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rm-: HERALD. 7 . PUBLISHED EVEKY TUUKSDAY FLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. c i c i On Vine St., One Block North of Main, Corner of Fifth St. OKFIl'I l PAPKIt OK CASS fOrSTY, Terms, in Advance: Dr.c ropy, one yrar $2.00 Jne ci py, six months 1 .no Jue coov, tnree mouth? .'0 NEBRASKA ERA JD. JN0. A. MACMURPHY, Editor. l'EUSEfEftAXCE toxqiEits.' TERMS: $2.00 a Year. VOLUME XII. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 0, 1876. NUMBER 2. THE HERALD. ADYE!ITIIU IIATKM. space. 1 w. ' 2 . H w. : t m. , .1 m. i in. i t yr, 1 stpiare.. (1 (HI f I N JW f i Ml fSlKi fsim f li 2 npjarcs MM j f i -2 7.'. ;i 2.V t. Mi H (l. ; Hi i 'J sipnires. 3 Ool 4 7."i 4 fKl- 4 7f! KM 1: no: ' S column. S (tii K no 10 (Hi 1v! (Hi -ill (1" -iH o H. v, column. S ii 12 (i) IS (ki IK ( ir (m 4iMi Mil, I col II ni II. l.o IM' IS (HI .) (HI 2-"- m ID m Ml UK (If Cf All Advertising Ml 1b elm- quarterly. J " Transient aihcrti.-cincn!s innit be puidfd Li advance. Extra copies of thc IIkiiai i for sale by II. J. Strcight. hi the Postotiic.', and O. i. Johnson, cor ner of .M Jin mid k "ifili streets. HENRY BCECK, DEALER IH TP w i? ii i t ur e , SAFES, CHAIRS, Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads, KTO., BTC, KTC, Of All Descriptions. METALLIC BURIAL CASES. Wooden Ooflins Of il sizes, rrs1j-inde, and sold cheap far ctia With many thank for paat patronage. I Invito 11 to call and examine my LAR'iB STOCK OP I'ii r ni t uiitl Oofllii.. )i -5 SHANNON'S Livery, Sale and Feefl STiLBLE, OINT MAIN STREET, East of the Platte Va House. Ths Oldest Livery Stable in the Town. Good Teams Always On Hand. C'an-fiil I (rivers sent with carriages if de-ircd. Cm riic'e sent to Depot to meet trains whenever oi dried. Tho Only HEARSE In Town. Ku'ie.a attended and carriages furnished t friclils. Address. J. V. SHANNON, 4'K PLATTSMOUTII. NEB. II. .1. WJTER.U.1X & SOX, Wholesale and lietail Dealer In PINE LUMBER, juatii, SIiiziles, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS. ETC., On Main St.. cor. Fifth. FLATTSMOUTH, - - - STILL BETTER RATES WINTER STOCK OF H. A. WATERMAN & SON. WE '.VI LI. SELL All Grades of Lumber Cheap. J. V. YOTBACH, GENERAL DEALER IN DRY GOODS Boots and Shoes, Cutlery, Qneensware, ALL KINDS OF GOODS Needed by the Farmer or Householder, Corner 3d and Main Sts., TLA TTS MOUTH NEBRASKA (Uuthman's old stand.) In connection with the Grocery is O lie old and well known stand of Frank Guth nian.i, where tho Frssbsst c? 2:d a:i C:t;::u:j AVill Always I5 IToiiimI. J .--The BEST PRICE the market will afford a way? paid for Country Produce. Hi'ineinVr the old sign, " EM PI HE BAKEKY AND GROCERY." 11 -K'ly THE OI.D CLOTHING STAND or WM. STADELMANN, Nearly opp. Saunders House, on 'Main St. .At ths old place I still hold forth, and for th Centennial Tear I offer goods at '76 prices- i;7o, 1 nieiui. If ou do not believe it, come and see. A I'irec Mock of Clothing:, flcns unci Boys'. HATS, CAPS OLOVES and JEWELEY. Gents' Fornl-hing Goods in every variety. Boots and Shoe, Canes. Trunk?, Vali-es. Etc Mv stock or Boot and Shoe. Fur and Jewelry, I a:ii positively closing out. It U the last year 1 shall keep these lines. All Coods at a Creat Reduction In Prices. riattsmouth. Neb., Jan. 3. 1876. FLlTTSMOlfll MILLS, PLATTSMOUTn NEBRASKA. Co a ad Hiuil, Proprietor. FLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED, 1 j s n hand and far talc at lowest cazn prices, ' be H:-hett Trices paid for Wtet and Cora. I'articaitr atMotioB girca to eastern mik. O. F. JOHNSON, DEALER IH Drugs, Medicines, WALLPAPER. All Pajer Trimmed Free of Charse ALSO. DEALER IH Books, Stationery AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS. ty Prescriptions carefally tomponuded Vy an experienced Droy?ist. art REMEMBER TflK PLACB Cor. Fifth and Main Streets, PLATTSMOUTII, NEB. FOUNDRY MAGfflN? SHOPS. TOIIIS' AVVYZMYIN, I'LATTSMOUTII, NEB., Repairer of Steam Engines, Boilers, Saw and Grist Hills. GAS AND STEAM FITTINGS, Wrought Iron Pipe, Force and Lift Pipes, Steam Gauires, Safety-Valve Governors and all kinds of l!rai Engine Fittings re paired on hort notice. Ffyriri 3McliiJiory Repaired on Short Notice. 49-yl Sewing Ma I enmes i NEW, IMPROVED LOCK-STITCH GROVER & BAKER Sewing ZSIacliine, FOR SALE BY CHARLES VI ALL. With all the Extras and Attachments, such as Needles, Oil, Tuckers, Binders, Etc. Thop who contemplate bnyiner a machine will do well to irive the Grover & Baker a trial. Sat i-facMoii Luarante" 1. and the cbeutiei-t machine in the market. All orders by mail promptly at tended to. Addresi 2mr, CHARLES VIALL, Plattsmouth, Neb. First National Ml Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, Bl'Ct'EMSOR TO Tootle, I Iiiin;t Ss Clarlc. JOII FlTT.r.ERALD E. . lloVKV , A. W. M LriiHi.iN... JoIlS O'KoL'KKE President. ...Vice-President. Cashier. .Assistant Cashier. This Panic is now opn for bnines at their new room, corner Main a:id Sixth streetf1, aud are pre pared to transact a i,''i. r;il BANKING BUSINESS. Stocks, Bords, Gold, Government and Local Securities BOUGUT AND SOLD. Deposits Received and Interest Al lowed on Time Certificates. DRAFTS DRAWN. Available in any part of the United States and In all the VriiiCipal Town aud Cities of Europe. AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED OF KTI'irVIlSIS. Persor.s wishing to brins out their friends from (Europe can ri-KC'IIASS TICKETS FROM TS Tlii-onsxli to lliittiiiontli. Excelsior Barber Shop. .T. C. T300nTE, Slain Street, opposite Saunders Houses HAIR-CUTTING, Shaving and Shampooing. ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO Cutting Children's and Ladies' 1 1 air. Call and Sea Boone, Gents, And got a boon in a Zi 33 3NT ?3 cU-iy GO TO THE Post Office Book Store, H. J. STBEIGHT, Proprietor, rom TOlT Boois. Stationery, Pictures, Im TOYS, CONFECTIONERY, Violin Strings, Newspapers, Novels, Song Books, etc., etc TOST OFFICE BUILDLNG, PLATTSitOUTB. XZBs CURKIEXT PARAGRAPHS. The first Chinese locomotive recently miule its trial trip on the tramway near SHiansrhai. AccoKDrxato advance sheets of the new directory for St. Louis the population of the city is 4!h,1S2. Two indicted whisky men, Adler and Furst, have been convicted on fifty-seven counts at St. Joseph, Mo. The Chinese contributions to the Amer ican Centennial Exposition are estimated at $100,000 in value. Jowad was Arabian '.oa. The steamer wrecked in the 500 pilgrims o-i Vtoard, and of rhnse recently j Sh; had onlv three escap ed. A- Jcsoi.L'Ti (N in favor of woman-suffrage was recently defeated in the Massa chusetts House of Representatives, by a vole ot 127 to 77. The New Jersey Democratic State Con vention, for the selection of dcleirates to the National Convention, has been called to meet at Trenton on the XJd of May. It is reported from Washington that United States Treasurer New w ill w ith hold his contemplated resignation for the present, at the request of the President. The American Episcopal Church at Rome, Italy, was recently consecrated. Bishop Littlejohn, of the Long Island Di ocese, conducted the dedicatory teremo-nies. By the explosion of a locomotive boiler on the Glasgow fc Southern Railroad, in Scotland, a few days ago, live persons were instantly killed and nine others bad ly injured. A Tkxan named Davis recently killed a man named Atchison at Ilerkings' Mill, in Colorado, in consequence of a quarrel over the pronunciation of the word "Newfoundland." The complete vite for Governor in New Hampshire, at the recent election, was as follows: Cheney (Rep.) 41,70 1; Marcy (Dem.), Kendall and scattering, ;j'J.-,. Tutal, b0,2SS. TnEjuryinthe case of Pah 1 man and Rush, on trial iu Chicago lor whisky frauds, have rendered a verdict of Kuilty on four of the six counts of the Indict ment against them. Thomas Y. Pipkk, the sexton who was recently convicted of the murder of Mabel Young in the belfry of the Warren Street (Boston) Church, in May last, has lieen sentenced to be hanged. Font of the sixteen boilers belonging to the Fletcher mill, at Providence, R. I., exploded a few mornings ago, killing two men and wounding more or less seriously a number of others. Tiik Chairman of the Iowa Democratic State Central Committee has called a State Convention, to meet at Des Moines May 17, for the selection of delegates to the National Detuwratic Convention. A Greenback State Convention, to meet at New York city on the lt of June, V) select delegates to the Democratic Na tional ConveuMon at St. Louis, has been called by the Executive Committee of the New York State Central Democratic Green back Committee. rtTiiE delegates to the Republican Na tional Convention appointed by the recent Mississippi State Conrcntion are unin tructed as regards candidates for Presi dent and Vice-President. Among the dele gates are ex-Gov. Ames, Senator Alcorn and ex-Gov. Powers. The articles of impeachment against cx-Secretary Belknap, presented to the House on the ;50th ult., are five in num ber. The first charges the ex-Secretary of War with receiving money corruptly while in oltice. The second charges bribery as defined by the statute. The third charges the payment of money to him for continuing corrupt persons in ollice. The fourth charges him with re ceiving gifts while in oilice to influence him corruptly. The fifth chargts him with taking money corruptly lor the use of himself and others. The United States Supreme Court has affirmed the decision of the lower court in the Grand Parish (La.) cases, to the ef fect that these cases did not properly come within the scope of the Enforcement acts; that they related to offenses of which the State Courts should take cognizance. The cause was remanded with instructions to discharge the defendants. In the Ken tucky election case the Supreme Court de cides in effect that the Federal Election law is unconstitutional, and thrt Congress has not provided by appropriate legisla tion the punishment for the offense charged. " The Son? of the Shirt.' Ladies will often find in the evidence given at coroners' inquests a wholesome contrast to the " unmeaning nothings" that make up so much of the brilliant conver sation of modern society. For instance, a story which means something was told at an inquest held last w eek at the St. -Martin's Vestry Hall, Charing Cross, en the body of Ada File, aged twenty-two. The deceased, it appeared, occupied one room in a lodging house with an elder sister. Since the death of their mother the two sisters had gained a precarious living by needlework. All one Saturday night and Sunday morning, when manj' other girls were at the opera or at church, Ada File was sewing and stitching, her only food during the long hours of her work Iteing one cup of tea on Saturday afternoon. About five on Sunday afternoon she sud denly gave a loud shriek and fell back dead. Her death, according to medical evidence and the verdict of the jury, was caused by the failure of the action of the heart, produced by overwork and want of solid food. Thus" died Ada File, nobly fighting the battle of life to the last, anil leaving a sad and suggestive story to point at least one important moral. This poor girl would have gladly devoured food which many a pampered domestic servant would scout from the kitchen table; she might iu many a household have found a comfortable home, far lighter occupation, and lettcr pay as either cook or house maid than that on w hich she was stirved to death ; but it is only too probable that her education had not been such as to fit her for anj- employment more remunera tive and healthy than the wretched drudgery to which she at lat fell's victim. London Observer. EPITOME OF THE WEEK. CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. A pisi'ATc ii from Constantinople on the 27th says the Ottoman Bank had refused to make further advauccs to the Turkish Government. The negotiations between the Turkish and Herzegovinian authorities are said to have proved abortive.. A new mini Italy under ( Depri' iias been formed in e leadership of Signor TnEfieampr Elvira, a Spanish vessel, exploded Mtik oil" San Sebastian on the Sth. Many persons were killed and many wounded. Gen. SciiENt K.late Minister to England, made a statement before the House Com mittee on Foreign Affairs on the 28th. He emphatically denies that he was tforttiptly interested in selling uoriMps mine to English capitalist, WtJ Ays he Will be able to prove that he bought and paid for the shares