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Newspaper Page Textnnuircf. XTX. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, 1877. NO. 32 LOtflilAMA MATTERS. •f Ntw OH mm, Oti- trafflets Walla. <no4 received with tha retnrne; witn*M don't know how tho affidavit* oaao that*, now m affidavit* wm tuna. ia aii Unmlttsataa Ua!" is •' Walls* Answer. atom mar-Miu) ra. mmtumm- ure moABOMU.' AMT. inns; atpoMNono WIiMI u4 atiit titiwinwi iiswii imik, at., Seo. aawia, ctwinanM rtstiy. WmeomNn, February 6.—Canaan F. of Naw Orleans, telegraphs in of Wolla testifying that Kaaaar had o(farad Walla 9100,000 to ahafw* O** voto for TUdoa, and that Walla a*fcq$Kcnn*r far that asm to ooont tho rotaaaaataally oaah Kaaaar rapUadha dtdaathaaathaaaowoy. QwaaMas—Did yos aajr in tha eonraa of yaar aoaranation with E. O. Barratt, that yoahad datarmiaad to aaakaa atata- paarto Ooramor. Nloholls ? Aaawar—It (a a taoat lafamona lia. ' Qaaatios—Do yon aaaaa to aay that tha f option ia an lafaawa Uaf Aaawar—I aay tha anbataaoa of the qaaoMas ta a Ito. ■ Qnaatlon—If you woald aaawar. my qnaatloa la tha way a witaaaa should aaawar it woald ha bat tar. Aaawar—I win not aak yoar advioa how I Mall aaawar a qnaatloa. Finally tha witaaaa anawarad “no.” Ha fitilllil to daay orarythiag toaahing tha Maddox and Littlefield nutters, but aa'qaaaUaaa oataida thaaa and tha-Tar. aaa pariah qaaation ha rafnaad to' aaawar. Qaaotiaa—Did yon not aay to Barratt or Kaaaady yon would maka a elaan braaat _oMI? Aaawar—It ia an iafamooa lia. Got. Walla looks waary tbia morning. ABLa’a naxmoirr. Abla, bafora tha Powara Committee, taatidad ha did aat aaa Littladald aftar .tha Varnon pariah rations, bat Littladald tald him of it. Tha Oommittaa ia la prlrata aaaaion. wanin’ bulldosibo abmom. WamnMTotf, Fabraary 6.—Tha Star mya it ia atatad that J. Kadiaon Walla, Praaidaot of the Batarning Board ?f LoaWaaa, had takda from hia pomamian la hia rooaoa in tha oapitol yaatarday two revolvers, a thug -knife, and a rifla oaaa. Quit* aa tmpoaiag baUdoalag ataanal. man oohtbst—nun n. wbli*. Tha inraa ligating oommittaaadaralopad aatblag naw today bayond nagatira oon- Iramttoa of qaaatioaabla tranaaotiona by tha Loaiaiana Batarning Board. Walla ia daaoribad by tha offioial re- porta ra ha peraistently iraaoibio. It ia worth soaring to Waahington to aaa tha ■teogglo batwaap Fiald and Walla. ABBu/a .TamxoNT—uaTUBimta boabo bb- FUSBD DBMOOBATO WHAT TBn OATH BBS fublioabs. %wM la Ik* Eafadar-faa.] Waohutotob, Fabraary 8.—Before Howa’a Senate Oommittaa, Ohaa. S. Abell taatidad that Littladald waa appointed alark of tba board on AbaU’a reoommon dattna; Abell never knew of any return dram Vernoopafiah axoapt tha oonaolida- tad atatamant of the aaparriaora; tha traaafarof poUa Sand 8 of Vernon pariah hare no effaot on the alootion of raaadidate j witaam narar aaw ratnrna from Varnon pariah praaented by tba BaaMtaryof State j never ahowed ratnrna ta Mr. Gaatnaoj witaam furniahed tho Bayihliaah visiting oommittea with tha faof of (ha ratnrna by raqnmt; did not fnrniah it to the other oommittaa, Got. Palmar did aot.aok for tha aama faoilitiee whlah ware given tha other oommittaa; ■arc Palaaer all ha aakad for; tabnlatad tha atatemaat ahown tha Bapablloaa oom- akliii it ahowed a largo Demoorntio ma jority! waa at tho aoppar. whlah Littladald doaortbadf it aoat tha BapnbBaas commit- too forty dollam or more; wiaa aad oook« tail* qara drank; that waa tha night be fore tha Board began thair aaaaiona. QDBonoM wauo bbfusbd-to axswbb. Special ta FarvOv^— Waabinoton, Fabraary 6.—Warn then aay forged affidavit, bafora tha Batarning Board f Did yon advioa that forged affida vit* be prepared I flilf GUI EX IHITilM ZJTTZJffXBLD. fudge Daria taatidad ha waa chief dark at the Batarning Board; know Little - deid; did not aaa him talking with Gov. Walla, or nuking araanraa; drat hoard the Vamon raturaa wara altered through tha newspapers; invaatigatad the papera and nw that the Vamon ratnrna had boon altered; oonldnot And tha original; Ut- tbdald drat aaid it waa gone, than loot and afterward, deatroyad; Littladald aallad of tha Agnrea; eoald have falaided thorn if ha daatrod; there wm no oppor- taadty of MOIowing the work; tha ohanga of votosin potla two and niaa woald of- |^l up undMtti HOBS or PATZt' TKIMOMT. Is XOfuffw* Am.] Waohxxotob, Fob. «.