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rv to secv.re the support of Southern white men who will act iu co-operation with the colored voters, and protect them in voting and in securing a fair count. We recommend the appointment of a committee of nine, the president and secretary to be ex officio chairman and secretary, to take into consideration ways and means to he adopted to overthrow bourbonism and misrule, and, so soon as practicable, issue an address to the public setting forth emphatically the condition at the present time, and an appeal to the patriotism of the ■South to save itself from utter misrule and ruin, and the North to make liberal sacrifices in behalf of the objects in view, this committee to act in co-operation with and subordinate to the executive committee of the League, which is requested to assist the committee in the advancement of its objects.” The report was adopted, and the president appointed as members of the committee Messrs. Bryant, of Georgia; Grosvenor, of Ohio; Boutelle, of Maine; Bisbee, of Florida. Honk, of Tennessee; Canady, of North Carolina; Bruce, of Mississippi; Clapp, of the District of Columbia, and Pierpont, of West Virginia. The committee will at once take steps to'perfect a plan of work for the League. FRAUDS UPON INDIANS Uliarges Which h Texan Is On His Way to Washington to Prefer. St. Louie Chronicle. -*■ prominent Texan is in the city, on his way to Washington to make and press charges against Secretary Teller. He says among other tilings: “The first charge is that of defrauding the Wichita Indians out of their lands. The Wicliitas occupy that section of the Territory known as tiie Panhandle, and lying along the Wichita river. Old General Pike will testify that he found the Wichitas there forty years ago. Recently this great grazing country, including about 500,000 acres of land, was leased to a syndicate for ten cents an acre, to which transaction the consent of the Indians was not obtained. The bargain was manipulated by Indian Agent Smith, who is alleged to be acting in conjunction with Indian Commissioner Price. Os course, the Wichitas kicked, as did the Arrapahoes, but they appeared to be powerless War Cloud, the Wichita chief, is getting old, and he relics for advice upon his son-in-law. In order to apnease that son-in-law the agent gave him 100,000 acres of land and then bought it of him for $15,000. Tins closed the chief’s (pouth, and the poor Indians were left out in the cold. Os course, I championed their cause, being a Wichita by adoption, and the agent has threatened to run me out of the Territory. But my wife is a Cherokee, and they can only drive me across the river into her country, 1 lie agent has annoyed and arrested me and my rangers with false charges until 1 am tired of the whole business, and have determined to take a big hand in the transaction.” ”Wl o arc concerned in the syndicate?” 'The real names do not appear, as the corporators are hiding behind a lot of English capitalists. But Senator Plumb and Congressman Haskell, of Kansas, are interested.” "Are there any more charges?" “Yes; and the most serious one is the bargain by which certain grazers are admitted into the Territory on payment of a bonus to government officers, while the army is busily employed in keeping out Captain Payne and others, who refuse to pay. That’s the point that will reach tlie closest to Secretary Teller. During the last six months Senator Garland, of Kanas, has visited the Wichita country, and he will stir up a holy war when his facts are presented. We have also employed a son of General Pike, who sat in council with ns on one occasion. Trie agent notified Pike ibut lie must withdraw from the Territory. We cl lined his right to remain as an attorney. but the agt iit refused to yield. Finally I rode two nights and one day to the nearest station, Atoka, and telegraphed Senator Garland, He then telegraphed Teller, and we thus obtained Pike’s detention in the Territory.” “Who are interested in this latter scheme?” “Oh. the same crowd, with some additions, including, as I am informed. Hunter and Evans. 1 tell you, the people of this country have no idea of the frauds and robheries that arc being perpetrated upon the Indians ay those whose duty it is to protect them,”

A Ooiilhl of the Charges. Wasuiugtun Sj-eciii; !• St. Louis Globe-Democrat. On inquiry at tlie Interior Department, it was found that so far as the department is concerned there is not a word of truth in the. charges. Commissioner Price pronounces them, so far as he is concerned, infamously false. Some months ago a syndicate applied to Secretary Teller for his approval of a contract with the Indians for a lease of their lands for grazing purposes. Secretary Teller refused to approve the agreement. At the same time he did not object to its being made. It is his iwlicy. where treaty stipulations do not interfere, to simply acquiesce in any agreement the Indians may wish to make, when he believes such aereeement will be to their advantage. But he will protect the Indians avainst the encroacbments of outsiders, and will always give preference to those who have contracts with them. The department has not. however, officially sanctioned any of these contracts, but whenever they are believed to be beneficial to the Indians they are not disapproved. As to any corrupt collusion on the part of the Indian Bureau with them, Commissioner Price says there is no foundation whatever for the sbaree. The department approves contracts if this nature. THE SENATE. Tlie Public Debt and Civil Rights Discussed at Length. Washington, Dec. 12. —Mr. Van Wyck offered resolutions calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for copies of all vouchers and items of expense of special or