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!iM .v. :A t < >• 'Vl' 1 "r j i -j* -• f, , »4 •i •• *&' IU K* >1**®? &€> ' < " iri' «•$ » •*"'** .*• * a . SS® # ,-v - - i..p'-»A *- *" *-» At» >$*+•;• r-'j"- >i, '\< 'vK "V? ' ̂ ' '>v '; &irr. *••.••,•«.•- -.v.̂ V r. i r: '•, -;*i g,{ > ' ^FUMRG ^LIUTTDRALCL' J. TAX 8LYKE, EDITOR, AXD PITBLISHEE. mSENRY, " - ILLINOIS, .fBSi, J--J--. '• i r, MK* WEEK The^JKntU ~Jj» investigation of the accounts ol fll Mt County Treasurer, Conklin, of Oawego, & I., show* a defalcation of #183,000. A house owned by John Guyer, in Allegheny ooanty, Pa., was destroyed by fire a few mornings ago. Guyer and a man named IVUBOO, who were sleeping in the building, did Bel awake in time to escape, and were roasted to a crisp. George Shum, who was also an inmate, was burned so badly that his life is despaired of. The Methodist ministers of New York sad neighboring cities, at a conference held last week, discuased the Anti-Clrineae bill re- OaDtly passed by Congress, and Voted unani­ mously to ssend an address to the President ask­ ing him to veto St Brooklyn has been feeding paupers on meat not fit for dogs, and allowing hospital pa­ tient* to recline on wet straw. The old American Bible Society will dSteTe to tko terms of its constitution, which provide that only the King James version of the Bible shall be circulated. The Atlantic Knitting Mills, at Cohoes. •.3$£fc.\ have been destroyed by fire. V The WeaU James McEIvoy, a printer, lately of Chicago, where his parents reside, has been convicted of murder and sentenced to be hung at Hastings, Neb. He killed hia victim--one Henry Stulzman, a farmer--for the purpose of rabbet?. Ex-Gov. Pennington, of Dakota Ter­ ritory, offended the members of the Xwriloiiil Legislature, and they changed the name of Pennington county to Sumner. The Illinois State Board of Agricult- WN has decided 'to offer prizes for the best> drilled companies of nt tfyf DSKt State Fair. Bi Bey. Thomas Foley, Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Chicago, has just died In that city, of pneumonia, in the 57th year of bis age. lite remains were taken to Baltimore tor Interment Illinois has expended oyer $3,500,000 en her new Capitol, and yet it is a long way from being finished. Col. Bice, the bayonet inventor, of Fort Keogh, and Lieut. Sibley, and Morris CJshn, a merchant of Evanevttle, IncL, while en route to Bismarck, Dak. Ter., in aa ambu­ lance, were waylaid by four highwaymen and compelled to fork over their loose change. The officers lost #200 and Cahn #2,500. About ffie time they had finished tbis job an escort of five soldiers, who were strolling behind, came oPi and were accorded a similar reception. One soldier had 7 cents, and the robbers took them. When the work was all done the mili- tary party were ordered to stack arms and skin out The Chicago Daily Commercial Bulletin prints a resume of the hog-packing tafciness in the West during the winter season 1878-9. The estimated increase in the numbel of hogs packed is 'JG0,OOO, but the quality is not quite as good as that of last season, and the in crease in product is only about equal to 630,00( hogs of last year's weight The total numbei of hogs estimated packed for tbe season b At Baltimore, lfenry Bowers, jndge f Selection at the late Congressional election, r refusing permission to the United States Supervisor to inspect the ballot-box before the voting, was sentenced to twelve months' im­ prisonment and fined. Six other election offi­ cers, for violation of the Election laws, were also sentenced to imprisonment and tines. John McLeon, a quondam Methodist preacher, now in prison at Asheville, N. C., is the champion bigamist of the age. He has been married nineteen times, his wives are all alive, and none of them has be been legally separated from. George W. Dupre, State Printer of Louisiana, has been indicted for perjury by the New Orleans Grand Jury. A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., gives the following brief particulars of a shocking railway disaster: "A passenger train on the 8ehma, Borne and Dalton road, which had just left Selma, Ala., fell through a rotten bridge over Mulberry creek, thirteen miles from Selma. George Evans, a prominent young Alabamian, and four negroes were killed. Three white men were fatally hurt M. Stanton, Superin­ tendent of the road, is among those fatally wounded. Twenty-five persons were injured. Conductor White was terribly wounded. The sleeping-car did not go down with the wreck. All the rest of the train, including several freight cars and the engine, were smashed in one mass. The bridge was perfectly rotten, and much in- \dignation exists. The escape of so many is fepnsiderec miraculous," "Virginia, constable, near Washing- tan City, went with a pome of thirtv-five men to the house of Felix Quandera (colored) for the purpose of serving a warrant Quanders bar­ ricades. Ms doors. The constable ordered 1 im to come out, but he declined. An attempt was made to fire the bouse. The posse