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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Washington. 
March 15.—Among the bills introduced into 
the Senate was one giving the right of way to the 
Pacific Central and Transit Railroad Company, 
front New Orleans to Borne point on the Rio 
Grande. 
The most important businois of the day was 
the passage of the Soheack bill to strengthen 
the public credit, by the decisive vot of forty- 
two to thirteen. 
The House pas&od n bill striking l a word 
“White” from all laws relating to the District of 
Columbia. 
-March 10.— Among tbo most noteworthy new 
bill3 introduced into the Senate were those to 
grant lands in Minnc so'.a toaid In in: proving-the 
navigation of the -Mis- ilppl above the Fails of 
St. Anthony ; to incorp (to the United States 
Postal Telegraph Compu v; to aid in the con¬ 
struction of the Internsti lal Paclfio Railroad, 
from Cairo, Ill., to the Hi > Grande; to grant 
lands to the Northern Michigan Railroad, as uti 
extension of the Pacific Railroad; to establish 
female suffrage in Utah, and to authorize the 
recognition of Cuba. 
The Senate then discussed, amended, and pass¬ 
ed the bill for the reorganization of the Navy; 
and afterward went into an extended debate 
upon the Tonure-of-Ofllce Law. 
In the House the petttlou of Messrs. Illiss and 
Mastcrmnn, in relation to their Imprisonment in 
Paraguay by President Lopez, and on board tho 
United Slates gunboat Wasp, and flagship Guer- 
rierc, was received and referred to tho Com¬ 
mittee on Foreign Ailuln . 
Tho Coinago bill, providing for coinage of 
nickel copper pieces, was taken up, and alter 
Borne debate was referred, with nil tho amend¬ 
ments, to the Committee on Coinage. 
A bill for t he division of the State and Territory 
of Texas Into se\ oral States and Territories, was 
presented and referred to Committee on Recon¬ 
struction. 
March 17. —The Senate was principally en¬ 
gaged in discussing H o extension of trans¬ 
atlantic telegraph lines and the repeal of tho 
Tonuro-of-Office Act. 
Tho House considered the joint, resolution to 
Gupply the omissions in tho General Appropria¬ 
tion bills of the Fortieth Congress. A very ani¬ 
mated debate ensued, in tho course of which 
there was some very sharp crimination and 
recrimination between Messrs, Sohenck of Ohio, 
and llutlor of Massachusetts. The Joint resolu¬ 
tion was finally passed. 
March 18, -Tho Senate discussed the bill sup¬ 
plemental to the act to provide a national cur¬ 
rency, secured by pledge of United States bonds, 
until the end of the morning hour, when tho 
Tenurc-of-Offiee Act came up as unfinished 
business. Senator Morton, of Indiana, con¬ 
cluded his argument for repeal. Senator Davis, 
of Kentucky, then spoke for two hours and a 
half, to prove the law unconstitutional and void. 
Senator Brownlow, of T, imoswe, then obtained 
the floor, but being too weak to apeak, his spoecli 
Was read by tho Secretary. He whs opposed to 
repeal, but favored a modification. Senator 
Trumbull gave notification ho would press the 
question of repeal to u vote on the 191 h. 
MISCELL A NEOBIfi. 
A Washington paper says that on Monday 
ovenlng, t he 15th Inst., Secretary Boutwell ad- 
dressed a note to N. M. Clark, formerly Chief of 
Printing Bureau of the Treasury Department, 
and afterward disbursing agent of the Treasury 
extension, requesting him 1o tender his resigna¬ 
tion. K is understood that Mr. Clark immedi¬ 
ately complied with the request. 
The statement Is frequently msido that Major 
General George IT. Thomas was senior in rank 
to General Sheridan, and that, the promotion of ' 
the latter to Lieutenant-General was a slight to ! 
