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u* UK ,'jH# • • yty. |.'> y r r ^ " • ' ' • % ̂ '*"*,' ••' MWHwtt fUMnlct '• VAM W-VKE. «*»* PaMWw. lIcHENW^f 4w. ILLINOIS.̂ VEE1LIJIEVI IfVlf«. «m EAST. br Older to dispel certain rumors in­ jurious to hia credit on the tall aide, lay Ckmld look * few prominent operators to bis office, opened the ranlti and showed them se- cnritisa of the par value of f60,000,«00 or more, -» raftered in his name. The largest bundle wU?ffl,000,000 in W^ternUniontelegTapli. He als® offwedto athtMt fSO,680,000 in rail­ road 'bonds, bnt the gentlemen expressed i«-- satisfied to take hie word..... Mrs. Sarah £. Howe, the President of the so- sailed Woman's Bank in Boston--a heartless fnnd and swindle--ha* been sentenced to im- priHonment in the Honse of Correction for three yews The Duncannon rolling-mill at New Bloomfleld, Pa., has been burned, The v' loss is $75,000, and 800 men are thrown out of *4 employment & THK bank of Ralston, McQuade A Co., - 1 at Petrolia, Pa., closed its doors with liabilities sttppbsed to be $300,000. South Bethlehem, j, Pa., with a population of 4,000, has 120 cases 71 of small-pox. HENRY RKMSHAW entered the private V* offioe of Dr. Oray, ofthe Vale Lnnatic Asylum £% at 'Uticft, N. and shot him, but the wound »1 is not fst*L Bemshaw went to the Jail and 1 save himself up. He claimed that he was an * ' ambassador from heaven, sent by G uiteati" and W others to shoot Dr. Gray. Bemshaw had with . & him. when searched in jail, two navy revolvers ' and one single-barrel revolver and one re- neater, one dirk, cleavers and a bottle \! chloroform, with about thirty bundles of cartridges. THE WBA I meteorite fell with m great ehoelc at a point fifty miles south of Fort As- sinaborne. Montana, causing much consterna sion at Fort Benton, nearly 100 miles to the touta. }. A DOZBX masked men rode into Link !>'"I vQfe, Oregon, where H. OL Laws, charged with murder, was in the custody of Deputy Sheriff J. F. Lewis and Justice Wright, awaiting exam­ ination. H»e officers refused to surrender the prisoner, and fired on the lynchers. The latter returned the fire, killing the Deputy Sheriff and wounding Justice Wright. They then left without taking Laws The death of two cen- w tenariana, both Irish women, is announced-- XJ Mrs. Winnifred Howard L&lly, of Chicago, aged il 108, and Mrs. M&rv McElrov, near Greensburg. ,#t Ind-, aged IOC. Tna latter perished In the ififlames of the burning house ef her grand­ daughter. In the case of the man Armstrong, 1 / killed during the labor disturbances at Omaha, the Coroners jury decided that he came to his death at the hands of soldiers in the faithful . - discharge of their duties. All the labor unions S j- turned out in procession at the funeral, and - nek feeling was manifested. A BOY named Zerah Hall was working en the farm of Gordon Lord, near Lisbon, Kendall county, 111. The boy, it appears, had not been treated as h« should have been, and, while all but the two were away from the house, Mme difficulty arose while they were in the barn doing chores, and the boy was killed by Lord, being shot twice with a revolver. Lord, on seeing what he had done, after thinking the matter over, committed sruoide by catting his throat and hanging himself. GEN. BEN BCXI.KR, counsel for the Iowa Farmers' Association in the barb-wire suits brought by Washburn, Hoen A Oo~, has interested Attorney General Brewster in the question of the validity of the various patents, which, he believes, will result in favor of the farmers The Chicago and Kansas City Air Ltoe Bailroad Company has been incorporated. The capital is $5,0U0,0U0. A CONVENTION of Illinois farmers to protest against railway irregularities was held at Springfield, March 15. About 100 delegates, mostly termers above 60 years old, were in attendance. Resolutions were adopted in favor of the enforcement of the existing railroad laws, condemning the giving of passe*, declar­ ing that the lUuroad and Warehouse Commis­ sion would fail in its duly unless it gave the people a passenger rate of 2 cents per mile and freight rates as low as the lowest, and up­ braiding the commibsioit for acting as servants of the railroads rather than of the people. JOHN WENTWORTH, of Chicago, fa­ miliarly known as " Long John,'" lectured be. fore an immense audience, in that city, on h" personal recollections of the period when he was in Congress... .The Grand Jury at Omaha indicted twentv-tive rioters, two of them for assault to commit murder. Edward Walch, President of the Labor Union, was Jailed. Bar­ ney Shannon, formerly a member of *hA City Council, gave §2,000 bail • Halt Lake dispatch §&ys that news of the passage of the E inlands bill by the House was received there without any unusual demonstra­ tion. Many of the more ignorant Mormons have teen made to believe tLat it means ulti­ mately confiscation of their property. Other Mormons and most ©f the non-Mormons be­ lieve it will cause iiiuuigritiou, start a business " d aiake property more valuable. ii->*It1 JAKES M. DAVIS, Deputy Revenue Collector at Nashville, was waylaid and shot dead by a gang of twenty moonshiners, near McMinnville, Tenn. He is said to have wrested folly throe thousand men for illicit ahHiifay and is known to have killed several, WAIHIHfilOll, Tn severity of Sergeant Mason's sstoMs is generally criticised and condemned, saya a Washington dispatch, and is not likely to add to the appreciation in which military tribunals as® held, A clearer ease of insanity was made am behalf of Mason than in custom­ ary in most civil trials. Baaide, there were a great many extenuating circumstances which SMMto sender it unnecessary that the vai ̂ met should be so severer GOXTEAU is more taciturn and is only interested ia thd of his photographs, eto He k actively engaged in correcting the proofs lor the new editioa of '"iwy' JACOB R. SHWHKBD appeased at Wash- lagtcffl, before the House Committee on Foreign Aflaits, on the 15th inst», is# was sworn. at.mm raised a question as towh&t oonstituted "•f - GOT. Ionvou) AND the of State O#«M M Rhode with the P. Oft «•» seieoted for sraL px>"' 4^1 Hi'- A"*,; * ' • V I it *• BVOBETABT EJBEVOOD has otdar^d Agent Armstrong to send 100 Indian Ibildns from the Crow Acenoy in Montana to certain finnan in Ohk», w be developed la mind and muscle. IT is stated in a responsible quarter that the letter written to ex-Secretary Chase by Gen. Garfield touching Gen. Bosecrans, re­ cently made public, was given out by Mr. Jacob W. Bchuokera. Mr. Sehnckers now lives in New York city. At the time Mr. Chase was Secretary of the Treasury ho lived in Ohio and was appointed from that State by Secretary Chase to a $1,600 clerkship. Subsequently he became Mr. Chase's private noretary. " is also mid he has other letters, bearing on the removal of Gen. Bosecrans, written by ex-President Oar field, which will be made public at MI early day. FOTJB towns in Costa Rioa have bean destroyed by an sarthqnsk®, »i*d severs.? thous­ and lives were lost. The destruction of prop­ erty was great and thousands were rendered homeless. MRS, MSIIVEUIK, wife of Lieut. Mel- ?il!e, engineer of the Jeannette exploring ex­ pedition, has received a letter from her hus­ band, in which he speaks of