Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1879 — General Hews Summary. [ARTICLE]

General Hews Summary.

From Washington. fU Subcommittee of the National House Oommlttae ou Appropriation*, on the 17th, i*rn—imlnl the appropriation of 496,800,000 to ascot the requirements of the Arrear aireo-of-Fensions bill, and-the House at twee poaaed a MU making tuck appropriation. Sm*t Sawur made the eighty-ninth call or the redemption of 8-90 bonds, on the 17th. Aaaoont, OXMUO.OOO; interest and principal payable on anTafter May 17, naxt. The special committee of the United States Senate, appointed to Investigate the cause of the oaalaaioe of the Hot-Spring* section from the enrolled Sundry Civil Appropriation bill of leak araaloo v made a report, on the 10th, to the aCact that all the evidence goes to show that the omission was a clerical error, made h 7 overworked and exhausted member* and clerks of the House Committee while enrolling the MU In sections as they severally came bom the Conference Committee during the laat hours of the seat lon. The report Bays It la clearly proven that neither Senator Conover, nor any member or officer of tire Sonata, la in any way reaponaible for the lose or omteioa of the section from the bill, as the bill did not come into their possession from the ttane it left the House Committee until it was placed before the President for his signature. Gen. John A. Logan, Senator-elect from Illinois, arrived in Washington, on the 20th, and met with an enthusiastic reception at the hands of his Republican friends. On the 2M, the House of Representatives concurred in the Senate amendments to the bill restricting Chinese Immigration, and sent the bill to the President for approval. Tn hill to repeal the Resumption Act was defeated, in the National House of Representatives, on the 29d, hr the decisive vole of 141 to 110. _____ The East. A r*v days ago, Mr. Henry Tudor started from New York, with the avowed Intention of riding on honeback ill the way from that city to Punts Arenas, the roost southerly point of Patagonia, in Sooth America. A Philadelphia telegram of the 20th says that Angell. the defaulting Secretary of the Pullman Palace Car Company, arrived off the Delaware Capes, on the Shooting Star, on that day, and wonld reach Philadelphia next day. Col. Isaac E. Eaton, of Kansas, was, on the S2d, appointed to the vacancy on the National Democratic Committee, caused by the resignation of Abram 8. Heafitt, of New York. Rwas also decided that the headquarters of the committee be established at Boston. 1 [ On the 23d, a bronsed statue of Washington was unveiled at Newburyport, Mass., In the presence of an Immense multitude. The ceremonies were Interesting. Henxt Bigelow Wiluams. a Boston realestate dealer, failed on the 23d. Liabilities, •2,206,831. At Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 22d, Joseph Rousch, Joseph Brown and W. L. Scott, the tvre former Republicans and the latter a Democrat, were sentenced to pay a flee of 0100 and be Imprisoned in the County Jail tor twelve months each, for ballot-box stuffing at the recent election. The following were the closing quotations for produce in New York, on Feb. 22d: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, *1.034t 1.04; N 0.2 Milwaukee, •1.0801.04. Oats, Western Mixed, 31033 c. Corn, Western Mixed, 46% li 47%c. Pork, Mess, •[email protected], Lard, $7.02%. Flour, Good to Choice, •4.0504.50; Whit. Wheat Extra, •4.5505.25. Cattle, *7.00 v <? 