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which I have now sent to the desk to be read, be will be satisfied that the only 'laborers, as I said the other day. imported by Mr. DePauw were those laborers who! could not furnished in this country, but had to l>? brought from a country where plate-class tmt* ufacture was known. How couhl anybody start a plate-glass factory in thiountry without having somebody who knew how to make it? There was no one ii. this country that did. The charge the Senator brought was that Mr. DePauw had im jwrted glass-glowers, and that that class of labor cun be found in this country. If the; Senator will hear the letter from Mr. DePauw read, I think he will agree that he has putin a pretty broad denial of that accusation." The ietler was then read: “New Albany, Ind., Jan. IS, 1833. “My Dear General—l have your telegram, raying that Senator Vance uses against tithe testimony of a Mr. Bishop before the tariff commission, on page 1,033. Awe never heard of Mr. Bishop, and have not the testimony before the tariff tonimhsion, ami have been unable to find it. either here or at Louisville, we asked you. bv telegraph, who is Bishop, and what doolie allege, to which we have your night tele gram and the words following: ‘Bishop is a Dili capo iron-worker; he said you had trouble with your glass-blowers ami sent t> Belgium and hired men on three-year labor contracts at otic-third the wages paid l>v you before. It affords us great pleasure to assure you that there is.no truth whatever in Mr. Bishop’.statement. We never imported glass-blower-from Belgium or any other land, and as to wages, we are now paying and have always paid glass-blowers and all othergloss workei in all department the association prices—the very highest wages paid in America and. as you know. American wages are the highest paid in the world. I repeat, and emphasize it, that Mr. Bishop’s statement is made out of whole cloth, and is absolutely false. It has been a pleasant life-work with me to give employment to a very large number of men and pay them the very highest wages the business would justify. I believe my men fully appreciate this fact, and that I have their confidence and respect; they regard me as their friend, and l am sure there is no dissatisfaction among them. “W. 0. DePauw. “Hon. B. Harrison, United States Senator.” After further discussion the gentleman from North Carolina was fairly reduced to the admission that he had based his charge entirely upon the statement of Bishop, which had been shown to be without foundation. The amendment was then adopted—27 to IG. The debate upon this subject, which has taken up the best part of two days, was by far the most interesting and spirited since the tariff discussion be; jan, and at its close the Indiana senators were warmly congratulated for the gallant defense they had made of one of Indiana’chief industries, and for the success attending their joint efforts. On Tuesday the tariff discussion will begin in the House, and when the point is reached the Indiana members may be called upon to make the same over again.

GENERAL AND PERSONAL. flic Treasury’s Weekly Statement of the Condition of the Currency. Washington, Jan. 20. —The receipts of national bank notes for redemption during the week ending to-day were $1,990,000; bonds filed by the Treasurer to secure national hank circulation, $350,868,650; to secure public moneys In national bank depositories $lO,. 444.000; bonds deposited to secure circulation during the week. $1,184,200; to secure circulation withdrawn during tiie week. $1,783,200; national bank notes outstanding. £302,219,960; lawful money on deposit to redeem notes of national banks reducing circulation. $23,900,101.50; liquidating banks. $14,434,924.40; failed banks, $1,068,402.20. The Yellowstone Park. New York. Jan. 20.—The Yellowstone National Park Improvement Company has been organized under the laws of New Jersey, with a capital of $1,000,000. Its incorporators include Rufus Hatch, Roscoe Colliding, General James A. Williamson, of Boston; Richard T. Merrick, of Washington; Frederick E. Church, the distinguished painter; J. B. Houston, president of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company: Aaron J. Vanderpool, Judge John R. Brady, Samuel W. Allerton. of Chicago; C. M. Loring, of Minneapolis, and other well known men in various parts of the country. The officers are Rufus Hatch, president; C. A. Hobart and Mr. Church, vice-presidents; Charles E. Quincy, treasurer. Notes. Washington, Jan. 21.—An invitation has been accepted, conditionally, by the Marquis of Lome to be the guest of President Arthur. The visit will occur while the Marquis is en route to Canada, on his return from the South. The Critic says tiie contest for the clerkship of the next House is being carried on witn quite a determination. Hon. John B. Clark, of Missouri, who is conceded to be tiie best man for the place, leads in the race. A member of the New York Delegation said to-day that in no case would Mr. Atkins be elected. The Mutual Press Association and American News Exchange of Cincinnati have been placed on the pc.stoffice fraud list. Money orders and registered letters will not be delivered to them. No Progress in the Senatorial Elections. Detroit, Jan. 20.