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Washington. 
Congress. — Jan. 27.— In tlie Senate a num¬ 
ber of poti tions were preset) ted, among them one 
from the trustees of the New York Seamen's 
Friend and Retreat, asking Congressional action 
in regard to sick and disabled acumen arriving at 
that port. The House Joint Resolution to pre¬ 
vent the giving or receiving of official presents, 
was passed. Action on the question of the seiz¬ 
ure of whisky In San Francisco, after some, de¬ 
bate, was Indefinitely postponed. Tho bill mak¬ 
ing Oinalm a port of delivery was passed. The 
credentials of tho Senators elect from Virginia 
were read, andoneof them, Mr. Lewis, appeared 
and took tin oath of office, after which the cur¬ 
rency discussion was resumed, and continued for 
the remainder ol’ the session. 
In the House, among tho bills introduced was 
one requiring national banks going into liquida¬ 
tion to deposit lawful money In place of their 
circulating notes, and to take up their bonds. 
Severul lulls were reported from Committee and 
recommitted. A largo number of resolutions 
were offered: one asking why, notwithstunding 
the Supreme Court decision, Harbor Master, 
Health and State Hospital fees were allowed to 
be collected at Iho New York Custom Houso. 
Several mombersof the Virginia delegation were 
bworn in, and took their seats. Fernando Wood 
objected to the oath being administered to Mr. 
Porter, on the ground of disloyally; aud there¬ 
upon a long discussion, entirely of a partizan 
character, followed, which resulted in nothing, 
Mr. Porter being allowed to take his seat. Mr. 
Farnsworth reported a bill for the total abolition 
of the fratikldg privilege, to take effect July 1. 
The bill was immediately put upon ile passage, 
and after an hour’s debate passed by a vote of 
174 to 13. Tho Appropriation bills were taken 
up, and Mr. Dawes made a long speech in reply 
to that of General Butler, delivered the day be¬ 
fore. 
Jan. 88.—In the fieriato. Judge John W. John¬ 
son was admitted as Senator from Virginia. The 
memorial of tho New York Chamber of Com¬ 
merce, regarding a semi-monthly mail service 
between San Francisco and China and Japan, and 
concerning the decline of American commerce, 
was received and referred to the proper com¬ 
mittee. Senator Sumner introduced a Juintreso¬ 
lution directing the payment of bounties to col¬ 
ored soldiers and sailors regardless of a former 
condition of servitude. Tho bill appropriating 
money for tho relief of the poor of the lJlstriot of 
Columbia, was, after debate, passed, and the 
Census Bill was discussed lor a while. The Sen¬ 
ate adjourned to Monday the 31st. 
In the Houso, a bill was reported from Com¬ 
mute abolishing the office of Public Printer,and 
providing for the election of a Superintendent of 
Public Printing, at, a salary of $4,000 per annum. 
The claimants to sent from Georgia under iho 
election of April 20,1H<>9. were rejected. Among 
the bills introduced was one organizing the Ter¬ 
ritory of Lincoln, and consolidating the Indian 
tribes into a Territorial Government; and to 
provide a Territorial Government for t bo District 
of Columbia. 
Jan. 20.—The House, only, was In session, and 
that only for general debate. The principal dis¬ 
cussion was on repudiation. Mr. llollnday, of 
Kentucky, colled the question up, and made the 
debate interesting by rousing ids Democratic 
brethren. He charged that Messrs. Voorhoea, 
Eldridge and Butler were practically repndiu- 
tors, ami that Mr. Voorhoes’ speech of the day 
before was a fine argument for repudiation. Mr. 
Voorhoes indignantly denied the charge, and 
Mr. Eldridge carefully explained his position. 
During the session other speeches were made. 
Mr. Conger, of Michigan, defended the Admin¬ 
istration from tho charges of extravagance; and 
Mr. Williams, of Indiana, and Mr. Wilkinson, of 
Minnesota, spoke against railroad monopolies. 
