E. A. WEBSTER. Editor and Proprietor. A Weekly Paper Devoted to Temperance, Literature and Polities. j . . - XR> ? _,_. ." ...... ... , ..V-l_ VOLUME IL ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1875. NUMBER 17. TIMELY TOPICS. Gu inonu's remains have been laid away in the grave, after all, unattended by rioting or,disorder of any kind. Tine Spanish government bas opened a competition for composers of a national air. Can it be possible that all this time .Spain luis been without a national air? No wonder it is constantly in a slate of distraction. What would this country have been without Yankee Doodle? THE newly arrived daughter of the duchess of Edinburgh increases Queen Victoria's tally of grandchildren to twenty-seven, twenty-four of whom are still alive, and that of her total living progeny to thirty-three, including three unmarried children and the Princess Louise, who is married, but without family. _ WHEN you grumble at hard times and crippled industries, just cast your eyes over the big water and look at France, with ono .hundred and twenty-three thousand industrial establishments, and giving work to about one million eight hundred men. At least two-thirds of these are now losing a month's time and wages in order to drill for a future war. THE explosion and destruction of thc ironclad Magenta makes thc.se.condves.se] ol this kind lost by the French govern ment within two months. Thc sinkinj. of the English vessel Vanguard, withii the same period, by the tap of thc spin of a neighboring vessel, is beginning t< weaken confidence in tho durability o ironclads. IN Michigan's population of 1,300,001 there arc (?0,327 more males than females In Massachusetts there arc 60,000 mor females than males. Under such circuni stances it would seem eminently prope for the Michigan male surplus lo rclicv Massachusetts of her female surplii! Doubtless the Massachusetts wome would be more than willing. THE annual report of the commissionc of education contains many ( interestjn -.?"V-~..:?'?f Wcr-'Th?ro'?ro'?nrbtlc.oasting as to t superiority of her buildings over tilt erected on this side of tho frontier. T bursting of the grain elevator at Lei ville, however, is calculated to che suck boasting in thc futuro. The stn ture was of the " cheap and nasty" ort of architecture, and its fall scattered 4 000 bushels of grain to thc winds a the pigs. A NOTICEABLE thing nlxmt t monthly meeting of the Massachusc Total Abstinence Society, held in Bostt was a little speech by William B. Spool on thc prevalence of drinking time . clergymen, more than one-half of who ho 8iii. Thia would h good thing for Philadelphia, perhaps, there is no certainty that thc rest of \ country would find it cither pleasant profitable. The coming centennial w< bc nil .awful l>oro if we had delibera begun preparing for it a century ago A little matter of dispute has ca thc disruption of a powerful Long IK camp meeting asssociation. The dis arose fror^tho setting up of a bil saloon and Wvliug alloy on the gro last suinmerN, Thc advocates of I .. sinful games arWd in vain that \ would attract to\ho grounds just class which needed\ost tho .spirit' camp meeting. Thch opponents 5V not listen, but seceded r?nd have foi ' another association. TiiETtE is consid?rablo discussion difference of opinion as to how ra] ?S. Cl v fish grow. A recent letter from England says that a salmon weighing eighteen pounds was caught in tho Severn, wear ing a silver label. This was identified and proved the tish to be one which was caught six months before and returned to tlie water. At thc time it weighed nine pounds. That is, it had gained a pound and a half for a month, or nearly an ounce a day right along. VAI.MAHKIIA has origninated a new method of squcc/.ing money out of thc loyal in Cuba in