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day. The following is description of the
bonds: Registered bonds, $780, No. 6,387 to
1894, both inclusive $780, No. 1914 to 1916,
both inclusive; $1,000, No. Is, 164 to 1917,
both inclusive $4,000, No. 1886 tie 7,493, both
inclusive total, 100000. Coupon bonds,
$500, No. 4O,4O1 to $4,000, both inclusive !;
$1,000, No. 108, 101 to 1210OO, both inclusive !;
total, $9,5OO,OOO.
The caucus for the Speakership is quite lively
among the Democratic candidates, Randall,
Cox, Morrison and Sayler.
Secretary Schurz notifies the subordinates of
the Interior Department that his policy will
be, briefly: No removals except for cause,
andno promotions except for merit. To this
announcement the Secretary adds, for the
benefit of the thousand-and-one applicants for
positions, that there are at present no vacancies
in the department.. @sHA
A Washington dispatch says sthere is good
reason to believe that very few, if any, diplo-
matte changes will be made at present. None
Of a very important character seem now to be
contemplated. :,
1t is positively determined that no non1ina-
ton will be sent to the Senate during it's pres
ent session to fill the vacancy ON the Supreme
bench caused by the resignation. of Judge
Davis.
Secretary Evarts has taken for residence
one of the three houses which formerly constr
tuted the Old Capitol prison during the war. r..
i A telegram from Washington says: 'The IA
yorable condition of American securities
abroad has more than once been the subject of
congratulation. Calls for the redemption of
bonds are likely to be continued, judging from
the official reports to the treasury from the
Syndicate in Europe" r - I&T..
Washington dispatches inform us that Sc
rious charges of frauds upon the treasury
have been brought against certain officials in
that department. Their plan of proceeding
seems to have been this The Treasury De-
partment would purchase quantity of regis
tered bonds on the market and place them in
the Treasury Department. They then belonged
to the Government Assistant Treasurer
Charles F. Conant, Daniel Baker, and Mr.. Bige-
| low, clerks, were cognizant of these transac-
tons, and formed a ring to profit by them.
They took the number of the bonds and the
names in which they were registered, and fur
nished these to a New York Spectator named
William Howe, who prepared bogus powers of
attorney and collected the accrued interest
from the department. after sharing it with
Conant, Bigelow and Baker.
An old man named Springer, the, sixth
insane person who has gone to Washington
to be inaugurated President, has just been
committed to the lunatic asylum. r. ,.l
Pr The bar of the Supreme Court of the United
States adopted resolutions highly compliment
airy to Judge David Davis, upon the occasion OF
I his retirement from the bench. -.us 81.
1t seems to be pretty well settled that an
extra session of Congress will be called about
the middle of May or LIST Of June.
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MISCELLANEOUS GLEAN1NGs.

Fires Montreal, Canada, loss $50, 900 New
York city, $4,000 Woonsocket, R. l., $80,00O;
Baltimore, Nd, $4,000. t
James Kingan, the crooked New York pro-
duce speculator, who recently fed from the
city after swindling everybody with whom he
had dealings, was found dead the other day, on
the track of the Inter-Colonial railway, in New
Brunswick. One theory is that he was muir
dered for the money which he carried another,
that he was laboring under mental alteration,
and committed suicide. Eight thousand dol
lars was found in the pistol-pocket of the dead
man.
plan for the adjustment of the Southern
State debts has been matured by the commit
tee appointed for that purpose some time ago
by the capitalists of New York. The plan
recommended has reference to the Tennessee
debt-the New York committee having had q
conference with the committee appointed by
the Tennessee Legislature contemplates
the issue of new bonds at the rate
of 60 per cent. of the aggregate amount
of the principal and unpaid interest
up to July, 1877, the new bonds to
be payable in thirty years, and bear interest
at the rate of per cent. payable semi-annually
in New York-the interest coupons to be
receivable for all taxes due to the State of
Tennessee.
An express robbery was committed at
Pittsburgh Pa, the other evening,
which for ingenuity and audacity
has rarely been surpassed in the annals OF
criminal exploits In this case the telegraph
took the place of the revolver and electricity
served instead of bloodshed. The telegraph
wire was tapped outside the city, and, by the
aid of pocket instrument, two bogus messages
were sent, by which the express messenger
turned over his car to the thief under what he
had every reason to suppose were genuine in
structions to that effect from the General SUI
perintendent at Pittsburgh. The clever raseals
who managed the job realized about 50, 900 fo1
their pains, and the Express Company are Won
dering what new and unsupported plan of rob
berry will next be attempted.
A Washington dispatch says that many Amer
leans have filed complaints against Bancroft
Davis, our Minister to Berlin, for discourtesy
and graver offenses.
The steamship City Of Brussels, which sailed
from New York last week, took out $1O0OO,OOO
in ~ per cent. United States bonds, with which
to cancel a like amount of 500 bonds held in
Europe, and about falling due.
A decision of the United States Supreme
Court afirms the right of State to wholly ex-
clude foreign insurance companies from doing
business within it's limits.
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DOMESTIC NEWS.
East.

