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THE NEWS CONDENSED.

COIteBESSrON AI, proceedings. - A resolution was offered in the Senate on the Bth tost by Mr. Hale, and adopted, calling on the Secretary of the Navy for a statement of the original cost of the vessel? on the naval register, and the amount expended in repairs. Mr. Van Wyck presented a resolution forbidding the Secretary of the Interior to issue -land patents to the New Orleans and Pacific road .until Congress has determined the questions involved in the claims of the company. 11l response to a request of the Senate the Secretary of the Treasury submitted to that body i>ftt< :nl figures concerning the national debt. The highwater mark was reached Aug. SI, 1865, when the nation owed $2,766,431,571; June so, lXat, this colossal burden had been reduced to *1,551,0Ji,207. The reduction, including Interest and less cash in the Treasury, has amounted to $1,205,340,363. In the House, Mr. Hunt introduced a joint Resolution for the appropriation of t 1,030,000 to Continue work on the Mississippi river improvements. Bills were introduced to erect public buildings at. El Paso and Houston, Tex., and La Crosse, Wis.; to bridge the Mississippi at Memphis;, to admit Washington Territory as a State; to regulate the Bale and manufacture of liquors in the Territories, and to increase the pension of the widow or General Frank P. Blair. Mr. Beach offered a constitutional amendment providing tor uniform laws on the sublect of marriage and divorce. The President submitted a message recommending an appropriation of $1,000,000 to'continue the work of improving the Mississipi river below Cairo. The President also sent in a message on the Illinois canals. He recites the action of the Illinois General Assembly offering the Illinois and Michigan canal to the United States Government and the recent action of Congress In directing a survey for the Hennepin canal, and commends the whole subject to the present National Legislature as a matter worthy of its early consideration. •> Mr. Plumb presented a petition in the Senate. on the 9th inst., from 200,000 veterans for a soldiers' home in Kansas. Mr. Anthony offered a resolution that the committee on foreign relations report on the expediency of legislation In retaliation for the exclusion of American meats from foreign countries. Mr. Logan presented a petition for pensions for ex-prisoners of war. A resolution was adopted thatthe Attorney General furnish copies of reports on abuses in the Federal courts in the Southern State’. A bill was passed ' to pay $6,000 to the parents of Lieut. Schwatka for land taken for a military reservation in 1850. In the House, Mr. Hasson introduced a resolution, which was unanimously adopted, instructing the Committee on Foreign Affairs to ascertain whether the “ favored nation " clause in our treaties has been violated by Germany, France, or any other foreign Powers, and if so to report what may be deemed necessary In the way of retaliatory legislation. A bill for the relief of Fits John Porter was reported by the Military committee. A message from the President was received, submittingthe repoit of the Mississippi River commission, and after a long debate the document, was referred to the Committee on Rivera and- Harbors. Mr. Bagley intrcduced a bill to appropriate $130,000 toward the expense of placing the statue of Liberty in the harbor of New York. The House missed a resolut'on of sorrow at the death of Edward Lasker, the German statesman. Mr Dawes introduced a bill in the Senate, on the 10th inst., providing lor the establishment of a postal telegraph system by the Government A communication was received from the Secretary of the Interior, announcing depredations in the Yellowstone park. Mr. Plumb presented a petition with 1,500 signatures, asking that Oklahoma be opened to settlement Foui bills were introduced in relation t» pensions and awards of land to soldiers. It was resolved to request the Secretary of the Interior to suspend the issue of land patents to the New Orleans and Pacific Railroad company until Congress shall determine the claims of the corporation. A resolution by Mr. Voorhees was adopted directing the Secretary of War to inform the Senate of the amount of money required to equalize the bounties of those who served in the late war. Mr. Cullorn introduced*bill for the construction of the Illinois and Mississippi canal. In the House of Representatives, the oath was administered to Mr. Clirdv, of Missouri. Mr. Rosecrsns introduced a bill for the relief oi Col. Thomas Worthington, of Ohio. A resolutioi was offered calling on the Secretary of State for information as to the irregular practices in the importation of goods and what legislation is necessary. A joint resolution for the immediate appropriation of $1,000,000 for Mississippi river improvements Was referred. A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of the Treasury to give his reasons for discontinuing the issue of silver certificates. The House adjourned until the 14th A bill appropriating $1,000,000 to ooutinuo Improvements on the Mississippi river passed the Senate on the 12th inst Mr. Call introduced a measure to create a university of medicine at Washington, and setting aside $1,000,000 as a perpetual endowment. Mr. Edmunds handed in a bill for the relief of the anrvivora of the Jeannette expedition, and Mr. Call introduced one for the establishment of savings banks at all Presidential postoffices. Mr. Cnllom spoke at length in regard to his bill to reorganize the legislative power of Utah by means of a Governor and council of nine. After an executive session the Senate adjonru ed to Monday.

THE EAST.

