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Ute Ptlmrs painMta 4# McHENRT, J. VAN SLTKR. 1TOM.ISHKB. 7" T~ nxiNbis. SEWS CONDENSED. THE BAST. MOODY ANI>8ANKF.Y opened their ro- *tv»l ssrvioss in the Boston Tabernacl®, on Sunday lsste A BLOCK of businsss homes in Hartford, Conn., was destroyed by fire Isst week. The loss is estimated at $220,000 J. B.Ford & Co., the publishers of Henry Ward Beecher's paper, the Christian Union, have gone into bank­ ruptcy the sccoud time. Thev cffsr their cred­ itors 30 cents on the dollar. Among the asset* is the COD tract with Henry Ward Beeoher to write a life of Christ. It is indorsed " value uncertain." THE Coroner's Jnry in the case of the Brook­ lyn Theater calamity has just rendered a vwdiot. They say that, of the 218 victims of the fire, two ware burned to death, and the remainder were suffocated. THE WK8T. TBs people of Chicago have beoome thor­ oughly alarmed at the dreadful ravages of •earlet fever and diphtheria in that city, and measures are to be taken to arrest, if possible, thn further progress of these dangerous mal- ftdfM. THK Academy of Mnsic, at Indianapolis, was destroyed by fire last week. The loss is esti­ mated at 1100,000 A peddler called at the * house of Mr. 8. 8. Ghalfant, near Thornville, Ohio, the other evening, and obtained permis­ sion to lodge over night, Dnring the night he chloroformed the entire family, and ransacked the honse, carrying off $900 in money and $35,000 in drafts By the explosion of a boiler in Golfs saw-mill, near Eaton, ind., a few days ago. three men were killed and four dacgeronsly injured.: MRS. MITCHELL, a Chicago woman, has dis­ tinguished herself by killing a burglar. The victim was Dave Raggio, one of the most dan­ gerous desperadoes in the city. He attempted to rob her of a gold watch and chain, and re­ ceived a pistol ball in his anatomy, which gave fiim his quietus. THEBE is stored in Chicago elevators 3,533,- 580 bushels of wheat; 2,367,788 bushels of earn; 660,940 bushels cf oats ; 249,082 bueh- els of rye, and 1,049,631 bnshels of barley, making a grand total of 7,860,971. bushels, agaiust 4,845.300 bushels at this period last year. NEWS has reached Bed Cloud Agency that Crazy Hone's camp is located at the mouth ef the Powder on the Yellowstone, and con- rists of 1,200 lodges. The 500 Cheyennes whipped by Gen. Mackenzie in the Big Horn mountains late in November had reached the village after a terrible march through stomas across the country. They were destitute of food, ammunition, and shelter, and .many wcunded ded en route. All are said to be very much discouraged, and seriously debating a surrender A telegram from Kansas City, Mo., says " re­ ports are coming in from all quarters that ter­ rible havoc is being made among the cattle herds between Los Ansima and Fort Dodge on account of the severity of the weather. Thousands of cattle are reported dead on the plains of Colorado and Wyoming." A fiend­ ish conspiracy has been discovered and broken up Jn Williamson county, 111. fkme twelve or fifteen villains had perfected a system of arson and robbery, involving mur­ der whenever it should be necessary or de­ sirable, and were all ready to carry out the fiendish programme when the existence of the organization was accidentally ascertained, and, tfter several arrests had been made, the parties turned State's evidence, and disclosed infdrma- tion which enabled the authorities to com­ pletely bceak up the organization. THK SOOTH. THE Supreme Court of South Carolina has rendered a decision in the quo warranto pro­ ceedings against the Hayes electors, dismissing the case on the grounds that the proceedings were illegally presented on the pajt of the State, instead of the United States.... Robert Gibson, a Dpufcy United States Marshal, was murdered at Memphis, a few days ago, by Robert Diurr, whose father, a noted counter­ feiter, had been arrested by Gibson W. C. D. Whipps, proprietor of the WiUard Hotel, Louisville, Ky., shot and killed his chief clerk, B. W. Stockton, during an altercation in the hotel office, a few days ago. A COLUMBIA (S. C.) dispatch says : "Judge Mae^ey has granted a preliminary injunctir n restraining State Treasurer Cardozo and Comp­ troller General Dunn, respectively, from draw­ ing any warrants or paying out any funds from the State treasury under the Appropriation bill passed by the Mackey House at its late aeasien, upon the ground that that body, which pre­ tended to originate and pass it, was not the legal House of Representatives." CmcIMT J0D3E ClT.rENTEE, h&S & decision at Columbia to the effect thai Cham­ berlain's late inauguration as Governor of South Carolina \,as illegal; that Hampton haa not been legally inaugurated, and that Ufa&m- berlain is therefore lawfully acting Governor until his successor shall be duly qualified.... B. Q. Holloway, a Republican trial Ju-tioe, was recently assassinated at Timmonsvill©, 8. C. " The assassination," so the telegraph in­ forms us, "fired the blacks, who immediately armed, and the whites organized a strong police force. The two parties came in colli­ sion on the outskirts of the town, and the result W*B that two special policemen were wounded, when the whole force returned to town." POLITICAL. MB. EATON, of Connecticut, was the only Democratic Senator who voted against the Ar­ bitration bill. The announcement of the fact in the Connecticut Legislature was received with hisses from the Democratic side. THE contest for the United States Senator- ahips from West Virginia, has been settled by the election of H. G. Davis for the long term, and Frank Hereford for the short term.... Georgia Legislature has chosen Benjamin H. Hill to succeed Mr. Norwood in the United States Senate from that State. THE New York Senate, by a party vote, last week adopted resolutions declaring Hayes the legally-elected President, and that he ought to be