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in 9 job. prat jsmo lit Ail it Wimefien. tly ant promptly this ofll a oa -able term. A RT I Are rqauate.l to hand their I avers esrJy In th' wt'tk iui tlu. All order for Job work or In? when mnl by wail, will receive as prompt attention if parties called In person.

Adtertleemcnts tot under contract must be plainly marked the length of time desired, or inej wui oe continued and charged fop till or dored out. VOL HI-NO. 36. ERIE PUBLISHING Proprietors. ERIE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 2i, 1871.

PIONEERS IN 1871, THE SAN DOMINGO COSIMHSIONERS NEWS IN DRICF. of profitable cultivation. The vicinity of Santo Domingo city is a fair aver KEPORT. Uanlel Boone business is played age specimen of this class ot soil. Jiara- out," said a practical man FOKEIQSf.

1 The Report opens by stating why the Commission was appointed and iwme mue ago. jv reruarK that is Gen. Von Roon, the famous Prus ly any portion of the island is not capable of cultivation, and taken as a whole it is one of the most fertile re-j gions on the face of the earth. The agricultural products include all the eminently correct. It is true the far sian Minister of War, has tendered his resignation, on account of ill- says that the different commissioners traversed the whole Island from West is Ailing up with pioneers fast health, and Gen.

Von Podbielski, now end to end thus thoroughly examin Quartermaster-General of the Prus tropical fruits and vegetables, as well er than ever, but the manner of pro-eeedure Is totally different from what FROM THE 8VBUME TO THE RI-IMCULOtJS. Out of the dust all men came forth. Behold the history of animated dust How checkered is human life! All the way from the idiot to Pluto, Shakespeare, Newton and Napoleon the Great the history of human life presents almost an infinite Littleness and greatness, vice and virtue, stupidity and genius, humility and ambition, adversity aiid fortune, failure and success, misery and happiness, poverty and wealth, ignorance and learning what a drama with a ing it. Also diligently examined sian Army, will be his as the commercial staples. Sugarcane is grown most protitably on the Old Neapolitan exe all records of the government at San Domingo City.

They also remained low lands and the yield is much great it once was. We Americans always And better wa3's to do things and this principle has been applied as faith cutioner who beheaded so many per neglectful in my duty if I did not take measures to ascertain the acts which the government and inhabitants of the republic of San Domingo had done in regard to annexation, and communicate the information to the people of the United States. Under the attending circumstances I felt that if I turned a deaf ear to this appeal, I might in future be justly charged with a flagrant neglect of the public interests, with utter disregard of the welfare of a down-trodden race, praying for' the blessings of a free and strong government and for protection in the enjoyment of the fruits of their own industry. Those opponents to annexation iwho have heretofore professed to be pre-eminently the friends of the r'ghts of man, 1 believed would be my most violent assailants if I neglected so clear a duty. Accordingly aftehaving appointed commissioners to visit the island, who declined on account of sickness I se CONGRESSIONAL.

In the Senate, Mr. Anthony's resolution, providing for the consideration of any bill on the South paased by the House, was taken up, and Mr. Davis of Kentucky, spoke at length in refutation of the charges against the order and loyalty of the South. The name of Edwin M. Stanton was mentioned, whereupon Mr.

Davis said A more lawless dictator was never in powar than that same Secretary of War. If justice had been dealt out to him in his lifetime for his crimes, he would have been hung a hundred times for murder, and put in the penitentiary ten thousand times for his crimes." At the expiration of the morning hour the Anthony resolution was adopted. sons during the bloody reign of King er than the Island of Jamaicia, even though aided by artificial irrigation. Fifteen annual cuttings from the original root are common. An fully to settling the wilderness as to one week at the capital of Hayti making investigations.

Of the Dominican Government, it is said to Bomba, died the other day at Sorrento in his 78th year. During his long and gloomy career he executed up doing other things. abundance of fuel gives 8anto Domin ward of 150 persons. be a Republic quite similar in laws The development at our vast domain Is at present receiving the Gen. Clement Thomas, who was to our own.

The president holds go additional advantage over the neighboring island in this branch of industry. The mountain regions are shot by order of the Parisian revolu earnest attention lot the American office six years. thousand millions of actors, a thou especially adapted to the culture of people. Ave aim to make our out 1 Of the condition of the country, it tionary tribunal, was one of the ablest and most respected revolutionists in France. He fou ght at the barricades sand millions of entrances and a thou lying lands productive and to reduce coffee and cusucoand valuable fibrous plants.

