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VOLUME II. CAPITAL CULLINGS COX0It ESS PROCEEDING* AND ERAL CAPITAL NEWS. GEN- Conference Report on the Naval Appro priation Bill Agreed to and Bill Passed The House Generally Successful in the Retention of Its Economic Measures The Brazilian Subsidy Scheme Attached to the Postofflce BillThe Potter Co in tuit teo Closing Up Its TuquiryThe River and Harbor Bill ReportedLiberal Ap propriations for the North-western Riv ers, Luke Superior, St. Mary's Kiver and Canal, Etc.Provision for a Sluiceway 0\er St. Authony FallsMiscellaneous. FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Senate. GOLD BANKS. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.Senotor Morrill, from the committee on iinance, reported without amendment tho Senate bill authorizing the conversion of national gold banks. Placed on the calendar. lie also teported without amendment the Senate bill to amend sections 5,117 and 5,171 of the revised statutes, relative to the deposit of bonds. Placed on the calendar. POSTOrFICE BILL. Senator Dorsey, fiom the committee on ap propriations, ieported back the postoffice ap propriation bill, with various amendments. Placed on the calendar. He also reported from the same committee the amendment to the bill submitted by Senator Ferry, from the commit tee on postofficcs and post roads, some days ago, providing for tho classification of mail matter, and the readjustment of compensation to railroads, being substantially the same pro isions agreed upon in the post loute bill of last eai which failed to become a law on ac count of the Brazilian mail subsidy and other objectionable amendments. In submitting the leport Senator Dorse} said the committee would not oppose the amendment if it should not be urged by the committee on postoffices and post roads. Senator Feiry said the committee had in structed him to submit the amendment, and he would uige its passage. INTER-STATE COMMERCE. Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, submitted a joint resolution providing for a commission to consider and leport what legislation is needed for better regulation of commerce among the States. Kef erred. WINES. The secretary of the treasury was directed to furnish Buch information as he may have with a view of ascertaining whether we receive any pure-wines. ARREARS OF PENSIONS. The Vice President submitted a communica tion from the secretary of the interior in answer to a resolution inquiiing what additional cleri cal force will be necessary in the pension and surgeon general's offices to secure to applicants for pensions prompt adjustment of their claims. Commissioner Bentley says: "No in ciease of foice can secure to applicants prompt adjustment of their claims under the system -now established by law. The settlement of claims in this office cannot be matenally re "duced, except by furnishing a higher order of 'talent, that is, lawyers whose education and expeuenee render them experts in the exami nation and consideration of testimony." NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL. Senator Windom from the conference* com mittee on the naval appropriation bill, sub mitted a report. Agreed to and bill passed. Senator Windom said the Senate added $86,500 to the House bill. The House conferrees re i eded flom its disagieement to amendments involving 111,500, and the Senate receded from amendments involving $73,000 additional for provisions and cl jthmg. The bill as agreed upon appropriated $14,020,068, being $122,634 lehj than the appropriation foi the present fis cal ear and )j157,41 less than the estimates for next yeai.-. POLITICAL DISABILITIES. A number of bills ed for removal of po litical disabilities. IDAHO AND THE bEA PERCES. Senator Cockrell, trom the committee on military affairs, reported with amendments the Senate bill to provide for ascertaining and re porting the expenses incurred by the Territory of Idaho and the people thereof in defending themselves from attacks and hostilities of the Ntz Peices Indians in 1877. Placed on the calendar. COURTS IN THE INDIAN TERRITORY. The committee on Territories reported favor ably a bill to establish United States courts in the Indian Territory and for other purposes. Placed on the calendar with a written report on the subject. LIBRARY. The bill to provide additional accommoda tions for the library, of Congress led to a long discussion. BREVET HONORS. Pending discussion Senator Ferry submitted an amendment to the army appropriation bill to provide that brevets conferred on officers of volunteers for services the field who are now officei of the regular army, shall have the same force and effect, and confer the same right and privileges as if originally conferred in the regular army. ANI1IAL TRANSPORTATION. Senator McPherson gave notice that Saturday next he would move to take up the Senate bill relating to the transportation of animals. NORMAN WIARD. Senator Cameron, Wis., introduced a bill for the relief of the creditors and assigns of Nor man Wiard. Keferred. RELIEF. Senator Cockrell introduced a bill for the relict of Daniel M. Frost and heirs and execu tors of Wm. McPherson, Missouri. Referred. On motion of Senator Thurman an executive beasiou was held, and when the door3 were reopened the Senate adjourned. Howc of Representatives. APPROPRIATION BILLS. WASHINGION, Feb. 11.The conference report on the naval appropriation bill was agreed to, and the House then went into committee on the leg slatie appropriation bill. Mr. Patterson, of New York, opposed that portion of the bill which proposed tiansfer of the coast and geoditic society from the treasury to the interior department. That provision would virtually abolish the system of public land surveys. The bill would throw an insur mountable obstacle in tho way of settlement of the public domain. Messrs. Page, Dunnel, Haskell and Hale opposed the transfer, and Wigginlon, Hewitt, of North Carolina, Butler and Garfield favored it. After some progress in the bill the committee arose and Mr. Kegan, chairman of the commit tee on commerce, reported the river and harbor appropriation bill. Ordered printed and le committed. Adjourned. GENERAL CAPTAL NEWS. FOUR PER CENTS. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.Subscriptions to the 4 per cent, loan since yesterday's report, $3,- 502,400. RIO GRANDE FRONTIER. Gen. Ord was before the House committee to-day advocating the bill for more suitable mihtaiy posts for the protection of the Rio Grande frontier. COBBIN-BUTLEB. Republican Senators in caucus to-day failed to decide the proposition to secure tbe assign- mont of an early date of action upon the Corbin-Butler contest. There was an informal discussion of the course to pursue in case the amendments providing for tho repeal of the federal supervisors and test oath laws are at tached by the House to tho appropriation bills. The general tenor of tha expression was to the effect that an effort to enact such legislation upon an appropriation bill Bhonld be strenu ously resisted, even to the extent of causine the bill to fail. POTTER. The Potter investigating committee in secret session to-day, laid on the table the letter from Dr. Greene, president of the Western Union Telegiaph company, published Monday. There were a fow comments upon its publication be fore tho letter came into the hands of the com mittee. A majority of the Potter committee, it was stated, did not intend to call any other witnesses at present. Whether they will sub sequently, remains to be considered. Repub licans would like to have one or two witnesses testify regarding the points elicited in New York. Adjourned until Thursday. Woolley is one of the witnesses to be subpocned. WAR CLAIMS. The House committee on war claims to-day agreed to loport a bill appropriating about $500,000 to pay claims approved by accounting officers of the treasury under the act of July 4th, 1864. INDIAN TERRITORY. The bill ieported by Senator Patterson from the committee on territories "to establish a United States court in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes," provides for regulating the administration of justice in the territory, and for making citizens of white, colored and Indian residents. The unanimous report of the committee accompanying the bill includes an elaborate review of the condition of the Territory. RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. AMOUNTS APPROPRIATED. The river and harbor appropriation bill or dered reported to the House contains the fol lowing appropriations in Western States: Removal of suags, etc., Mississippi liver Remo~al of snags, etc., Missouri river Removal of snags, Arkansas rivtr.. Ohio river Improvement of Mississipi river be tween the mouth of the Illinois and the Ohio Improvement of the Missouri river, above the mouth of the Yellow stone Improvement of the Missouri river between Council Bluffs and the Ohio Improvement of the Missouri river between Eastport and Nebraska City Improvement of the Missouri river at Atchison Improvement of the Missouri river at Sioux City Improvement of the Missouri river at Ft. Leavenworth Improvement of the Missouri river at St. Joseph Survey of the Missouri river from the mouth to Sioux City Snag boat for the upper Mississippi. The Mississippi river from St. Paul to Des Moines rapids The Mississippi river near the mouth of the Illinois river Kentucky river Improvement of the Des Moines rapids and opening canal Galena river and harbor Chippewa river St. Croix river Red River of the North Illinois river Big Sandy river Wabash river Duluth harbor Ontonogan harbor Wisconsin river, Wis Port Washington harbor, Wis Milwaukee river Improvement of Fox river Impiovement of Calumet river Manistee river hite river, Mich $100,000 60,000 30,000 200,000 200,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 20,000 10,000 10,000 9,000 25,000 20,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 65,000 12,000 5,000 6,000 10,000 40,000 12,000 20,000 20.000 17,000 12,000 7,500 2,500 100,000 12,000 10,000 7,500 90,000 7,500 20,000 7,500 7,500 Grand Haven harbor South Haven harbor Michigan City harbor Chicago harbor Harbor of Refuge, Lake Huron St. Mary's river and St. Mary's falls canal 250,000 Detroit river 50,000 Saginaw river 8,000 Cleveland harbor," Ohio $ 100,000 Ashtabula harbor, Ohio 9,000 Toledo harbor 10,000 Cedar City, Mo 10,000 Glasgow, Mo 15,000 White river, Ind 25,000 Osage river, Kansas 10,000 Sluiceway, st Anthony Falls 10,000 Removal of raft, Red river 15,000 Surveys of the south pass of the Mis sissippi river 24,000 Removal of obstructions in the Red river 22,500 Mouth of Red river 40,000 Owitcha river 10,000 Gauging the waters of the Mississippi river 5,000 Tennessee river above Chattanooga 11,500 Tennessee liver below Chattanooga 210,000 Natchez rivpr 5,000 Memphis harbor 37,000 Vicksburg harbor 27,000 Yazoo river 11,500 Cumberland river below Nashville.. 25,000 Cumberland river above Nashville.. 39,000 Buffalo harbor 100,000 Oswego harbor 90,000 Amount appropriated for examina tions and surveys 150,000 Total amount appropriated $5,786,000 Annual Meeting: of the Northwestern Dairy men's Association. CHICAGO, Feb. 11.The thirteenth annual meeting of the Northwestern Dairymen's asso ciation was held here to-day and began with three sessions. President Hiram Smith, of Wisconsin, delivered the annual address, in which he held there was a bright future for the dairy industry. He stated last year's produc tion iu the United States to be: cheese, three hundred and fifty million pounds, and butter one billion five hundred million pounds. Value of butter and cheese exported last year twenty seven million dollars. After the appointment of various committees Charles Randolph, sec retary of the board of trade, delivered an ad dress of welcome, and several interesting ad dresses were made. The evening session was devoted to a humorous lecture and song. A Matter for the Legislature. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 11.The court of appeals to day, in the case of an application for an in junction to restrain the board of public schools from teaching foreign languages and orna mental branches the public schools, decided that the whole matter is in the hands of the legislature, and that the courts have no powers in the premises. Failure at Chippewa Falls. [Special Telegram to the Globe. CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis., Feb. 11.Stanley Bros. & Co., merchants and lumbermen, made an assignment to B. J. Churchill, yesteTday. Assets and liabilities about equal. Three inches of snow fell last night. Close of the Reno Case. CHICAGO, Feb. 11.The argument of counsel in the Reno inquiry was concluded to-day, and the court went into secret session to make out its report. When completed the report will be forwarded to Washington and its contents will first be made public there. Generosity. [Martin County Sentinel.] Since the organization of the State, Minne apolis and St. Paul have generously supplied .t with a Governor almost continuously, besides capturing the lion's share of the other fat offices. Go to Ahern's for your table butter. BLOODY BUTCHERY MASSACRE OF BRITISH IN SO UTS AFRICA CONFIRMED. The Troops Enticed From Their Camp and Exterminated by Overwhelm ins Num- bersMore Than a Hundred Officers and Ten Hundred Soldiers SlainThree Hun dred Dead in One GroupThe Zulu Iioss Estimated at Over Two Thousand Plague and Miscellaneous Old World New s. The Zulu Massacre. THE NEWS CONFIRMED. LONDON, Feb. 11.Details of the disaster to the British foroe in South Africa show that the guns were spiked before they were captured. The Times sayB, editorially, the government is bound to send reinforcements without an hour's delay and spare no expense or effort. The Tunes, commenting on the news from Cape Town, says: "Nothing can exceed the frankness of the recital, for it is clear nothing has been held back. It would be useless to de ny either the sadness or the extreme gravity of the catastrophe. Whether there was or was not any want of vigilance on the part of our own force, it is clear the Zulus aie even more for midable than our military authorities expected them to be. It was known they are well drilled, that great numbers are armed with breech loaders, and that they could fight courageously. We know but too well how large a force they can mass at one point. Bad as is the loss of our troops, still graver is the peril which roust arise. With this defeat the Zulus will be emboldened and the colonists be exposed to fresh and formidable dangers. In these circumstances the duty of the government cannot admit of the slightest doubt, and it is to send ample reinforcements to the Cape without the need less delay of a single hour. It may be they can be more quickly sent from the Moarilus or India than from England, but at all events no effort and no expenditure must be spared to save the colony from disaster and the power of the country from grave injury. It is a melan choly consolation, meanwhile, that the gallant troops of the Twenty-fourth regiment did their duty and died at their posts like Englishmen. The news of the defeat caused a sensation throughout London, and the demand for news papers at all suburban stations was greater than since the outbreak of the Franco-German war. TROOPS ENGAGED. The following is the full strength of the British column, part of which was attackedjby Zulus:.Number Three column, headquarters at Helpmakaar, near Roorkes, infantry command ant, Col. Glyn First battalion Twenty-fourth regiment artillery, with seven-pounder guns intantry, seven companiesFirst battalion, Twenty-fourth regiment, under Lieutenant Colonel Degachor Native Mounted Police and Volunteers Native Caribineers Buffalo Border Guard Newcastle Mounted Rifles, all mounted and averaging forty men each, and native contingent of 1,000 men, under Commandant Lonsdale, late Seventy-fourth Highlanders. OFFICIAL REPORTS. The following communication has been re ceived at the war office from Lord Chelmsford: "I regret to have to report a very disastrous en gagement the 22d of January, between Zulus and a portion of No. 3 column, which was left to guard camp about ten miles in front of Roork's drift. Zulus came down in over whelming numbers, and in spite of a gallant resiscence by five companies of the first bat tery, 24th regiment, one comoany of the second battalion, 24th regiment, two guns, two rock et tubes, 164 mounted men and about 800 na tives, they overwhelmed them. The camp con taining all the surplus amuniticn and trans" port of No. 3 column, was taken and but few of its defenders escaped. Our loss, I fear, must be set down at thirty officers and about five hundred non-commissioned officers, rank and file, imperial file colonial troops." A COURT OF INQUIRY has been ordered to assemble to collect evi dence regarding this unfortunate affair, which will be forwarded to you as soon as received. Full particulars as far as can be obtained have been sent in my dispatch, which will reach you by tho next mail. It would seem that the troops were enticed away from their camp, as the action took place about a mile and a quar ter outside of it. The remainder of Col. Glyn's column reoccupied the camp after dark the same night, having been with me twelve miles away all day. On the following morning we arrived at Roork's drift post, which for twelve hours had been attacked by from 3,000 to 4,000 Zulus. Its defense by some eighty men of the Twenty-fourth regiment was most gallant. THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY BODIES lay close around the post. I compute the Zulu IOBS at 1,000 here alone. At the camp where the disaster occurred the loss of the enemy is computed at over 2,000. Col. Pearson, commanding No. 1 column, had been attacked, but he repulsed the Zulus. A CABINET COUNCIL to-day decided to send six battalions of inf an try. two regiments of cavalry, two batteries of artillery, a company of engineers, three com panies of the army service corps, and a com pany of the army hospital corps to reinforce Lord Chalmsford. REINFORCEMENTS. The reinforcements for Cape Colony ordered from England number about 1,000 men. The government is actively inquiring concerning private steamers. The Assistance, the only troop ship in the harbor, is being rapidly pre pared for service at Portsmouth. The first lord of admiralty, speaking at Westminster to-night, stated that troops sufficient to end the troubles with the Zulus would be on the way to the cape within a week. He declared he had every confidence in Lord Chelmsford. General Foreign Netvs. FIGHTING THE PLAGUE. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 11.Gen. Louis Meli koff has proposed to the governors of Astrachan, Samoa and Saratoff that all paper money circu lating be exchanged for new through the Koma Volga bank and destroyed. Attention of the medical authorities is concentrated on Selitreno and the neighboring districts. The St. Peters burg sanitary committee propose to cleanse tho canal and organize large hospitals which could be anchored in the Gulf of Bosnia also to or ganize sanitary committees in each district of tbe city and province. FRANCE AND AMERICA. PARIS, Feb. 11.Gov. Noyes, the Ameiican minister and staff, visited the committee on the proposed treaty of commerce between France and the United States, the governor expressing an ardent desire for the development of com mercial relations. AMERICAN CATTLE. LIVERPOOL, Feb. ll.The order of the privy council revoking, after March 3d, article 13 of the foreign animals order, so far as it relates to the United States, was a great surprise. All cattle from the United States, after March 3d, will have to be slaughtered in the abattoirs now preparing on the docks at Birkenhead and Live pool, within ten days after landtag. FRANCE. PARIS, Feb. 11.President Grevy has signed a decree making appointments and changes affecting eighteen generals and twelve com manders of corps. General Farre has been appointed commandant at Lyons, General Chichant at Chalons, and General DeGalefet at Tours. General Wolff replaces Duke D'Aumale at Besanson. Le Temps says Duke D'Aumale has been appointed inspector general. Henri Daumer, the caricaturist, is dead. BULGARIA. SOPHIA, Feb.ULThe Bulgarian assembly consists of 221 notables. Of these 108 are members ex-officio, 91 elected by popular vote and 22 nominated by the prince. The prince will have a civil list of a million piastres, and succession to tbe throne will be hereditary. ST. PAUL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12, 1879. The ministry will be absolutely responsible to the national assembly, which will control the legislative, financial and administrative de partments. CUTTING DOWN. PARIS, Feb. ll.--It is expeoted the official journal will publish to-morrow a decree trans ferring seven and dismissing or retiring twelve procurators general. Four commanders of army ccrps will be transferred and nine dis missed. AFGHAN. CALCUTTA. Feb. 11.The report of the death of the ameer of Afghanistan is untrue. It is the ameer of Bokhara. The ameer of Afghan istan will endeavor to reach Herat. Yakoob Khan recently sent a cavalry regiment to Kohistan to quell disturbances among the tribes there, whereupon the factions suspended hostilities, and attacked and routed the regi ment. MISCELLANEOUS. BERLIN, Feb. 11.The emperor will open the reichstag and deliver a speech from the throne to-morrow. PARIS, Feb. 11.Mons. Despres3, archbishop of Tolouns and Norbunee, has been created a cardinal. Gen. Toddleben announces he will commence the evacuation of Adrianople in ten days. Albert Grevy has been elected vice president of the French chambers. The English privy council has ordered a care ful inspection of the bills of health, and of the crews and passengers of vessels arriving from the Black Sea. The president of the Italian board of health, speaking in the chamber of deputies, predicted that if the plague penetrated Europe it would destroy a third of the population. Servia has formed a partial cordon on her Turkish frontier against the plague. SEAN'S BOOK. Interesting Scraps From the Note Book of Samuel Bean, at Present the Guest of Sheriff King. Samuel Bean, the colored "pusson," who combined the special duties of porter at the Metropolitan with the general occupation of thief, hold quite a levee at police head quarters yesterday. Some called to inquire about property others to see the disciple, and again others out of friendship. Bean is no small potatoes in knowledge of the world, and while around about he has accumulated a bit of learning here and there. He's been an exhorter at times, and was very successful in the evangelical field. He writes a very good hand, and though his spelling ip mixed he is above sublunary matters in his thoughts. He commenced his autobiography in a note book found among his effects, and had covered two pages when his literary work was stopped either by his arrest or call for "boots." Here's what he has to lemark upon the abstruse subject of ltfe in general, and his own most especially iust as written: Samuel Bean's Past Life, in Youth and a Por tion of Manhood. Born in the year of 1858. So runs tbe title to this badly-spoilt contri bution to the world of letters. Then he says: Sense I have arrived to the years of ma tunty, I have been drifted with the waves of time." But the greater portion of my life have heen Bpent in wickedness and folly. And the rest of my life Shall be employed in the service of Christi anity But referring back to the year of 1870 & 69 It bj in^s things to bear in mind of the past life that was past in that wild territorial coun try of Texas, And in ythe time of my Traversing the in terior part of this country, I was one of the most tyrantical creatuies that ever lived On earth, I guess. Because my life was not any more than the wind which bloweth and is not visible to our natural eyes. From this I pass into the days of my youth, which was very happy until I reached man hood. Then man's troubles begin, FirstlyI was trubble about my soul, it troubled me day to night and the earth with all of its dlicious ornaments was of any pleas ure to me. In recalling to my youth's days again, I will endeavor to make a few brief remarks in favor of the science politically used in all the public schools. I legards it as an encouraging signs of the times that the lecent effective representation of the need of political science in the public schools has met with the favor it seemed to do. It is evident to-day, if never before, that chil dren educated by the State should be trained to some extent for the State. Here, unfortunately the hiatus comes in. And the solution of the gieat problem for State benefit, will have to be done while Bean is serving the State, in a capacity other than a philosopher. THE NEW YORK BATTLE GROUND. What the New Torlc Pavers Say Concern ing Conkling's Defeat. The Tribune says, on Conkling's defeat: "Several considerations tended to this result. There was a growing feeling that it was neither fair to the officials concerned, nor good busi ness policy for the government, to force into the most important office under tho secretary of the treasury an official openly hostile to him. Above all, there