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THE DEMOCRAT. t* ;"V" '' ■ ..sawPPW 1 MINERAL POINT, . - • WIN. ""PKIDAY^ECEMBER 20, 1870. PCHHEUT PARAGRAPHS. Wiu. P. Noble, the well-known artist, died at the Cincinnati hospital after years of Buffering, from consumption. Miw. Emma F. Whiti;, wife of Mr. /. L. White, the chief correspondent of the New York Tribune, died at Wash sngton a few days ago of typhoid pneu monia, at the age of 27 years. ELMIRA (N. Y.) Free Preu\ Matt Car penter was in New York the other day, and a reporter of the Slur made several attempts to interview him—the senator ran away every time. The London World says it was gen erally admitted in Paris society that the late Countess de Montijo married Pros per Merimno two or three years after the death of her first husband. Eugen io generally called him godfather. The venerable Dr. John Lord mot the oilier day in Boston with an accident that came very near being serious. On the way to the platform whereon he was to lecture, ho fell down a (light of stairs and was severely cut on the forehead. Anew memoir of Lord Beaconslield, just out in England, bears this motto from Artemus Ward: ‘‘Mo asked mo what was my prinsorpuhV ‘I ain’t got onny,’ I said,‘not a, prinserpnl; I'm in the show bigness.’ ” The night editor of the Winnipeg Timm put "Death of a Prelate" over the announcement of the decease of a bishop, lint the compositor made it “Death of a Pirate," and them is con siderable mirth in the Manitoba papers thereat. Tin; AClimtii (da.) ComtUulion says that John VV. Drew, the Now Hamp shire temperance advocate, is the best practical worker that has over attacked the evil of intemperance in Georgia, and that lie lout done much good in Atlanta. Thk will of Mrs. 1> irsey, who loft her estate to Jeff Davis, is being contoatod in NtwOrleana hy Mra. Edward I’eck ham, of Louisiana; Stephen I’oroy Ellia, of Brooklyn, N, Y.; Mortimer Dahl gren, of Hi. laiuia, aiater ii'id hrothor of the late Mra. Harah Ann Doraey, who wart of unaound mind. Thk helm of the late W. H. Hillyer, a memherof Qen. (iranl'a a lad during the war, who died in Washington city in 1874, have entered anil in the Floyd cir cuit court to obtain f 10,000 led tlieir father under the will of the late Eliaa Ayera, an uncle of (len. Hillyer, Bismarck is at Ida country house, suf fering much from nervoumuHs. Ilia physician tells him that Ida excessive smoking is aggravating, and possibly the cause of the ailment, and advises him to flop the use of Ida pipe altogether and coniine himself to light cigars. But the chancellor delloa the doctor and rtticka to Ida pipe. A DkhMoinks letter to the Keokuk Gate City says: ‘Ten million applicants for places in the slate-house, and the Stale odlcora are worried to death. Gov. Goar, great big-hearted fellow, hears them all and looks pilliugly out of his big blue eyes at 'em, hut it is of no use. Men women, children all want a plum. Mu. Ai.dkn, the Now York Timm hu morist, appears on the am faced the literary sea again just long enough to say; “There is no part of the human frame which is more unsatisfactory than the liver. No hoy ever had any fun with his liver, and no man ever found his liver a source of pleasure or a means of improvement. The Turks, it is true, believe that the liver is the seat of the atlbcllouH, and in their poetry and love-letters express their ardent de sires to win the livers of desirable per sons of (he opposite sex. This, how ever, is one of the errors of the Mohammedan faith. We know that to speak of two livers that beat ns one, is a gross anatomical error.” Jami* W. BcilANi'MKttn, who has spent a life-lime in trying to secure the reversal of what he regards an unjust sentence dismissing Idm from the army, writes to the Baltimore Sun a letter, in which ho says: “1 have fell it due to my honor and upon principles of inmutable justice, to have set aside arbitarv and false ntlicial proceedings, by which 1 was twice ejected from the army, against which 1 determined never to cease to protest, and demand a reversal.” lie objects decidedly to the description given of him as “an old gentleman, bent with the weight of more than three score and ton years.” “1 am not,” lie says, " ‘bent with the weight’ of any number of years, or anv other burden. I never have 'bent' to anything, and in body and spirit 1 am ery nearly as 1 was on the commence ment of my contest for my rights.” VERY LATEST NEWS A Record of Important Events Domestic and Foreign. WASHINGTON. A hearing in the contested congress ional election case of Bradley vs. Siemens, of the 2d Arkansas district, was begun Dec * 17th. Tub post oiilco