Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1877 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

HMM WABMimiTMf. Hom. Jsmu B. turn. (Dm.) waa, -on the 10th, admitted to the United States Senate, *" Senator tram Lmitetana, by a vote of 49 to 8. Tn PnaUteat, on the 18th, nominated J. C. Bancroft Davit, of Now Yark, to be Judge of the United State. Court of Claim*, vice G. E. Loring resigned, the change to take piece Jan. 1. lx Executive eeaaion, on the 12th, the "naafin rejected the President’s nomlnatloui for the New York Custom* office* by a vote of SI to M The Republican Senator* who stood by the Preaident were Messrs. Burnside, Chrta’"tiancy, Conover, Dawes, Hoar and Mathews. Mb. Patterson, the Democratic claimant, was, on the 18th, admitted to a seat in the National Hoose of Representative* as Conrreewnan from Colorado. The vote stood 116 to HR Skvemai. nomination* by the President were confirmed by the United States Senate, in Executive session, on the 18th. -j The Chinese question was the leading subject of attention at the Cabinet meeting, in Washington, on the 14th, and the view* of some of the members seemed to ba that some modification of the treaty relation, between China and the United States might be made In order 0. limit the importation of Chinese. It was thought not unlikely that the President would, at some future time, make this question the subject of a special message to one or both houses of Congress.

THE EAST. Kitxenbbbobk Bros., dry-goods merchants of New York City, failed on the Bth. Liabilities, 8138,000; the assets amount in value to 857, 000. At Baltimore, Md., a few days ago, thirteen July rioter, were sentenced to six to eight months’ imprisonment in Jail. Forty others were awaiting trial. Pant B. Swsaxrr, on the 10th, paid the last Installment of the 8400.000 and interest which he agreed to pay the City of New York in settlement of the Tweed Ring suits against him. This settlement, Sweeney’s friends declare, strips him entirely of his real estate, and leaves him to begin anew the struggle for a fortune. He has resumed the profession of the law. At the recent election in Boston, Pierce (Rep.) was elected .Mayor by 2,151 majority. A large number of saloon-keepers have been recently arrested in New York City for violating the local License laws, and hundreds of the saloons have been closed. Tub Newark (N. J.) Savings Institute, the largest in the State, was taken in charge by the Chancellor, on the 12th. The assets are nominally *12.000,000 and the deposits 811,000,000. Tub Taunton (Mass.) Savings Bank failed, on the 12th. It was believed that depositors would be paid in fulL The National Council of the Union League of America met at Philadelphia, on the 12th, and re-elected all its old officers. Sherman Broadwell. President of the Clafrmont Savings Bank, of New York City, was arrested, on the night of the 14th, on an indictment found against him by the Grand Jury for fraud. Gold closed in New York, on Dec. 14th, at . 103J£. The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, No. 2 Milwaukee, *1.34%@1.34%. Oats, Western and State, 35@41c. Corn, Western Mixed, 64%@65c. Pork, Mess, 813.37 - Lard, 88.40. Flour, Good to Choice, *5.80(26.00; Winter Wheat, *[email protected]. Cattle, *8.75(311.00 for Good to Extra. Sheep, *[email protected]. Hogs, *4.60 (34.65. At East Liberty, Pa., on Dec. 14th, Cattle brought: Best, *[email protected]; Medium, *4-50(3 4.90; Common, *4.00(34.25. Hogs sold— Yorkers, *[email protected]; Philadelphias, 84.10® 4.20. Sheep' brought *3.so(3s.3o—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md.. on Dec. 14th. Cattle brought: Best, *[email protected]%; Medium, 83.00®4.00. Hogs sold at »5.62%(36.25 for Good. Sheep were quoted at 84.00®5.25 for Good.

WEST AND SOUTH. Thebe were received in Chicago, on the 11th, over 55.000 live hogs—the largest day’s receipts since Chicago became a live-stock market The municipal election in Charleston, 8. C., on the 11th, resulted in the success of the Democratic ticket by a heavy majority. W. W. Sole was the Democratic candidate for Mayor, and D. F. Fleming the Independent candidate. Both houses of the California Legislature have adopted resolutions asking Congress to levy a per capita tai of <250 on Chinese immigrants. At the meeting of the Base-Ball League, composed of the professional base-ball players of the country, recently bald at Cleveland, it from playing on the Sabbath, under penalty of expulsion. The German-American Savings Bank, of Chicago, suspended, on ths 11th. Liabilities, <175,000. It was believed that depositors would be paid in full The State Grange of Michigan assembled at Lansing, on the 11th. About 300 delegates were present, comprising some of the most prominent agriculturists of the State. According to the Master’s address and the Secretary’s report, the Granges throughout the State are in a healthy, growing condition, and harmonious in their work. Rev. Mr. Rabbis, Rector of St. James Church, in Chicago, has been elected Bishop of the new Episcopal Diocese of Quincy, 111. The citizens of Chicago in favor of the remonetization of silver assembled in mass meeting al the Tabernacle, on the evening of the 13th. The meeting was largely composed of the leading business men. of the city, mid waX presided over by the Hon. Chas. B. Lawrence, ex-Chief-Just ce of Illinois. After speeches by prominent citizens, a series of resolutions was adopted denouncing the alleged secret and unfair manner which the Demonetizing act was passed in Congress, and demanding that the present Congress restore silver coin to its tom er place as a legal-tender The firm of J. D. Laster A Co., of Chicago, manufacturers of agricultural implements, has failed, with liabilities of over <1,000,000. Ballard, Fast A Go., of Canton, Ohio, reaper, mower, saw-knife and spring manufacturers, have also failed, fa consequence, it is said, of their intimate business relations with the firstnamed firm. lx Chicago, on Dec. 14th, Spring Wheat No. 3 closed at <LO6®LOBX cash. Cash jom dosed at for No. 2. Cash oats No. 3 sold at and seller January. Rye No. 2. i dr- Bar,.. 2, MWtflkc. Cash Mom Fork dosed at <11.85 Lard, 97.90. Beeves—Extra brought <[email protected]; Choice, «[email protected]; Good, S 4 [email protected]; Medium Grades, <[email protected]; Butchers’ Stock, <[email protected]; Stock Cattle, etc., <[email protected]. Hogs brought [email protected] tor Good to Choice. Sheep smd at <B-00@4-87X for Poor to Choice. rwiKfifi nrmudwrct Atm aMvere ennmnent. laaUnar dnrfng the 9th, and during which Osman Pasha was jevarelywoandod, foe Turkish forces at Plevna

