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F1IILADELPIIIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY" 24, 1871.
DOUBLE SHEET TIIIlEti CENTS.
FIKST EDITION
ERIN'S MILES IN FIEW YORK.
Philadelphia Sympathizers.
Church Canons and Suicides
Tragedy on Long Island. '
Arrest of a Noted Bigamist.
The Forger Van Ecten.
Etc., i:tc.( Iftc. Etc., Etc.
THE IRISH EXILES.
A Itlnltltndeof VIllori-The Philadelphia Dele
Kiitlon. More than 3000 persons called yesterday to
eee the Irish exiles at Sweeny's Hotel, and it
was late before the doors were closed, and all
were refused admission, in order that tbe exiles
might dine in quiet. O'Douovan Rossa made
(several calls during the day, but the others re
mained indoors until the eveniug. Desp'uehes
were received from all part of the United
States, expressing sympathy and urging the
exiles to beware of the machinations of politi
cians and demagogues. Many delegations, prof
fering hospitalities, were received from this aud
adjoining States.
The exiles formally declined proffers of hos
pitality from Irish societies of Brooklyn, Phila
delphia, Jersey City, and numerous" Hudson
liver and other towns. A committee of Irish
men waited ou Controller Connolly in the after
noon to make arrangements in relation to the
exiles. The other released prisoners are ex
pected to reach New York 011 Thursday or
Friday.
The Philadelphia delegation, headed by Pat
rick Murphy and James Monaglian, tendered a
ccrdlal address to the Irish exiles yesterday,
which closes with the following kignliicunt sen
tences: "We assuie you that there are among
us none of the political tricksters who wish
to make capital out of their pretended patriot
ism, and who only embark in Irish organiza
tions for the purpose of gaiuiuc further influ-.
ence to further their own base and eelilsh ends.
We entirely repudiate the political hacks; and
we are pleased with the course jyou have pur
eued since your arrival in this country.
"We hotic that you will be enabled to combine
in one harmonious whole iho jarring elements
that exist among the Irish people bete, aud tha
you will bo able to form an organization which
will be the terror of the tyrants of our race
and assist, when tho hour to strike arrives 1
tearing asunder the chains that have so long
held in abject slavery our beloved Erin."
The St. Michael's Temperance BenevoW 1
Society of Jersey City presented a series
resolutions, expressing sympathy with ill e
exiles, and approving their course. O'Donovau
Kossa, in replying, said that temperance was
looked upon by all Irish patriots as their great
est ally. N. Y. Tribune, to-day.
A SUK IDE'S RIGHTS.
Mball lie ho Hurled with chrlstlau Kite who
Vt ill ully eelm Ilia Own Mestriiction 1
The Memphis Avalanche of Saturday last
sovs:
Yesterday afternoon the remains of Mr. James
Kimbel, who had rashly committed suicide, were
conveyed to the cemetery, followed by quite a
number who had known and esteemed the poor,
unfortunate old man iu life. Amluisterwaj
found to conduct the funeral ceremonies in the
person of the Rev. Samuel Watson, of the
Methodist Church.
THE CHURCH CAKON.
Bishop Quiutard, though a friend of the de
ceased, refused to oillciate or allow one of his
clergy to do so. This was the subject of much
comment. It raised a question new to the ma
jority, and resulted iu a general airiug of the
provisions of church canons. It could not ba
denied that by the laws of the Episcopal Church
elergymen are expressly forbidden to give a
Christian burial to those who have fallen by
suicide or in duels.
AN INCONSISTENCY.
Tetitwa3 remembered that the impressive
service of the Church was read over the remains
of one who fell a victim to the '"cede" only a
few mouths ago, and that tho o!Iiciatirg clergy
men were not arraigned for thus violating tlie
canon. There were many who could not recon
cile tbe Bishop's obedience to the laws of his
Church with their own ideas of what religion
means and should illustrate.
DOW MEN'8 SYMPATHIES RAN.
It is astonishing how events of this kind
affect even those who seldom devote time
enough to church matters to distinguish between
a doxology and a catechism. Everybody felt a
deep sympathy for this poor old mau who lay
dead in his colli n awaitlug his last ride, lie
was known to have been a devout Christian,
and his misfortunes had caused the hearts of
mauy to warm toward him. lie was an old
man, from whose heart the sunchine had
gone many years -3x He was
broken and homeless. Ti) canker had long
gnawed at his heart, slowly . t surely consum
ing it. He lived alone, and d ad alone, delibe
rately going out of a world whose miseries ho
could no longer endure; whose joys were not
for him. It was not strange, then, that men
should marvel at what had occurred; for thee
are times when men's hearts overflow and the
tears in their eyes blind them to even church
Jaws ana usage.
BIURDEK OX LONfJ ISLIM).
A Wealthy Drover Waylaid and Killed.
Th New York l'ost of last evening bays:
Yfcfterd'iy morning a milkman discovered a
body near the blacksmith shop in Syosset, L. I..
which proved to be that of Garret W. Van
Nostrand, of that place, who until recently
lived in Jamaica. Mr. Van Nostrand is a
drover, worth from City to lxty thousaud dol
lars, ana has of late been mure or less addicted
to drink.
Coroner Davis, of Oyster Bay, was notified
ana immediately empanelled a lury.
The following is the summary of the evidence
at the inquest: On Saturday niht a man named
Jteiiy, a tracK-waiKer on the Long Island Kail
road, and a man named Levine. were drinklnsr
with Van Nostrand at the Syosset Hotel until 8
o'clock. Van Nostrand at that time remarked
that he would go home, aud walked out. Shortly
auer ieviuc iuhubcu, uu muuu uvo minutes,
Kellv.