was a strong feeling that the New York custom-house should not be permitted to become an open sore on the body of the Republican party. One way or another the matter had to be adjusted, and the Sena tors found it easiest to adjust it*by keeping in the men against whom no complaints were made. The settlement is-of this long-continued controvery is hailed with satisfaction by the Republicans in Washington, whether they like the way in which it has been settled or not. The fight against these last nominations was made by Conkling against the judgment of a large majority of the Republicans in the New York delegation, who could see no good end to be sub-served by it, and in this many other Republicans, among them some who voted with Conkling in the Senate, agreed. Conk ling seems to have asked the advice of none of his political associates, and to have acted wholly on his own sense of what was right and proper in the premises. The hope is expressed to-night by Republicans of every shade of opinion that the result of to-day's work may be accepted in good faith, and in something of the same spirit which pervaded the Republican party in New York last fall at the Saratoga con vention, and afterward in the campaign, and still later when the Senator was re-elected. Harmory is the Republican watchword, and every Republican will be expected to contribute his share to securing it, no matter what may be his private disappointments. On this point there seems to be absolutely no division among influential members of the party in Washing- ton." The Times says: "The struggle became a mere trial of strength between opposing po litical powers, and the result has as little to do with the character of either the rfew collector or the old one as it has with the forgotten prin ciples of civil-ser\ ice reform. Conkling's de feat may serve to remind him that tact and moderation are quite as necessary qualifications of a successful politician as. the power of in vective or the trick of calling names. Neither Conkling nor any one else, however, can derive from the success of the administration in this struggle any encouragement for political hon esty or personal consistency." The World says: "Having no leadership or concerted plan of aotion, a good many Demo crats took advantage of the liberty in non-es sentials left them by the caucus to vote for Hayes' nominaiions. They did this obviously, under the impression that, by doing it, they would weaken the Republican party in New Yo k. There was not much more civil-service retir in thii course than in the course of Sherman and Hayes, and it remains to he seen whether there was or was not much political gumption in it." Yellow Fever Reminder. LOUISTTLLE, Ky., Feb. 10.So far as the Courier-Journal correspondent reports there is no yellow fever in the South, although some sort of BioknesB seems to have been caused by the disinterment of bodies ot persons who died of yellow fever. DAY'S DOINGS. Fatal Land Slide at Kansas City, MoSix Pitmen Crushed Beneath a Huge Mass of EarthCriminal, Casualty and Fire Record. DEATH IN THK PIT. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 11.A Kansas City dispatch says: A terrible accident occurred obout 7:30 this morning, at the foot of Grand avenue, in a cut being made for the Chicago & Alton rail road. At that hour the cut, with its almost perpendicular walls ninety feet high, caved in and buried the workmen and their teams under thousands of yards of fallen earth. There were four teams in the out at the time, and ten men working at each team. Besides there was the foreman, James McCarthy, his clerk, and three men working with picks. Mr. Soder, the contractor, was not in the cut. Six persons were killed outright and several wounded. The following are the killed: Peter Bagley, James Hager, Thomas Casey, Ed. Hinef, Dan Lucett and Richard Rine. All the bodies have been recovered. The scene is heartrending. LATERAnother dispatch from Kansas City about the land slide there this morning says The earth first commenced sliding at the top of the south wall and cut, and accumulating in force and quantity as it descended, it spread on reaching the bottom clear across the excava tion and piled itself twenty feet high against the opposite wall. The laborers, at first alarmed, rushed frantically to the outlet of the cut to escape, but their way was almost entirely blocked by wagons, which at that time were standing squarely across the exca vation, and six of them were overwhelmed by the huge mass of earth and sank down to die under its ponderous weight. Those who es caped, dazed with horror though they were, rushed with desperate energy upon the murderous earth and with frantic speed set to work to relieve their buried comrades. Three houis of untiring labor and six dead bodies were brought to view, the names of whom were reported in the previous dispatch. An immense crowd of people collected at each cut and could only be kept out of danger by the utmost efforts of the police. Women and children of the workmen in the cut came running from all directions, rushed excitedly through the crowd, calling the names of husband, father, or brother, whom they feared had been crushed to death. They could haidly be restrained from breaking through the lines, and the scene was not only Bad but heartrending. The walls of the excavation are about ninety feet high, and almost perpen dicular. There is no rock there, and nothing to sustain them but their own cohesion. A POOR SHOT. CHICAGO, Feb. 11.About half-past 9 o'clock to-night Frank Ryan, of this city, shot his wife, from whom he has [been separated for a year or two, and then shot himself in the head. Ryan, it appears, has been endeavoring to in duce his wife to live with him again, but fail ing had threatened to kill her. Neither of the parties are seriously injured. WANTS TO COMPROMISE. PORTLAND, Feb. 11.Captain Prince, con victed of pension frauds, offers to pay the government $15,000 for his release. BURIED. ALLENTOWN, Pa., Feb. ll.The embankment at Ziegler's ore beds, fifteen miles away, caved in, burying fifteen persons, killing one, and seriously injuring four. THROAT CUTTING. CINCINNATI, Feb. 11.William Meyer and his wife Mollie Meyer, two rather hard characters, met at the corner of Sixth and John streets, to night, quarreled, and the husband slashed bis wife across the throat from ear to ear, but not severing the arteries. The woman was taken to the hospital. The man escaped. COUNTERFEITER'S SENTENCE. TRENTON, N J.,* Feb. 11.Henry Cole, ac complice of Ulrich, tho counterfeiter, was sen tenced to pay a fine of $2,000, and twelve years in the State prison. CONFLAGRATIONS. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. ll.The Pennsylvania tack works, Norristown, are partially burned. Insurance $60,000. LEBANON, N. H., Feb. 11.A fire in G. N. Northern's building caused a loss of $30,000. Insurance $15,000. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. ll.The jail at Au gusta burned last night. It cost $82,000. MILWAUKEE, Feb. 11.Fire last night de stroyed a group of buildings five miles north of the city owned by Chas. Herman. Tne property destroyed included a flouting mill of tour run of stone, a pearl barley null, starch factory and five drying kilns used for dr\ ing peas and star ch. Loss $30,000 no insurance. ALL AROUND TH E GLOBE. Judge Baxter, of the United States district court, at Memphis, has decided to appoint a re ceiver for that city. A strike is in progress against a reduction of wages on the Metropolitan elevated railway, New York city. The Very Rev. Cornelius Moynihan, for thirty years pastor of St. Peter's church. New Or leans, died yesterday. John Hope has been arrested in New Yoik, charged with complicity in the Manhattan bank robbery. Other arrests are expected. W. B. Fleming has been elected to Congress from the Savannah, Ga., district, in place of John Hartridge, deceased. No opposition. George W. Gift, editor of the Napa, Cal., Reporter, a captain in the confederate army during the war, died at Napa yesterday. All trains on the Ohio & Mississippi railroad were detained at Plana station, Ohio, from 6 A. M. to6p. M.Sunday, by the enforcement of the Sunday law. Milwaukee and the surrounding country was visited by a heavy snow storm yesterday. The fall was from 6 to 13 inches in depth in differ ent localities. Jacob Hicht and Abraham Stein of New York city, have been arrested at the instance of the board of health, for buying and slaugh tering diseased cattle. A national conference of colored citizens, to consider the situation of the colored people in the South, socially, morally, etc., will be held at Nashville, Tenn., May 6. The striking miners of Coshocton, Ohio, have posted notices in the vicinity of the union lines warning the men at work there that they will do them, hurt if work is not stopped by Thursday next. Schaefer, at New York, last night, was awarded the first prize in the recent billiard tournament, of $1,000 in gold and silver won, and Slosson, Sexton and Daly the second, third and fourth prizes. The grand jury of Charleston, S. yester day found a true bill against E. W. Mackey, Republican, for libel, in publishing charges against W. L. Daggett, Democrat, of stuffing the ballot box at Palmetto engine house at the late election. The liablities of Osborn, Chase & Swain, pic ture frame manufacturers, of Toledo, O., are stated at $190,000, with nominal assets of about the same amount. Alleged cause of failure, speculation in real estate and decline in prices of goods. The company employed 200 hands. The Brooklyn health officers charge that a number of cows suffering from pleuro pneu monia have been taken from stables and slaughtered at the abattoirs. The carcasses are now under guard until veterinary surgeons investigate. A gorge in the Missouri river at Glasgow de stroyed a span of the railroad bridge which was being built for the Chicago & Alton rail road by the American Bridge company, of Chi cago. The loss, which is $30,000 to $40,000, falls on the bridge company. It would have been ready for use by March 1st. It is announced from Detroit that the steamers of the Northern Transit company, heretofore connecting with the Vermont Cen tral railroad at Ogdensburg, will run during the coming season from Chicago to Sarnia, Ontario, Toledo and Cleveland, and solely in the interest of tbe Grand Trunk railway. There is now no American line of Bteamers running through the Welland canal. ^pppuussnni ~immmmmHrtmMmM* ^,:^.^y ,^r^^ (EInbE. MINNESOTA NEWS. The liquor license at Rushfnrd is fixed at $100. Diphtheria prevails to an alarming extent in Carver. The oldest inhabitant says, "Look out for an early spring." A few {cases of diphtheria are reported in Northfield and vicinity. A number of lumber oamps in the State are breaking up on account of the lack of snow. The eale of railroad tickets at the depot in Hastings during the month of January, amounted to $1,503.68. The dry goods house of A. C. Anderson, of Kasson, succumbed to tbe pressure of the times last week, and was closed. Numerous deaths are reported among the cat tle in Rice connty. The fatality is believed by many to be due to wire binding. H. Schmidt was thrown from his buggy in Owatonna, the other day, and severely bruised, one of his arms being disabled. Large quantities of fish have died this win ter in Indian lake, near Mankato. -There aie different theories as to tho cause. Ashbury Newman, a harness maker of Sauk Rapids, has been adjudged insane, and has been taken to the hospital at St. Peter. Snow is noted by the State papers as having fallen in different localities recently from one to eight inches in depth, but it did not stay long. H. M. Atkins, of the Sherburne county Star, has sold his interest to his partner, Arthur N. Dale, by whom the paper will in future be conducted. A confidence man in Marston, Dakota county, spent about a week "boarding round" negotiating to buy a farm, and finally swindled a farmer out of a twenty dollar bill and de camped. About 100 car loads of stone is to be used by the railroad company in riprapping the trestle work opposite Hastings. The stone is pro duced at Red Wing, George Bailejr, of Elk River, while logging, by the slipping of a handspike, had the whole weight of a log brought down upon his shoul der, crushing it badly. Malcom Clark, of the town of St. Charles, Winona county, will be entitled to about $1,200 pension arrearages by the new Congres sional pension bill. D. B. Dale's store at Fairmont, Martin coun ty, was closed by the sheriff last week. Slow collections and hard times proved too much for the storekeeper. The small