made an unconditional surrender, and, on' the 10th, the Russo-Roumanian Army took possession of the famous stronghold The Turkish Amy wm very much weakened by cold and hunger, but they made a dreperate attempt to cut through the Russian environment and reach Widln, and failed. There was great excitement throughout Europe over the news, and the BritAh press, on the morning of the 11th, united In expressing the opinion that the time for British mediation and Intervention had arrived. A Constantinople telegram of the 10th say* the Council of State had determined that Christians should thereafter be eligible to Governorships and other administrative functions of the Turkish Province*. Bbnob Estbada, the President of the Cuban Republic, has reached Spain, and been confined In the fortress at Barcelona. It was officially announced, on the 10th, that the Russian losses, from the beginning of the war to Nov. 17, aggregated 74,858 men. Host. John Welsh, the United States Minister to the Court of St James, reached Liverpool, on the 11th. He was received with distinguished honors. Thb details of the Battle of Plevna had not been received up to the morning of the 13th, but it was estimated that the Russians captured 40,000 prisoners and 400 cannon, beside the 20,000 sick and wounded Turks in the hospitals. The Russian losses were Inconsiderable compared with the result attained. The fall of Plevna was officially announced, at Constantinople, on the 11th, and great excitement was caused. Half a dozen factions came to the front and demanded each a different line of policy. There was believed to be imminent danger of local revolution, and it was reported that the British fleet had been telegraphed for to protect the Christians from the threatened uprising of the fanatical Mussulmen. Axattempt was recently made to assassinate the Prince of Montenegro. The house he occupied a* headquarters, near Antivari, owned by a Mahointnedan Bey, was mined and blown up, and one of his body-guard killed and six injured. The Prince was out of the house at the time, and escaped injury. The news of the fall Of Plevna occasioned great rejoicing at Bt. Petersburg and other Russian cities. A solemn Te Drum was sung at Bucharest. A Constantinople telegram of the 12th says that a great council bad been held there that day, at which it was unanimously resolved to continue the war to the last extremity. According to Athens (Greece) telegrams of the 12th, the fall of Plevna had revived the warlike demonstrations of the Greeks, and the Cabinet were deliberating upon the proper course to be pursued for redressing the alleged grievances she had agaiust Turkey. According to Vienna dispatches of the 12th, the Porte was greatly astounded at the fall of Plevna, as it was hoped to the last that Suleiman Pasha would be able to relieve Osman Pasha. There was some talk o: unfurling the green flag of the Prophet, but it was believed at Vienna that cooler counsels would prevail, and that an attempt would speedily be made to negotiate a peace direct with the Czar, without the intervention or mediation of any European Power. The Russian losses in the battle preceding the capture of Plevna are officially stated to have been 192 killed and 1,252 wounded. The Turks lost 4,000 killed and wounded. The further reinforcement of the Russian Army in Bulgaria has been countermanded, the Czar believing that he has men enough to complete the conquest of Turkey. - Bi’chahest dispatches of the 13th say the Russians had just achieved another brilliant success in the vicinity of Elena. Over 12,000 Turks are reported captured. Details were wanting.

Ax Englishman was arrested at Berlin, on the 13th, for treason to the Empire. He had in his possession plans of Metz and other German fortresses. The troubles in France over the selection of a Cabinet have ended for the present. The President has abandoned the policy of resistance to the will, and consented to the formation of a Ministry under the Presidency of M. Dufaure. There was still some trouble about the budget, on the 13th, but It was thought not to be serious. A London dispatch of the 13th says the Russian authorities had announced the following as the conditions of peace with Turkey: The independence of Roumania and Bervia; the autonomy of Bulgaria under a foreign Prince; the free passage of the Dardanelles; the surrender of the Turkish fleet as a war indemnity, and the cession of a large portion of Armenia. It was believed that, should Russia insist upon these conditions, England would send a fleet to Constantinople and occupy GalIlpbli. A’man-of-war had already been sent to Besika Bay. Another Insurrection has broken out in the Island of Crete, and troops have been sent bv the Governor to suppress it. The Turkish families have taken refuge in the fortress. According to a Bucharest telegram of the 14th, it had been found necessary to amputate Osman Pasha’s, foot. A Berlin dispatch of the 14th says the estimates for 1878 show a deficiency of over 89,000,000. On the 14th. the Servian Government, amid salvos of artillery, issued a proclamation of war, and that the Servian Army ?iail Oi-eii urifemi to crotwrfife ruikiSn ironfier’;" A state of siege was declared, and Prince Milan took up his quarters at Alexinatz. The Servian Agent at Constantinople delivered the formal declaration rtb the Porte and left for home. In anticipation of an immediate attack, the British Consulate has been removed from Erze roum. According to a London dispatch of the 14th, the Porte had issued a circular, addressed to the various European Powers, asking their mediation to moderate the demands of Russia and stop the effusion of blood. At the same time the circular states that Turkey is not yet at the end of her resources, and is ready to sacrifice all to maintain her independence and territorial integrity.

FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Bills were inimduced,ni the Senate., on the 10th—to declare certain lands, heretofore granted to railroad companies, forfeited, and to open the same for settlement; to provide for chaitenges to jurors in trials for bigamy and polygamy in the Territory of Utah ...The resolution declaring J. B. Eustis entitled to a seat as Senator from Louisiana from Jan. 12, 1876, for term ending March 3, 1879, was agreed to—49 to B—and SB. Eustis was sworn in.... At their own requests. Mr. McDonald was excused from further service on the Committee on Territories and Mr. Jones I Fla. >. from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and Mr. Eustis was appointed a member of those comm ittees ... Mr. Matthews’ concurrent resolution, declaring the right of the Government to pay the principal and interest of the bonds in silver dollais containing 4124 grains standard silver, was debated. Mr. Matthews making a lengthy argument in its favor. Messrs. Morrill. Conkling, Thurman and Edmunds participating in the discussion. Among the bills introduced in the House were the following: Adjusting the salaries of Postmasters on the basis of the number of stami* canceled, instead of the number sold; for a tax on incomes; proposing a Constitutional amendment providing for the election of Senators by a direct vote of the people; also an amendment providing that the term of office of the President be six years.... A resolution was adopted distributing the subjects treated of in the President’s annual message among the various committees. Among the sutuects referred to the Committee on Foreigp Relations was that relative to Mexican affairs and the Rio Grande border, an amendment being offered by Mr. Hewitt, debated and agreed to, instructing the committee to take into immediate consideration the beat means at removing existing and impending cauces of difficulty between Mexico and the United States, and have leave to report result of deliberations, by resolution or otherwise, to the House at the earliest practicable day. Petitions from all parts of the country were presented IB the Senate, on tbeßth,u»

favor of an amendment to the OonsUtution *o a* to prohibit States from disfranchising citizen* on aoroont of sex.. Among the bill* introduced were■ --to ratablish * Couft of Appeal*: to provide for aaoextainin* lo .retained l>y <iUwn. of the United State* by reason of Indian calendar making an appropriation for the erection of suitable post* for the protection of the Rio Grande frontier Mr. Matthews' ffilvor resolution was further discussed. Merer*. Dec and Wallace advocating its adoption, and Mr. Kernan opposing it. In the House, the Deficiency Appropriation bill wm reported from committee, with the Senate amendments, several of which were concurred in and other* rejected. the Mil going Imck to the Senate... The Speaker made the following appointment* on committee*: On Naval Affaire, Crittenden; War Claim*. Martin; Territories Craven*; Invalid Penaion*. Metcalfe; Pacific Railroad. Hewitt (N. Y.); Civil-Service Reform. Potter; Revision of Law*. Hunt; Private Land Claim* BicknelL A resolution was agreed to in the the Senate, on the 12th, authorizing a select committee to take into consideration the state of the law respecting the ascertaining and declaration of the results of elections of President and Vice-President of the United States, and also to consider and report on the best manner of electing those officem, and as to the duration of their terms of office.... Senate bill* were passed—to K-gulut, expenditures in the Navy; authorizing a general account of the advances for Naval appropriations The Senate amendments to the Deficiency Appropriation bill were insisted upon, and a Committee of Conference waa appointed ... Mr. Chaffee offered a substitute for the Matthews Silver resolution, declaring that all bonds of the United State* issued or authorized under the act* of Congress heretofore recited are payable, principal and interest, at the option of the Government, in coin of cold or silver of the standard value when mi<£ bonds were issued, and that to restore to ita coinage such silver coin, as a legaltender co-equal with gold, is not in violation of public faith, nor in derogation of the rights of public creditor*. Mr. Morgan then read a lengthy legal argument in favor of Mr. Mathews' resolution, Mr. Christiancy following him in opposition thereto. In the House, Mr. Morrison called in question the right of the Speaker to fill vacancies on committee* caused by the resignation of member* who luui not been excused bv the House. The Speaker stated that it had been the uniform practice to excuse gentlemen who did not wish to serve ...A bill was introduced and referred, repealing the iron-clad oath which has to be taken by applicants for pensions.... Mr. Cox (Ohio>. of the Election Committee, submitted a third report on the Colorado election cane, declaring that there had been no valid election. Arguments were presented in favor of the majority and minority reports previously submitted.... A (Conference Committee was appointed on the Deficiency bill. A petition was presented and referred in the Senate, on the 18th, from Mr. Corbin, of South Carolina, asking that his claim to, a seat from that State be inquired into and decided on its merits.... A bill was introduced and referred to authorize and equip an expedition to the Arctic Sea . . . The Ann usd Post-Route bill was reported from committee, with amendments. .... A resolution was agreed to calling on the Secretary of War for information in regard to the organization, arming and equipping of the militia of the several States... Mr. Matthews’ Silver bill was further debated. Merer*. Bayard, Hill and Dawe* opposing, and Merer*. Allison and Beck favoring, the resolution.

In the House, the Colorado contested election case was discussed at considerable length, after which the minority report, declaring that Belford was entitled to the seat, was reject-ed-yeas, 110; nay*, 128—by a strict party vote. The next vote was on the reeoution declaring that there had been no valid election, which was also rejected—yeas, 116; nay*. 117—the following Democrat* voting with the Republican*, in the affirmative: Cutler, Stenger, Williams (DeL), Potter and "Willi* (N. Y.) A vote was then taken upon the majority resolution, declaring Patterson entitled to the seat and it was agreed to—ll 6to 110. Mr. Patterson was then sworn in as the Representative from Colorado. In the Senate, on the 14th, the House joint resolution relative to reservoir* to promote the navigation of the Mississippi River was passed... .The Conference Committee’s report on the Deficiency bill was agreed to, and the bill wag passed.. . .The Vice-President announced as the committee to inquire into the practicability co. and maintaining peace on the Rio Grande frontier, Messrs. Conkling, Hamlin, Howe, Jone* (Ncv.k Cameron (Pa.),Eaton and Maxey.... The Post-Route bin was amended and passed.... The House bill relative to the burial of officers and others who perished by the wreck of the steamer Huron was passed... The Matthews Silver bill was further debated. In the House, a number of bills were introduced and ref erred.... The report of the Conference Committee on the Deficiency Appropriation bill was agreed to.. ..The Senate amendments to the French Exposition bill were agreed to. ...A resolution was offered by Mr. Wood, Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, and read, instructing the several committees having in charge matters relating to Indian, Naval or Military Affairs, Postoffices. Public Lands, etc., to inquire into any errors, abuses or frauds in the administration of the laws affecting such branches of the public service, with power to send for persons or papers. Merer*. Hale and Garfield objected to the clause authorizing the sending for persons and papers, and the Republicans, by filibustering tactics, succeeded in preventing action on the resolution.

