Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1880, Page 1

VOLUME ' XXXIX. SIS, SHIRTS TO ORDER. Wilson Bros., 113 and 15 STATE-ST, Invite the attention of Gen- tlemen to their superior fa- cilities for producing GOOD GOODS at the LOWEST pos- sible prices. They IMPORT their Linens direct from the manufacturers, and purchase their ‘Muslins from ¢first hands.” SEVENTEEN years’ experience in the manufuc- ture of Shirts in this city have enabled them to secure highly skilled help in all de- partments. They are just in receipt of large Importations of FRENCH and English FAN- CY SHIRTINGS, making the largest and most select dis- play ever made in this city. They carry in stock full lines of White and Fancy Shirts nnd Night Shirts of their own make, together with all the latest Styles of Linen Collars and Cufis. 10 PR. CT. DISCOUNT On _all garments ordered of us during January. FULL DRESS and MAR- RIAGE TOILET a specialty. Ladies’ RIDING HABITS und SURTOUTS. Servants’ Stylish LIVERY, . EDWARD ELY & (O, 168 & 165 Wabnsh-av., cor. Monroe.st. STATIONERY, &c, Retail Stationers and Engravers, Wedding and Invitation Gards, Visiting and Reception Cards, Club Invitations, Manograms, -Ciphers, Coats of Arms, Menus, Orders of Dancing, Programmes. BLANK BOOKS, STATIONERY AND PRINTING, Al ot Buporlor Quality und ut Low Pri "rha 3. R W. SUR RS Saliohery ana Feinting Co Honroo und Deachorn-ts, OCEAN NAVIGATION, ANIA, Fob, 7,2 p.m. DEVONIA, Fob, W, B, m. London dircet, TANSYRIA, Jnn, 31,88 m, on ‘Ticketa ut reducod ratos: % dtecrnge, HENDERSON BROTIERY, 0 Washington-st. STATE LINE Yo Glasgom, Liverpool, Dublin, Bolfast, und Tondon= forey, from N, V., ovéry Thumdiy, First Cabin, 80 K1 ecordiiiy o wecommodativi, Second Cabia, AUSTIN, BALDWIN & €O, T Brosdway, N. ¥, und 16 Rundoiphest., Chicago, JoHN TN Wihtorn Stanmn o CK OUNARD MAIL LINE. Balllng tkico n weok tound from British Ports Pase pauw Tickets frum Liverpool, b{'vf'.flf'.}.’ffi'.""‘ und fands Chlcflw.‘ 7’8 Otice, coruer R ELYSIA,, Cabins, 8§ 'l Weatorn Agont, OPTIOAL GOODS, all slghts on sclontifla and Fiold Glaases, Tulescopus, Mi- ¥ine 8, roscupas, Unrometors, ote, unds, nd Mortangos. Depasits recolved, lnyust enta made for pervons of moderalo moans. ._'105 Clark-st., Chicago. MONEY T0 LOAN On Improved City Proporty at current rats. MEAD & COE. 10 LaSalle-st. MISCELLANEOUSN, Candlemas. Wax C?ndlal and sufl;\n Patnt Wax Candles for Sl wholesaly aud rol by » MOTUBAUR & nENILE, 41 Buuih La Hallg-st., Chicaga. WANTED, WANTED TO RENT, ‘:Juloumm of Dock, sultablo for & Lumber Yard. dress L &, Tribune omice. CELLULOID GOODS, CELLULOID ( WWater-proof Line l"‘) Cugy, Collurs, and Bosoms, Price lsts and Goods sent by mail. Call or y«lm. BARNES' Hat Store, 86 adison-st, Tribune Buding, “tlonal” eurrenoy outstanding thoro are, he ¢ Ohicagn O WASHINGTON. The Financial Debate Entered Upon in Earnest in the Senate. Beck Vigorously Opposes the Legal-Tender Resolu- tion of Bayard. Railrond Protests Against Rea- gaw’s Transportation Meas- ure Piling Up. Several Arguments Made Yesterday by Representatives of Western Corporations. The Board of Indian Commis- sioners to Be Subjected to Investigation, To Ascertain Whether Its Mem= bers Have Dabbled in Fat Contracts. Schurz’s Negotiations with the Utes Reported to linve End« ed Satistactorily, Yesterday’s Disoussion of Finanocial Questions in the House of Little Interest, BAYARD’S RESOLUTION, SENATOI DECK'S BPEECHL. Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. WAsIINGTON, D, 0., Jon, 21.—Tho finance do- ‘bato on tho Bayard resolution for the repenl of the legal-tonder quality of tho greonbacks wns commonced in tho Benato to-dny, Tha fact had been extensively advertised, but tho gallories weronot as crowded a8 they huve been in some of tue financo dobates of former yonrs. Thoro were, howover, enrnest listoners upon tho floor of tho Scnate Chamber. Among them wns ex- Secrotary of the Treasury McCulloch, who fol- lawed Beck to tho end. Prominent members of both partics from the Houso of Ropresenta- tives wore nlso in attendance, and tho Democratic sido of the Senato wns nearly full. Tho same was not true ns to tho Repub- lican side, very fow of the Republican Bonators romaining toshear tho argument. Beck i8 nl- 'ways an earnest speakor, but not always a log- deal or conslstent ono. Senntor Beck, whon ho ‘wns clected Int years pnst to tho Ilouse from tho Ashland District of Kentucky, did not fall heir to tho oraiorical grace and silvery tonguoe which had distingulshed his predecessor,: Henry Clay. Ho 18 n Scotchman by birth, and ho has tho nat- ural fonduess of his countrymen for discussion and for argument, expressing his idoas with an carnestnoss - NOT OFTEN BEEN IN THE SENATE CUAMNER. His conslstonoy, his honesty, and his opposition to shams bave placed him fnn commandi 0= sltion among “tho Democratio Benators, when bo spoaks ho always finds listoners anjeng tho best men of both purtics. Deck's apcech to- day wns a powerful argument, many eir tho points of which will glvo the supportoss of the Bayard resolution trouble to answee. Boyard himseif closoly followed overy word, and o one oceaslon sought to parry an attack of BDeck, It bnd beon publiely stated by Bock's friends t the Kentucky Benator would tako ndvlintago ¢ thls occnsion! to not only nssall Senator Rayard's MAnsheinl position, but to make & Bpocch which hight provo to be a serious injury to Bayard's Preai- dential asplrations. Beck, howover, confined himself to the question at issue, and only by parenthesls stopped to say that ho was willlng to ndmit that bo (Bayard) had nlways been con- sistent in hia position. The subject utterances of Beck mado it ovident that he intended to con- voy the idea that Bayurd's conslstency had been thit of n steadlust friond of monueyed and cor- Kumw monopolies, This thrust was keenly felt y Bayard, and tho * COPIQUS NOTES WHICT TIAT SENATOR TOOK showed that, before the dobato oloses, ho will defoud himself ngainst tho chirges of #o frank, honest, aud munly opponent s the Kentueky Benutor. The apeech of Bonntor Leck mny bo divided Into two pnrts, ono reluting to tho Hayard resolution, the sccond to u protective tarif. Beck mafutained that tho proposition to destroy tho legnl-tender quality of the green- bucks eame from the money motopolics of Wall Atreet, na tho protective tarl® proceeds from tho othor monopolies of the country, His tion brietly was, that, although “originally op- to the legal-tonder “noted on the ground of unconstitutionality, . thaolr constltutionnlity hns Dbeen affinied, no matter by what means, by the,United Btates SBu- preme Court, and that 1t 'Is unwiso to seek now o deatroy thilr logul-toudor qualityy espeolally na such uation, whilo It would be to the groat nd- vantage of money monpolies, would bo n great injury to the masses, Tho volumeof currency in'this country was not too lnrgo for tho bual- ness