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I 1 VOL. 13. I *t'Jirrlini| Register. (All business letter* and communications, intended ror tbls paper, should be addressed toTUE REGISTER,Wheeling, W. Va Oold closed in New York yesterday st 112j. From our report* tnu morning tne probabilities are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy, with northerly to westerly winds, and lower temperature. mm m Crooked whisky is now knowm as 'angular alcohol." 9 ^ Blaine's blunder is the universal subject of discussion. Wk publish Garfield's speech this I morning, in reply to that of Mr. Hill. its weakness is rendered exceedingly painful by contrast. Mr. Hill's speech in replv to Blaine was simply a "socdologer." There is no getting around it. The ex-Speaker was badly u?ed up. ? A prospective deficit in the city, treasury of $119,000 is not a pleasant thing to look forward to. It hardly conduces to a happy, New Year, does it? Our Representatives in Congress were specially busy yesterday. In the Senate Mr. Davis, carrying out his determinaItion to investigate Radical shortcomings, submitted a resolution calling for a committee to examine the books of the Treasury Department to find out something about the expenditures of the Government, and the ccnditioh of the public debt. In the House, a bill for the improvement of the Big Sandy and Little Kanawha rivers was introduced by Mr. Hereford; one for the improvement ot the Little Kanawha and the completion and furnishing of the Parkersburg CusUauja n?uD nranxtnlurl Kv? Hnl KffW IWiLsoy, while Mr. Faulksik oflered one to prohibit Congressmen from serving in any capacity in suits against the | United State*. B THE IIIUU hu RT or llti'Dit H. r. K M' ffi Assembles this morning at the Senate chamber at 1U o'clock for the purpose of beginning the trial of State Treasurer ^ Blruerr and Auditor Bxnhitt, charged with high crimes and misdemeanors. Of course immense interest will be manifested during the courso of the proceedings. The people are naturally anxious about a trial which will cost them $700 a day, and desire to know whether their officials have been guilty of offences sufficient to justify any such expenditure. Therefore the result will bo looked forward to with great eagerness. For the sake of the taxpayers, as well as to prevent the use which the Radicals of the State hope to make <>f theso trials, we sincerely tru-t that they may bo proceeded ; , with and di?p??-'d of as speedily as shall be consistent \s iiu justice. THE t.MON SOLDI EK NK.VH.1HOX. A tremendous amount of fuss regard9 ing the removal of Union soldiers by a Democratic House has been raised by Radical demagogue* for the purpose o! trying to make something out of it. But the truth knocks tho spots out of their calculations. Itjhow appears that Col. Fit/high. Door-keeper of the House, has made eighty-five appointments. Of these twentv-fivo have been given to Union soldiers. or, nearly one-third. The Republican Door-keeper of the last Congress, out of one hundred and fifty-three appointments, gave but twenty-four ^ places to Union soldiers, or less than one-sixth. It thus appears that the Union soldier fares about twice as well Of in the cruel hands of J>einocrat* as in the merciful kindness of Republicans. It '% further appears that the door-keeper of B the last Congress appointed fifteen exI Confederate soldiers to positions, while Colonel FiT7.Hi'Gii has only appointed ten. It is a pity that facts can be gotten at Otherwise what a glorious old time the B Kadi would have in deceiving the masses. The Amnesty Debate. Mr. Biaine has made a parliamentary success but a political mistake. The adroit way in which he overreached and outwitted Mr. Randall in getting a chance to deliver his prepared speech and open the sluices of debate shows that he is no ordinary master of parliamentary tactics, but it would have been better for his political prospects if he had lost the opportunity which he extorted. It is too late in the day to rake open the decaying animosities of the late war with Krsonal or politicai profit to any disturr of the kincly feeling between the North and the South. It is absurd to the degree of being ridiculous for any sane man to adect to think that it makes any sort of difference to any pub)ip infimut ta'KulKon \l r 1 >n V Id vis is relieved or not relieved from his political disabilities. There is no chance ot his election or appointment to any Federal office, and even if be could hare such chances a*\er an act of amnesty it is impossible to see what harm he could do or would have any temptation to do more than any other ex-rebel in a public trust. The treatment of the prisoners at Andersonville is a question which belcngs to history and not to politics. It is a dozen years too late for remedy, and it is better that it should be buried out of sight with the other unpleasant and irritating events of the war. There is nothing which the liberal and generous public feeling of the country is so little disposed to tolerate as the gratuitous tearing open of old wounds in tbe interest of political ambition. Mr. Blaine, to use a common phrase, does not "understand his epoch " He forgets that this is the centennial jet and that the Presidential contest, which he hopes to be a candidate, will deeply colored by patriotic feelings ai by sentiments of generous fraternity lil those so applaudingly manifested at t! centennial celebration of the battle Bunker Hill, when the gallant ai chivalrous Southern regiments fro Richmond and Charleston were greeU with a warmer wilcome and receivi more marks of hospitality than ai ol the other participants in that affectii tnLntA tn ihft niAmnrv of thtt natriot | dead. Mr. Blaine is aot only out I harmony with the magnanimous sen1 | ment of flew England, as manifest' 1 on that deeply interesting occasio . but he is equally out of harmoi i with the patrtotic sentiment of 1 I native State of Pennsylvania, on who support he has heretofore counted in t Presidential aspirations. The State his birth and the section of his adoptic alike repudiate his wanton attempt to r up old sores, and prevent the cordial fr tornization of the florth and