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FROM WASHINGTON

The FOREIGN Relations Comniitee aud MIR.
sumner.
Special Despatch 10 the Eosnin1 telegraph.
WASHINGTON, March General Butler called
upon the President to-day at the request of
several members of the Massachusetts, delega-
tion, to ascertain whether it could not be
arranged so a. to retain Senator Sumner on the
Committee of Foreign Relations. The President
said that personally he had no objections, but in
view of the fact that important foreign ques-
tions were soon 10 be considered, it was necessary
that the Secretary of State and himself should
have come one at the head of the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee who would speak with them.
The impression left upon Buffers mind was that
the President is anxious for the removal of
Sumner from the committee.
The X epubIican senators
held caucus this morning, for the purpose of
hearing the report of the committee appointed
to revise the list of Senate committees Senator
Sumner was in the caucus when the committee
submitted their report. The first committee on
the list was the Foreign Relations, and Senator
Cameron was placed at the head of it. Mr.. Sum-
per made few remarks, protesting against his
removal from the craftsmanship of his old COM
mittee, and then took his hat and left the caucus
An angry discussion of an hour followed. Sena-
tors Wilson and Schurz made speeches against
the removal of Mr.. Sumner, and Senator Howe
defended the action of the committee in placing
Mr.. Cameron ut the head of the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee. l-
Mr.. Howe gave the same reasons for the re-
moval of Sumner as we're given by the President
to General Butler.
Mr.. Trumbull complained about the forma-
ton of the Judiciary Committee.
motion was made to recommit the report,
with directions to report again.
No Defntte Action
was taken in the case of Sumner, and the caucus
adjourned to meet again at l o'clock. 1t was
evident in the caucus that majority of those
present are opposed to the removal of Sumner.
The matter makes great excitement at the capi-
tai among Senators and members, and in diplo-
matte circles.
ADJOURNMENT of the Senate.
Desyatch 10 the Associated Press.
The Senate adjourned at twenty minutes to
o'clock, and the Republican Senators again went
into eau US on the standing committees.
The Republican Cnucus.
The motion Iending in caucus is to recommit
the report of the committee.
Messrs. Schurz aud Sumner have spoken in
favor of the motion, and Mr.. Howe against re-
committal
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.FROM EVROPE.

Banishmept of the Duke de Montpeusier
LONDON, March 9.-The Times has a letter
from Madrid which announces that the govern
ment has ordered the Duke de Montpensier to
proceed to the island of Minorca, because he
refuses to take the military oath to support
King Amadeus
secret Treaty Between Prussia aud Russia.
The Morning Post affirms that secret treaty
between Russia and Prussia was concluded
about the time of the outbreak of the war, aud
says the following we're among its provisions:-
Russia to intervene in case the French were
successful, and should menace Poland; If the
Austrian army should demonstrate upon the
Prussian frontier Russia to demonstrats upon
the Austrian frontier; and If any European
power sheuld combine with France Russia to
Join Prussia.
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A Chinese agent offers to deliver Chlnamen

"A Chinese agent offers to deliver Chinamen
in Tennessee at the rate of $7000 a hundred.
Two of General Kilpatrscks admirers IN
Rouseville gave him $1,000 horse ana WV
dog. cai ss,.
"A Boston merchant SdoI" IN ny IiobiSu ittss
book of the firm before sending II;
East Greenwich. Connecticut, has Thuga-
trosophia Society which holds annual exhiei-
tions.
.,early bird" caught cold instead of a worm.
The GIrard College is said to be the best
snecimen of Grecian architecture in the world.
"A wealthy widow, advertising. for an agent,
was overwhelmed with applications, as the
types, by mistake made IL "a gent.
The great bell on Notre Dame, Montreal, Is
the largest but one in the world. 1t weighs
over l0,500 pounds, and can DC heard forty
miles. ~ 49,
The African diamonds, about which SO
much has been written and said OF late, are
thoueht but little Of in London. They are pro-
rounced ra-ty Inferior to the 'Golconda
sparklers.
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GREAT INUNDATION.

