Daily Wabash Express, Volume 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 January 1871 — Page 1

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THE DAILY EXPRESS.

Published Every Morning,

(Sunday Excepted)

SIXTH & OHIO STS. OI'P. POST OFFICE.

StJBSCBlP1'ION!

Onti ouiy one year. Ono copy six month

COFFROTH is lecturing.

110.00 5.00 2.50

^DeliTOM^by'he cairfer",20 cento a week. WfcEXLT EXPRESS. One copy one year.

SHOEMAKER entered upon hi? duties 4M Auditor of State, yesterday.

LAFAYETTE girls are so pious that -they will not live with families that don't pray-

Till: M&eb?r. blond®, constituting "a great moral 'exiilbiuon

ONLY

THE only mental or moral quality worth noticing, that the New Albany Ledger man ever possessed, was his temper and his disgusted friends are now bewailing his loss of that. Should it be picked up by a canine, the unfortunate people of New AlMTny may look out for numerous coses of hydrophobia.

THE flourishing young Republican Btate of Kansas, we are informed by the last report of its State Treasurer, lifts an outstanding public debt of exactly two hundred and thirty-nine thousand dollars, This it proposes to pay during the present month, which being done, there will still be a handsftn£ balance in Die treasury-

A kecks'I'-publication states that the" London Telegraph sells more than 190,000 copies daily—being a much larger number than the circulatiqnof anV other daily paper in existence/ The Cincinnati Commercial asserts that the "daily newspapers In this country having the largest circulation are the New York Sun and Philadelphia whick'circiilateabQU^.|5,r 000 eldh daiiy."

THE Lower House in the Michigan Legislature has inat/ncted the Committee on Education to inquire into the expediency- ofBo-arnending the school law as to make it obligatory, during a certain portion of the year, for children of a certain age to attend school. That is a move in the right direoMta. E|c$y, child should be compelled to go to school, and if parents are too poor to defray their expenses, the State should do it. We hope the principle of compulsory education will sooa be_afao|Steil throughout the country.

We NOTICE various indications of general dissatisfaction among old army officers who have given the best and strongest years of their lives to the country in crusades against the Indians, in fighting the enemy in Mexico, and in the South, during the Rebellion, regarding the arbitrary prbvisions of (he law which retires them from active service, and leaves them with but a miserable pittance for their own and their families' support,* There is not only dissatisfaction, but real distress amon^roanyof these old. herpes, turned out now iti their old age to subsist upon incomes altogether too small for their wants.

KANSAS wasn't expected to elect much of a Senator, and ALEXANDER CALDWELL (Kay 611 the ^biil as well as any of the small-fry aspirants for the position. It may have occurred 10 some of our readers that^.we have fallen on the days of small men in big places. "Pigmies are pigmies still, though perched on Alps." The title of "Senator" doesn't make a blockhead a statesman. A louse doesn't look any bigger or better for getting into the nest where a lion has lain and the little fellows who are crawling into Beats once filled by the intellectual giants of ihe nation, a|«g!only challenging comparisons thatntake^ ^heir littleness more contemptible.

THE Connersville Times, in its last issue,.published the following interesting editorial:

Senator ^Elliott, in a conversation at Indianapolis with John Kensler, Postmaster of this city, said he had a big thing on hand for making money. That Mr. Alvord, Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, had called on him a few evenings before and had offered him fifteen IhjMSand-dollart fat three votes—one on the Wabash & Erie Canal bonds, one on the Morgan Raid bill, and one on redisricting the State. But if he could get four thousand dollars and an Indian Agency, from the Republican party, he preferred to stay and vote

Republicans. He asked Cap-

wiiirnNbt^be instrumental in getting tain Kenslei the Republifive thousand dollars can party, and keep one thoa^ his trouble.,. Hi (Btliou) #aid*J»e\^ care, a d-n\ for liis*constituents—fie -». alter the monev now—and the reas why he waited until Saturday to answer whether he would resign ttr not was, he was sure he could get the money from

move there when his lime was out, and he did not care what the people of Indiana thought of him. have the above from Mr.rkenslerhVoueit.whO fe makeftjt. JM ai sustains a good character veracity in this ooouuuaky, and there can be no doubtabtfclf'*k* wove revelations being made to ht** «wK*

TWENTIETH YEAR.

$2.00

have been 16-

lighting New Albany. is^

DANIEL MERRIWEATHEK, E-Q, a son of ex-Gov. MERRIWEATHEK,of Kentucky, died at Evansvillc on Wednesday.

aboutiaixieen thousand hogs have

been packed at Evansville this season, and thin estimate includes the small operations of grocers.