At the Inquest the evidence of Kellv and
Levine was very conflicting. They said that
they met each other after going out and went
to the bouse of Kelly; but wheu questioned as
to tbe time they remained .there, oua of them
stated that they leu wunin a snort time, wnne
the other one swore that they remained until
two o'clock in the morning. Other evidence
points vry conclusively to these men as the
perpetrators 01 me crime.
The body, when found, presented a shocking
appearance. The face iu cut up in it fearful
manner, and presented the appearance of being
hacked with a hatchet. Plunder was no doubt
the object of the murder. While in the hotel
the preceding night Von Nostrand exposed a
well-filled 1 pocket-book, but it seems to Have
been filled only with paper. It is supposed that
he had money iu his vest pocket, as the mirks
of bloody fingers were on the man's vest. The
two men, Kelly and Levine, were held by the
Coroner.
MARRIED ALL OYER THE COUNTRY.
Da mivii. the Accomplished Villain, nnd Has
tinndof iUnny Wives, raptured nt I.nnt.
It safe to aisert that any villain of good ad
drees can travel from one end of the Union to
the other, tarry awhile in many places, dress
well, and live well, minglo in the best society,
marry at least one wife in every town he
chooses to live three months in, all the time
possess no credentials and no money, except
such as is the fruit of swindling or stealing,
and yet not be brought to justice. The only
requisites aro that the scoundrel shall be smart
and self-assured, and shall not confine his ope
rations within too small a space. In proof of
this we offer the subjoined article from the
Alton (111.) Telegraph of the 16th Inst.:
Many of our citizens remember, to their sor
row, an individual who sported the name of Dr.
Ua Suva, in this city, some three years ago. He
proved to be an accomplished swindler. He
nourished here for a few weeks, during which
time ho taught, or pretended to teach, a class in
German or French. But he brought his lessons
to a sudden close by marrying and runniug off
with a French girl, leaving many debts behind
him. Tim girl he took to Chicago, where he
abandoned her, leaving her destitute. From the
following extract it will be seen that he has
reached tho end of his rope. Tho St. Joseph
(Mo.) Union tays:
Un Saturday nignt ur. Louis Da Suva lectured
in this city; on Sunday he was engaged to be
married; on Monday lie was drunk; on Monday
night his bride-elect fished him out of a drunken
sleep and led him to the altar; on Tuesday after
noon a policeman escoited him to tho cala
boose, dead drunk, and at night he was arrested
on a united States warrant as a deserter from
the 14th Infantry, and lodged in jail, where he
is now meditating over tho chances of six years
at the Dry Tortugas. In May last, Dr. Louis
Da Silva, of the Cuban army, splurged in Provl
dntice, 11. I. Soon after ho went to New York,
and enlisted in the Mt'u Infantry. In Juno he
crme to Omaha with a detachment of 200 men.
On tho 27th of Aucast he deserted. He lec
tured in Council Bluffs and Ked Oak, Iowa, and
thence went to Highland, Kansas, where he
piurgea liugciy.
The Pittsburg Commercial of yesterday, iu
referring to this accomplished rascal, says:
This Is probably the same Da Silva. Sunroon-Gene-
rol to the Emperor Maximilian, who lectured Iu
Pittsburg about two years ago for the Grand Army
of the ltepublic. and would have lectured for the
Mercantile Library Association, had he not been
drunk 011 the appointed night and Iu the lock-up.
It Is the man that afterwards was made much of in
fciprinpHeld, Ohio, until he came to a gentleman's
tunie wnere ne was invited to enne, drunk aud car
rying a notorious woman of the town on each arm.
lie afterwards nourished in a southeastern Ohio
town for a lime, mairylng a respectable girl, whom
he deserted. Still later he was the public pet at
Oswego, N. Y., lecturing aud taking a prominent
part 111 puinie anairs, unaiiy marry nig an estimable
lady, whom lie deserted. The lam wo heard of him
lie went through bis usual roU at 1'ottUnd, M'.,
where he wiis again married, and where no was con
fronted by a few ol his wives, including the first and
ana only true one, with wnom the matrimonial con
tract was made many Tears ago. It was at Portland,
If onr memory Is not at fauit, that he got Into this
auncuity, out 01 wmen ne must nave escaped in
some way that augurs poorly for his remaining iu
the regular army cr going to the Dry Tortugas.
THE FORGER VAN EETEN.
Itamarkable l'Hrsnlt of a Criminal.
Detective Sampson yesterday afternoon
reached Police Headquartm In this city with
his prisoner, Louis M. Van Paten, tho noto
lious forger. Shortly after he had been tried
on a charge of altering a check for 118, drawn
by Fisk & Hatch, to one for $7000, and had
been released on bail, he procured a check ou
the Park Bank, signed by Hallgarten & Co.,
No. 28 Broad street. This check he
altered to one for $77,000, and suc
ceeded iu buying with the altered check
$77,000 in United states bonds from
Wells, Fargo fc Co. ne went to the Mercantile
Loan and Warehouse Com par y, No. 12 2 Broad
way, and negotiated a loan of $50,000 upon
these bonds, which was paid to him in two
cheeks of f 25,000 each one on the Park Bank
end one on the Fourth National Buuk. Tho
fraud was discovered, however, before he could
secure the money, and he fled from the city.
