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PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JAUUAHY 18, 18G7.
YOL. Vll.-No. 16.
DOUBLE SHEET-THREE CENTS.
THE IMPEACHMENT.
Tk Caucus for Impeachment 6f PrU.
lent Johnson Political Favoritism. K
Reason for hU Removal Curious Pre.
red cuts lu the History of the. Chief
Magistracy Washington Himself De
vlarsa It "Political Suicide" to Appoint
at Opponeut to Ufllee vVhat the
House Judiciary Committee Is Doing,
Ete. Btc.
Wsshikgtom, Jon uar 7 16. Impeachment or
do impeachment r That Is the great question
imitating the public mind to-day. Will Andrew
Johnson be impeached Y The argument tn favor
of his impeachment, stripped of all Its general!-
1 ties and reduced to the mere substance of what
may be proven to be fact, is that he has, in the
i administration ot the Government, followed the
j uniform course adopted by all bis predecessors.
i from Washington to Lincoln; that is, he has had
1a policy of his own, ann in the bestowal of his
patronage has sought to favor those who con
formed in political sentiment to that policy.
. This may be an impeachable offense or net: that
i is not here to be discussed, but the first Presl
! dent of the United Htates, the immortal Wah
' ington, was guided in his administration of the
Government by the same rule, and so have been
h 11 succeeding residents.
Said Wsshlwrton, in a letter to Timothy Picker
ing, then becretary of War. dated Mount Vernon,
September 27, 1795: "I "hall not, while
1 lihve the honor to administer the Government,
bnujr a man into any office ot consequence kuow
mjriy whose rolitical tonets are adverse to the mea
surf which the treueral Government are pursuing
For this in my opinion, would be a sort of political
suicide. Tint it would embarrass Us movements is
most certain, "Jared Spark' Writings of Wash'
inqlon.
And again, less than one month later, ho
applies the test in the case of Patrick Henry,
whose "loyalty" was known to all the world.
In a confidential letter to Edward Carrington,
Washington writes:
(Private and confidential.)
Mi. Vkrnoh, October 9, 1795. Dear Sir: Tour
letter of the 2d instant came duly to hand, and 1
shall wait the result of the proposed inquiries.
' One request frequently bepuiB another, and that is
the ease at present. You know lu 1 well that tue
etiice f State is vacant, but ou may not know that
I rJuU difficulty in filling it. In ttie appointments to
the treat offices of tho Government my aim has
been to com bine geographical situation, and some
times other considerations, with entities and U -Be
ot known character. In pursuance of this
system I have tried to bring Judge Patterson, Mr
Johnson, of Maryland, and Charles Coiesworth
1'inckney. ot South Carolina, into this ollice. but
they have all declined, the las by the post oi Wed
nesday. 1 would bave made an odor of it to Mr.
Henry in the first instance, but two reasons were
opposed to it; first, ignorance ot his political sonti
menu, for 1 should consider it an act of govern
mental suicide to bring a man into so high an office
who was unfriendly to the Constitution and luws
v hich were to be his guide, Jared Sparks'
H ri'ings of Washington.
These citations merely settle the fact that
Washington had his own views of public policy,
and lequired all appointees of 1Le Government
to conform to those views. Still they do not
prove that Wasbiner'on did not in that commit
a grave ofl'en6e, subjecting Mm, if prosecuted,
to impeachment. It will remain lor the Thuty
niiath and Fortieth Congress to rtetermiue
whether such a rule ot action, faithfully nrl
nered to, is an impeachable offense within the
meaning of the Constitution.
But without speculating on what Congress will
or will not do, it will be received by the country
as a singular circumstance that none of the gen
tlemen who have aspired to the leadership of
the majority in Congress hare ventured to take
the initiative in this impeachment movement.
This fact has a suspicions air about it. Buut
well has openly aecued the President with
conspiring to prevent the recapture ot oue of
Mr. Lincoln's assassins, and has more than
intimated, on several' occasions, a belief
in his complicity in that ferocious
conspiracy. Tliad. KtevenB cannot take tbe
floor without trumping up some crimiual
charge against fhc Excutive and denouncing
him wilh the most vindictive epithets, Bing
fcain swore to his constituents that he would
nci'her give sleep to bis eyes nor slumber to his
eyelids until he had drawn up a bill of impeach
ment aeamst Andrew Johnson. Even the
Speaker of the House daily permits the utterance
on the floor of violent threats and scandalous
charges agaimt the President, with no inter
ference on his part. All these gentlemen are
supposea to De enuowea wuu a uenree ot miei-
ligence beyond tbe ordinary run of the mem-
brs. But while they have all been forward iu
denunciations and criminations of the Presi
dent, none of them presumed to put their charges
in shape lor olhYial action. On the contrary,
when inex of vastly inferior standing, intelli
gence, aud influence, worked Tipon by I tie loud
talk and boastful threatening of theit supe
rior", thouebt to make political capital tor
themselves by rt-duciug this tulk to action aud
thee threats to actual hostilities, the great
leaders were seized with a panic ot alarm aud
terror, and interposed their strongest influences,
most jotent appeals, and all manner of efforts to
prevent the coiiMirnmatioi) of the purpo-e. Thus
it is evident that the wisdom and intelligence of
the House at no time has and does not now pur
pose making the test with t he Executive ot the
truthfulness of the charges in which they have
indulged so freely. Their talk, by their subse
quent conduct, is shown to have been all for
effect. Their better judgments teach them the
folly of attempting extreme measures, for they
know that if they fail of conviction, the party
in whose interests they act will be damaged be
yond reparation. On the contrary, so long as
they merely indulged in talk and threats their
arguments were as potential with ignorant
people as though they were based on truth.
