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From Washington. «* Oilvet-Umrron Owed a verdict for the defendant Tbe Anal rate stood three for plaintiff to nine for de let, rtows the following: Total debt (locludlug latere* of $26,001,200). 02,447,887,723. Cart In Treasury, *431.787,458. Debt leee cart In Treaaury, 03,037,100,905. Increase daring March, 0883,734. Decrease Since June 30,1878, $848*575. Torn total ootnage of the United States Mints for Match was 05,577,088. lbs total coinage of standard silver dollars to April 1, 1873, was 098,774,800. Tut United States Senate, on the Ist, con--Bnned Francis A. Walker to be Superintendent of the Censds. On the 3d, the nominations of AneMw 9. White, of New York, as Minister to Germany, and of C. A. Logan, of Illinois, as Minister Resident to the Central American States, were also confirmed. - Tn Democratic United States Senators held a caucus, on the 9d, at which It was unanimously agreed that the Senate should permanently retain Oaot. I sate Bassett as Assistant Doorkeeper, and William John as Keeper of the Main Door of the Senate —both of whom hare been In the rerylce of the Senate for forty years or more—and Amsi Smith, Superintendent of the Document Room, together with two of the Acting Assistant Doorkeepers who are crippled Union soldiers. It was also decided that the Secretary and Ser-geant-at-Arme of the Senate should exercise their own judgment and discretion concerning the personnel of their offices. lir their report, the Board of Military Officers who recently Investigated the case of FiU-John Porter state that they discovered, by new evidence placed before them, that the previous court-martial made mistakes in their conclusions, and that radlcally emraeons opinions were entertained by Oen. Porter’s accusers. The board has decided that the General exercised the ordinary discretion of a military commander in not fully obeying the orders of Gea. Pope. Prior. C. V. Riley, the Entomologist of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, has tendered bis resignation. Ox the 4th, the subscriptions to the 4-per-cent bonds aggregated the sum of $59,502,700, tbs greater portion being from New York National Banks. The Secretary of the Treasury Issued a call for the balance of the 5-30 bonds of 1867, and it waa stated that he would, on the sth, Issue a call for all the outstanding 5-20* of 1808—the total of both calls amounting to $59,565,700. The aggregate calls docs Jan. 4 amount to $849 555,700. No further subscriptions for the 4-per-ceut bonds, except for the ten-dollar certificates, will be received until further notice. The 4-per-cents will, in the future, be sold for the redemption of 10-40 bonds of the set of March 8,1884, upon terms to be hereafter presented by the Secretary of the Treasury. A motion for a new trial in the Oliver-Cam-eron breach-of-promise case was denied by Chief-Justice Carter, In Washington, on the sth. Ox the sth, the Army Appropriation bill passed the National House of Representatives with the political amendments attached, substantially as reported by the committee. The vote stood: Ayes 148; noes, 122. The Bast. A dispatch of the 31st ult says that experiments made in one of the New York daily . newspaper composing-rooms had demonstrated the inadaptability of the electric light for type-setting. Dchixg the month of March there were forty failures In New York City, with an aggregate of liabilities of $480,449, and of assets of $311,754. During March, 1878, the failures numbered eighty-five, with an aggregate liability of $8,480,000. Between the 81st of March and the Sd of April, over three feet of snow fell at North Troy, Vt Thk Republican ticket for State officers in B h/uiu I Aland VtA ...1 a 4 fk. nnvuv lciauu wu CMXMNI tit IUC IBlc ClCCtlOu by about the usual majority. The Benate is politically divided as follows: Republican, 28; Democrats, 8; no choice, 2. In the Hoose, the division is: Republicans, 52; Democrats, 15; no choice, 4. A running match of twenty miles, for a pome of 4500, with six entries, including an Indian, was extensively advertised to come off In Gilmore’s Garden, In New York, on the 3d. The Indian turned out to be an Irishman, with paint on his face. He collapsed after the seventh mile. A man named Norman Taylor, of Vermont, won in two hours, twelve minutes and thirty-six seconds. It is presumed the spectators mainly gathered to Bee the Indian. All preparations for the hanging of John P. Phair. at Windsor, Vt., on the 4th, had been completed, when a dispatch was received from ,Gov. Proctor announcing a reprelve for six days. IT was reported from New York, on the 4th, tort a cutting on through rates of freight from the West to porta in the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe was going on almost uninterruptedly, and rates were lower than ever known, before. This was owing principally to toe arge numbey of freight steamers plying between New York and other portions of this country and Europe, and to severe competition between them for cargoes. Provisions by steam were quoted at 20s to 22s per ton from New York to the United Kingdom, and at 28s to 80s per ton to the Continent. Wheat for Liverpool had been taken at per bushel. Through rates on Hour from the Wert to Europe were as low 2s to 3s per barrel, and 1843 d to 22e6d per ton for flour In sacks. Much eagerness was displayed to secure cargoes at these prices. Th* New York World of a recent date tells how one of Its reporters, an unmarried man, obtained from a New York lawyer a decree of divorce from a supposititious wife, on the ground of incompatibility of temper. The divorce purported to be granted by the Circa** Court of Walworth County, Wis., and was signed by John T. Wentworth, Judge, a»d Joseph & Scott, Clerk. A dispatch from Bkborn of too 4th says that no Joseph 8. Scott has ever held the office of Clerk of the Court, and that, at toe date of the decree, no eourt wae In session. The present Clerk of the Court declares the decree, seal, signatures end fell are a bare-faced forgery. A Nrwjrong dispatch of the sth says that **> **»*tOT Wm. H. Vanderbilt paid $57,000 to the Horace Greeley, being the sum loaned by the great journalist to his brathar Cornelius, nuny yaifert ag& Yellow fever has made lt» appearance on board the United States steamer Plymouth, and she has been ordered Into quarantine, at Partamoutfa, N. H. I* Philadelphia, early on the morning of the sth, afire broke put in the five story building at the northeast corner of Crown and Bms rtiMte, and cupended to adjoining buildings, destroying about $750,000 worth of property. One perron wae killed and three other* wrie severely lnjlured by falling walla Tuufoltowtagwewthroclqsing quotations for produce In New Yhrk, on April sth: Mo. S CMcego Sfrfog Wheat, $1.05® 1.08; ern lllfod, B^®BB^ ii °Si, Westi?hS

