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VOL. XV. NO. 22.
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1871.
DOUBLE SHEET TIinKK CENTS.
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FIRST EDITION
THE DEATH OF THOfiUS GARRETT.
The Liberator of 2700 Slaves.
Novel Liquor Licensing.
Blowing Great Guns at Duluth.
Etc.. Ilc Utc Ktc, Kic.
TIIOriAS GARRETT.
Thfl Mory tf n llruve. Joort !Han The l.ibs
rntor u( 2?0U luvt-n.
As a sequel to the sketch published in The
Tui.cdHArn yesterday of the venerable Thomis
Garrett, we give herewith the following par
ticulars of the good mau's life, condensed from
a very interesting article iu thu Wilmington
Commercial of last evening:
lie was burn of (Jualter parents, In Upper
Darby, IVhiware eotiuly, l'ii., on the l-M-st of
August, 1 nSii, on a farm still in the possession
of the family. His father, though a farmer,
had been a scythe and edge-tool maker, and
Thomas learned of him the trade, and his
knowledge of it afterwards proved of the
uiniobt advantage to him.
Of course, Thonms Garrett is best known for
his labor, in behalf of the abolition of slavery,
and as a practical and effective worker for
ematici) aticn long before the nation com
menced the work of liberation and justice.
llio attention was first directed to the iniquity
of slavery while lie was a young mau of twuuty
four or twenty-five. He returned one day to
his fathers boti, after a brief absence, "and
found the family dismayed and indignant at the
kidnapping of a colored woman in their
employ.
Thomas immediately resolved to follow the
kidnappers, and so started in pursuit. Some
peculiarity about the track made by their
wagon enabled him to trace them with ease,
and ho followed them by a devious course from
Darby to a place Dear the Navy Yard in Phila
delphia, and then by inquiries, etc., tracked
them to Kensington, where he fouud them aud
secured the woman's release.
Many and interesting stories :ire told of ' the
men and womcu he helped away. Borne of them
full of pathos, and some decidedly amusing.
The necessity of uvoidiug the police was the
only thing, lion cvcr.whieh ever forced him into
any Fccrecy In his operations, and in all other
respects he was "without concealment and with
out compromise" in his opposition to slavery.
He was a man of unusual personal bravery and
of powerful physique, and did not present au
encouraging object for the bullying intimida
tion by which the pro-slavery men of that day
generally overawed their opponents. He seems
to have "candy known what fear was.
His efforts, of course, brought him much per
secution and annoyance, but never culminated
in anything really serious uutil about the year
14 or '47.
He then met at New Castle a man, woman,
and six children from clown on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland. The man was free, the
woman had been a slave, and while in slavery
had had by her hu-hand two children. She was
then set free, and afterwards had four children.
The whole party ran away. They travelled
several day, aud finally reached Middletown
late at night, where they were taken in, fed,
and cared for by John Hiinn, a wealthy Quaker
there. Thty were watched, however, by some
persons in that section, who followed them,
arrested them, and sent them to New Castle to
jail. The Sheriff and his daughter r. ere anti
slavery people, and wrote to Mr. Garrett to
come over. He went over, had an interview,
found from their statement that four of the
party were undoubtedly free, aud returned to
. this city. On the following day ho and United
States Seuator Wales went over and had the
party taken before Judge Booth on a writ of
habeas corpus. Judge Booth decided that there
was no evidence on which to hold them, and
that in the absence of evidence the presump
tion was always infacor of freedom, and dis
charged them.
Thty finally escaped, of coure the two chil
dren born In slavery amongst the rest.
Six weeks afterwards the slaveholders fol
lowed them, ami Incited, it is said, by the
C'ocbrans und J-ames A. Bayard, commenced a
suit against Mr. Garrett, claiming all the fugi
tives as slaves. Mr. Garrett's friends claim that
the jury was packed to secure an adverse ver
dict. The trial came on before Chief Justice
Taney and Judge Hall, in the May term (ISIS)
of the United States Com t.sitting at New Castle,
Bayard representing the prosecutors and Wales
the defendant. There were four trials in all,
lasting ihrei days. We have not room here for
tho details of the trial, but the juries awarded
even heavier damage than the plaintiffs claimed,
and the judgments swept away every dollar of
Lis property.
When the trials were concluded Mr. Garrett
arose, the court being adjourned, made a speech
of an hour to tho larie crowd In the court room,
in the course of which he declared his inten
tion to redouble his exertions, so help him God.
His bold assertion was greeted with mingled
cheers and hisses, and at the conclusion of bis
speech one of the jurors who had convicted him
strode across the benches, grasped his baud,
and begged forgiveness.
Air. Garrett kept his pledge and redoubled hla
exertions. The trial advertised him. and such
was the demand on him for shelter that he was
compelled to put another story on his back
buildings. His friends helped him to start again
in business. and commencing anew in bis sixtieth
year with nothing, be again amassed a hand-
come competence, generously contributing all
the while to everv work In behalf of the down
trodden Macks or his suffering fellow-men of
any color.
In time the war came, and as be remarked,
the nation went into tho business by the whole
sale, so he quit his retail operations, having,
after he commenced to keep a record, helped
Off over 2700 slaves, aud no inconsiderable
number before that time.