Now they roust either prove their charges true,
or forever abstain from repeating them. They
see the danger of losing their ammunition.
The House Judiciary Committee, in whose
bauds the matter now rests, have a terrible
responsibility thrown upon them, and naturallv
they will be very careful iu its exercise. This
will account lor the conflicting reports which
reach tbe public of the doluasof the commit tec.
In order not unnecessarily to alarm the people,
their proceedings are yet a sealed book, which
no one can open. Contradictory (statements
emanate from the brains of this, that, aud tbe
other enterprising correspondent, but all such
statements are tie merest speculation and
guss work. The most diligent inquiry does
not discover a single subpojua issued by
the committee. This is significant. It shows
at all events that they have not yet com
niiici thpir investigations. There was a
statement sent abroad that Ashley had bieu
before them, but the concuireut testimony of
all who should know is that he merely met the
Committee casually aud informally, at one of
their regular uieethms, as the prosecutor iu the
-casp, to ascertain what was to be the mode of
procedure. He has not met them since.
Autther statement that Kecretary Stanton had
been called, before them, and, as some news
mongers had it, hud actually given some testi
mony, is equally apoenphal. It looks reasouable
to suppose that a Cabinet Minister, being called
upon to testify in so important a matter affecting
his principal, would at leastjnotlfy that princi
pal of the lact: but up to this timethe President
has not been informed by Mr. Stanton oue way
or the other. Bo, too, in regard to the state
ment that the Goueral Committee had referred
the investigation to a sub committee of three,
composed of the moi-t ultra radicals, which is
now oenied by those who gave it currency.
Thus all these resoits are mere surmises and
nothing more, and the more reasonable conclu
sion Is that the Committee has not yet deter
mined the main fundamental qaestion, whether
tbey shall investigate at all or not, whlch.it
will be remembered, is a matter left to their
ption. Jf. Y. iJtrakl,
BUR1TIMQ OF THE OIL BUBBLE.
Sheriff's Sales of Oil l-ands and Effects
Fortunes Knocked Down with the
Hammer.
From the Cleveland Ohio) Iff raid, Junaary 7.
On Saturday last the Sheriff ot Venango
county, Pennsylvania, wound up the existence
of several oil companies by selling their effects
at auction to satisiy judgments against them.
Among these unfortunates wete representatives
from all the leading cities where the petroleum
fever raged for a time, and some of the compa
nies knocked on the head by the Sheriff's ham
mer at one time figured largely in prospectuses
aud on the stock board.
One ot the more noticeable names is that of
the President Petroleum Company, which
"went iV chiefly on the strength ot its vast
territory, embracing hundred of acres, shaded
on the map as "eood borable territory," and
dotted with "wells" In a line with "flowing
wells" on somebody else's land. We believe
that on the many hundred acres of the Prjsi
dent Company's land not a single paying well
was bored.
We recognize among the other names those of
companies whose chief advantage lay in their
having a li anted amount of land, but that
lying in an "oil basin," though subsequent ex
plorations proved that the basin, if it existed
at all, was empty. Others claimed to be In a
district where the oil was light in quality but
large in yield, whilst othprs insisted on the
opposite advantage of smaller yield, but greater
density, and threlore greater value.
One Cleveland oruanization figures in the list
the Cleveland and Buflalo Petroleum Com
pany. This was at one time a promising affair,
aud actually paid a dividend, but it Is now
"down among the dead men," along with its
Cleveland confreres. Cleveland oil companies
were born late and died early. The oil fever
was a long time reaching this place, raged
furiously lor a period, and was soon over. Of
the many companies organized here but few put
down more than one hole, some did not reach
that i-tage, and none "struck lie" to the extent
anticipated.
A recent sale of oil stocks in Pittsburg told
the story of depreciated value in few but perti
nent figures. Stoeks that had been fought tor
nt eight to twenty dollars per share were sold
at one to five cents, and were probably a bail
investment at those rates, as the figure of the
inexorable Sheriff looms up behind nineteen out
of twenty ot the derricks in the oil regions. Out
of more than one thousand recorded oil compa
nies that existed in the opening of 18(53, the
number of companies inactive existence now
is tew.
Tbe story of disappointed hopes connected
with the history of the petroleum mania is not
a new one. The experience of those who sunk
their fortunes in the "dry holes'' of Pennsyl
vania and Virginia is but a repetition of the
unfortunate speculators in "coppers," aud the
purchasers of shares in gold and silver "leads."
Mining ot all kinds is a lottery, in which the
prizes bear u ridiculously small proportion to
the blanks. A few get rich by a lucky dive
into the earth; more amass a fortune byaskilt'ul
dive into the pockets of the gullible public;
whilst nine hundred and ninety-nine out of i.
thousand who expect to get suddenly rich by
investments in mining or oil-boring, learn by
coi-tl.y experience that "hope told a, flattering
tale," which events failed to realize.
