Elk County Ledger from Elk Falls, Kansas • 2

THE HOWARD CO. LEDGER, that during the seven years In-ginning with 1S07 and ending with 1873 inclusive, there were 34,357 miles of railroads constructed in the United States, averaging nearly 5,000 miles per year. The largest railroad building year was 1S72, when 7,340 miles were constructed. Railroad KANSAS. ELK FALLS, speculation also reached Its climax in that CUItKENT TOPICS.

year, and the next year the difficulty of procuring subscriptions resulted in a con The Secretary of War has scut to the House a report of the Board of Engineers appointed to prepare plans and estimates traction of operations. In IbiS, miles of road were built, and in 1874 it fell to 1,923 miles, and of these roads a very large proportion are purely of local interest and sevend are strictly private, intend for decneninsr one or more ot tiie natural outlets of the Mississippi Eiver, and also porter, and furnished many interesting and authentic reminiscences of the times when our nation was in its swuddling clothes. He has continued on the stage five years longer, dying peacefully yesterday, surrounded by his friends, at the wonderful age of one hundred and five years. Topeka Commonwealth, Jan 23. Two Men Shot at Ottawa.

At Ottawa, on Tuesday evening, Jan. 19, a man named Scott Richie, son of a former Commissioner of Franklin County, became crazed with drink, and provoking a quarrel with an Irishman named Hays, a railway section hand, shot him, the ball entering the left breast near the shoulder blade. Richie then ran across the suspension bridge, and seeing a team bitched near the hotel, was In the of making off with it, when he was arrested by a German named Peter Strubel. Without a word Richie stepped up to within three feet of Stubel and shot him, the ball entering the left side. He then made his escape out of town on foot, but was promptly pursued by the officers and arrested at a school-house three miles from Ottawa, where he was coolly participating in a Grange meeting.

He is now in jail at Ottawa. Hays and Strubel are both in a critical condition, and the physicians fear that the result will be fatal in both cases. for a canal from the river to the Gull. ed to serve some mine or furnace or little After a thorough examination of the en tire subject, they say there is no doubt that a designated point of the South Pass would be best, as it would give unobstruet mile, and was about two hundred yards wide. The bodies of six persons killed by the enow-slide in the city of Alts on the previous day had been recovered.

Many others are supposed to have perished, but their bodies were covered to a great depth by the snow, and probably will not be found for some time. In one of the demolished bouses were found the body of Mrs. Carey, sitting in a rocking chair, with an infant clasped in her arms, and near them her husband and little girl. All had been suffocated by snow. At another houBe was dug out one man alive; another man, who had been sleeping beside him on the bed, was dead.

Still another dead body was found in the vicinity. There was great terror in the mining camps on account of these accidents. A boiler explosion occurred in a factory at Todmerden, Yorkshire, England, on the 21st, by which five persons were killed and fifty injured. A dispatch from Montevideo, 21st, says: The Uruguayan Government has fallen, and the rebels are in power. There is a genera alarm.

Business is suspended. The British squadron is in the harbor. Pedro A'arla, President of the Senate, has been elected Provisional President of the Republic. The London Times of the 21st announces that Russia, Austria and Germany have agreed to resognizc Alfonso as King of Spain at once, without waiting for a proclamation by the Cortes. Forty Chinamen, engaged in wood-chopping in the mountains near Genoa, Nevada, were carried away by a snow-slide recently, and twenty-eight of them were killed.

The East River was bridged by ice between New York and Brooklyn, on the 22d, and hundreds of persons crossed during tho day. This is considered a note worthy occurrence, from the fact that it has occurred only during the coldest seasons, at intervals of many years. Billy White was hanged at Corsicana, Texas, on the 22d, for the murder of one Thompson Both were colored ed water-way to commerce in the place of KANSAS STATE NEWS. Legislative Proceedings. Jan.

19. Senate A number of bills were reported from II. C. R. No.

7, relating to lands donated to railroads by the Legislature of Kansas in 18G6, and II. C. K. No. 10, relating to school lands sold by the General Government, were concurred number of bills were introduced and referred By consent, Mr.

Johnson offered a resolution instructing the Committee on Railroads to prepare a bill regulating railroad fare in this State. Adopted The Senate adjourned at noon to Representative hall, to participate in the election of State Printer. At 12 the members of the Senate appeared and took their seats with the members of the House in joint convention, and proceeded to ballot for State Printer. The result of the vote was for G. W.

Murtin, 82 for T. D. Thacher, 49. The President declared Mr. Martin duly elected, and the joint convention adjourned.

lloufX number of bills ere introduced, but no legislation perfected. Jan. 20. Most of the afternoon was spent by the Legislature over the resolutions offered a few days ago indorsing Gen. Sheridan and Ihe President in the Louisiana matter.

