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In the House the fllllhuHterliiK to prevent NUHS. the Pope is suffering from Inflammation of tho liver, tho Cardinals oppose his removal from the Vatican. ever, until thousauds of maddened meu and women had brokon the windows in all the mills, and burned the house of Mr. Johuson, a master, to the ground. The THE NEWS.

XLVth CONGRESS. Tho Indian appropriation bill passed L--. .1 I TOPICS OF THE TIM 12. Bishop MoGoskry announoos Lis intention to stand Lis ground ami meet any and all ohargosthat maybe brought affecting his character as a prolate of the Protestant Episcopal Church. lie has lately addressed to Bishop Smith, of Kentucky, President of the House of Bishops, a lotter withdrawing his resignation, and announcing his abandonment of the journey to Europe he had contemplated, and his readiness to answer his accusers according to the forms and methods laid down in the canons.

Dr. J. Foard, of North Carolina, thinks "the best and easiest way to heal the wounds made by the war is to compensate thoso who lost so much in the conflict." Thoroforo, ho has prepared a petition to Congress praying "that all soldiers, or legal representatives, of both armies and cvory section, be paid in bonds or public lands for their lost time, limbs, and lives, whilo engngod in the lute unfortunate civil conflict." A few weoks ago it was announced a vote on the Potter resolution was ouu-tinned. The entire day being taken up by motions and counter motions. The Democrats having less than a quorum present, tha Republicans kept them at a disadvantage.

A Ottll of the House would be ordered snowing a quorum present, then a vote would be taken on tne resolution, ou wmou the Republicans would refrain from voting, thus sliowlug no quorum. After several hours of such tactlos the House adjourned, and the Republicans held a caucus, which is referred to elsewhere. Washington Nolo. REPUBLICAN BE8ISTAKCE. After the adjournment of the Houso on the 13th the Republican members of the House held a cauous to determine how far tho nature of the Democratic movement to repeal the Presidential question should be resisted by the minority.

The mooting resulted In the adoption of tha following resolutions: Resolved, That the resolution now pend ing In tho Houso is an attempt in a form unjustlllable and illegal to open the question of the presidential title, a question sol-emuly settled by the aotlon of the Forty-fourth Congress, which alouo had jurisdiction, and is thereforo revolutionary and destructive of tho geod order, busluess prosperity and peaoo of the country. Rosolved, That tho effort of the Domo oratlo majority to foroo upon tho Houso, without an opportunity for amendment or debato, a measure of such revolutionary character which has nut been recommend ed or considered by any of its commlttoes, but has boon devised by individuals for party ends, should bo roststed by all moans which are authorized by the resolutions of tho House. MEANING THE MEXICANS. The War Department is informed that Gonoral Ord has In a general ordor re Issued exacting orders about following raiders. District commanders are instruct od thoy must adhere to them strictly whilo there is an acknowledged government In the exorclso of power in the territory In which tho raiders takv rofugo, but if such territory is alternately held by rival fac tlons at war with each other, and thoro is no responsible government In control, the pursuing pnrtlos can take the shortest routes to the places of refuge of raiding bands and treat tho populations that defend them as if they wero raiders.

OUR NATIONAL DEDT. The following is the statement of tho aruouut of of legal tender notos and fraction curroncy on tho llth: U. S. notos, new isstio, do. notos since 1809, do, notes sorles 1H74.

$39,515,182: do, nol'S series 1875, do. notes series 1878, $801, 100; total U. 8. notes, fraction ul currency. Gran 485.997.

REGULATING TEXAS CATTLE. Representative Morgan has introduc- od a bill declaring Introducing Jof Texas, Mexican or Indian cattle Into Missouri, Kansas or Illinois from March 1st to Nov, 1st of each year, an offenso punlshnblo with a fine or imprisonment. Tho design of tho bill Is to protect domostlo cattle from what is known as Texas fever. TUB PRESIDENT SERENE. Tho President said this morning that there was nothing now In the proposed in vesllgutlon, but whilo frauds, if any were committed, should bo exposed, such ex posuro would not Invalidate his tltlo to the presidential ehulras this had beon settlod and declared by a commission costltuted under a solemn act of Congress.

