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THEHERALP. PUBLISHED EVEET THURSDAY PLATTSMOUThT NEBRASKA. On Main Street, between 4th and 5th, Second Story. OFFICIAL PAPER. OF CASS COUNTY. Terms, in Advance : One copy, one yew 2 00 One copy, six months ". J 00 On copy, three months 50 NO A. MACMUEPHY, Editor. "PERSEVERANCE CONQUERS.' TERMS: 32.00 a Year VOLUME X. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1874. NUMBER ;U. THE HERALD. ADVKUTIMIAO nATES. SI-ACK. 1 iuare.. S squares 8 kquaren. X column. X column. 1 column. Iw.jSvr, i 3 w. ; 1 m. 3 m. 0 m. l yt. $1 00 f 1 M fa 00 fl Nl (5 00 $8 00 fit 00 INI 3 0 I S 7.V 8 M tt W II) (M 1 Oil 9 Wi a 7.'.l 4 0(1 4 7.M Hd'IJ 00 0 01 ft 00 H 00 10 fl la 00 2) 00 28 Oil 85 00 8 no'ia (k i!s (m in i (M 40 oui r.o oo IS 00 18 OO -.il OH ! (Kl 00 (0 00 10010 X3T" All Advertising bill due quarterly. W Transiont advertisi mcnt must be paid for in advance. Extra copies of the Hera lt for alo by II. J. Strclght, at the Postotflce, and O. F. Johnaon, cor ner of Main and Fifth tretta. HENRY BCECK, DEALER IX -Kuii-iaituire, SAFES, CHAIRS, Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads, ETC.. ETC., ETC., Of All Descriptions. METALLIC BURIAL CASES. Wooden Coflins O' all sizes, ready-made, and sold cheap for cash. With many thanks for past patronage, I invite all to call and examine my LARGE STOCK OP Fiiimituio nl OollliiM. jar.28 MEDICINES J. H. BUTTERY'S, On Main Street, bet. Fifth and Sixth. Wholesale auU Retail Dealer in Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes. Patent Medicines, Toilet Articles, etc., etc. rSTTRESCRirTIOXS carefully compounded at all hours, day and night. 35-ly J. W. SHANNON'S Teed, Sale and Livery Main Street, Plattsmouth, Neb. I am prepared to accommodate the public with Carriages, Buggies, Wagons, AND A No. I Hearse, On Short Notice and Reasonable Terms. A II A. c rc Will Run to the Steamboat Land ing1, Depot, and all parts of the City, when Desired. janl-tf First National Bank Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, SfCCESSOH TO Tootle, II:mii:i .fc Clai-lc. JOHN FlTZr.ERALD. K. U. Do vet .If.iiv K Clark... T. W. Evans President. Vice-Presideo t. Cashier. ..Assistant Cashier. This Bank is now open for business at their new room, corner Main and Sixth streets, and an pre pared to traiii-aci a general BANKING BUSINESS. Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Government and Local Securities BOUGHT AND SOLD. Deposits Received and Interest Al lowed on Time Certificates. DRAFTS DRAWN, Available in any part of the United States and in all the principal Towns and Cities of Europe. AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED INMAN LINE ana ALLAN LINE OF STliVMERS. Persons wishing to bring out their friends from Europe can PCBCHASB TICKETS TRO TS T1iihij-1i to IMnttMiiioutli. Excelsior Barber Shop. J. C. BOONE, Slain Street, opposite Brooks House. HAIR-CUTTING, Shaving and Shampooing. ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO CUTTl.NG CIIILDRCV.S HAIR Call and See Boone, Gents, And get a boon in a OXjXJjXN' SHAV3 n-ly GO TO THE Post Office Book Store, H. J. STEEIGHT, Proprietor, FOB YOCB Boofcs, - Stationery, Pictures, Music, TOYS, CONFECTIONERY, Violin Strings, Newspapers, Novels, Song Books, etc., etc. POST OFFICE BUILDING, t-tf PLATTSMOrni. KEB. EPITOME OF THE WEEK. Condensed from Telegrams of Accompinjing Bates. Monday, Tov. 9. A Rome dispatch announced that the Pope has been taken sud denly ill.... Several prominent merchants of Memphis, Tenn., have been arrested and bound over to the United States Circuit Court in the sum of $2,000 each, charged with violating the Enforcement act in din- charging colored men from their employ for refusing to vote the Democratic ticket labt August.... It has recently trans pired that three children two girls aged fifteen and thirteen, and. one boy aged ten of John Martin, residing near Fort Wayne, Ind, were stolen on the lot of October, and have not since been heard from. No reason for the abductions is known. The parents have been nearly distracted over their loss, but kept quiet in hopes of gaining a clew to the whereabouts of the missing children. . Several arrests have been made in Louisiana for alleged violations of the Enforcement act. Much excitement existed in Northern Louis iana on the 9th caused by the previous ar. rest by Lieut. Hodgson and Marshal Selye of parties without warrant, as is alleged, and by force of United States bavonets. The Lieutenant and Marshal were subsequently brought before Judge Trimble, at Vienna, charged with oontempt of court in disobey ing a writ of tiabea corpu, and fined $100 each, and sentenced to ten days' imprison ment in the parish jail. D. M. Jewett, United States Commissioner, had been indicted and arrested upon a warrant, charged with kid naping. He was bound over in the sum of $1,000. . . .The Conservative Committee of Sev enty at New Orleans telegraphed to President Grant on the 8th, 6tating that the Conserva tives had been entirely successful at the re cent election in Louisiana, and that thousands of colored citizens had voted the Conservative ticket, and protesting against the further oc cupation of the State by military forces, and requesting their withdrawal Diphtheria is prevailing to an alarming extent in New York city. Tuesday, Nov. 10. A Berlin dispatch says the first attempt of the Prussian Govern ment to have priests elected by the congrega tions had taken place at Landsberg, and has resulted in utter failure, only eleven persons having voted. An application has been made to the Ecclesiastical Court for the deposition of the Bishop of Paderborn The Third Assistant Postmaster-General in his annual report estimates that the propor tion of washed stamps used again in the pay ment of postage is 5 per cent, of the value of all the stamps sold each year, causing an an nual loss of 1.000,000 to the revenue of the department Licutenant-General Sheridan has returned to his headquarters in Chi cago from Fort Sill and the Indian coun try. He reports that the Indians who have been on the war-path are pretty thoroughly subdued, having surrendered their arms and ponies to the Government troops. He antici pates no further difficulty in that quarter.... Prof. A. B. Smith, ex-President of the Ar kansas Valley Collegiate Institute, publishes in the St. Louis papers a statement in which he says there are fully 40,000 people in Kansas and Nebraska who are either now or will shortly be in absolute want of the necessaries of life A daughter of T.C. Buten, of Y'ilton Junction, Wis., was burned to death the other evening by a can exploding while she was building a fire with kerosene oil. "Wednesday, Nov. 11. A Trieste dis patch says the Turkish authorities have cap tured thirty of the leaders in the recent out rages perpetrated on Montenegrin Christians in Podgoritza.... Several of the Eastern man ufacturers of fancv cassimercs have agreed to stop 25 per cent, of their machinery for three months because of the present over supply and low piice of their productions The vote in Massachusetts