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QRtt JRtgtmig |laindcaler. J. VANSLYKE, PUBLISHES. VoHENBT. ILLINOIS. 4 fHE NEWS CONDENSED. THANKSGIVING. V, ~ . PKOCI.AMA.TION BY THE TRKSIDBST. , ' • The President has issued the following : - ' , 91$' the President of the United States of America-- K Proclamation. . completed cycle of summer ana winter, aeea tfcue and harvest, has brought us to the accustomed •fcson at which religtous people celebrate with praise and thanksgiving the enduring mercy of Al- nighty God. This devout and public confession of the constant dependence of man upon the Divine £ father for all good gifts of life and health and peace and happiness, so early in our history made " 'f < fhe habit of our people, finds in the survey of the 4 pa*< voar new grounds for its joyful and grateful manifestation. In all the blessings which depend upon benign seasons this has Indeed been a memorable year. Over the wide territory of our country, with all ita di- TOrsity of soil and climate and product*, the earth fcaa yielded a bountiful return to the labor of the husbandman. The health of the people has been Wighted by no prevalent or wide-spread diseases. Ne great disasters of shipwreck upon our coasts or to our oonunerce on the was bave brought loss and hard­ ship to merchants or mariners, and clouded *he hap­ piness of the oomrauni' y w: th sympathetic sorrow. In all that concerns our strength and peace and great­ ness as a nailou, in all thai toucla s Um: permanence and security of our Government and the beneficent Institutions on which it reata, in nil that affects the character and dispositions of oar people and teste our capacity to enjoy and uphold the equal and free condition of society ROW permanent and universal throughout the ijnd, the experience of the last year is conspicuously marked by the protecting provi­ dence of God, raid is full of promise and hop# for coming generations. Under a sense of these infinite obligations to the Great Baler of times and seasons and events, let us humbly ascribe It to our own faults and frailties if in nay degree that perfect concord and happiness, peace and justice, "Which such great mercies should diffuse through the hearts and, Jives of our people, do not altogether and always and everywhere prevail. Let us with Ode spirit and one voice lift up our praise and thanksgiving to God for His manifold goodness to oar l»nd, and His manifest care for our nation. Now, therefore, I, Rutherford B. Hayes, Presi­ dent of the United States, tlo appoint Thursday, the 29th (Jay of November next, as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer, and I earnestly recom­ mend. that, withdrawing themselves from secular cares and labor, the people of the United 8tates do meet together on that day in their respective places at worship, there to give thanks and praise to Al­ mighty God for His mercies, and to devoutly be- fleech their continuance. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be af­ fixed. Done at the city of Washington this 29th day of Oc­ tober. in the year of onr Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, and of the independ­ ence of the United States the one hundred and second. [L. s.] R. B. Him By the President: WILLIAH If. EVABTS, Secre­ tary of State. OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE SITTING BULL COMMISSION. CAMP OK THE MILK RIVER, M. T.,) Oct. 20,1877. j To the Hon. Secretary of War and the Hon. Secre­ tary of the Interior, Washington: The commission met Sitting Boll and his chiefs at Fort Walsh on the 17th inst. The Instructions were carried out literally. 8itting Boll and his chiefs declined the proposals. The address of the commission and the an­ swers of the chiefs have been telegraphed to flie New York Herald, and it is deemed un­ necessary to repeat them in this telegram. After the conference was over, the Canadian authorities had a conference with the same in­ dividuals. In reply to a request of the commission to know what transpired in the conference, CoL McLeod, Commissioner of the Northwest Ter­ ritory, addressed to us the following letter: OESXLF.MES : In answer to your note I beg leave to inform you that, after the interview of the Com­ missioners with the Indians, I had a talk with the latter. I endeavored to impress upon them tjie im­ portance of the answer they had just made; that, although some of the speakers to the & mnrssioners had claimed to be British Indians, we denied the claim, and that the Queen's Government looked Upon them as American Indians who had taken Rfuge in our country from their enemies. I point­ ed out to them that their only hope was the buffalo; ttiat it would not be many years before that source <lf supply would cease, and that they could expect •othing whatever from the Queen's Government ex­ cept protection so long ae they behaved themselves. I warned them that their decision not only affected themselves, but their children, and that they •hould think well over it before it was •Oo late. I told them they must not cross the line with a hostile intent; that If they did they would not only have the Americans fbr their enemies, but also the police and the British Government, and urged upon them to carry my words to their camps, to tell all their young men 5hat 1 had said and warn them of the consequences : disobedience, pointing out to them that a few in- ; dfcecrcet young warriors might involve them all in •tost eerioui trouble. They unanimously adhered to the answer they bad #ven the Commissioners, and promised to observe JU that I had told them. I do not think there need %e the least anxiety about any of these Indians cross- teg the line; at any rate, not for some time to come, lb haste, most respectfully yours, JAMES