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THE LATEST NEWS.

Frightful Boiler Explosion Near Glasgow, Scotland. Failure of the Samana Bay Lease Project. Serrano Abandons the Field and Returns to Madrid. ■*» Arrival of Dr. Livingstone’s Bemains in England. Connecticut Election Democratic Victory. Honors to Sumner’s Memory At Port au Prince. Explosion of the Roller of the Tigress Off Newfoundland. Another Capture of the Bender Family in Utah. General, Personal and Political News. THE OLD WORLD. “President Gonzales, of the Dominican Republic, announces, under date of March 35, the failure of the Samana Bay Company to comply with the terms of Its lease requiring prepayment of the rental, $050,000, to the Dominican Government, and the consequent lapse of all privileges and rights granted to the company. The official decree 1b promulgated resuming authority by the Government over the territory granted that company. A London dispatch of the Bth says that an application had been made for anew trial in the ease of the Tichborne claimant. The steamship Europe, owned by the French Transatlantic Company, foundered at sea on her recent voyage from Havre to New York. Her passengers and crew were taken on board the steamer Grace. The loss by the sinking of the steamer is estimated at $3,500,000. No lives were lost. The sovereignt y of the Fiji Islands has been formally tendered to Great Britain. John Macaulay, brother of the historian, is dead. William Kaulbacii, the celebrated German historical painter, died at Munich on the night of the 7th. A London dispatch of the 10th says the ~TSOItET Of a factory in liamitton, ncar Glasgow, exploded on the preceding day witli terrible effect. A large portion of the boiler was driven several hundred feet through the air and crushed into a school-house full of children. Three were instantly killed and thirty more or less injured. . . ‘ Accokding to a Madrid dispatch of the 9th Serrano had surrendered to Concha the command of the forces operating against the Carlists before Bilboa. A London dispatch of the 10th says that Jeau Luic and Capt. Brown, witnesses for the claimant in the Tichborne trial, were found guilty of perjury on that day, and sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. A late special telegram from Calcutta reports that the famine in that country is everywhere under control. A Berlin telegram of the 10th says the German Government and the Reichstag have compromised their differences on the Military bill, the former consenting to 401,000 men as the peace maximum, and limiting the term of service to seven years. , According to a London dispatch of the 13th advices from Abaiito of April 9th report that Marshal Serrano had made proposals for a settlement through Gen. Elio, which the Carlists had definitely rejected. The previous favorable accounts of the famine in India were contradicted by dispatches from Calcutta on the 13th. According to these the distress was increasing In Tirhoot, and according to official estimates 4,573,0001 persons in the districts of Fatra, Cbnzapore and Rajeslihyc were starving. * * The remains of Dr. Livingstone reached Southampton, England, on the morning of the 13th, in a good state of preservation. Bells were tolled and minute-guns fired as the remains passed from the pier to the railway station. THE NEW WORLD. Sanborn appeared before the Ways and ' Means Committee in Washington on the oth, and testified that be talked his contracts over several times with Secretary Richardson, and, that he haa no doubt Mr. Richardson knew ail about them; and that he went to him (Richardson) for information about them. Sanborn vows that none of the SIOO,OOO of which he had to pay out of the $210,000 be received from the Government went to any Internal revenue officer or to any member of Congress, directly or indirectly. He had paid Gen. Butler no counsel fees. He had subscribed to the fund for helping him to the Governorship of Massachusetts. According to Sanborn’s statements, his share of the money he bad received was less than $50,000. He declined to state how he had spent the sums he had to give for information. J3)iow fell to the depth of a foot In Washington on the oth. The death of ex-Judge Edmonds, the wellknown lawyer and Spiritualist, occurred In New York on the oth. The Connecticut State election on the oth resulted in the re-election of Ingersoll (Democrat) for Governor. Both houses of the Legislature are Democratic. A Hartford dispatch of the morning of the returns from all towqj in the State except seven give the following result: Ingersoll, 45,950; Harrison (Republican), 59,293; Smith (Prohibition Ist), 4,564. TitE/ight of colored children to attend the

