ORE’S  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
JULY  22 
PPBLISHEB’S  NOTICES. 
TO  SUBSCBIBEKS  AND  AGENTS. 
Ah  we  are  now  entering  upon  the  second 
volume  of  the  Twenty  -  seventh  year  of  the 
Rdbal  New-Yorkeii.  it  wotild  be  well  for  the 
proprietors  to  say  to  subscribers  and  agents  that 
a  more  jwosperous  time  than  the  present  has  not 
been  seen  in  ibis  oilico  for  many  a  year. 
Notwithstanding  the  cry  of  “hard  times” 
which  has  been  echoing  through  the  land,  the 
rural  population  seem  to  bo  able  take  their 
paper.  It  may  not  be  known  to  many  of  you 
that  at  the  end  of  each  year  and  half-year  a 
newspaper  changes  a  large  number  of  its  sub¬ 
scribers.  Some  old  ones  discontinue  and  their 
places  are  filled  with  new,  so  that  while  the  list 
does  not  diminish  in  nuraber.s,  the  changes  fi’e- 
quontly  amount  to  many  hundreds. 
There  were  hundreds  on  our  list  whose  sub¬ 
scriptions  expired  with  the  last  number  in  June, 
and  of  these  every  one  has  renewed  but  six. 
This  is  something  unprecedented  in  the  ajmals 
of  a  newspaper  office,  .and  is  the  most  flattering 
indication  to  the  new  management  that  their 
strenuous  and  laborious  efforts  to  make  a  good 
paj)er  are  fully  appreciated.  iVith  snob  encour¬ 
agement  as  this,  subscribers  and  agents  may 
rest  assured  that  nothing  which  time,  labor  and 
money  can  procure  will  hereafter  bo  omitto<l  to 
make  the  Boual  still  better  tbari  it  Is, 
The  Literary  Departments  will  be  kept  up  to 
their  standards  of  excellence  and  morality,  while 
the  Practical  Departments  will  oontinno  to  he 
made  up  of  the  most  striiightforward  common 
souse  which  can  be  obtained.  In  those  matters 
the  aim  will  not  be  to  make  them  so  scientific  that 
they  may  not  bo  readily  ixndcrstood  by  every 
one :  but  it  will  bo  our  constant  endeavor  to  pub¬ 
lish  that  wliicli  is  nhsolulelg  eorre.nt.  No^v,  all 
that  is  needed  is  tor  each  subscriber  to  get  an¬ 
other  and  our  list  will  at  once  be  doubled. 
DclUS  of  tljc  (IfiUfli. 
A  special  dispatch  from  cnsfleld,  Somerset  Go., 
Md.,  dated  the  11  th  Inst.,  8ays;  Ycstt.Tduy  morn¬ 
ing,  about  six  o’clock,  .Mr.  iv.  C.  Uandy,  residing 
on  his  farm  near  this  town,  xvas  assaulted  by  four 
masked  men.  who  forced  him  to  open  hts  sate, 
from  which  they  took  about  $4,000,  mostly  in  gold 
coin.  They  left,  after  gagging  and  binding  .Mr. 
Unndy  and  hks  h1.ster,  who  were  tlie  only  occu¬ 
pants  of  the  premises.  Mr.  Handy  says  he  can 
Identify  one  of  the  robbers.  About  three  years 
.ago  Mr.  Handy  was  robbed  of  $.a,ooo  in  a  somewhat 
similar  manner. 
The  employes  at  Ca.stle  (tarden  are  engaged  In 
removing  the  refuse  created  by  the  fire,  and  25 
laborers  have  cleared  the  space  formerly  devoted 
to  the  baggage>-room.  The  steamship  Oder 
brought  Tl  Immigrants,  who  were  cared  for  at  the 
riardcu  over  nlghl.  Mr.  Jackson,  the  .‘^upejln- 
tendent  and  Treasurer.  esUm-alcs  the  loss  by  Iho 
fire  at  between  $40,000  and  $50,000. 
