4/131,5 tia March 31—April 6.: The U. S. Senate passed the Supplementary Cur rency Bill; a Bill regulating applications for the removal of political disabilities; the Indian Appro priation Bill with an amendment providing for Commissioners of intelligence and philanthropy appointed by the President, who shall superintend the disbursements; the Tenure of Office bill as amended in joint conference, authorizing the Pres ident to remove officials during the recess of the Senate, but providing that thse shall return to office at the close of the next session if the Senate refuse to confirm their successors ; and a Joint Re solution to adjourn April 10. The. House passed Judge Kelley's nickel coinage bill ; the Joint. Resolution to adjourn April 10; the supplemental Tax bill ; the Tenure of Office Bill, as amended in Joint Conference ; the Bill continu ing war rates of pay in the army for a year ; and the Miscellaneous Deficiency Bill, appropriating $2,563.051. The Mississippi Provisional Govern ment Bill was postponed till next session. The Public Lands Committee were directed to inquire into the expediency of relaxing some provisions of the Homestead Law in favor of soldiers. The Ways and Means Committee were ordered to investigate the workings of the Tariff Laws ; and the expedien cy of levying direct taxes in the lately rebel States. The Reconstruction Committee'report Gen. Butler's Bill to reconstruct the Georgia Legislature, and in favor of postponing action as regards Texas and Virginia. The Sub-Committee on the Treasury Printing Bureau report evidence of • culpable laxity and want of regularity. The Secretary of State re ports that nearly 300 vessels, valued at over $13,- 000,000 were destroyed by rebel cruisers during the war. Pres. Grant is quite recovered. He continues to send nominations to the Senate, of whom, among others, Gen. Longstreet for the Surveyor of the Yort of New Orleans, has been confirmed. He has signed the Tenure•of-Office Bill. The Departments are inaugurating the regime of economy. Secretary .Rawlins gave the employees of the Washington Arsenal their choice between ten hours per day at present rates and eight hours at 'a reduction of twenty per cent. and they chose the former. Secretary Borie orders the Portsmouth, N H,, Navy Yard to reduce the wages 20 per cent. Commissioner Delano orders the strict enforcement of legal penalties for violation of the Internal Reve nue laws. Secretary Boutwell has ordered the dis missal oral] special Secretary Agents. The fraud ulent issue, by the last Administration, of bonds for parts of Pacific R. R. not yet completed, is under investigation. The expenses of the Government in March were $18;490,000. The Public Debt, less cash in the Treasury, April Ist, was $2,525,196,461.74, a decrease of $2,573,039.- 28 during the month; or of $5,507,359, were it not for the issue in bonds to Pacific R. Roads of $2,915,- 320. TheSe bonds now aggregate $56,852,320. The Army.—The Department of the Cumberland is continued, with Gen. Cook to supersede Gen. Thomas. Gen. Hatch has been relieved from Freed man's Bureau duty and ordered to rejoin his regi ment. Gen. Stoneman has been relieved of the command of the First District, and ordered to Cal ifornia. In the Middle States Moses H. Grinnell, the new Collector of the Port of New York, has sold out his interest in thirty merchant vessels. He has 11,000 applications for places. The Erie and Niagara R. R. propose a new bridge or tunnel to cross the Ni agara River at Fort Erie. The R. Roads of N. Y. State cost $208,185,783. and carried last year 18,- 434,300 passengers and 11,961,692 tone earning $49,- 377,790, Of the passengers 302 were killed and 293 wounded. 'The Canal contract system is to be abol• ished. The Imperialist, of New York, is started to advocate an American monarchy. Freshets on the Hudson and the Genesee have opened those rivers to navigation. A Fourierite community at Broc ton, on the Erie shore near Buffalo, with T. L. Har ris at its head, embraces an ex-member of Parlia ment (Laurence Oliphant) and an ex-Sec. of U. S. Legation (T. L. Harris) among its members. The New Jersey Legislature has adjourned. It voted to tax the income of bankers, brokers, _dm., and one branch passed a Bill to submit the XVth kmend ment to the vote of the people. The deaths were half and the marriages one third as numerous as the births in the State last year. The R. Roads killed 103 and injured 55 persons last year, and earned $6,911,568. In New England the Republicans have elected Marshall Jewell Governor of Connecticut, and two of the four Meniters of Congress, but their majority in the Legislature is reduced. In Penn, sylvania the Legislature has passed the Cattle Market Monopoly Bill, bettered a little. The House votes to tax banks and brokers one per cent. on capital stock and profits. The dedication of the Soldiers' Monument at Harrisburg is postponed through the non-arriv . al of the statue of Victory from Italy. The Broadhead murderers of Water Gap have broken jail and escaped. One has been recap tured. In the City a New England resident, in a fit of insanity, killed his wife and children. Twitchell confesses to a knowledge that his wife killed her mother. The Beneficial Savings Fund at Xllth and Chesnut streets was robbed of about a million on Sunday. Twitchell having sued for a writ of error in the U. S. Supreme Court on the ground that one of the provisions of our State Constitution applied in his case, was in contravention of that of the U. S., the writ was refused. In the South Gov. Wells, of Va., is acquitted of stealing a letter and restored to office by Gen. Stone man's successor. Of 4,461 offices in the State, 2,907 are legally vacant. The Governor of Louisi ana and two other officials have been indicted by the Grand Jury and held to'answer for ejecting the State Auditor from office. In the Interior, Wisconsin and Minnesota have bad a heavy-fall of snow. lowa is out of debt and has a million in the Treasury. Ex-Pres. Johnson has been making a speech at Knoxville ; in which he informed his audience, black and white, that they were "slaves to Artistic Institution * , • FOR YOUNG MEN 'AND BOYS At' Pottstown, Montgomery county Pa. . Pupils received at any time: For Circulamaddress, MILLER, A. M REV. GEO. F. M . . • References; , • REV. DRS.—Meigs, Schaeffer, Mann; Krauth,' Seim, :'Muldenberg. Butter, Stork, Conrad, Empberger,lff.ylis, Sterret and Murphy, HONS.—Judge Lddlew, Leonanl - Myers;H. Rusiell Thayer, Benj. • M,BOyer, and Jabot) 8. YOM. I • ti ESQRS —James It:Caldwell, Jatues'L.. Claghorn, J. F. & E. B. Ores, James Hamilton, Theo. G.ffoggs, C. F. Norton, L. L. 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