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&: • f, t u. * $::a . . * . 4 J. • • ' • § lalnflcalct 1. VAN SLYKE. Editor and Publisher. '*>' T|KFCHENRY, • ' • • f e j ' L . . - ILLINOIS. ,> . WEEKLY UWS REVIEW. THE E AS* 'Kfcw' Tons dispatches state that the Initiation aroused in the oommunity by the '•oheme to con«olidftt« the Western Union, American Union, and Atlantic and Pacific telegraph Companies ia of the most intense description. The down-town merchants par- iieularlv are in earnest in their deter- tnination not to submit to the imposi­ tion which will be inevitable n order Jo neciire monev enongh to pay dividends im a watered capital of $80,000,000, and many of them expressed their readiness to sub­ scribe toward the construction of a new system ^ of lines, which will be so organizedWrh^hv ' andria, V*.. were visited by grave robbers, who It impossible that it willI e\er ^ a};80rb{ci^ 1 exhum d the body of Mrs. Jacobs, of Washing- any other company....Julius Me. ' Ion, and that of a colored girl. Two negroes fork was fined $2o0 and have been arrested on suspicion... .The mi­ liary for three months forming decL^ . veiling of the Cowpens monument, at Spartan- the manufacture of sausages.. -.Theob^dt j bnfg g c Uko placc on May 11( and the wa* placed on ite pedestal m (^ntnd • • President. Cab inet and Governors of States York, last week. Secretaries Evarts and Cion And Gen. Arthur were in attendance, wav up to the pilot-house, whore Mr. Ban Blake, pecond clerk, and Reveral passengers were talking with the pilot* He drew a re­ volver, held it to Blake's h$ad, shot, and killed him instantly, and then nretl another shot at the pilot, the ball just grazing his forehead, the concussion being sufficient to render him insen­ sible. Marsh was soon secured, but not until his hand was fearfully lacerated in attemptmg to retain possession of the weaponl.... In a rural region of Tennessee, not far from Chattanooga, Henry Yarnell was killed and a man named Howe shot iu the month, by as­ sassins. Two suspected men, named Brooks and Griffey, were arrested on suspicion and conCned in a blacksmith shop, under guard, but during the night both were killed by rifle balls. THE Cincinnati Southern railroad is to be leased for ninety-nine years to a company of home capitalist*, who will agree to pay out of the first profits 4 per cent, on the city's in­ vestment of $18,000,000 A negro woman of Cranston, N. CM gave birth to four babies. THE first grain elevator on the South Atlantic coast has been opened for business at Port Royal, 8. C The cemeteries of Alex- have been invit«d. MOSES TWIGGS was hanged at Waynes­ boro, Ga., while his brother Frank, condemned for the same crime, was respited for thirty i0- beside a large crowd of spectators.... A frightful accident occurred on the Erie rail road near Owego, N. Y. The axle of one of the driving wheels of the looomotive broke, and the entire express train, going at the rate of days... .The car shops of the Jacksonville, Pen- - thirty-live miles an hour, was thrown from the i sacola and Mobile railroad, at Tallahassee, Fla., track The engine kept its feet, and the en- j were destroyed by fire. The loss, was about ineer and fireman escaped uninjured, but the i *35.000 Flames swept away the Young lorra'-u cars were turned over and over. Men's Christian Association building and twelve The postal car caught fire and four mailing J' I? clerks were burned to death. A hole was cut In the door of the express car and the messeo- cer put his head out, but could not extricate • fcis body. The train meu tried to pull him out, but were driven back by the flamee, and they Baw him slowly burn to death. There were fih»p passonger coaches, but none of the pas- aengers sustained any injury A DUTCH emigrant named Boeloft stores at West Poiut, Ga. WASHINGTON* AN important decision of the United States Supreme Court sets forth that Congress exceeded its power in imprisoning Hallett Kil- bourne for refusing to dehver up certain pa­ pers and answer certain questions to the House committee which was investigating the real- estate pools of the District of Columbia... on Baren, who has been living on charity in The President has nomurited Edward C. Bil- Uew Haven, Ct., is said to have fallen heir to I lings, of Louisiana, to the Southern Circuit, an estate valued somewhere from $25,000,000 to $40.000,000. The Mayor of Hamburg is one of tlie bearer* of the glad tidings. The name of the accumulator oi the fortune was Heinrich Spier, and among the items are seventy ships mi) a number of ship-yards. Owing to a fatal Affray with a half-brother, Von Baren dare not return to Holland. SENATOR HALL has mfeodnced, in the made vacant by the promotion of Judge Woods to the Supreme bench According to the treasury records, William H. Vanderbilt owns $50,000,000 Government bonds. SECRETARY SHERMAN has been heard by the Senate Finance Committee on the Funding bill. He took the position that it should be amended so as to make the funding bonds redeemable after five years Pennsylvania Legislature, a bill to declare for-1 and payable in twenty years from date . ! m KUAI* IutnvAuf «+ a mifn nnf feited the telegraph property aiming at con­ solidation in defiance of the provisions of the tttate constitution. • MRS. VALERIA STONE, oi Boston, in distributing the remainder of her husband's •state, has given $5,000 each to colleges at Crete, Neb.; Topeka, Kan.; and Colorado ttprings, Col. Her benefactions amount to .#1,793,292 Catherine Crane, a New York boarding-house keeper, was fatally shot by a printer named William Liadrum, whom she bad ejected A mass of coal and rock, esti­ mated at 2,000 tons, fell in the Empire mines at Wiikesbarre, Pa., burying Morris and Thos. Evans. THE dry-goods store of Rdbert Gor- of issue, ai\d to bear interest at a rate not exceeding 3>£ per cent., the rate to be fixed in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury. He expressed the opinion that the treasury funding certificates proposed by the bill--wtuch he'thought should be described as " treasury notes "--could be floated at 3-per­ cent. interest without change in the Hous s pro­ vision for their redemption ct any time after one year from their respective dates of ksue. THE report of the commission appoint­ ed some weeks ago by the President to inquire into the wrongs of the Ponca Indians reflects very seriously upon the conduct of the Secre­ tary of the Interior. They say that the re­ moval of the Poncas from their lands in Ne­ braska and Dakota was not only most unfortu­ nate for the Indians, entailing great hardship don, at Oswego, N. Y., burned, the estimated j and iogB 0f hfe and prop< rty, hut it was inju loss being $55,090....A six-story building at 865 and 367 Broadway, New York, occupied by several dry goods and importing firms, has been partially burned. Tne losses aggregate about $600,000 Ex-Gov. Sprague has tiled his ci oss-bill in the suit for divorce brought by his wife. He de­ clares that she has committed adultery, hag driven her eldest son out of doors, and per­ sistently squandered his property, embarrass­ ing him in bis efforts to extricate himself trom bis pecuniary straits, as well as persisting in a ooorse of slanderous and obscene language , toward him. [THE WEST. REPORTS from the southern parts of Indiana, Illinois, and contiguous territory, re­ ceived at the Evansville Courier office, state an , jalmost entire failure of the whole crop in the .