The  agent  at  Duluth,  of  the  line  to  which  the 
propeller  St.  Clair  belonged,  gives  t  he  following  .as 
the  list  of  the  persons  lost  on  that  vessel  w  hose 
bodies  have  been  recxjvered ;  Judge  Kilwi^tO,  ('apt. 
Miller,  and  Nell  r.elteb  of  Martpiette;  Davfd  Law¬ 
rence  and  G.  H.  lie.ardsley  of  Ontonagon ;  Mr,  Ea¬ 
ton,  an  e.xplorer  from  Big  Kaplds,  .Mich.;  I..  D. 
Collins,  S.  Siowart  aud  Alexander  Shea  of  Dulut  li ; 
Richard  Khlokeleton,  clerk,  of  Detroit;  two 
Frenchmen,  firemen,  belonging  at  Duluth,  .ojuJ 
one  unrecognized  passenger. 
Gov.  TllUen  has  commuted  to  Imprisonment  for 
life  the  sentence  of  Albert  Fredenburgh,  who  was 
to  hat’c  been  hanged  on  Friday  mext  for  the  mur¬ 
der  of  Orlo  Davis  iji  (Day,  Herkimer  Co.,  In  June, 
1875. 
Nlncty-ntnp  replies  from  &:  counties  in  Georgia 
report,  llie  chaniotcr  of  weather,  July  i,  extremely 
soasomihle  to  the  growing  cotton  crop— more  so 
than  the  same  period  last  year.  No  change  is  re¬ 
ported  In  acreage.  Stands  are  represented  as  un¬ 
commonly  good,  the  plant  forming  the  blooming 
well.  The  condlHon,  on  the  wliole,  la  remarkably 
fine,  and,  with  few  exceptions,  better  than  last 
year.  The  general  tenor  of  the  reports  exhibit 
an  uuprcctalcntly  good  prospect,  the  crop  being 
free  of  grass  and  weeds,  aud  the  plant  being  vig¬ 
orous.  Twenty-slx  j-epues  from  14  counties  in 
Florida  reports  favorable  weather,  the  stand  good, 
and  plant  forming  well.  The  prospector  a  large 
yield  la  encouraging.  No  change  is  rejmrtC'd  in 
acreage. 
The  bishops  of  the  Golored  Methodist  Episcopal 
(hurch  have  appointed  Friday,  Aug.  .1,  .a.s  a  day  of 
fasting  utid  prayer. 
-tmong  the  tiarUclpants  In  the  parade  of  the 
Roman  Catholic  'J’otal  Abstinence  Societies  in 
Philadelphia  ou  the  4th  ol  July  was  a  deputation 
of  Chippewa  and  .Menomonee  Indians,  w  ho  caiuo 
East  In  charge  of  their  missionary,  Fat  her  Che- 
bel.  Their  home  Is  in  NorLU(.Tn  Wisconsin,  whero 
they  have  attained  a  considerable  degree,  of  civil-  ; 
Izatlon.  “  During  theff  stay,”  says  The  Phlladel-  ^ 
rain  have  fallen  upon  eari.h  so  parched,  that  In 
all  our  parks  the  gra-as  seems  to  have  been  actu¬ 
ally  burned  away.  Perhaps  tlie  most  remarkable 
of  the  featurtis  of  this  '•  heated  term  ”  Is  the  re¬ 
port  from  localities  In  New  .lersey  of  fires  In  the 
soil  llself.  Very  probably  In  tht-so  cases  the  sur¬ 
face  earth  has  been  very  largely  composed  of  veg¬ 
etable  material],  and  perhaps  Is  land  rescued  from 
previous  swamps.  Old  residents  of  the  city  will 
compare  this  year’s  heat  with  that  of  former  years, 
and  doubtless  pronounce  It  inferior  to  the  extra¬ 
