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/ __ IT30f MEETS." Senate and House Assemble for the Fifty-Fourth Session. MR. REED ELECTED SPEAKER. Scencs in the Two Chambers?The Xewly Chosen Men Sworn in in the Senate ?Thomas B. Reed Tttkeit Bp the Honse Gavel Again?His Old Bale* Rfta #1 Ant Art... ITanv Vaw FatPH. The Fifty-fourth Congress began its public Sessions at noon on the day appointed by the Constitution with crowded galleries and many other manifestations of acute interest In its proceedings, including, of course, the Inevitable floral decorations. The opening of every new Congress has always had the effect of bringing great crowds of people, but hever, perhaps, in the history of the two bodies, has a larger assemblage of spectators gathered in the galleries, halls and corridors of the great marble structure at Washington than assembled at the opening of the Fifty-fourth term. LEE MANTLE. T. H. CABTEB. (New Senators from Montana.) Exaotly at 12 o'olock Vice-Pre3id6nt Stev- ( enson ascended to the presiding officer's chair and, rapping once, called the Senate to order. With impressive tones the blind _ Chaplain iDVoked divine blessings on the Chamber, referring eloquently to the afflction in the family of ex-Senator Wilson, of Iowa, and to the absence of Isaac Bassett, the veteran Doorkeeper of the Senate, who has grown gray in half a century's service in ,the Senate, but who was then dangerously ill. At the close of the Chaplain's prayer, Vice-President Stevenson laid before the flano4a tha nrailoTiHalfi rtf t)ia Aafin+nt" frnm r Idaho, Mr. Shoup, which wore read and ti placed on file in the usual way. Then the f( Vice-President called upon the 8enators- . elect to come forward as their names were i called by the Clerk and take the oath of office, iJ Then the formal reioluttons adopting noon tl as the daily meeting hour and informing the y House and the President that tne Senate was ready for business were adopted, and the Senate adjourned after Senators Allison and Vilas had been appointed to inform the President that the Senate was ready for business. In the House, the proceedings occupied more time than they aid In the Senate, but they were simply proceedings incident to organization. For an hour before the time sec for calling the House together the floor was alive with members and their friends. Old members were becoming acquainted with new faces, for it was the ^newest" House of Representatives that has gathered at the Capitol in a good many years. There were 163 new faces in a total of 356 members. The Republicans control thirty-one of the forty-four State delegations. They have twenty solid delegations, while the Democrats have but four. The number of Populists in the House is reduced from twelve to six. An hour before noon the galleries were packet! and crowds forced their way into the chamber ifself to look at the elaborate floral offering which decorated the Speaker's and members' desks. Some minutes before 12 all the seats on both sides were occupied by tnose entitled to tnem?tae za r..epuoiicaris occupying as usual the western side and the 105 Democrats the eastern side. At noon the Rev. Br. Bagby, Chaplain of the last Hons *, offer?-! prayer. Then Mr. Kerr, Clerk of the last House, called the members to orJer. On th^ roll call 341 members responded. A ballot for Speaker was then taken. When the roll-call was finished ^ P LtJCIES BAREB. HOBACE CHILTON*. v (New Senators from Kansas and Texas.) r ? the result was announced by the tellers as D follows: For Mr. Rood, 234 votes; for Mr. Crisp, 95; for Mr. Bell, 6; for Mr. JJ Culberson. 1; total, 836 votes. Messrs. " Crisp. Grosvenor a ad Bell were desig- v nated by the Clerk to conduct the Speakerelect to the chair, and as the four members 11 marched up the aisle (Messrs. Reed and P Crisp arm in arm) thera was a renewal of s banaclapping on the floor and in the gal- F ieries. The oath o! office was then admin- 1 istered to Mr. Reed by Mr. Hsrmer, of Pennsylvania (Rep.), the member who has had a the longest continual service. All these for- " malities havingbeen observed, the new Speak- ? er made his opening addrass, which was noncommittal as to the policy to be pursued by ? the Republicans. The oath of office was admin- * istered by the Speaker to members of the J House, whose names wore called by States. * The organization of the House was thon 0 completed by the adoption of a resolution r electing the following officers: Mr. Mc- f 11 nioslr. T?i,ccall I X/V won| vi X vuuoj i * rvuin, vivia, *iumvh, of Missouri, Serjeant-at-Arms; Mr. Glenn. E of New York, Doorkeeper; Mr. McElroy, of v Ohio. Postmaster, and the Rev. Mr. Couden. of Michigan, Chaplain. Mr. Cannon moved that the rules of the House of the Fifty-first Congress be the rules of the present Congress. These rules are known as the Reed rules. The resolution was then agreed to. At about 2 o'clock the most amusing business of the day, the drawing of seats, was begun, aud whoa it was completed thw House adjourned. The Public Debt Statement. The monthly United States Treasury statement of the public debt shows that on November 30, 1893. the debt. less cash in the Treasury, amounted to $918,477,611. an increase for the month of S2.046.503, which is accounted for by tbo decrease of $2,541,611 iu the cash in the Treasury, The cash iu the Treasury is classifle 1 as follows: Gold, $129,567,915; silver, $502,164,742; paper, $153,802,744; bonds, disbursing officers' balances, etc., ?15,525,261, making a total of OSOl.1211,692, against which there are outstanding demand liabilities amountins to $623,714,305. leaving a cash baluasa o[ ?177,106,336. A Sen?.iKi>nal ConToss*'on. I Barbara Aub confessed that her storv ac- I cusin? Walter L. S. Langerman 01 criminal assault "was perjury, a ad, Recorder GolT set , aside the verdict of guilty, discharged > Langerman and held Barbara to answer a j charge of perjury before the New j Grand Jury. West i*cint Cadet Kills liimsel'. The body of Albert Bittmaa, a y.