Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Seven persons were killed and thirtythree injured by a railway crash at Wakefield, England. The fighting between the Russians and Turcomans in Central Asia has been very severe, and heavy losses are reported on both sides. Russia maintains, in opposition to the opinion of the French Government, that the powers are bound to abide by the decisions Of the Berlin Conference on the Greek frontier question. The brigading of the various regiments of the Greek army has been ordered> and Russia has been requested to take Greek subjects in Turkey under her protection. Greece evidently means business. A Ireavy snow-storm is reported in the United Kingdom, and the weather is said to have been the severest experienced in twenty years. Several wrecks are reported on the coast. Similar storms prevailed throughout France and Spain, and much damage has been done. The weather in Paris was so cold that there was skating in the Garden of the Tuilleries. The recent storm in England was one of the most violent and destructive ever experienced in the British isles. All the railroads were blocked with snow and the trains stopped running, while in the city of London traffic of all kinds was abandoned. The tide in the Thames river was higher than ever before, and the lower portions of the city were flooded. Woolwich pier was washed away, and over 100 barges sunk. The damage is estimated at $10,000,000. Scores of vessels were wrecked on the coast and many lives lost. The Scottish Heritable Security Company, of Edinburgh, with capital and assets of A'2,000,000, has suspended. A company has been formed in Rondon to establish a line of steamers to be built with special facilities for transporting cattle from the United States. The capital stock is $2,500,000. One of the mines at Red Path, Cornwall, England, was suddenly flooded, an eight minors were drowned. The French Chambers reassembled on the 20th of January, and Leon Say was elected President of the Senate and Gambetta President of the Chamber of Deputies. A terrible battle occurred between the Chilian and Peruvian forces nine miles south of Lima. The Peruvians were defeated and driven from their position with heavy loss. The police of Berlin prohibited a meeting of workmen to protest against the antiJewish agitation, although no interference on the contrary side had been attempted. South American advices report that a decisive battle has taken place at Miraflores, in which the Peruvians suffered an utter rout and the loss of Lima. President Pierola fled, and the Minister of War was taken prisoner. Twenty-five thousand Peruvians were engaged in the action. The Chilian loss was very heavy. An armistice is urged by the diplomatic representatives at Luna. The police of St. Petersburg have bugged the capital stock of another Nihilistic organization, securing two men, two women, a quantity of axes and daggers, and a secret printing-press. E. A. Sothern, the well-known English actor, is dead. A terrific storm prevailed recently on the Mediterranean. It is rumored that fifty smacks have been wrecked. Gladstone announces thatitisthe resolute intention to re-establish British authority in the Transvaal. ■ It is rumored in London that Gladstone is to be created Earl of Hawarden. Eugene Joseph Verbockhoven, the eminent Belgian painter, is dead. Gen. Skobeleti reports having had a desperate battle with Tekke-Turcomans, on Jan. 16, finally repulsing them with great slaughter. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. EastBy the explosion of an oil tank at the Atlanta refinery, near Philadelphia, the wharves, warehouses aud two vessels were burned. A fatal coasting accident occurred in Girardville, in the coal region of Pennsylvania. Miss Mary Cardiff and Miss Honora Dougherty were enjoying the exciting sport, when tiie boy who was guiding their sled lost control of it, seeing his danger, rolled off and escaped. The sled crashed pgainst a telegraph pole, and both young ladies were instantly killed. William H. Westervelt, after completing a term of seven years for conspiracy to kidnap Charley Ross, has been discharged from the Eastern penitentiary at Philadelphia. He pretends that he was utterly innocent of the charge on which he was convicted. Rufus Hatch, the well-known New York capitalist, has begun suit in the New York Supreme Court to prevent the consolidation of the