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r ; ! i THE HERALD. iTBLISUED EVERY THURSDAY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBBASKA. OPPIOBi On Vine St.. One Block North of Main, Corner of Fifth St. OFFICIAL PAPER OF CASS tOlSTY. Terms, in" Advance : One copy, one year f2-0 One copy, six months 1.00 One cepr, tnree months.. CO HENRY BCECK, DEAXEB SAFES, CHAIRS, Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads, IK, TC., ETC., Of All Descriptions. METALLIC BURIAL CASES. Wooden Coflins Of all (lzrt, ready-made, and told cheap far eath. 'With many thank for pait palronaj a. I Invite II to call aud exaruin my LA KG 8 STOCK OF Fiuriiitiii-o unci CofllnN. Jan2S AND MEDICINES AT J. H. DUTTERY'S, Main Street, bet. Second and Third. Wholesale aud Retail Dealer la Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Patent Medicines, Toilet Articles, etc., etc. rWTRESCRIPTION'S carefully compounded at all hours, day and nlht. 85-ly II. L WATERMAN & SON, Wholctal? and Retail Dealers in PINE LUMBER, Lath, Shingles, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, ETC., On Itlain St., cor. Fifth, PLATTSMOUTH, - - - NEB. STILL BETTER RATES Fox Liimbei?. WINTER STOCK or H. A. WATERMAN 8c SON. WE 'WILL SELL All Grades of Lumber Cheap. FOR YOUR GROCERIES CO TO J.V.WECKBACH Cor. Third and Main Sts., riattemouth. (Guthmann's old stand.) He kcepa on band a large and well-selected stock of Fancy Groceries, COFFEES, TEAS, Sugar, Sirup, ETC., ETC, Also a Large Stock of DRY GOODS Boots and Shoes, CROCKERY, QUEENSWAKE, Etc, Etc., Etc. In connection with the Grocery ia a' BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY. Highest Price Paid Tor Country Produce. A fall etock at all times, and will not be undersold. Take notice of- the Sign : "EMPIRE BAKERY AND GROCERY." nlyl WILLIAM STADELMANN Em n hand n of Eat largest stocks of CLOT&ING 1M) Gents' Furnishing Goods FOR SPRING AND "UMMER. I inrlt evrryhBy in want of anything in my line t call at siy store. South Side Main, bet. 5th & b'th Sis., And convinc lbennrlvet of th fact. I have as a specially ,B J Krtail Department a stock of flu Clothinz for ilea aad Bys, t which we In vite ihoM wh want rood. I ! keep on ha a l-'e and well-selected tieck f Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc. Vlattshoiitu MILLS, rLATTSMOCTH NEBRASKA. Cokbas Bxuxl, Proprietor. FLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED. Always hand sad for sale at lowest cash prtct a, Tka EJghut Prices paid for Wlsal sad Cora, i rkrUcaUr ttwatlaa lm U autom voife. NEBRASKA ERA JNO. A. MACMURPHY, Editor. " PERSCVERAXCE COXQUEBS." TERMS: $2.00 a Year. VOLUME XL PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA- THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1875. NUMBER THE HERALD. ADVEKTISI.ti KATES. space. 1 square. . a squares 8 squares. H' column. X column. 1 column. 1 w. j S w. ! a w. j 1 m. .1 in. ' fl m. I 1 yr. ft MO 1 BO fCO 2 M fROO fHOO f t l w; i ir, h u it ft rsi 10 .. l, 8 (Hi! 3 V'l 4 (; 4 7" i H 1 1 I t (hi SO 5 0 8 tl 1( (i U Oo fit fKi v:S 0i -. I H no 11 m pv xi M oi -j:, fm jo cm u 'K 1! is 00 J I ii: "c v ootid im loo up JIT" All Advertising bills clue qnnrl rly. t 'tT Transient advcNWuH nil must bepaidfut In advance. Txtrlt copies of the II EiiAi.n for sr.to by II. J. StreffM. at the J'o(ii1it, ami . K. Jutiiiion, cor ner of .Mam cud V if 1 1 ntrufin. O. F. JOHNSON, DEALER LIT Drugs, Medicines, a kd WALLPAPER. All Paper Trirasl Free ofClane ALSO. DEALER IM Books, Stationery MAGAZINES AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS. vsr Prescriptions carefully componuded by an experienced Draf2lst.jjJ BE MEMBER THE PLACE Cor. Fifth and Main Streets, PLATTSMOUTH, NEB. FOUNDRY AND immm shops. JOHN WAY3IAN, I'LATTSMOUTH, 'EB., Repairer of Steam Enginssf Boilers, Saw and Grist Hills. OAS AND STEAM FITTINGS, Wrought Iron Pipe, Force and Lift Tipes, Steam Ganges, Safety-Valve Governors and all kinds of Brass Engine Fittings re paired on short notice. 3J.x-xrx IWIrtoliinory Repaired on Short Notice. 49-yl Sewing mmi ! NEW, IMPROVED LOCK-STITCH GBOVER & BAKED Sewing ZSIacliinc, FOR SALE BY CHARLES VI ALL, With all the Extras and Attachments, such as Needles, Oil, Tuckers, Binders, Etc. Those who contemplate buying a machine will do well to (rive the Grovt r &. Baker a trial. Sat isfaction euaraiit-od. and the chfapet-t machine in the market. All orders by mail promptly at tended to. Address 3m8 CHAELES VIALL, Plattsmouth, Neb. First National Bank Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, SUCCESSOR TO Tootle, Iltiunn S& Olarlc. John Fitzgerald... K. G. Dover A. W. Mrl.AUGHI.lN. John O'1'.olbk.s.... President . . . Vice-Presidcn t. Cashier. .Assistant Cashier. This Bank is now open for bnsiness at their new room, corner Main and Sixth streets, and are pre pared U trautacl a general BANKING BUSINESS. Stocks, Bords, Gold, Government and Local Securities BOUGHT AND SOLD. Deposits Received and Interest Al lowed on Time Certificates. DRAFTS DRAWN, Available in any part of the Unircd States and In ai) the principal Towns and Cities of Europe. AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED INMAH LINE ai ALLAN LINE of wriviiau. Tersons wishing to bring out their friends from (Europe can rrr.cHAsa tickets tro rs Xliroiifjli to IMnttKmoiitli. Excelsior Barber Shop. j. c. I30o:s:e, Slain Street, opposite Saunders House. HAIR-CUTTING, Shaving and Shampooing. ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO Ciittiiif Children's and Ladles Hair. Call and See Boone, Gents, And get a boon in a OZiSiVXJ' XX S. V 33 . nll-ly GO TO THE Post Office Book Store, H. J. STHZIGHT, Proprietor, TO TOCB Boois. Stationery, Pictures, Masicf TOYS, CONFECTIONERY, Violin Strings. Newspapers, Norels, Song Books, etc., etc POST OFFICE BUILDI.XGf PLATTtsioUTS, SS, CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. Piu Houston Stewart, Viee-Adniiral of iLe British navy, is dead. Gko. S. Bangs has resigned the position of General Superintendent of the llailway Mail Service. The Virginia Legislature has re-elected John AY. Johnston (the Democratic norai nee) as United States Senator from that State. TnEHE are now 100 Granges in Massa chusetts, an increase of thirty-five during the past year. The number of niemlers is 4,000, an increase of 1,300. Judge Bangs, of Lacon, 111., is the suc cessor of J. D. Ward, ot Chicago, as United States District-Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. The cabinet-shops of the "Wheeler fe Wilson Sewing Machine Company, at Bridgeport, Conn., were recently destroyed by fire. Loss $500,000; insurance $:J00,- 000. At the recent municipal election in Boston Mayor Cobb the " Citizens' " candidate was re-elected by a majority of between 2,000 and 3,000 over II. J. Boardman. A DispATCir' from St. Paul de Loanda, on the west coast of Africa, states that Capt. Cameron's exploring expedition had reached there on the 19th of November, having traversed the African continent from Ujiji. The expedition, had been a pronounced success. In a letter signed by him as Governor of Louisiana McEnery expresses his re gret at the action of McMillan in with drawing his credentials as Senator from that State, and states his opinion that Mc Millan has seriously erred in his conclu sions t which he has arrived. The Republican National Committee is to meet in Washington on the 13ih of January for the purpose of determining upon the time and place for holding the next Republican National Convention lor the nomination of candidates for Presi dent and Vice-President of the United States. The Agricultural Department report 'or November shows tbat the corn crop of 1875 was one-fourth larger than that of 1874, and one of the heaviest ever grow n in America. The same is true of potatoes, in quality as well as in quantity ; whiie all the tobacco-growing States show a large increase of product. The following are the names of the Congressmen who voted against the anti-third-tcrm resolution recently adopted in the United States House of Representa tives: Bradley, Denison, Haralson, Hoge, Hubbell, Ilj-man, Lynch, MacDougall, Nash, Page, Plaisted, Pratt, Smalls, Wal lace (S. C), Walls, Wells (Miss.), White, Whiting 18. The vote in favor of the resolution was 232. According: to the recent annual report of Plymouth Church, of Brooklyn, N. Y., the total membership of that organization is 2,490, an increase of 100 during the past year. Of this total number 1,575 are females and 915 are males. There were 2,841 pupils in the schools, and 255 teach ers. The sum of $111,414 was raised during the past year, exclusive of the per sonal contributions. Of this sum $70,000 were from pew-rents. The Lima (Peru) Opinion Rationale of a recent date says that while repairs were lately being made on the San Andres Hos pital, a wall, on being thrown down, was found to have been hollow, and filled with human remains. Between 4,000 and 5,000 skeletons had been taken out. They ap peared to be from 150 to 200 years old, and all had fragments of clothing upon thm. They were believed to have been the victims of the Inquisition. At a meeting of Methodist ministers in Boston a few days ago, under the lead of Bishop Haven, a resolution was adopted in favor of the renomination of President Grant "as a measure of public safety." A number of Methodist ministers of Salt Lake City, Utah, have, at a recent meet ing, protested against this action on the part of their Boston brethren, and passed a resolution denouncing the President for his course toward that Territory. The bill introduced into the House re cently for the regulation of postage on printed matter provides that "on and aft er the 1st day of June, 1876, postage shall be charged on pamphlets, transient news papers, periodicals, magazines, handbills, posters, unsealed circulars and pros pectuses, proof of sheets and corrected proof-sheets, at the rate of one cent lor each two ounces or fraction thereof, and the postage on all other mailable matter of this third class shall be and remain as now provided by law." How to Breakfast. The Sanitary Record (English) sanctions the American custom of a substantial meal soon after rising, as follows : Let a healthy man really "break" his "fast" with a substantial meal, and not break his breakfast with irritating little nips or slops beforehand. After the stomach has at iu leisure emptied itself during sleep of its contents, and sent them to repair the worn tissues and exhausted nerve-form, and the blood has been ventilated and purified by washing and dressing with the window open, then is the time when the most perfect of all nutritive articles, fari naceous food, can be consumed in largest quantities with advantage. Butter also, and fat and sugar, troublesome customers to weak digestions, arc then easily coped with and contribute their invaluable aid to performing the duties of the day. For example, many persons can drink milk to a fair and useful amount at breakfast, with whom it disagrees at other hours. And the widely-advertised " breakfast bacon" by its name warns the consumer against indulgence later on in the day. Cafe au lait and sweet, creamy tea are to many men poisonous in the afternoon, though in the prime of the morning they are a wholesome beverage to the same indi viduals. Let the vigor, good humor and refreshment then felt by a healthy man be utilized without delay in eatingahearty meal immediately after he is dressed, and not frittered away in the frivolties of other occupations. Let not reading, writing or business muscular, political or economi cal exhaust the nervous system. The newspaper and letters should not be opened, preferably not delivered, till the appetite is thoroughly appeased. Of the 176 new members of the House V12 are lawyer, EPITOME OF THE WEEK. CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. A dynamite explosion occurred on the docks at Breiner Haven on the 11th, which caused the death of sixty of the by-standers and four of the passengers of the steamer Mosel, which was about to leave for New York. The explosive was in a passenger's baggage. A Hendaye telegram of the 11th states that several Carlist soldiers had