order to provide one of thc recently arrived regiments with horses, lie has deereed that a "sacred contribution" of Ki per cent, on each individual's laxes in Havana must forth with lie handed in. As all thc money necessary to pay the bills for the subju gation of the Uliban insurgents must come out of Gilba, Spain contributing little or nothing, through inability to do so, thc arrival of 8,000 troops must strike dismay into thc hearts of the most loyal of Alfonso's subjects and create much dissatisfaction. COCOA differs widely from tea and coffee, in liebig a food or flesh former, while they aro rather condiments and stimulants. One-half the weight of co coa consists of fat, and 20 per cent, of albuminoid material, whereas milk con tains 3.5 per cent, of fat, and 4 per cent, of albuminoid material; beef contains 2.87 per cent, of fat, and 20.75 of album inoid matter; and wheat contains 1.2 per cent of fat, and 14.6 lier cent of album inoid material. In addition, cocoa con tains starch"whieh is absent in milk and beef, and present in but a small propor tion in wheat. A Huston merchant, who imports near ly all the gutta percha which enters the United States, writes to the. Scientific American to say that " the only region of production thus far discovered is the East India islands in the immediate vi cinity of Singapore." Tho principal usc made. Of gutta percha is for insulating^ 4?*l^^J?-i^?VOrP=aiiu S lof^e^fmei?ting.t India rubber is collected in localities all around thc globe between tho tropics. The best conics from thc hanks of the Amazon river. Brazil produces annually aboiit 14,000,000 pounds, and the Central American States, Africa, ami the East Indies together about 15,000,000 pounds. Thc consumption of India rubber is about equally divided between thc United States and Eurolie. Tun report of thc commissioner of ed ucation furnishes some statistics wjiich aro a fair test sus showing the activity of thc various religious denominations in1" the matter of theological education. Thc Catholic church leads with 18 seminaries, 144 puiffcnnors, 1,238.students. The Bap tist d?nomination has 10 schools, 53 pro fessors, and 038 students; tho Presby terian has 15 schools, with 74 professors and (517 students; the Lutheran church, 13 schools, 52 professors and 426 students; the Protestant Episcopal, 12 schools, 56 professors and 291 students; thc Congre gational has 8 schools, 50 professors and 802 pupils; tho Methodist. Episcopal has 7 schools, 58 professors and 821 scholars; and thc Reformed church has 3 schools, 12 professors and 80 students; thc United Presbyterians, Christians, Free Baptists and Methodists have 2 schools each; and thc Unitarians, African Methodist Epis copal, Cumberland Presbyterian, Cern?an Reformed, Methodist Episcopal South, Moravian, Swcdcnborgian, Union Evan gelical, United Brethren, and Universal ista have 1 each. Respect Tor Women. Women are at a discount where there is no civilization. Thus it is a notorious fact that among tho natives of Africa the. fair sex is moro honored in tho respect which is shown to tho cow than in that which tho heaven-sent companion of man'elicits there. Women have nothing to complain of in this on thc scoro of sex, but may fairly insist that tho particular members of their sex chosen for special honor should bo of their own species.' Thc superior respect accorded to cows, too, is entirely at variance with thc spirit of modern intelligence; and until the men of Africa reverse thc present dis tinction against tlie wives of their bosc-nis in favor ol those who hold a less intimate relation with them, there can he no fa vorable result of missionary enterprise. The difference is merely a zoological one ,-tho difference between a cow and a horse. It is exceedingly difficult for the missionary