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STIHE NEW ORLEANS DAILY DEMOCRA, T VOL~. V-NO. 105. NEW ORLEANS, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1880-DOUBLE SHEET AND SUPPLEMENT. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. IDE FORTY4IfIH C0DIORBS spage of the Immediate De Slenel, Bill in the Senate. Srodates 3eative to the Ap. petatment of Deputy United Stat.s Marshal. . lNrr Otheasn ead Brasliun Mail Line ill. WaIMnatasa r, A lth 1,--dnate.-Kr. Wallace, jIC seleet.M , o0mittee to inquire Into the lek.lttr.ad in the late eleetion, submitted a puat osi the subjest of assessmemts for politi et bumeas. Ordered printed. Mie 'aeUe lntroduoed a bill for the erection Of aeWdlh balidilagm at Greensboro. N.. , Rie the bill atthorilaint the Secretary of War to M *iWr torthe United States title to the lsite of a l R. waes passed. Ljtroduoed a bi. to establish a o t ewehlp mail servioe between tote f U tIet lssssi, DI o alley ad Brastl. i is Pferen to the 0o lmttee on mess an . i., d ereford claimed that t ib tl the stme bill as that In I red Mr. W ookrell seterday, which had t. tO the Uommlttee i Co mms roe Ir, O rell's wish. They obi) oted to lient committees oonsldertltn the same c rIll said the bills were not id n-. o day's bill merely extended to the line bry selone allowing meroh an to pass ,ub ther musg.al olht S sson r lall objected to eNeoo ren d lug of the bill, It t.etefore till to*norrow e 1 announced that the minority of committee intended to make a t on poltial asewesments. I ti aDebsi-n to J Paras, vueatied b, Mr. ereord w an tS ttos t% a brave man dopposed by Wins , ebairman of the Pesis om . e the pens ion lawstdo not cover Soitside of the military and naval ser dimt ebaPIte ths morning hour exr st abe 1 eeleumete eopsldera o f itlmy I. de illdel ly , the ques J, gi oa etson lped an tioad sthat thi to the appolhtmsent of marshals the same as the measures pro a e msority during the extra se ti ým. j arsbals being exeoutie orle l- be aspointed by courts without emtween two separate deparune gtar=rnment. Daaties so asoelto d onsible to or oontrollab by inmd the elet wonulý ble to redr te ing Ito cal Pa nle and e fa,"t vauies. Heregard this 0r n Fllif ast .tettlgislatlon of the paust Oara tntendted to secure the hts of Sthen passed by a party vote. The e to rdees th p t mar )ept b nIted tates ual from the difeatet Sa l be well nown cl. u ad sinr biistratitylnt the t waeas uD. Without acting earned. . .,e.t lissimippi, from on ~ was,. reported a Mete h rallway system. dtee e i. ehairman of tnt reported a resolu o rit or 6000 oo e of the report oamittes on the Depressilon of t ot s hinee iammigration. e Wlseons. o eced to the e ommittee sought de. a r and found notn but pros . e whole tr was out and Sost O Drling. Leto was r m agreelng with the , Sho ht the report interesting The tsoltlrriion was adopted. tede considered the Senate bill amend. I udas aot and after striking out the aw d aOn y with inquiries as to nat on and thOe ownership of publio debt passed, then went into committee of the ton the star route defloeney bill U.II . of 1e", concluded his speech . l ifaver oft matutaining the nm ty of the star Perviloe ~of EItan sodthat the Com o ppr~o tatna had ftannd no evi se nd ih Peostoffee De.artment's So the star ervice. He favored amendments. of ' SeAs. was not opposed to e s e, bd ished to see the postal s y bonestly nducted. tommittee rose without final action, and othe a adjourned. •= .-,o- .. TRE LOTTERY QUESTION. aUnited States Oixouit Judge Brown Decides ai Faeor of the Lotteries and Against the Posotatoe Department. " -JS tILLC. April .-Jndge H. B. Brown of V tted CStates irout Ourc. yesterday flied in the nsuit of merford to enjonl seter atr Loulville from soleing and u etrse addressed to the Common Dilstrttan omrna y. under instruo t the Poetomf D artment. Tie ob t the selnure and detention of to lottery companies it unau Sast of Oonres&; that the Dost Sleto a ssl fo damages: that the nlegl ad not frondlten: that the NiWnoatton Is. therefore, denied smiesed. S... THE TARIFF. e ool eanufaesturer Protet Against Any Change in the Tariff on Woolen Goods. . April 1.-The Ezecutie COommittee eNatlional Asaesoefoatton of Wool Mann atdy sent a dispatch to the chair S the Wae and Measn Committee in Sprotetin. In the Uname of the m enufat rs of the Unitsed States. tiroo reeduetion of the tarff on . Te say the manufacturers cannot ta duty of as or so per oent. A of annual value of three huan of dollars, and sheeo husbandry valhe. are imperiled by the hasty of the committee. I+ARITIME. .;,i ican Vessel Fined in Ouba for Vio ating the Bevenue Laws. T_ a. Aoril 1.-A letter from Havana Amerloan brig Ella L. Hall as lately a one of $1500 in gold in the port of tat amount having been previousely the eousem.hous. authoritiee in the un. but whieh the caotain holds.to ut with the customt regulations of Amertean O~nsual Gneral. when the or s, aars he hes not satisfed that was lawfully imposed. Em taoe P i oe th e N. T. hJetrmal or tainmeres. ITour. April L-The Journal of (bmenerce Vw p4b a R o rilating paper and increased cost of every dea tanat of news thering and nublIn inn t w I return to its jormtr ratio of subsoriPtItn, S01 per annum. Previously the rates were sis. WASHIINGTON. Award of Oontraota for the Delivery of Mails in Southern Oitiu. WA~5toraTo0. April i.