of the country,—is not ad large, relatively, a4 the volumo of “currency fh otlier countries, and ja much smallor thun Trousury figures, or popular belief, mako it uppenr, THY LOSE OF CUURENOY incident to the War, tho dostructive nnturo of paper currency, and the lapse of timo, have mude It certaln, ho thinks, that ot least 10 per centof tho original volume of tho pnper curs renoy has been destroyed in tho twonty years of it exfstence, 8o thut” thore ure not now niore thin §300,000,000 of United Btutes notes in clreu- Intlon, whilo of tho §15,000,000 of nominal frflo- on leves, uot mora than §1,00,000, To stil further _cn out his ides, that th yolume n!lfrt:uuhnuk clreutation is smallor thun 18 bolleved, Beek muintainod that $155,000,000 of Unlted States notes which are in denominas tions of #100 and upwards are practiontly out of elreulation among the magses, and uro cquivie lent, In fact, to United Btates bonds, * You can #0 from Washington to Georgln," sald Hock, With o $100 bill In” your pockot, und not. bo able to chungo it,'=a statemont a8 to tho financial resources of Southorn communities whicl amused the Sennte. lleck placed some of the Benutors in an uncomfortuble pesition by shows ’"f that, when tho question” of roissulng tho #44,000,000 reserve wus up, © THEY YOTED 70 ¥IX TITE VOLUME of United Btatos notos at $382,600,000, thus Incrousing tho velume nbove tho 46,000,000 climed to have been fixed b&’ tho origlual uct, yut tho fuctof that vote did not nud does not soem to troublo these Benutond, The speaker wus somoewhut sousutionul in one purt ‘of uis speech, where ho lntimated that the Panama canul schomes might possibly involvo this country with Europeun nitions; that the Statoes on tho northern Moxioun border might also be the cuuse of serious troble, Jcck brought out one 4 point counooted with the Bayurd resolution to which public uttention hus not boon gencrully dircoted. Tesoli- 1t i3, thut even if the Hll{u tiou shiould pnss, and an cunctinent’be mado in uccordanco with It destro, the legnl-tonder quality of the greenbinek, Natlonal bunks could sl rédeemn thelr own notes in the greenbucks, fnusmuch na Unitod States notes would still yo- waln “ lawful menvy," although NOT A LEGAL-TENDER, and tho National Banking nct provides only that tho Natlonul bunks shull redeom tholr notes by ) woul bo B P b) him un uf 1 OP] obtain .8 thorough invost) the origin of tho syndicato, In tho tariff tion of his gpoech Bock declared thyt th Eouls Hoesemor-stoel works aro roed! $140,000 unnually for kooping thelr works c! , in tho interest of tho Besscuur-stool combinn- tion in Europe, which {s making some $:0,000,000 wnhually ot of this nounui.vnfi o S p:r wa%on?' ruils, 5"”““;},“’. Y lml:u;’" z‘ul ity o us 0X, sentenco i b el b o President’s titlo invalid, epro- cate the su, suat.lun ou the part of unybody rn.: it was invalid. igger-out of statiation,Fact, which hor digger-out pf atatist ‘acts, which, however, B ot Lot Bk Rl ADoocncd & An wadit ' HURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1880, ested maas thit confuses his hearers il clonds gl» argument. That to some extent was the easo to-dny. He bad {H’u ured o number of tablex, had hunted up all that Beeretary Sherman, who in an nvowed opponent of Buyurd's resolutlon, had said of Ir-un\-lmu!nm. nnd’had worked out o striking passngo from Judrw Kelley's letter de- scribing his interview with Princo !llmnnmlk. All thess were rend by Henntor Cockrell, of Missourl, It having “become the fush- fon of the Sonato to ura - brother Benntors ns reading clerks, since Conkling in- augurited the depurture from the old wui* hy enlling on Senntor Ingaila to.add to tho clocu- tion of hia speceh on the Blection luws by rend- Ing the documents, Heck was very severe upon the petition of tho New York bankers, which ho enlled tho * gilded memorinl of the great polis tleluns ani bankers in Now York," and he com- pared it with tho modest hut extens fgned ctition of the workshops of Alabama,” unroll- an puper and letting {t fall to tho tloor n n drumatic way, Speuking of the money kings, he vigoroualy nceused themn of purchasing the newspipers of tho conntry, meanwhile lookinge up nt tho corresponcdents i(ullur)'. a8 ono who r:;yldany: “ 1 have sald it; miko the most of THE DEBATE, To the Western Associated Press. WARRINGTON, I, C., Jun, 21.=The Buyard reso- Intion for the withdruwnl of the legnl-temler quality of tho United States notes waa tuken up, und Mr, Beek mado his promised specch in op- position thereto, He showed that during tho tinunelnl legistation of 1878 Mr, Bayind offercd ag an nmenduont to u bilk thon passéd the fdentical resolution now pnndlm[. and it wna voted down by n lurge majority in hoth Houses,~Inthe Sen- ale by 42 to 18, six of the 42 being menbers of the Finaneo Committee. At that time none of tho capltallsts of Now Yark and clsowhere who now send gilt-cdged potitions to Congres fuvoring tho mensure saw the dunger in the ro- Issue of greenbacks, On the contrary, thulr refssuo met with unlversal approval, If any objection was eover to bo mnde to tho power of Conyress notes In time of pence, that was the time to mike it. The notes coukd thon with renson be denounced, They wero not redeemable. Since then tho Secretary of the Treasury has accumu- Inted 225,000,000 in golkl and atlver, ¥100,000,000 of which {s available for alt purposes, In his re- port the Beeretary siiows we hnve reduced the r\llll(c debt slnce 1808, 761, . We have on hand mora than cun pnsslhl* the purpose of tho sinking fuw the |nune{‘ cotlected from the peaple by tixa- tion hed been rotained n the Treasury, and i the legnl-tender notes had been allowed to per- form tho functions of money atthe Cnstom- House,—if silver bad nat been ‘atricken down,— resumption would havo como of itself yours ago, without uny one suffering from it. Nobody wus demanding the princlpal of tho debt. 1t wus diminishing every dny, and wo wero grows ing (n prosperity ~and numbers. Tho Seerotary ~ saya ho i holding the niongy ‘thus ucquired for the nssurauco that thy notes shall be paid. It cost the peoplo by double interest and percentnges $13,000,000 to ot tho money Into tho Trensury, nud wo nro holding It an annnnl cost of $4,000,000, and in nd- ditlou to that tho Becretary claims the right to gell b per cent bonds in auysunount to get money tn rcv.roum the notes on demand, Nothing but tho exhnustion of the credit of tho country ean make their payment doubttul. Tho people do not nak gold for greenbacks, yot Now York peti- tioners cialmed that grenterconfidence in busl- ness would follow tho pussugo of this resolutfon. He denled It. What grentor confidenco was noeded? Our bonds woro at 8 premium; green- bucks were at pur, No man was cheated by re- uel\-ln% them, They ure umply sceured. “Can thero be grenter sceurity than that hmplied in our declarution that thoy'shnll be re stand nt thelr