assistant attorneys and detectives, witb the names of parties, since March 14, 1881, except such period as has been covered by information already furnished the Senate. The Senate took up the resolution offered yesterday by Mr. Beck directing the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish information concerning the sinking fund, etc., and Mr. Beck addressed the Senate. He said: It is perfectly apparent that the request of the Secretary of the Treasury, made in a recent report, to keep up taxation beyond the wants of the government so that at least i0,000,000 may be applied to a sinking fund, lght not to be complied with. His own re- • rt seems to furnish a basis for the statement : nut when information is asked for it is pre--ented. He is shown to have paid $700,000,000 of the public debt beyond what any creditor can say good faith required for the maintenjmcecf the sinking fund, under any law or obligation we had created. We ought now to say, what every creditor of the United States wants us to say, that there is no necessity for keeping up taxation to the extent of providing $30,000,000 a year, which the Secretary but ought to allow the ut-tfinding bonds to remain as security for •.lie circulation of the national banks and such other purposes as they are needed for, uid vre ought to reduce taxation. He would not say how, but In some proper way, we ought to give the people relief from onerous taxation. A sinking fund has • ecu fully ami fairly provided for, ! e said, for twenty years "to come. The purpose of the fund was to give as- . u ranee or security that the debt would be paid. Tin's it amply does, and would do without the necessity of following the rec-

ommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Sherman said he had no objection whatever to the resolution calling for information, but published statements relating to the sinking fund contain all the material necessary from which to derive the particulars the gentleman from Kentucky (Beck) desires. At the present rate, the sinking fund would pay off the national debt in about fourteen years. He believed the policy a good one which preserved the sinking fund intact. There should be nointerruption of that policy except under extraordinary pressure, which should be only temporary, and resumed at the earliest moment and persevered in until the public debt was paid off to the utmost farthing. Mr. Beck, in reply, said he desired no action or legislation that would injure public faith or credit, but on the contrary wanted to maintain it, but to do so by taxation foT legitimate purposes, not for the purpose of accumulating money at the rate of $50,000,000 a year, or advancing the prospects of any man to nomination. Mr. Bayard moved an amendment to the resolution, to call also for a report showing under the present law what provisions for reduction of the public debt had been effected. Mr, Plumb thought the sinking fund at the present time a mere matter of bookkeeping. The people are anxious for the debt to be paid off as rapidly as possible. They do not need to keep up the debt for the purpose of maintaining a national banking system. The national banking system, so far as i ts relations to the currency are concerned, is doomed with theextinction of the national debt, because the demands of the country for currency are constantly increasing. He held it to he the part of good judgment and patriotism to Oegin to provide something to take the place of the present national banking system. The amendment of Mr. Bayard was agreed to. and the resolution, as amended, agreed to. Mr. Wilson called up his joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution relating to the civil rights of citizens, and moved its reference to the committee on judiciary. The resolution proposes the following article of amendment, to be numbered article 10: “Congress shall have the power, by appropriate legislation, to protect citizens of the United States in the exercise and enjoyment of rights, privileges and immunities, and assure them equal protection of the laws.” Mr. Wilson addressed the Senate in support of the resolution. He reviewed the civil-lights legislation which, he said, was rendered necessary by the fact that the constitution could not enforce itself; but the Supreme Court of the United States recently declared this legislation of Congress unconstitutional and void, and had held it is a State action that is proscribed by the constitution. not an individual invasion of individual rights. He quoted at length from the cases decided by that court, and combatted the doctrine that led to its conclusion. According to this theory all a State has to do is to remain inert, to refuse protection to a citizen, and the nation cannot help him, and this is called equal protection by the law and the enforcement of constitutional amendments. The most that constitutions and laws cun do is to insure its citizens an equal chance with all others to reach those ends that governments are organized to promote; but no citizen has an equal chance wiio has not equal protection. It is his right to possess both. It is the duty of the government to assure both, for justice is the foundation of government. Mr. Garland said the inconsistency of the recent opinion of the Supreme Court was not to be found in the opinion of the majority of that court, but in that of the minority, namely, Justice Harlan. If any people of this country had not equal protection of laws he was in favor of giving it to them. But how far Congress could go in throttling a State he was not now prepared to say, but hoped he would be prepared when the proposition came up for debate. The resolution was referred to the jndiicary committee. After an executive session the Senate adjourned.

