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IIIILA-DKLIIIIl, TUESDAY, FEBRUAEY 13, 18G0.
VOL. V.-No. 38.
DOUBLE SUEET-THUEE CENTS.
Til I 111) EDITION
MEXICO.
Interesting Letter from Presi
dent Juarez.
HE IS SANGUINE OP OUSTING
MAXIMILIAN.
Tie Moral Support of the United States
the Great Reliance of the Liberals.
Commerce at Vera Cruz Monopolized by
French -Army Traders.
Lavish Extravagance of Maximilian
and His Favorites.
Immense Accumulations of Ordnance
Stores at Mexico City and Puebla.
Inefficiency of the Foreign Mercenaries
The French Troop Aloue to
be Helled on.
LIBERAL SUCCESSES 13 TAMAULIPAS
Etc., Etc., Ktc Flo., Kte., Etc., Etc.
I Letter from President Juarez.
El Paso, December 28, 186,". My Dear Sir:
I have received your lavor of tlio 12th ot Octo
ber, in which jou acknowledge receipt of mine
sit 1-7.1. ri Annrtiot V.in TL'lll oif 11 riumva ,t it
is not already in your hands, the one I sent you
in November, announcing the withdrawal of the
French from Chihuahua ftcd other points on
this frontier, and ray departure for the capital
; of this State, where I arrived on the 20th of that
month. A lew days afterwards, however, and
"without our being able up to the present time to
learn the object of so many marches and coun
termarches, the enemy again commenced a new
expedition to reoccupy Chihuahua, which took
place on the 11th. On the 0th I left there, and
on the 18th arrived here without incident.
By thefe movements the enemy has in no way
improved bis situation; he is only consuming
nts last resources and demoralizing his iorces.
With the attitude that the (J07ernment of the
United States hits lately assumed, Maximilian
has now not the slightest probability of cement-
i. ii .i .1 H. i
ing nis bo-( aucu luroue. lie uiusi itce very
clearly that even should he arrive at the coru-
Elete conquest of the country, occupying with
is forces even the utmost limit of the republic,
and destroying the National Government,whieb,
however, will never take place, the United
States will never permit him to consolidate his
power, and his sacrifices and hi victories will
have counted for nothing.
This certain result is already the conviction of
all; it has augmented the increasing discourage
ment of our opponents, and has reanimated the
public spirit on our side to such an extent that,
in my liidcment, -without the necessity of the
United States taking any direct part in our war,
we shall ourselves alone be able to obtain the
definitive triumph of the cause of the national
independence. Such is my desire, and to such
result all my efforts are directed. Although Na
poleon, from his pride, and the habitual depre
ciation with which he has treated us, may not
be ready to propose terms, yet the time is soon
coming when he will be glad to accept those we
proposed before the war. For ourselves, we will
neither propose nor accept anything, abso
lutely nothing, which in the slightest degree
can imply any recognition of the intervention
or that may be contrary to the honor and
oignuy oi me country, nave uui a uiue pa
tience, and the t'.ma will soon come when von
can if turn to cur country, free at last from all
its oppressors. Truly your friend,
Benito Juauez.
Veka Cruz, January 20. Among the mer
chants of this place, as elsewhere, there are per
sons of different political opinions; but with the
exception of the French hoiises all are open in
their expressions against Maximilian and his
i miserably managed Government. The multi-
tude of vessels-of-war and commerce which enter
and arrive at this port, and the cars which pass
through the city, and which are constantly ar
riving and departing, make so much stir that
you might think Vera Cruz a place of real com
mercial importance. But all this is delusive.
Nearly all the effects that arrive are for the
French army, and are a drain mon the country
instead of yielding it benefit. Tbese effects pay
no duty, and the French merchants connected
with the army, under the guise of this privilege,
are doing the most scandalous contraband trade
that has ever been seen in this or any othr
country. For the discharge of vessels that do
not carry the French flag there are a thousand
difficulties placed in the way. The whaif is very
limited in its capacity, and is not over thiee
hundred iect in length by thirty in width. Of
this nearly all is monopolized by the French for
the discharge oi their effects. The ordinary
commerce has scarcely any space at all.
When there are many vessels discharging this
ridiculous mole or wharf is quite insufficient tor
ordinary purposes, so you can imagine what are
the inconveniences to the regular trade at the
present time. The same can be said with regard
to the transportation hence the interior.
Everything is monopolized by the military and
the French, and the charge by the railroad for
the twenty leagues henoo to Paso del Macho is
eo great that the merchants have petitioned for
the wagons to be allowed to come down to Vera
Cruz, as formerly; but this has been perempto
rilv refused by the military authorities.
With regard to Maximilian and the court, we
Lave constantly the most ridiculous accounts.
