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,. _ '3T, r*r S *-' ^ : Site (Ptlcnrii fNnindwta, J. VAN SLTSSs. Vubijshfr. MoHENRY, - - ILLINOIS. THS NEWS CONDENSED. THE BAST. Two FBOHIKSKT cithwns of New York--Oti» D. Bwan. • broker, and Ootoa Morris, a law- jer--have mm away with large amount* of «ther people's money. Both were connected inth wealthy ana long-«stablished families, and their defalcations ha*® caused something of a sensation In the metropolis, CboeB on the heels or me Ashtabula railroad catastrophe comes the intelligence of a ship- wteefe on the Long Island shore, in Which twenty-nine men of a wrecking party lost their jivee. The ship had grounded and been aban­ doned by the crew, and a wrecking company Had taken nossession. No boats or other means of ese&pe had been provided, it seems, and when the ship went t« pieces the men were at • the mefcy of the fmrions sea that wm raging. FOOT men of the thirty-three on board were WKahed ashore on pieces off the wreck. SOME excitement HM been caused in New York by a high-toned oowhiding affair, of which James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, was the victim. It appears that Bennett was engaged to be married the day after Christmas to Miss May, bnt failed to pot in an appearance. A sew arrangement was made, and the 3d of January fixed upon for the oeremony. Again the groom played truant. The family Mid friends of Miss May were, of oeorse, bisrhly indignant, and a big brother of the bride --Erea May ---started forth to avenge the in­ sult. He fonnd Bennett at the Union Club House, on Fifth avenue. Without a word May drew a good-sized cowhide and struck Bennett three sharp blows in the face, drawing blood at each stroke. The two men clenched, but wtre separated by members of the clnb. The affair created an immanaA sensation in social circles. THE WW. Luu numbers of what axe called Gulf cat- e are dying in the counties of Central Illi­ nois, caused by the interne oold of the present winter... .John L. Bittinger, one of the Mis­ souri "crooked" whisky convicts, has been pardoned jand released from prison.... The Minnesota State Board of Health has issued a circular for distribution throughout the State, recommending vaccina­ tion and re vaccination to guard against the probable introduction of small-pox from Wis­ consin and Manitoba Tbe fire fiend ap­ peared in Chicago 474 times during the year just closed, and devoured $383,320 worth of property Eight thousand five hundred and thirty-ail Ohicagoans died during the year 876. THB most appalling railroad catastrophe that has happened for many months occurred at Ashtabula, *Ohio, on the evening of Friday, Bee. 29. The Pacific express, train from the East on the Michigan Southern and Lake Shore •road, due at Ashtabula at 6:15 p. m., arrived about two hours late, being delayed by the fearful storm and grea* drifts of snow, though drawn by two engines. As it was about to cross the bridge over Ashtabula river, near the station, the train ran off the track, probably on account of the drifts of snow, and went off the rails upon the bridge. The bridge, an iron trusB of perhaps 100 feet span, gave way with an awful c meh. The forward engine had passed safely over, but. the coupling connecting it with the next engine broke and all the rest of the train, consisting of two first-class coaches, one smok­ ing ou one drawing-room car, three sleeping cars, and four express and baggage care, with ... , . . , , . . one of the engines was precipitated into the I™"®® on counting the electoral votes had two crowd oould not. OoL Bush, the spoke* man, then called upon Clerk Treaev nt to clear the obstructions, barricades, police, etc., wbioh prevented the Ingram of mem­ bers. A formal demand was then made by Trezevant upon Ges., Badger and other officials for their removal, which, being d<- qiined, Col. Bush read a paper proteftni^ against the armed oooapation of the State House, a copy of which was presented to do v. Kellogg, fhe latter replied that, m Governor and conservator of the peace, he eoMid^rod that it was his duty to keep the police thcrfe, as he was of the belief that there was danger of the organization of the General Assembly be^ng interfered with by violent and illegal means. The Clerk of the House, Trezevant, refused to call the roll of the House under the circumstanoes, and one of the members, Ft the request of the Secretary of State, oalled the roll. The Democratic Legislature met at St, Patrick's Hall. Louis Bush was elected Speaker of the House. Both Legislatures claimed to have a iegai quorum. Th« iteimbucan body passed a resolution setting forth that armed resistance to the State authorities exists in the State, and oalling upon the President to afford the protection guaranteed by the constitution. At Augusts. Ky., the other day, seven young men, all unknown, while on the ioe in the Ohio at that point, were suddenly drowned by the breaking of a gorge. AU belonged to Utopia, O. GOYUBNOK-ELECT Darw, of Florida, has been inducted into the gubernatorial chair, at Tal­ lahassee, Gov; Stearns surrendering the offloe without any contest. Gov. Dfrew delivered a message conciliatory in tone, guaranteeing to the freedmen the enjoyment of all their rights and privileges. WASHINGTON. THE Senate Committee on Privilege* and Elections commenced the investigation of the Oregon electoral case on the 29th ult Com­ missioner