Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 30, 1876, Page 2

] THE CHICAGUO nstice to myself, to placa in yonr hands copy of El rilmmnnlflylflnn ‘\'h‘}th [sent to the Chalrman of the Jdudiciary Committes of the Tfousa whilo I Awns at \anh{m:llm on the 18th inat., andalsos capy of cortain rexolutlons adopted by the Directors of ihe Western Union TL‘ML‘\"II"\ Company at 8 meeting held Fridny, tho 22 inst. Pleasé fnd vopics of hoth the abuve lclnl;'lecmw(lllll.n (ln};:;li fhe honor to b, very respectfally, your N.:‘r\'l]l(l;l. g P Wil » OnTON. The Jetter to Chairman IKnott amd tho resn- lutions referred to have already been published. ! TARKTS. . Wasmnatox, D, C., Dec. 20.—Speaker Rau- Zdall hias vecelyed a dispateh from New Orleans, snying that Darnes hnd started for Wnuhlmxmni Jwritere s woull arrive on Raturdsy, Should there he no guorum of the louso {o-morrow, Barncs’ ease will go over till Wednesday, Ie will remain In custody, but not In- coufinénent, -and will be mado comifortable, OREGON, TR INVESTIOATION, Wasninatoy, D. C,, Dee. 20.~The Benate Committee on Privileges and Elections com- menced taking testimony In regard to the Ore- gou cse this morning. The Mon, Stephen Chadwick, the Scerctary of State of Oregon, reply Lo questions put by 3enator Morton, the Chairman of the Committee, testificd that the first intimation lic had of Watts' being a Tost- master was alter the tlection, Jast November, ‘Fhe wituess eanvessed tho vote of tho State on the day and In the manncr preseribed by law, and nothing was sald that day nbout Watta be- Iug inellgible for the ofiice of Prestdentlal Elect- or. The witucss did not preparo the 1lsts of "Flectors voted for with the vote of each at- tached and under ' TIE 8CAL OF TIlH STATE. The Governor prepared the lists, nfter looking up tho law on that subject, as ho and the wit- ness {n conversation agreed to comply with the *uets of Cougress nnd tho statutes of Orcgon es nearty ns possible fn this matter, In reply to Senator Mitchell, the witness sald thiere were no arms or armed men in the Cap- Atol on the day the Electoral College met, to ‘his knowledge, 7 Tn reply Lo Senator Kernan ho salds ¥ Cronin recelved tho highest nmnber of votes for Elect- ors on the Detoveatie ticket, which was 14,1073 Watts recetved 15,200 votes, Tha ofllelal eun- vass was made by me on tho 4th of December, aml ke Electoral Collego met on the Oth Inst, The law of Oregon remulres me to canvass tho vote in the presenco of the Governor and other State oftieers, On the day followlng the van- viss tho point as tu whethier the Governor had the right to nppoint Crouin in the place of Wutts us un Elector was rafsed, ns Watts was sald to be incligible, There was o hearing on this sub- jeet betore the Governor, and . A PROTEST WAS NEAD from Odell agajust Cronin's appuiatment. On the bth tnst,, o Mr. Hodgkins cama to me, and I rave him certitied lists of tho Electors voted fur, with the vote of ench attached. On the dny that the Electoral Colleze met, I went ot 13 o'clock to thoroom of thelr meeting and banded the certiticates to Cronin, who camo to thoe doeor when I knocked. I think that all the Republie- an and Denoeratle Electora wore §u the room at tho thne, W. Il. ODELL, of Eugene City, Oregon, was next called, and testitied that on tho day of tho mceting of the Tlectoral Collegre, he went with Cartwright and Whatts to the Secretary of State to procure ver~ tificates of election, Dut was referred to the Governor, who atated that at 18 o'clock the cer- tifieates woutld be given to the Electors in tho room of their meeting. At the thne specified, Chadsick, the Seeretary of State, handed an envelope through the “door to Cronin, who stood near to ltut the time. Cronlntookapaper from the envelope and read that part of it which cortiffed thet Cartwright, Odell, and Cronin were ellgible, and had been clected Presidential Electors. Cartwright went towands Cronin, when Cronin returned the pnY‘ur to tho envel- ope, and put It in his coat-pockot, and, upon bu- g x'cnluusu:d by the witness aud Cartwright to read the paper through, B 1LE REFUSED, e wlso deelined to give up the certificates of nny of the Bleetors. The College was organ- {zdd, the witness was chosen Chalrman, and Cartwrlzhit Sccretary, —As:Chalrman of the College, the witness 1 Cronin to produce titicates of the Elcctors for the guldance o Colleze, Il declined to do o, Wntts then tandered Iis reslenation as an Elector, and cepteh, Cromin then salds * You re- ceornize med " Witness replied: *No, ce want,_the certifleates, You must will not aet with you, und you af o from here and say thiat wo would not act with you,” Cronln then left the part of the roum Where the College was sitting, and the Cullege then proceeded to CAST THE VOTE, Watts hetne elecied to fill the vacancy in the El Collegre by his own resignation. Wit rd of 10 PUFPOSY Lo nrrest any ong on 2 cu the Eicetornl College met, Ho noarmed men, but hus sinee heard that ¢ were 1wenty in the room near where the LCollese met, At this polut the Committen adjonrned until to-morrow, when the examination of Odell will be continued, Chadwick was also notified to bo nregent, w the Committee may wish to recall bim for further examinntion, Tie Commlttee, ut the reql\]wut of Scnator Kernan, ordered a subpena to bo issucd for E, A. Cronin. It was served on him this after- “non, in this city. Thy Republican Electoral votes of Oregon were yesterday presented to Senntor Ferry, hr Qen. Odell, In"the presence of Senator Mitchell, No recelpt waa given, Both scts of the Oregon Llectoral returns have also been roceived by mail. —— ‘ LOUISIANA. SENATE COMMITTEE, Nrw Onreans, Dee. 20.—Tho Benato Com- mittee devoted tho entiro day to hearing re- buttiug testimony in reference to Ellza Pluks- ton's testimony., Bomo ten or twelve wit- nesses, white nnd colored, testitied to her noto- rlously bad conduet, belng charzed with infunticide, and leaviug another child in n feneo- corner todioj lso that she had been discharged from two plantations becnuso all the coloret women refused to stay unless sho was sent away; that she was a notorlous prostitute, and unworthy of belief, Chuirman Howe sald he hind long since como to the concluslon that nothing Ellza sald wos to bo belleved mercly because she sald so, "Therefore there was no use to strengthen that opinlun by auch evidence, 2 Mz, Bmiilsbury thought those charged by her with'purtieypatfon i ths assault should be al- Towed to contradlet. Mr, Howo sald they m!{:ht nlso say that the fucts that Llizu wes woundod and Ienry killed were facts not nifected by her statement. Hevernl witnesses testifled to Alexander Brooks baving threatoned to kill Plnkston [uat May for beathue him and biting his Hogor off. T KENATH BUB-COMMITTER went to the restdence of Elfza Linkston at noon to tuke her testimony, it found her luboring wmder sueh Intenso nervona oxeltement that {t wis abundoned for the present. The peonle with whoin she lived sald & porson had ealled there this morning and excited her by telling hier thut the people’ from Quachits wore coming to testity numerons things agulust her i refercues to her children,” The Committoe returned to the Custom-l{ouse, and examined a number of witnesaes relative to breaklng up Union Rights Stop Clnb - East Baton Rouge and Inthoidation of negrovs, tieorge Jtelekenegol, Deputy United Btates Murshai for thut. parish, testifled to the iutimbe sution and bulldozing of colured peoplo there atd unfaliness of the clection, yuey, nged 12, colored, detalled the nwuy ol his Tather by Regulators, und orge Cave pulled him out from unler the atnd Mauna Carmena lpul. o rope arond hiy iy and that they beat Tum, called bl Radi- caly nnd that he safd b would die, J. 1k Colling testitied to the intimidation Republicans in the Clty of Buton v which many were prevented from THE HOUSY SU-CO: exdmitied thres witneseos in pe Tourchy Parlsly, who testiffed a of colured Democrats by colored womsen sud preachers. The Coinwittes also ex- amined soven witnesses from Plaque- mine Partsh, who testlfied to many frregu- lurities nud — consulerublu crookedness on the part of ofliciale who conducted the cleetion, Soveral wald Edgeworth, Supervisor