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CATHOLIC MISSION WORK A letter from Mr. W. . T. Stead, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, giving an interesting account of the Eoman Catholic Mission Work carried on by the College of the Propaganda. t A GOOD GIKL-r-A story from the pen of Sarah Orne Jewett. . 4 WOMAN'S CONQUERING MARCH She demands that new fields be opened to her, including that of exploration. PROMISES OF MARRIAGE Mrs. Alexander writes on this topic, and gives some excellent advice for the young of both sexes. .

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ttaeha Cincinnati, Iticago k St Louis. BIG 4 BIO 4 CARRIES ALL MANKIND. The actor-man's xtnt always knows what to say and he always says It If some one don't head him off. Sam Alaxacdsr la one of 'em. Everybody knows Baca and are always glad to see him in Indianapolis becauss Xhtj like him and the know Samhis good show following him. Sam was in the Big 4 office this aitfmoon when we said we had to write an add, and there were so many good thing to aay about the Big 4 that we did not know whlcn of them to say. Bald Bam. "Say something about mankind, Now, Bam did not mean that we should praise or condemn the human race, bat should say something about the great sensational drama he represents, called Man. kind, which is to be produced at tho Grand next week. Pain says It's a corker, and Sam wouldn't say so if it was not- But here goes to aay something about Mankind. It. like the balance of mankind who are wise, travels on the Big 4, has been on the Big 4 for the past week, will come here on the Big 4,pIeasoman kind wltn Mankind three nights and a matinee, then, with the balance of mankind, takes the Big 4 to ChiCAgO. J. II. MARTIN. BRUSH BRILLIANCY Arc and Incandescence ELECTRIC LIGHTS Fcjparticulars address THE BRUSH ELECTRIC CO.. CLEVELAND. OHIO. NOTICE TO ABSENTEE To Joseph F. Hoffman: You aie hereby notified that tho real ctate owm by you in the cuy or lgansTjort. I' oouuiy. lialikil. U auiieruig vui tor vnt ol proper care, aud tiie sle or apart of said prupt-rty is iieteary lurtho paymtntaof lirU md . incumbrance Uiereon. RUB Lit r CAltltuLU kelson A Myers, his liorneyt.

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STANLEY'S MARCH IN AFRICA

Unexpected Discovery of Value Regarding the Lake of Victoria Xyanza. An Extension tothe Southwest Covering 20,000 Square Miles nis Lonjr and Perilous Tramp and Fights with Satires. All Brazilians Who Can Read and Write Given the Electoral Franchise. Canadian French Newspapers Clamoring for a Republic Sir Henry James's Speech Before the Parnell Commission. STANLEY'S DISCOVERT. An Extension of the Victoria Nyanza Southward, Covering 20,000 Square Miles. London, Nov. 21. The British consul at at Zanzibar telegraphed to tho Foreign Office as followsi 'Stanley arrived at Mpwapwa on the fifty-fifth day after his departuro from the Victoria Nyanza, and the one-hundred-and-eighty-eighth day after leaving the Albert Nyanza. In addition to tho names already telegraphed. Stanley has with him Hoffman, Emiu's daughter, and Fathers Grault and Schinze, of the Algerian mission. "Stanley left Mpwapwa on tho 12th, traveling toward the Zanzibar coast by way of Keinba- and Mwemi. Stanley mado an unexpected discovery, of real value, in finding an extension of the Victoria Nyanza toward the southwest. The most southerly reach of the extension is south latitude 2 43': This brings the Victoria Nyanza within 155 miles of Lake Tanganyika. The area of tho extension is 20,900 square miles." According to further advices received by the Foreign Office, Stanley has with him 750 persons, of whom 200 aro Emin's followers. There are also sixty children in the party. Stanley lost only eighteen men during the march from the Victoria Nyanza. He had four days' fighting near Usukama. The expedition is expected to arrive at Bagamoyo in a fortnight. Mr. Stanley, in a letter to the British consul at Zanzibar, gives, in addition tothe news already cabled, the following story. Ho says: "Every previous expedition has seen the lightening of its labors upon nearing the sea. But tho long string of hammock-bearers with us now tells a different tale. Till' wo can 'place the poor things in our company on shipboard, there will be no rest for us. Tho worst of