Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 16, Jasper, Dubois County, 24 May 1872 — Page 2

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NEWS SUMMARY. The East. Tbk body of man was found in the East river, New York, Friday, with hit hands and feet strapped together. It is supposed that the man was murdered. His remains wer unrecognised Mrs. Abbie Christian was thrown from a ear and instantly killed, Friday afternoon, while on her way to Calvary Cemetery, New York, to visit her husband's crave Engineer Ja. Wood ran a special train from Rochester to Syracuse, N. Y., on Friday, a distance of eighty-one miles, in eighty-two minutes Emma Couch has been held to bail in the sum of (5,000 for blackmailing Rev. Dr. Carter, at New York. Saturday morning while a party of engineers were examining the diaused gam. way of Pine Ridge colliery, two miles from Wilkesbarre, Pa., an explosion of fire-damp took place. Thomas Morgan, David Morgan and Evan Davis were killed, and another

badly hurt, but will recover The EqualRights Convention, at New York, after volumes of persiflage, on Saturday voted to enter the canvass with the goddess of liberty on their banner, and authorize $3,000 in bonds to elect Victoria Woodhull to the Presidency The lead works of Fahnestock, Hsslett & Swartz, on Liberty street, Pittsburg. Pa., took fire at 2 o'clock, Sunday afternoon, and were entirely destroyed, together with a dwelling adjoining. Fahnetock's loss is very large, and will probably reach $500.000; insurance $ou,00O . ,.T. Buchanan Reid, the poet, died at the Astor House, New York, on Saturday Reporta from Chester, Ulster county, N. Y., aay that the mountain fires there are three miles in length. The uoited efforts of 150 men alone saved the village of Chichester. A fire at Williamsburg, N. Y., Monday evening, destroyed sixteen houses, and rendered 132 families homeless. No lives were lost. The dwellings were worth $90,000 The Grand Trunk railway bridge, at South Paris, M,, burned Monday morning, having caught In from embers dropped uy the engine Richard Keefe, Dennis Shea, Geo.

Briggs and Thouias Franklin were e psixed in a sail-boat otf Erie, Pa., on Sunday night. Franklin got an oar and paddled the boat ashore with one of the others on it, who died soon after. The others drifted off and their bodies have not been recovered The propeller Chicago, of Chicago, laden with llour and general merchandise, sunk about twenty miles from Buffalo, N. Y.,on Monday. The crew were saved The body of a man named "Ward, clerk in A. T. Stewart's, New York, who disappeared on March 1, has been found in North river. Ward had evidently been murdered and robbed.

net's livery stable, Friday afternoon, by a

colored hostler namel Sol. Pavis, who was

arrested ami is now in jail A dispatch

from St. Louis, Msy 10. sava i " Some davs

since two niea named Tuldcu and Auder

son were murdered in Caldwell, Sumner

county, Kanaan, by a msn named McCarthy, who escaped into the Indian Territory.

a vigilance committee immediately pur

sued, found, and shot McCarthy. After the

return of the visitants, a shootinr ati'rav

took place in Wellington, in which Jack Lynch shot and wouuded two men named

Hopkins and Clark, and received two wounds himself. Lvnch was arrested. The

affair coming to the knowledge of the Cald weil vigilant, they marched over to Wei

lington, twenty miles, took Lynch from the officer having him in custody, and hung

mm.

The New York Tribune of Wednesday morning publishes the following card from Horace Greeley i " The Tribune has ceased to be a party organ, but the unexpected nomination of its editor at Cincinnati seems t involve it in'a new enibarrtsnient. All must be aware that the position of a journalist, who is at the same time a candidate, is, at best, irksome and difficult; that he is fettered inaciion and restrained in criticism by the knowledge that whatever he may say or do is closely scanned by thousands eager te find in it what may be so interpreted as to annoy or perplex those who are supporting him as a candidate, nd to whom his shackled condition will not permit him to be serviceable. The undersigned, there- ; fore, withdraws absolutely from the conduct Of the Tribune, and will " hencetarth, until further notice, exercise no control or supervision over its columns." The editorial manng-ment of the Tribune falls on White- I law Reid Oflicer John Leslie had his, head split open with a cleaver, in New York, Tuesday, by a German rag-picker,!

