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NEWS SUMMARY. v#- . % i Important Intelligence from All Parts. ‘Congress. . " I~ the Senate on the Ist Mr. Eaton, ‘from the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported back sundry bills and resolutions recommending the construction of ship canals or railways across the isthmus, and stated that the committee asked to be disggarged from the consideration of all these subjects, thinking that the time had not yet arrived when Con--gress should express an opinion in regard, to. any particular route. The request -of -the committee was comlied with. Thé Conference reports on the fiivel‘r and Harbor and the Fortifications Apgropn'iation bills were concurred in. House ills were passed: To dispose of Osage Indian - lands|in Kansas; to open a portion of the Fort Ridgely reservation in Minnesota to homes stead and timber-culture entry: to authorize the registration of trade-marks and to protect the same....The General Deficiency bill, the last of the appropriations, was reported in the House. The Senate amendments to the Agricultural Appropriation bill were concurred in, one of whicll; gives $lO,OOO for the investigation of pleuro-pneumonia. The Conterence report on the River aud Harbor Appropriation bill was agreed'to, making the total appropriation $11,141,800. The Funding bill eame up, and its consideration extended into the evening sesgion. After several of the Senate amendments had been concurred in a 4 majority of the Republicans refused to vote on the demand for the previous question for concurrence in amendment No. 16, thus indicating no quorum present, and at a little after midnight a recess was taken. . : THE credentials of Mr. Maxey (Texas), re--elected, and ©f John I. Mitchell (Pa.) were presented and filed in the Senate on the 2d. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was amended and passed. The Deficiency Appropriation bill was receivei from the House and referred. The Funding bill was algo received from the House and signed by the Vice-Presi-dent....The House passed the Deficiency Appropriation bill. After rejecting several proposed amendments the Senate amendments to the Funding bill were all finally agreed to without any change, and the bill as thus amended was then passed. Mr. Carlisle then moved to susgend the rules and pass a bill amending the Funding bill just passed, so as to* make it. conform to the amendments recommended by the Committee on Ways and Means; among the amendments is one providing that nothing in the act shall be 8o eongtrued as to repeal, modify, or atfect Sections 5,020, 5,021, 5,022, 5,023 and 5,024, Revised Statutes. After some -discussion the motion prevailed and the bill was passed, without division. The Speaker laid before the House the gxilrolled Funding bill, and it was signed by n. o In the Senate on the 3d the Conference reports on the Sundry Civil and on the Defieien¢y Appropriation bills were agreed to. A number of private pension bills were passed. The thanks,of the !Senate.were voted unanimously to Vice-President Wheeler. The House bill making appropriations for the payment of the claims allowed by the Cammis-. sioner of Claims, under the act of March 3, 1871, etc.,, and the Japanesc: %und * bill, directing the payment to Japan of $1,463,224, were passed....The President’s message. vetoing the Funding bill was received and read in the House, and a motion was adopted —135 to 116—to lay it on the table for future consideration. The Avportionment bill introduced by Mr. Cox was amended by the ingertion of 319 members instead of 307, and the bill as amended was then passed—l4s to 113. The Conference reports on the Sundry Civil -and the Deficiency Appropriation bills were agreed to. . . ~ 'nE Senate remained in session all night on the 3d, and took a recess from daylight to 10:30 a. m. on the 4th. The galleries were soon packed with ladies. General Hancock was escorted into the ehamber by Mr. Blaine, and received a cordial greeting from Mr. Conkling and other leading Senators. The advent of General Sheriaan was signitled by cheers. The Chinese and Japanese Embassies ap{»feared in their national costumes. At noon ice-President Wheeier; took leave of the body, and| Viec-f’residont Arthur made a Dbrief address and took the oath of | office. The new Senators were sworn in, Edmunds apd Mahone being the only absentees. An adjournment to noon on the sth was effected, and a rush was made forthe portico to witness the inauguration of. President Garfield....ln the House Mr. Hutchins stated that, in attempting to enter the Capitol at the Senate wing, he had been repulsed by an armed soldier, and offered a resolution of censure, which provoked considerable discussion. Mr. Conger presented a resolution of thanks to Speaker Randall, which was carried, and Mr. Randall then made a few remarks and formally declared the House adJourned sinedie. i THE Senate met at noon on the sth, and took a recess until three o'cloek. A resolution, offered by Mr. Hoar, was unanimously adopted extending to General Hancock the privileges of the floor during his stay in Washington. Mr. Blaine, in accordance with a notice given by him some weeks betore, submitted a re<olution for the appointment of a special commitree of five Senators to take into eonsideration the mode of voting for President and Vice-President of the United States, and the ‘mode of counting and certifying the same, who shall report such propositions for a change in the law | and Constitution as may seem expedient, and that said comrittee have power to sit/ during the recess of Congress, and that 'they be directed to report on or before the second Wednesday in January, 1882. The Vice-President stated that he had received for presentation a number of petitions for special legislation, but his own opinion, based upon rules and precedents, was that they could not be presented at an extraordinary session of the Renate. He submitted the question as to the disposition to be made of the communications, and it was or= dered that the petitions be retained by the Vice-President, to be submitted by him at the next legislative session. ‘All the Cabinet nominations sent in by President Garfield were confirmed in executive session.