In time, too, he came to be honored instead
of execrated for bis noble efforts. Wilmington
became an abolition city, and for once at least
prophet was not without houor in his own
city.
He was beloved almost to adoration by hW
dusky-hued friebds, and in the dark davs of the
beginning of the war, which every Wilmlngto
nian will remember with a shudder, iu those
days of doubt, confusion, and suspicion, with
out bis knowledge or conseut, Thomas Garrett's
house was constantly surrounded and watched
by faithful black men, resolved thai, come weal
come woe to them, no harm should come
the ttut factor of their race.
LET WHISKY PAY FOR ITS CRIMES.
A Curlou. Petition t the Pennsylvania I.egto.
iHiure.
The Rev. Father Thomas P. Rant Is circu
lating In Luzerne county a curious petition to
the Legislature, that is intended to advance the
Interests of temperance. Mr. Hunt calls this an
"olive branch held oat to the liquor sellers."
lie says, "Let them derive all the pleasure and
iofit they can from the traffic, nod also pay for
all'the injuries which result from it. We are sick
of paying two-thirds of cur taxes for the benefit
of the vendors of poison.'' The petition is as
follows, and it may be stated that there Is talk
of a similar law for Ohio:
To the House and Senate of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania The prayer of your
petitioners, citizens of the county of Luzerne,
showeth: That it Is admitted by all wise legis
lators that the uso and traffic In intoxicating
liquors is highly dangerous to the interests of
the community, and no legislation has as yet
succeeded in so restraining theso evils as to
prevent them from existing and increasing; and
that there Is a portion of our fellow-citizens
w ho contend that your honorable bodies have
no right in any way to prohibit such use aud
sale, but are bound to provide, by a license law,
facilities and accommodations for such use and
sale. We, your petitioners, not here question
ing that right, nor asking for tho repeal or pro
hibition of it, do respectfully pray you to pas
a law for this county, if not for tho whole Slate,
on the following bais:
1. That all who wish to sell intoxicating
liquors shall make known on a certaiu day
their intention of doing so to the judges of
the court.
i. That, on paying, pro rata, their proportion
of all tho criminal, police, and pauper ex
penses of the county, to be estimated in a law
ful manner, and giving bund, with good secu
rity, to pay any other damage that may arise
in consequence of the sale and use of said
liquors, fairly proven, and that would not
have occurred without said salo and ue,
I hey be permitted to sell and uso, as now
allowed by law.
I!. That'lhe county expenses, as above, siall
be paid out of the money paid by these appli
cants; and that the injuries, properly established,
shall be collected out of the bond iMven for that
purpose, the individuals thus injured being re
quired only to prove the Injury as resulting
from the use and traffic, to obtain judgment
nuaiiist the bond fund, and this judgmeut to be
exocuted, prorata, on tho givers of tho bonds.
Any person selling liquor without complying
with these conditions, or aoy person violating
the laws already existing on this subject, shall
be fned not less than ?50 nor more than $ 100,
and imprisoned for not less than one year in
the county jail. One half of the fine to go to
the prosccHtor, the other half to the liquor
fund.
KALE AT UULUTII.
i;rent lli-laht unit Iiiiinnn.fi Kitrrn of thf Hll
lo IHtiiiitKe lo Ktnlroiul i'foueriv.
The Duluth Tribune of January VI has a de
tailed account of the great gale on the d;y pre
vious, and of the damage dono to tho brcak
wutcr, etc., from which wo extract the follow
ing: During yesterday afternoon the old lake pre
sented a view tbo grandeur of which no pen
can describe. The intense and unparalleled
fury and the great power of the wind (or, more
properly speaking, of tho tornado) from down
the lake rolled up tho waves In enormous bil
lows, from 10 to 20 feet in height, and some
times several hundred yards in length, which,
following each other in rapid succession, were
tossed about on lie surface as though they pos
seEFed no more weight than so many feathers,
or were rolled over aud over again, one after
nuother, as though they were ligat cork cylin
ders of the huge dimensions above described.
These billows striking against und rolling over
the breakwater gave that structure the appear
ance of an ordioary mill-dam. Those abroad,
who have during the past few months visited
Dulutb, can perhaps get some Idea of the groat
force of the waves, when wo say that tho spray
caused by the dashing of the billows against the
breakwater oftentimes reached to the top of tba
elevator engine-house chimney, which is 104
feet high, and when we say that the chimney is
this morning encased in ice on the lake side
from bottom to top.
But, although our breakwater yesterday
demonstrated its ability to withstand the force
of all waves that could be brought against it,
and also the knocks and pressure of any ordi
nary or usual quantity of ice, yet such a phe
nomenon as that which occurred last evening
was not one which eould have been reasonably
expected, or which was fully provided against
iu tho construction of the breakwater; and the
result was that was for want of sufficient rip
rapping the incessantbatteringof huge cakes of
Ice some of them weighing many tous against
the breakwater succeeded, at about ten o'clock
la6t night, in tearing away the upper portion of
one of the sections which was not sufficiently
fortified, and which had more strain on it thau
any of the rest. The crib or section thus in
jured is tho one adjacent to the foundations of
the elevator; it is some forty or lifty feet in
length, and is the same one that was partially
torn away during the great storm on the 4th of
last May, when onl3' partially filled with rock,
and which was very hastily rebuilt immediately
thereafter.
