Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1870 — Page 1

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The Late Disaster oh the Mississippi.

nftn# T&f.-d), when Vboht TO mile#fbotnMt*nphis, left the regular channel of the river, to pass through the chute or cutoifeof I*l*l*i f N«. ««, thus tavinfc in her°i<fehse five miles. This chute is knoVn' abount lu T ugly black snags, dangeroUsTtT snipping, and passage is never attested down stream; outgoing up, Steamers drawing six feet of water or loss often attempt R. The •Enuha’enterfed this chute at about 10 a ttack on Saturday morning, passed up 100 rocls, .when- she struck a snsg—a huge cypress tree, the roots of which were firmly uploaded- -fa*- the bottom, of. the river—that? wrenched a terrible hole in her starboard side. The boat began.to fill so rapidly that'the steam pumps had no effect whatever in keeping hes SflOat. Oottfin hales were crowded about the leak, but (he rush of -water forced everything of an hour'{were consumed in efforts to keep the steamer afloat. Soundings were taken, showing J feet of water "on onff Side, and 18 feet on the other side qfthe sinking steamer. The passenger# op td this time were not mnclvalarmed, as the- officers of the boat exhibited no-signs of’fear, or made any preparation to remove the passengers, thinking that, st the worst, the steamer would sink,-leaving the hurricane deck above Witter,*frop), which all could be easily thkeh ashore. - In the efforts to head the boat toward shore, which was but 100 yards distant* it was djscqVered that tho boat was spiked to tbe.apag, and that it was impossible to mows It in any direction. The water by this limb had'entered In such a body that the beat, rolled to her starboard side, making it impossible to walk on decks without support, and moving the whole cargo on deck Thlp the stream. 8 moke was seen i»suiug from the cabins, where the stoves had tumbled down, scattering their redhot CbalS on, the floor, which had lighted into a fierce blaze by the aid of the oil from the broken chandeliers that hung near them. . The terrible cries of “fire,” “fire,” spread rapidly, paralyzing with fear those who .until this moment had made no preparations' for escape, chilling their hearts blood, and depriving them of the ssasasKT' wtw Captain Marratta took charge or the yawl-boat, hid it lowered to the boilerdeck, whytiiAU the ladies, five in number, wefe sfcfirdy settfid. Then it was still further lowered to the water, where it was ffijed by those who stood nearest it. At boon as the captain gave orders to unheok from its fsekles and pull for shorn. Abe roustabouts and the crazed passengers from the hurricane and boiler' deckß leaped in and toward the yawl in one indiapnmib&te. mass, sunk the host in a moment, and thus, side by side, passed into, the -dark vaMey together. Nothing was afterward seen of this boat, but it is supposed that it passed under the guards of the steamer and lodged near the wheel, as the only survivor or those who entered this Wat, Cap’ain Marratta, came to the surface near the wheel, and was seized by the porter, yrho was securely seated upon it, and'drwwnutp. This example, and terrible loss, so frightened the snrvivorS that no attempt was made to launch the'life-boat, which burned With the cabin. Them WAS but one child aboard, a girl of 10 or 12 years, who appeared on the hurnki»ne.deok between tho fires created by the 9tov.es in the lore and aft cabina Ufihble to go one way or the other, afraid to sprinjffnto the Water, she threw up her hands as/f In prayer, and sunk in the remorratess flames. Although the boat was but ,100 yards from shore, it was notice# (bat all attempts to reach land there was useless, as a very strong current ran directly from the. shore to' the mid* die of tho chute and thendelbto the river. Men launched out op doors, boxes, beerbarreiffi wrnfe,' cotton "blfea-^terything Within their reach that safety could suggest,—but were no sooner well in the stream than thp high wind rolled them overSn'ffhvsrv Su 1 men—-three white and three colored—shoved out on the staging, which was about four feet wide, and twenty-fire feet long, and the wind turned “eSfeh these huge planks twice completely over 1 . In despair, one of the whltejnqn bent off his knees, uttered a cry orthe deepest anguish, and plunged from. Ihe staglog to.seacri a passing plank, on which he floated for a few moments, making useless grasps in the air and water as if crazed.., His eyes became fixed, and, exhausted/ho foiled off and sank forcvei?*, •"* Thb IfrSt engineer reached shore op a box,’ «M<T about climbing the bank, whefl ihe 'cold wind struck him, and so stiffened apd benumbed his Joints and cbilljM Jus, bliyx^that he fell in a clump of bushes,.^esa! Many, in emerging from the water, fell on the- bank* struggles ending in death • • Two horses, thrown from A* boat, ware straddled by negroes* who were safely carnod ashore, —the first to escape from the wreAK- ‘ * * • * J