A FARMER, a few days ago, got a $125 sewing machine for $25 and the labor of carrying it one mile on the road from Lafayette to Dayton.

AND here is yet another victim! Poor BARTMESS, a Lafayette parson, is to be donation-visited to-night. We expect to record his resignation next week. iu( •Mta? JG S WILL the Indianapolis papers be kind •enough to explain why the census of that •city is to be retaken? Is there any reason affecting Indianapolis that is not •equally applicable to any oilier'city, the population of which falls short ef public expectations? ~^r* ""fl

DIED, at his residence in Clinton, Vermillion County, Indiana, on yesterday, (26th inst.) at 4 o'clock p. M., General HKNKY D. WASHBURN, in* the 39th year of his age.

GENERAL WASHBURN was born in Windsor County, Vermont, March 28, 1832. He received a good common school education in the schools of his native State. During, hk minority he, worked for a short white as an apprentice in learning the trade of a tanner and currier, but, abandoning this, he became a school teacher. After some years spent in this vocation, he entered as a law student at the New York State and National Law School, and graduated at that institution. Soon after his graduation he removed to the West, and became a citizen of Vermillion County. He served as Auditor of that county from 1854 to 1861. He became a soldier August 16, 1861, as Lieut. Col. of the 18th Regiment of Indiana Foot Volunteers, and served with his regiment in the Missouri campaigns of that year under Fremont and Hunter. Early in 1862 his regimen*

moved south and took part in all the military operations in Arkansas. On the 15th July, 1862, he was promoted to the colonelcy of his regiment (ice Col. PATTISON resigned, and thenceforth commanded it until he was honorably mustered out, July 15, 1865. During the year 1864 his cotumand was attached to Gen. GRANT'S Army of the Mississippi, and was engaged in the siege of Vicksburgh and the various campaigns of the south. Later in 1864, after rc-enlirft-rnent as a veteran regiment, his command was transferred to the Army of the Potomac and his service was thenceforth with that army. On the 15th of December. 1864 he was brevetted as Brigadier General. Gen. WASHBURN'S military record was excellent. He won the esteem of both superiors and subordinates, as a brave, careful and well informed officer. He has twice .represented this District, very creditably, in Congress, having been elected in 1864 and re-elected in 1866. At the close of his Congressional career in 1868 he was appointed Surveyor General of the Territory of Montana, and has since spent, his time principally in the discharge of his official duties in the West. Returning, from, Montana, a few weeks since, he was stricken with a pulmonary disease, of which he died. He met Death bravely and with unukual composure, leaving behind him hosts of warm and devoted friends to mourn his decease.

General WASHBURN was an eminent member of the Masonic .Fraternity. His Cbimoil and Commandery membership was in this city. He had filled with distinction one of the offices of the Grand Lodge of the State, and was warmly devoted to the Order.

He was a man of good atWiAmentp,' honest purpose?, pure habits, and honorable impulses. His memory will long be kindly ch«rukol llimc trh7 Kutjvv him

THE recent decision of the Supreme Court of Illinois, in the CHENEY-WHITE-HOUSE case is exciting much interest. It will be remembered that Judge JAMESON^ of Chicago, by an injunction, stopped the ecclesiastical trial of Rev. C. E. CHENEY on the charge of violating the canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church. His decision is overruled by the Supreme Court, and the trial will go on. This establishes the principle that the civil Courts have no jurisdiction over matters purely ecclesiastical in other words, that in respect to doctrinal and ceremonial questions, {lie supreme authority resides in the tribunals of the Church. A leading Chicago journal thinks:

The Court is undoubtedly correct." 'In respect td the State, the Church is purely' a private association, with whose intestine trouble^ it would be as unwise as it would be unjust, for the civil authorities to interfere. vi.ti ,.

SOME of the young blackguards in Philadelphia, who call themselves ."piedical students," persist in insulting ladies who are trying to qualify themselves for the profession which these brutes disgrace. If there is any one thing of which the public mind is fully satisfied, it is the right of women to become physicians, and not ofely the right, but the Absolute necessity and perfect propriety of their entrance into certain departments of that profession. The Philadelphia Press pointedly says:

Before ten years every physician in Pennsylvania will deny that .he ever in-, suited a woman physician or attempted to bar the doors of the profession against

It is just as well now that thecomher. munity should mark the classes which indulge in insulting women, and the instructors who pei mit it.

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BOSTON

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ORIENTAL POWDER COMPANY

BOSTON Jan. 26.—The creditors of the Oriental Pojvder Company, whqse forks are located in'South Windham Maihe, held a meeting in Boston yesterday. A statement was made showing a clear surplus of over $600,000, and the company proposes to pay dollar for dollar if allowed to settle matters on an extension of six to twenty-four months. The company has paid annual cash dividends of 22 per cent, for the last ten years.

