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sMatmla Erlcgrapli. JAMES BEfcD ft HOff, Frop'rf. ASHTAIiU.A" i ! OHIO. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Gathered From All Quarters. Gathered From All Quarters. CONGRESS. Sevate, May 11. The IIouso amcnd ment tn the joint resolution authorizing the President to call an International tsitnftury Conference wo concurred In. Consideration wus then resumed of thn Kollogg-SpotTnril res olutions and Mr. Hill, of Ctsirgle.spokeln their dvoeuey Huusk. The l'urtin-ViN"Uin con- lcstis election oaso from Pennsylvania was -ailed lip Rntl the minority resolution was Idopted declaring Scth II. Ynenin entitled to the wat. The House then went Into t'-ommlt-leoof the Wholeon the Legislative. Kxeciillve indjudlclul Appropriation hill, but without Qual action the House a IJourmsl. Sesate, May 12. Mr. Matt prescnt rd a petition of newsdealers for too removal Df duty on foreign newspaper and period! rnls. The Postouiee Appr'prlatlon bill waa reported front the roiiimlttee on Postof Rocs and Posti-oad and ordered plaeisl on the ciilendar. Mr. Allison from the Com mittee on Public Lands, reiairted fuvor Ibly on the tilll to trraduate the price anrl dis pose of the residue of the t heroket' scrip lands In Kiui'ius. Mr. Hill then resumed his remarks In supimrt of the resolutions unseat-ina- Kellotrir. At tho conclusion of Mr. Hill's Ipeceh, Mr. Hampton obtained the tloor and ruo notice that ho would address the (senate on tbo resolutions on the following day HorsK. Tbo follow ing liills Were reported from committee ind ordered plHeed on the cRlendar: Author ising the Secretary ot the Navy to take the necessary steps to secure adequate conllug tations and hnrlKira for the use of I'nltcd States Naval foices at proper polntaon the At lantic and Pacific onnsts, t'cntral America and American Isthmus; to provide for double Itumncd envelope and double postal canls.' Mr. Hooker Introduced a bill abolishing Iho Indian Commission. The I.eitislntlvo Appro- f'riulion loll was considered in Committee of he Whole, but without Dual action the com mittee roo and the House adjourned. St natk. May 13. Mr. Utair.presontcd the views of the minority of the committee on thealleired frauds In tho late, election on the lubject ol disirauchlscmcut In Rhode Island lud Massachusetts. Mr. VoorheoR ul niltted a resolution dltoiting the Secretary 5f the Interior to report to the Senate the name sof'iill rairoud corporations In the I'nltcd states to whom mauls of laud have, been made by compliance with the teriim ot tho grants wit Inn Hie time speeillcd thoi-cln; also :be number of acre ol uneiiriiisl laud claimed by each of raid railroad corporations, and the period or time when their ris-ht to Ihein expired under the liiuftatlou (s.ntained ill said utiiiiH. Adopted. Messrs, Hampton ind Caipeiiter spoke against the adoption nf the resolutions tins' alllur Kehogir Hurst:. 'the j,ci.ol,iijve. Executive and .ludl Dlal bill was considered In t'oiiiiulttce of llio Whole. A iood deal of cnnl'uHlnn was occasioned by Mr. Townsheiid illl.) '.iaimlug as a question ot privilege tho right to present In open House 11 nil lil ler of petitions In favor of tho ntsilitioit ol the tax on salt. The. Speaker ruled that the petitions must bo referred through tin pet it Ion -. 'r' Cobb liittiHluccd a bill appropria tion (n.lyyi'po to sile.y dollolcnoloa In the Impropriation! for the payment of pen sions during tho present llseul year, and iskeil for Its present coli-ideriitlou. Much opposition was manircHtcd to this course, and It was ttnallv referred tothe f 'oininltteoon Ap propriations. Messrs. Spiiiofer.Orth and Mon roe made s ones explaining their position. tu to the report Uhiii the Venezuelan claims. Senatu, May 14. Mr. Kitton report ed a ooncurrcnt resolution adopting tho Joint nile for tsiuutlng votes of klcctnrs fur Presl ient and 'lcc-Prosldcnt. Placed on the cal endar. Mr. Knton prcscittrsl n mcino rlal of iiavls Hatch, of .Norwulk, Conn., alo-Bing that he waa In !Hi;h arrested, Iried by a mock court-mart lul and aou lencisl to ilcalh by tho llnvcrnmoul of Han Itoinlugo on falfle charge of aullmr Insur- rectloii; thill his Seutciiee WO tsimillllted til I'xpill'lou from the country, but ho was dn tained live month In prison by the aonnivaitco of American ollkiuls luleieslcd in a scheme tortile annexation of San liolnlniro tothe I'tiltcd State, who feansl hla comiilaliita, lr bo wus permitted to leave tho couutrv, would tend to deloat that scheme. . The peti tioner asks for an Investigation of the nets of tlusio olllclals, and ir thiy rc proved ffnllly he prays for a reimra IIihi of his Injuries. Mr. t'ouklliur said this mutter hud la'en brouaht up betoro under llllillur elrcllmsljinces to Ibe present, name ly, In which a sensation and uproar inlsrbt tie created to the detriment of certain prom in tit iH'rsons, and believing; those aspersed would bo lully vindicated, inoied a refer ence of tho petition, with limtruetlons to the committee to thorouirhly Invealliato the allcaatlons contained therein, and report upon tucin at the earliest oouviinlut day. I'ciiiIIiim discussion the uiornuiir hour ex pired und tho matter went over. Tho tilll iirovldtnu for addillouul acisiiiiuiodatlon for the Conirrcssloual library was passed HuCHM. Alter several unhniMirtant amend nienls the l.ctflslallve Apiroriatlon bill was iiis-cd. Tho n'solutlon luluir ii)ui May ill or tho udjuurniiietit ol Coukii-ss waa ailopteil. WASHINGTON. Conimli.sloucr of Pciialoui Heutley hits sub mitted a revised entimalo of the amount re quired fur tlie payment of anslons which full due prior to Julv 1st as follows: For army pensions, .s.,.'nl,(lu; navy pensions, .!5,lli0; pay anil allouiime, ln,lm; total, s,740,lJ. The House Comniltteo on Colnatro, Weights and Measurua bus authorized Itriircscntatfvn Hlanil Ui nijairt favorably to the House the kill authorlxliiK the Sccrutary of the Ttvaaury to establish an assay olllce at 8t. Louis, Mo. The United Mates Muprcuie Court has de rlilisl In a lottery suit biouKit by Uic Stale of Misslsslp)! for Hie purpose of suppressing a lottery company In that Slate, that allhouuh the lottery couipnuy was duly chartered by the Lririslatuie, that bisly hud no authority to liarvaln away Hie pollen power of the State. The House Committer- on Indian AITah-s, on the lllli, instructed itcprescutatlve Scalca U reioi't favorably to t tits House I lie (leurriil Al lotment hill which provides for the sctllenii-ut of all Indian tribes ujsiii a(fi leullural lamia lit Uiclr several reservations, and authorizes the Bccretury of the Interior to a;iuut Ihoju lauds 111 severalty. .AttiruKtua Morris, one of the honorary com missioners rrprcscutiuir l he 