Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1873-01-08

              NO. 6. VOL. XXXIV. COLUMBUS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY "8, 1873. CHAS. HUSTON, WHOLENAI.F. A Nil RETAIL DRUGGIST, Next Door to the Postofflce. , FINR IMPORTED CIGABS A SPECIALTY. iotate0untal mcel High, Pearl mid llinpol Bin. COMLT & SMITH, PUDL1BUKI1 AND pnOPElETOBB. JAMES M. COMI.Y, .... Kaitor. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY Lcglalalivo Sninmary. HOUSE. January 7. The bill conferring on County Auditors power to cprrect errors of excessive taxation, was passed .... Bills were introduced providing that notice to ditch conti actors shall not be required to be published in more than one paper four consecutive weekB ; to give courts of Common Pleas concurrent jurisdiction with justices of the peace in replevin suits where the property is $100 and not over $300; to empower county commissioners to offer rewards and employ detectives; to compel justices o the peace to pay over to the county treasurer unclaimed costs; to ullow trustees of elections $2.50 per day .... An appropriation of $5000 was recommended as damages to ownersof property injured by the construction of the embankment at Lewiston reservoir on the Big Miami river .... A joint resslntion was adopted for investigation into the burning of the Northern Lunatic Asylum.... The bill passed appointing the first Monday in April for the election of delegates to the Constitutional Convention and for the assembling of the Convention the first Tuesday in May .... A bill was introduced to set aside the taxation of dogs in part for the payment of sheep killed by dogs .... The bill of Gross & Deitricli, of Cincinnati, for damages by a break in the Miami nml.Erie canal, was voted down.... A resolution was offered Monday for the purchase of two new flags for the State House. SENATE. Bills were introduced to protect subcontractors, laborers and others in their claims against railroad corporations and original contractors ; to place students in colleges, academies, etc., on the same suffrage footing as other citizens .... A bill was introduced prohibiting any person from holding the office of Probate Judge, Clerk of Courts, Recorder, Commissioner or Director of any County Infirmary for more than six out of nine consecutive years, or any Auditor, Sheriff, Treasurer, Prosecuting Attorney or Coroner of any county for more than four out of six con secutive years.... The resolution extend ing the privilege) of the State Library to certain persons was passed. Congreaalonal ftanimarjr. HOUSE. January 7. The Naval Appropriation bill was reported.... Certain claims to be paid out of the Chinese indemnity fund were authorized to be examined.... Twelve pages of the Legislative, Exccu tive and Judicial bill were gone through in committee of the Whole.... The Credit Mobilier select committee was appointed .... The resignation of Mr. Bev-eridgo, Congressman-at-large of Illinois, was presented. . SKNATK. A bill was introduced, amendatory of the National Currency act of June 30th, 1864.... A joint resolution was presented providing for disputes arising in regard to persons chosen for electors of President and Vice President .... The resolution was passed inquiring into the Presidential elections in Louisiana and Arkansas. We have before us a very handsome pamphlet Betting forth the advantages of Des Moines, Iowa, as a place of residence. We are requested to forward this seduc tive pamphlet to some person "in need of just such information as it contains." Ba-ber will please call and sec it. It would lie s good thing for Baber. - If it will induce Baber to emigrate we shall not have lived in vain. Boutwell is carrying his heart upon his sleeve for Dawes to peck at. If Dawes's peck don't turn out a Senatorial measure, it would be a Boutwell for him to give it up on the 14th of January. (Respectfully referred to the New York World's devil for explanation.) The Cincinnati Enquirer calls George K. Nash " a model prosecuting attorney" because he refuses to approve the County Commissioners' contract on the ground that it was not let to the lowest bidder. The Enquirer is' correct. George is a model. lie is also a Republican. Toledo is still without a Clearing House. -The Blade don't know what a Clearing House is wants to know if it is some sort of new fangled permit to facilitate burying. If it is, Toledo wants one. The Toledo Blade is delighted with a new invention of a tin bust The editor of the Blade always gets his bust out of a quart bottle, and he thinks any change would be an improvement. Donh Piatt hat been challenged. Donn will fight, as his old army comrades can testify. Whether he will waste himself on a vermicelli grinder is doubtful. Mark Twais writes a capital letter to the ew York Tribune about the Sand' wich Islands, which we may find room for 'to-morrow. The New York World keeps a devil whose duty it is to explain the editor's jokes to the unsuspecting public. It ia scarcely fair to the editors who are struggling along under burdensome salaries, Btriving to serve the Government as postmasters, for the Cincinnati Commercial to make vague charges that editor postmasters are " making a strenuous effort to injure the New York Tribune." The Commercial says : " Postmasters delight to tell whenever a Tribune list Iiob diminished." What postmasters ? Where is the evidence? The Commercial mentions the Chicago Inter-Ocean. The edi-tor of the Inter-Ocean is neither a postmaster nor the son of a postmaster, neither has he any aunt or cousin or brother-in-law or other relation who is a postmaster. The Commercial says: The machinery of the Government bos been used unscrupulously and lawlessly in schemes to thrust other newspapers be fore the subscribers of the Tribune. We utterly deny this, and call for proof. It is customary, we believe, for postmasters in some quarters to solicit subscribers and make up clubs for such papers as they choose, and it is not likely that they will choose to labor as much for the Tribune this year as they have done in the past. The Tribune infamously slandered postmasters