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Show Tue question whether a clergyman can perform his own marriage ceremony has been in litigation for the last three years in the. courts of Ireland, and the decision finally reached is that such a marriage is valid. It would be go, of course, under the rules of common law, which regards marriage simply as a civil contract and requires no formal ceremony for its celebration. iced ses An interview has been had by the Chicago Vines with a prominent Southern Democrat in Washington. He predicts that the South will never again be solid; says that those now in Congrcss from the South do not represent the people, and he knows that if Grant is nominated for a third term it will be impossible to get the negroes to vote the Democratic ticket, as they did in 1876. <A great many Democrats even will vote for Grant. ——_g—— Tue New York Indicator says William H.. Vanderbilt has made two great mistakes since the death of his father. The one is in allowing a contest over the Commodore’s will, and the other in swearing that he had no personal property subject to taxation. By these blunders he has managed to incur the antipathy of Congress and of the New York Legislature. Where he will land is only dependent upon how much money he is willing to put up to subsidize the wereenaee of the United States and of the State of oo York, Rev. Mr. seen answers the recent strictures upen him as follows “All the members of my household, and even the outdoor servants, are teetotallers, and lam myself practically so. It humbles one to have to answer to such a daring lie. Those who see me from day to day, who are at my table, or at whose tables I have been» are the best witnesses, and I can appeal to them all. 1 am neither a gluttonous man nor.a winebibber, nor an enemy of Mr. Dow; but because I often sufter from rhetimatic gout, it is cruelty upon me that I must be guilty of excess.” s ——_o-_— Tu President has received a large number of letters from distinguished women in all parts of the country thanking him in the name of their sex for approving the act admitting women to practice in the Supreme Court, and thus extending the sphere of women’s usefulness. The Justiccs of the Supreme Court do not, however, share in this rejoicing, as they once decided unanimously that women were not qualified:to practice at their bar, and one of them, at the White House reception Saturday, remarked to some ladies who were quizzing him about it, that they intended to change their consultation room into a nursery, where women who wanted to argue cases before them could leave their babies. See Sorc Says Richard Whiteing, the Paris correspondent of the New York World, in his letter concerning the retirement mind. “Lines,” he modestly calls them, ‘written in the album of Miss Abby Jane Hart, of New York City;” a fugitive occasion, which would hardly call for that breadth of thought and comprehensiveness of view that mark this effusion. Pope wrote a labored poetical essay to serve as a general map of mankind, in which he attempted to anatomize the reasoning faculties. Our illustrious Churchman, less pretentious, wrote lines in a lady’s album, in which he dealt with the momentous issues of primordial — spirit life, sublunary existence, the plan of Ceo other things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. Matter for an epic, condensed by the force of genius into one printed page. Let ussearch the depths of these profound thoughts for the benefit of humanity. The inspired. min- “Our — National Park out in Montana has a superintendent, it seems. His name is Norris, and he is a garrulous old fellow who made money by trapping and trading furs, and finally built a suburb of Detroit, which he named afier himself. As soon as the National Park was created, he was on hand to become its superintendent for $2,500 a But his chief duties seem to be year. making atrip there onceayear and roaming the mountains all summer in a buckskin uniform and with a big black feather in his hat: Last year Norris got $0,000 appropriated to build roads through the Park and the like, and now he wants $25,000 more. They say that if he keeps on with his improvements as he has begun, he will fix it in time so that no one can get through the Park, and none will care to see it.” = @ THe New York Star says of the Oneida Community: ‘“The Oneida and Morihon communities are as dif fereut as can well be imagined. The former is noted for its industry, thrift, temperance, honesty and submission to law. It attends to its own business, seeks ‘no proselytes, and among its warmest defenders are its neighbors of. almost every religious denomination. In view of ali these facts, it certainly seems a grave mistake to wage war on the Oneida Community, while so many other open sores of a more malignant character confront us at our own threshold, and in the shadow of our own church spires. Pernicious as the pivotal principle of their creed would be if widely adopted in society, we think it is a principle destined to attract extremely few converts; and the wiser course of procedure would therefore be to have the matter quietly in-! vestigated by a legislative commission. The Communists express their perfect willingness to go if the Legislature or their nearest neighbors request them to do so.” Abby: Knowest Origin? thou whence thou an end When the gifted apostle addressed these bewildering questions to the in the serene depths of his own mind she could not answer. W ithout anatomica! investigation or philosophical inquiry, how is the gaudy fluttering butterfly to divulge such secrets? This the bard comprehended, and he came to the rescue of the bipedal moth, by plungi Ing into the beginning of VBE: Hear him further: Thou in the Bosom of thy Father bask’d, and liv’d, an Mov’d thousands 2 years BBO: Yes, cer this Mundane sphere from Chaos sprung, or sun, or Moon, or ae or world wee ieee dy before the Sons of God for joy did shout, or e’er the Morning ata together es ton liv’dst. This is Mormon theology set to verse. The Greeks made Minerva ae ing in full panoply from the brain of Jove, thus showing, in their heathen way, that Wisdom, with its attribute of power, springs from