TBI JETTIES APPROVED. The report of Generals Bernard and Wright, United States engineers' to wlora tho petition of Captain Eads for tho modi flcatlon of tho jetty act was referred by tho Secretary of War, state that tho works ure permanent and their succoss Is so decided as to mako it important to prosocute them with vigor. TEE EASTERN WAR. The Situation. Tho dispatches from Europe have not boon so unsatisfactory slnoo tho war be twoon Russia and Turkey commenced as for tho past week.

It has been announced by both Bides in tho controversy that nogo tlatlons are In progress which must suroly result in a peaceful settlement, and thut whilo Russia will securo a fair measure of tho fruits of hor war with tho Ottomans England's intorosts will not suffer in tho least. It was at one time stated that the Russian troops would rotlre from the vicln lty of Constantinople at once, but It is offl daily stated from Russian circles that that cannot occur until Turkey makes further concessions and England withdraws hor navy from tho Sea of Marmora. It is lm posslblo to predict what a day may bring forth. By the time this roaches tho roador eye a permanent peace may beostabllshod a war may be iu progress, or the situation may bo statu quo; CRIMINAL. Attempting to Assnsslnnto an Emperor Two shots were fired into the emper or of Germany's carriage from the sldowalk last Saturday without effect.

Tho assassin ran into tho mlddlo of the avonuo, followed by a crowd. An nttompt bolng made to capture him, he fired throe more shots and throw his revolver away. He was then secured. Tho emporor'searriage was stopped and his footman sprang from tho box and assisted In the capture. Anothor man who, it Is allogod, attempted to rescuo tho ono who fired tho shots, was arrested a fow mlnutcB afterward In tho middle of tho av enuo.

The Gorman Commune, The attempt upon thclifoof Emperor William has created much exclteraont in Germany. In Ruckstag on Monday two socialists openly invited rebuke by refusing to join In loyal cheers which tho presldont of tho chambor proposod, but no attention was paid them. All attempts to establish Hoodol's Insanity, ns well as his independ ence of the social Democrats, havo failed, Ills crime is proved by nuuorous witnesses and tho trial will be a more formality. Kullier Free with Jewels. An agent of an eastern wholesale jowolry Arm stopping at the LIndoll hotel in St.

Louis, last Saturday v. as, robbed of over fivo thousand dollars worth of his wares. Tho thlof entered the adjoining room, which is occupied by a regular boarder of tho houso, with a false key, prlod open tho folding doors which connected this room with tho jewolor's, abstracted tho property, which was rollod up in clothes, and left the hotel unobserved. KiUjlunil's Commune. The striking mill hands at Blackburn, England, becamo riotous on the llth, and troops wore called out to presorve the peaoe.

The soldiers did not arrive, how Tho water works oi Little Rock hava boen completed. Every dwelling house In St, Joseph. is tenanted. Pork Is lower in Iowa than It has been for eighteen years. Tha rebuilding of tho Southern hotel at Si Louis Is talked of.

El'CS arc Bellini? for fivo emits a dntnn In most Wisconsin towns. Thirty-five young wolves were captured lu Emmet county, Iowa, last week. Tho bounty amounted to $105. Forty dozen pairs of shears per day are niado at a factory at Elyrla, where fifteen men are employed. A regular lino of steamers Is In operation betwevu Atkin, Minn and I'okegema Falls on tho upper Mississippi, A further stimulus to coal mining in New Boulh Wales is given by tho discov ery of veins of gold amid the coal.

Montague, has a church scandal. and tho Presbyterian church at that place is without a pastor in consequjmce. A number of Oskaloosa, Iowa, butchers have been compelled to close shop, not being able to pay the high price for ice. Colorado Is to have two distilleries one located sixteen miles west of Pueblo, and the other in the Wet mountain valley. It is said that five million bushels of corn aro In store along the lino of the Chi-cago it Hock Inland railroad in Iowa.

A Sand Boring, Iowa, clergyman has In- vented a churn which is worked by sitting down and rocking as in a rocking chair. A bed room set valued at tOO Is offered to the couple who will get married on tho Groeuville, Michigan, lair grounds next tall. Gold quarter caclea, which are Just ap pearing in circulation in New. York, are frequently received and paid out for now cents. A bounty of one dollar a head is paid on dogs at the pound in Cincinnati, and several euterprising dealers have already gone into the business of raising puppies lor tho bounty.

