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A correspondent at St. Petersburg tells the Morning Advertiser, a journal which is generally well-informed in connection with the wax) that Russia did not push matters to extremity when the British fleet anchored off Constantinople, because she was not ready to play her cards. Had she occupied Constantinople, and entered the Dardanelles, as she at first threatened, war between he: and England and Austria would have ensu- ed, in which case the Czar, with his troops scattered about the peninsula, his communi. cations in disorder, his railways clogged with snow, his naval preparations incomplete, and his army weaned by a winter advance across the Balkans, would have laid himself open to inevitable defeat. Therefore the usual lowering of her pretentious at the last mo- ment was a shrewd stroke of diplomacy on the part of Prince Gortschakofi. The cor- respondent in a question is assurred that the Congress is only a scheme to gain time. It is calculated that it cannot meet and fin. ish until late in May, when Russia will have 27 ironclads free from the icy clutches of Winter; her Baltic defenses will have receiv- (d their complement of 38-t0n guns, and every vulnerable or assailable point will have been protected with torpedoes. In the Paci- fic, her squadrons will have anchored safely away from British 0 u s is in the harbor of 1 Vladivostock. In Central Asia, the lorts will i have been suificiently armed and provisioned E to meet any attmk {rim India. in Europe”: 1 Russia, the ice hailing disappeared, the trans- t port of material will be easy. The insurrec- t tion being quelled in Caucasus, and Russia, I no longer lighting against the Prophet, will E THE WAR- England and Austrm persist in their deâ€" mand that all the terms of the Treaty shall be submltted t0 the Congress. Russia is dissatisfied and is said to be indifferent as to whether the meeting takes place at all. The reports, however, are of the usual contreclic tory character and but very little reliance can be placed on them. According to a Vi. enna despatch, Russia has expresed her de- sire that the Congress shall meet on 30th of March, the anniversary of the singing of the Treaty of Paris, while a.‘ Berlin correspon- dent avers that an early meeting is no longer probable. Meantime warlike preparations continue in England, and eierything is siil being done to guard against any rurprise. All outward bound menâ€"olâ€"war have been or- dered to be detained uith a. View to strengthâ€" ening the Mediterranean licet. Opposition is manifested in extreme anti-Russian quar- ters to the appointment of Lord Dyons rs British representative at the Congress on the ground that he is not in perfect accord with Mr. Layard. Turkey, at the instigation, it is supposed, of Russia, has decided to oppose any occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina py Austin. Genera-l Ignatiefi' and licouf Pasha have alrived at St. Petersburg with the Treaty. Suleiman Pasha. is not dead, but is ordered to Constantinople for trial. Some excitement was caused in London last Tuesday by the fresh complications mis- ing out of the reported movements of the Russian troops around Constantinople and the difficulties regarding the terms of the Treaty to be submitted to the Congress, but the later desputohes hold out a hope that the latter obstacle may be successfully sur- mounted. Germany is said to consider all the points must be submitted. and Russia is reported to be disposed to yield once more to her views. March 28th is new suggested as the day on the day on which the Congress shall assemble; from Berlin. however, it is hinted that the invitations will not he issued until evu-y difficulty is settled. A report c>mes from Paris, tut is g‘ncmlly di'crsdit- ed, that if Greece is to be represented at the Council of the Nations. Prince ,Gortschekofi will insist on Roumania, Servia, and Monte- negro sending representatives. The peace conditions Will be communicated to tho Pow- ers after the ratification of the treaty, until which time the Grand Duke Nicholas has postponed his visit to the Sultan. England and France are expected speedily to come to an agreement on the Egyptian question. The Roumsnian agent at Vienna is expected to hand Gaunt Andrassy a memorandum intimating that Roumenia wil not be loan) by the Russomurkish Treaty. Lord Deihy, according to the 120111;inqu Francoise, published in Paris, told Count Schouvalolf that England woul i not consent to the Congress unless the whole Treaty of San Stefano was submitted. The Russian ambassador, having communicated with St. Petersburg, subsequently informed Lord Derhy that Russia was willing that the Con- gress should decide on the points of the Treaty to be examined. The Journal dc Sti Petarsburg, however, declares the demand that all the points of the Treaty should he submitted is untenable. Russia has consent- ed to Gleace being represented at the Con- gress. The sub-Committees of the Austro- iiungalzian Delegations after further explan- ations from Count Andrassy have unani- mously agreed to vote the credit of sixty mil- lion florins. One of the explanations was made under confidence, and is said to have created a sensation. It is further stated the vote of the committees was secured on the Count promising to adhere to the Treaty of Paris. Count Andrassy also Said that throughout Austria had been willing to recognize the independence and neutrality of Roumenia. The Russians are reported to be still advancing in the direction of Con- stantinople, and to have occupied most of the villages round the city. 1856 and 1871, they were practically at an end, admitted the state of things contem» plated by those treaties had ceased to exist, and that they were, therefore, only binding untilanew system was ratified. England wished the question to be settled in an Eu~ ropean, not exclusiyely a Russian, sense, and on a durable and equable basis. The desponding tone of his Lordship’s reply crused uneasiness in the lobbies. All the Powers appear to have agreed to the Con- gress being held at Berlin except France and England, and it is considered it will be held whether they consent or not. The reports 9.1 to Prince Bismarck presiding are contra- d ctory, the North German. Gazette, the Chancellor‘s particular organ, affirming he is hardly well enough to do so, and a Berlin despatch stating, in giving her consent to the Congress. Germany also gave notice the Prince was willing to preside. it is said at the Congress Princes Bismarck and Gortscha- kofi will propose