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-» WASHINGTON. The Indebtedness of the Pacific Rail- roads to the Government. OPENING OF THE DEBATE IN THE SENATE. ARS aa Both of the South Carolina Contestants ; Gusted by the House. “PASSAGE OF THE NAVY APPROPRIATION BILL. oo J. Bancroft Davis Appointed Assistant Secre- tary of State, vice Hale. a BUTLER AND BUCKINGHAM. Eee ‘The Little Claim the Pious Bowen Has and How Ramsay Tried to Get It Settled for Him— Representative Roosevelt’s Raps at the District Government—More In- vestigation Into the Pacific Railroad Management. Washineton, Jan. 24, 1873, Colfax Absent from the Senate—The Fight Over the Pacific Railroads—Ben Butler and Buckingham—‘So Much for Buckingham!”’—Who is the Next Vic- tim of Tiger Ames? The smiling features of Coliax did not grace the Senate chamber to-day, and it was well for hin that he staid away, as the whole afternoon was oc- cupied in rehashes of the same old statements about the retention of the earnings of the Pacific Rail- roads forthe transportation of government pas- sengers and freight, to be applied to the pay- ment of the interest on their guaranteed bonds. ‘Trumbull was the oly one of the old champions of the Union Pacific who stood up in its behal!, but Stewart fought bravely for the Pacific Central. Edmunds puarticu- larly took the ground that the government has been swindled, und should keep every copper it | tan get hold of, giving the companies the right to sue if they feel themselves’ aggrieved. The ruil- road advocates want to get their pay and let the government suc them for it if the question 1s to be tested in tne courts. Had a vote been taken the railroads would have been beaten badly, even had Wilson, Harlan and Patterson voted for their benefactors. But to-night a lobby squad is at work, aud no one can predict what the result will be to-morrow. Meanwhile, as misery joves company, these Senators and their presiding oMcer who have been the recipients of Crédit Mobilier stock and dividends are rejoicing that other Senators’ names are freely mentioned as re- vipients of the bounty of Ames and the advice of Alley. “Why does your House trouble Senators so’? asked the indignant Buckingham of Butler the Bombardier, . “My dear Senator.” blandly replied Benjamin F. “if a Representative did open a taro bauk, you should have kept. your verdant Senators in their own Chamber, and not have permitted them to go to the other end of the Capi,ol to fight the tiger.” Calling old Ames a tiger was good. He hurried over his victims last Fall, but when they began to iin- pose on him and’ try to make him a scapegoat he began to hit them with his paws, and the marks of his claws are deep. Who is the next victim ? Can his name begin with John and end with Sherman, orend with Logan and begin with John? Impos- able. And yet everything is possible in Congress. Let-the tiger trot out fresh victims. Blood is de- * manded, and Poland is on the rampage. Bowen and De Large, the South Caro- Jina Contestants, Sent Adrift by the Heuse—The Management of the Dis- trict—Panssage of the Naval Appropria- Sion Bill—The Sioux City Alleged Frauds. ‘The report of the Committee on Elections in the case of Bowen and De Large was up in the House to-day, when thirty minutes was given to C, C, Bowen to state his case. Bowen is a man of middie sive, sallow complexion, black hair and eyes, With regular and well cut features, and asharp, keen look. His voice is rather shrill, with a@ slightly nasal twang, and he commenced his speech with the most perfect self-possession, and with no little dramatic effect. He had his papers mand books of reference on the desk before him, and ‘When he got the floor he stopped ior a Jew mo. eo? and looked around the House, with an air at said as plainiy 4s words, Gentlemen, re you all ready to hh the great Feves Y But very few members scemed 0 pay the slightest attention to him from the com. mencement to the close of his specch. Notorious Congressmen are becoming so plenty nowadays that the notorious Bowen couid not ever excite the curiosity of the delegate trom ldaho. The only por- tion of Bowen's speech which attracted any atten- tion was where he showed very clearly that the Committee on Elections could nave reported this case to the House last Spring just as well as now, and saved the $10,000 drawn as salary De Large. At the conclusion of his spe sharp debate occurred between Hoar, and Rainey, the hardihood to “go for” 8, 20X last session. Rainey was not as jortunate in his defence of his colored brother as in bis attack upon the funy man ofthe House, At the close the House unant- mously agreed to the report of the committee, de- Buvler colored member, who had the elaring that neither Bowen nor De Large was en- | Utled to the seat. Two o'clock to-day being set down for the con- sideration of the alfairs of this District, au attempt was made to postpone their consideration for a ‘week, but Mr. R. B. Roosevelt stoutly protested mgainst any further postponement, declaring that the most stupendons frauds had been practised was piten upon @ hearing, @hich when he proceeded to finally into the Board of Public Works in a very practical and damaging | manner, No reply was attempted to his charges, | though several questions were put during his re- marks. granted, | | | Alter the passage of some ununportant bills con- | nected with the District, the House resolved itself into Committee o/ the Whole for the consideration ‘of the Naval Appropriation bill, which was passed without much discussion, save the clause extend. ing the appointment to the Naval Academy to six Years instead of four, as already exists. Mr. Hale favored six years on the ground of economy; and Mr. Coburn opposed ii, believing that the country woud need all eur skilled sailors in time. Con xreasmen were not disposed to part with the privi- lege of appointing evgy four years, and Mr. Hale's amendment was voted down, An amendment was also offered instructing the Se of the Navy to direct soundings to be taken Of the route be- tween San Francisco and Japan, with a view to Jaying acable, This was opposed by William Rk, Roberts, unless an amendment