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VOL. XI. NO. 5.
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, -J ANUA11Y C, 1870.
DOUBLE SHEETTHREE OENTd.
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FIRST EDITION
ins STATE ' IA7IDS,
Report of the Surveyor-General Penn
sylvania Land Patents Payment
of Deferred Claimi Com
parative Prices of Pub
lic Lands Since the
Earliest Times.
lion. Jacob M. Campbell has Jnst made to Goves
bat Geary the annual report of the Surveyor-Genera)
't ofllce. It 1b a full and able document. We pro
tent each part of It aa are of general Interest:
rATKNTED AND VNPATKNTED LANDS.
Dnrlngslx years, embracing the period since the
paeange of the act of With alar, 1M04, the rocords
chow that four thousand alx hundred and thirty
(4(30) tracts of land have been patented, aad that
the aum or two hundred and twenty-nine thousand
Ive hundred and forty dollars and six cents
(f 2tf Mo-ofl) have been paid Into the fctatc Treasury
through this department, as against twelve hundred
aud eighteen tract patented, aud sixty-eight thou
sand seven hundred and sixty-three dollars aud
fIfty-Bcvcn cents ($69,76.17) paid In during the six
yers preceding 164. Thin augurs well for the pro
pent system of collecting these accounts, for If the
bare publication or the law has brought about so
much activity on the subject of patenting lauds, It Is
but reasonable to expect that the Hen dockets, which
bring the matter home to the people, as they do, by
showing what trai ts are unpatented, will cause the
great body of owners of unpatented lands to liqui
date the amounts dne the State.
The act of 6th April, lbo, which restrains the Attorney-General
from proceeding to collect the liens
under the seventh section of the act of Both May,
1H64, for one year from the date at which the
'county land lien dockets" are forwarded to the
counties, respectively, was eminently just and
S roper, because It gives those Interested amplo time
prepare their cases, and send In their applications
and receive their patents, without Incurring the
additional cost that a suit In the courts of Dauphin
connty would Impose upon them. But It Is not
thought that it would be to the best Interest of either
the Btate or the debtor to extend the time thus
limited. To do so would be but to repeat, In another
form, the history of the act of 1838, for it would in
duce procrastination, and excite hopes that still
further extension of time or easier terras would be
offered. The mode now adopted for the collection
of these liens is believed to be the best that has been
devised, and a few years of active and euiwif -n-forcementor
it will wipe out, so far as can be fljup,
this long deferred and unfinished business.
TBI rATUSNT OF LAND CLAIMS.
What may have been the controlling motive of the
State for Its lung-continued forbearance In the past
cannot now be certainly known, though it can be
readily conceived that before the development of the
resources of the Commonwealth by a system of pub
lic improvements, aud before the network of rail
roads were constructed, which now afford direct
means of communication to almost every county
when money was very dltllcnlt to be obtained, and
the farmer able to do but little more than make a
living In the sparsely settled districts the lumber
and mineral lands almoBt valueless, because scarcely
any progress bad been made towards making avail
able the wealth contained In them, there were
strong reasons for allowing time to the owners
to fulfil the contracts made with the State
for their lands. And, further, it is trne
that the lands remained a guarantee for the
ultimate payment of the claims against them, be
sldes.the amounts In particular eases, as a rule, were
small, with the exception of the accounts against
what are technically known as "Applications" and
"Actual Bettienients," on which not one dollar, in
most Instances, has ever been paid. But now that
the lands have appreciated in value to such an
extent that the orjgitial price of them, even where
the whole of it remains unpaid (and the proportion
of luch cases to the whole number of Ileus is very
small), Is scarcely an Item when compared with
their present value, there can be no reason, either
In equity or public policy, why payment should not
be made and the titles tally completed. How mani
fest aud striking the difference between the leniency
or the State towards those owing her on account of
lands, ami the rigorous collection of claims against
other defanlting debtors!
Many additional reasons might be adduced why
these long deferred claims should be settled, not the
leastof which is the necessity and cost of maintain
ing this department. If the necessary measures
should be adopted, and the laws vigorously en
forced, 1 can see no valid reason why all the ac
counts, of every character, should not be entirely
settled In four or five years, the department, as such,
closed, aud the building and records, with a sulll
cient number of clerks to furnish official copies,
placed under the control of some other deportment
of the Slate Government.
1NBKCTRITY OK THR STATU ARCHIVES.
1 have frequently called attention to the Inse
curity of the archives of this department, and feel
that the Importance of the subject will Justify me In
doing so again. The Commonwealth having assumed
the care and protection or thego important records
and papers, undoubtedly the most valuable to the
great body of her citizens of any in its custody, it is
due to tftum that all reasonable precaution be taken
to preserve them, at whatever cost may be neces
sary for that purpose. I repeat what 1 heretofore
touk occasion to say, that "the Interior of the build
ing Is not tire-proof, and the accumulation of books
aud papers for over a century occupy nearly all the
available space around the walls these are all liable
to be destroyed by the merest accident. Should the
records ol this office be destroyed bv fire, the los
would be Incalculable, and the evil irreparable. If
it should not be deemed expedient to make the
building Itself fire-proof, properly constructed Iron
cases, in place of the wooden ones now lu use, would
afford at least comparative safety."
LAND PATENT RKOULATIONS.
The following regulations relative to issuing
patents are published for the Information and guid
ance of owners of unpatented lands;
I. The patent must Issue to the actual owner of
the land or. party holding title under the warrantee,
or to the executors, trustees, or heirs and legal
representatives of the person In whom title was
vested at death, or to the guardians of minor
Children of the deceased.
1L Warrantees who remain the owners of the land
warranted and surveyed to them, can obtain patents
In their own names (If no caveat remains undeter
mined) without furnishing any brief or statement of
title, upon payment of back purchase money, Inte
rest, aud fees.
11L Executors, trustees, and guardians represent
ing the warrantee, or Iris heirs, who apply for
patents, should produce evidence of their appoint
ment as such.
IV. When the land has passed out of the owner
ship of the original warrantee, or party who took
out the office right, the applicant for patent will be
required to furnish evidence of ownership.