who wa prevented by the oflicer from murdering his wif- The fire in the Sha wangunk moaateias, New York, has burned over a space of two miles in width, destroving 300 cords of wood and an immense quantity of timber The fires in the woods in the vicinity of Scranton, Pa., are still raging in many quarters, destroying vast amounts oi lumber and timber. A number of birns and sunt 11 houses have been destroyed in the vicinity sf Moscow and Lehigh Falls At New York, Mondny night, John Mailars, s xteen years old, shot ami fatally Wounded his father At Pittsburg, Pa., on Tuesday, Eliza M. Cartuey, while in spHsms, fell upon a red-hot stove. When assistance reached her it was f.und that her head, face, arms, breast and limbs were burned to a crisp 0. G. Ferry, of Connecticut, was re-elected United States Se&stof u Tuesday. Thb New Yorx Cham ber of Commerce, on Wednesday, with but one dissenting voice,

RdoptM a resolution approving the supple-

Aroct midnight on Saturday, William

Bowles, an engineor of toe Great Eastern

railroad, was crossing the track at the corner of Kinsie snd Carpenter streets, Chicago,

wnen ne was caugnt between two cars and

crushed to death instantly.

A semtlemam by the same of Mutnford, of Chicago, about 52 years of age, was murdered at Ken sha, Wis., on Monday morning. His

skull was found broken in by a heavy, bent

instrument, proDaoiy a oarot iron. A young

uermian is tne suspected party. About 160 in monev and a watch were taken A

fire at Wabasha, Minn., early Monday morning, destroyed the large elevator of H. W. Holmes A Co. Loss about $22,000 Labor riots are occurring in the Lake Superior mining region. Gov. Baldwin, of Michigan, has received a dispatch from the 8herifl" of Houghton county asking for two companies of troops. The Governor has telegraphed to Washington asking that a detachment may he sent from Buffalo to Lake Superior. Lake Superior men in Detroit are inclined to believe that Sheriff Shea is in a needless state of excitement. A man named Samuel Williams, who lived near 8ellersburg, Ind., was found by a train ob the Jffersonville, Msdison and Indianapolis railroad, on Monday, lying beside the track, about a mile and a half back of Jeflersonville, with his head and face fearfully gashed, and in a dyingcondition. He had evidently been attacked by assassins, and left for dead on the track lor the train to run over him and hide the evidence of foul play A dispatch from Helena. Mon

tana, dated May 12, says: "Fort Benton authorities report that Simmons, Hard, and five others have been killed by Indians while descending the river. Friends have been sent to ascertain if the report is true." The h dy of a man named John Sarluk was found floating in the river atChicagoon Tuesday morning. A bullet wound was discovered in the left breast a short distauce above the heart. He is supposed to have been murdered and robbed While Henry Sweencr, an express messenger, was attempting to get on a train at Milwaukee, Wis., Tuesday evcning.be missed his footing and fell under it, receiving injuries that are considered fatal.

Telegrams to the Detroit Tribune from the Portage lake mining district, Wednesday, report that the strike is practically over, and the miners at Schoolcraft, Pewake, and

rrsnwin mines have resumed work. None I of the troops have reached Houghton At I Indianopoli, Ind., on Wednesday, Valeni tine Jacobs, while attempting to escape from j the police, fell down a bck otairwav and received fatal injuries Charles H. Merrill, j a young man nineteen years of ape, whose j parents reside in Wilmington, was 1 illed by the ears on the Chicago, Alton and St. Loui's railroad, mar the rolling mills in Joliet, 111., Tuesday night The trades unions had a proctssion in Chicago, Wednesday.

aooui ,non persons participated. A lai fourteen years of age, son of Patrick Grndy, a resident of Davenport, Iowa, was struok by lightning at about one o'clock Thursday afternoon, and was instant'v killed. He was standing 1 1 a street corner at 'he time The b oilers of the Springfi tld (111.) city water-works exploded Thursday morning. No damage was done to the other machinery, nor was any person injured At Lansing, 111., Wednesday, n young man by the name of Mifjracken shot his father three times. Tlie father was abusing his family. The son interfered, and the father tried to kill the sou with a fish spar, with the above result. He was still a ive at last accounts, but there was no hope of his recovery. The South.

men'.ary article to the Treatv of Washing. !

ton Mr. Binder's stallion " 8tartle,"omv five years old on the 14th, driven bv Geo.

