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UPfjs SBfcsWg ant* 3mmrsL 3®*sus*ng**:.. K&grapjr anil 3&mm$t. iLACON, JANUARY 16, 1880. THE GEORGIA PRESS. Hock. A. O. Bacon has written an open >o<r t» the Augusta Chronicle and Con- sHlaiionalist on the situation, giving woxje sound Democratic views. He con- <e£odes as follows: The money question is not second in importance to that of the tariff. Its prop- ■«c determirrarion vitally conceives the ^prosperity of the people. It should be fifV.it upon true principle of finance, and -solely with regard to the public good, and fee positions assumed upon it 3hould not he, as seems the tendency, mainly with the view to the influence which they will Have upon the Presidential election. The South, .and indeed the whole country, is xncch more interested in having free 'trade or a tariff for revenue only, and grrtd money and a proper supply of it, than in the question of who shall be the next President. I would not.be under- as liolding that the election of a Democratic President Is unimportant, or that die party should be indifferent to its -axcomplislnoent. On the contrary, it is highly important, and all proper means thould be used to secure it; but it should «u!y be a prominent incident in the work •of the party, and not the all absorb ing and exclusive purpose to be ^accomplished at the expense of all other interests. The struggle for personal pow- -eras the main feature of political contest, and in disregard of popular interests, is a ^characteristic .of despotic governments; hut in republican governments the ruler is only allowed because necessary, and his accession to power should never be per- SKittcd at the cost of injury to the material interests of the country. The Democratic party is one of essentially conservative principles, of which a fundamental one is that the government should be strong oriy in the strength and prosperity of the people. In this day of official aggrandize ment and intemperate lust for power, the strongest claim upon the support of the -country will be found in. the bold advo- -caey of those measures which make for Che good of the private citizen even though -Shey It&zard the acquisition of the most -coveted political prize. The people, who sdone can legally give power, will not be -slow to confer it upon a party which shows feat the possession of the spoils of office is ssot its highest aim, but that in seeking their true prosperity it is ready, if need be, £» sacrifice the Presidency rather than week to gain it through the sacrifice of their material interests. The editor ol the Quitman Reporter feelingly and solemnly asks: IK4 you ever see a fellow try to court Coo giris at the same time and preserve a apod average? Evidently something has transpired to jostle the even tenor of events about tjaitman. The second number of the Journal of •Progress,published in Cutlibert and edit ed by colored men, has reached us. It is quite carefully edited, and does credit to She proprietors. Tjee conductors on the trains of the Stale report many newly married couples this season endeavoring to pass for vete- " The Confederate monument has been reset in Columbus, and is now true and -level. Xb. J. B. Wright, of Columbus, fffetr down the chimney of ;,his little Scap and the places that knew the Sajap will know it no more. Xhe Gammon murderers in Columbus Have not confessed, says the Times. Columbus real estate is assessed at $3,- ■378,085. Jlss. A. J. Rountree has been elected Alajor uf Quitman. The Quitman factory has been sold to 3fcj. Charles E. Groover, of Savannah, j for $12,555. This amount pays all exo- « -actions, and the factory will be run by its r mew purchaser. We are obliged to the Berrien County Ansm for the following kind words for our Wty: Macon is “coming out” wonderfully of Sale. She now has a free letter delivery aad telephone. She is also thinking of ■Timbering Tier houses, and it would not raiall surprise us to hear that she had been made a port of entry. Wadley’s cross v^ads, indeed! The press is beginning to tell all the to make cotton a secondary crop -*»* the farmers are all preparing to do no sc eh thing. Says the Darien Timber Gazette: 1 ‘We mast congratulate the colored people of -McIntosh county on their advancement •zr'Jein the past few years. They have cerr raved wonderfully and will compare -nbly with any other class of colored people in the South. Just here, however, vats srould state to outsiders that the col- eared people of McIntosh are not in need ft'^ny more leaders from Brunswick, At- Saata or elsewhere. Rogers, Crawford Could, and other colored men, are equa to that task and can manage tilings witli- -r~t the assistance of colored men from abroad. Our colored people are peaceable mil law abiding and are respected by our white people. We would advise new werners to go along and attend to their «»a business and not attempt to lead the adored people of this county.” Augusta Chronicle: “A Mrs. Ave- r»sr complained to the police yesterday feat she bad been deserted by her hus band, Claries Avener. According to her statement they left Washington, Geo: I Thursday to go to New York, from which j&aea they originally came. Upon reach- lag Augusta, Avenerput his wife and two b*a children on the Central train, tak- u. . V youngest child - in his arms and •sayiag lie would soon return, but this he fraied to do. The train started off with out him, and after it was under way, Mis. Avener received a note from her absent htobaiid, telling her to proceed to Savan- mab and take the steamer for New York. Mrs. Avener returned to the city on the aaext train. The police soon found Ave- wtx near the union depot intoxicated. The Columbus Enquirer has the fol- Sawlngc There is a widow lady, Mrs. Angella Brannon, residing in Dale county, Ala- ’•jama, who has had thirteen children, sev en at whom are living; seventy grand -■WMren, fifty-six of whom are living; fcrty-iive great grand children, thirty-sev- ss of whom arc living. Probably the nuoit remarkable thing connected with this Tilly and her descendants is that all of Our®, who are alive, are living in the -.uxte neighborhood, near enough to visit 35>*r every day if they desire to ao so. The above facts wero obtained from a gentle- zeaa living in thosame neighborhood, who ■ri^rreaents that they are among the best diizens in Dale county. The L&Grange Reporter was thirty-six .years old its last birthday—January 1, fSBQ—In honor whereof it will hereafter appear as an eight-page paper. Columbus Times: Body Found.— Captain T. H. Moore, who came up on ale steamer Jordan, informs us that the $•0y of one of the Irish boys, recently cour iered near Jernegan, has been found. A was discovered floating near the river hank and a few miles below Jernegan. tor ir formant did not know which one it was. The parties who found the body earrieu it to Eufaula and came back to Jem 'an on Captain Moore's boat. We nave heard that a rumor was out 'Jtif. it was not the Irish boys who were -Jirdcred near Jernegan, and if such are iacu*, the finding of this body, which was xca idly recognized, establishes the murder • she body beyond doubt. ‘,Ve are glad to know that the body has iu«Y, as much solicitude lias been friends to the parties in this city. : .jied that the other will be recovt-r- ... . a a new search has been instituted, i. A i -nton has received 8,101 bales of - bis season, The conductorship made vacant by the death of Captain Whiting, who served for many years on the Eatonton and Gordon branch of the Central Railroad has not been filled. The Indians and the .dramatic donkey of the Buffalo Bill troupe seemed to make a great hit in Griffin and to fill the groove of the people’s fancy to a nicety. A