the intelligence of the Creator. But Latter-day faith teaches that the informing part of the human And Bie thou dwelt in thy paternal home, And with thy brethren shared extatic bliss, Ail that a spirit could not clothed in icon Thou, thro’ the vista of unnumber’d yea: Suw’st thro’ the glimmeriug vad that “thou Dweil in Pace just as the Gods. This is too profound for uninspired intelligence. Hnough droppings from the sanctuary have reached us to impress our minds: with the belief that unseen spirits fill the air, hovering about cheerlessly in the cold, waiting for fleshly tabernacles to inhabit. But we have always supposed these were unintelligent es- sences—dim and shadowy as Ossian’s ghosts—which entered the human form at birth, or previous thereto, and gained their far-reaching attributes of wisdom while in occupancy of these fleshly tabernacles. We = supposed, these inchoate and w«nfleshed spirits, contained the germ of thought and apprehension, as the acorn contains the future oak, but its growth and development were attained during its marriage with the flesh. But our rapt bard shows this vain imagining - be all wrong. These void and formless spirits share ecstatic bliss, look Botote and after, and are endowed with higher per- ceptive faculties than when operating through molecular action.. They see, our divinely illuminated poet tells us, just as the Gods (see). But what is “the glimmering veil” which the fluttering moth’s uncreated spirit saw through? The bosom of Deity is certainly not such gauzy drapery! Oris “the vista of unnumbered years” the glimmering veil in question? If this is the interpretation, we have a mixed and perplexing figure —a vista confounded with a veil—which would be very apt to mislead the fair neophyte. Perhaps we cannot follow the daring imagery of the adventurous bard, and itis possible his massive thoughts are lost upon us. We give the reader another taste of will his orphic strain. Scest thou the multitudes nee sail in Gilded een and gently float along the Silvery s ? Downward Hey go with Ww: sweet Tac deioiss Baee: ang scarce a zephyr moves The tranquil bosom of the placid ae U neonscious of the greatness of the They might obtain, the ey glide none ane baate And as they never soar aloft, nor mount n eagle’s wings, nor draw aside the veil Of other worlds, they know none else than aw ~ | they soard’st from worldt How to are eternal life. Has the inspired bard confounded his tenses? Is he singing of the past or the future? He gets his subject into the cerulean world all right, a priestess and a Queen, reigning in the realms of light and habited in robes of bright seraphic light. (Isn’t there too much ance for solid comfort?) radi- She makes wide explorations, drinking in wis- dom from every rotund orb she visits; but allthis appears to be in the past tense. Are we. to understand that the fluttering moth wore robes of bright seraphic light when in its erysolis state it basked in the bosom of the Father; or is all this active business yet to come off? “Thou soard’st” (second person singular, perfect tense) indicates an action accomplished; while it seems to us that all this celestial machinery more properly pertains to the life that is to come. That last dig at the ‘Gmbeciles”’ who refuse to accept Joseph Smith as their prophet, seems like the introduction of the shop into the region of rhyme, and is more spiteful than inspiring. We have given enough of our author’s ° “Tines” for our readers to appreciate their quality; can they resist a feeling of jealousy at our happy lot in being privileged ever and anon to dig up such a literary prize? BOOK. comest.? W. a thou art? W hat? and w pee Thou are bo rysolis of yeste To-day a andy Hmiteniee chatter fiy— A moth; to-mor. ow crushed, and ‘then Of thee. young lady, he knew thou progressive Tn the Foliek of bright seraphic light; and With thy God eter: nal—onward goest,a Priest ss and a Queen—reigning and ruling in The realms of light. Uni ke the imbeciles Who ae ay brook the scorn of men and DR. BENNETY’S THE Railway Age in its defense of No otek joyss the Pullman Car Co. says the company Transmiuted into more sober prose, has a capital of $12,000,000, and yet we have multitudes floating indothis great’. venture pays only eight per lently down the stream of time, cent dividends, and its shares arepone without making any study of the ed at eighty cents on the dollar. ; passing scenery or keeping a log of cash investment includes large works the journey. It is easy sailing and at Detroit, employing some 700 men, they make the most of a good time. mainly in repairing the cars. HnorWhat does Apostle Taylor want mous as is the outlay for the cars themthese people to soar aloft for? Has selves—appropriately termed “palaces” he provided them with any aerial —the continuous outlay of maintaining the cars and their furnishings—the apparatus? Then there’s that veil rich seat-coverings, the mattresses, again. It seems they are guilty of linen, curtains, towels, soap, brushes, neglect in not drawing the veil aside combs, and the many articles large and and contemplating other worlds. small that make up the furniture of the Gut what follows may afford a key wellregulated palace car, is much beto the riddle: yond the popular estimate. The anThough like thee nual average cost of operating a PullIn ae is the eternal spark; thousands wy years must roll along eer they man Car, including its repairs, together Renan the prize they might with thee have with the maintenance of upholstery, conn at? La No! They may come where bedding and cquipments, and pay of thon ae but never can they with thee share employes, is about $4,000. The ayerage number of trips per annum, inThis looks as if the young lady cluding the whole number of cars run (the gaudy butterfly aforesaid) was by the Pullman company, is 195. To a good Saintess, and on the certain earn the mere cost of maintaining and road to the heavenly Kolob. The running, without any return to the others have not shared her prize— owners, the number’ of berths sold | not embraced Mormonism, and conmiutist average seven per night How to 7 produce a telling effec Communicate a secret to &@ Woman. Science sae strel starts out