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WASHINGTON Virginia Once More in theFamily of States, ts: Fierce Debate in the House Over the Virginia Bill. BUTLER'S ARROGANCE REBUKED, Still Another Diplomatic Sensation. MILITARY RULE IN Senator Sherman’s Bill for Inflating : the Currency. FREE BANKING ON A COIN BASIS. GEORGIA. WasmINGTON, Jan. 24, 1870, The Virginia Bill in the House—Bingham Going Buck ou His Record—Butler Rends Bingham Out of the Party—Fearful On- slaught Upon Butler by General Farnsworth, ‘The debate in the tlouse to-day on the Senate amendments to the Virginia bill lasted for an hour and was sharp and spicy. General Farnsworth sac- ceeded in getting the bill from the Speaker's tabie by a suspension of the rules, and he immediately moved concurrence in the Senate amendments. ‘There was an hourfor debate, and Farnsworth hold- Ing the foor yielded firat to Bingham, who an- nounced that he would vote for the bill, though he Protested that the amendments which the Senate had put on it were unconstitutional and not worth the paper they were written on. Sam Cox, who sits behind Bingham, got up and protested against Bimgham deserting them (the democrats) after they had followed his lead in passing the original will. Butler stood directly in front of Biugham, lis- tening attentively to his speech, When the latter alluded to his party Butler, with great earnestness, said, “Let me ask the gentleman to which party does he refer?’ This was the signal for locking horns, and Bingham turned upon his rival with great bitterness, the members crowding around both belligerents, as if they expected a personal encounter. Wile Bingham was pouring out the vials of bis wrath upon Buuler the latter suddeniy beat a precipitate retreat towards his seat, turning round and crying “Cheek! cheek!’ as he went. When he reached his seat Bingham had finished, and Farnsworth farmed out twenty minates of his tnne to Butler. Everybody expected something was coming. Butler turned up the sleeves of his coat and puffed ott his pugnacious month, he did when he proposed “to kick the Senate out” of tne hall of the House of Repre- sentatives. ‘That favorite attitude of Butler on great occasions always means business. Bing- ham looked perceptibly smaller as he sat in his chair while Butier was preparing to “mash him.” ‘The bitterest thing he can say of Bingham is to re- Jer to him as ‘the man who hung Mrs. Surratt,” and #o he made this a part of his exordium. Bingham moved uneasily in his seat, as if bis first thought was to dart across the hall and attack Butler; but Sam Cox put his hand on his shoulder and he quieted down. Then came the reading of Bingham out of tbe radical party, which Batler has threatened ever since that “black Monday,” when the unfortunate Bigham took snap judgment and passed the Virginia bill while Butler Was away practising law in Massachusetts. Butler ‘Was not satisfled with reading Bingham out; he got after Farnsworth, Logan and the other republicans who helped Bingham pass the bili. No party could succeed with such men in it, and no party ought to succeed, he said, bringing his fist down with great emphasis upon his desk. He called upon the recu- sants to atone for their offence by voting for the Seuate amendments. Butler -has not been s0 much excited since the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. His face glowed with rage and he whipped in the republicans who had strayed away from the fold with Bingham as if they had been so many schoolboys, of whom he was the master. There were one or two attempts at rebel- Hon, however, and the master found he would have to take as weil as give reproof. When Butler’s twenty minutes had expired Farnsworth resumed the floor, and in about fifteen minutes excoriated Butler, to the infinite delight of Bingham and other offending children on the republican side of tne Houre. He gave Butler to understand that he was not the proper man to lecture @ republican of twenty-five years’ standihg, hke himself, Farns worth had been a republican when Butler was engaged in hunting fugitive slaves all over Massa- chusetts, ‘This announcement created a sensation, and Butler stood in his place perfectly thunder- struck at the boldness of Farnsworth. The latter ‘was at the Chicago Convention, he satd, trying to nominate Lincoln, when Butler was a member of the Charleston Convention, voting for Jeff Davis. Here the democrats, who like to see Butler’s old record overuauled, burst into applause and Jaugnter. But Farnsworth was not through with the gentleman from Massachusetts. He spoke of his voting for Breckinridge at the Baltlmore Convention, and then referred sarcastically to his sudden conversion to the republican party. The conversion of St. Paul, he said, was nothing in point of suddenness to the conversion of Butler. For fear that the country would not believe that ihe conversiga was genuine he had followed the example of another scripture character, who denied iis master, and who thought it necesssasy to curse and swear in order to make people believe he was in earnest. It Was getting hot for Butler. and at every hit made by Farnsworth the democrats would burst out tn uncontrollable laughter. Butler, however, held his peace. He had either nothing to say or he was too much demorajized to say it. Bingham was amply avenged. He could not have replied so handsomely or so crushingly to Butler had he been on the floor instead of Farnsworth. The vote on concurring in the Senate amendments was strictly a party vote, all the repub'icans voting for it and atl the demo- crate voting against it. The Threatened Flaresup Between Stewart and Snuner Postponed. Stewart had all the books and documents on his tabie to-day prepared to prove that Sumner jied— under a misiake—the other day, when he claimed to ‘be the author of the negro suffrage section. Stew- art had them piled upon his desk before him, and watched for a chance to have his expjapation with an eagerness that was quite amusing. Sumner, on the other hand; having been apprised through tne eolumns of the HERavp of the hostile intent of Stew- art, had resolved to prevent the Nevada Senator from saying & word on the subject, tf possible, and, calculaung that he might mot succeed im euch efforts, had fortified himself with several books and documents ready to refute whatever, Stewart might allege. It was amusing to notice how Sumner watched Stewart, and how the friends of each were caucusing in little knots over the matter. When Stewart finally got the foor and asked to make a correction Sumner tmnmediately Jumped up and objected, unless he could get full time to reply, Sumner, with a confident air, told Stewart ne had ail the documents with him apd would sustain his former claims, The result was that Stewart failed to have his say, and the expected flare-up between him and Sumner remains postponed. The Late Assault in the Treasury Depart- ment. Tne article in your Washington correspondence to-day avout Mr. Mullett and the old doorkeeper in the Treasury occasions a good deal of excitement here. Mr. Mufett’s friends explain the affair in eB diferent way. it seems My. Mullet+ hed ap “on- just as” NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. Pleasantuess” with