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General News Summary.

Ho*. Jobm*Casry. family ildefJuaUt* of the Oottrt of UUUas, AM at Washington, MUm HWI He tea* appointed by PreeWent On the eronln* of the Utb, the Republican United State*Senator* held*caucus, at which, It waa a creed to leetat to the uunoal limit the ilatat mlintinii of the Howe to tocorporate in tha variotM Appropriation btlla anything like B«C*t Siiutit, on the 12th, Issued another eal] for the redemption of &*> bonds. The rnn called tar la *80,000,000, interest and principal parable on the 18th of May. Sncfr Banana* sent a letter to the National Honan of . Representative*, on the 13U>, lu which he state# that the estimate of expenditurea fur the next Been! year amounts to The estimated receipt# are: Frame—loans, ♦188,000,000;Internal revenues, $108,000,000; miscellaneous sources, 813.500,000; total receipts, 8857,500,000-lea Ting a deficiency of *27,061,418. O* the 14th. the Freeldent nominated H. C. Bure hard, present Member of Congress from the Fifth Illinois District, to be Director of United States Mints, In place of Dr. Llndermann, deceased. Tan President has approved the bill allowing women to practice before the Supreme Court. ______ <—lift The East.. O* the 10th. at Troy, N. T„ G. F. Simmons, erased tty the elopement of his wife, poisoned hia throe children, and then cut his own throat. Ok the evening of the 13th, the New York Tattenails was entirely destroyed by fire. Of the eighty hones stabled there, over sixty perished. Tax New York Court of Appeals has overnded the ruling of the lower Coart that convicted Dr. T. 8. Lambert, President of the American Popular Life Insurance Company, and has ordered a new trial. Dr. Lambert was convicted of perjury In making an alleged fraudulent affidavit to the company's annual statement.

A meeting was held at Syracuse, N. Y., on the 14th, participated in by Bishops Peck and Huntington. Chancellor Haven and other wcUknowo Methodist clergymen and laymen, at which It was resolved to take measures for the suppression of the Oneida Community. As eleTeu-yeae-old boy (Willie Zeizler) committed suicide In Philadelphia, on the 13th, by hanging himself in the cellar. He lived with his grandmother, who was away from home at the time the deed was committed. The reason assigned for the suicide is a disturbance of mental balance, caused by reading religious books. Fiscs the death of L. H. Conklin, late County Treasurer of Oewego County, N. Y., hia accounts have been investigated, and a shortage discovered of over 1133,000. At Somerville,Me., a few days ago, Ephraim Hysverand wife left home to do some trading, leaving their three children, aged four years, two and a half years, and eight months, alone In the boose. By some means the building caught fire, and, with its contents, was destroyed, the throe children perishing in the flames. About a year before another child of the same parents was burned to death. Thx following were the closing quotations for produce in New York, on Feb 15th: No. Z CUcagoßpringWheat.Bl.UßXai.o3; No.3Milwaukee, 81.023tfi1.03. Oats, Western Mixed, 81033 c. Corn, Western Mixed, 46>{0 47c. i Pork, Mess, 88.85® 10.00. Lard, 86.80. Flour, Good to Choice, 83.9X84.50; White Wheat Extra, 84.55(85.25. Cattle, IS 25® 10.25 for Good to Extra. Sheep, 84.50® 5.73. Hogs, 84.»>®4.30. At East Liberty, Pa., on Feb. 15th, Cattle brought: Best, *5.25®5-50; Medium, 84.75 05.00; Common, 83.6004.25. Hogs sold— Yorkers, 84.00®4.10; Philadelphia*, $4-3u@ 4.50. Sheep brought 83.4005.10—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on Feb. 15th, Cattle brought: Beet, 85.00 @ 5.25; Medium, 13.5004.00. Hogs sold at 85.0005.75 for Good. Sheep were quoted at 84.0005.25 tor Good.

West aud South. Hox. Isaac P. Christiaxct, United States Senator from Michigan, placed bis resignation in the bands of Gov. Croewell on the 10th. Tax Inquire into the conduct of Maj. Reno, at the battle of Little Big Horn River, in the summer of 187 ft, which had been in progress at Chicago for four weeks previous, was concluded on the morning of the 11th. The decision will not be made public until approved or disapproved by the military authorities at Washington. The officials of the Ohio A Mississippi Railroad deny the report that trains were tietained at Flora, 11L, on a recent Sunday, on account of the enforcement of the State Sunday laws. They say the dispatch to that effect originated with some misinformed or evilly-disposed person. A terrible accident occurred at Kansas City, Mo., on the 11th. The walls of a cut being made there for the Chicago & Alton Kail road caved in, and four teams and about forty men Were buried under 6,000 yards of falling earth. 81x persons were killed outright, and several others were wounded. The Michigan Democratic State Convention has been called to meet at Lansing, on the 28th of February; the Greenback Convention at the same time and place, and the Republican Convention at the same plate, on the 6th of March. William B. Fleming has been elected to Congress from the First Georgia District, to succeed the late Julian Hartridge. The Missouri Court of Appeals has decided, to restrain the Be Louis School Board from permitting the teaching of foreign languages and the ornamental branches in the labile schools of that city, that the whole matter is in the hands of the Legislature, and that court# have no power in the premises. A National Conference of colored citizens will be held at Nashville, Term., on the 6th of May. The object of the gathering is said to be “to consider the situation of the colored people in the South in respect to the enjoyment of life, liberty and property ; also their educational, moral, social and political condition, and the question of emigration.’’ P. B. & Pinch back (colored), who failed to secure a seat In the United States Senate, has accepted the position of Revenue Agent in the Louisiana District Zachakiah Chandler was nominated for United States Senator, to succeed i»— p. Christlancy, by the Republicans of the Michigan Legislature, on the evening of the 13th. Tub late reports of the reappearance of the yellow fever $t various points in the South are emphatically denied by dispatches from Louiivtlie and New Orleans. While doing a trapeze act, in a Detroit theater, on .the evening of the 13th, Marie Azurine lost her graap upon the bar, and fell headlong, a distance of thirty feet, into the proscenium. The result w*s a broken ribs, and fata!-tn-At Baltimore, Md., on the IMb, five Jndg< s of Elections were convicted and sentenced to imprisonment, for interfering with the Uriied

