Washington. IHE TEXAS PACIFIC. Washington advices under date of of April 29th, states that the friends of the Texas Pacific railway report the prospect of the passage of the Texas Pacific bill continually improving. They report that they can now safely count upon a majority in favor of the bill when a vote can be reached. THK MEXICAN' MINISTER. The Mexican Minister Senor is in Washington and will present his cre dentials to President Hayes during the present week. Stt’UKTARV EVART’s' AIT MOTION. Advices received at Washington from W indsor, Vermont, state that Secretary Kvarts had to postpone the funeral of his son which was Intake place on Sun day the L’Sth lust., and he and his wife took a special train to New York city where another son is lying at the point of death with typhoid fever. A SUNDAY NIC. IIT CAIUNHT SESSION. The president returned to Washing ton Sunday morning from his visit to Pennsylvania and on Sunday evening the members of the cabinet in Wash ington were at the executive mansion in consultation with the president fora long time. The nature of the business is unknown. THK NEW SILVER tXH.I.AU. The treasury officials state as a rea son why no more of the new silver dol lars have been paid out as yet, is that it is not practicable to commence with less than $3,000,000, and it is only now that the treasury has that amount in its possession. The secretary of the trea sury has to-day decided that silver shall bo paid for cur rency obligations to the extent that the Government is required to de stroy notes tinder the SO per cent retire ment provision of the National Rank act. Tins sum varies each month. This, month the amount will he about sl,- 300,000. The Secretary has ordered that this amount shall he replaced i by silver dollars, to he paid out in the 1 current course of business. This will he dune through the various suhtreasnries. 'This is the beginning of the payments in silver on currency ob ligations, and it may ho that the secre tary will devise other means for paying out silver. Hut the question was asked: Why is not silver paid out the same as gold in the redemption of interest coupons? 'The answer is, There has not been sil ver enough for this purpose. If Secre tary Sherman uses silver dollars or sil ver certificates for the purchase of bul lion, and pays out silver dollars for currency uses under the SO per cent retirement provisions, the entire amount of silver authorized to be coined will thus he placed in circulation. The | amount if notes destroyed monthly i under the SO per cent, retirement pro-' vision averages $1,000,000. The amount 1 of bullion authorized to he purchased is from $2,000,000 to $1,000,000. Hy using I silver for these two purposes, therefore, i $4,000,000 monthly can he placed in circulation. That seems to he Secre tary Sherman’s present intention. TKKASI'ItV STATKIM HNT. Tiu' following is (ho troiisury wliite mcnt for the week ending April i?7tli: C. S. bonds to secure r.ulional bunk circulation f.UT. lis.scai liomls to secure imlillc deposits.. 12. HS.inhi L .s. bonds deuosiled for circulation week ending to-day ?.I2.into liomls hclil for circulation withdrawn week ending to-day Mil.boo National bank circulation outstanding —currency notes 221.(12(1,0511 (told notes.’. 1.1:.ISO Internal receipts to-day iw.:(2l • '"slums AMi, HW Hank notes received lor rcdenipllon for week ending to day j.iino.noo Corresponding weak of IbTT .V.KH.oou KATK OK 'J ill-: TAIIIKK llll.L. Advices from Washington under dale nf April 1271 h, nay that aearefnl canvass of the house on the Wood tarilf hill has been prepared, from which it appears that there are 1115 votes for the hill and lot! against it. The canvass lias been made by tin equal number nf demo crats and republicans from each of (he states interested in the fafo of the hill, (hi this canvass the speaker is counted its not voting, and there is one vacancy in the Louisiana delegation. The majority against the hill is therefore ill, anti, unless Mr. Wood concludes that discretion is the better part of valor, and postpones action on the measure until the next session, the enacting clause will undoubtedly la* stricken out. The canvass, of the accuracy of which there can he* no doubt, is in detail as follows: Ai/ninel /’’or the /'ill. the hill. Maine r> New Hampshire ... Vermont Massachusetts 11 Khode island 2 Cimncctlcui 2 New Volk.. 12 21 New Jersey ; i’ennsylvauia 2h Delaware . i Maryland 2 Virginia u North Carolina s South Carolina :i 2 • e'orirla . !■ Alabama * Mississippi c. Louisiana ,'i Ohio. ~ “ 12 Kentucky in Tennessee * 2 Indiana t •: Illinois... . M 'i Missouri in :i Arkansas t Michigan., 1 * Florida ) Texas , b lowa .. '< Wisconsin 1 California ... 1 2 Minnesota Oregon 1 Kansas... 2 vt cs' Virginia. 2 Nevada Nebraska 1 Color a lo .. 1 T.