The House disposed of it by making it the special order for Friday. In the Senate considerable debate ensued, and motions were made to table the resolutions and to adopta substitute, but, before any vote was taken, an adjournmentwascarried, and the matter will lie the first thing to come up tomorrow. The Governorsent sixteen nominations to the Senate of Regents and Directors for the State Institutions. An appropriation of $20,000 for legislative expenses passed both Houses. The Senate Judiciary Committee reported in favor of the passage of a bill providing for the removal of public ollicers found guilty of intoxication or gambling.

Jan. 21. In the Senate Mr. Dow offered a resolution to raise a committee to investigate the charges of bribery in relation to tha passage of the preferred stock bill last winter, but the resolution was defeated. Senator Martin offered a concurrent resolution relating to railroad subsidies.

Bills were introduced in the Senate providing for the listing and valuation of railroad property authorizing counties to issue short-time relief bonds; to prevent discrimination against female teachers. In the House the bill to create two new counties out of Howard County was passed without a dissenting voice, uDon susuension of the rules. The bill a narrow and obstructed one. It the question of cost and maintenance be considered, there is. for the Fort St.

Philip Canal, the estimated sum of $11,514,200 against $7,942,110 lor the pass. AVhile the Board is of the opin ion that a canal can be built at the esti mated cost, they recommend that the South Pass of the Mississippi be improved by the plan hich they submit. They further recommend that, if Congress decide to open one of the passes of the river, the entire sum necessary to accomplish the work be appropriated at once or in some way be made available. If the mouth of the river is to be improved by jetties, the work, when begun, should be pushed as rapidly as possible to its entire completion. TnE act of Congress prescribing a mode for the election of United States Senators directs that it be made, in every case, on the second Tuesday after the organization ol a Legislature, or, failing on that day to elect by concurrence of the two Houses, that the balloting be renewed from day to day in joint convention.

In accordance with this provision, Tuesday, January 19, was the day designated for the the Sena provides for the division of the territory at Topeka, Kansas. On motion of Mr. Dawes, it was ordered that Richard B. Irwin be discharged from arrest, be having answered all questions of the committee Mr. Cessna offered a resolution declaring that "during Ihe remainder of the present session the rules be so far suspended as to prevent the Speaker from entertaining any dilatory motion pending the consideration of any public bill or joint resolution, or of any motion to bring, or the result of which may bring, before the House for consideration such bill or joint resolution, and this order shall apply to amendments offered in the House, or adopted in the Senate, and awaiting concurrence in the House, or to such public bill or joint resolution, and to any report of a committee thereon." The reading of the resolution was followed by indignant protests from the Democratic side of the House, and Messrs.

Merriam, Rasson and Smith of Ohio (all Republicans) also objected. The resolution was rejected yeas, 150; nays, us. (This resolution was adopted by the Republican caucus, and its elfect would be to enable a majority, instead of two-thirds, to suspend all rules at any time and pass a bill without debate immediately upon its being read. Several prominent Republicans declined to vote, and the following voted against it: Merriam, Bufling-ton, John (J. smith, John A.

Smith, Fllis H. Roberts, Burchard, Phelps, Pierce, Hale of Maine, Freeman Clarke, Foster, Hale of Sew York, Burleigh, Kasson, Willard of Vermont, Willardof Michigan, Woodworth of Ohio) Smith, of Pennsylvania, moved to suspend the rules, so as to make it in order to olfer an amendment to the Post-office Appropriation bill, to repeal additional China subsidy to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Agreed to, without yeas or nays The bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis (Carondelet) was so amended as to require the bridge to be built of two continuous spans of not less than 450 feet in clear Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, moved to suspend the rules and take from the Speaker's table the Senate Civil-rights bill for consideration at tho present time, and continuously until final disposition be made thereof; and that no dilatory motion be allowed until such bill and amendments shall have been finally disposed of.

Dilatory motions were immediately resorted to by Democrats to prevent a vote on Butler's resolution. Finally a direct vote was taken on the motion, and resulted, yeas 147, nays IB not two-thirds in the affirmative. So the motion was defeated. The Republicans voting no were Butler of Tennessee, Harrison, Hyde, Laf-land. Loundes, Maynard, Sener, Slieats, Sloan, Smith of Virginia, Stanard, Strait and Thorn-burg.

Proposed Change in the Method of Electing President and Vice-President. The following is the text of the proposed amendment to the Constitution providing a new method of electing President and Vice-President Resolved by the Seriate and Ilouie of Representative in Congress assembled, two-thirds of each House concurring therein, That the following article is hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and when ratified by the Legislatures of three -fourths of the States shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution, to-wit: Akticlb 1. The President and Vice-rresidcnt shall be elected by direct vote the people in the manner following Each State shall be divided into districts equal in number to the number of Representatives to which the State may be entitled in Congress, to bo composed of contiguous territory, and to be as nearly equal in population as may be; and the person having the highest number of votes in each district for President shall receive the vote for that district, which shall be counted one Presidential vote. 2. Persons having the highest number of votes for President in the State shall receive two Presidential votes from the State at largo.