A Fatal Drop.

A passenger from Kingstree, on the line of the Northeastern Railroad, gives the details of a frightful accident which occurred at that place on Wednesday last. A traveling show company had stopped at the town for the purpose of relieving the natives of all their .spare change, and in order more successfully to carry out this praiseworthy object had with them a balloon, by means of which one of the company ascended into the air and went through certain gymnastic performances. This exhibition was free, of course, and drew an immense crowd. When the hour for the balloon ascension arrived, the town and surrounding country were alive with the natives, mostly negroes, who, never having seen a balloon before, -footed- upon the whole proceO’dittg'WWaniixrarif’oi awe ami curiosity. By dint of persuasion two negroes consented to hold the ropes of the balloon while it was being inflated with hot air. When everything was in readiness a man in a pair of red drawers and a red shirt came out and whs cheered lustily. The balloon swayed violently to and fro, and the aeronaut took his seat upon a small bar which dangled from the air ship, and gave the order to cast loose. The negroes loosed their holds upon the ropes, and the balloon shot upward, like an arrow from a bow. To the consternation of the crowd, however, it was seen that one of the negroes had become entangled in the ropes, and was being borne aloft with frightful rapidity. With a wonderful presence of mind, the unfortunate the rope with his hands, and, after "’disengaging his feet from the ropes, climbed up to the bar on, which sat the nun in red. Instead, however, of remaining upon this comparatively secure perch, he let go his bold and began sliding down the rope again, and upon reaching the end he let go entirely, and was dashed to the earth, having fallen through a space of sixty feet. The crowd were so completely awe-stricken that not one would dare approach the prostrate man. After some little time, however, several gentlemen who were near by went up to the negro and found him bleeding profusely from the mouth and apparently unconscious. At the last accounts the man was still alive, but it is hardly possible for him to recover. The aeronaut succeeded in making a safe landing.—Charlatan (8. C.) Courier. —The Des Moines (la.) Register contradicts the report that Ex-Sec'y Belknap is a commercial traveler, and says that he is following his profession of the law, building up a good practice, making money and minding his own business. An English poacher was seen to take aim at a bird, bis gun was seen to go off, and the bird was picked up dead, yet the poacher was cleared because it was not proved th*t his gun was loaded.— Detroit free Press;

The United States Senate Reject* Certain Nomination* Made by the Preeldeat. A Washington Associated Press telegram of the 12th gives the following account of the final action of the United States Senate, in Executive session, upon the President's nominations for the Custom-House officers at New York: The Senate was in Executive session to-day nearly alx hours, adjourning only at eight o’clock thia evening. The entire ae.iuikiu waa devoted to the New York Custom-House nominations, two of which, namely, those ot Theodore Roosevelt, to be Collector, in place of Arthur, to be removed, and 8. Bradford Prince aa Naval Officer, vice Cornell, to be removed, were reported from the Committee on Commerce unfavorably. 'The tlil/d, namely, that of E. A. Merritt, to be Surveyor of Custom* in place of Sharp, whose commission has expired, was reported with a favorable recommendation. No opposition was manifested to the latter, but the conteat'ln regard to the two proposed removals wa% extremely animated, ana took a very wide range, causing a discussion of the rights, powers and duties of the President in regard to removal* from office, and the subject of the Civil-Service policy In general. Mr. Conkling, Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, opened the debate with a brief statement of the reason* why. In the opinion of the majority of that committee, the two first nominations should not be confirmed. These were in brief that no charge* of either corruption or inefficiency had been made against the present incumbents, but, on the contrary, they were conceded to be faithful, honest, experienced and able officer*. Mr. Bayard followed in an extended argument maintaining the right of the Executive to make change* which, in his opinion, would be for the benefit of the public sen-ice, he being responsible for the execution of the laws, and entitled to select his agents, subject to the confirmation of the Senate, but without being obliged to furnish the Senate a statement of his reasons. Mr. Kernan then delivered a speech, of considerable length, on the same side of the question, defending the action of the President. His remarks were mostly read from manuscript Gen. Gordon was the next speaker. He warmly commended the Civil-Service policy of President Hayes, and, in regard to the pending nominations, asserted emphatically that the removals which they contemplated were demanded by a proper regard for the purity of the service. He charged that Cornell and Arthur had disgracefully made use of the power and patronage of their offices for merely partisan and selfish purposes, and he intimated that it was time lor the one-man power in New York State to be broken. The debate then became ouite general. Messrs. Hoar and Matthews spoke in favor of sustaining the action of the President in the exercise of his Constitutional power, and of what they agreed was his sound public policy In removing the Civil Service from the domain of partisan control. Mr. Teller and others spoke briefly in reply, arguing that in the present instance, at feast, the President had departed, from the principles of Civil-Service reform which he himself had antwunced, namely, that faithful and efficient service* shouldprotect the officer from removal, etc. Mr. Conkling closed the debate in a speech of considerable length and great vigor and earnestness. He replied In detail to the various arguments advanced by the supporters of the nominations, and repelled with the utmost emphasis the charges that had been made aqainst the official character and conduct of the officers whom the President proposed to remove. He insisted that they had been faithful, honest and efficient in every particular, and challenged proof that a single charge had ever been made against them, either by the mercantile community, or by the Secretary of the Treasury, or the President himself. He also defied anyone to show or to assert that his (Conkling’s) action in this whole matter had been otherwise than fair, open, courteous and above-board. In conclusion, he claimed that the Senate would lie alike unjust to faithful officers, careless of it s ow n pre rogatlves and duties, and unmindful of the dictates of a true Civil-Service policy, if it failed to vote that these nominations should Im> rejected. A vote hy yea* and nayS-JKOR then taken upon the normhation of Horisevelt, and it was rejected by a majority of 7, the yea* being 25 and the nay* 32. The nomination of Prince was rejected upon another roll-call by the same vote. In each case Senators Eaton, Dennis, Whyte and Maxey (Democrats) united with the great body of the Republicans against confirmation, and Senators Burnside, Christiancy, Conover, Dawes, Hoar and Matthews (Republicans) sided with the mas* of the Democrats in favor of confirmation. The nomination of Merritt was confirmed without a division.

