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i " v. - &Mk+^ • Y TCOO 3flti ,f$Tc|§cnri> §IaindeaIfj&T,h-: J. VAN SLYXBU PIJBI,»HZR. McfiE^RY, ILLINOIS, P.,1 1 XOCST1HU THE TOTES.' J • Vlia Joint Elector*! OomittM'i Report to Congress--Text of the JBtll Agreed Upon. The following is the report of the commit­ tees of th# Senate Mid House of Beprment*- tires appointed under the eereral resolutions of those bodies to prepare and report euoh a message as may be best oaloolated to accom­ plish the lawful counting of the electoral vetea and the best dispoeition of all questions con­ nected therewith, and the due declaration of the result. The committees say that they have eonaidptad the subject named in aaid resolu­ tions, apd have had foil and free conference with ejfch other thereto, and now report the aooomjfiacivmg bill and recommend its passage. The report continuea as follows: We have applied the utmost practicable •tody and deliberation to the subject, and be­ lieve that the bill now reported is the best attainable disposition of the different prob­ lems and disputed theories arising out of the late election. It must be obvious to every person conversant with the history of the oountry and with the formation ana inter­ pretation of the constitution, that di­ versity of views and opinions touching the subject, not wholly coincident with the bias or wishes pf members of political parties, would Bafairi'iyMML We have in this state of affairs chosen, therefore, not to deal with abstract questions Bave so far as they are necessarily involved in the legislation proposed. It is. of course, plain that the report of the bill implies that in our opinion legislation may be had on the subject in accordance with the constitution, bat we think that the law proposed is inconsistent with a few of the principal the­ ories upon the subject. The constitution re­ quires thai the electoral votes shall be counted upon a particular occasion. All will agree that the votes named in the constitution are con­ stitutional votes of the States, and not other, and when they have been found and identified, there is nothing left to be disputed or decided. All the rest is mere clerical work of summing tip numbers, which being done, the constitu­ tion itself declares the oonsequenoes. This bill, then, is only directed to ascertaining for the purpose and in aid of counting what are the constitutional votes of the respective States, and whatever jurisdiction exists for snoh pur­ pose the bill only regulates the method of exer­ cising it. The constitution, our great instrument and security for liberty and order, speaks in the amplest language for all such cases, in whatever aspect they may be presented. It declares that the Congress shall have power to make all laws which ah all be necesspr? and proper for car­ rying into execution tho foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by the constitu­ tion in the Government of the United States, or any department or officer thereof. The committee therefore think that tho iaw pro­ posed cannot be justly assailed as unconstitu­ tional by any one, and for this reason ve think it unnecessary, whatever may be our individual views, to discuss any of the theories referred to. Our fidelity to the constitution is observed when we ,find that the iaw we reoommend is sonsistent with that instrument. The matter then ueing a proper subject for legislation, the fitness of the means proposed becomes the next subject of consideration. ' Tpon-this we beg leave to submit a few brief observations. In all just governments both public and private rights must be defined and ietermined by the law. This is essentia! to iie very idea of such a government, and is a sharacteriftio distinction between free and des- aotic systems. However important it may be whether one citizen or another shall ae Chief Magistrate for a period prescribed lpon the just theories of civil institutions, t is of far greater moment that the will >f the people lawfully expressed in the choice rf that officer shall be ascertained and carried nto effect in a lawful way. It is true that in jvery operation of a government of laws, !rom the most trivial to the most important, here will always be a possibility that the re­ mit reached will not be the true one. The ixecutive officer may not wisely perform his luty, the courts may not truly declare the law, rod the legislative body may not enact the >est la,ws. but in either case to resist the act of he Executive, the courts, or the Legislature, icting constitutionally and lawfully within, heir sphere, would be to set up anarchy in dace of government. Wo think, then, that to >rovide ek ar and lawful means of performing . great and ncocseary function of tne Govern- neat'in a time of much public dispute is of far reater iin prance than the particular advan- age that spy man or party may in the course if events rawibly obtain. But we have ftiil indeavorel to provide such lawful agencies of lecision in the present case as shall be the Qost fair and impartial possible under the cir- unistances. Each of the branches of the jegihlatnre and the judiciary are represented in he tribunal MI equal proportions. The compo- ition of the judicial part of the commission 3oks to a selection from different parts of the epublic, wliile it is thought to be free from ny preponderance of supposable bias, and the ddition of the necessary constituent part of be whole commission ill order to obtain an neven number is left to an agency the fur- best rem wed from prejudice of any existing btainable one. It would be difficult, if