: Domestic. : Ox the 2d a man whose face was covered with eruptions of small-pox in its most infectious stage walked into police headquarters in New York, where all the Captains were waiting for their checks, and elbowed his way through them to the Heaith Office, where be asked to be attended to. He was hustled out to the hospital. Iris stated that Frank J. Wright, a reputable lawyer of Westminster, Md., was recently hanged in the mountains of Colorado, by a band of vigilantes, for the alleged ‘theft of mules whieh he had purchased from a stranger. . | THREE children were recently burned to death in a eabin on a farm belonging to Dudley Hunter, near Shelbyville, Ky. THE following failures were announced on the 2d: Kelly, Purefry & Brewer, grocers and cotton brokers, of Raleigh, N. C.—liabilities $50,000; W. A. Hall & Co., hardware merchants, of Montgomery, Ala.—liabilities $30,000, assets $20,000; and Robinson, Leslie & Co., Troup Station, Ga.—liabilities $50,000. - THERE were eoined at the various Government mints throughout ¢he country during -the month of February §9,558,000, of which $2,307,000 were of silver. ‘ ‘ THE plasterers of Boston struck on the 2d for three dollars per day. ‘ ‘ A CALL has beem recently prepared in Washington and sent to all nagions engaged in the last Monetary Conference for a meetng in. Paris on the 19th of April, to discuss the silver question upon two cenesal points, as follows: First, to have eoinage wnlimited in countries participating in the conference; Second, to make silver unlimited legal tender on the basis of fifteen and one-half of sflver to one of gold. There are several other yropositions, but they are all matters of detail. This action was taken because of a request by France that this country join her in requesting the nations represented in the last conference to meet again. = ’ A BAND of young robbers was recently capsured in New York City.. The eldest was ten

and the youngest Seven years of age. The boys had banded together for the purpose of robbing children go!ing to and from school, and had made a number of successful as--saults, dividing the plunder, consisting of slates, books, jack‘l&niv’es and odd pennies. - THE miners of the Connellsville (Pa.) coke region struck on t}le, 2d for an advance of five:cents per wazon for mining coal, and ten cents for drawing coke. The strike was ‘quite extensive, ’afflecting several thousand men. Nearly all of the works had suspended. L ' Two TrRAMPS, who went to sleep a few | nights ago on a ciader ‘heap, near Paterson, 'N. J., were burned to death. Several weeks ~ago a similar occurnence was reported from the same place. b AN Albany (N. ¥.) undertaker named O’Reilly has been sent to jail for three years for swearing to frauflulent bills against the county for burying the pauper dead. . - 'ON the 4th the SBpringfield (Mass.) SBilk Company was forced‘[ to suspend in consequence of the discovery of a deficit of §85,000 in the accounts of itis treasurer, Henry Hallett. On the same diy the American Mills of Warwick, R. I, made an assignment because of the failureof A. J. Graeffe, of New York. The liabilities are placed at $90,000. Hugh R. Healy, of New York, a wholesale dealer in molasses, has also fdiled, with liabilities of $130,009, and caused the suspension of his brother, John A. Heai-y. ON the 4th the Italian bark Ajace was wrecked off Coney Island. Ten of the erew were drowned, and four others cut their throats in despair. = | - Ax explosion of gas in the Central Pacific .coal mine at Almy, Wyoming, on the evening of the 3d, killed thinty-five Chinamen and three whites. Fire has raged in the mine for five years, but it has been isolated by stone walls. . , /By an explosion at|/the Eureka powderworks atfSan Francisco rion the4th two Chinamen were killed and five others wounded. ‘THE strike of the Boston plasterers ended on the 4th, the workmen agreeing to work at old rates until April, when an advance is promised. L ¢ - Frep Krossg, a German boy of Cincinnati, eleven years old, shot hifsfl brother Otto, a lad nine years of age, on the 4th, in a fitof ang-r, with a toy pistol. Fred was arrested and had a hearing in. the Policel Court, and would probably be sentto the House of Refuge. THE cotton-seed oil mills at Hickman, Ky., were destroyed by fire on the 4th, causing $60,000 damage. Mrs. Pearsons, who lived in & frame house adjoining, was burned to death. The Pearl H-omi}ny Mills at Baltimore were also:burned, the loss being $70,TuE recent New York walking mateh, which ended on the sth, was a financial failure. Panchot, who bade fair to beat any previous record, stopped at an early hour, with 541 miles to his credit, and would receive about $1,900. i THOMAS SMITH, charged with cruelty to his son Thomas, by compelling him to engage in a walking match, was convieted in ‘New York on the sth, iand sentenced to prison for ten days and to pay a fine of $lOO. Bt. PATRICK’S CHURCH at Peoria, 111, was destroyed by fire on the‘mborniny_: of the sth. Loss over $50,000. - A HORRIBLE death from hydrophobia occurred at Harrisonburg, Va., on the sth. Mr. Benjamin H. Karcofe, an old man living near Sangersville, was about fourteen years: ago bitten by a mad doz. Antidotes were given him at the time, and the fear of hydrophobia passed away. A féw days before his death Mr. Karcofe was seized with convulsions at the sight of water, and the truth: flashed upon his friends that he was suffering from hydrophebia. He suffered horribly, and had lucid intervals at !times. He died in great agony, foaming at the mouth and barking like a dog. In his contortionsit took several men to hold him { THE: train to Whi(ih ex-President Hayes’ special coach was attached was wrecked at Severn Station, Md., on the sth, by colliding with a train of empty cars i’drawn by two engines. J. W. Young, of Shamokin, Pa., was instantly killed, and eight bther passengers were injured. A baggage-master was also killed, and eight other railroad employes were injured more or less seriously. The Presidential party escaped injury, and left at midnight for Fremont, Ohio. | ~ A FIRE occurred in the Pennsylvania Insane Asylum at' Danville en the evening of the sth, which caused the déstruction of the greater part of the structure, involving a loss ot about £600,000. The institution contained 300 inmates, all of whom were rescued.