DeLong and the others as having perished at the month of the Lena river, and intimates that when he set out on the search in which he is now engaged it was without hope of finding his comrades alive, but simply to perform the melancholy duty of discovering, if" possible, their dead bodies and whatever traoes of their hardships and ad- Tentures they might have left behind them, MINISTBB LOWELL has responded to the inquiries made in response to a resolution in Congress relative to the imprisonment by the British Government of Irish-Am erica as that, as far as he could discover, the prisoners had oroken the laws, and were therefore bel­ ligerents The Costa Rica earthquake was true as regards the quake, and three churches and a number of buildings were destroyed in Cartago, but fortunately no'lives were lost The first dispatch from Panama said 8,000 per­ sons were killed. iOREI6% LONDON advices are to the effect that negotiations for an international copyright treaty with Great Britain, which were begun under President Garfield and Secretary Blaine, have been abandoned. Mr. Arthur and Mr. Frelinghuysen are reported as not favorable to the proposed legislation Dr. Thomas Evans, the American dentint of Paris, was robbed of $120,000 by an employe, who fled to Brussels, where he was captured.. MAL^SIBUX, a prominent member o the Paris commune, was impelled to suicide by destitution. A leading journalist of Bome also made way with himself. SHARP and speedy justice has been done by the English court before which Dr. Lamson was tried for the murder by poison of his boy brother-in-law, Percy John. The trial concluded with a verdict of guilty, the jury deliberating half an hour, and Lamson was im­ mediately sentenced to be hanrad... .The Jean­ nette search is going forward •porously. FIFTY liberal members W the British House of Commons signed a memorial favor­ ing greater leniency toward imprisoned sus­ pects. Secretary Forster has announced that the daily period of solitary confinement will be shortened ninety minutes... .Skobeloff asserts tliat the Czar not only indorsed his Pan-Slavic speech, but in an audience with him {advised uiuiuot tu withdraw a word or it. Since his return to St. Petersburg the (Czar and the peo­ ple have lionized him At Odessa a Nihilist printing office has been discovered and seized and several persons connected with it arrested. ADDITIONAL NEWS. THH Secretary of War estimates that about 85,000 persons have been rendered des­ titute by the overflow of the Mississippi and its tributaries. Of these 80, MO are accredited to the State of Mississippi, 20,000 to Arkansas and 26,090 to Louisiana. It is believed that the necessity for relief will continue from thirty to sixtv days. THK Senate Committee on Territories has instructed Mr. 8aunders to report a bill for the admission of Sotithera Dakota. It pro­ vides that a census shall be taken this summer, and, if the population be found sufficient, a Stat® shall he created from the southern por­ tion, and the northern shall be called the Ter­ ritory of North Dakota. A Washington dis­ patch savH it has been recently discovered that the Mexican Claims Commission have been duped by a ring of conscienceless Jews, who have, by perjury and fraud, secured awards amounting to 81,200,000 for cotton al­ leged to have been seized by the Mexican Gov­ ernment. Further payments to the ring have been stopped, and the nefarious business is to be investigated.. ..Guiteau is making nearly §60 a day by the sale of his autographs and por­ traits. DisPAickEH from Lordsburg, on the Southern Pacific road, state that seventy Apache scouts, en route to the San Carlos reservation are on the war-path, and have killed a white man named Michael Connell. Gen. Mackenzie was preparing eight companies of regulars to take the field... .In four days over 75,000 sig­ natures were obtained in Chicago to a petition for the pardon of Sergt Mason. IN the event of an Austro-Russian war it is hinted that Germany would take an active part on behalf of Austria The Lon­ don Daiiy News says that the lack of unanim­ ity among American publisher* is the cause of the suspeHitiou of negotiations of the Anglo- American copyright treaty. NEAR Beading, Pa., an aged couple, who lived alone in a farm-house, were at­ tacked by b* masked burglars, who bound their victims and plundered tbshons* of $L- 600. THE NATIONAL DEBT. •ayity's CtMu BM>IE, iv« Skewlatif. WASHZKOTOW, Manh 15, The census volume en public indebtedness, by Bafael A. Bayley, of the Treasury Depart­ ment, contains history of the na- _ „„„„ , tional indebtedness from the foundttioa of the a united States official, and the committee went ; Government to the close of the census yasr. totoseeret session to define the phrase. The investjgaiuni <mm tten postponed 'to the 18th, snd Mr. Shipherd returned to New York to ar­ range his papers in accordance with the decision of the committee. THX business of the Patent Offioe thk ysar is nearly 35 per cent, greater «*»»» ever before.. s .The House Committee on Btilwsyi snd Canals will present a favorable report on the Henderson bill for the construction of the Hennepin canal, and will recommend necessary appropriation be included in the .Hirer and Harbor Appropriation hill ., GES. MEIGS, who built tke wings of the Capitol, has been asked by the joint Com- mittee on Additional Accommodations bin opin. Ion on the project of raising the dome fifty feet m order to make room in the Capitol extension fp' E€<iOEiii[iodatioii« la reply B&ys IhsfcstMh ̂ ̂ P JLUW BI&UBUC*! pan ox tne work ihowt wmiM mmJ ̂dangerous, and j fhe usoes and redemptions by quarters, and WiMuU QlSff felMi pr6S6llfc an*! A# ^ a ea41 z. * J* lfc. J P1?8??1 symmetry and beauty of *nd the foundations and walls epuu) not safely be trusted to support the addi- tional weigiii pnpMM« WLKTlOAla 'THB Coventor of Georgia has official. 4r announced that he wiU not oall a special ses> the Legislature for the purpose of w districttng the Stote. The exttm OongreeBmam - Mrgi* ̂ appcottonmeal jrtBthweftt- hafe to be elected Vttie TH&SE HTTITDBKD prominent Democrats part#««pat»3d in a banquet of the Iroquois •I Chicago Inters from Senator Baymri, Oov. TiUm anl Judge Black were read, and snssnlm were made br Gov. Hendrioka. F. Vilas, Editor WaS^S and ottiars....Gen. Boseeians hug been Chairman of the Dcmo- I Committee . At . in Washington, tt was ̂-- : to oppose the tall to Be- 1880; 8 per eant • t jjer eent tt........ P«roM»t B per ceal 5 M percent. " 6)4 per cent •••••» t 6 per sent T per cent ***** ' 1 »-l0 parent.... "**""*?*",1, 8 per cent.. «......... Treasury notea, ; Kon-iaterest-bearlM itmii Koa-iBteraet-beMtog^Sw XI.*.*"" ' .1 June 30, 1880. The work will be invaluable, and will be the standard authority upon that subject. The book gives a final and com­ plete history of the thirty-four different loans negotiated by the General Government during the period between July 4, 1776, and Jane 80, 1880, Capt. Bayley has been engaged eight years upon this work, and bm collected a vftbt amount of valuable material, the exact* aesaof which hag never before been knows. *he whole amount borrowed by the Govern­ ment was f !