1' tilted States at Hie Sydney, Australia, International Exhibition, ays the exhibitors from the United States have been very successful In obtaining awards. In all cases tthnre our leading luulturaeturers Lave sent their (roods for couis'llllon they have cither exwlled all oihers or stood in the Urst rank. The result will be a largn sale of .American articles of varions kinds whirli have heretofore la-eu unkliown in Australia. The proposals to sell bonds to tlie llorern Blent, on the IJlh, twareiraled .S,TH4,SO0, of which the Secretary of Die Treasury accepted ;i,m),uuo. Ei-Senator Isaac 1. ChrUtlancy, now UnlUid fluttes Minister to Peru, commenced suit for divorce in Washington, on the lOtli, frota hi wile, Utile M, Chrlatlancy. Ignited Slate District Attorney Towuscnd Tillidrew fiom the hlltakur caae on tho 12th. 11c felt that bis presence waa Irrllatlnif and obnoxious to Um conducUiia; tlia ease for West Point, and his prouuuiir-d views and outspoken ways only served to make tits an tagonism and discourtesy mora marked. Secretary of War Homacy, In resiiiso to a resolution of Conirrcs callluir Ukiii hUn fur Informal Ion us lo a suvliii; In exH-iallturea re ulllUaT to Hie tiovoriiiueiit (nun tlie construc tion ol the Northern I'xcillo Hailrtuul, subuilt ted a resirt on Hie imh, which stales Halt the Vjuartermaatcr'a lXpuruneut paid fully six tiuiea aa much for transsirtutlon to all points of the ueiutrtniaut now leached by railroad aa it has since the railroads wcro constructed, which would Indicate a suvlliu; to the (luveiu Incnt of over ff l.txm.tHs) In Hie cost of military transmittal ion durlnjr thu tun years tlie North em 1'aeillu liailroad ho Ih'imi In oairalion. The ('ommittee on Ways and Means, on the isth, fixed on May HI fur thu adjournment of Couu-rcss. The National Ortind Lodire of Colored Ma aonsof Noi'Ui America was In trleiiulai session t WlliuliiKtou, IJel., on tlie Will. THE EAST. At Rome, X, Y., ou the 10th, one of the boilers In the Merchant Imu Mill exploded Jxllluia; four moil and Injuring many others, everal fatally. 1 he Hlill waa badly wrecked. Three thuuaand oua hundred and thirty. seven UnuiirranU arrived at New Vork ou tho lOUi. The Massachusetts Orecjihaclc Labor Con vention was held at Worcester on the 11th. Delea-at-s at largo wett elected to tlie Natfon al Convention. The New York Penal e, on the 11th, passed a concurrent resolution to amend the Constitu tion so as to extend franchise to women. The American Snnday-Scltool Union cele brated Its fifty-sixth anniversary In Broadway Tabernacle, New York City, on the 11th. The Union reported an Increase of missionary work beyond the record of any previous year. During- the year 1,277 new Sunday-schools were organized, Into which wcro gathered 40,727 scholars. The aggregate work of the Ameri can Sunday School Union for tifty-six yearn Is summed up at 0s,4;t new schools organized in America, containing 441,0s, ti hers and 2,(tlll,MSj scholars. The aggregate cost of missionary work Is 3,!i4!l,iN)i. Sunday-school books and papers to the vslue of over $7,0OU, OtlO have Iwen sold and given away. The steamboat City of London, which ar rived at New York City from London on the 12th, rcKrtcd that on the fltli she was de tained six hours in a Held of ice, and that on the 7lh she parsed an Iceberg three hundred feet high and seven hundred feet long, and saw smaller ones during tltoday. Another calamitous coullagrntlnn that threatened to surpass any of the others that have recently overwhelmed the oil region, was sweeping through Die northern Held near Brad ford, Pa., with terrible force, on'thc 12th, car rying all before It. The extensive district known as Oil Valley and Tram Hollow had been completely burned over. The villages of Mldilaucjivllle and Oil Center were reduced to ashes, the 'people losing everything. One hundred thousand barrels of oil were de stroyed. A dastardly attempt was made ot New York City on the 12th, by some party or parties to kill the Spanish Consul General by means of an lufcrnul machine. Augustine Pact was cremated at Washing ton, Po., on the 121 h. Howell, the ie,lestrian, says lie Is ready to compete with riart, Doblcr, or any man In the world for A'.HK) or l,nnOa side, but the match must beoen, (nobody barred) the winner to take the entire stakes ami half the gate money. Four villages, Olto City, with a population of 100; Mlil.liiughvillc, population Ml; Morrls burg, population 10.1, and Oil Center, popula tion l.VI, all localcd In the oil region near lll'ililfold Pa., were tolally destroyed by the recent tire lit that neighborhoisl. h'lve hun dred and sixty Minuds of nitro trlyccrhte in a magazine, near Duke Center, exploded during the tire w ith terrillc force. Two or three men were slightly Injured. The explosion was heard for miles. Altogether, nearly or quite Xrtloll well rlirs were destroyed, end probably one hundred thousand barrels of oil. The total loss will reach f 100,000. The village of Stuyvesimt, near Hudson, N. Y., waa destroyed by lire on the loth, Involv ing' a loss of i'iilo.OdO. The forest llres on Pocono Mountain, In the vicinity of Scninton, Pa., covered an area of twenty miles wide on the l:ith. Over one million feet of lumber had been consumed at one point. Iil'aiidt, ITummet and Wise, who murdered on old man named Kuhct, Umiu whose life they held an insurance of lo,000, were handed ut Lebanon, l'a.,on the l.'lth. Chief Justice Sitnford K. Church died sud denly of ajmploxv, at his rcsidcuco In Albion, n. y., on tip.- mil. A flic broke out 111 tlie car works ot Milton, Pa., on the 14th, and a heavy northwest wind prevailing it w as imisissiblc to cheek the prog ress of Hie flames until tlie entire business portion of the lowu was destroyed. About fourhuiidred buildings were burned, including all the churches. Several mtsous perished In the llames, F.stlmatcd loss, fcl.SOO.Otx); Insur ance fsOO.lHK). Scarcely an acre of tlmhcr-land can be found In the vicinity of Hanover, N. J. all destroy ed by recent forest tires. Over one hundred sipiare miles of valuable berry bogs, tfinlier lands and vineyards were deetroyed. A SK'clal train of four cars, pulled by a new locomotive which has but one six and a half ftsit driving-wheel ou each side, was run on a trial trip on tlie 14th, between Philadelphia and Jersey City, and accomplished a distauco of ninety luilcs In nlnety-scvcu minutes. The Mahoning Powder Mill, near Ashland, Pa., exploded ou the l:itb, killing Kdwurd lienz niuuaud injuring live others. The American Hlble Society held lis sixty fourth annual meeting ou the l:itlt. The an nual reairts showed the receipts of Hie year to have been oo,:i42. Kdwln Hurt wus hauged at Ilrldfreport, Conn., on tlie Kit U. WEST AND SOUTH. A