Vienna Under water-3O9O Persons Homeless.
A Vienna letter-writer, under date of February
IA, says
About noon on Sunday all at once the rumor
spread that the ice had started and was coming
down. Messengers from the police and the
Government Commission ran about the threat
ened districts to order the cellars to be cleared
and to look for the boatmen and the carpenters
who were to put together the stages, which
were ready prepared; but scarcely more than an
hours time was left for all this, for already, at
2 P. NJ, the water had not only filed the cell
lars but, in the lower parts had already pene-
trated into the houses themselves, driving out
the inmates of the ground floor.
In several streets the waters rose four or five
feet, and boats had to be got to rescue the in
mates of houses. So little had any danger been
apprehended that in the Carl Theatre and in
several other localities there were to have been
the usual amusements. In the Carl Theatre,
where new piece was to be given, the galleries
one hundred yards lower down the Prater Strasse
was already flooded. Half an hour before the
representation was to be given it was announced
that there would be none. In some of the ball
localities the first guests had likewise arrived,
but finding the dancing floor already flooded
over, had to make hasty retreat
Thus it went on till 0 O'clock when the largest
portion, not only of tie Leopoldstadt on the
left bank of the canal, but likewise several dis
tricts of the Landstrasse, and the portion of the
inner town near the old Arsenal, which was in
ancient times the port of Vienna, and is, there
fore, lying very low, were several feet under
water.
In all about three thousand persons have been
driven out of their homes. OF these a portion
have found refuge in various public establish
ments, while the rest were accommodated in
upper floors. These are now in sort of quar-
antine and have to be provided with the means
of subsistence by boats. This is not very easy,
for the boats have to break through the ice.
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FROM DEL.A W:A RE.
The WlImInEton nI. u. Oonference

Srecial Despatch TO The EUening Telegraph.
DOVER, Del, March 9.-The Committee on
Ladies and Pastors Christian Union was ap.
pointed.
Revs. s. w. Thomas and B. Gorham were
introduced.
A draft was ordered on the Treasurer of the
Centenary Fund for S18,4 440.
The report of the Committee on the Penin-
eula Academy was made and a commission Or
dered to act during the year.
A special collection was ordered to be made
for the Missionary Society of $l700.
The class for admission were called to the bar
of the conference and addressed by the Bishop.
They are Messrs. Hunter, Kidney, E. Davis
Wilson, Miller, Shilling Williams, and w. P.
Davis.
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ENGLAND.
The British Ballot Bill.

The Ballot bill introduced by the Government
in the British House of Commons on the Goth
inst. forms the principal measure of the session,
and radically changes the system of voting. The
substance of the scheme is as follows:-
/. The bill shall apply to municipal as well as
parliamentary elections.
g. No voting paper except the official paper
shall be used; that Is to say, the object of the
somewhat similar paper, which would enable
IL TO be ascertained how the vote had been
given.
8. The voting paper shall not be given to the
voter until he enters the voting booth.
4. The voter is not to be permitted to put any
mark upon the voting paper except that which
is necessary to show for whom the vote is given;
and In the event of that regulation being vIo-
lated, the vote will be cancelled.
5. The returning officer, as he gives out his
paper 20 each voter shall impress it with a
stamp, the character of which he shall be bound
to keep secret, and which shall not be used
again until certain fixed time shall have ex-
pired. Then, when the boxes come to be opened,
each unstamped voting paper shall be rejected
as void.
6. When a voting paperl has once been put
into the ballot-box the box shall not be opened
except under such precautions as shall secure
the inviolability of the vote.
z. Where In a case of reopening the question
of the number of votes it is found vote Is bad
it shall be struck off from the total OF the candi
date for whom it has been recorded; and also
where an elector rendering his vote finds some
one else has voted for him. the vote shall be KEEP
aside, and under certsin circumstances counted
for the candidate in whose favor he had intended
to vote.
8. The same penalties shall be attached Il
personation that now attach to bribery anC
treating. The candidate shall lose his seat fo
procuring or attempting to procure perso
nation.
9. Any candidate who does not include all hi
o. xpenses ia his election retGrn, Or wLO wiz
his own hands has paid expenses which ough
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AN UNACCOUNTABLE AFFAIR.
The Assas.InatIon Of Colonel FIsh, of Geers