V. The present owner of a part or a tract of land
surveyed in pursuance of any given warrant, de
siring to have a patent in his own name, can obtain
It by having the county surveyor make return of
survey of such part. In making the survey the
county surveyor should, besides giving the courses
and distances and quantity of acres In the particular
part, indicate the whole of the original tract by
dotted lines. The applicant will only be required to
pay his proportion of the whole amount due on the
tract, with fees. Evidence of onerslup to accom
pany application.
VI. When an unpatented original tract has been
sold and sub-divided, the several present owners
may unite lu an application for patent and statement
of title, and npou payment of amount due, with
patent anu orncr lees, a patent will issue to them,
the said applicants, their heirs and assigns, accent
ing to their respective rights and Interests, without
setting forth the particular Interest of each.
VII. In cases where it is difficult to submit the
evidence of title required by this office in order to
obtain a patent, any one or more of the owners of
an unpatented tract can, through this department,
discharge the lieu against said tract by the payment
of the purchase money, interest and fees shown to
be due by tne land lien docket, and the Interest
since accrued, and a patent can at any time after
wards lssuo to those entitled to it upon proof of
ownership,
VI1L The accounts in the lien dockot are calcu
lated to June 1, ltxtn. if to the amount due. as
shown in Its proper column, there be added the in
terest act-ruing from June 1,1809, to the date of for
warding the docket to the Proihonolary, at the rate
given lu the column of rate per cent, of interest,
and on this sum, Including the fees (or when fees
only are due), Interest be calculated at the rate of
six per cent, from the time of forwarding the docket
until the tlafu of the application for patent, It will
give the amount required to procure a patent.
A statement of the amount due on auy particular
tract or tracts, or any other Information In relation
thereto, will be promptly furnished ou application
to this Office.
1'BH'KH OK LANPH IN TKNNSYI.VANI A AT VAK10i:8 I'E
KIODH l'RIUEHITIiDIK 1'CNN AND HIS II ft IKS.
Trevlous to the 87th of December, 172, XIB 10.
f4i-H)t) per hundred acres, with the exception of a
warrants In the lower counties at 8 10. ($9-3.1) per
hundred.
rom the BTth of December, to the 6th of Au
guft, 1768. 9 (24) per hundred acres.
Frtim the Cth of August, 1763, to the th or Au
gust, 176ft, 10 10S. (Hl-SU).
IncHtloiis and warrants from the 6th of Jily, 1703,
to the 1st of July, 1784, 5 sterling (t22U2).
TRICES CNDBR TBS COMMONWEALTH.
From the 1st of July, 1H4, to the 8d of April, 179S,
10 ($0-66,) per hundred acres.
Hew purchase, 1784. From the 1st of May, 1788,
to the 1st of March, 1789, 30 ;n).
From the 1st of March, 1789, to the 3d of April,
1702. 20 (f)3-3aS').
Ftora the 8d or April, 1792, to the 1st of Heptcm
ber, 1817, B 0jl8-8:iS) for land In the purchase of
1784, east of the Allegheny river and Conewaugo
creek, unimproved.
Purchase of 1768, and the previous purchases.
From the 8d of April, 17D2, loathe sth of March,
1814, unimproved, at the rat" of fifty shillings
(I6-66S) per hundred acres.
Lands In the purchase of 1784, lying north and
west of the rivers Ohio and Allegheny and Conc
wango creek. 7 10s. ($20).
I ndrawn donation lands, from the 1st of October,
1818, at the rate of ft per ajrc.
Donation lands reduced, from the 86th of Febru
ary, 1819, to fifty cents per acre
From the 21st of March, 1814, lands within the
purchase of 1768, and the previous purchases, to be
at the rate of 10 (J26 -66V per hundred acres.
From the 1st of September. 1817, lands within the
purchase of 1784, east of the Allegheny river and
Concwango creek, at the rate of 10 ($26 66 ,), ex
cept such as have been settled on, agreeably to the
act of the 8d of April, 1792, between said 3d of April
and 1st or September, 1817.
Seventeen townships In Luzerne county Price
fixed by the commissioners: First class, fj per
acre; Becond class, $189; third class, 60 cents;
fourth class, 83 cents.
rRKKENT PRICE.
The present price of all vacant and unimproved
land Is now at the rate of 10 ($26-66) por hun
dred acres, except the following:
Lands lying north and west of the rivers Ohio and
Allegheny, and Concwango creek, $20 per hundred
Reserve tracts near Erie, Waterford, etc., price
fixed by commissioners.
Lands improved agreeably to the act of the 8d of
April, 1792, cos. ($6-66M, and 5 ($l3'33'i) per hun
dred acres.
. Lands held by Virginia warrants In the southwest
part of the State the warrants show the terms.
(Lands were taken under Virginia warrants as low
as 10s. per hundred acres.)
It is the practice In the Land Office to charge for
the exceBS of land above ten per cent, on fifty sail
ing warrants at the rate of 10 per hundred acres.
RESURG1M.
The Wonderful Vnnn of Huepended Animation
In St. lool The Olarvel fttlll L'nex plained.
St. Louis is in a state of great excitement over
the case of Mr. Heitkamp, concerning which we
hare already given some information. The lie
publican of January 3 has the following addi
tional particulars:
The fifth day has elapsed since the body of
Mr. Heitkamp passed into a comatose condi
tion, resembling death, and yet there is no
change in the color of his features, the touch of
his flesh, other than a small degree of unnatural
coldness. His eyes are closed as if closed in
sleep, and in fact, if the body was taken out of
the coflln and placed on a bed, and then shown
to persons ignorant of the circumstances, they
would most unquestionably declare the man was
in a deep sleep. There is no softening of the
flesh, no indications whatever of putrefaction.