Suit Luke City dlsputeh of the 10th states that a brnther of the Ute Chief Douglass, with 1M White HIver Indians, men and women, enciimiicd near Sallua, Utah, bad asked a merchant to gut them forty kegs of swdcr. They were well mouutcd, clothed und C'uijpcl. It was rumored Unit certain Utah huuibt wcro to rendezvous at Sallua Camp fur a ihiw-wow. The asiple lliere apprehend trouble. Dr. LivlugsUm, ex-Judian Agent, has licen acquitted again, making the Ufth case without conviction. The little village of Otsey, Scott County, III., was nearly destroyed by u wind-storm tin the night of tlie Uth. Twenty buildings were either totally or partially duatroyud. No lives were lost. The town of (iutbrie, a station on the Sprluglleld division of tho Illinois Control Hailroud, and which eontuinod only half-a-dozen houses, was dest royed by tire ou the lOlli. The Ih-e wa caused by a lightning stroke. Two colored men were drawn for the first time for Jurors In thu Maryland court on the Uth. An Arizona dispatch soys Vlctorlo lost eleven killed In thu recent light with Kramer. The explosion of nearly onehuudrcd pouuds of giant K)wdcr at tlie blacksmith sluu.1 of the High Lode mine, Ccutral City, Dukota, on tho lltll, Instantly killed three meu. The bodies of all three were bhiwu Into atoms and beyond rucogultlou. Piece of flesh, bono, etc., were scattered over a mile square lit all dlrcctious, tho largest piece found being a man's head. A lodging house was bunied at St. Louis on Ute Uth, and four meu were suffocated. Bor eral lodgers jumped from third story wlndowa, their exit by tlie stair being cut ult, and wore more or less lujured. A terrible explosioii occurred at Fort Mo- Henry on Uio mil, which resultod In the in stant killing of six persona and the wounding of two oUter. The parties were engaged In breaking up condemned Shrapnel) ahclls. Two itisu were burned to death lu a lire at Danville, Va., on the IMh. The Nevada Itcpubllcan State Convention, held at Austin on the tllli, instructed the delegate to the National Couvcutiun to vote as a unit for James (1. Hlalne. The contest lietween the railroad company and settlers on the lund claimed by the com pany, tn what is known a the Mussel Slough district, In Tulare and Fresuo Counties, Cat., culminated on the llth in a tragedy. United State Mui'shal Poole, who wa eut from San Francisco to serve writ of ejectment on set tlers by virtue of a decision of thu Circuit Court lu favor of Die rullroad uonipauy was llrist iis,u by settlers, and in thn M;ut which followed fuitr men were killed and two wouud od. At tho (ienorul Methodist Conference at Chiclniiutl, outbe llth. It was resolved to in crease the uumtaji- of Hishops by tbo election of four new ones. The Michigan Krpuhllcan State Convention, held at Detroit on the 12ih, adopted a resolu tion declaring that the choice of the Republic ans of that State for President la James. (I. Illahie, and requested the delegates tothe Chicago Convention U use all priqier efforts to aeuure his nomination. The Convention also passed a resolution recommending Thoma W. Ferry aa a fllcandldale for nom ination for Vice Piesldcut. A resolution, op posing the nomination of a Presidential can didate to a third term was laid on tbo table. Dr. H. W. Warren, Dr. John F. Hunt, Cy rus D. Foss and K. O. lluvcn were elected lltshoi by tho General Conference of the M. E. Church In session at Cincinnati on tlie 13th. The Democratic delegates from Wisconsin to the National Convention go unlnstruetcd. Tho West Virginia Republican Stato Con vention instructed the delegates to Chicago to vote for James (1. Hlalne for President. The Florida Republican Stale Convention wa held at Gainesville on the 12lli. The dele gates to the National Convention were In structed to vote as a unit for U. S. (Irant for President, and Thomas Settle, of North Caro lina, for Vice President. Henry S. Foote, ex-t)overnor of Tennessee, now Suierlntendent of the Mint at New Or leans, waa lying at the point of death on the 121 h. Samuel Staunton, of St. Onevleve County, Mo., has brought suit a'ainst Carl Schurz, claiming OMMO for folte Imprisonment. In Williamson County, 111., on the 7th, John R. Kussel and Henry A. Stocks, between whom hard feelings exlstel, met tn a road, when an altercation ensued, during which Russell shot Stocks, killing hhu almost In stantly. A Columbia, 8. C, colored man named Bird killed his wife with an ax and then cut her head off, on the llth. lie then went to a pond and drowned himself. William Harrison, an F.ngllhuian, has pur chased fifty-two quarter sections of land In Butler County, Kan. A bouse will be built on each quarter section, and under the F.n gllsh tenantry system fifty-two Kngllsh fami lies will occupy these farms. F.och family will have from twototlve hundred pounds sterling. A fearful conflagration took place at West Liberty, Ohio, on the afternoon of the lllth, consuming the greater part of the two princi pal blocks In the town. The Odd Fellows' Hal, reading room and sst-ollice were all consumed. Thhiy-lhc business firms had their rooms burned out. On the morning of the Mlh, a shaft In an Iron mine located eight miles from Norway, Mich., caved in, burying sixteen miners. The shaft was fifty feet deep and contained live feet of water. Four of the miners were kUled. At the M. K. tlencral Conference at Cincin nati, on the lllh, the following persons were elected cdllors of the dciioun'natl.iiial pilbliea llons: J. M. Iliieklcv, t7oW.'.m.bW.il', New York; D. I). Whecdon, (jmrt. rlu fVc.V; J. II. Vincent, editor of Suinlav-siiool publications ami Secretaiy of Suiithiy-schoo! and tract so cieties; W. s. llovt, HV..,7-ii I'ltriMm Atlny r'f, Chicago; Alfred Wheeler, Pittsburg Chrixthtn Aib'txntr. A mob of about one hundred masked men surrounded the jail at Oseeoin, Mo., on the tuuliillig of the lMlh, took therefrom threo men charged with murder mid hanged thciu. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Four thousand horses, 0.000 Martini rillcs and l;jo,tK) cartridges have arrived at Scutari for the Albanians, who iccupy the whole territory from Scutari and Prieceud to Kavaja. Turkish ollicers and meu are every where frnlcruiziiig with them. Tlie famine In the Province of Azerbaijan, Persia, Is increasing. Twelve hundred Chris tians have left the country. Wheat cost A'iUJ per ton in the famine-stricken dish-lets. (lulscpiw Mazzaoni, Grand Master of the Italian Freemasons, is dead. The United States relief ship Constellation sailed from Cork on thu lllh, homeward bound. The German Government Is about to In crease the circulation of silver coin twenty per cent. The proposed Increase, It is represent ed, will afford an opisirtuiiily to recoin the silver which has accumulated in the hands of the Governuicnt since 1S7J. The village of San Luis, Cuba, was entirely destroyed by fire on the lllli. Seven per sons perished in the flames. Three tbousiiud jH'rsuns were left without shelter The British Consul ut Bourgus, F.asts'rn Roumaniu, telegraphed Uiat a baud of soldiers of Bulgaria entered the district of Aldus und plllugcd nine Turkish villages, killed several men and outraged some women. Thetiiwtiof Baumholder, Hliclnlsh Prussia, wusaiiiiost destroyed by lire on the 12th., Over a thousand people were left destitute and homeless. A St. Petersburg correspondent soys ho Is In a Hisitlon io confirm the reports of the ex pulsion of the Jews from St. Petersburg. Mexico hua only &sr miles ol railwuy in op eration. The British Admiralty have given up all hope of uiuilng the missing tralulug-shlp Ata lantu. The cost of the Afghan war is now confessed to Is' upward of ibi.OUO.UOO, and probably will lie more. A London dispatch, on the l.'llh, stated that the volume of emigrants for May promised to exceed April, when 2tt,40l persona kit Liver pool, 2.r),lS7 for the United SWlle. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. LATER NEWS. Tho Senate waa not lu session on the IMh. lu the House the adjournment reaolutlou was (Harassed at length, tbo majority of the mem bers having something to suy for or against It adoption. The resolution for adjournment ou the Hist wa Uien agreed to yeas 121, nays Ut). Forest flics were raging In Cumbiirlund, At lantic and Billiliigtou Counties', N. J., on the 17th. Fifty Indians attacked an emigrant party going west in Presidio County, Texas, on the 14th, and killed a man and woman and wounded two ofher men. The house of a Mr. Miller, near Wuhelon, Dakota, wa destroyed by tiro roeently and Ills two little boys perished In the flames. Carl Manko wa hanged at IluITulo, N. Y., on the 14th, for the murder of John Atloof at Elm, April 3, 1S70. Thomas White, a white man, was hanged at Spartnnburgh, 8. C, on the 14th, for tho mur der of Pete Hawkins, a colored youth. Another attempt wa made to Are Milton, Pa., on the 1.1th. A reward of $i00 wa offered linmrdlatuly for tho apprchcnslou of tho In cendiaries. Six hundred and sixteen building were destroyed by the fire on tlie Uth. Tho local relief committee issued an appeal for aid stating that hundreds and hundreds of iwoplo, men, women and children, were homeless and liennlloss, having notiilug left but tho clothes on thalr backs. The lockout In Blaekburn, England, throw thirty thousand nticratlvos out of work. Tho mill will not be reoiened unlll the operative lu a body are ready to resume work. A boiler explosion In Blrehulll's Iron works ut London, on the loth, killed llfteen person and wounded twenty-five, some of w hom were taken to the hospital In a dying condition. Sir Bartle rrcrohus tendered his resignation as Governor of tbeCaie of Good lloe. In tho Whlltaker case at West Poiut, on tho 1Mb, Sollthworth, an expert In Identifying handwriting, tcstillcd that tho paper on which the note of warning wa written was cut hyau instrument making a rugged edge from a sheet op the other part of which W hlltaker, on tbo day follow ng the outrage, had commenced writing a letter to his mother, and showed that every indonted siot on tho edge of otio had its corresponding tooth opisislle on tbo itgo of tho other. Kvcry ouo uf the e)si'ts, five in all, idenlillcd the hand writing of Whlttakeras the handwriting In the note of warning, throe of them being positive, lu an Interview W hlltaker declarad his Inno cence, and said that Uio discovery of the ox la'rtsdid not amount to anything, because all ihe cudiits use the same kind of pur. He was in the habit of tearing whole sheets into halves io write, and the ierson who wrote the nolo itilaht have coino to his room and secured a piece of Ills paHr and with nianv samples of ills handwriting before him might have foigcd the note. Professor (treiuier still claims that Whittuker Is Innocent and suv that he bus some important point which' he Intend to make known uvur IiUowq siguataVe but not to the Court The Way to Advertise. Tup day for tnlkine about the ana of mlvcrfislnej has ffone by. It is conooilotl now by alt intelligent business mn that it is as essontial to business to advertise it as it is to hare a building in which to carry it on. The only qttustion is as to how a business can be most effectively advertised, and about this, as about a hundred other things, men's opinions differ. Nevertheless, thero are certain laws regulating the expenditure of mon ey for advortiheinonls which can not be broken without loss to the advertiser and the failure of his purpose A model advertisement is designed to satisfy the rational demand of a proba ble customer to know what you havo got to sell. The successful advertiser, therefore, observes three rules: first, he aims to furnish the information which the publio wants; second, he aims to reach that part of the publio whose wants he is prepared to satisfy; and, third, he endeavors to make this informa tion as easy of acquisition by the publio as possible. Many mistakes of Judgment havo been made in the various ways adopted of reducing tho labor of the public in gaining this kind of trade Information. Men have plastered fences with their announcements; they havo erected huge bill-boards and covered them with placards; they have stuck painted signs in the horse-oars and along either side of the slips of the ferries; they have even defaced tho most pic turesque aspects of nature with their glaring assertions, and thus, instead of winning and gaining the attention, have awakened an abiding disgust and resentment. The fallacy which under lies all these efforts to catch the publio on the wing, so to speak, to delude men and women into an unexpected and irresistible desire to buy the some thing which you have to sell, is that rational beings do not set about shop ping or buying in this way, and thousands are offended by tho unwel come intrusion of business announce ments when they are only on pleasure bent, or at least have some purpose in view entirely different from that of trade. The commonest and handiest thing in tho American family is the newspaper; and as nearly all shopping proceeds iroin tne latuiiy, troin its needs, its ln I telligenee, its taste, ils fashions, it fol lows Hint the thoughtful ami successful advertiser approaches the family by this means. Ho does not wasto his money and his timo in loading his advertising gun and shooting it off skyward in the street at all creation, on tho chance that some willing customer may lie going that way and may be brought down; on the contrary, he takes account of the ad vertising ammunition which he has on