Van Eeteu was traced to California, where he
sold a bond for $10,000 which was stolen last
summer from the room of a Cuban named Cos
tello, who was staying in the St. George's
Hotel, at Broadway and Twentieth street. Tha
numbers on this bond were nlso altered. Having
plenty of money after this transaction, Van
Eetcn went to Havana, and subsequently
to New Orleans, In the meantime
Detective Sampson, with a warrant for
Van Eeten's arrest, and a requisition from Gov
ernor Hoffman, proceeded to New Orleans. In
compliance with a telegram from Superinten
dent Kelso, the forger was arrested by Chief of
Police Badger, of New Orleans, but obtained
his release the next day on a writ of habeas
corpus, as no specific charge was brought
against him. He was agaiu arrested by direc
tion of United States District Attorney Davis,
a&d was remanded for a week, when he was
ngaln discharged. Detective Sampson arrive!
the fame day, and rearrested Van Eaton.
Sampson was immediately served with
a writ of habeas corpus, but the
officer put it quietly in his pocket, aud
with the aid of Superintendent Badger contrived
to leave the city. The detective aud Vau Eeteu
were taken in the police boat to a spot where
they could intercept the northern train,
which was successfully accomplished by
means of a piece of red cloth, and the
ollicer thought all his difficulties were over.
Ou the train, however, he was approached by a
United States deputy marshal, who served him
with another writ of habeas corpus, isued by
the United States court. Sampson refused to com
ply with tho writ, and defied tbe marshal. At the
next station the marshal attempted to excite a
riot, declaring that a Southern gentleman had
been kidnapped. Symptoms of a projected
rescue fcy force were apparent, and Sampson,
drawing a revolver, threatened to shoot the first
man who approached him. The train at length
moved ou, and the detective tarried his poiut;
but when Lc reached Police Headquarters iu
Mulberry street, yesterday, he was utterly worn
out with fatigue aud anxiety.
United States District Attorney Davis will
proceed agalust the prisoner on a charge of
altering Government bonds. N. Y. l'ost, last
ivi niiKj.
A NOVEL RACE.
An Ire Koat ou the Hudson lieullatf u l.ocu-
That great winter 6port, ice-boating, which is
carried to its highest perfection on the Hudson,
is in full blast just now. It is a favorite prac
tice to race with the trains on the Hudson ltiver
Kailroud, and one of the fleetest of the ice-craft
achieved the feat recently of beating the "light
ning express." The whistle of the locomotive
as the train started northward from Poughkeep
sie was the signal for the race. At first the
train rushed ahead of the boats, but soon the
breeze freshened, and the boats drew up even
again.
The passengers, who had forgotten the boats
beeaujee they had been passed and were oat of
sight, again dropped their books and papers
and aroce to see the Zephyr "overhauling the
lightning train," with her bow "dead to tho
m rth,' and then the excitement all over the
fain from the engineer to the last brakeman
was the liveliest. Close to the Zephyr followed
the Icicle, both boats flying ahead of the light
ning train. Again there were the waving of
handkerchiefs and hats and the blowing of the
locomotive whistle, but this time in honor of the
victory gained by the iceboats, for even as the
rejoicing was going on they had passed the
train and were lar ahead, dashing over the ice
at the rate of a mile a minute.
Never was there a prettier race; aud never
was a railroad train, and a lightning train at
that, so badly beaten. Running into the poor
ice district, the victors whirled about like a
flash and headed down the river again, giving
the ergineer of the train as it came along a
parting wave, he sending whistling shrieks in
response, and the passengers also giving fare
well waves of hats and kerchiefs.
But this travelling at the rate of sixty miles
an hour is not without its risks, though, strange
to ay, only a single fatal accident on the Ice has
thus far taken place. On Friday last, at Hudson,
a young man's boat was overturned by the run
ner catching in a crack la the ice, and before be
could get out of the way, a boat following his
ran its prow into his ribs and killed him almost
instantly.
GENERALITIES.
Nnpoleon Writing Another Pamphlet.
A letter dated at Wilhelmshohc, in the last
week of December, gives this news of Napoleon:
"The Emperor, with whom I had the honor of
conversing this morning, is in excellent health,
and takes daily out-door exercise, despite tho
extreme severity of the weather. He receives
many letters of sympathy from England, and
continues to express towards the English people
all his old kindly feeling. His Majesty is pre
paring a comparative estimate of the French and
German armies, which, if published, will, no
doubt, create a sensation in military cirles, aud
be found a valuable source of information. The
Emperor looks forward with confidence to his
speedy restoration by the will of the French
nation, and by the French nation only."
Sheet and Plllow-Cnse Parties.
A Minnesota paper says, "Duluth Introduced
sheet. and pillow-case parties last week at the
residence of George C. Stone, Esq. The uniform
for ladies consisted of a pair of white stockings
drawn over their shoes, a night-gown over their
dresses, a white sheet thrown over their shoul
ders, shawl fashion, white gloves on their hands,
a white handkerchief, tied toothache fashion
around their heads, a pink cambric mask over
their face, aud a pillow-case tied over their
heads in the same manner in which housewives
tie handkerchiefs over their top-pieces while
sweeping a dusty room. Tho costume of gen
tlemen was similar to the above, with the ex
ception of white shirts instead 'of night-gowns,
and the addition, iu Fome instances, of "panta
lets drawn over the pantaloons."
A Practical Jko Punished.
Tho inhabitants of Bheims, eays a French
paper, have, it is well known, been compelled
lor some time past by tho Prussian Governor to
carry lanterns whenever they go out at night.
Every evening, therefore, the cafes were illumi
nated after a gloomy fashion by great stable
lamps hung on the hat pegs under the hats of
their owners. A hatter in the place determined
to improve on tho system; he exposed Chinese
lanterns for sale in his windows, the lower part
of which contained a pasteboard cap, so that the
lantern might be woru on tho head and the
upper part of it lighted. In the window was a
placard adveitising Coiffures d'ordonnance.
