The News Condensed

The Coroner's jury iu the case of the Brooklyn Theater calamity haa jast rendered a vordiot. They eay that, of the 218 victima of the fire. two were burned to death, rnid tho remainder were auffoeated. Application haa boen made to Judge Hare, of tho Pbiladolpiiia Cömmon Pleas Court, for an injunction to restraiu the vpstry of 8t. Mark's Episcopal Churcb from rinfjing the ohurch bells. Theohurch is in oneof tho most fah oaable neigbborhood3 ia the city, and the wealtliv property-holder ot'ject to the ringing of the Ij ! s claiming tlit.t it is a serious annnyauce, aud coiuscquently injurious to tho valueof proprty. IHK WEST. THraiE isstorodinChicafjc eievators 3,533530 buBhela of wheat; 2,367.788 bushels of corn ; 660,940 bnshele cf oata ; 249,082 biishels of ryo, and l,0i'J,631 bnaliels of barloy, making a crand total of 7,860.971 bui-lioiV, agaiu.it 4,845,300 bushelB at this poriod laat year. Kews has reached Eed Oloud Agency that Crazy Horae's camp is located at the mouth of the Powder on the Yellowstoue, and consista of 1,200 lodgea. Tho 500 Cheyennes .Thipped by Gen. Mackonzie in the Big tfcirn monncains late in November had roached the village after a terrible merch through atornis across the country. They wero doatitute of food, hrimmiiitioii, and shelter, and mauy wcnudod d ed en route. All are B&id to be vory much discouraged, and serioualy debatiug a eurreníer A telegram froiu Kanaas City, Mo., saya " reporta are coming in from all quartors that terrible liavoc ia being made among the ci.tt.lo berds betweeu Los Ansima and Fort Dodge on acoount of the severity of the weather. Thoutauda of cattle are reportod dead on the plains of Colorado and Wyomiug." A flendigh eonepiracy ha been diecovertd and broken np ;in Williamson county, IH. Bomo twelve or fifteen villains had perfccted a eystem of araon aüd robbsry, involving niuvder whenever it shcnld be necessary or deairable. and were all ready to carry out the fit-ndixh programme when the pxietcnce of the organization was acciflentallyaecertained, and, f ter aeveral arresta had been made, the parties turned Statc'a evidence, and diacloaed information which pnabled the authoritiea to completely break up the organization. The Minnesota Legislatura has votíd $500 each to tho two citizens of Northfield who killed the two members of the Younger gang, last nummer. . . John Pieraon, a prisoner confined in the Blooming ton (111.) jai], has made a onfession tliat he murdered Qen. Murray McConnell, of Jackaonville, 111., i February, 1869. He eaya that on the night previous to the mnrder he atopped at the Ayers House, JacksouvUle, regietering aa John Wilaon. Iu the mornÍDg, beiug penniless, he went to McConnell'a house and aeked for money, when McConnell refuaed it, naying, "Gei out, yon ," and other abusivo worda. ín a flt of angor Pioreon seized a poker and struck McCounell aeveral times, knockinf; him down, bleeding. Pierson then fled, stopping the ñrat night í' I t" I k O fürniúp A a - Túiirunnrrí L 1 n anfí í ■ m 1 1 íiivL uval v .'vo_n_L f iiic, cliíu j,i r L luL" ing iu the journey until he reacliod Sedalia, Mo. One span of the Toledo, Wabaah and Western railroad bridge, 150 feet inlength, croseing the Waba9h at Logansport, Ind., was entirely carriod away one day last week, by the heavy Hostie g ico. The bridge was being rtbuilt of iron. A portion of the iron ïor the new bridge was aleo swept away. THE SOUTH. Circuit Judge Carpenter baa rendered a decisión at Columbia to the effect that Chamberlain'g late inaugnration as Govornor of Stmth Carolina was illegal ; that Hampton has not been legally inaugurated, and that Chamberlain ia therefore Tawfully acting Qovemor until bis nueciMdor aball be daly qualified B. O. Holloway, a Republican trial Jivtice, wae recently aesasBicated at Timmonaville, 8. 