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atltt JRt§tnrg fllamtolfl. 1 J. VAN SLTXE. POTMSHIOL ! " 7 - ILLINOIS. MCHENRY, niE NEWS CONDENSED. APPOINTMENTS BY TBE PRB8UMENT. PRESIDENT HAYES hM made the following Federal appointment®: Hon. George 8. BootwelL, to be a Commis­ sioner to prepare a new edition of the»Revised Statutes. ' John H. McFarland, Receiver of Public Monevs at Detroit, Mich. Jesse H. Moore, Pension Agent at Spring­ field. I1L jobn <1 TTirit̂ d $t*f«g Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. John 8. Owens, Register of the Land Office Tavlor's Falls, Minn. Charles B. Tyler, Regfater of Lands at New XJlm, Minn- Philip H. Emerson, Associate Justioe of the Supreme Court of Utah. Honrv Fislc, United States Marshal for the Eastern ItiKtrict of Michigan. Thomas L. James, Postmaster at New York. J&mes M. Wilkinson, Receiver ot Public Moneys at Marquette, Mich. Jesse Hildrup, United States Marshal for the Northern District of Illinois. Orlando H. Merwin, Postmaster at Evanston, Thomas Jernegan, Surveyor of Customs at Michigan City, Ind. M- J. Waldixm, Marshal for the Western Dis­ trict of Tennessee. George F. Diek, Postmaster at Bloomington, EL . S. H. Evans, Marshal for the Eastern District of T6QB6H866< Michael Piggott, Postmaster at Qiiincv, 111. Edward Russell, Postmaster at Davenport, Iowa. crai SERVICE REFORM. .......... SBCKETABT MCCRAKY has issued the following circular in regard to Removals, promotions, etc. in the War Department: " The civil em­ ployes now in the service of the United States nnder the War Department are hereby in­ formed that hereafter removals will be made in this department for cause only, and promo­ tions will be ordered upon the sole ground of merit. Every official must understand that retention and advancement in the service will depend upon a record of good behavior and efficiency and not upon external influence. No political test is required bej'ond an earnest skipport of the constitation and its amendments : and a proper respect for the rights of citizens guaranteed the Union Pacific with|the Jbeart of the Black Hills gold region. HON. ALBERT HAINES, a member/of theJOhio Senate from Preble oonnty, met his death acci­ dentally by falling down a stairway at his boarding-house in Columbus, Ohio, last week. A BOLD robbery was perpetrated at Indian­ apolis, one day last week. A thief entered the Indiana National Bank at midday, when most of the employes were absent, placed a small urv-g<KKi* bo* upon the floor, stood upon it. and, deliberately reaching over the counter to the money table, grabbed several piles of bills, amounting to $2S.700. Six officers and em­ ployes of the bank were in the room at the time, but they were in the rear, and, although seeing the man, appeared to be dazed by the boldness of his operations. The porter jumped over the counter and pursued the thief, but in the confusion he darted up a rear stairway and disappeared in an alley, and up to last accounts had not been arrested. WASHINGTON. MR PWCHBACK, in an interview with the President, is quoted by a Washington corre­ spondent as having said that justice to whites and mercy to blacks alike protested against the recognition of the Packard Government. The President is said to have replied that he would soon open a clear way to peace in Louisiana and contentment to the people of that State The Secretary of the Treasury has just issued the forty-third call for $10,000,000 of 6 per cent, bonds to be redeemed or funded in the per cents. The frequency of these calls and the rapidity with which the funding process goes forward is a gratifying evidence of the popularity of United States Government securi­ ties as a channel for the investment of European capital Secretary of the Interior Schurz has notified all heads of bureaus of the Interior Department that during his adminis­ tration of its affairs there will be no removals of clerks or other employes, except "for cause," and no promotions, except " for merit." It will, therefore, be useless for persons to file papers soliciting clerical appointments or promotion on mere­ ly personal or political grounds Secretary of State Evarts, in an informal con versation the other day with Lorenz Brentano, of Chicago, made a • declaration which will be received with great satisfaction by the entire German-American population. He staled that it would not be the policy of .the State Department hereafter to refuse to appoint naturalized Ger­ man citizens, or foreign-born citizens of any kind as diplomatic and consular officers to the country of their birth. Such a policy was adopted by Secretary Fish in 1873, and has given immeasurable dissatisfac­ tion to naturalized citizens. Mr. Evarts says he will not follow Mr. Fish's policy, but will treat all American citizens alike, irrespective of the place of their birth... .Secretary of the Navy Thompson has notified all the bureau officers that no contracts are to be signed here­ after without his approval; and that meetings thereby, industry and faithfulness in the dis- \ Gf bureau officials will be held regularly two charge of duty, a good moral character, and strictly temperate habits will be required and enforced, and heads of bureaus will report promptly any case of idleness, neglect of duty, incapacity, drunkenness, or any immoral or dishonest conduct. In case of vacancy, report thereof will be made, accompanied by a list of all the most reliable and efficient clerks in the same office, division, or bureau, from which fist the vacancy shall be filled." or three times a week, at which all matters per taining to the service are to be presented for decision. WASHINGTON dispatches inform us that se­ rious charges of frauds upon