—lodge Da via da- amibad hia dutiea aa gaoaral anparviaor of alaaka; bo looked over tha work a. far aa . pi ad hi i to verify; there wm aoau irregn- lertty about tha retnma from Vornon par iah ; witnau aaya if tha ratnrna from Ver- aoa pariah had baas promulgated m ra- aoivod from tha aopar ohw aaadidotM for diatrlot Jadga aad diateiat attorney woald have bean atootad; tronopoaition of the 178 votm woald ohangd tha reonlt; witaam kssMlho Vi United Bietm Oomoaiaoioaar; took ofAda- vlta of four pataooo relative to Vamon pariah; took them on the 14th or 15th of November; partial to tha afldavitsap- peered bafora him and took tha aaaal witaam did not paraoaally kaow affianto; they appaorad illiterate, and they wore colored; witnem had aev- oral gentlamen quieting in taking teati- mony for tha BapnbUoaaa. wblza oTiu. stusbobx. Walla peraloted thronghont not an- awering question* until ralioved from do- THE ELECTORAL COMMISSlONi No Vote Taken Nor DecMon Rendered Yet. ■ klTI ASAII lO.Oil WASHINGTON. BULBS TO BB AMBBDBS. Waohibotom, Fabraary S.—The Jodi al ary Oommittaa eonaladad to amend the rulea of tha Hoorn whereby tha leoam may break tha legielatlva day aad thua avoid amending the aleotorel bill. TUB OBOOIOB BBCBBT TBT. WAaaxHOToa, Fabraary 6.—The Oom mission, it ia aaid, reaolvad thia morning not to adjonra until they reaohed a deoi oion. They have adjonrned now. It ia thought tba oom will not bo preaentad to tha Joint aaaaion until Thuraday. HO DBOlalOH BBAOUBD. gpaHelto Me Ewgutm* Mm. Wabhihqtox, Fab. 6.—TheOommlaoion remained in aaaaion until 8 o'elook thia evaning. The oonfereuoa will be oootin ned at 10 o'olook to-morrow morning. Ho vote wm taken to-day, nor any eooelu- oion reaohed in aay of tho point! at issue. It ia aonddantly atatad that no a video ca will be taken in tha Florida oam i on oh m ralatm to tha aotion of tha Flori da State Government oinoe tha almlian Thia avidenoe ia documentary. It the prooadinga ora thua reotriotad, tha oom- miaaion may have tho oam roady for the joint aaaaion bafora tha eluae of tha weak. Speculation regarding tba raaalt ia neither vanturad or antartelned by any 1NBIAN WAarlil. OBHBBAL MII.ES OAXHa AHOTHBB VIOTOBT. Now Vobk, February 6.—A diopatoh dated Tongue river, If. T., January l»tb, aaya that General Milm hm had an other aevere dght with the Indiana and boa gel nod another oigga tory over them. The Indiana oonalatad of bands of Ohayahnm aad OgaUalla'a under Oruay Horae, and numbered be tween 600 and 880 lodge.. General Milan oommand left thia poat on the 27th of Deoember and proceeded np the Tongue river. Hia oommand oonaiatad of dvo companies of tha Fith U S. Infantry, and two oompaniea of the Twanty-oaoond Infantry, and numbered about 800 fight ing man. Through look of trannporta- tion Gan. llilm wm compelled to employ Montana ox-taame,that happened to be at thia poat to tranaport hia auppliao. Thin train he oant out three daya in advonoe of tha departure of tha main command under charge of Major Charles Diokey with two oompaniea of tba 22d Infrantry and one of tho 5th Infrantry. Aftar ovar- taking the train with tha balanoe of tba oommand. Gan Milm abandoned tba wagona and drove hia oxen in ordar to have them at hand to amiat in pulling hia train up tha steep bills and through tba deep oanyona. At the time of leaving tha Post, heavy snow wm on the ground, aad aavara otorma, with intensely oold weath er, obtained during tba whole period of tho expedition. Tha movement of tho troops wm neeesoarily tedious and tha hardshipe endured vary great. Gen. Milea, after proceeding some 60 miles up Tongue Kivar, diaoovered signs of reeent Indian anoampmanta, and push ing on struck thair full fores an tha 7th inat. On tha evening of that day quits a heavy skirmish took place, and tho 8th tho Indiana to tha number of one thousand, wall armed and plentifully supplied with am munition, appeared on hia front. Gan. Milm attacked them, however, with his little command end succeeded in gaining a decisive viotory. Tha lorn of tha Indiana ia hard to esti mate, but is known to bavs been vary great. The battle-field wm covered With traces of blood. The Indiana fought with great desperation. Tha battle wm oonteeted on vary rough and broken ground, where it would have bean impos sible tat the oavalry to ride. The Indiana were entirely on foot and ohargad tha troops repaatedly. Our officers and men displayed the greatest ooolneas and oourage, and pound deadly volleys into the ranks of tbs hoe- tiles. For aoore then five hours the fight raged as terribly aa aver wm witnessed on the battle-field. A heavy snow storm prevailed during a portion of tba fight Miles’ lorn wm four killed and six wounded. General MUm pursued the Indiana into the Wolf mountains M for m his limited supplies would permit The oommand hM returned to this post in good condi tion, considering tho terrible hardships it has endured. ■uakaalar Instead aad tie Uni ted B tares. Manobesteb, Feb. 6.