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oan mat, “mi? CAPITAL . AF- Twenty-one cases of small-pox since Friday. _ A. T, Stewart had his 800 employees vaccinited to-day. LoweLL, Mass, $arch 26,-Gen!: James Waterhouse, woolen manufacturer at Cantretille, R1., bn a visit to this place, died this morning quite auddenly:of ery. sipclas. * . THB REFORXMATORY _ [NATE amemmemmemenint .< X % \ , Hon. H. Boarpxaw Sxith, baving fixed | - There is a rapidly ing sentiment in fi‘édiartim\ the Gouthern Sistes' in| favor of united | E A gone to 'bis| action amoeg men iof (diverse views, to Gon zr'épio 113 1 G’OBBiMLeéielation ¥ ~ - ‘ CBEMUNG COUNTY COURT., .. “A...\ + THoxas 8. Bravioms, County Judge ; Jor L. Bzxtox and H. H. Won Agspo; ato Justices. | on?!) i Joan &. Coptzr, Clerk. ' Gzo. O'HanLox, Sheriff. > - Waurgn L. Damar, District - Wx. McCax®, Crier. ~ f ° Moxvnar, March 35, county court. | - “£3 e «The calendar embraces thirty»fivg causes. Only a petit jury in attendance, which have not been irapaneled up to the hour of adjournment at noon, .the court being occupied in hearing mégiom | 5: T - sante -- {git Conn ictiout do fof P he corrapt games played things at Albany to sait the by the men in New Hampshire| ring-as he belieres-hns } , % shall be repelifed in that State, without G@@ngressional duties at Washington. 'The defeat Ganeral Grant. The statesmen \ Retarded. due resistand$ by) the enfdreement of th® } Horse Marissa do not conceds That the and Journala well unde tand that if the I & laws. The Chairman of the Connectisut foldable delegation 017565111 office. grass contact of 1973 is piado a sectional e Demooratia Site Commitfea has notified holders who visited Albany last week to one, ft will result, as did that of 1868, fa ;, Important jill of Interest to Soldiors former citiseng of that State now helding upset the bill of Senator Harzowsx on Radicalsguocess. While Southern opinion “if!\ Late War. positions under the goverment at Wash» the Prinon Commissioners, was sutcusaful. has been modifisd and changed by years Io RW ington,; that many of thera sare disquali- | The Senator claims that h prog\ of exclusion from: - National affeirs, it will | fied to rota in the lard of steady habits, shall be catried cut or he will know tha) be manifeated by a decided and almost | ~ | “xii“ Cono REE. Brownsvitar, Texas, March 24-Later ad- * and must take the conseqihiences if they reason why. He furtiy claims repre- ifiunimcm vote in fayot of whoerer shal! : (mg); i 2:03?! fitmezf-E'ggg $633: {vicesstato that the defeat of the rebels ~* *\. Those who are denouncing Schurs, attempt to do so Hlegally! Those clerks nut. the Radical party of the District and be selected to carry the banner sgainst day, that was expected because nearly all $3231; £351 $135 ete and disastrous , -AMM0MP . + E # . Param bull and Sumner, are trying to run and employes in the ser ; departments fhsists that he is entitled to niérae the military rule and. power, @uch 85 the schdines that were set for action, fail- The Governmeny fight\ corps, which Important.From Mexico. Confirmation of tha Reported Defeat 'of Revoliitionists, a a , 1 1. Terrible Slaughter and Rout of the Robols ano t PAOIS WELLRSTIATES. Referring t6 the ory of the Grant lead. brs .afid the Grant newspspers against Frumbull, Schurz and Sumner, the Chi- ~ dsgo \Tribune (Republican,) turns \#s tables upon tho Administration ' films-1.5, telling such truths as the fol- ke S € ' A Eight Hundred Iiflfed and* Wounded. - _. RAILROAD ACCIDENT. Nex Ozizaxs, March 25:- The southern bound train on the Mobile and New Orleans railroad was wrecked to-day by a culvert giving way near Ocean Springs,. Several pessengers were severely injured but none kifiled. |, ° _ . BOGUS BANKER ARRAIGNED.- - - New Yorr, «March 26 -Edwin Green, in cares as fp l?“ : 1 an alleged bogus banker, who had elabo. : LOWi® J®nkins, respondent, agat. Déhiel rately fitted up offices on Broadway, was | P. Sherwood, appellant. Judgment of the arranged in ito General Sessions this | Justice's court reversed. 207. morning charged on six se te indict: In the matter of the petitiotgx of J. H, 4 Maraworas, Moxito, March 24, via ‘ | + & «aye l hree ed to come'to fhe surface, , : Ahe Republican party upon their pabulum who contemplate \ going 'home to. vote \' Prisen Commissioners. He sayn'farther, has oppressed the prople there for t | was captured by revolutionists.in the bat- ~6f Ku Kluxism, and the rauishing ani- at the approaching 'elec fon, will there | that the © Advertiser\ ring essayed to | years past. | all mfg; 55120350; 55225221333 3:3. tle of Matapulgas and | \mosities of a war which ended seven fore do well to heed his warning. Sinco beat his candidate for Canal Buperiaten: We see that the organs of the Liberal upger suspension of rol ea was the 39d in sze revolusgoxgrybarimgk {301231 - years o,at the same time resisting every the last Conriectiout election, the Dis-! dent and anoceeded in having anotker Republicans in''T and Alabam», marge \ uarez forces under Rocks, in E and, Potomac depot bill, which rible slaughter on tha revolutionists. The? Lave no petform of print: | Pesritorial goverement, f through for lsck of requisite About 800 of the latter were killed and They have no other platform of princi- ples than this, no other issues npon which they can conduct a'campsgign. -They do not present to the American - people. a single cardinal truth, or a cin le reform measure or principle, sppli- » ~* 'cable to the present day, and to &a condi- tion of peace. Having the power in thei hands at the present time, their own policy is to read and keep out those who do not' agree with them. They kept -out of the Senate for a year or more, Joshua Hill, of Georgis, who had been & Union man thtough the war, but was too conservative for them after the war, and endeavored to put in his place a man who * had been a rebel, and turned-his coat to suit them. In the same manner they kept out Mr. Goldthwaite, of Alabama, as long as they could. 