of Regis- tratlon, had seted very unfalely fn the reglotra. tion and naming of” votlug-places; «that he Lud the repatation of belng u professional bal. Int-box stuffer. One withess suld thera wers 400 Depit v Murshals fu the parlsh on $uo duy of clection, Cnarics J. Lewls, colored, sald ho was a mom- ber of the Councl of Freedom, of which nearly cevery prominent Republivan in'the Stute wus o wetibery und that wmong the penalties wna' death for any member who electloueered for Dunaocrats, A copy ot the by-laws sod constl- tutlun was {dentiicd sud dled us ovideuce, TN HOUFE COMMITIRY is cxomining Col. Patten, the Chalrman of the Democvatie Btate Cotmittes, while the House Eub-Comuitier, uv to noon, had been uuable 10 o suything, having no stenographer, It iy pudd it the House Comittos will re- HIBUNE: N SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1876—TWELVE PAGLES, : ; examine all the witnesses who hiavo been beforo , the Senate Commitiee. At the evenlug sesalon of Binckburn's sub- committce four colored mon testified as to the unfairneas of tho election in tho Thind Ward of Plaquemine Parksh, and the belief that the bal- lot-hox had heen stuiled, Morrison’s Committen consumed a_larzo Enr- fon of the sesston to-day fn examining Col. Patton, Chafrman of the Democratice State Com- mittee, but nuthlnfi lmportant was elicited dif- {clranv. from hls evidence befors the Senato Com- mittee, James M, Godolph, Reglstrar of the Seventh Ward, gave similar evidence in regard to the rejection of Poll No. 8 to that in reforence to Poll No. 2 Elaventh Ward, Lawrenco Kiug, colored, teatified that ho had heard Judge Ditible tell negrocs todetain voters at the white polls, and for them to yots in the black polls, and tho officers to count white polis slowly as possible, around bm dally, Yesterdafrho was visited by s number of mombers of the Leulslature, who promised their support to Wim.' At present it is clatmed that Scnator ‘Logan will go Into tha cauens with 84 votes, and, therefore, will prove tho strongest candidate, and that lio will come out winner in the race, On tha other hand, there is strange figuring betng dono. Tho Independonts say that they are going to hold a caucus by themsolves, and that John C. Hatnes will be their man, Tiot somo of the Independents with Democratic antecedants, 1t 18 clalmed, will not go bagk upon thelr old associates It the presont criecs, Agnin, it is claimed by Logan's frionds that Parrish, who was always a Itepublican belore ho took tha Indepundent road, will go for him, a8 they nre fellow-townmnen and old friends of W. C, Weaver testified: Was Commisatoner lnngi‘ntnndlng. John Il, Buehler (s ald to bo g No. ¢l for Logan, or, at any rate, only fora Republicdn, ;\‘znlczltlmt‘m Uy and the olection wns fair and it lufi(d Hiay oppoml’l.u 1‘"“ ihrirs nny'- Gustava Journad and Edg;r Davenport, other Commissloners, nd 15, D, Merricr, United Btates Bupervisor, also corroborated Yits state- ment, l‘md that the poll was rejected on techinfeal grotunds, ‘Two witnesses, who worked for Cobb Theo- bald, teetified before the Senate Committee to- night that Theobold was at home on the night Pinkston was killed. They slept fu adjolning rooms, W, 1L, Baker testifled he tvas not at Pinks- :':?:xl. a8 chargred by Eliza, on the night of the rder. French Corter, colored, swore befors Wad- leigh's Committee that ho saw four men hang- ing at Mount Pleasant, in Fast Baton Rouge, on a gotc-post, and two on Quartior strect, Knew one of them, Ned Foster, ‘Threo otlier colared witnesses testified to n relin of terror in that {mrlsh, and that they had Leen driven frotn thelr houscs, and dared not how. Tho Lost, it 1s claimed, {8 running Bovorldge, under the coverlng of ts pretomded support for President Grant, — This 1s sald to bo Taylor’s gratitude for Doverldge's kindness to him in inaking him a Penitentlary Cominlasioner, Then ‘ft is sald that Richard J. Rowett, of Carlinyille, 18 working for blmsclf for tho United States Scnnlorah('lz but that his chances of success iro meagre, ‘There aro soine_ who state that s planis marked ont to wet Logan out of the way, so that cither Cullom or Dever- idga inny be sble to step into his boots. Itls proposed to give Logan a forcign unluhml though no particular statlon {s mentionad. Bu! 1t {8 field by his fricuds that he would put up with no such dish. He wants to bo re-elected Senatar, or nothing, and no, nmount of promne Ises will ack him down. THH DESOCKATS ring on the probable chances have been I of some of tho Republicans mnot be- ety e ln[g amo to ‘sueml the nrsi’.' ru‘r "‘lv‘:::ll;n of the sesslun, on gccouut of INDIANA. and thus galn the bnlance of power In thelt A REPURLICAN SENATH, hana for the selection of a Unlted States Senn- 8pecial Dispatch to The Triduna, «. | tor for the next eix years. Tho joint total voto NEW Your, Dec. 23,~The Times' Washington special says an clectfon was held in Indlane on Tuesday tofllla vacancy inthe State Senato caused by the death of a former jocumnbent. of the two Houses Is 204 of these, the Republie- ans have 101 votes. Gill, of Iancock, Repub- ean, and a member of tho House, is known to be i1, and hardly able to be out, This, the Dem- give them the advantage of ocrats clalm, wil The district in which tho clection was held has | one vote. Tat they forget that right In Chi- heretufore been Deniocratie, and in viow of the f)nlz?x tlhcy hllmvuu:‘ mu::::g:‘ lrt:‘! "igclflx‘nxu}!l fact that the political control of the Senate de- BEEChy : 4 pended upon the result, uuusual efforts wero m".’ hb "ll; :f,dg:{.l |§:I’ l‘:‘: ‘:1‘,1‘.10",1 {fl'@fl’fl undo by tho Democtats to clect their | FoTRADS Y1 o, fs quith. sick, thoush ho ia cundldate, i, Cletion of - Demo- | expectod o bo on s piiis ogaln by the time tho General Asscmbly meets, on Wednesday next. Giil's fricads cinlm that he will be present to cast his vote for United States Scoator, if he has to be carricd to the chamber on a cot, and that he will put fn his ballot for Logan. The Democratic candidates arc maklog no cat efforts to rousc any enthusiasm in thelr mnfl. Cyrus . McCornick's {ricnds say that ho Iias great strength, and that Mertltt's attacks only tend to strengthen him, Melville W, Ful- ler scems to have little apparent strongth. Palmer and Trumbull aro exuscted to make a grand ficht when nctunl wock docs commonce, but tho ** Moss-backs,' It 18 held, will accept no man unless ho shall prove himsclf of genuine Syunterritled stock, with no Ropublican or ‘War-record crosses, the Senate Democratic l‘xly 1, whilo the_clection of the Republican eandldate makes it Republic- an I)x 1 nmjur"?‘. The District is composed of tho Counties of Madlsou and Delaware, Madison at_the Presidential clectlon in November gave ‘Tilden over 500 majority, while on Tuesday last it pave Doxy, Republican candidate, 160 ma- Jorlty, thus sccuring his election. GEORGIA, A WOMAK'S ACCOUNT OF HOW THAT STATE WAS BULLDOZED AT THH LATE RLECTION. Allegan {Mich.) Journal, Miss T, 8, Emerson will be remembered by many as a lady who formerly resided fn Atles gany & daughter of tho late Mr, E. Emerson, | “The Times yesterdny contalned an articla of Slio 1s now at Macon, Ga., where she has been litleal news, it was vory great news to for some time, and from ywhenco slic writes to | 1t old Uflflgfl'fl}_u MCGP%L:DE::}“ l‘f&h}flfi; Mr. I H. Pope some of her experlences and oy, Jrore, s A Jet cnterpriso displnyed, Tho Times stated In n vlows of Southern life, Political matters bolng copy of a elreular which it clalmod to have ob- prominent {uat at present, must needs be no- | ¢aied that the Unfon League of this State bad tieed, nnd she throwssome llght on the way that | yeen orgunizeds 'Uhis nssoclation was_brought 80,000 Democratic majority waa obtafned in | jnig exigtenco during tho War, and has been Georglu. Blicnoys: Kkept up ever since. To It belong prominent Beforo the election we were anxious to hove tho | men of all classes and occupations,” including day pase, It pamied without bloodshed, and our | Judges on the Bench, membcrs of the Bar, an morninit papor of Doc.' 8 atd: '*1t was one of {he muny of themn well-known Democrats, It fs quietest wo over had, ‘The City-Hall