PAYME.VT IN KIND. A Proposal to Apply Bismarck's Itule to Imports from Germany. Washington, Dec. 12.—The following is the text of a joint resolution introduced by Representative Townshend in regard to the aotion of Germany concerning American hog products: “Whereas, The sovernment of the German Empire has seen flt to prohibit the importation of Anierieau hog products upon the assumption that they are deleterious to the public health; and "Whereas. Said government of the German Empire has deolineu an Invitation to send its own experts to this country for the purpose of examining the quality and manner of marketing hog products; and “Whereas, It appears from the proceedings of said government that the same has. or churns lo have, full authority to prohibit the importation of any foreign goods by it believed to he Injurions to health without the assent of the Roictistag; therefore he it "Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives, that the President he and is here- j by authorized, during the recess of Congress, to prohibit the importation of any goods, which upon advice of experts he shall hold to be injurious to health, from those countries which upon the sam-e grouud they prohibit the importation of American products.” Frank H. Mason, United States consul at Basle, Switzerland, asserts, and supports the the assertion by proof, that not only does the government ot Germany prohibit the importation of American pork for sale and consumption within her own territory, but forbids the transit of American hog products through its territory to other countries, even in sealed cars. The real object of the prohibitory regulations is not to guard the people of Germany from the danger arising from the consumption of diseased meats, but to protect German dealers in hog products from American competition. European statesmen shrink from the clamor which would meet an avowed measure to tax the food of the people, and so invent the theory that American meats are diseased and dangerous, and impose a prohibitory tariff in the form of an edict of absolute prohibition based upon sanitary grounds. Tire peasants and artisans are thereby made to pay fifteen to twenty centimes more per pound for the meat they eat than if American pork were admitted ’ freely, but are toid this discreet mandate, which robs their pockets, has been wisely devised by the paternal government, which is anxiously solicitious about their health. Mason says that in Switzerland, almost the only continental country to which American meats are permitted to be imported and sold on their merits, their reputation is not only higher now than ever before, but command preference in the market. MINOR MATTERS. Stamps ami Stamped Envelopes—Regulationß for Convenience of tlie Public. Washington, Dec. 12.—The Postmastergeneral has directed postmasters to exchange for the public, as applications are mafie, three and six-cent denominations of postage stamps and stamped envelopes for others of different denominations, the stamped envelopes tp be exchanged at the full current rate. Stamped envelopes bearing printed cards and special requests, as well as ordinary stamped envelopes, to be exchanged; also stamped envelopes bearing printed addresses. Stamps and envelopes of issues prior to 1881 not to be exchanged, The Whisky Interest. Washington, Dec. 12.—1 tis understood that Representative Willis will introduce in the House, if possible, on Friday, a bill to

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extend two years the bonded period of distilled spirits. A committee representing the whisky interests of tiie country wilt then call upon Secretary Folger, and upon the ground of litigation pending ask him to suspend the collection of tax upon spirits forced out of bond the oth of the present month, and await the action of Congress upon a bill to extend the bonded period. An Unwi-itteu Rule. Washington Special. Mr. Carlisle found himself too hoarse this morning to occupy the Speaker’s chair, and he called Mr. Cox to preside. The work of yesterday was very wearing. There was a little surprise expressed by some of the members that Mr. Carlisle did not call Mr. Randall to the chair. To a gentleman who inquired the cause, Mr. Randall replied: “It lias long been an unwritten rule of the House that a Speaker shall not call an exSpeaker to the chair. When I was in the chair I often urged Mr. Banks to preside, but he always declined, and hunted up the record to show me, finally, that it had long been a rule, unwritten, however, that an exSpeaker should not be called to preside." Nominations and Confirmations, Washington, Dec, 12. Nominations Royal A. Johnson, of New York, for sur-veyor-general of Arizona; Lawrence Weldon, of Illinois, Judge of the Court of Claims; John It. Tanner, United States marshal for the Southern district of Illinois. Confirmations—Seth Ledyard Phelps, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Peru; Wm. W. Thomas, jr.. minister resident in Sweden and Norway; Henry White, second secretary of the legation at London; Edwin Farley, collector of internal revenue for the Second district of Kentucky. THE MORMON SYSTEM. Views of a Citizen of Salt Laks as to the Condition of Utah. Chicago, Dec. 12.