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The work of building the ice palace at St. Paul is now progressing. The five-track to-boggan-slide is nearly ready for the fun to hoggin. The motto appropriate to the occasion is: Millions for folly, and a good deal less for the alleviation of the distressed. 9 The Salt Lake Herald, a Mormon organ, is of the opinion that the worst of the ‘ ‘persecution” of the saints is over, and that the clouds ire about to break away. The Herald bases 400 great expectations upoD Teller’s championship of the down-trodden “religious” sect. General Crook has dealt with the savages for twenty years with what has been considered reasonable success. It has remained for dthose noble veterans, Generals Cleveland and Endicott and Colonel Lamar, to discover that be doesn’t understand the first principles of Indian warfare. The scheme of the heirs of President MonToe to get through a claim for half pay as lieutenant-colonel for some forty-nine years, during part of which time it is of record that the lieutenant-colonel served as President, only shows how grasping some people can be. The heirs of Pocahantas will turn up next. Congressman Wheeler, of Alabama, who introduced the Fitz John Porter bill, says the friends of the bill “do not anticinato a veto this time.” Probably not. President Arthur modestly declined to reverse a decision made “by Abraham Lincoln; but no one suspects Fresident Cleveland of being that kind of a man. The tacking of the name Sharon to that of Miss Sarah Althea Hill, on the occasion of her marriago to Judge Terry, deceived nobody, and might have the effect of vitiating the ceremony. For a woman who had so recently lost a husband, it may be said that Miss Hill has taken another with unseemly haste.

Memphis, Tenn., just now in the throes of a city political campaign, has a “workingman's ticket,” the three principal candidates on which are, respectively, druggist, contractor and saloon-keeper. It is such horny-handed sons of toil as these who are usually found at the head of political “labor” movements. There was a great faking off in the pew rents of Beecher’s church, last year, after his eccentric exploits in the political field, and this year the subscriptions are S3OO less than in 1881. The mugwump converts, with money in their pockets, who were expected to rush in and fill the yawning pews, seem not ,to have materialized. Senator Edmunds is a statesman; but there are some reasons for believing that he is riot one of those genial, affable men whose gracious manner sets all around them at ease. When the new senator from Delaware, Mr. Gray, prepared to pose as a defender of tho

President’s silver policy, Mr. Edmunds yielded the floor with the remark that he should certainly not refuse, because it was important that new senators should deliver their first speeches—that nothing but the falling in of the walls should prevent their delivery. The effect upon Mr. Gray of this comment was such that he forgot to indulge in any of the oratorical fire-works for which he is famous in his little State; and, in consequence of this failure to rise to the great occasion in proper style, there is doubtless much disappointment among his proud and expectant constituents. Mr. Edmunds should really amend his deportment. The attempt to secure a pension for a granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson will hardly succeed, and ought not succeed. The object for which this charity is asked is a worthy one, doubtless, but the principle of looking to the government for relief is bad. Each locality should care for its worthy poor. The precedent of pensioning somebody’s grandchild cannot be established without opening the way to others. If the granddaughter of Jefferson, why not the grandson of Hamilton and of Jackson? The idea is a vicious one. The man who serves the country is honored by the country while living* That must count for something. The running expenses of the government are enormous; the burden is necessarily grievous already. The people cannot take upon themselves the business of providing for the descendants of its public men. Pensions have been paid to the widows of a few of our greatest men, and it is proper enough to see that those im mediately dependent upon such should be placed beyond the reach of want and humiliation. Our national pride would suggest that much. But the line should be kept drawn where it is. To extend it to take in descendants and remoter relatives is simply to remove all bounds and to open the treasury to unnumbered claimants. In a government of the people there should be no favored classes. Heredity can have no place. The generous sentiment that suggests the pensioning of Mrs. Meikleham should not be allowed to warp the better judgment of congressmen. It is pitiful that any descendant of Jefferson should be in want, but it is equally pitiful that any one in this great country should be in that condition. It is the duty of the relatives of this lady, or those living near her, to go to her relief. Thousands all over the country have to be relieved in this way by the bounty of individuals. It were easy to thrust all appeals for relief upon the federal treasury, but difficult to make it adequate to the task of relieving all comers.

