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WALLACE'S CCMMITTEE.
THE CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN.


WASHINGTON April AT the session Of tho
Wallace committee to-day George O. Gorham
was recalled, and furnished statements hereto
fore called for, from which it appears that 1872
circulars were sent to employees in the depart
ment 430 of which were not responded to, 200
were returned and 272 resulted in subscriptions
amounting to $3,247. He had found cases
where the circulars were sent to persons receiv
ing salaries of less than 81 GOO, and he wished
to correct his previous statement on that point.
John G.. Thorn pson was called by the Repub-
lican members of the committee, and detailed
his connection with the Democratic Congress
sional committe in 1878. No money was col
lected from employees of tho House of Repre-
sentatives. Witness devoted most of his time
during the summer OF 1873 to conducting the
campaign, but came to Washington on the first
of every month to see to the disbursement of
members salaries. Did not neglect his official
duties.
Duncan =. Walker, secretary of the Demo-
cratic Congressional committee in 1878, testi-
fed that the headquarters of sthe committee
for portion of the campaign were in the room
of the House committee on agriculture. The
amount collected by the committee WAS $4, ,695.
The number of documents sent out was 1,O3l,-
TOO. The documents were nearly all folded in
the room of the House committee
number of documents were sent
out by the committee under the frank of mem
bers of Congress, but nothing not privileged.
Postage was paid on all documents not frank
able. Witness read a statement showing the
expenses of the folding room for 1878 were
as high as 10000 the last ten years.
Harry Cobaul, captain of the watch in the
treasury department.. testified he had charge
Of furnishing Pennsylvania voters in that de
partment with free transportation to their
homes, and tax receipts where they had failed to
! l.:- lo%h rrhf oh $,rn .hoJ
by Russell, acting for the State Central Repub
| lican committee.
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ing law. If he can get rid of 1t by all the
powers of consent that go to make or unmake
a law, then he can do SO whether
it is grievance or not, whether 1T 10
good or bad. If the gentleman from Virginia
wants to take before American people this
proposition of letting our army be annihilated
on the s0th of June, unless the President,
against his conscience and his sense of duty,
shall sign what he sends him, we will debate
that question in the forum of every man 8
mind. If what the gentleman from Kentucky
(Blackburn) calls the return of the Democratic
first great act by striking down the grand army
of the United States, the people of this coun-
try will not be slow to understand that there
are "reminiscences about that army which these
gentlemen would willingly get rid of. Loud
applause on tho Republican side and IN the
galleries).
In the course of further remarks, Garfield
expressed his willingness to help the Demo-
Gratis wipe from the staute books the law
authorizing the use of the army at the
polls if bill for that purpose should be intro
duced in regular manner.
MIR. New offered an amendment providing
| that nothing in the section shall be construed
as abridgiag or affecting the duty or power OF
the President of the United States, under the
constitution, to send troops on application OF
| the legislature or executive of State.
Mr.. Baker, Indiana, offered an; amendment
to the amendment making it unlawful for any
one to have on his person fire arms, bowie
knives, clubs or bludgeons in the vicinity of a
place where an election is being held.
The chairman, in ruling out Bakers amend
ment As not germaine to an army bill, en-
! countered good share of opposition from Mr.
! Conger, against whom he threatened to call in
the services of the sergeant-at-arms, to which
| Conger replied with defances. Finally, how
ever, the angry passions subsided, the commit
tee arsse and tho House, after ordering all de
| bate on the bill and amendments to cl 80 al
1890 o'clock tomorrow, took recess until II
| tomorrow.
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SIXTH WARD BLAZE.
Mat. Knhrs Store Goes Up in Smoke.