telegraph companies. There is intense indignation among the business men of New York and other Eastern cities over the recent consolidation of the telegraph companies, which will no doubt culminate in the formation of an independent company in opposition to the great monopoly. In connection with this subject, a recent telegram from New York, says the leading business men of that city “ are strongly advocating the management of telegraph linos by the Government. Those who have studied the problem most closely see no remedy against the exactions of this present monopoly except the adoption- Of just such a system as is in use in Great Britain, and they note with pleasure that the idea is being agitated in all parts of the country, particularly in the West.” The Egyptian obelisk has been placed upon its pedestal in Central Park, New York. Secretary of the Navy Goff, Secretary of State Evarts, the Central Park Commissioners, and many representatives of the Masonic fraternityj were among the nearly 10,000 people who witnessed the ceremony. An Erie railway train, having postal and express cars and nine Pullman sleepers, and running at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour, was thrown from the track near Owego, N. Y., by the breaking of a drivingwheel axje of the locomotive. By the explosion of the oil lamps the postal car took fire and burned like tinder, four clerks being roasted to a crisp. The express messenger, Henry C. Brewer, also expired in the flames. The train employes escaped unhurt, but ten members of a colored minstrel company from Binghamton were more or less injured. The mail agents were Messrs. Reidinger, Seybolt, Ingraham and Fox. AVent. A dance at Las Mulas, a small village in New Mexico, ended in a free fight between Americans and Mexicans, in which two of the former weboue of the latter were killed.

A singular and shocking murder was committed Sunday evening, at Lapeer, Mich. While the people were at church, Sirs. Barnard, wife of a prominent lumberman at Greenville, went to the residence of Rev. E. Curtis, attacked his wife, threw her down, poured gasoline over her clothing, and set her on fire. The unfortunate lady was terribly burned, and died within a few hours. A! there was no apparent motive for the crime, it is believed the murderess is insane. J. Philip Krieger, Jr., at one time one >f the prominent men of St. Louis, and exlashier of the defunct Broadway Savings Bank, was found dead in his room at tne Western Hotel in that city. An empty morphine bottle and a letter to his father told that it was a suicide A Creek Indian has arrived at Abrams, Battle river, from Cypress hills, with the re port that six half-breeds and thirty Creeks were killed in a fight with the Sioux. The body of Jeremiah Sullivan was stolen from the Mount Elliott Cemetery, Detroit, and the janitor of the medical college has been arrested for participation in the crime. Near Plain City, Ohio, Mrs. Ophelia Clark, her niece and an adopted son were killed’ with a club. Robert Gaines, a colored man, who formerly lived with them, has been arrested. Capt. George W. Chilson, of the Eighth cavalry, committed suicide at Eagle Pass, Tex., the instrument of death being a re volver. Sitting Ball, having grown tired of negotiating with the military authorities, has started for the British possessions, accompanied by forty lodges. The directors of the Illinois Central road have declared a semi-annual di >idend of 3X P er cent., payable March 1, The New Orleans branch is in position to liquidate its bonded indebtedness of $12,600,000. Floods in Oregon and Washington Territory caused the destruction of half a million dollars’ worth of property. On a decree of foreclosure the Green Bay and Minnesota railroad was sold, at Milwaukee, for $2,000,00), to John I. Blair, for the bondholders. The Illinois State Grange, in session at Freeport, indorsed the Reagan bill to regulate commerce between the States. A mortgage of a colossal character has been filed in the Recorder’s office in Chicago. By its terms the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific n.i'road pledges its entire property for the payment of $50,000,000 to the Central Trust Company, of New York, and James Cheney, of Indiana. The mortgage runs for forty years, with interest at 6 per cent., payable semi-annu-ally. During the progress of a fire on Canal street, Chicago, which destroyed the furniture