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THE LEDGER. their arrival by a deputation of civil and military officers, who tendered them the hospitalities of the city. Gen. Grant intends to spend about a month in Cuba and adjacent islands, when he will return to the United States via Mexico. retary of State was authorized to procure a suitable State seal, the original having been abstracted.

Upon the request of Wallace R. White of Win-throp, a committee was appointed to investigate the charges of bribery preferred against him by Fusion members of the Legislature. The Fusion Legislature met in Union Hall. Speeches were made by Dickey, Bradbury and others, urging the members to stand firm and they would ultimately be recognized as the legal Legislature by the Courts as well as by Comrress. It was stated Represextatives Rumberger, Fet.

roof and Clarke of the Pennsylvania Legislature, ex-State Treasurer Kemble, and several other prominent politicians, and lobbyists of that State have been indicted for bribery in connection with the Riot Claims aet. SETn A. Terry, Secretary of the Territorial Savings Building and Loan Association of Washington, D. has defaulted in 525,000. Terry was for many years connected with the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, under Gen.

O. O. Howard, lie lost heavily in speculating iu Government claims of various kinds. The Springer heirs, to the number of over 2X, held a convention in St. Louis, on the 21st, to consult as to the best means of getting possession of the estate they by claim to.

This comprises the entire site of the city of Wilmington, and a large money de Globe printing-office and sleeping apart' ments, burned on the night of the 21st. Six men were sleeping in the building, three of whom escaped by jumping to the ground. Ed. S. Henderson, foreman of the Globe office, and Wm.

McClain, a printer, were burned to death; and C. C. Kinlock, a railroad man, was badly burned, although not fatally. Dan. Searles, colored, was hanged at Oswego, N.

on the 21st, forthe murder of Eldridge G. Rewey, an aged farmer, in June last. The culprit made a speech upon the gallows, confessing the crime, hich he laid to strong drink. Severe earthquake shocks occurred in the island of Cuba on the night of the22d and morning of the 23d, causing great excitement and terror among the inhabitants, as thev were the first ever experienced on the island. There was no damage done at Havana, although it is reported that buildings were injured at San Cristobal.

Se feral shocks have occurred recently in South and Central America. Charles II. Hardin was hanged at Farmington, St. Francois County, on the 23d, for the murder of Robert Ferguson in October last. The murdered man was emigrating from Cherokee County, to Columbia and the murder was committed for tbt sake of plunder.

FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. that money would be provided to pay the mileage and per diem of members. The committee appointed to prepare questions to submit to the Supreme Court not being ready to report, the Legislature adjourned till to-morrow. Both Legislatures met on the 21st, but neither transacted any business of special importance. Sawyer, Fusiond, Secretary of State, has established an office in a business block, appointed a Deputy and Clerk, and announces to the public that he has the great seal of the State and is the only person legal-iy qualified to transact the business pertaining to the Secretary's office.

Both Legislatures were in session on the nothing occurred of special interest. The Republican Legislature devoted the to merely routine business. The Fu-sionllouse passed a resolution directing Saw yer, Secretary of State, to notify municipal officers that a new valuation of the State is to be made; also, to notify the Towns of Brunswick and Ellsworth that their Representatives have withdrawn from this House. The Senate directed an examination of the books of the State Treasurer. A joint committee was appointed to consult in regard to the removal of the Legislature to either Biddeford or Portland.

The report of the committee appointed to prepare questions to submit to the Supreme Court was received and adopted. The questions are live in number, and cover the ground of the legality of the rival Legislatures. Great excitement prevailed among the Republicans during the latter part of the day and evening, on account of the discovery of an alleged Fusionist plot to burn the houses of leading Republicans of Augusta, the doomed residences being marked by triangular bits of paper. Others looked upon the affair as a bilge joke. Governor Davis issued orders to have the State-house garrisoned by troops, and companies were forwarded by special train from Lewiston, Gardiner and other places.

It was reported that the Republicans had determined to disperse the Fusion Legislature at the point of the bayonet if necessary, and that the Fusionist mil itary were drilling nightly to prepare themselves for the coming combat. Augusta dispatches' of the 24th state that every military company in the State is under arms, ready to move at any moment. The State-house is tilled with soldiers, and a Gatling gun faces the door and commands the terrace. The city is patrolled by trusty men, looking for any suspicious movement of the Fusionists, who are reported to be maturing plans for rallying their forces. Harris, City Treasurer of Biddeford, has sent Biddeford's State tax, amounting to 22.000, to White, the Fusion State Treasurer.

