Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS, Lieut. Thomas Gaivey, U. S. A., who has just returned to Washington from Ireland win* e he has been on a visit to his mother and relatives, was interviewed by a Pont reporter. Ho dcscrilca the sufferings and destitution as ven exceeding the published accounts, and Bays that Ireland is iu a very unsettled state. The people have become indifferent through oppression, and , exhibit an unconcerned, crushed feeling that trades no good. Ho predicts that the suffering must last at least six ■months longer, until the next crops, and says that every cent which can bo raised is needed. He also states that, when the landlords comtneuco a general eviction, the people will resist, and general trouble will ensue. Ofctero, the won hi- bo assassin of the Kpiuish King, has been sentenced to death. Cremieux, a Republican life Senator *>l France, and a statesman of note, is dead, at tbo age of 84 yens. The French steamer Valentine, from Cardiff for Dieppe, lias foundered. (Sixteen parsons were drowned. There wero over 100,000 deaths by cholera in Japan last year. Tiio»cattlo plague has reached the inferior of China. The St. Petersburg police have seized another Nihilist printing press. The Empress of Austria gave SI,OOO •to tho Irish relief fund. Gen. Grant left Cuba for Mexico on the 13th inst. Advices from St. Petersburg siate that the c’.audewliue revolutionary agitation at the Russian capital and elsewhere throughout the empire has actively increased, and that the feeling of opposition to the aristocracy is strengthening despite all the efforts made by the Government for tho suppression of its manifestations. Tho total expenses and loss of resources to Franc) from the Fiasco-German war was 13/. 139, <.VO, 000 francs. In the speech from tho throne, on the opening of the German Parliament, on the 13th inst., it was announced that tho principal mea-.uiofi which tho Government would bring forward relate to tho army, the Socialists and commercial treaties with tho South Boa islands.

The olToot of the revival of business in this country is beginning to ho felt iu England. London diipatchos report trade as rapidly improving. German newspapers defend the proposed increase of the army on the ground that it is lioness'lly to keep pace with tho armies of Franco and Russia. It is reported that Persia co.ntcmpla'es onJarg ug her territory by adding a slice of Afghanistan, and tha England will not oppose tho st"p. The proposition in the French Chamber of D. piities for complete ainne>-*.y to tho /tomruunists has boon dofon*-'* ,j y a voto of rrlncc Louis Napoleon is to be monuniontcd in Westminster Abbey. Germany will continue tho antiBociilis'. laws until l*8t». It is reported that Germany, Austria and England have entered into an alliance. Gen. Grant and party experienced a railrovl incident in Cuba. When proceeding from Las Can as to Havana by special train the 100 nuo'ivo struck a cow, tho cars going off tho track on an embankment, hut luckily without furious consequences. Tho Baroness Burdett-Coutts has determined to devote $2,500,000 of her groat fortune to tho amelioration of the condition of tlie poor farm-tenants of Ireland. Her plan is to purchase lands and lease the same to the small tenants at moderate rates of rental. England is believed to be scheming for a protectorate over I’orsia. The Duchess of Marlborough writes io the Mayor of London that, in order to guard against famine in Ireland next yoar, tho committee has purchased £IO,OOO worth of potatoes for distribution, probably for planting. Russia is endeavoring to negotiate a heavy loan in Rerlin and Paris.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. The City Hall at Aibanv, N. Y., has beea destroyed by tiro. Many of the public records were burned. ' The venerable Thurlow Weed had his pocket picked of S3OO while riding on a New York street car the other day. Burglars entered the First National Bank of Westport, Ct, a few nights age, handcuffed and gagged the night watchman, and blow open the safe. The explosion awakened many poople in the vicinity of the bank, and the burglars became aiarmed and decamped without profiting largely by the job. They secured about $4,000 in money. Tho Maine Fusion Deputy Secretary of Htate lias been held for trial in bonds of SSOO, at Augusta, on a chargo of stealing tho tabulated legislative election returns. Samuel G. Arnold, of Rhode Island, ex-Uuitod States Senator and ex-L'eutenant Governor, is dead John Kelly, the big sachem of Tarnmany, fell while alighting from a street-car, in Now York, the other day, and dislocated one of his shoulders. Kemmler, who killed his three children in Holyoke, Mass., last June, has been adjudgod insane. Stephen Longfellow, who was indicted for forging the name of his uncle, tho poet, has defaulted bis bail of SI,OOO and gone to South America. Three colored women garroted and robbed a retired New York merchant, in the streets of that city, a few nights ago. West. By the reckless use of a pistol a young man named John Barker killed John Lear and Berry Hardy near Cnoperstown, 111. It appears that Barker was drunk, and drew his revolver and tired two shots at rauclora, each shot killing a man. The shooting is said ♦ e have been accidental. In each instance tho ball penetrated tho brain and caused instant death. No quarrel or ill feeling is reported, nor anything to justify the killing. AH tho parties wore farmers, and belonged to respectable families. A large malt house at Detroit was demolished the other day by the explosion of a boiler Three men were buried beneath the , ruins. Capt. Ashley Brown, Cashier in the In-ternal-Revenue Office of the Dayton (Ohio) district, has proved a defaulter to the amount of several thousand dollar?. Eleven murderers are in jail in Chioag", awaiting trial,