Personal and Political. TaE Supplemental Funding bill passed by | the National House of Representatives on the 2d contains the following prgvisions: Section Iprovides that the last sentence of Section 1 of the Funding bill shall read as follows: ‘lt shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, under such, rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to authorize public subscriptions at not 'less than par, to be received at all depositories of the United States, and at all National bßanks, dnd such other banks as he magj‘l designate, for the bonds and for the Treasury notes herein provided = for, for thirty days before he shall contract for oy award any portion of said bonds or Treasury notes to any syndicate of individuals or bankers, or jotherwise than under, such public subscripflion; and if ‘it shall happen that more than the entire amount of said bonds and Treasury notes, or of either of them, have been subscribed within the said thirty days, hejshall award the full amount subscribed to ajll persons who shall have made bona fide subsecriptions in order of time of said subscriptions at rates most advantageous to the United States.” Section 2 amends Se%tion 6 of the same bill 80 as to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to use, from time to time} not exceeding $50,000,000 at any one time of the standard gold and silver coin in the Treasury for the purpose mentioned in said section. Section 3 amends Section 5 of the same bill by adding thereto the fo.dowing: ‘* And provided, further, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to repeal, maodify, or in any - manner affect Sections 5,020, 5,021, 5,022, 5,023 and 5,02¢ of the Revised Statutes of the United States.” A Locar-OprioxN bill, prepared by the State Temperance Alliance, passed ithe Delaware House of Representatives on the 2d. TaE Greenbackers of the Seventh Michigan Congressional District have nominated W. Ellithorpe to fill the vacancy in| the National House caused by the election of Conger to the Senate. ' : Ayrr the Appropriation bills passed by the Forty-sixth Congress at its last session were signed by President Hayes, and, therefore, became laws. © » Ar aspecial meeting of the old Cabinet in Washington early on the afternoon of the sth President Garfield asked that each remain in his position until his successor should qualify. Mr. French, Acting Seécretary of the Treasury, presented a request from several National Banks to be allowed to redeposit their bonds and withdraw the greenbacks recently handed im to retire their circulation. No conelusion wag reached on the question. L. B. Boomer, of Chicago, the famous bridge-builder, died of apoplexy at the Wind, sor Hotel, New York, on the 6th. 'THr following Cabinet nominations, sent by President Garfield to the ‘Renate on the sth, were promptly confirmed by 'that body, in executive session: = = . figferemfy‘ of State—James (. Blaine, of MGy 7 is : ! : Secretary of the Treasury—William Windom, of Minnesota. 7 :

Secretary of War—Robert T. Lincoln, of Illinct’slgéretary of the Navy—William H. Hunt, of Louisiana. c : : ‘ , Secretary of the Interior—Samuel J. Kirkwood, ot lowa. . Y‘l)";)tmaster General—T. L. James, of New _ Attorney General-Wayne MacVeagh, of Pennsylvania. : e e ‘ Foreign, Tue correspondent who was with General ‘Coiley at Spitzkop, and who was captured and subsequently released by the Boers, has written a very graphic description of the engagement. His statement shows that, with every advantaze on the side of the British, the Boers carried the day by sheer fizhting. General Colley had 600 men, and a position that was regarded: as absolutely impregnable. His troops were so well ' sheltered that, although the Boers fired incessantly .and with remarkable precision, there were only five casualties in the first four hours. The Boers, who numbered about 1,000, made several attempts to carry the position with a rush, but each time they were driven baek with the bayonet. At last they made a tremendous charge, and the British were routed. It was dn instantaneous change from apparently perfect safety g.o total defeat. . : ‘THE revolt azainst the payment of taxes is becoming general -throughout the Turkish provinces, and the authorities are eompletcly powerless to enforce payment. . " Tae Coercion bill passed its third reading in the British House of Lords on the 2d and received the Roval sanction. THE heaviest gale for sixty years has reeently occurred off the Newfoundland eoast. Much damage was done to the shipping at St. John’s, and many lives were lost. o ANNOUNCEMENT was made in the British ‘House of Commons on the 2d!that the Government had no evidence of the prevalence of trichine at Chicago. A RECEXT Paris ‘eablegram announces the death of Drouyn de L’Huys, who was Minister of Foreign Adfairs in the first Cabinet of President Louis Napoleon, and afterward under the Empire. He served as Ambassador to London, and represented France in the Conference of Vienna. : TueE Committee of Inquiry in’' the cas- of General De Cissey, ex-Minister of War of France, have unanimously decided to report him not guilty of treason ‘or corruption, and, by a vote of 12 to 6, not guilty of irregularities prejudicial to the State. : AX earthquake shock was experienced in Switzerland on. the 3d. No great damage was done. ' - TuE Darlington Iron Company of London failed on the 4th, its liabilities being enormous. - . . TaE Orange Emergency Committee of Dublin has appealed to its brethren in Canada for funds to relieve the persecuted Irish loyalists. : . - FouLL returns of the census just taken in Germany show a pojulation of 45,194,172. ‘Tee Pope has asked