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PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1869.
DOUBLE SIIEET--TIIREE CENTS.
VOL. XI -No. 17.
FIRST EDITION
CS IX TV T.
Tho General's Early Career-!
Curious Chapter i'roin the
History of tho War
The Battles in the
Southwest.
The N. Y. 7w' Wat-hiLfcton correspondent
as unearthed some interesting facts from the
archives of the War PcpKrtincut relative to
General Grant's early command in the South
West. They have not heretofore been publicly
known, ana their publication now will prove ol
interest. Breaking of Omul's operations in tho
vicinity of Vicksburg, the correspondent says:
rahliiK now rapidly forward, we come to the
cverntions that nlled up the autiunu of
and the early month o." 18i:t to those Dinner
one tentative against Vicksbnrjr, the deeply
interesting story ot which has bo olteu been
told. It is weil known tht these attempts were,
each in succcfsion, lamentable failures. Well,
asain politicians, press, public and military
superiors grumbled and clamored. McCler
nand, a vain and ambitious political general,
declared he was "tired of furnishing brains
for the Army of the Tennessee," and was
assigned to an independent command. The
old rumors about Grant's personal character
. were revived, iiie was pronounced utterly des
titute of genius or cnersjy. Kveu Liucoln's
limitless taith did not extend beyond "trying
him a little longer." When fluully he ran the'
gauntlet of the batteries and turned eastward
to invest Vioksburg Irom therear.the au iacloua
enterprise CHlled forth condemnation from head
quarters. The kindly President afterwards
wrote him that he thought "he bad made a
mistake." It may be imiimned that the dissa'.is
faction was not decreased by the occurrences
that attended the early period of thcsicge. .
He was blamed for inaction, and it was sagely
predicted that Joe Johns-on would fall on his
rear and destroy him. Then ho was censured
for an attack he made and failed In. Theasatne,
towards the end of May. anoi her assault of the
works, which was also a failure. Aud then
there was that done at Wah.uyton which has
not hitherto been known uu order wai sent to
General Baiiks (then inventing Port Hudson)
directing him to rohuJ take the command of
the army lrom General Grunt ai d to assume it
liimRelf.
I have said that this fact has nver hitherto
been publicly known. It U not only in none of
the Lives ot Geueml Grunt not even in that of
Badcau, who bad access toeverswrapot known
. documentary material but thcie exists not a
written trace ot the necret among the archives
of the War Department or of the office of the
General-iuCiiieC ,
It remains now lo add a t.t'11 more surprising
fact ibe secret of this critical passage iu his
life was, until wltbiu n mouth, never known
even to him It so closely touches, was never
known to General Grant uiair-elf!
The oflicer who wus directed to uporede
Grant In command of the armv in resting Vicks
burg was, as 1 have already said, General Banks.
The order was an imperative one. Nevertheless,
General Banks did not obey the order. He
replied, expostulating against it.
s The considerations on which that officer
"based his expostulation will appear when this
remarkable correspondence sees the liu;bt. This
much, however, may be said, lie pointed out
that lor him to abandon h's position at Port
' Hudson would be to give up the key of the Mts
ntssitpi, imperiling not only the tenure of New
Orleans, tout jeopardising our possession of any
point ot vaniaue on that vital water-line.
To this rejoinder came from Washington a
renewed command to supersede Grant, and
when the impolicy of the step was again pointed,
ont by Banks, he was severely censured for dis
obedience of orders.
Well, this remarkable correspondence went
on and on, and bade fair to be indefinitely pro
longed, when suddenly Vicksburir fell, and the
military freutlemen and politicians who at
Washington had been plotting Urunt'u destruc
tion, were forced to tune their pipes in pteaus
and Jo Iriomphcs to the laurel crowned com
mander. Every scrap of paper braving on the subject
was spirited away inm the archives in the
departments, while Banks, putting the writings
safely by, kept ni own couusel. How it came
hont that a short time siuce the General-in-
Chief got wind of this secret, and, obtaining
copies of the correspondence, learnt for the Ural
time this notable episode in his career, it is not
for me here 10 tell. Let us rather follow out
one or to of the lines of suggestion that radiate
from this pregnant lac.
And, Brat, one cannot but note the absolute
mann r in which the destiny ol the captain who
biouuht the war to a close depended, in its
keenest crisis, on the will and decision ot one
man. The examples arc frequent ot generals
who were made or marred by what men call
chance or fortune. Bat this is not a case of this
nature: it is a tuiDg apart and unique.
For, nothing is more man feet than that, had
General Banks carried out his instructions and
relieved General Grunt at Yick&burar, Grant's
histone career would have been abruptly and
forever dosed. Vicki-burg was the knife
balance of his fate. Triumphant there, the
prestige of his victory gave hitu commind of
larger means and ampler opportunities, aud so
on, alon the entire chain of luterdepeudent
events, up to this hour.
But, suppo.-e he had been stripped of his com
mand a month before the tall o: tho stronghold
on the Mississippi t Wouli not his have been a
earner iu.nqtieea. lailure? Recall to mind
what bus alieady been set forth that be had
fallm ni.der the displeasure of the military
chiefs who ruled at SYaihnigiou chiefs who
bad before removed him irom command, to
which, indeed, he seamed to relaose
merely by hazard chiefs who had pre
vferred beioro hun, in one case, a second rate
politician, in another an obscure quartermaster.
