Weekly News Review

A shocking doniestk; tragedy was enaeted at Troy, N. Y., a few days ago. Thewio j of ono G. F Simmons eloped with another man, which ao orazed tho hueband tliat lio killed his threfl childreu by giving tlieni poiaon, and then aded his own éxistence by cutting histhioat. i T15K WEST. The rcmnant of tbc Cheyenne Indiana havo been transferred from Fort Robineon to Leavonworth. Tliere woro but aoven buoks in the lot, aud they offered no resistan-. That charming little actress and vocalist, Alice Oatef, is drawing crowds at H&verly's Chicago Theater tho present week. Her attractiveness seems on tl'O increase, inBtead of Bhowing any signs of waning, aud the public will flock to liear her aud laugh at the absurdities of opora bouffe. Judge L. B. Yilas, one of the leading dtizena of Madison, Wis., iadead. . . .George Ward, of Columbia City, Ind., killed his son, tged 21, by splitting lds hcad open with an ax. Both ivoredrunk Twenty-one Cheyeiitie Indiana are to be tried at Leavenworth, Kansao, tor nmrders and depreda tion e Several perBona were bitten iy a mad dog in Floyd county, Ind., wherfupoü the exeited citizens began an eiterminating war against tho canines. aud hundreds of thera wee slain. Articles of impeachment have been presentod agaiiifit Btftto Treasurer Gates, of Missouri. The artioles charge the con-upt use of tho ytato fiuui in eonuection with the operaüods of the Mastin bank, at KanBas City. The Reno conrt of inqniry at Chicago has adjourned, after exaraining some twentytivo witnesscs and taking a vast amount of teatimony. Ifost of tlie evidence was favorable to Gen. ïipuo, in going to show tliat he Uil about all that could lie expeoted of a brave and efficiënt oincer in the uuf orttvnate affair of the Little Big Horn. Tho accused is otitioised, however, for making an unoalled-for attack upon tho lamentad Clister, in declariug that he had tío conñdenco in hm aH a soldier. THE SOUTH. A eepoet to the Interna! Kevenue Office at Washington, from Collector Clark, at Atlanta, Ga. , gives an account of a whisky raid in Cherokoe county, that State, in whieh tho ünited States ofneerswore fired upon by a party in ambuah, aud several, inelucjing tho guides, wonnded. Aï Sumter, S. C. Sam Lee, colored Kepubiican leader, rooently appointed Postmaster at that place, was tried aud found guilty of official misconduct while Judgo of Probate. GEMÏRAL. The report that Sitting Buil has re turned to American territory is doniod by Cana dian papers. WASHTNGTOM. The Senate Coniraittee who have had trnder consideration the matter of opening tho Indian Territory have agreed nnanimoualy upon an afüiniativo roport A sub-committee bus been appomted to preparo a report and bill embracing the following points: 1. To establiöh a United Mates Court within the Indian Territory for the better protecrion of life and property, with the samo powers and jurisdicfion as otber United State iJistrict Courts. :1. That eacu of the five oivöized nations bo allowod to send a delégate to Congress. S. That the lands uow held in common by the tribes can be hold in severalty among the Indians. The President has removed Collector Hmitli, at New Orleans, and nominatod General A. S. Badger, the present Postrnastor, as his successor. He also nominated WiUiam L. McMillan, the present Pension Agent, to be Postmaster. Febbbal appointments : John Parker, United States Marshal for tho Western District of Michigan; N. P. Bank?, United States Marahal of Massachusotts ; J. N. Patterson, ünited Rtates Marshal of New Hampshire; and Martin L TownBencl, United States Attomey for the Northern District of New York; James Torrenco. Uiiited States Marshal for the Eastern District of Arkansaa; Sherman Conant, Uuited States Marshal for the Northern District of Florida; Deeius S. Wade, Chiof Justice of the Sapreme Court of Montana; and John ! B. Allen, United States Attorney, Washington Territory The bilí which passed the lower house of Congress, kiiown ' aa the Mississipüi Eiver Improvemoiit ' bilí, provides íor the appointmont of a [ oommission of five, three of which ehall be army eugiuoers, who shall eurvey, and report ' xipon a plan for the permanent improvement of tlie MiKöiKsippi, from Alton, 111. , to tho Guit'. The bill appropriates $50,000 to pay tho j penses of aurvey The Senate Committee ron Finance has voted to reduce tho tax on tobáceo to Bisteen cents per pound, on sim ff to twenty-four ! ceuta er pound, and on cigars to $0 per and. The President has made the followiug Philadelphia appointments : John T. HarEranft, Postmaater; Jamea