Jan. 81.—To-day utmost every Senator pre¬ 
sented a petition far the abolition of the frank- 
ing privilege. The House Bill, abolishing tho . 
privilege, was imported favorably. Among Ihe 
other petitions presented was one from Robert t 
Webster of Georgia, for compensation for the 
dc tetion of property by General Sherman's 
army. A resolution asking for copies or the ! 
official correspondence of J. Ross Browne, late 
Minister to China, was adopted. A hill was ' 
introduced to abolish the office of Surveyor of 
Customs, tho duties to devolve on the Collectors, j 
and the Surveyor’# share of the foes to go into 
the Treasury. Also, a bill for the admission of 
Mississippi. Tho Postal Telegraph Bill was re- { 
ported with amendments. The Currency Bill ( 
was reported, lint not dually disposed of. An j 
amendment authorizing bank associations In 
States having more than their proportion of dr- ( 
eolation to remove to States having less, under 
certain conditions, was adopted. 
The House did little business, bat received a 
great deal of new business. The most Important , 
of the bills introduced wore: To admit Missis- ' ( 
slppi; remove all political disabilities; to grant 
belligerent, rights to Cuba; to estaiiwh the sala¬ 
ries of Seuators and Representatives at $3,000 a 
year, and reduce the mileage to ten cent#; ami 
for apprenticeships in tho navy. Among the j 
resolut ions was one declaring that the flve-t wen- a 
ties are payable In greenbacks, and condemning a 
the policy of the Administration of redemption t 
at a high premium, which i ho House tabled by a S i 
party vote—122 to 41; another proposed to repeal j 
the tariit on coal. Several memorial# wore pro- i 
Bontod for tho reduction of the duty on steel, i 
Messrs. R. S. Ayer and Lewis McKenzie were d 
admitted to seats as Representatives from Vir- d 
ginla. n 
Feb. 1.—'Very little was done in either House n 
to-day. lu the Senate, progress was made with bi 
the Currency Bill, but final action was not taken, o 
Senator Morton's amendment was rejected. c 
In the House the Tariff Bill was reported, and w 
after debate was ordered to be printed. e 
Feb. 2 .—In the Senate, Senator Chandler stated n 
that he was a “non-inflationist," The Railway a 
bills granting public lands Tor a road from Maine a 
to Oregon, and extending the time for the com¬ 
pletion of the Baltimore and Potomac Railway, tl 
were each, on motion, taken up, and, after some fi 
discussion, laid over. The Currency Bill was p 
Anally disposed of. The amendments of the C 
Committee of the Whole were adopted. Senator t: 
Morton, ns a compromise, allowing a change in c< 
his amendment, acted on the day before, fixing ei 
the amount of currency to be withdrawn from p: 
States having an excess at $20,000,000 instead of r< 
$13,000,000. The bill was passed by a vote of 39 to 
23. The bill providing for a transfer of naval 
appropriations was again discussed and again 
laid over. Senator Howe made a speech In ad¬ 
vocacy of bis bill to more effectually preserve 
our neutral relations, referring particularly in 
his remark# to the present position of the Cuban 
question. After he had concluded.considerable 
discussion arose a# to whether the debate on the 
bill should proceed further, or whether tho 
Census Bill should be taken up. 
In the House. Messrs. Poland, Garfield and 
Cox were appointed Regents of the Smithsonian 
Institute. A number of petitions were pre¬ 
sented, und several bills introduced of no par¬ 
ticular Interest. Among the resolutions was 
one offered by General Logan looking to the 
recognition of the CubanB as belligerents. Two 
or three bills of a personal character wore 
reported and passed. The bill establishing a 
Uniterm system or naturalization was reported 
and recommitted. The report of the Committee 
on Foreign Relations, and the resolution In 
reference to American citizens Imprisoned 
abroad led to a long debate. No action, how¬ 
ever, was taken on the subject, and it went over 
for tlie day. In Committee of the Whole the 
Senate BIB for the relief of the poor In the 
District of Columbia, appropriating $30,000 
therefor, was discussed at length, but without 
final action on the bill, the House, at 4:20 P. M., 
adjourned, 
imCBLJLAIfKOUS. 
