local anO State Ketos. The ico companies on the Kennebec ore shortly to commence cutting. Charles U. James has been appointed as lioute Agent on the route between Bath and Kockland. Mr. Boothby has resigned the mastership of the South Grammar School in Bath, and Mr. Curtis of Bowdoinham has been employ ed by the committee in his place. Mr. F. II. Tibbetts lias sold bis cottage house ami lot on the corner of Sewall ami Weston streets, to Major J. W. Welch, for merly of this city, whose family will return, here in the spring. The ladies of the I'niversali t Society in llallowell, will hold their annual Festival at the City Hall, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, December 13th ami 14th. The pro gramme for both evenings will be unu-ually attractive. The steamer “Star of the East,” which has done a profitable summer’s work, has been taken up in Boston, where she will be com pletely overhauled, modernized, painted, and made ready for the next season’s campaign. The popular agent in this city, Mr. W. J. Tuck, will no doubt continue in that capacity the next season. I)r. John Blackmer of Sandwhich, N. II., who was nominated for Governor by the State Temperance Convention recently held at Con cord, was formerly connected with the Insane Hospital in this city, as assistant physician. A most excellent and worthy man, a good physician and surgeon. James McCarthy is now on trial in Portland for the assault made by him on Sergeant Doyle, at the National Asylum. The plea of want of jurisdiction was overruled by the District Court. Webb appears for Govern ment, and Keed and Wbitehouse for the pris oner. Mr. Frank Small of this city is mak ing a stenographic report of the case. The Lady’s Almanac for 1872, is beautiful ly printed on tinted paper, and illustrated with fine engravings. It is replete with ele vated sentiment in poetry and prose, and use ful household notes. A novel feature of its pages is a “Visit Kecord,” printed in fancy style, for keeping a complete record of all calls and visits made during the year. Its blank memoranda pages will prove of great c onvenience to the ladies. It is sold by book and newsdealers, at the very low price of .">0 cents, or will be mailed, postpaid, by the publisher, George A. Cooledge, office of Old and New, 143 Washington street, Boston. A large Arctic owl, quite a curiosty, came into the hen house of a gentleman in Sidney, in broad daylight, on Saturday, and after kill ing a hen or two, was shot detjd by Mr. Wnt. A. Tanner, the Treasurer of the town. The owl measured five feet three inches from tip to tip of wings, and his feet and legs were covered with long hair and feathers, being larger and altogether unlike our native owls. Getting dissatisfied with the cold weather, the bird “kinder" popped oil' down here, taking his opportunity to escape through the door of the North Pole that (according to the Bel fast Journal), Capt. Hall left open when he went through. A Washingtonian Temperance Society has Veen organized at the National Asylum. Their meetings are on Tuesday evenings. An invitation is extended to temperance lecturers to address the society on Tuesday evening any tim this w inter, i lie society has a limited fund and can perhaps pay speaker's expenses. Address John Hipwood, Cor. See. It is pro posed to work tor the cause ot temperance on the evangelical pla.., to show the evils of drinking, and when a member falls to kindly take him by the hand and assist him on his feet again. The meetings are interesting, the members telling tlifir experience and remind ing us of the good old Washingtonian times, when dram drinking was less fashionable than now. This movement has developed quite a number of speakers who will, on application, give temperance lectures anywhere within a reasonable distance of Augusta. We are afraid that the temperance people have pur sued the rumseller, to the neglect of the drunkard. What we want is t) make drink ing unfashionable—to show how much bet ter men are without stimulants. Tool's. The ladies of Augusta, members of the Howard Ilencvolcnt Society, would call at tention to the wants of the poor and needy, particularly such as strive to do for them selves and families what circumstances will admit without asking alms, and yet without neccessary comforts. Many who have been subscribers to this society are absent; some perhaps have forgotten to tiring in their small subscriptions. We presume there are many benevolent ladies who