'Xhey refused to 'allow Governor Vance, of North Caroling, to take his seat, on the ground that he had been a member of Congress, and af- terward identified himself with the rebel causg, but they voted to confirm the Rebel General Longstreet's appointment to an important office in New Orleans, and admitted Patterson, of Tennessee, to aseat in the Senate, who had been a United States District Judge prior to. the war, and afterward held the same office under the Rebel Government. They are determined to recognize no man who does pot agreo with them, ° Behind Schurz, Sumner and Trumball, on the one hand, and Morton, Conkling and Carpenter, on the other, stand the people, who make and unmake parties, abd who accomplish réforms as they are . Beeded. Between them the people will decide which are the wisest and purest ogqunseliors, and whose methods and ptactices conduce most to the upbuilding good government and the elevation of the American name. \ oy - - THR ADVANJ: OF THE BLACK BRIGADE. A notable incident of the recent Re- publican State Convention of Kentucky ' was - the demand - of - he - colored representatives for a recognition of\ their right to a share of the offices, It was urged that, while it had been conceded on every hand that \ike colored troops fought nobly\ in the elections, \the offices have beén withheld from the col- ored men of the'party, whether qualified or no,\ and a resolution was off-red to 'the effect that \colored men of .the Re- pubtican party of Kentucky do now de mand an equitable share in the distribu- tion of offices.\ After an exciting de- bate a compromise declaring - the right of « all Republic ins to hold office, was adopted, and the convention adjourned, the brother once more retiring, moody and sullen, though externally acquiescent. Again, on Wednesday, a convention of the negroes of Ohio met at Cleveland, and formulated the same. demand in RRB ALHME: {$ ten c 18 fF BG action of the meeting so i's appeal for offiee was adopted unsnimously and stands as the vitimatumm of the colored people of the Western Reserve. fibere is a“. the force hiss\. justice can give in this movement of the colored republicans. - In not a few states, in in- numerable towns, cities, villages and dis tricts, the colored vote has turned , the against &a previous democratic ma- jority of the people. Why should the troops which actually win the victory, have no shara in the spoils? The nezro practically holds the balance of political powar in a larga part of this country, and we trust, he will lat his political masters know that he is not going to use it for nothing. The Alexander who cuts ise Gordian knot of taxation is Mr. Gats, of Penusyl- ¥ania. His proposition is to abolish the - entire system of internal revenue and simplify matters by assessing each State ' according to its population, Mr. Getz may be somewhat impragiicable in bis ideas, but even to hint of such a sweeping aboiition of the very foundations of the Government is sufficient to carry terror ta the souls of a large class of citizens. One can hardly imagine the desolation which would extend from one.end of the other were this scheme tq be put in ope . ration. The muliitude of Assessors, Col- lectors, Clerks, Messengers, and all, by whatever designation known, who hang od the great polijical machine known as the interpal rerenue system to be at once relegated to the walks of private life and forced to earn their own living! The misery which this would entail upon :o many can bardly be estimsted, and were Mr. Geiz's proposition to receive a sober consideration, a shriek of protest would be heard throughout the country. We suspect, bowever, that this is only an- other of thpssa baso plots against the Ad. ministration, of which Messrs. Trumbull and Scburz and Sumner gro guilty; for, however much the deposed officials migh: suffer, it would be as nothlag to the case of the President, who would lose his staunch army of delegates and voters, and much of bis ussersed material, Mor gon and Conklin must look to it. It is a matter of gtatulauon that Con gress has at last deigned to inquire into the cuse of Dr. J E. Howard,an American citisen-alleged to have been shamefully maltreated by the Spanish authorities in Cuba,. and who is seid to be even now on + bis way to a penal settlement of Spain.» It is at least a year wince this man's . wropgy wore ventilated by theo press, ang no denis] has ever been made of the . Mmatemenis thut he is an American citizen, and, that ho bas been illegally imprisoned andflnbuled by the Apaniands. There was t a time when such a case would not have bests?! fur nouce £o Joong at tho door of Copgress. iate tee ten Woder the pew apportionment the Etate uf New York will bave thirty-two “Representatives in Congress, The totw population inm 1870 wes 4,382,755 which would give abous 137,000 inbabifants to each member. Ib? & uis va e. E and for a Delegate in gress. Mr. Brown, the Chairman of the Com- mittee aforesaid, these new-roaamde residents of the District] that the above change of status will: prevent them from voting in Connectiout,| Messuzes have been taken to prevent their being regis- tered, and should thay persist in attempt- ing to vote they will be l[promptly prose cuted under the laws of.the State, In connection with this subject, we under. stand notice have been served upon every Connecticut official in same department clerks were compelied, at the Washington eleption, to vote for the Republican candidak } in that city, they are in a strait bet#wicr the fears of fosing their places if they do not obey, | and of prosecution for} perjury if they vote in Connecticnt after swearing to a residence in Washinglon. It is & bad case for them, But from Connecticut there comes a report of the general ad- vance of the Democratif cause which is spurring the Administration to 'vast effort, - -A singular and -in fact decla- floor of the Ar fia town bonding jar consideration. m Oswego, ata. is district where Puorcouas® or Vorrs.