he holds under an howt con viction of their value; thxt he sustained a serious loss from tire Investment; that the failure of the inline was owing to misman agement, and that, properly worked, it is as valuable, in proportion, as it was orig inally iepresented to be. It was reported from Yankton, D. T., on the 28lh that a man named George Ilenckel had just returned fromt'ie Black Hills, bringing $2u0 worth of gold. It was mostly scale g,olJ of large size. He had one nusrirK Weighiug twenty dollar. Gov. Kki.loou, of Louisiana, addressed an order to the District Attorney of Baton Rouge, on the 2sth, instructing him to take proceedings in the cotirU in relation to the recent troubles there. Tho Gov ernor says he is informed that Ueorge 1. Davis, Parish ,ludgt, and B. F. Buregard, State raid Parish Tax Collector, had been driven from the Parish in open vIoLiUon of the law. The T CViieetor was ap pointed some wiree years ago, and is a t-f'ore'u man. The Judge is a constitu tional officer, elected by the people. The Ohio Republican State Conven tion, held at Columbus on the 20th, iwm nated the following State ticket! For Secretary of State, Milton M. llarnes; Su preme J udgr, W. W. Boynton; Member of Board of Public WorW, James C. Evans. Delegate" to the National Con vention were chosen, and a platform was adopted, favoring an honest and economi cal administration of the Government, Pud retrenchment and reform In the public service; recognizing- gold as the true standard of values, and declaring that that policy of finance should be teidHy pur sued whieh, wit!it unnecessary injury to bMsnvrs or trade, will ultimately equalize the value of the coin and paper dollar; instructing the delegates to the National Convention to support Gov. Hayes as a candidate for the nomination for President of" the United Ptatca. The Pennsylvania Republicans held their State Convention at Harrisburg on the 2!th and selected Delegates to Hie National Convention and adopted resolu tions reaffirming the platform adopted at Lancaster last year; demanding the ex posure of official dishonesty and the pun ishment of the guilty-; denouncing the course of the Democracy in the Southern States and in Congress, and presenting the name of Gov. John F. Hartranft to the consideration of the Republicans of the Union for nomination fur the Presidency, and instructing the delegates to the Na tional Convention to give h'uu a United support for the nomination. It was reported at London on the 2!th that the Russian press had changed front in regard to the Turkish question, and de manded that Herzegovina should be ceded to Montenegro. Vienna dispatches of the same date say that a committee of Bosnian lefugees had sent telegrams to the throe Emperors, entreating than in the name of ;k1 not to send them back to Turkey. The Turkish Pacification Commissioner had issued a proclamation granting refu gees a month to return to their homes, after which the property of the absentees would be confiscated. The Vermont Republican State Con vention was held on the 2Uth, and Dele gates to the National Convention were chosen. Among the resolutions adopted was one opposing the repeal of the Re sumption act, and demanding the speed iest return to a specie basis of values and currency. The delegates to the National Convention are uninstructed as to a can didate for the Presidency. The Secretary of the Treasury has di rected the retirement of $133,141, that being eighty per cent, of the new NaMonalBank circulation issued during -March. Stkeckeisen, Bischofk 6c Co., well known London shipping merchants, have failed. Liabilities $000,000. A letter from Gov. Ames was read in the Mississippi House of Representatives, on the 2!Jth, in which he states that he had had in contemplation for some time the idea of resigning his official position, and that if the articles of impeachment against him were dismissed he would feel at lib erty to carry out his desire in this respect. The House then adopted 7 to 10 a res olution withdrawing the impeachment articles, and a communication from Mr. Ames was then read formally resigning the Governorship. The resignation was accepted, and Col. J. M. Stone, President pro tun. of the Senate, was installed as Governor. The St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer-Press ot a recent date says Mr. W. G. Robertson, a resident of that city, had just returned from the Black Hills, and adds: " The re port he g'ves of the Hills is not calculated to induce any one from this section of the country to go out there. The story told by him is in substance that the country is full of trouble, dissatisfaction, want, suf fering and, in some places, some gold, but thus far not much." A Cairo (tieypt) dispatch of the 30th ult. says the plague had made its appear ance at Bagdad, and that there were ten deatns daily. All arrivals from the Per sian Gulf were quarantined for fifteen days. The large water-works reservoir, near Worcester, Mass., containing nearly 00, (100.000 gallons of water, gave way on the evening of the 30th ult., and the escaping waters rushed down the ravine with 3 ter rible roar, in a solid mass twenty feet high, sweeping everything before them for a distance of nine miles. No lives axe reported lost, the people having re ceived timtly warning of the irnpVhd'ing calamity 5 but the damage to property is immense, reaching marw 'millions of dol lars in amount. Ill'dings, fences, roads, etc., were c'c. away by the flood. FWrnot'9AM) dollars wererecov- VU frcm the wreck of the German steam er Schiller, on the 31st ult. The Intel national billiard-match bc tweeu Vlgnaux, of Toulouse, France, and William Sexton, of New York, was played at Paris on the evening of the 31st ult. The match was for $1,000 a side, the International cup and the World's cnampionsinp. Hie former won by a score of GOO to 4")9. There was heavy betting both at Paris and New York. At a caucus of Demoeratic members of Congress, on the evening of the 31st ult. for the purpose of se'etting managers to conduct the Impeachment trial of ex Pecretary Belknap before the Senate, the following nAmed gentlemen were chosen hy ballot: Lord, McMahon, Knott, Lynde nnil 'lenks, Democrats, and Wheeler and