The Normal School at San Jose, Cal., has been burned, causing a loss of #350,000. The national association of wagon manufacturers, in session in Chicago last week, agreed to advance prices 10 per cent, over the rates established last December. Jacob Frye, a prominent citizen of Peoria, 111., was shot dead in the streets of that city the other day, by his son-in-law, Luther B. McKinney. Thetroubi e arose from the fact that Mrs. McKinney ha t loft her husband and had applied for a divorce. After he was shot Frye fired two shots, breaking McKinney’s arm. In Ban Francisco, the other day, a procession of workingmen marched to the Central Pacific Railroad Company’s office and demanded tho dismissal of all Chinamen employed by that corporation. The officers of tlie company stated that they would take tho matter under advisement. By the collapse of an elevator on the corner of Sixteenth and Dearborn streets, Chicago, 133,000 bushels of wheat were spilled out upon the ground, and a twelve-stone mill, adjoining the building, was ruined. The loss is estimated at $300,000. The elevator was a now oue, and had been iu operation but a few weeks. A newspaper war at Hollister, Cal., culminated in tlie fatal shooting of B. 11. Brummett, editor of the Enterprise, by G. W. Carleton, editor of the Telegraph. Tlieieis great mortality among the bees of Central Illinois, and many apiarists have abandoned the business in despair. Jacob Sell, a soldier under Napoleon, has just died at \Vaiumca, Wis. He was at Waterloo and in the retreat from Moscow. Archbishop Furcell has immured himsplf in a convent in Brown county, Ohio. A Columbus (Ohio) dispatch of the Kith inst. says: Tlie following joint resolution was offered in the Senate on Saturday-by Mr. Harper:

Wiikhkak, A combination lias been entered into and exists anions: the paper manufacturers of the country, whereby the price of print-paper lias recently been advanced some 40 per cent, without any just reason therefor; therefore, be it lie,Halved, By the General Assembly of tlie State of Ohio, that bur Senators in Congress be instructed and our Representatives requested to vote in favoi of tho passage of the bill now pending in Congress to remove the duty on paper imported into this country to be used in printing boons, pejiodicals and newspapers. The resolution wag laid on the table and ordered printed. The great interest shown in tho matter lias attracted tho attention of the General Assembly, and tlio pressure bemg brought to bear by the newspapers and pub-lishing-houses is ro great that it is probable the resolution will be brought up at an early day and pissed. Capfc. Rucker’s column, pursuing Victoria’s baud of hostiles in New Mexico, lias met with a reverse. The savages opened fire on the troops in a canon, and the latter retreated, losing several men and all their bedding and supplies. Gov. Hoyt, of Wyoming Territory,’ has made himself very much disliked. Charges character. A few nights since a large party of men hauled a heavy cannon in front of tho Governoi’s residence, at Cheyenne, and stationed it at the gate, pointing outward. The American (lag was displayed tlioroon; also two placards reading: “The Governor must bo protected at all hazards; women must be respected, regardless of color.” This display of warlike material caused great excitement among tho Cheyonnites, and there was talk of makiDg an assault upon the Governor’s forces and capturing tlie gun. There is intense fading throughout Wyoming against Hoyt. The entire press, with only two exceptions, demands his immediate removal.

By tho burning of a large warehouse on Market and Jackson streets, Chicago, nearly $5'.)0,000 worth of property was reduced to ashes. Field, Loiter & Co., John V. Farwell & Co., and Chapin & Gore were tho principal losers. From the Ist of November to the 15tli of February Chicago packers slaughtered and salted 2,1.3(1,000 hogs, against 707 for the same period last season. Mr. H. P. Alien, a retired merchant of Sandwich, Ilk, was murdered in his bed by two men who broke into the house and proceeded at once to Ids bedroom. Slouth. The cotton factory of Lehman, Durr A- Co., at Prattville, Ala., has been destroyed by fire. Loss, SIOO,OOO. A duel between two women at Hancock, Va., recently, resulted in the probable fatal wounding of both. Theirquarrel was over a young man. Tho two Virginia women who, armed with a club and a pitchfork, fought a duel, last week, have both died from tho effects of the injuries then received. A tornado at Nashville, Tenu.,caused serious damage to properly.