ordinary  summers  of  their  recolleet Ion.  They 
will  ro(;all  the  three  hot  weeks  of  June  and  July, 
1855,  when  men’s  minds  were  abso  abtazo  with  the 
fever  of  spoculatJon ;  the  hot  weather  at  the  date 
of  the  Croton  cclcbrullon,  which  made  Its  promis¬ 
es  of  cool  waier  the  more  weK^ome;  the  dry, 
scorching  w'ceksof  18t«,  from  the  latter  part,  of 
June  to  thetii.hof  August;  the  three  months  of 
hot  weather  In  issc,  when  .all  t  he  gra.S3  disap¬ 
peared  and  there  was  almost  a  famine  In  feed- 
stuffs;  the  summer  of  lMr>t,  when  for  five  wei^ks 
not  a  drop  of  rain  fell,  It  Is  said,  In  the  whole  .stato 
of  New  York.  Other  years  might  he  Instanced  of 
briefer  but  equally  excessive  heat;  and  although 
ISTft  win  go  on  record  as  among  the  worst  In  rev 
spcct  to  Runstrokf'  mortality,  He  164  dcath.s  In 
three  days  do  not  surp.ass  the  fatality  of  the  hot¬ 
test  of  recent  summers.  1872. 
It  Is  proposed  to  modify  the  tax  on  tobacco. 
The  following  Is  the  full  text  of  the  Jobit  resolu¬ 
tion  for  the  iKsuc  of  silver  coin,  which  has  passed 
both  .Houses  of  Congims  and  now  goes  to  the 
President  for  signature : 
llesolved.  That  the  Sc>;rctary  of  lh<'  Treasury 
under  such  limits  and  regulat  ions  as  will  best  se¬ 
cure  a  Just  Hiid  fair  dlstrubutlon  of  the  same 
through  the  country,  may  Issue  llio  silver  coin  at 
any  time  In  the  Treii.sury  to  an  amount  not  (ex¬ 
ceeding  $10,000J)(K)  In  exchange  for  an  equal 
umountof  legal-tender  notes,  atid  notes  so  received 
In  exchange  shall  be  kept  as  a  special  fund 
separate  and  apart  from  till  other  .money  In  the 
Treasury,  and  be  is-sued  only  upon  the  retirement 
and  destruction  of  a  like  sum  of  fractional  currency 
n.’celved  at  the  Treasury  In  payment  of  dues  to 
the  United  States,  and  said  fractional  currency, 
when  so  substituted  shitll  be  destroyed  and  held 
as  part  of  the  Kinking  fund,  as  provided  In  the  act 
approved  April  17, 1870. 
Sec.  2.  'That  the  trade  dollar  shall  not  hereafter 
be  a  legal  tender,  and  the  Secretary  of  the  fi'reas- 
ury  Is  hereby  aiilliorlzed  to  limit  from  time  to 
time  the  coinage  thereof  W)  such  an  amount  as  he 
may  deem  Kufiiolent  to  meet  the  exiKirt  demand 
for  the  same. 
Sec.  3.  'I'hat  In  addition  to  the  amount  of  sub- 
sldliuy  silver  coin  authorized  by  law  to  bo  Lssued 
in  redemptton  of  the  fractional  currency, It  shall  be 
lawful  to  manufacture  at  the  several  mints,  and 
Issue  through  the  Treasury  and  its  several  ufficcs 
sm  h  coin  to  an  amount  of  subsidiary  sliver  coin 
aiidof  fracuoual  currency  out  .sta  tiding,  shall  in 
HOME  NEWS  P.LRAGRAPHS. 