- extraordinary admission ration --was mile on t sembly last week, whe bill for railroads was un the torn x broker's and fifteen dollars per giving consent to bondi g the town for a certain railroad. In Other words the constituents of this gnuemin sold the ded for railroad privilege of being bop fing the property of the line for fifteen{dollars per béad, sna what is more thin this, members thought it was a cheap purchase, If that is not morality for you, what is ? Of all that has been said againt New York city, no person has yet ever imade the charge that the people therg sell their votes. The politician may be corrupt, but the people do not sell their votes ; that is left to the rural districts, w lican party flourishes, lcok as though it flour] chase of votes. purposes and of mortga 'and it begins to shes by the pur- The world moves. girls living in Chicago, each 16, hnvk been indulging themselves in a highway robbery. They went through their graceful little per- formance after a manner historically cor. rect, even to threatening the woman they garroted and robbed with instant death if she screamed, Unhappily, they were scon quenched by arrest and imprison: It is sad that tha abominable ty- fterfere with the ment. to increase the pay of Legislature. lf that is # gir hoax-Li, tend to which our laws to pay the ex- pm the Treasury bby in the shape purify the fountain from emanate. Somebody hs pense. Better take it f) as salary than from the 1d of bribes. ~ The New York \Times!\ is conspicuous for its exactness. The other day in abus- ing Schurz it declared (that he \inter rupted\ Morton forty ohe times in one apeech, that he \ broke in\ upon Conk» ling thirty-one times, and that \ yester day he tried the same game with Fesson:- den.\ It omitted to state whether the latter resented it or not] Inasmuch as Fessenden died about twp years ago the \Times'\ charge is a grave one.-Utica Observer. a A bill is before the Legislature to ex- empt dentists from jury duty. Conmider- ing that scarcely anything but \jaw \ is offered Tor juries to nowadaye one would think that déntists were the very men of all others for the purpose, to say nothing of the fact that their fam- wliarity with fturnkeys must give them some ingight into the workings of criminal law. <- World.! & Forney dined with Sunjuer last Sator» | day, when they bad a lively discussion on the subject of Grami's rerfomination, For ney advocating and Sumjger opposing it. Sumner declared that has it not been for Forney and Wilson therd was nothing to prevent a dombination in' the republican party agaifnhet Grant that would bave de- feated his renomination. * Laura A. Berry, of Day f‘nport, lowa, is the first woman who as # notary public, \swore\ a man in Tows. A local paper wishes it to be understood that she is not the first woman who bas} \awore\ at a man in that State, or ckused s man to awear. a Theodore Tilton bas eufd H. C. Bowen for breach of contract old affair, probably, when Tilton edfed the \ Iade- pendent\ and the Brooklyn \ Union,\ and before the epoch of gushing farewells and gold watch presentaiilons. Senator Henry C. Murp 7st Kings, has filled the office of State Senutor for a, York. Hails now servin consecutive' year. ko bis cloventh WWW cA pect nn n n aneatmio Empfer William of Germany was com- plimented by his cuquctnuz Friday on the decasion of the completion of the seventy-fifth year of his azo. A very re- markable man sand desprving of the honor. t 1 am 620 ~ ao acme \ The Siste Sevate in exdoutive session yesterday confirmed the gomination of Jacob J, Werner, of Albas missioner of Btatutes in place of Nelon | J. Waterbury, resignod. | v | | Here the Repub. longer time than any other man e¥erd dation lhat that body in elected to that office in the State of ROM aud saffciency and Territorial government, persons dosition for a few days only, when the in- Grant his opponents a residing there hare become qualifisq to fluence that undertook to snub and im] vote for members of the legislative body sult him was very glad to back out and make torms by conceding all ho meked. Senator is decided ia his eonvictipns of duty. Heo is nor to be tri fed with or orer-rode by a fow 'selfigons stituted guardians of the Republican party, nor dictated to by a set of man whose only rule of action illicit-saws dizement. He will hare s Board of Re formatory Commissioners who are the friends of those who secured his nomina- tion and election. This he is entitled to bare, and less he will not mccept BTRENGTE OP THE OPIDBIEI T0 GRAKT. Because It is conceded that the offica holders will nominate General Grant, it {s equally cartain that they cannot elect him again to the Presidency. Let us examine the signs of encourage- ment which we see lighting up the hori\ son around us. In the Fortisth Congress the Demo- ctatio delegation consisted of a little over forty members, and, in the Forts- first it numbpred seventy, snd in the present Congress it is elg§ly-nine. With the same of gain, the next Congress, as well as the electoral college, would be Damogratic, and certainly antl-Grant, The opposition part-yd though not in power to-day, represents quite half the popular vote, ln the Northern Sistes, where its stren gth is the least, it repre- sents nearly half of the popular vote, and the mojorties againat it, considering the number of votes cast, are comparaiirely small. Then there is a disaffected ele- ment in the Repoblican party, sufficiently great numerically,if it wi thdrawa its adhe- sion from it, to defeat it, and.this element comprises the' ablest statesmen of the party, who for.their manly independence, manifested in daring to amsert what is right, and act upon it, and for resistance to pernicious measures, are proscribed, and cannot and do not receive that pre- ferment to which their position in the party entitles them. All that is wanted for victory is unity among those who think alike upon great questions of public policy and duty. W o hail the evidence of mutual consil- istion of opinion upon all snbordinate issues as a sure harbinger of success against Grant. Pure Government: now, if we are long tohave any government worthy of the inheritance bequeathed us f by our Fathers, say the friends of re- trenchment and of reform ! Every 'day, up to our National Convention day, which is to nominate the man of Democratic | choice, -will intensify the feeling and con- solidate the vote which next November must hurl Grant from power. There is an important issue of financial arithmetic between Senator Shearman and Mr. Dawes, chairman of the ways 2020 e- secs a notable speech a few weeks ago, the latter gentleman warned congress that the special appropriations made up to that tice, bad aweDled tho eatimated er penditures of the ensuing fircal year to sath a figure os mould oblige the gutira: ment to borrow nearly eleven million dollars to pay to the sinking fund with- out one dollar going toward