the treasury have been brought against certain officials in that department. Their plan of proceeding seems to have been this : The Treasury Department would purchase a quantity of registered bonds on the market and place them in the Treasury Department. They then belonged to the Government. Assistant Treasurer Charles F. Conant, Daniel Baker, and Mr. Bigelow, clerks, were cognizant of these transac- I tions, and formed a ring to profit bv them. Mcgruder, at Benning's Station near Washing- They took the number of the bonds and the ton city, was burned the other day, and Ebene- | names in which they were registered, and fur THE EAST. ^ THE Medical College of Pennsylvania has just conferred the degree of Doctor of Medi­ cine on fifteen women The store of Fielder zer Large and his son John, who slept in the building, were burned. There is but little doubt that both of the men were murdered, the store robbed, and then set on fire. PETER B. SWEENEY, whose name was asso­ ciated with Boss Tweed in the great ring swin­ dles, and who has been an exile fori the past five years, has returned to New York city. He has not been taken into custody, because it was arranged with the Attorney General that if he would return and be present at the trial against him, all proceedings, civil and criminal, so far as arresting him, should be suspended during the trial and for thirty days afterward Thomas W. Thompson, ofWestfleld. N. Y., has been arrested and held for trial on a charge of using the mails to fraudulently obtain money from relatives of deceased parties of the late Ashtabula disaster, his modus operandi being to write to relatives of deceased friends stating he had in his possession certain articles belong­ ing t« deceased, and upon receipt of stipulated sums would forward the articles named, signing his name " Victor Bennett." The prisoner of­ fered no defense, pleading guilty to thp charge. Ex-Gov. EMOBY WASHBURN, of Massachusetts, is dead The Red Star Line steamer Rusland, from Antwerp for New York, went ashore on the New Jersey coast, at Long Branch, one night last week. By the heroic exertions of the life-saving crew stationed there, all the passengers and crew were rescued A fire at Pittsburgh, last week, destroyed the boiler works of D. W. C. Carroll & Co. Loss, $175,000. THE WEST. A coxpuujoRY educational law passed the Ohio Legislature and received the signature of the Governor The Colorado Legislature has abolished the grand-jury system in that State, providing in lieu thereof that the Judge of the County Court and two Justices of the Peace of i the county shall tnt as a com! of indictment to I hear testimony on both sides of any case j brought before them. In indictments under j the grahd-jury system, the testimony of the prosecution only is received. j Six Chinamen, employed in clearing land near Chico, Butte county, CaL, were attacked in their cabin by a band of whites. Three were shot dead, and a fourth died soon after, the fifth being beyond hope of recovery. The sixth, who was slightly wounded, escaped by feigning death Stephen S. Jones, editor of the ReUgio-Philpgophical Journal, the organ of the Spiritualists in Chicago, was recently shot and killed by Prof. William C. Pike, a phrenologist of that city. A woman (Pike's wife) was at the bottom of the trouble. CONGRESSMAN CHARLES H. MOROAN. of the Sixth District of Missouri, was married a few days ago, at Oshkosh, Wis., to Miss Clara Wash- bnme, a daughter of Judge Washburn, of that city....Harrison B.Nichols, of Denver, Col., a railroad man well-known in connection with Western mining interests, was run oyer and killed by a runaway team, in the streets of Council Bluffs, Iowa, a few days ago. De­ ceased leaves property valned at $200,000 The boiler in Hunter Brothers, saw-mill, at Washington, Ind., exploded the other dav in­ stantly killing two of the Hunter brothers, two brothers named Bender, and one, name un­ known. Several others were dangerously wounded. THE recent massacre of c party of inoffen­ sive Chinese at Chico, CaL, brief mention of ufaich was made in these columns, has been productive of a vast deal of excitement therea­ bouts. The citizens of the town have received threatening letters from anonymous rushed these to a New York speculator named William Howe, who prepared bogus powers of attorney and collected the accrued interest from the department, after sharing it with Conant, Bigelow and Baker An old man named Springer, the sixth insane person who has gone to Washington to be inaugurated President, has just been Committed to the lunatic asylum. IT is given out in Washington that an extra session of Congress will be convened about the middle of May Chief Justice Cartter has kicked the mule case against Gen. Bristow out of his court Clerk Adams says that, con­ ceding Republicans all they really claim, there will be a Democratic majority on the roll of the next House of three. A WASHINGTON dispatch says: " The Repub licans claim with great confidence that they will be able to organize the next House and make Foster, of Ohio, Speaker. This, they say, is part of the agreement made with the Southern members, who are willing to sacrifice everything to secure their State Governments. .. . J. W. Marshall, First Assistant Postmaster General, has been appointed Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service, with headquarters in Washington. THE President has completed the commission for the purpose of investigating the ravages of grasshoppers in the Western States. It consists of Prof. C. V. Riley, State Entomologist or Missouri; Prof. Cyrus Thomas, State Entomolo­ gist of Illinois, and Prof. A. S. Packard, of Salem, Mass. The commission is spoken ot by those interested