|l#MWoUous named, owing to late planting and the ~ "%ariy and hard vrinter. a large portion of the wheat land being a mass of ice with the seed frozen out Reports say that not over a. fifth of the crop can be made Under the most favorable circumstances.... Augustus P. Ladew died at Atlanta, I1L, from aa overdose of opium. He was engaged in business with Horace Greeley and Robert Dale Owen, in New York, in 1820, and was a weH- itnown type-founder in St. Louis in later years. He lost his fortune in purchasing the St. Nich­ olas Hotel, at Bioomiiigton, 111. A PARTY of friends of the late James Bowers, of Wortliington, Ohio, undertook to watch over his corpse for a night, and were dicious and without just cause. The Poncas had an unassailable title to the l.tnds in ques­ tion, and had violated none of the condi­ tions upon which it was given them. The commission recommended ttiat Con­ gress pass an act granting to every Ponca 160 acres of land iu Nebraska or Dakota, or in In­ dian Territory, as they may eb ct, in one year, and allowing during ttiat year free intercourse between the two portions of the tribe. THE Internal Revenue Committee of the House have agreed to report to the House a bill taking the tax off savings-banks and na-' tional-bank deposits, bank capital, matches, patent medicines and bank checks. This will make a total reduction of $10,639,305 in the revenue. , GENERAL. THE twenty-four hours ending Sun­ day, Jan. 23, was .one of unusually widespread meteorological violence, as shown by the tele­ graphic reports from the various sections of the country. In New York a heavy gale, accom­ panied by a sleet which froze as it fell, set in and lasted an entire day, doing an immense amount of damage. All the telegraph, tele­ phone and nre-alarm wires were tnrown down by the accumulations of ice, and the city w-as completely cut off from telegraphic communication with the world. Mes­ sages were received and carried by mes­ sengers to Jersey Citv and other surrounding points. Business was almost suspended, espe­ cially in grain and stock?, owing io the inability to get market advices. Mounted firemen pa- startled at hearing noises in the room where ! trolled the strer ts to give alarms of tire. Five be was laid out. Cautiously entering the I thousand tr es ia Central Park were ruined, apartment, thev found that three body-thiev** and mutch dan?aKe wa? dcm,2 to con:lceH> chlm" hkdthe coffin half-way out of an open wmdowFi tJfcrS i * numberof V*™** Wer° sen" The widow of Prof. Waison, the astronom. - " v ,ln"r" •will contest his will, which left his fortune io the advancement of science A brother of Secretary of War IUmsav committed suicide at fit. Paul, Minn Burglars overpowered and bound the watchman in the office of the Union Iron and Steel Company, Chicago, b'ew open the •afe, helped themselves to $10,000 in cash, and good their escape. Tom fifteenth annual meeting of the Northwestern Dairymen's Association will be 3ield at Janesrille, Wis., on the 8th, 9th and 10th of February. A cordial invitation is extended to all dairymen, butter and cheese manufacturers, dealers, manufacturers of dairy implements, and all others interested in this great and growing industry, to be present on "this oocasion. , J. M. SMITH, Cashier of the Bank of Kansas City, started to descend a bluff by stairs which had recently been removed, of which fact he was ignorant. He fell sixtv feet to the railroad track, and was fataily injured. LEVI Z. LEITEB has withdrawn from the great Chicago dry-goods house of Field, Letter & Co., and the remaining partners will oontinue busine s under the name of Marshall Field & Co. Its chief t ounders, who are only about 45 years of age, are credited with the possession of $6,000,u00 each A joint reso­ lution expressing sympathy for the suf­ fering people in Ireland, and invit­ ing them to emigrate to this country, was adopted by the Michigan Legislature.. *. Commodore Davidson and others have tiled with the Secretary of State, at St. Paul, articles for a company, with $2,000,000 capital, to im- " prove the water power at Sauk Rapids Hmall-pox has broken out in the penitentiary st Fort Madison, Iowa, and the foremen on :on- Uact work have tied in fright Lieut. Archi­ bald Gibson, of ttie Seventh cavalry, died in St. Louis from congestion of the brain, caused by the bito of a spider when a cadet at West Point PBOV. RILEY warns the people of Mar­ quette and Green Lake counties, Wis., that the seventeen-year locust will appear there this summer, l he thirteen-year brood will visit Southern Illinois. THE farmers of California are endeav­ oring to dispose of their wheat at a remunerat­ ive price. All the ships to arrive for three months are under charter, and negotiations with the Central and Southern Pacific roads have not resulted satisfactorily. Farmers can­ not sell their grain at present rates without loss, and the banks cannot forclose loans made without creating a panic Tfae picture-frame factory of Sammons, Clark & Co., on South Clinton street, in Chicago, has been burned. The loa • is estimated at $27,000. ....Four trick blocks at South Bend, Ind., have been almost destroyed by fire, the loss being estimated at $30,000*. THE SOUTH. A. FLEET of fifteen oyster boats from Maryland entered the mouth of the Rappa­ hannock and began dredging for oysters in open violation of the Virginia Oyster laws. The Virginians opened fire upon ifoem with a cannon, and the first round wan returned by a volley from the fleet, delivered ami 1 cheers from the oyster pirates. The carition tired a second shot with better ef­ fect than the first, and struck one of the dredges iu her rigging. Ttie oystermen then beat it hasty retreat, their speed being ac­ celerated by shots sent after them Kent Marsh, an insane pa-senger, was taken on board the steamer Annie li. Silver at Memphis. As Um boat was gearing New Madrid, Mo., from his bed and made his ously injured by being bit by falling pieces of ice. Throughout a large portion of New En­ gland tiiere was a heavy storm of alternating rain and >-now, amounting in the aggregate to about twenty-two inches in depth, and travel was largely blocked. It was accompanied by a gale of forty miles an hour. In the region of which Chicago forms the center, saow fell to the depth of about nine inch; •. Snow slides at Custer and Bonanza, Idaho, swept off seventeen persons, all but four of wLom were rescued. There were from twelve to twenty inches of snow at Helena, Montana, and con­ siderable losses of stock are reported. The storm was quite general throughout Ne­ braska, and serious effects upon cat­ tle m the graz<ng regions are feared. At Watertown, in Northern New York, the snow was from two to four feet deep. Snow fell steadily in New Orleans for eight hours, melt­ ing rapidly away. There were snow drifts thirty feet high in the vicinity of Kingston, Ont..." President Lelaud Stanford, of the Central Pa­ cific railroad, in answering certain inquiries put forth by a committee of the New York Board of Trade, opens by asserting that tariffs sprung from robbery au<3 rapine, and that it was now intended that this should be a pater­ nal Government. He denies that rail­ roads are public highways or common carriers, and snys that if the roads con­ tribute large sums to control elections it is be­ cause self-defense forces them to it. Legisla' ive control, he deciares, ou'd lie less just than the rates of th»: companies themselves, and the management should remain with the owners unless purchase is made by the State. He thinks that the proposal that the Government regulate commerce between the States would oulv erect business between iodividuals living in different States. CAPT. HOWOATE, formerly of the Sig­ nal Service, who ha* stated he intended to send out another Arctic expedition next summer,, has probably abandoned his project, as he has sold his ship, the Guluare, to some Baltimore merchants, and is now seeking an American registry. ACCOBDIKO to figures furnished by the Census Bureau, $227,451,550 worth of 4, and 5-per-c nt. bonds are held by corpo­ rations. The national banks hold $10,251,400, the savings banks $131,v:2t,4iK), private banks $10, 9'.4,150, insurance companies f 5 i,857.450, trust companies $13,484,050, and