recently frozen to death. The Carlist forces in the field numbered 52,000 men, with 105 pieces of artillery. Accoriuno to a Paris dispatch of the 12th all France was intensely excited over the pending Senatorial election. The Re publicans had so far secured a majority, and their success was thought to mean a disturbance of the present conservative condition. The Bourse was also greatly excited, and the funds fell largely. John Q. Smith, the newly-appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs, took charge of the Indian Bureau in Washing ton on the 11th. The three Moody and Sankey revival meetings in Philadelphia on the 12th were crowded. At the women's meeting in the afternoon 11,000 persons were present, and fully 300 passed into the inquiry- rooms. The jury in the case of Burbach and Reynolds, whisky-rectifiers, on trial in Milwaukee, brought in a verdict of guilty on the evening of the 11th. Gen. Baecock gave bail at Chicago on the 11th in the sum of $10,000 for his ap pearance for trial before the United States District Court at St. Louis. James O. Broaduead, a prominent Democratic lawyer of St. Louis, was ap pointed on the 10th to succeed Gen. Hen derson as an assistant prosecuting-attor-ncy in the whisky trials at St. Louis. He at once accepted tire position. Information was received at Vienna on the 13th that the Sultan of Turkey had ordered an extraordinary levy of 100,000 men to put down the troubles in Herze govina. Egypt had also promised a con tingent of 25,000 men and Tunis 8,000. A caucus, with closed doors, of the Democratic members of the House was held in Washington on the 13th, at which, it is stated, a committee of eleven was or dered, to be appointed by the Chairman, Mr. Lamar, to act jointly with a like Sen ate committee in shaping legislation dur ing the session of Congress. It was reported on the 13th that the revenue olhcials had discovered an under ground crooked-whisky distillery on the Arkansas River, about five miles from Pueblo, Col. An extensive land swindle has recently' been brought to light in Southeastern Mis souri. It appears mat ueeas 10 lanus in North Arkansas and Southeastern Mis souri have been forged for some years past, and agencies for this work were es tablished in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Phil adelphia, New York and Manchester, England. It is estimated that deeds to over 12,000,000 acres of land have been forged and disposed of, the valuation being $25,000,000 or $30,000,000. The land operated upon Is owned by non-residents, and, as the records were mostly destroyed during the civil war, the ring had every facility to carry out the enormous swindle, and the deeds have been sold all over the United States and in England. The Grand Jury of Shannon County, Mo., has in dicted three men for complicity in the frauds. A Bremen telegram of the 14th states that a man named Thomasssn had been arrested in that city upon the charge of placing dynamite in his baggage with the intention of causing an explosion in mid-ocean and destroying the steamer Mosel. The rough handling of the pack ages on the docks had caused the late premature explosion and thus saved the vessel. It was understood that Thomassen had confessed the plot. Accordino to a Constantinople dis patch of the 14th the Austrian Ambassa dor had again asked the Grand Vizier of Turkey to suspend hostilities and open negotiations with the insurgents. The annual report of the Attorney- General, which was sent to Congress on the 14th, is thus summarized in an As sociated Press dispatch : He urges that District-Attorneys be paid by salaries only, to be graded according to place; that the District of Columbia be no exception to the law; giving the appointment of As sistant District-Attorneys t the Attorney General ; that a uniform mode of select ing jurors fur United States Courts be provided by law; that a law be passed forbidding the payment of Deputy-Marshals by certificates or due-bills, and the advance of any money to Marshals whose accounts are unadjusted at the Treasury over six months. He refers to the case of Brigham Young, and asks further legislation. The labors of the Supreme Court and Court of Claims are alluded to, and it is suggested that such legislation be had as will enable the latter court, aided by the Attorney-General, to increase the safeguards against improper testimony by devising a different mode of taking it, and to force old cases to early trial or require them to be dismissed with out power of restoration. To these ends he proposes, after consultation with the court, to draft a bill and submit it to the present Congress. A Berlin telegram of the 15th says Thomassen, the man arrested for com plicity in the late dynamite explosion at Bremer Haven, had, after a full confession, made several ineffectual attempts at sui cide. The total number of killed and wounded was estimated to -each 180. "Rev. John Henry Hoi-utT Brown, Bishop-elect of the Fond du Lac (Wis.) Diocese, was consecrated at Cohoes, N. Y., on the 15th. Several Bishops of the Episcopal Church and a large number of clergymen participated in the ceremonies. Bishop Welles preached the sermon. The National Cheap Transportation Convention met in Chicago on the 15th. A large delegation M as present. An order was issued from the War De partment on the 15th dissolving the Court of Inquiry in the case of Gen. Babcock. This action was taken at the suggestion of the accused, on the ground that he would be afforded a chance of vindication ia the United States Court at St. Louti. A Bremen dispatch of the 16th states that Thomassen, the originator of the Bremer Haven explosion, had died from the effect 01 his self-inflicted injuries. Be fore his death he made a full confession and indicated his accomplices. He stated that his true name was William Kir g Thompson, and that he was a native of Brooklyn, N. Y. He had purchased the material in the United States and had the machine constructed by a German me chanic, with clock-work so arranged as to cause the explosion when the vessel was about eight days out. The