3. The person having the highest number of Presidential votes in the United States shall be President. 4. If two persons have the same number of votes in any State, it being the highest number, they shall receive each one Presidential vote from the State at large, and if more than two persons shall have each the same number of votes in any State, it being the highest number, no Presidential vote shall be counted from the State at large. If more persons than one shall have the same number of votes, it being the highest number in any district, no Presidential vote shall be counted from that district.

5. The foregoing provisions shall apply to the election of Vice-President. 0. The Congress shall have the power to provide for holding and conducting the elections of President and Vice-President, and to establish a tribunal for the decision of such elections as may or nowaru couniy nuo uie counties 01 Chatauqua and Elk and the organization of new counties. The county seat of Chatauqua County shall be located at Sedan, and the county seat of Klk shall be located nt Howard City.

All county property shall be divided equally between the two new counties. The new counties are to be attached to and made a part of the Thirteenth Judicial District. Chatauqua County is to be constituted the Sixtv-sixth representative district. Large and Small Ears. Large ears, as has been observed, hear things in general, and denote broad comprehensive views and modes of thought while small ears hear things in particular, showing a disposition to individualize, often accompanied by the love of the minute.

Large ears are usually satisfied with learning the leading facts of a case, with the general principles involved too strict an attention to the enumeration of details, especially all repetition of the more unimportant, is wearisome to them. People with such ears like generally, and are usually fitted, to conduct large enterprises, to receive and pay out money in large sums in buying or selling would prefer to leave a margin rather than reduce the quantity of goods of any sort to the exact dimensions of the measure specified, and in giving would prefer to give with free hand and without too strict a calculation as to the cxactamount. Small ears, on the contrary, desire to know the particulars of a story as well as the main facts; take delight often in examining, handling, or constructing tiny specimens of workmanship; are disposed to be exact with respect to inches and ounces in buying or selling, to the extent at least of knowing the exact number over or under the stated measure given or received. People with such ears would, in most cases, prefer a retail to a wholesale business. Phrenological Journal, Bills were introduced to redistrict the State for torial elections in the States of Delaware, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania and Tennessee and in Rhode Island, where the Legislature re-assembled on that day after a recess, the Senatorial contest was resumed where it was dropped by adjournment last June.

The second Tuesday occurs in the Legislatures of New Jersey, West Virginia and Wisconsin, on Jan. 2G. The Florida Legislature, which met on Jan. 5, had not, at last accounts, perfected its organization in the upper branch. group of mines.

POLITICAL AND PERSONAL BREVITIES. The Connecticut Republican State Convention, held on the 2i)th, nominated Mayor James IJoyd Green, of Norwich, for Governor. The resolutions adopted fuvor a return to specie payments, and heartily endorse the President's action in reference to Louisiana. Governors Bedle of New Jersey and Cochran of Maryland, and Lieutenant-Governor Latta of Pennsylvania, wero inaugurated on the 10th. Governors lledle and Cochran, in their messages, and Lieutenant-Governor Latta in his address, all denounce the recent action of the Federal authorities In Louisiana.

TnE New York Republican Central Committee have adopted resolutions sustaining throughout the action of President Grant in the Louisiana matter, and setting forth that, even if what was done was Illegal, it was done without the knowledge of the President, and with the sincere desire of the officers of the Government to perform simply their duty. The Patrons of Husbandry of Louisiana and Mississippi have issued an address to the order throughout the United States indorsing the reportof the sub-committee of Congress. Thead-dress concludes as follows: "Believe us, this report, made by gentlemen of the North, and intelligent Congressmen of both political parties, tells you the truth. We refer it to you, and trust every Patron to whom this appeal may come, may give it an attentive reading. J.

U. Vaugh, through his attorney, Judge John A. Campbell, lias filed a petition in the Sixth District Court of Louisiana, claiming one thousand dollars damages from Generals Sheridan, Emory and De Trobriand, and II. J. Campbell, who, "on tho 4th of January, did unlawfully, violently and forcibly make an at-sault on petitioner, and ejected and thrust him from the House of Representatives where he claimed a seat." E.

B. Cooke, the oldest journalist in Connecticut, and editor of the Waterbury A ineri-can, died on Jan. IS, aged 82. A jikmokial monument to Thomas Paine was erected in Philadelphia on the 20th. Br.AxciiK Picoi is the name of the little darling that carried off the first prize at the Michigan State llaby and Poultry Show last week.

Thero were twenty prizes awarded in the baby department. Hon. Thomas F. Allen, Representative-elect from the Thirty-third Congressional District of New York, died on January 20, at his residence in Jamestown, Chautauqua County, N. Y.

