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VOLUME XXVI?NUMBER 231 WHEELING. WEST VA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 1,1878 ESTABLISHED AUGUST 24,1852 ^ n 00 U' P on ,1! ** "! no? 'lUMl'011 b ?,?reiieneralietheejpree Ik"*ll,e " |? |?or ol limiting th? j putpoa?i fl '"f""' ?c|, ,00th in the land in ">.ruJi?.oU 01 ulijliib"1""'' handa by IV-TwU,oI " t tof 1870. Hi" U" O^Kkool ?P? ol tlie 8?? '""-Iwrol Common Schools to the ssu.'ir-0- jeu ;clau.?h.p0.. ol ,(:ho<)1 nut lll? '?cl 'I"10' ^ luthtor0'0"0 ,. , i0 {bt public ML.**- abootSJpe. ^LUrolW in >1" bifh ivm m'-1,0"" e01P'?T^ inlhe w, Lb?l? and >l'? l"che" "* ^Tr^tbe public scboot fond the -om StlmMO. 'il the 23.000 teachera, ^'iribout^ll^Mnt ol lit. ?hol? ??!?r .i?<m|.ioTed in the h,Kb .chooJ. ^.v'tOO Wither-, or :i P" Mnt 0 * ' r?rn $500,000, ?r P?r 0601 ?J ^,,ua paiJ to all ?be te.cher.ol the ^sire 13,000 school liouees in Ohio, ?JmItHOoI ll"?. or 1 per cent, are dininctirely high schools. Tk? ?k? ? tiIm of icbool property in theStite is, iitmnumbers, $*>,000,000; the.hoi. ,U? ol high school property u $3,000, M or 13 per cent ol the whole value ol Khool property .o the Stale. That u, IS r? cent ol the value of all the school .a the Slate, ><> P" Mn|?j Ik monej pa*"! I" " "1*"^ Bpro?J. secondary or high achool in OTtlion lor 31 per cent ol ?U the pupila mulled in the public school1, or two per Mtol ill the youth ol school age in the gun or la finally graduate in Ibe high ichooU one-half per cent ol those enroll al in the public schools. Tbe?ars valuable facts,and the public wonder obligation to the School Com liaiocer ol Ohio lor thus bringing them la the attention ol the friends ol the com Kbool system in that and other Ula. Ai we hare freiiuenlly said, the time bu couie to rescue the common riooliyilem from those who would di tot il ol ill original scope and character, u! gradually mike il so eipensive and tarden?ome as to finally bring about its Wall. A common achool education doef aotmein an uncommon education. It doa not mean a imallering ol ererytbing nl i thorough understanding of noth in. It does not mean a fancy education lit a practical every day education. It ?taai that children shall be taught irujljy how to spell, read and write. Alio ihit they shall ba thoroughly pounded in arithmetic?not only aa to the theory but aa to the actual practice, Also Ihit they shall l? Uught geography, planar and hiitory with aa much thor oofhsM lithe lime allotted to the a?er ip scholar at Khool will permit. 11 along with these easential rudimentl if education, children can be taught tc ?ic|, u they ar? in moat ol the echoola itj certainly have all the range ol edu tiliot they can properly appreciate ani uaimilate np to the cloae ol their com aoenhool career, and all that an orer land public should be called on to p*3 I*. Whatsoever ia more thao theae eooitko! nil A Proposed Iteiuedj lor Hard Time*. Wthm rec?ive?l ft pamphlet the title ol ?hich reads thus: "Fwotog near bome,oringgeationafor 8tate legislation *?ftio?t banl times." This pamphlet ccntaini 16 pages of reading matter, and ii mainly deroted lo indicating the de laili ol "an act to facilitate the settlement of land, the promotion of agriculture, eirilixaUoo and co-operation, and for the relief ol labor and capital within thia Commonwealth." The Commonwealth meant ia the Com nonwealth ol Pennsylvania, although the detail* laid down are intended to ?pplj to sereral other Statea mentioned ia the preface. This preface reada aa fol loti: Whxbub, There are in Pennaylvania * per cent, or 10,122 aquare milea,of uaied larxl; and w he reas, there are in the Eaitern and Central States of the uion, namely, in Connecticut, Delaware, jjwne, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampibire, New Jersey, New York,Ohio, ?t?*Wania, Khode Island, Vermont ? "'eat Virginia, not counting irre "*?able marshes, 37$ per centra. *u,y i of the whole amount of landa in Elates, making 67,445 aquare milea ?named landa in said 8iate?; and ?waai, the true interests of thoae States, _ol the whole country, require the pro* ?oUoaof agriculture and civilisation by "***? of bringing said landa intoculturd "e; and whereas, both the unuaej r?r and the nnuaed capital of these I 8?l*a ttrtently demand the relief which j J! wWitiiion of the landa and improv ?Jf t J*Cln br*?8 *houl; and whereu, j^of workmen and agriculturlata by the force of these circum lJ*?' **1 against their own will or JWaeaa, to emigrate to far diatant ter nwr?i;aad whereaa, 4 \ yeara of great have already pawed, without the rjreromenu, Sute or National, hating aaything for the people'* relief, &*rtfore the following suggestions for a are respectfully proposed for j^wratioo and re?iaion, ov the Legia ??*<* l'cnnaylvanla, and of other therein named. porpote ol the pamphlet ia pret? tycle^rly ^ forn, j,, ^ abo*e preface ?dealt to lay ?uch taxes on unculti ^ 'wd, held out of uae by those whc wither tell nor improve it, as will ?la Itate or aals to those who an to cultivate iU Land is to be ao ^oted unused or unimproved "whici upon it buildings, fsnces, privaU or other improventa aggregating at **??