The Cincinnati Enquirer from Cincinnati, Ohio • Page 4

4 TEE ENQUIRER. PUBLISHED EVaT" Jab. J. TIKI STREET. TUESDAY.

Th phronkU hating bo farther use for the IKm. B. Ecglkst'on, that valuable clt-lien can cow devote bis entire time and Yaet talents to the patriotic work of clewing up the naUzcn raging of the venerable Presidential parent, The Board of Tark Coouiiiaaionera meet to-day, at three o'clock r.u. After what crurred at the Council Chamber last Friday," It la very natural to suppose that Enoch T. Carson, not only want, but will be entitled to, the floor.

Much to the general disappointment there was no fight, yesterday In New Or The Warmoth Legislature had no quorum, and the pestiferous Piwchback ignomiuiously failed to scatter the member to the four wind. Possibly the Im mense popular demonstration in opposition to the usurpers had Ita effect. one of otir Columbus correspondents, has struck a lead which promisee some Interesting developments. The matter of paying nearly $7,000 per year to a Superintendent and Matron of an Insane Asylum which baa no exlstenoo, la one which suggests the necessity of an explanation. Possibly an investigation would not be out of order.

Ill the monarchical despotisms of Europe It bat frra lPT.gti.no been, Jhe frftftjee, order to put du the friends of liberty, to pass acts making the assemblage of three persons or more a riotous proceeding. This baa been copied almost terbatim by the FiHOiiBArK usurping body In Lou-isiaua. It will not do, therefore, for any three tax-payers to meet to consldJ me eiiuauon. iFthe Federal Government would keep Its banda off the people of Louisiana, they themselves would aoon show the world which government represent them. The Pikcoback usurpation would not stand a day before the general uprising of the people which It has elicited.

It has no other strength than the support of the Washington Administration! Let this fact be remembered. Wi are advised that Brigadier-Oeneral amis W. Morgan la not responsible for the Irregularities pf the mails. He is simply Transfer Agent at this point, at a salary of $1,200 per annum; and lis labors consist in riding at the head of processions during politioal campaigns, and drawing bla aalary quarterly with commendable punctuality. For the actual duties of his office the.

Government considerately allows him an assistant at a salary of $800 per annum, and Mr. Morgan considerately permits this assistant to do all the work. So every body Is happy. To-dat( Tuesday )tue bill of Mr. Little, af Greene County, comes up in the Ohio Douse of Representatives, In relation to the election of delegates to the Constitutional Convention.

We agaiB strongly recommend that the bill provide, as that did in New York three or four years ago for the election of tnirty-twn delegates from the State-at-large to the Convention. The delegates to be chosen in this way tjTolectos to be permitted to rote for but sixteen, And the elite a highest to be declared elected. It should then be mad" inSlfuty of Jhe ftate fflcere to appoint highest in an mi tba thlrtv -two uTuceS. In this way the distinguished Kepubllcaue residing in Democratic, and distinguished Democrats living in Republican, counties can be made members of th.e Convention. In New Tork the Republicans beaded their ticket with Horacx Grkklxt, and the Democrats with Chiel-Justice Church, and in each caae there was a strong array of talent.

What objection is there to following thla Sew Tork example Tdk reason for Mr. ScHirr's bill, requir ing the Boards of Council and Aldermen In thisity to elect their President and other oncers tiva roce instead of by ballot, as at preaent, ia this, and it Is founded in sound policy, and we hope It will become a law: The members of Council are the representatives of large constituencies, who are interested and have a right to know bow tbey vote. The members do not vote so much for themselves aa for the people. Individual voters at the polls demand, and have the right to, a secret bal lot; bnt It ia otherwise with those who oc cupy positions In legislative bodies, bo ever heard ia Congress or In any State Legislature of Speakers. Clerks, and ao forth, being chosen by ballot? TW are alweva elected ei'oa vote United States Senators in the States.

In this city our Comucll officers were chosen in the mum way until recently, and the change was for private and against publio interests. Ho member of Council in either branch ia worthy of the position who Is araid to show his band in the eleotion of Ulcere of the Board to which be belongs. Thb murderer Stokes waa sentenced yesterday to be banged on the 28th day of February next. It la noticeable that the Judge fixed the earliest day for the execution that is possible under the law. Inasmuch aa it ia not the reformation of the criminal, but the good of society, that la eoarht.the swifter justice Is meted ont the better.

The character of the senteaee of Judge Boardm ah will command almost nnrveraal approval, and If the score and a half of murderere still awaiting trial in Hew Tork should be brought immediately to trial, and eacn receive a like verdict and sentence, murders would become few and far between for some time to come It anneare that STOaW counsel were amused at the verdict, aad well tbey may be. for one like it ha not been known In Hew Tork In a Jong time. Tbey will at-tempt, onavallingly, without doubt, to get new trial. If, aatbe lawyers for the defense affirm, the verdict was brought about by a popular prejudice against mur der' which the newspapers nave crentea Journalism may take to Itself a little credit la Eating taught criminals that crime en yet be punisbt'd. TIIE EN lEEli7f I) A 'MORXlM, AT tf At 5 Cincinnati and Other Western Cities.