States Supervisor at the rocent Congressional election iu that city. AT New Orleans) fp the 15th, the United States District Attorney presented thirty-two additional tadlciiusbta, involving 100 arrests, for violatttai Of tbs Elect** law In the Parishes of Caddo, Tanas, Rapides and Natchitoches. A Mxoup named Sam Hall is lying in the County Jsil at Columbus, Ohio, convicted, on circumstantial evidence solely, of the murder of a man named Holmes, In 1876, artd senteuced to be hung therefor, Hall says that he waa in the State Penitentiary for horsestealing from 1872 to 1877, escaping in the latter year, and consequently could not have committed the murder. Investigation has shown his story true, and be will not, of course, be executed. Had he not been in prison at the time of the murder be would be hung for a crime be did not commit. A tike broke ont fn the Soldiers’ Orphans' Home, near Xenia, Ohio, on the morning of the lAlh. There were 600 children in the Home at the time, and many narrow escapes are reported. The building was entirely destroyed, the teachers and officials losing all their personal effects. The loss to the State Is about 875,000; no insurance. lx Chicago, on Feb. 15th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at 90X®»lc cash; 91 91 Xc for March. Cash Corn closed at 33c' for No. 2; 83t*e for March; 87%c for May. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 21Xc*. 25c seller March; 25c for May. Kye No. 2,45 c. Barley No. 2, 77X078c lor cash; 77X<&VSc for March. Cash Mess Pork closed at 89.6509.70. Lard, 86.70. Beeves —Extra brought 85-10®5.5J; Choice, 84.75 ®5.00; Good, |[email protected]; Medium Grades, 83.75®4.00; Butchers' BUK:k, 82.65®3 50; Stock Cattle, etc., 82.6008.60. Hogs—Good to Choice, 83.6004.10. Sheep—Poor to Choice, 83.5005.00.

Foreign Intelligence. According to advices from the Interior of RomU, received In 8t- Petersburg on the 10th, general unheallhlnessand predisposition to epidemic existed. The small-pox, typhus fever, si otted fever ami plague were making sad havoc »t Tver, Orsk, Kelff, Tambov and Rostov. The cattle plague had also appeared at Ekatermoelav aud twenty-seven adjacent villages. Of 2,500 bead attacked, more than half had perished. Dbuibcque, the Director of the French Mint, baa been sentenced to six years' imprisonment and to pay a line of 125.900,000 franca for embezzling 1,400,000 francs in bullion, lodged in the mint by the Rothschilds. Delbecque substituted galvanized copper bars for the silver abstracted. Advices from Cape Town, South Africa, received on the 10th, report that a British force, consisting of a portion of the Twentyfourth Regimeut, a battery of artillery and 000 native auxiliaries, had been utterly annihilated near the Zugela River by 20,000 Zulus. The latter captured 102 wagons, 1,000 oxen and an immeuse quantity of provisions and ammunition. During the battle the Zulus lost 5,000 men. Among the killed were forty British officers. In consequence of the disaster. the British forces had been compelled to recross tbe border. . It was the Ameer of Bokhara, who recently died, and not Shere All, as reported. The British Ministry has directed that 10,000 men be sent to reinforce the troops operating in 86uth Africa. According to a Liverpool telegram of the 11th, the Privy Council had directed that, on and alter March 3, all cattle arriving from the United States must be slaughtered in the abattoirs ou the docks at Birkenhead and Liverpool, within ten days alter landing. Os the 11th, the- President of the Italian Board of Health predicted that if the plague penetrated Europe one-third of the population would perish. The Emperor opened the German Reichstag, on the 12th, with a speech from the throne, delivered in person. Russia has notified Roumanla that she will not permit the quarantine of eoldiers returning from Turkey. According to a Tangier (Morocco) dispatch, published on the 12th, the Governor of Fez had been forced to take refuse in a mosque to escapd 1 the violence of tbe'populace, who bad risen against him. The Sultan had suffered an attack of paralysis, and anarchy reigned throughout the Empire. • At Liverpool, on the 13th, over 40,000 docklaborers and other workmen held a public meeting to discuss tbe question of wages. There was grest excitement, but no violence. llKNgif Goodyear, the well-known American India-rubber manufacturer, died In Paris, on the 13th.

A dispatch from the Cape of Good Hope, published in the Manchester (Sag. ) Vtuirdian on the 13th, states that the native levies serving with the British, bad risen en ww, massacred their officers aud deserted in a body to the Zulus. Up to the evening of the 13th. the British Colonial Office had received no confirmation of the report. Ex-President Grant and party reached Bombay, on the 13th. The British Parliament reassembled, on the afternoon of the 13th. According to advices of the 14th, all Italy appeared to tc panic-stricken through fear of the advent of the plague. The line of steamers running to Egyptian ports had been discontinued, and the importation of Kgyptlafi cotton prohibited. - On the 14 th, the pi sene was reported to have appeared in Bessarabia. The weather, in some portions of Canada, on the 14th, was the coldest of the seasou. At Ottawa, the thermometer indicated 21 deg. below zero, and in several localities the met' enry was frozen. The favorite Swiss tourists’ resorts, Meyrlngen. Hansen, Btcln and Eisenbolgen, were recently destroyed by fire. Thousands of people were rendered homeless. The announcement of the death of the King of Corea was made on the lath. A Constantinople telegram of the 15th rays the Powers had decided that Roumanla had an unquestionable right to hold Arabtabla. Tux .Cabinet crisis in . Vienna -has been settled by the appointment of Dr. StTeffiaj-er as Premier. The spotted typhus fever was said to be Increasing in virulence at Salonica. on the 15th. A severe storm visited the Coast of Galicia, on the 14th and 15tb. Two vessels Weft blown ashore and tWcfitV-elght persons drowned.