Some American manufacturers have discovered that they can avoid the disastrous discriminating duties of Cuba by shipping their goods to Liverpool and then trans-shipping in ppanisn ooitoms. A nancr butter nlato manufactory at Lyons, Iowa, now turns out 112,000 plates per day. The demand is so great, however, that facilities aro to be added until 1100,000 per day can bo manufactured. Manitoba is exporting large quantities of wheat this spring. Homo of the steamers have carried as much as ono hundred tons at a trip.

Most of It is consigned to Europe, and is shipped by way ot New York. A sick farmer in Jackson township, Washington county, Iowa, was surprised recently by nine neighboring farmers, with teams and plows, who proceeded to plow his fields. A relief society of the right sort Ono single house at Neufchatel forwards annually to Paris six million cheeses, tho value ot which is estimated at francs. The manufacture of theso cheeses require tho milk of five or six thousand cows. The Turks have discovered the secret ol the Whitehead torpedo from two Russian specimens which they captured atBatoum, and are manufacturing them in great quantities.

Otherwise they would have had to pay $125,000 for tho knowledge. The Shamrock, so named in compliment to Marshal MacMahon, is the largest vessel ever built in a private shipyard in France, being more than three hundred feet long. She has just been launched, and will be used to carry Iroops to and from Cochin China, Davenpsrt, Iowa, has a factory in operation making sugar out of Indian corn. The sugar is said to be of Uio best quality, and much resembles maple sugar, and is as pleasing to the taste as honey. Syrup made from corn has been in the market for some time.

A largo paper company, of Ypsilanti, is talking of introducing electric lights into its mills. The sybtem under consideration is that of a Cleveland firm As the mills are run night and day, cheap ness, combined with safety and good light, is tho great desideratum. The report of the Connecticut insurance, commissioner shows that the seven leading fire insurance companies of Hartford havo paid $95,300,502.52 losses, $10,003,715 cash dividends, and $4,045,000 stock dividends The total cash capital of the companies today is $7,450,000. In a contribution to the Austrian Monab ichrift f. d.

Orient, Baron von Itichthofen reckons tho coal production of Cnina at 3,000,000 ot tons annually. The anthracito beds of fcf hansl represent 1,000,000 tons, the bituminous coal of that province the province of Hunan, Shantung, 200,000, and Chi-Li, 150,000. A mysterious disease has appeared among hogs in McLean and Ford counties, Illinois. At Hudson some twenty-five have died, and near Paxton nearly two hundred. The diaeasc is very rapid.

Many hogs apparently well at nicht aro found dead tho next morning. Post mortems show that tho brain is alfected. Andrew J. Kellogg, of Detroit, was in Milwaukee last week agitating tho necessity of memorials to Congress requesting that laws tor the preservation of the white-fish in tho great lakes be immediately en-acted. An effort will bo made to induce the Wisconsin legislature, at its session to tako placo in June, to memorialize Congress in this matter.

Alfred L. White has almost completed an immense tenemont, occupying an en-tire block, in Brooklyn, N. Y. It is In-tended lor twcnty-eight families. Tha structure is in a great measure on tho plan of tho Improved Industrial Dwelling company's houses, which have proved so successful in London, but in many respects surpasses them in comfort and convenience.

Every family will havo a dwelling of three or four rooms, and every dwelling will havo a private hallway, upon which all rooms of the set open. From these hallways doors open upon the staircase outside of tho house, leading to the street There are three of these staircases, all of brick and stone, and entirely fireproof A colored man at Itosedalc, Miss has lately secured a patent for a steam engine which ho has invented, and which, it the judgment of many experienced and scion-title men to whom ho has shown his model is correct, i5 calculated to revolutionize the prebent nppMcmion of steam. Thccngino is rotary, hi: vlng tho steam applied at the circumference of a wheel, giving this treblo tho force of ordinary engines, with no diminishing of power at the various stages of the revolution of the wheel. Tho invention dispenses with all the machinery except the one wheel, which answers at ouce tbo purposo of cylinder and driving-wheel, and two steam boxes through which the steam is applied. A Turkish Job, The Providence Tool Company has started up to complete the original Turkish oontraot, of which about 10,000 rifles are still to be made.

Fatal Holler Kiiiloiloti. A boiler at a ooal mine in Tamaroa, 111., exploded on Monday, killing John Wll-loughby, John Bympson, and wounding three small boys who have stnoe died. 8 ml Death. Miss Kato Morris, daughter of Oen. B.