rough hand ling of "the package Iiad precipitated the catastrophe. A frightful explosion occurred on the lGth in a coal mine at Framieres, near Mons, Belgium. It was reported by a telegram of that date that the bodies of j 110 uimei s uuu aireuuy ueen recovereu The explosion was caused by fire-damp. In the United States Circuit Court at Covington, Ky., on the 15th, J. M Schintker, F. R. Rineskamp, F. Macke and Steimiede, engaged in the recti fying business, pleaded guilty of viola tions of the Revenue laws. A verdict of guilty was rendered in the United States Court at Indianapolis on the 15th in the case of Deputy-Col lector Hill, charged with conspiring to de fraud the Government. A business meeting of Brooklyn Ply mouth Church was held on the evening of the 16th, and Mr. Beecher submitted resolutions, which were adopted, provid ing for the appointment of a committee of seven " to convene an advising council of Congregational churches and ministers, to be held at the earliest practicable day, for the purpose of advising this church whether there is anything in its order and discipline which requires correction, or which could constitute any just ground of complaint or remonstrance on the part offister churches," such committee to take no steps which can supersede or in terfere with the calling of the " mutual council to which the church has as sented. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. rs' ttock, $2103.75; stock cattle, $2.7516 3.75. Hoga Live, $6.73i7 35. Bhecp Good to Choice, $4.7535.50. Provisions. Butter Choice, 25. Ec? Freeh. 2123c Pork Mees, $19.303'9.3. Lard-$li.3jl---37S. Bbeaostupps. Flour White Winter Extra, $5.25a7.75; prinj? extra, $1.26a5 M. Wheat Spring, No. 2, HemaSc. Corn No. 2, 49-fc(&50c. Outs No. 2. 3(XV,c. Kye No. 2, 69&GSV4c. Barley No. 2, 87S7Hc LrxBKR. First and Second Clear, $10.00(3 42.00; Common Board. $11.005ili.rO; Fencing, $12.0O(?13.CO; "A" Shingles, $3.753.00; Lath, fl.7r.i"0. EAST LIBERTY. Livk Stock Beeves Beet, $0.0036.50; me d'lm, $5 00i5.25. Hops Yorkers, $7 00&7ao; Philadelphia, $7.Va7 60. Sheep Eest, $5.25 5.50; medium. 755.00. SESE AD A0SE.SE. Henderson's Alleged Reflections Upon the Administration. Monday, Dec. 13. Several memorials were presented to the Senate on the 13th. Antony the bills introduced and referred were the follow ing: To attach the Territory of Alaxka to, and make it a part of, the Territory of Washington; to extend the time for filing claims for additional bounty under the act of July 23, 1H; declaring the true Intent and meaning of the Union J'acitio Railroad act.... House not in session. Tuesday, Dec. 14. The Attorney-General's annual report was laid before the Senate. A bill was passed extending the duration of the conrt of the Commifeioners of Alabama Claims six months. A resolution was passed 35 to 25 calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for a lis-t of unsettled accounts of Government officer and defalca' ions. After considerable debate the motion to allow Mr. McMil an to withdraw his papers claiming a seat as Senator from Louisiana was agreed to yeas 30, nays 28. ...Amongthe bills introduced in the House was one by Mr. Blaine, propoxiug an amendment to the Constitution pr viding that no State shall make any law re specting the establishment of religion or pro hibiting the free exercise thereof; and that no money raised by taxation in any State for the support of the public schools, or derived from any public fund thereof, or any public lands devoted thereto, shall ever be under the control of any religious sect; and that no money or lands so donated shall be di vided'among religious sects or denominations. A bill was also in'roduced by Mr. Davis, of North Carolina, to repeal the act forbidding the pay ment of the accounts, claims and demands of Southern citizens fT Quartermasters' stores, etc., acii appropriating $500,000 to pay for the same. Oth r b'lls were introduced to repeal the act for the resumption of specie payments; against sub sidies and grants of lands to railroads ; to reduce postage; to establish a mint in St. Louis fnr the coinage of pold and silver; to remove political disabilities from all citizens of the United States ; to provide for the admission of Utah as a State; to fuad United Spates legal-tender notes and to prepare the way for the resump tion ot" specie payments as'soon as practicable; to amend the Constitution relative to the Presidential term of office. The Senate bill extending the duration of the court of the Alabama Commission was passed. Revolutions were ottered and laid over under the rule re questing the President to transmit to the House all the correspondence in rcferenee to the dis missal of ex-Senator John B. Henderson as one of the special counsel of the United States in the prosecution of the whisky-fraud cases before the United States Court at St. Louis; directing the Secretary of the Treasury to transmit copies of all letters, telegrams, orders and instruction relating to the organization and prosecution of the present movement against the whisky ring at St. Louis, Chicago and Milwaukee; directing the Secretary of War to transmit copies, orders and instructions nnd-r which Quartermaster-Gen. Mcigss is acting fo- the Government during his absence from the United States. Wednesday-, Dec. 16. A large number of memorials were presented in the Senate ask ing for the appointment of a commission to in quire into the manufacture and sale of Intoxi cating liquors. Air. Morton submitted a resolu tion for the appointment of a committee of five to inquire into the frauds, violence and intimidation alleged to have been practiced at the late election in Mis sissippi. Mr. Morton als i submitted concurrent resolutions declaring that the people of the United States are on? people in the sense of aa tional unity; that the National Government is not a compact between the State in their municipal and corporate characters, but was formed by the people of the United States in their primary ca pacity; that the riehts of the States are defined and guaranteed by the Constitution, and