*eiibth ot the value of the land jjj tr?t?hall be accounted clsared ol *^h at least two-thirds are actually , ? ot ?haUuctiona and atumps, am! ^^Uable with the plou|h? Every traci shall I* accounted tillable which is not so stumpy, rock/ or marshy, as to preclude plough cultivation, or profitable cultiva tion if it had a reaident population or a home market." "Ail other lands shall be accounted timber or mining lands. Marshy land, or land to rockjr for cultivation, and also quarries and oil wells, shall be included under the terms mining and timber lands. Lands on which, or under which, miner als are known to exist, or generally be* lieved to exist, in paying quantities, or are certified to by a competent geologist, that he believes them so to do, shall also be accounted mining lands. Neverthe less, mining and timber tracts, or aggre gates of tracts naturally capable of plough cultivation, shall count as uouaed lanas, unless at least one-fourth of their surface be actually used for agriculture also. In this case the owner can divide in por tions accordingly. The legislation provided for in the pamphlet may savor to some people of communism or agrarianism, but the au thor has no such purpose in view. lie is simply and honestly attempting to devise a|plan by which an immense amount of unused land in the States named, (aggre gating in quantity a State larger than Ohio), shall be brought into use and made subrervient to the best interest ol both labor and capital. Any one can see that society would be immediately benefitted if the Jsrge bodies of Jand in West Vir ginia that are held on speculation could be divided out in small tracts to those who would immediately proceed to cul tivate them. And if such a lawful pres sure could be applied as would make those who hold them willing to part with them on fair terms, no harm, but much good, would be done to the owners, to the buyers or leseee, and to the public gen erally. Our venerable friend, Wm. Bailey, Eiq., formerly of this city, but now of Massachusetts, near Boston, is in town on a brief visit to his relatives and friends. He is enjoying a hale old age, and says that he eats and sleeps as well u at any period of his life. He is as fond, too, as ever of indulging in interesting philo sophical speculations in regard to the past, present and future, and has as much to talk of in that line that is novel and entertaining as any man we know of. A number of persons interested in the extension of the St. Clairaville Narrow Gauge from Quincy to Bridgeport, will pass over the proposed route to-day, to get a preliminary idea of the lay of the land. A regular survey, by a competent Civil Engineer, will immediately follow. He will be along with the explorers to day. President Patterson, of the Nar row-Gauge, feels very sanguine of its early completion to Bridgeport. J. W. Gallagher Esq., of Mounds vills, is brought out as a Democratic Candidate for Congress in the' Qazdlt of that place. NIIORT CHEEK. Newi and Gomlp About Hie Prlee ol Land?The Condition ol the Farmer*, Schoolu, dke. Short Creek, W. Va^ April 26,1878. Ed I ton IatclUgeac?r Thinking that you would like to hear from Short Creek I volunteer to turn correspondent on this occasion. The plow stands in the unfinished furrow and we cannot proceed on account of recent raina. This give* me the necessary leis ure to write. Thia substantial old settlement 1* gen erally in a flouriahing condition. There is perhaps a greater proportion of the farmers out of debt and who have a little something laid away for a rainy day than anywhere in the region round about. RIAL ESTATE. Real estate has not suffered as much de preciation in value here as elsewhere. For instance, the Wa Atkinson farm was purchased by Wm. Busby at one hundred dollars per acre about two jears since. The Ebenexer McColloch farm was bought by Mr. Bodley, of your city, at over nine ty dollars per.acre some six months since. The Geo. Wilson farm was purchased by James McColloch for eighty dollars an acre cash. These sales show how this verv desir able land sells. There is very little in the market and likely will be no more unices the present owners die off faster than they nave been doing. Lands in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and Belmont county, Ohio, in the flush times were considerably higher than ours, but now are much lower, Diirre. It is a great pity that some worthy men made obligations in the flush timea that are sorely pressing them to meet. The only way they can pull through is by increased production and diminished consumption. The strictest economy and privations must be practiced till out of debt. From the lessons learned in these trying times I predict greater prosperity in the future for such than ever before. As farmers get their old debts paid thev will be able to replenish the family ward robe and boy more farm machinery, make repairs on buildings, fences, Ac-, that will bring prosperity to the mer chant and manufacturer. The great difficulty with farmers has been in accommodating themselves to ihe new order of things, ft takes much more labor or produce to procure a dollar than in the flush tlmee?hence expenses and outlays in general must be curtailed. One redeeming feature about a "farmer's life is that his living is sore. crop prospects. The outlook at the present time never was better. Wheat scarely ever looked so well. The meadows are luxuriant. There is as much pasture aa we generally have the firet'of June. Fruit ofallkinds promises to be abundant, exoept crab apples. This is the off year for them. Vegetation generally is in a very forward state. 1 think there will be no wheat to 1 cut in July this year. Wheat harvest ! will be hereabout the middle of June. - This is now the corn planting season. 