4(X«NSK<s- Pork,Mesa, 09.40*10.63)4. Lard, $6.57)4(36.60. Flour, Good to Choice, 03.96 *4.50; White Wheat Extra, 04.55tt6.35. Cattle, 00.75*10.78 for Good to Extra Sheep, 05.75*6.75. Hogs, 04.30*4 95. At Kart Liberty. Pa, on April sth, Cattle Drought: Best, $5.00*5.50; Medium, $4.65® ABS ( Common, 03.80*4.30. Hogs eoli— Yorkers, $3.66*8.90; Philadelphia $4 80® 4.45. Sheep brought 58.96*6.00-according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on April sth, Cattie brought; Best, $5.00*5.75; Medium $8.50*4.87)4. Hogs sold at $5.25(4400 for Good. Sheep were quoted at $4.00*6.25 for Good. Went and South. Thb Indiana Legislature adjourned tlht die at noon, on the 81st ult. Gnx. Cbook held s formal council with the bend of Ponca Indians at Omaha on the Slat ult, In toe presence of several officers and nine Indians. “Standing Bear’’ and “ Buffalo Chips” made very pathetic speecbea setting forth the wrongs which they bad suffered, end detailing the hardshlpa sickness and death which their tribe bad encountered In the Indian Territory, to which they had been driven by the encroachments of the whites. They knew they, must submit to the command to return to the Indian country, but protested all the same, predicting that many of their number would die by the way, and asking for money to pay the necessary expenses to b 4 Incurred in taking care of the sick and dead on the journey. Uen. Crook told them that all he could do was to give them rations on the way down. They would be permitted to take all their sto£k, and could go slowly. It was a ilisa. reehble duty to send them down there, but be must obey the orders which he bad received from Washington. They had all the facts in Washington relating to the caae, and It would do no good for him to intercede. According to Yankton dispatches of the 81st ult., the southern portion of Dakota was being devastated 4 by prairie fires. A great number of bouses and a vast quantity of hay, corn and wheat had been destroyed. A Mrs. Tirossack and son, in trying to save tbelr property, were caught in the flames and burned to a crisp. At the municipal ejection in Chicago, on the Ist, ex-Congreaaman Carter 11. Harriaon (Dem.) was elected Mayor by a plurality of about 6,000. The remainder of the Democratic ticket was also elected by about the same vote. Of the eighteen Aldermen chosen, eight are Democrats, seven Republicans and three Socialists. The vofe for Mayor stood gbout as follows: Harrison, 25,415; Wright (Rep.), 20,256; Schmidt (Socialist), 11,818. So fab as the returns of the Wisconsin election had been received up to the morning of the 2d, the Indications were that Judge Cole, the Republican candidate for Supreme Judge, was re-elected by from 5,000 to 10,000 majority. Milwaukee and Madison each elected Republican Common Councils. Thb Democratic State Central Committee of lowa decided, on the 2d, to call a State Convention, to be held at Council Bluffs, on the 21st of May. * Thb trial of CoL Buford, for the shooting of Judge Elliott, at Frankfort, Ky., has been set for Monday, April 23. G ex. Daxibl Cambrox, an old and respected citizen of Cook County, 111., died in Chicago, on the 2d, of consumption. Gen. Cameron was one of the early journalists of Chicago, commanded the Sixty-fifth Illinois Infantry Regiment during the war, aud had held numerous positions of trust and influence. Georob L. Smith, Collector of the Port of New Orleans, recently indicted by a Grand Jury for defrauding the Government by carrying on toe Custom-House pay-rolls the names of persons performing no services, was tried, on the 2d, and honorably acquitted. A number of prominent colored men of St. Louis issued au appeal, on the 2d, to all generous and charitable people throughout the country for means to assist the colored refugees from the South, who were daily arriving in that city, fleeing from the South to seek homes in the free West. The colored people of St. Louis had not encouraged them to come, nor had transportation companies offered them any inducements to emigrate, but the movement was made in the hopes of bettering their condition. Many of them were very destitute on reaching St. Louis, and in great need of charitable help. Contributions may be sent to Rev. Moses Dickson, 1211 Morgan street; Rev. John Tamer, 1512 Morgan street; Rev. 8. P. Anderson, Eighth-Street Baptist Church; Rev. William R. Lawton, 1015 Christy avenue; J. Milton Turner, exUnlted States Minister to IBeria, 2513 North Tenth street Judge James R. Steward, Member of the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses, died, at his home, in Baltimore, Md., on. the 4th. He was seventy-one years old. Ox the 4th, the Speaker of the Lower of the Illinois State Legislature sentenced Frank E. Nevins, a correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, to imprisonment in the County Jail of Sangamon County, for refusing to answer certain questions propounded by the Committee of the House appointed to investigate charges of bribery and corruption. He must remain there until he consents to disclose what he knows, or until the adjournment of the General Assembly, unless released by judicial process. One of the pedestrians who walked in UHr 14W'’Louisville, K’y., elx-davs’ match, named William Harris, died, a few days ago, in consequence of the exertions he made during the contest. He walked a little more than 300 miles. ‘ AT Baltimore, on the 4th, Mme. Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, widow of Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, died, aged ninety-four years, ner estate, valuer at 81,000.000, is left to her grandsons, Col. Bonaparte and Charles Joseph Bonaparte. John Lamb, convicted of the murder of Po-lice-Officer Race, in Chicago, has been denied a new trial, and Judge Williams, on the sth, sentenced him to be hanged on tbe 20th of June next: The Governor of New Mexico, Gen. Lew Wallace, has written to Sec’y Schurz, that murders and robberies are' so common that he is greatly discouraged. He says the situation does not please him. Ox the evening of the sth, after a lengthy examination, Judge Zane, of the Sangamon County (III.) Circuit Court, declined to release Frank E. Nevins, the recalcitrant reporter of a Chicago newspaper, confined for contempt of the Legislature of the State, from Imprisonment in the County Jail, and ordered his recommitment! It was reported from Dead wood, op toe 6th, that straggling Sioux and other Indians were raiding the Yellowstone Valley. They had rnn all the whites in tbe vieinity of Terry’s Landing into the military posts and captured all the bprses snd cattle. One man was murdered and another badly wounded. Troops had been sent out from Fort Chester. Nearly $500,000 worth of buildings snd conteSSi on North Fifth street, Si.Lonls, were destroyed by fire, on the night of the 4th. Two firemen snd soother person were killed. Ih Chicago, on April sth, Spring Wheat No- 2 closed rt 92)4®92J4c cash; 90)4c for April; 94J4@94J4c for May. Cash Corn closed at 84>4c for No. 2; 31J4c for April; 86c for Mat. Cash Oats No. 2 •old rt 24>4c, and 25%c seller May. Rye No. 2,45 c. Barley No. 3, 69J4@70c for cart; 09)4*700 for Aprils Cash Mesa Pork closed at $10.85*10.4(1. Laid, 06.37)4. Beeves —Extra brought Choice, 44 60 @4.79; Good, $4.20@C50; Medium Grades, -08.86*446; Butchers’ Stock, “0&65®8.9»; Stock Cattle, etc., [email protected], Hogs-Good