The Cofiiposition of the United States Senate. Now that Mr. Eustis, of Louisiana, has been admitted, the United States Senate is full, for the first time since 1872. There are, Republicans (in Roman), 39; Democrats (in small caps), 36; Independents (in italics), 1, as follows: ALABAMA. I MISSISSIPPI. Term expiree. Term expiree. 1879. George E.Spencer.: 1881. Brunch K. Btuce. 1883. John T. Moboaj. [IBB3. L. Q. C. Lamab. ARKANSAS. I MISSOURI. 1879. Steph. W. Dorsey. '1879. David Armstrong. 1883. Aug. H. Garland. 1881. Fran. M. Cockbell. CALIFORNIA. I NEBRASKA. 1879. Aaron A. Sargent. 1881. A. 8. Paddock. 1881. Newton Booth. |IBB3. Alvin Saunders. COLORADO. : NEVADA. 1879. Jerome B. Chaffee. 1879. John P. Jones. 1883. Henry M. Teller; 1881; William Sharon. CONNECTICUT. NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1879. Wm, H. Barnum. 1879. Bainbr’eWadleigh. 1881. Wm. W. Eaton. 1883. Edw’d H. Rollins. DELAWARE. NEW JERSEY. 1881. Thos. F. Bayard. 'lBBl. Theo.F.Randolph. 1883. Eli Saulsbury. 1883. J. 11. McPherson. FLORIDA. I new YORK. 1879. Simon B. Conover. 1879. Roscoe Conkling. 1881. Charles W. Jones. ,1881. Francis Kernan. GEORGIA. I NORTH CAROLINA. 1879. John B. Gordon. 1879. Auo. 8. Merrimon. 1883. Benjamin H. Hill. 1883. Mat. W. Ransom. ILLINOIS. I OHIO. 1879. Richard J. Jglesby. 1879. Stanley Matthews. 1883. David De tie. jlBBl. AllenG.Thurman. INDIANA. i OREGON. 1879. Dan. W.Voorhees. 1879. John H. Mitchell. 1881. Jos. E. McDonald. 1883. L. F. Grover. lOWA. I PENNSYLVANIA. 1879. Wm. B. Allison. '1879. J. D. Cameron. 1883. Sam’l J.Kirkwood.[lßßl. Wm. A. Wallace. ..KANSAS. BHODE ISLAND.. 1017. doiSn u. 1883. Preston B. Pluml .1883. Henry B. Anthony. KENTUCKY. I SOUTH CAROLINA. 1879. T. C. McCreery. J 879. John J. Patterson. 1883. Jas. B. Beck. 1883 M. C. Butler. LOUISIANA. TENNESSEE. 1879. Jas. B. Elwh. 1881. James E. Bailey. 1883. Wm. P. Kellogg. 1883. Isham G. Harris. MAINE. n TEXAS. 1881. Hannibal Hamlin. 1881. Samuel B. Maxey. 1883. James G. Blaine. 1883. Richard Coke. MARYLAND. VERMONT. 1879. Geo. K. Dennis. 1879. Justin 8. Morrill. 1881. Wm. P. Whyte. 1881. Geo. F. Edmunds. MASSACHUSETTS. VIRGINIA. 1881. Henry L. Dawes. 1881. Robt. E. Withers. 1883. George F. Hoar. 1883. J. W. Johnston. MICHIGAN. WEST VIRGINIA. 1881. I. P. Christiancy. 1881. Frank Hereford. 1883. Thos. W. Ferry. 1883. Henry G. Davis. MINNESOTA. WISCONSIN. 1881. 8. J. R. McMillan. 1879. Timothy O. Howe; 1883. William Windom. 1881. Angus Cameron.

The Surrender of Plevna.

A London cable telegram of the morning of the 11th, to. the Chicago Tribune, says: Plevna has fallen—not by assault nor strategy, but by unconditional surrender. That the condition of Ostnan Pasha’s Army was known in Constantinople is now certain, and hence the recent effort of Suleiman Pasha to create a diversion to enable him to break out df Plevna. Almost simultaneous with Suleiman Pasha’s brilliant movement toward Tirnova. Orman Pasha made various struggles to break the Russian line in the direction of Widdin,while: Mehemet .Mi wae expected tomake a direct attempt to relieve him; but not only did the former have little effect in the withdrawal of the Russian troops from before Plevna, but Mehemet All wholly failed to cooperate, and he either has been or is to be immediately relieved of his command. On Saturday, after Osman Pasha had found his escape impossible, his army starving and perishing witn cold, and no hope of (success, he sent a parlementaire to the Russian headquarters, with a special letter addressed personally to the Grand Duke Nicholas as Chief of the Annv Investing Plevna. The Grand Duke declined either to accept the letter or to receive the parlementaire, and directed him to be escorted to the headquarters of Prince Charles as Commander-In-Chief of the allied armies besieging Plevna. The purport of the letter was "■ a, request for favorable terms of capitulation, and an especial request from Osman Pasha to be allowed to surrender his sword to the Grand Duke Nicholas. This being impossible, the parlementaire returned. On Sunday another desperate assault was made on. the Russian right, in which Osman Pasha, himself was wounded, and about 3,000 Turks put hon d» combat. Nothing remained but unconditional surrender, and thus closed one of the bravest defenses of modem times. At two o’clock on Sunday the Turkish bugles sounded the retreat. Firing ceased on