Congressional Proceedings. The credentials of Senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin, were placed on file in the Senate. on the 10th.... A bill was introduced and referred, authorizing the conversion of National gold bonds.... The House bill authorizing an issue of certificates of deposit of the denomination of ten dollars, inaiaof the refunding of the public debt, was passed, with an amendment increasing the interest to 4 per cent-. ■- A petition of the Catholic Young Men s National Union was P,v?*ente<i and referred, protesting against an alleged discrimination m the appointment of Army Chaplains and Indian Agents, whereby (whose soldiers, seamen and Indians are deprived of the benefit of their religion, and art: pftced in the charge of denominations in which they hare no interest or confidence... . Mr. MoUreenr spoke in favor of the transfer of the Indian Bnrean to the War Department .. .A resolution was agreed to instructing the Committee on Agriculture to consider what can or ought to be done by the General Government to better advance, encourage and foater agricultural inBills were introduced in the House—to restore the franking privilege as to letters sent or reoeived by Member* of Congress; to abolish the mileage of Members of Congress, and to sulweibill repealing the law in regard to the test oath of Jurors. and also the law lor the appointment ana payment of Supervisors of Election and their aids, were rejected—yeas. 126; nays, 118; not two-thirds in the affirmative.... A motion ws» also defeated—yean. 3a; nays, 1 -f-to suspend I -v >' J

Um rules apd pass tbe bill to establish postal savings banks Tbr Legislative. Kxautiveand Judicial Appropriation bill 1516.1 M 478) was oonfidered in Committee of the Whole. • Several bills were reported In the Senate, on the 11th. among them being tbe Potaoffice Appropriation bill, with amendmeuts . .. Tbe Conference report on tbr Naval Appropriation bill was agreed U.jsnd tbe bill was passed, appropriating tit,029,968. being 8128.624 less than toe appropriation for the present bscal year, and 8167,412 less than tbe estimates for the next year. ... .A number of hills were passed for the removal of political disabilities. la tbe House, the Conference report on the Naval Appropriation bill was agreed to ...The Legislative Appropriation bill waa farther debated in Committee of the Whole The River and Harbor Appropriation bill was reported from the Committee on Commerce, ordered printed and recommitted. - ’ \ In the,Sen ate, on the 12th, a resolution was adopted providing for tbe appointment of a select committee to inquire into the circumstances attending the recent evoape of the Cheyenne Indiana from Fort ltobinnon, their subsriiuept slaughter, etc.... The House bin to restrict the immigration of Chinese to the United States was taken up, so that it should be unfinished business on the 14th. The Conference report on the bill to abolish the volunteer navy wna agreed to in the House ... .The testimony taken by tbe Judiciary Committee in the matter of Jndga Blodgett, of Chicago. waa ordered printed The legislative. Judicial and Executive Appropriation hill was farther considered- in Committee of the Whole, and some proposed amendments were disposed of. Mr. Kellogg introduced a bill in the Senate, on the 13th, to necore tbe completion of a line of railway from San Antonio. Tex., to a point at or near K 1 Paso, on the ltio Grande.... Tbe House bill to restrict the immigration of Chinese waa taken up. arid Memrs. Sargent and Grover advocated its paswigc. and Mr. Matthews spoke against it. Mr. Blaine then took the door, but yielded to Mr. Hamlin, who said he knew there waa a majority to pass the bill, but he asked that the minoritv be triated decently, and moved to adjourn, which motion prevailed—23 to 23. In the Honae, the Legislative Appropriation bill was farther considered in Committee of tbe Whole, after which the session was devoted to memorial services of the late Julian Haitridge. A letter was received from tbe Secretary of the Treasury, and referred, stating that there will probably lie a deficit in tbe revenues of the Government during the next fiscal year of 827.041,0'41. and asking authority to issue 4-per-cent, bonds to cover such deficiency.

In the Senate, on the 14th, the credentials of Benators-elect Jonas (La.), Groome (Md.) and Vance !N. C.) were placed on file. .. A hill was introduced and referred to amend the Pension laws, and punish claim agents for a violation thereof.... l'he bill to restrict Chinese immigration wna taken up, ami Messrs, Blaine, Matthews, Thurman and Jones advocated such restriction. .Several amendments were submitted, and Mr. Hamlin obtained the floor and began an argument against the proposed measure. A number of bills were passed in the Honse donating condemned cannon for monuments. . . . A bill was reported and referred to the Committee of the Whole anti adzing tbe President to appoint Gen. James Wnietds as BrigadierGeneml on tbe retired list, such appointment being in lieu of the pension which be' now receives. .. An exciting debate occurred, in Committee of the Whole, on the question of war claims. Mr. Hamlin, in the Senate on the 15th, continued bis argument against the Chinese Immigration bill, and, after remarks by other Senators, an amendment waa agreed to providing that the bill should not apply to persons who may only seek temporary residence for educational purpose*, and whu shall have a certificate from the Chinese Government for that purpose. Other amendments were agreed to, and the bill was finally passed-39 to 27—as follows: Veat— Allison. Bailey. Bayard. Beck. Blaine, Boojh, Cameron (Pa.), Coke, Dennis, Dorsey, Eaton, Eustis. Garland, Gordon, Grover, Hereford, Jones (Nev ), Kirkwood, Lamar, McDonald, McPdersbn, Maxey, Mitchell, Morgan, Oglesby, Paddock. Patterson. Plumb, Hansom, Sargent. Bandars, Sharon, Shields, Spencer, Teller, Thurman, Voorhees. Wallace, Windom—39. Nayt— Anthony, Bruce. Burnside, Butler, Cameron (Wis.), Conkling, Conover, Davis (111.). Davis (W. Va.), Dawes, Edmonds. Ferry; Hamlin, Hill, Hoar. Howe, Ingalls. Jones, (Fla.). Kellogg, Kernan. McCreery, McMillan, Matthews, Memrnon, Morril 1 , Randolph, Withers 27. Messrs. Barnum and Chaffee, who would have voted in the affirmative, were paired with Messrs, ltollins and Wadleigh. In the House, tbe Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was taken up in Committee of the Whole, and announcement was made from the Committee on appropriations that a bill would tie reported in a few days to pay the arrearages of pensions. Several proposed amendments were disposed of ...Tne 1 deficiency Appropriation bill w>*s reported, ordered printed and recommittedi

THE INVESTIGATION.