MEXICO.
Maximilian Reported at Orizaba Again
The Whole Interior in Possession of
the Liberals The Imperialists (iultthe
Interior Probable Design to lletake
Tampico.
M&tamobas, January 13, via Galveston,
Texas, January 17. General Berricazabal has
succeeded in raising the money asked for by
Cortina, who is now stationed fifteen leagues
from this city, and it is confidently expected
that Cortinas will now continue his march
towards Victoria, thus relieving this border of
all trouble, liis force numbers 407 men. The
Liberal General Auguirre entered San Luis on
the 28th of December, Mcjia having evacuated
it on the 27th.
From a gentleman arrived last evening I learn
that he met Alvara, ot Mejia's command, at
Tulla, marching towards Tampico; nnd tint
Mcjia himself was following him. This would
seem to denote the intended reoccupation of
Tumpico by the Imperialists. Guadalajara and
Guanajuato are in possession ot the Liberals,
and there are no Imperialists in the interior
save at Queretaro, which will soon be evacuated
by them. The French have all left, even those
who had enlisted in the Mexican service.
The Liberal Governor ot San Luis addressed
a congratulatory proclamation to the people of
tne !-tnte on the 1st of January. Great prepara
tions were in progress for the reception ot
Juarez, who was expected from Duraugo to
establish his seat of government at San Luis.
The leeling between the Juarez aud Ortega tac
tions is excellent, owing to the fact that no
news had been received from the latter chief.
Honor Before Success.
Judge Noah L. Davis was Mr. Coukling's prin
cipal competitor for the Senatorship in New
York, and it is said that he was virtually nomi
nated at one time, but a surplusage of votes,
opportunely or inopportunely discovered, viti
ated tbe ballot, and on the next one Coukling
was nominated. A correspondent relates how the
thing came" about as lollows:
Had Mr. Davis been guided by the advice of
his chl ;f supporters, it is said he could have
beeD nominated without difficulty on the secoud
formal ballot. In justice to the honorable gen
tleinau, it should also be explained that the
reason he thus rejected advice was because it
involved the adoption of means which he lelt
would degrade bini personally, while at the
same time forbiddeu by the supreme law of the
Commonwealth. In plaiuJAnglo-Saxon, it was
froimsed to him to use money in obtaining votes,
t was represented to htm that the power of
greenbacks was becomiug extensively exercised
on the other side, and that he would be justified
in doing the same thing to insure bis election
To these arguments he replied substantially
thus:
"Gentlemen, had 1 consulted my own feelings
in this matter, I snould not have come here at
ail during tbo progress of the campaien. I
came here at your solicitation, because my com
petitors were on the ground, and because 1 was
not personally kuown to my supporters. You
believed my presence W'as actually necessary.
and I am here. But i wi'i not cousenr that a
single dollar be used improperly to turther my
prospects."
This firm repudiation of the bribery policy
disconcerted his friends considerably, aud left
them, they say, to coutend against great odds
in electioneering. Notwithstanding this, how
ever, I am informed that some of Judire Davis'
"commercial" friends were prepared at the cau
cus to shell out tho "soondulix" liberally, and
that nn old railroad lobbyist actually operated
pecuniarily among the members to that end.
Galignani. The Messrs. Galignani have just
been presented by the British Government,
through the embassy at Paris, with a splendid
epergne in solid silver, for the centre of a din
ner talde, with an inscription engraved on an
escutcheon In the lower part of the pedestal,
declaring that it has been elven in acknowledg
ment of the beuevolent spirit with which these
gentlemen have, duriugso many years, assisted
and encouracrcd various object's of British
charity abroad, aud especially of their liberal
conduct in lately bulldiug a hospital tor British
subjects in the French capital.
A gay and festive Postmaster at Osage,
Iowa, has been splurging on greenbacks taken
Iron letters.
The Duties of the Hour.
Editorial Correspondence of the A. Y. Independent.
It is a thorn in the flesh of a radical man to
read the compromising speeches of certain mem
bers of Congrc.s. The Thirty-ninth Congress
is a college of tamperer. F y swifter round, ye
wheels of time I and bring the Fortieth. Trne,
the next Congress will be the self-same tree;
but it will have new leaves, and, I trust, will
bear the long-expected fruit. Are we to have no
end of white men's governments? It seems
not. Even Ben. Wade is in tavor of a white
man's government, If only it be named Colorado.
But justice demands that Colorado, like Missis
sippi, shall be kept out of the Union till the day
of doom, unless both those territories can lower
thrtir pride sufficiently to come in on equal terms
with the negro. On what principle do Con
gressmen vote in favor of the negro's rights in
the Dibtrict of Columbia, and against the negro's
rights in Colorado t Is not justice the same in
both places? And is not duty the same in both
cases?
Colorado may be a garden of Eden, for aught
I know; and its inhabitants may be without
taint or Ppot of original sin; but tneir political
constitution exalts a white man, and degrades a
black man. This is reason enough for the non
admission of Colorado into the new republic.