A f ter the tearing away of the upper portion
of the crib referred to, the ice shoved through
the opening and piled up on the raildock and
tracks from one to five or six feet in height;
the small trestle platform on the outsido of the
dock, near the car scales, gave way beneath the
great weight of ico piled thereon; one of the
great, wide doors of too freight-house was
crushed in, and four or five tons of ico shoved
in and deposited on the lloor; a few feet of the
sliding on the southwest corner of the building
was torn oil. The foundation, or that portion
of the Injured crib of tho breakwater which is
below the surface, is believed to be in place,
and not much, if at all, damaged; and it will re
quire but a short time to replace the injured
crib with a new and more substantial oue.
FAKCY I'll ICES.
Wfent Do. 'mi nnd Ueutl.lry Cant In New York.
A physician iu good practice will receive pa
tients iu bis office four hours daily, aud mke
calls for the same lemith of time. From ten to
twelve callers and half as many house patients
would be a fair average, for which the fees would
be two and five dollars each. At these
figures it wou'd not be hard to make up an in
come of if:2O,uU0 or more. It is 6tated of Dr. W.
Parker, 1 believe, that, having been called out of
town to attend a patient, be returned a bill of
500, and when it was disputed he showed by
his books that his daily receipts were much over
that sum, and this will give an idea of the
profits of the most successful doctors. Sur
geons' single charges are larger than thoso of
physicians, though the incomes of the latter are
probably the highest. For ordinary attendance
their rates are about the same, or say 45 a visit.
From $'i5 upwards is the charge for operations.
For setting au arm or lug $250 would be asked,
larger undertakings being in proportion. For a
case requiring a delicate operation and six
weeks' constant attendance, sometimes two or
three times a day, 11000 was lately asked by a
leading surgeon. Iu auother instance, where a
weauny genueniau was badly lamed by a rail
road car, he was attended bv Dr. .lames It
Wood, who made about a dozen visits without
any important operation, and seut in a bill of
r-iMJ, wuicn was paid. This is exceeded by Dr.
Cariiocban, who charged 2)00 for au operation
alone, while another surgeon is euid to have re
covered 14500 from one patient.
The prices ct arged by dentists are aulte as
high as those of physicians. A man of ordinary
reputation in the profestlon will ask from 5 to
-i m n:.. ,-v.vv. ...1.11. . . .
tu lor tuning Biugio iuuiu, wuiie air. AtUln
ion, one of the most fashionable dentists.
ported to clfarge tlO for simply examining a
person's teeth, and an hour for operating on
them, and has brought lu a bill of 1200 for filling
a single tooth. Many-people refuse to pay these
fancy prices, but it is a common thing to have
to pay anywhere from 10 to 1 100 lor dentists
bills. Most practitioners of any reputation have
tngugeiiieuU very lar ahead,. Tea days is a sUort
notlce to wait for your turn: while a friend of
mine, who went to Europe in the middle of last
October, on applying to her dentist for treat
ment, was told that ho could not give her a
single hour's heed until February, or nearly four
months la advance. Dentists are kept busy all
the year round, and seld.im have any leisure.
Their practice is confining, and not healthy,
but is very profitable. Their Incomes range
from $5000 to 50,()00 a year, while they have
no expenses for carriage blre, books, or travel,
and not a very heavy outlay for materials and
keeping up their offices. X. J". Correspondent.
BURIED AM) RESURRECTED.
A JJInn Covered IT Korty Pert Detp In n
Wrll-Ue Hrrntchra Out.
A correspondent of the PuUtburg (Mo.)
Jii'jisler writs from Grundy county, of that
StateJ recently as follow-?:
A singular and tragical affair occurred here
on the 7th inst., to which I was an eye witness
in part. A Mr. John Andrews, a popular and
well to.do farmer in the neighborhood, had dug
a well some forty feet deep, and had walled it
up about fifteen feet deep, when it was dis
covered that the wall was about to cave lo. Mr.
Audiews gathered up an armful of short boards,
and went down a pole ladder, fastened to tha
sit'e c f the well, to lay them across the wall, so
as to prevent the dirt, as it fell, from filling up
that part of the well walled up. He had not
more than reached the bottom,
thought, he'ore the well
filling up to a few feet of
Hie alarm was c'wen and
as it wis
caved in,
the top.
the noish-
tors gathered, but nil believing him dead, they
returned to their homes, to make arrangements
to come the net day and dig him out. Mrs.
Andrews and two grown daughters, and several
smaller children refused to leave the spot, but
sat on a log ncor the well, crying, uutil late iu
the evening, when all at once, tlicy saw Mr.
Avdrcws emerging from the well, covered with
clay, nnd coming towards them I The children
all ran. screaming to the house, bolted the doors
and fastened the windows, bclicviug it to ba
their lather's ghost. But Mrs. Audrews ran to
meet him, screamirg at the top of her voice.