Precinct was well'enough for the Zimes readers to learn this. Whotly glven up to the nogroes, and_ every oppoe< | o Union Leagtie woe never disbanded, nnd it1s tunity ta vote was glven them. They bad St all C0g Hromt? thelr” own way untll” the preeinct closed, Thoy | £0od for thu Democrats to find out that closcd thelr nccount of lRo dny with thanksand | eitch an nssoclation exists. As to the clrcular, {t congratnlations ta the young mon who labored so | was apparently o fraud on its faco, and ]l);ububly leruleally to bring about the result." ~ We fearn never had an exlstenco except n the Imagina- from tho black Tén who s+ had. T¢ &1l thele oWh | Han of the Teporier who composet it = yay s that Ui dnbora of thoso saimg, young mon WIE GREENDACKERS, conalsted ng the ronm and_makin ngreas ] and’ egrons about' impomible. Men waro hours | | Tho Cook County Greonback party held a trylng {o vote, nnd _many hadfo give it up. Ono | Mecting last night at th . oo t°' rather promiiient man, after Lrylng sovoral times, | cClve the report ot the Committes apnointed to went (o Mayor 1lufl or Col. Hardenian, I hayo for | fiud out the best means of spreading the princl- gotton which, and aafd: **8¢o hero, you call thiaa | ples of the party. Only fourteen persons re- falr cloction, do you!" They oxpressed zreatsur- { sponded to the call, and very little buriness wos prlse, of conrse. und went tathe door with lnm and | done, Mr. Willlam McNally prosidea, and Mr, Alm'l;fd oul:"‘lll‘m'lh ET; l‘;‘n &«fnm to J9te | R. W. Springer ncted as Secretary, ~maoke room for him, boys!" nd ho passed u| Vi and voted, helr o ovidontly was fo ot aman | yyitoyiogf 85 themeetiue was ehled o orfer 1olo et bfton enoigh fo keap up the facco. Thls i A g R B M R e ¥ told us hls foct'werg ko uas) m\l:‘ybelng(md— members of tho party were I? ng g ““fi"' den on that ho could hardly stand. Anothor | lsewhere in relation to tho action to bo taken pleasant littla diversion was that of throwing pep- | in the incoming Legsisiaturo, and that accounted [usr into thelr oyes (tho negroes) from some gal- | for the absencs of u number of gentlemnen ot cry above, and the next "l"fl'lmfv when tho por- | this meeting. With unity of action he thought pebratara of the fun wero brought Into caurt on tho | thiey would be able to sccure the United Btates Benutorship, which would be a very desirablo complaint of a colored man, the colored man was baatlly hustled out befora thicasa was heard, a8 81 | yictory for thelr party. ‘The speaker wont on armed body of **chivalry ™ appeared and threat- cened to shioot him: and " Mayor Huff had no incana of protecting hlin («0 ho said), nnd did not want blovdshed. ~ One, Col, Hardemnn, declared he wouhl never giva anotherdollnr toward freo schools for negroos, ‘The question of continnlng the ap- propridtion for free schnols ls baini discussed . Llnmn Las had them but four years, and at thy next election the quoetion IF to be disposed of, Mlss Emorson speaks of the man and his wife with whom she waa staying s having been **1n Macon and other parta of the Btatu as teachers of tho Freedimen; nnd that, §f being from the North In not'cnough of itsel}, shuts us out from all Bouthern soclety. *Nwgger tenchors® are se- yerely let alone.” “aflss Enierson {8 well known as an accomptished, intellizent, and veraclous young womun, and what she' saya of Southern affairs woy borelled upon as the truth, ADDRESS TO CONGRESS. NEW YORK CITIZENS URGH MODEMATION AND CONCILIATION ON TUI VRESIDENTIAL QUES- TION—TEXT OF TUB MEMOKIAL AND NAMES OF TUT SIGNERS, T'o the Honorablethe Senate and Ivuse of' Sizpre- sentatives, in Congress assembled: Your memo- rialists, representing a large proportion of the tinanclal and commoreial inlorests of the Clty of New Yorl, beg leave most respuctfully to oxproas thelr great sutfsfaction at the action of your hionorablobodles tn appolnting Committees of Conference to_conslder tho um{n.»r mode of cotmting tho ballois for President and Viee- President of tho United Stutea, They hall this action os un indicatlon that the two Housca of Congress are dusirous of settling thls complieated question in a spirit of modera- tion and conclliation, and thoy beg leave to ro- present that, in geting thus, your honorable Dodles have the cordlal sympathy of the greut muss of the American people, lrrespective of narty. i Ygur memarinlists most respectfully, but most earnestly, pray that all mere pnn; con- slderations may be thrown aside, il that in this crisls In the history of the United Statea the pure st unsellish patriottstn which fnspived the Founders of the Republic may gulde your legls- Iative action, and that you inay thusrolieve the country from its present uncertalnty and appro- hensfons by a promptdeterminstionof ths mode in which the pending momeutous Issus shall be decided, And your memoriplists will ever pray. Brown Dros, & Co,, Babcock Dros, & Co.y John Jay Cisco & Son, J, or, Johin 1), ones, 3 Phetpe, Dodye & Ca.y Roosevelt & Son, Rohart Iy, Minturn, Juhn A, Stewarty at sowe length to contrast the Greenback party viih tho other parties, ciuiming thatthe success of thelr course wonld result In” tronquiiity and happitess to the whole country, o sugiested they srould set to work and ctlect a_thorough srgantzation in the varlous Electoral Districts of the country, Mr. Hoyt called attention to the fact that this was n buslness mecting, and suggested that it was wasting thno to wmnke further specches on the general fssues of the day. Thus admonished, the resart of the Commit- teo wwus demandod by the mecting, Mr, Bowen (Chalrman of the Committec) stated that he had corresponded with Gen. Cary, and had received a letter from hiin, lu whicl he expressed his willinguess to dellver u serles of lectures through the country If they could make the wppolntments, The Generil intlnated that e would require $30 per night for his servives on tho platform. He (Mr. Bowen) thought It was of the greatest fmportance to have qualified gentiemen tako the lecturestield, and help edacate the people ju the great prinels ples of the Greenback party, The Chalrman (Mr. McNally) thought 359 a night was a larze sutn of money to pay their Into candidate for Presidont. Thoy bad “men in the city better qualitied to speak” on subjects dear to the party, who would work cheaper. Mr. DeWol suggested that they needed or- manlzatlon befors ngitation. Followling up this thought, he mude a long specch on every politl- cal question under the sun, to the great uunu{- auce of that scctlon of the meeting whicl wunted to scttlo duwn to business, Mr. Nelson, of Will County, stated tho steps being taken in that county” to orgranize the party. They expected to have a branch orgaul- zatlon In every town {n the county. Mr. R. W, Sprinzer thought it might boa good thing to engage Gen, Cary os o lecturer. By making proper arrangoments, the remuner- atton of the General could be greatly roduced. Mr, 8idney Myors sugrested “that {hls matter should be referred to o Committco on Lecturcs, e thought the poity wasumiply compensated for all tho eforts they had made. Durlng the lato campalign they hud called the attent{on of the masses to queations which had hitherto not recelved thut consideration from the peoplo they doserved. The party bad IYCI‘JM responsibilitics at this tine, aud “they should be met with l’flln‘)ll‘lnll and couragd. Mr, Myers proceeded odecllver an eloquent but mther long address to prove that the lmlelwudum party had the truo futcresta of the nation at. hoart, and that t.lnl! people would dowell to repose thelr trust in it After further debate the whols imatter vas recommitted, with {ustructlons to correspond with speakers and loculities dusiring locturers, Nome dlscussion took plats in regard to ward nr{;nmmuun, und 8 committee was appointed to tako this matter in charize, Tho mecting then ndjourned for a weekt, . TUB DEMOOKATIG VETRHANS, A squad of the wriuy of Damucrats who aro . Astor, L 4, Jallray & Co, Juslah M, Fiako & Lo, Muvameyers, Enstwick & Cu,, Augnet Belmont & Ca,, dJamea Low, Roburt Levox Kennedy, Cyrns W, Fleld, Jd. &dJ. Stuart & Cuo,, lr'uury G. Marquand, Henry I, Spaald! Georgu W, Lano & Co., Moses ‘Tas Morrfs K, Jeseitn, ¥, 8. Winuton, Davld M, Tursure, Whilum M. Fogy, Drexol, Morgan & 0., L. Von Jloffman & Co., M, Morgau & Sona, Biake Hros, & Co., lonchig for positions as Postmasters A, Iselin & Co.y Grinnell, Minturn & Co., | Oougers, letter-varglers, and clerks, style Mujtiund, Phelps & Co,, Lichard Irvin & Co,, ing ~ themselves - the Voteran Reform J. & W, Bchigmun & Ca., W, IL Haye, Assoclation, mot last evening over Max Lehor, Whitmau & Qu, , Ienlumin B, Bherman, Rowmor's saloon, on North Clusk street, to fur- . 