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General News Summary.

Oit Um Tlh, the DOM States Supreme Court rendered & dectaton In the ChiM«o flreS-beteh Whisky-fUn* ewes. Delonduta hut till against them selves and Mr accomplices, mud thee claimed release from |ne* mod Mirer" 1 lor crooked practices, as well as tmmunltr from criminal pun lab ment, plead lex that they were promised such Immunity and release hy the District Attorney. The Court sat down upon this plea, bolding that the District Attorney had no authority to make such promise, thus reversing the decree in the Court below, where It was held that he had. Tam United States Supreme Court has decided that the Unde of the Northwestern Uuteerttty at Kvanston, 111., are properly exerupt from taxation. • Tn Democratic Members of the National House of Representatives met tn caucus on the afternoon of the 9th, and adopted a resolution that the Bouse will hereafter meet ou Mondays, so as to allow the Introduction of general legislation. __ .v"* 0» the 9th, the Secretary of the Treasury Issued s call for the redemption of 910,000,000 of 10-40 bonds of 1864, principal and Interest payable on the 9th of duly. « Tn United States Senate decided, on the 10th, by a vote of 85 to 28, that Charles H. pair, of New Hampshire, was entitled to a seat in that body by virtue of appointment of the Governor. Mr. Bell was consequently sworn Into All the vacancy from that State. Tn National Executive Committee of the Colored Emigration Society have recently adopted resolutions asking Government aid, through the Quartermaster’s and Commissary Departments, for the destitute colored emigrants arriving at St. Louts and other points on the Mississippi River. Tn Republican Senators met in caucus at Washington, on the afternoon of the 12th, and, after a full discussion, agreed to make every possible effort to defeat the passage of the Army Appropriation bill as it came from the House, for the reason mainly that the enactment of the sixth section would prevent the use of the posse comitatui on election days for the execution of civil processes of any and all descriptions issued by the authority of the United States This was the position taken by ex-Becretary Robeson in his recent speech in the House. The caucus also unanimously agreed to disregard the position taken by Mr. Garfield that the legislation would be acceptable if presented as a separate measure. Sbxatob Wisdom has been chosen President, E. M. McPherson Treasurer, and Prof. Greener Secretary, of the Executive Committee of the National Emigration Aid Society. Arrangements will be completed for perfecting local organizations. The officers of the Association stated, on the 13th, that their appeals for aid had met with favorable responses from philanthropic persons North and South, irrespective of party.

Tile East. According t.o a New York dispatch of the 7th, the New York World had instructed its reporter to prosecute the shyster who procured what purported to be a decree from a 'Wisconsin Court, divorcing him from a supposititious wife, under that provision of the law of Mew York which makes the procuring of a legal paper of the character and in the manner described forgery in the third degree, and punishes the Offender by sentence to the State Prison for from one to five years. It was also stated that Judge Wentworth had offered to go to New York at any time as a witness to establish the forgery. In Albany, N. Y., on the Bth, the Democrats elected ten, the Democrats and Nationals twenty-one and the Republicans four Supervisors. John Guttman (Dent) was re-elected Justice of the Justices' Court b> 3,000 ma- - jority. . ~ “ The New Jersey municipal elections occurred on the 9th. New Brunswick and Princeton went Republican. Rahway elected a Democratic Mayor over the present incumbent. Hoboken elected a Republican Mayor and Democratic Water Commissioner. The vote in Jersey City «how»..gaius for the Republicans in all the boards of local government. John P. Phaik, who had been three times reprieved since the murder was committed, four years ago, was hung at the State Penitentiary, in Windsor, Vt., on the 10th. Thb Massachusetts House of Representatives has rejected a bill to secure women the right to vote on municipal affairs in cities and towns, A bill, to give wosifcu the right to vote for members of Bchool Committees was passed. Paor. King, the aeronaut, says he will make an attempt, within a few months, to cross the Atlantic in a balloon. Thb Providence Savings Bank and Trust Company of Providence, Pa., suspended, on tbe 12th, being unabie to meet its obligations after having taken advantage of ttie sixty-days’ law. Liabilities, $75,000; nominal, assets, *IOO,OOO. Gen. Richard Tatlor, a son of the late President Taylor, and a Confederate General of renown, died in the City of New York, on the 12th. Alfred A. Burnham, a former Member of Congress from Connecticut, died at his residence in Hartford, on the 12th. The following were the closing quotations for produce in New York, on April 12th: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, *LOI@LO*; No. 2 Milwaukee, *l.ol@Lo6. Oats, Western Mixed, 3lX(g32Xc. Corn, Western Mixed, 45@45Jfc. Pork, Mesa, *9.40(210.70. i.ard, t6.sG(cs 00. Flour, Good to Choice, *3.95 <24.50; White Wheat Extra, *4.55(45.25. Cattle, 49.00(39.50 for Good to Extra. Sheep, [email protected]*. Hogs, *t.(i)<44.20. At East Liberty, Pa., on April 12th, Cattle brought: Best, [email protected]; Medium, $4.50@ 4.88; Common, *[email protected]. Hogs sold— Yorkers, *3.80@3 90; Philadelphia, $4.25@ Sheep brought $4.5006.10-accordlna to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on April 12th, CatUe brought; Beat, $5.12X015.87X; Medium $3.68X04.50. Hogs sold At [email protected] for Good. Sheep were quoted at $4.0006.00 for Good.

West and South. Municipal. elections were held In Ohio, on the 7th. In Cincinnati, Jacob, the Republican candidate, w*a elected Mayor toy about 5,00 majority. Colnmbtu also elected a Republican Mayor, by 1,700 majority. Sandusky elected a Democratic Mayor by oyer 060 majority, and Cleveland went Republican by about MUO majority. The entire National Oeket, with the poasible exception of Police Judge, waa elected in Toledo by 400 to to 800 majority. Ths return* for the election In Michigan, received on the morning of the Bth, Indicated the election of the Republican State ticket, headed by Campbell, for Judge of the Supreme Court, by about 10,000 majority. , , Tub lowa State Central National Greenback Committee have called a State Nominating Convention, to meet In DesMolnes on the 9Bth of May. A Cl KWHS ATI dispatch of the Bth slates that out of twenty-seven towns in Ohio from which returns had been received, the Republican* had carried seventeen, the Democrats seven and the Independence three.