--esterday the Post foe D,p, tmet awarded contram's forde lIery of m lus fetwen depots and postofmoes r o rs. rom July 1 188e. as follows: mV Tllle. T Wootlset of dintnnatt, as ,.e: .ulýlle ). C~ ols Louljvtle, $s$ M wtl. miagltOab 1ei A,, of Wlm nit,)". 1.426: -aon ei, ITW le of 0l8olnuett, ysl: noxsville. rill otinoxville IOto; em phis, M , D o of Memphis, $400o; iharleson, It Arn of O har on, $%I00: Chattanooga, . '., Whteside of Chattauooga. gueo. DInT .rAT1KuWT. The debt state ot shotw a reduction of the uublip debt for oi MarBch t ,,14.84.a us. Ia-h In the Trealury $io1,105088 us: Sold cerlifioates 8,e55.ao0 siolr 0ortiootes II1,sOl oLrtif. cates of dooslt outitstudi, .~,5.000o refund lug cort atere t,sc0,4t0: ieai tenders out stindlnr a. ats .oas tractlonal ourrency out standing 815a.5,97., ThS LOTTUBT QtJESTIOII. The Postmaster Ganeral declines to reslcnd the order relatiln to Ifd Krt ky Common wealth Lottery, as he did in thouliana Lot tery oase, until an appeal has been taken from the Oirouit COurt decelain. OLMnMBaS's PAOIFIC RAILWAY BILL. In A ril, l170, General Chalmers of Missis -ull,. Introduced a IiI in the House "to com plete the Byatem of Paiefic lItlR.w+ve" t Was refed to the Onmmittee on Paffle Iail ways and by that ontm ittee to a sub-committee, of whoh General halmlers sohairmmn At a meeting of a full enmittee to-d {y. deneral Chelmnre submitted a substl ute for the original bill. and an elaborate report upon the entire subject. The reuort, which had been carefully prepared after the closest invest, a tion, was unanimously accepted by the other members of the sub-nommittee, and, under In rtions from the oommjtten, the bill was t~,-ay reported by General Chalmers. and with aeomnpanylin report, was ordered to be printeAd and recommitted. The bill, entitled an set to complete the Pacific Railwaf system, and for other purposes, pro po-es a railroad departure from all former methods of railroad leglslation. and alms to complete the roads mentioned and aid other proj ,ot of publio itm rovwment, witbhout entail ine any tax ulpon the people, or involvine tie government by indorsement of railrloa bunds. It uronpses to restore to the government 106. 0oo00oo asres of public lands heretofore granted to railroad coroortinus, sand from their sale at en average plle of 1 hpr a.ot to resalls $918. 000,000, to be constltn a publio improvement fund, fro which loans are to be made to railroads upon cetahin prescribed con ditions, the igorerplmeet securIng itself by first mortge . bonds of the roads avaIlineg hem.lvee of the provlsos of the act. Provit made by the bill not to interfere with the bo tead etry and at the same time to deal, wth justice and eq it, with those coroorations who lost their legal o lims to their land grants during a great financial prles,. It rovides that land grant made to the eoute n Palfloe. the Atlantic end Pacific and the b14rlhern Pacific shall be for feited to the United States and sold, tneoro oeeds to be covered into the treasury and et apart as a public improvement fund ;that, when either of these toads sehal have completed ten miles of is road. the tseretary of the Treasury shall make a loan equal to four.ifths of the actual ash c st of oo structiop and take a irst mo r bgge bo. pa yble one-third in ten. one-third i twenty and one-third in thirty ears ter date, at e8 per cent interest, paya ble emlteanunuly. be bill further provides tha the total amount of such fiBrt mortgeg bonds so I sued senll not ezceed the total eaeh onst oft bUtlln and opera ting sah roadc that mole acunmulatid in sald improvement fund sMall only be appropriated by Congress for the purpose q aIdtn in the construction of ralroad an other Public works, and as a loan to be sald with Interest, The bill pro vides for the aopointment of three onmmls. sloners by the President to examine railroad or other oroperty authorixed tO be constructed, who shall cetlfy that it has been oompleted in accordance with the terms of the ao of Con reos. as a conditioniprecedent to granttn of a Loan. The bill further provides that the for feIture hall not be effective as to the land grants to the Texas and Paeiflo until March 8. l.es. unless that company shall consent thereto by accepting the provisions of this act. BID 10R OCAIBtINO Tin MAILS. Bids for carrr nl the malls over steamboat routes south of the Potomac and east of the Mississippi rivers were opened to.day and re terred to a committee. Awards will be made soon. MISOURI Nt3GRonE DEMUANDING OFFICE. A delegation of colored men from St. Louis. beaded byJ. Milton Turner, called on the Presi dent to-day and repres.nted the dissatlsfaction of the colored people of Missouri at not having their serviso to the party recognized. The