed as acting Superintendent, the S3cretary of tho Board. Washburn refuses to recognise tho authority of the acting Superintendent. The Mayor has increased tho complication by removing two of the Commissioners, but they re-fuse to give up the positions they hold, alleging the want of authority on the part of tho Mayor to remove them. The repeal of the franking privilege will result in amaterialieduction of the allow-ance for public printing, accoiding to a Washington dispatch. A New York dispatch says the reports of diseased sheep being sent to that mar-ket arc greatly exaggerated. A movement is on foot to send Elijah Steele, a prominent citizen of Yreka, with other citizens, to the Modoc camp, to treat for peace. Gen. Gillcn announces his de-termination to attack the Modocs as soon as reinforcements arrive. The poiico imbroglio, at Chicago, con-tinues. A bill will bo introduced in the ' Illinois Legislature, to abolish th board of Police Commissioners of that city. The present prospect is that the entire police force will be reorganized by the mayor. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided upon giving producers of leaf tobacco tho right to sell their pro-- ; ducts without talcing out dealers' or man-ufacturers' license.- - The Government will send a Peace Commissioner to the Modoc Indians, charged with ample power to hear and adjust all differences. The President has approved the act abolishing tho franking privilege. The Attorney-Gener- al has received a dispatch, from Foit Clark, Texas, an-nouncing the arrest of raiders on Mexican Territory. The only new developments in the Chi-cago Poiico War, are the deposition of two of the recalcitrant police captains, and the appointment of two sergeants in their places. The following is the comparative cot-ton statement lor the week ending Janu-ary 31: Bales Receipts nt all ports for the week 115,71,1 Samctimo Inst year !3,0'i7 For the year 2,3((i,C!)t Last year 1,911,502 Exports for tho week 80,531 Snraetime last year 39,372 For the jcar 1,101,41(1 Last year. ., 1,021,13'i Stock at nil U.S. ports 571,1)72 Last year 510,912 At mtciior towns )l , hg Last year ,. 90,01.) At Liveipool :.. 454,000 Lastycnr 4C),i 00 Afloat for Gi cat Britain 285,000 Lastyear 2)1,000 The following Is the public debt state-ment for the month ending Jan. 31 : Six per cent bonds 81,311,448,700 Five percent bonds 414,5i7,30O Total com bonds $1,750,010,(100 Lawful money debt 10,003,000 Matured debt d,5AJ,420 Legal tender notes 351,008,138 Certificates of deposit 28,93 1, 000 Fi actional currency,, 40,057,091 Coinceitillcatcs 24,210,600 Total without interest $ 457,307, ii32 Total debt 2,223,494,753 Total inteicst 27,448,8SO Cash m treasury coin 02,,112,604 Cuncncy 7,007,4.1 Special deposit held for icdemption of cei tillcates of deposit as provid-ed by law 23,935,000 Total in Treasury $ 08,285,053 Debt less cash in treasury 2,l(i2,0J8,5M Incicase dm ing month 400,213 Bonds issued to Paciilo 11. R. Cos. , Intel est payable in lawful money, principal outstanding 64,023,513 Intel est accumulated and not jet paid 323,117 Interest paid by United States 8,500,280 Interest repaid by transportation, mails, etc............. 4,118,432 Bolanco interest paidbyU. S 14,300,848 The Secretary of the Treasury has ad-dressed a letter to the heads of depart-ments, asking what appropriations are necessary to meet the postage of official business, on account of the abolition of the franking privilege. Mews from Abroad. A Rome, Italy, dispatch, of January i 26, says, a decree has been promulgated ' whereby tlio State formally takes posses-- i bion of sixteen convents in Rome, i The yellow fever is raging at Rio Ja--: nciro. Prince Napoleon disavows all responsi--, bility for the recent newspaper announce- -, ment of his views in regard to the future policy of tho Bonaparte family. 