There is an entire absence of that odor that is
alone peculiar to a dead human body. The fingers
and wrist joints are still flexible, while there is
an absence of deathly stiffness from the neck
joints. These facts, at the expiration of tho fifth
day from the time it was supposed he died, sur
round the case with great and increasing inte
rest, and many are heard declaring that the man
cannot be dead. If it is not death, then what is
it ? So far no reasonable satisfactory explana
tion, neither for the absence of the usual at
tendants of death (putrefaction, etc.), if he be
dead, nor of outward evidences of animation,
if he, indeed, bo living, have been given, and
the quotation
"God moves In a mysterious way
liis wonders to perform,"
Occurs to the mind as often as the case is men
tioned. He may be dead, and yet may be alive,
and at a late hour last night, a majority of the
peoplo conversant with the case inclined to the
latter opinion, and were quite free in so ex
pressing themselves.
There are accounts on record of the opening
of graves long years after burial, when the i
bodies, ouce clothed in flesh, were found In such
a position as to indicate clearly that they had
turned over. How did they get in that position?
Many years ago, an English countess apparently
died. 'Her body was placed in the vault. It
was known that she wore ou her fingers some
valuable jewelry. A few nights after the vault
was broken open, an attempt made to slip the
rings lrom her fingers, but they would not pass
over the joints. The fiends or robbers, in
order to accomplish tnoir purpose, cut one
of the fingers off. The blood .started,
and in loss time than it takes to write it, the
Countess rose in her coflln, aud was finally re
stored to her family and friends aad lived for
many years. Was her condition when placed In
the vault the same as that in which Mr. Heit
kamp is now lying, or his liko hers? There are
other instances where persons were supposed to
have died, and were clothed and coiiined for
burial, and yet revived and lived for many
years. They stated, after recovery, that they
were fully cognizant of all that was going
on around them, but yet were powerless pal
sied in every natural fuuetion, except
thought. Just such an instance was described
by Mr. Heitkamp to his daughter Josephine, as
occurring to him in a dream. He was robed iu
the habiliments of death, coiliued and carried to
the church. There the power of consciousness
and of action returned. Can It be that there is
to be a full verification of this strange dream'
that some unaccountable and Inexplicable
agency Is at work in this case for the accom
plishment of a strange purpose?
It is the fixed determination of the immediate
relatives of Mr. Heitkamp to retain his body
from burial until there are unmistakable evi
dences that putrefaction has commenced. Then,
and not till then, will the body be removed lrom
the room in which it now lies.
The atmosphere of the room in which tho body
lies is not at all cold. There is a largo stove in
the adjoining room and the communicating door
Is kept open.
J01IN BARLEYCORN.
"Bottom" sn a. Drnuk IIw tbe Talk to
Actors In lloeion.
The Boston Traveller of Wednesday has the follow
ing: Last night Mr. Stuart Robson failed to put in an
appearance at Selwyn's theatre, from tho fact that
Mr. tttuari iioooon uaa arunn; anu so air. rearson
at half an hour's notice performed "Bottom." Mr.
Blnsmore the part of "Quince," and Mr. Bradford
'Snout." With regard to Mr. Itobson. as Indeed
with anv actor who so far forgets the respect due to
the public, there can be no excuse. He muygetas
'drunk as David's sow" every day in the week. If he
sees lit. That Is his affair, not ours. Hut It does
become our affair, when, from the use of Intoxi
cating beverages, he Is unable to fulfil his con
tract with the management, and by that
non-fulfilment, disappoints the public. Druaken
ness Is an old falling with Mr. itobson, and our
only surprise Is that his debauch did not take place
earlier In the season. This is by no means ths first
Instance of it In this city ; for ourselves, we hope It
may be the last. The stage, aud the well-earned
reputation of a first-class theatre, should not be at
the mercy of a drunken actor. We had cherished
the Idea that Mr. Itobson 's recent experience In New
York wonld have bad Us influence on him, but In
this resmtct we were doomed to disappointment. It
will be borne in mind that there he appeared one
night on the stage in a condition, below the lerel of a
beast, and here is what a New York journal said at
the time sonccrning It:
"Htnurt Rolxon.w thought, hid kcn a Immhi from
to put, and. It wm to be hnpct, had rdomitil himself
froui kim m-rom, or t leant one of them, an J that le,
appearing before a reepectable aadlenee la a manner t hat,
to pat it In mild term, U fro inimlt. Only a few
years aio he held an enviable pnaition In t'hiladelphia, at
Uie Arch Htreet Theatre, and win a exeat farorite; hut he
fnll no o-ten from hie biirl) eetate that the pahlin loet all
confidence In him. He then rewlved to abitain from that
root of all evil- the Howiutf bowl d try and be a man,
but I hit tirm reevlva of hi" wax like the wind,
for we are told that lie hue oft been ' 'indie
noeed.' He came to thtu city with the Belwyo
Troupe, end for a brief time kept nti-eight, and by bin ex
cellent acting made himeelf afaTorite; lint on the Htn
inat. he appeared before the andienee at Walleek'e Thea
tre in a perfectly muddled condition, alike diegracefnl to
tiimxelf and the andienoe. He kept 'fnll' the lalanee of
the week, but did not appear before the 14th. On one even
ing Mark ;vni Sum waa played without any 'Uaptiia
Onwetree' the tragedy of Hamtrt without a 'Hamlet. Mi. '
Koboon ebon Id take warning in time of the fate nf ao
many good actora who have fallen to the very pit by the nm
nf John Iterlfyoom, for he will upset all who trifle with
him."
We have nothing to add to the warning above
given. If Mr. Itobson cannot heed good advice he
should suffer the consequences. What course the
mansgement of Helwyns Theatre may take In the
premises, we know not at present, but w feel cer
tain they will do what Is consistent with their own
dignity, and tho character of the theatre.
JEALOUSY AKD KEVEXGE.
A Young Woman Danaeroasly Stabbed, and
tho Would-be Murderer Cats Ills Own
Thront.
The San Francisco Bnllttiu of December 88 says:
A terrible- case of attempted murder and suicide
occurred yesterday, at a house No. HSft Clay street,
the circumstances of which are as follows: gome
time since a man came to this city and
took his residence at the house designated
above, representing the young lady by
whom he was accompanied to be his wife. They
remained there till to-day. lie had been for some
time Jealous of her, and to-day, while she was stand
ing near a bureau in her loom, be came In and
asked her If she was going ont. She said "Yes." lie
told her be did not wish her to go. She said she
was obliged to do so, and started from the room.