On the Atlantic coast, from Hatteras to Penobscot Bay, a hurricane raged for two days, doing much damage. The destruction Of railroad tracks and other property on Coney Island entails a loss of $500,000, while at Long Branch the pavilion was wrecked ~ and a railway bridge washed away. A high ktide at Atlantic City carried off stores, dwellings, bath-houses and piers, and at Portsmouth, N. H., three fishing schooners foundered and. twenty coasters slipped, their cables and lost their anchors. ThtrEtna waff wrecked at Portland and several crafts were damaged by colliding with the wharves or with each other. One lightkeeper reports the -sea the heaviest ever known.... The President of Harvard college reports a decrease in the number of students from New England, but announces an increase in the attendance from the Middle States. The Treasurer show* investments of $4,021,000, and an income of $228,000. Geobge Jeffery confessed at River Bead, B. 1., that he killed his step-child by twisting its head first one way and then another till he broke his neck; that his only motive for the crime was that he hated it because it was not his, and that it prevented bis wife from earning money for him... .The English bark Elmira was lost, together with her crew of ten men, on the New Jersey coastAt Schoerck, Pa., two boys enticed another lad into a secluded spot, and under threats inflicted on him such injuries with blunt instruments that he died from bis wounds. At the cathedral hi New York was celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the ordination to the, priesthood of Cardinal McCioskey. The edifice was thronged with priests and laymen. Addresses were read, to which the Cardinal feelingly responded, and dosed the sendees by pronouncing tne benediction. Among the presents received by his Jbnlnence was a large cross made of olive wood, grown in the Garden of Gethsemane.... Gen. Mackenzie, now in an insane retreat near New York, is reported to be considerably Improved In condition, but the medical officers have no hope that he can ever resume bis command in Texas... .Dr. Tanner, the famous faster, is practicing medicine in Jamestown, N. Y- The physicians of that city made a fruitless attempt to secure his indictment man* to a hard-glove fight *fmr |f non a side. A $250 lorfeit haa been posted. ~.,Fonr members Of the Salvation army were arrested at Paterson, N. J., for parading the streets on Sunday. ..The public debt of New York was reduced $3,595,01)0 during the year, and is now $92,548,000. the west. ' < , , fy Am Wausua. Wis reA dispatch from " ausua, porta a bloody combat between Chippewa

a band of Pottawatomie* and Menominees moved their camp, and subsequently a band of Chippfl was encamped in the same place. The difficulty began when two ponies belonging to •the Chippewas strayed away into the camp of the other Indians and were shot. The Chippewas assumed a hostile attitude, which resulted in one of their number being shot by one of the Pottawatomles. A few days later the two bands met in a. bloody fight, in which five of the combatants were killed." . New Tear’s day Mrs. Ch M. MeConaugbey, the young wife of a Nebraska attorney, was buried at Rochelle, 111., where ( she had been making a visit to her parents. Day after day the young husband visited the grave in the country churchyard. One day last week the appearance of the little mound excited his suspicion. Investigation showed that the grave had been robbed. Detectives were employed, who found the body at the Homeopathic college in Chicago. Two students were arrested for the robbery. One of them was a devoted admirer of the young girl before her marriage. The day after New Year’s he rode to Chicago on the same train with the bereaved husband. The grave had been robbed the night before, and the other student came to Chicago with a huge trunk containing the remains... .The fall of a scaffold at. Milwaukee killed one man and injured two fatally The thirty saloons a t Kan., closed their doors simultaneomsty, the proprietors deciding to quit the business. In the school-house in which Emma Bond was so terribly treated, fifty citizens gathered to pass resolutions of respect toward the y’oung lady, and to declare that justice was outraged by the acquittal of Montgomery, Pettis, and dementi. A passenger train near Pendleton, Ore., was taken possession of by a mob of 200 men recently discharged by the railroad. They demanded a free passage to Portland, The train heing on the Umatilla Indian reservation, the State authorities had no jurisdiction. Gen. Miles sent two companies of regulars from Fort Walla Walla, but a crowd of roughs joined the rioters and overpowered the soldiers Stephen Richards was executed at. Auburn, Cal., for the murder of Thomas Nichols.