Rice, the superintendent of the ‘Treasury, and it is alleged that the latter has in- structed his doorkeepers to annoy Mullett in various Ways. Mullett was frequently stopped before by this same doorkeeper, to whom he was weil known as architect of the Treasury. Mullett frequently ex- Plainea who he was and on the day in question, when stopped by the doorkeeper, loat patience at the alleged impudence and insulting manner of the latter. Executive Nominations. ‘The following nominations were sent to the Sen- ate to-day-— . John (, Stearns to be Assessor of Internal Reve- nue for the Second district of Vermont; Philip K. Gleed to be Assessor of the Third district of ver. mont; William 8, Southworth to be Assessor for the First districtof Vermont; Rollin J. Jones to be Col- lector of Internal Revenue for the First district of Vermont; Jeremiah D. Hyde to be Receiver of Pub- lhe Moneys at Visalia, Cal.; Edward W. Willett to be Register of the Land Omce at Visalia, Cal.; John N. Gatt to be Receiver at Booneville, Mo.; Harvey Car- penter to be Postmaster at Hamilton, Nevada. Nominations Confirmed. ‘The Senate this afternoon confirmed the following appointments:— W. HH, Tern, to be Third Assistant Postmaster Gene ral. Postmasters— Henry G. Wells, Moline, lil, ; James W. Glover, Oxford, N. 4.5, Samos D. Woody, Central City, ois Pete Grubb, ton, Ohio; Thomas B, Johuson, Sumter, 8. C. Mra, Eitzabeth’ B, Cuthbertson, Ni ripen, Pa; W. Ht. Md. ; 8, ©. West, Milwaukee, Wis. ; . Y.; James G. Tracy, Hous- jacksonville, 1H. ; Henry M. Ktm- 3M ik. Libblaon, Nortnileld, Sinn. anderson, Geokgetows, 8. C.J. M. Edmunds, Wash ington, D. C.; 8. F. Marsh, West Winsted; Coun.; Lindley M. Cox, Thornton, Ind, ; J. J.'Gibson, Cortath, Mia; Emma J. Moll: Salem, lil. alsin, Coll Cufloms—Michnel 8. Drew, Washington Territory; Timothy G. Phe Hamilton Taylor, Bourl River, Miss. ; Brazos de Santi ‘Texas; Charles Puget’s 80 bak Francisco! james P, Bute . Smith, Paducah, Ky. George T. Jarvis, atone, Surveyor of -usiome—Charles C. lemphis, Tenn. Appre is: Me wannab, Ga, Collect 80, Internal Revenue ok, Seventeenth dis {riot of Ohio; George P. Beck, istrict of North Caro- na. Assessors of Internat Revenu-—William T, Fernold, Fitth dis- trict of Virginia; James J. Hayden, District of Washington Territory; George ,¥._ Knowlton, Maine; james istriot of ‘Loomis, Twenty-ninth district of New York; David F. Whittle, Second district of New Hampshire; James M. Dickinson, Sixth district of Tennessee, Pension Ajente—John T. Barstow, at Rutland, Vt. ; Stephen Tuomas, St Johnsbury, Vi. pSeth M. Barber, Cleveland, Ohio Samuel McKee, Loulstille, Ky.; Alexander ‘Clapperton, Fort Gnude-Oc tt trish, of Nebraska, at Dresden, and Ed nuwe—O. Hi, 1» 1 el en gar Stanton, of Iilinols, at Brlaol. The Senate also confirmed the following nomina- nations:— Jobn P. Knowles, Judge of the United States District Court for Rhode Island; Milton Kelley, Associate Justice of the Su- reme Court of Idaho; Benjamin J. Spooner, Marshal for diana; Sebastian S. Marbie, Marshal for Maine; David H. arbuck, Attorney for North Carolina; Heury B. Swope, At- torney for the district of Pennsylvania; Nathan Webb, Attorney for Maine; Albert H. Horney, Attorney for Kansas; David W. Houston, Marshal for Kansas; George I. Foster, Marshal for Vermont; Lucien B. Eaton, Marshal for the Western district of ‘Tenuessee; Gabriel C, Wh Attorney for Kentucky; George F. Terry, of the Land Office at Austin, Nevada; F. Register of the Land Ofice at Careon’ City, 2 . MeClure, Recelver of Public Moneys trict of lands subject to sale at St, Cloud, Minn. ; Matthew Keller, Receiver of Public Moneys at Los Ai 3 Henry'C. Austin, Register of the Land Office at. the. same place; Mahiin Stubbs, Agent for the Indians of the Kansas agency; Ricard T. May, Recelyer of Public Moneys at Heleva, Montana; Edward Painter, Agent for the Indians of the Omaha agency; Js. J. Curtis, Secretary for Idaho Terri- tory; John Meanshaw, Supervising Inspector of Steamboats for the Third district; Jacob ¥, Ringwalt, Melter and Refiner at the Branch Mint, Carson Cfty;’ Commodore John Rodgers to Rear Admiral on’ the active “list; Lieutenant Commander Selfridge to be Commander; Jobn A. King, Aswistant Paymaster in the Navy Van Cleft, Civil Engineer fn the Nay Surge Ni i '. Swain, Judge Advocate, with rank of major; Ebe- Gay, reinstated as Captain of Infantry, and Willian 8. Johnson as First Lieutenant of Infantry. Reports of the National Banks. Some time ago the House of Representatives passed a resolution calling for the information re- quired by the second section of the act of March 3, 1869, entitled “An act egulating the reports of na- tonal banking associations.” The Secretary of the Treasury furnished, in reply, a statement of the Comptroller of the Currency, in which the latter says:— Of the 1,690 banks included in the statement one bank was suspended by entire reorganization, bear- ing the same name; three banks never completed tueir organization: sixty-two banks have gone into involuntary liquidation, and, in the hands of re- ceivers, are domg no business and earning no dividends, 132 banks in active operation, trom various causes, have declared no dividend: since March 3, 1869, leaving 1,492 banks that have deciared and reported dividends. Six banks, organ: ized since the passage of the act, are not included in the statement, none of which have yet reported dividends. ‘The average capital of dividend p: banks 18 $403,024,510. The dividends deci: amount to be $20,816,716, ‘the net earnings, in excess of cividends declared the amount to be $6,932,768, The average percentage of discounts upon capital 1s five and sixveen-hundreths; average percent of net profita, embracing dividends ana net earinings in excess of dividends, six and tnirty- eight. nundredtus, The abstract furnished relates to firat dividends. Five nunarea and sixty-five banks have declared, ana at the commencement of tne work of pre- paring the tables submitted have reported a second dividend. ‘The aggregate capital of tne banks so reported 18 $176,872,192. The dividends declared py them amount to $8,992,051. The net earnings in excess of the dividends declared amount to $2,958,616. The average rate of dis- counts is five and eight-hundredths. The average net profit, embracing dividends and net earnings in excess of dividends, is six and seventy-tive hundredths. The mtorimation submitted ts believed to be substantially correct. Some diticulty was experienced at first in making the banks under- stand just what was meant by “net earnings im excess of dividends,” ‘The net earnings, m excess of dividends, included ail sums carried to the sur- plus fond, and, taken together with che dividends reported, are designed to show, and undoubtediy ao show with periect accuracy, the entire net proceeds of the national banks as contemplated by the act of March 3, 1589, , Leuer from Collector Grinnell to Secretary Boutwell Concerning the Collection of Har- bor Fee3. ‘The fodowing is Coliector Grinnell’s letter to Secre- tary Boutweil in answer to the clatm of Comiis- sioner Sargent that the collectors of ports have no power to collect harbor fees accruing to States or cities:— Custom House, NEw YORE Con1Ecror’s OFFICE, ) August 17, 1869, § Sin—I have the honor to transmit to you here- with a communication from the honorable the Com- missioner of Customs, on the subject of the col ion at this office of tees accruing to the State of New York on the entry of vessels tu this district. As this practice has existed {rom time immemofial, and as it is founded upon the requirements of the * stavates of the United States, section uinety-three of the act of March 2, 1799, and as the Treasury De- partment has always been aware of it, and as many reasons and explanations are on file in the corres- pondence of the department why the practice should be continued, particularly in the letters of my predecessors of date of December 7, 1865, and December 10, 1468, it 18 respectfully submitted, whether the closing paragraph of the utonorable Commissioner's letter has been well considered, and ‘is not unuecessartly peremptory. I remain, very re- spectiully, your obedient servant, |. 