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CURRENT TOPICS. 
Chinese Immigration. 
In Congress, the other day, Mr. Sargent of 
California presented petitions signed by 16,633 
citizens of California, asking the Senate to pay 
some attention to the condition of the treaty 
between the United States and China, with ji 
view of having some modifications made therein 
to prevent the evil of Chinese emigration to 
this countiy. Mr. Sargent said that the mutter 
was of groat local Importance—so local in its 
character that, the Importance would probably 
not be appreciated in other parts of the coun¬ 
try. They had in California about 60,000 Chi¬ 
nese who did noCassimllate with the people of 
this countiy. They did not oome herb to be 
citizens, and did not. seek to become citizens, 
but through their ignorance and superstition 
even had their bones returned to China after 
death. With one or two exceptions, out of 
100,000 Chinese, t here had been no applications 
for citizenship. Those Chinese worked at very 
moderate prices, underbid and undersold all 
other kinds of labor, and necessarily drove oul 
other labor, skilled and unskilled. They lived 
in habitations overcrowded and in such con¬ 
dition m* to endanger the health of the city, 
and in quarters of such a character us often¬ 
times to cause great conflagrations. He desired 
to call the attention of the Senate to 'the fact 
that,California and the Pacific States und Ter¬ 
ritories wore simply the gates to lot in the in¬ 
flux of Chinese. They did not bring civilization 
with them the same as other emigrants did, 
but brought Pagan customs, which they spread 
over States and Territories, and by-and-by, 
when these sections round themselves crowd¬ 
ed, the question would become a national ono 
—then perhaps it would bo too late. He would 
not dwell upon the crowded condition of 
China, the result of which was that they fre¬ 
quently resorted to Infanticide to keep down 
the Increase in population; but the people of 
this country should remember that we have a 
Christian civilization, and that Pagan creeds 
are inconsistent with ours. Let a given number 
of Chinese take the place of a like number of 
citizens in any section, and a curse would be 
inflicted by the change. lie was in favor of 
developing the resources of the country, but 
thought it bettor to develop them slowly than 
encourage this Chinese element. They would 
rob the country of its material wealth to enrich 
China. He knew that a good many would differ 
with him on this subject, and he had been slow 
himself to arrive at a conclusion. The memo¬ 
rial was referred to the Committee on Foreign 
Relations. 
HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
There are serious stories of Indian outrages 
from the neighborhood of Fort Laramie. The 
Sioux are reported as raiding in every direc¬ 
tion, burning ranches, murdering rancher-men 
and stealing stock. 
Massachusetts Legislature does not favor the 
appropriation of money by the State to pro¬ 
mote the Centennial Exhibition at Phila¬ 
delphia. 
Dr. James De Koven is now named as the 
most prominent candidate for Episcopal Bishop 
of Wisconsin. 
TheMormon leaders are urgingupon Congress 
the importance of sending a Joint Committee 
to Utah next summer, to investigate the state 
of affairs 1 here. 
The bodies of the Siamese Tw ins have arrived 
at Philadelphia and are the subject of surgical 
examination. The result will be published in 
the medical journals. 
The Massachusetts Senate has passed to a 
third reading the bill prohibiting the employ¬ 
ment by any manufacturing corporation of 
women or of children under 18 years of age 
more than 60 hours in one week. The vote (36 
to 5) leaves no doubt of the passage of the bill 
through its other stages, and it is likely to 
meet with equal favor in the House. 
The currency inflationists in Congress are re¬ 
ported as losing strength daily. Test votes lu- 
j dieate as much. 
The House of Representatives has passed a 
bill reported by the Committee on Post-Office# 
that makes it lawful for the sender of any book, 
magazine, newspaper or other matter of the 
third class, to write ills name upon R, und also 
a form of representation. The bill applies to 
matter heretoforeaetit, in order that the valu¬ 
able documents upon which members of Con¬ 
gress have spent so much money for postage 
may reach their destination, 
A telegram from Baltimore Feb. 6, announces 
that Dr. Win. H. Panooast, J)r. Harrison Alen, 
Dr. T. H. Andrews, and Col. Belting of Phila¬ 
delphia, had arrived tberofrom North Carolina, 
having in their possession the bodies of Chang 
and Eng, the Siamese Twins. 
C. 8. Wait of Westfield, Mass., had been bald 
for years and years. Two months ago he was 
burned almost to death, his head being shock¬ 
ingly crisped. A new scalp has grown, and 
from it hair grows luxuriantly. 