— At a meeting of tha Chamber of Oommeroe yesterday tha Praaidaot atatad tha exporta of Munohra tar gooda to tha United States, which hM formerly afforded an excellent market ware now “nil,'’ and there ia considerable trade in Manchester in cotton fabrics manufactured In America. Tho advene report on Eads’ appropria tion holds that tha Secretary of War's warrant for $500,000 of bonds should be paid by tha Secretary of tha TreMury without further aotion of Congress. TKB BIVBB AXD HABBOB BILL appropriate! for Capa Fear river $110,- 000; Savannah harbor $45,000; mouth of tho Mlaeiasippl, $100,000; Galveston har bor, $100,000; Little Kanawha, $5,000; Boanoke river, $8,000; Tombighaa and Warrior, $15,000; ship canal, Galveeton b«y, $28,000; Sabina Peas, $20,880; One- ohita, $80,000; Bed rivar raft) $85,000; Brunawlok (Go.) harbor, $5,000; Tonnes- river, $20,000; doom river, $20,000; Gnat Kanawha, $100,000; Hell Gate, $200,000. OBBHAX OOHBULS. Washington, Fab. 6.—Tha German minister denies tha statement that all German honorary consuls in tha United StatM are to bo withdrawn. He aaya on ly the inland consulates ore to be abolish ed, and they are to be replaoed by two or three paid consulates at St. Louis, Chios go and probably Cincinnati. The oonsuls at Southern harbors will not bo disturbed. tCOBBXUL max. Boboaon end Morrell ware absent from tha Cabinet. Morrell's oondition is seri ous. He hM been off doty tan days. BBCOB AXD TUB MISSISSIPPI OBJBOTIOX. Senator Bruoe is not disposed to sign the Mississippi objection to the aUetoral vote. His idea is that while it is useless, if may be damaging to the colored people. Spaatolls JCaf«(rsr-aen.] Wasbixotox, Feb. 6.—Mr. Stephana lasted oomfortably to-day. Baoretary Morrill hM pneumonia. concrem7~ ■HATE. Wastwotox, Feb. 6.—Mr. from the Committee on Appropriations, reported book the Indian appropriation bill with sundry amendments, and gavs notice that be would call it up for consid eration m soon m possible; Mr. Sherman, from the Oommittea on Finance, repeated favorably on Hums bill authorising the Commissioner of the Freedman's Saving and Trust Company to buy in certain real and other property, pr to sell tha mme st publio or private mle, whioh wm discussed st some length and laid aside. OatMby Jones, of Alabama, petitioned for the removal of political disabilities. The bill appropriating a half million for Eads' jetties wm plaoed on the calen dar with advene report. Hereford of West Virginia, wm appoin ted a member of the oommittea on olaims. The vote on passing the bill abolishing the polios board over the President’s veto, notwithstanding, failed by 88 to 22, not two-thirds. Adjourned. HOUSE. The deficiency bill wm considered. It appropriatM a half million for pensions. BTEAHEIS *WIECK». OHS OTI CAPS BAGS AXD OXB OVT IHDIAX COAST—36 LIVBS LOST. Halifax, Feb. 6.—The steamer George WMhington, is a total wreak at Cape itaoe. All on board were lost. Fourteen bodies have been recovered. She had two passengers. The |crew is all from New York and vioinity. The steamer George Cromwell of the asms line is also missing. ACDITIOXAL PABTIOULABS. New Yoax, Feb.-6.-A Bt. Johns’ N. F. diopatoh givM (the following additional particulars of the wreok of tha steamer George Washington: “She went ashore, probably on the night of the 20th ultimo about one half mile wmt from Mistaken Point, and sight milM southwest from Cape fiace. The loss of the steamer re mained undiscovered by the inhabitants of the oOMt till the 26th. Men from the ebon being lowered by ropes seventy fathoms over the olid, found parts of thirteen human bodios, whioh they buried. The features were not reoognisable. One body wm marked in India ink with the letters “J. H. 8.,’’ and “B." All on board the stMmer, when she sunk, were undoubtedly lost. No valuable property wm raved. ANOTHEB STXAMBB LOST. Mail sdvioM state that twenty-two lives were lost by the recent sinking off the ooMt of India of the steamer Ambassador, after a collision with the American ship, George F. Hanson. Western Newspapers aad Printers. Cxxoaoo, Feb. 6.—The Pott of this oity, as already announced, reduced the rate of composition yesterday to thirty cents. New men are largely taking tha oases. This brought on a oonfliot with the Printers’ Union, and to-day about half of the new foroe quit their oases, in- finenoed thereto by the Union. Tbis opens a battle whioh promises to beoome general. It is rumored other papers will reduoe m soon as the Pott gets through tbs contest. Weather. Wasbixotox, Feb. 6.—Indications.— For South Atlantio StatM falling barom eter, Northeast to SoutheMt winds, warm- or and dandy weather will prevail, possi bly followed by light rain. THE EAST. OBAXOB or MIXOTXM IX TUBKBI. Ooxstahtumhb, Feb. 8.