The Coroner’s jury at Belleville, Hl.» returned a verdict in which the management of the burned convent is blamed for the terrible loss of life, as the precautions required by the character of the building and the number of inmates were wholly neglected. The jury say that dormitories should never be allowed above the second story in institutions of learning, and urge the necessity of legislative action on the subject. The Roman Catholic Total-Abstinence convention, which met in Chicago last week, passed resolutions approving of the Harper High-License law, recommending opposition to the election of saloonkeepers and their sympathizers to municipal or State offices, an aotive propaganda in favor of temperance reform, and co-operation with the non-Cathollc organizations to procure enforcement of the laws regulating the liquor traffic. The President’s report showed gratifying progress, and that which seemed to be most pleasing to the assembled delegates was the announcement of the Piesldent that be had administered during the year temperance pledges to nearly 12.000 persons.... .The orchards in the peach belt of Michigan passed uninjured through the recent severe weather, h XHE SOUTH. A telegram from Shelby, N. C., reports that a terrible and fatal knife combat took place about fifteen miles from that place. “For some years past a vendetta has existed between the Lepaugh and Runyam families, both of whom have large connections. Philip Lepaugh was this morn? ing driving his wagon to a sawmill, when Craige Runyam, accompanied by his father and brother, made an attack upon him. They pulled Lepaugh from his wagon and cut and hacked him with bowie-knives, inflicting some terrible wounds. They left him for dead on the road. Aa they were fleeing, the wounded man’s two sons-in-law came up. They galloped after and overtook tlio Runyam party. A desperate hand-to-hcCad conflict ensued, jp which every man engaged in the affray was mortally wounded." While thirty prominent cattle-men were having a banquet in a restaurant at Austin, Texas, a notorious character named Ben Thompson entered the establishment, and, having first littered the floor with lemons and delicacies provided for the feast, -he then drove the entire gathering into the street at the point of two loaded revolvers. The name of Thompson is a terror in Texas. He was formerly City Marshal of Austin, and has been tried several times for murder, but so far has escaped the hangman.... Jerry Alexanderwas hanged at Sparta, Bienville parish, La., for the murder of Sam Fleming last winter. Isaac Anderson, colored, was .hanged at Barnwell, S. C., for the murder of Alf Williams, a white man, in September last. The murderer attempted suieidfe in jail by swallowing concentrated lye, but recovered. John Jervis was executed at Norfolk, Va., for the murder of C. W'. Bonney. A Texas stock-dealer asserts that 2,000,000 head of cattle are fed on “free grass” in his State. The net profits of the owners of the stock is about 25 per cent., and the aggregate value is $40,000,000. The lands on which the cattle are fed are largely the property of the public schools of the State. ... .Orange groves in the region of Mobile, Ala., suffered damage to- the amount of $1,000,000 by the late cold spell. Many trees in*Florida were saved by bujlding fires in the orchards. | WASHINGTON. The Commissioner of Patents reports that large numbers of examiners Mveresigned to enter into practice before the office, on account of insufficient salaries, although they have nothing to fear from changes of administration. It is said that the prestige acquired by a commissioner is worth SIO,OOO per annum on his retirement. Senator Anthony is unwilling to undertake the duties of President pro tem. of the Senate, because of his feeble condition.. . .Secretary Folger has issued a call for $10,000,000 in 3 per cent.' bonds.

An agent of the Department of Agriculture purchased some infected cattle sent from Virginia for beef, and slaughtered them in presence of the House Committee of Agriculture and some Western stock-raisers. The lungs of two beeves, exhibiting pleuropneumonia in its advanced and final stages, were shown the party.... Superintendent Conger, of the Yellowstone National Park, says that the Park Improvement company has transgressed all the rules and laws laid down by Congress for the protection and preservation of game, natural beauties, and curiosities. He favors a more complete control of the grounds by Congress.,.. .The Secretary of the Treasury announces that the principal and interest on $10,000,000 3 per cent, bonds will be paid on the 15th of March. POLITICAL. Appointments by the President: A. Leonard, Consul General for the United States at Calcutta. United States Consuls: Robert J. Stevens at Palermo; Bolivar J. Pridgen at Piedras Negras; Oscar Malmros, of Minnesota, at Leith; Frank H. Mason at Marseilles; John L. Kaine, of Wisconsin, at Cognac; George Gifford at Basle. Michael H. Fitch, of Colorado. Receiver of Public Moneys at Pueblo, Col.; Thomas Wrong, of Kansas, Receiver of Public Moneys at Concordia, Kan.: Adolphus 0. Leming, of Arkansas, Register of the fed Ope St Dardahielle.Arlc.; 'Reuben A. Allen, of Ohio, Indian agent at the Blaekfeet agency, Montana.... At the caucus of Democratic members of the Ohio Legislature, at Columbus, Payne won on the first ballot. The figures wikfc: Payne. 43: Pendleton. 15; Want, 17; H. J. Booth, of Columbus, 1; George W. Geddes, 1. 6 The Michigan State Temperance Convention, at Jackson, resolved in favor of a new party, to be known as the Union party, and to advocate strict prohibition of the liquor traffic.