-:als 1 I' IVi Till; HANKHITT LAW, A Washington dispatch of the - ,; th -ays the house last night passed the bankrupt law with a slight amendment which will l*o concurred in l*y the sen ate, and within a few days tho uncondi tional repeal of tho bankrupt law will ho otl'ooted, Tho motion to rotor tho bill to tho Judiciary Committee for further consideration was defeated yeas, 41; nays. 14’> „\ proposition to have tho law take otloot July 1 was also defeat ed. Ou the substitute of tho judiciary committee, providing that the law shall go into cfleet immediately as to involun tarv, but extending tho time for volun tary bankruptcy to Jan. 1. was retooled, and tho senate bill, with a slight amend met it, was passed by a largo vote -‘AH* yeas to ."> ( J nays. SEVERAL SIXTH OI.AIMS. Associated press advices from Wash ington under date of April -Uh states that some time ago the liovernor *>f Illinois employed Con. Logan to in vestigate the claims of the state under theo percent fund. Logan argued the ease before the Hep, ailment and committee of Congress, and the House Public Lands Committee has decided to favoribly report the lul. The bill authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to ascertain the amount of public lands entered by the location of military land-warrants in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois Missouri, Michi gan, Wisconsin, Minnesota. lowa. Ne braska, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana. Alabama, Mississippi, Florida. Oregon, Nevada, and Colorado, where the enald ling acts of admission into the Union contains a stipulation for the payment of o per cent, on sales of public lands. The bill further provides that these stall's shall receive certificates of in debtedness from the secretary of the treasury, payable in twenty years, with interest at 3.0. - ) per cent. TIIK t'.M'll 11' RAILROAD FUN DINT! til 1.1.. The house judiciary committee to-day decided, by a majority of one. to move the reference of the Thurman Pacific Railroad funding bill to that committee when the measure is taken from the speaker's table for action. An attempt will he made, however to pass the bill without reference. I'lli: HANKKITT I.AW. An associated press dispatch of the •Jlth, from Washington says the house judiciary committee to-dav reconsider ed its former action instructing Repre sentative McMahon, one of its mem bers, to move, when the senate bill re pealing the bankrupt law shall be reached on the speaker's table, that it be put on its passage, and by a two-thirds vote, instructed him to report a substitute for the bill repealing the involuntary proceedings immedi ately and repealing the voluntary pro ceedings after January 1, IS7l*. There is quite a change in the sentiment re garding the bill and the result iu the house is considered uncertain as to an immediate 1 repeal of the law. I’KHHVS VId'OIIV. Interesting Reniiiiiseenees In Ili<> Only Survivor of the famous Itallir on Lake (Tie. Clt*veluml (Ohio) Herald. Shelby, Richland comity, has tin* honor ol being ibe home of a man who, as tb(‘ records of liie pension oilier ahuvv, is the only living man who was with Commodore i'erry when the famous battle of Lake Krie was fought. At this quiet little village the old hero, whose name is .lolm Kiee. now nearly S7 years of age, is spending in peace and prosperity the evening ol an event ful life. A Ihriilil correspondent fur nishes the following sketch of the old soldier’s life, gathered from .Mr. Rice's own lips. .hihn Kiee was born August '2'2, 17• J, in a small town in the interior of I’enn sylvania. where he received the usual education of the farmer-boy of that period. At a time when the western army was smarting under the shame and disgrace of I lull’s surrender, at De troit. he enlistod at Lewiston, I’enn., in ('apt. Rogers' company of volunteers, and shortly after took up a line of march for Krie, where they arrived April ill!, I*lll, Commodore I’erry was (here at the time, with the Lawrence and Ni agra, getting ready to beard the English lion, and Mr. Kiee accepted the oiler of $25 for a three* months cruise. After the time had expired he was tiansferred with several of hi- companions, to the schooner Scorpion, ('apt. ('bri-t. (Ihamji lin, of Carlisle, i’enn. It was in this ship that he participated in the engage ment. In several important instances his story materially differs from accept ed authority on the subject. When i’erry left the ill-fated Lawrence in f.is little boat he was rowed by only two men -Jacob Tool and Aleck Netlau who were the only persons in the boat besides himself, the Scorpion escorting them to the Niagara. Mr. Kiee was an eye-witness to the shot that crashed through Kerry’s boat, and saw him jerk off his coat and stuff it into the hole to keep it from sinking. Ju that terrible lim-picrting charge, which occurred shortly aft( r on the front of the ene my's ships, that gained the day, (he Scorpion did noble work with her deck sweeping broadsides, and Mr. Rice stood up manfully with the rest of the heroic crew. Soon after the battle he was again transferred to the land force, and was in the battle of the Thames. Heavers that he saw Tecumseh shot by Col. Johnson in the thickest of the light. < 'ol. Johnson's horse having been shot under him, Teeum.