Pollock, Naval Officer; and A. L. Snowden, Superintendent of the Mint. H haa also appointed Martin P. Kenuard AsBistant Trea3urer at Boston. The President has nominated Alexander Ij. Euasell, of Pennsylvania, United States Consul at Montevideo Hon. Joseph Casey, formerly Judgeof the Court of Claims, died a few days ago. He was a memoer of Congrees from Pennsylvama from 1811) to 1851. POUTICAL. A Washington dispatch says, that at a joint caucus of Democratie Senators and Representativas, it wa? decidod te add a clause repealing the test oath to smne important appropriation bilí, and insist upoñ its iwsaage. ïhey alío agreed to support a bill abolishitig uational baulu and replacing national-bank currency with greenbauks. There is a movernent among Oiiio Eepublicans looking to the nomination of Judgo j Taft for Governor A State Convent-ion of the National party of Michigan has boen callod j to meet on the '2Sth of February ïhere is talk among New York Demócrata of running Horatio Seymour fer Governor. James H. Maddox was before tlie ! Potter Investigating Committee at Washington last week, and denied all of the testhnony of I the witnesa Ht. Martins, so far a it rolated to him. Maddox fiworo that St. Martins had offered to correct or withhold liis affidavit for ■ a money consideration, bnt that ho (Maddox) de'cjined to entertain the proposition. Col. George W. Cartee, of Louisiana, toatifted before the Potter tee, at Washington, in relation to St. i tin's statements. He denied the allegatioua of St. Martin, o far as they eoncorned him, and said he had no knowledge whateytsr of how sutjp.Tuaa wero served, of tln cuaobing of witue&ses, etc. A. M. Gibson, of the New York Snu, also tostifled before the committee that St, Martina' etory, so far as it relatcd to him, was a tissue of falsehoods. Hon. Isaac P. Christiancy has ! dc-red his resiünation aa Senator of the Unltöd States from Michigan. FOKKION. The new French Cabinet has been conatituted, and the followiug are the ohanges : M. Waddingtan, President of Councü and is ter of Foreign Aff airs ; Senator Leroyer, Minister of Jnstice; M. De Marcere, Interior aud Public Worahip, ad interim; M. JuleB Ferry, i Public Instruction anrl Fine Arte; M. Lepere, AgriouMnre; Admlral Jaureqniberry, Marine Arthxtr, Duke of Connaught, is tobe ! appointed Lord Liimtenant of Ireland. James Goiidon Bknsett has ' ised the Enasian Government to eend bis Arctic exploring veeael, Jeannette, in aearch of the Nordenkejold expedí tion. .. .A eerioufl disputo hasarisen between Eossia and Roumania touohing the ownerahip of oertain territorv. The question will probably have to be aeftlcd by thopowers Venezuela haa a revolution on' hernauds, and Spain is threatened with ona The ship Van Dieman has been sunk in a colusión with an unknown veisel in the Atlantic. Only two of the crew are known to have been saved. A CABLE dispatch of the 8th inst. reporta that from 30,000 to 35,000 men were on a 8triko at Liverpool. Many Milors had joiued the atrikera, and the domeanor of the idle crowda waa threatening. The Bussian troops are to be imme■ diately withdrawn from ïurkish territory, tho fleflnitive troaty of peace having been aigned at lapt Hoavy commercial failures continue to be of frequent occurrenco in England and Bootland. and the cry of hard times grows louder aud louder. The Director of the Mint at Bordeaux, Franco, haa been genteneed to eix yeara' imprieonment and 125,000 francs fine for embezzling 1,400,000 francs in bullion lodged in the mint by the Üothichilds. He subatituted galvanzed copper bars for tho bullion embezzled.. ..The Hritish havo nifferod a terrible defeat at the banda of the Zulus in South África. A column of tho invading foroes, 1,000 atrong, was attacked by 20,000 blacks, and half of them wiped out of exiatence All tlie evils of Pandora'a box aeem to have bepn let looso upon Ruaaia. In addition to financialutraits, Sóoialiatio troubles, and tlio dreadful plague, whieh bas carriel i panic and dea latioií toto many diatriote, : pox and spotted fevor are now deoimating the ïnhabitanta of tbat unhappy realm, and tlie I catlle aro dying by the thoiisand of aomo fatal pUgue. TOE CIPHEIÏ TELECKAM9, The Potter Sub-Committee, sent to New York to prosecuto the investigaron of the cipber telegrama, began work on the 5th inat. Smith M. Weed, of New York, waa the first witnees. Ho aeknowledgedbaving done a good I deal of telegraphing in cipher while the electoral eouut waa pendiug, and said the trauslation of tho diapatehea published, so far as ho knew, was pretty correct. Mr. Weed