factory of T. Mayer, one of the walls of the building fell outward, injuring fourteen firemen and a policeman—three or four of the former, it is feared, receiving fatal wounds. A terrible smash-up occurred on the Chicago, R ick bland and Pacific railroad, near Pond Creek, 111. The Omaha express was thrown from the track by a broken rail, and two coaches were completely wrecked. One car took fire from a lamp, and one passenger, Mrs. Kirby, of Nevada, Ohio, was so severely burned that she died. Five others were severely injured, two of them perhaps fatally, and several receives! slight bruises or burns. Two Illinois Central trains, about midnight on Thursday, following their instructions, came to a stop at a weak bridge between Anna and Carbondale. A third train came dashing around the curve, and a fireman and brakeman were killed, an engineer seriously injured, and two engines wrecked. A playful scuffle between a rough and a gambler, at Bodie, Col., ended by their winding themselves about each other and shooting until one was dead aud the other mortally wounded. Jay Gould is said to have purchased an infere. t in the Keokuk Northern Line Packet Company. Application has been made for a receiver for the Missouri River Packet Company of St. Louis. Frederick Kester, who killed his wife at Buckley, HL, was hanged at Danville on Friday, Jan. 21. James M. Walker, formerly President and of late Solicitor of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad, died iu Chicago last week. Reports received at Evansville, Ind., indicate the failure of the wheat crop in Southern Indiana and Illinois. An oil well recently opened at Canon City, Col., yields five to eight barrels per day. Some wealthy citizens of Chicago, among them N. K. Fairbank, George W. Dunlap, Perry IL Smith, George C. Walker, Wirt Dexter, Henry W. King, John B. Lyon, and others, have taken steps to organize a new tel egraph company, to be independent of the Western Union consolidation. Haverly’s New Mastodon Minstrels, after one very successful week at his Chic:go house, will remain for seven days more, the business having justified this change of programme. Haverly’s immense auditor um has been tested to its full capacity the past week, and will doubtless continue the tame way for the present one. South.* Dr. Levin Smith Jones, LL. D., one of the most prominent physicians of Virginia, died at Richmond. Miss Bessie Werts, living near Prosperity, 8. C., was brutally outraged by two negroes named Spearman aud Fair. Spearman was shot to death and Fair hanged. A feud of long standing led to several assassinations near Augusta, Ark. A planter named Charles Johnson, a school teacher named George Finn, and a colored man w’ere killed in their homes, and Dr. D. F. Dale was dangerously wounded. Henry Yarnell and a man named Howe were shot near Chattanooga, Tenn., the former being killed and the latter dangerously wounded. The assassins were concealed in the darkness. Next day two men named Brooks and Griffey were arrested on suspicion, and, being some distance from jail, they were confined in a blacksmith shop, where they were guarded by two men. During the night a noise was heard at the windows, and almost simultaneously two rifles were fired, the bullets entering the brains of the two prisoners, causing instant death. William L. Webb, of Georgetown county, S. C., has been found guilty of voting twenty-one times at the last election. The jury recommended him to mercy. An insane man who went aboard the steamboat Annie P. Silver, at Memphis, as a deck passenger, soon afterward shot at a negro, fired at the pilot, killed the clerk, Daniel Blake, and put a ball through the palm of Capt Silver’s hand. He was then knocked down with a poker and handed over to the authorities at New Madrid, Mo. An oyster war has broken out along the Rappahannock river, in Virginia, caused by the appearance of » fleeUof fifteen vessels