©,693,055»%8, of which there hava been redeemed 669.664,231, leavings balanos, as shown by toe public-debt iitAU inent issued JaSy 1,1880, of *2,120,414,37L This includes the comparatively small amount of S28,6«8 unad- j iistea, and apparently overpaii, which awaits a. final settlement in the different accountik This discrepancy is about 1 cent on every <•,1,000. The statistical part of the work shows inctades a fall account of the premium and discount paid on each loan, A large portion of the material embraced in this work has never before been presented to the public- in any form, A summary shows the following amount of money borrowed, and interest paid thereon, f rem. foundation of foly *> to the dose of the fiscal year _ . Total loan, •edemptioes...., 118,8T4,5«'s 1,501,96*,169 306,990,004 7«,S4S.?7-2 IS,153 #, 062, #81 t86ss,8il,m 9,170,386 ' 9Ci,99il,259 • 44*1,700 aw,8su,2ao 4*488,682 f,<76t3M,V ̂ .. M«b,664,130 OntttaadlagOAC.. S OaaAJaato4. ' tew i'-, IWMtjrtt j } i '-i*' POLlUAlCm Vk« Law their «•«••• I«fe The Chirac* Time* mmmmtitm «P<» tha laweoaetod by Ooogrsss for th« suppiassiwi of ptdygamy hi tha lhtritories, saya >*tt wiB he a dilwlt law to safatte, and the efforts to carty it iato effect will ha watched with gnat interest. The diBeolty ia aofowdiig it wiU ha the difficulty of getting testimony. If the Mormon women wee* opposed to polygamy, the institution oonld be easily suppressed, for than wm»M be little drilcmHy ia oon^ieiteg the men If tha women would testify against thana. Bat moat of the Mormon woman believe in polygasoy; if they do not like it, they at least look upon it as a religious necessity. The public sentiment tha1 influences tkem a not opposed to polygamy ; on the contrary, it is strenuously in favor of it. No disgrace attaches to a plural wife in Utah as there would in Illinois, and the Mormon wife who testifies against her husband finds herself without a home, and a social outcast. That any considerable number of Mormon wives will turn State's evidence there i« email reason to hope. Boos use the mar­ riages are secretly performed it is prac­ tically impossible to prove the marriage ceremony, and for that reason the bill makes cohabitation with more than oaa woman the misdemeanor, which is punishable by a fine of not more than $800, or imprisonment for not more than six months, or both. But to prove cohabitation the testimony of one of the female partners ia necessary. It will hardly do to as­ sume that because a man lives in the house with mote than "one woman "he is cohabiting with more than one. If the children, of the various wives can not prove different paternity, their existence may oe held to be evidence of co­ habitation. Mr. Colfax's suggestion that the law enable each wife to claim her proportionate share of the common husband's estate would have the merit of offeringrhe plural wives seme motive for testifying against their husbands, and would, in cases where there was property enough, afford the wives wno testify something to live on after they had left their polygamous homes, but that is not incor- Eorated in the law. Doubtless the main re- ance of the law is in the latter sections, which aim to give the control of the Territorial Gov­ ernment to the monogamists. Polygamista and ihe members of their harems ai«i disqual­ ified from voting and holding office, and the entire electoral machinery of Utah is put in the hands of five persons to be appointed by the President, who will have full power over the registration of voters, the conduct of elections, the reception or rejection of votes, and the canvassing of them, and the is­ suing of certificates of election. It is expected that under this law a mouogamic Legislature will be elected, and that that body will then make such laws as will make it impossible for polygamista to ever again get control of the Territorial Government. We print below the full text of the bill. It is now a law in full force, having passed both houses of Congress and received the signature of the President: A bill to amend section 5,352 of the Revised Statutes of the United States In reference to bigamy, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, etc., That section 5,352 of tha Revised Statutes of the United States be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows--namely: Every person who has a wife living, who. in a Territory or other place over which the United States have exclusive juris­ diction, hereafter marries another, whether married or single, and any man who hereafter, simultaneously or on the same day mar­ ries more than one woman in a Terri­ tory or other pisce over which the United States have exclusive jurisdiction, is guilty of polygamy, and shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500 and by imprisonment for a term of not more than five years ; but this seo- tion shall not extend to any person by reason of any former marriage, whose husband or wife by such marriage shall have been absent for five successive years, and is not known to such vw^wonn 4r/\ Vvrk livtinrr in n«/»V. <n.nw ** ' A" Mvwvtvu a/jr Dtavaa pv*- son to be dead ; nor to anv person by reason of any former marriage which shall have been dissolved by a valid decree of a competent court; nor to any person by reason of any former marriage which shall have been pro­ nounced void by a valid decree of a com­ petent court on the grounds of nullity of the marriage conti* act 8FX', 2. That the foregoing provisions shall not affect the prosecution or punishment of any offense already committed against the section amended by the first section of *h»« a c t . , * ' • > - . SEC. 3. Thai if any male person in aTer-l ritory or other place over which the United' States have exclusive jurisdiction hereafter cohabits with more than one woman he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof Bhall be punished by a fine of not more than $300, or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 4. That counts for any and all of the offenses named in sections 1 and 2 of tiiia act may be joined in the same information or in< dictment Bsc. 5. That many prosecution for bigamy, polygamy or unlawful cohabitation, under any statute of the United States, it shall be suffi­ cient cause of challenge to any person drawn or summoned as a juryman or talesman, first, that he is or has been living in the practice of bigamy, polygamy or unlawful cohabitation with more than one woman, or that he is or has been guilty of an offense punisha­ ble by either of the foregoing sec­ tions or by section 5,352 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, or the act of July 1, 1868, entitled "An act to punish and prevent the practice of polygamy in the Territories of the United States and other places, and disap­ proving and annulling certain acts of the Legis­ lative Assembly m the Territory of Utah;""or, second, that he believes it right for a man to have more than one living and undivorced wife at the same time, or to live in the practice of cohabiting with more than one woman; and any person appearing or offered as a juror or talesman, and challenged on either of the foregoing grounds, may be questioned on his oath as to the existence of any such cause of challenge, and other evi­ dence may be introduced bearing upon the question raised by such challenge; and this question