>uug F7esr Point cidvt. was found in th? road ut*ar Wa.nego. Km. Tlireo letters wu'n found In his pooXats. with other uninistaka le ovidsne;) (bat liv had in a ino nent of ] Insanity taken his ow? ,if-* I ramiii iiiiH Si THOMAS B. REED, NEW SPEAKER OF T] fflEWAB OFFICE 8WI.I. >ecreiary Daniel S. Lamont on Our be De.'enceless Seacoast. ofa oc in I0NDITI0N OF THE ARMY. * ci of lie Force in Excellent Condition as Regards Discipline and Health?The Con- jj* centration Plan a Success?Good Ee- 01 nits of the Policy of Abandoning P': ce Unnecessary Posts. jj] Secretary of War Lamont, in his annual ce eport, devotes much space to recommendaions for better defending the coasts and m( or reorganizing the army formations. He j;r as, also, several interesting chapters deal- th ig with the concentration of troops, and Gh lie advantage of the union of the Stato and rational soldiery. (l, ? re t$! w: SECRF.TA!1T DAN'Ii'L, S. IA3I0XT. or. ' " 1 |i 3 Referring to the necessity of coast defense, ^ fie Secretary quotes from the message of < 'resident Clevalan 1 in 1833 and points out m* ow, if the recommendations of Secretary ^ f War Endicott had been adopted ~~f lie coasts would b9 fully protected ow. If future appropriations for the , lanufacture of gunsi morturs and carriages e no larger than the average authorized for P, he purposesincel838.it will require twenty- j wo years more to supply the armament P^1 f the eighteen important ports for P, rhich complete projects are anprovei. "o complete the armament for the J oris will require $36,342,935, exclusive of tie balance due to the Bethlehem Iron f . Vorks of about 33,500,000, and $238.1/09 rhich may be required for rapid-flre guns in rl ertain fortifications. "L For emplacements for guns and mortars, j Inished or building, $3,521,000 has been aD- , ropriated,and appropriations of 841,688,093 . rill be required to* complete this work. It ests with Congress to determine by its apropriations the period which shall elapse , efore our coasts shall be put in a satisfac- . ory condition of defense. The amount re uirea lor eignieen ports is aoout ;o2,uw,00. and the entire work can be completed " rithin ten years. * ~ The Secretary recommends the appoint- J"? lent of a board of army officers to su- . ervise and direct this work. The Secretary ays the Watervliet (N. Y.) gun factory can iroduce in ten years all tin armament re- " [uired for the presant project. P. The estimates for the department for 1897 _ mount to $51,915,043. The total of enlisted aen of all grades on October 31 was 25,700, mt counting nil men on fur.ough, sick and . etailed to the department, the effectivo j? leld strength of all arms on that date was , 0.584. The quality of the men enlisted has - * ieen greatly improved. The health record of he army for the year shows a death rate mly a fraction higher than the lowest rate , ecorded. Alcoholism as a cause of non- * fiflciency has notably declined in the past p, ew vears. The trials by general courtsoartlal during the year were 1728, compared J. ' rith 2189 for the previous year; by inferior ourts-martial 10,997, compared with 15,036 ast year. \ The Secretary says that by far the most He ssential ne?d ofthe army is the adoption of he three-battalion formation. No increase n the cavalry is proposed. To make these l hanges will require an additional appro- ' >riatiou of Sl.2o0.000. The conditions are favorable to the de- f relopment of a volunteer force of upward of r 00,000 men, of the nignest efficiency and , : ?rwnarf>d for anv service. The variety of ? weapons which now obtains is so great JSi is to preclude the employment of consider- ? tble bodies of the militia of different States * *j n co-operation, and the longer the Federal government delays action the greater the ? jossibility that different States will select dif erent models of rifles, requiring different f orms of ammunition, thus Hindering almost ' mpossible the employment in joint action of he troops of the different States. The Sec- f k etary points out that from 525,212,431.59 ipent on the Mississippi River improvements f ' he navigation interests have received little : y, iraeticai beneflt. ' vn Five Persons DroTrned. i)1 Fivo persons wera drowned a sV.-1 di> " V :aue3 below Brownsville, Penn., ule re- oi urning from a dmt'- j in a skiff. II:o Adam Jacobs, a MoDvngataela Tiwr si -amboat, sither ran into them Ui<nr .skiff was japsized by the swHIs ir.iai the boat, rhe dead ar<>: William A:-!iton. Joseph M> *" [ntosh, Mrs. Joseph Mclatosta, Mrs. James re Stevens, .Tohn Pickings. The struggling pr men and women wero .l:ccn ;?y the passengers Ti and crew ol the Jacobs, wiu> made au effort or to save them. The only one able to swim th was Jatnes Stevens, lie was saved. To Centralize tho Wool Industry, New York's Wool Exchange, soon to be Ti opened, will, it is said, centralize the wool in Interest# of the country in New York City. aj 3EH0USE0FREPRESENTATIVES. SPEAKER REED'S VIEWS. e Outlines the Coarse of ths Republican Majority in Congress. The business of the Fifty-fourth Congi*f pan at Washington by the holding tffS ivs before the formal opening of that body the caucuses of the Republican and Demratic members. The meetings were held the House wing of the Capitol. Thomas Reed, of Maine, was named by the Reiblican caucus for the Speakership, and larles F. Crisp, of Georgia, for the same flee by the Democrats. Tho first business that engaged the atten>n of the Republican caucus waslhe elec>n of a Chairmnn. Mr. Grosvenor, of iio, and Mr. Henderson, of Iowa, were iced in nomination. Mr. Grosvenor re. ived 158 vote3 and Mr. Henderson got 74. r. Hooker, of New York, was elected Secrery by a vote of 139, Ellis, of Oregon, reiving 77 votes. Mr. Grow, of Pennsylvania, as the oldest amber of the House, had been se lected to ice Mr. Reed in nomination fortbe Speakship. When the applause that followed is nomination had subsided, Chairman osvenor put the question, and amid eers and applanse the election was made lanimously. The Chairman then aDpointed jommlttee, consisting of Messrs. Grow, ot innsylvania; Payne, of New York, and Canin, of Illinois, to notify Mr. R9ed of his imination. The committee soon ippeared th the man from Maine, who. standing in a araa <n frnnt rtf thfl SnfiftllBf S dflSlt. mfldO s speech of thanks and acceptanue. "ilr. Chairman and gentlemen," said Mr. sed./'for the honor which you have conrred upon me I tender you my sincere anks. I am. however, not in the least ible to confound with my own personify this tribute of your kindness. I had ice the good fortune to be so placed that represented as well as I was' able the .triotic sense of a great party, and it is to at