'Oh John! Oh Johu ! is that you? is that
you?" Wnen she reached him she fell fainting
at his feet.
It teems that when ho got to the bottom of
the well, be looked up aud saw tho top giving
way, and believing ho had not time to mvke his
escape, lie slipped under the boards, which he
bad laid across tho well, when the whole thing
fell in upon him. All hope, at first, gave way,
and he was about to let himself drop into the
water below and end at once his miserable feel
ings. But feeling above, he found tho clay easily
crumbled, and hope reUved. The pole ladder,
it seems, was still standing, and getting hold of
It with oue hand, he with the other scratched
awsy for life, the dirt falling into the water
be low as he dragged his body slowly upwards.
It scorns ho did not suffer much lu breathing, as
frei-h air came down the pole, around which the
dirt was loosely packed. In the incredible time
of seven hours he scratched a hole some forty
feet loug, through which ho inad bis escape.
This is one of tho narrowest hair breadth escapes
Horn a terrible aeatn on record.
BEET SUGAR.
I'robnble Failure of a California Enterprise.
The elaborate efforts to make beet sugar in
California, though watched with a favorable
ml fneudly attention, bavo not thus far buen
successful; on tho contrary, tho enterprise is
likely to bo a failure. A writer in the San
Francisco commercial ueraia makes a caretul
computation to prove that, three thousand tons
or beets win yield only duu.uuu pounds (,: per
cent.") of salable susrar at 12 cents a pound,
w orth ., 000; and 10S, 000 pounds (.J per cent )
of dark salt sugar, for refiuing purposes,
worth, at six cents a pound. $10,00. This
makes the total value of tho product of
three thousand tons of beets fKi.tOO. The
expense of reducing this quantity of beets
in a factory working fifty bands a day, he esti
mates to be $70,000; so that tne loss In the
operation would be $20,200. That this estimate
is approximately accurate would seem to bo
eoutirmed by the fact that tho beet sugar mill at
Sacramento, of which so mica was expecred,
has "temnorarllv susnended.'' owinc we ar
told, to the wautf practical knowledge on the
part of the person engaged as superintendent.
That this kiud of sugar should be profitably
made in Germany and Frauce, and not in Cali
fornia, is owing perhaps to the less saccharine
matter that the California beets contain, com
pared with those grown in Europe, and the high
cost of labor and machinery in California.
XEWSPArER LARCENY.
Strange Opinion of a Police Justice Upon the
matter.
There is a section in the laws of this State
which reads as follows: "That every person
who shall unlawfully and feloniously steal, take
and carry away any newspaper or periodical
from the place where the same tna.y be left for
any other person or persons, corporation or
corporations, shall be deemed guilty of larceny
and punisned accordingly.
in the recent case iietore Justice tsanron a
boy was charged with stealing the Republican
from lu tront ot a house. Although the charge
was proven fully, the Justice discharged the
prisoner for the following erudite and all-sufficient
reason:
The Justice remarked that the case was intri
cate. In the course of his official career he had
not learned that the taking away of a news
paper from the front of a house amounted to
larceDy. If the paper was put in the house or
ball way, then it might be larceny. The com
plainant must iu future have the paper placed
within the bouse, or he could have no jurisdic
tion in the matter.
If this be ju-tice, then Dogberry ought to take
precedence of Blackstone. Cltkajo Repub
lican. lloal ira-grir.&ioaricia.
The Trial of tr. Neville.
Court of Oyer and Terminer Judges Allixon aa
Paxsun.
The Court this morning resumed the trial of Ir.
W. II. 11. Neville. As compared with yesterday's
attendance that of to-day was quite small.
The t'oniuionweultli called Frederick Heller, a
bartender tu Broad street, near York, who testified
tliat ou the inoi'Uiiig of October IT he saw aa oli.sli
f'iur-w heeled carriage drive across the lots frum
York street Into Broad; It was between 9 and 11
o'clock; the horse was a dark sorrel horse, with tw
white feet, and some white on lis facs; he saw but
one person in the carriage, and taouglit It was
a mau.
Policeman Charles J. Nichols sworn Sail he
remembered Keller telling him something about
a man on the da; of this occurrence, but cou.d not
reeull rtistiuctly what it was.
Dr. KhaplelifU was recillHii, and Mr. Hagert pro
posed to read to him the testimony of the witnesses
regarding the condition In which the child was
fouud, and the treatment it was sunj.tcr.Hd to from
that time until Its death, and then asked his opinion
as to the probable cause of deal h.
This was objected to, and after a lengthy delibe
ration was withdrawn. He then condensed the
testimony on these points In one short form, and
upon it based the same question, which was llke
w ise objected to.
The objection was argued at length, aud then the
Court took a recess, holding the matter uuder cou
sideratiun. Rew York tnanev and sttoeu Market.
Nw Yobi, Jan. -id Stocks heavy. Money,
6(a6 per cent.. Gold, llOfcllo. 6-208, lsaa,
coupon, 119 , ; da 1S84, do., loas, ; do. 1868, do. 1(H) ',-;
do. 1S6B, new, l8; do. 1ST, ll'Mt'i do, 188, los,-;
10.4ns. 106V. Virginia 6s, new. 61: Missouri Ss. 8')id :
Canton Co., tin ; Cumberland pref., 87; New York.