was adwitted that the work would not involve any expeudiqure. This was agreed to, and the Naval Appropriation bill WAS passed, The combined resolution ofered yester by Stevenson and Randall, in relauon to vin Northwestern railroads, was divided to-day, Steven- Fon somewhat modifying his and referring it to Poland's Commitice, and Randall ordering lus to | tae Wilson Committee. It is understood that a resolution will be ofered on Monday next ordering an investigation into the Sioux City branch of the Vnion Pacthe, when it is confidently expected that #til! further developments will be made of a character similar to that of the Crédit Mobilier. It BP vejieved that several Congressional ipvecgnts | ery are exprersed, | that it be refunded, claiming that the law applies | let to be paymaster; H. M. Clar upon the people of the District, and insisting | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1873—TRIPLE SHERR transferre@ their interests to the latter after squeezing the Sioux City lemon ary. The Sanctimonious Bowen's Little Claim—Rameay’s Attempt to Hurry It Through and His Bad Defeat. A sanctimonions old fellow named Bowen, Sayles J. an his given names, who at one time held no less than seven offices here under Lincoln, undertook jast Summer to make @claim on the President tor having failed to keep an engagement to sell the house which was afterwards sold to General Sher- man. He was bushed up, and to-lay Ramsay, of Minnesota, undertook to have @ little claim of nis referred te the Senate Committee on Appropria- tions, which was @ quiet way of putting it through | wnscrutinized. Edmunds, who had not been posted, naturally objected, much to Ramsay's dis gust, and wanted the papers sent to the Committee on Claims, where they could be examined. This was not what Ramsay wanted, as the account is a humbug trumped ap to quiet Bowen, and in high dudgeon he withdrew the claim to present it at some more auspicious moment. A greater swindle was never brought before the Senate, Sugar Samples from Rotterdam. ‘The Treasury Departinent nas received from the United States Consul, at Rotterdam, twenty-five sets of sugar samples Yor the year 1872, which will be furnished to Collectors of Customs to determine | the classification of imported sugars. Cabinet Meeting. The S‘abinet meeting to-day was attended by all the members excepting the Postmaster General, retary Delano responded at length to many in- quiries from his Cabinet associates relative to his views on Cuban matters, but the conversations were iniorma! merely and had no meaning of an omMcia! nature, and the session generally did not consider affairs of public concern, Mr. J. Bancroft Davis Appointed Assist- ant Secretary of State, vice Hale. Fish’ is again happy. Two years ago, when Ban- croft Davis was here to read the despatches from our Foreign Ministers and write all of the ordinary replies, leaving the extraerdinary ones for Cushing or Evarts, the Department of State was strewn with roses, and the angust head thereof could give long andiences to newspaper correspondents, to whom he would first discuss paragraphs which they had sent away from here censuring or criti- cising him. Then came the High Joint Com- missioners, and Davis became a low Joint Secretary, which made it necessary for him to go to Geneva, His successor was Charles Hale, who had written admirable despatches when our Consul General in Kgypt, but who has not been of any practical use to his chief or Assistant Secre- tary. So when Mr, Fish was begged to stay, he re- plied that he would only upon one condition—that Hale was to be turned adrift and: Davis restored to the posit.on he formerly occupied. Hale was ac- cordingly told to dust his boots, The President ap- pointed Davis to-day, the Senute promptly con- firmed the appomtment, and Fish ts again happy. Selah, Seizure of a Distillery at Spr N.Y Reports to the Ingernal Revenue office mention the seizure at Spring Valley, N. Y., in the Tenth district, by Supervisor Hawley, of the entire dis- tillery of Nienmann, Several revenue officers are implicated in the traud. A freight agent on the New York and Erie Rallroad was also arrested by the Supervisor in connection with this fraud. Professor ‘Tilden Accidentally Shot. Dr. W. ©. Tilden, Professor of Chemistry at How- ard University, was sccidentally shot in the National Hotel last night by a ball from a pistol which fell from the pocket of G. C, Hall, The ball entered the abdomen, making a very serious wound. It is thought to-day that Dr. Tilden is more comfortable, and strong hopes of his recov- g Valley, The Three Per Cent Tax on Gross Re- ceipts. Judge Pierrepont to-day made an argument be- fore the Secretary of the Treasury and Commis- sioner of Internal Revenue, together, on the ques- tion of returning a large amount of money to Dodd’s Express Company, exacted as a three per cent tax on gross receipts. The Judge argued that such a tax is entirely contrary to law, and asked only to the great express companies on Jong lines, and not to city, or loca) deliveries. A Simaltancens Census of the Indians | of the Unjtéd States Proposed. The prepositieh te take a careful and simul- taneous census of ali the Indian. tribes and bands of the United States and ‘Territories during the present year, Which has beem embodied ina bill introduced by Repres: tive Scofield and referred to the Committes on Indian Affairs, meets with thé concurrence of # lirge majority of the members of Congress, and is regarded #s a long needed meusure, Co Recognized. The President has recognized Sebastian B. Schlesinger as Consul of the German Empire at Boston, Acts of Congress Signed by den ‘The President to-day approved of the following acts of Congress:—An act to provide for the sale of a@ part of the lighthouse reservation at Fort | Gratiot, Port Huron, Mich.; a jomt resolution ten- | dering the thanks of Congress to Captain David | Ritchie, commanding the revenue steamer Moc- | casio, avd the officers and men ander his com- mand; an act to pay the county of Ontario, New | York the sum of $18,000; an act to abolish the | grades of admiral and vice admiral in the United | States Navy; an act to provide