POLITICAL POINTB. Tho New York Times, of the 10th inst., says editorially: A near personal and political friend of ex-President Grant, who doubtless knows whereof be speaks, authorizes the following as a correct statement of tho General's position with reference to tho Presidency. He says: ‘"Gen. Grant is not now T , nor has he ever been, a candidate for the Presidential nomination. But should tho Republican National Convention nominate him iu the same manner as any other candidate, lie would doem it his duty to the country and party to accept. Traveling abroad, ho was a stranger to the contest now going on for the Presidential nomination, and has written no letters on tho subject to any person, and all assertions to the contrary are without founda'ion in fact.” The Detroit Evening News publishes reports from sixty towns in Michigan, outside Detroit, giving the result of interviews with leading Republicans as to Presidential favorites. Summirized, these preferences aggregate as follows: Blaine, 1,(E0; Grant, 827; Sherman, (111; Wasliburne, 5(5. From this it appears that per cent, of the preference of Michigan Republicans is for Blaine; 2(> l .< per cent, for Grant; 20 per cent, for Sherman; and 2 per cent, for Wasbburne. The Chicago Times has been canvassing, through the medium of its correspondents, the Republicans of Illinois as to their Presidential preferences. Republican voters to the number of several thousands wore sounded in over half the counties of the State. The result shows Blaine far in the van, with Grant a good second, and Washburne pulling up third. The Sherman boom, if this canvass is reliable, has not struck Illinois. Thomas T. Minor and Thomas Brents have been elected delegates to the Chicago Convention from Washington Territory. MrBronts is a Delegate in Congress from Washington Territory, and he and his colleague are Blaine men through thiok and thin It is stated from Washington that the Democratic majority of the sub-committee of

the House Committee on Elec'ioLS have agreed to recommend to the committee the unseating of William D. Washburn, the Republican Representative of the Third District of Minnesota, and the seating of Ignatius Donnelly, hisDejnocratic opponent.

The Chicago Tribune states that “upon his return from a trip to New York on business Mr. W. C. Goudy, a member of the Democratic National Committee, reports the feeling in Democratic circles at the East as strongly tending toward Horatio Seymour as tho Presidential candidate, providing he will accept Tiiden is very generally regarded as out of tho race, though still capable of exercising a powerful influence in the choice of & candidate.” Gov. Cornell, of New York, has signed the bill passed by the Legislature of that State permitting women to vote for school officers, and it is now a law. Col. William ¥. Vilas, the silvertongued Wisconsin Democrat, thinks Seymour is the united choice of the Democracy for President. The New Hampshire Republicans will hold their State Convention, to choose delegates to Chicago, on the ti ll of May. Tlio Wisconsin Republican State Convention will meet at Madison on May 5. Beecher is oat for Grant for President. A Washington telegram says : “There was a conference at tlie house of Mr. Blaine, last night, of somo of his declared adherents, the purpose of which is understood in part to have been to determine what position it would be proper for Blaine to take with respect to the Presidential nomination. Tlie result of this conference is said to bo that Blaine has determined that he will immediately begin an earnest campaign, it being admitted on all hands that Grant himself is an aggressive, active card date.”