10.50 for Good to Extra. Sheep, *4.75@ 6.00. Hogs, *4 0004.40. At East Liberty, Pa., on Feb. 23d, Cattle brought; Best, •5.0005.25; Medium, #4.50 @4.75; Common, *3.5004.25. Hogs sold— Yorkers, *3.7004.09; Philadelphia*, *4.200 4.50. ffiieep brought *3.soos.3s—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on Feb. 23d, Cattle brought: Best, *5.12)405.75; Medium, *8.5004.87)4. Hogs sold st *5.2506.00 for Good. Sheep were quoted at *4.0005.50 tor Good. West and South. At the annual meeting of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, recently held at Madison, resolutions were adopted demanding that nurserymen be held strictly responsible for the acts of their agents; that treeplanters should require of all who solicit their orders unquestionable proof that they are authorized agents of some reliable nurseryman, and that such nurserymen are able and willtog to meet the representations of their agents; and that allegations of scarcity, or extraordinary excellence, or exborbitant prices, should be taken as prima fade evidences of fraud. At Cincinnati, on the 15th, Judge Baxter, of the United States Circuit Court, decided that the United States Election law was Constitutional, and that Congress bad an undoubted right to enact the law. According to Ban Francisco dispatches of the 17th, great excitement existed in Alaska over an anticipated outbreak of the natives, who had threatened to annihilate the whites. The latter had called upon the adjacent British authorities for aid in warding off the anticipated attack. The Collector had telegraphed Bec’y Sherman for assistance. A passexgeb TRAIN on the Belma, Rome & Dalton Railroad, which left Selma, Ala., on the morning of the 18th, broke through a rotten bridge across Mulberry Creek, near the latter dty. The entire'train except the engine was wrecked, and every person on board except the engineer and fireman was either killed or injured. Three persons were killed ouhright, three fatally Injured and about twenty-five more or less hurt Among the fatally injured was Stanton, the General Superintendent of the road. The Michigan State Beuate, on the 18th, voted for United States Senator to succeed Mr. Christiancy (resigned), with the following reentt: For Chandler (Rep.), 22; Barnes (Dem.), 2; Chamberlain (Greenback), 5. In the House the vote was: For Chandler 66Barnes, 90; Chamberlain, 18. The Rlßhtßev. Thomas Foley,D. D., Bishop Administrator of the Catholic Diocese of Chicago, died in that city, on the morning of the 18th, from typhoid pneumonia. The prelate was fifty-seven years old. At Louisville, Ky., on the 21st, George Washington (colored) was hung. As ttje trap was sprung, the prisoner fell With such violence that the rope broke off abort at the net*. Washington war Immediately picked Dp, the noose readjusted and the trap again sprang, this time the execution being successfully accomplished. In a Chicago -restaurant,; on the afternoon of the 91st, the cook went into the basement, with a lighted lamp, to draw a quantity of gasoline. An explosion followed, the poor fellow was burned to death and the reetaura ut destroyed. Another partisan war over the county-seat question has broken out in Lincoln County, ■ft?’ proclamation declaring martial law fa demanded. On the IBd* H. }■ Chapman, a prominent resident lawyer, was shot and killed on the public square at Lincoln,

Aa A large crowd Was witnessing the opera* ' thm of a new a team-pump at Stockton, Cal., on the 93d, the boiler exploded, and' hurled the engine and Attachment*, weighing 2,600 1 pounds, with great force, through tha multi- j tads, a distance of 150 feet. Sixteen persona were torn to atoms and twenty-six mote were, more or less, seriously hart. Ik Chicago, on Feb. 22d, Spring Wheat Jio. 8 closed at. 91*4@92c epah; 91)40. 92)4c for March. Cash Corn closed it 3314 c for No. 2; SStfc for March; 87»4c for May. Cash Oau No. 3 told at 22J4c; 23)4 1> seller March; SSe for April. Rve No. 2,47 c. Barley No. 2,78080 c lor rash; 79081 c for March. Cash Mesa Pork dosed at *9.95010.00. Lard, *6.73)4. &<*'«* —Extra brought *5.0005.35; Choice, *4 75 @5.00; Good, [email protected]; Medium Grades, *[email protected]; Butchers’ Stock, *2.0503.75; Stock Cattle, etc., *2 [email protected]. Hogs—Good to Choice, *3.0004.30. Sheep—Poor to Choice, *3.5006.00.

