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• i JL WasxixaTON spoctelto the Chic«00 3V*m*ssys the Mak of theB*nae|>*n Canal *t»w dboVftdsejhM e» ifcrir ooums of aMkm. Ttaesr «tt MM ft *I*SUOB «O Uw BliMh tiipilitoii •* 8pringO»hi<M Annual Report r*Uty of tH» TWM,"'" i ury lldermik 1LLIKOIS. HXM, HIMMMK UltMi.lM TTO ONE upon our 3 9 15.16 21122 23 21 28 29 30 27i»» rfV- m Tits SEWS C0NDE18ED. :/" THE EAST. JOHN ROACH, the ship-builder, says a Hew York telegram, is dying. His family have endeavored to keep the critical condi- k#i H tion of his health a strict secret for reasons of more than a purely sentimental nature. Bat at last they have given np hope of his ' recovery. Mr. Koach's physician says he ; nay die at any moment. He is Buffering : from cancer of the throat, similar to that r which caused the death of Gen. Grant. An . ( operation was recently performed, at which * considerable part of the jaw was removed, - \ bat his sufferings continue to he very se- ,*'«» vere. " Ac 't-' • MABSHAM. P. Wii/DF.r, one of the 'jy^,/ foremost pomologists of the TJhited States, died last weAk at Roxbury, Mass., at the age of 86. 1,; ^ > A FORFEIT' of $500 has been pot up by ^ ? , John B. Day, of the New Tork Base-ball . 'Jcu Club, and Chris Von der Ahe, of the St. '{}>•> Louis Browns, for a aeries of games next spring for $10,000 a side. ;Vvl PAYMENT has been suspended by Charles Winchester, of Ashburnham, Maes., who has beea investing heavily in 1$."Western lumber and Southern pine lands. - Mm hepsa to resume through an epfrpsipn. I THE WEST. , C. M. CKOSWELI,, twice Governor of V Michigan, died at Adrian on the 18th inst., 9" > <5 at the age of 61. For many years he was a t ^ . partner of Judge T. M. Cooley Chicago \f; ' elevators contain 11,853,981 bushels of ^ ,c wheat, 3,681,9iK» bushels of corn, 973,653 ; 'b*uJ»els of oats, 135,043 bushels of rye, Sfiw ; and 316.790 bushels of barley; total, 16,- 972,460 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 15,612,917 bushels a year agp. " THE Floyd County Savings. Bank, at Charles Ci.*y. Iowa, is in th$ kands of the r,V'v . Sheriff, caused by the - "appropriation of ^--"#20.000 of the funds,by p. A. llostine, its ;-'v' Cashier, who is argent in Europe. The Hobce on the doa^ stales that all- depositors be paid ilk'fall. IT ha?, been decided at Des Moines, -'in the suit brought by the New Era Company to compel the Rock Island Boad to carrv its beer on the ground that His mot an intoxicant, tnat the beer is a •mM liquor, and as such cannot be carried railroads, whether intoxicating or not. AT Pipestone, Minn., the Calumet Ho­ tel, the property of J. M. Brockway, of Chicago, was swept away by flames; loss f 5,000. partially insured. The Rev. A. Orcntt, pastor of the Baptist Church, -;Hws killed by falling walls. David Mc- Collough was seriously injured. Virgil "PendergaNt and a little colored bov were lajKMd, but not fatally. Everything in jlMfeotel was lost. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA is to be added > bill MwHMt the'chjooticma «of the Com- •took Bond w the veoentanoe by the Oen- eral OoTerncnMnt-ot theHHnoisand Mtoh- ifian Canal under exjfcfag eondiUons. They have decided that all .the points involved can be net by the Legislature without again submitting the question to the people. With these objections overcome, they 1m. heve an indorsement of the projectoan be got from Secretary Endioott on the ground •of commercial importance. Be-^nforoed by this, they woald make a final attempt- in Congress to again graft Hennepin on the river and harbor bill. It is a forlorn hope, but the Hennepiners insist they will not give up the fight." '} ̂ POIJTIC£ FT*; THE President has appointed ThomasS. Tice to be Assistant Appraiser of Merchan­ dise at New York; Frank B. Genovar, of Florida, Collector of Customs at St. Au­ gustine, Erskine Ttoss, of California, Dis­ trict Judge for tho Southern District of California; J. Marion Brooks, of Califor­ nia, Attorney for the Southern District of California. TOUCHING the question of tariff re* ^vision at the present session of Congress, a Washington special to the Chicago Times uays: As the time draws near for a vote upon con­ sideration ot the tariff question, the hopes of both sides to the contest rise and foil from day to day. The first motion to be made IB that the House go into committee of the whole to con­ sider revenue bills. Upon this motion a small majority is claimed on each side, the difficulty in making calculations being that it cannot be definitely ascertained what course will be pur­ sued by those Republicans and Randall Demo­ crats who desire a reduction of revenue, yet do not approve of the Morrison plan of reduction. INDUSTRIAL ROTES. THE co-operative board of the Knights of Labor in Philadelphia have determined to invest $40,000 in co-operative concerns. ... .Twenty-four coal miners, convicted at Pittsburgh of conspiracy during the great strike of the river miners in 1885, have been notified to give themselves up to serve their sentence in the workhouse. Their friends have tbe signatures of 50,000 per­ sons asking for the pardon of the miners. THE Knights of Labor have ordered a boycott against the Camp Spring Milling Company and the Regina Milling Company, of St. Louis, because tliey persist in using barrels made by the Lamersick cooper- shop. Two months ago the latter concern discharged and blacklisted all the knights in their employ. Two HUNDRED district messenger boys at San Francisco struck for 75 cents per day instead of 5 cents a trip. THUS far the vote of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers 6howa that 99 per cent, of the men are op­ posed to affiliation with the Knights of Labor.... Knights of Labor at Amsterdam, N. Y., have been greatly excited by the publication in a local paper of the mode of initiation and the secrets of their order. THE KAIL. WATS. THE United States Circuit Court at St. 'Louis decided the case of the St. Louis, Kansas City and Colorado Road against the Wabash, permitting the former to en­ ter the Union Depot over the Wabash tracks on the payment 6f a certain rental and other charges. \ JRDOE GRESHAM'S decision in the Wa­ bash litigation and the scathing rebuke he administered to the receivers have given intense satisfaction at St. Louis, where Gould and his agents hold a complete mo­ nopoly of the transportation business on both sides oft tbe river... .Articles of in­ corporation of the Chicago, Santa Fe and California Railro ul hive been filed with the recorder at Peoria. HI. The capital stock is $30,000,000, and the incorporators are all Chicagoans... .The Minnesota and Northwestern Road is at present boycotted by the jobbers and millers of Minneapolis, because it is too much of a St Paul insti­ tution. CYRUS W. FIELD has obtained revenge for last year's scandal in connection with •the New York and New England Road. By the purchase of stock in Wall street he has brought about the defeat of Charles P. Clark for the Presidency, and elected to that position J. A. Bostwick, of the Stand- 4s the Department of Arizona, under com- { *rd Oil Company. THE Northern Pacific Road is about to $«? ' £• , Lof General Miles,whose headquarters i removed to Los Angeles Cal. This lito indicate that General Miles did disobey orders in the Apache cam- i Judge Thomas M. Cooley, of i, has been appointed to the Re- ihip of the Chicasto division.of the T 'Wdhash -system of railroads by Judge -Gtetiiam, in the place of Solon Humphrey w pad Thomas E. Tutt, who were removed ir being declared improper custodians of wad The Supreme Court of Ohio affirmed the constitutionalitv of the rGqnoMex law in all its frntii^jj TA£«ttlTH. ' 8® tkeoters in operation in New, Orleans jJhswe fopnd the present season the worst :;flMce4he war. Audiences of .less than one tmndsed are frequently seen in a house \ "with capacity for two thousand... .The • .