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CURRENT TOPICS, 
“Character” for the Centennial. 
Congressman Hale of Maine, made a good 
point on the Pennsylvanlansthe other day, who 
are In force In Congress asklngfor an appropri¬ 
ation of £3,000,000 to aid In the development of 
the Centennial scheme. Mr. Kelley of Penn¬ 
sylvania, and other advocates of the bill, urged 
It because Congress and the Executive were 
committed to It and It would he a national 
disgrace If It were allowed to fail for want of 
the pitiful appropriation of £3,000,000. Repre¬ 
sentative Hale called attention to a drained 
Treasury} to the fact that the p&ymentjof the 
National Debt had ceased because the revenues 
had fallen off; to the fact that the expenditures 
of the Government in matters heretofore con¬ 
sidered indispensable had beeu curtailed from 
necessity, and to the prospective necessity of 
Increased taxation, and demanded if It was be¬ 
coming in anybody to borrow money to cele¬ 
brate his birthday. But Mr. Hale also re¬ 
membered that Senator Cameron of Pennsyl¬ 
vania pledged his word that the people of 
Pennsylvania and Philadelphia would give 
their millions, If necessary, to make the ex¬ 
hibition creditable, not only to Pennsylvania 
but to the whole United States, and declaring, 
in response to a question why an act of Con¬ 
gress was needed, that they only asked an act 
of Congress to give the enterprise character, 
that it had been incorporated in the body of 
the law that under no circumstances should 
Congress ever be callod upon for a dollar of 
money. And when asked by a Pennsylvanian 
if the people of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania 
had not given their millions, responded : 
Does the gentleman mean to take one-half of 
the promise and to violate the other half ? The 
promise was not only that Pennsylvania would 
give her millions, but that Congress would not 
bo a&ked for anything, and that all that was 
wanted was character. Then Pennsylvania 
needed character more than money. Now, she 
storms at the doors of Congress In forgetful¬ 
ness of the pledges which involve character in 
the highest degree. Is there any faith to be 
given to human promises, given legislatively, 
cr is the action taken by the American Con¬ 
gress on the avowals of men distinguished for 
public service to be taken as nothing? Are we 
to expect that these very men will rise in their 
seats in two short years, and repudiate all their 
solemn words and pledges ? If that is to be so, 
then it may well bo said that the era of virtuous 
legislation has ceased, and that corruption has 
crept In and honor has fallen. I do not believe 
It. I never believed it. I do not believe that 
Congress will to-day, by any act, so go back on 
its record as to condone the offense of the gen¬ 
tlemen who have now taken the back track. 
Mr. Hale went on to show that the effort to 
interest the people in the celebration was a 
dead and blasted failure. Aside from the co¬ 
teries of men interested in the exhibition- -aside 
from the advertisements and puffs in the news¬ 
papers—aside from wliat sentiment could be 
worked upln Philadelphia and the vicinity—the 
whole thing had fallen flat. 
Agassiz and Darwin sm. 
“Agassiz,” says a writer in the Boston 
Globe, “held Darwinism in a kind of horror, 
because he thought it would eventually lead to 
scientific atheism; and, thorough-going sci¬ 
entist as he was, he considered t he unproved 
and, as he believed, disproved theory to be 
eventually fatal, both Lo science and religion. 
Most of his friends, scientific, theological ami 
literary, tried to convince him that his fears 
wero imaginary and exaggerated. 1 Don’t troub¬ 
le yourself with Darwinism, but pursue your 
own course in your own way.’ We were once 
present at dinner where Agassi 2 was the most 
conspicuous guest, and where this advice was 
given. The great naturalist twirled his napkin 
in his hand, paused, smiled benlgnantly to all 
his friends, listened somewhat nervously to 
what they had to say, and answered ‘ You 
don’t know what this new tendency of science 
will lead to, God will go out of the universe 
as fast as Darwinism oomes in. If the theory 
ware demonstrated by facte, I would be the 
ilrst to sustain It, but 1 can't give up God Al¬ 
mighty for an ingenious hypothesis, when I 
know there are fects which contradict the 
hypothesis. I am, first of all, a man of science, 
I follow whithersoever science leads; but I get 
onragod when I am voted an old fogy and a 
man behind the age, because I decline to ac¬ 
cept a theory which my generalized knowledge 
and ray daily investigations forbid me even to 
tolerate.’ " 
One for Mis Majesty. 