President Grant ha* approved the proceed¬ 
ings of the Court Martial at Fort Leavenworth 
In the case or Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Blood- 
good, for a violent assault on a Lieutenant of 
Cavalry, and dismissed the offender from the 
service. 
The United filutes and Mexican Joint commis¬ 
sion for the settlement of claims, adjourned 
Tuesday the 1st Inst., to meet again on the first 
Monday ill June next. This long vacation Is to 
afford the ngonts of the Government# time to 
obtain responsive evidence. 
The retirement of Associate Justice Grier from 
tho Supreme Court of the United States, which 
took effect Tuesday t he 1st inst., was made the 
occasion for imijoslngcoremoniesandanaddress 
by the Chief Justice. 
The statement of the public debt shows a net 
decrease of $3,988,004.39 during the month of 
January. The coin bulunce is $101,C00.730, in¬ 
cluding coin certificate# amounting to $50,000,000. 
The currency balance Is $8,090,807. The pur¬ 
chased bonds and interest amount to $ 97 , 082 . 3 .Ht. 
Patents for lands due the Oregon Central 
Railroad for twenty miles just completed from 
East Portland to Multomah county, Oregon, 
have been ordered by the President. 
All three of tho Mississippi Senators have ar¬ 
rived at the capital. 
A postal convention has been entered into by 
our Government and that of the Netherlands to 
reduce the rate of letter postage In closed 
mails, by wny of England, from fifteen to ten 
Cents, which took effect on the 1st Inst,. The 
rates on newspapers, packages, Ac., remain un¬ 
changed. 
Tho will of the late Edwin M. Stanton was 
filed on the 2S)tb ult. in the Orphans' Court. He 
bequenths his property to Ills wife und children 
aud his mother. The will is under date of July . 
19,1890. 
A circular from the Treasury Department re- , ,, 
Hires that all accounts of employes of the Do- j . r , nft,nc c 
art n tent, for ml lea ere or exnenswi InenrmR tn Raih ° aa Company, 
partment for mileage or expense# incurred in 
the discharge of official bus!ness must be accom¬ 
panied by the affidavit or the official that such 
expense was necessarily incurred, and that none 
of the distance was t raveled under free passes 
on any railroad or steamboat, or other convey¬ 
ance. 
Tho case of Frank P. Blair for being debarred 
from voting in Missouri, because he refuted to 
take the oath of loyalty prescribed by the Con¬ 
stitution of that State, was decided in tho Su¬ 
preme Court of tho United fiUitos on the 31st 
ult.. The decision of the State Court sustaining 
the State officers remains unchanged, the Su¬ 
preme Court of the United States being equally 
divided in opinion. 
About five hundred men were discharged 
from the Navy Yard at Washington on the 31st 
nil. and six hundred and fifty from the Navy 
Yard at Norfolk. Va. They were employed in 
the Department of Construction and Steam En¬ 
gineering. The order discharging the men em¬ 
ployed in t he same bureaus at the Boston Navy 
Yard went into effect the same day and 1,395 
men left at roll-call. 
The official oath was administered on the 27th 
ult. to John F. Lewis as United States Senator 
from the State of Virginia, and he took his seat. 
A report has just been made to the State De¬ 
partment. by the American Consul at Hamilton, 
Ontario, on the condition and treatment or the 
Indians by tin Canadian authorities, from which 
it appears that the reservation system has been 
successful there, and that the savages are rap¬ 
idly progressing to civilization. 
The Commissioner of Agriculture gives notice 
to applicants that the appropriations will not 
permit a general distribution of seeds, plant#, 
Ac., and that these henceforth be distributed 
through agricultural societies, farmers' clubs, 
ami the correspondents of the office. 
New York. 
In tho State Senate, on tho 27th ult., a bill to 
incorporate the city of Yonkers was reported ; 
also the Clerk's Additional Compensation Bill 
und the Canal General Appropriation Bill. The 
bill relating to the Wyoming county Surrogate 
o lating the sale of leaf tobacco; to protect beer 
il sellers in New York, and to suppress intemper- 
n ance and regulate the sale of liquors, except 
I- in incorporated cities, were among those lutro- 
e dueed. 
n In the Senate, on the 28th ult., the Clerks Ad- 
n ditionul Compensation Bill wa# passed. The 
o resolution prohibiting work on the canals until 
e money to pay for the same la provided, was 
d after some discussion postponed until the 1st 
in#t_ Notices wero given of bills to increase the 
1 number of Judges of the Marino Court of New 
i York to five. 