1 C. " The asaaseiaation," so the telegraph informa ne, '-fired the blacke, who imuiedtately . ariuod, and the white orgamzed a strong pólice forcé. The two parties came in colliaioa on the ontekirto of the town, and the regult was that two special policemen were wounded, wbeu the wholo force returned to town." Is a babeas corpus case coming np last wenk bef ore Judge Mickey, at Columbia, S. C, be again decided tliat Wade Hampton was the legal Gavernor of the State. His decisión was appealed from ta tho Supreme Court. WASHINGTON. The President has appointad A. T. Wik rension Agent at üolumbus, uuio The tria. o'. Gen. Belknap, for receiving bribea while acting as Bocretary of War, is eet in the Criminal Court at Washington, beginning Feb. 21. Ex Senator Maft H. Carpenter and Judge Fallerton, of New York, wül couduct bis aefeuse. The President has appointed Channing Richards United Htatea Attorncy for the Southern District of Ohio....J. II. Maddox, tho Treaaury Agent, who testifiod in the Louisiana case, bas been removed by the President. By the suspensión of Coogreaeional work at the office of tho Public Printer about GOO persona are thrown out of employment. The Public Printer has no other than unexpended balances of appropriations to the departments and Congreoeional Librarv, and for printing prooeediugs and debates" of Congress. GENERAL. Prof. 8. C. Babtlett, of the Chicago Theological Snminary, haa been olected President of Dartmouth College. Peter P. Wintermute, who shot and killed Gen. McCook at Yankton, Dakota, two years ago, died Iaat week of consumption at his father'a home, in Chemung county, N. Y. The statement of tho public debt made Feb. 1 is a foliowB : 8ix per cent. bonda f 93l,877,)50 Five per cent. bonda 712,320,450 Foiir and baïf per cent bonds 44,600,000 Total coinbondp $1,691,797,600 Lawful nioney debt $ 14,000.000 Matured debt ....... 10,912610 Viega! tendera 365.050. .34 t'ertlficates of deposit.... 33,745,00o Pmctional enrrency 25,424 f67 Ocln certificateg 53,313,700 Total without interest 477,533. 501 Tota! debt 2,1 94,43,511 Total Interem 26 :ö7 C07 üaeh In Treasury : Coln 186.477,080 Ctirroncy 9,196,266 Special doposltn hold for redemption of ocrtiflcates of Ueposit 33,745,000 Totelin Treaeury 129,718,947 Debt less cash in theTroasnry f2,090 851,572 Decreaao of dobl durins January. . . 2'o6r)'T'J Decrcam eince Jnno 80, 1876 SWl'nsi Bonds iBsued to the Pacific Rallway ' ' Úonipaniee, interest payablo in lawf ui money : Principal ortotandlng 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yetpaid..., ':t'('li7 Interest paid by the United States 34 ois'923 Interest repaid oy tiansDortatiou of maila, ntc . 7 004 653 Balance of interest paid by Untted ' ' Statea 27,014,370 John F. Chameblaiw, the gporting man, whoso gambling-house is one of the moet frequented placo in Long Branoh, bas gone into bankraptcy. His liabiliticR are $215,000. A Nkw York dispatch say hope is well uigh abandoned of the afety of the stcaraship Colombo, now forty-six dayg overdue at Uiia P0" 'rom llH Eng.; of the George Cromwoll and Gcorgu Washington, from Hüifax foröt. John a, N. i . , each long overdue. Forty aeven persous are, orwero, ou board the Colombo, thirty on the George Cromwoll, and thirtv-ouo on the George Washington. FOLIXIOAI.. The New York Senate, by a party vote, last woek adoptod reaolutions declariug Hayos the legally-e.lectod President, and tbat ho ought lo be itaugurated Tlie Florida Legislaturo bas made au appropriation to pay tho Democratie Pre&dential electora from t'hat Stnte. Col. Plumb, an editor aud practical printer, ha been olocted to the Uuitsd States Sonato from Kantas. Thb teetimony of John T. Pickett. a Washington lawye-r, and foi merly a Goneral in tho Confedérate army, given before the House comrnitteo on the dutiea and -powers of the Honso lu couoting the electoral vote, produced quito a eenHation at tno national capital PicUett's toslimouy is to the effect that ovcrturi-H were male to him, on behalf of J. Madison Wells, to negotiate the salo to tno I)emocrats of the Louisiana Returning Bord, the consirteration being the triflingsumof $1,000 - 000. Acoording to Pickott's story, Josojuh liarrts llafldox visited Washington as Wolln' agent, aud made tho pronosition. Pickett tlerenpon visited New York, conenlted John Morrissey, and la d the f acts boforeliim. Morriseey, to une I'ickrtfs words, " onld buy tbeHo fellows aa eseily as he would pige,'1 bat, haviug faith in Tilden's electiou, ho didn't tliiuk it ueoessary to opon negotia'ious. He next callcd on Abram S Howitt, wüo Raid that " ih s wasthethirdproposition of the kind that had been made to him on the part of tho Louisiana Iïeturning Board, but under no ciroumstanoes would he taiu any auch propotútion." Maddox wíw pïaced ' ou the witneea star.d and partially corroboratod t'ickett's story. He said he went to Waabington in the iuterest of Wells ; chat tho latter toldhim (ttaddix) thathe (Wella) would like to serve hia party in making a return in favor of Uayea, but urould not take the ni-k unless paid fer t; that tho Democratie majority waa too heavy to handle. The witnoas, upon vieitiug Wanhington, calleA lirst npo Secretary Camcron and tnld bim Wtll wanted money, bnt the Secretar? öfoüned to liavo anything to do witb tho matter. Uu aaya he then, in obedienoe to Wolla' instnictious. attempted to open noRotiationa with the Dcmocrats, with the re8ult as etated. Welte denins the story as a base fabrieation manufaoiured out of wliolo cloth. He sajs it is an infaruoua connpiracy to injuro tlio lïoturoing Boa.'d and iuüaeuce the eloctoral commission. J. Mamson Wkll.s, Tresident of the Louiaiaua Itoturning Board, appeared bofore the llouie prerogative committee on the 5th inst., for tho purpoae of teatifying in bis defense regsrding the clurgcsi of Pickett. Littlcfield and Maddox. He denied ever liaving given Jladdox or any one elao authority to ncgoiiato for the paymeut of auy money to himaelf or any other momber of the board, and charucterized the wiiole ' etoiy aa falae from bezinning to end. Wbon questioned rogarding tho deatrnction of the returns írom certain polla in Vernon pariah hc becamo oxcitt-t], aii'l Haid, "Tho man wlio ewore so was an unmitigated Har." He said tbo ordiüary papera did not accompany the return froru Veruon parish, and denicd all knowledge of the transfer of votea iu tho oase of that pariib. WoHd waa exaroiuod by Mr. David Dudley Field touchiug cortain paeeanes in a letter to Seuator West, written iu November. Question by Mr. Field - "Our duties ae rcturning orncera havo angmented to the magnitude of controlling tbedesiiny of the twogreat partiee - may I notsay the nation?" What did you mean by that ? Answer - I mcant by that tliat the Preaidential election hinged upon the reduit of tho electiou in Ljuisiana. Mr. Field - Have yon Btated th&i you did not kiiow what parties hal oarried tbe Stato at the last eleoiion until you actaally made the returns? Witnesa - I have aaid so. I will explain that tho resulta throughout the States had been known so far as those States vrero concorned whore there was 10 troublo or difficulty, no murdcring of people beeauao Ihey had attempted to vote, but the reault in the throe Southern State was in doubt. Mr. Field - Do you mean that tho roeult of the Preaidential election hinged on the result in tlio three Southern States ? A. - I mean Louisiana, together with two other Soutlieru States. a Mr. Field- Oh, yes. Witnees (interruptiDg) - Mr. Chairman, I am net a lawver, and I don't wish a gentleman to say for me what I did not want to say myaelf. I am no sharp practilioner, and I want no sharp praetioe upon me in thiH committee. I ask to be protected and (excitedly) if the committee does not protect me I will proteot mysel f. Q - You aïsosay here, "as wel'.asmydutyto the greatest living Genera). U. 8. Urant." What duty had you, as returning offieer, to Gen. Graut? A. - Gen. Grant had sent or request6d gentlemen to go down there to witnegs the couut, and I feit it my duty to make a fair, legal investigation and count of tbo enttte vote of the State of Louisiana in tho preaence of tnose gentlemen, to uatisfy them that tho board wan correct in regard to its actions - jf it should not happen to be pleasant to tbetu, let the deei-ion fall as it may. Q - I road fmther from this letter : " And not with my consent shall this oppreseed people be governed by hia paroled priaoners, aided by their white-livered cowarda ef the Ncrtb." What had that to do with your duties as an honeat meniber of thoBeturning Board ? A. - It had a good deal to du with it. Q. - Explain it. A. - The condition of our country ia very different from tnat bere. The people are forced with tiie bullet, the ballot is s apped for the ballet, and I determined wherever that was done it should not be tolerated where I liad a voico in the matter. 1 sa.d there "hia paroied prisoners.' By tüat I meant that the Confedérate soldier, together wiih their asEOciates, Bhould not control the dedtiny of tüe opi essod poot Ie by violence and iaümiiation. That is my anawer. Q.