••'> ? ..43ate City Guards, of Atlanta, Ga„ closed \ -l • contract for transportation to Antwerp. f; . t JEighty members will .go, and t^e trip in- * march across the Alps, from y • • Switzerland into Italy .J. S. Cornelison, v , "the attorney who cowhided Judge Ried at * i k, Mount Sterling, tKy., for making an ad- p; /^j^wwe decision, causing the latter to kill ||kifl0self from mortification, has been er- «dered by tbe Court of Appeals to spend three years in jail. THE relief committee<of Charleston ac- / « knowledges the receipt of $634,258 from > puUic far tthe sufferer* from J)* ; V the earthquake. After reserviug $86,139 f ."av of the remainder to «eui{llete the renairinir houses, tile sum of S100,00(> will "be de- ,'.V # P08^1 with the City Treasurer to aid in «",w' s *®buildiug charitable institutions Near ®*yo® Sara, La., the Mississippi River h*"' J- M. White was destroyed by ®re» tod a n«Baber of liv«« were lost The ' bo*t ""d cargo weie valned At $250,0^0. The Legislative COUMS of Meaiphi*; ^ decided to adopt a pis* for a muniei. 7 pal waterworks, drawing the supply fro« 'W* •Point on Wolf River, nine oailes distant f,r The scheme involves an outlay of $1,000 - James Howard, of Bowie County, Trranded tis y°ung wife with . letter H, was taken from Wl md (RMM by his neighbors. i \ ; wasuoutox. ' 1 "• . 8EOBETABT MAKNINO reported to the ^ a Senate, in answer to a resolution calling H for iDformatio11 m wgard to the oleomar- garine law, that since Nov. 1 thirtv-four . "isnuiacturers of oleomargarine, 204 whole- v J™' 2,415 retail dealers in the same ®a*n taxed. The number of pounds - «. • oleomai^arnie assessed at two cents per ^ pound was 4,430,174, of which 2.013,700 ^ .pounds was in the First Illinois District. V THE Secretary of the Interior has af- { £rmed the decision of Acting Secretary " MuldroW *e celeb™t«d case of Thomas Wk •S*4?1* th® Central Pacific Railroad ^ • Cto«psny, In which is involved the title to tmm tracts' of land, as between the railroad "$&>• certain seUleis on the line of ne mod between Son Jose and Sacramen- i Mt Cal... .The conference report on the reduce faxes to four cents per mile in Da­ kota and five cents in :All territory to the westward The Lake Erie and Western Road proposes to pay a fair proportion of the purchase price for a block of tickets -sold- taapeculators in 18S0 for $94,0|lt,:// V CE.1EBAL, JOHN L. SCTI/LIVAN signalized his con­ tempt for Uie English by filling up with wine at a banquet at Victoria, B. C.. call­ ing tbe mayor who presided "a blanked old stiff," and throwing all the Canadian money he possessed--some $60--the sound before re-embarking for San Fran­ cisco. THE Mexican Consul at New York has called the attention of the United States authorities to Captain Paul Boyton's al­ leged attempt to enlist filibusters for Cut­ ting's Mexican expedition. Boyton has sailed for New Orleanis en route for Vera Cxvh, .. _ . . . 'I- JPenEicj*. ' . GOBLET has formed a new French -Ministry, which is announced as follows: M. Goblet, President of the Council and Minister of the Interior, and ad interim Minister of Foreign Affairs; M. Dauphin, Minister of Finance; M. Bert helot. Minis­ ter of Instruction; M. Sarrien. Minister of Justice; Gen. Boulang.-r, Minister of War; Admiral Aube, Minister of Marine; M. Granet, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs; M. i^ockroy, Minister of Commerce: M. Deville, Minister of Aurioulture... .Gen. Von Kchellendorff, the Prussian Minister of Wat, gave a detailed comparison of the -strength of European armies before "Uie Sqptennate Commission. His remarks implied that the Government is preparing ler a ihostile coalition againat France and Russia..... Five German army corps have been equipped with repeating rifles General Boulanger, of Paris, has secured a bill to reorganize the ariav, and to ap­ propriate £12,000,000 £»r arms Cleve­ land's mess-ice is favorably received in England.... The number at adjudications in bankruptcy in Euglaud lm the pant nine •»«th*; <©f the year was 3.558--201 more tha£ during the same period in I&85. ESGLAJII» will reduce the Egyptian standing army to 10,000 and the army of occupation to 5,000 Princess Leiitia, daughter of Prince Jerome Napoleon, is betrothed to Prince Roland Bonaparte.... John Dillon appeared for himself at. Dub­ lin in the action brought by the Govern­ ment against him for agitation in favor of tbe "plan ot campaign." In his ad­ dress to the court Mr. Dillon contended that the language he used in the speech se­ lected as the basis of the prosecution was justifiable, and that the crown was ^traiuing the law against him. The Judge declared that the "plan of campaign" was clearly and absolutely illegal. He ordered Mr. Dillon to give a personal bond in the sum of £1,000, with two sureties for £1.000 each, for good behavior in the future, within twelve days, or go to jail for six months. A PARIS dispatch says that Merlatti fatfce ^_ Cym W. FieB^S,!.. . . ibr staieinents derogatory to (he fraWistwd in the New AeroM, of Appeals qoaahed the verdict ^ jr. Bennett. The pri>sent decision Krof.nd that Mr. Benaett, net be- iW • mash subject or a resident of Great Britain, the constituted service on him in LottAm,ou which the verdict was obtained, was fliepal. The court condemns Mr. Field to paythe costs. THE French axe actively intriguing against the British in East Africa New volumes of poems will nest month be is­ sued in London by Browning and Swin­ burne Farmers in the northern portion of Wales are resisting the collection of church tithes to the extent of expelling the bailiifs from their districts Colonel Hayland, with a body of British troops, recendy pursued 700 Dacoits and kiUed 200 of them. Many others were made prisoners At Loughrea, Ireland, while hundreds of tenants were paviug their rents to the Nationalist Committee, In­ spector of Police arrested John Dillon, Matthew Harris, and David Shehy, mem­ bers of Parliament, and William O'Brien, editor of United Ireland. They werd charged with conspiracy to defraud land­ lords, and the magistrate reminded them for a week. The police seized the money and books in the hands of the trustee*. ADDITIONAL NEWS. NEAB Harmony Grove, Pa., T. B. San­ ders decapitated John Swilling, his wife, and three children, and then fired the premises. His purpose was to secure $40 which he knew was in the house, and