In the Assembly tbo bill to charter Potsdam 
- village was passed, and the bill to Incorporate 
s the Ludlc-s' Aid Society of New York, with sev- 
5 eral others. The bills relative to the New York 
> Police Justice#, legalizing the appointment of 
,* Henry Smith as Supervisor in New York, and a 
i number of other bills, were favorably reported. 
I The bill to repeal the act exempting ministers 
j of the Gospel from taxation was adversely rc- 
i ported.-and the report w«# concurred in. The 
l bill authorizing the construction of gas works 
to light a portion of Now York city was re¬ 
ported. and after debate was recommitted for 
amendment. 
The Senate held a brief session on (he 31st ult. 
Several bills wore Introduced, and progress was 
made in Committee with ot her measures. The 
bill to facilitate the payment of taxes by railroad 
companies was reported. 
In the Assembly, bills were Introduced to 
charter the Buffalo and Wlllinmsvtlle Railroad, 
and to prohibit tho running of freight cure be¬ 
low Forty second street, Now York city. The 
bill providing for an additional Police Court In 
New York city was advanced to a third reading. 
Mr. Bergen's bill to protect life and limb in me¬ 
chanical, mining and engineering occupations 
was sent to the Judiciary Committee to be per¬ 
fected. The bill requiring gas eompuuic# to re¬ 
port annually to the Comptroller wa# discussed 
in Committee of the Whole, but on a division no 
quorum wa* present, and the House adjourned. 
In the Senate, on the 1st inst. tho resolution 
that work on the canals be stopped until the 
Legislature has provided money for tho same, 
was adopted. A petition for the removal of the 
concrete pavement in Fifth-A venue was pre¬ 
sented. The bill to umend the charter of Bing¬ 
hamton was passed. A bill was introduced to 
authorize the construction of a railroad In 
Broadway, New York. 
In the Assembly tbo bill requiring gas compa¬ 
nies to report annually to the Comptroller wa# 
recommitted to the Committee oil Cities. Tho 
bill to protect, life and limb in factories, mines, 
&c., wu# recommitted to the Judiciary Com¬ 
mittee. Annual report# from various Commis¬ 
sions were received. The New York Police 
Commissioners* report showed $95,551.48 to have 
been collected from tho men tn the form of 
lines, Ac., since I860. The deficiency Bill was 
(■niton up aud passed. Progress was reported on 
the bill providing for the election of inspectors 
and canvassers of elections in Kings County. 
In the Senate, on the 2d Inst., among the bills 
In I rod need was one requiring the signature of a 
passenger, oonsignee or consignor to exempt 
public carriers from liability. Notice wo# given 
of a bill to regulate tho quality of gus in New 
York. 
In the fifthly the hilt to provide for the re¬ 
vision of the statutes was reported. The bill to 
change the name of the Ithaca and Towanda 
Railroad Company, and Hint amending the act 
providing for the government of Hieeityof New 
York wein passed. Bills wore Introduced to 
charter the Brooklyn Market Company, and 
authorizing various street improvements In that, 
city. A bill was introduced by Mr. Freer to re- 1 
organize the local government of New York 
<Ht.v, which was referred to the Committee on ' 
the Affaire of Cities. Among the other bills tn- 1 
t reduced were one to repeal the Act of last ses¬ 
sion relating to the Erie. Hudson River, Harlem 
and New York Central Railroads; to repeal the 
Act chartering tho New York Hansom Cab Com¬ 
pany. After debate, tho resolutions urging a ' 
reduction of pay and mileage of members of 
Congress, and the abolition of the franking prlvl- * 
logo, were adopted. 