Kansas Cut (Mo.) ha* elected U. M- Healey (Greenback) Mayoa. Tbe Republican* elected the Treasurer and four out of aix Aldaraeu. r y - Nrw% thought to be tellable, waa received at Wfehtte, Kan., aa the Bth, that tbe Cheyenne Indiana wore on the war path. They had broken away tram oamp and • ter ted in the direction of Western KansaaJ Agent Mill* and an army officer, who Wsnf to remonstrate, were ordered to leave. Thk bualnesa failures in Chicago during the month of March numbered thirteen, with liabilities aggregating 9471,320, and asaets amounting to 9842,850. A dispatch was received st San Francisco, on the oth, from the while inhsbltants of Sitka, praying the President for protection against an anticipated attack by the Indians. The Mormon Conference at Salt' Lake closed, on the Bth. John Taylor was re-elected President of the Twelve Apostles, but no sue crasor to Brigham Young, as President of the Church, waa chosen. Thb Fidelity Savings Bank building, the Fidelity Safe Deposit Vaults and Hooley’s Theater, property in Chicago belonging to the estate of the defunct Fidelity Savings Institution of that city, were sold at auction by the Receiver, on tbe 10th, for 4192,400. Thb Kentucky State Republican Convention waa held in Louisville, on the 10th. Tbe following nominations were made: Governor, Walter Evans; Lieutenant-Governor, O. 8. Doming; Attorney-General, W. O. Bradley 1 , Treasurer, Richard P. Stall; Auditor, John A. Williamson; Register, M. O’Dougherty; Superintendent, M. Mclntyre. The resolutions affirm the platform adopted in Cincinnati in 1876; favor the education of the people of the State; advise the calling of a Convention to ameud the State Constitution; condemn the Democratic mismanagement of State affairs, etc., etc. , A New Orleans telegram of the 10th says tbe authorities there had resolved to quarantine, for twenty days, all vessels arriving from West Indian ports, tbe Qulfpf Mexico south of Texas, and South Ani?rica, after Msy I, to prevent the IntrodiKtion of yellow feves.

On the 10th, at the Cleveland (Ohio) Rolling Mills, a bar of iron being run through the rollers caught a small boy standing near in its fiery embrace, and literally burned hja body in two. Near Mtzpah, D. T., on the 10th, seven Indians attacked Serg’t Kennedy and his escort The latter was killed and Serg’t Kennedy Was badly wounded. Tbe scene of the killing was about forty-five miles from Fort Keogh. Berg’t K. was lately the Signal Observer at Deadwood. During a recent thunder-storm at Chicago, a meteor of large size exploded with a loud report.. Two bushels of fragments wpre gathered up. On the 12th, at St. Louis, Mo., E. H. Brown, the Manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company, refused to produce certain telegranjs before the GrandJury T and was ordered Into the custody of the City Marshal for contempt. Peter Snell, a sailor, who was bitten some weeks before by a mongrel cur, died at Milwaukee, Wis., on the 12th, from hydrophobia. The recent prairie fires in Dakota came very near destroying Forts Stevenson and Lincoln. In each case the garrison turned out and worked vigorously to turn the flames. In Chicago, on April 12th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at cash; for April; 91%@91>£c for May. Cash Cora closed at i 34c for No. 2; 31%c for April; 35%c for May. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 24c, and 25){c seller May. Rye No. 2,44 c. Bsrley No. 2, 66)4<867c for cash; 66>4@67c for April. Cash Mess Pork closed at 919-25(3110.30. Lard, 96.20. Beeves —Extra brought 95.00(45.25; Choice, 44 65 @4.80; Good, [email protected]; Medium Grades, 93.85@425; Butchers’ Btock, 92.65(83.90; Stock Cattle, etc., [email protected]. Hogs—Good to Choice, [email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice, [email protected].

Foreien Intelligence. According to a London telegram of the 7th, information had been received that the Khedive of Egypt had announced that he had tired of Franco-Anglo financial schemes, and would hereafter manage his finances to salt himself. Wilson, the English Minister, gnd De Bleenieres, the French Minister, had been dismissed, and a new Cabinet formed under the Presidency of Cherif Pasha, composed exclusively of natives. Edward Clark, a distinguished London civil engineer and contractor, failed on the 7th, for *3,800,000. The rinderpest has made its appearance among the cattle with the British Army in Afghanistan, and threatens to seriously embarrass the commissariat. The Cardinal Vicar of the Pope has lately written a letter for publication, in which he complains bitterly of the establishment of foreign Protestant schools almost under the shadow of the Vatican, and ask 6 for liberal contributions for the increase and improvement of Catholic schools. . The steamer Surbiton left New York, for Rotterdam, on the 18th of February. She has not arrived at her destination, and nothing has been heard of her. She is believed to have foundered. Further advices were received from Cape Town, on the evening of the Bth, which announced another disaster suffered by the British forces in South Africa. About 4,000 Zulus had attacked a company of the Eightieth Regiment, which was convoying a wagon-train intended tor the relief of Col. Pearson, and killed all but five men of the 184 of which it was composed. England and France have each dispatched squadrons to Egyptian waters, to demand of the Khedive an explanation of recent events. A deadly sporadic fever prevails at Cassa Blanca, Morocco, and is attacking natives and Europeans alike. News was received in London, on the Btb, of another disaster to ,the British arms in South Africa. It appears that Col. Pearson, who, for some time, had been beleaguered at Ekowe, and bad to choose between death by starvation and an attempt to cut his way through the surrounding Zulus, adopted the latter alternative and made a sortie. The result was that the sortie party was repulsed, and that nearly all the participating troops were killed. The '"situation of CoL Pearson was considered extremely critical, and it was believed that King Cetewayo would attack and destroy his command, and then destroy the reinforcing regiments in detail. There were numerous labor riots In the Durham Colliery District, on the 9th, and many of the. iron-works closed, the managers having left because of fear of bodily harm. An extra police force was Sent to the different collieries to protect the non-strikers. On the 9th, the Paris Palrie announced the betrothal of King Alfonso of Spain to the Archduchess Mails of Austria. It was stated that the marriage would take place in July. The Russian Revolutionary Committee has sent letters to all the Imperial dignitaries at St. Petersburg, saying that, while they do not intend to attack the Czar, they will kill his officers, especially the heads of the Police Department, so long as the condition and treatment of the political prisoners remains unameliorated. . The points in dispute between Turkey and Austria have been, settled by granting per* mission to the latter to occupy three points on the River Lorn, in the outskirts of Novi Bazar, and commanding the three only practicable crossing places. According to a Berlin telegram of tile lot h, L<MO Nihilists had been already arrested in Charkoff. The police there had received a, letter announcing that the murderer of Gen. Krapotkin had arrived in New York.