— Midhat Pa sha, Grand Visler, ia deposed and ordered to leave Constantinople. The Turkish ministry is reorganised throughout. Ed- hem Pasha, ultra Turk, is Grand Visler. aoseiax squADBox. Bbbux, Feb. 6.—A formidable Bosnian ironclad squadron will enter the Mediter ranean in the spring, the Grand Duke Constantine, oommandlng, Admiral Popp- off being chief of staff. . WBAT TBS POBTB BAS TO SAT. Loxdox, February 6.—The Porte, in notifying repreaentatlvM abroad of min isterial ohasigea, adds i “The Saltan at-, gently teeommends the Grand Visler to spssdily and oompletely develop all the principles established by the Constitution; and to oarry out all laws sad administra tive institutions applicable to the prov- inoee. BXOLXOH OPINIO* OF TBB OBAXOB. Loxdox, Feb. 6.—The Pall Mall Qa- uttt this afternoon says it doM not be lieve Midhat Pasha’s downfall betokens a more oonolliatory policy, but rather be- llevM that Edham Praha's aooesaion means more uncompromising resistance. What seems to the Poll Mall Oatett* the moat likely explanation of the ehange, is that the Sultan had become jealous of - Midhat Pasha’s infiuenoe, and obafed under the lmpotenoe of a position to whioh the energetic Grand Visiar had reduced him,and lent himself to intrigues, from the suecera of which he might hope to reoover somewhat of tho lost imperial authority, so that Edham Pasha's aooes- ■ion may bo purely an affair of man, not measures, and naed not foreshadow aay ehange in political prospects. TBB OAVSB OF TBB BBBOVAL—A PLOT DIS- OOVBBBD. Coxstaxtihoflb, February 6.—'The po lios discovered a secret correspondence, which showed that Midhat Pasha wm plotting for the overthrow of the Sultan, and his own nomination as dictator. On Monday a peremptory summons brought Midhat Pasha to the palaoe, sus pecting nothing. On entering he wm arraeted, and his letters laid before him. There wm no gain saying the evideooe against him. He raked for many. The oounoil of ministers wm called, and Mid hat Pasha wm offered the ohoioe of leav ing the oountry or being arraigned before the tribunal on the of high treason. He elected to leave tha oountry. He WM MkedK he would go to Greece. He replied he did not like the Greeks, and raked to go to Brindlasi, but complained he had no ready money. Twenty-five hundred dollars were given him and he embarked at noon for Brin- dissi on board the imperial yaoht Iszediu. The letters found disoloscd that three thousand Uiemens were to have gone on Monday night to the palaoe to demand an abdication of the Saltan. The fall of Midhat PMha will oheok no reforms, the Sultan being determined to oarry out the Constitution in its fullest spirit. W1BBD BBEV1TIEE. The Committee of New York, Balti more and Philadelphia bank Presidents, Geo. S. Coe presiding, discussed st a meeting in Philadelphia yesterday, the oondition of Virginia, North Caroline, and Tennessee without notion. The oom- mittee adjourned to the Fifth Avenue Hotel until February 14tb, when inter ested parlies will be heard. Another Buaaian gunboat, the GuruM- tai, has arrived at San Francisco from Vladivastook, making the eighth now there. The St. Paul Fire and Marine Insur ance Company, for fraudulently repre senting which, in New York, Wm. S. Hale wm rasently arrested, proves to be of thestrongMt underwriting corpora tions in the Wmt. In announcing Hale’s arrest the reporter through the positive statement of a deteotive, was led into a libelous blunder oonoerning the above meotioned company. Monday at the iron ore mine of Daniel Laurer, Henelngersvllle, Lehigh county, twelve miles from Allentown, Penney! vanis, while the working men were dig ging ore, the ground oaved in on them. Three were killed and one seriously injured. Mobile as4 Ohio Ball rood Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Mobile, Feb. 5.—The deoision of his Honor Judge Bruoe, in the Circuit Court of the United States, mentioned in a dis patch of the 3d inat., wm solely upon the demurrer and plea of W. Butler Dunoan et ale. and the Mobile A Ohio Bailroad Company, set np on bar of tha claim of Morris Ketchum, which bad been previ ously sustained by his Honor Judge Woods, but is now overruled by Judge Bruoe. This is the whole scops of the decision of Judge Bruoe referred to. The claim of Ketohum now eomra upon bis original bill and the answer to be hereaf ter filed. ATLANTA. THE UEOBUIA LEUISUATUBE, Special It Enquinr-Sm.} Atlaxta, Ga., February 6.