The product of wax and honey sand millions of exits every third of a was found that the government was exercising its authority peaceably in 1830 and 1848. and after Louis the Daniel Boone way of doing the is surprisingly large.thousand of hives century! Napoleon's overthrow in September, work to the shortest period of hard except on the Haytien border where of honey being destroyed for the sake of 1870, was appointed Jby the Favre Gambetta Government Commander lect ap-" liter man in. whosecaiiacilas there are some disturbances. Of ship and privation heretofore inci resolution instructing But all alike bring up at last to their paternal dust. Alike they all become food for the insects that work up the iudgment and integrity I had ant the wax alone.

Wild ginger ana uitti- go grow everywhere in the greatest profusion. Cotton is raised near in Chief of the National Guard of dent; to frontier life. We seek to President Baez, who has held his office for five years, the Commission transfer the civilization and comfort Azua. Cinchona is successfully raised Paris. During the siege he incurred the hatred of the Reds and rapidly dead elements for the production of on the higher mountains, many veg other actors a thousand ages hence.

lost his popularity. say. he has the entire confidence of his people and has proven himself etables and fruits of the temperate zone are produced in abundance. The What mortal ever eclipsed the twenty years of glory that rewarded the a most able, capable, and efficient The Khedive of Egypt is said to be the most extravagant Prince in the world. For his private pleasures he country everywhere is adapted to the cultivation ot tobacco, ana three crops ambition of the First Napoleon He of Indian corn are raised annually, filled every royal household of Europe is reported to have the last five years, no less than and, besides, to have incurred though the most valuable natural erain is a species of rice.

More than with terror, and finally fell before the debts to the amount of $4,000,000 more, 40 distinct varieties of tropical fruits Were found errowiner wild. The have yet tne most unoounaea conn-dence. He visited San Domingo, not to secure or foster annexation, unprejudiced and unbiassed to learn the facts about the government, people and resources of that republic. He went certainly as well prepared to make an unfavorable report as a favorable one if the facts warranted it. His report fully corroborated the views of previous commissioners, and upon its receipt I felt that the sense of duty, and due regard for our 'great national interests required me to negotiate a treaty for the acquisition of the republic of San Domingo.

As soon as it becomes publicly known that such a treaty had been negotiated, the attention of the country was occupied with allegations calculated to prejudice the merits of the case, and with those whose duty had connected them with Tn 1869 he had to pay 1,100,000 francs to aris milliners lor dresses furnished to the women of his harem and grand alliance which dared not trust him alive except on a barren rock, where, with all his greatness and glory and immortality insured, he was too weak to resign himself to Fate, or to escape suicide under the agony of a grasses of San Domingo furnish abundant forage of the best quality. Immense herds of cattle feed on the great savannas, and though they were mul his sons spent 500,000 francs during the first four months of their sojourn in Paris and London.1 tiplied in fold could not exhaust tne officer, and has secured good order, peace and prosperity for his country. The constant civil insurrections with which the country was afflicted before President Baez was elected, has paralized industry, disorganized agriculture, and impaired the finances of the island, which isjaotnow in receipt of revenues sufficient to pay its current expenses. There are at present two insurrections on the island and are represented as mere banditti organizations. The report makes a lengthy and detailed description of the plundering operations of these bands which are commanded by Cabral and Luperon.

The abundant pasturacre and can be Dr. Strousberg, the great railroad restless ambition. After six years of bouerht for a cent a pound on the hoof. Goats abound in. the more arid dis two ago, was reported to be, next to unexampled woe he too returned to his parent dust.

tricts. In the forests swine thrive in the Kothschilds, the richest man in great numbers. And sheep are very the kingdom, has sold his splendid And now we have Napoleon III. "cracking the ribs of Thomaston ia preparation for a light meal." i THE FAR WEST. The Denver gas-works are a suoceiw.

Independence, Kansas, is soon to have two banks. New Mexico is agitating th question of cotton raising. An immigrant wagon passing through Sioux City recently, had a stove in it with the pipe sticking through the wagon-cover. The smoke issuing from said pipe testified to the fact that it was for use as well as looks. New discoveries of gold are announced near Bowlder City, Colorado The ore is said to yield ten cents to the pound.

The redwood forests of California furnish nearly all of the ties used for the construction of railroads on th Pacific coast. A few pine and oak Uem are used, but these woods decay rapid RAILROADS. The Rock Island railroad makes a divided next week of 5 per cent. The people of Vienna, Illinois are talking of building a narrow gauge railroad to Dongola. Forty-five miles more of th Atchison and Nebraska road will be put under contract at an early date.

