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r_r. wmzm rr, that the qptatts OMtua thMk to m& TIM knot then tiod was Mvtnd by the ooura, and Hide*' cwnriMt of some lODIINMinSHHI in New Aitwaadl ri&ENOis. XLTOTK COXGKKM. T' ;- flbL Bnnnim nutde a lavorabls wytll to ttil--rte, OB the 9th Inst., von the Joist htte to |h»Mtloeo( the tarmlnatioa »f the article of the Waahlmrtoa treaty, and mrted the Naval bill, ap- (,727(334. The Senate mat _ _ upon the_ Tariff UU, lathe Home! Mr. vwry ttttk _ _ Belrord reported resolutions aî Htttmllntaflhi trilrer coinage, and ia tmr at additional vaalt-room at some point in ttw MMIHi'P* valley. A pcnton of fao p BMBth KM granted to the widow of Representa­ tive Hawk, «f mtaoie, and " were doaated lor a monnawmt to Gem. lotto. at Cincinnati TheTaxtffbW waathen taken i and several rate* Mean* fereda resolutionthat the NMIOII it shall be In the morning hour to move to i to oonsider in the Hooae iU%r.,5Kon,5d the remainder of In any day after lospena the rules propriatton or NTCBM reported by committee, aad may then be in com­ mittee of the whole, or which may then be on the flwafcer'is table, and each motion than be de­ cided by a majority vote. The resolution was (•Cured. CONSIDERATION of the Tariff bill In com­ mittee of the whole waa completed by the Sen­ ate on the 10th inat. The amendmsnt proposed by Mr. Beak reducing the tnternal-revenne tax on mmS, moldac and mannfaetaied tobaooo to 8 ceata per poond was agreed to. On motion of Mr. WHUans, the tax en ctpars was made &: per thousand, instead of $4, as in the bUL Mr. Logan moved to plaoe salt on the free list, but it wae decided to refer the matter to the Senate The House discussed the Wave and Means Com- mlttee'u Tariff MIL Mr. Maxey*s amendment pring the doty on iron cotton ties at 85 per cent, taworem was defeated, after a sharp discus - lion, by the cleoe vote of 97 to 101, foiir Demo­ crats -- all of them from the Pennsyl­ vania manufacturing district* -- voting with the Republicans against the proposed reduction. On motion of Mr. keliey, a duty of 1'4 oents per pound wan im­ posed upon cast-iron vessels, plates, stove- plates and iron, sad irons, tailors' irons and hatters' Irons. Mr. Dunnell moved to reduce the duty on eat nails and spikes from l!4 to 1 cent per poond, and, in advocating the motion, spoke of the pending bill as giving too little redaction. The motion was lost, after a lively debate. On motion of Mr. Carlisle, the dnty on railway fish-plates was reduced from 1% to 1H cent* per poond. Mr. Dunnell moved to redaoe the duty on horseshoe nails, hobnails •lid wire nails from 4 to 3 cents per pound. The motion was lost THE Senate spent the whole day, and a good part of the night, on the 12th Inst., dis- conin* the Morrill Tariff bill. Much of the tone was consumed in fifth ting over attain the pig-iron battle. Tbe immediate bone of conten­ tion was the proposition of Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, to pnt the dnty on pig- Iron at $6.72, where it was fixed by tbe committee. He failed to get the figure he wanted, but ooaxed the Senate to yield eo ferae to place it at $6,80. The action of the committee of the whole In striking oat lum­ ber from the wood schedule was disagreed to by 39 to 1ft. Lith< shingle*, pine clapboards and spruce clapboards, struck out in the, committee Of the whole, were also restored at the rates is the bill--the Senate refnaing to agree to the ac­ tion in committee by a vote of yeas 18, nays 8& Two fconxs were spent In discussing an amendment in relation to vinegar factories. The tariff ques­ tion also claimed the attention of the House, and precipitated one of the liveliest debates of the session. The items under discosMon were and those relating to the duties on bars and rods from «tafch fencing-wire, trace-chains, horae- IPP shoes, nails and similar articles are manufact­ ured, and steel need for making locomotive and other tires. Slight redactions were madetn the material of which fencing wire, trace chains, borne eboes and nails are made, but the locomo­ tive tire material was kept up. The House refused to pass a bill for the retirement of Alfred Pleaaonton wtth the rank of Ma)or General. Mr. Robertson introduced a bill to prohibit the trsnamfenion of lottery advertisements through tbe malls. THE Senate worked seven hours upon its 'Tariff bill on Feb. 13. Sugar was the main sub­ ject of discussion. The Mew England men, who wanted redactions th the lower grades; the Southern men. who wanted redactions in the lritfttr cmOeaJf any rednfetton wee to be made; Middle State*, who were op- butprefer ŝd reductions a compromise, everybody by Mr. to be satis - md tha United States CttUTRSHfegSra ' aooAdentaBy tjjBfnjr poison. The Sn OMK flscldad In favor of wUfWy, Which was ttotorfcma a a lower oourt-- BdwtaD. Mmgm «•« % Kew York week. He writ a native of Berkahire Maaaachnaetta. He commenced in the metropolis In ltMB, and ac­ quired an immense fortune. He WM twice Governor of Kew York, and declined tbe I1<M mini * nlilji of the Treasury at the hands of Presidents Lincoln and Arthur... .Collen dor's billiard-table factory at Stamford, Conn., tened to the ground last week, the estimated loss of property being |aR,OOa One hundred and twenty Jive persons are thrown ont of employment by the fire The extensive theatrical ward­ robe of Edwin Forrest was Bold at auction in Philadelphia at very low prices. THE Iowa Board of Railroad Com­ missioners decided that shippers have rights to select the route by which they will forward goods, and that railroads must accept such freight and Mil It as the owner desires This decision will prevent railroads in Iowa from making arbitrary rules as to receiving freight from conneoting lines, and is an important victory for shippers..... At Albuquerque, N. M., Mttt Yarberry. a noted. desperado, and murderer of "four persons, was,* hanged. The culprit main­ tained his innocence and "died (fame".,.. In the baggage-room of the Union Depot at Cedar Rapids a mail pouch was cut open and relieved of 140 registered letters, among them being a remittance of 91,000 fr om the Poet- m a s t e r o f t h e c i t y t o t h e d e p a r t m e n t , i . . The loss of cattle on the Colorado ranges by the recent storms will not exceed 5 per cent..The damage to fruit and other trees in DeWitt oounty, I1L, by the storm, it is es­ timated, will aggregate f1,000,00ft PROMINENT wheat operators at Mil­ waukee express the belief that the crop of 18&2 has been largely overestimated; that when it was harvested it went into granaries which were completely bare of grain; that the floods in America and Europe, ac­ companied by rigorous weather, have materially injured the growing crop, and that