of Patents Duell has rewgned. Is the investigation of the Oregon electoral ease by the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, Secretary of State Chadwick, of Oregon, testified that he canvassed the vote on the 4th of December, the day prescribed by the statutes of Oregon, at which time noth­ ing was said by any one present about the ineligibility of Watts, but such ineligibility was subsequently discovered, and, on account of protests in the matter, he did not make out the lists of ©lectors under the seal of the State; These lists were prepared by Gov. Grover, who had investigated legal precedents and was sat­ isfied of the correctness of his view. The point m to whether the Governor had n right to appo nt Cronin was raised the day after the oanvass, and one day before the meeting of the Electoral College. Upon a hearing of the case by the Governor, Mr. Odell filed a protest against Cronin's appointment. On the day the college met he (witness) handed certified lists from the Governor to Cronin in the presence of all the Republican and Democratic electors. Mr. Odell'g ' evidence was to this effect: On the day the college met he, in com­ pany with Cartwright * and Watte,, they being the three Republicans claiming election, went to Secretary Chadwick and de­ manded certificates, which were refused. They were referred to Gov. Grover, who informed them that he would deliver the certificates to the parties entitled to them at the Capitol at 12 o'clock the same day. Secretary Ghadwiok at the hour mentioned handed Cronin an envelope containing a certificate of the Governor, which was read by Cronin. He (Odell) asked Cronin to produce the certificates of each member for the gui­ dance of the college, which was declined, Watts then resigned. After some conversation Cronin said to witness: "Do 1 undersinnd you to refuse to recognize me ?" To which the witness replied that he wanted the. certificates produced, and would act with any one legally elected. Cronin then left in anger, and the two Republicans appointed Watte to fill his own vacancy. A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 39th ult. says ; «'The Senate branoh of the Joint com- abyse, a distance off sixty-five feet. There were upward of 200 passengers on the train, mere than *100 of whom perished in the flames, which broke but soon after the fall of the train, and which consumed every car. The alarm was sounded immedi­ ately, and all possible help sent at the very soonea; minute, and all that could be was done to save those who were still alive. The shrieks of the wounded and dying were awful, and the scene of the burning cars in the deep and narrow valley was heartrending beyond de­ scription. In the midst of the deep snow and the furiouH storm the citizens of Ashtabula did all that human beings could do. The pas­ sengers saved were conveyed to the hotels and private houses, and everything done for them that poes bly could be. BUBIKG the year 1676 Chicago has received 3,044,373 barrels of flour and 82,791,628 busnels of grain. During the same time she has dis­ tributed 2 700,636 barrels of flour and 76,863,089 bushels of grain. Of hogs she has received 4.3' 0,000 and ahippedl, 191,000. isiiiixioENCE of a most shocking case of murder and suicide reaches us from La Crosse, Wis. Dr. E. Chamberlain, an old, wealthy and respected citizen, while sitting in his cutter in front of a store in a busy street, was ap­ proached by a man named Oscar Wieeenger, who presented a shot-gun, heavily loaded, and, 'without a word, discharged the load of shot in the body of Dr. Chamberlain, in­ flicting almost instant death. The mur­ derer then placed a pistol to his own l»ead and blew his brains out. No motive is assigned for the deed... .Three white men were recently killed and another b&diy wound­ ed, by agency Indians, while en route frotn Sage Creek, Wyoming, to Red Cloud Agency. --Among the victims of the Lake Shore railroad disaster, few will be mourned by a wider circle of friends throughout the North­ west than Mr. P. P. Bliss, of Chicago, so well and widely known through his gospel- song services, which have been scarce less effective in the work of religious revival, in which he had long been engaged with Maj Whittle, than were those of Mr. Sankey in his work with Mr. Moody. Mr. Bliss was en route to Chicago to take part in the revival services at the Tabernacle. He and his wife perished in the disaster at A*4i tabula A statement of the produce trade of Milwaukee for the year 1870 gives the following figures: Receipts of wheat, including flour reduced to bushels, 28,- 147,481 bushels; shipments. 