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M’KENZIK’S INDICATIONS.
TUESDAY—Clearing: weallier, station
ary or higher temperature.
OLD FRIENDS MEETING.
A man from Kokoino, who had beea West two
years ago and saw a few Indians there, was in
the city yesterday morning, and passing near
the clothing house of J. A. McKenzie, discover
ed an Indian cigar sign, approached it and said:
“Good morning, Lo.” (He wanted to be friend
ly.) “I say, good morning; don’t you heart Do
you belong to (hie) Sitting Bull’s tribe! Are you
waiting to see a tfiic) friend! Have you Btood
on that (hie) stone all night!’’
Still the ludian was silent.
“Will you step in and (hie) take a smile! Well,
if you ain’t the doggonedest Indian I eversaw’d,
to refuse a drink; I never hearn tell of such a
thing afore. Will you shake hands with me!
Your band is as cold as a door knob. Mr. Lo,
that ’ere bow and arrow won’t keep you warmer
than a paper collar. I’ve tried the collar, but
never tried a bow and arrow. See here, old
Indian, if you want to make friends in this
clearin’ you must be a little more (hie) social,
and not stand there on that stone on your dig
nity in this way. Say, Lo, will you loan me ten
cents until (hie) I see you later! I.have a mind
to massacre that Indian for his impudence to
me.”
TENNESSEE’S DEFALCATION
The Fleeing Treasurer in Custody at
San Antonio, Tex.
The Authorities Telegraphed by the Gov
ernor of TenneHsee to Hold Him Until
a Requisition Can Be Sent.
Nashville, Jan. B.—At2*o’clock this morn
ing Governor Hawkins received the follow
ing:
New Orleans, Jan. 8.
To the Governor of Tennessee:
Marsh T. Polk is arrested in San Antonio, Tex.
What action shall I take in the matter!
W. J. Farrell,
Principal of the Commercial Detective Agency
at New Orleans.
The following dispatch was sent in reply:
Bring or send M. T. Polk here immediately.
Alain Hawkins, Governor.
Governor Hawkins at 10 o’clock tele
graphed the Governor of Texas to hold Polk
until a requisition in form could be for
warded.
To-day a resolution was adopted in both
houses of the Legislature authorizing the
Governor to offer a reward of $5,000 for the
delivery of Polk to the Tennessee authori
ties, and directing him to at once make a
requisition on the Governor of Texas for the
return of Polk to Tennessee.
New Oku®, a its, La., Jan. 8. — Captain Far
rell, of the detective agency, this forenoon
received a dispatch from Governor Hawkins,
of Tennessee, instructing him to hold Treas
urer Polk a prisoner until a requisition
could be forwarded. The detectives say
that they cannot hold the prisoner on the
Governor’s dispatch until the Tennessee au
thorities reach San Antonio. Polk passed
through this city on Friday, He purchased
arms, ammunition, blankets, drugs, etc.
Nashville, TENN.,Jan. B.—Governor Haw
kins has received a dispatch stating that
Treasurer Polk has been released on a writ of
habeas corpus.
The Man Arrested at Sau Antouio Calls
Himself Tate.
New Orleans, Jan. B.—A Times-Democrat
San Antonio special says the one-legged man
arrested by Detective Price on suspicion of
being Marsh T. Polk, the defaulting State
Treasurer of Tennessee, was released last
night. The accused claimed that his name
was not Polk, but Tate. He was accompa
nied by a young man named A. Von Leer, also
by a servant, and registered at the hotel, but
neither of them wrote the name of the
place they were fro u. Tate claimed to be a
man of wealth, on his way to Mexico, to
look after some mines. Both Tate and
Von Leer refused to be interviewed. The
servant, also, was non-committal. Tate
also said that he had not long since
returned from Europe. Detective Price
sent off a number of telegrams to
the State authorities of Tennessee, asking for
a full description and instructions, but could
receive no reply, and consequently was com
pelled to release the prisoner. After the
party was turned loose, and he
and his companion had left, a tele
gram was received from the Governor
of Tennessee telling Price to hold his
man and baggage; that the necessary papers
would be forwarded. Detective Price is con
fident that he has the right man, and lias
him.shadowed and will know his where
abouts when be receives the necessary proof
of identity. Captain B. S. Jones, formerly
of Nashville, now living in the city, saw the
man arrested yesterday, and says he is sure
it was Polk, the defaulting treasurer.