that Austria shall occupy Bosnia and that the latter will also suggest that Austria participate in the second year’s occupation of Bulgaria. Reouf Pasha has been chosen to accompany General Ignatief t) St. l’etersburg to conduct the negotiations le‘ ratifying the Treaty. and it is thought possible that during the negotiations Russia may make some further concessions. The Grand Duke Nicholas has not yet visited Constantinople, the obstacle being his. in- sistence upon being accompanied by a mili- ttry escort. It is reported when the British fleet entered the Dardenelles the Grand Duke received imperative instructions from St. Petersburg to occupy Constantinople, and that it was only by his disobeying these instructions that war with England was averted. France is opposed to a British oc- cupation of Egypt, but would consent to guarantees being secured regarding the Suez Canal. Prince Bismarck, according to a Paris correspondent, recently stated that he himself would propose an English occupa- tion oEEgypt, Germany guaranteeing France‘s nonintorvention. Iioumania is now report- ed as willing, with the consent of the Powers, to cede Bessarabia. LONDON, March 7.â€"Lord Derby, replying to a statement made by the Duke of Argyle, Wag Tux:ka having broken the treaties of A STARTLING GAME ON THE CARle RUSSIA’S PROGRAMME. NOTES. Judge Lawrence, in Supreme Court Cham’ here, Saturday, was asked to grant an in- junction in a suit by Dennis Mulca-hey against Jeremiah ()‘Donovan Rossa. restrain- ing any transfer or disposition of what ,is called the Fenian “Skirmishiug Fund.” Mr. Mulcahey in his complaint says that during March, 1876, and since that time, “various people who have a desire to Ranauce liberty in Ireland and honor Irish patriots have vol. untarily given to the defendant Reese large sums of money, aggregating $523,000 and up. wards, which mouoyis known as the “Skir- mishng Fund," to be used by Rossa at his sole discretion for the advuncement of liber. ~ ty in Ireland and the honoring of patriots . and to keep alive and in active operation the party which favors Irish liberty. In Febru. ary, 1877, Colonel John O'Mahony.a well- ‘ known Irish patriot, and who; up to a few days previous to his death was llead Centre of an organization established to carry out . among other things the objects aforesaid, departed this life." Itassrt “In order to keep alive and advance the party which nvows Irish liberty, as well as to pay rerect to the memory of the said Mahony, rosovled to have the remains of Mahony conveyed to Ireland to be interred; knowing full well that the remains of the patriot would reuse the feel- ings of patriotism in an ardent people; the funeral cortege would he exceedingly large, and the oration over the body of the said Mahony would abound with remarks of pa. triotism tending to advance the cause of liberty, as well a eulogy upon the life and j character of the said Mahony ; that 1n pur- ‘ suanee of that design said Rossa requested this plaintiff to accompany the remains ol the said Mahony to Ireland and to superin- tend the funeral services.” Mulcahey says Rossa agreed to pay him 351,000 out of the E Skirmishing Fund for these services, and 9 --.~. mawcumm Hamlin'and Dawes both filrlvl‘a‘iniained that bha honor of the Government required pay- ment of the award, but that $16 couxtw gct nabhing for it. It is believed the Administratio sustain any complaint sgninst Del Fisher Commission. ' ()fliuiul deuce shows that Evarts express as pleased with the selection. AN EFFORT 1'0 msm'mm o‘nonomx ROSS Usma 11‘ AT HIS PLEASURE. Evarbs informed Congressman Loring that Minister Welch had been instructed to call to the notice of the British Government the Newfoundland fishery troubles, and request inyestigation. _ Blaine recited the circumstances of the selection of M. Dalfosse HS Commissioner, stating that he had been per-mptorily declin- ed at first by our Government, and after- wards appointed by the Austrian Ambassador, into whose hands the matter had been placed. If he were correctly informed, the corros- pondenoe for which the resolution called would disclose a designed and pseristent efl'ort on the port of the British Government to secure an advantage in the selection of the third Commissioner. Blaine related the hisâ€" tory of thefishery negotiations, and said it was difficult to treat the award with respect, as it made us my a. million dollars per annum for the privilege of catching less than $400,- 000 worth of fish. The Treaty of Washing- ton, creating the Halifax Commission, gave no authority to the more majority of the Commissioners to nmke an award. Blaine quoted from eminent English authorities to show that as the Amcrlcnn Commissioner dissented the award had no binding force. Great Britain under similar circumstances would refuse to pay a. single penny. The treaty, Its it stands, is an’iockei'y of justice, making us pay a million per annum to Great Britain for destroying the great fishing 1n- terests of America and further crippling and weakening us as a commercial powen Hewitt, of New York, said he would not have spoken on the Bill except for the decision in the case of the Fishery Cummis- lsion by which $5,500,000 was awarded as ‘damages to the Canadian Governmentfor the privileges enjoyed by the United States fishr r- ‘men. A distinguished statesman had said that the arbitration would put off reciprocity (or twenty years. It was time to ascertain 3 whether the diplomatic> system was worthy jof respect. The present system was expen- lsive, unnecessary, and inmost cases a use- ‘less sham. The newspapers had taken the 1 place of the old fashioned diplomatic service. , Twenty years ago the United States used to ‘send abroad great and distinguished men, while in these degenerate times the foreign missions were the refuge of played-out pol- iticians. lie was in favor of having but two European missions, one at London,! as the centre of the commercial interests of the world, and one at Berlin, at; the centre 01 political power. 116 would have those Min- istel‘R well paid, so that they would not feel humiliated at association with other Min- isters. 110 would then have secretaries at other different points, who should report to the Ministers. lie stated that of twenty important treaty negotiations with Euro- pean rations all but one had been negotiated by special envoys, thus showing the inutility of the present diplomatic service. 