in its work as an exceedingly able body. SEVERAL Cabinet meetings were held last week, the greater portion of the time of each being devoted to the consideration of the Louisiana question. After discussing the ques­ tion in all its bearings, and considering all the information that has been furnished the President by the agents of the Governors relative thereto, it was finally concluded to send a commission to New Orleans, and to await its report before disturbing the pres­ ent status of affairs there. It is reported that there was some difference of opinion as to the wisdom of immediately ordering the United States troops away from the viciuitv of the State House in New Orleans, although there was none as to the general details of the President's policy, and, after a full consultation and a vote;, in which Messrs Evarts. Kchnrz and Key favored the immediate withdrawal of troops, it was the unanimous opinion that the commission plan was the best Justice Clif­ ford says he has no intention of resigning his position on the bench of the Supreme Court. THE SOUTH. Gov. CHAMBERLAIN, of South Carolina, tele­ graphs to President Hayes : "In view of the telegraphic reports, I consider it proper to state that the proposition for a new election here is whollv new to me. So far as I know, no one here has ever proposed or considered such a plan." The steamer Gov. Garland was re­ cently burned on the Arkansas river. One cabin and three deck passengers and all the books and cargo lost. THE Republican State Central Committee of New Orleans has expelled P. B. S. Pinchback from the organization Ex-Gov. Wannoth, of Louisiana, has submitted to the President a plan for settling the internal troubles of that unhappy State. He suggests that the mem­ bers of the Legislature whose seats are not con­ tested meet and pass upon the contested ones, | irrespective of all Returning Board figures, j Then, after the result shall have been made sources ordering them to discharge their Chinese help or •offer the conseqences and officers have been - known, let the completed Legislature in joint warned thatdeath will be their porhonif they I convention canvass the returns for State of- attempt to discover who killed the Chinamen. | ticers. Whoever shall be counted in bv this Rewards aggregating $3,500 have been Offered for the arrest of the assassins. Altogether it is a very ugly affair, and has created a general sensation all over the Pacific coast country DAILY mails will soon be sent to the Black Hills. Postmasters have been regularly com- missioned at Dead wood and Custer, and as Boon •8 the roads are passable the service will begin. ..William Hayes, a prominent lawyer of San Francisco, entered the room of the man­ aging editor of the Alia California, Gen. John McComb, and demanded a re­ traction of an article published in the Alia, threatening in case of a refusal to shoot him. McComb knocked him down, chastised him se­ verely.. took away his pistol, and took him to the station-house, where a charge of assault procedure let him be proclaimed the lawful oc­ cupant of the office for which he was a can­ didate. ADAM JOHNSON, Nelson Brown, Lucius Thomas and John Henry Dennis, all colored, were recently executed for murder at Aiken, S 8. Steve Anderson was to have been hung at the same time, but was respited for thirty Q&yn. * A POINT of some importance in the legal con­ test for the Governorship of South Carolina has been gained by Hampton in a decision of the Charleston Circuit Court, releasing a pris­ oner held on the warrant of one of Chamber- lam s magistrates. The court held that Hamp­ ton was lawfully elected Governor in Novem- *lth a deadly weapon wasentered against Uhn. her, and that Chamberlain has no legal claim ... .Arrangements have been made for the nn- to the office. The .Wiwi J ^2 .Arrangements nadiate survey of a railroad route connecting .Th e decision places the most important judicial district in the State, with all its official machinery, in the hands of the Hamptonites. GENERAL. JAMES KIXOAX, the crooked NEW York pro­ duce speculator, who recently fled from the city after swindling everybody with whom he had dealings, was found dead the other day, on the track of the Inter-Colonial railway, in New Brunswick. One the6ry is that he was murdered for the money which he carried; another, that he was laboring under mental aberration and committed suicide. Eight thousand dollars was found in The pistol-pocket of the dead man A plan for the adjustment of the Southern State debts has been matured by the commit­ tee appointed for that purpose some time ago by the capitalists of New York. The plan recommended has reference to the Tennessee debt--the New York committee having had a conference with the committee appointed by the Tennessee Legislature--and contemplates the issue of new bonds at the rate of 60 per cent, of the aggregate amount of the principal and unpaid interest ijp to Jul^ 1877, the new bonds to be payable m thirty years, and bear interest at the rate of 6 per cent, payable semi-annually in New York--the interest-coupons to be receiva­ ble for all taxes due to the State of Tennessee. An express robbery was committed at Pitts­ burgh, Pa., the other evening, which for ingenuity and audacity, has rarely been surpassed in the annals of criminal exploits. In this case the telegraph took the place of the revolver, and electricity served instead of bloodshed. The telegraph wire was tapped outside the city, and, by tlie aid of a pocket instrument, two bogus messages were sent, by which the express messenger turned over his car to the thief under what he had every reason to suppose were genuine in­ structions to that effect from the General Su­ perintendent