not upoaeible, we think, to establish a tribunal >aat could be less the subject of party criti- isms than such a one. The principle of its onstitution is so absolutely fair that we are nable to perceive how the most extreme par- san can as-ail it unless he preft rsto embark is wishes upon the stormy sea of unregulated rocedure, hot disputes, and dangerous results lat can neither be measured nor defined, ntbcr than upon the fixed and regular course f law that insures peace and the order of so- lety, whatever party may be disappointed its hopes. The unfortunate cir- amstance that no provision had been iad<? on the subject before election has roatly added to the difficulties of the com- littees in dealing with it, inasmuch as m-tnyof <o people of the country, members of the re- ptetive political parties, will, perhaps, look uh jealousy upon anv measure that seems to evolve even the possibility of the defeat of leir wishes, but it has also led the committees ) feel that their members are bound by the iglieat duty in Bucb a case to let no bias or artv reeling stand in the way of a just, equal, id peaceful measure for extricating the ques- oi> from the embarrustments that at preseut irround it. In conclusion, we respectfully beg leave to aprees upon Conrgeas tbe necessity of speedy eterm.nation upon this subject. It is impota­ ble to estimate the material loss the country wly sustains from the existing state of un-- iriainty. It directly anil pow< rfully tends to nsettle and paralyze business, to weaken pub- n. and private credit, and to create apprenen- ons in £he minds of the people that disturb .e peace Jul tenor of their ways and happiness, does far more. It tends to bring republican atitutions into discredit and to create doubts ' the success of our forme f government and f the perpetuity of the republic. Ail con- derations of interest, of patriotism, ad of justice unite in demanding of ie law-making power s measure that wih ring peace and prosperity to the couutry, and IOW that our republican institutions are * inal to any emergency. And in this connec- on we cannot restrain from the expression of lr satisfaction that your committees, com- jsed of equal numbers of opposing parties, sve fortunately been able to do what has "en attempted in vain heretofore--almost iianimou.Jy agree upon the plan considered • them all to be just, wise, and effiaienf Wa accordingly reoommend tbe proposed act to the patriotic and just judgment of Congresss. GEO. F. EDMUNIWI, P. T. FBsxjj»GHuy«ifc BOSCOE Conkuho, A. G. THtJBMAM, " T. P. BAYARD, M.W. Ransom, Senate CommittSk 4 H. B. PAYS*. J T i f E H P A H C N T O S , j . , ABRAX 8. Hswrrr. WM. M. SP&INQEB, 5 -" Geo. W. McCRABI, •*»' GEO. F. HOAB, GEO. WIULARD, House Committee. Senator Morton is the only member of the committee who did not sign the report. FULL TEXT OF THE BILL. The f o l lowing th« fnii tart cf the bill agreed npon by the joint committee: A BILL to provide for and regulate tbe counting of votes for President and Vice President, and the decision of questions arising thereon for the term commencing March 4, k. D. 1877. Be it Enacted by (he Senate and House of Representatives of the Wnited States of America, in Congress Assembled, That the Senate and House of Representatives ahall meet in the hall of the House of Representatives at the hour of 1 o'clock, poet meridian, on the first Thursday in February. A. D. 1877, and the President of the Senate shall be the presiding officer. Two tellers shall be previously ap­ pointed on the part of the Senate and two on the part of the Houae of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, as they are opened by the President of the -Senate, all the certificates >• mid papers pur­ porting to be certificates of electoral votes, which certificates and paper* shall be opened, presented, and acted upon in alpha­ betical order of the States, beginning with " A," and said tellers, having then read the same in the presence and hearing of the two houses, shall make a list, of votes as they shall appear from the said certificates, and the votes haying been ascertained and counted, as in this act provided, the resnlt of the aanss shall be delivered to the President, of the Senate, who shall thereupon announce the state of the vote and the names of the persons (if any) elected, which announcement shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of persons elected President and Vice President of the United States, and, together with a list of the votes, be entered on the journals of the two homes. Upon such reading of 1 any such certificate or paper, when there shall be only one return from a State, the President of the Senate shall call for objections, if any. Every objec­ tion shall be made in writing, and shall state clearly and concisely and without argu­ ment the ground thereof, and shall be signed by at least one Senator and one member ox the House of Representatives. When all objec­ tions so made to any vote or paper from any Stat© shall have been received and read, the Senate shall thereupon withdraw, and such objections shall be submitted to the Sen­ ate for its decision, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall in like manner submit such objections to the House of Repre­ sentatives for its decision, and no electoral vote or votes from any State from which but one return has been received shall be ex­ cepted to except by the affirmative vote of the two houses. When the two houses have voted, they shall immediately again meet, and the presiding officer shall then announce the de­ cision of the auestion submitted. SEC. 