The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1870.

nuatlon and retired allowances, and gratu-
Was for charitable and other purposes, 512,916, an
increase of £7,515. Class 7.—llliscellaneous, special
and temporary objects, £88,982, a decrease of
£,72,572.

t rmination:

.cragertua, is -fact, coaaernaeu crie way in wuica one
Post Office authorities had openly hia a lot of tele-
grams on the table, and afforded an opportunity for
all who choose to examine them. He added that if
such was the way in which telegrams were to be
treated, it were well that the public should know of
it. With regard to these particular telegrams, how-
ever, it has turned out that they aro not the property
of the Post Office, but of the defunct Magneti Te:o-
zraPh Company.

AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE.

(From the Anglo American Times.)
NEW YORK, March 19.
We have had another frightful gale. Early on
Wednesday morning it became furious, stopping
the river traffic, and driving- the (id.; over the docks
int) the cellars to the destruction of all the goods
there stored ; unroofing houses,-but fortunately not
destroying life. The storm ceased as swirl:ply, the
sun coming brightly out by noon. the next day
was very fine,-for which thanks have been given to
St. Patrick. The whole city appeared la-t Thurs-
day to be Iridh, the process:ons numbering, it is
said 50,000, and the green flag flying on all our
public buildingd. - The greatest buiness flurry has
been in the Cotton Market, produced through
private despatches from Liverpool, announcing
heavy failures among the " bears." The effect has
been,in stimulating purchases to cover contracts, to
advance the prices of low middlings to 221 cents,
and 22 for all the months to the close of the season.
But Wall-street is tranquil, dulness being the pre-
vailing feature. The uncertainty of the future
unsettles prices, no one being able to anticipate
what the tendency of gold will be, and stilt less
the fate of the financialrneasuresnow before Congress.
The Fullerton trial, after a long hearing, terminated
in an acquittal on Wednesday evening. The Court
instructed the jury to return this verdict, as Judge
Woodruff concurred with Judge Blatchford in con-
sidering that nothing had been proved against the
accused inconsistent with integrity of purpose and-
purity of motives. Mr. Fullerton was heartily con-
gratulited by his numerous friends who ctowdel
the Court. At the same time Messrs. Fisk and
Gould were relating in Judge Barnard's Court how
they sold themselves, as Fisk said, " to the devil."
They certainly stood out for a long tim?, not be-
cause they objected to the sale, but because they
wanted the largest possible price to do a good trade.
When Commodore Vanderbilt asked Fisk who he
was to trade with, that worthy replied, if it is a
good trade then with me. The action, which is to
recover a heavy sum from the Commodore, will be
settled next week, but the case of the tz,usquehana
Railway has been finally settled against the Erie
clique. The lion. William H Evarts, who de-
fended President Joh-son, has been retainel by
Mr. Burt, and that gentleman has presented a
memorial to the Legislature at Albany, urging
the passage of Senator Genet's measure, annulling
the law of 1869 as beirg at variance wilt the rights
of stockholders sound policy requiring that direc-
tors should be re:ponsible to shareholders. The
English hold three-fifths of the stock, yet no notice
of an Act was given which changed the manage-
ment of their property, and they were therefore
unable to oppose it. Mr. Burt is reco,:nised as a
clever man, and the Erie clique is losing strength.
Some strange cares of fraud have lately been per-
petrated. Charles Unger and Co. bankers, 48,
Exchange-place, were fleeced of $4;3,500 by two
sharpers last Wednesday. A Mr. Mitchell came
from Baltimore, bringing a letter from their cor-
respondent in that city, stating that the bearer
desired to purchase bonds, which the firm imme-
diately proceeded to do for him, exchanging $40,000
of Ten-Forties for a certificate cheque on the North
National Bank, which was deposited in the
Phoeuix Bank. But Mitchell had no account at
the National Bank, and the certified cheque proved
to be a clever forgery, and when they wante l Mit-
chell he was nowhere to be found. A somewhat
similar attempt was mad on Farmer, hatch, and
Co., 78, Broa Tway, to whom a cheque was pre-
sent.:d by a stranger for $6,600, drawn by Kent,
Day, and Co. on the St. Nicholas Bank, as pay-
ment for $6,000 worth of Five-Twenty Bonds. On
sending the cheque to the bank, which the firm di 1
before delivering the pro! erty, it was found to have
been altered front $3O. An agent is said to be sell-
ing a patent ink eraser, which can remove ink
marks, however well pr:nted or written ; aid the
Bank of Commerce paid $15,000 on a ehelue
drawn by Vertnilye and Co. for $5O, while the
Fourth National Bank paid $5,600 on the cheque
of Messrs. F,sk and hatch for $56. Two a'l: geed
swindlers from England, JOseph 11. Gale, with his
brother Edwatd Gale, go back to Yorkshire in the
steamer which carries this letter. Their fiel I was
the neighbourhood of the English town of L eds,
and their escort is two detectives from the West
Riding of Yorkshire. They were arrested in Boston
chargedt' with arson and fraud. We are going to
have an underground railway, the contractors of
the Central between the City Hall and Forty-sixt h-
street beginning the work on the Ist June.- The
charter of the company allows three years from
that date to complete the line to Forty-second-
street, and an additional five years to carry it on to
Harltm River. There has been much indignation
about the false rumours spread concerning the
City of Boston, and the country was-thrown into
great excitement by a despatch announceing that she
had arrived at Queenstown. Mr. Dale, of the In-
man line, received a copy, and his doubts were in
some measure removed by another despatch in
cypher, stating the safety of the steamer and the
rejoicings throughout England. Then Mr.Daletele.
graphedto Liv erpool,t o which Mr.lnman repliedthat
nothing was known of her arrival. The account was
long and circumstantial, and Mr. J. W. Simonton,
General Agent of the Associated Press, sent a mes