-eh rushed to watd him with uplifted tomahawk, hut was immediately stricken down by a bullet from Johnson's pistol. " Walk in love." Rut a comma after in, and bow tin- -ense will al tered. Miscpßaioou* Nows. UAKI TIMKS. A IWtxm special under date of Vpril _'.Hh statos that tho Matapan paper mills havo shut ilown on tuvomit of dull tiiuos and want of orders. Tho dis pat oh says thoso mills are tho oldest in Atuorioa and havf not boon olosod ho foro for ovor one lumdrod years, nu: n\Kts vixivstnos. A Tans dispateh dated the -Sth of April, states tint over one hun dred thousand had already arrived to witness the eeremony of the opening of the exposition, Wednesday next, May Ist. The priees of living has advanced hut not to the extent that was feaied. The exhihition will not he in full Him until the hogiuniiigof.luuc. The build ings are linished hnt the exhibitors are hehind hand. ni xnwoon noons, Adviees from Peadwood under date of April ‘JSth, says the warm weather for the past few days has eansed the rapid melting of snow in the mountains whieh has swollen the dangerously high ereeks that run through Pead wood. This evening a rain storm set in. and u is feared that a portion of the business centre of this oily wilt he seri ously damaged hy the tlood. The district court was adjourned to-dav on account of water (lowing into the court room. All deeds and papers are being remov ed from the recorder's otliee, which lies in the path of the raging waters, to a place of safety. l.arge gangs of men are at work tearing down bridges and small buildings that obstruct the free passage of the water. MOt i v MAUI Hit s. A I’ittshurg dispateh under date of April :27th says there are indications of a general strike of coalminers in this vemily. About ‘JOO employed in the (.Tstle Shannon mines went out to day, 'The Monongahela mines are nearly all out. Those employed along the Pennsylvania Railroad say they will quit work in a few days unless their demands are aeeeeded to. The trouble is in regard to wages and time of pay ment. The miners now receive *J.I cents per bushel. They want They are paid every four weeks. They w ant the time shortened to two. Kill iris are being made to client a compromise. Nearly P,0(10,000 bushels of coal lelt here In river to-day for Southern ports. Moitt: on t r. lielleville, Mo., adviees under dale of April 'J7th, slate that all the coal miners in that region have struck for higher wages. It is not unlikely that all the miners in St. Clair county, and possibly the adjoining counties, from which St. Louis draws much the largest part of her coal, will join the strikers. INDI AN Sl liIK I Sun Antonio advices *if April l_*7ll l says another Indian raid is reported on (lie northwest frontier. Haiders were ' seen to-day near Fseondido, In tween l ,, orts Concho and Stockton, | wluti* tin* mail ruler was killed ‘last week. These Indians are from the Fort Stanton reservation. The Indians who captured horses and mur dered fifteen persons last week near Laredo have made good their escape. • lUFKNHACKS AT A fKKMU M. A San Francisco special dated April ‘Jtlth stall's that greenbacks have heen purchased in that city for gold coin at a premium of fill cents on every §1 .tIIMI in notes. Secretary Sherman, wishing to transfer some currency-exchange to the Fast without disturbing the volume of greenbacks in San Francisco, drew cheeks upon himsell in sums of $5,1 NH) and $10,0(10, payable in New York. These ehrek' were forwarded to suh treasurer Sherman of this city. Parties ; here w ishing to remit currency to the Fast, and finding it to their ad j vantage to use these checks in -1 stead of purchasing drafts at the I hank, have taken their greenbacks to i the office of the sub-treasurer and made : the exchange. As the sub-treasurer 1 could not give out checks for gold coin, | and as greenbacks in the open market are for the moment quite scarce, the ‘ small premium had to be paid to s* cure them in a sufficient quantity to cover the checks sought in exchange. • VNADI VN I'AII.I Ki;.-. A Toronto telegram under date of ) April -tilh says the last circular of Messrs. Dunn Wimper A Cos., shows j that the number of failures in the dominion of Canada in the best , three months of tsf.S was odd, with ! liabilities amounting to slt,loo,s*l!'.