The Republican members of the Ohio Legislature held a caucus at Columbus to select a candidate for Senator. The Cincinnati and Cleveland representative* refused o honor Gov. Foster, and it was resolved to vote blank. , In the event of Senator McMillan securing the. position on the bench recently vacated by Judge McCrary, the Minnesota Senatorshlp might fall to C. K. Davis, exGoVenor; to W. D. Washburn, now in Congress, or to Martc H, Dunnell. A. WEEK’S FAILURES. fc Sherman Brothers, Cincinnati, liabilities $75,000; A fisher, grocers, Grand Rapids, Mioh/, liabmifes $15,0C0; A. Wossells, real estate, St*Xoui«,Mioh., liabilities $60,000; D. F. Wadsworth & Co., bankers, Ishpeming, Mich., liabilities SIOO,000; S. H. Mbrrell, banker, Lonngton, 111., liabilities, $40,000; W. M. Furbish fSc Son, pianos, Portland, Me., liabilities $27,000; Goldsmith* & Kuhn, diamond merchants, New Yor wf 1 liabilities $45,000; M, H. Myers, dry goods, Cassopolis, Mich., liabilities '$16,000; W. E. Phelps & Co., coal thine operators, Elmwood, IlUiabilitSU S7O/000; A. Sigler, jewler,Adrian, Mich-., liabilities $17,000; Renner & Moore, bankers. Morris, Minn., liabilities $100,000; James Murray, fancy goods, Montreal, liabilities $10,000; Henry Villard, railway magnate, liabilities not stated; L. R. Slasson, dry goods, Cat'ettsburg, Ky., liabilities $22,000; A. J. Jacobs, general store, Henrietta, Tex., liabilities $27,000; J. 8. Borustein & Co., drygoods, Oshkosh, Wis., liabilities $17,000; Charles & Rudolph Von Bermuth, Importers, New York, liabilities $150,000; McClurg, Briggs & Co., dry-good 3, Toronto, Canada, liabilities $150,000; Vorse & Fowler, agricultural implements, Dos Moines, lowa, .iabilites $12,000; B. R. Smith, cotton broker. New York, liabilities $150,000; Putnam & Phelps, tanners. North Loominister, Mass., liabilities $75,000; Dietrich & Co., canvas-bag manufaetuers, San Francisco, liabilities $75,000; the National Paper Mill, Rock Island, 111,, liabilities $20,000; Landorf & Adler, clothing, New York, liabilities $61,000; Lynd Brothers, hardware, Des Moines, lowa, $26,000; J. Paddock, boots and shoes, Terre Haute, Ind., liabilities $25,000; Walter Simmons, hardware, Lockport, N. Y., liabilities $10,000; White & Meyers, notion* and furnishing goods, Cincinnati, liabilities $30,000; Isaiah Price, clothier. Mount Sterling, 111., liabilities $£0,000; J. H. Dacus, general merchant, Ozark, Ark., liabilities $22,000; A. A. Anderson, jewelry and musical instruments, Ishpeming, Mich*, liabilities $40,000; Williamson & Co., dry goods, Brantford, Canada, liabilities $25,000; Buck & Keech, confectioneries, Cedar Rapids, lowa, liabilities $11,000; Leopold J. Zeiner, clothing, Bushnell, 111., liabilities $15,000; Rosenfeld & Co., tobacco, = Detroit, liabilities $50,000; M. Wolf & Co., hats, New York, liabilities $250,000; D. S. Young, clothing, Wyandotte. Kan., liabilities $15,000: Baum Bros., willowware, New York, liabilities $75,000; Hiram Brush, furniture, Chicago, liabilities $15,000; R. B. Ogilvie, dry goods, Madison, Wis., liabilities $65,000; the Oragin Falls Paper company, Cleveland, Ohio, liabilities $65,000; McLelland & Greenough, furniture manufacturers, Chicago, liabilities $15,000; Francis & Vaugh, shoe manufacturers, St. John, N. 8., liabilities $40,000: Eben Sutton, woolen manufacturer, North Andover, Mass., liabilities $100,000; Thomas Chandler & Co., general merchants, Ennis. Tex., liabilities $30,000.

GENERAL. At an exciting meeting of the Montreal Loan and Mortgage company, at Montreal, it was announced that the absconding Treasurer, Craig, was a defaulter for at least $550,000. Some of the Directors are accused of securing loans in an irregular manner. ....The Mutual Reserve Fund Life association has sued Editor English, of the Insurance Time s, for SIOO,OOO damages for libel Iron worlds in Pennsylvania have started very generally, a reduction of wages having been accepted by the men. BEcent deaths: Judge Nelson Poe, an eminent jurist of Baltimore, and cousin of the late Edgar Allan Poe; Rev. Lawrence Walsh, of Boston, ex-Treasurer of the American (Irish) Land League; William Gerlach, a prominent and wealthy Milwaukeean; Col.. George H. Slaughter, a pioneer of Wisconsin; at Galveston, Texas, Mrs. Campbell, wife of Jam.>s Campbell, the trusted lieutenant of the famous buccaneer, Lafltte; at Washington. Mrs. Patterson, wife of ex-Senator John J. Patterson, of South Carolina; John Allison, father of Senator Allison, of Iowa; Herr Edward Lasker, distinguished German statesman; Col. J. I. Nevin, editor of the Pittsburgh Leader; Mary, seventeenth wife of the late Brigham Young; W. J. Wise, the wealthiest citizen of Vincennes, Ind.; Luke Clark, a veteran Fenian and exiled Irishman; Keshub Chunder Sen, a celebrated scholar and philosopher of India. Mr. A. M. Sullivan in a letter to a New York gentleman asserts that the aggregate expenses of the O’Donnell trial were about $12,500. He himself received but S7BO, and Mr. Russell received but SI,BOO. Mr. Ford, of the Irish World, collected about $60,000 for O’Donnell’s defense, and Congressman Finerty, of Chicago, collected about $5,000.... Canada is raising a standing army of 1,200 men, to serve for three years. The full number applied at the recruiting office in Montreal, where tho quota was only 100.... The starch-sugar industry of the country consumes 40,000 bushels of corn per day. and the product is valued at about $10,060,000 per year. FOREIGN. At Paris Deputy Talandiers has been indicted for inciting to murder, because his journal stated that movements would soon. occur in the United Kingdom to avenge the execution of O'Donnell... .A correspondrnt' stat&rtbe l»opw banHpluOrnTtfiF the secret archives of the Vatican the details of his conversation with the German Crown Prince, and that posterity will be treated to a statement of great importance.