MttßP ofthosa Who could not iwlm crowded to the forecastle, and Immersed theiWtfVes In. water, op to the head, to escape bprnlng. _ . A boring hurrleajto the wreck with his skiff, and the Steamer. ", , Oire man managed to swim to a mag 1* the middle of the stream and perch himself <m t<ip of It From this he kept op a

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I w w W m w v L most melancholy cry, but as he was seen to be perfectly safe, he was the very last to the jack-staff, was the only woman ” sfEKS'4k-were picked up pn the Arkansas side of the river, the Current in places running in that directwo miles down tho river. Finding he ±2 stiff and hard, and no signs of life in his body except almutdris heart «■ A largs sires was built near him in the woods, which ron restate# jlifo»»»nu <• «<■ ,t v Fires were now lighted in the forest along the baakpp( Alj%figer of five miles, to warn any survivors who might have drifted far down the shore.— Cor. (Feb. 20,) Chicago Time*. t* ll*»»l •» ««U > Kill

CURRENT ITEMS.

I)SHko.vd has (on cemstpries for ths< in-' terment of its dead. / , . Onb iluflalo dealer has sold 20,000 vab’ entines this yesr. Soi.itahy confinsment has crazed nine <*onvicts in tfikDetdhit’pViscdi.'"'^ _ A TAiiBNTiNK desler in New York, this year, sold seventy-eight valentines valued at SSO each. tut irtu t A single firm in Paris has sold two Thbrb are in the United States 659 Young Men’s Christian over 100,000 lhembers. The office pf WoqdhulL.Ql&flin & Co., the Wall street feniale brokers, is calfefi a “ female shaving shop.” Lobsx>n. had -seventeen •huadzed and eighty-four alarms of fire last year; New York, fifteen hundred. * ».» 111 > i -• Judge Kirght, of Jit- JiOifis, has.decided tmit debts contracted by A wife must be collected, from hpr husband iron her separate estate! Califounia. hmdmra . a superstition against “dying in your boots,” and even The Commissioners of the New York Central Park fnffeftd to supjily pore ifiilk for Infants from the cows at the Park, at cosW. t nz /*i t Ar.ft.-t gw »l Labor Reform Clubs are being organized in all the counUeapfJiewlUmpshire,, The new party eight ftouSana ’ttaau «Mk«is sa -York, which is one hundred years old, is to be demolished. The land on' Which it stands is worth $250,000. Some excitement has been created in Knoxville, Tenn., by a baby which has departed from the old established rules governing “cutting teeth” by cutting its back teeth to start with. A new spouting mineral spring has been accidentally developed near Saratoga, N. Y. . It. ibrows water several Jeel high, similar to rthe •Geyssra oflcdAnd. and California. John Shepparii, of London, has completed a task at Memphis of walking 100 consecutive hours, with fifteen minutes’ The Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance of" New "Hampshire have voted to invite all the clergymen in the State to preach temperance discourses on the Sunday before the election. It is said that a new description of lava is being thrown from the crater of Vesuvius since the last eruption, consisting of crystalized salt. This beautiful phenomenon has hitherto been unknown in volcanic natural history. Francis P. Blair, Sr., and his wife, who have been married over sixty years, rode on horseback, the other day, from Washington to Silver. Springs, distant some fifteen miles, and returned to Washington without dismounting. Societies for the “ Prevention of Cruelty to Animals” have been formed in the following cities: New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Frandisccy Montreal, Albany, Buffalo, Detroit, St. Louis, St. Paul, Minn.; Davenport, Iowa; Baiigor, Me., and Fishkill, N. Y. A charitable society has been formed in Berlin with ilo other resources than the ends of cigars thrown away by amokeis. With the produce of those despised remnants it has been able to clothe completely sixteen poor children, and even to give them some toys and sweetmeats at Christmas. A careful analysis by the chemist of the Board of Health of New York, of thirty samples of cosmetics used by the women for “ beautifying ” their complexions, revealed the fact that their principal ingredients were lead and bismuth. Five specimens of “ lily whits ” turned out to be nothing but marble dust. John Kitts, the revolutionary, soldier recently lionized at Washington, was once to weighed down with misfortune that hs resolved on suicide. Carefully loading his rifle, he placed the muzzle to his head. and pressed his toe against the trigger, when, to his surprise, the: trusty weapon flashed in the pan. He took courage and has been prosperous ever since. Experiments made in Germany by themilitary authorities show that « Sheet of Ice three Inches thick affords a perfectly safe passage fo* infantry or horses marching in single file, and for light carriages; with the thickness of six inches it will bear all sorts of wagons and cannon. The strength of the ice may be increased by covering it with straw and laying planks under the wagon wheels. The New York Time* alludes to the conundrum in Packard'* Monthly —“ Was Morgan murdered T"—and says that “there is at least one gentleman in this oity who knows every incident connected with the abduction and subsequent fate of

Morgan.” The M<iil says the Times probably refers toThurlow Weed, whose/orthoomlng autobiography .is expected to throsome light upon this mysterious ■abject Whrn the body of Mr. Greenwald, a citizen of New York. WbO Was murdered jk Spanish volunteers in Havana, was to New York, hisiriaade w<gs $MrUg4 at finding it buried In that part of tbefraveyard reserved to paapersand ualefeotora, and that it had bean buried uncoflhted and •tarknaksd. Whenmurdored,Mr.Greenwald had on fine clothing, arid’ this had all been stolen by the Spaniards.

JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, MARCH 3, 1870*

Weekly News Summary.

'COWKESSrOffiX. ' ‘ " In the Senate, on the 18th, a telegram was read from ■>• Oavsrtor as Nebraska,'announcing the {attAWtlOn of the IStb Amendisoat b; the Legislature of that Btate.i..A petition waa presented and referred (tomauannthsaaaSS citizens of Connecticut and Maryland, for tha |ec|Bnitlon of contracts unlawful; granting lands In aid of the Veported, authorizing the Northern Pacific Railroad to issue conatructlon Ronds,-and’to reach It* weetem terminus i>4a the valley of the. Ooluanbia rirer, ....The Fending bill wu made the special order for the3Bd.... A bill to provide for an examiner of claims in the State Department waa passed ...The bfil to onooqrjgf and promote* the /nlernatleoatExhibition }n Waablngton City, in 1871, was-takei np and debated.... Executive-session and adjournment. - - ! In Ute-Hovtse, on tho 18th, a bill was introduced and>efefrbd to regulate ocean telegraph communicationbetßaea-tboJJnlled statoa.snd foreign countries ... (A bill appropriating MtflOO for the Investigation tnte the alleged sale ol tedSttUps waa reported from the Committee on Military STWhole. „ > In the Senate, on the 10th, resolutions ofthe Yirgini*J»»g*»l9*<«elDrthe removal J>( ,the political dlaabUltlea Incutred by the people of Virginia by reason of the late.war, were and fabled... .The House bill to defray the expense* of witnesses in the lnvestlgetkm of the sale of esaetshlpa wa- passed .. .The annual Post-Ronte bill was amended and pas*od.‘.. .The WH granting lands to aid the construction of railroad and telegraph lines from Portland bo Astdrlaand McMlinvilie. In the State of Oregon, was oalled np, amended and passed uu i resolution waa adopted calling npop the President for Information whether any officer, totatrary to the treaty with the Cherokee nation,' has enforced taxes upon the products manuihetured therein and sold within the Indian Territory ... A message waa received from the President relative to the recent conflict betwfeen Colonel Baker and thb Indians.... Adjourned. In the House, or the 19th, a bill w aa passed, declaring the lands consUtmttng the Fort Collins Military Reservation, In Colorado* subject to pre-emption and homestead entry....A bill was. Introduced and referred, to provide for a stay of I execution. In certain cases, and Intended to afford some relief against the operations of the recent legal-tender decision ...A new rule was adopted it-that the CommiUss on Election# shall eohalai of fifteen members, to be divided by its Chairman into sub-committees of thre# op each taas of contested election... A petition waa presented from citizens of Cincinnati, for a repeal of the tax on teles’. ..The ' Legislative Appropriation bill was considered In Committee of the Whole ...Adjourned. ... . , .- In the Senate, on tie 2ist, a joint resolution .waa Introduced and referred, declaring the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment by tbe requisite number of States....Albill to abolish the Vreedmcn's Bureau, and provide for a Bureau of Education, was reported, with amendments, from the Committee on Retrenchment.... Bills were iu‘trodneed—extending the time for the completion of tha Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad, in Michigan T- tb establish a Territorial Government Mr Riaska... Bills and joint reaolntlotis were passed —to sell or exchange the Custom Uqpu f ln Naatu , villo, and obtain a more suitable location; gMnf , consent to'the erection of a bridge across the Delaware riverkt Philadelphia; ta provide for tha ■ better security of Uvea of passengers on board vessels propelled by steam; amendatory of an act fixing rules and regulations f(Jr preventing collisions on the water, approved April fiUth, 1964; to reorganize the Marine Hospital service, and provide for tho relief of sick and dis*kledre*meq: directing that no speech not actually delivered lp-Conffes* be printed In the Globe .. Announcement was made of the presenta-, tlon to the Senate of a beautiful volume containing the Lord’s Prayer in one hundred different languages, and a motion was adopted that it be received and placed In the Congressional Library.... Pending the consideration or the New York and Washington- Air-Line Railroad bill, the Senate went.intbexecutive session and soon after adjourned. ' In the House, on the 21st, a large number of biju ygra Introduced and referred, including t&rTbUowing! Co pay loyal