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NATIONAL SOLONS.
DOIXGS OE CONGRESS YESTERDAY.
Senator Buck's Proposition to Relieve the
People of $30,000,000 of Taxation-Silver
Discussion in the SenateInstructive Ar
guments Pro and ConWork of Com
mittees-General News.
Senate.
"WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 Senator Edmunds
introduced a bill to make the 22d of Februa
ry a legal holiday in the District of Colum
bia. Referred.
Senator Plumb introduced a bill to repeal
certain acts and parts of acts relating to the
taxation of deposits in savings banks. Re
ferred.
Senator Howe, from the committee on li
brary, reported favorably on the House joint
lesolution accepting Carpenter's painting of
Lincoln and his Cabinet. Senator Edmunds
haid, while grateful to the giver, he did not
think the pictme was of that art character
which entitled it to a place in the Capitol.
After some debate the resolution was agreed
to, yeas 43, nays 7.
Senator Edmunds submitted a resolution
nstructmg the committee on military affairs
to inquire and repoit whether at any time
since July 28,1876, any person has been ap
pointed to the army contrary to section 28 of
the act o that date, or contrary to section
1,218 of the revised statutes. Agreed to.
During the morning hour Senator Beck
called up the lesolution submitted by him
last week declaiing it unnecessaiy or inexpe
dient to maintain or impose taxes at this
time for the purpose of pioviding for $37,-
19(5,015.04, a&kcd for by the Secretary of the
Tieasury for the sinking fund, and spoke in
favor of passing the lesolution.
Beck said he introduced the lesolution for
the purpose of obtaining an expiession of
the sense of the two Houses of Congress
upon what ho considered to be a most im
portant question now befoie Congress, and
that was: How could taxation best be Te
duced so as to lelieve the people fiom the
oppressions under which they laboi, and at
the same time meet the requirements of the
government?
He read from a late repoi of the Secre
tary ot the Treasuiy, showing that there
would be a deficiency at the end of the next
fiscal ear, amounting to !$11,438,00 in the
receipts of the government as compared with
its expenditures upon the piesent basis, and
continuing his argument said: His object
was to satisfy the Senate that Congress was
not under obligation to maintain or impose
taxes for the purpose of bonds for the sink
ing fund. Ho thought he could show where
thirty millions of dollais could be saved from
the customs seivice, internal icvenue and
management of Indian afraiis, but at present
he would confine himself to the sinking
fund.
He again quoted fiom the repoit of the
secretary ot the treasuiy to show that the
sinking fund now contained 220 million dol
lars in excess of the amount lequiied by law
for that fund at the piesent time. He argued
that all pledges and obligations of the gov
ernment to make pi ovision for the sinking
had been piacticallj canied out, and asked
why we should be so anxious to pay bonds
advance of our pledges and obligations.
Our bonds weie high enough now. The pub
lic creditors were not sufteiing, neither was
their secuiity diminishing. The propeity of
the United States is incieasing in value, and
the public debt was a moitgage upon the
whole of it. The sinking fund was amply
provided for at least for five years to come,
and it seemed to him clear that it was the
duty of Congress now to reduce taxation.
He next referred to the passage of the act
of March 3, 1875, to further piotect the sink
iug fund, and argued that if the same in
formation had been before Congress then, in
regard to the sinking fund, as now, that the
act imposing taxation would never have
been passed. He quoted from the debates
on that bill and said Dawes, who had charge
of the bill in the House of Representatives,
had been grossly deceived by the treasury
officials. He, Beck, now had faith the commit
tees of the two Houses of Congress would re
duce taxation in the interest of the people. All
that any country could do, and what this
country had to do, was to apply its surplus
revenues to the payment ot its debts.
Senatois Moirell and Dawes gave notice
that they would havo something to say about
this resolution hereafter.
Upon the conclusion of Senator Beck's re
marks the resolution was laid over and con
sideration lesumed of the unfinished busi
ness, being the silver bill, and Mr. Wallace
spoke in favor thereof.
He said gold cannot be so divided to suit
the necessities of the people, whilst gold and
silver are just to all classes. Our policy as a
people has initiated and maintained the
double standard. The constitution and laws
up to 1873 lecognized and enforced this
policy. Demonetization of silver by the
United States leads to its total disuse. The
total disuse of silver, as money, reduces the
measures of values and increases the value
of money indebtedness. It will destroy its
use as a subsidiary coinage. It will give the
world a scanty instead of a full circulating
medium of intrinsic value. *The use of both
metals gives healthy piogiess. a basis for
confidence, value to curiency in paper, and a
just measure of value. The use of but one
strikes out of existence a large part of the
world'scapitalasa measure of value that is
prejudicial to the progress of civilization.
There is no foundation either in morals or in
law for enhancing the value of the debt, and it
is neither just nor expedient to do so. The
exercise of the power to adopt a gold standard
awakens distrust among the people and tends
directly to weaken the binding] obligations of
the public faith.
Is there, he asked, any safer ground for
the best inteiests of the whole people, for
the debtor and creditor, tor the bondholder
and tax payer, than a restoration of our an
cient policy of constitutional money of gold
and silver. If we return to the double
standaid how shall wo regulate the value of
our coin. Shall we reduce the value of the
gold dollar by decreasing its weight? This
we cannot do without violating our contract
made in 1870. Shall we increase the value
of the silver dollar by adding to its weight
measuring silver bullion in gold coin to-day?
This would be unjust to the people for it al
lows nothing for an increase in the value of
bullion resulting from its use and legal ten
der function as money.