While we were yet heathen, the best we could
say was, "No more slave States." But now thnt
we are becoming Christian, we must say, "No
moie white Slates." It New York yea, verily,
the Empire State, wilh John MorrNsoy and'
all ! were out of the pale to-day, like South Car j
lina.I would vote peremptorily against her ad mis
sion so long as a single vestige of her black-tinged
constitution remained unrepealed. As the
negroes bore our muskets during the war, they
ought to bear something pleasanter than our
insults during the reconstruction. To permit
Colorado to clamber into Congress by stepping
on the crushed body ot tbe negro is to invite
Georgia to repeat the same In dignity in a worse
form. If Colorado adds a new State constitu
tion of oppression to the many similar constitu
tions by which the free States have cunningly
outraged the negro while pretending to be bis
champions, the whole argument lor the non
admission of the Rebel Htates except on terms
of impartial suffrage will thereby be struck to
the ground. I shall never believe that Senator
Wade is other than a true and nobleman; but
he has nevertheless dealt a blow under which
the cheek of lu.itice blushes like a nio'.her suffer
ing rudeness irom a lavorite sou.
Other gentlemen in Congress are over-anxious
to admit the Southern States on the basis of the
Constitutional amendment. But to admit these
States on such a basis will be iatal to the negro's
political rights. The Constitutional amendment
consigns the negro, bound hand aud foot, to the
keeping of the Kebel. Admit the ten States on
the basis ot the amendment, ami von imrae
oiutcly reduce the negro to the pitiful beggary
of soliciting his political rishts at the hands of
his aucient master. It such is to be the
theory of reconstruction, why did we not
frankly say to the negroes, before enlisting
them for the war, "Come, tight against your
masters, and, after you have 'conquered them
completely, kneel at their feet and ak them
for your political rights?" I hold that
tbe political rights of negroes who helped the
North to overthrow the Rebellion arc not to be
left to the dictation of Itebels who by these
same negroes were thus overthrown. More
over, since we live in a world of wars, this
Government may acrain have need of the dusky
heroes to fight its battles. Shall it, therefore,
initiate iu advance a policy of askiner black
men to storm fortresses, and of rewarding the
conquerors by surrendering their political
rights into the keeping ol the enemies whom
they have couquered ?
The Thirty ninth Congress is expected to do
justice. But in the midst of a perverse genera
tion to do justice requires courage. If I yet
saw that tbe Thirty-ninth Congress lrad the
couraneto impeach the President, I would have
greater hope that this same Congress would be
fricn l the negro. The negro's chief enemy is
not the South, but the President. The South
is nothing, except solar as it sits in Andrew
Johnson's chair. The President deposed, the
South no longer wields the Executive with one
nana, nor Fcourees the negro with the other.
No king in Europe to-day, ho emperor in Asia,
no sbiek among tbe Arabs, is half so great a
usurper as Andrew Johnson. Let him be over
thrown! The Republic has been betrayed
altogether too long by a malfeasant Chief Magis
trate. "Will yon have Andrew Johnson for Pre
sident or King " cried Mr. 83ward. But if the
nation dares not Impeach AndrewJohnson.it
thereby coufesses that, so longis ho shall wenr
the cloak of a president, he may commit the
usurpations of a king.
Andrew Johnson's State Governments in the
South which he has shaped according to his
own whim, never once consulting the law
making power, but always acting in defiance
ot it are usurpations as gross as any which
our forefather charged against King' George
the Third. Thesp state Governments are illegal,
unconstitutional, and void. Tbey are enrd-board
houses, and must be knocked don. Congress
ought at once to simp its foreiinger against them
and whisk them out of the way.
Administered by the nation's enemies, these
government are no protection to the nation's
friends. While such governments remain the
Rebellion exists. Did we not fling our armies
against the South because the Southern States
werp in the clutch of the Rebels? And yet, are
not these same States at this moment' in the
clutch of these sanio hands? In every State of
the defiant, ten loyal men's lives are in peril,
loyal men's houses are in flames, and loyal
men's families are in the streets. Is the Rebel
lion yet overthrown The Rebellion will never
be overthrown until loyalty shall reien abso
lutely in its stead. But now, throughout the
South loyal men are spurned as traitors, jiiBt as,
throughout the North, traitors are spurned by
loyal men. South Carolina is yet the enemy's
State, not ours; the enemy is yet to be dis
lodged; loyalty is yet to be reinstated.
Are we to be hoodwinked by a mere show of
submission? Even those Southern men who
bow their heads in obeisance to Washington
still hold back their hearts in allegiance to
Richmond.
Instead, therefore, of inviting back the rebel
lious States into the fellowship ot the United
States, opening the doors of the Federal Capitol
to their Representatives, and submitting to their
votes the laws by which the Amerlcau republic
is to be governed, let these States be discrowned
ot their Slate dignity, and remain as couquered
Territories under the sceptre of the North until
their people shall acknowledge the claims of
justice and shall practise the arts of peace.
It is accordingly the trpble duty of Con stress
-first, to impeach the President of the United
States: secoud, to expunge and obliterate every
State Government which he has created; and
third, to secure the political rights of the negro,
whom he has souchtto trample in the dust.