then fired ttirty -five shots into the house, wounding QaanderSj Sr., Iiis wife, two sons, the wife of one of the sons, and a female visitor. The Mistablewas arrested and placed under bonds. •Hear Baltimore, Md., Farmer Parks, horseback, drunk, refused to ride home With MB wife and family in a carriage, exclaim­ ing that he could ride to helL After a full ®tflop for a short distance, he was <1b«M against a stone and killed. In Sumter, S. O., two neferoes, who Iferned another's barn because ho voted the Democratic ticket, have been sentenoed to the penitentiary for two years. The press and people of New Orleans Indignantly deny that the yellow fever has re­ appeared in that city. 5 George Washington (colored) wa* • Ambly hanged at Louisville, Ky., the otbei When the drop wag sprung the ropt •sapped in twain, and the culprit fell with s heavy thud to the ground. The body was lift- ,0 up, another noose placed around the neck, ';.*4|id tha bungling job completed Washington^ ̂The President has appointed George . /, {X Codd Postmaster at Detroit * The Senate Chamber in the Capitol at Washington is to be lighted by electricity, The report of the Senate on Territories is published. It states tiat tfore •re 90,000 citizens of AM United State* right­ fully residing in the Jnclian Territory whose property interests and lives are in such danger that immediate legislation by Congress Is neoes- sary for their proteotkm. According to the official retains made t» the Bureau of Statistioa, the number of im­ migrants who arrived in the United States dur­ ing tbe calendar years of 1877 and 1878 was as follows: Year ended Dec. 31, 1877, 130,508; year ended Dec. 31, 1878, 153,207. This shows an increase in tbe number of those coming to this country for settlement amounting to '£!,704. The Government departments were •11 closed on Feb. 22, in honor of Washington's birthdav. The report of the special committee appointed by the Senate to investigate the causes of the omission of tho Hot Springe mo­ tion from the enrolled Sundry Civil Appropri­ ation bill last secaion says that all the evidence goes to show that the omission was a clerical error. The President has nominated John W. Chapman for Marshal of the District of Iowa. The Senate Committee on Agi:cnlv- tire, with Mr. Paddock as Chairman, have ex­ amined numerous Witnesses with regard tt pleuro-pueumonia in cattle. All concurred that the country is free from this disease, anc letters from Kentucky, Ohio, DUuois, Tex at and Nebraska showed that fact. On Long iahuid the disease is being 8 stamped oat" » Miscllanetms? The native Indians of Alaska are menacing the white settlers, and the latter have appealed to the British authorities it Vic­ toria for protection The visible supply of grain in the States and Canada is 20,604,000 bushels of wheat, 9,524,000 bushels of corn, 2,864,000 bushels of oats, 1,321,000 bushels of rye, and; 4,541,000 bushels of barley. Miss Reynolds, an 18-year-old girl, has begun at Troy, N. ¥., the task of walking 3,000 quarter miles in 8,000 consecutive quarter honrs. Miss May Marshall, of Chicago, has lately accomplished, at Washington, 2,700 quar­ ter miles in 2,700 quarter hours; and Madame La Chapello has achieved a similar feat at Chicago. Secretary Sherman has ordered the revenue cutter Oliver Wolcott, now at Port Townsend, to Sitka, to preserve the peace. The British man-of-war Osprey has also left Vic­ toria, B. C., for Sitka, at the earnest request of «ati. ens wjjo represented that they feared indis­ criminate massacre by the Indians. It is asserted on pretty good authori­ ty that the bill restricting the immigration of Chinese which passed the Senate of the United States WOB in accord with the desires of tbe Pekin Government, and that the Chinese Min­ ister at Washington privately employed agents to urge its passage. Several (Cabinet Ministers at Washington believe that the bill will,be in­ operative if it becomes a law. There are many Trays to evade it What is to hinder a ship from landing them on the coast of Mexico or British America, and let them march over at their leisure, and in the meantime the ship sail away on the salty seas boyend the reach of California courts and juries* The British steamer Zanzibar sailed from New York for Glasgow on tho 11th oi January, since which no tidings havo been re- ceiVcd from her. She is given up as lost, will all on board. Clias. W. Angell, of Chicago, the de­ faulting Secretary of the Pullman Palace C«i Company, arrived in Philadelphia from Lisbon 'last week. Since the law to reward individuals for heroic conduct in saving life at sea w«t parsed in 1874, tho Uovernnicut lias awarded twenty-five medals, ten of them to persona liv­ ing on the shores of the great lakes. Political. Zachariah Chandler was on the 18th inst elected United States Senator from Michi­ gan to fill the vacancy created by Judge Chris- fancy's resignation. He received the vote of every Republican member of the Legislature. The Democrats supported Barnes, and the Greenbackers cast