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public schools of the State has been recently affirmed, by a unanimous vote, by the Indiana Supreme Court. The Mississippi Legislature adjourned sine die on the oth. Among the last bills passed was one requiring the majority of males over twenty-one and females over eighteen, in a city, town or township, to sign a petition for license to sell liquor before such license shall be issued. The Governor signed this bill. A dispatch from the City of Mexico of a recent date states that six of the assassins of the Rev. Mr. Stephens, the American missionary, had been condemned to death. Capt.-Gen. Concha on the 7th issued a proclamation to the Cubans, defining his policy toward the insurgents. He asks the people to trust in him and declares his conviction that peace will be restored. The President lias nominated John W. Allen for Postmaster at Cleveland. South Carolina Senators and Representatives, with delegates from the Republican Btate Central Committee of that State, called on the President on the 7tli to answer to the charges made against them by the delegates from the Tax-Payers’ Convention. The delegation made a long statement, to the effect that the taxation was notsoburdensomeashadbeen represented, and was imposed for the best interests of the people and the State. The President expressed himself satisfied with their explanation of affairs in that State. John D. Sanborn was again before the Committee of Ways and'Means on the 7th and waa cross-examined for several hours, but without anything of importance being elicited. He still declined to give a detailed statement of hia expenditures. All efforts failed to make him admit anything that would connect Gen. Butler or any other member of Congress with his contracts. Gov. Dix has sent a message to the New York Legislature asking that body to contribute ail in its power to prevent the adoption by Congress of a hill expanding the currency of the country. The State Senate, on the 7th, with only three negative votes, and the Assembly unanimously passed resolutions indorsing the message and requesting Senators and Representatives in Congress to resist any expansion of the currency, and to promote, by all proper means, an early return to specie payments. A Hartford (Conn.) dispatch of the 7th says complete returns give the following result of the vote for Governor: Ingersoll, 40,784; Harrison, 40,042; Smith, 4,826; scattering, 19. lugersoll’s plurality, 0,742; lugersoll’s majority over all, 1,807. Two ballots were taken for U. S. Senator by the Massachusetts Legislature on the 7th. The first resul’ed as follows: Whole number of votes cast, 209; necessary to a choice, 135. Dawes, 97; Hoar, 78; Curtis, 72; Adams, 16; Banks, 3; Washburn, Whittier and Phillips received each one vote. The same number of votes was cast on the second ballot, divided as follows: Dawes, 96; Hoar, 81; Curtis, 71; Adams, 16; B. F. Butier, Speaker Sanford, Washburn, Whittier and Phillips received each one vote. Municipal and town elections were held in various portions of the We6t on the 6th and 7tn. In many instances the temperance question was made an issue and the anti-license party was generally defeated in the larger towns and cities, and met with various degrees of success in other localities. Washington Court House, where the temperance crusade originated, was carried by the ahti-crusaders. In the small towns iu Southern Ohio the temperance ticket was generally successful. The Cincinnati election on the 6th was carried by the Democrats by between 4,000 and 5,000 majority. Cleveland and Columbus also went Democratic. Notwithstanding the success of the antitemperance ticket at Dayton, Ohio, the crusaders repaired to the curbstones on the 7th and continued their prayiug efforts. At' Rapp’s saloon they were surrounded by a furious crowd. Knives were brandished and a riot appeared imminent to that degree that the Police Commissioners were obliged to interfere and request the women to retire from the street. The Mayor subsequently issued his proclamation forbidding street crusading. The Indiana Supreme Coilrt, on the 7th, held Section 17 of the Baxter law, which declares places where liquors are aold to be common nuisances, rincoustltutionat and void; also Section 18 of the same law, so far as it attempts to dispense with a statement of tlie name of the party to Whom liquor is sold. Solicitor Ban field was examined in the San- ( born investigation off the Bth, and testified that he had never drawn any contract, signed any paper, written any letter or ddne uuy act in connection with the Sanborn business except by the direct order of the Secretary of the Treasury. He said that he had never been consulted about any of the contracts under this law except the first, to Kelsey, on which nothing was collected. Everything else done by him was under specific Instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury. Gen. Butler came before the committee and complained that a witness had been examined in reference to his private affairs and that he had not been notified to be present to hear the testimony and, if he deemed it proper, to cross-examine the witnesses. He Lad much experience in committees, and It had been his uniform practice whenever a witness made a statement involving a member of either house to suspend the examination and to send for the member. He simply asked for that measure of courtesy to himself. lie denied any connection witli the Sanborn matter, except what he would be glad to tell. The bankruptcy proceedings against the extensive Sprague Manufacturing Company, of Rhode Island, have been discontinued and the case is dismissed. Four ballots were taken for United States. Benator by the Massachusetts Legislature on the Bth. The last two resulted os follows: Sixteenth—Whole number, 209; necessary for a choice, 135. Dawes, 90; Hoar, 03; Curtis, 72; Adams, 19; Sanford, 13; Washburn, 6; Judge Devens, 2; Judge Colt, 2; Phillips and Whittier, 1 each. Seventeenth—Whole number, 261; necessary for a choice, 181. Dawes, 82; Hoar, 60; Curtis, 72; Adams, 16; Sanford, 11; Banks, 7; Washburn, 5;. Devens, 4; Charles Hale, Amasa Walk4r; Whittier and Phillips, 1 each. Dispatches from Port au Prince Gs a late datestatc that the announcement of the death of the late Senator Sumner was received with great sorrow by the Dominicans. Flags were placed at half-mast from the forts and public buildings, and a solemn and Impressive funeral service was held at the Cathedral, which was attended by the President, Cabinet and the diplomatic corps. The steamer Tigress, of Polaris fame,