as follows: being, (or the soul, to speak more of President MacMahon: “Nothing precisely,) was created before this in MacMahon’s Presidential life be- mundane sphere; only this gaudy came him so well as his manner of | butterfly was more favored than the rest, in deriving her spiritua! essence quitting it. He took leave of his minfrom the bosom of the Deity. But isters with dignity, and, being Frenchthis transcendent thought is more men, they used the national privilege and shed honest tears without shame— fully developed as follows: all the more likely to be honest ones as they had no unseemly violence to re__gret. Then, wearing his civilian dress, he went to visit the new President, temporarily installed for the moment in his old official residence as President of the Chamber. ‘Ma foi,’ he said, shaking him heartily by the hand, ‘another year of it would have killed me. J have come to thank you for saving my life—at the risk of your own.’”’ Ry FE Bs Tub Springfield Hepublican says: For whilst in heayen’s theyll have to knock or thousands of years before siats the moth’s exaltation. The name of John C. Bennett is intimately associated with the annals of the Mormon Church during the stormy period of its establishment in Nauyoo. He was a man of some education, is vouched for in numberless certificates as “a successful practitioner of medicine and surgery, and he. appears to have beena man of superior executive ability. During his connection with the Church he enjoyed the entire confidence of the Prophet Joseph Smith, who elevated him to the first presidency, commissioned him Major General ofthe Nauvoo Legion and installed him Mayor of Nauvoo. He apostatized after a Saintship of two years, and then published a book, which he calls “an Expose of Joe Smith and Mormonism,” which has brought down on his headthe implacable hatred of his former fellow sectaries, and has rendered his name a word of evil omen in the minds of the elect. John Taylor says of the apostate doctor in his discussion in Boulogre: Respecting John C. Bennett, I was well acquainted with him. At one time he was a good man, but fell into adultery, and was cut off from the Church for his iniquity; and so ba was his conduct that he was also expelled from the municipal court, of which he was a member. He then went lecturing through the country, and commenced writing pamphlets for the sake of making money, charging so much for admittance to his lectures and selling his slanders. Hisremarks, however, were so bad, and his statements so opseene and disgraceful, that respectable people were disgusted. These infamous lies and obscene stories, however, have been found very palatable toa certain class of society, and in times of our persecutions multitudes have been pleased with them. Governor Ford, in his History of Illinois, also gives the doctor the following unflattering notice: This Bennett was probably the eee est scamp in the Western countr haye made particular enquiries concerning him, and have traced him in several places in which he had lived, (before he joined the Mormons,) in Oiio, Indiana and Illinois, and he was everywhere accounted the same debauched, unprincipled and profligate character. Yet this notorious character is very strongly endorsed by State officials, a number of clergymen; boards of Trustees of colleges and universities, medical conventions, and medical classes over which he presided as their teacher. We will transcribe this one from the scores he produces. To whom tt may concern:—I with great pleasure state that I have long had a very intimate acquaintance with John C. Bennett, M. D., both as a medical man and private citizen. I have a personal knowledge of his skillful and dexterous professional tact in some of the major operations of surgery, and as a citizen I deem hima entleman ofmuch moral and intellectual worth. ALFRED Hopsy, Mayor of Hocking, Ohi. Hocxine Crry, June 9th, 1838. A number of our own citizens who were acquainted with Dr. Bennet in Nauvoo, also bear favorable testimony to his general character; they credit him with being a man of marked ability and a trusted coadjutor of Joseph Smith. In his Hxpose, the Doctor says he joined the Mormons in order to be on the inside, that he might gaina more intimate knowledge of their criminal and licentious practices. “I never believed in them or their doctrines,” he says. This would convict him of hypocrisy and bad faith, in the eyes of some, and impair his credibility. In this way he defends himself: The fact thatin joining the Mormons I was obliged to make a pretense of belief in their religion does not alter the case. That pretense was unavoidable in the part | wasacting, and it should not be condemned like hypocrisy _ towards a Christian Church. For so absurd are the doctrines of the Mormons that I regard them with no more reverence that | would the worship of Manitou or the Great Spirit of the Indians, and feel no more compunction at joining in the former than in the latter, to serve the same useful purp ose. Stenhouse does not credit the doctor with any sincere faith in Joseph Smith as a prophet, but he is unwilling to believe that his association with the elect people was inspired by any such motive as he assigns in his book. And internal evidence is against such a belief. If regard for the public good led him to take the risk of allying himself with the Church, and his sole purpose was the better to qualify himself to expose their criminal and lawless acts, he should have been more moderate in performing his selfimposed task, and made his arraignment with an approach to judicial serenity. But e gives way to the most violent anger, rates Joseph Smith and his subordinate priests with the coarsest vituperation, answers railing with railing, and keeps up such “a very torrent, tempest and (as I may say) whirlwind of passion,” through his book that good taste is offended and he partially defeats his own object. Dr Bennett’s Exposure was pub- MORNING, It is well known, says this witness, that the general employment of the Smith family was _money-digging and fortune-telling. They kept around them constantly a gang of worthless fellows who dug for money nights and were idle in the day-time. Tt