not by an outside theory of State sovereignty, and that the mrhtg of the States cannot be enlarged or diminished except by an amendment to the Con stitution; tat local domestic government by the States, within the limits of the Constitution, is an essential of our free republican system ; that the doctrine that a State has the right to secede frcm the Union is inconsistent with the idea of nation ality, is in conflict with the spirit and structure of the'Conetitulion, and should be regarded as hav ing been forever extingui-hed by the suppression of the rebellion. Considerable debate was had on a resolution offered by Mr. Stevenson calling for information relative to tne prosecution of tne parties accused of whisky frands, and the resolu tion was withdrawn Several bills were intro duced in the House, amoDg which were: To amend the Postage law relating to p stage on third-class mailable matter: for the removal of all political disabilities imposed by the Four teenth Amendment to tne constitution; re ducing the salary of the President after March 4, 1S77. A resoltrion was oflered aud referred declaring in favor of prompt legislation to render effective the act of Jan. 14, nrnL'iilinfr fnr tlm r.tnrn In .nri. Trnvmcn t on the 1st of January. 1S7U. A resolution declar ing against the granting by Congress of subsi dies to public or private associations or corpora tions was adopted yeas 22-3, nays 33. A resolu tion was also adopted 232 to IS declaring that tDT deoarture from the time-honored custom adopted by Washington and other Presidents in retiring trom omce alter their secona terms wouia be unwise, unpatriotic and fracght with peril to our free institutions. House adjourned to the 17th. Thursday, Dec. 16. Bills were intro duced in the Senate to provide for the appoint ment of a committee on the subject of the alco holic liquor traffic; to authorize the appointment of special agents to investigate frauds under the tension laws. A resolution aaoptea Dy me House to adioum on the -.0th to Jan. 4 was amend ed by inserting Jan. 5, and adopted Mr. Spencer, of Alabama, off-red a resolution, which was adopted, instructing the Committee on Privi leges ana . lections to inquire into me manner of his election to the Senate, as to whether cor rupt means had been used to secure his election. s nart been alleged. Air. .Morion s resolution nrovidine lor a soecial committee of live to in quire into the circumstances attending the recent election in Mississippi was debated al consider able length uouse not in session. THE MARKETS. December IS, 1875. NEW YORK. I.IV8 Stoc. Beef Cattlc-$10.00213.00. Hogs Live, $7.25a".62;j. Sheep Live, $5,003-7.00. BRKD;Turrs. Flour Good to choice, $5.55 6.00; wh te wheat extra, $6.0527.75. Wheat No. 2 Chicago, $1.2S3:.23; No. 2 Northwest ern, $1.23(1.23; Nc. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1,242 1.23. Rye Western and State, gsgje. Bar. ley $l.06ai l5. Corn Mixed Western, 75a 76c Oata Mixed Western, 44&45c. Provisions. Pork Mess, $I.12V4 21.23. Lard Prime Steam, 13Q134C Cheene 6S124c Woot Doitestic Fleece. 3662c. CHICAGO. Lit Stock. Becyut Choiee. 35.2V2S-00; good, f4.5O35.O0; mdUm, $4.0X&4 23; batcb- The following extracts are taken from ex-Senator Henderson's speech before the jury in the Avery case at St, Louis, and contain the language offensive to the Pres ident, and for which the latter, unani mously supported by the Cabinet, ordered his discharge as assistant in prosecuting the whisky cases at St. Louis: What right had Babcock to go to Douglass to induce him to withdraw his agents? Doug lass was placed in bis position to see that the revenue laws of the Government were proper ly enforced. Wli at business, then, had Douglass with him When an ollicial rocs into olllce he should be free and independent of all in lluences except that of law, and if he recog nizes any other master then this Government is tumbling down. What right has the Pres ident to interfere with Commissioner Doug lass in the proper discharge of his duties, or with the Treasurer .None; and Douglass showed a lamentable weakness of character when he listened to Babcotk's dictates. He should either have insisted that his orders, as tley existed, be carried out, or should have resigned his office. Sow why did Douglass bend the supple hinges of the knee and permit any interference by the President? This was Douglass' own business, and he 6tood re sponsible for It under his official oath. He was bound to listen to no dictation from the President, Babcock, or any other officer, aud it was his duty to see that that order was carried out or to resign. Would that we had officials who possessed more of that ttcrner 6tutf of which the office-holders of olaVn times were made. Why do they not leave their office when they cannot remain there honora- J bly Is it to continue that Decause a man holds an office at the hands of another he is to be a bonded slave? The Issue Between the United States and Spain. Washinotox, Dec. 14. The present distinctive point at issue between the United States and Spain is stated in non-official, unusually well informed, circles to be as follows: The United States ask : 1. That in future all American citizens in Cuba accused of violation of law shall be tried by civil courts, and not by military tribunals, with all the rights in such cases as are secured by the seventh article of the treaty of 1713 ; and 2. That all sentences, where American citizens have heretoiorc been tried by military tribunals, shall be an nulled. Spain in some degree concedes the claim of the Urited States to the first proposition, agreeing that in future Amer ican citizens accused of violation of law shall be tried by the ordinary tribunals, with the right to be heard by counsel, to sum mon witnesses and employ all other acc essary safeguards to the accused, but with the reservation that all such trials shall be according to the law of 1821, which provides for more expeditious proceedings than those of civil courts for common crimes in time of peace. She also offers to revise all sentences passed by court martial