3 A special from London announces the , tn rival ofSir Bartle Frerc at Zanzibar. :-- A Constantinople dispatch, says an cmeute of an alarming character occurred on January 30, near ltustchuk, a fortified city in Bulgaria, Hfly-iW- e miles cast of Nl-copol-is, In which thirteen Bulgarians and ten Greeks weie killed. The cause of tho disturbance has not transpired. Durhi" tho riot the streets were crowded with the furious populace, and the authorities found it necessary to intervene. Guns and pistols were freely used, and besides tho killed, a number are reported wound-ed. Order was finally restored, and sev-eral leading rioters arrested. It Is reported that the American bank-ers of London loaned Napoleon 2,000,-00- 0, to facilitate a coup he was Intending, and that since his death the money has been returned to them. Daniel Redding, convicted and impris-oned for participating in the Fenian riots at Manchester, in 18C7, and who has just been released from custody, has prose-cuted his prison doctors for gross cruelty, which ho alleges were practiced upon him. Redding has made affidavit in sup-port of his complaint, in which he charges that while he was suffering fiom a par-alytic stroke, the doctors pricked his flesh with hot needles, and also burned him with a hot iron. The Queen of Spain, on January 30, gave birth to a son. The building occupied by the Bank of British North America, at Renfrew, Can-ada, was burned on the morning of Jan-uary 31. Three persons were burned to death. A spinning mill in Glasgow, Scotland, employing 400 hands, was burned, on the morning of Jan. 31. A London dispatch, of January 31, says that it has been ascertained that it was the steamer Mnrillo which ran into and sunk the Northfleet. She did not sink as many supposed, but has arrived at Cadiz in safety. Her destination was Lisbon, for which port she had a cargo, but upon entering that harbor, she was signalized not to land, as there is an extradition treaty between Portugal and Gicat Brit-ain. The Orleans Railway Company of Franco has been notified that railway communication with Spain has been inter-rupted, on account of the Carlist insur-rection in the latter country. The library of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, England, was burned on February 1. Less 230,000. Latest dispatches from Spain, would seem to indicate that the Cariists are gain-ing ground. Communication between France and Spain is altogether suspended except by water. Thero has been au attempt to create an Insurrection In Hayti, for the purpose of preventing an election for President. The demonstration was soon suppressed, and sixty of the Insurgents being arrested and five executed. Disturbances are apprehended in the district surrounding Prague, in Bohemia, aud troops have been sent thither. The Sultan has decided to attend the Vienna Exposition. The engineers and stokers on all Portu-gese railways arc ona strike, and the run-ning of freight trains is suspended. The first snow storm of the season oc-curred on February 1, at London, Eng-land. A London dispatch, of February 2, says that the snow storm which visited the British Isles on the preceding nijrht. de veloped into a storm of remarkable sever-ity. The snow was six inches deep in London and in some sections of tho island It was over three feet deep. Many wrecks have already been reported and there has been a fearful loss of lives, especially off Torquay. The steamer Clan Alpine went ashoro on Black Head and became a total loss. It is feared that all on board per-ished. The ship Sarah was wrecked on tho Irish coast near Bailey ganon, and fourteen of her crew drowned. An acci-dent occurred.'on February 2, at Stafford, on the London and Northwestern Rail-way, by which several persons were killed. The journeymen house painters of Ber-lin have struck for higher wages. It is thought the strike will become general. Congressional Proceedings. In the Senate, on January 27, the Com-mittee on 1'ubllo Buddings and Grounds were in-structed to inqune into the expediency of using the executive mansion foi other pinnoica. and of providing another residence for tho President. . . . The bill requiring National Banks to restore their capital when impaiied, and to amend the Nation-al Currency act was passed . . The Legislative appropriation bill was taken up and debated, anil, ntthc expiration of the morning hour, laid over... Uemonitranccs weio picsentedfrom the Boston board of tradn and the Boston boot and shoe dealers against the repeal of the Bankrupt act The bill to refund differential