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For the information of advertisers and others who may be interested In know ing, we will state that the present circu lation of The Times is eighteen hundred and five (1805) copies. Hon. J. F. Temple, Auditor Gener al, will please accept our thanks for a copy of ids annual report. ' Many of our subscribers in renewing their subscriptions, send us their con gratulations, on the success of The Times, accompanied with remarks ex pressing their gratification with its weefily visits. We return our thanks for these kind wishes and complimen tary remarks. Washington, January 11. The at torney general said this afternoon that no decision had yet been reached regard ing the settlement of the question which legislature now in session at f!ew Or leans the government will recognize. It is not mentioned when a report from the attorney general will be made to the President on this subject. Additional official advices from New Orleans are being awaited. Senator Chkistiancy was very un fortunate on his last trip to Washington. He was robbed while on a sleeping car, somewhere west of Baltimore, of $300 in money, valuable papers and his bag gage check. The thieves on presenting the latter were given his trunk at Balti more,, and the result was that he arrived in Washington penniless and wardrobe less except the suit of clothes which he wore. He at once replenished his ex chequer Viy drawing his mileage and a month's pay, amounting in all to about $000, and proceeded to his lodgings. That night he was again robbed, the thieves carrying awuy his trowsers, in which was the $000 he had drawn a few hours before. B- - Attempted Escape of Convicted Mollies. A dispatch from Pottsvillo says it turns out that the attempted escape, a few days ago, of the imprisoned Molly Maguire prisoner, John Gibbons, by skilfully removing the masonry and flooring of his cell, was only a part of a carefully-organized programme for ft general outbreak of the Molly Maguire prisoners. It was discovered this morn ing that five convicts were in the plot, their communications having been se cretly sustained by writing on the mar- gins of newspapers which their friends were allowed to furnish them with, and which they exchanged with each other. James Boyle and Hugh McQehan, both desperate characters, under sentence of death, for murdering roliceman Yost at Tamaqua, had made extensive prepara tions for escape, the former having al ready removed the flooring undpr his bed. Michael Doolan, another of the gang, had a tunnel partly constructed, and John Morris had removed part of the floor in his quarters. They were to have made the desperate attempt simul taneously on Sunday night a week, but owing to the timely discovery of Gib bons their plans were frustrated. Boyle and Gibbons, the leaders, have been heavily shackled. A Remarkable Case ' Charles Hueston, of Monroevillc, Al Ien county, Ind., ill with congestion of the lungs, became unconscious and the attending physician pronounced him dead. His relatives at Forrest, Ohio, were telegraped for and a favorite sister was prostrated with grief. She could hardly be induced to leave the body. The barber was shaving the corpse when the razor flipped a trifle and a jet of deep colored blood burst forth. Tins suggested trie met tuat life was not yet extinct, but as there was no fur ther indications nothing was said to the relatives. The friends, however, took tbe precaution to leave the lid of the eof. ftn unscrewed. On the train to Forrest, Ohio, the sister refused to ride In the passenger car, remaining by the beloved brother's body in the express car. An hotir before the train arrived at Forrest, the sister gave a loud shriek and fell In a swoon. The men in the express ear went to her relief and discovered that the sup posed corpse of Charles Hueston was living, moving and breathing. The head was thrust above the cofiln, and the face with its deathly pallor, present ed a weird and ghastly spectacle. The young man was evidently amazed at bis surroundings, and the first returning gleams of consciousness found him in a position of bewilderment. Hewas taken from his cofiln, restoratives applied un der the direction of physicians who were on the train, and when he reached Forrest was removed to his father's res dence. On yesterday, says the Fort Wayne New, he was alive, and although very ill he was improving somewhat and hope was entertained that he would complete ly recover. The suddest feature In the ease is yet to tell. The young lady has not had one moment of consciousness since the wild shriek which she gave In the car at the dreadful spectacle which met her eyes. It is feared that her rea son is permanently dethroned by the shock. Another Disaster. Boston, January 