department, on the 22nd insl., considerably increased its black list of persons and firms to whom cither the, delivery of registered letters or payment of money orders is forbidden. It is rumored about Washington, says a telegram of Dec. 22nd, that Hecond Assistant Postmaster General Brady is to resign his position; that William 11. Holloway, the postmaster at Indianapolis, is to succeed him, and that E. B. Muilin dalo, the proprietor of the Indianapolis Journal, is in turn to succeed Holloway. A disi'ATcii of Dec. lllth says Major Thomas F. Barr, Judge advocate of the I'nlted Htates army, has been retired from duty at the nead(|uarlers depart ment of Dakota, and ordered to report for duty in the ofllce ol the secretary of war. Major Barr will be Hecrelaty Ramsey's private secretary. “Etxmwooti," the residence of tin; late Hon. Hulmon P. Chase, and later ol Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, is offered for a ale, say* a dispatch of Dec. 17ih. it will be remembered that last year this es tale was in danger of being sold for taxes, but Mrs. Hprague appealed to congress lo relieve her from this taxation, giving as her reason her extreme poverty. This appeal met with considerable opposition at (list, hut Hcnalor Cockling,after much effort in behalf of Mrs. Hprague, finally succeeded in getting congress to pass a bill. Now again Mrs. Hprague llnds herself unable to support such an estab lishment, and by the advice ol friends lias concluded lo offer it at private sale. The sale will lake nlaco next spring. Tiik Joint committee on the comple lion of the Washington monument, sub mitted a detailed report to the house, on the Kith, showing that #117,1)08 had been expended in the work of straightening the foundation, leaving available #.'12,01)7 of the appropriation for that purpose. #itl,;i,V) bad boon expended upon the com pletion of the monument, leaving #OB - available of the appropriation for that purpose The total amount unex pended of the appropriations and now available for carrying on the work is #100,701). Tills amount will be sufHeici.' to complete the strengthening of the foundation providing the iron frame work of the Interior stairway for SOB feet, to construct tin! shaft and add 122 feel to (he height of the monument. To eon Unite (lie work until Oct. 01, IBHI, it will require #OOO,OOO additional, and to com plete the shaft lo the proposed height, 500 fool, will require #077,021. True I'nlted Htates consul at Liverpool, says a dispatch of the 22nd, in his an nual commercial report to the depart ment of the stale, says the imports from (he United Htates to Great Britain for the last year exceed those of the previous year iiy over #50,000,000. The most re. markable increase is in provisions. In 187-t Great Britain paid the United Stales for bacon, bams, beef, butler, and cheese, #07,000,000. 11l 1878, #118,000,000. In breads!tiffs, the Increase of last year over the previous year was #H5,000,000. Over 1874,the increase was #85,000,000. The importation of horned cattle is yet in Its infancy; iii 1875, 000 were im ported; In 1878, (18,000. Sheep in 1877, numbered 10,120; In 1878, -17,507 Thu importation of fresh href is steadily in creasing. In 18(11, I,(1)5 cwl; in 1878, •180,012 cwl. In naphtha there is a marked decrease of importation gener ally. The British trade with the United Slates shows an Increased revival. I'lltlCH AND OAKUAI/l'l ICS. ISliciiakli Jhnkinh whh killed Doe. 11l ill it nml mine near Foltsville, Pa. Tine steamboat Muffle Marker, which had Juhl arrived from Montgomery, was burned at tlie wharf in Mobile, on the 20th limb, and tUIO hales ot cotton were either burned or damaged by water. An express train from Philadelphia ran into an engine at Hound lirook, N. V., Dec. lltlh. The engines were wreck ed and their passenger roaches thrown from the track, but no one win severely hurt. A i.riN atir broke into Hie depot ai Saco Maine, Dee. IHth, and although shot and wounded by a watchman, upset the stove and lamps setting lire to the place and himself. The building was do slroyed and (he lunatic, fatally burned. Wiitl ie If It. MeHlree, a farmer living in Dallas county, lows, and Win. Kilfrit/., were returning homelroni DesMolnes on the 1 Sih lust , they began running their horses and crowded each other oil a bridge. MeHlree was instantly killerl and his son dangerously injured. Kilfrit/ was also fatally hurt SICYMOi'U <l. Stomk's shoddy mill at nenninglon, Vl , was destroyed by lire Dec. 20th. Mr. Slone and two workmen had to rush through the (lames to reach the street and Slone was so severely burned that the dial soon afterwards. Others