Presidents d that he favored dolon all he could for the colored people, and exhibited a copy of a letter d -ted May 7 1877, to the aovern ment officers, directing that no diserlmination be made against colred men in appointments to positousie und-r them. THE SOUTHERN PA.IFIC BLILBOAD. The Senate Oommnitee on Railroads ave a hearing to-day to ex Gov. Joseph E Brown of Teennessee. vice president of the Texas and Pa oic Railroad Oompany, in advocacy of the pending bill to extend the time for the comole tlon of its road. He informed the committee that the Texas and Psoiflo company has built 444 miles of railroad, at a coat of $27,00o.0o0. and has contracted for' the completion of its line to El Paso. an additional distance of coo miles. by the first of January. 1883: that upon comple tion to BI Paso the company will have con structed 882 miles of its main line and will be operating a total of lo04t miles, for which it will not have received an acre of land or a dollar of money from the government, although the government enjoys the same privileeas over its e as over those of the Union Pa cifc and central Pacific. which were lib erally aided from the seart. He pointed out that the remainder of the line, from El Paso to han Diego, is the only portion to waich toe and grant reaches. and before teaching El Paso the company will have expended millions of dollars of private capital, ani as it only sus peended operations in 187i. owing to the panic and its atteodant consequences, the govern ment should in all fairness extend the time ixed by Congress for its completion. The Bouse Committee on Military Affairs adopted aresolution to-day to be reported to the House, with the request that it be placed on the army appropriation bill. The ree )la tion is enstantiall the same as the one at tahedto the army bill last year. and provides that no part of the m eney appropriated by the bill shall be paidout for the transportation of troops to be used as police at polls during elec tions. DEATE OF 00M. BAJRETT. Com. Edward Barrett, of the United States navy, is dead. THE EXsOUTIVE SESSION OF THE SENATE. The Senate. in executive session to-day. con firmed the nomination of Victor Thompson, of Mississipi,. as oonsul at St. Thomas, and re jected the nomination of Alexander O. Wells. of Louisiana. to be surveyor of customs for the New Orleans district. THE WAS..URNE-DONNELLY ELECTION OONTEST. The House Committee on Elections to- day re jected resolutions respectively declaring Wash burne and Donnelly entitled to seats from Min nesota, and will report to the House that the seat is vacant and a new election should be held. Heavy Rains in Texas. GALVESTON. Apt 111.-To-morrow's NKe.s will publish tue following peClal: MINEOLA. April I.-Very heavy raIns fell last night. The river is rising. A hundred and fifty feet of embankment on Back creek, be tween here and Ty,er, was washed away. The passengers came through and returned by hand ear. The Obelisk Leaves Alexandria. Naw !onx, Anril 1.-Lieut. Oom'r Gorringe cables to the World from Alexandria the sue. eeessel ,'nbarketion yesterday of the obelisL for New York. The beet toulo in the world is Malakoff Bit ters. Prim medal eeiwved atthe Parlis . Eno stion a lasin FOREIlO AFFAIRS. The Prominent Events Occurring on the Other Side of the Atlantic. The Results of the English Parlia mentary Electionse-The French Embaumador to Leave 8t. Petersburg. The Murderer of the Russian Embassador to Turkey. GREAT fBRIFAN. LoWaow. April 1.--The Daily Newi in its lead. Ing editorial says: The first day's polling re suited in a great Liberal victory. There is a Liberal galn a of twent y-four seats and a loss of nine, making a net Liberal Main of fifteen; counting as thirty In a division of the House. The boroughs which voted yesterday have ursao tically pronounced the doom of the Deacons. field government. There is every reason to be. Ilieve that the gains of yesterday will be in oreased'to-dar, The Times. in a leading editorial on the re sult of the polling yesterday, says: The C on servatl;s must admit very grave discourage ment. The balance of gainstu and loeses is on the whole deoldedly in favor of the Litberals, and it is obvious, if the tide of suooess flows as strongly as it did yesterday In favor of opposi tion. the whole ministerial majority of 1974 will have melted away. This is more ominous for the mnlstryr bedaune it is acknowledged that the loss of several seats in tiootland and Ire land certainlr a doezn. and perhaps a moore, is invtable, OO. Aptril -In Wetmin ster. Hon. Win. ,ur, 8mltt. FirstLord of Admiralty. eon 'atlve. was re-elected by ous votes: ir arles Resmell. Conservatlve, by sa30, defeat. lg John Morley and Sir A Hhbouse. Lib-ral andIdatee. who roeleved 860 end 5441 votes. re peotively. In Hackney. Pr"f. Hnnr Fawentt Liberal, received 1,88ee and John Holmes e, votes. and were re-elected d'featiug Mr. Bat o ry. Conservative, who Iýied 10,o82 votes. among those r-elect are the Marquis of rting-on, G J Josohen. John Bright John ker Thomas Baylrey Potter and t . if. The Standard. Conservative organ, saeys: "It cannot be denied that yesterday's election pos sesses interest and signifcllanoe. but t It s easy exaggerate the meaning san importanoe of Lb ains. Minor defeats of Oonservativ and idte are as likely as not to be succeeded by important victories in the elections which bra to fbllnw " The Daily Telegraph. Liberal, says:- "No such sWeeplng change is manifeSted as that which Struot cown a grest party in 1s74. ' he results 5annot h.e prawc ed from one day's voting." The Pall Mai Gazette admits that the govern ment 1s defeated. The Echo says the total number of votes cast thus far aggregate 84ae8 Libetral and 281.370 Conservative. BRU8IA. LK~or the Paris correspondent osn htteweDaDper) of St. Pe S·- Interview with Pre r reoie. who deolared that Gen. ana. reneh Ambassador to RBusin, in tended to return to Fran so to preside at the sittings of the Council of Ardennes. and would probably return to it. Petersburg afterwards, beina anticipated that by that time anew Bessian Ambassador would have arrived in aris. TURKEY. LONDoN, April l.-A Constantinople corres pondent of the Manchester (Guardi.r says the delay in regard to the sentence of the assassin of the Russian Col. Cmmerata causes indigna tion. The RIasian reoreseutatlve threatens to nuit Constantinople it justice is not speedily done. ITALY. LONDON. April 1.-A Bome dispatch save: M. De tpuR. French ambassador to the Vatican. delivered his credentials to the Pope in state. The Pope has sent Monetgnor Cleogni on an extraordinary mission to the Mexican govern ment. FRANCE. LoNDow. Aoril 1.-A Paris correspondent of the ynt,~s says it is reported that Admiral Poth etan. French ambassador to England, will shortly resign that post. SIAM. LONDON, April 1.--The Ring of lam will positpne his visit to England on account of ndisposition. The ex- egent, who would gov ern in his absence, will visit England as his envoy in May. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Burning of the Jail at Brownwood, Texas, With All Its Inmates. GALVesTON, March 8t.-The News publishes the following special, dated Coleman. March a1: The court-house and j ail at Brownwood was totally destroyed by fire yesterday-the sup posed work of an incendiary. There were several prisoners in jail, all of whom were ourned to death. The court-house cost $9000. The county and district court records are de stroyed Loss not less than $100,ooo. NEw Yonx, April 1.-A peolal dispatch to the Times from San Antonio says: The Brown county court-house and jail were destroyed by fire last night. The county records were de stroyed and several persons burned to death. Loss estimated at $100.000. The fire was of incendiary origin. UMBRELLA FAOTORT BURNED. PRILADELEIA, April 1.-At 1 o'clock this morning fire was discovered in the furnaee room of the umbrelas factory of Conway & Co., at the corner of Twelfth.and Willow streets. By the time the firemen arrived the flames were bursting from every window and the greater portion of the structure was destroyed. Por tions of the building were occnuled also by the Novelty Paper Box Companp. Brehmen B, Os. maohinolst, and Israel H. Johnson. Jr. Con way & Co.'s loss is estimated at 70.000o; insured for $s0,0o. The Novelty Paper B ,a Company's loss is $15,000, Brehmen Bros. $6000 and J. H. Johnson $12,000. all covered by insurance. FIGORHT BETWEEN TEXAS STATE TROOPS AND MEI ICAN DEBPERADOES. CaICAGO, April 1.-A special from San An tonio. Texas. says: News comes from Fort Eweli. Lasalle county, that a detachment of Hall's State troops had a fight on Monday morning at Orary and Case's ranche with Mex ican desperadoes. The rangers attempted to arrest an offender and were attacked. Thirty shots were exchanged Two Mexicans were killed and one woundad. A young man named Peter Johnson. recently from Philadelphia, was killed by stray bullets. PREPARING FOR A HANGING. MAooN. Miss.. April 1.-The weather is clear. Great crowds have been gathering from adja cent counfies to witness the execution to-mor row of Baler, Mason and Brown. The gallows was completed to-day. SPONTANEOUS oCMBUSTION. BOULTON, Me., April 1.-A fire to day origi nating in the -pontan'ous combustion of paper and rags in Gray's building, destroyed several buildings. The loss is $8loo70. IERE AT CALHOUN. KY. CINCINNATI April 1--Several business houses at Csdhoml McLean county. Ky. were burned ycster d Lsrs. 0o.om0; insured for s$isoo. Ifst H BasUmRa HANGS HxMSSa.Ur Be.DuUoww. N. J.. April 1.-Georae Warrsa .nin, tyr Iearer, popular sad wealthy,. haned sg imself to- day while probably tempo rarily aberrant in mind. A FATAL FAMILY BOW IN MIONIGAN. OOIToo, A prll 1.-Anldrew Brown, a farmer, ordered his daugber.i n.i-w, who hid been.de eerted by her husband to lave his house. H-,r father and other neighbors asked that P e misaht take some furniture. whereuDon a fiht ensued. in which Brown ehot Jonin D bar dad. ob tried to Inob Br rn,but he br driaddhissI in the house When theeheriff finally ained etran, Brown was found neari dead from the effeoto of nitrate of silver, whibo he phad esw lowed. Physielans are try Ing to save bhi life, so he can answer to the ohargeof murder. o01 olP THU PUNNS.LVANIA h1nll3. &TLATIO CITY., N J., April .