The Teller Committee. 1 IN WASHINGTON. Gen. Reuben E. Davis, of Mississippi, testified before the committee, on the 12th, that he whs a candidate for Congress in the late election from the First District; he bad been informed privately of threats to prevent him from being heard; the idea prevailed that he was endeavoring to reorganise the negroes in opposition to the Democrats! after the election he had been hung In effigy, and then burned; he was a Greenback Candidate, having been nominated by that party attd was voted for by the colored people; he was at first informed He Had been elected, but was afterward told Muldrow was successful. Witness Wes asked whether he did not once make a speech in Congress about hanging Northern men. and he replied that he did. m December. I 860; in that speech he arraigned the Bepnblicans as rebels, and said if Seward would come South and uttet slich Sentiments as he entertained and had frequently expressed. he iWitness) thought the people would hang him before he returned North. Witness said he indorsed every word of his testimony before the BoutwellCommittee in 1876; he had said the Radicals were bull-dozers, and they operated on negroes by superstition, threatening to put snakes and lizards into them; the Democrats l.ow are obnoxious to what he then stid of the Radicals; the white man could not vote in the South against the Democracy without being ostracised; bnt witness said he dreaded the assassin's knife more than he did ostracism; he believed the great majority of bis district was against bull-dozing and ballot-box staffing, but there Was a class of ambitions, aspiring mefi who •ought to render all persons 0 Holts who do not adopt their views t he claimed that by a fair count he could have beaten CoL Muldrow by 10,010 votes, William Vasser, a native pf Virginia, bttt living at Aberdeen, Miss,, since 1841, testified that he was baptised in the old Whig party, and since the star was elected on the Alcorn ticket as State Treasurer; in the late election he supported the Greenback ticket; at Okolona a political meeting was very boisterous, two-thirds of the crowd seemed drunk, while at West Point he was called upon for a talk; he was charged with making a Radical speech; he had put bis speech in print; the crowd came in, and one person demanded what he was reading; he felt satisfied it was a bull-dozing crowd; a good many white, people supported Davie| everything 18 called Radical In Mississippi that is not Democratic t a man s social and business relations are affected by his political opinionnt in Mississippi middle-aged men. and nub advanced in life, are moderate «nd respectful to all citiscns: Confusion And boiftteifttlß aha illegal conduct are confined to tne younger men, tne politics of Mississippi being largely governed by young men: the Republican party there is virtually dead; it has bad no vitality since. 1875 and 1876; the leaders were mostly Northern men. and since the State passed into Democratic hands the Republicans have been without leaders; the whites would take every measure possible to prevent the State from again falling into Republican hands: the people have a great hoftor of being rdled by colored people, and loftk Upon Northern people wming into the state as an intrusion; the oolored man will vote tor any man in opposition to the Democratic party if he can be protected in so doing; witness' observation did not corroborate the claim that the colored vote was divided between the Republicans and Democrats.

J. H. Field, of Columbus, Miss., testified, On the 13th; that be did not know of a single instance of intimidation or attempt to prevent anyone from votine; the election was sought to be conducted in a pleasant way in accordance with the principles of right and justice, though actively and energetically; witness did not agree with Gen, Davis’ unfavorable estimate of the negro; those of gjod conduct and intelligence have the regard of the people generally. In answer to a question by Senator Garland, witness said the white people of his State generally would dissuade the negro by kind and conciliatory means from having anything to do with politics, while they would pot exclude him from doing so; he thought his people were against-- a limitation of suffrage or taking the suffrage away from the adored people. Witness was further asked if -enatora Kirkwood and Teller should go to Mississippi and make Republican bow wonld they be received and treated, and said be thought the people wonld warmly welcome them as coming with honest intent to investigate the condition of affairs; witness' people had endeavored to indnoe the best class of Republicans to visit their section, that the low degradation in the condition of the colored people might be improved; CoL Muldrow was elebted owing to his popularity; the election was peaceful as any witness had before known, and he neither knew nor heard of complaints of intimidation or hat-lot-box stuffing. Capt W. W/Humphreys testified that the late election was more peaceable and quiet than usual: nobody was prevented from voting; he thought it a fair and honest election as any in any witness “ided there was no disposition to deprive the colored man of any of his rights, except, perhaps, on ths part of a few extreme men: freedom of speech and of the press was fully recognized in Mississippi, and any man could make a speech there provided it was not calculated to create a breach of the peace; he believed the pnadpal reason the people desired

the colored men to rote was increased representation in Coqgress. ' J *r Tbe Chairman of tbe committee appointed as a sub-committee Messrs. Hoar. McMillan. Kirkwood. Garland and Wallace to ioquiro mlo the f .lli.wing branch of the resolution of Senator Blaine, namely: ‘‘Whether, in tbe yesr 1878, money wna raised by aasemment, or otherwise, upon the Federal officeholders or employee for election purposes, and under what circumstances ana wbat means; and, if so. what amount was so raised and bow tbe same was expended; and. farther, whether such assessments were, or not, in violation of tbe law.'' Tbe committee then adjourned subject to a call of the Chairman.