There is an agitation on foot In Covington and Newport and their suburbs to consolidate them all and organize 'under one city charter. With the territory pro-posed to be combined this would give the jew consolidated city 70,000 people according the census pf 1S70. We would eng. gest thai the title of the new town te 'South Cincinnati." If, Is all portion of Cincinnati, and owee its growth to thaj fact. Had this territory not beenTna''uother Btate It "would lon jln.ee been annexed, if, indeed, it had not formed a part of the original city.

It Is owing to tbia large population of not being counted in our oensus that Cincinnati appeared in 1S70 at a disadvantage aa com-pared with St. Louis and Chicago. Those cities took la placea In the country for mile's out, that had but little connection with them, while we could not Include a very large population within one mile from the heart of the city. Oar population as returned waa 210,230. Adding the 70,000 which should in justice be added, and our population would be 236,239.

We have made some annexations which would bring us to 300,000, which la more than there is to-day In either of our Western rivals. We exceed them not only in wealth and manufactures, but in real bonajtde inhabitants, although because our population is really split np In aeveral corporations, it does not appear upon the record. Tho union of our great auburbs In Kentucky would be a atep in the right direction. Thb Ewuiaia has a gnat deal to say about Grakt having been sleeted by the colored vote, and It seemed to obtain comfort from the supposed feet that a majority ot the white electors voted against bin. The full popular voto, how ever, printed in this paper, explodes the bubble apoa which our neighbor floated so nicely for a time.

The total votes la It and 1871 were as follows;" -J 8.5W.9R4 Democratic Total Tote Increased voto 6.41 ft.Wl ...7110,043 ...769,157 Grant's majority, Grant's majority, lit Those figures show Hint Chant received at large a white vote in if-Ti as in lfs; that he had" a majority of the white vote In 1R7J, and that hs carried, not only an overwhelming majority of the Electoral College, but of the popular vote, alto. Gattt4. The bubble is not exploded, that ia the assertion that General Grant did not receive aa many votes from the white people or the United States as IIoracb Greblky did. The majority of General Grant on the white and negro vote combined, is 759,137. Now it can be easily abown that he received more than thai majority from the negroes.

The number of negroes in the United States, according to the census of 1870, was 4,880,000. At tne time of the election, last November, there were fully Ave milions. The population of Ohio was 2,66.1,260 by tbe sauiex census. We gave at the Presidential election about votes. Upon this basis the five millions of negroes must have polled one million of votea, and they were almost to a man for Grant.

But, making a liberal deduction, there can be no doubt that at least 800,000 negroes more voted for Grant than for Grbelbt. This even would give Greeley 41,000 majority on tbe white vote. The Gazette remarks that "tbe figures show that Grant reoeived as large a white vote In 1872 as in 1SC8." We are amazed at tbia assertion. He bad 3,013.183 votes iu 1808, and in 1872 he had But three States were not allowed to vote at all In 1808, and one State voted by the Legislature, and waa not counted on the popular vote. They were Virginia, Texas, Mississippi and Florida.

In those States Grant obtained at theTate votes'. thirtv-seyeuirtftes in with the vote of thirty-three StatesTuMjOS, we must dcducl that from tbe total Grant vote of this year. It will therefore appear that In the game States in which be bad 8,013,183 votes fouT years ago be has now 8,353,000. But neither vote was a white vote. In the thirty-three States with which aloue comparison can be made Grant received in 1872 more than six hundred thousand negro votes.

This would make his white vote In them 2,753,000. In 1868 tbe negroes did not vote in but one or two of the Northern States. They did not vote In Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland or Delaware. Grant's majority of the negro vote in 1808, with four Southern States not counted, and all the Northern States and the old Border Slave States not counted, waa problbly two hundred and fifty thousand. If we deduct tbia from his 3,013,183 votea, It would leave him, in 18C8, 2,703,000 white votes, or just about what he has obtained now.

He baa remained, stationary in the amount of bla white support, in tbe face of the fact that the population bas increased aldoralilT in the oast four rears. But the Gazette sav- "But. colored voters are on aa equal foot' wra toe wni rps nation is accepted, ws not think It worth wbllj for ear Democratic contemporary to try to keep op the distinction. Besides, tbe colored voters are la all respects equal to aa equal number of whites who always vote the Democratic ticket and would vote it if Sataa were the candidate." One reaaon why we "keep np the distinc tion" Is that the negroes were organized by the agents of the Administration, and were not permitted by their secret socle-ties to vote as they pleased. Throughout the whole United States the negro vote at the late election may be set down as co erced, intimidated and corrupted, and to that vote, and that vote alone, as we have proven, Grakt owes bis majority.