—Only one ballot was taken for senator to-day, which is no significance, as many members have gone home, the Democrats and Ferry Republicans evidently pairing. The vote stood: Ferry, 40; Stout, 39, with thirty-one votes scattering on thirteen candidates/ Adjourned until Tues'lay. St, Paul, Minn.. Jan. 20.—Two ballots for Dili ted Stales senator were taken to-day, resulting exactly alike, as follows: Windom, 4S; Wilson. 32: Cole. 17; Dunnel, 10; HubSard, 9: Kindred, 5; Start. 4: Davis, 4; Farmer. 4. Armstrong. Berry. Gilman, Castle, Wakefield and Stern tt each 1. Total cast, 139. Lincoln. Neb., Jan. 20.—The fifth joint ballot lor United States senator to-day resulted as follows: Millard. 15; Saunders, 13: Brown. 10; Mondersou, 1; Morton, 5; Livingston. 4: Thayer. 14; Ashby. 13; Steckel. 9; Boyd. 0; Savage, 5; Conner, 3. Balance scattering. liiot Among Railway Men. Easton, Pa., Jan. 20.—This morning Superintendent Fish, of the Lehigh & Lackawanna railroad, with 150 men. attempted again to lay the track recently torn up by U*B Pennsylvania, Slatington A New England Railroad Company, near Bangor. The Litter company, with a force of men, tried to ►top the work, and in the ensuing melee one was seriously injured. Fifty of the New England party were then arrested and ►ent to jail, as also were a portion of the Lehigh men. The track, however, was relaid i o Bangor to-night. Steamship News. Queenstown, Jan. 20.—Arrived: British Queen, from Philadelphia. Lonpon, Jan. 20.—Arrived: Adriatic, JVriere, Polynesia, Gellert, from New York. New York, Jan. 20.—Arrived: Paris, from Havre; Romano, from Hull; Wisconsin, from liiyerpopl; Pt* uni and, from Antwerp.

CONSPIRACY IN IRELAND. Hie Startling Disclosures Made at tiie Trials in Dublin. Testimony to the Effect that an Extensive CoiispirC3' Exists for the Assassination of Government Officials. The Bonapartist sos France Demand an Appeal to the People. The Reports as to the Threatened Royalist Uprising Said to Be Greatly Exaggera-ted-Other Foreign News. IRISH AFFAIRS. startling Disclosures Made During the Progress of the Conspiracy Trials. Dublin, Jan. 20.—Placards, signed “America." were posted in Clonmore, denouncing that “accursed, abominable" journal, the Irish World. A rumor current in London last evening that the Phoenix Park murderers had been arrested is denied. Twenty-one persons recently arrested here were before the Police Court to-day, charged with conspiracy to murder officials. The court-room was crowded. Great discrimination was exercised in the admission of citizens. A large crowd was outside. During the progress of the hearing of the charges against the prisoners startling revelations were made. An informer swore that several prisoners, including Carey and a member of the municipalty, were present at a Fenian meeting where the informer wax asked to join the inner circle, formed for the assassination of officials. The name of the informer is Farrell. He acknowledged having taken part in a plot to assassinate a juror. He swore one of the prisoners named llanlon informed him that he had taken part in the attempt to murder Field; that Brady stabbed Field and Kelly also participated in the affair. Farrell also testified that three pence was collected weekly from Fenians to purchase arms; that the city had been marked into districts, and military inspections were held occasionally. at which most of the accused were present. At one of these meetings one John Devoy, who said he came from America, presided. The organization, lie said, bavi existed for some years. Farrell said picked men formed the associa tion committee. They were ignorant of each other. Daniel Curley gave him a revolver, and told him to stop Forster’s carriage opposite the Eliis Quay, when Jim Kelly and Joe Brady would do the remainder. The plot failed through a mistake. Farrell identified Kelly. Brady, Curley, Malonev. Dwyer and Bovle. nil of whom were present in the prisoners’ dock, as having been present on the Ellis Quay when the abortive attempt was made to waylay Forster. Curley was very much vexed at the failure. Farrell said Brady. Kelly and Rar.klin, the last of whom is now in Limerick, followed Forster’s carriage in a cab on another occasion, and that MacMalion. who was lately accidentally shot, was assisting by watching on foot. He used the name of Balm on if the business was for a “center" meeting, and the name of Fisher if for the “inner circle." The Assassination Club received a letter from Mullet instructing them to be near Merrion Square on the morning of the day the attempt was made to assassinate Judge Lawson. Delaney, who got ten years for that attempt, was a member of the organization. The witness met Delaney on that day; lie stated that there would be something new soon, and added that lie had his work before him that evening; Hanlon was with him on Friday before the murderous attack was made on Juror Field. The witness was at a secret meeting at which Joseph Mullet, director, of Dublin, presided. He was asked to meet Mullet and another man at Anguser street on Sat unlay. He was late for the appointment, and next day Mullett upbraided him. Brady, Curley and Kelly being present. Mullett told the witness to meet him next day at 4 o’clock on Duke street, but the witness declined. Mullett threatened that if the witness did not. meet him he would call for him at 4:30. Witness knew what that meant, and said that under these conditions he would meet Mullett, and he kept the appointment.

