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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed from Telegrams of Accompanying Dates.
Monday, March 23. An extraordinary
rise In the Thames has caused, great damage
In Lambeth and other parts of London.
Sewers burst and the floors ot many houses
were forced up, drowning several children and
horses. At SVooIwich the fires in ihe gun
factories were extinguished and the store
houses 6et afloat Disraeli recently re
fused o receive a delegation which
came to 86k for the release of the FeniaDs.
....A late dispatch from the City of Mexico
says that a Catholic mob had attacked the
Protestant chapel in Fuebla, smashed the
windows and furniture, destroyed the Bibles
and stoned the pastor, Kev. Antonio Corral.
. .Wolseley has been rewarded for - his
Ashantce successes by being made a Major
General, and has been awarded a pension of
7,500 per .annum The Emperor of Ger
many celebrated his seventy-seventh birthday
on the 22d. The Generals of the array visited
him in "a rrx1yand congratulated him "On
the auspicious occasion. In his reply
the Emperor declared his intention of
maintaining the strength of the. army
with a view to insure the peace of Eu
rope Judge Dent, brother of Mrs. Grant,
died at his residence in "Washington on the
morning of the 221.... An extensive Are oc
curred at Indianapolis on the 22d. Twenty
stores, many of them new, were destroyed.
The loss was estimated at between $ 300,000
and $100,000 A horrible murder was
recently perpetrated near Ccnterville, 111.
The victims were Fritz Stcltzereide,
aged about eight y; " his son and
daughter-in-law, and two small children, one
an Infant. The throats of the two men were
cut, and the skulls of the woman and chil
dren crushed. The murdered family lived
on a farm three miles south of Ccntreville.
Two sons of the Siamese Twins were in
Philadelphia on the 21st, and would imme
diately leave for home with the remains of
their parents. They deny that the family in
tended to exhibit the remains, and said they
were to be at once decently interred. The sons
have obtained from the physicians a statement
denying that the bodies were given theaa
for autopsy as a result, of a pecuniary
arrangement.... A White House (X. C.) dis
patch . says the reports of terrific rum
blings and roaring noises at Bald Mountain
are confirmed. Scientists direct - from the
scene say there is no doubt of volcanic action
going on. bhocks are hourly felt, the
crockery in some residences being thrown
from the shelves. The citizens are fleeing.
Religious meetings are held night and day.
The savants think a volcanic eruption very
probable.
Tuesday, March 24. A document has
been presented in the French Assembly.signed
by Gambetta, Ledru Kollin and other Com-munh-ts,
demanding the dissolution of that
body.... The Rhode Island Democratic State
Convention met at Providence on the 23d and
resolved to make no nominations for State
officers. It appointed a State Committee and
adjourned The Pennsylvania Democratic
State Central Committee have resolved to
hold the State Convention in Pittsburgh
in May Elgin, 111., has been visited
by a destructive conflagration. More
than two squares iu the business
pcrtifln - of the -wty -were -L-iJCTod - cycr
causing a loss of over $200,000; insur' d for
$100,000.... A special dispatch to-the Chicago
Inter-Ocean, dated March 23, says that Detect
ives Sbiner and Baldwin had a fight with
James Younger, near St. Catherine, Mo,, on
the 21st, and that Younger and Baldwin were
both wounded, Younger getting away as
usual.
Wednesday, March 25. The remains
of Dr. Livingstone have reached Aden, Ara
bia, on board the steamer Calcutta.... The
Carlists are reported to be throwing incendiary
shells into Bilboa with terrible effect. Whole
streets are in flames. The besiegers have cap
tured Albia, a suburb on the left bank
of the Nervione....The French Assem
bly has voted to adjourn from March
23 to May 2 The balloting In the Massa
chusetts Legislature for United States Senator
on the 21th resulted as follows: House Hoar,
CS; Dawes, 01; Curtis, C3; Banks, 4; Adams,
12; Sanford, 10. Senate Dawes, 17; Curtis,
10; Hoar, 8; Adams, 2; Whittier, 1....A
proposed "Compulsory Education" law has
been defeated in the Illiuois Senate.... The
Northwestern Cheap Transportation Con
vention met at Rock Island, 111., on the 24th.
Nearly 900 persons were in attendance. Mr.
J. M. Allen, of Geneseo.was chosen Chairman.
The resolutions adopted are given elsewhere.
The tug-boat Crescent City, from New
Orleans for St. Louis, blew up at the foot of
Montezuma Island, near Helena, Ark., on the
morning of the 24th. Every part of the boat
was blown into atoms and she sunk iu three
minutes. The tow, consisting of seven
barges, was utterly consumed. The lost were:
Copt. James Dawson, Mate Henry Gessler,
Pilot John Ostrander and wife, Pilot William
Munday, Watchman Dan Mattle, cabin-boy
unknown and three colored firemen.... In
a recent fight with the Missouri outlaws,
John VT. Whichcr, a detective who had traced
the James brothers to their hiding place in
Clay County, was led into the public Highway
and brutally murdered. On yie same day
three detectives encountered the Younger
brothers in St. Clair County, and a shooting
match followed, in which John Younger was
killed and Jim Younger badly wounded in the
breast The casualties on the part of the de
tectives were, one man killed, one seriously
wounded and one escaped. On the 2od Gov.
Woodson sent a message to the Legislature
detailiug the facts in relation to the outlaws,
so far as known, and calling upon that body
to appropriate money to enable him to ex
terminate them.
Thursday, March 20. A Bayonne dis
patch says the Carlists under Gen. Scballshad
routed a force of Republicans under Col.
Rouille at Tordira. Republican loss 300
killed. ...The extradition treaty between the
United States and Ecuador has been officially
proclaimed at Washington, and is to con
tinue in force for ten years The
dwelling of Mr. Burns, at Mott Havec, N.
Y., was burned a few nights ago, and his
wife and three children perished in the flames.
.... A Congregational Council assembled in
New York on the 24th, to consider the relations
of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, in which Hen
ry Ward Beecher officiates as pastor, to Con
gregationalism. The difficulty arose primarily
out of what is known as the Beecher-Tilton
scandal, and from the informal dropping of
Mr. Tilton's name from the rolls of Plymouth
Church. This action on the part of that
church was a cause of offense to Drs. Storrs
and Buddington, and led to an animated cor
respondence. This council was called to
determine if a member of a church
can cease to be 'a member the moment he ,
placed fcis foot outside the doors. On the
25th Plymouth Church voted not to partici
pate in the council, and presented a protest
against any action whatever upon-any issue
relating to that chiirch. Addresses were made
by Drs. Storrs tnd Buddington, advocating
the withdrawal of fellowship from Plymouth
Church and its pastor The joint ballot
in the Massachusetts Legislature on the
25th . for United States Senator resulted
as follows: Dawes, S7; Hoar, S2; Curtis,
74; Adams, 13; Banks, 5. Sanford,
Whittier, Wendell Phillips and Bullock had
oneortwovotes each. ThetotaIwas2Sl...The
Indians made an attack on a ranche aiott's
Bluffs, Neb., on the 24th, killing one man and
running off horses. ' The Sions't Fort Lara-1
mie and the various Sioux agencies are re
ported very sullen and discontented. It was
thought they meditated immediate hostilities.