30,005 797 bushels. Total receipts of pram, 32,884,256 bushels: shipments, 32 899,323 bushels. THE stockholders of ihe Northern Ohio Fair Association, of Cleveland, have decided to hold no fair this year. Hard times... .The Illinois Bute Farmers' Association will meet at Spring­ field on the 23d of January Gen. Crook's ©ommand has returned to Laramie fron^ its expedition axainat the Indians. The camnaien is ended for the winter. In the United States Court, at Yankton, Dakota, last weelr, John MoCall, previously convicted of the murder of Wild Bill in the Black Hills last August, was sentenced by Chief Justice Shannon to be hanged on Thurs­ day, March 1. In the statement made to the eoort he claimed he was so badly intoxicated on tue day of the murder as to be entirely nn. conscious of shooting anybody. THE SOUTH. LOUISIANA'S cotton product, this season, is estimated at 300,000 bales....A Columbia, (S. C.) telegram says " the sub-committee of the committee delegated by the House of Repre­ sentatives to inquire into the election of Pres­ idential electors in South Carolina, after careful examination of the returns from all the preo'.ncts in the State, find tbat all the Hayes and Wheeler electors have a fair majority ou the face of the returns, and that Wade Hamp­ ton has a majority of the votes cast for Gov­ ernor." THE city of New Orleans was, on the 1st fast., the scene of the usual biennial excite­ ment incident to the assembling and organiz hg of the Legislature of Louisiana. At no- «>f that dtty, the dispatches inform u», ttie Democratic members, accompanied by about 500 persons, called at the State House and demanded admission. The officer on duty replied that the members could enter, but the long sessions yesterday. All the sessions, thus fax, have been devoted to the preliminary work of examining and discussing the histori­ cal records bearing on the general subject, and no proposition has yet been formally present­ ed to the committee by any of its members. One of them said that the indications are tbat no conclusion on any point can possibly be reached by the Senate branoh of the oommirtee for several da^s at least, and that the matters now before them are in such aa uncertain con­ dition as to preclude any reasonable conject­ ure aa to th© result of their deliberations".... The work of printing all the debates on counting the electoral vote, from the for­ mation of the Government up to the present time, has been oompleted by the Government Printing Office. The volume makes a book of 800 pages. THEHE is a rumor that Justice Clifford, of the United States Supreme Court, is to be re­ placed by Judge Shipley, of the Upper New England District Clifford is entitled, on ac-' count of age, to retire at his own option on full my for life. Clifford is a Democrat, Shipley a Sepablican. DURINO December there was an Increase in the public debt of upward of $3,600,000. Ap­ pended is the official statement: Six per cent, bonds. 9 944.900,800 Five per cent, bands 713.320,460 Four end a half per cent. bonds 33,600,000 Total bond* . $1,690,831,350 Lawful money debt .$ 14.000.000 Matured debt 11,834,360 Legal tenders' 1566,120,546 Certificates of deposit.... 31,000,000 Fractional currency ...... 20 348,306 Com certificates 47,280,000 Total without interest. „M 470,748,752 ..93,187,404,36) .. 42,618.157 Total debt Total interest Caah in Treasury: Coin 996,517,418 Currency 9,483,800 Special deposits held for re­ demption of certificates of deposit. 31,000,000 Total in Treasury 137,001,278 Debt ISM cash in the Treasury 92,069,=>36,099 Increase of debt during December.... 3, f, 85,142 Decrease since June 30, 1876 6,618,103 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money : Principal outstanding $4,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid...... 1 938,705 Interest paid by the United States 82,080,218 Interest repaid by transportation of malls, etc 7/01,507 Balance of interest paid by United States 35,076,710 PRESIDENT GRANT has again been interviewed by the irrepressible newspaper correspondent, to whom, if the report of the conversation is to be believed, he freely and unreservedly uu- folded Ma views upon the political situation. The President expressed the belief that Suuth C -rolraa and Florida had fairly chosen the Republican electors, and that Chamberlain was the legal Governor of the first-named State. In regard to Louisiana he said that " men from that State had told him that the action of the Returning Board was final and without appeal. Thero had always been trouble in that State from fraud, and it was a fact that its electors! vote had not been counted sine© i860." Speaking of the general situation, he did not think there had been a fair election^ such as .hey have in New En­ gland, in any Southern State exoept, perhaps, Delaware. Upon the subject of the Presiden­ tial question in CorigreBs, Grant said that the existing difference between th© two houses, it af9peart d to him, would not be disposed of bv the expiration of bis term, at which time all power vested in him would cease. To his miud law and precedents gave the Presi­ dent of the $©«j® te tiis pc;*,7cr to opsa and count tbe vote; but precedents ata? established the t ight of either house to object to the count- nn? ef the electoral voie of the States, the first of which occurred iti 1817, in the case of Indiana. It was declared not legally admitted into the UnioD. Tbe vote, however, was e uuted. He anticipated obj o ion to the c juut of several Btateu in Fobiuary, Hid ob- served tbat when this thing was begun it wa^ '""rfto wnere it would C"d. It was possi­ ble that the time up to the 4 h of March would be occupitd with the settlement of this qoesUon. If not. settl «", be i* i<f t^e op;iron that, nnder u.e h ct of 1872, the Fi'ee.deut pi o tern.of th* Sen­ ate would become acting President, and would be sworn in as such. He thought no embar­ rassment would follow the swe-tring in of an acting President. Th® latter could promptly conveno the Forty- fifth Congress for such business as he might, see fit to bring to its at­ tention. In iho new Congress the question of the Presidential election might become a sub­ ject of