highCT figures for wheat may be justly anticipated..... At an auction sale of uncalled for packages in the express office at Pueblo, Col,, James Thompson risked #1 on a box which he found contained two gold bricks, worth over #11,000. PATTON, brakeman of the Southern Pacific train wrecked at Tehichipa pass* has been found polity of criminal nc gence in leaving his post, and held in $2, bail to appear before a higher court Twelve thousand laborers of Milwaukee have petitioned the Legislature of Wisconsin to put a distinctive mark on State Prison goods Hon. William E. Smith, ex-Gov­ ernor of Wisconsin, died at his home in Mil­ waukee, aged 70 years CINCINNATI dispatches of Feb. 15 re­ port the water in the Ohio river at that date at sixty-six feet The city was practically cut off from railway communication, being surrounded by water, and all the railway tracks submerged. Business was practical­ ly suspended all over tne city. Soup-houses had been established at various points. The Catholic churches were thrown open to accommodate the homeless. The work of relief was going on vigorously, and many touching scenes were witnessed. Outride aid was pouring in freely. It was ascertained that fourteen boys were drowned by the bursting of the Mc­ Lean avenue sewer. Louisville telegrams of the 15th represented the situation as ex­ tremely distressing. The river was rising at the rate of an inch an hour, and all along the city front for several miles houses were being undermined and were tumbling into the angry torrent Subscriptions were being freely made for the benefit of the thousands of homeless onea At Jeffersonville, op­ posite Louisville, the distress was even relatively greater, the whole city being submerged to the depth of from two to twenty feet Many houses were swept away, and hundreds of people had taken refuge in the upper stories of public buildings and business Mocks, food being fled. Tbe tobaooo item was then taken up, and also excited I spirited debate, which was like­ wise ended Inr a compromise between the Con­ necticut ana Havana tobaooo interests. House was engaged the \ Vays t The all day upon the metal schedule of the Ways and Means Committee bill. important changes made was an to prescribe a duty of cent on all steel not speci­ ally enumerated, the duty in no case to ex­ ceed 2)6 oents per pound. The duty on nickel, nickel oxide, alloy of anv kind in which nickel is the dement of chief value, was reduced from 35 cents to 15 cents per pound. A duty on quick­ silver of 35 per eent. ad valorem was inserted. Bronse powder wae reduced from 25 per cent, to 90 per eent., gold leaf from $2 per package of M0 leaves to $1.50, and shotguns and all other firearms not provided for in the act were re- dooed from 85 per cent, to ao per cent. A duty of 35 per cent, wae placed on pistols of all kinds. The duty on penknives, nocketknivee and razors oI all kinds was reduced to 40 per oent. The tarfff on metal- Hs peas was fixed at 12 oent« a groen instead of 45 per cent. There was a little personal spat between Meesre. Townshend, of Illinois, and Haskell, of Kansas. The former charged that tbe measure nnder consideration was the week of hived lobbyists. The latter reeented the charge, and some hot words followed, which tor a time relieved the dull monotony that usu- ' «lly attends tariff legislation in Congress. THE amendment made in committee of - Ike whole, raising the duty on bituminous ooal tram 50 to 73 oents a ton, came up in the Senate OS Feb. 14 and gave rise to a long debate. It was ooncurred in by a vote of 28 to 18. There WM also a lively dtecnssionoonoerfiiLng the dutr on books, which WM fixed at It per eent. ad valorem. Mr! Hair introduced in the Senate a bill to prevent •be, of convict labor upon works of the United States. The House wrestled the whole day wnhthetarMf problem. An attempt to re- « B2P.t?5,ruty °.n i*°® wares not enumerated in the mil was defeated, every amendment look- ""S beta« Promptly voted down. A goporftton offered by Mr. Cox, of New York, for t~e sdnjta&m of foreign-built ships on the pay- at of a dnty of 80 per cent, was lost, three abllcaxM voting with the Democrats in the Mr. Holman moved to place lum- . «je list, which gave rise to a Ion? ad animated debate. This, together with «ev* •5^.0H}?La,IlelK!mfnU looklns to the reduction the amies on hubs, wagon blocks, ete.„ were fBpmpUy squelched. Anight session wai held looonaider the Legislative Appropriation bill, at wnicn Mr. Bntterworth made an earnest effort to •nttre an hour for the consideration of the bond­ ed whisky bill, was beaten. Mr. Joyce declared Mha the measure should not have one minute daring the session. wwumm ment of a di BMrabtlcara . anrmattveL heron the 1 i owe ;'"$5 J rNXIAM E. DODOE, one of the fore- • citizens of New York, died of heart dis- In 1831 he commenced the imports i of metals, and prospered until he be­ came one of the largest owners of timber lands in the United States, and was exten­ sively engaged in the development of coal •nd iron mines. For half a century be labored earnestly in the cause of temperance; he upheld Moody and fienkey for years, sent hundreds of young men into the ministry, and recently donated • building for a female inebriate asy- jnm. He leaves a widow and seven sons,and :„JliK estate is valued at #15,000,000. JIN New York a new scarf-pin called fTbe Freddie" is creating much amusement ft is composed of a little gold donkey draw­ ing a cart containing a dictionary and an Jtnglish grammar Marshall Jewell died at .Hartford, Ot., of bronchial pneumonia, aged .#7. He fcpent hie early years as a tanner and fei constructing telepraph lines in the Koutn- • Vest. He was twice Governor of Connecticut #ras Minister to Russia, Postmaster General,' find at his death held the Chairmanship of ne Republican National Committee. He Waves a mother, wife and two daughters V.. .Charles R. Thorne, the actor, died sud- . ^enly in New York, at the age of 43. THE Bay State Iron Company, of , $08ton has suspended. Its liabilities are laced at #790,000, but the plant is worth 1,000.000 Snow fell in the vicinity of a Vt, to the depth of three feet on Feb. A water famine also prevails in that tion ... A gasoline explosion caused the .extraction of & BlaiEdell, Jr., & Co.'s knit- ng mill near Amsterdam, N. Y., causing a of #5o,uoa ' THE Boston Board of Aldermen has IMissed an order that the gas in the streets jahall be superseded by electric lights. | MB8. MANN, a Troy (N. Y.) clairvoy­ ant, recently informed Samuel Hides, aged were described by an eye-witness as appalling. At Lawrenceburg, Ind., north of Louisville, the people were suffering greatly, and car­ load* of food were sent from other parts of the State, the Legislature