If these things cannot be done by the Thirty
ninth Congress, then let us discharge that body
from our grateful remembrance, and look with
a gilded hope to the Fortieth. Come, Fourth of
March I
Besieging a Burglar. A notorious ticket-of-leave
man, named Brady, who escaped from
Drogheda jail, in Ireland, last month, was re
captured on Christmas day in an old house In a
eentleman's orchard, which was oiherwise un
occupied. A large force oi pollC3 was engaged
in the capture. The door of the building was
securtd on the inside, and when forced open
Brady was seen armed with a shovel. The head
constable desired him to surrender, at the same
time presenting a revolver at his head, when he
gave himself up. He bad the place provisioned,
and was supplied with cooking apparatus,
candles, and matches. He stated that he was
prepared to defend himself successfully against
any Intruders but tbe police.
THIRD EDITION
WASHINGTON.
FIRE AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
Gnat Excitement This Mornin
The Conservatory Attached to the
Presidential Mansion Destroyed.
Furniture of the White House
Damaged by the Smoke.
Btc, Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc.
SrKClAL DESPATCH TO IBB EVENING TELKOBAPH.)
Washington, January 18,
At about 8 o'clock this morning the couserva
tory adjoiuiug the Executive Mauston took Are
from a defective flue of the furnace, and was
partially destroyed. Tho weather wai so exces
sively cold that it was with difficulty the tire
men could work continuously, anl it was some
time before tbe Dre was got under.
The alarm was given according to regulations,
by firing off muskets by the military guards
stationed at the White House, and the report of
the muskets, in conjunction with the sight of
smoke and flames from the same vicinity, created
(juUe a sensation in the neighborhood, causing
a report that some appalling tragedy was going
on at the White House. At tlrst it was feared
that the flames might reach the White House,
and a strong military guard was placed around
it to prevent the crowd troin rushing in.
The convervatory, which was built in the time
of President Pierce, was a very large one, and
was filled by a very choice collection of plants,
many of which it will be difficult to replace.
Tho fire not only destroyed the collection of
plants, but tho smoke penetrated to the lower
rooms of the White House, damaging tho fur
niture to the extent of $1000 or $2000.
ASSOCIATED PRESS ACCOUNT.
Washington, January 18. This morning at 8
o'clock, the Conservatory attached to the Execu
tive mansion took tire trom the bursting of a
flue on the southwest side. The main building,
extending from east to west, and erected over
an old brick structure, if) two hundred feet in
length, with an addition of seventy feet from
north to south.
The flames swept through these buildings,
destroying at least one-third of the valuable
plants, many of them of the rarest character
and ot foreign origin. Horticulturists and
florists express the opinion that the collection
could not be replaced in years, and not even
then without a eo-U of hundreds of thousands
of dollars.
The plants in a hot-house on the ground floor
were preserved with but little damage. The
building3 are damaged to the extent of
$20,000, and the furiiture in the Executive
mansion was in jvwed by smoke to the amount
of $1000.
The timely arrival of the tire engines pre
vented the entire destruction of the Conserva
tory Buildings, four of them being at work
for several hours.
General Ilucker. who is Acting Quarlcrinaster
General during tne sickness of General Meigs,
Commissioner of the Public Buildings, and
other Government otliccrs, were present, exit
ing themselves to save the property.
Mr, Smith, one of the subordinate officers at
the Executive mansion, exerted himself to sdun
a degree amid the fire and smoke to save fhe
plants that he was utterly prostrated, and now
lies insensible.
There was an entire absence of confusion on
the premises, a military guard being within as
well as outside the White House, to prpvent tho
needless intrusion of spectators.
FROM BALTIMORE TO-DAT.
Treslou dues Abandoned-Marshal Ap
pointed The Weather, Etc.
SPECIAL nESPATCH TO THE EVENING TELEGRAPH.
Baltimore, January 18. In the United States
Circuit Court here, during yesterday's session,
the cases of George P. Kane, George H. Stewart,
George Franor, Harry Gilmor, and Isaac R.
Trimble, indicted for treason, were all "stetted."
The new Enfranchisement bill will make these
men, who took an active part with the South in
the Rebellion, all voters, and eligible to the
highest otlices.
Chief Marshal of Police Carmichael, appointed
by the old loyalj Board, was yesterday dis
missed, and W. A. Vap Ostraud appointed in his
place.
The weather is intensely cold, and the harbor
is nearly closed with ice. The train from Phila
delphia was detained this morning by snow
drifts. Governor Swaun's Senatorial election is still
awaiting certain bargains, but is sure of ulti
mate success.
Markets by Telegraph.
New York, January 18. Chicsgo and Rock
Is and 10W i ftosdini,, 1033 ; Canton Company, 48;
Erie. 675i Cloveiandand Toledo, 128; Cleveland snd
llttsbnrg. 89i i CUicsKo, Fort Wavne. snd Pitts-
burir. (yi t aioingHn Conu-al, luej; Mictuirsn
bouttisrn, ll mw X ork Central, 108 Illinois
Central, scrip, ai; mmnerlsnd prelerred, 88; UU
ouri W, 98)1 U. 8 . Kive twentio ol 18t2,108; no.