for Governor is as follows: Gaston, Dem., 95,901; Talbot, Kep., 80,243; Andrews, Labor Reform, 131; Gaston's plurality, 6,058 The vote at the recent election for Congressman in the Second Ver mont District was as follows: Denison, Ind., 8,2); Poland, Rep., 4,111; McLane, Dem., 1,5:35 In the Brooklyn court on the 10th a stay of proceedings was granted in theTilton Beechereuit until argument should be heard on the appeal for granting a bill of particu lars to Mr. Beecher. A plea of "not guilty" was entered in the libel suit of Miss Proctor against Mr. Moulton.... A flispatch received at St. Louis on the 10th from Gen. Pope, through Gen. Sheridan, announces that Big Horn, a Cheyenne chief, with twenty warriors, ftrty-eight women, twenty-nine children and over 200 horses, surrendered unconditionally to Col. Hall at the Cheyenue Agency on Nov. 4. The warriors were held in confinement Gen. Hurlbut's majority for Congress in the Fourth Illinois District, over Farnsworth, is 1,128. The official returns in the Second Illi nois District give Harrison, Dem., seven i a ority In Terrc Bonne Parish, La., on the 8th, a negro Sheriff who was elected on the compromise ticket was attacked by seven other negroes. Simms ran from the party three squares, and, being pur sued, turned upon them and fired, killing one and wounding another. Simms- immedi ately surrendered himself, and was sent to jail. Judge Trimble, on the 9th, at the in stance of citizens, remitted the fine and re voked the order of imprisonment against Lieut. Hodgson. Selye was still in prison. Five St Martinsville prisoners, charged with violating the Enforcement act, have given bonds for their appearance before the United States Court. Thursday, Nov. 12. A cable dispatch says the Carlists have raised the siege of Irun, and that the Republicans occupy the positions held by the besiegers. An unsuc cessful attempt has been made to capture Don Carlos on French soil.... At the munici pal election in Providence, U. I., on the 11th, Thomas A. Doyle, Republican, was re-elected Mayor. The City Council is largely Repub lican. The prohibition question was brought into the election, but nine out of the ten Aldermen are regarded as anti-prohibition.... The International Typographical Union, which has undertaken the work of pro riding a statue or other suitable memorial over the grave of Horace Greeley, makes an appeal for further contributions The Chi cago dailies announce that the Baltimore & Ohio and the Grand Trunk Railroads have refused to join the famous Saratoga agree ment, whereby the Eastern lines hoped to control the freight tariff between the West and the East The Tribune says the announcement that the above-named roads " had not joined the combination was greeted with much satisfaction by the managers of our Western railroads, ail of whom, with a single exception, look very unfavorably upon the compact".... The trial for bribery of ex Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, has been con tinued and will go over to next April.... An Omaha dispatch says Gen. Ord has received notice that the Commissary-General has decided that the supplies are barely sufficient for the subsistence of the army, therefore no rations can be issued to the sufferers from the grasshoppers in Ne braska. Col. Dudley, United States army, has completed the inspection of the grasshop per district, and has furnished an elaborate report of facts. Many settlers will be desti tute of food in a few days; the buffaloes have gone; the domestic animals are mere skele tons, and the resources of the Nebraska Aid Society will be entirely inadequate. Friday, Nov. 13. Madrid dispatches of the 12th say the Carlists lost heavily at Inin,but succeeded in carrying off their guns. Before leaving their positions they burned the houses of Republican sympathizers. ...Count von Arnim has been re-arrested at Berlin.. St. Petersburg telegrams say the Government has decided to introduce free schools and compel the children to attend them. A socialist conspiracy ha been discovered in Moscow. An unsuccessful attempt has been made to murder the Czar, and numerous ar rests have been made The Secretary of the Interior has reversed the decision of Com missioner Drutninond, of the General Land Office, on the 23d of January, 1S74, refusing to consider an account in favor of Nebraska for 5 er cent, of the value of public lands lying within her limits, included within the reservations made by treaties with In dians. The account will be, therefore, at once prepared and forwarded to the Treasury Department. This decision will control the pending claims from several other States At Montrose, Pa, on the 12th Daniel O'.Mara and Patrick Irving were banged for the murder of O'Mara's mother and sister in September of last year. At Westchester, Pa., on the same day, William E. Udderzook was executed by hanging for the murder in June, 1873, of Winfield S. Goss, his partner in a con spiracy to defraud insurance companies.... It is said that at least 10,000 men and women in New York city are out of employment, and that whole families are without the necessa ries of life.... The official canvass of the votes for Iowa State officers has just been concluded. For Secretary of State, Josiah T. Young, Republican, received 107,250, and David Morgan, Anti-Monopoly, 79,054. Re publican majority, 28,202 The Election Re turning Board of Louisiana met in New Or leans on the 12th. Saturday, Nov. 14. A report was circulated in London on the 13th that Queen Victoria had died. Much excitement was caused thereby until the report was ascer tained to be false Hendaye dispatches say the Republican troops are in hot pursuit of the retreating Carlists, and are burning the houses of Carlist sympathizers . . . .The Ameri can Express messenger on the Ureal Western Railway in Canada was robbea on the 13th of over $30,000 by five masked men who boarded the train near Toronto and gagged and bound the messenger and baggage-man.... Information recently re ceived in diplomatic circles in Washington confirms the report that Spain has paid her indemnity to England growing out of the Virginius affair It has been de cided that the Tilton-Beeeher suit will not be tried before the first Monday in December V. V. Smith, elected Lieuteu- ant-Governor of Arkansas on the ticket with Baxter in 1872, has issued a proclamation declaring himself Governor, Baxter hav ing abdicated in favor of Garland. He claims that the new Constitution was not legally adopted by the people in the manner prescribed bylaw, and that he is now the legal Governor of the State. In his proclamation he says he does not intend to employ force to dislodge Mr. Garland, the newly-installed Governor, but will quietly await a decision from the President, to whom he has applied for aid to enable him to enforce his claim. THE MARKETS. November 13, 1371. NEW YOKK. Cotton. Middling upland, Wtg,UHc Lite Stock. Cesf Cattle 310.5iil:J.0O. Hogs Dressed, $8.t?8.S"i; Live, $0.35&6.73. Sheep- Live, St.ClXaGJIO. Breadstlffs. Flour Good to .cnoice, s.i.u.yy. 5.75; white w heat extra, S5.753..15. Wheat No. 3 Chicago, Sl.06Itl.07; Iowa sprinj. j,i.vhiav. No. -.Milwaukee spring, $1.0931.10. Rye cst ern and State, 92&!Uc. Barley 1.301. 