The Tetter ( mssiiuee. IK wakmnotok. A The committee, in secret 'session, on the 10th, tallied a letter from tbe President of tbs WestenAjnion Telegraph Company explaining how tbe politieal telegrams came to be burned, etc. it was stated that the majority did not intend to call any mote witnesses, ibe Republican members intimated that they wonlrl like to have one or two witnesses testify regarding points elicited in New York. The committee then adjourned. ... , m xrw YORK. On the Bth, Gov. Tilden appeared before the subcommittee and testified. Witness had read the dispatches and their translation in tbe New York papers; did not recognize a single dispatch be had ever seen before; never entered into any arrangement to purchase the vote of Booth Carolina or Florida; bod no information or suspicion that any such communications were, being earned on nntil tbe dispatches appeared in the New York Tribvttf had no knowledge and no dealings with any parties to these negotiations. anti never authorized them in any form; on Nov. 20, 1876. first learned that l’efton had left the city for Philadelphia: later in the day Mr. Cooper told him he had received an offer from some party offering to secure the vote of South Carolina for money: told Cooper he would authorize no such transaction, nor spend money for any such purpose I obtained Felton’s address in Baltimore and telegmpheil him to come home; know nothing of the ciphers that had been paining between him and others, and could not have translated them; never saw one of the telegrams either in cipher or translation in regard to Florida; diu not know and waa not informed that negotiations were going on in regard to illegally obtaining certificate!) of the Returning Board; bad heard Marble speak generally of the corruption of the Florida Returning Board; did not know that the Oregon dispatches came in cipher untilafterthe meeting of the oommittee to investigate them; did not know that any of them were delivered at hia residence; Cbl. Pelton's habits of mind and Witnoai,’ were very different; none of the Democratic statesmen who went South w< reauthorized to do anything that a gentleman might not do; from Nov. 7, 1876, until Dec. 6. did not enter into any combination to seek certificates by venal inducement; there never was an hoar or minute that such a thought was entertained; owed it to the 4,000,(60 citizens, who. aa he believed, elected him President of the United States, to ptoclain that he would not yield one jot or title of Lis right; whatever evils resulted from this subversion of the Electoral system and free government, he resolved he would enter into no auction for the purchase of the Chief Magistracy; resolved that he would continue to protest against a wrong by which the people were defrauded out of their rights; did not recollect having received the dispatch to Geo. W. Smith, his private secretary, suggesting that the Governor of Oregon refrain from issuing a certificate to one of the Electors, and had ’no knowledge of such dispatch ; did not know if Smith had a cipher, and knew nothing about ciphers himself; did not get from Peitotl when he returned from Baltimore any information about his negotiations; was told by Cooper of the Sonth Carolina vote being for sale, but never neatd of any attempt to bribe until tho fact was published; first heard of the -Florida bribery negotiations from Marble, on his return: Marble gave no details and witness made no inquries; aid not consult Pelton about the propositions to buy or sell, and was only interested in stopping them; Pelton ceased to reside at Gramercy Park about the Ist of January: did not ask him to resign his position, but manifested great displeasure, and he left; knew nothing of Weed’s ptesence in South Carolina, and did Hot heat ttom him of this proposition to buy votes; had confidential relations with Marble: Pelton was the fast man in the world he would select if he had intended to enter into snch a transaction aA purchasing Electoral votes; did not refer to the Baltimore transaction in his published card because “it was not pertinent.” On cross-examination, Mr. Tilden stated that he did not converse with Weed before he left for the South; saw the dispatch. received in New York, saying. “ You are imperiling the result here.” In reply to the question why he did not call Cooper’s or Hewitt's attention to Pelton’s course lest the Democratic General Committee should be compromised. Gov. Tilden said he supposed that they had full knowledge and would be able to lake case that nothing wrong should be done; the civil law doesn t recognize purposes nntil they are embodied in actions; the Church punishes the purposes of crimtbalß, eVen if they are not carried ont; the atmosphere at that time was full of rumors of fraudulent Returning Boards; “I dßclafe befofe Godafld my country that the Votes of fxmisiaha ftnd Florida were bought (meaning by the Republicans); 1 would scorn and condemn my righteous title if the Democratic party had secured my seat by fraud.” Witness did not remember receiving any special information in regard to the expenses of legal proceedings in the disputed Southern States; he knew nothing about it, but supposed these matters were under the charge of some member of tne National Committee. In answer to the question if it did not occur to witness that he ought to investigate Col. Pelton’s relHiofra to the National Committee after ne learned of Pelton s Baltimore transaction, Mr. Tilden said he thoußht the best wav to deal with snch transactions was to stop it, Dut to do it himself and not let anybody else do it; he thought that such catirse would have been better in Florida than Kfidt waadofle therS; When a certain party set np a high standard of morality, he proposed to analyze that standard, and sec it they lived np to it themselves; Col. Pelton thought it excusable to fight fire With fire, and adopt the tactics of the enemy; Mr. Pelton’s act was an inchoate offense : the acta of the other side were consummated, and gave the Presidency to a man not elected; Het id slot attempt to excuse Col. Peltttn; the latter did not Ufct Up to his oWfl standard of morality. ... ~ , E. L. Parris testified that hts telegrams, though addressed to Mr. Tilden, were intended for the National Committee. George W. Smith, Gov. Tilden’s private secretary. was put on the stand and Bwore that he remembered nothing in regard to the cipher dispatches. . , The committee went into executive session, decided to examine nd imore witnesses, and left in the evening for Washington,

An Accidental Marine Picture.

The frost-work representation on the window-pane of trees, castles, landscapes and common scenes—familiar phenomena as they are—always excite wonder, ana often cause one to ponder on the mysterious chance which makes these pictures in the regular outline of a careful design. But the ephemeral frost is not the only material employed by the unseen artist, as witness a marine view on wood which can be seen at Calvin Ilervey’s jewelry store. It looks like an old oil painting; no one would for a moment suppose that it was a chance picture, but such it really is. It was discovered recently by Mr. Hervev when he had the partitions removed from a drawer which he has used to keep tools in for twenty-five years. The scratching of the implements as they rattled around in the drawer, the action of the oil which mingled with the rust turned green, the dust and grime of a auarter of, a century, all had combined to paint on these pine board partitions a tolerably good sketch, in dull colors, of the ocean with three vessels sailing on its bosom, and in the distance a headland with a lighthouse. Mr. Hervey has had the picture framed in gilt, and it hangs over his repairing bench, ready for tne close inspection of doubtful Thomases, or any one else. —Belfast (Me.) Age. the carpenter s wooing. “ Oh! beam of my life, my awl to me!’’ He cried, his fl-me addressing; “ If I 'adze such a love as yours, I'd ask no other blessing !” “ I’m rejoist to hear you speak,” The maiden saUL with laughter; “ For. though I hammer guileless girl, It's plane what you are rafter. J. ir “ Now, if file love you just a bit, What further will you ax me? Can, will you be content with that. Or will von further tacks me? He looked handsaw her words were,square. ■'—■'"No rival can displace me. Yes, one more favor I irbplore; That is, dear Em, brace mer , —Bl. Loan Journal. Contractor —How’s this, sir? I trusted you to overlook this workj and here, the first day. the very thing I wanted most of ajl is neglected. Overseer— Faix, surrer, and isn’t that overlooking it entoirely, thin? Already it is 'announced that the "heft” of the fruit crop for another season is ruined. Shippers will prob-ably'-order the bottoms of their baskets raised Another inch or so, on the strength of it.— Fond du Lac Reporter.