His wife, son and daughter were at the time absent in Europe. Thomas Warren, aged 105 years, died at his residence nearTopeka, Kansas, on the 22d. He was a native of Virginia. Capt. H.

A. "White, a leader of the Connecticut Colony, in Russell County, Kansas, was frozen to death near his own home during a recent Bevere cold spell on the plains. Messrs. JloAit, Wheeler, Frye and Marshall, of the Congressional Committee to investigate Louisiana affairs, arrived at New Orleans on the22d, and lit once commenced the investigation. A.

S. Paddock was elected United States Senator from Nebraska on the sixth ballot. Mr. Paddock is classed, politically, as a Conservative Republican. B.

G. Caulfiki.d has been elected to fill Hie vacancy in the First Congressional District of Illinois, caused by tho death of Representative John Rice. Mr. Caullield is the Kcpresciita-tivo'eltTtof the Forty-fourth Congress. Gahibai.di arrived at Rome on the 21tli, where lie was greeted with most enthusiastic reception by the populace, headed by the Mayor and other municipal ollicers.

The people took the horses from his carriage and drew him to the hotel. Garibaldi is one of tho newly elected Deputies to the Italian Parliament. Alfonso has written an autograph letter to Queen Victoria, formally advising her of his accession to the throne, and of his intention to rule over Spain on constitutional principles. Similar notillcitioii has been given to France. Rev.

Ciiak1.es Ivimisi.kv, the Well-known English author, died on the 24th, aged 5li years. Knshsn Thomas ('. Spencer, lT. S. Navy, was found dead in his room at a hotel in Aspimvnll, on the of January.

The deceased was attached to tho United States Ifydrographic CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY. Jan. 19. Senate Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Finance, reported adversely on Senate bill to amend and re-enact section 44 of the act to reduce internal taxes, approved June 0, 1872, and rfwaa Immediately postponed Mr.

Sherman, from the Committee of Conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses upon Uie House bill to amend existing Customs and Internal Revenue laws and for other purposes, made a report, which was read. He said the report was substantially the same as reported last session, with the exception of the duty on hops, which had been raised to eight cents per pound. The Houso proposed a duty of ten cents per pound but the committee agreed upon eight cents. Two sections, relating to tobacco and the sale of bonds, which were the principal subjects of disagreement last year, were now stricken out. The report was agreed to The amendment of the Appropriation bill, providing for the organization of a Bureau of Commerce, was defeated yeas, 21; nays, 2ft.

Another amendment, appropriating $20,000 to defray the expenses of the present Bureau of Statistics, was carried After an executive session the Senate adjourned. House Messrs. Storm, Sypher and Chittenden denied Indignantly the truth of the charges that they had been implicated in the Pacific subsidy scandal. Telegrams were also received from 1). W.

Voorhees of Indiana, and Boyd Winchester of Kentucky, protesting against allegations made against them in connection with the Pacific Mail subsidy, and requesting to E. R. Hoar offered a resolution for the appointment of a committee to inquire whether the privileges of the House have been violated by the arrest and detention of Whitelaw Reid at the suit of Alex. R. Shepherd while Keid was within theDis trict of Columbia under subpoena from a committee of the House.

Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts opposed the resolution but it was finally adopted. Jan. 20 Senate The Vice-President laid before the Senate the memorial of the Conservative members of the Louisiana Legislature, giving their views of tho disturbance attending the organization of tho Legislature. Ordered printed and referred The Legislative, Judicial and Executive Appropriation bill was read a third time as amended and passed The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was also read a third time and passed The proposed amendment to the Constitution, providing for a direct vote for President and ice-President, was then taken up and read, after which the Senate went into executive session and then adjourned.

Htnise In the House, An old lady In Lockport, N. 1., recently achieved eminence by carrying a quart of popped corn to a donation party, and eating two dozen fried oysters, a pound of crackers, three slices of fruit cuke, half a mince pie, and some apples, after which she was threatened with a spasm," and in the effort to prevent it she sacrificed all the wine there was in the house. She attends donations regularly, and does a good deal for the Church in that way. judicial purposes; appropriating the Pomeroy-York money for the relief of the destitute to promote immigration to the State of Kansas; exempting relief supplies from taxation and attachment. Jan.

22. In the Senate a memorial was presented from tho National Board of Trade of Chicago, asking for the passage of a law requiring nil persons carrying on business under a linn name within the limits of this State to register with the County Clerk such firm name and the name of each individual member or person interested. A communication from the Governor, in answer to a request of the Senate for information of him concerning militia ollicers, was read. In the communication lie stated that one compnny of fifty men was now engaged in active service, with headquarters at Sun City. In the House, Mr.