by wholesale, as a class, during the late canvass. The postmasters will continue to perform whatever official duty requires for the Tribune, just the same as before, or they will deserve to be dismissed. But it is not an official duty.to make up clubs, and they will probably omit that. They will certainly do so if they are not too mean spirited to resent insult. But it seems that the Commercial itself is not unwilling to give the benefit of its large circulation to the statement that "The Weekly Tribune haB declined largely during the year." It would take many postmasters to do ns much damage to the Tribune as the Commercial has done by that statement. For, after all, the wrath of the postmasters praises The Tribune, according to the Commercial ; their efforts against it only advertise it and increase its circulation. We do not quite see what the Commercial is growling about, if this is the cose, unless it don't want the Tribune's circulation increased. The truth is, the whole press of the country has been imposed upon by the Tribune, and has done more free advertising for it than for any other paper ever published. We make no complaint of this. The Commercial may search our files in vain for any captious remarks as to the Tribune since its transfer. It will find something to the point on the other side. The attacks upon the Tribune have come from rivals in business, in New York and Brooklyn, chiefly. We do not hesitate to sny that some of these attacks have been scandalous and disgraceful. But their animus is to be found in that struggle for pecuniary success which is the guiding motive of the great and only independent presB. ' The Commercial BneerB at the "party journals," and charges that they are de voted to party because they find their bread and butter in it. And pray, what does the Commercial expect from its "independence," except more bread and butter than it could get otherwise? Is not its motive utterly mercenary to build up a flourishing business by the means it considers best adapted to that end? Your truly independent journal is the greatest bread-and-butter organ in existence. It 1b devoted exclusively and en- tirely to bread and butter. It is ludicrous to her these journals unconsciously proclaiming in grandiose phraseology that t'jeyare independent because independ ence pays best. "The publio appreciates the independence of journals that decline to be bound down by party lines, and gives them a generous support, while the party organs languish." "The only successful journalism is that which holds itself in a position of perfect independence as to parties, ready to support only sucli candidates of either party as may appeal to its independent sense of fitness." Can didates are not Blow to learn what is the great lodestono of attraction in the independent mind. It is euphemistically mentioned as "business," "successful journalism," but the practical candidate puts it to himself as "bread and butter." There is an ideal Independent journal which expresses itself remorselessly, without any entangling alliances with "business," but it is not the " independent jour nal " so-called. That is simply a free rover on the seas of journalism, taking tribute from all rich merchantmen and political traders. The truly independent jour nal is that party organ which tells the truth and dares to attack what is wrong in its party, as the best means of securing the success of the party and the good of the country. Why does any man attach himself to a party, unless because he feels that the prosperity of the country depends upon what may be done by such party? Does he hind himself to defend the wrongs of the party, or support the thieves who make it a means to an end? Not at all. His bitterest invectives Will be leveled against the corrupt men who seek to do wrong nnder cover of the party namu and influence. We cannot conceive of any. other partisanship than this, for any honest, common sense man. And we submit that what is right for the honest, common sense man, it right for the honest, common senserindependent journal. The Commercial makes a fatal variance in its definition of party journalism, and then it has no difficulty in sustaining an as sault upon party journalism. Its concep tion of a party journal is, one that de fends the thieves of party. As we have aid before, that is no organ of party, which defends the thieves of party it is the worst enemy of party. It is the organ ofthe thievea,notoftheparty. The organ of party attacks tlie thieves of its own party with peculiar bitterness and relent-leayiea. It feel as free and independent as to what it will approve or condemn as any gallant free rover, and it does not de mand even "pecuniary success" as its re ward. If it "languishes" nnder such circumstances, so much the worse for the country. The independent free rover takes care not to languish. Whatever else it may do, it takes particular care to "succeed." It is ready to kotw abjectly to the prevailing deity for success. It will btlw the knee to Baal, if Baal is the mode, or it will worship the true God with the rest of the nobility and gentry, after Elijah comes back. It sneers at Elijah while he depends upon the ravens for his bread and butter, and knocks its forehead against the ground to him after he has slain the prophets of Baal. Mr. Renick takes up the cudgels this morning on behalf of the Bull Calf branch of the friends of the Agricultural and Mechanical College. He addresses the Editor of the State Journal as Broad Gauge champion, but he seems to aim chiefly nt the Broad Gauge Trustees. We cannot otherwise understand some of his allusions. The State Journal certainly never opposed the County Commissioners, or "abused" them," fjr saving forty or fifty thousand dollars to the people of Franklin county in interest on the College bonds. We are extremely gisd to commend the Commissioners whenever they deserve it. Mr. Renick totally misapprehends the whole scope and design of our remarks, if he supposes we had any intention of ridiculing breeders of bull calves, or diverting the College Fund from its legitimate purpose. We have endeavored