patriotic sense of our party that you nder the tiibute o ! your matured as well your temporary approval.. History will cord U3 praise for what we did in the fiy-flrst Congress, and it may accord ua i nra^se in this for what we do not do. "We have, unfortunately, a divided Govnment, which usually leads to small reIts. But there are times when rest is aa alth-giving as ercer.iise. We must not fort that our first and greatest duty is to do I we can to restore confldencto business, id that wo must avoid all business legisla>n except in the direction of improving isiness. "Rather than run risks we can afford to lit until well maturad plans give us assurers of permanent benefit. Crude and sty legislation is above all thines to be unued. "Could we cause our immense popular ijority to overflow into other branches of a Government, and could we have full ntrol, we would create not a perfect >rid, perhaps, but a world rather more fit live in than we have lately had. 'Even as thing3 ar;*, I do not for a mosnt doubt that our patriotic instinc:s will id us to make every sacrifice except of Incipleto rescue our country from its temrary disaster. 'Not only have we been elected by thu erwliplminij vote of the people as their vants, but as a House of Representatives, which we are the majority. Tho right to tiate taxation of the people is by the Contution placed in our hands a3 a sacred ist which we have no ricrbt to surrender d which all parties, however thev differ other things, will assuredly maintain. 'That wo shall be ready at all times to raish adequate revenue for the Govern>nt according to our sense of public duty man can doubt. 'This is the g reat Nation of this hemisera, and while we have no desire to interne with other Nations, we shall maintain r position here with firmness and selfipe-t, and at the same time with careful asideration of facts and th:it conservatism action which shall leave no bad question trouble our future. In this I trust the iolc Government and all it3 branches will in accord with each other and with the 3Dle." rVhen Mr. Raed had finished. George E. ss, of the Seventh Illinois District, prelted Mr. Reel with a new gavel composed wood from cherry and apple trees stand* on the grounds in Ashland, the old inestead of Henry Clay, in Kentucky, ilr. Helborn, representing the Third Cali nirt District, said that California also had favel to present, made of oak taken from ? old ship Hartford, Farragut's flagship, ilr. Rsed accepted both of the gavels with propriate remarks. Che caucus also nominated, for Clerk, meander McDowell, of Pennsylvania; rgeant-at-Arms, Banjarain F. Russell, of ssouri, and for Postmaster. Joseph C. :Elroy, of Ohio. Mter three roll calls tho blind chaplain, inry N. Conden, of Michigan, received a ijority of votes, and his election was made auimous. ^.fter the transaction of some minor busiss the caucus, at a quarter after one :lock, adjourned after a continuous session more than five hours. The same evening tho Democratic memE3 of the House nominated their candidates Speaker and tho other House officers. Tha ice of tho Chairman of tho caucus being cant, Mr. Sayers, of Texas, was lied to the chair, and he presided throught the meeting. The first thing done was elect officers of tho caucus. Mr. Culbera, of Texas, the senior Democrut in point service, was elected Chairman, in acuordce with the usual precedent, and Messrs. isk, of Maryland, and Robertson, of Louisla. were elected Secretaries. Mr. Crisp was unanimously renominatod r Speaker, and all the other old House leers were placed in nomination. They s: For Clerk. James lverr, oi! Fennsyluia; lor Sergeant-ut-Arins, Herman Snow, Illinois; lor Doorkeeper, A. E. Hurt, of i*?i.ssi{ipi; lor Po ?! muster, J >!tn T. Hoe.*, Maryland, and for Cliapiaiu, L. B. Bag'.jy, Maryland. The caucus ilien adjourned. Lives Lost in Storms. A despatch from Odessa says that about e hundred deaths ure recorded as having suited from the ssvero storms which have ovailed recently in that district of Ilussia. m victims in nearly all cases were drowm-d frozen to death. Great distress prev.iils roughout lh<; storra-sv/?fif i'i?tric'.. Pennsylvania's Balancc. The fiscal year irs Cro Tv.nnaylvnoia Slate reasury ended N il"-r J'. Thr; halauce tne general tu- ?:t; ; " r? ."i as jainst J)5,0!4/>'" : . ? .. . JUDGE PECIHAM CHOSEN A Nev/ Yorker Nominated for the Supreme Court Vacancy. JUSTICE JACKSON'S SUCCESSOR. President Cleveland Sends to the Senate the Name of ltufas W. Peckharo, a Jadge of tho Court of Appealn at Albany, N. T.?Brother of W. H. Peckham, Whose Nomination Was Rejected. President Clevelnnd nominated Rufus W. Peckham, of New York, to be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, to succeed Howell E. Jackson, of Tennessee, deceased. The nomination was recaivedin theUnited States Senate simultaneously with the message. For the time being it divided interest with the President's review of the country's condition, and when the Senators had b?ard the message read it was one of the main topics discussed. When the Senate went into executive session Senator Pugh, of Alfibama. Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, made a motion, which was adopted, referring the nominar tion to his committee. Senator Pugb immediately called a meeting of the committee to consider the nomination and report upon it to the Senate. A dispatch from Washington says: "The nomination of JudgePeckbam seems to have ended a scries of incidents by which New York has been deprived for two years past of a seat in the highest National tribunal, i Judge Pockham has the support for confirmation of both Senator Hill aud Senator Murphy, and his eminence on the New York bench made his acceptance by the Judiciary Committee ana tne rest 01 tne Senate a foregone conclusion. Senators on both sides of the Chamber expressed them, salves as highly pleased with the appointment, and in no Instance was any doubt expressed as to the nominee's acceptability. ' Senator Hill was not present in the Senate, but he expressed himself so favorable to , Judge Rufus W. Peckham when engaged In making the campaign two years ago against Wheeler H. Peckham that it was generally | believed he would accept the nomination without cavil and even with satisfaction. Senator Murphy, of New York, pronounced the selection as equal to the best that