Over the Lino.
Galveston, Tex., Jan. B.—News’ Laredo
special: “A man supposed to be Polk, of
Tennessee, arrived this morning at 6, and a
few minutes afterward was landed in Mexico.
It is rumored that the large amount of money
he carried is somehow connected with his
escape.”
Obituary.
tbe Indianapolis Journal.
Bloomington, 111., Jan. B.—Miss Katie
Munholland, a very estimable and highly re
spected young lady of Bloomington, died to
day from inflammation of the bowels, aged
nineteen.
To the Western Associated Press.
Washington, D. C., Jan. B.—Lieutenant
Samuel F. Clarkson, attached to tlie U. S. S.
Lancaster, died to-day at Nice.
Utica. N. Y., Jan. B.—Ezra Graves, ex-
State Prison Inspector, a prominent Humani
tarian and Universalist, died to-day at Her
kimer.
Boston. Jan. B.—Matthew Franklin Whit
tier, the only brother of John G. Whittier,
the poet, is dead. He was the author of the
famous “Ethan Spike” letters.
Epidemic Smallpox.
Lynchburg, Va., Jan. B.—The smallpox is
raging at Salem, Roanoke county. Thirty
cases are already reported, The towns of
Roanoke and Wytheville have quarantined
against Salem and other southwestern towns
will do likewise. The Roanoke College has
suspended and the students gone home. The
public schools will also be closed, and busi
ness is at a standstill,
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9, ISS3.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
A Very Delicate and Brittle Question
Be Tore the Tariff Tiukerers.
A Typographical Error Which, Uncorrected,
Might Put Out the Fires at the New
Albany Olass-WorKs.
Proposed Civil-Service Reform, in Case
of Raum’s Election.
If the Presidential-Succession Bill Fails to
Pass the Present Session, an Extra
Will Be Called.
A TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR.
One of Great Interest to an Important In
diana Industry.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Washington, Jan. B.—Mr. George DePauw,
of the New Albany works, arrived in the
city yesterday, aud has been laboring all day
with members of the two committees hav
ing the tariff measures in charge. Mr. De-
Pauw’s attention was called, through the
dispatches to the Journal, to what appeared a
grave mistake on the part of the finance com
mittee in reducing by 25 per cent, the rates
recommended by the tariff committee on cer
tain kinds of plate-glass.
As the adoption by Congress of the rates
proposed by the commission would prove
most and sastrous to the great industry which
he represents, he came at once to Washing
ton to endeavor to rectify what he believed
to be a mistake. The sequel only
shows the difficulties in the way
of an equitable adjustment of tariff in the
hurried manner in which the committees of
Congress have been compelled to deal with it.
The attention of Senator Morrill, chairman
of the finance committee, was called to the
matter, and he was asked why the committee
had reduced the rates recommended by the
Tariff Comraision. He replied: “We found
that they had added 25 per cent, to the pres
ent duty, and seeing no good reason for it,
we have put them back to the rates imposed
by the present law.”
“But you are mistaken, sir,” said Mr. De-
Pauw, “you will find upon examination that
the rates proposed by the commission are the
same as the existing rates, whereas you have
reduced them 25 per cent.”
And so, upon examination, it proved. The
committee had based its action upon a typo
graphical error. The tables which had been
prepared for the use of the committee show
ing, in parallel columns, the existing rates
and those prepared by the commission npon
each article embraced in the tariff, gave upon
two grades of plate glass the figures 20
and 40 in the first column, and
25 and 50 in the second, whereas,
they should have been 25 and
50 in each. This indicated an advance
of 25 per cent., and without detecting the
typographical error the committee adopted
it, and reported in their printed bill what no
member of thecommisson ever intended.