lo persuade a true disciple of Mohammed that he should degrade his horse in a position in his family inferior lo that of a wife ; far more difficult, in fact, than to convince a native African that ho has transposed thc projier rela tive positions of the mother of his chil dren mid her too successful rival, the mother, of his calves. In changing his field of effort, indeed, from thc wivngo stupidity of tho negro race to tho keen intelligence of tho Arabic race, the mis sionary finds himself further from, rather than nearer to, thc highest civilization. FORTY-F?U BTU CONGRESS. Full Lint ofSrimiurN. Re?iif?K*ulntIve>?. hurt ?oletrnfe?. The regular session of tho National Legislature will begin oh Monday, Dee. 6, and thc following list of .Senators and Representatives will be convenient for reference. All tho elections to the Senate have been made, ?ind thc list published, and all scats, except one (Pinchhaek's) for Louisiana, disposed of. In tho House there is a vacancy in the Fourth Tennes see District, caused by the death of Don. John AV. Head. Hon. Samuel M. File, who was then elected to the seat, died at Little Hock, Ark., a few weeks since, and lhere is still a vacancy; but ns there is no lack of candidates it is expected tho seat will bc occupied early in the session : THE SENATE.. Republicans (marked R.), ll; Demo crats (D.), 28; Independents (SMALL CAPS), 2. Alnlmnni.1871 I KT? Ooo. (loldthwnite. Dcm; isfis lST'.i (.(.<>. K. Spencer. Kop. Arkansas.IS7I 1877 Powell Clayton. Kop. 1 ism ls?'.i S. W. Dorney. Hen. California. Is7.'i l*sl Nr.WTos IIHOTH. Ind. 1 187.1 IH7'.i A limn A. Snrwnt. Hep. Connecticut.Is7.'? ISSI Wm. W. Luton. Dcm. IAA7 1879 OrrlM S. Kerry. Kop. Delaware.iw issi Tims, K. Ilayard. Dom. Is7l IS77 KU SntilHlmry.Deni. Florida.187.'. IS.S1 ('lins W. Jones. Deni. 187.1 IS7'.i S. ll. Conover. Hep. i h m i-hi. 1871 1877 TIIOH. M. Norwood.... "ein 1873 IST'.I .h.hu 1). (?onion. Dem Illinois. 1S7I Is77 John A. Lonau. Iti'ji. ls7:i lS7'.i Itiehuril J. Oiticshy... Hep. , Imlhuiii. 187.'. ISSI .Ins. K. Mi P..iml.l. Dem. . 1ST.7 18711 Oliver 1?. Morton. Hep. , lowe. 1871 1877 (Soo. O. Wright. Hep. , ls?:! IS7'.I Wm. II. Allison. Hep. , KIHI- IM.is7.i IS77 J. M. Harvey. Hep. 1873 187? Jollll .1. Inenlls. Hep. Kentucky. IS7I IS77 J. W. Stevenson. Dcm. tsfis |M;?.I Thm. C. Mc'.'rcery..,. Dem. Louisiana. IS7I 1877 J; Hoilinnii West. Hep. 1S73 is7?j e. It. S. Plnchhack... Hep. Meine. ISIS ISSI lliuniil.nl Ilumliil. Hep. ISM 1*77 l,ot M. Morrill. Hep. MuHHiicllUhettM . ISTTl 1-77 tl. S. iioiitwoll. Hep. ; 1S7.'. issi Henry li. Dawes. Hep. Miiryluud.!?".'? 1*81 Wm. 1'. Whyte. Dem. 1*73 l*7y Qco. lt. Dennis.Dem. Michigan. 1875 18*1 1. P. Christiano-.Hep. IS7I 1*77 TIIOH. W. Korry. Hep. Minnesota. 187ft 1881 S. J. ll. McMiflnn.Hep. IS71 I--I77 Wm. Windole. Hep. Mississippi.1*7.'. 1881 I). K. llruce. Hep. 1S7I 1*77 .Ins. I.. Alcorn. Hep. Missouri. 187ft ISSI K. M. t'oc.krcll. Dem. Is7:i |s7'.i I-,'. V. llogy. Dem. Nebraska. '?7.'. I**l \. H. Dnddock. Hep. 1S71 1*77 I?. W. Hitchcock. Hep. Nevada.187ft l**l Wm. Sheron._. Hep. 1*73 187? John 1'. .Iones. Hep. N. Hampshire..; |86S 1*77 A. II. Cronin. Hep. 1873 I87y lt. Wodlcigh. Hep. New Jersey.187ft issi f. H. Hiiudolph. Dem I ?fifi 187? K. Frcliimhuyneu. Hep. New York.187.'. 1881 Kreuels Kornau. Dem. isr.7 I87'j Kosche Coiikling.Hep. North Carolina. '871' 1877 M. H. Hansom.Dem. 187.1 lh.i T. J. Itolicrtmm. Hup. Is7n I *7. M. Key. Dom 1871 1877 Henry Cooper. Dem. Texas. 187.'. I8S| S. ll. M a.try. Deni 18711 1877 M. C. HAMILTON. Ind. Vermonl.ISCA 18*1 I Sonnte K. Kdmonds.. Kop. IS?.? 1*7'.' Je..-!itt S. Miirri'.S. ?ir::. I Virginia. lH7ft ISSI lt. K, Withers. Deni. 18711 1877 John W. Johnston.... Dum. West Virginia... 187.'