Again the report is that thousands of negroes are emigrating from the Carolinas to find new homes in the West, in Arkansas, Colorado and California. The tide of emigration, white and black, is toward the West. The new lands opening up there afford better chances of making a living; the carving of farms out of the broad prairies, the opening up of new markets, and the building of thousands of small towns make business, and this gives employment and calls for new men. The word has spread among the colored men and they have caught the fever. The prospect of bettering their condition has emboldened these timid men to make the attempt. So they turn their backs on the plantation and the old cabin home, and with hope in their hearts they are westward bound. It is simply one of the features of trade and progress, of supply aiid demand, that will eventually adjust itself. When there are enough men in the West, or when wages there drop to the level of those in the East, the tide will stop or turn back. The planters in the States now contributing to the hegira will suffer the loss of laborers, and may be cramped in doing the work necessarj r to conduct their farms. Anew adjustment must take place, and meanwhile it is the part of wisdom for them to make it as pleasant as possible for the men to whom they look for labor. Every advantage consistent with their own interests should bo afforded them. It is the only remedy that presents itself now. Atlanta, Ga., complains of a trap similar to the score or more in Indianapolis, and another victim, this time a prominent citizen, has been added to the long list of those killed on a certain railway crossing in that city. This is a question that should be taken up at once in this city. What to do about the scores of railway tracks in Indianapolis should be settled before the work of building anew Union Depot is begun. This enterprise may or may not be undertaken soon, but tho quc2tion of safer railway crossings is one that cannot much longer be postponed without criminal negligence. Asa business investment the northern and southern halves of this city should be afforded easy and safe passage across railway tracks upon which so many lives have been sacrificed. The present death-traps must be got rid of. Why not now? Material is cheap, and labor is cheap. The railways and city are alike interested in this unsettled question. The money expended during the current year would prove a great blessing to the working classes, and the result would be greatly to the benefit of all concerned. Senator Blair is not, possibly, so ardent an advocate of female suffrage as is Senator Hoar, but like the latter he objects to the clause in the Edmunds amended anti-polyg-amy bill which disfranchises the women of Utah. He even went further than the gentleman from Massachusetts, and inquired, if it were necessary to the enforcement of law that one class of voters should be deprived of the privilege, why the men of the

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Territory should not also be disfranchised. The reports do not indicate that any statesman desired to reply to this very reasonable inquiry; but apparently the eminent law-makers are of the opinion that what is sauce for the goose is not sauce for the gander in Utah, as the motion' of Senator Hosr was voted down, and the Edmunds bill, if will contain the clause discriminating against female Mormons. There must be something of the oldfashioned, Adam-born human nature left even in Mormon women, and the feelings of the first wife of Apostle Snow may be safely assumed not to have been all of sorrow when he was convicted of an infraction of the law, and sentenced to imprisonment this week. The polygamous saint protested that, since the passage of the Edmunds law, he had lived exclusively with one wife, but, as this favored creature happened to be number three, the stony-hearted judge refused to accept the defense, and, much to his astonishment, the old man had to go to jail. To Mrs. Snow number one it was possibly not such a very cold day after all. The statement ascribed to Secretary Bay ard that men who have nothing to depend upon but their salaries are not wanted in the United States consular service has stirred the wrath of lean and hungry Democrats all along the line. Their indignation is excusable. The first year of the long-hoped-for era of Jacksonian simplicity, and the boasted reign of Democracy pure and simple, is hardly an appropriate time for the establishment by the government of a favored class of rich men. Unfortunately, however, that is just the direction toward which simplicity seems to bo tending under this administration. Australia keeps right up with the progressive procession in other parts of tho world. At a race in south Australia, a few weeks ago, the leading horse stumbled and fell, bringing all that followed into a heap. Two jockeys were killed, others fatally injured, and several horses were killed or maimed. 'ln short, it was an incident much like those transpiring in America. Philadelphia is confiding to a degree’ simply charming at this time. It is claimed that a $24,000 monument will be speedily built to the memory of John McCullough. “About $10,000” will be raised in Philadelphia, and will be subscribed by friends of the deceased in various parts of the country. Asa rule, monuments are reared very laboriously.