then decamp. GEORGE RICE, an extensive oil refiner at Marietta, Ohio, has brought suit for $100,- 000 damages against the Louisville and Nashville Railway for being shut put of the Southern markets by an unlawful con­ spiracy batween the road named and the Standard Oil Company. He as Its for an injunction against the discriminaton stead­ ily practiced.. . .Sylvester Granda, arrested at Kansas Citv for complicity in tha mur­ der of Dr. Haddock at Sioux City, has made a confession, alleging that John Arensdorf fired the fatal shot, and that another prominent prohibitionist was also to be attacked.... The whaling bark Atlantic was driven ashoi-e and knocked to pieces near the Cliff House, San Francisco. Twen y-five of her crew were probably lost. She was owned by J. & W. R. Wing, of New Bedford..... A jury in St. Louis awarded $25,000 dam­ ages to Mrs. Juliet Cunningham against a street-car company for injuiies received by jumping from a car in danger of colliding with a train at the Fourth and Poplar streets crossing. The United States Grand Jury at St. Louis, Mo., has returned seventy-two indictment^ against as many supervisors of elections, judges of elections, illegal voters, deputy marshals, clerks, etc. A COLUMBIA, S. C., dispatch says the farmers in that section are very bitter against the Knights of Labor organizers who are endeavoring to enroll the colored people in South Carolina. Local papers advise that they be driven from tha neigh­ borhood. The Legislature has appropri­ ated money for the maintenance of the mi­ litia, and the Senate h is passed by a large majority, a bill making it conspiracy, pun­ ishable by fine and imprisonment, to inter­ fere between employer and employe in any contract, whether written or verbal. The possibility of a strike at cottan-picking time,' when the whole crop of the State would be lost if not promptly gathered, was the principal argument used. LARGE shipments of gold from Europe to this country are reported The busi­ ness failures occurring throughout the country during the week numbered for the United States 260, and for Canada 28, a total of 288, against 274 the week previous. The casualties in the Middle, Western, Southern, and Pacific States were above the average in number, which wss also the case in Canada. In New York City fifteen fail­ ures were reported, only two of which were of consequence. ' FOUB acres in the northwestern section of Shenandoah, Pa., settled two to four feet, partially wrecking fifty dwellings and causing the wildest alarm among the peo­ ple. The financial loss is between $30,0J0 and $75,000. BILLS authorizing thj E instruction of bridges •cross the Camberlani Biver near Nashville, across the St. Louis River between Minnesota and Wisconsin, and across the Mississippi River lit Memohis, Tenn., passed th'j Hecate uec. 17. Tae Senate th^n took up the b.ll to rap >al the tenure-of-office act, a*id without fuitlior.discus­ sion it was passed--yeas 3navi 2 as f Jllows : Yeas--Beck, Berr.v, Blackburn. Butler, Call, Chace, Cockrell, 0 lq jitt, Eust s, Geo «e, Gib­ son. Gorman, Gray. Hampton. Harris. Hoar. In- galls. Matey, Mitch .'II fOregoni, Morgan, I'ayne, Pugh, Ransom, t-'a llsbury, Vance, Ve«t. Voor- hee», Walthall, \Vh:th>rno. aud Wilson iMd.)-- 30. Nays--Altlri 'li, All so i, Rl tir, Catiieron, Chen ay. Conger, Dolph, Edmunds, Fr/e, Halo, Hawley, McMillan, Mandersjn, Mitchell (Fa.), Morrill, l'latt, Siwyer, Sherman. Si> f>uer Stan­ ford, Williams. W lson (Iowai--i2. Thi Senate also passed bilis t,» retire an I r -coin trado d <1- lara, to extend t ie free-delivery syst !in of the PostoTice Department, to sell theCuscom House lot at Enstport, Maine. aidereotaSliM. HJ build­ ing on an ;w sit-? and to allo.vthabridnint; of the Mississippi at Memphis and the Cumberland at Nashville. The House of Repr s-ntativo* pas-ied the sundry civil appropriation bill, and a bill directing the Quartermaster General to adjust tho claim) of tho McMi invill 5 and Man­ chester Railroad. A resolution was in'n-o luced and referred t > the Forai^n Affair t Committee, authorizing the Hr-isidsnt t > appoint a commis­ sion to txko testimony in relation to the losses and injuries indicted sinca December 31, 18ii, by British authorities, imperial or colonial, up­ on citizens o* the United Statss engaged in the fisheries on ths northern coast of British North .***? THE MARKETS^ NEW YORK. BEKVH.... Hoos WHEAT--No. 1 White... No. i Red COBN--No. 2 -OATS--White POBX--New Mess. 1,7 ?. /........ j J CHICAGO. BEEVES---Choice to Prime steers. Good Shipping '..., Common...... Hoos--Shipping Grades..,.,;^. P5.0UK--Extra Spring WHEAT--No. 2 Spring Cobn--No 2..... ,;£* OAT»--No. fl BITJT;:R--Choice Creamery Fine Dairy CHIIHSK--Vull Cream, .Cheddar. „ F u l l C r e a m , n e w . , Eoos--Fresh I'CTAT JKS--Choice, par bu.... ' APOKK--Mess r W.HIF*T--Cash Cousf--No. j£ . . «OAts--1No. 2 7T.!.... RTE--No. 1.. foBK-Mei*. J4.75 .. 4.40 ... .&» ,w '.K> t." .41 .. .37 & 5.25 (<* 4.73 # .92 <!> .48 .42 <312.50 G.00 (4 5.7S <3 4.5J C<i 3.50 <ii 4.75 4. AO & .77'. «./a 8.0J m -.77 •»j W .ai .««< .18 <af .11% ; .V2%<T) Ai & *2. • iV' Wnisvr--No. V.. 'COB-.--Cash , Oaxs--No. TOLEVfO. DKl'.tOlX. .40 II. JO .77 .« 11.0J .83 .a 4.21 8.00 4.00 .81 .38 .32 .37 .20-2 .26 .ill • 13 'A .22 .S) @11.90 fater^ite commerce bill has been signed i completed'his fifty-day fast in good con- y'"'-1 aitfa.. Th. doctors I. B»v, ••u ord&*a pruilea. oeufltoi Piatt refused I him a etnaJl quantity of specially preiwed •bef Cat«Lc HOOR , * • • • * SHEEP •••••* WHKAT-- M i e h i J a n E e d ! . No. 2 OAIS-NO. 2 White .. „ _ HI'. LOUI8. WBEAT N*, 2 CORK--Mixed OATS--Mixed, 29 POBK--N««r Mess 11,53 CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed. Cans--No. 2.,.. {|g OATS--No. 2 SJ PORK--Mew. ll.M LIVK HOOS I.J|{ BUFF A£#. WHKAT-NO. 1 Hard .00 COBN--No. 8 Yellow 43 CATTLE 4.25 INDIANAPOLIS. BKF,F CATIXE .....I. 3.00 Hoos . 8.73 SHEKP 2.00 WHKAT- «o. 2Bed.77 COM--No. 2 *83 OATS 29 KA8T LIBERT V, CATTLE--J^e*t 4.S0 1 873 Ccmiu <11,.,.,......,.,.. 8,00 HOOS 4.45 8HO. i .77 U, .»7 .2B'4 i .St 11.5.1 .PO# I ,3J .30 0 5.50 V 4.5) & 5.0) <3 .81 i<il .4J Kit . *2 J-a .8)»* 9 .81 «t .80 012.0 J ® .80 4 & .39 f* .31 <312.00 & 4.78 t* w.; & .434 5.50 S« 5.09 & 4.51 & 4. i0 « .78 & .J« Dl8e*ati«nMf« «f the Stronflj mend«i. Pwtbl 1 most tin as'part of onr Wace-envetsar^ of «ws«, the and the most to The Question of Redaetng the 8w* plut--Th« Tax of BIT Mate- Hals to B The tautttal report of the Hon. DanieltJ tiah- ning, Secretary of the Treasnrv, Is a heavy doc­ ument of nearly twenty-four thou Hand words. The main features of the report are as follows: Careful perusal of the instructive debates at the last session of Congress leads me to review the four policies which then received miu-imii attention: Vi L Free coinage of silver. 2. Conferences. » . *.<>,- & Continued purchases of sttvstL '> ! > I ' .