Hopkins, t rotted hall a mile on Fleetwood Park, Wednesday, in the marvelous tuna of I:04j. Th J is the fastest half mile by two second i over made in harness on Fleetwood by any horse of any age. Indeed, it is the fastest half mile by two seconds ever made anywhero by any horse except Dexter, who once trotted half a mile in exactly the same tine A private dispatch from Scrantou, Pa., reports that another fire-damp explosion occurred at an early hour on Wednesday moruing, at tho Belleviow shaft, killing three men instantly, and wounding many others. A MMATOV from .Scranton, Pu., May I, says: Per-ons just returned from the scene of the terrific mountain fire in the neighbor hood of Tobyhanna report that the village was entirely surrounded by fire on Wednesday. Tho villagers mustered all their force, and best back the fire until they g,t it under control. Had it not been for a large swamp intervening between iho town and

the lire, there is no doubt but the whole of JT testimony in the Tobyhanna would have been destroyed. I , ?T?f" Stal; to) change the

The inhabitants and those who have been there assisting them have had a terrible week of it, some of tho men not having slept for four nights An extensive fire is reported as having occurred in Westford, Mass., Wednesday afternoon, destroying a large quantity of cord-wood, and overrunning a large wooded territory, preventing travel on the highways. The Htm. A riR at Chicago on Friday evening destroye I tho three-story frame planing-mill and sash and door lactory of F. J. Rowell A Son. L,.a about $20,000 Mr. Joshua Dye, of Abington, Ind., was almost instantly killed at Richmond, Ind., by being knockrd down in a drunken fight at Ben-

Ox Saturday, a negro in jail at Carthoce, Tenn., charged with rape on a white lady, was taken out by five men end hung to a tree and afterward that with pistols. At tho LexingUn, Ky., isces, Tuesday, the fastest time in a mile and a quarter dash ever made was by a four-year old bay colt named Frogtown. Time 2:0flJ.

A FirtE at Sacramento, McLean county

Kentucky, last Friday, nearly destroyed the

village. Washington.

1 nr. President hai written a letter fully indorsing the Supplemental Civil Bight

bill of Sumner, which was defeated on Thursday, but was reintroduced again in the Senate on Friday A renort was in

circulation Friday that a telegram was re

ceived irom London stating that there is no promise of an arrangement between the Unite I States and Great Brtn in respecting

our rjamis lor consequential damages, DOM countries adheriui: to their respective posi-

oons i ne rresinei.t on r ridav approved

of the f 'Mowing bills : To regulate elec

Hons m Washington ami MH,o Territories; for the relief of Robert Williams, Jr., Collector of the Third District of Ohio ; lor the

relict oi the purchasers of lands sold fir di

rect taxes in insurrectionary States; for re

ner oi u. rs. Bauer, Mayvnie, Mo.; tor the

re-iame of certain bonds; to extend the

time ot payment for their lands by person holding pre-emptions n public lands in the States of Minnesota. Wisconsin mil

Michigan, and the Territory of Dakota; to

courts of the time for the

holding of Circuit snd District Courts in

trio western District of Wisconsin, at La Crosse, Pktitioxs have retched Washington from Minnesota and other Western States, complaining of the heavy exactions ot private parties whohsve control of the bridge across the Missouri river at Omaha, and asking the interposition of Congress President Grant issued a proclamation extending- the provisions of the act, sllowing consular jurisdiction over the crews of vessels in American ports to the Consuls of Sweden and Norway. The President, it was officially announced Sunday night, asked snd received the resignation of his brother-in-law, Collector Casey, of New Orleans, and that of the Deputy Collector of the purt.