the Sou in this Centennial year. His Pennsy vaniar friends will be'appalled at tb I blunder, and will withdraw their con dence from so indiscreet and reckless I man. "When the appropriation f i their great exposition was on the vei edge of success, he has put it in peril a; j dealt it a more deadly blow than it w i in the power of all its other opponents inHict. The Fennsylvanians, and, indee , the whole country, have been courtir | and inviting an "era ot good fee I ing" in connection with the Centenni ! Exposition. It has been the hoj of all magnanimous citizens that all tl unpleasant memories of the civil wi would be buried "deeper than ever plun met souuded" in the proud and exultai ; patriotism of the Centennial year. An ust at the point when an appropriate to promote this noble object was about 1 come up for the consideration ot Coi gress, steps in this ambitious Marplot I rake open the old quarrel, set the Xort and South by the ears, flaunt the mo disagreeable and revolting topic in tt history of the war. and deal a deadi stab at the success of the Centennial I alienating scores of members who woul otherwise have voted for the appropr at ion. Brilliant as was Mr. Blaine stroke of parliamentary tactics nobod will envy him hi* laurels.?N. 1. Heral of Yesterday. Ta* Baltimore Gazette, remarking c the coldness with which Mr. lleverd Johnson's defense of Minister Scbenc has been received by the country, say "The defense will not carry convictic on the other side of the Atlant c, f< there they know Mr.Schenck's craftine of head; it will not do on this side b cause here we know Mr. Johnson s kim ness of heart." m * Debt of Psaasilvsnis. Harribruro, January 12.?The repo of the SUte Treasurer, submitted to ti Legislature to-day, shows the debt of tl State, after deducting the assets of tl sinking fund, to be $ltt,766,504. CONDENSED^ TELEGRAMS John Lee Carroll wa? ir.auguraU Governor of Maryland yesterday. Concord, January fl.- The Deraocra ic State Convention have nominaU Mr Daniel Marcy for Governor an Thomas Dunsmore Railroad Comnu sioner of New Hampshire. Hon. J. Kirkwood was, ye?terd:i declared Republican nominee lor the I S. Senate from Iowa. Groen & Stevens, Boston dry goot merchants, are reported failed. FOREIGN. A llandtomr Freaeul. Romk. January 12.?The Manjnis < Rip..n, the English nobleuian who r cently embraced the Roman Cathol faith," bus presented the Rope with t'lC 000. Bloody I'iililin ('?u?dw. Ottawa, January 12.? A faction ftgl took place last night alter the election. i Satina Point, between two famalie named Scarier and Roque, and their r * native adherent!. 1 here were titt men on each side. The tight was de! perateand bloody. One man was kille and fifteen dangerously wounded, an fully half an acre of snow was saturati with blood. ^ Tnrkrj on Her Dignity. London. January 13.?A special froi Berlin says the Tutkish representativi abroad have been instructed to dealai that any intervention incompatible wit the dignity or independence of the Pun will be rejected. It is expected th< England will advise the Porte to coi sider Count Andrassy's programme, the Sultan declines to do so the robe . will be likely to derive a greater ad van 1 age than ever from the countenan*e < ! Montenegro nnd the Dalmatians. Will not Attend SbeCentea-lal. London, January 13?A Berlin di patch sets at rest reports to the eontrar by stating that Prince Imperial Fredrit William has decided not to visit t! Philadelphia exhibition for sever; ">??iini ihe most miDoriant of which : that the condition of the Emperor health render* the alienee of the heir t t the throne icadmissabie. London, January 13, 6 a. m.?A di i patch from Pari* to the Daily Teltgrap sava: The French Ministry of Worl will send to the Philadelphia Exhibitio plans of recent public works and tl Municipal Council of Paris will contril ute the models of square* and publi buildings which figured in the \ lenn Exhibition. IhrFrrara MinisterialCrlik I A special from Paris says that rumo: in regard to the situation of the Ministr are various and conflicting. It is asser ed that all the Ministers will sign tl proclamation. Another report says tbi Buffet alone is prepared to sign it. an all who do not sign it to-day will be cot ' sidered as resigning. TBI WEATHER. Was Department. ' Office or Chief Signal OTfirn, Washington, Jan. 13, 1 a. n. r?VOA04l.ttl?*. For New England. tb* Middle South Atlantic Stales, clear and parti cloudj and slightly colder weathe northerly to westerly winds and ruin , barometer. for the Lake Region, partly cloud j weather and lower temperature than c | Wednesday, with northerly to wester! 1 winds, and at the stations east of Lai Michigan light snow and rising barom | tar. f. ? f t mttig WHEELING. s|BY TELEGRAPH] ^ TO THB . | i WHEELING REGISTER, i ,d m '< m Associated Press Report. by Western ed Union Line. otfloe Northwest oor. ly of Main and 12th Bts. jj, DOMESTIC NEWS. ti j*d Mr. Alexander DaBoia Dunirronily n, 111. ly ! Bxlairk. 0., January 12. "s i Special Dispatch to the Register. *e j The following dispatch was received 0f here to-night and will he read with a jn feeling of sadness by our citizens and ip many friends and relatives near St. a- m.: : 11 ? - /! \t A [?nir ^ VlttirfiVillC. VUHVmugV, iUU|) WU..J . 1. 