to show that the very highest scientific culture is not wasted upon farmers and mechanics that farmers have need of a higher class of education than the mere learning how to breed creditable bull calves that mechanics can never be so valuable to themselves or the commonwealth as when they are thoroughly and scientifically educated that education dignifies labor. Thereupon Mr. Renick takes tho alarm, and says in effect, that such educated men ns these can never be farmers and mechanicsyou are taking away the fund from farmers and mechanics and giving it to dilletante people who will look down upon farmers and mechanics with scorn and contempt. Now, by your leave, Mr. Renick, that is precisely what we do not do. We want to see our farmers an educated class a highly educated class with capacities infinitely above the mere raising of "garden Bass" and bull calves. We want' to see our mechanics elevated in character and attainments, until miners, engineers, machinists, builders and artisans f every kind are as eminent and distinguished for learning and culture as the learned professions. Do you think when a mechanic becomes educated he must cease to be a mechanic ? Let us tell you, our mechanics m8( be educated, scientifically educated, in the technology and rationale of their business, they must link trained art with industry, or we shall fall behind the old world in all the mechanic arts. It is a low grade of labor that contents itself with the mere processes of practical skill, going through them as a machine does, without inquiring as to any why or wherefore. It is with the mechanic arts as it is with the professions they may be crowded down below, there is room up higher. We say to the mechanic, Be worth it, and you will need no Trades Union to enable you to command your own price. Ohio manufactures amount to about three hundred millions per annum there is room. Take our workers in iron and educate them as we demand, and our ten million dollars worth of pig iron, instead of being sent away in its crude state chiefly, will be worked up by our own mechanics into ma.w million dollars worth of fine cut lery, tools, and every species of fine mechanism that may be produced by intelligent, thoroughly educated workmen who know both the how and the why. We want both farmers and mechanics to put educated brains in their work. We do not want our iron workers to be mere strikers with the hammer. They may do their best in that line, and a trip hammer will strike harder and faster. Wo want them to know how to uso the steam hammer how to make the steam hammer how to invent a steam hammer for themselves. To know how to use the hammer is one thing to know why the hammer was a possible thing, out of a thorough knowledge of the forces of nature and the principles of science and the processes of art. is quite another thing. The one is educated muscle the other is educated brain. We think the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College should educate the brain in the elementary principles of the arts and sciences. Mr. Renick seems to think it will be enough to educate brain and muscle in the mere processes of art, and the routine of crops and stock raising. We regret to observe in the Cincinnati Commercial a disposition to treat our earthquake with unbecoming levity. The Commercial should interview the Chilli-cothe gentleman, who was knocking at Huston's drug store for a dose of quinine before the earth was done quaking. The Cincinnati ' Gazette jeers at the New York Tribune as being " run by the spirit of Horace Greeley." The Gazette was run for many years by the ghost of Charles Hammond, and it knows how it is Itself. In conversation the President, in speaking of the Hawaiian Islands, said this Government had sent a United States vessel to those. Islands to brine the King to San Francilco, he having expressed a desire to travel through the country, and thence to Europe for the benefit of his heal th. About the time the vessel arrived at Honolulu the King died. This intelligence having been received by onr Government, the commander of the Pacific squadron was instructed to send a vessel tn the Islands, in addition to the one al ready there, simply to protect the rights of American citizens in case of emergency, and to see that other nations should take no undue advantages nnder a new Government. The colored members of the Florida Lnrialatnre. in caucus, have determined to nominate J. F. Willis, colored, for the United States innate. BY TELEGRAPH 210 THE OHIO STATE JOUBNAI. CREDIT MOBILIER. Open Door Investigation the So-CiUIcd Sen tidal. of Het'omb'a Evidence In Begard to Brooke mid Amca Oakea Ames's Croaa-Exauiinatlon A 1.1st of the Prominent Men Implicated Vice President Wilson Exonerated The Fuels ns Taken by the Committee. Wasiunciton, Jan. 7. In McComb's examination the following appears : QuestionDid you understand that other stock was given to any person except those named in your memorandum? Answer I think he (Ames) claimed that Brooks, member of Congress, got what was apportioned to him out of this amount. Mr. Brooks is the only member of Congress who is known to have received any of this stock without a fair consideration. Ques tion Are you speaking of stock obtained for him by Ames? Answer A, portion of it, thirty-two shares, came from him. Question Was this stock put into his hands? Answer I do not know. I think tho stock Mr. Brooks received, was given by Alley's direction, and 'not by that of Ames. All I know in regard to Brooks receiving any of this stock is this : 1 saw Brooks and Alley together several times, and heard Brooks pressing Alley to let him have fifty shares of Credit Mobilier stock. Heard him say to Alley that if he would accord him that privilege, and give him the stock, he would take care of the Democratic side of the House. Brooks was all that time either Government director, or said he would have himself made Government of the Union Pacific railroad. I overheard such a conversation between Brouks and Alley. Alley finally consented to give him fifty shares of that stock if it was transferred to Brooks or