Weekly News Review

J THE EAST. The Arcade block, one of tho fmest In Elizabeth, N. J. , containing the Opera House, , Postoffiee and Masonic Hall, haa been burned. , Loss estimatcd at 250,000. . ..Hon. Goorgo S. Hilliard, one of the most distinguished citizens of Masaclnisetts, diod tho other day at his home in Boston. He was 70 yoars old. A dispatch from Belvidere, N. J., ■ says 1ho convioted ex-officials of that county have been sentonced to terms in the State Erison ranging from oue to two years, all at ard la' or. Tlie contractor involved iu the conspiiacy to plunder tho treasury was i tenoed to'six mnnths iu the county jaïl, and to i pay a line of $500. THE WEST. Keliable advioes from the Northwest are to tho effect that Bitting Bull's band of 5,000 lodgos had crossed tho line, and were camped on American soil with their faces southward. Sitting Buil, howover, does not accompa'.iy tlipm. Ho senda word to the Great Father that the oxpedition is enilnontly pacifie. No hoatility is intended. Sitting Buil ropresents that bis people wero starving and freozing in British America; that Hiere were no buffalo, and that it wae reduced to a quostion of life aml death - henee he advised hh followors to return to the United States and take their h anees. The last chapter in tlie bloody Indian drama whioh began at Camp Kobinson, Neb., three or four weeks ago was enacted somo f orty miles northwost of that post on the 21 st of ïanuary, and reeulted in thealmost total extermination of the remnant of the Cheyonne band ihat eseaped slaughter at the outset. A eorrespendeut at Fort Kobinson fnmishes the fullowing brief account of tho afïair : " The trail of the Gheyennes was followed from the bluffs, where the aavages succeeded iu killing Barber, by B and D companios of the Third Oavalry, oommandt-d lv CoL E van, to a range of hills, where ho I fouud tlieni intrenched, as usual, in a vury i Btrong posSüoJL Col. Evans comprehended the aitnation at a glance and made a ! charge, driviog tliem from their etronghold, but not uütil his horno had been shot from j under Mm, he liaving ridden at the head of his ! oommand. The Iudians broke and ran, greatly deceiviug Col. Evans, who thought they hfd moved but a. few rods aud were still in tho bluffs, while thev had made for the prairie in the direction of Chadron creek with a view of reaching their old rirte-pits, where they held the troops at bay iu October. In the meantime j Capt. Wessells was not idle, having had scouts out with a view of forming a communieation with Ooi. Evaiw, who spied the escaping Oheyennes. The diacovery , was immodiatcly couveved to Gapt, Wessells, ] who, with companies A, E, F ad H of the i riiirJ Cavalry, atai'ted in pursuit of tho lleeing I reds. After riding allüiglit, he was rewarded ' by discovering tUo savages i ■ a small creek j niaking i'ifle-i)its. Without waiting a mopiont be gave the order for a charge. Wessells riding at the head of the Jirst column. As the troops got withiu fifty yards of the savages, the latter opened fire witii deadly effect, killing Sergt. Taggert, Farrier BroNfn and Private Nelson. of ! Compauy L, Third Cavalry, and woundfug Sergt. Ambroee, of CompanyE, and the lndiau scout, Wonmn'fl Dress, who voluntarily accompauied Wessells, when la&t starting from this post, as eoout and trailer. Capt. Wessells was also slightly wounded. Ünlv nine Cheyennes, all of them wounded, were capttired. The remalnder of the party, twenty-three in numVier, were killed. Scven'teen are still unaccounted for. It is supposed that some died from wounds and that others escaped." At Coal Creek, Ind., two yoting men, named Hughes and Dailv, quarreled over a frieudly game of cards, and Daily drew a revolver and shot Hughes dead. The murderer was arrested. This weck anotlier new drama, " Two W'omen," is being produeed at McVicker's, in Chicago. As thia play is a partial adaptation of oue of Emil Gabonau's works, the same sourco from which "Almost a LifeM and "Within an Inch of Hie Life" were drawn, au impres?ion has been creited that it is similar to