would gladly join and aid us in our charitable woik if they knew the usefulness of this society, which is performed in a quiet manner. During the past year we have distributed one hun dred articles of clothing mostly made into comfortable garments for all ages from infancy to helpless old age, also com fortable bedding for suffering families, so far as our means will admit. Any donations or aids in any way will be thankfully received by the society and make glad many hearts. The society will meet at Mrs. John Dorr’s, Thursday 1*. M. 11th inet. Also on alternate Thursdays through the season. Member ok the Society. Mrs. Weaver’s Rending. We mentioned in the Journal yesterday that Mrs. Weaver would probably give our citizens an opportunity to listen to one of her readings this week. And we now have the pleasure of saying to the public that arrangements have been made for this entertainment to come off at Meonian Hall this (Wednesday) evening, l’articulurs will be given in small bills to he circulated to-day. Among her many com mendations from the press we take the folhv ing from a notice in the Lawrence, Mass. Daily American, where she has frequently read: "It is difficult to describe Mrs. Weaver's rending. It is natural us life itself; easy as the boy’s whistling when it whistled itself; and so informed with the sentiment of her authors, that it is impossible to tell wlmt she reads best. When she is comic you think she excels iu that; when she is pathetic, you aro sure that is her forte; ami when she cloaca with Scripture, you are positive ihe should have read the whole evening from the Bible. Somehow, words uttered by her seem fuller. richer, or more tender, graceful or powerful than we have been accustomed to think them; language is freighted witli more meaning, and the art of letters seems grander and more life like. Great is the art of reading, and such artists as Mrs. Weaver are rare." From what we ourselves have heard of this lady we have full confidence in her ability to more than satisfy those that hear her. The Industrie* of Hallowell. Ffu.nt’s Machine Shop and Iron Focn DERY. Wo recently passed an hour pleasantly and profitably in looking about the machine shop and iron foundery of Geo. Fuller, Esq., it Shepard's wharf, near the south part of the city. During the year 1837 when shipbuilding was carried on so extensively in this city, the Messrs. Coburn of Skowhcgan erected a building near the ship yards on Shepard's wharf, to be used a machine shop and lay ing out moulds and plans for ships. It was eighty feet long by forty feet in width, and three stories high. When shipbuilding de clined it w as left unoccupied for several years until it passed into the possession of its pres ent owner, who moved it a few rods to its present location. The lower, or first floor is now filled with all the modern machinery for turning out all kinds of iron work, from a steam engine to a patent churn. The engine used in the printing establishment of “The Saturday Gazette" was built at this shop. Fussing up to the second floor we find the dif ferent machines for manufacturing carpet blocks. These blocks are sent to all parts of the country where oilcloth carpetings are made. An order from St. Louis has just been filled. The machinery in the whole building is pro pi lied by a water wheel seventeen inches in diameter with eighteen feet fall of water. In dry weather of summer the works are driven by steam. One of the most useful pieces of mechanism we noticed, was a machine for regulating the speed of the whole machinery in the establishment. It is called “Whitman's Regulator' and is so adjusted that when a part of the works are stopped a corresponding amount of power is stopped, and when all the power is wanted it applies itself. We now proceed to a four story fire proof brick building ustd for storing patterns for castings, etc., tliat are necessary to be pre served. The next building we enter is the founders' where we find conveniences for all kinds of casting from an ounce to two tons. The sand used in this department is brought from Auburn, N. Y., the nearest point at which it can be obtained. It seemed to us who are somewhat unsophsitieated, to be sim ply yellow earth. It costs but a trifle aside from transportation, l’ower to drive the “blower” of the furnace is applied one hun dred feet distant by a continuous shaft. Aside from the buildings mentioned, are blacksmith shop, dry houses, sheds for storing