was a mystery to the neighbors how they got their living. At different times I have seen them come from the woods, bringing meat with them which looked like mution. I went into the woods one day very early to shoot partridges, and found Sooseph Smith, sen., in company with two other men, with hoes, shovels and meat that looked like mutton. seeing me they ran like wild men to get out of sight. Seeing the old man a few days- afterward, IT asked him why he ran’so the other day. “Ah!” said he, “you know that circumstances alter cases; it will not do to be seen at all times” The finding of the gold plates was managed by just such jugglery, and ef course there were plenty of fools about to believe any idle yarn told them. Upon this discovery the Latter-day dispensation was founded, and the earliest converts to the new faith are not represented as of reputable character. Beadle states the matter more philosophically; in his Life in Utah this well-informed author says: The intense religious excitement which raged throughout the United States during the decade of 1820-30, which led to the wild phenomena of “jerks,” and so- called religious - exercises of howling, jumping, barking and muttering, seems to have left a precipitate of the worst materials in Mormonism. He says further: But Mormonism was a mushroom growth upon rich bed of decay, which sprung up merely because something better was not planted, but had no enduring root. It might "flour: ish for half a century or more, upon the scum of vicein America and Eu rope, but could enjoy at best but a sort of living death and usb soon wither and decay. This latter extract is prophetic, and may not be literally fulfilled. The Mormon Church has now been in existence nearly the time allotted by the author and still shows vitality. But we know that the intolerant reign of ihe priesthood has become burdensome and distasteful to a large proportion of its members, and if the laws were enforced in this Territory and the rights of citizens protected, thousands would make haste to abjure allegiance to their priestly masters. But it wouldbe a gross injustice to the Mormon people to claim that only bad characters enrolled themselves as followers of the prophet. Thousands of well-meaning but deluded people were attracted by the novel doctrine preached to them by zealous elders, and gathered themselves to the fold with the intention of living godly lives. But the influences that surrounded them were impure. The leader of the Church, puffed up with the exercise of power and intoxicated with the semi-divine honors.paid him, gave way to every extravagance, and publicly proclaimed himself above the law. His -erazy—religious scheme which contemplated universal dominion brought him into conflict with the surrounding people, and having the authority of the ancient Jews for levying war upon the heathen, he formed the most lawless of his followers into military societies to consecrate the riches of the Gentiles to the house of Israel and to execute the decrees of Heaven upon the unconverted. Among the record testimony furnished by the author is a mass of documents accompanying Governor Boggs’ Message to the General Assembly of Missouri, in 1840, and laid before that body for their action. These statements are so detailed, so strongly authenticated, and bear such convincing internal evidence of truth, that to reject them as “the base inventions of our enemies,” as has been attempted by Mormon defenders and apologists, would be doing violence to all recognized rules of testimony. The Governor says in his message: These people had violated the laws of the land by open and avowed resistance to them; they had undertaken, without the aid of the civil authority, to redress their real cr fancied grievances; they had instituted among themselves a government of their own, independent “of and in opposition ‘to the government of this State; they had, at an inclement season of the year, driven he inhabitants of an entire county from their homes, ravaged their crops and destroyed their dwellings. Under these circumstances, it became the imperious duty of the Executive to interyose and exercise the powers with which he was invested, to protect the lives and property of our citizens, to restore order and tranquillity to the country, and maintain the supremacy of our laws. Among the documents submitted with the message, is an affidavit sworn to by Thomas B. Marsh, former president of the quorum of twelve, which is endorsed as true by Orson Hyde and a committee of the citizens of Kay county. Marsh details some of the robberies committed by a band of eighty Mormons under the command of Lyman Wight, many of whom were bound together with an oath “to support the heads of the Church in all things they say or do, whether right or wrong.” Mae of this band, Wight Mormon dissenters are daily flying to this county for refuge from the ferocity of the Prophet Joe Smith; who, they say, threatens the lives of all Mor: mons who refuse to take up arms at his bidding, or do his commands. These dissenters (and they are numerous) all confirm the reports concerning the Danite band of which you have doubtless heard much, and say that Joe infuses into the minds of his followers a spirit of insubordination to the laws of the land, telling them that the Kingdom of the Lord is come, which is superior to the institutions of the earth. Eix-president Marsh shows the danger those Saints placed themselves in who refused to take up arms in defense of their prophet. The day befoxe the raid was made into Daviess county, he tells us in his affidavit, “Joseph Smith had preached that allthe Mormons who refused to take up arms, if neces~ sary, in difficulties with. the citizens, should be shot, or otherwise put to death.” The prophet very clearly meant business. Says the same affiant: He inculcates the notion; and it isbelieved by. every true Mormon, that Smith’s prophecies are superior to the law of the land. have heard the prophet say that he should yet tread down his enemies and walké ver their dead bodies; that if he was not let alone he would be a second Mahomet to this generation, and make one gore of blood from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic. Such evidence accumulating upon the Governor’s hands, he became convinced of the necessity of taking active measures to repress these scenes of lawlessness, and accordingly issued an order to General Clark to subdue the Mormons and restore peace to the community. This brought about the conflict between God’s people and the State authorities, and resulted in thé expulsion of the former from th» State. Agsailing Dr..