40. Corn Mixed Western aCoat, VViUiVia. Oats New Western, 6.&6J,4c. Provisions. Pork New Mess, 5 r.)..S Lard H?iai5c. Cheese 12!(3.13?Xc. Wool. Common to extra, 4jS.8c. CHICAGO. Lrva Stock. Beeves -Choice, $ ".5O2fi.00 ; pood. 4.73fio5.2.": medium, --OU3.1.50; hatch ers' stock, 2.2.V&3.75; stock cattle, 5.50 3.U0. noss Live, $r,.30&G.75. Sheep Good to choice, $4.75(34.50. Provisions. Butter Choice, 31S38c. Egg? Fresh, sM&itc. Cheese New York factory, 1516c; Western, 14i:c. Pork New Mess, $13.01X318.50. Lard 1334'314c. Breaustuffs. Flour White winter extra, $..OOC?4ii.J3; spring extra, $t.i"4J5.00. Wheat Spring, No. 2, Sti'i'ic- Corn-No. 2, 7454 75c. Oats No. 2, 4834S4c. Barley No. 2, $1.2231.24. Rye No. 2, SryT Mic. Wool. Tub-washed, 45357c; fleece, washed, 4047c; fleece, unwashed, 2724c. Lumber. First Clear, $50.0052.00; Second Clear, $l6.0o348.00; Common Boards, $11.00 12.00; Fencing, $11.0O12.00; "A" Shingles, $3.003.25; Lalh, $2.00!&2.25. CINCINNATI. Brsadstuffs. Flonr $" .00&5.50. Wheat P.ed, $1. 031.07. Corn New, 0384c. Rye 'j:394c. Oats 53 250c. Barley $1.2iX&1.35. Provisions. Fork Lard 13313'tjC. ST. LOUIS. Live Stock. Beeves Fair to choice, $tu03 G.50. llogs Live, $1.7i,-7j. BitKADSTurrs. Flour XX Fall, $1.253t.r.O. Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, $1.04ai.044. Corn-No. 2, New,fi9(&70c. OaU No. 2, S&53!4c. Rye No. 2, 8G!3S7c. Barley S1.1SI&1.20. Provisions. Pork Mess, $19.253,19.50. Lard -12!i13c. MILWAUKEE. Brbadbtcffs. Flour Spring XX, $5.255.50. Wheat Spring No. 1, &iKc; No. 2, 87 87,4c Corn No. 2, 7Si79c. Oats No. 2, 4fva 47c. Rye No. 1, 90,91c. Barley No. 2, $1.20!i 31-21. DETROIT. Bezapstuffs. Wheat Extra, $1.18&1.18l4. Corn 79&S0c. Oats MVJiftMc. TOLEDO. BRiADSTtrrFs Wheat Amber Mich., $1.074 10S; No. 2 Red, $1.051.05'4. Corn Mixed, New, 67308c. Oats No. 1, 62363c. CLEVELAND. -Breaistdffs Wheat No. 1 Red, $1.111.12; No. 2 Red, $1.05:31.06. Corn New, 6536tic. Oats-EOasic. BUFFALO. Live Stock. Beeves $1.0O&6.85. Hogs Live, $0.GO;36.75. Sheet) $4.5035.2o. EAST LIBERTY. Live Stock. Beeves Best, $6.503.75; me dium, $5.503G.OO. Hogs Yorkers, $6,153 6.25; Philadelphia, $6.8037.00. Sheep Best, $1.7535 00; medium. $4.00(34.50. Treasurer Spinner's Annual Keport. Washington, Nov. 9. Gen. Spinner's report is complete and in the hands of the printer, lie devotes considerable space to an argument in favor of issuing interchangeable bonds, to bear interest at the rate of 3.63 per cent. His arguments on this point are in the main the same as those of last year, except that he believes that it would be wise to allow holders to ex change the 3.G. for outstanding 5 and G per cent, bonds. He says that the gicat est objection to a metallic currency is its lack of elasticity, and is of the opinion that the adoption of the convertible bond -will correct this evil. He thinks the rate of interest will be high enough to sell the bonds, to the absorption of any surplus currency, at any time, while it will be enough to force a return of the bonds in exchange for legal-tender notes when the business of the coun try demands more currency. The rate of interest at one cent a day on the hun dred dollars would be popular with the people, he says, because it is easy of computation, lie argues that the con version of the 5s and Gs into low-rate bonds in the event oj the condition of the currency demanding such conver sion would result in the material reduc tion of the interest on the public debt, and make it payable entirely in national currency at home, and not in gold to foreigners. Postal Affairs Annual Iteport. Washington, Nov. 11 IIox. E. M. Barber, Third Assistant rostmaster-General, has completed his annual report. It shows that during the last fiscal year there were issued to Post masters, for sale to the public, 632,733,000 adhesive postage stamps of the value of $i ,2 0,24:2; or plain stamped envelopes about 65,000,000, valued at $1,927,952; of stamped envelopes bearing a return re quest 52,000,000, valued at $1,733,735; of newspaper-wrappers some 19,000,000, valued at J220,000, and of postal-cards 91,000,000. lhe increase in value of the ordinary issues over the preceding year was 1.60o,4)58, or over 8 per cent. 1 hese figures represent the cost of manufacture added to the postal value. It is estimated that for the fiscal year ending June dO, 18 0, there will be re quired to defray the cost of adhesive postage stamps $149,704; of stamped en velopes and wrappers $446,520; of post al-cards $159,806; and of advertising $115,000. I lie number of stamps, etc., issued each year increases at a uniform rate of about 10 per cent, per annum, but in consequence of more advantageous contracts having been ellected the esti mate for the above items is some $31,000 less than the sum appropriated for them for the current hscal year. l lie Dead-Letter JJi vision received dur ing the past year 4,601,773 letters, repre senting an actual or nominal value of $4,63j,429, exclusive of jewelry and other property, wliicn class of inclosures is treated as possessing no money value that can with correctness be determined. One million three hundred and ninety fwo thousand two hundred and twenty four letters, representing $3,909,868, were delivered to the owners or writers, in cluding 225,893 foreign letters, which were returned unopened to the countries from whence they came. Of the re mainder some 2,600,000 were either worthless, containing circulars, etc., or could not be delivered and were de stroyed. The rest are filed for reclama tion or are in the hands of Postmasters for delivery. 1 he 1 hird Assistant strongly recom mends that provision be made by law for furnishing to each and every Post master throughout the country indelible ink and other requisites for effectually canceling postage stamps and for post marking. None of the postollices are now furnished by the department with any such articles for the protection of the Government. Mr. Barber estimates that the proportion of washed stamps used again in payment of postage is 5 per cent, of the value of all the stamps sold each year, causing an annual loss of $1,000,000 to the revenue of the department. The report describes the plan devised by the Third Assistant, and approved by the Postmaster-General, for collecting newspaper postage under the Prepay ment law, which is to go into effect next January, lhis system provides, in brief, for the prepayment by stamps affixed to a memorandum of mailing, or, in other words, to a stub in a book retained by the Postmaster at the mailing office, a receipt showing the weight of the matter and the amount paid being given by the Postmaster to the person mailing the same, lhe stamps amxed to tne stuD to be canceled by a cutting-punch. It is expected that, notwithstanding the re duction of rates by the new law, this system of compulsory prepayment of newspaper postage will yield a larger revenue than has ever been collected. Comprehensive inquiry seems to warrant the belief that in the