them. Thia is not the f aet, as it dif - fors as widely as possible. The sitnatious in tho drama are well worked np, and the constructen is good. Mr. McVioker complimented the authoress very highly for her work, stating that it was the first maunscript play he had ever received without alteration. Sitting Bull - the good old soul - has sent to his Uncapapa relativos at Standing Koek agency the following: Ho wants to lócate on the reservation. if the Great Father will per ly )èup) 'rifi.ll neaTT8 'Of'rfrjTT, "Bril r)Bw"l BfflTtl coward and will iight no more forever. My peopld are cold and hungry. My women aro siei and my ohildren are fi-eezing. 1 will do as the Great latber wishes. I will give my guns and ponie into his hands. My arrows are broken, and my war-paint thrown to the winds. " THE SOUTH. In tho United States Court at Jackonville, Fla., last week, State Senator-elect Lee, Sheriff Wriglit and Justice Johne, j bers of the Brevard County Cauvasaing Boarti i at the late election, were eonvicted of making ! false returns, and senteuced by Judge Settlo to the peniteutiary - Lee to a term of three years and the other two to one year each. Ijimiqisants in Wise connty, Texas, j f rom Lawrence, Kan., engaged in a fight, in whieh forty shots were exehanged. BenRhodee aud Joü Haney were fatally wounded. Thkee negroes named Alexander and three white men named Gamblin quarreled about the possession of aomo land in Wayno i'ounty, Miss. Later the negroes ambimhed the White men, killingono and wonnding another. The fire was romrnod and two negroe were kiiled The other fled The two oonvicted mrabers of the Brevard connty (Florida) Canvaasing Board have esoaped from jaiL WASHINGTON. A statement prepared for Secretary j Sherman shows that the total reeeipts of gold '■ at the varions sub-treastirios ginco resumption day, is largely in excess of the amount paid out in exchange for greenbaoks. In future the ' tereet coupons of Government bonds will be ; paid either in gold or green backs, at tho option ' of the hulders, at any snb-treasury. A contract was recently comploted between tho Seoretary of the Treaanry and N. M. Rothachild & Sons, J. S. Morgan & Co., Seligman Bros., and Morton, Rose & Co., of London, and A. Be!montt Co., Drexel, ! gau & Co., J. and W. Seligman & Co., and j ton, Blibs & Co., New York, for the sale and ' . di-livory in Europe of not less than $ii.OOO,(XX) per montfa of the 4 per cent. bonds upoii the I same terms and conditiona as the popular loan j is !i( ing offered in the United States. The j contract is to continuo untll the lst of July, the I proceeda to be applied tb relunding the ('; per cent. bonds. The contract wu made to promote tho exchango of 4 por cent. bonds for G ' pflr cent. 5-Í2O bonds held in Eufope. Mr. Si'K1S(;kr, of Illinois, Las j duoed in Congi-ess " a bilí to secure to the peoplo of eyery State equal and just i tioa" It próvidos that, after tho next ceuus, Legislature of each State shall portion the State undcr the census of ! [880, so aa ti provide tlmt when more than two membcrs of Congrepw are ! cd in, a State the Statu shall be dirided into districts of three membera each, as far a : poaeible, and when there are two odd Represontativca, that i, over three, or híx, or Diñe, etc, there lnül be ono rüstrict consisting of Bvemembera. In distriets consistuig of three { members èvery elector shall votn for only two, members of Congrees, and in district eñtitlod ' to five members cvery lector shall vote for three members. 8t. Martin, the Lotáaiana wituess, ! whose affidavit charging Representativo ! Sfcngcr, Maddnx, Gibson and olhers with ing bribed him to perform certain dirty work in the interest of Tilden tbe Potter Oommittee time ago refuned to place upon ïtH records, has undergone a three dny' examination ! before that oommittee. He provea a versatile i a witnesa ai Jira Auderson and Agnes Jenks i and i probably about aa reliablo. In liia lony he recanted thit portion cf hUafñdavit implioatiog Mr. Btenger, aud also retracted that portion which charged that Gibson paid ! him S400. During the examination there wa an lnteresting tilt beiween tho witnes and Ben BhUer. Tho latterasked st. Martina if he had oorreoted the lie which appeared in the davit before he liad eoeu it in the uowapaperp. Ht. Martins replied that he did ' not consider it a He; that it wan a mistake. [ Butler tlien aaid: "But waan't it a lio to the public?" St. Mártir b stubbonily returned that he would not answei any more questioos put to bim by Gen. Butler, whó simply replied, " Woll we will see." Tl.c witnesa repeated. WeU, ril "e if I answor ?.ny more. 