—In tho Senate moat of the day wm oonsumed in reading bills a seoond time. Several bills were introduced. The military board to revise the laws oonoerning the military, appointed under resolution of the last General Assembly to report at this seMion, were granted by the Senate till next session to report. In the House ell the day wm consumed in the discussion of the bill to grant State aid to the Marietta A North Georgia Bail- road to the amount of $5,000 per mile. A spisy debate sssur red, xsany cann ing in the asms. Turner, of Brooks, led the opposition, McsmIub masterly effort favored the SMasure. No result wm reaohed. Mira Anderson is drawing crowded houses. , G Beware or tha Bplla lew*. New York Herald.] A oareful examination of the statistics of dMths from hydrophobia wbloh we publish in the article entitled “Beware of the Dog," will oonvinoe any reasonable person of the danger attending the intro duction into tbis country of the Spits dog. Since his advent there has been sn alarming inoreMe in the number of dMths from hydrophobia. This is due to the ravage habits of the animal, which render him a most undesirable neighbor. The Spits dog comes from the forests of Pomerania, where he exists in a Mml-mvage state, and wren he is in constant contact with the still more sav age wolf. Although domesticated the ravage Instinots of the brute remain, and,, unlike other oanlnea whioh have long dwelt with man, tho Spits seems ineapable of forming a lMting friend ship with his benefaetor. It is well ascertained that he is liable to turn upon hie master at any moment, and those who have vial ted houses where the Spits hM been admitted m a pet probably entertain a lively impression of hia prononneed hostility to strangers. The beauty of this animal is writ calculated to make him a favorite with the ladies, who do not think of the terrible peril to which the posses sion of their pet exposes them. Intheoaae of children the danger ia particularly great, m the young people always make a friend of a dog, and are always given to indulg ing in practioel jokes at the expenM of their ranine oompanions. In tba oase of thoroughly domesticated dogs tbis is not attended with any Mrioua results, because the dogs take to it kindly; but the sullen and snappish nature of the Spits may at aay time break but and result in injury to the children involving a horrible death. Aad death seems to remit inevitably front thahNadr th»Nplta4tg. He la a paMtc enemy. ■ow (tea was First Used. From th# Goal Trade Journal.] Great was the amassment of all Eng land when at the olose of the iMt ecu tnry William Hurdooh diaoovered the use of combustible air or gu. So little wm the invention understood and be lieved in by those who had not seen it in use that even grant and wise men laughed at the idee. “How could there be light without a wiok 7" .said a mem - ber of Parliament when the suojeat was brought before the House. Even Sir Humphrey Davy rldiouled the idea of lighting towns by gas, and Mked one of the proprietors if they meant to take the dome ot St. Paul's for a gas meter. Sir Walter Soott, too, made himself merry over the idea of illuminating London by smoke, though he was glad enough, not so long after, to make his own house at Abbotsford light and THE IMCHIttAN INELIGIBLE. A XBW OOUPLIO ATIOX TO TBB BLBOTOBAL BXrOBXB. (Washington Oorrespondancs of tha Now York Harold.} Washington, Fab. 2.—Ottawa county, the realdonoo of Jaoob Den Herder, one of the Michigan Presidential electors, ia in the Fifth Congressional Distriot, repre sented by Wm. B. Williams, a Kepublioau, who rays that be bra not the slightest doubt about Den Herder being a naturalised oitiien. When it wm found how oloae tbe Presidential vote wm the Democrats of the Fifth Miohigan Distriot, in oom- mon with oitisens of other States, went to work to ascertain if there were any disqualified eleotora on their State tioket. Den Herder, who ia re ported to be a vary careful business mao, ' bad baa* a prominent politiotan in Ottawa scanty, ana, having bam a resident there aiaos 1846, whan that part ot the State wm not thickly settled, it is possible, My other members of the Miohigan delega tion, that ha drifted first into local powers among the Hollanders, qho oomposa a large part of the settler*of tbit oonnty, and subsequently wm appointed to a fed eral offioe without the qnration of oitiaen- ■hip ever being raised. It is oartaln that tha Democrats of Miohigan have been vary earsfnl in thair researches, and ac cording to tha affidavits and cer tified statements tram tha oourt officials in Miohigan then ia no record of Dan Herder ever having taken out naturaliza tion paper*. Aa he wm bat a boy when ha Mttlad in Ottawa, having been there sight years before arriving at tha age of twenty-one, it is possible, rays tha Demo- cratio representative from that State, that ha was regarded ss an American citisan and permitted to enjoy offioial honors un questioned. Hia failure