at Pittsburgh. The clever rascals who managed the job realized about #4,000 for their pains, and the Express Company are won­ dering what new and unsuspected plan of rob* bery will next be attempted. COMMERCIAL failures: Garth W. James, bridge-builder, Milwaukee, liabilities, $75,000 ; Haskell <t Brown, produce, Montreal, $175,000; J. H. Hoffmeicr, groceries, Cornwall, Ont., $40,000 ; Oliver Bourke, liquors, Detroit; H. J. Tiffin, general dealer in staple articles, Mon­ treal, $150,000; the First National Bank, Al- lentown, Pa.; Capt. Eber Ward, a large vessel owner, Detroit, liabilities heavy Fires: At Athens, Ohio : loss $30,000 ; Par- kersburg, Iowa, $10,000; Boston, Mass., $30,- 000 ; Lebanon, Tenn., $30,000... .The American schooner Montana was recently detained by a customs officer at the Mexican port of Mazatlan, and the Secretory of the United States Navy now sends a sliip-of-war to the offending quar­ ter to ascertain the facts. POLITICAL. THE Republican members of the Ohio Legis­ lature met in caucus on the 15th inst., for the purpose of nominating a candidate for United States Senator. The first ballot resulted: Stanley Matthews, 29; W. P. Howlajid, 30: Alphonso Taft, 7; Samuel Shellabarger, 7; William Lawrence, 8. On the third ballot Mr. Matthews received 43 votes, three more than necessary, and was declared the nominee.' A WASHINGTON dispatch says: "Senator Morton, after mature consideration, has recon­ sidered his first determination, and now de­ cides not to accept the Chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign Relations, but to retain the Chairmanship of the Elections Committee. This is the second time that Morton has de­ clined the Chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs Committee, which has generally been consid­ ered the most distinguished position in the Senate. The previous time was when Sumner was removed, The entire Republican State ticket is elected in New Hampshire by an aver­ age majority of 3,000. The Congressional delegation stands two Republicans and one Democrat. J DDOE M. W. GIBBB, of Arkansas, a promi­ nent colored politician, in a conversation with the President, the other day, remarked tha the nomination of Mr. Key as Postmaster Gen­ eral had excited some alarm among the colored people, but it was offset by the nomination of Mr. Douglass, and he assured the President that the colored people intended to support him in his measures of reconciliation. Judge Gibbs says the President remarked in reply that he was sincere in his policy, and would adhere to it unless it should prove impracticable. For eight years the policy of force and musket had been tried in the South, but had failed, and public sentiment now demanded a change. IN a letter to Senator Merrimon, of North Carolina, Postmaster General Key says that, in making his appointments to offices within his gift in the Postoffice Department, he shall al­ ways give Republicans the preference, if suitable men are recommended whose selec­ tion will be satisfactory to the people most con­ cerned, but otherwise he shall appoint Demo­ crats. .. .Wade Hampton has given a guarantee to the President that if the United States troops are withdrawn from South Carolina he will Eroceed against Chamberlain by process of iw, and that no violence whatever will take place. THE Ohio Legislature, on the 20th of March, elected Hon. Stanley Matthews United States Senator. The Democratic members made no nomination, and generally voted blank Mr. Washburne expects to retain the French mis­ sion. He will return to Paris in April J. Don Cameron has been elected to the United States Senate from Pennsylvania, in place of his father, Simon Cameron, resigned. FOREIGN. THE news from the Mexican capital is to the effect that "the Senate has been ignored by the Provisional Government, who have declared that the law creating the Senate was forced by Lerdo appointing his friends. Diaz, however, promises to observe the constitution when not too inconvenient. United States Minister Fos­ ter recognizes Diaz as President de facto, but will not formally recognize him as Pres­ ident de jure until after the meeting of Congress and his inauguration." A Constantinople dispatch of the 16th inst. says : " Great agitation prevails. The recall of Midhat Pasha and war with Russia seem dominant among the confused demands of the populace. Grave complications are appre­ hended.". .. .A Berlin dispatch announces that the Sultan has proclaimed a general amnesty in Bulgaria... .The English answer to Russia's proposals is expected to occasion further nego­ tiations of a friendly and pacificatory char­ acter. THE French Government has finally obtained permission from the House of Deputies to pros­ ecute Paul Cassagnac, the editorial bully and professional duelist. Cassagnac, himself a member, took part in the debate on the subject. A LONDON dispatch says Russian negotiations with England have been virtually settled. Lord Derby's alterations of the protocol have been approved by Count Schouvaloff, the Russian Ambassador, and the Russian Government has asswited to the revised protocol. .. A formida­ ble insurrection has broken out in Japan. It is headed bv Saigo, a Marshal of the imperial axinv... The Dominion House of Commons has voted down a proposition to afford more protection to Canadian products by means of tariff duties. J A CABLE dispatch announces a six hours' bat­ tle between Turks and Bosnians near Bona- venture, in which both sides suffered severely. .. . Advices from India report a large decrease in the number of natives employed on the pub­ lic works in Bombay and Madras--an indication that the pressure of famine is abating The speech <>f the Sultan at the opening of