That would have been but a beeearlv prologue,
which, including Belmont and Bhiluh and
Hamea' Bluff, stopped short, and roe not to the
swelling themes of Vickburg and Chattanooga
and Five F'iks. It stairs the niiud to
attempt to follow out the lines of conjecture
that soiree themselves In the event that
Bauk bad obeyed his orders and diiplaced Grant;
but the inference would certainly seem to be
fair enough that the opportunity for whatever
the President elect has grown to, as well in tho
Military as in the polit cat way, he owes directly
to that officer who, neiug ordered to supersede
nta, (kdiufti to supers' de him. It is warrauta
ble to assume that Vieks'jurg would equally
have fallen, without reference as to who tutebt
have been In command;' for the surrender was
the result ot the olockade, and was an Inevita
ble lesult. But. had Vicksourg capitulated to
Banks not Grant, what a different history of
tbe war woum mere nave ueeu to write i
1 ha V.v f ' it 1 . 1 A
The London Star says that for the past four
months tbe manufacture of the French Atlantic
cable has been actively going on at Greenwich,
l'be cable Is nearly similar to those laid down
in 1866 and 1800, with the exception of the core
in tbe present being larger, and weighing one
nrindred pounds ol copper more per mile. The
strain being 7 tons, while the strain required
for Iftvlig need never exceed a ion: ana to nam
in any laid portion the strain would not be over
a eoupbs of tons at the most. The first section,
irom Brest to Kt. Pierre, measures 4326 miles,
nod tbe second section, from fit. Pierre to the
United fctatef, direct to Mew York or Mine
point between New York Biid Boston, is 751
mUs long, making a total in mllesot cable, 307,).
The laree core of the cable is to attain areatfr
speed in transmission. Sir James Andenon
fuperliiterds the whole work tor toe coiuo iny.
He is ot the opinion that by keeping upon the
Milne Bunk, aud around tbe southern edge of
the Grand Bank, there can be no possibility
ot Injury to the cable from iccberirs. And
it Is a well-known tact that tbe Icebergs never
"bottom" iu over ninety fathoms of water; so,
by acting on Hir James Anderson' advice, the
line would never be out ot Ave hundred fa'.homs
of water. By June, 1860, the Great Kastern will
be under way with her precious cargo.
WILL MURDER 0 UT?
The Ilecciit Trrticediri
Hie.
iu Our I.nriro
The N. Y. Commercial Adoeriisir of yesterday
speaks editorially as follows: ,.
Tho police have been, It seems to us, wrongly
blamed for not iimiiediatrly dlt-covering the
murderers of Mr. ltogers. The case is a singular
one. (Suppose a man standin ' in the street;
suppose two men wrfifdo uotkmw him. have
no sort ot relation to or connection whn him ot
any Fort or kind, chance to ravs ami, and Irom
a sudden impulse stab him, cither because they
covet hl watch aud chain, or, what is not im
possible, (imply lrom a hideous impulse to
kill!1 (Suppose tic muideieis escape tor the
moment, and disappear f roui tho smut of those
Who chance to see the deed done ?
What is there in such a story to give a clue lo
the police? 'ibe detective who works up such
a case has nowhere to begin. He tiuds no
motive in tho murderer, of haired or cupidity;
no traces of a plan; no connection between him
aud bis victim which he could use as a thread
to lead him troui one to the other. His chief
opportunity lies in a genet al scrutiny of the
bauiits ot the criminal classes lo see where,
perchance, f ome one is suddenly mlssiug, upon
whom suspicion might lairly'rest. H'lw slight
is the chance of discovery under such circum
stances any one may see.
Some years ago, in Philadelphia, on a rainy
day, a man walked into a shop on Cucsuut
street, inquired the price of an umbrella, and
while the shopkeeper was speaking, stabbed
him to tbe heart; walked out of the shop,
before a bewiloercd clerk could stop him. aud
disappeared. He was not intent on roobry,
for he did not even take away the umbrella.
Tbe bhopkeeper was a niiiu of blameless lite,
without enemies; ana ail the uttempis of the
police to trace, the asassiu were fruitless. Nor
is it to this day known certainly who did this
murder.
Months afterwards two women were murdered
in anothsr part of that city, and a wretch
nnmcd Spring was arrested on suspicion ol
having committed the crime. At first only
slight circumstantial evidence pointed to
spring; and it is douDtful it he could have been
convicted, bad not his own sou, a lad fourteen
or fifteen jears of age, appeared as a witness
against htm. 'ibis boy, who accompanied his
lather in a vagrant and restless li e, related tho
circumstances of the murder. Thereupon the
father, a hideous-looking creature, accused his
sou ot being the murderer, and told a circum
stantial but incredible tale of juvenile
depravity, declaring himself to have been
the unwilling witness of his sou's crimes.
It so chanced that the boy woa' a youth
of singularly mild features and timid
bearing, while tho father was a person of re
pulsive features and gross auimalism, so that
nis tale bore falsehood upon its lace. The trial
was long aud intensely exciting. All through it
Spring maintained that his son was the mur
derer. Spring was lound guilty aud handed;
but, with singular malice, he would not, even in
his last moments, give a sign of repent ince of
his lie. The police, it is said, found reason to
btlieve duriug Spring's trial that the Chesnut
street murder was also tbe act ot Spring, and he
seems to have been a mere brute, given, when
perhaps under the influence of spirit, to an
uncontrollable or certainly uncontrolled and
fiendish Impulse lor murder, or passion for
blood.
Will murder out? Who killed Mary Rogers,
the c gar girl? Who murdered Doctor Bardell?
Mis. Burdell is still living In California, aud,
we have heard, irithtened an American travel
ler almost out of his wits, who met her iu a
lonely shanty in Lower California, where, on a
stormy evening, he sought a niuhi's todeiug. It
was surely a startling apparition to 'a New
Yorker, familiar with the history and character
of this womau, as well as with her lace, to see
suddenly those fierce, pitiless eyes gleaming
upon him in a lonely Calitornia cabin,
Major Hall's device to advertise the only
trace ot the murderer, the envelope, is certainly
bold and original. To oiler the companion aud
accessary of the murderer ealcty and three
thousand dollars was alto a shrewd stroke.
And yet suppose the two men were lying con
cealed iu tho same hiding place? Supnose them
both to become aware of this olfet? Would the
brute who stabbed poor liogers hesitate
to use his knife also upou the luckier wretch
who saw him do the deed, aud who is now
temi.teu to give him up?
NEW ZEALAND.
Tlie 3inorl War Again Persecutions of
111" UulOlllMtM,
7ow the London Utandarcl, Jan. i.