The firet of a series of Fenian mass meetings, , 
to be held along the Canadian frontier, was held 
in Buffalo Hie20th ult. Exciting speeches were t 
made, and much enthusiasm was displayed. 
The report that the Albany Burgesses Corps , 
will visit New York in March is erroneous. ( 
The Secretary of the Treasury lias directed the j 
Assistant Treasurer at Now York to sell $1,000,- ( 
000 in gold, and purchase $1,000,000 in bonds, u 
week, through tho month of February. 
Theodore Xicklos pleaded guilty to the charge « 
of murder. Tor killing Dr. Andrew Mead, in Cat- j 
turangus county, a few weeks ago, but his plea 
wo# refused and counsel was assigned for his 
defence. 
Tho fifate Medical Society met In Albany on ( 
the 1st inst- and appointed delegates to the Na¬ 
tional Convention to revise the United State# 
PharrancopcBia. j 
Jonathan Foster, an old resident of Rochester, 
committed suicide at his residence Tuesday 
evening, the 1st inst., by shooting himself lu the } 
head with n pistol. 
The people of Lockport are dissatisfied with 
the proposed location of the now State Lunatic 
Asylum at, Buffalo, and their Common Council 
has resolved to send a committee to Albany to 
try and effect a change in favor of the city of 
locks. 
A fire was discovered In the Sing Sing Prison J 
stables on Hie 30th ult., und before it could be ' 
killed upon that road during the eighteen years 
of it# existence. 
and amending the act of incorporation of Pot*- subdued, damage to the extent of $2,000 was 
dam village were passed. The bills amending 
Hie Charitable Societies Act and providing for 
the additional compensation of clerks were or¬ 
dered to u third reading. Among the bills intro¬ 
duced was a bill to ascertain the amount of 
money illegally collected by tho Health Com¬ 
missioners and to provide for “ remitting" the 
same. In the course of debate on the resolution 
Of inquiry ns to the authority for tho extra 
charge in sleeping and drawing-room care, it 
wo# assorted that Hie practice was adopted to 
evade the lttw fixing railroad fares, and that the 
money thus obtained was divided among “ rings" 
among the directors. The resolution was then 
adopted. 
In the Assembly the following were among 
the hills reported: To amend the Act providing 
for the government of New York city; to com¬ 
pel gas companies to report annually to the 
Comptroller; to extend the time for collecting 
taxes; to provide for paying the debt of Queens 
county, rtml relative to Inspectors and canvass¬ 
ers of election in Kings county. Bills to better 
prevent cattle disease and cruelty to animals; 
repealing tho Railroad Consolidation Act ; regu- 
done. The convicts aided in extinguishing tho 
flatnes. 
Mrs. Mary Dalinny of Glen’s Falls was injured 
on t he night of the 22d ult., so that she died. A 
small child overturned a kerosene lamp by which 
Mrs. D. was sewing. The fluid ran over the floor, 
which was instantly in ablaze. In attempting 
to stump it out her clothes caught fire, and she 
was Injured as stated above. 
A little girl, daughter of Matthew Ryan of 
Rensselaer county, met with a very sad accident 
two weeks ago, by having a teapot of scalding 
water accidentally Upped from the stove, scald¬ 
ing her about the face, neck nud shoulders in 
such a manner ns to cause her death. 
On tho 22d ult- John Wirme, a well known 
farmer of Nlskaytina, met with a horrible death. 
He was driving a load of straw out of Ills barn¬ 
yard, when the wagon upset, and In attempting 
to balance the load lie was thrown to the ground 
with much violence, striking upon his head, frac¬ 
turing his skull. 
Mr. Taylor of New York city, who lost his life 
by the late accident on the Rome, Watertown 
and Ogdensburg Railroad, is the only passenger 
11 Maine. 
** The remains of George Peabody were formal¬ 
ly removed on the 29th ult. from the monarch 
to the City Hall, in Portland, with much cere¬ 
mony, in the presence of a great multitude, in- 
' eluding the representatives of the Government 
® and State. Giptnin Commerell of the Monarch, 
1 in surrendering the charge to Governor Cham- 
8 berlaln. spoke fittingly of the life of Mr. Pea- 
v body, and the Governor appropriately replied. 