the decrease of the publio debt. Senator Shormhan in his speech on the tariff, week before last, disputed his conclusion ard maintamed that there would be a surplus of fourteen millions at the close of the yekr, Mr. Dawes, on Friday, reiterated his former statement, and claimed that the fears therein expressed were but too well grounded. Sherman's error, he asserts, consists in the fact that he omits, in bis computation, all bills passed by the house affecting the results, like the free coal, salt, tta and coffee bill, the ten million pension bill and others, and then adds fourtesn millions, chiefly to be oblained through the increased consumption con- sequent upon the Chicago fire, Senator Schurz turns out to bo as un- pleasant to the administration as &a wit- ness, as he has been as an investigator, in the arms sale investigation. The Preai- dent's friends hare affected to consider the charge, that federal officers had been pecuniariy interosted in the sale of arms to Frainds, as idle words unsusceptible of proof, but Mr. Schura's evidence ping: the matter in a different light. He testi- Gea that ho has received a great deal of information, in confidence, that officials, had been so Inteersted, and was ready to give the committee a list of the persona who oguld give the information, Thema fore tho committeo that tho question of official corruption in the sale bf arms raay be decided,. From tho fact fhat Senator Schurz is desirous that they should be examined, it is ovident that he considers his caso aure. f When Alezrander Ham{jlton was Secre tary of the Treasury he sont s noto to a friend which read as follows :-\Dear Sir: Is you can convenigntly lef me bave twenty dollars for a few days, Send by bearer. A. H.\ This happened about nino'y years ago, and asa contrast think of Rontwell asking for such a loan. ate for its consideration the charges agrinst Judge Prindle, of Chenango county, and the petitions and papers ao companying them, with the recommen- nire into their ascordingly. Butler has been unusually silent this winter In Congress, and now Grant is trying to got him to talk by making his brother-in-law - suryejror of the port of New Orleags, vice General Longatreat, who has resigned. Will It hatathecfecit That's the questicn. A Republican paper claires that the re- cent election in New Hampshire was fought out squarely on the 'meritac( the iy, to be Coin. Administration.\ Well,we acknowledga? the Senators who think it-and the crop gathered. was ons still his bundle of straw.--Ztvillo Coater persons should at once be sumrm@ned be- | Gorernor las rent to the Sen- |. 3 [vee sen granted %' man named forthe office who held the | say that to make sure of defeating Gen. | did now uld concentrate upon the most available and conservative candidate. That as the Democrats pro- bably outnumber the Liberal Republicans three to one, it is the natural law that fhe atropoger pody win? ulti- mately prevall over the weaker, Bo if the alliance of the Democrats and the liberal Republicans should take place, the former would absorb the latter,while the leas numerous eleroent would leaven the entire mass, ' M They further say that they see many signs of waakness in the Republican party; tho threatened defection of the German vote, the ona term principle held by many of the Iilinois| Republicans, the Conkling Fenton factign fight, and Mr. Bumuner's opposition to Grant. An to any forced mdasures to exclude the fair vote of the souirbern States it will not succesd. ( , The people of tha Nprth douftless, by a largo majority, favor universal \amnese ty,\ which a Republican Congress has thus far destied to the South, While Democrats, here and there, will abide by Ku Kiux\ laws untill set aside by the Supremes Court, they 'will see that the political sentiment of the voters in each section has its just Txpreuion at the polls. . 'The Staten Island féary company will be ruined by the suits ught against it in connection with the WestAald disaster, nrileas the lawyers can find some avenue of essape. Decisions agrinst the com- pany in several suits bare resulted in putting its three boats in the hangs of tha sheriff, though the boats are still run- ning, and tho aggregato of the damagos claimed, and which will undoubtedly be allowed, is more_than :the company can meet. Bo an old mortgage for $200,000, executed in 1862, tut which has been ro. corded only recently, has beer raked up. and & supplemental mortgege, baving date January, 1872, hais been executed Of course, the purpose,, and the only pur- pose, of these documents is perfectly ap- parent; but the strict letter of the law, whatever it may be, must be vindicated regardless of justice, And there may bo grave doubt whether the damages award- ed the claimants in thp cases mentioned Will ever boe paid. While the Unitedcstles Government is dining and wining| the Japanese em- bany in Washington, the Mikado's Gov- native ' Christians in (Japan with great severity. They are pnfl to death in bat- ches and most cruelly tortured. Starva- tion, burning corls, éxpmnre, and im- prisonment without light or clothing, are the favorite means afopted to rid the Empire of the Christians. The Japanese Government should not be allowed to ex- trata PLolsit. 41, shy; ull IN ing sixteenth century. An excellent oppor- tunity is afforded in the presence of the embassy in this country to make the Japanese understand that we cannot sus- tain friendly rel-dog with them while persecution reigns in their land. It is our All]? hal la allow {le chance to passe, protesting against, and possibly stsying the bloody work. j or The poor fallow now among the swamp [angels of North Caroliok is in a very bad box indeed, for not only do the outlaws thresten hiro, but he has been outlarmed by a board of Robeson county magistrates, who beliere he is in league with the out- laws for no good purposg. It.is belisred, also, that when he sees the hustand of Rhody Lowery that gentleman will have something to say regarding his diplomacy with the lady. ‘ The care of Edward S..Stokes will prob- ably come fairly up for trial some time 1n 1900. The proceedings thus fare worse than a farce ; but they Have resulted in five hundred pages of expaptions by the counsel for the prisorer. It may be safely said that m disgosal of them will take timea great deal of time ; and everybody knows that their only object is a postponement of the trial of the murde rer, Aun exchange very trithfully declares that \the utter dizipleghtion of the ra- puBlican party is the only meaus of at once emancipating the geaple from the dread of its success, and of restoring to a healthy and useful public career a lugev number of worthy and able public men who are now entangled in its organi«s~- tion.