full value? Prior to tho introduc- tion of thls resolution what petitions agalust United States notes had ever beon resented? He hl seen none. It 8 nlways sufo and generndly wise, sald Mr, Beck, to lot woll enough alune. "It 1s not wise to dis- turb the currency except in extriordinury exi- gencies, The people were Just rallylng from stunning blows., Ho boped the prosperity now being entered upon would prove perininent; but it might bo tomporury, for we have no ships, no commorce. We nre paying cnermous sums to forelgn shipowners; we ire isolnted by our tarill fromn the markets of tho world; wo gre prosperous beenuse God, In Mis providence, 08 SEEN FIT TO DLESS US and visit other nations with cnlamity. A roverso mnav cowe, and our prospority vanish as quickly us ft cume. Ho was onu of those who bulluved that ono of thoe greatest ovils wo lnbored under ‘wu oflicious meddling. - If peaplo wero fit to be rl\:w, ir lthls' Kv;uhnl lfl‘n':'nrnimfi:ltwby nna‘ u]f tho 'people, thoy hnd the rigl B0 their Unertios bost mutted thom, freg. from tho futer wvention of any intercated Lody of men who sought to crush them, ns ho hid no doubt the reit money power of the country sought to do. o ourrendy of tho country was not redundant. It was urroganco for any body of wen to say thoy knew better than tho representatives of tho peoplo how much money wins needed, If all tho moncy Issued were now In existence it would only amount to $750,000,000, or $900,000,( including” the \;uld in tho Trensury, That was conly $16 or $18 per hewd of “wdw ulatlon, Franeo had $1,600,000,000 in- gold und silver und $450,000,000 of bunk notes in eirculation, moking 00 per head, Yet Franco was a remurkably prosperous country. Thero wus no complnint of redundancy thero. Belghim wus u thrifty country, rich it commorce und manufactures, 1ier circulution was $132,000,000, or $1E2 per head, Germuny b $714,000000, or $17 per capita, Sbe bad In an unfortunuto hour @ ATTEMPTED TO DEMONETIZE BILVER, Dut, a8 shown by Judge Kelley's interview with Bismarek, ut which our BMlilster was present, 8hio had been obliged In the interest of buslness to stop seiling silver and begin to retssue, Grout Britain hus a civeulation of $005,000,000, or &0 per eaplta, nearly double what wo have, yetin tho fuco of thoso frots, suid Mr. Beck, he and his fricnds were donounced as repudlators, fools, and knuves by many nuws}m perd 8o well puld by tha bankors and brokers of New York., Ho went on to shuw thut, owing to loseus by nceldent and natural wear and tear, tho nmount of green- bucks outstanding was probably less than $300,- 000,000, Ho nlso showed by the Controllor's ru~ rts that. $1T,000,000 of this wus held d tho Trousury on Muy and, though the amount thus held at different timos, that was m’uhnbly a good averige, and it left only#167,~ ,000 In netual eireulition, assunming tho Wholo 310,000,000 issued to bo in existouces: or, If his tiroory were curreet, only $120,000,000. 110 nlso reforred to tho fuct that $100,835,000 of this wis in DillB of $100 und upwurds, pructically no hote ter than bonds, especiully the largest denominn- tiona of §1,000, $5,000, und §10,000, In 'rroumllux againgt this mensure, Mr. fleck wished It wader- stood that e dld not bellove the origlnnl fssuo of notes was conatitutionnl. e hud always de- nicll it was, But the Supremo Court hid de- clded othorwlse, Wohuve thow upon us, and ho was detormined to make the most of thow, use thom for tho benetit of tho peuple, sud not de- atroy thom in tho intorosts of tho bankors. Mr. leck continued by oxpressing tho bellef that Congress, and not ihe Bupreme Court, wis, under the Constitution, tho yidge of what oan- stituted un oxlgenoy such us would warrnnt the idsuo of notes, Assuming that the Wur was such an exigoney, the consequences of the War hud the smmno importauco, and so long us wo woro xed for Interest on the War debt, and for pensions to disnbled soldlers, thore wero oxigens ales requiring tho presorvation of thess notus, Tha high tarift and loss of thor shipping-trade wora liko oxjgoncies resultiug from tho War, Nutlonal bauks coulit, l';{ forlmg u ring, avert the payment of gold, Thoy could send tholr notes (o plices dlstant from'the plico of Jssue, and it would bo fmpossible to got them redeoine Emmmly. There wus but one pluce in tho United tutes to-duy whore gold coutd Do legnlly do- manded, and that was_in Now York, 1f the legul-teder quulity of tho greonbacks were withdruwn, NO CONTRACT COULD DE ENFOROED where tho offor of paymont wis a condition recedent to {ts fullilfmont, If o man bought n iouse for 10,000, and comes at the appulnted diy 10 puy for 1t, tho ownor aun say: > rop ty has gone up: Iwunt §12, " Tho buyer can't ot gold, and tho wrconbuoks ure not ‘lom tonder, ‘Tuls wus u scheme to make Natlonal- buuk notes the only uvallablo money, 1o would apposo the resolution of Mr. Dayurd untll ho suw money coming from abroad by othor cuuses than by an aeclduntal stato of thiugs which may ceuso it uny timo, Mr. Coke obtained the floor, but yielded toa motlon by Mr. Voorbees that the Boiiuto go futo uxAmmarlu wnlulu. ete abid roed (o, and when tho doors wero reope: mu‘!sunuw adjourned until to-worrow, ho necessary: for nd. If one-halt ned and REAGAN'S BILTL, + ATIE PROTESTS OF THE RAILIOADS, Bpecial Dispateh to Tha Chicago Tribune, ‘WasiiNaTon, D, O, Jan, 81.—The Commorce Committee of tho House to-day listened tour- gumoents against tho Reagan blll by Mossrs, Frink, of tho 8t, Louls, Iron Mountaln & Bouth- ern Ruitrond; J. F. Farnaworth, of tho Pltts- burg, Fort Wayno & Chicugo and tho Chicugo & Milwaukee Rallroads; and Col. Bufoerd, of the Richmond ' & Danvillo Rallrond. Mr, Frink showed that tha cffect of the bill would bo to dostroy tho Bouthwestern rullroad truflo In favorof tho watcr-ways. This hardship would be suffered by Bouthorn ‘Poxas especlully, and he called tho sttention of Chalrmun Rougan particularly to this fuct, Mr. Furns- worth took tho brond ground that Congroas has no constitutionul right to pasa this il Tho provision authorimng the regulution of lutor-Btato oommorce does mnot, ho thinks, hold good to & yogulation of rates which certuln individuals may seo fit to pay to other tudlvidusls for the porformauoce of acortain service. Tho cltatlons of court deolsions made by Chairman Tleagan In aspgoch detlvered in the Housout tho laat seasion, to. show tho oxlstanna of wunh A power, were reviewed by Mr, Farnsworth, and In overy eie he snld thoy totally falled to prove uny such sssumption. THERE CARER are: (1) Ogden va, Gibbons, § Wheaton; () Brown vo, Muryland, 12 Wheatons o) Mayor, ole., Now York, va, Mili, 11 Poters; @ Groves va, Shaugh- 1or, 15 Petors: () Miller va. Missovrt, 1 Otto: ©) ‘The Htate Frelght Casa ( G Wallwee; and (7) Ihe Clinton Hridge Coase, 10 Wallice, These cuses prove nothing, for the principle involved In this bill wus not before the court. 