1 Yannen: eI ik B, Tarrlagton & | {hor hlw:r re'l&m'c:lvo &lnlmi o ’l'udu{l. fl:wlld ho b Qe ever be President. e, Lich wus in the chalr, $iiiarehun, Witltne L Jonking, and such warrlors as_(ien. Cameran, Col. Bajd: Kelly & Alexuiider, Auwou F. Eno, 4 3L Coover, I, G, Arold, Jumen D, Floh, win, and Capt. Peter Hand were present to seo hibm wleld the gav No business was trunsuct- ud of any impurtance except the adoption of sundry committec-reports, Among them wus one by the gentlenmen appoluted 8t a former N, I Palmer, ¥ N, Lnlhrnr. William P, Hritnall, D, R dtung, o L Warth, David Dows & Co. Uvooryo 1% lape, - mocting to yulse the uecessary funds and make )\\u'xlgd;*'ul‘t{i. uflNW]fl-“-Cfl‘}zlJ- 5‘ Sern the necessary armugements for firinge o salute l';lu‘rt\:‘u:w; mn"’:h-' um“’“- of 24 guns in honor of Tilden's Wilton G. Hunt, Wihdow, Lanter & Co. ulectlon, in which further thne was asked for Whiliam Orton, Wetmore & Ca,, | the reason that theyhad not been ablo to rulsy Yomeroy & Plummer, \\'amlward. Lawrouce & W, A, Wheelock, Prex't Centrol Nuttonal Banl, liryant, o 4.'Q. Jonu Verinflye & Co,, L b, Vernillye, A, A. Low Brothers, uu{ moncey, and for the further reason that their enthuslusin had subwided. Under the head of resolutions, Col. Baldwin introduced o lone stelng pledging the veterans J 1o support the House ol Represvntatives with B Chllnaony 3 dullivas & Co,, o ther lgara™ n tha. avant of ite. decaring T Tiowiand & Avpiowanl, ¥, B llutne & Coc e dden clected, which wore refurred to the Board ot Jotuh Macy's Sons, © Atnold, Uonatavlo & Co,, | Diroctars, “Thy hul thd effoct tg stir tien, ahbrl & Chauncoy, Tloward, Bauger & Ca., Y, o Lich somowhat, aud, auddenly remenibering thy et Southwrck & Ca, By Applotow s lite, 1 » &, Slo uuwr\ulmy of life, lie mado & speech in favor of organizing the Veteruus into battallons, that they might be ready to attend funcrals of de- ceused miembers, ot The vesult of ls spcoch wad the appolutmont of a comuittes of tive to \'. ]i‘ % Al ls'fllllfl- a".’i" W L Comsidl, 2 'o damte e Atnder, D aHororsy. Post, ‘Pait Dlke lrothers, Willfaw 11 Macy, George D. Morels Franklin, urgan, 0 AL & roport to the next meeting the wumo pf o suit- uuul,u\llu&‘nhnl_lne. Aud others, nlfic perdon from cach \;finl to rucmfz compa- OIICAGO, e ? TUR SENATORIAL PIOUT 18 still tho all-absorblig thema among the poll- ticlans und would-be stato-nakers. Senator Logan s the only one who has u hewdquarters in oporution, sud it is locsted fu Purlor 11, Urund Paclile lilulcl, where Uis friends guther MISCELLANEOUS. TIUE KENTUUKY DEMOCIAUY, LouaviLLy, Ky, Dee, 20.—At & meeting of the Democratic State Exocutive Committeo of Keutucky fn Loutsvillo to-day, It was resolved that a Convention of the Dewocratic party uf Kontucky hecalled to ‘mect tn Loulsville on Thuraday, Jan, 18, 1877, tu take nction upon the prosent critleal stata of public affaira. Tho people will bo roprosented by one delegato to every 100 voters. THE ILLINOIS LEMISLATURT, Spectal Dipaich to The Tribune, BrrinorirLy, 1L, Dee. 20~—Gen, John Mo Connell, of S8angamon, 8, M, Etter, and D, W, Smith, l(aqrewnu\llm fntheGenoral Assembly from tida dlstrict, to-night gecured roonis at tho Leland Hotel for tho Indopendent caucus next Mululay evening, It Is understood that somo Indopondent membersof the General Assembly co-opernto with them. Thelr eandidate for the United States Benator is understood to bo the Hon, D, A, Brown, now Ratlrond Commissioner and an Independent Democrat. Benator Mumb, Iudependent, is hel TIRES. AT SPRING LAKE, MICIT. Boeclal Corvespondence of The Tribune, GRAND IlavEN, Mict, Dee, 23.—A fire broke out last nicht about 9 w'clock at Bpring Lake, which totally destroyed thu largze gencral store of Martin Walsh, his residenco ndjoinlug it, and n bullding uscd as a meat-market vwned ‘)y 8. Bingham, who haa no insurance, Mr, Walsh ot out about half of his o, His total 1oss s probably $18,0005 Insurance, $12,000 in the Phenix, of Hartford, © ° AT LAUREL, IND. CrixeinnaTy O, Deds 20.—Bremaker, Moore & Co.'s * paper-nlll b Laurel, Ind., was burned Is ght. Loss not aacertained. The 1oss {s about s’ir.o,oou 5 insurance, 845,000, LouisvitLe, Ky, Dee. 20.—Tle Bremaker Moore Paper Manufacturing Company, the burning of whose pmperl,{ at Lourel, [nd,, is announced from Clncinnatl, 18 n Loufsvitle fivin, and estimates the loss at $105,000. Insurance onc-half, in twenty-nine different companies. ——— IN CITICAGO. Tho alarm from Box 819, at 1 o'clock this morning, was caused Ly a fire in the two-story brick building No. 01 Desplaines street, ocen- pled by James McCade s a saloon and lodging- housa The flames wero speedily extinguished, after the Iniliction of a loss not bxeeeding $200, Several of the inmates wore removed from the upper story with the asslstance of a hook and ladder company. AT 8T. LOUIS, 8r, Lows, Dee. 20.—A fire broke out a fow minutes ago fn the Bt, Louis Drug Company's warchouse, 508 North Becond strect, and at this writing (midnizht) the Indications are {t will be destroyed and the loss be heavy, No ustimate of Toss or {nsurance can be given to-night, e —— INDIANA, Insuranco Commissloners® Report—Confliot of Authority — Purdue Unlversity— The Tioard of Agriculture—The Latest Indlan- npolls Scandnls, - Special Dispatch to The Trivune, InpIARATOLIS, Ind., Dee. 20.—John A, Finch, special Tnsurance Commissionor, today sub- mitted his report to the Govérnor, Itshows that, from July 1, 187, to July 1, 1875, 8882, 509,51 were paid to forelgn life Insurance com- panfes by citlzens of Indlana. During that time tho forelgn 1ife compnnies have pald to citizens of Indlana 8770,702.16. From July 1, 1873, to July 1, 1676, $1,319,473.2¢ was pald to forelgn lifo companies by citizens of (ndinna. During that time theso companies patd to citizens of Indlana $713,704.07. Dur: ring the two years mamed $0,010,056.50 wero pald out of the State to forelgn ‘life and fire msurance companies, and $3,070,017.68 wero returned. ‘The Indlana compnnies, Hfe and fir are mentfoned soparately, and complimented for thelr careful wmanagement and ominent prosperity. Ho estimntea that forelgn fusur- ance companies have loaned no loss than $50,- 000,000 on Indlana renl eatate ot and 10 per cent Interest, M. Finch submits lenpsihy sug- Fcnloua 28 to insurance legislation fovitno State, iia idea belng that the Goneral Assambly shoul appolnt n commisslon of experts “to ex- gnilne the subject and agres upon agencral insurance law. e strongly urges that every effort bo made to buitd up strong homeo commpanles, to keep the premiwn money within the Btate. % A Constable of the Town of Rockport levied upon the property of the Rocknort & Bouth- western Raitroad Company and refused to turn it ovor to D. C. Branham and W. O. Rockwood, Hecevors nppolnted by the United States Court tolny. Judgo Grosham has dispatched a gultfidfllnl-u arshal to enforgs the vrder of the ourt, Purduno Uniyersity's report was submitted to- dny. The Collego 1s located at Lafavette. It opened Its thinl year with - nincty-nine students, forty of whom are In the college “course, The current exponses of thu year were $17,880.6%, The Ion. K, E. White Is President, and the prospects of the fn- atitution aro flnuurlmlv. The State Boara of Agriculture hus becomo badly invulved by an efort to run an exposition for which they hnd no capucity, At the inecting tu-day an appeal was preparcd and sent to the Governor for aloan from the State of $100,000 In the shape of twenty-soven 6 per cont bonds, During the {ml tarenty-liva years tho Board has aceumulated 8280,000° worth of property und pald §150,000 in prewluws, Gov.