'ou can i-all ! me np for oontempt, hut thafc ia all yon can do." He, however, recoimidered and the examination ' proceedcd. The coinniission appointed during the last session of Congross, composed of three ! Benators and five Representatives, to ooneider report opon the foaaibility of transferring the control of the Indiana fröm the Interior to the War Department., flnde itself at adead lock. four of them favonng and four opposiig thé proposed phange - 'Jl:o President haaeigned 1 the Pengíon Arrearages bilí. Ho said at the i time the bill paased that ho looked upon it aa doing substantial iuaice to the soldier, but he ! itremely that it appeared upon the tt juat tbis tini(!, in view of tho enormona aditure it entailcd. This expenditure not begin nntil an appropriation has been made, aa it lias boon olticially anuounced that no paymont will be made nudor or on account of the bill til] Congreas maken a speeiñc appropriation for tho purpose. The Sécate Finance Comrnittee, in Congress, bas docided to report against tlie roduction of tlio tax ou oiga. FOUTICAI Tuesd ay, Jan. 21, inight appropriately be tormed "Senatorial day," on account of tbo munter of United States Senators choaen by State Legislaturas. In Illinois John A Logan ■was elccted to sricceed Richard J. OglOBby The vote stood: Logan, Kopublican, 106: J. C. Black, Democrat, 84; Alexandor Uampbel , National, 10; John McAuliff, Socialist, H.- In New York, lïoacoe Conkliug, Republican, waa electod as his owu successor, )ie reeeiving 115 votes, to 35 for William Doisheimer, the Democratie caucua uominee, and 2 for l'eter Coopor, National. The Indiana Legislatura ehoae Daniel W. Voorheea, Democrat, to succeed hiniself, tho vote standing: Voorheea, 83; Ben Harriscm, the Itepublican caucua nominoe, (!0; Jamea Buclmnan, National, 3. Mr. Voorhees was also eleoted for ho short term, expirmg March 1, the Iiepubücana voting for O. S. Orth. In l'enusylvania, ,T. Donald Camoron, Kopublican, was ohosen as his own sucoeseor, by a vote of 1SÏ, to 76 for Heistor Clymer, the Democratie nomineo; 10 for Daniol Agnow, Natimnd, and G soateering. 'Jhe Missouri Legislatura elected Goorge G. Veat, Democrat, asi the suceoísor of David H. AnnstrooK, Democrat, for tho long term, and James Shields, Domocrat, for the short term iuterveuing betiveen now and Maruh 4. In North Carolina, Zebnlon B. Yauce, Democrat, was buccessful in aeoantng the aoat now occupied ly A. S. Men imoti. Democrat. The Countctieni Legislatnre eleoted ürvillo H. Plat', Kepublioau, as the auceessorof Mr. Barnnm, Democrat. The Florida Legisla turo chose Wilkinsun Cali, Democrat, to aucceed Mr. Conover, Itepublican. The Legialatures of Wlsooiisin, Louiaiaua aud Arkansas balloted for Senator, but t'ailed to reach a choice. Matt H. Cakpkxtf.r hun been eleoted 1 to tho United Statea Senate from Wisconain. I Ho UI takL' the Beat ocenpiod by Senator ETowe, who retires on the 4th of Mareh, after eiffhteen yöurs' oontiou#BS eerrioe. . . .SamnelJ. Tildcii is'said to be aooking the (lovernorship of Now York next fall as the Btepping-stone to tho renomination for l'residency in 1S80. At a meeting of tho Potter Committee, the other day, Gou. Butler rolated hin connection with thecipher dis patehes. He said ho found theni, to tho number of 040, upon his i priv&te tablo last spring, but did not know who placed tbem there. He had Mothingto do with 1 thcir publication. aH thov had been furnished j to the New York Tribune before they i carne into hia handa. DuriDg the fiummer they f were