THE MURDER OF FIELD. lie met Mullett, Dwyer, and a man named Molloy, in the public house. Hanlon also came in, and Mullett sent them out two at a time. The witness was sent to Westland Row and Hanlon to Westmoreland street. Timothy Kelly met them oti the way and asked Hanlon if he (the witness) had a revolver; Hanlon said he had not; Curley then gave him the revolver which the authorities now have. At Westland Row' he met Mullett, Hanlon, Fegan, Smith and Molloy. He told Curley he did not know what he was brought for. Mullett said that at tar a short time a scuffle would take place convenient to the chapel. He told him to stand on the opposite side, and if he policeman was going to arrest any of them to shoot, and if not he was not to interfere with the fight. The intended victim was Barrett, foreman ot the jury in the Hynes case. Mullett was to give an envelope to Barrett while crossing the street, and Molloy was to attack Barrett. He (the witness) stayed there from 5 o’clock and went away at twenty minutes past 5. A short time before his arrest he met Hanlon in a public house and showed him a summons, charging him (the witness) with being implicated in the murder of Field. He (the witness) said the government could not be in possession of much information. Haitian told him that Joe Brady, Daniel Delaney and Tim Kelly were in Westmoreland Street. Joe Brady went on the outside of the car to North Frederick street; llanlon walked beside Field, and Tim Kelly in front of him. Hanlon put x white handkerchief around his neck in order that he would be known to Brady ami Kelly. Brady caught hold of Field, and Field made a blow at him with an umbrella. Brady knocked Field down and stabbed him several times whilst he was on the ground. There were throe young men standing in the road: one of them wanted to in ter sere, but the others would not allow him. After Field had been stabbed, Brady and Kelly jumped on a car. When Kelly got on the car be lost his bat. Myles Kuvanagh, of Townsend street, drove the car. Ou being cross-examined by Mr. Kiileen. the witness said no order for assassination was ever received from the Fenian Society. Orders used to be given from tho Assassination Society. Joseph Mullett was the tnan responsible for this conspiracy. He (the witness) would never be here if lie was connected only with the Fenian Society. From the Fenian brotherhood this Assassination Society was established. He had been duped and decoyed into this Assassination Society. All the prisoners were remanded for a week. Miles Kuvanagh, who is un informer, today swore that tie drove tin* car on which Field’s assailants escaped, lie is now in cus*

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tody. Immediately after the Phoenix Park murders he was apprehended and detained two days on suspicion of having driven linear on which the assassins of Lords Cavendish and Burke escaped. It is reported that six prisoners who were on the docks to-day have offered to become approvers, but up to tiie present time the authorities have accepted only one. who will be examined at the next hearing. It is said there are three other informers. The names of Poole, Devine and Delaney are mentioned. The detective department is besieged with persons offering to give information. Several suspected pers<~,rr* have left Dublin during the week. A detective is in pursuit of one important individual. The purchase of a revolver that Devine had when Detective Cox was murdered will be proved, also the purchase of the knives found near the residence of one of the prisoners. Evidence will be given of the issuing of summonses in he handwriting of Joseph Mullet for meetings of tiie “Centers’" The appearance of three of the men arraigned Saturday exactly corresponds with the description of the three murderers of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke. The police intend making five more arrests. Mullet, alleged leader of the assassination com tuittee, is a hunchback. The Crown is confident of success in the prosecution of Curley as one of the “Centers."

TIIE FRENCH SCARE. The Names of the Orleans Princes Stricken from the Army List. Paris, Jan. 20. —The Legitimist scare continues. The Orleans family will hold a council to-day at the residence of Duke D’Aurnale. Members of the party of the Extreme Left in the Deputies will insist upon the Orleans Princes being deprived of their military commands. Royalist papers insist that the scare is a maneuver to procure the proscription of the Princes. The Cabinet Council has adopted drafts of bills against pretenders to the throne and modifying the press laws. The bills will be submitted to the Chamber to-day. The Deputies—4o7 to 94—voted urgency for a motion to strike the name of the Orleans Princes from the army list. The Ministry agreed to urgency. The Bonapartist members of the Chamber of Deputies have issued a protest against the arrest of Prince Napoleon, and demand an appeal to the people. The ministerial bill dealing with pretenders has been introduced in the Chamber of Deputies. It authorizes the President of the republic, by decree given in Council, to expel members of former reigning families whose presence in France compromises the safety of the state, those returning to be liable to five years in prison. Princes who now’ serve in the army are to be placed on the retired list. This last clause caused an uproar in the Chamber. Another bill was introduced modifying the press law’s of 1881. It provides for the punishment of outrages against the republic, and makes offenders amenable to correctional tribunals. A vote of urgency was also desired for these measures. The committee on them and on the motions of Ballue and Floquet will be appointed on Tuesday. The Bonapartist members of the Deputies held and meeting to-day and adopted resolutions declaring Prince Jerome’s action perfectly legal, protesting against his arrest, and maintaining that an appeal to the people is the only means of securing the future of France. This evening’s Republican journals declare the reported Legitimist plot is merely ?’ drawing-room conspiracy. The Temps and National especially attach little importance to it. The Temps urges that the Chamber of Deputies, after giving recent incidents just that share of attention which they deserve, revert promptly to the discussion of more serious matters. A Syrus dispatch says: “When the anarchists were sentenced their wives uttered despairing shrieks and tried to reach their husbands, but soldiers intervened. Princess Kranotkine left the court on the arm of Louise Michel, who subsequently delivered a lecture in behalf of the prisoners’ families."