- 4. Stoppteg mirohases of silver. First--The free-silver coinage prescription for the monetary dislocation satisfies but one of several indispensable conditions. While it is an indispensable condition of permanent re­ storation that the free lnonetizatlon of silver shall be eqaally complete as of gold, yet were it now given to silver in this actual moment of dislocation the practical result would be to withdraw the same from gold. That would be a change without advantage in any reBpect, and in every respect with disadvantage. Lu the first Elaoe it would bring us to the Asiatic silver asis. This has been commenced in some quar­ ters. There is, however, no such public desire. Second--More conferences, further diplomatic correspondence are proposed. I venture to think, with all due deference to those who are responsible fot a decision, that the time for another conference has not arrived, and that the moment (Or diplomatic interference is not perfectly felicitous. The Continental Powers await the action t>f Great Britain, whose reluc­ tance defeated the object of both conferences called at the instance of the United States, and to whom again, almost within a twelvemonth, she has turned a deaf ear. If it suited the dig­ nity of the United States again to besiege the attention of European states, or again to make advances where they have been eo lately re­ pulsed, it would not suit our interests BO to do when it is certain that the inquiry upon which Great Britain has suddenly entered at the in­ stance and insistence of her great dependency, India, and of her own accord, is entered upon with an exclusive regard to her own interest. And of Great Britain's interests the United States have no call to become advisers or guardians. Third--To go on as we are is the least credit­ able of all the courses open to our choice. The Treasury silver purchase is defended by nobody, approved by nobody; e. en every vote for the free coinage'of silver is a vote that the Treasury silver purchase shall cease, an asser­ tion that it Ought to cease. Fourth--To stop the purchase of silver is our only choice, our duty, and our interest. It will stop a wasteful and injurious expense, and the taxation which defrays it. It will commence and promote reform in the sum and the meth­ ods of'Federal taxation. It will recover to the United States an equality of position (non- coinage) with foreign powers which will give us due influence in- negotiation. It will induce negotiation, and negotiation to the end of relief, not for the purpose of delay. If the law were repealed which makes compul­ sory Treasury purchases of silver, and if that repeal were accompanied by the declaration of Congress that the United States now holds itself in readiness to unite with France, Germany, and Great Britain in opening their mints to the free coinage of silver and gold at a ratio fixed by international agreement, it is the deliberate judgment of the undersigned that before the expiration of another fiscal year this interna­ tional monetary dislocation might be correctod by such an international concurrence, the two monetary metals restored to their old and uni­ versal function as the one standard measure of prices for the woiM'a commodities, tho de­ pression of trade and industry relieved, and a general prosperity renewed. * I respectfully recommend to the wisdom of Congress the unconditional repeal of the act of Feb. 28, 1»78, accompanied by such a declara­ tion. The financial situation, scanned at large and as a whole, plainly indicates our best policy. We should reduce taxation immediately to an annual revenue sufficient to pay our annual ex­ penditure, Including the sinking fund and ex- eluding the silver purchase: pay our unfunded debt of $316,681,016 with the present surplus and the surplus which will accrue before the whole reduction of taxation can bo made to take effect and while 110 more funded debt can be paid except at a premium during the five years from now until 18J1. I therefore respectfully recommend: 1. Bepeal of the clause in, the act of Feb. 98, 1878, making ccThapulsory Tsttasary purchase# of silver, and for the reasons heretofore given in order to reduca surplus and unnecessary taxa­ tion 924,000,000 a year. 2. Further reduction of surplus taxation, be­ ginning in a manner which 'will be suggested below, close down.to the necessities of the Gov­ ernment economically administered. 3. Bepeal of the act ot May HI, 1878, making compulsory post-redemption issues and reissues of United States legal-tender notes, thus facili­ tating-- 4. Gradual purchase and payment of 5346,(181,- 016 outstanding promissory note* of the United 6tates with present and accremg Treasury sur­ plus, issuing silver certificates is their room, and gold certificates if need l»e, without contrac­ tion of the present circulating volumo ot the currency, these notes icalled greenbacks) being now the only debt duo and payable before 1891 except the 3 per cent, bonds, which ara probably all to be called and paid earls 'n the ensuing fiscal year. BEDtJCTION OF BCBPLCB TAXATION. It remains to consider the reduction of taxa­ tion to the needs of the Government economi­ cally administered. What surplus we expend iu paying off the greenback debt will diminish by so much the immediate reduction of our tariff taxation; for, while the funded debt stands, certainly it is not wise to discard tho taxes on whig y, tob <cco. and beer. lndeed,it is my own belief that whenever we begin taking off the shackles of war-tariff taxes on raw ma­ terials such increased prosperity will follow to tho employers who dread it, and such larger and steadier employmc nt to the wage-earners who need it, by increasing the sales abroad of our own manufactures, and by whipping our foreign competitors In our own murkets, that wo shall see our income from imported manufact­ ures dwindle so fast as not only to compt 1 the retention of these most fit items of revenue-- Whisky, tobacco, and beer--but. perhaps, to drive us back to getting ten millions of revenue from two cents a pound tax on coffee and half as much from tea. It is the reduction of war-tariff taxation which we have to consider. Under our system of gov­ ernment by party, and tho rule of the majority, I do not think it unbecoming even in a public officer at this time to recall certain responsible and specific pledges in respect to the sum and methods of Fedeial taxation, subject to which the people of tVie United fctates, in the exercise of a lawful olection, took away the administra­ tion of this Government from the partv en­ trusted therewith for a quarter ol a century, and lodged it in other han<<8. Public life will cease to be the ambition of honorable pnd worthy men if the deliberate pledges and professed principles of political parties are not a law for their leaders. Dis­ charging, if I might, whatever hostility of tone, now irrelevant, it contains, I desire to refer to the record of one public obliga­ tion thus assumed, and thus accepted, and made binding by the last general popular vote. These pledges 1 can never be fulfilled without a reform in the sum and methods of Federal taxation. Nor can our country ever profit .fully by its incomparable advantages among the nations of the earth in population, peace, land, and liberty, so long as we go on pleading infancy, and swaddle, in me- diaival rags, its