duties on ar-ticles actually on shipboard in licnch vessels destined for the United States, on November 5, 1872, was passed. . . .Bills were introduced as fol-lows: directing the Postmaster-Gener- al to con-tract with the Mcditenancan la Oriental Steam-ship Company lor caiiymg mails to European poits, and to indorse the bonds of said company to the amount of $3,000,000; making loads now In use on any Indian or military reservation, publlohlghwnjs . Mr. Stewai t, of Novada, of-lev- ed a resolution dliccting the Committee on l'a-cillcRalho- ads to inquire into the condition of accounts between the seeial P.icillc loads and the United States, growlngout ot the provisions of the act of 1872, leniin ing that after the comple-tion of the roads, live per cent, of their net earn-ings shall be annually applied to the payment of the bonds and interest until they are paid. Mr. Edmunds offered an amendment, piovidingthat payment for freight anil transportation ocrsuch roads be withhold until the payment of such In-tcic- at, and authouzlmr the biinging of n suit by such load to recover for such fi eight and trans-portation. This amendment prevaded by yeas 19i nays 1. .. .The Senate then adjourned. In the House,on January 27, a resolution was adopted instructing the Committee on Appro-priations to negotiate for the puichnso of Carpen-ter's painting of the signing of the Emancipation I'loclamatlon. . Aicsolution instructing the Ju-diciary Committee to levise the salaries of U. S. Clrcuitand Dlstiict.Tudgcs,was adopted Abs-olution was adopted instructing the same Com-mittee to examine into the pay and emolument of the several oOicers oftheExecutive, Judlcinland Legislative departments, and repoi t a bill for the proper gradation of the pay of such oOicers. . . . The following bills and memorials were Intro-duced and appropriately referred : Limiting the number of midshipmen at the naval academy! prohibiting the publication or importation of ob-scene books or books of comiual cboractcr: to repeal the act appointing shipping commlssion-ci- si A memorial of theXeglsfn hire of Virginia protesting against the lcpeal of the bankrupt uct; memorlafoftho Legislature of North Carolina iu relation to pensions to soldiers of 1812: repeal-ing the law Imposing a tax on dealers In leof to-bacco; t authoii the Secretary ol War to pro-vide ortdlclol eves for ofllceis or soldiers who have lost one or both eyes in theseivice; to ad-just the rank and pay of officers In the retired list ot the army; to refund the tax on raw cotton; tor the relief of tne widow of Humphrey Mar-shall; to completefbc Washington national mon-ument; a joint resolution of the Legislature of West Virginia, in l elation to the sale of filter privileges at Harper's Ferry; Joint resolutions in favor of the James liver und Kanawha ca-nal; Memorial of the colleges of the United States asking; the return of tho Japanese In-demnity lunrt to the government of Japan. . . .On motion ol Mr Chlpnum a Committee ol ihhtcon was nuthou.cd lo confer with the na-tional Monument Association, to Inqiiho " "" Monument can bo finished by July 1870 . lhe Ways and Means Commiltce w.is diiectcd, on motion of Mr. Niblack, to inqune Into the expe-diency of repealing nil laws allowing compen-sation to inlormers . The bill abolishing uu. franking privilege, amended bv the Senate so as to go into operation Julyl, 187.1, W' l"'''''.! the ninendmant concuiird In, and thcl'M, t"" F" by yeas 113; miB IS Mr. bargent introduce.! a bill repealing all laws utithoi iing the 1 nt i g public documents tor dhtiibution byi emu(.rs of Congress, and moed to hti-pe- nil tlioHi ' I "i I pass itflost; vs (17; nays OHnot tWO-tlllu- tS no-ting yei. , . .Adjourned. In the Senate, on January 2S, Vice Presi-dent Colfax asked the appointment of a commit-tee of senators to investigate into bis connection with the Credit Mobilicr. Mr. 1'ratt moivdthat such a committee, to consist of five persons, be ap-pointed Mr. Thurmun of Ohio opposed the mo-lio- n and It was lost, Mr. Pratt alone voting je.i. . . . 