inaugurated... .The Florida Legislature has made an appropriation to pay the Demo­ cratic Presidential electors from that State. Co!. Plumb, an editor and practical printer, has been elected to the United States from Kansas. W 48HINOTOH. J. B. DKBEBST, telegraph operator at Talla­ hassee, Florida, was examined by the House Committee on Privileges last week, and, in reply to the question, " Do you remember anv telegrams passing between Z. Chandler and Gov. Stearns between the 8th and 12th of November?" answered that the first telegram of which he knew was from Z Chandler to Gov. Stearns, and was in substance as follows: We are absolutely pure of HO many electoral votes for Hayi s--(witness did not remember the number)--and we must have Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida, by fair means or otherwise"'--he could not give the ex­ act language of Chandler. Also telegraphed Gov. Stearns in mbstance: "Sendcou iers to each county and secure returns--thev inui*t be made to show a majority for Hayes." Z. Chand­ ler also telegraphed Gov. Stearns: "William E. Chandler leaves to-night for Philst- delpbia on important business. Between the 8th and 12th of November, Frank R Sherman, engaged with Gov. Stearns, handed him a tele­ gram for transmission, signed by the latter, And addressed to Z Chandler, in whioh men­ tion was made of a train oontakiing oonrier sent out for returns being Ku-Kluxed, followed by the remark: " We oannot carry the State for Hayes unless we have troops and money immediately." These were not the exact words, but the sulwtanoe. Secretary Chandler denie* that he ever wrote the dispatches in question. JCDOE DAVIS, says a WvMngton dispatob, was on the Supreme benen ..ben he received the telegram from Springfield, HI., informing him of his election to the United States Senate. " After the adjournment ol court he was called on by Illinois friends, who congratulated him on the result, and inquired as to his acceptance of the office. He did not say whether he would accept it or not, but if he should conclude to do so he will not resign before the 4th of March, the Senatorial term not beginning until that time. He stated that he hat! not been consulted regarding the use of hie name as a candidate, and had not authorized it." The President has appointed ThO!!!?? of ffurrVhnR TTmfawl States District Judge for Florida, and Benja­ min F. Flanders United States Assistant Treasurer at New Orleans. THE commission appointed to report a plan for the reorganization of the army have In­ formed the President that they have not been able to give due consideration to the subject, and are not prepared, therefore, to recom­ mend any plan In an interview, the ether day, the President expressed a very oon- fident belief that the country has reached a condition which rwiuen* mi immediate resumption of specie payments practi­ cable and desirable, and that the present Con­ gress could render no more acceptable and valuable service to the country than to pass the laws necessary for the realization of this desirable result at once. He thinks it would be entirely feasible to resume on the 1st of March, and that the state of trade and high favor in which American securities are held abroad would insure the complete suc­ cess of the effort, if the Executive is em­ powered to make it. To all the appeals of the Packard Govern­ ment lor recognition as the lawful State au­ thority of Louisiana the President replies that he will do nothing whatever to forestall the decision of the Presidential question, which is so interwoven with that of the State election that the settlement of the one will carry with it the other. Unless some eck of violence is attempted in New Orleans, the ex­ isting situation will be maintained ; and, if an outbreak should occur, martial law will be pro­ claimed, and the State will remain under mili­ tary administration until the whole matter can be adjusted by the arbitrating commission The Supreme Court has adjourned till the 19 h of February on account of the impending withdrawal of five of the Justices to form the judicial branch of the tripartite electoral Com­ mission. THE President has appointed A. T. Wikvff, Pension Agent at Columbus, Ohio The trial of Gen. Belknap, for receiving bribes while acting as Secretary of War, is set in the Crim­ inal Court at Washington, beginning Feb 21. Ex-Senator Matt H. Carpenter and Judge Fallerton, of New York, will conduct his defense. GEKEBAL. JUDGE DAVCD DAVIS, whom the Illinois Leg­ islature has selected as the suooessor of Mr. Logan in the United States Senate, was born in Maryland, In 1815, graduated at Kenyon College, studied law in Massachusetts, and in 1835 removed to Illinois,, settled in Blooming- ton, and was admitted to practice theie. In 1844 he was elected to the State Legislature, and in 1847 to the convention which framed the State constitution, which was the organic Jaw of Illinois until the adoption of the consti­ tution of 1871. In 1843 he was elected a Cir­ cuit Judge of the State, and filled the position by re-election until called to bis present post, to which he was appointed in 1862. He was the intimate friend of Mr. Lincoln, rode the circuit with him for many years, and was a delegate at large to the Chicago Convention of 1860 Gen. John McDonald, one of the leading members of the Missouri whisky ring, jjas been pardoned by President Grant. ™ A movement has been set on foot by a large number of bankers, merchants, and other citi­ zens of New York, for arranging a settlement between the defaulting Southern States and their creditors. At & meeting held the other day, at which William Cullen Bryant presided, Resolutions of sympathy and gocd will were adopted, and a committee of arbiters, con­ sisting of five disinterested Bank Presidents of New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, was appointed to confer with the