Red Cloud and Spotted Tail were among those
declared unfriendly.
Friday, March 27. A desperate engage
ment is reported as having occurred on the
25th between the Republicans and the Carlists
before Bilboa. The battle lasted all day, ceas
ing only at nightfall, when the Republican
army encamped in the positions wrested from
the Carlists. .The Republican loss . in killed
alone was 470. Marshal Serrano com
mauded the riational forces.... Tho re
mains of Dr. Livingstone have left Aden in
the mail steamer Maleva for England. They
were Incased in a lead coffin and preserved in
salt.... A Ilavana dispatch reports a heavy
battle between the Spaniards and insurgents.
near Puerto Principe, Cuba. The latter re
mained in possession of the field at night, and
the killed and wounded Spaniards fell into
their hands. Gold is quoted at 250, and every
hour increases the premium. .. .Piatt
Boyd, of New York, whose book
were seized by Detective Jaj-ne in July- last,
have begun a suit to recover $50,000 damages
for trespass. Other and similar suits against
Jayne are threatened.... The New Jersey State
Senate has passed the Compulsory Education
bill The balloting for United States Senator
by the Massachusetts Legislature on the 20th
resulted as follows: Dawes. 93; Curtis 74
Banks, C; Whittier, 2; noar, 61; Sanford,
Washburn, 1 The 6econd indictment for
perjury against David A. Gage, ex-Treasurer
of Chicago, has been quashed.... The Sen
atorial Bribery Investigation Committee of
the California State Senate has reported
that no Improper influences were used to
secure the election of Messrs. Booth and
Hasrar to the United States Senate, but that
improper advances had been made to the log'
islators by certain persons, who acted wholly
on their own authority, and with no other re
sponsibility. The report acquits Boruck, w ho
made the charges, of malice in the matter..
A dispatch from Marion, N. C, says the
shocks on Bald Mountain were more violent
on the night of the 25th than at any previous
time siuce the commencement of the volcanic
disturbance.
Saturday, March 28. A Madrid dis
patch says the battle on the 20th between the
Republicans and Carlists lasted thirteen hours
The latest dispatches on the 27th from Serra
no to the Ministry were very hopeful. Dis
patches from Carhst . sources of the same
date claim successes for the Car
lists in the two davs' fizhtine. . . .In
the Sanborn investigation case, before
the Ways and Means Committee at Washing
ton, on the 27th, Sanborn's counsel
apologized for the non-attendance of his
client, and said his counsel in New
York had advised him not to appear before
the committee prior to his trial in Brooklyn
After considerable discussion it was de
cided that Sanborn should be summoned
to appear as a witness on the Cth of April, or
earlier if his trial in Brooklyn should be pre
viously ended The Congregational Couucil
in Brooklyn, N. x., remained m secret session
from the mornine of the 2Gth until one
o'clock p. m. On the morning of the
27lh a letter was received from Theo
dore Tilton asking that he be accorded
the courtesy of contributing to the
official records a correct statement of the
reasons for and the. circumstances attending.
bis retirement from Plymouth Church. In
this letter ha explicitly denies that he had ever
slandered Mr. Beecher by thought, word or
deed. Resolutions embodying the sense of the
council were to be presented on the following
day The vote for United States Senator in
the Massachusetts Legislature on the 27th was
as follows: Dawes, 95: Hoar, 2G; Curtis, 74;
Adams, 15; Bauks, 7; ex-Mayor Pierce, 2
Washburn, 1; Whittier, 1. Absent 8 The
Illinois Legislature has voted to adjourn sine
die March 31 The Ohio Srnate has voted
unanimously that George Weimer was not,
and that Isaac Welsh was, elected to the office
of State Treasurer.
F0RTY-TUIRD CONGRESS.
Saturday, March 21. Senate. Xot in
scsfion.
House. The bill appropriating $250,000
for a bridge over the eastern branch of the Po
tomac River was rejected.... A bill was passed
appropriating $!7,000 to pav the school-teachers
of the District, the amount to be collected by tax
on personal extate and on banks and otner cor
porations. ...The Georgia contented election case
wan taken np and debated.... Adjourned
Monday, March 23. Senate. A resolu
tion was presented from the Legislature of Mich
igan, and referred, praying Congress to amend the
Postal law so as to permit the free exchange of
newspapers and their free circulation in counties
where nublinhed A petition signed bv 700 bus!
ness men of New York, asking that the volume of
legal tenders be fixed at ftOO.i 00.000, and favoring
free banking, wan presented and rererrea....A
resolution of the New York Cotton Exchange was
prevented, signed by every member thereof,
protesting against expansion of the currency, and
asking legislation for a speedy return to specie
payment Other petitions relating to the currency
question were presented.... A bill was reported
from the Committee on Territories, without amend
ment, providing for the formation of Pembina Ter
ritory, the new Territory to consist of that portion
of Dakota which lies north of the forty-sixth paral
lel, embracing an area of about .71.000 square miles.
. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Finance,
reported a hill to provide for the redemption and
reinsne of United States notes and for free bank
ing, and gave notice that on the 21th he would of
fer it as a substitute for the pending financial bill
to equalize the distribution of the National Bank
currency. ...A petition was presented and referred
of colored citizens residing in tke Indian Terri
tory, setting forth that they are deprived of their
civil rights.... The bill to equalize the distribution
of the currency was taken up and further debated.
....Adjourned.
House. Among the bills introduced and
referred were the following: Respecting the law
which forbids the payment for army supplies, etc.,
to persons not known to be opposed to the rebell
ion; for the relief of settlers on railway lands;
granting lands to Minnesota to endow an astro
nomical observatory and school; authorizing the
Washington, Cincinnati A St. Louis Railway Com
pany to extend and conetrnct its line into the
District of Columbia and through West Virginia,
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to St. Louis, and a
branch road from some point of it in Indiana to
Chicago, and giving the guarantee of the United
States on its first mortgage bonds, as sections of
the road are completed.... Bills were passed
appropriating $10,000 for the expenses of the
District Investigating Committee; making ap
propriations for the removal of the Kickapoo and
other Indians from the borders of Texas and New
Mexico to the Indian Territory. .The Currency
bill was then taken up and amendments, one fix
ing the amount of circulating notes at $356,000,000,
and another at $382,000,000, were rejected, afer
which the bill fixing the amount at $100,000,000
was parsed yeas lti8. nays T7 The text of the
bill is as follows: " Whereas, the existing un
certainty as to whether the amount of legal
tender notes bow authorized by law to be
kept in general circulation is $355,00 $400.-0.000 or
000, 00 is calculated to derange the btuiness of
the country and nnsettle values; therefore, be it
enacted, etc.. that the provisions of the law exist
ing prior to the act approved April 13. 1866, enti
tled An act to amend an act to provide ways and
means to support the Government,' approved
March 3, 1865, be and the same are hereby de
clared to be in force so as to authorize the
amount of legal-tender notes of the United
States to be $400,000,000 to be- kept in
general circulation, and the total amount of
United States notes issued or to be issned shall
never exceed $400,000,000.". ...An amendment
was made to the Legislative Appropriation bill,
providing that no civil officers of the Government
shall receive in addition to regular salary any
compensation or perquisite from the Treasury or
property of the United States, or shall make any
priTate use of such property or of the labor of any
person in the employment of the United States.
