the regular array made vacant by the retirement 
of Gen. Hooker and by the death of Geu. Rous¬ 
seau. 
Jan, 21, -In the House a bill was reported and 
passed which gives all the Southern States repre¬ 
sentation In the Naval Academy. 
The tall which declare that GeorgeW, Ander¬ 
son is not entitled to represent the Ninth Missouri 
District, and that William T, Switzer i.% was dis¬ 
cussed for quite a time, but failed to be passed, 
and so Mr. Anderson retains his scat. 
Gen. Grant has sent a letter to the Secretary of 
the Committee having in charge the inaugura¬ 
tion bull, saying: — “ it will be agreeable to me, 
if your Committee should agree that the boll is 
unnecessary.” 
The House Post-Office Committee were in ses¬ 
sion to-day, and Mr. Orton, President of the 
Western Union Telegraph Co., made a stalc- 
without the consent of the Legislatures of both 
Massachusetts and Connecticut. 
Ii. I. Butler, as Major-General commanding 
the State Militia, has appointed Edward J. Jones, 
Chiel of the State Police, as major of militia 
upon his stail' and assigned him to the post of 
inspector of artillery. 
llainei 
Hannibal Hamlin was elected United States 
Senator with but two dissenting votes in the 
Senate and thirty-two in the House on the 19th 
House, E. W. Young Chief Clerk, and R. C. Kel¬ 
ley Sergeant-at-Arms. L. B. Hills was elected 
Chief Clerk of the Senate and Col. W. H. Ham¬ 
ilton Sergeant-at-arms. 
Minnesota. 
Alexander Ramsey was, on the 19th inst., re¬ 
elected to the United States Senate, by thirty- 
nine majority. 
Tennessee. 
On the 20th inst. Gov. Brownlow issued a proc¬ 
lamation calling upon -‘allgood and loyal citi¬ 
zens to enter the ranks of the State Guard," in 
order to suppress the Ku Klux Klan and all other 
lawless organizations which are defying the civil 
law of the State. 
A later dispatch stares that under t he above 
named proclamation some two thousand troops, 
all white, will be armed and sent Into the coun¬ 
ties where the Ku KJux abound. 
Maryland. 
The city gas works at Annapolis exploded on 
the 23d Inst., completely demolishing the build¬ 
ing and seriously injuring one man. 
Delaware. 
James A. Bayard was, on the lfitb inst., elected 
United States Senator, to serve until March!: 
The newly elected Cortes will meet on the 11th £ 
of February. 
Greece and Turkey. ? 
Constantinople dispatches of the 18th state ^ 
that the Turkish Ambassador at Paris, Djemil ^ 
Pasha, has been directed to sign the protocol r 
agreed upon by the Conference. ) 
The protocol agreed upon by the Paris Confer¬ 
ence declares that to encourage insurrections 
within, or military expeditions against, the ter¬ 
ritory of « friendly power is a violation of 
international law. 
H was rumored at Constantinople on the 21st 
that the Greek ship Syriotte had fired into a 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Washington. 
Jan. 18.—In the Senate the President pro tem. 
presented a memorial from numerous citizens, 
alleging that great frauds were committed in 
various parts of the United States in the late 
elections, and praying for such amendments to 
the naturalization laws as will tend to prevent 
such frauds in the future. 
Senator Morrill presented u petition signed by 
a great uuniberol merchants and hankers of the 
principal cities, asking that hereafter all sales of 
loans and bonds of the United States on Govern¬ 
ment account shall be made by inviting public 
competition, and that ail sales of gold shall be 
made at public auction. 
Senator Sherman, from the Finance Commit¬ 
tee, reported a bill legalizing coin contracts. 
The proceedings were enlivened by a series of 
personal explanations by Senators Harlan, Pom¬ 
eroy, Grimes aud others, who defended them¬ 
selves against newspaper attacks upon their 
conduct wit h regard to the railway schemes now 
before Congress. 