missed for several Aveeks, and suboeJ quently they were found again, whon he had tliem nutnbered and atamped and put in a place ! of safety. He vraa willing to place thom at tho I service of the committeo. It was decided by the committoe to at once go into an investigation of tho telegrama. A Washington dispatch says : " Mr. C'onkling haa again triumphod in his tee, anti, by tlio solid vote of the Republicau membere, secured an adverse report upon the nominationa of Oon. Morritt and Jlr. Burt Gen. Graham, having boen nominated to fill a vacaney, wül be confirmed, a unaniraous report in hia favor liaving beon agreed upon in the committee." K. L. T. Eeal, Demoorat, has been eleeted to Congresa from the First district of Virginia, to fill the uuexpired term of Beverly B. Douilas The Arkansas Legislatura has elected J. D. Walker, Democrat, as the sueeessor of Stephen W. Dorsey, Bopubican, iu the United States Seuate from that State. GEJfERAX. Ckemations : Thomas Jolmson's divelling, at Kingston, Ontario, was burned, and hi two little danghters perished in the ñames; Mrs. Davis and her baby were bumed to death by the explosión of kerosene at Hyde Park, Pa. ; William O'Brien and two sons were burnod to death in their loggiug camp at Milbury Brook, N. B. Becent deaths : John W. Goff, one of the leading business men of Cincinnati; John Bonnet, a famous St. Louia catorer; Horace Hyde, a well-known St Louis journalist, and brothcT of Williain Hyde, chief editor of the Ri publican - killed by a railroad accident. FOKKIGN. A Beklin dispatch states that Bismarck has decided to withdraw the ParliatWrSSc'niñifgV'"'' '"" '"-'""♦''■■ matter ia The steamship Oberon, bound from New Orleans for Liverpool, was caught in a severe gale off the southwest coast of Englaud, broke her propeller, ran ashore, and became a total wreek. Ail the eréw were sa ved. It is reported froin Berlín that a I superior officer of the Germán army has betraTed to a foreign power the moet momentous military secreta, iueluding the all-important ; plan of mobilizing the army. The suspected i person is a Baronet and a Major of artillery. He is ander arrest By tho capsizing of a boat at Anhverp, Belgiua, eight men were drowned. President MacMahon has sent orders to the French Admiráis and Governora of Freuch colonies to treat Gen. Graut with all honors due to the head of au indepeudent state. Accounts from France, England and Holland represent tho weathor as unusually severe. and ïnuch sufforing in cousequence The Governnieiits of Eastern Europe are devising measures to ward off the dreadful plague. whioh is Blowly making its way westward. The Assembly of Bulgarian notables chargeJ to choose a Prince for tlio new European state met at Tirnova, the capital, a few days ago. The Assembly ia decidedly pro-Kuasian. The election of a prince will not bc procoeded with until April The new.s fivm Soutlt África is that the Zulu King rci'uses all the British dmnands, and that the King has aasembled 8,000 men on the border. THJE CIPinSK TELEGKAMS. The Potter Committee began the investigation of the cipher dispatehes at Washington on the 27th of January. Clarenee Carey, the attomey for the Western Union Telegraph Company, teafied that certain telegrams were placed iu his itfiarge when it was proposed to issue subpifiuas for their productiou beforo the Livestigating Committee. He was instructed to piük out all of a politica! eharacter, with the view of getting them out of the way of tho BUbpcena. They were afterward turned over to Oapt. Whitney, manager of the Westera i Union Telegraph Compaay at Washington. Floyd Grant, who made the sek-ction of tke diapatehes iu New York, said that he thought of the 2i),(.XXJ about 800 were in cipher. ('upt. Whitney was called by the committee, and testifled to tho hbipping of the telegranis to New Vork, by order of President Orton, andJaniea O. Green teetjfied t.. toe nl.nn quent burning ui' thi-in. Oreen said that ; '.üioiiK the dispatohee therewere seven orelght inesaageH that passed betweau John N. Tyner and Zaehariah Ohanofler almiit making two' anpoititmentsia the Interior Department at salaries f S-'.