It is said that the crossing of he Arkansas river by the Atchison, Te-peka and Santa Fe railroad has been ehanged from Wiehitato near the mouth of Cow Creek, Reno county, where a town called Washita has beea laid out. The St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette of March 15 says: "The Midland Pacific Road, running from Nebraska City to Lincoln, has now twenty-five miles of track laid, and will push the work forward rapidly. "The Chicago Southwestern is completed, and the cars running to Centerville, Iowa. The company-have purchased the track of the old Chillicothe DeaMoines Railroad beyond Trenton, which is already graded.

The contract for builcing the track from Cameron to Trenton has been let to Messrs Their contract provides that the routeshail be completed by Sept. 1, and they will complete it. The Elmira (N. Y. Advertiser learns that Jay Gould has purchased from the English stockholders that portion of the old Elmira fc Canan-daigua Railroad running from'; Wat-kins to Canandiagua; and, as the Erie Company owns the Chemung branch from Elmira to Watkins, it looks as though that company were making preparations to resume business again over the entire road.

The next move, the Advertiser thinks, will undoubtedly be to get a broad-gauge through connection to Niagara Falls, though no steps to that end have yet been taken. The survey for the St. Louis and Keokuk railroad, between this city and Frankford, was completed last week. The engineer reports finding a very good line with an easy grade. The survey south of this city, running in the direction of Buffalo Knob, has been going on this week.

In the meantime, we understand that a party is running a line from Troy in this direction, by way of Milwood, up the Sulphur fork of Cuivre. We presume there will be a survey of the river route next. Louisiana Journal. The General Railroad Convention, which ended its session in Vicksburg on the 16th, was exceedingly harmonious. Among the resolutions passed was the following Resolved.

That is the sense of this convention that the building of the Vicksburg, Clayton and Decatur June of railroad, and the Vicksburg and Yazoo Valley line of road, are of great importance to Vicksburg, and it is recommended that the sense of -the people of the city of Vicksburg be taken by popular vote upon the appropriation of money to the building of these roads. A correspondent of the Hennepin (111.) Record says: "The Plymouth, Kankakee Pacific Railroad commences at Plymouth, running west, crjssing the Chicago Great Eastern Railroad at Jackson; thence to San Pierre, crossing the Chicago, New Albany Louisville Railroad at that place; thence westerly through the counties of Jasper, Newton, and Starke, to Momence, 111., there crossing the Chicago, Danville fcVincennes Railroad; thence a little southwest to Kankakee, crossing the Chicago Branch of the Illinois Central; thenca west to Dwight, crossing the Chicago Alton St. Louis Railroad, thence west to Streator, there crossing the Fox River Valley Railroad, ana connecting with the Chicago Jacksonville Railroad: thence west to Los tan t. residence Berlin to Duke Junst, few. Poultry are pienutui.

lid Guinea fowl have been seen in many A fter nearly a score of years as an il it. Amidst the public excitement thus created the treaty failed to receive the requisite two-third's vote of the senate, and was rejected: but whether of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, for the sum of 480,000 thalers. Strousberg says he has sold his house because he intends lustrious Emperor of the first nation ofthe globe, he too falls under a re parts of the island. Horses are raised great only marauding expeditions have prevented a great development of the business of stock to remove from i Berlin to Vienna verse of fortune, exits from the high the action or tnat Doay was, oaseu wholly on the merits of the treaty but his enemies say, that the- true jealousies between! Hayti, and the reason is that Ptrousberg is in very raising. One or the most remarKauie the Judiciary Committee to bring in a bill to repress the Ku-Klux outrages, was then proceeded with; Mr.

Wilson and Mr- Morton quoted from reliable sources to prove that many political outrages have occurred in Kentucky since the close of the war. The latter read an editorial from the Louisville has already been published, to prove the terrible state of affairs existing in some parts of Kentucky. The House spent the day in discussion of the Ku-Klux bill. Mr. Beck (Democrat, Kentucky) spoke against the bill, declaring that it made the President a dictator, with power to destroy the liberties of the people.

Mr. Blair of Michigan, said that it was his opinion that. the House should have adjourned immediately after it organized; He wished that the laws as they stood might be thoroughly tested before new and untried fields of legislation were entered upon. In the Senate the day was taken up by uninteresting speeches by Mr. Pool, of North Carolina, and Mr.

