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Show GENERAL. Invllatlott Accepted. Boston, 21. The President has accepted ac-cepted an invitation to the anniversary meeting bore of the army of the Potomac, on May 2th. Sent to be Contented. The scats of the two Republican Repre-ontHtive.s-elect in Manchester, New Hampshire, are to be contested, on tho ground that the number able to poll in their wards are insufficient to wurrent the number oflteprcsentatives chosen; and also for alleged illegalities in the manner of election. Krroiieotis Humor Concerning Ilev. Jllr. Clicncy. Chicago, 21. A statement made in the press, some days ago,that the Kev. Mr. Cheney, of Christ's Church, Chicago, Chi-cago, had recently administered in his church the right of confirmation, was! wholly incorrect. He merely admitted to the Lord's Supper those who were : ready and desirous to be confirmed. j Payment of Illinois State Debt. The State treasurer of Illinois has! filed, in the office of the clerk of the fund of Commissioners, three million and fifty thousand dollars of cancelled State bonds, being the amount of the State debt recently paid. Major Powell. Major Powell, the Colorado explorer, leaves Normal, Illinois, to-day, on his second journey. 113 goes under the auspices of the Smithsonion Institution, Institu-tion, there being an appropriation of $20,000 for tho expedition. The party are well supplied with instruments, boats, and all that is nrcessary for a complete and accurate survey and exploration. ex-ploration. They intend making a stay of two years. Attempt at Robbing an Insurance Compuiiy. Syracuse, N. Y., 24. In the case of Erastm F. Loftus, vs. the Merchants Mer-chants Insurance Co., and thirty others, now being tried, Stephen Ved-ders Ved-ders teitficd that Adam Nichols, Sanil. Bennct and Wm. Bripgs deliberately delib-erately set fire to Bennet's stores, which were consumed, on the morning morn-ing of the 27th of December, 18G9, with Vedder's store adjoining Ben-net's, Ben-net's, The suit was brought to recover SO,000 insurance on Bonnet's goods. This evening Adam Nichols was arrested ar-rested on the charge of arson in the first degree, and is now in jaiL The case has created intense excitement in this city. The Crouse House was situated situ-ated over Bennet's stores, and several persons were sleeping in it at the time the building was set on fire. Statistics of Spirits. Washington, 25. The internal revenue rev-enue bureau is collecting statistics of the quantity of spirits now in the country, and has sent out a circular asking collectors to report the amounts of assessments against distillers, which have not been paid. Closing Labors of lite Joint High Commission. The Joint High Commission have made such progress within the past few das's, that it is authoritatively stated they will finish their duties on Wednesday or Thursday next. The commissioners are now engaged in preparing the treaty; all the points between be-tween the parties having been agreed to, except certain matters which are still under discussion by the English home government. The report that there was to be a separate treaty for each question, of the Alabama c'aims, the fishery question, the San Juan boundary, &c, is not true. All the cases will be embraced in one treaty, and if the one is respected all will be. That is, the settlement of one question involves in its settlement all the questions. ques-tions. The American commissioners will not bo dissolved unt'l after the treaty is disposed of by the Senate; and the English commissioners will probably remain here until the close of the Senate debate on the subject. The treaty will not be made public by the State Department Indian Snpplics. Bids for about $400,000 worth of Indian In-dian supplies, in dry-goods, hardware, &c, will be opened in New York next Thursday, and Commissioner Parker goes from here to-night to New York, on business connected with the opening open-ing and awarding. The Indian board, of commissioners will also be represented repre-sented there by a committee from its members. Next week bids for $500,-000 $500,-000 worth of l-eef, flour and similar supplies will be opened in New York, and on June lath, in this city, for about $S00,000 worth of beef. Small-pox at Yokohama, The small-pox, which has been ragirig seriously at Yokohama, Japan, causing the death of several U. S. seamen sea-men on board the naval steamer Alaslca stationed there, is reported to have ceased to be an epidemic. The Mississippi Crevassea, New York, 25. A dispatch from New Orleans, at a late hour last niaht, says the whole city is filled with rumors of crevasses and probable inundations. ; Careful inquiry and personal investigation investiga-tion reduced the number of creva-ses from which imminent danger is anticipated antici-pated to foiu-j at Poverty Point, Wallace Wal-lace Plantation and ' Bonnet Carre, above the city, and Mararo Plantation below. To-night three of these are reported re-ported under control, leaving the break at Bonnet Carre alone to be combatted. Here the danger is great