city of New York alone not less than $600,000 per annum will be paid, a sum which is little less than one-half of the entire revenue from newspaper postage throughout the United States during the fiscal year. It is, how ever, impossible to estimate the actual increase for the whole country, owing to that provision of the law which allows free mail circulation of newsnaners in counties in which they are printed. A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. A Chicagoan Ledgcil for Six Months In ii Lnnatle Asylum. In that intensely interesting and dramatic story, " Hard Cash," in which Charles lieade depicts many ot the out rages which were practiced toward patients in some of the leading private lunatic asylums ot England, there is neid up to general execration a system which, although not supposed to rauuly through out all similar institutions, yet obtained n all to a greater or less degree at once the most horrible and disgraceful to any country or humanity in general. Those who have perused the pages ot tnat door, whereon is told the story of a man con signed to a living tomb within the walls of a lunatic asylum, associated with madmen and treated like the average in sane person who is presumed to be dangerous, know how awful must be the experience of a man in such a situation, who, possessed ot all his faculties intact, has been thus incarcerated by designing people, either through motivesof revenge or hopes of defrauding him out of property. A case has recently come to light, wherein a resident of Chicago wras the principal actor, which bears a strong re semblance to the incidents in the asy lum life of the hero of Meade's story, and which, taken altogether, is one of the most remarkable in American annals. Mr. James II Weed, who resides at No. 17 West Grove street, is a tanner by trade, and a quiet, orderly, intelligent, well-disposed gentleman. It is of him that this brief story pertains. The facts might be drawn out at great length, but a close synopsis is sufficient to illustrate the wrongs to which he has been subject ed. Nearly a year ago he went to his former home at Darien, Conn., where he has brothers residing, for the purpose of securing an interest in an estate left by his mother. While endeavoring to secure his rights in this direction he alleges that his brothers and certain other relatives formed a conspiracy against him, and procured certificates from two physi cians that he was insane. This was on the 23d of last March. As soon as the certificates were made out he was taken to the insane asylum located at Middle town, Conn. On the 27th of that month he managed to escape, and returned to his native heath to trouble his brethren. He was at once rearrested, and although he procured bondsmen who were willing to vouch for his sanity, and who did sign the bonds necessary to procure a writ of luibea corpu, still, for some peculiar rea son, ihe application for the writ was, by some unique process known only to Con necticut magistrates, suppressed, and Mr. Weed was again committed to the tender mercies of the asylum. After his return he says he was sub jected to the most brutal treatment and every effort was made by his attendants to make him what his certificates pro nounced him an insane man. On the 10th of May he again effected an escape, but was not fortunate in getting away, being recaptured the next day and taken back to the asylum, where he was doubly guartled and more closely watched. He was all the time biding his time to escape, as there was no hope of assistance reaching him from the out side world. He had written to his friends, but no response came, and, well nigh hopeless and despondent, he saw no way left but to resort to strategy. The opportunity came on the loth of last month. He says that then, having suf fered as much as it seemed possible for any sane man to endure, he determined to escape once more from the horrible pandemonium. He had secreted unon his person a key. This key he used In one of the hall doors during a brief ab sence of one of the keepers. The door opened, Mr. Weed emerged into the yard, squeezed through the fence, and made his way through an adjacent swamp to the railroad, lie went to High- ney, passed that place and came to Deep Hiver. As he was going to a drug store in that place he saw one of the asylum keepers in the street, but the fellow did not observe him, and he turned to one side and passed on. He kept on until he reached Saybrook bridge, at the mouth of the Connecticut River. There he met a man to whom he told the story of his sufferings, and who proved friendly to him and atlorded him niucn assistance This man furnished him money, and with it he made his way to New London, going from there to New York through the assistance of another person "with whom he became acquainted, from New York Mr. Weed came to Chicago. Mr. Weed says he was treated worse than any criminal could be in State prison, lhere are, he says, regular days at the asylum when visitors are admitted. and then the building is in the neatest possible trim, and everybody who goes through it is favorably impressed with the order and the management. There is another part of the institution which is effectually sealed from the eyes of the world. Taking his account as true, there exists a condition of things in this Con necticut lunatic asylum disgraceful to the State and to humanity. He says he was not well fed, and that a hog would not eat what was set before hiui. All efforts to obtain interviews with out side friends were frustrated, neither would the attendants permit him to take any steps to provide for his wife or chil dren. In a letter to a friend, speaking of the treatment received at the hands of the keepers, he said: "I say hell has but few such fiends in it, but I hope there is room for them yet down there, if there is such a place." After his second incar ceration he was caged with a lot of rav ing lunatics and was kept dirty and ragged. One of the attendants at the asylum, in a letter to Mr. Weed's wife, said he never met with a saner man and could not understand why he was kept there. Mr. Vv eed says that the system oi gov ernment is very loose ; that the most shockingly disgusting and indecent liter ature is circulated and the inmates treat ed to exhibitions which would outrage all sensibilities. Such literature can only be perused with a most brutalizing ef fect. If the crimes Mr. Weed relates be true, and he says they are true and that the half has not been told, the highest attribute of mercy that could be exer cised toward the unfortunate insane of Connecticut would be to shoot them and give them at once a Christian burial. Chicago 2'imes, JVc. 12. Army Reports. Washington, Nov. 9. GEN. SHERMAN. Gen. Sherman's annual report to the Secretary of War shows the total number of enlisted men in the army on Oct. 15 to have been 26,441. It es'imates that tms number will probably be reduced throueh natural causes by the 1st of Ja nary, 1875, to the 25,000 allowed by law. It deprecates the inadequacy of so small an army for the demands of so large an area of