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while fishing off the coast of Newfoundland, recently, exploded her boiler. Two engineers and twenty of the crew were killed. Tiie resignation of B. do Jayne, Special United States Treasury Agent at New York, has been accepted by the Treasury Department. Sanborn testified before the Ways and Means Committee on the 9th that his collections amounted to $427,036, of which one-half went to the Government. His total expenses were $156,483. The expenses attendant upon his late trial in Brooklyn and in coming to Washington are not included in this amount. Four persons were instantly killed at Pnttenburg, N. J., on the Bth, by the explosion of a steam boiler. A number of persons were injured by the flying debris. The ballot for United States Senator in the Massachusetts Legislature on the 9th resulted asfollows: Whole, number of votes cast, 273; necessary to a choice, 187. Dawes, 91; Hoar, 72; Curtis, 74; Adams, 15; Sanford, 9; Banks, 7; Washburn, 4; Whittier, 1. According to a Salt Lake dispatch of the 9th a man supposed to be John T. Bender, the oldest of the Kansas murderers, had been brought to that city from the Severier Valley, and a young man supposed to be his son was also in custody at Salt Creek. A severe snow-storm visited Cairo, 111., and vicinity on the Bth. During a recent gale, two fishing smacks were capsized off Kenosha, Wis., and eight persons .drowned, A similar accident occurred near the harbor pf South Chicago, which resulted in five persons being drowned. At Davenport, lowa, on the 9th, a meeting of liquor-dealers and brewers was held, and an organization formed to agitate for a stringent license law for lowa, in lieu of the present prohibitory law. Similar organizations are to be formed in other portions of the State. * - The authorities of Richmond, Ind., on the 9th, decreed that no more street crusading should be allowed in that city. All the saloons had closed, and the ladies were paying prayerful attention to the wholesale establishments. Official proclamation has been made by the President of the ratification of the treaty between the United States and San Salvador for the surrender of criminals. An expert testified in the Sanborn inquiry on the 10th that there were millions of withheld taxes which could only be collected by some such instrumentality as the Sanborn law. He, himself, had information of $50,000,000 of withheld whisky taxes. Mr. Mudge, Chief of the special agents in the Treasury Department, stated Sanborn’s connection with she department, and his duties as a special agent. Those duties were in his capacity as an employe of the Adams Express Company to detect and give information of the cases of smuggling that were constantly going on between Canadaand Boston: Mr. Mudge admitted that he bad allowed $2,000 paid to Wallett Martin, a whisky detective, and formerly in the employ of Sanborn, but he was unable to satisfy the committee of the legality of paying out of the customs funds the expenses of a private contractor to engage, for his own benefit, in detecting frauds in the internal revenue. The only explanation of it wag that he did not know until December last that Sanborn had any snob contract, The witness_had appointed, as a special agent to Europe, A. G, Fay, of New York, mentioned in the case as Sanborn’s attorney, or as Sanborn’s friend, and had allowed his expenses to the amount of about $3,000. He stated that some SIIO,OOO had been recovered to the Treasury through information derived from Fay, and that there were suits pending for some SBOO,OOO. This was principally on account of undervaluation of imports. He admitted that Sanborn had an interest in these cases in the shape of moieties. According to the New York Eveening Ibst of the 10th, the train which left Vanderbilt’s Landing on Staten Island at about seven o’clock on the preceding evening was stopped about two miles out. by a band of Italians, who tore up the track. Particulars of the outrage had not been received save that the robbers secured the cash-box on the train, but were themselves arrested and locked up. Lowenstein was executed at Albany, N. Y., OB the 10th, for the murder of a one-armed peddler last fall. He maintained to the last that he was innocent. Two ballots were taken on the 10th for United States Senator from Massachusetts ; 1 Nineteenth—Whole number of votes cast, 268 ; necessary to a choice, 135. Dawes, 87 ; Hoar, 60; Curtis, 72; Adams, 13; Washburn, 4; Whittier, 1; Sanford, 7 ; Banks, 8; Bullock, 7. Twentieth—Whole number of votes, 369; necessary to a choice, 135. Dawes, 83; Hoar, 69; Curtis, 72; Adams, 13; Bullock,' 12; Sanford, 7 , Washburn, 4 ; Banks, 8; Whittier, G. F. Hoar, Reuben Noble and Mrs. Mary A. Livermore received each one vote. Prague Bryant (colored), the murderer of Alex. Steele, was hanged at Pulaski, Tenn , on the 10th. New Orleans dispatches of the 10th say that serious crevasses had occurred in the lower Mississippi and caused considerable damage. The levee in the vicinity of New Orleans had broken in not less than a score of places. The plantations in the Suuflower, Tallahatchie and Yazoo bottoms were also threatened. The President has pardoned Albert Lemon convicted of forgery in November last In the United States Circuit CourL t>f Indiana; also Walker Dawson, of South Carolina, convicted of being a Ku-Klux. A fire occurred at Williamaport, Fa., on the 12th, destroying $500,000 worth of property, including a large amount of lumber, a large planing-mill, a saw-mill and fourteen frame dweUiiig-houses. It waa reported that one man was burned to death. The twenty-first ballot for United Btates Senator in the Massachusetts Legislature was taken on the 11th, as follows: Whole number of votes cast, 236; necessary to a choice, 119. Dawes, 68; Hoar, 54; Curtis, 63; Adams, 14; Sanford, 7; Banks, 6; Washburn, 4; A. H. Bullock, 15; Edward Learned, 3; Judge Pitman and Whittier, ode each. Judge Blodgett, of the United States Court of the Northern District of Illinois, has recently decided that what are known as “ puts," where the intention of the contracting parties is only to “settle the difference” and not deliver and receive the thing specified in the contract, are void as “ wager” or gambling contracts ; in other words; that a.“ put” is a bet against the price of some commodity at a future time, like an ” option,” and therefore void like other contrary to good morals and public policy.