*. ! The number of failures in the first three ! months of L v 77 was 57-, with liabilities j amounting to $7,d7b,511, and the j nmnher in the first three months of Ino was 117, with liabilities amount ing to $7,-117,-!W, showng that the amount of liabilities has increased year hy year. The past w inter is said to have heen the worst that has been experienc es! for twenty years in its effects upon : the general retail trade of the country, j -the results anticipated from the ‘ abundant crons not having been realized, while the shrinkage of resources dur ; ing the past six months has been simply ! enormous. AFRICAN UOI.I) ANPKIt.VKR MINK-, i Alexandria, Egypt, advices of the —bth hist. say that Captain Burton, the celebrated African traveler, com manding the Khedival expedition to -urvey mines in the Land of Median, arrived here on Ins return, bringing twenty-five tons of specimen ore, com prising gold, silver, copper, tin and lead, c.ipt. Burton found three snl : plmr (•‘•nires, three turquoise mines, and extensive deposits of gypsum, salt pet re and rock salt, iff* goes to Fng land to arrange for working the mines for the khedive. THK STKIKK AT MAMTIKSTKR. , A i/mdon telegram of the gtith inst,, says that nearly all the operatives at bnrnley whose notices expired lust evening, have joined in the strike, t housands of idlers at black burn are wandering the streets, some of them becoming very clamorous, I Kmployers in the l.aneasshire district say arbitration is out of the question, run ANouv win n. A Sioux City. lowa, dispatch dated; April -nth. states that the storm of; Sunday did greater damage than | anticipated in previous reports. In the vicinity of Wall 1 ake hardly a house or a fence escaped injury. The Catho lic church at Corroll was completely demolished. The house o' Camel 1 oilwas blow n down, and a child torn I from its mother's arms by the wind was found in a marsh cast of the house, while Mrs, Led was found half a mile ; west. I'he ground wasstrewn with dis embowled dead ducks, geese, etc , many heads of cattle were killed. Wm, llollen, while trying to drive the cattle trom his barn, was borne up j into the air with the barn and cattle' and has not been seen - inee. A boy, last seen driving cattle home, lias also mysteriously disappeared, Wm. beach and two sons, near Sac City, were killed. Peter Lampman near Ida City, was instantly killed. In the same locality ten horses were destroyed and live persons Willed and ten wounded. xx K Mtrtii.n vkk am mimno A bismarek dispateh of the ‘doth 1 states that there were distinct shocks of earthquake at (Jlendone, on the Yellow stone, on the 17*1 h. They occurred at intervals of half an hour. The ground{ opened for a distaneeof otK'yards, with i a strong smell of sulphur. Thecreviee i revealed a coal vein live feet thick ot u Nfiiiititon. Advices from the capital ol the Re public of Mexico of the L’ It h saysMinistei Poster oll'ii ially announced the recog nition of the Mia. government hx the Tinted States on the bib inst. President Mia/, received Mr. Foster, ollieially, on 1 the tenth, and mneh cordial feeling was manifested on both sides. The press discuss the event and (he 1 erdo jour ; mils denounce the Mexican government for Inn mg, as they charge, accented the j recognition w ith insulting language from Secretary Fvnils, The Potato-bug In Kughiinl. The London Npee/nfor, of April it, re ports this bad piece of news concerning the introduction of the American pn lalo-biig into Knglnnd “A Colorado beetle, it is said, has made good his landing on the coast of tJlamnrganshire. A Cardill'lion It is strange that so many people can not be made to realize that, in matter* pertaining to health, what is safe and xv ell for one person mav be ruinous to another. In regard to diet, it is fre qneiilly an absolute truth that " xvhat is one man’s meat is another man's pois on.” The same principle is true respect ing exercise, clothing, bathing, and nu merous habits of life; and it is fully for a person to conclude that because a friend is benefited by, or endures, a cer tain course of treatment, that lie him sell may safely adopt it. Mach one needs to study Ids own eonslitution, and to follow sorb hygienic practices as are found to best suit it. Inflexible rules persisted in for tbejpnrpose of" harden ing the constitution" have killed many a tender child and delicate invalid. -* * *- Mthongh as yet there has been no glimpse of it, a minor in Paris informs the public I but among the jewels lent by Queen Victoria to the exhibition the world-famed diamond Koh-i-noor forms the centre of a diadem composed of eighty—ix mormons gems. The Kan davassy, formerly one of the eyes of an Indian goddess, valued at X PJO.OOO, and which has only lately come into the possession of her Majesty, is the centre ol another diadem. An emerald neck lace, said to be the finest in the world, is also among these jewels. The Muiilhlu Wnithir Itrriiir of the Tinted Stales Signal Office for February gives as the most prominent features the continued high temperatures of the Upper Mississippi and t lie Ixwer Mis souri valleys; the general diminution of rain east of the Rocky Mountains, and