of Indiana having alto appropriated #40,000 for relief. Madi­ son and other points along the river between Louisville and Cin­ cinnati also suffered more or less from the extraordinary inundation. At Fern Bank, below Cincinnati, a floating bouse was stopped, and in one of the rooms was found a baby sleeping peacefully in its crib. The child' was delivered into the c of the Catholic Orphan Society. IN the St. Louis Criminal Court, after an interchange of epithets, Joseph G. Lodge, law partner of Gov. Johnson, hurled a heavy leather bookcase at James J. McBride, cut­ ting a deep gash on the side of his head, from which the blood flowed freely. The court officers were powerless Lodge's friends took him from the room, and the Judge continued the case until Friday. THK SOUTH, THE 150th anniversary of the settle­ ment of Georgia by Gen. James Oglethorpe was celebrated at Savannah, Ga. Feb. 12. The military parade was witnessed by 50,000 persons, ana Gov. Hopkins delivered an ad- dresa A FORCE of twenty deputy marshals was sworn in and armed at Galveston to pro­ tect the Federal court at Jefferson during the trial of certain Texans for violation of the election law& WASHcram THE Judiciary Committee of the 8enat$ has agreed to report in favor of paying George W. P. G. Lee #150,000 for 1,100 acres comprised in the Arlington es­ tate, near Washington, now a cemetery. mmcAK, GOT. BOTLEB forced the resignation of Julius L. Clarke, Insurance Commissioner of Massachusetts, and will appoint to the va­ cancy N. A. Plympton, of Worcester, treas­ urer of the Democratic State Committee. Clarke had accepted a present of #4,000 from an insurance company The Brooklyn Union-Aryu* has changed hands, Thomas Kinsella, it is supposed, being the purchaser. CUUfEKAXk IT has been discovered that a very Mfc IMm off**! an attendant provid­ ing that there shall be allowed on all imple­ ments and maohinity manufactured for use in agilot̂ taral labor and production, made In whole or in part of material imported on whieh duties have been paid, a drawback equal in amount to the duty paid on such material. This was an opportunity for the gentlemen on the other side who claimed to be the friends of the farmer to show they were in earnest in their protestations of in­ terest in the oauae of agriculture, Mr. Beed opposed the amendment, which he declared had been offered, not because the gentleman supposed it would prevail, but because bm thought the oountry would pay attention to ineee attempts to make a reoord. The oountry was too sensible to do of the kind. anything notion wnshend. of Illinois, challenged the on from the history of tariff legisla- present Ways important mearare had ever been brought before an American Congress wnere such unfair and tyrannical means had been re­ sorted to in its management The bill did not originate in Congresa It was sired by • lobby of hired agents of the monopolists, and was brought forth in secret conclave.' Mr. McKinley--Wo Democratic member of the Ways and Means. Committee will say what you have said. Mr. Townshend went on to say that the three gentleman--Messrs. Keliey, Has­ kell and McKinley- -rvho were in charge of the bill had not yet descended to the work of detraction and rilliflcation. That work had been assigned to another (referring to Mr. Beed), whose voice, manners and char­ acteristics peculiarly qualified him for that work. Every other member on the other side spoke only apparently by liot nse. Was there ever such mameful proceedings in­ augurated in an American Congress on such an important measure? Mr. Haskell said he had stood here for nearly three weeks and had listened to de­ nunciations coming from the other side leveled at the Ways and Means Committee long enough without reply. The gentleman from Illinois stood here and charged that this bill was the creation of a corrupt and scandalous lobby. Every word of his declar­ ation was a flat falsehood. Did he compre­ hend exactly the full length and breadth and width of that statement? Every word of this bill had been considered in the Ways and Means Committee, and never from tne day tbe committee had taken charge of it until the day they reported it was there a manufacturer or a lobbyist to come before them. Mr. To wnshend--According to your Repub­ lican papers the lobbyists crowded the com­ mittee-room Mr. Haskell--Not a man was before that committee when it was in session. The gen­ tleman from Kentucky (Mr. Carlisle) is as honorable a man as the representative from Illinois, and Mr. Randolph Tucker, of Virgin­ ia, is no scoundrel and tne tool of no lobby- Illinois, and Mr. Randol cker, ofVirgin- ist When men like Messrs, Morrison, Ran­ dall. Carlisle, Kasson and Keliey are charged on this floor with acting as the agents of lobbyists, the man who charges it utters, I believe, a deliberate falsehood. He knows better. I will go on and brand such state­ ments as that publicly. I put my honor and character before this whole world and coun­ try. I invite the deseSfc scrutiny of my public acts and private acta No hound, no airty gutter-snipe, ever sunk so low yet as to charge me with dishonor in discharging my duty on this committee or any other. 1 will not stand here to assert my integrity. It is known where I am known. But when my committee is attacked in the name Of my colleagues on that committee. Demo­ cratic colleagues and Republican colleagues, I want to brand here now such declarations as that with the appellation which belongs to them Mr. ToWnshend said he did not desire to bandy epithets with the gentleman from Kansas. He did not propose to go to the cesspools to throw filth at the gentleman. He had not in his remarks intended any per­ sonal application to either of the three gentlemen to whom he had referred. He simply intended to inform the country of the fact, which he had derived from the statements of Republican organs, that the oommittee bad been surrounded and crowd- tent Arthur, John Jaoob Jewett appeared among remains were interred , r ry, Hartford. THE Britpll ̂ arliament reassembled Feb. 15, The Queen's speech aattonnoed that the wfthdtival of troops from Egypt is proceeding as expeditiously as is prudent, and that we improvement of the social con­ dition of Ireland continues. A proposal is to be submitted for securing to tensats in England and Scotland couiueBsaticra for ag­ ricultural improvements, undlangb occu­ pied his seat in the House of Commons, and Hartington SSML the Government would in­ troduce a bill Mthorizing members to make affirmation. Parnell moved the appoint­ ment of a oommittee to inquire into me ar­ rest of Healy,but it wis voted down. Justin McCarthy gave notice that he would intro­ duce a bill to abolish the Irish vtoMoyalty. THB