both tide*, and the moment of Ruiwlan triumph *u rtcoffnlxed on both nlde|.to be at hand. Aid for the wounded wae aßlen India cHiuinately to Turk and Russian while the negothitl<jua were in prognaaa, and by four o’clock tlw aurrender was complete. To-day a brief special informs me that the Russians are engaged in occupying the forts and batteries, and garrisoning Plevna. Suleiman Pasha, having spent Sunday in inspecting the Fortreaaea of Ruatchuk and Varna, has returned to Ahmedli, and has ordered all correspondents to the rear. It la, therefore, believed that he does, or did contemplate, another active aggressive movement, but the news of Plevna’s fall may cause him to fall back toward Adrianople. The release of 120,000 men under Prince Charles and the Grand Duke Nicholas for active field operations will make his position verv critical, for already it Is possible that Fuad Pasha’s Division will be cut off or forced to make a disastrous retreat through Elena Pass in the Balkans. Mcbemet AH is befogged to an extent which seems to prevent any movement whatever. Even Montenegro is gaining considerable victories from the Turks, and the surrender of Antivan is hourly looked for; and at Scutari the local Albanian authorltlec are thinking seriously of asking the intervention or mediation of Italy. Bpcaking of the situation, the London Times says: “ The Turks refused to accept the condition on which Europe, including ourselves, offered to continue our full recognition of their Empire, and they must be left to take the consequences. Those consequences must sooner or later tie the forfeiture of some of their authority, if not of their territory, in Europe. No European Power, and this country least of all, will interfere to prevent that consequence.”

DETAILS OF THE SURRENDER. A cable dispatch of the 12th, to the saihe paper, gives further particulars, as follows: Full particulars of the capture of Plevna are ■ent me by the Tribune correspondent at Beget. It appears that at a Council of War held on Saturday last it was decided that the moment had arrived to attack Plevna by storm. The following day a terrific bombardment began. At early dawn on Monday a general action commenced. Six columns of attack were formed, each mustering 12,000 men, the reserve consisting of no less than 50,000. The tire of the Russian siege-guns suddenly ceased, and the RussoRoumanian storming columns threw themselves against the advance Turkish redoubts. There they met with a desperate resistance. After exchanging volley after volley with telling effect, a hand-to-hand fight ensued. No quarter was claimed or given. When the first redoubt was captured, not a prisoner was taken. The storming columns then advanced on the inner lines, where the main force of Osman Pasha’s Army were massed. The Ottoman' Chief, seeing that further resistance would be useless, ordered a retreat northward toward Widln. At this critical moment, the Russo-RoUmanian field artillery reserve advanced as far as the heights immediately commanding the upper portion of Plevna, and opened an enfilading fire which inane terrible havoc among the Turkish troops in the valley below, who were proceeding-taattack the position just occupied by the enemy. The Russian batteries were attacked over and over again, but in vain, the object of these repeated onslaughts being to divert attention from the main body that was advancing in the opposite direction. In the heat of the fray, Osman Pasha placed himself at the head of his troops, and pressed forward as tar as Oponesch, situated about three miles from Plevna, with every hope of breaking through the Russian lines; but before lie could do so he was met by the Russian-Roumanian reserves. Oponesch lies on the right of the high road that borders the Vid, and a large reserve force had been posted there in expectation that Osman Pasha would attempt to retreat on Widin. This force was well supported by artillery that had been placed on the heights 4n front of Dolni-Etropol. It was in the plain between Oponesch and Dolni-Etropol that Osman Pasha and his brave followers met with’ their disaster. The Russian guns swept down .whole compantes, and the ground was soon covered with the dead and dying. Here, too, Osman himself was badly wounded in the foot and fell senseless from his "horse, receiving further injuries from his fall. Seeing their Commander hors de combat, and possibly supposing him to have been killed, the Turks began to lay down their arms. The Russians had already entered Plevna. Victorv vyis in their hands. Ten thousand dead and wounded Turks lay on the field. Not a vestige of provisions was anywhere to be found. The civil population had hardly enough food for the day, and the ambulance had barely accommodation for a few hundred wounded. The number of prisoners js estimated at 10,000. Four hundred guns were captured.

Daniel Webster’s Seventeen Murders.

One day, among other arrangements, he suggested to tno new President, in as delicate a way as he could, the fact that he had sketched an inaugural, knowing that Gen. Harrison would be overwhelmed with calls and business after his election, and he himself having leisure to write. The General at once replied that it was not necessary, that he had prepared his own inaugural. “ Oh, yes,” said he, “I’ve got that all readv.” “ Will you allow me to take it home and read it to-night?” asked Mr. Webster. the President replied; “ and please let me take yours.” So they exchanged the documents; and the next morning, when they met, Gen.. Harrison said to Mr. Webster: “If I should read your inaugural instead of mine, everybody would know that you wrote it, and that I did not. Now, this is the only official paper which I propose to write, for I do not intend to interfere with my Secretaries; but this is a sort of acknowledgment on my part to the American people of the great honor they have conferred upon me in elevating me to this high office; and although, of course, io. sjwtable as yours, still it is mine, and I propose to let the people have it just as I have written it. I must deliver my own instead of yours.” Mr. Webster told me that he was a good deal annoyed, because the message was, according to his judgment and taste, so inappropriate. It entered largely into Roman history, and had a great deal to say about the States of antiquity and the Roman Proconsuls and various matters of that kind. Indeed, the word “Proconsul” was repeated in it a great many times. When he found that the President was bent upon using his own inaugural, Mr. Webster said that his desire was to modify it, and to get in some things that were not there, and get out some things that were there; for, as it then stood, lie said, it had no more to do with the affairs of the American Government andpeoplethan

