York bankers want the tax on bankers removed 
.... Washington is full of rumors concerning the 
Pacific Railroads.The House has sent Mr. 
Stewart to jail for contempt A bill to sup- 
press obscene literature is talked of. 
Fire**. 
PltATT’g Oil Works in Williamsburg, N. Y., 
on the 35th of January. Loss. $50,000 • Sixteen 
houses in New Orleans on the 34th ult. Loss, 
$50,000 Jersey street, Methodist Episcopal 
Church, in Buffalo on the 25thult. Loss, $10,000. 
...Stores and dwellings in Kingston.8. C\, on 
the 37th ult. Loss, $50,000.. Manilla paper mill 
nt Westfield, Mass., on the 20th ult. Loss, $80,- 
000... Brewery ;*l Madison, Ind., on the 37th ult. 
Loss, $35,000 .. Hat and cap manufactory In 
Mercer street, N. Y. City, on the 30th ult. Loss, 
$22,000 ... Boat shop in Barre, Mas*., on the 34th 
ult. Loss, * 13.000 Martin's distillery, in Phil¬ 
adelphia. on the 35th nit. Loss.$00,000. Wagon 
factory in Hillsborough, 111., on the 25th ult. 
Loss. $30,000 The National Theater at Wash¬ 
ington, on the 28th ult. Ujs*. $125,000 Tan¬ 
nery at Norfolk, Conn., on the 27th ult. Loss, 
ibi.noo Blin k of stores at Green Bay, Wis„ on 
the27thult. Los*.$137,000. .Distillery at Nash¬ 
ville. Tenn., on the 28th ult. Loss, $'.*2,000.■ • 
Cnthii works in Allegheny City, l’a., on the 30th 
of January. Loss, $3U,GW. ...Tannery at Lan- 
oaster, O.,’ on the 20th ult. Loss, $41,000. ... 
Thompson's sugar refiner) ,utul other buildings. 
In New Orleans, on the 30th of January. Loss, 
$500,000. Stores in Jackson, Tenn., on the 29th 
ult. Loss, $100,000 . .Wood Brothers' carriage 
factory, corner of Broadway ami Eighth street, 
New York, partially destroyed on the 31st ult.; 
loss, $300,000. 
stations an officer at the door of each gambling 
house with Instructions to register the names of 
all persons frequenting it. that they may bo sum¬ 
moned as witnesses in cases where Indictments 
against the keepers of these houses may have 
been or may hereafter be found. Thus it is pro¬ 
posed to supply the judicial authorities with 
evidence. We shall be surprised if this dues not 
produce a wholesome effect upon men of “re¬ 
spectability” with gambling propensities. 
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The Spanish Steamer Mlrello 
Was the one t hat ran into the emigrant ship 
Northflect at Dungencss, Jan. 25, sinking it and 
causing the loss of over 300 lives. The steamer 
lias arrived at Cadiz in safety. 8he was little 
injured. The statements of her officers are not 
made public. It is a pity that they cannot be 
held responsible and punished if there Is any 
fault attaches to them. Certainly very grave 
blame must attach to seamen who would not 
stop to save their fellow beings; and on the 
ground'd inhumanity they are condemned by 
public opinion to an infamy worse than physi¬ 
cal punishment.__ 
The Louisiana Wrangle. 
A Washington correspondent asserts that 
Gov. Warmoth, In conversation, states that he. 
has been in consultation with many of the 
leading Senators and Representatives, and ex¬ 
presses his belief that the Senate Committee on 
Privileges and Elect ions will report a measure 
giving Louisiana full relief. 
If it doe* it will give the people of Louisiana 
the power to elect their officers without the in¬ 
terference of political j uggle rs. 
Condition of Senator Sumner. 
A Washington dispatch dated Jan. 25tli 
say»“ Senator Sumner, although able to sit 
up most of the time, is still quite feeble, and it 
Is doubtful If he will appear in his seat in the 
Sctmt© again 1 his session. Hie at tending physi¬ 
cian still visits him twice dally, his last call being 
at ten o'clock, P. M., when he injects morphine 
into tli© Senator's arm to enable him to sloop.” 
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The Kansas Senatorshtp. 
The Kansas Legislature bits, during the past 
week, elected a United States Senator, John 3. 
Ingalls, In place of 8. C. Pomeroy. Pomeroy 
was;* candidate for re-elei tlo *. and had been 
hard at work to secure it. it was reported lu- 
had spent $100,000 to secure his election. The 
events which culminated in his defeat, seem to 
warrant us in believing this to be true; for Just 
before the vote was to betaken in joint session, 
Senator York sent to the President of the joint 
Convention $7,000 in currency, which lie stated 
ho had received from Senator Pomeroy person¬ 
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tailing the circumstances under which this 
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eroy was arrested on the charge of bribery, and 
gave bail to appear last Friday, ne did not 
appear, however, the telegraph announcing him 
very sick with brain fever. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
IHIiicellancoiii* Foreign 
There is considerable uneasiness In England 
over the Central Asia question ...The Vox dc 
Cuba criticises our mode of light ingt lie Indians. 
