Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1874-01-20

              VOL. XXXV. COLUMBUS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1874. I)t0 State laraa! OMeei High, Pearl and Chnpel Sis, . 00HLT. . . a. miTH. A. w. raiKOIKO. CO&LY, SMITH & FRANCISCO, IM'lH.mHIM AND PROPElETflHS. Editor. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY. Congress. .Tan. -19, Senate A resolution w adopted providing for inquiry as to whether lands granted to the Atlantic and Pacific rail way have been, forfeited Mr. Thurman presented apetitionfrom Winnebago Indians in Wisconsin, asking for protection against ullefred outraged..Tlie discussion of the finance resolutions occupied the remainder of the day. House Among tho bills introduced was one providing for purchase of the Monticello homestead of Thomas Jefferson A com mittee on Expenditures of the Department of Justice was appointed by the Speaker A motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill to pass free through the mails nil printed matter bearing the signatures of Members or Senators, was lo3t yeas 71, nays 163 A resolution was adopted providing for inquiry whether further legislation is necessary to prevent illegal use of the United States flag on commercial vessels A bill passed allow ing coinage to be executed at United States mints for foreign countries. Uenernl Assembly. Jani I'J.Senute No quorum being present a cull was had, but was unsuccessful in bringing additional members, and the Senate adjourned, , The amount of the legal tender reserve, so-called, not yet issued, is $17,324,285. A bill is now pending before Congress to abolish informers' moieties. Its. passage would put an end to a demoralizing system of espionage that had better be dispensed with. The average daily expenses of tho Constitutional Convention have been about $900, instead of $400, as stated yesterday The error was inadvertently copied from a proof slip of the official report. An attempt was made in the House of Representatives yesterday to revive the Government gift book swindle known as the franking privilege. It was defeated by a vote of 1G3 to 71, tho new Chairman of the House Printing committee, Don-nan, of Iowa, significantly recording his vote in its favor. Wis present to-day another of Mr. Desh-ler's very instructive papers on currency and banking, ivliatever contrariety of views there may be as to the correctness of his conclusions, the ripe experience upon which they are based, together with Mr- Deshler's well-known ability as a financier, entitle them to, as they will receive, the most respectful and attentive consid eration. The press of all politics, and no poll lies, universally praises Governor Noyes for his very courteous and magnanimous bearing toward liia successor in office. The Governor's example in this respect, if more common in public life, would go very far toward toning down the asperities of political 'contests. Its infrcquency is . probably the reason it has so extensively attracted the notice of the public. The Hon. Morrison E. Waite, of Ohio, was yesterday nominated by the President to be Chief Justice of the United States. In Ohio this announcement will be no very great surprise. From the beginning Judge Waite has been regarded as a quite possible if not probable selection, and the reasons for that impression have been mainly due to what has been known of his legal ability and acquirements. In no sense a seeker after public life, but having rather shunned political advancement, he is not so well known to the country at large as many other men of far less personal and professional merit. Yet lie is by no means a stranger to the peoplo of the United States, and much less so to the people of Ohio. As a member of the Geneva Board of Arbitration he acquired his first title to national distinction by services which placed him among the foremost minds of that exceedingly able tribunal. Just as Mr. Lincoln in his campaign discussions with Douglass made the reputation which gave him the Presidency, so Judge Waite, in the international argument at Geneva, revealed what stamp of man lie was and rose at once to eminence. Of his confirmation there can scarcely be a doubt, and we may count Ohio sure of the honor of again furnishing a successor to the greatest of American jurists, John Marshall. JonN W. Forney jr. writes from Florida : "Every man who comes to settle South is received with the utmost kindness. There is no longer any danger in the expression of opinion. You can say what you please, when you please, so long of course as you avoid personal insult. The code lias not died out. Mrs. Stowe, whose 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was unquestionably the severest truth ever told of the South, not only lives in comfort among the people whose dearest institutions she did so much to destroy, but is again highly respected." . The House committee on Civil Service will report a bill reducing Deputy Commissioners of Internal Revenue from three to two, and providing that a vacancy in the office of First Deputy shall be filled by the appointment of one of the existing deputies. The Democrats of New Hampshire arc not altogether harmonious. One of the organs refuses to approve the action of ine Mate Convention, and talks saucily. The Republicans take hope accordingly. The Chicago Tribune says this is the platform of the Communists: "Every man who saves money must be made to divide with every man who saves none." The National Grange will meet in Bt liouuontne 4th of february. The Pole Star of Finance. In the multiplicity and confusion