Where now is the “Sweet Singer of Michigan," lest her laurels slip away from her? Sarah Kelley—Miss or Mrs. is not shown—of Honesdale, Pa., petitions Congress, not for a pension, but for a salary and the appointment as the national poet-laureate. She mentions the some: what irrelevant fact that, like Artemus Ward, she was willing to sacrifice everything in the way of relatives on the altar of her country, and that, in short, some nine of them were gotten away with in the progress of the war, and, further, that she has set up nights bemoaning the sad fate that kept her from being a “sojer boy.” She incidentally mentions the fact that she can “wright” good, home-made verse and is now waiting for official notification to cut loose. The cable has again been brought into requisition to correct an erroneous impression. A Paris morning paper announced that M. Pasteur, before Dr. Billings’s departure for home, had given him a dinner at Bignon’s. A special cablegram declares there is not a word of truth in the statement Bignon’s is the Delmonico of Paris. If the truth were known it would probably show that the gentlemen repaired to a modest brasserie in the Latin quarter, where one can get a3 much for a franc as for a loui3 on the Avenue de l’Opera. There is nothing like having these important facts exactly as they occurred. The entente cordiale might have its fur brushed the wrong way were it not for the cables. Elopements have brought skating rinks into disrepute. What is the elopement of Miss Norton from her seat at a progressive euchre party to do for that amusement? Ex-Senator Blaine is said to delight in iceyachting. Another man, recalled by some as having been secretly connected with the election of 1884, owns a real yacht. Ex-Minister Keiley has at last found somebody who does not refuse to associate with him. He has been accepted as a member of the New York bar. Jefferson Davis denies that he is a Freemason. Those who have the Masonic grip will proceed to shake. - To tho Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: Can the Journal or any of its readers give me the authorship of the following beautiful amplification of the Tennysonian sentiment that “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never, etc?” He who for love hath undergone The worst that can befall, la happier thousandfold than one Who never loved at all. A crrace within his soul hath reigneu Which nothing else can bring; Thank God for all that I have gained By that high sorrowing. COMMENT AND OPINION. “President Parnell, of United Ireland,” will soon be a name to conjure by.—Philadelphia Inquirer. The next best thing to persuading people to abolish liquor is to persuade them not to use it, or to use less of it.—Atlanta Constitution. Thebe is a Polish church in Cincinnati which has not had a row in four years. The concrega tion disbanded in 1882.—New York Graphic. There seem to be some Democrats in Ohio of the opinion that Senator Payne hasn’t shelled out as much money as he might have done.—Atlanta Constitutiou. The style of chiroeraphy adopted in the writing of prescriptions is not only an affectation but a possible source of danger.—New York Commercial Advertiser. Dakota is slowly learning the parodoxical truth that the bigger a State is the easier it is for it to squeeze through a given hole.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Perhaps Mr. Cleveland, when he goes out of office, will start a great moral journal or a school for the propagation of truthful correspondents. —Philadelphia Press. It will not be creditable to the Republican majority in the Ohio House of Representatives if the nine fraudulently-seated Democrats from Hamil-

ton county are not expelled very soon. They do not occupy the position of men whose cases are to be tried, but of scoundrels already convicted. —Cleveland Leader. If the Democratic party can stand Governor Curtin’s going to the rear and Perry Belmont’s coming to the front. Governor Curtin probably can.—Philadelphia Press. If fear be good soil to sow seeds of advertising in, somebody will reap a bountiful harvest of cash, even if there never be a case of hydrophobia.—Brooklyn Union. Governor Hill’s campaign cry is: “I am a Democrat.” No allusion, of course, to acertain gentleman who rooms “over Weed’s hardware store.”—Pittsburg Chronicle. Thkv say that Whitney is the best judge of horseflesh in the Cabinet This explains his wonderful qualifications for the i-ocretaryship of the navy.—Pittsburg Chronicle. Arizona is worried with a debt of $120,000. She has that much wealth in outstanding Apache scalps, but it seems to be a bad season for collecting.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. More people die in one year from trichiniasis than in twenty years from hydrophobia. Yet the owners of hogs pay no tax. buy no muzzle and have no hogs shot down.