A Jtai\)HT prevailed In London, on the lOtb, that England and France had decided to demand of the Sultan the dspoeltioo of the Khedive of Egypt. <• . Ox the l6tli, the' German Government authorized, the official denial of tbe report that It Intended*increase tbe volume of silver currency. . . Caul Beck, the German poet, died on the llth. *"V4 ; : — Ax attempt was made on the 11th to assassinate the Governor of Kiel!. The corpse of a student wss-recently found near the cathedral In Kssan, laTfelcd “ Sentenced to death as a traitor, by the Socialists’ Revolutionary Committee.'’ Nine persons were killed and twenty-five Injured, on the 11th, through an accident to the Moscow mail train. A dispatch of the 11th says the loss of life by the late inundation had been found to be seventy-seven, Instead of 2,000, as first reported. > A Paris dispatch of the 12th says the Metacony affair had been arranged, and that the French military force In possession had been ordered to be withdrawn. J. H. Cartier db Villemesant, for many years director of tbe Paris Fiyaro , is dead A St. Petersburg telegram of the 12th gives a thrilling account of the recent slaughter of studeht prisoners at Kieff. It seems the prisoners had arranged togain their liberty by. burrowing.under the walla of the prison. A confederate betrayed the design to tbe authorities, who allowed them to enter tbe excavation, when they were fired upou from both ends and nearly all killed. According to a Cairo (Egypt) telegram of the 13th, the Khedive had sent a special envoy to the Sultan of Turkey bearing a large sum of money to be presented to the latter. It was reported that the Sultan had directed the Khedive to restore the and French Ministers under penalty of the deposition of his dynasty. A few days ago, while Prince Milan, of SJervia, was walking at Niscli, a shell exploded near him and seriously wounded his Aid-de-Camp. It is thought an attempt was made to assassinate the Prince. IKMOCBNT, Metropolitan of Moscow and formerly Missionary Bishop of Alaska, died, on the 13th.

Congressional Proceedings. In the Senate, on the 7th, the Army Appropriation bill was received from the House and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. ... A bill was introduced for the repeal of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad grant, except so far as the road shall be completed by the 4th of July next, and for the restoration to the market of all lands along the line of the incomplete road, to be disposed of in the same manner as other public lands.... A bill was also introduced for the relief of the Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad Company... .The case of Mr. Bell, appointed Senator Dy the Governor of New Hampshire, was further considered.... A resolution was adopted, authorizing the President of the Senate to appoint a select committee of five to take info consideration all to the Freed men’s Havings and The House was not in session. The Army Appropriation bill was reported, without amendment, in the Senate, on the Bth. Ur. Blaine gave notice of an amendment making it“ a penal offense, punishable with fine and imprisonment, for any military, naval or civil officer, or any other person except for the purposes named in the bill, to appear armed with a deadly weapon of any. description within a mile of any polling-place where a general or special election for Representatives to Congress is being he1d.”.... Ur. Bayard's resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement of the sums paid to John I. Davenport, Supervisor of Elections at New York, since 1870, was adopted.... Mr. Bayard introduced a bill to repeal the act passed in 1862, providing test oaths and the disqualification of jurors in courts of the United States... .The New Hampshire Senatorial case was further debated. In the House, qnite a debate was started upon the propriety of instructing the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole (when the House should be in Committee on the Legislative Appropriation bill) to award the floor m accordance with the rules of the House, and not be bound by any list of speakers which might be formed. The subject-matter of the discussion was finally referred to the Committee on Rules... .The Legislative Appropriation bill was then taken up in Committee of the Whole, and several proposed amendments were rejected or ruled out of order. A resolution was introduced in the Senate, on the 9th, calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for inf&mation as to sums paid Federal Supervisors of Elections and Deputy Marshals in the State of Florida from 1870 to the present time, including amounts paid to District Attorneys, etc.... A bill was introduced to authorize the Consolidated Great Southern Railway Company to construct a railroad in the State of Georgia. ...The New Hampshire Senatorial case was further debated. In the House, the Committee on Rules made a report, which, after being modified, was agreed to. As adopted, the new rules provide for the appointment of select committees, on the Census, Reform of the Civil Service, the Law Respecting the Ascertainment and Declaration of the Presidential Election, the Prevention of Epidemic Diseases, Ventilation of the Hall, Causes of the Depression of Labor, and also to increase the committee membership as follows : Enrolled Bills to seven, Coinage to eleven. Ways and Means to thirteen. Agriculture, Judiciary, Elections, Commerce and Appropriations to fifteen each; that the Committee on Commerce shall have the same privilege to report bills making appropriations for an improvement of rivers and harbore that is accorded to the Committee on Appropriations in reporting general Appropriation bills; forbidding the reprinting of the bills of one Congress when introduced in another Congress; giving to the Committee on Banking and Currency, Coinage and Wayß and Mentis leave to report at any time, and authorizing the majority to fix a day for the consideration of any pnbfic bill reported by one of these committees; providing that the morning hour shall not he dispensed with on any day, for any purpose, except by a two-thirds vote; that the rules regulating the awarding of tfie floor in the House and the Committee of the Whole be not changed; that the practice of making lists of those members desiring to speak is proper, in order to enable the presiding officer to remember the wishes of members, but that in recognizing members he shall not be bound absolutely by bis list, but shall exercise a wise and just discretion. ( '