This mistake will be promptly corrected
by the finance committee, and it is believed
the ways and means committee will adopt
the same rates also as recommended by the
commission. The entire Indiana delegation
in both houses are exerting themselves to se
cure this action. In view of the fact that the
Indiana company is the only one in the
country which manufactures the finest
grades of plate glass; that it has $1,500,000
invested in the business, and up to 1879 had
sunk $650,000 before establishing its busiuess
upon a paying basis, finally succeeding, after
other establishments had been compelled to
suspend, it is not asking too much of Con
gress to be allowed to live.
To-morrow the national convention of
glass manufacturers will be held in this city.
THE SUCCESSION BILL.
The -Outlook for Its Passage This Session
Coop'.terfed Unfavorable.
Special to the Iu llanapolls JottrnaL
Washington, Jan. B.—The present outlook
is not favorable to the passage of the pend
ing bill in the Senate to regulate the presi
dential succession. The objection raised by
Mr. Edmunds and other senators to placing
non-elective officers in the line of succession
to the presidency, an office required by the
constitution to be filled by election, has
strengthened the opposition *to the
bill, and the probability is that
it will be recommitted with
instructions to correct this feature.
Once recommitted, it is doubtful if the bill
can again obtain a hearing this session, not
withstanding the prevailing sense of the im
portance of the measure. In the event of
the failure of the bill, an extra session of the
Senate will be called by the President im
mediately after the adjournment of Congress
for the purpose of choosing a President of the
Senate pro tern. Senator Anthony will then
be the choice of the Republicans.
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.
Indiana in the Chair.
Bpecial to the Indianapolis Journal,
Washington, Jan. B.—While the shipping
bill was under consideration in the House
to-day, Representative Peirce, of Indiana, oc
cupied the Speaker’s chair, it being his first
appearance in the role of presiding officer of
the House. As the Speaker has already
above twenty names upon his list of those
who desire to speak upon this bill, the dis
cussion will probably consume the greater
part of the week.
Raum’ft Possible Successor.
Special ta the Indianapolis Journal.
Washington, Jan. 8. —It was stated at the
Treasury Department that in the event of
Commissioner Raum’s election as United
States senator from Illinois he would be suc
ceeded as chief of the internal reveuue ser
vice by Deputy Commissioner Henry C.
Rodgers, who has been acting commissioner
for several months. This, it was stated, will
be in conformity with the recent civil-service
act.
Supreme Court Decisions.
Washington, Jan. 8. —In the Supreme
Court, to-day, a decision was rendered in the
case of the Michigan Central Railroad
Company, plaintiff in error, vs. Paris
Myrick, so/ the use of the Commercial Bank,
of Chicago. The question raised by the
case is, whether a railroad carrying, in the
absence of a special contract, is responsible
to shipper for safety of freight after such
freight has been transferred by it to another
raiioad company for transportation to
it* place of destination. The court
holds: First—That, in accordance with
a common-law rule, the carrier is liable only
to the extent of his own route, and for the
safe storage and delivery to the next carrier.
Second, that the ticket or bill of lading
giren to the shipper by the railroad com
pany, in this instance, was not a through
contract, whereby the Michigan Central com
pany agreed to transport the freight in con
troversy to Philadelphia. The judgment of
the court below that the receipts did
cc stitute such through contract is reversed
and the case remanded for anew trial.
The Supreme Court also decides that all
animals imported for breeding purposes
must be admitted free of duty, regardless of
the Treasury regulation that only animals of
“superior stock” be admitted free.
The case of the Cook County Bank, of
Clf ago. set down for argument of the so
cahed “legal-tender” case, went over, Gov
ernor Butler, of Massachusetts, not being
able to appoint a day when he can get to
Washington and make argument.
A Lightning Investigation.