Blair, of Missouri, on the Ku-Klux subject. 5s In the House a bill was passed changing the name of the ship William F. Storer to Hamilton Fish. In the Senate rrank Blair, denounced the Republican political ascendency in the South, and the plunder corruption practised by the The session of the House was taken up with speeches on the Ku-Klux bill. Mr.

Ellis H. Robert, of New York, said the constitutional power exists in jthe nation to protect its citizens, and Jefferson Davis has just' proclaimed at Sehna, State-sovereignty is to triumph, the Empire State demands protection for her or might not have been in some degree influenced by such unfounded allegations could not be known by agricultural features or eanto iwmin- embarrassed circumstances, and that he tries to turn all his property into part he had been performing on the great stage of ambition, and prepares for a still more solemn, exit, which is alike to high and low, rich and poor, prince and peasant. the neonle. because the debates -of money as fast as he can. the senate in secret session are not K-ing Jjouis ii of Bavaria, it is a well known fact, cannot refuse any published.

Under these circumstances I deemed it due to the office which How great does one become in the thing to a women appealing to him I hold and due to the character of the go is the diversity of uatural growths of the different localities, which will give rise to extensive internal commerce. Insects and noxious reptiles are not found more abundant than in the interior of our old states. Forest products are in astonishing variety, including the choicest cabinet woods, oak, pitch pine, lignum vitte, and an immense stock of medical and commercial woods, many houses being built of mahogany agents who had been charged wh rthe investigation that such proceed with tears in her eyeSi The other day the following scene happened at the King's chateau, in the environs of Munich The Eing was passing through the hallway, when sudden ings should be had as would enaDie tne people to know the truth. A com estimation of the worfd, and yet how really little is the greatest Is not the glory which is the object of insatiable ambition, after all, the evidence of the littleness of humanity that awards the prize! Keally there is nothing great but God and the Universe; there ly a young girl, with streaming eyes Dominican Republic are referred to as being a principal cause of difficulty.1 As regards the sentiment of the people on annexation, all classes in all points of the republic were consulted, magistrates and ecclesiastics of every grade, officials, civil and military, citizens of all professions and occupations, in town and country; and everywhere there was a general agreement in the declaration that their only hope of permanent peace and prosperity is in annexation to and becoming a part of the people of the United States. They generally declared their belief that the strong arm of this republic, taking them under its protection as a part of the nation, would at once end the efforts and hopes of every seditious revolutionary leader, and establish law, order and prosperity.

The people of San Domingo are of mixed blood, honest, temperate, in and choking voice, threw herself up Kan JJommsro according to an testi on her Knees before him, and implored mony is generally a healthy country, mission was tnererore coiibihuiwi under the authority of the congress consisting of the gentlemen- selected with a special reference tm their -high character and capacity for the laborious work entrusted to them, who were instructed to visit the spot and him to have mercy on her brother was lying in the Anspach Jail under sentence of death. The King kindly is nothing truly honorable above the common lot of man except the struggle for wisdom and excellence. especially in the interior among the mountains where' white men labor safely and successfully. The acclimation of strangers present no greater obstacles to immigration than ia the new states. The eastern portion of the older settlements to the new.

Thisis tko American idea of emigration, and which we are now seeking to carry out by the practical test of organized colonization. But one year has passed since the first steps were taken to this effect, and already the most noteworthy results have been realized. At this date there are between twelve and fifteen colonies in actual operation and several others now prospecting for locations. Nearly all those already settled are located on the lines of the great Pacific Railroads, and they have under contract upwards of 600,000 acres the finest lands in the heart of the continent. These vast estates are rapidly being improved.and at prices now ruling are worth three and a half million dollars, whilo the personality and improvements now on them adds a million more, giving this movement ft financial basis of more than four million dollars." There have been established twelve churches, eleven schools, two newspapers and five hotels.

Factories, mills, stores, and shops have been opened; villages and towns spring up as fast as the hundred of houses required can be built, and the entire machinery and appliances of civilized life have been successfully set to work. Noteworthy is the fact that corner lots have been sold at from $300 to $500, being the very land that last spring was the feeeding ground of the antelope. We can therefore accept these results of organized Colonization as the solution of the many difficulties in the way of The way has been made plain by these successes ftitd the methods are easily learned. But colonization is subject to the contingencies of all other earthly things and failures--of which there have been several are also instructive. Their lesson is that the selection of the officers invol ves the success of failure of the enterprise, i None but men of undoubted ability, and Whose honesty is beyond the possibility of temptation should be selected.