1f Con- Rrress parsea this billon.an asspmption of cons stitutional right to regulats commerce it also hns the right to Nx rates for the enrry- Ing of the commerce of rivers and Inkes and on tho high fens. It may also juuss Inwa to prolihie ahips from eurrying frofght frum New York to Livarpool at lower nites thay froin New York to Hoston, It muy prevent all ]umlllm and division of frefghts by two or more ndividials botween Chiengo and Ihuffalo. It muy prohiblt partnerahips between two or more persons carrying froight by diferent rontes®nn #_turnplke or common highway. The bill docs not discriminate, ho thought, hetween com- nierco and cominon-carriers. Under tha bill the proprictor of o stago lino between Chlcugo and Milwnukee ean bo dictated to us to what rates ho mny exuct, 1T MAY EVEN DR EXTENDED to ferryboats plying between two States, neross w river: toamile-cart eurrled over an inter- Stato bridge, or oven the humble push-cart cone veying the pnltry wures of tho Atreet-monger, It muy extend to Oxpress companies, to teloe gruph companics, and postal aviigs banks, In reference ho fonrth acetion of tho bill, Mr.. Farngworth argued that the principle adopted wufversally by commen-carriers of charging more for ‘short than for long distancey 18 founded on justico and cr]ully, Tow through rates and high loedl rutes huve bufit wp tho remote portions of tho rotintry, The smme principle applied to street- ear lines makes property i the suburbis worth nearly ns much a8 down-town lots. Appiled to tho clovator, it makes tho fifth-story rooin ns deslratlo us tho scconi story, Itis the great ml"’l‘"z&h ‘The Irlz:o::fi(.vl’ cnrln.‘wlml-,m,unm= flll’m producta genenlly are regulated by the Livers =nml prices, Interforo wltfiulhem. a8 this bl will do, nnd tho loss ta the ngricultural elnsges in the West will bo incaloulablo. As ong instance of the beneticial offects of low through'rates ho cited the fact that by renson of CHEAT MATES ON IARD COAL, firewood 18 cheaper In Chicago to-day than it was twent, {:';m ngo. This subject,” he sald, had alroady been smply discussed and investi- ated by tho British Parllument in 1868, and nlso y nlmost overy State Legislature In this coun- 1ry, and tho universal vordict thus fur is that rillronds ought to _rejulnte nuilr own afnlrs, The Commisslon appolnted [n Alubama, in thelr repart, mado the following statoment: * Ondl- mrity, it tukes twenty-four hours to load, and tho snme time to ugfond, n car. The avernge apeed of a car I8 ten miles au hour, A car carrles ten tons of freight. Ruppose a rond churges two conts n inlle, “If a car {8 moved ten miled [t requires forty-nino hours, and tho rond would enrn just £2, or 96 cents u day, To move the snmo car 1,000 miles at the saine rate would carn for the road £22 A day. Of course tho lang huul fn this ease would be much the moro profit- able to tho rond, and its manngement could well afford to lower {8 rates.” Col. Buford made n strong nppeal for his rond, which he suld. would be utterly ruined by tho pnasnge of tho bill, ————— COMMITTEE WORK. THE PAY OF MARSIALS, 8pecial Dispateh to The Chicago Tribuns, ‘Wasuisaroyn, D, C,,Jan. 21.—The Deflclency bill to puy United Statea Marshalsand Deputles which the Ifouse Appropriutions Committee, after u diseussion that hag continued from tho beginning of the scesion until to-day, has finully agreed upon, indlontes that the frsues and dis- cusslons of the extra session are to bo rencwed upon this bill, although It Is not yot certatn hiow far tho Democracy will care tohnve this politieal debnto go, Tho wiser and more conscrvative Democratio leaders, indeed, were opposed to tho oxtrn sesslon, and favored n compruinise which should prevent tho ereation of uny such issucs na those ,upon which tho campajgn of Inst summer was fought; but the Conservas tlvea were overruled. Tho same cluss of mon are now opposed to any palitical debate, It re- mains to be scon whothor tholr counsels will e followed. They have succeeded apparently in converting w0 the padiock policy, or volley of ailence, u coneldernble, number of thoss who ‘wero loudest in ralsing the'ery of * No troops at tho polts * nt tho oxtea sosslon. Tut it 18 yet to bo determined whethor tho brawlers of the ex- tra session will hold thelr peace when the very questions which caused so imuch excltement thon agaln come before tho Houso. TITZ JOUN PORTER'S CASE. Spectal Dispalch to The Chicago Tribune, WASHINGTON, D, C,, Jan, 21.—The report of the Bub-Committesof tho Military Committeoof the Benato on tho Fitz John Porter ense, recommend- ing the udoption of tho Bragg bill, met with op- position whon submitted to the fall Committee, Gena. Burnside und Logan took tho groumnd that Congress hud no more right to revoka the de- clslon of n court-murtial In thno of war than it hns to roview the declslon of tho Supreme Court lu tino of peace. den. Burnside also mali- talned that Congresa did not possess tho consti« tutional power to appoint Gon, Porter orany ono olse to uny posltion In tho army, 4s tho up- polnting power Is vested in tho President ulone, Congress can create orean nbollsh an oflice, and can flx its pny and emoluments, but it cunnot designate uny person to fill it, that belng the prerogutive of tho Executive. Tho roport of tho Bub-Commitice was finnlly recommitted, Itfeovident that Fitz John Yorter has still to encounter many diffioultics before ho s restored to rnuk and puy. Theroe ure those In both Senate and Houso who have not abandonced the bellof that Fitz John Porter was dlsloyal to his coun- try us well us to Popo, and that tho court-mar- tiul falled only in that it did not go far enough, PROPOSYD BURVEY. To the Western Assoclated Press, ‘WasmnaroN, D, C., Jun, 21,—Tho Houso Com- mittee on Raflways and Cannls have ngreed to roport favorubly the blll Introduced by Repro- sentative Btono, of Michigun, providing for the suryoy of o wuter-mute to conneet Lukes Frioand Michigan and fucilltate wator truns- portation between the two lakes, Tho Commite oo reduced the appropriation to $7,000, TIANKING AND CURRENCY. The House Bunking and Currency Cominitteo to-day considored the Fort and Price resolutions, and also that portion of the Fresldent's moessnge recommoendiiy tho nbolition of the legul-tonder quality of the greonbucks. Forl’s resolution dee clures aguinst any interferonco with the (c?ml- tender quulity of the greenbuck, and Prico's resohitlons depreeate any ngltation of flunnelnd queations, and declure In fuvor of lotting well cenough ulonu, Qen, Ewing offored tho following: Tecaolved, ‘Fhnt constderation of ull bills, roso- lution, potitlons, und Exceutive communicntions heretotoro roforred to this Committeo nffecting tho voluine or churncter of the currency Lo post- lm“ml untll tho tirst mocting of the Committeo n Decembur noxt, After komo disepuston the resolution was do- feated, lluuknm’L iwing, and Price \'nllnf{ in the ) s, nffirmative, and Chltgenden, Crapo, Davls, Fort, Ludd, and s J . unsbury votig in tho negutive, YITZ JOIN PORTER The majority af tho House Committea on Mill- tary Affalrs, consldoring the ewso of Fita John Porter, rocounand the adoption of the follow- lug joint resolution Itesolved, ete,, That the President bo requéstod ta romit tho romaliuder of the wnexeoutod son- tonco which disqualitics Fitz Jobn Porter from holding nny oflice of trust or profit under the Qoverument of tho United Staws, Tho minority concude that logienlly perhaps thoy shanld not 8o recommend, but whon it is conuldured that amucsty and pardon have boon oxtonded to thoss formcrly in”arins againat the Unitod States, and that the romovat of disabill- tles for offenses us dangerous nd bis th the por- potuity of the Unlon ure of dully eourrenco, tho n;lnu;nm for their uctlon I the Porter onso are obylous, INVESTIGATION, TOE DOARD OF INUIAN COMMISSIONERS, 8pecial Dispatch to The Chicago Tridune, Wasursarox, D, C., Jun. 21—It {8 eald thata resolution of Inquiry will soon bo introduced in Congross asking for informution ns to whether auy momber of tho Board of Indisy Connnis- slonors hus, sinco his connvotion with the Board, Lield any contruot or an interest fu any contract for furnishing supplivs for the Indinn service. Tho chiof duty of the Huurd of Indian Commise slonors 18 to suporviso alF contracts und ex- panditures in the Indlun sorvice, and no Indlun dcovuuts or vouchors can pasd without tho oficlal approval. of the Board. I¢ would be - o surpriso 0 it should tumn out that any member of tho Board hins heen or 18 mixed up with Indlon contraots.. 1t §s reporte ed, howover, on what appears to be trustworthy authority, thut ono mewber of the Board of Ine dlan Comuniasionors wus intorcstod fu & contract to furnish Indisn wupplics two or throo yeurs ago. Fo far as it iy known thero 18 no complaint that tho storvs furnished by him wers not of #ood guality or that tho -price wus oxtravugnnt. Tha guly criticliny apanars 1o ha on tha nronricty . tho House of tho consider of hllls belug interested In an Indlan contract atall, THE EXODUS. To the Wu!n\‘n«lnlcd Prens. « WasmiNaron, D, C,\Jan. 2L—Benatar Voor- hees' Exodus Committee to-day exmnined 0,8, 1. Wall, of Washiogton, Preaident of tho * Emi- grant Ald Boclety.,”” He catimates tho number af colored men, women, and children alrendy: transported from North Caroling through Wash- ington to the West (principally to Indinna) be- tween 2,500 and 3,000, Tho origitnl purpose of the North Carollnn agents of these cmigrants wasto huve them go to Knnsag, but the tide was diverted to Indinnn by thelr agents (Perry and ‘Willlnms)on tho strength of represeutations by members of the Washington Soclety, based on circulars recoived from J. H. Walker, Mnil Agent nt Terre Jinute, to the effect that thera waa r great demand for farm labor in Indlann, and that the cotored peoplo would readily find anm:ln yment there at excellent wages, togethee h tho beat of treatment, and schoals for thelr children, . M, Clapp, editor of the Washington Nation- al Republiean, and Treasurer of tho Emigrant Ald Soelety, testified that ho bad nathing to do with its operntions except to net as Trewsurer. As such, he had recelved in contributions from churches, individials, and socictied hout $1,600, i:'ml Ilaiul r‘mld itnll out upon orders from the esldent, At the request of Senator Windom, it was to- day ngreed 't subpeni -8 witnesses in this in- veatigation Gov. Hendelcks, of Indinna, and.l B. Muynard, editor of the Indirnapoll Uniteil States Marwbal Dudloy, John (¢ Now, and Joseph Modlll of TitE CIICAGO TIIBUNE. THE UTES, A FLAN AGREED UPON. Bpeetal Dispateh to The Chieago Tribune, ‘WASNINGTON, D. C..Jan. 21.—There was an {m- portunt meeting nt the Interior Department to- day, in which tho Colorado delegution In Con- gress, Gen, Adams, and Quray, Juck, Wash, and Snwanick participated. Mr. Schurz lald an Ing Junction of scereey upon all the members of tho conference, but it I8 belioved that the followlng statement gives tho practical result of the con- ference: The land question was thornughly dis- cussed, and an ngreement was reached which was satlsfactory to nll present, except, it {s suld, to Senntor Teller. This agreement, which wus practically foreshadnwed in these dispatcheson tho day tho Utes arrived, ia that the Utes of Southern Colorndo ehall be removed to tho Grand River Valley, in the western part of tho Btate, about midway north and south, while tho White River Utes are toboremoved to Uintah Teservation, Ute, 'The Jand which will thus be ceded to the State of Colorado will include o Iarge strip off thesouthern, enstern and western borders of tho Ute Reservation. This is the plan which the Indlnnshere npprove, Delford and Teller were ut the outset hostile to this arrange- ment, but Belford now scems to be satisfied with it TELLER, ON THE COFTRARY, will appose it with all his Influence and with his vote. The Becretary of the Interlor 18 safd to fear that o publlention of that portion of the conferenco relating to the finul disposal of tho Indinna thomgelves will not be well received in Coloriule, us tho peoplo of that State will not be plensed at any arrangement which fails to re- move the Indinns entirely from tho State. It Is belleved the Utes will accept the terms declded uY\n" to-duy, and (t {8 now being considered whether it will nothe expedient to send some one ta the Indlan country to obtaln the mignatures of three-fourths of tho Utes to thougreement. AR to tho murderers of Mecker, Ouray has nl- rendy priven his ultimatum, He will indertake 1o hring them [n later in tho season, when spring opous, If he has to kill thom, and ho does not belleve there {8 any other way of doing it. It is not tkely that any finnl steps will be taken to- ward closlug up the ngroement until after tho xérrl\-ul of Gov. Pitkin, who I3 expected In a fow nys. FINANCES. DIRCUSSION IN TIE HOURR. Bpecial Dispateh to The Chicago Tridbune ‘WABIINGTON, D, C., Jun. 21.—The finunce dis- cusslon in tho House to-day lost ita interest for tha reuson that public announcoment bad been mide that the great finance dehate would begin in the Scnate, and many HRepresontutives wero In nttendance in the Senate Chamber to listen to tho speech of Beck, There were three speeches in tho Houso on the Bauk-lteserve blll made by Lounsbury, Townshond of [llinois, and Buckner, and the provious question would ‘undoubt- cdly bave been ealled but for the fact that Chairman Buckner, in tho closing minute of the morning hour, Bent up what ho supposed was un amendment, but which proved tobon private letter, The time occupled {n attempting to remedy thia crror con- sumed the morning hour, and provented the close of tho debate, Townshend, of lllinols, con- densed bis nrguments {nto this declurations 1 stand upon tho platform of Thomas Jefferson, of Thomus lienton, snd of Andrew Juckson. Iam not {n favor of National bank circulation, nor of any other kind of bank paper.” Mr. Townsghend dla not scem to caro whether or not tholaw relutive to bank reserves wus to be changed; he would prefor that tho National- Nunking nct should bo repealed nltogether. Mr. Huckuer, in explalning the bill which ho re- ported, sutd: *There ure £20,000,000 of gold and silver coln {n tho vaults of tho country. There are {000 sliver dollors In tho Treasury which are idie, Pcrmmung no duty, and tho purposo of the bill is to give this coln something to do, and give It o place in tho cirenlation of the country.” Another purposs of tho bill 18 to rustory the depletion of unrrum:{ caused by tho decreass of * greenbneks, which ho thought amounted to about $x,000,000, z NOTES AND NEWS, THE CENSUS SUPERINTENLENTS. Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. WasmiNaroy, D, C,, Jan, 2L.—Thero is lkely to Lo seme trouble In contirming at leust ong of tho Presidont's uppointees for Census Super- visor from Pennsylvunia, owing to the personal exertlons of Senutor Wallneo, who persisted In clufing that bis party should have hulf the Suporvisurs uppolnted for tho State, Ho finally secured the promise of half, aud the netunl ap- polntment of four-tenths, the Democratic Su- pervisors being four to thoRopublicans’ six. As #non as ho had secured the promise the Domo- erutic membors of the House from Penusylvanic stopped {n and fnsisted that they should gather tho fruits of his labors, and should nuue nll the appolntees, The President und Gon. Walker secin to havo listened to them, and appoluted ‘mon to tho ollico ngaiust the protest of overy ono elso, NATIONAL RANKS Benator Edmunds introduced in the Senate fo- day a very important bill from tho Judiclury Committes relutive to Natfonnl banks. Tho prictical offcct of tho LIl iy tirst to put all tho State anil othor corporations on the samo foot- Ing as natural cltizens {n respect of removing suits from Btate Courts to the Courts of tho United Stutes. Sccond, It defines the rosldonce of corporutions for these purposes. Third, it puts Nutional banking nasociutions which have hithorto beon nuthorized to suu and be sucd in tho Nutional courts on precisely tho same foot- ings ns nuturul persons or citizens of the Btatea 1n which they ave located. The consequence of this is, If this LIl should boocotne o law, thut Nu- tlonal banks cunnot suo or be sued {n the tirst fustunco othorwlse than In tho State Courts. TIE CURKENOY, Avory curlous proposition came beforo the Rouse Banking and Currency Cominittee to-duy in the shape of & resolution offercd by Gen. Ewiug to tho offcct that thut Committed should not consider uny bill, resalution, or Excoutivy recommendution touching tho qustity or quanti- ty of ocurrenoy untll tho tirst. Monday of noxt lyeoumlmr. Fhls would be rnu.-flunlly fo rolleve lon of the Prico and Fort resolutions,—to let well cuough alonus wud sho nbsurdity of it wus polnted out by soverl membors of the Committeo. Bucknor, Pwing, and Price votod for, and Chittenden, Davis, Fort, dd, aand Lounsbury sguinst it QEN, BCNENCK l‘:.b.. 3 Qon. Schonek wus taken suddeily warso lust night, and it was fearod for & time ‘Ko would not Hve (0l worning. Today hols cuslor, but th attuck id 8o sovero thuthis twnlly and friends aro much afraid bo will uot agaln got up froin bis bed, ; MOKTON'S APPOINTMENT. While tho ulder Honators are in generul Anx- foua to confirtu Alr, Morton's son as Colieotor of Hun Frunclseo, thoy find themselves restrained by n question of courtesy urising from the fact that both Benators from” that State, us well tho dulegution ln the Housw, uro l)l: postd to the coutirmution. 1t now luoks us It thls would de- feat Mortou. ANSWKRED. ‘[ the Western Associated Press, WASHINGTON, 1). C.) Jun. 2l.—~Auiong tho cx- ceutive docutionts Iuld buforu the House was i communlestion from tho Seoretwry of tho Troasury In responso to a resolution of tho House wakive for infarmution ua to tha o tha 3 aily Teibune, | United Btates Trearury beeame s member of the New York Clearing-louse. Tho Hecrotnry aays the United Btates Bnb-Treasurer at New York has for soma time employed the New York Clearing-I{ousa to_ facllitate the trunsaction of his business, That arrangoment with tho Clenr- Ing-House was entored into {n Novamber, 1878, wfter he hnd obtained the verbal opinion of tho Attorney-(jonernl that such an armpgement would not bo contrary to law. THE REAGAN BILG. Arguments fn nprmlllnn to the Reagan Inter- Btata Commereo bill were made to-day by Uon, Farnsworth, ropresenting tho Pittsburg, ort Wayno & Chicago Hoad, and General Frelght A{Lr;ni Fink,of the Bt Louis & Iron e Mountain JUDICIAL. Tho bill of Renator Edinunds, from the Judi- elnry Commlttoe, In relation to the remoyal of aulta by corporntions from the Stuto to United States "Conrts, nnd in relntion to suits by and agninst corporntions, provides that all sults by or nmunnl all home or alien corporations muy Lo _removed court of iny State into the Clrcult Courts of the United Stites, and that State corporstiona shll be deemed eltlzons of the Stato In which thelr principal ollice §s catnblished, and where their officinl records shall he kept. THE WOMRN. Mrs, Wailane, of Indlanapolls, waxamong the speakers at the Natlonal Woman's-Suffrage Con- vention to-day, A resolution Invelghing ngninst plucing a masculine medintor between: womun and her God, and maintainlng that Gen. Grant won his tirst victory through tho military plan nnd genjus of Anna Ella Currol, of Marylund, wero Introdieed and went over untll to-morrow, KUTCHIN. Tho tor portion of the executive session war given to tho discusgion of the nominution of Howard M, Kutehin af Collector of Internul Hevenue at Fond du Lac, Wis. YOHKTOWN MONUMENT, The Housa Committco on tho Yorktown Cele- bration recommends an approprintion of §100,- O for 8 monument nt Yorktown, THE RECORD. 