...The new King of Sweden will be crowned on 
the 21st of May-’...Bismarck retires from the 
premiership on account of Ids health — Russian 
nostililic are reported to have commenced in 
Central Asia The Prince of Wales, t lie Shah 
of Persia, the Czar of Russia. Emperor William, 
the llospodar of Montenegro, Ithmarck, and 
the President of France, will visit the Vienna 
Exhibition.Rev. Adam Sodgcwirk, an En¬ 
glish geologist, is dead .. The Carllst insurrec¬ 
tion in Spain is again crushed — Tin* State has 
taken possession of Hi convents in Rome. .. 
The Portuguese Court goes Into mourning for 
the Empress of Brazil ..The yellow fever is 
raging in Uio...Huasln proposes a mint rnl zone in 
Central Asia_Tim Spanish Minister of War is 
ill Ku-»!;i is scmling 50.000 men to Central 
Asia Atlantic cable tolls are to be reduced. 
_The ex-Em press Curlotta is again reported 
dying_The Swiss will send a Secretary of Le¬ 
gation to Washington.The Queen of Spain 
ha- a sen .. At the late defeat of the Curl lata at 
Santa Cruz 47 rnen were killed. .Madrid has 
been illuminated in honor of the newPrinco .. 
There are 300,0U0 slaves in Cuba—It is known 
that the Spanish steamer Mireullo sank the 
Northflect. She has arrived at Cadiz. 
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New Vork City and Vlclulty. 
Nixon, the man who murdered Chas. Pfeifer, 
is in jail, IDs victim has been buried ...The 
new charter for the city engages much atten¬ 
tion at Albany _Tweed's trial is ended; the 
jury could not agree Charges of fraud have 
been made against the managers of the Ameri¬ 
can Instil ute ... The 20th was intensely cold In 
the city On the 30th the Union League Club 
held a great reception. The Government bus 
agreed to compromise with Phelps. Dodge & to. 
for $200,000 ...The contest over Mr. Groelev a 
will continues The Artists’ Fund 6ale of Pic¬ 
tures realised The last J'Upnmn * Ball 
has been given ...The Pacific Mail btcamahlp 
Company has gone Into bankruptcy A monu¬ 
ment t o the Carey sisters ha- been completed at 
Greenwood, at a cost of $1,100 The Seventh 
Regiment is* asking for u new armory on Reser¬ 
voir Square. .. Two English embezzlers have 
boon arrested on the Adriatic.. ■. Fisher & Co, * 
coffee mill on Dunne St., was burned on the 31st 
ult. Loss, $34,000. 
Home News. 
The cashier of the Granite Bank of Exeter, 
N. II., has stolen $135,000 and tied. ..The Gov¬ 
ernment loses $3,OOU,OUO a year by non-payment 
on posCD{6..«.A now Japanese minis tor, Mr* 
Wyeno, Is soon expected in Washington .. Ter¬ 
rible accounts of death and suffering come In 
from the recent snow storms In Iowa and Min¬ 
nesota.. . .Gilmore of Boston, will have charge 
of the music for the Inauguration ball. I he 
squaws fight Hi the Modoc Indian war. Sena¬ 
tor Sumner is very feeble, and may not appear 
in the Senate again. ..There i> talk of making 
p k Gilmure band-master portent) of I lie army 
and navy Capt. Kenney, a Washington hotel 
keeper, has been shot and killed, being mistaken 
for a burglar . It is announced from Philadel¬ 
phia that the Centennial Celebration Is now a 
success... .The oxen of Utah have Uu* epizootic. 
It is proposed to move the capital or Ken¬ 
tucky to Louisville.... There is a flood of rail¬ 
road bill* in the New Jersey Legislature. The 
Aldermen of Boston have directed that the 
Public Library be opened on Sunday .. Peti¬ 
tions against, monopolies are pouring into the 
New Jersey Legislature , The price pf coal has 
advanced thirty cents per t on John J. Ingalls 
has been elected Senat or from Kansas. Senator 
Pomeroy is under arrest for briber)’. At alt 
Whitman Is very sick_The courts sustain the 
Republican government in Louisiana. Sixteen 
persoufcwere injured by u railway accidental 
Moore’s Rural Is the Pioneer Journal in its 
sphere, and keeps ahead of all Imitators and abreast 
of the times and age. Try it u year, and see. 
Credit Moblller. 