express com­ panies l*64t >,100. AN agreed case is to be submitted to the courts to tett the legality of th^ payment of dividends by the Central Pacific railroad while the road is in arrears. THE racing fund in the United States for the current year will approximate $1,000,- 000. Nine English horses have reached New York, to be entered in our summer contests. An English trainer and some jockeys are also expected. CLEOPHAS LACHANCE, a Canadian, who killed Miss Desilet for resenting his addresses, was hanged at Artbabaskaviile, Quebec. The murderer walked to the scaffold without coat or hfit, ana shivenuglv await'd execution. His writhings were terrible, and blood and water ijsued from bis mouth The steamer ltjchcs- ttr, from Boston for London, lost bead of cattle on her passage. POLITICAL. Hour. CHAI;LE8 H. VAN WYCX -was elected United States Senator from Nebraska on the seventeenth ballot. Qen. Van Wyck hails from New York State, where he was born and raised. He lived for many years in Orange countv, and served two terms in Congress 1 rora that district. He also served in the army dur­ ing the civil war. He was always quite prom­ inent. in New York politics. He moved to Ne­ braska about eight years ago, and bought a large farm near Nebraska Caty, where he re­ sides. He at once t ntered into Nebraska pol­ itics, and soon gained considerable prominence. He has served in the upper house of the Ne­ braska Legislature for two terms, and ia a member of the present Legislature. JOHNSON N. CAMDEN has been elected Senator by the Legislature of West Virginia, the twenty Republicans voting for A. W. Camp­ bell 8. B. Maxey has been re-elected Senator from Texas, Throckmorton standing second on the ballot The NL-W Jersey Legislature elect­ ed Win. J. Seweil to the UnitedStates Se.nato A Washington correspondent says there is no doubt that Senator Allison can have the treas­ ury portfolio in President Garfield's Cabinet if he desires. It is said, however, that he has de­ termined to remain in the Senate. Re has l>oen urging the Hon. James F. Wilson, of his State, for the post offered to himself, but the gossipers sav Mr. Wilson will get the Secretary­ ship of the Interior, and that Senator Windom, of Minnesota, is the one most likely to be Secre­ tary of the Treasury. HOWELL R JACKSON, a State-Credit Democrat, was elected to the United States Senate by the Tennessee Legislature on the thirtieth ballot It is said that the Pennsyl­ vania member of t he new Cabinet will be Whar­ ton Barkt r. the, banker, who, in May. 1870. presented Gariield's name for the Presidency. Congressman Berry, of California, thii.ks the new treaty with China will afford no relief from the curse of Celestial immigration. Con­ gressman Page says the,Pacific coast Wants an amendment to tlie treaty, to enable Congress to prevent orTestrict immigration. GEN. GARFIELD has selected as his Private Secretary Prof. O. C. Hdl, principal of the Normal School at Oregon, Mo., who was a member of the college faculty at Hiram, Ohio, when Garfield was President of that institution. roR£i6ii. IT is rumored in London that Mr. Gladstone will be raised to the peerage under the title of Lird Hawarden (pronounced Harden). In this event the Marquis of H.irt- ington will become loader of the Liberal party in the Commons Joseph U. Crawford, a Penn^yivauian, has completed a di­ vision of the first America railroad in j Asia; on one of the northern islands of Japan, at a cost of $20,000 per mile Gen. Skojels ft telegraphs to St. Petersburg | that, on the ni^ht of Jan. 15, his forces carried j the Turcoman positions wit hin forty yards or the fortress of Geok Hene. On the following night the Turcomans assaulted his center and left, but were repulsed with great similiter and pursued over tha ramparts ot' their own works... .The death is announced of Verbock- hoven, the eminent Belgian painter. IN the British House of Commons, on the 24th of January, Mr. Forster, Chief Secre­ tary for Ireland, moved the passage of the Co­ ercion bill. He justified the matter by a long and detailed description of the outrages which had been committed in Ireland. The Liud League, he said, liad a s>ster.i of coustables who recorded every infringement of the rules of ihe order. As a result, the league was su­ preme ; there was a perfect reign of terror. Mr. Lyons, Liberal member for Dublin, moved as RU amendment that land reform ought to precede coercive measures, and he was supported by Bradlaugh, Dillon and McCarthy. Sir Stafford Noithcote assured the Government that the Opposition would give them all proper support in the progress of the bills through the House South American advices are to tlie effect that Lima surrendered uncondit'onelly aftet Chonllos, Btirraca and Moraflores had bien taken. There was great slaughter in the bat­ tles at those places. It is also report­ ed that Callao has capitulated The British Government has offered a reward of $2,500 for the afiprenensioa of the men who tried to blow up the Salt'ord barracks The manufactory of arms at Birmingham, England, is guarded by a detachment ot tro->ps, for fear of a Feuiau raid The Irredentists of Italy are secretly raising funds with the purpose of invading Austrian Tyrol in the spring. MUCH distress exists among the labor­ ers in the distressed districts of Ireland. In every town in the county of Clare they are re- ceiv.ng relief, and the workhouses are crowd­ ed. The. men arrested on suspicion of taking part in the murder of Ix)rd Mountmorris have been discharged. A detachment of troops has 4>een ordered to Weedon to proteut a Govern­ ment store. The bar< in es in Koscomm on county have been declared in a stat1 of disturbance. The trial of the traversers was brought to a close at Dublin on the 25th of January. Judge Fitzgerald charged tho jvry at nooii, and they retired. After » short deliberation, a juror stilted to the court that they stood tea to two, but the Jud^e insisted upon a unannaou:; verdict. At 7:45 p. m. the for« man announced the impossibility of reaching an agreement, and they were discharged. Outside tho Court House the crowd rent the air with cheers. A torchlight procession wasorgau.zed m honor of I'arneil, who had slipped away to Lon<ton ;.t the close of the trial Great depression is re­ ported in the cotton and woolen indus­ tries of Rutisia. Most of the mil s tire running on short time, snd some of them have closed eutirely. Thornton, the Eu- glish millionaire, and owner of the largest ciotii null in St. Petersburg, discharged 1,500 wetiv- ! ers at one stroke... f A riot occurred between tho miners aud police at Skelniersdate and Clydesly, iu Eugland. One man wiu- killed and several injured. » EIGHTY-stalwart, but hungry, laborers < * Kanturk, Ireland, forced their way into the workhou-te, made prisouers of the Poor-law Guardians, and refused to let them go until they should promise to give them work. Tho Guardians compromi-ed by agre< ing to furnish out-door relief for one week to the starving families of the unomployc 1 At a lneetug of the Laud League iu Dublin, Michael Da-viti characterized Forster's s|M*;ch on the Coercion bill as one of the most infamous and lying ad dresses ever delivered in tlie House of Com­ mons After a seision of t«ent- -four ;<onrs, the British House of Commons pas-ed Glad­ stone's resolution to uive precedence to the coercion bills, the vote stauding 251 to 33. .. Warning ha-i been given the commander ol the volunteers at Newport, Isle of Wight, that an attempt to blow up the armory (hero will be made The Russians drove tbe I'ejske-Tur- coinans from Geok-Tepe and Dcitgal- Tepo, with great loss, on the 24th _ of January Tne apprebens on of Fenian assaults has cau.ed the closing of the horse armory and White tower at London It is reported irom Sin, apo.e, India, th.it over seventy perhons were orowiud ' y the capsizing of a