'He re- gretted there was no reciprocity treaty be, tween the United States and France, since this country would have so much to gain by such a treaty. He favored retaining the missions to the South American States, be- cause those countries were constantly in it states of revolution, and Ministers were necessary there to protect citizens of the United States. Wherever the diplomatic service could subservo the interests of com- merce he would sustain it, but where it had only to deal with political questions he favored reduced the expense of the service and consolidating its departments. The 'l‘urco-ltussian War was a good example of the small effect upon the United States that warhad by a struggle which involved the political interests of all Europe. 1:. ~ WAsnIxaToN, March 11.~In the Senate to- day Mr. Blaine called up the resolution 1'9- questing the President to furnish copies of the correspondence relative to the appoint- ment of the third Commissioner under the 23rd article of the Treaty of Washington, and spoke in regard thereto. After brief re- marks by Messrs. Hamlin and. Dawes. the resolution was agreed to. be able to avail herself of the Tartar and Circassian troops. The Armenian Militia can garrison Kars and Erzeroum, relieving Loris Melikofi. In Europe, Russia will have all the fortresses of the Danube in herhands; her ironclads and torpedo flotilla. will domi- nate the river; anc even if lloumania joins Austria against her, they Will have a tougher job to cross the liver to attack the Army of Adrianople in the roar than Grand Duke Nicholas had. 0n the Sea of Mermora, llodsto will have been fortified with power" ful guns, and 125 torpedo steamers will guard each extremity of the waterway. Within aday’s march of‘ the Dardanelles 150,000 men will have been posted in the outskirts of Constantinople, and the Black Sea Fleet will have concentrated at Midi. These arrangements being perfected. Russia will suddenly break up the conference, dash forward upon the Dardanelles, seize the Bosphorue, cram the channel with torpedoes, fill the inlet to to each strait with torpedo vessels, mass hor troopa behind forts and earthworks on both the peninsulas, “and than dare the astonished British Lion to do his worst." By the time the English fleet can move the Bosph( 1‘15 will be closed ; free communication across the Black Sea will enable Russia to laugh at Austria, and before Queen Victoria can send an army 01 inva- sion to undo all this work, Russia will have gained such a grip upon Turkey that the war will begin with everp chance in the Czar’s favor. Such is the programme of Russia, sketched by hand upon what is claimed to be good authority. THE FENIAN SKIRMISHING FU TH E Q I‘ IION IN CONGRESS THE HALIFAX AWARD . nipsfi Dclfosse oi the F11 uiul con-ospon‘ 1th) 11 will not ‘sod hiniaou ND. A prohibitory Liquor Bill has been defeat- ed in the Massachusetts Assembly by 118 to 93. Awoman named Errington, the ubi'mdoned wife of Charles Errinqton, of Petrolia, was found by Constable Warren in a vacant lot in Westminster Wednesday morning in a very exhausted and feeble conjition. lIe taok her in his buggy and conveyed he! to Squire Peters’, where, obtaining e. warrant, he took her to 9901. Arrived there it was found the woman was dead. It appears that for ten or twelve years sincefiier separ- ation from her husband, her life has been a failure. Being an aceompiished musician, she has tried to teach, At other times she has been a common servant, but frequently a lodger at the police station on account of her dissoluteness and poverty. Wednesday morning at six;o’clock she called at a house in Westminster and asked shelter from the storm of rain and sleet, but was repulsed. She wandered on until, completely discour- aged, shehtid down in a. vacant lot, where she was afterwards found by the constable. Twenty years ago, the woman, whose maiden name was Crowe, was very attractive, and an ornament to the circle in which she moved. Recently a men in the employ of Mr. Edward, on the Gntineau. was drowned at Six Portage Farm. For several days pre- vious he|exhibited symptoms of insanity, and was taken in charge by his brother with the intention of taking home. On the way down they stony d;nt Six Portage Farm, and during the nignt the 11111th inate man got. up, and in attempting to escape from his brother, ran into an airhol'e on the Gatineau, and was drowned before he could be rescued. A farmerin the County of Elgin had an auction sale lately, the proceeds of which were $2,250. Among the stock soldwere thirty cows, that brought an average of $37.88 each. Matters hnvo reached such a pitch in Montreal that it is proposed to form a Volunteer Citizen's Patrol for the east end of the city. A race has been arranged to on the Kennebecassis between I Ross on July 15th. The Nova. ScotiaAssemny passed 1 yesterday assimilating the local election to the Dominion Act. The project of a blast furnace at Whitby, the iron ore to be brought to the Snowdon mines, is being agitated. Amovement is on foot in the amalgamation of several sumnce companies, in order strong company. The Nova Scotia Bar Society has adopt- ed the draft of a bill to be submitted to the Legislature abolishinthrial by jury in civil cases, except in exceptional instances. Montreal’s debt is $11,331,786 The treasuror’s report for last your shows a, surplus of 365.000, every committee having spent less than their appropriations. Abill is bélore the Nova. Scotia Assem- bly, establishing a Board of Commissioners of Public Charities. The telegraph being expnnsive, there is some talk of trying the telephone up in the Parry sound district. Fall wheat looks well about Guelph. A Grand Trunk passenger station at Lon- don East is talked of. A Winnipeg man has harvested six hun~ dred tons of ice, and is still as work. In Halifax the prize candy lottery busi- ness is being put down by the police. All those suffering from tyiwhoid fever the Deaf and Dumb Institute, Belleville, recovering. The Sioux under Sitting Bull are now ported to be literally starving, and aux: to surrender. 1 Awell-laid scheme to appropriate a. Brit: ‘ isli vessel and cargo has been discovered at Baltimore, and frustrated. An English pas- senger named Kinnear was in league with the captain and crew to carry out the plot, but the firm to whom the former made ap- plication for an advance insisted upon his identification as the‘owner, and telegraphed to various places, finally ascertaining that the name of the ship had been changed and and the papers tampered with. The vessel, which arrived at Baltimore March 7th from Porto Cabello, VenezuelaI with a cargo con- sisting of coffee and hides, valued at ninety- two thousand dollars, destined for Hamburg, is believed to be the property of Messrs. Mills it 00., of St. John, N. B. The Times‘ financial article, alluding to the failure of Verner Brosly says they were short about half a. million pounds in stock. It also says:â€"â€"“Nothing could speak 'more eloquently to the deadening effect of the ap- rr. h minions which filled Europe for many months than the cheapness of money in con.