A Bavarian gossip says that recently the 
King, walking in the streets of his capital, met 
a soldier with one arm, and entered into con¬ 
versation with him on the subject of his 
wound, the circumstances under which he re¬ 
ceived it. and so on. The soldier replied ab¬ 
ruptly, and then learning who it was that had 
done him the honor to address him, made an 
apology. " How was It t hat you did not know 
me?" asked the Monarch. “How could I?” 
replied the one-armed hero; “you never come 
to the army and I never go to the theatre.” 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Frederick Seward, who has been spending 
the winter with Thnrlow Weed, Is writing a 
biography of his father, .the late William H. 
Seward, and is receiving material assistance In 
his task from the venerable statesman. Mr. 
Weed has nearly completed the autobiography 
upon which he lias for some t ime been engaged. 
President Grant Is reported to have suid, 
relative to his veto message as follows “I do 
not exaggerate when 1 say that the desire to 
conscientiously discharge ray duty has caused 
me more sleepless nights than anything that 
over required my approval. The number of 
schemes for the financial relief of the country 
which have been sent me, both by friends and 
those who wish well for the party, would make 
a library of themselves. Home of the sugges¬ 
tions were unique, but the groat mass were as 
Uninteresting as a debate in Congress, I have 
been compelled to patiently listen to the views 
♦of Senators and Representatives, and have lis¬ 
tened as well to delegations and arguments of 
pressing friends, and I must say that if personal 
Influence could have any weight with me, I 
should have signed the hill. 
Brooks of Arkansas is a native of Ohio, 
where he served as a preacher in the Methodist 
Conference for nine years. 
The dispatches from Louisiana show that the 
floods in the Ouachita Valloy have been far more 
disastrous than had been at first supposed. 
Several towns are wholly under water, over 
000,000,000 acres arc submerged, and 170,000 per¬ 
sons are washed out of house and home. Over 
23.000 are actually suffering for the bare necessi¬ 
ties of life. No crops will bo raised this year in 
the section of country overflowed, and the 
prospects of the people are of the gloomiest 
character. 
The St. Ennis Times asserts that 2,000 Spring- 
field rifles, 13,000 rounds of ammunition and 
several coses of pistols have been shippod from 
there in a secret, manner for the use of Brook’s 
forces at Little Rook, Ark., since the difficulties 
broke out; also, It said that five car loads of 
provisions have been shipped to the same 
parties. 
So great was the pressure to obtain tickets of 
admission to hear Senator Schurz’s eulogy of 
Charles Sumner, itt Boston, that Hon. Charles 
Francis Adams was unable to secure one for a 
distinguished gentlemen from London who 
was visiting him. 
The Springfield Republican suggests ex-Pres- 
ident Woolsey as a good man for the Connecti¬ 
cut Legislature to send to the U. S. Senate. 
The Hon. Lyman Tremain seems, to The Al¬ 
bany Express, to be the best man to suoceed the 
Hon. Reuben E. Fenton in the U. S. Senate. 
Gen. B. F. Butler has beeu confined to his bed 
in Washington for several days with a severe 
bilious attack, but a dispatch from that city 
last night says his symptoms are favorable for 
recovery. 
Mayor Wlltz of New Orleans announces that 
up to May 1 the subscriptions forwarded him to 
aid the sufferers from the overflow of the Mis¬ 
sissippi, amounted to $05,384.05. 
The Mississippi River is reported to be falling 
along the coast below Natchez. 