citizens of Tennessee for property taken for nse by the Military Department; for tho settlement of expenses of Monana for troops in 1867; creating the office of Government Architect; for an appropriation Tor a harbor «t Port . WaqfrlßgWo, Wria.; granting aid for the construction of a railroad from Vallejo to Humboldt Bay; to legalize proceedings In State , Court*; abolishing the Bureau*or Education and Freedmen’a Affairs; to remove political dlsabil flies in States retlfflng the Fifteenth Amendment; granting unsold lands In Missouri on tha Ist of January next to that State for educational purposes; incorporating the Mississippi Valley Land and River improvement Company; authorizing the sale of a portion of Fort Leavenworth reservation to the Kansas Agricultural and Mechanical Association for a fair ground; to abolish the office or Pension AgcnL and provide for the payment or pensions through Poe'®a*t*r*; to provide means or reviewing tW JndgtftentS or United Slates Circuit and District Courts in criminal cases; reducing tha. Income tag to &p*r cent., and exempting SI,OOO therefrom;. Increasing the tax on distilled spirits to $t psr gallon; to equalize the distribution of National Bank currency; for tho hnprovelpeiifc’ftf Red river, between Shreveport* Louisiana,- <u>d Jefferson, Texas; granting aid to Oregon for the construction of a steamboat canal aronnd the Falla of Wllllmbtta. .'..The resolution instructing tho Committee oa Banking and Currency to ' report to the House at as early a day as practicable a bill increasing the currency to the amount of at least $50,000,060 was adoptcfe-llt tor®...jTho; House bill removing political disabilities ifrom about 4,000 persons was passed... .The Committee on Military Affaire made a report qn Uie subject of the sale of cadetships, In the case of B. F. whitteprope rt w/rtsn'bhfp^l”ment, and offering a resolution that be be expolled from his seat in the House-; ths hearing of the case WW set for th£33d.., .Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 22d, the credentials of Richard H. Whltelyand fffcfiry.TP. Farrow, Senators elect of Georgia, were presented, and withdrawn, it appearing that they were Irregular In form ... A joint resolution was reported from the Committee on Pacific Railroad*, authorizing the Northern Pacific Railroad td lean?mortgage bonds, with an amendment providing Inst the company may make good the deficiencies m It* land grants, arising from a previous dlspoaJtl.Cßr, of lands along its line, by taking an equal qi®nitty, with an addlttonafrlimit of ten miles....A bill waa reported from fth« Committee oh Retrenchment, providing oF the appointment by the President of a Boaro of Commissi onsrejor ttis wgunlnaOon of ill persons now or hereafretSeen employed in the civil serflce, except Judge* and Clerks of Conrta, mimbefe Of the Cabinet, Hlattterato foreign Government#, an« officer* of the Senate and Souse of Ropretenfatlttves... .A report waa made fro® the Committee on RerialoU of. tho Laws, recommending tt® Indefinite postponement of tbe consideration ofjhe resolutions! A the New Tork Legl.l*tnre reselling Its yfiuraed in honor of the teg. Inthf House, on the th» Speaker appointed Mee*™;’Bremen, Kerr, McCrary and Porter am the Committee on Election* (now enlarged to fifteen membwd). ad% subsequently named Mr. Hele, of Metoa, h*.pUc*qf Beaman, exCHsod....A majority report wit ttfido from the Committee om Mw JuAdavy, there imj not SSS“«. < ’."S.~»'!iSK~ O »iV S3E a sinsirAsw Homestead law W children of deceered reWfrre ~..A reaoluUon waa offered and »«Opt*d that the Committee on Rnloa be lnatructed to Inquire Into and report upon a apeerii of Mr. Mongen, published In the a S Glob* of tho SOth, as to whether Mr. Muugen baa not abused the privilege granted him by the Howe to print hla undelivered speech, and viols ted ate rales or the Hones, and th*t,aM«nttme.Mld speech be excluded from the «MM.,. .* ; repprt from the priSrire'bULfoKgtK J?flfe*pStfoJt at*s*.«BMK». A motion to adjourn, to honor of ?h?ifettvt m .far In Comquttteeof the Wh010... .Adjourned. In the Senate, oft the 831, the bill for a territorial government for Alert* «B§***t ipHh imeodßMnti, from tho Ootomftto otj 1 > V, rr ‘ _ # r iorlH.». • A resolution wm adopted instrtoctfbf •r&isissz&tst a »sa# of Rolltn White, reletlve lo ‘» l » 2 f h ? r< i>Molpatent, waadfiMuegedand laid a»lde....The eradenttale Of H. Bezels, from Mlaalanlppi.yuw piretoted Md rred; the piper has a

'bWt CQUNTBY and oUb union.