CUC1SMTI.

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HEAVY WEI OCT OF SNOW.

CINCINNATI,Jan. 26.—The roof of the

boll

this morning, but vine in

!Wn?„»rSiel Peck, who is probably

peph Haven, Pa?8& Murphy Patrick Whalen and Morris J'f1

leBS hurt, though none

INDIANAPOLIS LETTER.

Provision for Old Bonds- Appraisements of Railroads and B«al Estate —The Newspapers. *3*-

Both Houses have been whacking the city papers to-day. In the Senate, Mr. Gray, of Randolph, directed attention to the very imperfect report in the SerUinei of yesterday's proceeding?, and especially to the publication ofthe.Governor's bond bill, which was so defective as to make it require action entirely at variance with, the provisions of the unmutilated bill. The report was admitted on all hands to be incorrect and incomplete,.and Mr. Hughes moved that an additional copy of the Journal and Sentmel be taken, in order to give the proprietors sufficient compensation enable them to publish full reports. Mr. Hughes has very queer notions of newspaper work ,ji«,he iancies, that the pay~Tor flrty-ndJt*yn»i will do any appreciable service in extending reports already thrice as long as the public interest demands, and fourtimes as long as the Senate.subscription makes any approach to giving compensation for. On jnotion of Mr. Scott, of your city, the matter was referred to the Committee on Printing with instructions to report how many copies should be taken by the Senate to furnish adequate compensation for full reports. Probably this is as sensible a course as could be taken, but, if a little experience will entitle my opinion to any weight, I would advise that Committee to report in favor of a sort of Indiana legislative "Globe," to be paid for by private subscriptions of members. In no other way can they get what they want, a full and nearly verbatim report of the proceedings. No daily paper can afford, for any subscription that either house will dare to make out of the Treasury. to choke itself upon three full pages of legislative business and gabble. Not one reader in ten pretends to read the* report at all, and not one in fifty reads more than a few scattering passages. The adventurous individual who dares and accomplishes the whole document, deserves a medal at the expense of the two house*. I have seen a good ileal of this business, and of the public feeling in regard to it, nnd I have yet to see anybody that ever read all of even atfioderately full report.

In the House the di b.vfc Y."J..S decidedly more interesting, and touched the Republican organ as the Senate did the Democratic organ. The occasion of it was an editorial in this morning's Jowml, slating that onyruesday aficrnoon the House had disgraced itself by obscene talk, and that Speaker Mack had defiled his place and name by a filthy suggestion at the conclusion of the women's rights address, of which I_wrote you. This is not at all the language, but it is the purport, of the Journal's paragraph. The censure was as harsh as it could be made, and though not entirely undeserveJ, a little moderation would have made it at once more just and more effective. As it was, it went beyond the mark, and, instead of operating as a rebuke, excited bitter and alinbst universal resentment. The debate, with the "obscene" talk, did not occur on Tuesday afternoon, but yesterday morning, upon a bill to prevent quackery and otherwise purify the medical profession. Mr. Lines, an old, grey-headed manj from Clay coaply, I think, made a coarse, uncouth speech, .touching obstetrics, not inten'£onally, nor actuallyi

tHE WEATHER.

The storm ceaoed at eight o'clock this morning, the-wind in the north, temp* erature twenty-eight.

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INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 26.

Spme of my last letters have been mangled by the types as seriously as such trifling things could be. I am made to say of Hughes that he would speak with the "propriety instead) of "ferocity" o^1renegade," made "doubly precious" instead of doubly ferocious "some" was typotfraphized into'"toon" and "who" 'into "also," and several even more affecting errors have appeared, to the serious disadvantage of the compositions little able to beat it. In fact there is not any more sense in letters than they need, and when the types knock that litLle out they are left "poor indeed."

I noticed yesterday the debate on the second billjsaid to have emanated from the Governor, to provide for the payment of oar unsurrendered bonds, but- the Howe debate on the Terre Haate/Railrqs^ W®e prevented me from noticing the conclusion of 'it. The bill was rejected, lilp the'Cret qiie, Hughes oppojing jt qn*"ttje gflouod that he Wanted to pay those bonds, but he thought the bill did not properly reach that object* He introduced resolution instructing "the Committee on Finance to prepare and report a bill, without delay, providing for the payment of all principal and interest now due, or to become due prior to the 5th day of January, 1873, on the old Internal Improvement bonds not surrendered under the law called the Butler bill and that said bill shall provide for the payment as to time, place and amount, according to the terms of the bonds, and six per cent, interest shall be allowed upon coupons over due, from and after their maturity." This resolution was debated this morning for a while and afddpted. It is hard to guess what sort of provision will be reported by that Committee, but if it conforms to the instructions it can't go very far wrong. This proceeding reinstates ifnglies' consistency on the bond questioq^nit all the 'mandragora and sirups in the world can never medicine" his political consistency to the health once it owned." •.i-.--.HX