authorities of the defaulting States and devise equitable terms of settlement. A Washington dispatoh says a number of officers of the late war, both Federal and Con­ federate, have determined to offer their ser­ vices to President Iglesias, of Mexico. Thev say they can easily raise 10,000 or 15,000 men in Louisiana and Texas, who will be able to sweep Diaz's forces before them. A SYSTEM of customs frauds, thought to be unparalleled in breadth and ingenuity, has just been unearthed at Washington. The direct means of defrauding the revenue has been through false invoices, and the only means of their detection lay in attaching guilt to United States ^neuls in Europe* This hut; been done by means of a Unitad States official traveling incognito among the crooked consulates, who has recoatly returned to Washington, having sueifcaded in cesuring clew* that will lead to th.o coii viution of uoaio of the largest importing firms in the East. Suit is to be commenced by the District Attorneys against the offending merchants, and the developments promised are of a startling character. PEOF. 8. C. BABTLBTT, of the Chicago Theo­ logical Seminary, has been olected President of Dartmouth College. FOREIGN. BJEPOBTB from Cuba assert that negotiations between the Bpaniards and insurgents have led to an agreement which will restore peace to that long-diafcracted inland. The aooounts are lacking m specific details, but the salient point of the bargain appears to be that some system of self-government shall be established, at the head of which a Spanish Captain General shall remain for five years. After that the Cubans will be allowed to elect their own Governor The deposed Chief Justice of Mexico, and constitutionally Acting President, Iglesias, has arrived at San Fr&ncisoo by Pacific Mail steamer A Berlin dispatoh says: "It is understood that after Ignatieff has presented his report Russia will address a communication to the powers explaining her position and appealing to their sense of honor to resent the affront offered to all Europe by the Porte, either by collective action or by empowering Russia to act for them. If this effort fails, Russia will next appeal to the allied empires. Should they not make satisfactory response, then, it is affirmed she will aot akme." BFMN is again troubled by turbulence in the Basque provinces. MB. GLADSTONE, while disclaiming any war­ like intentions toward the Ministry of En­ gland, bluntly asserts that the policy of his country in the Eastern complication has been wrong and ruinotis. in a speech at Taunton, the other day, the ex-Premier criticised se­ verely the English attitude toward Turkey, claiming that the British Government is large­ ly to blame for the Porte's treatment of the European powers. The Oriental savage has won renown for his disregard of treaties, and Mr. Gladstone showed that the Paris compact has never been respected by the ft-z and tassel.... The Russian ambas«ador, Ignatieff, took bis departure from Constan'inople on Saturday, ana the Sultan and his Ministers are left for the present to their own devices, for such preparation as it may be possible to make for the termination of the armistice, and the fcvenlutlitieH which ara most liktly to fol'ow when the season permits a resumption of field operations by the B mnian and Herzegovii ian insurgents and their allies.... A Constantino- pile dispatch says the Pone, in accor'iaT,ce with the trieiKily advice of France and Austria, has requested Servia and Montenegro to seitd dele gates there to arrange for peace. It is thought the proposal will be aocepted. Hie basis of the peace proposed by Turkey IS' said to be moderate and conciliatory. A LONDON dispatoh says the American "spir­ itualist," Slade, who was recently sentenced to three months' confinement at hard labor, has bad his sentence quashed on appeal on a legal technicality.... A heavy defalcation in the Banque de Paris has just been discovered. The culprit is one of the chief olerks of the bank. The amount of the embezzlement Is 690,000 francs. A DISPATCH from St. Petersburg says the peace party in the Russian Cabinet is prevail­ ing The British Council has issued further stringont orders against the importation into Groat 'Britain from Germany and B lgium of cattle, hay, hides, horns, fat, hoofs and fresh meat....The Emperor of Japan has reduced farmers' taxes from 3% per cent, to 2% per cent, per annum. The revenues of the empire are thus impaired to the extent of $16,000,000, but IMW Jaymuose i iuw» , i'u the utcPci" lessening the people's burdens, enjoins such economy in public expenditures as will comport with this reform in the fiscal affairs of the Government. THE Countess Howe, wife of the late Earl Howe, committed suicide in London, the other day, by jumping out of the window of her mother's house, while laboring under a fit of temporary insanity A dispatoh from Rome announces that an officer has visited the Roman Archbishop L^ocbowski with a copy of an indictment and a summons toaDpear before the Posen tribunal to answer for breaches of the German law. FORTY-FOURTH CUKUKK8& THURSDAY, Jan. 26.--Senate.