--Wm. H. KeRl le, briery fugitive from Pinnsy!vano,. is still ere and refuses to be Interviewed or say when e will leave. A ONTRTACTOB'B 1UIfID0. OALvaTrox. April 1.-Henry Loaw). a well known oontractor, oomm. tetl sat I o'c'Iok this morlnin by shooting himself through the head. A note found on his person sose bad health and 4iability to pay his debts was the cause of the act. A MIMSING SOlBIUTAI.Y. TorONTO, Ont. April 1 -J. 8. 8tevenon, seeo retary ro the O(rn Elxoh.ang and Board tf Trade, has been missing since Friday last. He has become involved through graln specula tion. POLITICAL. The Kansas Republioan Convention Organ ised in Blaine's Interest. ToP.xA. Kan.. April 1.-Organization of the RPtubtilenn tato convention was strictly in favor of Blatne A reeoltition was then adopted pledagia sp.D port to Blaine, and the convention adjourned. IH9 N ANItIAHA DEMOCBATS. CoItanoUe. Neb.. April t.-The Democratli 1tate couveution met last night. Frank P. Ire. lana - of Otoe, was chosen temoorary chairman. O. V'. allaner. of Douglas. was elected presi dent A motion to sustain the two-thirds rule in the nationaona convention ws adopted. uesolutlons were adeopted advocating hard money and low tariff. The convention then ad journed until to-day. On reassembling this mornlng deirales to the national ooovention were chosen, Tilden men predominating. No instructions were stvrn. SPOTINt NEWS. The Surrey Open Steepleohase Handicap Bacohus the Winner, and James Gor don Bennett's Musoadine Second. Lonnow. April 1--The race for the Surrey open steepletebase handicao came off to-dty at yroYdon April meeting, and was won by Mr. Dunlo's chestnut horse Bacohus, the seond plen batne seoured by James Gordon Benn'a Muscadine, and the third lace by OCpt. Macbell's bay horse Hop Bloom. Five ran. Bacchus won by ten lineths. nae of the oanoees Ptrike. 1eaw Yonx. April 1.-A Coboes N. Y.. special says a compromise was effected this morning between the sttlking section hands of Har mony Mills and the c mpany. and the hands have resumed work. The weavers and spin ners are still out. The United states sellters' Home at Hampton, Va. Foar Monom., April 1.-The board of man agers of the soldiers' Home insoecte the branch near Hampton in oh arte of Oiv. Wood fin to-day. and returned to Washinaton pleased with their visit. The Untei States steamer Nipsio isaled to day for the Mediterraneau. The Virgitna Oyster War. FnxDtmsouaxsno. April i.-A steel-rifled gun Of the Whitworth pattern, with solid shot, shell and ammunition, was shipped to-day by steamer to the mouth of the IRappahannook river by the State government for the protec tion of oryter flsheries. De Leseeps Leaves for Hurepe. Nzw YoBx. April 1.--De LeeseDe left for Eu rope to-day on the steamer Adriatic. Death et A. 3. Corbla. Abel Rathbone Corbin, a brother-in-law of Gen. U. S. Grant. and a well known lawyer. teacher, journallst and politician. died March s8 at his home in Jersey City. Mr. Oorbln was born at Exeter. Otsego oounty. N. Y.. in oe1808. his father and mother having moved to that place from Woodstock, Conn. When fourteen dyars old he removed, with his parents to a tarm in McDonough. Ohenanuo county. N. Y. which still remains the family homestead, and where, at his own request, his body will be buried. Mr. Corbln was educated at Bacon Acad emy. .Oolchester. Oonn.. and Hamilton Academy. in New York. Afterward he studied law. and then accepted positions as a teacher in the academy at Oxford. N. 1.. and Zaneeville, O. In ile6 he went to St. Louis. Mo.. in tnding to practice law. An opportunity offered itself however, for the opening of a high school, and Mr. Corbln continued to teach. Among his pupils in the high school were Miss Julia Dent. now Mrs. Gen. Grant. and her brothers. During his life as a student and teacher he was a frequent contrnbutor to the local newspapers, especially on poltlical topics. and he would sometimes carry on both sides of an apparently heated discussion in one of the papers. His contributions to the press of St. Louis attracted' so much attention that the leading Democrats of the State called upon him and offered to give him the State printing it he would start a Demooratlc pacer at Jefferson Oity. Mr. Corbln aooepted the offer. and afterward with the aid of Gen. Harney. founded at St. Louis the Missouri Argus, a ca ur which still survives as the St. Louis Globe Deoorat. He served for several years as a member of the St. Louis Cammon Council, and was chairman of a committee which drew up asystem of public instruction for the State. He was a frequent visitor to Springfeld. Ill., where he became acquainted with Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas,. both of whom were his friends. With Douglas he afterward became intimate. His health becoming im paired. Mr. Corbin sold his caper in 182 and removed to Washington. Here he