This bill is not the Bland bill. The free
coinage featuie is struck out. The govern
ment buys its own bullion monthly, not less
than two nor more than four millions per
month. The difference between bullion and
coin belongs to the government. This gives
a regular monthly demand for bullion, and
will increase its value. The legal tender
function or debt paying power adds to the
value of coin. It is this that gives power
and value to paper legal tender.
Senator Bayard said he did not propose
now to give any extended expression of his
views upon remonetization of silver. He
was not in favor of abolishing silver as coin
of the country. Should it be in his power,
without disturbance to the business and cred
it of the country to restore silver as money,
the effort would not be wanting on his part,
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He argued that the silver bill in substance
proposed that two men should approach the
mintone with silver and the other with
gold that the government should stamp sil
ver and raise it 10 per cent, in value, and at
the same time stamp the gold, but raise it
nothing in value. He could not support such
a measure.
Senator Gordon presented the resolutions
of a public meeting held at Rome, Georgia,
in favor of remonetization of silver and the
repeal of the specie resumption act. Re
ferred.
Senator Dawes then spoke in opposition
to the silver bill. He said, just so far as this
bill adds a dollar to the aggregate vol
ume of the currency it cheats and deludes
the people with false quantities and vain
expectations. I cannot stop to argue the
evils of inflation, for if any one at this day
doubts or disbelieves, he must be given over.
I find it in this bill in its most insidious and
dangerous character, and therefore its pas
sage at this time will be especially unfortu
nate and disastrous. Every attempt to
force by law a fictitious appreciation
upon a depreciated value, is sure to inflict
evil and wrong upon those compelled to use
it, and most of all upon the poor, who,
without capital, are at the mercy of every
change. Every business undertaking in this
country which is to be Completed to-morrow,
or at any time in the future, is by this bill
launched at once upon uncertainty. Con
fidence alone is the atmosphere in which
all human effort breathes and livesdis
trust,j the mephitic gas in which it dies.
The passage of this bill will be at a terrible
cost to the public credit. It makes the
entire public debt payable in silver, to-day
eight or ten cents below par in the markets
of the world, and so fluctuating and unstable
that no one can tell what will be its value
to-morrow, much less what it will be in the
future, when the bonds shall mature.
Senator Dawes continued his argument at
gieat length, and finally said the spectacle of
a great nation, in the vigor of undeveloped
manhood and unmeasured health, seeking
by such a bill as this, something with which
to pay its indebtedness to its own citizens
cheaper than the money it borrowed from
them, and counting up the total profit of 8
cents on a dollar, saved in thus liquidating
with cheap money in the days of its security
and strength its indebtedness of two thous
and millions, contracted in the hour of its
extremity, and to save its life, such a spec
tacle is one abhorrent to national hcdror, and
destructive to national creditinvolving na
tional humiliation and disgrace.
Senator Whyte spoke against the bill. His
position on the silver question has been
plainly indicated heretofore.
Senator Cameron, "Wis., submitted the
amendment to the silver bill so as to provide
that the dollar shall consist of 420 grains
standard silver, instead of 412% grains.
Ordered printed.
Senator Burnside submitted an amend
ment to the clause declaring that said dollar
shall be a legal tender for all debts public
and private amounting to sums over $500.
Ordered printed.
The Vice President laid before the Senate
a message from the President, enclosing
copies of the repoit of the commissioner of
Indian affairs and the general land office, in
answer to the Senate resolution of the 10th
mst., in regard to payments to the Indians.
Referred.
Senator Christiancy then took the floor to
speak upon the silver bill, but yielded to
Hamlin, on whose motion the Senate went
into executive session, and when the doors
re-opened the Senate adjourned.
House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.Mr. Dunham, from
the committee on appropriations, reported a
bill making appropriations for detecting tres
passers on public lands. Referred.
Mr. Butler presented a memorial of the
Norfolk conference of the Unitarian and
other Christian churches at Walpold, Mass.,
declaring that honesty was still a part of
religion, and protesting against the passage
of the Bland silver bill. Referred.
Mr. ButlerMr. Speaker, will you be kind
enough to send me the Bible from your desk.
(Laughter.)
After searching for the passage he desired,
amid great laughter, Mr. Butler sent to the
clerk's desk and had read a passage from the
2d chapter of St. John, which describes
Christ driving the money changers from the
temple, and saying to them, Make not my
Father's house a house of merchandise."
Mr. ButlerAfter that reproof, I have no
further word to say. (Great laughter.)
After a somewhat amusing discussion of
the subject of admission to the floor, a reso
lution was adopted directing that the rule be
rigidly enforced, and that the issuing of
passes be discontinued. The Speaker stated
that after to-day he would revoke all passes
that ex-members of Congress desiring ad
mission to the floor should file a declaration
that they are not interested in pending legis
lation, and that the execution of the rule
would exclude employees and clerks to com
mittees and private secretaries.
Mr. Stephens introdnced a bill to make
importers use the metric system of weights
and measures. Referred.
Mr. Eenna, from the committee on com
merce, reported back the bill to recognize
the Woodruff scientific expedition around
the world. The bill grants, for the purpose
of the expedition, an |Americanjregister^to a
foreign built vessel. After discussion, the
bill passed. Yeas 167: nays 100.
Adjourned.
Miscella neo us.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.Col. Wm. Pile,
formerly United States minister to Venezuela,
appeared to-day before the senate committee
on foreign affairs, as counsel for the Vene
zuelan government, and other parties inter
ested, and was heard in advocacy of Senator
Eaton's bill providing for the annullment of
the awards of the mixed commission of 1868.
and for a new commission to re-hear the
claims passed upon by the mixed commis
sion, and such other claims as may be pre
presented. Pile charged that the acts of the
mixed commission were tainted with fraud
from its creation.