consideration, and it might be deter­ mined to hold an election sajlisr than the tiro© regularly provided in the act of 1872, which • would now be on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, Congress, he thought, might see fit to fix upon a date for holding an •lection in Jane, which oould readily be done, and hold the inauguration on the Fourth of July, which would more promptly dispose of the exceptional state of affairs iooident to tbe interregnum. E. A. CRONIN, the Oregon Democratic elec­ tor, testified before the Senate Committee cs Privileges and Elections that he "had not made any arrangements with any person or persons whereby the electoral certificates were to be handed to him by the Secretary ef State. He was convinced he was lawfully appointed to replace Dr. Watts, and he put the certifi­ cates in his pocket because he was afraid they would be taken from him by Odell and others. He had refused to come to Washington as messenger of the Electoral College unless ho should receive for expenses, and the money was famahed him. It was raisjd, be supposed. by subscription among Oregon Democrats."... .Charles G. Fisher, convicted of abstracting pa­ pers, has been fried in the Washington Criminal Court, and sentenced to eleven months' imprisonment at labor in the common jail. His father was &t one time a Representa­ tive from Delaware in Oongreso, and subse­ quently Judge, and then District Attorney. It was while the son was Assistant District At­ torney that he stole the papers from the Clerk's offioe, for which he his been tried and convicted. POLITICAL. THE reelection of Mr. Blaine to the Senate from Maine is said'to be assured beyond a adonbt Secretary Morrill denies the state­ ment that he is a candidate for the position. WADE HAMPTION has addressed a letter to both Gov. Hayes and Gov. Tilden, in which he says: "I deem it proper to declare that profound peace prevails throughout this State; that the coarse of Judicial proceedings is ob­ structed by no combination of citizens thereof, and that the laws for the protection of its inhabitants in ail the rights of person, property, and citizenship are being enforced in our courts. While the people of this State are not wanting either in the spirit, or means to maintain their rights of oitizenship against the usurped power which now defies the supreme judicial authority of the State, tht-y have that faith in the justice of their oause that they propose to leave its vindication to the proper legal tribunals, appealing at the same time to the patriotism and public senti­ ment of tbe whole country. The inflammatory utterances of a portion of the public press render it perhaps not inopportune for me to state that, although the people of Sonth Carolina view with grave concern th© prospect of a critical conjuncture in the affairs of our oountry which threatens to subject to an ex­ treme test the republican system of Govern­ ment itself, it is their firm and deliberate pur­ pose to condemn any solution of existing polit­ ical problems that involves the exhioition of armed force, or that moves through any other channel than the prescribed form of the con­ stitution, or the peaceful agency of the law." THK following are the figure® for Presiden­ tial electors in South Carolina, as determined by the House Congressional Committee: Hayes electors--Bowen, 92,327 ; Winsmith, 5)2,3G3 ; Johnson, 92,434; Hurley, 93,266 ; Nasb, 92,331; Cook, 92,340; Myers, 92,358. Tilden electors-- Barker, 91,446; MoGowan, 91,462 ; Iugram, 91 446 ; Wallace, 91,446 ; Erwin, 91,444 ; Aid- rich, 91,440; Humphries, 91,106 Judge Stanley Matthews, of Cincinnati, will contest the seat of Hen. Heniy B. Banning in the next Congress. HON. WILLIAM A. WHEELER has been inter­ viewed by a Mew York Herald correspondent, by whom he is made to speak thus: "It is my firm conviction that Congress can never be constituted a National Canvassing or Return­ ing Board. Congress cannot go behind the returns, beyond the mere question of the regularity of the certificates. Understand me clearly, for it is a point on which I would not like to be misunderstood. The Con­ gress cannot investigate whether Leuiaiana has gone for Tilden or Hayes. The action of the Returning Board on this point has been final and conclusive in Louisiana. I do not believe that this dispute will be wholly an un­ mixed evil. I believe it is going to teach the people the machinery of the Presidential elec­ tion, which they have never understood be­ fore, ard that it will be the means of averting suoh troublesome strife in the future." The Republican members of the General As­ sembly of Illinois met in caucus last week, and adopted a series of resolutions declarinK that Hayes and Wheeler, having been elected President and Vice President, must be in­ augurated .... At a caucus of the Republican members of the Michigan Legislature, held on the evening of the 3d inst., Senator Ferry was renominated for the United btates Senate by acclamation' by • unanimous rising vote, .GSUMEBAIm j Hoi*. JAMES W. NYE, formerly United States Senator from Nevada, died last week at White Plains, Westchester county, New York--A cargo of war munitions, valued at $1,500,000, was shipped from New Haven, Ct., to Constan­ tinople last week. They are intended for the Turkish Government A formid ble revolu­ tion, headed by Gen. Serna, has broken out in the Mexican State of Sonora. Serna