Show THE LATEST NEWS by an express which arrived in this city on monday anday last bringing some old mail matter idich should ha have arrived here long iong ago we elveda received ei veda yeda a cop copy of the missouri republican of jan n ath from which we glean a afew few items ier ter than bur our last dispatches 11 1 1 1 the latest dates from washington are to ja n ath up to which time the house lecar of rep ep had bad not succeeded succeed edin in e electing ing a speaker leaker the twenty fourth ballot was taken on the th of dec with the following result whole number imber of votes necessary to a cho choice ice log 6 shermman received scott 83 gilm er 14 scattering 11 0 on the mr montgomery of pa asked ave to introduce a resolution dedla decla declaring ang mr C orwin speaker for 24 hours at the espira tion an of which time his power was to cease and the house proceed to the election of a permanent speaker and that the tha rules of th the lat late house should be adopted for the ifie government of this house except that no member should A i h ouid speak longer ei than gave five minutes and that said temporary speaker should not appoint the business committees of nf this house 1 ouse amid calls of order and objections on fhe the republican side mr montgomery stated that his object in ff ering his resolution was to procure the passage of the deficiency bill hill to pay the bue suf dufferin suffering berin ferin m mail mall ail all contractors and the other agents officers and employees of the government to whom we are indebted and who should be paid and that the bill could be passed in that length ien len th of time ime then if this contest for aspea speaker ke r must proceed they could carry alfy it on without gross wrong wrong 0 to the public creditors without any action the house then adjourned until tuesday jan ad the whole of the thi day ii of jan ad was spent in wrangling durin during 9 which mr hickman of pennsylvania said that if the southern states in any period of lime timo shall determine on the disso dissolution lutio n of the union for any causes which now exist the north worth are resolved to prevent it 1 and if war should be the consequence of the th e norths determination to preserve the union an and d the south to destroy it the responsibility will rest on the south on jan ath after several fiery speeches had been een delivered mr scott declined the longer use ise of his name for speaker mr craig of missouri nominated mr yr davis of 0 indiana mr english en lish nominated mr me mcclarnand demand ernand mr etheridge Etler Et etheridge beridge idge made a few hu humorous morcus remarks and voted for horace F clarl clark and characterized him as an anti lecompton and ishmaelite q democrat m the house voted for speaker with the following 0 result whole number of totes votes cast necessary to achele a choice 10 4 1 mr SlI sll sherman erman iol loi McCIer nand 53 G gilmer lim e r 14 davis dayis of ind 9 landingham Val vai 12 and the remainder I 1 scattering vik A dispatch froin froia Washington odthe nap da date ti says the ip delegate elegate from utah will aft erthe oc ga niza ion lon of the house presen tithe ap applina tion of that territory for admission into the abe euion they adopted a constitution several years ago and he lie represents that utah hab has a population ion of and the tiie were 4 allotted ed to fo elect their ers they would be almost as as well wall satisfied sati shed sAed with a Terri terni territorial territory tor i ial lal aj ap a state organization and probably be willing to pay the expenses of their government b be sides i des sickles and reynolds were the only absent members of the house who had not ba paired red off out of a spirit of accommodation P mr r taylor talor to today day off with mr M Sic sickles klei kleJ the absence of mr reynolds Jl eynolds without a p pair air ain ac accounts count for the change in the relative tots biota for sherman who lacked lack ed three votes of an election chief justice taney and associate justice daniels are still detained from the supreme court by sickness the court of claims has haa been adjourned until next week owing to the sickness bof judges jud zes blackford and scarborough Scar borouch boroush A fire I 1 broke out put in no 53 beckham street new york Y ork city about 4 amon the dec de denro deAro destroying yin property to ilife amount of half a million of dollars the firemen were on je tte spot but it 1 wa was S so 0 extremely cold the be thermometer being t 7 degrees below zeo zeto and every thing frozen froze n u up p they could obtain no water until fires were built around th ehy arants during which time the fire s spread mip ipp e d r rabidly D efte extending faint 1 Fulton to and A ann n streets before it could be extinguished A fire occurred in westport missouri on christmas morning destro destroying yin 3 woith of property the office of the free freb dres press at st paupa minnesota the largest establishment dut lut in tho state was destroyed by fire on the dec the touro cott cotton on lill lili mill at newport island was totally destroyed by nire fire on thet thee vist D dec ec los Lossu pro 0 boo goo t I 1 about eleven pm on a negro revolt took place bin in bolivar missouri the negroes attacked attached some icv men with roce rocks and clubs dubs and the alar MC lecter a number of citizens on the spot who wb D dr drove 0 ve the negroes into the woods guns and pistols were freely used on both sides tho th blacks threatened to burn the town befog befogs morning one negro I 1 was dangerously ed also the owner of some of the slaves great excitement prevailed and every man was armed and prepared fora for a more hin her bir serious loua joua outbreak a |