Hoar, Republicans. Mr. C. L. Bell, of Jackson, Mis., testified before Clymcr'a Investigating committee, on the Ust ult., that he had once been asked by Secretary Relknap to pay $2,000 for a post tradership, but bad refused to do so. He also stated that he had been lured by Col. Babcock, while on the effect that Mr. Clymer had told him, on the occasion of his former evidence, that there was no danger to him (witness), as he could not be sent to prison for any thing he had said before the committee. Witness went to New York feeling easy ; but when, on Friday morning, ne read the remarks in the House, that the Secre tary of War was not only liable to 1m peachniPnt, but to a criminal prosecution, lie thought he (Witness) was In danger as well, and hence his tup to Canada. Mrs. Marsh, being interrogated as to why she went to Montreal, said that she saw in a morning paper that her husband had jumped off the train. She followed the next morning, fearful that lie had been injured. The Flood- of iv England. RosTOs, March 27. The damage by the freshet on Saturday over New England must have been over $1,000,000, and perhaps a dozen lives were lost. Miniature Mill-River disasters were seen on all sides. The city was com paratively unharmed, choked sewers and cess-pools being the worst damaged. At Clinton, Mossy pond, which furnishes a broad plateau of l.0 acres, gave way and was soon drained. A tannery was knocked f rom its foundation, four tenement houses floated oil", nnd 100 rods of" fence and road were washed away. At Fullervilie the wooden mill buildings were swept away and not a vestige left. The damage in the Shetucket, Quincbang, and Yontie Valleys alone was hundreds of thousands. In Norwich the churches were deserted, and I In in cm 111 'si'Pt nvM cl u li.lmtiiT In Kfivp the P nslon-Oflice pay-rolls as a clerk, to 1 ,irop(.rty. At thc fool Jf Shctiicket-street purloin uocumcms aim otnerwise cripple Col. Dyer in the prosecution of the Bab cock case at St. Louis. FQRTY'FcURl H CONGRESS. MoND.W, March 27. A bill was passed In the Senate. f'Mtlnss apart ttu 1 1th or April u a holirtay for Government employe, aud a joint rexolution was alsrt paed irranliiifi such era (Mi's iu iVashlnsrton a holid yon the coming Mill of April to atK'tel thu nnyeitiiu,' of the Lin coln monument In Vipco'.n I'aik, Wanhiimiou. Tho ConilM?- ami Diplomatic Appro priation bill ip taken up mid aim nd fil, a motion lo lay it aside and take up the r.soluiion for "ihe appointment of a committee to investigate the alleged frauds in lie Misi"is-ip i lection having been defeated, yeas. 'S ; nave, -il . . . . Iu the lloii-e. a motion to Mi-pend the "Hes add pn-s the I'ayne Ctivfetiry hill hr cUfeHted. jcai 8i ; navs; livi. The hill providing for the rtetirivm-y In tlie Kmrrnvlnt; and ITititlliiJ ISttreHH of the Treasury, and lor the is suance of 'ihsidlary piiveh coin. Was a'uctided in Committee tf the" Whole aild reported to the House. A hill was Introduced provnlin for the distrihul ion of Mlcil pa: roimire of i he (ioverti ment nt Vt ashingtou tijua'ly anions the Slates of the Vtiiii. Ti esday, March 28. The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was debated in the Senate, and an amendment was adopter! restoriim Iialv, which h:id.e"i strkV-u out hy tin House. In te It.'iise", a resoli'iton wis adopted' n't' iii tin;: the ers?ealit-at-Arin not to t'.M; er Hnlleti kilHoniue. th-s recusant witness, to anV other otik-er or rourt Until the further or der of the House. The Semite amendment to the hill to supply the detMeiicJ- nt te 'ied Clhud Sioux Au-ein'v. increasing the amount homJlOo, irno to f laVHH), wa pureed lo. Wednesday, March 20. The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation hill was paesed in the Senate, with several amendments yeas. 35: nays. IT liills were passed in the House to provide for the expenses of the admission ot for eign iroods to the Centennial exhibition at Phila delphia; providing that all unused stamps shall he redeemed when pioper'y presented. A reso lution was adopted tlxinir the compensation of witnesoex before t;e. House committed at three d(llirtr a ll'iy iid he cents nilentfe. Several amendments 'to the hill providing for the issue of silvt r coin were ottered and rejected. An even in;; session was held, at which the Legislative Appropriation hill was considered in Coinmillee ot the Whole. Thursday, March 30. Memorials were presented In the Semite, from the I c.ei -la: tires of Missouri and Kentucky, asking Congress to in tercede with tneen Victoria for the release of C. O'.M. Condon. Mr. Morton's Mississippi reso lutions were taken tip and speeches made th'-rei-n ... A resolution was adopted in the House direc insithe Committee on Forcitrn Affairs to inquire if there be anv conflict of construction between (Jreat liritain and the t'nited Slates in r'-ranlto the Extradition treaty of Isli. The Judiciary Commit HV iraeMii'd tl(" articles of tntpenchni'jnt of cx-f'ci rt taiv iieikllap, v. hirh were recommit ted and ordered printed. The bill for the issue of silver coin in place of fractional currency was taken up an 1 amended. An evening session was held, flt which the Legislative Appropriation bill WHS considered. Friday, March 31. The debate on the Missisippi resolution" of Mr. Vortou was con tinned in the Senate, and a substitute offered by Mr. Christianey was adopted to 19. Several bills, petition", etc.. were prcsi.ntid and referred. Adjourned to tlu Hd Bi.is were pa-sed iu the House to define the tax on fermented or malt liquors ; authorizing I he Commissioi-cr of intcri al R'-veiiue t designate and tlx pointsatwhic.il the Col terrors and Supervisors o' Revenue shall hold th IrofhrPst Achate hiii mSku the 14th ot Apr:l of thisyeata holiday In the District of Columbia, to allow the tJoveriiiiient officials to witne-s the unvciline of the Lincoln statue. The bill appro priating $l--3,( 0 for the deficiency iu the Treasury Pr'n.ing Uurean. and f.ir the issue of mhsidiary silvercoin was taken up. and was finally passed 1 S to 10 ; it provides for the issue of coins of ten. twenty, twenty-live and filly cents in amount sufficient to redeem aud replace the present frac tional currency, and miikes silver coins of one dollar legal tender in