The New Hampshire Senatorial case was further considered in the Senate on the 10th and a resolution waa finally passed 36 (to 28— declaring Mr. Bell entitled to the seat by virtue of appointment by the Governor. The yeas and nays were: Yeas— Allison, Anthom, bayard. Booth, Bruce, Burnside, Cameron, (Pa.). Cameron, (Wis.), Chandler, Dawes, Edmunds, Ferry, Gordon, Groome, Hamlin, Hill (Col.), Ingalls, Jones (Fla.), Kellogg. Kirkwood, Logan. McDonald, McMillan. Morrill, Paadock, Platt, Plumb, Randolph, Rollins. Saunders. Teller, Voorhees, Walker. Whyte, Williams—Bß. Nays —Bailey, Call, Carpenter, Cockrell, Coke. Conkling, Davis (11L), Eaton, Farley, Garland, Grover, Harris, Hereford, Hill (Ga.), Houston. Johnston, Jones. Keman, Lamar, Maxey, Morgan, Pendleton, Ransom, Slater, Vanoe, Vest, Wallace, Withers—2B. Messrs. Jones (Nev.), Blaine, Windom and Hoar, who would have voted in favor of Mr. Bell’s admission, were paired with Messrs. Beck, McPherson, Davis (W. Va.). and Saulsbury, who would have voted against admission; Messrs. Thurman and Butler were absent. Mr. Bell Was then sworn in. .... A resolution to adjourn until the 14th waa rejected—yeas, 27; nays, 84. The Ilegislative Appropriation bill was taken up by the House in Committee of the Whole.and an amendment was agreed to repealing the sections providing for the biennial examination of pensioners, and directing the Secretary of the Treasury, in order to provide for the payment of arrears of pensions, “ to issue immediately, in payment thereof, the ten millions of legal tender currency now in the Treasury, kept as a special fund for the redemption of fractional currency," and providing that fractional cnrrency may be redeemed by any class of money in the Treasury. In the Senate, on the 11th, Mr. Hereford made a speech against Mr. Hoar's resolution declaring the Democratic programme for the passage of Appropriation bills to be unconstitutional and revolutionary. ..The Army Appropriation bill was taken np, and Mr. Withers explained its provisions. No amendments were adopted, the Committee on Appropriations having agreed to resist all amendments, and the majority of the Senate seconded them accordingly. the reason assigned by Mr. Withers for such a course being that amendments would delay the paseage of the bi 11.... Adjourned to the 14th. In the House, the Legislative Appropriation bill waa further considered in Committee of the Whole, and amendments were agreed to increasing the clerical force in the Postofifioe Department, and increasing the appropriation* for the purchase and distribution of seeds by the Agricultural Department from *68,000 to fIOO.OfOT.. The Standing Committees were announced. The Senate was not ip session on the 12th. • In the House, consideration was resumed, in Committoe of the Whole, of the Legislative Appropriation bill, the pending smeudntbMibeing one to increase to *280,000 the appropriation farcontrolling and for eradicating contagious diseases among domestic animals, and, after a long debate, the matter waa referred to the Committee on Agriculture,. with instructions to report

promptly. Other amendment* were dtijxtied of, when the committee rose, and • motion waa made to adjourn to the 15th, it being understood (hat the objeot of the motion wu to prevent the introduction of financial and other bills on Monday; the motion wae rejected—yeas. 105; nay*, 86 -all the Republicans voting m the affirmmve and all the Dree nbac kora in the negative, aa aid all the Demon ruts, except the following: Hioknell, Blount, Clvmer, Cook. Oovert, Deaster. Hammond (GsA Hurd, Johnston, Hume and Talbott; the Speaker wae paired with a ltepublican; Mr. Kelley voted with tbe Green backer*.

Committees of the National Honse of Representatives.