shall be tried by the court. But as to til® first ground of challenge before mentioned, the* person challenged miitli not be bound to answer it if he shall say upon Ms oath thai he declines on the ground that Ms answer may tend to criminate himself, and if he shall an­ swer as to said first ground his answer shall not be given in evidence in any criminal prosecu­ tion against him for any offense named in Sec. 1 or 3 of this act, but tt he declines to answer on any ground he shall be rejected as incompe- 6xc- 6. That the President is hereby author­ ised to grant amnesty to such classes of offend­ ers guilty of bigamy, polygamy or unlawful cohabitation before the passage of Ibis act, on such conditions and under such limitations m he shall think proper; but nosucti amnesty shall have effect unless iiie conditions thereof gh&U ha eotmpliejl with. BBC. 7. That the issue of bigamous or polyg­ amous raanmgeej, known as Mormon marriages, in cases in which such marriages have been solemnized sussardiag to the oerauomes of th& Mormon sect- in any Territory of the United btaks, and such issue as shall have been bom before the 1st day January, 1888, are hereby legitimated. « EG. 8. That no polygamist, bigamist, or any person cohabiting with more than one woman, and no woman cohabiting with any of these persons described as aforesaid in this section, in any Territory or other place over which the United States have exclusive jurisdiction, shall be entitled to vote at any election held in any such Territory or other placo, or be eligible for election or appointment to or be entitled to hold any office or place of public trust, honor of emolument In, under or for any such Territory : or place, or under the United Mates. Sec. 9. That all the registration and election offices of every description to the Territory of Utah are hereby declared vacant, and cach and every duty relative to the registration of vot­ ers, the conduct of elections, the receiving or rejection of votes, and the canvassing ana re- turning of the same, and the issuing of certi­ ficates or other evidence of election in said Territory, shall, until other provision)* be made by toe Legislative Assembly of said Territory, as is hereinafter by this section provided, be per­ formed nnder the existing laws of the United States and of said Territory, by proper persons, wiio shall be appointed to execute sash ofitoes and perform such duties by a board of five persons, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, not more of wtsom than three shall be members of one political party, anil a majority of whom shall be & quorum. The members said board so appointed by the President •shall each receive a sakry at the rate of *8,000 per annual, and snail continue in offioe •««! the Legislative Asaetubly of said Territory shall make pro¥uicK for filling, aald offices as herein authorized. The Secretary at the Ter­ ritory shall be the Secretary of said board, and keep a Journal of its proceedings, and attest the action of Mid board undertms section. The fcMivaasand return of all the votes at elections in said Territory for members of the Assembly thereof shall also 1M. * *»°» py sleeted, which i of the right of MriApoai to alt in such As­ sembly, provided tfeM said board of five per> was shall not «nh|pa any person otherwise eligible to tat* ttommt polls, on aooouot at any opinion such psiion may entertain on tha subject ef Wfuay mM polvgamy; nor shall they rsfuse to count nip such vote on acoount at the opinion at tha p«rson casting it on the nbleot of tymof or polygamy. But each house of aach Assembly, af­ ter its organisation, shall have the power to deckle upon the elections and qualifications <tf tt« Members, and at or after the first meeting of said Legislative Assembly, whose members shall have been elected and re­ turned according to tbe provisions of this act, said Legislative Assembly m^r make such laws, conformable to the organic xct erf said Terri­ tory. and not. inoonrtaSent with other laws of the United States, as It shall deem proper con­ cerning the filling at any offices ia said Terri­ tory deolared vacant by this act AS EXPENSIVE LUXURY. ladUaa Wary of the Last Ten Tears Certlnr Tke Entire Ex* panme. of «teve(aai«iit Watchfulness tK the Name Tiae §323,891*264. If anybody thinks that the Indian, "the ward of the nation,'* is not an expensive lux­ ury, he should direct his attention to a reporf made by the Secretary of War of the cost to the Government of Jndian wars during the last ten years. Th's information was called for by the Senate, and the officers of the War Department have transmit­ ted to Congress, through Secretary Lincoln, an array of figures so prodigious as almost to take away one's breath. The " wars,' strictly speaking, have not been very expensive. The Modoc war of 1872-3 cost only $335,009. The war in Texas, in 1875, cost only $6,641. A more expensive trouble was tnat with the Sioux, in 1876-77, which ran up a bill pf $1,894,361. In 1877 there was difficulty with the Nez P. roes, costing 1975,082, and the next year $567,571 wero spent in the Bannock war. The conflict with the Northern Cheyennes, in 1878-79, cost $34,209, while the attempt in 1879 to subdue the Utes involved an expendi­ ture of $1,192,682, In the same year $9,411 were spent in controlling the Rheep-Eaters, and in 1881, with the Apache difficulties not over­ come, the expenses reached $438,500. The total cost of these active attempts to control the aboriginecs was 45,058,821, bnt this is a mere fraction of the oost to the Government of watching the Indian ti ibe» that were not travel­ ing abroad in war-paint, but which had to be watched to keep them quiet. The aggregate cost of all kinds of service by the United States army west of the Mississippi, to which part of the country there waB no proper occupation for the soldiers but fighting or police duty on Indian account, was, for the last ten years', $205,474,759. This Ims been the oost of troops, and does not take into account the peace offerings, annuities and other induce­ ments to prevent the use of the tomahawk and scalping-knife, which have been provided at very large expense by the Government. One must decide from the report that the Indians am almost the only excuse the Government has for maintaining an army. During the last ten years the troops have been distributed ss follows: The number employed each year in observation or control of Indians has ranged from 17,000 to 21,000, and the number other­ wise employed from 6.000 to 9,000. The total force has fallen from 28,183 in 1872 to 25,183 in 1831. The average number used in the In­ dian country has been a little more than 75 per cent, of the whole force. While the cost of these troops is given at $205,474,759, Adjutant General Drum decides that this is not all the expenses which can be charged to them, and furnishes tables, with items additional, to be charged on appropriations for supplies, inci­ dental expenses, transportation, purchase of hornet), auu other iriiiec, which uia&e ihe grand total of $223,891,264. AccordingtoGen. Sherman, the army now consists ot 23,78j enlisted men and about2,00u officers. Of these, all the cavalry, all the Indian ucoots, twenty-four out of twenty- five regiments of