F. MCLEOD, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding N. W. M. P. ALFRED H. TEBBY, A. G. LAWRENCE, Commissioners. THE EA81. " THE manner in which Senator Blaine's daugh- ? ter met with a serious accident (brief mention «f which was made in a telegraphic dispatch) it thus related in a letter from Angusta, Me.: " Talking with a gentleman in the parlor of lier father's house, she toyed and played with / •tiny pistol that belonged to her brother. The H^itor begged her to put it away, although it •as unloaded, and spoke gravelv of using even «npty pistols as playthings. When he arotse to away, she laughingly ran up stairs to her Brother's room, got a cartridge and put it in fiie cylinder, and came bounding down, calling . to her friend, who wag passing out of the front . yard, to gee her shoot; but, before she had lev­ eled the weapon, in her gleeful hurry ehe Keased the trigger, and the ball struck between r eyes, passing upward. Miss Blaine clasped her head with her hand, and crying ' Oh ! I am •hot!' fell to the floor. Surgeons have probed for the ball, but cannot find it. The child •offers terribly. Inflammation of the brain is feared, but the surgeons give the family hope." A wiu> steer created an extraordinary sensa­ tion in the streets of New York the other day. The animal ran a remarkable race through the ' tou-y thoroughfares before he could be killed. Qnite a number of persons were run down, . t • f §£££ and ^"nphsd upon by the infuriated GRXAT excitement has been caused in Clarion «<mnty, Pa., by the striking of a 400-barrel oil I '-well... .The Secretary of a Newark (N. J.) mv- 4§l i-», t ings bank has been indicted far perjury in cer- . iifying to false reports of the bank's condition. ^ PHILADELPHIA dispatch announces the TlO *,< r< 11 Adams, the well-known trage- im& i .>#an'111 the 44th year of ̂»ge. His disease ̂ jjras consumption. U., . STEVENS' BATTEBY, New York papers report, . ' been sold to a foreign Government The **• 'n'uAame of the Government or amount is not stated, but the mm is said to be small in com- & CSfwo 00©016 011811141 0°8t' Whichw" n«ar- ' '• •' THEKE were sixty-one failures in New York <ity daring October, the largest number of any i>'<4bonth this year, but the liabilities, which are ' Jft round numbers $3,600,000, are not so great • in some other months. " (i THE WEST. , A. DISPATCH from Fort Walsh, British terri- iwy» say* : "To-morrow night Sitting Bull's foice sets out for their old camp on Wood mountain, but it is pn bable that a settlement will be found them on Souris river in the Dirt Hills region. The Canadian Indians, who hung •ronnd the fort during the conference, are de­ lighted with the way Bitting Bull talked back % , < , . at the Commissioner*, and express great con­ fidence in him. He told me an hour ago that he would live quietly on Canadian soil, *Ad would, on no consideration, violate (fesdiaa neutrality; and before he died he *'•;* fcoptd to ' make the Americans cry.' The Kez jfit f i jperces are scattered al e and are inclined tOT A t>U 4-i • J i ' to rest. Walsh mjs there will be no more trouble until the Indians feel theni«elve* trong enough to begin another campaign, probably in tho spring. The police regret the fiilnre of the Commission, but arc sat- *fied that they can Make amicable ar­ rangements with Sitting BuU.w Di-ptitches from the Red Cloud Agency describe the breaking of the Indian camp there. There were 6,000 or 7,000 of the Sioux at that point, all of whom have started quietly on the long tramp of some 200 miles to their new homes at the confluence of the White and Missouri rivers. MR. T. M. MKTOALF, Minnesota's Commis­ sioner of Statititios, estimates that the wheat crop of that State this year will reach the enormous amount of 40,000,000 bushel*, not­ withstanding the ravages of the grasshoppers. EDWAKD 8. MCVKY and his wife Ann, aged respectively 77 and 72 years, were brutally mur­ dered in their home near Chillioothe, Ohio, one night last week. The object of the murderers, who are supposed to be tramps, was robbery. ... .Lewis Meyers, Treasurer, and J. S. Smith, Auditor, of Auglaize county, Ohio, were tried the other day on a charge of embezzling $47,000 in county funds. Meyers pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. Smith was committed io jail in default of $10,000 bail. THE receiver of the Fidelity Savings Bask, of Chicago, reports that the total liabilities of the ooncern amount to $1,815,054; while the assets are placed at $945,637. A FEW days ago a number of prisoners in the Carson (Nev.) penitentiary attempted to break out, and seized Mathewson, the deputy warden, and, holding him before them to pre­ vent the guards from firing, made a rush for the gate. Mathewson three tunes ordered the guards to fire. They finally obeyed, severely wounding Mathewson and two of the convicts, when the others surrendered. There were no escapes. THE SOUTH. IT is reported that a syndicate, composed of prominent New York banking firms, has been formed for the purpose of funding the South­ ern bonds. Since the beginning of the war no interest has been paid upon the Southern State, oounty or municipal indebtedness. These bonds aggregate $500,000,000. The proposed syndicate has matured a plan which, by the Legislatures of the several States, will secure the funding of the debt and the payment of interest. GEN. N. B. FOBBEST, the well-known ex-Con­ federate cavalry officer, died last week at the residence of his brother in Memphis, Tenn.... A dispatch from Columbia, S. 0., says "the Grand Jury has returned a true bill against L. Cass Carpenter, late Revenue Collector for the District of South Carolina, for forgery in two instances, and raising, altering and printing warrants upon the Treasurer. A true bill was also