It is that we have not the privilege of showing you at Zanzibar tho full extent of our labors. After carrying some of them a thousand miles and lighting to the right and left of the sick, driving the Warasura from their prey over range after range of mountains, with every energy on full strain, they slip through our hands and die in their hammocks. One lady, seventy-six years old, mother of Vakiel. died in this manner. r "In North Usukuma, , south of the Victoria Nyanza, we had a stirring time for four days. Thero was continuous fighting during the greater part of the day-light hours. The foolish natives took an unaccountable prejudice against Loiin's people. They insisted that they were cannibals, and had come for no good purpose. Talking was useless as any attempt to disprove - their impression only drove them into a white-heat rage, and in their mad hate, by Hinging themselves on us, they suffered severely, I am advised that tho Semba and M wene route is the best for securing an abundance of food,and, therefore, I propose to adopt it. But as regards danger from attacks by the natives ono road seems to be as bad as another."" Regarding the Victoria Nvanza, Stanley says it is 1.900 square miles larger than reported by Speke, whoso statement regarding tho size of the lake was supposed to be an exaggeration. The Uriji. also.' which Speko so lightly sketched, turns out to bo a? very respectable lake with populated islands. SITUATION FN BRAZIL Decree Giving All Persons Who Can Read and Write the Privilege of Voting. Rio de Janeiro, Nov. 21. The provisional government has promised to respect the Princess's matrimonial contract, and also tho pensions conceded tho poor by Emperor Dom Pedro. All Brazilians able to read and write aro entitled to vote at elections for government officers, a decree having been issued to that effect. It is said here that the United States have recognized tho republic. Tho Brazilian navy, under command of Baron Coruba and Viscount Maracuya, has recognized tho change of government. The Baron has sworn allegiance to tho republic. Viscount Ouxo Preto, chief of the deposed imperial Ministry, has left Brazil The republican Hag is the old national colors, with the addition of twenty-ono stars, representing tho different States of tho new United States of Brazil. It is inscribed with the words "Order and Progress." Government stamps now bear a blue globe, encircled by the words "Republic of the United States of Brazil." Brigadier Coelho has been named Governor of the Province of Matteo Grosso. Licntenant-colouel Jacques Oaritme has been appointed secretary to the chief of the government. Ueueral tranquillity prevails. A dispatch from Berlin says it is reported there that several of the powers, including tho United States, will send iron-clads to Rio de Janeiro to protect their subjects in Brazil. The Brazilian Parliament meets early in December to choose a President. A Prime Mover In III Own Deposition. New York, Nov. 21. A copyright dispatch from London to the Herald says: "A curious story connected with the Brazilian revolution is obtaining currency in diplomatic society. Dom Pedro was, it is 6aid, himself the prime mover in his own deposition. He had endeavored to resist his son-in-law active hostility to the Anti-clerical party, and had other reasons to be dissatisfied with him. Furthermore, his Majesty was by no means ignorant of tho popular movement. He felt that if he should outlive tho republican advance, his daughter would bo unable to cope with it, more particularly under the pernicious guidance of her hnsband. He, therefore, like a wise and philosophic monarch, anticipated the inevitable, and thus, at least, saved pros- " pective bloodshed, which he felt would have come with his resistance: if not in his time, certainly in that of his successor. Hence, his easy and calm acceptance of tho situation." A CANADIAN REPUBLIC. French Newspaper of the Province of Qae-t-) Favor Following Uracil' Coarse. Montreal, Nov. 21. Apropos of the Brazil revolution, quite a number of French papers, including La Patrie, Le Lectur, Canadien and IVEvenement, declare this niorning'in favor of a Canadian republic. Tho Herald, of this citj. tho chief organ of the Dominion opposition, says that "tho English people are slow to make constitutional changes." but adds that "it is unsafe to say what tho forco of example and tho increasing intercourse of Great Britain and America, backed by the further blackguardism of persons in high position might not do. It would, of course, make no difference whatever to Canada were tho English monarchy to give place to a republic, beyond the impetus that such a chance might give to the train of thought that