Senatorial contest in Michigan approaches an end. The friends of Mr. Ferry held a consultation on the 15th Inst., and it was agreed that all hope of ever elect­ ing that gentleman was over. It was ac­ cordingly dedjad to free the Republican members from their allegiance to the caucus rule, thus makliar the race a free-for-all con­ test--K. F. Lewis, Democrat, was elected to Congress from the Sixth Louisiana dis­ trict to take the place of Herron, deceased. A BOMBSHELL was thrown into the camp of the star-routers when M. C. Ber- dell, one of the defendants on trial, with­ drew his plea of not guilty, owned to his guilt, and took the stand as a witness for the Gov­ ernment against Dorsey, Brady, et al The correspondence between the Secretary of War and the Chief Signal Officer in rela­ tion to the request of the latter for the appointment o&a Senate committee to in­ vestigate the charges against the manage­ ment of the Signal Service Department is Sublished. Secretary Lincoln informs Gen [azen that the Government has provided courts-martial'for army officers desiring in­ vestigation. ' , WHEN an International train pulled Up at Webb Station, near Laredo, the con­ ductor found the telegraph operator lying dead on the floor, having been butchered by robbers... .Campanini sent a cablegram to a New York journalist announcing that he had signed a contract.with Mr. Abbey. AT the Mingo rolling-mill in Steu- benville. Ohio, ^e governor suddenly flew off the engine, causing the ruin of ten stones used to grind the knives of the nail- machines. Capt. James- Prentiss was in­ stantly killed, aad William Pert received se­ rious Injuries. TWENTY miles south of MoberlyyMo., the Kansas City express train for St Louis was derailed, and John Lester, the en­ gineer, was scalded to death, and the fire­ man, John Murphy, was quartered. NEABIIY all the day of Feb. 15 was con­ sumed in the Senate by discussion of the tariff, and the Senate bill was pushed through the sec­ ond reading. Mr. Cockrell presented petitions from the officers of several educational institu­ tions in Missouri for the appointment of a practical astronomer as Superintendent of the Naval Observatory. Mr. Morrill handed in a remonstrance against any reduction of the tariff on books below 25 percent., signed by Oliver Wendell Holmes, T. B. Aldrich and John G. Whlttier. • In executive session Mr. Ed­ munds offered a resolution to admit to the floor only such private secretaries as are engaged in the performance of dnty. In the House Mr. Wil­ liams submitted a conference report on the Jap­ anese indemnity fund, to return the #785,000 received, to pay #140,000 to the officers of the Wyoming and Taklang, and cancel the bonds oomposing the indemnity fund. This was agreed to. The sugar schedule of the Tariff bill was under discussion, and all amendments voted down by large majorities, and the com­ mittee bill was substantially unchanged. VICTIMS OF STEAM. Seven Men Killed by the Bursting of a rer at TaylorvlUe, 111.--The Bodies of Victims Mangled la a Horrible Man­ ner. [Telegram from Taylorvllle. 111.] A boiler explosion occurred at the file works of Peter Neu & Co., that completely wrecked the establishment and killed five men. As usual in such cases, the why and wherefore of *£jMklaronl>l« ara wra»ped in profMmd r4ys^^frnobody about &e place, of course, having the least idea before it happened that it was going to happen, or being aware of any reason why it was going to occur, everything about the boiler being considered in first-class order. It was about 7:15 o'clock when the boilers burst, and had the explosion occurred a quarter of an hour before the loss of life would have been fear­ ful, for at that time the boiler and engine rooms were filled with workmen warming up for their day's work. At 7 o'clock the machinery was set in motion, and the men scattered to their respective positions, leav­ ing the proprietor, Mr. Peter Neu, and a few others in the engine room. At 7:15 o'clock two of the boilers let go with a •hock and report that shook the country for miles around. The establialiinent is sit­ uated about a mile southeast of the business part of the town, and the explosion caused every bodyto think an earthquake had oc­ curred. The fact was soon made known, and in a few minutes the entire populace was on a dead rush for the scene. Arrived Mr. Townsend--I said then, and sav strain. ! ^ereaspectacle of wreck and ruin present- that this bill was sired byhired agentsof ̂ lt5el* ihê en?r® establishment monopoly. I did not say. nor inteJS? to say demolî ed' lar&e timbers aiid at the time, that the gentleman himself WM hea^ machinery being^acattered about the tool oi the monopolists. I simply in- bwfd/?t?nt?'i peruinB tended to assert, what I repeat here that being taken in time, the flames this bill was made up by, was inspired by, hSaf'^Slhework was sired by, hired agente of the monopo: ! ^ victims b^n U wl LTrf SlKe (he would not say corruption) on members of the committee that had brought forth this bill. He had not any personal ani­ mosity toward the gentleman from Kansas. He had been surprised at the ability and information whicn the gentle­ man had displayed in the management of this bill, for he' was the only one on the other side who had shown any acquaintance with it. He was (surprised because he had never known the gentleman to show any ability or knowledge worth considering of any subject he had ever discussed. He (Mr. Townshend) did not know whether the gen­ tleman intended to hurl at him the epithet of being guilty of uttering a falsehood or not "I want to know," he continued, turn­ ing toward Mr. Haskell, "whether the gentle­ man charges me personally with falsehood." Mr. Haskell--Answer me a question and I will answer yours. I want you to answer me whether or not you said that this bill was not made under the rules of this House, but was the creation of a cbirupt lobby. Did you say that? J lists, and your committee has accepted it and ^ j . the Republican caucus embraced it I wish fut̂ r ' outright, and two were to know, before I Bay what I may desire to say, whether the gentleman desires to charge me with personal falsehood? Mr. Haskell--What I said was that the statement made was a false statement, and that I repeat "What I want to know," persisted Mr. Townsend, amid derisive laughter on the Republican side, "is whether tne gentleman draws a distinction between a statement and the personal honor of the gentleman who makes the statement Before Mr. Haskell could reply, Mr. Hen­ derson endeavored to bring about peace by appealing to the committee to proceed with tne business and not turn the hall into a bear-garden. But Mr. Townshend persisted in his demand for an