Show BY TELEGRAPH forty FORTY SIXTH CONGRESS EXTRA SESSION SENATE washington 7 the army appropriation bill was received from the house and referred to the committee on appropriations booth introduced a bill to repeal the tho atlantic and pacific railroad grant the preamble asserts that the company has failed to construct the main line of its road prior to july 1879 da I 1 aa required by the charter of july 1866 that it has bas in fact at this time completed its road to venetia lai lal indian territory a distance of miles from its eastern terminus and that no portion or section of the road has been completed since 1871 the bill provides for tha the immediate ysl of the grant except eo so far as me road shrill be completed by the ath of july next and for the resto on to the market of all lands along alon aion the line of uncompleted road roads to be bisp disposed med wed of in the same mannex as omer ower public lands ingalls introduced a bill for the relief of the central branch of the anion pacific railroad company it proposes to release the company from all obligations to the tho government of the united states under tho the acts of and ga upon condition that it shall within six months from the enactment of this bill execute nad nid and aad file with the secretary of the interior a full release and discharge to government from all further claims under said bald acts the bill was laid upon the table for the present the senat resumed consideration of the new hampshire senatorial tease case the question being on the amendment of hoar roar declaring charles ff bell entitled to his seat beat alter debate bells admission went over until tomorrow to morrow s A resolution was adopted authorizing the president of the senate be nate te to appoint int ini a select committee of nive five to tb tac tan take into con COD consideration matters relating to the bavi Savl savings bank and trust company after executive session the senate benato adjourned amerlean AMERICAN washington 7 prominent democratic members of the senate express the opinion that the debate on the army appropriation bill which is about to commence in that body will not last more than a week or ten days at the most it seems to be the Inte intention nUon of the majority to allow the republicans ta to do most of the talking on this bill and pass it as sis quickly as possible the calculation being that the president end will sign ity its it and that the republican arguments against the alleged coercive gramme pro ia a general will thus bo be notably weakened before the important struggle over the proposed repeal of the federal election law shall have practically commenced arthur L thomas was nominated to dayas day as secretary for utah terr territory atory vies luckey lauckey resigned he is a young man who came here from pittsburg several years ago ngo under the auspices of representative negley he ho was appointed a V member ol 01 the capitol police and instill is still thus employed at the tho caal capitol to senator slater today to day introduced a bill for the transfer of the control of indian allair affair s to the war department part ment which in some respect respects ts seems to bo be an improvement upon all measures hitherto introduced for nor that thal purpose this bill provides that from and after july ISSO the secretary of war shall have the elama same general po power wenand and jurisdiction over indian affairs as are now possessed assessed oss essed by the secretary of the y interior that ho he shall detail some army officer of not n colonel to act aa as commissioner of indian affairs and make such des dos tails of officers officer snot plot alot fiot below first lieutenants either from the active list or retired list of the army as maybe may ba necessary from time to time to administer the affairs of the in p dlan dian service commanding officers ef of military departments are to be ex officio in charge of indian mat therein and the inspector general of the army Is to be inspector of the indian service and make an annual report to congress of the number and condition of the indian tribes the bill requires all contracts for supplies or tran transportation ta connected with the indian service to be made in tile the bame same ma manner and as far aa as practicable at the ner same time as the army contracts officers of special commas commissioners sio ners superintendents boards of indian commissioners and inspectors of indian affairs are to be abolished from and july 1880 and among other things it is provided by this bill that all religious denominations shall enjoy a free and equal right to erect and maintain church and school buildings on oh any and all indian reservations and shall not ba molested in their religious or efforts to advance the indians in their moral religious and literary culture CHICAGO 7 the inter infer oceanus oceans marshalltown Marshall town iowa special says saye A terrible double tragedy occurred at Gli gif gliford nord rord a small email station on the iowa central railroad rall Kall road noad John beil beli Bell station agent 19 years old deliberately shot miss bobbins his bis lady friend through the heart twice and then telegraphed for the railroad officials to send another operator torup borup up as he was going to hill kill himself shortly after he fired