18U3, 1052 J do. 1864. 108ii do. 1806, 104; 1 en-fortiei,
9j- Seven-thirties, of all kinds, 1042 ; Sterling Kx
change.itilf stocks lower. Kxcusuue st slht, 101:
(iold strong at 187. "
Nkw l oan, January 18. Cotton Is steady st 86e.
Klour is dull snd dt'dininr. aud tu.i market is geuo
rally ODOliaimed. Wnettt Ju l snd declining. Corn
firm. Beef steady. Uressed hogs firmer, tjj'ubjo.
lor Western ; snd 82aJe. (or City. Pork firmer,
mess is 21 12J21 iifc; prime Is lt e&&17. tftfd is
Urm, vYlexdeil.
FIRE HI NEW YORK HARBOR.
"-' i- jirin. ii r r n t
Burning of Steamer Ellen S. Terry.
New York. January 189 A. M. A lire has
just broken out on board the steamer Ellen 8.
Terry, running to Newborn, North Carolina,
ly iEg at the pier foot of Rector street. Many
other steamers and ships are lying adjacent,
and there is, consequently much excitement
among the captains and crews. The weather Is
very cold, and the firemen are slow in getting
to work. The steamer, which was to have sailed
on the 15th, but was detained by th Ice, will
probably be destroyed.
SECOND DESrATCB.
New York, January 18. The tire on board of
the Ellen S. Terry has been subdued. The,
damage is not so great us was expeced, owing
to the fact that the hull is of iron, and having
iron water-tight and fire-proof compartments.
The loss is partially insured, and the business of
the line will not be interrupted.
From Fortress Monroe.
Fortress Monroe, January 16. A meeting
of the Atlantic Hotel stockholders was h dd in
Norfolk yesterday afternoon, at the Merchants
Exchange. The President of the Company
submitted a report noon t'.ie consideration of
its finances, which placed the assets at $30,000
and its debts at $35,000, to be oirset with the
lot and rubbish, amounting to $40,000, leaving
a net balance due of $25,000.
The question of rebuilding tbe hotel coming
up, the meeting was addressed by several of
the stockholders on this subject, and upon a
proposition of changing its site, a trial vote
to indefinitely postpone the consultation of
the latter subject was cirried.
Resolutions were adopted a.ttboriziDg the
present Directors, when the subscriptions to the
capital stock were obtained, to take the neces
sary steps for rebuilding the hotel at the
earliest practicable moment. On motion,
thinks were unanimously tenV.erd to the
President and Board of Directors for their past
services.
The ship Enoch Train, from Philadelphia for
Mare Island, California, which put huo Norfolk
some days since to repair damages received in
tbe lat storm at, the Capes of the Delaware,
has had nearly all her cargo of col discharged,
aud the vessel has baen placed in the dry-dock
at the Gosnort Navy Yard. She will be caulked
and coppered. The weatt or is uns.at'cd, and
the wind southwest.
The Land Oflice Report.
WafcniNCTOK, January 18. The Comrniiouer
of ithe General Laud Ollice hati" just received
returns showing an aggregate dispobal of 11,078
acres of the pnblic lands during the month of
December last, at th-i following local otlices in
Michigan: Lake Snginaw, 3015 acres; Traverse
city, 4189 acr?s; Jeuia, 8177 acres; Wisconsin,
Menaska, 3907 acres. The greater portion of
the land was located with the Agricultural Col
lege, Scrip, i?nd Military warrants.
Marine Disaster.
Gloucester, M.ik., January 18. A sclioo.icr
is reported ashore at Kettle Cove, and t vo ot
her crew frozen to death and the remainder
badly nozru.
One coaa'iug vessel is ashore on Ten Pound
Inland, and three fishing craft ashore on Rocky
Neck.
EEECHER AND BR0WNL0W.
IiCtler from the Plymouth Parson to the
Tennessee Parson.
Brooklyn, N. Y., January 7. Governor
Brownlow My Dear Sir: I have just been talk
ing with a friend returned from Tennessee, and
have learned a little ujoi in detail thau I beiore
knew of your present state, and what you pro
pose to do. Pray do not think me meddling
with your business, when I express my anwen
for your success in the thoro.ien and perma
nent enfranchisement of the nearo, for Tennes
see is, in some sense, a representative of me ue
nation.
What the whole people, above all things, uao l
just now is, that one Soutn'j,n State should, of
its own will, and by the vote of its own people,
come up tully on to the pla'Jorm of equal
richts and full citizenship tor all men. Then
there will be a model to work by other States
will have courage to believe tiiat such things
can be done. Suffrage tor the whole people I
deem a natural right. I should urge ft as a
mutter of justice. Should you secure it, it will
raise the conscience of the whole nation many
degrees higher than it is.
But, in your rase, it is also a matter of politi
cal safety. If some fear that such a measure
will kill them, so I am sure the want of it will
kill them. To die lor a principle is ta make
sure a resurrection; while political death with
out, and even against a principle, is death per
petual and resurrectionles".
Should Tennessee remain firm and work out
this great truth and duty of universal suffrage
(not forfeited by crime), I shall regard it as the
turn ot the night. The day-star will have arisen,
and light will grow stronger and darkness
weaker every moment thereafter.