the Czar to grant amnesty to the bishops .and priests exiled to Siberia. . ! Ix the British House of Commons on the 4th Mr. Parnell declared that.the Ministry could not drive men like himself and Dillon outside the lines of the Coustitution, and that the Arms bill 'would not prevent the shooting of bad landlords. i [ - . Tur death of Prince George Charles, of Hesse Darmstadt, is announced. - A LoxXDpoN telegram of the 6th says the British Cabinet had agreed upon terms of peace to be offered to the Boers. | : LARGE land meetines were held at Tralee and Mullingar, Ireland, on the 6th. ! Up to midnight on the 6th there hal been a continuous snow-storm in Scotlan. £ or seventy hours. Travel and traffic were entirely suspended. A FreENcHMAN who served as Captain under Napoleon Bonaparte in 1812 was one of ti e jurors on a coroner’s inquest at Montreal a few days ago. » AN information was lodged against Dillon on the sth for advocating the Boycotting of certain. persons inimical to the Land League, Ax earthquake occurred a few days aco on the island of Ischia,’off the coast of Italy, ‘whizh caused an appalling loss of life. In one village alone more than a hundred dead bodies have been found. - | -

LATER NEWS. J. C. BANCROFT DAvVIS, at one time Assist-ant-Secretary of State under Hamilton Fish, and afterward Minister to Berlin, has been appointed Assistant-Secretary of State under Secretary Blaine. ALL the members of the new Cabinet, except Mr. Lincoln, qualified and formally entered upon their official duties on the 7th. TaE Democratic Senators in Washington held a caucus on the 7th and resolved to attempt to organize the Senate on the Bth. A Republican caucus was also held, at which it was determ ned to oppose this effort at organization on the part of the Democrats while there wére vacant seats to be filled. TrE United States Senate was in session only a few minutes on the 7th. Immediately after the reading of the journal Senét’pr-elect Mahone, of Virginia, was sworn in, subscribing to the modified oath. He took his seat upon the Republican side. A DusLIXN telegram of the 7th says Secretary Forster had just left Ireland after having sworn out forty warrants, under the Coercion act, against prominent Land Leaguers. e Ox the 7th the Republican members of the Wisconsin Legislature met in caucus, and balloted twenty-eight times for a candidate for United States Senator, and then adjourned without making a nomination. The last ballot resulted as follows: Cameron, 40; Keyes, 26; Dixon, 15; scattering, 11. ANOTHER walking match began in New York on the morning of the 7th—an international go-as-you-please contest for two purses of $5,000 each. :Four contestants startzd—Rowell, O’Leary, 'Vaughan and Albert. . : A GENTLEMAN in Baltimore has received a letter from Paul Boyton, who was reported killed by the Chilians, written at Lima on February 7, in which he announces that he was a prisoner of war, and had been slightly wounded in two places. : NINE vessels were lost on the Scottish coust during the recent storm, and onme hundred persons drowned. o / : A CoONSTANTINOPLE telegram of the 7th announces the appearance of the plague in Mesopotamia. There had been eighteen deaths at Nefer, thirty at Cuaaro and thirty-five in the Bagdad provinces. S . A New Yorxkspecial of the 7th to the Chicago Tribune states that Rev. Dr. Philip Schaff, Chairman of the Bible-Revision Gommittee, had announced that the revised New Testament will be published by the English - University presses in May, in different sizes and styles of binding, at corresponding prices; that the American Committee had given its sanction to the University editions; that the Commit.. tee had no connection with any of the proposed reprints; and that the publication of the revision will be precisely on the same footing as the present authorized version, that is, protected by eopyright in England and free in this country. e

- THE CABINET. Brief Blgrophleal Sketches of the President’s Official Family—Who the Secretzries Are, Where They Came From, and What They Have fieretofo‘re Accomplished. : : . The following are brief biographica! sketches of the members of the new Cabinet: . JAMES G. BLAINE—SECRETARY OF STATE. Mr. Blaine was born in Washington County. Pa,, January 31, 1830; graduated at Washington College, Pennsylvania; adopted the editoria: profession, and weut to Maine, where he edited the Portland Advertiser and the Kennebec Journal; was a member of the Maine Legislature in 1859, ’6O, '6l and ’62, serrving the last twos years as Speaker of the House; was electéd to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second and Fortythird: Congresses (serving in the Fortyfirst, the Forty-second and the Fortythird as Speaker); was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican; was elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Lot M. Morrill, appointed Secretary of the Treasury, and was elected for the ensuing term, which will expire March 3, 1883. The people are familiar with his great campaigns for nomination for the Presidency. . THOMAS L. JAMES—POSTMASTER-GENERAL. Mr. James was born ‘at Utiea, N. Y., March 29, 1831; was educated at the Utica Academy, and at the age of fifteen was apprenticed to learn the printing business to Wesley Bailey, the weteran abolition editor of the Liberty Press. He served with Mr. Bailey for five years, and then purchased the Madison County Journal, then a Whig paper published at Hamilton. When the Republican party was formed he made the Jourial a Republican paper and labored for the election of Fremont. For five years he% held the position of Collector of Canal Tolls at Hamilton, and then removed to New York City, where ‘he secured an appointment |as Inspector of Customs under Hiram Barney, Collector of the Port. In 1864 he was made a Weigher, and in 1869 Deputy Collector. Upon the inauguration of the CivilService Reform he was made President of the Board of Examiners for the Custom-House. In 1873 he was appointed Postmaster of New York by President Grant, and held the position until his appointment as Postmaster-Gen-eral. -

