, 1874-02-12
were Liberal Conservative and Lib

eral.
NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-Two cars of the
night express from Washington became
detached near New Brunswick this
morning, and when the engine slacken-
ed speed it crushed into the other cars.
Several passengers were severely injur-
ed among them Senator Conklin. en-
route to Utica, called there by the death
of his father.
San FRANo1sco, Feb. 8.-John Pritch-
ard fell out of Sd story window of a
house on Morton street this morning
and was instantly killed.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. The Southern
Trans-Continental Railroad bill was re-
ferred to the Committee of the Whole.
Under the ruling of the Speaker, that
provision granting ten acres for depot
purposes to each five miles of road and
also the right to take timber and stone
from public lands. brought it within
the meaning of the rule recently adopt
ed, requiring reference of all bills ap.
propriating public property to the Com
mittee of the Whole, where it will un-
doubtedly be fully discussed. Hough-
ton, in advocating the bill, goes to the
full extent of the position ofGrangers that
Congress has not only the right to reg
ulate intestine charges, but also charges
between points on the sane road, if the
road on which they are situated is an
intestine one.
House Committee on appropriations
have been confirmed in their conclu.
sions that the present force of the army
is larger than necessary, by the testi-
mony given before the Military Com
mittee to the effect that there were al
ready too many soldiers in the Indian
country, though the main reduction is
expected to fall principally on the army
in the East and South. Felix Brunot,
Major Powell, Of the Colorado exploring
expedition, and G. W. ingalls,, the lat
ter of whom acted as special Commits
sioner to investigate affairs in South
eastern California, Utah, Nevada and
Idaho, expressed this opinion. Gener-
al ingalls, declares that his opinion is
shared by prominent ranchers. stock
raisers, and property holders in Nevada,
with whom he conversed freely upon
the subject, and who unanimously agree
that the presence of troops among the
Indians is productive o. mischief.
LONDON, Feb. I'm Parlis mentary
elections to-day in nine constituencies.
II Conservatives and 3 Liberals were
4 Conservatives being for
seats occupied by the Liberals in the
late Parliament Arthur E. Guinnios,
Conservative, and Brooks, Home-ruler,
are elected from Dublin.
HAVANA, Feb. Two pages in to-
days official Gazette are devoted to the
Proclamation by Capt. General Jovellar,
who has been lately re-invested with ex-
traordinary powers. 1t gives full ex-
position of the present state of insur-
rection, and causes of its continuance.
Also all assurance that peaceable citizens
may live purely under the protection of
the laws. It declares the Island in a
state of siege. Rebels and persons ac-
cused of sedition. murder and similar
crimes are to be tried by Court Martial.
Persons charged with other crimes and
are to be tried before Or
dinary courts. 1t orders mobilization
for active service of one volunteer out of
every ten, to be Immediately enrolled
and continued in the service for six
months. All persons between the ages
of 20 and 45 years not volunteers, on
the 1st of February are to be enrolled
in the malitia. Voluntary enlistn ent is
to be for one year, and any volunteer
who may enlist for one year is to be ex-
empt from all future drafts. Every
drafted volunteer to receive 800 bounty.
Drafted volunteers are to be allowed to
furnish substitutes, but the payment of
money to be received from the service
will not be allowed. No one subject to
draft will be permitted to leave the Is
land unless he gives bonds that he will
furnish substitute in case he is dfafted.
All persons over As years of age will
have to furnish for mobilization one
man out of every ton. Quarter-masters
will furnish the necessary accoutrements
to drafted persons, who will receive the
same treatment and be subject to the
laws and regulations as regular soldiers.
Those drafted will be organized into
10 lies of 800, forming. two additional
companies to augment each battalion.
Two thirds of those drafted will remain
in the garrison and othe.s take the field
accompanied by the regulars. Every 6
months the third in the field will be re-
lieved by one or the other of the two
thirds performing garrison duty. Ar
tillery and engineer corps will be rein :
forced in the same manner as infantry.
Every male person of age shall he in
cluded in the militia; all to be liable to
military duty, under certain restrictions
and conditions. Free colored people
enrolled in the militia shall be subject
to the sane conditions as whites and be
in the same manner.
Owners of slaves shall give one out
of every thousand in the Island to work
in. the swamps and Notifications and in
the trenches. At the end of the cam
paign the Government will liberate all
those slaves, paying their owners 81, 600
for each. The proclamation creates
junta for the inspection of the items of
the expense of the war. 1t organized
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