tor the erection of | w public building at Nashville, Tenn.; an act to | | | | | the Presi- give to the bark Jewess an American register; an act transferring the control of certain Territorial penitentiarics to the several Territories in which the same are located; an act to fix the time for holding the annual sessien of the Supreme Court of the United States aud for other purposes, Nominations by the President. The President sent the tollowing nominations to | the Senate to-day + Cc. Bancrott Davis to be Assistant Secretary ef State; First Lieutenants (. J. Isley, M. Maylan, H. H., Humphreys and W. M. Van Horne to be captains in the army; Second Lieutenants F, M. Gibson, James K. Porter, George H. Wright, T. % Mumford, John Little, S. R. Stafford, J. MH. Rice and J. A, Seckley to be first nants; Pay Director John O, Bradtord to be of the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing in the navy; Pay laspector R. H. Clark to be Pay | Director; Paymasier Edward Foster to be Pay Inspecter; Passed Assistant Paymaster F. . Gil- . of Maine, te be chaplain; Ensign M.E, Hall to be master: Master Thomas ©. MeLeon to be lieutenant; Lieutenant Commander 8. D. Greene to be commander, reasury Balances. ‘the balances im the Treasufy at the close of Wusiness to-day were:—Currency, $8,244,465 % $64,49 including coin certificates, $24, 47,000 ; speela! depostt of legal tenders, $30,080,000, FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS, | Second Session. SENATE. Wasmineton, Jan, 24, 187%. On mnotion of Mr. Witson, (rep. of Mass, Mr. Anthony waschosen President pro fen, in the absence of the Vice President, Mr. Witson introduced # bill to authorize the construc tion of a pneumatic tube road trom New York to Chicago. Mr. Monutns., (rep.) of Maine, reported trom the Com mittee on Naval Affairs a bill to authorize the Presi appoint Captain G. H. Preble ® commodore in the Mr. Witson introduced a bil! for the relief ot Nathaniel McKay Reterred tothe Committee on Naval Affaire. At the expiration ot the morming hour the Senate re- sumed the consideration of the LEGISLATIVE, PERCUTIVE AND JUDICIAL APPROPRIATION BIL Mr. SHERMAN, (rep.) of Ohio, said there were questions nnected with the currency which it was tndispensably essary for Congress to consider at an early day. There was already a law requiring transfer of twenty-five lion dotlars of banking al trom the Bast io the Mest wlich the Comptrotier claimed to ve Impractica ble, and the ko the question of the right of the Secretary of ury to reisaue any portion of the retired and nited States note: Mr. EDMUNDS (rep.) of Vt, offered » Appropriation bill direct sury to withbold all payments to any railway com- r unt of freight oF transportation of any kind to the amount of any payment mad. ¥ the United States erest upon the bonds of the Umited States issued to pany and Hot reimbursed, 7, (rep.) of Nev. made the Point of order that the amendment, being few legisation, was tot in order upon an appropriation bill ‘The President pro ¢ ; Mr, Eowunns adi sary, be seid, for the Br e amendment to ing the Secretary of the d the point of order. amendment, It was neces: Hon of thy ipterepts of thy | annual meeting. Bronte, and if it violated in any way the legal richts of ¢ railroad companies they might seek redress through the Court of Claim: Mr. SueRMAN said the question Invelved In the amend- ‘Went was one which could not be readily determined, and, as it was hardly pertinent to this bill, he regretted that the amendment had been offered. Mr, Srewanr, of Nev., argued against the amend- ment, and called for the reading of the report oi the Judiciary Committee of last Winter adverse to the right of the secretary of the Treasury to withhold any por- tion of the amount due to the railroads trom the United States, It the United States hed any legal claim agatost these vompamies let the claim be enforced in the At all events let there be no hasty action on this sub) let itbe referred to an appropriate committee for inves garlon, and be dealt with deliberately like other great subjects, ti THESK PACIFIC RAILROADS were a great national blessing, and, s0 far ay the United States government was concerned, they had proved a great financial success, and it would be inost unwine and, unjust to destroy their usefulness by hasty legisiation of thin character. HARD ON STEWART. Mr. Epwunps, of Vt, complimented Mr. Stewart upon | his "long friendship” ‘tor the Pacific Railroags and his fidelity to their interests, Having stood by them through good report, he now stood by them in evi! report that was true chivalry, But, alter all, advanced for allowiig these corporations to keep the money of the United States and distribute it among their own stockholders were hardly satisfactory. The Senator from Nevada (Mr. Stewart) wanted to have the subject referred to @ committee; but nobody supposed that the report any committee would change his (Mr. Stewart's) opmion, and — the —_ subject not a new one requiring elucidation by committee. Hig (Edmunds’) amendment did not decide anything against the railroad ¢ with them. It merely provided tion in a way in which it H cated. {t wax said that the Uni panies, but it was well k treme technical diMeuities in the way af the Ko ment’s bringing such a suit under existing law: proposed, therefore, to ct the Secreta reasury'to withhold payment and let ¢ enforce their claim under the laws if they could. Mr. SHERMAN, of Ohi doubt as to the jurisd: r sin the matter, Mr. wing addition to bis may bring suit price of such such suits the right of law and the either party dinent would Senate in the narrow the position of the matter. Mr. Epwunps said that if he did not know the great anxiety of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Sherman) to keep this money ip the Treasury he would be tempted to sts- pect that for some great public reason the Senator was trying to flnd out how not to do it, Mr. Stevenson, dem.) of Ky., offered A SUBSTITUTE FOR MR. RDMUNDS’ AWENDMENT, . directing the President to institute suits in the Court of Claims agains the Pacific Railroads to recover the inter- est paid by the United States on its bonds issued