found against Robert Smalls (colored), Congressman from the Fifth district, for ac- oepting a bribe of $5,000 to vote as State Sen­ ator for the passage of a fraudulent printing appropriation " DEVLIN, Hall, Craver and Nichols, members of the Louisville Base-Ball Glub, have been igno- miniously expelled by the directors of the club for selling games, disobedience of orders and general misconduct. THE State of Texas has just purchased 1,400 acres of land, with valuable buildings and im­ provements, near Hempstead, for the State University for Colored Youths. OENKRAL. Ex-Gov. S. J. TILDEN4 has returned home from his European tour. WE have news of the loss of several whaling vessels, with their crews, in the Arctic ocean. ....A Philadelphia grand jury has indicted JohnS. Morton and otheis for conspiracy to defraud the Market Street railway out of $2,- 000,000 Boston telegram: Two steamers, to-day, for Liverpool, take 125,000 bushels of wheat, ehipped by Chicago parties on a through bill of lading. Engagements are already made for all the grain tonnage-room of the Novem­ ber steamers. ONE HUNDRED AND THIBTY-BEVEN new Mor­ mon converts arrived in New York last week, t ogether with twelve missionaries, who make a total of 1,500 converts landed at that city from Europe during the past year. WASHINGTON. FBOM the official report of the Patent Office of the fire which destroyed two wings of the model-room it appears that the total loss was $1,500,000, including the amounts necessary to restore models, drawings, etc., and to put the building m a fire-proof condition. THE internal-revenue receipts for the fiscal year ending June 30 were : Total, $21,520,732; for Illinois, Chicago district, $8,500,000; Indi­ ana, $6,037,219; Iowa, $810,402. THE President has appointed E. W. Stough- ton, of New York, Minister to Russia; John Baxter, of Tennessee, United States Judge for the Sixth circuit vice Judge Emmons, de­ ceased; Theodore Roosevelt, Collector of the Port of New York; E. A. Merritt, Surveyor of the Port of New York; and Bradford Prince, Naval Officer at New York. JOHN WELSH, of Philadelphia, has been ap­ pointed by the President Minister to England. Mr. Welsh was President of the Centennial Board of Finance, and is a man of consider­ able wealth The Chicago whisky crooks have renewed their attempts to secure a com­ promise with the Government President Hayes, accompanied by his family and several members of the Cabinet, visited Richmond, Va., last week. An immense crowd turned out to welcome them, and the reception was a most enthusiastic one. POLITICAL. ATTY. GEN. DEVENS, writing from Washing­ ton, excusing himself from active participation in the Massachusetts campaign, says: "I learn wiilt surprise and regret that many Republican officials hesitate whether to speak or vote, al­ leging as a reason the President's recent civil- service order. In distinct terms that order states that the right of officials to vote and express their views on pub­ lic questions, either orally or through the press, is not denied, provided it does not interfere with the discharge of their official duties. If such gentlemen choose not to vote or not to express and enforce their views m support of the principles of the Re­ publican party, either orally or otherwise, they at least should not give a reason for such a course which is not justified by the order re­ ferred to, and which is simply a perversion of it." THE Supreme Court of Missouri has rendered a decision in the Congressional contested case of Frost vs. Metcalfe from the Third District of the State, affirming the decision of the St. Louis Court of Appeal*, and declaring Met­ calfe, Republican, entitled to the certificate. Frost declares that he will not abide by the de­ cision of the court, but will continue to prose­ cute his claim be/ore the House Committee on Elections. THE TUKKO-KU8SIAN WAR. GEN. GOUBKO, the dashing cavalry officer who penetrated the Balkan line and created a panic in Constantinople, has been afforded an oppor­ tunity to distinguish himself in connection with the operations about Plevna. He turned up unexpectedly to the enemy on the Sofia road, a: d after a tight of ten hours captured a strong position, and with it secured a foothold which "ill seriously interfere wtyh the provisioning of Plevna. Among his prisoners were Achmet i.wsi Pasha and his chief-of-staff, a large num­ ber of officers, 3,000 infantry, an entire regi­ ment. of cavalry, four cannon, and a quantity of rifles and ammunition. IT is announced that the Russians, deeming the wintering of the army in Bulgaria imprac­ ticable on apctunt of the rains, will make des­ perate efforts to defeat the forces of Suleiman Pasha and also for the reduction of Plevna previous to withdrawing the bulk of their troops into Ikmmania. mm A BUCHAREST dispateh says " a body of Rus­ sians carried the Turkish positien of Telische, west of Plevna. One Pasha, several officers, and seven companies of Turkish troops were taken prisoners. Three cannon were captured,' It is announced thst " Kars is completely in­ vested, and that its fall is only a question of time." A OOBBESPONDENT, who was an eye-witness, telegraphs from Erceroum: "As the Turks were evacuating Hassan-Kaleh on Tuesday night, the Russians surprised the rear guard, taking two battalions prisoners. The Russian loss was insignifioant. The enemy's approach was utterly unexpected. Tho Turks now oc­ cupy a formidable position at Dove Boyum, the last defensive position east of Erzeroum." ^' GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. -¥ CHINESE authorities have officially taketi^iJ#- session of the railway between Woosung and Shanghai, and stopped all traffic thereon.... The American stone-masons who lately landed in London have