The Noble County Republican. (Caldwell, Ohio), 1883-03-08

              THE ItEPUBMCAX. ADVERTISING RATES. One column one year .$100 00 One-half column one year . : '. 60 00 One-fourth column one year 25 00 One-eighth column one year 13 08 Road Notices, $3.08 ; Attachment Notices, $2L50; Lccal advertising at the rate prescribed by law. Local advertisimg ten cents per line for every publication. Obituary Resolutions from Orders and Societies, -when they exceed six lines, five cents par line for each additional line of eight words money to accompany the resolutions. EVE 11 Y THURSDAY, 10; JUJJL OALBWICLL, NOBLE CO., OHIO. TERMS: $1.60 per yoarjn advance. Address til letter, to W. H. OOOLKY, UaldwcU. Kobl Co..O. VOL. XXIV. CALDWELL, O., THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1883. NO. 32. NOBLE CO ATTV BLICAN. 1 JL JL DS. HOLMES TO EI8 JUDICIAL '" i , "" - 80JT. " liver Wendell Holmes, whose son has been appointed to the Supreme Bench of Massachusetts, read a poem, with reference to that event, at the recent banquet of the Boston Bar Association, from which we take the following Stan .sis: "His Honor's" father yet remains His proud paternal posture tirm in; But, while his rights he still maintains To wield the household rod aud reins, . -e bows before the filial ermine. What curious tales has life In store. With all its must-bes and its may-bes! The sage of eighty years or more Once crept a nursling on the floor. Kings, conquerors, judges, all were babies. The fearless soldier, who has faced The serried bayonets' gleam appalling, For nothing save a pin misplaced The peaceful nursery has disgraced ' With hours of unheroio bawling. The mighty monarch, whose renown v Fills up t he stately page historic, , Has howled to w .ken half the town. And finished off by gulping down His oastor oil or paregoric. The Justice, who, in gown and cap. Condemns a wretch to strangulation. Has thrashed his nurse and spilled his pap. And sprawled across his mother's lap. For wholesome law's administration. Ah, life has many a reef to shun Before in port we drop our anchor. But when its course is nobly run Look aft! for there the work was done Life owes its headway tothe spanker. - The whirligig of time goes round, t And changes all things but affection; One blessed comfort ma be found In Heaven's broad statute, whirh has bound Each household to its head's protection. If e'er aggrieved, attttckod, accused, A sire may claim a son's devotion To shield his innocence abused, - As old Anchises freely used His offspring's legs for locomotion. You smile. You did not come to weep. Nor I my weakuess to lie showing. And these gay stanzas, slight and cheap, Have served their simple use, to keep A father's eyes from overflowing. HOW I BECAME A FARMER. It was getting dark. But through tlio bushes, along the muddy road 1 could see a house ahead, and 1 limped toward it, though 1 had little hope that the people there would receive me. Ah! how discouraged, hungry and " footsore I was that night! Every step was torttr'e. If 1 had had my choice to live or iiie, I honestly think I would have preferred the laltrr. . x , - It was alow, small, one-story house, -yrreather-beaten and dilapidated. Two of the front windows were boarded up, and the other two had half the glass panes broken out. OIT to the left was a still more dilapidated barn, the great doors of which were propped up. Not only the yard fence, but all the fences in sight, were shattered and falling down. The place, I saw .at a second glance, was uninhabited, and from the forest of tali dry thistles before the house door, I judged that it had not been occupied for a long time. At least, I thought, I shall not be denied a night's lodging here. There was a fireplace in the rear of the room, and after shouting to make sure that no one was about to object, I built a prodigious fire, and going to the barn, fetched in armfuls of old straw there and made a bed for myself. I was hungry, yet still more tired, and v after a time 1 fell asleep. WHERE I CAME FROM. In the spring of 1874, I was as homeless and houseless as anybody in Boston. I was nineteen. My mother was dead, and my father, a crippled sailor, was an inmate of a charitable institution. The previous summer I had driven an ice-cart, and had saved enough to carry me partly through the winter. But I could not get another job. If there is , anything ia. this whole world which will try one' s soul, it is to hunt a job "week after week and month after month, and be met always by that ;, one., cold "reply,' "Not wanted." By February my money was all spent. Up to that time I had not the least idea of leaving the city and trying the country, for I knew nothing of it. But I . knew a brakeman named Leavett, on the Boston & Maine Railroad, who had an uncle living in the town of B , up in New Hampshire. This uncle, Leavett said, wanted a hand on his-farm, and he thought I could get the place He gave me a line to him, and got me a free ride on the night freight ' with him to Exeter. From Exeter Pwalked toB , but when 1 arrived the place was filled. Hardly knowing what to do, I went on inquiring for work, an(. had been wandering two days when I came to the (-8ld deserted house. Here I stayed during the night. My waking was not very cheery the next morning. I was wretchedly cold, and if I had been faint and hungry the night before,. I was hungrier now. The weather, too, had turned foggy and wet. Drearily and not without some pain, I got up and looked about the inside of the old house. The bare, smoked and ! unplastered rooms were the picture of desolation. No wonder, I thought, that the previous inhabitants had abandoned the place. Though there wa3 little in-duccmentto tarry longer, there was still less to go on, seeking work where no one wanted to hire; and for the first time the idea of staying here entered my -mind. This was what I thought: Here is a house and here is a f ar.ni. ; They are deserted. If "nobody else Wants them. " why cannot I have them" and make a home of them? MY FIRST JOB IX THE COUNTRY. But whether I lived here, or not,' I wanted something to eat, and I set oft along the road to a farm-house, painted red. . As I drew neajva,clatti;i:,ofork3; . and spoons assured me that the folks were at breakfast. The outer door was ajar. I stepped up and tapped at it. "Come in," some one called out. I entered and said, "Good morning!'.' but no one responded. "Do you wish to hire any help?" I asked,, addressing myself to the man of the house. "Be you the chap that had a fire in the old house down below here last night?" the man inquired. "Yes." I said. "Do you know who owns it?" "That's hard telling, ' he answered. "Rnfe Bartlett lived there last. But old man Smith to Boston had a mortgage of .it; and I guess the mortgage has got it by this time." "Do you think this Mr. Smith would care if I were to stop there awhile?" "Can't say," replied the man. I sat. awhile and then asked them whether they would not sell me a peck ' of potatoes, or four quarts of corn meal, and let me work in payment. "I will work all day for either one," I offered "and will try to do a good day's work." But neither the man nor woman answered, ' I sat ten minutes, perhaps, feeling anything but comfortable, and then bade them good-morning and went out. While I stood hesitating in. the road, a boy came out into ?the yard. "The old man sez you can go to sawing this 'ere pile of wood!" he called to me. The next night I was the owner of a peck of potatoes, and the day after I went to several of the neighboring farmhouses, obtaining from a man named Faweett