were badly burned. When Mrs. Slone was informed of the death of her husband she became frantic with grief and has since become a raving maniac, A Ktuic in Bismarck. Dak., Dec. bSih, started in a restaurant on Main street and burned twelve stores and buildings. The Sheridan house was saved with dilllcully. Loss |50,000; Insurance small. The heav iest losses are; lUsenberg, dry goods, ♦■j:. ,000, small insurance; D flailey A t’o, hardware, f 10,000, no Insurance; McKin/.ie A (IralUn, (14,000, no insur ancc; 11, Marshall, hoots and shoes, $2, 000. fully Insured. Other Individual losses are under (l.ftOO, A moht sickening accident occurred at the I'ounly Asylum mar Ottawa, 111., yesterday morning, says a telegram of Dee. 21 st. Sometime during the night past an insane woman named Kate Flynn wrendu and the steam pipes in her room from their fastenings, and broke them to pieces. When the engineer made steam this morning It escaped with force into the cell of the unfortunate woman, and, before it was discovered, site was actual ly oc.okid alive. When found, life was exttmt. Coroner IVttU was nolilled, and an luijucst was held. The victim lias been insane for twenty-six years, and an Inmate of the county house tor twenty one years. No blame is attached to the officers of the asylum. Vavkttk Smith, Jr., 21 years ot age son of Judge Fayette Smith, of the com mon picas court, was found dead in lad yesterday morning, says a Cincinnati dispatch of Dec. 17th, under circum stances which load to a suspicion t f sul cide. He retired at the usual time last night, but the family observed that lie was unusually despondent. He did not rise at the usual hour Ibis morning, and when called did not answer. Ills father broke open the door and found the boy dead, and something like black vomit on the pillow. The coroner was called, and will subject the vomit to analysis. Young Smith had been employed in a commis sion house, but was recently discharged. The proprietors refuse to answer ques tiona concerning the cause of his dismis sal, but give out that they were reducing their force. The supposition is that the young man grew despondent over this af fair and look poison. Ai.itKiiT Duffy, a ad 1(5 years of age, met with a horrible death at Hie Fulldner box manufactory, in Milwaukee, short 1 y after 5 o’clock on the morning of Dec. I7lh. Dully was employed in the factory near a line ot shafting, and, in some manner unknown, was caught by the belt and whirled about at the rate of 120 revolutions per minute until life was ex tinct. When discovered his body hung suspended from the shaft firmly fastened between the bell and pulley. The body was cut almost completely in two Just, above the hips. Both legs were cut oil’ below Hie knees, the left arm broken in four places, and the light arm in one place. Daily’s hoots, ana portions of his fe I and legs, were scattered about the factory for a distance of twenty or thirty feet. The parents of the deceased live tail a short distance from the factory, on Second street. He run into the house fir a cup of tea at 5 o’clock, saying to his mother that lie had to work until 7, and, scarcely fifteen minutes later, he was found dead, as Indicated above. The play at the Philadelphia theatre, in New York city, was interrupted about i o’clock on the evening of Dec. 18i.li, by an alarm of fire. The treasurer of the theatre was leaving the box office in the vestibule, when hit attention was called to a cloud of smoke rising from tliu stairs leading from the vestibule to the theatre. The flames had started under the stair case in the vestibule. Means were at once taken to prevent a panic in the au dience. There were three e.vils from the theatre to which doors were thrown up and police officers called in ami asked to guard the Broadway entrance. In spile of the precautions there was excitement. Information Unit the build ing was on lire reached the ears of per sons in tlie rear of the house and spread through Hie audience like lightning. A police officer stepped inside the door and Informed the audience that there was a fire in llio vestibule and advised everyone to leave the building quietly by iwo doors on Twenty Hecond street. 