....Adjourned.
Tuesday, March 24. Senate. Among
the petitions presented and referred was one from
citizens of Indiana and Kentucky, asking that the
law of .Congress relative to bridges over the Ohio
River be so amended as to require that bridges over
that river shall have 400 feet spans and pivot draw
of lfiO feet The bill to equalize the distribution
of the currency was laid aside informally, and the
new financial bill reported by Mr. Sherman from
the Committee on Finance waa taken np and
Mr. Sherman explained the provisions of the
new bill, saying it was not a 8tl factory one. as it
was in th9 nature of a compromise, and while it
had the strength of a compromise it also had the
weakness of such a measure. The committee had
reported in favor of fixing the amount of United
States notes at $32,000.00. that being the amount
now outstanding, bat he hoped it would soon be
practicable to get back to $356,000,000. and
recover the ground lost by the panic. The $3fc'2,
000,000 had been fixed upon, not because it was Ibe
best amount; but because It was the amount
now In circulation. The time must come when
these notes mnvt be redeemed in coin, and some
thing must be done looking to that ecd. .. .After
remarks by Messrs. Ferry and Thurman the Senate
went into executive session, and soon aiier au
journed.
Home. The minority resolution in the
Georgia contested election case that Rawls, the
sitting member, ;was entitled to the seat, was
relccted yes 77. navs 133 and the maloritv rcso
lutions, declaring Sloan, the contestant, entitled
to the seat, were adopted yeas 135, nays 14. The
vote was purely a party one. except that Messrs.
Banning, Fort, and Shoemaker, of Pennsylvania,
voted with the Democrats. Mr. Sloan then took the
modified oath.... A memorial was received and or
dered to be printed, signed bv 20.0U0 persons, rep
resenting the Typographical Union and various
trades and laboring societies of New York city, in
favor of the Eight-Hour law and for tho removal
of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury....
The bill to regulate inter-State railway commerce
was debated, and several speeches made on the
subject. . . .Adjourned.
Wednesday, March 25. Senate.
Among the memorials presented were the follow
ing: From citizens of Michigan, asking that 160
acres of the public lands be given to the soldiers
of the latt war: of iron, coal, and other com
panies i.f Ohio, stating that btit-iness there is n a
state of stagnation on account or the in
sufficient volume of the currency, aud
asking that the same be increased and
free banking be ' au'horized... .Resolutions
for more currency adopted by a large meet-
lug of the business men at Indianapolis, Ind were
presented and referred The House bill author
izing the Secretary of the Interior to use certain
unexpended balances for the removal of Kickapoo
and other Indians 1o the Indian Territory was
pafsed. . .The bill to provide for the redemption and
reissue of United States notes aud for free banking
was rtebated. and an amendment was offered to
the first section of the bill striking out $$i,0Ott,000
and inserting $5;.00J,0(0, so that the maximum
limit of United Slate notes should be $35 000.000,
instead of $:2,000.000, as fixed by the bill.... Ex
ecutive session and adjournment.
House. The bill to regulate inter-State
railway commerce was debated at considerable
length, when a motion to lay the bill on the table
was defeated yeas fr2. nays 1M. ...The Senate bill
supplemental to the Mining act of the 10th of
May, 1872. was taken np, and a couple of amend
ments were agreed to.... Adjourned.
Thursday, March 28. Senate. Several
petitions and resolutions were presented and re
ferred. ...A bill was introduced and referred to
enable the people of New Mexico to form a Con
stitution and State Government, and providing
for t: e admission of the State into the Union .
Bills were parsed appropriating $-'$0,000 to con
tinue the dredging at the mouth of the Mississippi
River; House bill concerning practice in Territorial
courts and appeals therefrom,-with an amend
ment providing that the provisions of the bill
should not apply to cases in the Supreme Court
where record has already been filed The bill to
provide for the redemption and reissue of United
States rotes and for free banking was taken np,
and the amendment to strike out 38-2.000,Ot() and
insert $35tt,OtO 0J0, so that tho maximum limit of
United States notes should be $:156,000.00i) instead
of $382,001,000, as reported by the committee, was
lost yeas It, nays 40. An amendment was then
adopted 31 to 26 fixing the maximum amount of
United States notes for circulation at $400,000.0(0.
A substitute for the whole bill waa then offered
and amendments were proposed, pending the dis
cussion of which the Senate adjourned.
Hove. A bill w as introduced and re
ferred to reduce the army, said bill proposing to
leave the cavalry and artillery at their present
force, but to reduce the iufantry by dve regiments.
....The bill to regulate commerce by railway
among the several Slates -was passed yeas 121,
nays 116. The bill as passed is, with but a slight
mollification, the same as reported by Mr.
McCrarv, of Iowa, . from the Committee
on Railways and Canals on the Wth of
January. It enacts that all railway- . lines
carrying rreight and passengers between oir
fereut Stateswhether owned by one or vuxious
corporations, shall be regarded as employed in
commerce among the several States, and shall be
liable for any violation of this act. They are for
bidden to charge more than a fair and reasonable
rate for the transportation of freight or passen
gers, such rate to ne ascertained and nxea or a
Board or Railway commissioners, to ne appoinien
bv the President, with-the advice and cQnseatpf;
4 he Senate, and to be residents of each of the nine
judicial districts of the United States. Tlhey
are to be disinterested persons, and not to have
any interest in the stocks, bonds or property
of any railway or auv transportation com
pany. This Board or Railway Commissioners
is to institute a thorough iuvestigation and inquiry
into the rates and toll or compensation charged ou
the tr:insnort of freight and passengers over each
line of railway, and into the reasonableness there
of; and as soou as possioie alter sucn inves
tigation and iunuirv to prepare for the
owners and operators of each cf the lines
a separate schedule for rates and charges
for the transportation of passengers and of freight,
and cars on or over said lines, respectively. This
schedule is to be duly authenticated by the Board
nf CnniTnisxinncr. and to be nrinted and Posted UP
in each of the offices of the depots of such railway
company, corporation, or person, rney may trom
time to lime, and so often as circumstances may
require, change and revise the schedule, and snail
give notice of such change in the same manner. .
