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Making n Receiver Paw Up.

pOTlCF tHe
Continental Life Insurance Company who paid s2,o0
TO the company IN october. few days before the
pny's Insolvency declared. sued TO from
the tnat amount, the ground that the ON
knew OF its condition at the time they took the
He secured Judgment AGAINST the Z, ceiver.
aud the latter was in.tfuctei to ply Il The received
appea ed and applied Tor stay on The Judgment. that
Justice Pratt yesterday declined to grant.
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John Roweirs Two Wives.
Of

US thIs YOUR WIItTT askeu JUSTICE WOrean Of
John ROwell. MOrrisana n-herman IN the Isreu
police court yestcr 'ay as he pointed 70 mcdcsi-ook
INK woman. who had charged Rowcl with asslu tlpa
h. r. "Snc'4 one or them. your Homer replied the
prisoner what have you mOrcp" "Oly on more
Judge. ana when on don't urnsve, | s"ud for Ind
O nrr." Ana YOU have hi.urcn by both ?" "I have
Judge" "And does your plau wofk ?" " Pretty lair
Judge; pretty f-ir." lie Was cJmnl.tte tor mouth
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The J1Tr' nVonfl0n fNen 0dT urnNI
The krenng Joerndl SAYS "rue mo-' importlnt ru-
morning Ia relation q the Sc aturll Cnufc-t
Is that the irends Of Mr. hontwel are bes nniug to
consider the policy OF breaking on Fri ay unless ms
strength largely augmented to-day. II they 4ecl
70 br,ak the probability is that they wil cnurayOr to
elect GOV. Rice. Tie loar men are very confident.
hempresslon prevails that unless the HoutWeu men
break to.da, or io.murrow they viii maze nlstaAe,
aud certainlY ensure the election of Mr. HoAr."
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MONTREAI- Jan. Is. The Deli-le ylll1gc mu-
niripal ccction yesterday terminated IN brutal freo
ngif. IN which sono foriy men were engaged lhe
Town ll1l WAs completely sackcd aud the poing
booth WfecKtd. frcnch tauaulan rou-hs would mot
allow The ~ g-h 10 vote, ana, eOAset tueAy, A the
ITunNh alanlns kelr rLNrt ~.
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The Grand jury, having been looking into pool
selling presented the subject to the General sessions
yesterday follows In view of the evils caused by
the sale Of pools, form Of gambling Will h seems 70
have become am1st uuycrs in this citN, ar ~ fact
over the cNtlrr country specie. of gNuulus winch
Is Injurious nd upng IA IT. rn ci- uloI thr muras
OF tns community this jury respectfully prlsens .
b.ll Tor the suppression Of THIS vice"
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Cortandt street. the main outlet for New Jes-
traffc, both passenger and freight ia prac aiv
impossible except to travellers on foot. The snow.
Witch Is fully foot deep on the level Is churned ~
the top to a thick. heavy paste, ami underneath sa
layer Of frozen ami mud ana at the great
mounds Of suow. frozen suld IF serious -tructon
travel. YNstrrd the wlg with the m ill fJr the
Pennsylvania RsirOiu depot, drawn bY tour pow rim
horses. haI hard struggle . get through. Wth TINS
single exception no heavily loaded vehicle essayed ts
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The Tennessee -emn,orship.

WI TTI1F'
result Tor Ulcd stAtes senator, to succeed the
afc Andrew lohn-on, 'he Legislature aliourned un Il
tom rrnN II. VI. Key mas urcn u ilunttul also ". G..
Mmithurue. ruf tst it, the scY ATTY -urat stood
Kew As, Bailey, -; Mhiuh o. hatr s. necessary
tOacuVllc, ", IAe keYuuucaas 80 vl fOr Key.
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Amer Two Years OF study.