hisson-in-law Neelson. I don't know precisely when the transfer was made. Alley gave his pledge that Brooks should have fifty shares. , In cross examination, Oakes Ames testified to the correctness of his testimony given at the meeting of the committee December 17th. In answer to a question by the chairman, he gave further testimony as follows : The Credit Mobilier is still in existence as a corporation with Sidney Dillon as President, and Benjamin Hall as Secretary. But the forty-five million contract as it was called was not guaranteed by the Credit Mobilier. Witness thought that the company had nothing further to do with the building of the railroad after his contract. The witness could not give the dates of the various transactions between him and the several members of Congress in regard to their becoming owners of Credit Mobilier stock, as he never could remember dates. When the stock of the Credit Mobilier company was increased from two and one-half millions to threo millions seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, the increase was not a dividend. The share holders were entitled to take the increase only if they paid for it pro rata. Hie company could not get it all taken. Ames took the pro rata share of additional stock, but had to dispose of it, as he did not think it an object to keep it. SVitncss testified that he recefved from Colfax par value for twenty shares, although the stock was never transferred to him. It was the impression of the witness that Colfax received dividends on this stock, but he could not recollect whether or not ho paid them to Colfax, and had no idea as to their amount. The witness understands that in equity, Colfax is now owner of twenty shares, and entitled to dividends on them. In December, 18G7, witnesanold Wilson twentv shares for two thousand dollars as an investment for Mr. Wilson, but some months afterward the money was returned. Patterson bought thirty shares, which by his direction, were transferred to a New York banking house for him. The witness agreed that the transaction with Blaine was substantially as Blaine stated it. Witness did not know whether Dawes received any dividend on the stock, in which he intended to invest a thousand dollars, but which was never transferred to him. Dawes has, on his own request, received back one thousand dollars from witness, with the ten per cent, interest guaranteed thereon, some time after he had ....:.... ... .-.... i, i., i given it to witness to invest, but how long afterward, witness could not say. BiAgham bought twenty shares from witness at par, and in 1870 witness took the stock off of his hands at its market value. In the meantime Bingham received whatever dividends were declared on it. The witness bought Bingham's dividends, consisting of Union Pacific stock, at 19. Garfield never took any stock, and witness thinks ho never received any dividends. Garfield ence received $300 or $400 from witness, which Garfield said he considered a loan. Witness so understood it, and does not recollect paying him any jf;J .1 uiv menu. In regard to Boutwell and Kelly, neither received any stock dividends from- wit- ness. me witness uivinu jvcii lu stock, but he dfct not. Scofield paid witness par value for ten shares, but afterward became dissatisfied, and witness took ri'i f. i 1 1.-' H.. . ..!.-. it back. Witness thought Scofield receiv ed dividends during the time he had it, and retained them, rewier never receiv ed any stock. Wilson and Allison received ten shares. Senator Conkling was never owner of any of the stock, and there were never any negotiations between him and witness. The witness identified a letter to McComb concerning assignments of stock. Stock was given witness to distribute as he saw fit. His plan was to sell the stock, and not give it away. That was the way he intended to place the stock, out ne nao not so placed it. McComb wrote to the witness, asking that his friends should have stock. Question Did any member of Congress ever receive any shares from yon except by paying for them ? Answer No, sir, never. In the course of further examination, in regard to the list in McComb's letter, the witness briefly recapitulated that Pat-tenon of New Hampshire had thirty shares. Painter, reporter (or the Enquirer, had thirty shares, and Dawes of Massa chusetts had ten shares. The witness never had any purpose of exercising any influ ence over these men in this or any other way. These persons were friends ot the road and my friends. The witness had no intention of influencing them parties in Congress, and did not want any legislation at that time. The witness could not specify any who spoke for stock, there were so many ol them, nut minks 1'atierson. Dawes. Scofield. Bingham, Wilson and Colfax applied. They applied when they heard it would be a good Investment This terminated the cross-examination. John B. Alley testified that he never had any conversation with Brooks relative tn his shares, and never gave or sold a share of the stock of the Credit Mobilier to Brooks or to any member. The statement of McComb is a fabrication. Alley then went into a lengthened history of the Bret starting of the subscriptions of the road for the Credit Mobilier. He stated that it was only upon the most earnest solicitation of Oakes Ames that he (Alley) was prevailed upon to take stock at the start, and invest $50,000 in it. Alley continued, saying that Ames also persuaded senator Urinies and Congressman Hooper to take stock at the same time, and there was not the least suspicion that there was any corruption in it. Ames himself put in one niuuuu Ul uuuaiB niivi me eietuun of the directors of the Credit Mobilier company. They found six hundred and fifty shares standing in the name of Thomas C. Durant, not paid lor, and upon inquiring, Durant gave evasive answers, and lie was told they must be paid for or sold for the benefit of the company. Troublo ensued with Durant, and no was turned out of office, and Alley and his friends obtained control. These six hundred and fifty Bhares were carried along, Ames making every effort to sell them. Alley's further statement appeared