While going back from Ids own stopped train 
to signal another of danger, on the Boston and 
Albany Railroad. William Burdick fell Into a 
culvert and broke his leg. He crawled out, 
however, and Btopped the train in time. 
Mrs. Maxwell is engrossing clerk, Mrs. Elliott 
is postmaster, and Mrs. Quixon is paper-folder 
for tiie Iowa Legislature. 
The Roman Catholics of Boston have sub¬ 
scribed $70,000 for a new Episcopal residence 
which shall be In keeping with their magnifi¬ 
cent Cathedral. 
Oskaioosa, Iowa, hungers and thirsts for a 
starch factory, and offers a bonus of $30,000 to 
anybody who will there start one capable of 
using 1,000 bushels of corn per diem. 
A couple in Kansas lately paid their marriage 
fee in butter. Somebody suggests that “they 
belonged to the evemo dc la creme." 
Rev. Dr. Stratton of the Methodist Church, 
has been talking temperance statistics on the 
largest scale at Yonkers. Clergymen cost $12,- 
000,000 yearly; criminals, $40,000,000 (rather a low 
estimate if we include rings); lawyers, $80,000,- 
000; intoxicating drinks, $700,000,000. The City 
of Now York invests $ofj,uoo,ooo In manufac¬ 
tures, $00,000,000 In seventy-one banks, and 
$300,000,000 in t ho liquor business. 
Four hundred women have enlisted in the 
temperance movement at, Xenia, Ohio. 
California thinks Alaska only lit to be made 
a penal colony of. 
There are only eight gold watches in Harris¬ 
burg, Pa.—according to the official tax levy. 
A club of farmers in Chesterfield, Ill., takes 
$100 worth of magazines and newspapers 
annually. 
In Carthage, Ill., boys under the age of 16 are, 
by a city ordinance recently passed, prohibited 
from chewing tobacco. 
Two thousand dollars is a pretty high price to 
pay for a single rooster. That is what Mr. Da vis 
of Portland has just given to Ira Batchelder Tor 
a block Spanish cock—considered the best 
game bird in the country. 
The Iowa Railroad Committee meditates a 
sweeping bill to fix freights and fares at 80 per 
cent, of the last published rates of all the roads 
In the State. 
The Toledo, Wabash and Western Road has 
reduced Its fare in Illinois from 4 to 3 cents a 
mile. 
The Winona and St. Peter Railway has ac¬ 
quired, bv purchase, the Green Bay and Mis¬ 
sissippi Road. 
Gov. Woodson of Missouri will offer a reward 
of $2,000 apiece, dead or alive, for the men who 
robbed the passenger express and mail train 
on the Iron Mountain Railro . i at Gad’s Hill, 
January 31. In addition to tL,o it is understood 
the Governor of Arkansas has offered $3,500, 
and the Post-Office Department $5,000, making 
an aggregate of $18,500. 
Twenty-one years ago a young lady from 
Portland, Me., deposited $175 in the Lowell In¬ 
stitution for Earnings, and then went away. 
When she remembered It, she found that $789- 
was awaiting her call. 
Plans have been prepared for the bridge over 
the Misaippi at Quincy, Ill. It will be 2,400 feet 
In length, double-decked, with a draw of 300 
feet. 
Of 6,873 persons lodged in the station-houses 
of New York City last week, 5,484 were men and 
1,388 were women. 
The Wisconsin Assembly lias passed the bill 
fixing the rate of taxation on railways in that 
State at 5 per cent, of their net earnings. 
Honorable mention is made of a Maine ser¬ 
vant girl who is now serving her 83d winter un¬ 
der the same roof. Per cojif/Yt, a Missouri girl 
aged 9, keeps her father’s house and makes his 
trowsers. 
There is a town In Minnesota called Albert 
Lea, but. the inhabitants are dissatisfied and 
proposed to change the name to Landscape 
City. 
Smoking is not prohibited in the Kentucky 
Senate chamber, and noble Senators lustily ply | 
their pipes while considering best howto govern 
their fellow citizens. 
At the Stove Manufacturers’ Convention at 
Albany, it was resolved that the reduction in 
the price of stoves, hollow-ware, and castings 
should not be more than $10 per ton below the 
price recommended at the Pittsburg meeting 
last year. 
David F. Gage, the defaulting ex-Treasurer 
of Chicago is to be speedily tried on Indlct- 
j merits for perjury and embezzlement. 
Rush K. Sloane, ex-President. of the Cincin¬ 
nati, Sandusky and Cleveland R. R. has been 
arrested on 17 distinct charges of embezzle¬ 
ment preferred by the company. 