All seem the veriest farce. Carlotta asked of
General Bazaino the little sum of $500,000 for
her tourney to Yucatan, which she procured;
but the modest request of Maximilian for a single
million of dollars, to expend on the repairs of
some castle he has recently purchased in Eu
rope, was relused. "low thin the veil that covers
all these proceedings ! Do they think the people
do not know where the money comes lrom that
is distributed with bo lavish a hand on these
Journeys, all under the guise of the personal
charity oi these Austrians, who are fattening on
hn toil and the blood of poor Mexico? In the
Palace at the eity of Mexico therejare now no
longer any publio offices. You know the im
mense size of that edifice, yet all is wanted lor
the court and its hangers-on.
rVinKcauentlv the various ministries, with
their subordinate offices, have all had to be re
moved to other bulldincs. which have been
purchased or hired tor that purpose, many of
tbem at scandalous rates from French subjects,
"who purchased them at the sale of the church
property. Such, is tke icoiioaiy, ofJbJs "bighjj
civillzer" Government, that was to do so much
f. r "barbarous" Mexico. The annual estimate
of expenditures passed by the last Congress, in
) 802 or 186.1, was, for the entire expenses of the
National Government, a little over eight million
dollurs. The expenses of this Austrian-French
Government are over fifty million dollars per
annum. The salary of Maximilian is one million
dollars. That of ISenito Juarez thirty thousand
dollars. And yet it is urged Mexico is to be
benefited ly nil this. Is there more security
now than before? It there more legitimate
commeice, more prosperity, more tranquillity,
alter this lour years of war Bnd bloodshed?
I hve beeu reliably Informed that latterly
more than eight thousand packages of ordnance
stoics have been transported from this place to
the city of Mexico. The French have worked at
this with such activity that there are now six
great depots of such supplies In the city ot Mex
ico, without counting those at Puebla, and the
immense supplies ol such material which already
existed at Mexico and in the interior. For what
are these preparations. The United States Gov
ernment should be w ell Informed of all that goes
on here, and there cannot bo too close a watch
kept upon all preparations of this nature.
The guerillas arc again upon the railroad, and
yesterday ttie train coming in from Paso del
Macho was attacked by them, with loss of sevu
rul lives.
Tne road is principally gnarded by the Egyp
tian ueprocs. Among bo many classes of foreign
soldiers as are here treat confusion and clashing
exists. The Austrians and Belgians may be said
to amount to nothing; the ouly force that is at
all to be dreaded is the French; their troops arc
alw.iys kept well in hand and are efficient.
Tampico, January 14. Since my last the city
of Victoria, the capital of thU State, has been
reoccupied by the Liberal forces under General
Mendez, who, as wo are told by the French,
has augmented his force with two or three hun
dred negroes from Texas; whica i3, however,
quite doubtful.
Stirting events are now of frequent occur
rence in' this State, and the Liberals are moving
with much energy. The forces under Mendez
have recently captured two hundred and fifty
freight mules near Tancasnequi, with a large
quantity of merchandise.
This is another severe check upon the com
merce between this port and San Luis Potosi,
and fully exposes the impotency of the so-called
imperial power to control this country or to
secure any real or stable hold upon it. But the
end of this imperial farco is fast approachiug,
and little Maximilian will return to his grat
and good friend with his brutal decree of too 3d
ot October last as a testimonial of his discrace,
and to follow him with the memory of the assas
sinations that have taken place under it of thou
sands of detenseless Mexicans, whose only crime
was that they loved their native laLd.
Humors reached here yesterday, on the arrival
of the French steamer, to the eflect thai Senor
Hidalgo has just arrived at Vera Cruz from
Paris, with a scheme for the abdication of the
throne by Maximilian, in order to present a
mode of departure for the French. This an
nouncement, it is said, ilin conformity with an
amicable understanding that has been arrived
at between the Emperor of Frauce and Maxi
milian, as both now admit that in consequence
of the termination of the war in the United
States their projects hi Mexico have to b? aban
doned. Dupin has returned to Vera Cruz, with the
brevet of Brigadier-General, and has taken com
mand of tho coutra-guerillas in that State. It t9
impossible to know what will be the result of
his operations; but if the Liberals are now as
determined near Vera Cruz and Tabasco as they
have been elsewhere, he may, from their num
bers, meet with that retributive Justice at their
hands which bis infamous crimes and assassina
tions and tbe ravages he has committed in this
State demand. Yesterday one hundred and fifty
French troops arrived .,i;rc from Vera Cruz.
They are to be sent to Tancasnequi. Tho at
tempt to open communication with security
to the interior is, however, a failure, A". Y.
Herald.
The Reconstruction Committee and the
Virginia Legislature.