’certificate of election for the term ending In 1871, and la signed by Generel Ames, Military Governor of Mlealastppl, After considerable discussion tbe Senate decided to receive tbe credentials, *pd. pending the dlscnaalon of a resolution to rtfor them to*lie Judiciary Committee, amotion to adjourn waa carried. In the House, oh tho 23d, the death of Hou. Anson-Burlingame was announced.... Geo. E, Harris, J. L.Morphia, Geo. C. W. McKee, and Legrand W". Pletce, membere-elect from Mlealsslppl, appeared aid took the oath of office,.. . A bill ana a joint resolution were Introduced and referred —granting laud* In California to aid the construction of a railroad from Vallejo to Humboldt Bay, California; for the creation of * harbor of refuge on Lake Huron, Mich.... The bill to prevent and punish polygamy In Utah waa debated.. ..The LegUlatlvp Appropriation hUI waa discussed in Committee of fits Wh01e.... David Atwood, memberelect from Wisconsin, appeared and took the oath ....The case of B. FI Whlttemore, or Month 'Carolina, whose expulsion is demanded for a sale of cadetships within bis appotptmeut, came np for action. M/Butler appeared as counsel for the •accused. A request for delay was refused by Mr Login, Chairman of the Investigating Committee. A sworn statement of. Whlttemore wae reed, acknowledging that he had received money for cadetships, and bad devoted It to charitable purposes In his district. Alter considerable discussion, a motion to give Whlttemore twenty day*’ time was lost wltnout a count, and a motion for delay, without reference to time, was lost by 88 to 136. Mr. Logan then moved the previous question, which, being seconded, Mx. Whlttemore appealed for one day,- which Logan granted, and tho House adjourned. In tha Senate, on the 24th, the House amendment to the Political Disability bill was concurred in....A bill was introduced and referred, to aid the construction of the Burlington. A Monthwestern railroad. ...A resolution was adopted, declaring that, In' the opinion of the Senate, tho present volume of currency ought not to be Jn-1 creased.... The bill to secure to all persons equaproteetton of the laws In respect telife and prop erty was considered during the nmnrtng hoar ... Speeches wore made on tne Funding Dill, afler which the question of tbe admission of Senator Revels was taken np and discussed, bnt without definite action, the Senate adjourned. In the House, on the 24th, the Whittemore case was taken np, and the accused proceeded to read his defense, when he was Interrupted by tha Speaker, who announced that the gentlemen had placed in his hands a communication announcing his resignation as a member of the House, end the acceptance of the same by the Governor of Mouth Carolina, dated February 33, and that Mr. Whlttemore, not being a member of that body eonld. not be heard except by unanimous consent of the House. An appeal from the decision of the Chair was tabled, when amotion to table the resolution of expulsion was agreed to- and a resolution was adopted—yeas 185, nays none—reciting the charges against the defendant, and declaring him •*unworthy of a seat in the House ’’.. .The Legislative Appropriation bill was considered in Committee or the Whole, and the entire bill reported to the House.... Adjourned.

FOREIGN. A Paris dispatch of the ;ißtk says the government has proof of a plot to assasinate the Emperor and Prince Imperial, and had seized a plan found on one of the prisoners to throw bombs through the Emperor's window at the Tuileries. It has been decided that Prince Pierre Bonaparte shall be tried before the High Court pf Justice, on a charge of homicide rthrough imprudence. - t ■ ! ■; The fiigh Court of Justice, for the trial' of Prince Pierre Bonaparte, will commence on the 21st of March. The German papers say emigration toAmerica will be larger this year than ever. Reports are received of horrible atrocities commited fcy toe troops of Lopez in Paraguay, such as cutting the throats of starving and unprotected women, and leaving their bodies scattered along the .highways. Deserters report Lopez as habitually drunk. La Marseillaise announces that, owing tc the prosecution threatened, the name of Rochefort will not appear in that journal hereafter. The name of M. Dangerville is printed »i chief , editor; but it is understood to be a cover for Rochefort, who willpontimje to direct the paper. It is now stated that the uniform depth of water in the Suez Canal is only nineteen feet, instead of twenty-nine, as before reported. Lord Derby has formally declined the leadership of the British House of Lords, which had been tendered to him by the Conservative Peers. English Engineers have obtained a contract tb bqfld 800 miles of railroad in Japan. *■' The preliminary examinations of persons arrested during the recent troubles in Paris have been ended. One hundred and eight have been unconditionally discharged ; 112 held to appear at court; 150 Ifept under arrest for conspiring against the state and life of the Emperor. Washington’s birthday was splendidly celebrated at Vienna op the 22d, by a banquet given by Minister Jay. The Hon. Anson Burlingame died at St. Petersburg on the morning of the 23d, of congestion of the lnngs, after four days illness. The missionary packet Morning Star was wrecked on Strong’s Island, Pacifie Ocean, on the 18th of October, aniLwas a total loss.' Tfie passengers escaped and were takeh-to^Honolulu. The Captain General of Cuba has issued a decree granting liberty to over two thousand negroes, prisoners of war, who had Jt»een hired out to labor by the government, with the' underitanding that they, were to become slaves after a certain date. Flourens has been sentenoed, at Paris, to three years’ Imprisonment,"for having aided the desertion of two soldiers. DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on the 24th at 116J£. The Ijprmal opening of the Ohio River bridge at Louisville occurred on. the 18th. An excursion train cahylng 2,000 persons crossed the bridge In safety, and the bridge is pronounced a decided success. A Washington telegram of the 17th says: “The income tax is to be reduced but nftt abolished.**President Grant and the administration are favorable to a rcductiop of the tariff by twenty millions and of internal revenue by thirty million*” ' ■ i,’• * On the morning of-the 20th the barn and dairy stables £f B. Cavana, four miles north of GjM»pati, were desfrqyed by flret One hundred and twenty cows, fourteen mules, three horse# and- thirteen . qalves, besides. a large quantity of hay, 'grain, and other property, We destroyed. The whole loss is estimated at $50,000. Oh the 17th tho boiler in B. C. Taylor’s Agricultural Works, at Dayton, Ohio, exploded, reducing tho large building to a