Vaugh offered as a substitute for the Louisiana resolutions heretofore presented, a series expressing the highest confidence in Prcsiden Grant and indorsing his recent action in regard to affairs in that State. House concurrent resolution No. 15, requesting the General Government to transfer to Kansas .1,984,000 acres of land due the State, owing to the failure of tiie Government reserving to the State sections IB and 36 in the disposition of certain Indian lands, was adopted. House concurrent resolution No. 20, to redistrict the State for judicial purposes, was adopted.

Jan. 23 In Committee of the Whole in the Senate file following bills were recommended for adoption: Senate bill No. 23, repealing an act entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of savings and trust companies." Senate bill No. 81, by Mr. St.

Clair, regulating the publication of constitutional amendments. The bill prescribes that the printer shall receive $1 per square of 250 cms for the first insertion and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion. The debate in the House on the Louisiana resolution commenced on Friday evening and continued until near 1 a. m. Saturday.

A vote was then taken, which resulted in 00 yeas to 20 nays. Bills were passed- Respecting the sale of intoxicating liquors authorizing the District Court to confer the rights of majority on minors in certain cases; respecting vacancies in the office of County Attorney; to prevent anil punish gambling; changing and defining the boundaries of the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Representative Districts. Jan. 25. In tho Senate, Mr.

Ilalderman, from the Committee on Education, reported a recommendation that Senate bill relating to the loaning of the permanent school fund be referred to the Committee on Finance and Taxation also, that Senate bill relating to the uniformity of text books be rejected. Mr. Hopkins introduced Senate bill No. 120, to authorize County Commissioners to furnish necessaries to destitute inhabitants for putting in spring crops. The principal business in the House was slaughtering bills, twenty-seven being defeated in Committee of the Whole.

The bills defeated were nearly all of a local or special character. The express companies are working for the repeal of that section of the postal law which allows packages weighing less than four pounds to pass through the mails at the rate of a half cent an ounce. A repre-seniative of the Adams Express Company recently had a hearing before the House Postal Committee, when he stated that the Adams Express Company now pays railroad companies more than double this rule, and that it has notified the railroad companies that if express business continue to be put into mails the company can not continue to pay them the rates now charged for ils express packages. The present Post-ollice law, while injuring the express companies, it is urged, involves a heavy loss to the Government. the speaker presenter a letter irom nonert o.

Irwin, witness in the Pacific Mail investigation, statintr that ho was now rcadv to answer In the 'election for President in 187(3, the thirty-seven States of tiie Union will choose 3(iG electors. Those States in winch slavery lately existed will choose 138 of them. The New England States, together with New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, will choose 113, and the twelve States lying west of the Ohio, in which slavery did not exist, will choose the remaining 115. the questions and asked to purgo himself of Tire result of the Senatorial elections held by the several State Legislatures on the 19th was as follows Delaware re-elects Thomas F. Bayard and Maine, Hannibal Hamlin Massachusetts elects Henry L.

Dawes (Rep.) Michigan, Isaac P. Christ iancy Missouri, Francis M. CoekreH New York Francis Kernan Pennsylvania, William A. Wallace (Dem.) In the other States mentioned the balloting did not result in any choice. be contested.

7. The States shall be divided into districts by the Legislatures thereof, but Congress may at any time, by law, make or alter the same. A Mammoth Meerschaum. Another enthusiastic pipe fancier has been among us. This time lie is also from Russia and rejoices in the name and title of the Count Tyoskicwecs.

He indulged in no fancy ideas in the choice of a pipe, as did Major Gen. Rafl'alovich, his illustrious compatriot, who had his wife's likeness perpetuated in meerschaum, but bought a plain, serviceable article, in the shape of perhaps the biggest meerschaum pipe that was ever made in this city, or any other, fur actual use. It was made to his order, An old bachelor says "When I remember all the girls I've met together, I feel like a rooster in the fall exposed to every weather I feel like one who treads alone some barn-yard all deserted, whose oats are fed, whose hens are dead, or all to market started." A Mnn Accidentally Two of His Children. A very sad occurrence took place at Clinton yesterday morning, the particulars of Best Timr for Painting Houses. Tho best time for painting the exterior of buildings is late in the autumn or during the winter.

Paint then applied will endure twice as long as when applied in early summer, or in hot weather. at Kaldenberg's, in John street, and is of party on duty in Central America. His widowed mother lives in Cincinnati. Hon. John II.

AValker, President of Ins alleged contempt air. uarueld, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported a bill appropriating $150,000 for continuing the construction of the St. Louis Post-ollice building immediately. Passed Mr. Sheldon presented the memorial of the Conservative members of the Louisiana Legislature, relating to the difficulties concerning the organization of the Legislature.

Referred The Indian Appropriation bill, as agreed to in Committee of the Whole, was rejected yeas, 111 nays, 120 The Speaker presented a message from the President, calling special attention to the absolute necessity of providing proper armament for sea-coast defenses. Referred to the Committee on Military and Naval Affairs. Jan. 21. Senate The President's message in reference to coast defenses was read and referred A number of bills were Introduced, among them one to incorporate the Washington City and St.