By the capsizing of a pot of molten metal at 
the Cambria Iron Works, Johnstown, Pa., 16 
men were seriously burned and one it is thought 
will die. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
The diplomatic representatives of Spain at 
Brussels, Berlin, and Lisbon have resigned. 
The Captain-General of Cuba, in one of his 
recent proclamations, calls upon the proprietors 
for one slave in every hundred, instead of one 
In every thousand, for military service. 
The relations between the Government of 
Japan and the foreign Ministers, excepting the 
representative of the United States, are becom¬ 
ing more and more inharmonious. Japan still 
resists t he pleas for opening the country' and 
requires a strict enforcement of the treaties 
as they stand until a revision shall have been 
agreed upon. Mr. Bingham acquiesces, and the 
other envoys are vehement In opposition. 
Until recently the Japanese have found it 
expedient to conceal their actual financial con 
dition on account of both foreign and internal 
complications. It has now been determined to 
publish statements of their resources, the first 
of which will be issued tn about two months I 
from this time. It will appeal'that the amount 
in the nat ional treasury Is no less than $25,000,- 
000, including the last English loan, and that 
the surplus revenue of 1873 was nearly $5,(XXI,000. 
It is reported that three brothers of ex-Pres¬ 
ident Baez have been imprisuned in Haytl. 
The organization of a new company to lay a 
light cable from the coast of Great Brltuin to 
Halifax, via the Azores Islands, is [announced. 
The capital £350,000, and the prospectus, which 
was opened on Saturday , says it is the intention 
of the company to convey messages over its 
cable at i he rate of ono shilling per word. 
A second decree has been issued by Japanese 
authority- Ibis time a peremptory one—recall¬ 
ing all students now residing abroad at the 
expense of the Government, except those who 
have given the very highest proofs of advance¬ 
ment. 
Venezuela journals of the 33d ult. contain a 
proclamation of President Blanco inviting im¬ 
migration, offering facilities and assistance to 
Immigrants and ordering agencies to be estab¬ 
lished abroad for their information. 
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THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Perry City, Wood Co., O., Feb. 7.— We have 
had rather a wild winter and a large amount 
of snow, with but little sledding; also a great 
deal of rain that was very bad on stock and did 
considerable damage to rough feed that was 
not under shelter. We have had the highest 
water known for twenty years; yet aside from 
damage to roads and Inconvenience for stock, 
or wet farms, but Jlttle damage was done. 
Rally sown wheat looks well; late-sown not 
very promising. Stock of all kinds look well; 
If the wintershould be a long one there will be 
a scarcity of feed. Stock, with the exception 
of hogs, very dull; hogs, $4.50@5 per cwt., 
milk cows, $10@30; fat cattle are a litt le better. 
Times very dull; money was never scarcer, yet 
farmers are hopeful. Wheat, $1.30; corn,55c.; 
oats, 35®30c.; potatoes. $1; green apples, 50@> 
75c.; hay, $15 per ton ; chickens, live, 6c.; tur¬ 
keys, Be.; geese, 15c. each ; butter. 30c.; eggs, 
15c.; lard, 7@8e.; dried apples, 6c.— h. w, 
Springfield, Mo., Feb. 11.—We are now enjoy¬ 
ing the first opening of spring. The blue birds 
are singing and frost is about out of the ground. 
Roads are drying up; in fact ail the prognostics 
for an early opening. Our winter has been 
mild; the mercury has not indicated lower than 
5° or 6° below zero. Our prospects for fruit of 
every description are now very fine. A larger area 
of wheat was sown last fall than ever before in 
this section of country, and Its present appear¬ 
ance is very fine. The financial derangement 
of last fall, of course, bad its effect here, but not 
to the extent In Eastern States; and with the 
increased acres now in cultivation. Southwest, 
Missouri, will be able to pay her debts, and our 
Greene County bonds will soon be in demand 
at par.— t. 
Ilnll's Corners, Ont. Co., JY. Y., Fell, 11.— Up 
to the 30th we had an open, mild winter; but 
little snow or sleighing. Since that a change; 
the thermometer has marked down to zero and 
below five different days, with good sleighing. 
Times are improving; barley, two-rowed, $3; 
four-rowed, $3.25; corn. 80c.; oats, 50c.; wheat, 
$1.65; white amber. $1.50; pork, $8@8.50 per 
cwt.; hay, $14tf|ils per ton; apples, red, $3.50 per 
bbi.; russets, $3,—p. f. u. 