'lhe Secietiny of the Tieasury, was, bj reso-lution, diiectcd to inform thoSenate as to the ag-gieg- ato amount ofmoney derived fiom lincb.com-p- i onuses una seizures, p.ud since Juno 1, lto'l, to officers, detectives and informers, nnd the nmount lcceivcd by each A bill was intro-duced to pay Dr. Mary L. (Volker for sen ices in the nimy,...ThclIoti5eomendnioutto the Yieniu Uxposition bill, was concurred In.... The bill to pay Japan for gioiind occupied by the United States for Hospital purposes in that empire, was passed ...The legislative Appropriation bill was then taken up and discussed.. .On motion of Mr. , Conkling, the Secretary of the Senate was di-rected to cause a statement to be prepared, showing the action of the Senate nnd House of Representatives iu examining and counting the electoral votes for rresidcnt nnd Vice President from 1780 down....Mr. Buckingham iormilly announced the death of Hon. J.I,. Stiong, late repiescntative from Connecticut, and he and Mr. Feny eulogized the deceased. The oidin.iry i evolutions were adopted mid the Sciute ad-journed In the House, on January 28, the Senate amendments to the Indian appropriation bill w ere disposed or A Committee of Conference was ordered mi tbe disagreeing votes The bill for the admission of Coloindo was taken up and discussed .The death, of J. L. Strong, late Representative from Connecticut, was an-nounced, and the appropriate eulogies delivered, nftervvliich the House adjourned. In the Senate, on January 29, the Secre-tary of War was instructed to inquiic into the expediency or enlisting a company of Indian scouts, to serve aqomst the Modocs in Oregon . The Commitke on Mihtaiy A flail s repoi ted abill E? l!.?,Y.irt(; '9r thu I'rescn ntlon ond cai e of lhe U. S Mllitiij Cemetery noar the City ot Mexico The Committee on Mines and Mining repoiled.i bill to amend the net to promote tiro mining it-sour- ces of the United States ...The LtgiMativc Appiopilation bill w.is taken up under the older ot uiillnished business, and discumd by Mc-sr- s. Kdmunds, Sawyer, Windom, Kobeits, Wright, Morrill, of Maine, Conkling and others, and then laid over under the rule Mr. Logan, of Committee on Military aAairs, reported a bill imlhoriing Uie President to designate a botrd ol tlncc ordnance oiliceis to examine nnd lcport the most suitable sites lor the location of a hu gc in -- senal, a l.irgc construction und lcpau depot, a powdei depot, and grounds for heav y oi dnante .... Alter the transaction of business of no sncoial importance, the Senate went into executive ses-sion, and, soon alter, adjourned In the House, on January 29, the b 11 for the admission of Coloi ado, us a State, wab discussed, nnd after an animated debate, laid on the table, byyeas, 117; nays 01. . . .The Committee on the Ploi Ida Contested Election case reported that Mr. Niblack, the contestant. Is entitled to the scat. The report was agreed to, and Mi . Niblack sworn in .. .Mr. Wilson, the chnirmau of the Select Committee on the Union Pncillc ltailroadand Cicdit Mobilicr Investigation, le-p- oi ted that one of tho w itncsses called by the CoinmittLe, Joseph 1$. btewart, had refusidto answer certain questions as to the disposition ot n huge amount ol bonds given him in Ibtil and 1S05, on the ground of piivilego. The Committee moved for an older that the Speaker issue his vvaii.mt to the Scigcmt-at-arm- s to tike said Stewart into custody. Mr. Bingham moved to amend, by hav ing Mr. Stevvait brought biloic tho House to show cause why he should not be committed for contempt. After discussion, the amendment pieviuled byycasl27j naysOO. lhe resolution as nincndcd was adopted, and the House adjourned. In the Senate, on January 30, Mr. West was appointed to succeed Mr. Kellogg on flic Committee on Levees. .. .The Naval Appropria-tion bill was reported by Mr. Cole, of the Com-mittee on Naval Afl.iiis, with sundry amend-ments . The bill lor tho relief or persons to whom the Tcnitorial governments liavc sold lands which vvtic aftci wards sold by the United States, was taken up, discussed and recommitted ... .A bill v as intiodiiccd Incorporating the Mis-sissippi and Ohio Tunnel and Tube company, with slO.000,000 capital, to construct tunnels un-d- ci tho two 1 iv ers lor the use of railroads . . .1 he bill, exempting the mineial lands in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota from the opeiation ot the Mining act, passed....The consideration of the Lcgislatlv e Appropriation bill was resumed, and, alter debate and amendment, the bill passed. . . . .The Senate adjourned. In the House, on January 39, a resolut-ion was adopted asking information from the Comptiollcr of the Currency regavdingthc depos-its in tho Farmei s' and Merchants' National bank of Washington nnd the Ocean National bank ot Now York, of Paoiilo ltnilroad Bonds by Joseph I!. Stewart . A lingo number of pension bills vveie passed . Mr. Willardol the Committee on Pensions, reported a bill directing lcstorjtion to the pension lolls of tho names ofBiich pensioner of thewarofl812 as vveie struck from the rolls underthenctofFebruary, 1802, on accouiitofh.iv-In- g aided or encouraged the lebcllion, the pm-bio- ns to be paid from the passage of this net ; also n bill entitling such persons to the benefit of the act of February, 1872, granting pensions to the survivors of the war of 1812. Mr. Maynard moved to amend by providing for the payment of aircars to those who furnish proofe of loyally dining the rebellion. After a long discussion, the biU passed without Mr. Maynnid'b amend-ment ...Atl-30- , Joseph B. Stewart, the lccus'uit witness, wlio refused to testify before tbe Ciedit Mobilicr Kommittee, was presented nt the bai ot i the House by the Scrgennt-at-Arm- s, In rcplj to a question by the Speaker, whether he w is 1 eady to answer all pioper inquiries of the Committee, Mi. Stew art spoke for nn hour, denying that he ' was in contempt, and pleading his privilege ns a lawyer. Mr. Dawes movtd the follow -- ing lesolution which vi as adopted with but a sin-gle dissenting voice: Resolved, lint Joseph II. Stcwnit having been heard by the nouse, pursu-ant to an order heretofore made requiring him to show cause why he should not answer the ques-tions propound! d to him by the Committees, has tilled to show sufficient cause why lie should not answer the same; and that said Stew a t be con-sideie- dm contempt of the House for fiiilinetii nuke nnsvveis thereto. Mr. Wilson offeiednn additional resolution providing for the letcntion of Stewart in custody until he shall have appear-ed before the Committee and answered all pioper questions. Mr. Saigent otlered a substitute that Stewnit be committed to the District J nil, and kept there until the close of this Congiess, unless sooner discharged by older of this House. This substitute was rejected bv jeas JO; nays 110. The resolution offered by Mr. Wilson was then adopted und Stcwiut, on reiterating hisrefusil to disclose anything confided to him as counsel, was removed from the hall in the custody of the Sergcnnt-at-Ar- ms ...The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the I'ortiliention bill. The bill anpropnntcs 8399,000. The Com-mittee rose, the bill was passed, nnd the House adjourned. In the Senate, on January 31, a joint leaolution was offered foraconstilutionnl amend-ment electing Scnntois by a popular vote .. The Webb Australian steamship subsidy bill was taken up and discussed Pending action, the Senate adjourned until February 3, In the House, on January 31, the entire session was devoted to tho consldeiation of pu-va- te bills of no public importance Adjoin nod. In the House, on February 1, bills were passed as follows: to secure a more efficient ad-ministration of Indian Affairs; appropriating out of the Japanese Indemnity Fund, $123,000, for distribution among the ofheers and crew ol the Wyoming and Takldugon, as a bounty for the destruction of piratical vessels atSimoncski, Japan The sub-committ- ee of the Select Com-mittee on the Union Paciilo ISttlU'oad and Credit Mobilici, weie authoiued to take testimony in Philadelphia, New York und Boston Aftei disposing of several private bills the House nd-Jonrn- ed. . THE MARKETS. NEW YOEK, Feb. 3, 1873. BEEP CATTLE J-J- O 13.!.0 HOG3-L- Ive .W 5.12 Dressed R.5H G75 SHEEP Live 6V5 S.OO COTTON-MldiU- lng 21X 21S FLOUR Good lo Choice S.i'O 8.f0 WHEAT-Spnng- No 2 1,6,1 1.70 CORN WesterniMixcd o H w OATS Western, New 61 , RYE-Wes- tern ,,S" PORK-M- css, New 1U)iUl2 LARD s 8i CHICAGO. 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