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Show WAFTED ON THE WIRES. New York, Jan. 22 - The president of the New York society for the prevention of cruelty to children, memorialized congress today, through Senator Kerman, calling attention to the barbaratics about to be practiced upon certain Chinese children. He has sent to congress and to the president a communication in relation to a pitiful appealwhich has reached him from the Pacific coast. He says: In 1877, Yacoob Bey [Yakub Bey] [Yakub Beg], the famous central Asian chief and Chinese rebel, was captured and put to death by the Chinese government by a slow and painful process. Those of his family who had not fled on his death into Russian territory were cruelly executed. As if the exile or slaughter of every adult kinsman of his were not enough, four of his children, ranging in ages from fourteen to five, have been solemnly arraigned for "hereditary" high treason to the emperor of China. One would naturally conclude that the complicity of the boys being disproved, their acquittal of guilt should follow, especially in view of their tender years; on the contrary, they are consigned to a doom more horrible than ???????. They are to be kept until a certain age in prison, and then cruelly emasculated and consigned as slaves to the soldiery for uses and practices unhappily too common in the east, but which Lord Coke says, "are not even so much as to be named among christians." "This", says President Gerry, "is no overdrawn picture." He implores immediate action in the matter, and states that if the Chinese government will commute the sentence of these wretched children to banishment, this society stands ready to receive them and place them, at its expense, where they will properly maintained, educated and cared for. <br><br> LOUISVILLE, Jan. 23. - The lower house of the Kentucky General Assembly to-day passed a bill, 58 to 33, reviving the whipping post laws. The same bill passed the house of the last assembly, but was defeated in the senate by the casting vote of Lieut. Governor Underwood. <br><br> CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 23 - Minister Layard has telegraphed to Lord Salisbary [Salisbury] for help, urgently needed in Mogul?, where the people have been obliged to sell their children to procure food. The Montenegrins are withdrawing from G????, but they state they intend to return in the spring with largely increased demands. <br><br> WITCHITA, KA. Jan. 23 - Advices from Cherry Vale say the building occupied by the Globe printing office and sleeping rooms on the upper floors, and the furniture store below, were burned night before last and that two men perished in the flames. Three other men were sleeping the building at the time, but escaped by jumping from the window. <br><br> NEW YORK, Jan. 23 - The World has this description of the Masonic emblems found under Cleopatra's needle. First a Mason's square of red syenile? granite, the long section being 8 feet 6 inches long, 17 inches broad and 23 inches thick, the short section measure -- from the outer angle 4 feet 8 inches, by 6 inches; the Mason's square is near the nort- easterly corner of the foundations; parallel with the easterly side of the foundation; second, a pure white stone representing an apron, and situated under the end of the short section; third under the apron a perfect altar of red granite; fourth, toward the corner of the foundations, opposite the angle of the Mason's square, that is, towards the south-easterly corner of the foundations, is a red granite rough altar; fifth, between these two altars a Mason's spoon shaped iron trowel, of ordinary size, totally oxydized; in all five emblems, each in its proper position. They rest on a foundation of yellowish drab limestone. Surrounding the foundations on all sides and forming a part of it are three steps, all of stone. The foundation, together with the steps, are bound firmly together, and very well preserved. In iron cased in lead. The other stones in the foundation bear curious marks and cuttings not hieroglyphics, which may be Masonic, but none here are able to decide. All the stones in the foundations will be replaced in New York exactly as they were discovered. <br><br> ST. LOUIS, Jan. 24? - Springfield special: Sieger Williams, a young man from Texas, while visiting his uncle at Cave Spring, near Springfield, on Thursday last in a playful mood pulled a chair from under his cousin, Gemina Williams, letting her down on the floor, and then ran out in the yard. The young lady became very angry, seized a rifle that was in the room, and followed out and shot him in the forehead, killing him instantly. <br><br> THE ALBANY CORRESPONDENT of the Herald, noticing the call for a meeting of the Tilden democrat committee at Albany next Tuesday, says: "This call recognizes and proclaims that the situation is a critical one for democratic success in the national election, if the thirty-five electoral votes of New York are needful to success. The anti-Tilden conference was meant to give Tilden once for all the option between sacrificing himself or sacrificing his party. An effort is being made to induce him to renounce his aspirations in favor of Seymour." <br><br> NEW YORK, Jan. 24. - It is rumored that a consolidation of the Union Pacific, Kansas Pacific, and Denver Pacific railroads was accomplished this afternoon. The new company will be known as the Union Pacific railway company. Following are the elected officers: Sidney Dillon, president; Elisha Atkins, vice president. Henry McFarland, secretary and treasurer; Fred Ames, Boston, Carlos S. Greely, St. Louis; Ezra Baker, Boston; J.G. Dexler, Boston; G.M. Dodge, Iowa; Russell sage, Jay Gould, Solon Humphreys, David Dows, New York; W.S. Scott, ??? S.H. Clark, Omaha; T.T. Eckert, New York; and John Sharp, of Salt Lake, with the president and secretary, are directors. <br><br> NEW YORK, Jan. 26 - Rumors were spread on 'Change [exchange] this afternoon that Keene and his coadjutors, who are holding the major part of the wheat in store here, were either selling out or contemplating it in the near future. The rumor was carefully run down last night and found baseless. The general opinion of the intention is to hold the grain until navigation opens in the spring, when it may be moved with profit, and when the continental demand will be greater. <br><br> NEW YORK, Jan. 26 - Herald's Washington: It is reported here, on what is believed trustworthy authority, that the personal friends of the ex-president in Philadelphia, who are nearest to him, state to person interested, that before the meeting of the Pennsylvania convention, ten days hence, an authoritative declaration will be made in behalf of the ex-president conclusively taking him from the field as a contestant for the presidential nomination. It is given out by persons in the ex-president's confidence that he proposes to engage in an important business enterprise, which he prefers to any attempt to re-enter political life. <br><br> PORTLAND, ME., Jan. 26. - The Press to-morrow [tomorrow] will publish an expose of the formation of circles of the Brick Pomeroy league in Maine, with a state circle, devoted to communistic doctrines and now employed in endeavors to seize the state government. <br><br> PROVIDENCE, R.I, Jan. 27. - The governor, in his annual message, recommended that women be given the right to vote on the school question, and that prohibition take the place of the present liquor law. <br><br> CHICAGO, Jan. 27. - The Times New Orleans: The topic of conversation tonight at the hotels and public places is the forthcoming duel between state treasurer Major R.H. Burke, and Major H.J. Hearsy. Burke, besides being state treasurer is the editor of the New Orleans Democrat, the organ of the democratic party. Hearsy was a few months ago editor of the Democrat. The difficulty arose from a newspaper discussion regarding a contract for the city printing which was awarded to the Democrat. Major Burke was challenged by Hearsy, and the challenge was promptly accepted. Yesterday the ??? were engaged in arranging the details of the duel. The duel is arranged to take place to morrow [tomorrow] morning. A peaceable settlement of the affair is regarded as impossible. |