a chapter in the Koran, Mr. Webster suggested to Gen. Harrison that he should like to put in some things, and Gen. Harrison rather reluctantly consented to let him take it. Mr. Webster Spent a portion of the next day in modifying the message. Mrs. Seaton remarked to him, when he came look fatigued and worried; but he replied that he was sorry That she had waited dinner for him. " That is of no consequence at all, Mr. Webster,” said she; “but I am sorry to see you looking so worried and tired. 11 hope nothing has gone wrong. I really hope nothing has happened.” “ You would think that something had happened,” he replied, “ if yon knew what I have done. I have killed seventeen Roman Proconsuls as dead as smelts, every one of them!”— Peter Harvey's Reminiscences. “•You have often,” said the clergyman, “ heard the brethren say * Amen! amen!’ while some one was praying. What did they mean? If any one knows, let him hold up his hand.” Up jumped a little fellow, so eager to answer as not to wait for recognition, “Iknow!” he called out. “It means hurry up andget through.” There was an audible smiie.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —Little bootblacks set each other shining examples. —Where are the knitting-needles of our grandmothers? —A load which any man would like to carry—a silver lode. —Bonnet strings are fashionable foi even very young ladies. —Why is humility like the gout? Because it is not contagious. —There are eight doctors In Congress. M. D.—mighty dull. —ln spite of all that is said against high heels, they are still worn. —There are about twenty-five adults in Reading, Pa., who cannot write. —You can get a month of agony out of the sting of one weak bumble-bee. —Wife is a Saxon word, meaning weaver, but how many wives weave? —Two widowers in Berry County, Tex., married each other's daughter. —Those marksmen who practice firing at glass balls must be crack shots. —The last St. I ouis Grand Jury advised the restoration of the whippingpost. —Advice to a tramp printer by Worcester Press— Go to the slug, thou sluggard. —The New York Graphic wants to know what becomes of all the smart children. —Pongo may not have been the missing link, but he is now.— Rochester Democrat. —“lf,” asks Harper's Bazar, “a great city is a mart, are all the inhabitants martyrs?” —A postage stamp is iust big enough to borrow, but too small to pay back. — New Orleans Picayune. —A woman’s heart is just like a lithographer’s stone, what is once written on it cannot be rubbed out. —“ Sweet are the uses of adversity,” as the widow said when she wenttobuy her second-mourning outfit. —There is nothing more appropriate than the American custom of having elections on “ Choose-day.” ■ —•* One girl kissing another,” says the Danbury News, “is a good deal like eating maple sirup on ice cream.” —The great advantage about a lean wife is that you don’t have to call in a carpenter every time she falls downstairs. . —lt has been remarked of a Chicago couple: “Two souls with but a single thought —how to get rid of each other.” —Fools and their money soon part. It’s worth while being a fool to have the money to part with.— Philadelphia Herald. —The American mouth is a bonanza. There are millions in it, the estimated value of the gold fillings being $5,000.000. ———- —An order has been issued to the prison officials of North Carolina to desist from using the rod on convicts under any circumstances. —lt is a final test of brotherly affection for a girl to lend her brother’s silk umbrella to her beau and not get jawed rieanoutof hergaitens: tion is passed, but there are yet many women who wouldn’t have a dress cut on Friday for the world. —No fire escape has yet been invented which can be relied upon so thoroughly as the furnace when you depend upon your oldest boy to “stoke.” —What is the use of having a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children P Doesn’t the Bible say, “Suffer, little children ?’ ’ Worcester Press. —Capt. Kidd, who buried all his money in the ground, may be considered the originator of post-hole savings banks. — Burlington Hawk-Eye. —When she bestrode his “bugle” with a clothes-pin, and thereby stopped his snoring, he said he’d always thought the habit could be conquered in a pinch. —A suit about a yoke of steers has just been decided in Campbell County, Georgia, after fifteen years’ litigation, in which the costs amounted to $1,500. —A literary correspondent wants to know if there is much brain food in codfish balls? Not enough to hurt, but onions are powerful for the breath.— Burlington Hawk-Eye. —lt is one thing to become naturalized and another to get used to the miserable ways of Nature, as chiefly displayed in her fall and winter weathSr. —Detroit Free Press. —An astute Freshman reasons as follows: “ Things equal to the same things are equal to each other. An idiot is a human being. A man is a human being; ergo, a man is an idiot.” —The cash system in business seems to have been highly i n favor with the old poets. Young, after thinking over il-severa) nights, wrote: “We take no note of time!”— N. Y. Graphic. —So many good men have turned out defaulters that we know not what to do with our superfluous funds. Will some Obe hand us a spade and direct us to a lonely spot?— Rochester Democrat. —A young lady, seeking a situation, was interested in an advertisement for Bom«> one to do light housekeeping. So she wrote to the advertiser, asking where the light-house was, and if there was any way of getting to shore on Sundays. - —Nothing like being able to raise your own frogs. A citizen of Newburyport, Mass., is fattening 500 frogs upon which he expects to feast. He keeps them in a barrel and feeds them with Indian meal and takes as much pride in them as if they were a coop of prize chickens.

Hydrophobia In England.