could > be made, and said there could be no doubt J of speedy confirmation." Judge Peckham's promotion loaves o, vacancy on the bench of the New York Court of Appeals which sits at Albany. It devolves on Governor Morton to appoint a successor who will hold office for a year, when a special election will be held to fill the unexpired term. Rufus W. Pockham, a younger brother of Wheeler H. Peckham, who whs also nominated for Supreme Court Justice by President Cleveland, and rejected by the 8e:aate, man hmti in Alhnnv W V. In 18S8. His father, ftlso named Rufus W. Peckham, was one of the Judges of the New York Court of Appeals. He was admitted to the bar when twenty-one years old. 8oon after his admission to practice, he became a member of the firm of Peckham <k Tremain, and continued in that connection until the death of Mr. Tremain, when the firm became Peckham & Rosendale. Ip 1869 he was elected District Attor, ney of Albany County. He was President 1 of the Albany Democratic County Con mittee for several years. In 1888 he was elected Justice of the New York 8upreme Court to serve a term of fourteen years and in 18S6 he was elected to the New York Court of ApEeals, taking the seat of Judge Miller, who ad been the successor of the elder Peckham. Judge Peokham in his eight yeara of service ' has written opinions in many important | ca9es. HAULING OVER PUBLIC ROADS. j Two-Thirds of the Cost Might Bo Saved if the Roada Were Better. , The office of the road inquiry of the Department of Agriculture has completed an | interesting investigation relating to the cornfrtn^c r\f fbo TTm'fnrl SfnfAO HfitllPM have been received from abont 1200 counties showing the" average length of haul from i farm3 or markets or shipping points to be twelve tniles, the average weight of load for two-horse wagons 2002 pound?, the average cost per ton per mild lwent)*-3ve cents, and . S3 for the entire haul. Estimating the farm products at 219.824,| 227 tons in weight and making estimates on other articles carried over the public roads, it is calculated that the aggregate expense of this transportation in the United States is I $946,414,665 per annum. | Reports have been iisked from the United States Consuls abroad of the expense of hauling where the roads are good so as to render possible a calculation which will show how I much of this vast outlay is due to bad roads. :The estimate is ventured, however, upon information in the office of the bureau, as to the enforced idleness and the wear and tear to live stock and hauling machinery caused by poor roads, that two-thirds of the cost might be saved by an improved condition of 1:he roads. NEW COAL-MINING METHODS. + frt Wn TntrnHnrArl hv fltft Knadlll? Company In the Schuylkill Region. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company are preparing to introduce now methods of mining coal in their pitching veins in the Sshuyikill region in Pennsylvania. Hereafter the 6!opes. which have been in use during the iast thirty or forty years. will bo done away with, and bigshafts substituted. The first of theso shafts is about to be sunk on the tract of the Potts colliery at Locustdnle, and will be a vertical opening of at least 900 yards in depth. It is claimcd by mining experts that this shaft will revolutionize the methods of coal-mi ning in the extensive Schuylkill region, its the methods of slopes now in use become too hazardous and expansive when driven over a dopth of four lifts, or 600 yards. The Reading officials will attempt, at the same time, f:o continue the old Bast colliery slope 1100 loet deeper in order to tap the basin, but in the future shafting will be used. Knights of Labor Desert. Over 5000 New York Knights of Labor attached to District Assembly No. 40 quit the order. This is the biggest desertion that has occurred in tho history of the order, aud was brought about by dissatisfaction with thi* management of its affairs by fas goner.il officers. Prominent People. The Pops is fond of quoting Latin postry. King Oscar, of Sweden, is a gool landscape artist. "Mark Twain" ha? conquirad Australia with his jokes. The Prince oi Naples is on tho lookout for a suitable wife. The Turkish Sultan's troubles arj sai l to have driven him to drink. Count Wilholm von Stollbanj-Werni^erode and his Countess havo just celebrated their diamond wedding. Tne Count is eigntvci??ht years old and tho Counless ten year; younger. nr O'tin. has eiu'.ributo 1 J'503D to S:;eu:? 11:11, Hanovor (In I.) College. Count Herbert Bismarck's marksmanship has improved since he poppero i the legs of the Prince of Wales with bird shot. Recjntly the Turkish Sultan's name appeared on the list of donors to a Hebrew institution'in New York City with a gift ot 31000. Rev. Thomas Tread well Stcne, D. D., one of the oldest ministers in the country, die J a short time ago in Boston, at the age of ninetylive years. Ex-Presldont Harrison says that the story 1 that he made $100,000 by speculating in African mines Is a canard. He asserts that the 1 !only money he ever made was got by hard work. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED Washington Items. At a Republican Senatorial caucus Senatoi Sherman was empowered to select a com* mittee of nine to choose a list of offlcere foi the reorganization of the United States Senate The report of tho Eoard of Visitors to the West Point Military Academy recommends that the standard o! admission be raised. The claims of Italy against Brazil are to be submitted to the arbitration of the President of the United States. Half a million gold was taken from the New York Sub-Treasury for export to South America, bringing the United States Treasury reserve down below $79,000,000. The President formally nominated Richard Olney to be Secretary of State and Judson Harmon, Attorney-General. W. W. Howard, sent to distribute American oharltable funds in Armenia, has been called home, Secretary Olney paying announced that the Turkish Government will keep him out of Turkish territory. The doore of the President's home at Woodley were olosed for the long winter season, and the President and Mrs. Cleveland anch their little daughters returned to the White House to reside nermanuntlv un til the late spring. Constantinople sent word to Washington that American missionaries in Turkey have been given the fullest protection. Benjamin