sums of fiftv dollars, and lesser coins in sums of twenty-five dollars. Hill the water was two feet deep, aild on the wharves themselves, ordinarily eight iirct.or mine a novo tlie Water, men were navigating in boats and on rails. The Baltic dam gave way at about noon, anil soon the streani begaii to rise rapidly, aud on its foaming bosom came down bale of ilolton, whisky barrels, a buz-saw atld tables and all sorts tit furniture. The xv ate r was thirteen inches higher than in the great flood of 1S07, and five inches higher than in 107, when there was a destructive freshet at Baltimore. A boat was capsized and four lives lost at Ver sailles. Mrs. Coleman, who had become a mother but three days' Lf re, Jumped lrom a window and was drowned with her babe. At Taftville George Blackman was caught while in a boat, with the debris, and bdrne helplessly over the dam. stand ing erect. Details continue! to be received of losses by Saturday's storm. Dams continued breaking 3-estcrday and to-day. Losses in the neighborhood of Clinton, Mass., aggregate $:5.j0,000, and a!(out Norwich., Conn., tn-day, five men were drowned by the wahlnr away of a dam embankment tthil'h they 'we're strenirthenin. The ag gregate loss in New England is enormous. Proposed Change in tlie Manner Counting the Electoral Vote. of Mrs. Marsh's Evidence Before thc In vcstigatiiiiT Committee. Washington, March 21. Mrs. C. P. Marsh, who arrived this morning, came into the room of the Com mittee on Expenditures in the War De partment to-day, accompanied by her hus band. She was sworn as a witness, and under the examination cf Mr. Danford, testified that she left Cincinnati in ISO."), where she had formerly resided, and h is lived in New York most of the time since that year. She had known Mrs. Bowers, (now Mrs. Belknap), since lS'lO, and had been at the stone hotel with her in Cincin nati for four years. Cincinnati was her home, and she visited that city twice a year, staying there two or more weeks. She met Mrs. Bowers in New York, where Mrs. Bowers was her guest. Mrs. Bowers was a widow at the time the wit ness commenced housekeeping in New York, in the summer of 171. She went to Europe, in company with Mrs. Bowers, the last of June, 172, and knew Mr. Pendleton's name was on the list of pas senger. The witness was asked whether she had any conversation at any time with Mrs. Bowers, now Mrs. Belknap, relative to her interest in the Kentucky Central Railroad claim ? The answer was: TliK joint resolution, w hich was recent ly passed by the I'nited States Senate, pro poses to substitute for Article 12 of the Con stitution a new article, of which the main features are the following: ' The electors tire to ballot in their re spective States P.'r President tfnd Vice-, i 'resident as at present, bdt the list of votes must be sent to the presiding Justice of the I'nited Stales Supreme Court. The Supretiie Court, at a time and place to be fixed by law, Is to publicly open all the certificates and count the votes, and the person having the greatest number nt . votes for President con sidered by the coiirt to have been lawful1 iy given and certified, shall be President if such number be a majority of the w hole number of electors lawfully appointed. If no person has such majority the state of the vote shall be immediately certified to the House of Representatives, winch, from the persons having the highest num ber, not exceeding three, on the list of those voted for as President, shall choose the President iilimedia'ely by a viti pore vote, the representative froin each Sfate to have one vote, if a majority of its delega tion agree on one candidate, but otherwise the vote of such State shall not be count ed. A quorum is to consist of a member, or members, from two thirds of the States, and a majority of the Slates shall be necessary for a choice. The vot ing must continue until a President is ilected ; in case the House fails to elect before the 4th of March next following, then the Viee-President shttll act as Presi dent, its ill the CaC of the death or consti tutional disability of the President. The person having "the greatest number of electoral votes for Vice-President to be counted and determined as above provid ed, shall be Vice-President, if such num ber be a majority of the whole number of electors; if no person is thus elected the Senate is to choose a Vice-President by a majority of its whole membership. Final ly, it is provided that no Justice of the Supreme Court shall be eligible or elected as President or Vice-President until the expiration of two years aRer he shall have ceased to hold ollice. '' Don Carlos' Farevrell Proclamation. Don Carlos issued the following pac lamation to the Spanish Nation when he fled across the French frontier: "Spaniards Desirous to-jay of staying more bloodshed, I have discontinued a struggle, glorious, it is true, but for the moment useless. If I am obliged to yield to the force of circumstances, neither my heart is weakened nor my faith shaken, and I keep untouched ray rights, w hich are the rights of legitimacy in Spain. Confronted by the great su periority of numbers, and still more by the sufferings of my faithful volunteers, against whom all had been summoned, I am obliged to sheathe my sword. Ac cording to the traditions of my family, I shall tread the path of exik but never would I lend myself in dishonoring and disloyal conceiiio, contrary to the dignity of everyone who, like myself, knows what he signifies and xvhat he represents. " You know- all the sacred principles symldilized by my stainless banner. While I upheld it with a firm hand at the head of mv battalions, I lieheld the " Two or three weeks ago, at thc Aiding- j fall of the foreign monarchy and of ton Hotel." At tliat time tlie witness ask,ed Mrs. Belknap whether she had ever received any money on account of the claim. Ihe witness told her she had heard that she received 70,(H0. Mrs. Bel knap replied: "The claim w-as for only $100,000, and how could I receive 70, (WM)V" During that conversation, Mrs. Belknap was in a state of excitement and distress. Mrs. Belknap was a friend of hers, and the witness felt much interest in her account. She had simply men tioned to Mrs. Belknap an idle