lumber, iron, coal sand, ic. Mr. Fuller employs some twenty five hands and the pay roll exceeds 31000 per month. A considerable amount of property in the vi cinity has been purchased for the accommoda tion of his t mployees, and a splended residence has just been completed for one of bis sons, who i9 foreman in the establishment. Much credit is due the enterprising proprietor, and his sons far the improvement made in that part of the city. S. St a lids the Test of Time. Mrs. John Young of this city states that in 1 "s.5G stie purchased a fifty-dollar Wheeler Wilson sewing machine, being at that time fully informed of their excellence over all others. This machine has been in almost un interrupted use ever since (a period of fifteen years, without even the most trifling repairs) on many tot.ijy different materials, such as stitching tiie edges of soldiers’ overcoats, overcoat linings, ladies’ boots, dresses, shirts, boys’jackets, pants, tucked and hemmed cot ton cloth, linen, niniook. and Swiss muslin. A 2 1-2 needle was used a year without even removing it from the machine, and used on the usual heavy and light garments wo n by ladies and gentlemen. She has earned not less than three thousand dollars ($3,Odd) with it. The machine is in complete order, none of its parts being worn, and bids fair to he willed to those who come after her. Mrs. Young’s machine can be seen at her resi dence opposite .1. 1’. Wyman's mills. Caution. Purchasers of the Peruvian Sy rup (a protected solution of the protoxide of iron) are cautioned against being deceived by any of the preparations of Peruvian Bark, or Bark and Iron, which may be offered them, livery bottle of genuine lias Peruvian Syrup (not Peruvian Bark) blown in the glass. Kx amine the bottle before purchasing. 3tdiw Ki:i low's Compound Syrup of IlTPoruos piiites is an excellent nervous tonic. It ex erts a direct influence on the nervous system, and through it invigorates the body. tied l—f&wlw Slun k* to the System. The ili-t shock of winter tells tremenduously upon enfeebled systems. Every one knows that in pa-sing f. om a warm region to a cold one, or rive versa, the body requires as a protection against epidemics go acclimating medicine. All fravellers and voyagers admit this. It is equally necessary to acclimate the Bystem in passing the confines of one season and enteiing upon auother. Autumn is gone and winter ts here. Prepare the frame and the constitution to meet the change by a course of Hostetter’s Stomach Hitters. This inestimable vegetubl tonic increases the staminal strength of those who take it, and renders them proof to a great extent against the devitalizing power of cold and damp. These two agents are as prolific of disease as tropical heat, and animal vigor—such vigor as this healthlul and pure tonic diffuses through the whoie organization—is a re pell ant which they cannot master. A large proportion of the colds, eatftir-H, and pulmonary complaints which prevail in winter, might be avoided, by strengthening and regulating the system in ad vance with this invigorant and alterative. Not that it is recommended as a specific for those com plaints, but as a preventive ol their causes. On the other hand, it is not only a preventive of, but a specific for the indigestion, intestinal irregularities, malarious fevers, bilious attacks, and nervous af fection, superinduced by a chilly and damp at mosphere. dec 11-teod-w 1 w iHarricti. In this city, by K. >V. Whitehouse Esq., Joseph A. Shaw to Eliza Howe, both of this city. (1 BKM N WOKS USDS in a great var ety. Also X YARNS in colors. Stamping for embroidery douc with dispatch at MRS. DECKER’S Hallowed. I uov&j-t&n THE FIRST SEWING MACHINE SOLD IN AUGUSTA! Wlioolor «*s Wlimesxx. decH-tlt FREEMANS NATIONAL BANK. rPIIE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the X Freemans National Bank of Augusta, will be held at rhelr banking room in Augu-ta, on Tues day the 9th day of January, 1872, at 10 o’clock A. M.f for the purpose of choosing a Board of Direc tors, and ol transacting any other legitimate busi ness which may come before them. decH-tlt J. L. ADAMS, Cashier. ________ ON Monday evening, on Bridge street, a bundle containing under clo hing. The Under will be rewarded suitably by leaving it at my shop. GEO. H CROSS, Augusta. dec 14-t3t THE LAST SEWING MACHINE Sold in Auguata l WHEELER WILSON. tlecH-m___ NOWREAD Y.rEMiMUsn. olnplete official, M ill-Heal mm litliullean Hire tm y of the Mate. 450 pages. M.v P. .hotting Conn tic*■ Towns. Railroad., Mean,boat Lilies,with Ins tance.. Fared, Telegraph anil Kxpie-s .Station*. Full ol'information a* a not of meat. U complete L'itv Dikkctokifh, tor #1.50. Everybody want* it Scut post liaid for #1 5d. Map alone, pocket form, SO ct.