their votes for Chamber- Uin. The Ohio Prohibitionists are early in" the field this year. They met at Columbus last week, adopted a platform, andnominatod a full State ticket, headed by George T. Stewart, ol Norwslk. for Governor. A sub-committee of the Teller Com­ mittee, with Senator Hoar for Chairman, hat been formed to make a Northern investigation. -1FOREIGX/ INTELLIGENCE. George Williamson, United States Minister to Central America, has resigned, and gone into the mining business in that country London dispatches state that the British defeat in South Africa * was not alto­ gether a surprise. The British troops were unprepared, but the triumph of the Zulus, was owing to their pluck as well as numbers. Fif­ teen thousand Zulus, armed with swords, at­ tacked the British. Under a murderous British fire the Zulus at first fell by hundreds, but the plucky eavagee in the rear, oomingon, filled up the gaps and the vast horde still advanced until within charging distance, when they rushed in with desperate courage for a death struggle. Encumbered with long rifles and being out­ numbered ten to one, the British were stricken down by the Zulus with their Roman blade# in a hand-to-hand combat The scene was a wild orgie of death--a massacre, yet a battle." There seems to be a probability that the difference between the German Govern­ ment and the Vatican majrat length be adjusted. It is reported by cable that cordial letters have been exchanged between the Emperor and the Pope, and that "concessions are made on both sides." Pleuro-pneumonia is spreading among the cattle in Yorkshire, England Pope Leo XIIL has finally decided to accent Archbishop Purcell's resignation, and now has the appointment of his successor un­ der consideration. The Bussian army of occupation be­ gun the evacuation of Turkey on the 18th of February. The great strike of dock laborers in Liverpool has ended by the workmen giving in. In Ireland, CoL Cslthurst, the Home- Ruler, has been elected member of Parliament for the County Cork by 6,199 majority over nephew, Sir George Calthurst, Conservative, and an influential land-owner. Advices from Afghanistan report that order has been restored in CabuL It is de­ clared that Yakoob Kahn is improving by the inactivity of the British, being busy in recruit­ ing and drilling hie forces, and that his troops Ion daily gaining MoAdanea.,/̂ "; : I Beinforeements are rapidly leaving England for Znlu Land. The fli|i(i§l*li Governments continue their preeaMttMM Hfffest thedmded plagu* Egyptian finanoes are in a deplorable condition, and tike Xfcedivs is having serious trouble wtfti the offloers and soldiers of his army, who loudly clamor for their arrearages of pay. Recently % largo wiob, by military officers, surrounded the palace and threatened violence if they were not paid. The Khedive had some of them arrested, which has only had the effect of doubly incensing their comrades against that functionary. To add to the Khe­ dive's troubles, nearly all his Cabinet Ministers have resigned, and others threaten to follow. The black Bepublio of Hayti is in the throes of ^ier regular semi-yearly revolution. A severe battle has been fought, in which the Government forces were victorious. All of the insurgent prisoners captured were put to death. A report comes from far-distant Bur- mah that the King has murdered all the royal Princes and their families, and set himself up as a despot England's emphatic stand against fluesia in Afghanistan has borne fruits. All attempted interference has been resented, and the alternative of war has Induced Russia, to accept the situation and court peace. Schouvaloff, with direct instructions from the Czar, gives^Salisbury pos­ itive assurance that Russia will not interfere in tho English settlement of Afghan affairs, and will withdraw all menacing advances. Beaconsfield is understood to declare that England now holds all the points necessary to a scientific frontiers which the Generals are ordered to for­ tify and make impregnab e. Military engineers report that England is now master of the passes through which India is alone accessible by land. The powers have decided to refer the "Dobrud'scba-boundary question to the Ambas­ sadors at Constantinople. Tho Austrian Gov­ ernment, before assenting, insisted that the de­ cision of tho majority must bo final, to wibict tue Russian Government has agreed. Great consternation prevails In Bur- mail on account of tho royal murders. Th< victims numbered eighty-six. The people.ar< beseeching British iutertercnoe. Great Britain aud the continent have been visited by another Bevere snow­ storm. Several heavy failures are i«jportec Irom England and Scotland. TUB POTTER IK VJESTJOATTOff. John F. Coyle, one of the witnesses before the Potter Committti* at Washington, swore that he went to Floridar at the request of CoL Pelton. Edward Cooper gave him his cipher and instruc­ tions, and he sent telegrams to Henry Have- meyer. He was authorized to employ money, and did use about 910,000. The witness