The Legislature of Connecticut has passed a
law fixing the legal rate ofinterest in that State
ate per cent, in the absence of a contract.
The contestants of the will of the late Com
modore Vanderbilt have withdrawn their obiec-
tons to its being probated, and the threatened
fight over the dead milionaire's money-bags
will not come off after all, much to the disap-
pointment of the lawyers.
The unemployed workingmen of Scranton.
Pa, made demonstration upon the City Coun-
Gil, the other day, calling upon the members
when in session and demanding an appropria-
ton of $4,000 for the public works, that en-
ployment may be given. Some of the working
men used threatening language and were re-
buked by the Mayor, whereat there was great
uproar, and cries of 'We will have bread or
blood" The meeting broke up in wild dis
order.
Peter B. Sweeney, whose name was associ-
ated with Boss Tweed in the great ring swim
dies, and who has been an exile for the past five
years, has returned to New York city. He has
not been taken into custody, because it was ar
ranged with the Attorney General that if he
would return and be present at the trial against
him all proceedings, civil and criminal, SO far
as arresting him, should be suspended during
the trial and for thirty days afterward.
Thomas w. Thompson, of Westfeld, N. Y.
has been arrested and held for trial on charge
OF using the mails to fraudulently obtain money
from relatives of deceased parties of the late
Ashtabula disaster, his modus operandi being
to write to relatives of deceased friends stating
ne had IN his possession certain articles belong
ing to deceased, and npon receipt of stipulated
sums would forward the articles named.
signing his name "Victor Bennett" The pris-
oner offered no defense, pleading guilty to the
charge.
The steamer Husband, bound from Antwerp
to New York, was driven on the beach at Long
Branch, N. j., bya violent gale, few nights
ago. The passengers and crew, numbering
bout 100 people, were rescued by the life
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS.

Ex-senator George S. Boutwell,, to be Com
missioner to prepare new edition of Revised
Statutes.
John C. Lee, to be United States District At
torney for the Northern District of Ohio.
Jesse H. Moore, Pension Agent at Spring
field, Ill. e.
John Mcfarland, to be Receiver of Public
Moneys at Detroit, Mich.
Philip Fl. Emerson, Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of Utah.
Henry Fisk, United States Marshal for the
Eastern District of Michigan. en
Thomas L. James, Postmaster at New York.
James NJ. Wilkinson Receiver of Public
Moneys at Marquette, Mich.
Jesse Hildrup, United States Marshal for the
Northern District of Illinois.
Orlando H. Merwin, Postmaster at Evanston,
Ill.
Thomas Jernegan, Surveyor of Customs at
Michigan City, Ind.
M. j. Waldron, Marshal for the Western Dis
trict of Tennessee.
George F. Dick, Postmaster at Bloomington,
Ill.
S. H. Evans, Marshal for the Eastern District
of Tennessee.
Michael Piggott, Postmaster at Quincy, Ill.
Edward Russell, Postmaster at Davenport
Iowa.
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Complete returns of the New Hampshire
election show the election of the entire Repub-
lcan State ticket by majorities of about 5000.
Inthe First District Jones, Democrat, is elected
to Congress by Is votes. Briggs and Blair,
Republicans, are returned from the Second and
Third Districts.
Gov. Warmoth, of Louisiana, has submitted
to the President a plan for the adjustment of
the political difficulties in that State. His
proposition is for the Legislature to recanvass
the votes as shown by the face of the returns
andsleclare the vote for Governor This would
give the Democrats the Governor and other
State officers, and the Republicans the Legisla-
ture. IA EBEfasNE6 81
Postmaster General Key has addressed let
ter to Senator Merrimon, of North Carolina,
in regard to Federal appointments in the South,
in which he says !: "When vacancy exists in
an Office connected with the department in the
Southern States, preference will be given to a
Republican, all other things being equal but
should it be impossible to find Republican
who will be satisfactory to large majority of
the people whose business is directly affected
by the appointment, or in case of a contest
over the Office, then shall not hesitate to step
aside and select a person who in my Judgment,
will give satisfaction to the business interests
of the community"
Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, pledges
the President that if the troops are withdrawn
from that State he will proceed against Cham
berlain by legal means only, and that no VIC
lence will be permitted
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LAWS OF WISCONSIN.

