3fcffcvso-nian.
THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1854.
WIUG STATE TICKET.
for oovi:knk.
Jasi PoHocli, of Northumberland
I'OK CANAL COMMISSIONER.
lirorge Diirsic. of Allegheny.
rfR .1UDGE OF THE SUFKKME C0UKT.
Duiiicl M. Snij-scr, of Mo ntgomQ'
The Cincinnatli Times notices a strange
mortality in that citj, in one locality,
near Taylor's tannery. Out of twenty
three workmen, nineteen were taken sick
and eleven had" died: The disease is sup
posed to hare originated from drinking
frt.vnant water from a well.
Adjournment. The two houses of con
gress haTe fixed on the 4th of August next,
to terminate the present session of that
Mad Dogs atEaston.
"o Monday of last week, a mad dog
r.iadc his appearance- in the western part
of Easton, and bofore he could bo cap
tured ho succeeded in biting a number of
persons living in the vicinity. The dog
he longed to a Prussian, by the name of
lrancis Mayouko, whose wife and two
hddren were severely bitten, lie also
lit a Mrs. Tolan, a man named Philip
lijwer, and two children of Mr. Robert
j'.f.
(jlcra at Cincinnati. The ofiicia
n pni t of the Cincinnati Board of Health
f r the week ending July 3d, records
, '. Jive deaths from Asiatic cholera.
Mr. Benton has been unanimously nom
inated by tho democrats of St. Loui.
c junty, for re-election to Congress. There
was a direct vote of the party, and he re
nted 1,2S0 votts.
Mr. Benton has written a charactoris-
tif httcr to the Lafayette (Ta.) American,
concerning a speech delivered recently
n that town by Mr. Senator Pettit, in
which he declared that Mr. Benton was
tho first man to violate the Missouri
:mpromisc. In reply to this Mr. Ben
ton says, "Your Senator is a great liar
a dirty dog, falsifying public history
f r a criminal purpose."
D idful Mortality in New Orleans, Sc.
Pvltimoue, July 10. The mail, as
'jU as due, came to hand this morning,
.) W.v Orleans.
1 r the week ending on the 2d, there
. .)29 deaths in New Orleans, (being
. irc increase,) of which one hundred
' ooi statstrolec!
'ibc Picayune contains the protests of
' t ti Quitman and other filibuster, a-
r.vf the legalit of being held to bail.
Mr Thrasher threatens a suit for dam-
CS
J .- ah- Postmasters. Tiie number of fe
j Cb ill present holding the office of Post-
aster or rather mistress) in the United
'jlc-s is 123. They ore appointed, give
. Jt?, are commissioned, and receiire the
Tie compensation for their services as other
t.naaters. Unmarried females only can
-d the office of Postmaster.
n Editor in Jail. The Georgetown
vt Herald comes to us dressed in mourn
and upon looking for the cause of the
:f ral appearance, we find that the editor
tfe been committed to jail for refusing to
l-fy uhere he got his liquor! Cincinnati
A New Currency.
widow lady sends us a notice or a
:rtgage sale, the sole purpose.of which
to perfect the title to a Email property
ft byher deceased husband, and saysshe
is not the means of paying for the pub
ation, but she will prayor U9. Learn
3 that our friend A. D. Wait, Enq., the
'torney, takes his pay in the same cur
ncy wo accede to the proposition, and
-ait that the County Clerk shall do the
ccssary recording upon the same terms;
r we don't kuow of three fellows who
;ght to be prayed for more than Wait,
,:iiimanand ourself. Sandy J Jill Jlcr
I Counterfeit worth more than the Gen
uine.
rJ he U. S. Mint, under instructions from
t Secretary nf f lr T
c aminin!? botup. pmmi
0 w mm W tiIV VWlUtJ Vi
lation, and among others they found
'cxican dollar pieces worth 109 cents
w I a UliUUA lOfJ CL V. J .IV I Tin 1 1 . n I. a
:s of 776 thousandths, and a conse-
- i 1 m I i !