ROBERT T. LINCOL.N—SECRETARY OF WAR. Mr. Lincoln, the eldest son and only surviving child of Abraham Lincoln, was born in Springfield, 11, August 1, 1843. He prepared for college at Phillips’ Academy, Exeter, N. H.. and, having entered Harvard, graduated the summer of 1864. Four months subsequently he became a member of the Harvard Law School. But, before! finishing the course, he went into the army and was on General Grant’s staff with the rank of Captain, from February 20 to June 10, 1865, serving until the war closed. He then returned to his lawbooks, and completed his studies. He located in Chicago, and was admitted to the Bar by the Supreme Court of the State, February 25, 1867. In September of the following year he was “married in Washington, by Bishop Simpson, to Mary Harlan, daughter of ex-Sen-ator Harlan, of lowa. He and his wife spent six months of the summer and fall of 1872 in Europe, and, on retumingr to Chicago, he associated himself with Mr. Edward S. Isham, in law practice, and the two have been partners ever since, the tirm being one of the best known in the cit'y.' and doing alarge and lucra: tive business. Mr. Lincoln, politically, fol lowed in the footsteps of his illustrious father. and is a “stalwart” Republican, though, with tocul exceptions, he has taken no active part In politics. He was a Presidential Elector at the last election. -

WAYNE MACVEAGH—ATTORNEY-GENERAL. Mr. MacVeach wasborn at Phdenixville, Chester County, Pa., April 19, 1833, and is thus ‘inhis forty-eighth year. He was named after Isaac Wayne. He received his early education in Chester County, but was prepared for coilege at Freeland Seminary, in Montgomery County, under the instruction of J. W. Sunderland, LL.D. He graduated at Yale College in.the famous class of 1853, and then studied Jlaw with the Hon. Joseph J. Lewis, of Westchester, and was in that borough ' admitted to the bar April 26, 1856. Soon after ' his . admission to the bar he was elected District Attorney of Chester County, and served in that capacity for three years. During the war for the Union Mr. McVeagh was twice in the service, first as a Captain of a company of cavalry, which was in the service for two weeks only, when the invasion of the State was threatened, in September, 1862, and as a Major on the staff of Major General Couch during the emergency of the following year. In early life Mr. McVeagh married a daughter of Mr. Lewis, his law preceptor, and after her death, in 1867 he married a daughter of ex-Senator Simon Cameron. In 1870 he was appointed to succeed E. Jay Morris as Minister to Constantinople, a position which he held until the close of 1871,

WILLIAM WINDOM—SECRETARY OF THE . TREASURY. . . Mr. Windom was born in Belmont County, Ohio, May 10, 1827; received an academic education; studied law'at Mount Vernon, Ohio; practiced his profession in Ohio and in Minnesota until 1859; was elected Prosecuting (Attorney for Knox, County in 1852: removed to Minunesota in 1855; was a Representative in the Thirty-sixth, _ Thirty-seventh, Thirtyeighth, Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses; was appointed by the Governor of Minnesota, in July, 1870, to fill the unexpired téerm of the Hon. Daniel S. Norton, deceased,in the Senate of the United States: was subsequentl - elected as a Republican, and was re-elected in 1877. His term of service would have expired March 3, 1883. L SAMUEL J. KIRKWOOD—SECRETARY OF i THE INTERIOR. ' Mr. Kirkwood was born in Harford County, Maryland, December 20, 1813; received a limited education at the academy of John McLeod in Washington City; removed to Richland County, Ohio, in 1835, and studied law there; was admitted to the bar in 1843; was elected Prosecuting Attorney in 1845 and again in 1847: was in 1850-’5l a member of the Convention that formed the present Constitution of the State of Ohio; removed to Johnson County, lowa, in 1855; was elected to the State Senate in 1856; was elected Governor in 1859 and again in 1861; was in 1863 nominated By President Lincoln and confirmed as Minister to Denmark, but declined the appointment; was in 1866 elected to the United gtates Senate to fiil the unexpired term of the Hon. James Harlan; wuas in 1875 again elected Governor of Towa and resigned that office January 31, 1877; was elected in January. 1876, to the United States Senate as a Republican to Bucceed George G. Wright, Republican. His .term of service would have expired March 3, 1883. . WILLIAM H. HUNT—SECRETARY OF THE ; NAVY., o ' Mr. Hunt is 'a native of Louisiana, and comes of a prominent family. When the war broke out he adhered to the Union side, and remained a steadfast supporter of the cause to the end. For this reason he was ostracised by his family, and, when politics began to reshape themselves in the South after the war, became A Republican and has been a Republican ever .since. He was first brought into prominence in Louisiana }»{olitics when he became the counsel for Gov. ellogg in his contest with McEnery. He subsequently becdme a candidate for AttorneyGeneral on the Republican ticket, ezvas elected, and served one term; he was reelected as Attorney-General on the ticket with Packard. Curiously enoutfh, he was thrown out of office through the influence of the MacVeagh Commission which overturned the Packard Government and installed Nicholls while the pre‘paratiops werewbeing made to seat Hayes in %ashlngton. MacVeagh, the head of the Commission, and Hunt, t‘l;le overthrown At-torney-General of Louisiana, now meet on a. ‘common plane in General Garfield's Cabinet., —The early bird catehes the first cold —~—this season. Ly : :