The Prussian officials, however, seized the un
lucky lantern bats, and iuformcd the hatter that
if he repeated the offense he would instantly be
transported to Prussia.
A Woman One Hundred and Fifteen Years Old.
Mrs. Polly Mclntyre, of Canoe, Winneshiek
county, Iowa, was burned to death a few days
since. Sho was nearly one hundred and fifteen
years old, having been born Saptember 8, 1750,
In New Brunswick, N. J. She was first married
at the age of twenty-four, then at seventy, and
last at seventy-five, her last husband being" inueh
younger than herself, and surviving her. Her
appetite continued good until the time of the
accident which caused her death, and her eye
sight was such that she was able to read fine
print without the aid of her glasses, and her
bearing was as good as tho average of her sons
at Beventy-five. During the pa9t summer she
was able to walk quite a long distauce, and on
Christmas Day, having been invited out, she en
tertained the company with a song and story.
The next day she was insane, and three or four
days afterward, on being left alone, her clothes
took fire, with fatal result. m
Mtrange Heme In a Church.
The Lewistown (Pa.) Democrat savs: A little
episode occurred in the Lutheran church of this
place on Sunday night last. As the evening
service was about to clese, the pastor took oc
casion to admonish his congregation against
attending the exhibitions being given in the
town nan oy a minstrel troupe, aud in his re
marks denounced the 6how as a low, vulgar, or
indecent concern. It so happened that half a
dozen members of the troupe were present, and
no sooner tad Mr. Brown concluded, than up
jumps one of the showmen, who, after apolo
gizing tor tne interruption, stated that it was
his bounden duty then and there to deny in
toto the imputation made against the troupe
by the pastor. The company, he said, was a
proper oue, and the performance not only de
cent but entirely moral in all its appointments.
"Moreover," said the showman, "I am a mem
ber of a churoh myself, and 1 know of no wrong
I do in belonging to this show." The showman,
after "saying his say," quietly resumed his seat.
But the town had something to talk about next
day, nnd the effect of such conspicuous adver
Using was, the town hall at Monday night's ex
hibition was full to overflowing.
DISGRACING HER SEX.
An Adroit Thief In the Person of a Pretty and
Accomplished Woman.
So long as pretty and dishonest women exist,
just so long will people be taken in and done
for by them. Mary C. Miller, alias Mrs. Taylor,
alias' Mrs. Van Loo, an old confidence woman,
is under arrest for robbing Mrs. Bishop, of the
Westminster Hotel, of $Ct00 worth of diamonds
and clothing. Mrs. Miller introduced herself to
Mrs. Bishop as a wealthy Southern lady, and by
her charmiDg address and personal attractions
paved the way to an intimacy. On Friday she
entered Mrs. "Bishop's room and took articles to
the amount mentioned. Ou Saturday she
was caught in a Broome 6trcet pawn shop
difcpCHng of the stolen property. When ar
rested the said she "didn't tare for herself,
but," said fche, "I am sorry on Willie's account."
Willie is a Lice-looking lad of fifteen. A year
ago Mrs. Miller robbed Mrs. Surrogate Hutch
lugs, at the Everett House, of jewelry and dia
monds, for which she was arrested by Officer
McCarthy, convicted, and sent to Black well's
Island for a year. Ou account of her good
behavior, she was released after tea months'
imprisonment, and returned ouly to commit a
robbery ut the Grand Hotel about six months
afterward, for which the is under bonds for
appearance. On the fith of January, 1S0J, the
same woman, under the name of Taylor, went
to the Ashland House with her sou Willie, aud
she took a nice suite of rooms, remaining until
the 27th of March. While there sho was the
author of a robbery in which General Cespedes
lost a diamond ring and a bag of silver, and a
Mrs. White lost a pair of diamond earrings.
A'. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
A house in Waterbury, Connecticut, is pos
sessed by iuconsiderate ghosts, who have a way
of setting material tenants out in the middle of
the street In their night clothes a procedure
which at this time of year is equally repugnant
to private sensibilities and public morals.
SECOND EDITION
To-day's Cable News.
Bread Riots in Paris.
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS.
Pennsylvania Staid Charities
Report of the Commissioners.
Cliargcsof Mismanagement Itefated
Etc. IftC.s Etc. Etc. Etc.
FROM EUROPE.
Marking the Houses of Paris Absentees.
London, Jan. 23 (Special to the N. Y.
Herald.) A decree of tho Government has just
been issued which will startle those who sought
safety out of Paris. The privacy of their houses
left behind Is about to be violated by authorized
plunderers, their cellars sacked of wine, wood,
and coal, and their store-rooms invaded and
their contents delivered over to fill the empty
public stomach and replenish the public coal
scuttles. Few grains of comfort remain for the
absent householders.
Yesterday Moraine's (Juotatloaa.
Liverpool, Jan? 23 Evealmr Sales have been
made of Cotton shipped in December, and vet to
arrive, lit TTi(SSd. for middling uplands. Sales have
also neen made of Cotton shipped in December at
Mobile, and yet to arrive, at 8d. for middling Mobiles.
FROM THE STATE.
The Board of Ubnrltles A Kesnonse to (Gene
ral Kaoe's Proniiiiclitmento.
8ptrfal Despatch to The Evening Telegraph.
Hakiusbcrg, Jau. 21. Tho following docu
ment from tho Board of State Charities was eeut
to the Legislature to-day:
To the Honorable Senate and Home of HeprenentuHves
of the (Several Assembly of Penn$yicania.