-  perfect  proitrletj',  and  made  a  very  favorable  Im- 
It  is  reported  that  native  quicksilver  has  been  Presslon  on  all  who  came  In  oontucl  with  them.” 
dlscovered  on  the  banks  of  the  Mississippi,  a  few  The  Teachers’  Convention,  fcitate  of  New  Y'ork, 
miles  below  New  Orleans.  “et  at  Albany,  July  14.  Several  interesting  pa- 
We  have  80,000  miles  of  telegraph  line  and  74,000  pers  were  read  and  discussed, 
miles  of  r.allroad.  At  Freedom,  Pa.,  a  small  town  on  the  Ohio 
The  regulation  American  flag  has  thirty-eight  River,  24  miles  below  Pittsburgh,  a  ruin  storm  oc- 
stars  now.  cuired,  .Tuly  1h,  which  did  great  damage  and  was 
Oranges  and  pineapples  are  floating  ashore  at  dcfitructlve  of  imman  life.  Crow’s  Run.  which 
Long  Branch,  much  to  the  delight  of  the  summer  empties  Into  the  Ohio  at  this  point,  was  swollen 
visitors.  I  Into  a  river  in  .size  and  the  houses  along  Its  banks 
S.t.i  Francisco  complains  of  the  Immense  nttm-  were  flooded.  A  house  owned  and  occupied  by 
her  of  unemployed  clerks,  salesmen  and  other  Thomas  LlghthlU  was  swept  away,  and  his  wile 
men  of  lliat  class  now  crowding  the  city,  and  be-  and  four  children  were  drowned, 
sieging  business  tnen  with  their  .appeals  for  work.  Tjje  consf.ant  rains  during  the  past  few  days  in 
We  have  6,0110,000  fanners,  1,200,000  t.rades  peo-  Middle  and  Sorth(?rn  Onlo  have  caused  consldora- 
ple,  2,700,00j  mcchanlps.  2.600.OUO  professional  men,  ble  aamage,  A  waterspout  near  Londonvllle  de- 
43,oo!J  clergymen,  40,000  lawyers,  120.822  teachers,  stroyed  a  nuiiihei  ot  wheat  field.s,  carried  off  lOO 
02,000  doctors,  2,000  actors,  5,200  Journalists,  1,000,-  ht^ad  of  sheep  and  washed  out  several  hundred 
000  laborers  and  760,000  domestic  servanus.  feet  of  railroad  track,  In  some  idacos  to  the  depth 
There  are  one  hundred  and  slxtT-iwo  driving  of  eight  feet, 
parks  In  the  United  statets.  The  value  01  the  To  the  list  of  22  asteroids  discovered  by  him.  Dr. 
property  held  by  these  a-ssoclattons  Is  estimated  C.  H,  F.  Peters  of  Lltchfleld  Observatoiy  (llamll- 
at  $5,000,000 :  and  that  of  the  horses  entered  In  a  ton  College)  adds  two  variable  stars.  These  stars 
single  year  at  Si  6,000,000.  are  called  variable  because  they  vary  periodically 
'I’he  San  .Antonin  (Texas)  Herald  sa.vs  the  stage  their  brightness.  In  a  letter  to  The  Herald,  dated 
drivers  between  that  city  and  Kingston  are  to  be  July  12.  he  says:  “  The  first  one  Is  in  lOh.  I4m.  of 
prorided  with  umbrellas  t,o  hold  over  the  stage  right  asceitslon,  to”  55'  south  deeliiiailon,  now 
robbers  In  case  it  rams,  while  they  are  robbing  near  its  maximum  of  brightness  (between  seventh 
the  mails  and  rellevliig  pas-sengers.  and  eigth  magnitude  the  isth  last,  of  a  ruby  color); 
A  Minneapolis  (Sllnn.)  woman  recently  found  a  second  one,  In  lOh.  iro.,  right  ascension,  xu  lo' 
little  package  that  contained  seventeen  diamonds  south  declination.  Is  fast  waning,  only  jtist  vlsl- 
secreted  In  a  desk  that  once  belonged  to  her  great-  tile  now  In  our  telescope,  but  was  10th  magnitude 
grandfatber.  Id  (tie  month  of  May  last.  The  whole  number  of 
On  Governor’s  Island  there  is  a  grave  of  a  soldier  stars  now  recognized  as  variables  Is  about  16«— 
who  served  hla  country  fortj'  years  In  the  hope  of  almost  exactly  the  same  as  the  number  of  known 
achieving  a  Jleutenanc.v,  and  died  wTlh  Ulsraoder-  atsterolds.” 