If those intrusted With subscription funds be required to give bonds covering the entire amount of the trust, it would be so much; the bet-WrV Oui American idea of emigration has received tbe emphatic endorsement of the great railroad corporations by affording in their land agencies every facility to colonial organizations, whether settling on railroad lands or on the adjoining government lands. The great hegira is in full blast. Enquiries come in from every corner of the country, and new colonies are forming With accelerated rapidity. Thus will be solved some of the hardest questions in our political and social economy. raised her up, and, alter putting a report upon the facts.

Other emi- few questions to her, granted her Wisdom never corrupted nor im nent citizens wcreticHucoreu company the commission in order brother's pardon. When, on the 31st of March, 1814, the Prussian Guards entered Paris, of the island is constantly swept by the trade winds and therefore is much that the people mignt nave uiv oeue-fit of their views. Students of science and correspondents of the press with poverished mortal man. Excellence never a tear to flow. Wisdom never marshaled her forces in battle array, desolated the inhabitations of the band of the First Regiment plav- more healthy than Hayti, to which ed the Grand- March, "Entrance to the ravages of yellow rever are cnieny out regard to political opinions, were invited to join the expedition, and their numbers were limited only confined.

Paris, which for some men. nor maae a victim or rnniine. offensive, destitute of prejudice of became so popular with the bonnes of Their conclusion is this The pop by the capacity of the vessel. The Excellence never did aught but good to mortals or ceased to struggle for the Paris that they presented this band with a heavy silver, trumpet, inlaid ular idea that the Dominican territory is particularly unhealthy and that persons visiting it are peculiarly liable to yellow fever is entirely erroneous. elevation of humanity.

Wisdom is with gold, and OTiiaientea with a silk cord and tassels. Upon it were mere rejection by the senate of a treatv negotiated by- the president only Indicates a difference of opinion by the government, without touching the character or- wounding the the only achievement that can render engraved these words "The ser The average erenerai neaitn anu lon man honorably immortal. That fame vant Girls of Paris to the Band of the gevity is quite equal to and probably greater than the United States as a whole. pnueoi eimerL.uut wucu ouvu in jection takes place simultaneously First Regiment of Prussian Guards, in remembrance of the 31st of March, 1814." This trumpet is still the property of the regiment, and is reserved color, pauperism, beggary ana mgn crimes being practically unknown, among the popular vices is petty gambling extensively indulged by the Spanish portion of the population. All are Roman Catholics except the American emigrants who are Methodists, and Baptists, though no intolerance or religious persecution can be discovered.

The people generally own the land which they cultivate, though agricultural operations are limited by lack of markets and frequent disturbance, though the Dominicans are not averse to work when sure of reasonable reward. Labor is in abundant supply at ten Taking the year through as much which is the object of ambition and to which almost every one aspires, is destined to infamy so far as to be treated as conclusive evidence of a very great comparative baseness. with charges openiy maae 01 corruption on the part of the president for reviews and grand military festi or those employed by him, the case is different indeed. In such a case the honor of the nation demands an in vals. It has been repeatedly altered agricultural work can be done without affecting the health, as can be done in our middle and western states, and with greater results.

Persons in all circumstances can here, by selecting their locality, enjoy a delicious to suit the requirements of modern Could one in ten of the first minds vestigation. This has been accom plished by the report of the commissioners herewith transmitte1, which fully vindicates the purity of the climate and abundance of fruits with of the next generation make wisdom and excellence the sole object of aspiration and ambition, such a change would be speedily wrought in society far less liability to diseases of the motives and actions of those who lungs.to scarlet fever and other fearful represented the United States in the and government as would seem like epiU.cttu.Ca, ttliu wiliuuui iuij uaumuj to yellow fever. negotiation; the second coming of the Messiah a A1 'nnw mv task is finished. The commissioners state tne advan dollars or less per month. Few schools exist and the people generally are uneducated, though the commissioners believe that opportunities for education would be eagerly improved, the Dominicans being possessed of proverbial shrewdness tand- active ability.

Only one small and, poorly eauioned printing office exists in the tages of the acquisition of Samana coming to stay as the king of kings and lord of lords in this lower world. With it ends alf personal solicitude upon the, subject. My duty being done, vours begins.and I gladly hand bay to be a powerful military and naval doubtless estimates over thtt whole matter to the judg the growth of an important city, a Tub Philadelphia Press favors phy citizens maltreated in Alabama and Virginia, and claims the aid of the national government for that purpose. In the Senate, Mr. Blair resumed the floor, and finished his speech in opposition to the Ku-Klux bill.