on American citizens, where it shall be satisfactorily shown that such sentences were in violation ot established law. This reply is unsatisfactory to the United States, which takes the ground that American citizens accused of crime can not be tried by court-martial, but are en titled to trial before the civil tribunals only, as secured by treaty stipulation, without such reservation as is proposed by Spain. ' Gambling. Only one thing is easier than to make money in stock speculations and that is to lose it. Numbers of the stock-jobbers in Wall street are advertising all through the press of the country about the enor mous fortunes that can be made in puts and calls. The inexperienced are plied with seductive promises of $23,000 profit from the investment of $100, and of a moderate competency out of the venture of $25, $10 or even $3. No sum is too small for the remorseless cupidity of these stock stool-pigeons. These menjknow, and are fond of saying to each other, that outsiders always lose money in Wall street. The secret of the present clamer ous solicitation to outsiders to come in and make f 25,000 or. so from the invest ment of their spare nickles is that Wall street was never so bare as it is now of amateur operators. The experts are left to operate on one another and know the game too well for mutual advantage. They must have some simpler prey, and advertise in hopes of inducing that part of the gullible public which will gamble as far as Wall street and stop short of the faro table to give them a livelihood. The two great centers of this form of robbery are New York and London. The New York Herald of the 5th inst. says : 44 It is an axiom in Wall street that out siders always lose money. If there are exceptions, their existence simply proves the rule. Men with little money came in to Wall street impressed with the hope and belief that they could make a fortune by one grand coup. They left it generally minus their money and not infrequently in debt. If no positive losses were made in stock transactions, the broker's com mission was a cancer that gnawed uneasily at their substance." The last London Times received alludes to the same topic in "language equally strong: 44 It is a serious thing to contemplate the Stock Exchange of London as thGs, not as a center where sound investing busi ness is done, but a gambling arena where the foolish outsider is as certain to lose his money as if he trusted it to an adver tising book-maker. While dealers and brokers, aided by adventurers, who were either their tools, their decoys, or the reason of their existence, have leen mak ing fortunes out of these miserable prod ucts of perverted ingenuity, the public have been losing, and the quiet, unpre tentious broker has been pushed aside and almost threatened witn extinction unless he will consent to embark in the same career of speculation. It has be come impossible for an honest man to guide or advise his clients as heretofore amid the whirligig that this state of affairs has produced, when, the next hour, or the next day, his advice may be falsified by the course of the gambling. In the meantime, whatever the gamblers have lost between themselves has merely been some part of the general winnings from the public." It is given to few- men to understand as much as their own business. Still more restricted is the supply of those who can attend to more than that. Better leave Wall street to Wall street. Chicago Tribun The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions renorts a deficit on Nov. 1 of $220,000. The deficit on Oct. 1 was $105, 000. During October the receipts fell $1,000 short of the contributions of the same month last year. Fako is licensed at Eiko, Cal., for $400 a quarter. Tweed is an ofTun. 44 Gkken turtles," says the Boston Trav eller, 44 have been successfully canned." They mut have iK-en green. The Italian expedition for exploring the interior of Africa is to set out in Jan uary, to be absent three years. Weston has sailed for England. Now if he would only gel to w alking some night in his sleep! Cincinnati Times. Tiieiie were four nuns among the lost passengers of the recently-wrecked Ger man steamship Dcutschland, on the En glish coast. Joaquin Miller was once a member of the bar. Now who knows but Joaquin, if he had let scribbling alone, might by this time have been Judge of a Police Court Cincinnati 2'i?nes. It is, perhaps, not irreverent to remark that Ihe Circa tor never sees a cruel master maltreating his horse or dog without feel ing sorrv that He didn't skip the man and confer His immortality on the brute. t7 kibe-Democra t. A iuo black bear, fresh from the mount ains, walked into Milford, la., lately, and, coolly trotting down Water street, crossed Sawkill Creek on the ice and dis appeared. There were plenty of folks around, but they all gave bruin a wide berth. These was a kind Sheriff named Connor. Who said: "Among thieves there is honor; Get a livery boss And coupe for the Ross." In an hour Wm. M. was a goner. S. Y. Graphic. The two nephews "of an old colored man named Jones, at Portland, had some difficulty with him the other night, and forced him to sit on a hot stove so the old gentleman claims holding him there until he was pretty well fried. The oklest lady in California, probably, is Dona Lulalie Guillen, who is now sup posed to be 140 years of age, who recently moved to San Jose Valley, near Pomona, for her health. It is thought that the Pomoha climate will enable her to live to a good old age. The citizens of Oswego, N. Y., can have rish for breakfast by simply turning the water-faucets. A collection of over fifty young perch, averaging two inches in length, which came through the water- pipes of the water works was recently on exhibition in one of the stores ot that city. The other day a new Funeral Reform Company in London got up a mock funeral, hearse, sables, mourning-coaches, mutes and all the other trappings of woe, and paraded the streets, while men on the footway distributed handbills calling at tention to the superior way in which you might be buried. A