1 Some are done; others have not com menced. If the weather is favorable one ' more wtek will plant the corn. The stockfeeders in our neighborhood have not made any money this year ow ing to the shrinkage in prices. Mr. M. . Waddle is a large feeder of heavy cattle. a Mr. N. W. Shannon is a sheep feeder and generally tells in Baltimore. Mr. A.J. > Wilson has gone into railing mutton I lambs. Some think he would succeed , better with horses and bounds. The p. w. * xt. , Those of us living along the line of the P. W. 4 Ky Railroad think that;the ex pectations of Ohio county have been 1 more than realised by the benefits con . ferred, first, as a payin* investment, sec [ ond, In securing cheap freights. Also in , opening up the large coal and limestone . fields to the north of Wheeling, which 1 will be developed u the times grow l easier. Our railroad baa a iu per beet of officers, who are becoming very popular along ita line with the patrons ol the road. Mr. Q. Q. Sawtell in laid to hare the moat profitable flock oI sheep in the county. They shear CJ pounds on an av ?rage. BCHoeL MATTEBfl. The Board of Education for Richland District put all the lightning rods there were room for on our schooFhouses last year. The tax payers, of course, had to foot the bill. If some lire agent comes along I have no doubt he can prevail on them to put lightning rods on the coal houses and gate posts of the school pro* perty, as they are unprotected. In some of the sub-districts where economy had been practiced a surplus ot school funds had been accumulated, which the Trustees supposed mill re* malned to the credit of their sub-district. The Board in its wisdom saw fit to put each surplus in the general fund and make a new deal all around. ffhere is not a shadow of law for any such proce* dure, and any Truateesfeeling themselves aggrieved maj recover from the said Board. The Truatees of a sub-district may fail to use up their money, being compelled to atop the school from contagious dis eases or other causes, and thia Board of Education for principles of economy make the sub-districts having a surplus pay taxes twice. TQK NEW SHORT CHEEK ROAD is all the talk about here. Mr. Peter Delaplain is taking a very active part in trying to secure a re-location of the road leading from Weidman's Mill on Betha nv pike to the mouth of Short Creek. This road would make the railroad avail able to a great number of people in Ohio county. For fear that I occupy more apace than is desirable, I will say the rest of my piece another time. Yours, W. A. Isms Adjudicated In the Su preme Court ol Appeals* Nit ting at Wheeling, April 27,1878. Morgan for un of Scott, D. E., John P. Hale etsL, P. E. STLL4BUS. A Sheriff having tax tickets in his hands against the lands of 8, levies on the property of Scott, and fi, representing the owner of the 8 land*, given to the Sheriff an indemnifying bond, in the uaual form, with Smith and Lewis sureties, and the 8heriff then sells the property of Scott to pay the aaid taxes. Scott, in the name of the Sheriff, insti* tutea a suit on aaid bond to recover the value of the property so aold from the obligors in aaid bond; the defendants demur to the declaration in which the plaintiff joins. Held, 1. The bond is not good as a statutory bond. 2. Nor is it good at common law, be ing saainst public policy. 3. Where a suit is in the name of one person for the benefit of any other, if there be a judgement for the defendant's' coata, it shall be against such others. John Hcdlnnb, Plaintiff and Appellee, H Jeco Carry and olbtia, DefU. and Appellant*. SYLLABUS. 1. An attorney at law, u auch, has no authority before or after the institution of a suit to make an agreement in pais to submit his client's cause to arbitration, though he may, if hie clients are adults, consent in open court to submit hid client's cause to arbitration, and if adult, his client will be therebjr bound. 2. A cause pending in the Supreme Court of Appeals may under our statutes be submitted by a consent order to arbi tration and the judgment of the arbitra tors entered up as the decree of the Court, or the parties to the suit pending may bv agreement in pais unburn a cause pend ing in the Supreme Court of Appeals to arbitration and agree that their award may be entered up as the decree of the Court, and it may be accordingly so en tered. 3. A wife sells her farm in Pennsyl vania which was her sole and separate property and receives the purchase money and hands a portion of it to her husband. He invests it in a farm in Missouri, with the consent and approbation of his wife, and with her approval takes the deed to himself. The family reside on the farm two years* He then with her knowledge exchanges this farm for a farm in West Yirgima and the deed for it is made to him. He afterwards Bells a portion of this farm and he and his family continue to reside on the residue of this West Virginia farm eighteen months. During ail this time his wife set up no claim to either the Missouri farm or West Vir ginia farm or to the money invested in them. He then becoming involved conveys to his son all of this Weet Virginia farm not previously sold, for the sole and sep erate use of his wife, the consideration named in it being love and affection to his wife and $2,500 in cash paid by her, (no money being then reallv paid by her) and about the same time he disposed of all his personal properly to his tons. Held 1. The wife had a right to make a gift to her husband of the whole or any part of the purchase money of the Penna Farm. 2. Such gift will under these circum stances be presumed to have been made. 3. There was no resulting trust to her either of the farm in Missouri or to the farm in West Virginia. 