The funeral procession Included United States 
1 and British marines, Maine State reglmenu, and 
3 tiie representative# of the nation. State and 
city. The remains wero removed to Peabody, 
‘ Mass., on Tuesday, the 1st inst. 
Tho Maine State Temperance Convention met 
1 on the 271 h ult. at Lewiston. Tho speeches 
were devoted to the discussion of the relations 
* of the Republican party to the temperance cause 
in Maine. 
! John D. Lang of Vnssalborough has been ap- 
1 pointed one of the ten Commissioners of the 
Indian Department under the Act of April 
‘ 10th, 1809. 
The Maine House of Representatives has di¬ 
rected its Committee on Legal Reform to in- 
1 quire Into the expediency of abolishing capital 
punishment. 
New Hampshire. 
Dr. John Beta of Dover has been appointed 
professor of obstetrical surgery at Dartmouth 
Medical College. 
Timothy B. French, the first white child born 
in Nashua, committed suicide on Friday, the 28th 
ult., at the houseof his brother-in-law In Hollis. 
He was 73 years of age, and had seasons of ln- 
suuity. 
Vermont. 
Charles Reed of Montpelier presided at the 
Slate Woman Suffrage Convention held at that 
place on the 2d inst. The audience was large, 
many attending out of curiosity. The speaking 
was mainly done by well-known advocate# of 
the measure— Mr#. Lucy Stone Blackwell, Mrs. 
Livermore, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Mrs. C. 
Bowles, Mrs. Campbell mid Mr. H. B. Blackwell. 
Short speeches were also made by IIeman Car¬ 
penter, Col. Albert Clark, Gordon irison, A. J. 
Willard, and ot hors. This meeting was t he com¬ 
mencement of a lively canvass to be carried on 
in the State prior to the election of delegates to 
the Constit utional Convention, next May, In the 
hope that that body will submit to t he people an 
amendment establishing Female Suffrage in the 
Green Mountain State. 
Massachusetts. 
Governor Claklin has re-appolntcd Dr. 
Nathan B. Allen on the State Board of Charities! 
A freight train ran off tho track in Chelsea on 
the 27th ult., and throw a dwelling house com¬ 
pletely off it# foundations and tipped it partly 
over. The house, furniture, crockery, etc., were 
badly wrecked. Fortunately the family had Just 
gone out to a funeral. 
Boston, which after all is the second commer¬ 
cial city lu t he Union, Is Just now the destination 
of an unusually large fleet of merchantmen, in¬ 
cluding five front Calcutta, five from Manilla, 
eleven from Other Asiatic ports, ten from Eng¬ 
land, eight from tho north of Europe and twenty 
from the MetHten-anenn, in ml) wtxty-flve ships 
barks nnd brigs coming in at once, to say nothing 
of the West Indian and Southern commerce. 
Boston is, however, sad at see fug so much of her 
Calcutta trade going to New York. At the 
present time nine ships are on the way to New 
York, and also six loading at the last accounts, 
while for Boston only five ships are on the way, 
and two loading. The quantity of linseed on 
passage to New York Is more than double that 
on the way to Boston. In 1857 Boston received 
nearly one hundred Calcutta cargoes. 
A Boston paper Suys that parties who have 
boon making examination# of the monster bird 
and animal tracks in the old sandstone at Turn¬ 
ers Falls, on the Conneticut River in Franklin 
county, claim to have discovered human foot¬ 
prints, clearly and well defined, indented In tho 
same strata with those of animals and birds. 
They purpose to publish an account of their in! 
vestlgatiuns, und have sent specimens of nniinul 
petrf fact Ions, also coal, copperund iron ore found 
in that region, to New York, for scientific inspec¬ 
tion. 
Scarlet fever I# so prevalent In Belehertown 
that the two schools in tho center have been 
closed. One poor Irish family has six very sick 
indeed, and several children in the town have 
died, 
Th thirty-sixth anniversary of the National 
Anti-Slavery Society was held in Boston on the 
28th ult., when social conversation and an address 
from Wendell Phillips were the features. 