---The debate iu the Senate on the bill reported by the select committee in regard to counting the electoral vote was continued all night. Mr. Morton continued his speech in opposition to the bill. He claimed that the bill was flagrantly unconstitutional, that the commiesion could not carry out its provisions without going behind the returns, said the bill was sprinkled all over with very white, pretty meal, but the Democratic cat was reposing beneath it, and earnestly urged Republican Sena­ tors to vote against it. Mr. Blaine followed Mr. Morton, and opposed the measure on constitutional grounds He Had desired earnestly to support the bill, if he could do it consistently. Xfte arguments adduced in its favor had persuaded him of its un­ constitutionality,and he felt himself compelled,how­ ever reluctantlyhe differed from certain Senators, to recOTd his vote against the measure. Mr. Howe of Wisconsin, made an earnest speech in advocacy of the bill. We characterized it as the proudest tribute to American statesmanship that had been prepared since the convention which framed the constitution adjourned. He would have been glad if it had received the unanimous approval of the committee--then he would have felt like one greater than himself felt when looking upon the Infant Savior. He would have felt that he had seen the salvation of his people and of his country. Mr. Thurman spoke in favor of the bill. Mr. *hyte,of Maryland, had doubts as to its constitutionality, but would vote for it as a temporary remedy. Mr. Eaton, of Connecticut, the only Democrat oppoeiug the biH, denounced it as unconstitutional, Raid the power to count the electoral votes was vested in the two houses ol Congress, and that " thin bill, this contrivance, should sink into the earth." Mr. Burnside expressed the hope that the bill would pass. Mr. Edmunds closed the debate with an earnest appeal in behalf of the bill, at the conclusion of which a vote was taken, and re­ sulted as follows: Teas--Alcorn, Allison, Bar- nnm. Bayard, Bogy, Booth, Boutwell, Burnside, Chaffee, Christiancy, Cockrell, Conkling, Cooper, Cragin, Davis, Dawes, Dennis, Edmunds, Fre- linghuysen, Goldthwaite, Gordon, Howe, Johnson, Jones (Fla.), Jones_ (Nev.), Kelly, Kernaa, Mc- Creery, McBonald vmrijj iu^vuu.uu, McMillan, Marcy, Merrimon, Morrill, Price, Randolph, Ransom, Robertson, Saulsbury, Sharon, Stevenson, Teller, Thurman, Wallace, Whyte. Windom, Withers, Wright--47. Naps--Blaine, Bruce, Cameron (Pa.), Cameron (Wis.), Clapton, Conovcr, Dorsey, Eaton (Dem.), Hamilton, Hamlin, Ingalls, Mitchell, Morton, Pat­ terson, Sargent, Sherman, West---17. House,--The House took up the Electoral Tribunal bill, and Mr. McCrary, of Iowa, a member of the joint coqtmittee, opened the debate. He said the oountry was in the presence of a very great and very dangerous emergency. The present was a crisis in national affairs which the fathers of the republic had foreseen In 18U0, and which at various periods in the nation's history great •tatesmen had foreseen and had dreaded. The country was confronted, not only with great and widespread difference of opinion on the merits of the question, but it was confronted with what Was a thousand-fold more perilous, wjth "amnion, t h e f a c t t h a t t h e A m e r i c a n p e o p l e , A m e r i c a n s t l f f i e - ' T • men, American lawyers and jurists were almost equally divided, not only as to the merits of the question, but as to authorities to be cited. He sub­ mitted that that ptatesman was false to his duty; that that man did not come up to the exigencies of the occasion, who would stop short in the most earn­ est endeavors to provide some lawful mode for the decision of this question by a tribunal whose au­ thority nobody could question, and in whose deci­ sion all men would acquiesce. Mr. Hunton, of Vir­ ginia, also a member of the committee, advocated the measure. He held that just as the tellers provided for in the twenty-secend joint rule were but the organs of the two houses, so the commission pro­ vided for in the bill was but their organ to do for them what they themselves might do. He also held that as the two houses had tile right to count the votes, so they had the right ol concurrent action to agree to any mode of counting that might seem best to them. Mr. Hoar spoke in favor of the bill. Nothing, he raid, could be more injurious to the republic than that a man should be put in the Presidential office whom at least one-half of the American people would regard as a usurper. He could not conceive that the framers of the constitution ever thought of yleldirg to the President of the Senate the vast power of counting the electoral votes. That power was in the two houses of Congress just as the English Parliament had for centuries regulated all questions affecting the succession to the crown. In conclusion Mr. Hoar said : " The act which we are about to ao will in iuy ju'givi&nt be oi_u of the wr., l>iav, ,t in human history. Our annals have been crowded with great achievements in war, in peace, in arte, posed the measure on constitutional grounds. Mr. Bland (Democrat, of Missouri) sustained the bill because it provided a remedy for existing difficul­ ties, but he expressed his belief that no constitution or law could bn devised which would secure honest elections, or which thieves and robbers could not find some means of evading. Mr. Southard (Dem­ ocrat, of Ohio) sustained the bill, but suggested that it should be so amended as to provide for wubmitting to the commission the question as to the right of Colorado to vote as a State. Mr. Vance (Democrat, of North Carolina) opposed the bill as unconstitu­ tional, and because Congress had no right to dele- fate its authority. Mr. Harrison (Democrat, of lltnois) gave the measure his hearty support Mr. Foster (Republican, of Ohio) believed that Gov. Hayes was fairly elected, but he was in favor of the bill. Mr. Landiera (Democrat, of Indiana) spoke in favor of the bill. Mr. Townsend (Republican, of New York) was con­ vinced that Hayes was elected President, and he did not propose to put in jeopardy that election ; hence he would oppose the measure. Mr. Lynch (Republican, ot Mississippi) opposed the bill on constitutional grounds. Mr. Knott (Democrat, of Kentucky) did not think that Congress had the ri«ht, under the constitution, to delegate the power of counting the electoral \ote to a com­ mission ; he therefore oppose® the bill. Mr. Carr (Democrat, of Indiana) opposed the bill on constitutional grounds. Mr. Dunnell (Republican, of Minnesota) opposed the measure; he thought if it were passed it would bee >me a precedent, and the