At this he drew a sword-cane, an) rushing
toward her stabbed her three times,
once in the arm, once In the back, and
once in the breasu Bhe ran into the hall screaming
tor help, and pursued by the fiend. The landlord
heard her cries, and coming out met them. Walch
Immediately slashed a razor across sis throat, stag
gered, and fell. The landlord ran to the police office
for aid, and while be was gone Walch got to his
feet, and, still nursing his deadly purpose to murder
Mary, started for her room again with a razor In
each hand, and his own throat gashed like Hauquo'a;
but fortunately for her he fell again In the hall, from
loss of blood, and was found in that condition by
the landlord and onicorGanuon. His wounds may
prove fatal, but the woman's are not dangerous.
Hhe is ftliout twenty-six years of age, and quite
handsome. The following letters left by the would
be murderer explain the cause of his fiendish acts:
M T Dkab Mother : -One hour before I die yon are run
ning in my thought. I am orrnwyoa will bear thia about
your pjt boy, but (od or tbe Dnvil tell me to. 1 cannot
retain my long. Ions; oath I swore when I left Toledo. Ho,
dear mother, I bid you farewell. Pntf for me.
VV. P. WAIiOH.
Miss AkniK I. Iltmii:-1 drop you tlieae few line be
fore your Jennie and myself are dead oorpsos. Iam tbe
murderer, and do it for revenge. 8lte has been false to
me, and for it revenge I have. 1 am the person. Hue came
from Tolodo, Ohio, my home. . We pasaod on the boat
coming from New York as man and wife. No if yon wish
to take care of her body, come and do so. Yon will And it
at No. 836 Clay street.
Pleaae have one of my friends telegraph to 1117 brother-in-law,
Frank J. Scott, Toledo, Ohio.
Mary Williams, this wife of mine, I saw In Toledo
for tho first time, and never spoke to me till Septem
ber last. I loved her, and she the same. After
leaving Toledo, wnt to New York, and took the
steamship Arizona, leaving on the same day for San
Francisco. I have not treated her very well ; some
times I would be good and kind to her; but jealousy
ran away with me, for she was the stand-mark of
everybody on the boat. She Is good-looking and
stylish. After we arrived in San Francisco, I
could not find much of anything to do, so I
bad to let her go to work for M nor week.
On the list of December a sister of hers came
down from Truckee. Her sister and none of
her folks know about her being with any
body. I met her sister In my rooms, and
was introduced to her as Mr. De Venn. That
Is the name 1 go by here and went by on the
steamer. At 1 o'clock I took Jennie to the theatre,
and let them walk ahead. They were talking to
gether. After coming home iu the evening she
said, with tears iu her eyes, she had something to
tell mo. I asked her to go on. She said: "Met, I
am a married woman. My husband is living at St.
Louis." I was so much surprised I did not know
what to make of it, but she cried like a child and
said she never would have told me of it if it had not
been for her Bister. She preferred to tell me her
self. I was so mad madness like a tiger's I did
not know what to do at the time. Thank God ! I
know now. The rest yon can and will hear about
the end or my little History.
To Frank Scott, Toledo, Ohio.
AN OLD DESPEItii)0.
Arrest of an Arkansas Traveller Who tcknow.
ledKes IlavlusJ Ileeu Concerned In Two Mar
iters
The following is taken from the Memphis
Avalanche ot January 3:
Information reached the police authorities
yesterday irom Helena, Ark., thata negro named
James 1 nomas, who is implicated in 1110 murder
of a colored man named tleortre Smith, on Dr.
Peterson's place, near Marion, about six weeks
since, bad ilea to this , place, me oincera ot
police were promptly put on tho traek of the
fugitive, who was soon arrested ana urougat to
the First District Station. He at first denied all
knowledge of the murder, even after being
closely questioned by Superintendent Tearne.
An unlucky expression, however, that the autho
rities of Memphis had no right to arrest him for
what he might have done in Arkansas, proved
that the police naa capturea tne rignt individual; .
and when he saw that ho waa "cornered," he 1
considered it best to "own up." He stated that
he and another -negro named Green Miller had
had a quarrel with the deceased, George 8ml'h,
and from words they came to blows, when
Smith raised his gun ana shot him (Thomas) in
the right breast, Inflicting a serious wound, the
marks of which ha exhibited. Tho instant he
fired the shot, Green Miller raised his gun and
shot Smith through the heart, killing him in
stantly. Miller has been arrested, and Thomas
was taken into custody as aa accomplice.
From his own account, Thomas seems to be a
regular desperado, aud this is not the first deed
of blood with which he has been connected.
About three months ago, while he was living at
Holding's Landing, he alleges that a negro
named Joe Allen got under his house, with the
Intention, it was suspected, of coming up
through the floor for the purpose of committing
a criminal assault on Thomas' sister. Thomas
beard the noise, and, seizing an ax, ordered him
to come out. Several of tho neighbors gathered
round, and when Allen emerged from his hiding
place Thomas seized a double-barreled gun and
shot him on the spot.
Immediately after committing the murder
Thomas fled and went to live on Dr. Peterson's
plantation, in the vicinity of Marlon, where he
continued to live until tho murder of Smith. He
seems to be In a fair way of paying the penalty
of his numerous crimes.
Tt appears certain that Monselgneur Du
breull, Archbishop of Avignon, and not Cardinal
Bonnechose, will succeed to tbe see of Lyons
and the primacy of France. Eight years ago
Monseigucur Dubreull was only director of the
seminary of St. l'oua. and but lor the death of
Monselgneur Thibauit, Bishop of Montpeliier,
he might possibly have been still in the same
obscure position. But in the early days of the
Second Empire it was decided that a funeral
oration on the first Napoleon should be pro
nounced in Notre Dame, and the Bishop of Mont
Delller was selected for the duty. After the
death of Monselgneur Thibauit, the manuscript
of the oration was found among his papers, but
in the writing of M. uubreuii, wno was shortly
afterwards promoted to the bishopric of Vanncs,
whence after two years he was translated to the
archleplscopal see of Avignon. He is the author
of one or two excellent historical works, of an
essay on national characteristics, and even of a
small volume of poetry. He has always avoided
plunging into theological disputes, and is looked
upon as a sound cnauiplon 01 tne rights 01 me
Galilean Church.