oi matterv not

usually diseussed in the presence of ladies and an occasional remark was made in response that-would have tmteda barroom better than tfie'HaTi.^ But the im^ression made by the whole affair was less ihnt nf wanton indecerxy than that of thoughtless indii ence to the proprieties of the place. Speaker Mack's remark, to those who

had been "posted," was dirty,tut to^the ladies and outsiders it was as unmeaning as any other suggestion of legislative routine. But, in the best construction, it was misplaced and mistimed. The Speaker's stand, in the hours of actual session, is no place for a "double drts." I think a te&perate reproof have been kindly taken by the jolly Speaker,and have warned him off ajfuture transgression, but the Journal was savage, and savage upon an imperfect conception of what was done that was offensive. Mr_ Bunion, of Jefferson, offered a resolution expelling the paper from the House. This, after a good deal of angry talk, was amended by a proposition of Mr. Dawson, of Tippecanoe, that the paper be censured for "false and malicious libel." More debate brought a further amendment frem Mr. Cauthorn, of Knox striking out the "malicious" epithet, and making a simple censure of the expulsion. In this form it passed by a vo^e of 80 tQ 9, about as nearly unani moils as a House vote ever gets to be. The "hoes" were mainly Democrats who insisted that the Journal had said no more than was right. Th^cei^ miuch. ThePHoujfe" qe#Ljf_{hpi|p*pfr'ig badly as the paper needs the llouse subswiptiop, and that is. the wh#le rfit. "The House'resolutioii for'the? appointment of a joint committee on the appraisement of real estate and railroads came to the Senate and it was referred to the Finance Committee.' jit" is to be hoped that something will come of this movement—for, as I wrote you the other day, there is no more ridiculous and mischievous phaia in the whole business of the State than the appraisements of railroads. And the capricious estimates of real estate are little better. We want it, as Hamlet says of bad acting, 'reformed altogether." T. T-

A RtimSi*' of a Treaty for the Capitulation of Taris.

No^ Confirmation oj the Rumor.

All Sorts of Reports ou the Sub?

ject of Capitulation.

No Capitulation so far as Heard From.

SURRENDER

THE LONDON CONFEBBNC». The London Conference has been adjourned until theSlst inst. in consequence of the continued absence of jeprtHenta^ tivra*^^from ""Franci|^one^'FtfiirBi^latory" powers of the original- treaty relating to the Eastern question. It is known that Granville confers with Tyssot, the French

GERMAN MOVEMENTS.

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TERRE-HAUTE, INDIANA, FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY 27,1871.

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OFK LONGflY.

Four Thousand Eiisooepfr and T^o Hundred Guns Fall into tiie Hands of the

Victors.

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Critical Relations with Mexico.

IKTCftiAirP-

RUMORS THAT LACK CONFIRMATION. LONDON, Jan^ 25.—N{ I^rmaioi as

to the reportso^®vis^af Favre^p Versailles has ye»**een »adHiol»itatifety announced. The news is regarded on the Stock Exchange as doubtful, and consuls have./ih cbiiseqfletoct, fallen off a Quarter. Beho says no official £onfirma«ion has yet reached London of the report that negotiation* for the capitulation,9? Paris burp been commenced atYeraaflles, The city, however, is full of rumors of that nature.

chinson has received a letter from Africa, giving positive intelligence of the safety of Dr. Livingstone.

DANUBE COMMISSION.

It is ascertained that Count Appunj», Austrian Minister to Great Britain and representative of his government in the Conference on the Eastern question, intends to move in Codference for extension of jurisdiction of the Danube Commission to Obrail or Orsora.

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Affair^ before and after each

meeting of the Conference. CAPITULATION OF LONGNY. LONDON, Jan. 25.—1:30 P. M.-^Dis-patches just received announde^the capitulation to-day of Longny, on the Belgium border, which has been besieged,for a long time. Four thousand prisoners and two hundred guns have fallen into the. hands of the victors. ^ONCBKNING OAPITOI

ATToif.

LONDOB, Jan. 2o, 1 "30 p. M.—The Versailles correspondence of^the Central Press Association telegraphs that there are good grounds- for the belief that negotiations for the capitulation of Paris are progressing, and add3 that .in any event it is impossible for the city to resist the Germans beyond the early part of February. 4 .-!» *.».