Mr. Morton replied to Blair's charges of Republican corruption in the South, and referred to the' efforts of the Democrats in the Southern Legislatures to carry to success various schemes of plunder to the effect of the Democratic speeches against the Reconstruction laws in inciting the Ku-Klux to continue their murderous work. Mr. West defended the Republican administration of Louisiana from the charges and statements of Mr. Blair.

The last election in Louisiana was peaceful and orderly without the presence of, or necessity for, a single boyonet. Mr. West maintained that the election was. conducted with fairness, and also denied that the State debt had been recklessly increased. In the House, Mr.

Garfield argued that the Ku-Klux bill was jiot wholly constitutional, in that it provided for the punishment by the general government of violations of State laws. Mr. Butler spoke forcibly in favor of the measure. Mr. Cox (Democrat, New York) said that the oppressions put upon the people of the South by the Republicans had given an excuse for the prevailing outrages, but be condemned the Ku Klux portion of the water front of which has ment of; the American people and republic.

their representatives in the congress aireaay oeeu acuuireu uy aiueus The general political capacity or tne of the United States, being but a small part of what would be occupied sical training as well as mental in the public schools of that city. It is strange, with the results before the eyes of educators in all those institutions which made exercise a part of assembled. The facts will now be spread before the country and a decision rendered by that tribunal whose convictions so seldom err and against whose will I have ho policy to enforce. Eeople is regarded favorbly, there aving been neither the slavery nor the caste spirit to deprive them of manliness. The courage and devotion wasted in insurrection abundantly prove the capacity for Inland communication by water and rail would be easy, and the future of the system, that it is not more gen My opinion remains unchanged, in Samana bay, under the authority of the United States, could not fail to deed it is confirmed by the report.

erally adopted in schools. A good crossing the Illinois Central; thence northwest to Hennepin, there crossing that the interests of our country and be of national importance. stomach and spine are much more es the Illinois xtiver; and thence north to THE PBESIDENT'S MESSAGE. Tho following is the president's sential to success life than a disciplined mind, and a' large pr6portion of of San Domingo alike invite the annexation of the republic In view of the difference of opinion on this subject, I suggest that no action be taken at the present session beyond printing and Bureau, there connecting with the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific Railroad, and the Bureau Valley Railroad. Arangements have been made to ex self-government ana regular pouucai action.

The commissioners estimate the actual population of the republic at 150,000, more than 19-20 being native Dominicans. White blood Ereponderates largely, the majority eing much nearer white than black. usage, but is still as good as new. THE EAST. The total assets of the banks and insurance companies of Hartford is $106,669,930.

Philadelpliia contains more houses than New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City combined. The new directory of Portland contains about 15,000 nams, making a volume of 234 octavo pages. Twenty Beacon street ladies have sent $3000 to Europe for the purchase of articles to be sold at one table at the French Fair in Boston. New Bedford, laments the decadence of the whale fishery, and longs for the introduction of manufactories and skilled labor. Steamship Caspian, which sailed from Portland on Sunday morning for Liverpool, drew 24 1-2 feet forward, and took the largest cargo that ever left that port.

It cost to dig the cellar under the New York postofSce and wall it up from $800,000 to $1,000,000. This is an official statement made in the House of Representatives. The Main Central Railroad Company have purchased what was formerly the Lawrence ship yard at Portland for $50,000, embracing about four and a half acres. Gen. J.

Watts De Puyster, who was with Napoleon in all his campaigns, ending with Waterloo, had a birthday celebration at his New recently, aged 1C5, grut Preparations s.a"iing to erect a new steel on the lir.a. of the Conr-" above Wilson, Gh?" i iron works. This will tjn steel factories for Pittsburgh. for tLe neiv works it, L-ecrj and in a sheet tirse work wCl be coiiimenced on the message transmitting the report of tudents lose both these before tneir or the Ban Domingo commissioners the senate and house of representa tend it northwest to Princeton, on the eneral distriDUtion or me report. Jefore the next session of the congress tives: Chicago, Burlington Quincy Railroad, and east to Ligonier, on the education is finished Exercise is especially essential during the development period, and should be as systematically given as the mental exercise have the' honor to submit here the neonle will have considered the The resources of the country are vast and various and its products Michigan "southern ikailroad, maxing subject and formed an intelligent opin a grand total length of 225 miles.