INTEBNATIONAI. MONEY CONFERENCE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.The Senate finance
committee to-day authorized Senator Allison
to offer with its sanction as an amendment
to the silver bill, his provision for an inter
national money conference to fix a common
ratio value of gold and silver. The determi
nation of this ratio is not, however, a condi
tion precedent to the provisions of this bill.
On the contrary, if enacted, it is to go into
effect immediately, and the conference if
agreed to, will be held subsequently.
TWENTY-CENT PIECES.
The House committee on banking and
currency agreed to recommend the passage
of a bill discontinuing the coinage of twenty
cent pieces.
NAVAL CLAIMS.
The House naval affairs committee have
decided to report adversely upon the claims
of Secor Co., Nathaniel McKey, and Per
ine, Secor & Co., fdr extra compensation for
building certain steam rams, &c.
GENERAL MATTERS.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.The comptroller
of the currency to-day advocated the propo
sition to extend to all insolvent national
2"!
banks the remission of taxes proposed by
the bill of Senator Davis of Illinois.
The House committee to-day heard Frank
S. Bond, vice president of the Texas Pacific
railroad, in favor of that measure and J. M.
Crawford, representing the San Diego and
Los Angelos in advocacy of the same road.
The Committee of the Womens National
Christian Union, consisting of Miss Annie
Mittingmyer, Miss Francis E. Willard, Mrs.
C. Johnson, and Mrs. Denman, are here with
a temperance petition representing 23 States,
and including more than thirty thousand
names.
The President sent to the Senate the nomi
nation fox postmaster of Asa W. Howard,
to Yankton, T.
The sub-committee of the House commit
tee on elections to-day heard further argu
ment in the South Carolina contested case of
Richardson vs. Rainey. The sub-committee
will probably report there was no election.
The Vice President of the Texas Pacific
road made a long argument to-day before
the committee on Pacific railroads. He said
the Texas Pacific bill secures at a cheap cost
of construction control by Congress of trans
continental rates and a road that shall never
become a monopoly, but be open for all time
to all without discrimination in charges
against any.
Miss Bertha Von Hellern, pedestrienne, to
night completed the feat of walking 100
miles in 28 consecutive hours, having 8 min
utes and 5 seconds to spare. The last mile
was accomplished in 11 minutes and 24
seconds. ENGLISH GEAIN MARKET.
The Uncertainty of Political Affairs De
moralizing Operations.
LONDON, Jan. 29.The Mark Lane Ex,-
presii' review of the British corn trade says:
There is no improvement in the condition of
home grown wheat on offer, either on the
Mark Lane or country markets, but the of
ferings have been more liberal, and the re
serve with which buyers operated tended to
reduce prices 1 shilling to 2 shillings per
quarter for all but a few samples of fine dry
corn, for which the sellers were not disposed
to accept lower rates. In London, especially,
trade has been excessively dull for English
and foreign wheat, and there appears to be
little probability of increased animation.
The uncertainty of political affairs is be
coming wearisome. Until it is definitely
known what the action of the country is to
be in regard to the position in the East, it
is almost hopeless to attempt to direct at
tention to the probable future course of the
grain trade. At present pacific ideas are iu
the ascendant, and millers who are holding
small stocks have only bought it to meet
immediate wants. The country demand has
moved within the narrowest limits, so that
holders have been seriously tried in main
taining firmness, which has been further
shaken by more arrivals of wheat and maize.
The mild season hitherto has been adverse
to selleis, as imports of foreign wheat have
undergone but little diminution. Should
prices rally the cause of improvement can
only be expected from political influence.
In this limited business passing during the
past week, a decline of one shilling per quar
ter has taken place on all varieties of for
eign wheat, while mixed common maize, of
which the ai rivals have bsen hbe/al, has
given way six pence to the quarter. On Fri
day the market opened with some signs of
excitement, and for a short time a free sale
was experienced, but soon alter lnid-daj
peace rumors circulated, and the demands
stopped. There was. however, st ms le^val
of firmness at the close of the market, and
six-pence of the decline was recovered.
TUE TRADE DOLLAR.
Call for Inrrcafct'd Production to Meet the
Rapidly Growing Demand.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.The Treasury depart
ment is embarrassed as to the proper course to
be pursued in relation to the coinage of the
trade dollar. The demand for these coins at
San Francisco foi export to China is quite ac
tive, and is expected to continue to the last of
April. The law requires this demand to be
met, but at the present price of the silver and
gold value of the greenback dollar, trade dol
lars can be placed in. domestic circulation at
a profit of three to four cents to the owners of
silver bullion. A portion of the San Francisco
mint coinage of trade dollars is coming East,
and bullion dealeis in New York and elsewhere
iu the East demand that the Philadelphia
mint shall be opened for the same coinage. It
is probable that a decision will be reached by
to-morrow, and that it will be to allow deposits
of silver to be made at the Philadelphia mint
for a return in trade dollars. If this is done
coinage will be continued at San Francisco
and Carson, and all three of the mints will
have work sufficient to keep them fully em
ployed until Congress acts definitely on the
silver question. The director of the mint con
siders it important to retain the present skilled
force of workmen at the mints in view of the
pending legislation regarding silver coinage.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.The cabinet decided
to-day that the coinage of trade dollars should
be resumed at the Philadelphia mint.