tho former distinguished officer. Tills is a mis- 1 
take, as General Sheridan's commission as Major 1 
General bears date Nov. 8, lrttii, and General ‘ 
Thomas' Dee. 15, 1801. Gen. Meade, however, 
ranked them both, as bis commission is dated 1 
August 18,1664, and Gen. lJallock’s dates back to * 
August 19. 1981. ' 
Hon. George A. Ilalsoy of Newark, N. J., has ' 
declined to accept the office of Register of the u 
Treasury, which was tendered him by Secretary ' 
Boutwoll. 8 
Johu J. .\ i von of Covington, JCy., who was an 
applicant for the Mission to Brazil, has boon c 
urged by the President to accept (he Collector- 1 
ship of the Sixth Kentucky District, which ho d 
has consented to do. ' 
Secretary Cox has signified his intention to 
appoint a Mr. Haynes to bo Pension Agent at v 
Brooklyn. n 
Commissioner Delano having announced his }l 
intention of removing tiie Collector of the Fifth 
(Mungen’s) District of Ohio, the latter has, there- ** 
foro, tendered his resignation. v 
General Ames, who has been assigned to duty o 
in command of the Fourth Military District, ti 
will also retain the Provisional Governorship of 
Mississippi until Congress acts in the matter. c 
Tiie nimouncemcut of the passage of the Pub- r 
licCredit Bill through both Houses on Monday, tl 
t he loth ItlSt., was the subject of much Congratu- o 
lation. The Senate substituted the* House bill p 
for its own and passed it without amendment. p 
so that it Went forthwith to the President, and 0 
very appropriately was the first bill to receive ti 
thu Presldont ’9 approval. • ( ; 
Previous to tho appolntrpont of the House t 
Committees (Jen. Butler sent the following lot- b 
ter to Speaker Blaine: 
He was on Wednesday notified by Mr. Richard¬ 
son that he accepted the position, and would 
shortly be ready to ussume the duties. Mr. 
Richardson is a prominent member of the Mas¬ 
sachusetts Bar, was one of tho Commissioners 
for codifying the Statutes of the State, and has 
been for some years one of the Probate Judges. 
On tho 10th Inst. General Sherman, by direc¬ 
tion of the President, mude tho following im- 
i portuntarmy changes:—Lieut<-Gcn. P. II. Sher¬ 
idan Is assigned to the command of the Military 
Division of the Missouri. Major-Gen. H. W. 
Halleck is assigned to the command of the Mili¬ 
tary Division of tho South, to bo composed of 
i the Departments of the South, Louisiana, the 
Fourfii Military District, and tho States com- 
poiing the present Department of the Cumber¬ 
land, headquarters at Louisville, Ky. Major- 
Gen. Halioek will proceed to his now command 
us soon as relieved by Major-Gon. Thomas. 
Major-Gon. Geo. II. Thomas is assigned to the 
command of Die Military Division of the Pacific. 
Major-Gen. J. M. Schofield Is assigned to the 
command of the Department of tho Missouri. 
The State of Illinois and tho post of Fort Smith, 
Arkansas, are transferred to (his Department, 
Brigadier and Brevet Major-Gen. O. 0. Howard 
is assigned to command the Department of 
Louisiana. Until his arrival, the senior officer, 
Brevet Major-Gon. J. A. Mower will command 
according to Ids brevet rank of Major-General. 
Tbo Department of Washington will bo discon¬ 
tinued and merged in the Department of the 
Red, The records will be sent to the Adjutant- ! 
General of the tinny. Tho First Military Dis¬ 
trict will bo added to the Military Division of the 
Atlantic. As soon as Major-Gen. Thomas is ready 
to relinquish command of the Department of 
the Cumberland, the Department will be discon¬ 
tinued, and the States comprising it will be ad¬ 
ded to other departments to be hereafter desig¬ 
nated. Tho records will bo forwarded to tbo 
Adjutant-Gbucral of tho army. 
Tho resignation Of Brevet Major-Gen. John A. 
Rawlins has boon accepted, todate from thelzth 
instant. 
The President sent in a few nominations on 
the 17th, the most important of which are Henry 
D. Moore to be Collector of Customs at Philadel¬ 
phia, and Miss Van Low to bo Postmistress at 
Richmond. (Miss V. was very efficient as a spy 
In tbo Army of the Potomac, and her nomination 
was endorsed “in acknowledgment of important 
service t<*> the Union army during tho rebel¬ 
lion.”) Tbo vacancy in the Philadelphia Custom¬ 
house was caused by the resignation of Mr. 
Marks, who was confirmed on the Just day of tho 
lust session, and whose commission was only 
issued two weeks ago by President Grant. 