to Choice, $8.00*8.90. Sheep— Poor, to Choice $3.76*5.75. Foreign Intelligence., ‘ lx the British House of Commons, on the Slat ult, after a long and acrimonio*sdebate, the motion to censure the Zulu war policy of the Government was defeated by ayes, 246; noes, 906. A Calcutta dispatch of the 31st ult says tbe Klug of Burmah had sent a summons to all Burmese residing In Rangoon to return home at once. He warned them that he would execute all members of their families if they remained absent Ox the 81st ult, the operative weavers, in tbe Blackburn (Eng.) District voted to accept the 5-per-cent reduction in the rate of wages. The leading members of the Roman Catholic Communion, in London, have organized a bank, to be known as tha Anglo-Universal Bank, with Directors In London and Paris. The revenue receipts of Great Britain, during the financial year ending April 1, were £83,115,972—an Increase of £3,852,673 over the receipts of the year preceding. A telegram from London of the Ist says Austria, England, Russia, Turkey aud Italy had resolved to take part in tbe mixed occupation of Eastern Roumella. A Vienna telegram of the Ist says 300 members of the Revolutionary Committee, at Warsaw, Poland, had beer, arrested. Paris dispatches of the let eay that a battalion of zouaves, in Algeria, Were caught In a snow-storm, on the 28th ult., while marching between Sonaki and Honkellleta, and nineteen men perished. Fourteen others had been taken to tbe hospital, badly frozen. A resolution was adopted In the British Parliament, on the Ist, calling for an official re pot t of the condition of the trade of Great Britain with tbe United States. Gen. Kaufmann, the Russian Governor of Tashkend, telegraphed the Home Government, on the Ist, that the British had arranged to. place Wall Mohammed, a cousin of the late Ameer, now with the British lorces, upon the throne of Afghanistan, and would support him with tbe entire army against Yakoob Khan. It was also stated that an Afghan tribe bad lately captured 700 British soldiers near Jelialabad, %nd that the Viceroy was forced to pay £150,000 for theiiransom. According to London telegrams of the 2d, the failure of the Chartered Mercantile Bank to pay its dividend bad seriously crippled several of the London banks, among others the following, whose failure was feared: The Bank of Ajfra; the Chartered Bank of India, Australia aud China; tbe Delhi and London Bank; the Hong Kong and China Bank; the National Bank of India and the Oriental Bank. A Viexxa dispatch of the 2d announces the outbreak of tbe cattle-plague in over a hundred Bohemian villages. ~ Austria has discontinued her quarantine against the Russian ;fiague. A dispatch was received in London, on the 2d, announcing the death by drowning, while crossing the Cahue River, In Afghanistan, a few days before, of a squadron of hussars belonging to the Tenth Regiment. It seems they attempted to cross the river in the night, missed the ford and were swept away by the rushing waters. Fifty men, as many horses and one officer perished. A St. Petersburg dispatch to the London Telegraph of the 2d says it had been decided by the Russian Government to subsidize Yakoob Khan and to make a diversion in his favor.

A Lahore (India) dispatch of the 3d says a British force, under Capt. Gough, had defeated 5,000 Afghans, killing 400. The British loss was three officers and three men killed, and thirty-two wounded. The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced In the British House of Commons, on tbe 3d, that the estimated receipts for the current fiscal year would be £35,055,000, and the expenditures £31,153,573, and that no additional' taxes would be levied.-’ This announcement was received with deafening cheers, in which the Opposition joined. The latest advices from Russia give alarming reports of the spread of revolutionary ideas and purposes among the people, and the increasing audacity of the Nihilist conspirators. Among the latter have been found persons of high rank and great influence with the Czar. The German Reichrath has adjourned Until April 28. A London telegram of the 4th says trouble bad arisen between England and France concerning the occupation of the Island of Matacony, off the coast of Africa. The latter claimed that the was ceded to France In 1878, and the former that It had had possession since 1826. On the 4th, Isaac Fletcher, Member of Parliament for Lockermouth, committed suicide by shooting. The British Privy Council has rescinded Its late order relative to the importation of American cattle. An Egyptian force, numbering 3,000 men, recently fought 11,000 Arabs convoying 10,000 women, who were being taken to Egypt as slaves, and, after a spirited engagement, defeated them, killing 1,087 men. The Egyptian loss was comparatively trifling. A South Africa, dispatch, received in Lon don on the 4tb, says that messengers had arrived Ir«m King Cetewayo asking for tha resumption of negotiations with a view to the permanent settlement of all contested questions. The British agent sent Into Upper Egypt to inquire concerning the famine reports that 10,000 persons had died from starvation alone Girgeh, Kena and Esna. The City of Mlrggoane, in Hayti, was destroyed by fire, oh the night of the 16th of March. About 6,000 persons were rendered homeless, and property worth $1,000,000 was burned. London dispatches of the sth sav it was believed by the Government that Cetewayo’s wish for peace was a pretense to gain time to gather a harvest. It was stated that only unconditional surrender would be accepted. The work on the St. Gotbard Tunnel has been partially suspended, the contractor averring that he Is receiving 460,000 per month less than he should receive by the terms of his contract. . The Pope has sent an autograph letter to Queen Victoria welcoming her to Italy. The’French Senate has adjourned to tbe Bth, and the Chamber of Deputies to the 15th, of Mhy. The Bulgarian Assembly baa decided upon Sophia as the capital of the Principality. The annual race between Cambridge and Oxford Universities was rowed on the Thames, in London, on the sth, resulting in the victory of the former crew. The distance rowed over was four miles and two furlongs, and the winning time was twenty-one minutes and eighteen seconds. According to Alexandria (Egypt) dispatches of the sth, on ' the day following the battle previously reported, 5,000 deserters came intotbe Egyptian camp. The latter followed the retiring enemy and killed ten Chiefs and 3,000 more men, and were still in pursuit of the remainder. The breaking up of all the. slave depots in Central Africa was considered inevitable. According to a Cape Town (South Africa) dispatch of the 6tb, Oham, brother of King Cetewayo, had been captured by the British forces with 300 of his men. An Insurrection had broken out in the Transvaal. K Liverpool dispatch of the 6th announces the failure of several (extensive cotton brokers. -"Over 90,000 coaKmiwrs in fforiramrstratk; on the sth.