-Elect Williams was for n lonz time a_mnember and Prosident of the Board, Had manngencut s the sole cause of tho embarrassment. The Hon, Willlam Wallace, A. R, Burton, of the_Nortinwester Chrlstian University, aud A, C. Grooma, the Commitiee uppointed by the Deacons of the First Christlan Church to o to Bt, Louls und Investigate the seundul agalnst Eldor’ Black, returnsd to-nlzht. Iguoning atl testimony on both sldes, the Gommltlee mmle an fndepondent und thorough examinntion. 1t is understood thut they casne baek thoroughly satlaficd of tho innocenee of Vluck and Miss Vosa of the charpes inndo by the Seatlne. ‘Tho report of the Bourd of Deacons will e made on Friday next, Mliss Julia AJ Child to-day Inetituted proceed- ings for divorce from Johu A, Childs, the oh- sconding Insurance agent, upon ground of aban- donment, B8ho also aske for alimony, and the Court Issued n rostraining order preventing his attornoy from sciling any more of his property, Mra, Child to-duy recelved a letter from the ahsont one, postinarked Dayton, 0., and jn- dorsed by tho Postmaster on the back Dec. 11 un envelope postmarked Omahn, The er was & heartless eplatle, with an fusult in every lue, Ile Informs Mrs, Chlld that he proenreid divorcea for himself and Mrs, Bobertson sevural wecks ago, and winda up with a few lines of advice that go to prove him utterly heartloss, and without the falutest approach “of Instincty of decency. — e ST, LOUIS' ELECT.ON MUDDLE,\ 87, Lous, Dec, 20.—The qucetion as to whether “ The Scheme and Charter ™ wua ear- rled at tho clection last Avgust has been finally scttled, The Commissioners appolnted by the Circuit Caurt to recount the vote madu an club- orats report to the Court, aud Judge Gottschulk yesterday opdered the Mayor of the city and tho presiding Justico of the County Court to tako that report as o busls, aul to declare officlally ns to whether fu thelr judgmoent the schemie and charter wero adopted or rejected at the August clection, This mornlig theae gentlemon reported o the Court that the proposition wus car- rled, and the roturna wers {mamedintaly cortified up to the Sceretary of State. This revorscs the previeus action, aid will result lncomplications Wl it {s belloved can only bo remcdfed-ty leglslative action. y all the present clty oflicers will bo practically “ousted when tho new chartor s put tnto effect, and thore will have to be a new election for both clty aud county of- ficlals, ————— LATE LOCAL ITEMS, Lato last night & gang of burglars gatned ac- cess to a vacant house, No. 210 Cass strcet, and crossing uron thoe voofs of adjvining houscs, descencied through a scuttlo into No, 220 snine otrecy, where they made away with iwo fine wvercoats and about & dozen shirts belonging to the proprietor. The Arygory pollee, alded by two immenso Slmmics, Tuat wight visited the gamblug house of Julf llaukius, No, 131 Clark streat. Only three juwates wore mgtuml. s there was 0o guins Iy progress at the thue, About 8 o’clock last evening John Blackman, an ciploye of the North Division Btroct Raile way, Whils attempting to thaw out the gua in the car barn, on Larrabes strect, Li- twoen Cuutre and Sophis doentally touched a match to the gawmets, causiug an explosion, which broke several wine dows Ju the bullding, and threw Blackman sey- eral fect away, badly wounding him. He wus attended by Dr. Hobart, and sont to his honse, Nu. 1§ Cludver strect. The Denth of the Mopper. © Baling (Kuan.) Journal, llel\orh from all purts of the Stato aro to the that noarly all of the duposited by oflec l"lfgl grusshoppers bad batchud duriug the receut hus understood In the Missouri Rliver country that tha Indians who did surrender -to Col. Miles bad been looking for some time for somohody who would permit them to surrender, and that, fortunately. for them, they. fell in with Col. Miles, It ts manifest from Gen, Sherman's re- port, tihnv. Col, Miles {8 o very energetic oflicer, lorn with Miles’ a vital polnt, getting to Fort Peck? it lately, loast, disabl !uultlzucuu of on Indian Chlet. real bands, Thers are ‘other leading men among them known as_statesmen, such o8 Iron-Dog, Binck-Moon, and Pretty-Bear; but Sn.unq-llnl[ is the head warrlor of "the does not taik much, but his will prevalls over the cloquence of oth tion, transfer wus completed, and numbered in'all 2,307 penunn.—couumlu(‘ of. 567 men, 81 wormnen, 838 boys, 86 girls, ded Into 50O fawnfites. bden called on by former Agoents (Patmer and I!nrkc? to furnish subsistence, clothing, ete., for ) ll““fi h gren}ur |l|mu7b&' than this, B cefved suppties for 7, 000 m&i creeds towndu! streets, acel-, warm weather, and_that tho ®torms aud cold weather of Ina woek was tho tnoans ot destroy. Ing tho young hoppera. ‘I'ho reports aro so woll substantiated ns to leave little douht that we will ba relieved of muteh of the troublo anticl- ated from theae pests next spring, We have alked wita inen from all parts of 8aline and from_adjolning countlces, who ussured us_that they had personally ln\’cnuglnlcd the condition ho ege denosits in their localitles, and they had found that In most cnscs thd cyes, hacks, and legs of young grnmho{mem had formed, but 1ifo was apparently extinet. The Indications ara that this scction will bo comparatively free of tho hoppers In tho spring. ————— THE INDIANS. Gen, Bherman's Report—Gen. Sherltan and Bltting-Bull — Inkpndatah — Indlans at Btandlng-Rock Agenoy,, Special Correrpondence of The Tribune, BraNDING 100K, D, Ty Dec. 10.—You know that nesvspapers reach this distant and obscure station about elght or nine.days nitcr you, fortunata denizens of cities, have read them and forgotten all thoycontained. Theso nowspapers somotimes publish oflicial reports of Cabinet- Sccretaries, Generals, and othier high functioi- arles of the Government. Among such reports recently published is one by Gon, W. T. Sher- man, which has proved very Interesting reading to the military mon away out here. Therels some very strange {nformation conveyed In it to the Prestdent and to the people, to which I purpose inviting attontlon, It is reported Ly the General of 3 lodges of hostlle Indians had surrendered to Col, Miles, of thu Fifth United Btates Infan~ try, and hostages for tho faithful surrender of. these In- dians at Cheyenne Agency early in December, It is understood out here fn tho Indlan country that not 100 of theso lodges have reached Chey- cnno Agency. Instend -of 2,000 persons, itis probablo that not 8o many as 500 have actually surrendered. selacted thelr best. hiorses and scut them to sc- cure places to praze through the winter, before aurrendering themselyes at Cheyenno, fustead of dellvering them up to the military command- er, Without any authentic knowledgo as to the exact number of persons who surrendered in ne- cordance with the pledgo to Col. Miles, would {t not be well to call” on Gen, Sherman to Inform tho Army that 400 or 500 that Col. Mlles had aceepted 1t 1 nlso o fact that theso Indlans thic public on this point? 1t 1s belioved that thero Y\ccn frross exaggeration somewhere, It is o portion of that artlcls Is dovoted to narrative of Col. Miles' operations agalust a Bitting-Bull, who I8 represented . by the General 08 *{iying beforo Miles."" 'This sy wudr mode of retreating: docs not nccerd with ILleut.-Gen. Sheridan’s descrlption of 8ltting-Bull, whom hu represents as “old and disabled by disenso;” of which statements and opintous T have some- thing to eay, nfter a word or two more on Sher- in connection flyln{: Sitting- ro man's report. Ho [uforms ug ursult_of the Bull,” that Gen. IHazen .went’ Fart Buford by steamboat to Fort Paock. Bat Lero “wo are left in ignorance an What did Uen. Hazen doafter Did he return to Fort Buford! Gen, Bherman, au fmpatient public wants light thrown on this dark page of his- tory! Rumor says 1lnzen returned safely down the river to Fort Buford. 1t has astonished people hiero who havemenns of tinding out something about Sitting-Bull, to seo (ten, Bhierldan's estimate and description of that noted Indian, ease,’ Indeed! Ho fs 8 cording to fnformation recclved whohave known him from childhood, only disability that he suffers results from tho loss of tlio toes of his right fuol, which were all shot away in a fleht with the Crows, Thls %OM, and dlsabled” by dis- Old, and dlsabled” by di J or 40 e‘unrl olily ac- rom Iudlans The interferes with his “petting around on fout! @es an Indain Clief “expressed but dots mot fn the 0 him for war, or furany of the Bitting-Bull s the Head-Centro of the -hostily Sioux Sloux Natlon. He cr Chiefs. 