The latter has all the State funds iu his possession or subject to his order. On the 25th (Sunday), Fusion Governor Smith issued a proclamation to the citizens of calling attention to the assembling of armed bodies of men at the State Capitol, causing unnecessary excitement and disturbing the public peace, at the same time serving to "divert attention from the revolutionary proceedings by which a party caucus undertook to organize the Government." Gov. Smitli asserts that the Fusionists have organized no military forces nor called for any, but "rely upon the Constitution and laws of the State and the honest judgment of the people for the vindication of our cause." Per contra, the Republicans sav thev have evidence of a contemplated attack bv the Fusionists upon the State Capitol, which was only thwarted by the precautionary measures taKen. FERS0NAL AND POLITICAL. The Republican Executive Committee of Bergen County, X.

have adopted a resolution requesting Hon. C. II. Voorhis, Member of Congress from the Fifth Congressional District, to resign. Mr.

Voorhis was President of the First National Bank of Hackensack and the Hackensack Savings-bank, which recently failed, with liabilities of over 300,000 and nominal assets. Mr. Voorhis has been indicted for embezzlement and misappropriation of funds, and also stands charged with the crime of forgery. His reply to the Committee is that he is innocent of all criminal intent or action, and will make good his defense before a proper legal tribunal. The following additional nominations have been made by the President: Eli II.

Murray, Kentucky, Governor of Utah Territory; William J. Phillips, U. S. Marshal, Eastern District, Texas; John McNeil, U. S.

Marshal, Eastern District, Missouri August Ash. U. S. Marshal, Nevada. wo uu ii i cijuisiiiuii i upon the United States Treasury for the first six months' installment of the interest on the deferred payment of one million dollars held as security by the Government for the main- W.

F. CH1LFA5T, tditortnd Proprietor. EMPORIA, KANSAS. CURRENT TOPICS. Ox the 17th Major Morrow asram came up with Victoria in the San Mateo Mountains and drove him from his position.

Lieut. French was killed and two scouts wounded. Enemy's loss not known. The management of the Louisville, Nashville and Great Southern Railroad have purchased a majority of the stock in the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway.

Under this arrangement the entire line from Hickman, to Chattanooga, with several branches, passes into the hands of the X. and G. giving that company control of some 3,500 miles of road, being the largest system in the entire South. The President has nominated James Russell Lowell, present Minister to Spain, to be Minister to England John W. Foster, present Minister to Mexico, to be Minister to Russia Lucius Fair-child, present Consul-General at Paris, to be Minister to Spain; and Philip II.

Morgan to be Minister to Mexico. The city- of Tokio, Japan, has been devastated by another conflagration, the third within seven years. The fire broke out on the 26th of December and swept the city like a whirlwind. Miles of ground were laid waste, 15,000 homes destroyed and 50,000 persons made destitute. The loss of life is reckoned at 100, although the precise number can not be ascertained.

A considerable part of the foreign district was destroyed, including several missionary establishments, one church, and one foreign newspaper office the Tokio Times. The Legation of the United States was in danger, but escaped unharmed. Extraordinary measures of relief were instituted by the Government authorities and private individuals, and no efforts are spared to alleviate the suffering, but all these are necessarily insufficient. Jules Favke, the eminent French statesman and Republican member of the Senate for the Department of the Rhone, and also member of the French Academy, died on the 19th, aged 71. Another important railway consol idation has been effected that of the Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific Rail ways.

The movement was engineered by Jay Gould, who owns about live- sevenths of the Kansas Pacific stocl Another terrible mine explosion has occurred in the Lycett Colliery, at New-cast'e-under-Lyme, England. The disaster occurred on the morning of the 21st, in what is known as Fair LaJy Pit. There were some 70 persons working in the pit at the time of the explosion, every one of whom was taken out dead or in a dying condition. It is only a few months ago that a similar explosion occurred in the same pit by which six lives were lost and many injured. Charles Stewart Parxell arrived at Indianapolis on the 21st, and spoke in the Grand Opera-house to an immense crowd, under the ausnices of the Mayor and other prominent citizens, after which a liberal collection was taken up for the destitute in Ireland.

Arrangements have been made for Parnell meetings in nearly all the principal cities and towns of the West and South. Gex. Randall L. Gibsox, Democrat, has been elected United States Senator from Louisiana, to succeed Senator Kellogg, whose term expires in 1883. Gen.

Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana, who is to succeed Mr. Kellogg in the United States Senate, is a Ken-tuckian by birth and about 47 years of age. He graduated at Yale in 1853, and afterwards studied law. During the late "War he was a division commander in the Confederate service, and at the close of the struggle resumed the practice of his profession. He is now serving his third term in the House of RepresenL.

tives. In response to a letter from Got. St. John to Jay Gould, setting forth the destitution of the farmers in the frontier counties of Kansas, caused by the failure of last year's crops, the latter telegraphed the Governor to draw upon him for $5,000, to be expended as he may see fit for the purpose designated. The Governor at once purchased two car loads of flour and meal and a large quantity of bacon, which will be distributed in Sheridan, Gove and Wallace Counties, where the principal destitution exists.

Gex. Grant and party, including Gen. Sheridan and wife, arrived at Havana on the 22d. They were met upon Hon. J.

Z. George, Democrat, has been elected United States Senator from Missisippi, to succeed Senator Bruce, whose term expires in 1881. Judge J. Z. George, United States Senator-elect from Mississippi, is a resident of Jackson and a jurist of distinguished ability, having had large experience upon the bench.

He is also known generally to the profession as the compiler of several volumes of State reports. A committee of the National Woman's Suffrage Association, consisting of Mrs. AVallace of Indiana, Lucinda B. Chandler of Peoria, 111., Susan B. Anthony and others, on the 2od had a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the subject of a Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ex-1 tending the franchise to women.

The Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections on the 22d ordered the testimony in the Kellogg case closed, and allowed counsel two weeks in which to prepare their arguments, to be submitted on printed brief s. Ixformatiox has been received at the Department of the Interior that there is a movement on foot to organize a band for the purpose of raiding bands of Indians in the Indian Territory. The parties engaged in the work have their headquarters at Wichita, Kansas. The AVar Department will distribute troops so as to suppress and check such a movement as soon as it is attempted. Secretary Schcrz says that present negotiations with the Ute delegation, although necessarily kept secret for the present, are expected to accomplish the following results First, to have treaty provisions about the surrender of offenders carried out so that the participants in the White River murders can be tried second, to make such ar rangements with the Utes as will avert from them the injuries that are threatened to be inflicted upon them the border population of Colorado, and which certainly would come if the present boundaries of the reservation were preserved.

This accomplished, tne present dimculues will pass over without an Indian war, which will be a great benefit to the country generally. Third, to secure for them full compensation for every piece of land they may cede to the United States, and a safe and advantageous-settlement for the future. Edison's attention having been called to the doubts of some French scientists concerning the stability of the carbon horse-shoe, and the claim that it gradually wastes by decomposition, he said: A complete answor to that is the actual result. I can state that the oldest lamp in my laboratory, after burning 505 hours, had its electrical resistance measured, and there was not a difference of one-tenth of an ohm from the time when it was originally put in circuit. The surface of this carbon, which burned 505 hours, is as bright to-day as it was the day when first put in, whereas oxidization makes carbon black." TnE distress in Ireland has been aggravated by a spell of cold weather.

Contributions for relief are coming in liberallv from various sources and are being judiciously distributed, but the destitution is so great and wide spread that much suffering is inevitable. THE MAINE TROUBLES. The Republican Legislature met on the 1Mb. and elected some minor officers. Secretary of State Chadbourne sent a communication to the Legislature announcing the fact that the State seal had not been turned over to him, and the returns of votes were not on file.

An order was passed by the JTouse providing forthe purchase of a new seal should the State seal not be found. The State-houe was guarded by a large military and police force, under command of Major Nye. At about A p. m. Gov.

Smith, Mr. Lamson. President of the Fusion Senate, Talbot, Speaker of the House, and a number of members of both houses appeared at the gate leading to the State-house and individ-ally demanded admission, which was severally refused them by the officer in command. The presiding officers of the two houses then called their respective bodies to order upon the sidewalk, when a formal protest was made against their exclusion from the State-house "by a usurping body," after which they adjourned to meet at Union Hall on the following day. At night the Fusion ists held an open-air indignation meeting, at which there was a big crowd and great excitement, although none but peaceful measures were advocated by the principal speakers.

The Republican Legislature, on the 20th, adopted concurrent resolutions declar ing itself the legal Legislature of the State, and warning the public that any and all other bodies purporting to be the Legislature were acting entirely without authority and in violation of the Constitution. The Sec- posit in a bank in Sweden. Rohrer, the defaulting Cashier of the Louisville Savings-bank, has been locked up in jail. His deficit is now said to exceed $110,000. Gex.

Charles R. Braytox, Postmaster at Providence, R. is a defaulter to the Government to the amount of $10,000 or over. His bondsmen are said to be good for the amount. His successor has been appointed.