Mr. Casey's successor as Collector of Customs at New Orleans will not be appointed for several days Tho action of the House, on Monday, in ordering all debate on the Tariff hill finally closed at four o'clock on Thursday, and assigning sessions for every evening till tho middle of next week, is considered as equivalent to a resolution for final adjournment The President en Monday transmitted to the Senate the correspondence between the United States and Great Britain relative to the Treaty of Washington, accompanied by a brief message. The message and d cements w. re ordered printed in confidence, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. There is scarcely a question that the Senate will advise tho acceptance of the additional article te the treaty. The correspondence in relation to the Treaty of Washington has been published. It is very voluminous. Tho following is Earl Granville's proposition, as telegraphed by Minister Schenck : Whereas, The Government of her Britannic Msjesty has eontended, in the recent correspondence with the Government of the United States, as follows, namely : Thatsuah indirect claims as those for national loss, as stated in the cases presented on the part of the Govern! ment of the United States to the Tribunal

of Arbitrat on at Geneva, to have been sustained by loss in the transfer of the American commercial marine to the British flag; enhanced payments of insurance; a prolongation of tne war, cad the addition ot a large sum to the cost of the war. and the

suppression of the rebellion, firstly, were not included in the Treaty of Washington ; and secondly, should not be admitted by particular vessels aliened to have been en

abled to commit depredations upon the shipping of a belligerent by reason of such wantot diligence in the performance of the neutral obligation as that which is imputed by the United States to Great Britain ; and whereas, the Government of her Britannic

Majesty has also declared thst the nrin-

eiple involved in the second of the contentions, herein set forth, will guide their conduct in future; and whereas, the President ot the United States, while adherinir to his

contention that said claims were included in

tne treaty, adopts for the future nrineinh-

contained in the second of saiil contention

so far as to declare that it will hereafter

euide the conduct of the Government of the United States, ami

- . - wrr VVUUtUCO HIT, therefore, agreed in this respect. In consid

eration thereof the President of the ITniti

Stites.by and with the consent of tne Senate thereof, consents that he will make no claim on the part of t he United States in respect ot indirect losses, as atoresaid, before the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva. Thb House agreed Thursday, tie Senate concurring, to finally adjourn on Monday, the 3d of June Col. Geo. W. Pougalof Califortia, took poison and died at Wash

ington inursdsy night. Foreign. Friday's dispatches trom Spain show that the insurrection still continues, and the situation is unchanged I nformation of an explosion of petroleum and gunpowder in Tripolitza, Greece, whereby a number of lives were lost, has been received. Twentythree persons were killed, and manv received injuries Passmgers from England now land in France without goiDg through the usual formalities. A LOMMM special of May 11th says the downfall of the Spanish Ministry is imminent, and that as soon es the Carlist revolt is suppressed. Marshal Serrano will return to Madrid and choose members fur a new Cabinet, of which he will be the Minister President The Government otticmllv an.

noucces that the Carlists. in larire number

are surrendering t the loyal forces, and that the insurrection is over The Kin g of Spain hits published a royal decroc grant ing pardon to the Havana students convicted of violating the grive of Gonial Castanon, in a cemetery near that city, and sentenced to the chain-gang. A r.ispATcH from Madrid Spain, dated May IS, says the Government has asked the Cortes for power to raise 40,000 fresh troops. Reports have been received from Carlist S"urces that the insurgents have occupied Bilbm, that Don Carlos has entered Biscay, and that the flar.ists claim to be masters i. three Basque provinces. An important engagement is expect. d in Biscay An election was held in Switzerland, May 12. to ratify the Revised Constitution, which

abolishes capital punishment and imprisonment for debt, and excludes Jesuita Brem wiss territory. The popular vote was 2SH.I40 ayes, and 22.1,023 noes, but us IS out of 22 cantons vote against the new Constitution, i: fails of ratification, a majority of the cantons being required. The C.itholie cantons all voted i. gainst it The French budget gives tho estimates for the year l W at 2 406,000,000 francs for expenditures, and 2,425,000,000 lor revenue.