from Maryland intent upon taking out the bivalves in defiance of law. Fire was opened upon the invaders with a howitzer stationed on a cliff, to which tho Marylanders replied with rifles and revolvers, but ultimately hoisted a white flag and set sail for home. WASHINGTON NOTES. Col. Butterfield, with a corps of assistants, who have been in South Carolina examining into the accuracy of the census in that State, returned to Washington last week and reported to Gen. Walker. The report says the census of June was taken with unusual accuracy, and fully maintains the integrity of the enumerators. Mr. Trescott, one of the Commissioners who negotiated the treaty with China, saya the only change produced by it in the status of Chinamen i a this country is that the United States Government now stands pledged to protect them from persecution. Gen. Walker, of the Census Bureau, says, in regard to tho alleged frauds in the census in South Carolina, that he ordered a re- , enumeration in eight townships, situated iu as many different counties, selecting those where the most startling increase in popu'alion was noticed. Tho results were carefully compared, name by name and house by house, with the first enumeration, and in every case there was found a further increase. He expresses a belief that the first enumeration was substantially correct, and hopes that it will bo accepted as such. The original papers bequeathed by Benjamin Franklin to his grandson have been offered to the State Department for $25,000. It is generally believed at Washington that an apportionment bill will be passed before Congress adjourns, and that the number of Representatives will be fixed at about 300. The President has approved the sentence of Paymaster J. H. Nelson, of the army, which is dismissal, two years at hard labor, aud a fine of $2,500. POLITICAL POINTS. The Massachusetts Legislature hrs elected H. L. Dawes to succeed himself in the Senate of the United States. A concurrent resolution has passed both housed of the Michigan Legislature asking the President-elect to give ex-Gov. Bagley a seat in tho Cabinet Gov. Littlefield, of Rhode Island, in his message to the State Legislature, recommends woman suffrage on the school question. The Governor of Nevada has sent to the United States Senate the result of a vote on the Chinese question. There were 183 votes in favor of Chinese immigration, and 17,259 against it, while only 955 persons failed to vote on the subject. Gen. Sewell received the Republican caucus nomination for the New Jersey Senatorship on the twelfth ballot. In the Wisconsin Republican caucus Philetus Sawyer received fifty-eight votes on the final ballot and E. W. Keyes twenty-five. When Sawyer’s nomination had been made unanimous, the caucus adopted a resolution recommending Keyes to Garfield for the Postmaster Generalship. The following United States Senators were elected on Wednesday, the 19th inst.: Thomas C. Platt, of New York ; Eugene Hale, of Maine ; Benjamin H. Harrison, of Indiana ; Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut; Henry L. Dawes, of Massachusetts ; Francis M. Cockrell, of Missouri, and Henry P. Baldwin and Omar D. Conger, of Michigan. Senator Allison has returned to Washington from Mentor. He says Gen. Garfield listened respectfully and attentively to his representations in behalf of Mr. Wilson, of lowa, but did not commit himself by a single syllable. It ie believed by many that Gen. Green B. Raum, of Illinois, the present Commissioner of Internal Revenue, will be tendered the Treasury Department, or that at least Gen. Garfield will give one place in his Cabinet to Illinois. Secretary Ramsey of the War Depai ment has decided to retire altogether from public life at the close of his present official term. Gen. Mahone, Senator-elect from Virginia, has selected a seat on the Democratic side of the Senate. Gen. Charles H. Van Wyck was chosen United States Senator from Nebraska, after a somewhat protracted contest. Gen. Van Wyck was a Brigadier General of volunteers during the war, and member of Congress from New York. He is regarded as an anti-railroad man. He owns a large farm near Nebraska City, and is a member of the present Legislature. The leading Republicans of Arkansas gathered at Little Rock and adopted an address to Gen. Garfield urging the appointment of Hon. Mifil n W. Gibbs, colored, to a position in the Cabinet. MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The Mexican Central railroad project promises to be a complete success. Bonds to the amount of $5,715,000 were placed in the market, and already more than double the amount of subscription has been offered. Jay Gould has purchased 666 blocks of the stock, valued at $2,997,000, and Gen. Grant has received ten blocks, valued at $45,000. Gen. Walker, Superintendent of the Census, has sent to Congress a statement showing the population of tho United 8 tates as follows, by States: AlabaniA 1,262,724|M158i55ippi..... .1,131,572 Arkansas 892,56-1 Missouri 2,168,834 California 864,586 Nebraska 452,453 Colorado 174,649 Nevada 62,205 Connecticut 652,683 New Hampshire. 