ate  .ambition  unappeased.  The  Indianapolis  Journal  says  ihei  the  indlca- 
A  squad  of  t  wenty  policemen  who  had  been  sent  tlons  are  that  the  rainy  .season  In  that  section  has 
to  quell  an  anticipated  violation  of  the  peace  at  closed  and  that  they  will  now  have  a  period  of 
the  new  reservoir  now  building  in  Albany  took  clear  and  dry  weathijr.  If  the  supposlUon  prove 
refuge  from  a  thunder-storm  in  a  tool-shop  on  the  true,  the  crops  will  not  have  suffered  very  mate- 
12t.h  mst.,  when  the  building  was  struck  by  fight-  rlally  from  the  rains  of  the  past  few  weeks  and 
nlng  and  all  were  more  or  less  affected,  though  abundant  harvests  may  reasonably  be  expected, 
none  were  latallyhuit.  Wheat,  which  in  the  vicinity  of  Indianapolis  is 
The  Rev.  J.  S.  While  has  been  fined  for  \Tolat-  probably  all  cut  and  shocked,  may  have  suffered 
Ing  a  Kentucky  law  which  requires  lecturers  who  some.  Corn  has  only  suffered,  tf  .at  all,  by  the 
cha.rge  tor  admission  to  take  out  licenses.  rank  growth  of  Aveeds.  from  the  Impossibility  of 
Judge  Keith  m  Chambers,  at  W’arrenton,  Va.,  working  it.  The  .Jom-nal  is  sanguine  that  if  the 
has  appointed  John  S.  Barbour  receiver  of  the  rain  cease  for  a  while  this  can  be  remedied  and 
Virginia  Midland  Railroad,  in  the  sifii  of  Graham  lliat  there  will  be  nothing  to  hinder  an  immense 
and  others,  entered  at  Alexandria  on  the  I7th  of  crop  of  this  importont  cereaL  The  smaller  crops  I 
June.  all  promise  well,  as  do  all  kluds  of  fruit,  except 
Mr.  John  Phelps,  President  of  the  National  Cot-  peaches,  .so  far  from  there  being  any  cause  for  | 
ton  Exchange  of  Amerlen,  in  pursuance  or  resolu-  dlscour.agcment,  says  the  Journal,  t  he  prospects  | 
tlon  artoptoil  by  the  convention  last  .luly,  has  are  still  good  for  an  immense  and  remunerative  ' 
issiK'd  a  call  for  an  international  Cotton  Exchange  ,  vetm’n  In  nearly  all  branches  of  liu.sbandry.  ' 
Convention,  to  meet  at  the  Lungham  Hotel,  l-on-  |  Seventeen  dajn  of  diy,  hot  weat  her  ended  In  the  ' 
doii,  on  Uio  nth  of  August  nexL  Niue  delegates  1  thunder-showers  of  the  nth  Inst.  The  violence  01  , 
phla  laidgi-J-.  “  they  conducted  thcmsclve.i  witn  aggregate  not  exceed  at  any  time,  $50,000,000. 
have  been  appointed  to  represent  the  .American 
Cotton  Exchange. 