At Baptist Council, composed Of delegates
fromtac Plymouth. South First fl'th Avenue. Trinity
CentrNl rk. Madison Avenue and Other BaptiA
churches ycs.e .erday Mr. NJ e. LOCKWOOD a candidate
for adnlss On, passed remarkably nne rIim animation.
HLd was UNANIMOUSLY considered " rtlf ~ urdntti N.
Two years ago Ice Wa, NtntIe1 lie bad then siuNlcd
htuc, anu haI Just gven up MS trAdo AS mason 70
preach.
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Onr hundred and two votes will now eject senator.
Mr.. Barlhow Of Kankatee Rcpun can, having been
clcu home 10y the ncAs tiat his VIE WAS dying. AMI
hl- colleague NJ. BuLy. DemOcrA,, haYns g-ifc1 III
with lln.
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OMAHA, Jan. Is Alvin saunders WAS to-day
elected United states senator tho thri JOINT ballot
RECEIVING - votes-ih' fun Republican sua luiopen.
drltN'e. Glt saunders was .he last IcrtOf A4 Coy.
ernur OF Nebraska.
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The GnVrrumenl nondei warelou-o huil ings
~Iutti't leland. ~ EnI4bt tpuft "trf uuIutd yea
ttrlay. Loss, sau,pOO,
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James Uopner OF Mcssrs. > .ndot, & Hopper,
Newark merchants went home from his business
Yesterday. and. coinpl.inins ~ nr 4. went 10 ned
llIlf An hour HitrrWurl nee was UNI drtt, There
we're nu lIcs Ions u4 suirlhe, yet many DeleYc shat
Ina al .l.uA IA
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Ellen Shcridnn, aged A., willie intoxicated, fcli
dpNn tnr IVIr rilup nf tht frurtnrnt ~ Nuifh
Elsnth nlrer Br,ukNn. "arrU sAc EYcd. anu received
lLluricn r. ~ WhcI hhf tI'l 30 steflhy,
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The Senate. Yesterday. uia animously confirmed
J. t.'4II It 80 N 'ii T.
nance nI,h 90 rAuS Of ladleiouer,i "a piaDu VI
k.l1OuIn hnC1. lie 49, uaIibeut.
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Frederick BuCuu auu, aged a.. q shoemaker, ot
$40 liu l.nu u.ruu lrpukbu. VA f'nul dead m The
bico .fl OF Ais rcl4cu1e last ulslt having Va .en
Paris srcrA.
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~rorI ~ rrinc'-t dalle sister Of thu
Lntuss sud wfe fr,uus Cnsivs Iuss.a. l., Ge ID
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Cfpf. samuel Groves. a well-hnnwn aud re-
spectcl rrsi4ent Of Wiliamsburgh. Is dcld.
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The Bnlioting for ~enntor In Illinois.

SrRINGrIELD, Jan. ls-rne Illinois Leeisla-
ture In joint convention to-day Dilloted for United
statos senatOr. Win the follow ing result
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Westerly To- souihery winds, warmer, clear. or
patty I.euly weather.
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Cha'oag T. r.r0 u.,ic delio tc Claiets In qts,
pts. ca b. Eolos MAuscr 40 .,4ho ar Il. -
i1U.
New-York tribune., 1877-12-21

branch line laid out in 1873. The new line extends
from Tacoma 10 the mouth of the Snake River by
the way OF Natchcz Pass in the Cascade Noun
tains BY reference to a report by General Me
Clellan and by other evidence, ii may he
seen that this Natchez Pass route Is wholly
impracticablo for a railroad and that the
Northern Pacific Company is So fully aware of the
fact that survey of the proposed ronte has beel
made. From the map Of Washington Territory anu
otherwise it may be seen that the proposed c0a ro
is not even any practicable route to the Natchez
Pass, but extends throughout tine canon 0I thc
Puyallup River among the foot MI Oh
Mount Rainier, that II is entirely lmpoS,
sible to continue the line from the coal
mines over the intervening spurs OF the mouh-
tains to the Natchcz Pass. 1t may he laid down as
legal proposition that the grant To the branch me
having once been located by filing plat Wlth lile
Commissioner of the General Land Once III lH1''
that route could not now be abandoned 10y thc com
pany and relocated on another and entirely uhcIeh
line IS now proposed by the filing of a new ptat'
Mr.. Mc(ihra asserted that the construc5'on ~ '"
this coal road is IN the interest oi Iahu Iingd
known as the Lake superior and ICeet SouMo liInu
COMPANY and that its object IL 10 facilitate i'e
growth of Tacoma, and to make the town h't ,io Wv
property Of the company, very valuable lhS ht ~ ~
temptCd 70 prove by means of extracts li1nl
the report Of the board of directors oi tue
Northern Pacific Railroad COMPANY to the sl"cA-
holders for the year 1876. Mr.. McGllbra appears
ON behalf of the people of Washington ltiFIloIi'
and for the purpose of having the lands nov VII a.
drawn from settlement restored 10 the pupIIo uu-
main IN order that they may he reopeheu py PIC
New-York tribune., 1877-12-21
CoIlFGF-PLACE.