8. At half past one o'clock on Sunday morning,thirty miles off Cape May, the steamer Seminole col lided with the Montgomery, sinking the latter in six minutes. Four passen gers, all that were on board and nine of the crew went down with the ill-fated craft, and nineteen of the crew were saved by the Seminole and landed in this city this evening. The night wos dark and foggy. Neither steamer was seen by the other until the moment the crash came. The Montgomery was cn route from New York to Havana, and the Seminole was making her regular trip from Savannah to Boston. The lost steamer was struck squarely amid ships, and as she sunk almost Instantly it is probable that she was broken near ly, if not quite broken in twain. The knocking oflT her head gearing was the only damage sustained by the Seminole, and she proceeded ut once on her Jour ney, after rescuing such as she could of the crow of the Montgomery. Vanderbilt's Will. New Youk, January 8. At noon to day the will of the late Cornelius Van dcrbilt was read in the presence of the fumily. Wm. II. Vandcrbilt, Augustus Scliell and counsel proceeded to the surrogate's ofllce and filed the will. The commodore leaves all his property to his son Wm. H. Vanderbllt, who is to pay the following bequests: $500,000 to each of his daughters; to Cornelius Vanderbllt, his son, the interest on $200,000 ; to hiB wife $250,000, in addition to the $500,000 settled on her at mar riage, together with his mansion, furni ture, plate, horses, etc. In addition ho leaves $1,000,000 to be divided among a list of names including $50,000 to Ja cob H. Vanderbilt, his brother ; $20,000 to $50,000 in Harlem and Central rail road shares to each of his grandsons. $20,000 to Rev.. Charles F. Deems; The executors are Wm. II. Vander bllt, Cornelius J. Vanderbilt' and Sam. Barton, who are to serve without pay. End of the Contest Over the Lick Estate. San Francisco, January 0. The contest between the trustees of the Lick estate and the heirs is finally amicably arranged. John II. a natural son of James Lick, receives $533,000, from which he pays $72,000 to other heirs, in various amounts. This leaves the trustees in a position to carry out the conditions of the trust deed, and gives clear title to all real estate included In the trust, which, on the testimony of experts, has increased in market value 50 per cent, by clearing away the clouds on the title caused by the recent contest. The value of the property involved is estimated at $3,300,0CO. Attacked by a Horse. On Wednesday morning lust as Alfred Parks,, son of Mr. Ellas Parks, living near May's chapel, Chestnut ltldge, was in the act of hitching a vicious horse to a carriage, the animal caught him by the right arm near the wrist, chewing and lacerating it terribly, liesldes brettking the bones in two places. Mr. Parks went to rescue his son when the horse also attacked him, biting one of his hands quite badly. Dr. Joseph Gallo way rendered necessary medical attend ance In both cases. liultlmorc Union. A Highwayman in Skirts. John Crouder, a farmer living near Fort Wayne, Ind., disposed of a loud of pork and started home with $110. Just outside of the city a woman asked permission to ride. A little further on two men stopped the team, and with the assistance of tbe supposed woman, who proved to be a in tin, ansntled the farmer, robbed him. of all his hioney, and made their C4oa)ie. Charleston, B. C, January 8. Nicholas Hhlsken, the Husslan minister and Bear Admiral A. Crown, of the Russian Imperial navy, arrived here by rail this morning from Washington, D. C. The minister brought a letter of In troduction from nonrotary Fish to a prominent lawyer Ifocre, In which it was stated that he had to come to Charles ton for the purpose of meeting the Grand Duke Alexis, Grand Duke Con stantino and Hear Admiral Bantakoff, who were expected to arrive at this port shortly In the frigate Hvetlana, of which the Grand puke is captain. A Sister Worth Having. Washington, January 14. Home time ago John Henderson and others were convicted in New Orleans for com mitting whiskey frauds and sentenced to a term in the West Virginia peniten tiary. To-day his sister left Washington for that place, carrying with her his par don by the President. A Fall In Price. A store which formerly rented for $17,000 a year In Boston's centre of business, hus recently been let for $5000. The Hubbites could not stand the pres sure and the landlords have " knuckled down." 0"Clms. E. Brunner, wife and two children, of Bethlehem, Pa., were burn ed to ashes in the Ashtabula catastrophe. The check to their baggngo was melted utmost beyond recognition, which shows the Intensity of the heat of the burning wreck. - -Ta OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, D. C, JaD. lltb, 