wreck, burying five men in the' ruins, and wounding half a dozen others. The mammoth brick smoke-stack fell on tbe fire, smothering it. The five dead bodies were recovered. The Kossuth House at Nashville, Tenn., was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 20th. The inmate# had a narrow escape, and it was thought one little boy had perished in the flames. The O’Neill Fenians in New York city are said to be accumulating arms for another raid on Canada. Two thousand dollars in counterfeit flve-cent nickels were seized in Brooklyn on the 19th, and two arrests were made. A destructive freshet occurred in the Kennebeck river on the 20th, and a large amount of property was damaged in Augusta, Me., and at other points. The United States Bupreme Court on the 21st rendered a decision in the case of Benj. H. Cheevcr vs. B. Wilson and Anne J. Worcester, which waa brought in the District of Columbia to enforoe the provisions in the matter of property rights ot a decree of divorce granted in Indiana, the Court holding the divorce to be valid by the laws of Indiana, and, that, therefore, under the Constitution of the United States, it must prevail in every other portion of the country. The dwelling of Joseph Green, at South Chichester, N. H., was burned on the night of the 20th, and the wife of Mr. Green perished. Another terrible steamboat disaster occurred on the Mississippi on the 19th. The steamer Emma No. 3, from New Orleans for Cincinnati, with passengers and freight, was destroyed by fire above Memphis, and twenty-five lives were reported lost. The Flannel Mill of Austin A Taylor, in North Salem, N. H., was destroyed by fire on the 19th. Loss, SIOO,OOO. A Convention is proposed in Cincinnati in fevor of the removal westward of the National Capital. A fire at Plymouth, Ohio, on the 22d, destroyed nearly an entire block in the business center of the town. Capt. Marratta, arrived at Cairo on the 23d from the Emma No. 3, states positively that over seventy lives were lost. According to the details received by the Indian Commissioner at Washington, of Colonel Baker’s attack on the village of the Regans, in Montana, on the 23d of January last, it appears that of the* 173 killed, only 15 were what might be called fighting men, that is, men between the ages of 12 and 37 years. Ten were from 87 to 60, and 8 additional were Over 60, in all 33. There were 90 women killed, 55, or over one-half of whom were over 40 years old, and the remaining 35 were between 12 arid 40 years. Lastly, there were 50 children arider 12 years qf age killed. Many of them v?ere in their parents’ arms. The whole village had been suffering for over two months past with small-pox, some half dozen dying daily. Washington’s birthday was more generally observed this year in New York city than ever before. Business was entirely suspended. According to late news received at St Paul, the Indians throughout the region north of Lake Superior wertf starving to death, owing to an unusual scarcity of game. The Board of Supervisors of the county of Milwaukee, Wis., have tendered the new Court-House, which is to cost nearly a million dollars, to the State, for a Capital House, provided the Capital is moved to Milwaukee. Customs receipts for week ending February 19, $4,860,619. PERSONAL. The Senate, on the 18th, confirmed the nomination of Hon. WUli# m Strong, of Pennsylvania, as a Justice of the United Statee Supreme Court. Jas. Fisk, Jr., has withdrawn his libel suit against Sam’l Bowles, of the Springfield Republican. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was very ill in New York city, on the 18th, from a severe attack of pneumonia, and would be compelled to give up her lecture engagements. Judge D. R. Coleman, a prominent Virginian, died suddenly at Richmond on the 20th.