joined the strikers The ac­ count of the capture of the President of the revolutionary Cuban repuBfe, Thomas Estra­ da, and the Secretary of the revolutionary Chamber, by a, Spanish column under CoL Ma- zoviejo, new: Holguin, is officially confirmed, with the additional information that several members of the Chamber were included in the capture. The loss will probably not appall the patriots, but rather lend new bitterness to the spirit of the insurrection. A LONDON dispatch states that "complete ftccees has been obtained to both pits of the High Blantyre oolliery, and it has been ascer­ tained that 250 persons perished." THE hurrioane which recently swept orer the Island of Curacoa, in the West Indies, caused a loss of property estimated at $2,000,- 000. The lose of life was large in the eity of Ouraooa. Many of the most solid structures were crushed by the waves, and many persons were buried in the ruins. The people were made paupers in an hour. THE price of silver has fallen in London to 54% pence per ounce, at which rate the gold value of the trade-dollar is 94% cents The Spanish Government has adopted a military bounty land system for Cuba, somewhat like the Homestead law of the United States. Soldiers who have completed their terms of service and settled in the island are to be allotted portions of the Government lands, which they must occupy and cultivate for three years be­ fore receiving absolute titles. They will be ex­ empt from taxation for five years. The same privileges are promised to homeless insurgents who surrender. A PARIS papqr fears that, unless the political crisis in France should be at once terminated^ that country will be plunged into civil war.... The King of Abyssinia is reported to have gained a great victory over the Egyptians re­ cently, inflicting a loss on the enemy of 23,000 in killed and wounded. PROCEEDINGS OF COXttRESS. THCBSDAT, Oct. 25.--SENATE.--Mr. Conkling presented the petition of citizens of New York against the repeal of the Bankrupt law, and pray­ ing that it be amended... .Mr. Mitchell submitted a resolution authorizing the Committee on Privileges and Elections, in the cases of Messrs. Kellogg and Spofford, claiming a seat from Louisiana, to send for persons and papers and administer oaths, that the committee may decide upon the merits of the title of each contestant Bills were introduced and re­ ferred : By Mr. Garland, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to adjust and settle the debt due the United States by the State of Arkansas. By Mr. Beck, for the relief of distillers of spirits by the refunding and repayment of moneys ex­ pended or paid and deposited by them for Tice meters. By Mr. Kernan, re-establishing the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, and for a re­ distribution of the unappropriated moneys.. .Ad­ journed until Monday, Oct. 29. HOUSE.--The Colorado case was disposed of by referring the papers to the Committee on Elec­ tions. This was carried by a strict party vote--137 to 130 Mr. Garfield presented a petition of 210 colored men, asking A assistance from Congress t« enable them to go to Liberia. It sets forth the difficulty under which the colored people labor In sustaining families in the face of competition from white labor, and asks that an al­ lowance of 1100 each be made to emigrants to Li­ beria under the auspices of the Colonization So­ ciety. Mr. Cox thereupon presented a petition of white mechanics and laborers protesting against the unjust discrimination made in fixing by law the compensation of Government clerks, and leaving that of mechanics and laborers to be established at the whim of individuals. Referred, Mr. Wright presented a petition of 21,000 workingmen of the Twelfth Congressional District of Pennsylvania for a Government loan to aid settlers on the public do­ main. Referred. Mr. Kelley--I desire to "pre­ sent the petition of a citizen of the United States asking Congress to so change the financial system of the country [interruptions by laughter] as that laboring people shall not appeal to the Gov­ ernment for means of expatriating themselves and their posterity, and that they may continue to live in homes of their choice and pursue the calling to which they have been trained. [Laughter.] The Speaker--Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor. [Laughter.] MONDAY, Oct. 29.--SENATE.--The following bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Mat­ thews, to amend the Bankrupt act. By Mr. Ingalls,to fix the date of the meeting of the first regular session of the Forty-fifth Congress on Nov. 1. By Mr. Here­ ford, providing for the coinage of silver dollars and for making the same a legal tender. By Mr. Saun­ ders, to establish the Territory of Lincoln, and to provide a temporary Government therein. By Mr. Booth, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to declare, the forfeiture of railroad grants in certain cases. By Mr. Chaffee, to create a customs collection dis­ trict in the State of Colorado and Territories of Wyoming, Utah and N«w Mexico. By Mr. Garland, to amend BO much of the Sundry Civil Appropria­ tion bill for the present fiscal year as provides for paying mail contractors in the Southern States be­ fore the rebellion The President sent to the Son- ate a largo number of nominations, mostly of the persons nominated during the recess of Con­ gress. Among the nominations were £. W. Stoughton, to be Minister to BusMa; Theo­ dore Roosevelt, Collector, , E. A. Merritt, Surveyor, and Bradford Prince, Naval Officer, at the port of New York; John D. Defreex, to be Public Printer; William Henry Smith, Collector at Chicago; Jewett Palmer, Collector of Internal Rev­ enue in the Fifteenth Ohio District; John Baxter, of Tennessee, United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit: Itomanzo Bunn, District Judge for the West- rn District of Wisconsin... .The Senate, in executive session, confirmed a number of nomi­ nations for small offices, but took no action on those for important places. HOUSE.