leads a thinker to tho conclusion that it ia nearly time Canada busied herself about her own independence Australia, which is a baby among nations, is already considering the propriety of establishing an Australian nation." "TIIE PARNELL C031MISSIOX. ; Crimea in Ireland ns Viewed by Sir Henry Tames, Counsel for the London Times. London, Nov. 21. The argument in behalf of the Times, by Sir Henry James, was continued before the Parnell commission to-day. Referring to the moonlighters in Ireland, he said that they had acted moro like burglars than liko police of the league. Their actions were not reproved by the leaders of the league. It was not until February, 18S6, when tho Parnellite' members of the House of Commons were supporting the government, that the leaders of the league refused to graut money to a certain district, owing to the outrages that had been committed therein. Sir Henry referred to the murder of policeman Brett by Allan Gould and Lerkin. near Manchester, in 1S07. and said that the murderers had been held op as heroes worthy of imitation. Mr. Davitt himself had unveiled a monument to their memory, and there was ample evidence that the example of these murderers had been lauded as worthy of being followed. Continuing, bir Henry referred to tho difficulty the Times had experienced in getting evidence relative to the transactions of the inner councils of tho League, and for this reason Attorney-general Webster had not been able to prove all the statements he had made in his address opening tho case for 'the Times. Sir Henry complained that Sir Charles Russell, Mr. Parnell's counsel, had called only thirty-two of the sixty-five members of the Parnellite party implicated in the charges made by the Times whom ho had promised to call to testify. Presiding Justice Hannen interrupted Sir Henry at this point, remarking that Sir Charles had only said that they would testify if the court and counsel for the Times wished them to. Notwithstanding Justice Hannen'a statement Sir Henry contended that a direct promise had been made that Mr. William Redmond should be called. The most important witnesses on the Parnellite side of ihe case. Sir Henry declared, had willfully absented themselves. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

An Australian Who Relieves Iils Country Will Become an Independent Republic Chicago Nov. 21. Albert Boulton, of Australia, is in the city. To ' a reporter he said: "Tho project of consolidating tho Australian continent into one powerful state is slowly, but surely, gaining ground. Within two years a definite plan for foundingthe new nation will be forwarded to tho Colonial Office for the indorsement of the crown. Before long, and without the slightest commotion in England or in Australia, tho mother country will see this great group of her colonies pass into the new nation of the United States of Australia. Like jrour country, Australia will be practically free from an invasion. Her people,have already shown a desire to be supreme in the Pacific, which cannot be gratified less her government possesses means y? ruling dependencies not admitted to political equality. New Guinea alone is a kingdom in area, and rightfully belongs to Australia. As an independent republic Australia will be a mighty maritime power.. Slip is to settle and govern the only valuable possession which Europe has left for the next conquering power." . ' , China and Japan News Notes. San Francisco, Nov. 21. Mail advices from China and Japan per steamer City of Rio Janeiro are as follows: Nearly all railway projects kin China are in abeyance on account of a dearth of money at Pekin. Five lives were lost in a storm that passed over Hong Kong about the 20th, ult. By a hail-storm in the Kanouth provinces many houses were leveled to the ground, largo numbers of cattle killed, scores t)f people injured and all crops damaged. Japan papers aro discussing at length! tho