Mat. hnhpS Store Goes Up In Smoke.
Last night about II 80 o'clock disastrous
fire occurred in West St. Paul, resulting in the
total destruction of Mat. Kuhrs store. The
building was story and half high, and par
TALLY constructed Of brick and framework. At
the above designated hour some Of the neigh
bors detected the signs Of the fire,
clambered on the ROOF to investigate,
and found the inter>or in the rear in a full
blaze. The alarm was given and soon quite
concourse of people assembled.
Willing hands undertook the task of saving
some of the property, but by this time the
few minor and valueless articles were
rescued. The material of the building
was Of the most inflammable kind, and only q
few moments after the first discovery the whole
structure was wrapped in flames and speedily
consumed.
1t is estimated that the house was worth
| about 500 and the stock of goods in store was
| variously valued at $400 to 5000. There was a
partial insurance on the building and stock,
| but in both cases SO small that it may be con-
sidered only nominal.
The supposition ventured by the by-standers
! is '5Eat the fire was the WORK of an incendiary.
| Ers. Kuhl attributes it to tramps. Yesterday
afternoon two Of this fraternity applied to her
for a meal; she declined giving it until they
sawed some wood she needed. This they posi-
lively refused to do and went away in a threat
ening and surly manner. She thinks her house
was fired in revenge by these two men. This
view is somewhat confirmed by the locality in
which the first signs of the fire were discovered
and also from the time it originated. Mrs. Kuhl
| left the store short time before IL o'clock
and went to her residence on the bluff, where
her husband is confined to a bed of sickness.
Scarcely half hour thereafter the FIRE burst
out Of the storc-building. It is presumed that
tho tramps were on the watch for her to leave
and Immediately after her departure consum
mated their dastardly revenge. The fire as men
toned was found to have originated at the
rear of the building. Access to this part was
very easy as the building was flush against the
bluff. Mrs. Kuhl is certain that the fire did
not occur through any carelessness in regard tt
the fire in the stove; the stove door was closee
and the fire almost out whe1
she left. The loss is a severe one upon Mr.
Kuhl and family, and particularly so at thi
time, as he is only recovering from a long ant
expensive spell of sickness. No alarm wa
turned in to the FIRE department by tho police
officer on watch, and nothing was known of tn
fire this side until it burst forth in full glsr
through the roof.
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gressists and republicans protesting the views
of Senor CASTELAR, is an accomplished fact.
LONDON, April "A dispatch from Lahore
reports the arrival of the British agent at
Cabul few days ago has had favorable in
huence on negotiations.
A Rome dispatch says the Vatican has pro-
posed to select . nuncio for Munich favorable
to Bismarck.
BERLIN, April 4.-Alterations in the tariff
made by the bundesrath increase the duty on
cheese to 10 marks per hundred weight, makes
the duty on leather range from IL marks TO 80
marks for fine goods and fix the duty on cot
ton yarn at Is marks.
RANaooN, April 4.The king of Burmah will
be formally crowned Sunday, when disturb
ance is expected.
vienna, April THE New Free Press states
that the Austrian counsel at Widden has been
expelled from his hotel, and otherwise ill
treated by order of the governor, in conse-
quence of some petty dispute between them.
URGENCY. ~
VERSAILLES, April 4.-The Senate voted mr.
gency in the grant in aid of amnested COM
munists.
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THE GERMAN MISSION.
TENDER TO WH1TRLAw REID.

TENDER TO WHlTRLAW REID
WASHINGTON, April 4.-The fact that the
German mission was offered to Whitelaw Reid
of the New York Tribune last December seems
to have been one of the best kept secrets
which tho present administration had. 1t is
now first made known by publication of tho
following correspondence which has heretofore
been treated as confidential:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, Dec. 23,
l878.-My Dear Mr.. Reid: The President has
desired, as far as it was in his power, in max
ing his choice of ministers to represent the
United States abroad, to attach more import
ance to tho public position and public
services of eminent members OF the
Republican party than to their mere
relations to any political or personal
interests within the party, how prominent how
ever these may be. In accordance with this
desire am directed by the President to ask
your acceptance of the German mission, made
vacant by the death of Bayard Taylor. 1t gives
me personally great pleasure to convey to you
this wish of the President, and to expiess the
hope that you may find it in accord with your
inclination, and to be not inconsistent with
other obligations, to undertake the public
service which the President asks you.
am, my dear Mr.. Reid, very truly,
WV. NJ. EvARTs.
Whitelaw Reid, Esq.
The New YORK TRIBBNE, New YORK, Dee. 80
you, and beg you also to express to the Presi-
dent, my thanks for the unexpected offer O1
the mission to the German empire. Two con
siderations rendsr this high honor peculiarly
grateful. You call me to q post last held by
near friend, and you do it solely on the hatter
ing estimate placed by yourself and the Presi
dent upon my public gervice. have Away
thought the citizen ought to attempt any tasl
to which his government may sur1
mon him, but the work in wElcl
I am now engaged, which is ais
public duty, seems to give greater cppor
tunities for me, at least, for serving the coun
try, and for advancing those views Of pnbli
policy which We agree in thinking essential t.
its prosperity, than any that could Re aforde'
in the new field you propose. Nothing, there
fore, but sense of duty induces me to asl
that you allow me to decline tire brillian
position you offer. am, my des1 MIR. Evarta
faithfully yours, WHTELAw RE1D.
| Hon VIM Evarts Washington.
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The True In,vardness Of the Republican
Party.
The Albert Lea Standard, a staunch Re
publican paper, quotes the comments of Bill
Kings paper on the recent change in the
custom house and then exposes the party /:
A more infamous tissue of internal false
hoods than the above paragraph never found
space in the columns of a journal protesting
the slightest claim to truth, respectability or
decency. Geo. w. Moore has held the Office
spoken of for nineteen consecutive gears, and
during that time has been the lowest dirtiest
rnpt political dynasty that ever held the reins
of power in this or any other State-a dynasty
that came into power through shameless cor
ruption and held it by wanton bribery, sup
ported by almost every political dead-beat,
moss-backed ofice-holder and pine land thief
in the State, until overthrown by band Of
determined honest men,
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E0ypt,
r1oHr WITH A SLAVE TRADER.

tNfdV w. IId SLASE IdAO6hs
LONDON, April 4.-The Egyptian officer sent
to break up the slave depots at Bahr Ell Gazal
Kardafan reports an engagement with Sulei-
man, chief slave trader and owner of twenty
Eve depots, in which women alone were wait
ing importation into Egypt to the number Of
part armed with improved rifles, and were en-
trenched. Suleiman with 1000 Arabs made
several assaults, but we're completely defeated
and fed in disorder, leaving LOST dead. The
Egyptians lost twenty men.
man sent by Revers Wilson to inquire into the
famine in upper Egypt shows by statistics that
10000 persons died by starvation alone in
Girgeh Kena and Esna. The famine, which was
really money famine caused by over taxation,
has now terminated but has left disastrous con-
sequence. If ssimilar taxation continues,
another partial failure in rise of the Nile will
cause famine worse than the last.
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KING. LEAR.

John McCullough's Mastery Rendering of
the Role Last Night.
The performance of Kiug Lear at the
Opera House last evening attracted very
select audience of ladies and gentlemen. 1t
is one of Mr.. McCuuough's favorite char
acters-a conception at once massive and
grand. The make up of the actor is most
elaborate, aud his rendition of the lines of
the great dramatist painstaking and in:
tensely dramatic A king of four-score
years, who has surrendered his kingdom to
his thankless children and finds himself dis
owned-an outcast in cold world, with none
SO poor as do him reverence-becomes q
prey to melancholy thoughts, and finally his
reason totters and he finds companionship
with fools and lunatics. The slow creeping
on of madness was most eloquently depicted
by Mr.. Mccullough, and his colloquy with
Edgar, who was Stimulating madness, was as
fine piece of acting as has ever been rep
resented upon the boards. In the fourth
act, too, he was simply grand, arrayed as he
was in the fantastic garb dictated by ma
MACS conceit. A withe of straw for q
sceptre anda clout for q crown, he strobe
the boards with all the majesty of monarch,
| giving utterance to his wild fancies with
most telling vigor and elocutionary effect.
In oil his sentences his madness seemed
more real than assumed too stern reality
for picturing upon the stage. Mr.. McCul-
Tough was heartily applauded throughout
and called before the curtain at the close OF
each act.
AS Edgar, Mr.. Charles Barron achieved
great success. His acting was all that could
be conceived as desirable. When he per
sonated the madman, crowned as kine
though arrayed in rags, he fairly divided thl
honors with Mr. McC Cullough. Mr.. Langdon
as Edmund, was also excellent, while Mis-
stockman's rendering of the part|of Cordeli'
was thoroughly artistic one. The remain
der of the support was far superior to tn
average.
This afternoon, by special request, MI
Mccullough will repeat his great play o
':Virginius,'' and in the evening will appea
in "Richard Ill" In neither of these role
has this artist superior OF even an equal
Both entertainments will be q rare treat t
. our citizens, and there ought to be crowde
{ houses
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Chicago Tribune" Correspondent Jailed.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, April 4--Frank A. Nevins,
correspondent here of the Chicago Tribune,
was to-day committed to jaifhy Speaker James
for contempt in refusingto tell the House
committee his authority for certain statements
published in the Tribune. Counsel have been
engaged for him.
THE NEWS IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, April 4.-The news from Spring
field to-day that Frank Nevin1had been COM
mitted to the county Jail for contempt of the
house in refusing the source Of his information
for certain dispatches to the Chicago Tribune,
occasioned much interest IN journalistic circles,
as this is the first case Of the kind ever occur
ring in Illinois. The Tribune announces edi-
torially tomorrow that it will fight the case
with all the power it may be able, and that it
has engaged eminent counsel. It prints inter
views with prominent lawyers here who agree
that the paragraph complained of by the legis-
lators was not sufficient basis for the action
at Springfield against its correspondent.
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tions to the four per cent. consol1 having been
received to the full amount of the $40 bonds
outstanding, the circular Of This department OF
date Jan. l, 1879, inviting such subscriptions,
is rescinded. The $40 refunding certificates
will be sold az heretofore under circulars Of
dates March 18th and 26th. The foukper cent.
consols will hereafter be sole for redemption OF
10-40 bonds of tho act of March 5, 1864, upon
terms to be hereafter presented.
[Signed JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary
BONDS CALLED IN.
The secretary of the treasury has called the
following 5-20s. principal and interest to be
paid on and after July 4, next:
$50 No. 123,OOl to No. 123, 1888. Both inclusive
300 No. 34,0O1 to No. 245,Q00. Both inclusive.
$500 No. liz, ,OO1 to No. 1860. Both inclusive.
$1,Coe No. 13001 to No. 227, ,@29. Both inclusive
Registered bonds redeemable at pleasure in the
United States after the LIST of July, 1872:
$50 No. 3,251 to No. 3,279. Both inclusive.
800 No. 23, ,7O1 to No. 23.s29. Both inclusive.
$500 No. 1861 to No. .11,s33. Both inclusive.
$1,000 No. 4,6Ol to No. 44,y32. Both inclusive.
$4,000 No. 17,O51 to No. 1885. Both inclusive.
Tho bonds outstanding and represented by
tho above mentioned numbers constitute the
residue of those issued under the act ef March
8, 1857. consols of 1867. I.
The large subscriptions to tho per cent. to-
day, exclusive of the regular subscriptions,
were from New York national banks.
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Railroad SUPERINTENDENT Change