A new set of credentials certifying to the election
of Pinchback as Representative-at -Large for Louis
iana wsg presented and rererred. .. . ine out xo
amend the several acts relating to the currency and
to establish free banking was taken up and several
speeches were made.... AQjourneo.
Friday, March 27. Senate. A joint
resolution of the Wisconsin Legislature, asking
legislation for the speedy construction of a ship
canal around Niagara Falls, was presented and
referred . . . .An adverse report was made from the
Committee on Private Land Claims on the bill to
provido for the settling of private land
claims In Nevada. Kansas, New Mexico, Ari
zona. Colorado, Vyoming and Utah, and it
was indefinitely postponed.... The bill to provide
for the redemption of a reisfsue of United States
uotea and for free banking was further considered.
and proposed amendments were debated. . ..Bills
were passed to remove the political disabilities of
Thomas Hardeman, of Georgia, and William L.
Cabell, of Texas.... Several bills were reported
from committees. . . .Adjourned to the EOth.
House. A bill was passed removing the
political disabilities of Wm. L. Cabell, of Texas.
.The bill to amend the several acts providing
for a national currency and to establish free bank
ing was taken np and debated. ...Adjourned, the
evening session and the session on the 2Hthtobe
exclusively for debate on the Currency bill.
. . The Prayer Movement..
An unknown and rather good-looking
young woman visited a fruit and liquor store
in Brooklyn, N. Y., a few days ago, and in
quired of the proprietor if praying bands
could use his saloon, explaining that
she waa a committee of one appointed
to make such inquiries. She was in
formed that a praying band would be
subjected to no indignity, provided the ser
vices were properly conducted. Subsequently,
however, to the horror of the proprietor, she
appeared again at the store, and, as before,
unattended. It was the busiest part of the
day, and many customers, were in the place.
Not at all abashed, though, she walked calmly
through the store and installed herself behind
the bar. The astonished barkeepers paused
in their work," and the thirsty customers
looked on in amazement. Not noticing the
flutter sho had occasioned, the young
woman composed herself, and broke out
into an earnest prayer, much to the edifi
cation of the crowd, and to the evident dis
comfort cf the proprietor. She finished her
prayer, which was a long one, and walked
calmly out of the place and disappeared as
mysteriously as she had come, leaving the
multitude agape with astonn-hment and the
proprietor perfectly bewildered.
Aa a member of the praying league at Rich
mond, Ind., was about to engage in prayer on
the 25th, at a saloon, the proprietor presented
bill against her son for forty drinks. Sbe
paid the bill $4 took a receipt, and said:
'Now, friend, I shall indict thee on forty
charges of selling to my son, who is a minor."
The Mayor of Cincinnati . has been unani
mously requested by the Common Council
of that city to prohibit the women from con
tinuing their crusade against "the saloon
The following' pledges are being circulated
by the ladies' temperance organization of
Chicago among the citizens of that city:
PHTSICIANS' AND DRtTGOMTS PLEDGE.
We. the undersigned, physicians and druggists
of Chicago, hereby promise, on oar honor as pro
fessional men. not to furnish or prescribe spiritu
ous, vinous, or malt liquors, except ra cases of
actual necessity, and J hen only, if possible, by
written proscription, directing the quantity and
time oi tixui;;, r n dispensing other active
medicines.
CtTL6SS PLEDGE.
We. the nndersipuedi resident of Chicago, do
hereby solemnly promise that
1. We will abstain from the use of all spirituous.
vlnocg, or maitliqaors as a beverage.
2. We will not make, sell, or give them away to
others for such use. - - - ,
- 8. We will not allow our premiees.Ior any prem
ises sabtect" tft'TTOfemirrolff x befemoloved for
the manufacture, sale, or use of such a.beverae. 1
C We will earnestly endeavor by all reasonable
means to promote the cause or temperance.
DEAIEB'S FLEDGK.
I do hereby solemnly promise that I will not
make. sell, or pive awav any spirituous, vinous, or
malt liquors as a beverage, and that I will not in
any way induce others to do so.
Cheap Transportation.
At the recent convention held at Rock
Island, 11L, to consider the question oi
cheap transportation, addresses were de
livered by ex-Lieutenant-Governor Wm
Bross and Mr. J. C. Dore, of Chicago, and
other gentlemen, after which the follow
ing resolutions were proposed, debated
and adopted :
Whereas, The question of cheapening the cost
or transportation of tne proa new oi uie country
has come to be considered and is now universally
regarded, both by the producers and consumers,
as second to no other question before the people ;
an'1, -WsrKRKAa.
This convention, composed of reprC'
scntrtives from the agricultural, mercantile and
niaunfactnring interests of the Northwestern
St- is, has been convened to consider this impor-
taf question ; therefore,
KfntJimd. That we believe the time has come
vhen the Government of the United States, in the
disfhr?e of its duties to the people, under the
power expressly conferred upon it by the
Constitution, should declare its purpose to
assume such supervision and control over all
branches of inter-State commerce aa will se
enre to the people of the whole country relief from
all unnecessary burdens imposed, either by exist
ing monopolies or by those that may be estab
lished, wiih comparatively little cost.
Jito(ved, That the expression of popular opin
ion heretofore given, demanding a completed
communication bv canal between the waters of the
npper Mississippi River, the Illinois Kiver. and
the lakes, as those expressions were severally
made at the conventions of 1865, held at Geneseo
and at Rock Island, and as authoritatively placed on
record by the respective memorialists to Congress
of the Tenth General Assembly of Iowa, the Leg
islature of Illinois, the City Councils of Davenport
and Rock Island, and other cities in Iowa and
Illinois, ought not to have remained unnoticed and
neglected so long by the National Government,
and should now be promptly considered, respected
and complied with.
Ketolted, That ia Tthe judgment of this conven
tion the construction of a canal of sufficient
capacity for commercial pnrposes from the
Mississippi River nt or above Rock Island to the
Illinois River at or near Hennepin would tend
more effectually to the solution of the question of
cheap transportation for those States bordering
upon the Mississippi River above Rock Island than
any projected work involving a similar amount of
money, and is imperatively demanded by the ne
cessities of the producer of the Northwest as well
aa the consumer In the Eartern States or in foreign
lands. ....
Retolved. That while this convention especially
indorse and nrgc upon the attention of the
United States Government the construc
tion of the work herein named, we
would also urge upon it any and all in
tpr.state imnrovements that are feasible, and the
completion of which will not involve an expendi
ture disproportionate to the prospective benefits,
among which we recognize as prominent the im
provement of the Mississippi and the Illinois
Rivers, and the control by the General Govern
ment of the railroads engaged in inter-State
traffic. .