seeks to organize an independent Government, with tbe ultimate design of annexing the State to the American Union. Success to Serna. ACCORDING to the latest statistical publica­ tion the population of the globe is 1.423,917,- 000. Europe has 309,178,300 inhabitants; Asia, 824,448,500; Africa, 199,921,600; Australia and Polynesia, 4.748 600; America, 85,519,800. The increase in America for the year is given at 1.200,000... .It is stated from Washington that the Postmaster General is considering the propriety of requiring Postmasters to report monthly instead of quarterly. AT a meeting of the railroad passenger agents, held in New York, a few days ago, the following advance in passenger rates was de­ termined on by the trunk lines; New York to Cleveland, $8 to $11; Toledo, $10 to $13.50; Detroit $10 to $1'/; Chicago, $13 to $18; St. Louis, $17 to $23; Indianapolis, $12 to $17; Louisville, $15 to $20; Cincinnati, $11 to $16. As FAB as can be ascertained to a certainty, at least seventy-five persons were killed by the Ashtabula railway disaster. The general im­ pression of th' se competent to jn^ge places the figure higher than this. Appended is the list, as furnished by the railroad authorities: Number of passengers on the train, 128; num­ ber of employes on the train, 19; total, 147 Rescued passengers. 63; rescued employes, 9 ; total, 72. Died since, passengers, 3 ; died since, employes, 1; total, 4. Names of known ret cued, 72; lost, 70; unaocuunied for, 5; total, 147. FOKKIOH. THE London (Eng ) School Boari has pro­ posed a radical change in the present system of spelling, and there is a warm discussion going on as to whether the adoption of the phonetic system would be s reform A dis­ patch from Para dated the 29th ult. says that tbe Sultan, in answer to Lord Salisbury's friendly representatiot^declared thai his per­ sonal stfety would De compromised if he conceded all that the powers de­ manded. No tbreats passed at tbe interview between the Sultan and Lord Salisbury. The Loudon Times, in a leader diaeuHhing the pro­ posals of the powers, says: "The agreement between Russiajuid England implies that eveD should there be chauge of detail, tbe main lines will remain fixed.".... Tue plague has agaiu made its appearance at B>gdad. All the accounts from the Old World agree that England has definitely resolved to take no part in the de­ fense of Turkey, but to preserve an attitude of neutrality at least until it may become neces­ sary to act for the preservation of her road to India. The intentions of Austria, however, are not quite so clear. She has very quietly gath­ ered a powerful army on the frontiers or the disturbed provinces, and is evidently fully aware of the truth of Bismark's asser­ tion that her interests are more directly and immediately threateded than those of England by Sassi"1" policy. THE 300 mile walking matoh between Daniel Oljeary, of Chicago, 111., ohampion of Amer­ ica, and William Howse, of London, was fin­ ished on Dec. 30, and resulted in the defeat of O'Leary. He left the track utterly, fagged out after he had walked 209 miles. Howse con­ tinued to 241 milea, when he too s:opped walking because O'Leary gave up the match. Betting was 5 to 4 on O'Leary It is an­ nounced from Constantinople that the confer­ ence of the powers has prolonged the aimistice to the 1st of March, 1877. LATE Panama advices, reoeived by steamer at New York, furnish an interesting batch of intelligence from Central and South America : Ex-President Guardia, of Costa Rica, is about to visit Guatemala and Salvador for the purpose of inducing those I states to unite with Costa Rica in the war against Nicaragua. Presi­ dent Herrar®, of Costa Rica, by decree, has abolished the liberty of the press, and placed every printing offioe in the country nnder tbe direct oontrol of the authorities. Another battle has occurred between the state of C&nca and the republic of Colombia. The Liberals claim a victory, bnt lost some prom­ inent officer*. The loss of each side in tbe previously reported battle of Garrapot was: Liberals, GOO killed and 1.300 wounded; Con­ servatives, 300 killed and 700 wounded. Of the wounded at least 500 will die. Mr. Moreno, the Dutch Consul; Senor Augustin Velez and two other persona have been assassinated at Onrthagena. The assassins were arrested. THE first railway accident in Denmark, in­ volving loss of life, has jost occurred between Horseus and A&rhnns. The train, conveying a hundred laborers to dear, the snow blockade, ran off the track. Nine persons were killed and thirty-seven hurt. The injured suffered greatly frcm cold and the delay in receiving aaniirtimra. FORTY-FOURTH COKURESS. . lively Discussion In tbe House on the Louisiana Case. The Speaker laid before the House a peti­ tion from certain citizens of Cincinnati in re­ gard to the count of the electoral votes. A discussion arose as to whether the petition should be read and therefore printed. Mr. Garfield held that the reading of the pe­ tition waa out of order, even though presented to the Spoaker. Mr, Banning called Mr. Garfield's attention to the fact that a number of citizens went to New Orleans and made a report of a partisan nature to the President, who has sent it to the House, and it had boen printed, and on the discussion of the printing of that report, that gentleman (Garfield) had taken the position that it must be printed, and now when a peti­ tion comes signed by citizens of both parties tho gentleman objected to the printing of it. Tbe other side of the House had also objeoted to the appointment of oommitfcges to investi­ gate the frauds of the Southern States, and, with three exceptions, voted against it. They had also voted against the resolution calling for information in regard to the ejeotion of Gov. Wells from the Governorship of Louisi­ ana The Republican party was attempting to defeat the will of the people by fraud, but if there was one thing the people love more than another, more than life, it was the liberty that was vouchsafed to them in an honest ballot-box. [Applause on the Democratic side and in the galleries.] He wished to tell the gentleman from Ohio (Garfield) that the peo­ ple would have an honest ballot-box, and, though th ' army might come with eighty Arands of ammunition, though the navy might be called upon, though the 80,000 officeholders might be oalled to the rescue, an honest people would put them all down. [Applause.] He hoped, however, that the members on the other side of the House would throw aside their partisanship and stand by the right. Mr. Garfield said he was glad at last a gen­ tleman had been fonnd who could speak for the American people, who could tell exactly what the peopl^ were going to do. Re sin­ cerely regretted tlmt his colleague (Banning) should epeak m a time of^reai danger like the present, when the country needed all its wis­ dom, and all its fairness, and all its calmness, and that he should have found it necessary at such a time to hint at what* the people would do : that they would defy the authority of the United States, that the navy might come, that its trappings of war might rattle, but the peo­ ple would come down and overrule every­ thing. It was the very essence of violence for a gentleman to appeal to the people to re­ sist the plain process of iaw, and in an hour like this the men who attempted to shake a brand of fire over the country were the men who ought to be most severely judged by the people. Mr. Banning said he also thought that the oondltion of the country was danxerous and the House ought to proceed with cautiousness, and certainly his side of the House was doing so, and it would continue to do so, but it would not be deterred from its duty by anything or anybody. Referring to the high terms in which the Republicans spoke in their report to the President of Gov. Wells, he sent up and had read at the Clerk's desk the corrcEpondcnce which led to his ejection from the Governor­ ship of Louisiana. Was this the man whom his colleague (Garfield) would have run his dishon­ est hands into an honest ballot-box and purge it of the fraud which it contained ? This m«n who was denounced by Gen. Rharirtan as a dis­ honest man ? Mr. Frye said the faot that men were talking about war and yet gold stood at 107>^ and not At 150 showed clearly that the people did not take any stock in tbe Democratic cry of war. They were not easily frightened by the gentle­ man who talked about the people coming and stripping men of power. Some time ago Sheri­ dan sent a dispatch from Louisiana, indicating that in his judgement a large portion of the people of that State was banditti, and the gen­ tleman from Ohio (Banning) and his friends went crazy over the testimony of Gen. Sheri­ dan, and held public meetings denouncing him for sending suoh dispatches, ftlr. Frye continued to epeak for some time in defense of Gov. .Weils and in denunciation of what he termed the political outrages in the Sonth, particularly in Louisiana. The discussion, which was now devoted to the outrage question, was somewhat prolonged, and was participated in by Messrs. AtMnia, Frvo. Willis, and Spencer. Regular Proceedings. THURSDAY. Dec. 28.--Senate.--Not in ses­ sion. Rouse.--Tbe following bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Hooker, for the improvement of the Paarl and Pascagoula rivers, in Mississippi; by Mr. Douglass, authorizing the CommigBioaern of the Freeaman's Saving and Trust Company to buy certain real estate; by Mr. Fi'.u, authorizing the purchase of gold-dust and bullion at the assay oflloc at Boise City. FBIDAY, Dec. 29.--Senate.--The Senate met and remained in session but a few minutes. Sen­ ator Logan was excused from servioe on the -moo mittee to consider the question of counting the electoral vote, by his telegraphic request, and Mr. Oonkling was appointed to fill tho vacancy....Mr. Gordon presented the memoru! of Wade Hamptou, Wm. a. Simpson, Wm. H. Wallace, and sixty-eight Senators and HepreBentatives in the General As­ sembly of Boutb Carolina, addressed to Congress, reciting at length the events which have recently transpired in that State, the interference of the military, etc., and asking Congress to take such action aa will cause a cessation of the military interference the affairs of the State and enable the Governor and Legislature to exercise the duties of the oflices to which they were elected. The memorial having been read, Mr. Gordon moved that it be re­ ferred to th» Judiciary Committee. Mr. Frelmghu - sen moved to amend so as to refer it to tho Commit­ tee on Privilege* and Elections instead of the Judi­ ciary Committee. Pending the discussion, Mr. Gor­ don, by unanimous consent, submitted a resolution recognizing the Hanlpton Government as the legal Government of South Carolina, but objection was made to It by Mr. Morton and others, and it wae laid over. Owing to tbe abaenoe of a quorum, no ac'ion was taken upon the matter, ana tne Senate adjourned to Tuesday, Jan. 2. House.