cannibal hog created a good deal of excitement in Griffin on Monday by chas ing a small darkey down and the little moke was with great difficulty rescued. We are afraid that the Macon Tele graph and Monroe Advertiser stand alone in their opposition to the establish ment of State banks with power to issue currency. But then we are right. Several large droves of wild pigeons passed over Montezuma Tuesday. Some of the citizens succeeded, in bagging a few of them. Muhfohd is mayor of Talbotton by a large majority. Shake, Mnmford. Shake, if memory serves us, is speaking from a Shakspearian standpoint, admirably qual ified for such honois. Mb. Frank Goodman, who accident ally shot and killed Miss Mary Payne, in Wilkinson county, has been discharged, from custody. The Middle Georgia Military and Ag- gricultural College will be formally open ed on next Tuesday, the 19th instant. Captain M. R. Bell, of Milledgeville, in getting off a dray ix a runaway affair at Milledgeville last week, was thrown to the ground and sustained a compound fracture of the right leg. Milledgeville Union and Recorder: Robin Humphries, and aged colored man, on Wednesday night last, drove his horse into a railroad cut, near the city. Result: a smashed up wagon, a badly bruised horse, and a broken arm for poor old Robin. The' cut was fully thirty feet deep. Considerable apprehension is felt in some sections of the State, for the safety of the next fruit crop. The earth has been kept so warm all the winter except for a brief interval at Christmas, that it is fear ed the fruit trees will blossom premature ly, and the fruit he killed by the freezes of March or April. Professor W. H. Q. Cook, of Amer- icus, accidentally fell down a flight of steps last week and broke an arm. Matt O’Brien, of Columbus, has writ ten an opera, and the amateurs of that place have recklessly consented to per form it. The words will be given on the inside; the audience wilLget the air at the door. . The Columbus Enquirer insists that the Gammon murderers have confessed. It also says: Last night some drunken fellow en deavored to raise a mob to hang the ne groes in jail. He had but few followers, and was promptly arrested by the sheriff. Distress in Ireland. — Columbus Enquirer: Mayor Wilkins lias received the following dispatches, which speak for themselves. Much suffering prevails among the peasantry of Ireland, owing to failure of crops. Bishop Gross has ap pealed to his diocesa; Macon, Savannah and Atlanta arc acting: New York, January 8tli.—To the Mayor of Coluihbus: London, Thursday. The distress is increasing. Aid is urgent ly required. Lord Mayor, Irish Relief Committee. New York, January 10th.—To the Mayor of Columbus: Distress is increas ing. Aid is urgently required. Lord Mayor of Dublin, Irish Relief Committee. Mb. W.Moon, in the Evening New, of Augusta, says: The power to whistle is not unfrequent- ly a solitary gift, so that the young man who comes into the busy sanctum and whis tles well cannot be expected to know how to do much else. Mr. George Kukgleb, says the Con stitution, a butcher by trade, shot and in stantly killed himself in that city. The temperance movement, in Savan nah, lias taken a fresh start. The Atlanta correspondent of the Sa vannah News pays the following tribute to Mrs. Gugel. Death of an Excellent Lady.— The many friends in Atlanta of Mrs. Daniel M. Gugel, of Macon, wife of the Master Machinist of the Central railroad shop, were shocked by a telegram announ cing hersudden death on Wednesday, and quite a number went down to attend her funeral, which occurred on Thursday. The deceased was, before marriage, a Miss Clark, of Savannah, sister of Colonel W. L. Clark, of Columbus, Superinten dent of the Mobile and Girard railroad, and in all the relations of life she had cultivated and displayed the highest Christian graces of her sex. Her loss to her five bereaved children can hardly be comprehended, for she was in all things a loving and tender mother. To her sorely stricken husband the deepest sympathy of the community was extended, as all felt that he had indeed lost a devoted and affectionate companion, . Nor is this a light bereavement to Colonel Clark, whose heart has been repeatedly burdened with sorrow of late by the death of members of his family circle, including a dearly be loved and promising son, just entering the bright years of early manhood. Mrs. Gu gel was a favorite sister, and strongly at tached to her brother, and her death is therefore a severe stroke to his already sorely stricken heart. Body Found.—On Thursday the body of Dan Harvey, one of the Irish lads murdered by negroes near Jemigan, Ala bama, a short while since, was found near Florence, Geoigia. The Eufaula Times and News has this to say of it: | Some negro clildren who were playing on the bank of the river nearly opposite Florence last Thursday, discovered a body floating with the current. They immedi ately ran and notified their father, who, procuring a bateau, pursued the corpse down the river, and between two and three o’clock in the afternoon overtook it lodged against a willow on tho bank. He succeeded in securing it, when he imme diately went to a Mr. Thomas, in the neighborhood, and told him the facts in the case. Mr. Thomas told him there was a reward of $50 offered for the body, and that if he would bring it on to Eu faula, he (Thomas) would meet him here, and they wonld divide the money. The negro secured the company and assistance of a companion of his own color, threw a quilt over the dead body and paddled down the river, arriving at our wharf about 7 o’clock. They then awaited Mr. Thomas, who arrived about 11 o’clock, when information of their discovery was conveyed to the friends of the deceased. They immediately recognized the body as that of Dan Harvey, the older of the mur dered youths. The corpse was in a remarkably good state of preservation, the skin about the face being unbroken and the features very distinct. There was no trouble in identi fying it. The Guarantees Offered the Central Railroad.—Savannah Netcs: Some doubts having been cast upon the security to he offered by Messrs. Cole and Brown for fulfilliug their part of the con tract recently made by them with the Central railway, we determined to inves tigate the matter in the interest of the stockholders of the latter road in this city and State. To this end, we yesterday tel egraphed Colonel Wadiey and requested him, “If consistent with all interests,” to inform us for publication what guarantees had been offered the Central by the St. Louis, Nashville and Chattanooga and the Western and Atlantic roaas. The following is his reply: . Macon, Ga., January 12. — Editor Morning News.: The security is that we retain in our possession all our assets, with the right to see that they are proper ly applied, and we have the guare$M|v#nd integrity of the Nashville, ChattaDdega and St. Louis railway—repreae: capital of about seven million do! combination of roads a little over two thousand miles in length, much of it run- niag through one of the finest countries in the United States—while the contract con tains the most stringent conditions for the maintenance and Improvement of the property of the Central Railroad. It is believed the combination by a large in crease of through business, will add ma terially to the present income of both companies. Wm. M. Wadley, President. Griffin News; A messenger came in town very rapidly early yesterday morn ing from the plantation of Mr. S. H. Wil son, near the city, and sought a doctor to go out and see a man who had been acci dentally shot. Dr. Caldwell went out at once, but the unfortunate man died just as he reached him. The facts, as developed in