\ ' acon soon omammemmenl On Mondar, at Waihitigton, commence ed an Investigation Into the charges made against tho Secretary of the Nary by the New York \Sun whoso editor, Danas, has given the names of mwitnessos whoso revelations will astound the country and thrpw fn the shade all former schemes of frand and cormiption, -_ POLITICAL NMiPES. commom . -The Massachuselts Labor Reform State Committee repudiate the protest of the Eight Hour League against the Col- umbus platform, and agree to sustain the doing of that Conventio -On the lst of April, now close at band,the Legisiature -will hare consumed ninety of the ons hundréd days to which the session is limited by 4th State Coonsti- extended beyond the bhupdred days, but the merabera can receive no nay afier that limit has expired. | R ~ «It is computed by thp Esaan Newlona of the present century that orer $1,500 hae teeg paid during the past thirty years for the printing the Congres- sional \#ighe\ of: word \ ladtghter.\ i -The name of the Chairman of Judi. clary for the \ Reform\ henate is James Wood, Now lot us bate the names of motion for i ernment hes renewed the persecution of tution, To be sure, the session may be 3 W * brutal,\ Tad Tote nay on mfi taxi v3}! be omwéixy‘: two-third@wrote; The soldiers homestead bill from the sanste was passed from the spoaktor's table while fragment of the morning beur that remained after call of states wis blopkaded by Fyes civil rights biil, whith stagds atbhwart tha threshold of legislation,.knd while fillibustered re- gulariy if self grer as a bar to all schemes and propositions which might otherwise be put outta} ig « , BILL, . The Senatempill of interest to all per sons who serrgd on the Union side in the late wat, wis taken from the speaker's table sufi pau’ed in the House yesterday under @ suspension of the rules, 'on motion of Mrs, Hawley. It will receive the President's signature and become a aw to-day. © 11 pyovides that every officer, soldier, gailor, or marine who rerved in the war for a'period exceeding 90 days, may in <pttling upon public lands, or un- der hom ; laws, count the period of bis, service a part of the five gears residenge 160 aore4. b actual residence on the land must ba at least one year. Six months:gre allowed for the location of the land beféga the residenca upon it must commegce. Persons discharged for wounds 'of disability, may bave their whole périod'pf enlistment counted. In casdjof thp death of a person who would q? ratified to the privileges of the act, hig jwidow, if unmarried, or minor childrep} if the widow be married or dead, aro entitled fo its benefits. Any person to whom the\bill gives the right to ac- quire land, may bave the same entered and the required eottlement and resi- dences tda§by an agent. This is the } most i rtznt feature of the bill, for a comparatively small number af soldiers will thetuselyes become bhomeptead set- tlers. The right to transfer their privi- lege to gn 353m will perhaps be of some value to therg. «spm pep => /* Mefropolitan Mattoré RE-ORGLNIZATION OF TAMMANY ! [ ° ,‘§”‘-—0‘-&—— THr §mayp rox INCREASING : i # ~ -) Nzw Yorx, March 106.-The re-enroll- ment, pg to the call issged by the Committee of Seven of Tamcany hell, proceedéd iw the various aesumbly die- tricts of the gity last evening. 'There was a large jenrg}Iment in the twelfth and second (tatrmp, in the latter the room being crpwddd. At an early hour in the evening/somp little disturbance, growing out of a {persgnal quarrel, occurred in the sith. Genegally the enrolling proceeded very quigtly ;pyen in the districts in which a disturbanggé was looked for, The enroll- ment will cqptinue this and to-morrow evenings. h °HR WEATHER, -—Contidel;ble snow fell laat night. A drizzling raig get in this mornigg. ! JAP MaTTRRS. Altbhopngh {an present Japanese Em- bassy ware ng} especially empowered to make a treaty, there is nothing in their instructions which prevented them from framing! a protocol. It is understood, theréforé, that Governor Ito, who bas joust left (berg for the Japanesp govern- ment, t® i oma Lo tha Mikara - a--6. A 7 ui an' imporlsnt and most libers! com- mercial aty as the baris for one to be agreed on in jhe futhre between the U.S. and Japan. {[The most important feature of it is that which enlarges the clause of the old treat sdmiltins foreigners and A 0 lmportahonnzlnlo Japan . 5 .._ BMALL Pox. T6 ébmbdl pLychlnns Lo répor’t “we pox which come under cases of\. 3 11 their notwfib‘e board of health have ob- tained a wargant sgainst Dr. Moritz who pegleoted tq report a case which be was attending irst East Houston Street. 'lhe Board propgres to make a tést case of this one, Tie punishment is sixty days imprisormerf¢, The contagion is increa- sing. 5 *rusuic -A resolg;ion was offered yesterday in the Boag) of Aldermen authorizing the citinns; to use the policeand civil districts; coffe as halls for the discus sion of any afi‘tjecu of public inferest not of a pqglitics) character. It will bere: membered that this was what the ad- vanced (Refopmers petitioned them for some time age, © « CBIMES AND CASUALTIES. TIC¥Ik Oy a RaILROAD ACCIDENT. aAcciDENT. } March 25. -Edward Kel- Jy, Luke Whalen, and Daniel Leonard were inj lo day by s premature ex- losion pf glycerine. Kelly and halen 'were badly burt and Leonard slightly fipnjured. Carcado, March 23.-Among the vie tims of} the, terrible accident on the Penospiyani@' railroad, yesterday, was Miss Amandg Hartman, of Chicago.- Miss Hattmap was the eldest daughter of Rer Dr. Harian. pastor of the Ersan- golicel Qurherin church, which was situ- ated, before the fire, at the qorper of Ohio ane Lasglle streets. She had been visiting & % in Baltimore, and was Petunia, horgs. Bhe was twenty years of age. 'Th§. remsins will reach this <city so-day. T Fix® ar couutray. Pores March 23.