1. GRINNELL, Collector. To Hon. Geo. S. BOUTWELL, Secretary of the ‘'rea- sury. Relief of the Poor of the District. Mr. Hawiln’s bill for the relief of the poor of the District of Columbia, reported from the Committee on the District of Columbia to-day, appropriates $30,000, aud authorizes the distribution of con- demned ciothing and other articies not suited for army purposes, not exceeding $2,000 in value. Pension for Mrs. Lincoln. Mr, Wilson’s resolution in relation to Mrs, Lincoin grants pension of, $2,000 per annum from the time of the deatn of Mr. Lincoln. internal Revenue Laws Extended Over the Indian Territory. Upon the recommendation of General John A, McDonald, Supervisor of Internal Revenue for Ar- kansas and the Indian Territory, Commissioner De- lano nas promulgated regulations extending the Internal Kevenue laws over the Indian Territory as contemplated by sections 103 and 107 of the act of July 20, 1868. 4 The Mexican Claims Commission. ‘rhe following has been made public by the United States and Mexican Claims Commission:— Every claimant purporting to be a citizen of either country, party to this convention, shall disolose the facts upon which he bases his Cette either in. his memortal or by aMdavit. If a native be shail, so far as in his power, disclose the time and place of his birth; if naturalized, he shall file @ copy of his naturalization papers in all cases when il isin Is power, and if not in his power to do 80 he shail show why. The affidavit above required may be put in at any time before a hearing, on such terms any be deemed proper. Order of January 21, 870, Indian Treaties Withdrawn. The President sent a message to the Senate to-day, withrawing the Osage and Nebraska treaties com- municated last seasion, and recommending the con- firmation of the Miami, Shawnee, Klokapoo and Sac and Fox treaties, The Duty on Steel and Iron te be Increased. The Committee on Ways and Means to-day raised the duty on manufactured steel three and a quarter percent, There is @ disposition to make a general increase of the duty ob mannfectured ayeo) and tron. FORTY-FIRST _ CONGRESS. Second Session. SENATE. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 1870, CREDENTIALS OF SENATOR MORRILL, Mr. Hamu, (rep.) of Me., presented the creden- Uals of his colleague, Lot M. Morrill, elected by the Legisiature of Maine for the unexpired term of the late Mr. Fessenden, the vacancy having been previ- ously filled by an appointment of the Governor. The credentials were read, and the usual oath of omce adininistered to Mr, Morrill by the Chair, PERSONAL EXPLANATION. Mr. STEWART, (rep.) Of Nev., said he desired to make a personal explanation, in order to correct a statewent by Mr. Sumner in the discussion between that Senator and Mr. ‘Trumbull on Friday last. Mr. SUMNER, (Tep.) Of Muss., said u the request was ted he would ask to reply at once, at jength, and would go into the whole history of the question, upon which remarks would be made re- quiring ut least an hour of time. ‘Loe order of business being called for the request of Mr. Stewart was not granted, THE GEORGIA MILITARY COMMISSION. Mr. NoxTON, (dem.),of Mian., offerea a resolution directing the Judiciary Committee to report to the Senate a8 soon as practicable by what authority. 1 oar General Terry has organized and convened a itary commrssion to inquire into the elgibiiity of ators and Representatives elecved to the Legisla- ture of Georgia, and their right to hold seats in tual body, and for the purpose of facilitating such in- quiries the President of the United becretary of War be and are hereby requesied ww communicate to the Senate copies of all orders Which they fave issued aud the correspondence with General Terry or the Governor of Georgia, aud generally ail iuformation they may have with refer- ence to the action of suci Military Commission. Mr. SUMNER objected to the present consideration of the resolution, When it was laid over. PENSION ''0 THE WIDOW OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. Mr. WILSON, (rep.) of Mags., otfered for reterence the joint resolutiun of granung @ pension to we widow of the late President Lincoln. Referred to the Committee on Finance.’ + SPEECH OF MR, SHERMAN ON THE NATIONAL CUR- RENCY BILL, On motion of Mr. SHERMAN, (rep.) of Ohio, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill to provide a national currency of com ahd noves and to equalize the distribuuion and circulation of notes, which wus re ad. Mr. SHERMAN, chairman of the Finance Com- mittee, said he did not propose to enter into an elaborate financial argument in opening the debate on the bill, but would couilne himself to wo main propositions, It presented, first, the partial equall- zauon of distribunon of the bavking currency Among the States; second, free bankiug on @ com basis. The present distribution of bank circulation was grossly and palpably uulair. ‘Those Staves ~ Massachusetts, Rnode Island and Connecticut—con- talning population jess than two miliions, have over ninety-six million dojla.s circulation. One-iifieentih of our population Lave thus one-third Of all the bank circulation. ‘The ee ee Western States, where credit 1s most ue }, have scarcely three dollars to an inhabitant, wole ali tae lave rebel States are practicaily without any bankiug cu- culation. This uniair distrioution, he said, grew out of a paipable violation of tne law by the then Comp- troller of the Currency and the Secretary of tie ‘Treasury. The first Banking act, Fevruary 28, 180s, provided @ rule of distribution by which the whole amount of circulauon was not to exceed three hun- dred millions, One hundred and fifty miluons of which was to be apportioned among the Siates according to the populatton, aad the other hundred and fifty millions according vo the bankiug capital aad resources. ‘I'he cevised act of June 3, 1604, Was slient as to distribution, but gave to existing State banks the right to enter into the banking system without limi. The growing inequality of the dis- tribution becoming apparent, Coa , by act of March 3, 1865, restored vie old rule of distribution. At that time there were.iess than one nun-, dred and fifty millions of banking circulation, and if this law had been observed each State woula have had reserved for it not