Central and uunson mver, ; jtne, tiz't ; Heading,
S8; Adams Kx press, w v; ; Mlchluaa Central,
lis: Mtehiuan Southern, Iulnotu Central.
133X! Cleveland and Pittsburg, .105 ; Chicago sad
Jtock lbland, nimuurg ana rori rvajue,
3Ji; Westers Union Telegraph, T.
SECOND EDITION
To-day's Cable News.
The Capture of Longwy.
CC0 Prisoners and 200 Guns
The Repcrtsd Paris Capitulation.
DOMESTIC AFTAIIIS,
XJanlon's Impending Tate.
V Ijxw in tlio Wn.y.
Death of George Ticknor
The Great Snow-Storm.
FROM EUROPE.
Capture of L.onay-inoo Pri.onera and VJOU
tunn r'nUeii.
London-, Jan. 2" lv'SO P. M. Depitches
have just leen received announciug tha
capitulation to-day of the fortress of Longwy,
on the Belgian border, which has been be
sieged for a loDg time by the Germans. Four
thousand prisoners and two hundred guns fell
into the bands of the victors.
(iiirtbiildlau Victory at IMJon.
London, Jan. L'r. A despatch from Dijon
says that the GaiibaldiaiiK routed the detach
ment of German landw ehr who were, guard
ing the railroad between the villages of l-'on-teaux
and Burgundy.
fount litaiiirirrk
has been appointed Chancellor of tho German
Empire.
Favre'n Wnte Conduct.
A despatch from Brussels says Bismarck's
reply to M. Favre, refusing eafo conduct
through the German lines investing Paris, is
condemned by the Prussian liberals.
t Mutely el Ir. Livingstone.
London, Jan. 25. Sir lioderick Murchison
has received a letter from Africa gi ving posi
tive intelligence of the safety of Dr. Living
stone, the African explorer.
The Iiultim frown Prince.
Fmhikmuu, Jau. Hi. Prinoo Humbert and
wife will pass tho remainder of the winter ut
lloniev.
Reported Cnpltnlntton of Paris.
London, Jan. 2" Noon. No information
as to the reported visit of Favro to Versailles
has yet been authentically announced. The
news is regarded on the Stock Exchange as
of doubtful character, and consols have, in
consequence, fallen a quarter &ince the open
ing. Continued Humor, ofthe Nurrender.
The Echo, just issued, says no official con
firmation has yet reached London of the re
port that negotiations for the capitulation of
Puris had commenced at Versailles. Tho
city, however, is full of rumors of that
nature.
An Adjournment of the London Conference.
London, Jan. 25 7 A. M. The London
Conference has adjourned till the 31st inst.
in consequence of the continued absence of a
representative from France, one of the sigaa-
tary powers of the original treaty relatingto
the Eastern question. It is known that Earl
Granville confers with II. Tissot, French
Charge the d' Affaires, before and after each
meetiDg of conference.
1 be Negotiation, for the Nurrender of Paris.
London, Jan 25 1'30 P. M. A Versailles
correspondent of the Central Press Associa
tion telegraphs that there are good grounds
for the belief that the negotiation for thh
capitulation of Paris is progressing, and it is
impossible for the city to resist beyond early
in February.
Favre In London.
The JVZ MaU Gazette is informed that
Favre reached Versailles yesterday and started
for England. lie is expected in London to
day.
The Eelto prints, under reserve, a state
ment that Favre has arrived at Dover.
The French Lose on the tWth la.tant.
London, Jan. 25. Anoflioial despatch from
Versailles of the 24 th says the French loss in
the sorties of the lDth was (i()0) killed,
wonnded and missing, while the German loss
was only b'55.
New Herman Katterlca
have opened fire upon the north side of Paris.
A division of the German Army of the South
passed south of Besanoon, and are threaten
ing the rear of Bourbaki. It appears that
The (nrlbalitlun.
after their successful engagement with
The (ierman l.audwebr.
between 'Fontainableux aud Burgundy, tore
tip the rails and ties and so damaged the rail
road that it is now impassable.
Vr.ierday Ulornlo'. Quotation..
lONUOW, Jan. 25-11 -oil A. M Consols n tit
money and account. American securities tinner;
United fciates 6-iWs of IStM, 90)j j or ls5, 9it; of lSd7,
b9; UHOs, fcU';. Stocks Orm; Brie Railroad, 19;
Illinois Central, im: ureal r fsiem, ks.
KHAhKunnT. Jan. as. IT ZH. bonds, 85'i.
Livehi'ooi., Jan. lift U-3U A. M. -Coiion Is buoy
ant; middling uplands, 8d. ; middling Orleans, d.
'Hie sales are estimate.d at ir,ooo bales. Breadstuff
are easier, New coru, 3'js. Bit. caiuoruia wheat,
us. lid.
Ve.terday Afternoon', (notations.