the, Turkish Parliament is largely devoted to a weak apology for the present deplorable condition of the Ottoman empire, coupled with the custom­ ary promises to do better m the future. SEVERAL highly distinguished European offi­ cers, who have long been investigating the strength of the Turkish army, state that the official estimates are vastly exaggerated. The Turks only have on the Danube frontier and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 16it.0(K> men, with, what seems hardly credible, 225 cannon. This force they ane preparing to strengthen with a reserve of 25,000 men. They have, on the Asi­ atic frontier, about 75,000 men and 120 cannon. Altogether then- army numbers 250,000. TH E state of the Pope's health is a matter of anxious solicitude to the European Govern­ ments, and foreign Ministers to the Vatican have been notified to report fully and fre­ quently concerning the physical condition of Pius IX. The venerable pontiff will be 85 years old on the 13th of May next The news from Montenegro is of a warlike charac­ ter. Prince Nicholas refuses to surrender the territory gained from him by conquest, and has appealed to the European powers to sustain him Serious labor riots are reported in Berlin . . .The London JVews' Berlin correspondent, commenting upon the fact that the German Parliament, by the de­ cisive majority of 71, had favored Leipsic as the seat of the imperial law court, says this is the severest blow yet dealt at Prussia, and the work of centralization and consolidation. Extra Session of the Senate. THURSDAY, March 15.--Provision was made for printing the volume containing the proceedings of the Electoral Commission and the two houses of Congress relating thereto, and the. matter of investi­ gating the charges against Senator Grover was laid over till to-morrow, after which the Senate went into executive session In executive session the-Senate confirmed George 8. Boutwell, Commissioner for the purpose of preparing and publishing a new edition of the first volume of Re­ vised Statutes ; Registers of Land Offices, John 8. Owens, Taylor's Falls, Minn., and Charles B. Tyler, New Ulm ; Surveyer of Customs, Reuben H. Stephenson. Cincinnati. FRIDAY, March 16.--The Senate received a message from the President, saying he had no fur­ ther communication to make at this session. Ac­ companying the message were about 100 nomina­ tions, mostly for minor offices. Without transact­ ing any business the Senate went into executive ses­ sion, and soon after adjourned. SATURDAY, March 17.--After a long discus­ sion, by a vote of yeas 39, nays 8, the resolution was agreed to authorizing a sub-committee of three •at the Committee on Privileges and Elections to visit Oregon during the recess, if they deem it expedient, and examine the charges against Senator Grover, of that State.... It was agreed to print 10,000 extra copies of the Monetary Commission report.... The Committees on Printing and to control the contingent expenses of the Senate were authorized to sit during the re­ cess The thanks of the Senate were voted to Vice President Wheeler, who resi>ouded briefly, at the close of which he declared the Senate adjourned without day In executive session Frederick Douglass was confirmed as Marshal of the District of Columbia by a vote of 30 to 12... Before the final adjournment, Mr. Morton formally declined the Chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign Re­ lations, and Mr. Hamlin was assigned to the posi­ tion. Mr. Ferry was made Chairman of the Poeta Committee. Simon Cameron. Senator Cameron is the oldest member of the Senate, having just completed his 78tli year. His service in the body long antedates that of any other Senator, but has not been continuous. He was first" elected in 1845 to serve out the unex­ pired term of James Buchanan, who re­ signed to go into President Polk's Cab­ inet as Secretary of State. It was not until sixteen years after that the Sena­ tors next longest in service--Messrs. Howe and Hamfin--entered the chamber. Mr. Cameron was a Democrat during his first term, but had decided tendencies against slavery. After four years in the Senate he returned to his business, not having been re-elected. He was one of the fathers of the Republican party, at­ tending its first national convention and' running as one of the Fremont electors in 1856. In 1857 he was again elected to the Senate, capturing three Demo­ cratic votes, and defeating John W. For­ ney, who was President Buchanan's can­ didate. At the Chicago Convention of 1860 he was one of the prominent candi­ dates for the Presidency, and might per­ haps have been nominated if it had not been for the active though secret hostil­ ity of Gov. Curtin. Mr. Cameron never forgave Gov. Curtin for what he called an act of treachery. He resigned the Senatorship in 1861 to go into President Lincoln's Cabinet as Secretary of War, from which position he soon resigned to take the Russian mission. He remained only a short time abroad, and on return­ ing resumed the control of his party in Pennsylvania, and was a third time elected to the Senate, taking his seat in 1867. In 1872 he was re-elected. Old as he is, the retiring Senator is still vig­ orous, physically and intellectually, and it would not be surprising if he should again appear in public life. He has lost nothing of his wonderful skill in poli­ tics, and his control of the Republican party in Pennsylvania seems to be as ab­ solute as ever.