--The Hotue met and Immediately ad­ journed, no quorum being present. TUESDAY, Jan. SL--Senate.--A number of bills and petitions were presented and referred to appropriate committees, and after a very brief ses­ sion tbe Senate adjourned for want of a quorum. Z/otwg.- -Not in session. WEDNESDAY, Jan. 3.--TSFENAFE.--The bill of Mr. Wright declaring the true intent and meaning of the Union Pacific railroad acts was taken up and debated at length Mr. Morton, from the Com­ mittee on Privileges and Klections, submitted a report that William M. Turner, manager of the Western Union Telegraph office at Jacksonville, Ore., had refused to answer certain questions put to him, on the ground tbat be could not divulge the business of the company; also, a reso­ lution declaring that Turner is in duty bound to answer questions, and cannot refuse to do so by virtue of his official connection with the com' piny. Ordered priuUu. Bourn.--Mr. Barnes, the manager of tbe West­ ern Union Telegraph Company, at New Or­ leans, was brought before tbe bar by the Sergeant-at-Arnis, and was giveu until Friday night to make answer to the charge of contempt. . Mr. Phillips (Kan.) introduced a kill extend­ ing the time to pre-emptors on pubUc lands, and for tbe appraisement of oertaia lands. Referred. Mr. Wilson offered a resolution requesting the Committee oa Railroads to report whether it is expedient to provide for tbe appointineut of a National Board of Engineers to supervise the condition of inter-State railroads, so far as safety to travelers is concerned. Beferred Mr. Knott, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, presented the report of the committee on the ad­ mission of James B. Belford as Representative from Colorado, with a resolution declaring Colorado to l>e a State in tbe Union and that Belford siuoUld be admitted. Mr. Hurd presented a minority report, which recommends the passage of an act by Congress admitting Colorado. The reports were recommitted Mr. Hunter in­ troduced a bill for the election of Federal officers and to prevent fraud in elections. Referred.... The Speaker appointed Mr. McDill on the com­ mittee on lights, duties, and privileges ef the Bouse in counting the electoral vote, in place of Monroe, excused. Adjourned. THE ASHTABULA HORBOB. Details of One of the Most Frightful Ball way Disasters on Record--The Awful Plunge Into the Abyss of Death. The proportions of the Lake Shore railway horror, writes a correspondent from Ashtabnla, are now approximately known. Of the 160 passengers whom the maimed conductor reports as having been on board, but fifty-nine can be fonnd or accounted for. The remaining 100, burned to ashes or shapeless lumps of oharred flesh, lie tinder the ruins of the bridge and train.' The disaster was dramatically com­ plete. No element of horror was want­ ing. First, the cwsh of the bridge, the agonizing moments of suspense as the seven laden ears plunged down their fearful leap to the icy river-bed ; then the Are which came to devour afcl that had been left alive by the crash ; then the water, which gurgled up from under the broken ioe, and offered another form of death; and, finally, the biting blast filled with snow, which froze and benumbed those who had escaped water and fire. It was am ideal tragedy.. The scene of the accident was the •alley of the creek which, flowing down past the eastern margin of Ashtabula village, passes under the railway three or four hundred yards east of the station. Here for many years after the Lake Shore road was built there was a long wooden trestle-work, but as the road was improved this was superseded about ten years ago with an iron Howe truss built at the Cleveland shops, and resting at either end upon high stone piers, flanked by heavy earthen embankments. The iron structure was a single span of 160 feet, crossed by a double track seventy feet above the water, which at that point is now from three to six feet deep, and covered with eight inches of ice. The descent into the valley on either side is precipitous, and, as the hills and slopes are piled with heavy drifts of snow, there was no little diffi­ culty in reaching the wreck after the disaster became known. The disaster occurred shortly before 8 o'clock. It was the wildest winter night of the year. Three hours behind its time, the Pacific express, which had left New York the night before, strug­ gled along through the drifts and the blinding storm. The eleven cars were a heavy burden to the two engines, and when the leading locomotive broke through the drifts beyond tie ravine, apd rolled on across the bridge, the train was moving at less than ten miles an hour. The head lamp threw but a short "and dim flash of light in the front, so thick was the air with the driving snow. The train crept across the bridge, the loading en­ gine had reached solid ground beyond, and its driver had just given it steam, when something in the under gearing of the bridge snapped. For an instant there was a confused crackling of beams and girders, ending with a tremendous crash, as the whole train but the leading engine broke through the framework and fell in a heap of crushed and splintered ruins at the bottom., Notwithstanding the wind and storm the crash was