I.OKnow. Jan. 28-1 P. M Consols are depressed
by doubts of the correctness of the newsof tha ex
pected capitulation oi x oris, oaie.at vtft lur money
ana account.
i.ivKKPcoi. Jan. 851 P. M. Cotton is active:
miitdlmir nrjlalld. 6f,kd. ; middling Orleans. 8V
CM. The sales to-dy will probably reae.li so.oun
bales. Kales of cotton shipped at New Orleans ta
Ijecember yet to arrive, s.d. for middling. Uoef
easier at lis. d.
Lonihjn, Jan. 85-J P. M. American securities
firm : c os of 18Ci, 00 K ; of 1865, old, V0,',' ; of 1867,
: 10-408. Stocks ateauy.
LOKinoN.Jan. W. Tallow firmer at 45s.8ti48. 6d.
Linseed vu firmer at xtjm tg.
FROM THE STATE.
TheRxecnt'on of .foha lln.l.n Law In
the
nar-irauiiie Anticipated.
Special D'xixtichf to Th Kvening TtlcgrapK
IlAHfiisiu ho, Jan. 20. Since tho visit of tho
Catholic clergymen to the (lovernor la the inte
rest of John Hanlon, the murderer of little Mary
Mohrmann, there rave been no further efforts
to secure a respite. While some look upon this
quietness as a sure indication that his friends
are perfectly satisfied that he is the guilty man,
others conceive that it forehaiows further
trouble. This latter class are of the opinion that
the counsel for the condemned roan will take
advantage of the special act passed at the last
session, allowing a writ of error to bo filed in tho
Supreme Court,'in order that the textlmony a?
well as the law mlc;ht be reviewed in cases
of murder In the first decree. This
became a law hastily, aud was Intended to apply
especially to the case of Dr. Paul Schoeppc.
The matter sras never thoroughly sifted, aud In
drafting it no limit as to time when the writ
should be presented was incorporated. This is
where the further trouble in the caso of Hinlou
is anticipated. It is known that no very deter
mined elTort has as yet. been made to carry the
matter to the Supreme Court under the act of
1870, and it Is believed that some notoriety U to
be acquired by presenting the writ while Han
lon is on the scaffold. It would certain'y bo a
dramatic scene; and who is there more anxijus
for such an event than those who havo been
moving, so to speak, heaven aud earth In an
endeavor to acquit this murderer of
a little girl five years of age? n.inlon, U is as
serted has dechred that he would not be hung
at the time fixed by the Governor, and this, it
is thought, means that the public is to be sud
denly taken by surprise by somi such move
ment as the above. All this could be obviated
by a repeal of the act of 1S70 before Weduosday
next, and the understanding at present seems
to be that the bill which Is nosy iu the House
committee will be brought out and acted
without delay.
upon
A Cupe of a Contested ent 4bnnrionerf.
The case of the contested scat in the Arm
strong district has been abandoned, and tho
committee will submit a report to that effect Bln
a few days. The committee were olliclally noti
fied of the abandonment last evening by tho
counsel of Mr. Steele, tho contestant.
the Plillndeliidln nnd 4'nimlen Bridge and
l-erry i ouipitny.
The bill propot-lng to incorporate a bridge and
ferry company between Philadelphia and Cam
den, via Windmill Island, has been reported
from the committee, and will receive action on
Tuesday next. The friends of tho measure claim
that It Is only carrying out the provisions of an
net passed In 18-20, aud assert that it is the only
practicable manner of preventing any Interrup
tion In the communication between the two
cities.
FROM THE VEST.
Kndowntnt Htm em la llrneflclnl Mocletlea,
Mkmi'hib, Jan. y.5. The (iraud Lodge of the
Bcom Berittl has adopted tho endowment sys
tem to-day. Kach member will pay 50 cents on
the death of a brother for the widow and
orphans. St. Louis was selected as the next
place of meeting.
Muow In Mr. Loul..
St. Loris, Jan. 25. About four Inches of
snow fell last night, aud raiu has been falling
all of to-day.
Knu.n. Keuntorlul Flection -Alexander Cald
well fcilrrted.
Leavenworth, Jan. 25. Tho first ballot of
the joint convention of the Kansas Legislature
for the election of a United States Senator re
sulted as follows : Alexander Caldwell, 87;
Samuel J. Crawford, 34; ex-Governor Shannon,
2. The citizens of Leavenworth celebrated the
event with music, bonfires, the ringing of bells,
and lirmg salutes. Caldwell 13 tue urst man
friendly to their interests ever sent, to the
National Legislature
t.erninn Prote.t As-aln.l Shipment of Arms to
1- rnuee.
Cincinnati, Jan. 25. A large meeting of
Germans was held to-night in Arbeiter Hall to
protest ngainst the sale and shipment of arms
from the United States to the French Govern
ment. Resolutions were adopted saving that
the war has been prolonged by sending arms
and ammunition to Franco from this country;
that the action of the Government was contrary
to Its former policy; that the Germans solemnly
protested; and that the Government in its policy
had treated with disrespect the services of the
Germans in the war for the preservation of the
Union. Senator Schurz was complimented.