It appears that on Saturday lost, as the depu
tation of members from the Virginia Legislature
were emerging from the White Ilouse, after
their agreeable interview and exchange of rati
fication with the President on reconstruction,
they were met at the threshold by the Assistant
Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, who "presented
each with a subDoena to anncar before the
Reconstruction Committee and testify in regard
to the very many inexplicable acts of their
Assembly." it nirtner appears mat tne same
evenine all of these Virginia legislators but
Judge Marshall met the Reconstruction Com
mittee and threw considerable light upon Vir
ginia affairs; and that tbey leit next morning
tor Richmond, perhaps to return again before
the end of the week, in order to satisfy the
authorities at Washington la regard to Virginia
loyalty.
PNow, asTbaddeus Stevens is the head of the
Reconstruction Committee, we guess that this
writ of habeas corpus unon these Virginia legis
lators, as they emerged from the White House,
was ne oi "old 'Xhad.v grim lokxs. lie pro
bably said to himself "Theso Virginia recon
structors are having a good time with the man
at the otherj end of the avenue. They are
making fine promises as to what they intend to
do; but I guess they will be astonished to be
called upon to explain what they have been
doing. We will try tbem, and soul them home
each with a ilea in his ear; and we will show
the man at the other end of the avenue that we
too have a word to aav on this Question of re
construction." This proceeding, at all events,
is open to this interpretation ot a deliberate
snubbing of the President at his own door, and
ot a warning to other visiting deputations of
the same character. They muat loek sharp, or
in leaving the White House they will bo snapped
up by Stevens, who, as head ot the Reconstruc
tion Committee, ha "power to send for persons
and papers."
Apart from the circumstance of the arrest, as
we may call it, of these Virginian legislators at
the door ot the Executive mansion, the proceed
ing was well enough. The Reconstruction Com
mittee want information as to the exact condi
tion of things in tho excluded Southern States.
The members of the Legislatures of those 8tates
can give much information of this sort, reliable
and valuable, and we have no doubt tnese Vir
ginians (with the single exception named) were
glad ot the opportunity of putting in their official
testimony against that ot "reliable refugees,"
'observing tiavellers," and "intilligcnt contra
bands." At the next reception at the White
House of one of these Southern deputations
Thad. Stevens ought to be invited to attend; for
if he could hear from his own lips one of these
patriotic restoration talks of Andy Johnson it
would probably do the grim old Pennsylvania
radical a world of good. JV. Y. Herald.
Ten per cent, has been established as the
legal rate of interest in Georgia.
Plavwriters manage things funnilv la
France. Moris. Bardou contracts to write a five
act play, and puts the actors to rehearsing the
first act before be writes a line further or has
formed a bit more of tbe plot. '
Work on the noosac Tunnel, which was bus
nended last fall on account of the flow of watnr.
has been resumed again. The new shaft has
been sunk forty feet, and the central shaft two
Hundred and tatty -Ave feet.
After all the circumstantial penny-a-llnlng
as to Victor Emmanuel's grief for the death of
his morganatic spouse, the Countess of Milletiori,
the report ot her demise would appear to have
no foundation. She was seen lately in an opera
box ft one oi juaa ue i'fttu's im perjormaacca.
THE "SHENANDOAH" AGAIN.
letter from Captain Waddell IIU Plea
Of Ignorance of the Heatoratlon of the
Union Tho Terror of II Id Officer-The
Toyag-e to Knielaml.
From the Mobile Ncv.
A gentleman of this city has received! a letter
from Captain Waddell, formerly in command of
the cruiser Shenandoah, dated December 27,
Waterloo, near Liverpool, from which we are
permitted to make such extracts as may be of
interest to the general public.
The Captain appears to feci bitter disappoint
ment over the recilt of the war. Ho says that
the South has played false to her cause he has
very little respect for her ho does not believe
she was in earnest he will never again take
the field, etc. Regarding himself he says:
1 am now in exile, but lar no in ucinc a ruined
man. I won't go to sea any more it 1 can help
it. The lecliug shown toward me through the
restriction placed on my wiler is decided. It is
ust tbe leeliDg i nice, uiougn tne tyranny to
ur is humiliating to the nature of man. I
have written her to releae her bondsmen, and
inform the Government that she owes her alio-
gianceto her husband. As my case now stands,
I do nol think the bond is worth the pappr.it
is written on. In a court of law, I know it
would tall.
You have seen Mr. We'les' report. I suppose?
He does mo justice when he writer that I
erased niv depredations when I heard Mr.
Davis was a prisoner." He wilfully lies when
he writes that 1 continued "cruising against
unarmed whale ships when I knew that the
armies of the South had surrendered." The
facts are these:
Alter reaching Behring's Sea I cantured the
ship William Thomson uud brig Susan Abigail.