At Vienna three men entered the shops of one Eisert, a money-changer, threw sand in his eyes, and attacked him. Eisert shouted for help, when his two children and their governess ryshed to his assistance. A robber killed one off tne children with an ax and fearfully wounded the other child and the governess. Eisert himself was mortally wounded. The man escaped with their plunder....A bailiff was assassinated at Tullamore, Ireland... .Nihilists attempted to murder the Chief of Police at St. Petersburg. As the Comte de Paris left Paris to visit King Alfonso, a crowd of Royalists gathered at the depot and yelled “Vive le Roll’’ For this four arrests were made. It is said the pretender deprecated the demonstration of “his people.”....“Chinese” Gordon has been compelled to resign a Geaeral’Eteommission in the British army in order to fulfill an engagement with the Kingof Belgium to go to the Congo river and suppress the slave trade.... The widow of Informer Carey declines to go abroad, and asks for safe employment in Great Britain.... There is a reaction in France favoring the admission of American meats. Eael Granville refuses to become mediator in the Chinese troubles, and so does Prince Bismarck. Marquis Tseng says the Pekin government feels disappointed, and says China, as the result, contemplates doubuug the inland tax levied upon foreign commerce in order to pay war expenses, and that the capture of both Sontay and Bac-Ninh will not alter the decision, and, furthermore, be has doubts whether China will now accept mediation from any quarter.. The Common Council of Limeridk has decided to oonferthe freedom of that Savift. High Sheriff Gray and Lord Mayor Dawson, of Dublin. Similar honors were conferred on Mr. Parnell and Mr. John Dillon last year..,..The mission of Henry George will probably be fruitless. Be has already gained the enmity of the press by his advocacy of the confiscation of landlords’ property without compensation, and even the Irish papers urge Irishmen in England to have nothing to do with him.. ... A man has been discovered in Birmingham who has kept the body of his sister for twenty years because he had no mbney to pay for k decent funeral..,. .The Grand Duke Michael

(Nioolalevitcta) has been reappointed President of the Council of tbe Russian empire.... A Nationalist meeting in Fermanagh, Ireland, was prohibited by tbe Lord Lieutenant. Mr. Biggar was the disappointed orator... .Queen Victoria will spend the spring on the continent —at Baden Baden and Darmstadt.... The Catholics in England have completed arrangements to begin the erection of a cathedral at Westminster, to cost over £500,000, and to be erected within a stone’s throw of Victoria station.... A meeting of 4,000 unemployed workingmen was held in Paris. Violent resolutions were .adopted ;Leou Chotteau is coming to America to use his influence for the prevention of retaliatory measures against Franoe because of the pork prohibition.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Flames swept away three warehouses in Fast street. New York, causing a loss of $230*000, the chief sufferers being L. Water- . frury & Co., rope manufacturers. Other fires are reported as follows: Proctor & Gamble’s soap and candle works, Cincinnati, loss $250,000; a business block at h rankfort, Ind., loss $75,000; the Centennial elevator, Monticelio, 111., loss JsK.OOO; the lake View hotel, Evansburg, Pa., loss $15,000; three business houses at Natchitoches, La., loss $75,000; the Clinton paper m 11. Steubenville, Ohio, loss $50,000; several stores at Bay City, Mich., loss $22,000; the County jail at Columbus, Ohio, loss $15,000; S. Davis & Son's extensive cigar factory, Montreal, Canada, loss $140,0J0; Powell's music store, Phelpston, Out., loss $50,000; two grocery stores at Paducah, Ky., loss $10,000; Kennon & Hill’s store, Selma. Ala., loss $33,000; Lemon's general store, Lucas. Ohio, loss $40,000; George Jess' fine residence,. Waupun, Wis., loss $16,000 Mrs. Hauer’s barns and forty-five fine dairy cows, near Elgin, HI., loss $10,000; the ccopor and boiler shops in the State prison yards at Stillwater, Minn., loss $100,006; the Opera-house block at MeadvlUe, Pa., loss ■ $500,060; Smith, Winston & Co.’s coffin factory, New York city, loss $200,000; a portion of D. B. Fisk & Co.’s millinery store, Chicago, io3S $30,000; tine business houses at Pittsburg, Kan., loss $21,000; a sawmill at Butler, Ky., loss $13,000; several stores and shops at Maysville, Ind., loss $20,000; a cotton warehouse at Jonesboro, Ga., loss $35,000: a hotel at Ashtabula, Ohio, loss $20,000; Moder’s brewery, Onalaska, Wis., loss $20,000; three business houses at Blunt. Dak., loss $15,000; St. Vincent Orphan asylum, Toledo. Ohio, loss $12,000; Edwards' opera-house, Selnm, Ala., loss $15,000; Schwier's grist-mill. Batesville, Ind., loss $15,000; the Wyiowdale mills,- Ipswich, Mass., loss $50,000; the main office of the Telephone Company, Boston. Mass., loss $49,000; Ludster's farm machinery warehouse, and other property, Beloit, Wis., IOS3 $12,000; four business houses at Treqton, Ga., loss $15,000; two shops in the penitentiary grounds at Nashville, Tenn., loss $15,000; the Southern Central railroad repair shops at Auburn, N. Y., loss $25,000; Knowles’ woolen mills, Newcastle, Del., loss $30,006; Hiisch & Griswold’s confectionery store, Peoria, 111., loss $15,000; a business block at Monticelio, Ind., loss $21,000; the Tivoli theater, Pueblo, Colo., loss $15,000; Asmuth & Co.’s elevator,Milwaukee, Wis., loss $20,000; Backus & Haj-cS, hominymill, Indianapolis.-loss $18,000; l?annon Bros., tile factory, Joliet ; 111., loss $15,000; Stindis’ flouring-mill. New Martinsville. W. Va., loss $18,000; Swartz & Co.’s tannery, Elmira, N. Y., loss $26,000: John Zeller’s residence, Brazil, Ind., loss $10,000; a Baptist church at Janesville, Wis., loss $40,000; several stores atr Tunnel Hill, Ga., loss $15,000; ten stores and several residences at Naples 111., loss $35,000-; the Episcopal church at Middleport, N. Y., loss $30,000; the Baptist church at Port Norris, N. J., loss $25,100; Clubertsou & Blair’s store-house, Chicago, loss $20,000; a Baptist church at Janesville, Wis., loss $40,000: the business portion of Seligman, Mo., loss $30,000; the University building at Galesville. Wis., loss $25,000; the female college building at Columbus, Ga., loss $60,000: about a dozen business houses at Baird, Tex., loss $80,000; Herzicr Bros.’ flouring mill at Akron, 0., loss $00,000; a brewery at Pittaton,.Pa., loss $30,000; a hotel at Sheffield, Pa., loss $15,000. Ten thousand blocks of ice are to be used in constructing the palace for the carnival at Montreal next month. The Governor General has accoptod an invitation to be the guest of tho city. Seventy-fire trotting horses are entered lor the races on the ice. - • : - s ... ■ . - ----- The inauguration of George Hoadly as Governor of Ohio was a quiet affair, only three political clubs being In attendance. The inaugural address recommends tho establishment of a Board of Pardons and a graded license system. Mr. Anthony, having declined the honor of the Presidency pro tem. of the Senate, Mr. Edmunds was elected and sworn in Dec. U s Mr. Vest presented a petition from Si. Louis pork-packers, asking for retaliatory du’les. A resolution was passed that the Secretary of the Treasury report the amounts of gold coin or bullion deposited in exchange for silver certificates, and whether there lias been any refusal to receive gold for silver certificates. Mr. Ilill spoke at length on his postal telegraph bill. In the House of Representatives, two bills to repeal the civil-service act were introduced. Mr. lielford offered a measure to reduce freight rates on tho Union and Central Pacific roads 50 per cent, from the tariff of last year. Mr. El wood introduced a bill for a bank currency secured by gold and silver, and Mr. Dunham one for a Department of Commerce. Bills were also handed in to authorize bridges at St. Paul and Council Bluffs, to abolish postage on newspapers, to retire the trade dollar, to permit Confederate officers to serve in the army, and tor a delegate in the House from Indian Territory.