the coroner’s inquest, are these: For some time past, Mr. Wilson has been aware that some unknown parties were in the habit of stealing wood from his place. He went away to Albany a short while ago and left instructions for the hoys on the "place to watch for the wood stealers. Yesterday morning about daylight some of the boys were getting ready to go into the woods. Two colored hoys, one of whom was the deceased, and a young white boy, Henry Shelton, was standing together. As the latter was starting off lie threw the gun, a double barrelled shot gun, over his shoulder, when the right hand barrel was dis charged, the entire load entering the low er part of the stomach of one of the negro boys, causing a terrible wound. Upon examination it was found that the pas sage of the shot, which were No. 5, had made a hole large enough for a man’s hand to enter, and that the bowels were literally cut to pieces. The deceased was a fine mulatto boy, of about 18 years of age. Bailway Combination. The combination of railways made by Cole, Brown and Wadley, is the first great East and West combination made in the South. North and South lines have been organized, but the paying lines hare been East and West,and until New Orleans ac quires its old importance, it is probable that East and West lines will continue to be the real paying lines. These have not been possible in the South until recently for political reasons, want of capital and a want of appreciation on the part of North ern capital, and because no Southern port had yet acquired the confidence of railroad men in their future. This combination marks the beginning of a new era of com bined lines to the various available South ern ports. Our own road is the first in the field, and all others must come in under the necessity of building new lines. There is not a Northern road now seeking such southeastern outlets that dees not find the field occupied, so that the Nash ville and Chattanooga line has se cured at least two years exclusive occupa tion of the field of possible combination and through lines from the West to the Eastern ports. As it is now, says the Nashville Ameri can, there are but three cities that can possibly require, on account of their posi tion and business, connection with the Southeast coast. These are St. Louis, Cincinnati and Chicago. Of these St. Louis is a great centre of transcontinental trade, connected now with the existing lines to the Pacific, and soon to be con nected with the Western ocean by two or three more direct iines. Her shortest and best route to the Southeast is by way of Nashville where she strikes our railroad center and gives us a route to the sea, in securing her own. It is in our favor also that this line is in no way the enterprise of St. Louis, but of Tennessee, Georgia and Eastern capital, and an enterprise of a purely business venture, so that in con ferring advantages on St. Louis, it will not deny them to immediate points. This will also be the shortest route between the oceans, except a direct Southern route which is some way off in the future. For at least five years this will be the shortest transcontinental line, and the cheapest. The next city eastward, with a com merce, requiring a line to the ocean, is Chicago, hut her interests are so far north that it is doubtful whether she will ever need such a line as that required by St. Louis. Chicago is also closely connected with the Pacific trade, hut her ports are, from her situation, further north and her business likely to continue to he with those from Boston to Baltimore. Chica go has but little, and has sought but little to obtain Southern trade. . She exports largely directly from Europe, and sends out immense supplies of grain to Europe; but, as a distributing point, she is likely to be centre of a northern territory, accu mulating produce from that territory for distribution and supplying it with exports. Looking for new routes she will rather have an eye to the St. Lawrence than to any ef the Southestem ports. If, how ever, Chicago seeks such an outlet, or uses one when made, it will be either through Louisville and Nashville or Cin cinnati. The next, and only other city to be con sidered as having an interest in these con nections, is Cincinnati. It is cut off by Chicago and St. Louis from being a center of distribution for transcontinental trade; it has expended all the money an indulgent public will contribute to build railroads, aud it has a nearer route to the sea by way of Baltimore. Nor is Cincinnati seeking so much seaport as interior trade. She may reach this to find it a barren field for the sale of her manufactures when Southern produce is finding a shorter route to better markets. These are the only cities that now can need to reach Southern ports— these and their dependent cities, and of these, only St.Loui$rcally needs toreach Southern ports, or, if Chicago also does, to do so they must both come through Nashville. An Allured Cure for Consumption. It is reported that Professor Schuller, of the University of Griefswald, Prussia, has discovered a mode of treating consump tives, which will cure in cases where the lungs are not too far gone, and where the patient has some strength left. By exper iments with rabbits he has come to be lieve that tho breath of consumptives is poisonous, and that bacteria are sown by it to become the cause of tubercles iu others. Reasoning on this fact, he select ed bonzoate of soda as the best among substances which kill bacteria, and has found that it destroys the tubercles. The remedy is administered by inhalation, or in some cases by sub-cutaneous injection. In the inhalation,the weight ofthe benzoate of soda used is to the weight ofthe patient’s body as one thousand to one; that is, in the case of a man weighing 140 pounds, two and a quarter ounces would be the proper daily quantity. This is used in a five per cent, solution—i. e., five parts of the substance to ninety-five parts of wa ter. The remedy should be inhaled from an atomizing apparatus from two to four times daily, so that the daily quantities will be divided into from two to four por tions. The boiler of the apparatus should be filled, in the absence of fresh spring water, only with distilled water. The in halations should be at first gentle, and then gradually, witli the iuareaging strength and cometude, deeper and deep er. They should. not be protracted be yond a half hour, when the patient should take a rest. Peach Trees Blooming in East Tennessee.—The chances of a peach crop next summer, we fear, are small. The Knoxville Chronicle reports peach blooms up in East Tennessee, aud says : We are informed that on the Beaver Creek and Black Oak Ridges, in this county, the place where peaches are al ways to be found, even when they fail everywhere else, some of the trees are out in frill bloom almost, under the influence of this soft and mild weather. A Curious “Animal.”—This is the unique 'heading which the intelligent compositor places over a notice of the grain market in Tuesday’s issue. It should have been printed “ A Curious Anomaly.” But it was all the same to the typo, and served just as well to fill out kis.^le of “ems.” "Keep it in the house and it will save you Wiinai „ .Bapy an anxious moment during the which has never, failed to meet its engage- J changes of season and weather; we rerer incuts promptly, and which still control a to Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. Washington City, January 9th, 1880. THURMANN AND GARFIELD. Few States have two more conspicuous or exceptionable able sons and servants than Ohio boasts in the' two whose names appear above. That State as everybody now knows, is unusually rich in fitting timber for the manufacture of statesmen, “visiting” and otherwise, but she can boast none to outrank them. 