12th?to E. G. Morgan, Esq., Bellaire, lis Ohio; Alexander DuBois is dangerously ill. Inform Rev. Mr. Wallace and Mr. ? W alker. C. R. McDockkt. [J I HI. l.oniM Want* Two Convention*. ^ j St. Louis, January 12.?At a very t9 large meeting of the merchants on d 'Change to-day the following resolution J was unanimously adopted:. ,j. Rewired, That the members of thu H1 Merchants' Exchange of St. Louis hereby jg tender to the respective Executive Comie nntties of the Democratic and Kepubliir can parties the free use of their grand hall for the purpose of holding their Nan tional Conventions this year, and they unite in the earnest request that they |Q consider favorably our city as the proper place tor holding said conventions. The meeting attracted universal atten>n tion, and a very great interest was taken b in the proceedihgs. There was not a jt single dissenting voice to the passage of ,e the resolution. This hall is the largest and handsomest ,"v room in the country, and can be arranged d to seat comiortably about four thousand j. delegates, and give them plenty of room g to transact business easily and quickly. [ y ^ Newly Elected Nenntor from LoaIslann. >tkw Oklkans, January 12.?Twelve >n Senators participated in the election of Mr. i- v.ustia The nroceedin? is regarded as IJ s o -- o ;k informal, the Senate not haviag agreed 9; to an election, but adopted a resolution ,n that there was no vacancy. Mr. Kustis ,r received 75 votes, one more than was ?8 necessary to elect?63 Kepreeentativea o. and 12 Senators votivg for him. The announcement of the election by Senator Blackburn and Speaker Kstillette was loudly applauded by the crowd in the galleries. Senator Blackburn rt stated that he wanted to leave no further ,e excuse to the U. S. Senate to leave Louie uiana out after McMillan, Kay, Pinchie back and Marr had waited to get in Pincbback was present in the House during the election. It is stated that Lieui tenant Governor Autoine will jefuse to ># sign the certificates of Eustis' election. Euotis favored the Whelcr compromise. Terrible Earthquake?A Mouth j. American Town Destroyed. ;d Nkw Yokk, January 11.?The Herald I id of Panama, just received, contains the j s- following letter from Lima, announcing ! the complete destruction bv earthquake, v on the 4th of December, of Abaocay: ' Between 4 p. m. of the 4th, and 5 a. m. of the oth, no less than thirty-seven shocks occurred, and a severe flood mundated the business part of Valparaiso. Two lives were h>st; and $1,500,000 worth | of property destroyed. Women Voter*. Several women have been registered in i some of the towns in Chili jw qualified voters, and will exercise the right of suffrage at the approaching elections. if Indiana Talk With the Great Father) " Washington, January 12.?To-day a delegation of Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks and Seituioles called upon President Grant to pay respects and to talk of alfairs in Indian Territory, which they represented in a full Nnd prosperous con 3i dilion, with abundant crops. They took e occasion to express their oppo.-ition to J the proposed Territorial Government in their country, when the President inlorm!v* ed them that no bill passed by Congress d for that purpofe would receive his apd I proval without the consent of the Indians. Secretary Chandler sent acomuiunica{ tion to the House on the subject of subsistence. ej DemocratIc I'latforin of Jifir Hniup.e 1 ihlre. ,h ! Concord, January I'd.?Tne platform te adopted by the Democratic State Conit I vention to day, recognizes as final the i. i settlement of the issues involved in the If I late civil war, and the binding force of lg * the Constitutional amendments; favors t. the return to specie payments; reform of ' of all abuses in State and National "adj ministration; retrenchment and economy in public expenses; equal and just taxa! tion, and a tariff for revenue only; and 3. resolutions were adopted opposed to a v third term, and in tavor of irec schools. t'ase of Mpencer. ?! Washington, D.C.January 12.?The j? i Senate Committee on Privileges and j Elections, to-day. took up the resolution ! ;o recently ottered by Senator Spencer. 1 directing that the committee inquire . whether any corrupt means were used to i secure hi? election to the Senate, but postponed its consideration for the present, ts fer tne reason that no formal charges as n yet have b-en preferred against him, and ,e they have no bases upon which to found j ^ | an investigation. Kensir (ominlitre on .VlllUry Affetrs. Washington, January 12?The Senate Committee on .Military Affairs met todav, Senator Logaup residing for the first y time this session. The commute agreed l" to report favorably on the number of ie executive nominations including that of Major Mac Feel j to be CommL-sary GenJ eral of Subsistence. The committee took a lest vote as to fixing the Presidential term at six years, with ineligibility to re-election. The vote was six to five in its favor. IKalf* DnrlacfMlrHaliilEiklMitoa. Nkw York, January 12 ?The Com* i mcreuil ?a vs Genera! passenger agents . of tour Trunk line* and wme of the J principal Western railroads, at a conference in Philadelphia yesterday, relative l.v to rates of fare during the Centennial r- ' exhibition, decided to discontinue at 8 once and permanently all arrangements with the Tourist Agancr of Cook. Son I? ? Jenkins. in w i a ly J The balloting for United States Senate | tor from Kentucky, was continued at | t- ' Frankfort to-day, but no election wae ] aflected. W. YA.. THURSDj FORTY-FOURTH CONGRES S ? Warhivqtom, January 12. HEN ATE. Mr. Conkllng presented the petiti< of citizens of New York, asking i amendment to the Constitution of |l United States, protecting appropriate of money or property for any purpQi directly or indirectly, to any religi# body or sect. Referred. Mr. Dorsey introduced a bill to pi* all colored troops who enlisted in tl army on an equal footing with otb soldiers as to bounty and pensions. Also, a bill to establish the collect): district of Arkansas. Referred. Emulation Offered by (Senator Deri Mr. Davis said he gave notice a fe days ago that he would address the Sei ate to-day in regard to the public det the expenditures of the Government, ? He now desirod to submit a resolutic calling for the appointment of a commi tee to examine the books of the Treasui Department, and accordingly submittc a reeolution for that purpose* and gai notio that be would address the Sena' in regard thereto to-morrow. It wt ordered that the resolution be printr 1-* - 4-L1 anu lie on iuo tame. The morning hour having ezpirei the Chair laid before the Senate the ui finished business, being the resolution ri ported from the Committee on Privilogi and Elections, by Mr, Morton Monds last, in regard to the Prealdent Pro Tem of the Meaale, The pending question being on a inotio of Mr Tburman to indefinitely postpoa the third resolution, which declares thi the office of President pro tan of th Senate is held at the pleasure of tfc Senate. Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, argue that the President pro tan of the Serial held his office at the pleasure of th Senate, and is but for the long time prai tice to the contrary, a very convenier one. The Senate couid elect a Presides pro iem every morning The duration < the office of President ;>ro tem bad bee fixed only by the above course of usaget The Constitution o1 the United StaU did not fix the term of office of Pre6 dent pro ten of the Senate. He could b removed at any time at the will ol th appointing power, which was the Senati He thought the third resolution declare a plain principle of law, which ws binding on the Senate. In reply to question by Mr. Wallace, Mr. Edmund said the power of the Senate over it President pro tem could not be cut shor by an act of Congress Mr. Wallace diftered from the ooc elusions of the majority of the Commil tee He argued that the President pr tem. of the Senate was an officer ot th United States, as well as an officer of th Senate. Mr. Morton argued that the generi law in regard to deliberating bodif which elected their own officers, was tha ia the absence of any provision givin them another presiding officer, the might elect one and remove him i pleasure. Mr. Norwood asked if the President c the United Slates should die to-dai would not the President pro tem. of th Senate become President of the Unite States; and it so, could the Senate chang him and elect another uian to-morrow t rh?t nrtlPB Mr. Morton said he whs uot pr<?pare< to answer that question now. When tb duties ot the President of the Unite States devolved on the President pro leu of the Senate or the Speakerof the IIous of Representatives, it was an open que< tioft whether he could be removed by th Senate or House. Mr. Kernan inquired if the Presider of the United States should die and th President pro (em. of the Senate shoul enter upon the discharge of the duties >. President, could the Senate appoint new President pro (em.? Mr. Morton said it was precisely on of the difficulties surrounding the quei tion, and it was discussed when the iir peachment of President Johnson ws pending. Ilis [Morton's] opinion wt that the president pro (em of the Senat upon becomine President of the Unite States would still be presiding officer c the Senate and would l>e compelled t discharge the duties of presiding office of the Senate as well as these of Presider of the United Stales. Resuming his ai gument he said: The President pr (em of the Senate could not ever bccom Vice-President of the United State When the duties of President devolve upon bitn. he did not become President < the United States, but simply dischart ed the duties of that office for the tim being. Mr. Morton argued that th Speaker of the House of Kepresentativ? could be changed at the pleasure of th House. Mr. Stevenson ?aid he could not arcej the conclusions of the Senator from lr diana. [Mr. Morton.] Mr, Conkling inquired if the Presi dent pro (em. of the Senate should entf upon the discharge of the duties of th President ef the United Slates and h term as Senator should expire before th term of President, was it the opinion i the Senator [Stevenson] that be coul continue to act as President of the Unit ed States. Mr. Stevenson replied that be believe he could continue to hold th office of President wnile Senau and longer, because tbe very act of 17f! made him President. He argued that th Senate could not remove the Presider pro (em of the Senate after he becam President of the United State* shoul such a contingency arise. He denied th doctrine of his iriend from Indiani (Morton) that the President pro tern < the Senate could continue to preside I the Senate after becoming President t the United Stales. Mr. Morton said to indefinitely pc? pone the resolution would be a declart lion that tbe doctrine contained in it wi not recognized by the Senate or at leai there was a doubt about it. He tbougt it important that it should be passed uj on now. Mr. Thurman arguei that if the Pres ident of the United State* was to 4 and the President ftro (em of tbe Senat accepted the office of President of th United States he could not preside ove tbe Senate any longer. Nothing wi more inconsistent with the spirit of t'l Constitution than to invest the same ma with both legislative and exectitis power. It was against the rules of tb Senate to say what the President woul or would not do unlem it had been oil cially common icatedto the Sonata. Tb object of sock a role was to prevent an influence upon Senators' vote* by stab menu as to what the President would d Certainly one discharging the duties < President could not preside over tt Senate. After further "debate by Mssht Alcorn. Edmonds, Thurman, and otbe ft TOM VU UUB, uu uwuvn vi m T barmen, to indefinitely pact pone tl third rmolation and ft tw rejected; ftj 16. Bftjv 36. KY MORNING, JAN1 C Mr. Whyte said he voted for indefl nitely postponing because he did no thini there was any practical question ii the resolution requiring the action of tb< Senate, lie then submitted the follow ing amendment to the third resolution "Until the happening of the cofitin >n gency provided for in the ninth sectior in of an act ot Congress approved Marct ie 1st, 1792. where he is authorized to aci as as President of the United States," to thai e, the resolution, if amended, would read us Resolved, That the office of Presideni pro tern, of the Senate is held at the ce pleasure of the Senate till the happening je of a contingency, Ac. er Mr. Whyte said he meant to fay bj tbis amendment that the Senate should >n have no power or control over the President pro Inn. after he should be called t<: a. discharge the dutiesof President. Tht w amendment wu rejected vy tue wuuni ing vote: Ayes 18; nays 34). Mr. Stevenson gave notice that after c. the resolution should be disposed of he >n would ofler a resolution instructing the t- Judiciary Committee to investigate the y whole question referred to in the debate >d and report such measures as would prore vide against the contingency, wtich te might possibly arise by the death of tin is President, Vice-Pro :ident and President *1 pro tem. ot the Senate. Mr. Tburman moved (hat the Senate 1, proceeu to tho consideration ot executive i- busineaa. Lost. b- The question being on the paa.