öOüeaeh.aiidhaviugtlKimonoydepositüdto Hdine national bauk, so that it miglit be drawn m Indianapolis by the Republican committee. The Uilegrams aleo contiiined the nanies of tbe persons to bc appinted. He could not renifm oer what those ñames wore, but he believes ons was Martón. Green olso femerabered soine telegram between Tyner and John W. Poster, of fudiana, in refei'enoé to the aio of eome politioal office. THE LAINK IMVESXHfATIOM. AT CHARLESTON, s. (. 'l'iiE Teller Committee, eonsisting of Senators Teller, Kirkwood, Cameron, Handolph and McJJouald, began their invtMiigation of the late general election iu South Carolina, at Charleston, on the Sist of Jauuarv. All the witnesws exainiued were from Charleston countv, aud it was admitted by both Demouad Eepubli?aiiK that all" the election offlecre, exeepting olerks, were appointed upon the recommendation of the Democratie committee; that one of the threo Commia8ionera of Eloction for the county was a Eepublican; that tlio managers f election at the different precincts wero oxcluaively Dcmocra'H, and the United States Supervisors at the different polls were not allowed to have a olerk, there benig no provisión of law for suoh person. It was also testifled that the Democratie Supervisors, had no cltrka, and that tho clerkH of Eepnbflban Supervisors wero exoluded from the polling places by order of tho Democratie eommittee. The Eepublican witnesses, of whom three or four woro examiue-,1, testifled that there were inmeroiis tissue ballold found in the boxes at varioua precincts in Charleston eouuty, n some instauces these tissue ballota exceeding' the inimber of actual voters. Tho Democratie wituesses admitted the printing of tissue ballots by the Democratie committee, and eaid the object in issuiug thera was to enablo the colorod people to vote Becretly for the Democratie candidatos without risk of molestation. Five -witnessrs were examined by the Teller Committee, at Charleston, on Jan. ÜL1- three of them colorod Republicana, and two white Demócrata. It is acarcely neeessary to state that their statements did nöt agree. The coloreil wjtnesseo maintained that bulldozing, iutiniidiition, fraud and general deviltry char ■ acterizeel the ly.fr election in that citV; the wiiitcB, ou the other hand, maint.iimng that the electiou was fair and peaceable, and that every colored man was allowed to voto for whom he ploased. The Teller Committee examined four (vitnosaos at Charleston, tmthe23d of January : - Uireo colored men and ouo white man, all Iieaublicans They all testified to aots of bulldozng and intimidatiou, and also to the finding of :iseue bailóte in Home of tho boxos. About a dozen "witnesse3 testifiecl bcfore the Teller Committee, on Jan. 24. Butler Spoars, of Sumter county, colored itepublican, testifica he was pursned and firod at by the Demócrata, and W. H. Singleton tostified to findiug packages of tissue tickets in the ballot box at Swimming Pen procinct C. H. Morse and Marión Morse, white Demócrata of Samtor, testified to general good feeling toward colored people in the county; and S. J. Hanna, colored Supervisor, testified' to boing assaulted and driven from the polls at King'a Treo, in WilUamsburg county. Pendergasa, colored Doputy United States Marshal at the same place, was aasaulted by a party of Demócrata, who then, without being sworn, voted the tissue tickets by liandfuls. Other Supervisors testifiod to benig refused admisión to other polling-places in the county. H. E. Blair and J. II. Johnson, Hopublican Snporvisors at Camden, Kershaw couuty, tostified that the polls were crowdud by whites so that the colore J people could not vote, and to finding largo numbers of tiasue tickotH in the ballot boxoa. J. M. Cantey and W. M. Shannon, Democratie Buporvisors at the samo place, and W. D. Grantham, County Chairman, testified that af ter fl in tho morning the crowdiug was over, and that evorybody who chose to do so could voto, and that many eolored people abetained from votiug