mfantiy, and an entire regi­ ment and three companies of artillery ̂ num­ bering 18,529 men, are west of the Mississippi, while the total number east of the Mississippi is 5,256. His general conclusion is, without ex­ amining the figures closely, that four-fifthB of the expenditures oHhe annual appropriations had been ms£e otfMldiaa account during the . , THE SUPREME COCTtT. Itlatchferd, ot New Iferk, Named for Associate Justice. The President sent to the Senate, on the 18th inst, the name of Judge Samuel. Blatchford, of New York, to fill the vacancy on the Supreme bench created by the retirement of Justice Hunt, and whioh had been successively de­ clined by Messrs. Conkling and Edmunds. Judge Blatchford was formerly a law partner of the late Wm. H. Seward, at Auburn, was appointed by President Liqooln to be United States District Judge of New York, and was subsequently promoted to be United States Circuit Judge, which po­ sition he now occupies. He has been on the bench a number of years and is 65 years old. OONKUKO'S AXD KDMTODS1 LETTKBS OW DECLIN­ ATION. The following lettere ia reference to the vacant Associate Justiceship of tho United States Supreme Court have been made public : 229 NASSAU STBEET, N. Y., March 3. MB. PBJESXDENT : Absence prevented a prompt acknowledgment of your two esteemed letters which were found here awaiting my return from Utica. The high and unexpected honor you proffer by selecting me as an Associate. Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is greatly valued, II will ever be a mat­ ter of pride and satisfaction that you and the Senate have deemed me lit for so great and ex­ alted a trust. But for a reason jou would not fail to appreciate I am constrained to decline. Although urgent demands on my time just now prevent my accepting your cordial invitation to pass a few days with you in Washington, let me hold this as a pleasure deferred, but not lost I have the honor to be, siacerely, your obedient servant, BOMOE CONKUMO. MI* Excellency the President. •DMOKBS' FIBOT DKCHIMIO*. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 6, 1883. lb. PMSIBEKT I 1 haw received through the secretary of State your very flattering offer of appointment as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. I thank you sinoerely for this highly-valued poof of your good opinl©i\ but 1 feel, for reasons, that I ought not to accept. I ehaJl cherish this mark of your kindness and good opinion--though I did not need this proof of ifc^Monoof tne moat pleasant of my life. I am, sir, very faithfully ' "ii«K F. EDMCMM. yours. <}•£»»»£ UCOKX SBOUMATXOW. 1411 MASSACHCSETO AVMMO*, March 1L MB. PRESIDENT : 1 am deeply touched at the manifest consideration you have shown me in connection with the Associate Justiceship, but further reflection has not enabled me to change the views I expressed to Mr. Frelinghuysen. With a sincere hope that wou h&vo experienced no embarrassment from the delay your kind- MSs has caused, I am faithfully yours, GEO. F. KDHCKHS. JUDGE BLATCHF#KD ACCEPTS. Judge Blatchford nas formally accepted the nomination as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Terrible Fate of Fire Little Bojrt. ST. JOSEFS, Mo., March 17. Yesterday afternoon five boys went out to a cave they had made in the hillside. The cave was nine feet wide, ten feet deep and five feet high. The.boys were seen about the place at 3 o'clock. An hour or two later a playmate of the five found the retreat had caved in. He told a man who was working near by that he feared the boys were buried within the place. The man only laughed, and treated his fears as a joke. This did not satisfy the little fellow, and with his hands he began tearing the dirt away, and within eighteen inches or two feet of the ground he struck an outstretched hand. He gave the alarm, and raised some half-dozen men to work removing the earth. The five boys were fonnd buried beneath the earth, all - stiff and cold in death. The names of the lad# were Jack Montgomery, aged 14 ; Itan Montgomery, aged 8; Mick KeU, aged 15; Allen Rhodes and Mike Garrish, 17. It seems the boys had dug this ea,Y& for the purpose ot spending their idle tim@f stud they contemplated further improvements and to make the tri&ce quite attractive. Garrish wm the last one taken out, and bis heart was palpi­ tating feebly when he was unearthed, but ceased very suddenly. Just how long they re­ mained buried is not known, but they were seen at 8 o'clock, and at 6 tne accident was discovered. THB horseshoe Joesu't bring good . . merrwiimi cowepum Mr. Sherman pnesnted te the Saaete, sa tt* 1Mb, a resolution of the Cinetanatt Oharehsc of Commerce, ssMng that Congress take step* to relieve the sufferers by overflow akmf the Mississliml pf* were lecorted for Ami sHofc- the srection of a public MfflJ rtHot Springs. A (Notation wss adoptod direcUng theSicretary ef the Interiorto tarotah ahst of Indian reservations at wbiah troops are sta­ tioned, and information in mard to the destruction of timber* Tt» Tm™ Owa- mission bill was token up, and Mr. Slater urged the adoption of a free-irsde policy. The President eente message to Oongiess in regard to establishing a seaboard quarantine against small-pox. He recommends the pass­ age of ti e Harris Mil with some modifications Secretary Lincoln sent to the Senate a state­ ment showing that for the past ten years the cost of maintaining troops in the Indian coun­ try has been over $22,000,000 per annum. The Presidont sent to the Senate the names of Samuel Blatchford. of Mew York, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United State; John Russell Young, of New York, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to China; John G. Watts to be Miursh&l of the United States far the Western district Of Virginia, and Edwin R. Kirk to be Post- master at Sioux City, Iowa. In the Hoeas, the Speaker presented a memorial from the Assem­ bly of Utah asking a suspension at action on the affairs of that Territory until a thorough investigation can be made by a committee. Mr. Belmont asked leave to offer a resolution calling on the Secretary of State for information as to the compensation of Envoy Trescott, but Mr. Williams objected. A bill was passed per­ mitting the bridging of the Mississippi near Wabasha, Minn. The Army bill, appropriating $29,298,880, was referred to the committee of the whole. Mr. Dunn introduced a bill to en­ able women to enter public lands. Tho. Ante- polygamy hill was taken up and fought over - lot hours without a vote being seaehed. A memorial from the Legislature of Wis­ consin favoring the improvement of the Mis­ sissippi in connection with the great lakes was presented In the Senate oh the 14th. Mr. Harrison, in response to Instructions to the military committee, reported that 50,000 per­ sons were driven from their homes by the overflow, and presented a joint resolution appropriating $100,000 addi­ tional for the sufferers, whioh was passed. Mr. Cockrell made favorable reports on bills to lend artillery, tents, etc., to various soldiers' reunions. The Postal Appropriation bill was taken up and debated. A special mess­ age from the President was received, recom­ mending legislation to prevent the spread of contagious diseases. The House took up