Of the Southern negroes nineteen-twentieth can not read or write. Who and what and where are the white men, Mr. Gazette, to whom you consider the negro, just eman-eipated from slavery, the full equale In in-tclligehce and political fitness? Tbi Gazette, as we supposed It would, declines to tell ns la what section of the Constitution there can be found "authority for Congress to charter a whole brood of National banks." It virtually, ia a facetious manner, admit what all intelligent men know to be tbe case, that no such Constitutional authority exists. But why did It say that "all parties bad found that Congress bad such powerr" Thla it answers as follows: "The ground for this was the general acquiesceace of Democrat, their participation In the blessing, and their refraining from alt such partisan warfare, throngta tbe States and through party platforms, aw they made upon the old United flutes Bank." We suppose tho Gazette will admit that when the "life of tbe yaHon'' Is al stake It swallows up all subordinate and minor teeuee. Therefore the Democracy may be.

pardoned if, when there are mo many greater and more dangerous violations of Constitution, when we are threatened with the worst forms of. ExecuUya usurpation, they leave the bank oeiicm in the rear and the background. There la no more reaaon why Democrats should declare, In every Convention, their opposition to the theory that Congress has the rightful authority to charter "bant a than there is that every assembly of Christians should formally reiterate their belief in the Biblo. Some thl'jigg may be taken for granted. The Democracy have never retracted any of their views upon National Banks that they held la the days of Jackson.

Their acquiescence bas been brought about solely by force. When more pressing questions are disposed of, the Gazette will see how rapidly this National bank buainess will come to tbe front, and it will then see tbe stand the Democrats will maintain in regard to it In conclusion, the Gazette says that "since the Enquirer is technical In thla matter, will it Inform us where, in the Constitution, It finds authority for Congress to Issue currency notes and make them legal tender?" We are surprised at this question, and refer It to the reasons given by Its own party, which originally made the legal-tenders, and to its Supreme Court of the United States, which has declared them to be Constitutional. Thb New Tork Timet, having charged that the New Tork Tribune is practically owned by Jay Gould, proceeds to christen the recent ult against Vanderbilt for as a "forgotten suit based upon some of those remarkable affidavits which Jambs Fink, was accustomed to make wheneerthe needs of himself or of his oolleague, Oocld, required them." If the success of the Times at an organ, or as a newspaper, is to be secured by calling tbe living editors of its competitors rascals, and the friends and partners of robbers, ndjby charging with perjury men who are forever (silent, and who, living, were not accused of this crime, It tenure of tbe publio favor and patronage Is feeble. With a plausibility and an apparent foundation in justice equal to that on which the charges of tbe Times are batted, the Tribune might allege that the railroad editorials in the Times are bought or hired by Commodore Yanderbilt. When the Timet, in its newspaper rivalry, goes so far as to eharge that a newspaper across the street is owned by a railroad monopolist, as its reasons, the fact that the neighbor across the way congratulated a great railroad corporation and the public on an immediate settlement or a ten million claim against its ex-President by the payment of what waa demanded, it makes a charge which might possibly be conspicuously inexact; but when it becomes the advocate, why may it not be charged with being the organ of a rival railroad monopolist And whon such advocacy requirea that 'It alander a dead man who can not reply, living.

the great Commodore feaved, and whom, in the recent trial of his murderer, he sought to vilify, there ia evidence of a seal which, if honost, Is without knowledge or discretion. To us this newspaper rivalry is inconsequential, but we think It barely possible that the New Tork ZWoune can state its views of a railroad issue without being owned by Gould, and that the Tiutes can state Its opinions without being owned by Yanderbilt. herb is consternation in the ranks rr. the reigning partv at Washing- Ilouse. iv an overwheimi- "ote yester day declared that the Credit Moblller in- shall be conducted witnoan wash and tho friend, of the implicated Dartles foueht the resolution with the deT peration or conscious out unaer a call of the yeas and 'nays they weakened, and only seven, ifiTn all Radicals dared record thetfnames in opposition.

It was also rcsoivea. mai sun soouiu ue uruugui against the Pacific Railroad Company for the five million dollars which tbey have stolen from the United Statea and used in bribing members of Congress. Altogether, the House did a very good day's vork. SEKIOf 8 ACCIDENT. An Elevator Falls, Killing; One Mas and Injuring Others.