territory as it has to be scattered over, involving the necessity of withdrawing troops from one depart ment to meet the requirements of others a long distance away. It compliments the high efficiency of Gen. Sheridan and his subordinate officers in maintaining comparative peace in the Indian country. It says the reports of the commanding officers demonstrate that the small army of the United States, called a peace- es tablishment, is the hardest-worked body of men in this or any country. The dis cipline and behavior of the officers and men have been worthy of all praise ; and, whether employed on the extreme and distant frontier or in aiding civil officers in the execution of civil processes, have been a model for the imitation of all good men. In regard to the removal of his head quarters to St. Louis he sa's : " I am prepared to execute xne uuues imu may be devolved on me by proper authority. Hpre I am centrallv located, and should occasion arise I can personally proceed to any point on this continent where my services are needed." OEX. SHERIDAN. Lieut.-Gen. Sheridan, in his annual report, touches slightly upon oen. Custer's Black Hills expedition, which it pronounces ; a successful recon noissance. The country of the Black Hills was found to be much better than was expected, with plenty of good timber and considerable good soil at high altitudes, and an aounoant sup ply of good water and grass. Some gold was found near Harney's Peak, but of its abundance there is ar present no reliable information. Sufficient time could not be given by an expedition such as that of Gen. Custer's to prospect and determine the quantity. Gen. bheridan again recommends the estaonsnment oi a large military post in the Black Hill country. Of the Indian troubles lien. &neridan says: "l respectiuuy diner wun uen. Pope as to tne chiei cause oi tnese In dian troubles, &nd attribute it to the immunity with which the tribes have been treated. In all their raids into Texas for the past three years their res ervations have furnishel the supplies with which to make the raids and sheltered them from pursuit when they returned with their scalps and plunder. No man of close observation, it seems to me can travel across the great plains from Nebraska and Wyoming to Texas, and see the established ranches w4h their hundreds of thousands of head of cattle, sheep and horses, together with the families of the owners, and reasona bly think that these people, so much ex posed and having such valuable inter ests, are desirous of provoking Indian wars. There was a time, possibly, when the population of the Indian frontier may have been desirous of Indian troub les, but that has passed long ago." Hanging the Heavy Villain. The moral effect of the sensational drama was perhaps never better illus trated than in a theater at Cambridge, England, recently, where the peiform ance wound up with a tragedy founded upon a local murder, the details of which were mimicked with sickening precision. The curtain fell after the murderer had been brought to the scaffold, and with rope dangling above his head had " im proved the occasion." The audience re fused to leave, and when the orchestra played the national anthem it was re ceived with hisses and clamor, and the crowded audience remained in their places. At length the manager presented himself and apologized for being unable to gratify his patrons by actually hang ing the actor who represented the mur derer unless with his own consent, which he was hardly likely to give. The "gods" shouted furiously: "Bring him out with the rope around his neck." Of course the demand was complied with, and after more demonstrations of their desire to see the representative of the murderer actually hanged the crowded audience slowly, and with manifest re luctance. left the house. There are $500,000,000 invested in cows in the United States. FO 1ST r Ft) U RTH C0XU RESS. SEX ATE. Republicans in Roman; Opposition la small enps. errn fntn. siissorui. 1S79. Lewis V. Bout. Term tniU. ALABAMA. 1SV7. J. tioLOTIIWAITE. 1ST9. G'.-o. E. Spencer. ARKANSAS. Powell Clavton. b. W. Dorscy. f'ALIFOUNIA. Aaron A. Sargent N ewtiin Room. niNSEi'THl'T. 17:. Orris S. IVrrv. 1S81. Wm. W. Eaton. DELAWARE. Eli SaclkbtrT. A Democrat. FLORIDA. S. B. Conover. 1SS1. A Democrat, (. KOltiil A. 1S77. T. M. Norwood. 1S79. Johv B. Gordon. ILLINOIS. John A. Lognn. it. J. Oglesby. INDIANA. O. P. Morton. A Democrat. IOWA. Geo. G. Wright. Wm. B. Allison. KANSAS. 1S77. 1S79. 1379. 1SS1. 1877. 1SS1. 1S79. 1S77. is; 9. 1S79. 1SS1. 1S77. 187U. 18S1. A Democrat. NEBRASKA. 1S77. P. W. Hitchcock, isxi. A Republican. NEVADA. 1879. John P. Jones. 1SS1. A Republicau. NEW HA MPS II IKK. il77. Aaron II. Cragin. il8;9. B. Wadleigh. NEW JERSEY. !lS77. F T. Frelingbnys'n ISSl. A UEMOl'BAT. NEW YORK. 1879. Roseoe t'oiikling. 1S81. A. Democrat. I NORTH CAROLINA. 1877. M. W. Ransom. 1S79. A. S. Merrimon. I OHIO. '1879. John Sherman. ilfOl. A. G. Tlll RMAN. I OREGON. 1877. James .1. Keli.T. ;1S79. J. H. Mitchell. j PF.Xsft.VASU. 1879. Simon Cameron. .1SS1. A Democrat. ILA. 1. 177. 1879. 1879. 1877 RHODE Tames M. H.irvey. IS77. Henry It. Anthony. John J. Ingalls. 1H81. A Republican. KENTUCKY. i SOUTH CAROLINA. 1877. Jno. W.Stevenson 1877. Tbos. J. Robertson T. V. McCreery. ,1879. John J. Patterson. LOUISIANA. TENNESSEE. J. Rodman West. 1877. Henry Cooper. 1879. ADE.MocRAT(,prob,:iS81. A Democrat. MAINE. t TEXAS. l;T79. Lot M. Morrill. 1877. M. C. Hamilton. 1881. A Republican. 18tl. Samuel It. Maxey. MARYLAND. I VERMONT. 1879. George R.Dennis 1879. Justin S. Morrill. 181. Geo. F. tiliuunds. VIRGINIA. Id T . . l" 1 11 . . 1881. R. E. Withers. WEST VIRGINIA. 1877. Henry G. Davis. :1881. A Democrat. I WISCONSIN. !l877. Timothv O. Howe. 1881. A Republican. 188r. Wm. P. White MASSACHUSETTS. 1877. Geo. S. Boutwell 1881. A Republicau. MICHIGAN. 1.877. Thou. V. Ferry. 1S81. A Republican. MINNESOTA. 1877. Win. Windom. 18S1. A Republican. MISSISSIPPI. 1877. James L. Alcoru, 1881. Blanch. K. Bruce SUMMARY. Republican 43 Opposition 81 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Republicans in Roman; Opposition in small caps; names 01 members 01 tne orty-imru con gress marked with an asterisk (). ALABAMA. B. B. Lewis. W. II. Forney. Jere Haralson (col.). J. N. Williams. 3. Paul Bradford. 4. 'Charles Hays. 5. John H. Caldwell. 6. G. V. Hewitt. ARKANSAS. 1. L. CGalse. I 3. W. W. WiLSHiRE. i. W. F. Slemons. I 4. Tiio3. M. Gunteb. CALIFORNIA. Election in September, 1875. CONNECTICUT. Election in April, 1S75. delaware. James Williams. FLORIDA. 1. J. T. Walls (col.). I 2. Wm. J. Punnan. GEORGIA. 1. Julian Hartridge. 2. William E. Smith. 3. Philip Cook. 4. Henry It. Harris. 5. M. A. Candler. ILLINOIS 6. .Tames II. Blocnt. 7. W. H. Dabney. 8. A. H. Stephens. 9. Garnet McMillan. 1. B. O. Caulfield. i. C. H. Harrison. 3. Chas. It. Farwell. 4. S. A. Hurlbut. 5. H. C. Burchard. i. Thos. J. Henderson 7. Alex. Campbell. 8. G. L. Fort. 9. R. II. Whiting. 10. John C. Bagby. I INDIANA 11. Scott Wire. i. Wm. M. Springer. 13. K. E. Stevenson. 14. Jo. G. Cannon. 15. John R. Eden, IS. W. A. J. Sparks. 