OUR COUNTRY AND OUR UNION.

W. H. Jackson, President of the National Agricultural Congress, has issued a circular relative to the third session of that body, to be held at Atlanta, Ga., commencing May 13, 1874. It says: “This is a purely representative body, since, by the amended constitution, agricultural or kindred societies which shall have contributed or may contribute five dollars to defray incidental expenses of the body are entitled to one delegate each, without reference to the number of membership.” It, is requested that notification be made of the appointment of delegates to Charles W. Greene, Secretary, Jacksonville, 111., at as early a date as practicable. A late Cairo (Ill.) special says: “Thefreeze that followed the snow on Thursday probably completed the destruction of the peach buds. It is not known whether the apples and strawberries are destroyed, but yesterday morning was a very cold one. There was ice in abuudance.” The Michigan State Woman’s Suffrage Convention will be held in Lansing on May 6. Murat Halsted, editor of the Cincinnati Commercial , has been arrested and held to bail for publishing an advertisement of a gift concert in violation of the Ohio law. The work of taking the regular State decennial census in Michigan is to be completed this year, as provided by law, between the first Monday of April and the third Monday of May.

In the Senate, on the 6th, bills were introduced and referred—amendatory of the act to limit the liability of ship-owners, providing that the non-liability clause of the act of March S, 1851, shall apply to all vessels, steamboats and other craft engaged in inland navigation; to release the Government of Japan from the payment of the balance of the Japanese indemnity fund, amonnting to $375,000... .The Mil to provide for the redemption and reissue of United States notes and for free banking was taken up, and, after a lengthy discussion and the disposition of several proposed amendments, the bill was finally passed in the following shape—yeas 29, nays 24: "Section 1. That the maximum amount of United States notes is hereby fixed at $400,000,001. Sec. 2. That $16,000,000 in notes for circulation, in addition to such circulation now allowed by law, shall be issued to the National Banking associations now organized and which may be organized hereafter, and such increased circulation shall be distributed among the several States as provided in Sec. 1 of the act entitled • An act to providefor the redemption of 3 per centnm temporary loan certificates, and for an increase of National Bank notes,’ approved July 12, 1870; and each National Banking association now organized or hereafter to be organized shall keep and maintain, as a part of its reserve required by law, one-fourth part of the coin received by it as interest on bonds of the United States, deposited as security for circulating notes on Government deposits, and that hereafter only one-fourth of the reserve now prescribed by law for National Banking associations shall consist of balances due to an association, available for the redemption of its circulating notes, from associations in cities of redemption, and upon which balances no interestshall be paid.” .. ..Adjourned. In the House, on the Clh, several bills not of general interest were introduced and referred. .. .The Senate bill extending to the 31st of December, 1876, the time for completing the Central Railroad of Wisconsin was passed.... A report waa marie from the Committee on Elections in.the Kentucky contested election case that Yonng, the sitting member, is entitled to the seat... .Notice was given of a motion of the previous question on the Currency bill at the clobo of the debate on the 7ih.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 7th, an unfavorable report was made from the Finance Committee on the Senate bill providing for the resumption of specie payment and for free banking, and it was ordered that the hill, together with the adverse report, be placed on the calendar ....Resolutions were presented and referred —of the Michigan Legislature —for the relief of certain settlers on the public lands; of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois in relation to the rate or freight aud passage on the Union Pacific Railway and its branches. .... An unfavorable report was made on the hill to refund Internal revenue taxes erroneously assessed and collected, and the bill was placed on the calendar with tho adverse report.... The Senate bill for the relief of certain contractors for the construction of vessels of war and steam machinery was read and laid over... .The House bill providing for the assignment of Judges in Territories was discussed. ...A bill was introduced and referred to relievo ships and vessels from compulsory pilot fees in certain cases... .Executive session and adjournment. In the House, on the 7th, various bills of minor interest were reported... .An adverse report was made on the hills granting 1,000,000 acres of the public land to the Trustees of Brown’s Institute, in-Florida, and donating the former United Stales Court House building, at St Augustine, Fla., for educational purposes, and to promote education in the Territories... .The Currency act was taken np and debated at considerable length. .... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the Bth, a resolution calling npon the Secretary of the Treasury to report to the Senate the amount of the defalcations of the various disbursing officers of the Government was referred.., The House bill providibg for the assignment of Judges in Territories was recommitted.... Some discussion took place upon the bill to provide for the incorporation and regulation of railway companies in Territories, and a motion w'as made to recommit the bi 11... .Executive session and adjournment. In the House, on the Bth, hills were passed—giving consent for the erection of a bridge across the Arkansas River at Pine Bluff, Ark.; to provide for the sale of the present Marine Hospital and its site, and the erection thereon of a new Marine Hospital, at Pittsburgh....A report was made from the Committee on Public Buildings to the effect that the Eight-Hour law waa not being violated-in the work done under Government supervision In the New York Postofflce bnilding, and that, as to the work done under contractors, there is no way of enforcing the 1aw.... A bill was reported from the Committee on Civil Service Reform, providing that no officer of the United States shall, directly or indirectly, receive or be paid for hia own uae or benefit any money or property of tho United States except hts salary or compensation, and that no pnblic property shall be used by officials or by any person for private purposes, the act not to be so construed as to prevent the payment of all actual and necessary traveling expenses when traveling on legitimate and necessary duties pertaining to their offices.... The Currency bill Was further debated.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 9th, House bills to facilitate the exportation of distilled spirits and to increase the pensions of soldiers snd sailors totally disabled were reported with amendments and placed oil the calendar. An unfavorable report was made from the Committee on Pensions on the resolution of the Minnesota Legislature asking an investigation into the affairs of the Pension Office.... A hill was introduced aud referred to authorize the Librarian of Congress to send book* to the Governor of Iceland... .The Honse hill for the inspection of disbursements of appropriations made by officers of the army was passed. ...The Senate bill to provide for the incorporation and regulation of railway companies In the Territories of the United States was taken up, and several amendments were agreed t 0.... Executive session and adjournment. In the House, on the 9th, a bill was reported from the Committee of Ways and Means, ordered printed and recommitted, to repeal all moieties ... The bill to prevent officers of the United States from receiving or being paid any money beyond their fixed salaries came up and was dlscusaed, and referred, by a vote of 159 to 69, to the Committee of Ways and Means. The Currency bill then came np, and after considerable debate, and amid mnch excitement, a motion for the previous question was voted down—yeas 77, nays 142; a motion was then made and carried —133 to 121—to poetpoue farther consideration of the bill until the 14th, after which a motion was made to reconsider and lay the motion on the table, hut a motion to adjourn was interposed aud carried—ll 710 100.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 10th, the • House bill exempting boats employed on canals and In ternal water* of any State from payment of all customs and other fees was passed.... A number of petitions were presented and referred from citizens of Ohio asking that (specific duty be Imposed on tin plate instead of an aa valorem dnty.... An adverse report wee made from the Committee on Commerce on the petition of citizens of Indiana