-The buildings attached) to 'aggert's Colliery, 'at St. Clair, wggf royed by fire last night. Loess $4, ; figured. I 2 AL CASCALTY. a I Torxoxto, My 23.-A shocking acci- dent ocgorre@ last night, at Haldeman, Ont. A daughter of Mr. Wim. Beatty pro- ceeded fo the cellar, carrying a large butcher knife,, In going down the stairs, abo stumbled ind fell forward, the knife netrating neck, severing an artery. he diedin a few minutes. -_ Sa¥ wiLrp stasro. A saw fnill agd shingle factory, owned 6:23:05. gfifithliewbom, Ont»; was de- s this morning. 1s caught from burning ojuders from aEmoke-iita‘ik. cin The loss is estimated at $5,000. THE DE 8 FIRE RECORD. | LIYE LOST ar a raz. E#. Pagr, Murch 26 -Wolf's | saloon ard tw'gdwvalllug 13311323 “$0,333 ater were byrped last right, and two ten, the book Keeper in the saipon and a' laborer in typ brewery perished in the flames,. Thel® {names ware not given. Two other mop barely escaped «ith their lives. mug s about $10,009. ally Insuged. '; - to =- 30W!“ ADVICES, j 1 LOXpon. . Loxpon, 26.-A motion was gig: in: the' Houso of Commons last Rt. *¥henorable Robert Lowe, Chancel 3:5)! go, chhaquer, for an im- mediate reduction df 50 per cent. in du- a? on cuffs. id chickory. Catried. & I a“. ”1,300!\ Parti: » ., OH\ fa» reqgired to obtain s patent to |. g wounded. General Trevino, who was in chief command of the rebels during the battle, arrived at Saltfllo in an awful con- dimon. All his forces were either scat- tered or disorganized, ! Ha has. however, commenced the for- ma:ion of a nucleus and is gat‘herin‘ the stragglers, ' General colleague, Trevino quarrelled with his General Martinez, about a | month ago, owing to the former having appointed a young lgwyer u_Govex-nor of the State of San Luis Potosi, have teased all co-operation. Tye revo- lutionists are generally demoralized, and it' is expected that thoy will evacuate Ca- margo and the whole border very soon. aan» Eris Stock. Excitement in ftock Brokers' Circles. Transactions at 60 1-8--Small Lots at Still Higher Rates. New York, March 26.-At Filch Ave. nue last evening the rise in Erie stock | was the subject of almost universal dis- cuesion. A goodly attendance of stock brokers were present and little knots of twos and threes conversed on the topic of the day. Daly a few transactions were quoted at 60}, but littfe business however was done st that figure,the small amount of stock sold being, at slightly higher rates. YESTSRDAY's ap¥anxcr. New Yorr. March 25. -Stocks opened strong, with Eme beading the list ; opin- ed at 53, sold up to $44, gradually sold up to 50}, then fell to 574, up again to 60, and closed at 59§. 'The trarsactions for the day were anetmous, and -will pro- bably reach iwo bundred thousand shares Fowmse private telegrams this afternojn quoted the stock as high as 50 in London. Erie is very scarce tor deliv- ery, and it is stated there are 'one hund. red thousands shares in the Erie office awaiting transfer for European account, St. Paul was stroog qu the second call, and during the sfternoon advanced from 59¢ to 62 % ou common, and from 79§ to §1% on preferred. On the first call the geseral market was heavy and on the secopd call was vory strong. Late in the dey the entire market, outside ouf Erie, was quiet and steady, A Terrible Affair. -o- mwa Attempted Robbery and Murder by a Negro,. Tho Villain Arrested, Lynched and HKescred. NasavirLe, Tenn., March 26.-OUOn Sun- day tmornitg a negro named David James robbed the bouse of a farmer named Murray, aud when the latter offered re- sistance the negio shot him dead. The murderer was arrested aud lodged in jarl, bvét'nt nine C infuriared 'mob broke open the privou and tosk him out. After shooting him twice they put a rope reur.d his ueck,imnd having drayged him to the public square, hung him on s lanxp-publ. mix policeroreo cator to tho ie cue and cut Lim down,keeping the crowd off with their revolvers, and carried him to the pblleé station, Lul Le 18 fatally wound'ell‘ . l'ne crowd has now dispersed and all A 18 QJH'L. Two companies of military are on the ground. Surpris—ing Intelligence. Tho Onondaga Salt Gompbpy Goes Into the Hands of r Receiver. The Liabilities Reported Very Heavy. * Erracu»s, March 16.-In a suit brought in behalf of the stockholders against the Halt Company of Onondaga, Hon. George F. Comstock has been, by consent of all parties, appointed receiver of the proper- ty and assets of the company with direc- tion to pay the debts and divide the cap- ital among the stockholders. The assets are understood to be orer two million dollars, arid the liabilities are lgrge. The stock is thought to be depre- ciated to the extent of twenty-five to thirty per cent. The ;ground of this pro- ceeding is that the board of directors some time ago in full consideration determined that tne campany cpuld not continue business by resson of 'its inability to pay the future rents received upon the salt manufacturing property leased to the company, and therefore that the leases should be eurrendered to the lessors. MISCELLANEOUS. MONSTER BAW LOG Painaotiraia, Margh 23.--The largest white pine log this a1dp of the Pacific has juss been receired from Mchenn couuty, Ps., by Messrs. Harbett, Russell & Co., Twenty-third and Locks streets, where it can be seen by the public. It is six feet in diameter, sixteen feet long, contains 5,000 feet of lamber, sand weighs 12,000 pounds. 4 a DEATH FRQX zA FALL, Rovapour, March (25.-Abraham S. Dubois, a wesalty farmer of the town of Loyd, fell from aload of hay at Cold Spring Corners on Saturday, and striking his bead on the {rozen ground, broke bis neck and died instantly. He wes about sixty years af age, and. leaves a family of | growa up children. PRINTERS STRIKE in oxtarI®. Toronto, March 25.-All the master- printers, with ore exceptibn, have refus- ed the terms proposed by the Typograph- ica! Usiov, and to-day the men are on a strike. The emplojers say thst they are determined to resist the demand,and the an ircrease of wages , The newepspers will appear os vueuai, the different offices helping ono another with the forces at their command. suaLL prox NPrwEsprca, N. Y., March 25.