- tinental markets. We have had no greater danger to face for a long time.” The Sultan conferred the Grand Gordon of the Order of Medjidio upon the Baroness Burdett Coutts, in recognition of her eflorts in behalf of the Turkish refugees. It is the first instance of the order having been be- stowed on a lady. Further disturbances in the British labor market are expected. The coal owner’s asâ€" sociation of Yorkshire and South Derbyshire have resolved to reduce wages seven and a half per cent. The men are willing to accept a five per cent. reduction, but W111 not con- sent to more. The masters in the North of England iron trade are also demanding a re- duction in wages from ten to seventeen per cent., to which a general realstance is being organized. Mr. Gladstone has been a second time in- vited to stand for Leeds and has again do- clinofi. It is thought he will be returned at the general election, which does not take place for two )oars, for the Flint Burghs unopposed. Verner Bros,. prominent stock brokers in London. have failed. They were engaged in a. large bearing operation in Bntish securi- ties based on the expectation of immediate War. Should the present rise continue. the collapse of other brokers is anticipated. that $463 remain unpaid. He asks that this sum be declared a lien upon the “Skirmish- ing Fund.” The Imperial Parliament will probably adâ€" journ for the Easter recess about the middle of April. The Budget will be introduced on 4th April. 3udge Lawrence denied the motion! saying he did not see any ground for granting the injunctionâ€"New York World. Forty miners perished by a colliery explo- sion near Bolton, Lancashn'e, on Monday. Dunville’s celebrated distillery at Belfast, Ireland, was destroyed by fire last Wednes- day. The estimate of New Brunswick for the current year is $592,600, and the expendi- ture $586,827. Ibis said the Dominion Government in- tend to remove the Oka. Indians to a reserva tion on Lake Huron. The Wyvern, a turret ship built for the Southern Confederacy, and seized by the British Government, after lying in Ply- mouth harbour for fourteen or fifteen years, is about to be commissioned. Mr. Gladstone has declined an invitation to be a candidate for Leeds. It is thought a number of constituencies will be placed at the right hon. gentleman’s disposal, and that he will accept elther Chester or Oxford University. AMERICAN ITEMS. CANADIAN ITEMS. BRITISH ITEMS. Montreal for Canadian in- to form one I take place Hanlan and are now re. and anxious a bill 1 law >r at , are Another waiter has fallen heir to a. heavy property. It pays to wait. “E. 1’.” writes to the London Times:â€" “In the overpowering excitement at present prevailing both at home and abroad of Rus- sian v. Turk, the comparatively peaceful ac- tion of 'Baeach of Promise,’ es mooted :by Mr. Herschell’s bill, meets but scanty atten- tion. A word may, however, find place in favor of the time-honored process the hon- omble member for Durham Would lain see entirely abolished. He views the question from it high standpoint of delicacy and dis- interestedness, end apparently forgets that legislation is not alone for the upper ten, but also for the masses. True that no woman of refinement could, under any provocation, wish to seek a. salve for wounded affections in what is certainly a low kind of revenge on a slippery lover. But it is equally true that uuwm “lump-I Which would prevent its having occasional ! the community),to a remedy provided for its ‘ comparative safety from the trifler and se- ‘ dueer. In the lower middle classes, and in 5 yet humbler grades, woman, in losing the ' law of ‘Breach of Promiso,’ would find a ‘ safety-barrier thrown down which would leave them exposed, all helpless and unde- fended, to the men-y of any man who study- ing only self-gratification, might choose to play the lover. There would be nothing to hinder an unprincipled fellow from contract- ing an engagement and making solemn prom. ises of marriage he hm] no intention of keep- ing. Frequently, elemâ€"for human nature is often more week then it is wickedâ€"men who would shrink with a holy horror from facing the chance for an action for “breach” Would (that terror once withdrawn) yield to temptation, and without a precise intention to deceive ofl'or marriage, trusting to the chapter of accidents that they might perhaps tulfil their word. 0f the thousands of gen» tlemen who lodge bachelor-fashion in Lon- don, new many would see the blendishments of their landlady's comely daughters and neices in en amatory light, secure in the knowledge that, should the undesirebility of the connection prove too strong for their ef- fection, it was open to them at any time to , desert the women, who was powerless to ‘punish. Most women prefer the silent agony of e. hlightedhfe to any comfort to be obtained from publicity in the newspapers. Not a hundredth part of the cases that pos- sesses every requis1te find their way into the law courts ; but we may believe that the small per cent. which do act as a wholesome deterrent to many.” our entire female population can by no‘ means lay claim to a .niceness of feeling, recourse (with a general healthy effect for‘ No one can deny the Duke of Edinburgh the credit of having at least stood up for his retainer through thiok and thin. In the first place, when the explosion came, it was the Prince who screened his equerry from the pire risk of a hostile meeting, Then it seems to have been 1h: some royal person- age who counselled the furnace of the agree- ment for hushing up the «their, on condition of the equerry taken to his heels. Not con- tent with the gallant Lothnrio being lelt oil so lightly, again it is pricely ingenuity which suggested that the agreement had been broken, and that the equerry was according- ly entitled to return to Malta. Furthermore it comes about by the same royal influence that a civilian is suffered to become prosecu- tor before a. military court of enquiry ; and I have the best authority fyr saying that the Duke himself would have offered himself as a. witness at the inquiry on behalf of his protege, had not his application to return “on sick leave" from