4. The conveyance by the grantor to his son for the sole and seperate use of his wife was fraudulent and void as to the conditions of the husband and grantor. Bcllaiek.?Mayor Cassell's father in law, Mr. Fisher, of Philadelphia, is visit ins the former. Mrs. James H. Ashworth, of Gravel Hill, who has been ill for nearly a year, died yesterday. Mr. John Cook, of Bridgeport, was in the city Monday. Miss Ella Heburn is visiting in Sten benville. Mr. John Haley and family leave for Columbus in a short time, to make their home there. Messrs. Marble A White are building an addition to their wagon shop near the Fourth Ward school house. The supposed pick-pockets had a hear ing before the Mayor yesterday morning. One of them was fined for carrving con cealed weapons; the revolver being taken as security for the fine. Two revolvers and other minor articles were found on their persons, bnt sufficient evidence was wanting to prove them actual pick-pock ets, ana to get rid of them they were given leave to get out of the town aa quick as possible, and they gladly availed them selves of the opportunity. Charley Kitt, formerly a barber on Union street, and whoee sudden disap pearance was noted several weeks ago, has turned up in Pittsburgh, whither his wife and goods have followed him. Mr. John 8. Cratty has been deputised by Mr. A. J. McClelland as Street Com m issioner. A Colony for West Vlrgiila. West Virginia Is attracting the atten tion of those who are in search of new homes where lands can be had at low fig ures. On Wednesday last a gentleman from Cinccinnati arrived in town who visits this section of Ihe8tate for the pur poet of looking at the oonntrv with a view of purehasinglands for a Swiss col ony.? Buckatnon, Upkwr Qnotiy, MTEUBENY1LLK AND WHEEL Ulti. What a Kovlng Bohemian Uai to Ma/ About Them. BUtiUnTiUe Later In tbc QmUad Harald. A few days spent in the cillea of Pitta burgh, Hteubenville and Wheeling are quite sufficient to impress a resident of Cleveland with the prosperity of his na tive city as compared with any of these whose wealth is almost wholly employed in the production of iron and coal, with both of which the market is now largely overstocked. Among iron mm, in par tial lar, there seems the greatest string ency in business affairs, and everv en deavor is being made to revive this, in many esses, most prostrate business. But the market is overstocked already, and an uncommon briskness,, in the trade is nscessary to dispose of goods already on hand. To relieve this the factories throughout the oountry which were members of "the as sociation" resolved to close their works for a period of three weeks. That tims has just elapsed. And what juocess such a cessation of business has achieved is a little hard to calculate, when the hund reds of hands deprived of their weekly wages are taken into consideration. Among glass manufacturers the same state of afiairs exists, except that there is less unanimity J of action, and one facto ry is at liberty to undersell its competi tors. The supply everywhere exceeds the demand and the sales in St. Louis and throughout the West are remarkably small. This ia accounted for by the al most impassible condition of the roads, many towns in the Northwest being ac tually inaccessible. A commercial trave ler writing from the center of Indiana tells of a town in that vicinity which has had no communication with the outside world all winter except liy foot travel across the fields,theroajds remaining knee deep in mud during the whole season. MOar warehouses sre full, sales lighter than they have been for several years, and yet we are running full time," said one of the prominent glass manufactu rers of Steuoenville. "We are unable to stop, however," he continued, "for the factories both at Rochester and Wheeling would continue to run." "Why so?" I asked. "Is it not to their interest as well as yours to work off the stock already on handf "Yes, but a year ago when we were having trouble with atrikera both these factories brought hands from Bos ton and Brooklyn, and here thev are away from home and their employers cannot torn them out of work." The town from which I write is almost entirely dependent upon the success of her iron and coal interests. These are now, of course, sadly depressed, and the town is correspondingly lifeless. Real estate, appraised at the inflated price it brought alx years ago, is a drug on the market at any figure, and the Sheriff offers it for sale to pay the taxes, only to be refused. How long such a state of affairs may last no one can say, but let us hope that ere long this little city with all the natural and many artificial re quirements for a happy, prosperous, and thriving manufacturing center, mav reach the position she seems so well adapted to fill. There are many other towns in the same condition as the one just cited,snd I have used Bteubenville as an example, not as sn exceptional case. In Cleveland our manufacturing interests are more diversified, and whue we are not without rolling mills and furnaces, jet we have not felt the embarrassment a? other cities more entirely dependent upon them. W. 8. L. OHIO LEUULATUttl.. A Fight on the Floor ot the Senate Columbus, 0., April 30.?In the Senate the only interesting feature was an as sault made upon Senator Forrest by Railroad Commissioner Bell. The trou ble grew out of words spoken in debate by Forrest. The combatants were sepa rated without damage, but an inveatiga- i lion has been ordered. In the House, Houm bills were passed to require private bankers to make semi- ; annual statements and publish the same; to require newly organized mutual life insurance companies to pay in advance 20 per cent on their premium notes; to i provide for courts of conciliation with | respect to contracts and controversies; i concerning the productive industries of the State, and to require the Mutual i Life Insurance Company, doing business in Ohio, to make statements to the in* i surance department; to reorganise a girls industrial home. Orangemen Attacked at Hon- ! treal. Mo*tr*al, April 30.?The Orange Young Britons and friends,while retiring from a concert last night, were assaulted bv a mob of several hundred Catholic Unionists. Mrs. Mechan and Corporal Lang were severely wounded. The apprehensions of party disturb ances arising out of the Orange enter tainment last night were verified. As a section of the voung Britons were pro- . ceedingout to the western suburbs earlv J this morning they were attacked with pistols by some three or four hundred Catholic Unionists at the Wellington ( Bridge, who were lying in wait for'them. Over one hundred allots were fired, re suiting in the death of John