| Show BY TE telegraph EASTERN WlL VIL N C 3 TWO seamen and a steward of the german barkentine adolph von barth earth were suffocated by coal gas generated from a stove in a close cabin last night two other seamen are in a critical condition washington 3 the postmaster general today to day ordered the postmasters to forward all letters or packages received from a foreign country to the places of their destination before permitting any interference ter by the officers of the customs MEMPHIS 3 the first natio national nal nai bank which suspended during the early days of the panic has resumed business philadelphia 3 anthony evans lately employed in the police and fire alarm telegraph of tills this city tonight to night on the street met his wife from whom he had been separated and after a few words stabbed her in the side inflicting a probably fatal wound he then slightly stabbed himself he was arrested J W norton formerly superintendent of the money order department of the post office has been re committed to await the action of the grand jury on a charge of embezzling bezz ling moneys entrusted to him the former indictment having been quashed owing to vagueness vague nem new the spanish steamer ien ier arafiles arapiles Ara piles lias has been floated from the mud bank on which she stuck yesterday but was prevented by the fog from shipping her guns at the ordnance dock Prent prentices lees hat factory at brooklyn which closed during the panic will be opened reopened re on monday giving givin in employment to persons tg the planet mills will reopen re open the same day SAN FRANCISCO 3 the united states steamer saranac arrived today from honolulu with dates to dec the health of the king is not good he will remain about two weeks at hallba an election for representatives will be held on the 2nd and of february the smallpox small pox and are still on the increase here the weather is clear and cold the schooner elida kida from coos bay for this port is reported lost with all on board the number of the crew and passengers is unknown the wreck was wag seen a short distance north of this harbor by the people of the ba bark rk brondes Br bottom up igaac isaac 11 weaver was hanged at red bluff cal today to day for the murder of A warner the people of kingston fresno county are afraid of vasquez and his gang and keep a strong str on 9 guard constantly over the county treasury u ry 4 tho nono bono black building j attached to mckean 11 c newhall and bones bories SU sugar war gar refinery was burned to night with ith a quantity of valuable machinery and material the loss is estimated attao at two hundred thousand dollars insured washington 4 the united states and mexican commission has resumed business and will doubtless dispose of all the cases on the docket by the elpi expiration ration nation of the extended term within the last two months tilo the commissioners have decided at least one hundred cases including adverse decisions in the case of dani danl E woodhouse against mexico known as the te huante pec claim in which the petitioner tit ioner stated the amount ardam ot damages at over fifty millions the claim of mexico for twenty seven millions of dollars on account of damages from indian incursions is now in the hands of sir edward Thornton the umpire the american ana and mexican commissioners being divided in opinion mexico claims that under the treaty of guadaloupe hidalgo the united states pledged themselves to forcibly restrain indian incursions into her teil tell tory and that where such raid could not be prevented the indians should be punished by our government and satisfaction for the same exacted the U S insist that our government 9 overn could not promise to do for mexico more than it was required to do for its own citizens therefore no damages clotild be claimed should the umpire decide against mexico in the pending case mexico will present the same principle pie PIC as an answer to the U S for clai elai claims ms for damages to citizens of texas growing out of incursions by mexicans into that state on the blo bio grande grando border there will doubtless be a quorum of both houses tomorrow to morrow the beneral general sentiment among members is 8 tha that t they should see to what extent t the h e appropriations can be reduced b before eforo they consider the subject oo 00 of f assistance to the treasury ei therin of additional taxation or ora a temporary convertible loan the latter finding more favor than the former mode of relief after the morning hour in the house the e consideration on of the supplementary civil rights bill will be resumed as a special order and will be debated on ou monday and tuesday till four when the vote will be taken representatives stevens of ga and Lar larmar lammar riar of Missi mm mississippi 1 isi sippi pi are expected to speak against gie nie the bill which it is said by its friends will undoubtedly p pass ass there are no new developments ili lii in regard to the chief though the preponderance of opinion now is that the nomination of williams will be confirmed the house committee on appropriations actions have had bad four meetings nr during 1 ling recess and have considered thearty th the army earmy indian fortification and navy appropriation bills and though none of them have yet been perfected