The Third Ohio Conare.Nlonal District
The Executive Committee of Montgomery
county, Ohio, have discontinued proceedings in
the contest with Colonel Campbell for the seat
in the next Congress from tho Third district, the
necessity, they eay, having ceased by reason of
Mr. Schenck's foreign appointment and by tho
justice to be awarded the soldiers through the
bill in Congress receding the jurisdiction of tho
Soldiers' Home to the State of Ohio.
Death of a Keporter.
Cincinnati, Jan. 25. Lewis A. Allen, for
reveral years a local reporter of tho daily press,
died to-day.
FROM JVEW J VRK.
Effects of the Si.rm-Obstruction to Navlxu-
tloo Tne l erne. itioi-Heci.
New Yokk, Jan. 25. The ice in the bav Is a
gre iter obstruction to navigation to-day than at
auy time for many years. The Staien Island
Ferry-boats find the crossing quite difficult, and
their trips are irregular. The Pomma, of the
North Shore Fery, is said to be Ice-bound at
E'm Park. The Castleton, of the same Hue,
came up this morning more than an hour behind
time.
When off the "Sailors' Snug Harbor" she
rescued a man who bad nearly perished in au
effort to cross the stream in an open boat, hav
ing been struggling In the ice since 0 A.M. A
few minutes later she picked up two men in the
same 6itation, in another ice-bound row-boat.
When off the light-house, pilot boat No. '21 was
discovered completely lce-bouud, having been
drifting about all nijjht without being able to
find a passage to seaward. The Castleton towed
her to this city.
Hallway CollLlon.
Middletown, N. Y., Jan. 2t5. Thli morning
an extra train, westward bound, ran into a
freight train, No. 83, opposite Sweet's Hotel,
demolishing the caboose. No person was in
jured. '
Nnew Btorui-
Nw York, Jan. 20. Snow has been falling
since early this morning.
Specie Nblpmeot.
TLe Aleppo takes tiW,70U la erecle.
FROM XEW ' EjSGLAjYD.
Death of (ieorae Tlcknor.
Boston, Jan. 20. George Tlcknor, the dis
tinguished scholar, died to-day at tbj age of
nearly eighty.
Fire In no. ton.
A fire last night, No. 253 Washington street.
burned the millinery goods shop of Mrs. Shaw.
Loss, $5000; other damage, $2500.
flaltlmore Produerl Market.
Baltimokk. Jan. so. Cot'on stromr: mid
dling upland, te. low midlllnir, l.'je. Flour
nrni oui quiet, w neat nrm and siock scarce, and
in (rood demand atyesierday's figures. Corn htsrher
and stock scarce; white, 84?s. ; yellow, sniS2c.
Oats, rfiiri(c. live n.utct at SN.r9.'o. JTovtsi.in
buoyant at yepterdaj's figures. Whisky strung and
nciii nl l'i(..; I'iC.
(MUTUARY.
Cileorae ficknor.
(ieorije Tlcknor, tho dlstioguisliel author of the
qilstory of Spanish Literature," died to-day at his
residence in Boston. Mr. Tlcknor was born in 1791,
and was educated at Dartmouth College. After
jtradnatlng he visited Europe, and spent five years
In visiting the vai Ions countries and In Rtndylngthe
character of the people and their languages. On lis
return to America he was appointed Professor of
the French and Spanish Language a? Harvard
College, his leisure being employed In the p epa'a
t!ou of his "History of Spanish Literature," which
was first published In lstu. This great work esta
blished Mr. Ticknor's reputation as a critic and a
scho'ar, aud it was the subject of most cordial
praise irom both American and European reviewers.
It Is a complete survey of Spanish lite
rature, with admirable critical remurks upon
the ditVerent authors, Interspersed with extracts
representing their varieties In style. These extracts
are excellent specimens of translation, aud they lu
spire a regret that Mr. Tlcknor did not devote him
self to introducing some of tho classic Spanish
authors to the EugllsU-speaklug public In more
complete shape. "The History of Spanish Litera
ture" has been translated Into Spanish and German,
and Is considered the standard work on tlio subject,
in 1863 Mr. Tlcknor published a "Llfo of William
II. rrescott," one of the most interesting biogra
phies in the English language.
i niicu Ami VMtx.uKuuu.
KvENisfj Tkleoraph Omoc.l
Tlitir.dny, Jan. 26. l7l. J
There was scarcely sulliclent business trans
acted in financial circles this morning to enable
us to characterize the market. For call loans
the demand was exceptionally light, and tho
weather was too unpropilious to luvor outside
transactions, thus influencing the market for
discounts. 5 to 0 per cent, was the range for
call loans, and 7 to 8 per cent, for A 1 mercan
tile paper. The banks kept their regular cus
tomers iu good supply at 0 per cent., hut the
paper most in favor was sixty days aud under.
(Stocks were very dull but steady. Sales of
City 0s, new bonds, at 100J.
Leading Railroad sold in a small way at 49;
Pennsylvania at 02,Vs'0y.,4; Leiiiirh Valley at
(10; Philadelphia and Trenton atU5;'; and Oil
Creek and Alleghany at 40i(qH. The only
feature was the lively movement in Philadel
phia and Krle, which was in demaud at 27,'(S
27, the latter b. o.
In canal aharea the only sales were in Lehigh
at34?ir-34)-
A few shares
changed hands at
touvillo.
of
so,';.