Senator Wallace thinks the delegates from Pennsylvania to the Democratic National Convention will support Hancock for President. Tho Chicago Journal announces, “authoritatively,” that E B. Washburne desires the nomination of Gen. Grant by tbo Republican National Convection, and that he (Wasliburne) will under no circumstances be a candidate for the nomination so long as Grant is on the track. Mr. Cameron is a candidate for reelection to the Senate from Wisconsin. Blaine’s banner has been flung to the breeze, and tho headquarters of the National Blaine Club have been opened at Washington. A Sherman club lia3 been organized in New York. Blaiue authorizes the statement that he will under no circumstances accept a nomination for th 3 Vice Presidency. He will have first place or none. The Harvard University students have recorded their preferences for President, as follows: Bayard, 233; Grant, 140; Sherman, 139; Blaine, Garfield, IS; Tiiden, 17; Evarts, 9; anti-Grant, 0; scattering, 47. Total, 700. There was a somewhat notable political grdhcaing in New York the other evening. It first took the shape of a banquet, in honpr of Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada, given at Delnionico’s by ex-Senator S. W. Dorsey, of Arkansas. Fifty-one prominent Republicans, including Senators Conkliug. Don Cameron, Booth, VVindom, and Allison, wore present. The party resolved itself into a sort of caucus after the dinner, when it was found that forty were for Grant and eleven for Blaine for President.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Reagan’s Inter-State Commerce bill lias beendefeate 1 in tho House Commerce Committee by the historical vote of 8 to 7. Mr. Morrison, Chairman of tho Ways and Means Committee, expresses the opinion that the committee, when it can reach the subject, will certainly favorably report to the House for passage Col Fort’s bill providing for a reduction of the price of printing paper. The President, with the approval of tho Cabinet, lira decided to alow Maj. Reno to resign. Secretary Sherman informs the public that until further notice proposals for the sale of $1,000,000 worth of bonds to Ihe Government on sinking-fund account will be received on Wednesday of each week at the subtreasury in New York eitv. The select committee of the House upon tne alcoholic liquor traffic have instructed Representative Brewer io report a bill to the House providing for the appointment of a commission of ten members to investigate the subject, to servo without pay, and to be selected irrespective of their views upon the liquor traffic. The bll also appropriates SIO,OOO for tho expenses of the commission. President Hayes has issued a proclamation notifying all persons intending to settle in Indian Territory, in violation of the law’s, that they will be prevented from so doing by the military forces of the Dnitcd States. The Inter-State Commerce Committee of the House kavo adopted Representative Henderson’s bill as a substitute for Reagan’s bill. As ilie Committee on Ways and Means does not appear inclined to take up the bill reducing the duty on paper, Mr. Fort says be will endeavor to have the measure passed some Monday under a sttspension of the rule-. The paper manufacturers are confident that it will be impossible to pass the bill. Senator Lamar has returned to Washington, but in a very feeble condi don.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Railroad earnings during the month of January were very large, only three lines showing a decrease from the receipts during the correspondirg month in ISIS*. Two men were killed and four dangerously injured, at Montreal, by the explosion of a bo ler in a paper-mill. F. D. Moulton, the mulual friend in tho Bee;her-Tilton case, has been elected President of the International Dairy Fair Association. The nail-makers have again advanced the price of nails. The card rate is now $5.25 per keg. The Canadian Parliament met on the 12th inst. A financial plan has been agreed upon by the Directors of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and tho St. Louis and San Francisco roads for the building of the thirty-fifth parallel route to the Pacific coast. Tho new line will be known as tho Atlantic and Pacific. Mahlon D. Ogden, an old and wealthy citizen of Chicago, is dead. The International Scientific Commission of Engineers has reported to D# Lesseps that his canal project is entirely feasible, They estimate the cost at $170,000,000.

Casualties: J. P. Chester and Geo. Thompson broke through the ice in Geneva lake, Wis., and were drowned. August Ragden and James Patrick were drowned in the Ohio river, at Jeffersonville, Ind., by the upsettmg of a skiff. Three men were suffocated in Baltimore harbor by the exhalations from a barge load of night soiL Two boys named McLean apd Johnson were skating on a pond near Jlnesville, Wis., and found a watery grave beneath the rotten ice. The Mormon Elder Thatcher has returned to the United States somewhat disappointed in his mission. The Mexican Government will protect the Mormons in their worship, but not in polygamy. The exports of petroleum and petroleum products were two-tbirds larger in December, 1879, lhan in the same month in 1878. There were 113 accidental deaths in the mines in the Schuylkill (Pa. ) district during the past year, against 87 the previous year.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. On reassembling on Monday, Feb. 9, the Sonata ordered printed and referred a set of resolutions of the Louisiana Legislature declaring that Kellogg was not legally elected Senator, and that Spofford was, and should have the sea*. Mr. Logan, from tho Committee on Military Affairs, pres nted a minority report on the bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter. Mr. Wall a- e introduced a hill to prohibit the arrest ot election officers on election day. /’he pill to revive and continue tho Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims was taken up, and Mr. Davis, of Illim i-, Mr. Edmunds, Mr. Blaine, Mr. Garland and Mr. Thurman spoke upon the subject. Mr. Thurman, from tho Committee on the Judiciary. reported adversely the bill to provide for an additional Circuit Judge lor ttie Lighih Judicial District. Indefinitely postponed. Also, from tho same committeo. ad,v< r.-cly on tbo joint resolution authorizing the President to veto parts of appropriation bills. Placed on the calendar.... In the House, the following bills were introduced: By Mr. Kelley, aut orizing the Secretary of tho Treasury to issue new bonds to the holders of bonds that may become redeemable in 1H31; also for tho issue of additional coupons to tho hoi ers of redeemable United States bonds; by Mr. Ward, authorizing the Secretary ot tho Navy to designate a United Hates vessel to carry con ributious to Ireland free of charge; by Mr. Spear, to prevent general legislation on the \ppropria ion bills: by Mr. Youu/, creating the Department of Manufactures, Mechanics and Mines; by Mr. Kitchen, to remove tho duty on iron and steel: by Mr. Itico. to establish a i oard of Commissioner of intrr-Stato commerce: by Mr Hutchins, providing that the term of office of the Chief Supervisor of E'cctl'Ui shall be two years, also proliibiting tlie arrest of el* ction officers on elect on day; l»y Mr. Keifer, for a commission of inquiry info the cause, and for the prevention of, contagious diseases among domestic an mats: by Mr. Barker, to promote colonization in the public domain; by Mr. Buckner, to reduce the duty on printing an i other paper; also, for refunding part of the (I per cents, of 1881; by Mr. Sapp, to transfer to the States the title to all islands, beds of unnavigablo lakes, bayous, etc., which were “meandered” at the time of the public-land surveys; by Mr. Deuster, for a uniform rule and certificate of naturalization; by Mr. White; to reduce and reorganize the army. A bill for an additional land district in Kansas was passed. Mr. Thomas, of Illinois, from the Comniittte on the Revision of Laws, introduced and had jiassed under a suspension of tho rules a bill to r gulate tlie praciice in suits brought to recover dam aces for infringements of patents. The balance of the day was taken up in the discussion of the Hot Springs lloservaticn biil, no conclusion being reached.