gave an ao- connt of negotiations through Alexander Thein tor the purchase of the Returning Board, bu»* they were not concluded. Witness felt positive Mr. Tilden knew nothing of these matters.... Thomas C. Dunn, one of the South Carolina Re­ turning Board, testified that he had been ap­ proached,pending the counting the votes of Soutk Carolina, by one Hardy Solomon, Trho stated that he was requested to see members of the Re. turning Board and ascertain whether it was possible to enter into any negotiations by which the vote of that board could be so shaped as to give the electoral vote of South Carolina, or a portion of it, to Tilden. Dunn and Solomon had frequent interviews, at which the subject was discussed. The argument that Solomon used was that he had been told by the Democratic leaders there that they had the Democratic strength of the State in arms and organized, and that they could put 4,(XK) men into Columbia on a few hours' notice. They meant to take the State peaceably if they could, forcibly if they must Witness said that Solomon represented that there was an agent of Tilden in Columbia for the purpose of using money, if needed, to secure the electoral vote.... Gen. Barlow, of New York, cold the committeo how he happened to go to Florida. He said he saw Dr. Cmvgill after the Returning Board had adjourned, and said to him he (witness) did not See how they could fairly give the State to the Hayes electors, and, if he were in Cow-gill's place, he should feel it his duty to give the vote to the Tilden electors. Witness said be could not be termed counsel to the Republican party, although he wrote for them opinions on points of iaw, and did other legal work for them.... .William E. Chandler was called, and testified that Mr. Barlow was in Florida as counsel for tho Republicans, and as such was under obligations to the members of that party. Mr. Barlow then defendel bid course before the Florida Canvassing Board, and said he did what he considered his duty as a nerson sent there in the interest of honesty. Louisiana politics were the subject of inves­ tigation by the Potter Committee on the 20tU inst, United States Marshal Wharton being the only witness called during the day. The wit­ ness expressed the opinion that Mr. Wells was willing to sell out to the Democrats provided ! his price were proffered. Madclox was supposed to have been the agent through which negotiations were carried on. Jkladdox at one time told witness that he be­ lieved if the State administration would give Gov. Wells what was regarded as its biggeat offer, that Wells would be satisfied. Much evi­ dence of the venality of Louisiana politicians was developed in the examination of Marshal Wharton. --The Potter Committee, on Feb. 21, held s rather uninteresting sessicy,. at which Manager Whitney, of the Western Union Telegraph Company, said that within the last ninety dayg there had been some telegrams withdrawn froir: bis cfiice, which were sent to New York. The telegrams were from Gibson, at New Orleans, to the correspondent of the Nov/ York Sun at Washington. Gen. Butler then cross-examined Marshal Whaiton, when it was brought out that Maddox expected to be appointed chief of the secret- service division, and was to give witness a place. Witness said that he had never made any proposition to any member of tho Return­ ing Board that would lead him to entertain an idea that ho t Wharton) wanted to buy him out He was positive that if the board did its duty Hayes and Packard would surely be elected. CONGRESSIONAL, FEBRUABY 15.--After a long and animated debate the Senate passed, by a vote of 8t to S7. the House bill to restrict the immigration of Chinese. ... .Mr. Allison introduced a bill to provide a sink­ ing fund for bonds issued in pursuance of th« act of Congress of June SO, ' 1874, known as 3.65 District of Columbia bonds.... Mr. McPberaon presented a petition of the New Jersey Historical Society in favor of erecting a monument to Christopher Columbus by the re­ public* of the Western Hemisphere, and that the United States take the initiative. The House wai- engaged all day on (he Legislative Appropria­ tion bill. FJEBKOJUIT 17.--In the Senate, [Mr. Windom pitsented a petition of colored people of Louisiana favoring the passage ol his resolution in relation to the migration of blacks.... The bill to provide for tbe construction of a bridge across thti>His- souri river at Decatur, Neb., was passed--The MOBtea Of the nda, the WU afgveptlatlaf #ae,- MM09 tor the payment of the srHMues «f pttsions. ....Mr. Hale sflsntt a resolution directing the On--mlltM «a Mm Judidsry to wjport a Joint resolution Moposing a , constitutional amendment to prohntt ttepeymenfofwar claims except of {MnM&t logs! to the Union....l%e Bint and Harbor Appropriation bill was passed--Me­ morial Mwwilsss of the late Representative SchleleM* weialidAla the evening. FKBKUABT la--Tha Senate adopted a resolu­ tion to pay Joseph Begar §8,000 in full compensa lion lor hia expenses In prooecutin? s sWm to 3 •eat