Gentlemen: The undersigned, members of the
Board of Commissioners of l'ublio Clarities, have
seen a copy or a communication to your honorable
bodies on the part of .Mr. Thomas U Kane, their
President, In which he has undertaken to report us
to you and the Governor for censure; to charge us
with having left wholly unperformed the duties im
posed upon us; with haviug resolved not to fulfil
our duty of reporting to the Uoverument; aud, we
believe, with other derelictions, more or less Im
portant. It might be supposed that, proceeding as this does
from our presiding officer, we had been lirst in
formed that he had such an intention, lc certainly
would be assumed that these omissions were not the
result of his own refusal to act, or to allow us to act ;
and we think it will surprise you and such of the
community as notice these matters that neither of
these tuppositions fs true, to far as the acts of
our President and accuser are concerned, we
should, to this hour, have been lguoraut
of aDy accusation, beyond that of un un
willingness to surrender unconditionally to his su
preme will. Aud we assert and are prepared to
prove, If any are willing to taie the trouble to inves
tigate, that the only reason the reports required by
law are not now before you Is the refusal of Mr.
Kane himself, who undertook to prepare the gene
ral report, to allow us to see It, to hear but the most
meagre part of Its contents, or to allow willingly a
suggestion by us in respect to the suojects therein
considered.
The paper of Mr. Kane Is divided Into two parts.
The latter and larger portion, with oue passage In
the earlier part, consists of recommendations to
you us legislators and dissertations upon your
duties. We do not propose to uotlco these, as we
do not thluk ourselves justitled iu assuming the
ottice of advisers of the Government, uuttl our
counsel is solicited. But there are passages in this
part of the paper whtoh will enable us better to ex
plain the nature of the difficulties we have had to
contend with, and which, we have always believed,
deprived us of the services of one of our most
efficient members.
Our board was not fully organized, bv appoint
ments, until June last Our wnole life,therefore, as
a completed commission, has not exceeded seven
months of the year, whose "doings" we are to report
to you. During this year we have given many
days and nights to the endeavor to perform our
duties. In this effort the General Agent has
travelled over tl.ooo miles; individual members
from 2000 to 800Q miles. Twice within twelve
months save all the "State Institutions" been
carefully and thoroughly Inspected by the
board, and every avenue of information which our
judgment could suggest has been explored.l We
have visited prisons and prisoners, poor-houses and
paupers, hospitals for the insane and their Inmates,
houses of refuge and homes for the neglected, the
helpless and the diseased; and numerous asylums
for tke destitute aud distressed, aud for tbode suf
fering in mind, body, or estate, In the pursuit
of this duty we have never failed to
abate a wrong wherever it was found,
and where the influence of our office could accom
plish it. We have endeavored to ascertain whether
these institutions were defectively organized or
administered, and to point out, without fear, favor,
or ariectioo, so far as In us lay, the remedy or re
dress. And we had expected toproseut tae results
of our examinations, and, with all humility, to sug
gest such action as we thought it would be well for
tho tioveruraent to take, to correct the evils or in
crease tho eitlclency and beneuts of tho Institutions
Among our most trying duties, Imposed by the
statute, was the weighing of the relative merits of
claims for public assistance from charitable institu
tions. Our duties were laborious. To a great ex
tent they necessarily brought us into personal con
tact with misery, crime, and suffering. Tho most
cheerful sight that we could expect was
a congregation of homeless, outcast chil
dren, gathered and protected, as far as a
strauger's charity can do s), from utter ruin both
pliysK-al and moral. These were tne obligations
and advantages of our oillec. The former we re
cognize tbe latter, In Us ordinary sense, we are not
able to discern. Aovautage we nope there tasbeen ;
such advantage as always results from the perform
ance of a painiul :uty. In tne fulfilment of these
duties we w ere obliged to use the abilities and the
experience which wo possessed; aud It may
be perfectly true, as our president informed
you, that we are uniustructed as
to many necessary things. But we had been se
lected to do the work, and we conceived tnat our
wisest course, at Its commencement, was to confine
ourselves to what was practical u'it practicable; to
ascertain ei!s now exUUui in existiug lustltuiions,
have Uit'in corrected, aud, as we saw our way
clearer, rise to higher thlugn.
It will not be Muri'ilsing, tbef, that a gentleman
who volunteers to advise the Government, in the
first place, to postpone the subject for the action of
the Constitutional Convention, not yet iu embryo,
and then to enlarge tae narrow aud practicable
limits of your reeent legislation to the paterual care
of all strangers In distress of worknieu while em
ployed lu daugerons occupations of all per his
when on a journey. If performed by railroad
of keeping out of the state dangerous persons
after tntj have gotten lnuj It of all friendless
children, in or out of s.hool, In factories, iu in men,
In the street, or la the town, would be more UWcIv to
attempt to enlarge h's functions aud our duties,
when ids advlt "j was not au Impertlueuce but inani
mate and protier. And we utter the mere truth when
we allege that our time has been much em
ployed, Wy night as well as day, in listening
to vague declamations ou subjects of theoretical
social reform, and legislation to that end, while
the plain and practical aud practicable duties
before us received subordinate attention
from the president. Nor should It be forgotten that
If we are charged with the Impropriety of being geu
tlemeu, and of possessing au Independence, there
is not oue of us who has not worked habitually and
laboriously, all bis life, to this hour, at a useful em
ployment, brinplng, we claim to say, both
credit and emolument to the State; and not
one of ds whose time employed on
the work of this commission could not
tiave hern profitably used In hi private pnrauiM.
With regard to the particular charges against us,
ne cannot venture to weary yon with the derail, of
the facts. We beg, If the pappr of the "President"
docs not carry its own refutation, without comment
or explanation, that you will deviso some scheme to
Inquire Into the facts.
We deprtcate t'ie repeal of the set for the follow
ing reasons:
1. It Is a scheme capable of untold good, and a
most essential one to enable the State to e.xpretse a
power not denied to kings or chancellors, but which
has alwajs been vested in them tbe vUltorlal
power over public charities.