a job to pick up two acres of stones on a new clover piece. For this I received four dollars in potatoes, pork and meal, nd completed it in five days.' MT LETTER TO OLD MAN SMITH." Meantime I inquired and learned more of "old man Smith," of Boston, and in a few days I wrote the following letter to him: Dear. Sir: A young man in his twentioth year, recently of Boston, is now living on your old farm in A., N. H. He Was in search of work on a farm, and came along to the old house just at dark one night, about a fortnight ago. Having nowhere else to stay, and the night being rather cold, he went in there and has been living thero ever since, working when he could get a job from the people about. This young man would like to go on for a while living there, for he has no other abiding place. He would take the farm of you for the coming season, or if the farm is for sale, would buy it, If the price were not too high, and pay for it as soon and as fast as he could. "I am the young man above referred to, and my name is Charles Ephraim Windsek. A fortnight later I received the following characteristic letter from Mr. Smith: " Well.Uharles Ephraim, I have received your ratherodd letter. That farm which you seem to havetaken possession of has cost me over seven hundred dollars in one way and another. But any man who wiil pay me a hundred and fifty dollars for it may have it. I do not suppose you have a ceot to pay me. But it is not much use for me to order you off, for you will stay if you have a mind to, unless 1 take the trouble to come up, or send up, and drive you off, and I shan't do that. So go ahead Charles Ephraim; plant and sow and reap to your heart's content this year, "and whenever you can raise the hundred and fifty the old farm is yours. And if you are in earnest (which I don't believe), I wish you success. Ver truly yours, David C. Smith." Whenever I felt blue I used to get out that letter and have a laugh. ; 1 my spring's work. The farmers nbottt were now doing their spring's work planting and sowing and I borrowed' a neighbor's ox-team to plow three acres of the old stubble ground, paying for the use of the team by my own labor, It was all hard work. Every fair day was a day of toil. I used to sleep like a log there in my straw. But, somehow, I began to enjoy it; the world looked brighter. After my crops were in the ground I mended the fences about the fields and the house; and I worked out and got new glass panes for the broken windows. These 1 set myself on rainy days. By June the people about had begun to treat me as a friend and neighbor. Indeed, they commenced, Jaughingly, to call me their "new neighbor." At first, coming among them as I did, they distrusted me. But when they saw that I was not afraid to take hold and work, and that I really meant business, they turned about and treated me like afellow-citizen. I was shown a great many kindly favors. HOEING AND HAYING. It was no great task to do my own work in hoeing, and I was able to work out enough to purchase a set of haying tools, consisting of scythe, snath, fork and rake. For there was a tolerably good crop of grass in the fields and down in the meadow, which I resolved to secure to the last straw. I began my haying on the first day of July. For three weeks I worked early and late. I had no team for drawing the hay into the barn. Every pound of it I hauled in myself on a little "rack" which I rigged upon a pair of old carriage wheels that I found abandoned beside the road. In these three weeks 1 got in about nine tons. Seven tons of this hay I sold the following winter, in the village nine miles below, for seventy-six dollars. I did every stroke of the work alone and unaided; and after that I worked out at haying eiglit days at a dollar and a quarter per day. My oats were now ready to harvest. This occupied me a week; and when the threshing machine came into the neighborhood about a fortnight later I had my crop threshed out. After deducting thresher's toll, I nad sixty-nine bushels. . I then made a trade with Mr. Cum-mings and traded sixty bushels of oats for one of his cows; and Mrs. C threw into the bargain a milk-pail and four tin pans. This was my first investment in live stock. After that I had plenty of new milk and also butter which 1 churned myself in a twenty-cent earthen pot. But I did not let any- one see, no? .know of, my dairying process. On the twenty-fourth day of September, I began digging my potatoes; and from my well-dressed field, I dug a hundred and seventy-one bushels of as handsome "Early Rose" potatoes as one would wish to see. I picked out a barrel of the very best and sent them to "Old Man Smith," in Boston. BUYING THE FARM. In January I chopped ten cords of Wood for Mr. Cummings, and in pay ment had his ox-team to draw my hay down to the village, where I marketed it. After receiving the money, I wrote again to Mr. Smith, telling him that I was now ready to make a payment of seventy-five dollars on the farm. The business of '.'doing the writings," as they call it in the country, was entrusted, on his pai"t, to a lawyer in the village, named Robertson. To him 1 paid the money and received a deed of the farm, but gave mv note, secured by a mortgage, for the second payment of seventy-five dollars, in one year. I have a motive in writing this plain little narrative. In New England, in New York State and in the West, there are scores, yes, hundreds and thousands, of abandoned farms like the one I came to my first night in A . To the hundreds of homeless persons, young and old, in the cities, these deserted farms offer homes, and thev mav be improved. During the second year I paid my note for seventy-five dollars, with the inter est, and" took up the mortgage. C. E. Winder, in Youth's Companion. ' , A New Use for a Motuer-in-Law. At the office of Leitch Bros, steam printing works are the remains- of the mother-in-law of Mr. A. L. Leitoh, one of the members of the tirm, in a thoroughly petrified condition. The woman has been dead about twenty-nve years. The body, according to the statement of a promi nent physician, is in a state of adipocere Mr. Leitcli has been keeping it in his office since its arrival in Cincinnati, un determined what to do with it, but hi brother informed a reporter last night that they are contemplating placing it on public exhibition for the benefit of science. Several physicians, he said who have examined the body consider it a rare specimen of adipocere, and they have broken oil little pieces, a toe or finger, and put them in their cabinets of snails and crav-fish and other interesting articles. The lady died of apoplexy and was buried in the graveyard of Dupont, Ind. She was seventy-two years of age at the time of her death. The ground in which she has lain for the last two dozen years is mainly of limestone formation, and small streams of water trickled through the limesti 7 and came in contact with the body. Cincinnat Commercial. A Brooklyn dog "takes the cake." He is a big Newfoundland, antl a little girl was carrying the cake in her hand, He jumped upon her, knocking her down, carrying off the cake and leaving her badly cut and bruised upon Die side-, walk. Brooklyn Eagle. The Amsterdam Jews. The Jews in Amsterdam are among the most prominent citizens. The Jew( merchant, the Jew broker, the Jew banker, the Jew physician, the Jew artist and the Jew lawyer, is just as great here as he is in all the cities of the continent, only here he is notso intensely hated as he is in Germany. The race has its palatial residences, its wonderful bazars, and, as it is everywhere, it has its