Where superfuous word is found in the en-
rolled act it is printed in the text, but in itaic and
lnclosed in parenthess {thus). Where a word is
found necessary to sustain the of the context
or where one word has been obviously mistaken for
another, the word supposed to be proper is supplied
but IN brackets Ithusl.
PETER DOYLE Secretary of State,
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Approved March 1, 1877.
CDubIichnd March 10 12

CHAPTER 109
AN ACT relating to the partition of real estate and
amendatory of chapter 142, of the Revised Stat
utes, relating to the partition of lands owned by
several persons.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION J. In all actions for the partition of rea
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-09-22
Large Fire.

MATAWAN. n. j., September 22.-At eleven
o'clock last Dight flames were discovered is
suing from the rear Of butcher shop at the
foot of Broad street. Report. A strong wes!
wind from the bay vas blowing. The fire
extended to buildings adjoining aud spread With
great rspidity toward Front street sweeping
everything before it. The town is without fire
apparatus Of aoy sort and ell attempts 10 check
the flames By neans Of buckets were unavang.
10 al hour it had reached Front street and
building after building was developed 10 flames
for square to the south. The flames then
crossed Front street to the Atlantic Hotel and
the wiad changing at the poiotthe fire retraced
its course, sweeping all on the east side of
Front street back to Broad street, destroying
MckenDy's drug store aud the Episcopal
Church, aud recrossed Front street to the Man
sion House, entirely destroying that large build.
ng. The Pavilion is the only hotel saved. The
eulire business portion of the town is in ashes
Including over forty buildings. The Matswau
fire department was on hand apd did everything
possible to arrest the flames. Goods were piled
10 the streets aud protected BY Company G
State Militia. The loss lis estimated at 5000, 900;
Insurance unknoWn.
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Movements Of Gen. Grant.

General Grants visit to Newcastle. n.Tyne
and it's neighborhood was the occasion OF a most
enthusiastic and remarkable demonstration.
Yesterday morning The General and Mrs.
Grant, accompanied by the Mayor Of Newcastle,
Gen. Badcau, Mr.. Fairchild and the United
States Consul at Newcastle and others, visited
the Exchange and other places Of interest 10
Newcastle. There were numerous banners
along the route, and large crowds Of spectators.
10 the Exchange General Grant received an
address from the Chamber of Commerce, and,
replying thanked the large and nthusias!io
audience for its kind reception. which was
highly gratifying TO him and the American peo-
pie, VINO would accept it Is token of kind
friendship between the two nations. tie could
not say two peoples, for they were really one,
having common destiny, which would be
brilliant 10 proportion to their friendship. He
referred to the honorable settlement of all dit
fersucas between England and America, and
said they ought not only keep peace with each
other, hut with all the world, and by their ex
ample stop the wars Hbiah are now devastating
Europe
The speech vas loudly chcered. Gen. Grant
ana tie Corporation then proceeded down the
Tyne on steamer, which Was salued With
gu1s from almost every fAstory on the banks,
every available spot 90 which Vas crowded With
people. Genera! Grant stood on the bridge of
the steamer during the greater part CT the voy.
age, bowiog in response to repeated cheers.
The steamer stopped at Jarrow and Tyne
mouth. at both OF which places the municipal
authorizes presented most cordial addresses.
The ceremony was witnessed by large and en-.
ihusiastc crowds. Gen. Grant made suitable
replies Of similar ttn1r to It's Newcastle speech.
At Tgnem3ush be said he had that day seen
80 900 people leave their homes aud oecupa
tiuns 10 manifest Friendship 10 America. Tine
President held reception at Newcastle in the
Cyani1p
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CI.NLL CO.M.HERCE.