victorious energies. It is these which need release and liberty. All our requi­ site taxation may be made ah easy garment. We have made a prison of it, plastered stiff with obsolete contentions about protection and free trade. It is actually the war rates of the war tariff of the last generation under which we are now living, for the undebated, unsifted law of 1883, made by a conference committee, did but keep alive the body of the tariff of 18B4. The aversAe pereoutage of the taxes to the val­ ue* of Imported commodities has been as fol­ lows: Per * coot* Morrill tariff of 1850-61 (before the war) was 18.84 War tariff of 1862-64 (in 1866 was highest; . was 48.35 Present prolonged war tariff (was in 1885). .40.07 EXPORTS AUD THK TARIFF ON HAW MATKIUALH. The total value of our domestic exports for the last fiscal year was almost exactly St«7,- 000,000, of which 8i> per cent were the products of our fields, forests, fisbt ries, and mines, and 16 per cent, only were the sum total of manu­ factured products in which American labor was inwrought. In the last quarter of a centurv progress in telegraphs, transportation, labor-saving inven­ tions, aud the mechanic arts haa reduced the profits of capital and tiio rate of interest bv more than onu-half ;,has lncreasod the wages of labor throughout the world ; has augmented by at least a third tho surplus which cur manufac­ turer* can produce beyond domestic needs for Bale abroad. Prolonging without necessity our war-tariff taxes on raw materials, wo have been undersold alfd excluded from foreign mar­ kets by nations not taxing raw materials. Despite their low-priced, inferior labor and the high percentage of labor-cost there­ fore Included in their product, onr taxed raw materials and their tree raw mate­ rials have protected tbe so-called "pauper labor" of Europe hgainst American competition. Our increasing oapaoity to produce an indus­ trial surplusage has been accompanied by war taxation exaotly suited to prevent tbe sale of that surplusage in foreign markets. Oat of our Mtanl abundance this war taxation has forged the instrument of our industrial and commer­ cial mutilation. Defeating our manufacturers in their endeavor to compete abroad with the mannfaotorers at untaxed raw materials, it has HI, " to be atfeeted injurious tews. Rvery Government, by trae statetmanabfp, will sratohfaliy regard their condition and interests. If these are satisfactory, nothing else can be ot very momentous importance; but our so-called protective statesmanship, has disfavored them altogether. Encumbering with elnmay help ja few thousand employers, it haa trodden down the millions of wage-earners. It has for twenty- one'years denied them even the peaceable fruits of liberty TAXES TO RETAIN. Another proposal is to reduce taxation bv cut­ ting down the tax on wisky, tobacco, and beers, and removing the duty on sugar. Nobody pays a tax on tobacco except the consnmers of to­ bacco. They are willing to pay for the luxury, and they ask no relief. Any probable redaction ot the tax on whisky would bt more likely to increase tbe revenue than to diminish It; The price of sugar has fallen to an exceeding! v cheap rate. Our own sugar crop is so very small a pan of the total amount of sugar we consume sugar ranks next to articles Whollv produced abroad, like tea and coffee, in suitability for taxation, on the ground that its consumption is un,1.v®^,^tiEe, *** ta ®Mlly and cheaply collected, that tbe increased price paid by fee consumers is an unconsidered trifle, and what is taken from the taxpayers goes into the taxpayers'treasury, not into a few private bank accounts. j Like the casting away of the revenue from coffee and tea in 1872, the removal of tbe tax on sugar, which pives us our easiest atitt next to largest single item of revenue ($>1,7/8.948), at an annual cost of less than ninety cents per head, is now press* d forward to avert the repeal of other taxes which are desired to operate an incidental and private benefit by enhanced prices to the domestic consumers of a large domestic product These incidental and private benefits in fact are subject to all the deductions I have already mentioned, and are subject to the chief deduc­ tion that the endeavor to make our tax laws ex­ clude foreign competition in our home markets promotes the success of that competition, besides effectually preventing the "sale of our surplus product, our labor product, in for­ eign markets. But tho incidental benefit of the svifiar tux to our cane-sugar producers, who aro under the harrow of beet-sugar competition and German bounties, which have driven them to improved processes and already lowered the price of Bugar more than tbe removal of the whole tax, is not got by excluding foreign sugar, for the great bulk of our sweetening comes from climates more tropical than ours. Nor does it prevent our sales in foreign markets of im­ ported sugars refined and increased in value by tho process of American labor. DUTIES TJ BR BEMITTED. The taxes to be first remitted are thOae which prevent or hinder the s>ile of onr snrplus prod­ ucts in foreign markets. Their removal will set capital in motion by the promise of better returns, enlarge the steady employment and increase tho annual income of many tnousand wage-earners, whose prosperity will diffuse prosperity. These taxes are the duties on raw materials, and the most widely injurious of them is the tax upon raw wool. But tbe in­ come of all the wage-earners in the United States can be at once enlarged eifec ively, cer­ tainly, permanently, by reducing the cost to them of the great necessities of life.. Our war- tariff taxes increase needlessly the cost of clothing, shelter, food to every familv. Every wage-earner's expense, every taxpayer's ex­ pense, for the clothing of himself and his family is nearly doubled, at least in the Northern, Middle, and Western States, by taxation which can now be remitted, yet leave the Treasury a sufficient revenue. The duty 011 raw wool procured for the Trsas- ury last year only 85,126,H)X. The cost of wool­ en clothing for our 59,000,0!)0 people was thereby and otherwise enhanced many tunes more than 90 cents a head, the only cost of our $51,778,948 revenue from sugar. Moreover, any tax on raw wool imported will always make domestic wooi- raising a bad business ; for, in our dry climates, some varieties of wool required by the manu­ facturer are not produced. The tax prevents our manufacturers from competing in foreign markets with all manufact­ urers who can 1 uy untaxed wool. The tax prevents our manufacture and export of competing woolens that require the use or admixture of non-American wools, and so restricts the home demand, and the growth of tbe home demand, for domestic wool --thus making the export of our domestic wool­ ens impossible, yet involving the enhanced price of foreign and domestic woolens. This pettv tax of $ ,1'J '.,108 on raw wool assists in nearly doubling the actual cost of their clothing to the American people, Vith no real and no in­ cidental benefit to anybody except the foreign manufacturer. wool, SHOUT-D BE ON THE FRF.E LIST.. I