—Milwaukee Sentinel. At his present rate of progress, President Cleveland will be qualified, by the close of his term, to fill the chair of “journalism” at almost any fresh-water college in the country. —Minneapolis Tribune. Dakota may be cheated out of her rights, hut she will have the satisfaction of knowing who cheated her, and pent-up resentment, like pentup water, flows with a rush when it once gets loose.—New York Tribune. • The exchanges record the death of a man who lived in Philadelphia 120 years. That is not unreasonable. One hundred and twenty years in Philadelphia is not more than sixty years in New York.—New York Graphic. There are people in Ireland who protest against home rule. There are people in Russia who prefer czarism to constitutional government. There were slaves in the South, in the old time, who professed to prefer*slavery to freedom.—National Republican. Somehow or other it does not seem to he indicative of Democratic harmony that the only prospect of a defense on the floor of Congress for the policy of the only President the Democrats have elected for twenty five vears.should he from the Republican side. —Pittsburg Dispatch. Congress must he left to decide its own course, and the people must hold its members to account If the men who know what the consequences of silver coinage will he would exert the influence that rightfully belongs to them they could stop it. If they will not, they must bear those consequences.—New York Times. The most comfortable sort of po’itical ambition is that expressed at the meeting of the Woman’s Suffrage League, yesterday. None of the ladies wanted to be President of the United States, hut one and all wanted some other woman to be. The disappointment which follows in a case of this kind is of the mildest and least painful sort.—Boston Record. No one can foresee what 1886 has in store for America, but in the light of national experience it is sure that we have only to continue the same policy toward industry and resources which the Republican party maintained to enhance the purchasing power of money and produce that remarkable condition of things, reduction without depression.—Chicago Inter Ocean. The important decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Mississippi railroad cases completely disposes of the pretension that a State Legislature may not pass laws prohibiting unjust discriminations in freight charges. It shows, too, that if the State Legislatures do their duty, there is no need of iuvoking the power of Congreess.—Philadelphia Record. Among good citizens of either party there ought to be substantial agreement on one thing—that the will of the people shall be upheld and enforced, and that any device by whicii that will may be thwarted shall be set aside as promptly as possible. Free government is not possible unless good citizens of both parties adhere to this principle.—New York Tribune. Technically he [Mr. Cleveland] is right in saying that the responsibility rests with Congress; but morally and politically he is bound to do all that he legitimately can to prevent Demo cratic rule from being a failure. The President of the United States, with his Cabinet about him, ought to be something more than a high sheriff with a bureau attachment.—Boston Herald. Rum is a more formidable enemy to the wageworkers of the United States than all the corporations and monopolies of the country combined, and more to be feared by them than a thousand Jay Goulds and Vanderbilts. The powerful machinery of the Knights of Labor could not be possibly better employed than in carrying on a perpetual boycott against the saloons—Chicago Times. Now that the Dolphin has proved herself so worthy and able a boat, it must be pleasant for Mr.,Whitney to remember his action of last summer, when he succeeded in making such a fuss over a mole hill and caused hundreds of % poor families to bo without support If you have a conscience, Mr. Secretary, we wouldn’t be in your shoes for two hours for a peck of buzzard dollars.—Minneapolis Tribune. In the impression of this paper, the proper thine to do with the liquor traffic is to recognize that it has existed ever since Noah made such a sad exhibition of himself in the presence of his boys, and that it will continue to exist until Gabriel blows his trumpet in the morning. Meanwhile, would it not he wise to make the liquor traffic pay the expense of some of the gigantic evils which it causes?—Cincinnati Sun. Polygamy in Utah is essentially the same as under Judaism or Mohammedanism, and the glittering pretense of free suffrage does not alter the fact that the condition of the Mormon women is one of slavery. The suffrage was not conferred on them either as a privilege or a right, hut to strengthen the political power of the Mormon hierarchy, and for that reason they should now be deprived of it.