Both hud lclt San Francisco in April last. Theso
captures were made about the 23d of June, and
lrom each I received San Francisco papers.
Thee papers professed to have tho corrsspond
ence between Generals Lee and Gram, concern
ing the surrender of Lee's army. They abo
stated that Mr. Davis and Cabinet were in Dan
ville, to which the Confederate Govrrninent had
been removed, and that Mr. Davis h.id issued a
proclamation informing the Southern people
that the war would be earned on with renewed
vieOr.
I was made possessor of as late news bv these
two captors as any the whalers had, and I con
tinued my work until it wa3 completed in the
Arctic Ocean on the 28th of Jane, when I had
succeeded in destroying or dispersing the New
England whaling fleet. I left the Arctic ou tbe
2Mb of June, and shipped from some of the
whalers eight man on that very dav men of in
telligence, all trained soldiers. It is not to bo
believed that those men would have taken ser
vice in the Shenandaah if they believed the war
cnuea.
After leaving Behring's Sea. I fell in with no
versel until I communicated with the British
barque Barraooula, from San Francisco 2d of
August, tourteen days, bound tor Liverpool. She
informed me of the capture of Mr. Davis and a
part of his Cabinet; also ot the surrender of
Generals Johnston'?, Smith's, and Magruder'9
armies. The Barraooula furnished that news
the first time I heard it, and I instantly ceased
to cruise, and steered for Cape Horn.
Before communicating with the Barracoota, I
intended to look into the Gulf of Lower Calit'or.
nia, and then to await the arrival ot a California
steamer bound for Panama.
The Barracouta'8 news surprised us, and
among some of the officers I witnessed a terror
which mortified me. I was implored to take the
vessel to Australia; that to try to reach a Euro
pean port wouia oe total to an concerned; peti
tions were signed by three-fourths of the oflicers
asking to be taken to Cape Town, arguing and
picturing the horrors of capture, and all that
sort of stuff. I called the officers and crew to
the quarter-deck, and said calmly to them: "I
intend taking this ship to Liverpool; I know
there is risk to be run, but that has been our
associate an tnts time. We will be sought after
in the Pacific and not in the Atlantic."
Thev supported mv views, and then followed a
letter from the crew signed by 71 out ot 110
saying iney uaa connaence in me, and were win
ing, nay, desired, to go with mo wherever I
thought best to take the vessel. I had, of
course, a very anxious time, Dainlully anxious,
because the officers set a bad example to the
crew. Thoir conduct was nothing less than
mutiny. I was very decided with some of them;
I had to toll one officer I would be captain or
die on the deck, and the vessel should go to no
other port than Liverpool. So ended my trou
ble with complaints and suoplications lrom the
oll'ceis. The men behaved nobly, and stood
turn)? to their decision. ,
When the ship was 400 milos from the Azores,
a suspicious-looking vessel was seen ahead, and
apparently lying to, waiting for us to come up
w ith her. It was snnset, the wind very light,
and my suspicions being aroused, I steered my
course steadily until darkness closed upon us,
and then I wore ship and stood southwest till
steam could be gotten up, for 1 had not even
banked fires since parting with the Barracoula,
It took two hours to get up steam; when it was
reedy, I furled sails, steered due east for sixteen
miles, and hauled on my course, steaming for
100 miles. I believe she was a Yankee cruiser.
She was only six miles off when night came on,
but I evaded her successfully.
The Shenandoah, under sail, is a sixteen-knot
vessel: under steam, nine knots; a fine sea craft.
Sbe ran from the Arctic to Liverpool in one hun
dred and thirty days; from the line on the Paci
fic side to tbe Cape in twenty-six days; from the
Cape to the line on the Atlantic in twenty-six
days; and from the line to Liverpool in twenty
lour days. Two of my crew died of disease when
'near Liverpool; otherwise nothing happened to
mar our cruise; no accident occurreu uunngtne
cruise.
So ends my naval career, and I am called a
"pirate 1" I made New England suffer, and I
do not regret it. I cannot be condemned by anv
honest thinking man. 1 surrendered the vessel
to the British Government, and all are uncondi
tionally released. My obstinacy made enemies
among some of the officers, but they now in
wardly regret their action ia the Cape Town
afiair.
Dk. Livingstone's African Expbdition;
The limes oj India of the 2bth December says:
"Dr. Livingstone intends soon to proceed to
Zanzibar by the Thulo, which, we believe, is to
bo presented to the Sultan bv the Government.
Two youths (of the Ajawa tribe, from the inte
rior ot Ainca), whom he piacea in the Free
Assembly's Institution about eighteen months
ago, were on Sunday last baptized .by Dr. Wil
son, after they had made, in English, an intelli
gent profession ot the reception or unristiauitv.
