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gfe Ptjtntr fhfatote ~ J VAN SLYf" 7 . ILLINOIS. MOHEKBY, MTt! H|»rs CONDENSED. / THE KMT. . . CHARLES/WHW/UU> was hanged at Newark, H J Ia8f-Week* for the murder of Policeman -T **ck. Thomas Ryan, an accomplice *, „,nnrder, and who was to have been WIG . i t r*nr ^"rat the i^nVo tinie &s Onohwald. commit- 2^£cide, by taking poison. on the morning of ^ Ay set for his execution. STEKES it. Co., lace importers, of •th York, have been victimized by robbers to Ae tune of $40,000. Their store was entered jit night, and fine French laees to that value carted away. It is one of the heaviest bur­ glaries ever perpetrated in tkat city.... Another cargo of war material for Turkey has just been shipped from New Haven, Conn. It consisted of 10,000.000 Snider cartridges, 420.000 Winchester cartridges, 5,000,800 Martini shells, 5.000,000 bullets. 33,600 Martini guns, anfi 83,GOO Martini scabbards, all contained in 1*4.817 cases, the total value being $1.048,608 The bank­ ing house of King & Sou, in TA illiam street. New York, was robbed, a few days ago, of #160,000 worth of United States bonds, mortgages, securities, etc....Tbe Brooklyn Argux and TTtnoti have been "conswftidated, un­ der the name of the Union-Argii*-- .Sag Har­ bor, Long Island, has been visited by a de­ structive conflagration, involving fitae loss of $150,000 worth of property. THE WEST. , THB good city of Minneapolis, Minn., has been the scene of a tragedy combining all the essentials of a first-class sensation. Wra. H. Sidle, assistant cashier of a bank of which his father is President, and a young «mn occupying a prominent motion in business and social circles, was quietly walk­ ing along the street, when he wa* snot down by a woman named Kate Noonan. It appears that Sidle had been criminallv intimate with the woman, and had discarded and refused to rec­ ognize her. This so angered her that she sought revenge in the manner mentioned. ABOUT 1,000 feet of the eastern approach of the St. Louis railroad bridge has been destroyed by fire, causing a temporary suspension of travel over the structure. The loss is estimated at about $150.000 CoL Fred Meyer, Internal Revenue Supervisor, and Nathaniel C. Dryden. a prominent Missouri lawver. recentlv engaged in a little pistol-prac­ tice* at Warrenton, Mo., Meyer being shot in the mouth and dangerously wounded. The al­ tercation was the outgrowth of a lawsuit about some crooked stills seized by Meyer. At last accounts CoL Meyer was lying at the point of death. IT is reported that silver has been discovered m few miles south of Rushford, Minn. Every one in that neighborhood is in a highly-excited state. Specimens have been sent to Philadel­ phia for assay D. Kreigh A Co., of Chicago, heaw dealers in grain and provisions, have failed. Their liabilities will reach several hun­ dred thousand dollars. THE Ohio State Grange has just held its an­ nual session at Cincinnati. Two hundred dele­ gates were present, representing every county in the State. The report of the State Business Agent shows an aggregate business of over $3,000,080, making a showing of $800,000 to Patrons. The sales of hogs during the past season amounted to $1,000,000, saving commis­ sion to owners and giving them the advantage jot a good market. THE SOUTH. NEW ORLEANS was thrown into a state of the wildest excitement, the other day, by an at­ tempted assassination of Gov. Packard. A young man, representing himself to be an at- IB#""l!o iJb private office, whm several gentlemen were seated. He sat down for a »w minutes, and then asked the Governor how long it would be before he could speak with him. The latter looked up and replied, "In a moment." The assassin, who, in the Meantime had arisen from his sekt and ap­ proached Packard, drew a pistol and presented itat his intended victim's head. Quick as a flash the latter brought his hand down just as the, weapon was discharged, and the ball, instead of entering the head, struck the Gov­ ernor's knee-pan, inflicting a painful bat not dangerous wound. Gov. Packard then caught the fellow by the throat and threw him •violently against the wall before he had an op­ portunity to fire again, and struck liim. Dur­ ing the excitement that followed the assassin was shot in the arm, and would have been killed had not the Governor interfered. THE Galveston, Harrisbnrg and San Antonio railroad is now completed. The completion of this road opens up a large portion of the finest territory in Western Texas, which has hereto­ fore been without railroad communication. POLITICAL. DUXCAS F. KENNER. of New Orleans, the man %hcm J. Madison Wells, of the Louisiana Re­ turning Board, testified offered him (Wells) •200 ,000 to declare the result of the election in that State for Tilden, was before the House prerogative committee last week. His testi­ mony was to the effect that Wells and he had several secret interviews, at which the sale of the vote of Louisiana was the subject of de­ liberation ; that Wells was anxious to enter into negotiations, but wanted a "big pile" for the job, intimating that about a million dollars would be the proper figure, as Anderson himself wanted half a million. The •WBtness said this was perfectly ridiculous, and, if the demand was insisted upon, they ini;^lit as well drop matters. After the promulgation of the vote they met, and witness expressed his jwtoniKhment and regret at Wells' course. Wells said, "What could I do V You had no money." Witness said he hoped Wells had made himself safe, and Wells replied, " You bet," or words to that effect. The money, the witness said, was to be raised by subscription, he himself propos- ng to give *5,000. WILLIAM S. STOKELY, Republican, has been re-elected Mayor of Philadelphia by 3,000 ma­ jority. In Pittsburgh and Lancaster the Demo­ crats elect the Mayor and other municipal offi­ cers. THE following letter from Gov. Tilden ex­ plains itself : NEW YORK, Feb. 21. TO Hon. Francis Reman, Washington: A telegram to the Associated Preen, published this morning, states thafca. harmonious agreement has been brought about oetween the Senate committee, of which you are a member, and the committee of otherwise I should attend under the snbpena. As to this arrangement now reported, I have only to ny that 1 otn accept the decorum sod decency, but not a fictitious equivalent for a mantle of secrecy to anybody else. 8. 