may be increased with scarcely any other limit than the labor expended ion concerning it, upiuwu deliberately made up it will be the our schools and colleges. The duty of every department of the gov walk to and from school is of course exercise, but it is not sufficient and "jrradmg is mushed rrom the June to Dwight, from Streator to LostantSjand about a third of tbe way in Put man county. Track -Living will be certainly cc tced ui with to the two houses of the congress the jreport of the commissioners appointed in pursuance of the joint resolution approved January 12, 1871. It will be observed that this report more than sustains all I heretofore said in regard to the proOuetive-ness and healthfulness of the republic of San Domingo, the unanimity of ernment to give need ana. no one win does not develop the whole body.

more cheerfully conform to it than myself. It is not only the theory 'of our constitution that the will of the We are in danger now of a danger about a week," the ir: i ivLit? already frV-." ihe work on the b' ie Illinois River iwml fiontinuallv expressed is the ous reaction against exercise. Prize Th' Future Wealth of the United States. Mr. P.

--Whipple contributes to Rfhtinir. baseball playing and row the people ror annexation to tne united States, and their peaceable char as soon as the supreme law, butt have ever believed that all men are wiser than one man, and if the people upon the full pres the March number of the Atlantic ing have been pushed to such excess acter. It is due to the public fra a itier will permit, 'in Izei i tuid will be completed in the past few years, that, nerween entation of the facta shall decide that ternity and to myself that I should hfire c-ive all the circumstances disgust and doubt, the public are in WUhia tLs present year, and by the end cf November at the latest." Quite a sensation was experienced by the citizens of St. Louis and vicinity last week caused by a terrific outburst of steam whistles, varied occasionally by the report of cannon. The cause of the excitement was an important event in connection with the cast abutment pier of the great bridge now building.

About twenty minutes past four o'clock Wednesday the caisson reached the rock, and Superintendent McComas, and the other gentlemen associated with him in the work, felt so rejoiced at the event that they had turned on in full blast all the steam whistles about the works and fired- a salute with a small piece of artillery which they have at the works, to be used on such occasions. The caisson reached the rock at a dis-I tanco of 109 feet 10 inches below the surface of the Water and 127 feet 4 I inches below city directrix. The pres- sure in tbe air-chamber is now about i 48 pounds per square inch. The gangs of men working in the compressed I air have numbered each from twenty-I five to thirty, but owing" to careful medical supervision no ill effects have been experienced. The work of filling up the chamber in the manner indicated in our recent allusion to the the annexation of the republic is not desirab every department of the which first led to the negotiation of the treaty for the annextion.

of the Uonthly a very readable essay which he styles "shoddy." It bristles with rood points and practical suggestions. It will be seen that r. Whipple takes a hopeful view of the future: Of the enormous undeveloped resources of the United States it is diilcult to speak without an appearance rr danger of going to the other extreme and arraying themselves- against govern 5 ought to acqulese in that decisis. 11.8 vwir brief record of physical training. But one of the repuoiic 01 ssan uomingo to me united States.

When I accepted the arduous and responsible position which In a In submitting to the congress tbe prr-1 tattles fccbt durir-; the Frzno-Geman war "elrz OBbo-sr, oeit li. Frkheren upon them. There is evidence of mineral wealth in several parts of the island. The geologists of the expedition report the existence of ores of iron and copper and gold, with deposits of lignite, rock, salt and petroleum. Iron ore is easy of access, and will doubtless be made available for the cheap production of pig iron.

The copper ores are of a fair degree of richness and bids have been opened to a slight extent. The reported coal of the Samana Peninsula and in the neighborhood of Porto Plata was examined, and found to be lignite of little value as fuel, compared with Pen-sylvaniaor English coal. The gold region is extensive, and though worked anciently, is at present but little known. It invites patient exploration by practical miners. The salt deposists in the mountains near Neyba are believed to be extensive and valuable.

The salt can be quarried out in large transparent blocks, arid a chemical analysis made for the commissioners shows is to be of sufficient purity for commercial purpos- Practically viewed for agricultural best means of regulating exercise auu the subject upon which the public sentiment has been divided and 1 now noia, i. aia noi ureaiu instituting anv steps for the acquisitions exaggeration. The taxable which all men of property we" T'r-J I Tt zrfGrvtzz3, which 1 peen made the occasion or introducing It generally auu aj a rem-atically among the people, is to make it an essential part of the training received at our schools and colleges. of insular possessions. I believed, acrimcc 3 Geoate u.