same grr at farce would be played over agaiu four years hence. Mr. Hardenbergh (Demoerat, of New Jersey) spoke in favor of the till. Mr. Pratt (Republican, of Iowa) opposed it as at vari­ ance with the whole course of constitutional prece­ dents. Mr. O'Brien (Democrat, of Marylana) sup­ ported the bib. Messrs. Lawrence (Republican, of Ohio) and Blackburn (Democrat, of Kentucky) opposed it on constitutional grounds. Mr. Jones (Democrat, of Kentucky) opposed it, not; so much on account of the uucuuHUiuiioiinllty Af) th6 impolicy of the measure. Messrs. Field (Independ­ ent, of New York). Brown (Democrat, of Kentucky) and Randall (Democrat, of Louisiana) spoke in favor of the bill. Mr. Payne (Democrat* of Ohio) Chairman of the committee which reported the bill, closed the debate in a brief but earnest speech in favor of the measure, and the Speaker announced that the vote would be taken on the final passage of the bill. The Clerk proceeded to call the roll amid the most Intense interest and excitement, with the following result: TEAS. Mr. 8peaker, Hardenbergh, Abbott, Harris, Mass., Adams, Harris, Ga., Aiuswoith, Harris, Va., Anderson, Harrison, Ashe, Kartridge, Atkins, _ Hartzell, Bagby, ' Hatcher, Bagley, Geo. Hathorn, Bagley,John H., Haymond, Banning, Beebe, Ball, Bland, "liss, Blonnt, Boone, Bradley, Bright, Brown, Ky., Buckner, Burchard, Wis., Burleigh, Cabell, Caldwell, Tenn., Jenks, Henkle. Hereford, Hewitt, N. Y., Hewitt, Ala., Hill, Hoar, Holman, Hooker, Hopkins, Hoskins, House, Humphreys, Hunter, Hunton, Campbell-, Candler, Caulfield, Cbapin, Chittenden, Clark, Ky.. Clark, Me., Clymer, Cochrane, Cook, Cowan, Cox, Crapo, Culberson, Cutler, Darrall, Davis, Davy, Debolt, Dibrell, Douglas, Dnrand, Eden, Ellis, Faulkner, FeltOn, Fieid, Finlay, Foster, Franklin, Fuller, Gause, Gibson, Glover, Good®, Goodin, Sumter, Jonee, N. H., Kehr, Kelley, Lamar, Landets, Ind., .Power, Rea, Reagwn, Reilly, John Reilly, J. B., Rice, Riddle, Bobbins, N. C., Bobbins, Pa., Robert#, Boss, N. J., Sampson, Savage, Bayler, Scales, Schleicher, Seelye. Sheakley, Southard, Sparks, Spring?*, Stanton, Strait, Stenger, Stevenson, Stone, Swann, Tar box, Teese, Terry, Landers, Conn., Thompson, Lane, Leavenworth, LeMoyne, Levy, Lewis, Luttrell, Lynde, Mackey, Marsh, McDougall, McCrary, McDill, McFarland, McMahon, Meade, Metcalfe. • Miller, Morey, Morgan, Morrison, Mutooler, Neal, New, Norton, O'Brien, Oliver, Payne, Phelps, Philips, Mo., Pierce, Piper, Hamilton, Ind., Piatt, Hamilton, N. J.,Potter, Thomas, Throckmorton, Townsend, Pa. Tucker, Turney, Vance, N. C., Waddell, Walker, N. Y., Walker, Va., Walling, Walsh, Ward, Warner, Warren, Watterson, Wells, Mo., Wells, Miss., 'Whitehouse, Whitthorne, Wike, Wiliard, Williams, Mich., Williams, Del., Williams, W. B Mich., WlIUs, Wilshlre, Wilson, W. Va., Wilson, Iowa. Wood, N, Y., Yeates, Young--191. 8. Baker, Ind., Baker, N.Y., Ballou, Banks, Blackburn, Blair, Bradford, Brown, Kan., Burchard, Butts, Caldwell, Ala., Cannon, Carr, Caswell, Cate, Conger, C'rounse, Danford, Demson, Dobbins, Dunnell, Durham, Evans. Eaines, Flye, Forney, Fort, Freeman, Frye, in literature, in conftnerce; but other counfci have equaled us in those particular:', but lathis great act we stand without a rival and without an example. For a thousand years our children, with tears of joy and pride, will read that while in fierce strife for executive power the sun of other republics after a short but brilliant day has gone down in darkness and in blood, in their own country, too, the same great strife has arisen; that their sky has been darkened bv the same cloud; that their ship, with its costly freight of love and hope, encountered the same storm, and was driven near the same rocks, bnt that, in the midst of .the storm and darkness and oouflict, the august and awful figure of the law rose over the face of the water-, uttering Its divine, controlling mandate, ' Peace, be , stilL'" Mr. Hale, of Maine, spoke in opposition to the bill. He said toe measure startled him by the bold assumption of the power of Con­ gress to regulate and control the election of Presi­ dent, which power, in his judgment, had never been lodged in the two houses by the framers of the constitution, whatever the popular impulse might be now, this bill would not be sustained by the American people when they should have time to measure and contemplate its consequences. It strnck a blow at the Kelectoral College, which stood as high in the constitution as the Presidency itself, and shattered it from turret to foundation stone, and it substituted for it the power of Congress, which might at any time thwart the will of the people and render nu­ gatory its deliberate and* expressed judgment. The debate was continued till 11 o'clock p. m.. Hewitt, of New York, Caldwell, of Tennessee, Springer, of . Illinois, and Wiliard, of Michigan, speaking in favor of the bill, and Monroe, of Ohio, Smith, of Pennsylvania, and Garfield, of Ohio, in opposition. FRIDAY, Jan. 26.--Senate.--The session of the Senate was brief, and no business of importance was transacted. Mr. Jones, of Florida, called up the petition of the Democratic Presidential electors of Florida, recently presented by him, asking that their votes be counted as the true return, and ad­ dressed the Senate at length in regard to the recent election in that State. He argued that the rilden electors were legally elected, and had been deprived of their rights by the State Canvassing Beard. Bouse.