Rolla Express Newspaper 1873-02-08

              BflsceUaneons Selections.
A VISION OF ST. ELIGIVS.
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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.
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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
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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.
.
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