and imminent immi-nent The waters of the great river are rushing through the opening seven hundred feet nide, with' a rushing, roaring sound, audible lor miles, plow-j ing a channel fifty feet dcep far into the vacant lands, and the levee is rapidly rap-idly crumbling into the boiling waters. Large piles driven twenty feet into the ground and packed with sand bags, aie1 swepi away like reeds. No eflbrts can , now close the crevasse, and as soon as the flood has cut its way into the lake the latter will overflow the whole rear portion of the city. New Orleans, 25. The latest news is that the Bonnet Carre crevasse is still extending, and that twelve miles of the Jackson raiload are washed away. Two other crevasses, one at '. Point Manoir, wet of Baton Kouge, ' and one on. the McDonough estate, be-; j low the city, is reported. , I The Legal Tender Act i New York, 25. The Tribunes Washington special says the decision of the Supreme Court in the Legal Tender cases, will be announced in open court in presence of a full bench ! on Monday next The opinions, however, how-ever, will not be delivered until the December meeting of court, in order that the judges will have time to perfect per-fect them. It is positively ascertained that the decision will remove the former decision by deciding the legal tender act constitutional, and that contracts lumdfl prior to tlio war have been un filled by payment in greenbacks. Jn this decision tho court will Maud ns follows: Affirming its constitutionality, Assoeinto Justices Miller, Davis, Swayne, Bradley and Strong; nL'uiiist, Chief Justice (,'haso, Justices Nelson, Clilhjnl and Field. As (o the consli tutioniility of it, applicable to contracts sineo its passage, tliero is some doubt how the court will stand, although ii is certain tho legality of tho acts will bo ullirmed as in tho other case, and perhaps by a larger number of judges, l'ho court on Monday will announce several other cases, and will then end tho term by adjournment until December. Decem-ber. Taxing State Omcers' Salaries. ; Washington, 25. The recent opinion opin-ion by the Supreme Court, in the case of Day w. Buffington, in which it was i held that the salary of tho judge of a ' Stale court was not liable to the income j tax, has been brought beforo the com- missioner of internal revenue for the ! decision of the very importantquestion, as to the liability of other State officers ; to pay income tax on their salaries. 'The opinion referred to was based on the argument, that if the right of the 'general government to tax salaries is joncc admitted, then the State judi-iciary judi-iciary might be taxed out of existence. I The other State officers appeal from the assessments made upon their salaries; sal-aries; holding that the argument ap-i ap-i plies to their cases as well as to the 'judges. The question involved is an extremely important one, as the decision decis-ion in cases now pending similar to that already given, would probably be followed fol-lowed by a demand from all parts of the country for draw backs of all the tax on salaries paid since the income tax I iw passed. Tho question would also be raised as to the legality of the income tax on the fees of the sheriffs and other officers, whose salaries are not fixed. I Cabinet-Making. New York, 25. The Tribune's Washington correspondent, telegraphs that it is authoritatively announced i that a successor has at last been found : for Fish. Tho next Secretary of State i it is reported will be ex-Senator Mor-Igan, Mor-Igan, or ex-Atterney General Evarts, ' probably the latter. The change will not be made immediately. Heavy Frost. i Chicago, 25. There are reports from southern Illinois and from parts of the i South, as well as Kentuckey and Ohio, of heavy frosts recently, which, ! it is feared, have very seriously en-jdangered en-jdangered the fruit crop. The weather ; here is extremely disagreeable, alternating alter-nating daily between heat and cold. Horrible Suicide. i At White Hall, 111., on Sunday, Mrs. : Susan Culver, wife of a merchant of i that place, stood before a mirror and cut her throat from ear to ear. Her i mother who was living with her, heard i her fall, rushed into the room, and j found her quite dead. Supposed Sulrlde of a Woman Doctor Doc-tor Cheap Horses for Salt Lake--- Crime. San Francisco, 25. Scorching winds are again damaging the crops of cen- tral California. MissF. A. Cook, M. D., was found dead in her bed, supposed to be a case of suicide. She had been indisposed indis-posed for some time. She had a large practice and was forty years of age. Large bands of horses are being sold at thirteen dollars a head, in Los Angeles An-geles county, and driven to Salt Lake and Montana. i Alphonz Pinart, the French scientist, scien-tist, sails with the expedition to the 'Aleutian Islands and Alaska to-day. j A highwayman shot one Bowie, near ; Marysville, yesterday, knocking him off his horse, stunning but not killing him 1 and then robbed him. Bowie subsequently subse-quently recognized the man in Marys-! Marys-! ville and arrested him. |