TIMBER THIEVES.
Government Defrauded of Millions of Dol
lars, by Union Pacific Contractor*.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 29.The Secretary of the
Interior has received a letter from a prominent
citizen of Utah giving an account of the dep
redations of the contractors for furnishing tim
ber of all kinds, on the the Union Pacific rail
road who stated that these depredations are
committed all along the line, and that hundreds
of thousands of railroad ties, stores for snow
sheds, cordwood, logs, and timber are taken
from the Government timberlands on the line
of the Union Pacific railroad track, all the way
from Sidney to Ogden and that these depre
dations amount to millions of dollars annually.
The correspondent also states that the contrac
tors have established a Bystem of espionage
similar to that in Mexico, in which scores of
honest, hard working, sober and faithful men
are being oppressed in violation of every right
belonging to freemen in the United States.
Proposed Militia Organization in Wiscon
sin.
[Special Telegram to THE GLOBE.J
MADISON, Wis., Jan. 29.A meeting of the
prominent military men of the State was held
at the Capitol to-day, to take into consideration
the re-organization of the militia law. After
consideration of the matter fully, they settled
on the following bill which will be presented to
the Legislature: Two regiments of infantry,
of twelve companies each, with two independ
ent companies of cavalry, and one battery of
artillery the State to furnish a money allow
ance for uniforms, drill-rooms, and pay each
man'B expense at battalion encampment at a
dollar and a half per day for five days each
year.
Geo. B. Shaw has been appointed lumber
inspector at Eau Claire.
A Pennsylvania Legislator Jatletl.
HABBIBBUBG, Pa., Jan. 29.O. F. Ballard,
State Representative from Delaware County,
was arrested December 19 for embezzing the
funds of the Media Building Association. And
pleaded the privilege of a Representative as a
bar to his arrest. The legislative committee
to-day reported that the privileges of a legisla
tor cannot be pleaded against indictible offens
es, and recommended that Representative Bul
lard be remanded to the costody of the keeper
of the jail of Delaware County. The report
w,as adopted by 150 to 7, The Speaker pro tern
ordered the Sergeant-at-arms to execute the
orders of the bouse.
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ST. PAUL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30, 1878
PEACE GOSSIP.
MANY RUMORS WITH FEW EACTS.
The Treaty*Not Yet Sicned, and Russia and
Turkey Still ReticentThe Situation in'
England UnchangedThe Liberals Organ
izing for Opposition to the Supplement
ary VotePapal Allocation Against Rus
sia.
AMENDMENT TO THE SUPPLY VOTE ASKED.
LONDON, Jan. 29.The following is the
text of Forster's amendment Having been
informed in the Queen's speech that the
conditions on which her majesty's neutrality
is based have not been infringed by either
belligerent, and having sincej[received no
information sufficient to justify a departure
from the policy of neutrality and peace,
the House sees no reason for adding to the
people's burthens by voting additional sup
plies.
The Press Association authoritatively con
tradicts the rumors originating in the lob
lues of Parliament, of dissensions' in the
Liberal party. To-day's meeting was
thoroughly unanimous. Forster moves his
amendment so that Lord Hartington may
wind np the debate. '"Urgent whips" are
out, and it is expected that the division will
call out the largest vote known for years.
BOUMANIAN BESSABABIA.
BUCHABEST, Jan. 29Gen. Ignatieff has
arrived here with an autograph letter from
the Czar to Prince Charles of Roumania. It
is feared that the Czar refuses to abandon
his claim to Roumanian Bessarabia.
OCCUPATION OF CONSTANTINOPLE.
VIENNA, Jan. 29.A special from Con
stantinople says the delay in signing the con
ditions of peace is attributed to the Porte's
opposition to the temporary occupation of
Constantinople.
THE DARDANELLES AND BOSPHOBUS.
LONDON, Jan. 30.Additional correspond^
ence relative to the Eastern question is pub
lished, which contains the following Lord
Derby, telegraphing to Lord Loftus, British
ambassador at St. Petersburg, Jan. 28th,
states that Count Schouvaleff that afternoon
communicated a telegram from Prince Gort
schakoff, authorizing him to affirm categori
cally that the Russian government consid
ered the passage of men-of-war through the
Dardanelles and Bosphorus a European
question which they did not intend to settle
by themselves.
FACTS AND BUMOBS.
LONDON, Jan. 30.The Standard officially
denies that the colonial secretaryship has
been offered to Lord Sandon. The Queen
offeied to confer the Order of the Garter
on Lord Beaconsfield, but the honor was de
clined. Parker, Liberal, has been elected a
member of the House of Commons for the
city of Perth, by 1,351 majority. Grant,
Liberal, has been elected member of the
House of Commons for Leith, by 3,141 ma
jority.
A Vienna correspondent says he can state
positively that Austria does not object to a
moderate territorial aggrandizement of Ser
via and Montenegro.
A correspondent at Berlin says it is re
ported that Count Andrassy had already in
formed Prince Gortschakoff of Austria's ob
jection to the Russian peace conditions,
stating at the same time that Austria would
never accept the extension of Bulgaria so as
to include Philipopolis or Adrianople.
A Berlin dispatch says it is reported from
Warsaw that the manageis of the railway
companies f western Russia were recently
summoned to St. Petersburg, to confer rela
tive to the organization of train service to
Prussian Baltic ports, in the event of the
Russian Baltic ports being blockaded by the
British fleet.
AUSTBIA AND BUSSIA.