JieexHted, That we urge upon tne people or im
nni tH st. f hiv rpito in the General Government the
entire control of the Illinois & Michigan Canal and
the Illinois River, to be improved and forever
maintained as navigable highways for the benefit
of the nation, provided tuts snouiu ne necessary iu
order to secure prompt and efficient action by the
General Government in prosecuting the work es
pecially indicated bv this convention.
Ksnolred, That tins convention appoint a com
mittee of thirteen whose duty it shall be to me
morialize Congress In accordance with the views
expressed in the foregoing resolutions.
llenolmd. That ihe pm now pending neiure un-
gress. introduced by tne tion. J. t. nawicy, vo
provide for the construction of a canal connecting
the waters of Lake Michigan, the Illinois, Missis
sippi and Rock Rivers, meets with onr hearty
approval ; and we cheerfully unite in recommend
ing onr Senators and Representatives in Congress
to use their influence to aid in the passage of this
act. .
liesolrfd. That for the purpose or seennng
water competition to the seaboard, as well as com
petition with corporate monopolies, we are in
favor of the speedy improvement of the Missis
sippi Jtivor. and the construction, if necessary, of
a sh.p canal at its mouth.
Te committee to memorialize Con
gre-l is composed of the following-named
genfjemen : James M. Allan, of Geneseo;
Wfdo M. Totter, of Davenport; Calvin
D. -Trucsdale, of Rock Island; Charles
Atkinson, of Moline; L. I). Whiting, of
TLskilwa; James L. Camp, of Dixon;
II. Wells, of Peoria; F. D. Brewster, of
Teru; William Reddick, of Ottawa; John
Maiien, of Muscatine ; A. B. Smedley, of
Cresco, and D. B. Sears, of Rock Island.
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK.
March 23, 1874.
CtwroN. Middling upland, 16K16?c
Live Stock. Beef Cattle $10.5013.00. Hogs
Drecaed, $7.0037.25. Sheep Live, $7.3749.75.
BriiaDSTcrrs. Flour Good to choice, $6,451
6.65 s white wheat extra, $6.657.09. Wheat No.
i Chicago, $1.49&1.51: Iowa spring, $1.50&1.&I;
No. 2 Milwaukee spring. $1.521.54. Rye West
era and State, 97c$1.02'4. Barley $L701.75.
Corn Mixed Western afloat. 69302c Oats-
New Western, 61C;SKc
Provisions. Pork New Mess, $16.5016.75.
Lard 9?9c.
"VTooLm Common to extra, 40 65c
CHICAGO.
Lnrs Stock. Beeves Choice, $5.7&6.00; good.
$5.355.70; medium, $5.005.25; butchers'
stock, $4.005.00; stock cattle, $3.504.75.
Hogs Live, $5.406.00. Sheep Good to choice,
$6.0Cra7.80.
Provisions. Butter Choice, 3538c Eggs
Fwh, 12',i13c Pork New Mets, $14,903
15.C0. Lard fJ4!Vic
Bhbadstctps. Flour White Winter extra.
$7.00(9.25; spring extra, $5.006AX). Wheat
Spring, No. 3, $1.19Xai.20. Corn No. 8. 62
63?4C Oats No. Z, 4343tfc Rye No. 2, 903
92e. Barley No. 2, fl.48&1.50.
Wool. Tub-washed, 48S5c; fleece, washed,
3648c; fleece, unwashed, 2532c; pulled,
35 40c.
CINCINNATI.
Bubadsttjffs. Flour $6.707.00. Wheat
$1.45. Corn 65365c Rye $1.06. Oat-M58c.
Barley $1.60(1.65.
Pbovtsions. Pork $15.87J416.00. Lard 94
9J4c.
ST. LOUIS.
" Live Stock. Beeves Fair to choice, $4.S5Q
6.25. Hogs Live, $4.755.75.
F.reaestttts. Flour XX Fall, $6.00&C25.
Wheat No. Red Fall. $1.481.60. Corn No. 2
63i63c Oat No. 2, 49&50e. Rye No. 2, 91
92c Barley $1.80ai.65.
Provisions. Pork Mess, $15.500.15.75. Lard
aa9c
MILWAUKEE.
Breadstcppb. Flour Spring XX, $5.706.2
Wheat Spring No. 1, $1.26&r7; No. 2, $1,233
1.23V4. Cora No. 2, 6263j. Oats No. 2, 43
43c Rye No. 1, 8T87HC Barley No. 2, $1.60
Oi.es.
DETROIT.
Breadstttpps. Wheat Extra, $1.62VZM.63.
Corn "1&T4C . Oats l51i4c
TOLEDO.
Brbadstttppr. Wheat Amber Mich., $1.47a
1.47(4. No. 2 Red, $1.441.44'. Corn Mixed, 67
t;9c. Oats No. 1, 5354c
CLEVELAND.
Breadbtupps. Wheat No. 1 Bed, $1.551.56;
No. 2 Red, $L4tl.H. Corn 7072c Oats 493
61c.
BUFFALO.
Lnn Stock. Beeves $5.37V4&.50. Hogs
Live, $5.5036.00. Sheep Live, $7.0033.00.
' EAST LIBERTY.
Live Stock. Beeves Best, $1'j07.25; me
dium. $6.00-6.50. Dogs Yorkers, $5. 40 5. 60;
Philadelphia, . $6.25(36-40. Sheep Best, $7.75(3
8.00; medium, $6.50a7.50.
t Blct!-btbd! on yon leaf els tree,
-Dost thou carol thus to me?
" Spring is comjjjg! Sprlrrg-is here !"
' Say'st thou so-.-my birdie dear? -What
is that in ifilsty shroud.
Stealing from the darkened cloud?
Lot. the snow-flakes gathering round
Settle o'er the whitened ground 1
Yet thou singest, blithe and clear,
" Spring is coming ! Spring ia here !"
-v .
The man 5cho answerea an advertise
ment to the lowing effect has his curi
osity satisfierj;." If you would learn to
make home happy, - Bend fifty cents in
postage stamps to A. Bn" etc. " Upon re
ceipt of postage stamps, A. B. replied,
l our home wouia De more happy n you
were less frequently there."
Dallas, Tex., ia excited over finding
two alligators in one of her sewers. .
-. - - . . -f- . . .
THE DUKE AND DUCHESS
EMXBURQH.
A WELCOME BT MR. ALFRED TENKTSOJT, T1TB POET
LAUREATE.
1.
The som of him with whom we strove for power
v nose win is lora tnro au msworid-aomain
Who mada the serf a man, and bnrst his chain-
Has given our Prince his own Imperial Flower.
Alexandrowna.
And welcome, Russian flower, people1 pride
To Britain, when her flowers begin to blow!
From love to love, from home to home you go.
From mother nnlo mother, stately bride.
- ' Marie Alexandrowna.
40' XL
The golden news along the steppes Is blown,
. And at tby name the Tartar touts are stirred;
Elburz ana all the Cancasius have heard;
And all the sultry palms of India known.
