The Newtown bee., 1879-04-08


 of all parties to pass bills for the following pur- poses: l. Free coinage of silver and the issue of silver certificates based on silver bullion on an equality with gold certificates. ?. Reissue of the ton million dollars legal-tenders held for the redemption otfractional currency. 3. Re- tirement of the national bank circulation and the issue of legal-tenders in lieu thereof f.. The imposition of an income tax. A committee consisting of Representatives Ewing, Warner and Weaver was appointed to prepare bills en- bodying the views of the caucus, which are to be introduced at the first opportunity.
 There is a long debate on the army bill in prospect, more than forty members having an- nounced their intention to speak on the ques- tions at issue.
 The secretary of the treasury has issued the ninety-third call for the redemption of 5-20 bonds of lS65-consols of l867-principal and interest to be paid at the treasury on and after the 29th day of June next The comptroller of the currency reports the net increase of national bank notes during the month of March at $l,OS1,026. The increase in February was $l ,64S 40l. In January $607 ,995; in December, $490, ,6lS; in Novem- Der, $S40 Al. The total increase for the last five months has been $4 ,66S, ,4Sl. The increase Tn tho amount of legal-tender notes deposited for the purpose of retiring national bank circu- lation during the same period was S3, l72, 500. The total decrease in national bank circulation for the four months, previous to November l, 1878, was Ss2, ,090, 369. The total amount of na- lonal bank notes outstanding, exclusive ot national gold banks, April l, 1879 was $S325,- 660,276. The amount of national gold bank circulation was $l ACC, ,920. There have been twenty national banks organized since Novem- Der 1, 1878 (which was the date of the tables contained in the comptrollers report), with a capital of $1 ,720, ,000; and since the same date, twenty banks have gone into liquidation, with capital of $S2, 980, 900. The present paid in capital of the national banks is 465, 4S3 362.
 The latest debt statement issued shows the following:
 Increase of debt for March. ....S S92, ,724 r Debt less cash in the treasury 2,027 LOG, ,265 83 Cash in the treasury .......... APO, 787 ,458 29 Decrease of debt since June 30
 1878. 78..................... 86S6, ,575 99 Gold certificates ............. l6, 1904, 700 % Silver certificates. ........... 2,326, ,530 % Currency certificates. ........ 27,6S0, 100000 Retunding certificates ,........ 53,07000 Legal-tenders outstanding. .... 346, ,6Sl, ,0l6OO Fractional currency outstanding l5925, ,662 If United States notes held for re-
 demption of fractional cur
 rency y...................... s,45S, ,99l o0 Called bonds not matured for
 which four per cent. bonds
 have been issued. .......... POS, AZ, 700 00
 The jury in the case of Mrs. Oliver against eN-Senator Cameron, for breach of promise re- turned verdict for the defendant. The trial occupied thirteen days, MT. Cameron's counsel being General Ben amin F. Butler
 Tho Senate has confirmed the nomination of Francis A. Walker IS director of the national census for i8SO
 Foreign News.
 Correspondence of the London Times, dated Arment, Upper Egypt, gives a heartrending account of the condition of the population ot the Nile valley. The scenes described resem- ble those in India during the recent famine. In somo of the villages the people past help, sitting naked like wild beasts, eating roots and suffering with the endurance Ot despair. The madness worked on by famine stamps such a brand on the starving peasants as cannot be children fought over scraps of bread like wild animals The case is believed to be still worse in the inland hamlets, where the villagers are said to bo starving like dogs.
 Dr. Carver, the American marksman, is giv ng exhibitions with the rife in England, and the papers there say such consummate skill was never before displayed in that country.
 Thousands of persons have been rendered homeless by q fire which destroyed the native part of the town of Akyah, India.
 Queen Victoria has lost a grandson by the death of the third son of Prince Frederick Will liam, crown prince of Germany. The boy was in his twelfth year.
 President Grevy and members of his cabinet were received by Queen Victoria in Paris, on her way to Italy.
 The Danish government has prohibited the landing of American cuttle in that country.
 Passanante who tried to kill the king of Italy in November last, has had his sentence ot death committed by the king to penal scrvitude for lite.
 Bya vote of 474 to 373 the operative weavers of Blackburn, England, accepted the proposed reduction of five per cent in their wages
 On the night after the attempt to assassinate General Von Drentelen, chief of gendarmerie, in St, Petersburg, forty-ive persons were ar rested in the Russian capital among them be- ing several dignitaries of high rank and two daughters of a prominent minister. A letter from Bangkok, Siam, contains the following "The American consul has at last succeeded in inducing the king of Siam to establish system of general education through out his dominions, and the Rev. Dr. McFar- land, formerly an American missionary, has been appointed superintendent ot public in- at salary of 5000 per annum." A force of 2 900 Afghans in the Pishin valley was defeated by @ small body ot British troops. The Afghans lost sixty men.