fingers upon the financial pulse of every country in the world, lhey know every market, every money and merchandise, and silently but certainly they control it. J. hey don t go about the streets boasting of what they do and what they know they are not after glory, but solid results. So long as they corral the ducats they don't care a straw as to who has the credit of it. So one class of Jews in Amsterdam live in palatial residences with' as luxurious surroundings as any noble in the land, solacing themselves for any per centage the noble gets in the way of rank, with the calm sweet reflection that he can buy or sell any one of them any minute. In fact they have a good and lawful mortgage upon almost everything that is mortgageable. But the Jews in Amsterdam are not all of this class. There are 30,000 pf them, and of the number a majority are as poor as people can be and live in any, sort of comfort. The Jew quarter in Amsterdam is the most peculiar place in Europe, except Petticoat Lane in London. - It is peculiar in a great many ways. It is dirt and squalor intensified. The streets in which they live are barely twenty feet wide, the sidewalks are only sidewalks in name, the houses are narrow with stairs that are so steep as to make an asceat the work of a gymnast, and the smell well if there is anything that smells worse, that is more offensive, we have not yet discovered it. In these noisome streets, crowded with men, women and children, the latter predominating, all the occupations of the citizens are apparently out of doors. There are small shops by the thousand devoted to the sale of something. This one deals in knit goods, next to it, in a shed built out upon the streetj is a cobbler, the next is a rag antl bottle shop, close by is a rag concern, pure arid simple, next is a woman trying nsh in some sort of a greasy compound which the passers-by purchase and eat, next to that is a man sawing old barrels m two, making out of each barrel two wash-tubs with handles and all complete. And so on. The poor Jew is the apostle of the sec ond hand. I doubt if he could deal in new material it he tried. His mission is to gather everything that nobody else can do anything with and make it good for something. l he street is lined with cabbage-leaves and refuse vegetation, aud there is an odor comes from it, a general sloppiness and dirtiness, strangely in contrast with the scrupulous cleanliness of the other parts of the cleanest city on the globe. V. li. Locke s Vor. in Toledo Blade. Dangers of Railway Travel and Railway Service. Some very interesting and also some very startling deductions may be made from the table of railway accidents in the United States, reported by the Cen sus .bureau for the year ended J une 30, looU. The total number of passengers carried during the year was 2b9,oo3,ol0, and the number of ofheers and employes of all kinds was 418,957.- Although this includes general officers, clerks and oth ers whose duties are not especially dan gerous, we have not reduced the result ns w miodit Imvn (ctra hv snlif-rMftinr them. Taking the'offieial totals we finil the following averages: KILLED AND INJURED through causes beyond their own control : Killed Passengers 1, or 1 to every.. 4, tin, 400 Employes 2IS0, or 1 to every.. l,till Injured Passengers 3'U, or 1 to every 81-M-T ismpioyes i.uui, or i to every u Through their own carelessness : . Killed Passengers S3, or! to every ..3.287,S0T . Employes 663. or 1 to every.. 632 Injured Passengers 21 3,or 1 to every 1,365,6111 r .Employes s,tirf, ori to every ldu Aggregate, killed aud injured; Passengers 687, or 1 to every... 393,407 Employes t,o40, or 1 to every.' V. From this it will be seen that the dan gers of railway travel to passengers, if they use ordinary care, are astonishing small, only one passenger being killed by fault ot the railways to each 4,410,400 who traveled during the year, and only one injured to each 814,421. The number of casualties resulting from the care lessness ot passengers was somewhat greater, but still very small compared with the vast number transported. ,'-. - 1 1 1 . 1 nun rainvav employes, However, me result is far less satisfactory. Out of every 1,611 officers and men of all grades one was killed, and out of every 41Z one was injured during that year through causes beyond their own control. The ratio of the killed and injured through their own carelessness is far greater. while the aggregate casualties from all causes show "the shocking average for the year of one killed or injured to every ninety-two employes'. These figures seem almost incredible, and yet it is probable that they even fall short of the truth, as - many minor casualties are doubtless not reported. If the number of accidents to train hands alone were given, it would show a still more terrible average. Certainly these figures call for greater care on the part ot those opera ting our railways, and also for more perfect appliances by which this record of suffering and death may be largely di minished in tuture. icauway Aye. "Ended Life as He Began." A burial difficulty of a novel kind has iust arisen in the county of Dorset. The squabble arose over the corpse of a Waterloo hero, which was to be buried at Bridgport. The parties concerned were no nearer agreement than were the relatives and admirers of the late Gam- betta on the question of his interment; in fact, they were further apart. The soldier had shuttled olt the mortal coil before an understanding had come as to which of his surviving children should bury him; and so his remains were left uncollined for several days, lsut some thing had to be done to avoid the inter ference of the sanitary authorities. So at last one of the deceased's sons procured a coffin and wished to put his father into it. Here another difficulty arose. The daughter "at whose house the old man's body was lying declined to give it up, upou which tho son tried to obtain possession ot it by torce. lie tween tnem Tney natt tne maning ot a good funeral, but they did their utmost to spoil it. The supporters of the re spective parties fell upon one anothe and the son and his friends were ejected from the house. Tims, peaceful as he lay, the old soldier "ended life as he be gan" amid the din of battle. St. James Gazette. Mis3 Anna Oliver has almost com pleted her fourth year in the pulpit of the Willoujrhby-Avonue Methodist Church in Brooklyn. SCHOOL ASD CHURCH. John G. Whittier, who is a Trustee of Brown University, expresses the hope that the institution will soon be open to women. President Brown, of the New Hampshire Agricultural College, well says that a neglected school-house "indicates a community not desirable to live in." The United Presbyterian Church of Scotland mourns the loss of nearly all the fund providing for the support of its deceased ministers' wives. It amounted to 35,000, 30,000 of which has disappeared with the defaulting treasurer, reddie. General Francis A. Walker found a scholar in one of the Boston schools who could riot tell why water rose in a pump, and straightway he lectured on the im portance of teaching children the prin ciples of natural science. The Rev. Dr. J. Wheaton Smith, who has had pastoral charge of the Beth Eden Baptist Church, of Philadelphia, for more than thirty years, and for the past three years has been pastor emeritus, has been unanimously requested by the society to resume active duty. Philadelphia Record. The new Roman Catholic Cathedral in Hartford, the largest church edifice in Connecticut, and not yet completed, threatens to tumble down. " Ihe massive walls have settled so that large cracks appear, and experts fear that the whole will have to be rebuilt. Over $200,000 have been spent in the construction. New Haven Register. : The princely way in which Long Island City teachers are salaried is illustrated by the following item, taken from the proceedings of the School Board: Miss brnma Locke was promoted to the position of acting principal of the Second Ward school and her salary increased to $450." 