The standi tig committees of tho’Nn* tional House of Representative# were announced by the Speaker, on the 11th, as follows: Election*-Springer, 'Manning, Siemens, Speer, Colerick, Armfirld, Beltzhoover, Sawyer, Ph Inter, Kiefer, Camp, Calkins, Field, Overton, Weaver. Wav* and Mean*—Fernando Wood, Tucker, Gibson, Phelps. Morrison. Mills, Carlisle, Fejton, Garfield, Kelley, Conger, Frye, Dunnell. Appropriation* Atkins, Blount. Singleton (Miss.), Clynicr, Blackburn. Well*, Cobb, Poruoy, McMahon, Baker, Monroe, Hawley, Uubbell, Cannon, HI acock. Banking and Currency—Buckner. Ewing, Davis, Young. Lewis, Louusoerry, Lndd, Chittenden, Fort, Price, Crapo. Pacific Railroad*—McLanc, Chalmers, Bliss, Clark, Dickey, Ellis, Martin, Wellborn, Mariner, Be I ford, Newberry, Bailey, Buttorwortb. Claims—Bright, Dickey, Davidson, Covert, O'Connor, Davis, Samford, Ltudsey, Barber, Bowman, Crowley. Commerce —Rcncjan, Bum* Rob*. Kcnna, MeLane, Thomas. Turner, Acklen, Beal, Deuster, Clard.v, O'Neill, Waite, Henderson, Townsend (Ohio). Russell. Public Lauds—Converse, Wright, Steele, McKenzie. Williams (Ala ), Kctcham, Kyan, Sapp, Washburn. Bennett. Postofiices and Post-Roads—Money. Clark, Cook, Evins, Singleton (Ill.), Shelly, Jones, Ketcliam. Jovcc. Stone. Bingham, District of Columbia—Hanlon, llcnkle. Boa ok, Clark, Martin, Samford, Elotz, Neal, James. Hellman, Aldrich. Judiciary—Knott,- Harris, Culberson, Hurd, House. Ryan, Herbert, New. Hammond. Laphum, ltohinson, Reed, McKinley. Williams,-Willets. War Claims—Bragg, Robertson, Warner, Rothwell, Thompson, Simonton, Carpenter, Ferdon, Tyler, Bayne, Russell. Public Expenditures v-Finley, Manning, Davis, Tillman, Simonton, Beltzhoovcr, Joyce, MaSbn, Cowgtll, Brigham. .Private Land-Claims—punter, Martin, Caldwell, Mnldrow. Stevenson. Myers, Lay, Mitchell, Norcross, Burrows, Van Voorhis. Manufactures —Wise. Beale, Nichols, Smith, Richardson, Taylor, Lowe. Hall, llorr, Ilannnond, McCord. Foreign Affairs—Cox, Nelson, Bickncll, King, Nicholls, Herndon. Hill, Killinger, Rice, Mortou, Robeson. Territories—Mnldrow, Cravens. Bonck. Muller, Martin, Frost, Bachman, Humphrey, Aldrich, Young. Dick, Maginuis. Revolutionary Pensions —Whitaker, Bland. Cabell; Dibrell. Singleton (ill.), ltyan (Pa.), Converse, Farr, Miles, Pierce, Gillette. Invalid .Pensions—Cptfroth. Lewis, Caldwell, Hostetter (Ind.), Persons (Ga.), Hatch, (Mo.), Taylor (Tenn), Smith, (Pa.), Hazclton (Wis.), Davis (Ill.). UpdcgrafftO.) Kail ways and Canals- Cabell, Shelly, Kiitime], Slemons, Wise, Oscar Turner, O’Keilly, Fisher, Blake. Houck, Ford. Agriculture—Covert, Aiken, Steele, Dibicll, Henry, Lefever, Richmond, Petxons, Hatch, McGowan, Wilber, Valentine, Gods-balk, Anderson, Forsythe. Indian Affairs —Scales, Hooker, Gunter, Waddell, Portlier, White, Aker, Wellborn. Errett, Deorlng. Pound. Haskell, Ainslie. Military Affairs-Sparks. Dibrell, Bragg, Johnston, Smith, Lefever, White, McCook,'Marsh, Browne. Militia—Ross, Scales, Henkle, Thomas Turner, Speer, O'Brien, Dick, Farr, Daggett, Hawk, Mil- '"-": DavidßOD, Talbot, O'Brien, Harris, Harmer, Briggs, Brewer. Junes and Mining—Stevenson, Acklen. Armfield, Atherton. Waddell, Klotz, Loring, .Mitchell, Truer, Einstein, Campbell. Education and Labor —Goode, Willis, Lay, Tillman, McMillun, Ballou, Barlow, Osmur, VanAernan. Revision of the Laws—Harris, Clark (Mo.), Townshend, Geddfcs.-Richardson, McMillan, Lowe, Orth, Thomas, Osmer, Gillette. ■ » Coinage, Weights and Measurds—Stephens, Vance, Ellis, Bland, Willis, Warner, De LaMatyr, Clzain, W. A. Wood. Fisher. Patents—Vance. Smith (Ga.), Aiken. Townshend (111.), Bachman, Talbott, Smith, Ward, Caswell, Ballou. Dwight. * Public Buildings and Grounds—Cook, Young, McKenzie, Kljnmel, Atherton. Kitchin, March, Clark (la.), Jorgensen. Statin, Shallenberger. Accounls—Henry,kMorse, Marlin, Boyd, Smith. Mileage—Cobb, Knott, Mills, Chittenden, Overton. ' Expenditures of State Department—Clymer, Herndon, King, Frost, Newberry, Barlow, C’rowlcy. ' ; 1 Expenditures of Treasury Department—Morrison, Forney, Tucker, Buckner, Reagan. Hill, O’Neill, Weaver, Starin. Expenditures of War Department—Blackburn, Felton, Wells, Jones, White, Norcross, Hawk. Expenditures of Navy Department—Townshend (Ill.), Phelps, Kitchin, Hull, W. A. Wood, Lindsev. Neal. Expenditures of Postoffice Department—Ladd, Money, Sparks, Poekler, Blake, Valentine, Biugham. Expenditures of Interior Department—Muller, Whilthome, Clardy, WHliams (Ala.), De LaMatyr, Jorgensen, Burrows. Expenditures of Puhlic Buildings—Deuster, Bright, Herbert, O’Reilly, Ford, Forsythe, Yokum. E xpenditures of Department of Jus ties—Blouu t, Culberson, Springer, Hurd, New, Phister, Davis, CIu.), Thomas. Enisteiii, Slialleuberger. Levees of the Mississippi—Robertson, Chalmers,. Johnston, Oscar Turner, Mvers, Evins, Dunn, Bavne, Boyd, Caswell, Prescott. Rules—The Speaker, Stephens, Blackburn, GarflelilgFrye. ,• ..... - al '[-.Reform in Civil Service—Hostetter, Cravens, House, Kenna, O'Connor, Sawyer, Hammond, Haves, Hazleton, Butterworth, Richardson. On the State of Law Relating to Electoral Count —Bicknell, Hunton, Carlisle, Stephens, Ewing, Lounsberry, Dunn, Orth, Updegraff (Iowa), Van Voorhis, Yoknm. Ventilation of Hall of Honse—Kimmel, Covert, Carlisle, McMahon, Stone, Kelley, Robeson. Causes of the Depression of Labor—Wright. Dickey, O’Connor, ijpych, Shcrwin, Cowgill, Martin. * On Epidemic and Contagious Diseases—Young, Gibson, Hooker, Goode, Morse, Smith, Updcgratf (Ohio), VanAcrnam, McGowan. Printing—Singleton (Miss.). Wilson. Hayes, Enrolled Bills—Kenna, Cofiroth, Ward, Aldrich, Wilbur. Library—Geddes, Richmond, Ciallin. Census—Cox, Hooker, Elam, Finley, Colerick, Thompson, Rothwell, Loring, Pierce, Daggett, Sherwin.

Witch Burning in Russia.