proposed revision of the treaty of Japan with tho United States, Revision is desired, but doubt is expressed whether America will accept without several modifications of the treaty as lately framed by Japan. On the M of October the new Japanese man-of-war Yaeyama made her trial trip from Yokohama. One paper states her speed exceeded nineteen knots. ' Socialist Bill Adopted. Berlin, Nov. 21. Tho Reichstag to-day, in committee on the Socialist bill, rejected the paragraph relating to expulsion of Socialists from Germany, and also negatived a proposal to limit tho operation of the law to two years. The remainder of the bill was then adopted. Did Not Aid the Key West Strikers. Havana, Nov. 21. The Governor-general disclaims that he in any way aided the striking cigar-makers of Key West. Many of them. It seems, asked to be retnrned to Cuba, and for that reason a gunboat was sent to Key West to carry them back to their former homes. Q Willing to Arbitrate the Irish Question. Berlin, Nov. 421. The Kcolnische Volks Zciiung (Clerical) states that the Pope has signified his willingness to arbitrate tho. Irish question in case he is asked to do so Ty the English government or the Parnell Jtes. Cable Notes. $ Captain Wissman has been promoted to the rank of 'major in recognition of his services in East Africa. Many buildings in Berlin and Hamburg were decorated yesterday in honor of tho birthday of ex-Empress Frederick. Emperor W illiam celebrated the occasion with a grand banquet. Dispatches from Samoa, by way of Sydney. N. S. W., say that Malietoa was reinstated amid great rejoicings on the 9th inst. The British. German and. American agents issued proclamations recognizing Malietoa as King. Fears of a famine in Samoa are ended. . Charged with Forgery. Philadelphia, Nov. 21. Charles B. Wighton, secretary of the Glamorgan Iron Company, was this " afternoon placed under $15,000 bail to answer a charge of forgery preferred by John R. Fell, of the firm of A. Perdee & Co. It is stated that C. B. Wighton to-day admitted to altering tho dates upon a note for S10.CO0 which is now in the Commonwealth Bank. What makes the case peculiar is that it was sold to the brokers by R. B. Wighton, father of the secretary, who is president of the Glamorgan Iron Company. w' A Count Wants His Runaway Rride. Philadelphia. Pa., Nov. 21. The socalled Count Monlercoli, who claims Virginia Knox, of Pittsburg, as his wife, applied to the' police here, to-day. to aid him iu recovering his runaway bride. The superintendent told him there was no law in this State to compel a wife to live with her husband. Controls 40,000 Acres of Indiana Gas Eand. Chicago, Nov. 21. The Chicago Gas Trust has in the last few days obtained absolute control of 40.000 acres of gas land in Indiana, and Presidtnt Billings is satisfied that inside of a year the city will be supplied with natural gas. - ... S ' 1 Two Men Killed by Cavc-In. Paola. Kan., Nov. 21. P. S. Counts and Julius Clarry. whilo digging a cellar, yesterday, were buried by one of the sides of tho excavation falliug iu. When discovered both were dead. Each leaves .a family. Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 21. The second session of the General Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons was held to-day. After hearing reports, appointing standing commit

tees and electing a partial list of officers the chapter took a recess until to-morrow. The officers elected are: David F. Day, Bnfialo, grand high priest; Joseph P. Horner. New Orleans, deputy grand high priest: George L. McCahan. Baltimore grand king; Benjamin F. Hallock. iiemphis, graud scribo; Reuben C. Lemmon. Toledo. O.. grand treasurer; C. G. Ferry. Buffalo, grand secretary; S. S. Beau, Creston, la., grand captain of the host; J. W. Taylor. Luthersville, Ga., grand principal sojourner. ... .. FAILED FOR $700,000. The Lawrence Rank, of Pittsburg, Closet Its Doors Worliingiaen Caught. . PiTTSBUito, Pa., Nov. 21. This city experienced a financial sensation this afternoon. The large iron firm of Long V. Co., whoso works are located at Chartiers, confessed judgement for $000,000 in favor of the Lawrence Bank,-and the latter institution closed its doors. The first intimation which tho business people received of the bank's inability to meet its obligations was a notice to the