tho Dardanelles to Malta in the Rupert been refused. The London World says :â€"â€"A<i what is known as the “Malta. scandal” is now the subject of a. court of inquiry, and as many misstatements have been made on the sub- ject there can be no harm in saying that the equerry who has been horsewhipped - is Captain, the Hon. D. J. Manson, and that his assailantâ€"«who conceives himself cruelly is Mr. Scott-Stevenson, udjutant of the 42nd Higl’ lenders. As already stated, the equerry eventually offered to exchange a couple of cosey bullets with the injured husband,which the latter declined. I now learn that, before this refusal was returned, the officer to whom It was sent submitted the challenge to five military friends, equally distinguished for their honour and their high rank in the service and they‘gaxe it as their opinion that, as the oflice‘r had already preferred satisfaction of the kind in question, which proposal the equerry had thought fit to re- fuse, he could not now, without conpromie-‘ mg his character, accede to the equerry’e request for a meeting. a, year for catching four hundred thousand dollars worth of fish. ltpi‘osentativa Hewitt, of New York, referring to the matter inci- dentally in the House, gave it as the opin- ion of prominent statesmen that the result of the arbitration had placed reciprocity back twenty years. It is thought that the Wash ington Administration will not sustain any complaint against Mr. Delfosso. It is also said the olficial _correspondence will show that Secrctary Evurts expressed his satisfac- tion at his selection. Senator Blaine has made his promised motion in the U. S. Senate 10: the corres- pondence relative to the appointment of Mr. Delfosse, the Belgian Minister, as nrbitrator on the Halifax Finnery Commission. He repeated the N. Y. Herald‘s alleged secrel history of the affair and nasal-ted that, un- der similar circumstances. Great Britain would not pay a. penny of the award. He denounced the Commission as a mockery of justice, and said the United States, under the award, was made to pay a. miilion dollars The Hibernians have been falling foul of the clergy in Philadelphia and Long Branch. N. J. In the former city the Archbishop de- clined to review the St. Patrick’s procession, if the Hibernians took pull; in it, and the latter have resolved to parade separately but over the same route. Trouble is consequent- ly anticipated. At Long Branch, the recent incendiary plot discovered there having been traced to members of the order, the pastor of the Roman Catholic church on Sunday dc- nounced the organization from the pulpit. Cuban refugees in Key West, ‘ie , pro- test against the acceptance of peace by the patroits on any other basis than indepen- dence, and preparations have been made for two hundred men to leave that place fully equipped to carry on the ineurruction. In the meantime the insurgents on the 15- land continue to surrender in large numbers. The number of United States exhibitors at the Paris Exposition is five hundred and seventy cight men. The Umted States war steamer Plymouth has been ordered to San Domingo to protect American interests, the United States consul having been thrown Into prison by the Rev- olutionary party. Secretary Evarts has instructed Minister Welch to direct the attention of the British Government to the Newfoundland Fishery troubles, and to requést an investigation. Secretary Sherman favors the issue of sil- ver certificates at New You: alone. He says silver is the highest at its point of produc- tion. Ho thinks a heavy contest is pending between the Government and the bullionists. General Sherman advocates the erection of a fort on Milk river, Montana, near the Canadian boundary, to keep hostile Indians in check. A communist meuing was he‘d at St. Louis last week. The red flag was unfurled and incendmry speechcs were made. Hazing is reported at Dartmouth College, N. H. A number of freshmen, about two o’clock in the morning, retaliated for an in- trusion earlier in the evening upon two sophomores, whom they severely beat with bottles and disfigured. Two freshmen have been arrested for assault with intent to kill. “BREACH OF PROMISE . " THE MALTA SCANDAL. A Dubuque man, some four years ago. buried $4,000 in a field, and soon after left the State. He returned and only found hi- creasure after many months of search, the old landmarks having been removed. Mr. Brandt, amembero! the Minnesota Legislature, accepted a bribe of 1350, gave it to the clerk. and exposed the corruption, which related to the supply of books for the public schools. A Chicago lover candidly told, in a letter to his sweetheart, all about a forgery that be had commi‘ted. Lately he jilted her, and in revenge, she gave the letter to the police. The long continued blindness of a woman in Elizabethtown, Ky., was b‘ronen by an an hour of sight, after which she became to- tally blind. Deacon Block has been expelled from tb>e Presbyterian ehurch in Atlanta, GB», (of permitting 9. dance in his parlor. ' An Omaha man rolled abarrel of pork two miles through the snow, and was caught after all his hard work. Consumptives are now fed on hickory- nut meats, and the (fleet is both fattening and flattenng. Corn is a dime a. bushel in Atéhison, Kan. Nr. John Boggs is laid to own 100.000 acres of land in California, and 50,000 in Oregvn. Some day an enterprising darmnlist will construct at play in twenty-six sets. giving the spectator a. ohanca to go out end get twenty-five drinks, and it will run for ten thousand nights and make his fortune. Thus predicts a knowing contemporary; and while the dramatist is about it it, he should construct the last act so the play Would and fifteen or twenty minutes before it is finish- ed, for the benefit of the large class who cannot wait for the curtain to drop on the last act. A Dutchman, the other day, reading (he account of a meeting came to the words, “ The meeting then dissolved." He eould not define the meaning of the latter. no he referred to the dictionary, and felt satisfied. In a few minutes a friend came in, when Houty said, “ Dey must have very hot wed- der dew in New York. I rat an agount ol 9. meeting vote all de peoples be). melted avay.” Mr. Campbell Foster was once addressing a. jury and was much annoyed by Digw Seymour carrying on a conversation the while. Presently he lost all patience. mi in his best brogue said: “ Pray Mr. anymore be quiet." " My name is not Baymore, if: Seymour.” corrected Digby. Whereupon Foster angrily rejoined ' “ Then, Iir, see more and say lens." The officiating clergyman in a recent Chicago wedding said: “ Whom God has joined”â€"and at that point was interrupted by the ejaculation, " The devil ) ” And looked in surprise toward the speaker, the bride’s mother, who went on, " I say it's the devil that has joined them, and the Lord hasn’t; had anything to do with it. ” A stranger seeing an Irishman leaning against a post, watching a. funeral prooes. sion coming out 01 a. brick home at his aide, spoke to him, when the following dialogue ensued: “ In that a lunetal? ” “ You, sir, I’m thinking it is.” " Anybody of diflfine. tion ‘1 ” " I reckon it isgsir.” “ Who is it that died ? " " The gentleman in tbs eomn sir.” We used to be told when we were boy: that a pound of lead weighed no more than ‘9. pound of feathers. We didn‘t believe it at the time, and we are still led to doubt, when we notice that no matter how hlgh lead goes in the price current the finest feather! are quoted as “ Down.”