—Chicago Tribune. The real advantage of the debtor, present and prospective, lies in a policy that will maintain the national credit at the high standard to which it has been brought in the last twenty years, and thereby guarantee low interest rates in all directions. We do not need any more currency; but we do need the chance to borrow money at the smallest possible price, and that chance never exists where inflation has sway.—St. Louis Globe-Domocrat. The school of experience is not a pleasant one, we got valuable instruction from it in the matter of irredeemable paper money. Perhaps we may be forced to seek a final settlement of the silver problem in the same hard way. If we do, we may be sure that we will abide for a time by what we learn. In the meanwhile it will be as well to await propositions for compromise from those who stand in the way of the right solution. —New York Times. The, good intentions of Mr. Hewitt are not doubted. Most of the free-trade brethren mean well, and for this reason their simplicity should be treated with indulgent charity. They have got hold of a sort of parrot jingle about “mar-kets-of-the-world,” and they get it off - like Mark Twain’s “Punch, brother, punch with care,”etc., not appearing to know that, as an argument, it has been repeatedly shown to be utterly worthless. —National Republican. Every workman has an undisputed right to sell his labor at the highest price and upon the best terms which he can command. But this proposition carries with it, logically and inevitably, the concession of the same right by every workman to every other workman. When he resorts to force to deprive another of the right which he himself claims he becomes a tyrant and an outlaw, against whom the sternest measures are justifiable.—Chicago News. It is unqestionably true that a national bankrupt law is greatly needed. There is no doubt of this in the minds of the leading business men of the country. But the difficulty is to frame such a bankiupt law as would not he full or evils like those which led to the repeal of the old law. It is a matter which wouid require very careful consideration, and this doubtless is more than many of the members of Congress are capable of giving to it.—Denver Tribune. Another snag against which the President will run is his Cabinet. It is composed of men who have been brought up in the old spoils-grab-bing methods, with the exception of Endicott, who has a way of his own independent even of the President. They will never resist congressional importunity, and, though they have repeatedly brought the President into trouble with their unfit selections, and torn the civil-service law into tatters and trampled it into the dirt, they will never surrender their privileges at the presidential dictation.—Chicago Tribune.

TROUBLE Fos THE SAINTS. The Senate Concludes Its Discussion of the New Anti-Polygamy Law, And on a Call of the Yeas and Nays the Measure Is Passed with Only Seven Dissenting Votes—Provisions of the Act. Washington, Jan. B.—The Chair laid before the Senate a resolution of the New York Produce Exchange, urging Congress to make liberal provision for the Signal Service. Referred. Mr. Eustis offered a concurrent resolution with a preamble, as follows: Wherkas, the act of Congress of 1878 declared the silver dollar a legal tender for all debts, public and private; that by the act of 1869 the faith of the United States was solemnly pledged to the payment, in coin or its equivalent, of all public obligations not bearing interest, etc., that by the refunding act of July, 1870, the principal and interest of the debt were made redeemable in coin of the then standard value; that since the enactment of those laws it has been the practice of the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the bonds and interest in gold coin; and that the Secretary of the Treasury had issued a call for $lO,000,000 of bonds, payable on the Ist of February, 1886; therefore, be it Resolved, etc., that in the opinion of Congress said bonds of $10,000,000, payable on the Ist of February, 1886, should be paid in silver dollars, such payment being in strict compliance with existing law, and in aid of the financial policy established by the legislation Os Congress. Mr. Eustis desired the Resolution referred to the committee on finance, and expressed the hope that the committee would report on it at an early day in order that it may he determined whether or not this practice of paying the United States bonds and the interest on them exclusively in gold coin was approved by Congress. The resolution was so referred. _On motion of Mr. Ingalls, the Senate agreed that when it should adjourn to-day it should he till next Monday. Mr. Voorhees’s resolution of inquiry relating to the Pension Office was, with his consent, allowed to go over till Monday next, with a view that a resolution of like import may be drafted that will be acceptable to both Mr. Voorhees and Mr. Harrison, for whose resolution that of Mr. Voorhees was offered as a substitute. The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of bills on the calendar. In a