local tri.din^ sttanier Eighteen persoiin were drowned at Cheroourg, France, i.y the foundering <1 a l>oat u»ed tor h ,rbor work. .. The farmers ot Geiin. uv compluiu of the im­ portation of American prod nee, . nd ask to be protecied Gia-lntone denies that he is about to enter the Hou«e ot Lor<is. A LONDON dispatch of the 27th ult. says : After the action ot the Government to­ day the people will have good reason to be alarmed. Tho Second battalion of the Eigh­ teenth (or Royal ) Irish Ibgiment of Foot, sta­ tioned at Aldershol, anl under the command of Lieut. Col. Gr»gor e, has ! oen disarmed. O course nothing can exp aiu such a step except­ ing a belief tnat the tiov.ps h .ve become im­ bued with Fen-anixin. and may juiu in < he re­ bellion which is so s ion to c tine upon us. IN the British Mouse of Commons, Mr. Mundella stated that iitfech<d cattle h <<i been found i.niong American cargoes landed Mr. Logan asked unanimous consent of the Senate, on the 24th, to take up the Mil to place Q«n. Orant upon tho xetired H«t of tha army, but ICr. Vfcet, £>f MiwouH, objected. Mr. Logan then moved to 'ay aside all prior orders and consider this bill. iJ- ter • somewhat protracted debate the motion was de­ feated--yens, 25; nays, 28. Mr. Edmunds' Oeneva Award bill was reported adversely by the 3 udtciary Committee, and a substitute proposed sim­ ilar in terms to that reported last session. I be Indian Land bill came up, and It was agreed to extend It* provisions to twenty-nine tribes on ceded land* in indiau Territory. In tlie House, Mr. ltlackburn, of Kentucky, introduced a bill to retire CoL Thomas L. Crittenden, with tho rank and pay of Brigadier General. Mr. Young, of Tennessee, proposed the ap­ pointment of a oommisnion to examine and report on lhe adulteration of food. Mr. Gillette, of Iowa, offered a hill for the construction of a double-track ral'rond from New York to Council Bluffs. Mr. Acklen, of Louisiana, Introduced a bill revising the 1 nt of duties on sugar. Several bills were reported hy committees, and placed on tbe calendar. Mr. Co* reported a sulwtitute for the Apportion­ ment bill, providing for 301 Bepresen.atlves. The Hi uae then went into committee of the whole on the pofctoffioe appropriation, wiiicli sets aside $40,760,437. to the United States Senate, David Davis reported favorably the Chicago Lake-front bill on the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 25, and gave notice that on Friday he would ask its consideration. Mr. 1*>gan eaUed up the bill to retire Gen. Grant lhe vote thereon stood 25 yeas to 38 nays, Lamar and Davis voting with the Republicans. A bill was passed to the additional expense of the tenth census. The Indian Laud bill was debated at Rome lengttv decided objection being made to conferring citizenship en the red men. David I>avin introduced a bill to pension Justices of the Supremo Court who may become permanently disa­ bled. The House passed an appropriation of $30,000 for a monument in commemoration of the battle of Saratoga. The pontoffloe appropriation was taken up in committee of tbe whole, and amended to provide that eafety- h-'aters, HHWH and axes shall be carried in mail cars, and the Aimtraiiap colonies shall be reimbursed In part for the coat of the BHtish cloned mails on the overland route. The bill then passed. The House of Representatives concurred in the Senate amend­ ments to the Military Academy Appropriation bOL A majority of the House Committee on Elections made a report favoring the unseating of Martin (Republican) as the member from the First North Carolina district arid of giving the seat to Yeotes (Democrat). A minority report was also presented. The joint bill for oouu ting the electoral vote came up. when the Republicans forced an adjournment. A favorable report was made on the bill io reference to quartermaster stores -furnished the forces of Gen. Lew Wallace during the Morgan raid In Indiana and Ohio to the Senate on Wednesday, Jan. 26. Mr. Ingalls introduced a resolution pro­ viding for the connting of the electoral vote In the Senate Chamber on Wednesday, Feb. 9, at noon. The resolution provides that •' two persons shall be ap­ pointed teliero, on the part of tbe Senate, to make a list of vote* for President and Vice President HS they shall be declared; that the result tliall bo delivered to the President of tbe Senate, who shall anuounce the State vote, which shaJL* be entered on the jour- na tt, such entry to be a sufficient declara­ tion thereof." The 8enate fpent considera­ ble time in discussing the bill providing for conferring lend on the Indians in severalty. Hoar'B amendment to confer the right of citizenship on tne Indiuns was rejected by a vote of 29 to 12. There was a long and acrimonious discusnion be­ tween Plumb on one side and Hoar and Dawes on tbe ofher side as to how Massachusetts disposed of its Indians about 200 years ago. The pensions ap* propria'.iou was reported, and the Senate went into executive session, when the President nominated ex-Senator Stanley Matthews for the vacancy on the Supremo Bench caused by the retirement of JuBtue Swayne. The nomination was referred to tho Jucllcinry Committee. The Houw> passed a bill granting Carr lake to the city of Council B uffs. The resolution looking toward the establishment of a telegraphic system was favorably reported. By a strictly party vote the Morgan electoral resolution wax taken up, but the Republicans filibustered until an adjournment was effected. Mr. Dawes presented in the Senate, on the 27th ult., the petition of 60,000 citizens, praying for a full observance of the treaties made with tho Indian tribes. Bills for public buildings st Qulncyt •L, and Mlnnespolis were reported favorably. Mr. Beck spoke for an hour In advocacy of his resolution for free ships, to which Mr. Blaine re­ plied that from tlie inception of tbe war Congress Hid done nothing to m lio d the navigation interests of the United States. The Naval Appropriation bill, which sets aside $14,720,787, was passed. Bills were also passed for the sale of a p.irtion of the Leavenworth military reserva­ tion, to authorize the conntructiou of a railway bridge across Niagara liver, and to establish an assay office in St Louis. The House lnduiged in au excited de­ bate on the North Car-i ina contested seat of Yeatee vs. Martin, and on a demand for the previous ques­ tion the Republican* refused to vote, breaking the quorum. In tbe United States Senate, a bill was re­ ported for the suppression of contagious diseases in domestic animals^pn Friday, Jan. 28. The morning hour was flied bjVctti^usslon' mi the Chicago Lake Front bill, Messrtt Davis and £dmunds being the chief contestants. Mr. Blaine introduced a bill to es­ tablish a United States Ocean Mail Service and revive foreign commerce by American steamships. In the debate on the Indian land bill, Mr. Morgan charged ihe .secretary of the Interior with withholding in­ formation due to the Senate. Mr. Dawes intro­ duced a bill to establish the rights of the Poncas and to settle t eir affairs in ac­ cordance with the recommendation made by the recent Investigating Commission. Mr. ivernan in­ troduced a bill to legalize the collection of tuxes on accoutit of sTinres of national banks. Mr. Wallace introduced a joint resolution, proposing a constitu­ tional amendment, according to which ttie Prei-ideut and Vice President >-hould be elected by direct vote of the p-op'e of ti e various districts. EU h State i^ to have as many diKtricts as it has members of Coiigrosa and Senators; each district to have one vote; tho vote to be canvassed by a Board ol State Canvassers, consisting of tlie Governor, Chief Justice i f the Supreme Court and Secretary of State. The return ia then to be made to the Speaker of tbe House, and to be conclusive proof of the result The votes arc to be counted by Congress iu