hand, and loads and points his gun through the columns of soino reputable newspaper at the game he wants to hit. llesides knowing that tho newspapers are tho best means of advertising and how to pick out tho best newspaper for his purpose, tho successful advertiser fully appreciates the importance of per sistence in advertising. Mr. Bryant used to say that tho great influence ol the press depends for ono thing upon its power of iteration. Presenting the same subject in many forms it finally wins at tention and acquiescenoe. It is just the same with advertising. Rivettie forms of statement, showing that the attention and support of the public aro not sought in a perfunctory way, and a continued and regular appearance in tho nowspa por, so that wheu any one who needs your kind of goods will think of your es tablishment instinctively, constitute the right way of using the right means oi gaining the desired business publicity. Used in this thorough and fcy.stematic way tho advertising columns of tho newspaper are as useful and essential ta the merchant as u moans of tolling the public what he has to sell as the clerks behind his counters aro to show his goods when the people como to examine them. The revival of business enhances the importance of this subject. All mer chants, speaking 'broadly, are doing a good business to-day. Nevertheless, some aro doing a great deal more busi ness than others, und tho reason is that the more successful ones know how to nso printer's ink to tho best advantage. This difference between tho men who advertise their wares systematically and those who do not will increase as time goes on. Thu newspapers are regarded as a directory for tho shopping classes and are so in fact. Hut if a merchant keeps his name and place of business out of this directory he can not reasona bly expect long to be remembered. Not only is his business injured by his failure to lay suitable information about it before consumers, but even his old customers are drawn away ono after an other by the greater efforts made by on torprising rivals to attract and retain tho publio favor. Another influence also works against him. Tho publio also unconsciously conclude that a lack of enterprise in atlverti-ing is a sure sign of a lack of enterprise in other things. The tendency is to be lieve that a man who ' keeps up with the times'" in tho stylo and quality of his goods will also employ tho most effootive means of disposing of his stock while it is fresh and in demand, so that his shelves and countors may be clear and ready for the next novelties in the market. As experience confirms this opinion it is easy to see how the man who does not advertise, or who adver tises Infrequently or in obscure ways, is thought not to have much to sell, and so drops out of tho publio mind. As soon as this relation of indifferenco and forgetfulnoss is established between the publio and a merchant his business is frolng the wrong wny, and In time, un ess a change of policy is made, will all be transfoiTed to mure intelligent and eneretio men. Now that the life-currents of businesc are again in rapid motion it behooves every merchant . to consider what will broaden the foundations of his business prosperity and tend to make it perma nent ; ami among the potent causes ol commercial success wo venture to say that none is more essential than a cor rect notion of how to advertise and the constant practice of the knowledge. N. Y. Evening fW. t In the recent election in EnglaDd some ladies took part in the canvass. At Horeford, Lady Klizabeth Illddulph addressed nn immense audience as fol lows: " (ientlemwn, these are election times, and uncommon times, and we are at present allowed to do things wa don't do at other times ; 80 I will nuil that my excuse for addressing you, and will make you a little speech. Mr. llid dulph can not bo hero to day, but I am here as his wife and representative, and ask you to put him at the head of the poll, and make him a happy man and me a happy woman. He has your interests at heart, and nobody loves the country more than Mr. Uiddiilph, I de clare to you." Her ladyship sat down amid vociferous cheering. The latest novelty In bonnets is cnllod tho "Nihilist," because it is so killing. Harmony. The statesmen at Harriaburg know now how good and pleasant a thinuj it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. At noon yeslerday the Demon of Discord, who had thrust himself in among the patriots, threatening to pro duce confusion antl anger nndtlividcd counsels, unfurled his pinions nnd Hew away, while Whito-Winged Peace enmo in to exult because the reign of har mony lmd begun. It is a sweet and touching story of unselfish devotion and of fraternization in behalf of a holy cause. Mr. Wallace came to Harris burg with hatred in his heart and no yearning at nll.for harmony, Mr. Ran dall canio with animosity in his soul and positive aversion to fraternization. Under such circumstances tho pros- fiects of peace seemed not exceedingly lopeftil. Mr. Wallace had liirod tho lmil and he thought perhaps he might arrange the Convention to suit himself, lint Mr. Randall represented Tildcn, nnd he seems to have carried with him those potent intluences which the good old man of Graincrcy Park never fails to exercise when he wishes to make a poiut. A fresh barrel most likely had oeen tapped. Mr. HnndaU's man went around with tlie ready money antl by paving it down secured the kevs of the hall a fewmomcuts before Mr. Wallace's man called to get them. Then Mr. Randall picketed tho staircase with a double-row of patriots armed with blackjacks, revolvers and other imple ments of persuasion. Those persons had ortlors to admit nobotly who had not a ticket issued by Mr. Randall, ami they obeyed orders. The result was that Mr. Wall ace himself barely got in, but without any considerable number of his followers. Mr. Randall and Mr. Tilden's "influences" appeared to have carried the dav. When Mr. Wallace perceived this a desire for harmony was at once born in his bosom. Mr. Randall, of course, had no objection to harmony so long ns he was master of the Convention. All that was needed was a peacemaker to bring the two together and effect a reconciliation. Mr. Lewis C. Cassidv, a bright, nnd pure, and shining exem plar of Christian principles, naturally emtio lorHiinl at this juncture to en treat tlie leaders to forgive each other, to forget tlie hideous past, and to trv to do better in the future. Mr. Cassidy, who only needs wings to enable him to appear as an angel, led the two men out; he seems to havo reasoned with them; to havo read tho Scriptures to them; to have shown them how much better it is to overlook an injury antl to bear no malice or hatred in their