A St. Petersburg correspondent sends the
following: There is no longer any doubt
that there has been what is called
here a little misunderstanding between
St. Petersburg and Vienna, Austria, it
seems expected that the conditions of peace
would be submitted to a European congress,
or at least submitted for approval to the
members of the triple alliance. Her suspic
ions were aroused by Russia's extreme re
serve. When this misunderstanding occurred
the Russian Ambassador at Vienna, who was
on a furlough, was ordered to return to his
post, and took explanations, and assurances,
by which it was hoped the little misunder
standing would be completely removed. How
far his efforts wore successful has not yet
transpired, but there is reason to believe they
had not the instantaneous effect which was
anticipated.
SIGNING THE PEACE CONDITIONS.
A special from Pera says Odessa is named
as the place for signing of peace conditions
Hence the expectation that Grand Duke
Nicholas would pass with his escort through
Constantinople. The same correspondent
says he has been told, as a possible explana
tion of the delay in the signing of peace
preliminaries,, that the order to sign was
telegraphed to Shepka via Vienna and
Bucharest, and would thence go to Eezanlik
by courier, who might take some hours, if
he found that the peace delegates had started
for Adrianople, for his journey thither, and
might occupy two or three days.
AT CONSTANTTNCPI/E.
A Vienna correspondent telegraphs:
Whether the preliminary conditions have
been signed or not has become of purely
secondary importance. The Porte at any
rate has approved them, and according to all
accounts is quite ready to accept almost any
thing else the Czar may propose, merely to
prevent the Russians from executing the
threat of marching on Constantinople. The
population is kept in a constant state of
alarm by the daily rumors spread by those
working in the interest of the Russians,
of a project of the Turks to burn the city,
blow up the Mosque of Sofia and make a
general massacre of Christians and foreign
ers before retiring to Asia. It looks very
much as if all further steps in the negotia
tions with the Turks would in a great meas
ure be made dependent upon the issue of in
terchange of communications among the
powers. The mysterious delay in the signa
ture of preliminaries may have been pro
moted by a wish to see the view Europe
would take of the matter before proceeding
further.
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f^ATHENS QUIET.
A dispaich ~from Athens Tuesday says
tranquility reigns here to-day, the vigorous
measures of Sunday having sobered the pop
ulace. Many volunteers are leaving for
Thessaly, and it seems not impos
sible that the government will support
A later dispatch from Athens dated Tues
day, states that addresses are arriving by tel
egraph from the municipalities of Greece ex
pressing the willingness of citizens to sacri
fice their blood and property in defense of
Hellenism, and demanding immediate war.
f"'* THE POSITION OF AUSTBIA.
A Vienna dispatch says Austria's refusal to
annex Bosnia and Herzegovina is confirmed
on ministerial authority. Count Andrassy
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will sanction no measure calculated directly
or indirectly to bring about the ruin of the
Ottoman Empire. This resolute attitude of
Austria within the last few hours has within
a certain measure been made known to
Russia by Count Andrassy, as well as by
Lord Derby, in the form of an identical note.
A Galiipoli dispatch Tuesday evening says
Baker Pasha has just arrived with 5,000
men.
A Berlin correspondent under date of
Tuesday night says some excitement and un
easiness is caused here by reports that
England has partially succeeded
in detaching Austria from the triple alliance,
and securing her conditional opposition to
the Russian peace programme. I have good
reason to believe that reports are at least ag
gravated, but it is evident some slight fric
tion exists between Austria and Russia.
ELASTICITY OF THE PEACE PBOPOSITIONS.
LONDON, Jan. 29.A correspondent at
Vienna telegraphs: Among the rumors cur
rent is one that no regular armistice will be
concluded, but that immediately after the ar
rival of the Grand Duke Nicholas with the
Tuikish plenipotentiaries and Gen. Ignatieff
in Adrianople, definite peace negotiations
will be entered into on the basis of the pre
liminaries accepted by,the Porte. There is
nothing improbable in this preliminary.
The questions are so general and elastic that
they will only receive their real significance
by their definition. In the final peace in
strument they may be made infinitely harder
than they are already, or else softened down
so as to leave Turkey the semblance of exist
ence as a European power. He would be a
bold man who would now venture
to affirm what will ultimately best suit the
purposes of Russia. Whether she will aim
at a radical solution or merely prepare the
way for it. Much will doubtless depend on
the course of plenipotentiaries with individ
ual powers which seem to be going on sim
ultaneously with negotiations with Turkey.
Whether Russia may think it more advanta
geous to crush Turkey or protect her, an
armistice with a fixed date would certainly
be more iu the way than that sort of tacit
suspension of hostilities which seems for a
moment to exist, but which Russia may put
an end to any moment she likes.
AN ALLOCUTION AGAINST BUSSIA.
LONDON, Jan. 29.A Rome dispatch says
the Pope is preparing an allocution against
Russia for persecution of the church in Po
land and against King Humbert on his acces
cession to the throne for the assumption of
the title of King of Italy. Tha Queen of
Portugal, daughter of the late King Victor
Emanuel, and the Pope's God-daughter, is
refused admission to the Pope because she is
residing at the Quirinal.
THESSALEAN INSUBBECTION.
ATHENS, Jan. 29.The Turks attacked a
band of Thessalean insurgents on Mount
Pelion, and were repulsed with a loss of 60.
Loss of insurgents trifling. An insurrection
has begun the district of Armyros, in
Thessaly.
PABLIAMENT WIND.
LONDON, Jan. 29.In the House of Cm
mons this afternoon, the Under Foreign
Secretary said Crete is not in a state of
insurrection but is much disturbed.