the  previous  night’s  stonn  was  fairly  proportioned 
to  the  long  continued  drouth.  The  lorrenta  of 
Skc.  4.  That  the  silver  buillon  required  for  the 
purposes  of  this  act  shall  be  purchased  from  time 
to  Lime  at  the  market  rate  by  the  Secretary  of  the 
Trofusury  with  any  money  in  the  Treasury  not 
otherwise  .appropriated,  but  no  piu'chase  of 
bullion  shall  be  made  under  this  resolution  when 
the  market  price  shall  be  such  as  will  not  admit 
of  the  coinage  and  Issue  as  herein  provided  with¬ 
out  loss  to  the  Tjvjtsury :  and  any  gain  or 
seigniorage  .arising  from  this  coln.age  «hnll  be  ac¬ 
counted  for  and  paid  Into  the  TTeasury,  as  provl- 
d(jd  under  c-xisUng  laws  relative  to  subsidiary 
coinage,  provided  that  the  amount  of  money  at 
any  one  time  Invested  in  such  silver  bullion,  ex¬ 
clusive  of  such  resulting  coin,  shall  not  exceed 
$200,000. 
six  comp-anles  of  the  Sixth  Infantry,  under 
Ocn.  Miles,  passed  through  Atchison,  Kansas,  on 
their  way  to  the  Sioux  coimtrj'. 
.lames  L.  wuson,  Treasurer  of  the  District  of 
Columbia,  lett  Washington  two  weeks  ago,  and 
the  District  Commissioners  have  discovered  by  an 
examination  of  his  books  that  he  has  embezzled 
nearly  $7,000. 
The  trial  of  Munley,  at  Pottsvllle,  for  the  mur¬ 
der  of  mining  boss  Sanger  has  closed,  the  jury 
rendering  a  verdict  of  murder  In  the  first  degree. 
At  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  Theodore  Deschner  killed  An¬ 
drew  Smith  lor  being  too  intimate  witn  Mrs. 
Deschner.  The  murderer  gave  himself  up  to  the 
police. 
In  Pittsburg,  W.  C.  McDonald  went  lo  the  house 
of  his  father-in-law,  where  his  wife  had  been 
staying  for  some  time,  and  after  some  angry 
words  drew  a  revolver  and  shot  her  and  himself. 
Both  are  believed  to  be  fatally  wounded. 
A  fire  in  St.  Louis  has  destroyed  the  Iron  foun- 
di7  or  Shlckle,  HarrtBon  <fc  Co„  and  the  greater 
portion  of  the  nut  and  bolt  factory  of  H.  E.  Moran 
&  Bro.  The  aggregate  loss  is  $56,000. 
Three  warehouses,  S.ooo  empty  barrels  and 
eight  cars  loaded  with  refined  oil  at  the  Cosmos 
Oil  Refineo’,  near  Pittsburg,  were  burned.  Loss 
$26,000. 
Tbe  steamer  Champion  was  bmmed  on  Lake  St. 
olalr.  Lobs  $25,000 
Mr.  Rogers,  General  Sewell  (the  successor  of 
Yaryan),  and  ex-Congressman  Kellogg  of  Connec¬ 
ticut,  are  mentioned  In  connection  with  the  suc¬ 
cession  to  Mr.  Pratt. 
The  President  nominated  James  S.  Delano  of 
nfinolB,  to  be  Deputy  Second  Comptroller  of  the 
Treasurj’ ;  John  Kelly,  Collector  or  Customs  at 
Willamette,  Oregon ;  Thomas  B.  Shannon,  Collec¬ 
tor  at  San  Francisco ;  Charles  A.  Santmeyer,  Ap¬ 
praiser  of  Meichan(Ilse  at  Cincinnati;  Thomas 
W.  Bennett,  Governor  of  Idaho  and  William  H. 
Howard,  Surveyor-General  for  Arizona. 
General  Sherman  and  Secretary  Cameron  had 
an  Interview  with  the  President  In  relation  to  the 
Indian  w'ar. 
An  unusually  laige  number  or  Congressmen  are 
a  HI,  some  of  them  seriously,  from  the  effects  of  the 
-  heat. 
B  Henry  WatW'rson  accepts  the  Congressional 
-  nomination  almost  unanimously  offer(xl  him  by 
B  the  Democrats  of  the  Louisville  Dtstrlct.  It  Is 
-  understood  that  the  Republicans  will  nominate 
-  e.x-Secretary  Bristow  against  him. 