1 hieard an Interesting statemont coming from. ong of the Chiefs, Kill-Eagle, who wus In the {1( Iln lIn which Gen. Custer and his men were cd, If you remember anything of the bloody massucres of whites {n Minnosota o 1842, the name of “Inkpadutah’ s doubtless famillar to you. wmost eruel,” and the most enerzetic of all thy Suntee Sloux engatred u those bloody sceties of 1803 on tho beautiful green pralries of Minne- sota, The name of . Inkpadutal shudder to many a man and woman_{n ° Minne- sota to this duy, flis crimes outlived lim. Ho could not live with the whites at the Agencles, and he fled westward, or rather west of the Missouri River, and found Huerly awa) pauy with Sliting-Bull ‘and other Indians who refuse to hold relations with the Government, He now passes much of his tine In the Brit- {1 posscssions, and may possibly make stealthy vialts into the Agencles at Fort Tolton aud Furt Staeton, It 13 a fuct that Gen. Custer was killed by two sons of Inkpadutuli (Red-Tup). Thoy tirat atenel him with thelr coup-sticks, took the valuables from his hody, snd seenrcd his horse and pistols, The bloud of Inkpadutah will bo at war aninst the Amorleans as long ns & drop of It runs in the veius of an Indiun, Ho was the wost ferocjoug, the brings In com- They Iv was the violation of the promises of an Indian Agent to pay thelr “just ducs, that broughit on the cruel mussuerd of women and ehildren, and the captivity of womeon, in 18 ‘Tho dishonesty of Indian Agents ] and 187 hod much to do with the Immense con- gregation Cunter's o in 1874, 18 dissutieticd Indlans that destroyed nand [n 1670, ‘The Agency ab this post has heen transferred {rom the millitary back to the Civil Agent, Mr, W. ‘I Hughes, of Chleago, now Hiling the posi- ‘The Iudiuns were counted before the 205 Infants,~divi. The Goyernment ling urke re- —thnt ¢, for nearly ans mare than were at the Agency, What he dld with these supplics, Is a tmystery to your torrespondent, 1t 18 hoped that Con- gress wiil fnvestigate this guostion, Crarrox, —— EAVESDROPPING, Written v The' Tvibune, They wero slttiug together that wintry after noon, each busied with earnest thoughts—day und Decembor—and with their fuces framed in all tho richness of hrown and white. day was almost past, and the pleasant room wus growlug dark, The shadows wero beginulug to creap up like tired children around thele chalrs, Flunlly the younger oue, from hor position at the window, with her elbows on the slil, und uno of hey rosy cheeks resting fn the palin of her hand, gave vent to what was In her inind, The spring of 1ifs gurgles up at (ta fount, you know, whily it grows caliner, yuleter. us it lows further down lin'the yenrs, ‘The short ** Grandmother, here ls 8o much talk about 80 mnany discussiung about what we belleve, und what we do -uot, aud it there Is cwrluxt(ng punfshment for sluners, or il thera 18 not, that it bus begun to trouble me. 1 think the Lord might speak out to us, a4 e fid to the patriarchs of olden times, und tell us the real truth about things, 1'm sure I should think He’d by so norvous with watehing our puu{ minds act thees days that He'd lav to,” Theu the older ane, on the heiglit of her 70 sumners wheneo she could look dowy on the lmsctuuun youuy llv, 8o ko hur own glritioud, and dlscern’ maorv clearly jts_vrotty curves and plquant corners, closed the Bible that had lain open in ber lap, ouly putting her tingers be- tween thé leaves to keep her pluce, and mado anawor: 9 My daughter, sitthug here ulone us [ have done to-duy, I huve rested my eyes for hours {n just watchlug the storm “of” snow, a4 lf‘uu BrY dulnf vow; aud I lave been reading o ft—in the brightest, purest language—the golden story thut ~ you Wwould ‘huve mady carthy with’earthly wonls, Bee tho fakes as they comeg dawn' tyliy every whithier in the alr, now dropping luto the muddy strect, now lodged by u gentlo clicuinstauce of wind up on thut uéan housctop, whero they will shiue for thelr brlet exiafonce, chunge ln the warinth of the sun, und be drawn’ up into the alr mgaiu, They full. upon the crosstug there, and aro crushed and sufled by tho passers- by—thosu starry, beautiful things that wan with wll his " cunning could ‘not make. They have fallen In s bank by the " kitchon-door, und have bpen thinking that, by aud by, necessity will have solled the outer” fukes, aud the centre romain pure aud clean till the suow goes off in the spriug. Btilh they kecp fulllug, fulllling wo kuuw not how niany purposes, nor how few. Wao can only watch aiid wobdur at thein ua they full. In dolug this to-day, many thoughts have crowded up to wy mind, snd i ‘sweol peace bus settled down upou my spirits eyen as thesa bave scttled down uvon carthe ¥or s It uot thus that Jittle whilo souls aros show- | another of theso primitive dsr v ered down among us every dayl Thoy | some pleces of decayed wm‘n.fllfi{fi‘.fif,fii“""“ como with Iieaven's purity “Imprinted | not have beon portions of ' the orlgl L) upon thelr faces, ‘They fall into homes of in- famy and are polluted, intn Christian iomes and run’thelr raco with patience. They fall Into thostreet, Into cold refincmicnt, into dens of dishonesty, and fn the midst of hard adversity. According to the school in which they aro taught, so they grow: but thero Is ous who noteth oven the aparrow’s fall, and will Ile not mueh more notfee theae, * G ye of little faith ! ‘To«Iny you look at the pink aiid white Infant in the cradle, to-morrow you soo hardened faco in a fclon's cell. This” moment you glance Into tho air and eco a shining ffuko "of snow, the next yon wili sco it Jost inthe muddystreet, and ong thought chases anothor su fast in your mind that you forget, by and by, that it was ever white ‘at all, ~‘Thero 8 one who does not The rematus have nt present 2 mont, ro x"‘ Faut, appearance, cn&mu!nlly when viewed "f:rvll‘::h'“ Jieight, as then tho cifenlar form of eacly 18 1n, > apparent, and the regularity of mmmnunm and all ‘belng upon the same leve) |m°'|" conclusive evidenco to somo nnl\qunri:n' that there has been found somy lncu‘ travertiblo evilence thnt ORIord can - cnrry oy antiquity back ton far " cnrller dato g rer clussle days when King Alfred foundeq Unj, voraity College. In reinoving tho rubbisg .m{ carth, several objects of grent fnterest liuve heen found, fnctuding n portion of u fuy| cross, n 8axon knifo and arrow-head, ete, m,fi also u very large aumber of bones, but fhes possees no particular interest, 4 principally of domestle. nl)(mn.l':s. l’::e)' g orgot. 8o, my daughter, In view of 8o much | eral use. The discove fons that_fs \me&vln’l’numc, Vlot not_ your heart he | constdorable interest N hmbm%}.‘,'fi“ troubled.’ Faith hasa brond eiid very loving | circles, Profs. Rolleston, Weatwood, l‘rm“m.’, busol n which we may bury nll our anxictics,” And the young girl, ‘as onhe to whom a prob- lom had been explained, rose up from her place at the window, drew tho cortaln, amd 1t the and others, having c¥amined the epot, courso there Is ot preacut o cnnm”.}}’n',',‘g'.h;’; as Lo thu real naturo of the discovary which has BLeen mnde, by tho clerk of the works, whose evening lamp, LAURA B, MAnsi outlquarian knowledge {s consid i e S Whiolrent crodit. 15 duc {0t the easdfe o (® EXTRADITION, ner {nwhich he has preserved overy possinly evidence that can lead Lo n properdete of tho question. e rnloalion ——————— - INGENIOUS RATS, Mysterlous Disappearanco of Eggs frome Collar in Lancaater, I'a. Laneaster (Pa,) Ezaminer, A lady. residing In Enst King strect has had a remaorkable Mlustralion of that wone ) ? Toxt of tho Fresident's Message, ‘WasiinaToN, Dee. 27.