to produce doc umentary avidaura of hia naturalisation will add a new complication to the electo ral returns, inasmuch as the law is so ex plicit upon tha question of oitlzansbip that without tha proper paper* hia aotion in voting with the other elector* must ba regarded M irregular. EUCIENE CUE'S GBANDDACBH- TEBS, TBB BBBOOraa OF TBB WAXDBBIXG JEW AS STTCTOES IB A XBW XOBK OOHBT. Nathaniel NUm died in this oity in 1869, leaving property valued at over $ 1,000,000. Hia two daughters and Nathanii Niles, a nephew, and Martin Van Buren Wilcox ■ sou, a son-in-law, we're named by him m exeoutora of bia will. The daughters are twins and granddaughters of Eugene Sue, end it le aaid that tbey ere the original* of tbs heroines In the “Wandering Jew.” Nathaniel Niles, the nephew, who is a lawyer, hM had tba prinoipal oontrol of tne estate, of whioh the daughters are sole legatees and devisees. Life ennniliM of $10,000 are provided in the will for the husbands of the daughters, in oase the daughters died without lawful Issue, and Mantoo Niles, also a lawyer, brother of Nathaniel Niles, Is to take tho whole ■alls Mobbed. Cincinnati, February 6.—It hM trans pired that a mail bag containing letters and about $25,000 of bank obseka and private drafts, an route from New Port, Kentuoky, to Oinoiuuati, several days ago, wm opened and contents abitraoted. There ia no olua. Dowd. Special to Enquirer Sun.] Sax Fbaxoiboo, Feb. 6.—Bear Admiral Jas. Alden, of tha United StatM navy, ia dead. Congestion of tha brain. Wbexlt Exqonuta-Svx, $1.10 ayepr. cheerful on wintry nights by tha uae of that very smoke. When the House of Commons wm lighted by gas, the arohi- teot imagined that the gas ran on fire through the pipes, and he, therefore, in sisted on their being placed several inohra from tha wall for fear of tbs building taking fire ; and members might be ob- serred carefully touching tbe pipes with tbeir gloved hands and wondering why tbey did not feel warm. Tbe first shop lighted in London by tba new method was Mr. Ackermaon’s in the Strand, in 1810, and one lady of rank was so delighted with the brilliancy ot tbe gM lamp on the oounter that she asked to ba allowed to take it to ber home in her oarriege. Mr. Mur doch wm, however, too busy with other pursuits to oontinue - the study of gas, and though be wm undoubtedly the first to apply it to praotical purposes, many others laid olaim to tbe honor, and other people quickly reaped the benefit of hia cleverness and ingenuity. In this he shared the general fata of inventors. Flftesw Condensed Opinions of tho Bill. B. Burchard Hayes says: I do not care on my own account, but my heart does bleed for the poor African. William Almon Wheeler says: It is of the nature of a compromise, and enti tled to no respect whatever. Ulysses Simpson Grant says: It is bet ter to be tight than to be President. OliverP. Morton says: A shameful epeoimen of politioal trickery. John Sherman says: A direot and de liberate insult to tbe Louisiana lieturning Board. Wells, Anderson and Casaanave, and Kenner say: It is unpitriotio, unstates manlike, dishonest, and revolutionary. William Pitt Kellogg eeye: That's what eomes of parting yoar hair in tha middle. Jay Gould eaye: It knoeks h—11 out of my investment; [and therefore] Whittle Law Held Mya: It ia plainly unconstitutional. Don Cameron Mya: No high-principled statesman oan approve such politioal truck and barter m tbis measure involves. Simon Cemeron says: You bear Don ? John A. Logan aayB : Bat whet becomes of Me? James G. Blaine says : It is the logioal outcome of Audersonviile. Zach Chandler says: ! ! ! ! ! ! The oommon sense of the country says: A petriotio measure of intentions; we hope it will prove wise and work justioe. —Neu> York Sun. Db. J. H. McLean, the greet medioine king, bM confidence in his new prinoiple remedy for Coughs. Colds end Coneamp- tion, Dr. J. H. McLean’s Cough sod Lung Healing Globules. They oerteinly done great wonders. Trial Boxes, by mail, 25o. Dr. J. H. MoLean, 314 Chastaat, St Louie, Mo. Mr. Wilooxaou and bia wits went abroad soon aftar tbe death of Mr. NilM, tha elder, and a child wm born to them in Florence, Italy, in 1870, whose name is Martin Emanuel Niles Wilooxion. Mr. Wilooxson k tbe father, died in England in 1874. In 1875 an aoooonting was had between Pasosl W. Turney, also since deceased, who was nuncupative guardian of tbe ohild, end Nathaniel Niles, tbe youoger. Shortly afterward tbe unmarried daughter of Nathaniel Niles was married to Gen Ad- sm|Badeaa, formerly on Gen. Grant’s stuff, and now United States Consul General in London. Then Mrs. Wilooxson and Gen. and Mrs. Badaau went to London, end Mrs. Wilooxson, while tbe