-age ol bs the third resolution, a* reported by the y Committee, it was adopted. Yea* 34; nays 15. The question then being on the fourth n resolution, declaring that fhe Hon. Thoa. e W. Kerry, Senator from Michigan, who it was elected President pro tern of the e Senate at the last session, is now i'resile dent pro itn%. Mr. Kdmunds suggested that it be d withdrawn, as it was inconsistent with ,e the third resolution, besides Mr. Kerry ie was last elected President pro tern at this session just before the holiday recess, it Mr. Morton accepted the suggestion of it Mr. Kdmunds and withdrew tno fourth >f resolution. n The Chair laid before the Senate a i. memorial of the Arkansas Legislature, is asking the passage of an act refunding i- the tax collected on cotton in the years e 1856-'66-'i>7. ( e Adjourned. d llOl'NU IS Several bills were introduced, among g them:? a By Mr. Clark?For the improvement ^ of the Cumberland river. By Mr. Durham?To permit tobacco k growers to sell to consumers tobacco of their own growth without license; also " for the improvement of Smith's shoals on the Cumberland river. By Mr. Debrell?To make it a misdemeanor for United States officials to do(l mand contributions, to election funds. ig By Mr. Thornburg?To improve naI vigation on the tributary streams to the ' Tennessee river. ^ By Mr. Landers?To establish a mint v at Indianapolis. By Mr. Garfield?To establish a mint >. at Chicago. ' By Mr. Burcbtird, of Illinois?Kcquir^ ing National banks to prepare for specie . paymenU. By Mr. Whiting?To divide the State of Illinois into three judicial districts. ? By Mr. Walsh?To settle the accounts j between the United States and the Slates of Ohio. Indiana and Illinois, j Also tor public buildings at tjuincy. , By Mr. Bland?For the improvement ' of the Gasconado river. Also giving the State of Missouri all ' public lands therein f??r educatioral purposes. it Improvement of HlarNmidy and Lite lie Hauawlia Klv. r*. d By Mr. Hereford?For the improvemerit of the Big Sandy river in Kentucky a and West Virginia. By Mr. Fau.kner?To prohibit Sene ators, Kepreaentatives and Delegates in l" Congress from acting a? counsel or other' wise in suits or proceedings against the a United Slates 14 By Mr. Wilson, of W. Va.?For the ? improvement of the Little Kanawha ^ river. Also for the completion and farnishing of the Custom House at l'ar ? kersburg. r Bills were introduced by Mr. Klkins 1 for the admission of New Mexico as a r* State. '? By Mr. Mills?to pay for ail cotton ie seized by the treasury after May '15, also ' refunding the cotton tax ^ I The House at 2 o'clock resumed con" sideration of the amnesty bill, an l was * addressed by Mr. Garfield. He yielded ? to Mr. Wood, of New York, to make ? inquiry as to the continuance of the de* hate. He remarked that over 10.UU0 0 bill* bad already been introduced ana almost none passed. He understood that twenty-three gentlemen had indicated '* | their intention to speak on the amnesty ! bill. He wished in the interest of the " : country that the debate should terminate >r | a* soon a* possible, so that the House |e ! might procet^l to the necessary business 11 ! of legislation. ; Mr. Randall said he prsposed to more ^ j the previous question in an hour after ^ I Mr. Garfield should conclude. l" : Mr. Blaine claimed that under the ; rules he himself and not Mr. Randall ^ had control of the question. e The speaker said he would rule upon 'r that point when occasion should arise, -i Mr. Garfield commenced hi* remarks e | by expressing his regr?t ar the course which the debate of veeterdav bad taken. ie i j Nr. Mrffld'i Irnarlo e Mr. Garfield commenced bis remarks i, : by expreesing his regret on the course A , which the debate, especially of yesterday, n had taken. Any one who read the re>f port of the speech of Messrs. Cox and Hill would not suppose that the House t- was discussing the question of relieving men from political disabilities. He ui would rather bare said that it was an ar kt rsignment ot the administration of the it country. If he had been called upon to >. pick out words which constituted the topic of debate, he would have picked u out the opening paragraphs of Mr. lulls >e speech. He prayed that if the history m ! of the past fitteen years is as an evidence e of the (race and magnanimity of the r*ir publican party the country toicht be is spared any future exercise of those ririe tues. He desired to bring the House n ' back to the realis?ues before it. In doing e ! so be says that there are two pending proie positions, one made by Randall and the d ' other by Blaine. He said the speech |. made by Mr. Blaine had been ante swered in the first place by the speech y of Mr. Cox, full of brilliant sallies t- bat it was joking at a funeral to joke on o, such an occasion, and in the second placs rf by Um speech et J&r. nut, woko irriign it' Kl out tLe Republican pa'tj aloae, bul ! arraigned miliiootvf people; i. arraigned the hielory of the republic ra arraigned everything that wai glorioa r. ' in iu record nod hicn nod worthy in it M achievement!. He wot deeply and pain m : folly aorry that fuch an arraignmen' I should beta been made on tech a aubject [JARY 13, 1876. He should try to he responsive to the t points made by Mr. Hill. He did. not i desire to hold Jeflerson Davis 9 responsible for the rebellion. He did not . believe in the doctrine of vicarious : atonement in human affairs. Jeflersoa . Davis was no more guilty that any other i man who went in the rebellion with i equal light and intelligence. The quest tion sras whether he as the head of the t rebellion practiced in war the rules of ; war, or whether in appealing to war he L ! obeyed the laws of war, or whether he so > ' violated the laws of that high tribunal as j ! that he did not deserve permission to come ' j back into his place in Congress. That was the whole question and it was as f plain and fair a question for deliberation j as had been ever staled in the House. | He wished that it had been discussed without passion and without passionate thoughts. Coming down to Mr. Hill's denial of authenticity of the charges in regard to Andereonville he remarked that the charges, whether just or unjust, were made by the Government of the United .States, and in that connection he quoted a communication from the Secretary of War in May, 18?