OBITUARY. Deatli of Prince Frederick, Brother of the Emperor of Germany. Berlin, Jan. 21. —Prince Frederick Charles Alexander, brother of the Emperor of Germany, died to-day, aged eighty-two. Inconsequence of the death of Prince Charles, the festivities in honor cf the silver wedding of the Crown Prince Frederick William have been abandoned. The theaters will be kept closed until after the funeral. Prince Charles had been indisposed for some time, and became seriously ill yesterday. His symptoms, which assumed an aggravated character toward evening, abated somewhat this morning, but after noon he sank rapidly, until shortly before 2 o’clock, when he expired. The Emperor remained some time in tiie forenoon with the Prince, who was also visited by the Empress, Prince Frederick William, and other princes. The Emperor and Empress partook of the sacrament with the dying Prince ut 1:30. The last words, of Prince Charles were: “Long live the Emperor." Princess Marie, wife of Prince Frederick Charles, son of the deceased, is ill and confined to her bed, GENERAL FO RE IGN N E WS. An Immoral Pamphlet. Berlin, Jan. 20.—The pamphlet attacking the ex-Empress Eugenie of France, confiscated by the police, is immoral. It purports to be a recital of incidents in the private life of the ex-Empress. Illness of Prince Gortehakoff. Nice. Jan. 21.—Prince Gortehakoff, late Russian foreign minister, is here, and is very unwell. Cable No ten. (General Todleben is ill. It is feared he will die. The Czar gives 4,000 roubles to aid the sufferers by the circus fire. Afred Monarch Kino, a London tailor, has failed, with liabilities of £64,000. Rankin & Blackmore’s foundry at Greenock, Scotland, burned. Loss heavy. Tiie strikers on the Caledonian railroad have resolved to resume work on Monday. The railroad strikers in Scotland begin to show disunion. A compromise is anticipated. The men who murdered two Englishmen at Alexandria last June, were hanged ou Saturday. A Cairo dispatch states under reserve that Bredif has been notified of the abolition of the control. King Leopold, of Belgium, is completely recovered, and will attend with the Queen the silver wedding of the Crown Prince Frederick William, of Germany. Desperate Battle with Indians. Matawana, Mex., Jan. 20.—News has been received here of a desperate battle near Tehuantepec between the Seventh battalion unil the Tehuantepec Indians. The Indians lost eighty men killed and wounded. The troops lost fifty men killed, among them their lieutenant-colonel. The Indians were routed.