Purity of Elections.

The Democrat* in Congressional caucus have resolved to load down the Legislative Appropriation bill with two j political measures that are pretty sure to encounter the party resistance of the Republicans. The purpose is to compel Republican acquiescence in these objectionable measures, or to defeat the Appropriation bill of which they are to be made a part, and in the latter cnso to necessitate ah extra session of Congress at which the Democrats can organize their majority in each House and pass their measures in spite of Republican opposition. The two measures in question-are (1) a bill repeating oath for jurors in the United States Courts, and (2) a bill repealing the United States Election law. There is not much to the first measure, and probably the Republicans would agree to a repeal of the test-oath if the proposition were submitted improper shape. Indeed, the Democrats claim that the requirement of such an oath was actually repealed, and that its existence on the statutebooks is due to an error in revision. This may be conceded to bp the fact, in view of the many errors already discovered in the Revised Statutes. The form of oath objected to requires the person summoned as juror to swear that he has never taken part in rebellion against the United States, nor given any assistance in money or otherwise to those who have participated in such rebellion, and the District Attorney, or other person acting for the Government mav, at nis discretion, require the Court to administer this oath in addition to the usual qualification. There may still be some objections to removing the privilege of demanding such an oath, but they are not of sufficient weight to warrant an issue which would involve an extra session of Congress. It is very different, however, with the United States Election Statutes. The law in question provides for the appointment of Supervisors in cities having upward of 20,000 inhabitants upon the application of two citizens, or in any county where ten citizens make such application, to scrutinize the election - for Congressmen and protect it from fraud. The practice of the Courts is to appoint two Supervisors for each voting precinct, one selected from each of the two principal parties in contest, and such person as each pJrty may recommend, if he be reputable and fit for the position. These Supervisors are authorized to attend at the places of registration, challenge any person offering to register, list the voters, /attend the polls, challenge voters, scrutinize the manner In which the voting is done and count the ballots.'’' The law also provides for special Deputy Marshals to protect the Supervisors in the discharge of their dutios, and for the punishment by fine and imprisonment of those who shall be convicted of interfering with the Supervisors and Marshals, and preventing them from faithfully performing their duty. It must be temembeted that this law, which the Democrats want to have repealed, applies to the election o£ Members of Congress, who are in no sense State officers, and whose election the United States Government might, under the Constitution, take under its special and exclusive direction. The reason why the Democrats are so anxious for the early repeal of the law is that they desire to protect from prosecution and punishment certain people in South Carolina and other States who combined to intimidate United States Supervisors and Marshals at the last election, drive them from the polls, arrest them and otherwise prevent them from discharging their duty. It was these combinations against the Supervisors and against the enforcement of the United States statute which facilitated the voting of tissue ballots, the stuffing of ballot-boxes, and the falsifying of the count in so many of the Southern districts. The repeal of the law now would save from prosecution those who were engaged in this disreputable business at last fall’s election, and in the future remove every obstacle from the path of those who are prepared to cairy elections for Congressmen by fraud or force. The Democrats cannot secure Jhe repeal of this Election law as a direct measure in the present Congress, since the Republican Senate would refuse to concert. In tacking the proposed repeal on one of the Appropriation bills, and thus seeking to secure byunworthy strategy a measure that will not stand on its own merits, they are assuming a responsibility that will come back to plague them before they are through with it. It is a measure which"the Republicans ought to resist at any cost. They should refuse to acquiesce in any Appropriation bill that shall carry this repeal with it. If the consequent defeat of an appropriation on this account shall make it necessary to call an extra session of Congress, the TeSponsibility will rest with the Democrats, and it will be for them to justify before the country their zeal for the repeal of a proper and necessary law. This is an issue which the Republicans should rather seek than avoid. It will place the Republican party in the attitude of fighting for honest elections and the Democratic party in the attitude of fighting for dishonest elections, and there can be no doubt of the result of such an issue when properly presented to the people. Suppose that the Republican party should side with the Democrats in this matter, and consent to the repeal of the United States Election law. Suppose the Republicans should take this position for the same reason that the Democrats take it. Suppose the Republicans should say to the Democrats: “You may go on in the Southern States, depriving the negroes of their right to vote and carrying elections by fraud and violence, but we shall get even with vou; whenever our party controls the State or local machinery we shall adopt the same tactics; we shall exclude Democrats from the polls, we shall vote our repeaters as often as we like, we shall stuff the ballot-boxes and count the returns to suit onrselvos!” What would be the result of this agreement upon violence and fraud as the ruling elements of Congressional elections? It would eventuate in the destuction of the elective system of government. Adventurers and knaves would then be tlje political chiefs of the country, and the rule of the majority would cease to be even a pretense. Our system of g&verament could not endure for any length of time under Such practices. — * In seeking to force the repeal of the Congressional Election law, the Democrats are starting out as the champions of intimidation and violence, fraud and corruption, illegal voting aba the stuffing of bailot-boxeß f .for the law. n<i u ftfopda la an equal protectioh to both parties, and enables both pasties to take an active supervision, under the auspices of the United States Courts, of the election of Congress-

men. These Congress ton hi elections form no pirt of the State and the latter have no more warrant In seeking the control thereof than the j United States Government would have | In the effort to superintend and direct the election of members of the Legislature in the various States. If the Democrats will not, assent to appropriations for carrying on the General Government except on condition of its surrendering entirely its jurisdiction in Rational elections, t hen let the present Congress adjourn without making the appropriations, and let the Democrats go before the people on this issue.. It will be a new National issue, and one which the Republicans will be able to turn to their advantage. It will involve the question of National vs. State Sovereignty, and of honest vs. dishonest elections; and the Democrats, beside championing the wrong .side in each of these issues, bo accountable to the people for the cost and dangers of an extra session of Congress as a means for achieving an unworthy political object. Chicago Tribune.