Tho Assassin ration Of CoioneI Fish, of Georgia.
The Anaericus Republican gives the following
account of the assassination of Colonel Fish, of
Oglethorpe, Ca, on Monday, the 9th ult:lI
Colonel Fish, returning from trip to Savan-
nah, had come down from Macon on Monday
nights train, reaching Oglethorpe about one
o'clock. Getting off at the depot of the latter
place, he gave his bundle of books to negro
man named Jacob, and started walking home,
followed Immediately by the servant. Proceed
ing towards his residence he had reached the
heart of the town, and was passing up the left
sidewalk alongside of the courthouse, when a
gun was fired at him from the door of this
building, opening Immediately on the street, the
shot taking effect in the left side of the face and
neck, and infiicting q most ghastly and gaping
wound, from which Colonel Fish died at once
His overcoat was buttoned up close to the
chin, and nothing about him had been disturbed
in any way, although he had on a gold watch,
plainly showing that the lurking assassin, who
had fired the fatal shot, sought no spoils and
profits, but human blood and human life.
The servant was walking, according to his
own account, to the left and little in the rear
of Colonel Fish, and when the gun fired lodged
down, equatting, and then turned and ran off,
frightened. He at once woke up some gentle
men sleeping not far off, who found the body
as above described, the warm blood gushing
profusey from the several arteries, and the last
faint breath futtering on his dying lips.
This assassination is as astonishing to the
community In which Colonel Fish has long
lived, universally respected and honored as the
details of its perpetration prove 1t atroeious A
map, polite and gentlemanly towards all, making
no enemies ever and having no malignant foes,
has been waylaid and murdered in the centre
of peaceful town and on its most frequented
thoroughfare, and none can ascribe the reason
why.
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FROM EUROPE.

LONDON, March o.
Odo Russell
returned to London yesterday from Versailles,
and will attend the special meeting of the Cabi-
net tomorrow.
e. Rioting in Paris suppressed.
A disturbance occurred ON Wednesday among
some battalions of the Paris Mobile Guards, but
was quelled without serious consequences
A transports Fleet
is going to the Elbe to convey 600 released
prisoners home to France.
Cattle Plague.
There is much typhoid and plague among the
cattle and horses in Paris. The animals are,
nevertheless, said to be fit for food.
1t has been finally settled that
The National Assembly
W i'll meet at Versailles.
Another neutrality-suspicious. Said to be the
PoinI.
BORDEAUX, March 8.-The Committee of the
National Assembly has decided to recommend
the transfer of the assembly to Fontainebleau.
1t is stated that NJ. Theirs supports this choice
of the place of meeting, and it is expected hat
the Assembly will ratify the report of the COM
mittee when it is presented for discussion and
action. A large number of Deputies will, how
ever, support an amendment providing for the
removal of the Assembly to Versailles.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-09
An Opera sInser af.er FIsI., Jr.. fer HIs Pay

action in the Supreme Court against James Fisk,
Jr., TO recover a balance of $500 alleged to be
due him on a months salary under an agree
ment to sing in the opera of Lurlire, in the
Academy of Music, from the 10th of May last.
The defense is that Fisk, Jr, never employed
the plaintiff, but that he was employed by an
unnamed party, to whom Fisk, Jr., furnished
money; that the plaintiffs engagement, even
as long as his services should be needed, not for
month; that his services were continued for
two weeks and four days; that he was paid $400
for the two weeks, and rendered the amount at
the same rate for the remaining four days, which
he refused. motion made at Chambers, before
Judge Cardozo to place the cause on the Special
Term calendar, was denied.
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naI,,moreI Produoe lsIaILsI.

BALTIMORE, March e.-C0tt0n nrm low mid
ding held at lsAc. Flour dull and weak, with
SIN II business. Cloverseed IN good demand, aud
iobhinR at sT@7'sTh. Wheat quiet and unchanged
receipfs 5000 bushels; safes $4,000 bushels Corn
white Southern weak at 64a s7c.; yellow Southern
STEADY at s9e5c; receipts 5000 bushels; sales $500
bushels. Oats higher az S0962c. Mess Pork weak.
bacon weak. Lard quiet at 1910. Whisky nrm
AT 9Qc
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Kew York Money aad stock market.

NBw YORK, March 9.-StOcks steady, Money
per cent Gold, 1l19S. b-2Os, 1854, coupon,
llSh; do 1884 do.' illX: do 1880, do, ii2;
ie~4Os, los; virginia 6s, new, Sc; Missouri Ss
siX; Canton Co, TOh; Cumberland preferred. so; I;
New York Central aud Hudson River 9TH; Erie,
qlX; Reading, 10l q; Adams Express, 69K; Mlcht-
gan Central, l1TX; michigan Southern 9TK; nl-
nola Central, l344; Cleveland and Pttsburg, 115;
Chicago and Rock Island, 1llx; Pttsburg and
Fort Wayne, S7; Western Union Telegraph. b4A.
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to have psssed through the hands of his agent
shall lose his seat.
10. The use of public houses as committee
rooms during the progress of elections is pro-
hibited.
IL. The old plan of nominating candidates,
and making the final declaration Of the poll, Is
abolished
12. The expenses of the returning officer shall
be paid out of the local rates.
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NewsYork Produce nIarLss.