—The Daily News will publish a Salt Lake, Utah, special, containing an interview with a leading citizen. He says the Mormons regard the reference to polygamy in the President’s message as a menace to their political power, their theocratic control of the Territory; that their interests are too great for them to emigrate; that they recognize the fact that the people of the United States wrongly regard polygamy as the only legal objection to Mormtmism, whereas, the fact is, polygamy is simply an ugly feature, the real trouble being the Mormon priesthood’s assumption of a divine right to rule; that they recognize the fact that their whole system is jeopardized if they retain polygamy; whereas, with that feature abolished, they are likely to have an indefinite lease of life for Mormon theocracy. The present Legislature, though made of monogamous Mormons, is yet thoroughly the creature of the church. It' is probable, therefore, that while the church will keep up a sham show of opposition it will instruct the Legislcture to pass a law making polygamy a crime, and, the Territory thus purged of the only wrong known to the general public, will apply for admission as a State, with good prospects of getting in, giving the priesthood proportionately increased power. Utah hk a State. Sait Lake City, Dec. 12. —The Deseret News (Mormon), this evening, commending Delegate Caines’s bill for the admission of Utah, says: The bill introduced by our delegate, if Congress is in a proper frame of mind to consider it justly, would be one of the wisest measures that could be adopted. It would take from the issues of the times one of the most troublesome national difficulties, made so by the folly of agitators and weak legislation. The admission of Utah would relieve the government of the supposed necessity of grappling with a perplexir : problem that belongs to the domestic affairs of a State rattier than the general supervision of federal authority. The question of polygamy cuts no figure in the admission of Utah, and as it is not recognized in the constitution, it would form no part of State politics. We have no idea that either of the bills referred to will pass, but the mention of them shows what they are and the bearing they have upon local affairs. The Republicans will not do anything which could be construed into benefit for Utah, because hostility to the Mormons is one of the chief articles of their political stock; the Democrats dare not, for fear of being twitted with the terrible but absurd accusation of affiliation with Mormous and pandering to polygamy.

A POLITICAL RIOT. A Free FiourWh of Revolvers and Four Men Shot. Kew Orleans, Dee. 12.—A dispatch from Greenville, Miss., gives tbe following particulars of a trouble there on the 10th inst: Considerable excitement has prevailed for a month on account of the municipal election. J. A. Leiander and Shaw headed two tickets for the mayoralty. On Saturday file saloons were made a rendezvous for the followers of the candidates. Money was spent liberally and passions aroused to fever heat by drink. In tne evening the Shaw faction held a meeting at tlie dock in Jones’s dance-house. In the midst of the proceedings a melee occurred between a colored man and Frank Montgomery (white). Pistols were drawn and shooting commenced. Sam Finlay (white) was, seriously injured and three negroes shot; one named Harmer killed outright, one expected to die, and another slightly wounded. The shooting created the bitterest feeling, and during tlie entire night and yesterday morning there were apprehensions of more trouble. The coroner’s jury found that Harmer was killed by Montgomery and Findlay. Tlie occurrence had the effect of bringing all to a comprehension of the dangerous state of affairs engendered. Finally the best citizens came together, and a compromise was effected, both condidates withdrawing iu favor of Major Bucks. This action has given satisfaction, and peace and order are restored. Completely Exonerated. Pittsburg, Dec. 12.—Tlie coroner’s investigation in the Braddock fire resulted in the complete exoneration of John Eckert, husband of the woman burned to death. It was proven that Eckert was away from home several hours before the fire occurred, and that his wife met her death by her own carelessness while under the influence of liquor. Steamship News. Queenstown. Dec. 12.—Arrived: England, from Bretwaldn. New York, Dec. 12. — Arrived: Erin, from London; Labrador, from Havre. London, Dec. 12.—Arrived: Switzerland, from New York; Zeeland, from Philadelphia. Suspension of Billings & Cos. New York, Dec. 12. — J. S. Billings it Cos., commision merchants, are reported suspended. Liabilities. $400,000, of which $200,000 are secured by stocks, bonds, cotton, and other assets. . , A Slight Cold. If neglected, often attacks tlie lungs. Brown's Bronchial Troches give sure and immediate relief. bold only la boxes. Price 25 coats.