respectfully recommend to Congress* that they confer upon tho wogf-earners of the United States the boon of untaxed clothing,, and in or. er thereto, the immediate passage of an act simply and solely placing raw wool upon the free list. Of course, a repeal of the duty on raw wool should bo followed by, but need not wait for, a compensating adjustment of the duties on manufactured woolens, whilst our manufac­ turers are learning the lesson that, with the highest paid and most efficient labor in the world, with the most skilled management and the best inventive appliance-', they need fear no com petit on from any rivals in the world, in home or foreign markets, so long as they can buy their wools free, of every kind. But the common daily clothing of the American people need not be taxed ; therefore, it ought not to* be taxed; to free their c othing of taxes will finally reduce, by half, their expense for one of the I three great necessities of life, and thus enlarge I honestly and justly the income of every wage* earner in the United States. But this reduction of unnecessary aud injuri­ ous taxation is not enough, and will op;rate slowly in diminishing revenue. Last year's import tax on raw wo >1 is little more than the mere growth last yeur of our taxes from whisky, tobacco and beer. To mako wool free of tax may actually work a larger loss of revenue by enabling our woolen manufacturer.! to under­ sell at a profit the foreign imj>orters who brought in last year 840,536.509 worth of manu­ factures of wool, from which we got a tax of £27,'27S,528. To say nothing of other taxes upon raw materials, there are several hundrod articles among the 4,lt2 articles that we tax which ought at once to be swept off the tax list into the free list--petty, vexatious, needless taxes, much enlarging the cost of col­ lecting the revenues lrom imports. I shall at an early day prepare and sunniit to Congress a supplementary report on the collection of duties. DANIEL MANNING, wic-;., r. Secretary of the Treasury. A Jniy on the First Brilot Benders » ^YVetffet of Gufit# Against « ft-' KoQnade. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Recommendations of Attorney General Garland In Hr« Annual Report. Tbe annual report of Attorney General Gar­ land contains a detailed statement of the busi­ ness of the Department of Justice for the laBt fiscal year, together with statistics of crime against the United States. The Attorney Gen­ eral brieflv urges the importance* of legislation on the following maters, the necessity for which was pointed out in bis last annual re­ port : Fees for marshals in territories, pay of deputy marshals, revision of the fee bill, substi­ tution of fiscal for calendar year, chief super­ visors of electicns, protection to civil officers and witnesses, fees of witnesses and jurors in territories, aud a reorganization of the jury sys- tsem in the District of Columbia. He devotes a chapter to the Bubject of United States prisoner* and the general question ot con­ vict labor, and advocaten the building of a gov­ ernment penitentiary and reformatory at an early day, and recommends the appointment of a commission to inquire into the matter. He also renews the recommrndation that authority be given the Judges of United (states Courts to sentence in their discretion prisoners convicted of first offenses to such reformatories or graded prisons as tho Attorney General may select. Ke also urges the necessity of additional United States jails, and mentions Atlanta, Ga., and Louisville, Ky., as cities where such buildings aremucn needed. The number of United States prisoners in custody June 30, 1-fir, ws 5,929. Supplementary legislation respecting the restoration of court records is strongly urged by the Attorney Gen­ eral as necessary for the preservation of records of great value It is impossible, he Bays, to overestimate tbe necessity that exists 'for a chance in the judicial Bystem to meet the con­ stantly increasing business of the country, and he urges that something be done to remedy the evils oomplained of on all sides. Changing His Game. "How about the Hack eye, Henry? Splitting kindling won't do; you'll have to give us someth n^ fiesh," iemarked Fred the ot ler morning, as the festive youn j man pot in an appearance ratter late for business. " Hem! That kindliag wool chestnut has pot to be such a time-honored custom that it is hard to break one's self of it right in a minute, as you might a iv. But the frozen truth is, u few of the 1 o.vB were having a sociable g me of onds list night, and " "lee;: Playing pjker?" "No: I was playing grab, but my oppo­ nent changed the game, and put up a full band of poker at the expense 4ft my left optic."--Chicago Ledger. THE Empress of Germany has presented each'officer of the Fourth Grenadier Regi­ ment of the Guards with a splendid sword in remembrance of the 18th of October, when she celebrated her twenty-fifth anni­ versary as chief of the regiment. Prince Alexander of Hesse, who also celebrated bis twenty-fifth anniversary as chief of the Sixteenth Foot, presented 6,000 marks to (KewYork dispatch.] JfoJUderman HeQuade has beea Convicted of selling his vote tor tha Broadway franchise. He received the announcement of the verdiet without sign of emotion It was a d ark day for the ex-Alderman. Col. John B. Fellows drew pen-pictures of the br be-takers from morning until the great chanueiiers werj light­ ed in the evening. Then tbe Recorder review­ ed the testimony, and laid down the law in doable-shotted sentences that swept away all hope of escape. There were moment* of fearful denunciation during the summing up for the people by. Col. Fellows, but there were still mote fearful moments in the solemn charge that * SftKMR* farfsifcore biU. lestortot; «*;'£*' ̂-- .... |B -- - - ana onbte Oaten** • , M'QTJADE. Wfrllretcilessly from the Recorder's lips. The announcement in the morning that Col. Fellows would make the great speech of the day drew hundreds of would-be spectators to the court­ room, only to find they could not get near the guarded doors. McQuade appeared resolute, almost cheerful, but his brother Barney was pinohed and pale. He looked more like a man accused of tho great crime and en route to Sing fcing than any other man in the room. It was difficult to tell how the jury stood until Col. Fel­ lows began to sway them with facts garlanded with eloquence. Then it was plain that he held their most profound attention. The points made by Col. Fellows were afterward covered in the Judge's charge--namely, that the Lyddy injunction should be t iken official notice of; that the office of the Broadway Kailroad syndi­ cate was in the office of the company's counsel --Robinson, Soribner, and Bright; that these lawyers knew from Clerk Ma oney that the Aldermen were to hold a spec al meet­ ing and pass the franchise before the order for the discontinuance of the injunc­ tion had been obtained, and before Maloney had sent out the calls to the Aldermen to meet at nine o'clock on the following morning; that there was an agreement, because the boodle lawyers and the Broadway Railroad people knew It; that