— nett’s character does not overtur. uae testimony he presents; and if we accept only a tithe of itas true, we can understand why the Mormons were always in hot water with their neighbors, and why to this day they cannot live in peace with the human race. IDAHO What Decent MORMONISH. People Think Dirty Polygs. {Idaho About the Statesman| Inthe Idaho Senate, on the 15th, Mr. High, of Oneida, in replying to the assertion of Mr. Hart (Mormon) that houses of prostitution were not known among the Mormons, except as they had been forced in among them by intruding monogamists, said he had often heard a saying to the effect that it would not pay to carry coals to Newcastle,and he supposed the saying originated in the fact that in Newcastle, the supply of coal always on hand made the further introduction of coal a superfluity. For a similar reason he was inclined to doubt whether houses of prostitution in Mormondom, would prove successful as financial ventures; and thought the same reasons accounted for the comparative absence of saloons in a community where each man who could by any means obtain a supply of the ardent, was saloon unto himself. He said that drinking whiskey, or its equivalent, was as common ainong grown up Mormons as the practice was common amorg them of playing marbles all day to the neglect of their work. Mr. High said that he was himself a monogamist; and that as for polygamy, he could only judge of its. nature and tendency by the two classes of people among whom he had_ observed it recognized and practiced. These two classes of human beings, were the Morons and the Bannack and Shohone Indians; and that from what he had seen of them, he could not agree with Mr. Hart. in his praises, of what was claimed by the Mormons to be a ivinely revealed institution. —_——_»>-9—<— Anecdotes of a Scrapegrace. George H. Butler. when very drunk, applied to the genial John Chamberlain tora small loan. This of course, John refuse “John, » said George, solemnly, “I shall, like the Government, be driven to a forced loan,” and, slipping a small mantel clock in the ocket of his ulster, he added, ‘Time’s money, ohn; time’s money.” Again, when his uncle, the eminent Massachusetts statesman, was peoianne him on his evil conduct, and, to enforce his precepts, said that acelebrated physician had informed him that he George, was threatened with a softening of the brain, and added, “What would you do, nephew, if that calamity were to come to you?” George looked up witha ee gravity, and replied: “Do? do? Why, damn it. uncle, I’d be qualified to write leading editorials for the New York Herald.” The uncle found amore forlorn hope before him than the Governorship of Massachusetts. “Are you this way every day, sir?’ demanded the Police Justice, trying n the Roman.grandeur of that dirty loeality. “Every day!” repeated George, indignantly, “every day! Why, you old duffer, do you take me tor ¢ millionaire ?’— Washington Oapitai. te A sum of $140,000, consisting of remittances to Europe from merchants in Mexico, has been captured by fifteen prigands on the railroad between Pueblo and Vera Cruz. About a dozen brigands took XLV. MARCH 1 fecy, CONGRESS. ——o8 SENATE, WasHInGTon, Feb. 21.—Mr. Voorhees introduced a bill authorizing and requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to reissue United States legal tender notes now held for the resumption of fractional currency, and part. of such notes heretofore retired from circulation under the act of January 14th, a the aggregate amount of $26,852 and to expend the same in Aone of such “claims for arrears of pensions as may be allowed under the act of January 25, 1879; referred. Mr. Saunders, from the committee on Indians affairs, reported without amendment the Senate bill to authorize the President temporarily to transfer the custody, control and management of certain tribes from the Interior to the War Department; placed on the calendar. Bills on the calendar passed as follows: Senate bill tor the relief of homestead. settlers on public lands; Senate bill to pay McLin, late Associate Justice of the Territory of Mexico, full compensation for the period during ee he performed the duties of his Chandler having been presented and read, Mr. Chandler was escorted to the Vice-President’s desk by his colleague, Mr. Ferry, and the oath of office was administered. “Mr. Chandler occupies the same seat as when in the Senate several years ago. The credentials of Senator Ingalls, re-elected, were filed. Mr. Morrill reported with amendments the Senate bill for the interchange of subsidiary silver coin and. United States notes; placed on the calendar. The bill to promote the education of the blind was postponed and the army appropriation bill taken up. The ending question being on the motion to strike out sections in regard to the army reorganization. After some explanations the question was taken on the motion to strike out all sections relating to the army reorganization upon the ground there was not time to con ee them, and it was agreed to, yeas Makaar. Cetewayo is reported discouraged, the fearful havoc among his finest troops having counteracted the effect of their victory. Every confidence is now felt by the public in the prompt reparation tor the recent disaster. ‘The native contingant has been forcily disarmed and disbanded. Col. Pearson, with 1,200 British troops, is entrenched at Ekowe, thirty miles within the enemy’s territory. His communications have been interrupted for some days. The bush surrounding the post is infested with Zulus, but, Co]. Pearson has two months’ provisions. a ge Treaty Argument third-class tickets, seated themselvesin a carriage next the baggage car, and about a half an hour after starting severed all the cars behind them. Leaving these on the track, they