Lieut.-Geu. Sheridan loft. Washington on 
Thursday night, the 18 th lit»L, for New York, 
whence, after a stay of a day or two, be will 
proceed to bis new command. His opinions of 
St. Louis are evidently not of tho highest grade, 
and he will not make that oily ids headquarters. 
Tho President, at his request, has added tho 
State of Illinois to hhi command, und his head 
quarters will bent once established in Chicago, 
to which city ho goes direct from Now York. 
Mr. Washbttrnc having been formally relieved 
from the State Department by the swearing in 
of Secretary Fish, will remain In Washington a 
fortnight to close up hia business, when he will 1 
dep (Vt for Galena, 111., where his family go to- 1 
morrow. Mr. Wnsbbumo will not embark for 
Franco till some time in May, ' 
Additional efforts are being made to secure 
tbO appointment of Ebcuozer D. Bassett, col¬ 
ored, principal of a school in Philadelphia, as 
Miiiistcr to Hayti. Hu b Indorsed by tho Nation- 
al Committee of colored men, Fred. Douglass, , 
Downing, Langston and many others, white and , 
black. 
New York. 
Rev. Frederic D. Huntington, D. D., Bishop 
elect of Central New York, has decided to make ' 
Syracuse his place of residence. ‘ 
a defaulter to the amount of $5,000. His father 
promises to makegood the amount. 
New Hampshire. 
Fell returns from all but three towns in New 
Hampshire give Steams for Governor 35,700, and 
Bedel, 31,998. A Republican majority of 3,764. 
Vermont. 
Peter Neauy. Win. Butterfly, Martin Duffy 
and Thomas Durham wore convicted in Rut¬ 
land on Wednesday, the 17th lust., of setting 
fire to tho Rutland Town Hull and adjoining 
buildings in December last. 
fflafrsacliusett*. 
Secretary Bout well lias dissolved his busi¬ 
ness connection in Boston in order to give his 
whole time to the duties of his new office. 
Mr. T. G. Appleton of Boston, who is now in 
Rome, has purchased the splendid collection of 
engravings of tho late Cardinal Tosti, ten thou¬ 
sand in number, and tms presented it to the 
Boston Public Library, lx bundled «re under¬ 
stood to be handsomely framed, and the rest 
bound in folios. They are accompanied by an 
antique bust, presented at the same time to the 
library by the Cardinal's representative. They 
are expected tonrrive this spring. Mr. Appleton 
was one of the original trustees of the library. 
The gale on the night of the 6th Jnst. was one 
of the most disastrous in Its effect on the fishing 
fleet off George’s Banks that has been expe¬ 
rienced for a long time. As far us heard from 
e-ix men have been lost, and great fears are felt 
that some of the vessels will never return, as 
several were seen in a disabled condition. 
The Boston Board of Aldermen, with one dis¬ 
senting vote, granted the parade ground on the 
Common for the Peace Musical Concert, in Juno 
next. 
A few days ago a large box was received by the 
trustees or the Peabody Institute at South Dan¬ 
vers, (now called Peabody.) upon opening which 
a splendid full-length oil portrait of Mr. Pea¬ 
body was found. Tiie picture is designed to occu¬ 
py a prominent place in the now Institute build¬ 
ing, and was presented by Mr. Peabody himself. 
The Overseers of Harvard College have nomi¬ 
nated CharlesW. Eliot lor President of tho Uni¬ 
versity, and will submit his election <o a future 
meeting of the corporation. He is a son of Mr. 
Samuel A. Eliot, and at present is a professor in 
the Institute Of Technology. Mr. Eliot is thirty- 
eight. years of age, was stroke-oar of the first 
boat's crew of Harvard, and represents tiie 
“Young America” element among the gradu¬ 
ates and friends of the college. 
Connecticut. 
Mv Dear Mr. Speaker: Our service together on 
Die Committee of Appropriations In t!in ALth con¬ 
gress. ana oar relations of personal friendship, may 
embarrass you In the assignment of the Coin mil tires 
of the present House. Taking advantage of that 
inr n.t-qup, I beg leave to Miy to you that 1 wish n i 
Kuril consideration to enure any rehuimure to make 
*«ch assignments us you deem tiie courtesies of * our 
1 :ilon und thu Interests of thu public husiuetw may 
require. Yours truly. R. F. BuTi.ni. 