'When, therefore, one is directly pitted against the other the outcome cannot fail to at tract universal attention. This was the case at the last electioa .in Ohio. Every body knew that the struggle for the Legis lature meant whether judge Thurman should succeed himself in the Senate or give place to Garfield. Garfield won and Thurman will retire in 1881. His de feat Is, I had almost said, a national calamity. Certainly it is a most serious loss to the Democracy in and out. of the Senate. No man outranks him. You can count on less than the fingers of one hand those who deseive to stand in that body even on the sane plane of intellec tual force with him. I can name but four who are his peers. Judge, then, how serious the los3 we have sustained. The Democratic party has cause to go into mourning, and for tie Ohio Democracy sackcloth and ashes would tc faint sym bols of what their grief should be. Prob- ably^Judge T. will not reappear in public life again. He is sixty-seven now. He could not re-enter the Senate in five years at the shortest, for hi* colleague, Pendle ton, has that period to serve, and his defeat for the Senatorship seems to he conceded as marking the end of all Presidential hopes or possibilities. Why could not some of the Democratic feather weights ip the Senate been taken and this giant spared to us ? In Garfield, the Radicals in the Senate receive a recruit worth having in any de liberative body in the world. He has nat ural ability ofthe first class, cultivation, training and a wide experience in public affairs. He is also a ripe scholar—has read and thought much, and a forceful, and at times, an eloquent speaker. He is a lawyer and has been a Campbellite preacher. The one thing he most lacks is moral grit. He lets go too soon in the face of attack. If he had the bull dog tenacity of some men his make-up would be pretty nearly perfect. Hale, of Maine, in the House was far teneath him in the intellectnal scale, but Hale had the pluck and dogged resolution which sometimes went further and was worth more than brains. It made him lead sometimes when leadership seemed Garfield’s special right. Given Hale’s courage and tenacity, and Garfield would show as nearly a model party chief in a legislative body as could be found anywhere. True there are some shady spots on his shield, but what recks that in these loose days and especially with the party of great moral ideas and unlimited capacity for jobbing and cor ruption of all grades and description. Perhaps he would not have been permit ted to climb so high had his party discern ed in him virtues it did not possess and could not appreciate. PRESIDENTIAL SPECULATIONS. If one enjoys such things, here is the point to get filled to repletion. The Blaine, Grant and Sherman boomers are numerous, active and boastful. It seems to me Grant has rather more tongues wagging for him than the other two and they are singularly braggy. They scout the idea of anybody’s else’s having a show in the Convention—that Grant will have been as good as nominated long before the convention meets, and that its work will only be a formal ratification of the party will. They claim New York and Pennsylvania as dead sure for him, aud it really looks that way. These States will lead off and then there will be a regular stampede among the smaller States to get in line. All this will be shown, they say, in the State conventions which send delegates to Chicago. As regards the South they smile you the scomfullest of smiles when you say Sherman will have that in a swing, and pooh pooh the idea that a few office hold ers can break off the negroes from the Grant column. They claim that Grant’s name is still a tower of strength among the darkies, who don’t know nor care any thing about Sherman or Blaine. They also hint that the zeal ofthe officeholders for Sherman is hollow hearted and half a sham, and that these officials are at heart for Grant, and ready to sell Sherman out at a moment’s notice. This is a sample of their talk, and it seems to me to have a pretty substantial stratum of fact. If all signs do not fail, Grant seems to me the coming man. I have always said so, and I stick closer to the notion than ever. On our side, things seem to me woe fully muddled. I mean as to who will lead us. If our people were all agreed on financial questions, or would waive their crochets for the nonce, and get together ok a decent platform, things would look de cidedly brighter. AVe could then see our way pretty clearly towards victory in No vember. With Governor Seymour or Mr. Bayard on such a platform, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut would be surely won; and these with Indiana and the South would be enough.' And why can’t it be done ? It seems to me that if we al low financial disagreements to stand in the way of victory, we deserve to he branded as idiots and forever disfranchised It would he a righteous verdict. But it would notjsurp rise mo very much if history didn’t record that very verdict. Somehow of late years,we have gotten into the habit of blundering, and like all other habits it is hard to break up. ALL SORTS. Nothing of Interest deing in either House to-day. The report of the Com mittee on Rules is up in the House, and is the only_peg.on which anything of in terest can b® hung just now. It brought the Speaker, Garfield, and one or two other strong men to their feet yesterday in defense of the committee’s report, and for a time matters were rather interesting, Reagan and Hooker were the principal assailants. Some think the report will get a si few black eyes before it is finally disposed of. “Few die and none resign” is an old, and in the main true saying about office^ holders, but there are exceptions. I know of one of recent date, and hasten to record it. It was a Georgian, too, Mr. James G. Zachery, son oi Colonel Charles Zachery,' of Newton county, the old time and gallant com mander of the fighting 27th Geoigia in the late misunderstanding. Mr. Zach ery has been holding a pleasant place in the Patent office for nearly two years, meanwhile studying law. He was admit ted to practice the other day and forth with resigned and went to work at his profession in this city. Success to him. He deserves the fullest measure of it. General Gordon roturned Tuesday night and is atWillanl’sl So far I have not seenCaptain “Tete” Smith whp, I presume, is still at home. With that exception Geoigia is now fully represented in both Houses. The weather is simply horrid, and the sleeping devils . of. .rheumatism and neuralgia have been fully waked up in' many a poor fellow’s pain- racked corous. The universal prayer is now for sunshine, of which there has scarcely been six hours since Sunday. The Greenback, Labor Reform, Wo man’s Rights, Dennis Kearney, and the old scratch knows what .else party is holding a convention or something here just now and Dennis is one of the Y. P.’s. Murch, of Maine, is President. He wanted the thing opened with prayer and then the racket commenced.". One delegate shouted, “let every man do his own pray ing,” and a dilapidated looking woman responded, “I came here to work, not to pray,” and another shouted, “I came here to work and not to pray,” • ■ while another yelled for “a greenback prayer,” and an other for “a labor prayer, ’ and another suggested, “make it short.” But thoy had the prayer all the same. Georgia, I see, is not represented in the . convention. Where are brother Pittman and “fanner” Arnold of Atlanta ? A. W. R. • BY TELEGRAPH London, January 13.