sage to gr. Wilson in Loudon directing him to
offer a reward of. 6500 fur the punishment of the
originator of the false repo:t if it proved to be a
wilful hoax. ft turned out that the news had been
current in Englan 1, that Mr. Wilson obtained it
from the official head of the Stock EXchange Tele-
graph Office, and he sent it immediately to us, con-
sidering it authentic. Then he despatched mes-
sages to Queenstown and Liverpool seeking con-
firmation and details, and immediately supple-
mented his telegram to New York by the intelli-
gence that neither the Inmans nor the 100k-out at

Queenstown had heard anything of the City ;:is;
Boston. So that we were actually, -through his
energy, in po-session of the fact that the news of
her safety was not reliable hours before it was even
doubted in Europe. Mr. Simonton points to the
messages published in the Evening Bulletin of Phila-
delphia giving the details showing how the
delay of the steamer had occurred; and also to

another message published in three papers through
the American Pre: s Association, which he declares
was manufactured in New York; declaring that
these are but instances from hundreds showing that
these cable telegrams of that Association are pure
fabrications. Mr. Edward R. Andrews is oranizing
a branch of the firm to which he belongs, the
old Paris house of Messrs. James W. Tucker and
Co., at 52, Wall-street, under the style of Tucker,
Andrews and Co., and the two houses will work in

concert. The recent weddings have been those of
'Miss Sarah, daughter of Ebenezer Hill, Esq., of
Connecticut, to Mr. Frederick, Belden, and Miss

Amelia Florence to Mr. Frank G. Hallett, who owns
a fine estate in. Staten Island, where they will spen 1
the summer. Professor Agassiz is rapidly recover-
ing. It is here repotted that Mrs. Burlingame will
reside permanently in Paris, her son, E. L. Bur-
lingame,accompanying the boly of his father, which
is to cross in the steamship .Silesia, to leave Ham-
burgh April 6. General Upt:m will, it is stated,
be the next Commandant at West Point. Mss
Clarke is to 'be married to Mr. Leon Neff on the
6th April, at the residency of her parents. George
Wilkes is the defendant in a libel suit brought
against him by the proprietors of a e Turf,Field,and
Faris for an article which appeared in the Spirit on
the sth Feb., and James L. Smith and Speilcer NV.
Cone, editors of the Sunday Courier, aro, accus d
of libel by Mr. Henry B,•rgh. There have been
two sud len deaths, and both of well-known mer-_

chan's ; the one Mr. R. Green, lace importer, of
16(1, Varrick-street, who had just eaten a hearty
hreakf tst, and the other, Hem y 11. Leel4, the auc-
tioneer, who was confined to his room for a day or

wo bias'ight cord, whi2h suddenly had this fatal

WASHINGTON, March 18.