--The discussion of the Electoral bill was resumed, and Messrs. Hooker (Democrat, of Missis­ sippi), Hartridge (Democrat, of Georgia), and Ful­ ton (Democrat, of Georgia) spoke in favor of the measure, and against the claim that the President of the Senate had the right to count the electoral vote. Mr. Mills (Democrat, of lexas) opposed the bill, yet said there were Bome good things in it. Mr. Baker (Republican, of Indiana) Hpokf auainst the bill, declared it unconstitutional, and criticised it for excluding from the commission the Chief Justice, characterizing the discrimination as an odious and unjust reflection upon a wise macis- trate. Mr. Wat^rson (Democrat, of Kentucky), spoke in favor of the bill. He said if the two houses failed to agree upon some plan the country would see the Senate declare Hnyes elected, and it would see the Presidfnt of the United States, sup­ ported by the army and navy, prepared to Feat him in office. Mr. Lamar (Democrat, of Mis­ sissippi) advocated the measure. Me said It elim­ inated th« sword frcm the controversy, and sent it to a tribunal wn >se cnaracter guaranteed justice, right aud truth in its decisions. Mr. Hill (Dem­ ocrat, of Georgia) gave the bill his hearty and warm approval. Mr. Singleton (Democrat, of Mississippi) and Mr Lapham (Repuolican, of New York) op- KAYS. Garfield, Purman, Hale, Bainey, Haralson, Robinson, Hendee, Busk, Henderson, Singleton, Hoge, Sinnickson, Hubbell, 81emons, Hurd, Smalls, Hurlbnt, Smith, Pa., Hyman, Smith, Ga., Jones, Ky., Stowell, Joyce, Thornburgh, Kasson, Townsend, N. Y., Kimball, Tufts, Knott, Van Voorhees, Lapham, Vance, O., Lawrence, Wait, Lynch, Waldron, Magoon, Wallace, S. C., MiHiken, Wallace, Pa., Mills, White, Monroe, Whitney, Nash, Williams, N. Y., O'Neill, Williams, Wis., Packer, Williams, Ala., Page, Wood, Pa., Plaisted, Woodburn, Poppleton, Wood worth--86. Pratt, Seven Democrats and seven Republicans were absent* namely : King, Collins, Egbert, Wigginton, J/jr*, Hayr?, Bass, Stevens, Carson, Phillips of Kansas, Schumaker, Odell, Ross and Wheeler. SATURDAY, Jan. 27.-- Senate.--Mr. Allison introduced a bill to construe section 12 of the Pa­ cific Railroad act of July I, 1RG2, and to determine the relation of the main line and branches. Re­ ferred Mr. Wright called up the Senate Mil to extend for two years from the 10th of March next the act establishing the Board of Commissioners of Southern ClaimB. Passed The bill to ratify the agreement with certain bands of Sioux nation In­ dians and with the Northern Arapahoe and Chey­ enne Indians passed. Bouse.--The House, by a party vote, and amid much general excitement, declared the members of the Louisiana Returning Board in contempt, for refusing to produce the returns and other documents relating to the Louisiar a election. The members of the board submitted a written answer, in which they denied the right of the House to demand the papers, denouncing the attempt of the committee to compel their production aB usurpa­ tion, etc., and claiming that the documents in question were beyond their reach, being in pos­ session of the Louisiana Secretary of State. After the reading of the answer, the House passed reso­ lutions ordering the prisoners to be held in the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms until they pro­ duce the papers... Mr. Kuott, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, made a report favoring the admission of Mr. Belford as tbe Representative from Colorado The Indian Appropriation bill was passed. Republican Caucus.--K caucus of the Repub­ lican members of the House was held in the even­ ing, at which Messrs. Garfield and Hoar were chosen as the representatives of the narty on the House branch of the electoral tribunal.' MONDAY, Jan. 29.--Senate.--A special Mes­ sage was received from the President announcing his approval of the Electoral Arbitration bilL The President says he believes the bill gives assurance that the result will be accepted without resistance from the supporters of the disappointed candidate, and that the highest officer shall not hold his place with a questioned title of right. The Message also alludes to the imminent peril the oountry has escaped through the adoption of tne bill. The President further declares that in no instance has th? President of the Senate exercised the power of deciding disputed election returns. In such a case as this, where the result is involved in doubt, it is the duty of the law-making power to provide in advance a lawful mode of settling the difficulty. One of the two candidates must have been elected, and it would be a deplorable sight to witness any controversy as to which should receive or hold the office Mr. Robertson called up Mr. Gordon's resolution acknowledging the Hampton Government in South Carolina as the legal Government, and made an address supporting the resolution. He denied there was any intimidation on the part of the whites toward the blacks On the contrary, he had no doubt many blacks were deterred from voting the Democratic ticket by Re­ publicans of their own color Mr. Sir- gent submitted to the Senate the majority re­ port of the special committee appointed to investi­ gate the late election in Florida. The report finds that the electoral vote of that 8 ate was fairly cast for Hayes and Wheeler, and justifies the action of the Canvassing Board in throwing out certain returns on the ground of fraud and intimidation. Bowie.--The following bills were Introduced and referredBy Mr. Banning, fixing the time for the regular meetings of Congress. It provides . y that the first session of every Congress shall begin on the 4th of March; by W. B. Williams, declaring forfeited to the United States certain lands granted Michigan lor railroad purposes, and providing for their »ale to actual Bottlers; by Mr. Hubbell, char­ tering a freight railroad company from tide-Water on the Atlantic to the Missouri river. TUESDAY, Jan. 30.--Senate.--Mr. Edmunds submitted a resolution authorizing and directing the President of the Senate to appoint two tellers on the part of the Senate to perform the duties re-, quired by the Electoral Count bill which recently passed. Agreed to....Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, delivered a speech In opposition to the bill to amend tbe Pacific Railroad acts A large number of petitions were presented, asking the adoption of the jjix«p<>ntn amendment to the constitution of the United titates, prohibiting States from Unfranchising persons on account of sex.;.. Messrs. Edmunds, Morton and Frelinghuysen (R"- publicans), and Bayard and Thurman (Democrats), were unanimously selectedy> represent the Senate in the commission authorised by the Electoral Count bill, they having previously been nominated in caucus. House.--The House, by a vote of 150 to 78, passed the bill aboiisuiug the Board ef Police Commission­ ers of the District of Columbia over the President's veto The bill appropriating $.500,000 to be paid to James B. Eads for the construction of the Mis­ sissippi river jetties, etc., was passed ... Mr. Payne offered a reso.iuion that the House elect five members of the commission on the Presidential electoral count. Adopted. Mr. u- mar nominated Payne. Hunton, Abbott, Garfield and Hoar. The five were voted for together, and elected, Payne receiving 2fi3 votes ; Hunton, 2S9; Abbott, 2")2; Garfield, 238; Hoar, 261.... The Speaker also laid before the House a message from the President stating that the commission appointed to reorganize the army had reported that it was not at this time prepared to submit a plan for its reorganization.... The House passed the bill reported last session from the Committee on Judiciary in relation to damages for the infringement of patents. It provides that damages can only be recovered for infringements which shall have occurred during the term of one year preceding }he notice of infalngement.' WEDNESDAY, Jan. 31.--Senate.--The Presi­ dent pro tempore laid before the Senate a co municatlon signed by Associate Justices Clifford, Strong, Miller and Field, of the United States Supreme Court, announcing that they had met, in pursuance of the Electoral Count bill, and selected Associate Justice J. P. Bradley as the fifth Associate Justice upon the commission A concurrent resolution was adopted providing that no person shall be admitted to the touth wing of the Capitol during the counting of the votes for President and Vice Presi dent, except upon tickets issued by the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, such tickets to be diS' tributed equally to each Senator and Representative by the Sergeants-at-Arms of the Senate and House of Representatives. [The House concurred in the resolution.].. Mr. Thurman addressed the Senate in support of the bill to amend the Pacific Railroad acts. House.--The Speaker laid before the House a communication from the four Associate Justices designated members of the judicial branch of the commission, announcing that they had selected Justice Joseph P. Bradley aB the fifth member..,.. The Senate's resolution for the appointment of fifteen men to serve as special police at tho Capitol during the counting of the electoral vote was agreed to. Mr. Garfield introduced a bill providing for more thorough Investigation of accidents on rail­ roads The report of the majority of the Ju­ diciary Committee, declaring that Colorado is a State, was adopted, and Mr. Belford was sworn in as a Representative The House Florida In­ vestigation Committee submitted their report. They say that the face of the returns ol the re­ cent election in that State showed a clear majority for Tilden and Hendricks Mr. Knott offered a resolution discharging <• . W. Barnes from custody, be having delivered to the select commit­ tee, of which William R. Morrison is Chairman, all the telegtams in his possession. Adopted The Speaker laid before the House the resignation of Frank Hereford aB Representative from the Third District of West Virginia. THE ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL. [The Court, as organised, consists of the follow­ ing officials: JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COUBT. Justice Clifford, of Maine: Justice Strong, of Pennsylvania; Justice Miller, of Iowa; Justice Field, of CaUfornia; Justice Bradley, of New Jersey. SEN VTOR8. Edmunds, of Vermont; Morton, of Indiana ; Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey; Bayard, of Delaware; I hurman, of Ohio. The following are the BEPRB8KKTATIVXS. Hoar, of Massachusetts; Garfield, of Ohio; Payne, of Obio; Bunton, of Virginia; Abbott, of Massachu­ setts. counsel employed: Re­ publican--William M. Evarts and E. W. Stoughton, of New York; Stanley Matthews and Samuel S. SheUabarger, of Ohio, Democratic-- Lyman Trum­ bull, of Illinois; Matt H. Carpenter, of Wisconsin; Jeremiah S. Black, of Pennsylvania; Ashabel Green, cf New York.] WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Jan. 31.--The Tripartite Commission assembled at noon in the Supreme Court room and organized. The special oath of office was administered to Jus­ tice Clifford by Mr. Middloton, tbe Olerk of the Court, and Justice Clifford, who, by the Electoral act, is the presiding officer of the commission, then administered the oath to the other fourteen members. James H. Mo- Kenny was then appointed temporary Clerk to the commission. A series of rules for the government of the body, drawn up by Mr. Edmunds, were adopted. It was decided that the sessions of the board should be public ; all discussions and consultations between the members of the commission, however, to be held in private. Speeches of counsel were limited to two hours on the main question, and fifteen minutes in interlocutory questions. The President of the commission was invested with authority to regulate all arrangement" affect­ ing the attendauoe of spectators* €leopalirafs Keedtei There seems at last a reasonable prob­ ability that Oleopatra's Needle, whioh was given by Mehemet Ali to the British Government, and which has remained so long on the shore at Alexandria, will, before many months are over, be set up in London. An engineer, who has de­ voted much attention