for the henefit of said roads. In advocating this amendment Mr, Stevenson said that the corporations of the country Were ghauntic powers warring upon the riglits of the gay ernment and the people, and warned them that if (py were not willing, {na disputed case like this, to sub it toa fair adjudication, there was a power inthe tand which would rise up and put them all under its fee Mr. Trumput, (lib.) of T1., said he was not the advocate of the railroad’ companies, but he wished them to he treated fairly. He then reviewed the history of the legis: lation providing tor the construction of the Pacitie Raul road under the act of 18%, by which all compensation for services rendered to the government by the rail road was withhell, Nobody, be said, could be found to build the road, Which rendered necessiry the act of L861, providing that only one-half of sueh compensation should he retained by the government. ‘To withhold the whole of the compensation due to the roads trom the g ment would therefore be to violate the farth of the States pledged in the act of 1864 : (rep,) of N. J., saia he was in favor of investixating the quesilon thoroughly, but he would not vote in advance to withhold the whole amount due the road Jor services to the government, becau of the report of the Judiciary Committe nd the action of the Senate upoti it, the presumup- that they were entitled to the payment of rn: nited v year an tion one-half The Vice President appointed ax conferees on the part of the Senate on the Vienna Exposition bill Messrs. Schurz, Harlin and Casserly. Mr. SrewanT presented an amendment, which he said ‘he would offer at the proper time as a substitute ior Wr. Edmundy’ amendinent. Tt directs the Attorney General urt ascertaining if any ntral Pacifle or any Any created by the act of July 1, 1863, or the act of July 2, 1864, in relation to interest on bonds remains untulfilled, and'to enforce the same, it any there be, against said coinpany or companies, M KILL, of Me., presented an ainendment di to cause proceedings to be instituled in the proper of the United St f Fi Mr. ing the Pr esident to take such measures as may be neves sary TO RECOVER FROM THE PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANIES the interest paid by the United State: the use of either: tion on the Unite district of New York to subject to appeal, ding actio ecutive session, and soon atter adjou HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Wasmineton, Jan. 24, 1 Mr. Hoan, of Mass., froin the Comittee on Elections, made a report in the South Carolina contested election case, that neither De Large, the sitting member, 1 Bowen, the contestant, is entitled to the seat, parti, the ground that the frauds and irregularities in the el tion Were so great that it was impossible to determine who had the majority of the votes lawfully partly on the ground that ‘De Large did certainly not receive such majority; partly on the ground that Bowen had tampered with and bribed De Large's counsel: and partly on the ground that Bowen is a member of the South Caro: lina Ye defies holds the office of Sheriff, and also ot Charleston, offices incompatible with the’ position of member of Congress. Atter an argument by Mr. Bowen, the contestant, in his own behalf, and atter a briet discussion the |. went J uniil Mo | KELLEY TRYING TO ROAR HOAX DOWN, | be let atone, | satin tis usual seat, n HOAX AMES’ CONFESSION . The Second Chapter of the Won- | derfal Criminal Narrative. | | i ae A Distressing Instance of the Impotency of Wind Against Fact. + The Viee President and the Pawnbroker. eee Unseemly and Disgraceful Scenes in the Poland | Committee—Colfax and Ames Criminating and Recriminating—A War of Words and a Suggestion of Perjury. WASHINGTON, Jan, 24, 1873. The patriarchal, peace-preserving Poland and his committee had a very tempestuous time to-day taking the testimony of Vice President Collax and Representative Kelley, in rebuttal of Oakes Ames? statement. The ponderous Oakes is daily improv- ing as a witness. His mysterious looks and gloomy Ways are changed into an appearance of stern de- termination, which bodes no good to those whom he has so far “let lightiy of"? as he himself ex- presses it, Yesterdgy was Vice President Colfax's Waterloo; to-day he was politically cast into outer | ' | i darkness, As for Kelley, his ¢: was bad enough, but, like Colfax, he has done his best to | make it worse than ever, Both attempted toimpeach Oakes Ames? veracity, and both were bamMed by the same incontrovertible proofs of their participation in the good things which Crédit Mobilier stock brought forth to its owners, Hith- erto the difference between their statements and that of Oukes Ames had, in a parliamentary way only, been called a difference of memory, ‘To-day, it came to KIMINATIONS AND RECRIMINATIONS, Accusations of a bad memory were bandied to and fro between Oakes Ames and Vice President Colfax. The room was crowded with specta- | tors. The committee men themselves of- | feved to be merely lookers on the | undignified wrangle between the Congres. | sional pawnbroker and his customers, one of whom, sad to say, was the Vice President of the United States. The venerable Poland cried to asa peacemaker, but seeing the uselessn efforts he sank back in his chair and us benevolent, fatherly look. While the witnesses | were excitediy engaged in blackening each other's | characters Oakes Ames appeared like an ill-used | giant, who, becoming conscious of his strength, | had turned upon his petty tormentors. There were two of bis clients whom be had uelped to | goodly shares and dividends with no other pledge in return than the implied promise that they would ‘look into the law’ in case, the Crédit Mo- bilier required favorable legislation or required to act KELLEY TRIES TO FRIGHTEN AMES, Judge Kelley was allowed the first attack on the witness who had turned States evidence, 1 see Whether Oakes Ames would yet persist in his naughty stories about good and great men. Oakes tly im trout of Judge Po- land, He displayed to-day more feeling than one | would think him capable of, to judge from tus im- | passiveness on former eccasions. When Judge | | | Kelley assailed him this morning, Ames shaded 1 eyes with w large envelope and razed out at Kelley ax a bloated spider would at a buzzing blue-bottle | fy which had become entangied in its web, Kelley | was adopted without a division. ‘Per’ | made an experiment, but it was a failure, He | The House then at @quarier to two o'clock went into | tried what a game of bluff would do. | Committee of the Whole, Mr. Scofield in the chair, on | 4. " the Naval Approp ati The member from Pennsylvania turned | Bi ee Op, Soba Apa ui: yist was the batteries of his rhetorical thunder | which Was specially assigned to thix day. upon Ames at the commencement, his voice booin- | number of bills relating hia, the House, atten” n rine After passiny, to the District of five o'clock P. M., ad PRISON REFORM C' TaRetiant Mepalon of the. Adsboliithin: ta | Baltimere—Congre Should Aid the Cause—Adjournment Sine Dic. _ Bavtimore, Md., Jan. 24, 16 In the National Prison Reform Congress to-day St. Louis was designated as the place for the next large Cot ONGRESS. Mr. MILLIGAN, of Pennsylvania, offered a resolu tion for the appointment of a committee to confer with the Constitutional Convention vania. Mr. RICHARD VAUX opposed the resolution on the round that it would be # dangerous precedent, This Congress had nothing to do with legislative action. Interierence with State legisiation would destroy the influence oj this association. ‘Tae reso- lution was withdrawn, ‘The Finance Committee reported the receipt of Rev. Dr. WiNES submitied a memorial to be pre- sented to Congress for aid to enable the associa tion to carry out its work by publishing statistics otherwise, General EGGLRston, of Mississippi, opposed the memorial ior aid as impolitic: subsidies would ¢ eile suspicion of a money-inaking scheme: thought the people would donate th carry on their work. Mr. Vaux, Of Pennsylvania, also opposed memo- | rializing Congress for aid; the purpose well | enough, but he was opposed to gomg to the aurs- | ing mother of every scheme in the Cuited States Pennsyivania published her own statistics every ear. Governor SkYMOUR advocated the memorial on the ground of the international as well as national | character of the work in which the association was engaged. The memorial was finally adopted. At this point a Jady—Mrs. Kichardsen. Louis—sent up to the chair $10, the Jee for ment bership of the association, accompanied by a reso- lution that all frjends of prisen reform be invited | to become memBers, and thus aid in carrying on the noble cause. The resvintion was adopted with applause, } It may be proper to state that all persons inter. | ested may become members by sending $10 10 the President, ex-Governor Seymour, at Utica, N.Y, A series of resolutions was submitted by Mr. Walker, of Michigan, chairman of the Committee on Business, relating—tirst, to the connection of intemperance with crime: second, to leasing or contracting convict laber, and advecating the cou- trol of such labor of prisoners by State authorities: third, recommending the appointment of agents in all the States and large cities for the protecti poor and friendiess persons charged with mine offences; fourth, urging prompt and persixte efforts ior the improvement of prisons, espe as to the character of the managers and (heir t agement. The resolutions were discussed adopted, with the exception of the lust, whic! Was under discussion at the adjournment of 1h morning session. Evening Seasion. At the evening session of the Prison Relorm Gon. gress the iourth resolution was uaopted, A resolution offered by Mr. ker, urging the importance of juvenite reiormatories, Was discussed and adopted, A committee on memorializing Congress was announced. Alter the nanal resolutions of thanks to the p the presiding officers and others, short addresses | Were delivered by Dr. Wines, Hatch, of Connecti- cnt. Governor Seymour and others, The Congress then adjourned sine die, THE CENTENNIAL COMMISSION. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., dan. The report of the United state mission to Congress, which is be! present a résumé of the labors the Commission, ineinding those of the Execative tee, responses to the demands of sectjon | cl, and giving references to the journal of the preceedings of the Commission. The prog- ress made in perfecting # System of arrangements and classification is carefully discussed, Bie two matters of the most public importance embraced in the report are the reports upon advising com- mittees and the Vienna Exposition, The Executive Committec of the Centennial Com- mission held a conference this atternoon with the Citizens’ Committee of Twenty-five on Finance. A resolution was passed adding tothe Jatter com ttee twenty-five additional members, THE EDGAR STUART AT SEA. Key West, Fla., Jan. 24, 1873, The steamer Edgar Stuart went to fealast night, having cleared fey Baltimore, he | means 10 | of St, «8, 24, 1877 Centennial Com- ng prepared, will and decisions of | | form of Oakes Ames stos 4 was pollution, | certificate | in this respect is w | 1808 he did not suppose he was anxions to close up | } a ing out threateaing, sonorous caden His terrible eye was turned Tull upon Ames as he vainly strove to frighten him. Oakes had taken his posi- and was not to be irightened. He looked | ed at times, and then, again, angry, at the it of his Iriead, in whom he hud on believed, | de & professional show of ignorance. ‘That | to be the leading characteristic of ail the | ea Congressmen, He asked Ames HOW MUCK srock sarees in the wfoat Ow -beaTiT Ames repiied placidly, giving thet 'y figures. | Kelley cross-exa’nined him like a grand Inquisitor. | It appeared as if he were put to his just card, and, inthe languag® @f the sporting world, was trying to bla Oakes Ames’ jour aces with a single pair. Kelley's manuer was very abusive, but as | Ames began to get wakened up, Tétaliation came, } and Kelley subsided. His voice, from 40 angry bel- | | i Jow became a gentle marnaur, and jis ce, Which had glared with indignant virtue, looked sad, asf the ashes of desolation were already nkled upon bis brow. Phere was A SENSATION IN THE ROOM when Kelley, having