A I E

The^Pall Mall Gazette is informed that Favre reached Versailles yesterday, and started for England, and is expected in London to-day. The Echo prints under reserve statement that Favre has arrived at Dover.

FRENCH AND GERMAN LOSSES.. An official dispatch from Versailles on the 24th says that the French loss in the sortie of the 19th was 6,000 killed wounded and missing. Germans all total only 600.

New German batteries have opened fire upon the north side oT Paris. A division of the German army of the Soath has passed to the south ofiiftancon, and threatening the rear of Bourbaki's forces.

GARIBALDIANS.

It a^iijrli*that the tj!arit»TdiiSs after their successful engagement with the German Landwehr between Fontaimai7 and Burgundy, tore up the rails and ties and so damaged the railroad that it is now impassable.

A SMALL AFFAIR.

LONDON, Jan. 25.—A dispatch from Dijon says the Garibaldians routed a'detachment of German landwehr, who were guarding a railroad between the villager of FontaaoT^aad Burgundy

APPOniTMJ^I*,

LONDON, Jan. 25.—Bismarck has been appointed Chanceller of the German Empire. :•$ &'

A dispatch from- Brussels says Bismarck's reply to Favre, refusinr hint safe conduct through the German lues of ipveslment of Paris, is oosdemned by Pru»-

DIL MVWOJIQJSK'*

LONDON, Jan. 25.—Sir Roderick Mnr-

WASHINGTON.

A RUMOR.

WASHINGTON,

i.—A rumor is

Jan.

current here that Jndge Otto, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, is sooa to be removed, and that the President has tendered the position to the Pennsylvania Senators, Scott and Cameron, who are pressing the name of Major D. R. B. Novin/who they say ii a staunch Republican, an able lawyer and a man of great executive ability. He has also a brilliant war record, ana was confined for a time in Libby prison in 1882-

ALABAMA CLAIMS. J,

The statement telegraphed in regard to the reopening of the Alabama claims attracts a great deal of attention, and is much comifiehted upon. The fact that steps have been taken by Tliorntoa and Fish was considered a successful diplomatic secret, and hence its publication has created a decided sensation among penona having no knowledge^ it. Sqmner says that the report that he told F«h that if a trpaty wj» neglected on the terms proposed, it would be-rejected by the Senate, is unfounded. He says he has hot expressed hostility to any treaty which might be negotiated by the Administration. Upon this question Sumner does not, however, deny the fact that the Alabama claims question is in pro ess of settlement at the present time. Whe'.her a treaty is to be negotiated on the basis proposed cannot yet be predicted, but it is certain that the terms now under consideration include the abandonment of certain positions heretofore taken by the United Sates, and if reports are correct the most important is the question of recognition of Confederal ^elli^ereppy by Great Britain. And another is that the United States shall make no claim for vessels destroyed bv rebel privateers, other-»n:sthe-Alabama, meaning the Flori •Shenandoah, Georgia and Sumter.

INTEREST ON RAILKOAD BONDS. The Senate Judiciary Committee had under consideration yesterday the question of payment of interest on bonds issued by the Government fo Paqifip railroads. Effingham H- Nichols,'of New York, Submitted an argument to the Commit tie in behalf of railroad Companies.

MUNITIONS OF WAB.

In regard to the action of the President directing the Secretary of War to suspend sale of ordnance and munitions of war, in order to conciliate Germans, it is stated that Baron Von Gerolt called upon the Secretary of War at the time the proposition was made to dispose of a large number of arms, and asked that no safe should be made until the, Prussian Government could make a proposition to purchase the entire lot offered. The Secretary of War, in reply, said the Government would not, under any circumstances, sell to a foreign government, the right to dispose of |trws ofits owfi citlsen* had not been disputed, any mote-than the right of private companies to fulfill, contracts, and .that the t. aiiniii^ an before the

OUR RELATIONS WITH MEXICO. Our relations with Mexico at present are considered vfery critical, caused by the course of tfie- people of Mexico^ in relation to Zeana Libra. The ^opinion entertained here by those familiar with all' the fadts iv that Mexico will have to abandon the position she has assumed on the question whether the United States will be compelled to use force to protect our own border from the wholesale smuggling which is how carried on in open defiance of officers and laws. ', f!

NEW YORK.

BPKIAl^I

NEW YORK, Jan. i26.—Nothing addition to the special to the London Daily Telegraph from Versailles, that there is solid grbund for believing that Paris will surrender to-day, has yet been received. As already telegraphed, Count Bismarck announced at Versailles that General Bourbaki had been caught between the armies of Von Werderand Manteufel, ao9 must surrender.