school-hoy twelve years of age at tempted to commit suicide at London, re cently, but was found by his mother in time to save his life. On recovering con sciousness he could give no reason for j what he had done. The police magis trate before whomJic was taken remanded him, refusing to take bail. Little Johnnie Singley, of Moulton, Iowa, got tired of living alone, and so he besought little Alice McLaughlin to take pity on his single-wretchedness and mar ry "him, which she did. The youthful bridegroom had seen 101 years of vanity, and tiie blushing bride Lad walked in this earthly pilgrimage eighty years. The Pari3 Figaro says that an American lawj-er who had been retained to defend a desperate character on a charge of mur der has just taken out aninsurance policy on the life of his client ; and that this showed such confidence on the part of the company in the ability of the lawyer to secure an acquittal that the office of the latter has ever since been over-crowded with clients. Fit05i San Francisco comes the story of a youngwoman who, becoming displeased with a professional gentleman living there, visited her wrath upon him by a systematic espionage upon his actions, which she, by frequent letters, reiorted to an intimate friend of his. For three years she eluded detection, and it was only by mere accident that the victim recently discovered his remorseless persecutor. A married woman in Decatur, 111., whose husband spent his time loafing at saloons, lecame tired of supporting the family, dressed her child in its best gar ments, took it to the saloon where its father was, and said : 44 1 want you to take care of this little child;" and so saying she sat the little one down upon the floor and left. The dumb founded benedict sat a few momenta, when he got up and left the saloon and has not been seen since. Behind the bars of Auburn (N. Y.) Prison there pines a veritable genius. His name is Mitchell," and during his term of imprisonment he has busied himself in cutting out of wood various fancy arti cles. The entire collection is said to be beautiful, and the workmanship is such as to excite the wonder and admiration of all who see it. Skillful mechanics have placed the value of the collection at $1,000. Mitchell's sentence was for ten years; but for good behavior his term lias leen shortened and he will be free in the spring of 1877. A Whitehall (N. Y.) minister lately married a couple, and the happy bride groom, in the generosity of his heart, on his departure, crushed into the delighted par son's hand a crisp hundred-dollar bill. The circumstance fairly Uok the good man's breath away, and in the joytulness ot an honest heart he straightway went forth and settled with the greenback a long standing and troublesome debt to that amount. But the sleep of peace which the just man slept that night was his last, for the next day he received a telegram from the bridegroom, and it read : 44 Mis take. Meant to have given you fee ten dollars. I'lease forward the ninety dol lars."' FACTS AIND FIGURES. The enrolled militia of California num bers 118,325. The following statistics respecting the traffic of the Paris omnibuses have been published: In 1853 the omnibuses carried 40,000,000 passengers: in 18G0, 72,000, 000; in 18G7, Exhibition year, 121, 000,000; in 189, 119,000,000; in 1871, 78,000,0!0; in 1872, 111,000,000, and inl874, over 115, 000,000. The statistics of the 44 Free Methodist Church" are as follows: Nine confer ences, 255 preachers. 10,000 members, 225 Sunday-schools, 8,000 scholars, church property to the amount of $.500,000, and 2 seminaries. The church was formed in 18G0. The returns of British imports for Oc tober sbow that of 5,144,000 centals of wheat imported during the mouth the United States furnished only 1,714,000, as against 2,058.000 last year, while Russia furnished 1,000,000, as against 611,000, an increase of 70 per cent. The Winchester Arms Company are to have a novel rifle range in New Haven. A deer has been made of boiler-iron, hung upon pivots, and mounted upon wheels, to run upou a track seventy-five feet long, which is to be placed upon an inclined plane. The deer, being started from one end of the track, will travel rap idly, with a loping motion, which will be sustained by a simple arrangement of springs. The marksman, standing at a distance, will fire at the deer w hile it is in motion, and passing between trees ana blinds arranged to make the hunting of it mens difficult. The anthracite trade during the year now virtually ended has been of an en couraging character notwithstaadicg the great depression in tho iron trade, its principal customer. The toiul piodurlioii of anthrac ite for the year will foot tipovir 2:?, 000.0(H) ions, and show an increase of from 2,000 to :;ihi,(XmJ tons, till of which, except the small amount now lying in the storage yards, found n market, ami where it went is shown by the .stcinlvdettiand and remunerative prices for domestic, sies, and the slow salt's and low prices for thu large size used in the iron business. Thin shows that the anthracite market is con stantly extending. A c t'Hiot s story of unjti-t justieecomes from Florence. An English resident of that city w;is visited by a fellow-member of his club, an Italian, who asked him to pay him 44 that 5,000 lire."' The Kiiglish man owed him nothing, and told him so. lie promptly brought suit for the fictitious debt. The defendant, thunderstruck, con sulted a friend, who told him to leave the whole matter in the bunds of a certain lawyer. He did so. When the tri-il mmo oil" 'three v itne-jscs swore that they bad seen the money lent to the defendant. The latter was appalled to hear his counsel say : 44 We admit the debt," and was pleasantly stunned when six witnesses promptly swore that they had seen the money re paid. Verdict lor the defendant. This iieculiar case throws a strong light on the kalian judicial system, though falso swearing H, unfortunately, by no means confined to transatlantic courts. A Banquet in n Temple. Speaking of the Prince of Wales' visit to the Temple of Elephanta, a