G. Morris, was burned to death at New Orleans by the explosion of a cnul oil lamp. ireain ui misscii. Earl Itussell died on tho 15th at tho advanced ago of elghty-sevsn years. Ho was England's oldest peer.

Disastrous Frost. Heavy frosts in all parts of Now York and Pennsylvania have done considerable damage to crops. Not Agreeable, Tho negotiations for establishing di plomats rotations botwoen England and the Vatican have failed. The I'urmaneiit Show. Pensylvania's permanent exhibition was re-opoued again oiiJHaturday, and was well patronized.

THE MARKETS. WEEKLY OBAIN BEVIRW. We ore indebted to Messrs- Powers, Lynde Si Wright, of Kansas City, for theful lowing reliable review of the gruln trade: Wheat In both home and foreign mar kots, tho woek past, tho general tendency or values has neon uownwarus. wore ia vorablo wouthor for tho growing crops of ureat iiritain ana on the Continents, to gether with the moro ptaceful turn in political anairs, urougnt snout a reaction from tho previous speculative advance In breadstuiis, and quotations of spring wboat aro 0 pence per cental lower: wluter wheat lto 2 pence lower. The decline in our homo markets tins been 10 to '2c a bushul in sym pathy with duller foreign markets, and aid ed by Increasing lurgo rocopts.

"Export (clearances ror tne wecit ending tno etu wore 1.4:14,235 an lnvreaso of over half a million from preceding week. Corn The samo Influences aiioctliig wheat have depressed corn, and a decline of pence per quarter In English markets has followed lor the week, our own mar kots boen lu favor of buyers, with actlvo trading. Rye This cereal is still in active demand tor foreign orders, and values continue un changod. Receipts at Interior inarkots havo boen of an even volume with former reports. Oais During tho lust excitement, in an ticipation of further war, Oats were In great demand for foreign account; France too, buying lurgolv to replenish hor small stock of breadstuffs Increased tho export demand.

With a more peaceful outlook, however, and tho increased rocoipts from producers, trading has boon less active and against sellers. QUOTATIONS. Liverpool Corn, new, liis Sd to (id; old, '27a 3d to Uis td. New York hent, easy; No 2 Chicago, tl.30tJl.21; No. 2 Milwaukee, tl.8tf(ijl.'a4; Ked winter, Com, steamer, OOc; 'o.

a. OlKc. liultlmore Wheat, steady. No. 2 red winter.

tl.8l!Jtf cash; $1.27 Juno. Corn steiidy; mixed western, olWc cash or June; 02c July. Chicago Wheat, unlet; fi.w wny; fl.Oi June; July, corn, 3Vc -May; June; S'JXwlOc July. Milwaukee Wheat, sicuuy; l.io,1 casn; Liu; May; fi.owi Juno. Toledo Wheat, dull; No.

2 red, tl.l'J cash; $1.24 June. Corn, dull 42c cash; 42cJuno: i6)ic July. Bt. Louis Wheat, dull; fl.H-M June 1 1.0!) July. Corn, 39Jc June; 40, July Kausus City Wheat, No.

8, cash. $1.08 Corn, No. 2. cash, "lo. Ryo, No.

2, 4(io, Cattle Good to choice steers, t3.85r(i3.90; native cows. $3.35 corn fed Texuns, $3.00 3.35; stockers. w.im'j.w. uogs rackors Johnny dirlftln's) Hath. From tho Hsralil.

That littlo Johnny Griffin, who is barely six years old, should havo desired a morning buth is luudublo; that he should havo sought one was luminal; but that he should have cast aside his tattered garments and, iu all the glory of naked innocence, joined the crowd of boys that were bathing in punis naturalibw and in tho fountain on Howling Green was scandalous. At least Officer Kelly, who was passing. thought so, and he accordingly made a raid on tho crowd with the view to sur rounding and capturing all the "little wanton boys." lie was not numerous enough to succeed fully, but he did scatter them, and for a few minutes there was rare sport in the neighborhood "Globed and gleaming limbs" innumer able flashed in the sunlight as the mis- chievious youngsters darted hither and thither to tho amusement of sober old merchants, tho dolight of tho clerks and the consternation of tho ladies who were passing in stages, At length the smallest boy, whochanced to bo Johnny was overhauled, clad and arrainged be fore the magistrate at tho Tombs Johnney was badly frightened, but only got a severe lecture, the human of which was wasted on him, and at its conclusion ho scampered away happy after his dis charge. Senators) as) Flirts. Mrs.