of counsel as to what should be the general policy in national, finance, one obvious I duty rests upon Congress, and that is to move steadily and firmly forward toward resumption. From this course there should be no deviation, neither shadow of turning. All roads that lead away from it, are but avenues to confusion and trouble, all measures that wander from it are measures of mischief. There are many broad roads that lead to destruction, and many there be that find them, while there is but one straight and narrow, yet plain path to security. Resumption is the polar star of finance, and toward that, undeceived by the brilliant but evanescent meteors of the moment, should Congress hold . its unswerving course. ' io do otherwise is to drilt pur poselessly and hopelessly up and down, at the mercy of every gale and the risk of every peril in an unknown and dangerous But let the word resumption as here used not be misunderstood. To supplant paper currency by hard money is not the object or necessary result of the idea it embraces. Coin is not what is wanted, but credit, The actual or possible ex change of gold and silver for paper promises i'b only an incident, and not even a necessary incident of resumption. Paper currency may be as good as gold when its actual conversion into gold would be impossible. And yet many of the argu ments against resumption proceed from the hypothesis that its leading object is the restoration of specie as the exclusive or principal circulating medium. Such, let it be plainly stated once for all, is not its purpose. The mere exchange of paper currency for coin is its shadow, not its substance. Resumption implies far more than that. It stands for perfect credit. lis beneficence consists in the fact that it does away with an imperfect and dishonored credit. To get rid of that is the object, and the essence of resumption. It is safe ty not because it commands coin, but be cause it commands confidence. To resume is to make tho national credit perfect. To this object all financial legislation should now bend. The time never was more propitious and never will be, to put the credit of the country in the process of slow, it may be, but steady restoration. If rebellion existed the first duty of the hour would be to put it down, and shall improved credit, one of the worst conse quences of rebellion and most fruitful sources of national weakness and danger, be permitted to exist unmolested by any effort for its riddance? What would be thought of an individual equally regardless of his business honor and standing? man who habitually dishonored his promises, at the same time putting forth no effort to make them good, but rather the opposite, would not be tolerated in any business community. The Government deserves not more charity. It must go forward or backward. It must make its pledges good or stand disgraced, and continue to play the humiliating role of dependant to all the money lenders of the world. It might be well if that were all, but it is not, for the consequences of impaired credit and its necessafv incident, a depreciated circulating medium, fall not upon the Government nloue. Nor do they full upon the wealthy. Labor chiefly bears the burden. Of all the devices ever invented to cheat honest toil, said Webster, an irredeemable currency is the worst. And yet we have financial apostles, or apostates, rathe.', going up and down the country continually preaching inflation as the one needful measure of relief for the laboring masses. As to schemes of resumption, their name is million, but the public credit will never be restored by any scheme, however ingenious, in linance, as in most other departments of Government, the simplest methods are tho best, and the homeliest truths are the most practical. Let us not then cudgel our brains to invent a fine spun policy or discover some trick to cheat difficulty, but rather search for com mon sense principles. What an individual would do in like embarrassments to regain the lost confidence of the business community, the same, in effect, must the Government do. A man, however able to pay his debts who yet never will and never does pay them until compelled, is not the sort of person whoso paper is most current. On the other hand, he who is willing to pay, declares his intention to pay, and industriously applies himself to providing the means of paying, even though not able to meet his obligations for the time being, is a person who will surely and steadly gain the confidence of his fellow men, and will be the more readily trusted of the two. Still more will this be the case if, coupled with Lis declaration of intention, he gives it practical effect by husbanding in every possible way his resources, and economizing to the low est reasonable point his expenditures. "The best of all financial schemes," said Say, "is to lessen expense, as the best ol all taxes is the smallest tax," and there is a whole volume of political economy iu that sentence. Now to apply these observations, the first step toward resumption is a declara tion of intention to resume at a stated time, and the next the almost economy in expenditure, coupled with the faithful application of all surplus, and especially of all accumulations of coin, to the purposes of resumption. The avowed determination to redeem promises of itself attaches an additional value to those promises, and more especially so when such declaration is followed up by corresponding efforts to make it good. When, therefore, the Government of the United States shall adopt this policy, we may confidently expect its credit to improve