SECOND EDITION
LAXSST 117 TDLHaHAPn.
The Fight Over the State Treasurer
ship Ended by the Withdrawal
of Irwin Line and Staff
The New York He-
mortal.
Advices by French Cable Why the
Duke ot Genoa was not Made
King of Spain To-day's
Quotations.
fiwm wusiwraTojr.
Ward at the Navy Yard.
Special Dttpatek to Ths JSvtning TeUgrapK
Washington, Jan. 6. Orders have been
given to have the mnchincry of the Hartford
and Canandalgua, now at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard, thoroughly repaired, ready for soa ser
vice. Bids for tho work have been solicited
from outside establishments.
Orders have uluo been given to concentrate
all the force possible on the machinery of the
Nantasket, at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, and
have her ready for service as soon as possible.
The machinery will be put In the United
States steamer Antictam (now at the Philadel
phia Navy Yard) as soon as possible. Bids have
also been solicited from outlae establishments.
Hnppoaed Cnbaa l'rlvatcer.
Dtupatch to The JSvming Telegraph,
Washington, Jan. 6. The Spanish Minister
has informed the Navy Department that the sup
posed Cuban privateer which crossed the bar at
Charleston is the steamer Annie, and has on
board a large part of the erew of the Hornet.
The Frolic will probably be ordered by tele
graph to proceed to Charleston to watch her
movements.
The New York Naval Circular.
', The following circular has been addressed by
the staff officers of the navy to the signers ot the
petition circulated among the New York mer
chants, published in thero da-patches a few days
ago:
Decembsr 22, 1R69. Sir: The above memorial,
signed under date of November IB, 1H69, by yourself
and fifty-three other distinguished and influential
citizens of New York, has been presented to the
Congress of the United States. Your signature, aad
that of the other gentlemen associated with yon,
must have been given under great misapprehension
of the facts, which are that in every plan and scheme
of staff rank which we have ever presented, the
superior rank and authority of commanding otllcers
have been carefully protected as essential to that
discipline which is as much desired by staff otneers
as by the other half of the navy facts well
known to every officer in the service, aud to the
Naval Committees of Congress. We make this cor
rection In the conlldence that you will deem It
proper to withdraw your name from the memorial,
or to Inform us on whose authority you have made
the statements contained in It, which are so Inju
rious to us, and to which you have, under obvious
misapprehensions given the sanction of your honor
able name.
: We are, very respectfully, your obedient servants,
I Gkouob Clymbk, Surgeon,
I C. C. Jackson, Paymaster,
Alfred Aoaumon, Past Engineer,
1 iiBNBY Snydbk, Second Asst. Kngr., 1
and others.
1 It is understood that the memorial referred to
is to be circulated on 'Change in Philadelphia
to-day.
Important to DlMlller.
The following important circular, concerning
the new form of book for wholesale liquor
dealers, retailers, and distillers, has ju6t been
issued:
Optics) op Tnteknal Revenue, Washington,
Deo. 89, 1K69. The form of book as exhibited on the
new blank form, No. rw, is hereby prescribed :
In accordance with the provisions of section 43 of
the act of daly 20, to be used by wholesale
liquor dealers and rectifiers Instead of the form of
book now in use as prescribed In blank form No. 6i,
regulation?, series 6, No. 7, and In accordance with
the provisions of section ltt of said act. The said
new form No. 62 Is also prescribed to be used by
distillers, in addition to the books required to be
kept by them, in which to keep an account of all
spirits withdrawn from their distillery warehouses,
and to whom and how such spirits are disposed of.
This form of book will go into use on the Arst day of
February next, on and after which date every dis
tiller, wholesale ltqnor dealer, and rectifier will be
required to keep the acconnts as provided for in
said sections on this form of book, and none other.
Utncers of revenue are requested to afford every
facility to secure the distribution of the book for use '
by the date named. J. W. Douolaas,
Acting iwmmissioner.
FROM THE STA TE.
The Treasarer Fi ant Irwin Withdraws. '
Bpeetal Despatch to The Evening TeUgrapK i V :
Harrisburo, Jan. 6. The contest between
Irwin and Mackey terminated last evening by
the withdrawal of the friends of Irwin. The -
result was brought about by the known fact
that a majority of the Republican members of
both houses had signed a paper endorsing
Mackey. There has never been a more bitter
fight at Ilarrlsburg, or one Into which more
powerful and influential elements were thrown.
The official caucus to make the nomination will
be held at l'o'clock this afternoon.
FROM EUROPE.
The Dnke ai Genoa and tha Spanish Throne.
By the Franco-American Cable.
Florence, Jan. 0. It is officially announced
that the refusal of King Victor Emanuel to the
candidature of the Duke of Genoa for the
Spanish throne was made unwillingly, but that
he could not avoid It, owing to the extreme dis
inclination of the Duchess of Genoa on her
son's account.
French Surveillance of Cable Telegram
. Jtarun HaasBiuaun.
Paris, Jan. 6. It is reported that the censor
ship heretofore exercised over telegrams and the
admission of foreign papers will be at least tem
porarily suspended. 1
M. CLevran, Prefect of Lyons, it is decided
will replace Baron Uaussmann as Prafect of the
Seine.
This Moraine's Quotations.
y the Anglo-American Cable.
London, Jan. 611 A. M. Consols 92 S for both
money and account. American securities quiet and
steady. U. B. Kive-twentles of lbfltf, 8TK : of ISOd,
old, 86V j of 1867, t7; ten-forties. 84 V- American
blocks steady. Erie. V; Illinois Central, iox;
Atlantic and Ureal Western, 6tf.
Liverpool, Jan. U A. M. Cotton quiet;
middling uplands, lltflld.; middling Orleans,
llJill?'d. The sales to-day are estimated at 10,000
bales. California Wheat, 8s. 6U.9s. 7d. ; red West
ern Wheat, 8s. lUd. Flour, Sis. 8d.