'l'hls quieted Hie alarmed and the people dispersed without accident. The Humes originated from packing about one of the pipes attached to (lie heater in the vestibule. Damage light. A suKdAii telegram of the Kith, from Clarksville, lowa, says: A lire broke out in 11. F. L. Burton’s store, and be fore the Haines could be conquered the following buildings were burned, involv ing a loss of over $40,000: H.F. L. Bur ton, variety store, loss $0,000; insurance on stock, $1,000; Hchclongcr & Hesse, dealers in hardware, saved none of their goods; loss on stock, $8,01)0; on store, $15,000; on stock in warehouse, $1100; on warehouse, $000; total insur ance, $:t,:t(IO on slock, $2,500 on store building, $1,51)0 on warehouse. Joe (iillierl, drugs and groceries, saved none of his goods; loss on slock, $1,500; on building, $1,000; on household goods, $100; m insurance. Henry Iglenfritz, dealer in furniture, on building, $1,700; on stock, $2,500; in- building, $70(); on stock, SOOO. Judge Palmer, law and insurance, saved must of his papers and hooks; loss by damage, about SSO; on Uni building, owned by parlies in Dubuque, $2,200. James Butler, damage to residence and on household goods at least $1,500. The total loss will loot up at least $40,000, and gives the town a terrible back-sot, and nearly ruins many of the parties. Bur ton will at once open up again, lint the ollicrs are not yet determined as to the future. CRIME. (lico. Puit'K, colored, who last summer shot It 1h employer, Villlu liliifk, was found guilty of murder in the llrat de gree, hy a (,'liu'inmiti Jury, on Ihu 17th tost. A nkouo named Frank Hakur, was hung at Sussex county court house, \ a., Due. !!•, for Ihu minder of Henrietta Shamls and her infant child, near Stony point station, on Iha night of Aug. Ul. Kiuvakii ItuouiK shot and killed his son Frank on Portland avenue, Chicago, Dec. i7th Frank was a hardened char actor, who was in the hahil of abusing liis parents. On the night in question to* came home drunk and assaulted Ins father, who, in self-defense, shot his son. At Carlisle, Pa, Dec. IN, a woman named Zell was sentenced to he hanged for murder. She poisoned an old woman about six months ago, picsumahly at (he instigation of a man who will ho tried soon. It transpired, Dec. 18, at Cincinnati, that the late mayor of that city, Mr. ti. W. C. Johnston, was a defaulter to the amount of f-1,300 His hooks showed erasures on almost ev.ry page, and Ins private secretary testified that he look money whenever he needed it, making no minute of it and directing him to “doctor” the records Pinkkuton’s detectives arrested in Chicago, Dec. IHth, Thomas Wall, a for mer employe of the Southern Kxpress Company at New Orleans, where, in 1 SOS, he stole a package of money con taining |IO,IIOO. Detectives have been on W all's track for eleven years, with the result above indicated. roiu-uuN. Tuk (amine in Silesi iis spreading Into new districts. Tinccitarls using extraordinary pre cautions to prevent assassination. Cknkr.vi. Mxuuuvr, president of the European railway association, died at Cairo, Dec. ITtli. Thk death-rate in London this seasen is unprecedentedly large, says a dispatch of the 18lh. An explosion in a salt mine at Sehwahish Hall in Wurlemherg on the Kith ilist, caused the death ot twelve miners. A dispatch from St. Petersburg Dec. 18th. says the police can not discover the nihilists because they exist a/iere the authorities do not venture to look. The real conspirators are found in the draw, ing rooms of the rich and noble. Thk annual report of trade in the Sheffield (Kng.) district, says a telegram of Dec. S3, show s a remarkable deer*, .se in the tile trade. In 187il the value of tiles sent to the United States was $05,- 074: in 1875, $107,900’; in 1878, $71,049; in 1 K 79, $54,871. Imports of American food products are enormous. A London cablegram of Dec. 23nd says: The Afghan disasP rs excite gen eral alarm and Tory consternation. The queen is reported to be decidedly dis tressed, and publicly blames Lord Lytton for suppressing and distorting infor mation. There are many demonstrations of public indignation at the official dis ingenousness. The press, long patient, now denounces the infatuated, insolent restrictions imposed on correspondents. The result is perilous for the government. The private remonstrances are numer eus and emphatic. The details ofthe last Chilian victory, received at London Dec. 18lh, slate that an allied force of Peruvians and Boli vians, 11,000 strong, marching north west from Noria, to Clfecta junction wit reinforcements of 5,000 men under com maud of the president of Bolivia, at tacked, on the 2lsl of November, the Chilian advanced corps of 0,000 men, who occupied an intrenched position at Dolores, near Agua Santa. The Chilian heavy cannon decimated the ranks of the allies, whose cavalry charged three times upon the guns, and attempted to curry them off, hut were unsuccessful. In the evening the rear of the Chilian force came up, and decided the day. The allied forces were driven back, and their camp was taken, in which thirteen cannon were found. Many wounded officers, includ ing the Bolivian (leneral Villegas, were taken prisoners, and another of the al lied generals was killed. The Chilian loss was heav>n_ (IKMIUAh NOTKS. Gkoiioe Havaojc, a well known tem perance advocate, died in Washington Dec. lOlh. Ji.’ixiK Aimer Ha/eltine, aged 8(1, died Dec. SOlli, at Jamestown, N. Y. Ho was a member of congress in 1832 54. Hon Wm. McKee, senior proprietor of the l/M'i-/hinorrul, died suddenly of heart disease In St. Louis on the 20)h inst. 