THE MARKET.

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GRAND GRABS.

Contemplated Raids Upon the Rational Tnmr *-, (Washington Telegram to Chicago Tribune.] The most dangerous attacks on tbe Treas* ury are the bills proposing additions to the pension rolls. Each bill is backed up by. petitions whioh apparently come from exsoldiers. The large part of them are collected by claim agents, one of whom has gathered 30,000 signatures of alleged soldiers asking for additional pension legislation. Aside from the general bills which involve by official calculation over $200,000,000 there have already been Introduced nearly 1,000 private pension bills. Many originate with attorneys, who send bundles of them to members, with a request to present them. They then charge those interested $25. Not one in ten of this class can ever pasa, _ Many have no merit. Few sent in by claim agents are ever followed further than the fee. The proposition to equalize bounties has been introduced by a dozen members. There-have been several official calculations made of the amount which the passage of such a bill would require. Tho Paymaster General estimated that it would take as a minimum $157,000,000, and that the amount might run up to $163,000,000. No official calculation places the sum at less than $125,000,000. At least 250 additional clerks will be needed to make the settlement. The next scheme in the order of magnitude is the ona for removing all limit upon granting arrears of pensions. This also is strongly supported by petitions which pension agents have procured. A bill which is being urged with great persistence is the bill for pensioning all who were prisoners of war for two months; without regard to the question whether or not they suffered thereby in health, this is an insidious measure, since few politicians have 1 the courage to take even an apparent stand against pensioning those who Buffered as prisoners, and there are very many deserving cases. Added to these are the bills to pension all who served fourteen days In tho Mexican war, all who served in the various Indian wars, and the two extraordinary bills of Price, of Wisconsin, and Peters, of Kansas, one providing for pensioning all who served in tbe Union army upon their reaching tho age of 45 years, and the other providing for pensioning all who served sixty days for the terms of their natural lives. For all except these last schemes there is a great pressure here. [Telegram to New York Herald.] Although the Forty-eighth Congress has been in actual session- only three weeks, the bills already introduced would, if enacted, absorb all the surplus revenues of the Government for several years to come. No regular appropriation bill has yet been reported, but nearly every measure presented contains an appropriation direct, indefinite, implied,, or oblique. An attempt has been made to classify the most important bills and estimate the probable amount involved, so that the public may see how their representatives in Congress would like to dispose of the public moneys. A recapitulation of the amounts proposed to be appropriated by tbe bills shows this startling result: Public buildings and ground* $12,000,000 River and harbor improvements 6,000,000 Public education 105,000,000 New bureaus, commissions, etc 1,000,000 Soldiers’ Home in Kansas 200,000 Equalizing bounties (official estimate).. 100,000,000 Pensions (estimated) 175,000,000 Prize money, etc 3G3,644 Deserters, nurses, etc. (estimated)... 2,250,000 Half-pay for Revolutionary officers (estimated)...,..... 25,000,000 Depredations and spoliations (estimated) 10,000,000 Private bills (estimated) 25,000,000 State claims (estimated) 30,000,000 Drawbacks, rebates, etc 8,975,549 , Miscellaneous items (estimated)...... 3.000,000 Grand total $500;790,X94