- Uut what bad that todo with your dutiea 88 a member of the Returning JJoard"? A. - Well, this was merely writiug a l6tter, and these ideas going in as u matter of conrse transmitted to p&psr. Q - What had that to do with your making &n bontst count of the votes? A. - It had nothing to do with an honebt eount Q - Then why are the two things brought into connection in this way ? Why diá you speak of jour oousent in tuis letter? A. - That I would not approve anything that I conceived to be illegal or improper. Q. - Had any auch thing been propoaed 'f Q. - ever mina anticipating. Had any such thing been propoaed ? A. - By the Hou. Dancan F. Keuuer, a very wealthy gentleman in the State of Louisiana. Q. - Wnat did he propose ? A. - Ho propoeed to givo me $200,000 to change the vote for Mr. Tilden. He made the proposition in hia own office, on Sunday, the 19Ui uf November, between II) aud 11 o'clock ia the morning. Q. - Win that the reason why you said you wouid not consent to dehver over LouiBiana to the paiolei prisoners? A. - My reaaon, sir? Mr. Field - Can't you answer me ? The witness (cmphaticallv) - No, I won't doit. Mr. Field- Yon won't do it ? The wimeae- I won't do it. I will anawer it in my owu way. You will have it my own way or you wen't get it at ai). Mr. Field - Well. givo it ycur own way. The witneeB - Veiy weÜ. My meauiug, as I statod awhile ago, was that if the election was fairly coiid'ictod, and there was no bribery. no intimidation, and no frauda, tben 1 had no ofcjection to eitber party controlhng it. FOKEK1N. A DI8PATCH from 8t. Petersburg says tho peace party in the lluiaiau Cabinet is provailing The Britiah Council bas iasued furtber triügont orders against the importation into Great liiitain from Germany and B lgium of cattlo, hay, hidea, hornii, fat, hoofs and fresh meat Tho Einperor of Japan has reduced farmers' Uxoa from 3JÍ per cent. to 2L per cont. per aunum. The revenues of the empire are thus impaired to the extent of $16,000,000, but the Japanese ruler, in the decree leeseniug the people'a burdens, enjoins auch ecouomy in public expenaitures as will comport with this reform in the fiecal uffairs of tha Government. Thk Counteas Howe, wifo of the late Earl Howe, committed suicide in Loudon, the othor day, by jumping out of the window of her mother's house, while laboring under a fit of temporary inBanity.. . .A dispatch frora Rome announces tbatan officer haa visited tho UmiiHii Archbishop Lodocboweki wüh a copy of an ind c ment and a summons toappear before the lesea tribunal to anawer for brcaohes of the Gi nn in law. himum from the City of Mexico ts Feb. 1, f urniah the following news : Armed resistauco sgainst Gen. Diaz is considen d at an end for the present. Many adhorents of Lerdo continue to leavo tho countrv, fearing outrages. The Chnrch party (acirjy countonances Diaz, but is really workiiiR to place tbo Conaervatives in power. Tho general opinión prevails that the Diz Government will be of short duration. 6en. Diaz bus ordered tho release of a number of foreignora who havo boen confined in pnsone at Matamoras and Monterey. Tübkey affects great modoration in lier demaiids upon Servia. Sho does not ask " material guarantoes," sach as tho garrisoning of 8ervian fortret-ses, but will be contont if ítUBsia and the other great powers will enter into bonds that the turbulent Servians sball keep the peaoe. Tho rrain diffioulty will be about gettitig aignatures to thia bail-bond. Uu-híh doo oot want poace kept, and will not have it if alio can prfiveut ; and whilo fighting continuts to be as natural as oatiug to the Sort; the other powera will not care to give bond for their good behavior. At the recent annual meeting of the ' field (Eng.) Cbambcr of Coinmerce, tho President said the Shelneld manufacturors and workmeu hsd ouly thomsolvos to blame for tho loss of trada with America and the snecessful American competition with foreign countries. Hhcfliold woikmen bad not o uno up to the make aud ntylo reqnired by ouetoraers. Mr. Mandolla, member of Parliamont for Sheflïeld, Biiid American competition wss succesaful because the Americana excel'ed in tho rapidity of their adoptiou of ïabor-imvii g machinery. Mandolla referred to tho iinportation of American beef aa a great bontlit to Eugland, and a Btriking instanea of what enterprise and Uvention could do. A CoxsTANTiNoi'LE dispatch announces that Midhat Pasha ha been diamissed from the c filie of Grand Vizier. Edhom Pa sha. Tur kish Plenipotei tiary to the conforenue, and noted for lus violent oppositiou to tho propoSils of the Enropoan power, haa been appointod Grand Vizier.