Ear long time McssIs Greenfield u son have en-
,I,.,..I = German engineer of dlsslpIted habits.
wick aco Nelson Greenfield, the junior member Of
,j firm. insisted on The mans discharge but the
father and senior member of the firm, ont
of pity for an old employc, insisted on
his retention. Yesterday afternoon the boiler
IN charge of tins drunken engineer exploded,
sbs,terag the building in which 1t was situated, as
well - adjoining ones, and setting fire to the iuiiah-
,,oble material used in the manufacture Of candles
The fire soon extended 10 the adjoining buildings,
and as their walls had been shattered by the
cvul,sion. they soon fell and tho lire became
general. 49,,
Tine boiler was in the cellar of the building which
fronted on Barclay-st. The force OF the explosion
was 40 great that the IRON front was blown across
Rarclay-st. against the building on the opposite
side. yrscking It's front Large Kettles Tor holhhg
supar were hurled the same distance. A passing
,.,.,'r'.ss wagon was so completely wrecked that
nat spoke adhered to any one OF the
I,,,hs of its wheels, and one horse was killed and
49,. o,ber,s Irrs were broken. The debris of the
,,r,led buildng was piled upon the northern side
ll, IN the depth Of fifteen feet, aud IN the middle
- Tho .tre,t il was fully the height of man. This
consisted Of wagons, horses, kettles, pots IRON
,,r. ,ynod.u rartcrs and masses OF candy, IN All
stag,g OF manufacture.
,,,,I,., of those who were in the building eS-
,,.,l III, the College Place entrance. Oh these the
-, mart were wounded, and their names are
., - far as il WAS possible 10 ascertain thenl' IN
a.. -. below. Many missing are aiso reported; /;
., names are also given. OF those whom II ~ cef
,, ara. killed the list must be mcagre, Tor the rea-
., that tne flames prevented a search OF the runs
until a late hour
All uth,leyiIencc would tend to show that large
rn,,ber Of persons p.rished IN the runs vi the
nn,,l,.r enployed only one-fourth are yet heaiu
rr, n th, oIaces where the most accurate niorha-
&c., =, ,,.u,lly obtained The salesrooms were wen
s,lod and these were directly over the DolieI'
Tho crowd passing along Barclay-st' at .
o,.l,ck IN tLe afternoon Is always large anu
some. IN all probability, must have per''"0,
,ybIe n,sa.ng OF course there Is the haIeSt giouu
for one that all in the store and street may nave
esc,ncd death but only actual examination OF tue
r,,ins mr. the reports Of missing persons "hich may
he looked l,rat the various police stations to-oay can
s.ttle tL. actual number who may have peeh lost
In ali nrobabilty the loss of life Is heavier thah can
be nosjtiyely reported tonight, for ut O'CLOCK hS
morninr the force employed to remove the ueorls
had pot reached the sidewalk IN the Imihc"la'e
front of the building IN which the explosion
occurred. As early as o'clock Ias' eNon'ns
The wounded had ceased reporting at the hospl'"i'
and police stations The number oi thesc uoeS "o'
New-York tribune., 1877-12-21
no REDUCTION AT NEwYoRK POST OFFICE
WASHINGTON NOTES.
WASHINGTON. ThursdaY.

WASHNGToN, Thursday. Dee. 20 1877
Tie Secretary OF the Treasury received letter TO-DAY
from Waterbury, Conn, containing 500 conscience
| money.
The condition Of Senator Patterson Of South Carana
is not favorable as it was yesterday. His limbs ap-
| pear TO Ice somewhat paralyzed
The District Commissioner today forwarded to New
York through the Treasury Department, 1854 300 in
coin to pay the interest due on January on bonds OF
| thIs District.
The keeper OF the Life Saving Station at Kitty Hawk
informs the Chief gnu Officer that the dead body Of
white was found seven miles north Of station No. g.
! yesterday, and buried
! The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided
that Major william Dodge is to be the suVcrin cudcut
of the paper mil al East Pepperc iiass where ine Iu
| teIual Revenue stamp paper Is 10 be manufactured
Al the request OF Senators Booth ana Sargent ana the
entire Pacific Coast delegation Major Benjamin c. Tru
man nas been appointed Special Agent for the Post OF
ncc Department, with headquarters IN saa Francisco
Ex-Governor Mccormick Commissioner-Geuerel to the
Paris Exposition left here tonight for NewYork FOR the
uurose Of king arraugemcus for receiving AMI load
g goods hoard The United States ship supply The
first ycssc To leave for France.
Commissioner Hsyt OF the Indian Bureau, is to-day
in receipt Of official adyccs tnat the Red Cloud Agency
Indians are ROW at the forks Of White RIVER sixtyye
miles from the new reservation selected for them Tho
r. asois Ssicd for this stOpp&gC short 81 then dcsina
lion arc hat the water III tAe Yellow Medicine River -
insufficient ia quantity ana unnl loI urt, ln t!t tAf
p1.ss Ia vicinity of the Missouri KlVeF reservation
mas been burnt on
some pouths ago the gambling houses Of Washington
were raidcd and for season their doors were closed
by degrees the keepers resumed operations with more
caution however. by order Of the Police Board raid
was made last night on two wolknown gambling estab-
shments IN tie vicinity Of PcnnsyNana-aye and fduf-
The policemen failed TO capture any OF the
fraternity but seized their Paraphernaia At the rooms
sf one OF the establishments, which were brilliantly
lighted ric repas been spread for the guests Dut
heae had evidently received information Of the approach
OF tie officers aud had He'd
In reply TO the trade rcalar issued by the Department
Of State in August last th- United State. consuI at Bre-
men reports that, after careful consideration of tho
business In general IN that quarter he is convinced that
almost every article Of American growth and maUufac
turc which pohtably be introduced IN Germany has
already found It's way there lie suggests that the
istng trade manufactured ARTICLES might be increased
New-York tribune., 1877-12-21
AN INDIAN IN CONGRESS.
A PROPOSITION TO ALLOW THE RED MtN OF INDIAN
TERRITORY TO ELECT A DELEGATE.
lRy TELEGRAPH TO TRIBUNE1