F. Russell sent a telegram to Governor Stone tendering his resignation as member of the Missouri House of Representatives. This wa9 made necessary by Mr. Russell's election as Serjeant-at-Arms of tho National House of Representatives. Governor Stone at once accepted the resignation, The President appointed Henry 8. Roloff, of Utah, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah, vice William Smith, deceased. , Domestic. The Coroner's Jury decided that the accident at the Tilly Foster mine, Brewsters, N. Y., was unavoidable. John C. Stone, a convict, confessed in Fort Wayne, Ind., to numerous murders in various parts of the country. The South Carolina Constitutional Convention finished its work and adjourned sine die. Empire State Express made the run from new York City to Buffalo at an average speed of 53.S3 miles an hour. ; Mr. Gladstone replied through Hon. Chauncey M. Depew to an invitation to visit this country sent to him by the Chicago Press Club and the Mayor of Chicago, regretting that the infirmities of age prevent it. The four boy train wreckers of Rome, N. Y., were held to await the action of the Grand Jury. ? A big fire occurred on South Meridian street, the tvholosale district of Indianapolis. Ind. Six large buildings were burned ana the loss Is estimated at over $500,000. The housesmiths and brifigemen's strike in KTanr Va?1? PIfvIn a nn^Hnl ?!? />?? ! V??J VtVOUVt tu U IIVIW4J ?Vi I the employers. In New York City Barbara Aub was indioted for perjury in falsely charging Walter L. S. Langerman with criminal assault. Municipal elections were held in twentyone cities in Massachusetts. ! A commission selected by Superintendent of the Poor Perry Kline declared ex-State Comptroller Edward Wemple, of Fultonvilie, N. y., insane, and he was taken to the Utica State Hospital. The physicians were J. B. Fairbanks and T. O. Hyland, of Am- i sterdam. In New York City "Old Bill" Vo9burg, the greengoods man, ohanged his plea from not guilty to guilty on the charge of swindling Anton Clmfel, a Nebraska farmer, out of $5000. He confessed that he assisted the postofflce thieves, Bussell, KiUoran and Allen, to escape from Ludlow Street Jail. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas secured an outlet to the Gulf at Galveston by the settlement of long-standing litigation over the Galveston, Houston and Henderson Bail- |' road. A reward of $500 was offered for the arrest and conviction of those who wrecked tho Lackawanna express near Cortland, N. Y. John Blackburn and Lewis Marshall, of Fallsington, Pcnn.. were skylarking wita a musket when Marshall was accidentally shot and killed. | The Rev. Peter Trimble Rowo was consecrated Missionary Bishop of Alaska by Bishop Doane, of Albany. N. Y., and nine other prelates In St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church.' ' * | George TiCfuny, fourteen years old, led n horse to water, at Bridgeport, Conn., and for the fun of seeing it kick tickled it in the ribs. The horse kicked the top o? Tiffany's head off. killing him instantly. Atlanta, Savannah, Inman and South Carolina Day was celebrated at the Atlanta Ex- j position. Peter MeGsocb, who was famous in 18S3 because of his failure to corner the lard market, committed suicide in Milwaukee, ! Wis. I General Thomas Jordan died suddenly in | New York City. Ha was born in Luray, Va., on September 30, 1819, of Revolutionary stock on both sides of his family. Ho was a veteran of the Mexican War and fought on the Confederate side during the Civil War. j He aided the Cubans in their last uprising. I The Board of Police Commissioners of j New York City decided to establish a bicycle corps. The offloers of the steamship Loon were arrested as filibusters at Wilmington. Del. There is much excitement in Utah over j recent discoveries of rich gold fields in that I State. j Fifteen coal barges and 1250,000 bushels of coal were sunk near Se\7ickIcy, Penn. Captain Wikorg and two mates of the Danish steamer Horsa were arrested in Philadelphia, Penn,, by the United States Marshal charged with preparing to take arms and men to Cuban rebels. Emperor William suggests that tho Duke ol York's baby be named Shakspeare. Foreign Notes. Gil Gonzales, a captured insurgent leader, wn3 shot at Matanzos, Cuba, by order of a Spanish court-martial. Louis Stern, tho New York City millionaire dry croods merchant, forfeited his bail of $18,880 for failing to un iergo the penalty for an alleged insult to Baron von Thungen, of the Spa, in Kissingen, Bavaria. The commission investigating the affairs of the Ministry of tho late Premier Stamouioff, of Bulgaria, hHS recommended that all the members of that Cabinet bo impeached. \ 'Gomez and Sanchez, with 3000 Cuban insurgents, attacked the Spanish Generals Val des and Garricb, who had 2501) men, between Camajiuev aud Las Ylllr?, routing them. They left 150 dead on tho field. A cable despatch from Havana. Cuba, says that orders have boon issued to insurgent commanders to destroy all railway and telegraph communications within thair reach. Baron Yon Bnol-Berenberg w:is re-elected ^resident of the Gorman Reichstag in Bor! in. Tho Porte has now given the Ambassadors of the Powers such proof of Turkey's good intentions that tho question or a firman for additional RUiir.lships to pass the Dardanelles has lost all actual significance. Herr von KoeUer, the Prussian Ministe? of I ho Iut"rior, has been retired from ofiice. An Anti-Samite demonstration was .sup# pressed by the polico of Vienna. Austria. Ailvicvs from Morocco say that serious iVibtins !k'.s oocurrj'l at S im, a fortified sea >ort of that country. The iusurq^uts bo:niaruort t?in town, which h i? a population of iV.?ut 12,000 people, kiliisutd^iity >loor.