>4, calling attention to the condition of a large number of Federal prisoners who had just returned, and stating the enormity ot the crimes committed against those prisoners wore such and so wellknown to the civilized world that it /oi(vhr /? Kn nut on rui>nri! in soniu nor. VU^U* ?V w |/U? < WVIU IU UW UIU jrvi ' marient form. It was then that a comi miltee of the two houses was appointed, ; which committee had l>een characterized by the gentletnaH from New York [Cox ] as a humbug committee, and by the gentleman from Georgia [Hill] as a partisan p committee. There wore lour Democratic i members on that joint committee. They . concurred in the report, which was unanimous, that it was ciear from the evidence i that it was the deliberate purpose of i the authorities of the llebol government so to roduce those soldiers, by depriving thorn of food and clothing, that they might be unlit to re-enter the ranks. A " large number of theso prisoners had come from Hello Island and Libby | Rnson, wtiere they hau been unrier tne very eyes of the chief head of the Confederate government. Referring to the order for theestablishment ot the Andorsonville prison, as , ouoted yesterday by the gentleman lrom Georgia [Mr. 11 111], he asked how was the order executed and to whose hands was it committed?. It i It was committed to the hands ol Gen. ( Winder, a man of whom the Richmond i Examiner said the day he took his departure for Andersonville: "Thank God that Richmond is at last rid of old Winder; God have mercy on those to whom he has been sent." Mr. Garfield then quoted some of the testimony given \ in the Wir/. trial as to tho condition ot the stockade, the dead line, Ac., and toi marked upon it, that in the midst of a i pine country a place had been selected | which had a rniasmitic marsh in its midst, and that a small stream of water having , been found, troops had been stationed on i it above the stockade so that it was defi led by all the excrements of,the camp before it reached a stockade. Resides, that in the very excess ol cruelty, and as if to the negative ever}' clause ol the order, men had been detailed to cut down every I tret* in the enclosure, and left not a tree | or a shrub, or a leaf to show where a garI den or a forest had been. ) He then referred to the report made I by Col. Chandler, who had been detailed ! to inspect the Anderson ville prison,' j which was, by Adjutant General Cooper, submitted to the Secretary of War, with the remark that the condition of that prison was a reproach to the Con fed ori acy, so that the knowledge of its horrors had thus been brought home to the family of Jeflerson Davis, but the answer to Col. Chandler's report, was the issuing of an order a few days alterwards, proi moling General Winder to be CommitI sary General of ail prisons arid prisoners throughout the Confederacy, and when the commanding general of the army subsequently removed Winder, Mr. Davis revoked tbo order of removal and endorsed on it that it was entirely uncalled for? the British army lost in ten great j battles of the Napoleonic war, including Waterloo, not quite Id,000 men, but this ' Major-Goneral Winder within his ter- j riblepit of d?*ath from April 1864, to April I860, pitched into Lis awful trench the dead bodies of hi* prisoners to the number of 12,641. As to Mr. Hill's comparison of the atrocities of Kloiira and Anderson ville, be challenged any j ' Democratic member from the neigh- ! ! borhood of Klmira, Camp Douglass, j j or Fort Delaware to rise and say that any inhumanity had been practiced, these being no democrat* doing so he denounced the assertion as fearfully and ' awfully untrue. Mr. Flatt read a telegram received by i him from B. F. Tracy, late commander at ; ' the military port of Klmira *ayine that ! i the fact* justified biin (Piatt) yesterday | in the debate of tbe inhumanity in the treatment of prisoner* at Elmira. Mr. Walker on the I>eiuocratic side ' of the house arose and raid he lived with* | in 17 miles of Elmira and end. rued the statement made in the telegram. [ApI plause on the Republican ride ] Mr. IIill disclaim"! any purpose in his remarks yesterdai of charging inhumanity on anylsnly about Eimira or anywtiere else. He bad only read, yesterday, the letter from the New \ ork World as evidence of cruelti.* inseparable fwitn prison iite, and he bad wound iup the statement by -aying that the official records showed Tlir Fetalis r NsrUlllf to be greater among Southern prisoners at the North than among Northern prisoners at the South. A member?Lk> you charge that the mortality arnoug the Confederate prisoners at the North was due to cruelty. Mr. Hill?I do not undertake to say to what the mortality on either side of the line was due. I say that it was attributed to the hotrors inseparable from prison life anywhere, and i intended my point to be against striving to work these horrors of the past and to keep alive the strife. [Applau?e] Mr. Garfield remarked that even on the testimony of an anonymous i j letter read yeeterdav by Mr. Hill, the post ot Elmira had been located in as , healthy a piace as there could be found ia the State of N?