correspond ent writes from Bombay: The sculptures of the gods and the oth er mythical personages, which occupy three sides of the square temple the chief opening by which the guests entered hc ing on the fourth side are ot colossal sizn and, for the most part, extend from the floor to the ceiling. Almost without ex ception they illustrate peculiarities in tho existence or attributes in the character of the god Shiva, to whom the temple is ded icated, or some mythical event in his his tory. On n few of the countenances there is a great divine repose and fullness of meaning, but none of them impressel on; so deeply as the culm unci glorious f.icc the Sphinx, whic h lies beneath the shad ''' of the pyramids and looks, with b"' and quenchless malignit-, over the s"'y waste of the desert. Altogether,lt'rt'. were nine great groups of seiilptu,, ."' which five were against the wall opposite, tho entrance by which all came ft two were on the right-hand wall, and lie re maining two on the left. The chiefiinong them was the triune Shiva, a huge ilguro with three faces one face. rcprcMuting his function of Creator, another that f Preserver, and a third that of Destroyer of the World. As Brahma, the Creator, he holds a gourd, his drink ing-vessel, in one of his hands, and then is much noble. sublimity in the face. As ishmi, tin Preserver, he holds a lotus flower, and there is a color of the same sublimity in the countenance. As Jtndra, the De stroyer, he smiles on ti deadly cobra, whose folds tire wreathed round his arm, whose eyes are lookine intohis, and whose hood is expanded ns if the creature were about to strike. The Destroyer's cap is adorueil with a skull and with other sym bols not so easily explained. I have particularized this group be cause it is right in front of it that Mis Royal Highness sat tit the banquet during the evening. The calm, grand face of Brahma looked almost ocr His Royal Highness' head; ami, in its stony still ness, its gaze ran along tho banqueting taides and the eating and di inking guests. It seemed a strange anacliro'iisni. That untroubled face hud looked down on that very floor upon untold myriads and num berless generations of devout worshipers who long centuries ago had moldcred back to aboriginal dust; and now there was the same sublime countenance sur veying in its stillness a hearty English dinnerparty, n perturbed by the baifg of the champagne bottle, the rattb; of knives and forks, the happy English laughter, or the cheers that crowned 1 lie toasts. It was fully eight o'clock before the guests took their seats. Behind His Royal High ness and to the right hand of him was u strange group Shiva as a half-male and half-female divinity. The one half of the figure is that of a man, and the other half that of a woman. Further to the right, and still behind him, Miiva is seated in his heaven with li is bride Parvati, and groups of male and female divinities are strewing flowers upon them from tho heavenly cloudland. To the Prince's left hand, aud yet behind him, was a group again representing Shiva und Parvaii on their bridal day, with attendants minister ing unto them. -On the wall to the Prince's right hand was a group repre senting a ten-headed and ten-armed pow erful worshiper of Shiva attempting to carry off Shiva and his heavenly abode, that in his love or covctousness he might have the Shiva alw ays w ith himself. On the wall to the Prince's left hand was a representation of Shiva beheading, in his wrath, a son of Brahma, and having eight arms, tusks from Ji is mouth, and adorned with necklaces or strings of hu man skulls. The cause of the great god's fury is that one of his w ives had been slighted because she Lad presented her self, uninvited, at a party given by one of her relations. On the same wall, and still to His Royal Highness' left, was an other representative of Shiva in one of his most dreadlul forms. It was with the.-e great, solemn figures before and around that the banquet proceeded, while the Governor's band was outside discoursing in the calm, tropical night, sweet Eu ropean music. His Roj'al Highness pro posed 44 Her Majesty's health,." and theold gods might have been startled with the cheers. Not less ought they to have been aroused Vy the echoing shouts which rang out again and again when "The health of His Royal Highness" himself was pro posed. The caves were then lighted up with red and green fires, which threw thy gigantic sculptures into a weird, unnat ural glare. When the banquet was ended and the guests had issued from the now healed cave into the cool evening air a brilliant surprise had been reserved for the-m. The mountain was illuminated. Bonfires blazed on its summit and on every shoulder of the hill, lime-lights darted tkeir seirthing radiance around and far over the sea, while every bu-li and tree was brilliant with lights. Red. blue aud white lights lit up the whole mountain-slope into something approach ing the brightness of clay. Then from the summit of the mountain was heard the whiz and rush of the rocket, the sig nal for the pyrotechnic display, aud the fireworks began. The proportion of males to females in the population of the German Empire appears to be steadily declining. In 18-V the excess of females over males in what is now the German Empire was 'M,V-'A, which declined in the following nine years of peace to in 18! 1. At the end of 1800, that is alter the Schleswig-Holste-in and Austrian wars, the excess was471,';83. In December, 1871, the ef fects of the war with France were shown in on ascertained surplus female popula tion of 755,875. Thus, in the seven years from 1W4 to 1871, the excess of fetnal.-s over males in the German population had increased by no less than 14 per cent. Although no inconsiderable portion ot this loss to the German male population is due to actual slaughter on the buttle field, it is undoubtedly cau-ed principally by emigration. Even if emigration could now be checked, it would take more thm one generation to restore the proportion between the two sexes ia Germany to what it was tea years tigo. S! h i -St. J