pressed Amex to the wail with bullying questions, asked him, “Where ix my prop- erty, then # ‘The reply prompt. ‘The burly erect for a moment, us he pulled trom his pocket the certificate on ten shares Crédit Mobilier and passed them over to the sp rightiul ows Kulley looked at the certifi- | cate with about the same expression of coun- tenance that Macbeth might have assumed | when reaching out alter the dagger. He clutched it at first, and then tossed it over to Judge Poland, some unclean thing, whose touch alone He asked the chairman to hold the | to his disposal. Judge Poland arge of the (en shares, thereby changing | with Oakes Ames as trust ‘The Judge ix the subject of considerable chaff since he has ine into possession OF these shares, His courage erful, for Lnere iss mys: | the very name Credit as itit wer subje of Mobilier to a Congressman, to say nothing of having | ten shares in one's possession, | terious ferror about A DISGRACEFEL WRANGLER. | Kelley and Ames were still wrangling after the shares were pussed. over, Kelley insisted that | Ames should pay up at once ail he owed him, if | there were so many dividends as he alleged, Ames | had be ) Kelle) nono T borrow: ention made | Hof him in retorted that ax there of the return of the punts, However, that could be arranged, wrangle between the two men} s 80 Violent at one tiute that Niblack interposed, an adjournment, in order that Ames might hold 4 conference to aayust their ditere so that they Would not disgrace themselves in such a manner in public. If these two meu had been allowed to continue their mutual aiions something important might have out; for, from the = tnunner of Ames. it) Was evident that ut was something mere in the packwround, when Aines cume lO cross-examine Kelley. For, like a game of battledore, the witness and the examiner before the committee were alternately changing places in their anxiety to clapper-claw one anothy There Was alterwards an unseemly haste made by each one to get at his side of the jssne, in order to shoot volleys into his opponent. of Kelley whether he tad not aiways been asking, “How about those dividends oo my investment’ | Suddenly Ames became mysterious, amd wider his interrogatory Kelley became quite subdued. Ames pondered after he had asked a tew questions, and then wrote upon a slip of paper SOMPTHING WHICH HE HANDED TO KELLEY. Poland interposed at once, wagging his suowy heal as he said, “Come, that won't do. Tais is all above board here, Read out, Mr, Kelley, what you have.’ Kelley adjusted his glass nervousiy, and read in « low tone of voice, “Shall I ask you any more ques. tions?’ This seemed to imply some threat apon Ames’ part, and created neo littie sensation, Kelley stared away as if he Was tying to remember some. | | cock eyebrows could not remember. | his chance then, | Towards the | either. | by Attorney Ames inquired | i thing, and gave Ames permission to go on.~ Bnt | the elephantine tormentor was content to remain silent, He had broken the spirit of Kelley's oppo- sition, and appeared to be perfectly master of the situation, After the tilt between Ames and Kelley, in which the former came out victorious, there was some further evidence in relation to the Sergeant-at- Artmns’ books, Cheney, a cross-eyed, bionde young man, Ordway's messenger in 1868, merely told about the custom of the office. Dillon, a shrewa ttle old chip of a man, with a twinkle in his eye and a diamond in his shirt bosom (the present bookkeeper), gave some testimony about the check, “W, BD, K.” and “S, ©." They had been paid out of Ames’s account, but the time was so far back. the little man with twinkling eyes sparkling under Ordway, who has been accused of having been in a ring here With certain members who left in his possession a corruption fund, got something out of Dillon to ex- ouerate him, but the venerable Poland interposed. He said ORDWAY WAS CLEAR OF ALL BLAME in the eyes of the committee. Colfax was allowed ‘The South Bender did not sne- ceed any better than Kelley, heard Mr. Ames say that Mr. Colfax's testimony Wis correct, Mr. Ames demed that he had ever had five words of conversation witli M about Collax or testimony. ‘Then followed A MOST DISGRACEPUL SCk between Ames and Colfax, “usted at Schuyler's pe the $1,200 that he forgot to be even respectful, Coax as an amateur lw Yr Was not a success, and dia not accomplish much more than badly damaging his own case. At the outset Niblack, With & pointed look on his face as if he could not bear to see Schuyler destroy himseif, suggested that the persons implicated be allowed lawyers, as they did not seem to know how to protect their own interests, Here Judge Poland interfered, and that estimable old gentleman went back upon his own profession, remarking, “Well, if we have lay will gE Ames seemed so dis- yers, we have to go over all the matter again,’ Coltax asked Ames why he had not contradicte him before, when his statement was. first made, Ames kindly replied, “1 did not want to bring it out, Twanted to let you off as easy I could. 1 was in hopes it would not come out? Colfax's manner at first was intimidating, but Oakes did not budge, Once Senuyler said in his sharpest tones, “Why did | you not, during all these four years, allude to these | bonds as my property * Ames, reply was testy and ready, “I don't know if anybody withm the ' four years has told me that Lown my own hat.” (Prolonged laughter.) Then he added, “1 don't understand your version of this affair at all, 1 fave you the check, and kere is tie proof of it by the hooks. WHAT IS THE U Fb OOF OVER TO GRE AROUND on Colfax then tried to geu Ames to say when and | Where he had given the check, Of course a Dusi- ness man like Ames could not remember the pre cise spot or time, He remembered having given it, howeve Mr, Colfax here turned to the committee and re- ed that part of his statement where he says he never received any dividends from the Crédit Mo- bilier. seemed to find consolation whenever hit hard in repeating this over and over ag: if he derived a coméort from the sound of th words, His story of the #532 was that he thonght if a $500 advance on his purchase and