Union Bank, thrbugh which it clears, to return checks to the amount of only $11,000. It was first stated, this afternoon, that the closing of tho bank was entirely due to the judgment confessed by Long & Co., and a consequent run upon the bank, and that it would be opened to-morrow. President Young stated to-night that ho did not know when the bank would bo opened. The failure of the iron firm, he said, had something to do with the failure of the bank, but not all. They had made some bad investments. None of tho officers, he says, have defaulted. The bank's liabilities are given at $700,000. The assets are not known. It is, perhaps, questionable whether or not the amount of the judgments confessed by Long & Co. can be realized from the property. There are said to bo other and prior liens. Some ten days ago a rumor was started that the Lawrence Bank was not onnd. It is located in the Lawrencevillo district of the city, where mechanics and ironworkers predominate, and a run was made upon it. About. $250,000 was withdrawn. Hundreds of workmen, however, have still their all in the bank, and there is great excitement to-night in that portion of the city. The bank was organized in 1SGG. The capital stock of tho company is $80,000; surplus, $45,000; undivided profits, 810,204.33. Tho ollicers are: President, W. W. Young; vice-president, Samuel MeMahon; cashier, John Hoerr. Other Business Troubles. Amsterdam, N. Y., Nov. 21. Isaac Schnler, casket-manufacturer and undertaker, of this city, has assigned. His liabilities are estimated lit 75,000. . Worcester. Mass., Nov. 21. The Crane & Waters Manufacturing Company, of Millbury, with a fixed capital of $52,500, is reported as having failed. They are enf:aged in the manufacture of hosiery. The iabilities are not given. The mill will shut down to-nigh. St. Louis, Nov. 21. Five more attachment suits were filed in the Circuit Court, this morning, against A. Loth k Sons, the wholesale haberdashers' at No. C16 Locust street. The new suits were filed by Koblentz & Dozien. for $1,500; Wise Bros., for $2,8S8.27; A. B. Aulfelt & Co.. for $2,3S5.G3; Joy Bros., for $903.00. and Richter & Co., for $5,000. WTith attachments filed yesterday, the total amount now reaches $45,000. s NEW RATES TO NEW YORK. Action of the Meeting of Railway Presidents and Managers at St. Louis. Sr. Louis, Nov. 21. Pxesidentslngalls, of the Big Four, McKeen, df tho Vandalia, and Barnard, of the Ohio & Mississippi, and General Manager Hays, of tho Wabash, met to-day and agreed upon the following passenger rates from St. Louis ?to New York: Vandalia, all routes, limited first-class, $23.50; limited second-class, $19. Big Four and New York Central, limited first-class, $23.50; limited second-class, $19. Big Four and all other routes via Bullalo, limited first-class, $22.50; limited second-class, $19. Wabash and New York CentraV $23.50; limited second-class, $19. Wabash nnd all Other routes via Buffalo, limited first-class, $22.50; limited eeegnd-class, $19. Ohiofc Mississippi and Baltimore & Ohio, limited first-class, $21.50; limited second-class, $18. Ohio & Mississippi and Erie, limited first-class $21.50; limited second-class, $18. Ohio & Mississippi and Chesapeake & Ohio, $20.50; limited second-class, $18. These rates are to remain in effect after Dec. 18, for a period of three months. In March, 1890, the presidents will meet for revision of same, provided any road has been done injustice thereby New Line to the Pacific. n Chicago, Nov. 21. Tho Atchison, Topeka & Sana Fe system and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad have formed a close traffic agreement designed to affect the Union Pacific and Northwestern combine. The contract which, it is understood, will run for ninety-nine years, became effective to-day, and provides that a new transcontinental route shall bo founded, to be known as the Atchison & Rock Island line. 'The junction point, on transcontinental business is fixed at Dodge City, Kan. The alliance is both offensive and defensive, and both lines agree to stand shoulder to shoulder against all rivalry. President Cable, of the Rock Island, admitted the formation of the alliance to-night and said he regarded it as a stronger agreement in every way than the Chicago fc NorthwesternUnion Pacific agreement. o Men Who Have Rnn Away. Lyx Mass., Nov. 21. O. S. Roberts, for many years proprietor of tho Sagamore Hotel, in this city, and owner of the Franklin Trotting Park, in Saugus, left town on Monday; and his numerous creditors aro unable to ascertain his whereabouts. Chicago, Nov. 21. T. M. Bailey, excashici of the Security Loan and Savings Bank, has mysteriously disappeared. Ho is reported to have fraudulently obtained from various sources in money, jewels and other property as much as $10,000, the disposition of which is not apparent. The police believe the young man has lied to Cen