THE LATEST CABLE NEWS. Doss of Life and Damage to Property by a Violent Gale. Military Preparations of the False Prophet anil Raker Pasha —The Chinese and French Still Talking. A TERRIFIC STORM. Many Lives Post, and Great Damage to Property. London, Dec. 12.—Violent gales prevailed throughout England last evening. Much damage was done in London and the provinces. Lamp posts in the streets were bent. At Wolverhampton the exhibition building, which was only partially completed, was destroyed. Many lives are reported lost at sea. Huge trees were torn up and carried away. The low-lying districts of Birmingham were flooded. A portion of the roof of the Church of St. Chad, Derby, was demolished. The Congregational Church here was also dameged. The Parish church at Rotherham was much injured. Chimney shafts were thrown down at Manchester, Leeds, etc. A large gas-holder near Bradford capsized, and the chemical works at Widnes were dnmaged. The Leicester carriage works were destroyed. At Birkenhead great damage was done. The chief officer of the steamer just arrived from Glasgow was killed. Fool cabs were overturned and many buildings damaged. At Lincoln the parapet tower of the cathedral was blown down. A ship was blown from its moorings at Belfast harbor, and went adrift. Three wherries sank. The British ship Liverpool, from Quebec for Greenock, is a total wreck near Stranraer, Scotland. Only a man and boy were saved of the crew. Two,persons were killed at Hull, and several injured. A portion of Portsmouth is flooded. At Birmingham two persons were killed and a number injured. Three were killed at Manchester. At Dewsbury three were killed. At Chester a man was blown down in the street and killed. Two persons were killed at Liversedge. A portion of the roof of St. Marys Church, Berwick, was destroyed, and several houses in the suburbs of Nettingham were blown down. At Kildwick the gasometer was demolished. A postal televraph inspector was cut in half at Leeds. At Bradford monuments in Undercliff cemetery and a portion of the depot of the Midland railway were blown down. Several vessels docked in the Mersey were damaged. Two vessels were wrecked at Dunare, Scotlaud, and two men drowned. The lowlands of the West Lancashire district were flooded. At Glasgow the damage to property is very great. THE SOUDAN REBELLION, The False Prophet's Military Preparations > Uaker'ii Force* and Plans. Cairo, Dec. 12.—Ala Ed Deen Paslia, Governor of Khartoum, returned to that place from Duem with a garrison, guns, ammunition und supplies,and states the report is confirmed that El Mahdi, after the battle, returned to El Obeid with'ammunition and a battery of Crupp guns, which were taken from Hicks Pasha. El Mahdi is preparing to send 10,000 men into the province of Darfour and another 10,000 to subdue the Kababiscb tribes near Khartoum. Baker Pasha starts for Suakim to-morrow. His force consists of 2,300 gens d'armes (500 mounted), 1,500 black troops, 4,000 Bedouins, with live guns. Colonel Sartorius commands the gens d'armeie, and Zekehs commands the blacks and half of the Bel douins. The latter advance to Berber from Suakim, while the other half of the Bedouins, under Husseim Pasha, go up the Nile, recruiting Bedouins on the way. The two forces will try to join between Berber and Su&kitu.