James Davis, a lunatic, murdered his father 
in Stetson. Me.> on Saturday. 
Mr. Logan’s organ, the Chicago Inter-Ocean, 
publishes a list of 237 Western papers, of which 
only forty-three are said to favor contraction. 
Despatches from New Orleans state t hat there 
Is no abatement of the overflow of the Missis¬ 
sippi. More than 35,000 acres of oane and corn 
are submerged and many families are in want 
of food. 
Two brothers named Walker were shot at 
Ovvcnton, Owon County. Ky., by William Smoot, 
who charged the brothers with securing an in¬ 
dictment against him in the Federal Court for 
some misdemeanor. One of the brothers died 
instantly and the other was very dangerously 
wounded. 
A coloied man of Boston has recovered $100 
from the Narragansett Steamship Company, for 
refusing him a seat and dinuer on one of their 
steamers. 
The sheriff of Pulaski County, Arkansas, has 
asked the aid of the Secretary of War in obtain¬ 
ing the co-operation of the United States troops 
at Little Rock in serving writs of habeas corpus 
forjudges Searle and Bennett, [who were ar¬ 
rested. 
The charge against Mr. Murat Halstead, of 
violating the laws of Ohio, by printing a lottery 
advertisement In the Cincinnati Commercial, 
was dismissed by the court. 
Vice-President Wilson expects to bring out 
the second volume of his history of the “Rise 
and Fall of the Slave Power In America” within 
a few- weeks. It will be larger than the first 
volume, and will extend from the admission of 
Texas to the election of President Lincoln. A 
large portion of the work on the third volume 
has also been performed. 
A Minnesota gentleman has petitioned Con¬ 
gress to abolish the English language in the 
United States. It. certainly is time someaetlon 
should bo taken to prevent the wholesale mur¬ 
der of Queen’s English, or it will die an unnat¬ 
ural death by extermination. 
The Chicago Tribune explodes the story ’that 
the hotel business is overdone in Chicago. 
There ore accommodations for only 107 more 
transient visitors than before the hotel Are, and 
none complain of deserted chambers. 
A poor woman with a sick baby sat through 
an entire day's session of the United States 
Senate, because she had heard that a child 
could becuredof the whooping-cough by Inhal¬ 
ing crude gn*.—Brooklyn. Argun, 
Icelanders are beginning to emigrate to this 
country, aud axe described as a bright, cleanly, 
bealtby-lookirig class of people, closely resem¬ 
bling the Scotch, 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
The American line steamship Ohio arrived 
at Liverpool, having part, of her cargo and part 
of her deck consumed by fire. 
The number of Greek and Armenian pilgrims 
who had arrived at Jerusalem up to March 21, 
is stated at 2,500. tn addition, numbers of tour¬ 
ist s, chiefly English and Americans, had arrived. 
Two former members of the Paris Commune, 
Lebeau and Laeord, were arrested at Geneva 
recently, during the disturbances which ac¬ 
companied a strike of workmen. 
The Vienna Freic Prcssc reports that a stra¬ 
tum of excellent coal, fifty inches deep, has 
been found in Silesia, between the villages of 
Poruba and Schonbrunn. 
The Bishops of Cambrul and Versailles, who 
have arrived at Rome, have taken the T’opo 
considerable sums as Peter's pence. 
Intelligence has been roceived in England 
that the King and the people of Fiji are in 
favor of the cession of the Islands to Great 
Britain. 
The betrothal of the Russian Grand Duke 
Vladimir and the Duchess of Mecklenburg has 
been promulgated. 
An English veloclpedlst recently won a bicy¬ 
cle race of 3£K) miles, from Sheffield to Plym¬ 
outh, In four days and a half. 
The Russian Government offers prizes to the 
amount of $7,500 for the best three essays on 
the duties of cavalry In modern warfare. Com¬ 
petitors may write in any language. 
Over 500,000 Circassians have emigrated from 
Russia to Turkey, and more are preparing to 
follow. 