iumor. She had always talked to Mrs. Bclkna;) as she would to her sister. She had heard rumors for over a vear. She re lated to Gen. Kiddoo the conversation between her and Mrs. Belknap. She did not know of Air. Pendleton's oaviiu I money to Mrs. Belknap on account of the Kentucky Railroad claim, or of makimr h-r present--. She never heard the Secretary of War say any thing about the contract between her hus band and Evans. On her cross examina tion by Mr. liohhins, the witness said that she understood Mrs. Belknap as denying that she received anything, and meant to convey that impression. In response to a question by r. Clymer, the witness said that she saw him (C.) but once, and that was three weeks ago. It whs sit the break fast table at the Arlington Hotel; her hus band presented her to Mr. Clymer. Their short conversation had no rtttrence to (.online lefore the committee. Mj. Marsh was recalled and testified to the republic, violently implanted amid the Spanish Nation, and, although suc cess iias not crowned my efforts, it is no reason why the power of our enemies should take root, lccause the works of the revolutionare destined to perish by the very fact of the revolution itself. lv lemner remains furled till God ' ...... . .,,......-..1. ll.e- 1U V'ilLIO'llu illiei iuMiav.iu.ni Spain the supreme hour of redemption, which cannot fail to be decreed in the de signs of Providence after so many sacri fices. Now, as always, I have faith in the work of salvation, for which that Providence destinies me. Now, as al ways, I am reaily to sacrifice myself for my fatherland, which 1 love with so strong a love, and to which I owe so much. " Your King, Carlos." ran. March 1. lsTtt." The Miner, of Georgetown, fdaho Territory, relates the following: "Some three months ago the man in charge of Mr. Cushman's fish-breeding house re moved all the fish from a 1mx except one. which was inadvertent!' left. The water in the box fro.e, ami the fish was encased in ihe ice, and remained in this condition fully three months, when the ice was thawed and the fish came out alive. The other fish have grow n considerable dur ing this period, and have silvery sca'es, but this little fellow is ot just the same size and co!or as he was when the lrost chilled his Wood.'' Ohio, Pennsylvania and Vermont. OHIO. Tlie Republican State Convention assem bled at the Opera House in Columbus, on the liMtli ult., full delegations being present from all the districts of the State. Alpliotizo Hart, of Cuyahoga, was chosen prtiiatieu! I'l-esideiit. lienjaniin Wade, of A'htibula; Edward K. Noycs.of Hamilton; W. If. I'dsoii. of Summit: nndj. VV. Kei:ler, of Chirk, were eheled as Delecates-at-Lurge. to the National Contention, with Samuel Crjifjhcil, of Hay ton; Clark Waguoner, of Lucas; C. H. Gros- venor, of Athens, aud Lewis Wiitzel, of Hamilton, as alternates. A. I . Terry, of t 111 i ltiiiati, and E. A. Biitim, of Cuyahoga, were chosen for Presidential Electors. The follow ing State ticket was nlo nomi nated: For Secretary of S:ate, Milton M. Barnes, of Guernsey; Supreme Jude, W. W. ovtiton, of Loraitie; Member of the Board of Public Works, James C. Evans, of Delaware. The following ihitform was unanimously adopted, with three cheers: The Kepuhltcans of Ohio renew their allegiance to the Republican party of the I'nited States, and reaflinu its principles of free government, as de clared and defended by the r.ind men of 177t, aud endeared to the people of our time by the s crifict s of war and the blessings of an assured I'nion of thc Stales based upon universal lib erty. 'J. The citizens of the several States of the I'nion are also citieus of the Nation, ami are e'jtlsl under the Constitution and laws iu all rights of citizenship, an t are entitled to full and equul protec I n iu their eaercise. :'. We laVor an honest and economical adminis tration of the Government, and favor retrench ment ami reform iu the public scrice. Personal integrity and fidelity should be required of all ollice rs, and, when found to be dishonest and corrupt, they should be prosecuted and punished; and we cordially commend the vigorous prost ca tion of public o!rouders by the present National Administration. 4. The National credit and honor must be sa credly maintained. 5. We recognize gold as the true standard of Values. .Ihtl the only steady and safe bais fora circulating medium and declare that the policy of finance should be steadily pursued which, without unnecessary iniu y to business or trade will ultimately equalize the value of the coin and paper dollar. ti. We favor a tariff for revenue with incidental protection to American industry. 7. We stand by the system of free common schools, supported br general taxation. There must tie no division 01 ine srnooi luuu, ami no sectarian interference with schools. S. To the soldiers aud sailors who fonirht for the I'nion the Nation owes a debt of gratitude, anil the widows and orphans of those who h ive fallen are justly entitled to liberal bounties and pens! ns. 9. The thanks of Ihe people are due I Presi dent (iraul for his faithful adherence to Repub lican principles, and we assure him of the grati tude of the fouulry for the distinguished service he has rendered as a soldier nnd civilian. 10. The liepublicau party of Ohio, bavins; lull confidence in the honesty, ability and pattiotism of Rutherford B. Hayes, cordially presents him to the National Republican Convention for the nomination for President of the I'nited Sitate-". aud our State delegates to that Convent ion are Instructed, aud the District delegate are request ed, to use their earnest efforts to secure his nom ination. The State Central Committee organized la the election of W. C. Cooper, of Knox, Chairman. The following Executive Com mittee as. appointed: A. F. WyckofT, Chair man j J. Donaldson, Secretary; George Nash, Treasurer; John Little, of Green, and William Leonard, of Cuyahoga. PENNSYLVANIA. The Republican Convention met at Har risburg on the '.lth ult. J. 1). Cameron, Wm. It. Leeds, II. -M. Hoyt and Robert W. Mackey were elected Delegates -at-bargc, and David Aiken. Henry Hasley, John M. Purviutice und William Foster, as alternates-. Henry M. Hint was chosen Chairman of the Sl.ite