debate arieing upon a bill for private relief Mr. Dolph commented upon the increasing number of such bills and the decreasing number of meritorious bills coming before Congress. He thought it would be necessary.to make some general provision for the consideration of private bills and take them away from Congress. He showed that during the first fifty years of our government the number of bills introduced in the House of Representatives was 8,777, while the number introduced during the Forty-eighth Congress alone was 8,830. The bill gave rise to considerable debate, which incidentally touched the question of a statute of limitations to stop the government from asserting claim after notorious laches. It was a a bill to relieve the sureties of James T. Carter, who was Secretary of Arizona in 1866, and who made certain expenditures that were subsequently disallowed by the Treafeury Department On the suggestion of Mr. Edmunds this bill went over one day, and the Utah hill was taken up and its consideration proceeded with. Mr. Edmunds created some merriment on rising to speak on one of the amendments offered yesterday. Looking about him, and fiuding comparatively few Republicans in their seats, he said: “As hardly .any of the friends of human liberty are in the Senate, l will address myself to the reform men.” After some debate, Mr. Brown’s amendment, offered yesterday, which was to strike out the words that would compel the lawful husband or wife of the accused to testify, was rejected —yeas 11, nays 42—and the compulsory provis ion was therefore retained in the bill. Mr. Morgan again called attention to the twelfth section, which provides for fourteen trustees to administer the property, business affairs and operations of the corporation known as “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” ±le wanted to know what their duties were to be, and why the bill was silent as to their salaries. He demanded an answer from his fellow-members of the judiciary committee. Mr. Edmunds replied that Mr. Morgan should have an answer. Mr. Morgan saw no authority in Congress to appoint trustees to manaec a church business. He characterized such trustees as “muewump Mormons.” They would be occupied, necessarily, he said, in promoting Mormonism. Mr. Edmunds replied that they had nothing whatever to do with church matters of faith, but only with property —to see that the church’s moneys, which were enormous, were not applied to the propagation of polygamy. Not wne quarter of the Mormons, as Mr. Edmunds understood, believed in polygamy. Mr. Teller inquired if the Mormon church moneys were now applied illegally—that is, in violation of the charter of that church. Mr. Edmunds "replied that he believed they were. Mr. Teller asked how. Mr. Edmunds answered: “They are used for the purpose of inducing and securing immigration, that they may contrioute to the lusts of these vagabonds.” Mr. Call said we owed our liberty to freedom of speech and worship. We were departing from those grounds when we passed such a bill as that under consideration. The reason why Mormonism had become so successful, he thought, was because of its great activity as a secular organization. It had gone abroad over the earth and dragged people from misery and poverty and brought them to a land of plenty. It was no wonder that, under such eircumstances, it had become successful. But those peple could now bo brought under the influence of the Christian religion. The ministrations of that religion were sufficient to conquer Mormonism, and would do so more completely and properly than the hill before tbe Senate could. Some amendments offered by Mr. Call were voted down. As the bill was about to he brought to a vote, Mr. Morgan said its friends seemed inclined to press it without giving its opponents time to study it He again inquired what the salaries were that the commissioners were to be paid. He had announced his determination to wipe this church out and leave nothing of it but had been met by a proposition in this bill to perpetuate the church. While the bill was on final passage Mr. Van Wyck endeavored to fix the duties of the proposed fourteen trustees upon the members of the present Utah Commission, but was ruled out of order. He asked Mr. Edmunds whether he had any objection to such an amendment, to which that senator replied that he had. The bill having been brought to a vote was passed—yeas 33, nays 7, as follows: yeas. Allison, F.varts, Morrill, Beck, Frye, Palmer, Berry, George, Payne, Chase, Harris, Platt, Cockrell, Harrison, Pugh, Coke, Hawley, Sawyer, Oclquitt, Ingalls, Sherman, Conger, Jackson, Spooner, Cullom, Logan, VanWyck, Dawes, McMillan, Walthall, Dolph, Manderson, Wilson, Edmunds, Maxey, Wilson—3B. Eustis, Mitchell (Pena.), NAYS. Blair, Gibson, • Hoar, Call, Hamilton, Morgan, Vance—7. Mr. Hoar, in 'explaining his vote, said he voted against the bill only because of the section disfranchising women; but