-. A iioat belonging to H. M. S. Uomioor wa? off Sh?urni!ss. Buirliuid, aad four of its occupants were drowned. A despatch from Paris says that Monier, Iho chocolate manufacturer, has purchased ihe Canadian island of Antieota, situated in the estuary of the Sr. Lawrenc? River, paying therefor the sum of $200,000. Julio Sanguiny. who claims to bo an Atnoricau citizen, was sentenced to hard labor for lite in Havana for aidingthc Cuban insurgents. TheSultun refused to let an American Admiral go to Constantinople in a warship to call on him. Jabez Spencer Balfour was sentenced in London to fourteen years' imprisonment for his conneotlon with the Liberator Building Society frauds. REV. DR. TALMA.GE. IsE la BB I SUNDAY'S DI8C0URSE BY THE sk^ NOTED DIVINE. - 5^ mori wori Subject:41 A Welcome to Congress." tMsl othei box. Text: "And the Lord opened the eyes of impc the young man, and he saw, and. behold, was: the mountain was full of horses and chariots wellof Are round about Ells'ua.1'?n Kings vi.. 17. up a The American Congress is assembling, Arriving or already arrived are the iepre- no sentatives of all section* of this beloved n land. Let us welcome them with prayers notjj and benediction. A nobler group of men the never entered Washington than those who ?ani, will to-morrow take their places in the Sen-- ^.a(c ate Chamber and tne House of Repre;enta- a re( tlvas. Whether they come alone or leave teu t their families at the homestead far away, am , may the bles3ine of the Eternal God be upon them! We invite them to our churches, and war(; together they in political spheres and we in 80nt religious oiroles will jrlve the coming jron) months to consideration of the best interests vftnc of this country which God has blessed so blblt much in the past that I purpose to show you ^on and show them, so far as I may now reaoh njat' their ear or to-morrow their eye through the or printing press, that God will be with them to 0; a help them as in the text He filled the moun- ??qni tains with heln for Elisha. the I As it cost England many regiments and vote 2,000,000 a year to k?ep safely a trouble- oar ? some captive at St. Helena, so' the king of RrHn cAn^o nnf n ownwfA no nf tiro Ana 8v*i?a vuv ? ivuviu wimj v??^huiw vuw ftfOlli minister of religion?perhaps 50,000 men to jj0eu take Ellsha. During the nlzht the army of mora Syrians came around the village of Dothnn, e<j?0 where the prophet was staying. At early -i-vf daybreak the man servant of Ellaha rushed In and said: "What shall we do? There Is th.eir a whole army come to destrov you! "We their mnst die! We must die!" But Ellsha was dishc not scared a bit, for he looked up and saw two ? the mountains all around foil of super- ei0C)l natural forces, and he knew that If there cor^n were 50,000 8yrlans against him there were an(j ( 100,000 angels for him and In answer to the jfatic prophet's prayer in behalf of his affrighted oart man servant the young man saw it too. t{on? Horses of Are harnessed to chariots of fire, defer and drivers of lire pulling reins of fire on iatur bits of flre. and warriors of Are with brand- an(j e ished swords of Are. and the brilliance of volC0 that morning sunrise was eollpsed by the galloping splendors of the celestial caval- tldeg cade. "And the Lord opened the eyes of home the young man. and he saw, and behold the stia|t mountain wn? full of horses and chariots of gha]j flre round about Ellsha." I speak of the j jj upper forces of the text that are to light on jjeart our side as a Nation. If all the ,low levels gy<3, are filled with armed threats, I have to tell tjj0 n you that the mountains of our hope and dead, courage and faith are full of the horses and _0'u , chariots of divine rescue. ^ve3. You will notice that the divine equipage is , rI ways reoresented as a chariot of flre. y(m Ezekiel and Isaiah and John, when thoy ' e^( come to describe the divine equipage, always fi?w represent it na a wheeled, a harnessed, an upuuisiofcu cuuua^iauuu, AL 10 uui u tuai- \ JTHgft lot like kings and conquerors of earth raottct, but an organized and comoressed tje ^ Are. Tint means purity, fustice, ohastlse- nn^ t ment, deliverance through burning cacaoes. Chariot of rescue? Yes, but a chariot of Are. au^ t All our National dlsenthrallments have been wera through scorohin? agonies and red disasters. ^er a Through tribulation the individual rises. ?onu Through tribulation Nations rise. Chariots seif c of resoue. but obariots of Are. But how do I meac know that this divine equipage is on the side of our institutions? I know it by the history of the last 119 years. The American Revolu- may tion started from the pen of John Hancock ^ x In Independence Hall in 1776. The colonies, force Without ships, without ammunition, without <j0 y( puns, without trained warrltfrs, without jjh ^ money, withoutj>restlge. On the other side, ]j(3 r the mightiest Nation of the earth, the larg- jns, t; est armies, the grandest navie3 and the the n most distinguished commanders, and re- ga sources inexhaustible, and nearly all Na- Chris tions ready to baok them ud in the flght. Amei Nothing, as acrainst immensity. qUft!j The cause of the American colonies, which great started at zero, dropped still lower through _anc the quarrelling of the generals, and through turn the jealousies at small successes, and through readj the wlnfers which surpassed all predecessors ueg. Irk /Jflw+K /\f ar\f\ttt an/1 hrtwAM rtf nnnrraol. t ill uopm yy. auun prUTl ment. Elisha surrounded by the whole Syrian army did not seem to be wor39 off than did the thirteen colonies encompassed defar and overshadowed by foreign assault. What aad 1 decided the contest in our favor? The upper that] forces, the upper armies. The Green and came White Mountains of New England, the ^ |0] Highlands alone the Hudson, the mountains telop of Virginia, all the Appalachian ranges aild were full of re-enforcaments, which the craw voting man Washington saw by faith, and neShis men endured the frozen feet, an i the gerj gangrened wounds, and the exhausting bins hunger, and the long maroh because "the jje ej Lord opened the eyps of the young man, and pie w he saw, and, behold, the mountain was full presi of horses aad chariots of fire round about j C( Elisha." Washington himself was a miracle. er What Joshua was in saorei history the flret think American President was in secular history, p0ck< A thousand other men excelled him in What different things, but he excelled them all in eigne roundness and completeness of character, what The world never saw his like, and probably 0f ti never will see his like again, because there ftbou probably never will be another such ex- the E igenoy. He was let down a divine inter- Germ position. He was from God direct pape, I do not know how many can read the ferna history of those timas without admittingthe jj0j contest was decided by the upper foross. Then in 1S61, wh<*n our "Civil War opened, religl many at the North and at the South