2v". Y. Sun. -One of the most recent converts to Christianity is Prince Sardan Herman bmgh, who is heir to one of the richest provinces in Northern India. Conversion in his case means a much greater sacrifice than is involved in this country; tor bardan Merman bingh must forfeit all claim to his worldly estates and become a poor man. Chicago Journal. "Teaching the young idea how to shoot" is superseded in Kennebec County, Me., by practicing 'the "manly art of self-defense." A correspondent says that an exhibition was recently given in which the teacher, scholars and parents participated; blows were , distributed promiscuously, and several battered countenances attest the valor of the participants. Detroit Post. A new method of instruction which has been introduced in Yale College is in the working system, one which has been complained of for years as a false one. The student prepares himself on the prescribed lesson, but at the appointed hour does not recite it. On the contrary, the professor recites; that is, he goes over it and elucidates it, making it com prehensible for the dullest. At the end of each month a searching examination is given on the work gone over. Jt. Jr. Examiner. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. 'Why are those things on your dress called bugle trimmings?" George wanted to know. "U, H.muy replied, lightly, "because pa blows so over the bill." A Philadelphia man says it was easy enough for Tom Thumb and his wife to escape from that burning hotel. She slid down a gas pipe and he went to meter. Philadelphia JS'eios. "What idiot has carried on my ' exclaimed an Austin lawyer, angrily during the trial of a case in the District Court. "Colonel, you have got it behind your ear," remarked one of the lawyers. "Justwhere lthoughtit was." lexas Sif tings. The papers are all laughing because a isunday school scholar, when asked what was the best thing in the world. answered "Pie." The child was not so far wrong after all, for what can be bet ter than pie-eaty?" N. Y. Herald. A gentleman entered a Portsmouth fN. II., ) drug store and asked for the "dark possibility of bright ideas." The clerk looked non-plussed and said he hadn't it in stock. The customer then explained that he wanted a bottle of ink. An old time boarding house fre quenter wants to know why bakers don't make " home-made bread." The'reason probably is that the home process does not attord any iaciuties lor splitting the atoms of flour and sandvvitchmg them with a thick layer of sour air. Toledo American. . "Have you evaporated apples?" she asked of the grocer. "Not any on hand iust now, ma'am," he replied. "Don't you keep them:"' ' WeU, 1 set out to, but I got discouraged. I rolled a barrel of Baldwins out in front one morning, and before noon half the lot had evaporated and disappeared. . I prefer to deal in solid fruit. ' ' Brooklyn Jzaglc.- -Arthur Crayon "Miss Rosebud, I have brought you a little picture which I painted especially for you. It has proved a very pleasant task during the month that 1 have worked on it. Pinky Rosebud "O, thanks, Mr. Crayon, you are very kind, but I'm afraid that. I must return the frame, as mother never allows me to accept presents of any value from gentlemen. Chicago limes. Two Irishmen came to a guidepost on a wide and desolate plain. It was getting dusk, and the unfenced trails were scarcely distinguishable. "Five miles to Glenairlie," read one of them, putting his face close to the board. "But which av them goes to glenairlie, shure ?' ' asked his companion, looking dubiously at the two trails. Alter a tew moments meditative silence, the first Irishman replied, "We can try wan av thim and then the other." "But hov. will we find the way back, av we get lost?" "Shure, we will take the board along wid us," replied the tirst. And so the two pil grims lighted their pipes and marched cheerfully away with theguidcboard be tween them. Burlington f ree ITess. A Funeral on the Run. The other day at Pittsburgh, Pa., when a funeral cortege was going to the ceme tery, one of the carriages in front stopped to make some trivial change in the har ness. The driver of the vehicle imme diately in the rear failed to check his horses in time and ran into the halted carriage. The result was that the horses attached to the latter became frightened and started to run away and soon started every animal in the cortege in a brcak- necktlight. Numerous carriages, wagons and other vehicles were overturned and the whole funeral procession reduced to a wreck of its former uniformity. Men ejaculated, women shrieked and many occupants ot vehicles were thrown out. V hen order again came li'om tne chaos. it was discovered that aside from the wrecking of a few carriages and some bruises indicted upon their occupants, no damage was done. BY THE CAMT-FIRE , BY MRS. SARAH D. HOBAUT. Read at the annual encampment of the De-partmcnt of Wisconsin G. A. 11. at Port ige ;ity. Wis.. January 23, 1883. .We me;t in joy and gladness B-side the camp-fire's light, And kindly greetings temper The chilling winter's night. Amid the song and laughter, Tne to:nf ort, warmth and glow, .-, Our hearts recall the pictures Of camp-fires long ago. "Come!" rang from Freedom's watch-towers, And answering to the call, You want our manliest, bravest. Our light, our joy, our nil. While mothers to their bosoms Their stripling first-born pressed And whispered through their sobbing: 'Dear laud, we give our best!" O'er woodland, glen and valley. Penh d forth the butrles shrill. And tiamed brav e battle banners On mountain, plain and hill. Across our rolling prairies ' We saw thuir splendor shine And prayed: "God save the Nation 1 n hile hoys leu into line. Ere" long by broad savannas . Ana rivers murmuring low. The green of Southern hillsides Tne laughter, song ana gisc. Made war a merry pastime set to sweet minstrelsy. Beneath the Southern star-beams By camp-tire blazing bright. You told the talcs of skirmish. Ur pickets, inarch ana light. The songs that ch ered the moments King down the aisles of time; No songs so thrill the soldier as their wua, pulsing rny me. "Glory, Hallelujah!" I'ealect through thestartiea trees. "We rally round the ting-, hoy si" came nianng on tne creeze. Witii "'Marching on to Kiehmondl The canvas walls resound. And the echoes chorus '"Tenting To-night on the old camp-grouud. "We're coming. Father Abraham!" Kings tothe hdis away. ' "Our flag shall float forever!" "Our own brave boys are they I 'When this cruel war is over No lonirer will we roam. "Tramp, tramp, the boys are marching 1" Ana tne song or "ine gins ai nomei Soon came the rude aWak'ning; startled out undismayed You heard through widening circles The lunous tusiiaae. O'er wounded, dead and dying. Amid the cannons roar Unwavering and unswerving. lair Freedom s Bag you Dore. Oh, valiant, true and steadfast. Through tempest, beat and cold. Our country crowned jou heroes in those grana aays oi oio. Though homesiek, heartsick, weary, During the battery's breath Your brave hearts never faltered . w hile face to face with death. Then baitk from field and prison, c 'A band or cnppiea men, ' The wreck of battle surges, - ' We