lBY TELEGRAPH TO THe TRIBUNE1
WAsurNGToN, Dec. 20.-A bill to allow the civl-
lied tribes of the Indian Territory to elect dele
gate to Congress has been introduced in the House
and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
]. W. TIiroclmorton, Of Texas. and Martin !.
Townsend of Ncw-York, have been appointed Il
subcommittee to consider and report upon the bill
Their report is favorable TO the bill, and VIII be
made to the committee on the reaescmbling OF Con
crcs 1t will no doubt be adopted 1t provides that
delegate who shall he a member Of some one OF
the Cherokee Creek Seminole, ChOctaw, or Chick
asaw tribes shall be chosen at general election 10
be held under the supervision and direction ct the
Secretary of the Interior, and shall have all the
rights. privileges and cmolumcnts of delegate from
any of the regularly organized Territories. The
treaties of 1866 with the aboye-Haned tribes au-
thorze their representation in Congress whenever
provision shall bc made by law for 1t.
The report deals largely in statistics. 1t shows
that the population Of the five tribes is about sixty
thousand. of which about ten thousand are citizens
OF the United States, beng whites who have mar
ried INTO the tribes and thus become members Of
them. and negroes who were formerly slaves Of the
Indians hat were freed hy the treaty Of 1866, and
mademmncrsof tacscycml tribes. Thcrcport Shows
that il COSTS the natives upward OF ToOooJ yearly
TO send delegates here. Under the pIescnt system
each tribe now sends from two TO five on SIX dele
,e1trS at an expense Of about 50 q day cach One
DELEGATE for all who shall have the privilege ci the
floor of Congress, would give tine tribes much more
influence with the Government. The report SHOWS,
by official statistic that large MAJ 'uiy OF the
population of the territory speak ana read the Ens-'
If-i
New-York tribune., 1877-12-21

THE srARrING-PLACE OF THE FLAMEs-TREbfENDOUs
POWER or THE EXPLOsIoN-TlE FRONT or The
BUmDING HURLED ALMOST ACROSS THE STREET
PROBABILITIES THAI PEOPLE PASSING by WERE
BURIED UNDER THE WALL.
The firm of J.. Greenfield & Son are, or were,
among the largest manufacturers Of confectionery
in this citp They shipped their goods to all parts
of the country; their retail traffic was very
extensive; they often manufactured into
candies as mucn as 10000 pounds Of
sugar in a single day; and in their
busy seasons, as at this time, they doubled their
force OF workmcn and employed from 100 to 200
boys and grls and a few men. Yesterday
the force employed was not less than 100
and not more than $50 persons. About
O'Clock yesterday afternoon Cat the time Of the cX
ploson. the details Of which are given below, about
twenty-five customers were known to be in the cs-
tabshncut and numbers of persons were passing
in the busy thorJugbiarc Of Barclay-st.
The lirn occupied buildins facing on Barclay,
with an l. facing on College-pace 1t was sur
ronc Of which very iuhammablc articles were man
ufactured. The following diagram viii indicate at
once the relations of tie buildings and the char
acter of the business carried in each. 1t
does not indicate precisely the burned distinct but
il may Dee stated that buildings No. 81, No. G3, No.
80 aud No. 81 Barclay-st are wholly destroyed;
that Buildings No. - aud NO. 90 are partly de-
strovcd: and that buiidug so 1 and No. 3 College
place. and No. 237, No. $50, No. . Il and No. 2l3
GrccnwIcl-st are more or less damaged.
DIAGRAM OF BURNED DIsrmCr
gRrrNprCII-ST.
New-York tribune., 1877-12-21
CUBAN AFFAIRS.