Early last month a woman named Agrafena Ignatjeva was burned a* a witch by the peasants in the Village’of Wratshevo, in the Government of Novgorod. It seems that the wretched woman, who was the widow of a soldier, had the reputation of being a sorceress and witch, and strove to promote this delusion by every means in her power. The peasants of the whole neighboring districts had such a dread of ner powers of mischief that they endeavored even to anticipate her wishes, And, although an absolute pauper, she lived very comfortably on the contributions spontaneously made to her. There were many persons in the district suffering from epilepsy, and it was popularly Delieved that the witch had thus punished them for offending her in some way. One of these epileptic sufferers, a girl from a distant village, besought the peasants to burn the witch and so release her from her sufferings. At an assembly of headmen and seniors of the village it was resolved to extinguish the source of mischief. They proceeded to her hut, which they found fastened up. They broke it open, discovered the wretched woman, charged her with the crime and then nailed up the window and door to prevent her escape; By this time over 200 men hjid assembled around the hut, and amid their jeers and shouts of exultation it was set on lire, and the whole crowd remained until it was quite consumed. The sum of twentyone roubles and ninety eopecks (nearly $16.50) Was collected and offered to the rural policeman as a bribe to secure his silence. But he rejected it, arid so this terrible tragedy came to light— Bt. Petersburg Government Messenger. Thebe are about 100,000 Jewish refugees in Turkey. Their misery is perhaps not so glaring as it was last vear, when they were huddled together in mosques in masses of 4,000 and 5,000, but it is feared, in point of fact, that sufferings from cold and hnnger are, if possible, riiore intense amongst the 100,000 dispersed over Constantinople and the Bosphorus than last year. The Potto can do nothing.to help them. • \ i ennui ■ ,nMi. The tramp who entered our sanctum the other day and said he was a live lord, became a lie floored, indeed, be fore he 16ft— Yonkers Gazette.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

—Tbe head men of the world are those who think. —Did you ever hear a carpenter plane the piano f — Graphic. —Never look at a gift salt of clothes in the lining— Hackensack Republican. —You don't catch the diphtheria kissing a girl eighteen years old.— Syracuse Sunday Times. —A breath of summer at last! A man was murdered, yesterday, with an icip-pick.— St. Lotus Times-Joumal. —When ahy pf your relatives rap at your door ana you don’t want to see them, you must call out, “Walk, kin!” —A reporter, in describing a railway disaster, says: "This unlooked-for accident came upon the community unawares.” —The Pope has sent 5,000 lires to the relief of the Hungarian sufferers. The lire is a coin, not a sewing-machine agent.— Danbury News. —A Whitehall dog tried to drink ten quarts of milk in ten consecutive hours, on Thursday. He made 847 laps and tipped over the dish.— Whitehall Times. —One hundred English farmers go into bankruptcy every week on account of the importation into England of American beef, says a high English thority.’—A gentleman, speaking of a young beauty’s fashionable yellowish hair, called it puregold. “It ought to be,” quoth a friend: “it looks like twentyfour carrots.” —“ When do you intend to go back, MikcP” asked one exile of another. “If I live till I doye, and God knows whether I will or not, I intend to visit ould Ireland once more before I lave this country.” —lJylith—“ Now, grandpa, don’t the Bible say our hairs are all numbered?” Bald-headed Grandpa—“ Yes, child, yes!” Edith—” Well, grandpa, it didn’t trouble them much to count yours, did it?”— American Punch. —Never sit down and brood over trouble of any kind. If you are vexed With yourself or the world, this is no way to obtain satisfaction. Find yourself employment that' will keep your mind active, and, depend upon it, this will force out unwholesome thoughts.— lowa Slate Register. ■ —Silk gloves come in a great variety of shades to match spring and summer dresses, such as old gold, ecru, tancolor, roseau (reed green), gendarme blue, rose pink, and Sevres blue. They are very long, covering the arm halfway to the elbow, and are fastened by ten buttons. —Harper's Bazar. —“ Have you given electricity a trial frn. vnur mmnkint madam?” asked IUI. VULLI LUHi Him 4 ttolVvU the minister, as he took tea with the old lady. “Electricity!” said she. “ Well, ves, I reckon I has. I was struck by lightning last summer and hove out of the window, but it didn’t seem to do me no sort of good.” — Boston Traveller. —A raw German who had been summoned for jury duty desired to be relieved, giving this reason: “Scliudge, I can nich good Inglish qnderstan . Looking over the crowded bar, the Judge replied: “ Oh! you can serve. You won’t have to understand good English. You won’t hear any such here.”

—A colored child had a fall from a second-story window the other day, and his mother, in relating the occurrence at a grocery, said: “Dere dat child was a coming down feet fust, wid every chance of being killed, when the Lawd, he turned him over, de chile struck on his head, and there wasn’t so much as a button off. ’ ’ —Nothing pays better than making carpet-rags. After a woman has cut up a dozen old flannel shirts, five pairs of pantaloons, seven coats, ten vests, ana fourteen old dresses, and spent three months in converting them into carpet-balls, she can take the whole lot to a carpet weaver and get two dollars for them. —Norristown Herald. —Humorists are net encouraged in China. When a paragi’aphist gets oil a joke on a slant-eyed Emperor, the alleged humorist has his pigtail cut off. The loss of this hirsute appendage is bad enough, but when they amputate it without removing it from his head, it becomes painful, and the paragraphist’s propensity for joking is cured forever. —A lovely young lady, at the time when belles in Glasgow were scarcer than they are now, was talking with a gentleman from a distance about that city and its gayeties. The conversation turned upon balls and the attendance at them, when the gentleman laughingly asked the question: “Have you many beauties in Glasgow, Miss ?”’ On which the young lady naively replied, “Oh yes, sir; there are five of ns!” ’ ■ —Lord Teignmouth relates that his tutor, the Rev. Mr. Jerram, was one day preaching, when he was disturbed by snoring. He more than once appealed to the supposed sleeper, and at length peremptorily intimated that, unless the good man or woman to whom he attributed the interruption werq awakened, he must discontinue his sermon. “ Sir,” exclaimed a man from a remote part of the church, “it’s a howl!” —A patriotic Hibernian, after listening for some time to a recitation of Irish bulls amid general laughter, cried indignantly: “Faith, Mr. A., an’do ye know what I thinkP” “Why, indeed, what do you think, Mr. D. P” “Shure, sir, and do ye know that 1 think, indade, that not more than onehalf of these lies thaLthey. tell ’bout the Irish are true.” This was unanimously pronounced the bbst bull of the lot. —Springfield (Mass,) Republican.