was ap pointed clerk of the House Committee On Claime, an office which he held for sixteen years. doing virtually the work now performed by the ourt of Olaims. While in Washlngton he met and visited Prof. Morse, the great elec trician, and through him was made fret secre tary of the Magnetic Telegraph Company. When the civil war broke out Mr. Corbin was an uncompromising opponent of se cession, and at the personal request of President Lincoln exerted him self. in order to keep Missouri in the Union, to secure the support of Missouri Congress men for war measures. He was no friend of the Blaire. but was able to influence an Im portant clans of Missouri citizens who could not be reached by the latter. Mr. Corbin was twice married. His first wife was Elizabeth McAllister, of St. Louis. His second wife. who survives him. was Virginia Grant, a sister of the ex-President. He leaves no children. Mr. Corbin was a good talker, original, versatile and well-informed. In polities he was remark able for his fertility of resources. His intimate friends were mostly men active in publio life before the war. Among them were Governor Phelps. of Virginia; Governor Honston, of Alabama, Governor Letcher. of Virginia; Senator Douglas. John C. Breekinrldge. An drew Johnsou. Professors Henry and Morse, and William Oullen Bryant. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Frem Eminent Wilmer Brlnten, n. 3. Baltlmere, Md. "I have used Colden's Liebig's Liquid Ex tract of Beef and Tonic Invigorator in my practice and have been much gratified with the result. As a tonic in all cases of debility, weak ness, naemia, ehiorosis, etc.. iI cannot be sur passed." Staub. at Goldthwa1~. oorner of Canal street and Exchange Alley. has our thanks for the latest files of the New York Herald, Sun and Times. and Philadelphia Times. At easellenwt abpee er and regulator of the igs Malawis ats., 00R 80aGS SEIATO8. Report of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections on the Spofford-Kel logg Senatorial Contest. They Decide that Kellogg's Claims Are fraudulent and that Henry I. Spoftbrd Was Chosen United States Senator by the Legislature of Louisians. The Benate Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom was referred the memorial of Henry M. Bpoffird, olaimin to be entitled to the seat in the Senate from the State of Louisi ana now oocupied by Wm. P, Kellogg. on the twenty second ultimo, through Mr. Hill. of Georgia. submitted a meajority report, which was read and ordered to be printed. The com mittee, after reciting the steps pursued by them for a complete and thorough Investlaetion of the casoe. state that. in their opinion, the evl deuce now for the first time taken clearly and abundantly establishes the following facts: 1. That said William Pitt Kellogg, then hold ing the office of 'overnor of the state of L nu isiena and pendlng the ovaee in sal I leo tiou of 1e76, (lid o, nsmre wi h divers versons, and, in aid of such couspira'i, did f aundulently ise the influence and power of his office of Governor to prevent a fair, irte and I.a-,l eleoc tion in said Etate, to the end that he mlght pro cure from tie commissioners of election the return of a Leslnlature, a majority of whose members should be of the lcepubliron party, and presumed to be favorable to his election to the Senate. 2. Th t. havlns failed in this. the sad WIl liam Pitt Kellogg, still holdlor the office of Governor. did co·nspire with divers persons, and n aid of sucoh conspiracy did fr.uiulently use the influence and power of his office of Governor to ohange the result as returned by the commissioners of election, to the end that he might pooure, through false eertill cates of election, the org nizrtion of a pretend ed leislature, a majority of whose members should be of the ienublloan party and sup posed to be favorable to his election to the Senate. e, That said WIlliam Pitt Kellogg did oon spirewith divers others to prevent and by force, through the Metyopolitan Pollce, aided by the army p1 the United States, did prevent the lawfully eleoted members of the Ltgislas ture, and especially those of the Democratic party. a om assembling in the halls of the een Ste and House 1o iepresentatlves In the Itte House of the said a of Louisiana; and did. b. threats, by the use of money, by the promise o omose. andby other corrrupt practices,. comoel and Induce to assemble in said halls, respeotively, a mob of his co-oonspirators. against t of the people of Louisiana, ay o whom had not been elected, and some of whom had been neither elected nor certified to the end that h might procure a pretended Le tlatureor ie inanuuration of Stephen B1 Packard as overdor. who. no well flew. had not been electd. and from which mob he tuight procure the for o his own eleotion to the Senate, and whic pretended election he knew such retended over.r *! id cetiy. 