Recruits Joining the Insurgents. Constantinople, Dec. 12. —News of the defeat of the Egyptian army is spreading in Arabia. Numbers of recruits have joined the insurgents in Yemen and Hejas. The Governor of Hejss has telegraphed for reinforcements. The Porte will not send any troops to Egypt unless asked to do so, but confine its efforts to preventing communication between Arabia and London. THE TONQUIN TROUBLE. The Chinese Will Be Given Oue More Chance, Which Is Positively the Last. Paris, Dec. 12. —Admiral Courbet will soon ask China to renew negotiations the military position of Tonquin to remain undisturbed. If negotiations are declined the Admiral will seize Bacninb, Sontay and Hung Hoi and again appeal for a peaceful settlement. A second refusal will be followed by the seizure of a main port other than Shanghai or Canton, owing to an unwillingness to offend other powers. The Chamber of Deputies adopted the budget of the Ministry of Marine. During debate the Minister of Marine stated he would shortly ask for a credit for the maintenance of troops in Tonquin for six months. . O'DONNELL. A Sufficiency of Evhleuce to Convict— Preparations for Execution. London, Dee. 12. —1 tis understood that the Home Office sent a letter to Judge Denman, who presided at the trial of O’Donnell, asking his opinion regarding the sufficiency of evidence submitted by the prosecution to support the charge of willful murder against O’Donnell. The Judge, in his reply, gives the opinion that there was sufficient evidence to convict of willful murder. Father Fleming, O’Donnell’s spiritual adviser, visits the prisoner twice daily. Mrs. O’Donnell paid another visit to her husband to-day. The sheriffs are completing their arrangements for the execution of O’Donnell on Monday. Binns, the hangman, arrived in London on Saturday. Only two members of the press will be permitted to be present. O’Donnell was visited by his brother. The branches of the Irish National League in London have resolved to request the government to stay the execution of O'Donnell, on the ground of discrepancy in the evidence of the witnesses and informality in tbe judge’s charge. Copies of tlie resolutions will be sent to Mr. Gladstone and the Home Secretary. A HORRIBLE DISCOVERT. A Tale of Death from Siberia —What Was Found on an Uninhabited Island. Waterbary, (Corn.,) Special. A communication is published here this afternoon relative to a recent dispatch giving an account of the finding, some years ago, of the remains of a crew who had died from scurvy on "Big Shelter island, off the Chinese coast.” The writer, who does not give his genuine signature, says: "As I was one of the crew who found them, i will give the facts and extracts from their log. Great Shantar or Sugar island lies off the coast of Siberia iu the western part of the Okhotsk

sen, in a bay of the same name. The vessel Hannah Rice was owned by a firm of traders, 0. W. Linhoim A Cos., of Wadenstock, and was on her way from that port with supplies for the station at Mungur, on Shantar buy. While a party of ns were duck hunting on the island, as we were anchored waiting lor a flood tide to go up the bay, we discovered a vessel a cable’s length from the beech. She had been hauled out on a high tide. She was wliat is called in Chinese waters “dandy built,” of about twenty tons burden, rigged with a square bamboo sail forward and small jigger sail aft. A short distance from her, in a very exposed position, was a log cabin, banked high on three sides with earth. On approaching it we were startled to see lying a few yards from the door the detached bones of a man. Pushing open the door an overwhelming stench greeted us. We fell back precipitately, but finally mustering courage again advanced, and what a horrible sight met our gaze. Almost at the threshold lav a decomposed body. In a corner opposite the door lay another, and in a bunk built on the side was still another, making four in all. They were entirely unrecognizable, being nothing but masses of putrid flesh. We found quite a store of salt beef, hard bread, tea, molasses, tobacco, etc.; also, two rifles, three old rusty sabers, and some ammunition. "In the bunk with the body was the log. Parts had been torn out, evidently to preserve some secret. It showed her to be the Nellie, cleared at Calcutta for Nicolaefsk, from thence to any port or places on the Chinese or Japanese seas. James Thompson, master; Philip Brown, mate, aud two Chinamen, formed the crew.” Extracts copied from the log of the vessel are given by the writer of the above communication. dating various, from Sept 17, 1876, to April 16, 1877—at which date the captain, Thomas Thompson, appears to liavedied —the details of which show great suffering from cold weather, sickness and starvation. The anonymous writer of the communication, detailing the discovery of the dead seamen, continues: “The last entry could hardly be deciphered and wa9 scrawled all over the page, and undoubtedly death soon ended the Captain’s sufferings. And there they lay, as the had died, until we found them. We dag a grave inside the hut, buried them as best we could, fastened the door to keep bears from disturbing their last resting-place, and left them. Two years later I visited the same spot. The cabin still stood above their common grave, and I could not look upon it without a shudder passing over me, to think of the terrible tragical months these men passed in their tomb, dying one by one by that slow, certain disease, far from help aud civilization. “The shores of this wild, desolate country are the custodians of many a tragedy the counterpart of this, and lonely graves and ghastly skeletons bear evidence to the hundreds who have lost tlieir lives in search of gain or adventure in this frozen land of the north, The Russian ai thorities at Xicolaefsk were notified and the papers found sent to them. No clew to the friends of the captain or mate were found, so far as I know. They were men evidently without experience in cold latiitides, for they took no means to ward of sickness. At the time they landed in a few hours they could have gathered bushels of berries which resemble our cranberries, and have the same acid taste, and are an excellent anti-scrobutic. These made into wine or preserved whole, and taken in small quantities during the winter, combined with plenty of exercise, would have saved their lives. Exercise outside might have been rather difficult at times, as trees were cut down fifteen feet from the ground, showing that the snow must have been very deep.”