Itliodc Island. 
bills to abolish Imprisonment for debt have 
passed the Legislature; also a resolution trans¬ 
ferring the coutrol of the fitntc lot in the ceme¬ 
tery at Gettysburg to the General Government. 
A Mr. Copeland, while fussing with a hopper 
lu hi# grist mill «t. Olncyvllle on the 28th ult., had 
his band drawn in between the stones aud was 
compelled to submit to a terrible mangling of the 
member for half an hour before he could be ex¬ 
tricated. 
C. Townsend of Newport, has recently contrib¬ 
uted a number of rare coins to the already con¬ 
siderable collection of Brown University. A mong 
them is a gold coin of the old Greek empire with 
the date of 425, a Persian coin of the era of the 
invasion of Egypt by Cum by sea. besides pieces of 
Spanish, Turkish and Moorish origin. 
Mr. Janie'S Wentworth of Providence, a few 
day since, fired a Peabody rifle, making thirty- 
five shot# in one minute, and one hundred 6hots 
in three minutes thirteen seconds. It is said to 
be the quickest time ever made with a rifle. 
Connecticut. 
Work on the Connecticut Western Railroad 
has been commenced at Canton. The New Hart¬ 
ford Railroad bridge over the Farmington at 
Collinsville is being rapidly pushed forward. On 
the line of the new Connecticut Valley Railroad, 
Clinton begins to assert, its claims to bo the \ 
southern terminus, being thirty minutes nearer 
New York by water than Westbrook, aud two 
hours nearer than Saybrook. 
New Jersey. ( 
On the 29th ult. the Sheriff of Essex county t 
served an injunction on tHe President of the r 
Paterson and Newark Railroad Company, at 
Newark. The injunction restrains trains from 1 
running over the lands of Peter Weller. An in- t 
junction will also be served by the Sheriff of 
Hudson county on Charles T. Ciisson, of Jersey 1 
City, one of the director of the Erie Railroad 
Company, who are the lessees of the Newark 1: 
and Paterson Railroad. c 
I Eleven prisoners who were for a short time 
allowed the freedom of the corridor of tho jail 
at Camden, on the 29th ult., made their escape 
and are still at large. 
Penn#}Ivan i». 
The workmen of the Philadelphia Navy Yard 
have petitioned Congress to be allowed to con¬ 
tinue work, leaving their wages to accumulate 
until the loissage of the Appropriation Acts. 
A woman was burned to death on Saturday 
night, the 29th ult., in Pittsburgh, having fired 
the house, according to her husband’s story, 
while drunk, with the avowed intention of do! 
stroying her life. 
Virginia. 
Mrs. Bassett Rawlings of Brunswick coun 
ty, was shot and killed by the husband of a 
recently discharged cook, it is supposed. Tho 
crime was committed about seven P. M., while 
Mrs. Rawlings was surrounded by her children, 
and during the absence of her husband at the 
County Court. 
A general order from the headquarters o f tho 
army was issued the 31st, abolishing the First 
Military District, commanded by Gen.Cimby, at 
Richmond, and creating tho Department of Vir¬ 
ginia, to be commanded by the same officer, 
willi bis headquarters at Richmond, and includ¬ 
ing Maryluud, Virginia, West Virginia and North 
Carolina. 
Kentucky, 
.TrrooE Lewis Collins, of Marysville, died 
at Lexington Monday the 31st ult. 
It Is possible that a monument will be erected 
to tile memory of Gen. Rousseau in Louisville. 
His remains reached that city on the 29th ult., 
from New Orleans with those or Gen. Watkins.' 
A Convention of colored men will meet at 
Frankfort on the 23d hist. 
Recently a mob in Springfield took two men 
from the Jail and hung them. In a subsequent 
attack the other prisoner# defended themselves. 
One of them secured the pistol of one of the 
mob, oiul witn it routed the assailants. 
Ohio. 
The dist illers of Cincinnati, at a meeting held 
there the 38th ult., adopted a resolution against 
tho “forty-eight hour system” In distilling, re¬ 
quired by tho Internal Revenue Commissioner, 
and expressing a determination to test the mat¬ 
ter in the courts. A test case is to be brought at 
once. 