forced the engineer to continue at full speed up to a point - where twenty-five armed men on horseback ordered a halt, whereupon the whole party carried off the money mules, killing the - conductor, and seriously wounding the inspector of the line. cof Bismarck. Oo When ie ‘amendment proposed by the committee on appropriations to strike out of the House bill the provisions forbiddirg the use of troops at elections and making it a penal offense to lo so, was reached, it was agreed to without discussion, and the provisions were stricken out; yeas 34, nays 30. The other amendments proposed b the committee on appropriations striking out of the House bill the provision that each member of the next two graduating classes of the military academy after graduating, may clect to receive the gross sum of $750 and mileage, and the - acceptance. of this sum shall render him ineligible to appointment in the army until two. years -after his graduation. Also striking out the section providing that the officers who may be detailed to service in the pay department shall give bonds the game as paymasters. Appointments to the grade of paymaster may be made ‘rom persons who have served as additional paymaster, of aot over 45 years of awe, were agrecc The Senate, bya rate yeas 29, nays 80, refused to ‘sirike out the section authorizing the Secretary of War to issue arms to any established college or university having not less than 100 students. Mir Cameron, of Wisconsin, presented a petition {rom the citizens of Wisconsin praying for an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that after the year 1890, ail male citizens over the age of twenty-one shall be possessed of Certain educational qualifications before being allowed the right of suffrage; referred. Mr. Ingalls, from the committee on pensions, , reported the amendment to the bill making an appropriation to pay the arrears ‘of pensions. The provisions of the amendment are similar to those of the bill introduced in the House to regulate the adjustmentof pension cases. The amendment also provides that applications, for arrears of pensions must be filed before Jan. Ist, 1880, after that time pensions will commence from the date of application; referred. The amendments proposed by the committee on appropriations were agreed to as follows: Increasing the appropriation tor the pay of officers and men from $9,800,000 to $10,000,000. HOUSE. Striking out of the House bill the clause allowing officers a commutation The committee on ways and means of $11 per room for quarters instead of reported back the sugar bill so.as to $10 and forbidding any commutation have it re-printed and made the pendfor servants’ quarters. The amending order; so ordered. mends atlowing officers on the frontier Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, asked leave mileage for other trayel than by rail- totake from the Speaker’s table for road and repealing so much ofthe act of the purpose of concurring in the SenJuly 24, 76 as prohibits the payment of ate amendments to the bill to restrict mileage for travel over any railroad on Chinese immigration. which troops and supplies of the UnitMr. Lapham objected. ed States are entitled to be transported Mr. Hale moved to go into commitfreeof charge. Agreedto. The clause tee of the whole on the legislative bill. authorizing railroad companies to The motion was anta gonized by transmit telegrams over their lines for Messrs. Tucker and Harris, who deGovernment and for the general public sired the morning hour to take up the at rates to be fixed by the Government, tobacco bill. The vote by teller according to the provisions of Title 65 on Mr. Hale’s motion resulted 110Zto of Revised Statutes, passed just as it 109. The Speaker voted in the negacame from the House, no amendment tiue, thus tieing the vote and defeating being made either by ‘the Senate comthe motion. The yeas and nays were mittee orin the Senate. The clause then ordered, and “resulted, yeas 117, was not even discussed. The sections nays 180. Messrs. Cutler and. Morse referring to a-reorganization of the voted with the Republicans in the army having been reached, Mr. Blaine ee and Messrs. Butler, Jorgensaid the committee on appropriations en, Wren, Page, Davis, Itner, Cole, had reported in favor of striking out Metcalf and Peed with the ‘Demo. these sections on the ground that there crats in the negative was not time in the few remaining By a non-party oth of yeas 187, nays days of the session to go into this com64, was laid on the table the bill replicated question of army reorganizaported from the committee on war tion, The committee had directed him claims, reimbursing Magell Brown to suggest to the Senate that the auesand others of Tennessee for supplies: tion of army reorganization be post- ie by the Union army during the poned until next session. Pending the discussion Mr. Ferry Sa Springer, chairman of the comcalled up the House resolution in mittee on expenses in the State Depart. memory of the late General, Alpheus ment, submitted a report with a_ resoS. Williams, member of the H0Ouse lution requesting the Speaker to issue from Michigan. Appropriate remarks a warrant for the arrest of George F. upon the life and character of the de- Seward as a contumacious witness; ceased were made, suitable resolutions ordered printed and notice given. The adopted and the me adjourned. matter will be called up for action on Monday. Business on the Speaker’s table was HOUSE. then pom ien Mr. Ewing spoke an hour, assailing The effort to proceed with the legisthe administration’s resumption policy lative appropriation bill was antag and advocating the amendment proposonized by the advocates of the mornin ed by the banking and currency com. hour, who were finally successful, and mittee, to prohibit the further sale of private bills were considered. bonds for redemption purposes. After the morning hour, a contest Mr. Garfield also spoke nearly an arose as to the order of business, Mr. hour, defending the resumption policy, Cox, of New York, pressing the census and finally moved to lay the biJl and pill, Mr. Hale the appropriation bill, all the amendments on the table as the and Mr. Bright the private calendar: best means of burying adead issue. A Messrs. Tucker and Wood antagonized all these with.a motion to proceed. to rising vote on this motion resulted— ayes 121, nays 85. ut the yeas the considetation of business on the and nays were then ordered, Speaker’s table. The House finally Garfleld’s motion was adopted on the went into committee of the whole on yea and nay yote, and the five bills inthe private calendar. The pending tervening before the Chinese immigrabill was that for the relief of Joha’ P. Armstrong, of Virginia, on account of tion bill were quickly disposed of. _ The Speaker then laid the Chinese a whari occupied by the United States bill before the House, and Willis imarmy in Alexandria during the war. concurrence in ‘all Mr. Hunton stated that the loyalty of mediately moved the Senate amendments, and upon this the claimant had been fully proved, eee demanded the ‘previous quesj and the only question was whether Congress was going to pay any claim Pat Wilson, of West Va., asked that of that character. A vote in the present case would be a decisive one as to the fifth and sixth articles of the Burlingame treaty be read, which the Senall eases of a like character. ate proposed to abrogate. Amid much Mr. Eden, while he supported the confusion, regular order was demanded, bill, expressed himseif in favor and afler voting down by 113 against constitttional amendment fabidibg 61, a motion offered by White, of Penn., the payment of all claims ori iginating to adjourn, the House seconded the in the war which have not already previous question. been adjusted. After the amendments had been read, dr. Hayes said although claims Mr. White moyed to lay the bill and might come in under the plea ot loyalamendments upon the table. ty, they were presented and advocated The motion was declared lost by a by disloyal men. Gentlemen on the viva voce vote, but about sixty memother side did not advocate the ciaims bers supported his demand for a vote oyal men. upon it by yeas and nays, resulting Mr. Eden said a Republican Congress 140 nays against 95 yeas. The Senate in 1871 had passed the act under which amendments were then all concurred 22,000 claims, amounting to $60,000,000 in by a viva voce vote en masse, the had be presented. The constitutional demand for separate voting being too amendment which he favored would late. The bill has therefore finally close the door against all war claims passed both Houses. of Congress and from North or South. gone to the President for his signature. Mr. Banning thought it would have been best at the conclusion of the war to have adopted a _ constitutional amendment prohibiting the payment of all war claims. The Confederates had not been entitled to anything, and The South African War. loyal men had been sufficiently paid in having the Government of the Union Cuicaceo, Feb. 21.—The Times Lonsaved to them on special says: Your correspondent Mr. Conger opposed the bill, and has been favored with the persusal of several sharp pees occurred between a private letier from Sir Garnet Wolsehim and Mr. Ede ley, Governor of Cyprus. The famous ‘Finally Mr. White mayed to strike British general says he has much anxout the enacting clause of the bill, and jiety as to the future of the Zulu diffiit was agreed to without division. culty. England is involved in a life In advocating the next bill on the and death struggle. This race is the calendar for the payment of $6,000 to most warlike in South Africa. It numA.A. Richards, of Virginia, for supbers 200,000 and can bring 40,000 well ie furnished the ar my during the armed, drilled and admirably disciwar, Mr. Shelley stated that he had no plined warriors into the field. It will sympathy with that class of claims. require a large force of regular troops His people, who had to bear the burto subdue them. The struggle will be den of taxation, had no sympathy with severe. A friend of Sir Garnet Wolseit; but it was one of the penalties of Jey says that the reinforcements being war, which the people of the South sent out are cruelly “inadequate. The must accept as a penalty. Ministers are evidently thinking of the r. Bragg opposed the bill. There expense “as well as the safety of. had been little or no loyalty in Virthe . Cape. ~ and. athe. honor,” of. ginia, except such as had been enforced the country. Should the Zulu by a cordon of soldiers with bayonets, natives settled in Natal and the native and then it had thrived most lustily forces rise, they are sufficient to sweep upon the supplies the Commissary of the British soldiers and whites into the the army had furnished. sea. Reinforcements are sailing daily _Mr. White of Pennslyvania, moved amidst enthusiastic demonstrations, to strike out the enacting clause; the Queen giving audiences to the agreed to, yeas 101, nays 48. A numgeneral office ber of Democrats voted in-the affirmaWhen Bet Hbnlt from tbe ‘Zulus tive while over ten Republicans voted were preparing a. grand combined atin the negative. tack with all their forces. There was The next bill was one for the paythrilling anxiety throughout the coloment to John Zumstein of $10,000 for uy, especially as the Zulu King was supplies furnished by him as sutler of sending emissaries to other native the army at the conclusion of the battle powers, urging them not to lose this of Shiloh. opportunity to slaughter every white Mr. Keifer supported the bill. man in South Africa. The colonists Mr. Bragg said that the chief merit are armed to a man, and prepared in in the bill was that the claimant cames/ the last emergency to defend their from Ohio. He moved to strike out the homes under the direction of the milienacting clause. Agreed to without tary authorities. There is no doubt division. here about the final victory, but grave Mr. Caldwell supported the next bill fears are still entertained of what may on the calendar for the relief of Hiram ahppen before reinforcements arrive. Se gui Johnson ahd others, of Tennessee. He said three Republicans had previously Killing Diseased Cattle. reported this favorably, but now the New York, Feb. 22.