the Anti-Polygamy bill, the pending issue being the demand for the previous question, which had not been seconded. Mr. Blackburn claimed an opportunity to amend the bill, in which he was supported by Mr. Burrows from the Republi­ can bide. It was resolved that the measure be open to change or debate under the five-min- ote rale. After long discussion the bill was passed without amendment, by 199 to 42. The anti-Chinese bill was debated at length. Mr. Brown reported a bill to the Senate, on the 15th, granting to the St, Louis and San Francisco road the right of way through the lands of the Choctaws and Chickasaws. On account of illness in his family, Mr. Edmunds obtained indefinite leave of absence. An appro­ priation of $20,000 was voted toward a monu­ ment on the battle-field of Monmouth. Mr. Gar­ land called np his bill to expend $15,000,000 on the levees of the Mississippi river, and appealed for Federal aid for the South, as did also Messrs. Jonas and Test. The Postal Appropriation bill was amended by adding $150,000 for clerks. Mr. Allison submitted the report on the contingent fund of the treasury. At an executive session John Russell Young was confirmed as Minister to China, and Cornelius A. Logan as Minister to Chili. In the Houset Mr. HOUK reported back ft bill appropriating S29L000 for tho payment of 1,300 claims allowed by the accounting offi­ cers of the Treasury Department, and it was passed. Mr. Rice offered a resolution directing the Judiciary Committee to report >? the cor? viction of Sergeant Mason by a military court was not in violation of the laws and constitu­ tion of the United States. Mr. Hiscock reported back tho Senate bill to increase the re­ lief for the Mississippi sufferers to $200,000, and authorizing the expenditure of a por­ tion thereof for labor on the levees. It was amended to appropriate $150,000 and passed. Some hot words between the Speaker and Mr. Money caused a discussion on the powers of the chair which lasted an hour. The Senate, at its session on the 16th, conT curred in the House amendments to the appro­ priation for the Mississippi sufferers. Mr. Sherman presented a protest by soldiers against restoring Fitz-John Porter to the army. A bill was passed for the erection of public buildings at Tt-rre Haute, Ind., and Peoria, III. Mr. Lo­ gan addressed the Senate on his bill to expend the revenue from liquors in popular education. The Postomoe Appropriation bill was taken up. The item for fast mails was increased to $650,000. Mr. Edmunds secured the insertion of a clause providing that the executive of each house shall have the right to send letters on oublic business in official envelopes, and that Senators or members may frank anv package containing only printed or written matter. In executive session the Senate ratified tho declar­ ation that the United Stales accede to thQ red cros* treaties of Geneva providing for the care of the wounded on the battletields 6f civil­ ized nations. In the House, Mr. JAcLano, ris­ ing to a question of privilege, charged that the Speaker nad iuvaded the privileges of the House. After considerable argument, Mr. Kenua offered a resolution declaring that the Speaker has no right to reprimand members, but withdrew it after an explanation by the chair. The Chinese bill was taken up, und Mr. Taylor, of Ohio, made a vigorous protest against its spmt. Mr. Converse introduced a bill to prohibit the consolidation of railway companies. Mr. Belmont, offered a resolution, which was passed, that Jacob R. Shipherd fur­ nish copies of all correspondence tind any other evidenoe tending to show what he attempted to do to enforce the claims of the Peruvian com­ pany. A resolution was passed requesting the President to arrange with Nicaragua for the settlement of claims. Mr. Henderson reported a resolution that the Secretary of War stat^the reasons for sending troops to Omaha. Mr. McMillan reported to the Senate, on the 17th, a bill for a bridge across the Mississippi between Minnesota and Wisconsin. An appro­ priation of $100,000 was made to continue work on Davis islaud dam, on the Ohio river. Mr. Sherman, introduced a bill for a public building at Columbu*. A resolution against the withdrawal of silver certificates was referred to the Finance Committee. Acts for Government buildings for the courts and postoffices at Frankfort, Minneapolis and Jefferson City were passed. The chair submitted a reso­ lution of the Iowa Legislature for an amend­ ment of the act donating public lands to the States for agricultural colleges. The post office appropriation was taken up and passed, includ­ ing the restoration of the franking priv­ ilege. The Fortification Appropriation bill was passed. Mr. Sherman introduced a bili to print 30,000 copies of Blaine's me­ morial addtcss on Gartield. Speeches on the Tariff Commission bill were made by Messrs. Beck and Pendleton. The House passed the Senate bill extending the northern boundary of Nebraska. Mr. Pago faikd in an effort to resume consideration of the Chinese bilL Some time was spent on two bills for the relief of Paymasters for losses suffered by the defalcation of clerks, bnt both measures were killed. A bill WUB pansed authorizing the Conbul at Faval to accept a cold mndal from the French Government, The Speaker sub­ mitted an estimate by the Secretary of War that 85,00:1 persons Were rendered destitute by the overflow of the Mississippi. A bill was passed for bridging the Missouri river near St. C bar leu. Mr. Duunell reported a substitute for the bill to amend the internal-reveuue laws. Labor Troubles at Omaha. OMAHA, March 18. The militia in the city to protect the noo- •Ufldng laborers wero annoyed last evening by & gathering of men and boys, who threw brick­ bats at the officers and hit several. A squad of soldiers charged on the crowd to drive them back from the militia quarters, and several of the assailants were severely wounded by bayonets. One of the wounded, named . 6. P. Armstrong, formerly a machinist, who was wounded in th# breast .and taken into the fiianl-honse, supposed to be slightly hurt, has lied from the wound. He had been slightly ante the' infinenoo at liquor, aad WM ebusiag the soldisra, He was inoffensive when sober. 