—The steamer Glendower, which arrived at Liverpool on the 9th from Norfolk, lost overboard 157 head of cattle during the passage. The largest cotton mill at Bradford, be longing to Sutcliff A Son,has been burned. Loss $70,000. One woman was killed. A Cabul dispatch reports Mahomed Kahn surrounded Ghuzhee with a strong force, killed the Governor, Abdul Kadin and looted the city. He is now endeavor ing to raise the tribes to attack the British. Pnest Moehi has severed connection with Mahomed Kahn in consequence of the be havior of the insurgents in looting Cabul. Jackson, Miss., January 13.—Senator Lamar has been here several days in the interest of General Walthall, and was stricken with paralysis Sunday night. His condition is not considered critical. The Democratic caucus in' session last night adjourned after twelve ballots for United States Senator, the last ballot standing: Barksdale, 54|; Walthall, 38}; Singleton, 40; scattering 4. Barksdale on the sixth ballot received 58 votes. Sedalia, Mo., January 13.—The lat est returns from the seventh Congression al district assure the election of Colonel John Phillips by abour four thousand ma jority. Columbus, O., January 13.—Governor Foster was inaugurated yesterday. Pittsburg, January 13.—A general strike was ordered yesterday among all the miners of Alleghany county to secure a uniform rate of three and a half cents per bushel for all coal mined. Wheeling, W. Va., January 13.—The Charlestown City Guards have gone to Hawks’ mines to protect men willing to work. Richmond January 13.—The collec tion in this city for the relief of the famine sufferers in Ireland, aggregated $2,500. Augusta, Me., January 13.—At 2:15 this morning a committee of the Republi can House to report questions to submit to the court, submitted a series of ques tions which it was voted to submit to the court. The questions are lengthy and as yet incomplete. They will not be given to the public until to-day. Both branches adjourned at 2:15 until Saturday, Januaiy 17tli, at 2 p. m. The acting Governor will issue orders to-day ordering the militia not to obey the orders of General Chamberlain. Forty Republicans came to the city last night by the Pullman train. Hale, in his remarks relative to the or der submitting the questions to the Su premo Court, said: “The Representatives assembled hero did not desire a control which the law did not give them, and did not wish to ride rough-shod over any one as they might have done days ago, but for the main purpose and great purpose indi cated in the order, and when the courts shall decide the question Maine will take that decision as a final exposition of the law upon the question of the organization; and it will be expected that every body in the hall will accept it when it is laid down by the court.” Both branches of the Legislature quietly • assembled here to-day with out any disturbance—the Republicans absenting themselves. The night at the Capitol passed very quietly, there being no disturbance. A full guard was on duty. The only thing irregular which oc curred this morning was when G. W. Martin attempted to pass the guard in de fiance of the regulations, and was sum marily handled by the police. The Fusionists are very reticent about expressing their opinion of the events of last night. They seem surprised, and are entirely unwilling to converse upon the subject. Wallace R. White, whose card of denial ofthe bribery Charges has been published, was summoned before the bribery com- Thc fol- -.7i nwA LTii.1 New Orleans, January 13.—Governor Wiltz will be inaugurated nexfW6^ nes ' dayin Odd Fellow’s' Hall. ., _ .. A special to the Times Ai om .Assump tion, Louisiana, reports the killing of W. Parker, Jr.? colored, by Allen IIltQ,"a jus tice of the peace. Hite .escaped. ■ jli:|I " i; ' ■ •- •' i 1 b i*iD» v*’ _• —'* . viel-jinp I mittee, hut refused to appear, lowing is his card: To Henry Ingalls, Chairman of the Investigating Committee:—I havejreccived your summons to appear before your Committee, charged with the investiga tion of alleged bribery of J. B. Swann and Moses Harriman. I decline to appear for the reason that you are incompetent to send for persons and papers, and not competent to administer a legal oath. The witnesses before you could swear to anything with out incurring the hazard of prosecution lor pcijury. If Swann and Harriman had secured the bribe they would naturally swear falsely about it, and if they merely put up the job they would be still more likely to testify faisely. When I meet them I want it to be be fore a tribunal that has power to enforce its decrees and administer punishments. Your House of Representatives is ille gally organized or not organized at all, and if you have any doubt on that point, I shall be glad to have you arrest me for contempt, and thus have the authority of your process tested by writ of habeas cor pus before the Supreme Judicial Court. If I am not sustained by that tribunal I shall cheerfully appear before your com mittee. [Signed] Wallace R. White. Washington, Januaiy 13.—In the Senate several Senators presented numer ously signed petitions for the appointment of a commission of inquiry into the alco holic liquor traffic. Mr. Kernan presented a memorial of over fifteen hundred individuals and firms of New York State and city, of all politi cal parties, for the withdrawal ofthe legal tender quality of treasury notes. Mr. Kernan, in presenting the memo rial stated that he believed it represented the views bt a majority of the citizens of SfCW York, and asked for it the consider ation it deserved. Mr. Saulsbury presented a petition of the citizens of Delaware for the same pur- pose. Mr. Ferry announced that- to suit the convenience of various Senators he would not ask.the Senate to devote Thursday to the obsequies of the late Senator Chan dler, as he had intended to do, but would hereafter ask that another day be set apart to that purpose. The House Committee on Appropria tions at their meeting to-day accepted the report ofthe sub-committee to whom was referred the matter of United States mar shals’ fees, aud agreed to report to the House a bill appropriating $600,000, as desired by the Attorney General and sug gested iifhis annual report. The House Committee on Commerce listened this morning to the argument of G. R. Blanchard, representing the Erie Railroad, in opposition to Regan’s Inter- States Commerce Bill. Blanchard took strong grounds against positive legislation by Congress affecting the different inter ests involved, and favored the appoint ment of a commission of five to suggest legislation on the subject. . After transacting some routine business, tlic House resumed consideration of a res olution reported from the Committee on Printing for printing the Glover Report. New York, January 13. —• London specials state that the Empress of Russia has telegraphed the Czar from Cannes that she wished to retiu-n to St. Peters burg to die there, having first reconciled her husband and son, and established peace in that divided family. The Em press says the fattier suspects his son of conniving at Nihilist plots, while the son accuses the father of dragging the Russian Imperial family down to ruin. The Em peror’s mistress poisons his mind with sus picions against his son. The Czarewitch and Czarerona are virtually imprisoned in the palace. His uncle, the Grand Duke Constantine, believes his own life endan gered—he having offended the favorite. Washington, Januaiy 13.