hearts. His all'ectionale plei'.dings were success ful. Mr. Wallace, gnashing his teeth, perhaps, agreed to be reconciled. Mr. Randall, with the proud consciousness that the Convention was packed for him and Tilileu, and that the ardent patriots upon the stairs would prompt ly brain tiny Wallace malt who tried to get in without a ticket, consented to overlook tho past and to embrace his ancietil enemy. Tito angelic fiico of Cnssidy was wreathed with smiles. The truly vir tuous are never so happy as wheu they tiro doing good. Holed the wny into the hall. Wallace shook hands with Randall and the Convention cheered. Then Randall shook hands with Wallace and tho Convention cheered again. Randall made a little speech, where upon Wallace waved his hat antl looked as if lit) felt about as glad as if he had been at a funeral. Then Wallace mado a speech ami Randall waved his hat. It seemed as if tho Convention might go right on now, in the happiest mood, null carry out the programme -arranged by Mr. Tildcn; but it decided to adjourn. The outside patriots had not yet real ized an era of peace had begun; and so, while Wallace and Randall were era bracing, that eminent Democratic states man, M r. Haggerty, was shooting a hole through another eminent Democratic statesman. Pig Ear Charley, and about three tlozen other eminent Democratic statesmen wero busy mutilating each other. Under these circumstances the harmonizing process obviously could not go on, und so tho Convention ad journed until to-day in the belief, ex pressed by one correspondent, that " by the time the Convention meets in the morning a great ileal of tho undesirable element will be drunk or in jail." It is Eerhnps sad to perceive that completo 'einocralio harmony is impossible until a largo number of Democrats get thor oughly drunk or are placed in jail; but harmony is a great tiling, no matter by what means it conies. To-day the Con vention will assemble to perform tho task of saving the country, ajtd no doubt Mr. Randall, after having capt ured the Convention by a disreputable trick, will take care that tho platform shall let the country know what a des perately wicked old party the Republi can party is. I'liitiulultthia Evening bulletin. J The Close of a Farce. Exit tho exodus, Ihe Exodus Commit tee, the exodus investigation, and Dan Voorhees. The farce is over, the cur tain is rung down, and tho people of this country, who were the audience, have had to pay 8qo,0H for tho silly show. Mr. Dan Voorhees' mountain has Inhered for weeks, and lias brought forth a mouse, and & little ono at that. Mr. Voorhees moved for this investi gation, and has conducted it with the view of showing that tho exodus of ne groes from North Carolina to Indiana was a trick of the Republican managers to colonize Southern Indiana with col ored voters in sullicieut numbers to secure tho vote of the State for the Re publican ticket, though ostensibly his purpose was to inquire into tlie causes of the exodus from a labor point of viow. Tho animus of tho investigation, however, was apparent before it was a day old. The wituesses summoned wero Democrats who were hostile to the negro. Some had been engaged in defrauding the negro of his political rights. Some had defrauded him of tho fruits of his labor. Nearly all of them were prejudiced witnesses and in sympathy with the infamous practices of bull-dozing. Now and then, how ever, Mr. Voorhees fell into his own trap, and was confronted by witnesses who had not been properly coached, and told the truth, whilu upon cross examination it was established out of thu mouths of his own witnesses that the Democratic version of the exodus was false from beginning to end. What is tho result of' Mr. Voorhees' Investigation? He has piled up an im mense moss of testimony which no one will ever read. Ho has shown that about (iOO negroes, all told, have gone into Indiana a number too small to make even a ripple in politics or to in fluence even a close election, as several of these 000 have already been driven away by Democratic mobs of bullies and assasins of the Yazoo sort. Out of the mouths of his own witnesses the miuority of the Committee have proved that these negroes left North Carolina for the reason that victims of oppression always flee from their oppressors. It has been shown that the negro was not allowed his political rights or any of the privileges appertaining to citizenship, and that by an organized system of ostracism, terrorism, and bulldozing not so brutal nnd bloody as that which Is employed in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina, but just as effective he was debarred from voting unless he voted the Hourbon-Con-fotlerato ticket. It has been shown that the oppression of caste stripped him of all prolits attaching to labor and all its legitimate products through a minimum system ol wages and cast-iron contracts which re duced him to the most squalid con dition and mado bare existence well nigh impossible. It has boon shown furthermore that he was denied justice in the courts; that infamously-cruel laws were enacted against him, anil that by the aid of this odious nnd brutal class-legislation ho could bo arrested upon the most trivial charges, sentenced in heavy and extreme penalties, and to satisfy them his labor could bo sold to the highest bidder, thus reducing him to a condition of slavery only tlill'ering from his former condition inthatthe em ployer had no permanent title in him as a chattel. It was demonstrated that, under the pressure of such n combina tion of brutalities as the above, 600 f the thousands of negroes in North Carolina availed themselves of their inherent rights, with which no one, individual. Legislature, courts, or Con gress, can interfere, and sought a place where they fancied they could enjoy the rights of citizenship, protection from personal violence, the right to labor and enjoy tho fruits of labor,' though, as the event has shown, they found that Mr. Voorhees' constituency of howling, brutal mllians were as pitiless as those thev had left at home. This is what Mr. Voorhees hasestab lished after weeks of investigation with prejudiced witnesses, and every word of it was known before Mr. Voorhees commenced his investigation. And for this child's play, and silly, almost criminal, waste of timo and money, the the people of this country r-ust put their hands in their pockets and pay 10,000! It would havo been much more to tho purpose, and more in accordance with the temper of tho people, if an equal sum had been expended in investigat ing the infamous brutalities practiced upon negroes by tho howling mobs of Shelby County tit tlie recent election, with tlie. view, lirst, of ascertaining whether a colored citizenof