I hope that God will be gracious to you and
retnvigorate your frame. He has ma le your
lite precious to those who wish well to the coun
try. Into tbe strupglo of the next campaign
you will carry not ouly the fate of Tennessee,
out of the whole South, and so ot the nation.
May God go with you and bless you, and bring
you out victorious; then if you wish to depart,
we will rejoice with you In the inheritance ot
that rest which remaineth for the people of
God. I fim, dear sir, very truly yours,
H. W. Belcher.
TUB SOUTH.
Secret Disloyal Organizations In North
Carolina A Reign of Terror Depreda
tlons of " Regulators," Ktc.
Richmond, January 17. Information from
North Carolina reveals the esistenca in that
State of a secret organization in Union county.
It is intimated that it is revolutionary iu char
acter. Eoch member is sworn to secrecy before
he is introduced and made acquainted with the
secrets. The organization will be established iu
every county, and may possibly result in serious
trouble among the people.
Additional intelligence has reached here of
outrages of an aggravated nature aud even
murders in Wayne county, North Carolina.
Kreedmen are mostly the victims, but so terri
fied have they become that the names of the
"Regulators" will not be disclosed. It is stated
that the civil authorities confess tbey are alraid
to pursue such villains with the remedies pro
vided by law. Their fear grows out of appre
hensions that if part of the outlaws should be
arrested, others of the gang would burn down
their houses or otherwise Isjure the woplBlrates
ttad oOicers,
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE,
Supreme Court Chiof Justice Woodward, and
Judges lliompson, ltoad, and Annew. lloord t.
The Green snd Coates btiects l'ansonrer fiaiiway
Company. An appeal by plaintiffs from the award
of aainaif s made by appraiser. Arnuod by Sellers
for plaintiff: Wharton tor aniendants
William H. Clynior vs. Other De Young. Appeal
from District Court, Philadelphia. Arad.
Xlal Prlus Judge Strong. John Godfrey vs.
Equitable Insurance Company. An action to ro
covor on a policy of firo insurance upon plain tilt's
hoiol st Pithol. Ontrisl.
Doren vs. Brook. Before reported. Verdict for
defendant.
Court of Common Pleas This Court was
in session, It being mtendod to tsko up the Fair
mount Park case, but owing to tho eiuraeemont of
Judge Peiroe in the Court oi Oyer aud Terminer,
the Court adjourned.
Court or Oyer and Terminer Jndees
Teirce snd Brewster T B Dwiclit, Esq., I'ro.e
cutinir Attorney. Tbo case ot Commonwealth vs.
Frederick Paul, tried snd reported yoetnrday, with
tfie charge ol the Court, but wilnout argument from
counsel, wss submitted to lbs Jury, who. wituost
lesTinc the box, rendered a verdiet ot not rut.ty.
fhe case of tb Cooimouw aith vs. Owen Barns,
ebanred with ibe kiliino: of Joseph Murphy, was
called tor and nearly a whole jury was empannelled,
but the absence of a ynry important witness having
been di-eovered, the oaoe was continued until tbe
next term ol the Court, and the Court was adjourned
until to moirow momma.
FINANCE AND COaUlERlTt;.
Office of tub Rvkxinu Tei-kokaph, )
Frid'iy, January 18, 1867. J
Tbe Stock Market was rather dull this mora
ine, but prices were firmer, owing to the further
advance in gold. In Government bonds there
was more doing; July, 18ii5, 6-2()s sold at 104,
no chanec; 18ti'2 5-20 at 1074107j, an advance
of j; 10-40 at 100, no change; and 7-30s at 104 i,
no change. 108 was bid lor 6s of 1881, and
1084 asked. City loans were unchanged; the
new issue sold nt 100J, and old do. at !)6j.
Railroad shares were inactive. Pennsylvania
Railroad sold at 50, no change; Miuehill
at 5Gj, no change; Reading at 51 01-10052j, a
flight decline; and Lchiah Valiey at 62J, no
change: 1314 was bid for Camden and Amboy;
61J lor Norristown; 3G lor North Pennsylvania:
2!l tor Elmira common; 40 for preferred do.; 2!)J
for ('atawissa preferred; 3()i for Philadelphia
and Erie; and 46i for Northern C"ntral.
City Passenger" Railroad sharus were firmly
held ; but we hear of no sales, p) was bid for
Thirteenth and Fifteenth; 29 for Spruce and
Pine; 47 for Cueiiut and Walnut; 26 for Girard
Colleae; and 14J for Hestonville.
13auk shares continue in good demand for in
vestment at lull prices. Mechanic sold at 33.f;
and North America at 235; 139 was bid for First
National: 115 for Third National; 105 for
Seventh National; 1521 tor Philadelphia; 135 for
Farmers' and Mechanics'; f.(! lor Commercial;
100 for South wark; 100 tor Kensington; 58 for
Penn Township; 56 for Girard; 41 for Consolida
tion; and 57 for Commonwealth.
Canal ehares were dull. Wyoming Valley
sold at 52; 22j was bid for Schuylkill Navigation
common; 33J for preferred do.; 134 for Susque
hanna Canal; and 6G.t for Delaware Division.
Quotations of Golif 10 A. M , 137J; 11 A. M.,
137J: 12 M., 13CI; 1 P.M.. 137, an advance of
on the closing price last evenintr.