Culm, IV. Y,, Jau. 29.—'The winter here is 
very open, with a great deal of rain ; not much 
sleighing. The price of farm produce is as fol¬ 
lows:—Winter wheat, $1.50@1.85 per bushel; 
spring, $1.40(3,1.60; corn, $1; buckwheat, 75c.; 
oats, 45<&50c.; hay, per ton, $lk@.17; straw, $9® 
13, delivered.; help scarce, wages $18@35 per 
month.—E, g. s. 
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WHAT SOCIETIES ARE DOING. 
The New England Ag. Soc. met. in Boston. 
Feb. 3, and elected officers aB follows: Pres. — 
Geo. B. I/O RING of Salem. Sec.—Daniel Need¬ 
ham of Groton. Trent.— Geo. w. Riddle of 
Manchester, N. II. The number of trustees 
from each of the New England States was In¬ 
creased rrom nine to eleven. Bv the report of 
the ’Treasurer. It appear* that the last annual 
Fair, held at Mystic Pork, Involved a loss of 
nearly $3,000. The present balance In the hands 
of the Treasurer is $3,361. The meeting voted 
that, as it was the purpose of the Society to 
have it* Fairs held in all the States of New En¬ 
gland, It is inexpedient to hold the next Fair In 
Massachusetts. 
Cortland Co., IV. Y„ Ag. Soc. - At the an¬ 
nual meeting of the Cortland Co. Ag. Soc., held 
Jan. 30, 1874, the following officers were elect¬ 
ed : - Pres.— AratrsTt-H L. Merrill, Homer. 
I. Pres.—A udison P. Rowley, South Cortland. 
1. Mason Lori ng, Cortland. Treat.— J. C, 
Carmichael, Cortland. E.r. Com.—Henry Mc- 
Revltt,Tnixton; Lyman II. Hohard, Homer; 
John Scott, Homer; Dwight Hitchcock, 
Homer; A 'J'. Nev, Homer; John Gallagher, 
Cortland; Nathan Salisbury,Cortland; William 
R. HlbbMrrJ. Cortland; Motrin Conger, Oort* 
land. The second annual horse fair and trot 
will be held Wednesday and Thursday, June 
lu and 11, 1874. The thirtv-sixth annual fair 
and cattle show will be held Wednesday and 
Thursday, the 16th and 17th of September; 1874. 
The tale* Co. Wool Grower*' Amtoclatlon 
held Its annual meeting at Penn Fan. Jan. 31, 
when the following officers were elected for 
1874:— Pm’t — Rowland G, Gardner; Vicx- 
PresVs William C. Swartz; Tresis. —Thoina , J. 
Lewis; Six. William G.Remer; Board of Man- 
Helknap, Jerusalem ; Adam Hunt, Milo; Wood- 
worth N. Perry, Middlesex : Charles Olmstead, 
Put ter ; Thomas J. Conklin. Starkey; Griffin B. 
Hazard, Torrey. A committee of three (II, J. 
Gardner, Guy Shaw, and Adam Hunt) was 
unpointed to make arrangements for a spring 
Show. 
Cumberland Co. (,Y. J.) \ x , *ne. at Its recent 
G. Gilman and A. R. Jones* Sec. and Treat.— 
Francis Danzeubaker; Er-Com.— Chas. Hunt, 
J. M. Harris, Geo. B. Grier, Peter Johnson, 
3 beo. F. Davis, Samuel Fisher, Isaac M.StnuUey, 
Mark R. Gore, Ell Rogers. ThlsiSoclety (now 
some twenty years old) is In a very prosjierous 
condition and owns property worth $10,000. 
The Oneida Co. (Y. Y.,) Ag. Soc. has elected 
the following officers for IS','4 :— Prct't T. E. 
Mcnn. Leyden; 1st Viee-Prcs't — Win. H. Orefen- 
dorf, Boonvillo; 3d Vice-Pres'l—L. II. Drake 
Leyden; Treat. -W. H. Cole, BoonvIUe; Sec. 
and Lihmnian —H. MeCIusky, Boouvlile; Cor. 
See. ami Seedsman—B. B. Milter, Leyden ; DU 
rectors — Job. W. Fisk. R. H. Kobcri*. E. M. 
Sperry; Qcn. Superintendent - Win. H. Cole, 
Leyden. Annual Fair at BoonvIUe, Sept. 8-10. 
UoonevBle, \. Y.. Union \g. Soc_The fol¬ 
lowing are the officers for 1871: Pm.—T. E. 