Foreign Intelligence. A Rome dispatch of the 17th says the Pope bad finally decided to accept the resignation of Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, and was then considering the appointment of his successor. The Moscow Journals were not 'Allowed to appear, the other morning, until the unfavorable plague news had been suppressed. Ox the 18th, eighteen Catholic Irish Bishops met at Maynootb, and adopted resolutions censuring the Government for Its method of dealing with the question of university education. ■'} At Cairo, Egypt, on the ißtlt, the official residences of the President of the Council and Minister of Finance were surrounded by a large number of disbanded officers who loudly demanded their arrears of pay. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Finance and even the Khedive himself were grossly Insulted and rudely hustled by the clamorous throng. At length the Khedive’s body-guard arrived, fired upon and dispersed the rioters. The Khedive has demanded the resignation of Nubar Pasha, bis Premier, and it has accordingly been tendered and accepted. Ox the lthb, the Grand Duke Nicholas, of Russia, son of the Grand Duke Constantine, was exiled to Orenburg, for writing a pamphlet advocating the immediate construction of a railway from Orenburg to Tashkend as the surest measure to force England to abandon her resistance to the Russian Eastern policy. In the German Parliament, on the lUth, two propositions, one contesting the correctness of the Government’s inter pi etation of the Socalist laws, and the other refusing assent to the proposed arrest of two Socalist members of the Reichstag, were adopted by large majorities. Ox the 20th, Thomas Sutton, a large shipowner and merchant of Shields and Newcastle, Eng., failed for over fitVOO.OUO. The Porte has appointed four Commissioners to superintend the proposed reforms in AslaMlnor. * According to a Calcutta dispatch of the 20tb, a report had been received from Mandalay stating that the King of Burmah had murdered all the Royal Princes and their families, and replaced the Ministers with those formerly In office, thus Restoring a despotic government.— . A considerable number of Swiss cititens have left for the United. States, with the intention of establishing a colony in Georgia. News was received in New York, on the 20th, that a new revolution had broken out in Haytl. In a reeent engagement, the Government troops bad thirty men killed and eighty-nine wounded. The Insurgent losses were much greater, and all prisoners were promptly put to death. Ox the 21st there were numerous failures of British and Scottish merchants, with liabilities aggregating $1,250,009, It was confidently stated from St. Petersburg, on the 21 st, that the plague bad altogether disappeared from Astrakan. The Iltiski Mir, of St. Petersburg, was suspended on tip 21st, for commenting upon the deplorable condition of the country and the despotic manner in which it is governed. The Greek Archbishop of Adrianople was recently beaten to death by some Bulgarian residents of that city. ~ The Italian Government, On the 21st, Issued an order prohibiting the importation of American pork as a precaution against trichinosis. While returning from a ball, cn the evening of the 22d, Prince fLrapotkine, of Charkoff, in Russia, was fired at by some Nihilist conspirator and mortally wounded. Ix consequence of the representations of the United States Consul at Constantinople, the Turkish Government has abandoned the idea of replacing the Turkish Minister at Washington by a Charge d’Affaires. A Ttßx'ovi. telegram of the 22d announces the formal Opening of the Bulgariau Assembly by Prince Korsakoff. The Roumanian and Macedonian Delegates were present Ax Allahabad (Hindoostan) telegram of the 23d announces the arrival of ex-Presidcnt Grant He was the guest of the LieutenantGovernor, and had been invited to visit Calcutta as the guest of the Viceroy.