welcomea vou-ngain. We saw your thin ranks faltof,, And wans ot anguisn sore Went up from home and hearthstone, i or those wno came no more. For, wearied with their marching, some ten Deside tne way. And some their young lives offered in thickest ot tne tray. Some sank with deadly fevers 'Midswamns or Tennessee. And somo stacked arms and rested On the heights of St. Mary e. From out war's fiery trial No bitter hate we bring. No threat of wild rev. nges; No cruel taunts we lung. But let us not prove faithless to tho gallant Diooa tney saea. Our foes may be forgiven, But ne er torgot our aeaai Still through the rolling ages Shall brightly glow their fame; Still on our country's annals Their deeds ot valor name. And bands of patriot children in springtime s sunny nours. Shall rev' rent place above them Fair wreaths oi spotless nowers. Oh, boys that fell at Shiloh, At Kiebmond ana nun itun, The work your brave hands finished Shall never be undone. Sleep sweetly through the ages, O dear and honored dust! The men who guard your victories btand taithlul to their trust i Still Blundering. We never had any doubt that our Democratic friends would blunder away the fruits of their late victory and the prestige which their success iu the JN o-vember elections gave them. That of course was the expectation of every intelligent citizen who had watched the course of the party and known its his tory for the past twenty years. It ha? so often upset its own dish so soon as it was fairly filled that we have come to look for nothing else. In the very hour of its victory public opinion discounts its defeat in the immediately succeeding contest. It was in consequence of this feeling of the comfortable and confident assurance that however noisily they came in last November, they had not come to stay, that the great good natured public took it so philosophical- ly as it did, enioying it' all as a huge joke instead of lamenting over it as a a calamity. Jvvery body understood that the first purpose being answered, of. bringing the Republican party back to its senses, the second was to give the Democratic party rope enough to hang itself. But no one supposed the -leaders in the present Congress were going to begin the blundering so soon. It was thought they might possess their souls in patience, and not. begin adiusting the noose around the party's neck until the Forth-seventh Congress should have a chance at it. There was a period of a few weeks, as all remember, immediately following the elections, when the party seemed qiute sobered by the respon i-bilities it was about to assume. Some of its newspaper organs discoursed very sensibly upon the subject. They seemed aware that the place of greatest peril for the party was just on the etlge of power; that it had been so long its habit as to have become almost its second nature to go wild with excesses on the heels ot temporary success, and so throw away the further fruits of victory; and they set themselves at wori to counsel reason and counteract the ruin ous tendency. They seemed so con scious of the real state of affairs and dis cussed it with so much reason and com mon sense, and the whole parly had such an appearance of being im pressed with the necessity of behaving itselt decorously and properly, that we really had no idea that they would com mit any serious blunders dur ng the short session of the present Congress. We counted too much on theii; discretion and good sense. The Democrats of the Forty-seventh Congress could not wait for their successors to begin the blundering. They want to make the people sorry for having given them a majority in the next congress oeiore that I odv meels. Thev ha-e entered upon that enterprise with every prospect of success. They are proposing to saddle themselves with the responsib li- ty ot defeating every attempt to pass Tariff bur during the session. Ihe result of such a policy will be that in the first place they will make themselves odious lo the manufacturers and busi ness men of the country by the r per sistent and fact'ons opposition to the passage o: any law adjusting exist'ng inequalities in the traffic. Second, they will take the tat'ill'question upon which they have never been able to agree, Tind witli which they had a most melancholy experience in the last Presidential cam paigu over into the next Congre.-s, where they will be very likelv to quarrel i T.:,..l o er a:i'i pernaps spin ujiou n. aiiuw. the chances arc that thev will have no better success in the next Congress in grceing unon a tarnt than in the three Congresses in which they have already tailed miseraoiy. ll they lau, they have an element of weakness and discord for their Presidential canvass of 84. If .they should succeed in agree ing upon and passing a taritt, they would have something positive to defend, aud experience teaches us that their only hope before the people is never in offering any positiye policy of their own, only in attacking the policy of their opponents. In other words, they are never constructive, but. always destructive, in their tendencies and practice. ' " It seems almost incredible that the e people can be so blind. It is a question out of which Democrats can certainly make no apital except as they can find opportunities to criticise and condemn Republican treatment of it. And now that itepubiicans propose to take the responsibility of passing a measure upon which they are willing to go to the people, leaving it open for Democrats to pick fcflaws in for the next eighteen months, the Democrats are resorting to parliamentary tactics to de'eat them. WJiat elemental stupidity. N. Y. Tribune, ' The Democratic Spirit. The Democratic party is the same enemy to popular progress to-day that it ever has been, .forgetting nothing and learning nothing, it is a shoal in the tide of advancement, a sand-bar in the current of history. Its attitude in Con gress is hostile to every vital interest of the IN ation. Ihe Kepublican party, without a majority in the Senate, and without a working majority in the House, is practically bound hand and foot by the Democrats, fledged to taritt retorm, the Republicans have endeavored to secure legislation whereby a wise reduction may be made. In this, as in all efforts to effect reduction of taxation, the Democratic members have stood in the way. While shouting loudly for umi-hervice Keiorm, they have ens honored the Pendleton bill and opposed every possible practicable step in that direction. Their insincerity is manifest everywhere in all they do. . To. make political capital, business of an imperative nature is delayed and postponed until a Democratic Congress can come m and have it all its own way. if the present Congress fails to effect a reduction of taxation as demanded by the people, the' blame will be laid where-it belongs. The Democratic Dartv of ob struction cannot escape its responsi- 1 . I !t , . ... ... , .. ' Never, when in position to back its professions by deeds, has the Demo- cratic party given evidence of sincerity in its professions tor better govern ment. Its campaigns ring with calls for reform in all directions. To listen to Democratic orators a Stranger would think that the purest, best, most disinterested men of the Nation were mem bers of that party, only wanting oppor tunity to transform this thoroughly human republic into an Eden of purity and bliss. Again and again have the a ,iwi wi,a,t 5o w Democratic party on the threshold of '"'"t"! V"" " general success, only to see its representatives dishonor their most sacred pledges. It is so now. The public, deluded by the high-toned