Sir Stafford Northcote said we had no
knowledge of an alliance betv/een Rus
sia, Germany and Austria for the partition
of Turkey. Regarding one of these powers
he has strong reason to doubt that it has en
tered into any alliance. A few weeks or
months would probably prove this.
The Chancellor in his statement last night
in the House declared that Austria coincides
with Great Britain.
Wm. Edward Forster Liberal, gave notice
of an amendment to the vote of credit
Thursday, doubtless a hostile amendment
agreed upon by the Liberal leaders.
THE SITUATION.
LONDON, Jan. 29.The concentration of
Russians at Adrianople continues. Scouts
have arrived near Chorlu, about seventy
miles west of Constantinople. Suleiman
Pasha is at Baulair Mahemet Ali is at Con
stantinople, but returns to Chalalja immedi
ately. There are ten British iron clads in
Besika Bay. The Egyptian garrison has
evacuated Bazardjet and retreated to Varna.
The Turkish government is having difficulty
to maintain order in the capitol. Among
the thousands of refugees from Roumelia
are many armed Circassians. These have al
ready plundered Sulch, Baurgas, Charlu, Ro
dosto and other towns, and are now flocking
into Constantinople laden with booty. The
government wishes to disarm them and send
them into Asia, but it is doubtful whether
they will be able to do so. Appalling misery
prevails from the Bosphorous to the Gulf of
Salonica. The whole coast is crowded with
terrified Mohammedans seeking transporta
tion across the straite. Hundreds are per
ishing from cold, hunger and exhaustion,
and no succor is possible until the panic and
confusion in the capital has abatedV
Advices from Athens up to last night say
order has been reestablished but the exasper
ation is very warlike and many volunteers
are crossing the frontier.
BAMPANT GBEECE.
ATHENS, Jan. 29.Horrible threats against
the ex-ministerstraitors, they are called
are heard on all sides, and scarcely less vio
lent against the king. The people of the
country are furiously exasperated. Satur
day's movement was a genuine expression of
popular feeling, but since then it has been a
political manouvre.
It is said Gravais, ex-minister, is organ
izing a revolution or civil war, and it is fear
ed there may be much blood shed. The
Chamber passed almost a unanimous vote
approving the repressive measures of the
government. Tricoupis made a speech
which had good effect, pointing out the evil
impression the rioters would produce in Eu
rope.
Investigating the 1 Paso Troubles.
CHICAGO, Jan 28.The following order
has been issued by Gen. Sheridan: By di
rection of the President tbe following named
officers of the army are detailed to act in
conjunction with one person to be designated
by the Governor of Texas as a board to in
vestigate the recent troubles in El Paso
county, Texas: Col. John H. King, ninth
infantry and Lieut. Col. "Wm. N. Louis,
nineteenth infantry. The board will assem
ble at Fort Bliss, Texas, and then in such
places in El Paso county as may be deemed
necessary to secure a thorough understand
ing of the matters presented by the papers
which will be laid before it. First Lieut.
Leonard Hay, adjutant of the ninth infantry
is detailed as recorder of the board.
A Comparatively Small Fraud.
fr [From the Pateraon Guardian.]
De facto President Hayes, Private Secretary
Rogers, and Commissioner LeDuc appear to
make a trio of frauds. Several years ago
Rogers and LeDuc were partners in the com
mission business in Minnesota, and gave
Hayes as one of their references. A firm in
Milwaukee sent them some money, and of
course the parties who sent it never saw it
again, as Rogers and LeDuc became insol
vent, and absquatulated. The swindled credi
tors now claim that they sent the money
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solely on the recommendation of Hayes, and
intend to hold him responsible for it. Their
counsel, Judge Lynde of Wisconsin, called at
the White House yesterday and demanded
payment, but with what result is not known.
This is a small affair, however, to the swind
ling of the people out of the Presidency of
which Hayes has been guilty.
HORRIBLE CRIME.
The Murderer of His Own Child Arrested
While Attempting Self Murder.
PrrTSBUBG, Jan. 29.Frank Lynch, a would
be suicide, was arrested on the Fort Wayne
railway bridge, over the Allegheny, last night,
the officer coming upon him while he was pre
paring to jump. While being taken to the
station house Lynch confessed to having mur
dered his little child, a boy two and a half
years old, by throwing him into the river on
the night of the 15th of December. At that
time Mrs. Lynch was living at Glenfield, a
mile down the river, she having separated from
her husband and retaining the child. She
came to this city, bringing tha child with her.
She was met at the station by her
husband, and on her way over the river
they quarreled. Lynch knocked the woman
down and seizing the child, fled. He secreted
himself until dark, and then started over the
river. On his way over, he says, the thought
struck him that now was the time to end the
little one's troubles, and lifting him in his
arms, dropped him into the stream. He got
work on a steamboat next day, and went down
the river, but his conscience troubled him, and
when he came home a few days ago he went to
his wife and confessed the deed, and while she
was overcome with the tidings, he again made
his escape. An information for murder was
made against him, and the officer following him
to this city, was just in time to prevent self
murder. Lynch has been committed for trial.
RETURNING BOARD TRIAL.
Jury of Persons ObtainedNumerous Ex
ceptions MadeAppeal to Supreme Court
in Case of Conviction.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 29.The trial of Ander
son commenced this morning.
At a quarter past 8 o'clock the last juror was
empanelled, when the jury was locked up for
the night, Anderson remanded to the parish
prison and the court adjourned until to-mor
row. The jury is composed of ten white and
two colored men. The colored men are young
and comparatively intelligent niulattoes who
stated they had never taken any part in poli
tics.