The developments by this investigation the 
past week, place most of the men whoae names 
were at first mentioned as having been subsi¬ 
dized by the distribution of Block, in a worse fix 
than wc ever anticipated. Colfax, Patterson, 
Kelly, etc., have apparently gone to t.hc wall 
before the testimony and evidence brought for¬ 
ward. If we were politicians, and opposed to 
these men politically* it would be a source of 
great regret and of humiliation as a citizen that 
such evidence as has boon given, could ever be 
brought, against the Vice-President, of the Uni¬ 
ted States, and other men whom we have always 
been glad to believe were above reproach. The 
natural question for the American people to 
ask is, “ Whom can we trust ?” 
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removing tne tax on raw cm ion. lows is io uc 
an effort, however, to push Mr. Beck's bill 
through, which Is based upon the assumption 
that two-thirds of the cotton produced In the 
years In which the tax was levied, was exported, 
ami that export, taxes being prohibited by the 
Constitution, two-thirds of ihe amount collect¬ 
ed ought to be refunded to the producer. The 
difficulty will be to find what producers ex¬ 
ported I heir cotton on which they paid the tax. 
In our opinion, there is no hope for the bill, and 
ought not to be, no matter how unjust the tax 
was In the first place; for more abuses will 
grow out of an attempt at adjustment than can 
be corrected by its enforcement. 
The Grand Duke Alexis, 
Who at last accounts was in Japan, has been 
directed to leave his ship at Nadlrostok, East¬ 
ern Siberia, and travel overland along the Onsu- 
ree and Amoor rivers to Irkutsk, the capital ol 
Eastern Siberia, thence westward through Tras- 
nayarsk, Tomsk, Omsk and Taman to Ekoter- 
meburg, where he will cross the Ural Mountains 
into Europe; thence through Perm, Kazan, Nl- 
|ou Novgorod and Moscow to St. Petersburg— 
the whole distance about 7,500 miles, only 050 
miles of which Is by rail. This is a tolerably 
heavy task for the young Imperial traveler, but 
it will be an excellent way of obtaining knowl¬ 
edge of both the beauties and rigors of the im¬ 
perial domain, and of the people who contribute 
to the Imperial power. 
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PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS, 
did come from, and that It ala not come irom 
Ames. Mr. Vice-President Colfax is evidently 
feeling grievously the weight of ignominy in 
which his name is involved by these recent rev¬ 
elations; for he very foolishly asked the Senate 
the other day to appoint a committee to inves¬ 
tigate him. Senator Thurman properly remind¬ 
ed him that the Senate had no jurisdiction un¬ 
til the House brought articles of impeachment 
against him, which It is to be hoped the House 
will do, provided he fails to give evidence be¬ 
fore existing committees, where these charges 
have been made, that he Is as innocent as Ma¬ 
ry’s little lamb. Senator Patterson Is In a worse 
fix than ever; and D&wes and Garfield have be¬ 
come further involved by recent, testimony. No 
matter how humiliating it- may be to the Amer¬ 
ican people, that these revelations concerning 
the character of men in whom they have had 
faith should be made, every honost man will 
partment have been cut down Mr. Sargent 
has made a speech in favor of woman suffrage 
James L. Benedict has been named for the 
Surveyor of the Port of New York The abo¬ 
lition of the franking privilege was complete 
and absolute. The hill to admit Colorado lias 
been laid on the table - It is now proposed to 
enlarge the bankrupt law instead of repealing 
it A hill for the erection and regulation of 
railway companies In the Territories Is proposed 
....Thecltj ofWasbington asks for a large ap¬ 
propriation fur improvements. The improve¬ 
ment. or the outlet of Detroit river is asked for 
....Congress proposes to complete the Wash¬ 
ington Monument... The Senate has passed the 
bill to refund certain dues collected on I'rencn 
vessels at the time of the President's proclama¬ 
tion The House has directed that Carpenter e 
pioturo of “ The First Reading of t he Kmpanci- 
Datlon Proclamation " be purchased for $35-000 
. ..Senator Blair has taken his seat. New 
Count Plerrefonds. 
Napoleon Ill 's son, the Prince Imperial, Is to 
bo under the guardianship of the ex-Empress 
Eugenie and Prince Napoleon, politically, and 
will not be called Napoleon IV., but will be 
known by the name at the head of this article. 
He has adopted as his motto, “strength, but not 
impatience.” No manifesto of the intentions of 
the Bonapartisis is to be issued. They are evi¬ 
dently going to bide their time. 
A New Way of Breaking up Gambling. 
Louisville seems to be adopting the same 
theory relative to gambling that Bostou does re¬ 
lative to crime—that is, that to diminish it, we 
must prevent it. Accordingly the Chief of Police 