Miss Sarah M. Carpexter of Poughkeepsie has been appointed a member of the State Board of Charities in New York. Gov. Tildenmade the first appointment of a lady as niemoer of the Board, Mrs. Josephine Shaw Lowell, whose term continues; and Gov.tComell is reported to hive said: "If there were good reasons for the appointment of one woman as a member of that Board, certainly there are as good for increasing the number of women upon it." Gex.

Boyxtox, the well known Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, announces that he is about to commence a suit for libel against Gen. Sherman. Boynton sharply criticised the accuracy of certain statements made in Sherman's autobiography, which made the General mad, and in a recent interview the warrior de scrioeu tne newspaper man as a "person entirely without character, who for would slander his own mother," and more to the same effect. The widow of ex-President Tvler has asked Congress for a pension, on the ground of the immense depression in the value of her real estate, the mortgages on her north ern property having been foreclosed, and those on her southern property constantly troubling her. She savs: "I find I have searcelv any thing whatever left to live up on." A.

C. Botkix, formerly of the Mil waukee Sentinel, but now United States Marshal of the Territory of Montana, is at present suffering from partial paralysis of the limbs, the result of an affection of the spinal marrow, brought on by over exertion and exposure during a recent trip to Fort Sully on official business. Sexator-elect Garfield besran life as a wood-chopper and canal-driver. Commodore Homer C. Blake, United States Navy, died at his residence in New York City on the 21st.

Walter R. Irwix of Illinois, Chief of Private Land Division in the General Land-office at Washington, was found dead in bed, at Mobile, on the morning of the 21st. Major Brodhead, Paymaster U. was recently robbed of $20,000 while on his way from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Reno. Particulars not given.

Daniel Barrett, Supreme President of the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association of the United States and Canada, died suddenly in Medina, N. the 2.3d. De Lesseps has formally broken ground for his Inter-oceanic Canal, under the authority of the Republic of Columbia, and with the blessing of the Church in the person of the Bishop of Panama. Henry M. Stanley, the American explorer, established the first Belgian trading station in Congo, near Yallala, which place is claimed by both England and Portugal.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Mrs. Margaret Tumy, aged 70, a lady living in the suburbs of Cincinnati, became possessed by an hallucination that she had no stomach, and could not be induced either to eat a morsel of food or drink a drop of water. For 30 days, as vouched by her family and physicians, nothing entered into her stomach, and at the expiration of that period she died from actual starvation. Three mills of the Miami Powder Company, near Yellow Springs, Greene County, exploded on the 10th, killing two men, Taggart and Carney.

The mills and machinery were demolished. James E. Boyd's large pork-packing establishment, at Omaha, with over $200,000 worth of provisions, was burned on the night of the 18th. Insured for about one-half of total loss. At Lancaster, Peoi-ia County, 111., on the 17th, A.

C. Barnes shot and probably fa- i-x-i nuuiiucu ruin, nuu 11 a re jected his addresses, and then put a bullet into his own brain. Arthur Jordan, a negro, eloped with and married the weak-minded daushter of The heaviest snow storro of the season prevailed throughout Wisconsin on the Jax. 19. Senate Mr.

Ferry introduced a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution that suffrage shall not be restricted on account of sex or any other reason that does not apply to all citizens. Referred. A number of private bills passed. The bill to prevent cruelty to animals in transportation was taken up as the special order and considered at some length Ifause Mr. Bailey (11., X.

introduced a bill relating to the Inter-Oceanic Canal. It requests the President to invite the co-operation of the Governments of the principal maritime nations of Europe in the selection of a route of the Isthmus ship transit which shall be found to serve most largely the general interests of all maritime nations, and to communicate to such Governments the desire of this Government to come to an understanding relative to the neutralitv of such inter-oceanic transit. Mr. Townsend (K. 111.) introduced a bill proposing a constitutional amendment in regard to the election of lresident and Yice-Presi-dent.

providing for their election by a majority of the votes of the people, and for the abolition of the Electoral College. Mr. Wells Mo.) introduced a bill creating J. R. Eads and his associates a body corporate under the name of the inter-Oceanic Transit Company; authorizing it to acquire snch a right of way as it may need, proTiding that the work of construction shall be commenced within two years and completed within seven years from the passage of this act, and that if said work be so commenced no grants shall be granted by the United States to any other company or corporation within 50 years.

It authorizes the President to detail two ships of war to assist Capt. Eads in making such full and complete surveys as may appear necessary, and appropriates to be im-mcadiately available to defray the costs incident to these surveys. Mr. Cox X. offered a resolution tendering the hall of tiio House to Mr.