TMe Colonel of the Seventieth Austrian Regiment wss recently murdered by Bosnian brigands. . » The Roumanian Legislative Assembly has lately passed by Urge majorities In both bouses s resolution affirming the necessity of so revising the Constitution sa to remove the disabilities under which tlio Jews labor.

(J<>uirr»HMlonAl Proceeding**. Among the biHs introduced in the Hcnate. on the Dint nit. m one to extend the time for the construction ot the Northern Pacific Railroad, and one to authorize the National Board of Health to investigate and report on the infections nnd contusion* disease* of animals. .... No busmens of importance was transacted. The House was not in session. In the Senate, on the l«t, the bill appropriating *200.000 for a yellow-fever disinfecting vessel wns passed.... A resolution was passed authorizing the Committee on Rules to take nNer consideration the question as to whether the Joint rales for the government of the business of Congress were in force, and to confer with the like committee of the House on the subject. In the House, the legislative Appropriation bill (between *16,(00.000 and *16,0 0,000) was reported. with several repealing clauses... The Army Appropriation bill was farther debated in Committee of the Whole. Several bills wore introduced in the Henate, on the 2d. among which was one providing for a treaty with Mexioo.... Mr. Hoar's resolution condemning as unconstititutional and revolutionary the Democratic programme of legislation was laid on the table— 85 to 20.... Majority and minority reports were made in the case TSr Mr. Bell, of New Hampshire, the former against, , in( j the latter in favor of, his admission as Senator on the appointment of the Governor of his State. , fn the House, all general debate on the Army Appropriation bill was ordered closed at three o'clock p. m. on the 4th, leaving the five-minute debate still open.. The discussion on said bill was continued in Committee of the Whole. In the Senate, on the 3d, Mr. Hoar argued in favor of admitting Mr. Bell as Henator from New Hampshire, saying there was an unbroken line of precedents for so doing ... A bill was introduced to authorize the President to appoint Gen. .Tames Shields a Brigadier-General on the retired list.... Adjourned to the 7th. The debate on the Army Appropriation bill was continued in’ the House, several members taking part in the discussion. , The Senate was not in session, on the 4th. The general debate on the Army Appropriation bill was closed in the House, and the bill was considered under the five-minnte rule, after which Mr. New offered an amendment providing that nothing in the section under discfiAsion should be construed as abridging the duty or power of the President, under the Constitution, to send troops on application of the Legislature or Executive of a Htate. Mr. Baker offered an amendment to the amendment, making it unlawful for anyone to have on his person fire-arms, bowie-knives, clubs or bludgeons in the vicinity of a place where an election is being held. The Chair ruled out Mr. Baker’s amendment as not germane to an Army bill. The committee rose, and the House ordered all debate on the pending measure to close at 12:30, on the sth. There was no session of the Senate on the sth. The Army Appropriation bill was fnrther considered in Committee of the Whole of the House, and a motion to strike out the repealing section of the bill was, after debate, rejected—yeas, 117; nays, 136. Other propositions were also rejected, when the committee rose and reported the bill totheHouse. The unimportant amendments to the bill were agreed to, without division, and the bill, as amended, was then passed—l4B to 122—a strict party vote. The following named Greenbackere voted with the Democrats in the affirmative: De La Matyr, Ford, Gillette, Jones. Ladd, Lowe, March; Stevenson, Weaver and Yokum. Messrs. Barlow and Forsythe (of the Greenbackers) voted with the Republicans, in the negative. ... .The House then, by a vote of 154 to 109, adj ourned to the Bth. Investigation. THE SENATE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE IN WASHINGTON. The committee continued its investigation, in Washington, on the Ist. A Mr. testified that no person in the Treasury Department receiving less than *1,200 per year was asked to subscribe to he Republican campaign fund. R. B. Sqniera testified that he was an assistant messenger in the War Department, He did not subscribe anything. Soon after receiving the circular his salary was reduced to sixty dollars per month. Ris salary was reduced at the beginning of the fiscal year by action of Congress at the same time that other employes’ wages were cat down. George C. Gorham was recalled, on the 4th, and fnraished statements previously called for, from which it appears that 782 circulars were sent to employes in Departments, 435 of which were responded to, twenty-five were returned and 272 resulted in subscriptions amounts ing to $8,247. He had found cases where circulars were sent to persons receiving salaries of less than SI,OOO, and ne wished to correct his previous statement on that point. John G. Thompson Was called by the Republican members of the committee, and detailed his connection with the Democratic Congressional Committee in 1878. No money was collected from employes of the House of Representatives. Witness devoted most of his time during the summer of 1878 to conducting the campaign, but came to Washington on the first of every month to see to the disbursements of members’ salaries. Did not neglect his official duties. ' ' Duncan 8, Walker, Secretary ofthe Democratic Congressional Committee in 1878. testified that the headquarters of the committee for a portion of the campaign were in the room of the House Committee on Agriculture. The amount collected by the committee was $4,695. The number of documents sent out was 1,031,700. The documents were nearly all folded in the room of the House Committee on Post-Roads and Printing. Large numbers of documents were sent out by the committee under frank of Members of Congress, but nothing not privileged. Postage was paid on all documents not fraukable. Witness read a statement showing that the expenses of the fold-ing-room for 1878 were only $20,598, as against larger sums, ranging up to as nigh as Jll’9,o'o the lastten years. Henry Cobant, Captain of {he watch in the Treasury Department, testified that he had charge of furnishing Pennsylvania voters in that Department with free transportation to their homes, and tax receipts, where they had failed to pay their taxes, both of which were furnished by Russel, acting for the State Central Republican Committee.— ■