Washington, Jan. B.—The sub-committee
of the House judiciary committee having
charge of the bill “for the regulation of tele
graph and cable companies,” this morning
heard Mr. Peck, secretary of the Mutual
Union, in explanation of the hardships to
which his company was subjected by reason
of the refusal of tbe Western Union Com
pany to receive dispatches on the same con
ditions as they receive them from private
citizens. Mr. Peck cited instances occurring
at the Chicago offices of his company in
which dispatches left for points not reached
by the Mutual Union bad to be returned to
the sender, and by him carried to the West
ern Union. Tlie committee decided to give
tbe Western Union Telegraph Company an
opportunity to be heard.
A Chinese Puzzle.
Washington, Jan. B.—Under date of July
18, 1882, the Attorney-general rendered an
opinion to the Secretary of the Treasury
that the Chinese laborers returning to their
native land from other foreign lands could
not be transported across the territory of the
United States without a violation of the act
of Congress of the 6th or May, 1882, unless
in the United States on the 17th of Novem
ber, 1882, or come within ninety days next,
aftf the jiassage of the act. The Treasury
DCjW'-WDe.r, 1* guided by this ruling, as
the department has received no official in
formation of the Attorney-general’s recent
opinion to the Secretary of State on the
Chinese question, which is exactly the re
verse of his opinion to the Secretary of the
Treasury.
Proposed Postal Telegraph.
Washington, Jan. B.—The bill introduced
in the House to-day, by Mr. Anderson,
of Kansas, to create a postal telegraph of the
United States, provides that the govern
ment issue bonds to the amount of $3,000,-
000, redeemable in twenty years, and payable
iji thirty years, and that at the expiration of
ten years there shall be set aside from the
earnings of the telegraph $300,000 per year,
to form a sinking fund for the payment of
the bonds. The bill provides that there shall
be a uniform rate of twenty-five cents per
message of ten words, or less, and twenty-five
cents for every additional ten words. It con
templates a telegraph postal office at every
postoffice where there is a carrier system.
Bad Bonds.
Washington, Jan. 8. —The Supreme Court
of the United States to-day declared that the
act of the Legislature of West Virginia,
passed Dec. 15, 1868, authorizing the city of
Parkersburg to issue its bonds for the pur
pose of lending the same to persons engaged
in manufacturing, was invalid, and the
bonds issued under it are void as against the
city.
Walsh Accused of Lying.
Washington, Jan. B.—Senator Kellogg
says of John A. Walsh’s publications: “The
allegation that I procured from Brady (as
Walsh states) any contract or any expedition
of service at any time is false. If any im-
C roper thing was done in his case referred to
y Walsh, it was done by himself, and none
other.”
Approved.
Washington, Jan. 8. —The President has
approved the act to reimburse Oregon and
California and citizens thereof for moneys
paid in the suppression of Indian hostilities
during the Modoc war. Also an act to pro
vide for holding a district court of the
United States at Wichita, Kan.
Dickson Held for Embracery.
Washington, Jan. B.—Judge Snell has ren
dered a decision in tlie Dickson case. He
held Dickson in $2,500 bond to appear before
the grand jury to answer for embracery, in
violation of section 5,404 of Revised Statutes,
In regard to jurors, and was given till to
morrow to renew bail.
Note, and Personalities.
Special to tlie IndianapoUs Journal.
Washington, Jan. B.—The investigation
ol the charges against the postmaster at Lo
gansport having been closed, it is expected
that the report will soon be made public.
Henry C. Dodge, of Elkhart, is stopping at
the Willard; H. C. Hartman, of Port Wayne,
at the Ebbitt, and George B. Williams at the
Riggs. General W. M. Grose is a guest of
Representative Browne.
Senator Harrison returned so the city this
morning after a week’s absence. He has
been visiting his wife, who isstill undermed
ical treatment in New York.
Representative Stockslager introduced a
bill in the House to-day granting a pension
to Stephen M. Guptan, of New Albany,
formerly captain of Company P, Twenty
eighth Kentucky volunteers.
At a meeting of tlie Indiana Republican
Club held Saturday evening appropriate reso-
lutions touching the death of Hon. John D.