2. That if more than one return or paper purporting to be' the return from any State snail have been received by the President of the Senate, purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes glvrai at the lust preceding election for President and Vice President in each State, unless they shall be duplicates of tbe same return, all such returns and papers shall be opened by him in the presence of the two houses when met as aforesaid, and read by the tellers, and all such returns and papers shall thereupon be submitted to the judgment and decision, as to which is the true and lawful electoral vote of such State, of a commission constituted as follows, namely: Daring the session of such house on the Tuesday nest preceding the first Thursday in February, 1871, each house shall, by viva voce vote, appoint five of its members, who, with five Associate Justioes of the Supreme Court of the United States, to be ascertained as hereinafter pro­ vided, shall constitute a commission for tbe decision of all questions upon or in respect of suoh double returns named in this section. Oa Tuesday next preceding the first Thursday in February, A. D. 1877, or as soon thereafter as may be, the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, now assigned to the First, Third, Eighth and Ninth districts, shall select, in such manner as a majority of them shall deem fit, another of the Associate Justices of said court, which five persons shall be members of said commission, and the person longest in commission of Che said Justices sha>l be President of said commission. Tne mem­ bers of said commission shall respectively take and subscribe to the following oath: "I, , do solemnly swear, or affirm, as the case may be, that I will impartially exam­ ine and consider all questions submitted to the commission of whion I am a member, and a true judgment give thereon, agreeable to the constitution and laws, BO help me God," which oath shall be filed with the Secretary of the Senate. When the commission shall have been thus organized, it shall not be in the power of either house to dissolve the same or to withdraw any of ite members, but if any such Senator or member shall die, or bccome physically unable to perform the duties re­ quired by this act, the faot of such death or physical inability shall be by said commission, before it sliail proceed further, communicated to the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the case may be, which body shall immedi­ ately and without debate proceed by viva voce vote to fill the place so vacated, and the person so appointed shall take and subscribe to the oath hereinbefore prescribed, and shall become a member of said commission; and in like manner, if any of the said Justices of the Supreme Court shall die or become physically incapable of performing the duties required by this act, the others of said Justices, mem bers of tbe said commission, shall immediately appoint auother Justice of aaid ourta mem­ ber of said commission, and in suoh appoint­ ments regard shall be had to impartiality and freedom from bias sought ly the original ap­ pointments to said commission, who shall thereupon immediately take and subscribe to the oath hereinbefore subscribed, and become a member of said commission to fill the vacancy so occasioned. All the certificates and papers purporting to be the certificates of the elect­ oral \otes of each Sta'e shall be opened in alphabetical order of the States, as provided in section 1 of this act, and when there shall be more than one such certificate or paper, as the certificates and papers from such States, they shall be so opened, and, excepting the duplicates of the same returning, they shall be read by the tell­ ers, and thereupon tbe President of the Senate shall call for objections, if any. Every objec­ tion shall be made in writing and shall state clearly and concisely and without argument the ground thereof, and shall be signed by at least one Senator and one member of the House of Representatives before the same shall be received. When all such objections so made to any certificate, vote, or paper from a State snail have been received and read, all such certificates, votes and papers so ob­ jected to, and all papers .accompanying the same, together with such objections, shall be forthwith submitted to the said com­ mission, which shall proseed to consider the same, with the same powers, if any, now pos­ sessed for that purpose by the two houses act­ ing separately or together, and by a majority of votes decide whethe^ any aud what vol from such States are the votes provided for by the constitution of the Unite t States, and now many and what persons were duly appointed electors in such State, and may therein take into view such petitions, depositions, and other papers, if any, a» shall by tne constitution ati4 now-existing law be competent and pertinent in such consideration, which decision shall be made in writing, stating briefly the ground thereof, and signed by the members of said com mission agreeing therein ; whereupon the two housea shall again meet, and such decision shall be read and entered in the journal of each bouse, and the counting of the votes shall proceed in comformity therewith, unless, upon objection made thereto in writing by at least five Senators and five Members of the House of Representatives, tho two houses shall separately concur in ordering otherwise, in I which oase snoh concurrentordurshall govern; We J no votes er papers from any other State shall be acted upon until the objections previously made to the votes or papers