j. int convention, and a plurality vote to elect. In the House, Mr. Speer gave notice that after two hours' debate on Saturday on the contested seat of Yeates vs. Martin be would call the previous ques­ tion. A resolnt'on was adopted calling on the Sec­ retary of State for information in regard to the Ha'ifax award. A lively debate took place on a hill t) place Mark Walker, who had been dismissed for drunkenness, on the retired list of the army. Mr. Mag mils charged that the findings of the court-martial had reached the President In one of his spasms of reform. A bill for the relief Of the widow of Capt Page, ot the navy, au officer »ho resigned at the outbreak of the war, caused a bitter political debate, participated in b. Messrs. C.»nger, C ix, B>-aag, Hooker, Hawley snd Beed. No action was reached. Monkey Hhooting In Gambia. The mere fact of slaughtering monkeys will probably not cause any great degree of pleasure to any one aspiring to the title of sportsman, though at the same time a man choosing to kill as many as possible might yet not consider himself altogether wanton in his sport., for the monkeys may be termed vermin. They are a great nuisance to the agriculturist, ami cause., much loss, especially in the ground nut plantations, where they fre­ quently pick the seed out of -the ground almost as soon as it is planted. To shoot the dog-faced monkey is easy, but to make a bag is quiet another matter. You may knock him out of a tree, or you may bowl him over on the ground, but you will not lind him on the spot where you feel sure you saw him fall. Dead or alive, his companions carry him off, and pursuing monkeys on foot is not a game which man is adapted to play suc­ cessfully. The most likely way to secure a specimen is to take a little bout and pull gently along close into the bank, just after sunset, at which time the mon­ keys frequently collect iu the branches of trees overhanging the river; thus one may be shot so that he falls into the water, whence his friends are powerless i to rescue him. The great drawback to since tbe year opened, but there no official j this method of aquatic stalking is that in infarmati"n of thu existence of tho loot-and uiouth disease in tbe Unite'I St tc-s. A MFKTING held hy 20,000 miners at Leigh, England, was succeeded by a desperate riot, in which the Hussars charged up-n tt.e the upper river, and especially at the close of the day, the mosquitoes fairly swarm, coming down on one in clouds, and making shooting a matter of great determination aud endurance. Certainly mob, injuring sev< ral persons... .Skobcl. ff has ! il is very e,«y 8ay that sucl» alld »«ch ' game may be shot by lying out at night; and this necessitates an amount of ex- oeen appointed Geuer. 1 of Infantry, and deoorsted witn the Oder of St., George, in consideration of his sei vices in th» luicoo au csmpiiigu Iked. I.e p^aid A C >., cofTo< met chants of Fionktori. (iermauy, h ;ve failed. Further tro>ibl. . in ti e offee trad-, are reported Jiwn Ham' nr r. CONGRESSIONAL NUMMARY. p >sure against which most Europeans ar.; not proof, to say nothing of the at­ tacks of the above pests, though thoy may, to a certain extent, be balked by wearing over the hands aud face bags made of some light material--leno, for instance. Perhaps at some future date monkey skins may become of commer­ cial value, and when they do the Qambia will be able to flood the market, pnd tho which absolutely nothing was done, no ground nut growers will rejoice.--Lon- flnfl t>res<nt, and several mem. ^on The Senate ni not in session on Saturday, Jan. 22. The House held sn all-night session en Friday, st quorum being present, ben objecting to ell business offered. On Saturdsy, Mr. Hull, from a Florida district *aa unseated, and Mr. Biabee, the contestant^ admitted. Mr. Reagan made a vain effort to have ihe Inter-Btate Commerce bill taken up, and nothing was accomp isbed but the passage of several minor bills. The members we>-e so exhausted from the previous night's ssaetea that as sariy adjournment was effected. Mrs. Long of Baltimore, lately a rich widow, is insaue on the subject of relig­ ion only and is a street preacher. In place of a hymn, her irreverent congre­ gation Bang, lately: " Man wants but little here below, Her wants that litUe Lung." ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE. JFBIDAY, Jan. 21.--The Lieutenant Governor announced the committee asked for in th" Torrence resolution providing for rail­ road reports to the State Auditor and the in­ vestigation : Messrs. Torrence, EvanB, Berg- gren, Lemma and Mcrritt. Committee on Gov­ ernor's Message: Messrs. Marshall, Fifer, White. Cailon and Shaw. New bills were pre­ sented. as follows : In regard to assessment and collection of municipal taxes; the Hinds I lot no - Protect ion bill; for the relief of Felix J. Emery and Wm. B.Emery, an appropriation of $27,1D3.25 ; «in regard to' Appellate .Courts ; to fix fees for Commissioners to set off home­ steads and for appraisers to appraise personal property; in regard to fees and salaries; to pay off certain judgments of the Supreme Court, and for the relief of certain judgment, creditors of the State Trustees of the Illinois and Michi­ gan canal; providing for the appropriation of f 6,31)6.56 to the Southern Normal University. HOUSE.--The Speaker stated ho wdhld now announce the committee called for by jester^ day's resolution to inquire into the clerical needs of the House. Messrs. Mann. Martin and Collier were named. Mr. Youngblood pre­ sented tbe Hinds Local Option law, snd a lot of petitions in its favor were handed in. The committee on Governor's Message re­ ported, and that document was re­ ferred to the appropriate committees.'" tills were introduced : Appropriation for South­ ern Normal University; A Road r and Bridge law amendment; to provide for consolidation of townships wholly within a city ; in ttie in­ terest of the Kankakee Insane Hospital; to amend the law in regard to the issuing of re­ newal bonds by town officers ; in relation to the commitment and detention of lunatics; directing the County Board to submit to the voters of the county the question of continuing township support of paupers when­ ever petitioned to to do by twenty voters of each town ; application from the Kankakee asy­ lum, which asks for $215,400, to be used in the construction of a building, repairs, etc., one item of which is $4,800 for a branch railroad; to contribute $26,510, with interest from Sep­ tember, 1868, to David Daft and others, on ac­ count of damage to certain boats and their car­ goes on canal : to fix twenty-five years as the period of limitation of suits on judgments and decrees rendered by courts ont of the State ; a bill which recites that John Sears and wife were '• put to death and themselves robbed" on tbe lltb iay of August, 1864, in Fayeiie county, by & detachment of the Forty-first Illinois vol­ unteers, aud amount taken was about $2,500, aud he thinks about $3,800 out of the State treasury would make the thing right; to allow creditors in cases where the debt is created by fraud to have an attachment at once, whether tbe debt is due or not; making the expense in­ curred in abating a nuisance a lien on the premises whence it is moved; that the Lincoln Park Commissioners be elected by the peo­ ple; asking $38,000 for the State Normal School, at Normal, for tbe next two years; claim of the Emerys for alleged damages by reason of the withdrawal of convict labor from them h» 11 under contract; asking f908 for the Sixth infantry, " because they fit in the riots to prohibit a defendant from contributing neg­ ligence in the plaintiff in suits for danuges, and to deny the right of contracting against liability for negligence ; the Elgin asylum wants 8216,- 000 for ordinary expenses for the next tv/o years, and $14,000 fur repairs, ete. ; to repeal section 2(J9 of the Revenue act; to repeal the Farm Drainage act. SATURDAY, Jan. 22.