less than tive dollars for each inuabitant. ‘This law was fagraniy and boldly disregarded, and the pretence to justify lt was @ provision in the Interaaf Kevenue act or March 3, 1565, which continued up until July 1, 1865, the privilege to existing bauks to become national banks, On the Ist of October, 1365, the whole bank- lug circulation was one hundred and ninety milion dollars, leaving, three months aver the expiration of this act, on hundred and ten millon dollars for distribuuon according to the population; but in open disregard of the law the remamuing circula- tion was issued to the old Staves, to the exclusion or Lhe Southern and Westera States, thus increaying all the ditticulty now complained of. Under the system as it stands national banking was, he said, a mo- nopoly confined to # few States where the popula- uoNn Was not increasing, exclud! all the rapidly growing States of the West. A majority of Senators und Representatives were from States less tan one- seventh of the whole circulation. This endangered the system, and would inevitably overthrow it un- less corrected. Mr. SHERMAN referred to the advantages of the national banking system over that of the State banks, which, with the correction of the injustice of distribution, wouid be tue best permanent banking system that could ve adopted. ‘tue West demanded more circulation and were deprived of 1t by the vio- tation of the law. The East, enjoying !ts monopoly, demanded @ contraction, yet was not willing to Yield to the West oue dollar of circulation for taree years. A remedy ior this had been sought, During the Jast Congress the Senaie and House each passed bilis recalling fromm some of the Eastern States a porwon o1 their excess ior distribution in the West and South, but there was a diiference as to manner and extent in doing it. The House insisted upon a general and the Senate consented only to a partial aistribution, not exceeding forty millions. Objection Was mude that the Kasteru bauks were innocent of fault and that the witharawal of that circulation would aerange business and inflict greater evil than the one to be remedied. To avoid this the Commutiee on Finance made the following suggestion to cue President and Secretary of the ‘ireasury, proposing to increase the limit of bank circulation forty-five wil- lltons, the circulation to be distributed vo the Soucu- ern and Western States, which was the proposition of this bill, The first objection was that this was an expausion of the curreucy, to whch the commil- tee was opposed, and Mr. Sherman said in no eveat daring suspension of specie payments wouid ue fuvor @& proposition to increase the bank- ing circulation without reducing the - cniation m some otier form, ‘To avoid ex- pansion of the currency two measures had been proposed—first, the withdrawal of the greenbacks; but ums plan would not receive tuc sanction of the House, ‘The otuer. plan was the ou adopted by the Senate committee—tue withdrawal of cue three per cent ceruuticaves now held by the bans as part of their reserves in piaee of legal tender notes, He then guve the history of these tnrce per cent certificates, which were ‘substituted for ine compound interest uotes, and were a temporary expedient to avoid an increuse of the bonded devi. ‘They Were the least objectionable; being payavle ou demand they might’ be presented vo ue asi when most Imconvenient. They draw interest and are mainly held ii the astern banks whe the circtuation 18 in excess, By their payment the United States saves three per cent iuterest und Will get three per cent taxes on the new vanks to be organized. Lhe comunittee ten proposed co Withdraw these certilicates a3 rapidly a8 uew banks are organized, and tus leave the currency without either expansion or contraction, The remaining Proposiions of the bill authorized, he said, free banking or coin notes. {his Was an inauguration of a true system of banking, embracing absolute security to the note-holder and the United states, ‘vhe agency of private corporations a3 banks to give flexibility to currency aud tu meet the ebb and low of exchanges, its redemption on demaud im gold com and freedom irom monopoly or restrictions, eXcept Such as are necessary to protect ils debiors and creditors. ‘The bunks to be authorized wili be organized only on the Pacific coast, or tn New York aud tue South, Where large transactions are based upon gold values, ie further answered the pussib: Olgectioas to the proposition. Tae bill would « folowed in aue ume by a bili for sanding the public debe and lor the revision of tue mlernal revenuc tux and tart. Mr. Davis, (dem.) of Ky., remarked that the clef value of the gold notes was dependent upon the facility with which they were reacemed. ‘lo muse ther equal in value to gold weir certain and prowpt redemption must ve secured when presented by ie holder to the bank. iu cuse tne bank tailed to make them equal to cola tue governinent jnust be ready aud abie to step in and redeem the notes. Mr. SHERMAN replied by retereuce tu the Jourth secuon of the bill requiring every national bank & keep on hand at least treuty-flve*per cent of its cir- culation ia gold or siiver coin, ‘then, too, the iaw under tne present system was that 1 a note was presented io @ bank and not paid the note-holder night at once present it to the government, which would redeem it witnin twenty days, Tue bauks were bound to redeem thetr notes at & centre of re- demption, and the same geverat principle that applied vo circulaung notes applied also to gold notes. REMARKS OF MR. HOWE ON GOVERNMENT FINANCES. At the conclusion of Mr. Sherman's remarks, sir. Hows, (rep.) of Wis., delivered a lengthy argument in review of the various iinancial propositious wach had, been suggested. He said tbat if the country woilld be centent to be honest, without being par- ticularly anxious to be sinart, the difficuity to be encountered would be lessened. There might ve some Way out of Our embarrassments better than the right way, but if there was le would not attempt olnt it out, for ne had not altempted to find 1. ¢ Believing, us he did, that for nations, as for tmdividuais, honesty was the best policy, his purpose would be to point out the course which he belleved honesty to suggest. He advocateu the proposition to aliow legal tenders to be funded in six per cent bon.ts, reueemabie at the pleasnre of the government, comierring the privilege of fanding to tuose who wiil use the bonds aso basis for @ new bank circulauion, sad g tme preference to those portions of the cou Which may from time to time be deficient in circuin- tion, He compan that the government coi. pelled the public creditor to carry tts own overdue obligations and made im no compensation lor so doimg, and the pending bill did not attempt to right une wrong. He complatned that tue amount of cir- culation was limited by an inflexible law, and tnis wrong the pending bill would perpetuate. ‘The franchise of banking was @ monopoly, arbitrarily ond unjustly distributed among the few to the exclusion of the many; buc the pende ing — bill @ new monopoly. it proposed to allence all complaints that the South and West was denied equal rights under the law by fiinging to them @ pittance of $45,000,000 to growl