explanation. "The statement which I have made," he said, "has been a matter of public notoriety. Leading Republican papers hnve made it If the gentleman simply desires to brand the sta ements which have been spread through­ out this land, I have no personal issue with him; but if he here shelters himself behind the privileges of debate on this floor for the purpose of insulting me in public, I want to know it" Mr. Kasson--I want to say in the common interest of the House that a distinction has fatally injured. Peter Neu, the proprietor, had both his legs broken and his head cruued beyond all semblance of a human cranium. John Jones, the engineer, was completely disemboweled, both legs broken, and the body horribly scalded and mutilated. Samuel Lenam, the fireman, was torn all to nieces, portions of his body being found In different places. John MoCollom was terribly mutilated. William Deahel had his head blown off. Chris Neu, son of the proprietor, and Tony Vandever were injured so that their death is only a question of a few hqpp> Answering Literally. ; Literal answers are sometimes quite witty. "Will you kindly put my fork into a potato?" asked a young lady of her table neighbor. "With pleasure," he responded, and piercing the potato, coolly left the fork extended from it. Again, we hear of a very polite and im­ pressive gentleman who said to a youth in the street: "Boy, may I inquire where Robinson's drug store is?" "Cer- l"*e amount <>' ?old «»in recently minted alwaVs" b^en "dm^ betwee^" a" pe^n^ j tainly, sir," replied the boy very res­ in New Orleans is deficient in weight, and i charge and a charge of misstatements of ; "\wii will have to be recoined A reassay show* ! facts alleged. The gentleman must remem- that from #30,000 to #100,000 worth of #10 gold pieces, representing the work of sev­ eral months, is thus deficient, tha shortage in each coin being about 25 cental An in­ vestigation will be made. THE Mutual Union Telegraph Com­ pany, with 46,000 miles of wire between Portland and St Louis, has been leased in perpetuity to the Western Union Company on a guarantee of the principal and interest of #5,000,000 in bonds and of VA per cent yearly dividends on #10,000,000 or stock. A consolidation of offices is already under dis­ cussion. DURING 1882 there was consumed in the United States 4,968,000 tons of pig iron, against 4,1)82,000 tons in 1881. At the begin­ ning of tbe present year 417 furnaces were in blast while 1882 was ushered ife With 446 furnaces working. '•* , roRKiax. THE upper branch of the French Parliament adopted a bill declaring that Princes who attempt to further their claims to the throne be banished, after trial in the courts or by the Senate. The Ministry bit- ber that his charge was practically one of corruption. Every member of the commit­ tee knows that charge to be false. Mr. Townnhend--Let the gentleman from Kansas make that statement and I trill be content Mr. Kasson--He has already made that statement Mr. Townshend--I sgain ask the gentleman ADDITIONAL NEWS. DISPATCHES from the overflowed dis­ tricts along the Ohio river on the 10th Inst state that "the flood at Cincinnati reached its highest stage at 4 o'clock yesterday morning, when it stood sixty-six feet and four inches Contributions or #10,0 0 were received from various cities, and the life- saving crew of Cleveland arrived with its terly opposed the measure, and all the mem- | apparatus. The Mayors of Jeffersonville and bers of the Cabinet resigned upon its pass- ; New Albany sent dispatches to aU the age. During the discussion of the bill Cas- j sagnac asked leave to question the Govern- j ment, but permission was refused amid up- I roar, during which Faure used the word i "coward" to the Ministry in a body, j for which he was censured, he mak- ! ing another explanation later to i two seconds sent by M Demahy....) Richard Wagner, composer of the "Nibelun- i fen Triolgy," "Parsifal," "Lohengrin," "The ; lying Dutchman," eta, died at Venice, aged 70 Prince Napoleon and his son Louif have left Paris for London chief cities, asking for aid for the sufferers. Fire-damp or sewer gas caused an explosion in a house at Cincinnati, shattering the structure, killing three persons, and wound­ ing many others The rivers are rising at Pittsburgh and Louisville, and the Wabash, Muskingum and Licking are adding their ciuota to the inundation. Jeffersonville and New Albany, Ind., are entirely surrounded, and Marietta and Zanesville are also flooded." dessert there happened to be an enormous ap­ ple pie. "La, ma'am!" said he, "how do von manage to handle such a pie ?" "Easy enough," was the reply; "we make the crust up in a wheelbarrow, wheel it under the apple-tree, and AT the funeral of Edwin D. Morgan I shake the fruit down into it." Yfceesaads of PeopI* Piiw from Sfestr Home* by UM Flood at Ofcaebmall--The Isiftr «r Om Cat om, Om> City at . night <|rmiiil to Parka--. [Cincinnati 0W>. It) Telafmm to Chicago Times.] The Indian may have witnessed such a volume of water in the Ohio, but his white successor never before saw such a flood. It has not come upon us with a rash, ot this rich, beautiful valley would become a wilder­ ness with its subsidence, but has slowly swelled from a fair river, a useful servant, to a silent yellow sea that has sent its waves into the marts of the city, and with their quiet lapping put a stop to business, to manufactures, to traffic, sent thousands on thousands adrift without shelter and with­ out food, and in the aggregate inflicted damages that may directly and indi­ rectly amount to millions of dollars. Within a space of twenty-five miles tributary to the city, thousands of people are houseless, many of them as destitute as when they were born, at least for the time. If they stay in their houses, they are isolated, and must depend on chance for suooor. If they leave, a host of river pirates will despoil the deserted dwellings. The Ohio river flows west between Cincinnati on the Ohio side and Newport and Covington opposite; in Kentucky, the latter cities divided by the Licking river, A mile and a half below the licking river Mill creek empties into the river on the Ohio side. The licking has been swollen by its tributaries to a raging torrent Nar ­ row and deep and swift ordinarily, it is now out of its banks for miles, covering point* of Sound never before reached by the floods. ong ite banks are many factories, large and small, rolling-mills, and furnaces All these are flooded, their fires out, and their workmen idle. Miil creek forces its way to the river in the western part of the city, flowing through a wide valley, along which for five miles are not only dwellings, but pork-pack­ ing houses, slaughter-houses, divers manu­ facturing establishments, and hundreds of market gardens, together with several rail­ road tracks All these are under water, and, while the gardens are ruined, great damage is also done the factories, -houses and contents, but to what pectfully. "Well, sir," said the gentle­ man, after waiting awhile, "where is it?" "I have not the least idea," said the ur­ chin. There was another boy who was accosted by an aesthetic middle-aged lady, with: "Boy, I waut to go to D--- street." "Well, ma'am," said the boy, "why don't you go there!" Sometimes this wit degenerates into punning, as from Kansas whether" the gentleman from • when Flora pointed pensively to the I<uestUm properly 8tated 1118 feeliD^ on ̂ | heavy masses of clouds in the sky, say- Mr. Haskell deigned no reply, and Mr. ' I wonder where those clouds are Townshen<fs persistence was cut off by a ! K°,ng • and her brother replied: "I motion limiting the debate to one-half min- think they are going to thunder." Also nte 3 ^ the following dialogue: "Hello, there! Mr. Dunn's amendment was reieoted. How do you sell your wood ?" "By the cord." "How long has it been cut?" "lour feet!" "I mean how long has it been since you cut it?" "No longer than^ it is now." And also,' as when Patrick O'Flynn was seen with his col­ lar and bosom sadly begrimmed, and was indignantly asked by his officer: "Patrick O'Flynn, how long do you wear a shirt?" "Twenty-eight inches, sir," he replied, with an air of inimitable drollery. AN old lady in the country had a dandy from the city to dine with her on a certain occasion. For extent is simply impossible 4o even approx­ imate. The front of Cincinnati for several streets is low. Here is done the heavy wholesale business of the city, and there are located many large factories of all sorts, machine-shops, coal-yards, etc. All this is under water from a few inches to several feet, while cellars for two or three streets farther back are flooded. In some of these streets a steamboat could make its way without a particle of trouble. On Second street the current runs like a mill race Where there is but little water, if the business is of a kind to warrant it, clerks and porters wade about in rubber hip boots, but most of them are simply in charge of watchmen. Most of them had removed their goods to upper stories or higher ground In streets back and higher, hundreds of hogBheads of tobacco, sugar, etc., are piled on the sidewalks from the flooded districts. In the upper portion of the city, along the river bank, live many poor people and most of the lawless class of the city. They are drowned out, and per­ force Invaded the oentral portion of the town and the fashionable streets, so that the the crowds were more diversified than ever before The gas-works supply both of this city and Newport has been shut off, and their fires were put out yesterday afternoon with only a slim night's supply on hand To­ day the lamp stores drove such a trade as never before, and candles were as common as 100 years ago in the central city of the Union. Three hundred thousand people are cut off from their regular supply Of gas to night. The streets are in darkness save for an oocasional electric light Thea­ ters and other halls had to supply them­ selves with electric lights, oil lamps or can­ dles, and the audiences blinked their eves under the unwonted light, and were hilari­ ous and Jolly .as they could not have been otherwise. The water-works have about five days' supply in the reservoirs. Under the most favorable circumstances the works cannot resume in time to more than keep consumers scantily supplied, and, should a great fire occur, the result is disheartening to contemplate. Should it occur in the overflowed business district, the department would be simply powerless, and fine names wq^ua rem nwawoaed Omy one railroad, the Cincinnati, Hamilton ana Dayton, is above water. There are ten feet of water over the track leading into the new Union Depot, and on the lower ground the water runs over the tops of some freight cars that were left on the track. The stage of water at Frankfort and Louis­ ville. Ky., and at New Albany and Law­ renceburg, Ind., is unprecedented Thous­ ands are without employment, many are Shelterless, and much suffering prevails. Dispaiches from Cincinnati, under date of Feb. 13, report great suffering on account of the flood. The frame depot of the Southern road became undermined and toppled over with many spectators, but it is not known that any lives were lost One correspondent telegraphs: "It would require the publica­ tion of the greater portion of the directory to name t&e businees men, particularly those in the tobacco, produce, grain, commission, and whisky business, and in all kinds of manufacturing interests, whose busi­ nesses have been wholly suspended. Muny of thei-e also lose their gooda The manufacturers all lose heavily in the damage to machinery and stock, aside from the loss of time More than a thousand business firms and manu­ factories ate thus prostrated. Yet business men are not disheartened nor selfish. These same men, for two days, have poured in contributions to the fund for the relief of the suffering among that much greater class--the poor--who are driven from home and are deprived of work. It is estimated that from thirty to forty thou­ sand workmen are out of employment by the closing of the manufactories. To them the loss ot time and the injury to household effects will prove the smallest losa The dampness in their houses after the flood sub­ sides must bring sickness and suffering. The Common Council's action in asking authority to issue a loan was promptly met by the Legislature, both houses having passed a bill to authorize a relief loan of $100,000, Thus the city has arranged to provide for itself. Telegrams have Men received from New York. Chicago and elsewhere, offering as­ sistance" The Deluge at Loulmllle. M nasisucTioN OF PBOPEBTT WITHOUT A PAB- AT.TJTT. RS THE ANNALS OF THAT crrr. The waters in the Ohio river at Louisville reached a height not witnessed before for years. About forty squares in the north­ eastern section of the city were inun­ dated, and 5,000 persons driven from their homes. The cut^off dam, overcome by the terrific weight of water from above, gave way suddenly, "With a loud roar," says an eye-witness, "the flood rushed ovei*. .The waters covered the ground with irresistible force, falling about eighteen feet to the ground below the dam In a few seconds the yellow tide was sweeping in from all points, and the infatuated inhabitants in the Bear Grass creek bottoms, who had gone to bed, were completely surprised in their homes. With a mighty rush the waters swept from square to square, rapidly rising in the