. issi \, T. Cnperton"..Dom. IS7I 1877 Henry U. Davis. Deni. Wisconsin.187ft issi Angus Cameron.Hep. I8T.I l87?rTiniOtllV O. Howe. Hep. A'liint' TnTT lie?. HepnhlieiuiH. ll Democrats. 28 Independents.,. 2 Total Senate..,. 71 Hepnhliuiin-amjnrity. Il THE HO USE. Republicana (marked lt.), 107 ; Demo crats (marked D.), 178; Independents (marked I.), 6. One vacancy exista in Tennessee, caused by death. The aster isk (*) indicates members of thc last Congress re-elected. The C. stands for colored. , "At.AUA ?A-?. 1 Jerry liarais.U lt .'. Mohn H. Caldwell, I) 3 Jere N Williams. O fi Coldsmlth II Hewitt,D 3 I'aul ltradronl, D At f Rurwoll ll Lewis, D I 'Charles Hays, ll L. I Wm ii Korney, i? AnKAKSA8-I. t Lucien 0 Canoe, 1) 1 3 Wm W Wiltshire, D 1! Wm F Sinuous. I) | I ?Thon M (iiiuter. I) CM,! Killi-. I A-1. 1 W A I'lpor, D I .1. J K Luttrell, 1> 2 SH r" raye, H | 4 P I? Wi?gington, D ? CONNKCTIUCT-I. 1 (?en M Landers, I) I III W lllair. It 2 James Phelps, I) I \ ?Win Ii Darnum, I) DELAWARE- I. James Williams, I). KI.OItlDA-'J. 1 ?Wm J Purumu, H | 2 'Josiah T Walls. C lt OKOROlA-9, I Julian Uni ti ul';.-, ll fi Mullios ll nimmt, D 3 Wm 1; Smith, Tl 7 Wm ll Kellon, I) 3 'Philip Cook, D s ?Alex ll Stephens, I> I . linn v lt Harris. I> :> ?llenj ll Hill, D S Milton ll Chandler. I> ILLINOIS-lt?. 1 Harney (S Ciiullleld. Il ll HcOtl Wike, Il 2 Curler H Harrison, 1) 13 Wm SI Springer, I) :i ?('hus ll Farwell. K Kl Adlai K Stevenson, ll t ?Step'n A Ilm Unit, U ll ?Joseph (! Cannon, ll .'. ?II (J lim. haul, lt 1ft ?John ll Kilon; D fi ?T J Hondononj lt ir. Wm A J Sparks, D 7 ALEX CAMI'IIEI.L, I 17 ?Wm ll Morrison, I) H ?Krecnhury L Kort, ll 18 William llart/.ell, 1) 0 Illch ll Whiling, ll l'j WM il AMUKIIAON, I 10 JOHN C DAUHT, I INDIANA-1.1. 1 Domini 8 Fuller, 1) S ?Morion C Hunier, It 2 .lanie? l> Williams, 1) y Tims J Cason, I' .1 Michael (1 Kerr. D Ul Wm S Hay mond, I) I Jontlm n Now, 1> ll Jumo.* K Kvans, li ft ?Wm S ll..lum M. I) ii' A H Hamilton, D fi Milton S Hol.liison lt |3 John H llaker. It 7 Franklin Landers, 1) IOWA-!?. 1 Vf" ;?J5,rr. ra.r.y' 11 Kr-eklel S.Sampson lt 2 John O Tufts lt 7 ?John A Ksssntl, ll .1 L L Am-?..i H., n 8 ?Janies W Mt-Dill, lt ? tM*85y.? 1 ri,.,t- K ,J Addison Oliver, lt ft Jes Wilson, lt KANSAS-.1. 1 ?Wm A Phillips. It 3 Wm It Drown, Il 2 John lt (?neilin, D | KENTUCKY-10. 1 A II Doone, D fi Tlitm I, Jones, I) ; /.'."'"?YS??7!n' D,. 7 ?JS I .ll'Knott, 1) y John D White, ft ft Ld \ Parsons D lo John ll Clark, V LOUISIANA-fi. I Ilaudall L (Ilhsoii, D I I Wm M Devy I) 3 K John Kills, D .'. ?Frank Morey. H 3 *C D Darrall. ll | fi ?Chart K Nash. C lt MA INK-ft. 1 'John II Hurleigh, It I | Harris M I'lalsted. ll .; *V m,}\}\r)'"< v\, '* ?Kugene Hale, lt .1 ?Jes U Dinnie, ll MARYLAND-Ci, 1 Philip F Thomas. D I 1 Tho?. Swann. I) 2 Chas ll Hoherts, I) KU J Hi nkle. I) 3 W m J O'llrlen, I? | fi Wm Walsh, 1) . . MASSACHUSETTS- ll. - I U \\ Craisi, lt 7 John K 'Cmrhox, 1) 3 tlloid W Harris, U s Wm W WaVrant, I> 3 ?Henry L Pierce, It . y ?IlCorgn F Hear, lt I ItiifiisS KroMt ll Ul ?JULIUS H SKELVE, I ft NATUA'jf. P HANKS, I ll Chester W Chapin, 1) ft (.'lias P Thompson. 1> M icu tu AN-t?. 1 Alplt's S Williams, 1) A Gcofgo ll Durand. D 2 ?Henry Wahlron, lt 7 ?Omar D Concor lt .1 ?(Icorffe"Willard, lt 8 ?Nathan H Drsdlny. lt ? A.!1"".,,t?MV.r' " o ,J * J,,v A i'nhhell, lt ft Wm D Williams, lt MINNESOTA-3. 1 ?Mark II Dur.ncll. lt I .1 William S Kin?. Il 2 Horace ll Strait, ll I MISSISSIPPI- fi. 1 ?Lucius Q C Lninitr, L t I otto lt Sluclettm. It 2 0 W Welfos, lt Chan fc licker 1) 3 Hernando ll Money, 1) | r. -.!.,;," R Lynch, it Missouni-13. 1 Kdward O Kehr, I? I s Deni J Franklin, I) 2 ?Krnstus Wells, 1? | y David Ilea, ll 3 ?William Ii Stone, I) I lu II A DcDelt. I) t ?Hobt A Ilntcher, 1) Il J ll Clarke, Jr, 1) fl * Iii, li . i .1 1' Ullin,I. I) I 13 ?John M Cl..v.T. I) fi rims ll Moruno, I) 1.1 ?Aylct II llockncr, I) 7 JuUii rriiiiipK, it sr. itu A H KA-1. Iiortni?oUrbiinito, II. ' NEVADA-I. Willlnm W.ii.iii i., ll. KI5W ll A M 1*811 in IS-3. 