THE HARVEST OF DEATH. (Concluded from First Page.] lertakers. The dead and wounded will be taken to Los Angeles. In the meantime every possible attention is paid them ou the •iron nd. A wrecking train has arrived from Sumner. CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT. Further advices give as the probable cause of the accident that when the train stopped the air brakes were applied. On detaching the engine the brakes relaxed, and the hand brakes were either left open or were not strong enough to hold the train. The movement may have been helped by the -stronggale blowing. It is now certain that eighteen passengers and two sleeping-car porters were killed and ten or twelve badly injured. Seventeen bodies Lave been removed from the wreck, one of them considered certainly Mrs. Downey. Captain Waterhouse, previously reported injured, is not expected to survive. The following were badly injured: Mrs. P. C. Hatch. Mrs. R. L. Hatch, Mrs. Captain Brown, R. C. Rors. Captain T. H. Thatcher,Stephen Coffin. J, W. Sear lea. J. B. Woodall and F. W. Dougherty. The wounded will be placed in the hospital at Los Angeles, at the Railroad Company’s expense. The remains of the unidentified dead, if any, will be gathered up and buried at Los Angeles. Superintendent Fillmore says it is not yet known who was to blame, but someone has been careless. The matter will be thoroughly investigated. The train carried from this city one pouch of registered letters for St. Louis, Mo., and about one hundred small packages of registered letters for various other points. The mail was important and unusually full, containing letters and printed matter for Los Angeles, San Bernardino and all po3toffices south of those points in New Mexico, Texas, a portion of Colorado and the State of Old Mexico. One report is that all the mail and express was burned; another that it was saved. Additional Dot ila. San Francisco, Jan. 21. —A Los Angeles dispatch says: “It is now ascertained that at the time the train broke loose and ran down the grade, the air brakes had been taken off. and the men who tended the hand brakes were away from their posts, one attending to aswitching engine and the other relighting his extinguished lamp. The train gathered headway quickly, and was soon dashing down the grade at the rate of a mile a minute. At a sharp curve of the road the coach and the smoker, which were ahead, broke thecoupling and separated from the rest of the train, making the turn safely. The sleepers, the mail, express and baggage-cars were dashed against the high bank. Three of the cars were thrown back and rolled down the embankment. The lamps and stoves at once set fire to the wreck, which was instantly in a blaze. Harry Connors, the news agent, w’ho was sleeping in the baggage-car, was awakened by the movement of the car, and aroused James Woodhull, the baggage-master, just as the cars made the jump. The roof of the car split open, throwing both men out, severely bruised. Connors, while lying on the ground unable to render any assistance, saw the train enveloped in flames, heard the shrieks of the dying victims, and saw them vainly endeavoring to escape from the burning ruins. Mr. Porter, as he and his wife ocpnpied alone the drawing-room of one of the sleepers, was awakened by the crash. They succeeded in getting out without injury, but of the sixteen other occupants of the car not one is believed to have escaped. In the meantime, the occupants of the coach which kept on down the grade succeeded in stopping it, saving the lives of some forty occupants of that and the smoking car. They immediately walked back to the scene of the accident, but found only the smoldering remains of the train and a few who had escaped with their lives lying brused and bleeding in the darkness, shivering in the piercing cold night aii, or rendering assistance to each other Relief soon arrived froifi Tehachapi, four miles distant, and as soon as possible medical attcntance was sent from Sumner and Bakersfield, and subsequently from Los Angeles. Search for the dead soon showed that twenty-one persons had perished. Eleven were beyond all recognition, only headless bodies and charred limbs being found. Os the body of Mrs. Downey, only the head and bust remained, and was recognized by her jewelry. All the bodies and fragments are gathered up and coffined. The wounded are removed to the baggage car, and on the arrival of the relief train from Los Angeles, sent to that ctyy. Os the dead, the colored porter, Wright, was crushed; the express messenger. Charles Pierson, had his head shattered; five were burnt but recognizable, viz: Miss Mamie E. Squires, Mrs. H. O. Oliver, Mrs. Downey M. Wethered, and Mrs. James Cassell. Two men, unknown; but supposed to be discharged soldiers, were found dead but not burnt; one body, of a large man, was badly charred; it is supposed to be the remains of Colonel Larrabee, ex-congressman from Wisconsin. Governor Downey sav3 Larrabee was on the train, and he is missing since the accident. The remaining eleven are still unidentified. The list of wounded is not changed from the previous report. The inquest is in progress, but no news has yet been received from it No one but railroad and county officials are admitted. Dr. Carson, a young physician of this place, who took the train on Friday night which was wrecked, is supposed to be among the unidentified dead.