Indiana bus any rights at all: and, second, lor the purpose of punishing tho scoundrels who wero guilty of theso outrages. Vlikteio Tribune. Rich, Rare and Racy. W. S. King, the Republican member of Congress iiom Minnesota whose sent Ignatius Donnelly contests, has written the following open letter to Donnelly. It will be remembered that the latter told the Springer Investigating Com-, mittce that ho believed King wrote the letter ottering Springer l.').ooo if he would seat the contestant. Mr. King's hitter is rich, runs and racy reading. After referring to the charge Mr., King says: In the investigation which ynu have de manded I am wild you "heart and hand." Donnelly, and it shall be no fault of mine If the irililty author of that wicked Jotter is not ibscovcred and punished as he should tie. I therelore make haste to anticipate :i verbal or written rs(ucst or subpoMiu. and forward for the Joint tHc and bcnelit of yourself and the loniinittec of Investigation extended speci mens ot my haudwiitliiir, which you will read ily recognize, lor tlio put-pine oi' comparing the same with yourj f beg pardon, with thu letter written to Mr. Springer. In furnishing you with this specimen of my handwriting, 1 cannot refrain from expressing tho gratifica tion 1 feel at the evidences you afford rue of your most remarkable reform in this matter of " bribery und corrupt Ion." There was a lime, I recollect, when there was great danger that you might become as bad iu those mat ters as ordinary men for instance, when you was making your Sentitoiiul cam paign, siiiiu years airo, und invited uio Into your back room, where you tendered me a large package of money, containing, you said, S.'I,inri. which you beifgcd mo take and bribe a Slate Senator to vote lor you for I'nitod states Hcnator, pledging yourself to give me $-.0110 additional and your written promise that a friend of mine should be appointed Surveyor (ieiieral of our State in the event of your election, wiiicu I lieu! iiessiy rciuscil to no. .My cruel rclilsul to mil you in brining mem bers of tho Legislatuio to vote for you on that oceadon wiis. I well recollect, vcrv airirm- vatlngto your feelings, but my conduct was not so pcricctiy soiu-narrowlng to you as that ot u member or the Legislature whom you personally attempted to bribe, and who. upon consultation with bis friends. tied up" $rsiO of your money, but did not givo you his vote. I well recollect the letter you wrote that par ty, aiicr me election w as over, oc manning tne return of your money, and have olten laughed at the ludicrous terms of the settlement tlnal ly made between you. 1 might, perhaps, stop right Here, but lest you and tho Investigating committee miu-ht think the t'oreu-oimr sneei- nien of my handwriting was not sulticlent lor exnausiive comparison, and as you pulillclv declare yourself so strongly of opinion that I am the author of the letter you sent (there It Is again), of the letter sent to Mr. Summer. I will udd to iho !Kcimcna farther by refer ring, in a pieiisaui nun irieuuiy way, to some of those other little trllles lu your t'ongrcss lonal experience, which will remind us laith, in the most atiiklng manner, of your great change of heart, in the matter ol "bribery and corruption," from which your vir tuous soul now shrinks with such unaffect ed Horror. For you will recollect, Donnelly, you did not always pluy ou ouo side alone of tills "bribery and corruption" business to which 1 havo referred, by no means, as too many could If they would only testify. When you wus in t'oiigrcsa, Mr. Donnelly, and held a firefly strong hand on a certain committee bc oro which important interests bad come for legislation, how you did use to make "tho bloiHltty;" how you followed parties through the halls of the house into tho "Speaker's loom," to their hotels, and even to neighbor ing cities, demanding money of them for the great service you cianuea you was render ing. 1 rcecolloct tho time, as 1 um uro you will, ulso, whon a party upon whom you hud been making a "levy, not knowing that you and I "were out." but supposing vou tho representative of my district, and that we were personal and political friends, sent it uraii or cticca ot f,.'ssj to me wua tne request that 1 hand the same to vou. which I did: Mini 1 ulso remember how, amid tho thickening blushes which colored to a deeper rod your rosy checks when 1 bunded you that tell-tale letter and uiolosiire. you generously onered nay, more, lulrly besought mo to accept a portion of the money, to which I rcplh-d that, having no proper claims to the saino, 1 oould not. and did nut accept. Hut, Lord bless us, Mr. Donnelly, what was a'.l,5o0 to you in those daysy Why, I recollect Indug told by a party in Interest of youroncu levying an assessment of ffi.tiuo ou the agent of a party desiring action on a bill which was lu your bauds, Aolmg under thu demands ot necessity, he paid you that amount, when von quietly Jumped on the ear, and, running over to New York, struck that ugenl principal for fo.isiM more, not naving been adv ised of the agent's act Ion. this priucipul guve you acheck tor another .VUU. which ho made piry able to the order of his agent In Washington. When you went ttack to the ageut to gel his Indorse ment, how he did swear! frilled you u uwiudler. a double-latrreled blackmailer, a inrute. and till such naughty uiunes, and slubboinly re iiiseo io uiuoise ine cnecK, putting you to tne trouble of another trip to New York to make thu best explanations you oould. Hut then it came out all light, and you got your extra afi.uuj. There are miuiy other Instances, which uilaht be recalled, of your sleepless and vir tuous vigilance in gunnling the purllyof leg islation, and your peculiar methods of op posing biilars and corruption w hen a member of Congress, but I must torbeur, ms I um now actios; only in otiedieuee to courtesy and a triendly desire to tild you In deteciiinr the infamous scamp who wrote your ot course I mean the letter to Mr. Spi iu'aer. Neither you nor tho committee can vmisonably ask lor more copious or extended specimen of my handwriting to-day, but, iu the meantime, Donnelly, vou may assuredly rely upon my best ellorts to aid vou In Ibis matter bo longiis you wish tn continue theseuich for the am hoi of your of tho letter to Spiiuger. You nee I not liHik In tho directory of t'auada forme. I'll ho ut borne now, to you and your Investi gating committee, until tho authorship ot your of thai vile letter to Mr. Springer Is satisfactorily settled. Don't doubt me Igna tius, lit stand by you to tho lust, and If vou wish any more specimens of my handwriting, draw ou me at sight. Your, for " itufoi-in," WM. S. KING. , , P. 8. I rely upon you. of oourse. to bund this speciiueu