1 Kiank Jonen, H 3 ll YV lllnlr. ll 2 -VT- Hell, 1> NKW JKIIRKY- 7. 1 CH SlniilikHi.n. lt :'. AUK \V Cutter; ll 3-??Winni'l A HoMiiiiM, lt n Frederick ll TIH.HO, D n nunn itnnn. 1> 7 A A llnrdoiiburg; 1> I 'Boln-rt Hniniltou. 1) t NKW VolIK - 33. 1 II*ii rv lt M el cn I To, Il ls Andrew Wiltiiiiux.lt 2 M ti Sri.inker, !> I" ?Win A Wheeler, lt .1 S}t t'uiTTKsnr.N, I 'ju ?Henry II Hnlhnrn, lt I All-hlhal.l IM Hlinn. I) 21 Samuel KIM Hier, ll II Kriwin ll M.h-, H KS Coonta A Hauler. lt r. .Rnniii?l s c..x. Ii 23 Sc.it t IK ?ni, I) _ 7 Smith Kly, Jr. 1) 21 William II linker, ll H Kigali Win d. Il B W lionvonworlli, It il ?hcriiuurin Wooil. I> at ?C l> MeDongnIK H III Abraham S Hewitt, 1) 27 KO Lapham, lt 11 Hf iii A Willi*, ll 2S ?Thon 0 I'lntt. lt 12 NJ.li.lmcK Udell, I) 2? c c I) Walker. I? 1.1 1?.O WhitrhollHi*. H .fl John M Ilnvv, lt 11 Gooree M Heche, l> .11 ?f ico rue fl Hunkiiin. lt lil .' Il' Ha?ley. Jr. ll .VJ ?l.yiuuii K Hiinn. It If. Ch ii li- Il .Viani", Il 33 NCIHIIII I Norton, ll 17 M I Townsend. 11? NiiliTll CAW) tl S A'-8. 1 Jei to J VntcH. 1) ft Airrc.l M Scale?, H 2 Jahn A H vin.m. C ll C. ?ThiiinnK ll Antic, ll 3 ?Atfrod M Waddell, ll 7 'Wm M Iti.hhlun, I) I JoMiph J Davin, Il S ?Hohei t II Vance, 1) OHIO-'JU. 1 Milton Sax ler, H I ll Julm 1. Vanen, ll J ?Henry ll Ila nui tig. I> U Amad T Walling, 1? 3 John S Savage, 1) 13 ?.Milt.ni 1 Southard, I? 4 JoTtiA McMalitm, 1) ll John 1' Cowan, Il .'. American V litre. 1) 1.1 N ll Van Vorlien, ll fi Krtijtk ll Hurd, 1> I fi ?l.nroii7.o I ?mil.nth. lt 7 ?Lawrence T Neal, I? 17 ?I. I> Woodworth, lt 5 ?Wm Lawrence, ll IS *.lnmen Mourin*, lt ti Kutley K Poppleton, H I'.' ? Inn A liurllehl, lt lu ?Ulmriua Konter, ll 211 Henry ll Kayne, 1) onr.ooN-1. I.nfnytjtto Lane, 1). I* r.!< NH Y KV A SI A-27. t Chni>inn!t Krneiunii. ll 1.1 .Inncph Powell, ll 2 ?Chirlen O'Neill, lt Hi ?Soblcnki KOSH, It 3 ?Snniiiel J Him,lall. I) 17 John lleilty. Il 1 ?Win ll Kelley, lt IS Wm S Stornier, 1> fi .loka Itohhiun, ll I'.l Levi Mainh, I) fi "Wfttnh TowilBOntl, Il -il Levi A Mackay, 1) 7 Altin Wood. Jr. ll 21 Jacoli Turnor, ll H ?ll^itor Clymer, I) 23 Jan li Ilopkinn, H ? . A Herr Smith, ll 23 Alex O Cochran; li tl Williatn Mutchlor, 1) 21 John W Wallace, ll 1 Krnitcin II COIIIIIH, 1) 21 Gcoruc A Jonkn, Il 2 W W Kcti hnni, lt *Ji? Junien Sheaklty, ll 3 Jiim?a lt lteilly. Il 27 Albert 0 KgbCTt, I) I ?Jolni II Packer, It minni: IHI.ANII-2. ? 1 ?Holli T KtiinoH, lt .12 Lntimor W Hnlloii, It ul V BtlllTH CAHOI.ISA-.1. t Miwll ltnliitiy, CU ll ?Alex 8 Wallace, ll 2 K WU Mackey, Il G Hauben Sinalln, 0 lt .. 3 Soloinon Ii IIo?e, lt I )) TF.NNEKHEE-10. tl 1 Wm McFarland. ? fi John K lionne, I) 2 ?J M?TIiornlinruh, ll 7 ?W C Wliitthornc. I) S< :i c.MU-, <; Hil, KU, l) > 8 "John DC Atkin*,'D H I VucaAy li Wm P Cahlwoll, I) .'. ?Johiln llrlglit, D 10 ll Caney YOUIIK, ? tl 1 Jnhnti KenRuti, l)TEXA|''T'iltosor 0 Milln. I) 11 2 I) ll ?Mlhornon. D 8 ?John Hancock, li o 3 J W flirockinorton. Il | ti (inn Schleicher, 1> .. W VKUMUNT-3. 11 Charl* Il Joyce, It 1 ?Ooo W Hondeo, lt ., 1> Q lfctilHon, It I ; .. _ J viuoiKiA-y. si 1 lt Tl ?otlKlnns, D fi John lt Tucker. Il l, 2 *.loh(. (jotulo. jr, I? ' 7 ?JohtiT Hnrrin, ll M 3 Gilben tl Walker, D s ?rippu Hunton, H w I ?Wm?l II Stowell, ll 'J William Torry, I) r> Ocorif ? Caboll, I) 11 "'. , ', WK8T VIIllltSIA-3. ff 1 llonj, ,"?" Wilson, H I 3 ?Krank Hereford. D 'J. 2 Chu/? -? Faulkner, I) I 11 . 'ito.' wiKcoseis-ff. ? 1 H li'uffWillia?iH.-It r, S I) llitrchard, I) " X U^T** CudWMl, lt;- fi A M.Kimball, K , st 3 ?irl '??ii> MAgoon. ll 7 ?JorcniirtH M. Huni,' R A I W if .. f. L;, "de. I?.. ... s (.?coree. V ?'aUi. H . I A -, '"'T'H'IAI,' PKLEIWTra*. 