Thev return to thpir native countrv with Dr.
Livingstone, who will be accompanied by one
or two African youths from the Church Mission
at Masuc."
Tni I tali iv Abmv The Italie gives the fnl
lowing particulars of the strength and cost of
the Italian army during the last five years:
In 1861 the array consisted of 231,617 men, cost
ing 297,6(i3,292 francs; in 1862, of 283,813 men,
costing 200,218,806 francs; In 1803, of 290,316
men, cost lug 250,703,879 franos; in 1864, of
290,04(1 men, costing 256,008,465 francs; and
in 1866, of 263.275 men. costing 193.490.102
francs. In the budget tor 1806 the expenses of
tbe army are put down at 186,335,619 francs,
which sum the Government now proposes to re
duce 10 i8U,ooo,000, the army being reduced to
2zo, uuu men.
.,Tilrer w nino thousand shoemakers ia
Destructive Flre-Creat Fenian Celebration-Sweeney
and Roberts
Expected-Fatal Accident
Cumberland Oil Region.
Nashville, February 12. Tho river is rising,
with four feet flush on the shoals. There was a
heavy rain last night and yesterday.
Cotton is dull; the highest price is 31 cents.
There were no shipments to-day.
A fire occurred on Saturday night at the store
of Driver A Brown, in Public square, damaging
the stock to the amount of $30,000.
t The great Fenian ovation comes off here to
morrow. General Sweeney and President
Roberts are expected to address the Brother
hood. ,
A man named Whitney was probably fatally
injured last night, on the Northwestern roid,
while passing from one car to another, by being
Struck by a proiectlon of a bridge.
The Press end Time.s'Bayg that Bankesville,
the centre of the oil regions on the Cumberland,
is becoming very populous, and that stores,
dwellings, and drinking saloons are springing
up, and it has all the fast features of a Califor
nia gold town.
The Tenne.jsc3 and Cumberland Oil and
Mining Company havo struck a tine vein of oil.
consisting of thick syrup. It is used for the
lubrication of machinery.
AFFAIRS IN KENTUCKY.
Death of an Eminent Lawyer Move
ment of Uenerola Celebration of Mr.
Lincoln's Birthday in I.onlsvlUe
Bentdnce of a If oted Gnerllia.
Louisville, Kentucky, February 12. Charles
Ripley, one of the most eminent lawyers ot Ken
tucky, died this morning, of erysipelas.
Colonel W. n. Coyle, Judge Advocate of the
Department of Kentucky, ha3 left tor the Dry
Tortugas, via New Orleans with a guard and
seven prisoners, convicted by Military Commis
sion, and sentenced to be confined at the Tor
tugas. The ill-health of Colonel Coyle, super
induced by arduous service, has rendered this
relaxation necessary. Colonel Coyle will resume
his duties on his return.
General FiBk, of the Freedmen's Bureau, ar
rived this morning, en route lor Frankfort, to
meet a Committee of the Legislature, and while
here received a telegram announcing the death
of a member of his family and the dangerous
illness of his wife, and immediately left for St.
Louis.
General Palmer leaves for Nashville to-morrow,
to confer with General Thomas respecting affaiis
in this department
The National Soldiers' and Sailors' League
celebrated President Lincoln's birthday by a
procession and speeches, and at Turner's Hall
they were addressed by General Palmer and Mr.
Wolf.
The Military Commission, in the case of one-
armed Berry, the guerilla, have found him
guilty of eleven separate murders, and have sen
tenced him to be hanged. General Palmer has
approved the findings of the Commission, and
has fixed March 3d for Berry's execution.
NEGRO SUFFRAGE,
Resolutions in tbe Maine Legislature.
Augusta, Maine, February 13. The following
resolutions were introduced into the Houce
branch of the Maine Legislature to-day by Gene
ra Shepley, of Portland, in relation to equality
of civil and political rights:
Jitsolved, That the grand result of a truly
republican Government can never be fully
attained until equality of civil aad political
rights be permanently secured, irrespective of
differences of race or color.
Resolved, That so long as the elective franchise
shall be denied or abridged iu any State, on
account ot race or color, none therein of such
race or color should be included in tbe basis of
representation of such State in tho Congress of
the United States; and we approve of the efforts
of the Senators and Representatives from this
State, in Congress, to secure such an amendment
of the Constitution as would effect this result,
believing that the tendency, and hoping that
the ultimate effect of the amendment, if adopted,
would be to secure equality of political as well
as ot civil rights for all.
The Committee on Federal Relations, to which
was referred a resolution in relation to the
crime ot treason and the punishment of traitors,
have reportedj that as, in their opinion, no ex
pression of the views of this Legislature is re
quired to hasten tho action of the Excoutive
authorities of the United States on the subject
of said resolution, it ought not to pass. The
report was accepted.
