The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-01-20

lHlHleuldtcly. NO penalty lOr TeluSal
to make returns can, however, be en-
forced before the 1st of March.
A letter dated Zangibar, Oct %,
from Consul Webb, received at the
state department, states that a letter
had been received at the British con-
sulate from DIR. Livingston dated May
80. DIR. Livingston was at Ugigi, on
Yanyanyki lake, where he had found
his supplies. He was in good health
and spirits, and proposed travelling to
the windward of Yanyanyki, unless
some boatmen and futher supplies for
which he had sent reached Ugigi.
An early adjournment of congress is
favored and considered practicable by a
number of members of congress, some
arguing that with industry the necessary
business can be finished by the 1st Of
May.
Information just received from Mon
tana indicates that the most resolute
measures to execute the criminal laws
of the territory against the murderers
of Malcolm Clark, a prominent citizen
o. the territory, murdered by the Black
feet Indians, last fall, who we're in the
district having been adopted. On the
Odd of December, Maj. Sullvand and
Capt. Pope, accompanied by United
Slater Marshal Wheeler, and an adequate
military force, left Hecka for the Cation
river to demand from the Blackfeet
Indians the surrender of the murderers
of Clark, and, if necessary, to arrest
them by force.
WASHINGTON, JAN 1S-The senate
has spent another day on the Virginia
bill, and again failed to reach a vote,
while the days discussion and delay
have forced the conservatives to the
conclusion that the bill Of the house
will not fail to pass the senate without
amendment. Indeed, Gen Butler
seemed SO confident Of this that he pro-
posed at the meeting of the reconstruc-
ton committee this morning that they
should informally vote to accept the
amendment proposed in the senate by
Mr.. Wiley, SO that if the senate re-
turned the house bill thus amended,
the committee would be prepared to
recommend concurrence by the house;
but majority of the committee secuted
such premature action, and Butler
did not press the point. The debate in
the senate to day presented no new
features, though it commanded crowded
galleries Just before adjournment, an
effort was made to fix some time to-mor-
row for the final vote, but Mr.. Sumner
gruffiy blurted out from his seat: "No
time for a vote can be fixed l shall
object" AS it required unanimous
consent, no time Was fixed.
The statement recently made ii.
these dispatches that the Estimates for
appropriations for the present admins
tration were s49, 900, 900 more for the
next fiscal year than they were for the
last fstal year of Andrew Johnson's adj
ministration, was fully confirmed in the
house to day by Mr.. Dawes, chairman
of the committee on appropriations,
who made severe arraignment of the
navy and other departments for the
extravagant demands for public expendi-
lures made by them upon congress. He
made an excited appeal to the repubh-
can party to stand by its promises of re-
form and rctrenchment, and to vote
down the millions asked for public i'm
provements. He said that every de
partment but that of the attorney gem
eral had increased its estimates over last
year, which public necessity did not in
his opinion demand. The members
manifested great interest in the speech
and gathered in groups about the
speaker, for the sight was rare to see a
prominent republican arraign his own
party so earnestly ON the floor of the
house
The pay department has issued IAN
order instructing paymasters of the
army not to deduct the income tax from
the salaries of the officers of the army
as, under the opinion Of the Judge
advocate general, no such tax is opera
| tive OH incomes levied during 1870
This tax was deducted monthly hereto
fore from these officers
Memorials from Boston were laid
before the ways and means committee
to-day, asking for reduction of the
putty on ship-building materials.
The Republican OF last week says of
the resolutions adopted adopted at the
democratic conventions: