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WASHINGTON, Friday, Jan. 20, lobO.
TIE TREASURY.
The Treasury balance ia under $780, 600, in
cading amounts subject TO draft and reserved for
Aiint service, upon which advances are made for
deposits Of gold dust for coinage. Half this sum
L. intended to meet the Post-Ofhce deficiency due
last July, whenever Congress shall pass an apprO-
PIiaton bill, and the rest is required for the six
months ending on the 3lst December.
Advices to the Department represent chat CON-
IaerciR circles feel the pressure of this accumula
ton of specie in the pablo vaults, and banks have
contracted in consequence. The organization
souid distribute $780, 900 in fortnight, upon
accounts already adjusted. The uncertainty of an
-gaAiEation has deprecated Post Office scrip, and
1yil bring out large sums hitherto reserved.
MIR. COCHRAxEs ILLNESS.
The intelligence of Clark b. COchrane's illness
made painful sensation here, where he was much
respected and valued. Private letters do not war
rant the published reports, but represent him as
having voluntarily sought the advice of distin-
Euished physician at the Utica Asylum, for cerebral
excitement, which his friends apprehended had
threatening indications. He is paired with Mr.
Kunkel, of Maryland, fill Monday, and another
pair I'll Wednesday had been effected with Mr..
Smith, Of Virginia, who insisted upon revocation,
when Tie information Of his misfortune came
kS-day. -r-
THR PLEDGE AGAINST THE PLURALITY.
Forty-one Southern Democrats signed the pledge
10 resisi The plurality to the last extremity. SeTe-
raj ike Mr.. Cobb, of Alabama, and few others,
distinctly refused to sign it. as involving revOlu-
tonary precedent, and intended to provoke sec
fiOnd conflict.
ANOTHER HOPE OF A COALITION.
uis again announced thatMr. Stanworth viii be
here on Monday, but it is without satisfactory au-
thority. Taat assumed feet, and Mr.. Cochrane's
iddRpOsh0n are seized upon as the basis for hope
of anew coalition; but it has no foundation except
siye ambition of Interested individuals, and the
zeal of psrtissns Most of the Southern Oppos-
ton have been ready for combination through
cut. but NO candidate has yet been presented
who can unite all the elements adverse to Mr..
Sherman.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
Mr. SheTmsn's straightforward, manly and de-
f;aIt speech to-day produced a great impression
On the foor, and crowded the galleries. 1t was
called out by Mr.. Clsrks declaration that he had
afforded him an opportunity to explain his con
1ection with the Helper Book. Mr.. Sherman ex-
poeed the incoTectness Of THAI statement by show
ing that he had demanded the withdrawal Of the
offensive resolution on former occasion, and now
repeated that challenge, with the frank assurance
that be was, az he had been, ready to meet every
responsibility; and while bis personal dignity was
afrrorted BY the reflection contained in the res
olutions, be would refuse any explanation In spite
l.. H. shat
sesolutions we're kept suspended, purposely to deny
him the opperturiRity, aud TO prevent m organza-
ton.
During his speech, the House was impressively
still snt as the electric thrill penetrated, it burst
into spontaneous applause. Numbers Of frank
Southern usen expressed their cordial appreciation
of the high spirit and noble bearing evinced by M
sherman. while the body Of hs own friends re-
sponded with o generous greeting.
The country viii see in these proceedings the de-
termination of the Disubionists to prevent an cleo
ton. ard keep the House in condition OF anarchy
IN after the Charleston Convention
Mr.. Hindnlan (Ark. endeayOred to provoke Ill.,
Sherman into controversy on Ohio politics, know
ing the latter had repeatedly declined all such as
cushion until after an organization
II was generally remarked in the Hail. tnA'
Messrs. VsIIsndigham and Cox, with super-ser-
yicesble zeal, volunteered their efforts IN prompting
suggestions and providing material for the in'errOg-
stOries. In serving the member from Arkansas,
they only manifested their sense of State PRIDE ana
recognition of fellowship toward colleague VINO
had been shsmefully hOunded. No Southern man
would kare descended to such work under LIKE CIR
cuustaneeS. Mr.. Morgan, one of their Democrauc
associates. ia making personal explanation eA-
hibited q becoming spirit, dictated BY true man
hood.