Congressional Proceedings. In the Senate, on the 17th, Mr. Windom presented & petition of the “Negro Co-op-erative Association” of Shreveport, La., favoring the passage of a resolution in regard to the migration of colored people. The petition was signed by a large number of ministers representing the colored congregations of the place. .... Mr. Randolph was relieved from further service on the Teller Committee.... Amendments were agreed to correcting errors made by the Senate in the passage of the House hill authorizing the conversion of National gold bonds, and the Dill, as thus perfected. Was paused... . The bill to amend the Internal Revenue Into* wits Considered and amended. In the Route-, a ihotion was agreed to to suspend the roles and pass the bill appropriating ¥26,852.200 for the payment of arrears of pensions. The bill as passed includes special pensioners and pensions granted on account of soldiers who enlisted in the war, but who diet! from disabilities incurred after the cessation of . hostilities ... The rules were also suspended to pass the River and Harbor and the Deficiency Appropriation bi 115.... W. B. Fleming took his teat as successor of the late Representative Hartridge.. Memorial servioee were held itt the evening in honor of the late Bepreecntafae. A motion was agreed to in the Senate, on the 18th. to reconsider the Cote by which the House bill Was passed to authorize the issue of certificates of deposit in aid of refunding the pnblio debt, and an amendment was agreed to providing that the money so received shall be applied to the payment of bonds bearing interest at the rate of not lees than 5 per cent, per annum, instead of 5-20 bonds oqjy, which bear 6 per cent., as at first authorized.' and the bill as amended was passed . . .The bill to amend the Internal Revenue laws was taken up, and an amendment to increase the tax on tobacco from sixteen to twenty cents per ponnd was rejected—, yeas, 21; nays, 42. Among the amendments agreed to was one that the act take •Sect on the Ist of May—B4 to 32-and one providing that no tax shall be assessed or collected on any insolvent bank, and exempting from taxation so mnch of the deposits of provident institutions and savingv.banks recognized as sdeh, by the laws of thfcw respective States, as they have invested in securities of the United States. Other amendments were disposed of, and the bill was then passed-46 to 21.... Memorial services were held in honor of the late Representatives Schleicher and Qninn. r^S*®?*i* n * ““I the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bills were considered by the Home in Committee of the Whole, and several proposed amendments were disposed of. The Postoffice Appropriation bill was considered in the Senate, on the 19th, and several amendments were agreed to. The subsidy scheme of the Brasilian Mail Steamship ComSwm discussed at considerable length, the being made that the question was not gerto the bill, but that it was new legislation anon the Appropriation bill; but the Senate decided—33 to 26—that the pr6po«ed amendment A lengthy debate occurred in the House cu the legislative Appropriation bill, in Committee of Jurors* test oathTand reguiatine l it£e"mode t of drawing and the pay of jurors was finally agreed

to-l*7 toffi. The amendment to repeal the aeo tion authorizing tbs appointment of Bnpsrviaore of Election elicited a atiarp (liacuaaion, but a final vote waa not reached. *• In the Senate, on the 20th, a bill waa passed to appoint Mproille Braden an Knaign in ' the United States Navy; (Braden is the yonng man who took tlje priae for excellence in the j Engliah Nautical School, but refused a commie j sion in the English Navy, aa it would have compelled him to renounoo his American citizenship,).. Tne Pnstoflioe Appropriation hill-was taken up. and several amendments in relation to the Brasilian Mail liine were agreed to. and the bill, as amended, waa passed .25 to 16 . Mr. Shields made a speech in favor of the bill granting pensions to the surviving soldiers of the Mexican War. In the House, the majority report in the Florida rontcated-elert ion case of Finley »«. Bisbee, I declaring the former (contestant) entitled to the seat, was agreed to—l3l to 122—and Mr. Finley was sworn in ... In the evening memorial services were had in honor of the memory of the late Representatives Welsh (Neb.) and Williams (Mich.) A bill was introduced In the Senate,. on tbe 21st, authorising and requiring the reissue of legal-tender notes now held for the redemption of fmotional currency, and part of each notes heretofore retired from circulation under the act of Feji. 14. to the amount of *20,8532160. and to expetid the same in payment of such claims for arrears of pensions as may lie allowed under the act of Jan. 26, 1879.... An amendment to the bill making an appropriation to pay arrears of pensions was reported from tbe Committee on Pensions.... Bills were passed —for the relief of homestead settlers on tbe public lands; to (mend certain provisions of the ltevised Statutes relating to the transportation of animals. The Army Appropriation bill was cot* aide rod and amended ... of resnect in memory of the late Representative William*, of Micrnmi, were adopted. The Houv went into Committee of the Whole on the private calendar, and a bill for the relief of J. P. Armstrong, of Virginia* oh account of wharf property occupied by the United Stale* Army in Alexandria, (luting the war, was debated, after which the enacting clauac waa, on motion, stricken out wijLbout division ... The enacting clause of the bill for the payment of 96.000 to A. U. Kit-hards, of Virginia, tor Supplies furniahed the army, during the war, was also stricken out—lol to 48-a htimber of Democrats voting in the affirmative, and eight or teh Republicans in the negative ...Another similar bill was disposed of in like manner, the only bill agreed toby the committee being for the relief of Gibbs <V Co., of Charleston, B. Ci In the .Senate, on the 22d, Mr. Chandler was sworn in, and took his seat, as Senator from Michigan.... Ihe credentials of Senator Ingalls (re-eleoted). I.ogan (Ill.), Call (Fla.) and Slater (Ore.) were placed ou file.. ..The Army Appropriation bill was again taken up, and a motion to strike out all sections relating to army reorganization, upon the ground that there was not time to consider them, was agreed to 45 to IM.- The provisions forbidding the use of troops at elections, and making it a penal offense to do so, were also stricken out—34 to 30. Several other amendments were agreed to. In the House, the bill for the repeal of the Resumption act, as amended by the Senate, was taken up, and aftci the discussion or amendments offered by Mr. Ewing, a motion was made by Mr. Garfield and adopted—l4l to 110—that the bill and pending amendments be laid on the table... .The Senate amendments to the bill restricting the immigration of Chinese were concurred in, after a motion to lay the bill and amendments on the table had been defeated—yeas, 96; nays, 140... The Senate amendments to the bill reducing the tax on tobacco were taken upland all of them were concurred in in gross, except those referring to the tax on rectifiers, on matches, on banks, and to the time when the bill shall take effect... The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill waa repotted and Ordered printed.

THE ISYBSTIGATION. The Potter Cominlttra. The committee reassembled at Washington, on the 17th, and placed on file affidavits of Judge H. C. ltipley and H. M. Mclntosh, stating that, during the sitting ot the Florida Board of Canvassers, they railed uplih Att’y-Gen. Cocke, who coihplaihcd that he had been locked out of the room when the returns were being considered; they,bad Been Gcv. Steams and Gen. Noyes come from the room of the Secretary of State when Cocke was denied admittance. John F. Gcyle testified that he went to Florida under instructions from Pelton; Cooper gave him instructions and also a cipher key; be was to send his dispatches to rienry Havemeyer; his instructions were to go to Florida and aid the Democrats there in obtaining all the evidence requisite 10 secure a truthful count, to defray any expenses requisite for that purpose, and to aid them in any way he could; was authorized to employ money, limited in amdunt by his own judgment and discretion: expended and authorised the e*peUUit!ire of pretty nearly SIO,OOO, obtained through drafts on Cooper; had destroyed his key; some of the dispatches ascribed to him he had wrritten, and others not; the $200,000 proposition was made by Alexander Thein, a gentleman to whom Hewitt introduced him before he left Washington; he said to him the Returning Board could be bought lor $200,000, but he had reoeived a telegrfim from New York cautioning him to have no communication with the gentleman to whom" he had been introduced in the National Committee room, so he paid no attention to him; was positive Gov; Tiideh did hot know anythin* of the dikbatehes; Wboley asked him (witness) if he had authority to draw any money; said he had for legitimate purposes; in reply to Wooley’s question whether he was authorized to draw for as much as $60,000, he said under some circumstances he would be; never knew Marble to be consulted about the business; he (Marblel seemed to be visiting Cowgill and 51cLin. members of the Returning Board, without instructions from anybody; Thein told him (witness) that the greenbacks were to be put up in six lots, in unequal sums; during his stay in Florida had had several propositions for securing the Returning Board, but had always found on investigatitn that they emanated from Thein; Tallahassee was full of rumors and full of negotiations. Thomas C. Dunn testified; Reside in Poston at the ntenan*; bat with ohe of the South Carolina Returning Board in 1876; during the session of the board Hardy Solomon came to him qnd said he was requested to see the members of the Returning Board and ascertainwhether it was possible to enter into any negotiations by whfth the vote of tnat board could be so shaped as to give the Electoral vote of South Carolina, or a portion of it, to a Tilden Elector; he said he had been requested to undertake the business because there was great danger of bloodshed and anarchy in the State unless a peaceable solution of the question could be arrived at; that the gentleman who spoke to him desired to ImVe negotiations with the Returning Board, and could select no more Suitable person than himself, because he had pefsoilal abqilintance With all the members bf thfe board, and hiS previohs affiliation with the Republican party; witness told Solomon it was utterly useless for him to talk of ary negotiations with the Returning Board on Buch poipt; that the returns of their votes, without any dispute whatever, without entering into any of the disputed or canvassed returns showed clearly the election of the Hayes Electors, ana that the Returning Board of South Carolina would unquestionably do their duty in declaring their election, if permitted; Solomon seemed unwilling to go back to those for whom he spoke with sncli a decided negative at the start; he talked still further, afiefunflertook to reason the probabilities, and to give reasons why it was better to accede to what appeared to.be tbe determination of the Democratic party there to tilfth the State; the arguments he used were that ho had been told by the Democratic leaders there that they had the Democratic strength of the State in arms and put 4,000 men into Columbia on a few Hours’ notice, and that they meant to take the State, peaceably if they conid, forcibly if they must; the strongest impression left on witness’ mind in respect of the words used was that it was be tter to use gold than steel, and that was the reason became to witness; he told Gov. Chamberlain wbat Bolomon bad said, next morning; his object in telling the Governor was because he had made up his mind to continue talking with Bolomufl on the subject. and if possible get Solomon to inform him what were the plans of the Democracy with reference to What was then troubling the board in regard to the proceeding* before the Bnpreme Court ; they bad tue boafd before the Supreme Court on injunctions and mandamuses (tndsuch things, and the board did not know what their object was; determined to go on with Solomon talking over this matter so as to find out, if possible. the object <jf the Democracy, and witness went to Gov. Chamberlain and told him what Solomon had proposed, uhd what he proposed doing, so Gov. Chamberlain might, if each occasion as tbe present should ever arise, and his intentions or purposes in having these talks with Solomon on the subject were brought into question, be able to testify as to witness? integrity ,of purpose at the- time Chamberlain was Governor of the Btate; and in these negotiations for selling- it he was one of those to be slaughtered; Solomon and be had several conversations subsequently in relation to the desire of the Democrats that the Returning Board should accede to the wishes of the Democracy, and particularly he was informed by him that wbat the board was requested to do would be to acquiesce in the orders of the Supreme Court, that reply being in answer to a question of his (witness) as to how he (Solomon) proposed having the Returning Board go back upon its returns after giving the State to the Hayes Electors; Solomons answer was that the Supreme Court would give the board (Me law if they would only obev it; this conversation occurred from tire 15th to the 18th of November, and then Solomon went on to Baltimore to get the money; Solomon said Haskell, Chairman of the South Carolina Democratic State Central Committee, and Palmer, the President of the Charlotte, Colombia $ Augusta Railrfiad Company, had authorized the negotiations with witness; Mr. Dunn emphatically denied the statement of Weed in his evidence that he was the go-between between the hoard and Solomon. The later never spoke to witness one word on the subject in the presence of any member of the Returning Board, and he never spoke 6n the. subjoct to asingle member of the. board v *nd he had no knowledge of ever seeing Weed st all; certainly Weed never saw him in company with Solomon. The examination of Tbomaa C. Dunft' was resumed, on the 18th. Witness, in answer, to

various questions, said So) man represented to him that Smith Weed, an agent. «f Tilden, waa in Columbia fur the purpose of using money, if needod, to aeqjue the Electoral vote; Solomon wanted the board to certify aa the Supreme Courf might direct: he never named a price; when he first came he Mid he was authorized to use *100.1)00 if necessary. (to rtoes-eaaminit-tioo. Mr. Dunn testified that Solomon wanud i tbekoaril to certify to Just a* many Tilden Elector* as the Supreme Court might order) tbe •100.000 offered had no temptation for the witness under the circumstances; while the sum waa K targe one, and likely to influence almostr anybody, it waa not enough to induce him to betray the whole trust of the community. Solomon never said What he W»# to got for acting nan go-between) wan not surprised at his making the offer, for he knew Solomon thoroughly; thought Solomon had some hope wittlese wonld accede to bis proposition but managed to disabuse him of that Idea speedily; the relations between him and Solomon were still friendly, and the offer to oonnpt had produced no change in thgm so far as he knew. ... Gen. Barlow, of New York, told how he happened to go to Florida. He said he saw Dr. Oowgill after the Returning Board had adjourned and said to Min that he (witness) did not nee how they could fairly give the State to the Haves Electors, and if he was in Cowgill's place he shonld feel it his dnty to give the vote to the Tilden Electors; witness said he . held a thoroughly independent position and could not las termed counsel to the Republican party, although he wrote for them opinions* upon points of law and did other legal work for them. Mr. Hiscock produced a long argument on the Republican side, which waa written hy the witness for delivery before the lieturning Board. The witneas admitted that it was his handwriting, but denied any further recollection of it; did not see any inconsistency in being counsel for both sides. K. L. Faria laid before the committee a number of cipher telegrams which he had deciphered since hi* last examination, to show Barlow a intimacy with the Democrat* at Tallahassee. Gen. Barlow appeared before the committee, on the 19th, and concluded an elaborate defense of the conduct with which he has been charged while in Florida, during the Electoral count,, by stating that he went down to Tallahassee for tne purpose of giving an honest judgment in the matter for the Democrats ami Repuhlibans, with the idea that that Waa his dutv, ahd he therefore had not the slightest hesitation in talking with Democrats or anybody else who could throw any light on the matter atld assist him ill getting itistice ddne. William E. Chandler was refcalled, and said Gen. Barlow Was in Forida from the beginning to the end s» counsel for the Republican caucus and Republican candidates; that he “distinctly entered into that relation and remained in it down to the Oth of December, when he left for home, ahd was under the obligations and responsibilities of counsel. As to his statement that he was not, I desire, in my own behalf and ih behalf of all gentlemen who were there, to interpose a distinct and unqualified contradiction. I myself told Gen. Barlow that he would be the leading counsel on our side. I told him he had been assigned to that post of honor (if there was honor in the business! .and be assented without objection. Withih a few days be Raid tome that he Was there by the request of the President in another capacity. to Bee If there Was (l fh.it cflunt and that nothing Wrong was uohe on either side. I pointed out that the two relations were inconsistent, and might become incompatible, aa 1 wished him to occupy the relation of counsel and have the obligation of couhsel; He insisted upon it that theie was no incompatibility between the two, and from that time I liad no doubt he was under all the obligations of counsel. He seems to have tried his best a* Republican counsel to secure the vote of tiie State for Tilden, but fortunately aid not succeed.'’ Gen. Barlow was recalled, and said that not as counsel, but as a visiting statesman, a non-par-tisan, he conceived it to be his duty td address an argument to memberl) Of the Fkitidft Retnrnlilg Board, to influence their decision, ftfld considered he was at liberty to influence them to deal honestly; understood the question of fraud to be involved in Alachua County. — x= On the 20th, U. S. Marshal Wharton, of Louisiana, was called, and testified that he was a Republican, and had been a supporter of the Packard Government; daring the time the Returning Board of riß7fr~was sitting he was in New Orleans, but never attended any of the Sessions) thee*! wfts a great deft! of scandal at the time about pilbtie men, and he heafd, among other things, that Wells was tfying to make moriev hut of his jiositioh; it WaS.nPt Bis Charge; the charge was that thfe Democtata had then down therfe with money and they were making an offer to buy, and it waa bfelifevfed that if matters could be arranged Gov. Wells was ready to treat: Maddox told him he was satisfied Wells intended to sell ont the result of the election to the Democrats; that he enjoyed a good deal of Wells' confidence, and that Gov. Wells was inclined to make him tbe negotiator; he thought he had better ercourage the confidence, ho said, so that he would be in an attitude juHt about the time it would culminate in aii actual trade to post the Republicans, so that they could bleflk it fit* and prbyent any consummation of it; did not know of ariy financial arrangement being made with Wells; did not know whether he (withess) wrote the letter in the Inter-Ocean in December, 187fi; if he did it was in the belief that Maddox would be able to carry the thing to a point, and give the Republicans information about it; waa afraid the matter might drift into other hand* 'and that the trade might be made and the Republicans not know it; wanted MkddoX to go on so that he might knotv the amount to be paid; that so much money was put here and so much there, atid st) oh, atld So be enabled to bfeak up the tradfe; aftfer the talk with Maddox about Wells, Weht to him with Packard) Maddox said he believed-that if the Htate administration would give Gov; Wells what waa regarded as its biggest offer Wells Would be satisfied; Maddox probaßlv acted as a go-between to keep the Republicans well posted; regarded Maddox as actuated by the purest motives, and thought him a strong Republican, and being as much interested in preventing anything of the kind aa anybody : he possibly said Wells would be satisfied with *20,000. A letter was here read from Jewett, former Secretary of the Republican Campaign Committee of Louisiana, to Senator Kellogg, in which he says that Louisiana politics must be run after his fashion, and that, unless Richardson gets a position, and unless Pitkin is made Marshal and his other friends taken care of in a manner entirely Ratisfftfetofy to him, he (Relto'fg) must take the consequences. - v . On the 21st, Manager Whitney, of the Western Union Telegraph Company, testified that within the laat ninety days there had been some telegrams withdrawn from his office upon an order of the Executive Committee, which were sent to New York; had no idea what the motive for withdrawing them was; the telegrams were from Gibson, of New Orleans, to Williams, the correspondent of the New York Sun at Washington, Marshal Wharton was recalled and testified that he bad some Conversation vritjb Maddox during hiastay itt NeW Orleans relative to a position in the Secret-Service Division, in the event of Maddox being appointed chief Of that bttreau; had spoken to 51addox about his (Wharton’s) coming to Washington. The witness was examined at length regarding the charge that the party which he, commanded that went to Ouachita Parish murdered a number oE negroes; he very emphatically denied that anyone was murdered by his party; on the contrary, the men vcho did the killing were driven out of the parish by him and his friends. Witness, continuing, said that he had never made any proposition to any member of the Returning Board that would lead him to entertain an idea that he (Wharton) wanted to buy him out; was positive that if the board did its duty Hayes and Packard would surely be elected: was alarmed, however, lest they wuuld not do their duty. InaHswer td a question if he knew how tile committee came to hear df the Jewett letter, witnesssaid: “I have not the slightest suspicion. It was given me by Senator Kellogg for my own purpose. He told me this: * Look ye here, this is a letter that this fellow Jewett has written to me.’ He was angrv and hurt both, and read the letter at) me, and when we were discussing what we thould do. he said he: certainly meant to show it so some of the leaders of the party, so that it thould not be supposed he was suppressing it. I showed the letter to three persons, but decline to state whom.”