4. TICDEN. GENERAL.. THE politicians who have been prospecting for bonanzas in the shape of Federal ofibses in the Black Hills are doomed to disappointment for the present. The Senate Committee on Territories has resolved not to report the bill organizing a Territorial government for the Hills, ami that region will probably have to take its Irtvys ready made from the Territories within whose boundaries it lies. AN interesting test has just been made on the stage of McVicker's Theater, Chicago, of * new- ly-invent«d fire-proof preparation for stage scenery and properties. The test, which was made in Ahe presence of a number of city officials, was every way satisfactory. The canvas, as it came from the store, blazed in­ stantly wbr-ii ignited and burned freely; but, after boititr t/-<1 with the preparation, the canvas would only char under a three- quarter incfc!blo\v-pipe of gas, would not even ignite at tine ordinary application of fire, and would not blaze under any circumstances. Pieces of wcw>d of the thickness of the frame­ work used for scenes and scene-shifting, which had also been coated with fire-paint, were but slightly charmed under a blaze of gas for as much as five minutes. This valuable preparation is destined to be utilized not alone by theater people, but will be found of incalcu­ lable benefit to the public at large, and farmers in particular. By applying it to barns and other outbuildings, these siructures can be ren­ dered almost absolutely fire-proof, and a safe­ guard will thus lie afforded against the occur­ rence of accidental and incendiary fires, to which our agricultural friends are _ so constantly subject. The preparation consists of a combination of silicate, tungstate of soda 'and whiting. Full particulars as to how to make and apply this cheap, invaluable precau­ tion against fire will be furnished cheerfully, and free of charge, on application to Mr. L. L. Sharpe, the business manager of McVicker's Theater, Chicago. BKCENT deaths : Judge H. W. Williams, of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court; Judge Rob­ ert Flint, the oldest member of the Fond dn Lac (Wis.) bar. A BORRIBLE story of suffering, starvation and *-A.r>niha.lism at sea is related in a letter received at Boston from Capt. Kane, of the schooner F. E. McDonald, dated on the west coast of Af­ rica. Capt. Kane relates that on his outward voyage from Boston he fell in with the wreck of the British bark Marie, having on board two survivors of the crew of fourteen men, the others having perished from exposure and famine. The two men were taken on board the schooner, but one died within four hours. From the sole survivor it was ascertained that the bark was bound from Dolxty, Ga., to Belfast, Ireland ; that she sprung aleak in a gale and filled with water so it was impossible to save any provisions or fresh water. They soon began to die of starvation, and as soon as one died the rest subsisted upon the dead body, and so on, until only two were left. The survivor, James Mc­ Laughlin, belongs to Belfast, Ireland, and says that only small portions of the bodies could be eaten. No one was killed, but the moment one died the survivors cut the throat of deceased and drank the blood, and then divided the heart and brains. It was tliirtv-two days from the tune of the disaster until tlie wreck was sighted, and during all this time the crew had not a drop of water or other food than the bodies of their dead shipmates. • WASHINGTON. THE Acting Secretory of the Treasury has issued instructions under which any depository bank located in any city in which there is no independent treasury office, by transmitting to the Treasurer of the United States a certificate stating that the sum of $1,000 has been placed to his credit in the general account, will receive j direct from some mint of the United States, free : of expense, a like amount of subsidiary silver i coin Winslow, indicted for the larceny of the ; $12,000 package from the Treasury Department, ' has been sentenced to eighteen months' im- J*wf)nmeut in the Albany Penitentiary... only a few miles from the 'historic Pruth, which separatee them from the Itouhwmajis, with whom a rfcreatv has recently been made that will allow tin' Russian passage .-across Moldavia and Wallftrliia to the Danube. Austria will of­ fer no objection to her crosning; the Danube on tt»e German frontier, which can bo easily done, and will so place her that, ahe can turn the Balkans awl invade Turkey without bein^ com­ piled to.overcome the tremen&uiH natural ob­ stacles df the Danubo and theiftalkan passes. A London dispatch of Feb. 19, says: "The •MLD-of-war Valorous returned to Yarmouth Sun­ day, after a week's search for the missing fisher- mwi', which was unsuccessful. Twentv-five vessels and 150 hands were given up as lost." .... The announcement comes irom Rome that it lias been resolved that anv'.Cardinal my be elected P«pe on the death of thus IX., irrespec­ tive exf nationality. This leaves the door open to thr American Cardinal McClodkv A cable diicpatch report* that Capt. Whitefiill, an engi­ neer in the Khedive's service, .»,nd fifty sol­ diers, who wepe on an exploring expedition in Abynsuaaa, have been massacred by the natives. A St. PxrauissBURO dispatch says.: Russia has 600,(00 men, or two-fifths of the army, orga­ nised. About half are on the frontiers, ready to begin operations A Constanti­ nople dispatch says twenty more Bul­ garians. charged 'with complicity in the May insurrection, have been sentenced each to twenty years' penal servitude. The same dispatch also announces that Chevfcel Pasha, the author of the Bulgarian atrocities, has been appointed.to the eomniand of a corjis in the Turkish army.. ./Jjbe peace negotiations be­ tween Turkey, Servsa, and Montenegro are pro­ gressing favorably. A VIENXA dispatch says the Russians are ac­ tively working in Persia to induce the Shah to join them in the event of a war. The induce­ ment offered is the possession of disputed! fron­ tier territory. The Shah does not appear alto­ gether averse to the plan.... A cable dispatch states that thirty vessels, many of them with their entire crews, were lost in the gale on the English coast during the night of Feb. 19, FORTY-FOURTH COJfURESS. the House, by wliicb it has Iteen decided not to go ! uP°n the President. ft; understood that the