from that hour, and with improved and restored credit, resumption will follow as the day the night. A dispatch from White Pigeon, Michigan, says the reported drowning of a seating party near uurr uak. Mich- is untrue, - BY TELEGRAPH TO THE OHIO STATE JOURNAL. CINCINNATI. How Jaila-e Walte's Nomination wan Received in the 7onstiinllonnl Convention Procecilliiirs on the Judicial Article. Cincinnati, Jan. 19. News of the nomination of Morrison R. Waite, of Toledo, now President of theOhio Constitutional Convention, came to Mr. Waite at noon. At the beginning of the after noon session Hon. Rufus King arose and read an Associated Press dispatch from Washington announcing the nomination of Mr. Waite. That body forgot gravity, and broke out into a prolonged storm of applause in which every member of the Convention most heartily participated. Hon. Samuel Hunt then moved to appoint a committee of five to draw a resolution of the sense of the Convention on the subject. President Waite ruled it out of order, and business proceeded. He has refused to permit any member of the Convention to use his influence at Washington for his appointment, though several have offered to do so, and was not aware that any of his friends had presented his name. He is now stopping with his wife and sister at the Burnet House. Up to eleven o'clock, he has had no notice, of ficial or unofficial, from Washington, of his nomination. Mr. Baker, in the Constitutional Convention to-day, proposed a new plan of county and township organization, involving five officers with six year terms, chosen by a system of proportional representation. It will come up early for discussion. The county probate judge section haB been retained, and the Judicial article will probably pass in the form in which it went into committee of the Whole. TOLEDO. Nomination or Judge Wnltc lor Chief JJiBtlce How It is Received Among His Friend and Neighbor Rrlef Nkctch or Mr. Wniie. Toledo, Jan. 19. The nomination of Mr. Waite for Chief Justice is received by his neighbors with expressions of greatest satisfaction by all parties. Tomorrow morning's Commercial will give a brief sketch of Mr. Waite's life, from which it appears that he is the son of the late Chief Justice Waite of Connecticut, one of the leading jurists of New England. Ho is now in his nftyeighth year, graduated at xale College at the ago of twentytwo, came to Toledo in 1838, studied Jaw with M. S. Young, now of Toledo, with whom he practiced for eighteen years. He has for many years stood at the head of the bar of Northwestern Ohio. In 1849 lie was elected a member of the Legislature, serving with distinction. In 1862 he was a candidate for Congress, and though defeated he received a majority of 1200 in Toledo. In December, 1871, he was appointed as a Counsel to Geneva, which position lie filled with honor. Ho is now serving as a member and the President of the Ohio Constitutional Convention, to which he was chosen by the unanimous vote of both parties. The present appointment, like all other public honors, has come to him without the slightest seeking on his part, he having discouraged his personal friends from efforts to secure tho place for him. His neighbors feel every assurance that in this, as in every other trust, he will abundantly justify the confidence reposed in him. THE MINERS. The Strike Still in Progress. Wilkes iiARRE, Pa Jan. 1!). No new developments have been made to-day in regard to the probable length ot time the great suspension of mining will continue in tins region. Miners arc rapidly organ izing in all sections of the country under the National Association. A meeting was held at Plymouth this evening for the above purpose. The streets of that borough are thronged with idle men and boys, and such is the case with every village and city in the mining districts. To morrow a meeting of the Executive Board of the Miners' and Laborers' Association of this county will be held here. John Seney, President of the National Association, and C. B. Johnson, editor of the Workingmen's Advocate, arrived here to-day, and will address the miners at different places. Weather lrolmltlllle. Wasiiinhton, Jan. l'J. For New England and Middle Atlantic States continued cloudy weather, with fog and rain will prevail, followed by lower temperature, rising barometer and variable winds. For lower lake region rising barometer and lower temperature, with continued stormy weather for upper lake region, and thence southword to Tennessee generally cloudy weather and possibly areas of snow or rain, with lower temjwrature. For Northwest partly cloudy or clearing weather, with northeasterly to southerly winds and rising temperature. For South Atlantic Stales and Gulf, increasing cloudiness and probably areas of rain by Tuesday night, accompanied by lower temperature and light variable winds. Arrest ot'n Supposed t iiicinnall Itia-moud Thief. PiTTsnuRG, Jan. 19. A man named W. C. Dickson was arreBted to-night, supposed to be connected with the recent great diamond robbery in Cincinnati. He has been selling diamonds In this city, and deposited $1300 worth with a pawnbroker for sale, and when arrested said he had no money. On being searched fortyfnur hundred dollars was found on his person. He came here last Friday, and has stopped at four different hotels during this time. A Missing- Man Heard From. Providence, R. I., Jan. 19. Samuel M. Goodman, a Pawtucket manufacturer, who has been missing since the evening of December 23d, when he took the train for New York, has been heard from in Liverpool. He writes that he has no recollection of what happened to him after be reached New York, until he awoke on a Liverpool steamer many miles from land. He was financially embarrassed when he left. A petition in bankruptcy against the Atlantic and Delaware company was filed to-day. DeatrnrtlT Visitation to the Capital or West Virginia. Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 19. A special to the daily Intelligencer of this city from Charleston, West Virginia, says a large portion of the business part of that city was destroyed by fire this morning. Fourteen business houses were destroyed, and a number of others were heavily damaged. The loss is not less than $75,000; partially insured. Ex-Senator Uraham In Hospital. Albany, N. Y., Jan. 19. Ex-Senator Graham, convicted of appropriating funds of the Walkett National bank, upon leaching the Penitentiary at this place, was so completely broken down in health that he was put in hospital. WASHINGTON. M. It. WAITE NOMINATED FOR CHIEF JUSTICE.Washington, Jan. 19. The nomina tion of Morrison R. Waite, of Ohio, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was a surprise to Senators and all others about the Capitol, including Justices of the Court. Subsequently, the Senate, in Executive session, referred the nomination to the committee on the Judiciary, who will probably to-morrow report favorably upon it. The nomination recalled the fact that he acted as one of the counsel at the Geneva tribunal of arbitration, and some of the Senators were acquainted with him as an able lawyer of thirty years standing, and although a Republican, not an active partisan, .and at the present time is President of the Ohio Constitutional Convention. It was' discovered, on looking at the Supreme Court record, that a year ago to-morrow Mr. Waite was, on motion of Caleb Gushing, admitted to the bar of that Court as an attorney. Senators of both parties speak well of the nomination, and there seems to bo no doubt about its confirmation. PATENT ASSOCIATIONS. In accordance with the idea of the Patent Convention which recently closed its sessions in Washington, it is proposed to establish branch associations with as little delay as possible in each State or . Territory, tho President of which shall bo Vice President ex officio of the National Association. An effort will be made to hold an International Patent Congress in Philadelphia at tho time of the Centennial. GENERAL HOWARD'S CASE. . The House committee on Military Affairs will hold a session to-morrow, at which the sense of the committee will be tested by a vote whether in the matter of charges against General Howard the committee shall proceed with the investigation, or whether they will recommend that the subject be transferred to a Military Court of Inquiry for trial. Tho com mittee are about equally divided on these propositions. TRIAL POSTPONED. The trial of Judge W. W. Wright charged with forging names of Indians to receipts for back pay and bounty, is post poned until Monday next. PERSONAL. General and Mrs. Pope arrived here this evening from Fort Leavenworth, having come on invitation ot the President to spend a week as guests of the Executive Mansion. NEW YORK. THE NEW STEAMSHIP. New York, Jan. 19. The Pacific Mail Steamship company state the reason their new vessel, the Litv ot ranama, did not pail on Saturday, was owing to her builders not having completed her outfit. No engines, coal or passengers have been on board the vessel, and could not therefore have prevented the departure of the vessel by a strike. It was not intended to take passengers on this, her first trip, as the management desired to make a trial trip of her machinery before sending her to the Pacific (Joast. SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS THE GERMANS AND TOE SCHOOLS The police did not interfere with the performances Jast evening in the places ot resort for Oermans, and the usual bun-day entertainments were given to the usual crowds. Advocates of those Sabbath recreations say the churches make provision for only two hundred and ninety thouf-and of the million of popu lation of the city, and that the other sev en hundred thousand must be provided for. The Germans have formed an asso ciation, the object of which is to make compulsory in public schools instruction in the German language. THE SPANISH 1ROJJ-OLAD. The Spanish iron-clad Arapiles is said to have received considerable injury by striking on the rocks in East river on the way to her present anchorage off the Battery, and to be making nearly six inches of water every twentyfour hours. Her commander proposes to have the bottom examined by divers to-day, and unless it is absolutely impossible, will put to sea and trust to the pumps rather than try further repairs in this port. WORKINGMEN'S MEETING. The committee of Safety called a meeting of workingmcn of the Fourth ward yesterday, to organize a ward association. The few who responded were addressed by the leaders missing from the last Tompkins Square meeting, promising another demonstration with another result, if things went on as they had done of late, and working men became crazed with hunger. CITY FINANCES. Mayor Havcmyer's message shows the city debt to be $106,371,953, an increase siace 1871 of 9 millions. The amount of bonds issued by the present Comptroller for various purposes is 42 millions. Expenditures maintaining government in 1871, 20 millions; 1872, 31 millions; 1873, 32 millions. SENT TO WASHINGTON. E. A. Williams and Edward Edmunds, arrested here with stolen Treasury warrants in their possession, have been sent to Washington. An Ecclesiastical Secession. Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 18. The Intelligencer will publish tomorrow the letter cf Kcv. J. T. Latlane, Rector of St. Matthew's Episcopal church, in this city, to Bishop Johns, dissolving his connection with the ministry of said church on account of the growing tendencies of the Episcopal body through the United Slates to ritualistic practices. For the present the Rector docs not join the Cummins movement, although he indorses it; but will wait for a while tho action of the Church in Virginia and AVcst Virginia. There is somo excitement among the membership here in regard to the movement, which may be called the first reference in West Virginia to the Cummins reformation. At a meeting of the vestry of St. Mathew's Church, held to-day, they refused to receive the resignation of Rev. Latlane, and have written to Bishop Johns for counsel and advice. The Missouri Railroad Accident. Sr. Louis, Jan. 19. The accident on the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern railroad, at Dardenne creek, Saturday night, was caused by the breaking of an axle of the tender, three hundred yards from the bridge. Three cars jumped the track, and running against the end of the bridge knocked one truss completely off the abutment, and the cars fell to the bed of the creek, about twenty feet below. Isaac Coates, of Boston, President of the Iowa Central railroad, was badly bruised about the abdomen and internally injured, and D. H. Pickering, General Superintendent of the same road, was slightly hurt. Hon. Joseph R. Rollins, of Missouri, was also considerably injured. Dobbinski's paper mill, at Phelps, New York, was burned Sunday night. Loss twentyfive thousand dollars. The proprietor perished in the flames, and a workman was badly burned. XLIII CongressFirst Session. Washington, Jan. 19. NKNATE. Mr. Ingalls presented the petition of citizens of Kansas asking that measures be taken to issue currency based on real estate securities. Referred. Mr. Bogy introduced a bill to reimburse Missouri for expenses incurred in arming and equipping troops during the lato war. Referred. Mr. Pago offered a resolution instruct ing the committee on Public Lands to as certain whether lands granted by Congress to the Atlantie and Pacific Kaitroad company, to aid in the construction of a rail road from Springfield, Missouri, to the f acihe Ucean, are lorleited, and whether any legislation is necessery to restore such lands to pre-emption and homestead en try. Adopted. Mr. Logan introduced a bill authorizing the President to appoint five Commissioners to collect information as to the effects of the liquor traffic and the practical working of prohibitory laws, etc. Tne Commissioners are to serve without pay and be appointed from civil life, irrespective, of political considerations, but the bill requires that they shall be in harmony with the views of those taxpayers in the country who, in 1873, out of the total internal revenue of $114,-000,000 paid $90,000,00 for the three articles of spirits, tobacco, and fermented liquors alone. Mr. Thurman presented a petition in behalf of the Winnebago Indians of Wisconsin. It sets forth tiie tribe as greatly wronged under color of authority of the United States; that life lias been destroyed and the tribo is deprived of liberty and property, It asks necessary legislation for protection. Mr. Thurman said it was not thointen-tion'of the law passed last session to use force to remove these Indians. Under tho fourteenth amendment to the constitution these Indians were citizens, and the government had no right to use force to remove them. Affidavits accompanying the petition showed that Indians have been kidnapped and carried away from their homes. He hoped the matter would receive tho serious consideration of the committee on Indian Affairs. The petition was referred to that committee; also a hill for the relief of the Chickasaw Indians. The morning hour having expired, con sideration of the resolution reported by the finance committee was resumed. Mr. Wright addressed the Senate at length. The Chair laid before the Senate a communication from tho Secretary of War in response to a resolution of that body in regard to appropriation for collection and payment of bounties to colored soldiers and sailors. 1 lie letter states that ot the appropriation of $50,000 but $22,000 remain to conduct the business until June 30th. The estimated expenses per month are at the lowest limit $5&00. Therefore, at tho end of April the entire appropriation will have been expended, and unless some provision is made all work will have to stop and the clerks be discharged. The Secretary recommends that tho unexpended balunces of the appropriation for collection and payment of bounties for tho fiscal year ending June 30th, 1873, he rendered available to carry on the business until Juno 30th, 1874. Referred to the committee on Military Affairs, The Senate wont into Executive session, and soon after adjourned. iioiiNt:. Under a call of States a large number of bills were introduced and referred : By Mr. Spcer For the purchase of the Monticello homestead of Thomas Jefferson, containing his grave. By Mr. Hunter To amend the National Banking law so as to provide for free banking, give better security to depositors, prevent usury, give elasticity to the currency, and place finances on a more secure nnd substantial basis. By Mr. Wells To establish a branch mint at St. Louis. Mr. Wilson of Indiana moved to sns-pend the rules unii adopt the resolutions to increase the currency. Lost yeas 135, nays !IS not twothirds in