An elevator, on which were four men, fell yes-trrday afternoon from the top to tbe bottom of a building, by which fall one man was killed, one severely Injured the other two making, a narrow escape. The warehouse in which tha elevator was pot up was tba wholesale grocery of Babbitt, 11 ark dm a Walnut street, corner of Sec ond. Th elevator was of a new bydranllo pattern, said to be tbe invention of Mr. Warren Warner, of the firm of Miles Greenwood A Wslnnt street, and was barely finished, it having been In course of construction the last three ki Tha loH ttt nnttln itnn waa Intrnitad to rrank naln, who had for helpers Ludwig Hebra, Ferdinand Braan, Jacob Deterli and Lewi Blverly. Tbe work bad been nearly completed, and the foreman was testing It Four of the men got upon it and went up to tbe top three or four times, the works running without aa apparent flaw.

It was then' proposed to put on extra weight in order to make sure of its strength as well of its operation, and a hogshead of sugar was rolled upon It, the four men ranging them-selvee la the corners. The signal "all right" was givsa, Haln pulled ths cord, and the elevstor slowly moved upward. There was something of a strata oa tbe wire at first bnt the Whol moved np steadily until about the middle of the building had bee a reached, when, with a sodden shock. the machine, with It Immense weight and living freight dashed with a whirl aad a whistle to ths cellar. Ths eonaectioa betweea the dram and the motive power had give way, leaving the ele vator without any thing by which it weight could be supported, aad when the whole bnng npoa the single cord the end fastened late the dram snapped oa with a loud report At tbe first sign of danger, Frank Bala made a spring for the al vo-rope, eatcc In It and swing' Ing clear of the falling bus, dropping without injury oa the fioor below.

Ludwig llebra also jumped of without meeting with more than a trsmasdoe shock. Lewis Blverly went to the bottom, bat escaped with a smashed foot aad some not very serious cuts oa to head. II was taken horn la a hack. The man who wa killed wa Jacob Deterlle, about forty-six years old, married, living at 44 Charlotte street lie came down striking bis head agalnat a post, a protruding point of wood at the sam tin) striking blm across the cheat and statu ach. Be wa lifted np and take lato Mr.

Babbitt's office, and Dra. Elves and Miller called la. Waiaay was poared dowa his throat aad tha brataed parts bathed la spirits of am monia, lis breathed with painful effort, every draw the chest aad aboeaea. His vdfo was called la, bnt be was anconseious, r'ocoguizing no one, and at about niae o'clock he died. Dr.

Uoode, of Bsvmlller street, a medical acquaintance ot the deceased, attended him be. font his ieath, and gave as tbe direct cause of death compression of brain. Tbe Coroner has been aoilfled, and will Inquire Into tbe clrciua-itaBoee. It is, perhaps, proper to say that tbe work of constructing the elevator was entirely in the bands of tbe patentees, and ao blame whatever caa be attached to the firm in whose house the disaster occurred. Tax curtain fell at too late an hour last sight for us to do Justice to IHroret, as played at Wood's Theater.

For thla, and other tpacicmt reasona, wa defer extended notice with this: It Is the tbe best society play ever produced here In every sense, and Is destined to havs a brilliant run. Tbi Board ot Councilmea will meet In called session this afternoon to finish np old business that has boon accumulating for sevoral months pail It is to be hoped that there will be a full working quorum, present, and besides that no nonsense. Mas. SriiNQMiTia, a widow, living on tbe corner of Pleasant aad Green streets, was found by her dsughters, last evening, dead In ber bed. Tbe cause was probafely disease ot the heart.

Tbe Coroner was notified. Tib first general rehearsal of the Cincinnati Chorus of the Musical ystljal comes off to-night, at eight o'clock, at College Hall. Cm aim Geo. Dsain, the popular conductor of the Louisville Short-line, is off duty on account of illness. FROM THE STATE CAPITAL.

One of the Big Treasury Leaks-A Fecknf Dounuieas I'apaciiy lor spoil Something that Reqnlres Investigation. nail cobuiiwmki niiu Colcmbcs, January 6, 1873. The Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum, burned some years since, was a great loss to ths State. Several of the Inmates perished by being smothered. Tbe Legislature ordered the Asylum rebuilt at ths earliest day practicable, and a liberal appropriation, wm made for that object.

The Directors did not like the location, and sought t9 Ijsve it changed. Id this thuy failed. Instead of proceeding in the work, they dilly-dallied, and finally let the contract about the time the next Legislature met Ia force the Superintendent and Trustees entered the lobby, and got the location changed, sold the old grounds and bought new ones west of Columbus, and are now engaged in erecting one of the largest Asylums in ths world, and at the greatest cost Without a single pstient to superintend, Mr. Peck was continued as Superintendent, at a large salary, and his wife as Matron, at a salary as great as that when the Asylum was In existence and filled with patients. Beside this, the Btate furniihed Mr.

Peck a horse, paid for his pro. visions, psid for servant to cook bis food, feed his horses, clean his house, and paid for mending his carriage, shoeing bla horses, etc, etc This was last year. This was not sufficient for this Dr. Feck, and this year be has new offices and new pay. Bis accounts, as published by the Aud.