Alexandrowna.
Tho voices of our universal sea
On capes of Af ric as on clifls of Kent,
The Maoris and that Isle of Continent,
And loval pines of Canada murmur thee.
Marie Alexandrowna
m.
Fair empires branching, both, in lusty life 1
Yet Harold's England fell to Norman swords:
Yet thine own land has bow'd to Tartar hordes
Since English Harold gave its throne a wife.
Alexandrowna 1
For thrones and peoples are as waifs that swing.
And float and fall, in endless ebb and flow;
But who love best have best the grace to know
That Love bv right Divine is deathless King.
Marie Alexandrowna!
And Love has led thee to the stranger land.
Where men are bold and strongly say their say
bee, empire upon empire smiles to-day.
As thou with thv young lover hand in band.
Alexandrowna !
So now thy fuller life is In the West,
Whose hand at home was gracious to thy poor
Thy name was blest within the narrow door;
Here also. Marie, shall thy name be blest.
Marie Alexandrowna I
v.
Shall fears and jealous barred flame again?
Or nt thy coming, Princess, everywhere.
The blue heaven break, and some Diviner air
Breathe thro1 the world and change the hearts of
men.
Alexandrowna?
But hearts that change not, love that cannot
cease.
And peace be you. j, the peace of soul in soul 1
And howsoever this wild world may roll.
B etwecn your peoples truth and manful peace.
Alfred Alexandrowna l
ARE THE PLANETS INHABITED?
Professor Proctor, the celebrated
English astronomer, recently delivered
series of lectures on astronomy in Chi
cago, one of which related to the ques
tion oi liie in the planets, in which- he
advanced the following interesting facts
and theories, as we find them reported in
the Daily i ribune:
MERCURY.
To begin with Mercury, the nearest of
an tnese planets to the sun. l he feature
which strikes U3 first in dealing with Mer
cury is the great heat to which that planet
is exposed. .Mercury travels on an eccen
tric orbit, and is exposed to a greater heat
trom the sun at certain times than at oth
ers. Mercury is at one time much nearer
to the sun than in another part of his
year. Ihe year of Mercury is eightv-
eight ot our uaj's, so that in the course of
eighty-eight days Mercury passes from a
very great heat when nearest to a com
paratively less heat when farthest from the
sun. But, even when the sun's heat is
least, it is much greater than that to which
our earth is exposed. The quantity of
heat received by Mercury varies Irom
four times to ten times what we have,
Only imagine what would happen to us
ii me sun's light and heat were increased
iour-ioia, ana men extend your concep
tion lo an increase ten-lold. l think 1
need hardly say that the heat in that case
would be so great that creatures such aa
we are could not exist; animal life would
be destroyed on the earth if the sun sud
denly gave out lrom four to ten times as
much heat as he actually does. Then can
there be inhabitants in Mercury? Some
say if only the atmosphere were very rare
which surrounds Mercury that planet
could possibly have life there. In the
lorria zone, at a certain height you
reach the snow line, and above that line
there would seem to be no life ; but yet
it does seem possible that life may exist
ana aoes exist tnere.
But there is one circumstance that is
overlooked in that. In reality when you
go to tne nigaer regions where the air is
so rare, the sun's rays are not diminished.
The air does not get warm ; it does not
prevent the heat from passing through it,
and in the shade the air is cold. But in
the direct heat cf the sun expose your
hand and the heat is more intense than is
easily bearable. Even with snow and ice
covering the mountain-tops the face and
hands are blistered by the heat of the sun.
We should have a more intolerable con
trast in Mercury than in the case of an
atmosphere like our own. There would
be very intense heat under the direct rays
of the sun, and comparative cold in the
shadow, and life would be almost unen
durable to us; and if the atmosphere of
Mercury were so thin there would be
evaporation of all the water, and there
would be another condition opposed to
ours. It appears to me that that difficulty
is sufficiently great to make us doubt
whether life can exist on Mercury; I wjll
not say such life as can exist on the earth,
but any of the higher forms of life, under
these conditions.
Mercury is a planet waiting for the time
when life may exist on it; when the sun's
heat shall be sufficiently reduced, and
then life will be as comfortable as it is
on earth. Here we are introduced to con
siderations of great importance in this
point of view of life in other worlds.
Though life now exists on the earth, there
have been long successions of ages during
which life has not been possible on earth ;
and there may be long successions of
ages during which life will be tolerable
on the planets. A planet is intended to
support life, but not for all time, but for a
small portion of the planet's existence.
Now, coming to the gravity of the
plaDets. The gravity of Mercury, owing
to its smallness, is so reduced that one
pound would only press as four ounces
or nve ounces; ana here we are intro
duced to a consideration of the impor-
tance of gravity to ourselves. We some
times look on gravity and weight of
matter as being an inconvenience rather
than otherwise, but if it were not for
gravity we should be continually at a
loss ; objects would not stand firm, and
we should stagger for want of weight.
and would be in that difficulty which we
find in endeavoring to walk in water be
yond a certain depth. As you know,
divers wishing to walk about in deep
water have heavy weights attached, bo as
to keep themselves in that place.
It is an absolute necessity, therefore,
that gravity should exist, and what we are
. . i . , . . ?
in ine xiaon oi looamg upon aa aa incon
venience is, therefore, in reality, a Tery
important part of the earth's eco nomy.
TENUS.
But I now pass from Mercury to the
next planet, v enus. But venuais too
gloriously illuminated by the sun, and
the application ot tne telescope is disap
pointing. Again, we never see Venus
under proper conditions. 1 ou never see
the whole portion of the illuminated
surface. " When Venua is nearest to the
earth the sun lies in the sarre direction;
and therefore Venus turns "darkened
side and cannot be seen. When beyond
the sun his brightness obscures her. The
only time Venus can, be studied is when
Bhe is on the two opposite siues or ner
path, and then she is seen either as a
gibbous moon iOr a nan moon. ve
know, with respect to Venus, that she,
being very much nearer to the sun than
the earth is, must nave greai aeai more
heat -Her heat is not so great as that of
OF I Mercury ; still she has twice as much
heat as the earth has. In other respects
V enus is more like the earth. Although
Venus has no moon, yet being nearer the
eun she must have tides, and they are
barelv comparable with those that exist
on the earth.
But there is one peculiarity in the con
dition of Venus that seems very unfavora
ble to life, as we know it here. Accord
ing to the observations of the Italian
astronomers, the ftxis, instead of being
sloping at a small angle, has a large
angle. Only for a Bhort time would pbe
have equal day and night, but wben the
northern pole is toward the sun all the
polar parts would be continually turned
toward the sun; not merely a small part,
but very nearly half of the planet on that
side. When the southern pole would be
turned toward the sun that side would
have a continual day, and there would
be continual night over nearly half of
the planet. So there would be a very
great change In the condition o
the planet in winter and summer. It
is continual night, and -after that ex
tremely heated summer. These changes
are not agreeable to our Ideas of the pos
sibilities of life. They sugcest this pos
sibility, emigration. That is absolutely
necessary to certain classes of beings
here on this earth.