teatified that whilo in South Caroliua a proposition waa ! handed liim offering a decisión of the State Oanvassing Board tor Tilden, in eonsideratiou of $L,O(.U or 180,000, but lio declined to entertain it. He subsequently sent the proposition to New York; Peltou atirred himself around to raiee tlie money ; tho matter came to tiio li.va of Mr. Tilden, and, aoeording to the wioAus, " lio brought usto order in very forcible termB for having attemptedtomake atrade with the Returning Board, and repeated bis positive abhorrence of an y aueh a jheme. " Col. Pelton, the nepbow of Gov. Tilden, waa before the Potter Sub-Committeo at New York, on tlio Oth inst. , and told what he knew about the cipher diapL.tchea. He aaid that all tho telegrama sent by Smith M. Weed wero byhie inatruetiona, and tbat in bis abBonoe they wé e opened by the National Democraüc Oommittee. Telegrama from Florida signed " Jlarblc," atating that propositiona lookinK to tin1 purcliasc of tlie Returning Board had beon ; made, and uÜng il' le (Pelton) conld raise the required fuudf?, wero bhown to witueaa and ac knowledged to be correct; also the replica of Pelton, in which ho notrfied Marble of the aeceptanoe of the propoaition, and that the monoy would be fortncoming. Diapatchos tonehlng similar negotiations m South Caroliua were aieo exhibited and their authentijity acknowledged by witness. Gov. Tilden waa entirely ignorant of Üiese negotiations, and had ! 110 haud in them whattvor. Witneaa j aaid he had an idea that the ReturniDg Board I propositiona, even if carried out. would I reault, if assented to, in a delay whioh would be favorable to tJie Democratie party. He had i matlo no arrangeinonts for raiamg money, but j j mtended eventually to lay tho matter before the i Democratie National C mmittoe, aud let it cide. In the meanwhile he thougbt it beat to I commit tho members of tho Rotui'uing Board to i ! the propoaition in queetion. He acted wholly on bis own responaibility without eoiiaultation with aüj odo. He had no autnority to act for the Democratie National Committee in the matter. Mantón Maiusle testified before tlie Potter sub-committeo, at New York, on the 7th inst. He said that ho went to Florida on hia own volition to look af ter the electoral vote; did not go under the instructkms of the Democratie committee, at the request of (iov. Tilden or anybody else. He was furnished by Col. Pelton with a ei -her befove he lef t New York, and used it snbsequently. He neither sent to, nor recoived from, Oov. Tilden any telegramf?. All bis dispatches wereaddressed to Polton. Ho said the oipher telegrama, aspublished in the Now York Tribune, were simply rubbish, so far as be (Marble) was concerned. He did notremember the dispatch to Pelton staring that the voto of Florida could bepurchased for $200,000, and to whidh the latter replied that the figure was too high. The second dispatch, in which Pelton was informed tliat the vote could be hd for $50,000 the witnSsa reeollected. He Ëtated, however, that none of these propositions wero j hia, and chat he only telegi'aphed thom as matters of nsws. The wituee explaiued the meaning of eertain phiases in tho telegrama he sont to PeltoD, and said thatnoneof them had referonee to money or pttrchaslng transactions. Samuel J. Tilden was summoned as f a witnoss by tho Potter eub-Committee at New York, on the 8th inst. He was gworn the same as any other witness and testified substantially as foüows: " I never enterad into any arrangements to inircïiase the vote of South Carolina or Florida. I had no information and no suspicion tbat any such Communications were being carrfed on until I eaw tlie dispatches published in the New York Tribune. I had no kuowledge and no dealings with any partjes to theso negotiations. I never anthorized any such ■ negotiations in any form wliatever. On the morning of Nóv. Ü0, 1876, Mr. Col. ' Pelton nienüoneü in my presence Ihat her husband had gone for tho day. I didn't know that he had goue or was going out of tho city. He went to Philadelphia. I believe. Later in the day I was called on by Mr. Cooper, who was on hia way down t own, and was told by him that he had received an offer fromsome party, offering tq obtain, for monpy, the vote of South Carolina. I said that 1 would authorize no such transaction, nor spend money for any such pnrpotc. Tho wholo convereation oooupied only a few minutes. I obtaiued Col Pelton' si address in Baltimore. and telegraphed to him to come home. I know nothing of the ciphers I that had been passing betwoen him and others, and could not have