2. it Is the only reasonable means of obtaining
exact information in rlatlon to the charitable, re
formatory, and correctional institutions of the State,
and of furnishing to the (loverntnent a well-advised
judgment as to proper legislation lu their behalf.
If we have been incompetent or derelict we can
be dismissed after a hearing, but to repeal such a
statute for isuch reasons as Mr. Kane assigns
would, we humbly conceive, prejudice very high in
terests of the State, and close up an avenue for In
formation upon subjects Indicated in the act which
has been adopted In many of our Common wealths,
and will not fall to be adopted by them all.
The principal charges against us which yon will
expect us to notlceseern to be these:
1. Neglect of thorough Investigations, followed by
plain, outspoken reports, where abuses were found.
. 8. Not ascertaining certain facts and reporting
them to the Legislature.
Upon the first of these, so far as It Is not included
in the secoud complaint, we need say no more than
this:
We are required to report to the Legislature an
nually, not oftener, and to no one else.
Tbe first Legislature that has met since we have
been fully organized as a board had been la session
but sixteen days when the charges were made,
and perhaps not at ail when they were determined
on.
Tho charge of not reporting recites the existence
of the report of the general agent. This Includes
the documents which Mr. Kane, by his unauthorized
proceeding, has submitted to you, which were pre
pared nnuer the advice and direction of the general
agent by the correspondrng secretary, and which
were the results of answers of the several institution
to a series of elaborate interregatorles, thought
fully and painfully prepared by the general airent
and certain members of the commission, and for
which, in some respects, they were Indebted to the
aid ol the corresponding secretary. The admission
of the existence of the voluminous reports of the
general ngent seems to he somewhat Inconsistent
with this accusation of refusing to report at all. But
nothing but a most unreasoning disposition can ao
cotint for such a charge under the facts of tho case.
LConffmti'c in later edit ions.
FROM NEW, JERSEY.
The Senatorshlp Democratic Nomination.
Theston, Jan. 21. In tho Democratic caucus
this morning Governor Randolph received the
nomination for United States Senator. W. J.
Perry, of Newark, and Jacob Vanatta, of Mor
ristown, each received one vote.
Flection of Air. Frellnchiivsen.
Trenton, Jan. 24. Both houses of the Legis
lature In joint meeting elected Mr. Freling
huysen United States Senator, by a vote of 42
against 82 for Governor Randolph, six members
of the House and one Senator being absent.
FROM THE DOMINION.
Ontario Treasury Ntatement.
Touonto, Jan. 24. The following statement
has been prepared by the Treasurer of Ontario
for submission to the Legislatures-
Balance 011 hand January 1, 1870, $131,954;
receipts et the year ending December 81, 1870,
$2,4'J5,820; expenditures, it 1,575. 787.
FROM NEW YORK.
Mall Detentions.
New York, Jan. 24. The malls have been
much retarded by the heavy snow storm. Tho
Erie mails are also. late, and the Hudson river
mail has not yet arrived. The Boston mall came
in two hours behind, and the Southern mail one
hour later than usual.
New YorU Money and Htoclt tYIarUet.
Nsw York, Jan. 24. Stocks weak. Money
easy at cwt per cent., uoia, liu. o-2os, isey,
coupon, 109M ; do. 19S4, do., 103i ; do. 18C8, do. 108 :
do. .1S65, new, 107; do. 1867, 108; do. 1863, losjj
lit Ala 1 AQ V (rrr i n Lt f.a nam ft 1 M laannni f!u ltd
Canton Co., 69; Cumberland pref., 20; New Yorfe
central and uudson Kiver, u& ; Jtrie, iiy, ; Heading,
88; Adams Express, G6 ; Michigan Central,
117 Michigan Southern, 91'.'; Illinois Central.
133M ; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 105'i ; Chicago and
hock isiana, r-itisourg ana jj'ort wayne,
western union 'teiegrapu. 4i.
A Lawyer Inanne from Starvation.
D. K. Sheridan, a young Jersey City lawyer,
who has a large number of friends and was sup
posed to have a paying practice, was arrested
on Sunday and taken to the 6tation-house, whore
it was found that he was insane. He had been
acting strangely for some time, and finally went
to Brady's livery stable and ordered all tho
horses out that he might show them which had
been brought from Massachusetts. Dr. Pender
grast was called la and pronounced Sheridan
insane and in a starving condition. On partially
recovering he stated that he had been without
food for over four days. He is temperate, and
is regarded as a man of considerable ability.
Chicago takes it for granted that to see it is
the sole object of the coming visit of the Rus
sian Prince Imperial.
Brighum YouDg's influence is said to be on
the wane to such a degree that he thinks of get
ting on the wain himself and tviigmting.
A Mobile fire-eater has challenged a stran
ger who mistook him for a mulatto,, Wouldn't
it be better for him to use lead in the form of a
cosmetic T
The motive of an r.tteinpt at suicide is
euphumistically described in a Kentucky prjper
as "temporary aberration of tho mind, caused
by liquor."
Cardinal Antonclli threatens to follow the
example of Peter the Hermit and preach a new
crusade throughout all Catholic countries for
the recovery of Rome.
Mr. J. F. Shepherd has been appointed ap
praiser of merchandise at St. Louis. As if they
didn't praise their own wares enough there
already without governmental assistance.
n:vAr;i2 Aran cnucK.