every item has been been cut down to the lowest possible figure Off omm official leial advices advises confirm the main features of the madrid dispatches it appears that general pavia is to be court for rebellion and that his supporters have been disarmed BUFFALO 4 anthony oswald and john peters two teamsters quarreled last night about a girl peters struck oswald over the head with a chair causing almost instant death NEW YORK 4 thre tho bark polly folly from pensacola for liverpool was lost durin during tho the hurricane of the of december de ember the second officer carpenter steward and six men were washed overboard and drowned the twelve subjects of great britain among the virgious Virg Virgi imus nim sarv survivors ivors have b axe ave been taken charge of by the british consul here they leave this week for liverpool it is said that before congress adjourns bourns an au appropriation will be asked d for fitting out another expedition to the north pole captain greene who commanded the jl J uni ata in the search for the survivors of the adaris polaris is spoken of as the commander of this expedition the agent of the general transatlantic S S co has received the following despatch paris 4 athe the french admiralty court has pronounced judgment deciro ing the maneuvers of the steamer tere de havre to lo have been blameless and holding the bad management of the loch earn as the cause of the disaster the court eulogized captain surmount the inaugural services of the reformed episcopal church were held in steinway nw hall this morning the congregation was large with the exception of the adoption of the prayer book of 1785 there was little difference from the ritual of the episcopal church bishop cummins who wore no vestment vestments of any kind ind preached from the first of corinthians third and eleventh for other foundations cannot man lay than that which is laid which is jesus christ BOSTON 4 the clarendon st lla ila baptist aist chuich church was damaged by nire fire today to day to the amount of sixty thousand insured cassea detective defective flue PI 4 john rose late sec see secretary detary and W H kennedy civil en engineer I 1 ineer incer of the water commission mission were arrested last night charged with the larceny of valuable abl abi P public bublic documents A package wa which ch ken ren kennedy edy had bad under his arm when arrested was alleged to contain the bonds records and ledger of the water commission which were reported missing they were released upon furnishing bail in four thousand dollars SAN FRANCISCO 4 an explosion of two hundred pounds pound of giant powder occurred I 1 in n the ore oreon oregon T on mine near austin nevada last night two miners named grogan and han ran byan ryan were instantly killed andover and over two hundred fector feet of the shaft destroyed grogans body was not recovered A miner aimed broderick was terribly injured NEW YORK yoni 5 about a thousand of tho the unemployed working then met this morn morning ing in in U union ni 1 on square S quare in response to a call issued by y one patrick A dunn to denounce the assistant alderman in failing to order the heads of departments to have all the work done by days labor instead of contract theodore H banks bank who appears at all similar meetings was made temporary chairman and in the course of a short address urged the working men to the front and to hold their own against swindling politicians who wanted to keep them in starvation he advise them however not to take definite action now but to wait for an open air meeting next week to be arran arranged 1 ored cred by the i committee of safety at the c iose close of which the unemployed would march to the city hall and pass in review before the mayor and aldermen dermen dunn who is issued sued the call now appeared and was made permanent chairman he advised the workingmen notto t be hasty basty at the same time urging them to organize on the spot and march to the city hall and wait for a reply from the tile mayor comptroller and andi aldermen to their demands one maguire followed saying that if the demands were not acceded to by fair means then force must be used to prevent the heads of departments part ments having their own way A committee of live was appointed to wait on the mayor and comptroller after which all started for the city hall their numbers being increased as they headed through the street CHICAGO 5 the tribunes new york special says an attempt was made on new years yearns to kill judge 8 D morris formerly district attorney ifor for brook brooklyn y n with an infernal machine As the judge was absent at the time the box was laid aside until his return and esterday yesterday when lie he opened it in liis his broom bedroom surrounded by his family on lifting the lid the snap of a spring was heard and all at once it was seen that the box was an infernal machine it is a miracle that it did not explode and only the too great precaution of the maker prevented it the matches which cereto were to ignite the powder having caught ca aught against the edge of tho the tholand sand paper across which the spring c was intended to have drawn them the the box contained a torpe doand enough loose powder and guncotton gun cotton to have shattered the house to pieces judge morris carefully lifted