party were on n tour through Belgium, wm married to H. Amedee Wilbaux. These foots were related yesterday on a motion before Judge Donohue in a suit in stituted by tbe two daughters of Nathaniel Nilea, deceased, against their eonsin, Na thaniel Nitee, deniending that he shall so - oount to them, Menton Niles, the contin gent-remainder man,end the twobuabends, Bedrau and Wilbaux, and Mrs. Wiloox - son's ohild, by guardian, being made de fendants. The two daughtera oharged, that while immense revenues should have been end were, in fact, derived from the estate of their father, Nathaniel Niles, their oo-ex. ecutor, has doled oat to them a wretched pittanee wholly insnffloient to enable them to live even oomfortably, notwithstanding they, by the will, ere entitled, daring their lives, to ell the rents end profile of the estate. Therefore they ask for tbe appointment of a receiver. The daugh ters testify that they reoeive only $125 a month, and that tbeir oousin, Nathaniel Niles, hM not paid tha taxes for several years. «•»,» laetsallty Bad Excessive Pressure •r Bask Taxes. Our reporter ealled on tbe offioers of several banks this morning, and from them learned that the tax on the larger banks amounted to from $800 to $1,500 per day. This tax wm bo onerous that it oompletely walled in tbe efforts of tbo bank offioers. If any large amount of the redundant oorrenoy should be on deposit for safe keeping on tbe part of the own ers, the bank stockholders were oompelled to pay e tax U|ion it, without having any opportunity of nsing it. Again, should a holder of a large quantity of gold pluoe the precious metal in the bank of deposit, merely for safe keeping, the bank wae oompelled to pay tax without realizing anything from it. Should the bank's offioers be desirous of increasing a reserve for the purpose of resuming speoio pay ments, tbeir efforts were retarded by the enormous tax that was imposed upon them, end thua an obst&ele was put in the way of effecting whet ia considered to be a desirable result. With the present tax on capital,amounting to about 5 per cent., several of tbe larger banks had contem plated a reduction of tbeir oapital from 40 to 50 per cent., M the only safeguard against serious injuriea,if not bankruptcy. With tho rate of disoount fully two per cent, below the rate allowed by law, tbe banks bad no opportunity of earning money sufficient to pay the taxes end cur rent expenses. When the tax was first imposed it wee willingly oomplied with as a war measure, bat now, so long after the war bM ended, end bnsiness reduced in oonaequenee to lees volume, requiring the use of Ism money,some consideration was deemed necessary in order to save the banks from aotusl ruin, end this subjeot WM to be brought fully before tbe meet ing to-morrow.—Commercial Advertieer. Dee. 12 th, 1876. It speaks for itself, is wbst s lady raid of Dr. Bull's Qoogb Syrup the other day, for a single bottle cured my child of a most dreadful sough. CANCELING POSTAGE STAMP*, SOME DEVICES WHICH TBB POST OFFIOE DX- PABTBENT BAS TBIXD. Correspondence of the Ne* York World]) Wasbixotox, Jen, 21.—Every year in something over 80.000 offioere tbe Fast Offioe Department cancels e thousand mill ion postal stamps of one sort and another. It was really a little more than this Uat year—1,049,797,507—but a few thausanda more or lees make smell difference. The thouwnd millions give work enough. One third the stamped envelopes and pos tal cards oanoel themselves, in a mum. No one oan dm them twioe. Tbe stamps nobody has yet been able to oanoel (airly and oompletely, and within tha pMt month the Department oloeed two yean of experiment no wiser that U began. No ona bM got past tha pad, tha stamp and the printer’s ink with whioh the Depart ment began thirty yean ago, and whieh it nsra still. Down in ona oorner of tha Poat Offioe building there ia a room full of aoma four hundred or five hundred fruitless inventions. A new ink ie generally the stronghold of rauoeling genins, end to the fat inks— printer's—and metallio inks—writing fluid —the three principal adds, eanatio, potash and a drug-shop of other chemicals have been added by genins at work on a latter stamp. There is a salpbnrio Mid ink there whioh osme from Cincinnati, war ranted to eaneel a stamp, and whioh rata a hole through tha envelope into the bar gain. Thera ie one of earatio potash, baekad by a distinguished ohemiet, whieh blisters a man's fingers at tonob, and hM its effeota on the gkws bottle whieh holds it. Nitrio sold is at tha bottom of another ink, and fills the air m it ia used with tbe fumes familiar to laboratories. All theca inks do too mneh. Moat of them do too little. Yonr avenge