* AGENTS WANTED Addre-* II. A. MrHKNNEV A 10.. >r transacting any olhe legitimnt business, ai their Banking R«om in Augusta. on Tuesday, the ninth day of January. 1872. at ten o’clock in the forenoon. V\*M. T. JuIlNS »N, Cashier. Angusta, Dec. 11, 1871. decl2tft Sale and Festival. r|MIF Ladies of the Free Baptist Society will hold 1 a Sale and Festival in the VESTRY of their Church on Thursday aud Friday Evenings, Dee. 14 and 15. There will also be presented a beautiful Allegory entitled Lightheart’s Pilgrimage. 4 Variety of Useful and Fancy Articles will be offered for sale, suitable for presents during the Holidays. Ice Cream, Oysters, Cake, And other refreshments for sale. Tickets of Admission 25 Cents. Glilldren in Gents. Why is it Titcomb’s Holiday Goods are Selling so fast Because they are so VERY CHEAP AND DESIRABLE. Call early, before the assortment is too much broken dec-tlwU At TITCOMBPS Drag Store. No Postponement. The Big Gift Concert and Ball At Lemont Halt, BRUNSWICK, Will come off NEW YEARS positively. Music and Management First-Class. The Valuable Presents consisting ol Lewiston Roy, Gold Mounted Harness, Silver Tea Sett, sil ver Ice Pitchers, Castors, Top Buggy, Fine Gent’s Driving Horse, Gold and Silver Dollars, Watches, Ac., will be distributed on the fol.owing day. Secure tickets, as they are all in the hands of agents, and nearly all sold. II. B. P1NKHAM, Proprietor. Agents at Augusta—Pottek Bennett. Brunswick, Dec. 9,1871. decl2-f3t BY TELEGRAPH -TO THE Daily Kennebec Journal. Forty-Second Congress—Second Session. Washington, Dec. 12. House. The House in committee discussed the ap portionment hill hut rose without action. On motion of Mr. Townsend of Pennsyl vania, the Secretary of Treasury was in structed to report whether any of the national hanks in New Vork were concerned in pro moting artificial scarcity of money. Mr. Wright moved to appropriate 82,000, 000 for tiie purpose of paying the balances which may he found due. Adjourned. EUROPEAN NEWS. London, 12. Private and unofficial ad vices Iroin Sandringham and Windsor re oeived by the central press agency, hold out some slight hopes of a favorable turn in the Prince’s disease, the patients system appear ing not completely exhausted. Preparations which were making against an unfavorable result are relaxing. Telegrams sent from Sandringham to Windsor are more re-assur ing, and the members of the royal house hold a meeting this evening. By a railroad acci lent near Shierfield this evening, one man was killed and many in jured. The strike of telegraph operators in begin ning to break. '1 he employees at one im portant point have already resumed work. Sandringham, 12. The Prince passed an unquiet evening, but his prostration does not increase. News Irom New York N'aw York. 12. The rumor of suspension of the Union Square Bank is unfounded. I'he officers deny any embarrasment. The ri port originated in fact clearances made through the Ocean Bank. The officers of the httter bank deny that Tweed is one of the di rectors. It is generally believed that the Police Commissioners adhere to their former de cision regarding the Internationalists parade, and that the government refuse to interfere. There was a daring unsuccessful attempt to rob the Ferry >i. et Savings Bank this forenoon hy the n i Dutch lienricks am1 Alex Mason. The latter is of Baltimore. The thieves escaped. Judge Cardazo has granted the receiver of the Bowling Green Savings Batik leave to sue the debtors of the bank. There has been thirty-two new cases of small pox since Saturday and seven death. It is reported that Henry Ward Beecher is arranging for a trip to California in the spting. In the trial of Miner the counterfeiter to day, Cole swore to numerous sales of coun terfeit money made by him. Miner, one of which in June last was S24.UU0 in counterfeit tens, for which Cole gave Miner SISXiO. The sale took place in Miner's house, w here Min ers. wife lay dead. At the republican primary to-night in the third assembly district two of Foley’s men attempted to.vute in the names of two col ored men. Bi ing challenged they formed and blows exchanged. A number of the tenth ward men rushed in with the intention