I  Monroe  Heath  was  elected  Mayor  of  Chicago  by 
1  8,250  majority. 
.  The  Emperor  and  F.mpress  of  BrazU  sailed  for 
-  Europe  In  the  steamship  Russia. 
'  A  large  meeting  In  aid  of  the  Old  South  Church 
ftind  was  held  In  the  h.all  of  the  Merchants’  Ex- 
‘  change,  at  Boston.  Addresses  were  made  by 
'  Edward  Everett  Hole  and  Wendell  Phllfipa. 
The  members  of  tlie  Hebrew  Convention,  in 
seasion  at  Washington,  paid  Uielr  respects  to  the 
President.  .Mr.  Simon  Wolf  introductfd  them  as 
“citizens  of  the  United  stau-s  engaged  in  the 
good  cause  of  education— a  cause  In  which  the 
President  was  known  to  uke  great  Interest.’- 
The  President  in  reply,  complimented  tJicm  and 
their  conv'ent.lon  and  wished  them  success. 
In  the  U.  S.  8en.ate,  the  House  bill  to  amend  the 
Pacific  Railroad  acts  was  re.ad  by  title,  and,  after 
some  discussion  as  to  the  propriety  of  referring  It 
to  the  Committee  on  Judiciary  or  the  Committee 
on  Railroads,  went  over  at  the  expiration  of  the 
morning  hour.  Mr.  Hamlin  pre-sented  the  creden¬ 
tials  of  James  (r.  Blaine,  appointed  U.  S,  sittnator 
from  Maine,  in  place  of  Lot  .M.  Morrill,  resigned, 
and  they  were  placed  on  file.  5lr.  Thurman,  from 
the  Judiclan'  conunlttoe,  made  a  written  report 
In  reply  to  a  resolution  of  the  Senate  of  January 
last  directing  an  Inquiry  Into  matters  relating  to 
the  Pacific  Railroads.  The  report  was  aocompa- 
nl(Kl  by  a  bill  to  amend  Iho  Pacific  Riitlrood  acts. 
The  bill  was  placed  on  the  calendar  and  the  report 
ordered  to  lie  prinU-d.  Mr.  Logan  moved  to  take 
np  the  House  bill  for  the  equalization  of  bounties, 
BO  that  It  would  be  the  unfinished  buslnes?  for  the 
next  morning  hour,  but  the  Chair  decided  that  It 
could  not  BO  come  np,  but  must  be  taken  up  by  a 
vote  each  day.  Mr.  Logan  then  moved  to  make 
r,he  bill  a  special  order,  but  objection  was  made 
by  soveraJ  .senators.  The  Joint  resolution  author¬ 
izing  the  Prcsldont  to  accept  the  services  of  vol¬ 
unteers  against  the  IndlanB,  wa.s  referrod  to  the 
Committee  on  Military  Affairs.  The  Senate  then 
went  Into  session  as  a  Court  of  Impeachment. 
When  legislatlvfi  buslnciw  was  resumed,  the  Post 
Route  bill  was  taken  up  and  made  the  unfinished 
buslnes.s  for  the  next  d,ay.  M  r.  Wlndom,  from  the 
Committee  on  ApproprlatlonB.  reported  the  bill 
providing  for  the  construction  of  the  Washington 
Monument,  and  It  was  placed  on  the  calendar. 