A dispatch from Bordeaux, which admits that the Germans cut the railway to Lyons, south of Besancon, and of Burbaki's supposed position, can only be constrtfed to confirm this statement of the Prussian Premier. At the same time and in the same.interview, Count Bismarck declared Paris must submit in a few days. It is alio1 stated as Confirmatory of this view of tlie situation, that negotiations for capitulation had already been opened. The dispatch which announces this proceeds from a correspondent who has previously denied the Gerinan claims of success. It may therefore be. considered entitled to belief.

SNOWSTORM.

A heavy snow storm set in at an early hour this A. M- Travel is greatly impeded, and the street cars have almost entirely stopped running. The rivers are filled with ice and the ferry boats can. scarcely make their trips.

FISHERY QUESTION..

The Times' Washington special sayjf the permanent settlement of the fisheries question with Great Britain will be, among other matters, confided to the hands of Gen. Scheuck, but inasmuch td the opening of the fish season is near at hand, and as it is impossible that matters should remain as they are through another season without provoking bloodshed, it is exceedingly probible that Fish and Thornton will be able to come to a tem1 porary. agreement, which shall govern for the approaching season, leaving the final settlement of the case by a joint convent|op%nd treaty, So far as this govern-ment-is concerned, in the hands of Gen. Schenck when he shall- have reached the le^atforf: »•-.. 'I BILLIARDS "Dion won the three 4*11 game played against Daniels, by a core of 300 to 181.

R*".- LOSS BY FIRE. I-

Losses by th'e'! Worth street fire abont $100,000, fully covered by insurance, GOLD.

Gold yesterday stood at 1 10£ all day the dial in the"gold room not changing once during the whole session of the board* So stagnant a market has not been experienced since midsummer of 1868, when on July 9th of that year gold -ms whollr--devoid of fluctuation, (tie jjr$*Cmaiiung at 1 40f throu|hont the

C0XOBEH81ONAL

HOUSE.

WASHI»QTON,

Ksinpss

Jan. 26.5

Mr. Hooper presented a communication from Gen. rleasantoo. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, relating to the income tax, which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. Gen. Pleasanton in his communication says, "I regard the tax as the one of all others, the most obnoxious to the genius of the people, being inquisitorial in its nature and dragging into public view an exposition of the most private pecuniary affairs of the citizens. Such unwilling exposition can only be compulsorily effected through the maintenance of the most expensive machinery, and both the nature of the tax and the means necessarily employed in its enforcement, appear to be regarded by the better class of citizens with more and more disfavor from year to year. It is furthermore most difficult tQ

in exact st*tei»ept, especially in ramifications, and where a lone process of time is involved in extended commercial affairs. There is some question as to its constitutionality, but of that I express no opinion. The amount derived from that source has, nnder legislation already had, been greatly diminished, and I am so well satisfied that its evils more than counterbalance the benefits derived from its longer retention, that I recommend its unconditional repeal J' In a later communication from the Cwwi8" sioner, he estjfflHtgB tbe loes pf revenue from increase pf exemption, from $1,000 to |2,000 at $9,338,161, which would leave but $16,739,39 as revenue under a five per cent ratio, and that $8,F69J94 as the aggregate revenue that would be derived under a two and a half per cent, rate of tax on dividends and additional surplus, funds, banks, railroad companies, &c., under reduced rate he estimates at $4,385,206, which, added to $8,369,794, would give, in round numbers, $12,755,000 as approximate receipts frotn income under the act of 14th of July, 1870, baaed on the average returns of the last four years. He expresses the opinion, however, that in consequence of the general prostration of business, the gradual appreciation of money paper to purrency and other causes, the actual receipts for the coming ypafr wpuld fall considerably short of that estimate, and he renews the recommendation for the entire abolition of the income tax.

Mr. Loughridge introduced a bill allowing additional representation in the 42d Congress, as follows: New Jersey, .Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas,, Wisconsin and Arkansas, two each Missouri, Micbigfcp and Iowa three each Massachusetts, New. York, Maryland, Virginia,

North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama,- Mississippi, California and Minnesota, one each, and Illinois, four, such additional members to be elected by general tickets. Referred.

The House then .took up the bill re ported on Tiiesday to enable honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphan children, to acquire homesteads, on the public lands. The. fourth section of the bill authorizes the transfer by the pensioner, of his rights, privileges and benefits as a homestead settler, to an agent or attorney. The morning hour.expired and the bill went over till Tuesday.