Veto of the Funding Bill. f | WASHINGTON, D. C., March 3. _THE following is the message of President Hayes, vetoing the Funding bill: To the House of Representatives: ‘Having considered the bill entitled ‘‘An act to facilitate the funding of the National debt,” lam constrainied to return it to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, with the following statement of my objections to its passage;: The imperative necessity for p‘rompt.'actio{;, ‘and the pressure of public duties in this,the closing week of my term of office, compel me to refrain from any attempt to make any f:}illy satisfactory preSentation of my objections to the bill. The importance of the passage at the present session of Congressof a suit?xb!e measure for refunding the National debt which is about to mature is generally recognized. It has been urged upon the attention of Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury, and in my last annual message. If successfully accomplished, it will secure a large \decreaseé in the annualinterest payments of the Nation,and I earnestly recommend that if the bill betorc me shall fail, another measure for tlhis purpose be adopted before the present Congress adjourns. While, in my opinion, it wpuld be wise to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, to offer to the public bonds bearing 3% per cent. interest in aid of refunding, I should not deem it my duty to interpose my Constitutional objection to the passage of the present bill if it did not contain in its fifth section provisions which, in my judgment, seriously impdir the value and tend to the destruction of jthe present National Banking system of the country. This system has now been in operation almost twenty years, No safer nor more beneficial banking system was ever established. Its advantagesas a business are free to all'who have the neccssary capital. It furnishes a currency to the publia which, for convenience and security of the billholder, has probably never been equaled by that of any othcr banking system. Its notes are secured by deposit with the Government of interest-bearing bonds. of the United States. The sectionof the bLill before me which relates to the National Banking system, and to which objection is made, is not an essential part of a refunding measure. Tt is us follows: **SECTION 5.| From and after the first day of July, 1881, the threc-per-cent. bonds authorized by ' the first section of this act shall be the onlly bonds receivable as security for National Bank circulation, or as security for the safe keeping and prompt payment of the public money deposited with such banks, but when any/sueh bonds, deposited for the purpose af()résa.id. 'shall be designated for purchase or rédemption by the Secretary of the Treasury| the banking association depositing the s_zime shall have the right to substitute other issues of the bonds of the United States in lieu thereof: provided,that no bond upon which interest has ceased shall be accepted oxf' eontinued on deposit as security for cirpulhtion or for the safe keeping of the public money, and in case ' the bonds so deposited shall not be withdrawn, as provided by la}w, within thirty days after interest has ceased, thereon, the banking»«ass‘ociution dopositing the same shall be subject to liabilities and proceedings on the part of the Comptroller provided for in Section 5234 of the Revised Statutes of the United States: and provided furttimer, that Section. 4 of the act of June 20, 1874, entitled ‘An act fixing the amount of United States notes and providing for the redistribution of National Bank currency and for other purposes,” be and the same ig hereby repealed, and Sections 5,159 and 5,160 of the Revised Statutes be and the same are hereby re-enacted.” i :

Under this section it is obvious that no additional banks will hereafter be organized, except possiblyih a few citiesorlocalities where the prevailing ratcs of interest in ordinary business are extremely low. No new banks can be organized, and no increase of the capital of existing banks can be obtained, except by the purchase and deposit of three per cent. bonds. No other bonds of the United States can be used for thé}t purpose. 'The one thqlisand millions of other bonds recently issued by the United States, and bearing a higher rate of interest than three per cent., and, therefore, a better security for the bill-holder, cannot, after the Ist of July next, be received as security for bank jcirculation. This is a radical change in the Banking" law. It takes from the banks the right they have heretofore h:d under the law topurchase and deposit as security for their circulation any of the bonds issued by the United States, and deprives the billholder of the best secyrity which the banks are able to give, by requiring them to deposit bonds having the least value of any bonds issued by the Government. The average rate of taxation of capital employed in banking is more than double the rate of taxation upon capital lemployed in other legitimate: business. Under these circumstances, to amend the Banking law 80 as to deprive the banks of the advantage of securing their notes by. the -most valuable bonds issued by the Government will, it is believed, in a large part of the country be a practical prohibition: of the