of breaking up the election, and the police cleared the hall and carried off the boxes to headquarters. There w as one arrest. The bar association to-night appointed a Committee to prefer charges in the supreme court against Morgan and Hannay, attorney’s for irregular conduct in the superior court. News From Washington. Washington, 12. The reports made at the. meeting of the managers of the National Asylum for disabled soldiers show that over 4000 veterans are now cared for and new men are coming in at the rate ol 100 per week, and will soon tax the asylums to their utmost capacity. A large amount of detail business was done by the board. The executive committee of the National Steamboat Mens’ Convention are here fur the purpose of taking preliminary steps to re vive the steamboat laws. The draft pre pared by the sub-committee at Pittsburg, Nov. 21st. was presented to Congress yester day hy Gen. Negley. The committee find that Congressmen generally favor the desired change in the laws. The republican Senators had a caucus this afternoon on the subject of revival of the committee on retrenchment and civil service reform. The debate was free and unrestrain ed botli in a national and party view. The question was not disposed of. The committee on foreign affairs will not act on Gen. Bank's bill to carry into e ffect that part of the treaty of Washington relative to the fisheries until after the holidays, but an effoit will be made previously to pas- the appropriation of a quarter of a million tor the expenses of the tribunal of arbitration at Ge neva. Delegate Hooper returns to Utah next week. He favors the formation- of a State Constitution acceptable to Congress. Senator West who to-day introduced a measure looking to the exemption from duty of all bagging and iron ties used in bailing cotton. He says this would be equivalent to a premium by the government ot one dollar per hale and no doubt would stimulate the production. The Heather. Wab Department, 1 Office of tiie Chief Signal Officer. Washington, Dec.*12.—7 1’. M. j Probabilities. The barometer will probably fall very gen erally on Wednesday in the Gulf ami At lantic States, with cloud and rain to-night in Gulf States and threatening weather on Wednesday from the Low er Lakes to the Middle and South Atlantic coast. The low pressure in Illinois w ill probably move east and northeastward proceeded by southeasterly winds in the Middle States and followed to night by increasing northwesterly winds on Lake Michigan. Areas of r.iin are apparent ly developing in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Illi nois, Michigan and Louisiana. IIosloii Hunk Statement. Boston, 12. Statement of Boston National Banks as returned to the Clearing House, Dec. 11th Capital, $48,050,005 Loans, 114,250,054 Decrease, 4,073,775 Specie, 1,095,922 Increase, 185,806 Legal tender, 1.095,686 Decrease. 193,047 Due from other Banks. 19,378,145 Increase, 152,847 Due to other banks, 18,354,331 Increase, 115.672 Deposits, 44,186,657 Decrease, 660,755 Circulation, 25,644,212 Decrease, 49,405 Seventeen Persons Frozen to Deutii, St. Louis, 12. A gentleman who arrived in Kansas City on Saturday, informed the Times that on the Sunday previous a terrible rtliuii ucuii'ica t OaUui ^cuuaAd. A party of emigrants were passing through the county westward, when the cold constant ly increasing they concluded to camp. They were on a piece of high prairie several miles from any house, hut three miles from them was a piece of timber land. After unhitching their teams the men started to procure fuel. Not returning for several hours the women left the children and started to hunt them up. The next day the bodies of 17 persons who perished from the intense cold were found. The children left in the wagons were the only survivors. Telegraph News In General. Quebtc, 12. Two mail carriers of the Is land of Orleans were drowned, fall ng thro’ the ice while on their way to Quebec o.i Sat urday. Trenton. N. J., 12. The murderer of Pet llalsted, who was sentenced to he hung at Newark on the 21st, has been reprived by the Governor till Jan. 26th. Porlland, Me.. 12. The steamship Prus sia from Liverpool on the 30th ult., and I Londonderry the 1st in-t., arrived to-night. Shelias one case of small pox on hoard. She anchored at the quarantine. Columbia, S. C., 12. In the U. S. circuit court to-day, II. 11. Mitchell of York, was arraigned under the Ku Klux law on a charge ot conspiracy. The jury consists