OTHER CASUALTIES. Five Chinamen Killed by an Explosion in a Powder Works. San Francisco, Jan. 21.—Shortly after 4 p. m. the city, shaken by a he?. v y explosion, four others followed at intervals of four seconds, and a dense column of smoke rising across the hay was sufficient evidence of another added to the numerous powderworks disasters that have occurred in the vicinity. A brief telegram says the giant powder establishment near West Berkley station, four miles north of Oakland, has blown up and a number of persons were killed. Later.—lt is now learned that five Chinamen were killed by the explosion of the powder works. Two white men who were about the building escaped. The Brig Posie Peasley Ran Into and SunkAll on Board Drowned. New York, Jan. 20.—Early yesterday morning a collision occurred off Fisher’s Island between the steamer Camilla, Captain Davis, and the brig Posie Peasley. The Peaslev was sunk and all on board were drowned except one man named Charles Powers, who gives the number of lost men as seven. The Posie Peasley was loaded with coal. The Camina was on her way to this port from Newfoundland. She was struck on her port bow, two holes stove in her side, and her topmast carried away. An Overdue St-nmer. New York, Jan. 20.—Some fears are entertained as the safety of the Hamburg-Ameri-can Li tie’s steamer Lotharingia, a freight boat, which sailed Oct. 25 from Hamburg for the

report has been received West inuie... "*t her destination, andhere of her arnyu. .. viown if she had .some news should have com. reached it, THE LOW TEMPERATURE. Intensely Cold Weather Throughout the West and Nor;hwe&t. St. Louis, Jan. 2>.— Dispatches from Dallas. Tex., say the blizzard from the North has spread all over northern Texas; that the mercury has fallen from sixty to seventy degrees reaching zero in some places, and that stock, particularly sheep, is suffering greatly. The weather is colder than has been known in that region for a good many years. The weather all through this section, embracing Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and southern Illinois, has been very cold the past thirtysix hours, the mercury in some localities falling as low as fifteen degrees below zero. A Chicago dispatch says a driving snowstorm began at 8 o’clock this morning, and will probably continue all day. The weather is very cold .and tempestuous generally throughout the Northwest, Blockades on the railroads in Minnesota and Manitoba are reported. The storm of yesterday was very severe, but has subsided somewhat, and it is expected that trains will run regularly today. A Minneapolis telegram says: “The blizzard and cold wave reported last night continued all day throughout Minnesota, Dakota, Manitoba, Montana, northern Nebraska, northern Wisconsin and northern lowa. Trains were detained in all directions, but are beginning to move now nearly or. time, because little snow has fallen. At4p. m. to day tiie thermometer stood 40° below zero at Fargo, Bainesville, Lari more and Grand Forks, in Dakota, and the same at Brainerd and Crookston, Minn. At Grafton, D. TANARUS., it whs 35° below. At Jamestown, D. TANARUS., 40° below. On Northern Pacific in Montana, it was3o° below; at Dickinson, 23° below: at Glendale. 18°; at Forsythe and Miles City, 14° below; at Billings, 14°. In Minneapolis and St. Paul the lowest last night was 24° below, and throughout the day has been 10° to 18° below with indications of severe cold to-night. Tims far no loss of life or serious results to the people anywhere in the Northwest are reported. A Winnemuccadispatch says: The weather along the line of the Central Pacific in Nevada is intensely cold, At Elkoo yesterday spirits thermometer indicated 54° below zero. Ponds and waterholes are frozen solid. The cattle are dependent on them to quench their thirst.

The Cold at Chicago. Chicago, Jan. 21.—The cold wave which has been advancing from the far northwest for the past three days, reached this city late last night. At 10 o’clock last night the thermometer marked zero; at midnight it was 4° below, with a keen breeze from the west. The lowest point reached was at 4 o’clock this morning, when the signal service thermometer registered 15° below, though thermometers in more exposed places marked from 22° to 26° below. At 10 o’clock to-night it was 10° below, rnd at 12, 9°. The signal service people predict fully as low temperature as last night, and a return of the warm wave to-morrow. Trains in every direction are delayed. Those from the east to-day are one to three hours behind, except on the Baltimore & Ohio, on which the snow drifts caused a delay of ten hours. On roads running west great damage is being inflicted on stock owners who have hogs in transit. Last night many were frozen to death, and they huddled so closely together that many of them smothered. At the stockyards a large number of hogs held for advance in price suffered in the same way, in spite of all efforts to keep them moving. The losses already have been quite large from freezing and smothering. Cattle and sheep are also suffering and losing flesh, but none have been frozen thus far. Reports from northern Illinois and Indiana and southern Wisconsin show a range of from fifteen to forty degrees below zero. The weather is clear. Baptized at Fifteen Degrees Below Zero. Chicago, Jan. 21.—The Inter Ocean’s Rochester, Ind., special says: “With the temperature 15 degrees below zero, the ice was cut and three converts immersed by Rev. J. C. Delp, a Baptist minister."