two shots into his bis abdomen and is now in a dying condition the girl was a most estimable daughter daughter of a prominent merchant no cause is assigned rev bev arthur swazey toni to ni night 9 ht sighted with a pov powerful erful telescope Bros sens sena comet its declination lon ion was 29 av and right ascension about 3 hours and 40 minute minutes BOSTON 7 the advertiser says cays the work of the northern nort associations among the southern negroes sj in inducing them to emigrate from the south has resulted in the present exodus the movement began tegan soon after the presidential struggle the popularity of the liberian mG movement among the south caro lina una blacks led the exodus magnate to open correspondence with western land and railway agencies and just as althey they were about ready to talk up the tho advantages of the chosen western paradise the railway land negotiators themselves rushed in with glowing prospectus es and precipitated the stampede this land comes to the railway company as a subsidy from texas sections between the railway lands belonging to the state and those to be pre pie preempted empted at an acre it is understood that about 2800 families are ready to start it is supposed that these people will start about april emancipation day dav letters have been received in boston within a week from leading southern colored men stating that the tide lide will swell until there will be sufficient clent elent decrease in the population in southern states to reduce the representation in congress in the next apportionment by at least 15 the locality in which these new settlers were to have been collected was texas between new mexico and the indian territory here starting with about men one third of them with families it was anticipated that in time a territory might beset be set off by itself as a state t to 0 be called lincoln in furtherance of this scheme there was formed some months ago in this city a national farmers association this association engaged from the dallas and wichita railroad a texas corporation 05 65 alternate sections of land to be paid for at the rate of an derd acre the association issued lots of shares of stock stocky each share at 1 these are sold fold to the colored people and are accepted by the railroad corporation as cash in their purchase of lands the organization referred to is one of several in the north their formation being preceded by th the e circulation of political documents among the during the past two years probably the most influential of these documents have emanated from boston known as the first principle papers apers p the latest was issued in august A last entitled A plan to transfer the freedmen enof of the south to government lands of the west NEW ORLEANS 7 A galveston news special from belton says A negro man and woman living near here witnesses against canterbury and dobbins in the rape casos cases case caso were murdered last night the man was killed instantly the woman lived till morning MIL min MILWAUKEE 7 the tho sentinels wisconsin special says A destructive fire occurred tonight to night sweeping off everything from Deml demi vya block to the lake among the losses are hardware store mcarthurs Mc Ne drug store Hitchc Hitch cocks ocya hardware store and lack batha Hattia ways flour mill the loss is probably ST LOUIS mo 7 dispatches from different places in kansas re port copious rains throughout the tho state the reports which gained currency some days ago that much of the wheat in the state had either elther been killed or damaged by drouth are contradicted and the statement e nt made that the wheat never looked better A much larger acreage than last year has been planted both jn in wheat and corn and the prospects are favorable for yield CAIRO ill 7 paul psul boynton continued his trip to the gulf golf leaving here at 10 this morning LITTLE rock BOCK ark 7 six prisoners in the county jali jail made madi their escape yesterday afternoon they sawed aswed the bars 0 of the cage and seized the turnkey and then disarmed and locked him in NEW YORK 8 the gime lime vas hington Yas special says bass it Is understood der stood that senators mcdonald and gordon and three or four other democrats will join bayard in sustaining the report of the minority of the committee which declares that bell is entitled to admission it is also understood that carpenter will vote to sustain the majority report other journals however think judging from the demo lc record records that bell will be kept out by practically a party vote secretary sherman reached this city last evening and went to the fifth avenue hotel he will visit the sub treasury today to day days where he will receive calls from bankers and he will then visit the custom house it is expected that he will remain in this city for several days he stated that he was here purely on official business not at all connected with funding or finances and that it would not be proper fo for r him to state what it was in advance of action senator hill made yesterday a slip of the tongue in the course of his renit remarks irks having occasion to speak of the senate he be alluded to it as a confederate senate which blunder evoked a roar of derisive laughter from his political appo on ou the floor mud and in tho tha galleries realizing his mistake he