from one State shall have been finally disposed of. SEC. 3. That while the two Houses shall be in meeting as provided in this act, no debate shall be allowed, and no question shall be put by the presiding effioer to either House except on a motion to withdraw, and Le shall have power to preserve order. BJEC. 4. That whon the two houses separate to decide upon an objection that may have been made to the counting of any electoral vote er votes from any State, or upon objec­ tion to a report of the said commission, or other question arising under this act, eaoh 8enator and Representative may speak to such objection or question ten minutes, and not oftener than once, but after such debate shall have lasted two hours it shall be the duty of each bouse to put the main question without further dsLste. SEC. 5. That at such joint meeting of the two housee seats shall be provided am follows: For the President of the Senate, the Speaker's chair; for the Speaker, immediately on his left; the Senators in the body of the hall, upon the right of the presiding officer; for the Representatives in the body of the hall not provided for the Senators; for the tellers, Secretary of the senate, and Cleik of the House of Representatives, at the Clerk's de*k; for other officers of the two houses, in front of the Clerk's desk and upon each side of the Speaker's platform. Suoh joint meeting shall not be dissolved until the count of the electoral votes shall be completed and the re­ sult declared, and no recess shall be taken unless a question shall have arisen in regard to counting any snoh -ctes, or otherwise, un­ der this act in which case it shall be compe­ tent for either house, acting separately, in the manner hereinbefore provided, to direct a recess of such house not beyond tbe next day, Sunday excepted, at the hour of 10 o'clock ii the forenoon, and while the question is being considered by aaid commission, either house may proceed with its legislative or other busi­ ness. SEC. 6. That nothing in this "act be held to impair or affect right now existing under the constitution and l»ws to question, by proceedings in the judicial courts of the United States, the right or title of the person who shall be declared elected, or who shall claim to be President or Vioe President of the United States, if any such right exists. SEC. 7. That said commission shall make its own rules, keep a record of its proceedings, and shall have power to employ suoh persons as may be necessary for the transaction of its business and the execution of its powers. • n - THE DUELLO. Hew Remedy for Baldness. Persons afflicted with baldness will be glad to hear that a luxuriant growth of hair may be produced bj a very simple process, described by British Oonsnl Stevens in his commercial report on Nicolaef for the past year. In the sum­ mer of 1875, Consul Stevens' attention was drawn to several cases of baldness among bullocks, cows and OTPVS; and the loss of manes and tails among horses. A former servant; of the Consul's, prema­ turely bald, whose duty it was to trim lamps, had a habit of wiping his petro­ leum-besmeared hands in the scanty looks which remained to him; and, after three months of lamp-trimming experi­ ence, his dirty habit procured for him a much finer head of glossy black hair than he ever possessed before in his re­ collection. Struck by this remarkable occurrence, Consul Stevens tried the remedy on two retriever spaniels, that had become suddenly bald, with won­ derful success. His experience, there­ fore, induced him to suggest it to the owner of several black cattle and horses affected as above stated, and, while it stayed the spread of th-. disease among animals in the same sheds and stables, it effected a quick and radical cure on the animals attacked. The petroleum should be of the most refined American qualities, rubbed in rigorously and quickly with the palm of the hand, and applied at intervals of three days, six or seven times in all, except in the oase of horses' tails and manes, when more ap­ plications may be Requisite. The news will create a profound sensation in hair- dressing circles, particularly among wig and chignon makers.--Pall Mall Oatette. Sleeplessness. " H." wrises to the London Times, I venture to supplement the article headed * Sleeplessness,' which recently appeared in the Times from the Medical Examiner, because the modus operandi was not sufficietly explained. 1 have known, and, unfortunately, for many years have had occasion to try Dr. Cooke's plan, and, I think I may say, with hardly- ever-failing 'success. Most persons have some particular position in which they try to get to sleep. If they awake in the night and cannot sleep, let the favorite position be assumed and six or seven deep breaths be taken. In breathing out, or respiring, the last or seventh time let it be done as slowly as possible. At this point, the eyes being closed, not a limb, or muscle, or eyelid must be moved ; all must be still and motionless as a marble statue. The mind should be fixed as far as possible on some pleasing object or train of thought, but on no acoount on any subject causing anxietv. This, if necessary, may be repeated, but in most cases sleep follows in a few minutes. Of course I assume that it is a case of pure sleeplessness, and not attended with any pain or disease. The plan is simple and unattended with the danger which too frequently follows the use of morphi'e hydrate, and other opiates." Emancipation in Brasil. The emancipation of Brazilian slaves is progressing in a slow but continuous manner, according to recent