Illinois. 
The Treasurer of the South Congregational 
Church. ChPago. Planey E. Klngsmnn, has been 
arrested for defalcation to tho amount to $ 34,000 
from the church funds. False entries were inudo 
to conceal the “ Irregularities.” 
A recent meet ing to organize n Vigilance Com. 
mittoc in Chicago was turned into ridicule by 
those who responded to the call. 
A luska. 
Captain Smith, once an officer in the rebel 
navy, was killed by an Indian at. Fort Wrangle, 
December 25. On refusal to give up tho mur¬ 
derer, the commander or Hie fort shelled t he vil¬ 
lage of tho Indians and killed t wo of them. Tho 
culprit, was then given up, und after condemna¬ 
tion by Court Martial, was hanged. 
California. 
Tnz anticipated duel between B<niq£or Beige 
and Mr. McCoppin has been avoided by the latter 
apologizing, the Insult (a slap in the face) having 
been given under a misapprehension of facts. 
E<1 ward C. Ordcll. commanding the United 
States coast survey steamer Shubriek, dropped 
deud in the streets or San Francisco Tuesday 
night the 25th, ult., from congestion of the brain. 
San Francisco is excited over the murder of a 
little girl six and a half years of age. The per¬ 
petrator was Arrested, and It waswith the fit most 
difficulty that the police could carry him to 
prison, the mob endeavoring to rcscuoaud Jynch 
him. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Great Britain. 
According to the Pall Mall Gazette the Ala¬ 
bama claims negotiations are suspended. 
The land of the late Mr. Peabody recently 
seized in England has been released. 
The speech of the Queen of England at the 
opening of Parliament wiil again be read by a 
Royal Commission. 
A London dispatch says overland telegraphic 
communication with India Is restored; and tho 
Groat Eastern has arrived at Bombay. 
The Saturday Review of tho 29th nil. com¬ 
ment# on American affairs. It comes to the 
elusion that the confirmation of Hie late Edwin 
M. Stanton and the rejection of Judge Hoar by 
the Senate, proves that the National Constitu¬ 
tion and the Federal Courts are b# faulty as 
those of New York city. 
According to the provisions of the act of Par¬ 
liament, empowering the Government, to tuko 
possession of the telegraph lines of the King¬ 
dom, the Treasury Department on the 1st paid 
£726,000 for the cable connecting England with 
Germany, by way of the Island of Nordeney. 
France. 
A dispatch from Paris announces the forma¬ 
tion of the Isthmus of Darien Canalization Com¬ 
pany and the taking of all tho stock. Tho lead¬ 
ing stockholders are four French bankers and 
about a dozen capitalists. 
The Americans iu Paris have signed an address 
to Mr. Wash bur no, urging the exercise of all his 
[lowers to hasten satisfactory postal arrange¬ 
ments between France and the United Stutes. 
A public meeting in Paris, on Tuesday night, 
the 1st, was dissolved by the Police because a 
speaker compared M. Ollivicr to Judas Iscariot. 
A proposition to empower the President of 
the French Chambers to demand an armed force 
to Insure freedom of debate was rejected. 
The Paris Patric says the rumored reduction 
of the French army is groundless. 
Much dissatisfaction is felt by Americans re¬ 
siding in Paris at the tardy delivery of their 
papers. On the 2d lust, papers overdue a week 
were distributed. 
A letter has been received in London from 
Captain Cochrane, of the Royal Navy, com¬ 
manding tho Petrel, stationed on tbo African 
coast. He reports that Dr. David Livingstone, 
thecelcbrated African traveler, had been burned 
as a wizard by a chief in Hie interior. 
The member of Parliament for Dundalk, Ire¬ 
land, proposes to move for an investigation into 
the condition of the Fenian prisoner#. 
Mr. Leroy. Member of Parliament for Dublin 
University, has resigned his seat. 
Petitions for the disuse of the Athnnasian creed 
have been favorably received by the Archbishop 
of York. 