Armv Board, of WnWlroni. ocmiiwia m riUUUuut. IUU* ID^KIWI new/regulations for the army, the result of wkuih is to make the heads of bureaus of the War Department in Washington staff- officers to the General ol the Army The President last week approved tlie act of Con­ gress providing for a deficiency in the appropri­ ation for public printing and binding. The bill j ontains a provision that compositors in the Government Printing Office shall hereafter re­ ceive only 50 cents per 1,000 ems for setting type. This provision has caused considerable ! excitement among those employed in the Gov- : ernment Printing Office, and "Several delega- ! tions waited upon the President urging him to j veto the bill. A WASHINGTON dispatch to the Chicago Trib- j une says: "President Grant, in speaking of J the political status of South Carolina and , Louisiana, said that the cases were extremely i dissimilar, and could hardly be treated under | one general line of action. In South Carolina . the contest had assumed such a phase that the whole army of the United States would be in- i adequate to enforce the authority of Gov. j Chamberlain ; that the people of the State had resolved to resort to violence, but adopted a ' mode of resistance much more effective than I armed demonstration. They had refused to pay ' their State taxes, and it would be useless to seil their property, as no o"" would buy it. Unless < Chamberlain c< mid compel the collection of taxes, ' it would be utterly useless for him to expect to > maintain his authority for any length of time, i This state of affairs must inevitably result in the abandonment of all efforts by Chamberlain to maintain himself in the exercise of the guber- : natorial functions of South Carolina. In re­ gard to Louisiana the President will not under­ take to decide as between Messrs. Packard and 1 Nicholls." THE Washington Cajrital of Sunday. Feb. 18, 1 Contained a fiery article upon the decision of the Electoral Tribunal, in which the following passage occuiTed : "If a man thus returned i to power can ride in safety from tlie Executive j Mansion to the Capitol to be inaugurated, we are fitted for the slavery that will follow the in­ auguration. We do not believe the people of the United States are of this servile sort. We do not believe that they are prepared, without a blow, to part with their hard-earned, blood-stained possessions. No­ tice is now served on the citizens of Louisi­ ana and South Carolina that they must care for themselves. How soon lamp-posts will War fruit is for them to say. To the people of the North and West notice is given that bondhold­ ers and monopolies may fatten securely. That a shrinkage of values is now in order. If there is law for fraud, there is reason for violence, and to that we make our last appeal." The ap­ pearance of this article was the subject of a Cabinet meeting the following day, at which it was determined to prosecute Don Piatt, the editor of the Capital, for sedition, and libel House Debate on the Question of Sustaining the Electoral Commission's Decision ht the Louisiana; Case. Mr. Gibson offered an order that the Hayes electoral votes for Louisiana be not counted. Mr. Hurlbut ipoved to amend by striking out the word " not." The discussion was opened by Mr. New, who said that he had voted for the Electoral Com­ mission bill without hesitation or misgiving, and he was not ashamed of the support which he had given to that measure. He accepted, with­ out qualification his humble share of responsi­ bility. He would vote to sustain the objections to the decision of the commission. He was in favor of proceeding without unnecessary delay to the completion of the count. Mr. Seelye said that in the case of the Louisi­ ana election, the corruption ou one side seemed as heinous as the cruelty on the other side was horrible. He found it quite impossible to say which of the two sets of electors from Louisi­ ana voiced the true will of the people of that State. It would have been hard to find wiser and more candid men than those who had pro­ nounced the decision of the Electoral Commis­ sion. He appreciated the strength of their position. Congress could not be too jealous of the constitutional right of the State to choose its electors. Mr. Joyce declared that the whole scheme of the election to the Presidency of the grand fraud of Gramercy park had been a superb Demo­ cratic cheat from beginning to end. Mr. Rice protested against the wrong and vio­ lence embodied in tin; decision, and argued that the whole (subject should be referred back to the commission. Mr. Watterson rose to speak, and immediately the floor and galleries were hushed into still­ ness. He said if the acceptance of the inevita­ ble with resolution and dignity be the liighost, as it is the rarest form of courage known among men, it is made harder in this present instance IvUifejanainioiiiiatM) vf -JnaliU ilwling mm! foul plav. Two courses aro open to the ma­ jority on this floor--on the one hand, passion- strnction to tlie progress of events, an earnest, manly, but temperate protest against what we believe to be great and grievous wrong. In mv judgment the latter is our clear and bounden duty. We owe it to the necessi­ ties of the case ; we owe it to the countrv ; we owe it to ourselves. Because wo were duped by false pretenses into the snare furnished, it is no reason why we should forget the obligations that press upon honorable men. In the very act of passing the Electoral Commission bill we provided for the contingency that has come upon us. I voted for that measure in perfect good faith. The result is against me, and, de­ testable as I must think the means that brought it about, I accept it as a finality. I shall go to iny constituents and shall tell them all, for, as now advised, they know ®nly a part, and, when they have taken time for reflec­ tion, they will, I am very sure, illus­ trate the wisdom and grace of moderation, doing nothing that does not become g<x>d citi­ zens. Life will still go forward, in spite of all this. There are many things to live for yet in this rough world, and, among the rest, that day of reckoning--"JKu: irtr. dic« illti "--.when th» dark shall be light, and the wrung be made right. Mr. Danford, of Ohio, defended the decision as one which, outside of party feeling, would meet the approval of the whole American peo­ ple. Although there- had been investigating committees into tlie elections in Florida, Lou­ isiana and Oregon, which had found much crookedness, yet in all words spoken, letters written, telegrams sent, there lhid not been traced to the President-elect, or to any member of his household, one word that would bring the blush of shame to the American people. [Ajiplause.] Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, said : Louisiana, by because the substance of usurped power is over and can never be realized. The immortal pen­ cil of Gnstave Dore has illustrated the legend of the wamiering Jew. You have *11 seen it. In all th:it «3pearv march of years he found no rest, no resting-place from his crime and its memories. Whether amid the husy haunts of men or in the dim aisles of the forest, wheth­ er upon tfee mountain top or amid the roar and sj>ray «sf the ocean storm, there was ever the memory «f the crime of tlie Jew:, the pale, suffering fioe of the Redeemer, and the accus­ ing voice f<wever in his ear. So it must be with the Republican party and the unjust Judges of this commission. The spoils of office will not compensate it. The splendors of fclee Presiden­ tial receptt«a« and levees cannot banish its pres­ ence. The alienee and gravitv of tlv Cabinet meetings wiM not banish or hush its accusing voice, and in four years more this great Ameri­ can people, than wronged, outraged pwople, will rise in their majesty and will hurl these drunken guests of the feast from power everywhere, and brand with tin? indelible brand of infamy these men who have aided, countenanced, abe tted, and defended this monstrous crime. Mr. Foster, of Ohio, who represents the dis­ trict in which Gov. Hayes resides, spoke of the duty of both parties to abide bv the decision of the Electoral Commission, and said this is not a time for mere party exultation. The exulta­ tion of the patriot over the nation's escape from the dangers that threatened its peaw, (irosperity, and happiness is fitting and proper, n the triumph of peace over disorder and pos­ sible civil war, both parties can unite in exulta­ tion. While I do not rejoice simply in a party sense, I do rejoice that one of the purest and most patriotic of our fellow-citizens is to guide the affairs of this Government for the four years to come. Representing as I do the district in which Gov. Hayes re­ sides, and being a lifelong acquaintance of his, I but speak the opinion, of all persons who know him when I say that his administra­ tion will be wise, patriotic and just, notwith­ standing whatever mav be said to the contrary here or elsewhere. The people of the country may confidently expect from him not only a fair, but a generous, consideration. His letter of ac­ ceptance is the expression of a man of the broadest and loftiest patriotism. I feel certain that I shall be sustained by his acts whan I say that his highest ambition will be to administer the Government so patriotically and wisely as to wipe away every necessity or excuse for the formation of parties on a sec­ tional basis, and all traces of party color lines; that thereafter and forever we shall hear no more of a solid South or a united North. The flag shall float over States, not provinces ; over freemen, not subjects. When Gov. HaveB appealed to' the people of the South in his letter of acceptance, he addressed them as "My countrymen," and why not his countrymen ? Are not the Southern States the equal of those of the North, East or West, and is not the South an integral part of the nation? It has been said sneeringly, and for the pur­ pose of stirring the wild passions of the human heart to bad actions, that the South, under President Hayes, must submit to an uncondi­ tional surrender to the Republican party. No, sir ; no such demand will be made. All that will be expected is patriotic co-operation of the Southern patriots in the great work of res­ toration through the Union, the Con­ stitution, and enforcement of the laws. In this great work the representa­ tive men of the South have already distin­ guished themselves for patriotism and states­ manship during the pendency of this present crisis in our history. Mr. Sparks, of Illinois, in reply to Mr. Foster, said that he doubted the patriotism of any man who took an office thrust upon him by fraud, and which he knew he got through fraud. He imagined "thel ittle gentlemen from Grammercy Park" paying a visit to Hayes at the. White House, and saying, as he took up his hat to leave, "Sir, a quarter of a million of people voted for me more than voted for you, and a clearly-defined majority of the electoral vote of the country was for me, but through your ras cally, scoundrelly, fraudulent Returning Boards you have stolen the office from me." Regular Proceedings. THURSDAY, Feb. 15.--SENATE.--The rgenate devoted most of the day to the consideration of the bill in relation to the Pacific railroad sinking fund and the bill for the support of the Government-of the District of Columbia. HOUSE.--The House voted against the removal of Indians to the Indian Territory. The subject tame up iu conncction with tYie bill lo riitify the •atv made with the Sioux, Arapahoes and Chey- I, witfi ail amend-the <ntW< fa*»»d, TTrfhont omrrmg newness Ob-1 . rtrfninBM iw uhi,i, mefet proposed by Mills, of Texas, which prohibits thf removal of the Indians to the Indian Territory. The bill for the regulation of the rates of toll over the Omaha bridge was discussed, but no vote was taken. FBIDAY, Feb. 16.--SENATE.--The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was passed, after which the Senate devoted the day to consideration of the bill for the liquidation of the Indebtedness of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. HOUSE.--The proceedings were exceedingly dull and uninteresting, and hardly worth chronicling. SATURDAY, Feb. 17.--SENATE.