to show that Ames induced Wilson to invest $2000 of his wife's money, the proceeds of presents to Mrs. Wilson on their silver wedding, but upon reports being circulated, which seemed to cast a shade of impropriety upon the translction, Wilson insisted upon their being taken back. Alley gave n statement relative to the manner in which Dawes became possessed of some shares, but which lie gave back to Ames on learning that there was to beasuit; also, that although Boutwell had conversed with Alley about tnking ten shares, he did not take any of the stock, and never hud anything to do with it. Alley s testimony also shows that bono- field pursued a similar course to BoutwcUgthefollowing dispatch from Mr. Allison : This conclued Alley' 8 testimony, w committee then adjourned The committee resumed its investigation this morning. Mr. Colfax, after a brief preliminary statement, was sworn, and gave his testimony in a written form as follows: I had expected, after the Speaker had testified, I would be the next one invited before the committee on December 16th, to, be allowed to testify, and that my testimony might be made public. I state explicitly that no one ever gave or offered to give me any shares of stock in the Credit Mobilier, or Union Pacific railroad. I have never received nor had tendered to me any dividends in cash, Block or bonds accruing upon any stock in either of the said organizations, and neither Mr. Ames or any other persons connected with either of Baid organizations ever asked me to vote for or against any measures affecting the interests of either directly or remotely, or to use any personal or official influence in their favor. . I desire, however, to state all circumstances through which, probably, my name came to be associated with this organization five years ogo. About the time of the holiday recess I was conversing on the floor of the House with Mr. Ames in regard to the Pacitio railroad, in favor of the building of which I had previously made hundreds of public addresses. In course of tiiis conversation he asked me if I would not like to purchase some stock in the Credit Mobilier. Up to that time I knew nothing of its capital or profits, and I inquired of hiin as to its objects and value of its stock. As near as I can recall this conversation, after a lapse of so many years, I was informed by him that it was a legally incorporated company, composed of the principal stockholders of the I nion Pacific railroad, who were themselves building the road instead of letting it out to contractors, who always expected large profits for their risk and their advances of money for supplies. I told him after his explanation that it looked like a good and safe investment for one of limited means, and I would bo willing to purchase twenty or thirty shares at a fair price, if I had money, but, 1 added frankly, that I could not pay for them until two or three months afterward, as my housekeeping expenses in the opening months of the session were much larger than the average. He replied that he would contract to sell me twenty shares at par, if I would in addition agree to pay interest until final payment. I inquired what per cent, it would Day. and he renlied that there had been large dividends, but as the road was pushed further into the interior the profits might not be so large, though they would be very surely remunerative. The Union Pacific railroad had no legislation that I know of pending before Congress at that time, nor did I suppose there could be any in tho future, as the last amendment to their charter authorizing the issue of first mortgage bonds, which should have priority of government lien, had been enaoted in 1804, over three years before this conversation. Inferring that any questions, arising under their charter would be judicially set tied, and supposing at any rate that I had the same right to purchase the stock ns to buy stock in a .national bank chartered by Congress, or in a man ufactory, I told him I would agree to purchase twenty shares at par, and the interest to befauUbr as soon ns I had money. Borne weeks or montns aiterwaru, ui me same session, I paid Ames about five hundred dollars in cash on this contract of purchase, being all the money I had, but received no dividend nor certificate of stock in whole or in part. My impression' is that he told me that one or two dividends had been earned, but they were not in cash, and were as yet unadjusted. Certainly I did not receive any, and was not offered any, in cash, or bonds, or stock, then or since. A few months or weeks after this I heard a rumor that unpleasant controversies existed amongst the largest stocknoiders, wnicn were cer tain to involve tde organization in pro longed litigation. The very day I heard this rumor I told Ames that no profits present or prospective could induce mo to buy into a lawsuit; that 1 had never oeen during all my life a plaintiff or defendant in a court of justice; that I must therefore recede entirely from the transaction be tween us. 1 did not want stock of any kind, on any terms, that would make me a party to litigation. He assented to this and nothing was said as to money paid, jy anxiety being not to get into a lawsuit. All these things occurred at the same session of Congress five years ago, which closed in the summer of 1868. The next year or year after Ames suspended pay.ment, in consequence,as was said.of financial in-solvements connected with the Pacific rail-read, and his creditors gave him an extension on his liabilities; but regretting its failure and its cause, I told him to dismiss from his mind the small amountof money between us. I suppose Tbut for this he would have repaid the money I had paid him. 1 may repeat therefore that neither stock nor bonds were given to me, or offered to be given nie; that I never received a dollar in bonds, stocks or money as divi dends; that 1 did contract to purchase twenty shares of stock in the company at nir and interest, but that alter partial payment, I withdrew entirely from what I regarded as an incomplete contract, and repugnance to being involved in litigation, and that instead