346,984 Delaware 146,614 New Jersey 1,150,983 Florida 267,351 New York 5,083,810 Georgia 1,589,048 North Carolina. .1,400,047 Illinois 3,078,769 Ohio 3,178,289 Indiana 1,578,362 Oregon 174,767 lowa 1,654,620 Pennsylvania ... .4,282,786 Kansas 995,966 Rhode Island.... 276,528 Kentucky 1,618,788 South Carolina.. 595,652 Louisiana 540.103 Tennessee 1,542,463 Maine 648,945 Texas 1,572,574 Maryland 954,632 Vermont 332,286 Massachusetts.. .1,783,012 Virginia 1,520,806 Michigan 1,636,331 West Virginia.... 616,443 Minnesota 780,806 Wisconsin 1,352,480 This makes a total of 49,369,595 for the States. The Territories aggregate 665,663, aud tho District of Columbia 177,638, which makes a grand aggregate of population of 59,152,866. The value of breadstuff's exported from the United States during the year 1880 was $263,295,359, against $239,201,889 for the preceding year. The thirteenth annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association was held in Washington last week. In a small town in Nova Scotia one family lost eight children by diphtheria within a week. The arrangements for the consolidation of the three leading telegraph companies have been ratified by the Board of Directors, but the stockholders -will not act on the matter until next month. The new stock will be distributed on the basis of 138 for Western Union, 150 for American Union and 60 for Atlantic and Pacific. The capital of the consolidation is to be $80,000,000. Gen. Grant is to be President of the Nicaraguan Canal Company and Senor Martias Romero, ex-Minister of Mexico to the United States, is to be Secretary. Efforts will be

made to secure the necessary Congressional action on the measure before the close of the present session. Some enterprising capitalists of Mon treal have conceived a project for making a railway tunnel under the Falls of Niagara. A Bolivian representative is on his way to the Unjted States to negotiate a treaty of commerce and secure a loan of $5,000,000 at any sacrifice. John Gallagher, of Syracuse, a leader in the Fenian organization, states that another raid on Canada is contemplated. The twenty-four hours ending Sunday. Jan, 23, was one of unusually widespread meteorological violence, as shown by the telegraphic reports from the various sections of the country. In New York a heavy gale, accompanied by a sket which froze a? it fell, set in and lasted an entire day, doing an immense amount of damage. All the telegraph, telephone, and fire-alarm wires were thrown down by the accumulations of ice, and tho city was completely cut off from telegraphic communication with the world. Messages were received and carried by messengers to Jersey City and other surrounding points. Business was almost suspended, especially in grain and stock, owing to the inability to get market advices. Mouiited firemen patrolled the streets to give alarms of fire. Five thousand trees in Central Park were ruined, and much damage was done to cornices, chimneys, etc., and a number of persons were seriously injured by being hit by falling pieces of ice. Throughout a largo portion of Now England there was a heavy storm of alternating rain and snow, amounting in the aggregate to about twenty-two inches in depth, and travel was largely blocked. It was accompanied by a gale of forty miles an hour. In the region of which Chicago forms tho center, snow fell to the depth of about nine inches. Know slides at Custer and Bonanza, Idaho, swept off seventeen persons, all but four of whom were rescued. There were from twelve to twenty inches of snow at Helena, Montana, and considerable losses of stock are reported. The storm was quite general throughout Nebraska, and serious effects upon cate'e in tho grazing regions are feared. At Watertown, in Northern New York, the snow was from two to four feet deep. Snow fell steadily in New Orleans for eight hours, melting rapidly away. There were snow drifts chirty feet high in the vicinity of Kingston, Ont. According to the Census Bureau, $5,653,600 worth of 4,4% and 5-per»cont. bonds are owned in Chicago. New York owns $176,724,550, Philadelphia $26,457,450, Boston $19,. 