Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-03-08

Committee or Mileage-Messrs. Anderson
| Plants. Van Aernam, Raum, and Getz
Commlttee on kules-Tne Speaker, Messrs
| Wasbburne of Illinois, Banks, Blaine, and
Brooks.
| .oint Select Committee on the Eq uaIization
oiPay OF the Employees-Messrs. Wood bridge
Eckiey, and Mccullough.
| Joint Select Committee on Retrenchmeut-
| Messrs. Shenck, Van Wyck, Randall, Logan,
and Washburn of Mass.
Regent of Smithsonian Institute. to All the
vacancy occasioned by the election of Mr. Pat
terson to the Senaie-Mr Poland.
Mr.. Schenck asked to be excused from serv-
ing on the Committee on Retrenchment- al
leging that his time was fully occupied as
chairman Of the Committee on Military Al
fairs.
Mr.. Schsnck was excused, thus leaving Mr..
Van Wyck chairman OF that committee.
mir. Niblack arose to a question OF privilege
and presented the credentials of A. Il. Green
wood, as representative from the Sd district OF
Arkansas, and he asked that they be referred
10 the Committee on Elections
The credentials were laid upon the table.
Mr.. Stevens moved 10 suspend the rules to
enable him 10 introduce a bill to repeal the
act retroceding the county of Alexandris, in
the District o: Columbia, 10 the State OF VIr-
ginia.
The rules were suspended and the bill intro
duced.
After some remarks IN favor of the bill by
Mr. lngersoll, and against il by MIR. McCul-
Tough, the bill was passed-yeas III, nays Is
Mr.. Price moved TO suspend the rules TO en-
able him TO inirod uce JOINT resolution author
lling the application OF part OF the funds now
in the Treasury TO the redemption OF outstand-
ing compound interest notes
Mr.. Hooper objected, expressing the hope
that the House would not begin to tinker with
the currency SO soon.
The joint resolution directs the Secretary of
the Treasury TO use all money in the Treasury
over ana above S1D.i 0O,uOU for the purpose OF
redeeming the compouud interest notes now
outstanding, so far as they shall be presented
for redemption.
PPudinp no ha adS
RITUALIsN-As the people OF America are
at present m much interested in the discu ssions
about Rifuallsm in the Episcopal Church, in
formation of what is transpiring in England
on the same subject rs of interest. A committee
of laymen, TO whom the subject was recently
referred by an English conference, have re-
Ioried in favor of inviting the leading men,
bers, both lay and clerical, OF the Church of
England, without distinction of party. TO join
In population TO the Prime Minister for the
purpose Oh urging upon the Government the
necessity OF legislation for ame endine the Ru-
brio which Immediately precedes the Order for
morning prayer, and also amending the Chu rch
Discipline act. so as to facilitate the restrain
ing of innovations. They further lecom-
mend that the Premier should be requested
TO advise her Majesty TO issue a commission
which shall Inquire into the propriety of
amending the Rubric complained OF, and of
rendering the eenforcemento of church discipline
in such matters prompt and inexpensive Ia
the event OF on-success in this application,
they recommend recourse to Parliament and
an address from each House to the Crown
prosecutions OF Ritualists are deprecateu and =,
lastly. the com mittee " cannot too earnestly az
emphatically impress upon the Con ference the
importance OF regarding and dealing with this
them, in their proposed solu ton OF the present
difhculty, the largest possible number OF mem
bers of the Church of England"
THE ENGLISH ARMY-A plan for reorgau-
iZing the English army is soon to be prese ted
to Parliament. The militia will be made the
foundation act Nap
enlisted Tor twelve years instead of ten, as at
present; seven OF these will be spent in the
army, available for general service; the re-
naming nNe IN the militia, under certain ad =
yantageous conditions A measure will be
proposed for obtaining their further service a.
The end OF the twelve years. Non-coInmis-
stoned ofcers and men will still be permitted
70 re-engage in the army and serve for pension
The great trouble in England now is that az
the army is al present consrtut ted, recruitscdn-
not be obtained in sufficient nun bers TO keep
1t up to the requisite standard On January
let, the military establishment at its minimum
caiIed car ior 2Ol,oOO men, but there Were only
Great Britain, ie,e66 in the Colonies and 6s O42
In India. During the year 1866 various dis
charges, deaths and like casualties deprived
the army or 23,Ote men, whilst but 1890 re-
cruits could be obtained, though ever Y pos
slble eXertIon was made to get them. Ii is
worthy OF notice that the proportion of the
marines and embodied militia at home and
abroas) to every 100 male population of the
United Kingdom, aged I6 and under 40, was
l3.6 In lSOl. las in 1Sll s in lS2l,.3 6 i'm l~3I
81 in eil, 3.S in 1851. SO in 1855, 90 in 1885, 6
In 1855. 6.2 In 1853, and So in 1861. ~.
THE CoLoRED QUESTION IN PHILApKLPH1.
A colered woman from Princetown, New Jer-
sey, prosecuted, before Alderman BeitIer, on
Monday, a conductor Of the Fifth street all
road cars, named John q. Schlafer. The pros
ecutrix made oath that she wanted to ride up
Filth street. Upon each car that she desired
to enter she was told to wait for the next one
nvrin -
was determined to get upon car No. 81, of
which Schlafer was conductor She claims
that she was pushed OF, and for this enters
criminal prosecution. The conductor entered
bail in six hundred dollars to ans swer at CONT
The circumstances Of this case, says the
News, are peculiar, and as a matter of bald
For some months the Tenth street railroad
made no distinction for colo- in people who
wished TO ride in their cars. The receipts of
the road fell on ssventy-fve dollars per day
al once. and from that TO ninety and one hun
dree dollars. The directors, after some weeks
Iial. held meeting, and concluded TO devote
every NTH car to coiored people, and to such
whites as would ride with them. Oddly
enough there were then scarce any colored
people who wanted 10 ride. In the vehicles
marked "colored people allowed in this car"
not face was visible. The proeecutrix in this
case could have ridden had she waited three
minutes longer, and the conductor erected her
as CONSIDERABLY as he could.
DISABLED YOUNG MEN.-The discussions in
France about the proposed change. in tae
army are bringing oat some curious statistics
The Paris correspondent OF the London Times
says that the number of men whom Napoleon
proposes to take annually for the army
amounts TO almost the ntre product Of able
bodied youth which France can produce liz
will astonish many TO learn what q large pro-
portion OF the young men who are forced TO
draw lots every year and liable TO serve as re-
cruits in the order of their numbers are reject
ed by the medical inspectors. In ls6i the
number OF men liable to serve was 326.OO OF
these were reiected-ls,l06 below the standard
Reight; 3o,624 weak cor stitution, cons mption,
&c; 1883 mutilated from birth, hernia, &c
9lOOhumpbacked and fiatfooted: 6qSs blind or
deaf; e63 stammerers; slo3 insuffi cient teeth
62l3 geltre and scrofula; PISS lunatics and para
lytics, ano 1886 with other ines pacities. The
total youth Of the year unfit to serve in the
army was over 10000.
INCREASE OF FEMALE PREACHING Female
eyangelists appear TO be on the increase in
England. In addiuen TO Mrs. Thistle n waite
and Mrs. Booth, who occasionally address
congregations in London, Miss Macfarlane
has been holding services at the Polytechnic
Institution; MISS Octavia Jary has been ad-
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