Defrees were adopted, and it was voted to
send engrossed copies to the widow of the de
ceased and to the Indianapolis Journal, of
which he was for a long time the editor and
proprieter.
The daughter of Senator Voorhees, who is
now in Paris, will remain abroad for some
months longer. Mrs. Voorhees has with her
this season, at the Portland, her son’s wife,
Mrs. James Voorhees, who is accompanied
by her infant son.
Senator Harrison spent the holidays in
New York with his wife, who is in poor
health. She will not return here for a month
or more. Miss Harrison accompanied her
father on his return, and her brother has re
cently arrived from Montana to spend the
winter in Washington.
On account of a sick juror the proceedings
in the star-route case were postponed till
to-morrow.
Treasurer Gilfillan has received SI,OOO,
contributed by citizens of Lyons,
France, to the Garfield hospital fund.
William Saunders and Patrick McKann
have been arrested, and a complete counter
feiters’ outfit captured, at Philadelphia.
Dr. Isaac A. Doran has been arrested at
Olney, 111., for forging government drafts.
The Supreme Court will take a recess from
Feb. 5 to March 5.
The Secretary of the Navy asks the Senate
for a further appropriation to put the Pen
sacola Navy Yard in a state of efficiency.
An application has been made to the Secre
tary of the Treasury to dismiss the tobacco
case of Rothchilds Brothers, of Detroit, and
to accept a compromise of SI,OOO. The suit
against the parties is for $28,000.
The Marquis of Lome wrote General Sher
man asking if it would be safe for the Prin
cess Louise to winter in Charleston. Gen
eral Sherman promptly replied that, in his
his opinion, there was no safer or pleasanter
place.
Burnside Post No. 8, G. A. R. Department
of the Potomac, will have a public installa
tion of officers at Grand Army Hall, corner
Seventh and L streets, on Wednesday even
ing, the 10th inst. D. S. Alexander has been
elected post commander for the year 1883.
SENSATIONAL SUICIDE.
A Man and Wife Go Over the River To
gether.
Detroit, Jan. B.—A double suicide was
committed in this city Saturday night and
Sunday, evidently with the coolest premedi
tation. A man named J. Edward Monck and
wife were the parties to the shocking trans
action. He had been connected with the
Customs Department at Chatham, Out., but
was discharged a few weeks since, and came,
with his wife to this city, where they took
boarding at the Franklin House. Saturday
evening their three-months-old child
was given into the tempora
ry charge of a lady connected
with the hotel to take care of. Monck then
locked his wife in her room and went away.
The lady finally getting tired of her charge,
sought, about midnight, to return the child
to its mother, but was unable to get into her
room. Entrance finally being secured by
means of a pass-key, Mrs. Monck was found
dead on her bed, with every evidence that
sho had died from morphine administered by
her own hand, or that of her husband. The
same evening Monck went to the Brunswick
House, registered under an assumed name,
and telling the clerk he would not
want breakfast, went to the room
assigned him. Here he was
found yesterday afternoon in an unconscious
condition from the effects of a dose of mor
phine, and died later in the evening, all
efforts to restore him to consciousness prov
ing useless. Both parties were under thirty
years old, and have parents and other rela
tives living at Chatham. It is supposed that
despondency over his discharge from his
position and failure in all efforts at restora
tion, drove the pair to the commission of the
crime. Next to nothing is known of their
previous history, or any other cause to which
the shocking event can be attributed. Rela
tives have already taken the bodies back to
Chatham.
Steamship News.
New York, Jan. B.—Arrived: Nederland,
from Antwerp.
London, Jan. 8. —Arrived: Steamers Werra
and Cymbria, from New York.
New York, Jan. B.—Arrived: Donan, from
Bremen.
The steamship Donan, North German
Lloyd Steamship Company, arrived from
Bremen to-day, bringing eleven cabin
and 345 steerage passengers. On
the 4th inst., while at sea,
a fire broke out amidships in the hold. The
excitement among the passengers was great,
but the flames were put out by the crew.
The damage to the cargo cannot be ascer
tained until the vessel is unloaded. The
origin of the fire is a mystery, but it is sup
posed to have been produced by spontaneous
combustion.