of two white? and ten blacks. FINANCIAL COMMERCIAL New York Money Market. New York. December 12. Cold closed at 101)*,' United Stares Sixes (coupons;, lssi, n7;, 3 2) 0-20* 1062, llOt J ism lion9 isos, in* a 1S05, Jan. July, 11.1 *a lsti7, 11.V, a .IMIS 110*8 I* lu-to’a.icoupons)’ 10P), a I'acitl i txes, luj* 5 western 5 S5ft7 25, southern OOgb 25. W HEAT bl00 bu; No. 2 spring 152£ 154 new »'o 2 do {winter red ami amber western 1.58 ©bio. CORN— 58000 new mixed western 77*9B78 00 OATS—sales ttioiO western 60 ©57 PORK— new inejs, ©KLfiu. oi l, 13.75 JO.Ou. prime, LARD bs, a'.tX steam; g {kettle, 10S RUTTER— H e.st’n. 12gl3; stute, 3I©34. WHJSKEY Western free, 1.05, RICE—Carolina, 8.V£9 SUGAR— Porto Rico, Muscovado. SS'g54 STATE NEWS. The Musical Convention held in Saco last week was a grand success. The members of the Convention bear testimony to the skill of Prof. Emerson, and to the great value of his instructions to choir singers. The temperance people of Koeklan 1 are taking active measures to sustain and urge on the municipal authorities in their efforts to suppress the liquor traffic in that city. The Camden Herald gays that there is some talk of union of interests to build a solid wharf at Kockland, with granite walls, front Crocket Point. Such a wharf would accommodate most of the steamers coming fo Kuekland. as well as sailing vessels, and be a great public convenience. At the last meeting of the Portland city council, the declaratory resolution favoring exemption from the municipal taxation for ten years of all approved manufacturing en terprises hereafter established, were passed by a yea and nay vote, 14 to 4. Hay is very scarce in Oxford county, and can hardly be obtained at twenty-five dollars per ton. Potatoes are plenty at .05 cents; beans scarce at §0 to §3.57 per bushel; wood 'plenty at §4 per cord. A correspondent of the Whig says that the Celebrated Deles. I.ebruke has been arrested in Dexter for stealing S14j from Francis Ames of Glenburg, last March Since that time he has again been arraigned fur resist ing and threatening officer Shepherd with a loaded pistol, waived an examination, and tor want of bail was committed on both charges. Ibis is the same Lebruke who was ace-quitted at Dovor a few days since, from all charges, especially for putting to flight all the officers in l’iscataquis county, in their at tempts to arrest him. The following are the recent business changes in Maine: Augusta—Clapp North, booksellers; senior members of the firm sold out to his partner, Horace North. Bangor—Marge-son I'pton, boots, -hoes &c.; new* firm—Alex. Morgcssou and Geo. A. Upton. Athens—A. C. Wade, Gen. Store; sold out to Calvin Jones. lloulton—Smith Kenney, Hardware; sold out to John Watson. Abner Weiks, Gen. Store: sold out to Traflun and Clough. Richmond.—A. 11. Walker Co., Mirs. Boots and Shoes; dissolved. Portland.—Sawyer .si. Woodford; agricul tural implements &c.; dissolved; now W. C. Sawyer. The annual meeting of the Winterpnrt Railroad Company w ill he iiohh n at the Ban gor House on Monduy, January 1st, 1n72. John M. l’irry has been appointed post master at West Auburn, in place of 11. M. Parehard, resigned. Portland items from the Press: Sunday morning officer Corliss and Stover found a woman wandering about on Congress street evidently laboring under aberration of mind. They took her to the station, and she gave In r name as Thrasher. She resides in Cape Elizabeth and w as taken home by her friends. It seems she got up and dressed herself some time in the night ami wandered into the city. Saturday night Mr. J. \Y. Munger's carriage got entangled in one of the horse ear tracks at the corner ot Spring and Emery streets and upstt. throw ing out Mr. Munger into the gutter, lie was taken up and though some what stunned w as not seriously injured. Sun day morning a f seaman on hoard the brig Agnes Raymond, hound for Boston, fell from aloft while the vessel was oil' this port and broke bis jaw in two places and one of bis arms. The brig put in hero and the man was taken to the hospital. Fernando Pratt, of Dover got his arm caught by a belt in Brown's woolen mill, Fri day forenoon, badly crushing the bones of the forearm. Mr. Pratt had been in poor health for some time, aud has just com mented work again when the accident oc curred. SjJ(«un. S. P. Strickland of llangor, gives no 1 tiee ot a petition to the Legislature to have i the sealing of logs regulated by law. Kennebeeers who are