pro- Ungg; nounce-i it National suioide. It was not Wtt(ie courasrwagainstcowardicc, it was not wealth b0' rfl against poverty, it was not large States from against small States. It was heroism against* m0ut heroism, it was the resources of many eren- stjalt orations against the resources of generations, it was the prayer of the North against the jn!? j prayer of the South, it was one-half of the than Vn.Mnn In armed wrath meeting the other I Vntin half of the Nation in armed iniignation. I ifatio What could come but extermatlon? t)nj g At the openin? of the war the commander- > aa,j j In-chief of the Umte.l States forces was a g man who had been great ja battle, but old Im .01 age had come, with many inflrmities, and he SUpp< had a right to quietude. He could not thfcro mount a horse, and he rodn on 1he battle- chine field in a carriage, a3King the driver not to f0r a jolt it too much. During the most of the fl^y, four years of the contest on the Southern Wn w side, was a man in midlife, who had in his \atio veins the blood of many generations of jfatio warriors, himself one of the hero83 of peopl ChuruHusco and Corro Gordo, Contrer&s and they , Cbapulteoec. As the years passed on and the scroll of carnage unrolled there camo out from both sides a heroism, and a strength. jjj0 t and a determination that the world had js a ( never seen marshaled. And what but extermination could come when Philip jjjs p Sheridan and Stonewall Jac'cson mer, ani llS0(j Nathaniel Lyon and Sidney Johnston rode whic} in from North and South, and Graut and aa,j j Lee, the two thunderbolts of battle, clashed? possil Yet. we are a Nation, and yet wo are at ,m(j s pea?e. Earthly courage did not decide the Hfj (U conflict. The upper forces of the text?Ihey c^ris tell us there was a battle fought above the Bessie clouds on Lockout Mountain, but there was |,0U3e something higher thau that. ev **ry Again, the horsps and chariots of GjI a| j0 came to the rescue of this N.itfon in 1873, at a|j ^ the close of a Presidential election famous atroy for ferocity. A darker cloud yet settled down g0Q upon this Nation. The result of the election jfl tlie was in dispute, arid revolution, not between t3r3 ^ two or three sections, but revolution in every praye town and village and city cf the United ?arrje States soemed imminent. The prosoect was 0f?0, that Now York would throttle New York, and New Orleans would grip New Orleans, and catj0 Boston. Bostou, and Savannah, Savannah, jqq and Washington, Washington. Some said wag j. Mr. Tilden was elected, others said Mr. Hayes ]4tter was elected, and how near wo came to uni- ge0n j vers.il massacre some of us guessed, but God i)fgce only knew. I ascribe our e.s .\-tp-? not to the ^oat honesty and righteousness of infuriated poll- terg Hoinne. but I ascribe it to the upper forces n?0(i. of tiiii <'ext. Chariots of mercy rollni in. and though thii wheels were not heird and the cont(| flash was not seen, yet all through the ruouu- rop(} ta us of the North, and the South, and the 0f th< Ea-it, and the West, though the hoofs did not jj0tnG clatter, the cavalry of God galloped by. I roo^ tell you God is the friend of this Nation. In news' the awful excitement at the massacre of Lin- tjj0 hi coin, when thero was a prospect that greater jn slaughter would open upon this Nation, God jntf u hushed the tempest. In the awful excite- fal Ce ment at the time of Garfield's assassination a wjK God put His foot on^he neck of the cyclone. To prove God is on the side of this Nation I argue from the last eight or nine great National harvests, and from the National health In ' of the last quarter of a century, epidemics crossi very exceptional, and from the great revl- troit < vals of religion, and from the spreading of three the church of God, and from the continent dead blossoming with asylums and reformatory Mary institutions, and from an Edenization whioh Knivi v. MWP iIces that this whole land is to fee ft {H9^^9 wh?re God shall walk. H H m encouraged more than I can taQ ^Hn^H see the regiments wheeling downHHISfl and my jeremiads tarn Into doxolodB that whioh was the Good Friday of^R^HH dq's crucifixion becomes the EaaJ H 1 of Its resurrection. Of course 3 through human instrumentalities, National betterment Is to come anofHHBH r things through a scrutinised bal^HHHD By the law of regl?tration It Is almoH|^M issible now to have illegal voting. The^HHBM a time?you and I remember it ven^|flH -when droves of vagabonds wanderecH^nj ad down on Election Day, and fQiQ^HHD to poll, voted here, and voted thetrSHH voted everywhere, and then was^HBQ challenge, or it there wen^HBH amounted to nothing, becauMS Ing could oo.suddenly be proved npmlflH vagabonds. Now, In every w?Uor-!^^B zed neighborhood, every votijr is :HH hed with severest scrutiny. If I amis rlon where I am allowed a vote,-1 muse wD he registrar my name, and how old >t V| and how long I.have resided In thei&^^l s, and. how lone I have resided In the vVH I or the townshln. and If I misrepr*-' B fifty witnesses will rise and shut ott out . the ballot box. Is not that a urtat adk'.vr^R e? And then notice the law that pro- '-f- flH s a man voting if he h&s bet on the eleo- ?. MH A step farther needs to be taken and]' ?j man forbidden a vote who has offered 1$ M ken a bribe, whether It be In the shape >Wm free drink, or cash paid down, thw ; ;n| Icious cases obliged to pat their hand on 'ff-W Jible and swear their vote, in if thby yP* at nil. 8o. through the sacred cfea* ofl y.' Nation's suffrage. redaniDtion will come. U d will save this Nation through ah, sed moral sentiment. There has'nevee v'-^R so much discussion of morals a^d im-' A . - .la. Men, whether or not they ncfcuowl-J- H what is right, have to think'what is . We have men who have haiJheifK^-B a in the pablfo treasury the mo$t of lifetime, stealing all they could lay| "^^W hands on, discoursing eloquently about 'y-/xM inesty in public servants,, and menwith-'^ajM >r three families of their own preachtn*j2 B tently about the beauties of the seventh^ 'sfj W aandment. The qfiescion of sobriety irunkonness is thrust in the face of thii ? >n as never before and takes a part fn , J? kjiuichi contests, xcu quwuuu ui w? I sobriety is go!n<? so be respectfully and W entlally heard at the bar of every Legls- . fl e, and every House of Bepresentatives. fl (very State Senate, and an omnipotent ' i will ring down the sky and a?ro9S this I and back a sain, saying to these rising of drunkeneas which threaten to whelm i and ohuroh and Nation; "Thus far thoa come, but no farther, and here . - thy proud waves be staid." ave not in my mind a shadow of dls ment as large as the shadow of a house ving. My faith is in the upoer forces, I pper armies of the text. God is not The chariots are not unwheeied. If H vould only pray more and wash yourHK^B In the cool, bright water fresh from the). %?! of Christian reform, it would he said otj ' B as'of this one of the text. "The Lord :; *??