Many of the Senators will Insist that thoAla- 
l ma Treaty, now before the Senate Foreign 
1: -lions Committee, lie reported to the Senate 
by the Committee, with its recommendations,al 
a*: early a day during the present session ns pos- 
sil ie, ia order that it may be rejected, as it sure¬ 
ly will be, thus leaving the subject of the Ala¬ 
bama claims wholly open for Reverdv Johnson’s 
sui - 'ssor, and not in any way subject to previous 
negotiations. 
: rotary Boutwell, on Monday, the 15th, nom- 
in itod Hon. W. A. Richardson, of Boston, to be 
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, to fill the 
v nev which has existed for nearly u year. 
ppStlSElSii 
A levro meeting of the Buffalo Board of Trade 
was hold on Saturday, the 13th inst. Messrs. 
Barker, Moulton and Shaw of New York, were 
pro ut ns the representatives of the elevating 
ini crests of New York. They were sustained by 
nearly all the prominent and Influential mer¬ 
chants of the Corn Exchange, iix the advocacy of 
a radical re form in the present mode of conduct¬ 
ing tho grain business in tlmt. city. The princi¬ 
pal points urged worethat it Buffalo and Chicago 
would reduce their elevating charges, New York 
would make fifty per cent, reduction, and that 
grain could be placed in to ole valors immediately 
on arrival In New York, instead of remaining 
several days in canal boats a waiting sale. 
The jury in the case of Dan. Noble, who was 
on trial at Elmira, on a charge of complicity in 
the Royal Insurance bond robbery, have been 
discharged, us they were unable to arrive nt a 
verdict. 
Dr. Newcomb lias arrived nt Corn 11 University 
with his collection of shells, which numbers 
nearly 5,000,000 specimens of R’,000 species. I Jr* 
has been tbirty-flvo years in collect ing them. 
Allison Smith, nu old resident of Spencorport, 
N. Y„ was instantly killed on the 15th Instant, 
while leading a funeral procession which was 
entering the ehurch of that place, by the belfry 
trap-door being hurled against him by the wind. 
The Joint commission of the British and Ameri¬ 
can Governments to settle the Hudson Bay and 
Puget Sound difficulties, mot in New York ou 
the 18th inst. The united amount of the claims 
Of the t wo companies is $6,000,000. The treaty of 
1850, negotiated by Ex-President Buchanan and 
Lord Puckenham, stipulated for tiie protection 
of the rights of t hose companies during the con- 
tinuance of the license granted by the British 
Government- It is now sought to found upon 
that- license n claim to the fee of the territory 
so occupied, which the United States resists. 
St. Patrick's Day was celebrated on Wednes¬ 
day, the 17th inst., by the disciples of Ireland’s 
patron saint, in New York City and Brooklyn. 
Immense processions, both civic and military, 
marched through the leading thoroughftueea, to 
the delight- of thousands of spectators of both 
sexes and all ages. In the evening tiie Knights, 
Friendly Sons and Shamrock Associations en¬ 
joy t*i 11 ion n toons dinners, while tho Fenians were 
entertained at the Cooper Institute. The cele¬ 
bration was very orderly throughout, 
Maine, 
Portland was organized as a city in 1832. 
During this period of thirty-seven years the 
Democrats have been in power five years only, 
ttnd never two years in succession. 
The roof of the* Congregational Church at 
Wilton was crushed in on the 15th by tho snow, 
entirely destroying the edifice and and Organ. 
J. M. Larrnboe, City Treasurer and Collector 
of Gardiner, who has boon connected with the 
City Government for many years, is found to be 
Mrs. Jeremiah Ladd, aged one hundred and 
eight years and nine months, and the oldest per¬ 
son in the State of Connecticut, died on Wednes¬ 
day, the 10th inst., in East Lyme. She had been 
in good health until a few days previous, when 
she caught cold. 
A velocipede " professor," after having made 
some money at Waterbury by opening a tiding 
school, sold out his Interest, reserving the right 
to give a farewell exhibition. He announced 
for Saturday night, the 13th inst., a grand exhi¬ 
bition and the first appearance or tho champion 
female veloeipedist from Boston. Shaving olf 
his whiskers and moustache, he donned female 
attire and rode his bicycle, to the amazement of 
n large audience. Al reldnight he left town 
with the proceeds of the exhibition and without 
settling his board bills. 