; jl ue ii-
a " uuf
pnt to add 12 cents to tho value of
-h, after paying tho charge of separat-
tig, making a nett value of 103 cents:
x u to tins usual premium of silver is
lcd. the worth nf fl
actually 109 oents! It is not often
L -t individuals are capable of the 'double
1. u;ncsty of cheating the public and
inisaves at tne same time. J,odcr.
County Superintendent.
We are informed that our young friend;
('has. S. Dbitriok, of this Borough, has"
!)(( u appointed Superintendent of Common
.Schools for Monroe county, to fill the va
iiiey occasioned by the resignation of 0.
Burnett, Esq. We have no- doubt Charley
a ill discharge the duties of his trust to I'ulh
meet the expectations of his many friend.-.
Tdlnrcc Drmrcrat.
Suicide.
A Frenchman but recently arrived, we
arc informed, committed suicide on Sunday
last near Paradise, in this County, by sus
pending himself from a. low projecting brauch
of a tree by means of a leather strap, to
which he had attached a. handkerchief. The
cause of this foolish net is not known. ib.
Tremendous Conflagration.
bout half-past 10 o'clock on Wednesday
cvciimjr
ol last week. 5th instant, a lire
broke out in a carpenter shop attached to
the .National Theatre, corner of Ninth and
Chesnut streets, Philadelphia, which resulted
in the destruction of property to the amount
of over $1,000,000. The Chinese Museum,
National Theatre, and about thirty ore.-
and twenty dwellings were destroyed. The
fire communicated to the buildings on Eighth
and Sanson! streets, doing immense damage.
An actor named Sheppurd playing at the
National Theatre was consumed in the fiery
elements. Several other lives are supposed
to have been lost, and many of the firemen
were injured. " The lire is supposed to have
originated from some lire or matches used in
the Theatre.
Railroad Collision.
An awful accident occurred on the Sus
quehanna and Baltimore railroad, about nine
miles from Baltimore, on the afternoon of
the -1th of July, by the collision of an exclu
sion train and one of the regular passenger
traii.s. About 2000 persons were on-board
of the excursion train, which was going at
lull speed when the collision took place..
The crash was dreadful, and the screams ol
the wounded and dying heartrending. ;
A lion t 3-2 persons were killed, manv badlv
wounded, several fatally, and upwards ol
nty more or less injured. The CoronerV
jury rendered a verdict charging the causi
of the accident to carelessness on the part ol
the Conductor, and to gross neglect on the
part of the officers of the Company, in failing
to give their rules in more explicit language.
Coiiision at Sea.
The ships Olympus and Trade Wind came
in collision on the 29lh June oil Cape Sable,
and both were sunk. The Olympus staled
from Liverpool for Boston, the 24th having
10 passengers and a crew of 23, and was
freighted with 000 tons iron. The Trade
Wind was owned in Philadelphia, and sailed
row Mobile for Liverpool with JT passen
gers and a crew of 31. Twenty-four in all
wished. The remainder were nicked m
jy the bark Sladt Antwerp.
The steamer George Law, with San Fran
cisco dales to the 15th June, and .$1,150,000
in gold, arrived at New York, on Monday.
She brings -100 passengers, among whom
Commodore Perry. lie brings the Treaty
with Japan, securing to the United Slates
privileges of residence and trade at two
ports for its citizens. The accounts of trold
discoveries in California are gralifyin
A great panic has been caused in New
York City, by the fact being made known
that Robert Schuyler, one of the Directors
and transfer agent for the railroad compa
nies, has over-issued stock on several of the
companies, in all amounting to about twelve
million dollars. In Wall street but little
else is talked of.
The whole number of deaths in In cw York
for the week ending July 8, was TGI- -being
an increase of 1 11 on the week previous. Of
the whole number -183 were under 10 years
of age, and 130 inmates of the various pub
lic institutions. There were 08 deaths by
cholera 20 more than in the previous week.
The American bark Grey Ragle is repor
ted to have landed GOO slaves near Havana
on the '25th ult. -She was subsequently
captured as a slaver by an English brig of
war, but was finally handed over to a Span
ish vessel of war. Only a small number of
the slaves were rescued.