--New York Tribune. Butter, Eggs and Cheese Product. The following statistics of the export of butter from this country were read at the Butter and Egg Convention in Chi­ cago : Packages of butter received in New York up to Dec. 31, 1876, 1,295,- 571, against 1,138,287 in 1875 ; boxes of cheese so received, 2,152,007, against 2,322,015 in 1875 ; barrels of eggs like­ wise received, 510,000, against 635,000 the previous year. Butter exported from New York, 10,791,700 pounds, against 4,335,800 in 1875 ; cheese, 93,- 025,806, against 91,992,200 in 1875; eggs, none. Exports from all ports, for the year ending June 30, 1876---butter, 4,644,894 pounds, valued at $1,109,496 ; cheese, 97,676,264 pounds, w;orth $12,- 270,083; eggs, 29,633 dozen, worth $8,300 ; total value, $13,387,879--reduc­ tion of $1,787,463 from 1874-75. Value of condensed milk exported in 1875-76, $118,549, against $123,565 in 1874-75. Total exports from all countries, except the United States, for the year ending June 30, 1876: Butter, pounds, 4,644,- 894--value, $1,109,496 ; cheese, 97,676,- 264--value, $12,270,683. St. Louis Oratory. A medal was presented to Mr. John McCullough, the tragedian, a few days ago, on the stage of a St. Louis theater, after his acting of King Lear. Col. Normile, a lawyer, was the spokesman, and his speech was a marvel. We make an extract: "A few lovers of the mighty priest that sleeps by the waters of the Avon are gathered here to commune with that awful shade you have evoked as by the weird power of the magician. Tossed in the tempest of impetuous grief, we have seen the dethroned and wandering spirit of Lear torn from its moorings and set adrift on the stormy ocean of emo­ tional madness. It is the grandest, yet saddest, character ever told in human story. High above the CEdipus of the Greeks, it soars in poetic splendor until, proudly seated on Parnassian heights, it remains the highest prize of the histri­ onic profession." NEAR the Ocklawaha river, thirty miles from Palatka, Fla., is a round basin sixty feet in diameter, and from ten to fifty feet deep, in the piney woods. Its waters are strongly impregnated with sulphur, and gush forth in great volumes^s trans­ parent as air. ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE. THURSDAY, March 15.--SENATE.--Mr. Moder- well introduced a resolution, instructing the Sergeant-at-Arms to bring before the Senate the correspondents of the Inter-Ocean, Tribune, and Springfield Journal, that they may show cause why they should not be deemed in contempt of the Sen­ ate "for secreting themselves and reporting the pro­ ceedings of a secret session The Senate then took up the bill fixing salaries of Railroad and Ware­ house Commissioners. The bill was amended, ft*>ng the name at $2,000, and the Secre­ tary the same price, and ordered to third reading. HOUSB.--Consideration of bill to change the sal­ aries of the Railroad Commissioners was resumed. The bill of Mr. Memtt, offered as a substitute, pro­ posing to substitute for the present board the Gov­ ernor, Auditor, and Secretary of State, was ruled out of order as not germane. A motion to table the original bill was then made by Mr. Herring- ton, and lost--ayes, 45; nays, 86. Mr. Hcrrington desired to offer a resolution in­ structing the Committee on Judiciary to report a bill abolishing the Board of Commissioners, for the purpose of testing the question of the propriety of •o doing in the opinion of the House, and moved that the vote ordering the bill to a third reading be reconsidered, which was laid on the table--ayes, 82; noes, 44... Several bills were ordered to a third eading, but none passed. FBIDAY, March 16.--SENATE.--The session of the Senate was occupied In the discussion of the question of taxation, indulged in by Messrs. Castle and Whiting. The following by Mr. Whiting was adopted : " WhereaB, A large number of the coun­ ties, towns, cities, and villages of this State are in­ volved in large debts, aggregating nearly $40,000,000, on which they pay a high rate of interest, thereby creating a grie vous burden on themselves, and an indirect damage to the public interest; and, Whereas, It is believed that most of this local debt can be funded and replaced by long-time State bonds, bearing a low rate of interest, thereby saving to the people of the State about ,500,000 annually, greatly .to the relief of localities, promoting the general good, and, if paid by those owing, without injustice to any; therefore, Rc- k<lived, That any constitutional amendment and law involving this question must contain as a funda­ mental condition that the several localities must pay their own debts, and that the State consents to be manager on the express condition that she will ex­ ercise the power to enforce payments in full from the several localities seeking this relief. Senators Jerome, Marshall, and Bonfield were ap­ pointed a committee to confer with thfc House com­ mittee in regard to the propriety of establishing a uniform system of school books. The House com­ mittee on this subject are Smith, of Sangamon; Wentworth, Heslet, Bartholow, and Woodward. HOUSE.--The bill providing for the refunding and registration of municipal indebtedness was ordered to a third reading The resolution of Mr. Mat­ thews, providing for submitting an amendment to the constitution authorizing the construction of drains, levees and ditches bj assessing cost upon the property benefited, was taken up, and after discussion made the special order for Tuesday next The bill amending section 193 of the Revenue law, in regard to judgments for delinquent taxes, passed--yeas, 110 ; nays, none The bill revising and amending the School law was taken up. Mr Bartholow offered an amendment providing that State certificates to teachers should only be valid five years; which was adopted. The bill is quite lengthy, and various amendments were proposed and adopted to several sections. The chief point of attack was section 13; which provides that County Superintendents shall be elected by the County Boards instead of by the people. This is the leading and distinctive feature wherein this bill differs radically from the old law. SATUBDAY, March 17.