â€"Philadelphia Bullm‘n. The last snake story is to the oflect that a party of school girls in Pennsylvania were attacked by raitlesnakes, md that the girls, to scare the snakes, exposed their red skirts, upon which the reptiles ran away. Now let every devoted wife whose husband is attack- ed by snakes shake her red skirts at them. There is a cat in Burlington that has 10L. its voice. The Hawkeye says it is jus‘ heartbreaking to see that voiceless out go out in the moonlight and climb on the shed roof and try, by Vlolent and emotional pun- tomiue, to express a. yowl that could bunk a pane of window glass eight hundred yards away. A disconsolate Virginian writes that money is scarce and taxes devout everything the poor farmer maker. " Why, a man cannot take ndrink,"he says, "without having it dashed with two and a hall cents on the State debt and undergoing at the same timen solo seranade from a Moflot punch bell.” A loin of mutton was on the table. and the gentleman opposite took the carver in his hand. " Shall I cut 1t saddlewise? " quoth he. “You had better out it bridlewme, ” replied his neighbor, " for than we .ahnll have a chance to get a bit in our mouths." A man was looking earnestly into the bunghole of a whiskey barrel, as if in search for something he eould not find. “ What are you doing?” asked a bystander. ” Why, I’m seeking my reputation in the place 1 lost it, ” was the mournful reply.â€"11acken- sack Republican. If a. woman wants to faint in comparativo safety, Maine is the place to do it. A 'wo- man tainted in 9. car on a. Maine miIWny and thirteen liquor flasks were promptly placed at her disposal. In this connection it may be iueidentially stated that there was just thirteen men in the car. A child being shown the picture of Daniel in the lion’s den. began to cry :â€"" Don’t cry. pe ,” said the mother, “ God won’t let them harm a hair of his head. " "Oh, I ainl crying for that; but just see that little lionâ€" Daniel is so Imullit won't get a‘ taste.” The Rev. Mr. Piarnatunatissaturrunanse preaches the gospel in New Zealand, and whenever a. native can pIonounoe hie name without swearing they consider him con- verted and dress him in a plug hat and re- volvor.~â€"Easton Free Press. George Washington wasn’t always first even in war or in peace. He married a widow. A three-year-old youngster saw a drunken man “ tacking " through the street. " Moth- er, ” said he, ‘ did God make that man ? " Yes, my child, ” The little boy reflected a. moment and than exclaimed, " I wouldn’t have done it." v The English boy is winded unmercilully at school, but after he grows up he whales his wife and gets even. Chicago has nearly 3,000 school pupils learning the German language. It takes the German language to fitly express the feelings of Chicago taxpayers It is said a minister’s son of, Waterloo, N. Y.,f cast a gloom over an entire church fair by walking up to a grab-bag and prize-cake table, and demanding that the game be ex- plained to hun before he bought his chips. Tha good people 0! Williamstown, Vt" were appalled the other day, by the follow- ing dreadful writing on the walkâ€"“I am reDy To ceaTE yoUR cHairSE. " Epiode in a. political convention at Titusville. Pm: “The Chairman~â€"Tho Chair will not dispute the point with Mr. Carter." “Mt. Carterâ€"Tho Chair had better not unless he takes his eoat 0!." The Chair did not. “ Manama," asked a precocious youngster at a tea table the other evening, after a. long and yearning gaze toward a plate of dough- nuts, “ do you think I could stand another of those {tied holes? ” A correspondent writes, making for a ” remedy for an apple-worm. " How can we prescribe until we know what in the mat- ter with the worm.â€"St. Lo'uis Journal. IL‘EMS OF INTEREST. SUNBEAMS. The San Francisco Chronicle is thus I“ right by an Oregon girl: “ I have red .yuro thrilling account of a poet deluded‘tirl and tale deeply intrested. The poor deluded irl thanks you very much for yure eympat y. Young Roolund wantedto go-Wey and no body wanted to stop him. Iwuanl if I culd. As to my patient, they never re- quested him to marry me, until wuldent have had him ilhe had ban the last man left in Oregon. I! you donte believe thia‘ you can come up to Salem and inquire‘ round and see. ” ‘ A billposter in an Ohio town covered the tombstonaa'o! a grave yard with circus cuts. w 7... .._._ -~â€"v-vwva-¢° .v-w nu runs: was uu. Conversation, in many eases, is juit whet preVents many people from relapsing into utter selfishness at their firesides. This conversation should not simply oeeupy has. band and wife, and other older members of the family, but extend itself to the children. Parents should be careful to talk with them. to enterinto their life, to share their triflel, to assist in their studies, to meet them “in the thoughts and feelings of their childhood. lt is A great step in education, when around the evening lamp are gathered the diflerenti members of a family, sharing ’ their oeenpsâ€" tion with one' another, the older assisting ‘ the younger, each'one a contributing to 'the entertainment of the other, and all feeling ’thet the evening has passed only too rapidly “my. This is the truest and belt amuse- nient, V It is the healthful education of great end noble characters. There is the freedom. the breadth, the joyousness, of natural life. The time spent thus by parents, in the highâ€" er entertainment of their children, bears a harvest of eternal blessings; and these long evenings furnish just the "time-Churchman. L Among home amusementl the best is the good old habit of conversation.