over among themselves Above all, legitimate trade was imperilied and honest effort demoralized by the wen Who are dally making cou- tracts for the future delivery of gold, while this bill would charter a great ration to engage in that very business. He would uave a law which declared 4 gold gambler a cruninal aud consign him to the pene tor ie, but tits bill proposed to license t im and setup bis trade under ihe sanction of sacred aw, Mr. SUMNER believed the proposition to supply 000,000 additional currency Would not meet the present requirements, The proposition to proviae national currency coin noves institaved a system ot tree banking upon a special vasix, which was iwpos- sible unt We had specie payments. . Besides, this Would create a turd curreacy in addition to that of greenbacks and yoid notes, He imtamated that he Would propose an amendment in the nature of a sub- stitute lor the bill. ‘ne proposed amendment ts bul recently introduced ana expiamed by bin to provide the national currency com notes ald equal- Aue the distribution of circulating notes. Mr, VOLE, (rep.) of Cal, gave notice he would offer an amendment to insert, in lieu of lhe former portion of the bill, the foowing:—That, in addition Lo the amount of United states noves heretotore issued aud Now in Circulatiog, tue Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to issue ta excuaoge for United States anierest bearing bouds, at their smuarket value, $45,000,000 os BULL holes tor circulation, EXECUTIVE SESSION. ‘The Senate then went iuto executive session, and alter AooUs an nouL's session, at twenty-live minutes past iour, adjourned, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 1870. BIYLS INTRODUCED AND REFERRED. By Mr. Keno (cep.) of Conu.—Resuming the land grauted for a raiiroad from the Mississippi Fiver, opposite the mouin of the Oho, via Litue Rock, tothe ‘texas bouuiary, near Fuiton, Ark., and regranting tt to oiber parties engaging to build tne road, By Mr. FRRRISS, (rep. ditional bounties. of certata oilicers, By Mr. Myers, (rep.) of Pa.—Fixing the compen- sation of letter carriers at $1,290 in all cities where tne iree delivery system 13 iui operation. By Mr. PRrERs, (rep.) OL Me.—To increase the salary of the United states Minister to China. Also Ww repeal the act of January.2z, 1867, providing or an additional session of Congress. Aso for the La- provement of the Penobscot river, In Maine. By Mr. WASHBURN, (rep.) of Wis,—To establish of N. Y.—In relation to ad- Also uniting the appointments Postal telegraph lines. He woved to refer it toa Special committee of seven. Mr. FakNsSworrti cailed for a division, and re- marked that the matier wus already beiore & stand- lng 4 utiee—the Pust Ollce Committee. Mr. TERRY, (rep.) Of AitciL., moved to reter the oiil to the Post OMive Commitee. Negatived by 67 to 76. the bill was ihen referred without a division to & select committee of sevou. By Mr, CHAVEZ, (rep.) Of ize the people of New Al and State goverument, pr & State; aso tor an ssa also defuing we noriwern Mexico. ew Mexico—To author- co to form & constuturion paratory vo admission as oflice in New Mexico; boundaries of New THE COMMITTEE ON &} CTIONS, clariug tat from th mittee on Elecuons Jauiciai body, and that in dcoiding contested election cases the members thereof whould act accordiny to ail tue ruies o1 law, without partiality or prejudice, us if under a special ath in each case. ‘The previous question was seconded by a vote of 73 bo 33. Mr. KELSEY, (rep.) of N. Y., moved to lay the reso- lution on the tabie, stating that tc cat au unpula- tion on the Commuidice of Kiecuons. Mr. GARFIELD, (rep.) of Ohio, Suggesved an ame; ment, extendmg the sume principe to all members of the Mouse in youug Mm the contested erection cases. ‘The resolution was not iaid on the table—yeas 44, ~ eed aud 1b Was Loen adopted by & vote of yous to nays 23. PETITIONS PRESENTED, Mr. UALKIN, (dem.) of N. ¥., presented a petition from 3,000 Werchanis, mechanics and artisans of New York city against aiiowiag American registers to foreign built surps aud in favor of a reduction of existing taxes on shipbuudiag and commerce. A large nuinpei@dt pevitions for the avolition oi the franking privilege were presenied by Messrs. Knapp, Keisey, Jones of Ky., Juimer, Ketcham, Strony, Garteld and others. dir, MUNGEN presented the petition or H. H. Bige- low and 154 other citizens of Worcester, Mass., lor We repudiation oi the naviona! war debt. THE LEGISLATIVE AvPROPRIATION BILL. Mr. Dawes, from the Committee on Appropria- thous, reported the Legislative, Executive and Judi- cial Appropriation bill, 1t was ordered to be printed and made the special order or Wednesday next. Mr, Dawes stated to the House the figures com- Posing the bilt, compared with the estimates, aud that tuere were several legisintave provisions in the bill rendered necessary tu order to cut off abuses, and he moved to suspend the rules, so that an order showid be made that the usual point of order cannot be made agaist those prov.sions im Comuinitice of the Whole, Alter considerable diseussion the motion was agreed to, ie gave the following as the amountappropriated im the vill:—Senate cowpensation and mileage, $425,000; oilicers, elerks and employes, $97,468; con- Ungent, $134,740; House compensation and milenge, 900,000; ofticers, clerks and employés, $142, conungent, $261,082; public prmting, $1,501,01 hbrary of ' Congreas, $01,168; public buildings and grounds, $40,504; Court of Claims, $133,840; Isxecutive proper, $40,449; Vepartinent of siate, $167,300; ‘Treasury and bureaus, salaries and contingent, $2,490,820; expense of collecting Internal Revenue, $5,100,00); independent Treasury, $297,080; Mint, branches aud assuy oillces, $582,700; ‘Territorial governments, #2.6,700; surveyor Gene- rals and their clerks, $10%. imerior Lepartinent und several bureau and conungencies, $1,290,060; Army, $903, AVY, $154,840; Depart- re, $13,490; Yost OMlce, $354,120; Attorney Generals of ine Uuited Siates, $40,140; Su- preme Court, Untied States, $100,600; Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, $19,000; District Attorneys, United States, 999; Disirict Judges, United States, $168,500; Districs Marshais, United States, $11,590—Lotal, $19,214,097. ‘The estimates, he said, tor these various heads of expenditures hud been cut down over $2,500,000, In the following proporu ise and eiALeOUS, $1,021 Post Oulice i210; ; Independent nments, $41,306; army oftiges, salaries anu coutingeat, $16,210; navy salaries aud coutiagent, ¥81,; urveyor General and clerks, $10,500; treasury dnd contingent, $420,950—tolal, $2,002,4 THE ¢ Spe Kepiy of tie formation 00 My. Broo vority for certain miiitury omic uulitee of ¢ Ing that they are not ac: 28a board outside 0: Legisiature to aasist i eral ‘ferry ia tie execution of Lis most uNplea ce und duty, imposed On wim by act of Cons: Mr. Biouks (dem.) of N. ¥., addressed the House on tie subject, convendlug thut the military authori tes bad no power whi to interfere with the orgamization of the Legislature of the State of Georgia. lt Was an entire assumption on ue part of Geveral Terry and his sabordinates and was utterly s. Governor Bullock had imoroduced a rall- ps imaster, who had nog bee