Louis Railroad Company Mr. Hamlin, from the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment, reported adversely on the bill to reduce the salary of tho President of the United suites, with the request that it be placed on the calendar with the adverse report. So ordered The unfinished business, being the resolution from the Committee on Privileges and Flections proposing an amendment to the Constitution in regard to the election of President ami Vice-President, was called up, and Mr. Morton spoke in favor of the promised amendment. lone After the presenlanbn a large number of memorials nnd resolutions of little public interest, the question came up of reconsidering the vote by which tho Indian Appropriation bill was rejected yesterday.

The vote was reconsidered yeas, lllli; nays, si. Mr. Hale, of Maine, moved to recommit tho bill to the Committee on Appropriations, with Instructions to report it back with the Choctaw amendment struck out. Tho motion was rejected; vcas, 120, nays, 1.10. Holman moved to lay Ihe bill on the table.

Not agreed to; yeas, nays, 122. The bill was again rejected; yeas, 120 nays, 120. Jan. 22. Senate The House bill to provide for an appropriation for continuing tho construction of tho Post-office and Customhouse at St.

Louis was passed Mr. West pre. sonted the credentials of P. H. S.

J'inchback us Senator-elect from Louisiana for tho term ex-pil ing March 4, 1S7I1. Referred to tho Committee on Privileges and Tho Senate then resumed consideration of the resolution submitted by Mr. instructing tho Judiciary Cnmmitteo to inquire what legislation is necessary by Congress to secure tho people of Louisiana Ihe rights of self-government under the Constitution, and Mr. Sherman spoke at length thereon. House Mr.

Monroe offered a resolution calling on the Attorney-General for Information as to what steps should be taken to secure from each Stele the fulfillment of its contract to preserve undi the late Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania, died at his residence in Erie, on the 25th A Canadian murderer wanted them to put off the day of execution, owing to his being alllicted with the toothache but the Sheriff said he'd got to go to mill next day and he couldn't possibly accommodate the prisoner. of January. Senator Wrkiht, of Iowa, has intro duced a bill in the Senate ordering the reduction of the salaries of all Government employees ho receive more than twelve hundred dollars a year, the President and Supreme Court Judges alone excepted. B. Irwin on the 21st finally appeared before the Committee of Ways and Means, investigating the Pacific Mail subsidy business, and told to whom he paid money to assist in securing the passage of the bill.

In regard to the amounts, he said he might not be exactly accurate, hut was nearly so. The following was the list: Charles Abert, O.J. Aver-ill, $10,000 J. G. Berrett, $10,000 K.

II. Cormiek, does not recollect, but thinks or $5,000 Amos B. Corwin, L. E. Chittenden, B.

II. Chcevcr, $5,000 Hamilton G. Flint, $12,000 John W. Forney, Samuel A. Hatch, about S.

R. Ingham, $10,000 Win. Moran, don't recollect; Alex. W. Randall, John D.

Rice, AVin. B. Shaw, Charles II. Sherrill, $500; John G. Sehii-maker, A.

II. Whiting, Witness said the above list comprised the names of all persons employed by him; and he knew of the employment of only two others, AVm. S. King, to whom he paid $125,000, and Richard F. Parsons, who was Stockwell's personal attorney.

AVitness paid Parsons $10,000 on Stock-well's account lie gave Sehumaker in New York, and sent $25,000 more from California. Hersey and Boyd, the Assistant Doorkeepers of the House, wen; not employed by him. The amounts paid them were gratuities, which witness had overlooked in his former statement. which we learn froi i Dr. E.

G. Macy, who happened to lie near at the time. Mr. James lirooks, who is Constable of that tow nship, has a family of nine very promising children. Among them were two little boys, one aged seven and the other live years.

Yesterday morning Mr. Brooks was standing by the stove with liis children around him. He had a revolver In his pocket, or strapped around him, which by some means became disengaged and fell. The pistol struck the stove in the fall, and one barrel was discharged, the ball passing through the body of the little five-year-old child and into the body of the other. Tim ball struck the youngest child near the navel, and, passing through tho body, came out near the spinal column, producing dcjitli in short time.

After passing through the youngest child, the ball entered the body of the seven-yeiir-old boy above the hip, and passed into the abdomen, where it lodged. The oldest boy may recover, although very seriously Injured. The bull had not been ex-tracteil this morning. The boy that was killed was a remarkably bright little fellow, and the sad accident lias overwhelmed the family with distress. The.

must rcnmrkiihlc part of this sad affair Charles Spkaiu'e, the banker-poet, died at his homo in lloston, on the 21st, aged 811 years. THE MARKETS. JANUAIIY 20, 1875.1 ST. LOUIS. BEEVES Choice, $.1.25 6.75; Good to Prime, 4.50 0.25; Cows and Heifers, $2.75 9 4.75; Through Texans, $11.00 4.25; Corn-Fed Texans, $2.25 4.50.