--The House was flooded by a perfect avalanche of bills. There were introduced, placed upon the records, and ordered to be printed, the enormous number of 845 bills, an average of almost three to each member. The following are the titles of a few of them : Providing for uniform certifi­ cates of the election of members of Congress; re­ ducing the postage on letters; to repeal the law tax­ ing deposits in savings institutions; for the removal of all political disabilities; declaring the Depart­ ment of Agriculture one of tbe Executive Depart­ ments ; for the establishment of a Department of Commerce; to repeal the act for resumption of specie payments; for the restoration of wages in the Government Printing Office; to make United States notes receivable for import duties; also, to consolidate the bonded debt and to reduce interest; to abolish the tax on liquors distilled from fruits; to abolish the iron-clad oath; for mail steamship service to Brazil; repealing the law forbidding the appointment in the army or navy of persons who have served in the army or navy of the Confederate States ; also, to transfer the conduct of Indian affairs to the War Department; to reform the Civil Service; also to provide for counting the Presidential vote; in rela­ tion to votes for PreMideutard Members of Congress . for the issue of national savings bonds; for a Na­ tional Savi gs Depository as a branch of the Post- office Dep3 *inieut; for the admission of Utah as a State :for l.e admission of Dakota a* a State • es­ tablishing i land district in the Black Hills ; to or­ ganize the L «rritory of Pembina Speaker Randall announced t he House Committees. The Chairman­ ships are assigned as follows : Elections, Harris, of Virginia ; Ways and Means, Wood, of New York ; Appropriations, Atkins, of Tennessee; Banking and Curreucy, Buckner, of Missouri; Pacific Railroads, Potter, of New York; Claims. Bright, of Tennes­ see ; Commerce, Reagan, of Texas ; Public Lands, Morrison, of Illinois ; Postoffics and Post Roads, Waddell, of North Carolina; District of Columbia, Williams, of Michigan; Judiciary, Knott, of Ken­ tucky ; War Claims, Eden, of Illinois • Public Expenditures, Hatcher, of Missouri; Private Land Claims, Guuter, of Arkansas ; Manufactures, Wright, of Pennsylvania; Agriculture. Cutler, of New Jersey ; Indian Affairs, Scales, of North Caro­ lina; Military Affairs, Banning, of Ohio; Militia, Miles Ross, of New York; Naval Affairs, Whit- thorne, of Tennessee; Korean Affairs, Swann, of Maryland; Territories, Franklin, of Missouri; Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812, Mackey of Pennsylvania ; Invalid Pensions, Rice, of Ohio ; It ill ways and Canals, Schleicher, of Texas; Mines and Mining, Beebe, of New York; K'inc.-ition and Labor, Goode, of Virginia; Revision of Laws, Walsh, of Maryland; Coinage, heights and Measures, Stephens, of Georgia; Patents, Vance, of North Carolina; Public Build- rgs and Grounds, Cook, of Georgia; Acoounts. Roberts, of Maryland ; Mileage, Cobb, of Indiana • Expenditures of the State Department, flpringer, oi Illinois; Expenditures of the Treasury Depart­ ment, Glover, of Missouri; Expenditures of the War Department, Blackburn, of Kentacikv; Ex­ penditures in the Navy Department, Willis, of Mew York; Expenditures in the Postoffloe Department Williams, ot Alabama; Expenditures In the Interior department, Sparks, of Illinois; Expenditures on Public Buildings, I.ynde, of Wisconsin; Expendi­ tures in the Department of Justice, iiraprg, of Wis­ consin ; Reforms in the Civil Service, Harrison, of Illinois ; Mississippi Levees, Robertson, of Louisi­ ana ; Rules, Stephens, of Georgia; Revision of the Law Regulating tho Counting of the Electoral Votes, etc., Southard, of Ohio; Printing, Singleton, of Mississippi; Enrolled Bills, Hamilton, of Indiana ; Library, Oox, of Now York. TUESDAY, Oct 30.--SENATE.--The Senate was in session but fifteen minutes. A number of bills were introduced and referred to appropriate com­ mittees. Nearly all were of a private nature....A resolution authorizing the presiding officer to ap­ point a select committee on the subject of ascer­ taining Mid declaring tbe result of the election f >r President and Vice Prosident of the United States was agreed to Mr. Coke in '.reduced a bill making an appropriation to pay ov< r to Texas the residue of the ffi.ooo.oou reserved for i he satisfaction of that portion of the public debt of the late republic of Texas for which the duties on imports of said republic were especial­ ly pledged, ing the balance remaining after the payment of such debt. Referred. He also intro­ duced a bill to reimburse Texas for expenses in­ curred by repelling invasions of Indians and Mexi­ cans. Referred... The senate then went into executive session and confirmed the following nominations : E. F. Noyes to be Minister to Franco; E. "vV. SCmsyutou, Iiliijittim to IlUSBiR I TilCUiftS Ow- borne, Minister to the Argentine Republic ; James M. Comley, Minister to the Sandwich Islands; James Russell Lowell, Minister to Spain ;• John A. Kasson. Minister to Austria; Romanw Bunn. United States Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin. A number of other nominations of minor importance were confirmed. HOTTSE.--Not in session. WEDNESDAY, Oct. 31.--SENATE.