-There bas beon considerable éxcitement repar. ing the small-pox in this city of late. At: a meeting of the Board of Health this afternoon, Health Officer Dr. James Gor- don stated ufin there was no cases of genuine smallpox in the ci three cases of rarioloid Thlgfinoggdogk' adopted measures for the care of such cases, and it is not beli¢ved that the in- fection will spread. CARPENTER®' BTRIKK--SMALL-POX, struck for eight hours' same pay as for- i I I i ( Bince that time theso two commanders | nm'eloot last night an. strikers are equa'ly resplved to insist on k Nznggu,’ March 2¢.-The BrookiIyn | h work and {for the ten | and was in the hours. + . _ ASies, mental 0mm! ments, with swindling by means of forged drafts on European banking houses. He plead not guilty and will be tried to- morrow. * TRAGIC DEATHS IN PENNSYLVANIA, Scranton, March 25.--Michael Carroll, a laborer employed in the lodge sbaft, was killed by a fall of top coal this morning. . : Patrick Fenerty was killed and Step- hen Feperty, his brother, was seriously injured by a permature explosion st the Gipsey Grove colliery to-day. ~ A drfrer of the name of Mayhardt, aged about fourteen years, was instantly killed to day at the Laurel Run works by falling from a car and breaking his neck. INJURED ON THE RAILROAD: 'New Osueaxs, March 25.--Mr. Cusham, of Connectient, and Mrs. Ames, of Phila delphis, . Pennsylvania, were seriously | injured, and John H. Marshall and wife, of Mobile, were slightly hurt by an ac- cident on the Moblie and New Orleans, road. * Important Meeting of Oil Carriers. Georgia Leginlators on the Track of Bullock. FIRES -- CRIMES -- ACCIDENTS -- &C. Nzw Yorr, March 26.-Members of the Georgia Legislature, Col. E. F. Hay and Capt. S. A. McNeil, are now in this city for the purpose of further investigating the official conduct of Rufus B. Bullock, Ex-Governor of Georgia,. The gentlemen form a-sub-sommittee of a large joint committee appointed by the Senate and House of Representatives of Georgia, to give the administration of the Ex.Gover- nor a thorough overhauling. , Nzw Yorx, March 26.-A mesting of representatives of the oil producers and refiners Pf Pennsylvania, the refiners of this city and Boston and leading railroad men of the principal oil carrying routes, was held yesterday at the General offices of the 0. C. Railway Co. Eirly in the day the Railroad represen- tatives agreed to the establishment of uniform rates, the same as at present, $1.35 per barrel for crude and $1.50 for refined, with no rebate or discrimination to any ane. . The Oil Creek refiners wished to, have the rates for refined oil reduced to $1.45, and the day was occupied with a discuss- ¢| ion of this reduction, resulting finally in the acceptance of the old terms. ;3 Arsany, March 26 -The committee on Commerce of the House will report favy- orably Mr. Judd's bill to remove quaran- tine entirely from Staten Island, with the exception of a residence for the health officer. _ j The bill revokes the contract by which the State now pays $10,000 for property unemployed on the island and subjects the entire eighteen acres to local tsxa- trop. «TAH. b EFFORTS PoR IT3 ADMISSION AS A STATE: Saur Laxe, March 20, -The opponents of the Mormon Staie government aro preparing for a grand mass meeting on, W«dnesday nignt It is tbe intention to nppulut tmo delegates to Washington to represcnal the sttuat'on, nutmely Ong gert. tile and ove epostate imermon. 'The Mormous ure confident that the new con- sus will give the required eum ber of pop- ulation for admission as a State and show an increase of 50,000. The Arst stylus of the Utah Nortlxern Railrosd was driven yesterday, and half a mile of rail laidfi ~ ' THE STATE LEGISLATURE, To-Day's Proceedings. ASSEMBLY. ArsBany, Marck 26. BILLS INTRODUCED. By G. D. Lord -'To authorize the city of Rochester to issue bonds in aid of the Rochester State Line Raflroad. Also in aid of the Lake Ontario Shore and Oswego Railroad. Also in aid of Rochester; Nunda and Pennsylvania RK. Also empowering commissioners of certain municipal corporations to take the bonds of the Rochester and Staté Line Railroad Company in place of stock. On motion Mr. Lord's three bills were passed,. BEN ATE. The New York charler was the special order this morning, but went, over to 12 o'clock under- joint rule that bills should be read. al BILLS PASSED. Relative to improvement of streets be- tween Sixth and Seventh avenues, places such improvements under commissioner of public works. 6C I . To authorize towns to expend excess of license money. To authorize extension of Fulton and Bleecker street railroad, New York. The Cary Crosstown railroad bill. . Toregulate placesof public amusement in New York. To authorize the Second avénue rail- rcad to extend its tracks. To amend charter of New York Infant seylum. ~ a. To incorporate the Importers and Gre cers' board of trade, New York. meneame manes CONGRESS. To-day's Proceedings . Wasmiscton, March 22. HOUSE, Under call of States for bills a copside- rable number of bills were introduced and referred. Mr. Cragin from the Committee on Military Affairs reported a bill for the relief of certain officers of the nayy.- Passed. ' w- Einguiar Revenge. A correspondent of the Albany \ Ex press\ writes:-About forty years ago there resided in the town of Jackson, Washington county, a well to-do farmer iby the name of Ferguson, He was in- dustrious and frugal, but after a time be- came addicted to the use of intoxicating drinks, and when under the influence of \his favorite beverage would be liberal to such an extent that ho would give away any property which might be at his dis- {fut at 1h?! txmei Fearing that he would us squander all his eff imi ion was obtained and 110mm“, erty placed in the hands of his son. When the pa- pers wereserved on the old man heo're- marked, \ You bare taken my property from me, hip you, and are obliged to support and' take care of me? Well ther, take care of me,\ He immodiately took to his bed and continued to remain | there day and night for twonty years. For the first few years he would get up and shave himself every Saturday, and then immediately take to his bed again but for the last fiteen years of his life e was waited upon as an infant, fot- withstanding he enjoyed good health, on of all-his facul- # p & U tracks . of | ' No. 102 North Tenth street was T. property placed | Beers, that he be allowed to correcs his petition, Granted, , A Didama Johnson agt. Charlesyi Sturdi .' aant.\ On motion of C. H, Evarts ends;- of substitution ganteed. 