Central Committee. Among the resolutions adopted are the followiii: Retolifl. That we hereby reaffirm the platform arlopted hv ,tb Republican Slate Convention at Lancaster iu Wth, and in vie of fbe re'ent events at Washington, we emphatically Indorse that part of il which demands honest men id ollice men with brains euotigh to know dishon est v when they see it. and courage enough to light it wherever they find il. The Kepuhlican pnrtv is cohimittt-fl by its origin, its traditions, its history, and its duties, to an Intrepid and holiest administration of public affairs, and wherever, in Na'i-jual, State, or municipal life, maladministration has existed, or does exist, we tlcntand ttiil it he ep)-ed. corrected, and the gu;liy punished, and to this end we pledge the full measure of our support as chineu und as voters. That we look to the Cincinnati Convention to give ns candidates for President and Vice-President w ho are above suspicion, and whose per sonal integrity the Nation tan most surely trust, and that we also look to our friends throughout the State toniake sure that, in presenting candi dates lor Congress and Legislature, they secure those onlv who are known to be honest, capable and faithful to the Constitution That the hcpublictine. of Pennsylvania, having nothing in their past history w hich they wish to blot out or td apologise lor, or would hae the Nation forgi t, arraign thc Democrat ic leaders in Cougrcss and tneir abettors for the preference shown to the deadly principles and for thesllh servency show n to the defiant leider of the late Confederacy, now dominating; for their removal from office of Union soldiers and the appoint ment of Confederate soldiers; for re peated indications of the r purpo e, only controlled hv fear, to open tUe Tre.snry t.f the Nation to alarming and unjust pecuniar-' demands from insurrectionary States; lor their per-istetit tffort to force amnesty ujou men too proud or unrepentant to ask it. or too jrnilty to deserve it: and for ;he combined n Ckiesstiess aud cowardice ot their course on financial cjuestions. a rccklcsne-" which mis chievously holds out a threat to overthrow exist ing laws, and a cowardice or incapacity to ori:;i n :e a substitute for them all of which exposes the Democratic party as without Nation I in stinct, or an unsectional impulse, or an affirma tive policy, as untit to be trusted by the country which, when last under their control, they madly hurried iuto the vortex of civil war. That recent events in the late Slave States clearly expose a purpose on the part of the Dem ocratic party to seize them all and wield them as a unit in Ihe next Presidential election, and to thi" end b utal and bloody conspiracies have been made to coerce voters, and base legislative con--piracles are at this moment in operation in order that an unprincipled and fraudulent majority may deprive pi opcrl.v -chosen officers ol their r ghts: aud as against liiese outrages we take an appeal to the people of the Nation. VERMONT. At the Republican State Convention, held on the 29. h ult., the following D-:ieg.i'e4-at-Large were elected: Luke P. Roland, Col. W!iee!ock, G. Veazeov, George Howe, and George 11. Bigelow. The following resolu tions were adopted: Jtt-tnlrnl, That in thw Centennial year we again affirm our devo'iou to those tniidameiilal principles lor which the Republic and the Repub lican par'y were founded. Among these are: 1. The preseivation of the liberties and equal rights of all citizens throughout, and impartial and vigorous admiiii-tration of the laws iu every p.irt ol the country; for the protection and en forcement of public and private right, aud the puui-hment of violence and crimes. 2. The pure and economical administration of rverv department of the iovernm. li: so r.s to produce the greatest benefit to the people with as little burden 'of taxation as may be consistent therewith. 3. The safety of the Republic dep-nds upon the intelligence as well as the virt ie of it' citizens, and it is essential that tue public school -vstem shall be maintained in order tiiat eery child may receive such education as w ill flt him lor useful c.tizer.ship. and we are unait raoly opposed to any diversion of public school money for any pur pose what ver. 4. We rally to the standard of the Kepuhlican pa'fy as the only one tinder which we can obtain an honest and effective maintenance of tbe (iov ernmei.t. as weli as for tie defense of the Treas ury against the unjust demands and expendi tures growing out of the rebellion. 5. The best interests of ail citizens of every condition and pursuit imperatively demand the spjt dies: return to a specie basis of values ami currency, and we bail with gratification the act of the Republican Congress definitely providing for tliat end, and we are firmly oppo-ed to fie re peal thereof, or to anv step backward in toe mut ter. ti. We are 1 11 favor of the untiring prosecution and punishment of public fraud and crime where ever existing, and we repeat t ie declaration, ' Let no guilty man escape." ". We demand that our National candidates shall be men of tried integrity, who will carry out tlii-4 policy of reform aud preserve inviolate the great results of the war. Crippling; the GoTernment. It is now well undershxxl that the Dem ocratic leaders in Congress are under the supreme control of the Southern Dcitioc racy; and for that reason the Foriy-fourth Congress is called the ex-Confederate Con gress. True to their instinct of disloyal ty this Confederate Congress is deter mined to cripple the public service. None know better than men like Mr. S. S. Cox aud Mr. Sam Haudad that the Govern ment cannot I ie carried on if the sweep ing reductions made from the estimates and in the departments should Ix-comc law. The public business ot the country does not decrease, but increases. The Kepublic of to-day, as the creation of lie publican statesmanship, is like a new na tion compared with what it was lie fore the war. The Democracy were responsible for the rebellion and for the enormous debt contracted in putting it down. South crn rebels had been assured by the Dem ocratic leaders of the free Stales that the North would not fight, that the old slave States had only to show that they