-w York. He called i j attention to the fact that the place in which the Confederate prisoners who had died at Eimira wsre buried had been i enclosed and cared for by the adminisi j tration which had been characterized by the geottemaa from Georgia as "malignant, ferocious, Constitution beting and i South bating. ' Mr. Hill remarked that at the last time ! Of >rnmlt Ura?M Hi (k* K*?tfc t Tb? Sootbern people uaitad with the i Northers ioldien, and decorated ta i hannoo iooj accord, the rrmra of IM fal> , lec Federal* and fallen Confederate, and I it was because of that florioua feeling - that ha protaeted againct the renewal of I the hwtory of aoch horrors. [Appiaoaa.1 . I Mr GarflaU?do L Who brought it * here? fCriee from Democratic side, Blaine, Blaine, Blaine] Mr. Garfield laid he wished some frt- | ternai feeling could follow the forty | maimed Union soldiee who had recently lost their places about the House. A discussion ensued on that point which developed the statement on one side that, whereat, out 133 subordinate positions in the^last House, only 18 were j filled by Union soldiers; thero were out of 80 subordinate positions in tne piesent | House 26 filled by Union soldiers; and a statement on the other side that in the House postoffice nine Union soldiers bad been dismissed and their places filled by nine Confederate soldiers. , Mr. Garfield passing from that point proceeded to discuss the question of exchange of prisoners to the realities of history and to detail the causes for the < . interruption of the exchange. He showed that the central point of the difficulty was in the determination of the Confederate government and people to exclude from the common rules of war the offi- j cers and men of the negro regiments, while on the other hand the Government of the Union had committed itself to the doatrine that the negro was a man, and not a chattel, and that being a man he < had a right to help tight for the Union, , end that being a soldier the Government was bound^tosee to it that he was treated like a soldier. He also quoted a parage from a communication from Major Ould, the Confederate agent of exchange, to Goneral Winder, to the effect that the arrangements for exchange worked largely in their favor, as they got rid of the most miserable wretches, and received back some of the best material boe\erseen. Commenting on that letter, bad referred to it as an exhibition, not between par nobdefrutnitn, but between jtar diabolum. The object of the outrage ?f prisoners at Anderson ville had therefore been to mako the Union soldiers so that when exchanged, they would valueless. It seemed incontrovertible that the record adduced on that subject was true, and that Jefferson Davis having been conscious of that terrible work at Andersonville, the American people still held him unfit to be ad mittod among tho legislators of the nation. In the course of some further remarks Mr. Garlield, having reference to I tho army and navy officers who had gone Into the rebellion, said that they had added to their other crimes that of perjury in the eye of the law. The word was caught at and Krtfnlrd by Mr. Tucker, trhit caiil I hut if An Ant tit* nf lh* noblest men with whom the gentleman ( from Ohio might bo proud to bo classed an a poor. Mr. Garfield explained that he merely laid theie men were in the eye of the law guilty of perjury, he himself had not made the law or the dictionary. He concluded bis speech with a peroration in which he thanked God tor the peace and for the tact that in the awlul tlame of war slavery bad been burned to death. A I.una Diaeuaalon ibra Kaiast! on a technical point in parliamentary law. whether Mr. Blaine, being the introducer of the matter, bad the right of < reply. The Speaker ruled that be had not, and Mr. Banks endorsed the ruling and doclared that no sounder ruling had ever been given in the House. The Speaker acknowledged the compliment and added that be was sustained in all points by the venerable general clerk, Mr. Barelay, who had twenty- ( aigh*. years eiporienoe in parliamentary law. Finally a compromise was agreed on, by which Mr. Blaine is to speak for one hour to-morrow and then to call the h previous question. The House adjourned at 1:30. ? ?^ ' Term of Office of She I'resides*I. W ashi JfOTow, January 12.?The House < Committee on the Judiciary to-day con- t sidcred the proposed amendment to the n Constitution limiting the Presidential j ? term. A majority of the committee (J seem to favor one term only of six yean, ^ with ineligibility for re-election. ? Moady awl Maahcy. philadelphia, January 12?The MooJy and .Sarikey meeting was crowded r to-uight in a half aa hoar after the doors i. were opened and many left unable to gain admission. Moody preached upon , the importance of securing aalvation at once and said the only way <>f obtaining \ it was to make aa unconditional surrender to God. The remarki of the speaker : had deep effect. 1 SI heel lag Wholesale Market. Ornci o? the VTbkklino Rboirtkr. \ j wedjiehdat. Jan. 12, 187*. J , iluiir.es* in the wholesale line does not improve much. There are no changes in figures from our last week's report. ^ We quote: APPI.KH?(Jreeo apples scarce, bat oi good quality. Quotations, $a ?*4* ou pei ' barrel. BKANH?II fo(g\ -jO per bushel. BI TTEK-lii lietier supply and tali < quality. for prim* article At4 jv-. , CHICK KNrf?Good at l(M|Ur per pound , : I live fit.se*2.% per doMn, no demand. AA.iLIN(J POWDKR-?m?e per pound < BRO ?MH? Kaucy, IS to, >4 UO and It to. | slain nStm-i 71. HK?SWAX-Moderate demand at ?m Me *1 lb. CHKWK--Prime Ohio factory W/jt \ Wir late made. New York Mate 1>.\ Moder- . ste demand. CANNED tHJODH?IJttle doing. Quota Jons: ftwAo-l t> cans 12 16 per dosen ; , 1 B owns, II 75. Tbmotoee? I B> cans. , il l I cans. II 25. tnra-Wlnalaw, C?; ' rtber i???t corn, 9210; oomn>uncorn,9l 7V i KUeril/inrvue-Mlrawberrlca, 92 00; pi neap- < Slea, 12 35; IJma beans, 13 00; string been a, |H; p?**. I '<0^2 ?; damaon pluiua, 93<JU. CR AN IlfcKKlKrt?910 uo?li 00 par barrel. < ! Demand good. I UK1KD KKl'ITH? Apple* II par pound; < peacl<e* lie par lb; new current* ?iy par il>; new layer ralatoe 93 36 par box ; \ ales- ' cla do 11V par lb; prune* 7)yc par lb. < J&HtH- S'odainaod. We quote atVfSV. FIHH?U notation# are lor package* eon lainlng loo pound# aoond flab, light weight* and loftrW quilt/ at prleea to lorreepoDd. Macktnl-Ko. 2, half bbl*., SO; No. 9 do. 96 SO; No. S mad J u in and larga. 16 <JU. lake white flab, 96 SO; lake herring, 93 tat: lake ah ad. g'< Hi; ahe pickerel, ti 60; Potomac rm herring, aona In margel Labrador barring lu barrel#, 91 ?> Codflab. N S; larga tieo/ge* , ' Bank. 7 cent*. FLOUR? Demand moderate. Weqoota , ranry white wbaat at moglfl; eprlng, I M7V*7i#:new 99 6a#9 7i. Rya.?00. I Demand eery moderate. Rap* | roon HritflOe; nkunka JU-4U1 40; Mlnka Mr* K1 Qh; winter M oak rata 1 e ; Ui>|<a?uia IJr , Koz 91 S; OUer 92?*q97 00; Kiaber 93 W0? 