A bill of exceptions was taken by defense
when Judge Whitaker excused a colored brick
layer from the jnry whom the defense
would have accepted as a juryman.
There were also a number of bills
of exception taken to the courts ruling on
cases where the juror had stated they had opin
ions formed which it would take considerable
testimony to remove, but on being questioned
by the court stated they could go on and try
the case impartially, notwithstanding previous
ly formed opinion. In case of a conviction
the case will go to the supreme court on a large
number of exceptions.
In the company of Sheriff Houston. Gen.
Anderson, special deputy of collector of cus
toms, visited the custom house to-day. He
is treated courteously by his prison keepers,
W. E. CHANDLER.
Mayor E. A. Burke
inunicatlon With
rect.
Replies to His Coin
i Denial and Cut Ii
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 29.Referring to the
question asked Mayor E. A. Burke by W. E.
Chandler in a telegram from Washington
last night, Major Burke disclaims
knowledge of any corrupt or disreputa
ble bargains on the part of Hayes
at the conference of Southern Congress
men last winter, or that Southern men
did anything to prejudice Tilden's chanceb in
the electoral court. He claims that whatever
assurances were given or derived were openly
submitted to the Nicholls' Legislature, gener
ally discussed and approved, and having been
voted and acted upon by eighty-five members,
the subject could not be regarded
as a secret. He has contemplated
the preparation of statements of all the
facts coming under his observations,
to be published if any good purpose can be
served, but thinks the country has heard
enough of the whole business, and has other
more important subjecta to consider. If any
publication is made by him, however, he indi
cates a determination to use other channels of
communication than Mr. Chandler.
The Wisconsin Legislature.
[Special Telegram to THE GLOBE.]
MADISON, Wis., Jan. 29.In Senate the
name of Gen. Busk as. K. R. Commissioner
withdrawn.
Bills were introduced regulating banking
associations and telegraph companies. The
latter bill provides for a tax of four per cent,
on gross receipts.
In the assembly bills were introduced rela
ting to the charter of Eau Claire for the
relief of the State prison warden for publi
cation of Supreme Court decisions provides
for letting the printing to the lowest bidder,
the maximum not to exceed one dollar and
seventy-five cents.
Bill passed authorizing the city of Hudson
to issue bonds for the liquidation of its in
debtedness.
The Double Standard in France.
PABIS, Jan. 29.The Senate, Monday,
unanimously approved the bill renewing the
temporary suspension of the obligation of
the French mint to coin any silver taken
thither. During the discussion, Leon Say,
minister of finance, said the measure was
made necessary by the American solution, to
the internal commerce with India and the
condition of the German money market, and
that the latter monetary standard would have
to be discussed and settled hereafter. In
this view M. De Parien, the eminent states
man senator from Cantol, agreed, while urg
ing the adoption of the gold standard.
Railroad War Brewing.
CHICAGO, Jan. 28.It has transpired that
some eastern roads have been cutting pas
senger rates chiefly on second-class tickets,
the reduction being about $1.50 per ticket
from here to New York. Unless this is
stopped a general reduction in passenger
rates is expected.
LIGHTNING GLOBLJSTS.
German newspapers stated that J. & G. But
terhausen, the Hamburg cotton importers
whose failure was announced last week, have
both committed suicide.
The mass meeting in New York city in favor
of remonetizing silver, which was to have been
held to-morrow night, has been postponed until
Friday evening in order to accommodate some
Senators and Congressmen who could not leave
Washington to-morrow.
KThe steamer San Jacinto with a portion of
the Western excursionists, arrived at Savan
nah, Ga., yesterday. Twenty-six of the party
remained at Havana and twenty stopped at St.
Augustine.
An attempt last night to blow up the Insti
tute Canadian building, Montreal, was arrested
by the timely discovery of an explosive pack
age in the main halL This is the Institute
Guibord excommunicated for belonging to
Donovan.
Williams & Shannon, boot and shoe maufac
turers. Montreal, Canada, are in financial diffi
culties. Liabilities large.
Mrs. Marcy, wife of Gen. R. B. Marey, In
spector general TJ. S. A. at Baltimore, died yes
terday after a brief illness.
A fire last evening at Indianapolis, in the
boiler shop of Senker, Davis & Co., Dickson &
Bro.'s brass supply store and John Knight's
brass foundry, damaged the bnildings, stock
and machinery to the extent off 16.000 fully
ensured.
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SITTING BULL.
STILL SAJf'E OX BRITISH
SPOTTED EAGLE
sent him a message at the same time saytng he
was awaiting the arrival of 160 lodges of his
people who were coming from Spotted Tail
agency that they would obey the require
ments of Major Walsh if they could remain
with him. If not, thej must go back, and he,
too, would move to Cy press Mountains. It is
not improbable these latter are the Indians re
ported to Gen. Mike.
Maj. Walsh says that at no time since his ar
rival has Sitting Bull's camp crossad the line
to American soil. He has receiveddaily mes
sages from him since the Terry commission
returned. Their movement across the line
without his knowledge would be impossible,
and he would promptlj advise Gen. Gibbon in
that event. The Sionx camp is now scattered.
Spotted Eagle with 100 lodges is at Pento
Butts, and the others are scattered along White
Wood River and the Wood Mountains, where
the buffalo are plentv. This condition is irre
concilable with warlike intentions.
CoL McLeod, commander of the mounted
police is here, and corroborates the above. No
credence has been attached here to the rumors
of Sitting Bull having crossed the line. Maj.