Commodore Stephen Champlin, the last surviving commanding officer in the battle of Lake Erie, and who commanded the Scorpion, on which vessel the first and the last gun of the engagement were fired, died in Buffalo en the 20th. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate on the 21st: George H. Hand, of Dakota, Secretary of Dakota; D. H. Batchelder, of Nebraska, Consul at Londonderry. Miss Alice Cary was lying dangerously 111 at her residence in New York, on the 21st} The Common Council of New York city have tendered the hospitalities of the city to Wm. H. Seward, on his return to the United States. Hon. Joel Hinman, Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, died at his residence in Cheshire, on the 21st. Hon. Wm. H. Seward and party arrived at Baltimore from Havana on the 21st. The ex-Secretary was in excellent health and spirits. The Committee on Military Affairs were engaged on the' 24th in examining the case of Representative Golladay, charged with selling cadetships. ThoJMl wtouri Senate, on the 24th, elected Miss Nellie Raymond, of St. Louis, Engrossing Clerk. Tho Mormon preachers were recently Warned out of the village of East Meadow, L. I„ by a vigilance committee, on pain of being mobbed. Tney left for Potchoque, but expected to return, when a serious disturbance was feared. •

Mr. Wilbur F. Storey, editor and proprietor of the Chicago Times, was assaulted on the streets of that eity, on the 24th, by Miss Lydia Thompson and Miss Pauline Mark;ham, members of a Blonde- Burlesque Troupe performing at the Opera House, who attempted to publicly cowhide their -victim. Mr. Storey received sorqe pretty severe blows, but defended himself with a cane, when, as it is reported, three or four male friends of the assailants joined in the attack, and one of them inflicted quite a severe blow upon Mr. Storey’s face. Some bystanders interfered and put an end to the melee, and three of the assailants were arrested. The attack was caused by recent severe strictures in the Timet upon the character of the ladies and their theatrical performances. POLITICAL. The Tennessee House, on the 18tb, passed the bill permitting colored persons to inherit real estate. A resolution for the payment of the ante-war debt in coin passed the New York Assembly on the 18th—85 to 20. The Louisiana Legislature, in response, to a memorial from the ladies of Fredericksburg, Va., on the 19th appropriated $5,000 for the benefit of the Confederate dead. The Rhode Island Republican State Convention will be held on tho 10th of March. The Connecticut Democratic State Convention, which met at New Haven on the 22d, nominated ex-Governor English for Governor; Julius Hotchkiss for Lieuten-ant-Governor; Thomas M. Walker for Secretary of State; Seth J. Logan for Comptroller; and Charles M. Pond for Treasurer. The following are the nominations made by the Republican State Convention of Indiana, on the 22d: Judges of the Supreme Court—John T. Elliott, of Newcastle; Robert C. Gregory, of Lafayette; Charles A- Ray, of Indianapolis; Andrew L. Osborn, of Laporte. Secretary of State —Max F. A. Hoffman, of Logansport Treasurer—Gen. Robert H. Milroy, of Carroll county. Auditor—Maj. John D. Evans of Indianapolis. Superintendent of Public Instruction —Barnabas C. Hobbs, of Centreville. Attorney-General—Nelson Trusler, of Connersville. Clerk of Supreme Court —Theodore W. McCoy, of Jeffersonville. Reporter of Supreme Court —Capt. James B. Black, of Indianapolis. The Texas Legislature on the 22d elect-, ed M. C. Hamilton and Lieutenant-Gov-ernor Flanagan as United States Senators —the former for the long and the latter for the short term. Mayor Price, of Mobile, on the 23d applied to the Supreme Court for a writ of supercedeas to release himself from jail, and have the recent act ot the Legislature passed on by the Court. The Judges refused the writ, tho effect of which is to install Harrington Mayor over Price. The Cairo, 111., municipal election occurred on the 22d, and the following officers were elected: Thomas Wilson, Mayor; John Brown, City Clerk; John M. Lansden, City Attorney; James B. Taylor, Treasurer; Michael Bambrick, Marshal. The Republicans of Alabama will hold a State Convention In Selma on the last Tuesday in June next. The Minnesota Senate has, by a vote of 12 to 9, concurred in the House jbill providing for an amendment to the constitution allowing female suffrage. The bill provides that the votes of women may be taken in separate boxes and counted for and against this proposition. The Ohio House of Representatives on the 24th refused to pass the bill repealing the law oflast winter providimgYor taxation of United States bonds, notes, and fractional currency. The Massachusetts House of Representatives, on the 24th, passed the license law to be engrossed—l 26 to 99. The Workingmen’s Protective Union, at Boston, has unanimously resolved against woman suffrage. The vote in the Madison (Wia) district, for Congress, at the late special election, was for David Atwood, 4,892; for all others, 796.