in- terest, Afterwards he declined to go further and complete it, 1) aS He therefore never owned any stock, Ames’ face was a stndy as Coltux made this | statement. He gave a look which said plainly, “Ah, Schuyler, you Know better’? But he said nothing. Ames was at last so disgusted at ms per sistent denials that he declined to ask him any more questions, dismissing the Vice President as a man who would not tell the truth on oath, close Colfax again tackled Ames and asked him what he meant by swearing once in relation to this question of ownership, “@ don’t knew whether he ort own the steck.” Ames re plied, shrewdly, “1 understeod you owned it and wanted me to own it.” There were reerimination: to the jast, AMES’ PARTING SHOT Was this “| bave refreshed my memory since from the books of the Sergeant-at-Arms, 1 don't think you cap swear hard enough to get out of it, I remember al) now and lave the vouch- ers’—thus throwing the charge of perjury tn Col- fax's face, At half-past onc o'clock the committee adjourned, being well nigh worn owt with the ex. | citement of the sitting. MRS, WHARTON. 187 . Wood amined ANNAPOLIS, Ma, Jan, 2 In the Wharton trial to-day Dr. Horatio was recalled by the defenee and further e, ws a medical expert, alter which he Was snbjected | toa most rigid and searching cross-examination enoval Syester, auring which the wil- several time apparently gn US@4 ane eave to make expienations, sepeee and tunmerciiully by the Attorney Missex Mary and Netlie Maye ie neral. faa H. Clay Da Were next examined, but thay Bvidaticn Wines no new facts, or. d.d. Reese, of Pijladeiphia, was then sworn for the de @ 8% 4 chemieal Expert, and the éx- mindlOn Proseeded but a short t when the Father Again Remanded to Prison. CAMBRIDGE, N. Y., Marietta Shaw, another vietim of poisoning case, died last night, She was delivered | of astill-porn child on ‘Tuesda the result of a purriage with Join Hathorne, now serving « term in the Penitentiary for his past crime. Mrs, Shaw, the mother of tie family, cannot long survive. ‘There are hopes that the four other poisoned ones will survive. The result of the analysis of the stomach of first victim by Professors Stevens and Perkins, of Albany, has not been made known, and Stiw has been committed to jail to await the result, PORK STATISTICS. ¢ Packing Establis in the West. CHNCINN ATH, dam, 4, 187 tminary report on the pork packir West was submitted to the Chamber of jay. Itembraces detailed returns from ninety-cight packing points, comprising nearly ail important packing towns tn the West and South, much infocmation having been ryed | graph within the past foriy-eight hours, places upto the date of making their respective ents merce to reports had packed 1, hogs. The number estimated yet to be packed at these pets is 445,800, Making a total of L907 14. Last veu same places packed 1,800,510, suowing an it in the aggregate over last year of 166,605, or 4 cent. The places pot beard trom packed list 621,083. A corresponding increase in these places would make an increase in the whole West, out- | side of Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis and Louis. Ville, of 206 Phe report estimates to the gud inst. gate packing of Cinemuati, Chicago, St. Lous aud Lowsville to be 2,010,421 hogs as compared with 40,771 for the Whole season last year. ‘The returns in relation to weight are not so full, The return eference to welght made on 1,145, huverage increase in weight over | O0 pounds per head, Of 62 points 6 on weight 43 are heavier, Mabout the sam lighter. SIX hundved ‘and ninety-iwo thous reported im regard to lard show an @ rease per head fom leat and iritminges pounds. OF places reporting on lard heavier, about the same aad 6 lighter. PRVER HOSPITALS IN BOSTON. BOSTON, dan, 24, 187. In the Massachusetts Senate to-day a bill was passed to be engrossed authorizing the Board Health, of Boston, to erect wooden buildings in | the city lor hospital purposes, to be destroyed when no jurther necessity exists for their remain- ing, They are to be erected under direction of the yourd of Health and the Inspector of Buildings, aud are always to be guarded by at least three whieemen, This act was made necessary by the vet passed at the Jast special session of Logis. Jature iorbidding the erection of wooden Wuildings, Mr. L. L. Crounse | | Was the next witness, and testified that he had . Crounse | sistency in overlooking | vigamist, Who is | the | the aggre. | 3 | THE HERALD IN PARIS. Ps The Great Difference Between French and American Journalism—What Is Necessary For a Newspaper—The Chief of the Herald in Paris Offices, {From the Courrier des Etats-Unis, Jan. 23). We understand that Mr, James Gordon Bennett, Proprietor of the Herarp, is at present in Parie, where he has previously visited at various periods, and we learn, moreover, with much pleasure that Mr. Bennett is tully in accord with the princtpal | Journalists of France. In this relation we find the following articie tn the Sot ~The Presence in Paris of Mr. James | Gordon Bennett, editor and proprietor of the New York HERALD, has been an- nounced by the entire press of the city in the most cordia! and honorable manner. The Soir especially desires to express its sentiments of wel- come and kind regards to the chief of a journal | which has so thoroughif merited the good wishes of France, and which assures us that America has | not forgotten and never will forget the compatriots | of Lafayette, “Mr. Bennett is not altogether a stranger among us, Many of bis Freneh con/fréres are personally | known to him, among whom is M, de Girardin, who is certainly one of the most eminent in the profes- sion, He has already lived in Franc?, understands our language, Nas an adinirable idea of our institu- tions and principal political organs, which he never fails to mention im the most flattering manner, “But we are terribly behind in this age, the gen- eral progress of the newspaper press, a matter we should learn every day irom the prodigious devel opment of the reporting and other institutions of | our English neighbors, and still more so from our | American consréres, which fact is suflicient to lower our pretensions of supremacy and instruct | usin the practical ingenuity that journalism abroad has so strikingly exhibited, “What French ‘newspaper would have had the idea, or, to speak irankly, the means to sen@ | Mr. Stanley to search for Dr. Livingstone ? | As soon as the war had been entered upon in Abys- , inia Mr. Bennett, Sr.