2 BENATE. WASHINGTON, 1. C., Jan. 21,—Messrs, Edmunds and Garland were appolnted members of the Boird of Visitors to tho next annual examinn- tion of cndets at tho West Point Military School, Mr. Edmunds, from the Committes on the Judiciary, reported a bill to amend Sec. 640 of the Revised Statutes, relating to the removal of suita by corparations; and to muke further pro- ::(inlnul relating to suits by and against corpora- ons, Mr. Cockrell, from the Committec on Milltary Aflairs, reported ndversely tho Senato bl fn re- Intion to brevet army appolntments, and 1t was fndettaitly postponcd, i novse, Mr. Sparks, Chairman of the Committec on Mititary: Affuirs, reported back the bill for the rellef of Gen, Fitz John Porter, tecompanied by # mujority roport thoreon. Mr. McCoak pree sented a minority report. Doth reports were ordered printed, ‘and the bill made a speciat order for the Lith of February, Mr, McMnhon, from the Committee on Appro- printions, reported a bidl for the ;uu'munt of Teen of United Biates Marshals and Deputy Marshnls for the flsenl year emllma Juno 90, 1880, Ordered printed and recommitied, Considerution wns rvsimed in the morning hourof the bill relative to fractional bank re- gerves, and the Fouse wns addressed by Mr, Lounsberry in favor of repealing the legnt- tender quallty, Mr. Buckner, who has charge of the bill, argued that the whole kcope and object of tho blll {s to ket into cleculation some of the immense wnss of gold and sllver coln now lying in tho vaulls of the Treagury. In conclusion, he would movo the provious question, deprecating dlscussion on the general question of finnee, which ho argued WaEg not relevant to the bill at all. The morning hour explred beforo the vote on the provious question could be taken, Mr. Lowis, n picmber of the Banking Commit- tee, denounced us fulso tho statement which ho supposed Mr. Townshend to have muade, hut withdrew the lungunge on Mr, Townshend dis- owning tho making of nny mich statement. While Mr, Townshend was !p(‘nklllfi, Mr. Wi ber inquired how much the Nationul banks puy the peaplo In tixes, Mr. Townshend—The only tax thoy p"fi' over nny other clnss of banks is 1,019,000, 1o (Townshend) stood on_tho platforn oreeted by ‘Thotnns Jeiferaon, and thut was, hie wis opposed o any kind of bank paper, Stute or Nutional, {Appluuse on the Democratie glde,] Ho called nttention to the fuct that n .Natlonal bank in New York with n ex\{)unl'fll £00.000 had mucdo 1 profit lust yeur of §1,300,000. It hud Emkl $0600,000 (8100,000 more than {8 capltal) in dividends on bank stock. They had adiled £500,000 to tholr surplus fund, and had set nside as nndivided profit 37,000, He alluded to the First Nutional Bunk of New York. 1o then severely eritlcised somie remarkd made by Mr. Chitteniden, EU"lmr u_construction upon the langunge which ho (‘Ehlltcudcn) veberently declured 1t would not ar, Mr, Townshend sent on extract to the Clerk's desk and bud it rend. Mr, Chittenden (excltedly crossing over to within a few feet of Townshend)=That does not bear out your statement, [Laughter.] Mr. Townshend mppronching Chittenden)=Let me say with equal energy that the loglo of tho gentleman's argument ls— ‘The Speaker (Interrupting)=Tho gentlemen will suspend. [Laughter. Qulet having becn obtnined, Mr. Townshend proeceeded, saylng Chittenden fancled ho was tho only one who had tho right to_speak on the cur- reney ‘question upon this floor, [Luughter.] Tho propesition of that gentlemnn evidently wus to forbll the Secretury of tho Trensury from retiving interest-beartng bonds, and, in- Ktead, rotlre greenbueks, which bore no Interest, Buppose tho greenbuck wis retired, and u 4 per cent Lond substituted thorefor ? Mr, Culttenden—I propuso to substitute gold, Mr, Townshend—What would bo the effeet? The offect would bo 1o fmpose upon the nlrendy broken-dosen !nx)l)u{;t-n of this country a fur- thor bunden of $12000,000, Fe waus opposed to tho LIl beenuse it proposed to strenithion the Nutiomil-bunks and sunko them u peemanent in- atitution, and beceuse it took out of the pockets of the texpuyers ut least §14,000,000, und put It in tho pockets of tho Nutlonul-bank stoekhold- era, He wus In favor of tho Committcs on Bunk- ing nud Currency reportingr back the bill retiving National-bank olrentution. The House went into Committee of tho Whole (Mr, Carlisle in tho chaln) on revision of tho rules, ull debnto on which i to closo tosmorrow, The Connnittes was nildressed by Mesars, Rob- crtson nad Chinlmers,in favor of it imoro cquul dis- tribution of committee work, In tho conrse of his remarks Mr, Chndinors alhnled to tha Chulre~ man of the Committes on Commeree (Rengmn) us tho lewislntivo Iinttercup who mixed up tho Mis- slulupl und the Kiskimlnitus s that not o creat- ure know it, Mr, Dunn ulso argued In favor of n more cqual distribution of tho work, and maude some humor- ous rearks pon tho personul appearince of somo of tho overworked inembers of the Comn- mittees on Ways and Means, Apxnm[vrmuouu, Commerce, and Bunking and Curreney, Ho wanted to roliove thoso gentlomen, The gen- tlemnn from Toxus (Rewgun), for instance, hud becomo palo und thin in wading through oo riversund lixtng too many hurbors, Thero hud been too nuch water {n thom, und ho want- wl to deprive the Cammittee on Commerco of somue of tho water, After un extonded discussion tho Committee Tusg. Tho Spoaker lalil befora the House various excoutive communleations, which wers ro- ferred,—umong thom onw from the Bourumri' ot the ‘I'reasury In response to o resolution enlling on him for informution as to the tine, ete., of the United Btutes Trensury becoming o momber of the Now York Clearing-Fouse, Mr, Covort olfored n vesolution ealling an the Commissioner of Agriculture for {nformation relative to the sugne beet, Adoptod, Mr. Imon, from the Committee on Publio Lands, mlmrh'd biek the bill for tho settlement of titlo In Mot Springs, Ark, Ordered print- ed il committed, djournod. e ——— THE DISTILLERS, CINCINNATI, Jun, 81.—Tho Nutional Distillors and Spirit-Denlers’ Associntion met to-duy to considor the report of tho Committes appolnted to conslder the rubject of rocommundutions to Cougreas for udditionul leglslation, Tho report recomuiends a reduction of distillers’ bonds, the [ vopeal of tha Inw requiring bonds of rectiflers, and the vnuctment of a luw muklnfl Any point a pointof oxport from whioh s bonded routo will give u through bitl of luding to u forslgn port, coupting with it restrictions to lowar the risks of trunsportiajion. Tho Awsoclation did not trangs net nny buslness to-duy. Tho "Assoctation had a full discuasion on the ahove report, 88 well a8 on other mutters, und ugreed to recommoind thint no distiller’s bond bo over §100,000, and that the bond bo reduced to sinull distillons; ulsa thut the distillor's bond be taken to cover whisky n bond up (o the simount of his bond, and require an additional bond only whoit thero §8 un exeess; ulso that the luw chutgred 1o ponnit export In leas quantities than Lo gullond, aud that IV!PorI.\i 1 bottles be ule towed; ulso the repent of tho luw which requires Interest to be paid un whisky in bond more thun o yeur, - A conimittes was appoluted to revisy the constitution and by-luws. BISHOP ELDER'S APPOINTMENT, NaTCHKZ, Misa., Jun, $l.—1lshop Elder i8 con- ducting n splritual retrest ut Vicksburg, and will bo so vnguged untll tho 28th Inst, Ho bus ulready recotved Papal bulls of the nppolntment. s Condjutor to Archbishpp Allemauy, of Bun Franulsco, with tho vight of succeasion, eta., but it b tho genentl Inpression thut ho will aceept thy Clusiinat] sanaintment, from tha’ Another Fearful Loss of Life by Mine-Explosion in England. Between Seventy and Eighty Per sons Believed to Have Perished. * Lessops Proceeding with Work of Survey with Great Confidence, His Salvador, Central America, Much Stirred by a Recent Earthquake. Passnge of the Aholition Bill In the Spanish Lower House. A Large Afghan Army Ready to March on Cabul, GREAT BRITAIN. MINE EXPLOSION. LoNDow, Jan. 21.