958,950, San Francisco $10,312,450, Washington $11,084,650, while Allegheny, Pa., with a population of only 78,681, owns $40,225,050. DOINGS IN CONGRESS. Tho joint resolution creating the Yorktown Centennial Commission was passed by the Senate on Monday, Jan. 17. Bills were also passed directing the purchase of the Freedmen’s B»nk building it Washington for $250,000, and to place Gen. Ord on the Het of retired Major Generals. The bill for the relief of Ben Holladay was debated, without action. Senator Saulsbury’s motion to consider the Kellogg caee was defeated by a vote of 34 to 20. Several Democrats, including Bayard, Pendleton, 1 hurman, Lamar, Voorhees and Davis (III.) vot< d against the motion. Three different reports were submitted by the Board of Visitors ’o West Point. Senator Garland and Representative Phillips declare that the mingling of the races is subject to drawbacks which no legislation can control. Senator Edmunds is of opinion that the standard of admission ought tn he rained, and Representatives McKinley and Felton hold views directly to the cortrary. Senator Garland presented a bill providing that hereafter no t fficcr above the rank of Colonel fhail be assigned to duty at the academy. Ti e Senate rejee'ed tho nominations of John B. Stickney to be District Attorney of Florida, and Robert H. Trego to be Postmaster at Sidney, Ohio. In the House, Mr. Newberry introduced a bill to provide for a joint international commission to investij ate the alleged fraudulent statistics used by the Halifax Commission. Mr. Ford presented a resolution for the construction by the Government of such telegraph lines as may bo necesfcry to protect private interests, and Mr. Springer one for a telegraphic post*) system. Mr. White < ffered a constitutional amendment providing for tbe-.e’cction of United States Senators by the people. Mr. Cox introduced an apportionment bill firing the number of Representatives at 361. Tho bib quieting the tit’es of settlers on Des Moines river lands was pa ged. Mr. Foit introduced ;v bill to prohibit tbe exportation of diseased cattle; Mr. Willis, to improve tbe civil service ; Mr. Kelley, to repeal an act which imposes a discriminating duty of 10 per cent, on goods produced east of the Cape of Good Hope anti impor ed from countries west of the Cape; Mr. Converse, to reclaim the swamp lauds of the Potomac and to deepen tbe channel of th# river; and Mr. Keifer, to prevent the spread of contagions disea-e among domestic animals. The Speaker submitted a communication from Secretary Schurz which accompanied the report of the Census Superintendent, which shows that th! United States has a population of 50,152,866.

In the United States Senate, the census reurns were laid before the members, on the morning >f Tuesday, Jan. 18, as also information which had been called for in regard to the enumeration in South Carolina. The, bill to incorporate the Intcroceanic Canal Company was sent to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. The claim of Ben Holladay was taken up, and a motion to refer it to the Court of Claims was defeated, but the amount was finally fixed at SIOO,OOO ai d passed. The House Military Committee presented majority and minority reports on the proposition to restore Gen. Grant to the rank and pay of General of the Army, and place him on the retired list. Tho majority reported against the bill, and the minority in favor of it. Mr. Atkins reported tho Naval Appropriation bill, which sets aride $14,401,037. Tho Funding bill then camo up, and Mr. Carlisle s substitute for the fifth feet ion was agreed to, providing that the new bonds shall bo the only security received for national-bank circulation. Au amendment, by Mr. Price, that any bank depositing these bi nds shall be exempt from ail tax on deposits, capital or circulation, was ruled out on the point of order. Messrs. Wood, Randall, Kelley, Warner and Weaver spoke in support of the 3-per-cent. bond clause of the bill. Messrs. Hiscock, Horr and Gen. Hawley spoke against the measure as impracticable. The bill was reported to the House by the commiitee, but no final action was taken. The Committee on Elections reported that H. Bitbee, Jr., was, and N. A. Hull was not, entitled to the seat from the Second Congressional district of Florida. Mr. Hull is the sitting member. A bill to relieve the political disabilities of Richard Fatherly, of Arkansas, was defeated in the Senate on Wednesday, Jan. 19. Mr. Conkling submitted a resolution