"Unless our ablest medical men and our most skilled veterinary surgeons are altogether at fault, a malady is raging in the midst of us more terrible than Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, or even the much-dreaded plague of the Middle Ages. Within the last few months deaths from hydrophobia have been t alarmingly frequent. It would seem, indeed, as if the disease had assumed an epidemic form. That this should be so is no matter of surprise. It is notorious that at certain periods hydrophobia has ravaged entire districts with an almost unaccountable virulence. In the year 1866 the Registrar-General for England reported no fewer than .thirty-six deaths from this fatal malady. In 1871 two packs of hounds—the Quorn and Albrighton were decimated by the pestilence. There is a mass of evidence to show that, like cholera, or plague, or any other grave disease, hydrophobia recurs at stated intervals, and at this moment, as ftp as can be made out, we are passing through a period of its recurrence. For some months past hardly a week has gone by without a death from hydrophobia. ; The Registrar-General, in his reports, I has called attention to the prevalence

of the scourge. Inquests have been held in various parts of the country, at which evidence of a most painful and distressing character has been given, indeed, if the" general public is not seriously alarmed, we can only say that it has failed to appreciate the gravity and importance of the situation.—London Daily News.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A malicious tax-payer in Wilmington, Del., paid his taxes, amounting to seven dollars, all in copper eente. —A grass fire overtook a man in San Bernardino, Cal., and he had barely time to reach a creek. He roiled over and over in the shallow water, scorched by the flames that swept overhead, and was almost smothered. The terrible heat lasted only a few seconds, but sufficiently long to burn off his hair and char his clothing. —Miss Eagan, the Fall River mill operative who mysteriously lost her speech a few weeks ago after dreaming that she would lose it, has recovered the faculty in ouite as mysterious a manner. She felt a sudden shock the other day, accompanied by a choking sensation, and was forced to utter an exclamation. Since then she has been able to speak with considerable distinctness, though not without some pain in her chest and lungs. . —The family of William McGlothlin, living on East Fork, in this county, went to a neighbor’s, leaving no one but a child three or four years old at the house. The door of the structure, as is the case frequently, opens outward, and is fastened by a long latchstring. The child, in playing about the door, in some way got the string looped over its head, and, pushing the heavy door open, it.was swung out over the high doorstep, and when the family returned the little one was hanging by the latch-string dead, Ashland (Jty.) Review. —Pretty story from New England: “A Canaan farmer recently saw two men attempting to drive a hog past his house, but the brute was so obstinate. that they finally told the farmer that if he would kill it for them they would give him half of the meat. He accepted the offer with joyful alacrity, and not only killed the hog but dressed it into the bargain, after which the strangers drove away with their half. But when the farmer went at night to feed his own hog he found the pen empty, ahd it did not take him long to discover that he had killed his own property, receiving half of it for his trouble.” —The Bismarck Tribune says: “At* Jarnestown, Conductor Law invited Joseph to supper with him. Joseph accepted, and, after he was through, strolled away from the eating-house into the village, in search of bread and good things for his family. He has a good heart, and means that Mrs. Joseph and little Joseph shall have something to eat, as well as himself. .While he was making his purchases the train, pulled out and Joseph was ‘ left.’ A mile or two from the station a passenger discovered the important loss, and went pell-mell through the cars, crying ‘Joseph’sleft.’ Tbeeonduetor startea the train back and soon met Josepb; Lin WOO Vimninry llfo ftnn YVAJ* llv nuU 111 11 111 US' IXn UY7CVK 11 AxJ ClUvt ITWT far more scared than when Miles took him in. There was a golden opporttini,tv to escape, but he dreaded it more than anything in his experience since his capture.” —A Little Compton man has a plucky cat. While lying on the doorstep, the other day, a large hen-hawk swooped down into the yard and- seized a fat chicken, which it attempted to carry off. The cat at once leaped upon the intruder and clawed him so lustily that he relinquished his hold and sailed away. In a short time, however, he returned again and made another attempt, in which he as signally failed, the cat attacking him as soon as he alighted. Three times did the hawk essay to carry off his prey, and as often did pussy succeed in protecting his charge from the intruder, until the bird, becoming disgusted with the prospect of obtaining a daintv bit of spring chicken from that hen-yard, soared away to repeat the attempt upen some less-guarded grounds. — Woonsocket (H. I.) Patriot.

The Priest and the Lawyers.

The boys up on the Northwestern were telling us about an old Catholic priest, who lived until quite recently out at Boone, and was, in his way, decidedly and characteristically original. It. seems that on a certain occasion, some ’ or many years ago, we don’t remember which, he became a party, or a witness, in some law suits, and, as is the legal custom, was soundly berated and abused by the learned counsel on the other side, for having the temerity to have anything whatever to do with a case at law of any kind. The result, was that a very bitter feeling grew up between the prelate and the two young young lawyers, and time did not appear to soften this feeling at all. But one day the old man fell very ill. He was very old and his sickness sat so heavily upon him that he feared he would never arise from the bed upon which he had lain down. So when he thought his last-hour was approaching, he sent for these two lawyers, and they obeyed the summons, and came into his presence. With great difficulty he accosted them and begged them to stand one on either side of his bed, and remain there until he passed away. Deeply affected, the two lawyers did as he desired, and when they were standing on each side of him, with solemn faces, one of them, in low, earnest tones, told the old man how glad they were that in his dying hour he should forgive them, andTeerqo bitterness toward them for any innocent or even excessive display of professional zeal. The old priest slowly opened his eyes. “ It is not that,” he said, and the two young men bent eagerly forward to listen. “Itisn’t that,” gasped the old priest. “It isn’t that. But I feel that lam a dying man. And I want to die like my dear Master.” - - The words came slowly and very painfully, and the young barristers held their breath while they leaned forward to catch the next sentence. The old man turned his eyes upon them: “ Between—two —thieves.” Two crestfallen young men tiptoed silently toward the chamber door. Two blank-looking faces stared at each other out on the sidewalk, and two rising young barristers'didn’t Know whether to laugh or get angry. But the old priest did not die. There was enough good humor in his old heart to conquer a dozen diseases, and send even Death away smiling, and we believe the old man is still alive and living in Fort Madison.— Burlington Hawk-Eye. In Southern California men outnumber the women ten to one. Women servants there get forty dollars a month.