A special election for Member of Congress Is to be held in the Tenth Ohio District, on the first Monday in April, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death oi Mr. Hoag. The Maine Senate, on the 23d, voted, nearly three to one, to abolish capital punishment. A few days ago, Joseph Lui, a wellknown trapper on the upper waters of the Muskegon, found in one of his. traps a large lynx,securely held by one hind foot, whereupon he conceived a design to capture the animal alive, which difficult task he successfully accomplished in the following manner: Having several steel traps with him, he tied one to the endofa pole, set it, and reaching it out succeeded in catching another foot. In this way he secured all the “ varmint’s” feet. He then took off his shirt, which he wotPhd and tied about the animal's head in such a manner as to prevent his biting; he next securely tied his feet, and took off the traps, having his prize done up as neatly as though he had served an apprenticeship in a dry goods store. He shouldered his game, and was nearly two days in carrying it out to the haunts of civilization. At Dubuque, a babe two months old awoke its parents by its crying. They tried to comfort it as well as they could, thinking it was suffering under some ailment ofsmall moment. Alter worrying the night well away, father, motherand babe dropped into quiet and sleep. When the parents awoke in the morning, the liithtf cautioned against waking the habe, saying it needed rest. At a late hour the mother, thinking the child slept strangely long, went to its cradle and found it dead. | f It is estimated that the seven hundred families dwelling in Fifth avenue, New York, expend not less than $17,500,000 for house rent and family expenses.

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A Florida correspondent of the Fort Gaines Mirror gives the following account of tho experienoes of a portion of Robinson’s circus and menagerie, when passing through a swamp between Tallahassee, Fla., and Quincy: At three o'clock p. m., on Tuesday, Jan. 25, Prof Lewis Houston, who has charge of the animals, started with the elephant Empress, the large Bactrian camel, the beautiful Arabian white camel, a fine thoroughbred mare and colt, and two spotted coach dogs, to make the trip to Quincy, although repeatedly warned by Mr. J. F. Robinson, Jr., not to attempt the passage of the swamp in any other than daylight He, however, went through. Before approaching the ford, an occasional bd* > v or roar was beard betokening that US inhabitants of the locality had not retired for the night, and a sadden plange and splash in the water would denote that the enemy was on the alert for mischief The elephant would, every few steps, throw her trunk aloft, emitting at the same time a load screech of defiance, the camels ottering low moans, while the horses almost refused to stir ana stood trembling with fear, while the dogs kept up an incessant howling. Approaching the water of the ford, Houston determined upon the immediate passage through before the alligators had time to summon their crew. Bidding the elephant enter, she stepped boldly in, at the same time lashing the water furiously with her trunk, the camels, horses and dogs following close to the rear. He had passed two thirda of the way when a sharp yelp of pain from one of the dogs, and his sudden disappearance, denoted that the swamp fiends were at work, and before he could collect his thoughts the other dog went under with a long death howl. He now began to think of his own safety, and calling to the elephant commanded her to torn, as she did. Bo a fearlul roar was heard from the large Bactrian came), who had at that Instant been attacked. The water seemed alive with alligators. The roaring, bellowing and screeching of elephant, camels and alligators were terrific. They would throw their pondrous jaws open, and tear huge pieces of flesh from the camel; while the poor brute would utter heart-rending groans and cries for relief In the meantime the elephant was not idle. Ever solicitous for the welfare of her keeper and companions, she had, at the moment of seeing them safely landed upon the opposite shore, rushed back to the assistance of her friend, the camel, who by this time was nearly gone, and by creating the greatest furore among her assailants, succeeded in bringing the head of the camel, to the shore, that portion being all that remained of the poor animal. In the confusion that ensued, Houston did not miss the colt until warned by a shrill scream or neigh, which seemed to come from several rods below. Upon rushing down the stream a few yards, a terrible scene was presented to his view. It would seem that the denizens of Chattahoochee swamp for miles around had become cognizant of some extra attraction at that particular point on this night, and had started for the rendezvous, and upon reaching the scene of action had unexpectedly encountered both food and opposition at the same time—for simultaneous with the meeting of the colt they met the pursuers, and an awful battle ensued. Several times it seemed as if the colt would escape and regain the shore, so busy were the alligators in destroying each other; but just before the poor creature would reach the land, some monster, more ravenous than brave, would leave the melee, pursue and drag it back into deep water, until finally it became exhausted ami fell an easy prey to the fearful reptiles, while Prof. Houston stood looking on with blanched and terrified looks, wholly unable to render the least wsistance, threatened, with a terrible death should he it Aa he turned to retrace bis stop* toward the place where he left the Wtaftitung wiimals, he taunted the cost He had made the pas«swsh an 000 horse. The camel waa valued at $5,000, and very rare. The colt Mr, Robinson had reputedly reftased sl,ooojfor. It will be many a long year before Mr. Houston will forget the horrors of passing through a Florida swamp at night.

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