Callahan and serious wounding of Johanna Mahan and , a man named Mullen, all Catholics. A cab containing Joseph Long, an Orange- , man, and a young woman, going home , from the conoert, was riddled with bul lets, Long being wounded in two places. His companion escaped. No arrests were made. There is great excitement, , Strike Among the Tailors. j St. Louis, April 30.?'The journeymen i tailors of this city took the preliminary , stepe for a strike for higher wages at a j meeting held by them to-day. They j made a schedule of prices which will be , presented to all the bosses, and if the lat* J ter do not accept it a strike will begfn , at once. The tailors claim that they j are now working for starvation wage*. A great many of them are not able to j earn more than $6 a week, and they will , submit no longer. They say they will j be sustained in their action by the sev- , eral Trades Unions in the city. Work is .already suspended in several shops. t Heavy Robbery. BoerroN, April 30.?Burglars entered i the residence of E. Otis, a leading citizen ' of South Scitnate, this morning, and took i a safe from a chamber on the first floor i and carried it half a mile down the road ] and blew it open. They got away with the contents, consisting of railroad atocks and bank books representing over $30, 00U. i ln|anetlon Denied. Niw York, April 30.?Judge Law rence denied the motion of Elias C. Ben diet, who owns 100 shares of the Western Union Telegraph Company stock tor a , preleminary injunction against the con- < tinuation ol that company with the Atlan tic A Pacific Telegraph Company, and . leaves the plaintiff to establish his claim . to the injunction upon triaL , Death ol a Pioneer. j Sur Faiacnoo, April 30.?Maj. Jacob I R. Snyder died at Sonoma to-day,apio- i neer of 1846. He was quartermaster of Freemont'e Battalion, a member of the : oonveatlon which framed the ooDstitotioa i of the State, and was Assistant United States Treasurer under Buchanan. He I was 66 years of age. , _ 1 BY TELEGRAPH. ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT. to thx daily jntklug&nckr CONGRESSIONAL A Lively Bout in the House. Randall Goea a Wooling and Geta Sheared. An Unhandy Reoord for a Political Moralist. The Bankrupt Bill in the Senate. SENATE. Wasbihqtoh, April 30. Senate resumed consideration of the bill to repeal the bankrupt law. Mr.Chriatiancy said he propoeed to ?ubmit the following amendment: And all rights and proceedings incident thereto, growing out or dependent thereon, in cluding all rights of suit* by and agaimt assignees under any or all of aaid acts, to come in just before the House amendment providing that the repeal of the law should not invalidate all (>enal actions or criminal proceedings arising thereunder. Mr. Iogalls favored a well regulated bankrupt law, and said should this measure of repeal be consummated we would have a flood of distress and com mercial ruin. Should this law be re pealed and noHubatitute for it left, the re sult would be that every debtor would be at the mercy of his creditor. Mr. Davis, of Illinois, said be believed the law could be simplified. The Judici ary Committee could prepare a bill which he believed would satisfy the Sen ate and country, and he was opposed to this haste in repealing the law. He be lieved in a permanent bankruptcy. Mr. Beck said the reference of this bill to the Judiciary Committee mean't that it would not be heard from again during this session. Ue was not opposed to a well regulated bankrupt law, and the Ju diciary Committee could prepare one, but he was opposed to patching up this bill. Mr. Allison submitted an amendment to refer the bill and amendments to the Judiciary Committee with instructions to report such amendment* as will relieve the existing law of the defects which ex perience has disclosed.^ Mr. Matthews favored the reference of the bill, and said that there should be snother effort to perfect the law before wiping it from the statute books. He thought the wisdom of Congress equal to the occasion and had no doubt a suitable bankrupt lsw could be passed. The bill was further discusred by Messrs, nil!, Hoar, Merrimon,Thurman, McCreery and Paddock. The smendment of Mr. Thurman was rejected?yeas 19, nays 34. After further discussion the amend ment of Mr. Allison wss rejected. Yeas, 18; nays, 30. Mr. Hansom aaid he thought the motion of Mr.Thuruian which was to instruct the committee to report on Thursday next was not understood. When the vote was taken he renewed the motion, and after a brief discussion it was rejected. Yeas, 27; nays, 27. The question then recurred on the mo tion of Mr. Merrimon, when the bill was taken up this morning, tosimplv refer it to the Judiciary Committee. It was re jected, yeas 23, nays 28. Mr. Edmunds moved to refer the bill and the House amendments to a special committee of three Senators, of which the Senator from Michigan (Christiancj) should be chairman. He said he men tioned that Senator as chairman that the friends of the measure might have no fesrs of its being swamped. After some further debste, and before a vote was resched on that motion, Mr. Allison moved that the Senate adjourn, and that the bill and amendments be printed. He ssid that should the Senate adjourn now it would allow time to fur ther consider the bill, and it could be disposed of in half an hour to-morrow. The motion was sgreed to by a vote of 39 to 17, and the Senate adjourned. The House went into a committee of the whole on the appropriation bill, Mr. Edin in the Chair. Mr. Gibson offered an amendment re organizing the mint at New Orleans and appropriating $185,000 for iU mainten ance. This amendment gave rise to a discussion upon the subject of branch mints, participated in by Hanna, 8ayler, Patterson, Cole, and Franklin, who advocated the eatablishment of each mints in their respective