Hon. Gimjeht Dean, a member of Con
gress, has been appointed to a seat on the
Lcnch of the Supreme Court of Xew York, by
the Governor of that State, to fill a vacancy
occasioned by the death of Judge Darculo.
A meeting of GOO abolitionists took place
at I rainmghain, JUass., on the 1th. Messrs
Garrison, Phillips, and others delivered
speeches Garrison concluding his perform
ance by burning the Constitution of the
United States and the Fugitive Slave Law
amidst applause and cries of shame.
Nicholas, of Russia, will not allow any
Bible Societies in the empire, though form
erly thev were encouraged and assisted in
their establishment. The Czar savs that he
has discovered that they all are connected
with political movements. In political mat
ters he thicks ho is a"b!c himself, like , all
autocrats, to determine whatis for the good
f his subjects.
Foreign News.
Bv the arrival of the steamships Wash
ington and America, we have Liverpool
dates to the 21th. A report had reached
Liverpool from London by telegraph, that
the Turks had driven the Russians across
the Danube with great slaughter, and had
raised the siege of Silistria. The Liverpool
grain and Hour market had heavilv declined,
owing in a great measure to the favorable
weather and promising condition of crops.
the w.n NEWS.
A Turkish brigade from" Shumla, entered
the fortress of Silistria on the 13 th. A Rus
sian despatch says that their soldier? de
feated two Turkish brigades with six thou
sand cavalry and 40 guns, in an action on
the 1-1 th. It is said that much disunion
exists among the Russian Generals at head
quarters, probably induced by the ill success
of the late operations. Prince Gortschakoll
had received a severe contusion in the en
gagement with the Turks. The Turks made
a tremendous sortie from Silistria on the
1 yth, and attacked the Russians with great
furv. Aftcra!:ard fight the Russians lied
the field, suffering a great slaughter. On
the two following days they were allowed to
remove and bury their dead. Three Rus
sian Generals were wounded and all the
Russian siege works were totally destroyed.
About 80,000 Austrian troops were march
ing towards the Eastern frontier. A Con
vention has been concluded between Austria
and the Porte, the principal conditions of
which arc that the Russians shall voluntarily
retire from the Principalities, and the Aus
trian troops will then enter them and form a
defence between Russia and Turkey. Tin
lurks have driven the Russians out of Tur
tukai, and strengthened the garrison of
Kutzchalk. The Russian operation? against
Silistria are said to have been suspended.
Prince Paskiewitch, who was on his way to
J ussy, is said to have been ordered to return
and take Silistria at any cost. The Austri
an summons to Russia to evacuate the
Principalities, had caused great irritation at
St. Petersburg!!, and an answer was under
discussion at the latest advices. The con
clusion of a treaty of alliance between Aus
tria and the Sublime Porte, had been offi
cially announced in the British Parliament.
The London Pirncs savs that it is an occur
rence of great interest and significance in
the present stale of affairs. Pcnmyhniiun.
Later. The U. S. mail steamer Baltic
from Liverpool arrived at New York on
Saturday, with four days later news. The
Baltic m.adc the trip in 1) days, 10 hours and
53 minutes, the quickest passage on record.
Her news confirms the report that the
Russians have abandoned their present at
tempts to take Silistria and are evacuating
Wallachia. The Czar says he does this out
of "consideration" to Austria. The Austri
an troops are occupying the positions which
the Russians have abandoned. It is said
that diplomacy -had more to do with this
retreat than the courage of the Turks in
their heroic defence of Silirtria. Austria
places herself now between the Turks and
their allies, on one side, and the Russians on
the other, and keeps both parties from ad
vanciug. This appears to have been in ac
cordauce with the convention between Aus
tria and the Porfc, signed on the 11th June
me principal conditions ot llus convention
arc said to be, that if Russia voluntarily
retires, the Austrian troops will enter the
Principalities, and form a defence between
Russia and Turkey. The allies have no in
tention of pursuing the apparent advantages
oi tne retreat ot the Russians. They talk
already of withdrawing their forces from the
Danube to occupy the Crimea, and it is even
suggested that the Raltic fleet be withdrawn
except so far as is necessary to keep up thr
blockade, and that it be employed in the
Clack sea. Some of the English journals
regard the movement of the Russians as an
artifice, to disunite the German and tin
Western powers, that the Czar, having com
plied with the requisition of Austria, that
power and Prussia may retire from the con
test. Lcdirer.