statistics. In the province of Goyaz the 8,903 slaves registered in 1872 had on the 31st of December, 1875, become reduced to 7,888 by 357 deaths, 222 liberations and 436 removals. At the same date there existed 921 freebcrn children of slaves. In the province of Pernambuco, during the same four years, the 106,201 slaves diminished 3,386 by deaths and 1,049 by emancipations. From Sept. 28, 1871,to the end of December last the number of children of slaves born free under the law of 1871 was 12,312, of whom 2,802 died, leaving 9,510. In the province of San Paulo there died, from April, 1872, to the end of 1875, of the 147,746 slaves registered, 8,561, and 3,410 were eman­ cipated. In 111 of the 151 parishes the freeborn births were 18,176, of whom ,861 had died. Woman Suffrage. The constitution of the new State of Colorado provides for an election on the question of woman suffrage next Octo­ ber. It is understood that while in Washington next month the sisterhood will arrange for a heavy pressure to be brought upon the gallant and suscepti­ ble masculine minds and hearts of the | Miner State. Utah and Wyoming are at present the Western exponents of the I equal right of the fair sex. Some Noted American Duels--J ckson and Benton, Barr and Hamilton, Brod- erlck and Terry, and Others. Jackson fought a number of duels, several of them fatal, but not to him. Commodore Barron and Decatur met in 1820; the latter was fatally and the former severely wounded. John Ran­ dolph spoke of the political union of Adams and Clay as " a combination of the puritan and the blackleg." A chal­ lenge fallowed; Clay and Randolph met in 1826, but neither was injured. Clay was the challenger. Randolph's pistol went off before the word; Clay's fire was ineffectual although seriously intended, and Randolph declined to take a second aim. When Ool. Benton was serving at the head of a regiment under Gen. Jackson, they quarreled. Jackson at­ tempted to strike Benton with a horse­ whip in Nashville, in e813, and nearly lost his life by a pistol shot from Ben­ ton's brother. Benton himself was a fighting man; he was called out several times, and one of his competitors, a Mr. Lucas, furnished evidence of the direct­ ness* of his shot. Gov. DeWitt Clinton exchanged five shots with an obscure as- sailarit. in 1802; he was made Mayor of New York the following year. The duel in which Senator Broderick lost his life is still freshly remembered. He was very frank in his characterization of the pro-slavery men, one of whom, Judge David S. Terry, challenged him. They met near San Francisco, in September, 1859, and Broderick did not survive^ lhe affair oreated a tremendous sensa­ tion at the time. Judge Terry died re­ cently. In 1801, when Philip Hamilton, then 18 years of age, and just fresh from graduation at Columbia college where he had highly distinguished himself, heard a Fourth-of-J uly oration deliver some exasperatingly false censure upon his father1!, then Secretary of the Treasury, he bsmms so indignant that he deter­ mined to remember the Bpeaker. He saw him a few evenings later at the thea­ ter ; young Hamilton and a companion being in a box. They proceeded, in the hearing of the objeot of their criticism, to ridicule the speech, whereupon the offended gentleman summoned the two into the lobby, applied a vulgar epithet to both, seized young Hamilton by the coat collar, and turning on his heel, told them he should expect to hear from both, or would post them as disgraced. The manners of the period left them no alter­ native but a challenge. Hamilton's com­ panion exchanged four shots with the orator, neither puttering hurt, and then generously sought to arrange matters for Philip Hamilton, pleading his youth, and a son's natural affection for a great and affectionate father. The appeal was in vain ; the epithet applied to young Hamilton was repeated, and Philip Ham­ ilton then sent his challenge, stating that he was averse to dueling, and anxious to repair his original fault, so far as he oould. The brutality of his antagonist was not open, however, to any appeal. When they met, Hamilton acknowledged the impropriety of his original conduct, and expressed his desire to make any honorable reparation in his power. His opponent would listen to no protest, and Hamilton, without discharging his own pisfcols received a fatal wound. Next to Benedict Arnold, there is no man i* Arii^w,v*#tQry more sugges­ tive of mSbTifC base in human nature than that of Aaron Burr. A grandson of the great and good Jonathan Edwards, and son of an eminent Protestant di­ vine; a graduate of Princeton college, and endowed with notable gifts which elaborate education had finely devel­ oped, he seemed to lack nothing except manliness to make him a man. He served in the expedition against Quebec and was raised to the rank of Lieuten­ ant Colonel; but Washington intuitively distrusted him; and his jealousy of the preference of the Commander-in-Chief for the young, able, and brave Alex­ ander Hamilton, then in the beginning of his career, made Burr so odious in the army that he resigned and entered the legal profession. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1791. In 1800 he was the Democratic candidate for Vioe President with Jefferson; the issue passed into tbe House and they were elected; but Burr's attempt to supplant Jefferson disgusted the party, and when, in 1804, he ran for Governor of New York, he was defeated. Alexander Ham­ ilton had much to do with electing his opponent; and Burr, although unable to furnish even as superficial a pretext as the code then required, challenged Hamilton. The latter stood at the head of American statesmen. Bra>e, brilliant and accomplishedE he was unquestion­ ably the genius of the period, and the Treasury Department exists to-day sub­ stantially as he oreated it. Tender and refined in feeling, and actuated by in­ tegrity which kept him poor, his reluc tanoe to fight Burr was due in a large measure to the poverty in which his wife would be left and to the intense S-ief which his son's death had caused, om which he had scaroely begun to recover. But he was too proud to seek any means of escape which honorable instincts did not suggest. He felt that to decline the contest would publicly disgrace him. The meeting took place July 11, 1804, on the favorite spot for the duels of those days, a secluded ledge on the heights of Weehawken, above the Hudson. When Hamilton and his friends arrived Burr and his seconds were breaking the twigs and clearing the ground. The doctor and other friends remained at a little dis­ tance in order to avoid being eye-wit- nesees in the event of legal proceedings. HaiuJton died on the following after­ noon. So great was the public affection for his intrepid and patriotic character that the crowds around the bulletin boards announcing the changes in his condition while there was hope that he might live, wept like children. There is not a public man in the nation to-day who would be so universally and sincere­ ly mourned as Hamilton was. Old Postage Stamps. The lunatic who collects stamps will take in fresh enthusiasm over the result of a recent sale in New York: "A 5-cent (canceled) violet Bolivia stamp, dated 1867, was sold for $8; a 10-cent brown stamp of the same nationality and date, $10; a 50 cent blue stamp, same, $6.50; and a 100-cent blue stamp, same, $2.50; a 4 oent blue stamp of British Guiana, dated 1851, $10; a set of Confederate stamps $5.85; an 'unsever.d pair of 5- oent St. Louis stamps, the only pair in this condition known to the owner, used, but in splendid condition, extremely rare,' was knocked down for $20.50. Another rare stamp sold for $11. It was described as a 4 5-cent provisional U. S., believed to be New Orleans.' The big­ gest price paid was $52.80, for an entire set ot Plimpton envelopes, ninety-six varieties." ̂ All Sorts. FRED BOAKSAXTK, of Orion, Sauk oounty, Wirf., is said to be 104 years of age. IN California wheat growing is yield­ ing larger returns than gold mining ever did. THE schools of Illinois eoet $8,268,539 in 1876. The numherof pupils enrolled is 687,446w LONDON, England, quadrupled its population in the past sixty years. The rapid increase of population in the old country is more than equaled in the United States, where the race has propa­ gated with unparalleled rapidity. THE heavy fall of snow on the plains of Western Nebraska, which are usually available for grazing purposes through­ out the entire winter season, seriously threatens to reduoe to starvation the vast herds of cattle that roam that re­ gion. THE number of deer upon the Texas prairies at present exceeds anything known for years. The belief is that they have been forccd from their hill and mountain ranges by cold weather, and have sought that warm .climate to pass the winter. THE product of wax in the United States is 20,000,000 pounds annually, and increasing--worth in money at least $6,000,000. The total annual product of honey and wax is worth at present in this oountry nearly $15,000,000. THE London Times, in the course of an editorial on the Brooklyn fire, says : " If the architect and the managers of the theater had wished to kill as many people as they oould in the shortest possible timet they oould scarcely have made their arrangements with greater skill." THB friends of the late Mr. Vander- bilt are pitching into Henry Ward Beecher for saying of the dead Money King : 41 Cornelius Vanderbilt, as long as he oould get about, never sang any hymns; but when he got crippled and could not do anything more, then he sang hymns." NEBRASKA farmers are crossing the buffalo of the prairies with the native cattle of the Stated and claim that the best butter and the richest milk is pro­ duced by the half and quarter-bred buf­ faloes, and that several suoh heifers yield fourteen quarts of milk each per day for five months. THE new copper mines of Newfound­ land are reported to be very valuable, the product for the past year being 20,000 tons of ore, worth $50 a ton. The English proprietors have made a profit of $450,000. Already a sharp competi­ tion has sprung up with the American copper mining interest. IN the coal shale at Wezikon, Switzer­ land, a series of pointed fir poles, cov­ ered with wicker work, have been found. They are supposed to be the most an­ cient evidences yet known of the exist­ ence of man, and belonging to the period intervening between the two glacial epochs. DIRECTIONS have been issued by the British Admiralty for the use of slaked lime for the preservation of those por­ tions of the frame work of iron vessels which are constantly exposed to the ac­ tion of sea water. It is to be placed on the iron frames, and in the water con­ tained in suoh compartments, bilges and wings as cannot be dried out sufficiently to allow the application of preservative paints. STEPS have been taken to acclimatize the Florida cedar in Bavaria. The su­ periority of the wood of this tree over all ether kinds of cedar is well known, and the demand for the species in Ba­ varia, where immense quantities of lead pencils are made, has induced manufac­ turers to venture on tho experiment. Seeds have been sown in the royal for­ est, and