professions of the Democratic party, thought to give it some little encouragement in order to again test its honesty. : The National Legislature was taken from Republican control and given over to the Demo cratic party. The result is alreadjjat hand. Uincouraged by present tri- umphs, the party has come to believe that victory is assured in 1884. Emboldened and defiant, the true spirit of Democracy reveals itself. Party pledges are dishonored, and the cry for refortn is 'swallowed up in the universal yell for spoils. The Democratic party is dangerous it cannot be trusted. Incom petent and dishonest, it mvi es distrust and presages disaster. : It will be driven out of power in 1684 at the command of an indignant people, who have seen its falsehood and treachery and recognize its dangerous spirit Indianapolis Jour nal. Carpet-Bagser vs. Bourbon. The much-abused Carpet-Baggers are at length getting avindication. All the slanders heaped upon-them by the Bour bons, incensed at being .kept out of the control of the public pap, do not make so bad a showing as the actual tacts in the career of their Democratic success ors. Nothing charged against the .Re publicans during the whole time of their rule m the .southern Mates was so unutterably bad as the state of facts de veloped by the flight ot She .treasurer of Tennessee, ihe funds or1 tne state were made the property Of a gang of men who used them without let or hin drance for their private purposes. Spec ulators in railroad. i stocks, gamblers iu cotton and other produce.rotten business sharpers of all kinds, put their hands at WliJinto tne iieasury anu too, irom it . - m -i x -.. what they wanted for their schemes. they The Treasurer himself was the far thest possible remove from a Carpet bagger or a .Northern sca'awag. II there is one family in Tennessee that stands higher than the rest in that powerful anstocracy known as the t irst Jj amines, it is the .rolks. train it has sprung one President of the United States, and one of the most prominent of the Rebel Generals the "Bishop t.eneral .Leonidas folk, who was killed by a cannon shot in the At lanta campaign. The ex-lreasurer himself was a distinguished Rebel soldier, and lost a leg at Shiloh. We do not know as he ever set foot north of the Ohio, and yet he stole with a talent that put to the blush the wildest Bour bon stories of the JNorthern appetite tor theft. Another instance is now furnished the public of the rapacious corruption of the native Bourbons. The btate Treasurer of Alabama another indigenous flower ot the bunny bouth has gutted the Treasury of an amount that is now stated to approximate $300,000. It will probably swell to a still larger sum', as things of that kind have a. tad way of doing. These events, startling as they are, are undoubtedly but the outcroppings ot still worse that is yet concealed. There is no doubt that the Admin'stra- tions of Georgia, South . Carolina, Florida. Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisi ana and Missouri are honey-combed with corruption that may become apparent at any time. The rings that govern those States are rascally be yond all precedent, and the bitterness with which they fight all tendency toward independence in politics is the result of fear lest something should pre cipitate an investigation, which will unmask their terrible rottenness. Prob ably the same is true of North Carolina and Texas, though in the latter State the press has greater freedom, and the populat'on being newer there has hard ly been the opportunity lor rascally rings to get the upper hand as they have in the other States. Toledo Blade. A difficult point to grasp-of an eel's tail. Judge. -the end OHIO LEGISLATURE, Senate February 21. The bill to establish a State Boaid of Health was passed. The bill to abolish the office ot Jude of the Supreme Court of Montgomery County was postponed. Mr. Dexlcr introduced a bill to provide that in Cincinnati there shall be a Tax Commission composed ef the Mayor, City Comptroller and three citizens, to be appointed by the Superior Court in such city and the Common Fleas Court oi Hamilton County. In each city of the first and second class, except cities of the first grade and first class, there shall be constituted a Board of Tax Commissioners composed of the Mayor and four citizens thereof to be appointed by the Court of Common Pleas of the counties in which such cit es may be located. House. Mr. Brunner called up the Kinney resolution, which was the special order, and Mr. Dunham's amendment providing lor the prohibition ot the manufacture and traffic in intoxicating: liquors. After a discus&iou consuming the 'greater part of the day Mr. Dunham's amendment was defeated, and Mr. Love's agreed to. The Kinney resolution as amended, so as to provide for legislative control, prohibition and license, was not agreed to. Mr. Thorp moved to reconsider, which motion Mr. Jones, o E Delaware, moved to lay upon the table. Pending action on the motion to lay upon the table, the House took a recess. Adjourned. Senate, February 22. The following bills were introduced in the Senate: To amend section third of the Revised Statutes so as to provide that no banker, broker, cashier, teller. clerk, director, stockholder, attorney or agent of any bank, or any person holding an official position many Dank, shall De competent to act as a Notary Public in the interest of any partv connected w'tha bank; to amend section 6,&47 so as to require Sheriffs or Constables alter thirty days to sell any abandoned property that may come into their possession, as pro vided Dy law ; amending section 0,171 so as to prevent any person serving as talesman on a tirana jury wno has served as a talesman the year immediately preceding. Adjourned. Home. The followine bills were introduced : To require County Commissioners to keep an index ot all their proceedings; to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquor within 1,200 yards of a public school building; to regulate the charges of telephone companies : to authorize county commissioners where a reward is offered for the arrest of a criminal and such an arrest is made, and on preliminary hearing such prisoner is bailed out and afterwards forfeits bail, that when such bail is collected the reward shall be paid out of it. Senate, February 23. There were but two Senators present at nine 'o'clock, and after the reading of the journal an adjournment was taken until the 27th. House. Mr. Jones moved to take from the table House joint resolution by Mr. Hathaway, . to amend the Constitution so as to give each count m the state a member ot the General Assembly, which was agreed to, and it was reierrea to the Judiciary Committee. Ad journed until the 27th. Senate, February 27. The Senate met at three o'clock, according to adjournment. President pro tern. Horr in the chair. Five bills were read the second time and referred. Mr; Ballanf introduced a bill to provide that nittae mavr i rt noc Viai eannrlliAO in AKar than Government bonds. Senator Chapman's bill, which passed the Senate bv a unanimous vote. I provides for a Board of seven members, one of whom shall be a veterinarian. The bill provides that the Board shall have the general super vision of the interests of life and health of the citizens of this Stale, and shall collect and study the vital statistics thereof. make sanitary investigations and inquiries respecting the causes of disease, and especially of epidemics among the people of the stale, aud among domestic animals. the causes of mortality and effects of climate, employments, condition, food, habits and