--8**AT3T. --Mr. Artley, from the Committee on Municipalities, report­ ed in favor of the passage of the bill in regard to bets, pools and wagere. Bills were present­ ed, as follows: To provide for the handling of steam--the bill provides for the appoint­ ment of a Supervising Inspector General and Inspector for each Congressional district by the Governor, who sk all hold office for two years ; providing that the Clerks of Circuit Courts and of tho Superior and Criminal Courts of Cook county, and the Clerks of the County Courts shall keep their offices at the court houses made and provided for that purpose; in relation to liens ; to amend the Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners' act of creation, to the effect that the Secretary of State, the Auditor of Public Accounts and tha Attorney Gen­ eral shall be the board ex officio, and provides that no person shall be eligi­ ble to the office of Secretary of State, Auditor, or Attorney General who is at the time of hij election in any way connected with any railroad company or warehouse ; in relation to'Clerks of Courts ; to amend the act in regard to election and qualification of Justices of tlie Peace and constables. It being discovered by count that a quorum wasn't present the Senate adjourned at 11 o'clock until 10 o'clock Monday morning; HOUSK.--The business of the House began by receiving a report from the joint committee on rules. The usual number of temperance petitions were then presented. Mr. Rockwell presented a bill proposed by the Secretary of the Douglas Monument Association, which ap­ propriates $4,798 to complete the monument. Mr. Harris sent in a proposal to reduce the contract rate of interest to "fi per cent. Bills were introduced : To extend the term of office of Supervisors of towns to three years ; to change the counties of Calhoun and Jersey from the Fourth Appellate district into tho Springfield district; to require Clerks of the Cir­ cuit Courts and of the Superior and Criminal Courts of Cook county to keep their offices open for business from 8 o'oioak a. m. to 6 p. m. for the six months Ugnming Apiil 1, and to 5 p. m. for the remainder of the year, on each working day ; to grant powers to cities and villages in the matter of probi-iiting the sale of liquors within two miles of their limits, to be done on a petition of voters; to reduce the amount of money convicts are feiven at their discharge by fixing the sum at $5 for those whoso terms are two years or less, instead of $10 for all classes, as now provided ; to amend the School law. Mr. Morris, of Harding, then tried to get his bill in regard to the sale of deadly weapons to minors placed on the calendar, but the matter went over. MONDAY, »Jan. 24.--SKNATK.--A number of petitions were introduced praying for the adop­ tion of the Hinds bill. Mr. Ford presented a resolution providing for the appointment of a committee of seven on temperance. New bills were niuoducid as ioiluws: 'io abolish the Grand Jury and to provide for the prosecution of persons charged with crime and mis­ demeanor upon information; to limit the right of appeal from Judgments rendered by Justices of the Peace- it provides that judgments shall be final when the amount does not exceed $20 ; in regard to the administration of estates ; to repeal the law providing for the organization of the J^tate militia aud entitled the military code ; to amend .the act in regard to the election and quahticar tions of Justices of the Peace and constables. Bills on file for a first reading were then read and referred, after which the Senate adjourned. HOI'SK.--After approving the journal, the Clerk read the following resolution, which was presented with a communication from* the State Board of Agricufture : WHKHKAK, It IK not HOUR that certain products maimf; < tuied from tallow and grease are l>eing Hold in tho ritiea and towns of thla State as and for genu­ ine butter; aud WHP.RKAH, Each sale ia fraudulent In to far aa it ia attended with nrsrepreaentation, and ia generally extortionate in price aa compared with tha cost of •aid product: and s\ 111-KKAH, Such traffic 1K carried on to the detri­ ment and Hprious injury of tbe biiHineaa of thoee dairymen who manufacture butter for market; therefore, llctolved, That the Oeneral Ansembly of the fttate be respectfully requeated to pass whatever laws may be necessary to put an end to the fraudulent prac­ tice above referred to in thin State. Bills were then read a first time, after which Mr. Morris moved that liix bill in regard to the sale of deadly weapons to minors l e placed on the calendar in the order of bills on first read­ ing, on which a roll-call was demanded. The motion prevailed by a vote of 64 to 24. Tem­ perance petitions were then filed. Dills were introduced: To permit the holding of the villago elections of Hyde Park and Jef­ ferson at the time of the general spring election; defining and puuiwlmig criminal assault; to amend the constitution by au act of the Legislature to the' effect that " intoxicating, malt, vinous, mixed or ferment­ ed liquor (including sle, beer and wine)" shall not bo introduced, manufactured, sold or Riv­ en away in thi-t State, except for medicine, etc., with power in tlie Legislature to enforce the provisi in ; to increase the powers of Boards of Trade; providing that the Supreme Court reporter may now charge $3.50 per vol­ ume, and, for all volumes after the proposed act goes into effect, $2.26 per volume. HJKSOAY, Jan. 25.--SENATE.--The bill pro­ viding for tho incidental expenses of the Thir­ ty-second General Assembly was passed unani­ mously. Tho bill fixing the times and places lor holding sessions of the Appellate Courts was passed. Auti-liquor petitions were pre­ sented. Senator Rice presented a resolution providing tor a reform iu the civil service, advis­ ing members of Cougress lrom Illinois to con­ sider a preposition to have Cabinet officers and United States Senators elected by a direct vote of tho people; also suggesting other changes. Bills were introduced as follows : To indem­ nity lhe owners of sheep in cases of damages; in rogard to liabilities of agents of corporations and servants toward each other, providing that railroads shall be held liable for the acts of their agents ; in regard to evidence and deposi­ tion ; to introduce moral and social science into the- public schools ; in regard to industrial ex­ positions in the public schools ; to appropriate money for the State Reform School to the amount of $34,640 ; to amend the act to estab­ lish a Board of Railroad and Warehouse Com­ missioners, and prescribe their powers and duties; to amend the law in regard to garnish­ ment. Senator Ford's resolution providing for a committee of seven on temperance was re­ ferred to the Committee on Miscailany. HOUSE.