The Sprague Estate. Providence, Jan. 20.—The Supreme Court this afternoon made decree ordering Chaffee, trustee of the A. and W. Sprague estates, to divide the funds in his hands resulting from the sales of trust property among the holders of trust notes. The amount will make a dividend of about 10 per cent., the first in nearly eight years. At the request of the Sprague creditors, C. B. Farnsworth has been appointed receiver of the Quidnick company, to facilitate the closing up of affairs. Nurses’ aprons, to be warn while washing and dressing the baby, are made of soft flannel, with a deep hem, which may be fastened .with feather or cross-stitch; but useful ones of drab flannel are also much worn. These aprons should be made very long, so that if a door is suddenly opened in the nursery the apron can be thrown up over the baby. Aprons made of canton flannel, with the soft side for the right side, are inexpensive, and may be used in place of the flannel, although that is preferred if the expense is not too great. Near Jackson, 0., George Burns was accompanying the fourteeu year-olil daughter of Geo. Messon home from church. While pusring through a piece of woods, he struck her. knocking her down and rendering her insensible, and then outraged her. The girl says she knew nothing after being struck till she awoke to consciousness and found Burns ruuniug away. Burns was followed into Pike county aud captured ut a dance. There, is great excitement and fears that lynching might be indulged in, as Miss Messon is well connected, and her injuries may prove futai. Tt Is now alleged that Reeder Moore, who recently committed suicide at. Meadville, Pa., m;*de no confession exonerating Charles Stafford, now serving a fifteen-years’ sentence in the penitentiary for an outrage ou Miss Alice Wood, a handsome young school-teacher. The confession of the suicide is now said to be a hoax ami the publicity given It a shrewdlv-conceived scheme to secure the pardon of Stafford. Fred Cummings, the person to whom the confession was said to have been made, fully and flatly contradicts it over his own signature. A Baptist Minister’s ExperienceI am a Baptist minister, aud before I even thought of being a clergyman, I graduated in medicine, but left a lucrative practice for my present profession, forty years ago. I was for many years a sufferer from quinsy: “Thomas's Ecleotrto Oii cured me.” I was also troubled with hoarseness, and Thomas’s Kclectrio OH always relieved me. My wife and child had diphtheria, and “Thomas’s Kclectrio Oil cured them,’’ and if taken in time It will cure seveu times out of ten. I am confident it is a cure for tiie most obstinate cold or cough, and If any one will take a small teaspoon and half fill it witn the Oil, and then place the end of the spoon in one nostril and draw the Oil out of the spoon into tho head by smiting as hard as they can, until the Oil falls over into the throat, and practice that twice a week, I don’t care how offensive their head may be, it will clean it out and cure their catarrh. For deafness and earache it has done wonders to tn.v certain knowledge. It, is tiie only medicine dabbed parent medicine that, I have ever felt like recommending, and I am very anxious to see It in every place, for I tell you that I would not he without it in my house for any consideration. 1 am now suffering with a pain like rheuiuAtism in my right limb, and nothing relieves me fixe Thomas’ Ecleotio Oil. Dr. E. F. Crank. Court, Pa.

FOBTr-SKVgt THE S. of Bills PoHtoftice* apro t Washington, Jan. urge number of petitions for natiou. omuion schools. Mr. Voorhees presented a resolution of the In•liana Board of Agriculture favoring thotrnuai'er of weather forecasts of the signal service to i lie Department of Agriculture, where the subject of climate naturally belongs. Mr. Sherman, from the finance committee, reported favorably a bill authorizing an amend-sut-Qt of the fifth article of association of the First National Bank of Gram! Rapids. At the close of the morning business, the post>ffloe appropriation bill was taken up, the pending question being an amendreunt changing the time when the reduction of letter postage from : hree to two cents is to take effect, from Jan. 1, 1884, to the Ist of July next. The section of the bill directing an investigation by the Pnstm.istt r-general in the railroad mail service was amended so as to extend the investigation to questions of advisability of geu- • ral fast mail service. Mr. Sherman said he would vote against the amendment, not because he disapproved of the reduction, but because he was utterly opposed to his kind of legislation upon appropriation bills. Mr. Sherman, in the course of his remarks, touched upon the telegraphl- system, saying ha would rather consider riie question whether the time lias not arrived when the government, of the United States shonld undertake to transmit intelligence. by elect ricity. He did not think the government should assume control of existing telegraph Hues, but should construct its own fines. Mr. Edmunds favored the postal telegraph, but opposed the purchase of existing fines The debate continued until 1 o’clock, when a vote was taken upon an amendment offered by Mr. Edmunds to strike out as new legislation the provision in the bill for a reduction of letter postage to two cents. The motiou to strike out was lost. The bill was then reported to the Senate, and rise amendments made in committee agreed to, including that fixing the date July 1, next, when a reduction of latter postage shall take effect. The bill passed and was taken up. Mr. Morrill, by direction of the finance committee, moved a reduction of the duty on unpolished, cylinder, crown and window glass oue eighth of a cent per pound. Agreed to. The amendment offered by Mr. Morrill and reserved, changing the duties on cast, polished plate glass, above twenty-four by sixty inches square, from forty to fifty cents per square foot, was agreed to. Messrs. Logan, Miller, of New York, and Conger complained that the amendment of the finance committee reducing by one-eighth of a cent per pound the duty on unpolished cylinder, crown and common window glass had been adopted in their absence and without their knowledge, and Mr. Sherman entered a motion to reconsider the vote by which it was adoptedSchedule C, covering metals, was passed over for the present, and the Seuateproceeded to consider schedule 1), embracing wood and vroodeuw are. Mr. Van Wvck moved to strike It all out, and put the articles covered by it on the free lisi, and made a speech in support of lii* motion. Mr. Morrill, for the committee, offered the following amendments to the sugar schedule, which were ordered printed: Providing that nugnt not above No. 3, Dutch standard, shall pay rlie duties laid in the bill on those not above No. K;, Dutch standard, and that those above No. l(j and not above No. 20, Dutch standard, shall pay 3.15 cents per pound, Instead of 3 cents, as in the bill; also, that all sugars above No. 13 ami not above No. 16, Dutch standard, shall pav 2.65 cents per pound. Adjourned.