elected to any Legis: ive oilice, Uo preside over the Legistature. ft ¢ Ariy to the call for in- r tou as to Lhe ate acting a8 a com- Legflasure, stat- t ped he Was nob misiuiormed in being tol neral Sherman and General Grant were sending a special Messenger Lo Georgia Lo correct those illegal proceedings. jAN, (dem.) Of Ohio, protested against cts Of usurpation, Mot Ouly on 8, DUCOL Lig part of the Execu- KR, (rep.) Of Mass., detended the tive and General ‘erry. He said tial General had only done what General Meade liad done on tio first organization of we Georgia jature—uader- taken to determine what iiemvers were eligivie, ‘That was authorized by ail the reconstraction Mr. Brooks asked Mr. Butier to point to u giving such authority. Mr. BUTLER said he was ready to give all that jnformation on the principle of the carpenter te: ying in court, who was usket how iar le was ir the place wuere the incident uce | that he was four feet two ana ab froin it; | and, being asked how fie Kuew that so accurately, replied that he vhougit some fellow would be fool enough to ask him that question aud he measareu i. (Laughter.) He referred to section 1i of tae ace of July 19, 1867, giving authority to the Geueral of tue Army to act in this reconstruction maiter. He | knew that there had come up a report froin tne Asso- clated Press of the Souci—whicn uever reported in favor of loyalty, but always 1 favor of secession and revellion (and he noped to see tuac monopoly pus down)—that General Terry hat orgamzed a military commission to try a meuber of the Georgia Legistature for perjury; but that was notso. He had only appointed a boara of government onicers lv find out Who were aud who Were not eligible. lao spoke whereof he wwhen he anirmed thet the action of General Terry haa been and would be sus- talued by the adiminisiration, and that Georgia Would be reconstructed tn the interest of loyalty. Atter further discussion between Messrs, sutler, Morgan, Voornecs and others the papers were reier- red to she Committee on THE VinCIN Mr. FARNSWORTH MOVE to Duss: ing business on tae Speaker's up the Virginia Uiil, with ti pave ainend ments, Mr, ELpripGe,t(dem)jof Wis., anquired Whether any opportunity for debate was to ve yen; but Mr. Farnsworth declined to make any prouuse on the subject. ‘The motion was agrecd to, the democrats young mM the negative. ‘The bill Was then taken up and the Senate sabsti- tute was rend, Mc. #ARNSWORTH moved to concur in the Senate substituie, Not, however, because if its provisions were presented originally te would have supported them. Some of them he thought very bungilngiy drawn, and they would do inore harm than geod, but he made the motion because he thought that to throw the question open a: f discussion and to keep Virginnw longer out of represeniauon ver all interyen- im order to take | | Incriy Known in the ci iding up the chance sf a sage of the Senate bill would not be pasion, ass on oes epost even commiti rence Mr. FARNSWORTH replied that that was a question for tue House, Ar. BINGHAM said that it would be borne on the Journal of the House that more than three to one of the members had declared for the adinission of Vir- gina without conditions. That vote would com- mend itself to the approval of the country. He had nO apology to make here or elsewhere for the posi- tion which he had assumed and which he now reit- erated, that 1t was notin the power of Congress, by exacting fundamental conditions in the admission of a State, to enforce what covid not be legitimately enforced on alt other States. ‘That bemg 80, he asked tiat tne State of Vir- gina be admitted under the senate bill. He eulogized the constituuon of Virginia as being more liberal than the constitution of any State west of the Aileghaules, If he thought that under this bill Virginia could be subjected to conditions which might not be imposed on New York or Ohio, he never would vote for the bill, Mr. Cox suggested that Uic Senate bill was a8 ob- NOXtous as the bul reported by tue Reconstruction goraitines, and which was yolea dowa by wie louse. Mr. BINGHAs replied that it wus not quite so ob- noxious. He hoped the House would concur in the Senate amendment. His chief purpose was to state to the gentlemen on his own side of the House —— Mr. BUTLER, (Muss.)—Which side of the House is that? (Laughter,) Mr, BINGHAM (indignantly)—'The gentleman ia very Wise—wise beyond lis years. He caunot read ine out of the party with which | aa associated, nor can ue blot out my record, Vulgarity 19 not wit, us suipption is not power. There was no oceusion for the 1oquiry, A wit's a feather and « fool's # rod, ‘An honest mau is the nobicst work'of God. (Laughter and mach excitement on the foor.) Mr. BUTLER took the floor, and the Interest in the disenssion seemed to be on the increase, He said {nat he would begin where the geatleman from Ohio hud left oif—not with a misquotation, but simply to Suy \nat he had never threatened to read the gentie- mun out of the republican: party. Nobody could do (hat but himself, Whether he bad done that in pass- ‘ng the Virginia bIM througt tue House by a snap Judgment and with the wid of -nis democraue allies the country would judge. Whether the ‘gentleman was to have an ovation when he went to inta Le aid not know, but he bad seen some hintof that Kind in the papers. He sould be present in spit, Where he could Jook on, and not embodied, and see the Virginians toasting the manu whom all their papers announced #8 we murderer of Mrs. Surrast. (bxcllement.) Wauat a sights ‘The lion and’—no; not “the jamb,’’ but another anual. (Laughter.) Mr. Butier reierred Lo Lae eulogy passed by the gentleman from Onio on the Virginia consti- tution and sald that it wus not the work of Virginian statesmen, but of ‘carpet-buggers” and scallawags and negroes from the fields. He regarded the con-* ditions i the bill as @ notce. to Virginia aud all the country that if she did not tamcain tn spirit aud da trata che spirik of the reconstrucuon acts, Con- gress held and claimed, and witu the help of God and of the loyal people of tne country, would exer- cise the power to place ber back ugain where she haa been. He did not Know wit new light the geu- Uemun trom Obio had got whicu induced him Ww support the Senate bull, woich was substantially we bil reported by the Reconmiruction Commities. Mr. FakNS WORTH suid he understood very well the allusions made by Air, Butier to ite acting chairulau of the Reconstruction Committee, and he bad a word to say on that subjecl. He would not allow himself to be iustracted in republicanism by the gen- tieman front Massachusetis. He had beer & repubil- can for twenty-flve years, when tie gentleman fron Massachusetts was chasing fugitive siaves ail over the State. (Laughter aud clapping of hands on tie democratic side.) He nad been vomg ail be could at the Chicago Coavention for tie nowuunation of a re- pupilcan President, when the ¢ sacnusetts was at the Clariesto for Jem? Davis. (Laughter.) “te lad voted for the republican party in 186, when the gevtieman from Massachusetts Was voting ior Breckinridge, of Ken- tucky. He knew that the genueman, with his facility for getting “on the other side’ when luis allies deserted lum went over; and