Senator Sumner introduced a petition of mer¬ 
chants of Boston against the renewal of the 
Reciprocity Treaty with Canada. 
lit the House a resolution was adopted direct¬ 
ing the Committee on Public Expenditures to 
investigate the terras of the contract made with 
Wells, Fargo A Co. for the transportation of the 
overland mails and the manner of its fulfillment. 
A resolution was passed reciting that in the 
present condition of national finances, Congress 
ought not to vote anymore subsidies in bonds or 
money to railroad corporations or local enter¬ 
prise 1 '. but that the whole resources of the coun¬ 
try should be so directed as to relieve the nconle 
inst. 
The friends and neighbors of Mr. Hamlin, 
numbering nearly a thousand and accompanied 
by a band of music, met him at Hie railway sta¬ 
tion at Baugor as he returned from the State 
[ capital on the evening of bis election. 
Weston left Bangor at 4 P. M., Jan, 19, and 
reached Portland, one hundred and thirty-five 
miles, early on the morning of the 22nd. lie is 
to walk to St. Paul, Minn., and thence to New 
York city —5,000 miles —in one hundred days 
less fourteen Sundays, when he is not permitted 
to walk at all. He walks so rapidly that the 
sleighs which accompany him have to keep their 
horse® in a brisk trot, and the occupants — re¬ 
porters, witnesses, &c., suffer more from cold 
than does the “ man velocipede," as a New York 
daily styles him. 
The Logi.-dat urc is considering a bill which pun¬ 
ishes sellers mid manufacturers of liquors pois¬ 
oned by strychnine, or other drugs, with from 
French sloop, killing several persons. 
A Paris dispatch of the 22d says tha t Walew 9 kl 
has been selected by the Conference to convey 
the protocol to Athens, and instructed to wait 
five days for an. answer. 
A Paris dispatch of the 24Lh announces that 
the Greek Government lias rejected the proto¬ 
col. aud that the Great Powers will stand neutral 
in The ensuing war. 
The V ieeroy of Egypt has tendered the Turk¬ 
ish Government 50.000 men, and a fleet in the 
event of a war with Greece. 
New Zealand. 
A London dispatch of the 21st inst. reports a 
frightful massacre of the whites by the natives 
at Poverty Bay, Auckland Island, N. Z. 
India. 
The loss of life by the recent earthquake in 
India is reported as very great. 
Cuba, 
Count Valmuseda has officially informed Gen¬ 
eral Dulce that, he took possession of Bayamo 
on the lfith ; and that, on retreating, the revolu¬ 
tionism fired the town, which was totally do- 
and it has determined to report a bill in accord- 
khce with Hie Comptroller s recommendation. 
The Senate Committ ee on Finance has also dis¬ 
eased the matter, and is opposed to tint passage 
of such a bill. 
The Superintendent of the Coast Survey has 
written Secretary McCulloch that fifty set* of 
metric standards of weight, length and capacity 
are now in processor construction Tor distribu¬ 
tion to the several States, in accordance with the 
joint resolution adopted at the time- this system 
was legalized throughout the United States. 
The American branch of the Universal Peace 
Association, now holding session In Washington, 
to-day passed a resolution " that all idea of pun¬ 
ishment, both in the human and divine govern- 
uient, should be done away with, as at war with 
Hie Jaw of love. The present, system of disci¬ 
pline in the family, the school and the prison, 
founded on this idea, is unworthy of civiliza¬ 
tion, to my nothing of Christ innity.” 
.Ian. 23.— 1 lie Senate agreed to a joint resolu¬ 
tion providing lor the removal of all civil offi¬ 
cers in Virginia, Texas and Mississippi who can¬ 
not take the test outh, and for the filling of the 
vacancies by the District Commanders, the reso¬ 
lution to take effect in thirty days. 
In the House a resolution was adopted calling 
on t lie Secretary of State for information reln- 
uen. mower tins been assigned to the com¬ 
mand of the District of Louisiana, andhishead- 
quarters established in New Orleans. 
Missouri. 
Gen. Cart, Senntzwas elected to the United 
States Senate on the 19th inst. 
Gov. MeCJurg was inaugurated on the 13th, 
und In his inaugural message says he will appoint 
to office none bat loyal and strictly honest men, 
and that if any of his appointees should give 
evidence of disloyalty ho will remove them. 