Ar.ived-Boats Z Shrive-, t. Bls4a Az"
Cos! Co; L Mouse and Carrie V, 70 Es@:2'
shire and Baltimore Ccsl Co; C. Z Hoot, " =
Walsh, ? Moore, Z L Moore, II D C3;*e'
Jsm:s Dayton. TO American Coal Co; !. u
Bowers TO " a Sno2:
Depsrtad-W Bco:he, ir, Four Sisters, IL?
NJ Gregory Lily and Msy, e Hoca, "n
Walsh, Willie Snyder, r 4 VI Bowers snd . I
Moore
MEMORANDA.
Schr Robert Portner cleared from New \ o!-
for Padsnx. Ia Indies 21st.
Schr Bill Stowe, hence 8: Boston, .l:t ioS'.
Schr A K Week Windsor, ;, io' 'A''
Fort, 8! Vineyard Raven 10Th inst,
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Mexico.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept, - - 1877.
Colonel Price, at Fort Brown reports that
Judge Russell now holding court at Edinbu rgh.
made seversl e1for,s for the rendition of the FIVE
mur6 e.ers held in Mstanorss, without success.
BE will make smother demand from Edinburgh.
Governor Hubbard telsgrsphs the General
commanding SIS tollows:-
Judgs Russell says thst Csnales and the whole
regime have resigned, and that We can e1trsdi!e
10 more criminals.
Ii will be 5. en- by this Inst sl moderate mes
sure. are exhausted. How q COLLISION can be
avoided is not well understood by tie military
authorities.
Lieutenant Bulls is sf e: some catls thieves.
who are reported to have crossed over with lC)
hesd OF stock.
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pusL1sHEp DAILY AND TREWIEKLY b
EDGAR SNOwDEN.
SATURDAY EVENING, sEPTR %, 1877.

do With debt is to pay it when it becomes due,
and under that ruling Alexandria would be do
linquent, buff all that, the position she occu-
pies with refcrence to her Indebtedness Is by no
means such as General Malone ascribes to her.
nor is the proposition she has made to her
creditors at all similar to that proposed BY him
self with reference to the State debt. ltwould
approximate his proposition had she already
scaled her debt down to twothirds of its orfgl'
nal amount, and were now to ask a further re-
duction. But that she has not done. Aexan.
dria as cxh listed all constitutional means tor
Increasing her reveoue, aud those Of her citi
zsns who now pay S25 axes would ooy be le.
uuired to pay IS their property were located
without her corporate limits Virginia has not
exhausted the meaus at her disposal. We have
already seen what 40 immense revenue the eff
foieut execution of the Moffett register will
bring into her Golfers and that, together with
whas could be collected without cost and with
out being feit-a stamp tax % all bank paper
would soon relieve her ofany pressing necessities.
Then, toe, Alexandra has 90 assets which she
can dispose of as the State has, and which, bad
they been saved and invested 10 State bonds,as
intended by the acts supplemental to the fund
iug bill won have greatly reduced her iudebt-
edness, and even if SO disposed of now would
afford 10 iucousiderable relief And while the
Indebtedness of Alexandria was created by sub
soripsicns to works Of internal improvements,
40
preiudicial to her OVID, but advantageous to the
interests of Baltimore, the State reapsd her
full share of the bene6t-as she has for every
dollar of her own Indebtedness The Alcxan-
parallel cases; DOR are the modes proposed for
settling them at all similar. Virginia made 40
agreem ut with her creditors. which was con-
frmed By the highest Court 10 the State, by
third Of their claims she would guarantee them
The payment OF the remainder with interest ;
for every dollar of this debt she received o
full eQuivalebt; she has not exhausted her
meaus of increasing her revenue without raising
her taxes, aud she has assets by the proper dis
posal Of which she could make conslderablere
ducion 10 the amount of her debt. Ale1an-
dria. Oh the contrary, has not scaled her debt;
she accumulated her Indebtedness for purposes
which. while advancing the general interests
and prosperity Of the State at large, have
proved disastrous to herself; she has avalled
herself Of every conceivable mode of increasing
her revenue, and her assets arc comparatively
value Ss.
If the creditors of Alexandria should accept
the proposition that has been submitted to
them, of one thing they may rest assured, and
that is, that tie hoads AID The interest on them
will be paid al maturity, and that under no
circumstances will another reimbursement,
such as Gen. Malone proposes with regard TO
the already once adjusted State debt, be ever
even limited TO them.
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Foreign News.