—In the Senate Mr. Jones, of Florida, presented a petition of the citizens of Tampa, Florida, for the improvement ofthe harbor at that place. Mr. Butler, of South Carolina, presen ted a petition of the citizens of South Car olina for the improvement ol' the Wateree river. Mr. Saulsbury introduced a bill to pre serve the secresy of telegram. Referred. Mr. Morrill introduced a resolution in structing the Finance 'Committee to en quire into the practicability of refunding any part ofthe National . debt. at. a lower rate of interest than .four per cent. Laid on the table. The Yice-Presideut laid before'the Sen ate a recommendation from thtf Secretaty of War, that the appropriation for arrang ing (this Confederate archives, be increased to seven thousand, five hundred doilal-s. Referred.'••V-i I 9l [i J Cd0,00C£) loeofo Jvnl ’ .bMiu-jh ?d) cl lexqo Ion i! hlsiv l Mr. Morrill introduced a bill for the ap pointment of a committee on alcoholic li quor tariff. Referred to the Finance Com mittee. Adjourned, In the House, Mr.'TMcknell, oi Indiana, from the committee on counting the vote for President, reported back the bill amending the statutes relating to Presi dential elections, and prorfdmg for the counting of votes and for rate. decision of questions arising therefrom, t and, it was made the special order XacJanuaiy 29th. Mr. Money, of Mississippi, submitted a report to accompany the hilf fof es tablishment of return lettes offices. Re ferred to the committee of the irtwle. The House then went iato the commit tee of the whole on the revision of the rules, and there was much discussion as to requiring the Commerce Committee to report the river and harbor bill for ref erence to the Appropriation Committee. Pending discussion, at 4:20, the committee rose, and after the introductlen and refer ence of two or three bills, the House ad journed. The Senate to-day confirmed the nomi nation of the following . postmasters: Georgia—C. G. Wilson, Milledgeville; Wm. K. Watts, West Point; U. Jordan, Cuthbert. Alabama—J. S. Newcomer, Greenville; W. Youngblood, Union Springs. Louisiana—L. D. Esmarais, Opelousas. The Senate also confirmed a large num ber of army and navy promotions. A special from General Nathall to Sen ator Gordon, dated Jackson, Mississippi, this afternoon, states that Senitor La mar’s physician says his condition is se rious, but not dangerous. His attack is believed to be vertigo, not paralysis. The United States patent office to-day issued a patent to David Flanery, of Jack- sson, Mississippi, for an electric light ap paratus, consisting partly of a lamp, but chiefly of an entirely new method for ef fecting the distribution of the current and regulating the light. Augusta, Me., Januaiy 13.—In the Senate a petition was presented for a bridge across Geoige river, at Friendship. The House transacted no business what ever. v The reported scheme of electing Gover nor and State officers has apparently besn abandoned, both parties seeming willing to await the decis ! on of the Supreme Court before before proceeding further. Mr. Lawson, who claims to he the act ing Governor, has as yet performed no official act that interferes with the prerog atives of General Chamberlain. The House has taken a recess until two p. m. Cincinnati, January 13.—Mr. Gar field was elected United States Senator to succeed Air. Thurman, by the Ohio Leg islature to-day. The vote stood in the Assembly, Garfield 20, Thurman 13. Washington, Januaiy 13.—The bill introduced in the Senate by Mr. Sauls bury to-day, to secure the secresy of tele grams, provides that dispatches and cop ies thereof in the possession of telegraph companies who avail themselves of the privileges of title 65 ofthe Revised Stat utes, shall be considered private papers of the sender, and shall be exempt from seardh and seizure, as communications sent by United Statesmans. Augusta, Me., January 13.—The fol lowing has just been issued: State of Maine, Executive De partment, Augusta, January 12.— Joshua L. Chamberlain, Major General Commanding: Having entered upon the duties of Governor of Maine, under criti cal circumstances, it is important to me to understand whether you are prepared to recognize my authority as such. Respectfully, James D. Lawson, Governor of the State of Maine. Augusta, Me., January 13.—Hon. Jame8D. Lawson—Sm: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your com municationinforming me that you have entered upon the duties of Governor, and desiring to know if I am prepared to re cognize your authority as such. The gravity of the situation and the impor tance of my answer to your questions de mand that I give it most earnest attention. I am acting by authority devolved upon me by virtue of the following order. (Here General Chamberlain quotes the order of Governor Garcelon, dated Janu ary otb, and previously telegraphed.) In the attitude which things have now taken the responsibility resting upon me under this order involves the liberties ofthe people their most sacred prop erty and the stability of constitutional government, their highest institutions. 1 am thankful that you feel and under stand this, and realize equally with, myself the importance of your proceeding with, caution. Your inquiiy calls upon me to decide the question of constitution al law which is smarter falling not at all within tho province of my department. In my militaiy capacity, 1 have not the privilege of submitting such questions to the tribunals competent to decide. The Constitution declares that justices of the Supreme Judicial Court shall he obliged to give their opinion upon important ques tions of law, and upon solemn occasions when required by the civil branches of the government, but that privilege is not ac corded to the military department. Sup ported by the decision of the court, I should obey without ajmoment’s hesitation, but solemnly believing that if at this junc ture I abandon my trust, there will be no harrier against anarchy and bloodshed, I cannoj, under the present circumstances, recognize your authority as Governor of Maine. There are only two ways of set tling the question now at issue—by follow ing strictly the constitution and laws, or by revolution and bloodshed. In this al ternative, and standing where I must be justified by God and man, I can only hold ’fast in my place.’and implore thosawho have the power to do so, to decide these questions by appeal to the peaceful course of law. Believing that this answer must commend itself to your judgment as the only one possible for me to give, and \vith the highest respect and esteem, I have the honor of being your obedient servant. J. L. Chamberlain, Mqjor General. Augusta, Me., January 13.—Orville D. Baker, counsel for the Republican ad visory committee, has made a report to them, in which he takes the ground that the State has now no legal or acting Gov ernor; that Mr. Lawson was not legally elected as President of a constitutional Senate; that the Senate was not a legally organized body, and never had a quorum, and that the terms of office of the execu tive council, Secretary of State, Treasurer and other State officers expired January 8th, and all those offices are now vacant. Portland, Me., January 13.—Register of Probate, Caleb A. Chaplin, who was counted in, and who took his seat Janua ry 1st, resigned to-day. This leaves only one counted in county officer who still holds his seat. Catetown, January 13.—The arrest of Herr Pretorius, President ofthe former republic of Transvaal, for high treason, ha3 caused great excitement among the Boers. London, January 13.—Ex-Empress Eugenie will leave for the Cape of Good Hope March 26, and hopes to arrive at the scene of the Prince Imperial’s death by June 1st, which is the anniversary of that event. Paris, January 13.