11 Artiona-HUM?? 8 STF.VKSB, 1 1 tViUqatlor-'tiiotnhs M Patti pion, l> Dakltii - JelTernoii I* Kidder, lt . ldahli-ThomiiH W lteniiett, It 1 Montuna-?Martin MIII?UIIIII?H, I) n Now Moxiro-Stophon II Klkinn, lt ' l'tah^?(iKlin(lK Q OASNIIN, 1 1 Wanl'iui?ton-llrniice Jncnlm, lt t WyoMins-?Wllllaiii lt Stoolo. H 1 Y COSTKKTKll BBATfl IS TUE II0U6K. ?ilute. Se?i. Coutttietl ha. ? Alaliaiiiit.Hiirnlmin, lt.Kreil O Hmmhcnr. H ? A In Im mit..William., ll.lamen T Itapier. 0 lt iMahniaa.Hayn, lt.lanien T Jone?, |) I Kim ida.i'iirnmii, lt.Jnhu A Hoiulornon,!) f Kloriila.WnllK.Col. lt.?cuno J Kinley, H 1 (Icnntin.Ilnrtndae, 1).lohn K Hr) mit, lt [..-orgia.Smith, ll."ll ll Whitely, lt Illinoin.Knrw-eJl, lt..J V Lu Moyne, 1) Illinois..^..-.WliHTiiu, lt.Leonard K Itonn, I) Indinan....Hunter. It.Hnrrinoii J Hire, H I Indiana.,.linker. It.Kreatinin Kelley, ll ? Kentucky.While, lt.Harrison Coolerin, Ii liOuiHlaiin.Milroy, lt.Wm ll S|*otirer, li ninrylau.l.Walnh, ll.I.lvod Lowudcn, ll MannachunoltH.Kront, lt.ION?IIII O Ahhott, ll Miiiuonotn.Strait, lt.K St Julien Cox, Il I'ominylvaiiia..KreeJiian, lt.Than lt Klorcuco, 1) IVuunylvniiin..Hubert, ll.Carlton H Curtin, lt i. Carolina.HOL-O lt.Il ll McGowan, H ?I. Cnroliaa.Wallace, It.lon ll Kcmhaw, ll VirKinhi.Goode, ll.lan II Platt, Jr, H Now Mexico....S ll Klkinn. lt....Podro Vahle/.. Il To tlie above number of twenty-one Hintcsted scats may possibly be added jthers of which we luive no present ! knowledge-. F^oiu'e of the aliove, also, linty not be brou/iht before the liouseiitall. Duo of Horaco Greeley's Old Letters. Ni:w YOKK, July 21, 1857. MY DEAR SIR : Seeing in thc Tribune thc death of your sweet child, whom 1 so ivell remember, impel?s me to write you t word. I oiler no consolation, and I need not assure you of my sympathy Hut you and your wife aro still young ind hopeful, other children will doubt less be lent you; and though you wil" never forget this firstling of the flock nor fail to remember ber with a pensive ind chastened sadness, yet you will liv< io realize even in thia state of being, hov ivisoly ' prescient and merciful in the .hiLstisenicnt which "smites but to heal."' Let me give you in thiit connection leaf from my experience. T have bad seven children of whom five aro gone. Of three sons none sur vive, and two of them were respectfully (ive anti a half and six years of age when Lhcy were reclaimed, I need not say low beautiful and good they were-the jarly called arc always thus. When tho first of them died ni/ youth ended, thought I could never beso sorely bitten thenceforth. Yet in due time there samo another, not so delicate, 30 beauti ful, so poetic ; yet so loving, so tender, 40 dovoted to mc, that I though*. I md never been understood before. I jannot remember that during his six fears' abode with mc ho ever wished to .?ontniveno my will. I left, January 14, for that hard western tour in brave spirit? and good general health. At Galcsburg after leaving you", I had a letter dictated by lim, leaving him in excellent health. 1 licard nb more until I reached .Scranton, t'a., on my AV y home, when a telegram reached mo during my lecture, stating Lhat he was dangerously ill of croup. I lastenctl home next evening at eight i'clock only to find him dead an hour lefore, after enduring a severe operation md extr?ine suffering. With him I buried my last earthly aspiration. I have iwo little daughters, one eight years old, md another but four months, having ^ecn born since his death, but they are /cry different from and do not replace lim. Did you not mean to seo me this sea ?rn? Kind regard?to Mrs.