—An explosion has oceurred in Lycett Colliery, nenr Newenstle. The nume herof persons killed 1s vrrlously estimated at from seventy to ninety. : Tho scene of the explosion's at Newcastloe under-Lime. B The disustor occurred nt 8 this morning. Thore 18 little hope that any person in the pit at tho time of tho calamity (estimated at from seventy to ninety persons) will be saved. The search ia deluyed by tho damage to the shnft. The exploslon 18 attributed to the gnscous nate ure of the coal seam, LATER. Loxnox, Jan, 21.—An cxplosion of gns ocenre red In the pit of tho Fair Lady Mine, at Hanley, this forenoon, nnd not less than elghty mioers are entoribed in the mine, Great oxcltement exlsts, As soon ns tho news, of the disaster renched the homes of the opera- tives tho vicinity of the shuft wns thronged with, mombers of the families of the workmen wha wero known to bo In tho pitat tho timo of the nccldent, giving vent to their grief in loud erios and clamoring for epeedy menns to bo taken ta deliver thoso who might not be dead. Uptotho timo of sonding this dspatch, ne hodies have been recovered, rlthough parties are prepared to descend in search of them m Roon ns tho mine fs sufficiently freo from got and foul alr to allow the Investigation to be made, Old anid expericneed miners, familiar with thy charucter and effect of thofire-damp explostons, say thereis a probubility that somo of the mex who were out of the immediute helghborhood ot tho explosion may bo found allve, although the chinees are not strong enough to justity much hope. Indignation s expreséed agninst the mino owners and managers for tho luck of precaution in respect to vontilation. Hanley s u town tn Stafford County, Eng., In tha diatrict culled *The Potteries,” nnd forms together with Shelton, one town of about 99,000 Inhubitants, mostly enguged in the manutacturo of earthenware and china. LATEST. Lntest nccounts fix the number. of porsons in the pit nt seventy-sevon. 1t is belleved thatnot moro.thnn six 6f tha roscucd can posalbly re« cover. Twenty-five corpses Have already. been brought up, the majority disfigured beyond recognltion. The few roscued nlive nre dying rupldly. Tho sceno at the pit is heartrending. ne of the corpsea bins lost part of the head. Others wero burned to cinders, while some np- pear to havo beon killed by concussion, Gangs of volunteers nro dem:endxlg frequently, Part of the L?’cutt Colliery, whero_the explosion oo~ curred, I8 known ns the Falr Lady plt, and Is the #une in which six men wore killed last autumn. The conl belongs to the Banbury or fiery scam, in which all of the great Staffordshire explosiond haye oceurred. Five more bodies have been recovored and twenty others have been found.in the pit. The firo roging in tho pit slnce the disaster hinders the ctforis of the explorers and precludes all horu of more vietims bulng rescued ulive. A Intest report places tho total number of deaths nt soventy. Another explosion is feared. TOWDER ILLS BLOWN U Losnox, Jun. 21.—Tho funpowdcr mills a Dartford were destroyed this morning by an ex- plosion. Dartford i8 & market town und i parish n Kent. Iesidea the manufucturs of gune puwder, Dartford 18 engured In making paper, Hour, und machinery, 'Tho powder mills ‘which huve exploded were situated on o barren hight sume distunce from the town. X LOCKED OUT. Loxpaox, Jan. 21.—Nido hundred cotton opera~ tives huvo been locked out nt Moosby, near Old= ham, in eonsequence of tho operutlves of one mill stelking for 10 per cent advance in thelr waged, TIHE ISTIIMUS CANATL. DF LESSEPS' NEQINNING. New Youx, Jan. 2.—The Star and IHerld ot Panama, just recolved, eays: The 00th of De- coember, 1879, will bo forever memorablo In tha history of this isthmua. At 3 o'clock Inthe afternoon tho French steamer Lafayotto, with Count Ferdinand De Lesseps on board, was slg- nnled at Colon, und soon after entored the har- hor. Tho stoumer came lmmediately alongside tho wharf, where the Committeo of Reception appointed by the dovernment, a delegation from tho Btato Assembly, and o large number ot Invited eltizens wore collected to welcomo the ltustrious engincer and the othor members of his purty, Iu the evening many houses wore il- luminnted, and thero was u fine dlsplay of firos works. 01 the morning of the §1st De Lesscps and thy enginoers of his purty made an examination ot tho harbor from the Fauclflo Mail wharf, De Lesscps suys thero are only two great difficulties to bo overcome,~the Chagres River and the deep cutting ut the ‘summit. The first can be surmounted by turning tho hozdwaters of the vivers into unnother channel, and the sccond will dlsappear before the wolls which will be sunk and charged with oxplosives of sufticlen{ furco to romove vast quautities ot each dise churge, ~ s On tho 315t of Decombor Do Lessops had & Urliltant reception on hia entry into Panama, and on New-Yenr's Duy ho made an addross nt the mouth of tho Rio Grande River, throo miles wost of Panama, [n which be uns nouneed the fulilment of his promisg to begin practieal “ work on. his great cannl ontorprise Jan. 1, 1880, Ho remarked that hls lubors ware begun under tho sutlority of the Republio of the United Btutea of Colombl 1‘ with tho benediction of the Rishop of Panama, presonca of the dolegates of the Gencrul dave ernment and of those of the Statea of Colombin iRtk falis o oo oot ot 20 Techunleal Comwisstou ut‘imi'm for a universal interucoanio maritime i T.ossops expreasod bis entiro confidence fn tho suceoss of h&muurprlu. and bad no hesita- tion, in counting upon the mpla ussistance of tho finuncinl world for mumuwu?nn suother rent highway to tho commiorco of the world, 'ho Bishop thien formally bestywed his bonedio- tlon upon ihn cnterprise and the blessing of the Unlvorsal Church npon tho laburs of scleace foe thy beneiit of commerce, I'he Star and Herald of Panana thus puts it “While American statesmen and ‘capitalises bave beon maunduriog wnd driveling uyor thelr Monros doctriie, and the neceasity uf Amorican supremuey in a4 part of the world whers their ins terests urp HEth-rito. a4 compured - with ather countries, Mr. Tessepa ls -working quiotly, and practicutly demoustrutiog tho it part of tho greut problem;, He has undortaken to demons #trato the practicabllity of the route whigh hg uwrons. aud tho l&mbuble ooat of thy construv- on of the cuuul” Bl ® ——— BOUTIL 'AMERICA. - EABTHQUAKE, New Yonk, Jun. 2l—Viclent shocks of an earthiquuke uro ruported by the Pannua Star ju* Bulvudor, snd much damage 1§ fuared In tho interfor, 1n La Libertas on tho night of the Jut Instaut tho carth scymed literully ta bo danclng. Porsona In tho stropts were thrown down, and many bulldings sutfered. It wus generally ap- prehended that Bun Bulvador bad boun leveled & et