--The follow­ ing bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Burnside, to remove all restrictions regarding the enlistment of colored citizens in the army By Mr. Ingails, to provide a building for the Postofflce, oourts and other public offices at Topeka, Kan.. .A number of unimportant bills were introduced.... The Vice President announced the select oommittee to consider the question of mak­ ing a change in the method of counting the vote for President and Vice President, as follows: Messrs. Edmunds. Conkling, Howe, McMillan, Teller, Davis (of Illinois), Bayard, Thurman and Morgan--five Republicans, three Democrats and one Independent The Senate was in executive session over an hour, and confirmed several hun­ dred Postmasters, but took no action on important nominations. HOUSE.--Mr. Ewing, from the Committee on Banking and Currency, reported the following bill: " That the third section of the act entitled ' An act to provide for the resumption of specie payments,' approved Jan. 14, 1875, be, and the same is hereby, repealed." Mr. Fort presented the views of the mi­ nority of the committee in the shape of an amend­ ment to the bill as follows: 41A bill to repeal all that part of the act approved Jan. 14, 1875, known as the Resumption act, which authorized the Secre­ tary of the Treasury to dispose of United States bonds, and redeem and cancel the greenback currer- cy. Re it enacted, etc., That all thut portion of the act which reads as follows (quoting as above from the third section), be, and the eame is hereby, re­ pealed."' Mr. Ewing moved that the bill be printed and recommitted, which was agreed to without di­ vision, and he then moved to reconsider that vote; his object being thus to retain control of the bill and be able to call it up at any time. Mr. Conger moved to lay the motion to reconsider on the table, whioh was rejected--yeas,161; nays, 138. THE ftEZ PERCES. Their Terrible Losses In the Big Hole Bat­ tle--The Savages Commended for Their Humanity. i [Helena (Mont.) Cor. Chicago Times.] The career of the Nez Perces, from their first outbreak in Idaho to the sur­ render of a large portion of the band to GeB. Miles at Bear Paw mountain, wag one to which even a frontiersman would hesitate to apply the epithets cowardly and fiendish which are usually called into play to stigmatize the course of even the bravest and most humane In­ dians. The conduct of the Nez Perces, however, has contrasted so strangely and favorably with that of any other United States tribe that those who hate bitterly the whole red race cannot conscien­ tiously condemn them without qualify­ ing their condemnation in the many in­ stances where their course was praise­ worthy. At the verv outset of the war, when they began tneir bloody work in Idaho, they surprised the country by observing one of the unwritten rules of civilized warfare, and gave life and lib­ erty to the women while they murdered the men. In one or two instances, women who came across their trail were subjected to a fate worse than death, their conduct at all other times was such as to give grounds to the be­ lief that these foul deeds were perpe­ trated by renegades from other tribes whom th°i Nez Perces could not restrain. When, after traversing the So So trail, andjallowing themselves to be detained for some days by a handful of men, they entered the Bitter Boot valley, although the valley was defenseless, and they had good reason to be in a bad humor, know ing that every ranch contained men who were burning to avenge the atrocities they had committed in Xdftbo, they fired not a single shot, stole not one horse, were uniformly courteous to the whites, and a hundred United States soldiers would have pil­ laged more than did this body of more than 600 hostile Indians who later proved themselves the best fighters on the plains or in the mountains. There is every reason to believe that the Nez Perces were peaceably inclined when they entered Montana, and that they were intent on reaching British America to negotiate for an alliance with the Sioux. They would certainly have suc­ ceeded in their purpose and returned to ravage the frontier, or at least insolent in the belief that whatever they did henceforth they were sure of a pardon, had not Gen. Gibbon braved overwhelm­ ing odds and struck them such a blow that their flight was badly delayed. Troops were enabled to reach the de­ sired points, and, without detracting from Gen. Miles' merit as an Indian fighter, it may be said that he would never have seen a Nez Perces wigwam had they eluded Gibbon's gallant Sev­ enth Infantry. I am eaabled to give you accurate figures regarding the Indians who perished in the battle of Big Hole, by which the reader may judge what a terrible blow the Nez Perces received on the 9th of August. The burial party, composed of Gibbon and Howard's men, buried eighty-three Indians on tho bat­ tle-ground, and found six bodies in a ravine some distance therefrom. About a week since a party were sent to the battle-field after the body of Capt. Lo­ gan, which they were to take to Fort Shaw for burial. They found that the bodies of both whites and Indians had been exhumed by wild beasts, and that only the bones of the slain remained. They also discovered the bodies of twenty-three Indians who had been buried by caving in the banks of the river on them, making a total of 112 warriors, squaws and papooses who died in that desperate fight. ONE of tlie Harvard Professors was pitched into by a student the other _ _ liight, who strode up to the Professor in to Texas than to any other State in the a horse-cfu*, gave him a stunning blow, i Union. jammed his silk hat down to his shoul­ ders, and escaped before the bewildered Professor could raise the hat and see •ho his assailant was. Down in a Silver Mine* Those who have never personftlly lii- spected the lower levels of our mines may obtain some idea of the degree of heat to be found therein by visiting the Savage works