{ sd the eyes of the young man, and hej-. ^YM and, behold, the mountain wa* full of- -'ijj fl e and chariots of fire round about' . ' J ten the army of Antigonns went into bat-! ' ' E lis soldiers were very much discouraged.i . I hey rushed up to the general and said: 1. . I m, "Don't you see we have a few foroasT y hey have so many?" And the soldiers "~r^~U affrighted atthe smalnessoftheirnnm-J . I nd the greatness of the enemy. Anti-> I s, thefr commander, straightened him-! J ip and said, with indignation and vehe-j JjR :e, "How many do you reckon me tol . And when wo see the vast armies ar-; H 1 against the cauie of sobriety it, H sometimes be very discouraging, but It on in making up your estimate of th* . W s of righteousness?X ask you how many' >u reckon the Lord God Almighty to be?] " SaM our commander. The Lord of Hosts Is. iame. I have the b?st authority for say- JB bat the chariots of God are 29,000, and) ;&! louutains are full of them. H ve you any doubt about the need of the; .ffiH itian religion to purify and make decent lean politics? At every yearfjK ot; . y-g 9 rennial election we have in this country, manufactories?manufactories of lies! ? \ H 1 they are run day and night, and they. ' rtnf half a drtwm a <l*ir Mil AnfflrtnaH <twit r for full sailing. Large lies and'small; -:", M Lies private and lies public and lies ' ent. Lies cut bias and lies cat diag- 9 Long Umbe 1 lies and lies with double ' fl action. Lies complimentary and lies ' J natory. Lies that some people., believe , f? ies that all the peoole believe, and lies' * fl iobody believes. Lies with htrMps" like >fl Is. and scales like crocodiles, and neoks 1 ior as stories, and feet as swift as an an-; r-t ?, e's, and stings like adders, ijles raw fl scalloped and panned and stewed. fl ling lies and jumping lies and soaring I Lle3 with attachment screws and nif- fl and braiders and ready wound bob- ;'?m Lies by Christian people who never cept during elections, and lies by peo- -* ho always lie, but beat themselves in a ..fl dential campaign. 9 jnfess I am ashamed to have a foreign- fl lit this country in su^h times. I should fl : ha would stand dazsd, his hand oa hl? -'C'tM Jtbook, and dare not go ont nights. , 'fl will the hundreds of thousands of for- <? ira who come here to live think of u?? I : a disgust they must have for the land ;:?fl tieir adoption. The only good thing yfl t it is many of thom cannot understand I English language. Bat I suppose the fl tan and Italian and Swedish and French fl rs translate it all and peddle out the In-. ' 1 fl 1 stuff to the subscribers. I thing but Christianity will ever stop ifl a flood of Indecency. The Christina' 4H .on will speak after awhile. TheUU VH ?ate and low scandal through whloh we ;-^fl every year or every four years must 'baked by that religion which speaks "? its two great mountains?from the one fl italn intoning the command, "Thou. 'fl not bear false witn3S3 a?a!nst thy( fl ibor," and from tha other mount male-! ' 1' ? )l;*a for kindness and blessing rather : curjintc. Yes, we are going to have a - % nal religion. There are two kinds* o{ * na! religion. The one is supported by tate, and is a matter of human politics, t has icreat patronage, and underit men trugqle for orominonce without referto qualifications, and its archbishop (9 . jrted by a s ilary oft$75,000 a year, and - ? are great cathedrals, with all thq ma- ?y ry of music and canonicals, aud room . thousand people, yet an audienoe of jeople, or twanty Daople, or tea or two. .J ant no such religion as that, no such nal religion, but we want this kind of " nal religion?the vast majority of the e converted and evangelized?and then will manage the secular as well as the ous. you say that this is impracticable? No. inn is coming just as certainly as there rod, and that this is His book and that is the strength and the honesty to fulfill romises. On?* of the ancient emperors to pride himsalf on performing that 1 i his counselors said was impossible, have to tell you to-day that man's im- | :les are God's easles. "Hath He said, I hall He not do it? Hath He command- I id will He not brin* it to pass?" The a tian religion is coming to take pos- I n of every ballot box, of every school- I i. or every *nome. or every vauey, 01 /-a mountain. of ovary ncroof our Nationmain. This Nation, notwithstanding. a evil influences that are trying to dait, is going to live. le time ago there were 4.600,OOD letters dead letter pwtoffioe la this city? letthat had lost their way?but not on? r ever directed to the heart of God miflid. The way is all clear for the ascent xr supplications heavenward in bohalf is Nation. Bjioro the postal communia was so easy, and long ago on a rock set high on the coast of England there1 V >arrel fastened to a post, and in great1 ' s on the side of the rock, so it could be far out to sea. were the words "Postand when ships came by a put out to taice and fetch letAnd so sacred wjre those de3 or affection in that barrel that no look aver put upon that barrel, although it lined messages for America and Euantl Asia and Africa am all the islands 3 sea. Many a storm tossed sailor,i sick, got messages of kindness by that: and many a homestead heard good1 from a boy Ions: gone. Would that alii <?hfc nf ftni? VuHnnal nrncnflrlKf qtamJ ^ .erchange of aymnathies?prayers go- H p meeting blessings coming down, pos-l -IV ilestial, not by a storm struck rook on| 1 itry coast, but by the Rock of Ages. Killed at a Crossing. roledo, Ohio, at the Nebraska avenna ,ng of the Lake Shore Railway, the De-. express run into a vehicle containing: persons, all of whom were killed. The* are: Joseph Remen, aged forty-flvej Remen, his daughter, aged tea; Ernest irs. aged fifty, j , - /