as Senator from Virginia in 18fl3 Th« House bill to promote the knowledge oi steam-engineering and iron ahlp-bnilding among students of scientific schools or colleges was passed....The Revenue bill was discuoRcd. amended, and finally passed, with the amendment redlining the tobacco tax to 16 cents. The House, after wasting nearly two hours on questions of precedence, took up the Census bill, and devoted the entire day session to its coxtiloleratiiin An evening session, lasting till past midnight,' was devoted to the con­ sideration of the Legislative Appropriation bill. There was a hot contest over the publiciland surveys. The matter, as finally fixed up, leaves the bill in about this condition: The Coast Sdrvey is transferred from the Treasury to the Interior Department. and the consolidated bureau is given charge of the geoj?raph- ical work of the Coast Survey and the Interior Department, and the special scientific sur­ veys known as the Powell, tho Hayden and the Wheeler surveys are abolished; and a new Bureau of Geological Purveys is crested, with a chief to be appointed by the President. Tlie Western men. under the lead of Patterson, of Colorado, and Page, ot California, who did most of the { work, defeated the Appropriation Committee in its effort to destroy the General I,and Office, and th<}(present land pystem. The*urveys having been painted, the amendment to repeal the jurors' test- oasli and the Ferttval SuperviHor law authorizing the use of Deputy Marshals were moved, pending which the House adjonrntd. FEQBUABT 19.--The Senate WM an gaged nearly all day on the Postofflce Appropriation bill. There was a sharp fight on the Brazilian mail- steamship subsidy, but no vote was reached in the matter. The House resumed consideration of the Legislative Appropriation bill. the jurors' test-oath amendments being In order. Mr. Hale raised a point of order'against the amendment, which was overruled. Various amendments were offered by the Republicans, hut all were voted down. After a two-hours' sirntrgle, the repeal was carried in the committee ot the whole by a vote of 127 to 87.. The iiext amend­ ment repealing the Supervisors of Election law was then taken up. Mr. Hale opened the debate in op­ position to the repeal, and raised a point ot order sigainst it. He characterized the action of the Dem­ ocrats in trying to forcc mieh IctMHlatiou through Congress as simply revolutionary, and said, speaking for the lie.publican side of the House, that every known parliamentary rule and device would be resorted to to prevent it from" being passed. .The Demo­ crats defended the movement on the ground that tlie law which it was sought to repeal, iimiead ot preserving the purity of the ballot-box. liirhished out of the national treasury a cnmpaiim fund f»r cither party which might be in power to corrupt an election. Tbe debate was long and,s] irited, lmt without reaching a vote on the pr&position the House adjourned. FEBRUARY 20.--In the Senate, the Army Ap­ propriation bill was reported back from the com­ mittee, divested of all the srmy reorganization sec­ tions inserted by the Souse....Mr. Shields deliv" ered a speectftn favor of the bill granting peasiona to the surviving soldiers of the Mexican war.... The Benste had a long fight over the Brazilian Mail snbsidy amendment to the Posteftice Appropriation bill, lasting until after midnight. The scheme was finally adopted, the byi passed, and the Senate adjourned at 1 o'clock a. m. The House opeut the entire day in oensidering the Florida contested-election case of Finley vs. Bisbee. A resolution was adopt­ ed unseat ne Horace Bisbee fltcpublicanj and seat- i.iK im- uciuocratic contestant,.John J.Finley... .An evening session was heki. which was devoted to memorial (<ervicea in honor of the deceased mem­ bers--Williams, of Michigan, and Welch, of 2fe- branka. FEBBUART 21.--In the Senate, Mr. Voorhssa introduced a bill directing the Secretary of th< Treasury to issue legal tenders equal in amount to the fractional currency retired--about $2«1,000,<)0( --to pay the arrears of pensions The bill regu" lating the transportation of animals was passed.... Mr. 8aunders. from tbe Committee on Indian Af­ fairs, reported without amendment the Senate bill to authorize the President lempornrily to trannfci the. management ot certain Indian tribes from the Interior to the War Department. Tlie House waj engaged all day on the private calendar, and t>everal war claims were squelched. RESTRICTING CHINESE TlOtf. IMMIGRA- IStlr- The following is the text of the bill to restrict the imn^gratibn of Chinese to the United States, aa it passed Con* gress: Be it enacted, etc., That no master of any vessel owned in whole or in part by a citizen of the United States, or by a citizen of any foreign country, shall take on board Buch vessel at any port or place within the Chinese empire or at way other foreign port or place whatever, any number exceeding fifteen Chinese passengers, whether male or female, with intent to bring such passengers to the