1877. Congressional matters drag themselves along at such a snail-like pace that for bearance ceases to be a virtue, and a gen eral impatience is manifest among citizens of this vicinity. Very little, indeed has been accomplished since tbn beginning of the holidays, there having been no quo rum since that timo, in eitlie.' bouse, uutil within four or live days. Neither of those muoh vexed questions of the counting of the Electoral vote and telegraph affairs are yet disposed of, nor do they seem auy nearer a settlement than thoy did two or three weeks ago. Barnes and Turner, tel egraph operators in New Orleans and Oregou have both been arraigned beforo the bars of House and Senate ; much dis cussion has taken place concerning tele graph dispatches in general their privacy and publicity and the power of Congress over them, and the mrcst of Orton, man ager of the New Orleans telegraph and President of the Western Union Company, lias been ordered ; but none of these ques tions dually disposed of. Both portions of the committee, on de vising gome satisfactory method of oount iog the Electoral vote, have bad several meetings, but no joint session. Until late ly, confidence has been felt that the delay or tbe settlement or this matter was a favorable omen to ultimate harmony, but a recent rumor says that the committee do not mean to accomplish any thing, that they have agreed to disagree. In fact, tbe idea of a new election is fast gaining ground among thinking people and it is possible that Congress has the same thing in mind, and considers tunc anything ac complished this session would have to be undone and would only bo so much labor lost. The Presidential difficulty is still the one great subject for conversation and conject ure. Republicans talk of "President Hayes that-is-to-be," and Democrats insist that Tilden is President-elect. A grand Democratic demonstration was held at Ford's Opera House, in this city, on Wed nesday iu which spoeches were mado,letters read and resolutions offered all to the same effect that Tilden and Hendricks were elected and should be inaugurated on tbe 4th ot Jilaixli, peacolully, 11 possible forcible if necessary. An independent daily paper or tbis city gives tbe Presi dent's views upon the subject as follows "Tbe President has given close attention to constitutional and statuatory provisions respecting tbe political status of tbe Dis trict of Columbia and tbe duties of the executive in the protection of Government property here, iu the events ot pending dimoultles surrounding tbe political situa tion resulting in a revolutionary attempt ata dual inauguration. In advising him self of bis duties bo has had no consulta tions with Vice President Ferry, nor with the Senate committee now endeavoring to determine on a plan tor counting the elect oral vote. The President has made up bis mind as to his duty simply to meet auy contingency, uud will sot upon it up to the last momcut of bis responsibility as Chief Magistrate. He says that whoever is do clared to be bis constitutional successor, to him will he surrender the-reins or govern ment. lie very much deprecates the po lilies) demonstrations which are being held in different parts of tbe country, as only tending to unnecessarily inflamo the al ready agitated public mind, and thinks that it is not the part of patriotism at tbis juncture to countenance any such proceed' ings, but that wiser counsels should pre vail ; that if is unwise to foster appreben skins by attempting to create publio senti ment iu the interest of either party. He says that the only place for inauguration is iu the city of Was biugton, so that a sepa rate inauguration in any other city would have no effect. The District of Columbia is by law tbe seat of government, which cannot be changed except by the concurrent action ot the two bouses or Congress. Therefore, with tbe laws standing as they do, an in auguration in any otber place would be null and void, and any attempt to exercise authority under it could not be recognized and any such recognition by any oliicer of the government would be treason, lie says that bis authority, in accordance with law, is as supreme in tbe District of Columbia as if It were a garrisoned fortress and any demonstrations or war like oonoentration of many threatening tha peaoe of the city or endangering the security of publio property or the treasure of the govern ment could be summarily dealt with by a declaration of martial law. Tbe Presi dent says that be yet feels assured that the will of the people will control, and has confidence in wiser counsels prevailing man inoso wuicn prompt threats and In- iimmation." Three weeks of such weather as we have ust been having is almost unprecedented n tbe history of