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and Kentncky for the passage of a law compelling bridges over the Ohio River to he constructed with a 400-feet span and 160-feet pivot draw....A bill was introduced and referred providing that postage upon documents printed by authority of Congress, or by either house thereof, shall not he required to be prepaid, but'may be left to be paid by persons receiving them... .The bill to provide for the incorporation and regulation of railroad companies In the Territories of the United States was further considered, and several amendments were agreed t 0.... Adjourned. In the House, on the 10th, a bill was introduced and referred to repeal so much of the laws relating to the army organization as establishes distinctions to the prejudice ot American colored citizens.... A motion of Mr. Bn tier to lay on the table the motion to reconsider the vote postponing the Currency hill was called np and an exciting debate ensned, in the course of which Mr. Butler Intimated his belief that the President would not veto the Senate Currency bill in the event of its passage by the House., He was called to order for this statement, and the Speaker said such allusion was unparliamentary. The motion to lay on the table the motion to reconsider was then defeated—yeas 126, nays 126—the Speaker casting his vote in the negative. The motion to reconsider was then agreed to—l2B to 120. The previous question was moved and seconded on all the pending amendments, several of wMch were rejected. A motion was agreed to, to strike out the seventh section of the bill, which allows hanks to be organized without circulation. The eighth section, providing for the monthly issue of $2,000,0u0 in goid notes as a substitute for that amount of legal-tender notes to be canceled and destroyed and not reissued, waa also stricken ont—l49 to 95. Pending the consideration of other proposed amendments the House adjourned. Senate not in session on the 11th.... In the House, the report of the Committee on Elections in the Kentucky contested election case, declaring Yonng, the sitting member, entitled to his seat, was agreed to without discussion.... The Senate bill extending the provisions of the act of the 28th of February, 1866, so as to include all vessels of the United States navigating waters of the United States was passed... .The Committee on Commerce was instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing a light-ship at or near the mouth of Detroit River on Lake Erie... .Consideration of the Currency bill was resumed, and an order for the main question was voted down—yeas 112, nays 120—when several amendments were offered, debated and rejected, one of them being in the nature of a substitute authorizing the issue of $4T0,000,000 legal tenders, the retirqment of the National Bank notes and the substitution therefor of Treasury notes and 3.65 per cent, convertible bonds, which substitute was rejected by 164 nays to 68 nays. During the voting on the amendment the point of order was raised that members interested in National B&uk stock had no right to vote on the question involving a tax on such stock. The Speaker over-ruled the point of order and the decision was ratified by the Honse, only nine- members voting against ft. The Senate bfll was moved as a substitute for the House bill, and several additional amendments were proposed, when the House adjourned, the status of the bill being that the previous question impending on the bill, and the various amendments. Including the Senate bill as a substitute, would come up again on the 14th.