Marine Intelligence.
New York, February 13. The steamer Peru
vian has arrived here from Portland.
Boston, February 12. The ship Hamlet, Cap.
tain Stevens, from Calcutta for Boston, with a
valuable cargo of East India goods, went
ashore last night in a thick fog on Nauset beach,
Caps Cod, and will be a total loss. Her back is
broken, and Bho is full of water. The crew
were all saved. The Hamlet was a 750-ton ship,
built in 1851, and was owned by W. C. Rogers &
Co. A large portion of hor cargo was consigned
to Israel G. Whitney, of Boston.
The United States revenue cutter Pawtuckel,
ashore on Cape Cod, got off last night without
damage.
Tho steamer Kossuth, of New Y'ork, which
was ashore on Point Allerton bar, got off last
night, and anchored in Hull gut.
NewYokk, February 13. Arrived, steamers
L o. Savannah, 0th instant, Star of the Union,
New Orleans, 4th Instant.
Lincoln's Birthday.
Pottsvillb, February 13. The anniversary of
the birthday of President Lincoln was observed
last night by services in the First Presbyterian
Church. Aa oration was delivered by 8. II.
Burllngame to a large audience.
Death of a Roman Catholic Bishop.
Boston, February 13. The Right Reverend
John B. Fltzpatrick, Cathollo Bishop oi Boston,
died last night, alter a lingering illness, aged 63
years.
"WVSIIIIVGTOTV.
SjpeciaJ Despatch to the Evening Telegraph,
Washington, February 13.
Treannry Disbursement.
During the week ending on the 10th Instant,
the disbursements of tho Treasury Department
amounted td $4,407,982,a7. During the same
period the Department issued certificates of in
debtedness amounting to $510,000, and re
deemed old ones to the amount of $3000.
Internal Bevenne.
The receipts from Internal Revenue last week
amounted to the large sum of $,771,115C0.
National Itank Currency.
The total National Bank currency issued lat
week was $1,756,330. The total issued up to
date is $253,116,380.
Land OOIce Stat let les.
Recent returns to the General Land Office
show that at Detroit, Michigan, 6987 acres were
taken up in the month of January, a portion
under the provisions of the Homestead Law, a
part consisting of cash land sales, and the rest
due In bounty land warrants. At La Crosso
Wisconsin, 4588 acres were entered in the same
month under the Homestead Law for actual set
tlement. At Maysvllle, California, tho cash land
saics for December amounted to $3007, and ai
Oregon city, Orcgon.2931 acres were taken upjfor
actual settlement under the Homestead Law in
the same month.
teronal.
M. J. O'Shaughnessy, Esq., for a long time the
chief of the Loan Division of the Treasury Do.
partmcnt, has resigned his position, his resigna
tion to take effect on tbe 15th iust, Mis succcs
sor has not yet been designated.
rESKSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
Senate.
II ARnisDURfi, February 13. Ten petitions
favorable to Sunday travel, and lour against it,
were presented.
Four remonstrances against giving additional
privileges to the Lombaid and South Streets
Passenger Railway were presented.
Mr. Nichols presented a petition from bone
boiler?, asking to be allowed to operate In the
First and Twenty-sixth Wards of Philadelphia.
Mr. Nichols read a bill changing tho name of
Robert McGaw Wood to Robert McGaw.
Alto one exempting from taxation the Chil
dren's Hospital, on Twenty-second street.
Mr. Connell read a bill authorizing Andrew
Craig, as administrator, to Fell certain real
estate; also, one authorizing the CoalriJgo Im
provement Company to issue preferred stock.
Mr. Ridgway read a bill incorporating tho
Philadelphia Malt Company.
Honse of Representative.
The House is engaged in the consideration of
two hundred bills on the private calendar. Tho
following were objected to, and postponed, viz. :
Incorporating the Pequa Valley Railroad; also,
tbe Slatington and Hamburg Railroad; also, tho
Delaware and Susquehanna Railroad.
The Committee to prepare tho historical paint
ing ot the Battle of Gettysburg consists of
Messrs. Kerns, of Philadelphia; Markley, of
Montgomery; and Allen, of Warren.
Mr. Davis read a bill requiring cutters of ico
to leave one hundred feet near any river bank to
protect skaters.
Tho act requiring dams on tho Susquehanna
to be altered so as to allow shad to pass up, was
objected to, and postponed .
Mr. Ruddimas objecied to the act allowing the
city ot Philadelphia to sell her loans below par,
and it was po-tponed one week. -
Acts making printed copies ot ordinances evi
dence in Court, aud incorporating the West
Philadelphia Market Company, were passed.