An attack was made recently on several of 
the residences of the French quarter at Shang¬ 
hai by a Chinese mob, who were incensed at 
the construction of a road which interfered 
with their cemetery. They sacked and burned 
several of the dwellings before the police fired 
upon them, killing several of their number. 
The London Dally Standard says that the 
protest of Lord Russell against t he Washington 
treaty is welcome though tardy, while the 
Daily News deprecates the re-opening of the 
controversy and praises the silence of Lord 
Derby on the subject. 
Fifty thousand men are reported on a strike 
In the Durham Eng. Collieries. 
Senor Jovellar, lale Captain-General of Cuba, 
lias reached Madrid. 
Bllboa has sarrendered to the 8panish Re¬ 
publican troops. 
The latest report about that lately married 
royal couple is that Queen Victoria requires 
them to pay their board while stopping at Buck¬ 
ingham Palace. 
Jefferson Davis has arrived in Parts and is 
staying with Col. A. Dudley Mann, 51 Rue de 
Luxembourg. 
England, according to Lord Derby, projtoses 
to do everything short of embroiling herself in 
a struggle to maintain peace between France 
and Germany, 
The Czar of Russia was in Berlin en route 
to England May 4. 
The body of Dr. Livingstone was very much 
decomposed when it arrived in England, but 
the condition of the left arm, of which there 
had been an ununited fracture, the result of a 
bite of a lion over thirty years ago, was so clear 
that the Identification of the body was placed 
beyond all doubt. 
The trade in chemicals Is much depressed In 
England. 
The Prussian Government has carried an In¬ 
crease of the army through the German Parlia¬ 
ment, under the appeal of Von Moltke, who 
said. “ In consequence of the shouts of re¬ 
venge, it was nocessary to keep the hand on 
the sword. Disarmament would mean war.” 
Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain has sent a sum of 
money for the relief of the wounded in the 
Spanish civil war, and requested that it may be 
used indiscriminately for the sufferers, whether 
CarRst or Republican, 
An attempt is being made by the Scotch 
Presbyterians in Italy to have the Scotch 
Church recognized by the Government as a 
properly con6tltutnd body. 
The Pope has appointed Bishop Crlmnon to 
the Diocese of Hamilton, Canada. 
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THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Princeton, Glbaon Go., Ind., May 8,—After a 
very mild and beautiful winter, came one of 
the coldest and most backward of springs, we 
having our spring weather in January and Feb¬ 
ruary and our winter weather in March and 
April. More snow fell here In April than all 
the winter previous; but we have not had this 
past winter the dry freezes that are so hard on 
wheat and clover; consequently, we have most 
beautiful pastures and the best prospect for 
wheat I have ever Been in this country. It the 
“chintz bug,” which made Its appearance here 
last year, does not return again in far greater 
numbers and destroy the crop, I think our pros¬ 
pect for a full crop is very good. We raise only 
winter wheat here, and a smooth wheat nailed 
“ English wheat,” has in a great manner super¬ 
seded the old “bearded”and all othor varie¬ 
ties, it being !n general a sure crop. Our spring 
here has not only been cold but also very wet, 
and greatly retarded the plowing necessary for 
corn ; the last two weeks, however, have been 
favorable, and if It keeps on favorable to the 
16th, the corn will be mostly planted in this 
county. From the 1st to the 15th is our corn 
seed time, but. later than that often makes a 
good crop—up to the first week In June. So far 
I have heard no complaints of the fruit crop, 
and as far as I have noticed, It is safe.—x. 
Janesville, Saratoga Go., .Y. Y., April 29.— 
If it were not for the calendar, one might bo in 
doubt whether this 29th of April, 1874, wa3 
April or January. It certainly looks more like 
mid-winter than like the ending of the second 
spring month. Snow fell on the night of April 
25th to the depth of 15 inches, and on the morn¬ 
ing of the 28th the snow crust would easily bear 
a man. It commenced snowing this morning. 