Proceedings In Congress. In the Senateon Friday, May 10, Mr. Wilson called up the bill authorising the issue of 1,000 breech-loading arms to the inhabitants of Montana, for defense against tho Indians. Passed The Louisiana Election bill, after a desultory political discussion, was psssad The Senate then held a brief executive session, after which open session was resumed, and the bill to amend the Enforcement act taken up anddisoessed, without action, until the hour of adjournment. In the House on Friday, May 10, a number of private bills were reported and acted on in the morning hour The House went into Committee oi the Whole on the Fortification bill. It appropriates $1, "85,000. Passed The committee then took up the Tariff and Tax bill, and discussed it until adjournment. In the Senateon Saturday, May 11, Mr. Morton offered a resolution, which was agreed to, authorising the Committee on Privileges and Elections to investigate the election of Senators Pomeroy and Caldwell, of Kansas. The Committee have power to send for persons and papers at Washington or eisewhere during the recess of Congress. The Enforcement act was taken p, and an amendment adopted providing that aa

preliminary to the appointment of Election Inspectors, any voting precinct' request tor

such appointment shsll be made by not less than ten citisens of the precinct. Alter the adoption of an amendmeut authorizi igeach of the Circuit Judges to appoint one or more District Judges to discharge the duties contemplated by the Enforcement bill, the Senate adjourned. In the House on Saturday, Mav 11, Mr. Dawes renewed his motion to close the debate on the first section of the Tariff bill, reducing the time from ten minutes to one minute, and it was agreed to The bill revising and codify ins the pension lawawaa

taken up, and an amendment adopted providing that whenever a widow shall f rfei! her pension on account of re marriage, it will revive on hor again becoming a widow, if she be in indigent circumstances The House went into Committee of the Whole on the Tariff and Tax bill, but got into such an inextricable tangle on account of the variety of amendments that no progress wss made. Adjourned. In the Senate on Monday, May 13, Mr. Pratt called up a bill to increase 20 per cent, the penaioas to soldiers and sailors who lost both eyes, both hands, or were otherwise totally disabled, and stated that it would cause an increased annual expenditure ol about $600,00. The bill passed. The bill in relation to the Dakota Southern Railroad Company passed The Enforcement act was taken' up. An amendment was adopted requiring that before any person can take the benefit of the amnesty he mast swear that has not for two years hnd any connection with any Ku Klux organisation The following bills were passed, among others: Granting a pension of $2,000 per annum to the ,,!,

of Admiral Farragut ; granting ten vears additional service on the active list to Lieut. Commander W. B. Gushing f,r the capture of the Albemarle; and the appointment to the retired list of the navy of certain volunteers in the active list of the navy who are disabled in consequence of wounds received during the late war Adjourned. In the House on Monday, Mav 13, Mr. Voorhees (Dem or rati, of Indiana," rising to

a personal explanation, made a speech strooglv denouncing Mr. Greeley Mr. Butler i Mass. i, om the Judiciary Committee, reported a bill removing jolitical disabilities from all persons who aided the late rebellion, except from Senators and Representatives in the Thirty-sixth and Thirtyseventh Congress, officers in the judicial, military and naval service of the United States, and heads of departments and Foreign Ministers of the United States. Passed. In the Texas contested elect inn ..4..

D. C. Gidd inrs. the onntaatsnT w H.'

of the Shoshonee an. I Bmnoek tribes of Iu. diaos for the relinquishment of pirtiinsof noil reservation in Wyoming Territory i to provide for the sale of certain Iudian lauds in Kansas; to confirm to the Great and Litlle Osage Indians the reservation in the ludisn Territory; for the sale of the Black Bob Indian lands in Kansas ; to enable tho Secretary of War to pay the oxponoos incurred in suppressing Indian hostilities in Montana in 1887; to confirm the sales of the Shawnee Indian lands, Kansas, un,ier directiou and with the approval of the Secretary of tho Interior; granting right uf way through the public lands to the Petisacola and Louisville Railroad Company, u create an additional land distriot in Minnesota; to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain ; concerning tho lsnd grant to Oregon lor the establishment of sn agricultural c dlege; to settle land titles in Iowa; in relation to settlers on certain reservations in Minnesota The following bills were passed : In relation to settlers on the West Wisconsiu railroad; to authorise the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi at or nesr Red Wing, Minn., and to establish it as a post route! Adjourned. In the House on Thursday, May 16, the Tariff and Tax bill was taken up in Committee of the Whole. Tho duty on quinine was reduced from 25 percent, to 10 percent. Paper of all kinds was added to the list of articles to which the 10 per cent, reduction of the existing duty is to be applied Mr.

i'.iwes s resolution lor adjournment awe die on Monday, June3, at 1 o'clock, was agreed to yeas 142, nays 57 The followiug bills were pasted : To create an additional land district in Kansas; relating to the ereetion of new land districts ; granting the right of way to the Dakota Grand Trunk Railroad Company; granting a like right of way to the Utah and Northern Rai: wav Company ; granting a like right of way to the Missouri Valley Railway Company ; lor the relief of certain homestead setilers ou public lauds; to confirm entries of lauds under the act of Aug. 14, 1854, to graduate and reduce the price of public lands Adjourned.