Walsh's statements are deemed in the highest
degree trustworthy.
Destructive Fire at Mnssillon, Ohio.
CLEVELAND, Jan. 29.A special to the Herald
from Massillon, Ohio, states that a fire early
this morning totally destroyed L. Bammerhn's
large malt house, John Snjder's barber shop,
Julius Beckel's saloon and Hartell's bilhard
room, besides damaging adjoining property
owned by James Jacoby to the amount of
$3,000, which was fullj "insured. Loss on tha
malt house and contents, .^37,000 insured for
$8,000 in the following companies: Lycoming,
$3,000 Western, $1,000 Richland, $2,000
Kixox, *2,0Q0. Origin of fire unknown.
.1 Hero and a Doughface.
[New York Sun.J
Senator Lamar, an ancient rebel himself,
could stand up iu the Senate of the United
States and pronounce an elaborate eulogy on
his compeers in rebelbon. R. M. T. Hunter,
John Slideil, J. P. Benjamin, Robert Toombs
and Albert G. Brown, concluding with a bril
liant pyrotechnic display over his fallen
chief, the arch traitor Jefferson Davis. He
could approvingly repeat Davis' defiant chal
lenge to the advocates of liberty to govern
the country as well as the slaveholders had
governed it.
The conduct of the bra\e Senator contrasts
strikingly with that of the sycophant and
doughface, Hayes, who while traveling
through the South, and trying to curry favor
for his debased administration, coldly turned
his back on the graves of his fallen comrades,
and said to the rebels at Atlanta:
'With no discredit to you, and no special
credit to us, the war turned out as it did."
The South.during his short lease of power,
will flatter Hayes, but in no part of the
countrj is he more heartily despised.
A Manu-ith Thirty Children.
[Mauch Chunk Coal Gazette]
The Strohl family, of tins county, is prob
ably the largest family in the United States.
The head of the house is Nicholas Strohl, a
Pennsylvania German, now about 76 years
old. By three wives he has had 30 children,
27 of whom are living. His first wife pre
sented him with eight, his second with 11.
and his third with 11. The youngest child
is now 3 years old, and was born when its
father was 73 years old. Of the 27 children
19 are married, and their families average
about 8 children. Mr. Joel Strohl, one of
the well-known farmers in the lower end and
child of his father's first wife, has 17 chil
dren, and he is not an old man. He is the
father of two pairs of twins, a distinction
which his father, Mr. Nicholas Strohl, never
attained. If the families should gather to
gether there would be over 200 persons.
They nearly all reside in this county. Old
Mr. Strohl is still hearty, and bids fair to
live many years.
Weddrd Bliss.
[Lake City Leader.]
Friday last Justice Whipple issued a war
rant on the affidavit of Mary Rother, charg
ing one John King, of Bloomington, IU.,
with bastardy. The warrant was placed in
the hands of Deputy Sheriff Lyons, of this
city, and brought to this city. On Wednes
day evening about nine o'clock, the trouble
was settled so far as it legally could be, by
the marriage of the "happy couple" by
Esquire Whipple. After the ceremony, how
ever, the two started down engaged a very
animated conversation, and at a corner they
finally stepped, and the language they used
was just as far from being nice and loving
as it could be. At last, they shook their re
spective fists under each others respective
nose, and in the most emphatic manner, in
vited each other, respectively, to go to hI
then tbey parted, probably forever, after so
brief a married experience shaking fists until
each lost sight of tbe other.
Perils of Conundrums.
A rash young man in Boston asked a small
but select dinner party the other evening the
following conundrum: Why is Longfellow
like Lord Dundreary and when they had
all given it up replied, Because he has got a
Brother Sam." An icy silence fell upon the
company, his father resolved to leave all his
fortune to an asylum for horse-car conductors,
and his betrothed, casting upon him a glance
of indignation that well-nigh fused her
specs, said that henceforth, and even in a
railroad collision, they must meet as stran
gers.
Sam. Bowles' Discernment.
[Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Dr. Timothy Titcomb Holland, who was
formerly a partner of Samuel Bowles in the
Springfield Republican, says of the deceased:
It was not my privilege to come near Mr.
Bowles." Dr. Bowles was a man of discern
ment.
Joe's Last Chance.
[Austin Rebublican.]
The Pioneer Pres* is made happy by
Beecher's repeal of the law of God creating
a holl for incorrigible sinners. Through
Beecher's open door Joe Wheelock hopes to
enter paradise. 'Drowning men catch at
straws." ^____
Robert Minis succeeded in securing bail
bonds, and went to Shakopee yesterday to
have them approved by Judge MacDpnald.
OUncoe Heqiiter.
i-r-vr*s.
SOIL.
Major Walsh Arrives at Helena and Punc
tures the Rumor of Sitting Bull's Retnrn
to American Soil-Location of the Diller
ent Bands.
HELENA, Mont., Jan. 29.-The Independent
publishes the following: Major Walsh, of the
Northwest Mounted Police, commandant of
Fort Walsh, Canada, near which Sitting Bull
and other hostiles are now located, arrived in
Helena to-day, eight days out from Fort Walsh.
When the Major left, Sitting Bull, Little Knife
and 550 lodges were at the east end of the police
post, at Cypress Mountains, where they intend
ed to remain dnriug the winter. The night
before leaving, Major Walsh received a message
from Sitting Bull, saying he had heard that the
Americans were coming to fight him and his
people that they were tired of blood, and
would move nearer the police post. He desired
Major Walsh to speak to the white mother for
him.

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