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April 13, 1674. New York.— Cotton— 17@1754C. Flour— Good to choice, [email protected]; white wheat extra, $6 80® 7.95. Wheat —No 2 Chicago, [email protected]; lowa Spring, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukte Spring, [email protected]. Aye—Western, [email protected]. Barley—[email protected]. Com —B4@Bßc. Oofs—New Western, 62@64c. Fork— New mess, [email protected]. Lard— 10@1054c. Wool—Domestic Fleece, 40® 70c. Beeves— [email protected]. Boqe— Dressed, $7.26 ®7.50. Sheep—live, [email protected]. Chicago. — Beeves — Choice, $5.65®6.00; good, $5.3535.60;- medium, $5.0035.2 j; butchers’ stock, $4.0035.00; stock cattle, $8.75®4.75. Noon—Live, $5.5036.03. SheepGood to choice, $6.5037.50. Butter— Choice yellow, 343 36c. Eggs Fresh, 11® 1154 c. Park, Mess, new, $15.95@16 00. Lard [email protected]. Flour—White winter extra. $7.00® 9.25; Spring extra, $5.25®6.25. Wheat— Spring No. 2, $1.2231.-.254. Com— No. 2,6154962 c. Oats -No. 2,4254843 c. Rye- No. 2,92 a 9254 c. Barley —No. 2, $1.65. Wool— Tub-washed, 48355 c; fleece, washed, 36348 c; fleece, unwashed, 25382 c; palled, 85340 c. Cincinnati. — Flour— [email protected]. Wheat —sl.3o ®1.35. Com —64®67c. Rye—% [email protected]. Oats— 4B® 56c. Barley —sl.6o®l.6s. i*or/fc~slß.so J. 16.75. jard- 9V4®9mc. ' „ . St. Lotus. — Cattle —Fair to choice, si. 50 7 6.50. JJnfiK — Live $4 75(tfi.50. Flour- XX Fall, $5250® 5.90. WAsof—No.2 Red Fall, $1.5031.5054. Com— No. 2, 84!4®65c. Oats— No. 2, 48tt4«c. Rye—--943 95c. Barley— sl.ss 1.60. Pork Mess, $16.50316.75. Lard— 9s4 n9s4c, Milwaukee. — Flour— Spring XX, $5.70 3 6.25. Wheat —Spring, No. 1, $1.30 71.3054; No. 2, $1.24 01.2454. Com —No. 2,62362 MC. Oats— No. 2, 44 3 4454 c. Aye—No. 1,8854389 - Barley— No. 2, $1.5531.58. f Cleveland.— Wheat— No. 1 Red. $1.54®1.55; No. 2 Red, $1.4431.45. Com—' 7B37sc. Oats- No. 1, 51®62c.. Detroit. — Wheat —Extra, $1.6021-61. Com—--69370c. Oats —sl3 52c. Toledo.— Wheat Amber Mich., $1.4701.48; No. 2 Red, $1.4631.47. Con— Mixed, @a®«9c. Ga1e—5435454c. Buffalo.— Beeves —55.2536.50. Bogs Live, $5.5035.75. Sheep-Uve, $7.0038.00. East Liberty.— Cattle—Best. $6.2:@8.62!4; medium, 55.25®6.00. Hogs— Yorkers, $5.20® 5.30: Philadelphia, [email protected]. Sheep— Best, [email protected]; good, [email protected].

The Sad Story of a Daughter of Thomas H. Benton.

—; New York, April 4. The French cause celebre, in which Gen. John C. Fremont was the central figure, in connection with his railroad speculations, and the manner in which large numbers of Frenchmen were Victimized thereby, will be fresh in the memory of your readers. Gen. Fremont escaped the rigorous verdict of the French court by having made his way to this country. Intimately connected with Gen. Fremont’s schemes, and mainly instrumental in having them favorably introduced in financial circles in France, was Baron Gauldree-Boileau, for many years French Consul in New York. It will be fimembered that in the early days of the ranch Republic Boileau left this city for France, to defend himself against the charge of being an accomplice of Fremont. The sad sequel to all this is as follows: The wife of Baron Gauldree-Boi-leau, daughter of Thomas H. Benton, of Missouri, died on the 6th of March, in a state of almost abject poverty, in a. garret in Paris. —Since her husband had been sentenced, about twelve months ago, by the Parisian tribunal, in consequence of his connection with Gen. John C. Fremont’s railway speculations, his unfortunate wife,' with six children, whom he had left absolutely penniless, had lived in wretched quarters at Boulogne, where she was supported by the bounty of a friendly English family. Finally she removed to Paris, where M Frederick Gaillardet, formerly editor of the Courrier des Elate Unis, of New York, who lived near her, was the only person to render aid. Being in very feeble health, she was unable to do much for herself, and both she and her children were subjected to the greatest privations. Moreover, the Parisian police molested the pool woman repeatedly, by prying visitations, as is generally done in France toward the families of convicts. Grief and despair at last did their work, and fihe diea broken hearted. When Marshal MacMahon heard of her sad end, and that six children were left helpless, he granted Baron GauldreeBoileau a free pardon. The latter was beside himself with sorrow upon hearing the sad tidings, and at the latest advices from Paris it was feared that his reason would give way. 4 . * “ A Colquitt (Ga) minister is the father of thirty-two children.” How neatly could "he preach a sermon from that olive-branch text, with illustrations in all the front pews!

NO. 30.

A Blazing Coal Mine.