the affirmative. Mr. Ward introduced a bill providing that the heirs of any soldier who was killed or died while in the military ser vice during the late war, whose period of enlistment was lor less than one year, or who shall have since died by reason ot wounds received or disease contracted, shall be entitled to receive the same boun ties as if said soldier had enlisted for three years. This bill includes all who enlisted for three or nine months at the commencement of the war, and who have never received bounty. The bill was referred to tho committee on Military Affairs.The Speaker appointed fhe committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice, as follows : Sener of Virginia, Parsons of Ohio, Williams of Michigan, Speerof Pennsylvania, and Durham. Mr. loting moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill providing that all printed matter printed by order of the Government, and bearing the official signatures of members of either House of Congress, shall pass through the mails free of charge until July 1st, 1874. I lie motion was reiected yeas 71, navs lfti. Following is the affirmative vote : Messrs. Adams, Albert. Arthur. Ashe. Beck, Ball, Blount, Bright, Buckner, Bur leigh, Butler of Tennessee, Cain, Caldwell, Cessna, Clynier. Comines. Corwin. Crutchfield, Davis, Dewitt, Donnan, Eld-ridge, Giddinga, Hancock, Harris of Geor- 1', Havens, Hays, Hereford. Herndon. Haughton, Howe, Kendall, Killinger, Knapp, Lamar, Leach, Lofland. Mar shall, Maynard, Milliken, Mills, Moore, Morey, Morrison.Ncgley, Ncainith, Nunn, O'Brien, Parker of Missouri, Perry, Piatt of Virginia, Punnan, Kawls, Ray, Read, Robbing, Sener, Sheats, Nloss, Smith of Iiouisinna, Smith of New York, Southard, Speer, Todd, Vance, Wallace, Whitehead, Williams of Indiano, Willie, Young of Kentucky, and Young of Georgia. Mr. Butler offered a resolution instructing the Judiciary committee to inquire whether further legislation is necessary to prevent illegal use of the United States flag on commercial vessels, etc Adopted. Mr. Cox suggested that the resolution seemed to bo a reflection on the Administration.Mr. Hooper, from the committee on Coinage, reported a bill allowing coinage to be executed at United States mints for foreign countries, and sent to the Clerk's desk and had read a portion of the Chinese proclamation authorizing the circulation of the eagle trade dollars lately coined in the United States. The bill passed. Mr. Sypher introduced a bill to provide for an examination and survey of the Minnesota river, in the State of Minnesota, and for an estimate of the cost of constructing canal locks and dams on the same. Referred. Mr. Clayton asked leave to offer a resolutions instructing the committee on Commerce to inquire into the practicability and expediency of constructing a ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien, or by way of Nicaragua, Tehuantepec or any other route. Several members objected. Adjourned. There were two slight shocks of earthquake in San Francisco yesterday, but no damage was done. FOREIGN. . JAPAN. YOKOHAMA ADVICES TO THE 23d OF DECEMBER CONTINUATION OF THE DIPLOMATIC DISAGREEMENTS. San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 18. The steamer Colorado arrived this afternoon. She brings Yokohama dates to Dec. 23d. The diplomatic disagreement between the Government of Japan and certain foreign representatives continues unsettled, and has indeed been complicated to some extent by events not yet made public. It is still urged that the whole country should be thrown open at an early period, a proposition which the Japanese steadily refuse to entertain, unless the condition of ex-territorial j u risdiction be abandoned. Three Ministers of nations are concerned, tho indemnity of which two million dollars remains unpaid. They will press their claims if their desires are not acceded to. These are the envoys of Holland, 1' ranee and England. The United Stales Minister, Mr. Bingham, holds aloof from the conferences. and has even informally notified the Gov ernment that he desires no part ot the amount due to be offered to him. His action is understood to imply that while the United States will not accept their share, they are not disposed to appear to offer rebuke to the movements of the other parties concerned. Mr. Bingham simply wishes to take no part in the proceedings, and to have none forced on him. Others are met in their demands first, by the statement that the surrender of two mil lions indemnity would be no fair equivalent for the opening of the country, if sueh an approval could he purchased by money at all; and sec ondly, representatives of three powers alone have not the right to negotiate for opening the Empire to all, or in other words, that a money compensation oltered by Franco, Holland, England and the United States, even if it would entitle them to admission, could not affect Germany, Italy, Russia and the numerous other nations with which Japan has treaties. At the same time they show the im possibility of- making any discrimination in the matter. They therefore express themselves ready to pay the demand. It is semi-officially announced that the British Minister has no wish to receive money, but desires to use his claim as an instrument toward effecting Mb designs. The Dutch and French representatives, on the other hand, desire payment. Meanwhile, the amount being ready for delivery, the Japanese have taken occa-sionto express their opinion on the whole question of ex-territorial in a manner unusually forcible for them. They have issued a circular dispatch to the