London, Jan. a. Turpentine easier at 88a.?g. 80.
Sugar afloat easier at 9d.29s.
Ukkmbn, Jan. . Petroleum dosed quiet last
night at 7 thaler 8 groats.
IiAMBUKU, Jan. 6. Petroleum closed quiet last
night at 15 mare banoos 8 schilling. ,
Pas is, Jan. . The liourse opens with a declining
tendency. Rentes 7f. &&
Tbla Afternoon's Qnatatlona.
London. Jan. 61 P. M. Consols 92 for money,
aud Vi tor account. United Utates b-Ws of Ihs-j,
87 ; Of lMtifi, Old, HS; Of 1S67, 86V ; 10-408, 84 'i. Erie
R. It, 17 ; Illinois Central, liwj ; Great Western,
ij'viBrooL. Jan. 61 p. VL Lard declining;
sales t Us. 64, Tallow, tie, d.
FROM BALTIMORE.
Tha Tlalator Organized.
Special Deepateh to The Bvening TeUgrapK
Baltimore, Jan. 6 The Maryland Legisla
ture organized by the election of General La
trobe Speaker of the House, and Mr. Compton
President of the Senate. Most of the old clerks
and other officers were re-elected. The Gover
nor's message will be read to day.
The Operators Ntrlke.
The Western Union telegraphers are still de
termined to hold ont. Operators on other lines
co-operate and will soon join their Union. The
company has imported several operators, and its
business is partially transacted. A despatch
from the West says the oil men of the Pltta-
jurg and Erie regions are determined to patron
re other lines and sustain the strikers until re
instated. FROM JfElV ENGLAND.
Kndden Br nth of a Universalis, Clergyman.
Despatch to The Evening TeUgrapK
Concord, N. H., Jan. 6 Rev. Thompson
Barron, the Universalist clergyman of Newport,
attended a funeral at Fulton yesterday, in his
usual good health, and on his return he was
found dead upon the gronnd by tho roadside.
finance: mdcommekce,
; OrnoK or ibk Rventno TelkorapbU
Thursday, Jan. 6, 1870.
There Is considerable activity in financial circles
to-dav, on account of the payments usual at this
Eeriod, but It Is rather early to expect that the dis
ursements of enrrency, which in this city will pro
bably reach fto,ooo,t00, will have any percoptlble
effect upon the loan market until abont the middle
of the month, when it will begin again to flow Into
the usual channels. The active condition of the
Stock market yesterday seems to Indicate a chango
In tbe condition of the money market, and It Is quite
probable that for the next week or two there will do
a lively tlemand for stocks for permanent invest
ment. There ls-not much doing in the loan market, and
It Is chiefly on call. The rates are unchanged.
Gold opened this morning strong at 120 anil ad
vanced slightly on that figure, closing at noon at
121.
Government bonds, In sympathy with gold, ad
vanced from yt&X per cenu on closing prices of
yeBterday.
There was an active movement in stocks this
morning, and prices were stronger. There was a
more marked disposition to Invent generally. In
City loans there were steady sales or the old 6a at 95,
and of the new at KXi.v. 91 was bid for Lehigh Gold
loan, but no sales were made.
Heading Railroad was in demand, but holders were
too exacting in their terms; sales at 47 V s. a, and
47,'tf b. o. ; Pennsylvania Railroad was steady at ft '
( MX: Camden and Amboy Railroad sold at 119;
and Catawlssa Railroad preferred at any. fi was
bid for Lehigh V alley and 23, for Philadelphia and
Erie.
In Canal shares there Were sales of Lehigh at 33.
The balance of the list was neglected.
40 V was bid for Second and Third Streets Railway ;
I8jf for Thirteenth and nitecnth ; and 11 for Iles
tonvlllo. PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES.
Reported by De Haven Bro., No. 40 S. Third street.
FIRST BOARD.
: $1000 City 6s, New.ioovi 8 sh Cam AK. ll5tf
isooo - do ls.iooi lOOshLch N St.... 83
IHOUU UO IS. 1(H
100 do b5. 88
800 do b3. 83
fVOOO do.
.18.170
fiooo Pa 1st nit.... 97
11000 Phil AE78.... 83
12 sh Mlnehill R..IS Blr,'
Msh Reading... Is. 47 v
N)0 dO..60dWO,8Hf3 47 Y
400 do 18. 47
100 do..S60WU. 47.i
UK) do b30. 41i
800 d0....1s.c; 47i
iiooo do Bujtf
f 3-200 Leh 6s, '84. Is. 8ti
I-2000 Pa 1 m 6S. . . 9Ki
411 sh Penna RR.. 64)tf
10 IO..,
'ii do...
.18. B4,
.an. Mi,
Narr & Ladner, Bankers, report this morning's
Gold quotations as follows : -
10-00 A. M 12034-.-11-11 A. M ..120tf
104 120f ltHO " 120V
10- 65 " 120 V 11-81 " 120
11- 00 " ,.120? ili-OI P. M l:W
J at Cooks ft Co. quote Government securities as.
follows: U. a 68 Of 1881, UGvAllOM ; 6-SOS Of 1862,
1143114; do.. 1864, 113)4(4113Ji; do., 1863, 113
113; da, July, 1805, ll2X(112'i; ..do. da, 1867.
112?a'lll3; da, 1868, 112VOU18; 10-403, 1111UV;
Cur. 6s, 109vr109Jf. Gold, 120 V-
Mbssrs. VVii.mam Paintbr AOo.,Na86 a Third
street, report the following quotations : U. 8. 6a of
1881, 116116,'.' ;6-80 Of 1862, 11411141"; da 1804,
113,vH3?i; do. 18C, 113S$113V; da Jnly, 1865,
li2Us)'; da July, 1867, 112($113; da July!
1868, 112J4113; 8s, UM0. 1U1UV. V. S. PaoidO
Kit Cur. 68, KTOHSlfWX. Gold, lBOJ.OJi.