Itorof Btate and paid ont of the Treasury, iSee" pages 5 and of Auditor's Report, furnish Instructive reading for tax-payer. I'nder heads of Appropriation for Current Expenses, Salaries, and Contingent Expenses of Asylum, are these account; February 10, 18TB, paid W. L. Peck, Bupcr- Intcndent $1,600 February 15, paid W. L.

Peck, Superintendent February 15 1.SO0 February 16, paid Sarah V. Peck, 0 April 4, paid W. L. Peck, 6U Msy, paid Sarah V. Peck, Matron 80 May 9, paid W.

L. Peck, Superintendent 240 Four thousand and thirty dollars between February 10 and May for Dr. Peck and Mrs. Peck for acting as Superintendent and Matron of an institution then in ashes, with no patients to matronlze or superintend, is pretty good pecking; but this Peck li notyej fills'! Hfb other offices, and thus helcVpVthenAT- May lft, 187, W. L.

Peck, Rp" Construe-tect and $130 00 iioA fa1 1 June lJvtff Construction, one irionth t.9"i. W. L. Ieck, Asslsuntuperin- tendent, one AuxuiiJl, W. Perk, Assistant-Superin.

Suadent, or.e month. SeptjTnoer 44, W. L. Peck, Asslstant-Sn- perintendent of l'onruction October W. L.

Peck, Assistant Superin- Undent Kovsmber li, 419 00 416 00 41 00 418 00 4ftt 00 4100 Add to this tbe $4,030 drawn by lr. Peck and Dr. Peck's wife between tho 10th of February and tbetthof May, and we have the nice little sum of te.aa. The salary In the first account was for salary i Superintendent in the second account he draws tor salary as "Resident Architect and Su perintendent of Construction" a "Auitlant Superintendent of Construction," and as Assistant Architect" high salaries for each. On the tb ot May, 1871, he drew $210 as Superintendent of th Asylum, while his wif the same dsy drawi IfO as Matron.

One week after, Dr. Peck, a "Resident Architect and Superintendent of Construction" of the new Asylum draws $250 per month more; less than one week after he draw $41(1 as "AuUUni Architect" and so on, until be gets th sweet littlet sum ot near $7,000 for nls months' service in filling divers offices. When It is remembered that Dr. Peek, besides his salaries for the various offices be fills, gets bis living furnished by th State house rent free, provisions, furnished, cooks to cook bis meals, and all other expenses paid by the State, verily one can not help thinking that he could well afford the large subscription he gave to tbe Grant-ites to carry Ohio. Cabl.

LOUISVILLE. Beheaded by a Railroad Train Bloody Knd of a Family Feud-The Public Library Scheme. 1 MV.Tca nm wauiaaa.1 LocisviLLK, January ft. A horrible accident occurred at Shelby vllle on the Snort Line Bail way to-day. Jimes Slaughter, an Insurance agent and a prominent citizen of Louisville, who had been visiting relatives at that place, on attempting to get oa the ear, wm thrown beneath th wheel and bis bead wa entirely severed from his body.

Charles D. Jaeob, Mayor elect wa Installed into office this morning ia the presence of a very larg erowd. A bloody affray, th result of an old family feud, took place at Beaver Creek, la Floyd County, on New-Tsar' i-dST. Wm. Slxemore wa killed out right John P.

BUemore wounded on one side, while Wm. J. Tamer was mortally, and John B- Turner dangerously, wounded. All tbe parties an respectable eitluns. The Trustee of th Public.

Library Lottery, aad a Banner of members of tbe Legislature, held a secret conference la this city today. It Is an-derstood that the object was to prevent an iaves- tlgatioa of the affairs, and to prevent a repeal of the charter of tbe concern. It is said that the Li brary has made a net profit of $120,000 on tbe two orawinga. CHILLI COTHB. Ex-Bcaator Zsisiltl Improving The Tragedy a Toraado Mora Colored Rlo4 tpllt-Boy Drowae.

facuh lira vaa kvbm.I CniLLicoras, Oaio, January 1 Reports from Wsverly say Hon. James Bmmitt Is Improving, taougfe erysipela bas set la. Arthur Goodrich, a boy, whe was Injured by a roof falling oa him daring tbe time tbe tornado was here last summer, died yesterday from in- tonal injnrtos received at that lime. A colored man named Parker received a terri ble sut on the arm with a butcher's cleaver at Bartlott's pork-bouse, oa Saturday, by failing to turn a bog oa the block quick enough. A German lad named William merich was drowned In Deer Creek, a short distant) north of hers, vesterday.