United States, and leave such port or place and bring such passengers, to any number exceeding fifteen on one voyage, within the jurisdiction of the United States. SEC. 2. That whenever a master or other person in charge of anv such vessel takes on board the same at any foreign port or place any greater number of Chinese passengers than is prescribed in the first section of this act with intent to bring such passengers to the United States, and leave such port aud bring such pas­ sengers to any number exceeding fifteen on one voyage within the jurisdiction of the United Stntea, he shall be deemed guilty of a misde­ meanor, and shall, for each passenger so taken on board and brought within the jurisdiction of the United States, exceeding the number of fifteen, be fined $100, and may al-o be impris­ oned for not exceeding six months. SEC. 3. That the master of any vessel arriv­ ing in the United States, or any of the Territories thereof, from any foreign place, whatever, at the same time that he delivers a manifest of the cargo, and, if there be no c*rgo, then at the time of making a report or entry of the vessel, pur­ suant, to law, Bhsjll, in addition to other matters required to be reported by law, deliver and re­ port to the Collector of the district in which such vessel shall arrive, a separate list of all Chinese passengers taken on board the vessel at any foreign port or place, and of all Buch passen­ gers on lioard the vessel at that time. Such list shall be sworn to by the master in the same manner as directed by law in relation to the manifest of cargo, and the refusal or neglect of a master to comply with the provisions of this section shall receive the same penalties, disabili­ ties, and perfectures as are provided for the re­ fusal, or neglect to report and deliver the mani­ fests of cargo. SEC. 4 That the amount of the several pen­ alties imposed by (he foregoing provisions shall be in liens on the vessels violating those provisions, and such vessels shall l>e libeled therefor in any Circuit or District Court of the United States where such vessel shall arrive. SEC. 5. That nothing herein contained shall be held to repeal or modify any law forbidding the importation of coolies, or of females for im­ moral purposes, into the United States: pro­ vided, no Consul or Consular Agent of the United States, residing at any port from which any vessel taking Chinese passengers may take her departure, shall grant the certificate pro­ vided for in section 2,1(52 of the Revised Statutes for more than fifteen Chinese passengers in any one vessel. SEC. (>. That this act shall not appiy to per­ sons officially connected with tbe ChiiKwo Gov­ ernment or any embassy'thereof, Or to persona rescued from shipwreck during the vovage of and by a vessel bringing the same wit'biu the jurisdiction of the United States, or to the mas­ ter of any vessel seeking a harbor in stress of weather, or to persons who may only seek temporary residence for educational purposes and who shall have a certificate from the Chi­ nese Government for that purpose. SEC. ̂ 7. That this .act shall 'take effect from Senate was engaged tbe whole afternoon and till 1:80 and after the 1st of July, 1879. and the Presi- o'clock at night in discussing tfc* bill to amend ! the Uiiited States^ shall immediately, '* " • • - • - - • on the approval of this act, givo notice to the Government of China of the abrogation of articles 5 and 6 of the additional articles of the treaty of June 18, 1&58, between the United States aud China, proclaimed Feb. 5,1870, com­ monly called the Burlingame treaty. • HE who knows himself best esteems WmMlf lea*. %• the Internal Revenue law, the proposed function of the tax on tobacco eonstltuting the tone of con­ tention.... The Senate In executive session con- armed John F. Hartnuoft m Postmaster of Philadelphia, and A. Louden Snowden as Super­ intendent of the Philadelphia Mint.,. .The nomina­ tion of William Hays, to be Postmaster at St. Louis, was reported back from the committee without recommendation, the commit­ tee being equally divided as to the advisability of --.-- -The Hoaso passed, aadsr a «as- .vcxi urcuijf ci^ui fjeootaMtloit.' ELECTION S&JPEM VISORS. Extra*** from flp Defepte ln the* National House of BmprmmmtmOvtm on the Proposi­ tion to Abolish Them, Mr. Frye (Republies*) argued against the amendment. He dedatad its object was for effect not in the South, bat in the State of New York. In the South, notwithstanding the elec­ tion laws, the Republican party had disappeared as the dew before the rising son. The Sonth would l»e solid for the Democratic for President in 1880. law or no law, Supervisor or no Supervisor, United States Marshal or no United States Marshal. Mr. Frye went on to state that it was the election frauds in 1868 that had originally caused the enactment of the Federal Election law, and tint it was the present necessities of the Democratic party «i^* now required ite repeal. He gave some of the figures ot the naturalization and election frauds