Mttnn, Leyden. Vtcc-Prest’s.— Win. H, Dlefen- 
dorf, BoonvIUe ; L.!!. Drake, Leyden. 'liras.— 
W. H. Cole. Boonvillo. Sec. and lAhrurian—B.. 
MeCIusky, BoonvIUe. Cor. Sex., and Seedsman— 
B. B. Miller, Leyden, Directors-J. W. Fisk. R. 
H. Roberts, K. M. Sperry; Gen. Sup’t.— W in. H. 
Cole, Leyden. Annual Fair will he held at 
Boonville, Sept. 8-10, 1874.—B. B. Mu, led. Cor. 
Sec. 
Erie Co., O., Ag. Stic, ig to hold Its next Fair 
at Sandusky. Sep. 23-25. The annual excursion 
and picnic of the Society will occur Aug. 12, 
and It is expected the Lucus. Wood and Ottawa 
Societies will unite in it. Officers elect; Pres’t. 
-Henry Milner; Vice-Pres't -Henry flunk ; 
Sec.—J. F. Greene; Treat.—A. W. Front, Jr.; 
Ex-Com-H. Milner, C. 0. Kerch, J. F. Greene, 
A. W. Prout, Jr., C. C. Botsford. 
Ilouloulltiral Soc. of MnrylAod.—A Society 
with this name was recently organized io Balti¬ 
more, and Die following officers elected : Pres . 
—Wm. T. Walters. Tmw.-R. W. L. Rasin. 
Rex. Sec.— T. C. Dorsey. Cor, Sec. —C. T, Snow. 
Ex. Com.—W. D. Brackenridge, John Feast, A. 
Hoen, Henry Taylor, Louis McLean, Hon. Geo. 
W. Dobbin, Henry James. J. D. Oakford [and 
Andrew Black. 
Lornine Co., O.. Ag. Soc.,—Officers elect for 
1874:— Pres't —R. Baker, Elyria; Vlce-Pres.t— 
L. 51. Pounds. Eaton; Directors for two years— 
*?- W ,' 5 ar , t .* ®lyi"Ia; J. C. Hill, Elyria ; Lorenzo 
Clark Carlisle; L. C. Winkles, Kidgevllle ; Di¬ 
rector one year—Ed. Ranc, Eaton; Sec— E. G. 
Johnson, Elyria; Treat.—1. C. Hill. Elvria. Fair 
Sept. 30-Oct. 2. 
Ingham Co., Mich., Ag. Soc.—The following 
officers have been elected for 1874; Pm.—D. L. 
Cad y of Vevay. Sec—Geo. W. Bristol of Mason. 
Treat .— D. C. Smith. V. Pres’tt.—Wm. Cook, 
Asa Thompson and D.T.H. Lyon. Directors—A. 
M. Chapin, E. D. Ramery, Wm. Somerville, A. 
J. Holley, R. N. Whipple and N. Branch. 
Potomac Fruit Grower*' Soc.—The following 
are the officei elect for 1874 ; Pres— Chalklky 
Gillingham. nce-Pres’Ls.— 8. E. Chamberlain, 
L. A .Hopkins. Six.— P. H. Folsom. Treat.— N. 
W. Pierson. Ex. Com.-WUllam Saunders, J. 
H. King, D. O. Munson, John Saul and J. H. 
Gray. 
St. Louia Ag. and Mecb. Asa’n —Officers elect 
for 1874 : Pm.— J. S. Walsh. First, Vice-Pres.— 
D. K. Ferguson. Second Viee-Pres— E. A. Man¬ 
ny. Third Vlce-Pres. — Charles p. Chouteau. 
Treat.— E. C. Lackland. Sex.— G. O. Kalb. Sup t 
Fair Grounds - David Clarkson. 
Champaign Co., O., Ag. Sue.—Officers elect, 
for 1874: Pm.—J ames C. Smith. Virc-Prcst.— 
John D. Wilson. Managers- -L. B. Harmon, M. 
V. B. Davis, E. M. Morgan. J. A. McDonald. Jas. 
L. Crain, J. G. Linville, W. A. Brand and John 
B. McDonald. 
National Coliimlmrlan Soc.—Wm. Sirnpson, 
Jr., West Farms, N. Y., is President, and A. B. 
Estes. N. \ . City, Secretary of the Soc. The 
Society hohhyui exhibition at 956 Broadway, 
New Haven. Conn., Poultry Society,—A meet¬ 
ing is to be hold at New Haven, Conn., Feb. 23, 
to organize a Poult ry Society with headquarters 
and annual exhibitions at New Haven. 
The Lake Co., O., Ag. Soc., is to hold its 
Annual Fair, Sept. 16-18. 