five of the Aldermen, including McQuade, met at McLaughlin's house, because the nnimpeached servant girl, Kate Metz, saw them go and come from McLaugh­ lin's house; that McQuade did a large business, and used checks, except about just after the boodle transaction, when he was seen with ¥500 and 81.00J bills in his possession; that, while the witnesses dis­ agreed as to details and dates, they all sub­ stantially agreed to the chief facts in the case as stated by Full graft and Duffy, and cor­ roborated by other witnesses and documentary evidence. Col. Fellows Bcored a point when he told the jury that the publ c and press were watching them, and they could never hold np their heads again if they allowed bribery to go unpunished. Recorder Smyth reviewed the cass at great length. He pronounced the testimony of the servant girl, Katie Metz, to be direct, unshaken, and worthy of much weight. It was in the nature of things, he said,*that crime should bo perpe­ trated in secret, and, therefore, the testimony of accomplices was oitsn necessary. Because a" man had once committed perjury, it must not be assumed that he would always perjure himself. It was for the jury to decide whether Duffy and Fullgraff's testimony had been cor­ roborated. Complete Expose of tlie Half-Million Steal --Duffy and Fnllgrsifs Confession. On the trial of ex-Alderman Arthur J, Me- Quade, on charge of being bribed to vo'e for a license for the str?et railroad in Broadway, ex- Aldermen 1 ulolph A. Fullgraff and Michael Dully came tithe front with confess oni and asto ending revelations ( f fraud, < iving a com­ plete story of the scandalous jobberv. EX-A1T derm an Fullgraff said an informal meeting was hold in May, 1881, after the 1 o ird had adjourned. Kight or nine mrmbera were present, of whom McQuade was one.' The subject disous :ed was th? fact that i . ! FUI,I.<?RAFF. it was necessary to have thirteen votos to pass a bill for tho railroad. Tbe first meeting was held at Fullgraff's factory. This was before the bill was passed. Th rteen Aldermen were pres­ ent. McQuade was one. Mr. Nicoll asked who else w.ra present. Witness named fr.>m mom- ory Kenney, fc'aylos. Wait?, McCabe, Duffy, and Jaehne. McLaughlin was Chairman. De 1 acy was also present. It was acreed that tli > thir­ teen membeis p-eseut would hold together on en? question that came before the Board. Nothing was said about the Broadway Rail­ road. It wat agreed to meot aa iln one week later at McLaughlin's lo iso. Witness attended the latter meeting. Kicl.aughl n was made Chairman again, on Duffy's motion. The first business was the question of the Broadway franchise. It was sai.l that otlior companies sad a. cable ro«wl wanted a franchise. Jaehne, De Lacy, aud others spoke, saying that the Broadway Cable Road Company had of­ fered ; 7 50,000 for a franchise--one-half cash and one-half bonds. Witness did not know who the money and stock were to go to. It was said that the surface road had offered $500,000 cash. Witness said that tho offer of the cable road was considered unreliable, an 1 tho other was considered the best. It was decided to accept tho offer of t .e Broadway Surface Road by a unanimous vote. Witness voted for it. The next quest on discussed was who should be in­ trusted with the mouey. i ometliing was said about the amount Twenty-two thousand dollars was to go to each member. One member thought the amount should be $20.00) each. It was said that the lawyers bad concluded to pay only $'22,- 000, and that amount was decided upon unanimously. McQuade voted aye. Another meeting was held at McLaughlin's house, but twelve out of the thirteen were present. The question discussed was to select u mem­ ber to hold \he mcnev. Wit.,esB thought that McCabe and Maloney might not be trusted w.th so largo mi amount. Duffy sug­ gested Keenan, aud he was sele ted. DeLacv then said he wished to have the members present go to Keenan and assure him it was all right. Witness said the poss ibility of a veto was considered, and in that case it was decided to leave the work of getting a two-thirds vote to Maloney. After the veto another meeting was held at McLaughlin's house to discuss it. As more votes were necessary, it was decided unanimously to cut down each man's share to #20,000. The final vote granting the franchise was taken Dec. 5. Up to and after that date the Witness bad received $18,000. Keenan paid it, Witness asked McQuade after Dec. 5 if he had got his moaey. McQuade replied that it was "all right." Kx-Alderman Michael Duffy, who also turned Btate's evidence on his indicted fellow Aldermen, testified that the thirteen Aldermen were to receive f£2,000 apiece. Duffy testified in conclusion : "I didn't get any money until about a month after election, and then I got tlO.OOJ. I met Mc­ Quade on the north side of the City Hall a few days after, and he stopped and talked. He said, "Did you get vour money from the Broadway Rood?' And I' aaid, 'Did you get yours?' And he said, 'It's all right; I got mine all right.' " roaathet lWii. m - In 1*0 ltjea, and net a 1 _ »the present corporation waa (mwil an attempt msdo to eonter upon it the forfeited that any grant made by the h to to after &Te£ pirat on oftbe tan yearswoold necteiartiyhave been aabjast to the right of the United Sta ee ait any time todae'are a forfeiture. Tfea B*use also passed a bill extruding the lawa of the United ^tates over the public land strip tBUtb of Kansta, and throwing the region opeA to homestead entries. Mit. KOSTIS introduced a bill in the Senate 00 the'13th inst directing the Secretary of tbe Treasury to pay to the respective owners of lands, houses, and tenements in the State* lately in iosurrecticn the sums of monev re­ ceived from leases Or occupation of sueb jproperty by agency of the United States and paid into the Trea»ury under the provisi'ns of the att of July % 1864, Mr. Wilson introduced * bill almost identical with the one vetoad by the President, to settle titles to tbe Des Mo nes Rive* tan da, and another to permit.the Santa Fe Road o bridge the Mississippi bstwem Keokuk and Fort Mad Is n. Mr. Brown presented a mtas~ nre providing a new basis for national bank circulation. Mr. Dawes, speaking to Mr. Mas rill's resolution declaring the promise of mak­ ing a proper revision of the tariff at tbe present ' Session obviously hopeloss and impracticable. Mid the advanced position of the Secretary of The Treasury on tho subject gf tho tariff caused apprehension and alarm in nil the great indus­ tries of the land. The industries of the eottattv looked to the Senate finance Com mittee to form­ ulate a method of bringing the receipts of the Government down to the line# ot its expendi­ tures without impairing the development ot prosperity of thouo industries or diminishing the compensation of that labor. It wan for that purpose that ho (Dawt-s) had iutroduced his resolution to that effect. Mr. Mcl'horson, re- Plying to Mr. Dawes, said that there were but two ways of disposing of Ihe surplus revenue. One was extravagant appropriations and the other was by a reduction of taxatiou. For him- Bell I10 was in favor of the second