Tho House joiut resolution appropriating $20,000 to enable the United States to be represented at the International l'\sh Exhibition at Berlin next Apri'was pissed by the Senate on tlie 10th. port the body of Maj. Gen. ikes f cun T exas to West Point. The regular order, the bill to atitfcoriz i the Secretary of the Treasury to asc r tain the amount of land located on military warrants in certain S ates, was taken up. Mr. Edmunds opposed the bill and moved its indefinite postpon -ment. He spoke at 1.-ngth. T 1 e bill authorizing the Secretary of the Into ior to deposit Indian trust funds iu the treasury of the United States, and to draw the interest stipulated by treaty or prescribed by lawin lieu of investment, was passed. A second minority report upon tlie case of Fitz John Porter was presented by Mr. B irnsido. recommending a new trial. The President nominated Frank H. Mason, of Ohio, to be Consul at Basle, Switzerland.... In the House, Mr. F. Wood reported a resolution calling on the Secretary of tho Treasury tor all evidence touching the enforcement of the In ternal-Revemie laws in Northeast Georgia, and it was adopted. Mr. Conger reported back a bill for tlio relief of colored emigrants, which was passed. The. Hot Springs bill was then passed after discussion. Ihe President was called on by resolution for the correipondence w th foreign Governments in regard to the interoceanic canal. Mr. Eeltzhoover introduced a bill, which was referred, providing for general amnesty-.

Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Claims, in (he Senate, on the morning of the 11th, reported adve«fiely on the bill granting a pension to the widow of the late Gen. Caster. At the request of Mr. Ferry it was placed on the calendar. Mr. Garland, from the Committee on Judiciary, reported a bill to amend the Reviesd Statutes iu refer.nee to bigamy an 1 polygamy. The Friz John Porter bill was made the order for Monday next. The resolution calling for correspond. nee with foreign Governments in regard to t e Panama canal was passed, as was the bill readjusting certain Postmasters’ s laries. The Vice President, laid before the Senate a le:t>.r from the sver. t ryot War recommending an appropriation of $ 10,000 for tho construction of perma nmt brick buildings for quarters for troops at Fort Leavenworth. Kan. Discussion was resumed on the bill authorizing the ascertainment of the amount of lan I located on military warrant, el ~ and Mr. Edmunds and Mr. McDonald sjioke. The President nominated Ge6rge Baldery to be Register of the Land Office at Now Orleans: W.lliara M. liur.ieii to be Receiver of Public Moneys at New Orleans; Charles G. I’ell.nap to I e Indian Agent i.t the Title River Agtney. Califo nia. and Wiiliani Whiting, o£ Illinois. io hi Indian Agent at the Ponca Agency, Indian Tenitoiy... .11l the House, Mr. Price submitted ilia r q ort of tne Committee on Banking and urr in y upon the itfairs of the German National bank nf Chicago. The (Linage Committee repot ted a bill upon the value of foreign coins, which was ordoi i d printed and recommitted. Con.“id ration was then resumed of the Court-Re-moval I ill. b it tlie biii went over without action, and the II .use went into committee of the whole upon the revision of the rules. Mr. Whittnorne introduced a bill providing for a commission for the exam instil n of tho existing and proposed rules for preventing collisions on water, and for framing such rules as shall be iu consonance with ai d i:i furtherance of tho interests of international law.