Air. Butler, of Tenness e, Retresaitative of the
Andy Johnson district, still shows fight, although
there was a lei..ort that he would be expe!led by
the House. He admits having talc(n.a s an, but,
as the frail sister said, it was only a very litt!e.oDe.
General Dan'el Tykr, otherwise to get hii
son jute, West Pein,, employed•for the pnrFose
Washington lawyer and claim agent, to whom he
gave a cheque for $2,300, with the unde:.standing
—no appointment, no money. The agent had first

to colonise young Tyler, for he was not a Tenneasee
boy, where the vacancy was. Then he had to see
Mr. R. 11. Butler, and show the merits of the lad
and his family. Mr. Butler's previone apfoiet.nent
had failed, and no one in his district who wanted
the place was qualified, while he asserted that Gen.
Schofield, then Secretary of War, influenced him to
make the appoint meut. This Gen. Schofield denies,
while G, n. 1.71er says that he Wes not acquainted
with Schofield nor with any reason why Schofield
should he interested in him. Young Tyler's coloniz-
ing misted in spending a night in the three :owns
--7Nashville;Kn, andTaylorsville—sufficient,
however, for Butler to assert that he residtd. rn
Ta3lorsvil'e. The agent received on the appoint-
ment being made out the cheque f0r52,300, of which
$l,OOO he took to Butler, stating that Gen. Tyler
desired thus t ) recognise his kindness. Two friends
present advised him to take the. money for the
elect:on campaign, which he did, paying the agent
$lOO bill for his trouble, not aware that that
sly individual had alrea ly appropr:ated the lion's
share, and was prepared to take everything offering.
Of t-:e retnaiuder, Butler gave $5OO towards the
establishment of a party paper at Nashville, and
the rest to other newspapers in his district, which
I doubt not you will recognise as a proper mode of
expenlitnre ; for if there must be stealings, it is
hard lines that newspaper men should not come in
for a share. It is also gratifying to see that all But-
lers are not superior to the newspapers like our great
Butler, otherwise we would never be able to hold up
our heads with a Butler. line excellent member
of that fraternity, the nephew of his uncle, goes to
Egypt as Consul-General, " to waste his sweet-
ness on the desert air." His nomination has been
promptly confirmed by the Senate, although it is
not long ago that he was " dined" and " wined" in
New York by his friends under the impression thtt
he was on his way to Calcutta. Mais revenons
nos moutons;--the line of the Tennessee Butler's
defence is indicated by the transaction. The pay-
ment of the money was made aft r, not before, and
followed as a recognition of services, which it did
not precede as a bribe. The ans Ater is the improba-
bility that a man N't oul d. select the son of a stranger
he had never seen, and who was not even a resi-
dent of his district. But Mr. Butler .is a clever
man, and he foresaw and provided against this;
and hence the dragging in of Schofield's name--a
good move, though spoiled by the ex-Secretary.
Not only is Butler clever, but he is popular, and
carries weight in the House; while the two carpet-
baggers who have been driven out were friendless
loons, and many persons do not like such a meting
out of justice as followed in his case. After a long
consideration the Committee decide I to r, com-
mend a resoluVon of censure. On the testimony
being read in tile House a vote on expulsion was
lost by 68 to 102, the censure being unani-
mously adopt.d, but which Butler did not seem
much to mini. The evidence against Mr. James
Brooks entirely failed. The case wes of a boy who
was travelling with his mother in Europe for his
health, when appointed, and after coming back to
this country was pronounced too feeb'e in constitu-
tio r for the toss. Mr. Brooks gave it to another,
and the father of the appointee place l to the cre lit
of the rejected boy's mo her a sum sufficient to cover
the expen e of the return from Europe. But Mr.
Brooks knew no hing of this till he found himself
confronted with the transaction before the Military
Committee. A movement has ben made for the
coeversion of the Chinese heathen on the Pacific
Slope by the American Tract Sc ciety. An agency
has been c teblished at San Francisco with col-
portent's to travel around the mines, distribut-
ing the society's religious publications issued from
the Mission Press, at Shanghai. Three Chinese
boys have bean sent here for education in the
Howard University with the nrgro students. 'The
immigration question has been revived by an offer
purporting to come from the Merchan 's Trading
Co ut an: of-Liverpool, which, has appointed Cul.
Gowan as agent at Vicksburgh, and he offers to
supply 100,000 coolies within a year, landing each
at any port from Charleston to New Orleans for
$250 in gold. The Merchant's_Trading Company
have nine steamers and 29 saining vessels which
they can bring to bear on the trade. Is Colonel
Gowan, the agent, the well-known raiser of the
Rustdan fleet sunk at Sebastopol ? A case of
seine interest has been settled in 'the Supreme