HveNiNf Tklkoraph Orctcie.l
Tuosday, Jan. 21, 1S71. (
The chief feature In the bauk statement hut
night was a large increase in the amount of
loans, being f I,5tf5,002 in excess of those of tho
preceding week, Indicating a disposition ou the
part of the backs to expand their loans, and a
lull confidence in the future easy condition of
the market. Tho other items show changes of
vcrv little importance. The deposits have in
creased rl7'J;bC8, the legal-tenders ts5(.0:4, and
the clearings 11,040,442. There is a falling off
in the supply of gold amouuting to 2S'J,844.
These figures Indicate for the past week a full
supply of currency, allowing of considerable
expansion. The demand to-day is very light,
ow ing to the Inclemency of the weather, and
rates both on time and call loans arc-without
substantial change.
Gold is very steady at 110, without a single
fluctuation in the sales. The demand is entirely
limited to the wants of regular trade.
Government bonds attract attention, and our
quotations show a further advance of ) per cent.
Stocks were active and generally steady.
Bales of Citv fis, old bonds, at lOO', and of the
new do. at 100.
Readinir Railroad was in demand, with sales
at 49Hrr4Y. Ba,es of Pennsylvania at lVi
Lehigh Valley at CO,,; Little Schuylkill at 4';
and Catawissa prefcired at 3Sj.
In canal shares there was a good demand at
an advance. Lehigh sold at Si aCw3i; Schuyl
kill at b, and do. preferred stock at 107.
A few shares of Second and Third Streets Rail
way stock at 57 complete the list of. sales.
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXdlANflK SALES.
Reported by Ue Haven Itro., No. 40 3. Third street.
FIKST BOARD.
Mflrnocity fls, N..ls.inn
iiiOshCntrf...b0. 8S
JUNK) do. prior to "Git. 101i
10O0shKead..b3S.ls. 4
8 0 do....is.c. 49
100 do.... 80. 49 8-19
SiiO do80d.bafB. 4 V
100 do 4i
300 do.ls.bSOwn. 49
BOO do.. . .b0. 49V
800 8Q Leh N.lS.bfiO. 84 V
800 do b!3. 84
r()4 do ls.c. 84V
M0 do .... 18. 84V
loo do r0. 84jf
BshLIt Sch UK.. 43 j
9 sh 8d A 8d St.. 67
BBhPenna Kit... 2,','
Ukothkr. No. 40 8. Third
11000 dO.Old.KSO.100
HHI U 8 6-!M, 6ii.ep.HH);',
3' KM) Leh V K n bds
Cp.... 94
tnooo Sch N o.i. Hi. u
flMUO do.tflwn.ls. 74
jn oo i nion ci bs.. is
14shUh V K.. . so
T do 60V
lfi6shSch Nav..ls, 8!
too do bso.
llooshSchNav I'f.. 16
loo ao it
S00 do....c.ls. 17
MK8BRR. Dl 1UVHI ft.
street, Philadelphia, report the following quotations:
U. 8. 68 Of 1881, UOTrtUlV: do. 1SS. 109V(4109V:
do. 1864, 108SO108? ; do. 1868, 109Jrt1087 J do. 1866,
new, lui 'iiaiius; au, isui, ao. iusHltlU3' ; no. 1BOS.
da ios?iU08K; 10-408, losiioiv. U.S. 80 Year
per cent, unrrency, liovvisuo3,; : woid, iio(4
110; Silver, 105(4107; Union PaclOo Railroad
lstMort. Bonds, 770(4780; Central Pacific Railroad,
900(4910; Union PaclOo Land Grant Bonds, 6SO(4700.
MBBSRS. WILLIAM FAINT8B CO., NO. 86 8. Third
street, report the following quotations: U. 8. 6s of
1881, 110't(41U,V J 6-80s of,186a, 109 V 4109,v; do. 1864,
108(4109; do. 1868, iosvi09; do., Inly, lsee,
107S(4l07Ji; do., July, 1867, 10S(At08V: do. July,
1869, 108'g (4108 ,V! BS,tO-40, 10S.4108V. Gold. HOW
110i. U. 8. Paclllo R. R. Cur'cy 6s, 110V(4110V.
Niha fc.LA.DNBR. BroKers, report this morning
Hold quotations as follows :
10D0A. M 110 12-85 P. M 110V
11- 4b " 110 V '1449 " 110,V
12- aaP.M 110. 12-85 " 110.V
The nonton Coal Trnde.
Tho following Interesting summary and re
view of the coal trade in Boston for the past five
years is taken from the Boston Commercial
Bulletin, a paper noted for its reliability and
truthfulness. It will bo observed that coal re
tailed cheaper In Boston during the past year
than at any time previous for the last five
years:
"The receipts of eoal In Boston last year, in com
parison with 1869, were:
1870. 1869.
Anthracite from Philadelphia 424,612 M9,224
" " New York 190,413 10.M84
Total anthracite 613,025 671,343
Bituminous coal, viz. :
From Baltimore, Alexandria, etc.200,549 191,833
" Foreign ports. 113,041 lu,691
Total bituminous.... 926,615 872.922
showing a total Increase of 03,693 tons, of whfch
41,677 tons were anthracite ; 8GG6 tons Cumberland;
ssso tons foreign.
"The receipts In 1970 wore rogular, and the prices
steady and low, both at wholesale and retail, vary
ing little during the season; bolh have averaged
less than in any year since the beginning of the late
war.
"We annex a table of tho average prices at retail
for six years:
1'rrUm, I Per ton.