Mr. Arnell reported a biil to better the security of Agricultural College funds, requiring the Secretary of the Interior to ascertain the amount of agricultural land scrip issued each State, and the disposition made thereof, and make report thereon to Congress at the commencement of each regular session, and forbidding

A.- ... Ilin ingMtmMit nf funds tO be made without approval~or* the fltyo. tary 61 the Interior. After explanation by Mr. Arnell, the bill passed.

The House at 1:40 went into Committee of the Whole, Mr. Wheeler in the chair, and. resumed consideration of the Indian Appropriation bill, which was discussed at much length. Without dispensing with the bill, but having reached the last paragraph, the committee rose.

Mr. Logan presented a resolution of the Illinois Legislature in favor of apportionment of representation in Congress, to ap ply to the 42d Congress, and for ii ment of the WabaBh river,

The death of Senator Norton, of Minnesota, was announced, when eulogies were pronounced on the life and character of the deceased, by Messrs. Wilson, of Minnnesota and Wilkinson and Morgan, after which the House adjourned.

SENATE.

The Vice President laid before the Senate the communication of Richard Delafield, tendering his resignation as one of the regents of the Smithsonian Institute, to take effect February 1st laid on the table.

The House bUl authorizing the sue of a portion of Fort Leavenworth .military reservation to, the Kansas Agricultural and Mechanical Association for a fair ground, passed.

Mr. Chandler, from the Committee on Commerce, reported back the bill making a temporary appropriation of $100,000 for the prosecution of work on Saulte Ste. Marie canal and river in Michigan passed.

Mr. Ramsey, from the* Committee on Postoffice, reported a bill authorizing the construction of abridge across the Missouri river at Boonville.

Petitions were presented and referred as follows: By Mr. Stockton, from ?11 the insurance Companies in Jersey City, N. J., asking that that city be made a port of entry referred.

Mr. Vickers, from the Committee on Commerce, reported without amendment the House joint resolutioan for the protection and preservation of food fish on the coast of the United Stated.

Mr. Pomeroy introduced bill to enable the united bands of Swan Creek, Black River, Chippewa and Chunzee Indians, in Kansas, to dispose of their lands.

Mr. Robertson explained that his recent statement relative to the retention of an under-pay clerk in the Postoffice Department, who did no work, was in error in saying he complained to the head of that Department. His complaint was made to the head of the Bureau in which the clerk was engaged.

Mr. Cameron called up tho House bill to reimburse Robert Bringbam, late postmaster at Franklin, Pa, for loss by the failure of the Venango National Bank of Franklin, of $2,000 of public funds deposited there by that postoffice. After a discussion, which lasted until the morning honr expired, the bill was defeated.

The Senate took up and passed the Pension Appropriation bill. The only amendment the Senate Committee on Appropriations made to the bill as it paised the House, was the following paragraph-^ "For ratable increase of pensions above the rates heretofore authorized by law, provided for in the aot of the present sewdon, entitled an act 'Increasing pensions of disabled soldiers, and widows and children of deceased soldiers and sailors, fire millions.'" The amendment was rejected. The bill goes to the President.

A communication from the Board of Trustees of the Columbia Asylcrm for the Peaf and Dumb, was read, inviting the

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attendance of the Senate on the occasion of the exercises of the Institution, on Sunday next, to be presided over by the President of the United States.

At 1:30 the Senate resumed consideration of the bill repealing the income tax. Mr. Buckingham spoke of the practical defects of the law and the failure to enforce it, in consequence of the neglect of assessors to impose and collect penalties for the neglect and refusal of a party to make returns. For these and other sons enumerated, he would TBtl for peal.

Mr. Cole opposed the tax on incomes as distinct from taxes on salaries and corporation dividends, believing the former the most objectionable of all our taxes. Its collection the year subsequent to acquiring income upon which the tax was levied, was frequently at a time when the person paying was losing instead of acquiring property- under the $2,004.

Mr. Johnston regarded the internal revenue system the main cause of the present business prostration. To show the monstrous inequality of the tax, he contrasted the poverty o( Virginia, for four years the theatre of war, with the wealth of Massachusetts, which it is said during the war enjoyed the benefits of war contracts, and commented on the fact that according to the estimated repelpts of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the current fiscal year Virginia would pay into the United States Treasury $525,000 more than Massachusetts. If the necessity for additional revenues should actually arise, the required sum could: be apportioned equitably among the States and raised by the ordinary tax collecting machiuery of the Treasury.

Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, referring to the statement of the Secretary of the Treasury that the revenue from the income tax was an indispensable means of meeting current expenditures, would regard the repeal as an expression by the Senate of want of confidence in the Secretary. The effect of such legislation under like circumstances in England would cause the Ministry to retire at once.