boy, son of Mr. Morlock, of Jor dan, Scott county, whose eye was injured by a piece of gun-cap which he placed on a stove and struck with a hatchet, has lost the sight of the eye. The project of building a court house in Mar tin county, is strongly agitated, and there is a growing sentiment in favor of bonding the county to the amount of $10,000 or $12,000 for that purpose. Gould's drug store in Fairmont has been closed by Mr. Hewett, of Winnebago City, who held a $3,700 mortgage given"by Mr. Gould to the Bank of Fairmont on the stock of drugs, etc. Diphtheria of a fatally malignant type, is still raging in Castle Rock, Dakota county, and vicinity. Mrs. Wheeler, who attended Mr. Slocum's children when sick of it, took the disease and died. Dr. Gates amputated four fingers from the hand of Mr. Wallace Hemphill, of Winnebago Valley. Mr. Hemphill froze his fingers very badly New Year's night, and after futile efforts to heal them amputation was found necessary. John McCombc, a married man, had an alter cation the other day with Mrs. D. Jones, of St. Charles, an honest, hard-working woman, whose daughter he had seduced, and during the con troversy he drew a revolver, for which he was arrested and taken before a justice and lined $50. Mrs. C. H. Plummer, of Wabasha, while lift ing some articles on the tea table suffered the fracture of an arm. A year ago her collar bone was broken by some trifling wrench. The doc tor states that this extreme brittleness of her bones is due to excess of phosphate of lime. Princeton Union: The brother of Hattie Stanley informs us that he saw his sister re cently, and he thought she would gladly return home if she was not afraid to do so. The fool ish girl has had all her romantic ideas about life in a wigwam with an Indian lover dispelled by this time. The Hokah Blade learns th^t work will bo commenced on the Southern Minnesota rail way extension as soon as spring opens, and the road pushed on towards the Missonri river. Upon the same subject the Lanesboro Journal says: "It is said the Southern Minnesota will be extended 140 miles next season. Fairmont, Martin county. Sentinel: "We are unable to give anything definite this week as regards the outcome of the Bank of Fair mont failure. Affairs are in a complicated conditioi. The different partnerships and numerous parties directly and indirectly con nected with the institution, render it a labori ous task to get at the actual condition of af fairs. The Sauk Rapids Press gives an account of a row that occurred in the town of Maywood, Benton county, instigated mainly by the royal presence of King Alcohol. The bridegroom threw a stone at one of the party, and* missing his mark, hit his father, an old man, on the head, felling him to the ground, and rendering him unconscious for a time. At last accounts the old gentleman was in a critical condition. Owatonna Journal: From the list of births and deaths in Steele county, compiled by the clerk of court, we learn that the number of births was 406, of which 195 were males and 211 females. There were three pairs of twins, each pair male and female. The number of deaths was 156, of which 79 were males and 77 fe males. Seventy-nine of the whole number of deaths were children 6 years old and under, and 21 were between the ages of 6 and 21. Thirty died of diphtheria, ten of consumption, two were struck by lightning and four killed by ac cidents. In one of the deaths from old age the deceased was 101 years old. Worthington Advance: The recent failures in Worthington are supposed by many to be due to the fact that our merchants have trusted their goods out to the farmers and are unable to collect. We have made considerable inquiry as to this, and find that it is not the case. No one of the business houses which recently failed had any large amount trusted out. The failure in the case of two of ths firms was due to old debts and in the other to the fact that the house had laid in a large stock of goods in anticipation of a heavy trade, which, owing to the failure of the crop, did not follow. Of course, if there had been a brisk fall trade, all our merchants might have pulled through, but the point we wish to make, on behalf of the farmers, is that they are not to blame, as is generally supposed. Weakening. Hastings Gazette.J Bill King is weakening on the fair question, and now proposes that the State society unite with him in giving grand annual exhibitions midway between St. Paul and Minneapolis, pro vided the first of the series be held upon the grounds in Minneapolis this year. It is need less to add that the evident self sacrifice on his part will not be accepted. An Editor Announce* Himself as a Candi date for Governor. Mankato Union, But St. Paul and Minneapolis have been, ac cording to their thinking, the State of Min nesota ever since its organization. Hence, it followed, they urnishei the Governors. We shall bother you gentlemen for this position, one of these days. The Proper Republican Candidate. [Carver County Free Press.1 Just now the press of the State seems, to be much agitated whether Pillsbury or Jim Wakefield shall be the next Governor. We fa vor neither. In our opinion Hon. William 8. King, ex-Representotive in Congress, is just the man for the place. The produce firm of Oliver Gibbs & Co., Montreal, have failed. Liabilities will prob ably reach $100,000. ^tjll 1 NUMBER 29. BROWEB'S BAD MEMOBY. One of Washburn's Swag Dispensers Cor- raledatSt. CloudMoney Spent for Work, Beer. Etc., hut His Memory Treacherous As to Amounts. [Special Telegram to the Globe.] ST. CLOUD. Minn., Feb. 11.J. V. Brower, register in the land office, was examined to-day in the Donnelly-Washburn contest. He testi fied that he had had correspondence with Wash burn that he received from Minneapolis $50 or more that he had canvassed the counties of Todd and Morrison in behalf of Washburn that he had paid money to different parties named by him for working at the polls, for the hire of teams, for cigars, beer, etc. Some of these were Democrats. He thought it was all right to hire Democrats to work at the polls for Republicans. His memory was very bad as to a great many particulars. He could notrec ollect what amounts he paid to anybody. He could not tell whether he was in North Prairie one hour or two days. He could not tell wheth er