about 5,000 young plants are now thriving in one batch. KANSAS has 2,125 miles of railroad; its cultivated area is 5,035>697 acres; its yield of wheat, annually, is 14,620,220, and of oorn is 80,570,408 bushels; its school population is 212,977, with 3,900 school-houses, erected at a cost of $4,- 600,258, and a permanent interest-bear­ ing school fund of $294,200.95; it has 1,658 church organizations, with a mem­ bership of 116,368, owning 464 church edifices, whose total value is reckoned at $1,519,909. "All the papers are discussing the extraordinary manifestations of nature. Some insist that a permanent change has taken place in the meteorological con­ ditions of the British islands, and the theory that this has been brought about by the deflection of the course of the Gulf Stream from the [English coast is graveJjy advanced and seriously enter­ tained. Public opinion on the subject is gradually growing panicky, and the most absurd statements receive weight in the leading papers. The Turks. Oliver Harper, who has been writing to newspapers from various parts of the world during the past few years, de­ livered a lecture on 44 The Gross and Crescent" in San Francisco recently. She said the Turkish women are short and fat, ignorant, extravagant, deceitful, and gossipy. They arc ill-formed and not handsome, and make unfaithful wives. Of the men she said : 14 There are no men more ignorant than the rank and file of the Turkish army. The Turks, as a rule, are courageous, and at the same time gentle and kind, except in war, when they rival the worst tribes of Indians by their acts of cruelty and bru­ tality. They are not eduoated, speak in metaphors, and are naturally polished and refined. They are a handsome raoe, rather short and thick in Btatue. They never tell the truth when a lie will answer. They are temperate in their habits, as regards the use of liquors, but smoke and drink coffee inces­ santly." ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE. THURSDAY, Jan. 18.--SKNATK.--in the » number of Mile were introdnoed, after most of the morning hoar vu coosamed by dJaea*. *inn of Whitney's resolution to print the flonatw journal* dally. Bouax.--The House met at 10 a. m. Anxmg tha bills introduced were the following: By Mr. Walker, to authorise Clerks of courts and Notaries Public to perform marriage oere- tnomep; by Mr. Wells, to amend the Homestead law in relation to exemptions ; by Mr. Wilkinson, authorizing a popular Tote at any regular election to abolith ibe terms of connty courts ; by Mr. Wil­ kinson, to amend the law relating to Grand Juries, and fixing the number at seven; by Mr. Williams to abolish the Bailroad and Warehouse Commission; by Sir. Taylor, u> author­ ize the Canal Conunissioners to construct a lock and dam for the Improvement and navigation of the Kankakee river; by Mr. Hopkins, to exempt firemen from per vice on juries* by Mr. Vandeventer, providing that the living to­ gether of man and woman shall not constitaw them man and wife unless they have conformed with the legal forms in relation thereto. SENATORIAL ELECTION -- JOINT Sxseiox, -- The balloting for Senator was resumed •t 12 o'clock with the following result: Sevtnth Balht. -- Logan, 99; Palmer, 88* Anderson, 7; Davis, C; Haines, 1; Parish, l'. JUff' th BaUot.--Logan, 99; Palmer, 87 ; Anderson! 7; Davis. 7; Haines, 1; Parish, 1. Ninth Ballot.-- Lonan, 99 ; Palmer, 97 ; Anderson, 7 ; Davia, 6; Haines, 2; Parish, 1. The tenth, eleventh and twelfth ballots were tbe same as the ninth. FSXDAX, Jan. 19.--BKNATB.--Nothing impor. t*»t in the line of legitimate legislation neerf be ex­ pected so long as the Senatorial contest continues. ,. The Judiciary Committee recommended that the bill giving mairried women separate maintenarioe do not pees, but it was ordered to a second reading. .... The Commissioners of the Elgin Asylum for the Insane, appointed by Gov. Bev- eridge, presented for confirmation, were referred to the State Charities Committee... A host of no- taries-puMic were oonilnned.... The Governor's "(•niiige wis considered by sections, and a resolu­ tion passed. . . A bill appropriating $50,000 per an­ num to the Soldiers' Orphans' Home was Intro­ duced. Hoes*.--About an hour of tbe session was passed over a resolution requiring the Centennial Commis­ sioners to make a sworn statement of expenditures, which wae sent to the Committee on State library. The Governor's Message was considered by sec­ tions. ... A resolution was introduced by Mr. Knney requesting Seaator Logan to proceed to Washing­ ton, but went over under the roles. SKNATOMAXI ELKTTIOK--Jonrr Bxssion.--Ths joint session began at 13 o'clock. The following Is the result of the balloting: Thirteenth Maliot-- Logan, 99( Palmer, 89; Anderson, 9; Davie, 4; Uaines 3; Parish, 1. FtnirUtnth Ballot---Same as above. Fifteenth Ballot-- No change on the fif­ teenth ballot,.exoept that Alien joined Jaek la leav­ ing Davis and going to Anderson. Sixteenth Bal­ lot -No change. Seventeenth Ballot--On tbe seventeenth ballot, ftnney and Glover dropped Davis for Anderson. KifhUenth MaOot--No change. SATURDAY, Jan. 20.--BEHATB.--In the . Sen­ ate, after seine business of minor lmportanoe, Mr. Dement offered a resolution favoring tike pro­ poned plan of counting the electoral vote, and re­ questing Illinois Senators and Representatives ill Congress to favor it* passage Mr. Robinson ii^ trod need a bill appropriating $2,000 per annua to tlie State Horticultural Society. HOUSE.--rhe session of the House was mainly occupied with a discussion of the bill Introduced by Mr. Pinney, in relation to the compromise meas­ ure before Congress l)ost by a vote of 75 to TO. SENATORIAL ELKCTBOS---JOINT SESSION.