1 Sou: Beer 9100*10#9. bimuQfU-Kalr demand; tor dry root 90 afi a). FEA.THEWS?Doll; prime live gaeee at . ? | LWl, V? wr, M-rw. ; II ??1 m. Cbna-Sew ?0#t?. CMU-?e* ?c. I Ky* -?e. tftUlIUES-M?fe?t i(n>i?T wit* u upward tend as ry. Weqoote: OtfaaM4<d?t solder* Id Kaatern porta rery *"?. but the , light demand from the oouutrj dealer* r?- I vrtrt any peeaiaUon, bt( the aapply la . , Rio la undoubtedly abort, and It U ooJr a | uumUoc at time (bat the pateee wUJ be good MlaZn^fSt ; prime do. MS* Thr; choice do. ?l^;Tii*a We; Wheeling ro?ted Jte; old yeMow Rio. al *V; 2Sy aHB^r Sew Orii^nT*mnlamea , new crop, good Me: prl? Me: ?e. dhpor*?Beflced hard*, erto had, powdered, end gran elated. Ue: A cooee. anger* (V9*r; eminirStl t. h|l)?. ]?ar Art vary doU aad prteea ahow oca- \< ' NO. 168. lderaMerwluctlon; Oolong W#?c; * H/ on, ?#90o; Ounpover, 65c$H 00. HAV^-Loom. f17 00#?2 00, baled, t? 00. HIDES??#M par pound*; calf akin* leo ^ffiSS-Aarket qnlet at M 75; no change. IRON-Bar market doll all 4-10#25-10c. nAJLC??i/uii. iua ui wu, h w: oa w d, ? 28; ?d to 7d, IS 60; 4d 6d, M 76; 3d M 00: Id, W 75. Qlia, AO-I-erd oil. extra No. 1 winter (trained. U 12. Carbon oil, Jobbing lou 12o; white, W. 8.. Miner*' Ump 70; Unteed oil. ?5S*)c. Turpentine, eORdbc. ONIONH?II 60^2 00 per berrel. PROVI8IONH?New meea pork ?22#a 60 . i New becon now reedy for market; augar cured heme 15V; augar cured ahouldeni llo 7 pickled shoulder* 10c ;breeklaat becon l<Sc; dear side* UK. New bulk meete now reedy; bulk ahoulderale; heme 13H. New lard 14c in tlercee end l?c In kega. Hup tfic end quiet. ( OTATOLH?Moderate demand at #40 60c per buahel. HAUH?Dull et 2V P*>r RICE?Choice Caroline 7V; Ken goon, R<c. MNUKK?70c; do In boxeaof alxdo>.,|7 76 #0 00. BKKD8?Clever et til 60. Prime Timothy. 12 75 per buah. HHEKPPKLIH-The market la e little more active. Prime butcher's, It oo<gl 'X. Country aklna 25<<?75c. HWKKT POTATDKN-Jeraey.lS 35. TALLOW?Hteedy at 8c for country. TOBACCO?Firm. Nevlea.CJ^Wc,according to brand; twlate unchanged at 0>?7iV'. WHEELING MTOUlH?-HeTl at 111 60J 1200 per 1,000. WOOL?The market la rather dull al WJtto. - Wheeling Retell Racket. Second w a kit? Wtdntsday Mornn.y ?The cold weather kept the country folks away from market ve*ter?lay, sure ..L Tk.. .,nn.. uw<tlnn was rwtarlv miuugu. *u? , u bare a* a wagon tongue. All kind* of if fowl* were very warce, and higher in .ontequence. Vegetable*, too, bad an jpward tendency, but atrange to aay lutter and egga were very plenty at ]uotations. Karly in the morning the luUide tlgurea wore aaked, but near the lose egga went begging at figure* ab>U? 20c, and plenty of fair butter could be tad at 'Joe. Some of the huckatora woulJ lot aell at the lower quotation*, and took heir produce away. Produce?KggJ, 20(?.2¢* per doc; >utter 25(a^)5c per lb; chicken* drea?ed 10036 eta; live 30036 eta each; dried >?an* 8 eta per quart; duck* dreaaed 70(a? )0 eta per pair; rabbit* *J5c each; iquirela 1'Jc wh; corn meal lb ct* per >eck; new corn 46 eta per bushel; buckvhoat 6c per pound; turkoya, live, $1 26 $1 60 each, according to ai/.e; dreaaed 6 cU per lb; l'artridgea $2 60 per doc, ;ee*o 606/ I/O eta each. Dreaaed Hog* bv he quarter 9c per lb. Beet by the |Uarter 7c per lb. l'heaaanta 40c each V KQKTAHI.K*?Potato**, 16 cent* per >ec<i; beeta 6 eta per bunch,cabbage60 6c per head; oniona 80040c per peck ;carota 6c per bunch; *wuet potatoo* 60c per >eck; turnip* 16c per peck; pepper* < per bunch; celery 60/c por bunch, lumpkins 6010c each; paranipa 20< per lack Fruitb and Nctr? Apple* 306/40> ler peck; cranberriea 1'Jc per quart; valnuU 10016c per peck; hickory nut* Ocperpeck. Orange* 40c per doc. Lamina 40c per doc. - ? lew York Dry Ciood* Market .Si* York, January 12.?Buaimw* ontinue* dull with the commiaaion louacaand jobber*. Foreign good* are uiet. Cotton good* ?luggi?h and unhanged. Plaid print* in limited demand, ihirting* le?a active. New atyloa Pai tic, percale* and cambric* are opened by gent*, Gingham* more active in agent* rand*. Woolen* inactive butateady. RlrbmoRd Tokarra larbat. Ja nicer 10, 1876 The aale* of tobacco at auction on I'hange were reauined Monday, 3d in*l, ut tranaactiona have been on a > -ry noderate wale, owing to the rather poor election* offered. Price* have not varied iat?rially from thuee current before 'hriitma*. Very little looee tobac<<> i* ow offered. The break* la*t week jon> riaod 4vi hhda.. 10'j tierco* and !?ti l?o*e? We continue to quote: NKW ih IIQORHKAIW?liARK. riminun. I I .svqi > .L'ua? Verv common I mm 1W Milium to good i (* 4 l?w Kxtr* ?.. _ A lMt>4 ,r.*r-i'ommoii...... 4 <><? &Ai> Medium AAutC TAu <?ood ? '<4| 10 uu Kin*.. IOUO9 law HIURT. .Co*?Common i Wp 6 <jo Milium togood * aw Klne amoklng ...... IJ MM i&<?> Exlreomoklug 1* U><e 'jDim .rav?Common to medium . <*M ?' (rood u? flne ?... 7 OOra II w Kit re tiller* aw* i?w KRARRr.RA-'oinrnon......... IOW<a llw Medium to good _..... Klne 30UUd .r. W kxua - mw-d Additional MarkrU on Fourth 1'age J KragllMt, PIrirIm, leagk Ohla Th*?v?tern being nut under the influ>noa ot iJr. Pierce'e fr olden Medical !> ?:overy for a few weeka, the akin becom?< imooth, clear, ?o(t and **l?*ty, and bang illuminated with the glow of p?rf*l lealth from within, true beauty atand* forth in all ita glory. Tun efleet* of all medicine* which operate upon the aya.<'fn through the medium of the blood ir* neceaaarily tome what alow, no metier how good the remedy employed. While one te three bottle* clear toe akin j( pimplea, blotch**, eruption*, yellow ipota, oornedooea, or "grub#,"' n doien nay poaaibly be required to eara aotn* ,-aaea where the ayatena ia rotten, with icrofulua or virulent blood poiaona. The *ur? of all tbeae diaeaaea, however, from be common pimple U> the wont errofu a m, with the uao of Uiia moat potent igent, only a matter of time. Hold by lealera In madtcinea, WmitAM LIQUOtM. M. gYOTBTlfAy, iiru ^iaa ohio, <axt door to the HaMlnora ft. ft. Depot It Piuaborgb Whiilmaia Filaaa. Order* liar bed I nttaadailUa, and good* hend tor price hat. aa C.WELTY&.BRO XMaUUem aad Importer* ami Daalen la Foreign and Hie Ides, U^NPI Sins, Gordkls k Whiskies, m. uu mamm truir, norif WWBtUJta. W. VA A rttrvii w ?r. icvar fut ft&a /?