—M. Gambetta, Re publican, ha3 been re-elected for the Chamber of Deputies by 250 votes of 30S votes recorded. There were 40 blank voting papers. CniCAGO, Januaiy 13—A collision oc curred at the stock yards this morning between striking and non-striking work men in the packing houses. The latter were attacked by a mob of 400 or more with sticks and stones, as they passed in and out ofthe gate. One man was dan gerously stabbed. A number of the strik ers were arrested and marched to the po lice station at the muzzles of revolvers. Serious trouble and bloodshed is feared, The police authorities regard the situa tion as'critical, and have transferred a large force.to the stock yards. ! “Augusta, Me.^January 14.—The po lice force at the State, house was strength ened this morning by the addition of fifty men. Matty rumors are afloat as to the intentions ofthe Fusionists, 'and the ac tion of„ General, Chamberlain ia case Smith is elected to-day as Governor. The Election Committee appointed by jthe Fu-. sion house tills'morning', has just decided by a vote of three .to Jwo fo.unseat Mr.' -courts? Cantheseven members thus de H m i m RMi It is reported that there is a rupture be tween Solon Chase and Eboji T. Fills- bury. Mr. Chase opposes the use of any force, and will abide the decision of the Supreme Court. He says he will with draw unless the Democrats will agree to tliis poBcy. Boston, January 14.—The following is the substance of the questions submitted to the Supreme Court of Maine, by the Republican'Legislature. They are prece ded by a long preamble, reciting the facts already given to the public: 1. Have the Governor and Council tho right to summon a person to take a seat in the Legislature, who, by the official re turns, under the decision of the Court, does not appear to be elected, or would such summons he void ? 2. Has the holder of such summons the right to participate in the organiza tion and proceedings of the Legislature to the exclusion of the members rightfully elected, as shown by'the said returns un der the decision of the court, or does such right rest in the last named- member to the exclusion of the member summoned from the same district? 3. If the summons were issued under the facts' recited in the accompanying statement to Lewis Voter and others, (ten Fusionists are named), would such summons give either of them the right to participate in the organization or proceed ings of the House, or would the right rest in Cyrus H. Thomas and others, (ten Re publicans named) ? 4. This qaeamon is similar t<T question three, except that summoned and non- summoned Senators are used instead of the names of Representatives. 5. Does the same rule apply when a member who is summoned appears to be elected only because of some error in the name or initials of candidates not sum moned, or because ofthe rejection of re turns from one town on account of their being unsigned by the town clerk. 6. If persons holding the summons described in question one participate in the organization of tho Senate or House, and if without their participation the Sen ate or House has no quorum of voting members,.have such bodies any legal or ganization or officers ? 7. Without such legal organization and without a quorum .of sixteen voting members in the Senate and seventy-six in the House, can any valid law be enacted, any legal officers be chosen, or any busi ness be legally done, except to adjourn? If any business be legal, what business? 8. Without legal organization and le gal officers chosen by a quorum, can either House compel the attendance of absent members? 9. To make up a legal quorum or any vote in either House, can the vote of a person be counted who though summoned, does not appear to he elected by the offi cial returns under the. constitution and decision of the courts ? 10. Can the Governor and Council le gally administer the oath to members elect of the House of Representatives, when as shown by the record only seven ty-three members vote on a motion to re quire the attendance of the“Governor and Council for that purpose ? 11. Can a valid organization of the House he made under the revised statutes, when under the circumstances stated in the tenth question, a protest was entered at the time that no quorum was manifest, and when tho Clerk refused to put the motion and the Governor offered and ad ministered the oath? 12. Can the Governor and Council le gally administer oaths to Senators elect when only twenty members, both sides included, vote on ” the motion to require their presence for that purpose, and when twenty-eight of those summoned did not appear to be elected by the official re turns? 13. “ When did the term3 of office of the Governor, Executive Council, Secre tary of State, Treasurer, Attorney-Gen eral and Adjutant General expire? 14. When the terms of office of the Governor and Council hare expired, and their offices are vacant, can the members elect of the House he legally qualified be fore a magistate appointed and commis sioned by the Governor under dedimus potestatem , by virtue of the revised stat utes or any other provision of law ? 15. WRen one governor’s term of office has expired, and no successor has been chosen, can the President of the Senate become acting governor, if at his election only twenty votes are cast, and these twenty are made up as stated in question twelve. 16. Can the. legally chosen President ofthe Senate become acting governor, un less he has been legally qualified as such in addition to his qualification as Presi dent ofthe Senate ? 17. Can such qualifying oath be le gally administered by the President pro tempore of the Senate, in joint convention ofthe Senate and House, when less than twenty-six members of the House vote on the motion.to proceed to a Joint conven tion? 18. This question is in substance as to whether the twelve Representatives from the five disfranchised cities had the right to participate in the organization and pro ceedings ofthe House without summons, when no other persons held summons for the same seats ? 19. Can the House legally organize un der a certified roll containing 139 names only, without admitting the twelve mem bers from the five cities ? 20. This question is in substance as to whether the Representatives apparently elected from Skowhegan and Farmington had the right to participate in the organi zation of tho House "without summons, when persons summoned declined to serve on the ground that they were not elected. 21. Can eleven members duly elected and summoned and seven other members not summoned, but appearing to he elec ted by a plurality of all the Votes returned undorthe requirement of the constitution aud decision of the court, constitute and oiganizea legal Senate, provided said eighteen members each have received a plurality of all the votes cast, aud the offi cial records as well as official returns show that fact ? I 22. Can sixty-two duly summoned members elect ofthe House, together with twelve members elect not summoned from the five cities, and two members elect not summoned from the towns of Farmington and Skowhegan, constitute or organize a legal House of Representatives, when the fourteen members above enum erated were in fact elected, and that fact appears by the official returns and the de cision of the Court, no other persons hav ing been summoned for the same seats ? 23. Can seventy-six members' elect, enumerated in question nineteen, consti tute or organize a legal House, together with nine other members elect who were in fact elected, and appear by official re turns, and by the decisions of the courts, to be elected, though the nine seats afore said are claimed by other candidates who were summoned by the Governor and Council, but who were not in fact elec ted, and do not apprtir to have been elec ted by the official returns or decision of the court? 