'l’ll k first locomotive ofthe Chicago Burlington A CJuiucy road ran into Des Moines on the 18lh inst. Tuenok W. Pa uk, Geo. W. Hoyt J. W. Hurt, H. T. Thompson, Nathan Appleton, and Cap). Totten, left New York on Mon day, Dec. 22d, for Asplnwall, where they will meet M. De Lesseps. and proceed with him ovt r the proposed route of Hie canal. Hoi S’roN, Tex., is without money and credit, and heavily in debt, says a tele gram of Dec. 21st. All the city officers have resigned, ami the prisoners in the jail are unguarded. The liabilities of the municipality amount to about $3,- (100, 000. Mus. Hkniiy Fui.i.bhton committed suicide in Boouslioro, lowa, Dec. lOlli, by swallowing concentrated lye, and afterward cutting her throat with a razor, while laboring under a lit of tem porary insanity. She leaves a Dube but a few months old. Capi'. Swimm, of the schooner Laura llruce,reported upon his arrival at Hal ifax, Dec. 10th, that when he was sailing in the vicinity of a supposed uninhab ited island of Hie West Indies, he was chased by a piratical craft and only es caped being overhauled by superior speed. i,. H. Kkmiai.i,, of the Kalamazoo, Mich., Tdei/rajdi s.dd to a New York party, on the 18th inst.,a half interest in the Champion mine, in Poughkeepsie (lulch, in the Uncompahgre mining dis trict, in the San Juan reuion of Colorado, for SIB,OOO spot cash, lie bought it six, months ago lor s2llO. Ciiah E. Hakiui, lessee and mauagerof the Evansville, Ind., grain-elevator, is an absconder, with liabilities estimated at from $iiO,(J(l(l to $8(),U00, say a a dispatch of the 21st insl. Early in the season he sold futures on wheat atß7' a '. Since that time llni price of that cereal has reached $1 .11,"i, and his investments in margins have used him up. The New York Herald of Dec. 21st devotes a page to Edison’s triumph on electric illiiminatian giving a full, accurate account of his work Irom its in ceplion to its completion with illustrative diagrams. The herald says the first public exhibition ot Edison’s long looked-for electric light takes place New Years Eve at Menlo Para. Ukn. Grant held an interview with Uen. Amman on the Nicaraguan canal project in Philadelphia on the IHih insl Nothing definite could be learned of the result, although from lemarks made by Ammen to personal friends, it was be lli veil by many that Grant had signified his willingness to accept the presidency of the company. Says an Ogden. Utah, diapateh of Dec. 17th: Josephine Taylor, aged 22, daugh ter of the president of the Mormon chinch, attempted to escape Irom Utah and her father’s harem, yesterday. She got on the Union Pacific train, but hav ing no ticket or money, was putoiTut the first station east. Stic endeavored to get the agent at Uintah to secrete her, but he refused, and her father’s friends being notified, she was taken back to Salt Lake to-day. Tn k governor and council of Maine completed their canvass of the state vole Dec. 17, and sent out iertiticales of election to the senators and representa tives whom they declared to bo elected. The result of Hu* canvass is as follows: In the senate the fnslonlsts are given 30 members; the republicans 11. In the house the fuslonisls have 78; the re. publicans (11. Five cities with twelve republican representatives—Portland, Hath, Lewiston, Dockland, and Saco— are without representation. The house will Unis ho twelve members short at its organization. Thk body of a young man, who is sup posed to have lived in the vicinity of New York city, was cremated at Wash ington, Pa., Dee. Kith. Those In charge of the remains refused to give any par ticulars of the case, even declining to divulge the inline. They gay they wore simply carrying out the young mail's dying wishes in keeping the affair as quii las possible. The body reached Washington at 11 o'clock In the morning, accompanied hy two men, and was at once taken to the crematory, where it was almost Immediately placed in tlie retort. The process of incineration was completed in about thru* hours, slier which the two men got Into a carriage and drove away. A telegram was Sent to one of the Sew York papers with a view iif