in New York in 18H8, and characterized that election as the most monstrous and marvelous for fraud, for wickedness, and for every device of the devil, that had ever been heard ot. He showed that, on the 0th of October, in erne single day, the Supreme Court had natural­ ized 2,109 persons, and on the 19th of October the Supreme Court had naturalized 919, and yet a Jndge of Louisiana had been impeached and found guilty for having naturalized some 400 persons in one day--that being declared to be a physical impossibility. "He spoke of nine wit­ nesses (one a Captain of a squad) witnessing the naturalization of nearly 7,000 persons, one of them (the Captain) being a witness in one court for 99b persons, and swearing that he knew all the men, while he did not know a single one of them, and while the Judge knew that he did not, but that he was a drunken thief. In con­ clusion, he quoted from Cox's report on the New York election in 1876, in which a high com­ pliment is paid to the United States Supervisors and Marshals. Mr. Lynde (Democrat; denied the statement of Mr. Frye as to the false naturalization papers in New York, and asked why it was that, if there was so many false naturalization papers in lf;68, not one person had been successfully prosecuted for using or issuing them. He believed that the greater part of those naturalization papers were valid. The Election law had been got up by John I. Daven­ port for his own and for partisan purposes. The way in which the law had been adminis­ tered by Davenport was sketched and criticized by him to prove that all these statements of election frauds were gross exaggerations. He characterized the Lawrence report of the elec­ tion ofl8B8, from which Mr. Frye had obtained his facts and figures, as the most unreliable political document he had ever seen. Mr, Baker (Republican, Ind.) expressed the opinion that his friends on the other side who declared themselves in favor of freedom of election while they had their hands on the throat of the law that secured it were protest­ ing a little too much. Underlying the discussion was tne question which had culminated in the Rebellion, whether or not the life of the nation can be protected by the nation itself. Mr. Wood (Democrat) recited the history of the laws which were proposed to be repealed. They were but a portion of a series of laws passed In order to keep file Southern States as stipendiaries of the Republican party. That had been intended for the South, but it was now applied to the North. The gentleman from Maine (Frye) assumed to speak for hia party when he said that he would resist by every means in his power the repeal of those aws. He (Wood) could not speak for his party, but he could speak for one man when he said that he did not care what became of the ap­ propriation bills. He believed there was a higher question than that of appropriating money. He could stay in the House as long as any gentleman. The Democratic party could resist as long as the itepublican party, and he would not consent to vote for a dollar until this amendment should be engrafted on the bill Mr. Garfield (Republican) opposed the amendment. He said: Gentlemen (addressing the Democratic side of the House), you seek to cut out a section, a living section, from the criminal laws of the United States, and to say that the ballot-box stuffing, fraud at elections, intimidation, outrage, poisoning the very foun­ tain-springs of the elective franchise, shall be no crime, and that the machinery by which such crime can be punished shall be destroyed. That is what you propose to do here to-day, and to do it at the dictation of a party caucus. * * * Now, Mr. Chairman, if this be the purpose which we are called upon here to vote on, we on this side are compelled to meet it in the Bpirit of tne constitution snd our rights, and that we prop se to do, and if it takes one night, two nights, ten nights, not while Con­ gress lasts shall you strike from our statute- books, the miiniments for the protection of the elective franchise. When you do it you must do it because you have the whole power to do it, and not by our help, not by our consent A' hundred criminal prosecutions are to-day pend­ ing before the courts of the United States to punish crimes against the elective franchise. Already enough men from the city of Cincin­ nati have been sentenced to the penitentiary for fraud to take away the majority of one of the members on this floor from that city, and all the proceedings in the criminal oourts are to be abandoned at the cry of a party order which demands it for party success. TUX A.RRIE. The great egg bird of the North sea is the arrie, while its Southern cousin supplies the people of Ban Francisco with a liberal number of its gayly-colored eggs, taken from the Farallons; indeed, the arrie is the only sea-bird of real eco­ nomic value to man throughout the Northwest and North. It is probably safe to say that the number of these birds which assemble at St. George is vastly greater than elsewhere on