Grimily, In New York Oraiihic. I verily believe that the Sontovs are visibly affected when ono oi their num bor marries or announces his engage ment. An alarming mania for flirting appears to have siezed many of them lately, apropos of Don Cameron being paired. At a recent entertainment 1 saw this scene A lady was passing alone from one room to another, when sud donly her hand was grasped in two powerful ones, apparently tenderly pressed and retained for some seconds, She looked up in amazement, not knowing who had siezed her hand, lor the gentleman had approached her from behind, and she beheld ono of the possible Presidential nominees of 187G and 1880, a married gentleman of mature years and presumably ono of tho least inclined to flirtation. At the same time tho above scene was occurring another Senator, also a married man, wa-i enjoy ing apparently most onteresting conver sation with a lndy who is the wife of another, lot it was all dono very innocently, and no one must so mistake my meaning as to suppose I intend to draw a sensational pisture of immorality in high places.

Two prominent machinists in Baltic Creek. havo sunk 8.0001n tho will o'-tho wlsp attempt to discover perpetual motion. resldenoo of an older man was also partially demolished, ust lllablelloinlolilo. Charles Wiley and Charlos Moore, both employes of a Fort Fetterman freighting firm, became involved in a quarrel, in which Mooro was killed, Wiley, who was unarmed, was attacked by Moore and beaten over the bead with a six-shooter. He secured bis adversary's weapon and with It shot him several tlmos.

A verdict of justifiable homicide was rondered by the coroner jury. He Csme Too Lute. A Cuban named Agnero, with eleven followers, recently landedfm the southern const of tho Central department in Cuba, in a lighter, from Jamaica, in tho bollef that an iusurrectlon had broken out, and finding tranquility everywhere, and everybody opposed to disturbance, he surrendered. irlmliml AmuMtmont. A performer in a variety bIiow at Rockfort, attompted.the feat of shooting an apple from the head of a woman.

The aim miscarried, and an eight-year-old boy named Wlegel, playing outside the canvas, was shot in the head and almost Instautly killed. Shield's Sereimdm A serenado and reception of Oen. Shields took place at the Palmer House Chicago, Members of the First and Second regiments participate J. Tho occasion was one of unusual gratification to all partlcl pitting. jiiore irooKna wiusuy.

Tho efforts of tho government to fer ret out irregularities in the whisky radio of Cluclnnnll distillers is mooting with success More than a dozen distilleries are suspected, and soveral havo boon seized. Watching for Iluidlt. The Italian government has private detectives watching every vessel arriving In New York for tho notorious bandit chief, Troullllnl, accused ol committing thirty murders and many robborlos. A ItofmilUtr Jii(khI. Geo.

W. Waterson, former assistant paymaslor of the TacHle mills, of Lawrenco, has been arrosted. having fulled to secure against loss by his defalcation of $100,000. The Foiiliina Again. The Fenian scaro is not yet over.

Four companies of infuntry and a battery nro held under marchlug ordors at Fort Erie to prevent tho breaking of the noutrul lty laws. AtionuT liuor. Tho president of the Merchant's Na tional bank, of Whitehall, N. has beon arrested for embozzllng one hundred thou' sand dollars of tho funds of tho bank. A Defaulting Fuller, Feller, tho defaulting cashier of a Tif fin, Ohio, bank, has been arrested an brought back to the scone of his crooked ness for trial.

A Suit Tragedy. A farmer near Augusta, last week killed throe of his chlldron and then com mlttud suicide. His wife and eldest child escapod him. A Communist Cribbed. Daniel Carsly, a leading Communist of Now York has boon sontenced to tho Btato prison, convicted of folonous assault The Lasli.

Delaware still retains tho whipping post. Six persons were publicly lashod at Nowuastlo last Saturday. GENERAL NEWS. Americuu Government. Tho Loudon Times, speaking of the threatened Communistio trouble In Amerl ca, says: "The fubrlo of Amorlcan socloty Is so strong it can sustain with llttlo or do Injury, shocks whioh would be fatal to woaker and more offoctivo constitutions, In tho United Statos tho freedom of discus sion Is a safety vulvo through which ogreat deal of superfluous political steam escapes, Americans havo political sagacity onough to distinguish shitrply between Intemper ate or even revolutionary speech and re bellious action.