17. VV. R. Morrison. 18. Wm. Hartzell. 19. Wm. B. Anderson. 1. B. S. Fuller. 2. J. D. Williams. 3. MiciiaelC. Kerb. 4. J. I). New. B. Wm. S. Hoi.man. i. M. S. Robinson. 7. Frank Landers. iowa. I 8. Morton C. Hunter. I 9. 'Thomas J. Cason. !K. Wm. S. Hayward. ll. J. L. Evans. 112. And'w H. Hamilton. 13. James II. Baker. 6. Ezekiel A. Sampson. 7. John A. Kasson. 8. James W. Me Dill. 9. Addison Oliver. 1. Geo. W. McCrary. 2. John Q. Tufts. 3. L. L. Ainswortii. 4. Henry O. Pratt. 5. J.imes Wilson. KANSAS. 1. Wm. P. Phillips, j 3. W. II. Brown. 2. John K. Goodin. kentuckt. . A. R. Boone. i fi J. C. Hughes. !. John V. Bbowk. 7. J. '. S. Blackburn. 3. Ciias. W. Mii.LiKiN.i 8. Milton j. Durham. J. PitorToii Knott. ! 9. Harrison cockrill. E. Y. Parsons. ,10. John B. Clarke. LOUISIANA. 1. Randall L. Gibson. I 4. W. M. Levi. i. K. John Ellis." 5. Benj. F. Spencer. C. B. Darrail. ; 6. C. fc. Nasn (coll MAIN E. .Tohn IT. Burleigh. I 4. Samnel F. Hersey. William P. Frye. ! 5. Eugene Hale. James G. Blaiiie. j MARYLAND. Philip F. Thomas. I 4. Thos. Swans. HAS. A. RoEEIiTS. I 5. Eutt. llESKlE. Vm. Jas. O'Brien, j ti. Wm. Walsh. MASSACHUSETTS. Jaiiies Biifflnton. Benj. W. Harris. Henry L. Pierce. 4. Rufus S. Frost. N. P. Banks. Cuas. P. Thompson. MICHIGAN. John K. Tarbox. ! 8. Wm. W. Warren. I 9. tJeo. F. Hoar. 110. Jul. H. Seelye, Ind. 111. Cues. W. Cuapin. 6. Geo. II. Durant. 7. Omar I). Conger. 8. N. B. Bradlev. 9. 'Jay A. Uubbell. A S. Williams. Heurv Waldron. Geo. Willard. 4. Allen Po-rriiR. Win. B. Williams, j MINNESOTA. 1. M. H. Bunnell. I 3. Wm. S. King. 2. !!. B. Strait. I MISSISSIPPI. Election next year. MISSOURI. 1. Edward C. Kerr. 2. Krastus Wells. 3. Wm. II. Stone. 8. Benj. J. Franklin. 9. David Rea. 10. R. A. DeBoit. 4. Robt. A. Hatcher.11. Jons B. Clark, Jr. 5. Richard P. Bland. 12. John M. glover. fi. Cuas. 11. Morgan. 13. 'A. H. Bcckneb. 7. John F. Phillips. NEBRASKA. Lorenzo Crounse. NEVADA. Wm. Woodburn. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Election in March, 1875. NEW JERSEY. C. Sinnickson, I 5. A. W. Cutler. Samuel A. Dobbins. 6. Fred II. Teesb. Miles Ross. 7. A.A. Habdenbebgh. Robert Hamilton.! NEW YORK. Henry B. Metcalf. J. G. SCHUMAKER. S. It. Chittenden. A. M. Bliss. Edwin It. Meade. Samuel S. Cox. Smith J. Ely. Jr. Elijah Ward. Fernando Wood. A. S. Hewitt. Benj. A. Willis. N. Holmes Odell. J. O. Whitehouse. Geo. H. Beebe. John H. Bagley, Jr. 18. Andrew Williams. 19. Wm. A. Wheeler. 20. 'Henry H. Hathorn. 21. Saml. F. Miller. 22. Geo. A. Bagley. 23. Scott Lord. 24. Wm. II. Baker. 25. E. W. Leavenworth. 2. C. D. McDougal. 27. Elbridse G. Latham. .8. Thos. C. Piatt. 29. Chas. ('. B. Walker. M. John M. Davey. 31. Geo. G. Hoskins. :. Lyman K. Bass. 33. Augustus F. Allen. Chas. II. Adams, Milton I. Townsend. NORTU CAROLINA. Jesse J. Veates. 15. A. M. Scales. John A. Hvman. 'fi. T. L. Ashe. A. M. Waddell, !7. Wm. M. Bobbins. Jos. J. Davis. fi. R- B. Vance. John L. Vance. Ansel T. Wallino. M. I. Southard. John P. Cowan. N. H. Van Vorhes. Lorenzo Uanford. L. D. Wood worth. James Monroe. James A. Garfield. Henry B. Payne. OHIO. 1. Milton Satler. ""11. 2. Henry B. Banning. 12. 3. John S. Savage. 13. 4. John A. Macmaiion. 14. 5. Americus V. Rice. ;i5. tt. Frank II. llunu. jl6. 7. William Lawrence.:17. 8. L. T. Neal- ;18. 9. E. F. Poppleton. !l9. 10. Charles Foster. 20. OREGON. Geo. A. La Dow. PENNSYLVANIA. 1. Chapman Freeman. 15. Jas. Powell. 2. Chas. O'Neill. lfi. Sobieski Ross. 3. S. J. Randall. ,17. John Reii.ly. 4. W. D. Keiley. 18. Wm. S. Stenger. 5. John Robbins, Jr. ,19. Levi Maish. 6. Wm. Ward. 20. Louis A. Macket. 7. Alan Wood. Jr. ;21. Jacob Tubney. 8. Heisteb Clymeb. 22. James II. Hopkin. 9. Wm. Patton. 23. Alex. G. Cociiban. 10. W. H. Blunter. . '4. John W. Wallace. 11. Frank D. Collins. 2.V Geo. A. Jenckes. 12. W. W. Keichum. ,2. Jacob Sileaklet. 13. Jas. B. Reilly. :27. Albert G. Elbeht. 14. Johu B. Packer. i RHODE ISLAND. 1. Benj. T. Ames. 2. Latimer W. Ballou. SOUTH CAROLINA. 1. Saml. Lee co.). 4. J. B. Kershaw. 2. K. W. Macket. ! 5. Robt. Small (col.). 3. SAMUEL McGOWAN. TENNESSEE. 1. Wm. M'Farland. 1 6. John F. House. 2. J. M. Tboruburgh. 7. W.C. Whittuorse. 3. Geo. i. Dibkell. j 8. J. D. C. Atkinh. 4. John W. Head. i 9. Wm. P. Caldwell. 5. 'Joiu! M. Bbiuut. 10. II. Casey Yocko. TEXAS. 1. J. H. Reagan. i 4. Roger Q. Mills. 2. B. B. Culberson. 5. John Hancock. 3. J.W.TllROCKMOHTONj 6. Gl sTAVB ScllLEK UK VIRGINIA. 1. P. It. Douglass. ; . John R. Tucker. 2. 'James H. 1'l.itl. ! 7. JoiinT. Hakkis. 3. Gilbert!'. Walker 8. Kppa Hunton. 4. W. H. Slowell. j 9. Wm. Terry. 5. Geo. C. II. Cauell. j VERMONT. 1. Charles W. Joyce. 3. 'Geo. W. Hendoe. 2. Dudley C. Dennison.; WEST VIRGINIA. 1. Benj. Wilson. I 3. Frank Hereford. 2. C. J. Faulkner. WISCONSIN. 1. Chas. (J. Williams. 5. Sam. D. Buk maud, 2. I.ucien B. Caswell. . A. M. Kimball. 3. Henry S. Magoou. 7. Jere M. Rusk. 4. Wm. P. Lynde. I 8. A. S. Mi Dill. RECAPITULATION. Republicans. 101 ; Opposition. 174. The States yei lo elect will choose 17 members or the House. EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS. Annual Itrport of the Commissioner ot Kilurutlon, The United States Commissioner of F.diiev tion has published his annual report for 1S7I5. jolwitIistau!insr the disasters which, have fallen upon the industries of the country, lie states that on the whole the past year was oue of substantial progress in educational matters. In Alabama the Board of Education lias la bored under "rreat embarrassment, from t lie dil'lculty of securing; from un impoverished people tlie needful funds for the support of free schools. Arkunsus has labored under similar embar rassment with respect to funds. lAJUisiuna has 6triiLr;rled through the year under kindred financial troubles with the two uc'trhboring States just named. lhe new State superintendent of Instrue- tioa in Florida reports an increase of liftv-six schools in 1S73, making-, with 113 added in lbi'i, an addition of lb'J to the 3JI previously existent. Georgia, after a cessation of public-school teaching for a year (except in certain towns), has again set her schools in operation, and an earnest Superintendent is doiug obviously his best to make the new etlort a success. South Carolina 6hows an increase of IIS free sehools and 147 new school-houses over 187:1, with an additional school-attendance of 7,421, and an additional expenditure of $ 11:J,'.I81.37 for public schools. North Carolina has merenscu by about 71 per cent, her receipts for free schools and by about l'JO percent, the attendance of them. Kentucky has friends ol education who have Dressed forward, amendin? her School law, advancing thequuliiieations of her teach ers, improving her school-houses and taking steps toward a general education of her colored population. In lrinnia, thoug-h there has been a slight falling otf in receipts aud expenditures for school purposes, as well as in enrollment and average attendance, there are 501 new schools, while a great number of school-houses were built during the year. The returns from lennessee arc imperfect. but enough appears to indicate that the or "anization of the State system has gone steadily forward under the direction of the Superintendent. Maryland has lengthened her school year sixteen days; expended for teachers' salaries ?14,000 more than in 1972; for school-houses s7,(KM) more, and for treneral school purposes $07,083 more; at the same time adding 12,P.W to her school enrollment and making fair beginnings in an etlort to trive her colored children equal advantages for education with the whites. Delaware still remains without any State supervision of schools, but in her two lower counties some improvement is observable. Pennsylvania shows an increase of twenty two school districts, of 3U0 schools, of 'AM "Traded schools, of 721 teachers, and of six days in the average duration of her school term, with au aggregate of school property estimated at$2l,ioO,2lK, and a total expendi ture for school purposes of $8,Kl2,!t(0.2-). New Jersey reports eighty-three new school houses, with great improvement in the con dition of the older ones; an increase of three days in the averasre school term; n liberal ad vance in teachers' salaries; $74,2-14.74 beyond 172 for building and repairing- schools; $2."K1,W.M.13 beyond for general school pur poses, and .VvS.O40 beyond the estimated value of school property. New York reports a receipt of 1 1 ,.V;, (KJ7.S0 for public-school purposes, and an ex penditure of ?10,41t),5s.S for the same, with a total expenditure of 1 lfl.tVi'i.CW.o? in twelve years past. Of the grand annual expendi ture nearly 7,000,(XX) have g-one for the sala ries of teachers; nearly 2,iO0,M)n for building aud improving school-houses; 174,3.'!;.2:i for supporting eight normal schools, and $7, ti'.W.'.H for supply of school instruction to the few Indians in the State. Connecticut publishes a decade-table show ing that, though the number of children enumerated has increased only 21,2.77 in ten years, the increase of interest in public schools lias been such as to raise the amount secured for them from all sources to $l,442,t',''--u'l in 1873 against 3'.K), 454.20 in 1-H. Rhode Island shows that in 1ST3 her towns raised nearly $100,000 for the support of schools, and that in 1S73 the same towns raised over $:i00,000 for the same purpose. The increase of schools in the same time was 207; of teachers, 'J. The returns from Massachusetts for the school year l71-'72 show $5,47''27.05 raised by taxation for public schools alone. The es timated value of school-houses in the State was over $20,000,000 at the close of 173, against 13,770,0')'. at the beginning of 1870; 170 high schools and fifty-eight incorporated academies are returned. Maine shows a smaller number enrolled in schools, but a decidedly better average attend ance. New Hampshire presents 222 new or newlv repaired school-houses, 44 new schools, ;7 ad ditional graded schools, but a diminished aver age attendance. Vermont, reporting biennially, makes no statement as to public schools for 1S73. Ohio having- chang-ed the legal school age from 5-21 to C-21 exhibits, probably Irom 1hi cause, an apparent falling otr in school popu lation of bl,5tM. She raised in 17:, for school purposes, $7,705,003, against ( 7,420, 338 fn 1872. Michigan raised for school purposes, in 1873, 3,!:W,r2, against f 3,.r'3,47y in 1872. The condition of the public schools is report ed to have much improved under county supervision. Indiana, without giving lull statistics ior 1873, claims a net increase of school revenue amounting to $HJ5,.VSl over 1872, with 4Wnew school-houses, built at a cost of 872,'JOO. The permanent school fund has been aurrnent'd and more than the usual amount raised by taxation. Illinois shows a school population larger by 27,135 than in 1872, a smaller enrollment in schools, but an average attendance nbout the same. Her school revenue, S'.,25'.l,441, has been $1,7.VJ,31'J beyond that of the preceding year. Wisconsin, for a comparatively new State, without the aid of large and wealthy cities, has raised for school purposes $2,028,027, and expended for repairs of school-houses 307,9:4. -Minnesota, out of 100,075 children scattered over her gTeat surface, shows the fair propor tion of 124,583 euro!'.'d in her free schools, with about 3,358 more in pay schools. Dur ing the past year 228 new school-houses have been erected, at a cost of $203,311. Iowa reports 4,510,0-88 raised to instruct a school population nu inhering 49 1,044, of whom 347,572 are enrolled in public tchools, and li. 135 in private ones. The sum of ?1, 100,054 has been exoended in this State in the erec tion of new school-houses and supply of libraries aud apparatus. In Missouri the enrollment in public schools is 380.050 out of 073.403 children of school ajje, and the amount raised for the support of schools is 1.7 90.314. Kansas has 121,000 in her schools, out of a school population reaching: only 184,057, and has devoted to the education if this number 1,803,008, w ith 515,071 for school buildings and repairs, the increase of school-houses for 1873 being 000, and that of enrollment 15.027. Nebraska, with a school population of 03, 108, has on her school rolls 37.372, and has raised for school purpo.-es 708,W)O. Nevada returns 5,075 children of school age, and in her seventy-six schools 3,478. Educational activity in Oregon has ben very greatly stimulated during this the first year of the service of the State Superintend ent. The establishment of graded-school sys tems in the towns has not advanced as rapidly as could be desired. California justifies the general sense of her importance by reporting a school population of 141,010 and a school enrollment of 107,503, her school revenue reaching 2,551,799, or about 23.70 for each enrolled child. Clear evideuee of popular favor toward her public schools comes in the fact that within eight years 15,204 children have been transferred from private schools to them. For the first time reports, more or less com plete, have been received from nil the Terri tories. The exhibition is encouraging, evinc ing a desire for ediieut iomil advantages and eltorts to secure tlicin even where present circumstances are unfavorable. Excluding Alaska, the Territories give nil aggregate of 09,038 children in the schools, and of s3s,S20 for the instruction of them. The District of Columbia stands liret among the Territories as respects the number en rolled as scholars, 1tl.77'. I'tah comes next, reporting 15,830; while in tbo uiuount raised for educational purposes Colorado heads the list, lu r school revenue, for a school enroll ment of 7,450, being 257,5."7, against 22', 514 in the District of Columbia. The most striking progress is presented In New Mexico. This Territory Is able to report 5,304 scholars In the schools. llwpcful progress is manifest In the growth of special schools for the training of teachers for our public schools. Statistics are given of 1 13 ii i iii 1 1 schools ami normal depart incuts, having; 877 instructors and 10.020 students. Eleven of these were established or organized in 1873, the most notable being the Massa chusetts State Normal Art School. The Commissioner est iui.itcs t be population between the ages of six mid sixteen in Ihe thirty-seven States and eleven Territories at about 10,228,000. Massachusetts heads the list with an expenditure per capita of $21.74; Nevada, 17.:55; California, 11.02; Nebraska, 11.02; Connecticut, 11.00; Rhode Island, 11.00; Illinois. 