We can hardly reflect without a shudder unon
the perils to wliich hundreds of our defenseless
coumrjmen English men. women, and chil
dren are now exposed in new &eaianu perns
which the tmaeinaiion of those who are home
staytrs la scarcely able to yrasp. This is tne
wo i st calamity wuicu we nave to tear, in
anticipation of the next mail Iromew Zealand.
DiBastus in the held, or rather in the lores are
hutot comparatively smalt account in a distant
country, where loss of this kind of prestige does
not i lead directly to loss of power. The
Maories are acute enough to know both -their
strenuth aud their weakness. They have
never beeu able to cope with the regular
soldiers of fcugland on anything like lair t jruis, ,
and they uie not likely to challenge auy more
conclusions iu the open held. Their rare in
stinctive capacity tor war has taught them, long
be I ore this, that they have no hope ol prevailing
against the superior discipline and organization
ot Kuroucnu soldiers. They have become aw.tre
that their only chance ot success Is iu a de
sultory system 01 Dusii tignting, ana nicy seem
to have added, eitbtr in their dcspiir, or in a
new access ot savage animosity, a kind of tac
tics which, however it may affect the ultimate
Issue or the event, they know will be most
mischievous to their enemy. '
A systemaiic massacre ot tho whi'e settlers is
a form of warlare which weshall rind it ditli jult
to encounter or to provide auainst. living to
the nature of tho country aud the scattered
character of the Knglish so tlemrnts, which are
naturally dispersed along all tne most open a id
delenseless districts of the island, tbe Maories,
who inhabit the wooluu and mouutaluous
Interior, will be able to make great havoo
among the colonist. Ouroulj nlaces of strenath
are on the sea coast 'oo far away to atford any
real protection to the districts of whicu they a'e
the nominal capital". In the art of occu
pying and fouifjing detached posts 1u ttie
interior we seem to be interior to tbe Maor)e,
nor have we force sufficient to keep up suh
garrisons in our inland redoubts as miht be
edective for purposes of defense. The war
upon which the colony has entered is, in fact,
precisely one in which tbe Maories risk
nothing, and bavo every advantage, and in
which the Kiglish settlers risk all, and which
they have to wasjo under the most unfavorable
circumstance?.
If left to be conducted by tbe colonists alone,
we must be prepared to hear of many pieces of
news from New Zealand unflattering to our
national pride and shocking to our leellogs of
numanuy. we need hardly say wny it u mat
the colony of New Zealand is unable of its owo
resouices to carry on a war with the tlaorlcs in
an pffprtlvA munvtA flnlAnl.t. au a viiia a ra
neither warlike nor military. The settlers aro
men who have come to the country with a view
ol punning their fortunes, some by trade, others
by agriculture and by sheep farming. They have
neither taste nor aptitude lot tho business of
fiehtiLg, and they have naturally a great
reluctance to abandon their ordinary pursuits in
order to wace, at their own expeue, what must
be an unprofitable and may bo an inelorious
war against savage tribes. There has been no
time as yet fi r the growth of a native Europeau
population similar to the hardy pioneers of tho
Western States of America, able, to.imtch tho
Maories In their on gifts, and to flg'it them in
their own way. The Gavernmput itself has no
money to spend upon a regular army, and such
recruits as it is able to get for the militia ars
nio-tly the scum and refuse ot tho towns, and of
the older Australian settlements. It is uot sur
prising, therefore, that the iusigniQcant colonial
forces have proved themselves incipablo even
ot holding the'r own Bcamst the Maori insur
gents. There has been, doubtless, a good deal
exceptionable feebleness and mwnranagement
displayed by tho Central Governmental Wei
lington, in their conduct of this Muoticampaign,
but time is more excuse than we iu ourlmpa
tier.ee of military disaster". eera inclined to
allow lor the ill-success of the colonial arm.
The question is. whether the mother country
is prepared to noandon the colonists of Nw
Zealand entirely 10 thslrowa re.-ources, nud
w hetDer, if she does so, tho has elected, what is
a fair corollary to this position, to relcae ihe
eclon s's irotri their allegiance to Unglaud. The
colonists themselves lire beginning to nsk what
advantni'e they derive irom t lie imperial con
ncRiioi). seeing that while, in the event of a war
undertaken by England (without their consent)
against a Kuropeau power, they would be ex-po-ed
to the perils ot invasion and n'tack from
outside, they get no assistance from England in
pro'cctirg themselves against their ovu
enemies. They urge, not wiihout reason,
that this Maori war is really a foreign
war that the Maories are not enemies
ofiheirown maKing that they existed when
the English came to the island, believing it to
be a British cntony that the qunrrel Is ratiT
with tho Queen's Government .hau with tho
colonists: that there are no specldc grievances
alleged by the Maori insurgents against the
colouial authorities that tbe insurrection has
for its sole object tho throwing off tho British
supremacy, a thing which it concerns the
whole empire to d( lend, and uot only the single
colony ot few Zealand And before ws adopt
tbe policy of non-interference in New Zoiland
aflairs, It is only just that we should consider,
fcud answer, it possible, the case as submitted
on behalf of our New Zealand icllow-country-nien.
TJ1E PROSPEQTOR.
Ibe 1'ccnllnr Mum ol tlie Mineral Ke
K'ioud. There is a class ot nieu peculiar to our new
mineral territories to whom the world has not
yet done justice. In truth, they are but little
known, individually, though in .he Hgan-gato
they have accomplished wonderful things f
speak of those vagrant saints comm uly called
prospectors," who never mane nnythiug for
themselves, but ore always on the move to make
forunes lor other pe.pp. ltegular miners,
traders, aud speculators belorgto an entirely
ditlerentrenus. They come in after the way
has been opened, but with thorn the spirit of
adventure is not a controlling power. They
are no more to be compared with the genuine
"prospector" than the motley crowd of mer
chants and artisans who flocked over to the
New World In tho tracks of the great Columbus
are to be named iu the same day with that re
nowned discoverer.