of being enriched by it $1000 or $20,000 as has been charged, I am voluntarially ont of pocket $500, and have been for nearly five years. Mr. Colfax remarked that he might add $100 more. Ames never paid him the value of a dollar on any account whatever. The chairman asked whether witness had a knowledge of ownership of stock by any member of Congress? To which he replied he had no such personal knowledge. Witness had been for years regarded as in favor of the building of the Pa cific railroad; he had made speeches and written in 'favor of it, and thought the Government ought to build it if capital ists could not be interested tor that purpose.John B. Alley said, before resuming his testimony, he should like to make a few observations. He hoped the committee would allow the tuflest investigation into all matters which would have a tendency to throw light on all questions connected with the charges before the committee. It seemed hard for men deserving no censure, but praise, to have their names inscribed on records of the country charged with acts which, if true, ought to consign them to eternal infamy; but every act and circumstance in his judgment established their innocence. Tho record would show that Ames was honest, and that the cry of "Stop thief was raised bythieves themselves.Mr. Alley then read a long paper giving a history of the building of the railroad and conduct of the company. Alley was cross-examined as to the capi tal of the railroad company, the value of the dividends, Vc. Hie chairman said be had Bent a subpoena to the Secretary of the company to bring the books showing the holders ot stock or who have received dividends. The committee then adjourned. Mr. Alley's cross-examination will be resumed to-morrow. Mr. McCrary, of the Credit Mobilier investigation committee, to-day received - ubevookt xiuuse, .new iukk, juii, 7. Please say to your committee that Oakes AmeB is in error. He mailed to me ten shares of Union Pacific and ten Bhares of Credit Mobilier certificates. I returned the certificates to him by mail. He also sent me a check for one Mobilier dividend, to which I had no claim, and I included the amount in a sight draft on New York, payable to his order. Please disclaim on my behalf anyshare-holding or interest in the Credit Mobilier or Union Pacific stocks. I have not had any, and have not derived any profit therefrom. Wm. B. Allison," ELECTRICAL PHENOMENA. A CoiillimnUoii of Bemarkuble Exhibitions for Scientists. Clinton, Ia., Jan. 7. A snow storm, accompancd by high winds and striking electrical phenomena, set in about Bix o'clock this evening. It commenced west of here, and the wires are seriously interfered with. Des Moines, Ia., Jan. 7. There is a high wind here this evening, accompanied by electrical phenomena, which interrupt telegraphing. Omaha, Neb., Jan. 7. It has been blowing a perfect gale since half-post eleven. The force of the wind seems now to be spent. During the time there has been considerable atmospheric electrical display. Chicago. Jan. i. ihe enect ot me electrical storm on the wires west of here this evening is different from what the telegraph omce has heretolore observed. In case ot manitestation ot atmospherical electricity, when the line was open at this end, a very heavy and continuous charge of electricity would pass across the opening to the ground wire. NEW YORK. tweed's case. New York. Jan. 7. In the Tweed case, after receBS, it was decided a jury be impannelled to-morrow. A panel of one hundred jurors is summoned. MISSOURI DISASTER. The committee of the Board of Steam, Navigation reported to-day that the steamer Missouri was seaworthy and well fitted, but there was utter lack ot dis cipline on board; also that the vessel might have been saved had nre nose Deen attached to the pumps when the fire broke out. -i FRIGHTFUL ABORTION. ' Elizabeth Taylor Church, residing on Ninth avenue, died last night from the effects of abortion. After death twenty inches of iron wire was found in her body, penetrating the diaphram and right lungs. An investigation is proceeding". -'. CINCINNATI." Neil lluulllne Kills mi Actor in Play. Cincinnati, Jan. 7. W. J. Halpine, an actor, died at noon to-day at the St. James Hotel, from the effects of injuries received last Thursday night playing his part at Pike's, as Big Wolf, with Ned Buntline's company. The injury produced a disease of the stomach. Halpine was a resident of this city, and only temporarily engaged with Buntline. Ho was a young man of some promise in hisro- fession. Cabinet Scaslon Washington, Jan. 7. At the Cabinet session to-day, at which all tlie Departments were represented, Secretary Belknap read a teiegram received from General Emory, saying that everything was quiet. General Sherman and other prominent army officers, as well as prominent officials in the civil service, express the belief that there will be no trouble in New Orleans. The Cabinet did not have any matter of unusual importance before it. Bepnbllcan Slate Ticket Elected. .Little Rock, Jan. 7. The Senate completed the. canvass of the vote for the balance of the State officers last night, reporting the entire Republican ticket elected. The new officers were Bworn in and entcrcil upon the discharge of their duties to-day. ; Pennsylvania Slate Constitutional Convention. Philadelphia, Jan. 7. The State Constitutional Convention assembled here this morning in tlie building formerly used bv the Sixth Presbyterian Church. Most of the morning session was occupied in debate and the selection ot scats. FOREIGN. FRAKCE. COMMUNISTS AND ORSISI BOMBS. Pints, Jan, 7. Several persons belong ing to the International society have been arrested in Paris and the provinces. The police found Orsini bombs in possession of some of the parties. CAfcLISTS RAID. The CarlisU have torn up the rails on the roads between Mirande and Bilboaand between Alosna and Pompelona, They also set 8re to the railway station with petroleum, completely destroying it, and made prisoners of the railway officials. The employes of the North of Spain railway have struck work, and trains have temporarily ceased running in