--The bal­ loting for Senator wag continued to-day in joint ses siou, as follows: Nineteenth Ballot. --Logan, 90; Pal mer,87; Anderson, 18; Haines,3; Parish, 1. Twrntietk Bill lot.--Same as nineteenth. Twenty-fir»t Ballot.-- LoKan, 99; Palmer, 86; Anderson, 14; Haines, t; Parish, 1. No change in 22d or 23d ballot. MONDAY, Jan. 22. --SENATE.---In the Senate the resolution providing for placing passenger- elevator, in the Capitol was voted down Mr. Hamilton Introduced a bill amending the exemp­ tion law so an to exempt only (100 instead at $125 in cases of garnishment, The joint resolution for a special committee of Ave from the Senate and niin- from the House, to report on a revision of the revenue law,, was adopted.... The resolution in­ structing Congressmen and Senators absent from Washington to return to their duties, was refsmd to the Committee on Federal Relations. Hocsx.--The Speaker appointed as a speoial aom- mittee to consider the matter of erecting an addi­ tion to the Peniteutiasy, or building a new one, MeMfs. Wright, Kedzie, Fox, Neal, Chesslejr, Ash ton, Armstrong, Cronkrite, and Irwin.... The Gov- ornor sent in the report of the House of Correction of Chicago The two houses then met in Joint session for the election of a United States Senator. HFNATOBIAI, EUSCTJON--JOINT SEHMON.--In ths Joint session to-day Ave ballots were Men for United States Senator as follows I Tuentw-Rmrtk Ballot--IJOgan, 99; Anderson, 86; Haines, 7; Goudy, 7; Glenn, 1; Marshall, 1; Lawrenoe, 1; Pariah. 1. Twenty-Fifth JiaLlatr-- Logan, 99; Anderson, 85; Haines, 7; Goudy, 4; Lawrence. 1; Parish, 1; Kehoe, 1; Morritt, I. 7\m-ntp-Sixth Ballot--Logan, 89; Anderson, 89 ! Haines, 6; Cloudy, 4; Marshall. 2; Lawrence, 1« Parish, 1; Bveese, i. Twenty-Seventh Ballot-- Lo^an, 96; \nderson. 90 ; Haines, 5; Goudy, Marshall. 1; Lawrence, 3; Parish, 1; Breese, L Twenty-Kigiiek Ballet-- Logan, 97 ; Anderson, 9V; Lawrence, 6; Uaines, 6; Marshall, 1; Parish, 1; Stevenson, 1; Trumbull, 1; Ooudy, 1. Adjourned. TUESDAY, Jan. 23.--SKNATK.--In tbe Senate, Mr. Bash introduced a bill providing for the col­ lect1 on of tho rovcaao The bill prcvii^ for u . elevator in the Capitol, was referred to the Judiotaiy Committee The Dement reselntion, requesting Congress to vote for the Arbitration bill, was laid bills were read a -~:GY over till Thursday ...Several second time. HDO«E.--The only business transacted in the House was the aonsideration olt the resolution re­ lating to overflowed lands caufeed by the dam at Hen­ ry, which provided that an investigation be made as to the damage produced by the building of the dam. SKNATOBIAX. KLXCTION.--JOINT 8KSSION.--Turn- ty-ninth Ballot--Logan, 96; Andemon, 89; Haines. 4; Waehburne, •; Lawrence, 2; Hay, 1; oudy, 1 Marshall, 1; Sexton, '1; Parish, 1; Rogers, 1. Thirtieth Ballot--Logan. 92; Anderson, 87 ; Wash- burne, 9; Haines, S; Parish, 1; Lawrence* 9; Roijers, 1; Hay, 1; Mar hall, 1; Goudy, 1. Thirty-first Ballot--Logan, 89; Anderson, 90; Waeh­ burne, 13; Haines, 2; Lawrence, 1; Parish, 1: Hay, 4: J. C. Black, 1; Marshall, 1; Goudy, 1. TtirtL- second Ballot--Logm, 89; Anderson, 89; Wash- borne, 13; Ingersoll, 1; Haines, 2; Hay, 1; Law­ rence, 1; Marshall, 1; Parish, 1; Rtddick, 2. Thirty-third Ballot--Logan, 83; Anderson, 89; Washburue, 18; Haines, 2 ; Hay, 3; Marshal}, 1; Parish. 1; Reddick, 1; Trumbull, 1; Hiuchullff, 1. Thirty-fourth Ballot-- Logan, 93; Anderson, 90; Waehburne, 9; Haines, 3; Hay, 2: Marshall, 1; Parish, 1; Reddick, 1; Trumbull, 1; Buck- master, 1. WEDNI8DAT, Jan. S4.--SXKATB.--Absolutely nothing is being done in the way of legislation in either branch of the Legislature, the time and at­ tention of the members being occupied by the ex­ citement attending the Senatorial election. Only one bill was introduced, which was an act by Sen­ ator Delaney, of Oook, which proposes to amend the city incorporation act of 1872 in reference to the bringing of suits for violation of city ordi­ nances. HOUSE.--In tbe House, Mr. Cronkrite introduced a resolution requesting the Governor to take action to enforce the bond by which citizens of Spring­ field bound themselves to purchase and donate to the State a four-aore lot, to be added to the Capitol grounds.... Mr. Easton introduced a bill enlarge ing the powers of Police Magistrates Mr. Kear­ ney offered a resolution directing the Secretary of State to hang in tne Repre­ sentative Chamber the piotures of Lincoln and Douglas, now in art gallery. Adopted 1 he sub­ stitute of Mr. .Tack for the minority report of tingent Expense Committee provides for abandon­ ment of services of Enrolling and Engrossing Clerks, and not paying them except for the days they bad actual work lo do. SENATORIAL ELECTION--JOINT SESSION.--Ballot­ ing for Senator was resumed at the regular hour to-lay, with the following result: Tkirty-fi/th Bal- lot--Lawrence. 86; Davis, 97 ; Haines, 7 ; Logan, 3; scHtterinif, 6. Thirtv-aixth Ballot--Lawrence, 81; Davis, 98: Hau.es, 16; scattering, * Thirtw- #, v-nth Ballot -- Lawrence, 50; I>ois, 9# J i aines, 43; scatteriag, 8. Thtrttr-ctphtk Ballot -- Lawrence, 29: Davis 96; Hamee, ft«- Raum, i ; Parish. 1; Scott, 2: \>ent- w jtli, 3; Plumb, 1. Thi/ty-ninth Batlot--law­ renoe, 43; Davie, 82; Baiues, 69; Plumb, 3; P»r- ish, 1; Raum, 1. Wf THERE is a glat of butter in the NEW York market, bat a great deal of ifc ia adulterated with animal fat, and, insieM of going into the stomachs of poor peo­ ple, it ought to be consigned to aoa^uxakets' vats.