Mr. Freeborn called up the act incorporating
the National Union Club, which was passed.
FRCM BALTIMORE TO-DAY.
Qeneral Leo Shipwreck Tho Mount
Hops Catte Pocket Picked, Ete,
Special Despatches to The Evening Telegraph.
Baltimore, February 13. The Rebel General
Leo attended St. Faul's Church hero last Sun
day. Very few knew of hia presence in the city.
He sought retirement,
A despatch to the underwriters here announce
the total loss ot the schooner James U. Cater, off
the coast of North Carolina, and all on board.
All of yesterday was consumed by tho lawyers
in the Mount Hope case, arguing tho adraissi"
bility of inmates of the Institution as witnesses
on the ground of their insanity. Judge Emory
Informed counsel and others that he had been
threatened since Saturday by anonymous letters.
C. B. McJudge, of Gettysburg, Pa., en route
in tho city cars to the Philadelphia depot, had
his pocket picked yesterday of a pocket-book
containing two hundred dollars.
' From Galveston.
Galveston, February 12. The steamer Ftr
ainia has sailed for New Tork. Cotton is un
changed. Freight dull at former rates. General
merchandise dull; there have been some recent
shipments to New York from our overstocked
market.
It is reported that three officers of the 9th
Colored Regiment were assassinated in the be
ginning ol February at Brownsville.
Markets by Telegraph.
New Oblsaks, February 12 (Jotton Is more
active; sales ot 8000 bales at 46o. Sugar, fully (air,
163 Molasses, niriutly prime. 90. Sterling, 47. Ne
York ckecks, par. Freight, by steam to New York,
lo. ; to Liverpool, 1 1-16. Gold, 189.
Kiw Yobk, February IS Cotton is dull at 44'S)
45c. lor middlings. Flour firm for Rood qualities,
but the poorer grades have a doolluing tendoncv.
bales of 7000 bbls. at 87loj8 35 tor 8taee: 3'6O:ii;10 75
for Ohio; B8 868'56 tor Western; $S-irfi& for
Southern ; and 8 11 65 for Canadian. Wheat aud
Corn dull, with small sales. Beef steady.
Stocks closed weak. Chicago and ltock Island
J03J; Michigan Southern, 69; New York Central,
8flj; Hediu, 100J; Virginia 6s, 66; .Erie, 7i;
W astern Union Telegraoti, 156; Carolines. 82) ; Tou
neMee Os, 89; Treanury 7.8-10, 99J j 10-403, 84 jj 6 20j,
1G2J; Gold, 188
Secretary Welles has expressed himself In
favor of the repeal of the Congressional tost oath.
An exchange says: "It is better to love a
person you cannot marry than to marry a per
son you cannot love." This is a short text for a
long sermon, which human experience will con
tinue to preach until the last syllable of recorded
time.
"If I am not at home from the party to-night
at 10 o'clock," said a husband to his better and
bigger half, ''dont wait for me." "That 1 won't,"
replied the lady, significantly; "I won't wait,
butjril come for you." The gentleman returned
at 10 o'clock, precisely.
At a town meeting held in Manchester.
Mass., last Wednesday. It was voted to appoint;
forty men to thoroughly enforce the prohibitory
law In that town, and the School Committee
were Instructed to circulate the pledge among
the children of the public schools.
FINANCE AND COMMERCE
Ornci of mi EvsNihO Teleobaph, ) '
TuesSay, February 13, 1866. J
The Stock Maiket was more active this morn
lng, but prices wero unsettled and drooping,
Catawissa Railroad continues the most active on.
the list; about 3500 shares of inferred sold at
36A0374, tho former rate a decline of 1J; Read .
ing Railroad sold at 50J.')0 56-100, an advance)
of ; Pennsylvania Railroad at 65, a decline of
; Norristown at 64, aud Elmira preferred at 39.
110 was bid for Camden and Amboy; 31.J lor Lit
tle Schuylkill; 36 for North Pennsylvania; 69
for Lehigh Valley; 21 for Catawissa common; 2G
for Elmira common: 29 j for Philadelphia and
Erie; and 43 for Northern Central.
In Passenger Railway shares there is very little
doing. Thirteenth and Fifteenth sold at 311. 74
was bid for Second and Third; 42 for Fifth and
Sixth; S4 for Hcstor.ville; 20 for Girard College;
and.l2J for Ridge Avenue.
Government bonds continuo quiet at about
former rates. 6s of 1881 sold at 103J; 10-403 a5
943 ; and 7-30s at 99,. 103 was bid for old 5-203.
State and City loans are unchanged. Pennsyl
vania 5s sold at 8680, and new City 6s at 91
91.