he spent $50 or $500 in the canvass. He told of one man, Charles Berens, of North Prairie, who offered to write to Washburn and sell his influence to Washburn for $50, but Washburn, Brower says, didn't want to buy. but sent the letter to him (Brower) and he saw Berens, whom he considered a valuable man to secure. What he (Brower) paid out for expenses of travel, etc., was repaid him by the commit tee. A good many amusing scenes occurred over Brower's inability to remember anything about money paid out by him. fHis testimony.gon the whole, was very damaging to Washburn. THE HORSE. Mr. Mealey's ImportationMiscellaneous Turf Notes. A private note from Mr. H. C. Mealey, Mon ticello, informs us that we under-weighted the Norman colt recently purchased by him. The colt was bred and raised by D. Dunham. Wayne, Dupage county, 111., will be three years old June 1st next, stands sixteen hands, and weighs 1,460 pounds. The GLOBE received its information from one of the best horsemen in the State, who pronounced the colt one of the finest pieces of horse flesh ever brought into the State, an assertion fully borne out by the descriptidn thus given of him. The corrected description by Mr. Mealey is all in favor of the colt. Mr. Mealey is to be congratulated upon the ownership of such an animal and the horse interests of the State upon Mr. Mealey's enter prise in the purchase. This year's Derby will be run on Wednesday, May 28. There are 290 nominations, and should there be twenty-five starters, the stake will be worth to the winner something like $37,000. Parole, one of Mr. Pierre Lorillards' Ameri can heroes, now in England, has been entered for the Epsom gold cup, to be ran May 30, one mile and a half weights, 3-year-olds, 112 pounds 4-year-olds, 132 pounds, and 5 years and upwards, 138 pounds. Of the horses trotting under 2:30 last year, Rarus, of course, trotted the greatest number of three heats, 65. Next to him is the western horse, Doc Lexis, with 38 Hopeful, 37 Pro tein, 36 Driver, 31 Wampohne, Lew Scott an Derby, 26 each Edwin Forrest, 22 Wol ford Z, 21 Bonesetter, 20 Adflaide. 24 Wood ford Mambrino, 29 Baltimore, 20 Powers, 19 Ethel, (5 y. o.) 19 Edward, 18 Lucille, 11 Cozette, Croxie, Dick Moore, Mountain Quail, Scott's Thomas, 16 each. Mr. Joseph A. Yonns:, Rochester, Minn., offers for sale the trotting horse John J. Cooke, record 2:29%, and better possibilities. It is reported that Dan Mace wiU have charge, the coming season, of Mr. Charles Kerner's stable at Goshen, including Lady Mills, who recently showed a private trial in 2:19%. It will be recollected that in April, 1878, Goldsmith Maid, the queen of the turf, was bred to General Washington, (son of General Knox out of Lady Thorn.) Budd Doble re cently paid a visit to the queen, and says there is no doubt about her being in foaL Mr. Chas. Reed has leased the Saratoga asso ciation course and grounds. There will be two meetings given at Saratoga, the first July 19th and the second August 5th, making twenty-five to twenty-seven days' racing. Mr. L. A. Hitchcock, a turfman whose name and face was well known on the racecourses of the country, died Jan. 20th, 1879, at East Marshfield, Mass., in his 52d year. He was the owner of Limestone, Galway, Cariboo, Mollie Darling, Quits, Speculation, Crow's Meat, Lntitia H. and many other horses during his career on the turf. Mr. D. Swigert, Stockwood farm, Spring Station, Ky., has met with a serious loss in the death of the bay horse Mahlstick, five years old, by Lever, out of Rebecca T. Price, by the Colonel. Mahlstick ran some nineteen races in his two, three and four-year-old form, axd won ten, amongst them the Louisville cup in 1878. The cnestnut gelding John Virgin (record 2:29), and the brown gelding Morris (record 2:29), have been matched for $1,000, to be trotted over Beacon and Mystic parks in June. Aurora, 111., claims July 29th to Aug. 1st for a trotting meeting. The famous Bay Final, by Lexington, sire of Bay Leaf, was sold to Major Bond at public auction Jan. 15th, at Tattersall's, London, for $525. Oh, ho! Ah, ha.' Duluth Tribune.] If it is all the same to the Pioneer Press and to the Minneapolis Tribune, we would like to have them rise and explain what, if any, connection the promise of Gov. Pillsbury and his friends to decline to assist in, and to have nothing to do with the establishing of a morn ing daiiy paper in Minneapolis, has to do with their excessively-ardent support of Gov. Pills bury for a third term. Would Have Hts Fun. [Stillwater Gazette.] Not long ago W. W. Williams, formerly deputy-warden here, wrote a letter to one of the St. Paul papers, the GLOBE, we believe, in which he described Pat Coffey as the most diabolical, three-story, triple-plated liar ever known. Now Pat, in his testimony before the committee of investigation says, "Williams was a good man, but he used to get drunk and kick a man in the gable end for pleasantness." Williams always would have his fun. DAILY WEATHEK BULLETIN. OFFICE OF OBSERVATION, SIGNAL CORPS, U. S. A. INGERSOLL BLOCK, THIRD STREET, ST. PAUL, MINN. Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. Meteorological Record, Feb. 11, 1879, 9:56 P. X. Bar. Ther. Wind. Weather. Breckenridge..30.18 -4 N. Lt.snow. Duluth 29.97 16 NE. Cloudy. Fort Garry.... 30.36 -8 NE. Cloudy. Pembina 30.30 -8 N. Lt.snow. Pt. Paul 19.88 22 N. Cloudy. Yankton 30.18 7 N. Lt.snow. -Below zero. DAILY LOCAL MEANS. Bar. Ther. ReLHum. Wind. Weather. 29.921 22.0 81.3 N Fair. Amount of rainfall or melted snow, 0.00 maximum thermometer, 27 minimum ther mometer, 14. W. B. GREENE, Private Signal Corps. U. S. A. TO-DAY. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12,1 A. M.Indications for the upper lake region, upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys: Areas of snow with partly cloudy weather, lower temperature than on Tuesday and variable winds. St. Paul Encampment No, 13. On Thursday evening, the 20th inst., the first annual hop of the St. Paul Encampment No. 15, t. O. O. F takes place at Standard Hall. No painB will be spared to make the oc casion immensly enjoyable. The members ap pear in their beautiful uniforms. Admirable arrangements are being made, and a brilliant entertainment is assured. Thos. S. Drew, elected Governor of Arkansas in 1844 and reelected 1850, died recently in Texas.