The prospector is a man of imagination. He
is a poet thouah not generally aware of the
fact. Rasrged aud unsbaved, ne owns millions,
yet6eldoni has two dimes to jingle tn his
pocket; for his wealth lies iu the undeveloped
wilds. The spirit of unrest burns in his blood.
I)e ccorns worK, but will endure auy amount of
hardships In his endless search for "rich leads."
There is 1.0 deert to barren, no tiihe ot In
dians too hostile, no climate too rigorous for his
researches. From the rugged canons ot the
Toyabe he roams to the arid wastes of the Great
Basin. Hunger, thirst, chilling snows, and
scotching sands seem to give him new life and
Inspiration.
It matters nothing that he discovers "a good
thing" a nest ol" ledges worth say a million
apiece this is well enoueh, but he wants
something bettor; and after a day or two spent
in ''locating his claims," he is off again, nobody
knows where, olten with scarcely provisions
enough to last him back to Ihe settlements. He
travels on mule-back, when he happens to own
a mule; on loot, when he must; with company,
when any offers; without, when there tsnone;
any way to be driving ahead, discovering new
regions and locating claims. He locates so
many claims that he forgets where hia posses
sions are locited. It he discovered a lodge of
pure silver, he would die in.a week if ho had to
work it on his own occotiut. His industry runs
in another direction. Variety is the spice of
hie existence, tho motive power of his life.
J. Jtoas Browne.
CONFLA&RA TION.
Destruction of Valuable Painting.
(shortly after 9 'o'clock last evening a flro wa3
discovered in the ceutre of the second tloor ot"
the four btory building Ho. 080 Broadway,
occupied by H. W. Derby a9 a picture gallery
aud bookstore, generally known as the Dei by
Atheiucum. The ore was so:m extinguished,
but not until the pictures weie very badly
damaged by heat and smoke. Rothermei's
niatinitieent picture, ' Reccpiion at tho Waite
House by President L'ucolu." valued at S30.0DU.
was so badly blistered bv the heat as to reuder
it worthless. Several other pictures were also
baoly damaged, and a few coinpleiely destroyed.
Air. Derby i.stin ates Ins loss ou stock, bv tire
and water, at j0,000; tunired lor SDu.OOO. bv
city companies. Tue third and fourth doors are
occupied by the Saxony Photosrapa Company.
Their damage iras slignr. The building is
owned by tho Kast Kiver National Bauk Com
pany, ai d is damaged to thu amouut of $300.
Insured lor $I2.01M ty city companies. But for
the carelul manner iu wliich the Fire Depart
ment was handled by Chief Kegmeer Kiues
land, and t h prompt action of the Fire Patrol
In covertntr up the the remaiudor of ihe pictures
and s'ock, tlie lofs would hae been very much
greater. Officer tfeuuscu of the Fire Marshal's
Bureau name au examination, but could not
discover the orlpiu of the hie. There was no gas
light or flue near, and how the fire coalJ have
originated is quite incomprehunsjle. JV. Y.
'Jribune.
THE E UR OPE AN MARKETS.
By Atlantic Cable.
Tli In BIornlnir'H (Inotatlona.
Lonuon, Jan. 20 A. M. Consols, fjJ'for both
money and account. U. s. 6-20s. i. Stocks
firm: Kne Kailroad. 203: 111 uois Central. OH.
Liverpool, Jan. !i0 A- M. Cotton firmer, but
not higher: middling uplands lUUSd.: mil
dllns Orlenn-, lljlljd. Tho sales will proba-
oiv leach ill.UUO titles.
London, Jan. 20 A. M. Common rosin, 6s.
0s. 3d.
Havre, Jan. 20 A. M. Cotton on the spot
jji.; nnoat, int.
This Afternoon' Quotations.
London. Jan. 2nr m tt. s. f,.2n. 7fi
fetpcus steady; Erie, 201; Ilbnois Central, U34.
I.ivebpool, Jan. 201 P. M. Cotton firmer.
mlddliuR uplauds on the spot, lljd.: afloat,
11 jd.; middling Orleaus, lljd. The sales are now
cmiiuavcu io.oou bales. Cheese, 72s. Tar
peniine, 31s. 6d.
London, Jan. 20-P. M.-Tallow. 47s. Od.
Hivbb, Jan. 20 P. M, Cotton unchanged.
Fbawvobt, Jan. 20. U. s. it-tin. nni,.i.
Antwbbp , Jan, 20, Petroleum firmer at
bcuovr.
SECOND EDITION
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
TheAmcricftn Colonization Focietj
-Its Work for I8GS-TI10
Kcfgers Murder The
European Market
Keports.
ETIimiKiiiil and Commercial
FROM WASHINGTON.
Drxpatch to the Associated iY,
..WisiiiyoTON, Jan. 20. The report of
Hie American Colonization Society
now in session here, shows that the balance in
the treasury January 1, 18G8, was $342M. The
receipts for the past twelve mouths has ben as
follows: Frcm donations, $2(1, 10!); from lega
cies, Jlfi, 784; other sources, $8381; total, $51, 281.
The sum of !fr1.7GG47 has been expended for
tbe transportation of emigrants, their support
on the voyage, and for the first six months after
landing iu Liberia; $15,009 has beeu expended
for repairs to and sailing of the ship Ujloouda.
and $ 7,657 lor other purposes. Daring tb
last three years the treasury ba9 been enriched
with about $70,000 from tho e-tate ot one who
had long been a generous friend, the late Bben
Fairchild, E?q , of Bridgeport, Connecticut;
and within a lew weeks $6000 have been re
ceived from the estate of Hon. Ed ward Coles of
Pennsylvania., Appreciating the hih purposes
for which this society and Liberia were founded,
and which they promise to fuldl,
Robert Arthington, Esq., of Leeds, England,
has lately rausmltted his contribution ot $6600,
to be used in sending persons to Liberia. During
the last three years the society's outlays bave
exceeded the receipts by $62 000 The excess in
the treasury is thereby almost exhausted, aud it
its income bo not speedily aud largely aug
mented, the work must be considerably re
duced. The several trios of the ship Ooleonda
are noticed at leDgth in the report. The total
emigration during the year was 413, or 100 less
than In 18G7, and the total emigration uuder the
auspices of tbe Colonization Society, and at its
expense, numbers 12,995 persons. Reference, is
made to the large number of app'icatioos being
received from colored people anxious to emi
grate to Lleria. Peace, and agricultural and
commercial development, continue to pryvail
in Liberia. '
THE ROGERS MURDER.