Tbe Boeael Law to Stand Th Kew President Fro Tern. A Model Prosacatlng-At-toraey Personal. Watui. aaVAtca I 1 COLUMics, January eanvass of th two Bouse, made by a fries of tbe Boeael Railroad Law, renders It quite certain that It will not and can aot be repealed this winter. Senator Brinamade, of Coyahoga, very bitter as a Republican, exceedingly clever a a gentleman and admirable a a presiding officer, was elected President pro Import of the Senate.

Prosecuting Attorney Jiash to-dar refused to approve the contract for the erection of th County In Urinary, because it was not let to the lowest bidder. Senator Patterson, Presidentelect of the Agricultural College, arrlQl la the city to-day, and has been In eonsultanon with member of tbe Board of Trustees, and has vtolted tbe building, lie ha not yst signified hi acceptance of the office, and probably will not before returning to Washington to-morrow. BPR IN CI FIELD. Railroad Aecldent-SavlngBank Organised. itku aavAvai va vn avenam, January.

By tbe break-ing of a rail, the night express going north on the Cinolnnatl, Sandusky and Cleveland Railroad, was thrown from the track near Crbana, Saturday night and a number of passenger cars ditched. Nobody was seriously injured, although all hand were considerably bounced about Archibald Mitchell, one of our oldest and most respected citliens, died at his residence, Sunday morning, and the remains were taken to Now Carlisle, for Interment to-day. Tbe Springfield Saving Bank Association was organized Saturday. Benj. II.

Warder was elected President, John H. Thomas, Vlce-Preeident, and John Newlove, Treasurer. Dr. Samuel Epstein, of Cincinnati, delivered a lecture before the Hebrew Congregation here last evening, mm i I MANSFIELD. Railroad Election.

ricMi wa vo vn avavaaa.) MAftRViiLo, January ft At a meeting of the stockholders ot tbe Mansfield, Coldwater and Lake Michigan Railroad Company held In this city to-day tbe following Director were elected: Hon. W. S. Blckox, J. H.

Cook, H. Colby, and H. H. Sturges of MauiUeld, IL Lewi and F. V.

Smith of Coldwater, V. P. Collier of Battle Creek, J. Fisk of Allegan, Michigan; Bon. Bugh J.

Jewett of Columbus, Ohio; Wager Swayne of Toledo, Ohio; Reuben T. Smith of Cleveland, Ohio; F. A. Graham and D. Darwin Hughes of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Hon. W. Hickox, of Mansfield, was elected President; II. Lewis, of Coldwater, Michigan, Vice-Presi dent; Henry Bedgar Secretary, and Justice Lawyer, Assistant Secretary. LEBANON.

tareless TJe of a Platol A Man Instantly Killed. arartAl af 9 vaa Lxbanon, Ohio, January Pullen was shot and Instantly killed in Floror' drug-store tbi morning by a young man named. William Moeney, a clerk In tbe (tore. The accident hap pened by the careless handling of a pistol sup' posed to be unloaded. inquest was held and a verdict rendered in accordance with the above facta.

Pullen was a young man, much respected. Be leave a wife and one child and numerous friends to mourn bis untimely death. ELECTu-r i foot deep In Central Illinois. Six million dollars in silver bars were shipped from Utah last year. CnA.E.CCLviawas yesterday elected President of the Chicago Board of Trade.

Twixd's trial was adjourned yesterday Owing to the sickness ot one of his lawyers. San Fbancisco detective have started East to arrest Arnold and other diamond operators. A HAM Bitmed Wright was yesterday shot and killed at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, by his mistress. Tui trial of Mrs. Wharton for attempting to poison Eugen Tan Kesi was commenced at Annapolis, yesterday.

t- Tna Russian Christmas waa celebrated In New York yesterday by religious services in the Russian Greek Chapel. TBI witnesses in th Stokes ease who had been confined In tbe House of Detention for th past year were discharged yesterday. Thb Brooklyn parsons held a meeting yesterday to inaugurate preparations for entertaining the International Evangelical Alliance to beheld in Brooklyn next October. Tkktimokt taken before tbo Coroner of JTew Tork shows the Center street buildings which were burned to have been unsafe and th fire escapes out of Abticlis of Incorporation of theCblcago, Saginaw and Canada Railroad Company bare been filed In the Michigan State Department The capital stock C'livelini), yesterday, votcdon the question of Issuing a million dollars in bonds to aid the Val ley Railroad, under the railroad law ot ber own Boesel. Tbe proposition was defeated.

Tos officers ot ths several opposition telegraph companies will meet in Washington to-morrow, for the purpose of considering the feasibility of consolidating their various organisations into one. LITTLE ROCK. CONVENING OF Till LEGISLATURE BAXTER DECLARED GOVERNOR, AND SWORN IN ADJOURNMENT OF THE REFORM CONVENTIONCONTESTED ELECTION CASES. Littli It (Ml, January ft. Both Homes of tha General Assembly convened at 13 o'clock to-day.