'j* ^ ^ 4 ' r " - ' r ?rk,.;:iT£*i: s" SoMi&is Medicine WCMMU Twelve lady doctors is Russia are now officially engaged in teaching medicine to women. Tnirty are in the seraoe of * *• <> the hospitals, Tweoty-fl*e female doc- ton who took part in the military oper­ ation, in 1877 have been deooSedTby order of the Emperor, #ith the order of 94. Stanislaus of the third elaap. The n&mber of female atadenta is ateadily •aeroaaiag. a* • j MISSISSIPPI Out. J. IL Ln, of the United States amy, who was ordered to Mississippi to rsport oa Ihe necessities of the suffsras by overflow, re turned to Memphis last week. He says the destitution has not been half stated. The levee between Memphis and Arkansas City was broken in forty places, and at oome_points the<JO*~ Hissippi was fifty miles wide. His first estimate made to the Secretary pf War, that 860,000 rations would be required to feed the l«,00$ needy in the State of Mississippi, will, hesays, fall short, as the destitute will probacy be double tho number first estimated. Capt Lee will telegraph Secretary Linooin and await further instructions here. Capt Lee said to a reporter : "No idea of the true condi­ tion of the country overflowed can be imagiaed without being seen. From a point twenty miles below Memphis, where the first break in the levee occurred, the entire country is one vast sea of water. The people all through this sub­ merged region are utterly destitute ana in a starving condition. Their stock has been drowned, and they are living in gin-houses and stables, lofts and the upper stories of eab- itw. Hundreds are subsisting on parched corn. Many have been temporarily relieved by the distribution of Government rations, but others could not be reached, and their suffer­ ing is very great All published reports have fall en far short of giving an ulea of the dam­ age that has been done or the destitution pre­ vailing." John McEJyen, of Desha county, Ark, had a thrilling adventure and narrow escape. The itory of his escape, narrated in his own words, is as follows: " I lived H3M what is known as Cypress bend, In Desha county. I had a cabin situated on an elevation which had never been overflowed, and I thought never would he." Some days ago the Mississippi began to rise, and I stopped my children from going to school, fearing that they would get drowned in the bayous with which that country abounds. I had several head of cattle further down the river, and I brought them home for a like reason. My wife got very uneasy, and sugpested that we had better go to Arkansas City or to Little Rook, as she felt m her bones that there would be a big flood. I laughed at her fears, but it wasn't long before I had better have followed her ad­ vice, for in a short time the rising water cut off communication in every direction. One night, over a week ago, we went to bed oppressed with dread, though 1 still thought the water would fall. I had secured a dug-out, and intended to make an effort to reach Arkansas City with my family, unless there was a change by the next morning. It began raining early in the even­ ing, and by the time night set in the rain was coming down in torrents. I think it was about 10 o'clock when my wife cried out: ' Jack, the house is giving away I' And sure enough it was! The cabin slowly went to pieces, water pouring in at ©very crevice, while my wife and children shrieked and cried. Looking out, you could see nothing but a wide expanse of water, and I knew that we would all be ingulfed in a short tune, and so I took , the bed-c<*d of an old-fashioned bedstead and tied some of the logu which had fallen in from one end of the cabin together, and on this raft I placed my family, taking only a few quilts, and leaving everything else. With a fence-rail, which had been intended for firewood, I pushed out through the opening in the house, and the next moment we floated away. I have been in a good many perilous scrapes, but that night's adventure surpasses them aiL How w® ©scaped, how we got tangled in the tree tops, how we were picked up lato the next day not far from Arkansas City, I can hardly telL It is enough to know that we all are saved ; but I tost everything--cattle, horses, farming tools --everything. I am thankful, of course, that I escaped, and I expect to go from here to St Louis, and hereafter I will live on mountain tops. 1 have had an experience of floods that'll test me a lifetime." dispatches state that the city was swarming with refugees, principally blacks, from the lowlands. Capt Smith, a river who came up from the region of Friar's Point, said the water was five feet higher thereabouts than ever before known by the oldest inhabit­ ant. The people were living in gin-lofts, on housetops; and the water in many instances was fully up to the eaves of the houses. At Greenwood, Miss., the peopls of the whole village were living in the Coue House, and were supplied by means of flat- boats. Nearly every town along the river, from Memphis to New Orleans, was a Venice, whose streets are paddled by flatboats and skiffs. In some of the towns the water was fifteen feet deep, and many houses had been undermined. Thousands of cattle have been drowned, and rafts and flats were employed to save mules and horses. The water swept across the country with the rapidity of a cata­ ract People would retire at night in fancied security, and find themselves before morning in water two or three feet deep. Every house at itostidale, Miss., except uuo--that of CoL Merger--was swept away. The floor of Yerger's house was three feet under water, and the catfish were playing sportive freaks in his parlors. Three colored men were drowned at Marion, Miss., and a col­ ored man and woman were overwhelmed by the rising waters at Bosedale. Many stories are told illustrating the perils of the flood. One is to the effect that a colored man and his child were in a boat coming down the river, when the former lost his footing and fell overboard, swbnimng, how­ ever, to a tree. The boat containing the child drifted down and lodged in some driftwood, the little one being rescued after four days. Another is to the effect that a man and «« wife, on whom the water gained so rapidly that they were compelled to take refuge on the roof of the house, were rescued by a man in a dugout after a day and a half of isolation. In many instances families took their horses into one room and lived in another, letting the other stock work out their own salvation, the anxie- tv at, to the former being due to the fact that they looked to them as a means of planting an­ other crop. Gen. Beekwith, of the Commissary Depart­ ment, has ordered the steamer Gen. Barnard and the tow-boat Coal Cliff, with her barges, to be sent troin Keokuk, Iowa, to St Louis, where they will bo loaded with rations and sent down the Mississippi to dis­ tribute relief. Secretary Lincoln ordered a largo steamer at Little llock to report at Mem» phis for special service. Capt. Lee will take the steamer Anita and pick up destitute people in the flooded district* of the Yazoo. All sup­ plies for Arfamaiy. art> to be sent to Helena. n| DfMlaUsa Pwvalwii Tlnsnghoat the Vast FleoM Dis­ trict---A Harrowing Story. [Telegram to Chicago Times.] ̂ The half has not been told about the Inunda­ tion of the Mississippi valley. For a distance of 1,000 miles it Is under water to a width at from ten to 120 miles. No such flood has eo- currcd in history, according to the accounts of old river men. The Times' correspondent baa talked with several old pilots and Captains, and with one accord all unite in saying that the overflows of 1862, 1867 and 1874 did not compare with the floods which are now laying waste hundreds of thousands of acres of the most fertile land the sun ever shone on. In 1817 there was s great overflow of the Missis­ sippi, but less damage resulted than has al­ ready occurred this spring. The freshet has been gathering m force for two mouths. The Illinois, Wabash, Ohio, Tennessee, Cumberland, on tho east, and the St. Francis, White, Arkan­ sas and Ited rivers on the west, together with scores and hundreds of lesser streams, have been emptying torrents into the Father of Waters for a long tune. Since the 1st of Janu­ ary the fall of rain has been continuous throughout the whole region west of