ascertaining the name of the young man, hut nothing could he learn ed respecting him. It is a very myste rious affair as it stands. Tiik republican national committee met in Washington Dec. 17tli for the purpose of choosing a chairman in place of the late Senator Chandler, and to select a time and place for holding the next republican national convention. A temporary organization was effected by 'be election of Elibu Enos as chairman and 11. C. McCormick secretary. The resignations of Cornell, of New York, and E. F. Noyes, of Ohio, w ere accepted and Thomas E. Platt and W. C. Cooper respective fy appointed to fill the vacancies. Only one vote for chairman of the national committee was taken which resulted as follows: Whole number of votes 42; nec essary -o a choice, 22. Donald Cameron, (Pa.) received 22; Averill, (Minn ) 19; blank 1. Thomas B. Keogh, of North Carolina, was chosen secretary of the committee in place of Mr. McCor mick who declined to serve longer. The committee then proceeded to vote upon a place for holding the national conven tion. The especial claims of Chicago, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Saratoga and Philadelphia, were urged. The choice fell upon Chicago, the vole standing, Chicago 24, Saratoga 14, Cincinnati 2, Indianapolis 2. The time for holding the national convention was fixed for Wednesday, June 3d. Anodic recess was taken until evening, when resolu tions in memory of the late Senator Chandler were adopted, and the commit tee adjourned. A Peoria, 111 , special telegram of the 19th to the Chicago Journal says: The failure of Thomas Neill, the great local live-stock operator, is the only theme of conversation here. Mr. Neill's continued absence causes considerable uneasiness among his friends and creditors. This un easiness developed yesterday afternoon into positive alarm, and there was a mad rush ot his credi itors to secure themselves. Suits were begun; old deeds and mortgages by the score, that had been held us collaterals, were filed for record; attachments . ere levied, and creditors, constables and law yers were flying about in great haste, Mr. Neill’s continued absence from the city makes anything like an estimate of his liabilities almost an impossibility From claims already made public, and from other debts for which it is believed he is liable, i‘ is sale to put his failure at $300,000. It may possibly ex ceed this sum. The national hanks here are nil heavy, cn li ters, but they are abundantly secured by mortgages on real estate and other col laterals, which can be realized on with out much delay. The worst feature about the failure is the fact that Mr. N -ill keeps himself away from the city. Nothing inis been heard from him since last Sunday, at which time he was in Chicago. He sent his wife home that night, saying that he would follow on Tuesday. His family claim to know nothing of ills whereabouts. There are those who assert that he will never re turn. '1 his course on his part is losing him any sympathy that he might other wise have received. ----- —— mmm • THE XLVI CONGRESS. Tuesday. Dec. 1(1 — Smote. — Cockrell’s hill authorizing the secretary of war to donate twelve condemned cannon to the Francis P. Blair monument association passed. Among the hills introduced were the following: lly Bruce, to pro vide for the investment of certain un claimed pay a id bounty moneys now in the treasury, and to facilitate and en courage tin- education of the col ored race; by Booth, appropri ating $29 (MM) for the erection of a statue of Prof. James Henry at the Smiths iiii.ih Institute. Rills were passed as folio Authorizing allowance for loss by leakage or casualty, of spirits withdrawn from distillery warehouses for exportation ; to amend sections 9324 and 2325 of the revised statutes, so as to allow applications and affidavits required for the ohlainment of patents for miner al lands to he made by Hie agent of non resident-; to amend article 193 ot the rules and articles of war, so as to provide limitation to prosecution for desertion, after an amendment by Mr. Edmunds, so as to prevent its construction as apply mg to defaulters, &c. After a short ex ecutive session, the senate adjourned. Tuesday, Dec. H> — Home. — Mr. King offered a resolu ion (or the appointment of a select committee of eleven, whoso duty i*. shall he to examine Into the sub ject of the selection of a suitable route for the intcroceanic ship canal, to which a 1 petitions, memorials and reports re lative to such canal shall be referred, and which shall have authority -o report at any time. Rills were passed: for the establishment of a land office in Montana