At Chicago niouey is quoted in active de
mand at bank, where only tho best customers
can be accommodated. Those who are forced
to the open market pay from 11 to2.J per
cent, per month on miscellaneous collateral.;
The latest dates from Cincinnati notice ex
treme closeness ol the Money Market. The
future is thought to wear a brighter aspect, how
ever, from the high range of prices of the
Western hog erop. If these arc maintained
without extension of cro.hts. the future may
turn out as hoped for; but if hth prices are the
result of credit sales, the evil day of settlement
is but deferred, not met.
PtfllAMLPUlA STQCKIEXCHASGB SALES T0-J1AX
Imported by De Haven & Hro .No. 40S. Third street
BEtfOKE BOARDS.
100 sh Eeadina Kailroad b60 62J
FIRST BOARD
10B0 6-2US C2 cp 1073 1 fiO s'i Wyom Val.sfj 62
MOO ao I07jj 2nl-enuaK 561
400 do luJ . 6 sh Mincuill 66?
H0O0 do 65 Jy Its 1011. lOsn Kead..trnsl.e 2S
3000 U til 80s, J els. 104 J 200Bh do slO elf
S8000 US 10-40s.cp.. .100 I 10 b do. . . .sl0.61-l4
eaoiJOCityosnow.lts.KHI 1 sh N Amer Hit... 26
lOshMech lint. ... S3 f j 300 sh Dalfll
CO sh 1'Iiil Ex 16 7 sh I,h Val. ...Its 822
4C0sli Big Mt ...b30 4' HOOsh McCuntook.s6 1
150 sh SusqC scrip... 63 1 100 sh MeKlheny . . .. 60
Messrs. De Haveu Jc Brother, No. 40 South
Third street, report the following rates of ex
chnnee to-day at 1 P. M.: American gold, 1374
(Vj)137J; SilverJAs and 4s,lo2; Compound Interest
Notes, June, 18C4, KiJ; do., July, 1864, 15 j; do.,
August. 1864, 153; do.. October, 1864, 14J; do.,
December. 1864, 133; do., May. 1865, llj; do
August, 1865, 104; do., September. 1865, 9J; do.,
0 ober, 1865, 94.
: .Messrs. William Painter & Co., bankers, No.
South Third street, report the following rates
of exchange to-day at 12 o'clock: U.S. 6a, 1881,
001 pon, 108 1084; i. R. 6-20s, coupon, 1862,
U74108; do., 1864, 10510fi; do., 1865, 106
Cl0ti4; do., new. 185, 104(3)1041; U. H.
10-40s, coupon. 99$100; U. 8. 7-30s, 1st
series, 104J(a,104.i; do., 2d series, 1044(7?)104J; 3d
series, K)4g;l04i; Compounds, December, 1864,
13,(13i.
' Philadelphia Trade Report.
FridA January 18 lhe domand for Flour was
entiroiy confined to the wants of the home con
sumers, who purchased a tew hundred barrels at $8
( 8 76 i barrel for superfine; 9wi0-75 for extras;
U'613 50 tor North wtstoru extra family; fl2
14 60 for Pennsylvania and Ohio do ; and 14 7617
for fancy brands, according to qua lty. Eye Flour
is held at$7 25$ barrel. Nothing doing in Corn
Meal.
Thore is very little Wheat offering, and prime lots
are in good demand at fu'l prices, but other de scrip,
lions are neglected. We quote Pennsylvania red at
82 7t a3-10; Southern do. at ff3-10(;i 20; snd white
at S3 203 40. The last sale of Pennsylvania Bye
was at f 1-87. Corn is quiet; safes of 4000 bushels
new yellow at 97v".Wo. Oats remain without change
sales at 6&g30o.
Nothing dome in Bailey or Malt.
Cloverseed ol prime quality is in good domand,
but common grades are not wanted; salos ot 600 ,
bushels at 7-75(3:8-76 t 64 lbs, ibe latter rate for
recleaned. Timothy aud Flaxseed are unobanrod.
Nothing doing in Whisky, and prices are nominal..
First Pine-Apple in England When Oliver
Cromwell ruled in these realms, a present of
pine-apples was one of the things which lull to
his lot. aud tbis was probubly tbo first introduc
tion of the frnit into England, although it was
known on the Confluent four years previously.
Four years afterwards aud Evelyn writes of its
appearance on tho royal table. But the fruit,
however much it may have been extolled, H not
the only good product of this plant. From the
leaves thereof is procured a obrous material
kuown and appreciated oy tho barbarous hordes,
of Africa and tho semi-civilized Malays. The
celebrated pine-apple cloth of the Philippines,
resembling the finest muslin,, is woven with the
delicate fibres of the uncultivated pine apple
plant This muslin Is embroidered by the nuns
of the convents of Manilla, with excellent skill:
and taste, so that the Plna" muslin ot tWt
Philippines has becoa. a celebrated artMl 6t
manufacture. Mi, Bennett has observed, in his
'Wanderings," that one of lhe coarser fibres
may be subdivided Into filaments of such fine
ness as to be barely perceptible, and yet soffl
ciently strong for textile purpose". llardwiuke't
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