Senator Clayton, a brother of the United States Senator, was made President, pro font, of tbe Senate, and W. Taukersly Speaker of tbe House. Tbe Republican caucus nominees of both bouses were elected throughout Both houses met in Joint convention this evening and canvassed the votes lor Governor. Eliiha Baxter was declared to be elected Governor, and upon the declaration being made be cams forward and was sworn In by the Chief Justice. He afterwards delivered a snort Inaugural address, which was very conservative Intone, and was well received by all parties.

The canvass of the vote for otber State officers by th Senate being made to-night. The Reform State Contention adjourned Vn iU Uil evening after a4loptlng resolutions against the inauguration of Mr. Brooks at this time. Tbe argument In the narrlson-Radley insuru. ratios case commenced before Judge Caldwell today and will be continued to-morrow.

Joseph Brooks, who claims to be elected a Governor, has fllt-d a similar bill to that ot Judge Harrison before Judge Caldwell. FIRE. Boston. Januarys. Tbe organ factory of Geo.

Ti. Wood in Cambridge, was damaged by Are last mgbt to th extent of $25,000, Losee by the Carllsle.Keatueky, Fire. Cablislb, January 1 Later Information pot the total losa by fire on Saturday night from to $71)0100. Tbe Individual loese and insurance a far a ascertained are a follows: H. Picker, insurance, tuu.

F. M. Peale a Co. lose from $SOU0 to $10,01 Walleniteln, fiO. Mans A Kennedy, I7.0UO.

Jaraee Stilt, VOX. Mtrtwrf printing-office, uninsured. M. Anderson, $1,000. John M.

Chives, $1,000. P. M. Stilt, store-roum, $8,00. Alston Hall, furnl- SI MIL 1'amnWI A S.tM.A.

M.tfl -i M. Dallas, ad.ller, lhos, Clark, dwellin- and shoe-atore, other lease of dwellin aad stable betweea $1 and I15.0OO. 6 ssoasoi we aoovo ar partially eoreredb nraaoe, uw aaoe ana north Ant In- being the principal losers. Icaa FOREIGN. CKfAT BRITAIN.

A THE HEALTH OI Alt XX-EkfrXROR. London, January Ex-Emperor Kapoleen wa more restless tbrongh th night of Sunday' than since the operation waa performed, bfit bill physiclsns express themselre wsll satisfied with' hi progress. Tie will probably undergo a seedhj operation. WAPGUON rifDEX TBE SCALPEL AGAIN" London, January s. Napoleon had a second operation performed to-day, with favorable Jesuits.

'4 Tb British Government decline to support the proposal of th Royal Geographical Society for sending out the Arctic Expedition partially at the publio expense. A BOSTON VESSEL Bl'tNED. The ship Wallace, of Boston, wss burned to the water's edge ia the harbor of Torbay to-day. The steamship Holsatia, which arrived at Plymouth yesterday from Xew Tork, went ashore for a while last night on Draks's Island. She soon Boated, and was but llttlt damaged.

SOUTH AMMICA. TERRIBLE INUNDATION MtTRDRB OF THW PRESIDENT OF BOLIVIA Hl8 6UCCEW- BOR. i Fanim DecemberJS. There baa been a great Inundation of tb city ot Bogota, caused by the overflow of two small rl vera that run tbrongh it Much property wss destroyed and several Uvea lost The damages ar calculated at $150,000. President Morrales, of Bolivia, after having threatened Congrtsi with dissolution because It did not favor bis mining project and abusing not only member of Congress but his personal staff, was shot dead by his own nephew while tbe latter was being abused by Morrales.

Congress quietly elected General Battisson. as the succes sor oi Morroie. FRANCE. THE LATE CENSUS. Fiats, January ft.

The new census of France shows the population to be 36,101,911 a decrease of 306,935 since 186ft. a us Asiemoiy mi w-uay, out ineir procoeuiogi i were unimportant. i TREATT WITH GREAT BRITAIN. A commercial treaty between France and Great Britain wa formally signed by represeatatlvei of tb two Governments, Saturday, and now awaits rariiamentary ratification. ALPHON80 AND HI8 CARLI8TB.

Tb 6aett do Iraneo report that Don A pbonso entered Catalonia on Saturday night Seven thousand Carlists are concentrated in the Province of Alot and the insurgent are about to enter on a vigorous camnslgn. ITALY, A BKXlSOiTbx IRELAND. Boxi, January 1 A Urge deputation of Bo-man Catholic, from Inland, waited oa tbe Pope to-day, and presented sd dresses reciting the benefit conferred upon Ireland by the Holy Bee, and tendering Uls Holiness a contribution of Peter'l pence. The Pope, responding, deplored the ingratitude of the people who permitted the apoliatlon of the Church. He made an exception In favor of tbe Irish people, whom he praised for their enduring attachment to the Church, and congratulated them on th preservation of their faith.