The Secretary of the French Project OF Po
lice has gone to Namur to watch The proceed
ings of the Prince Imperial on the Belgian
frontier
A. a cousis!ory 10 Rome yesterday the Pore
appointed Cardinal oachim Peco Chamberlain
Of the Sacred College. He also appointed sew,
craI Italian and foreign Bishops.
The steamer Olga. towiog the caisson con,
taiaiog the Egyptian obcsk, CIsopatras
Needle, for London, sailed from Alexandria
yesterday.
Sir Patrick MacChemIach De Co!quhar, O
well known Eastern scholar, coofirms the state.
ment Of the Turkish Legation as to the birth
place Of O:nau Pasha. He was born 10 1882
10 ArmasSia, Asia Minor, and has never been
GU: of the Turkish domiuioos.
The conference of Prince Bismarck and
Count Apdrassy has resulted 10 complete &C,
cord Of Germany and Austria on the Eastern
question.
Yesterdays L,nloo papers announce the
death Ct William Henry Fox Talbot, the chief
discovarer Of photography, aged II years
For this discovery he received in 1912 the
medal Of the Royal Society, aud although he
patented his process, be left it open to the pub
lie. His latter years were devoted to decipher
ing cuueiform Inscriptions Among the works
published By him was Tho Pencil of Nature. y
He also published "I.egendary Tales aud
"Hermes, or Classical and Antiquarian Re-,
Searches" and the ambiguity Of the Book OF
Genesis
Peace has not yet been concluded between
Egypt and Abyssina. The Abyssinians near
Massowah have collected the taxes due to the
+ hedive.
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AS pesce and prosperity at the South mean
death to radicalism, the tbi,k headed members CT
the dcal party can't help manltestiug their dis
appreciation of the President Southern policy.
They openly deDoupco it upon all occasions,
and, tn the rage OF blind bulls, rush to their
own destruction. 10 tn, late radical conven
ton of Maryland one OF the class alluded to
said "he objected to the adoption of resolu
ton endorsing the Presidents policy, and al
legged that be expressed the sentiments of uius.
teuths, if not uiue,eeu twentieths. OF the repub
leans of Frederick county when ha protested
against it, There was vast ference of opin-
ion among The republicans of the State and
country as to the propriety of endorsing the
policy Of the administration of President Hayes.
Ny course may not be statesusnlike, but it is
not cowardly. 1t is the sentiment of Fred
erick county, almost to msp. that 20 resolu-
tioa of that kind should be adopted.
Even the more crafty Of the party are SO ezcit.
ed By the knowledge Of the political destruc.
ton that awaits them, that they have partially
los. their presence of mind, aud exhibit their
feelings by such expressions as the following,
from the Baltimore American. which, in allud.
ing to the speech referred to. says that the de-.
egste who made it mo doubt expressed the
views of number of earnest republicans 10
Western Maryland aud elsewhere who have not
yet been able to see the wisdom of the Presi-
dents course"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-09-22

The trades uIions 10 the North arc not ap-
peariog to the best advantage especially those
10 the mining districts Of Pennsylvania. Their
depredstious upon private property have been
50 extensive that the farmers Of the disturbed
sections have been compelled to form vigilance
committees, and uow, i. is said, their political
convictions are SO light that they have offered
their support to the highest bidder.
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The President Was interrupted once 10 bis
speech at Knoxville. yesterday, by mau who
cried out. "Hurrsh for Tilieu," but only no.
tlced che Interruption as an evidence of the
freedom of speech allowed 10 this country. As
the dispatches make no further mention Of the
iuterrupter it is supposed that he WAS imme
diately squelohed, as he should have been. If
rowdyism must indulge itseifit should be re.
s,ricted as to time and place.
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Fall in stock.

PHILADELPHIA. Sept. - -Tti:d SUED )
excited over the reported over is$u> OF, ;"o
thousand shares of stock Of til, West Pniiale
phia Passenger Railway Company. The stock
Of that company sold yesterday at 81 50 rar
share, but to day it tumbIeG down to $;l.!o.
and is still 90 the decline. The report IS gen
orally credited.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-09-22

We are indebted to Mr. Alexander MEDINA d.
secretary of the Lyochburg Agricultural and
Mechanical Society, for an iovitalion to attend
the annual fair of that society.
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The public has beer humbucg:i 50 ol.sn VIZ;
worthless medicinal preparlliors, that cO? :
few good ones now r,maln in use lr. su!t' e
Blood Mixture is one Of thin
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-09-22

A cable message vas received from London
yesterday afternoon announcing the death of
Rev. Joseph Richey. rector Of Mt Calvary
Protestant Episcopal Church, Baltimore.