--Mr. Kelly made a personal explanation touching his action in the Oregon electoral muddle. He Baid he did sign the cipher dispatch for Mr. Patrick, wno represented that it was a telegram to W. T. Pelton for $10,000 to puy lawyers' fees in Oregon, and if not used would be returned. He denied he ever utt^mpted to 1><% a Republican elector, or that he\ ever authorized any one to make such an offer for him. Mr. Kelly also, read a telegram from Gov. Grover, of Oregon, denying the authorship of the cipher telegram to Gov. Tilden, signed " Gobble," and saying that he never sent a cipher dispatch in his life. Mr. Sar­ gent Baid he thought the Senator from Oregon did right to endeavor to free his name from the ne­ farious transactions in Oregon. The country had lived through the centennial without any Presiden­ tial elector betraying the party which elected hiln, but it had not lived through the centennial with­ out seeing an attempt to buy an elector sanc­ tioned by the chief of a great political par­ ty. Mr. Bogy said he condemned fraud in Oregon or anywhere else, and he was not willing to sit iu his place and jiermit a stigma of the kind charged by the Senator from California (Sargent) to rest upou the Democratic party as tlie only party guilty of fraud. The country knew there were frauds in Florida and Louisiana, perpetrated by the Republi­ can party, and it knew how these frauds resulted. These frauds were like whitcd sepulchres, fair with­ out, but foul as hell within. Mr. Bogy severely criticised the course of Justice Bradley for the voice of 10,000 majority of her people, \ taking one position in the case of Florida, voted for Samuel J. Tilden for President, but I and then, as he charged, reversing it in the Ixmisi- into an examination of my bank account on the one bund, or accounts of the Chairman of the Republican committee on tlie other hand. I repudiate any such agreement, and dis­ claim any such immunity, protection, or benefit from it. I reject utterly the false imputation that my private bank account contains anything what­ ever that ne -ds to be conce.Ted. Under the pretence of looking for a payment in Deceml>er, demand was made , for all payment? after May and all deposits during nine month". The bank was repeatedly mei - aced with removal of its officers and books to Wash­ ington. A transcript of entries of private business, trusts, charitieK, containing everything but what the committee was eoiuuiip'noned to investigate but nothing which it was commissioned to investigate, because nothing of that sort existed, has been taken, with my knowledge, to Washington! Of coarse, there is no item in it relating to anything in Oregon, for 1 never made, authorized, or* knew of any expenditure in relation to the election in that State, or th" resulting controversies, or any promise or obligation or negotiation ou the subiect . Mr. Ellis, acting President of the bank, himself a Republican, some time ago told the Chairman of the committee and several of its meiu- . bers . that there is nothing in the account ca­ pable of furthering any just object of investi­ gation. I am also informed that a resolu­ tion was passed to summon me as a witness, but ,< have received no subi>eua. 1 had •written before i this telegram appeared requesting you to say to the j committer that it would be more agreeable to me not to visit Washington if the committee would send a sub-committee or hold a session here, but that the United States Davis died at Two REAR ADMIRALS in Navy--Goldsborough and Washington last week. THE Secretary of the Ttieasury has decided that until Congress amends the Pacific Railroad laws, or enacts further legislation, he has no option but to apply tlie whole amount of th«; earnings for mail transportation of the several Pacific railroads and their branches to the liqui­ dation of the interest account of these loads, notwithstanding the Supreme Court has decided that these roads are entitled to one-half of such earnings.... In obedience to a call from the Election Committee of the Sen­ ate, the Secretary of the State of Louisiana has delivered to that committee the returns from the twenty-two challenged parishes of Louisi­ ana. FOREIGN. GEN: CHANGABNIER, who at one time during tlie Franco-Prussian war commanded the main French annv, is dead... .Germany has irrevoca­ bly determined to take no part in the aris Ex­ hibition. . .Vl'he news from Euroj>e grows more and more warlike, the Russians having concen­ trated about 200,000 men and 428 guns at Kinheneff, a short distance from .Odessa, ar.d find to-day by the voice of this commission her electoral vote cast for one Hayes. In arriving : at that decision, in overthrowing the will of the l people of Louisiana, that commission decided I in the first place that they would not examine I into tlie unconstitutionality of the law creating j this Returning lJoard. In the second place, it 1 refused to go into the question of fraud, and in the third place, having sworn to decide accord- ; ing to the constitution of the United States, 1 they, the chosen ministers and liigli priests of | that constitution, sat and closed their ears i against the expressed voice and will of that 1 constitution, against any proof as to the ineligi­ bility of two of these electors, well known, un- ' i disputed and undoubted. The' Returning ' Board violated the Election law, and no lawyer has ever doubted it. No lawyer | will ever dispute it. It is a principle of law ; familiar to every neophyte in the profes­ sion that whatever is done in onposition to . the declared will of the people through their constitution is an absolute nullity. But again, sir, they refused to hear any proof of fraud. Fraud--it obliterates, it vitiates everything. It unclasps the clutches of the most skillfully i drawn mortgage act around real estate. It vitiates even the sanctity of the marriage tie, and yet this great Government, which was able to summon 8,000,000 in its defense, which was : able to shake the. world by the earthquake of I its agony and struggle for self-preservation, | must fall" hopelessly paralyzed before the fraud ' conveyed to it by four men whose acts are black with crime, whose souls are seared with per- i jmy--aye, blacker than Judas Iscaiiot, and I whom ii were base flattery to call men. As to the ! eligibility of these electors under the constitu­ tion, these Commissioners who had sworn to decide according to the constitution, -as I said before, sat then*, these high priests, these chosen ministers, with the sword which is held by this House and by the Senate placed in their hands to guard the constitution, and to guard this Government against thelllegal vote of this Electoral College, yet they sat there and refnsed to hear the most positive and convincing testi­ mony of the ineligibility of two of these elect­ ors. Sir, the deed is done. The crime is ac­ complished. For four years from the 4th of March next the Republican party will hold the shadow of executive power. I say the shadow, ana case, declaring that his name " will go down to after ages disgraced. His name will be associated with Marlborough and Jeffreys), and will never be pronounced without a hiss from all good men in; this country." Mr. Morton said he had heard with regret the remarks made by the Senator from Mis­ souri in regard to Justice Bradley. If that Senator could have heard the discussions of the Electoral Commission as he (Morton) heard them, he would not have made such remarks. The time would come when the, opinions of members of the commission would be published, and he was sure the Senator would then see he had done an act of injustice to an able and conscientious Judge... .The discussion was further continued till adjournment, by Messrs. Sargent, Cooper, and Jones, of Florida. HOUSK.