4. That said WilUam Pitt KellOcg having thus corruptly proursd the atsemlilpaq of a body o persons pretending to be a leaislature, in which were included pegsone not elected, and from which had been forcibly excluded persons who had been elected and certified as mem bers, di by bribery, by the use of money and the promise of offi , and by other corrupt practices, induce said body of persons to so through the form of ohoosins him to a seat In the Senate of the United tatee. 5. That said William Pitt Keilogr. well know. ing that the facts now proven to exist did exist did falsely represent that no such facts existed or could be proven. seeking thereby to Induce a majority of the committee, without taking the evidence which has now been taken to make a report declaring his title to the sea, and with intet to induce a majorlty of the Senate to ad mit him to the seat so fraudulently claimed. e. That to prevent the dlsoovary of the briberies, frauds and corruptions now proven to exist, the said Wm Pitt Kellogg did procure a large number of the persons composina said pretended Lagislature to be appointed to pub lie offious of profit in the Oustomhouse at New Orleens and elsewhere. as Inducement not to disolose the truth. That after other prreons. officers and members of said pretended Legis lature had freely and voluntarily admitted, un der oath, their knowledge of said briberies and corruptions, and had been summoned to ap pear as witnesses before your committee, and were under the protection of the tdnate, said Wm. Pitt Kellogg did. by bribery and corrupt practices,tnduce a uohnwtnesses to testify false I that they ha' not made suech admissions, or that, if they had made them, they were not true. This is followed by copious extracts from the abundant evidence, which very clearly estab lish the justice of the conclusions. The cJm mittee admit that a great number of the wit nesses examined on both sides were of very bad character, not only for truth, but for every other virtue, and if their credibility depended' solely upon character they ought not to be be lieved. But the rules of law furnish safe guides in weighing this evidence. The accomplice of. a criminal, they say. is not necessarily of bad character, for he is a criminal himself. If he is not to be believed because he is an accomplice. and therefore of bad character, then an ac complioe in no case ought to be allowed to testify. But in spite of bad character they are often the only accessible witneuese. and their evidence is often most sat isfactory. Were it otherwise, those criminals would often be safest whose crimes were great est. .i this case nearly all the witnesses ex amined were the accomplices of K-ltogs in the crimes and frauds which resulted in his pre tended election to the Senate, They were all conspirators against the people of Louisiana The very fact that they were associates and ac compileces in this conspiracy furnished the most conclusive proof of bad character. No other proof was needed to establish such bad character. The conspirators were surrounded with troops by order of their chief, Kellogg himself, by his power as Governor, and the army was employed to protect them day and night from intrusion by people worthy of credit by reason of good charater. Being faithless in their very assembling to all good people, the chief chance of redress for good people was in the natural hope they would become faithless to each other and reveal the fraudse. briberies and corruptions which cemented them for evil. Their.revelations appear in the evidence. and the committee do not doubt wouli far more abundantly appear if the Federal administra tion would w!thdraw the patronage which has purchased the silence and perjury of so many of the gang. Stated in the light of the facts now known, and embodied in their report to the Senate, the committee sum up the position taken by Kellogg as follows: That though the silting member was not in I chosen by the Legislature of Louisi ana. and though the body of men alleged to have elected him wasee assembled through fraud. was held together by force, and was controlled by bribery and corruption, and all this was accomplished by a conspiracy to defraud the Btate and the people of Louisiana. of which conspiracy the sitting member was himself the chief. yet the Senate having decided in Ignor ance and by the suppression of these facts that the sitting member was entitled on the merits to the seat, the Senate is compelled to allow him to retain the seat, after full knowledge that every fact which was assumed to extst wnen he was admitted is and was false and untrue. The reply to this position, In the opinion of the committee, is suffctently furnished in the statement of the position itself ; hut they do not rest the argument here, but proceed to consider it in the light of precedent and law. The crmmittee freely admit that a decision rendered on the merits ought notto be afterwards srev and Jeversed on light or even d 4 d. In the cotuta tthe sttls (s pt ev fie 04t Srtoauhi a reersal "otgbt q bem erial, an ts ould epro dI r eeadS itff ssilult this e, ow ver, a om to apply a mo strongier t, ea t wh iha ren eosu by a dist ngunroi. ii o t Injustise w ,atimW wlndt iuao ad mianiestre ea