Washington. Coastlnc. skating and sloigh-rlding have been car ried on to an extent that shows a keen ap preciation ana enjoyment ot such an un usual quantity of snow. Saturday after noon a sleighing carnival was bold on Pennsylvania Avenue, more than a hun dred sleigh-loads of maskers participating nun several prizes were ucstowed. Al. M. W. Miscolliuieons News Items. BUT1 A child sat down on a hot stove hearth In Pittsburgh, and wsa permanently branded with tbe words "Base Burner." tW Bnow-ballimr in Hhamokin. the other day resulted in Oscar MoCord, a young man, striking Joseph liurkbardy, a Po- lander, with a sprag and killing him. tW At Lancaster. Pa., at midnight of the 0th inst., Hunter & Brother's tea store and H. II. Haslett's hat store on East King street, were burned. Loss about f 12,000. t2TBy a fire at Bwanton, Franklin county, Vt., recently, in a building wherein were located the Custom-house and Post- office, the Custom-house books and tbe contents of tbe Post-office were destroyed. t3T Rev. Mr. Kramer. Rector of Calvarv Episcopal Church, Louisville, has refused to allow Masons to participate in tbe fu neral of a member of their order held in his church. t& The two sons-in-law of ex-Treasurer Ppinnor who have a bank in Jacksonville, Fla., a town principally built up by north ern capital, have been socially ostracised because they voted for Hayes and Wheeler. tW A Winnipeg. Manitoba, dispatch dated Thursday, states that the small-pox there is moving steadily southward. There is not a single uninfected bouse in Gimli. It has also broken out in Big Island, where me Icelanders live. tSm A riflRftnnirnr train nn flm T.nv1nrrt,n and Big Bandy Railroad ran off the track nearHtar Station, Ky., on Wednesday, cutting engineer Jobn Mains' legs off and injuring four passengers, the latter not seriously. txrj l Nfr. Wm. Kiiii1tr1. n. nrnminnnf. arwl wealthy citizen of Epbrata, Lancaster i i r . i j l i ' uuuuiy, ugeu ou years, uioppea ueuu in U1B sleigh while riding out with a lady friend on Kundav a week. Ha is sunnnsed to have died of heart disease. EST" Five prisoners made their escane from tbe Qreensburg jail on Saturday night uy removing a portion ot the stone wall. tearing up their bed clothes, eto. Two prisoners, who remained in jail, refused tbe option oi escape which was ouered them. OTA safe in tbe post-office at Port Jer- vis, JN. i ., was blown open by burglars on Monday night and robbed of about 150 in cash. A package containing $800 worth of stamps was over-looked, but about a dozen registered letters were carried away. tW Considerable excitement prevailed in 1'ottsville oue day last week, over an uu successful attempt to escape of Jobn Gib bous, a Mollie Maguire prisoner. When discovered the prisoner bad cut through tbe tloor ol hiB cell, and had removed tweu ty inches of stone and cement, au old scis sors and a razor being bis only tools. tW Miles Ogle and W. R. Johnson, alias Wilson, counterfeiters, were arrested on a train of the Pan-Handle road on tbe 0th inst., by United States special detectives. and brought to Pittsburg. A large number or plates, considerable spurious money cur rency and seven thousand dollars in coun terfeit notes were found on their persons, They were committed for trial. tT Highwaymen have been audacious ot late near bt. j,ouis, and two policemen, heavily armed and dressed like farmers, were sent out to make a capture. They were assailed by robbers, as they bad boped to be ; but otherwise their mission was a failure, for instead of capturing tbe gang, tbey were themselves stripped of every thing that they bad worth taking. A Rondout, N. Y., dispatch says about fifty men marched along the Hudson river Wednesday, compelling men at work at the ice-bouses to stop. Ibe companies at Rondout have been paying $1,25 and $1,60 per day, and have more applicants for work than tbey can employ. Tbe in timidated men are flocking home from tbe ioe-houses. tW Rahwat, N. J., Jan. 6. Last even ing Dr. Westlake administered ether to Walter Lewis, aged 12, in order to extract a tooth, and lilteen minutes afterwards tbe boy was dead. It is believed that death resulted from an irregulation of tbe heart, as the ether administered was not enough to render him entirely unconscious. Dr, AVestlake is prominent in bis profession in Kabway. lie has not been arrested. Richmond, Va., January 11. A passeu. ger car on tbe Chesapeake and Ohio rail road tbis morning jumped tbe track near Green Brier river, W. Va., and plunged down a forty-five foot embankment to the frozen surface of tho river. Tbe ice was firm and the car did not go through. Seven per sons were hurt but none fatally. Mrs. Hall, of White Sulphnr springs, had a leg broken. fgf A few days ago, while Charles Spenoe, of Hteubenville, O., was