It has snowed all day. Many farmers are out 
of both hay and grain. Hay sells at $20®35 per 
ton; corn, $1 per bushel; potatoes, $2.50 per 
barrel. No oats for sale. Farm hands got $20.14 
24 per month. Cows, $45<j£65 per head. Pros¬ 
pect for getting in the oat crop Is rather du¬ 
bious. April 30.—This is a winter’s day, the 
wind blowing and the snow flying.— f. b. w. 
Alexander, It. V., April 27.—We have bad a 
very backward spring; in fact, it la not here 
yet, but winter lingers aud is very loth to de¬ 
part. There has been some plowing done, hut 
the ground is wet and heavy. Yesterday morn¬ 
ing there was about three inches of snow on 
the ground. Wheat, clover and grass are all 
badly winter killed through Western New York; 
some pieces of wheat are entirely bare of any¬ 
thing that looks green. Hay Is scarce, and is 
worth $14*3:18 per ton. Peaoh buds arc alive, and 
with all other kinds of fruit there is promise of 
a large crop.— n. c. O. 
Newport, JV. Y., April 30.—Our April has been 
one of the most disagreeable months we have 
had the past winter; it has snowed more than 
20 days; two feet or more of snow has fallen ; 
last Sunday morning It was one foot deep. Hay, 
$25 per ton, and very scarce; too much frost in 
the ground to plow, and too much snow be¬ 
sides; the air is filled with fine snow to-day. 
When you meet a man, the first question is, 
“ Have you any hay for your cows?” next, “IIow 
did you get through the mud?” Many dairies 
have but a trifle of hay; depend mostly on 
meal.—o. 
Melvin, Ford Go., III., May 6.— Tlte weather 
here has been in rather wet condition for the 
last five weeks, besides being very cold and 
backward. Most of the small grain is put in 
and some plowing done for corn; but the land 
is not in good condition, being too wet. About 
half a crop of corn last year; not very good 
sample. Corn is worth 65c.; butter, 33c.; hogs, 
$4.50 cwt., gross; potatoes, $2 per bush.— j. f. 
Corvallis, Benton Co., Oregon, April 22.— 
The winter rains are about over and spring has 
opened up warm and bright. A larger area is 
being put In crops this year than has ever been 
In Oregon. Wheat, 80c.; Oats, 30c.; hay, $10 
per ton: butter, 25c.; eggs, 15c. A great many 
immigrants from the States east of the Rocky 
Mountains are arriving here this spring—mostly 
farmers looking for farms.—H. m. 
Hosensnck, Lehigh Co., Pa,, May 2.— The 
season Is far back yet; no fruit flowers, such as 
apricots and peaches, are yet to be seen. Win-; 
ter grain looks well; oats just getting out 
grass land looks well too. Prices of grain are: 
Rye, $1; wheat, $1.70: corn, 95c.; oats, 60c.; best 
butter. 42c.; eggs,16o.: lard. lie. Work is plenty 
and help scarce. We have prospects for a good 
harvest.— h. E. K. R. 
Wlllmothville, Adair Co., Mo., April 20.— 
Very wet this spring ; not much farming done 
yet; snow fell one foot deep Easter Sunday. 
Fall wheat looks well. Peaches not yet killed ; 
all fruit safe yet. Corn, 50c.; oats, 40c.; hay, 
scarce; stock in a poor condition; hogs, $4.25 
per cwt.; fat cattle bring a fair price.— a. c. t. 
Maysvtlle, Columbiana Co., O,, April 30.— 
Some of my neighbors seem cross about the 
wet, cold weather. I tell them to buy corn if 
they've not got it, and “he easy.” Seedtime 
and harvest always have come, and I believe 
they will again.— d. j. p. 
Butlervllle, lad., April 39.—We have a fine 
prospect for fruit of nearly all kinds through,- 
' put this section.—if. w. 