I lie merchants of St, Louis hold a meeting on 
the evening of the 21st inst. to consider the ones- 
tli.n .,4> 4k., t . 1.1 _ 1 . . _ . .. .. 
i in* .Assembly luis n pealed the net empowering 
the Governor to establish a force of detective 
police throughout the State. 
California. 
San Francisco telegrams of the 19th Instant 
state that the United States Grand Jury has 
found over three hundred indictments for natu¬ 
ralization frauds. The Grand Jury recommends 
the Government to establish shipping-offices in 
different sea-ports to prevent, in some degree, 
the outrageous treatment of sailors by officers ol’ 
Ehips and sailors' boarding-house landlords. 
The Central Pacific Railroad is being laid at 
the rate of two miles a day. 
supposed to be bidden there. The Spaniards 
assert 1 hat this was one of I he housc-sfrom which 
the troops were fired upon. At nine o'clock on 
the same night, near the Louvre coffee-house, 
shots wore fired upon volunteers a ho wore pass¬ 
ing through the street. The lower hall of the 
“ Louvre" wsis crowded with people, who wore 
utterly ignorant of what was going on outside 
or on the upper Hoors of the building. The 
detachment of volunteers halted, faced upon 
.the Louvre and fired upon the guests indiscrim¬ 
inately, with fatal effect. Several Spanish gen¬ 
tlemen, Government employes and officers of 
the army were killed. Samuel Colmer, a well- 
known photographer from the United States, 
was at tucked and killed near the Louvre, at 
about the same time, by armed men who are 
supposed to belong to the volunteer force. 
While the audience was going out of the Villa 
Nueva Theater shots were fired by which two 
women and several children were killed. 
Evening dispatches of the fJStli state that a 
meeting of the commanders of the volunteer 
forces in this city was held to-day. Captaiiv- 
G'eneral Dulce deplored the recent occurrences. 
It was resolved that- all volunteers, excepting 
those on guard, shall hereafter remain at rheir 
homes, and onJy come out when a signal of 
twelve guns is fired, or at the command of their 
chief officers. Meantime, until the arrival of 
additional regular troops from Spain, sailors 
from the Spanish men-of-war in the harbor are 
to perform patrol duty, and they are now pat¬ 
rolling the streets outside the trails. 
Business is suspended, but the people are now 
greatly relieved. The feeling of security is 
growing stronger, as the soldiers aro well di- 
ciplincd, sober and faithful. The city is now 
((5 P. M.) perfectly quiet. 
The American schooner Arrieta, formerly a 
Key West wrecker, was brought to Havana as 
a prize by tiie Spanish gunboat Delta, on sus¬ 
picion of carrying' suplles to the rebels. When 
discovered the schooner pretended to be engaged 
in wrecking a ship lost on the Colorado Reefs. 
The Arrieta sailed from Key West on the 8th 
for Sisal. 
FOREIGN NEWS, 
Great Sri tain. 
The London papers of the 19th inst. comment 
upon Louis Napoleon’s speech at the meeting 
ol the Corps Legislatif and the Times regrets 
that the Government which the Emperor has 
created cannot survive him. 
France* 
The Senate and Corps Legislatif assembled on 
ihc 18th inst. and the session was opened by the 
Emperor in person by a speech from the throne 
in which be congratulated the country on being 
well prepared for either peace or war. 
Mr. Burlingame and the two Chief Mandarins 
of the Chinese Embassy made their first visit to 
the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the 21st. 
On the 24th (Sunday) the Chinese Embassy had 
an audience with the Emperor in the palace of 
the Tuilories. They were received, with the 
courtesies usually exteuded to diplomats of high 
.1 fteodoue r* kandoi.pit was i naug'uratcd 
Governor, at Taylor Hall, in Trenton, on the 
19th. in the presence ol' a large assemblage of 
citizens. 
George Wode, owner of the boiler which ex¬ 
ploded at Eliza beihport on the 15th, was arrested 
on the 20tli as he was attempting to escape. He 
was alarmed, it. is said, at the indignation ol' the 
citizens of Elizabeth, and at Die finding ol’ the 
coroner's jury which charged him with culpable 
[ negligeuco. 
