Salt River herald., 1879-02-26

| yesterday from Ft Mead in pursuit of marauding savages. The general opinion is that the present trouble is caused by Little Wolrs band Of Cheyennes making their way to Sit ting Bulls camp.
 ST. LoUIs, February 24.-J. F. Rochin, treasurer of Brown county, has been arrested for embedding $l4,O0O in county funds. He will be tried in q few days.
 WAsuINGToS, February 24-In the senate the house bill authorizing the secretary of the navy to accept for a voyage of exploration by way of Behring's Straits the ship Jean nettc, rendered by James Gordon Bennett, passed.
 MT. Cameron, of Wisconsin, gave notice that as soon as the army bill should be disposed of, he would call up the resolution reported by the committee on privileges and elections declaring D. T. Corbin entitled to q seat as senator from South Carolina in place of M. C. Butler, present in- cumbent.
 The morning business being dis. posed of, consideration was resumed of unfinished business. The army appropriation bill and discussion upon the clause in regard to allowing railroads to use their telegraph lines for commercial purposes, was COL tinued MT. Jones, of Florida, again advocated the measure.
 In the house the senate amend ments striking out the provision that rectifiers rectifyIng less than five hundred barrels of spirits year shall pay license of one hundred dollars, was non-concurred in. Also. an amendment relating to the tax on national and savings banks.
 \ committee of conference was then ordered upon disagreeing votes on the bill.
 The house in considering the reve- nue bill to-day concurred in the senate amendments to the tobacco clause, providing that the reduction on tobacco shall go into effect May 1st; 1879, and nOn-concuIred in the senate amendment whicL strikes out the clause abolishing tax on matches
 The senate agreed to Mir Howe's amendment to the army bill, reouir- ing the Pacific railroad companies to file q written acceptance of the pro- visions of the existing law before using their lines for commercial pur- poses. Yeas 30, nays 33.
 NIT. Hamlin, from the committee on foreign relations, reported adverse ly the senate bill to grant the Ameri- can Ocean Cable and Telegraph Land Wire Association of Philadelphia, the right of way and privilege to lay submarine cables on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. It was indefi- nitely postponed.
 The house by vote of 181 against 70 passed sundry civil appropriation bills and a'joIrEcd until tomorrow.
 The senate passed the army appro- priation bill divested of all provisions for the reorganization of the army.
 MT. Sargent presented the creden- tials of senator-elect Farley.
 President Wheeler signed the Chinese bill, which had previously been signed by Speaker Randall.
 The senate will next take up the deficiency bills.
 PITTsBURG, February 24.-Captain Paul Boynton, who has undertaken to float from this city to New Or leans in his life-saving suit, started on his long voyage at s;3O this morning. The temperature of the water was at the freezing point, and the river is running full of ice.
 PANAMA, February 24-In an en- I gagement at Alivares Antigias, be- tween government troops and the revolutionists, twenty-five men were killed.
 PARIS, February 24-It is affirm, q that certain deputies of the Left wish the chamber to nominate a parlia- mentary commission to investigate the proceedings of the prefecture of police. It is said that the cabinet will strongly oppose this encroach ment on the functions of the exccu. tive.
 EDDIE, CAL, February 24-The , town is greatly excited over the new discovery of quartz, fifty miles south east There. Prospectors have brought in large specimens of free gold rock and claim that it is the cropplngs O a wide ledge. The rock assays oveI one hundred thousand dollars per ton , A stampede has already set in. SAN FRANCISCO, February 25.- n Stocks-Tip Top, 95c; Silver King . SQ5O