Arrest of a NtiiptMi Accomplice In
Connecticut.
Special ' Despitoh, to Tie Mvcttuig Te qyrapJu
Watebbcby, Conn., Jan. 20. The Waterbury
American this morning has the following para
graph: "Monday night a New York detective
arrived here and succeded in finding a certain
Tom McGivin, who has been In the employ of
the Woollen Company here for the past two
weeks. The arrest was made upou suspicion
that McGivin was the party In whoso care the
letter was Intrusted by the Koaers murderer,
which was indorsed 'Tom will give this to
you," and which was found upon the ground
near tbe scene of the assassination. McGivin is
the convict who escaped to New York from Sing
Sing some time siuce, and succeede t in reach
ing New York by secreting himself under some
lumber on a barge. He was met in New York
by friends, who quietly sent him to Waterbury
by private conveyance. The detective who
made the arrest succeeded in securing tho pri
soner, and conducted him to New i'ori last
evening, and our city officials knew noihiug of
the matter until after both persons were on
their way. A brother of the prisonor arrived
here late last evening, lrom New York, doubt
less to put his brother ou his guard, bit was
too late."
Railroad Accident.
Sybactjpb, Jan. 20. Two men named Cum
niings and Brown, laborers on the Central Hail
road, were killed near this city yesterday after
noon by a train of curs. They both leave
families.
Fire In Mlnuesota,
CniCAao, Jan 20. Four of tho largest busi
ness houses in Leroy. Miunesota, were burned
yesterday. Loss, $5(),00.
, Tlie Kew York Money Market.
Jroiii the JleruUI. '
"An luieif stlnif and perhaps Important decision
u rpLilcrtd tu-unv bv.lie United nialei HuiiihluO
Coin I id connection with tlie mta brou(ttu oy lb Nutv
york Imtiks ,o vni ue nnt oi luu&iuttt to i uua-u
blMte Becurtlo", TUP Cm-f juhuch read lad opinion
Oi Ujb Court to llie etl'tM-t time uwrilllcies of luduit
eouetik, lou uio ly known Uirao per o-nu
ana greenuuctB arts vxt-uipi, irnui buvu muu
trtiiinre our bunks sua corporations, in prouurluif
tbelr uduI aiulviueut, Iihvh been nceuatouua lo
convert tlielr Kexourut-s lino United rtlniis bouda la
order lo mcupe lb! ioal Impost; but under me de
Cmlon jusl rbuuereu it win u suiuuie'ii, in luiiire to
llftVe IDeir lUUUS iu uiree per ueum hum KreeuuuMS,
'i be mony mar. et to-any wi extremely welt
snpi llnl, l'boob ft ralher uiiftrp demand win re
ported H.I tue uioeo, owiug bj iu- mui. iuui. uurni weia,
m mm elation oi iowei rl", had pjamuuej laelr
ei)ngemeDH until tbe close. Tue ruiluK rati wai
I Ll f 1 L e ! . iUMi.n'uuvv.uj,iB,iii9 uui i'iiiu uuiim,
kiid fvored rnstoniers. wlin prime collateral, wme
tieel sin-plied at 6. Tbe bttiikl are KluileJ wltti
uulioDBi baulc iiOtes wbicb have beea nuuplied bere
i u laige mnuuti from tbe Interior, and purUoulHrly
Irani tue Went, nud are Detuning to exubnie in em
at ibe t-uo-irenury lor tnree .er emus
about reventeen mil, Ions of wbich yet remain
imltinoed. This exenauga In hnneUolal bota ways
II provides funils lor tn- Immediate exp-naeao. tbe
Movernnient. "d ll Inoreaiea tbe legal re erve of
tbe baiikn, miauling ibe lat er in be still more
geueroiib lu extending accommodation to tbosa wlsb
i on loans nd discounts. Tbe inouftv market Is ai
present model ol good oruer, a"u iransacnorm lake
place wlth,,ul tuucb annoyance. It la wiiblu tne
power ot CouK'Cas lo preserve la's bealibfui slate ol
Hill H ly dull)- away with the preterit system nf
quurterly bank staiemeuts aud the suatms and dls
lurbaure bicb It produces la iiaauol circles."
Jh-om the Times.
"Tbe laoney mrket was lalrly aellve at 7 per ceo .
amorg tbe stock brokers. Tbere was aorne ronaiug
round near tbe close oi bank bours torouiparatlvely
moderate sums, to make up tne bank ana main ni r un
Ouy, but wltb tbe p-oumieot st x-k exebange llrms
and the ureal dealers In tbe public fduds me offerings
frorolenileisai7lieroeut. were more man eaual lo
tticlr wauia
"Tbe publlo funds were active for the old 5 20s ot
1SC2 at li'("li t'i per cent., and for iba uew of 1SU7
at yeneroay's advauce to liHs per cent. The otner
6 aos were steady at Uoniny'g prices, and tbe 6 per
ceu'e liMus again sold at lo; cent,
In tBeHcu'bern Biaie bonds ibe'e was a reoovery
InTeLnessee ol J4'Cfl per cent, on the old and new
aud turtber rise of 1 per cent, ou the 8 per ceut
l.evee bomlstf Louisiana and pnrcent oo ibe
Speroeu. I-evee bonds. Tbe old State peroanw
roe to 7S(D78 per cent. In tba a per ceut. Levee
bands we bear of transactions late ibis afternoon at
Hr,t, per cent. Tbe North Oarollnas, Alabaruat, aud
Mlcsourls were steady AlaOsmusaold atM per cant
for tbe 8 per oems.. and tbe oloaiug uuotallou was SI
bid aud W per cent. nked.