-The bill for incidental expenses of the Legislature passed. Petitions were then received. They were for the Hinds bill, in fa­ vor of allowing women to vote at school elec­ tions, and that May 30 of each year be made a holiday. Numerous bills were then reported back, among them one from the Committee on Municipalities against the passage of tho bill to authorize citiua and villages to prohib­ it the sale of liquors within two miles of their corporate limits. New bills were then called for, and the follow­ ing were sent up : To appropriate $5,765 to Richard Shinnick: to amend the school law; a bill which provides that county Recorders of deeds in this State shall not file for record any instrument pertaining to the title of real estate in their couuties, until he shall first examine tmcii instrument, as to the description of the land or lot therein intended to be described, and if such description shall not be found equal to Government survey, or any other error or omission shall appear in said deed, the Recorder shall immediately re­ turn such instrument to the grantor therein, with notes of the errors for correction, and not record such instrument until corrected ; to in­ crease tho power of township insurance com­ panies by extending the territory wit bin which they may write policies to six townships, and also to allow policies to be issued on school houses and busiuoss property in towns of 1,500 or less; to allow witneoses Scents per mile one way asmillage in attendance before Justices of the Peace; to provide for the election of the members of the Railway Commission, to hold their terms for four years beginning in November, 1881, and to transfer to them the duties of the pres­ ent Canal Commissioners ; to amend the Forci­ ble 'Entry Detainer act: proposing that the Railway and Warehouse Commission shall con­ sist of five persons, of whom the Attorney i orog sqi utq^tAv emus qiuv unpiBaj oqii £{mra| « jo puoq oq» oi sflutp.io.mid juoni -qatu.ntS ni SOSBAV JOJ notidinoxn oc$ oqj jum[ oj ! Wo.C « 00S'l$ jo £i«rn8 « IB 'uoiu Fsanjsnq XBpjeairaoo oq. oj oaiq; oi[} 'OM-J oioiyo -x» oq nuqe jo £re^;uoof! pnu pnatiof) authorizing the Governor to take all proper steps to stop the spread of pleuro-pneumonia among cattle ; to provide for the assessment of mortgage and other recorded indebtedness--it requires the Assessors to take the sworn state­ ment of each taxpayer aB to all such indebted­ ness he may have against him, either on real or personal property, the Assessor to verify tha statement by the records, and then list and * MBS all indebtedness so shown to the party t& whom it is owing at the same rate as* sensed on monev, and notify the debt or of such assessment, who is there­ after estopped from the payment of either principal or interest on the debt until tbe creditor shall pay the amount of the taxes thereon, the tax's paid by the debtor to apply on his debt in all assessments. After the pass­ age of the act, mortgage indebtedness to be deducted from tho cash value of the assess­ ment of the property charged with the debt. The act to spnly to indebtedness created prior to the act becoming a law. Propositions to amend Uie School law, the Road law and the times of holding County Courts, were also filed. A resolution allowing the use of tbe hall one evening to the Irish Land League of Illi­ nois was adopted without any dksent. WEDNESDAY, Jan. 26.--SIWATK.--Petitioners presented their requests this morning in the Senate on the several subjects of temperance, militia, oleomargarine and horse thieves. The Merritt resolution in regard to the investigation of the grain inspection part of the Railway Commission duties came up, and Mr. Condee moved to recommit, which was carried. Mr. Campbell presented a resolution to tlie effect that the President of the United States be re­ quested to fill tho vacancy on the Supremo Court bench through the resignation of Justice Swayne by the appointment thereto of a competent person from the Sev­ enth Supreme judicial circuit. Adopted. The Sunderland resolution, calling on Congress to establish a uniform system of railroad rates, was then taken up and adopted. Senator Bell's ^ei-olution, to reorganize the National Govern­ ment by the providing for the election of the President and Cabinet officers by a direct vote of the people, was sent to the Committee on Federal Relations. Bills were then sent in : To provide for Kinking funds for local indebted­ ness ; amending the Exemption act; to amend the General Incorporation act in regard to cities and villages; making the usual appropriation for the Central Insane Hospital, $237,000, and a second bill for the purchase of land, $22,01)0 ; to provide for short-hand writers for courts of record, except County Courts other than Cook, with pay at ¥8 per day, aud 15 cents a folio for transcript, to be paid by the persons or­ dering such ; amending tho Firemen's Benevo­ lent Association act; a food adulteratiou bill; to provide a system of bank examination and reports similar to the national plan, tho Bank Examiner to be appointed by the Governor and confii med by the Senate; appropriating $50,000 for the ordinary expenses of the Joliet prison ; also a bill for $32,000 for repairs and Improvements at the prison. HOUSE.--The Contingent Expense Commit;ee sent in their report on the McWilliams resolu­ tion for the appointment of. a committee of nine to investigate the complaints made to the Railroad and Warehouse Board. The report of the committee favoring the adoption of the resolution was concurred iu, and the resolu­ tion was adopted--yeas, 96; nays, 44. The Committee ou Elections in its report to the House stated that it was unable to arrive at any satisfactory conclusion as to which of the contestants in the Fftli Senatorial district was entitled to the seat. The committee presented a resolution asking the Speaker of the House to send for tbe custodian of the returns and bil­ lots, and tho House committee be empowered'to send for witnesses. The report was concurred in. A joint resolution from the Senate was presented, asking the President of the United States to appoint a suitable per­ son from the Seventh judicial district of Illinois to fill any vacancy that might exist on the Supreme Bench. Adopted. A largo number of bills were then reported back, among them the Township Consolidation bill, wbL-h was ordered to a second reading. The Cbisholm Food Adulteration bill was also favorably returned. The Federal Relations Committee sent back the resolution, which calls on the National Government to give pen­ sions of $8 per m nth to surviving soldiers of the Black Hawk, Florida, aud Mexican wars, wi h an amendment excepting Jefferson Davis from among the beneficiaries. THURSDAY, Jan. 27.--SENATE.--Bills were in­ troduced as follows : In regard to free public libraries; to appropriate $3,930 for a State Laboratory, etc., at Normal. McLean couuty, two miles "north of Bloomingtou ; to appropri­ ate $80,000 for the erection of the Hospital for Insane Criminals--it is designed to build the hospital at or uear Chester, on tho Mississippi river; to appropriate $250,000 to tho Cheider penitentiary for the next biennial period for current expenses, also a bill appropriating $250,000 for buildings and repairs ; to prevent owners of dairy cows from allowing them to drink stagnant water, violation to be pun­ ished by a fine of not less than $10 or more than $100 for each and every offense; to appropriate $128,250 to the Elgin Insane Asy­ lum ; to allow cemetery associations to get land by condemnation ; to require public offi­ cers to publish an annual statement of the funds received aud expended by them. The De Long pool bill was taken up for third read­ ing. It was found that the amendments had not been printed, and the consideration of tbe bill was deferred. HOUSE.