New Jersey. 
In the United States District Court at Trenton 
last week, Judge Field gran red an injunction on 
the application of the Morse Patent Pen Com¬ 
pany restraining the East Brook Fountain Pen 
Company from making fountain pons. 
1‘cnusyl vanla. 
The twenty-first annual report of the Board 
of Directors of Girard College for Orphans (lo¬ 
cated iu Philadelphia) states that eighty orphans 
were admitted during 1368, and sixty-seveu have 
been indentured and discharged, making tho 
present, number in the College five hundred and 
ton. The pupils are divided Into ten sections, 
five of which, composed of boys under twelve 
years ol' age, arc placed in charge of govern¬ 
esses, and five, composed of the older boys, arc 
under prefects. There are sixteen classes, and 
when now pupils are admitted to the College 
they are assigned to such classes as they are 
qualified to enter. The expenditures during 
the past year amounted to $135,648.59, of which 
$100,427.51 was for household expenses. 
Rev. George Bringhurst of Philadelphia, pub¬ 
lishes a curd denying the report that George S. 
Twitchell lnd confessed that he was tiie mur¬ 
derer of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Hill. On the 
Contrary, Twitchell still protests his innocence, 
and declares that he will yet be shown to be so. 
Miss Susan J. Wiilesey, a Postmistress (in law 
Postmaster,) at Jackson Station, near Eric*, hits 
I been held to answer a charge of robbing the 
malls. A money letter containing fifteen dollars 
Imd been opened and five dollars abstracted. In 
the mail bag containing the letter which had 
been robbed was found Miss WUIcsey’s passbook 
with her grocer. 
The strike among the journeymen in the mo¬ 
rocco manufactories of Philadelphia is virtually 
ended, most of tho workmen having gone to 
work at t he old rate of wages. 
Maryland. 
William T. Hamilton, United States Senator 
elect from Maryland, who has been very ill nt 
Hagerstown, is recovering. 
Virginia. 
QUITE a flutter bos been occasioned in Virginia 
among tiie office-holders, in consequence of the 
republieation of the act vacating the positions 
of those persons who cannot take tho iron-clad 
oath. Gen. Stoneman has been unable to make 
any appointments to offices drawing no salary, i 
und tiro legal loudness of the State is therefore 
in a chaotic state. i 
The Lighthouse Board will place a light-vessel 
at Windmill Point, Chesapeake Bay, in a few* 
daj'9. 
South Carolina. 
On Tuesday, the 2d inst., a white man by the ! 
name of John Tegui was arrested in George¬ 
town, S. C., nt the instance of Sergeant Crovi- 
sort of the Eighth Infantry, who stated that he ‘ 
had reason to believe that his step-son, John 
Finer, twelve years old, whom he had confided ! 
to the care of Alfred Herlcourt. had been nmr- 1 
dered. Crovlsart. obtained si warrant for Heri- 
oonrt and Capelo, but before It. could ho served 
Hericourt fled to pares unknown. A few days 1 
ago Officer Nipson went to Georgetown, and 
arrested Capole and lodged him In jail, where he 
nwaits the action of tho Attorney-General. Cu- 
pele, it appears, took the boy in a battean, osten t 
sibly to bring him to Georgetown, and it is sup- £ 
er posed murdered him and buried him on the 
beach at South Island, after misleading a Cor¬ 
oner’s jury ti3 to the cause of bis death. The 
w motive is believed to be apprehension that the 
d boy knew too much ol their illicit doings on the 
river. 
Georgia. 
Tiie Georgia House of Representatives passed 
>' the Fifteenth Amendment on Tuesday, the ICtb 
t- inst., by a vote of 51 to 46. 
The Senate tool; up the Fifteenth Amendment 
ff on the 17th, and u motion to indefinitely post¬ 
pone resulted in a tie vote of seventeen to sev¬ 
enteen. Benjamin F. Conley, the Republican 
j. President of the I mate, having the casting vote, 
l 3 voted yea, thus indefinitely postponing and vir¬ 
tually defeating the adoption of the Fifteenth 
Amendment. 