Thoy have unbounded to! eratlon for the ono, but have novor shown any groat patlenco for tho other. We do not doubt, that if they have to deal with any dangerous form of Communism, they will deul with it effectively as the social fubrlo of the United States Is as capable of successfully rosistlng such an attack as that of any Slate in tho World." Keystone Kopubllcuns, Tbo Republicans of Pennsylvania mot in Btato oonvoutlon on the 15th, and nomlnatod H. M. Iloyt for Governor and Chas. W.

Stone for The platform adopted declares that the party is adhering to historical record and its prln clplos horotoforo afllrmod and declares in favor of protection of home industry, the preservation of the publlo lands for the bonoflt of the poor, opposes the payment of Southern claims, favors laws regulating inter-stato freight traffic, extonds sympathy to Southern Republicans, and eulogising Governor Hartrunft's administration. The convention was remarkable for its unanml ty of fooling and purpose. Buleof Steamer. Several of the host steamers of the North Gorman Lloyds, botwoen Baltimore and Bromon, havo been sold to the Russian govornmont. And applications for first olass passage havo boon Informed that they could not bo accommodated at Baltimore but must sail from New York.

Catherine lioeclier Dying. In the course of his talk at Plymouth church, last Friday night, Mr. Boecher an nounoed the rocolpt of a telegram from his brother Thomas, at Elmlra, N. stating that their sister, Miss Catherine Boecher had been strkkon with apoplexy and was dying. Death of MaJ.

Todd. Maj. Todd, commandant at Jefferson barracks, who wusjthrown from his buggy while on his way homo from St Louis, is dead. H1b skull was fractured, and he lay unconscious from the tlmo of the accident till his death. Kansas City's Itrolion Hanks.

Comptroller of currency has deolared a dividend of 75 por cont. in favor of tho creditors of tha Commercial National bank of Kansas City; and 15 por cont. in favor of the creditors of the First National bauk of Kansas City. In Demand. The syndicate have anticipated thoir option? for August and Beptomber, and havo tnkon $10,000,000 of tho 4iper cont bonds.

Total amount thus far takon The I'opo's Illness. A special from Borne Bays, although the Bonute on thu Utti aftor exteudud (lis- ousbIou ami the adoption of various amend ment. Air. luKaiiit luti-oiiuoou a uiu iu regulate tho railway mall service reform, It Is a dupltmita of thu bill Introduced lu thollouMobyMr. rhllllpa.

The bill to repeal the bankrupt luw wan next taken up and with uisousitiou uneouipitmiu me Donate adjourned, In tho House tho joint resolution reported from the committee on education and labor, for the enforcement of the eight-hour law lu all departments of the govern-ment, gave rise to a lively discussion, In the course of which Mr. banks denounced the disregard of the law by the government as soumlalous ana luminous, ami Mr. junior, of advocated a penalty for Its disregard, and said there was more powder and bull wanted In the administration oi tho laws. Mr. Batip reported a bill to re-store certain lands 'nlowa to settlement under the homestead law.

1'uMHod, Uls- cushion of tho turlll bill continued until the House adjourned. Tho Senate on the 10th nftor considering various local matters, took up the bankrupt repeal bill and ameuded It so as to Jmake It take alloct Kept. 1st, then laid it aside lor tne postonieo appropria tion bill, after which an adjournment was had until Monday. In the Houso, Mr. Dunnoll Introduced a bill providing that the notlno of content under the preemption, homestead and tim ber culture laws must bo printed in a news- laper in tne county where Buch ooutont lea.

Fussed. The bill appropriating SOU to Richard Healer.of Vlrglnla.foretoros and supplies taken uy the Uulted States Army, led to discussion. A lone and heat ed debate ensued umld scenes of the great- est confusion and disorder. Finally the discussion closed and the committee arose and reported tho bill with the recommendation that it do pass. Mr.

McMohan moved to lay tho bill on tho table. Defeated yeas, ou; uays, HO. lho Mil was then pass-d. Tho Senate was not in session on tho llth. Tho House passed the following hills: To restore to market certain lands In Utah; for the relief of settlers on public lands, providing that any person who shall plant and maintain ror eight yoars ten acres timber shall bo entitled to a patent for such quarter of section; permitting Nebraska to cedecertain territory to Missouri; provld ing ror the gale or timber lands in (.

ornta. Oregon, Washington territory, Nevada and Colorado In quantities not exceeding one nunnred and sixty acres to any ono citiren at tho mlninum price of $2.50 per aero, and making It, unlawful to cut timber on public lands, jur. Wright. Irom the committee on nubile lands, reported a bill for tho loan of live Hundred dollars to every person who snail settle on publlo minis or homesteads the act to be In force until $10,000,000 shall have been expended. Mr.