Too Much Sleep.

The effects of too much sleep are not less signal than those arising from its privation. The whole nervous system becomes blunted, so that the muscular energy is enfeebled, and the sensations and moral and intellectual manifestations are obtunded. All the bad effects of inaction become developed; the func-tions-are exerted with less energy; the digestion is torpid, the excretions are diminished, whilst, in some instances, the secretion of fat accumulates to an inordinate extent. The memory is impaired, the powers of imagination are dormant, and the mind falls into a kind of hebetude, Chiefly because the functions of the intellect are not sufficiently exerted, wjien sleep is too prolonged or toe often repeated. To sleep muoh is not necessarily to be a good sleeper. Generally they are the poorest sleepers who remain longest in bed; t. e„ they awaken less refreshed than if the hour of arising, were earlier by an hour or two. While it is true that children and young people require .more sleep than their elders, yet it should be the care-of parents that over-indulgence be not permitted. Where the habit is for children to lie in bed until eight or nine in the morning, the last two hours, at least, do not Taring sound, dreamless sleep, where the nour of retiring is eight or nine p. m., |Ait are spent in “dozing,” and, in fact, such excess cannot fail to insure the harmful results described by the authority quoted. What is called “laziness” among children is, in very many cases, disease, and is largoly due to this, as well as the other causes mentioned, that undermine the foundations of health. —Ooiden Buie. Vi. ■ 1 ".-V"-. > ■ Last year there .were 138,407 children between four and sixteen years old in Connecticut, a gain of 1,308 over the previous year, and 119,828 were registered as pupils in the schools. The average of male teachers’ wages fell 6 per cent during the ydar, while of salaries increased slightly. ' O ./ I

GEN. GARFIELD.