I Florida. 
i_ Gov. Reed has offered n reward of $2,000 for 
0 apprehension of the assassin of Dr. Finlay- 
.. son, who was murdered at Marianna a few 
nights ago. 
Louisiana, 
0 A. W. Faulkner has been arrested In New 
Orleans for conspiring to defraud a Hartford, 
a L’t., Life Insurance Company. In 1867, Faulkner 
secured a policy of insurance for £8,000 on tbo 
lire of Thomas Vix. Vix wits persuaded to leave 
the State., and subsequently Faulkner presented I 
[ evidence of his death and demanded tho amount 
ol insurance. The insurance* agent suspected 1 
fraud, and after much trouble found the orig- 
Inal Vix alive and well, and induced him to 
expose the conspiracy. Fevoral jxa-sona tvere 
Implicated in the plot, all of whom have been 
arrested. 
Mississippi. 
The Mississippi School Bill, providing for I 
, mixed schools, lias become a law, the Governor 
having affixed his signature thereto. Tho Board 
J of Commissioners has also been appointed. 
. Arkansas. 
A special dispatch to tho Memphis (Tenn.) 
■ Avalanche, dated Little Rock, March IG, says 
, that the Governor had sent u message to tiie 
. Assembly, notifying that body that tho Board 
. of COmtnissionore had awarded State aid to iho 
i Memphis und Little Rock a tut other railroads, 
which were loft out in the Omnibus bill. 
Tilt! investigations Into the Penitentiary con¬ 
tractmake a si art ling development. It appears 
l hat Hodges and Weeks, the contractors, who 
i recently notified Hie Governor that they would 
vacate the grounds on the 1st of April, have 
drawn front the State Treasury $90,000, none of 
which has been returned. Tho contract, which 
specified their bond for £10,000, has been pur¬ 
loined from the Secretary's office. 
Resolutions deposing J. G. Price, Speaker of 
the Arkansas House, were introduced on tho 
17 th inst, 
TcuitesKce. 
A plot is reported as having been discovered 
in Memphis among tiie negroes, for the purpose 
of destroying the town of Helena, and they had 
confessed to having committed the murder of 
General Hindman. ( 
The sleet on Sunday night the 14th inst, is re- , 
ported to have destroyed the fruit near Memphis. 
Kentucky. i 
John Sanford Young shot Richard Powell, 1 
son of Ex-Gov. Powell, through the heart, at : 
Henderson, on Thursday, the Hth inst.. killing ’ 
him instantly. Both had been drinking. 
The Kentucky Legislature has rejected the 
Fifteenth Amendment by a very decided vote, i 
A farmer named John Key, living near Mays- c 
vilie, Ky„ was shot and Instantly killed on the J 
15th inst. by his son. A Mr. Given was also se- i 
verely wounded by the same person. No oause t 
for the murder is assigned. 
Indiana. 
Vice-President Colfax’s old district in In- i 
diana, having been divided, has now in Congress S 
the Vice-President, a Senator and two Repre- a 
sentatives. * ( 
Illinois. £ 
In tlie Chicago Superior Court, on Monday, the 1 
15th Inst., Charles Stewart, convicted of the ( 
murderof George Herbert, was sentenced to the 
Penitentiary for life, in the case of Charles ( 
Senter, convicted of manslaughter, for killing c 
William Reuse, the motion for n new trial was 1 
overruled, and Hit* prisoner was sentenced to 11 
the Penitentiary for seven years. 
Frank Nye and Daniel Jones, commission mcr- c 
chants, und members ol' the Chicago Board of c 
Trade, were arrested on tho evening of the 17th ' 
inst. l’or swindling in the purchase and sale of * 
oats. ti 
Michigan. a 
Tho Michigan Legislature has passed a concur- ! 
rent rosolut ion asking Hie National Government 1 
to make a preliminary survey for a canal across v 
tiie Slate, to connect the waters of Lake Erie 
with those of Lake Michigan, from the River 1 
Raisin to the river SL Joseph. This is a revival 1: 
of an old project, undertaken in the early his- v 
l tory of Michigan. Several year’s ago a survey " 
of this route was actually made, at least to a v 
considerable extent, and it was ascertained that " 
the construction of a canal across tho State by 11 
this route, or one near it, was not only feasible, c ’ 
but really quite easy to accomplish. 11 
Wisconsin. 