circumstances, upon the health oi tne people. The Board shall also, when required, or when I they deem it best, confer with and a iviseoth. er Boards and officers of the State in rei regard to the hvgienic condition oi all institutions, prisons, school and almshouses, under the care ot the Mate, and recommend such changes as will, in their opinion, conduce to the health-fulness of the same. The Board shall, on or before the hrst day of January In each year. make to the Governor a report of their pro- ceedim s during the previous- year, including therein such information, suggestions and recommendations as in their opinion of im portance to the state. Adjourned. House. The House met at 2:30 o'clock. Speaker Hodge in the chair. The followine bills were introduced: lo amend section loa so as to provide that the State Auditor shall not issue a draft upon a County Treasurer for a sum in excess of what will be due qaid county from the common school f und ; making an appropriation to construct an aquaduct under the Aliaml & i.ne Canal in Van Wert County; to authorize the Council of the village of Paulding, Paulding County, to issue bonds to purchase real estate lor toe erection oi an en gine house; to authorize the Commissioners of Delaware County to build a bridge in the city of Delaware; to provide that certified copies of records in the Governor's office may be used as evidence. Thirty- one bills were read the second time and referred. Mr. Brunner sent a copy of the Sunday Capital to the Clerk's desk and asked that a sensational account of an abortion case at the Deaf and Dumb Asvlum, published in its columns, be read. He then offered a reso lution to authorize the appointment of a select committee of five to investigate, which was not agreed to. lne following buls were passed : To authorize Garrettsville to transfer certain lunas; to autnonze tne village ot Plymouth, Richland County, to issue bonds to purchase cemetery grounds. Adjourned, Senate.. February 28. The followine bills were passed: House bill by Mr. Barger, to amend amended sections 2,766, 2,806 and 2,807, so as to provide ior a ttaie Board oi .&quair-zation for incorporated lands; to amend section 6,S41 so as to make the misappropriation of any bequest by a cemetery association a felony; amending section 7,357 and 7,353 so as 'to make' the original papers in a bill ot -exceptions-i'Sunicient instead of certified copy; , amending section 3,776 so as to - make a church incorpo ration its church edince or real estate subject to alien for labor or material furnished in the construction or repair of a church edifice or for auv service rendered by any person for the incorporation.. Mr. Jaeger introduced a bill i i n qqo Bn 1 uncma '"" , luc " wu. .u WUUuc Dexter offered a' joint resolution providing for the calling o a Constitutional Con vention to revise the present Constitution, which was laid on the table and ordered printed. Mr. Walcott offered a joint resolu tion pioviding for the submission of an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the regulation of the liquor traffic. It contains two propositions: First, license to traffic in spiriious, vinous or malt liquors may be granted under such regulations as shall be prescribed by law; second, the 'General As-semblv mav bv law provide for the restriction or prohibition o the traffic in intoxicating i liquors. 1, aid on the taole and ordered printed. Adjourned.' Home. The Senate bill amending section 4,fji8 so as to fix the width of township roads at twentv leet was aeieateo. lne senate amendments to the general appropriation bill was concurred in. The bill to establish a Su preme Court Commission was passed. The amending section 3,612 so as to allow mutual fire insurance companies to reorganize so as to come under the provisions -ot the law gov erning other tire insurance companies, passed. Adjourned. The "isolated city of the great Northwest" is up the Missouri River, 1,200 miles beyond Bismark, away from any railroad, hemmedin by mountains, and, at this season, shut out lrom all the world. It bears the name of Ben ton, in honor of "Old Bullion," and it is the magazine of the British Northwest. It is a substantial town, because lumber is so costly there that it is econ omy to build with brick. During nav igation twenty-two steamboats carry- freight to thi3. remote city, and the vol ume of business there justities a Cham ber of Commerce and mammoth trick; blocks. Chicago Herald. A Pennsylvania man who was mean enough to rob his needy family of food to buy rum was lately horse-whipped by the vigilants. A Connecticut man for a similar offense was spanked with a red- hot shovel in the hands of a squad of indignant women ne:ghbors. Phila delphia Press. . - Charles Gillespie, adriverof-acoke. wagon in Pittsburgh, went to Stockton, CaL, three years ago, and paid a visit to a bachelor uncle. The latter' s death now gives Charles and his sister a fortune of $300,000. Pittsburgh Post. CONGRESSIONAL. Immediately afteT the reading of the journal on the 22d the Senate went into execur tive session and confirmed the nomination of Algernon S. Badger, as Collector of Customs at New Orleans.- After the doors were reopened Ur. Garland called up the resolution offered by him for the appointment of a special committee to examine and report upon methods ot improving tne Mississippi River below Cairo; adopted. The Naval Appropriation bill was then taken up. The provision tnac no part of .the money aoDroDriated for the "general care, increase and protection of the navy in line of construc tion and repair," etc., shall be applied to the repairs or any wooden snip wnentne estimated cost of such repairs shall exceed twanty-five per cent, of the estimated cost of a Dew ship of the same size and like material save rise to a long debate. Adjourned In the House the bill creating three additional land districts in Dakota was passed. The Army ana r omucation Appropriation bins, witn the Senate amendments, were received and referred. Mr. Hyan submitted a conference report on the Indian Appropriation bill, and Mr. Burrows the report on the Consular and Dip lomatic Appropriation, wmch were agrc rt to. Mr. Springer obtained leave to have printed in the record a memorial of the Iro- Suois uiuDor Chicago, prepared Dy .Mayor arrisoTu in favor of the cession of the Illinois and Michigan Canal to the United States and the construction of the Hennepin Canal. The House then went into Commit: eeof the Whole on the Sundry Civil bill. An amendment was adopted authorizing surveys wmch may De required for the identification of land for the purpose of evidence iu any suit or proceeding on DehaiT or the tjnitea States. After discussion the' paragraph making an appropriation for the survey of private land claims in New Mexico and Arizona was amended so as to prohibit any of the appropriation to be used tor tne preliminary survey of unconfirmed private land claims. The committee then rose and the House adjourned. Mb. McDiix, from the Committee on Public Lands, in the. Senate on the 23d, re ported a bill to quiet the true of settlers on the Des -Moines River lands. - Mr. Dawes sub mitted a conference report on the Indian Appropriation bill which was agreed to. The consideration of the Naval Appropriation bill was then resumed. The paragraph providing that the Secretary of the Navy shall invite proposals for the construction of three steel cruisers and a dispatch boat, was amended so as to exclude the armament of the vessels from the proposals. The Utah bill was then taken up, the pending question being on Mr. Blair's amendment, making the prohibition of voting apply only to "persons'-' tried and convicted oi polygamy or Digamy lnsieaa or to all "females, as in the bill; lost ayes 6, noes 37. After discussing the amendment for some time it was found that there was not a quorum present and the Senate adjourned In the House the "Pond" rule, setting apart one hour each day for the consideration of any measure caned up oy committees to wnien there shall not be live objections, was adopted. The Senate amendment to the Army Appropriation and Fortification bills werenon-concurred in and conference committees appointed. Mr. Williams (Wis.,) chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, reported back the; resolution calling on the Presi dent for all correspondence between the United States and Russia in regard to the treatment of the Jews- in Russia: adopted. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill and after making -several unimportant amendments the committee rose and the Bouse adjourned.Mb. Grover, on the 26th ult., pre sented the credentials of Mr. Dolph, his suc cessor as Senator from Oregon. Mr. Garland, from the Committee on Judiciary, reported a bill to punish false personation of officers and employes of the United States by a One of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment not longer than three years or both, in the dis cretion of the court: passed. A resolu tion was adopted requesting the House of Representatives to return the Tariff biu in order that certain errors in It might be corrected. The House bill to prevent the importation of adulterated or spurious teas was passed. The Committee on Education and tabor was authorized to continue its inquiry into.the relations between labor and capital. etc., and take testimony. The Dill increasing pensions was taken up and discussed until adjournment "..In the House the Senate amendments to the District of Columbia Appropriation bill and to the Legislative Appropriation bill were non-concurred in and conference commit .ees appointed. Mr.Ca8well submitted a conference report on'the Postoffice Appropriation oui. ne explained mat me couiereuce committee had retained in the bill the appropria tion of $185,000 for special mail facilities, had struck out the clause limiting compensation to be paid for mail transfer to subsidized roads and fixed October 1, 1883, as the date when the two-cent postage shall go into effect. These were the only important items of disagreement. The engrossed copy of the Senate amendments to the Internal Revenue bill was returned to the Senate for correction. The House then resumed the consideration of the conference report on the Postoffice Appropriation bfll. Mr. Robinson (N. Y.,1 offered a resolution calling on the Secretary of State for information as to whether the officers of the British steamship Republic, within a few days past, held an immigrant under arrest until thev sent for the British Consul and held a 'nretended trial before the British Consul within the territory of the United States, before allowing said immigrant to land. Ad journed. The President pro tern, of the Senate on the 27th ult. laid the following communication from President Davis before that body: "In view of the possible exigencies that might affect the public Service, I deem it proper to give notice of my intention to resign the office with which the Senate honored me at noon Saturday, 3d of March proximo." Various telegrams were received and read from various Typographical Unions throughout the country against the exclusion of their members from the Government Printing office. Senator Anthony stated tfcat there was no such bill before the Senate and that all they desired was that competent non-union men should have the same privilege of working in the office as union men. The joint resolution for the ter mination of the Hawaiian treaty was reported favorably. Resolutions were presented from the(Jhicago otock fcxenange ana tae Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce favoring the repeal of Article XI. of the Constitution: referred to the Judiciary Committee. A message waa received from the House announcing the non-concurrence of the House in the action ot the Senate on the Internal Revenue and Tariff bills and asking a conference in which the House should be represented by five conferees. Messrs. Morrill, Sherman, I Aldncn. uavard ana tieck-were appointed. Adjourned..... In the House Mr. Hammond t0 8 Questjon of privilege ai and ofiered a resolution declaring that if the bill reducing .internal revenue shall be referred to a eom-'mittee of conference, it shall be the duty of the conferees on tne part or tne House on tne said committee to consider fully the Constitu tional-objections to the said bill as amended by the Senate and herein referred to, and to bring the same, together with the opinion of the House in respect thereto, Detore said commjt-tee of conference, and. if necessary in their opinion, after having conferred with the Sen ate conierees, saia conreiees on saia committee may make a report to the House in regard to said bill herein referred to; adopted. Mr. Kelley then moved to suspend the rules, take from the Speaker's table the Internal Revenue bill withUhe Senate amendments. non-concur in tnose -amenaments, and aDOoint a conference committee to consist of five members ou the part of the House; ear ned. The speaker appointed Mesers. Kelley, McKinley, Haskell, Randall and C arlisle as the conferees on the part of the House. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the River and Harbor bili aud soon after adjourned. Mr. Edmunds, from the Committee on Judiciary, reported adversely in the Senate on the 28th ult.. On the House bill to provide for the restoration to citizenship of such citi zens of the United States as have become naturalized citizens of Great Britain. Mr. Tabor offered a joint resolution providing for participation by the Government in the National Mining and Industrial Exposition to be held at Deliver. A message was received announcing the names of the House conferers on the Internal Revenue and Tariff bill. Mr. Oarlaud asked to have read from the -Congressional Record a resolution of the House instructing the conferers " to consider fully the constitutional objections to the. Internal Revenue bill as amended Dy the senate and to bring tho same together with the opinion of the House in regard thereto before the Committee on Conference, etc., and moved to reconsider the motion by which the Senate had agreed to a conference ; lost. The Senate then resumed consideration of the bill to give increased pensions to one-armed and one-legged soldiers and after diseussion it was passed In the House immediately after the reading of the journal, Mr. Randall asked to be released f rom, serving tm.the Conference Committee on the Tax and Tariff bills, which was -rranted. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union and after a ffrief contest with regard to the respective claims for precedence of the Deficiency aud River and Harbor bills, consideration of the latter measure was resumed. Mr. Springer made a point of order that the Tariff bill was first in order. The friends of that measure, it seems, had left it in committee to die, but ho thought its consideration should be proceeded with. The chair ruled otherwise and the River and Harbor bill was taken up, Mr. McLane taking the floor and speaking in favor of the bid Representative Cassidy presented a memorial from the Legislature of Nevada asking an appropriation of $:!50.000 tor sinking artesian wells in that State. Adjourned.