In  the  House  a  resolution  in  the  Louisiana  con¬ 
tested  case,  reported  hy  the  Committee  ou  Elec¬ 
tions.  was  adopted,  declaring  Mr.  DarraB,  the  sit¬ 
ting  inemher,  entitled  to  his  seat.  The  hill  for  the 
aale  of  Fort  Kearney  reservation  In  Nebraska  was 
passed.  Mr.  Hoskins  of  New  York  iniroduced  a 
bill  to  prevent  the  overloading  of  ves-sels  carrying 
freight  and  paaaongera.  The  bill  opening  the 
Black  niUs  country  to  settlement  was  recommit¬ 
ted.  .Mr.  Thornburgh,  from  the  Appropriation 
Committee,  reported  a  bill  appropriating  $200,000 
for  the  esuiblfshincnt  01  military  posui  on  the 
Mussel  Shell  and  Y  ellowstone  rivers,  and  It  was 
passed.  The  bill  regulating  promotions  or  com¬ 
modores  on  the  retired  fist  of  the  Navy  was  also 
pasBed.  .Mr.  Hewitt  of  New  York,  from  the  Com- 
lulttoo  on  Foreign  Affairs,  reponed  back  the  reso¬ 
lution  censuring  (ten.  Sehenck  for  his  connoctlon 
with  the  Emma  Mine  business  while  Minister  to 
England.  It  wuis  adopted  without  a  division.  The 
Speaker  presented  a  communication  from  the-  Ar¬ 
gentine  Congress,  congratulating  tho  Congress  of 
the  United  Statos  on  the  Centennial  Anniversary 
of  American  Independence.  The  bill  for  the  pro¬ 
tection  Of  the  RIO  Grande  was  debated  in  Commit¬ 
tee  of  the  Whole.  The  Senate  amendment  to  the 
bill  in  relation  to  leave  of  absence  of  army  officers 
was  concun  ed  in. 
The  conference  committee  on  the  Sundry  Civil 
bill  have  settled  all  but  twenty-one  of  the  points 
of  difference.  There  were  2i4  points  on  which  the 
Senate  and  House  disagreed. 
The  Senate  confirmed  James  N.  Tyner  as  Post¬ 
master-General,  to  succeed  Mr.  Jewell. 
Tho  destruction  of  Castle  Garden  has  caused  the 
narration  of  many  reminiacences  or  the  ancient 
bullifing  and  of  old  New  Y'ork.  Originally  built  In 
conjunction  with  a  battery  by  the  Duten  settlers 
ns  It  work  01  defence  against  the  British  and  other 
foes,  it  wa.s  captured  by  the  British  aud  was  given 
the  najne  of  Port  James.  The  Dutch  having  re¬ 
gained  possession  of  it,  the  structure  was  named 
Fort  William  Hendrick.  Upon  the  dethronement 
of  the  Stuart  dynasty  by  the  English,  the  resi¬ 
dents  of  me  embrj'o  meuopolls  seized  the  I’ort. 
and  for  two  years  it  was  an  object  or  Interest  In 
the  war  which  agitated  tJte  people  here  and 
abroad.  Gov.  Fletcher  made  the  fort  the  head- 
quarrers  of  the  desperate  men  who  preyed  on  1  he 
commerce  of  the  New  World.  Bellamoat’s  lule 
later  redeemed  It  from  the  odium  of  the  Fle:cher 
administration.  When  John  Montgomery  became 
Governor,  the  fort  took  the  name  ol  Fort  Clinton. 
Governors  and  officials  0(X3Upled  It,  until  during 
the  Revolution  it  was  used  by  Lord  Howe,  the 
(ximmander  or  the  British  forces.  After  the  Rev¬ 
olution  It  was  hoped  t  hat  New  York  would  be  the 
seat  of  the  Presidential  mansion,  and  with  the 
purpose  of  erecting  a  structure  worthy  of  the  new 
nation,  the  old  Governor’s  mansion  at  the  fort  was 
destroyed.  The  hopes  of  those  Interested  In  the 
subject  were  frustrated,  however,  as  the  national 
capital  was  plticed  In  the  District  of  Columbia. 
The  stotikadea,  outer  defences,  etc.,  were  leveled, 
and  the  Castle  became  a  fortification  merely  In 
name. 
The  Consul-General  of  Italy  has  sent  to  the 
Treasury  Department,  on  behalf  of  the  Itiilian 
Society  for  salvage,  $40S  la  gold,  to  be  distributed 
to  the  families  or  the  fife  saving  crew  on  Curii. 