Estimates carefully made show that the
Russians have lost, by battle and disease,
since they set foot in the Principalities,
about fifty thousand men.
Despatches have been received at Liver
pool by telegraph, that the Russians had
arrested the correspondents of two London
journals on the right bank of the Danube,
before their retreat. They had also re
moved their heavy artillery from the Danube.
The engineer on the Harlem Railroad, on
Sunday, discovered two intoxicated men Iv-
ing on the track, and he had to stop the
train and remove them. A short distance
ahead, at the entrance of the tunnel, he
found the two flag-men, by the side of the
track, fast asleep! and he had .again to stop
the train to rouse them up to their duties.
The beef butchers of Philadelphia have
determined to buy no more cattle unless the
prime article is sold to them for $9 per hun
dred. The British government have instructed
Sir John Bowring to follow in the foosteps
of Commodore Perry, and open negotiations
with Japan.
J1CP We regret to learn that Josiah
Holbrook, of Washington city, well
known for his scientific writtings, &c,
was nccidently drowned at Lynchburg,
Ya., on Monday a week.
The Common School Law.
The following letter from the School
Department, will be found of interest to
many of our readers; it was addressed to
the School Directors of the Second Ward,
Pittsburg:
Department of Common Schools, )
llarrisburg, Juno-12, lb54.
Gentlemen: Your School Directors
cannot proceed at all under the old law
tinee its repeal, and they can only pro
ceed as authorized by the new law. If
they undertake to collect duplicates they
have no authority to issue, they become
trespassers, and are liable as in other cases
of trespass.
If duplicates issued under the old law
for the school year 1855; are in the hands
of Treasurers or Collectors they should at
once be withdrawn, and such as are au
thorized by the present law should be is
sued. Your Directors should bear in mind
that unless your city is organized as re
quired by Section 2d of the School Law
of 8th May last, it will be impossible for
the Superintendent to pay their share of
the State Appropriation, as the wards are
no longer district.-", and have no authority
to receive tho money.
A:ery Respeot fully yours &c,
Hy. L. Deiefe.nhack,
Deputy Superintendent.
Singular Case.
Yc learn from a gentlemen this morn
ing a very singular case of what was sup
posed to be hydrophobia, which occurred
in Little York, in this county. A mar
ried man (we could not learn his name,)
a resident of the place specified, was bit
ten, a short time ago, by a large mad dog.
The wound, being slight, was not consid
ered worthy of particular notice, and it
soon healed up and the circumstauce was
forgotten. A few days ago, while in the
room with his wife, he felt rather stragc -
lv and seemed innlirmd tn liifn nml frrntAl
..t. ii i i
uio iuulu nun an luu power ue poasesseu
Lie asked his wife to hand him a. piece of
sole leather, which being complied with,
he bit it through in several places, and
continued biting 'until it was chewed to
pieces. Ho then requested her to hand
him a chip, which he also tore into splin
ters with his teeth. At thid point he was
seized with very strange and wild sensa
tions, and he told his wife she had better
leave tho room, as he was fearful he mb'ht
commit some personal violence. She did
so immediately, and locked the door.
Lie tried to cot out; but finding the door
locked, weut to the window, which was in
the second or third story of the house,
and jumped out, perfectly crazy and ra
ving, as is supposed, with hydrophobia,
lie ran several miles before ho was over
taken, screaming and crying with the
most intense agony. He was fiually se
cured and brought back, and is now uu-
der the medical cure of Dr. LeFevre-
At times he is perfectly rational, when he
refuses to be tied. When the strange
feelings come upon him he gives notice,
and is properly secured. This is certain
ly a very strange case. Dayton Empire,
June, 21.
Letters on ETebraska.