"Id the Hallway market there wa much flrmoess
lo price, and some exnlivuieat la Naw York Oe-trai,
wblobsoldat ltttkltM(fll"V cVl5,WlM.(i
fluctutlou of tbe uiaitet were freyusat mJ quite
sudden, Tbe Western Bond were generally firm,
and an advance of lWl.'i Pr cent, was had on Michi
gan Bou'bern.anrt per cent on C'evelftud an Pitts
burg. On the mlsce laneons share list. Pad II o Mail
was lower man yesreraav: tjaiiMin, nr.irm
graph, Mariposa, aiid the Express itocks higher,"
LEGAL INTELLIGEN CE.
Tho Hymen Homicide.
Cotjht of Uyrr and Tkrminrr Judses
Allison and Ludlow. Tne trial ot Hamuel Holt
for tbe murder of Christopher Byrnes remitted,
last evenlntr, In a verdict of not guilty. During
tbe pre Kress of tbe trial it was observed that
the most Intensely interested spectators were
members oradnerents or (tie two rival lire com
tratilf s, the Niagara (lose, to which tbe deceased
belonged, and the Franklin Knglno, In favor of
which tbesyinpHtbles of tbe prisoner were said
to have been enlisted; and consequently when
the proaecutlon would make a decided bit tbe
Niagara side of tho auditorium would titter
glefnliy, wntle, on the other hand, the Franlt
liu side gave audible iodlontionH of nailsraotlon
at any nourish made by eounsel for thederease.
When Ihe Jury came into court to render their
verdict. Judge Allison, anticipating disorderly
cono uot from those parties, warned them that
any demonstration .made In the o nirt roooa
would meet with summary punishment. Not
wT bstindlntf this camlou, when the verdict
was announced tbe Franklin side clapped their
limit's and tossed np their bats. To of tne
otlenueiH were Detected by tho ofllsers aud
brought up before the Court, dodge Allison
said he would make an example of them, in
oroer to teach others tout this was a court of
justice, and not an ordluary theatre, and that
decorumshmiia be observed, under penally of
severe punlsbment for tbe breaou of it. They
were sent below for forty. eight bours.
This morning the prisoner's counsel made a
motion for the speedy Impanelling ol a Jury
for the trial nf the hill charging him wlttt the
murder of Ed ward itvrnes, which motion the
(Jourtdirected to be filed.
I lie Illll Mnrder-JIrn. Tnltchcll lu
Court.
This morning, before Judges " Allison-and
Pelrce, Mrs. Twitchell was brought up for trial,
having been conveyed from tne prison to the
court bouse in a carriage attended by her unole
and the Bherlrt's oltlcers. She was attired In
black and closely veiled, but talked l'reoly with
her counsel and her friends wbo sut about the
dock in wblch she was placed. Toe District
Attorney called attention to tne ease, saying:
"May it please your Honors, I bold in my hand
tbe bill of indictment charging George 8.
Twltchel), Jr., and Camilla IJ, Twitcttell with
the murder of Mary E. Hill. To this Indict
ment the prisoners bave pleaded not guilty,
and the prisoner In the dock baa claimed a
separate trial. I now move that a Jury be called
to try ber case."
Counsel for the prisoner opposing no objec
tion, tbe Court directed the empanelling of the
Jury to bo proceeded with.
Haranel Coopor called; had conscientious
scruples against capital punishment, and had
formed anopluloiiof the guilt or innocence of
tbe prisoner, and was challenged for cause by
tho Common wealtn.
John H. Cliyton had formed an opinion, and
was iheiefore challenged by the Com tnoa wealth.
Bamuel Haines bad formed an opinion, and
was challenged by tho Common wealth.
Lemuel 8. Hunt had neither formed an
opinion nor entertained scruples, and was
cnosen as the first.
Leopold Lawrence was not disqualified by
scruple or opinion, and was selected as ajuror.
Martin Hmltn had neither opinion nor scru
ple, and whs not challenged.
Simon Funfe bad conscientious soruples
against capital punishment, and was challenged
by the Commonwealth.
Hugo Ingram was not disqualified by opinion
or scruple, and was not challenged.
Conrad Michael bad neither scruple nor opi
nion, and was accepted.
Henry Thompson bad formed an opinion,
and was therefore challenged by tbe Common,
wealth.
Thomas Rementer was disqualified besause
of opinion, and was challenged by tbe Corn
monweaitb.
Cuarles Pressler waschaHenged by the Com
monwealth because of opinion.
William Stewart was challenged because of
opinion. Upon being examined by tbe Court,
be said be thought be could Judge the case in
dependently of bis opinion, but bis memory
was so defective that be feared be oould not
recollect tbe faots as the trial progressed. The
Court sustained tbo challenge.
rani Haliowell bad conscientious scruples on
tbe subject of capital punishment, and was
challenged.
Nathaniel Cunningham wa challenged be
cause ol conscientious soruples against capital
punishment.
William Uulbortwas challenged because of
conscientious soruples.
Charles F. Cai man was challenged because of
conscientious scruples.
William Lensluburger was challenged be
cause of cons-ientious Hcrunlos.
Henry T. Fisher was challenged because of
opinion,
A. F. Granier was challenged because of
opinion.
CbriRitan Hopnngle was challenged because
of opinion.
Eiviiie L. Granville was challenged because
of opinion.
David Wallace was challenged because of
opinion.
Jacob Weiss was challenged because of bU
scruples.
Bamuel C. Clark was challenged because of
his scruples.
Fernando Wood was not disqualified by soru
ples or opinion, and was accepted, making the
six! b Juror.
George Gilbert was challenged because of
scruples, -
William Bo wen was challenged because of his
scruples.
Michael Grllner was challenged because of
soruples.
James Robinson was not disqualified, and
was accepted.
Coubp OF Quarter Bessions Judge Brew
ster, The pi iaou cases, by tne commendable
industry of Colonel Dechert, tbe Judge, aud the
Jury, bavlnit so reduced In number as iu per
mit attention to ball ain& his Honor this
morning gave tbe following notice of tbe regu
lation of the business
All prosecutors, defendants, and their coun
sel should take notice that all the ball cases
will be taken up. called to. their order, and
finally disposed of.