Three men wore arrested in Green Lake Co. 
on Wednesday, the 10th inst., charged with mak- 11 
ing counterfeit nickel five cent pieces. All tiie j< 
implements necessary to their manufacture and 11 
a quantity of the bogus coin were found at tho 11 
house of one of the persons arrested. 8 
Richard Yapp was shot and instantly killed in ^ 
his own house, near Ridgeway, on the 18th inst. , 
Ho had Just returned from town, and was stand- c 
ing by the side of his wife when, she declares, a . 
shot was fired through the window and he fell '■'[ 
forward dead. The strange conduct of herself 11 
and her brother subsequently has caused them tl 
to be looked upon with suspicion. 
Missouri. j v * 
The following is the most sensible application 
for office which President Grant has yet re- M 
celved: $] 
Mayor’s Office. > 
Tr . „ „ „ „ 8 t. Louis. March 10,1869. \ 
IJih Excellency U. S. Grant, President, iVashlnoton, 1,1 
D- C.: CC 
Do appoint a Pension Aeent fur St. Louis. Large ry 
nnraiiers of dest itute and crippled pensioners from J 
distant places, who cannot return to their homes, arc 
".. ' l ... 1. - ... I I IV 111, H livin'. ,,..»vi 
now quartered by the Alnvor. 
_ . James 9. Thomas,M ayor. 
Thu following Is the reply: 
Washington. D. c., March 11. 
Hon. iS. 'Shornas, ^favor; 
A 1’casino Agent will tie appointed to-day. 
Horace Porter, 
Brevet Brigadier-General and secretary. 
The steamer Ruth was burned on the I5th in 
the lower Mississippi ami was one of tho largest 
and finest vessels In the Western waters. She 
he was owned by the Atlantic and Mississippi 
)r- Steamship Company, cob, in 1685, $200,000, and 
he j was valued at $100,000. She was insured for 
he j $55,000 in Western companies. Her cargo of 
he | 2,000 tons was valued at about $130,000. The fire 
originated In the hold near the boilers, and she 
was immediately sunk by cutting a hole in her 
ad bow. She lius iu fifteen feet of water. A large 
tb portion of her cargo can be saved in a damaged 
condition. 
nt Gov. MeClurg has appointed W. King, a promi- 
t- | nent citizen of St. Louis, Superintendent of the 
v- new Insurance Department created by tho Log¬ 
in islature. 
e, | A special dispatch from St. Louis to a Chicago 
r- paper says that. Mr. H. Bpggs, former partner of 
h President Grant in the real estate business in 
St. Louis, died in that city on Saturday, tho 
13th inst. 
>r Texas, 
General Canby haaissuod an order appropri- 
tv at ing about $435,000 out of the State Treasury of 
Texas, to carry on the Provisional Government 
of that Stnto during the current year. It is said 
iv that more than one-third of this amount is for 
1 , the Penitentiary, which will return most of Uie 
•r amount thus appropriated, 
o The Chairman of tiie Texas State Democratic 
c Executive Committee announces that he will 
r) deem it hi.-, duty, a 9 soon as the Constitution 
t j shall be printed and circulated among the people, 
d i so that they may be properly advised of its eou- 
•- tents, to call a State Convention at Bryan, to de- 
o »ermine what course should be taken, and to In- 
e sure wiso and harmonious action. 
i California. 
The track of the Central Paoiflc Railroad Is 
now being rapidly extended, five or six miles be- 
r ing laid daily. 
San Francisco despatches of the 15tb give the 
1 following: 
Savago and Smith, tho men who murdered 
Lieutenant-Commander Mitchell, of the United 
) States .iavy, iu that city, in October last, were 
3 sentenced each to ten years in the State Prison. 
3 Indian outrages are reported in Humboldt 
i County. One man while plowing his field was 
shot and killed by the savages, bis house plun- 
, dered and fired, tho family barely escaping by 
flight. Immediate pursuit was made, but tho 
I Indiana escaped to the mountains. 
, Late Arizona intelligence represents that In- 
, diun depredations arc numerous. The people are 
\ becoming exasperated, and a war of extermlna- 
. tioff against them, commencing with the massa- 
I ere of the Indians residing on tiie Government 
reservation, is suggested. 