The Committee appointed by the Suli
van county, Auti -Nebraska meeting, held
at Laporte, on the 23d of May, for the
purpose of requesting the opinions of the
several candidates, upon the Nebraska
question, report that they addressed let
ters of inquiry to James Pollock, William
Bigler, Jeremiah S. Black, Daniel M
Smyscr, George Darsie, and nenry S
Mott. They received in reply, the follow
ing: -
Milton, June 19. 1851
Genllcmc7i.'Yoix letter of the 27th
ult., with accompanying intcrroEatorie
i t .., a a
uas Decn received. To your first ques
tion I reply, that, regarding the passage
of the Nebraska bill, as reokless and ill
advised as a wanton breach of national
honor and plighted faith and as an open
and undisguised attempt to extond tlit in
stitution of slavery to territories now free,
I am " in favor of re-enacting that por
tion ot tue luissoun Compromise which
prohibits slavery in the territores of Kan
sas and Nebraska."
To your second question, I say that the
re-enactment of tho provision referred to.
wouiu necessarily exclude slavery from
tucse territories: and the "unconditional
manumission" of all slaves then there.
could not bo regarded as a moral or le
gal wrong to any party. For slaverv
can have no legal existence in those terri
tories, either by act of Congress, or un
der the false pretence of "popular sover-
viguujr. o-uu yuuui iu usiiiuusu Biavcry
can only oxist in eapress grant, or as an
incident of absolute sovereignty, and as
the Government of the United States is
not absolute, but a limited constitutional
sovereignty, and as the Constitution con
tains no grant of this power, express or im
plied, it follows that Congress has no now-
er, 10 estannsn, directly or mdirectly, by
positive act, or by permission, under' the
plea of "non-intervention," slavery, in a
ny free territories of the United States.
It therefore, slavery enters those territo-
nes, it will be there, not onlv without, mi.
thority of constitutional law, but in viola-
lion ot all law. Under these circumstan
ces, the restoration and preservation to
freedom of those territories,would be sus
tained by every prinoiple of law, and iua-
luea uy every consideration of national
aith and national honor.
Yours respectfully,
James Pollock.
Thos. J. Ingham, Henry Metcalf, Jno.
?. Taggart, &e., Committee. -Messrs.
Darsie and Smyser replied in
similar terms to the first inquiry, and Mr.
Darsie to the last, whioh, being a judicial
question, Judge Smyser deemed it not
proper for a judicial candidate to answer.
A CUEIOUS RACE.
, Orang Koohoos.
From Capt. Gibso7is Lecture before the N.
Y. Historical Society.
These are probably of all the races of
men whom we have any knowledge, the
lowot in the scale of humanity; or rather
the degradibility of oar species would
seem to have reached that limit in their
case, which might be regarded as the con
necting link between the human and the
brute creation. They are covered with
hair, have long arms; and aro deficient in
chin, or rather it forms no part of the
face those were the points in their for
mation which first arrested my attention,
and led me to class them at once, as sim
ply a somewhat higher development of
the Ourang Outang. Rut on further ob
servation I found that they possessed
speech, though extremely rude and mo
nosyllable, had visible faculties, and re
sembled the rest of mankind in their sex
ual formation and arrangement, and were
recoguized as belonging to the family of
man by the Malays, who, however, hunt
ed them as wild animals, in order to work
them as beasts of burthen.
The Orang Kooboos arc only to be met
with in the almost impassable swamps and
forests that lie between the Jambee and
the Palembang territories, in the Island
of Sumatra. They live among the branch
es of the teak and marringin trees, which
grow hero to an enormous size, as indeed,
the case with the forests throughout the
Island. They construct a rude platform
of bamboos wherever they can find a suf
ficiency of horrizontally extending limbs
of a tree to serve as the basis or sleepers
of a floor, and over this they raise an e
qually rude comical roof of split bamboos
and coco-nut or pisang tree leaves.