at the change of shifts. The men--packed together as close as they can stand on the cage--are popped up out of the shaft all steaming hot, for all the world like a bunch of asparagus just lifted from th© pot. They make their appearanoe in a cloud of steam that pours up continuously from the "depths profound," and are dimly seen until they step forth upon the floor of the works. As the men land and sep arate each carr'es with him for half a minute his little private cloud of vapor. As this passes off the man is seen to be naked from the waist up, his skin as wet as though he had just been lifted out of a pool of water. The men bring up with them --besides the steam -- an amount of heat that may be felt by the spectator as they pass. All this is at the top of the shaft, where it is considered quite cool what, then, must it be hundreds of feet below', where the men started from -- down where the water stands at 157 degrees Fahrenheit? Down there no steam is seen--it is too hot for it. It is only when the hot, moist air coming up from the lower regions strikes the cool air to­ ward the top of the shaft that it takes the fo>.m of steam. Down there where the men come from you must keep your hands off the pump column and the pipes, and if you pick up any iron tool you will at once put it down without being told to do so. Down there they handle things with gloves on, or wrap rags about the drills they are guiding and iron apparatus they are moving, and down there, too, you will learn to keep your mouth shut after you have drawn a few mouthfuls of hot air into your lungs. Perspire ? It is no name for it. You are like a sponge that is being squeezed. You are ready to believe that you have 10,000,000 pores to every square inch of surface, or as many more as any author­ ity may mention, and that all these pores are as big as the cells of a honey-comb. You go for ice-water, and it almost seems to hiss as it passes down your throat--you keep going for it, and tjius, in a short time, find out what becomes .of the tons and tons of ice that are daily consumed in the mines. Remain below among the miners for an hour or two, and when you are finally popped out at the top of the shaft, all red-hot and steaming, among the other asparagus sprouts, you will appreciate the beauty, the light and the coolness of the upper world.-- Virginia ^Nev.) Enterprise. A Revolting Crime. The trial of four persons for Zhurder in England, in allowing the wife of one of them to die of starvation and neglect, has resulted in the conviction of all four. In this extraordinary case, Louis Staunton, an artist, his brother Patrick, Mrs. Patrick Staunton, and her sister, Alice Bhodes, were the parties accused. The murdered woman, Mrs. Louis Staunton, was somewhat underwitted, prospective heir to £4,000, and in posses­ sion of £1,800. Her mother endeavored to prevent her marriage, and asked the Chancery Court to be appointed her guardian, but the court deemed her compos mentis. Her mother made her one visit after her marriage, but was never permitted to see her again. She was secluded and kept in confinement in the family of Patrick Staunton, while her husband lived with Alice Bhodes as his wife. A child was born to Mrs. Staunton, was sent to a hospital to die, and its mother was reduced in the same week to the point of death, when she was removed to another town. This, of course, resulted in her death, when tlie burial authorities found her remains in a very emaciated and neglected condi­ tion. It was a necessary peculiarity of such A case that there would be veiy little direct evidence, and that guilt would have to be inferred from the moral probabilities. The only evidence was that of a servant girl as to the neglect and abuse to which Mrs. Staunton was subject at Patrick Staunton's, and as to the existence of a letter from Louis to the Bhodes girl, expressing his affection for her, and a desire to have " Harriet out of the way." The letter had been destroyed, and the testimony of the servant as to its contents was the only evidence of its existence. The circum­ stances of the marriage, the seclusion of the murdered woman, the amour of her husband with Alice Bhodes, and the re­ moval and neglect of Mrs. Staunton at a time when such removal put her life in peril, were the chief grounds of the conviction. Baron Hawkins summed up severely against the prisoners, and, in passing sentence, said he had no doubt the infant was murdered also. The jury recommended the two women to mercy. All the parties were comparatively young, and the murdered woman wis well-oon- nected. Altogether, it was a very re­ volting crime. Mennonite Houses in Nebraska. Of late I have eaten dinner cooked by grass, as well as examined straw fur­ naces in the houses of Bishop Peters arid scores of his flock. There has been no freezing in his house (48x26) during the two years since it was built. Yet his only winter fuel has been straw, and his furnace, the iron work of which cost $6, is heated only three times a day. What Nebraska bad wasted now warms a thou­ sand Muscovites. Bussian furnaces, I notice, are already set up in the houses of Yankees, who see that if their fuel shall be henceforth costly or their dwell­ ings cold, the fault will oe all their own. --Chicago Times. An "Extenuatiog Circumstance" In* deed. In France a murderer is never hung if the jury appends to its verdict the words "with extenuating circumstances." The consequence is that, no matter how atrocious the crime may be, it is almost impossible to obtain a verdict of guilty without the addition of these words. A few years ago a man killed his mother and father. He was found guilty, with extenuating circumstances. These cir­ cumstances were that he was an orphan. --London 2 ruth. THERE are more people immigrating IIFTY YEARS ENGAGED. A Woman's LOTS REQUITED Alter an Caffement of Half a Century. [From the Carlisle (Ky.) Mercury.] % . Up.