On the assembling of she Senate on Thursday, Fob. 12, Mr. Saunleri introduced a bill to abolish all the duties on the importation of salt, and Mr. Garland another to exiend the time for the completion of tho Texas and Pacific railway. Committee reports were made iu favor of an elevator in (lie Government building at Tnclianapolis; for the incorporation of the National Educational Association; and adversely on the resolution for the appointment of a ioint committee to investigate the present system of salaries, fees and emoluments allowed officers of the United States, and to ascertain if any abuses exist. Sometime was spent upon the private calendar; after which the discussion was renewed upon the bill in regard to bounty land, Mr. McDonald andMr.Th rmau speaking. Several clerks in the Interior Department were authorized. Mr. Blaine introduced a resolution calling for information touching the alleged false statistics and fabricated testimony imposed upon the Halifax Commission, and used as a basis of their award in the matter of she fisheries, which was adopted. Adjourned until Monday....ln the House, Mr. Stej'hens, of the Coinage, Weights and Measures Committee, reported back five bills relative to the metric Bystem of coinage. The bill provides, Si’st, for the coinage of metric gold coin, to be called the “Stella.” of the value of $4; s cond, for the coinage of the goloid metric dollar, $2 and fractions of a dollar, and also the coiuage of a metric gold double eagle, eagle and half eagle, all of a standard value; third, for the mintage of lngois of metric gold alloy, its deposit in the treasury and the issue of certificates therefor; fourth, for tha making of ingots of fine gold and ingot 3 of fine silver of the value Of SIOO each for exportation, manufactures, etc.; fifth, for the coinage of 3ilver dollars and fractions thereof of the full standard value upon the metric system. A resolution was passed authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish the States, for the use of agricultural colleges, one set of standard weights and measures. The resolution calling for information in regard to a pending treaty with China was adopted. 'The morniDg hour expiring, consideration was resumed of the revision of the rules, and a long discussion upon political amendments to appropriation bills was had.

The senate was not in session on the 13th inst., and in the House very little of general interest was transacted. On motion of Mr. Torrey, the Senate amendments to the Military Academy Appropriation bill were non-coucurred In. Mr, Welle, from the Committee os Appro, priatione, reported back a bill making as appro* priation of SIBO,OOO for the support of certain In*

dian tribes during the present fiscal year, and it pas ed. A resolution was adopted ca ling for information in regard to an in<er-oceanic canal. Mr. Price offered a resolution calling for information as to whether any railr 'ed companyotherthan theCbicago, Kick island and Pacific Kailroad Company has made application for the right to use the Government bridge • ver the Mississippi river at Rock Island, wl irli ado; td. The House thin went into comnii ,tee on the private calendar. The Senate was not in session on Saturday, Feb. 14 and in the House only talking for buncombe was indu’ged iu. Three or four set speeches were delivered, mostly up an the finance question, hardly any one being present except the speakers.

SENATE EX ODETS INVESTIGATION. Synopsis of tlio Testimony Elicited by the Voo:.*liees Committee. F. J. Lofton (colored), oJ Kenster, N. 0., testified to the good treatment of the colored people by the whites in North Carolina, and stated that white Republicans generally in hi i county (Lenoir) are opposed to the exodus of the blacks. J. H. Russell, an undertaker from Indianapolis, testified that within a period of two months there had been interred at the public expense from twenty-live to thirty men, women and children from among the colored emigrants who had arrived at Indianapolis from North Carolina. They were all buried as paupers at an average expanse to the county of $5.15. From reports brought to him by men in bis employ, aud from his own observation, he could ’ say there was great destitution among the emigrants iu Indianapolis. James E. Baker, of Indianapolis, a Democrat and clerk in the Btate Auditor’s office, testified that he bad an interview with a colored emigrantfrom North Carolina, named Heath, in which he deceived Heath by representing himself as a Republican, and that he induced Heath to make a sworn statement, which was produced and identified by witness. Heath in this statement says, among other things, “ We have been instructed to get away from North Carolina by the Ist of next June (’80), so that our numbers will show in the next census.”

S'ott Ray, editor of the Shelbyville (Ind.) Democrat, testified as follows: “ 1 had a conversation with Henry S. Byers, ex-Chairminof the Republican Central Committee of Shelby county, Jan. 25, in the city of Shelbyville, in the piesence of Edward Small and George M. Goulding, two of the leading merchants of the city, in which Byers said: ‘There is no disguising the fact, Ray, that tho exodus movement of colored men to Indiana is a political movoment of the Republican party, as 1 know it to be a fact. Wo intend to carry Indi-> ana with tho aid of tlie negro vote, and if the Republican party had taken my advice six years ago they would have set the movement on foot' and brought them here long ago. We intend to bring 8,000 of them into the State in time for them to vote this fall, and will place them in the close Congressional districts. While it is rather expensive, it is cheaper for the party than to he compelled to buy votes on tne day of election, as we have always had to do. I asked him if ho was iu a position to know whether it was an orgau ; zed effort of tho Republican managers to bring them into the State for political purposes, and he said lie was, and then produced a letter with ihe name of a leading Republican of the State Central Committee printed upon it, hut refused to read its contents. ”

Hughes E iR, of Indianapolis, ident'fied papers writ'on by himself and subscribed to by two colored emigrants from North Caro!ini, stating that the latlerweio induced tocometo ludiana by representations of Perry and Williams, the North Carolina agitators, who told them Indiana was a Democratic State, and they wanted emigrants to vote tho Republican ticket, because Democrats w'to usiug offices for fraud and corruption. Perry, in particular, sai 1: “We want no Democrat negroes, FiT’ ft d l ana. * 1 ’TS as t l oiea "Yui't!iie r'*tn at, iu conversation with these aud several other einigr nts, they all expressed a desire to return to North Carolina. Gen. M. D. Manson, Slate Auditor of Indiana, testified that some of the colored emigrants in Indianapolis seem to think that tlie Democratic State officials have a fund which they can and will use to send emigrants back to North Carolina, so as to get their votes out of the State. On the subject of labor demand, be said there was an abundance of undeveloped agricultural and mining resources in the State, but to develop tlieso- both additional capital and labor wci c needed, and not paupers.