MARS.
Mars, instead of being like Venus, is a
planet that we can study very fully in
deed. We have here the orbits; here is
that of the earth, there that of Mara.
A portion of the time the face of
Mars is turned toward the sun, and
is also turned toward the earth,
and thus illuminated is studied to
great advantage. You can . conceive,
therefore, how it Is that astronomers have
been able to take such pictures as these of
the . planet,. having features resembling
those of the earth. There is an appear
ance of two bright white points at oppo
site sides, which have always been called
the snowy poles of Mars. Herschel was
the first to perceive that they waxed and
waned in size. He noticed that the axis
was inclined very much like that of our
earth, or rather more than our earth, but
so nearly like it that the same sort of sea
sons prevail. He noticed that when the
summer was in progress the polar regions
seemed smaller than in winter. That was
the first thing to show that the planet was
like our earth. Our snowy regions do
not cover more than the arctic regions,
and they occupy about the same propor
tions as those of Mars' surface. Since
the polar snws do not extend further,
therefore the tame sort of climate it
seemed probable prevailed there. Other
features corresponding to the idea of the
habitableness of Mars were noticed.
Some portions have a greenish hue, as
though there were oceans. The planet's,
continents, or what we call continents,
were ruddy; and wnite surtaces some
times seemed to form over these conti
nents or oceans, and to melt away during
the day, as if clouds were being dissipated
by the action of the sun.
Ihe theory in relation to Mars was that
it was a disc or globe covered with a hoar
frost, and having other peculiarities differ
ent from ours. That theory seemed to
me so inconsistent that I put forward my
self, or at least I adopted, the theory that
Mars is a globe like our earth, where all
similar processes take place rain, wind,
storm, clouds, rivers, being produced, de
nudation taking place everything seemed
so much like the earth. But then came
this annoying ' iheory - that ' wtuld put
Mars altogether out of the scheme of an
inhabited world, that it was only covered
at night by hoar frost, and that there was
everything in Mars uriiika the earth in
stead of like it. I determined to destroy
that noxious theory, and I began an essay
to destroy iL Bnt X found as I went
along that the plf theory was as strong aa
the one I adopted In its stead, and -1 fin
ished that essav bv advocating- the theory
that I intended to destroy. I found there
was very good reason indeed to bel leve tuat
Mars is in a condition quite unlike our
earth; that it has a very rare atmosphere;
that it has an atmosphere bearing the
same relation to that of this globe that the
oceans of Mars and its continents bear to
ours. The oceans in Mars are very much
smaller proportionately than the oceans
on our own earth. There is no Pacific
there. In fact there is no Atlantic. You
have only oceans comparatively small;
the lands and seas are intermixed. You
take the case of our own earth. The two
Americas form a single island ; Europe,
Asia and Africa form another large
island ; and we have the oceans around
those islands. There is nothing of that
in Mars. You can travel from any one
part of Mars to another. You need not
leave the sea or land, according to your
taste, if you are an inhabitant of Mars.
And then there is the small gravity of the
planet. If the gravity of our own earth
were suddenly changed to the gravity in
Mars, a pound weight would be reduced
from sixteen to six ounces, and the air
would be reduced in the same proportion.
It had been shown by a certain German
astronomer that the period of rotation of
Mars was 24 hours, '61 minutes and 23
which would result from such a catas
trophe completely demolish that theory.
Considering the giant planefa, to which
I next pass, we shall feel that they may Le
quite unlike this earth on which we live.
Consider the enormous "size of ' " .
JUFITKR. ""
" We are accustomed to consider him
larger than our earth, but it isn't merely
that; he is 1,230. times larger. Hero is a
difference altogether too great to bo re
garded as a difference of degree; it is a
diffeicnce of kind. Our conceptions of
them re necessarily different. Xsc should
expect it would be u different kind ot body
from that on which we live, and wo find
clear evidence ofth.it as we consider him.
If the atmosphere o" Jupiter were only
100 miles deep, the pressure at tho bottom
would be 60 great that the bottom atmos
phere would be a million of times as
dense aa platinum, the heaviest ot all the
elements. It seems utterly impossible
that life in any such atmosphere could ex
ist ; but that is the legitimate calculation
the pressure would be a million times as
great as ours, so as to produce a density
equal to that of platinum. There is one
peculiarity about tho jawf opposed f
that idea. Instead of Jupiter being the
densest planet, it is less dense than the
earth. Its density is one-fourth the letd
density of the earth and corresponds with
that of the sun, and this eecms to give nn
explanation of the dil'Jculty. The great
compression of the sun's attraction would
make his atmosphere dense, but its enor
mous heat expands the atmosphere, and
instead of being a dense globe wo have a
globe less dense than the earth.
The satellites of Jupiter may be bodies
well lighted, though not intended to sup
ply light to the planet. All the satellites
cannot supply tho planet with one six
teenth of the light which we get from the
full moon. Tiny are illuminated by tho
small 6un of Jupiter, which is but the
one-twenty-fifth part of our eun in size.
BATCHN.
Now to his brother giant, the planet
Saturn. . with his glorious jing system.
Those belts on Saturn correspond in kind
to those that exist on Jupiter; and I
might apply the reasoning on Jupiter to
Saturn without any further argument.
This equatorial belt of Saturn remains
during tho whole long year of Saturn
lasting twenty-nine yi ars of ours equa
torial. Now the 'axis of Saturn is in
clined very much as the earth's axis ia in
clined, but the equatori.il belt never
shifts, following tho sun as ours docs,
along the ecliptic. It seems by its posi
tion to show that it is produced Fry a force
residing in the planet itself. Now there
is one argument derived from thc-rings
of Saturn. Those rings have been de
scribed by Brewster as glorious bodies
reflecting on Saturn, and making up
for want of the sun. Instead of doing
that, those rings cut off tho sunshine.
When the winter of part of the planet is
in progress, and when more light is
wanted, the ring cuts off the light. Ho,
if we are to argue from causation, if we
are to say the Almighty Intended that to
be the abode of light; we have at once an
enormous difficulty brought lefore us.
Instead of the thing being well devised,
it seems ill devised. . It seems as if the
only time the ring reflected light waa
when it was not wanted, and wnen it was
wanted the ring came and cut off a great
part of the sun's light, and it does not cut
it off for a short time, but for eight and a
half years a certain portion of sunlight
is cut ou, and lot six oi those years tne
T7hilo-cf the stalicht ia cut & bv !. - -
The largest of the satellites of Saturn la
called Titan, and is certainly laiger than
Mercury, and probably as large as Mars.