24. When the terms of office ofthe Governor aud Council have expired, the acting President of the Senate having re fused to qualify duly summoned mem bers elected, and the acting House, made up of sixty-two members, legally sum moned, and fourteen others not in fact elected, and not appearing to be elected by .the official returns under' the fiecision of the court, refuse to athnit-to'seats fourteen members elect, speci fied. or additional members elect, specified in question No. 19, or rune additional members specified in ques tion twenty, or anyone of them? Can the seventy-six members specified by question nineteen, or the eighty-five mem bers specified by question twenty, after being called to order by one of their mem bers and the roll of members elect read (as they appear by the official returns], be qualified before a justice, and thus consti tute and Organize a legal House #f Repre sentatives ? 25. When the • terms of office of tlie Governor and Council have expired, can the acting Senate, made up of. twelve members legally summoned and eight others summoned but not. in fact elected, and not appearing. to be elected by the official returns nor under decision of'the courts, refuso to admit to tbpirseats, seven, .members who were in fact elected by the official returns and' by a decision of the The •jmptomi otLWw Compliint>r» a b it to bud tittle 5u the m uth pam in the Leek. li(! “ •'T JoirG, often mijtak Jn t-r n-uuMtian, noor stomach, lou of apoectte, boeo's alternate!? costive and iax, headache. I Bs of memory with a painful aenaatlon of having tailed to do some, thinx which ought to hare been done, debilitr low spirits, a thick yellow appearance of the skm and eves, a dry cough often mistaken for con sumption. Sometimes these symptoms attend the disease, at others, very tew. Pain in Side foe Three Yean, _ „ Bast Foist, Ga. March IS, 18T». 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If 1 had not taken regularly when I was taken sick at Marshal), I might now hare been dead. My faith in the meulcine cannot be shaken, and I am a firm be- lierer in the virtue und all-powerml oaring qualities ol the Regulator, and I would like cTeryono to know it» efficacy. Tour* truly, XY BRYANT, Cored of Dyspepsia in Six Weeks Pottstlvai ia CRT, Va, Feb IS, 1S78. Dxau Bibs; I had the dyspepsia about three years ago; it had run on mo for two or three rears, ana I tried allot our doctors and even kind of medicine I could think of, and nothing did me any good at all. I happened to get ou of Simmons* almanacs, and saw the Regulator highly recommended lor Dyspepsia. I was is. dneed to try it and after taking the medicine about six weeks it made a perfect rare. I here recommended it to a great many persons, ana it hat given general satisfaction. J W LANDRAW, Zt Core Chills and Feve* > 08i, Saw. Sov IS, 18ft. 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Tor sale by aU druggists. aepH nied their seats, acting with eleven mem bers elect, duly summoned, after being called to order by one of their number, and the roll of official returns and the de cision of the court read, be qualified by a justice, and thus constitute and organize a legal Senate. 26. ‘When a person has received a sum mons as a member of the House, and re turns the same to the Governor before the assembling ofthe Legislature and resigns his seat, is it competent for him to call and cancel that resignation, if the Legis lature has assembled and organized or can he be compelled to attend as a mem ber? 27. In case the official returns of the votes for Governor should be lost, con cealed or ho inaccessible by accident or fraud, is it competent to count the vfites for Governor by using certified copies of the official record of the several cities, towns and plantations in the State? The associate justices will arrive at Bangor this evening, and the court will convene to-morrow. ■Washington, January 14.—In the Senate various petitions were presented for the liquor traffic commission; for i cable to Central and South America via the Gulf of Mexico; for the relief of Fitz- john Forter, and for an amendment of the law relating to the seizure and forfeiture of vessels for- breach of the reve nue laws, Private bills wero passed for the relief of Messrs. Dorsey, Shepard* Y*t lum. Mr. Hoar introduced a hill relating to claims of States against the United States. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, from the appropriation committee, reported, with amendments, a bill to relieve the United States Treasurer from the amount now charged him and deposited with the sev eral States. Placed on calendar. Mr. Kirkwood called up the hill to in crease the pensions of certain totally dis abled soldiers and sailors, and it was passed. It increases the pensions of such persons from $50 to $72 per month. Ad. joumed. In the House Mr. Upson, of Texas, from the Military Appropriations Com mittee, reported a bill appropriating two hundred thousand dollars for the erection of suitable posts for the protection of-the Rio Grande frontier. Referred to Commit-; tee of the Whole. The House then went into Commit tee of the Whole on the revision of thi rules, and there was considerable discus sion of the alleged excessive power given by the new rules to the Appropriation aBu Judiciary Committees* At 4:20 the Com mittee arose, and after the presentation and reference of several Executive com munications the House adjourned. The Senate to-day confirmed Elihu A. White to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the Second District of North Carolina. Augusta, January 14.—On the assem bling of the Hoime this morning a com mittee on elections was appointed, aw retired to perform their duties. Washington, January 14.—In the House a bill was reported from the Com mittee of Ways and Means by Mr. ?• Wood, ofNew York, and passed, for fa« importation of classical antiquities. I Mr. Buckner, ofMissouri, chairman the committee on Banking and Currenq. reported a hill requiring the reserves I National hanks to be kept in gold and in* ver coin. Mr. Martin, of Delaware, desired to li fer an amendment, providing that Unitw States Treasury notes shall be reeeivabrf for all dues to the United States, except ing for duties on imports, and shall not be otherwise a legal tender. Mr. Buckner refused to yield the fto* for the amendment. In the Senate Mr. Davis, of Illinois, t» Vice President, Messrs. Beck, Willi*® 5 ! j Allison, Kirkwood, Baldwin, Anthoufi Ferry, Dawes, Pendleton, Kernan, Cod ling and others presented petitions of* 9, men asking for the removal of their P^ 1 ' ical disabilities, and for constitution I amendments giving women-citizens l« / right to vote. Kernan and Bayard f^/ 1 sented petitions in favor of the Bar 5 resolution, withdrawing the legal quality of treasury notes. I. San Francisco, January 14.—Tf graphic communication with PortP a i Oregon, which has been interrupted/, week, was restored to-day. Thef le ~ grams report the severest storm tin known. The gale attained, in t time, to a velocity of eighty mil hour. A large number of houae/vere blown down, including Bremen H| ana the new Catholic Church. The P*S* to property in the city will amY 1 t0 about sixty-five thousand dollifra. j The storm in the country was severe, The telegraph lines ~ Portland and Dallas are so buue fallen timlier that they will liaie t<j tirely rebuilt. A great number were killed by falling bams It is impossible to estimate the the property destroyed, but it J tainly be very great. Three sons are so far reported as killed^ loss of life does not seem to ' very great. London, January^14.—Met jewelers, of No. 19 Cockspur i don, hat e failed. Liabilities a Extensive strikes of cotto at Bolton, Brinloy and Ashton are imminent in consequence | ters refusing to grant an per cent, in wages. kittle , Co., I Lea ves f-Tyne j mas- fof ten