PAPER DUTIES. A I reposition lo Repeal Taxes on anil Knowledge. Washington, Feb. 11. Tho representatives of tho paper manufacturers have become alarmed at the bill introduced by Col. Fort to reduce the price of paper, and at the gmoral opposition manifested by the newspaper press to this increase, and are preparing to contest at every point the Fort bill. Loiters have been received here indicating that the Eastern paper manufacturers arc already preparing statistics and arguments which will soon bo sent here for use before the Y/ays and Means Committee to endeavor to defeat the bill. Tho friends of the Fort bill should prepare themselves to meet tho arguments against that measure already prepared. Bome of the representatives of the paper interest are already here. Mr. Buckner introduced a bid on this subject yesterday, which goes a little further than CoL Fort’s bill, and includes sized as well as unsized paper in the proposition for a reduction. His bill provides to reduce the duty on paper as follows; On sized paper suitable for printing, 5 per cent, ad valorem; unsized paper, for newspapers, books, pamphlets, etc., 5 per cent, ad valorem; manufactured paper, or of which paper is the constituent part, not otherwise provided for, 15 per cent, ad valorem; sheathing paper, 5 per cent, ad valorem; paper boxes and all other fancy paper, 15 per cent, ad valorem; paper envelopes, and othor fancy paper, tho same; papier macho, 20 per cent.

Washington, Feb. 1(5. There has been no action taken with respect to the Fort bill reducing the tariff on paper. Mr. Fort says that be has recently received a number of letters from persons interested in the manufacture of paper, most of them protesting against his bill. He has received market newspaper articles severely criticising his bill, but these are merely from high-tariff localities. Some of the papers, however, have been undergong a change of heart on the question since its agitation was begun. Mr. Fort has talked with several members of tlie Ways and Means Committee, who look with favor on his bill. It is 1 kely that tho committee will report the bill favorably to tho House, after which its fate will, of course, be uncertain. If the committee does not report it to the House. Mr. Fort wiil offer it uudex a sinpension of tho rules, if he can get the floor for that purpose, and force a vote on it. Mr. Fort has bad some communication with paper-men, who claim tney have put up the price because of the heavy duty on the material, such as soda-asli, entering into its manufacture. SI ill this duty is no higher than it was when they were selling paper much lower than now. There is no duty on rags and some other ingredients of paper, and that on soda-ash is what it has been for years. Mr. Fort argues that, if tho duty on soda-asli makes the co3t of paper high, then to take off that duty will help the paper men and enable them to make it more cheaply. Mr Fort says the duty left on paper by bis bill will afford a hand--Bome profit to the manufacturers. The cost of transportation of foreign paper to this country, he thinks, would be ample protection to the manufacturers here. Indeed, if the duly were entirely removed, the paper moil would make a comfortable profit. The bill does not touch any of the fancy papers, and only affects that needed for books and newspapers.

New Remedy for Small-Pox. From numerous experiments madein the great hospital at Posen, Prussia, it appears thst ice is a most effectual remedy against small-pox. One of the patients, in a fit of delirium, escaped to the garden, where the snow lay two feet deep. There ho remained the whole night, with no covering hut his shirt. On the following morning the fever had subsided and the pustules had dried. This strange circumstance attracted the physicians’ attention, and, after consultation, they determined to keep the tem perature of the small-pox wards very low, and apply small quantities of ice to the patient?. The reeulta surpassed their expectations, and at the end of & week alf the patients had recovered.

THE DANGER AHEAD. [Washing'on Cor. New York Sun.] The political prophets who predicted with so much confidence that the machine would be smashed at Harrisburg, because Republican journals protested vigorously against the third term, and because manj counties elected so-called Blaine delegates—that were really Cameron creatures iu disguise—now assume that the composition and the proceedings of the convention were a fatal blow to Grant’s candidature. The solitary fact upon which this assumption rests is the small majority which Cameron was able to muster on the vital tests of comparative strength between the contending factions. A complete and crushing victory was gained, and. that was all that Cameron fought for. He cared nothing for numbers. The action of the convention makes him absolute master of the party organization, and secures him a delegation to Chicago in which there will be no dissenting voice. The new trick of a Committee on Delt gates to the National Convention, interpolated to strengthen Cameron’s hand, and accepted without a murmur by Blaine’s submissive friends, subjects every one to inspection before being certified, and the unit vote rivets the last link in the chain of partisan bondage. What do the managers of the machine care if the Congressional districts go through the empty form of electing delegates to Chicago? Who will heed their noisy protests when they get there, in the face of the action of a regular State Convention? They w'ill never be permitted to go inside the National Convention, and outside they can do no harm. Even if conditionally admitted, in order to make their fall more signal, they would be the first to cry out for “harmony in the party,” as fussy little Gen. Bingham did at Harrisburg, where he c fiiciated in the double capacity of Blaine’s chosen fugleman aud Cameron's confidential fi iend.