earnestly praying for sleighing, will he gratified, perhaps, tw know, i that it is very excellent sleighing in Franklin county. Washington Matters. Tho Boston Jo.nal eorrespondenco on Presidential speculating says Thus far General Grant is decidedly fore most among the Republicans named, but the debate of to-day in the Senate shows that his Administration is to be attacked, and it is well understood that there will soon be a demonstration in Congress in favor ot a single term. It will, however, be a very difficult matter to overturn the strong public senti ment in favor of the rc-nomination of the Conqueror of the Rebellion, who lias so well and so wisely administered public atl'airs dur ing the past three years. The bill introduced by Mr. Lynch Monday authorizing the commissioner ot internal rev enue to remit and p .y back all taxes on the sales ol vessels under the act ol October 3, 1808, goes at once to the ways and means committee, where it is sure of an early con sideration and probably of a favorable report. The tax has never been collected, having been suspended on the protest of some ot the assessed parties, but within a month or two Commissioner Douglass has ordered its col lection. The commissioner, however, favors the repeal of the law, and it is quite likely that a provision repealing the income tax and the tax on several smaller manufactures will accompany the hill when it returns to the House. The correspondent of the Advertiser says The incident of the day in the Senate was Judge Trumbull's speech in favor of his reso lution reviving the joint retrenchment com mittee and demanding that the Senate should substitute it lor Mr Conkling’s resolution, referring the investigation of the Hodge de falcation to the military committee. The speech was the most vigorous and plainly put ot tite session, and had evident (.fleet on the Senators. Mr. Trumbull will renew the sub ject to-morrow, and hopes to carry the reso lution, and also to convince several of his suspicious associates that he means no attack on the administration, and is not executing by the flank a movement which lie would not dare to make in front. It is an honest, searching measure for civil service reform, and efficiency and a higher and purer stand ard in all branches of the government ser vice. Should the resolution he defeated, however, no unpleasant question as to the place of Senator Scliurz oil the committee could arise. The Internationalists. The members of the International Society arrested yesterday for attempting to para e were arraigned in.tile police court this morn ing and discharged, ih'roni an early hour in the morning a large number of members ot tlie International Society, distiuquisliahle by tiieir foreign appearance, frequency of ges ture and excited speech, to say nothing of the small ribbons which all wore in their button holes, assembled outside tlie court, and there waited tlie arrival of ihcir imprisoned breth ren. They were all very indignant, and talked loudly with many expletives regarding tlie conduct of tlie police which they con tended was unjustifiable in point ot law and ail outrage on tiieir rights and privileges as citizens. Suddenly their excitement grew more intense, fur coming down Clinton place they could see the five Internationalist pris oners under the charge of officers on their way to the court roout. After the policemen had made their charge of disorderly conduct on Sunday, Judge Sliandley said: ‘T con sider, men, that if you have been guilty of any offense whatever, your having been locked up in a station-house last night is ample punishment. You are discharged. You can home.” The prisoners boVed nnd tiieir friends in tlie court-room clapped tiieir hands nnd applauded vehemently. \Vh>n the prisoners reached the sidewalk they were surrounded by the crowd of triends who had been in waging there and clieertd vehement ly. Congratulations poured in from all sides, and one enthusiastic friend invited all to a breakfast. It was accepted. Hut tile party previously went to police head-quart ers and obtained an order for the captured banner which they then obtained at the sta tion-house. The released internationalists then had tiieir breakfast. At a meeting to-night at Xo. 100 Prince street, about eight hundred delegates from tlie international and cosmopolitan societies were present. Inflammatory speeches were made denouncing the action of the city au thorities, and it was unanimously decided to parade on next Sunday at any cost. Tlie ex citement was intense, ami a member who proposes a vote o"f thanks to the judge who had released the prisoner, was roughly handled. The indignation of the crowd was indiscriminate, and extended to all adminis trators of law and conservators of the public order.