translated them. In regard to the Oregon dispatches, I did not know that tliey camo in ciplier until after the meeting of ! the committee to iuvestigato them. From the 7th of November, 1876, until Dec. 6, of tlio I same ycar, under no circunistance did I enter into any cornuination )or seeking ceitificates by venal inducement. Thero never was an nor a minute that I ontertained such a thought. To the people who, as I believe, eleeted me as President of the unitod títates, lo 4,000,(100 of citizens who were defrauded, I owed it to proclaim that I would not jield ono jot or tittle of myright. Whatever evil may result from this subversión of the electoral system, and of a free Government, I resolved that I would enter into no auction for the purchase of the Chief Magiatracy. I was resolved that I would continuo to m-otest atrainst a wrontr bv which the people wero defrauded out of their rights. I declare bef ore God aud my country tliat the votes of Louifciana and Florida were bouglit (meaning by the Republicana). I would scora and condenin my righteous title if the Deni; crat:c party had sanirecïmyseat by fraud. " The commictce decided to examine no more witnesaea in New York, and left immediately for Washington. THE BT.AXNE IXVESTIGATION. TnE Teller Committee resuniecl its eitting? at Washington, last week. E. W. Mackay, defeated Kepublican candidato for Congresa in South Carolina, was the first witnees. He testiñecl that the Ilepublicaus were, in mimerous ways, prevented from having a fnll and free vote iu Charleston countv, and that the Deinocrats resorted to frauda for that purpose. Witness, in order to -counteract the Deinocrats, liad 5,000 tissnetickets printod, and these were to be vised only in the event that the Eepublicans were certain the Democrats were using tissue-tickets. B. M. Wallaco, United States Marshal for South Carolina, testiüed to arrestiag Demócrata for breaking up Eepublioan meeting, but no convicüon resulted. The Democrats regarded the votiug of tiasue-baliots as a huge joke on the Republicana, saying that they had learnüil tñcka from the lïcpubüeans, and were now beaüng them at their own game. on Forolgn Relations reported back the 8euato bill to rcstrict the immigration of Chinese, and also tho House bill for the same purpose. They were ; plaeod on the calendar. .. .Mr. HarriB, from the select committee to inquiro into the best means. of preventing epidemie diseaaes, roported a bil] to prevent the introduction of eontaeious diseasps and to establish a bureau of j public health Mr. Windom called up bis resolutions in regard to the mit?ration of colored people, and spoke in favor thereof .. .Tho Senate took up and pasfied- 40 yeas to ü'l nays - the bill nllowinfï women to practico law in the United Staten Supreme Court. House. - The House devoted the day to dull routine business and the consideration of private claims. Saturdat, Feb. 8. - Senate. - The Sonate passed the House bill providing for the payment to offleera and soldiers of tho Meïican war oL three monthfl' extra pay provided for by the act oL July lü, ü-4. and devoted the remainder of the day to routine business of tiitting interest. House. - The Army Appropriation bill was passed, tncludlng the two important amendments relative to the organization of the army and to the railroad telegraph. and ctefwting the amendment which proposed to transfer the Indian Bureau to the War Dep.'irtment. No other business was trausacted. ■ Febeuart 10.- In the Senate, tho House bill fluthoriziDg an issue of certificateR of deposit of the denomination of $10, to aid in rcfunding the public flebt. was alm mlcd by increasing tho rate of interest from 3 to 4 per cent.. nd then passed. ... Mr. McCrwry ldresscd tho Senate in favor of the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Dopartinent. and Mr. Paddock made a speech on AgikuHuro... Mr. Morrill iutrodiiced two flnancial measnres- one uthoriztng the conversión of natioual Ro'd bou.ls. and the other amending tho Itoviscd Statntea velative to tno aèposit oí bonds liy wsocIatTons. In tüe House, motions to suspend the rules and pass the bill repealing the law in rcaard to the test oath of jurors, and also the law for the appoiutment and payment of Sun rvisors ol Elsotlon and their aids, were rejected- yes, 120; nays, 113- nt the ucci'ssary hvo-thirds voting in tbe afflrmaüve ... A motion to suspend the rulea and pass the bill to establish postal savings banfcs was yeaa, nays 184. . ..Mr. Acklon introauced a bill to restore the LTnking privilege.... Tta General ApproDriatiou bill was dicueed.