Illinois. 
The Legislative Committees on State Institu¬ 
tions left Springfield on the 22d inst. to visit the 
Industrial University at Champaign, the Peniten¬ 
tiary at Joliet, the Normal University at Bloom¬ 
ington. and the Asylums at Jacksonville. 
'The Executive Committee of the State Tem¬ 
perance party lias resolved to run a State ticket 
at the next election. 
A suit involving two entire sub-divisions of 
the Douglas estate was begun In Chicago on the 
tno erection of a new bridge fit Hathbone, Steu¬ 
ben Co.; and establishing an academical depart¬ 
ment in the L. nion School at Oswego. 
In executive session the Senate confirmed the 
nomination of Nathan Bishop ot New York to 
be Commissioner of Public Charities; John AYil- 
liums to be Major-General of the Seventh Divis¬ 
ion of the National Guard; and William H. 
Morrisof Putnam C’o., to be Commissary-General 
of Ordnance. 
On the 21st, the Senate passed bills to enable 
Binghamton to obtain a water supply; and to 
authorize Lockport to purchase hose earriaa'es 
and fire badges. 
Massachusetts. 
IIen itv Vose ol Boston, Associate Justice of 
the Massachusetts Superior Court, died on the 
17th instunt; Gov. Chitlin has nominated Robert 
E. Pitman, of New Bedford, as his successor - 
and Chief Justice Seth Ames, of the Superior 
Court, has been nominated by the Governor to 
I he scat upon the Supreme Bench made vacant 
by the recent resignation of Judge Dwight Fo.s 
ter. 
The Governor hus annotated tin. r.,n,-. 
Convention, recently held in Washington, to-dav 
cullod upon Gen. Grant, and in his reply the Gen¬ 
eral said the colored race should have his efforts 
to secure every protection which the laws give 
them. 
A committee of the Baltimore City Councils 
called on Gen. Grant to-day and read to him the 
resolutions ol that body expressing the most 
friendly feelings, and inviting the General to 
accept the hospitalities of Baltimore on his visit 
on Thursday. 
Jan. 20 . The House passed a hill requiring all 
persons entitled to the use of the franking priv¬ 
ilege to affix their autograph signature and not 
use a stamp. 
A resolution was adopted appointing a select 
committee of seven to inquire aud report as to 
what legislation is necessary to provide for tak¬ 
ing the ninth census next year. 
The State Department to-day received a tele¬ 
gram from London announcing the revocation 
ol ihe ardor prohibiting the importation of 
American hay into Great.Britain. 
Gen. Kilpatrick's leave of absence has been 
extended until March. The report that he has 
been drawing pay from the Government while 
absent from his post of duty is without founda¬ 
tion. 
President Johnson has nominated Gens. Bu¬ 
chanan and Gilleni for the two Brigadicrships in 
22 d inst. 
On the aid a petition for a State botanical sur¬ 
vey was presented to the Legislature. 
Airs. Mary A. Warren obtained her fourth di¬ 
vorce at Chicago on the 10th inst.. and was mar¬ 
ried for the fifth time on the following day. 
She married Mr. Warren June 29,1807, separated 
from him on the 7th of October following, and 
filed her hill the 30th of last October, alleging 
SPECIAL NOTICES 
A GREAT SUCCESS 
extreme and repeated cruelty. 
Indiana. 
^ D. D. Pratt was elected to the United States 
Senate on the 22d inst. The Joint Convention of 
the Legislature met at noou and Mr. P. received 
eighty-three votes to sixty for Senator Hen¬ 
dricks. 
Michigan. 
Zachariah CnAXDLKR was re-elected to the 
United States Senate on the 19th inst, 
Wisconsin* 
On the 19th inst. Mat. H. Carpenter was nomi¬ 
nated for the United States Senate by the Re¬ 
publicans ol' the Wisconsin Legislature. 
Tiie Legislature Organized on the 13th inst. A. 
M. Thompson was re-elected Speaker of the 
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