ne knew nls conviction and convertion was so sudden that i shamed that of St. Paul. (uanghter,, Tue lightmiug tuat blazed around nini—tnat focal blaze that Hiuminated his uader- standing—shamed into darkness tue ligat wnat shone arouad St. Paul; but ne knew that the gentieman Was somewnat like Peter when te deserted iis inas- ter, His desertion was so recent that ne was obliged vo curse and swear to in peopie believe that his desertion was genume-[iaughter}—so the geutieman from Massachuset’s was obliged to ve ‘exceedingly radical in order to make people believe that his conversion was genuine. (Laughter) He understood tnat the gent attack was on the gentieman froin Oluo (sir, Hii); but ae Would probably have naraed him, tye, ouly he Knew that he (Mr. Farnsworth) had achance vw reply. Mr. MUTLER said that his reason was that he had heid the floor by that gentiemau’s courtesy, und therefore did not think it well to urraign Bim wb that time for his sine, (Laighte: Mr. FARNSWORTH, continuing his remarks, re- minded the House that Mr. Butier had opposed inn every time that he tried to introduce # bill for the admussion of Virginia, and had stated tne last ume, two days before the recess, tuat the committer wanted testimony. Mr. BUTLER reinarked that the evidence he then wanted was as to the rauitcation of the ffvwenti amendment. 3 Mr. FARNSWORTH said that that was most remark- able, because three days before that the Secretary of State nad notified Congress that Virginia had ratified the fiiteenth amendment, (Laugiter.) It was the gentieman from Massachusetts who nad barred the door against Virgima—would ber it to-day put that he knew It to oe inevitable that the pili would pass. In conciusion he said that i ie thought the Hous would. non-concur and refer ine matier to a committee of conference he would vote to non-con- cur, bat as be was satigfied that the House would not he would vote to cducur. Mr. WARD, (rep.) of N. Y., sald he would support the Senate bill, as he uncerstood it to cont alt the essential fundamental conditions that were con- tamed in the bill as reported frou the Reconsiruc- uon Committee. Mr. MORGAN opposed the substitute, and said that for tts action towards Virginia the Forty-tirst Coa- gress would be known ia uistory as tie periidious Congress. Mr. ox took the same ground, and asked the re- publican side whether they wouia dare to stamp the brand of infertority on New York or Ohio that this bill stamped on Virginia; whother they would dare to interfere With the common scaool system or the jury system ot New York or Unio. Mr. LOGAN, (rep.) of Til, said te was one of those who had voted for the admission of Virginia f of conditions aud would do 80 azai under similar ei cmmstances, but he would now vote for the supsiituie, He would not inquire who 1 was that had been working im the jobbies of the Senate to have ine bill sent back to the House, 60 that some genticman might have an ung 4a iauguage peculiar to 2 Bll nov would he eater tnto pei If been a republt £0 long as to allow tie ioss Lo grow over him, al thereiore he did not propose to canvass anybody's action; but neither would he allow any other person to ve a censor over hii, He «i not $ee any incon. sistency in voting now for tais bill on the very ment of the gentleman from. Slas thas the conditions 1m’ Virginia that ste had better b. Mesei's. FITCH, (rep.) Of Nev. had origtually itieman trom AMas- Convention voupg und KBLLOUG, who Binghaa@’s bill, , WiLWUME approving Of Ue Senate Mr. SHANKS, (rep.) of ind., ail the penivents to come up ab ¢ fessi (Laughter.) Mr. Farasworu’s motion was agreed to and th Senate substitute concurred in vy # strict party vou yeas 16, mays 07. An eifort was made to hav devate, but tt railed, aud tae aujourued. UNITED STATZ3; SUPREME COURT. arcastically. invited sald make cou ‘an evening session for Mouse, at live o'clock, Decisions Rendered in Important Cases—Cone u gulity of the Acts of the Coutederate States Goverument. WASHINGTON, Jan, 24, 1870. Tn the Supreme Court to-day the case of J. C. Wil lard vs. B. 0. Taylor, argued at the term of 186 was decided. In 1655 Willard leased what was for- of Washington as “Tue Mansion Louse,” for teu yours, with the option of purchasing, ata dxed sum, any time within that term, Alverwards ie translerred to nis brother one- half of tie interest im the lease and privilege. A few days before the expiration of the term J. C. Wil. lard, without inviting ts brotuey Interested with him, gave Taylor notice of his decerunnation to puret: and fendered in Treasury notes the frst tastalment ol the purchase money agreca upon. cimed the tender, clanuing that ouly gold was con. templated by tic contract. Therewpon J. 0. Wie lard, without Joining tis brother, commenced an action in tie courts Of the Disivict to compel a speci- ic performance of the coutract. fecttcal defences were set up, such #3 the non-jolades of the inter esied brotuer, &e., aud ou tic merits, that of the suiileiwney Of the tender ia greeatacks. The court below sustained t J os and missed the bi eheving the opinion, tus cou 4 ‘nat Judgment and directed a specific yerturmance of wwe contract, upon tne ants paying the agreed suns id, wie court holding that ecitic performance In this case, Up the contract co.id be discharg tes, Wonid be & maniiest hardsmp, aid thai a court Of equity may recluse to compel pectic periormance where & would werk harasiip. ‘The Court declares that it is not the inteationof this opunon to determine upon ho coustitutiowlity of ine Legal Tender act la respect Wo contracts made, prior vo its passage, rem: if that that question is directly presented in and wall be disposed of by de- c.sions lu other es DOW pending; nor 4s Lt at ail necessary that it should do so, for all the questions may be determined upon other grounds. ina cuse like the present, where the option of pureclase was. of suco" Jong standing and no of the property had bean Court would Without at least requir.ng payment to be made in To deeree n tie 30 great, the would be @ greater evil tnan to adopt the Sei bul. MJ. Cox (dem.), of N. s, asked whether We pas the curseucy of the country at the date of tue cou- Wact. Aato the question Of uon-jormder, 11 Was NOt ‘ts Prior to 1461 to be Met in Gold—ille- | ‘Taylor ae- | increase | hot compel a s,cciite performance | deemed that the assignee of the in the pro) should be as a party No. 75, vs. et al—. District Court the Northern bana, —H og brought his action for damages agaist the defendants, Who were officers of coare and grand jurors under the Confederate States gov- ernment, and who bad indicted him for treason fgalust that authority and caused his arrest. The verdict below was for the defend- ants under the imstractions of the court, that any authority emanating jrom the Confederate government, which, iad It been established, would have procected the defendant, was @ sutticient de- Jeuce. This court, Mr. Justice Swayne delivering the opinion, now ‘reversed that Judginent, holdin; that the defendants acted without au hority ani were lable forany damages resuiting to the plaintiff, and that tis no justification to urge th the Confederate States. oo eee No. 100. Howenthaut et at. vs. Keany, Collector, &v.