--The Speaker laid before the House a com­ munication from Justice Clifford, President of the Electoral Commission, informing the House that the commission had arrived at a decision m the Louis­ iana case, and had transmitted its decision to the President of the Senate, to he opened and read in, the presence of the .two houses A message was received from the Senate announcing that tliat body was ready to meet the House iu joint convention, and proceed with the counting of the electoral votes... A resolution was introduced by Mr. L.-iii>ar, directing the Clerk of the House to in­ form the Senate it would be ready to receive that body at 11 o'clock on Alonday, Feb. 19, for the pur­ pose of proceeding with the counting of the electoral votes. Adopted--1">'2 to 111. MONDAY, Feb. 19.--SENATE.--At 10:50 P.. M. the Senate repaired to the House, headed by its offi­ cers. Upon returning, the President pro tem. said that objection having been made to the decision on the vote of Louisiana, the two houses separated to deliberate in regard to that decision, and, unless some Senator asked it, he would not direct the decision and objections thereto read again. The objections were then read. Mr. Sherman submitted a resolution that the decision of the commission stand as the judgment of the Senate. Mr. Kernan offered a substitute, to the effect tluit the voU's pur­ porting to be the Hayes electoral vot*n from Louisi- an* be not counted. After a long debate the Substi­ tute of Mr. Kernan was rejected, and the resolution of Mr. Sherman was then adopted by a strict party vole--41 to 28. JOINT CONVENTION.--The Senate appeared in the H41 of the House of Representatives at 11 o'clock a. m., and the joint convention was called to order by Acting Vice President Ferry. The decision of the Electoral Commission in the case of Louisiana was thai submitted and read at length. When the read­ ing was concluded Mr. Ferry asked if there were any objections to counting the vote as received from the commission. Mr. Gibson said he desired to : eater a written objection in behalf of certain Sena­ tors and meml>ers of the House, which was sent to the Clerk's desk and read. The objection proceeded to recite the entire proceedings of the commission in secret session on the 16th, and then protested that the said decision was wrong and con­ trary to law, in that the evidence was excluded. In connection with the protest, the pamphlet contain­ ing a statement of what the Democrats would prove if the evidence was admitted by the commission was read. The protest was signed by every Democratic Representative, and nearly all the Democratic Sena­ tors. When the reading of the document was con­ cluded, Mr. Ferry asked if there were any more ob­ jections, whereupon Senator Wallace, of Pennsylva­ nia, submitted an objection, first, that the decision was made in violation of the Electoral law; secondly, because the act contemplated that the commission would receive evidence regarding the election in the disputed States; third, because the decision disre­ gards truth, honesty, etc. The objection was signed by several Senators and Representatives. Representative Cochrane, of Pennsylvania, also submitted an objection, signed by Senators and members, showing, first, that it was not denied before the commission that the Tilden electors received the largest number of votes ; second, that it was not denied that Wells and the Returning Board were guilty of gr*ve frauds; third, that the decision is in violation of the spirit of the bill, and of the constitution. There withSr?° 'Urther ^J60**0018. the Senate, at 12:55, HOUSE.--The Senate having withdrawn, the House, on motion of Mr. Wood, of New York, voted to adjourn for the day TUESDAY, Feb. 20.--SENATE,--The Senate met at 10 o'clock, but no business was done, the Senators only awaiting a notification that the House was ready to continue the count of the electoral votes. This notitication was made at 1:30, and the Senate repaired to tho chamber of the House of Representatives. Upon returning, at 2:30 p. m., the case of Grossman, the alleged ineligible elector from Michigan, was taken up, and the following resolution, offered by Mr. Allison, Mas adopted by a vote of 40 to 17: "Resolved, That said vote be counted with the other votes of the electors of said State, notwithstanding the objections made thereto." The following, aiso by Mr. AUison, was unanimously agreed to: " Rexo/ved, That the objection made to the vote of Daniel L. Grossman, one of the electors of Michi­ gan, is not good in law, and is not sustained by any lawful evidence." The Senate then repaired to the Hall of the House for the purpose of resuming the count, but shortly returned to consider the ob­ jections to the vote ef R. M. Daggett, one of the Nevada electors. The matter was speedily disposed of by the unanimous adox^tion of a resolution of­ fered by Mr. Jones, of Nevada, that the vote of Dag­ gett be counted, notwithstanding the objections thereto. HOUSE.