alternative. He was in favor of a rovisiou of tbe tariff which would not permit the accumu­ lation of an annual surplus of tfl0j.000.030l. Jle would apply to every industry the same jiritiL'i) lo that has been applied to the I'aterson (N. J.) silk-manufacturing industry whoso raw material was admitted free of duty, and who competed with tho Lyons (France) manufacturers in their own city. Why was not the same principle applied to the hatters at New York? If thoso 10.0J0 operatives their raw material free they would flood the world with cheap hats. That was the Democratic policy, the American p licy--the policy which be wanted to see ingratted In the next tariff bill. He was opposed to tbe starving of toese 10,000 hat operatives in New York in order to support fifty muskrat trappers on the shores of the Hackensack River. In tho House of Representatives bills were introduced for the free coinage of silver, for the leasing of unoccupied Indian lands, to enable the people to name their own postmas- tsrs.to admit to the Union the Territories of Da- kcta, Montana, Washington, aud New Mexico, to prohibit the appointment of Cougressioniu committees for funerals, to pension railway postal clerks incapacitated jn the service, ana to grant the franking privilege to inmates of soldiers' homes. Mr. Lawler presented a reso­ lution for the expenditure of a large proportion of the Treasury surplus iu building war vessids and see-coast defenses. ! THE bill for repealing the tenure-of-office law gave rise to an extended debate in the Benate on the 21th inst. Mr Edmunds opposed »»"* Mr. Hoar advocated the repeal of the law. The House amendments to tho eleotoral-count bill were non-concurred in and a conference or­ dered. The Committee on Finance reported back favorably a bill for the retirement and re- coinage of the trade ̂ dollar. Bills were intro­ duced for the amendment of the oleomargarine law, and to i nor ease tbe pensions of those 1 who have suffered disabilities equivalent to the loss of a foot or a hand. A memorial wag received from the Girman Aid Society of Wis* cousin, suggesting the enactment of a uniform naturalization and suffrage law. The Honse of Representatives killed tbe soheme for a railroad through the northern part of tha Yellowstone Na­ tional Park, alleged to be needed as an outlet for a mining district, and spent the remainder of the day in considering the sundry civil ap­ propriation bill. THE bill to repeal the civil-service law re* ported adversely by Senator Hawley from th* Committee on Civil Service during the first ses­ sion of the present Congress was reintroduced by Senator Vance on the Ttthlnst i lHiHjliif ' Cullom offered the conference report cp the in­ terstate commerce bill and gave notice that he would call it up Tuesday, when It might go over the holiday adjournment for discussion. Senator Conger favorrtbly reported the bill re­ cently passed by the House to extend the free- delivery system to t-iwna of 10,000 population. Senator Piatt's resolution for open execu­ tive sessions was laid on the table by a vote of 33 to 21. A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of War for information as to tbe proposed bridge ecross tho Arthur Kill, between Kew Jersey and Staten Islsnd. Mr. Beek called np the bill prohibiting Ssqators or Representa­ tives from acting as attorneys for Erabsidired railroad companies. Mt Beck denounced it as indecent for Senators and members to sit and voti upon measures affecting great railroad companies to the amount of hundreds ot millions wbile having tho money < of those companies in their pockets. Public . right, common decency, and the honor of every Senator and Representative were involved in having the world to understand that no man was sitting in either House as the hireling, or the retained attorney, or the agent of any of these subsidised railroad corporations. The House of Representatives devoted the day, in Committee of the whole, to the consideration of the sundry civil bill. SENATOR VAN Wren's rorolution calling on toe Secretary ot War fcr information as to how the Missouri River Commission apportioned tbe money appropriatsd by the last river and har­ bor bill for tlie improvement of the Missouri River, was adopted by tho Senate on tbe Kith inst. A bill granting a pension to Mrs. Burbara Fuchs, the stepmother of a soldier, was passed. A bill was introduced fixing the salaries of tbe Commissioners of Education and Labor at &5.UU0 each. Senator Plumb introduced a bill providing that no railr ad or other company or corporation engaged in the interstate com­ merce Bhall have or keep an office lor or other* wise provide tor or i>ermit the transfer upon the books of said corporation of any portion 01 tbe capital stock of the same at any plaeo outside the Htate by or under the laws of which the said corporation was incorporated, and nil transfer* of the stock of any such corporation St any point or pla te outside the limitc of the tata by which such corporwtion was incorpor­ ated shall be void. • Petitions were presented from tobacco manufacturers from St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, Balti­ more, Lynchburg, Durham, N. C., and other cities, protesting againat the pas­ sage of the House bill in reference to tb* p cklng of cut tobacco. Senator Spooner intro­ duced a bill for a public building at Milwaukee at a cost for site qnd building not to exceed Sl,200,0J>. Tbe House of Representatives passed the Senate bill for the allotment of land in sev­ eralty to Indians, upon whom are to'be con­ ferred the rights of citizenship. The measure does not affect tho tribes in Indian Territory. Another Senate bill was passed for the retire­ ment of Admirals Rowan and Worden, on TlheiiN- own application, with the highest pay of their grade. The urgency deficiency bill was passed. •1 On the Safe Side. "Aia* •on os8 of tbe Smiths ?" a man of an acquaintance who foj half an hoar had been hoisting in four drinks of sour-mash to the hour, and was solemnly, stationary drnnk. "Smith! Well, I should (hie) say so. B'long to the mos' important branch of the family." "That so? .Why ain't yoa at the re­ union, then 1 There's a great meeting of all the iSmiths at New York to-day. "Course, I know it" (liio). "Why ain't you there?" Mr. Smith regarded hia quest oner gravely. "Take me for a fool (hio), I guess." "Oh! no, not at all." "Then what for make sigpv snlles- tions, mean, silly suggestion*? Why,' man (hie), if I should get down there among the Smiths (hie), I couldn't t-e- eist temptation to celebrate, and i'd set drunker la a boiled owl f--Chicago Ledger. IT is well known that rain-water it far better than spring-water for pro­ moting the growth of plants; this la from the former containing that which is a • necessary ingredient in their formation--namely, ammonia; and which is abundant in liquid manure. The efficacy of this may be soon devel­ oped by sprinkling one-half of a grass Elofc with spring water, and the other alf with water in which potmded car­ bonate of ammonia (about one ounce to the gallon) has been dissolved; the former will keep it aliyp, but the latter