IS LOWELL A DUDE?

An Official Inquiry at Washington— Richelieu Robinson’s Resolution. A resolution has been introduced in the House by Mr. Robinsdn, of New York, calling upon the Secretary of State for information regarding the dress of American representatives in foreign countries as they appear on public occasions. It has exclusive reference to Minister Lowell, who Is reported <o wear knee-breeches upon state and other occasions. When Sunset Cox returned from Europe he reported that Mr. Lowell was arrayed In knee-breeches and buckle shoes when he called upon him, and that our Minister made a vain but ineffectual attempt to hide his calves under a table. “What is the object of your resolution?” was asked of Mr. Bobinson. “It is to ascertain if any of our representatives abroad are really acting like dudes,” he replied. “lam told that in some countries our ministers and consuls dress like fops, that they don fancy coats and big brass sabers and imagine themselves kings and princes.” “Have you any instances?” “Yes, sir. lam told that recently our Minister Lowell could not be seen because he was dressing for a reception. It is said that our representative to Persia had to take off his boots not long since and approach the Pasha in his bar© feet. Such proceedings are beneath the dignity of an American citizen. He ought to have applied his boot to the Pasha.” Mr. Robinson said that the United States would not tolerate any “monkey business,” as he put it, on the part of the representatives abroad; that there was a statute enacted in 1838 for the express purpose of requiping Atßericaß Ambassadors' to maintain the recognized eustoms and etiquette of their own country, and that if Mr. Lowell had been guilty of a violation of this law he should be recalled. It is a matter of notice that Mr. Lowell is a subject of unfavorable comment In all quarters In W ashingtou at this time. A leading Republican Senator said the other day that the aping tendencies of Mr. Lowell, which at first produced only ridicule, are likely to be so seriously regarded In the end as to necessitate his recall. MINISTER I.OWELR’B RECTORSHIP. [Washington Telegram to Chicago Herald.] Your correspondent has definitely ascertained that Minister Lowell received a polite, but peremptory notification from the Department of State that bis acceptance of the Rectorship of St. Andrews was regarded as an act inconsistent with his obligations as the representative of the American Government at a foreign court. The'letter to Mr. Lowell called his attention to the prohibition put upon American ambassadors as to their acceptance of titles, honor, office, etc., from foreign potentates.

The Bonded Whisky Bill Boomed.

The friends of the Bonded Whisky bill, says a Washington correspondent, fear that it has fallen into unfriendly hands by its reference to the Committee of Ways and Means, but, under the rules, no other committee has jurisdiction of bills relating to taxation. They have only faint hope, from the reputed temper of the committee toward it, that it will be reported to the House. But if it should come back with the indorsement of the Ways and Means Committee it would be met with fierce opposition by som e bf the strongest men in the House.

Cold-Wave Signals.

A Washington dispatch says the following will be inserted in the office regulations of the 'Signal- Bureau by direction of Gen. Kaztm: A white flag with a black center will ; be used to indicate a cold wave Is approach- | mg. Whenever the anticipated temperature fall is decidedly below normal, the assistant in charge of the indications division wilt send telegrams to the observers at Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville, Nashville, and Cincinnati: “Hoist cold-ware signals,” and will 1 direct them lowered when the temperature l has reached the minimum. , j The youth who waltzes well is the one who • leads the whirled.—New Yorit JattmaU

NATIONAL BANKS.