The Flight of the Colored People.

The patience and endurance of the colored people seem to bare reached a limit at last. Whipped, scourged, persecuted and robbed, they have final* ly taken the one course left so them, and are fleeing opt of the South as the Israelites fled out of EgyptThere has been no more important, movement for years than this Colored exodus, that threatens to strip the Southern section, of its laborers. Thousands of colored men and women are leaving their old homes and seeking new places in the West —seeking them blindly, ignorantly, but as resolutely as ever a people fled from a pestUence or an escaped prisoner rushed from the scene of his imprisonment and suffering. To those who have accumulated a few hundred dollars this migratory scheme is, perhaps, an excellent one; but to those who start without means and without friends, and who require assistance before they succeed in halfway reaching their destination,. there can. be.JMe exps&tecje? oqptsufferLng. - More particularly will this be true in ease the seeming stampede that has set ip be not regulated or directed in some manner so as to prevent multitudes

from flocking West in great bodies, or in rapid succession. If these people were to move in comparatively small numbers each year, and under proper leadership, we wbuld not regard the emigration as unfortunate, but rather as a blessing, both to them and the people among whom thoy might settle. The danger is from overdoing it. The Southern plantation negro can li?e as'cheap, barring his family expenses, as a Chinamen. Give him corn bread and bacon, and he will fatten on it. Bnild him a cabin, and he will look upon it with the satisfaction of a Prince in a palace. The, great West has corn and bacon in plenty.- Not only that, but it has land in plenty, and a decent respect for honest, hard-working men women, whatever the color of their skins. These emigrants may experience many hardships, much suffering and bitter disappointments in their new homes, but their lot can scarcely be worse than that which they have forsaken. And this is true without reference to the political complexion of the case. Negroes working under contract in the cotton States are frequently paid from stores, the planters having no money until the crop is gathered. They have been paying as high as sixty cents a pound for bacon, thirty cents for sugar, thirty-five for calicoes, and so on. At the end of the contract year they are generally in debt, and this is not surprising when these prices are taken into account. In some portions of South Carolina they have been working for $6 per month and taking their pay in county scrip, payable in 1880, and this scrip they nave of course been compelled to dispose of at a sacrifice. Prof. Greener, of Harvard University, in a late interview published .in the New York Herald, expresses great satisfaction with the emigration movement, and entertains confident expectations of its beneficial results. He says: Before the war the negroes in the Southern cities and larger towns were the carpenters, brick-layers, stone-masons, and, in some instances, manufacturers on a small scale. 1 have often thought it one of the evils of the present condition of the negro at the South that he is now mainly confined to the cultivation of cotton and sugar. Send him West, and open up to him the life of an agricultural laborer, a small farmer, a worker in the mine or on the great lines of railways, and you will soon see what a steady, cheerful worker he is, and what a peaceful citizen and desirable acquisition he will become. No one expects the negro to become a capitalist and land-owner without effort. All we ask is, that he go to some place where his labor will have effect in improving his own status. In pursuit of freedom years ago we entered the cold of Canada, the rigor of the Northwest and New England. 1 see no reason to fear the effect of any climate on our race now. Eor the better, healthier and sure development of our race. 1 would gladly Bee them leave en ma«se, even the Northern cities. 1 believe in twenty years we should be a hundred per cent, better Off. ~y-" T~|— * ' —"™— —Speakmg~6f"tlie probabilities of the negro making himself useful in the North, Prof. Greener says: Wherever the negro goes in the West he will be found a desirable acquisition. The statistics of> the cotton crop since the war have forever disproved the charge of negro laziness, and Bhows him to be not a vagabond, but a thrifty and skilled cultivator wherever he has half a chance. Examine the tax-lists in any Southern State; read the educational advancement made by onr race during the past decade, then think of the political turmoils through which we have passed and the bitter persecutions we have endured for no crime except that of being black and professing Republican principles, and the cause of the present movement is not far to seek. 1 consider it the most hopeful evidence of the manhood of the negro we have yet had, and trust the work will go bravely on, guided, however, by sensible, practical men.

It must be borne in mifld that Prof. Greener is not speaking at random merely. A colored man himself, he is familiar with life in the South, and competent to judge without undue prejudice. He declares that the persecution and outrage which the colored people arfe compelled to endure in the South for political reasons are not the only grounds of complaint, but that there fs-w’practical ignoring of their rights in all sorts of transactions. ‘‘ He is completely at the mercy of his landlord and the local storekeeper—the one rents him land at exorbitant rates, attempts to dictate his political opinions, find evicts in the most approved Irish landlord fashion if the negro does not acquiesce; the other demoralizes the negro by offering credit, obtaining extortionate contracts and cheating him roundly in trade.” The case of Henry Jackson, which Prof. Greener adduces as a specimen, tells the story: 'i I left the South because I could not make a living. Year before last I made ten bales of ootton, and never got a cent for it; the man of whom 1 rented said he would ship it, and when he was paid for it he would pay me; but he never paid me anything; for it. I sued "ten it, but could not get anything. They wanted mfi to pawn my horse and begin over again, but I told them 1 would not do it, and they asked me what I was going to do. and I told them I was going to sell my horse and go away. I would not go back to the South again, beoause I could not live; cannot live there and give sll for meal, and S3O for a barrel of pork, and $lO for an acre of land, and $5 for ginning cotton, and then being cheated out of everything after 1 have made it. Summing up the whole case, the Inter-Ocean must again express the opinion that the greatest danger lies in the movement being too sudden and becoming too large. The various societies organizing to aid and direct the exodus in intelligent channels, should guard particularly against this. If necessary they should send agents into the South to dissuade the people from leaving, except in limited numbers, and with well-defined ideas of where they are going, and what they are going to do. With these precautions, we shall look for few evil results from the movement, and many advantages. The prospective loss of labor will awaken the South to the necessity of fairer dealing with the colored men, and do more to adjust the problem of equal rights than the wisest legislation that could be devised. Meantime these people, flocking in such great droves to the West, need help—not charity, but assistance to reach the localities where work can be obtained. They come to the North with that same blind but trusting faith with which they used to follow the soldiers of “Massa Linkum,” perfectly confident that the country where those soldiers lived, and where the great emancipator died and lies buried, must be the promised land to them. We cannot drive them back if we would; we would not if we could. In its effort to make good the largeness df its promise to them the Government has been thwarted. It has not earned out the sabred obligations of the Constito- 1 tion. Why it has not is unnecessary to discuss here but these people* inspired by their unbounded faith in the North, seem to feel instinctively that it |s through no fault of the men who gave them their freedom that they are not protected in its exercise —Chicago Inter Ocean. - ; —A woman started to carry her twin babies five miles through the woods in Sand Hill, S. C., but lost her way, and was'found almost dead at Hie end of ten days, with the infants lying lifeless beside her. ! * —lt is said that Surgeon-General Woodworth waa-ap poor when ho died, that a oollection was taken among the heads of bureaus in the Treasury De- , partment to defray the expenses of his funeral.