Til* Republican Una or Attack Against the Revolutionary Piegramme of the Urlgadlrra (tap' AelA’a Treatment as the Democratic Threat to Starve the Ooverument lute Submission. The speech of Gen. Garfield in the National House of Representatives, foreshadowing the Republican line of attack against the Democratic programme, is in all respects an able effort, and as the opening speech of what is likely to prove a memorable debate, is worthy of careful reading. It is a fine specimen of forcible statement and close logic: The House being In Committee of the Whole on the Army Appropriation bill, Mr. Garfleld (Rep.), of Ohio, took the floor. He commenced his speech by referring to the gravity and solemnity of the crisis that had now been brought upon the country, and declared that the House had to-day resolved to enter upon a revolution against the Constitution and the Government; and that the consequence of the resolve, It persisted in, meant nothing short of subversion of the Government. He sketched the point at Issue between the twd Houses at the close of thedast Congress, and read from a report of oiiVof the Senate Conferences to,the effect that the Democratic Confereesfcpß the part of the House were determlneaTunlesS-tlie action of the House was concurred in, to%efuse making appropriations to carry on the Government; and he also quoted from the speech of Senator Beck (another of the Conferees) to the effect that the Democrats claimed the right which the House of Commons in England had established after two centuries of contest, to say they would not grant the money of the people unless there was a redress of grievance. These propositions, continued Mr. Garfleld, in various forms, more or less vehemently, were repeated in the last House, ant} with that situation of affairs the session came near its close. The Republican majority in the Senate and the Republican minority in the House expressed the deepest po-stble solicitude to avoid the catastrophe here threatened. They expressed their strongest desire to avoid the danger to the country and to Its business of an extra session of Congress, and they expressed their willingness to let go what they considered the least important of the propositions —not as a matter of coercion at all, but as a matter of fair adjustment and compromise, it they could be met in the spirit of adjustment on the other side. Unfortunately, no spirit of adjustment appeared on the other side to meet their advances. And now the new Congress is assembled, and, after ten days of aeliberation, the House of Representatives has resolved substantially to reaffirm the propositions of its predecessor, and on these propositions we are met to-day. This is no time to enter into all th s case. lam not prepared for it myself. But I shall confine myself to the one phase of the issue presented In this bill. Mr. Atkins (Dem.), of Tennessee, asked Mr. Garfield whether be understood him to state that there had been no disposition to compromise made in the Conference Committcc. Mr. Garfield replied that he did not undertake to state what had been said in the Conference Committee, for he had not been a member of the Conference. He had been only stating what had been stated on the floor of the House and of the Senate. Mr. Atkins—Then 1 state that a proposition was made in the Conference Committee the same as the proposition now before the House, and which is proposed to be attached to this bill. Mr. Garfield—l take it for granted that what my friend says is Strictly true. I know nothing to the contrary. The question may be asked why we make any special resistance to propositions which a great many gentlemen nave declared are to be considered of no impontance. So far as this side is concerned, I desire to say this. We recognise you, gentlemen of the other side, as skillful parliamentarians and skillful strategists; you have chosen wisely and adroitly your Hue of assault; you have put forward perhaps the least objectionable of your measures; but we meet that as one part of your programme. We reply to it as an order of batile, and we are as mucli compelled by the logic of the situation to meet you on the skirmish-line as we would be if you were attacking the intrenchments themselves. And, therefore, on the threshold, we desire to plant our case on the general grounds on which we choose to defend it. Mr. Garflek, then went on to refer to what he had stated on the last day of the last Congress, as to the division of the Government into three parts—the Nation, the Senate, and the People—and ho said that, looking at the Government as a foreigner might look upon it, it might be said to be the feeblest Government on the earth, while, looking at it as an American citizen did, it was tbe mightiest Government. A foreigner could point out a dozen ways in which the Government could be killed, and that not by violence. Of course all Governments might be overturned by the sword. But there were some ways in which this Government might be utterly annihilated Without the firing of a gun. The people might sav they would not elect Representatives. That, of course, was a violent supposition, but there was no possible remedy for such a condition of things, and, without a House of Representatives, there could be no support of a Government, and, consequently, there could he no Government. Bo the States might say through the Legislatures that they would not elect Senators. The very abstention from electing Senators "would absolutely destroy the Government, and there would be no process of compulsioh. Or, supposing that the two Houses were assembled in their usual order, and that a bare majority of one in either House should firmly bind itself together and say that it would vote to adjourn at the moment of meeting each day, and would do that for two years in succession—in that case what would happen, and what would be the measure of redress? The Government would die. There could not be found in the whole range of Judicial or Executive authority any remedy whatever. The power of a member as ibe House to vote was tree, and he might vote "No” on every proposition of that kind. It was not so with the Executive. The Executive had no power to destroy the Government. Let the Executive travel but one Inch beyond the line of law, and there was the power of impeachment. But, if the electors among the people who elected Representatives, or if tbe electors in the'State Letflslatdres'Whd crfcfttfetf"SßTl-"' stars and Representatives themselves, abstain from the performance of their duty, there was no remedy. At a first view it might seem remarkable, ne said, that a body of wise men Uke those who framed the Constitution should have left the whole side of the fabric of Government open to those deadly assaults, but, on another view of the case, they were wise. What was their reliance! It was on the sovereignty of the Nation, on the crowned ' and anointe. Sovereign to whom all American citizens owed their allegiance. That Sovereign was the body of the people of the United States, inspired by their love of country and their sense of obligation to public duty. Ab the originators of the forces that were sent to Congress to do their work, they had no need of any coercive authority to be laid on them to compel them to do their manifest duty. Public opinion, the level of that mighty ocean from which all heights and all depthß were measured, was deemed a sufficient measure to guard that side of the Constitution, and those approaches to tbe life of the Nation, abso lutely from all danger, all harm. Up to this hour (he said) our Sovereign has never failed us. There has never been such abstention from the exercise of those primary functions of sovereignty as either to cripple or endanger the Government. And now, for the first time In pur history, and I will say for the first time in at least two , centuries in the history of English-speaking pcople„has it been proposed, or at least insisted upon, that these voluntary powers shall be used for the destruction of the Government. I want It understood that the propositions which I have read, and which Is the programme announced to the American people to-day, Is, this day, that, If we cannot have our way In a certain manner, we will destroy the Government of this country by using the voluntary power, not of the people, but of ourselves, against the Government to destjpy it. What is our theory of laws? It isfree cdfeent. That is the granite foundation of the whole structure. Nothing In this Republic aan be a law that has not V free consent <Jf tho House, the tree consent of tbe Benate, and the free consent of the Executive. Or, if the Executive refuses his free consent, then it must have the free consent of two-thirds of each body. Will anybody deny that! Will anybody challenge a line of that statement—that free consent Is the .foundation rock of all our institutions? , And yet the programme announced two weeks ago was, that, If the Senate refused to consent to the demand of the House, tho Government should Stop. The proposition was then, and the programme is now, that, although there is not a Senate to veto it, there Is still a third Independent factor in the Legislative powef of the Government which is to be coerced at the peril of the destruction of tbe Government. It makes no difference whatyour-issue is. II U ffire ike simplest I and most inoffensive pro pos It ton SnYfie'worTi T I yet, if you demand as a matter of coercion