—who died in June last— gave instructions and laid plans so that the news from his correspondent might arrive in ad- vance of the telegrains from Lord Napicr, of Mag- dala, Commander-in-Chief of the English expeda- tion, So well were these plans executed that the English journals only knew of the tall of Magdala and the deatii of King Theodorus through the medium of the HERaLD correspondent in London, who communicated the news to them, with the compliments of nis editor-in-chief, who was de- hted to oblige bis English contemporaries, “AS might be imagined, the arrangements for the ALD’S correspondence and the general organt “ution are on the grandest scale, and the expense” necessitated by this Vast system for the collection of news, extending to every part ol the world, is but a secondary consideration, 1: | tie ws,’ said Mr. Bennett to us, “is the first great consideration of the American journalist, In France political questions take precedence of everything else. ‘Then, again, we American journalists are less idealistic. The tirst care ef the | | | | editor on entering his office is to look for the news, and when thik 1s collected, | often in an immense — bulk, the editorial writers, Whom you in Varis call the first rédac teurs, assemble and edit, st t subjects therefrom tor their articles and prepare them for the press. “Again, the printing apparatus and machinery | employed to print the American journals are of the juost rapid and per description in the world, THE NEW YORK [ERALD, Whose daily issue reaches: 100,000 copies, ix printed On eight presses, and in less: than an hour this tremendous quantity of paper, printed in a dozen diferent kinds o1 type, is ready for immediate civcuiation, ‘The wholes#te dealers go to the publishing department and purchase the papers in packages trom filteen to twenty thou- sand, which they take away and circulate at their | own expense. We ignore almest the old plan of direct subscription, whict deplorable system may be said to have lalien into disuse with us for the Jast quarter of a century.’ “Mr. Kennett tuen explained to us in detail the | constantly increasing system of American adver- tising and stated that they could afford to advertise snuch cheaper iu the United States than we can in France, owing to the great number of announce- ments ip the former and the deficiency in the latter, There is not enough advertising in the French per. Commerce and industry appear no longer 4 AMOU, Us that imMstinct, or more prop- erly Uhat desire of business propagandism and uni- | versal publicity to which the press alone could adequately respond. ‘ : Mr. James Gordon Bennett will remain among 1 lor a month yet, and we expect that besre his de- parture the Parisian press will_lave shown its falb | recognition of the 1017 sentiments he has ex- | pressed ip ils favor im the name of the whele | Ameri¢an press, and of the sympathy he has pro- | fessed and will continue to profess in his great journal for our country, which has been so eftea calumniated by foreign newspapers.” We trust the information received from Mrs Bennett will not be lust upon the press of France, which has great need of a new departure from the old beaten tracks, and engage in something els than the constant discussion of politics. From this point of view the Parisian journals have much | to learn, and, thanks to the HERALD, they will be | able to say— Iv is from the West to day that we behold the light! The Greatest Journal in America, {From Le Constitutionnel, Jan. 5.) * Mr. James Gordon Bennett, editor and proprietor w YORK HERALD, arrived in Paris yester- H YOUP ed until to-morrow, when it is ex- pected tefletence will close their case. THE POISONED FAMILY. The Eldest Daughter of the Shaw | Family Dead—Her Mother Not Ex- ¥ to Survive-The Wretched | i he Herarp is the greatest paper in the United | States, and, perhaps, of the whole world. Its founder, Mr. Bennett, segier, who died last year, was the sworn antagonist of the Lapdon Times, and all his efforts tended to surpass it. UTAH. | Inciting =» Mormon Sheriff to Kill a United States Marshal— i¢ Sam's Interference To Be No Longer Tole- ted. SAvr LAKE Crry, Jan, 24, 1873. Ibis suid by the Mining Journal to-night that | the Mormons of Cache Valley are indignant with and threaten tolyneh thei Sheriff becanse he did not kill the officer of the United States Court who | atrempted to serve a writ of nabes rpua upon tim, Ibis stated that further interference by the | United States authorities in the affairs of Mormon | officials will met with more effectual resist- ance. Another morning daily is to appear here on Peb- ruwry 14. The friends of the senior member of the frm of Walker Brothers & Co, say he will not accept the Governorship t it 1s offered to him. ‘Mine mverest i felt in the Congressional hilt, for Basin Raslroad froma this city to the Colo~ | rado River, The epizootic is raging hadly here horse and ail the cavalry horses at are down With it. z Every livery p Douglass | MURDERERS EXECUTED. is Hanged at New New CASTLE, Del, Jan, 24, 187 ) Dennis (colored), Who Was convicted of an outrage on Mary Thotapson in March last, was exceuted at ten minutes to twelve o'clock to-day. He went fo the gallows singing a hymn and said & jew words to the Sherif in a low tone. Micars, the Denver Murderer, Hanged. DENVER, Col., Jan, 24, 1 Nheodore Micars was hung tn this city t for the murder of George M. Bonacina, near Denver, ip August, 1871. Micurs had been twice convicted | anc sentenced, and -uffered the penaity of the law | after every possibic effort hud been exhausted by | his German fellow countrymen to obtain another trial or a commutation of sentence, He exhibited great fortitude, showing no signs of tremor or nervousness, His ‘last words were “Parew men, | am going to another werld.” He | had previeusly made a full confession,