houses and severing many from their foundations. The roar of the waters could not drown the screams of the terrified ones who were escaping from their doomed houses Men, women and children waded through the advancing waters. Bonfires glimmered on the higher ground which many poor outcasts had gained. People who'were sleeping in foolish confidence that the embankments would shelter them were rudely awakened by the flood coming into t.hnir houses. Some were even surprised in bed When the stroke came It was like lightning. In the darkness and cold they fled ihe waiting death, half clothed and shivering. Hy morn­ ing thirty-five sq unrea were under wuter, and over l5o hoiw'K des:.roveA AU day long a stream of people passed up and down the Short Line track to look at the river's devastation. Houses were overturned, some on their sides, some almost on their roofs; other buildings were crushed to pieces, and perhaps a third were swept awav from their foundations. Doors, window- sash s, pieces of furniture, lum­ ber, driftwood and shingles were floating about in confusion. In the lower bottom lands the water is within a foot or two of the roofs of the houses. Several peiwons were rescued from trees Into which tney had climbed. A gratifying feature of tbe flood Is that comparatively few are thought to have lost their livea Many occupants of houses in the submerged districts had re­ moved and thus escaped. The fact that the Survivors are scattered over the city ren­ ders it impossible to make a definite state- Khrs petsMs •.-- -5.4--J I*5" loss wttlfS ph into the am- i i ' Nik The Man Who 8pits is a liberal creat­ ure but unlovely in Kb liberality. That which he has to dispense he sheds around* with generous profu­ sion, regardless of time, plaoe or the presence of company. In the physical economy of most men the liver is tho largest gland in the bodv. But to ob­ serve the habits of the Sfnn Who Spits is to gather the idoa that his salivary glauds must be at least five times as large as his liver and fifty times as act­ ive. The man's life seems to be given up to spitting. He spits at his home and whene'er he takes his walk abroad. On entering a public conveyance, whether stage, car or steamboat, his first proceeding is to spit on the floor. Having made a beginning he continues, spitting at convenient intervals until the floor in his vicinity assumes the ap­ pearance of a pool, and sometimes he stimulates his salivary glands with to­ bacco or other drug in order to make his spitting more abundant and a fouler guisance than it otherwise would be. To look at a company of spitters en­ gaged in their favorite pastime one would suppose they had been fed on some article of diet which has left a dis­ agreeable taste behind it. In some in­ stances they have not this apology for spitting, but they spit simply from force of habit. Tho pursuit of thin habit blunts their sensibilities as to the com­ fort and desires of other human beings who may be penned in the same apart­ ment with them. Even in a crowded street car the Man Who Spits will spit, even though the only visible section of flooring is no larger than a man's hand. In thus spitting at a mark he narrowly escapes defiling the garments of those who stand or sit close beside him. But he is bound to spit, even though he spit all over his fellow-men. Recent actual and careful observation of several of these beings in one street car showed that while the vehicle was going five squares one man spit eleven times, an­ other seventeen, another twenty-three, and a fourth thirty-one. This may seem large, but almost anybody with a fair knowledge of arithmetic may count for himself on any trip of a car and find nearly the same result. To the moral perception of the Man Who Spits, if indeed he have any moral perception at all, the world is one vast spittoon. He seems to have taken a contract to fill it, and diligently he la­ bors, day after day, with spit, spit, Bpit, until his wretched task shall be ful­ filled. At best, it is an ugly habit. At the worst, he runs the risk of spitting out most of his vitality and becomes not only an unsavory object but a miserable dyspeptio.--Philadelphia Times. Sebastian Cabot. Sebastian Cabot was certainly in one sense the discoverer of America; it was he who first made sure that it was a wholly new and unknown continent. In his early voyages he had no doubt that he had visited India, but after his voy­ age of 1498 he expressed openly his dis­ appointment that a "New Found Land" of most inhospitable aspect lay as a bar­ rier between Europe and the desired Asia. As the German writer, Dr. Aslier, has said, "Cabot's displeasure involves the scientific discovery of a new world." In his charts North America stands as a separate and continuous . continent, though doubtless long after his time the separate'islands were delineated, .as of old, by others, and all were still sup­ posed to be outlying parts of Asia. In this, as in other respects, Cabot was better appreciated fifty years later than in his own day. His truthful accounts for the time discouraged further enter­ prise in that direction. "They that seek for riches," said Pdfer Martyr, "must not go to the frozen North," And after one or two ineffectual undertakings he found no encouragement to repeat his voyages to the North American coast, but was sought for both by Spain and England to conduct other enterprises. He was employed in organizing expedi­ tions to the Brazils, or to the north pole by way of Russia, but the continent he had discovered was left unexplored. He was esteemed as a skillful mariner and one who had held high official station; he died dreaming of a new and infalli­ ble mode of discovering the longitude which he thought had been revealed to him from heaven, and which he must not disclose. The date of his death, like that of his birth, is unknown, and his burial-place is forgotten. But fifty years later, when Englishmen turned again for a different object toward the American continent, they remembered his early achievements, and based on them a claim of ownership by right of discovery. Even then they were so little appreciated that Lord Bacon, writing his Reign of Henry VII., gives but three or four sentences to the explorations which perhaps exceed in real import­ ance all else that happened under that reign.