ST.. LOUIS. April IA Kansas City dispatch
says B. L. Henning, general superintendent of
the Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf, and
Leavenworth, Lawrence Galveston roads re-
signed to-day. It is understood T. f. Oaks,
recently general superintendent of the Kansas
Pacific, will be appointed to the position vacated
by Henning. Major Henning has been general
superintendent of the Fort Scott road since it
was built ten years ago.
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Hayti.
A MnLION DOnLAR FIRE.

A MILLION DOLLAR FIRE.
NEW YORK, April 4.-Miragoane was destroyed
by fire on the night of the 10th of March. The
Haytien government is sending relief. Five or
six thousand people were rendered homeless
The property destroyed included so, 900 bags of
coffee, 18, O00, 900 pounds of logwood, of which
800,0 600 were to have been shipped to France
and the remainder to New York. Loss about
81 600, 600,
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GENERAL CAPITAL NEWS.
-FOUR PER CENTS.

WASHINGTON, April 4.-Subscriptions to the
per cent loan since yesterdays report,
$6,502, ,750.
MOLINE WATER POWER.
The secretary of war has given decision in
the matter of the lease of the water power op-
posite Rock Island arsenal to Moline county.
The secretary decides the lease cannot be given
consistently with the interest of the govern
ment aud recommends an appropriation of
$15O,OO0 to maintain and improve the power.
OUT WITH LIE DUO.
Prof. @. V. Riley, entomologist Of the de-
partment of agriculture, says the cause of his
resignation was unwilingness to run any
further risk of being treated discourteously
whsnever he made any suggestion for the BEN
eft of his division.
LAST OF THE 5-20s.
The secretary of the treasury will issue .
CARL for the balance of the 5-20s of 81. To-
day and tomorrow call will be issued for all
the 5-2Os of '6S. This will close the whole of
| the series of $40 bonds. The two calls amount
to $50 ,565, 700. The aggregate calls including
these since Jan. amount to $349, ,565, 700, max
| ing the annual saving of interest Sc, ,991, ,314.
No further subscriptions will be received for
per cent. bonds, except for $40 certificates, un.
| til further notice.
/ FOUR PER GENT. SUBSCRIPTIONS.
The following was issued this afternoon
Treasury Department., Office of the Secretary
! Washington, D. O., April 1. -subscrip
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The Weather TODAY.