MBBSKft. Da Havbn a Broturr, so No. 8. Third
street, Philadelphia, report the following quotations:
U. P. 68 Of 1881, 116(4U6V; do. 1862, 114114V.
da 1864, 113t113i; da 1865, 118)tf(ll8i; da 1865,
new, 112(A112; da. 1867, do. lVilli ; do. 1808,
da, 112,V113; 10-408, 110VC4U1; U. 8. 80 year
percent. Currency, 109(.109x; Due Comp. Int.
Notes, 19; Gold, 1200120 ; Silver, 117119.
' H tonic Quotations by
Glendinnlng, Davis A Ca
York bonse the following t-
Telearranh 1 P.
report through their New
i. x. cent. nun a
, Con. Stock Scrip... 80
da scrip 84 J
N. T. 4 Erie Rail. . . 22tf
Ph. and Kea. R 94,'
Mluh.80utn.AN.LR. 8tP,'
Cle. and Pitt. .It. ... . 81 V
CtiL and N. W. com.. 6S
Chi. and N. W. pref.. 83
Chi.andR.LR 103
Pitta. T.W. A Chi. R. 88
Paotflo Mall Steam... Vi
Western Union Tele 82
Tol. A Wab. H Mtf
Mil. A St. Paul R com 74
Mil. A St. Paul pref.. 86 vf
Adams Express 63 v
Wells,FargoACo.... I9tf
United States... w4
Tenuesseee 6s, new. 46
Gold 120;,-
Market strong.
Philadelphia Trade Report.
Thursday, Jan. 6. The Flour market is quiet, but
prices remain without change. There la no demand
for export, and the home trade purchase only enough
to supply their immed lata wants. Abont 500 barrels
were taken, Including superfine at 4-25$4-60; extras
at 4-TB5; Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota extra
family at $5 25(36-25, the latter rate for Ohio; Penn
sylvania do. do. at 15 25(575 ; Ohio and Indiana do.
uo. aifa-itxae-tw; ana fancy orantis at jo-zrwso,
according to quality. Rye Flour ranges from 15 to
6-12 jtf per barrel.
There Is not much Inquiry for Wheat, but prices
remain without change. Sales of 2000 bushels Penn
sylvania red at Sl-291-80. Rye is In better demand ;
1000 bushels Western sold at 11. Corn meets with a
good inquiry at formsr rates. Kales or yellow at II ;
3000 bushels new da at 88(92u., and 800 bushels
white at 80a Oats are unchanged: sales of 2500
bushels Pennsylvania at 5S$67a Nothing doing lu
rianej ur aiaiu
Bark In the absence of sales we quote No. 1
Quercitron at (30 per ton.
Whisky is tlruier. 25 barrels Iron-bound Western
sold at $1 -02.
LATEST SIlirriNG INTELLIGENCE.
For additional Marina Newt tee Inside Pugta.
Raw yobx, Jan. 6. Tho siMinaiitp Java, from Liver
pool, nas paaaoa nanuy noo, aou wiu do up al t oil to-aay.
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA ....JANUARY 6.
STATS OF THKEXOIIBTU AT TITS XVBNINO mLBUBAPBJ
omen.
7A.M 86IUA.M 46JP. M 48
OLEARKD THIS MORNIKO.
Steamship Brunetto, Tomlin. Hew York, John F. OU.
ARRIVED THIS MORNING.
Stoamahlp Whirlwind, Sherman, M hours from Provi
Haiica. with mdM. to D. 8. KtAtura A (Jo.
hteamabip brunetta, Doaao, S4 hoars from Nw York,
(Steamer W. Wtillldin, RigRans, 18 hoars from Balti,
mora, with indue, to A. G rovaa. Jr.
bclir A. M. Kdwarda. Ilinaon, Id dava from Rlohmond,
Va., with aranlte to Richmond Uraaila Oo.
Suhr K. K. VaoKhn. Kialar, 7 dart from Boston, with
mrita. to Baeder, A da maun A Oo.
Bohr Lizaio Mauil, JBuoblsr, 8 days from Boatoa, with
naao. to oapiain.
hebr John Beattv. Price, 1 days from Norfolk, Va , with
hiDKies, eto., to (Minna a uo.
riohr Anna atoBbane, Adams, 4 dan from Jamas river.
With railroad ties to Albright A Flnle.
Buhr Buekeya, Vhaae, I da from Bordsntown, with
ndete. to oeptam.
Bubr Geo. W. Middleton, Campbell, from Boston, with
lumbar to Walker A Oo.
tiulur U. B. Burks, Lots, from Boston,
MEMORANDA.
Steaiuihip Juniata, iioxia, hone via Havana, at Naw
Orlnana diet nit. ,
Bieamahip Volunteer, Jonas, hemoo, aA New York rea
torday. tkbr IT. W. Msa-ee. Kiss, heaee, st Portsmouth 1st last.
STXXJ EIOXIX2 or ST owe
Why Lord Byron Must Have Been
Guilty The Physiological Ar
gumoDt, and its Bearing
. Against Him.
Vl... J. II lo a . .
e.v vaw a,, e- VUUUIIQ VUJ 3JNJ 1 U ICU i
argument ntlyunced by Mrs. Stowe to Bhow that
i i y . ..... i. , ...
I J I I I 11. 1 I 1 1 I (HI. IIBUO .1.1.1 .1 1' 111 I , WT f ..in A I
- j - - v "i. v. ii . uii.j ma vnuifl
of which she charges him, because of his abnor
mal constitution:
The credibility of the accusation of thA nn.
natural crime charged to Lord Byron is greater
ttan if charged to mort men. lie was born of
parents both of whom were remarkable for per
fectly unjjoverned passions. There appears to
be historical evidence that he was speaking
literal truth when he says to Medwiu of hi
father:
"lie would have made a- ba1 hero for Ilannah
More. He ran out three fortunes, and married r
tan away with three women. ... He m mm born
for his own ruin and that oi the other sex. He beiptn
Dy ieniu:iiiB i nuy vrnnu uiihi, ua Bjiclll Her lour
thousand pounds; and, not content with one adven
ture of this kind, alterwards cliped with Miss Qor
don." Jlfrtu-irt' Conret-safion.'', p. 31.
Lady Carmarthen here spoken of was the
mother of Mrs. Leigh. Miss Gordon became
Lord Byron's mother.