— APPA Irom the Cirenit Court for the OF Mississippi.— This action was brought to restrain the collection of an internal revenue tax on cotton, imposed by the acts of 1563 and 1867 and amend- iments of Lhe general acts of 1861, ‘The parties were ail residents of Misaiasippl. ‘The decision is that 1s nota case for equity cognizance and that the bill must be dismissed, Opinion by Mr. Jusitce Cuiford, ANOTHER TENEMENT HOUSE TRAGEDY Calaini‘ous Fire in Worth street—Three Persons Burned—One Dead, the Others in a Critical Condition. Another sickening tenement house disaster took place last night, resulting in the loss of life of vne person, and the probable death of another, About fiteen minutes after eight o’clock the bella sounded the alarm for “corner of Worth and West Broadway.” The fire department of the district quickly turned oat and hurried to the scene of the fire. Onarriving there it was found that the fre Was in the two story and attic frame house No. 9 Worth street, occupied on the first floor by George Meyers, on tie second floor by Daviul Harris, shoemaker, and a widow named Levy. The fire occurred iu Harris’ apartments, 1t is supposed from the stove or a kerosene lamp. The buiidiag and contents were of such a combustible, nature that the tire spread with surprising rapiditye, A PANIC. withstanding the preseace cf the Fifth precmact police, who egisblished dre lines aud assisted im preserving oyicr and remov- jug whe eifects of the occupants, the lat ter became panic siricken and rushed out into the stairs wits their goods and chattels, The police cudeayored Lo calm them, bub to uo avail, and for some tme the poor occupants continued to make their way up and down past the firemen, who - were gallantly battling the Hames. Notwithsianding the efforts of Une Croton and its Manipuiaiors, and after wilicting spout $590 dam- e property on the second floor, it reached ILY IN DANGER, cupied by Jolin J. Casey, wife and 4 beep actively enzayed in removing efiects Wien the fire crept up to their home. ines Nowwitustanding the remonstrances of tue tiremen, I ts Sad they persisted in getting out their property aud teil vietims to their rastiness, Casey was horri- biy burned, as Was also Ins wile Jouanna ana his uues. Some of the flremen of No. 27 Engine ny eventuaily determined to rescue chem and, 4 out by niain fore DITION OF PIR VIC bhe fire were coav. station house and cared for, The James was frightfuily burnea, much of his flesh having been crisped and baked. He dicdiu the station house whiie waiting for the of the Bellevue Hospital ambuiance. Tne s injuries were Of @ serious, but not fatal character, aud he wilt recover, Mrs. Casey was badly burned abont the head wad fave, and may possloly vver, She was seat to Beilevue Hospital for treatinent. Phe toss on building and contents will be abont (vousand dollars. The name of the owaer could prtained, nor the names ol the flremen ed che Casey family, Harris disappeared during tie fire and could not be found. 11s uot kuowa whether or not hie is 1usured, THE POLICE strict made no report of the details of the ie conuition of the Wes to cieven P.M. iy resent do not #peax in very com- pituentary terms of thelr eiiciency and energy, and iwinay'be a lit subject for an Investigation vetore the Commussioners, should Capiato vetty feet prompted to Ux the respoasibiaty of this loss of ite yn any parucular meinber or members of his copinand. The following 18 the despaten from the IMs. ed to the Fifta 3 un! unkoowa, Hous wuiture Bot fusurest. ‘ oucupied bi y ryt Tanilbes ; TH: MEWS FROM CHHA—WHAT IS THe MATTER? 4, 1870, w Yorx, Jan. ‘OR, OF THE TLERALD:— > arrival at an francisco of the wail steam. ship America from Japan we have the usual batch of news Ir China, Will you be kind enough to inform the readers of the HERALD why it is that since Mr, Burlingame left Cina upon his treaty mating auission we have been favored with notmog frou that quarter of the globe but a tissue of mis. representations avout the Chinese government in genera’ and the Burlingame treaties in particular? i irae that the present arrival brings Mr Leary brown, First’ Secretary to the Buriiagame tolssion, with the (treaty made at on ratified; so that sport about tat insta At Mie sudject Of compiat evised Chinese tre: additional would be aT Wasting any pint 81s intended uletors there sion With the Brivisu merchants at vig ond elsewhere in Cuina, Who belteves jonsense that the British govcrameut has de- tely wade a treaty with Chima that “no one ts po the Chinese Quere, did the woy irom ine Bong Kong if the all OF iS IL really the offsbo0: chants! ianipulator, Nos se Oy, ‘Tie same despatch annonnees that Sir Rutherford ock “weat Co Nawkia to deiand siuctstaction for muitted On Lhe inissionirion, 2 &e,, and I government ef tii demand with nott riord ? ae P wbAL Ww t 2088 Jrom f Dato: upyeal to the centrai Power, | upon tie Local authorities of Would o@ Laought of the © j the brits int on of t earn in redress of nl Ge ought to s demands What tor hornton, demand satst > Governe or calrages eo: niftted ta tits St #88 oF subjects of ritwin? Bvory one knows thay he would be at by our people and ‘The Hridsh omcs, nt io the Lomperor att Lipa makes no Stn, Dut. ignoring, Wat central government at the dictauion of the Houg Kong merckaut4, whose poicy it is to do so, goes to Nuvkin aud attempts to frighien the government and people of toat province with his arrewaut deminds, and Was “rudety recelved by tie odiclas and uooted at by the people im the streets.” bas undoubtediy stated te aa Strong !y ag COG 1s Will do sir Rutheriord 12 vii the new tfeaty be. a ya is enforced Brush oftclas telegraph the Chinese re is sittle ut Ke ner abd Sau FF’ A alen ress ag Will (be Huksiu mform & con suiut reader and subscriber ¢ LYCEUM OF KATUBAL HISTORY. A Wondeyiul Salt MineGermany a Potash Macicet for the World=Professor Hitch cock’» Observatory on the Winte Moune taius=-"The Mississippi Deita. | A regular meeting of the Lyceum o: " tory Was neld last night at the Mott Memorial Build. tug, Madison avenue, Professor Ne ry m the , chaw, After the receipt of several contrivauons to | the tlbrary and museum sor JOY gave a most interesting account of Wonderlui sait mines arth, Germany. ‘they were bored for im 1 SH when & Gepta of mineveen hundred feec saa peea reached, the ‘nly result was obtainime a brine of high ific gravity, which on being unalyzed nearly congeumel tne Professor Marchand, ot to sink shatts, when a vein of rock salt yy fect thick was discov- These mines are wie, wad other uinerals are obtained from taem. Car- Thule is ound ju large qeantities, and tased with Muor spar and sodiow produces Magnesium at a low rate. Potash is now petng uauulectured there jidatities sudciont to supply the whole world. Proiessor HiteHCouk. State Geologist of New Hampaiuire, thea gave a concise account of an ob- servaiory he had erected on one of we peaks of 46 Witte Mountains, Lrofessor EDWARDS next volunteered some ly Mstructive remarks on the Mississippi acita, ec which (ae meeting adjourned, His- J. 1. Masby, Postmaster and trader at Waterloo, Me., has absconded, after obtaining thousands of dollars by forging the names of substantial CLUseDay It ly supposed tbat be has gone to Canada,