--The pension resolution in behalf of the Florida, Blackhawk and Mexican-war sol­ diers, with the amendment excepting Jeff Davfc, was first in order, but was delayed until the bill changing tho terms of the Appellate Court in the Second and Fourth districts could be read a third time and passed, which accom­ plished, the consideration of the resolution was resumed. Some lively political spar­ ring occurred, resulting in the passage of the resolution as amended. Two clerks were authorized to prepare the journal for publica­ tion. Mr. Pierson, of Madison, offered a jo'.nt resolution requesting the members of Congress to use their efforts to secure promptly a proper act in regard to the Congressional apportion­ ment. Mr. Chaffee, of the Railroad Commit­ tee, reported back the resolution asking Con­ gress to pass a law to prevent the consolidation of and unjust discrimination by railroads, with the recommendation that it pass. The same oommittee reported against the bill requiring railroads to coiwtruct foot-paths on bridges ; also against the bill to define the rights of freight and passenger trains. The Committee on Municipal Affairs sent in a favorable report ou the bill to make property benefited by park improvements liable to special assessment for such benefit; also on the Carter bill to- make property on. which a nuisance ia abated liable for the expense incurred, the same to be a lien for twelve months. Bills were introduced: Authorizing Justices- of the Peace in cases when property is levied on under writs of replevin or attachment is­ sued by them, and the value of the propert* so taken is in excess of tho limit of jurisdictions of a Justice, to order a return of the property- to the defendant; to amend sect ions 104 and 105 of the act in regard to administrations of CHEAP TRANSPORTATION. Is This <o Prove tbe Solution «f «k*- Great Problem 1 - [New Tor* Telegram to the Chicago Tribune.] Various reports have been recently published throughout ttie country concerning the con­ struction of an entirely new and direct line of railroad from New York to Chicago by an inde­ pendent and newly-organized corporation. tfhile> these reports have not been without founda­ tion in fact, they have been incomplete in de­ tail and misleading iu statements. A visit to the offices of the Continental Railway Company, situated at No. 6 Cortla'ndt street, resulted in the procuring of the first authen­ tic statement of" facts which has yet been made. The Continental Railway Company is a corporation existing under special char­ ters granted by the Legislatures of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Iowa, and under general charters from the States of Ohio and Indiana, granting authority to build a continu­ ous line of railway from the Hudson rivor, op­ posite New York, to tbe Mississippi river, oppo­ site Omaha, with extensions connecting Chi­ cago and St. Louis with the East. This line has been surveyed the entire length, and several mill­ ions ol; dollars have l>e«ii spent in the actual work, of grading. Arrangements have already been maue to put 10,000 men at work as soon as the- weather will permit in the spring, it is stated by the officers of the company that ample funds- are at their command to construct the road and equip it in the most complete manner. Tnere is to be a double track the entile rtiat-nn^ of the heaviest steel rails of English manu­ facture. This route between New York city and Chicago, according to the surveys, does not vary hi teen miles in the entn e ais- tance from a straight geographical line. The distance between tuese two pc/bts is 781 or 128 miles shorter than the shortest route now in operation. By the Pennsylvania rail­ road and its connections the distance to Chi­ cago is 914 miles; by the New ¥orn Central and the Lake Shore, 9tf0 miles ; by the New York Central and Great Western of Canada, 961 mit«. Beside being the most direct route to tho West, the elevations will be less than those of any other road, not exceeding forty feet to the mile at any point. The survey strikes the Delaware river at Belvidere, and the Alle­ gheny at Mahoning, Pa. The Pennsylvania State line is crossed at New Castle, and thenoe the projected road runs to Akron, New London, Tiltin, Fort Wayne, Ind., Rensse­ laer, and Chicago. The most difficult engi­ neering obstacle to be met with on< the line is the crossing of the Delaware river, where a pier bridge is to be constructed 500 feet high. It is enunciated that this road will be completed and in operation two years from, next spring. A large staff of engineers will be distributed along the line of the road early in the spring to complete their labors. They will- be followed by trains with iron and supplies. The entire work will thus be pushed forward with the utmost expedition. It thus appears probable that the publio will, soon be provided with a system of cheap trans­ portation by the construction oi a new and- continuous line of railway in a direct hue from. New York to Chicago, with low grades and light curves, built in the most substantial man­ ner, with abundant appurtenances and facili­ ties, operated in the interest of commerce, and- as the benefit of the people requires. Waste or Horse Life. The number of horses in the United. Kingdom has been estimated at rather more than 2,250,000, and their average value can scarcely be set down at less than £30. Their collective value, there­ fore, falls little short of £68,000,000. That the nation incurs a loss if this sum is spent quicker than it needs to be is a self-evident proposition ; that it is so- spent is certain, if horses on an average become useless at a time when they ought still to be in full vigor. On this- point few will be disposed to challenge the verdict of Mr. (\V, Douglas, l»t«k. veterinary surgeon in the Tenth Hus­ sars, jdio tells us that a horse should live from 35 to 40 years, aniMive actively and usefuily during three-fourths of this, period. "All authorities," he says, "now admit that animals should live live times as long as it takes them to reach matur­ ity. A dog, which is at its full growth when between 2 and 3 years old, is very aged at 12 years. Horses do not, unless their growth is forced, reach their prime until they are 7 or 8 years < Id, which, by the same law, leaves them to live some thirty yea® longer. When these facts are kept in mind, together with these other facts that three futirths of our horses die or are destroyed under \% years old, that horses are termed aged at 6" [he should have said 8], "old at 10, very old when double that number of years, and that few of them but are laid up from work a dozen time a year, * *• * the vi -iou&itess of a system which entails such misery and destruc­ tion of life cannot be too strongly com­ mented upon." If we take the age of 3 years as that at which horses begin to work, and 12 as that at which they are worn out, it follows that the period of their efficiency is shorter by at least 14 years than it should be. In other words, the nation has to buy three horses when it ought to buy only one, and thus up­ ward of £200,000,000 ar© spent every twenty-one years in the purchase of horses, when £68,000,000 ought to suf­ fice. rhe loss, therefore, to the nation is at least £135,000,000 in twenty-one years.--Frattbr s Magazine. Ax exchange says : " The butchers of Baltimore are very handsome." Thati» when they are dressed to kill. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK1 BEBTZS (7 SO TAN Hons 5 35 <$ 7 COTTON U&($ FLOUB--Superfine 3 50 ® 4 WHKAT--No. 2 Spring 1 16 (3 1 CORN--Ungraded S3 <£ OATH Mixed Western 42 <3 POBIC--Meaa IS E0 @14 LABD CHICAGO. Buvis--Choice Graded Steer*... Cows and Heifer* Medium to Fair Hoos FLOU»--Fancy White Winter Ex.. Good to Choice Spring Ex. 6 W 5 as 35 12* 00 90 56 43 00 10 00 WHEAT--No. 3 Spring No. 3 Spring COHK--No. ()IT«--No. ; -- RYE--No. 3 BABLKT--N-;. 3.. BPTTKR--Choice Oi ninety Koos--Fresh PORK--Meaa LAED. • • • • MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--KO. No. 3 Ooaw--No. 3 OATH--No. 3 BTB--No. 1 BiBunr--No. 3 ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 3 Bed COBW--Mixed OATH--No. 2 BYK PORK--Mesa. LARD 8 20 <» 6 3 40 @ 3 et» 4 40 O 4 tO 4 25 (3 6 85 5 75 «6tM - 35 00 88 <fi 1 . St . 30 <«* . 88 <£ . 1 03 @1 • 80 C4 . <5 $ .12 AO ftU4 . 1 00 0 1 WHEAT... COBS OATS BVK PORK--Me Luu> « 30 O 86 <» 83 @ 1 03 <9 1 « « 83 <4 , «« <S - 13 75 (£14 " CINCINNATI. 08 9 1 « @ »« @ W @ 14 00 @14 9)6 06 99 37 31 iff 03 tt 33 87 00 04 43 37 97 35 TOLEDO. WHKAT--No. 1 Whits, 1 04 ^ 1 OK Nal Bed. 105 & 1 06 Co**--No. 3 41 2 42 OATS-NO. 3 84 @ 35 DETBOIT. FLOUB--Choice 4 00 <A « 3» WHKAT--NO. 1 White.., 1 OH <9 1 01 COBK--No. 1 42 43. OATS--Mixed 88 A 39 BARLEY (per cental) 1 60 @ 2 50 PORK-- Meaa. 14 00 <$14 » EAST LIBERTY, PA. CATTU--Beat 5 35 @ 5 4 60 ® 5» Common 3 75 Hooa 5 35 ^ 6 75 « ao <4* A?-.. ^ .