at the instigatiou of their leaders. Sevekal Repnblioan witnesses testified hefore tho Teller Committee, on Jan. 35, to the f aet of tissue tickets being f ound in boxes in variouB precincta in Iüchlund couuty. White and colored Democrats from Sumter county testified there wero from 1,600 to 2,000 eolored Democrats in the county, and hundreds of them woro seen to vote tlie Democratie ticket Two toetiöod to being cursed, jeere() at and threatened by eoloi'od Republicana one bring obligad 'o ]'cae bis chureli. W. J. Whippor (col red), Republioan, deaeribed the turbulent conduct of the Doniocrats, and tho demand for a división of time in Ilampton county. Threo Republicana from Colleton county testitied to intiniuiation, and the use of tissue" ballots in that county. This testimony waa flatly contradicted by tho Democratie County Chairman, "who sworo to the thoroogliuees and peacefulneaa of the Democratie canvasH. The Teller Committee was oceupieJ mainly on the 2Tth in hearing Democratie testimony aa to the conduct of tho canvass anii elnction in Williamsburg and Sumter oountica. Tho wituesses all testitiüd to the paaeefulnödj and fairness of the cleetion, and to tho bad character of Swails, tho Iicpubli 'an leader, and his efforts to siir up atrife betwoen the whites and blackx. J. B. Chandler (wlü e) testified that armed negroes surrounded Cedar Swamp precinct, saying tho ballots hould not be eountcd. Tho box was ent off on a by-path, while riegroes lay in wait for it on the usual road. It was the intention of the neeroes to murder the managers and eeize the box. Paul Ludwig testiñed to the peacofulness of the cleetion in Riohland county. A number of colored Demócrata were placed oa the stand, and told how thoy had been bulldozcd and intimidated by thoir Republican colored bretliren. John Lee, colored Üemocrat, had boen told by Republicana that he ought to be Kling and his wifo be burned. Manv eolored Democrats had been thrcatoned, and" their red shirts torn off. Other had been pulled from their horses, and their wivea advised to leave them. Saw largo nnmbers of colored Repuhlicans vote the Democratie ticket. Coleman Beattie, colorod Deniocrat, was told that every colored Democrat ought to be hung or burned. Andrew Johnson, colored Democrat, had been threatr:iied, abused aud beaten by colored Republicana on account of politica and his children beaten and driven from aehool. James Minera, colored, had been cnrsed and scorned, and hia children hissed at, because he was a Democrat. He had been shot in the f aoe, and his head was broken. Diek Wallace, eolored, had been eursed and threatened by colored Republicana, who alao lrnnniinri rlmvn n. builflintr nn hta nliir .kmnq KnocKoa aown a tmiicting on nis place. James Taylor, coloree!, was attacked near Columbia by three coloree! Republicana, who tore off hia red ahirt and atole bis hut. Other attempts were made to do him bodily injury. AT NEW OBLEAKS, LA. Whbk the Teller Committee left New Orleans for Charleston, thoy appointed representativea to take additional testimony bofore United Staten Commissioner Laño, and a large number of witnesses have been examined. W. J. Cumming, a member of tbo Lcginlature trdia NatclütoeheH, tostiñed tliat tbe general tenor of the testimony of witaesees on the Kepublican side is to the effect that a conspiracy existed on the part of the Democrats to break up negro m8 ÍSfiuffii&Fry1 nJ6ffitrnitf1WPB& organized band such as Blount described. Oor action againat Blouut and others was taken for protection, tfiey having threatened to get tlie negroes together and bnrn the town. The testimony of the witness throughout waa contradietory to the Iiepublican witnesses. A number of othor witnesses from Natchitoches were eiilled by the Democrats, and corroborated Cummiüg's statement. They all contradicted I the tcstimoDj' of the Republicau witneasos as ' to iutimidation, showing they apprehended i lenco threatened by the negroes, and tlieir i action was for the purpose of preserving the ! peace ; alao, that many negroea voted tlie ; oratie ticket.