-wn hvarevpr ifhat our institutions were i lit 3 UrJ- in Balcri, as well tnjust asperslwaa claew aere, j-- -v broad enough to extend over the en ci 1 a ir on c- 'ii? t-irth- i ro' I may, trc.l, be laaui jea a e-mie Ciy f.r t3 1 ctcs cf the trrwl "rpsult followinsr I oman can hope to perform so en. I responsi eick 1 tire continent as rapiaiy as oiner people might desire to bring themselves under our protection. Believ- a is always far below tne exc value, of all the property ir ted States in V. numbers, rate of increr.ee, in t. fraction over 1LJ It has been eoe' rat a is pref rved dcr- i.j,tl3t::-rl -7 it.

ble as ipertaln to ue presidential in l.zz.i. rrilzh rrzi ii if the corruption of the judiciary and the rascality of lawyers here, a disinclination to go to law. A well-known member of the Bar said to me vesterday that these two causes were office wuhout- sometimes Incumr 7 7 i i' 1 i ing iartnerr mat we snuuiu. nut permit any. independent government 1 1 l' Ct.

k. I. i A 'j 1 -3 fit l-r ex- .1 it 1 3 the hosiitv of those who deem their -L A 1 A1U i Rofflfiierrt consideration, ttni he who .1 i within the limit of North America to pass from a. condition of independence to one of ownership or protection under an European power. Soon a ft or mv i 9i! tu ration as president ruining -mw uumu -it i W7 an HoAiainnn RTf! sold like Ul IV.

II uvu uv. groceries over a counter, and there was ----o Mr t. dk'it Cr-J. i tor 3 ever nurnoses there are five classes of bo little prospect 01 procuring jusmw, people avoided litigation and settled was waited upon oy n-eui ui 'subject will be pushed forward rapid- lands in Santo Domingo, viz 1. Mountain slopes and valleys.

These are uniformly rich and pro i nn a nmrp a.T)i more, he zs to ccriauct tie oi a r.ne-1 a public 1 1 by to rovs 1 i-n' I Irt ii- iv i ts cit; --rtri the- --r- if t-j T-m i 1 A 1 said, every day. Letter. President Baez with a propo-'uion to annex the republic of San Domiro to the United represented tbe capacity cf the island, the desire cf the pec-1 a their character and ititj It is to be hoped the process wiugo i "1 LIZ Cl ductive, except in limited regions where rain is deficient, as on tho southern slope of the coast range ontintil these lawyers' 'occupation's they have been' deranged gone." It IS quite reruuu uiai mc missioners" whose report ret fewer lawyers we have tne uetter it ly. To any person familiar with the peril and difficutlies of carrying down these pier foundations, it is not 'hard to understand tfce satisfaction of the men actually engaged in the work I when it drawns to a conclusion. In I this ease there is particular grounds I for rejoicing, as the last caisson is now sunk to the bed under the Mis-f sissippi.

When this air-chamber is I filled, tbe balance of the bridge work I will be above ground, in the free at-I mosphere in which ordinary mortals "bave their being." is for tne country. in thi3 He tzizl tzz: bclr in numbers rr purse they were ixczcJj Isvcl northeast of Monte Christi. 2. The extensive rc ion of Lianos lying east and north of San Domingo city south of the Cibra range. This is all admirable pasture land.

A large portion cf it is c-allaof profitable cultivation. It is intersected by wooded valley and groves, contain-in much excellent timber. Otttte a row among the dead Ian- tr i guages has been raised by some of the newspapers cracking jokes on the si I 1 I -r 8, The '1 (r Vr VI 8.1 iact the travels of "Sic Transit," whom tul Fit," and noctes head off, tlie Yale Couranl reports as follows which i3 r- t. i -1 01 finest bod The fln Plm trees around the 7.3 1 "It' the and. -4.

L-ii-Lire cf church in which Shakeepeare is sculls. lie diJn't citber. Sic Iran Ht therein of A-sua and 1 7 cf buried at tratford-on-Avon have been felled and sold. Their decayed thej 'n ly wantlr -tl 1:: jciK': 1 1 in" t'nn. state rendered it necessary to them down.

drove a tm pone tanaem terno ver from the Eastward. He is vi. itin? his ante I.Irs. Die Terra, in tliis city, and will stay, till Ortem, B'jncs the et Z3 1- -t ev; ks eta leia 7 f. vii'f i Jisvf hoc '-a is.