The “Lights o’ London” Put Out.
Cedar Rapids, la., Jan. B.—At 2:40 this
morning the St. Louis express and Minneap
olis fast express on the 8., C. R. & N. col
lided near Norris, four miles north of Cedar
Falls. The engines were wrecked. The
property car of the “Lights o’ London” show,
next to the engine of the St. Louis express,
was telescoped by the baggage-car, ami four
property men in the car severely injured—
one, T. Scott, probably fatally. The scenery
and property of the show were wrecked. No
other passengers were injured. The firemen
and engineers of both engines saved them
selves by jumping. The blame is not lo
cated. The manager of the wrecked show
has telegraphed to New York fora new
outfit.
Later.—Thomas Scott died at 11:30 a. m.
to-day.
A Red Mau’s Friend.
San Francisco, Jan. B.—The Chronicle pub
lishes an interview with J. N. Fletcher, a
resident of Alaska Territory at present, as to
the shelling of an Indian village by the
United States naval forces. He says the out
rage was committed at the instigation of the
Northwestern Trading Company, which
wished to drive the Indians away from that
part of the country so it should be left open
to its own operations; that the attack was not
justified by the action of the Indians.
A Municipal Muddle.
Milwaukee, Jan. 8 —There was a stormy
scene in the council this afternoon on ac
count of the comptroller’s refusal to audit
bills contracted in 1882 from funds appro
priated for 1883. Various city departments
were notified last year that the funds were ex
hausted. Still, bills were contracted. The
comptroller, backed by the city attorney,
declares such bills illegal, refusing to audit
them. The amounts will aggregate $250,000.
The Council took no definite action.
Better.
San Francirco. Cal., Jan B.—E. J. Bald
win’s condition is more favorable, and blood
poisoning is no longer feared. His assailant
was held in $3,000 bail to-day, and in default
of bond sent to tbe county jail.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
THE CITY OF BRUSSELS.
Further Details of Her Collision with
the Kirby Hall.
A Memorial from the Rescued Passenger*
Complimenting the Commanding Offi
cers for Coolness and Efficiency.
LoNdON, Jan. B.—Further details of the
disaster to the ship City of Brussels say that
Captain Land was one of the first picked up
by the boats, although he, with the chief*
engineer, was the last ter leave the rigging.
When rescued he was in the act of passing a
life-buoy to a drowning comrade. As show
ing the terrible nature of the collisioL, the
purser says that the main compartment of
the City of Brussels was cut right in two.
After the collisionHhe fog thickened, and it
was dangerous even for boats to move about.
They, however, approached the sinking
vessel, and found a boy
named Hamilton, half drowned
clinging to the mizzen cross-tree 9. The two
Italians drowned seem to have lost their wits
from terror, and jumped overboard without
waiting to see what could be done for their
safety. The persons lost Include Connor,
the quartermaster, and Cochrane, the stew
ard.
Neither passengers nor crew were able to
save anything, and many persons were
obliged to leave the ship with but little
clothing. There is no doubt that if the fog
had cleared a little sooner all would have
been saved. The theory concerning the
drowning of the seamen is that when the
vessel lurched, they were struck by the rig
ging and rendered insensible. One man was
found dead in the rigging. The passengers
of the City of Brussels have drawn up the
following memorial:
“We, who have just been rescued from a
watery grave, wish to express our sincere
gratitude and admiration of the courage,
promptitude and coolness in danger exempli
fied by the captain, purser and other officers
of the ill-fated vessel which has just gone
down so near the termination of her voyage.”
Many passengers are suffering greatly from
the shock. Beside the breach in the hull,
the bulkhead of the City of Brussels was
shifted by the violence of the collision, thus
accounting for her speedy sinking. The cap
tain of the Kirby Hall states that he backed
Ids engines on first bearing the whistles ol
the City of Brussels. The cargo of the lost
vessel was valued at $350,000 and the vessel at
SBOO,OOO.