its excess on the Pacific, coast; the re markable wind velocity of bV> miles per hour at Mount Washington; the severe thunder storms of the 120th; and the forwardness of vegetation in the Western Stales. Anew steamer, of which great expecta tions are entertained, has been built for the passage across the F.nglish Channel, The x e-se| i- modelled after the < 'astalia, whieh consists of two vessel* placed side h_x side, and is warranted to go twice as' fast, or at the rate of sixteen miles and three-quarters an hour. Her ifairiels Kxpress, and her peculiar construction is said to he a guaranty against sea sickness. , V CHI UPS HKA TM-HKH. V Pathetic Story of the l> iuj>r Visions of a l.tttlo Heaf Mute. SI. l.oul* JoviminU AprU IS. The follow ing story was told a Jour nal reporter yesterday by a lady whose voracity is undoubted Some four yean* ago, Carrie Wilson, an interesting little girl. aged iilnml ten years, after a pro trueted illness, died at the residence of her parents. No. I,l'-1 North Fourth street. From the day she entered this eare laden world her troubles bewail, for she was horn a deaf mule. Her parents were very poor people, ahlennly by the strictest economy to shift through from one year to another, and the little one. whose organs ol both hearing and speech had been stricken by the Hivine hand, was looked upon as a something human, of course, but nothing more than a little bit of bodily ills, who would always, in her helplessness, have tube provided for. A lew rears ago her lather died, and her mother found it doubly hard to support a large family of small children. About this time Mrs. Ann Hailey, a great hearted Chris tian w oman, residing at No, 'J.7OS Chon lean avenue, became acquainted with Mrs. Wilson's eirenmstanees. and hav mg a tender spot in her heart for the huh' unfortunate, for site also had a deaf daughter, concluded to adopt, little Carrie. Mrs. Wilson was not averse, and after a few week’s sojourn in Mrs. Hailey's family, Carrie was sent to Fill ton, Mo., to be educated under the su pervision of Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle. She spent two veins there, aeipiiring know ledge w ith a degree of rapidity astonish ing for one of her lender years, but bet health, alway s poor, failed entirely, and she was brought hack to SI. bonis to die. Mrs, Wilson had, in the meanwhile, married again, and being in heller cir cumstances than when Mrs Hailey adonled Carrie, requested that she should he once more placed under her eare. The days went by, and the little innocent creature grew weaker and weaker, for consumption never relaxes its grasp from King or clod, Princess or peasant. One forenoon Mrs. Hailey and her daughter Mattie received a message slating that Carrie was dying, and (bat she asked for them continually, and half an hour later they w ere at the bed side where the large sparkling eyes were taking on a happier expression. Through her feeble signs she com miriiealed the wish to be left alone with her benefactor, and when her relatives had left the chamber she re luted the following story through her own peculiar language At S o'clock that morning she was all alone m the little room, her mother having readjusted the pillows and gone into another part of the building to at lend to her household duties, and on looking up, she saw her dead father standing over her. She was not. fright ened, for be seemed so kind and good, and Ilia face was just like the portrait she had so often looked at for hours at a lime in Mrs. Hailey's drawing room the portrait of Christ at the well of Samaria. “He seemed pleased and happy,” her little lingers said, “and, bending his head down by the side of my ear, he whispered, and I heard just as plain ns any person could hear, ' Carrie, my poor little ulllieted lamb, yI hi will soon have no more trouble, for I I will take yon to Jesus in exactly four j hours. F.veu as ho said that, Mrs. ■ Hailey, our clock in the other room that I cun see when thu dour is open, | and it was open then, for mamma had left it that way so if 1 wanted anything I could tap on the headboard, and she would hear it, indicated just H. 'Only four hours more, Carrie, tin said, and I. heard it so plainly 100, and then taking my face between his hands that were so light and soft and not a hit like they used to he when he was on earth before, lie kissed me stuill a long kiss, and left me." The liltle hands lay quite still for a. minute or more, apparently tired out, said Mrs. Hailey, and then they sig naled : “I begun to feel easier then; this pain in here (nointing to her heart) left me all at once,and I thought I could gel tip and play like I Used to do before 1 I got sick. < Mi, I know puna will come, I for lie was so earnest, and he never told i me but one story, and that was about, j Santa Claus, and it wasn't a very big story. Hon’l yoii think he will, Mrs. ! Hailey ?