In Bnnk shares there Is no change to notice.
Mechanics' sold at 2nj. 204 was bid for North
America; 141 for Philadelphia; 121 for Farmers?
and Mechanics'; 52. for Commercial; 92 for
Northern Liberties; 2s for Mechanics'; 102 for
Southwark; 61 for Penn Township ; 62 for Girard;
75 for Western; 31 for Manufacturers' and Me
chanics'; 62 for City ; 00 for Corn Exchange; and
65 for Union.
Canal shares are in fair demand. Lehigh.
Navigation sold at 524, an advance of i; Schuyl
kill Navigation common at 23J ; and preferred
do. at 29J; 114 was bid for Morris Canal prefer
red; 10 for Susquehanna Canal; 32 for Delaware.
Division; aud 67 for Wyoming Valley Canal.
Oil shares continuo very dull and iregular.
Ocean-sold at 1515J, a slight advance; and
Oak Shade at 2, no change.
SALES AT PUBLIC STOCK BOARD TO-DAY.
Reported by F. T. Walton, No. 203 S. Fourth street.
FIRST CALL.
S1000US '81s 103J
610C0 U 8 10-40S 14 J
100 ea Catapf b5 80
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100 sh
100 sh
100 Hi
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82000 Fa It 2d ruort . 92
81000 do. 92
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100 sh do 5
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100 sh do 2t
100 sh Roading...b80 601
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IlAILPKR, DUBKET & CO. QUOte SS foIlOWS !
Butting, netting.
American Gold 139
American Silver, tie and s 133 184
American SilvorLVlmes and Uai(J)imc 129 130
Pennsylvania Curreuoy
New Tork Exchange par. par.
PHILAD'A GOLD EXCHANGE QUOTATIONS.
10 A. 31 138? 12 M 1381
U A. M 1381 IP. M 133
The New York Iribune this morning says:
"Money is oflered among stock houses at 6
per cent, on call, but the banks, as a rule, get 7
per cent., end 6 per cent is only taken upon
Government securities. The demand forordl
nary commeicial bills does not improve,
and they are quoted at from 10 to 15 per cent, or
in other words, 7 per cent, as interest and 36iJ8
per cent, lor insuranoe. Prime bills sell at
77, and good at 8(769 per cent. The bank
statement shows a loss of legal tenders and a
decline of $2,310,232 in deposits."
Tho New York Times this morning says:
"The Southern mails are behind, and the bankers
in the toreign Exchanges are not disposed to draw
on London at tho cheap rates of last week, until
tbey have a better supply of bills from New
Orleans, Mobile, etc., and the Cottom market
assumes more steadiness. Tbe rates have
advanced for the Boston steamers to 107j107
per cent., with standard drawers. Thus lar they
are not paid with much freedom, and most of
the business for the steamer gooe over to Tues
day. The telegraph advises that some very low
figures have been made on England at New
OrlAins as against cotton shipments; as low as
103 per cent, is named in the private telegrams
to-day."
Philadelphia Trade Report.
Tuesday, February 13 There is a fair demand
for prime Cloversced, but inferior is not wantid;
sales of 200 bushels fair and prime at $7 25 to 87 50.
Timothy is dull ; 76 bubols wore disposed of at 84 26.
Fla xseed comes forward slowly, and moots with a
moderate demand at 83; 3 06.
No. 1 Quercitron Bark Is steady at $32-60 f ton,
but thero is not much doing.
Thoielsno peroopt bie change to notice in the
Flour Market, and fho only sales reported wre a
few small lot for the supply of the home trade at
87ii7 60 lor superflue; $S;860 for extras; 889 00 .
for Northwestern extra family; 88 609 60 for
Pennsylvania and Ohio do. do.; and 3U)13 00 for
lancy brands, accordiug to quality. No sales of Rye
Flour or Corn Meal have been reoortod.
There is no inquiry lor Wheat, except prime
quulitv. whiebis scaroe; sales ot 800 bushels good
red at 82 16 ; white rouge from 82 26 to 82 60. Kve
is dull; we quote at 86o Corn it in firm demand,
but pnce have ducriued; sales ot 4000 busbeii yel
low at 72e in the cars aud from store. OaU are dull
at46o. No sales of llarfey or Malt.
Whisky continue very quint; small sales ofPenn
sylvania at 82 iiofeS 26; and Ohio at 82 27.
In Paris 4,000,000 francs goes for lighting
30,000 Jets cf gas in the public streets, at the
rare of 4000 francs for 30 Jets, or 133 franca for
each jet.
One account of the recent 7th Regiment ball
in New York says the Garden of Eden style of
nudity about the bust and shoulders was univer
sally prevalent, and not always with very young
ladies, or ladies "fair as alabaster."