tral America. He left behind a wife, who is heartbroken, and a little child. Killed Ills Cousin for Fifty Cents. Louisville. Ky., Nov. 21. A skeleton that was discovered in a fence-corner, about six miles from Elizabethtown, several days ago, has been identified as that of Ira Aubrey, who disappeared about 6ix months ago. Tho grand jury was notified arfd witnesses summoned to investigate the case, when, to tho surprise of the officials, Sherman Aubrey, a lad of about nineteen years of age, and a cousin of the deceased, came and confessed to murdering his cousin for fifty cents and an old watch. Street-Car Struck by sv Locomotive. New OnLKANS, La.. Nov. 21. A street-car containing nine passengers was struck by an Illinois railroad train, at the St. Josephstreet crossing, to-day, and Mrs. Joshua Beale, of Baton Rouge, who jumped from the car, was killed, her body being run over by tho engine and terribly mangled. The other passengers, including three daughters of Mrs. Beale, remained in tho car and escaped unhurt. Hurled a Child Alive. Wkymouth, Mass., Nov. 21. Walter F. Frey, aged twenty-two, a.half idiot, killed the three-vear-old son of Philip Ffsher, this morning, by burying him alive in a yard. Prey himself told of the deed and showed where the bod v was buried. The corpse was exhumed this evening. Prey will bo examined in court to-morrow. Dettructlve and Fatal riurricaue. CiiAKiTTE, X. C. Nov. 21. A hurricane passed over a portion of this State to-day, doing considerable damage. A pnlp mill at Newberne was blown down and two employes were killed.

PENSION CLERKS REMOVED

Serentcen Employes Concerned in Illegal Eeratings Summarily Dismissed. Everybody Engaged in the Conspiracy to Es Likewise Treated, and Their Pensions Attached to Recover the lib-Gotten Money. House Committees on Which Southern Congressmen Seek PiCpresentatiun, John B. Ilenderson's Welcome to the United States of Brazil Federal Laws Defied in Texas The House Speakership Contest. FATXXn FOR THEIR. SIXS. Seventeen Iterated Tension IJureaa Employes Dismissed, and More to Follow. Cpocial to tliA IndisnaiMiiis Journal. Washington, Nov. 21. Secretary Noble girded himself to-day and strode down to the Pension Office, where he smote the reraters hip and thigh, and seventeen heads foil before ho stayed his baud. Whether he was wary with the slaughter, or ceased because he considered it a good day's work, is not to be related here, but there are rumors that other heads will go oil to-mor-row, and that he will not cease to slay until the heads of every man in the Pension Oflice who has been engaged in the business of illegal rerating of pensioners fall beneath his. arc This slaughter was premeditated, and the result of Cabinet action. The Secreta ry of tho Interior has been making a careful examination into all of tho cases in which pensions were increased by Commissioner Tanner, and has had the Attorney-general In consultation with him in regard to the legal questions involved. These two gentlemen have come to tho conclusion that the rerating were illegal in nearly every instance, and that there was a conspiracy among certain leading officials of the Pension Office to increase the pensions of each other and at the same time confer a similar favor upon moro prominent men, like Senator Mandcrson, who they expected would make the business respectable. The decision of the Secretary -and the Attorney -general was that the reratings were not only irregular. without precedent, and not justihed by law, bnt that the money was illegally held by those who received it. There was no disposition to accuse the rcrated persons of fraud, bnt it was decided that the. mould be discharged, from thee.mployraeut of the government, and that an attempt mh 'd bo made