eating bis dinner, a piece of meat lodged in his throat. Not succeeding in coughing it np or swallowing it, be took tbe ramrod of his gun, affixed the screw and attempted to withdraw the meat, but instead got bold of bis windpipe and tore on a portion of it. He bas since died from bis injury. tW A block signal station on the Penn sylvania railroad was destroyed by fire tbe otber day, the floor of tbe building having been ignited by a bot coal which fell from a stove. Tbe lady operator in charge of tha station did not discover the fire until egress bv the stair esse was cut off. Hhe accord ingly dropped berself from the slghal box1 platform. distsnoe of sixteen foe t, and es- oaped without injury. OT Mrs. M'Donald. a resident of Wil- klnsburg, on Thursday last gave birth W quadruplets. The father is a coal miner and the mother about twenty-four years of agei One of the children lived only fifteen min ntes, two died three bouts after birth, and tbe last lived until early Saturday morning, wlien it died also, All four were perfectly formed and almost as large) It is said, as ordinary lntants at uirtu. New TIaven. Cond.. Januarv 1-Wm. II. Jones, a young married man, Joiner by trade, and living at No. 23 Frank street in tins city, placed blttiseir in front or the locomotive of a swift moving train on the New York road as it was crossing a spilt) bridge near the city on Saturday night, and was instant ly Killed, tbe body being horri bly mangled. Jones was insane at tha time and bad been In the asylum several times. tfPA mail train from Boston.on tbe Rut land Railroad, was thrown from the track near East Willingford, Vt., Tuesday after noon oy a Dronen ran, The engine and baggage-car remained on tbe track, but tha passenger and mail cars went over an em bankment twenty feet in height, the for mer turning bottom-side np. There wer thirty passengers aboard the train, several of whom were severely, but none fatally injureo. tU" The points in a Saratoga countv love story are that Frank was disoarded by Lisa in obedience to tbe dying iniunction of her mother ; that tbey parted at tha gate or the cemetery ; that she gradually, pined until at tho point of death : that she sent for Frank, but be was on his death bed with fever ; and that they died on tha same day, and their bodies were simul taneously carried through the cemetery gate wuere luey nao parted. tWA. notable result of tbe recent judica ture acts in England is shown in tbe recognition of Arable numerals in affidavits taken in tbe courts of common law. Until lately figures were not allowed in such documents ; but In November last a Judge, reading an affidavit in which the year was written out at length, exclaimed, "Why do- you not write figures ? You can do so now. They are so much easier to read." And the precedent was established. Numerals are not yet allowed In deeds, on account of tbe ease with which it is supposed that tbey can be lalsilied. THE PRODIGAL. Inheritors of vast wealth are proverbially. spendthrifts. Tbe golden ore is dug from the mine, refined, and coined, by the labor of otber bauds and the sweat of otber brows. Like children playing with an ex pensive toy, they can form no just estimate of its value. When the donor weighed it, be cast into tbe balance so many days oC unremitting and fatiguing toil, so many anxious and sleeploss nights, so much self denial, and so much care. But the heritor into his balance throws only pleasure. The one, values it by what it cost bim : the other, for what it wilt purchase. Like the prodigal in tbe Scripture parable, be thoughtlessly expends it to gratify tho caprice and cravings of his nature. Then comes tbe last scene tbe misery, tbe re morse, and tbe long and wearisome journey back to the home of frugal industry. But there are other prodigals. On her favorites . our bounteous parent, Natuis, has lavish ed her richest treasure health. But the prodigal values it lightly, for it cost him naught, and recklessly squanders it in riotous living. Present pleasure obscures future want. Soon the curtain rises on the last scene. We see bim helpless, im poverished, tbe rich treasures of body and mind all lost, in misery and despair. Remorseful Conscience holds up to him the mirror of memory. In his own reckless folly be perceives the cause of bis present pain. He resolves to return. The journey is long and tedious, but if be perseveringly follows the right road, he will at length see the haven of his hopes in tbe distance, and Nature, seeing her invalid child afar off, will come out to meet bim, and receive him back with love and blessing. To find tbe right road homeward, the suffering prodigal should read "The People, s Com mon Sense Medical Adviser." 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