—The work of Republican committee made anes on killing cows sick with plero-pheumocapital out of his support ofi ia at “Blissville, L. 1, begun yesterday. i Mr. White opposed it, and i enactOnan g tothe severe cold this winter ing clause was struc the number of cows in the stables was The only bill agreed to by the comreater than usual. Many farmers had mittee was one for the relief of Gibbs exhausted their supplies of fodder and & Co., of Charleston,§ sent their cows to these stables, where The committee then rose and the they were boarded at 50 cents a week. House adjourned. The number in the stables when the Eg agitation about disease began was nearly 900. fhere are now only 450 SENATE. animals there. pla Re WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—The Vice- Sou pn ss eg gee TELEGRAPHIC. President submitted a communication from the Postmaster General in regard to the bill recently passed fixing the pay of letter-carriers. He states in addition to the estimates of $2 for the pay of carriers the next fiscal year, $303,000 additional will be required under the new bill and that $71,000 additional will be required to pay their salaries the remainder of the present fiscal year, should the bill take effect upon its approval by the President; referred. The credentials of Senator Zachariah PACIFIC COAST NEWS. Berwin, Feb. 22.—During the debate in the Reichstag, to-day, on the treaty of commerce between Germany and Austria, Bismarck said he was not altogether opposed to treaties of commerce, but “every such © i, 1879 SATURDAY ° 3 .March TRIBUNE: lished in 1842, and it created great | says in his affidavit, are much disconsternation in the ranks of the satisfied with this oath, as being against moral and religious princifaithful; in excess of zeal he may have fallen into the sin of exagger- ples. One evening he witnessed the ation, but most of the statements are arrival of a number of footmen from sustained by such a cloud of wit- the direction of Millport, laden with nesses and authenticated by record plunder which consisted of beds, evidence that there is no gainsaying clocks and other household furniShortly after a company them. As this book is not accessible ture. to many of our readers, it will be in- (called the Fur Company). was sent teresting to them to take a cursory out to forage hogs and cattle. The hogs were called bears; horned catglance through its pages. The character of Joseph Smith is tle, buffalo; and honey, sweet oil. by no means creditable. He sprung He witnessed the return of. these from a shiftless family, who lived a men from various incursions, one vagrant sort of life, and were prin- time driving in seven cattle, another time four or five. The hogs were cipally known as monvy-diggers. generally brought in dead. Judge Joseph, from a boy, appeared dull and utterly destitute of genius; but Kang,of the Fifth Judicial district of his father claimed for him a sort of Missouri,reports the following operasecond sight—a power to look into tion to the Governor: Between eighty and one hundred the earth and discover where its men went to Gallatin, pillaged houses precious treasures were hid. Conse- and the store of Mr. Stollings and the quently, long before the idea of a postoftice and then burned the houses; golden bible entered their minds, in they carried off the spoils on horseand in wagons, and now havé their excursions for money digging, back them, I understand, in a storehouse which usually occurred in the night, near their camp. Houses have been that they might conceal from others robbed of their contents, beds, clothing, etc., and all deposited, and the knowledge where they struck furniture, they call it “a consecration to the upon treasures, Joseph was usually Lord.” Atthis time there is not a their guide, putting into a hat a pe- citizen in Daviess county except Morculiar stone he carried, which indi- mons. Many have been driven without warning, others have been allowed cated the spot. where treasure was to a few hours to start. The _ stock be found. The doctor gives a vast of the citizens has been seized upon, mass of testimony sworn to by the killed and salted up by hundreds. From fifty to 100 wagons are now emneighbors of the Smith family, which ployed hauling in the corn from the exposes a fearful amount of ignor- surrounding country. ance and superstition pervading the These lawless proceedings =!:rmed rural districts in the early part of the law-abiding portion cf Joe the present century. From this we Smith’s followers, and Mr. T. C. select one incident sworn to by Burch, of Richmond, Mo., writing to David Stafford, of Manchester, New Governor Boggs, thus describes the York: stampede of dissenters: = LAKE: ——__>—__<_ Why is not the study of Mormon literature made a part of polite education? The world does not know what stores of information it loses. Beside the stupendous plan of salvation it contains, which should certainly challenge the attention of the primest and finest intellects of the age, we have flowers of rhetoric strewn along—the graceful unbending of minds dropping spiritual amber and theologica! gums—which refresh the imagination in its intensest moments and spreada primrose-path of rhythmic beauty grateful to the senses of all. Looking over the publications of the Church lately to gain a further knowledge of those stormy times in Missouri which tried the mettle of the Saints, and purified their souls as in a refiner’s fire, we came across some verses from the muse of John ‘Taylor, which bear the stamp of a master WEEKLY Will they ever attain it? ‘‘Never! No!” says the poet; the ecstatic bliss’ reserved for the young Saintess with the album they can never hope to share. Now comes something that is really stunning: ay SALT SATURDAYcoe sere tsee seas PEGASUS HH Che Weehtu Tribune TAYLOR’S fs) THE JOHN The British troops have poe aes Defeat. Carr Town, Feb. 22.—The latest information from Maritzburg states the total loss in the attack on Col. Glynn’s camp on the 22d of January i is now es timated at only from 250 to 800 whitesColonel Woods’ column has been vic. torious in all its’ encounters with the enemy. Col. Pearson still occupies an entrenched position at Ekowe. Lorc Chelmsford and the headquarters staff intend making an effort to join Col. Pearson. Reinforcements of the Brit- ish WS arrived at Help Is |