Territory; also a bill for the establish ment of a land office in Dakota Territ ry restoring to the public domain par, ot of thu military reservation ofF jt Ripley, Minnesota; a.so confirming grants of swamp lands made by Hie state of Min nesota, in aid of the construction of rail roads and other internal improvements; a bill abolishing the military reserva tions of forts-Abercrombie, Seward ant Ransom, Dakota Territory. Wkdnksday, Dec. 17— Scnatr. —Mr. Morgan ottered Hie following resolution: That the continuance of the existing volume of U. 8. notes, with their legal tender preserved, and the raaintainanco ot their equivalent in value with coin, is demanded by the present necessity of trade, commerce and industry, and that a full restoration of silver coinve to an equality with gold is necessary to the people of the United Stales as a sutticient and permanent supply of money to main tain our national prosperity. Mr. Mor gan discussed his resolution at some length. Mr. Thurman presented a me morial of citizens, of Ohio, largely in tcrested in stock raising, asking the ap pointmonl of a commission to invesli gate domestic diseases of animals, and to adopt and enforce, under sanction of the secretary of the treasury,rules for the pre vention and treatment of such diseases. Mr. Pendleton, from the committee on census, reported a bill amending the a I provbling for taking the tenth census. It provides for the free transmission, through mails, of correspondence be tween census olllcers and the departnu-n of the interior. It also amends the said act by striking out of the lltli section so much as provides for schedule four, containing the inquiry relating to the ownership of the public debt of the United States. It also amends section 17, so as to allow the report obtained from railroad corporations, express, telegraph and insurance companies to lie made for the fiscal year, ending June 1, 1880. It amends section 10, so as to r quire the enumerators to commence June 1, I*Bo, and to require an enumeration in cities having over 100,000 inhabitants to be taken within two weeks from that date. Ordered prin’ed and laid on the table. The senate then held a short session, and when the doors re-opened, passed among others, a bill to authorize the tree entry of competitive prizes won by American citizens in foreign countries. Wkdnksday. Dec. 17— Hou*& —Bills were introduced: Restricting the legal tender currency to consPtutionai require ments. the hill reading as follows: “That section 3,580 of the revised statutes, making United States notes a legal ten der in payment ot' all debts, public or private, except for duties on imports and interest on the public debt, is hereby re pealed, and that hereafter gold and silver coin only shall be received in pay ment of debts; also a bill repealing the stamp tax on bank checks. The bill exempting postal employes from serving on juries passed. A concurrent resolu tion for the appointment of a joint com mittee of three senators and live repre sentatives, to investigate the present system of salaries, fees and emolument allowed officers of the several United States courts, to ascertain whether any abuses exist therein, and granting such committee power to report any time, was agreed to. The military academy bill was discussed at length and passed w ith out amendment. Thursday, Dec. 18— Senate.— Toe fol lowing hills were introduced and refer red ; To provide for the appointment ot commissioners to ascertain and report the losses sustained by citizens of the United Slate* by reason of Indian depre dations; for continuing the court of com missioners of Alabama claims, and for the distribution of the moneys of the Geneva award; Mr. Pen dleton from the committee on Indian affairs, reported with an amendment, a bill to authorize the ocre tary of the interior to deposit Certain Indian funds in tl.c United States Treas ury in lieu of investment An amend ment changes the rate of interest to be paid by the treasury on such moneys, from live to four per cent. Mr. Salsbury, from the * committee on privileges and elections, reported a resolution that an attachment he issued to the sergeant iit-arms commanding him to bring to the bar of the senate for con tempt, Smith and other witnesses subpoe naed by the sub committee to investigate the charges against Senator Ingalls, and who have refused to testify. Members of the Massachusetts historical so ciety petition for an appropria tion for a monument to com memorate the victory of Yorktown. R, ferred. Petitions were also present, cl of citizens, asking the appointment of a labor commission. Iveterrcd. The reso lution of