More Congressional Intimidation.

The general Democratic programme has become pretty familiar to Hie public, and the notion taken by the House on the Army bill, along with the radical utterances of Randolph Tucker and others during the debate, indicates a desperate purpose to carry it out to the end. The Washington, Herald, which is understood to represent the extremo Bourbon element in Congress, supplements the projected destruction of tho Election law with some further schemes that are oontemplated. It appears, to start with, that a refusal to vote supplies is not the only extra-Constitutional method which the Democrats propose to adopt for the coercion of the President into a surrender of the veto power. It is now suggested that, as the oonsent of the Senate is necessary to the Executive appointments, the Democratic majority in that body should refuse to oonfirm any of the President’s nominations till he indicate a willingness to sign the obnoxious bills. This suggestion is thoroughly Democratic. To the mind of the average Democrat the enjoyment of office is the sole aim of political life, and any action likely to abridge this privilege is naturally regarded as the most effective weapon for either defense or attack. The theory of the Democratic politicians, echoed by the Herald, is that favored applicants for offices in the gift of the President will set up such a howl, when they find that they are excluded because tho President will not,yield to the dictation of the Democratic majority in Congress, as will induce Mr. Hayes to abandon his principles and sacrifice the public welfare to. their selfish clamor. The history and character of Democratic politicians warrant the assumption that this would be the case if the relative position of the two parties were just the reverse of what they are. But there is not much danger that either President Hayes or his advisers will yield to so base an influence, whatever the attitude of the office-seekers may be. This sort of pressure was tried upon the President to a limited extent in the case of the New York appointments, but in vain. If the President was not willing to abandon his position in regard to a single branch of the public service in order to gain the ready confirmation of his appointments, it is not probable that he will surrender the principles of his life, the tenets of his party, and the welfare of the country to this selfish purpose. Beside, the Democrats will not be able in this way to embarrass the Administration as much as they seem to imagine. President Hayes has been in office two years. During that time he has probably fixed the personnel of the public service as satisfactorily to himself as he hopes to have it; there will be little occasion for any changes except in the case of vacancy by death or resignation, or on account of actual maladministration, and, if the Senate refused to confirm his appointments in such cases, the blame for the resulting injury to the Government’s interests will be upon the majority of that body, and not upon the President. He can afford as well as any other citizen to share the damage that will be done.

That intimidation is the main reliance of the Democrats in their effort to reimpose State Sovereignty upon the country is further evident from another suggestion made by the Herald. This is to the effect that Congress shall improve the time, pending the President’s consideration of the obnoxious political legislation, to mature and pass a bill taxing incomes. This is a blow aimed at the capital of the country, and is designed to create a pressure among the prosperous and provident people for the approval of the Democratic political measures. It is tantamount to saying to these classes: “If you will induce tho President to sign our bills for the emasculation of the Election law and the negation of National Sovereignty, we will adjourn, and make the business of the country no further trouble; if you fail to do "this, we shall puni|ih you by reviving, in a time of peace and returning prosperity, the most inquisitorial ana burdensome of all the wartaxes.” It is not necessary now to dwell upon the manifold objections to an income-tax as a permanent means of revenue. They are well known to business men everywhere, and thoroughly understood even by the demagogues who advocate such a .scheme. Its revival at this time is in the nature of a threat, but the threat will not work out its aim, because the classes thus threatened have good reason to believe that, even if the democratic project for the repeal of the Election law be approved, the imposition of an income tax and a corresponding reduction of the taxes on whisky and tobacco will be one of the first measures proposed at the regular session of the Democratic Congress. It will be a matter for surprise if Congress shall not throw open its doors to general legislation at this extra session. Mr. Carlisle is reported as saying that Congress will adjourn after passing the Appropriation hills, whether the President approve them or not. This is not likely, for there are enough conservative men among the majority to oppose this last step in the conspiracy until it shall become absolutely necessary. If adjournment should bo enacted without passing the Appropriation bills, the President would probably conceive it to be his duty to call another extra session. During all this time it will be difficult to hold Congress down to the Appropriations and political bills laid out for this extra session; and, if miscellaneous legislation be admitted at all, there will be a perfect avalanche of bills, with a preference given to those which threaten the business interests.— Chicago Tribune. (' '

The Niceties of French Law.

A Paris journal says: A gentleman is stopped on the street at midnight by a thief. Drawing a pistol from hjs pocket he forces tho man to walk quietly before him to the station. Arriving there he tells the Chief what has occurred. “Very well,” replies that officer, “but have von permission to carry armsP” " No, sir ” “In that case I must put you under arrest.” “ But without the arm whioh I hap- ~ Sened to have I would probably have een assassinated.” . <f “ That is possible, but the police ordinance exists, and it is necessary that it Kn nhflVpH “Is it allowable to carry arms which are not deadly P” “Certainly.” * “ Thon look at my pistol. It has no hammer ing to take it to a gunshop to have it repaired.” “ Oh, if I had only known!” cnCd the thief.