WASHINGTON, April 81 A. M.-Indications
for upper lake region: Warmer. clear or
partly cloudy weather, northwesterly winds be-
coming variable or shifting to southeasterly
followed by stationary or falling barometer;
for upper Mississippi and lower Missouri val
leys warmer, clear, or partly cloudy weather,
winds mostly soutkeasterly and falling bar
Ometer,
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CHIN MUSIC.
CONCERT BY THE FULL BAND IN
THE HOUSE yesterday.

General Debate on the Army Bill Closed
and Five Minute Talks Commenced
Weaver, Do La NIatyr and Wright. Green
hackers, Declare for tho Democratic Pro-
gramme-Eloquent and Patriotic Speech
by Tucker, of Virginla-Garfleld At
tsmpts Reply to the Vigorous Assaults
Of the Past Few Days-Ah Debate to
Close at 1880 To-Day-Goneral Capital
News,
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The Twenty-sIx Million Dollar Suit.

The Twenty-Six Million Dollar Suit.
SAN FRANc1sco, April Ain the suit of John
A. Burk against j. G. Flood ct al. to recover
826, 600, COO which defendants are alleged to
have unlawfully appropriated from the funds
of the Consolidated Virginia Mining company,
the Court to-day overruled the demurrer of de-
PENDANTS and ordered them to answer in thirty
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Miners Strike.

TERRE HAUTE, April 4.-The miners of the
Block coal fields are all out, and at meeting
held yesterday and to-day at Brazil. positively
refuse to submit to q reduction Of 10 cents per
ton,
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Ge7'nsanV.
THE NEW TARIFF

BERLIN, April "A draft Of the proposed
tariff has been published, to give the country
an opportunity to discuss it during the recess.
The duties on tobacco are 120 marks per 100
kilogrammes on leaf, and an excise of 80 marks
on native tobacco.
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CABLE CHRONICLES
POLITICAL AND GENERAL OLD
WORLD NE VS..

Modification by England Of the Restrictions
Against United States Cattle-Ten Thou
u sand Deaths In Upper Egypt from Famine
Resumption of Peaceful Negotiatlons-
Negotiations with Yakoob Kahn Said to
be Progressing Favorably-Fight Be-
tween the Egyptian Army and u Slave
Traders Force.
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CHARLxsros, s. c., April "A hard freeze
last night seriously damaged early vegetable
crops. Loss to truck farmers around Charles
teston is estimated at quarter of a million.
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SECRET SERVICE,
ExOITING SCENE IN n KENTUCKY
COURT.

Secret Service Detectives Accused of Fur
nishins Counterfeiters With tho Tools of
Making the Charge Barely Escapes Ac-
companying His Clients to Jail-Other
Criminal Matters = Disastrous Fire at
st. Louis.
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M1acelEaaae0Ma.

MADRID. April 4.-The coalition for the cleo
toral campaign Of the constitutionaliats, pro
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Doath of an Ex.Conpre..map

BALTIMORE, April 4.-Judge James R. Stew
art, member of the thirty-ffth and thirty
sixth Congresses, died yesterday, aged n,
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FOUR PER GENT. SUBSCRIPTIONS.

The following was issued this afternoon
Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary,
Washington, D. O., April 1. ls79.-5ubsorip-
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WASHINGTON, April A. Subscriptions to the
4 per cent. loan since yesterdays report,
&c Eno 7sO
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A sOCKER FOR GEORGE.

The True In,vardness of the Republics
Party.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-11-27
Fatal Shooting.

On last Saturday morning Mr..
James Curtin shot and instantly killed
a man named James Potter, at store
ON the Henning farm, in the north
ern part of Lauderdale county. From
a reliable gentleman who resides in
the neighborbood We have the follow
ing version of the sad affair. Potter
was drunk, and when Curtin, VINO is
a book agent, entered the store for
the purpose of delivering a book, Pot
ter rose with pistol in his hand, and
started towards him, remarking, You
are the very man l am looking for. y"
Curlln ran out of The house and made
every reasonable effort to escape, but
finding his life in imminent danger,
Potter continuing to pursue him, he
turned and drew his pistol and shot
him through the Eeart. The parties
we're entire strangers, and Curtin did
not even know the name OF the man
he had killed until after he was dead.
He rurrendered himself to the author
tiles of the law, and on last Sunday
evening was tried before Esq. Porter
and was acquitted. Potter was terri
blv dissipated, and the unhappy ter
mination of his life Is another sad il
lustration of the evil effects Of intoxl-
cation. .--Bro,UnsUilJe States.