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Show GEN Ell A iu. Legislation forthe Soutu. j Washington, lo. There were two ! caucus meetings of Republican Sena-i Sena-i tors to-day, to consider the condition of affairs in tho South and the advisa bility of legislation Qn tho present. Hi-'-.. - "uject at I - - - " iong and earnest de- -"ie, it was agreed : First, the House concurrent resolution for adjournment next Monday, shall be laid on the table; second, a joint resolution shall be introduced in-troduced by Anthony, supported by the Republican majority, providing tor the appointment of a joint committee com-mittee of live Senators and seven members mem-bers of the House, to take testimony with regard to the condition of affairs in the South; third, that a resolution be adopted instructing the Senate judiciary ju-diciary committee to report a bill for tthe 6uppresuon of unlawful organiza-jtions, organiza-jtions, and for the protection of life and I property in the Southern S,- linally, no other legislation shall be cntiMdi'i ed or enacted during the present pres-ent hr.iioll, l'lilltMlt-tplilii Fire Di'iiurtmriit. J 'liilaib lpliiii, 17. The new lire depart de-part meiit went into Ki-rvire last Iiij'ht fur the lirnt time. Kvcrylhing passed nil' iiiietly. The ltuinoi-ril lroimtl lo Nt-ll Culm. New York, 17. While hdiiio Washington Wash-ington cniTepondeiil.H deny there is any trill h whatever in the report that (ieiicial Sickles telegraphed to Washington Wash-ington a proposition from the Spani.-h L"veriiineiil to si ll Cuba and l'urlo Kioi for 1 00,01111,0(111, the TrilmnKK J cone-poiuleiit conlirnis the di.-patch, ami add-. : The President and i-'ecro- ' tary of Statu both say that Gen. Prim, j some time ago, made a proposition In General sickles, offering the colonics colo-nics to tlie b'nitedStatcs fur $200,000, -OoO, wbieh was at once declined on ! our par. . 1 Shortly after the coronation ofj Amadous, Sickles was again approached approach-ed on the subject. J lo listened, con-Isidered, con-Isidered, and the result is the proposal j for sale at one hundred millions of - dollars. ! ! President Grant Kaid yesterday that1 I tho administration had no intention to icons der it, believing that, even if de- j jsirable, the Senate could not be in- ( i duced to accept such a treaty, and it would be useless to ask Congress for an j appropriation to carry out its provisions in the lace of the fact that the obtain-1 ing of one million live hundred thousand thou-sand dollars needed for the San Domin-Igo Domin-Igo purchase, was in considerable doubt. Kulcltlc of a Milliliter. Pittsburg, German Lutheran minister, named J. G. Van Doren, 'died in the lock-up at one o'clock this i morning, having committed suicide by taking laudanum. He has been a Soulh American missionary. Tlie Xcw IlaiupKliire Election. Concord, X. if., 17. All except five small towns in Coos county have been heard from, and estimating these towns by last year's vote, Weston fails of election by tho people by 152 votes. ' The St'tli xni'iit says of the Mouse, our list of representatives chosen contains the names of li'il Republicans and i 150 Democrats. The towns to be heard t from will give, we think, 2 Republicans Republi-cans and 11 Democrats. If so, the I House will stand 103 Republicans to ' 107 Democrats. In the lirst district there is no choice; in the tenth and eleventh districts the vote is so close that an official count will be required 1 to decide. Three Democratic Congressmen Con-gressmen are elected beyond a doubt. Nomination. Washington, 17. -Among the nominations nomi-nations to day were Ebenezer Bumont, of Indiana,' to be Governor of Idaho Territory; and Madison E. Ilollister, to be Associate J ustiee of the Supreme Court of Idaho; William Stephens, Register at Walla Walla, Washington Territory; Lot S. Bayless, Surveyor-General Surveyor-General oT Dakota Territory; and E. M. Gershon, to be Indian Agent of Washington Territory. llnllroad Accident. Philadelphia, 17. This morning an accident occurred on the Camden & Amboy Railroad, near Camden. A train was thrown from the track and the locomotive upset by a misplaced switch; and another train collided with the overturned engine. Three hundred hun-dred feet of the track was torn up, several ears demolished, and many per-ions per-ions bruised, none seriously hurt except ex-cept the brakeman, who had a foot crushed. |