onnse-qnence. USUI. AMD. SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF LIKE. Losdoji, Jan. ".A brig went ashore on the Isle of Wight yesterday, and went to pieces. Nine persons were drowned. FORT1T-SEC0ND CONGRESS. Third Session. , Washington, Jan. 7. HOUSE. Several bills were introduced and re ferred. - F. C. Bunnell of Pennsylvania took the oath and seat in place ot Mr. JUcrccr, resigned. Mr. Hale reported the naval appropriation bill, appropriating $18,884,91)3, which was maae tue special order lor next Saturday.A bill was reported authorizing" the Attorney General to examine the claims of the China Insurance company, of Boston, and other owners of the cargo of the bark Caldera, to be paid out of the Chinese indemnity fund. The bill appropriates in the aggregate $17,041,351. Mr. Niblack, from the committee on Appropriations, reported the annual Fortification bill, which was made the special order for Tuesday next. The bill appropriates $999,000. The House then went into committee of the Whole, Mr. Dawes in the chair, on the Legislative, executive and J udicial Appropriation bill. ' An amendment was adopted directing the secretary ot the interior to communi cate to Congress what appopriatious may in his judgment be dispensed with. On motion of Mr. McCrary an amend ment was adopted forbidding the payment ot contestants in contested election cases, After disposing of twelve pages, being one-iii m oi tne bin, tue committee rose and the Speaker announced the following select committee ordered yesterday, on the Credit Mobilier and Union Pacific railroad questions: Messrs. Wilson of Indiana, Shellabarger, Hoar, Swann and Slocum. The Speaker presented the resignation of Mr. Beveridge, asCongrcssman-nt-largo from Illinois. House adjourned. SENATE. Bills were introduced : By Mr. Buckingham, amendatory of the National currency act of June 30th, 1864. The bill providesfor free banking, prohibits direct or indirect payment of interest on deposits; allows United States bonds bearing coin interest to be counted as well as lawful money in reserves, and provides that banks may reduce their circulating notes either in coin or in legal tenders, or in United States bonds at par with accrued interest at the option of banks. It also provides that United States legal tenders, in sums ot 1UUU, may be redeemed on demand of holderB either with coin, or with United States currency bonds bearing coin interest of 3.65 per cent., and that the principal of any United States bonds bearing coin interest, shall, on demand by the holder, be paid by the United States Treasurer In legal tender notes, and the interest in coin. All bonds issued under the provisions of this act are to be free from State and municipal taxation. The last section requires the Secretary of the Treasury to issue bonds as herein described for legal tender notes of denominations not less than one hundred dollars and five dollars respectively, and to make all regulations necessary to exe cute the provisions of this act. By Mr. Frelinghuysen A joint resolution proposing a constitutional amend ment to provide that disputes arising with regard to persons chosen as electors of President and'Vice President in any State shall be decided by the Supreme Court of tne united states, ana that congress anaii have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Mr. Sherman called up the resolution offered by him yesterday, directing the committee on Privileges and Elections to inquire and report whether the recent election has been conducted in Louisiana and Arkansas in accordance with the Constitution and laws of the United States, and to inouire also wnat contests have arisen out of the election and what measures are necessary to provide for the determination of Buch contests in the future. He said in deference of the views of bis colleague (Thurman) he would modify the resolution so as to direct the committee to inquire whether the election was held in accordance with the Constitution and laws of the United States and the laws of said States. The resolution passed. Unfinished business being in order tho Appropriation bill was then resumed, and the usual discussion of the Indian policy followed. After discussion the bill was recommitted. An amendment was adopted appropriating $50,000 to remove tho Winnebago Indians, ot Wisconsin, to the Indian territory if they consent. Senate then ad journed. BY MAIL AND TELEURAPH. The cattle disease at Chillicothe, Ohio, ib not spreading. Wm. Emerich was drowned near Chilli cothe, Ohio, Monday. Stokes is now confined in the murder er's cell in the Toombs. Ex-Emperor Napoleon is now pro nounced out of danger. 8ix million dollars in silver bars were shipped from Utah last year. (.has. E. Culver has been elected Presi dent of the Chicago Board of Trade. Several coal tows have left Pittsburg for Cincinnati and lower cities on the Ohio river. A nun named Wriirht was shot and killed et Cedar Kapids, Iowa, Mondny,by bis mistress. Colonel Grosvenor yesterday retired from the editorship ot the St. .Louis i.ven-ins Dispatch. The selection of State officers by the Governor of Florida causes great dissatis faction to .Republicans. The Republicans of the New York Gen eral Assembly will fix upon a candidate for United mates senator to-day. Judge Charles G. Lane, a wealthy and influential citizen of Hagerstown, Md., committed suicide Saturday morning by hanging. " Cleveland, Monday, voted on the question of issuing a million dollars in bonds to aid the Valley railroad. The proposition was defeated. The President has accepted the resignation of Aloruo B. Cornell, Surveyor of the port of New York, to take effect on the lilst imt Arthur Goodrich, the boy injured by a falling roof at the time of the tornado at riiillicnthe. Ohio, last summer, died Mon day of internal injuries received at that time. George A. Edes, Collector of Customs of the District of Alaska, has tendered his resignation, which the President has accepted, to take effect on the appointment of a successor. The officers of the several opposition telegraph companies will meet in v ash iticuin to-dav. for the purpose of consid ering the feasibility of consolidating their various organizations into one. The Senate yesterday confirmed a large number of promotions in the regular intir tnariedurinff recess, and the appoint ment of all the cadets of the last gradu ating class at est Point to be second Lieutenants. In fit of jealousy on the 5th int., at Moravia. N. Y, John Hiltsman killed his wife and W. J.