--As soon as the House was called to order the regular business of the day was introduced by Mr. Gibson, who offered a resolution that the Hay^s electoral votes of Louisiana be not counted. The discussion was carried on without any special excitement on either side, the Republicans speaking in support of the de­ cision of the commission, and the Democrats in opposition. The only exception was in the case of Representative Seelye, who made a brief speech, advocating the throwing of the vote of the State (Louisiana) out altogether. He said that he believed the Democratic charges of fraud against the Republicans, and the Re­ publican charges of intimidation against tho Democrats, and for that reason he thought the vote of the State ought not to be counted. The debate lasted two and a half hours, and at its close the yeas and nays were ordered on Mr. Gibson's resolu­ tion that the vote of Louisiana, as declared by the Electoral Commission, shall not be counted, the vote standing 172 yeas to 99 nays. Two Republicans voted with the Democrats in favor of the resolution --Messrs. Seelye and Pierce, of Massachusetts. A message was sent to the Senate that the House was ready to meet that I tody in joint convention. The House subsequently met again, to consider the objections offered to the counting of the vote of D. L. Cross man, one of the Michigan electors. Mr. Tucker offored a resolution that the vote of CrosBman be not counted. Mr. Jenks offered a substitute to the effect that, as it was not proven at the time of his appointment that Cross- man was an officer of the United States, therefore, that the vote objected to be counted. This was agreed to without a division. The two houses then met in Joint session. At a later hour, after the joint session had adjourned to consider the objections to counting the vote of Elector Daggett, of Nevada, the House voted adjourn, without taking up the case of Nevada. JOINT CONVENTION.--At 1:35 the Senate and House met in joint convention. The presiding offi­ cer stated that the two houses acting separately had considered and decided objections to tlie certificates from the State of Louisiana, and that the action of each House would now be read. This having been done, the presiding officer stated that the two houses not having decided otherwise, the decision of the commission would stand in force, and he di­ rected the tellers to declare the vote of Louisiana. Senator Allison, one of the tellers, thereupon an­ nounced that Louisiana had given eight votes for Hayes for President, and Olgnt v»>tos foi Wfacflot"- for Vica President. There was no manifestation of any kind at the an- nuuncemeat. Ond the opening and «•«-**• •**><»• certificates proceeded, tho State of Maine giving seven votes for Hayes and Wheeler, Maryland eight votes for Tilden and Hendricks, and Massachusetts thirteen votes for Hayes and Wheeler. When the certificate from the State of Michigan was read, giv­ ing eleven votes for Hayes and Wheeler, Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, rose and presented an objection to the counting of the vote of Daniel L. Grossman, one of the electors, declaring that one Benton Hanchett having been elected one of the electors for the State of Michigan, and having held and is still holding the office of United States Commis­ sioner, had absented himself from the meeting of the electors on the 6th of December, and that his place had been filled by the other electors. The two houses then separated to consider and act upon the objections. At 5:20 p. m. the Senators again entered the Hall of the House, and the joint convention was resumed. After the announcement of the concur­ rent action of each house in overruling the objection in the case of one of the Michigan electors, the eleven votes of that State were announced as being cast for Hayes and Wheeler. Then followed the State of Minnesota, with 5 votes for Hayes and Wheeler ; Mississippi, with 8 • votes for Tilden and Hendricks ; Missoiu'i, with 15 rotes for Tilden and Hendricks ; Nebraska, with 3 votes for Hayes and Wheeler ; and Nevada, with 3 j votes for Hayes and Wheeler. Mr. Springer object­ ed to the count of one of the votes of Nevada, on the ! ground that Elector R. M. Daggett was a United states,Commissioner'at the time of his appointment. | The objection haWng been Tead,'the Senators with­ drew. j WEDNESDAY, Feb. 21.--SENATE. I ell, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections," j submitted a long report in the case of the Oregon : electors, and asked that it be printed in tho Record. ! Objection was made by Davis and Kernan, who I claimed tlie report should be printed as other re- 1 ports. Mr. Mitchell withdrew his motion and the I report was ordered printed in the usual manner.... Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Finance, re- ] ported a bill to aid in the resumption of specie pay­ ments The Legislative, Judicial and Executive j and the Postoffice Appropriation billB were dis- | cussed, amended and finally passed. HorsK.--Testimony to sustain the objection j against the electoral vote ef R. M. Daggett, of J Nevada, was read, whereupon Mr. Springer, who made the objection, offered a resolution that the voto l»e counted, and explained that an error had been made in describing the office held by Daggett as that of United States Gomuiissioner, while tlie testimony showed that he held the office of Clerk of the United States Court. The resolution was agreed to without division. The Senate was then notified that the House was ready to continue the count, and the two bodies met iu joint session. JOINT CONVENTION.--The Senate and House met in joint session for the purpose of counting the electoral votes. The presiding officer having called the meeting to order and directed the. reading of the resolutions of each house in favor of counting the votes of Nevada, a teller then announced that Ne­ vada had cast 3 votes for Hayes and Wheeler. Then followed, in succession, the States of New Hump- shire, with 5 votes for Hayes and Wheeler; New Jersey, !