to the subject, says that by carefully swathing the monolith in a kind of sacking, and covering it with wood in a rounded shape, it could be rolled into a barge and then towed to the Thames. One© there, however, the still further and greater difficultyof erecting it has to be encountered. The erection of the obelisk in the Plaoe de la Concorde, at Paris, cost £80,000 ; and it is the enormous expense involved in dealing with this larger and more inter­ esting monolith wHioh has hitherto de­ terred the British Government from at­ tempting the enterprise. The engineer, whose plan is now to be triedB maintains, however, that the work can be done, and the obelisk put up safely in the_place to pro rlan £7,000. be provided for it at the end of Northum­ berland avenue, at a cost of about A iiAWYKR gave the following advice to a yotutg man who had entered his office as a student: "Be polite to old people, because they have cash. Be good to the boys, because they are growing up to a oash basis. Work 'in with reporters and get puffs. Go to church for the sake of example. Don't fool any time awav on poetry, and don't even look at a girl until yon can plead a case. If you oan follow these in- strudtions, you will succeed. If you cannot, go and learn to be a doctor and kill your best friends." IN order to prevent the introduction of the Colorado potato beetle among potatoes or other merchandise imported from the United States and Canada, the British Government has given the ridiculous instruction to Collectors of Customs at all ports to keep a sharp lookout for beetles in ships and pack­ ages, and--when found--instantly to destroy them. For identification litho­ graphic sketches and descriptions of the insect have been forwarded. A MJEL OF LOXtJ AGO. The Hay-Cocbrane Meeting; In Virginia In 1844. The May-Bennett difficulty and re­ ported duel have revived the recollection of a fatal meeting thirty-two years ago between Julian May, an uncle of the former, and ^Joseph Cochrane. I have obtained a history of the affair from an eye-witness. There were three brothers living here named Cochrane, remarkably handsome, fine-loohing men. The youngest, Joe, who was 19 years of age, upbraided Julian May, aged 22, for ill treating his eldest brother. The lan guage used by young Cochrane produced a challenge, and the parties met in Vir ginia, near the Crane bridge, on th* morning of Feb. 16,1844. Our inform ant was present at the request of the eldest Mr. Cochrane, and rode a fine horse of the latter to the meeting; He reached the spot about sunrise. " The parties, their seconds, and surgeons were on the ground. The managers seemed •to have had no experience in such mat­ ters, so this gentleman had the cause of meeting reduced to writing ; he then got the challenge suspended in order to open the way f«r an apology. May's second was a Mr. Pooler, a nephew by marriage of Judge Wayne, late of the Supreme court; Cochrane's was a Mr. Ash. Mr. Pooler, my informant says, would not listen to any proposition, nor does it ap­ pear that Mr. Ash was authorized to offer any. The toss was won by Pooler, who of course placed his principal with his back toward the rising sun. My in­ formant noticed a tall " rag-weed " a few yards in front of and in a line with Cochrane, and called to Anh to cut it down. Ash replied that he coula not. This gentleman "said that he would. Ash replied that Pooler would have a right to shoot him. The seconds consulted, and decided that the principals had taken position with the weed standing, and it must remain, though it did afford May an aid in making a line-shot. My in formant then drew his knife and Pooler drew his pistol. He cut it down, with­ out the latter, however, shooting. He then asked Ash if he was going to let Cochrane fight with his hat on. Ash replied he thought it was best, as it shaded his eyes from the sun. The word was given, and Cochrane fell with a bul­ let in his brain. Just then the cry of constables was w&s raised. Julian May mounted a horse and fled, never returning to the country again. Cochrane was borne to a farm house, where he died in a few hours, and my informant, galloping fu­ riously, carried the sad news to his two brothers, who were anxiously waiting the issue of the meeting. The horse he rode died when he had reached his mas­ ter's door. The youth of the parties, the tragic end of a handsome, promising young man, the folly of the meeting, and the stupidity of the seconds in per­ mitting it, occasioned much animadver­ sion. The grand jury investigated the case; nothing came of it by way of prosecution, but there came near being a challenge sent from the foreman of the grand jury to one of the panel for words growing out of the discussion of a pre­ sentment of all oonoerned. Quick Time. An Erie railway train that stopped at Binghamton on Jan. 13, had a figure­ head standing in front under the head­ light, and covered up to the ears with snow. The figurehead stepped down, and, walking back to the fourth car, re­ marked to the conductor, "Didn't I tell you I'd get here ahead of youf'^ The young man had been put off the cars at Waverly for not paying his fare, and had surreptitiously climbed toJfeis post on the engine. The conducto#was beaten by four cars' lengths. Large Fish Hatchery. The largest establishment in the world for hatching salmon eggs is that of the United States Government on the Mac- Cloud river, Shasta county, OaL It is under the superintendence of Living­ ston Stone, who distributes an average of seven million young salmon' each year to the Fish Commissioners of the various States having rivers suitable for Iteu ineraasc^ 1 , f "' -GIORDANO BBUNO," who was Taunted? & Bome for his pantheist, in 1600, is to have a monument if money enough .pan be raised. Six hundred dollars have been subscribed. THE MAKKETS. NEW YORK. 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