The call will commence to-morrow morning
at 10 o'clock, and no case will be passed or con
tinued without legal reason assigned. Not
more than fifty casei will be disposed of auy
day. Where prosecutors In cases of misdemea
nor do not attend, they will be liable to have
the costs imposed upon them.
FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
OrricH Or trh Kvenino TklK9rph,
Wednesday, Jan. 20 ltw9. J
Thcte was ruther more disposition to operate
in stocks this morning, and prices generally
were steady. Government securities wero
firmly held. 1073 was bid for 10-40; 112J for
Us of 1881; 113 for '02 5-20s; 109J for '64 5 20s; 110
lor'CS 5-20s; and 1084 for '67 5 20 i. City lo ins
were unchanged; the new issue sold at 1003.
hailrond shares were tne most active on the
lUt. UeadinR sold at 47!?47J. a decline of d;
Pinusvlvania Kailroad at 67if'57i, an advance of
i; Philadelphia and Erie at 27, no change; Le
hmh Valley at 6t"ij, no change; and Northern
Central at 49. an advauce of i. 129 was bid for
Camden and Amboj; (174 for Noirlstown; 33
for Worth Peuusvlvanla; aud 33lor Catawlssa
iiralorrml.
City Passenger Railway shares were In
fair demand. Second aud Third sold at 40, no
change: Chesnut and Walnut at 47. no chanjjc;
(Jreeu aud Coates at 373H, an advance of 1;
and Thirteenth and Fllteenth at 1717j, an
advance I; 35 was bid for Fifth and Sixth; 25
for Spruce and Pine; and Hi or Hestoavillo.
Hank shares were firmly held at mil prices.
Glrard sold at 69, no change. 235 was bid for
North America; 1 17 for Pnilalclphla; aud 123
lor Farmers' and Mechanics'.
Canal shares were unchanged. Susquehanna
Canal sold at 12, and Lehigh Navigation at 294.
10 was bid for Schuylkill Navigation common;
20 tor pteierred do.; and 49 for Delaware
Division,
We understand an attempt Is to be made in
Convreis to extend still further protection to
tbe hont manufacture by increasing tbe pre
sent exorbitant duties on foreign salt. Soma
idea of tbe wisdom and justice ol this contem
f la'ed measure may bo lorrncd by contrasting
he relation between the present duties and th
costof importing it Into this country. The brig
Goodwin, from Cadiz, resulted as follows:
Cost of cargo, 15,340 bushels, gold , $1169'83
Duty on tamo 1987 -DB
Percentapc of duty to first cost . . T70
Again: Brig Sarah Kennedy, from Bonaire to
New York :
Cost ot cargo, 16,710 bushel", gold . $150000
Duty on same 2160 00
Percentnpe of duty to first C7st . . 1'4I ,
Now salt is an important article of commerce,
not only as a source of revenue and on article of
trade, but far blfiher ren-ous, aud sonnd policy
In the Government, should protnply lend to a
reduction of the present tai'itf on the importa
tion of foreiarn salt by at least one-half. Tho
Irtome to the Government would probably be
larger than at present; or If other ise, the inter
ests of the public would not be sacrificed as now
to greedy monoplies. The fact-is that the pre
sent tariff on the foreign article should be
reduced.
Since the death of Philin P. Kelly, banker,
Mr. B. K. Jamison, of the late firm of P. P.
Kelly & Co., has associated with him in the
banking and stock business Mr. William M.
Stewart, late of the firm of Sutton & Stewart,
bankers, Indiana eouuty. Pa., and will resume
business at the old stand, northwest corner of
Third and Chesnut streets, under the name of
P. K. Jamison & Co. Mr. Jamison is well known
on Third street as an able business man.
The West Jersey Kailroad Company have
declared a seml-aununi dividend of five per
cent , clear of national tax-.
Uy an advert scment in another column it
will be seen that the Fame Insurance Company
proposes to enlarge its business operations by
removing its otlico to a more favorable location
and by au Increase of capital. Tbe office of the
company will be rcuovd to tho National Bank
of the Republic, No. 809 Chesnut street, and
the capital etock will bo Increased, in accord
ance with a supplement to its charter, to
$200,000, in shares of $50 each, pavable on
subicribinp.or in instalments of $10 each on the
first days of March, May, July, September, and
November next eusuiup. The Fame Insurance
Company i well known tor its reli
ability and tbe promptness of its
payments of losses. The prndent
management of its alfaira for twelve years has,
without Impairing its capital, established it on
a firm basts and secured lor It an enviable repu
tation among insurers for reliability and fair
dealing. Several well-known business men .
have recently been elected members of the
Hoard of Directors, and they will doubtless
Iniuse new energy inti the management ot the
a Hairs of the company. Wdlam H. Bbawn,
Ksq., tbe Vice-President, is President of the
National Bank ot the Republic. Tbe well-known
secretary of theconipan-.vvillirtujsl. B'anchard,
Esq., will continue to bold that olliee. Appli
cations have already been made 'or the greater
portion of tbe new 6tock of ihe Fame Insurance
Company. An allotment.howev-r, of such stock '
a may not promptly be taken by tho sto"khold
ers by the Hist ot February will bs made to new
subscribers.
PniLAUKLPUlA STOCK KXCIIANGB BILKS TO-D1T
Reported by Do Haven & Bru., h0. 40 b. Third street
JTlitST B ARD.
fsoeocity 8, New.,
1110
toiian Beftd R-h.bso. 4V
10(1 do.......60. 47.4
iUU d0........8cft. 7?i
100 dO ,...,.....47 44
28 sh Feuna B....ls. f7X
10 1 do.........b 0, 61 g
11,8 do S60u 67
4 sh N Ceiit,n&WD.Is 49
lO.lsb Shamok CbfiOu S
24 an l aud 8d...... 46
it sh Ches & Wal.... 47
80 so Or & Coates...... 37
SO do.... 88
48 sh 13th A ISth......... 17
4 do nnnm...o- 17
t'iUU uo......