that It shall be put in, every fair-minded Ref million, la America would be bound to resist t as much ts though his own life depended on his resistance. lam not arguing ae to tbs merits of vour three amendments at all; I am speaking of your methods, and I aay that they are against tbe Constitution of our country. I say that they are revolutionary to the core, and that they tend to tbe destruction of tbd’niit elemuuLpf American liberty, which is free consent or all the powers that unite to nuke the law. I ask any body to take up my challenge* wnl to show me where hit herto this consent has been coerced as u condition precedent to the support of the Government. It is a little sur rising to me that our friends on the other side should have gone into this great contest on so sleuJur a topic as the one embraced in this particular bill. Victor Hugo said, in bis description of the great Battle of Waterloo, that two armies were like two inlchty giants, and that sometimes a chip under the heel ox one might determine the victory. It may be, gentlemen, that there la merely a chip under yoUr heel, or It may he that you treated it as a chip on our sboqjjler. But, whether it is under your heel or on our, shoulder, it represents a matter of revolution, und we fight for the chip as if it were an ingot of the richest ore. Let us see what the chip Is. Do tho gentlemen know what they ask when they ask us to repeal? Who made this law which you now demand to have repealed lu this bill? It was Introduced into the Senate of the United States by a prominent Democrat from the State of Kentucky [Mr. Powell]. It was insisted upon In an able and elaborate speech by him. It was reported against by a'Repuhiican committee in that body. It went through days and weeks of debate in the Senate, and, wfien it finally came to be acted upon In that body, this is about the way tbe vote ran: Every Democrat in the Senate voted for It, and every Senator who voted against it was a Republican. No Democrat voted against it, but every Democratic Senator voted for It. Who were they? Mr. Hendricks, ot Indiana; Mr. Davis, of Kentucky; Mr. Johnson, of Maryland; Mr. McDougal, of California; Mr. Powell, of Kentucky; Mr. Richardson, of Illinois, and Mr. Saulsbury, of Delaware. There werelewerßepublican Senators who voted for it than there were who voted against it. Thirteen Republican Senators voted against it, and only ten for it. Tbe bill then came over to the House, and was put upon its passage Here. And bow did the vote stand in this body? Every Democrat in the House of Representatives voted for It—sixty of them. The total number of persons who voted for it in the House was about oue hundred and thirteen, and of that number a majority were Democrats. The distinguished Speaker of the House [Samuel J. llaudall] voted for it. The distinguished' Chairman of the Committee ot Ways and Means [Fernando Wood] Voted for it. A distinguished member from Ohio, now a Senator, from that State [Mr. Pendleton], voted for it. Every man of leading name or fame in the Democratic party who was then in the Congress of the United States voted for the bill, and not one against it. In this House there were but few Republicans who voted against it. I was onq of tbe few. Tiraddeus Stevens voted against, it. What was the object of the bill at that time? It was this: It was alleged by Democrats that In those days of war there was interference with elections in the Border States. Tbero was no charge of any interference in the States where war did not exist. But, lest there might be some infraction of the freedom of elections, a large number of Republicans in Congress were unwilling to give any appearance whatever of interfering with the freedom of elections, and voted against this law, as au expression of their purpose that the army should not be improperly used In aiftPtrb’jtU any electlOWH""'* 7 ' ' Mr. Carlisle (Dem.), of Kentucky—l want to ask if tbe Democrats in the Senate and the House did not vote for that proposition because it came in the form of a substitute for another proposition still more objectionable to them? Mr. Garfield—The gentleman is quite mistaken. The original bill was introduced by Senator Powell, of Kentucky. It was amended by several persons in Its course through the Senate, but the vote I have given is the final vote. A Republican Senator moved to reconsider it, hoping to kill the proposition, and for four or five days it was delayed. It was again passed, every Democrat voting for it. lu the House there was no debate, and therefore no expressions of the reasons why anybody voted for it. Mr. Stephens, of Ga.—l wish to ask the gentleman If the country is to be revolutionized and the Government destroyed by repealing a law that the gentleman voted against. Mr. Garfield—l think not, sir. That is not ti e element of revolution that I have been discussing. The proposition now is that four tern years have passed since the War, and not one petition from any American citizen has come to us asking that the law be repealed; not. one memorial has found its way to our desks complaining of the law; and now the Democratic House of Representatives hold that, if they are not permitted to force on anothesfhofl.se and the Executive, against their will and their consent, the repeal of a law that the Democrats made,, it shall be a sufficient ground for starving this Government- That is the proposition we are here debating. Mr. Wood (Dem.), of New York—Before the gentleman leaves that part of the discussion, I desire to ask him whether he wishes to make the iihpression on this House that the bill introduced by Senator Powell, of Kentucky, which resulted finally in the law of lSfio, was the bill that passed the Senate and the House which lie stated that the present Speaker of the House ,aud myself vot@d in favor of? Mr. Garfield—l have not intimated that there .were no amendments. There were amendments. Mr. Wood —I want to correct tho impression. I deny that, so far as I am personally concerned, I ever voted for the bill, except as. a substitute for a more pernicious and objectionable measure™ •—‘— —— Mr. Garfield—All I say is a matter of record; what I say is, that the gentleman voted for that, law, and every Democrat in the Senate and in tho House who voted at all voted lor it. Mr. Wood—l want to ask the gentleman, whether, in 18bo, at the time of the passing ol tliis law, flic War had really yet subsided—whether there was not a portion of this country In a condition where it was impossible to exercise an elective franchise unless there was some kind of military interference; and whether, at the expiration of lourteeu years ■wfoorG*. War ha,! snbsiiled^iJMJ^fcflHaMimia., yet prepared to continue a war-measure in a time of profound peace in tlietfloUutry ? Mr. Garfield—l have no doubt that the patriotic gentleman from New York took all those things into consideration when he voted for that bill, and 1 may have been unpatriotic in voting against It; but he and I must stand on our record as made up. Let it be understood’that I have not at all enteied into tbe Discussion of the merits of the case. I am discussing a method of revolution against the Constitution of tho United States. I de--drc. to ask tiie forbearance of the gentlemen oh the other Side for remarks that I dislike to make, for they will bear witness that I have ip many ways shown my desire that the wounds of the War shall be healed, and that the grass that God plants over the graves of ohr dead may signalize tho return of the spucg of friendship and peace between all parts of this country. But lam compelled hy tbe necessity of tho situation to refer for a moment to a chapter of history. The last act of the. Democratic administration in the Housb, eighteen years ego, was stirring and dramatic, but it wae heroic and biglisouled. Then the Democratic iart.y raid, “If you elect your man as President of ttie United Status wo will shoot your Union to death;” and the people ot this country, not willing to be coerced, but believing that they had a right to vote for Abraham Lincoln if they chose, did elect him lawfully President; and then your leaders In control of the majority of the other wing of this Capitol did the heroic thiug of withdrawing from their seats, and your Representatives withdrew from their seats and flung down to us the gage of mortal battle. , W* called it rebellion; but we admittedtliat it was honorable, that It was aourageous and that it was noble to give us rage of battle and fight it out in the open field. That conflict and what followed we all know too welly and to-day, after eighteen years, tho book of your domination is opened where you turned down jour leaves In 1860, and you are signalis ng your return to power by reading tbe second chapter (cot tliis time a heroic one), that, declares that, If we do not let you dash a statute out of the book, you will not shoot the Union to death, as in the first chapter, but s*ary« it to death by refusing the necessary appropriations. You, gentlemen, have it in your ppwer to kill this movement; you have it in your power, by withholding these two bills, to gmiMt’tUe nerve-centers of our Constitution to the stillness ot death; and ycu have declared y'rtnr purpose to do It if you cannot break; down the eiemcnfs’of free consent,that up to this time have always ruled In the Government. Mr. Davis (Dem.), of ! N. C. —Do .1 understand the gentleman to state that refusal to admit the army at the polls will be the death of this Government? Thai is the logic of his remark if it means anything. We say it will be the preservation of the Government to -keep- the wwv froro-destroying liberty atMhe polls, 1