The mine is about ten miles from the city (Wilkesbarre, Pa.), and is in a mountain side, from which the spires and housetops cannot be seen. To reach it one must climb and descend several disagreeable steeps, and after he has proceeded as far as a horse can carry him he is obliged to wade through mud, mire and coal dust, mixed to that stiff consistency which is likely to pull off a shoe at every step. After leaving the carriage and passing through a little village of miners, despite the mud, one soon arrives at the opening. There is nothing on the outside, save a mass of smoking ashes, to indicate the immense fire raging within. The descent is not made by mians of a shaft, but by a broad roadway which descends gradually underground to the depth of nearly 300 feet. At the mouth of the cavern there is an immense fan which supplies air to those who are compelled to work in the sulphurous and deadly poisonous gases below. Should that fan pause for one moment in its revolutions all the miners underneath would expire almost instantly. Once inhale that deadly air, unmixed with the pure air outside, and human life could do naught but succumb. On the side of the ascent there is nothing of interest; the eye falls upon naught but dead vegetation, heaps of unbroken coal and masses of indescribable rubbish. There is a railway running up from the Empire breaker below, but no cars are passing over its track now, and the breaker itself is silent. The still breaker is the first evidence that something about the mine is wrong. Under ordinary circumstances the machinery, now motionless, would be turning into the market hundreds of tons of coal per day. The distance is between 200 and 300 feet underground. The fire extends over this immense area of 1,200 yards, dread, awful and- appalling, but indescribably beautiful nevertheless. It looks like an immense sea of glittering gold, across the heaving breast of which pass and repass the softest and richest combinations of colors. Blue, green, purple, crimson, mingling and intermingling, passing and repassing, disappearing here and suddenly flashing up again there, torture the senses . confuse tne vision and leave one doubtful of the place whereon he stands. Such is the fire which your correspondent gazed upon, such the almighty king of these dreadful subterranean realms. It hisses, it roars, it flashes up and smokes, driving back the men and befouling the air. There are persons down there, human beings like ourselves, who spent many months of the past in fighting this fire, and who will spend many months of their lives yet to come. They are terrible looking creatures when thus engaged in their work, whose besmeared faces and rough, blackened foimsgive them the appearance of devils rather than of men. They spend but a few hours here, for so intense is the heat that new men must come"very frequently to their relief. As it is, scarcely a day passes during which some poor fellow does not yield to these underground elements and is carried out insensible. It must be an awful life to lead, and awful, indeed, the circumstances which compel so many to endure it. From the outside of the mine run down to these dreary depths large iron pipes filled with volumes of water. When they reach a certain point below they divide into other pipes of smaller capacity, to each of which are connected large pieces of hose. With these hose the men attack the fire at the edges with the hope that they may extinguish it inch by inch. If is a slow and painful work, and a process that to the observer appears hopeless of any future success. Contemplate it. A fire larger than any you have ever seen, not formed of timber or of loose combustible material, but of solid rock. It extends over 1,200 yards, and represents millions of dollars’ worth of coal. The arches above it, the avenues leading from it, fraught With poisonous gases, stifling to ttys senses and ruinous to the healthmighty conflagration, to be fought with water inch by inch for years to come; for, while its edges may be cooled, its roaring center is gradually finding its way downward, no one knows to what unheard-of depths. To accurately describe the full extent or to express in detail the disastrous effects of4hi»burning coal mine, one must needs spend many an hour thus under ground, which, to one who is not used to it, is impossible. One can only hurry down for a moment, because, even in summer apparel, he would be obliged to quickly return to get a breath of air. The following figures represent the extent of the fire, the number of men required Ufc fight it, the loss to the company (the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal and Iron Company). and the amount of coal which, were the men sft work in the mines, they could give to the market : There are at present engaged in battling the flames two large companies of men, each of which is made up of four different and distinct gangs. These gangs, or shafts, as the miners call them, relieve each other at different periods of the day and night, at least two gangs always being at work and approaching each other from various points. Four shafts comprehend eighty men each, and four others fifty-two men each; so that in the first company there are 820 individuals, and in the second 208, making in all a total of 528 persons. These men are employed upon salaries from two to three dollars per day. Two dol lars and a half is about the average rate. Hence, to contend with the flames it costs the company $1,320 daily. In one week it costs $9,240; in one month, $36,9f10; while in one year, and from the present condition of affairs I am safe in assuming that the fire will last three times that long, the company will have spent $443,520 as the lowest possible estimate. The capital stock of the company is generally conceded to be $10,000,000, but it would only require a few years’ fighting of the fires in this Empire mine to totally destroy it. Nor is this all. Were these's2B men, instead of plying the hose, engaged in mining coal, they would each turn out three tons per day, or a total per diem of 1,684 tons. I understand that every ton of coal is here valued at $3, so that in contending with their misfortune the company not only pays* $1,320 pet day, but also leaves $4, 752 worth of black diamonds slumbering in the mines. Hence in one week the company, through the fire, loses in coal alone, which were it not for the fire might be exhumed, $33,264; in- one month, $132,056; in one year, tke immense sum of $1,595,472. The fire has been raging since January ; therefore, by the end of March thS company will have spent in quenching the flames, SIIO,BBO, while at the same

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time it will have lost $398,868 in coal which, had the fire not broken ont, the miners would have taken from the earth. Wilkesbarre (Pa.) Cor. N. T. Herald.