--SENATE.--Not in ses­ sion. HOUSE.--The bill relating to deserted wives by worthless husbands was passed to a second reading. It provides that when a husband deserts his wife without good cause he shall be subject to a fine of $500 and imprisonment for a period of from one to ten years.... A bill providing for the pun­ ishment of pawnbrokers who extort a greater rate of interest than 2 per cent, a month, and imposing a proper number of penalties upon the Hebrews, was passed to a second reading. Mr. Pinney introduced a resolution requiring an investigation as to the amount of salary paid to the Canal Commissioners A number of compara­ tively unimportant resolutions and some few new bills were introduced, and, it being apparent that there were npt enough present to transact any busi­ ness, the House soon adjourned. MONDAY, March 19.--SENATE.--Not in ses­ sion. HOUSE.--A resolution was offered directing the Secretary of State to fit up the art gallery In the new State House for the reception of trophies, col­ ors, etc., in Adjutant General's office Mr. Sexton introduced a bill amending Revenue law so as to deduct amount of mortgages in assess­ ing property for taxation Mr. Winter in­ troduced a bill to prevent and punish ex­ tortion by sleeping-car companies. The bill is substantially the same as the present railroad restriction laws, except that it applies to sleeping-car corporations instead Mr. Wentworth reported a resolution from the Committee on Com­ merce asking Congress to establish a lighthouse at Stannard rock, Lake Superior. This is in accordance with a request from the Governor of Michigan Mr. Granger's bill, providing that the money and clothing required by la w to be f urnished to discharged convicts shall be paid from the State treasury, in­ stead of the penitentiary fund, was killed Mr. Sherman's bill, appropriating '2 per cent, of the receipts of fire insurance companies in cities to the support of a fire patrol, was amended by striking out the provision by which it applied to other cities than Chicago, and also leaving it optional with the City Council to deduct the same from the tax levied. Mr. Hop kins' bill providing for winding up, by quo warranto, any stock yard or other corporation which shall exact extortionate eharges, was ordered to a third reading. TUESDAY, March 20.--SENATE.--Mr. Harold presented the petition of several hundred citizens of McLean county asking that Gen. McNulta be re­ tained as a Trustee of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home. The bill to appropriate money to purchase statues of Lincoln and Douglas was reported with amendments.... The bill to abolish the county of Pulaski was reported favorably.... Mr. Hoener in­ troduced a bill compelling railroad companies to build shelters at every town their trains uaually stop. HOUSE.--Mr. Truesdell introduced a bill appro­ priating $2,000 to defray the expenses of prosecut­ ing the Lincoln tomb robbers The Matthews amendments to the constitution in regard to con­ struction of drains, ditches and levees was taken up, and the Senate amendments concurred in. So that it will now be submitted to the people at the next general election.... Mr. Taylor, of Cook, intro­ duced a bill to legalize the mctric system of weights and measures The following bills were passed : An act regulating the renting and sale of school lands; an act to prevent and punish wrongs to chil­ dren; an act to amend section 15 of an act entitled " An act providing for the health and safety of per­ sons employed in coal minesin regard to the labor of convicts. WEDNESDAY, March 21.--SENATE.--The Sen­ ate considered and adopted a resolution requesting the Governor to re-appoint the persons rejected by the Senate last week, for officers of the State institu­ tions, as follows: Jacksonville Insane Hospital--W. H Ellis Daniel R. Ballon. Deaf and Dumb Asylum --S R Capps, Mclvin A. Cushing. Blind Asylum- John Mathers. Feeble-minded--C. R. Cummings, A. B. Nicholson. Eye and Ear Infirmary--Daniel Goodwin. Southern Insane--C. Kirkpatrick. South­ ern Normal--Thos. S. Uidgway. Elgin Insane--C. W Marsh. Public Charities--J. C. Carbus. Indus­ trial University--W. C. Flagg. Soldiers'Orphans' Home--John McNulta.... A resolution to reduce the employes of the Senate was defeated. HOUSE.--The Anthony-Adams Back-Tax bill was read a second time, and several amendments per­ fecting the bill, and offered by the Revenue Com­ mittee, were adopted, and ordered to a third read­ me House bill 251, providing for payment of money and clothing advanced to discharged con­ victs out of the Stat! treusury, which was defeated a day or two since, was called up on a motion to reconsider the vote by which the enacting nlause was stricken out. The House refused to reconsider .. .House bill 211, for an act to amend chanter 80 of the Revised Statutes of 1874, entitled '• Landlord and tenant," was read the third time and passed-yeas, 82 ; nays, 36... .The entire afternoon was spent in the argument upon the Compulsory Education bill. A large number of Hp<#ches were made Among those who favored the bill were Messrs Albright, Thomas, Wentworth, Fosbender, and others. Messrs. Hopkins, Sexton, Washburn, Smith of Cook, Merritt, Watkins, and Hcrron op­ posed. The previous question was moved, and the bill lost--yeas 66 naj», 63. population of the Black llills. A correspondent of the Sidney Tele­ graph estimates the population of the different towns in the Black Hills as fol­ lows : Deiulwood, 2,500; Gayville, 1,000; Sotitli Bend, 