How Tilden Avoided Information.

But how did this innocent man meet Pelton, when he returned? He says: “ f said something to him about his action, but he made no reply. I did not get from him any information about the ciphers or negotiations until I saw them published. 1 did not belieVe that Pelton had any power, because.he had no authorization.” Surely by keeping this policy Mr. Tilden could keep himself ignorant of things which he had every reason to ( think were going on. And this is according to his character. No one can suppose that such tin experienced operator in all sorts of crooked affairs would fall at the first step to the clumsy method of himself directing these negotiations. All will readily suppose that there was an express understanding that he was not to know. Cooper forces on him the information that there were negotiations to buy the South Carolina vote, but when Tilden meets Pelton he asks for no information about it, and he continues in the same relation. In fact, the attempt to buy the South Carolina vote had failed. Whether the Democratic bribing had been entertained by the board dr not, it had closed its canvass and made its return, to avoid interference from a corrupt Supreme Court. And it had made its return according to the fact of the election, as all parties have admitted. This attempt, which Mr. Tilden treated so resignedly, was, in fact, an attempt of his immediate representatives to bribe the returning officers to give to Tilden the vote of a State which the popular vote had given to Hayes. Another instance of Tildcn’s policy of avoiding information of these negotiations is fiven in his testimony concerning the lorida bribery. In answer he said he first heard of it from Mr. Marble; that “ he simply mentioned the circumstance after he had returned from Florida. He gave me no details and I made no inquiries.” There had been a very active interchange of cipher telegrams between Marble, Woolley and others and Tilden’s residence, ending in failure to do the bribery. Tilden had before had knowledge of the South Carolina attempt. He affects to censure Pelton for that. Ho now hears that Marble has been in the same business, but he makes no inquiries. In this way he could be constructively ignorant of a great deal that he knew was going on. —Cincinnati Qazette.

Habits of Mind.

“Col. Pelton’s habits of mind and mine are very different,” said Mr. Tilden in his testimony before the Potter Committee. This was one of the remarks by which he tried to create the impression that ho had no knowledge of or connection with the cipher dispatches, and that only his nephew and his confidential managers and intimate friends were guilty. He did not assert in so many words that they were rascals and he an innocent old man who had fallen among thieves, but he tried very hard to produce that impression. One of the statements by which he. tried to produce this impression was the one above qqoted—“ Col, Pelton’s habits of mTnd and mine are very different.” This is one of Tilden’s vague generalities, but in the language of the street, “it won’t wash.” VV’hen he said “Col. Pelton’s habits of mind and mine are very different,” he evidently meant to convey the meaning that Pelton would use means and methods to achieve success which he, Tilden, would not use: that he, Tilden, was a _ strictly honest man, straightforward and upright in all his dealings and ways of doing business, while Pelton was, if not the reverse, at least very different from this. The country will accept Mr. Tilden’s estimate of Pelton’s character. There is not a particle of doubt that he is a thoroughly unscrupulous fellow, or to put itreveri more plainly, a great rascal. His entire course in regard to the Southern , Returning Boards, as shown by the cipher dispatches and his own testimony, proves this. Mr. Tilden sees it and concludes to add the Weight of his own judgment to the other testimony on this point, and while doing sc to get in a word for himself also. So he says “Col. Pelton’s habits of mind and mine are very different,’ l„_jßut are they so very different after all? Tilden would Uke_to have it appear so, but is it so? \Y e can only judge of a man’s habits of mind by his acts, these being the outward expression of internal thoughts and purposes. Pelton’s acts in regard to the Southern Returniiig Boards, and his efforts tonegotiate for the.purchase of an Electoral vote show that his habits of mind are those of a rascal, but how is it about THden? It is a ; notorious fact that he has fleeced and plundered more railroads than any other man living. It, is equally notorious that lie Was a party to a wild-cat bank issue in Michigan ty which a great number of persons were swindled. It is equally notorious that during a period of several years he defrauded the Government out of a very large sum by making false income-tax returns year after year. It is equally notorious that his nomination at St. Louis was procured by corrupt means, and that he spent money like water during the campaign that followed for corrupt purposes. These acts indicate that Tilden’s habits of mind are those of a man who stops at nothing to carry out his ends; that with him “fair is foul and foul is fair,’,’ sd that he accomplishes his purposes. During his whole his habits of mind have dropped oUt, they are seen to be the habits of a mind familiar with corrupt and dishonest methods, and apt to use any and all means lor suocess. This being the case, what right has Tilden to say that Col.'Pelton’s habits of mind And his are VOT fHßfvrOtr& We sbould-sayifthere is any difference, it is in favor of Pelton. It is true his. habits of mind are those of a man ready to use any means,

no matter how oorrupt, to carry Ms end; but, so.far as the country knows, be was never connected with any corrupt transaction or negotiation before this cipher-dispatch business, while Tilden's wholo record is crooked and rotten. His studied attempt to throw the whole responsibility of the cipher dispatches on his confidential managers, ■ and his malicious remark that Pelton’s habits of mind and his own wero very different, show Tilden to be a hypocrite and a sneak, as well as a corruptionist. rncKSltnpults Journal. ——