localities. After a long discussion, in which the reorganization of the New Albany Mint iraa advocated by Mr. Butler, the amend ment was defeated. In the course of a long discussion on the appropriations for the territorial governments, the action of the Committee so Appropriatiana having been criticised >n the Republican side of the House, Mr. Randall, tne Speaker, defended the course of the committee, and condemned the tendency of Republican members to herd together in opposition to all measures of economy. He waa replied to bv Mr. Garfield, who doclared that such an imputation againat the Republicans waa not to be borne,and asserted that from 1872 to the present time (under Republican aa well aa Dem ocratic control of the House) the ex* penses of the government had been on a descending scale. The Republicans be tieved in two things?the support of the government, cost what it might, and in all the economy that was possible in con* section with an honest, fair and reasona ble support of the government. Mr. Randall took issue with Mr. Gar field's statement and repeated his asser tion that the Republican side of the House had lent its efforts as against gen eral economy. Mr. Hale also replied to Mr. Randall, and said the latter had never had so hard a task aa he had this session in trying to control the Democratic side of the House to as to prevent it from bankrupting the rreasury. He (Randall) had had the making up of the committees, and it was not a Republican Committee that had re ported the river and harbor bill,to which he (Randall) was so much opposed. Mr. Randall?You voted for it. Mr. Hale?I certainly did, but I ant ipeaking from the gentleman's stand point He did not believe in It. That bill could never have stalked into the House, if it bad not been reported by a Democratic Committee. So, too,with the Mexican pension bill that would take aeven million dollan a year out of the Treasury. The8peaker,as an economist, will be it I ad to see that bill voted against by the Republican members. The trouble with economy on the other aide is that it ia "cheeseparing." The expenditure of the Speakers strength and influence should be made on his fellows on the Democratic aide of the House. The discussion wis continued by Messrs. Beebe, Foster, Hooker, McMahon, Keifer and Hewitt. Mr. Conger made a sarcastic allusion to what be thought was the Speaker^ i*al in behalf of economy, and said if the gen* Lit man would attend Ik. Democratic emu coma and UM hie power aod peieuaaive eloquence there, It would by mor? ???; priate than to elep down fromhianla? and lecture Bepablloui membeii ol the **Mr!"Calkina quoted from the "Mtb" o! Hi. Randall on Ihe bill for en IncrtttJ ol the member.1 ularlee end remarked (ironically) that he bid no doubt that the gentleman'. action on that occaalon had I been prompted in the interest of economy. Mr. Randall replied that he had aa a faithful public eervant given up hie opin ion and obeyed tbe inetrucUona of the people. That waa what he wanted the Republican party to do. Wben ?y con duct ai a Repreeentallve waa condemned bj tbe people 1 yielded to their authority and lubmilled to their control, aa I am alwaya ready to do. Mr. Calklna?Did the gentlemau cover back tbe$6,000 drawn from the Treasury? Mr. Pandall?Ineverdid. I look over all my record here and can aay truthful ly that I have never cut a vote that waa T'r'wi.l'i'.mTirjo^^^riat membera phould have $7,500 a yew why did you allerwardj mote to cut down theii aalariea to $4.00o? Did the people demand thai? Mr. Randall?I did not protMM to cut down the compenaation to *4^. The committee recommended $4,?00, "d * took the ground that the people had con demned lie Increaae of ealartee, and that it waa not coniiatent for membera to be cutting down the compenaatlon of olhet neonle and letting their own aland, |Mr. Williama?Why do you not pro poae to cot it down now ? ^Mi. Randall?Whenever the eentle man makea a propoaition to cut it down I will be found with him. Mr. Williama?Why do not your Com mitteee do it belore you lecture ua on "llr. Randall?I aay deliberately here that I believe rather in cutting down the number of employee than cutting down the aalariea. I believe that if the law waa adhered to in tbe departmenta l ra eard to the number ol houre for derical work the force could be reduced 26 pel cent , , After eome further dlacnaaion the com journed. WASHINGTON. I Movement to Cheek tip on the Rapid Redaction at tbe Ball ? road Debt* I Washiugtoh, April 30.?The Commit tee of Ways and Meani by * vote of 8 I to 3 decided to report to the Houae the following Joint reaolueion: , ,i I Whereas, On the firat day of April, , 11878, there had been paid into the aink ins fond m provided for under aection 3094 of the Revised Btatutea the nam ol $241,488,168 34, in exceae of tbe require I menu of aaid law, which mm ia a1 uivalent to abooi eight yeara in vance of the amount required I by law, and whereaa it ia unneceaaary for I the maintenance of public credit, aa it ia uniuBt to the people, to continue the im poHition of taxea for this object at a time of great depreaaion like the preaent; ihwefore^^ ^ That the Secretary of the Treasury ia hereby authonied and I directed to naapend the purchase of United Slatea bonda for the einking fond, aa provided by aection 3694 ol the Revfaed Statute*, until the clow of the I lineal year ending June 30,1886, unleaa I other wine directed by Congreaa. AHOTHIBlOHJ. FOB MUM. The Secretary"of the Treasury Uwlay iiaued a call for the followiog bonda: . Coupon bonda, dated Joly 1,1865, namely, a $60 No. 60,001 to 63,000, both Induaive; I 110 No. 86,001 to 90,000, both inclueive; i $500, No. 60,001 to 63,000, both indaiive; ? $100 No. 108,001 to 114,400, both inclu aive. Total coupon, 3,000,000,000 regia tered bonda redeemable at the pleaaure olthe UnltedSuteaafler the firat day of , Jul* 1870 u followi: $50, No. 1,741 to , 1,900, both indaaive; $60, fro. 14,101 to 16,200, both inclusive; $500, No. 8,701to 9,200, both induaive; $l,000,No;28,751 to 30,160, both induaive; $6 000. No. 8061 to 8,300, both induaive;$10,000, No. 14367 to 16,607, both induaive. Total registered $2,00&,000, a?regate $i00a 000. The principal anaintereat will be naid at theTreaaury on and after the 30th of July next, and the intereat will ceaae on that day. bilveb fob ureeenbacks. All the Aaaiatant Treaaurera through out the United States have been author iied to eichange ailver dollar! lor green backa. ? The Sub-oommittee of the Houae on Education and Ubor propoeea to tax Chineae emigrant* one hundred dollara a ^ h,Th'e Ruaaian ateamahip reported off t Ellawortb, Maine, excite. no intereat in a Washington. . 