the Aile- gheoies tuid the southern extension of that range, and south of- a line running east and and west through Central llliuoin. The deluge has averaged from ten to twenty-five inches on a dead level. Insignificant creefai have swollen to the proportions of raging rivers. Through Southern Missouri and liiiiww -it has m* been so bad, but in Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana the destruction of bridges sad roads, to say nothing of buildings and other property, has been enormous and be­ yond computation. The flood has been httle less disastrous ia many sections than the war. The greated eaJfering on aooonnt of the flood ia found between Memphis and Vtoks- burg. The section of liver country in Kan- taflkf- and Tennessee is overflowed, and the in - habitants are living on rations contributed by the Government and by benevolent societies. A. far sooth as the Miiis«ppi line, the bluffy or highlands, aa a general thing, are sot farther beak than a sails or two. aad oftentimes above the mala ehaaael of the river. After passing on the way south, the face of ttafe are to be acRK TWr isTSbTafiBett Cf on the wool rids of the Mlssisrippi, from point above Cairo totheguU, Excepting the town ot Kilwia IA" Is'lew, fiat lai on either sfdo of the mr, extending f from twenty to seventy Hi te and one hum BsUes. This In--n»n oottMjy is «ader water, tad almost Isolated from tit resttaf the world; and hat far the forests iTfroulijM simply# _ ___ Tl»» i a mountain 'Iff m boiluM ,y railroad > ^ „ , cutting * •with of destruction thfSHgh tbk State irons one remote eocner to the other. The sufferings of the population of the Mississippi snd Arkank sas inundated districts have not been sxaggei' rated nor adequately described ; they haveonlm> been guessed at. Thousands of families living! a few miles back from the river >n httle Kettle*,;# ments for twenty, thirty, forty and even fift# miles in the interior, have been dut off f&oni ̂ succor for the reason that they h*ve no mean#: • of letting the weHd know their attaationv and because those who *re safe can not reach them with provisions. The loss of hfa is already known to have been large, and th ̂WV lowest estimate pisoes the number at 100. Thft» Government relief boats cannot resch tha . ' places where the suffering is greatest Theyr' can only toaob at a few of the landings ̂ ; Thousands of human beings are left hke^rown** ' - tag fats to parish. The p!6tur#is ndt ovwpr drawn. The victims deferred fleeing to thfc-\. highlands until it was too inte, trusting thajp' every inch of rise in the inland sea would marf^Ci ; , flood tide. The cruel waters keptpreeping u» V and opt and encroaching upon, territory thai- had been considered safe, and finally cuttii off means of escape and surrounding them wit a dead waste off back-water. The grouni saturated to its full limit held the water like & cement floor. It can only get out the way ij, • came--by flowing back again into the Missu**'- sippi. Capt. Corville, of the steamer Dick Jones, hi ! ust arrived from St Francis and the sm ands, and tells a tale of woe almost incredibl There is very little COntinuhication betweei those points and Helena, and thus far no aii had reached the people from without. The pie of these district* are chiefly white. The cultivate a good grade of cotton and were well: off. Now they are drifting about on rafts with- no subsistence whatever, actually starving, anft even devouring dead beasts that have beeik,,: floating in the water for several days. A#:/ their carcasses pass them, they are eagerljf" sought after and devoured. The bodies of tt dead animals have large slices cut fron tnem where the starving have been butchering them. For 300 miles there is not ible a spot of land, except four India! mounds, which rise so high that their tops out of water. The Tyronga is tributary to thii St Francis, and ia settled by families from Ken­ tucky and other Southern Stifles. Above shi* small tributary is Little river and Buffalo island, where here and there settlements are to hfe, found. These, of course, are like thai others. They cry piteously for help and food, but it is heart-rending to see strong men give way under their afflictions. They havii literally nothing of their former homes left; and they are now roaming about in the wate%; exposed to the fury of the wind and weatliea.' and with no food. The rations sent from herja a' ew days since to their relief did not reach sp- far, so many hundreds between here and then* meeting and looking for the supplies, and th were wholly insufficient to fill the demam When supplies reach them they will have to placed on the tops of the Indian mounds, aa these are the only possible landings. v The Great Growth of Hormonigm. The growth of the sect is absolutely wonderful. In 1860 its number waa 40,000 ; in 1870, 87,000 ; to day it is not less than 250,000 in Utah and the ad­ jacent Territories. Its progress has eclipsed even that of Methodism ; an<| in ppite of the Pacific railroad?, th# death of Brigham Young and 'the gen­ eral spread of enlightenment and fric­ tion of ideas, all of which were confix dently expected to hasten its decline, Mormonism is to-day stronger, more ag­ gressive and more active than ever.-- From an address in San Franciwif^b}/ Dr. Jewell. Senator Ben Hill Dying. WASHINGTON, March IS. Senator Ben' Mill to-day remarked that life was all behind him, and he was only waiting *' for the end. He is temporarily easier than a few days ago. His friends have no hope of hj§ permanent improvement. He has undergone c four operations. The first was the moval of a small wart-like excrescence on th* - si^e of the tongue; the second waa the removal of about one-fourth of tha : tongue and entire floor of the mouth, and tha third, a hard and painful kernel developed ia the posterior part of the mouth, was removed;- It was afterward discovered tnat the parotid gland was affected. It swelled and becamK violently inflamed. The symptoms wero s» violent that tho gland was removed. From < this time the patient steadily failed, cancer b<*» ing a commonly fatal disease in his family. IN most persons a revaecinatioti should be performed, as a matter of precaution,̂ about once in five years, and in addition* whenever small-pox is epidemic. Tha protection which vaccination aiforda against small-pox is sometimes absolute and permanent. Modified small-pot (varioloid) often occurs in vaccinate^: persons, but severe small-pox, after m recent and thorough vaccination is ex­ ceedingly rare, except in cases in which the vaccination was done after the sys- tern had become infected with small­ pox. SENATOR HOAR, of' Massachusetts, ia a man with respectable white sido» whiskers. His style is lucid, smooth and classical. It is entirely without. color or warmth, and when he becomes impulsive he is simply bitter, incisiv* and intensely cold, ana his declamation is like a hail-storm. Senator Hoar ha* an idea that ia being classical of style b*> is without faults. He is as oool as iced vinegar. ' THE MARKETS. .••91 « « f l " «... !! ® 1* i--Superfine....... 3 • @4 35 t-Ka>8piiu. . n .w< I t § 1 " 80 13* xx«r m BHTM ;.... Hoos. COTTOK. Fwu»--Etaperfit WnitAT--Ho. 9 Spring. 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