Court ; a volunteer successfully claiming on appeal
the $lO9 bounty money un ler the President's call
for velenteers in 1861. lie was discharged on sick
certificate before his term had expired, and the
Court ruled that the contract is ewe i. though the
soldier had been honourably d ischarged before he had
se 'ved the stipulate 1 two years. A great number
of erree elected by this rah, g, and Uncle Sam's
pocket will expe:itnee another heavy drain. A
young fellow created a disturbance in the Capitol
by an atterppt to appropriate the Sm tto s' p. ivate
meA. A doorkeeper fared badly, and a ser-
geant-at-arms was served with the same sauce; but
a policeman appeared and carried the culprit to a
cell. Congress has passed a joint resolution, giving
Mrs. Stanton a year's salary of an Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court; Mr. M'Creery, of Kentucky,
being the only dissentie at in the Senate, a gentleman
who appears to like constituting himself an opposi-
tion. Gen. Townsend and Judge Wylie are collectors
of the estate, but the will has not yet be n fully
proved. In a former letter I t 3oa that Mr.
Rogers, of Arkansas, hid been presented with four
well-worked leather medals from the hands of the
women elerksit I -the Treasury, who have thus spurred
on this opponent of Woman's Rights, for he has
been as good as his word, having introduced a
bill, which has been referred to the Appropriation
Commit tee,propcsing to dispense with such labourin
the Public Departments. I hope the ladies like the
work they have undertaken in Lararrilti City. After
a protracted sitting, a verdict of manslaughter was
returned in the Cowie murder case, but not till
midnight; by a jury loaking much the worse of the
wear. While Mr. Janney was temporarily absent
from the Northern Superintendency, his daugh-
ter, who had been appointed clerk, was left in
charge, and that lady has sent in her report to the
Indian-office, stating that matters are quiet in the
Superintendency. Judge Kelly's Bill, for an in-
ternational system of coinage, is opposed by Mr.
S. B. Ruggles, and no result has been reached by
the. House Committee. Secretary Fish has received
replies assenting to an in'ernational conference to
regulate ocean telegraphs from North Germany,
Austria, Denmark, Turkey, Greece, Norway, and
Sweden. In the Nevi, York Legislature Senator
Cra ner has introduced a bill permitting any New
York Telegraph Company to sell its property and
franchises to any foreign company, or to acquire
the rights and privileges of any other company by
consent of four-fifths of the shareholders of each.
It is proposed to make Alaska a county of Wash-
ington Territory, with a U.S. Judge, and this, if
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Governor Ashley of Montana, who says it cast him
a year's salary to transport there his family and
effects, and be has not yet got into his house before
the telegraph announces the appointment of his
successor, damaging his political reputation, che-
rished by him as a soldier cherishes his mili-
tary reputation. The delegation now here from
Montan t strongly supports Governor Ashley. Se-
nator Conk ing has called attention to the con-
stitutional requirement that a Senator of the United
States must be a residentof the Strte which he repre-
sents,and the Judiciary Committee reported back the
credentials of Gen. Ames with a resolution declaring
him to be ineligible ; but the committee is far from
unanimous. Miss Romaine God lard was married
on Wednesday to Mr: Overbeck, in the Navy Yard,
at the headquarters of Admiral Dahlgren, the
bride's step-father;; and a grand wedding it was,
the President and Mrs Grant, and nearly every-
body of note being present. The demand for labour
in the South is attracticg many of our coloute I
people ; forty families having left for Mississippi,
where they have good engagements,at wages so high
that the "dark" current is setting strongly in that
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and a convention is likely to r .tified betw• en
the two Governments on time basis of neutrality argil
rec proeity. A general law should be adopte Ito
affect all compaadi s alike, and a 1).11 accon.panies
he report, univers .1 in its, at plication, set ling the
co di t ions upon wh:cl. all privil ges shall be raeted
and cables conducted. Much interest w..s taken
in, the first speech delivered in the Senate by
the *first coloured Senator who ever address !cl
the Chamber, and fille 1 the galle,ies. E'en to
Mor on, wit') was entitled to the floor at one o'clock
en Wednesday, said he would yield to the Senator
front Mississippi. Mr: Revels was a little nervous
when be commenced reading his manuscript, but
his voice grew firm, and his manner dignified as

he proceeded, and he was listened to with atten-
tion for half an hour. The style was profusely orna-
mental, but Mr.. Morton, who followed, prefaced
what he had to say by a high compliment, indeed,
the ridiculous one, that the Senate had lost nothing
in intelligent„ by the exchange -of Mr. Revels for
Jeff. Davis.