Regan callodtip ino uui to regulate inter-Btate transports' tlon by railroads, and to prohibit unjust discrimination by common carriers. Tho session of tho Senato on the 13th was brief and uninteresting. Mr. Morrill presented a petition from half a dozen me chanics of Boston, favoring the repeal of tno eignt hour law. hey declare It is unjust to pay workmen employed by tho government ns much for eight hours' work as other workmen receive for ton hours.

In tho House Mr. Totter, as a question oi privilege presented tho loilowing pream bio and resolutions: Whkiibas, The Slate of Maryland linn, hr Its IcRlcluturo, formally declared that due effect waa not Riven to the electoral votes ct by tho State on the tith day of December. 1MT0, by reaon of fraudulent retunu in the electoral volea from the cltateaof 1-lorlua sad LouIhuius; and Whereas. An affidavit hv Samuel B. Mcl.ln.

chairman of the board of State ranvanHur of the Htate of Florida for tho election held In that State lu November, 1870, for elec tors or rrcawiunl and li-o l'realdent, lias neon made nub Ic. ol cirnir that fa ho and Iraiidu lent returns for the votes for such election In that State, whereby tho choice of the people of that State was overruled, and that tho action of tho board of Mate cauvanners, in making such returns was inllucnccd by tho conduct and promises of oi iiou. jiiiwarn r. jNoycs, now minister to me government or ranee; mid Whkueas. It Is alleged that a mnmilraov exist cd in the Statu nf Louisiana, wherehv the iti'imh I ll I I f.

nruu vi, iu iu mi uiu Jireeiuein 01 lliu punr-ll in run rcuciana, at ino general election in November, 1H7U, was purposely withheld from tho pons to atioru a pretext ror exclusion ny tne re turning board of that State of tho vote cast In theso prccints for tho electors of President unu lee-l'rcsiuent, ana that James J4. Anderson, suptrvlsorof registration of East Feliciana, and I). A. Weber, supervisor of registration In the pansnor west rellclana, In that State, In furtherance of that conspiracy, and falsely protested that the election iu such precincts had not been fair or free, and that tho State returning board thereupon falsely and fraudulently excluded tho votes of tho said precincts, and by means thereof, anu oi other taise and iniudulitit action by said returning board, the choice of the people of that State was nmitilled and that such action of said Weber and Anderson was Induced and encouraged hy the assurances of Hon. no.

Sherman, secretary of the tho treasury of the United States; and, Whkhkas, The gravity of these charges, the nature of the evidenco upon which they arc reported to bo based, and the official dignity and position of the persons named lu connection with the said frauds, make it proper that the same should bo inquired into to the end that the honor of the nation may be vindicated, and thu truth as to such elections made known; therefore, be it Jetolred, That a select committee, consisting of 11 members of this House, bo appointed to In- an ire into the aforesaid allegations as to the con-net of the persons In olllce aforesaid, In respect of said election, and into tho alleged falso and fraudulent canvass, and tho return or tho votes by the State, county, parish and precinct officers in said Slates of Louisiana and Florida, and lnlo all tho facts which in the judgment of said committee arc connected with or pertinent thereto, and that said committee, for (ho putpose of executing this resolution, shall have power to send for persons and papers, to administer tho oath, and to tako testimony, and In their discretion to do-tall sub-comml tees with like lull authority of said committee lu every particular, and with power to sit in Florida and Louisiana, which subcommittees shall bo the commltteeof this House, and thochalrmun then of shall bo authorized to administer tho oath; that said committee and sub-committees mov employ stenographers, and bo attended each (lay by a deputy sergeant-at-arms, and may Bit during tho sessions of this Houso and during tho vacation. Aftor considerable discussion, tho Speaker decided that the proamble anil resolution presented a question of the highest privilege and must bo received. Parliamentary tactics were brought In piny by the Republicans to prevent or delay a vote on the resolutions, and tho House adjourned. The specie resumption repeal bill was under discussion In the Senate, (In tho llth, but was laid aside for the post oflloo appropriation bill. Aftor that was laid aside Senator Plumb, from the committee on military affairs, reported favorably on tho Son-ate bill, authorizing tho Secretary of war to have headstones erected ovor tho graves of soldiers who sorvodln tha regular or volunteer army of tho United States during tho war for tho Union, and who have been burled In private cemeteries.