the globe. As a faint but truthful state­ ment of the existing fact the following may be said: When the females begin to squat con­ tinuously over their eggs, along by the end of June and the first of July, the males regularly relieve them, taking turns in keeping the eggs warm. Thus they feed alternately, going out to sea for that purpose. This* constant going out and coming in during the day gives rise, at regular hours in the morning and evening, to a dark girdle of these birds flying just above the water, around and around the island, in an endless chain, more than a quarter of a mile broad and thirty miles in length 1 This great belt or flying arries represents just one-half of the number of these birds breeding on the clifts, for only those arries are in the circling column that are off, or relieved by their mates for the day from the duty of inouba- tion.--H. W. Elliott, in Harper's Mag­ azine for March. THE GOOZKFOR-WA tTGRTS, Good-for-nothing people are unfortu­ nately very numerous. Even when they are children they show signs of their nothingness. They like play, but they detest work and study. Thus they grow up, knowing nothing, and learning nothing, unless it be something that will do theixv.no good. When they become men and women they hardly know how to get a living honestly, and it is quite lifcely that they will try to get one dis­ honestly. They obnatanfiy complain ̂ that they cannot get along, and they wonder why it is. There is really nothing strange about it. They never tried to learn when they were young; , they have always ahirked work; th^y are lazy, and now find it easier to be* or steal than to get an honest living by • hard work. Keep your boys and girla from joining the good-for-nothing club in their youth. DEPARTMENT Of AGRICULTURE. J First of all, the sphere for action of the Department of Agriculture should be enlarged relatively with the impor­ tance of the interest it represents. The Signal Bureau, the different geological surveys, in fact,'all that relates to ge- °l°gy» meteorology, mineralogy, the subject of fish and fisheries, perhaps of internal transportation, and probably some other cognate subjects could prop- erly be placed within its jurisdiction. In keeping with the custom of the most forward nations of the globe the head of this department here should be the * equal of the other chief counselors of the state. He should be a Cabinet offi­ cer with all the powers and prerogatives of one. The divisional heads of the de­ partment should be among the most eminent and practical men in their spe­ cialties, and might together under the Secretary of Agriculture form a national tribunal to which the country would look with confidence for the solution of any trouble threatening the interest!) under its charge, so far as suah solution might come within human power, and they should not only receive due com­ pensation for their services, but there should be a full and adequate appro­ priation made annually to the depart­ ment, as I have before indicated, based upon estimates from the different di­ visions for original research in these several lines. This department, as at present organized, is a disgrace to our agriculture and a reproach to the coun­ try.--Speech of Senator Paddock, of Nebraska. 1 POLYGAMY ANB PORRIDGE* When we made an excursion in South- ̂ era Utah, not long ago, we were hospit­ ably entertained by the Mormon Bishop at Bichfield. He was a Scotchman, and ̂ had been brought up a rigid Presbyr terian. "Ah, well," said he, "they think ill of me at home for changing my re­ ligion; but there was my brother Aleck who took it most to heart. He was on his way last year to California, and turned off the road a bit to see me, and to try to bring me baok into the fold. When he got here he spent the whole evening in lecturing me, and then went to bed. In the morning I gave him the best breakfast the country would afford --coffee and rolls, trout, beef, and venison steak, and such like. Poor Aleck 1 he looked all over the table, and then turned upon me his sorrowful face, blurting out,' Oh, Jamie, mon! Jamie, mori! did I ever think it would come to ( this ? I could hae forgien ye a' yer polee- gamy, but hae ye gien vp yer par- ritch?'"--uEditor's Drawer* inHaifcM per's Magazine for February. •?'.> 1 THE fact was brought out on a crim­ inal trial at the Kent assizes recently that an English girl had become a mother at the age of 12 years and 1 month. It is said to be the only au­ thentic instance of a female native of England becoming a parent aft so eax$y an««e- * *' WHILE Dean Stanley was in this country, they asked him one wet day to put on a suit of oilers. "Guess you have made a mistake," said he, "for I am no SARDINE* THE XARKE1S. NEW YORK. Bmrms $7 00 #t0 75 HOGS 8 MS # 4 40 COTTON......... 10 FLOUB--Superfine 8 SO to* 3 75 WHEAT--No. 8. 1 0W <3) 1 13 COBN--Western Mixed 44 @ 47 OATS--Mixed 81 # 31 RYE--Western 61 @ «3 PORK--Mess.. 9 tB @10 75 LABD 7. & 7)4 CHICAGO. 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