The captain of the steamer Kirby Ilall
states that the City of Brussels, although her
engines were stationary, was coming on with
tlie tide with such an impetus that a col
lision was inevitable.
The purser of the City of Brussels states
that at the last moment they were putting
on steam with a view of movii _ ? : ' lie,
collision, but uselessly.
Siegel, a passenger of the Citv oi f 1 i.
states that he was awakened By tlu
He arose, but learning noth; ;ril . r_
turned to his berth, and wa .u u a<in
by tlie call to “man the boats.” He was
saved in the boat commanded by the purser,
which had thirty persons.
Captain Land states that after the City of
Brussels had been stopped for forty-one min
utes. steamers’ whistles were heard on the
starboard and port sides. He concluded that
the steamers would pass on parallel lines.
Suddenly a white light appeared on the star
board bow, and a minute and a half after
ward the vessel ran into the City of Brus
sels. He immediately ordered the boats to be
lowered and spare sail placed over the
hole, but before the latter order could
be carried out the carpenter reported that
there was fourteen feet of water in the hold,
and the engineers stated that the iires would
be out in about a minute. The passengers
then took to the boats, and the crew, without
orders, filled other boats, when the ship Bunk
as far as the bridge. Captain Land called out
for every one to save himself, and jumped
into the water. He and others floated upon
a spar until rescued.
Captain Land highly praises tlie way offi
cers and crew worked under the circum
stances. Captain Land himself was twenty
minutes in tlie water, and all the papers of
the City of Brussels were lost.
Liverpool, Jan. B.—Mr. Skinner, a passen
ger on the City of Brussels, states that the
pilot jumped into the first boat that was
launched. This so enraged the captain that
he called upon the crew to pull him out.
This caused the only incident of confusion,
and matters were conducted so smoothly
that until five boats were lowered the passen
gers did not believe the disaster really serious.
The officials of the Mersey Dock Board and
Liverpool Salvage Association have visited
tlie scene of the collision, and marked the
spot of the disaster, which is two and a half
miles from the lightship. If the weather is
favorable a good portion of the cargo will be
recovered; other portions will doubtless wash
out.
The masts and funnel of the City of Brus
sels are obstructing navigation, and will be
removed.
New York, Jan. B.—The cargo of the City
of Brussels consisted of 783 bales of cotton,
140 bales of hops, 4,027 boxes of bacon, 2.448
boxes of cheese. 55 tierces of salt beef, 20
tierces of pork, 70 barrels of pork, 250 barrels
of apples, 32 barrels of oysters, 144 half
barrels of tongues, 150 packages of butter,
173 bags of Hour, 25 bags of cocoa and coffee,
254 bags of clover seed, 83 cases of seal skins,
122 cases of tobacco, 110 packages of sundries,
and 100 tons of fresh beef and mutton.
There was no specie on board the vessel.
The steamship carried out 41 bags
of letters and eighty-six bags of newspapers.
For delivery at Queenstown there were 30,-
GO4 letters, 2,419 of which were registered,
and sixty-six bags of newspapers. For Liver
pool there were 1,719 letters, sixty oi
them being registered, and twenty bags of
newspapers. One bag of letters and two of
newspapers were from Boston and the same
quantity from Philadelphia.
Boston, Jan. B.—The insurance on the
cargo of the City of Brussels is reported as
from $75,000 to SIOO,OOO in Boston marine
companies, and is distributed among the
China, Boston, Boylestou, India and Manu
facturers’ offices.
Put Asunder.
Cincinnati, 0., Jan. B.—A divorce was
granted to-day in the Common Pleas Court
to Mol lie Maider Steele, from Levi C. Steele.
The plaintiff is an actress and married Steele
in 18/G, when he was assistant manager o‘
the Grand Opera-house of this city.
liurned to Death. *
Fort Fairfield, Me., Jan. B.—The house ol’
Henry (’. Howard, of Easton, was burned to
day. The family jumped through the win
dows to escape. Edwin J. Howard, wlu
supposed his sister was in the house, rushed
back and was fatally burned.