—The following mos- sage on the subject of tho Extradition 'Treaty between the, United States and Great Britain was scnt to tho Senate yesterday, and to the Iouse of Representatives {o<dny. Tho Bonate regarded tho communieation as coufldentlal, and therefore refused to"allow publicity to s v ihe Houae af Revresentaticen: derful fntellizence In the rat faniil ‘When Congresa ndjourncd fn Angnet Inst tho ex- % andly coution of tha oxtmdlilon articlo of tho trenty of | Yhleh We often read about but scle 1842 between the United States and Great Britaln had been interrupted, Tho United Btates had de- mnnded of lier Majesty’s Governmont the surrender of certain fugitives from Jnatice, charged with crimes comimitied wilhin the jurladiction of the Unlted States, who had sougnt aaylum and were found within the territories of her Britisl Majosty, And had, in dus compliance with the requitcments of the treaty, furnished the evidence of, the crimi- nality of tho fugitives, which had beet'found muf- ficlent to Jjustity thelr approhenslon and comnit- dom witness. Buc had severnl dozen epgs stored away I In the cellar in a large earthon vessel. ‘Lhiey were covered with lime-water to preserve them. For some thne past sho was pug- zled to know fn what mauner the Ifme-water Ieaked out of-the veesel, ns sho -could find no traces of n leak, and yet to keep the eggs vover- ed aho had to il it ‘moro frequeutly than I¢ conld possibly evaporate, ¥ The other duy the scrvant called tho lady's ment for ttlal, a8 required by the treaty, and tho | attention to thq fuct that thera inust bo rata § fugitives were held and committed for extraditlon, “ b "Lgl Mnjesty’s Government, however, dmnnn:lul the cellar, a8 sho lind- found flm!‘lfi“! in the cork-shavings bin on the uvpposite sido of the room from whords tho eggs wero stored, . An ex- aminatlon revealed the fact that one dozen and o half of the eges had been carrded off, and the presumptive proof ls that the rats did it, as no other creature had access to the cellar to.whose chargo tho theft could bo justly Jaid. Toget at the cggs fn the vrssel they would have to rid it of 5" portion of the llme-water, which they eovidently drauk. This shows that the rat is a capital judge of a good medicine na well asa squara incal. Dy, Waod, {n the Unitad States Iapensatory, eays that, mixed with nn equal measure of milk, which coniplately cavers its offennive taste, it 18 an cxcellent toule, and one of tho best remnodics for frritabllity of the stomach; that ho has found o diet excluslyely of lime-water and mnflk to be mera effective than nn{ planof treatment In dyspepsia aceompanied with the vomitlng of, (nu({ No doubt Dr. Rodent has discovered that the albu- men, margarine, and olefn of the cgg, combined with tgu lime-water, 18 _quito as wliolesumo and alatable s the milk, and that tho stomach of o hungry dyspeptic rat {s just s good a place to mix tliem in a8 the nurse's medicine-glass in the slck-chamber up-stairs ! Ve Dr. Rat s well known to be ns ‘ingentous In mechanical devices as ho Is au fait In the culsing and materla medice of cellars and pantries. Tow did he 11ft tho cggaup two Inchies on the cdf.in of the crook and then lower_them twelvo inclics witlout breaking them? Wo know that he englneers thelr transportation long dis tances by causiug one rat ‘to liv on his back whilo otliers toll .the egg upon him, which ho clasps ond hol rmlr in all-Tours, ns the “nn{murs and niners'’ drag him off by the tail to thuso subterruncan results of rodent engineering which housckeepers de- test, but cou soldom find, or close when found. This tafl of tho rodent, by the way, is n most wonderful plece of, micehanism, It hos moro muscles than the human hand; it fs, In fact, n chain of movable bones and muscles, Is_coverced with minuto scales, and short, stllf hal rendering it prehensile, and capablo ol belng employed as a hand, balaucer, or project: ing spring, It was no doubt a great help to the engineer and his corps of assistants in safely lowerlng tho cges from thetop of the vessel to the floor, But this pcrln:{)c well-authenticated incident which took place in thic enme cellar o fow years azo, A quantity of opys wero placed on nshell lufd on lzht frames suspended frowm the ,‘olst.. The shelf wassix foet fromn the tloor,'and the only conucction with the Joist above was by the wooden pendants, the size of oratuary roofing-luth. Thecy mlhnpscnrlnz xl?'swrlounly. a soarch was Instituted, und threo of them fouud at the entranes of & rat-hole in an_opposite corner, two of which were ‘wholo and sound and one shell cmpty. 1t was clear that tho theft was tho work of tho rats. That the process of englneerlng by which they were removed must have been ingentous, no one can reasonably doubt, Just how it wus doue we uro not prepured to demonstrate, g et THE WEATHER, Wasimnarow, D. C., Dec. 30—1a, m.—For the Upper Lake reglon, partly cloudy und colder weather, with southwest to northwest winds, and '.cm)'mrur‘v rise In the baromeoters Speclat Dispatch to The Trilune. Entg, Yu, Dec. 20,—Onu of thuse terrible nor'eastera for which Lako Erfa is noted set n this _morning at angearly hour, bringlng with it blindlng sheets of ‘Mow. Tho streets were all from tho United States certain nssurnnces and stipulationsns a conditlon for the aurrender of thess fugitives, As tho treaty contemplated no auch cnn#mnn to the performance of the obliga- tlons which eacli (iovernment had assumed, the demnnd tor stipulations on the part of Govern- ment woa ropelled. Her Majesty's dovernment therenpon, in Junc last, refossced two of the fugle tives (Kzra D, Winslow and Charles J. Brent), and snbeequently roleascd a third (ono Willlam E, (Illn;nyg. und rofusing to surrender, set them at Nborty, Tn a message to the two Houson of Congross on the 2Uth day of Juno Jast, in ylow of the condftion of facts as abovo referred to, Iaald: **Tho posl. tlon thus taken by the Dritish Government, {f ad- hered to, cannot bat be regarded as the abrogation ond annulment of the articloof the treaty on exe tradition. Under thesc clrcnmstances it iwill nat, In my judgmont, comport with the dignity or sclf- reapect of this Government to mako demands upon that Government for tho surronder of fugitlve criminals or to entertain any requisition of that fhnrlnclur from that Governmunt “under thut reaty. " Arficlull’, of tho treaty of 1842 provided that ‘‘iho tonth article (that relating to extradition) shonld continue I» force until one or the other of the parties shonld signify ita wikh to terminato it, and 1o fo; "' In view, however, of the gront mportanco of an extradition treaty, espociaily bo- twoen Lwo Btates a8 intimately counceted in com- merclal and social refations “as are tho United States and Great Britaln, and in the hope that lor Mnjesty’s Government might yet reach a dlfferent declision from that then attained, I abstained from recommending any action by Congreas terminating tho extradition articlo of the treaty, 1 have, how- cver, declined to take any steps under the treaty toward extraditlon. It 18 with great satisfactlon that I am ablo now to announce to Congross and to the country that by tho voluutary act of her Majesty's Uovernment tho obstacles which had been interposed to the execn- tlon of the extradition article of the treaty havo been removed, On tho 27th of October last her Majesty's repreeentative at thls Capital, undee In- Bstructions from Lord Derby, fnformed this Govern- ment that her Majenty's Governmant would be pre- ared, asn temporary messure, nntil o new Ex- radition Treaty can bo concluded, to put In force all the powers vested In it for the sureender of ac- cured persons to tho Govornmentof tho Unlted States, nnder the treaty of 1842, without nsking for any engugoment as 0 sich persona not being triec 1n the Unfted States forother than the offennes for which extradition hnd been demanded, 1 iwas hapgy 10 greet this announcement s tho removal of 'tho obstacles which had arrcasted tho exccution of tho Extradition Treaty betwson the two coun- trles. In reply to the note of hor Majesty's represontative, after referring fo the applications heretolore made by the. Uniicd States for the sur- render of the fugitives referred to in the corre- spondenco which was lakl before Congress nt its last sesslon, it was statod that on anindleatlon of readiness to murrendor theso porsons, an agent would bo authorized to recolve them, and I would Ve ready to reapond to requisitions which may be mude on the part of