organizing of new banks, and prevent existing banks from enlarging their capital. The National Banking system, if continued at all, will be a monopoly in the hands of those already engaged in it, who may purchase Government bonds bearingj,a more favorable interest than the three-per-cent. bonds, prior to next July. To prevent the further organization of banks is to put in jeopardy the whole system by taking from it that feature that makesit, asit now is, a banking system free, upon the same terms, to all who wish to engage in it. Even the existing banks will be in danger of being driven from business by the additional disadvantages to which they will be subjected by this bill. 0 - In short, I cannot but regard the fifth section of the bill as a step in the direction of the destruction of the National Banking system of our country, which, after a long period of business depression, has just entered upon a career of unexampied prosperity. The withdrawal of currency from circulation by the Nationdl Banks,and the enforced winding up of the bpanks in consequence, would inevitably = bring serious embarrassments and digsaster to the business of the country. Banks of issue are essential instruments of modern commerce. If'the present efficient and aq!m’irable system of banking is broken down, it will inevitably be followed by a recurrence to other and inferior methods.of banking. Any measure looking to such a result will bel a disturbing elementin our financial system. It will destroy confidence and surely check the growing prosperity of the country. | - Believing that the measure for refunding the National dgibt is not necessarily connected with the National Banking law, and that any Refunding act will defeat its own object if it imperiled the National Banking system or seripusl}impafldd its usefulness, and convinced that .section sof the bill before me would, if it should bed;omie a law, work a great harm, 1 herewith return the bill tothe House of Representatives, for that further consideration which is provided for in the Constitution. (Bigned) | . RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. EXECUTIVE HANSION, ‘March 3. 1881.

A SCHOOL-TEACHER in Berks County, Pa., has whipped fifty-eight pupils and had fights with seventeen fathers since November 1., During the holidays he breaks colts und hunts wolves. : THE estimztted rent of the new build ing on the corner of Broadway and Wall Street, New York, will net to its owners the princely sum of $lBO,OOO a year. | : ‘—Miss Anna Dickinson will soon return to the stage. fe

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. : BENATE—On the 26th the entire day was spent upon the Civil Cede: » : ~ House—The Criminal Code was passed as re‘ported by the Coditication Committee, with the exception that, save in capital cases, the punishment is taken out of the power of a jury and given to the Judges, and an amendment making executigns hereafter private and barring out press representatives and spectators of every description, save the officers appointed by the Sheriff, together with the jury and relatives o> condemned. o SENATE—On the 28th ult. the consideration of the Civil Code was completed. Bills passed —amending the law providing for the inspection of mines: changing the time of holding municipal elections in Indianapolis from May until October; providing for a State Commissioner of Fisheri¢s. The Coal Oil bill and the bill increasing the compensation.of the Speaker of the House to £lO per day failed to pass. The Governor sibmitted for confirmation the names of ‘George 1. Reed, editor .of the Peru Republican, as Trustee of the State Normal School at Terre Haute, to succeed Alexander C. Hopkins; and that of Barnubas C. Hobbs, of Parke County, to succeed Mr: Nicholson, of Wayne County, wha declined reappointment. The Seymour Réform Club petitioned for permission to establish a gift concert on the lottery plan,in order-to raise $30,000 for & concorvhall. i . Hovse—A: Local-Option Temperance - bill was presented andreferred to the Temperance:Committec. The bill increasingi'the pay of jurors to $2 pér day was ordered engrossed.: Several hours were' exhausted in considering the Codification bill on public offenses. and the provision was stricken out making reporters of the press amenable if they knew of an impending prize-fight, for failure to acquaint the authorities therewith. A jeint reso%ntion passed asking Congress *to establish a port of entry at New Albany. The bill making keepers of houses of ill-fame subject to prosecution for felony was indefinitely postponed by a standing vote. Resolutions in memoriam of the late D. W. Lindsay, of Lawrenceburg, were ‘adopted.. e 4 SENATE—On tne Ist the Local-Option Temperance bill was voted down—2s to 23. A bill relating to officers and offices, coming from the Codification and Revision Committee, was introduced. -Among the bills passed wasone providing for the purchase- of toll-roads by County Boards; appropriating $6,000 to remove a sandbar in the Calumet kiver, and giving guardians power to mortgage: their wards' property under certain contingencies. The Coal-Oil bill was revived and referred to a committee. The Drainage bill, as prepared by the Codification Committee. was passed, together with bills legalizing the aects.of the Trustecs of Monroeville, Allen County; authorizing the issue of military stores to colleges and concerning procedure in civil cases as compiled by the' Codification Committee. The €ivil Code bill passed with but five negative votes, and there was ne opposition to the measure relieving endowment funds of universities from taxation. The act regulating the working of coal mines was amended so as to exempt mines.