â€"the talking over the events of the day in bright end ‘quiek play of wit and teney, the story which ,bringe the laugh, and the good and kind end trite things which Ill have in their hearts. ‘It is not so much by dwelling upon what members of the family have in common, on ‘bringing each to the other loin-thing inter- esting and amusing. that home life in to be made cheerful and joyoua. Eneh one must do his part to make conversation genial and happy. We are too ready to converse with newspapers and books, to‘hoek some com- panion at the store, or olubroom. and to for- gét that home in anything more than a place to sleep and cat in. The revival of conver- sation, the entertnihmmt of one another on o roomful 0! people vvillentertein themselves, it one of a secret of a happy home. Wher- ever it is wanting, diseaee has struck into the root of the tree; there is 1 Want, which is felt with increasing mm on time goes on.; I‘L‘.__A__‘L_' A“ L _ The Fifth Street Mission Church, Lebe- non, has been holding revival meetings. One night, Christie Bowers, daughter of Mr. David Bowers, nn’orgen builder. went to the bench to console a seeker; end knelt by her side. She was noticed.‘however, to remain in this position for so long a period thet some one ventured to speak to her, end it was only then that she was diseovered to be in e tranee, her body being perelyred. and her limbs stiff and ~ not to be moved. Alter the meeting was over, a watch was set, hopes being entertained thet'ehe might soon recov- er.‘ There being no change, she was borne from the church tethe house of Mr. George Romin and put on e bed.'ltil‘l heing in the same rigid condition as when first diseovered. Herru'se beat as reguhrly as that of my conscious person, yet the body retained the some rigidity. and the mueelee did not relnx their contraction in the least. Miss Bowers lay thus in an uneonseions condition irorn that evening until 2 o'clock the next alter- noon, when she awoke from her almost death like sleep. Five hundred and fifty million sullen: of petroleum wee eiported {rem this country from 1866 to 1871, which brought an aver- age price of 34 cents a gallon, amounting to $187,000,000. 'From 1871 h 1876, covering the some period of five years, there were shipped 1,100,000,000, or twice In much oil, which sold at the ever-he price n! 16 cent: per gallon, realizing $105,000,000. The in- o‘reesed exports *nefled Jen money by ’22,. 000,000 than the'ehipmente of ihe first named period. , Sister Harriet :‘Ann Glenn is one 01 the most devoted of the colored Methodists in Louisville. She "went to e. prayer meeting in the Rev. W; W. Taylor’s church, and sat in the midst of a party of wallets. Brother Taylor stopped' in his sermon and said. “ Who’s doing dsLtalkin' over hr 7 I think it’s do women in do white he . " The wo- man in-the white hat was Sister Glenn ; sud she subsequ‘enfly sued the preacher for slander, but the jury refused to give her any damages. Occasionally a potpio diam! is zoned at Berks County (Pa)» Almahoue which re- quires the {allowing ingredientâ€"Slaugh- tered calves, in all making about 250 poundl of veal ; eighty pounds a! boot. one And a quartet burr-ls of, flour and from eight $0 ten bushels of potatoes. When the season- ing is added R 13111»: seen that the pie is one of mammoth proportions. At a manulnetory in Harrisburg, Pa., recently, William Murphy wn engaged in tightenirg a bell, when his sleeve: caught in the shining. _ He was carried upward against a rapidly revolving pulley, but brac- ed himself so as not to be carried through the machinery, and, be' 3 a powerful man, he stood the drain nut his right arm was torn ofi above theolan which released him‘ and he tell to the 116ch Irigney. e smell commune in the environ. 0! Lyon, France; has received e bequesc of $600,000. It: will: be invaded in nhool buildinge, en eeylam let i aged. end in neinteining a. phyeieien mi epotheeery. who will sue their setvicee petuitoully to ellvwho hue resided \efi your: with the oom- mune. The testator simply left the money and the veople themselves decided on the mode of application; The Sherifl' went out with I jury in San Francisco reconfiy and ,retumod to the court room in about two minutou. In the mean: time a notorious burglar, under indictment, climbed over a railing in full Yin of scores of people, quietly walked on. and has not since been seen. John Findonneuu, loom-ding to the Pdria Figaro, having a. two-confine place which he had - industriously rubbed fill it ehono like gold. crderod and use at an inn I royal up- per, and, handing his coin to the table mnid, said: " Hero no Monty klnoel. bring me the chnnge. " n Theyoung woman brought shephnngo, Ind not till the day after did M. Findonnuoau -, fipd hinscll before the Co:- treotional Tribunal. ‘ According to the Brunswick (Me) Tele- graph. a resident of that towin.’ who set I common four-hole spring trsp ior mice in his house, found- the next morning that the mice had completely Itufled the holes with lint,‘ bits of paper and the like. The old mice in Maine, evidently, ere great practical jokers. tragrgryv The girl'l red! lovar, julous of her stag, or. and discerning that the kissing was genuine and; much "flaked, tho. the oflondor on the spot. The wound was trifl- izllg but it brought the performance to a o 086. Old engravings are thovprélcnt “rage” in London. md commanded fabulous pric- es. A collector of Vongravinga, in Iolling'ofl some of his stock recently. found l.th he received for them is mnny guinou u be had paid shillings, and another was much as- tonished when on. of his prints, (or which he paid only a few shilling: wu knocked down for £80. “ The Kiu in the Duk ” was played as a farce by amateurs in Mount Sterling, Ky., up to the point when the young man hue: fho nutty girl. Than it_ was hugged 11139 a TRANCE IN A‘RBVIVAL MEETING. HOME TALKS. Long before the era of temperance {ordinances and organizations, Hyrti, by far the greatest anatomist of the age, used to any that he could dist-hr guish, in the darkest room, by on- ' roke of the scalpel, the brain of th: lnebrlate from that of the man who lived soberly. Now and then he would congratulate his class upon the possession of e drunkard’s brain, ad- mirably fit-ted, from its- hardness am' more complete preservation, for than purpose of demonstration. When the anatomist wishes to preserve 8. hu man brain for any length of time, he effects that object by keeping that or- gan ina vessel of alcohol. From a. soft, pulpy subetence it then becomes comparativoly herd; and so, too, be- fore death, the use or alcohol causes the lnduratlon of the delicate and gos- Imt-llke tissues. . ETIECT OF LIQUOR ON THE BRAIN. The negro is called the “Wild Negro of Obion," from the fact that he lives in uuude moo, through winter and summer, in a mud- hole, and has dwelt there {or five years pest. He calls himselvf Edmund, and has no recol- setion of ever having been called by any ther name, though born within fifteen miles of the spot at which he seems to have pegmaneqtly loqeted himeelf. “n v. n u l :7"â€" ; He professes to have the “blood fever," ‘ which he esteems curable though no other , means than by standing )1! 