Parnell for his The proposition met with some opposition, but was finally agreed to to 12. Jan. 20. Senate Mr. Logan, by request, presented a petition of soldiers for the passage of the Weaver bill, forthe payment to soldiers of the difference between greenbacks and gold.

lie said that in presenting the petition he desired simply to say lie thought the bill referred to was' one of the greatest pieces of demagogism ever invented in Congress, and he regretted the soldiers were deceived into signing a petition in its favor. After passing several unimportant bills the Senate took up as the special or der the bill to prevent cruelty to animals in transportation, and several proposed amendments were discussed Z7ow.se Among the bills referred was one introduced by Mr. Culberson Tex.) for discontinuance of the Xational banking svstem. Mr. KIlis La.) introduced a joint resolution, which was referred, appropriating for the suffering people of Ireland.

Mr. Warner introduced a bill, which was referred, providing for paying the Cnited States bonds maturing in lsso and issi. In the morning hour consideration was resumed of the bill relating to Xational ink reserves. Mr. Buckner Mo.) who had charge of the bid.

stated that after Messers. Chittenden (11., X. and Lounsberry X. had spoken, he would demand the previous question. Mr.

Chittenden then took the floor, speaking from the center of the hall, "from the verv edge of the Greenback lion's den," as lie expressed it. He asserted that legal-tender notes, in time of peace, were a public snare mil a political device. The House hen further considered in Committee of the Whole the report of the Committee on the Revision of Rules. Jax. 21.

Senate Mr. Bayard's resolu tion fr the withdrawal of the lesral-tender quality of United States notes was taken up, and Senator Beck made a speech in opposi tion thereto. Mr. Coke obtained the floor, but vielded to a motion bv Mr. Voorhees that the Senate go into executive session flrntse Mr.

Sparks Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, reported back the bill for the relief of Gen. Fitz John Porter, accompanied with the majority report there on. Mr. McCook X. presented a minority report.

Both reports were ordered printed and the bill made the special order for the of Kebruarv. Mr. McMahon from the Committee Appropriations, reported a bill for the payment of feesof Marshals and DeputvMarshals for fiscal year ending June 180 Ordered printed and recommitted. The morning hour was consumed by the discussion of the bill requiring- one-half of bank reserves to be kept in coin. Mr.

Townshond 111.) arinied against the bill as being in favor of Xational banks and adverse to the interest of the people. Mr. Buckner who has charge of the bill, argued that the whole scope and object of the bill is to get into circulation some of the immense mass of gold and silver coin now lying unnsed in the vaults of the Treasury. In conclusion he moved the previous question, deprecating discussion on the general question of finance, which, he argued, was not relevant to the bill at all. The morning hour expired before a vote on the previous question could be taken.

The House went into Committee of the Whole on revision of the rules. Jax. 22. Senate Debate upon Mr. Bayard's financial resolution was continued, Mr-Coke speaking thereon.

A resolution was adopted, directing the Secretary of the Interior to furnish information regarding land grants to railroads, and what roads had failed to comply with the requirements of said srrants. Adjourned till Monday House Consideration was resumed of Buck-ner's Bank-reserve bill, and it was rejected by a vote of 79 yeas to 1.M navs. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on revision of the rules. Jax. 23.

Senate Not in session House Reports of a private nature were called, after which Mr. Horr Mich.) re plied in a humorous vein to some personal tenance of the jetty channel. Under the a respectable white farmer of Fauquier terms of the contract, it is claimed Capt. County, Ya. He was arrested upon a charge Eads is entitled to draw interest at 5 per of miscegenation and locked up.

On the cent, per annum on this sum for the period I night of the 18th he was taken from the jail of 10 years, amounting to 30,000 each year, by a mob and hanged to a tree. Jordan al-in addition to the $100,000 payable quarterly ready had a wife and three children, whom for the maintenance of the channel. The i he deserted in favor of his white inamorata. to whom the question has been referred, has decided that Capt. Eads is entitled to the money demanded.

The Pope has approved the appointment of Rt. Rev. Dr. Elder, heretofore Bishop of Natchez, to be coadjutor, with the right of succession, to the Archbishop of Cincin- 21st and 22d. In the northern portion of the I character made by Mr.

c. Cox on the previons day. The de- Mate the snow is from 20 to 40 inches deep, bate afforded much amusement to the mem-and lumbermen are jubilant over the pros- bers and spectators, many of whom were vecu Ir. Springer 111.) introduced i i i- m. i a hul authorizing certain books and me- A large business building at Cherry- memoes in possession of the Govern mAn nati, and to be administrator of the Arch- I vale, occupied on the first fbor by a to be placed in Memorial Hall of the Lin-diveP I 1 coln Monument Association, Sprirsrleld 111 diocese.

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