Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-19
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The Tide of Immigratton-Anothe netier
 From Tariff Commissioner kenner-
 Other Matters.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-During the month of December, 1882, 25,86S immigrants ar rived in the United States, against 37,037 in December, 1881. For the six months ended December 31, 1882, 27O, ,479 immigrants came to this country, while for the corresponding period of 1881 the immigration amounted to BPS, 357. The total immigration to the United States for the year ended December 31, 1882, was TIP, ,542, and of this number 472,9 ,936 ar rived at New York city. Of this Germany supplied the largest number-229, ,996; Can ada the next, S3,o71; England and Wales 77,725, Ireland 69, ,461, Sweden 5s,742, Italy 29, BY and Norway 26, 1855.
 The committee consisting of General Grant and MT. Prescott on the part of the United States, and Mir. Romero and Mir. Canedo on the part of Mexico, have partially agreed on certain articles of the treaty which will be submitted to the Senate for ratification. Among the articles on the free list is sugar of a certain standard, which IS to be admitted into this country for the pur- pose of encouraging the planting of sugar cane in Mexico. Several semi-tropical fruits and coffee under certain standard are also
  plete and many changes may yet be made in it. It is expected that the treaty in an otfi- ciai form will be made public in a few days.
 Representative John W. Shackleford, of North Carolina, died this morning. He was born in that State on November 16. 1844 and was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Democrat from the Third district, receiving a majority of few hundred votes over the Greenback and Republican candidates. His home is in Jacksonville.
 Congressman Murch, of Maine, addressed the Womaa's Industrial League here this evening upon the labor question. He con- graduated the women of the country upon having an organization which was destined to become of the most powerful assistance of the country, yielding an inhuence unprece- dented in the history of woman's labors.
 It is rumored tonight that there is anoth- CT letter in existence written by Duncan F. Kenner while member of the Tariff com mission similar to the one published in these dispatches a few days ags. It is said to have been written to MT. W. F. Ames, of Massa- chusetts, asking that gentleman to use his influence in the eastern cities to further the interests of southern sugar planters.
 Minister Hunt has telegraphed to the Navy department from St. Petersburg that the Russian government has finally authorized the removal of the bodies of Captain De Long and his comrades by way of Irkutsk or Ochotsk. Secretary Chandler has replied that he prefers that the bodies be sent by way of Irkoutsk.
 In the case of Charles Shaw, the colored boy who murdered his sister near this city in 1881, was sentenced to be executed to-mor- row, and the President has decided to let the law take it's course. The murder was one Of l the most fendish on record. The murderer by subterfuge, having induced his sister to accompany him into the country, when a lonely ra7ine had been reached, felled her to the ground with large stone.