Proposed Legislation by Congress—Opposition to the Sherman Bill. [Washington Dispatch.] The Flnanoe committees of tbe two.house* have entered upon the consideration of the Important subjects referred to them. Last winter, when the bill extending the national bank charters was passed, it was the general opinion that the question of the existence of the banks was settled for at least twenty years, but, under existing conditions, the time can be easily calculated when the basis of the system will have reached Its vanishing point. Two eouiiiotlng propositions are now before the Finance committees. One looks to giving to the national banks a more stable basis; the object of the other is to ultimately supplant the present system by treasury notes. The Senate Finance committee has under discussion the bill of Mr. Sherman, which, in brief, proposes to allow national banks to issue circulation to an amount within 10 per cent, of the market value of the bonds. Provision is made that in the event of shrinkage the Secretary of the Treasury shall have the power to call upon the banks to make good their margins. The meetings of the committe have not been attended by all the members, Messrs. Allison and Aldrich (Republicans) having both been absent. Enough has been said, however, to show that the Democrats will oppose the Sherman plan, while the Republicans are not all prepared to support it. The Democrats axe not. prepared to go further than to agree that the banks may issue circulation equal to the par of tho bonds. This is an increase of 10 per cent, over the existing law. They may also vote for some reduotion of the tax on circulation. The Republicans of the committee are not all agreed to the plan of the Sherman bill. Senator Aldrich proposes to introduce a bill of his own which provides for the exchange of the 4’s for 3’s, with the difference to be paid in cash. Then he would allow the banks to issue circulation equal to 100 per cent, of the value of the bonds, instead of 90 per cent, as under existing law, or 90 per cent. Of the market value, as proposed by Senator Sherman. He thinks that a bill like the one he will introduce will settle the banking question favorably to the banks and tbe country for twenty-three years at least, which he does not believe Wiil be achieved byMr. Sherman’s proposition. The suggestion of the Secretary of the Treasury, that an additional appropriation will be necessary if the printing of the $1 and $2 notes is continued, will furnish a new text for the discussion of the financial question. Some of the silver men indicate their purpose to take advantage of this suggestion to refuse an appropriation for the $1 and $2 notes, the expectation being that if these notes shall be'retired the effect will be to force the silver dollar into circulation.

THE STAR ROUTE GASES.

Items from the Accounts of tbe Special Counsel. ' [Washington Telegram to Chicago Tribune.] The statement of the expenditures of the Department of Justice in the star-route cases has been furnished to the Senate in response to the resolution of Mr. Van Wyok. The document is about the size, shape and weight of an unabridged dictionary, without index, summary, or condensation, and with little clew to the vast mass of vouchers. Rut the bookkeeping methods are not bo crude that the astounding extravagance of tbe Department of Justice can be kept secret. The information shows how the Treasury can be plundered in the name of reform. Brewster, Attorney-General, received $5,000 as attorney in the star-route cases, the lust voucher for $8,500 having been approved a short time before he became Attorney-Gen-eral. William A. Cook receives SI,OOO for services in the Howgate case. This did not result in disclosing the whereabouts of Howgate. He*, also receives $6,000 in the starroute cases. The leading counsel in the star-route cases, who was paid the least, was Ker, of Philadelphia; yet the vouchers show that in 1883 he charged $29,000, of which he received $31,000, an unsettled balance being in dispute. In addition he receives $5,250 for his services in the Kellogg case, although the case has not yet been brought to trial. The total charge made by Ker for the year’s work was $32,500, most of which has been paid. In addition to this, the junior counsel, while drawing enormous fees, presents his board bills regularly, aud the Attorney General approves one, for instance, of slxty-one days at $7 per day, amounting to $437. Dick Merriok, who happens to live here, did not charge for board, but Ker and Bliss, besides drawing from SSO to SIOO each per day, eharged for everything apparently from a bootblack to a shave. Mr. Merrick charges his uniform rates at about SIOO a day and gets them. George Bliss presents the champion fees and gets them allowed, but he has not secured all the money, owing to the fact that the appropriation was exhausted. The details of one of his bills would served as a model for a chancery lawyer in the Jarndyce suit. He charges for waking up in the morning, for eating his breakfast, for walking to court and back, for the place where he sleeps, for the man who brushes his coat, for the boy that brings his books. Bliss’ fees average SIOO a day, aud he crowds a great many days into a year. Bill Wood, the detective, gets email sums. Allan Pinkerton gets larger ones, having receivedin. About, a-jrear some SB,OOO far. sefviees of his bj&tfhtivea. No names are furnished of the persons shadowed.

ORANGEISM IN IRELAND.

Rossmore and the Magistrates. [London Dispatch.] The agitation in -Ireland based upon Lord Rcssmorb's recent Orange protest, Is briskly maintained. Three-fourths of the magistrates hare already publicly plaoed themselves on record in opposition to the platform which Lord Rossmore has laid down as the only one on which loyal Irishmen can stand. In the County Cork alone 148 magistrates have declared that loyalty and Orangeism are Incompatible, and that they will not be coerced Into Inaction or submission by the braggadocio of the anti-Cathollo partisans. The Orange societies are making arrangements for a series of meetings to be held in England and Scotland, but the efforts of the rival religious factions to create a culturkampf for Ireland excite sueh small interest outside of that country that these meetings will probably fall flat.

Cattle Diseases.

The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury has transmitted to Congress the report of the Cattle commission, consisting of James Law, E. F. Thayer, and J. H. Sanders. The commission recommend that the National Government prevent shipment northward, out of the area infected with Texas fever, all cattle whatsoever, excepting from the beginning of November to the beginning of March. ”"f A spaniel belonging to William H- Baylies, of Providence, saw a horse that had broken loose from a hitebing-post fall lata Lobin's Pond. The horse was too bewildered to find ltß vsyout. The spaniel plunged hr, swam to the horse, seized the bridle with his teeth, and gradually pulled the horse around and guided him to the shore. - -- - Mr. Alonzo Hayes, of Kittery, Me., forgot to sprinkle meal on his horse’s noon-day fodder. Presently he heard'a great noise in the stable, and found the horse with the pail of meal in bis mouth, lust lifting it into the manger. - -- ■ '■ —■— ----- Great things are made from iron, but tin often makes grater. : F = v / .