-. Yours HORACE ORKELF.Y. "Gabriel Conroy." Bret Harte's first novel beginn a? a serial in .Scribner's fur Novcnber, ami inens with the following description of he. Sierra? in winter: . Snow. Everywhere. As far ? as the syo could reach-fifty miles, looking outhward from the highest white ]H>ak. Filling ravines ami gulches, ami drop ping from the wallH of canons in white hroiid-like. drift?. Fashioning the divid ng ridge into ii likeness of a monstrous ;rave, hiding thc bases of giant pines md completely covering young trees and arches, rimming with porcelain and lxiwl ike edges o? still, cold lakes, and un Inlating in motionless white billows to ho edge of the distant horizon. Snow ying everywhere over the California Mcrras on the l?th day of March, 18'1S, md still falling. It had been snowing for ten days; nowing in finely granulated powder, in lamp, spongy Hakes, in thin, feathery linnie?; snowing from a leaden sky steadi ly, snowing fiercely, shaken out of purplc ilack clouds in white floccnlcnt masses, r dropping in long level lines liko white ices from the tumbled and broken henv ns, bat always silently. Thc woods rere so choked with it, the branches were i) laden with it; it had so permeated, lied and possesed earth and sky ; it had j cushioned and muffled the ringing jcks and echoing hills, that all sound ras deadened. Tho strongest gust, thc ercest blast awoke no sigh or complaint rom the snow-packed, rigid files of irest. There was no cracking of bough or crackle of underbrush ; thc ovcr ulen branches of pine and fir yielded nd gave way without a sound. The ilencG was vsist, measureless, complete. Nor could it lie said that any out rard sign of life or motion changed llb fixed outlines of this stricken land yipe. Above there was no play of ght and shadow, only tho occasional eopening of storm and night. Below, o hird winged its flight across thc white xpanse, no ncast haunted thc confines of ic black woods; whatever of tho brute ature might have once inhabited these ditudes had long since flown to the low inda. There was no track or imprint ; hatevcr foot might have left its mark pon this waste, each succeeding snow di obliterated all traces or record Ivery morning tho solitude was virgin nd unbroken; a million tiny feet had epped into.tho track and filled it. up. md yet, in the center pf this desolation, ( :i'-'the;very stronglibld of this 'grim' for- '' fess"," thcre~\vas"tli? mark bf human ioil A few trees had been felled at tho en rancc of the canon, and the freshly cut hips were but lightly covered with snow, ney served perhaps to indicate another ree " blazed with an ax, and bearing a udcly shaped effigy of a human hand, minting to the. canon. Below the hnnd nus a cquare strip of canvas, securely tailed against thc bark and bearing the allowing iu?bription : ?OTICK. Capt. Conroy's party of emigrants aro lost I ii du; snow anti camped up this canon. Out f provisions ?uni starving! LuftKL Joe October 8th, 1817. Left Salt Lake January ist, ISIS. Arrived hero March 1st, ISIS. Loft half our stock on the Platte. Abandoned our wagons February 20th. IIRI.lM Our names are : oct McCormick, J Jane Brackctt, Vtcr Dumpily, Gabriel Conroy, 'iudI)evargC8, John Walker, ?race Conroy, Henry March, )lympiii Conroy, Philip Ashley, Mary Diunphy. (Then in smaller letters, in pencil): Mamie' dicii'N?vcniber 8. Sweetwater, Minnie died December 1, Kcho Canon. Jane died January 2, Salt Lake. James lirackett, lost February 2. IIELlM The language of suffering is not apt to >c artistic or studied, but I think that hctoric could not improve this actual ecord. So I let it stand, even as it stood .hio l?th day of Mareil, 1848, half hidden >y a thin film of damp snow, the snow vhitened hand stiffened and pointing I igidly to thc fatal canon like the finger | iff death. The Woes of Herzegovina. The full text of thc pronunciamento ssucd to tlie European Envoys by tho lerzcgovinn chiefs contains an eloquent internent of tho