1865 113-41 1S6S $921
1866 11-12' 1869 9 95
18C7 H-5Sil970 8-52
"The most marked feature of the trade In Boston
for 1870, after Its regularity and steadiness, was that
while the receipts of authraclte from New York
were increased 88,29 tons, the receipts at this port
from Philadelphia fell otr 46,612 tons. A variety of
causes led to this. A strike In tbe Schuylkill region
for a portion of the season, aud the vacillating
policy and an unwise action of the Reading Rail
road Company; (which now controls the dcbuylklll
Canal, and has a monopoly or the transportation of
that region,) In falling to meet the exigencies of
the occasion, drove her best customers and much
of her trade to the northern or New York com
panies. "This appears more strikingly In looking at the
whole coal trade of the country ; while there was an
Increased production of v.ixio.ooo tons In 1870 over
1869, the tonnage of the Keading Railroad and canal
aotualiy fell oil S38,euu tons In that time. The Read
ing Kailroud always liavl' g done the largest ton
nage of any carrying companv In the couatry, must
now rank second, tnat of the Lehigh Valley Hall
road having exceeded it last year for the Urst time.
It behooves the owners rf coal lands In the Schuyl
kill region, and PhiliKlelphians, to look at It, or they
will soon lose the place they have so long main
tained in the production aud shipments of coal.
There are several projects under consideration to
build one or more railroads from the former region
to the waters of New York bay. This oaunot much
longer be delayed, and will prove prodtahle to Its
projectors and of Inestimable value to the commu
nity at large, as well as to 8chuylklil county.
"The rapid growth of the coal trade of this country
has been wonderful from Its commencement. Fron
10,000,000 tons in lSGO, it has risen to 20,000,000 to us
In 1670, and there is no reason why it should not
double its bulk again In the next ten years, which
will require largely increased facilities for mining,
preparing, and transporting so large a quantity to
market. This may possibly enable those who have
Invested capital judiciously In coal mines to get
some return, which has not been the case for the
last five years.
"Rapid as the Increase has bcen.lt will take a
long time for us ts produae as much as Great
Britain, which has no larger territory than Pennsyl
vania and New York ; she ran her production up to
104,000,000 tons In isu, since which It has not been
Increased much, but has hovered and poised at that
point as If preparing for a desceut which will un
doubtedly take place. Great Britain exports about
10,000,000 tons annually. Up to 1865, Belgium ex
ceeded the United Slates In the production of coal,
but since then we have produced more coal annually
than that country, .
"The Boston market has a fair supply of coal,
although tbe railing water Bupply and power causes
much more coal to be usd for steam purposes
throughout Kew England, which will clear the mar
ket before spring, should the present strike at the
mines continue, as threatened. The price of coal at
retail advanced fl pe tou last week, with fair
demand."
Philadelphia Trade itepori.
Tuesday, Jan. 24. Bark la scarce and firm at 30
ton for No. 1 Quercitron.
Seeds Cloverseed Is quiet but steady; 30 bags
sold at 17-16. Timothy Is unchanged; 20 bags fair
quality sold at 16. Flaxseed may be quoted at 12-10.
The Flour market.is very lirni, and the receipts
and stocks are llgtt. The demand Is mostly from
tne home consumers, whose purchases foot up 9e
barrels, Including superfine at 14 75,45; extras
at f5-50S6; Northwestern extra family at 6B04
7-25; Pennsylvania d. do. at J6-5U.7; lodlana,
Illinois, and Ohio do. do. at fft-75t7-60, aud Sc.
Louis do. do. at 7-50io 8. Rve Flour may be quoted
at 5-12J&5'25. In Corn Meal no sales were re
ported. There Is a steady inquiry for prime Whent, and
with greatly reduced stocks holders put up their
rates. Salts of 14(0 busnels Indiana red at f 1-07&
1K8;I 400 bushels do. amber at fl 62; 7to bushels
PcijuKVlvanla Do. at IWTxtl-M), and lO'io bushels
Ohio do. at $1-68. Rye may be quoted at 95(497c. for
Western and l'ennxylvauia. Corn is scarce and
firmer; sales of yellow at 7so., and Western mixed
at 77c, now held at 80i:. Oats command fun prices;
sales of 1'ennHvleaula and Western at 69,$59o.
In Barley aud Malt no sales were reported.
Whisky Is iu better demand, aud ISO barrels West
ern Iron-bound sold at. 93r.
LA 1 h NT S I II ri'J IMriNl LLLIUli t .
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA ....JANUARY 24
STATU OP THBHMOMITFH AT TF1H KVBK1NO TBLIORAPB
OFK1CS.
8 A. Til 27 11 A. M 20 2 P. M 30
Srw PISE9 ' 7-17 MOON SKTS 9-1T
Sun fcrvs 5- 8 Huh Watkh 454
CLRAliEt) THIS MORNING.
N. G. bark Wllhelm, Schmidt. Loudon, L. Wester
gaard & Co.
Schr Annie May, Baker, Aliyn's Point, Mass., Sln
nlckson & Co.
ARRIVED THIS MORNING.
Steamer J as. B. Green, Vance, from Richmond via
Norfolk, with nidso. aud passengers to W. P. Clyde
it Co.
Mcamer R. Willing, Cunditr, 13 hours from Bala,
more, with mdse. and passcBgers to A. Groves, Jr.
WENT TO SEA.
Mr. Saml.Schellinger, pilot, reports: Brig Herald,
hence for Mutsnzas ; si-hrs '.. btei lman, for Maian
eas; Albert C. Page, for Saniaua Bay ; Jan. M. Flana
gan, fur Trinidad ; James Ponder, for Cii-nfuegos;
and 9 Kclir for eastern ports, weut to sea ou Siur
davutnoun. He also reports: Bark W. K. Ander
son, from Mmel, and brig Olaf Kvree, from Leith,
came Into the Breakwater yesterday morning.
MEMORANDA.
Brig Annie Batehcidtr, Steelman, lumce, a'rlved,
at ilaxseuies JMd liist.