to recover the money. i many of the cases the money ) een already expended. The men . who received It are poor, and it will be practically impossible to collect anything from them. In such cases it was decided that tho pensions legitimately dne such persons thould bo withheld, and their quarterly allowances credited to them until the amount was made good. This, of course, would be preferred by the culprits, because some of them do not get more than a hundred dollars a year, and it wo:ld take ten or twelve yea s and, perhaps, twenty years, for tho government to reimburse itself. It has not yet been decided, but it is expected that legal proceedings will be commenced against certain of the pensioners who are able to repay the money. This action of the Secretary created a decided sensation in tho Pension Office, as several of tbo men who are removed wert among the closest and most trusted and in timato friends of the late Commissiouel Tanner. SOUTHERN CONGltESSiTE. (An Expected Conference That Was Not Ilsld Their Interest in the Committeeships. f&eclal to tho IudisnajioU Journal. Washington, Nov. 21. The expectei conference of tho Southern Representatives, which was to have been held to-day, was not held, for the reason that only four of the seventeen members aro here. Thero has been a great deal of discussion about the purposes of this caucus, it being generally assumed that tho members would meet to discuss the speakership, and unito as a body of seventeen votes, so they could make their demand and name their price, the ccneral understanding being that Mr. Adams, of Maryland, for Door-keeper, was to be the consideration for their support. This, it can bo stated upon excellent authority, is erroneous. The meeting of the Southern Congressmen, whenever it is held, will not seek to bind the members to any ono candidate, nor will Mr. Adams's candidacy h'gure in the meeting to any great extent. Thcro is a general disposition on tho part of all Congressmen, so far as they have been heard from, to divide tho good offices of the House. There it a general consent and willingness to givo to the Mary lander tho door-kecpership, as that portion of the patronagoought to go South. It is thought on that occasion Pennsylvania's chances for tho clerkship will be . somewhat affected. The real purposes of the conference will be to discuss the committeeships of the next House. The Southern members feel that there are a number of points of vital intorest to their sec tion on which thero must be legislation this coming cession. One of these is, of course, the Blair bill; another is the internal-revenue taxes on tobacco and brandies; another Is the question of sugar bounty, and their purposes are to arrange among themselves so they shall bo placed in their position on the committees before which these matters will come in the coming session. It is likely that. In this connection, they will desire to hear from every speakership aspirant, but they ,will enter into no bargain with any candidate. It can be readily understood that th6 candidate who promises them the most liberal representation on tho committees will gain their vote. It is believed that the following minor officers of the House will be elected: Clerk, John M. Carson, of Pennsylvania; fcergcant-at-arms. Colonel Swords, of Iowa, or Capt. A. H. Reed, of Minnesota; Door-keeper, Charles B. Adams, of Maryland; Postmaster, Capt. Thomas 1L McKee, of Indiana; Chaplain, Kev. Dr. John Chester, of this city. AMERICAN IlKPLULICS. Brazil Delegates Resume Their Flac In thm , CongressMr. Ilenderson's Resolution. Washington. Nov. 21. Secretary Dlatno called the International American Congress to order, this afternoon, but immediately relinquished tho chair to Dr. Guzman, the delegate from Nicaragua. Whilo the minutes were being read. Senor Valente. the Brazilian minister, and Senor Mcndonca. the second delegate from Brazil, appeared in tho conference room, and took scats near to. bnt not at tho table. Shortly afterwards Dr.' Valente rose and saul that the Brazilian delegates had been prevented from occupying their teats at the preceding sessioufor reasons which must have been apparent to the other delegates. They were now hero, however, to lay before the president their credentials, that they might be acted upon in due course. lApplaurs.