NEW YORK. March 9-COttOn steady; sales s0vV
bales; uplands at 14ze.; Orleans, l5Ae. Flour dul
but without decided change; sales $500 b0ls Wneat
dull ana nominal. corn quiet; sales S0suVo ousnSls
new mixed Western at SIC. Oats qulet' safes
II, ,OUO bushels OnlO at 6S09lOc. boeI stoauys TVAA
dull Lard steady. Whisky nrm ~ sSc
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"A Kentucky wedding was interrupted by
young girl, with a babe in her arms, forbidding
the hans. The bridegroom, asking them to ex-
cuse Linn a moment stepped out aud shot his
head off.
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AWFUL TRAGEDY IN ALBANY, N. Y.
The British Ballot Bill.
A Great lnundation in Vienna.
a Reported Papal Crusade.
The Nathan Murder.
"A Clue Finally Obt aimed.
Ktc.s ESQ.,. Etc.. ETC.. Rtc.
The Nathan Murder.
"A Clue Finally Obtained.

Ktc.s Etc.. ETC.. ETC.. Rtc.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-01-20
Miss Adelaide Phillips.

In common with all who have heard her,
we fee! regret that the concerts given by
Miss Adelaide Phillips were limited to
three only. We understand that the con.
cert company will leave New Orleans for
Mobile on Monday night. But we, may in
q,l;re, why should not Miss Phillips give a
concert OF sacred music previously to her
depart'lre' A large portion Of the deserved
celebrity Of this transcendent artist r.
based v,,on her special excellence in eccle.
s;astic music. and it would be rare and de.
sirabie treat 20 hear her render and inter
pref the music Of Handel, of Haydn and
Mendelssohn, Of Tails, and the earlier great
masters Of church harmony.
We have occasional excellent amateur
concerts of sacred music in New Orleans,
but here is an opportunity for concert,
given by all artistic of unsurpassed and VII
disputed talent. We earnestly hope that
Mis-, Ph:ilipps may be induced to give a
concert. and we suggest that for choruses
and senl:-c -choruses, there are no doubt both
lady and gentlemen amateurs whs would
most chcerfu.iy assist. We have no doubt
that such q concert tin the Odd Fellows
Hall. fo- instance, would be very we'll at
tended. Would not Sunday evcnin. hs ~
appropriate time
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-01-20
Benefit to MIR. Baker.

Tie complimentary benefit ~ Mr.. Lewis
Baker. late manager Of the tine company
engaged at the Varieties Theatre. takes
place this evening ut the Odd Fellows
Hail. Mr.. Baker has shared to the fullest
extent tie calamity that befcl the company
when tie theatre was destroyed. Aud up
to the present time he has bent all his
efforts 70 assist his fellows in misfortune.
His talent. as an actor, his merits AZ anan-
ager. his character as a gentleman, and the
philosoph;c rallnness with which he has
borne such severe misfortune, were all COM
bined to ;te the respect and sympathy of
this community; and this is manifested by
the complimentary benefit rendered to him,
to take place this evening. We do not
doubt that he will be greeted with an over
flowing house.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-01-20
Butler. Pacific Railroad Investig CATION
Resolution.

The following is the text, in full, Of Gen
eral Butler, resolution for investigating
the Pacific railroad. referred to the Commit.
tee on Appropriations:
Resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives,. in Congress assembled.
That the President of the United States is
hereby authorized and required to appoint
three commissioners to examine into and
report, at the earliest day practicable, as to
what disposition has been made of the gov
crnmcnt aid. including public lands. bont,s
or credit, granted to the Union Pa
ifc and Central Pacific and Kansas
Pacific railroad companies. and each of
them. and each and all railroads
which HAY. received aid from gov
ernment. and all persons, if any. who have
derived benefit thcretrom, to what extent,
and in what manner, whether the property
Of said aid has been properly and rightfully
applied 10 The objects contemplated bv
Congress. and for that purpose the said
commissioners are hereby authorized to APP
point clerk, to send for persons and papers,
to ad minister oaths, to take testimony, and
do all the things necessary and ncedful to
carry out the object OF the resolution; and
the President Is requested to transmit to
Congress, from time to time, such reports
as may be made by said commissioners ON
the subject and inquiries herein provided
for. Their compensation and that of their
clerks shall be fixed by the Secretary of the
Treasury, with the approval Of the President.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-01-20