CONGRESS.

SENATE, March 9.—Mr. Pomeroy introduced a
joint resolution reprobating cruelties committed by
the Spaniards in Cuba, which was tabled and
ordered to be printed. Mr. Williams, from the
Finance Committee, reported the House bill ex-
tending the time for withdrawal of spirits from
bond, with a recommendation against its passage.
Mr. Trumbull, from the Judiciary Committee, re-
ported.the House bill for the admission of Georgia.
The bill to supply deficiencies in items for the
House of Representatives was concurred in. The
Funding Bill was taken up, and Mr. Davis's motion
to recommit, with instructions, was rejected. Mr.
Morrill,' of Vermont, offered an amendment, de-
signed to prevent a higher rate of interest than
five per cent., but allowing a lower rate, which
was adopted. Mr. Corbett's . motion to strike
out the fifth section, authorizing foreign agen-
cies, was adopted—yeas 29, nays 11—while Mr.
Scott's 'amendment, requiring the negotiations
to be by Treasury officers alone, was rejected.
March 10.—Mr. Ferry offered a resolution for the
consideration of annexaVon treaties in open ces-
sion, which was laid over. Mr. Ross introduced
bills in relation to homesteads and to promote the
erowth of timber on public lands. The Funding
Bill was considered, and various amendments were
offer. d, among them one by Mr. Buckingham,
s riking out the eighth section requiring the banks
to deposit the new bonds, which was rejected.—
March 11.--Mr. Fenton introduced a bill to regu-
late telegraphic ccrrapondence between the United
States and foreign countries. Mr. Drake intro-
duced a bill to promote the securing of efficient
seamen for the navy, and Mr. Spencer a bill to reor-
ganise the navy. On motion of Mr. Trumbull, the
Georgia Bill was made the special order for to-day.
The Funding Bill was considere 1 and pass:d filially.
The bill as passed, according to the telegraphic
report of its provision, contains the section autho-
rising foreign agencies, which was stricken out on
March 9, although there is nothing in the House
proceedings to show how that section was rein-
serted. March 14—Mr. Sumner made an explana-
tion in reference to Gen. Ptina's denial in the
Spanish Cortes, that he had made propositions for
the sale or cession of Cuba to the United States.
Mr. Sumner said that.no communication had pwsed
between them on the subject; but that an agent
coming from Prim a'rived in Washington last
spring with a proposition for settling the Cuban
question in a manner advantageous to the Spa-
lash finances. This agent's report, the de-
tails of which Mr. Sumner forbore to give, be-
came the basis of the propositions made through
General Sickles, ,as already published. Mr.
Sumner then introduced a bill to provide for the
resumption of spt ere payments, which was refer-red
and ordere I to be printed. It provid:s for the
gradual substitution of coin as their legal reserve
by the national banks at the rate of 1 per cent. a
mouth ; directs the specie payments by the United
States Treasury on the Ist of January next, pro-
vision being made for that purpose by the retention
of surplus coin, and purchase of more, if necessary;
repeals all Acts making anything but coin a legal
tender ; suspends the further printing of United
States notes and currency, and retires the mutilated
currency. The Georgia Bill was taken up, and
explained by Mr. Trumbull, after which the Senate
went into Executive session.
Ho USE OF REPRESENTATIVES, March 9.—Mr.
Dawes, from the Appropriation Committee, re-
ported a resolution of inquiry as to estimates for
public buildings, which was adopted. On the mo-
tion of Mr. Buckley, the Ways and Means Com-
mittee were directed to inquire into the expediency
of admitting for one year, free of duty, machinery
for spinning cotton into yarn. On the motion tf
Mr. %Velker, the Secretary of the Treasury was
called upon for a statement of payments of the pub-
lic debt, principal and interest, from 1789 to 1836.
On the motion of Mr. Garfield, the Post-office Corn-
mi! tee were directed to consider the expediency of
adding a postal express to 013 mail servic,t, to carry
sma 1 packages. The New York and WasltingLn
Ra. IrJad Bill c-ano up in order, and was
laid over, the House refusing to seond the previous
question on its p .ssage. The joint resolution to
abolish the present system of printing Patent-
office specifications was passed. Mr. Schenck gave
notice that he would press the Tariff and Tax
Bills as soon as the Army Bill-was disposed of. Mr.