the box and placed it in a bath tub where it was saturated with water and then taken to pieces leces feces I 1 it t 1 is s in the hands of the police allce As judge morris is the prosecutor prosecutor of the ballot box stuffers stu flers in n bro brooklyn oklyn this design is ted to them FOREIGN VIENNA 4 the navigation of the danube is closed by ice lee LONDON 4 A dispatch from lapalma dated yesterday says the assault upon cartha carthagena ena has lias begun 9 the comman commander er in chief clief is advancing upon the suburb yards from the city A desperate engagement is in progress the issue of which is doubt ful the bombardment has made no visible impression on the rebels forts and battery which kept up a vigorous firing fi ring I 1 A famine prevails in five districts of the nus rus russian bussian asian province of samara of edinburgh has ar rived amsl at st petersburg utah and the mormons cormons Mor mons volumes have been wrIt written tell teli of late concerning the mormons cormons Mor mons and their attitude towards the united states authorities A great proportion of what has his been leen written should never have seen the light for most of it has been instigated by personal spite and lovery is very far oar from the tho whole truth the writer of this article has frequently visited salt lake city upon one occasion before the completion of the pacific railroad he be sojourned sojourn ed in the city of the saints for a number of weeks and during that P period briod had ample opportunities for observing the peculiar habits and characteristics character char acte ri sties of this sing ularand in many respects interesting people he be saw much to condemn and a great deal worthy of imitation the mormons cormons settled salt lake valley in the year 1817 r 0 the present head of the church a man inmany in many respects as remarkable as any other which the present generation has rod reduced Aft erthe cormons mormons were ziven kiven riven from nauvoo illinois they emigrated to the state of iowa and the then territory of nebraska settling in largo numbers in the neighborhood of council bluffs and the town of cainsville Cains ville Ka kanesville neaville Kanes ville now council bluffs city located six miles north of the present site of the city of omaha this removal was only temporary intended as the tile forerunner of the tile final exodus to utah which commenced in the winter of the year 1847 it is said that brigham young conceived the idea of removing to some of the regions of the far west in come consequence quence of or the persecutions he had been becu subjected to and that ho he selected the region of the great salt lake on account of certain information received from a catholic priest who even at that early day had bad visited the count country rT in his character of missionary to some of the savage indian tribes the necessity for this removal was announced bythe by to his liis people in a general epistle dated january 20 1846 at this time gold had not been discovered in california californian Califor there were no regular eini emigrant grant routes across the continent and the journey was one of great hazard and adventure hostile tribes of indians infested the who whole le route of f more than a thousand miles the fact that the journey was undertaken and accomplished during tin an inclement season without a single murmur of fairly illustrates he the power and influence which brigham young possesses es over his people after a weary march match the tired and foot footsore core emigrants emerged into salt lake valley afley NT the spot chosen for a permanent location upon reaching the salt balt lale lake yai valley the mormon emigrants beheld behold spread out before them a vast sheet of or water bounded by beds of crys salt and alkali around the margin of this lake no water fowl were seen and in its depths no living creature could exist it was and is is indeed no now W a veritable dead sea J in the midst of a region the sterility of did not then produce even eyen tasteless ashen apples mormon industry which has perfected a thorough th orough brough system of irrigation has wrought wondrous changes since then the waters of the great salt lake have been gradually rising for a number of years and much valuable agricultural and grazing land has been recently submerged The theme there rois neis is no iio visible outlet to this lake and although it receives constant and abundant supplies of fresh water from bear and weber rivers both considerable streams its waters watern are aie largely impregnated with salt and alkali actual experiment is said to have demonstrated he fact that the proportion of salt to water is as one to four in this region then a wilderness wild ernel ernes of sage sag e brush but now a garden spot of fertility the mormon leaders determined to t plant a stake of zion the emi emigrants grant had brought t with them a scanty supply of seeds and agricultural implements the tee hardships already enco encountered together with a knowledge of tife life extreme difficulty of transporting r supplies and a vivid remembrance rance of tho the first winters starvation often appeased with roots and gerbs libros proved a powerful incentive to exertion fortunately the season was propitious pit ious anda and a bountiful harvest was |