20 Henry O. Rosercrans, respondent, aget. Charles Seely, by his guardian. Motion Sor a new trial. COURT OP sRs:1oxs. The 1’me agt. Daniel 'Thetges. I9. dicted for assault and battery. The de, . fendant on being arraigned before the-- Court withdrew his former plea of not guilty and plead guilty to the charge made in the.indiotment and thereupon the ¢ourt sentenced the said Daniel Thetge to pay-a fine of $10, and stand committed until paid, but not exceeding thirty days. oe The people agt.--Carpenter. Indict ed for selling liquor without a license, The defendant on coming into Court and being ealled withdrew his former plea of not guilty, and pleadguilty to the charge made in the indiqtmgpt whereupon the Court sentenced the said---Carpenter to pay a fine of $25, and stand committed © until paid, but not exceeding thirty days. - ' The people agt. Ellen Depew. Indict. ed for assault and battery. On motion of W. L. Dailey, District Attorney, it was ordered that anolle prosequi bé en- tered as to this indicament, ; The People agt. Leroy Broderick, In- of C, H. Everts, Attorney for defendant, ordered that the trial of this indictment go over to the next court of Oyér and Terminer, on defendaut renewing his bail, in the sum of $500. Bail given in open court. _,, ’ GREAT FIRE IN PHILADELPHIA,. Simmons & Slocum's Opers House in Flames-Loss Fifty Thousand Dojlars -The Palace of Minstrelay Destroyed . --Nothing Saved but the Wardrobe. A disastrous fire occurred in the neigh- borhood of 7 o'clock Wednesday morning which almost-totaily destroyed the beguti ful Opera House of Simmons & Slocum, Nos, 1003 and 1095 Arch Strget. | Smoke was keen floating over the block. of buildings on Tenth street above Arch, about twelve minutes of 7 o'clock, by Re: serve Office Orr, who ignmediately pulled the alarm boxt' No flares were to be smoke. The Department were soon on the ground, and set resolutely to work. ' The chief stronghold of the flam es geem- ed back about the stege and propert; rooms. They soon spread, however, with renderipg it in about t#o hours a com- plete ebel', nothing standing sare the “0?“ and back walls and'ft portion of the FCO f - \ The Opera House has a 50 feet front on Arch street, and runs back 175 feet to AcaCamy street Th site was formerly oc- cupied by two dwelling houses belonging to Mr. Powel}. 'Two years ugo this month Messrs. Garssd and Winpéenny bought the property, and changod it-into An Opera Messrs. Simmons & Slocum then became < the ieeeees, opened on Augus‘t 28, 1870 and general minstrel business.. They hgve a one-eighth interest each in the properts, Mr. Garged estimates the loss at $50,000. A rich wardrote, valued at $3,000, was saved. o la RURLED FROM THR _ Ornamenting the front of the roof was a handsomely carved and gilded cornice, about eight feet high. - Back of this,ypon the roof, were a number of firemen, play- boles in the tin roof, Exactly at five minutes past nine o'élock the heavy cor- nice fell outward with a crash into Arch street, and a cry of horror arose frorg the crowds outside thé ropes -as they saw a man come down with .the falling frame. pavement where 'he fell, and carried into J, A. Lancasters, drug store, northeast, corner of Fenth and 'Arch streets, where it was found he 'was severely injured about the back and head, His name is William Simpson, driver of engine No. 3. 'After receiving such medical assistance as possible, he was removed to the hospital. Seyeral other firemen who were standing by the. cornice at the time made a narroy t* cape. ' OTHER L@asre. On the rorthwest corner of Tenth and Arch streets is the soap and perfumery establishment Of Richards, Warren & Co., which was damaged by water to the ex- tent of $5,000. Insured in the Etr'k-for $2,500, and in the Reliance for $2,500. F. R Rindborst occupied: No. 1003, % store under the Opera House, as a copfec tionery establishment. He loses $2008. Insured for $200 in the Spring Gil-film. No. 1007, adjoining the Opera House on the west, was the private. residence oft Dr. C. W. Gleason, slightly damaged by wigter, J. Woodward, tailor, and Nos. 104 and; 106 D. Edwards, tailor; both suffer by water. The second, third, and fourtn Apors of - the . Tenth ./ street were occupied by the Phildie} phia Dentak College. Several win- dow frames were burned and some dam- ago was done by water, but the ialéig'ble museum was saved, the Insurance Patrol ° spreading their canvas over the casej.-- All losses to the college are fully in-. sured. f - [* Inqthe centré 'of the front of the Opers House is a magnificent colored 'cut g1]288 lamp, which cost $1,5000.. 'It was nogtin- Jured in the slightest by the falling por- nice, and will probably be saved. One of the attaches of the place, a man named Bill Bleever, went into the Opéra House about a quarter past six this morn- | ing, and it was shortly after that thatihe and the watchman discovered the fames. © They did all they could to combat ghe fire, but were almost blindet’! by ihe smoke, and seeing that th'eix efforts were fruitless, they turned their-attention 10 the savicg of the wardrobe. a R Messrs, Simmons & Slocum announce their intention of proceeding immediate- ly with the rebuilding of the place., In the interim, they will secure, as 8008 59 possible, another building and go on with the show. * } The combination If blonde ._ hair and black eyebrows is considered by many to be a magfk. oi‘Q great beauty, in either sex. © 61A new | style a? “in use} statistic 3 rm!- - high slipper of the color of the » humid £19an side with six sroall but< >- tons: - f + builflisg. > dicted for grand larcencey, On motion | seen at that time, but only dense clouds of €* rapidity through the whole structure, house at an expense of about $50,000.- ° P 1 have since that. time carried inn-a} - ing upon the fire in the rear and cutting * He was immediately picked up trom the _ FA,” ife? \\ aioe 6 x xin < quitt rem e n 0 f . the . S als uve mag H wait - aba a + * thin ougB cle & a re on i are ecul The fire in 0 is d f‘evf tha call [3‘s] in 48 >, degree a a and sp to rg in ven ~ berg tike, the , wit ~a #r § Wa hex t in 1 Stat shal tery to 2 or p net aud nor its A li- lottd wai b ishe 'gres pin folld four ed. ( atte able out \hg is t or w itH wHi Cont pret ‘:‘m C head tizo wEC tan * nat