Hoos Good to Choice, $5. 50 0.75. SHEEP Good to Choice, 4.00 9 4.75. FLOUll-Choice Country, $5.00 6.35; XXX $4.90 6.00. Wheat No.

2, $1.05 a l.os; No. 8,1.01 $1.02. C'OIIK No. 9 niTvuil ia ffilUn Oath TELEGRAPHIC NOTES. The price of gold In New York, on Jan.

25, was 1I2.V. No. 2. 55 a 5llo. Uye No.

2. m.ni,ai m. A tenement house hi Brooklyn, N. HAltf.EV Prime, $1,30 1.60 TlMOTHV Seed Prime, $2.50 a 2.00. ToiiACCO Hound Iiiirn.

As. on a Rn Mn.iium $0.50 11.00. HA Y-l'rlmo Timothy, $18.50" occupied by live families, was burned on the night of the llllh. Mrs. lllood and her two sons Jumped from a second-story window, the mother being Instantly killed and both sons fatally injured.

o.uo. jiuiTUB Choice, 87 30c. ICoos 21225c. 1'oitn Standard Mess, $18.60 LAito-Rellned, 13aUo. WooL-Tub-' wnHlmd rOind'n AH at, K-in lTnr.ai.n,i Ellen McCorniirk also Jumped from a window urn, 34 37c.

CoTTOK-MIdiUing, Htfo. and was seriously injured, while her father. Timothy McCormlck, wassuffocntod In tho build the shape technically known as the "London The meerschaum portion, which is perfectly plain, after it was ready to receive the amber stein, weighed exactly half a pound, and measured nine and a half inches from the outer side of the bowl to the joint where the mouthpiece was to be fitted. The mouthpiece, or stem, was made from a solid piece of clouded amber, eight mid a half inches in length, secured to the meerschaum with a patent silver screw. pipe measured seventeen and a half incnes in length when finished, and weighed but fourteen ounces, and cost its owner $2(10.

Six workmen were engaged wo days and a half in its production. The Count sailed for Havana day before yesterday, where he will doubtless llnd sufficient tobacco to enable him to color his pipe. New York Times, Jan, 15. Interesting to Travelers. The lliirlingtoii Hawkeye says Among the other pleasant occasions which mark the holidays, the friends of a R.

and M. baggage-man presented him with a patent triiiik-liller. It was made of steel and brass. Two clamps catch the trunk at either end, and a turn of a knob in the hands of a baggage-man pulls potli straps out by the roots, while, at the same time an iron ball, weighing nine pounds, hammers away at the bottom of the trunk, and a neat, three-jointed, self-acting rake, with twelve teeth, reaches In as quick ns a hole Is made nnd sweeps from end to cud of the trunk, finally emerging through the lid, where It clinches, and by a sudden backward jerk, turns the trunk Inside out. No baggage-man should be without it.

JIr. ArsTix, in Psyche, calls attention to the occurrence of a cochineal insect in great abundance on several specks of the cactus growing In the northwest of Nebraska and adjacent portions of Dakota. He can lind no evidence that the Indians Were acquainted with the existence of this substance in its practical applications as a paint and, Indeed, the fact of Its occurrence then1 at all was unexpected by him, although lie has since learned that It Is not uncommon in Kansas and Southern ing. Other occupants were more or less Injured Texans, $7.00310.75. Hoos-Dressed, $7.2 in endeavoring to escape.

minished tho principal of the fund derived The Cook County National Bank of Chi Irom the sale of lands granted under Iho Agri cultural bill. Adopted Mr. O'llricn asked cago suspended payment onthelillh, Tho President, Mr. F. Allen, assures depositors that no leave to offer a resolution calling on tho Presi dent If) slate bv what authority the courts or olli loss will occur to them, their payment being only a question of lime.

George V. Paddock fc Bank, at W'atcrtown, N. has suspended payment. Tho liabilities aro supposed to greatly exceed the assets, Isaac P. Ciihistiancy, the newly-elected Senator from Michigan, has been for seventeen years one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State, mid part of the time Chief Justice, lie has been elected to tills position twice by unanimous vote of both parties.

In polities he was originally a Democrat, has been a Free Soiler, and then a Republican. He is sixty-three years old and a resident of Lansing, lie is understood to ben hard-money and revenue-tariff man, conservative on constitutional questions, and wild to he a man of marked ability. cers ol Mississippi and icksburg hiul been Interfered with by the army. Mr. Congerobloctod.

because that was nu assumption that they hail been Interfered with The Speaker then called the committee for the reports of a private character, and many bills were introduced and referred. Adjourned till Monday. Jan. 23. Senate Vice-President AVilson being nbsont, Mr.