10.18. North Carolina shows the smallest expenditure, the amount per capita of school enumerations being llny tive cents; Alabama, 1.21; Florida, 1.40; South Carolina, l.Ml. Colorado heads the li-t of Territories with un expenditure of 17.50 per capita of enumeration, Montana coming next with an expenditure per capita, of 0 43. In the District of Columbia the ex penditure per capita was 9.42; in New Mex ico, 1.77. Allowing forty pupils to each teacher, the number required to tench the youths between six and sixteen years of age is estimated at 200,000. It is estimated that the public school teachers In Massachusetts teach on an average three years. Perhaps this period of service would be a high average for the whole coun try. Hence, confining the estimate to tho school population between six and sixteen years of age, the number of new teachers which sh juld be prepared each year to take up the work would be s0,000. Ihe report presents a summary oi the sta tistics of 1,039 schools for secondary Instruc tion, commonly denominated academics, seminaries, institutes, etc., Including college preparatory schools. The numberof instruct ors in these schools was 5,748; number of stu dents, 131,().7; total number of volumes In library, 559,18.8. Ihe number or Institutions for the superior instruction of women reporting in 1873, not Including the live colleges for women in tho State of New York, was 205, with 2,120 in structors and 24,013 students; 107 of the num ber are designed as colleges; 0,321 of the stu dents were in the Treparatory departments, 17,207 were reported to be In regular or ad vanced courses of study, and 1,025 in special and post-graduate courses. The number of volumes reported in the libraries was 213,075. lhe number of schoolsol science (including special scientific departments of universities) embraced in the Commissioner's tables is 0, reporting 050 professors and instructors, 0,.!00 students in regular courses, 533 in special courses, 08 in post-graduate courses, 1,420 in preparatory courses; 193,000 volumes in libra ries, about 14,000 volumes having been added to them during the year. lhe nuniicr ot schools or theology in tne country in 1873 was 110, havlng573 professors and 3,838 students; volumes in libraries, 502, 44; increase in libraries during the year, 30,303 volumes, lhe aggregate corporate prop erty of the schools, us far as reported, was 7,708,49S ; endowments, $5,455,007. Of the 110 theological schools and theological de partments of colleges in the United States, 20 are I resbyterian, lb Koman catnouc, in nap-, tist, 18 Lutheran und Reformed, 10 Protestant Episcopal, 10 Methodist, K Congregational, 2 uusectarian, and t ciH It Unitarian, Moravian, New Jerusalem aud Union Evangelical. In advocating drawing in the public schools the Commissioner says: " Whoever succeeds in having-all the pub-lie-school children of the country properly trained in elementary drawing will huve done more to advance the iii:iiiul.u tiires of the country and more lo make possible the art culture of the people than could bo accom plished by the establishment of a hundred art museums without this training-. Justus libraries are worthless to those w ho cannot read so are art galleries to those who cannot comprehend them. Just us all literature in open to him who has learned to read so is all urt to him who has learned to draw, whose eye has been trained to see and his lingers made facile to execute. We have begun at the wrong end. We asked for art galleries when we needed drawing-schools; but the evil is not irremediable. Let drawing be generally taught and our art galleries and museums, poor us they are, will at once grow more and more valuable, for they will then begin to be of use." There are in the United States forty insti tutions for the instruction of deaf mutes. The number of instructors employed in them is 2S0. The number of inmates under instruc tion in 1873 was 4JM. The numberof asylums for the blind is 28, having 545 teachers. The number of inmates under instruction during the year was 1.010. There are probably more than 4O0 institu tions for orphans and homeless youths in this country, sheltering not less than 45,000 poor and unfortunate children. Information con cerning 178 of these asylums is given in the report. 1 hey were under the supervision and care of 1,1s-! perrons and contained over 22,000 inmates, most of whom were probably under instruction. The number of institutions distinctively known as Reform St liool.s which furnished information to the bureau was '.'A. The num ber of commitments during tne year was 0, 858. The number who received instruction in reading in theyear was 1,075; number taught to write, 1,008. Numberof volumes reported in the libraries of tnese school was 27,747. The number of Instructors In all classes of educational institutions iu 1870, according to the census, was 221,012; number of pupils, 7,200,038. According to the Commissioner' report there were in 1873, in all classes of in stitutions about which information was ob tained, 240,032 teachers and 8,723,945 pupils. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Ax unsatisfactory meal A domestic broil. The press that printers like A press of business. Any young miss would rather have her corsets tight than her "feller." SoMKTiMtcs coul does not burn as well of un evening, because it's slate. The habit of keeping still under prov ocation at length makes one almost lire proof. Hashfulness is often like the plating on spoons when it wears off, it shows the brass. The plainest woman alive, if she reaches the age of eighty, will be a pret ty old one. Model wives formerly took a stitch in time: now, with the aid of sewing ma chinesthey take one in no time. Those Detroit ladies who bleached their hair to a blonde are bleaching it back again. Fashion is a fickle jade. The labor of the body relieves us from the fatigues of the mind, and this it is which forms the happiness of the poor. Some of the students at Eastern col leges can board themselves for thirty five cents per week, but they don't feel like tearing around much. The man who has not had anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato plant the only good be longing to him is under ground. "IV) you get whipped at school now?" asked a mother of a young hopeful who had recently changed his place of in struction. " No, mother, I have a better teacher and I'm a better boy." Dresses arc made to fit the figure "like a glove," and t e great majority of New York fashionable women have dis carded corsets in order to bring about the "eternal fitness of things:" Hkcreation is not idleness. It is ab solutely necessary at times that a man fchould get out of the routine grooves of work, that ho may grow mentally and physically aad become nearer perfection.