TIIE HOUSE. The St. Charles Bridge—The Naval Appropriation Bill. Washington, Jan. 20.—Mr. Buckner, of Mis sourl, Introduced a bill amending an act author izing the construction of a bridge across th Missouri river, neur St. Charles, Mo., eo as tc provide no higher charges shall be made for the transportation of mails and army supplies acrosi the bridge than is made upon railway lines run ning thereto. Referred. After the passage of two private bills, tin House commit tee of the whole resumed oration of the naval appropriation bill. Mr. Calkins objeoted to the bill in its presen shape. During the course of his remarks h said he was tired, as nn American, of seeing hit country snubbed, laughed at and derided b.otlier nations on account of Its weak navy. Mr. Whittnorue regarded the bill as one of the most Important ever submitted in regard to tb naval service. It proposed a reform and larg expenditure. The navy was lamentably defense les* He concurred In the views of Mr. Calkini —that legislation should not have beer inserted by the appropriation committee, bu the uaval committee should attend to these mat ters. lie attacked the retirement clause and va rious other provisions. The bill seemed to ap propriate $15,000,000, but really appropriate over $23,000,000, and the next Congress musi appropriate the deficiency. He mentioned th# appropriation of $450,000 for the completion o one monitor by contract, Hud to the provision* that no contract shall oe entered into forth* completion of any of these vessels till the term;thereof are approved bj* a board as being tin best for the government at a total cost not ex c,ceding the amount estimated by the advisorj board. He believed that this clause intended tc confer authority on the Secretary of the Navy t* complete those monitors at a cost of $4,000,00(1 to $6,000,000. Mr. Hiscook said it was intended to complete only one, and he would allow an amendment which would make the meaning unmistakable. Mr. Wkitthoruo said he was satisfied with that. Mr. Harris, of Massachusetts, asked If Mr Whitthorue was ready now to vote the ful amount necessary to complete the vessels. Mr. Whittliorne said yes. Mr. Thomas, of Illinois, a member of the navnl committee, commented on the indifference of the House to the reports of the committee upon reconstructing the navy. Reviewing the weak ness of the navy, Mr. Thomas concluded that the United States possessed only forty-eight sea worthy vessels, many of them time-worn and redoubtable only in time of peace. He therefore thought adequate appropriations should be made for completing new and adequate vessels If the committee on appropriations had noi usurped the l ights of the naval committee, Mr Hiscock would not have been obliged to interrupt him, as he had just done, to usk how the top-heaviness of the navy should be remedied. The long fist of useles officers who encumber the navy register shonld be cut down, whether the ships are built or not. He commended the committee for abolishing the rank of comuio dore. Mr. Knott held that officers now in the pay o the government only understood their dutiei theoretically, and had too much rank and dig uitv to boos any use. If some indiscreet Seere tary of the Navy should order tile chief engineer a pay director and a medical inspector for dutj on a ship* the vessel would inevitably sink There Is not a orafr. afloat which could sustaic so much official rank and dignity. He gave no tice of amendments he would offer looking toward the duties of marine corps officers being performed by line officers, toward the graduu abolition of the pay corps and the reduction ol the engineer corps. He opposed the variout provisions of the bill. Mr. Harris said the bill he had perfected with so much labor in the naval committee would never be reached on the calendar. He com plained of the rules of the House, which allow the appropriation committee to crush out all other committees. Mr. Desendorf was in favor of placing th< navy in a position to command the respect of It’ enemies. Thecommitteetlienrc.se, and general debate was then limited to one hour on Monday uext. Mr. Taylor, of Ohio, gave uotice that on Feb. 6, at 2P. M , he w’ould ask tiie House to tako suitable action relative to the death of his predecessor, J. T. Updegraff. Adjourned. Relief for the German Sufferers. The committee engaged in collecting moncj and provisions for the relief of the German auf ferers, met at Turner Hall last night to partlalh close up their accounts. They decided to sent by telegraph, to the president of tho Gemini Reich tag, 13,000 marks, a little iu excess o $3,000, and President TANARUS, A. Lewis, of the Erii road, has tendered the use of three oars for th* transportation of provisions and clothing to Nr v York, for shipment to the sufferers. Result tions were adopted expressing gratitude to M( Lewis for his kindness, and to the press of th city for valuable assistance. Mo&iiS J. aloxkon, Spencer, Owen count* never knew whas ii was to feel well until h used Brown’s Iron Lute re.