hor Mujusty’s Governfment un- der the tenth articlo of the treaty of 1842, which T wonld then rogard us in full force until such tima as elthor Govornment shall avall Itanlf of the right to determine it, ns provided by the cloventh articlo, or until a more comprehionsive arrungument can ho reached betwoen thu two Governments in regant to the extradition of erlninals; an object to winch the attention of tha Qovernment wotld giadly be glven, with an carnust deslre for a mutually eatis. factory result. A copy of the correspondence be- tweon hur Majesiy's roprocontativo at the capltal and tho Secretary of Stute on tho subject Is trunge. mitted herowlth, . . y g 1t fa with great satisfaction I hiava now toan- nounce that bor Majesty's Governmont, while ex- presaing its desire not to bo understood to recede rom the Iutorpretation which in its provious core respondence it hind put npon tho treaty, but having repard to the prospect of a new treaty apd the is mot 08 nstonishin nowers bosscrscd by elther party of spaniantously | ylocked' and business suspended carly fu the denouncing tue old one, caneed tho rearrest on the ‘. v, % e Pt SO o tha Hateives srho. spa | 4oy. 1t 1estll Galilng Turiously, and” & o from shireo to five feet deep on o lovel. Traius on the railroads are blocked, and n passenger traln on the Erio & rmnhnrg 18 reported suow- e in near (Hrard Bpecial Dispatch to The Tribune. CAmo, i, Dee. 29~Calro Is luving ucly weather, Yesterday's and *1ast night's” snow- storm Jeft sbout ten Inches of snow on the growud, and there las been no thawinw weather since Friday. Business fs very dull, Thoe tralns liere have o bad time moving along the track, on account of the snow, cial Dispatch (o The Tribune. EAsT BAGINAW, Dec. 2.—A brisk snow stormy accompanied with a_gale of wind, has prevailed all day, Weather cold, Speciul Dispatch to The Tribune. INDIANALOLIS, Likt,, Doc, 2,—A heavy snow storm to-day, six luches, blockading travel quite serlously. b LarrLe Roux, Ark., Dec, 20.—Tho weather i3 the coldest of the senson,, with six Inches of snow on the rruum’l. Theriver fs frozen over nbove the raflrond bridge, - the -first timo sinco boon provionly distliurged, and nfter awalting the requinlie thue within shich the fugitive is entitled 43 pphealand to wpnly for his divchurgs, on the 21t Inst, wurrendored him to the agent appointed on behalt of this Government 10 receive nnd convey him tothe Uniicd Statos. 1lur Majesty's Government has exnreseed an earncet desire “to rearrest and deliver up Winslow and Gray, the other fugitives who had heen arrosted and com- witted on the requlsition of the United States but wore relensed becauso of the refusal of the United Stuten to give the assurances und stipulutions then required by Great Britaln, ‘Phesa persons, how- ever, nre belfeved to have eeeaped from Dritlsh Jurirdiction, us o diligent search hus fafled to dis- cover thom, As the sutrender of Great Britain, without conditlon or stipulation of any kind belng nsked, removea the obstacle which interrupted the wxecution of the treaty, [ wball no longer nbatain from making demanda on her Mnjesty's Governe ment under tha treaty of 1842, bus will agnin re- gard the Lreaty aa operative, hoping to ba nble be- fore long to conchude with her mfiny'n (lovern. mient 8 nuw treaty of a brouder ans hensive nature, Wasuixuton, Dee, 23, 1870, D —— ANCIENT BRITISH VILLAGE. A Reported Discovery of Conslderable Iny terest, 1iore compros U 8, Guaar, 1873, v Wuzreemio, W. Vo, Dec, 20.—A heayy snow- atorm has prevatled sincy eavly this morning. Niue fuchea of snow s fallen, It isstill snow- fug steadily, S o L00AL ORSKNYATIONS. o 2g, Vien, [Teathers ZLondan Timer. A most remarkuble discovery has been made Auring the last few days fn the course of prepar- ing the {;rulllld for the new University schools In the Hight street, Oxford, which are about to be erectedd from the designe of Mr. Grahatn Jackeum, M, A, In proceeding with the excava- tlons there has been 1ald baro” the site of what 15 conslilered by some an undoubted Brite ish village or scttlenent dating buck perhaps for more than 2,000 years, The sito chosen for the ercetlon of the schools, und on which this discovery has been maode, was oceupled, as 1s wull known, by tho Angel Hotel, and les be- tween High stroet on tho north, Merton street un the svith, University College on tl WVost, and Klyz streot on tho east, and cmbraces an area of about two acres, uearly tho wholo ot which, or ut all cvents afl that has beenal- ready clearcd, aoounds fu evidenco that on this spot orl{:lunlly cxisted a British settiement, The exeavations uve uow been madeto a depth of about Afteen feet, and tho earth having been cleared away hus left standlng o number of mounds of gravel, or at least so they appear to tho uninitiated, but on closer examination these mounda _resolve themuolyea ito the wall which diylded the pits in which our ‘pro- geultors dwelt. In some cuses tho wall {s not mora than slx Inches thick, while in others again the division s of greater thickness, but all the spaces aro of the same shape—names 1y, clreular, ulthough, of course, they giffer In slze. Onuvery perfect specimen, situsted on the west slde, I8 of n remarkable character. It 18 1nuch larger than tho others, and belng on the extremo edgo of the site only one-half o boen exposed. Tho appesrunice prescuted, therefore, 18 that of “a scmi-clreular ex- cavution in tho gravel, the Dbuse of tho semivirele belng formed by the carth and Wini, Cluuy A7 Leoanowe i e o s Ssae Speciat Dispaich to une. . Bioux Jnr. Doe, 20.—A sulo of 0600 Ind_(nl' poules, taken from Indlaus by the military st up-river poats, cotmenced ot Yankton lu-‘:\fl. and will_continua till ull aro lllu&;)acll of, The sales to-day raugzed from $7 to $20 aplece. e e————— #itelnberg's Milllun-Dollar Clalme : Ruatttmore Sun. Tho ex-Premfer of Suwou, A, B. Stelnberzety writes to a friend fn Bultimors that ho exveett to reap a rich bonanza from his rocent piversk ties and experiences on buard .un Buglish wan of-war, o was kh.lnnr ped st Bamos aud placed on board tho vessel Ly Capt. Stevens, e communder, st the lustance "of his-palitical vbe ponents on the islaud, where a rovolution was re d was held dn drons for forty duys) foundutions of thio adjoining bullding. — This | Progeces, i ‘ 1z, with 1o lurge pit hus sdjolntug it u much smuller ono, "‘V’:‘f_‘}’l_t'{}ly "‘:: "“l’l;"“ ‘;ll’,:‘lu]"lulmh‘lfl""fihk_ ity which Prubnbly served as the entrance, and ot the polut of junctlon between tho two thereisa bench or wparpow platform, Tho opinjon has been expressed that theso exceavations ure mere- Iy old gravel-pits, but against thls supposition must, bo adduced the facts that they cover a Jurge extent of ground, und they aro all at about six fect below the byrfuco; ‘that euch one of the caves or pits, nmmuEh clrcatar In shape, has & lovel bottow; that the wulls fu some cases aro not moro than elx fuches thickness; that the gravel on top of the walls bears undoubted traves of hu\'lnE been (urnel up from o lower level, and that'in two ot Lhe pfu have beon found concrete floors (these be- g the only twoe that have been abt prescut carefully exumined), of what composed s nut ot present known, but of such tesacity that it was pusslble to remove the balf of ono of them without fructure, made friends among the natives, and procured vessel, which wua® dispatched ta- Butios m} returned with somo of his elfects, Ho woed fs way to ono of the British provinces, and &t cured passage tu London, where Lo is now slil')“ fng, Ho has a clalm for 31,000,000 agajnst i’ lritlsh Govermnent and Capt. Stevens for an .o iting bl away. Mo says the, justico o{_li clalit s been admitted by promloent lawyen oud leading members of Purllument. e — 1t 48 well-known fuct that many of lhe‘w?{;-l men In varlous braucbes of mannfacturing [ aliort livew ou account of thy duloterions mylerialy uved, polsonug thoss that handl them. This 18 spcclally tha oave with such aa scent tho var b current toilut sonps. A recent fnvention hu sus that attalns perfection by ite freedom from M.:\ except a delicate natural odor, and the very pus At the bottom of | compencats, s B. L. Babbliv's toilst avape