Mr. Davis, (W. Va.,) instructing the agricultural committees of both houses to consider the subjoin of ag riculture, and report what ought 10 he done by the government to promote agricultural interests, was adopted. The pension appropriation bill passed. A long debate occurred on Voorhees’ res oiution authorizing the appointment 01 a committee of senators to investigate the causes of negro immigration. The republicans tried to change the resolu tion liv adopting Windom’s amendment providing that portions of the territories tie set apart for the occupation of negroes. The amendment was dc leated by yeas 18, noes 25, only two democrats voting for it. Mr. Voorhees finally modified bis resolution so as to omit special reference to North Carolina and Indiana, and was then adopted by ayes 27, noto J 2. Thursday, Dec. 18.— Home —Mr. Weaver called attention to an article in the New York Tribune which said that lie (Weaver) was the author of the peti tion praying that soldiers he p lid the dif ference between the value of gold and greenbacks at the time of payment, and denounced it as slanderous and false. Hills were introduced: To authorize na tional bunks to make loans on real es tate; to repeal section 3412, of the re vised statutes in regard to national hanks, so ns to take the one per cent, tax off bank circulation; for the regulation of intn.stale freights and passengers, and to relieve the same from the restriction of local quarantine;for the relief of Mrs. Maria Clark Gaines. Mr. Scales, chair man of the committee on Indian affairs, reported back the senate bill authorizing the secretary of the interior to negotiate with the I tc In dians for a relinqaishment of their reservation in Colorado and their remo val and settlement elsewhere,with amend ments requiring the consent ot the In dians to (he cession of any part of their reservation, and providing that no agree ment shall he valid unless agreed to by three quarters of all lire adult male In diana who have not forfeited their treaty rights, unit unless confirmed by congress. He asked for an immediate considerat ion of the bill. Mr. Conger objected, and the bill was referred to the committee of the whole. A long discussion ensued without rending a conclusion on the sub ject. Friday, Dec. 19. Senate —There be ing no quorum in the senate hut very little business, and thatof an unimport ant nature, was transacted. This done, the vice president appointed Messrs. Voorhees, Vance, Pendleton, Windom and hlair, a committee to investigate the causes of negro emigration from the southern to the northern states, and the senate adjourned, pursuant to joint reso lution, until January (ith. Friday, Dec. 19— Home. —The speak er appointed the committee on the inter oceanic canal, as followsMessr-u King, (chairman,) binclctnn, Witherone, Mar tin, O. Tin ner (.Mich.,) Hutchins, Con ger and Frye. A communication was received from the president containing a hill for the reclamation of the marshes about Washington, together witli the rec ommendation of the president that the important provisions of the bill he given speedy attention. The speaker appoint ed the following committee on the Vork town celebration; Messrs. Goode, Hall, Luring, Aldrich, II nvley, Muller, Hrig ham, Hick, Marlin. Talbot, Davis, (N. C,) Richardson (8. ('.,) and Persons. The speaker made the following commit tee appointments: Mr. Hutchings, on the committee on education, labor and expenditures in the treasury depaitment in the place of Morrison, resigned. Per ry, on committees on public lands and mines and mining. Davis, (colored,) on committees on coinage and expenditure in navy department in place ot Nea', of Ohio. Pacheco, on the committee on private land claims and public expendi tures. Thompson,(la )on the committee on mines and mining and enrolled bills. Page, on the committee on education and labor and expenditures in the department of justice. Dunn, on the committee on public lauds in place of Steele. Mr. Steele,on the committee on counting the electoral vote in place of Dunn. Buford, on the committee on mines and mining. Mr. Kenna, from the committee on commerce, reported a bill known as the “ Steamboat Bill” which was made the special order for the second Tuesday in February. House then adjourned to the Oth of January. Cause and T. fleet. Th main Can** of nem>n*n* t Indi-rentiot. and that 1* esawd by weakness of the siumsch No one can hav aimud nerve* and pood hoalih without u*!ne Hop Bluer* to atrengthen the stomach, purify the blood, and keep the liver and kidneya active, to carry off a!) the poisonou* and waste matter of the ayetem. See other column. —adtancr.