Morrill, of Pennsylvania, introduced a bill to cele-
brate the Centennial of American Independence
by a National Exhibition of Arts, industry and
mining products, in Philadelphia, in 1876. Mr.
Boles introduced a bill to provide homesteads for
the coloured people in the South. The Census
Bill, and the bill reducing the mileage one-
half, were reported and recommitted. After
notice by Mr. Logan that he would call up
the Army Bill,the House adjourned. March 10.—
The New York and Washington Railroad Bill was
discussed. Mr. Logan's bill reducing the number
and pay of army officers was taken up and passed.
It provides for a board to examine the qualifications
of officers below the rank of Brigadier-General, and
recommend who shall be retained-; the number re-
tired is to be at the discretion of the President, but
not exceed 250; the number of Major-Generals is
reduced to three ; brevet rank is abolished ; army
officers are forbidden to hold civil offices ; the sec-
tion of the Act of June, 1868, making the General
of the Army superior to the President is repealed ;
commutations are abolished, and the pay of offi-
cers is regulated, the General rectiving $12,000 ;
Lieut.-General, $10,000; Major-Generals, $7,500 ;
Brig.-Generals, $5,000; other officers in proportion.
March 11.—On the motion of Mr. Schenck, the
Secretary of the Treasury and Commissioner of
Internal Revenue were 'directed to communicate
their opinions in regard to the expediency of
abolishing all allowances to officers and informers
in the collection of import and internal taxes. On
the motion of Mr. Schumacher, the Ways and
Means Committee were directed to consider the
expediency of repealing the law which prevents
action in the Courts to restrain the assessment or
collection of taxes. The Tariff and Deficiency
Appropriation Bills were considered in Committee
of the Whole. - March 12.—The House met
for debate, bit some twenty members only being
present, it soon after adjourned. March 14.
A number of bills were introduced, among them one
by Mr. Starkweather, to prevent prize fighting ;
by Mr. Armstrong, relative to criminal proceedings
under the revenue laws; Mr. Butler, of Tennessee,
amendatory of the Civil Rights Act ; Mr. Cullom,
providing a territorial government for the District
of Columbia; and Mr. Rogers, to abolish the female
clerkships under the Government. Mr. Lough-
ridge introduced a joint resolution, which was
passed, prohibiting the carriage on Western steam
boats of nitro-glycerine, petroleum, naphtha, ben-
zine, &c. Mr. Marshall offered a resolution de-
claring for a reduction of taxation, and that no
tariff should be imposed on any article above the
lowest rate at which it will yield the highest re-
venue, that the highest duty should be imposed
upon luxuries, and that the tariff should operate
as equally as possible throughout the coun-
try, not discriminating against any class. Mr.
-Holman, to test the sense of the House, moved to
table the resolution, which was not agreed to, the
yeas being 38, and the nays 115. The previ ais
question was then moved but not seconded, and the
resolution was referred to the Ways and Means
Committee. A joint resolution, offered by Mr.
Dawes, was passed, appropriating an amaunt
equal to one year's salary of an Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court to the widow and children of
Elwin M. Stanton. Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts,
offered a joint resolution, which was passed, allow-
ing owners of homesteads to deduct interest paid
on mortgages from their income returns. The Navy
Al propriation bill was reported and made the
special or ler for March 24th. The Deficiency
Bill was co: si'lercd.

A letter received by the Hon. R. C. M'Coru
of Arizona, from San Diego, California, says ther;: old mine
th,:ro is the richest ever discovered. The quartz is esti-
mated to be worth $23,000 a ton. The news that Chinese
labourers were killed at the_ mints is confirmed by a San
Francisco despatch. A party of Chinsmen discovered the
best lode y t found; their cleim was j imped" by white
men, and three of the Chinese were killed. The San
Francisco journals state there is cJnsiderable excitement
io that city in reference to the Raw, qualities of six
Eaglish iron ships which lately left eau Francisco for
Liverpool. Those vessels are the ships Yosemite, ,Beringa,
and Ricer Mersey, and the barques Kenilworth, Cerastes,
and Galatia. They are all loaded with grain, and are fast
sailors.