—Iloston Advertiser. MAYk IIY MAIL.. There have been twenty new eases siml three deaths by small-pox in New York since Sunday. A despatch from Bombay states that the cholera is raging with great fut ility among the natives of l.ueknow and vicinity. It is reported that the leading reformers o' New York have a full understanding with Mayor Hall as to his future official action. The owners of the Nova Scotia coal mines are pleased at Buutwell's proposal to reduce the duty to fifty cents a ton. and hope Cong ress w ill go turthcr by removing all duty. The strike of telegraph operators in Eng land continues, and there is great embarrass melit. The public wires are crowded with messages. Serious delays are expected in l>oth public and private service. The constant round of receptions, presen tations, halls, banquets, and musical festivals of the past w eek, ill which the Grand Duke has been the central figure, has rather worn upon the naturally robust constitution of the imperial visitor, who was slightly indisposed Monday. lteturns to the Bureau of Statistics from Eastport, Me., for the quarter ending Sept. Both, 1*71. showed the arrival at that port ol 11021 immigrants from British Provinces. Of these 2534 were adult males, 233 of whom are reported as ship carpenters, and the re mainder as fanners and farm laborers. '1 he Register of the Treasury on Monday furnished to tho owners of the schooner Otter Rock, of Castine, Me,, a copy of the enrollment under which the vessel was sail ing at the time of her capture hy the rebel steamer Tallahassee ou Oct. 8, 1884. The enrollment is to he used us evidence before the Geneva Commission. Mayor Gaston was re-elected in Boston, Monday, by a plurality of 3till 1 votes. Col. John Meserve, for many years a resi dent of South Berwiek, Ale., hut lately of Rochester, N. 11., where lie lived with his son, Samuel Meserve, Esq., the well known Mason, fell dead of heart disease Thursday last, lie left home ir. usual health in the morning, went into the house of a married daughter at Great Falls, said, “Well 1 have come to see you but must go right back,” fell forward into her arms and instantly expired, lie w as 80 years old, and a pensioner of the war of 181”. A sensation was created in Berlin by the Czar’s speech at Georgenfest, which is re garded as an end to French hopes and a guar antee of peace in Europe. I John l’ettit and Izzy I.azarus, convicted of illegal registration in New York, have been sentenced respectively to two and a halt and one year in the State prison The second trial of the case of the widow of Deputy-Sheriff Madden of Brooklyn, tor the recovery of damages for his death on the steamer Westfield has begun. A d iring highway robbery and attempt at murder recently occurred near Rochester, a youDg man named Gridin who was returning home with the proceeds ot two loads of hay 1 being assailed and plundered by two men whom he permitted to ride upon his team. He received several terrble scalp wonndi from a hammer, hut la not fatally injured. The robbers have been identified as William Heavey and John Moran, and have been held for trial. A letter in the New York Evening Post, from Messrs. Evans and Cushing deny that they have ever givtn an expression to a cor respondent of that paper of dissatisfaction with Bancroft Davis's course on the Oeneva conference. It is rumored that Joseph Fowler, who died at Mannahassett, L. I., in August, was poisoned hy his wife, who deserted him for younger brother. His body was exhumed and ilie stomach is in the hands of Prof. Doremus for analysis. It appears that Samuel Wallace, who was arrested in New York as a swindler, was a colonel in Sherman’s army, and is held in charge of altering a forged check. Rutland finds that through the lease of tha Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad by the Delaware and Hudson canal, it is to become tile great coal centre station of western Ver mont. Coal is now brought direct from the mines in Pennsylvania without breaking bulk. A pedler of dry-goods, while at West Ran dolph, Vt., on Saturday, had $1000 worth of goods stblen from his cart. 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