heard by people within-doors half a mile away. For a moment there was silence, a stunned sensation among the survivors, who, in all stages of mutilation, lay piled among the dying and dead. Then arose the cry of the maimed and suffer­ ing ; the few who remained unhurt hast­ ened to escape from the shattered cars. They crawled out of windows into freez­ ing water waist-deep. Men, women and children, with limbs biuised and broken, pinched between timbers and transfixed by jagged splinters, begged with their last "breath for aid that no human power oould give. Five minutes after the train fell the fire broke out in the cars piled against the abutments at either end. A moment later flames broke from the smoking-car and first coach piled across each other near the middle of the stream. In less fhftn ten minutes after the catastrophe every car in the wreck was on fire? and the flames, fed by the dry varnished work and fanned by the icy gale, licked up the ruins as though they bad been tinder. Destruction was so swift that mercy was baffled. Men who, in the bewilderment of the shock, sprang out and reuched th© solid ice, went back alter wives and children, and fount! them gaffixsating and roasting in the flames. The neighboring resi­ dents, startled by the crash5 were lighted to the seene by the conflagration, which made even their prompt assistance too late. By midnighf the cremation was c >mplete. The storm had subsided, but the wind still blew fiercely, and the cold was more intense. When morning came, all that remained of the Pacitio express was a winrow of car-wheels, axles, brake-irons, truck-frames, and twisted rails lying in a black pool at the bottom of the gorge. The wood had burned completely away, and the rains were < covered with white ashes. Here anfi there a mass of charred, smoldering sah- stance sent up a little cloud of sickeninjr •apor, which told that it was hnmaa h slowly yielding to the corrosion of fire. On the crest of the western abutment, half buried in the snow, stood the rescued locomotive, all that remained oi the fated train. As th© bridge fell 1 its driver nad given it a quick head of. steam, which tore the drawhead from its tender, and the liberated engine shot forward and"buried itself in the snow The other locomotive, drawn backward by the falling train, tumbled over the pier and fell bottom upward on the ex­ press car next behind. The engineer Folsom, escaped with a broken W-- cannot tell, ncr can anyone else imagine. There are no remains that can ever be identified. The three charred shapeless lumps recovered up to noon to-day are beyond all hope of recogni­ tion. Old or young, male or female black or white, no man can tell. They alike in the crucible of death. For - rest, there are piles of white ashes which glisten the crumbling particles calcined bones; in other places black, charred debris, half under t **> contain fragments of bodies, but nothing of human sem­ blance. The survivors relate many Interesting details of the catastrophe, diaries S. Carter, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was in the rear drawing-room car playing cards with two others, one a Mr. Shepherd, of New York, the other a stranger. Sud­ denly he heard the glass of the car- windows began to crackle, and the car plunged fto the bottom of the ravine, xhe stranger was killed instantly. Mr. Shepherd had a broken leg which was amputated this morn­ ing, and Carter, though! some­ what bruised, was comparatively unhurt. Carter says that the front of the car was much lower than the rear, and that the flames in the front began to eat upward and spread with great rapidity. He turned to the assistance of Mr. Shepherd and with great difficulty succeeded in getting him out, the broken leg imped­ ing their advance. When Shepherd was fairly out, Carter returned to the assist­ ance of a woman who was calling for help at the front of the oar. He got her out, and, as she was thinly clad, gav« her his overcoat. are the in of of water. Edncating an Army. * Gen. McGlellan says, in Scribner, that when one of the Khedive's Ameri­ can officers had been some months in JSgypt, the Khedive sent for him one day, and asked him what was the worst thing he had observed in regard to the arm jo He replied that it was that the regiments were commanded by civilians. The Khedive said: " No, there is a Colonel for every regiment." "Yes,** said the American, " but each Colonel, Chief of Battalion, and Captain has a civilian clerk who controls everything relating to the pay, rations aad clothing of the men, and whoever does that really commands." ' • You are right," said th© Khedive, " but how would you correct this?" "Bv requiring that the Colonels should have sergeants as their clerks ; the Chiefs of Battalions, corpo­ rals ; the Captains, private soldiere; and also requiring that the officers should supervise and do mnch of the real work themselves." "That means that the army should learn reading, writing and arithmetic!" "That is exactly what I was coming at, Your Highness." The Khedive reflected for a moment, and then at once wrote an order to the Minister of War, requiring ̂ that from tbat moment no person in the army (either officer or soldier) should be promoted until he was master of read­ ing, writing and arithmetic. The con­ sequence was that the whole army Im­ mediately became a school. 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