calling for full information as to the cost of taking the census. It was resolved to create a select committee of five on pleuro-pneumo-nia and other contagious and infectious diseases of cattle A bill prescribing the mode of settling private land claims was passed. The Refunding bill came up in the House as unfinished business. A point of order was raised that Mr. Newberry, of Michigan, who had stated during the debate that he had gone to tho national bank with wnich ho was connected to inquire how he should vote, was under the rules not entitled tc a vote. The Chair overruled the point of order. A separate vote was taken on tho amendment fixing the rate of interest at 3 per cent, and it was agreed to by yeas, 149; nays, 104. The amendment making the bonds redeemable after five years and payable in ten years was adopted without a division. The House rejected the amendment providing that all the silver dollars and all the gold ovir $50,000,000 be paid on the bonds accruing during tho current year before any of the new bonds should be issued. The vote was yeas, 111; nays, 140. The next separate vote was on the amendment limiting the expense of the new issue to one-fourth of 1 per cent It was agreed to by yeas, 151; nays, 103. Carlisle’s substitute, making only 3 per cents receivable as security for national-bank circulation, was adopted by yeas, 127; nays, 119. The bill as amended was then passed by yeas, 13$; nays. 125. The ladies’ gallery was occupied by members of the National Woman Suffrage Association at the opening of tho Senate, on Thursday, Jan. 20. Mr. McDonald called up his resolution for a standing ommittee on the rights of female citlsens, which he warmly urged, and it was sent to the Committee on Rules. Mr. Kernan presented a resolution, which was adopted, calling for copies of any correspondence with foreign governments in regard to the sending of criminals or paupers to tills country. The Funding bill was received from the Bouse and referred to the Committee on Finance. The bill for the allotment of land in severalty to Indians was taken up, its provisions beingexplalned by Mr. CokA In executive session, She Senate, on motion of Senator Edmunds, direefed the Committee on Privileges and Elections to investigate and saoertsia by what vmm Um full test

of the Chinese treat es became public in several newspapers. The ll.u-e went into committee of tbe whole on the Naval Appropriation bill, which was passed as it camo from the Committee on Appropriations. The biT calls for $14,500,090. Mr. V.hitthome, Chairman of the Naval C mmit’eo, during the di-ctission on the bill expressing the hope that Gen. Garfield’! administration wou’d recognize that »e had no navy, and that we sbrutd commence to build one. la the case of the contest of E. Moody Boynton for the seat in Congress occupied by Dr. Loring from the Sixth Massachusetts district the C mmittee on Elections reported in favor of the sitting member. Gen. Weaver brought in a minority report favoring Mr. Boynton. An evening session was hvld for the consideration of District business. Senator Logan managed to get a favorable report on his bill to place Gen. Grant on the retired list on Friday, Jan. 21. Two Democrats of the Military Committee, Maxey and Hampton, were absent, and Senator Logan was supported by Plumb, Bumside and Cameron (Pa). Tbe three Democrats, Cockrell, Randolph and Grover, voted the other way, but did not filibuster against the report. The Senate passed tin Indian A; propriation bill; also the bill to place Gen. Ord on the retired list with the• rank and pay of Major General. The House passed the measure for the retirement of Gen. Ord. Mr. Loring, of the S xth Massachusetts district, wan declared entitled to his seat. A report in favor of seating Bisbee, the contestant from the Second Florida district, was received. The Senate was not in session on Saturday, Jan. 22. Tbe House held an all-night session on Friday, at which absolutely nothing was done, no quorum being present, aud several members objecting to all business offered. On Saturday, Mr. Hull, from a Florida district was unseated, aud Mr. Bisbee, the contestant’ kdmiited. Mr. Reagan made a vain effort to have lhe Inter-State Commerce bill taken up, and nothing vas acconip ished but the passage of t everal minor soil's. The members were so exhausted from the previous night’s session that an early adjournment was effected.