without that section he would have voted for the bilk The Senate then adjourned till Monday. The anti-polygamy bill, as passed, provides that in any prosecution under a statute of the United States for bigamy, polygamy or unlawful cohabitation, the lawful husband or wife of the accused shall he a competent witness, and may be compelled to testify; that an attachment for a witness may he issued without a previous subpoena, when there is reasonable ground to believe that a witness will refuse to obey a subpoena; that every marriage ceremony in the Territories shall be certified in writing, the certificate to be signed by each of the parties, and by the officer or priest performing the ceremony, such certificate to be prima-facie evidence of the facts when produced in court. Failure to fur nish the certificate is made punishable by fine and imprisonment. All records of marriages kept by officiating functionaries shall be subject to inspection by United States officials, and refusal to permit this is punishable by fine and imprisonment; that it shall not be lawful

for any female to vote at any election hereof tef held in the Territory of Utah for any public pur* pose whatever, and no such votes shall be received or counted, or given effect in any way whatever; and any and every act of the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah providing for or allowing the registration or voting by females is annulled; that ah laws of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of L tah which provide for numbering the votes of the electors in said Territory are disapproved and annulled; that the laws enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, conferring jurisdiction upon probate courts, or the judges thereof, or any of them, in said Territory, other than in respect of the estates of deceased persons, and in respect of the guardianship of the persons and property of infants, hnd in respect of the persons and property of persons not of sound mind, are disapproved and annulled; that the laws of Utah recognizing the capacity of illegitimate children to inherit a father’s property are disapproved and annulled, and no illegitimate child born subsequent to the passage of the act shall be entitled to any share in the inheritance; that all laws of Utah which provide that prosecution for adultery can only be commenced on complaint of the husband or wife are annulled: that the acts of the Utah Legislature wlcognizing the corporation known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the ordinance of the Social and General Assembly of the State ol Deseret, incorporating this body, are annulled 60 far as they may preclude the appointmentby the President, of fourteen trustees of the corporation, who shall have all the powers provided for in the laws creating the said corporation. The Legislative Assembly of the Territory shall not have power to change the laws respecting this corporation without the approval of Congress. Ifc shall he the duty of the Attorney-general of the United States to institute and prosecute proceedings to forfeit to the United States the property of corporations obtained or held in violation of law, and all property so forfeited shall be disposed of and the proceeds applied to the common schools of the Territory, provided that no building shall be forfeited which is held and occupied exclusively for the purpose of religious worship; that all laws of the Territory relating to the Perpetual Emigration Fuud Company are annulled, and it shall not be lawful for the Territorial Assembly to create any corporation or association for the purpose of bringing persons into the Territory for any purpose whatsoever; that it shall be the duty of the Attorneygeneral to bring suit to dissolve the said corporation and wind up its affairs. The existing election districts and apportionment of representation to the Legislative Assembly of tbe Territory are abolished, and the Governor, Secretary and United States judges in the Territory are ordered to redistrict the territory at once, so as to secure equal representation with the people. Adultery is made punishable by imprisonment for not more than three years, and in case of fornication by an unmarried man or woman, each is to be punished by not more than six months’ imprisonment, or SIOO fine. Commissions appointed by the Supreme Court and District Courts of Utah are given all the powers of justices of the peace, and the marshal of the Territory and his deputies are given all the power possessed by sheriffs and their deputies as peace officers. The bill also provides additional powers to commissioners appointed by the courts and to United States marshals in Utah. The only change made in the bill reported by the committee was to add a section providing that marriages between persons withiu the fourth degree of consanguinity, but not including that degree, shall be deemed incestuous and punished as such.