These savages are ichthyophagists, as are
almost all the uncivilized tribes of the
Eastern Islandsjkin all the river3 and
bavs of Suruatr,
all the rest of
the Islands
bountiful pr
'be found. M
a most
to
I had
'of sol
with
bv
tl
an
resi
or Prince
pportu-
nity for an esp
of these
creatures. The
several
as slaves, or rather as boSts of burthen,
for they were not intrusted with anv la
bor but the dragging and carrying of
loads ol dirt, stones or material for build
ing. He called them "tai orang,'' the or
dure of men. He said that they were born
as the lowest of slaves, and this had been
the case for hundreds of generations, inas
much as they were descendants of slaves
and burden carriers of the army of Alex
ander. I found them generally called "hambn
or boodak Iskandcr" the slaves of Alex
ander. It is well known that numberless
traditions of Alexander the Great, of
"Doul Karmain" "the two horned,"
prevail throughout Sumatra, as well as in
the Asiatic Continent. It has been found
impossible to teach the many Kooboos the
use of garments, although they have a
great fondness for pieces of colored cloth
to bo fastened to various parts of their
body, and seem to make no distinction
between a simple piece of cloth for orna
ment or a manufactured article the on
ly cause for preference being the differ
ence of colors. It has been found equal
ly impossible to teach them the language
of their masters; for those who had grown
up in a domestic state, still spoke the Ma
lay in an uncouth, monosylablic manner.
iil.0 tnoir own jargon ot unclassifiable
grunts.
They seem to have no idea of marriage
and the Panzorang assured me that he
bad never discovered in them any evi
dence of their belief or consciousness o
the existcuce of a Spiritual Being bavins
auj iuuucuuu upon meir own condition;
but in regard to this matter I was inform
ed by a fellow prisoner at Wcltevreden
by one Captain Van Worden, who had
Deen tour years commanding at the sraal
DOSt of Lahat in the interior nf Snmnlr
and who had had frequent opportunities
to observe the Urang Kooboos, both male
3 C .. 1 -L 1 1 t l .
aim ivmniu, oil iuuuu Duiun uatanf, or
species of bamboo, that attains to a crea
size, and would all in conoert, as many as
could, strike their heads repeatedly agains
tue trunK or tno tree, and utter some rude
grunting ejaculation; this, he observed.
took place whenever any one, or all of
tne Dand, got Hurt or received any special
gratification, but mostly when injured.
Now it is well known, that a large pro-
poruon oi tne semi-civilized, semi-pagan
Sumatrians, believe that in the enormous
tufts of the buluh batang, as well as in
tno warnngin tree, there exists widadiri
dewas, rakshashas, or good and evil su
pernatural beings; and what is remarka
ble, that throughout Sumatra, all the be
ings of their pagan mythology are of the
iemminc gender, jl nave heard described
by thejr orang meuy-anyec, or pantun
verse singers, some most ravishing pic
tures of the Widadiri, or good nymphs of
tne ouiun oatang.
lho Uranc- Kooboos would snmn in
have somo vague idea of their supposed
existence, But. not withstanding the ut
ter degradation of this hairy, bruitsh man,
he seems to be no insignificant contributor
to commerce; for, .as yet, in some of the
impassable forests of Sumatra, in the Ba
tang Lckoh, he has been the chief collec
tor ofbenzion or gum benjamin.
Curious stories wero related to mn bv
Arab and Malay traders, in the Jambee
country, about tho manner of trading with
the Urang Kooboos. The trader would
proceed to a certain point, on the edec of
a loresi, ut certain periods ot. tho year,
with quantities of colored clothes, beads
and othor trifles; he would then beat a
goug for some length of time, at various
intervals, for one or two days, and then
retire to a considerable distance, to re
turn in about a week, when he would find
satisfactory quantities of benizon in place
of hi3 goods, that had been carried off bv
me tvooDOOS.
c
0 unVnTO n cr
Nicholas's Disregard of Humaii life.
The consumption of hunian life during1
the reign of the Emperor Nicholas had
been enormous. He carried on war "with
the Circasians uninterruptedly for twenty
eight years, at an annual cost of 20,000
lifes on tho Russian side alone: making a
grand total of nearly 600.000 Russians
who have perished in attempting to sub
due the independence of Circassia. In
the two campaigns against Turkey, 1828--'9,
300,000 fell; of whom, however, 60,
000 perished hy the plague. The loss of
the Russians in various ways, since the
entry of the Danubian Principalities, is
understood at 30,000. In these calcula
tions, it should be horno in mind that no
estimate is attempted to be made of the
sacrifice of human life on the side of those
who fought for their liberties against the
aggressions of Russia.