-N. Sheppard, at whose house all the parties were living. Sheppard was a prominent citizen, and leaves a widow and three daughters. The passenger car of a train on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad was thrown from the track twelve miles west of Peoria, Monday, by a broken rail. No one was killed, but ten passengers received slight wounds, among those were Judge Lawrence of the Illinois Supreme Court, Gen. J. H. Huderson of Princeton, Illinois, and Isaac Slidell of Mansfield, Ohio. The reason General Schofield haB gone to the Sandwich Islands is because of his health. He aBked to make the trip and the President telegraphed to him in reply, that as his Jiealth hod been bad, and as the voyage would be beneficial to him, he was authorized to accompany the Commander of the squadron, and that if he could render the Commander any assistance by his counsel, he would be pleased ;f he should do so. The officers of the Masonic bodies of Omaha, Neb., warn the fraternity and the public against a lottery scheme under the name of "A Grand Gift Concert for the purpose of aiding a board of trustees to erect a Masonio Temple at Omaha," and state that it is carried on without the sanction or consent of any of tlie Masonic bodies of that city or State; and that lotteries and gift enterprises are contrary to the principles of Masonry. .. ' In regard to changes in the Cabinet, President Grant says there is no truth in the published statement that William M. Evarts was to take the place of Mr. Fish as Secretary of State. If, however, Mr. Boutwell should be elected to the Senate of the United States, and in that event resign his present position, of course the vacancy would be promptly filled. Although Sir. Fish had intimated his wish to retire at the end of the present Administration, the President hoped he would modify his desire by consenting to remain as Secretray of iSUte until the questions growing out of the Treaty of Washington were entirely settled. - DIED. Fassio Yesterday morning, at 5 o'clock, Adam Fassio, in the eighty-third year of his age- The funeral will take place at 2 o'clock tUia aftannH V .L t .u.d ai.bi.iuuw, iiuiu uio resmenue oi fll. Fassig, 00 North High. White At 0 o'clock Monday evening, Mary, wife of George White, at his residence on the Winchester Pike, two and a half miles east of the city. The funeral takes place this morning at lb o'clock from the residence,; to which all friends and acquaintances of the family are invited. Itas On the 5th Inst., at Jolinsville, of pneumonia, Mrs. Sabah Hsss, of Clinton township, Franklin county, Ohio. The remains will leave the residence of P. Hess at 1 p. m, Wednesday, the 8th, to the Baptist church, near North Columbus. ' lit lAdvertisementSi ED. FISHiili (Formerly Fisher k Chadwick) ' UNDERTAKER, UAS REMOVED TO No. 148 NORTH HIGH STREET (Clock's New Building, cor. High and Spring Streets), WHERE HE KEEPS CONSTANTLY on hand a full line tf Metallic and Wood Cases and Caskets, Of all descriptions, at wholesale and retail' Also, has Corpse Preservers, which will keep bodies in as good a state of preservation as any in use. OrderB prrmptly executed night or day. Thankful for past favors, a continuance of the public patronage is respectfully solicited. Residence. 124 North Front St., jan8 3m COLUMBUS, O. Allen's Lung Balsam, Till aENXDV FOR ' Consumption, Coughs, Bronchitis, Asthma and Croup.' " As an Expectorant it has no Equal- IT IS COMPOSED OP THB AOTIVE PRINCIPLES of roots and plants, which are chemically extracted, so as to retain all their medical ipinuties. Ministers and Public Speakers, Who sre so often afflicted with throat dlflftiuM. will and ft euro remedy in this Bslsnm. Loiengoi and waters sometimes givo relief; but this Bu sam, tnken a lew times, will insure a permanent cure. Will all those afflicted with Coughs or Consumption give this Balsam a fair trinl ? They will be pleased with the result, and oonfess that the Sure Remedy is Found at Last. MERIT SOON NOISED ABROAD It is but seven venrs since ALLbN'H LUNG BALSAM was first offered for sale. Its good qualities were soon made known at home; and very soon its fame was noised far and nenr; now it is sold in nearly every Drug Store in the United Stntea, North, East, South and West. No similar medicine stands higher with the poo- file. It is wet) known on the Pacific Coast; and here are liberal demands for it from San Francisco, Saeramenlo, in California, and Portland, Oregon; even from Australia, large orders are received for it; and, throughout Canada, it is well and favorably known, and sold everywhere. Rend What Captain Foster Write. Fort Bvkwcle. March 28. JIcmw. Perry Darts A Son: 8ms I am pleased to notify you of the benefit which I hnve received from Allen's Lung Bal several ye:irs past, the Balsam was recommend-1 nnving wen irouoiea wim a cougn lor ed to me. 1 immediately procured it, and found it to relieve my cough more readily than anything I ever tried. My wife has also used it wiui most sau sine tory re suns. lours, very iruiy, CAPTAIN V. FOSTER. Captain Faster is a shipowner and builder. residing at Port Burwell, Canada. Bold by atl Dealers in Family Medicines. J. N. HARRIS Sc CO., Sole Proprietors, ClnrlBMlttl. O. jan W F flaw lm Hocking TaUey Soap and Candle Man ufacturing Company. MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS in Toilet, Fancv. Laundry and Common Soaps, Candles, Oils, kc. Specialty, Locke's Rose Bonn, which is among the best soaps on earth for all purposes. Office, Traak It to.'s Block, Vain street, Logan, O. Fac tory, corner Hunter and mga ata. jan.i DENTIST, NO. 7 OPERA HOUSE BLOCK. janT ly chas, k. lean, n. wm. ainu. BURR fc BE6G, Attorney 8 - at-Law, nmr 11 Hasrtk Hit oom No. S. rH7JIr. decMeodCnu