How splendid must be the scene which
the planet Saturn presents to in inhabit
ants! I does seem as though a scene of
such wonderful beauty was ltot intended
to remain without spectators. It presents
through the telescope the most beautiful
colors, the most wonderful symmetry
all presented to the inhabitants, it inhab
itants there be.
LIFE IX TUB f-QLAB FTSTEM.
Now a few words remain to nie on the
general question of life in the polar sys
tem. I must confess the ruore I study
the matter I am convinced we arc not
bound, in order to reconcile us to the
Almighty's work, to adopt the theory
that all or any considerable portion of
the planets are inhabited. Wc look
back rt the past history of the earth,
and we find that the Creator i, in
our eyes, wasteful of His powcis, though
infinity can never be wasted. So in the
question of time there lias been no special
care to make avail of every instant of the
existence of the different worlds.- Wc
find that for millions of years back, our
world was uninhabited, and we see, in
regard to future condition, that -even
though there 6houM not be destruction
from lire, life will probably by other
causes pass away from the earth. So lar
from considering that every member of
the solar family must be inhabited at the
present time, the chances really arc mill
ions to one against any special planet
being inhabited, because the time it fcas
been inhabited, if Judged in anatony.viU.w.
our own cartUC4!jn?rrtift try, -very f ruu.l
seconds, or thereabouts. Then another PVne whole ti.ne in which the planet
German astronomer JefsAmTTr6ved on
that, and hVitoeeriod of rotation
24 hocrB, S7 minutes and 22 6-10 seconds.
WeIIttaeri an English Btudent of astron
omy, f le who does not venture to call
himse .'ar astronomer, an English - stu
dent, r. Proctor, thought. he would try
his hf i t this problem. And, to his
great 4ress, he found that hisx result
was in ttfr than the Germans by a whole
tenth 5r "i. 4 second that it 6hould be 24
bourse Jt tninutes and 2 7-10 of a second.
Keiser tt Ought it necessary to go over
his wc i ind publish a paper on the sub-
ect 3 a died only a year ago. From his
paperf I foond he seemed to make out his
case t y accurately indeed. There was
a won. 2ril amount of German care and
labor, : u'ny details; but I found, strange
ly end i i, two mistakes, ne called the
years 5 10 and 1800 leap years, whereas
we km; fthat in the Gregorian calendar
they a? opt leap years, and that made all
the difi Hice. Aid when that was cor
rected, t found my theory of the planet
was cc and the actual time it turned
arount tit .Was 24 hours. 27 minutes and
22 7-l lecOnds.. It may seem to you un
necesl ry to be so exact- But there is
one it portant question which may be
solved ry puch Information as that.
It hi ijxsen found that our earth i9 ro
tating i tr.re and more slowly as centuries
go by. Ulie moon lifts the tidal wave ;
the tid I rave acts as a brake, as it travels
in a dt -.tion contrary to that on which
the ear travels, and slowly indeed our
losing its speed. We cannot
,that change by . an - ordinary
eeause our clocks arc "set by the
tfthe earth. We time our clocks
3?sitofthe stars. How can we
i fjttestion such as that except by
tune true clock! Here is Mars,
1 1 planet, a pocket-chronometer,
have that chronometer's time,
x n as we hare her time we can
earth
measui
clock,?
rotatio
to the !
answel
bavin ft
this stj
and wt
and as
compa
trial cl
on tho
also, tl
turb it
that th
no mo
the for
the chf
be insf
ble clc
tion. I
. .
, I ne
astero!
these t
In the
duced
is not?
Lwith that : our own te?w
k. There are well-marked pi
rj of the planet, and there is this
i ihe planet has- nothing to dis
Mation. -The sun is so far away
dlartides do not affect it; it has
t and the oceans are not suited to
f-tion of a tidal wave; therefore
lr of the planet's rotation would
lificant. The planet is a su-ta-f
far getting at our earth's rota
i i. - -. '
exists.
A STJEAHROAT EXPL0SIjy.
A Steamboat JUotvn Vp on the Ml In.
, aippt Itlver Trf vlble Loin of Life and
KlfthC I!ot Buraed.
An epidemic of accidents seems to be sweep
ing over the country. Deaths by Are and vio
lence, by storm and railway, have been fre
qutntof late, hut an old-fathlotjcd stcir
hflt TTilnairm was wnttnnr TliAt fif!''
has been recently furnished, and Jiov'the t
measure of horrors U filled.
On the 24th of Mat ;b, as tb ifc,ncT Cres
cent City, plying between Xtm Orleans and St.
Louis, and having in tow five barges, a f jel .
and a trading boat, reached the f uot ot Mon
tezuma Island, abc-ut thirteen miles 'bt In w ;
Helena, Ark., a terrific exploeiou occurred. -The
boiler burst forward and outward, carry
ing away everything irom the middle of the
boat forward, and oiualng the sinking of the
steamer in about ; ten minutes. Eleven
persons were killed:'' Copt. Dawsou; Henry
Gessler, mate; John trenc!,T..is-" M'
Wm. Mundy, pilot; rar.".-"Tr '.r.tJt-ii;-'vVni.
Rnnn, cook; Clarene' "Adtt, cabin boy. Jobu
Davis, Ben Johnson, 1. Ad kins, colored re
man. Twenty-seven were saved uninjured
and six were more . or less wounded. ' t'apt.
Hall, who owned the trading boat, had a rib
broken, a log bruised and body bad'y but not
dangerously injured. His son was also bruised
and burned. . Capt. Hall and son were in the
pilot-house at the time of. the explosion. Us
was blown fifty feet in the air aud fell under
the debris, to which "he stove ct fire, and was '
unable to extricate timself. He drew a knife,
to cut off one of bis legs, which was held fat
by the timbers, when the tq.it gave a surb'c as
she sank, which freol bim, and he pulled his
eon from tbe burnJng embers. Tho barge.s,
laden with sugar, wtre set on fire and burned
4 - THE ASTEBOLDS.
' pass from thete planets to the
i i There are now knowa 134 of
Cfcr planets. - There is a theory
ka that the asteroids are pro
t the bursting of planets. That
rf ect. Observations on the orbit
n .-.
I t i
t
the tradlr
been assign
yto the water's edge, as were also
land fuel boats. Ho cause has .b
for the explosion.
- It ia one of the f weef est and ro-
nolin reflections c f the onenir vstcon-
ofbuds end fiowers, when! 'CS season
shall be released ., :rora thefv - t")ok9
and there is a fair promise 1;y. chains
Iambs skipping fmm to:0 the gentle
thistle totliistle,t:atthf ,lf rock
ly growing briefer ar rL
iu i ujc
C has been Lr--,k-n
y extent. L'oct titer
Idah?is Sber ?f BchrA children In
ThesVh8' "tramst, 1,303 aet year.
xni.uyoi moneys anin;int tAio-;i j.
t"r'-ia ia io..
oppressive gas-msH .
the fountain to
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