Mr. Garfield —I have too much respect for tbs Intelligence of the gentleman from North Carolina to believe that he thinks that that was my argument, lie does not say that he thinks so. On the contrary, !an sure"that every clear-minded man knoWs that that was not my argument.. IMy argument was this: that, unless some Independent branch of the Legislative power, against its will, is forced to sign or vote what It docs not consent to, it will use the power in its hands to starve tho Government to death. Mr. Davis— How does the gentleman assume that we are forcing some branch of the Government to do what it does not wish to do? Ho . do we Krtow that, or how does the gentleman know it? .... Mr. Garfield—My reply to the gentleman is, that I read at the outset of my remarks the declaration of his party usserting.that this is lu programme. In 1856, in Cincinnati, in tlie National Convention, ami still later, In IMS 1 ), the National Democracy In the United States, affirmed the right of the veto as oue of the sacred rights of our Government, and dvciafed that any law which could not be passed over a veto by a two-thirds vote had no right to become a law, and that the only redress was an appeal from the veto to the people at the next election. That has been the Democratic doctrine on that subject from the remotest (lay—certainly from Gen. Jackson’s time until now. What would you have said In 18(51 If the Democratic majority In the Senate, instead of taking the rourso which It did, had sinudy said: “We wilt put an amendment on an Appropriation bill declaring the right of any Slate *o secede from tlie Union at pleasure, and forbidding any officer of the army or navy of the United States from interfering with any State lu its purpose to secede ?” Suppose the Democratic majority had said then: “ Put that on those Appropriat'on-hills,- or we will -refuse supplies to the Government.” Perhaps they could have killed tho Government then by starvation. But, in the madness-of that hour, the leaders of the Secession Government did not dream that it would be honorable to put their fight on that ground, but they walked out on their plan of battle and fought it out. But now, in a way which the wildest of Secessionists never dreamed of takiDg, it is proposed to make th.s new assault on the vitals of the Nation. Gentlemen [addreaslnj&tho Democratic side of the House], we have tried to count the cost. We did try to count It in 1861 before we picked up the gage of battle; and although no man cquld then forecast the awful loss in blood and treasure, yet, having started in, we staid there to victory. We simply made the appeal to our sovereign, to that great, omnipotent Public Opinion lu America, to determine whether the Union should be shot to death. Aud now, JaWfully, m our right and in our right place here, we pick up the gage ot battle which you have thrown down, and will appeal to our common sovtgelgn to say whether you shall bieak down the principle of free consent In legislation at the price of starving the Government to death. We are readv to pass these bills for the support ot the Government at aDy hour when you will offer them In tho ordinary way; and, If you offer these other measures as separate measures, we will meet you in the spirit of fair and fraternal debate. But you shall not compel us—you shall not coerce us —even to save this Government until the question has gone to the sovereign to determine whether it will consent to brqpk down any of its voluntary powers. And on that ground, gentlemen, we plant ourselves. We remind you, in conclusion, that this great zeal of yours in regard to keeping the officers of the Government out of the States has not been alwaj s yours. I remember that only six years beiote the war your law authorized-Marshals . of tlie United States to go through all our households and hunt for fugitive blaves. It did not only that, but it empowered Marshals to call for posse comitatus and to call upon all tiie bystanders to join id the chase; and your Democratic Attorney-General declared, in an ( pinion, in 1&54, that a Marshal of the United Slates might call to his aid the whole ppesc, including soldiers, and sailors, aud marines of the United States, to join In the chasif and to hunt down the fugitive. Now, fellowmembers of the House, if, for the purpose of making slavery eternal, you could, send your Marshals and could summon posses and used the armed forces of the United States, by what face or grace can you tell us that, in order to procure freedom In elections and peace at the polls, you cannot use the same Marshal with liis armed posse? But I refrain irom discussing the merits of the proposition. I liave tried, in tills hurried and unsatisfactory way, to give my ground of opposition to tliis legislation. As Mr. Garfleld resumed his seat, he was again loudly applauded on the Republican side and-in the galleries.

Pyrotechnic Paragraphy.

Oh! how fit —how passing fit—it was that the Radical party should breathe a final hiss at our Confederate President as its dying carcass was borne from the Senate Chamber of the States Union! Hating all that is good and pure, and grand and true, it was peculiarly proper that it should hate Jefferson Davis with a deathless hate. Its history was one long lie and crime; It flung our country into the war; It murdered 800,000 gallant Southrons, like the common cut-throat that it was; It gave our homes to the torch, like the common incendiary that it was; It plundered our pockets and coffers, like the common thief that it was; It sent its jail-birds to lord it over us, and imprisoned the purest patriots of the North, like the common tyrant that it was; Finally, with bloody hands, and pockets bulging with stolen monoys, it fell before the wrath of an indignant and outraged peoplehood. But its malignant spirit was strong in death, and, while the rattle was sounding in its slimy throat, it managed to utter a farewell hiss at our illustrious chieftain. 1 " „ ~ Bet this fact be forgetless. It contrTbuteS otte moTC shiurng leaf to the splendid laurel-crown of glory that circles the brow of our grand old Confederate President. It intensifies the immortal love and honor for our second Washington! We have captured the Capitol, and the name of Jefferson Davis will hereafter be spoken with reverence in its historic halls, while his picture will yet grace and his memory will yet glorify the place forever. Okolona (Mss.) Southern States.

The Carriage Trick.

A certain builder of carriages made a practice of keeping a carriage on hand to palm off on the executors of deceased noblemen. It was a costly vehicle, handsomely fitted up. As soon as the death of a nobleman occurred, the carriage was decorated with the arms of the deceased in the best style of herald painting. With this preparation a letter was dispatched to the executors, respectfully inquiring when it would be convenient to remove tTie carriage which had been built according to the orders of his Lordship. It had been some time ready to be taken away, and the price was £l9O, or some such sum'. This unpleasant announcement usually led to a compromise. The carriage not being wanted, a sum of money was paid by the executors to take it off their hands.* This was precisely what was anticipated. The carriage was. now ready for a fresh start in plundering. The armorial arms were obliterated; and the panels were prepared to receive the heraldic blazonry of the next nobleman on whose executors the same trick could be played/off. Very clever this; but, like all rogueries, it was at length found out, and a loss of reputation ensued, What becamo of the’ carnage that had undergone so manv transformations wo know not. — Chambers'. Journal. Water containing animal matter is a deadly poison. By this cholera, typhoid fever and epidemic diseases are caused, . - -lowa State Register. ,