^rd of fifty years ago there lived ftt this oonnty a young swain possessing- the patronymic of George W. Gillespie,, generally known and called by the ple­ beian appellation of "Wash." In his whilom tergiversations he became tan­ gled up in the affections of Miss Annie: Wilson, of Bath, who in her pristine* days was a rural lass of no groveling: presence. They were wont to congxe- gateunder the umbrageous shrubbery of old man Wilson and exchange those- soul-inspiring words and glances which only the juvenile tillers of the soil can enjoy, till George found himself engaged and the day named. But trivial troubles, arose which seemed mountains in George's eyes, and in a fit of disap­ pointment he pulled stakes and sought a habitation in the West. As time lapsed his passion for the fair Annie sufficiently paled to admit of his affections being centered upon another, whom he mar­ ried and reared a family of eleven chil­ dren, all of whom are now married hav­ ing long since abandoned the parental hearth. Two years since Mrs. Gillespie died, and the lonely widower began to- revolve in his craniological lottery wheel a few schemes to get a wife, wnen the- quondam apple of his eye was presented, and he unanimously adopted a resolution to return to his first love in Bath. He found her enjoying the isolated lot of an old maid, and told her he didn't mean anything by it, and asked if die. was still angry. She said she felt a lit­ tle miffed at first, but had partly gotten over it. It was not long till he had suc­ ceeded in reinstating himself in that en • viable place in her heart which only he had ever held, and the sparks of affec­ tion which had smoldered in her devoted bosom for more than half a century were rekindled. The two lovers visited the Paris Fair in company, and, while there, called on Clerk Patton to obtain the requisite marriage documents, which were issued by this urbane gentleman (after proper inquiry as to their ages). They then sought the smiling countenance of Judge Turney, and were wedded. . They spent several hours at the fair, and in the evening took the tra infor Cin­ cinnati to enjoy the sweets of a wedding tour. Beturmng to Carlisle, they were met at the train by that kind-hearted gentleman, George Bramblette, and con­ veyed to his neat Gothic residence^ where, amid relatives and friends and de­ lectable strains of music, all was peace and joy unalloyed, and the assemblage wished them a happy voyage up life's- path. The bride is 69 years old, and the groom is 73. An Apologue of the East. Two young bloods, much against their will, find themselves engaged to fight a duel. Both go to the only fencing-mas­ ter in town, and each receives from him this advice: " The moment you cross swords take a pace backward and be on your guard for your adversary's slight­ est movement. Even if he disengages himself and retires, beware all the same --it may be a feint." The two duelists receive these instructions with exceed­ ing great joy, treasure them up and act upon them so faithfully that, after twen­ ty minutes of extreme prudence on both sides, the seconds interfere and stop the combat. " No, no," they cry, "you are too strong for each other. It would be sheer butchery to let this continue." And the enraged combatants are com­ pelled to embrace and all breakfast to­ gether. IN 1876 the exports of books from England amounted to about $4,400,000. Of these the United States received books to the value of $955,000, while Canada and other North American prov­ inces received only to the value of $340,- 000. The United States sent to England in 1876 books to the value of $90,000. MR. AND MRS. BAKDWEI<IJ, an aged couple of Whaley, Mass., divided their money into equal parts before starting on a journey, each taking one. Their idea was that at least half of the sum would be saved from thieves; but the world is wickeder than they thought. Both their pockets were picked. THE debt of New York eity is $3,000,- 000 less than last yeari THE MARKETS. NEW YOBK. BECTES Hoos COTTON FLOCB--Superfine WHEAT--No. 2 Chicago 1 30 OOBM--Western Mixed 60 OATS--Mixed 83 RTE--Western 70 PORK--New Mesa 14 75 LAUD CHICAGO. BXEVKS--Choice Graded Steers 6 35 Choice Natives 4 60 Cows and Heifera 3 40 Butchers'Steers 3 35 Medium to Fair 4 00 Hoos--Live 4 35 FLODB--Fancy White Winter #75 Good to Choice Spring Ex. 5 60 WHKAT--No. 2 Spring I 11 _ No. 3 Spring 1 08X<& 1 04 COKN--No. 2 44 <£ 45 OATS--No. 3 24 0 38 RY*--NO. 2 68 & 54 BABLEY--NO. 2 60 % 61 BUTTEK--Choice Creamery 81 0 88 Eoos--Fresh 17 % 18 PORK--Mess. IS 50 &13 00 LAKI> 8 A 8J£ MILWAUKEE. WHKAT--No. 1. 1 10#® I 18 No. 2 1 08 1 08 CORN--No. 3 44 OATS--No. 2 94 RYE--No. 1 54 $7 00 011 00 . 5 35 <& 5 50 . 5 00 ® 6 40 0 1 30 0 62 0 38 0 72 015 00 0 5 50 0 5 00 0 3 75 0 3 75 . 0 4 50 « # 12*£ 0 7 25 0 5 7# 0 1 12 68 BAULKY--No. 2 ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 3 Red Fall ......... CORK--No. 2 Mixed OATS--No. 2 RYE PORK--Mesa ' LARD ...... Hoos CATTLE CINCINNATI W'HEAT--Red OORH OATS RYE PORK--Mesa 18 75 LABD 8 TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 1 White Michigan... No. 2 Red Winter COBN OATS--No. 2 DETROIT. Ftorn--Choice White WHEAT--No. I White No. 1 Amber 1 27 CORN--No. 1 48 OATS--Mixed 27 BARLEY (per cental) 1 10 PORK--Mess 15 25 EAST LIBERTY, PA. CATTLE--Best s 30 Fair 4 25 Common 4 00 Hoos 4 70 »HEKP 3 SO 0 0 0 45 25 55- 64 1 27 42 25 54 18 75 8 4 60 8 75 1 18 40 27 58 1 80 1 27 48 36 6 25 1 30 0 1 28 0 43 9 26 0 55 014 00 « 8JK 0 5 20 0 5 30 0 1 28 6 46 0 31 0 70 @14 00 @ Otf 0 1 31 @ 1 28 0 50 0 27 0 6 50 1 31 0 1 28 (4 28 0 1 35 <S>15 50 0 5 40 0 5 00 * 25 (4 f 0 6 25