Colorado. 
V Denver dispatch of (he 10th instant says: 
Mr. Craig, just from Fort Lyon, reports on au¬ 
thority of Major Amoa at Fort Lyon, that Gen. 
Custer was captured about eight days Blue© 
whilo out on a scouting expedition. There are 
no particulars, nor does tiie dispatch say by 
whom tho capture was made. 
General McKeovcr, Adjutant General of the 
Department nt Missouri, telegraphs to the head¬ 
quarter at St. Louis his nows of General Custer 
to March 2, at which time he was starting from 
Medicine Bluffs, Washita Mountains, to oomo 
north. General McKoever adds that no later Jn- 
formiuion could possibly have been received at 
Fort Lyon, at which post the report of tho cap¬ 
ture of General CuBter seems to have originated. 
Indian Territory. 
Reports from Gen. Hazcu ’8 camp, at tho 
Washita Mountains, state that there are 3,000 In¬ 
dians now settled on the reservation, and Gen. 
Hazen la dividing them into colonies and * ach¬ 
ing them the arts of husbandry. They h- ve en¬ 
tered into the scheme with alacrity. 
Alaska. 
The Navy Department has received a commu¬ 
nication from Command.'!- Meade of the steamer 
Saginaw, tinted Sitka, Jan. 7, reporting troublo 
with the Indians at Alaska, and his action, co¬ 
operating wlih the army, against them. Ho 
States that on New Year's night a difficulty took 
place on shore between the guard and some 
Ctiilot Indians, headed by their chief. One sol¬ 
dier andt. wo I ndians were dangerously wouuded. 
Gen. Davis requested Commander Meade to co¬ 
operate with him by preventing the escape, 
during the night, of the Chi lot chief, in accord¬ 
ance wjth which an firmed cutter, in charge of 
Midshipman J. E. Pillsbury, was sent on picket 
duty to the westward of the Indian village. She 
drove back six canoes, being obliged to tire a 
volley at one. Tiie next day the chief was cap¬ 
tured. and lodged in the guard-house. A great 
deal of bad feeling exists between these Indians 
and the military. Their villages arc remote from 
t he bom, and merj-of-war eanuot get near enough 
to shell 1 hem. The tribes arc numerous and 
warlike in that region. 
Late Alaska intelligence says that Gen. Davis 
proceeded to the Indian village of Kake to pun¬ 
ish the murderers ol' two white men. The place 
was deserted, the inhabitants receiving timely 
notice of the General's coming. Borne articles 
were recovered belonging to a trading schooner 
which left Sitka three weeks previous with three 
men on board, it is inferred that the* vessel was 
captured and the crew murdered by Indians, as 
nothing has been heard from her since sailing. 
Dominion of Canada. 
The dtizenB of Montreal are apprehensive of 
immense damage when t lie snow melts and tho 
ice breaks up. The city authorities, as well as 
the citizens, are using precautionary measures. 
It is also feft red that through the region between 
8 t. John's and Montreal, the destruction will be 
great, and that u freshet will occur in the Rich¬ 
elieu and St. John's Rivers, flooding the entire 
level country. 
Appil. nl ion will be made during the next ses¬ 
sion of tho Dominion Parham-nt for an act to 
incorporate a oompany to construct a bridge or 
tunnel across tho Detroit River. 
W. H. Taylor, a prominent Toronto produce 
merchant, and known on ’Change as the “ Barley 
King,” has absconded. His liabilltiesarc heavy. 
Smylhe & Edminson, boot manufacturers, in 
Montreal, have failed, their liabilities being 
$125,000. 
A bill will shortly be introduced into the Do¬ 
minion Parliament to incorporate a company to 
construct, a bridge over, or a tunnel under, the 
Detroit River. 
Rrttish Columbia. 
An English bark, supposed to be the John : 
Bright, bus been wrecked oil’ the Pacific coast In 
Nootkn Sound, Vancouver’s Island. 
A gunboat will be despatched from Victoria to 
the scene of tho latesldpwreck in Nootka Sound. t 
A memorandum book has keen received at San 
Francisco, showing the vessel to have been the 1 
property of John Trevlok, of Valparaiso. J 