--T. W. Higgintson, in Harper's Magazine. ' The Cyprus Sponge. Cyprus sponges are the best in the world, but the Turks monopolize them. Only those of the very best quality are used by the Turkish and Circassian belles, who make the size, shape and quality of their sponges as much a mat­ ter of fashion as a Parisian lady does the trimming of her bonnet or the color of her parasol. This quality is known as the "apida," or peer, and "aspro ve- loudo" or white velvet, and commands fabulous prices the moment it is brought up, as Constantinople Cairo merchants are always moving about among the fishers ready to pay almost any price for the much-desired quality. I saw some specimens of this sort, and must say that it is beautifully fine. In shape it is like a hollow pear, cafe-au-lait col­ ored, soft, elastic and velvety, and some idea may be formed of its 'value by the fact that a sponge-fisher refused £4 in my presence for a sponge of the size of a newly-born baby's head. THEY callod it a case of brutality in Richmond when a mother who was go­ ing to have a tooth pulled refused to let a single one of her seven children go along and hear her yell. THE police of San Francisco reoeive more pay than any others in the world, but' they have to use hair oil and face powder and wear $2 kid gloves seven days in the week. MOHAMMED had, fits, and in one of them he fancied that he was inspired. Hence came Mohammedanism. It can­ not be said in this connection, "Ex ni- hilo nihil fit." IN 1840 Ireland held nearly one-third of the population of the United King­ dom. It now holds one-seventh. A DUBLIN man boasts that he lias written 950 anonymous letters to officers of the law in the last two years. liiiiilii fltfttr-Hhi wM'Wkrm. An MttipM Bf,, jsswwM is tola OT an old . jjiWnaa 9. Benton •when the jpestof Mr. Van Boron at one of those Msous dinnerparties for which T4iiiswwald was noted la its palmy days. After the desert had been served finger bowla were brought i n, and were, viewed with some suspicion on the part: of one or two or the guests. Later- Benton said to his Mend: "I observed'. Mr. Tan Buren immerse the tips of his. fingers in one of these little glass bowla. and wipe them daintily on his napkin,, but I just rolled back my cuffs and. took a good plain wash." One day we principal of Kinderhook* Academy called at Lindenwald with an. autograph album which contained Bar­ on Humboldt's signature, and requested Van Buren's autograph. "Where shall I put my name, Mr. Post?" asked the. ex-President. "O, anywhere, Mr. Van. Buren," was the reply; "you will find plenty of blank pages in the book.'" The ex-President turning over the- leaves carelessly, and seeing Hum­ boldt's signature paused, took up a pen. and wrote his own name directly under- the Baron's. The ex-President in his old age did not lose his youthful verve aad vim, and. was universally respected and loved at his home. Thtngh he could not boast, of a commanding presence, he had an elastic figure and carried himself erect.. His features were animated when con­ versing, and wore a constant smile.. When relating an anecdote or relishing- a good story his eyes twinkled with fun.. In fair weather it WM his custom to> take a horseback ride every morning- until his final illness, sitting erect in. his saddle and wearing a skull cap, un­ der which his snow-white hair sould be seen. One morning when riding past Stuyvesant Falls, he was hailed by a bare-footed urchin, who shouted outr "Hey, mister, is you the President of the United States?" "I used to be, my little man," was; the prompt reply; "what can I do for you?" "Oh, nothin', sir, only I thought Jim­ my lied to me; I didn't think such a lit­ tle man as you could be President , of the United States."--New York Sun* Oratory. When I was in New Tork WendelZ Phillips gave a lecture there upon ora­ tory. When I was asked what I thought about it, I said I thought he had given a fair account of the business, but he had omitted one requisite--that the ora­ tor should have something true to say. I was answered immediately that the* * art, as an art,- had nothing to do with, truth. The less truth the greater the skill needed to produce the effect. Thus, tho Americana hold oratory in esteem, but not in the highest esteem. They do not mako their great speakers ink> Presidents. Abraham Lincoln, the best President they have had since> Washington, had a sharp wit, but never talked spread-eagleism. Gen. Grant, hardly ever stood on a platform in hia life. A Yankee once observed to me, when he had been listening to a famous. performer1; "A very small piece of soap will make a deal of froth in the mouth. '*• Indeed the truly great political orators, whose speeches are an heirloom of mankind, the most-finished examples of noble feeling perfectly expressed, have, rarely understood correctly the circum­ stances of their time. They felt pas­ sionately, but for that reason could not judge calmly. Demosthenes stirred his countrymen with a voice like a trumpet w ugiri. FMiip of Macedon. Bui countrymen could not fight Philip of Macedon, and fell the harder for try­ ing. If speaking could have saved the Roman republic, it would have been, saved by Cicero. His orations against. Antony were the finest ever heard in the forum or Senate. But they were only modulated wind. We have killed the King, he was obliged to say, but the kingdom remains. The mob, who> one year ago made the streets ring with shouts for Cicero, shouted the next as loudly for Augustus. To fight against fact might be very beautiful and noble. The patriot, in his failure, could con­ sole himself as Lucan did-- Yictrlx causa dels placult, s«d viota Catom. Cato could still think that he was more righteous than the gods. But the gods had their way. --J. A. Froude, **»• Fortnightly Review. IT is not over thirty years sitfefe & committee of the New York State Agricultural Society declared that no invention would ever supersede the scythe and cradle. Two NINETY-FOOT lathes, said to be the largest in the world, have been made by the South Boston iron works. Each lathe contains 600,000 pounds of iron. They are to be used to bore Out cannon. THERE are more school teachers in New York city and more money is ex­ pended for education than in t)ie( whole State of New Jersey. ' -- THE MAKKETS. ' NBWYOBK. COTTON .10 @ .10J4 FI.OUB--Superfine 8.60 & 4.00 WHEAT--NO. 1 White... ;... 1.17 & 1.18 No. 9 Red. 1.21 ® 1.M CORN--No. a 72 & .78 OATS--No. a.... 48 @ .80 Pons--Mess 19.00 @19.90 LAHD .11)4# .11* CHICAGO. BKXVES--Good to Fancy St««a. Cows and Heifer*...... Medium to Fair HOGS. FLOJJK--Fancy White Winter Ex. Good to Choice Spr'g Ex. WHEAT--No. a Spring No. 2 Red Winter 8.15 8.35 4.85 4.75 6.50 4.75 4.06 1.07 .65 .38 ,6a .84 .34 *7.75 .11 & 6.96 # «.«© <a 5.10 <3 7.3* & 6.75- & 6.00 & 1.0T 1.0S & .56- <g .» & .64 & .f» & .36 (9 31 ($18.00 & .live <8 .38 <3> .68 <3 .75 @18.25 & .11% @ 1.11 <# .53 @ .39 & .64 (fS 18.00 COBN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 RYE--NO. 2 BATTLEY--NO. 2 11 UTTER--Choice Creamery Koos--Fresh PORK--Mesa. LAKD MILWAUKEE. 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