HlVANA, Dee ia body of go Insurgents
was lately enc uutrred by "a Spanish column III I"r
uci,ib rhood OF sauti Spiror After an engagement
which lasted two hours. the insurgents were dispersed
leaving fr,uinc dead and 2t prisoners Among the ia-
ter arr T., O. s-,c#mp of MH Come "nd fourteen
cfi.rrs Til, Spanish !i.d twelve Killed ana Iuciffu
v-onpdcd Iupnriant correspondence Was found with
the adrs lecaup. IwcntYthrce men duh seven women
.nrr.u,.-f,d Uu tAs 9JE instant lear Puerto PFhcpe
EUGtLrr rrolniueut insurrrut, Mr.. Arsenic Baarhs,
les T{cv.e surrendered To the spanish authorities
urparatipns are being made NJ the palace of the
C,,to uar.l in Havana for the celebration Oi The
K,u.'s wedding next month. New furniture has been
l,r, gl.t from hcw-Iork The municipality j. s,'d 10
have voted alOuGsO ~ bank bills 20 tins expenditure
New-York tribune., 1877-12-21
srRGEoNs IN nissan EMPLOY.
THE QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY TO OBTAIN An Al
POfN1MENT.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2O.-Numerous letters
having been addressed 10 the Minister OF the United
states At ST. Petersburg, asking for Information a' 10
what qualifications necessary TO enable an applicant
10 obtain position of surgeon ia the Imperial Army
Russia MI Boxer IN his dispatch OF the 2ist nit. 90 the
Department Of state gives the following rules for adj
mission;
The law of Russia. ElicI II IS understood, las not
been relaxed during the prre"ut var D, mat "h apl
cation fnr the post m Tie Russian army sinai
be- q gruduat" ol a medical school q! Russia; that De
shall be able pass severe examination before buaid
f the medical stan of the army that hc shall speak ana
write the Russian language, @nd that ln RECEIVING ms
commission lc shall swear allegiance To tie Emperor %
Russia to the exclusion OF Otbct allegiance oi clI.l
snip. Under tE,s circumstances % VIII ne perceived mat
no citi1,n of the United states, who has not received
medical education iu Russia D. ible 20 the po~it ou oi
,Urceuu En- tlc Russian Army Some medical Wcu nave
applied for temporary p0Sto volunteer surgeons ana
their services have been gratefully accepted either ny
ID Russian authorities 0T hy tine -Occilc, oi Inc hcd
Cross The pay surgeons in such pOslllous l., now
ever very low Their service usN bc considered ~ rem
dercd almost wholly iu spirit Of philanthropy, ana
there is little hope exc pt under r1iI5crdnaF! cIcum
stances, that surgeon serving VIII Ultimately be III
vitcd 10 accept commission III the Imperial Russian
New-York tribune., 1877-12-21
A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
PROBABLE Loss OF MANY LIVES.
TWENTY NINE WOUNDED TWENTY ONE

lhENl NINE NOlNlfD - W ENl ! -ONE
MISSING.
A GREAT MASS OF RUINS TO BE EXPLORED FOR
RoDIEs-NEARLY 100 PERSONS KNOWN TO HAVE
BEEN EMPLOYED IN THE FACTORY IN WHICH
TIE EXPLOSION OCCURRED-FEw or THEM
SEEN TO EsCAPE-THE EXITS BLOCKED BY THE
DEBRIS OF TIE EXPLOSION AND THE SWIFT
ADVANCE OF IHE FLAMEs-sEvERAL BUILDINGS
BURNED.
A boiler explosion at No. 63 Barclay-st.,
yesterday afternoon, resulted iii the destruc-
tion of several buildings by fire, the wound
ing OF twcnty-nine persons and it is feared
the loss of many lives. Thus far twenty-one
persons have been reported to the police as
missing. Between one hundred and one
hundred and fifty persons were employed
in the factory at the time Of the ac-
cident; about twenty customers We're III
the store, and the always busy thorOughfare
on which the building faced, was crowded with
persons passing to the Barclay Street Ferry to
IIobOken. No bodies had been recovered at
the hour of going to press, owing to the heat
of the flames. A defective boiler and Il
drunken engineer are understood to have been
the causes of the disaster.