A scHoo.HEii arrived at Copenhagen, Denmark, May 14, from Iceland. She reports a serifs of violent earthquake shocks at Haswick on the lfith, 17th, and 18th of April. Twenty houses were destroyed, and several persuns injured, but no lives loat Fifteen thousand Spanish troops are now concentrated iQ the Department of Biscay. Opposed to them are 7,000 Carlists, who adopt a Fabian policy. Ugarte, Elio, anrl Rada, and several other Carl ist leaders, who BMaped into France, have been arrested and returned by the French authorities Subscriptions to the amount ot 300,000 francs have been raised in Paris for the sufferers by tho eruptioo of Vesuvius. A force of Carlists, which entered Spain from Portugal on Wednesday, were met neur the frontier by a body of Government troops and driven back into Portugal territory An official decree wns promulgates on Wednesday, announcing the following appointments of French Ministers:

'i he Duke do Noailles to Washington ; Jules Ferry to Athens; Gabriac to Tho Hague, and Godmau to Stockholm. Thb railroad to Yeddo, Japan, is at last nearly completed, and will commence run

ning in a week The story that ten Japan

ese intended sssassinating the Mikado is not

Dcneveri. ihe country enjoys profound

peace, reports to the contrary notwithstanding The Japanese fair is to be ouened

soon at Kioto, the former residence of the

Mikado, and hot-bed of the Anti-Foreicn

party. Foreigners, on depositing $300 to their Consul for good behavior, may visit here for seventy dsys. This move is made

to test the foreign element in the country. If the behavior is troublesome to the Government, no doubt Iwakura will be ordered to

keep Japan a sealed book somewhat longer.

..A dispatch from Rome, dated Mav 10

says the Italian Government has sent a com

munication to the Government of I'riiice

Charles of Roumanis, protesting against the

persecution and oppression of the Jews in thai country.

Mr.

carei e.ititle.l to a seat in olao ,.f Mr

Clarke. Mr. Giddings was then sworn in. Adjourned. In the Senato on Tuoclny, May 14, the time was principally occupied in debate on the Enforcement act. But little progress was made At the evening session the following bills were passed : Granting righto! way to the Davenport snd St. Paul railroad : to authorize the Secretary of War to accept the peninsula i n L ike Erie, op posite Erie, Pa. ; to amei.d tbfl act to regulate the foreign and coasting trade on the Northern, Northeastern, and Northwe tern

frontiers and for other purposes ; for the better pteservation of harbors, havens, channels of navigable rivers and other unvigable waters in the United States; authorizing the city of Buffalo to construct a tunr.el under the Niagara river, and to erect and maintain an inlet pier therefrom for the supplying of the city with pure water; authorizing the constructi n of a railroad bridge across the Ohio riv r, at Mount Vernon, Ind Adjourned. In the House on Tuesday, Msy 14, the day was spent in discussion of the Tar'lf and Tax bill in Committee ot the Winde. No

amendments of any consequence were made. ! the evening a message was received from the President, calling the attention of Congress to the hardhips and privations endured by immigrants Referred to the inmittee on Commerce Adjourned. In tho Senate on Wednesday, May Ifc the Military Committee reported H bill to

provide crutches for soldiers and sailors disabled during the war The report of the Committee of Conference on the Deficiency bill was agreed to by a vote of .15 to 24 Adjourned. In the House on Wednesday, Mav 15, tlie MOoad section of tho Tariff and Tax Mil was finally disposed of in Committee oi the Whole. Tli is reduces existing duliei 10 per cent, on manufactures of cotton, wool, etc.; iron and all manufactures of iron ; Tin ling paper, india rubber, straw, oilcloths, etc Bill were passed as follows: To establish a