to aere a fr, u e ncar m bee - em olr p tfld n tbf etl r no.. fi ,re d tt a b at di a tone ý a nslal teai.rw i thleidr w o et he1. On the fomer sg ot UtaI ane slamed. fume adm loae uameb tlh e . an soe retr voatratious by on1greonul rogm19tie$Ia onthe IsaU ttud red In this ove to reed to be e0uidreG In evi POed as.te r tepro ey er m tloathe doluee m? comwyeolrt thel iel. t egiob - rrtprefa hlta i been eaamied at 44r twelvehundred pined pa (of torto, a the most matrland eu ~t ~ ,luti l.dag t Son the mort mre sammt h srelt begged and Olreiouee lf tc e ieg? of hlying wituessne dalt the adent issio an d re oon v e te. and the lto, sau 'n walý) eo.rl parov te prmother the lmemOrlt pe oomiorityi o[ the sittng emb r a frauds the trrp pu thl ieoiture w el.tedl hil. Alt !thse apnneis were ref bythe mjor of the a ,mmlttdR ltht ha eet .neet iWt on had been previnusiy orderdc the Senato e and resol td noon thode e*ldn tee. and tbone nvestiratlto, wab d otIdea td aoainst the protest o the memortlisan minority of the committee. been examlined and the oomplloirtrof the sit Uner mnther in the frownuds alleedoo has be most convincingly establlehed. f. On the former hbring there was n e0i dnee eand no opportui. to produte eitdeae showing nonetratee, biboesls and othero eci. ruptlons by the t r to tirmre fraudulent tegeslature, ad to eontrol kte emt bers thereof in his own election to the stnae On the ors0em t h"at sat eh eon coupri. bribetries and eorrutions lbtheea hoat aril flIe unbi ushing and un parallele aharacter teen poltively testifled to by numerous Ni• npese and these br ibereend b orrttplo hve been shown to ext to the Wdtnesses U the case I e very t of tha e senate. The eonmitteesay that they cnud multil the features of ontraset t ween the formse sag the preent hewring f theeaed, but de light of the evidence tbtore the Senate he ting mimber Was admitted by g wrongly .. cured deolsion i the genate in hi ra means of e rdJee, briberea t often repeated ant the knowle oIw was vigor!iy slopreaseed on theof en H was non ehosen be the ' t of-eLouiasia. Hee .e.s eae..a of mnwe who o tstifelr with ýt deb I V thill ofr theotas lite be enailead tg E - members el Dn.tebocoi Ih their worthe ber was, In feet as well as tn 1Ms, sot sa et e t we aho assembloe dy tee i- ato t wruas o it h r £ aso tsen ra seit In the Ute tmd rm ted te the fourth d . 1t81'19.~n tot 1 1.mitto t, u to the eovd adittd to the same on taking th . aeribedby law.a LETIERS FPB THE PEIOPI (The Dmo(nAto Is rmpmaible le nmosr the views expressed in the aommutaiauw under this head; bhtt no commun ptk _ll be printed ezeept from respdmslbe v i A TAILLISS CAT. BAor6v SA. Mareh ni. 1W. To the Editor of the Demoorat: As I am a subsortier to yoar valuable I take this method of informa ot tha on my plantatlon, seveq miles from Bra. a milk white out. with no tall. attt about twelve dayse old--a Ane speelAa t Barnum. A RA . Who out off the oeat's tailt?--En s. LOT'TEaIE.. [Madison JournaLl A short time before the assembling the Oonstitutional Convention the air wae led with the execrations ,f the Louisiana e buried at the State Lttety. ibe eonapt exponent of the antillotterr senument was New Orleans DamoomaT, then under the agement nf Mpj-r aMt asy,. the present of the Da/nily S.a, We think that it Oan saf.-l said that ti efforts of the presse - deeded In oreattng a eellng saRiast the -' Lottery tht would have demanded the d tion of its franchiseif nt u a reault oould v been legal y acomplifshed. The harter of company was not a u tutty from the a its oreatiton emrbodied al the re lmetsfa raotr , and the atueo - e l oonfetradtor thesa estred ven. n tredo fene lJ the ea he asp bacTo mead detaeined o the lo rTheo was resuolt was e deprived ofe imth o ly, d he p onted. e fallon the r tlrese number of dearters, ff the they ght it eatetomesoh geuerad stood.ae lo. M nnumedla intodI that the * n u Thtl oner until t r ae ne s demar but for the fat cha ther. o l ieady ild n tetste.rPeer laes oau.snor bee O . t Ilr. . right possessed b ...I . Wth It loeriies are baiefett nt the part of Wisdom to asraoe their u The srgument madet the_ p IF noxious featsre Wes" no valid reason why rs shaould Am_ se. We um tfall to to t the soresg to deetroy its cherte. THE WEATHBR IN MARCOH From the meteoroloeal summary fdr this city for the monthol Marob, Dreuored by Dr. G. H. Robe, signal oieer, the followin eaneral Items are a : - Baromtesr-e o, hfIhest uL on st1.L lowest 29.811 on 15th, monthly range .5m0 In. Temperature-HBthest 81 deg. onu 6t sad th. lowes42 deg. on 17th. monthly rnrrge aN 4tg greateot daly range 24 de. on 1sth. least dily range 6 deg. on 141t. meau of mauimuuatde>l . mean of minimum 59 deg., mean da44f Wind-Prevailtig dreetion north,;o$i e ment 6.222 miles, highest velocity WEts 24 milhs and lsouthee on 15th Number of lo ay days, none: ; . 2t. oloudy days on which no rain f on wiath rain fell u, total days..: fell 6s. Dates of Lunar Halos-Tlbe 5th: trsamnas Oomoaratiwvtemaer 9.- destar . iA 41 deLa,; dg. 7 r. dr; La, 69 dedo8 5 i. 5,JII;iIB l. h l S1,