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—ATiewßedford, Mass., teacher was assaulted by a twelve years-old .l*d, while she was punisliingbim, the other day, and had to call in a man to her. Jf —One Montgomery, of Killinchey, v County Down, Ireland, dropped dead, the other day; his wife fell dead on seeing him fall, and her sister expired of heart-disease on receiving news of the double catastrophe. —A Philadelphia conductor attempted to put his wife off his car because she couldn’t pay her fare. She told him she had paid all her money for the supper she had just brought him, A lady paid the fare. Later he beat his wife so badly that her life is in danger. —A Maplewood man purchased a bale of pressed hay in the city, a few days since, and on opening it a line specimen of pressed rattlesnako was found neatly coiled up in the center. His snakesnip was about live feet in length and had ten rattles. —Chicago Journal. —Albany has a sad case of gumchewing. A young lady of great beauty and many accomplishments began chewing gum at the age of ten, and been a constant chewer eveT since. The habit Jjas become so confirmed that her jaws involuntarily perform the motions of chewing even when the gum is laid aside. — N. Y. Evening Post. —The Belfast (Me.) Journal says; More than five years ago, when in the field, a bug flew into and remained in the ear of Sijar Storer, of Morrill. Vinegar was administered to kill the insect, the pain ceased, and in a short time the event was almost forgotten. During an illness last week the bug dropped from the ear of Mr. Storer. —A colored man of good address, giving the name of Dr. W. C. Lane, is 'under arrest at Norwich, Conn., for swindling poor colored’ persons in a very audacious manner. He lectured on uhrenology and agriculture as an introduction to the moro important theme—speculative industry. He pretended to representthe “ Great National Desiccated Cocoanut, Spice Manufacturing and Shipping Produce Company, capital $50,000, par value stock at one dollar per share.” The stock was to be distributed among colored peopler the mill in Boston was to be run by colored men, and the cocoanuts were to be brought from the company’s own island in its own ships, manned by colored men. He and an assistant secured about S4OO.

Grain and Other Crop Statistics.

The following interesting statistics' are taken from a recent report by the> Commissioner of Agriculture, on the condition of the crops and the past and present yield and prices of grain, et<s.; in this country: The crop of corn in 1577 was the lanrest ever raised in this country up to tljat date, having been 1,343,000,000 bushels, valued ah $ 150,043,000. The crop of 1878 exceeded It. iw bushels, but the over production brouffht the pi ice much lower, and the crop, which was l 371,000,000. bushels, is only valued at $436,8m) 000,' The lowest State averages are in lowa and Ncoraska. both of which States increased their i roducts very largely, too great forborne consumption, and too remote from leading markets; the price lias fallen U* about one-half it was in 1870. The Btates showing the highest average price are the Gulf Stutcs, from Georgia to Texas, where the consumption fully equals the crop, aud where the prices are less than those of last y< ar. 'I he price per bushel, returned December, 1878, was 81.9; in 1877, 35.8 cents. The average price of wheat for the year 187 ti was *1.04 per bushel; for the year 1877, Stimulated bv war in Europe, the increased crop was worth 41.08; but for the year 1878, an increase of upwards of 50,000,000 bushels, the price had fallen to 78 cents per bußhel on Dec. 1 1878 - ’The crop of 1878, which amounts to 422,000,000 bushels, is worth only 1339,000,000; while the crop of 1877, which was 365,000,000 bushels, was worth *394,000,000. In tiie case of wheat, the price is greatly Influenced by the European demand. For the year ending June 30, 1878, it was found that we exported 92,000,000 bushels of wheat (flour included), about 25 per cent- of our whole crop. From estimates published by the Board of Trade apd the Mark Lane Express, of England, it Is estimated that the supply of England will be short 13,000,000 quarters, equal to 107,000,000 bushels, leaving that amount to import. Last year the amount imported was 15,000,000 quarters, or 123,000,000 bushels. This supply was mainly drawn from the United Slates and will be so this year. From estimates in France, published in the Bulletin !to Holies, the wheat crop of 1878 Is placed at. 83,500,000 hectoliters, or 230,000,000 bushel", being 20,0(0,000 hectoliters, or 56,000,000 bushels, less than that of 1877, which was a poor crop. , The amount imported into France In 187778 was 22,000,000; the amount needed this year must approximate 70,000,090 bushels. The same bulletin, estimating the sources of supply abroad, says: “The utmost surplus from Russia for export will be 50,000,000 bushels; irom Hungary, 17,000,000; and the only other source of supply of any importance is tiie United Btates.” The following statement of prices in some of the prominent wheat-growing States since 1874 will fairly illustrate the range of prices Tn those years: States. 1874. MS. MS. 1877. 1878. Ohio ..$1.04 $1.09 $1.14 $1.24 $0.86 Michigan 1.08 1.16 1-16 1.23 85 Indiaua 94 ,97 1.02 1.13 81 Illinois ...... ■ 86 91 93 1.04 75 .Wisconsin .... 83 91 1.01 W JI Minnesota.... 70 86 90 91 51 lowa 65 71 90 87 60 Missouri....... 83 95 89 I.CO 67 Kansas 84 87 86 62 69 Nebraska 60 64 73 63 49 From returns made in December, 1878, wo find the average price of potatoes to be 58.8 ceuts per bushel. With a crop almost identical with that of 1876, we have a price much lower per bushel, aud a total valueof 410,000,000 less than that year. With a cron some 46,000,000 bushels less than, last year the total value does Dot equal that of the excessive yield of 1877. The following is a table of pro duct, price per bushel, and total value for the l*et four years: Price Tear. Product. per bu. Value. 1876.. 166 870 000 38.9 $65019 000 1876.. 124*00,000 66 5 83,8G0,000 fcrpa;. m « It is a curious fact that mof* persons die of diphtheria in the healthy districts of England than in those where the general mortality is higher. In the healthy districts, out of 100,000 persons born, 1,029 die of this disease; while in the less healthy districts, such as Liverpool, the deaths diphtheria apount to only 441. 'Oh the other hapd, the , deaths frojn scarlet fever Taj the healthy Districts number 2,140,' while in Liverpool they are 3,830 out (Of every 100,000 born. The best medical authorities assert that the djseasejias existed from the earliest days of medical hTstoryrbunf ffi becomp much more ylrulent in modern times.