ANY poor man who would Ike to have
would like 70 add to MS pile. can increase
their chance to attain the desired end by a
ticke: in the Louisiana State Lottery, which
viii te drawn tomorrow morning at eleven
o'clock, over the rooms .: the company.
Whoever buys ticket it is certainly among
tie ;'oss biiities that he or she may draw
the prize Of .ifty thousand dollars. If not
fifty thousand. there are a variety o! prizes,
each one desirable enough. The drawing Of
the Lottery will be An interesting sight, and
hold tickets. Tho-. who do not had better
purchase at once. for who knows what the
drawing may bring forth
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-01-20
ADJUSTMENTS.
Academy Of Music.


Last night. as might be supposed when
EAST Lynne" was put on the stage, tho
Academy was literally crowded, the ladies
occupying most of the seats in the par
quette, and chairs and camp stools being
brought into requisitiOn. This evening
"FrOu- Frou" will be presented, on the oc-
casion of the benefit of Miss Lucille West
ern. Tomorrow noon, "Frou-Frou' mat
inee.
st. Charles Theatre.
This evening, last night but two of the
engagement Of the Lydia Thompson Troupe,
and the great burlesque Of ''Forty Thieves;
or, Striking Oil in Family Jars The
g. Irish Lion " will be tho opening perform
ance of the evening. Tomorrow night, ben
etit of. Miss Louise Arnott, who will appear
in two characters. Tomorrow, last matinee
of the Tholnpsons. Monday evening Lotts.
will commence her engagement in the great
sensational drama of the Little Detec-
tive" i'll which abe will assume six charac
where
Odd Fellows Hall.
This evening, testimonial benefit to Nr.
Lewis Baker, late manager Of the Varieties
Theatre, when Miss Edith Challis, Miss
Emma Cline, Mr.. NJ. w. Fiske and Mr..
Lewis Baker Will appear in highly inter
ssting programme. Tickets one dollar
only, may be had at Grunewald's, No. l29
Cana. street, and at the principal hotels.
National Theatre.
This evening, for the first time, the anus
in. comedy OF "One OF Our People" The
entertainment will be one that the patrons
Of that gem of a thatre can not fad to enjoy.
The Circus.
The Italian and American Circus, with
Dan Rice as its presiding genius, changes
4
matinee performance at one o'clock, and
the regular performance this evening at the
corner of Magazine and First streets This
Is the largest and finest arena entertain
,nent ever exhibited in tho South, and is
composed of all first class performers.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-01-20
The French RaZaH.

We .carn from Mr.. Felix Larue, Presi-
dent Of the French Baza1, that the com
mittee at their sitting Thursday evening
decided TO forward forthwith second re-
mittance of fifteen thousand dollars to the
Central Committee of Relief in France,
through the hands of Mr. Albin Rochcreau
This is IN addition to the remittance of
twenty-five thousand dollar. previously
forwarded. Those who from a sense of
duty or mere benevolcnce have contributed
in any way to the success of the Bazar
enterprise VII! be glad to learn these facts.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-01-20
VERSAILLES.

Bisularc Partially Recovered. B o u ba rtfs
ment Of Paris Slow but Steady..Thress
Days' Fighting Around Ch0grcy..(;ers
An Loss Eleven Hundred..French
Brig Captured by n German Frignte.s
Chanzy Under Full Retrcat..(;erman.s
in Fnll Pursuit--VOn Werder Attacked,
but Maintains His Position..Fight
Along the Whole Line..The Fire On
Paris Still Continues--H0rrors of the
siege Endured with Calmness.
Especial to the London Timesl
VERSAILLES, January 7.-Bismarck has
been ill, but is partially recovered.
the conference.
The bombardment Of Paris proceeds
slowly but steadily. The gunners systematic
icallv avoid firing buildings.
flag of truce was sent into the CITY will,
news and letters.
A German dispatch dated Brevillers.
January II, reports General Keller had
occupied the towns of Frazier and Cam
br!er, taking the latter by surprise, with
three hundred prisoners.
The French afterward mace 8. sharp
attack on Chogrey, BetancOurtsA d Frazier.
General Keller maintained his position.
The fighting continued three DAYS. during
which the Germans lost eleven hundred
men.
French brig, with provisions, was cap
tured of Bordeaux by the German frisate
Augusta.
A dispatch from Versailles saw the
(o0NTuGu3D On EIGHTH PAGR