inventor never teats hie invention. A shelf foil of Inks—war ranted to stand acids—have been washed clean end dry from oeneeled stamps with ordinary soaps at tha waah-atand in tbs corner. One snob ink a man brought a preeions bottle of from St. Lonia. Wm doubtful abont trailing the bottle out of eight, for fear ollosing hie “seoret.” Saw some stamps oanealed with it in bia sight by Mr. Hasen, in oharge, and raw tha stamps washed elaan tan minnles after with soap and water. Of tha whole bot tled array of inka not ona bM stood tha raids and tbe alkalis of tha Patent Offioe chemist. Last on tha list ia bia ink; a Smithsonian obamiat rattled him, and tba department still nsra printers’ ink of tba best quality. No one improvra on that. There are other ways to oanoel stamps by genuine oaneellot. They have all baan invented—a good many separate timM. People in smell offioe* have invented book* to barrow the aurfaoe of tbe stamp. That takas too mnoh Urns. In a large offioe a ■ingle motion from pad to lattar mast dis pose of stamps and postmark. Men with a vague idea of this have put together an elratio stamp, whieh jabs a stamp full of holra. A little steam and a fist-iron smooths that. And there ia ona ingenious oontrtvanee whieh brings a disk down with a half-turn at the stamping—a slant ing alot does tha work—and rips half tba fratorM off G.W.or Franklin. Somewhere along tbe ten thousandth letter this dulls and taka* a blow like a sledge hammer to do its work. The New York Postoffloe osnoels 200,000,000 stamps a year and tha New York olerk takes more kindly to the firm, light tap of a wooden stamp. No invention bra displaced that any more that tbe ink. So the department bM given over the attempt to oanoel. Gets three ranis ter a good many stamps, and carries ilx or nine oenta mail matter under the stamp. It is not e profitable operation. “Do they have this bother in England? 1 ventured to Mk. “Oh, no; they bleek their stamps up so thoroughly." “Why ran’t we?” “Well, our postmasters are not so oareful, and in England they maka a row with a man if the stamp ia not properly oanoeled. We oao’t do that. The department doesn't have enough oontrol, and can’t gat at a man so sharply." "Then this whole loss is simply a qusation of a otvil nervine, efficient or not?" “Well, yes; about that.” HAMPTON IN THE DOUBTS. judos maoebt’s deoisiox ausTAiatxa the VALiniTr or THE oovebxob'h pabdoh. [Special nispateh to tha uharlaston News and Uourler. ] Chester, B. O., Fabraary 8.—Jadga Maokey filed bia opinion thia afternoon in tbe Hampton pardon ease. He holds that Hampton wm duly sleeted qnd installed as Governor, bat suspends the exeeution of the order discharging the prisoner, reoognixing the sheriff'* appeal on the ground that the prisoner may bring hia aotion for damages against the aheriff should the Supreme Court affirm the de cision. The opinion oovers thirty-two P»g«- ’ No Mellef Except From congress. The aobject of bank taxation ia very ably presented in the report of the Comp troller. Bo mnoh pnblio interest has been ezoited by tbis topio that it demands a oompleto discussion. A petition to Con gress is in preparation praying for the repeal of auoh bank taxes as are the most productive of evil, end u there ia a grow ing aonviotion in favor of the repeal of these imposts, tbe petition, we aoppoM, will receive a lug* number ot signatures in ell parts of the oountry. • * * The recent deaisiona of tbe courts are regaid- ed by many persons m conclusively set tling the question, that the only inline- mediate relief to be at present obtained by tbe banks from tbeir oppressive fiseal burdens most be sought from Congress. —Financial Chronicle, December, 1876. ■ABINE INTELLIGENCE. NewYobe, FebruaryArrived: Adriatic Arrive! out: Emily, Augusta, Latina, Cecil Augur, Fairy Bells, W. H. V. Jenkins, Ocean Express, Mulsto, Monaorn. Special to Enquirer-Sun. Savannah, February*—Arrived: Steamer Juniata, Philadelphia; barks Maury,Hamburg; Koyuard and Carrie Humphrey, Liverpool;* Approdlte, Llmsrlou; mild*, Llsbern; Captain Peter Duple, Liverpool; Ennufoa, Barcelona; sohoonors Crasslo Wright, Now York; Ells Bu ber, Boston. Cleared : Baric, Eliza Motzler, Liverpool; Apprddlto, Philadelphia; ichouaor* Chert ss Moore, Brunswick; Lead, Phil dclpMs,' M»r- ble, tio ton. s Hod ; Hark Ploou Erndan aad brig Hippo, lyle, Liverpool. Special to Enquirer-Sun. Charleston, FspruRry 0. — Arrived : Bark Vandsrberg, Liverpool; Stwmor Champion Now York; sohoons s T. H. Livingston ,nd Louisa Hardsell, Now York; 0 rrta Balls, "os ton; Hair end Gunner, Brunswick for Balti more, locking. Cleared: Burks Charles, Cap* Haytiaa, and Julia Hayn, Bremen; brig Sea teals, Liver pool.