> votes for Tilden and Hendricks; New York, 35 votes for Tilden and Hendricks ; North Carolina, 10 votes for Tilden and Hendricks; Ohio, 22 votes for Haves and Wheeler. The presiding oft llwr now opened ami handed to the tellers the tirs certificate received from Oregon. It was read by Mr* Stone, and proved to be the sworn certificate of the three Hayes electors, CartwTight, Odeli and Watts, executed'V>efore a notary public. The papers contain a full statement of the doings of tlie three electors, the resignation of Watts as Postmaster, his subse­ quent choice bv tlie other two electors, tlie original ballots cast bv the three electors, etc. They were read in full. The presiding officer then handed to the tellers the certificate of the three rival electors --Cronin, Miller and Parker, authenticated by the signatures of the Governor and Secretary of State, with tlie seal of the State at­ tached. This certificate gives. two votes to Hayes and Wheeler, and one vote to Tilden and Hendricks. Senator Mitchell presented objections to the certificate of Cronin, Miller and Parker, ou tlie grounds : First, because neither of tho persons named in said certificate were appointed electors, as provided by the laws of Oregon. Second, that Watts, Ode 11 and Cartwright were elected by the people of Oregon, iu the manner prescribed by the laws of Oregon. Third; because * - * and McDilL Senator Kelly presented objections to the certificate of Cartwright, Odell and Watte: Firat, that such certificate has not the certificate of the* Governor of Oregon annexed, as required by law. Second, that the Secretary of State hag no power to give a certificate, except in connection With the Governor. Third, that said Watts WM ineligible Ixcause of holding a Federal offic;. Fourth, that Cartwright and Odell had no right of authority in law to appoint Watts to be an elector on Dec. 6,1876, as there was no vacancy. Fifth, that it was the right and duty of the Governor of Oregon to give Cronin a. certificate of election. Sixth, that .Odell and Cartwright had no right to appoint Watts,, as there was no vacancy, Cronin having been elected. Seventh, that Odell and Cartwright had no right to appoint Watts because thpv did have the power to £11 vacancies. THE LOUISIANA CASE. Grounds for the Decision of the Electoral1 Tribunal. The decision of the Electoral Commission in the case of Louisiana is in language about the same as in that of Florida. It reads as follows The brief ground of this decision is, that it appears, upon such evidence as by the consti­ tution and law named in saiu act of Congress (Electoral law) is competent and pe tinent to the consideration of the subject, that the­ refore-mentioned electors appear to have been lawfully appointed such electors of President and Vice President of the United States for the term beginning March 4, 1877, of the State of Louisiana, and that they voted as such at tlie time and in tlie manner provided for by the constitution of the United State** and the law ; and the commission has, by a majority of votes, decided that it is not competent, under the constitution and law, as it existed at th'. date of the passage of said act, to go into evidence aliunde of the papers opened by the President of the Senate in presence of the two houses to prove that other persons than those regular­ ly certified to by the Governor of the State, on and according to the determination of their ap­ pointment by the returning officers for elec­ tions in said State, prior to the time required for the performance of their duties, had been appointed electors, or, by counter-proof, to snow that they had not, or that the determina­ tion of said returning officers was not in ac­ cordance with the truth and fact--the commis­ sion, by a majority of votes, being of the opinion that it is not within the jurisdiction of the two houses of Congress assembled to count the vote for President and Vice President, to enter upon the trial of such question. The commission, by a majority of votes, is also of tlie opinion that it is not competent to prove that any of said persons, so appointed electors as aforesaid, held office of trust or profit under the United States at the time they were appointed, or that they were ineligible un­ der the laws of the State, or any other matter offered to be proved aliunde bv said certificates and papers. The commission is also of the opinion, by a majority of votes, that the returning officers of elections who canvassed the votes at the elec­ tion for electors in Louisiana were a lawfully- Constituted body by virtue of constitutional law, and that a vacancy in said body did not vitiate its proceedings. The commission has also decided, and does hereby decide, by a majority of votes, and re­ port as the consequence of the foregoing, and upon the ground before stated, that the paper purporting to be that certificate of tlie electoral vote of said State of Louisiana,objected to by T.. O. Howe and others, marked N. C. No. 2 by the commission, and herewith returned, is not a certificate of votes provided by the constitution of the United States, and that they ought not to be counted as Buck. Signed Samuel F. Miller, W. Strong, Joseph P. Bradley, George F. Edmunds, O. P. Morton, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, James A. Garfield, George F. Hoar. The Dangerous and Terrible Quail* [From a speech by Senator Harris in the Senate of Indiana.] Each pair of quails produce an aver­ age of ten chicks per year--many, in favorable seasons, hatch out sixteen in a brood, and then hatch a second brood. If we estimate only the small number of 500,000 quails in Indiana to start with (though there are probably ten times that number), and take ten per year as the produce of each pair, the figures will simply be stupendous, and we present them to the Indiana Legislature for con­ sideration : First year, total.:.;rr. r..1,. - 3,UU0,U)0 Scouull »«§r. 18,000,00ft Third yeaf, total 108,000,000 Fourth year, total 648,000,000 Fifth year, total 3,888,000,000 We would have to station an army along the Ohio river to prevent an inva­ sion of Kentucky after these birds had eaten everything visible in Indiana. There wouldn't be a bug left in that State, and the birds would require grain to live upon. Estimating a gill of grain per day for each bird, it would require about 15,000,000 bushels per day to feed tliem. We enter our protest in advance, and shall demand, if Indiana does not pass the law, that the State shall raise the grain to feed the birds, and shall put up a bird-net 300 feet high along the Ohio, to keep their inhabitants from in­ vading Kentucky. The bill was defeated. As AN argument in favor of the repeal of the law fixing the limit of a day's work in factories at ten hours, a rnomber . of the Massachusetts Senate instanced an operative with a wife and eight children Sir. MitoliJ saved so much in ten years that %lie now had a rental of &700 a year. THE MARKETS. BEEVES .. Hoas COTTON.. XEW YOKK. 6 40 12? FLOUR--Superfine Western 5 50 WHEAT--No. 2 Chicago 1 38 COHN--Western Mixed 56 OATS--Western Mixed 40 KYE--Western 80 PORK--New Mess 16 00 LARD--Steam 10'/ CHICAGO. 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