were in earnest, and they might secede, in which, indeed, every Hotirlain Democrat would render help. Affairs did not turn out ex actly as the South expected, nor did thc Democrats find it so easy to fulfill their promise. On the 1 '('publican party fell the duty of raising and equipping the armies and navy which put down the re bellion, and saved the I'nion. When the Southern armies laid down their arms no Southern man who had fought to destroy the I'nion expected to come to Washing ton to represent the cause which had been lost in the field 011 the floor of the House of Kepresentaf ives. And yet by the grace ot the Republican party a Southern man may now be as disloyal as he pleases in the Capitol, over the dome of which 11 oats the flag ot American freedom. The soldiers of the Kepublic who bat tled with treason and disarmed it are pro. t'oundly moved at the condition of the House of Representatives. When they left their homes to put down reU-llion they meant it, and more especially as half a million of their comrades fell w ith their laces to the foe. They w i re w illing to consider the war as over when they saw men fieeing from the expected conse quence of their crimes, and others await ing their doom w ith great anxiety. I his had much to do with the proffer of am nesty, which wassosw iftly accepted. I'ut when tho Southern States were received into the Union with constitutions in ac cord with the pledges given, and iu ac cord with the amendments to tin? Consti tution of the Republic, they thought that surely the differences of the past were swept away, and that the new class ol citi zens which those amendments culled into existence would grow up side by side with the forgiven white rebel whose citi zenship dated subsequently. It was nev er imagined that the men concerned in tho rebellion would prolong the cause of the rebellion alter the war ceased. No one dreamed that that cause would practically prt.longlhe w ar, and that in the year 1H7' It should be represented 011 the floor ot the House by a disloyal element which douii na'es the Democratic lenders there. Thc sympathy of the llourbou Democracy is, however, only bearing fruit now. They did not have the courage to avow themselves what they were titiiil the amnestied ex Confederates entered the House, and be came as the Southern oak around which such morning-glories as .Mr. Cox, Mr. Randall and Mr. Heister Clymer might gracefully entwine. Uefore this gentle trio trailed around the neck of Mr. )5. H. Hill and his colleagues, they had cast their arms over the neck of tlie Republi can parly, and borrowed what political respectability they had from that party's tolerance, flad "they and their friends not been discreetly silent on what they have lately boasted, and thus come out iu their true colors, their constituents would have known them better, and allowed them to waste their sweetness on the des ert air of home. At all events these men and the Confederate element in the House combine to nupjiort each other; and al though the cx-Conl'cdcrates owe every thing to the clemency of the Republicans, their base ingratitude is being shown to the country. The leaders of the UourUm Democracy and the Southern Democrats from the rebel armies have combined to cripple the public service, not in the in terests of economy, but because they tein jMirarily have the power to defy tlie Re publican majority in the Nation Jiejtub lir Magazine. FACTS AM) FIGL'KES. TliF. number of passengers that cm barked from the three principal port of Germany dtiring the year lr7." was 5(i,2S9, as against 7",-V-.' in "lSTl, and Ml.l'Jl in 17:. A IiiiiTisH Tron Trade Association has been formed, in part designed to supply what the London Aftr calls an astound ing meagerness and insufficiency of detail in the returns of our iron production. The United States, it adds, have been be forehand with us in arranging the statis tics of the iron trade. Tiikiif. are now at the I'nited States branch mint at ('arson '20 boxes of quar ters and dimes made ready for shipment East. These boxes contain each !,(', making a total of lli,0O0. Sixteen boxes contain quarters, the balance dimes, amounting to $:"Sl,K'i). The mint is now running on twenty-five cent pieces for the Kast. A Park Kit City correspondent of the Pitt-burgh Vmmn inl says " the produc tion of the oil region shows considerable falling ofl during the month of February, which is very encouraging in connection with the fact that twenty-nine new wells came in, with an aggregate production of bet wen (iCO and 700 barrels. Seventy eight new wells were completed, includ ing the above mentioned, in the Pennsyl vania oil regions dining the month. Seven dry holes were among the ntnnljcr, and those producing averaged less than sixteen barrels. Only one well during the month came in at over a hundred bar rels, and some yielded as little as two or three barrels 'a (lay. From present indi cations there will" be much activity in de velopments this spring. Amkrican tonnage shows a slight in crease that is encouraging. Our tonnage .otal for inland and ocean s'iows an ag gregate of 4,S"io,7:f3 tons. This is an in crease over last year of .V'.lKH) tons, and since 17-'. of n!,):. There has been, too, we fird, a steady growth of ton nage since the w ar, and thi growth, w hile it lias not kept pace w ith the growth ot the country in wealth, population and commerce, litis begun to be a growth in the right direction", i.e., that of steam navigation as a substitute for navigation bv sail. Tlie number of tons of vessels built during the fiscal year ending June :J0, lH7."i, was 'J!)7.;:;; of these there were 11 t ships, barks, etc., with an aggregate tonnage of 11-2.000 tins, or 1,0(0 tons each. There were :!J:5 steam vessels built, ag gregating G'2,li!) tons, and of too- twenty were iron steamers of over 1 ,icrl tons each, aggregating i:5l21, tons. X. V. World. 7 HE MARKETS. NEW YORK. Amv 1. lrTU. fn.2o $M vi nr. ('. r. io .l-i I l.-S .0" .17 S6 .'.s 1 1,'JO .1 I ( o.ro LIVE STOCK-Cattlc Sheep KLOT-R (iood to Choice... WM K. A I' No. -J Chicago... CORN Western Mixed ... OATS Western Mixed RYE -Western BARLEY- Western Z " PORK -Merit i-'.-lo (.-. 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