grievances which lcd hem to revolt against their Turkish op-1 ircKsors. It is brief and concise, but | 'ull of dignity and energy, and forms an ndictmcnt against thc cruelty, injustice I md oppression of their Turkish tyrants | vhich will command for them the sym lathy of tho whole civilized world, and I he decision that they are right in taking ip arms to freo themselves from their ? niserios. The cataloguo of these mis Ties is a fearful one. Under pain of icing scourged and sent to prison, evcrv ailtivator of tho ground must give half lis produce to tho Aga, or official who illowa him to cultivate, and four times a rear ho must entertain tho Aga, his ollowcrs and horses. Thc owner of a arm in Herzegovina has an agreement vith thc state officials by which ho ex icts ten times thc amount of rent fixed >y tho law. Tho Turkish census enu ncrators let free their own co-religionists, I mt treble thc amount of imposts upon Christians, thus making them'pay not mly their own but also tho Turkish hare of taxes. In litigation, ns Chris inn proceeding against a Turk must iavo two Turkish witnesses, and if hoi ooses his case ho is thrown into prison. Che wives and daughters of Christians JO carried off by Turks and compelled >y force to adopt the creed of Islam. If i Christian bears witness against a Turk, ie can only live three dayH. Tho Chris ian churches are publicly defiled hy tho L'urks. Tho Christians pay an cduational ribute to the Sultan,hut arc not allowed o havo any schools, Renairs upon the onds must lie made hy "tho Christians, hut tho Turka arc freed fruin this duty. If Turkish troops need horses, they arc taken from the Christians without re compense. If a Turk complains before a tribunal, ho can got immediate justice. If a. Christian makes a complain!, lie. can I not get a decision without bribing thc udge ten times the amount of the claim. There is no integrity or justice find no security under Turkish rule. Snell is a brief summary of their grounds of com plaint. Hopeless ns thc cuse of Herzegovina may appear, fighting single-handed against her powerful tyrants, and de barred from the active sympathy of Eu ropean nations hy their own prejudices and schemes for national aggrandizement, it is impossible not to admire the manly spirit ot their statement. They may not win freedom, but they deserve it_ Changes in tho L'artb.. Thc date of man's appearance on our globo {to say nothing of tho beginning of organic life) will probably nevcrbo tiscer tatnablo beyond a rude approximation ; but this much at any rate is certain, that if "creation" is to be spoken "of;ni all, it must be taken, not as a single isolated act, but rather as an unbroken series ol' productions, extending from the dimmest past to our time, and "destined doubtless to extend beyond ns. Everybody knows, says the Westmister Review, what thc nature of the record is, everybody knows that the crust of our planet, so far as we have sounded it, is composed entirely of mud, deposited in gradual successive layers under water ; that these layers through thc slow but constant undula tions of the crust, have been upheaved iigain, unlatcd to tho enormoiiH thickness [)f sixty or seventy thousand feet ; and finally, that, each deposited ns it harden ed, preserved imbedded in the mud the -bells and bones of .oreatures,which died it the time of its formation. Similar formations are continuing nt present ; the soundings made in tho Atlanticoceau preparatory to tho laying, of tho tele graphic cable, prove that over tho whole af tho immense area explored (1:,000 miles from east to west, omi about 700 miles from north to south) nu exclusively fine chalky mud is being deposited, con sisting solely of the hard parts of animals which have lived and perished in these regions. The chalky mud will B*