Ministers, rehearsing all their objections to the system, with illustrations of its dangers, und showing that the European Governments have declared against it in strong terms in the case of other Asiatic nations. The document is the most energetic yet issued, and though not declaring in posi tive terms that ex-territoriality, as it now exists, shall not be applied to the country generally, is understood to express a final decision of the Japanese Government to that ettcct. The result of its reception by foreign Ministers had not yet transpired, 'but there is little doubt it will arouse the for midable opposition of the whole body, The Mikado and the Empress continue their visits of inspection to the public in stitutions. On the 7th instant, they sailed in state to the dock-yard and arsenal of xokossuka, south ot Yokohama, and after examining the works by day and night, returned next day to the capital. A petition is in circulation for signa tures by Americans, asking ot tho United States Government that theBurplusof the Simonski Indemnity tund be returned to this country, upon condition of its being devoted to educational purposes. On the night of the 9th inst., a fire occurred in Yeddo, sweeping away wooden buildings from almost as large an area as that devastated by fire in April, 1872, and undoubtedly destroying a larger amount of property, inasmuch as quarter of this area was occupied by shops and residences of wealthy merchants. The exact amount of loss has not yet been ascertained, but it has been estimated at $200,000. Much more has been saved in comparison than at the previous conflagration, in consequence of the multiplicity of the fireproof Btone houses for the deposit of valuables. Most of these, with their contents, remained unharmed. It is rumored that .many lives were lost, but of this there is no confirmation. Usual energy was shown by citizens in endeavoring to repair the ravages, and several streets destroyed are already nearly rebuilt. A native newspaper published in Yeddo contains numerous articles intended to throw discredit on the Foreign Association, especially with respect to the revision of the treaties and questions arising therefrom. A member of the family of the Japanese Minister fo Washington now holds the position of Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs in Jeddo. Sir Agara Kozo, for several years resident in America and Europe, and formerly a student at New Brunswick, N. J., has been appointed chief director of the Government college at Yeddo. FRANCE. SUSPENSION PASSPORTS. Paris, Jan. 19. The Ultramontane Journal L'Univers, has supended. Persons passing between France and Italy no longer need passports. SPAIN. COMMUNIST CAPTURED OFFICIAL NOTE. Madrid, Jan. 19. One Combatse, who served as Colonel under the Paris commune, was captured at Cartagena. Sagasta, Minister of Foreign Affairs, is preparing a note for different powers. SCOTLAND. A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. Glasgow, Jan. 19. A special from London to the Globe of this city says dismissal by the Home Secretary of Dr. Henry Bell, sheriff of Lanarkshire, has caused serious difference of opinion between Gladstone and Lowe, which will probably result in retirement of the latter from the government. The trouble expected to arise in the South American States has in a measure blown over, chiefly owing to the intervention of Mr. Williamson, United States Minister to Central America, who has been able to persuade several Presidents to submit questions in dispute to a meeting to be called of all the Presidents, in the United States. Seavey & Co.'s stamping and japaning works, at Cambridge port, Mass., was burned yesterday morning. Loss $60,-000; insurance $30,000. Indebtedness of Cities. To the Editor or the Ohio State Journal : The State Journal of to-day (19th) publishes a list of twenty cities in the United States with their indebtedness and population. From the data thus furnished, I have made a list of the debts of each of those cities fof every inhabitant it contains, to enable those who have any curiosity in that way to make comparisons. It will be seen that Portland, in the State of Maine, heads the list, its indebtedness being one hundred and fifty- slx dollars for every man, woman and child of its population, and Detroit, in Michigan, is the last, being eleven dollars to each inhabitant. The figures are in round numbers, discarding fractions: Portland, Me., $150; New York, $127; Boston, $119; Baltimore, $104; Louisville, Ky.. $90: Philadelnhin !RR9. finninnut, $09; Chicago, $57; Springfield, 111., $53; x ixiyi uence, a. j,, jyj; Hartford, Conn., $47; Worcester, Mass., $44; St. Lonis, Mo $40; Pittsburg, Pa., $38; Cleveland, Ohio $35; Columbus, Ohio, $35; Toledo, Ohio. $30; Buffalo, N. Y., $28; Milwaukee, $24 Detroit, $11. ' ' The aggregate population of these twenty cities is 3,744,406 ; the aggregate indebtedness $323,295,442; making the average indebtedness of each inhabitant Codlllvation of l ulled Slates Laws. Washington Star. The committee on the Revision of the Laws reported to the House on Wednes day the complete codification of all the laws of the United States, made by the commission which has been engaged three years upon tho work. All the laws now in force are condensed into a single volume. Thin volume must be treated as a bill and must be regularly considered and passed by both Houses before codification can have the validity of law. When this task is accomplished by Congress there will be no longer any use for the seventeen volumes of the revised statutes, except for reference to laws repealed, directly or indirectly, by subsequent legislation. The adoption of the codification will put the whole body of the existing statutes within the reach of lawyers, Government officers and others interested in them, who cannot afford to purchase the seventeen volumes in which they must now be sought out. The work of condification was first begun six years ago by a commission of lawyers. This com mission was succeeded three years later by a second one, who took up the in- cuuipieie wont ol tneir predecessors and finished it last spring. An able lawyer, Mr. Thomas J. Durant, was employed to revise their work, and he gave nine months to tho task. The codification, lima m. vised, was reported to the House at the he- ginning of the session and referred to the committee on tho Revision of the Laws, who made a comparison of it with the statutes, each member taking a portion of ine volume io go over. The commission undertook to correct errors and inadver. tencies in the existing laws when consoli dating them, but the committee decided to make tho codilication an accurate transcript, leaving all improvements and corrections to future legislation. At the suggestion of Messrs. Poland and E. Rock-wood Hoar, the House determined to go over the whole volume iu nieht sessions. to be held on Wednesday and Thursday of every weeK, in order to make the work as perfect as possible, as great care has been taken in making the codification. There are undoubtedly errors that will bo discovered by tho scrutiny of the House, each member looking closely into the chapters that particularly interest him. A California Wonder. The tract, of country known as the State Range Valley is probably one of the moBt curious that Southern California can boaBt of. It is thero tho immense deposits of borax were discovered something like a year ago, and at that time the whole lower or central part of the basin was covered with a white deposit, breaking away in some places in large soda reefs, in others lesembling the waves of tho ocean, and in still others stretching out for miles in one unbroken level, from which the Bun reflected its rays with a glare almost unendurable. But one of the most singular features in connection with this seciion was the absence of rain or moisture; the days were ever sunny and hot, the nights without dew and generally warm. For more than five yearB, it is said by those who claim to know, there had been no rain there, until some three months since the spell was broken. Suddenly, and with scarcely any warning, rain commenced to fall, and for thirty hours came down steadily and unceasingly, unaccomponied by wind, but yet a thorough drenching rain. For two or three days it remained pleasant, when suddenly a water-spout was seen winding its way through the valley. It came in a zigzag course across the upper end of the lake, striking the range of hills on the east side, and coursing rapidly along them. The canyons and gorges were soon filled with water, which poured from them in fearful volume, and spread itself out upon the bottom. In a short time it was over, and denizens of the place now look for another dry season of five years. Tho Yankee's Main l'olnl. The other day, in a railroad car, I sat next to a little pug-nosed man in red whiskers. Opposite sat a middle-aged lady in black. The little man stared at her very hard, fidgeted a good deal and opened a conversation : "In mourning, ma'am, I see." "Eh? Yes," (spoken rather sharply.) "Sad thing, that. One of the people, perhaps ?" "jo." "une oi tne young ones lour baby, ah?" "I have no babies." "Of course not. The Guv nor, husband, you know ?" "Yes." (very sharply.) "Sorry for that. Sudden, perhaps?" "No." "Ah 1 lingering illness; that is worst sometimes. In trade, was he?" "He was a sailor." "Caught a fever, perhaps?" "He was drowned." After a pause: "Save his chist ?" "My husband's effects were not lost." "Religious sortof a man, was he ?" "Yes, he was." "Glad, of that. Suppose you are glad the chist wasn't lost?" "I suppose so." After another pause : "I suppose you'll be getting married again, soon ?" The lady mode no reply to this, but got out at the next station. The little long-nosed man looked around as though in search of another victim. At last he fixed on me. "Got a hat-band on, I see." "Yes, I got it on because my hat woa shabby." After a brief interval: "Would you feel inclined to swap your umbrella for my walking-stick and a dollar. ' I felt that the time had come for decisive action. I struck the miscreant dead at my feet, and I stepped out upon the platform. I beliove he is buried now. I havo heard no more of him since. A Nlmple Water-Tot. Good water should be free from color, unpleasant odor and taste, and should quickly afford a lather with a small portion of soap. The following simple test to show whether water is fit for general use is given in a recent paper by Herr Ueisch on the pollution of water by sew age, ll halt a pint of water be placed in a perfectly clean, colorless,glass-stoppered bottle, a few grains of the best white lump-sugar added, and the bottle frcelv exposed to the daylight in the window of a warm room, the liquid should not become turbid even after exposure for a week or ten days. If the water becomes turbid, it is open to the grave suspicion of sewage contamination; but if it remain clear, it is almost certainly safe. "I don't like these shoes," said a lady customer, "because the soles are too thick." "Is that the only objection?" blandly asked the salesman. "Yes," was the reply. 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