S?Tb.e most extensive publishing con--corn
in America is, beyond all doubt, the
Congress of the Unted States. Its print
ing bills are enormous, and the amount
of printed matter which it sends forth
from the press annaully is beyond alt
computation. Reports of tho most vol
uminous and unreadable character, mes
sages, documents of every description,,
drafts of bills, etc., all these Congress
spares no expense in order to see in print"
or to know that they are in print withou t
taking the trouble to see them. But the
most singular feature of this congression
al publishing business is the distribution
of miscellaneous books among the mem
bers which each House never fails to
vote. A recent number of the Washing
ton Star stated that the amount voted by
the House of Representatives to pay for
the books ordered to be distributed among
the present members of that body was
8199,500 87, and if to this be added the
nount requsite to pay for the books or-
red for the eighteen new members of
e Senate, the total amount will be
8221,000 !
The books thus ordered are not official
reports or documents connected with the
present Congress, but works got up by
private indiviuals on a variety of subjects,
and deemed by the members useful for
reference. The same paper furnishes the
following interesting statistics in refer
ence to the cot of one of these books :
The Bool: llcsoluliun. As more or less
of the members may not be well aware
of the effect of the action of the House,
yesterday, upon the book-distribution
proposition which they passed, and that
it may be generally understood, we pro- .
ceed to say that the cost of Ilickey's Con
stitution 1G0 copies of which was thus
voted to every member of the House is
not, at most, more than 40 cents. As 1
per copy is to be paid for them from the
Treasury, the tax upon it, on this account,
is to be 330,800, of which 822,050 is clear
profit. The resolution, as it passed, se
cures to Col. Hickey, a worthy employeo
(clerical) of the Senate, diennially, here
after, a profit of U(i, (above and beyond
the actual cost of the books he is to fur
nish under it) for each new member of
the House of Representatives; which can
not fail to amount hereafter to a biennial
salary of 810,000 at the lowest figure,
in addition to his handsome regular cler
ical pa.
This legislation, further, makes the a "
mount taken from the treasury on account
of books for new members equal, per
Congress, to 81,043 85 to each one of
them, or, in other words, to a sum one
third greater than their whole per diein
for the short session. The resolution, as
enacted, further provides that in ease tho
Clerk cannot hereafter procure the books
usually distributed thus, he shall expend
tho amount (81.043 85) in the purchase
of such books of a similar character for
each new member, as the member may
himself seleot:
If anybody can consider such an ex
hibit as this as aught else than deeply dis
graceful to every member guilty of a
participation in such a fraud upon the
national treasury, it must bo by means of
some process of reasoning of which we
are ignorant. A copy of the constitution
may be deemed necessary to every mem
ber, in order that he may properly ap
preciate his portion. But in what light
can the gift of one hundred and sixty
copies of this book to each member bo
justified ? The truth is, that no one at
tempts to justify it; and that it never
would have been committed, but that tho
offence has gradually grown up to its
present enormity, because of tho silence
of the public press and voice on tho sub
ject. Members of Congress who orido
themselves as being considered gentlemen
of fortune, of honor, and of high position
in society, stoop to the commission of
such offences because of tho impunity
which has always attended them. As
long as the press genorally, and political
bodios remain silent and neglect to re-
Duk-o these things, they will continue" to
exist, however wo may stigmatize them.
.orth American.
A Dream Interpreted.
A bashful Yokel was paying his ad
dresses to a gay lass of the country, who.
had long- despaired of bringing thing3 to
a crisis, lokel called one da v. when
mi 1
she alone was at home. Aftor scttlinc
the merits of the weather, Miss said
looking slyly into his face, 'I dreamed of
you last night.'
'Did you, why now !'
'Yes, I dreamed you kissed me 1'
'Why now I What did you dream
your mother said V
Oh, I dreamed she wasn't at home P
A light now dawned on Yokel's intel
lect, and directly something was heard to
crack perhaps Yokel's whip, and per
haps not, but about a month, more, and,
they wero twain, o.