FOREIGN MISCELLANY. Constitutional Reforms Proposed In the Speech from the Throne. Madrid, Dec. 12.—The ministerial council has approved the draft of the royal speech to be delivered at the opening of the Cortes. It is reported that the speech announces the extension of suffrage to all who read, write and wiio pay taxes, aud with a view to its further extension mentions possible reforms of the constitution for discussion by future Cortes. It proposes bills for civil marriages and jury trial; declares the relations of Spain with all foreign powers friendly; that the dispute with France relative to the treatment of Alfonso in Paris has been satisfactorily arranged, the relations now existing between the countries being friendly. Spain, it says, will endeavor to increase cordiality with France if possible. It is believed Sagasta will accept the speech, tbas reconciling the existing majority in Use Cortes with the dynasty, and avoiding a split in the Liberal party. Conservative organs denounce the commercial agreement with England, and claim its provisions are injurious to Spanish interests. The Crown Prince’s Visit to Rome. Rome, Dec. 12.—The Popolo Romano states the Italians in no wise object to the German Crown Prince Frederick William visiting the Pope. The Moniteur de Rome, Papal organ, sav9 nothing was decided at the Vatican regarding the Crown Prince’s visit, which will certainly embarrass King Humbert and the Pope. It shows the difficulty created by both the King and the Pope living in the same city. The Opinion*, on the contrary, remarks that the visit would prove that it is perfectly possible for both the King and the Pope to live in Rome. Exasperated Departs. Belgrade, Dec. 12. —Exaggerated reports have been published in regard to the number of executions as the result of the suppression of the recent revolt. The total number is only eighteen—four priests, four merchants, a schoolmaster and nine feasants. All these were taken red-handed, and several executed for shooting peasants who refused to join the revolt. Execution ol'Chief Mampoer. Durban, Dec. 12.—Chief Mampoer, convicted of treason by the Boers, at Pretoria, in September last, and sentenced to death, has been hanged despite the assurances of President Kruger that the sentence should not be carried out nutil be had a conference with Lord Derby. France Trespassing Upon Spain's Territory. Madrid, Dec. 12. —It is rumored that the Governor of the island of Ferdinando has telegraphed the government that a French vessel has taken possession of the islands of Annobon and Corisco, in the Gulf of Guinea, belonging to Spain. Parnell's Brother-In-Law Found Dead. Brussels, Dec. 12.—Captain Robert Dickinson. Irish political refugee, brother-in-law of Parnell, was found dead in bed. Tile remains will be conveyed to Ireland. Devoid of Political Motive. Berlin, Dec. 12. —The pardon of Bishop Blum, of Limburg, is devoid of political motive and in no way is connected with the Clown Prince’s journey to Rome. Strilce of Tribuue Compositors. New York, Dec. XI. —The entire force of compositors of tiie New York Tribune, eigiity-six men, left work at 6 o’clock to-night. Subsequently three men went back and eleven more were procured outside. 'The cause of the strike is stated to be a threatened attempt on the part of the foreman to get out-of-town men to take the places of union men. It is rumored a large party

of compositors will be brought from Baltimore to-night, and to-morrow the union men will be discharged. The minor is said to have been confirmed, and the union consequently ordered the men out. Commissioners were appointed to intercept the party from Baltimore and induce them to join the union. It Is said an unfriendly feeling has existed between the compositors and the foreman since the success of the former, two months"ago, when they obtained tlieir demands und the office passed into the control of the typographical union. Tiie llprpnr Mexican Train Knbberleg, Mokterby, Mex., Dec. 12.—Quintane, the mayor of New Laredo, was ordered arrested as one of the principals in the recent train robbery on the Mexican National railroad, but the authorities of Tamaulipas refused to surrender him. Other prominent officials are involved, and the affair is assuming a serious and national aspect. Several robbers escaped by delay and indiscretion of officials. 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