By his own account and that of Moore, she
was a passionate, ungovcrned, though afloction
ate woman, liord Byron says to Mod win:
I lost m v father when I was otilv six rears of im.
My mother, when she was In a passion with me (and
I gave her cause enough), used to say, "O you little
dog I you are a Ilyron all over I you aro as bad as
your father V'lbid., p. 3i.
Bv all the accounts of his childhood and early
youth, It is made apparent that ancestral causes
had sent him into tbo world with a most perilous
and exceptional sensitiveness of brain and
nervous, system, which It would have required
the inoKt judicious course of education to direct
salcly nnd happily.
Lord Byron often speaks as if ho deemed him
self subject to tendencies which might terminate
In insanity. The idea is so often mentioned and
riarnlt nnnn In lila lfUtr.rn. innrnnln n1 rnn.
vernations that we caunot but ascribe It to
some very peculiar experience, and not to mere 1
aflectatlou. -
But in the history of hi early childhood and
youth, we see no evidence of auy origlual mal
formation of nature. We see only evidenco of '
one of those organizations, full of hopo "and full '
of peril, which adverse inllucuecs uiii;ht easily ',
drive to insanity, nut wie pnysioiogieai train- ;
ing and judicious moral culture might have '
guided to the most sp'cudi'l results. But of .
these he had neither. He was alternately the '
pet and victim of his mother's tumultuous na- '
tnro, and equally injured both by her love and
her anger. A Scotch maid of religious charac- '
ter gave him early serious impressions of reli
gion, anu thus aaoeu tue eiuuien. oi an awaK-,.
cned conscience to tho conflicting ones of his:
character.
Education, in the proper sense of tho word.did .
not exist in Kugland Iu tho?e days. Thysiologl- r
cal considerations of tho influence of the body
on tbe soul, of the power of brain and nerved
over moral development, had then not even cn-.
tercd tho general thought of society. Tho school
and collego education literally taught him no
thing but the ancient classics, of whose power'
in exciting ana developing mo ammni passions
Byron often speaks. ;
The morality of the times is strikingly exem
plified even in Its literary criticism.
For example: One of Byron's poems, written'
while a schoolboy at Harrow, is addressed to
"My Son." Mr. Moore, aud the annotator of
the standard edition of Byron's poems, gravely
give the public their speculations ou the point,
whether Lord Byron lirs( become a father while
a schoolboy in Harrow; and go into particulars
in relation to a certain Infant, the claim to which
lay between Lord Byron and another school
fellow. It is not the nature of the event itself,'
so much as the cool, unembarrassed aianncr iu
which it is discussed, that gives the Impression
of the state of public morals. There Is no inti
mation of anything unusual, or discreditable to
the school, In the e vent, aud no apparent suspi
cion that it will be regarded as a serious imputa
tion on Lord Byron's character.
Modern physiological developments would
lead any person versed In the study of tho recip
rocal lulluence of physical and moral laws to
anticipate tho most serious danger to such an
organization aB Lord Byron's, from a precocious
development of the passions. Alcoholic and
narcotic stimulants, in the case of such a person,
would be regarded as little less than suicidal,
aad an early course of coinblued drinking and
licentlgusncss as tending directly to establish
those unsound conditions which lead towards
moral insanity. Yet not only Lord Byron's
testimony, but every probability from the
license of society, goes to show that this was
exactly what did take place.
Neither restrained by education, nor warned
by any correct physiological knowledge, nor
held iu check by any public sentiment, he drifted
directly upon the fatal rock.
Here we give Mr. Moore full credit for all his
abatements in regard to Lord Byron's excesses
in his early days. Mooro lnafcos the point very
strongly that he was not, de facto, even so bad
as many of bis associates; and we agree with him.
Byron's physical organization was originally as
line and sensitive as that of the most delicate
woman. He possessed the faculty of moral Ideality
in a high degree; and he had not, In tho earlier
part of his Uie, an attraction towards mere brutal
vice. His physical sensitiveness was so remark
able, that lie says of himself, "A dose of salts
has the effect of a temporary inebriation, like
light champagne, upon me. Yet this exeep--tionally
delicately organized boy and youth was
in a circle where not to conform to the coarse
drinking customs of his day was to incur cen
sure and ridicule. Th;vt he early acquired tho
power of bearing lare quantities of liquor is
manifested by the record lu his journal that, on
the day when he read the severe "Edinburgh"
artlclo upon his schoolboy poems, ho drank
three bottles of claret at a sitting.
Yet Byron was so far superior to his times,
that some vague impulses to physiological pru
dence seem to have suggested themselves to
him, and been acted upon with great vigor. He
never could have lived so long as he did under
the exhaustive process of every kind of excess,
if he had not reinforced his physical nature by
an assiduous care of his muscular system. He
took boxing lessons, and distinguished himself
iu all athletic exercises.
Ho also had periods in which he seemed to
try vaguely to retrieve himself from dissipation,
and to acquire self-mastery by what he called
temperance.
. But, ignorant and excessive in all his move
ments, his very efforts at temperance were In
temperate. From-violent excesses in eating
and drinking, ho would pass to no less unnatural
periods of utter abstinence. Thus the very
conservative power which nature has of adapt
ing herself to auy settled course was lost. The
extreme sensitiveness producod by long period
of utter abstinence made tho susceodinj debauch
more maddening and fatal. He was like a ane
musical Instrument, whose strings were every
day alternating between extreme tension and
J . wv. r I 1, ( .1 Tyi atari , I tn n n wo
perfect laxity. ve nave iuuuu" imwy
passages, of which the following Is a speci
men: 'I have dined reenlarly to-day, for the first Urns
since Bunday last; this being Babbath too all tha
rest tea and iry blssuits, six per diem. I wish fc
llodlhadnotdlued, uowl It kills me with heavi
ness stuDor. and horrible dreams; and yet It was
but a Dint of bucellas, and fish. Meat 1 never touch,
nor much vegetable diet. I wish I were in the
country, to take exercise, Instead of being Obliged
ICtnf'nw- o 0t SkomI JVf .