Anthony, of Rhode Island, was made President pro tern Tho Chair laid before tho Senate a letter from tho Srrrctnrv of War, In answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 11th transmitting copies of correspondence in relation to certain disorders in the Stale of Louisiana. Ordered printed and referred to Committee on Privileges and Flections A large number of petitions were presented for the roH'nl of the net of 1S72, relieving certain foreign products of 10 per cent, duly, anil against tho restoration of dutv on leu and remains to be told. Tho night before the accident, the oldest boy, after being put to bed, up-stairs, invoke in a great fright, and mine down-stairs, lie told Ills father that neighbor's boy (calling him by name) had shot him and his little brother, nnd that his brother died, but lie did not. The little fellow was dreaming, but lie was so much frightened that he would not go to his bed again, so ills father took him in his own bed to pacify him, where he slept the remainder of tho night. Law-rence Standard, Jan, 20.

Kenlh of a ('cntt'iinrlnii. Most of the older readers of the Commonwealth will remember that about five years ago, the hundredth birthday of Mr. Warren, who lives few miles from this city, was celebrated with peculiar ceremonies. The old gentleman, who was six years old when tho Declaration of Independence was signed, was made the honored guest of the State of Kansas, nnd received us a revolutionary relic by the Legislature ami accorded a seat of honor beside the Speaker. The day was bright and warm, though In mid-winter, and the scene was a pleasant and mi Impresslvo one.

At that time Mr. Warren was hale and hearty, ns eheerful In temper ami as active In body and clear of mind as nro most men at llfty. Ho was Interviewed by a Commonwealth re $5.2037.25. Fi.ouk Good to Choice, 5.35. Wheat-No.

2 Chicago, $1.00 81.11. Cons Western lllxcd. 81 a Hfijjo. Oats Western, 73lMc. Krv Western, J-iAitn-1'rlmc Steam, Cotton Middling, CHICAGO.

llKEVES-Falr to Choice, ffl $4.45 fl flfl; Texans, $3.00 4.00. HoS-Good to Choice, SllHEP Good to Choice. $3. ,53 5.30. iaoim-Whlto Winter, Kxtra, $0.00 (S'l-'X); Spring Extra, 2' 88 3,182 82 He.

CoiiN No. 2, 4 ffliHVo. Oats -No. 62352X0. KVB-No.

3, lJ fl H7o. 11AIU.EY-NO. 2, $1.25 I'oim-Now Jlcss, 18.00c, tABU-Snnimcr, VHEAT-ltcd, new, $1.05 Coiin-1 Now, 08 Oats-No. ho H3c, ess, $18 25. LAnn-Kctllc.

e. a JI'o. ConoN-iliddllng, ua. fiN7iA Steers, $2.50 3 4.00. Texas Cows, $2.50 0 2.75.

I 'iYls-J'utehori, Yorkers, Stockcrs 4.0J. rm.Mrj.I';,,Flr0,!B M.76 8 7.25. LoitN Hhitfl, Kin. OATH-Yellow, 8Mi nil 0-W3 20.00 COTTOX Middling, a Choice, iiV M8SII0. lr.

24 0- "UK-Mess Two executions took place In Pennsylvania on tho 20th. At Philadelphia Frederick Ileidcnblut was hanged fortheniurderof Godfrey Kuhulo on the Hist of December, and at Grcenshurg Samuel Ilelghley was hanged for the murder of Kerr, in November, A Salt Lake dispatch of the 20th says: A fearful storm Is reported In tho Sierra Neva-das and vicinity. A number of bridges on the Central Pari lie ItAilroad have been washed away, among others that at Sacramento. Lust night at 7 o'clock a snow-slide occurred at Alia City, Little Cottonwood Canon, I'tnh. Tho slldo came Into tho upper portion of tho town, demolishing two houses, and killing six persons James Carey, his wile and two children, and John Van-derleen and Micky Kelly.

Another fatal snow-slide occurred In Illg Cottonwood Canon, Utah, on tho 2ith, by which six men wero carried away ond killed. Tho elide extended for a uistnnco ot about one coffin. Itefcrred A bill for the relief ol the survivors of tho Polaris expedition was passed At the expiration of the morning hour tho Louisiana discussion was resumed, and Mr. Johnston addressed the Semite Mr, Pease sent b) the Clerk's desk, nnd had read, resolutions of the Mississippi Legislature, indorsing the action 'of General Sheridan in Louisiana. I'ndcr the call of Mutes nianv bills ero Introduced, among them the following: (by Mr.

llutler) to establish a postal-telegraph (by Mr. Wells) for A branch mint at St. Louis: flu-Mr. Fuom a comparative statement of railroad construction for 174 and several preceding years, published in the Railroad Gazette, we learn that there was a great falllng-off In railroad construction last year, which was doubtless tho effect of the depressed condition of finances and many branches of business. The report shows 14 WwroN-Low Middling, Lowe) for the construction of public building.