11 hole, about four feet square, filled with mud and water to the 1 d'h of his knees. He keeps a fire wlweyl burning in such a position as to permit the ‘ wind to blow the smoke o! it upon his per- son. During cold weather he heats the water by throwing hot ashes into it. The E onglye thue_ reduced has caused the ,fiitting open oft eoelves of his legs and 340 the skin very scaly from the ankle to t eknee. One-half of each foot has been hozen OH, in consequence of which he now finds some difficulty in getting about, hob- bling instead of walk' 3. Before he was oalessed of the strungA belief that he had can stricken with the “blood fever” he mutt have been a very large, heavy men. Though she as passed through the four sea- son five times without a change from the clothing which nature gave him, yet he is still muscular, though row-boned end awk- ward, standing six feet without his socks. Ed- und‘hns aubsisted on a. very ordinary diet, xnsisting of dry corn and pumpkina When riven out of his favorite spot of eat-m by a. freshet he hobbies to an old born not far dis- tmt, end impatiently awaits the going down of the tide. when he returns to rtnnd in the mud and slush has before. The weather has so toughened his skin that it appears as hard and as thick as medium quality of leather. It would seem, from the story of our vora- cious sportsmen, that the negro is crazy, and having mistaken the symptoms for that of “blood fever" has gone through a. course of treatment likely in the end to put him inn corner lot of six feet two. Should not the poor miserable wretch receive the attention of some philanthropic, symynthotic people, and be rescued from his inevitable doom? Thereisa stfange specimen of humanity living Obion county. Tennessee. 0! 1m strange eccentricitiea some hunters, who re~ tuned hare yesterday item In. low duya’ sport uonnd Reelmot Lake, cell the following story :â€" The most curious 0! Doctor Schwein. fuerth's minor discoveries was yet to come. Throughout his long journey he has heard at pygmies that lived near the equator..They were never over three leet tall, said his Nubian servants, smith wore beards that reached to their knees. fiey were skilled elephant- lfunter. creeping under the aifimals and kill- ing them with stabs from below. They were in great demand as court bufloons. The ex- plorer pnt little faith in these stories, think- ing that seeing was better than hearing. Finally he saw. At the court eta cannibal king, who Mae baby daily, he found several pygmies. They were very shy, and kept out of his way for several days. At length hill servants caught one. I looked up, surprised at the shouting," says the traveler, “and there, sure enough, was the strange little creature, perched on Mohammed's right shoulder, ner- vously hugging his head, and casting glances of alarm in every direction.” The woe man was soon pacified. He was chief of quite a large settlement near by. Doctor Schwein- luerth afterward measured a number of these dwarfsr The tallest full-grown men were not over four fect ten inches, They said that great tribes of their fellows lived just north of the equator. They are amiable, afieotionate. and quite intelligent. Doctor Schweinfuerth considered them to be closely allied to the Bushmen of South Africa. He brought one of them, Neswno, for a. dog, but ke t him only eighteen months. At that time 9 died of overeatingâ€"surely a very civilized we] of shuffling off the mortal coil, and did not the "lira gentleman in Furopo" to whom Sir Walter Scott played flunlry, die from the sell-same cause? Neswno's late is loss to be regretted, inasmuch as two of his kindred are new on route for Italy. They are to be 1% ed in charge of the Ethnological Sociog at Florence. There have ever been traditions of strange- ly termed tribes of human beings dwelling in Central Africa. That unknown region has been peopled by fancy and table with tailed men, hideous hybrids, haIMmman and hall-bestial, dwarfs and giants. Travelers who have plunged into it have had their stories of discovery met with cool inoredulity. It was years before Du Ohailln could con- vince people that the gorilla was not a myth. When the animal’s existence was definitely established, it was thought by many to ac- oount for the stories of men with tails. , A truer explanation has been given by the ex- plorations of Doctor Schweinfuorth, the Ger- man Livingstone This intrepid travelers e out the three yams from 1868 to 1871 in t eheart of Africa. One of the tribes he reached was the Bongo. All its male mem. bers wear an anixmil's tail lastened hyastrina tied round t e middle of the body. This ex- plains the fa lo of the tailed men as full as a man on horseback explains the myth o! the Centaurs. Belwlxt your home Ind mine, 0): ove, there in I graveyard lying: And ery time you came, Your steps were o'er the deed, and from and m. Your face was dark and andâ€"â€" Your eyes had shadows in their very haghtor, Ye! their glances made me glad, And Ihut my own to wh'at was coming utter. Your voice had deeper chords Than the Eolim harp when night wind! blow. The melancholy music of your words, None but myself may know. Ion clme beneath my tent with friendly greeting; 0! I“ my joy: you kid the better part; Thou when our eyes and hand: were onenue meet ing, Nolan a murderer, that your victim, living, Cm rate the panning world, undjest Ind unfit! Io less 1 traitor, {or your show 0! giving. Your friendship all the while! And, oh, you won my heart By vows unbreathodâ€"by words of love unspoken; So that, I! now we part, [low Shall I bear this blow, how best resent It! Ah, love yowhnve not gen me even my pride! Nor strength to put maids, nor to rqyent it; "I‘ve" battér I had died! W911. let it pass! The city churchde lying Bclwin our homes is but a type and s‘gn , 0! the write in your heart, um! o! the eternal dying 0! :11 "met hopes in min. You uka me to the hunt! You have no blame to bear, and yetâ€"1!! broken! The Wild Negro of Oblon. The Dwarfs of mica. Dust and Ashen