of my nundwritlng to the Com mittee of Investigation, for whose use it Is in tended. I ain aure you wou't forgot to do it W. S. K. The Bnrlnir units nf Phiinn tunn.nH r---;ft . suiuph are mostly for divorce. Tribunt. POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS. JJoy Tho California Republicans, In voking apt nlliterntion's artful aid, dc claretlfor Rlaino and llooth. Jir The linn nnd tho lamb laid down together nt Harrlsbuig, but the lamb tlid not get up again. We suspect tho lion laid down 01 it. Perhaps that was tho intention. I'Msburih Chronicle. JSaSf The Louisiana Democrats have never forgiven Tildcn for not nppeallng to force in 1877. They understand that sort of tiling better than they tin suit mission to majorities. Detroit I'ost and Tribune. tKff" Considering that Tildon Is par alytic, deaf, weak, imbecile, trembles when he walks, and cuu hardly speak above a whisper, ho has a wonderfully firm grip on the Doinocrutio machine in New York. StifTM. B. Andrua, for many years a Tammany sachem, says ho knows of no man who can iinito tho New York De mocracy so as to carry the State this fall, except ex-Governor Seymour, and he will not run. Ift-iy A brief essay from Usufruct would not bo out of place now. We would like to know how a man wiih a paralyzed hand is able suddenly to grasp in his horny hand a pole long enough to knock the persimmons. Ej cfiunyc. &-iT The whole Democratic party is anxious to tlrop Tildcn, but dares not for fear that tho barrel and all that that implies, will drop with him. If he wero as poor in pocket us he is in health, he would never be mentioned as a candi date again. J8a General Hancock's " boom" for tlie Democratic Presidential nomination is looming up. Tlie four delcgates-at-lnrge appointed from Vermont the other day are for him. He needs only oUO or 4oO more to distance his com petitors at Cincinnati. J8r-jJ"John Kelly, the "Tammany boss," says that the nomination of Tilileu by the Democrats "would be a disgrace to the party und to the coun try." Kelly is partially wrong tho nomination of Tildcn would be in per fect keeping witlt tlie ethics of tho Democratic party, but his election to the Presidency would indeed be a dis grace to tho country. Chicago Journal. t-jT Finley mid Tildcn have mutually repudiated each other and declared that the one in no wny represented the other, but the trouble with Finley is that ho cannot explain to whom he re ferred when ho intimated in his letter to Springer that tlie snatching of Wash burn's seat to be tilled by Donnelly was in the interest of our friends iu New York." That ugly conundrum still rc- j mains unanswered. Wisconsin Htdla I Journal. feyVooi'liecs' exodus investigation j has already cost the country about So.ooo, and lor all the gootl it has done the money might as well havo been thrown into the sea. Hotter, in fact, for the investigation has placed tho American Congress before tho world in tho position of denying the right of American citizens to move from one State to anol her. Since t he investiga tion began about ono hundred and fifty witnesses have been examined, most of them personal or political friends of Senator Voorhees, who wanted to visit Washington, and who wero brought there at public expense. Indianapolis Journal. j Tilden Still on Top. Tho Democrats of New York havd held their Slnto Conventions. There were not three, as some expected, but there were two, which was really just as bad. Tho Democracy of the Empire Stato is now put together on the bicycle plan, ouly the wheels persist in running in opposite directions. They did thut at Syracuse yesterday, and will at the polls in November unless something extraordinary should occur to prevent iu The net result of Yesterday may be very briefly slated: The regular Con vention, the only one which can have any formal recognition at Cincinnati, was run entirely iu the Tildcn interest. The seventy delegates designated to at tend the National Convention were in structed to vote as a unit, and to insist upon the two-thirds rule. This is not all. The Convention clinched the nail beyond all chance by declaring that if nny delegate refused" to vote with tho majority, his seat should be thereby vacated and given to some one elso chosen by the delegation. The efi'ect will be that tho Chairman of tho dele gation will, upon every roll-call, an nounce that New York easts her seven ty votes for Samuel J. Tildcn, or what ever motion may be made in his inter est. Unless death or paralysis comes fo Its rescue, tho Democracy cannot shake oil' "the old man of the sea." He is sure of at least a little moro than oue third of the National Convention at the outset, nnd his strength is so very posi tive and personal that it will bo abso lute in iu mastery of tho situation. Po tween the unit rule made final, and tho maintenance of tho customary two thirds rule, Gramercy Park has the necessary upper and nether mill-stones for grinding out the desired Tildon grist. Mr. Kelly, tlio boss of Tammany Hall and Tilileu s enemy, was a member of the St. Louis Convention of 187G. He made a speech to tho delegates, in which he insisted that Tilden could not carry New York. He proved a false prophet. He will not be a meiubor ot the Cincinnati Convention, and to his prediction that Tildon cannot carry New York lu 1880, the friends of the latter will reply, "That was your prophecy four years ago. You wero mistaken then, and vour opinion now is entitled to no 'weight.'" The Re publicans did not expect to carry that Slate in 187G. Tilden hail its entire patrunago iu his hands, was generally popular, und Mr. Conk ling was lukewarm in the support of Mr. Hayos. Now tho State Govern ment is" Republican, tuul Mr. Conklino will cordially sttpport.w hoever is nomi nated, even though it bo Iilaino or Sherman. Kelly is still tho supremo power in Nuw York city polities, antl can at least prevent tho usual wholesalo frauds of the Democracy in that city, and, under the circumstances, will do so. In ellect, that will ho a very seri ous boll. The State Convention of the Kellyiies yesterday not only appointed delegates to Cincinnati, but nominated filocturs-at-Largo. '1 hey also pronounced very strongly in favor of Horatio Seymour for President. That disposes of him. lie cannot bo taken up now. The Na tional Convention will not dare to nom inate the pot ot the boilers. That would bo too palpable nnd gross an insult to the regulurs of tho party to be thought ol. Ou the whole, then, w hile the Re publican nomination is still in doubt, Ihe Democracy might ns well surrender now without reservation to Satt.nol J. Tilden. with English, of Indiana, Palm er, of Illinois, or some other Western man, as candidate for Vioe-Prosidenu Chicago Journal.