uniform time for Presidential elections.-

HoVM bill p.-oviding for stenographers for United Ktates Circuit Courts The conference report on the Deficiency bill was agreed to. It provides that tho Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pav to lawful owners, or their legal representatives, the value of all cotton seized after the 30th of June, 1865, by agents of t ho Government unlawfully and in violation of instructions, tho not proceeds, without interest, to bo actually paid into tho Treasury, a receipt thereof being full satisfaction of all such claims, and not to apply to any cause now pending before the Court of Claims or

any cause not filed in the Treasury Department within six menths after the passage of the act Adjourned. In tho Senate on Tliurnluy, May 16, tho Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Depot bill was passed The following bills were reported from the Committee on Indian Affairs and from the Committee on Public Lands, and passed: To author:., the President to negotiate with the chief men

Privations of Emigrant Message from the President. Washington, May 14 The President to-day sent the following message to the Senate and House of Representatives : In my message to Congress at the beginning of the present session allusion was made to the hardships and privations inflicted on poor emigrants on shipboard, anrl uton arrival on our shores; and the suggestion was niado lavoring national legislat ion for the purposeof effecting a radical cure of theevil. Tho promise was made that a special message on the subject would be presented during the prn-ent session, should information be received warranting it. I now transmit to the two houses of Congress all that lias been otficially received since that time beating on tlie

sutject, and recommend that such legis lation be had as will secure, first, such room and accommodation on shipboard aa is necessary for health and comfort, such privacy as will not compel emigrants to be unwilling witnesses of so much vice and misery ; and second, legislation to protect them on their arrival at our seaports from the knaves who are ever ready to despoil them of the little they ure able to bring with them. .Such legislation will be in the interest of humanity, and seems to be fully justifiable. An immigrant is not a cituen of any State or Ternto.y on his arrifalj lut conies here to become a citizerof the (ireat Hcpublic, fiee to change his resilience at will, to enjoy the blessings of a protecting Government, where all are equal belore the law, and to add to tlie national wealth by his industry. On his arrival he does not know States or eurporations, but conlidos implicitly in the ptOteCting arm of tli.-great, fiee country of which he hus heard so much before leaving his native land. It is a source of serious disappointment and ditoouragetneat to ihose who start with mean- insufficient t support them OOHtfortabll until tliev tan

choose a residence and begto employment for comfortable support, to rind themselves sutject tt. ill treatment afld every discomfort on tiieir parage here, and, at the end of their journey, tobe MiMd on by professed friend , claiming a legal rigid to take charge of them for theif protection, who do not leave them iiiti! 11 their re-ource, are exhausted, when they are abandoned in a strange toad, surrounded l.y Grangers, without employment, and ignorant of the n.eans of .-. curing it. Under tlie present systen this is the fate of UlOUaands annually, the exposure on tdiipbo trd and the treatment OU landing dllVing thousands to lives of vice and shame, who, with proper hum ine ueatin. nt. might have 0 .come useful and res, ectable members of society. 1 do not advice national legislation in affairs that should be. r.-gu-Utedby States, but I see DOauhject more national in its character than a provision for the safety and we'.fure of the thou

sands who leave foreign lands to be mie citizens of this Bepaolto. When their residence is chosen they may (hen look to the laws of their loca'ily for protection anrl guidance. The BMMOf immigrants arriving on our shores, coming, as they do, on vessels under foreign Hag, in ikes treaties with nations furnishing these. Immigrant newioary tor their complete protection. For more than two years efforts have been made on our part to secure such treaties, and there is now reasoml.le ground to hope for success. (Signed) 1". s. Grant.

Slung to Death. We learn from the Mississippi Conservative that a few days since a negro man nemed Lewis Ruchnnan, living on J, R. Shackelford's place, two and a half miles from Carrollton. climbed a tree to saw off a limb upon which a swarm of bees were settled. When the limb fell the wholo swarm settled upon the head of the unfortunate man, and stung him so severely that ho died in ten minutes. When help was offered he said it was no use, for he nt once expired. Whether his sudden death was caused by absorption of the virus of the stings, or by the great shock to the nervous system, is a question for the doctors.