JEFFERSON DAVIS. A Peppery Response to Charges Made in an Unpleasant Circular. New Orleans, La., Jan. B.— Some one, in order to annoy Jefferson Davis, recently mailed to him, at his home in Beauvoir, Miss., a sheet headed, “A Summary,” containing the following paragraph: Benedict Arnold, first traitor to American liberty, learned his patriotism in Hiram Masonic Lodge, No. 1, New Haven, Conn., and died a Freemason in good and regular standings -Aac&u Burr, another traitor to the government, plotted his treason in Royal Arch cipher, and also died a Free and Accepted Mason in good and regular standing. Jefferson Davis, a Fre6 and Accepted Mason, led the great Rebellion, and the fact did not even taint his Masonic standing, hut did have much to do in securing his pardon. Mr. Davis inclosod the <sheet to his friend, Col. J. L. Power, of Jackson, Miss., secretary of the Grand Lodge of Mississippi Masons, with the following letter: “Dear Sir—l have received, with others of a similar chnracter, the inclosed sheet, having a paragraph underlined to secure my attention, and 1 send it to you to attract your notice, tinder the head of‘Summary’is a concentrated distillation of malice and mendacity. The main attack seems to be against the fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, and, as many slanderers have heretofore done, the writer avails himself of a sectional prejudice existing against me to point his attack against Freemasonry, aud in less than the three underscored linos perpetrates at least as many falsehoods. “L I. Jefferson Davis, am not and never have been a Free and Accepted Mason. “2. Asa citizen of the sovereign State of Mississippi I obeyed her commands, and as sovereigns cannot ‘rebel,’ neither led nor followed a rebellion, great or small. “3. As I had no Masonic, standing, the assertion that it was not tainted by the imputed act of mine rests, not upon a fact, but upon a misrepresentation. “4. Masonry could not have had ‘much to do with securing my pardon,’ as I have never been pardoned, or applied for a pardon, or appealed to masonry to secure to me the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus, that 1 might have the constitutional right of every American citizen to be confronted with my accusers. “To exclude a possible inference, I will add that my father was a Mason, and I was reared to regard the fraternity with respect, and have never felt any disapproval of it other than that which pertains to every secret society. Viewing Freemasonry from a distance, and judging the tree by its fruits, I have believed it to be in itself good. Respectfully and truly yours, “Jefferson Davis.”

A Gallows Bird Not Bound for Heaven. Cambridge. Md., Jan. B.— Charles Williams, colored, convicted of outrage on Mrs. Eliza Keene, white, in this county, was hanged here to-day. From the time of his arrest, during his trial and since his trial, and since conviction, he exhibited an almosc total indifference to his fate, and it was not until last night that he manifested any apparent concern. He protested his innocence of the crime. He was more defiant than otherwise, but last night broke down and wept, declaring that he was to be murdered, and spoke with much bitterness against Mr. the prosecuting witness. Clergymen, both white and colored, were with the doomed roan to-day, and when they spoke to him about preparing for eternity he replied, “It is too late; I am going to hell, where I shall meet my accusers." The Cave-ln at Boston Ron. Shenandoah. Pa., Jan. B.— The excitement at Boston run, where the olock of miners’ houses were swallowed by a mine breach, yesterday, was renewed this afternoon when another large area of surface, on which is located eight blocks of houses, began to settle. The people fled from the houses in terror, leaving all tbeir effects behind. The ground has settled about four feet, and the houses are twisted out of all sbapo, and are expected to go down at any moment The bridge between Boston run and the village on the opposite of the valley has been swept away by the flood, and it is only by a long, circuitous route that the homeless people can convey their household goods to where they can find shelter. About twenty-four families have been driven out of their homes by the cave in. Inez Norton and Her Barber. Cleveland, O, Jan. B.— lnez Norton, ths white girl who elaped Barber, the colored tonsorial artist, is in Painesville, O. The husband was to-day at work at his chair in a barber shop at that town, as serene as if nothing had happened, and the wife appeared happy. She, says that her choice was no trifling fancy, and themarriage was not the result of any sadden or un* reasonine impulse, but was entered upon aftermature thought and deliberation. The girl's father is in Davenport, la., at present, and the, mother, who is prostrated by the shock, has disowned her. ’