He eoifcluded by giving the apostolic blemlng to Ireland. GERMANY. Berlin, January ft-The Ministry have settled the provision of a bill which regulated the authority of superior over Inferior clergy, controls the training if the latter, and set op rule governing ecclesiastical appointment. CREECI. THE LACRIUM Atmnj, January ft The rockier.

lias eon-on recommendation oi J-nou of the Laurium Marine. OrirxsTowN. January ft. Stcanithlu Canrji. rotn New York, has arrived.

NEW YORK. STOKES SENTENCED. Kkw Yore; January Vm brought -Into the Oyer and Terminer Cour'ithi morn Id i-to receive his sentence. Mr. "remain.

i.ii counsel, made an address In ration to a bill of exceptions to me juage run ngs, which he pro-pofttd to offer. The prisoner was asked what be had to say why sentence of death shonld not be Iiassed. Stokes thereupon said he bad not rio-atedthe Isw that the testimony upon which he was wa manufactured and perjured. TO Bg HANGED OX THE 28TH OF FEBRUARY. Judgo Boardman then, in a fueling address, in which he alluded to tbe prisoner's yonth and social surroundings, sentenced the prisoner to be hanged on.

Friday, the SHth day of February next, being the shortest time that could be allowed the convicted man. AN EFFORT FOR ANOTHER TRIAL. StokCl' counsel were In consultation last evening. Tbey were greatly surprised st the verdict, and expressed their purpose of applving for a stay of proceedings, and ultimately, if noesibla. to seek another trial.

It seems that tbe lawyers regard the newspaper and public clamor about the prevalence of mnr-deroutnci as partly responsible for the adverse verdict. They should have deferred tho trial of the ce at this time but for the demands of the I prisoner and his relatives. AJ( ICE-BOUND CITT. Yestcrdity morning, shortly after ten o'clock, a rain-storm began, which soon turned to sleet, and continued until late In the afternoon. Kvory thing became fringed with icicles.

Mo such spectscle was witnessed in years before. The-trees were cased in ice. Locomotion on the sidewalk became almost impossible, and throughout the day the streets looked deserted. NO CONNKCTION WITH THE WORLD. About half past one telegraphic communication with points outside of the city was stopped.

Th ice froze to the wires and broke them The police and fire tolesjraphs were destroyed throughout the city, tbe wlms and poles falling in the streets and on the sidewalks The whols of Kew York became isolated, so far as concerned, communication with the outside world. -A HMUOOLER EXTRADITED. Louis Bergwall has been extradited to Bremen on a ensrge or smuggling. A CONFLICT IN MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY. John Foley has been appointed Deputy Oiam-lierlain by Comptroller Green, but Chamberlain Palmer refuses to reeognixe blm, -A lively flpht is expected.

Green has also appointed A braham L. Katie, late County Auditor, to tbe position of AudiUir of Auditor's and Accounts, thus consolidating the offices of City and County Auditor. BERGH ENJOINED. Judge J. F.

Daley, of the Court of Common Pleas, dccldid today that the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has no risr, to arrest drivers for merely driving die' horses, and can not order horses to Ibe KCTnr take them from cars. It granted the agaiutt Bergh aikd by th rilror "1 lines. and state WHAT THE NEW MAYOR Msyor llavemever. In tRCOMMEHBS mends that tbe city an" message, recom- consolldsted; thst -vl' powsrs be 21," Council: tlut (bVvsrinn. and lommoa and iiSJ- omissions be revised Central Gov-iSSSSpX" Tohac.rrrr"4.

"Orlnr b-TeaeaSry sllili th. pointedly jroounoed, as repreheiw are departments TT7- tha Ird of orU ionyfor emphatically commend Comptroller Uree iroini.tio,, of flnajHs. 1 COMMUNISTS COMINO. riv. fnlhll 01 Communist will shortly ar-nriVtof -yrom Paris.

Their friends are preparing tor th option. NASHVILLE. THE TE' jfWESSEE LEGISLATURE CONVENES war JTO ORGANIZATION EFFECTED latur STTILI.S., enuery e. -i ue Tennessee Logis- eonveaen as ue lapitoi to-oay, wiia a nm In both branches. either rsraniaad.

the Senate seven candidates for Speaker were ssninated. and twenty-one ballots had without a jbolc. In the House flv candidate for SpeaiHT war nominated, ana lour DSilou naa. fourth ballot resulted: for Trousdalr, Dem- S3 Houk, tr: 1. Tb latter vote represents the Independents.

There were lx absentees. It I probable the House will elect aa Independent, and tb Senate a Democrat Tb eon test to-Uy letmed to be a skirmish for tb po allien I.