In tho Houso tho Sponker announced tha regular erder be tho "previous question on the resolution for Investigating frauds In the lust Presidential election, known as POTTER'S RBSOI.UION. Tho Republicans refrained from voting, thus leaving the House without a quorum as there were but 111 Domocrats present, 140 being necessary to mako a quorum. A call of the House was ordered which disclosed the fuot that 215 members were present. Tho question reourred on the second demand for tho previous question. Tho Republicans again resorted tolllllbusterlng tactics and tfce House was left without a quorum, tho Democrats being able to mustor only 118 votes.

Mr. Wood as a factious mtsHlonnry, seemed de-detormlnod to obstruct business, and moved that the Houso adjourn. This motion was opposed by the Republicans but was carried. Yens 130, nays 10. Aftor which the clork gave notice of tho Domooratlo caucus to tako plnco Immediately after.

(Laughter on the Republican side). A largo number of bills were introduced In the Seriate on the 15th, but none of them of special Interest to our renders. Mr. Morgan spoke at length on our mexi- can relations and the Senate adjourned. in official proclamations from Havana that the rebellion in Cuba had boon suppressed, and this announcement was followed by almost daily bulletins of the srurender of insurgents.

Now it is reported that the Spanish goyorn ment has pursuadod Martinez Campos to remain in the island and prosecute another campaign against the rooels. The English War Department apparently contemplates starting a newspaper in the field, in case of war. It has re cently given to a London firm dealing in printing materials an order for five complete offices, with all the requisites of type, sticks, chases and galleys. The whole is to bo fitted in an ordinary transport wagon. Anothor shocking marine casualty is reported.

An explosion occurred in the hold of the Allan Lino, bound from Liverpool to Quebec. The vessel was at the entrance of the harbor of Londonderry when the explosion occurred. and but for this circumstance the loss of life must have been fearful. A special telegram from the coal re gions of Pennsylvania says that section of the country is alive with lodges of the communistio element. They num-bor, the dispatch says, 900 in Mahoney county, nearly 1,000 in Shenandoah.

and ore numerous in Pottavillo, the headquarters. It is reported that three hundred thousand Texas cattle are "hoofing it" toward the northern markets, having started somewhat earlier than usual. There are also nearly a hundred thons and in southern Kansas, ready for movement in Juno. Kansas City is to have a public park at last. Tho remnant of the old ceme tery on Independence avenue is being leveled by the mattock and converted into a handsome plot, fenced, turfed and ornamented with trees and shrub bery.

The Bov. David Swing, whoso trial for heresy in Chicago was one of the religious events of tho day, is soon to withdraw from tho editorial charge of the Alliance, although he will still be a contributor as time and health per mit. Major Jones, of the Texas Raneers reports that tho Texas mail robbers are on the basis of a business venture by Bass, the leader or captain of the (tancr He pays his men regular salaries, takes all the chances, and all tho plundor. The progress toward resumption does not seem to have seriously squccz ed the tract business. During tin year past seventy-four million pages of tracts have been distributed by the American Tract Society.

Mrs.Myra Clark Gaines is fearful that she will run out of lawsuits, ond has em-ployed Judge Wordon, of St. Louis and Mr. Hutchinson, of New Orleans, to begin suit in St. Louis for property she sluims in that city. Todleben intends to plant fivo hun dred cannon in tho defenses of Adria nople, and thinks ho will be able tc hold the place against all the mon En gland can bring from India or else-where against it, if war comes.

Fourteen yonng follows were arrested Cleveland in one day for loaflnp: on the corners and insulting women. The institution for tho feeble-minded being 11, they were sent to the workhouse. xne iuissian omcers lately arrived in New York make no secret of their mission, which is to buy vessels for use against England in case of war. The Senate has passed a bill to re peal the bankrupt law, providing that the act shall take effect Sept. 1, 1878.

It now goes to the House once more for concurrence. years, and that if no mistakes are made it will be the opeuiug of a bril liant and successful campaign. There is moro politics to the square inch in St. Louis at present than at any previous period of her history..