recovered his equanimity and parried the tho effect of the remark by asserting that the denunciation of those opposed to the action of the democrats on the army bill was not any aby more revolutionary than the remark he had bad just made if uttered intentionally work was resumed on the east river bridge yesterday A full for cewill be employed in a short time the world says the recent conference which has moved half the state to wrath and the other half to laughter was obviously inspired by the people who hoped to prevent the of governor robinson by at first bringing to the front ex gov seymour and then adroitly substituting another name the effect of the demonstration will be to make the of robinson ble the tribune still belittles the affair and adds nothing even in new york politics was ever so absurd aa as this ridiculous movement the only way to account for it is the habit the party have fallen into they will probably keep it up au long ai us horatio seymour lives the times bays says there was only one thing in which all present seemed to be agreed and that was that unless the quarrels reis reli between the democratic leaders w were ere promptly healed the state could not be carried the coming fall nor t he the country next year avery arery every evers one knows the origin and nature of these quarrels they center in tilden that gentleman is bent upon being a candidate for the presidency and he is la ready to sacrifice the political fortunes in the state of all who will not support him the edrald herald says implies mutual concessions but what mutuality can there be when Til denys dena enemies are assembled to circumvent him aud his most influential fluent ial friends neglected and snubbed it is quite certain that seymour will not consent to be a leader in such a battle and if it the opposition fall back upon dorsheimer as their candidate for governor no prophet is needed to predict the result the tribune washington special says bays the greenback party in the house is in a bad way it has sold out to the democracy and been cheated out of the price which it expected to receive another caucus will now probably be held I 1 I 1 for the purpose of determining what course shall ba be pursued in futura future many members are indignant at what they call the perfidy of the democrats at a meeting of the panama railroad company the annual report was presented showing that the tho gross earnings for 1878 were and the gross ex expel pences lees ices to which Is added the subsidy paid to the Colum columbian bian blAn government on interest on the bonds A member of a prominent importing and manufacturing firm in san francl Franci francieco feo peo kowba now on a visit here gives some information concerning the results present and prospective of the recent action of the pacific railroads and pacific mall mail company in combining to force shippers in the east rosend to send all their goods to california by their lines and none by sailing vessels the firm in question nas has been in the habit of receiving goods from new york by steamer the freight rates heretofore being about one half hall those charge d by railroad since the combination they have received a freight bill for goods shipped by steamer at the same rate 2 cents per pound as all rail freight besides having to stand extra damage by just jast and to pay insurance e at it per cent and interest on 20 days extra time in transit extra payments on account of steamer transportation por tation making the latter cost 71 per cent more than rail rall transportation or increasing the cost of goods by 2 per cent this thib however is a small email matter compared with the indirect result of combination three or four hundred merchants of ban san francisco have signed a contract with the overland railroad companies agreeing to send all ail the goods shipped by them exclusively by railroad and not by sailing vessel since the combination and the advance in freight rates by the steamers the west indian mail steamship company sailing from liverpool has baa reduced its breight charges on the same class of goods per ton to 2375 23 2375 a plus pius us 5 per cent per ton making 2493 8 against per ton from new york to ban san francisco chapped by the pacific mail steamship company the san francisco merchant thus baba baan freight advantage of 1987 1987 per ton in pu purchasing rc hasing in liverpool over purchasing in new amount far exceeding the duty on the same article the freight from no nerv W york to liverpool is about 2050 per ton and the liverpool dues are 44 cents per ton one can actually y send goods from new york to liverpool by english st steamer bamer thence to aspinwall by english steamer thence by panama railroad and pacific mail to san francisco for 1693 per ton less than they can be shipped via panama direct by american steamers the combination then not only places an unjust restriction upon american commerce but it directly attacks the interests of american manufacture lebs less ies les forcing the merchants of the western coast to import from england rather than from the eastern states and to import english vessels rather than american the highhanded high handed outrage of compelling shippers to not avail them seive selves sot ot bailing sailing vessels is too 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