IIUM do
two do
(soo do...
IttiO do ..
IB..1WI1,
...LW);,
.....lOO1,
,....IOOJj
limio du
11000 Fbll A Krle 6s..... 87
i Oi M) Lh tta.gold 1...C. 88H
liooo do ............... 08
t2O0U do is. SB').,
fiuuu uui,MmiH.H,
1(KM do 8!l
8 Bh Olrard Bk....M. 19
2 ab lb V R 6H
iuu sn ruu a, Hi,...V. 27
Messrs. Jay Ccoke & Co. quote Govern
ment securities, etc., as follows: U. 8. 6s of ,
1881, 1121124; 5-Z0B of 18G2, 113jrJll3i;
6-20?,- 1864, 109 il 09.1: 5-20s, Nov., 105, 109J
110J;July, 18C5, lOSjlOBi; do., 18C7, 108frtf
108; 00. 1868. 10S5fdlU9; 10-40s, 107i108,
Union Pacitic bouds, lOlaMH. Gold, 135j.
Messrs. De Haven &Hromor, No. 40 Soatb
Third street, report the following rates of ex.
change to-day at 1 P. M. : D. 8. 6s of 1881, 112
ivin do. 1362, miamn do., isu4. roo
1094; do., 1865,109 Jffll 10;; do. 18C, new, 108J
1083; do., 1867, new, 108A108j; do., 1868, 108
63108; do., 6s, 10-40s, 107J($9t07. Due Com
pound Interest Notes, 194 ; Gold, 13541354:
Silver. 1300132.
Messrs. William Painter & Co., bankers.
No. 36 South Third Street, report the following
rates of exchange to-day at 12 o'clock:
United States 6s, 1881. 112 41121; D. 8. 6-20v
1862, 1131134; do., 1864, 10941093: do., 1865.
10940110; do. July, 1866, lliHlusj: do. July,
1867, 1084'c6108; do. 1868, 103$109; 10-406, 107J
(107$. Compound Interest Notes, past due
119-25. Gold, 135413f)j.
Philadelphia Trade Report.
Wednesday, Jan. 20. The higher grades of
Flour are In email supply and command foil
figures, but other descriptions are Inactive
and prices are declining. Bales of 200 barrels
including superfine, at 855 25; extras at to
6 50; Iowa, Wlsoonsin, and Minnesota extra;
family at $7-258; Pennsylvania and Ohio do.
do. at S8'60t0'50, and faney at Sll13. Rye
Flour commands $7-5033. Nothing doing in
Corn Meal.
Tbere Is very little "Wheat coming forward,
but tbe demand Is limited. Hmull sales of red
at Jl-80t 90, aud amiier at $22 05. Hye Is un
changed. We quote Pbansylvuuia and Western
at ?1 60(41-62. In Coin but llctie movement.
300(1 bushels new yellow at sold at 8K$9lo. for
damp and dry. Oats ure uucbo ugod. We quote
at72jii75o. for Western, and 60(3i70o, for Penn
sylvania. Cloversced continues In gcod request at the
late advance. Bales of 5UU basnels at ;s-759.
Timothy Is firm at 83 75. Flaxseed is in good
request at S2 62(s2 65.
Bark Is more inquired after, and 80 hhds. No.
1 Quercitron sold on secret terms.
Whisky sells at 81 01 04 per gal. , tax paid.
LATEST BUirma IA'TELHEt'.
For additional Marine Newt tee Inside Paget)
TBY TEIiKUUtFH.J
Hiw Tojk. Jan. 2o Arrived. ateamahlD Java.
trom tilverpuol. "
(.By Atlantic Cable.)
London nun hy. juu.2o,-Tne ateaaishlp Austrian
arrived yesterday,
PORT OF PHILl-DgliPHIA,..., JA.NUABY 80.
STATX OV TUKKMOMKTKa AT TBS IVINIMa TCLB.
HBAPtt OWICU.
I A. M-.m 28 ,11 A. M M l P. M.... 40
CLEAHKD THI4 MOKNINS.
Brig Clara p. uioba. Parker. MatauEas. John Mason
4fB CO
Br. ftubr B. A. Ford. Carpenter, Cftlbarlea. CX O, Va
B 'lokmbtl0 &,YUDe' curt. l"bury,
ARRIVED THT8 MORN INTO.
Bteamshlp Wyoiuinu, Tai. 70 Hour rom Bavan.
nan. wltli cottou. hlden. rice, etc., to Philadelphia aiid
Woullieru Mall Hteaninhip Co. Paaseairra Mr. J8.
llel.er Mr. 1L Hohaff.r, Ml,,. Moi?t.fur. Mrt .J.
Xaggart, Mr. J Hsan aii. Mr. uror. and Mr. Brett.
bteawHiilp Whirlwind. Oet-r, 88 honra irtun Provi
dence, with mdne. to I). K dleisnn A Oo.
Nteamer Klcliard Wlllliig, thindilT. 18 hours lrom
Baltimore, with indue, to A. Urovea, Jr.
Corretondmce of the rhtimuhihia JSxehanoe.
Lkwich, Del., Jan. m-a P. M Tba barque Wood
land, from Liverpool for Polladelulya. entered the
bay tbls forenoon, and itood up wllliout oommuul
catinv with the Breakwater.
Wind . JOSEPH lAJKTRA.
MKMOKANDA.
Bohr Thos. T. Tanker, Alien, heuoe,-t Bavannah
yenterday.
Bohr Mary H. Wentcntt. Handy, from Hlnchani
loi Philadelphia, at Holmes' Hole 18th usb
POMKSTlO PORTa
New Tobk. Jan. 19. Arrived, steamship Nabnutka.'
Guard, trom Liverpool. r ,"UI
Hieamahlp Oen. bedgwlok, Ollderdale, from Oal
Vaton. (uaamsblp Champion, Ickwood, from daAllMton.'
itu itaitray, CmbuI. from Jaiuna,