At 3:15 Mr. Harlan moved to go into executive session. Mr. Seott- appealed to the Senate to dispose of the income tax.

After further discussion the bill passed, yeas 26, nays 25. The vote in detail was as follows:

Yeas—Anthony, Bayard, Buckingham, Cameron, Carpenter, Casserly, Cole, Conkling, Corbett, Fenton, Flanagan, Fowler, Hamilton, of Maryland, Hamilton, of Texas, McDonald, Osborne, Pomeroy, Rice, Scott, Stewart, Stockton, Sumner, Thurman, Trumbull, Vickers and Yates—20,

Nays—Abbott, Blair, Boreman, Brownlow, Cragin, Hamlin, Harlan, Howard, Howe, Howell, Johnston Morrill, of Vermont, Patterson, Pratt, Ramsey, Sawyer, Sherman, Spencer, Spragne, Stearns, Tipton, Warner, Willey, Williams and Wilson—25.

McCreery, Nye and Robertson in favor repeal paired off with Morton, Edmunds and Pool absent and opposed.

The Senate at 4:40 adjourned.'

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KINGSTON, Jan. 25, VIA. HAVANA.— The Governor to-night will entertain sumptuously the American Admiral and other Americans.

The Markets.

CINCINNATI MARKE'l.

By Teletrsph.J CIKCIKBATI, Jan, 26. COTTON—Demand fair, prices advanced. KiadKwUlJj,

FLOOR—Steady, with moderate demand. Family 6 40*6 SO. WHEAT—Opened firm, but closed dull, Red 33al 85.

CORN—Demand fair and market firm,89* 53. RYE—Scarce and firm. 1 00.

BARLEY—Steady, with moderate demand.

t$K)CERIE&—Unchanged, OILS—Unchanged. ,, js a,. EGGS—Scarce and firm, and higher, 26a27. BUTTER—Scarce and firm. CLOVERSBED—Demand fair and pnoes

PORK—Excited and prices hither. Large g«les at 22 (Xa22 50, cash, held at 89 00 at close.

LARD—Quiet and unchanged, asking 12a 12K steam, and kettle. BACON—Only a limited jobbing demand.

Wtfteady. with moderate demand,

WHISKY—Deman'dfair, prices advanced. S8. EXCHANGE—Steady*^

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YORK MARKEX

By Telegraph.] Nsw Yoaa. Jan. 20. COTTON—Demand fair, pricei advanced. Middling lf%

ELOUR—Steady, with moderate demand. Superfine Western State, 6 10a6 35 common good extra, 6 75a6 85 good ehoice 6 90*7 30 White Western extra 7 30a7 75 extra Ohio 6 9Qa7 50 St. Lonis, 6 90a8 75.

KYE FLO I *R—Firmer, 4 00a5 90. CORN MEAL-Qniet. WHISKY—Firm, 94J4a95. WHEAT—Dull and priccs a shade lower. Receipts 9,000 bushels new spring 153a 1 54 red amber 1 56al 57.

R\E—Unchanged, CORN—Opened firm but closed dull. Nq. 1, mixed, 83a85 yellow 85, Receipts 17,000.

OATS—Market dull, prices unchanged. Receipts 5,000 bushels. Western Ohio G2a75. COFFE&r&teady, with moderate demand, market firm.

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MOIj'issl^i—Ncw Orleans 62»72. IlICE PETROLEUM-Crude 14al4W: refined 24"A. PORK—Firmer, Mess new 23 00a23 50 old 22 00a22 75 prime 19 00 prime mess, new, 21 50

BEEF—Steady. Mess 10 00 a 15 00 extra 15 00al7 50 prime mess 26 00a28 00.

HAMS—28a31. CUT MEATS-Firm. LARD—Firmer steam 12%al3%. BUTTER—12a22 for Western.

CHEESE—12al5%.

SEW YORK MOSEY MAKKET. By Telegraph,] Nrw YOBK. Jan. 26. GOLD—Dull, all transa«tions at 10%al0%-

LOANS—From 4 to 6 per cent, CLEARANCES—813,000.000. GOVERNMENTS-Strong. MONEY—Easy, at from 5 to6'per cent.

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LOCAL NOTICES.

BEAYEK MOHAIRS.

We have a complete line of these Celebrated Pore Mohairs. Harper's Basaar has annoanced them, editorially, as the best and most beautiful black goods imported for the season.

We feel warranted in giving them onr high est recommendation, to the public, and invite inspection.

Tuell, Ripley Jt Dewing, Corner Main and Fifth streets.

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We offer to the publie a Large andComplete Stock, which will be sold at very Rcdneed Priees. Hive as a call.

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