-with a working force of not over ten men from inspection and requring the Inspector to be a practical miner. The bill authorizing eities to guarantee part payment of bridge bonds also passed. k House—Bills passed—relativeto freegravel roads, and for the relief of Madison County from ‘the result of the burning.of the CourtHouse; also providing against [oBs by destruction of records. Considerable time was spent in forcing the consideration in Committee of the Whole of the General Appropriation bill. The State University appropriation was increased to $25,000-and the Purdue University to $£20,000, and a determined effort was made to reduce the salary of the Governor’s Private Secretary to $BOO from $2,000. but without suecess. An amendment was introduced to the State-House bill ereating a fax of two cents on each $lOO for- building purposes, and forbidding the borrowing-of money on the credit of the State for the erection of the new buildings. The bill was introduced and advanced to a third reading repealing the December, 1872, enactment. and providing for the payment of the: old bonds issued priorto 18341. Bills were introduced—making stockholders indivigually liable lin specific cases and perinitting railways to enter on and appropriate and. . i SENATE-On the 2d bills passed—amending the Election law by providing that in towns of three thousand population and less the voting shall be dope at one precinct; protecting the literary property of public libraries from mutilation and defacement; the Drainage bill; increasing the per diem of the Speaker and Lieutenant-Governor to $lO. The Committee on Education reported on the condition and needs of the State educational institutions. The vote whereby the Whistling act of 1879 was repealed was reconsidered and the bill referred to the appropriate committee. : House—Bills passed—appropriating $4,000 annually to the State-Board of Agriculture for the payment of interest and debt, and authorizing the Board to make a new loan in relief of the present $60,000 mortgage; to pay to Tipton County Swamp land claimants the sum of §i.185.92. Majority and minority reports were made on thg License -bill. The latter, favor~ ing more stringent législation, was indefinitely postponed—4B to 42—and the former made the special order for the 3d. The General Appropriation bill was slightly amended and ordered engrossed. -A bill was introduced ex--empting private libraries from taxation to the amountof $2OO. - . - s e ' SENATE—On: the 3d bills passed—to enable manufacturing and -mining companies of other States to purchase and hold real estate in this State; authorizing succeeding Judges to sign court records which the preceding Judge, from death or other causes, has left unsigned; regulating the practice of medicine—29 to 17. Two or three Judicial Circuits were modified, and the usual number of legalizing bills passed. Among the half-dozen new bills introduced was one which provides that County Auditors shall be paid $1,200 annually for their services in counties having a population of 15,000, and fi%&s for each 1,000 between 15,000 and 20,000, $lOO for each 1,000 between 20,000 and 85,000, and $25 for each 1,000 over 35,000. The Auditor is allowed $lOO for making reports. L - i o House—Bills passed—authorizing ecities to guarantee bridge or road construction bonds; fixing certain fees and,s_alaries, and amending the law.of descents and county prisons. The General Appropriation bill also - passeéd by a vote of 64 to 27. . The bill to. abolish the Vigo County Criminal Court and establish a Superior Court passed—s 2 to 87. The majority report on the Prohibition bill was amended by requiring dealers to give a bond of $5,000. A proposition to engraft theé Local Option teature was rejected and the report was adopted—46 to 43. SENATE—On the 4th bills passed—for the prevention of cruelty to. animals; relating to convict labor; admitting George Menser to the Soldiers’ Home; establishing a Superior Court in Vigo County; concerning fees and salaries; for the appointment of Fish Commigssioners: joint resolutions- directing the purchase for use of the State of the collection of books known as the *.Daniel Hough Library,” ata cost not exceeding $l,OOO. - i ~ House—The bill-repealing the act of 1872, providing forz the payment of the Wabash and Erie Canal bonds, was passed by a nearly unanimous vote, as were also the following: Amendvin% the ‘*Whistling act,”” with_an amendment releasing railway compaunies from penalties for non-observance of thatenactment; refunding to Benton County $973.70 exggnses incug,red in the prosecution of John L. McCullough for murder in 1872; estiblishing public libraries in connection with public schools in cities of fifteen thousand or more., = s

: . INDIANAPOLIS MAREKET. " Tre Jndianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]%; Corn, 40@4lc; Oats, 32@34e.; The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 43@43%¢; Oats, 3614@37c; Rye, $1.05 @1.10; Barley, [email protected]. = ——'—-,_"*'.*'—“—",. 7 A BOOTMAKER, named Babin, was crossing a street in Paris with his little girl, ten years of age, when the latter, in order to escape a passing cab. left hold of her father's hand, and, in. jumping on to the pavement, fell down a large drain hole which had been opened for the purpose of shooting the snow into thesewers. Help was quickly procured, and several firemen and workmen desecended, on the hopeless errand of endeavoring to save the poor child. The flooded state of the sewers, however, rendered . this impossible, and as yet the bereaved parents: have not even had the sad satisfaction of seeing the body recovered. @