1 The District achoola will go oc now, Congreaa having made the needed appro ^SubScripliona to the foni pet cent loan '?The Houae^Waya and Means Commit tee, by a vote of 8 to 8. voted to reeom- c mend the auepenaion of the purchase ol I bonda for the ainking fund until June I 30th, 1885. THXOiLLAWT BDCDtBOB). A majority ol the Senate Committee on Military Affaire Unlay authorised Sena tor Cockerill to leport the Houae bill placing Gen. jaa. shield! on the retired flat ol the army, favorably, and without amendment. The authorisation waa cou pled with the formal and??tmndiM th*t the membera of the committee ahall be at libeitr to offet ammendmenta oi oppoee the bill i n the Senate il they ao deaire. Report ol the lake Shore Ball road Company. Chicaoo, April 30.?The annual re port of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad lor the Tear 1877 ?hove the freight earning! to be $9,476, 608, paaeeneer earning! $3,203,199, other ?unGgTwUSl! total p3,506,158, againat $13,949,176 for 1876: operating expenaea and taxee $8,963,965, againit $9,574,835 the preceding year; increase in the net earninga $166,000. Prealdent Vanderbilt eaye of the 92 killed by the Aehtabula diaaater 83 bare been eetiled for, of the 64 wounded 56 hare been Milled lor. Thlj abeorbed $453,809 of the earnings, yet the road earned 3) per oent on iti capital itock, of which the etockholdera receired 2 per oent. _ FIRE RECORD. Drnorr, April 30.?The Onion echool building, at Caaeapotta, Michigan, wai deetroyed by tre liet night. Loea $5,000; ineuranee $l,OUO. Sax Fuactaco, April 30.?At a fire in a Chlneee lodging honee at DnponL this morning, one body wai reoorered from the ruina. A number more are ?n ppoeed to hare been burned in the de Milwaukn, April 30^-Tke reeidenoe of D. E. Woodward, at Hortonnlle, Wi?, waa deetroyed by fire Sunday. Loae $10,000; lnauranoa $4,500. Tke Pipe Uae Act a Law. N?w You, April 30.?The general Pipe Line Company Incorporating act became a law yeetcrday without theOoT erDor'i eignatura. FOREIGN NEWS. No Progress Towards Peace. A Deoiilve Movement Threatened by Austria. Italy Taking Some Note of Affaire. A Criiii Impending Whioh Cannot Long be Delayed. THE EAMTKRN QUESTIOBI. The Point at Uane Gradually Disciodnc lUelL London, April 30.?Some consolation for the prolongation of the efforts to pre* serve peace is found in the fact that the point at iflflue ia becoming gradually more distinct. That point ia whether Bussia will recognise that the right* of the Great Powers, aa established by the treaties of 1856 and 1871, take precedence of the claims of the treaty of Ban Stefano. The concessions which it was stated Bussia would make?the limitation of the boun daries and of the period of the occupation of Bulgaria; the substitution of a Euro pean for a Russian commission: the or ganisation of a European syndicate to consider the claims of bondholders ss irell ss the Bussian claim for indemnity, ind the retrocession of the >mall slip of Bessarabia inhabited by Bussian*, are >wned to be great, but she completely ignores the treaty <" ~ ilBrmation in 1871. THN FIRST CONTINGENT FOB MALTA. The first contingent to be dispstched from this country to Mslta will number 5.000 men and two batteries of artillery, ill of which are under orders for em sarkation. The torpedo service prom ises all that is desired. J. J.Thorncraft ft Co. will soon have ready five or six of the twenty torpedo launches they are building, and other firms are making ex* inordinary efforts toward the completion )f Government orders for launches. Portland has offered her whole avaible force for service abroad. THAT MYSTERIOUS VESSEL. Various correspondents telegraph that the Hamburg American Packet Compa iv's steamship Cambria, which has been Bartered by the Bussian Government ins taken a contingent of 40 officers ana >00 seamen and started to cruise on the Chinese and Japanese coaits. A rendezvous of ships are preparing to orm a fleet for the Channel and North feaooast guard, and turret ships will pro* ;eed there as soon as they are ready. Nsw York. April 80.?The Cambria >ut into Southwest Harbor, Maine, on Sunday last, for orders. exotnmnnt at bkblin. Considerable excitement seems to have >een produced in Berlin by the announce nent that a British fleet is being fitted >nt for operations in the Baltic. The dea expressed in Berlin Is that it is hardly 0 be expected. That a foreign fleet would nake its sppearance in the Baltic against he wish ot Germany is declared to be m eccentric theory which is repudiated >7 the German Government in view of he present critical state of affairs. ITALY COM I NO ON THE SCENE. A dispatch from Berlin ssys that Intel* igence received here from what is con iaered a trustworthy source states that he Italian Government ia making war* ike demonstrations on a somewhat large cale. Its object, it is said, is to dispatch 1 force into Albania. This is similar to he report in a Berlin dispatch to the standard, that Italv has decided to make