Therefore, Grant starts with Pennsylvania at his back, according to the original plan. The convention was called early to do this very business, after the candidate had been paraded over tlie Gauntry, from San Francisco to Philadelphia, to manufacture artificial enthusiasm for the movement. It is easy for those to see now whose eyes were dazzled heretofore that the New York Convention was timed by the managers so as to respond quickly to Pennsylvania, and thus to give the third term a good scnd-i If, with the two great Status of the Atlantic leading, tube soon followed by Illinois,and by others in due time. The resistance iu New York will be far less than in Pennsylvania, because Conkling has his forces better in hand fLon nmnerou naa,or ar least lie lias no organized opposition to confront, such as showed its head at Harrisburg, and which, with courage on the part of Blaine and competent direction, might have been made formidable against the machine. Sentimental Republicans will protest, and the Young Scratchers will threaten to repeat the work of last November on a larger scale next time; but the convention at Utica will do its master’s bidding, and swell the chorus for Grant.

To suppose that the managers of this scheme, who have staked their political future on its success, will now go backward, instead of going forward, is to accuse the boldest and ablest party leaders of idiocy. And tba\ too, after they have won the first imposing triumph intended by its incidents to attract attention aT over the country, to strike rivals with dismay, to inspire the timid with new courage, and to revive faith in Grant’s lucky star. Tire men who audaciously spurn the solemn pledges of their own conventions against a third term, who defy the known convictions of tens of thousands of honest Republicans, and who despise every voice of remonstrance, are not the men to halt on the road upon which they have started. Nor are they likely to be alarmed by essays on the traditions or the republic, nor by we'l-worded resolulions dec aring against lire dictation of an offensive oligarchy. To retreat after what has already been done, leaving out of view that which is very sure soon to rol'ow, would bring rnin and disgrace on Mr. Conklihg as tire chief leader and directing mind of the movement.

He is forced, by the necessity of tire situation, to move on in a straight line toward his objective point without deflection,’Smd without a sign of distrust about his ability to reach it surely. Hence there is no special merit in being seemingly brave when no alternative is offered. But, whatever else may be said of Mr. Conkling, he is entitled to the credit of lraviDg a supreme scorn for public opinion in the pursuit of his objects. If it be deemed at all expedient to pass the Potter bill for choosing electors by districts, he will give the order, and it will be obeyed promptly and cheerfully. The Chicago Convention will be carried by the disciplinary methods just witnessed in Pennsylvania, and which will be repeated in a fc-w w r eeks in New York, and later in Illinois. In the view of the politician, nothing succeeds like success. The packed and sham delegations from the South, made up of officeholders and dependents, will not hold together an hour, once they are launched at Chicago. They know very well that after the convention Sherman will have no further use for them, and after March 4, 1881, he will be powerless and in private life, even if disposed to help them. They will sell out to the highest bidder, and go over in a body to Grant.

Without some unforeseen accident Grant may be regarded as the coming candidate of the Republican parly, the political prophets to the contrary notwithstanding. His managers hold that the people of this country have very little to do with elections, and that both parties arc run by machines, which nom inate candidates and compel voters to take one or the other. They think, in the present case, that the Democrats will either put up a Bourbon, whom Grant can beat by reviving the sectional issue and breaking the Southern column, or they will attempt a juggle in the Presidential count by Congress, and therefore Grant is the man to meet that contingency, backed by the fraudulent administration.

This suggestion may strike the public ft# Wild. but the leaders do not in* tend to allow a regular Bourbon, if by any chance a candidate could

be elected, to be inaugurated as President. They have seen the country submit to one monstrous fraud, and they are desperate enough, in playing for possession of the treasury, the vast patronage, aud the army of officeholders, to go to the last ex'-remity. We are fast driving to a perilous crisis. If the Democrats should have wisdom enough to combine with the elements of opposition to a third term, and t ) unite the popular sentiment on a candidate, recognized everywhere as having been faithful to the Union when its integrity was assailed, and as being honest, capable, and courageous, the game would be blocked. If this course is not taken, tliero is danger ahead, the extent of which cannot now be measured.