Show telegraphic miscellany CELLANY the juel or of tb ahe nt enar r st lou louis Is dee dec special from bom now orleans alluding to tho the burn IH x of tile the steamer while says all the rescued I people took the mississippi 81 I 1 tyl valley railroad train for this cl city arriving ahls noon william MG mcgreevy to evy chief engineer of the be 1 gives this statement of the disaster at about 1010 last night flight loland la ing a at t dr Ferre Ferrel ts Ltd p ial co ab 0 bothe 11 t linding landing it nt t point oin chupco at which tile the boat was loading load ln cotton seed it fir broke on out t I 1 tile the engines on tho the top of tho the doctor deck engineers darry burry andJa noy who on the watch cavo tit the alarm and tin pumps amps were pule pu to work but without avail tito tho watch watchman mau gave eave an alarm by ringing the bell callahan C italian aud and bell at oneo onci aroused ed the people in the cabin tito Us spread rapidly arid and irv in loss less than tj fifteen YAnt fei tho the boat hall had burned to tho the waters iva tora edge there wore wora fo r I 1 cugh a of powder in the anaga zine I 1 and tho moment tho the tiro fire readied them tho llames flames shot up about feet high tho the sight was I 1 ihu ho most one bao over ever witnessed wItness oI by a human beenk tho the shrieking or of w women melt ind children for help was awful lie ile saw tho the superintendent railroad standing stan dlug outside the alio ladles ladies cabin throwing his hia two little the water u ile ho stood there and burned to death with his wife there wore in tile cabin diflo lady passengers and eig eight I 1 it men abow at t now j twenty dock deck hands were taken on are supposed to lie be lost it la Is learned that andrew pierce sailor a ond nd antonio Ilo Ro batta fireman aro anro I 1 the he ones oma to whom nil fill credit for saving sav I 1 rig tho the survivors Is duo due the follow following I 1 rig officers are known to bo be safes safe captala muse aluse clerks A mcvay cl bell and callahan pilots john 8 i 0 wart find and bob smith engineers william mcgreevy tom barry bcd 11 II 11 find and steve jerry mates john grant anti and toni tom watchman toni tom Millers allor andy pierce stewards pat ryan kyan and colonel S L james who was in the stateroom managed man aped to 0 o got eel ashore asli ore and had haid to walk two miles without it coat hut hat or shoos in th the Is chil chilly ly winda before he could reach a ra railroad rall i roAd station lie ile was vm taken to liis his home Py pythinia thania on his hid arrival hero here those thosa lost 11 xo aro lewis second cook oscar bilker baker it and n d amos the porters dick ran ilan dolph fireman vo prize ox taken on I 1 at t vicksburg VIcks burp was roasted to death and two of his five keepers perished tho the oie jaw J nil the secretary of tho the treasury to d day ay transmitted to the iho senate the report prepared by mr miller corn com missioner of internal revenue jn in answer to senator ingalls Ine alls resolution calling for information in regard ito to the operations or of lie ilia oleomargarine it law w ey by this report it appears that alno november lit the date at which the law went into operation tho the special tax tat provided lot lor therein lias has been assessed on thirty four manufacturers man frers of oleomargarine on wholesale esala dealers and on 2415 retail dealers the number of pounds assessed at 2 cents per pound was waa A table Is given alveri the number 0 of f poisons persona and farms who hayo paid tho the special taxes imposed and the he quantity quan lity of 0 assessed in each collection district of the united states this shows that hat the tha principal rin cipal collections were in tho the hrat li illinois enols district districts where p pounds I 1 ads w wera ore tax taxed 0 other districts where re collections were above tho the average averaged avera gei were as a fellows colorado pounds kansas third massachusetts first now new york second now york rhode island 2813 16 of the manufacturing manufacture rig establish men is ton ten are ara in the first illinois five in kansas three in the second now new york three in 0 o tile the eighth ohio and five lu in rhode island inlaid none of the old 0 d districts contain moro more than two Le factories the 1 he wholesale dealers are corill ned principally to the following follow lne districts dIstrIct i first illinois third massachusetts first michigan ithone island and louisiana there granot ara not more than four wholesale dealers in any other one district tie ilia I 1 ro retail I 1 ail business is confined principally to the first illinois district third massachusetts twenty mccond pennsylvania rhode first pennsylvania and connecticut in the order orde named tito aboyo above figures are taken from tho the returns so far its as received in tile the ease of the rhode island collection the returns are coun complete pleto only to november which is at blo atso so tho the ease aso with many the districts district to which the collections appear to be small im dimier rimier itic s coir Rients fric the he T washington D C J 11 14 about a d dozen ozen democratic members of con coil gress brass had a conference tonight to night at the rooms of representative mcadoo for the tha purpose of the tariff question among those in in attendance were representatives ban dall pennsylvania greens greene and pid cock now new jersey warner and fry ohio Obio martin alabama Bler hernman riman new york or it and wallace louisiana after a 0 discussion of about two hours during which the in members embers advanced their individual r to what should be done the fr lowing pro positions tiona were unanimously adopted F first arst they stand aland opposed to en bering upon the tha consideration of the pending morrison bill second they favor a reduction 0 of f the tha revenue at this selli session Oll so 60 na as to prevent the accumulation of a surplus lathe in the treasury but bat insist that it shall ahall be ba effected by some measure ino asuro which shall ellale embrace the repeal or reduction redaction of certain of the internal revenue taxes third thoy they favor an immediate change in the la administrative tea fea turea tore of the existing tariff laws lawa sap bop orate arate and apart from any general re didion of thu the tariff A further conference con farence will be held before saturday melt aisi batllori tamm co cojac jam or 1 11 treat ment eist boston 11 la in tle the united states circuit court to day hugh elligh mcgilv mcgie ern era Lau laurence 0 burns and william mcnally sailors on the bark Mati 3 wil fig K cann which arrived from bannos ayres on friday complained I 1 of 0 extremely cruel treatment by cap tain J it durkee his second mate and boatswain the captain was in court but tb abe e two latter have bare digap one sailor named edward ti was treated so brutally that ho be ju jumped overboard and was drown ed cd rhe ibo sailors say they were forced on the bark at buendo ayres betag being threatened with death it they resist ed and locked in the forecastle until tle the vessel sailed theofleld tho held libolt loudon london dee dec 15 in the appeal of ot I 1 james gordon bennett against the decision lec ision awarding C cyrus IV field damages for statements defog atory to the latter published in in the new york bourt J of appella a Is today to day quashed tho the verdict against bennett the rho present decision takes th abe ground r olind that bonnett bennett not bein being g a 6 it is h subject and being a nou noa resident of great britian the substituted I 1 d service on him in in london I 1 upon which the verdict was obtained I 1 was illegal the ibe court condemns field to pay tho the costs |