l descent on the Albanian coaat. BISMARCK RECOPE&ATINU. Berlin, April 30.?Bismarck's pbysl* ian states tnat the Chancellor will be ible to return to the Capital in about a ertnight or three weeks. RUSBO-TURKIHH AFFRAY. Constantinople, April 30.?An affray las occurred between the Bussian and Turkish soldiers, near Dsud Pasha's bar acks, about two milee beyond the fortifi* afions. Eighty men were wounded on 10th sides. Schraskierate has. conse [uently, prohibited Bussian soldiers from rossing the line of the Demarcations. rHAT RUSSIA WILL CLAIM EITHER IN CONFERENCE OR IN WAR. London, April 30.?A St. Petersburg orrespondent, writing about Bussia's lemand for Bessarabia, savs: "Let no me deceive himself aa to what is coming, rhe desire to recover Bessarabia ia only i symplon of the wish pervading the ntire Bussian nation to deetroy the 'aria treaty. It is not so much Bessara >ia we are striving for. What we are iming at It the cancelling of that treaty. Whether the Bulgarian frontier re naina as it is defined in the treaty if Ban Stefano: whether the Greek ele nent is allowed more scope; whether Ser rials aggrandised; whether Austro*Hun ;ary is conceded temporary or permanent iccupation of Bosnia and Herzegovinia. naking the Montenegrins an enclave of ler new territory, all this Is of com* >arative indifference to the Bussian ns* ion. Whether the rearrangement of rurkey is regulated bv a Congress confer* nee or bya**r, the demand for the re toration of Bessarabia will always be >referred with the same pertinacity, luppoee we should be balkea this time, his would only make us more eager to mrsue our object in the future. IOWA AND SIRVIA UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER. ,222 A telegram from Belgrade says it Bp tears that the friendship between Bossia ind Servia is completely restored. It hss *en arranged that Serviain the event of m Anglo-Russia war ahall only observe he stipulations of the San Stefano treaty rhile Turkey remains neutral. It ia >robable that the Servian army will lowly occupy many pointa in old Servia rith the consent of Bussia. All levies rill be at their posts by Msy 19th. The intrenched camp at Kadona, which is >ne of the principal points of concentra* ion, is now oonstantiy fortified. REVINW POSTPONED, London, April 30.?A ipecial from >onstantlnople says that ths grand re* riew at San Stefano wu countermanded n consequence of dispatching large bod es of troops sgainst the Mussulman in* urgenta. London, Msy 1.?Vienna correspon lents mention that Auatria'a occupation if Bosnia Is imminent. A Berlin corres* undent ssys the occupation will be 'fleeted as ths result of a bargain with Jnssia. EflULABU. The Later Inane. Lohdow. April 30.?Tb* muteri it Aahton will mMton Wednesday to decide whether to (in notice of a redaction of warn of workmu. It b now thought probable that a 5 per out redaction will be proposed. A alnilar redaction will be ?abmitted to is November, and the pro Kial which ia now anticipated would re go the WM in Aahton to the lame rate aa demanded by the maatera in North and Nortbeaat Lancaahire. There la great diatreaa in Blackburn and a number of woman and children an compelled to be*. Both aidaaan obdurate. Boa. John Bnfht rpoke at a large peace meeting in ltudmter to-day. xm uKiusu iu? were coma do no laiui in a Cabinet which had no truth. Ixwd Beaconafield ?u a great disturber of the nation'* policy, howerer, ud hoetile to tlx higheet interests of Great Britain. gerhahy. Betrolliml In Maniace. Biiuh, April 30.?It i? understood that the oeremony ol the batrotlwl o! the Doke ot OonnaoghL eeyenth child and third ion of Queen Victoria, to ftla cess Louise, third daughter of Frino* Frederick Charlee ol Prussia, will occur at Daroitadt on the 9th ot Hay nexU flood* In New llampdilrc. Naiboa, N. H., April 30?The Merri mack river ia still ruing, and ie nov 13 feet abore the high water mark: alio the Hashua rlter. The Jackaon Manulac taring Company had partially aaspeoded work to-day on account of the heck wm ter. The Songhegan rlter ia ?ry high. The ownere of property on the banki are somewhat alarmed. The dam acroea Nalicook brook, owned by Carmi Par ser*, Furniture Manufacturing Company, at Thornton'. Ferry, gate war to-dar. doing considerable damage. Danfortha lower flala are impaieable. A (irand Peace ?atherlo* ol the Bine and the Uray. Cmcnrain, April 30,-Qoite an en tbuiiutic citiiena meeting wu held to day, which endorsed Major Moore'a .re ject for a grand jubilee next September, umpriaing a yut encampment of the eoIdlers from both armlee In the lata war. Effortawill be made to gather on* hundred thousand or more men in camp for a grand peace demonstration. An executive Committee waa appointed to make arrangements. Among th? Breakers. Niw York, April 3?.?The Rtlktin announces the failure of Henry Lawrence ??^No?td.^:i.hZ'uT Uee estimated at $260,000. Assets not J<?Ulai" Dutcher. U. S. appraiser of thle port, hu filed a roluntary petition in bankruptcy. Weather Indication*. Wax Dvunnr. ) Omen ot tbm Cam Bmmal omen. Y WASwaeroa, D. a, May l-l *. M.J noMgWi For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, westerly winds, stationary temperature and pressure, and clear or partly cloudy weather. MINOR TELEGBAIM. ?Mayor Kane, of Baltimore, Md.. has been prostrated with a stroke of paralysis. ?The civil suits against the late stock holders of the New Jersey Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Newark, to re corer $200,000, ha. been settled. It is understood that they will pay $120,000 in full of all demands. DIED. FLETCHER.?On Wtdnwdsy mornlaf, May 1, 1178, st 11K o'clock, Mn. Ant FUrrcaaa, la the tstb ysaro! b?t i<?. Fa ami notlc* bereaffrr. pHARLE8 K. DWIGHT, PRACTICAL CHEMIST, i. nrvuml to make cartful and complete analyws b! 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