500; Washington City, 250 ; Lead City, 250; Golden Gate, 300 ; False Bottom,*200 ; Montana City, 200 ; Crook City, 400 ; Spearfisli, 200 ; Custer City, 500 ; El Dorado, 100 ; Rap­ id City, 150 ; total, 6,550. From trustworthy sources it is esti­ mated than an emigration of at least 30,- 000 persons will take place the coming season, so that at the end of 1877 the Black Hills will have a population of from 20,000 to 3,0000 inhabitants. With this population it is expected that a large amount of capital will be brought in, and an increased and highly productive business insured--San Francisco Call. COMMERCIAL NOTES. A FIKH in Newbnrgh, N. Y., is ship­ ping lawn-mowers to England and Ger­ many. The orders are laxgObw AUSTRALIA imported rabbite to keep down the weeds. She is nqjiw/ importing weazels to keep down the rabbits. THE French say that their * commerce sprang up from 5,800,000,000 francs to 7,700,000,000 in consequence s>f the Ex­ position of 1867. A FITTSFIELD manufacturer is sending- carriage rugs and bankets to South America, Norway and Swecfeh, .and is- enlarging his mill, as a result of the Ex­ hibition. No PORT so small now as not to be able to trade with Brazil direct. Richmond, Ya,, has just dispatched two brigs to> Brazil loaded with .flour, petroleum, and clothing. THE London Times says tiiat " the supply of provisions from America can be poured unceasingly into this country without danger of exceeding the ever­ growing demand." , ? GERMANY'S resolution is unshaken not to go into the Exposition of 1878. As the Director General will not recognize pri­ vate exhibitors, and Germany refuses, to appoint the Commissioner through whom the exhibitors must apply, the non- participation - of theA Germans seems a fixed fact. \ THE smaller cotton ports did better this year than New Orleans. The total receipts since Sept. 1 were 8,407,924 bales, against 3,295,251 last /ear; but New Orleans received 961,169 bales, as. compared with L059,892 last year. Nor­ folk, Mobile, raid Galvestorf show a handsome increase. Charleston and Sa­ vannah exported less. A VESSEL has just sailed frgfti Phila­ delphia for Italian ports laden with samples of American goods of all de­ scriptions. A special agent will distrib- bute them throughout the kingdom with the view of obtaining orders in compe­ tition with European manufacturers. Philadelphia is manifesting a great deal of the commercial spirit which insures the prosperity of a seaboard com­ munity. J THE Department of Agriculture reports- that the corn crop of this year, will reach about 1,295,000,000 bushels.- Illinois heads the list of States with 250,000,000 bushels. Next in rank are Iowa (155,- 000,000), Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Kansas. The price of corn is highest in Massachusetts (95 cents) and lowest in Kansas (23 cents). The wheat crop of this year will reach nearly 250,000,000- bushels. THE wonderful stories that were told early last year as to how .cheaply a valu­ able quality of pig iron coirid be manu­ factured in the State of Ohio have been realized by the work of the season. The metal is produced at a cost of. only $12- or $13 a ton. They have the iron, lime­ stone, and coal sometimes on the same land, and always near together. Ordi­ narily the same grade of metal has cost from $17 to $23 to produce. Cheap iron is assured to the United States. THE report of the Auditor of Cincin­ nati for the year ending Jan. 1, 1877, states the total bonded debt of that city at $21,901,327.45. Of this $15,604,000 are railroad debts, $14,542,000 of it for the Cincinnati Southern railway. The tax­ able valuation of the city Jan. 1, 1876, was $184,498,565. The income of the city for the year ending Jan. 1, 1876, was $785,000, and of this $311,000 was pro­ cured by the sale of city bonds. It is said that since the Auditor's report came out the issue of bonds for the Cincinnati Southern has been increased to $17,- 342,000. A Returning Board. Pettengill says that the first " return­ ing board " of which he has any recollec­ tion was a shingle in the hands of his- father. The three--father, son and shingle- -used to hold frequent commit- tee;i.ieetings in the back alied, but the returns came in so swiftly"that a fair count was impracticable. THE MARKETS. NEW YORE. BEEVES P 00 @12 00 HOGS 6 75 6 25 COTTON LLJTF 11 %. FLOOII--Superfine Western 560 580 AVHEAT--No. 2 Chicago 1 46 1 41 CORN--Western Mixed 555ti>i OATS--Western Mixed 38 45 RYE--Western 80 82 PORK--New Mess * 14 75 15 00 LARD--Steam 9^ 10 CHICAGO. BKKVES--Choice Oraded Steers 5 40 0 5 60 Choice Natives 4 75 5 25 Cows and Heifers 2 75 4 00 Good Second-class Steers.. 4 99 4 25 Medium to Fair 4 30 4 65 HOOB--Live 5 25 5 70 "FLOUR--Fancy White Winter 7 00 8 00 Good to Choice Spring Ex. 6 00 6 25 WHEAT--No. 2 Spring l 24^ 1 25}.; No. 3 Spring 1 14 1 15 CORN--No. 2 39 4<I34 OATS--No. 2 33 34 RTE--No. 2 65 65;.,. BARLEY--No. 2 53 55 " BUTTER--Creamery 31 33 EGGS---Fresh 14 15 PORK--Mess 14 0» 14 25 LABD 9<A 9>C r-«s.i MILWAUKEE. WHKAT--No. 1 X 40 (§ 1 41 No. 2 1 A 1 32 CORN--No. 2 39)$ 40 OATS--No. 2 30 31 RYE 65 66 RAm.ny--No. 2 72 74 8T. LOUIS. WHEAT--NO. 2 Red Fall 1 51 |J 1 52>£ CORN--Western Mixed 36 37 OA*S--NO. 2 32 33 RYE 63 64 PORK--Mew 14 50 14 75 LARD 9^ 9^ HOGR 4 35 5 25 CATTLE 6-50 6 50 CINCINNATI. WHEAT 1 95 @ l 63 CORN 41 43 OATS 35 39 RYE 73 74 PORK--Mess 14 75 1." «» LABD.... io Y, TOLEDO. WHEAT--Extra 1 55 @ 1 *,1% Amber 1 50 1 51>; CORN 43 45 OATS--No. 2 : 34 37 DETROIT. FLOUR--Medium 6 SO @ 7 00 WHEAT--White 1 GO J 57 CORN--No. 2 4R 44; OATS--Mixed .• 39 41 RYE 75 80 PORK--Mess 15 09 15 25 EAST LIBERTY, PA. HOGS--Yorkers 6 20 @ 5 50 Philadelphia** 5 80 6 00 CATTLE--Best 5 75 6 15 Medium 4 50 5 50 S HEJKF 5 5 0 ' O i t