CURRENT ITEMS.

Ohio will be-seventy-two years old on Nov. 29. Bai.d Mountain can’t be parted in the middle, anyway. Rondout, N. Y., has a highway woman. Such is progress ! Shelryville, Ky., has the first potato bug of the season. What this country needs is more fences or less medicines. Jamaica ginger is extensively cultivated on Dunn’s Lnke, Fla. If you are buying carpets for durabil ity, choose small figures. A hot shovel held over varnished furniture will take ont white spots. - The song of the ladies’ temperance bands—” Going thro’ the Rye.” Philadelphia has four establishments devoted to the production of linseed oil. Puke love cannot be attracted to nn cleanness and meanness of body or soul. TnE woman’s movement of furniture and household utensils will soon begin. Fifty rattlesnakes were plowed up in one day off a Douglas County (Or.) farm. Hartwell, Ga., has a man 86 years old that has just married for the first time. . A talking rat has appeared in Alexandria, Va. In other words, it can open its trap. A gallon of strong lye put into a bar rel of hard water will make it as soft as rain-water. Mr. Alexander Mitchell, M. C., from Wisconsin, is reported to be worth $16,000,000. It is reported that Mrs. Harriet Beecher Btowe will not write any more for several years. The awful punishment of doing evil is that you become evil, so you have no disposition to do otherwise. In a New Hampshire graveyard there is a tomb thus marked:. “Sacred to the memory of three twins.” Death has a strange dignity, and whatever child of Adam he lays his hand on is for the time ennobled. “ W[ood lice” in frames or in pots may be trapped with a piece of apple or potato as bait loosely incased in dry moss. Bret Harte’s star doesn ’t appear to be in the ascendant. Boston came near squelching him. Califoinia is his element. One of the nicest ways of committing suicide and of revenging yourself on your neighbor at the same time is to jump down his well. “ What is better,” anxiously inquires a Western exchange, “ than a promising young man?” By all odds, a promising young woman. Burning fluid is not a good vehicle to fry cabbage in, as Mrs. Scnottenhofer, of Adrian, Mich., discovered. She thought it was vinegar. When your pocket-book gets empty and everybody knows it, you can put all your friends in it and it won’t “ bulge out” worth a cent. Penfield, N. Y., has five ladies who weigh over 200 pounds each, and when they all sit down at once the jar is felt all over the town. There are moments when even religious fervor requires a diversion, and novelty of emotion becomes as much a necessity as a change of diet. The telegraph message boys of Albany formed a ring recently, and charged and received pay for over 2,000 messages that had never been received. A Havana paper says that America must be taught a lesson, and that Spain must be the teacher. Every prudent famiiy will throw up fortifications right away. Prof. H. R. Palmer of Chicago, Prof. L. O. Emerson of Boston, and other noted teachers hold a four weeks’ Musical Institute at Dunkirk, N. Y.,.beginning July 19. A divorce lawyer’s advertisement: “Hymeneal incompatibilities, as a specialty, delicately adjusted. ’Tis slavery to detain the hand after the heart hath fled.!’ A man in Wilmington, N. €>., is thus described by a young lady of the same city: “Heis so stingy that whenever he smiles it is always at his neighbor’s expense.” * Artemus Spinner, of Duluth, doesn’t care about making a hog of himself, but he’ll wager SI,OOO that he can devour three pounds of maple sugar inside of thirty minutes. An lowa Judge has decided that “ a feller can wink at a gal in spellin’ school without laying himself liable to a breach of promise suit,” but alas! the spellingschool season has closed. , A Danbury man having proudly proclaimed in the presence of his little boy that his wife was no gadder, the young man was observed to involuntarily jrub his back, but he said nothing. A whole generation of parents already occupies this jnundane sphere who cannot describe to inquiring childhood a warm-ing-pan, a foot stove, a tinder-box, a brickoven, a crane, or a candle-mold. The Rochester Chronicle thinks that Anna Dickinson is “ doing the noblest work of her life,” but perhaps it never „ saw a young lady scientifically flourishing the dish-cloth and the broom. When a Tennessee father walks into a newspaper office with a shot-gun on his . arm and says: “My darter has writ some poetry which I want you to publish,” bow’s a feller going to plead press of matter? One of the oldest, ablest and bestknown members of the Suffolk bar once dryly said that there was no such thing ae . knowing what law was until the Suprems Court had had its opportunity to guess at it. With brotherly affection and a fellow feeling the Detroit Free Pree* inquires: “ Is the new editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel perfectly certain that his forte does not He in chopping cordwood or tending toll gate?” The Philadelphia boot-black gives what he calls “ centennial shines,” and we suppose the boarding-house keeper of the same locality presente her patrons with none but centennial bens. And this is patriotism.— RotheaUr Ghrveiti*. When a Bherlff down in Vermont, in opening the County Court, the other day, cried: “All persons having causes or matters pending therein near, and they sbalTbe heard, and God savethe people!” he was a satirist and didn’t know it