German town
15;" was bid
IU11 road
for lles-
PHILADELPHIA RTOHK EXCHANGE SALES.
Reported by De Haven A Bro., No. 40 d. Third street.
K1H3T BOARD.
lenocity 6s, New.luOi iMsnLoh V R
60
60
t.''
6J
S7lf
:ioo0 Bead K 7s.
lit do.
r000 J'hilA H 78... bi'i
tmuooCA A 7s... 8':4
IllHlOO do bi)0. SiV
2 do
Ill do
loo an Ph A E..bi;o
2(o do btiO
M'U N Penna 7s. . . 95 j
IMiooPaKcoii int.. oi v
7ioo pa 6s, 3se....lm;(i:
10!) do WiiO. '27 V
100 do... .1)00. 87
800 8h Letl N ..R30. 34 U
ft sh Penna it 2
IU UU Oi I
soo sh Reading It... 4t ;
81 do 49Vj
200 do 49 -, I
luo do boo. 84
100 sh Gerin'u 1 H. 30 V
aosupuii TK..ii6;4-
MESSRS. D IUVKN tL BROTUKR, No. 40 8. Third
street, Philadelphia, report the following quotation :
U. 8. 68 Of 1881, HI.ViAUtM: do. 1862, 10i109V ;
do. 1864, 109VS1O91. ; do. 18M, 109fc410V ; da 186,
new, loSigios ;H do. 1SS7. do. losviosw ; do. 186S,
do. ios&iu8'i ; 10-40., ic8sjiosft. u. 8. so Year
6 per cent. Currency, 110)4,4110 ; Gold, 110(4
110 u 5 Bliver, 10.V4107; Union Pacltlo Railroad
lstMort. Bonds, 77(H478i); Central Pacific Railroad,
900(4910: Union Pad tio Land Grant Bond. ss0(470o.
HBBSKS. WIT.MIM PAINTKR CO., NO. 36 b. Third
street, report the following auotaiiuns: U. 8. 6s of
18818, mm ; e-sos of lsea, 10914109' ; do. iss,
w,(4io9; do. 1865, io9',(4iov: do., July, i860.
10K4U18',-; do., July, 1867, 10s,4108tf; do. July,
1868, 108,(410S;S. 10-40, 1084108. Gold. 110
(4110?.'. U. S. Pacltlc R. R. Cur'cy 6s, 110&U0.
Nabb fc ladnbr. ttroKsrs, report this morning
Hold quotations as follows ;
10- O0A. M liotf 11-35 A. M 110'.'
11- 41 110Sil-OOM 110
11-00 " U0 18W P. M... 110;
Philadelphia Trade Kepori.
Thursday, Jan. 26. lUrt la the a'sja:e of
rales we quote No. 1 Quercitron at $30 "tf ton. Tan
ners' Bark ranges from f IT to $21 per cord for Chcs.
nut and Spanish Dark.
Seeds The receipts of Cloverseed are trifling,
and It Is In demand atloo. to 11 Yc. porlb. Tlmo. hy
Is nominal at$o36-30. pixseed Is wanted by the
crushers at $i-io.
There is a fair degree of activity In the Flour mar
ket, and prices are well a isu ue I. As'etdyde
nand prevails from the horns consumers, and
there is some speculative inquiry. 80m) bbls changed
hands, Including superii ne at $.vf0a 5 -75; extras at
$.Yt(K45'7ft; AViseonsn hn'l Minnesota extra fa
mily at $7(a7'60; Pennsylvania do. do. at. $ilT;o4
7; Ohio do. do. at $6-'7iy7-75; aud St. Louis
do.do. at $s. Rye Piour may be quoted at S5'45i4
6-fo. In Corn Meal no sal s were reported.
, The Wheat market is characterized by Increased
Dimness, and prime lots ae scarce and easier.
Sales of i(0 bushels at $l-&si'6ij for Imtiaua
red; $1 -60 4 1 C'i for Ohio amber. Kye Is scarce, and
and msy be quoted at 95e.(. ;t7c. for Western. Corn
Is coming forward slowly, aud most holders are de
manding an advance; sales of 80(h) bushels West
ern mixed yesterday afternoon at Sl ,si!4s., now
held at sac. Oats are unchanged ; Too bushels white
Peunsylvanla sold at 6)c. 4000 bmlu-ls New York
two-rowed barley were taknn on private terms.
Whisky is scarce, aud held at 91c for Western
irou-bou nd.
LATEST SHIPPtSft INTELLIGENCE.
(By Cable.)
Ham bi'ki;, Jan. 84 The steamship Cambria, rrom
New York, arrived yesterday.
(By Telegraph.)
Niw Yokk, Jan. 26. Arrived, steamship Bri
tannia, from Olasgow.
Koktkbss MohKOK, Va., Jan. 2S.-.The pilot-boat
Maryland reports: Parsed id for Baltimore, strip
May Dunday, from Newport, Wales; bark Lorenzo)
und brig Seva, from Liverpool ; and brig Senorita,
from Mo.
In tha Read, bark Templar and brig Redwing,
from Rio.
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA JANUARY 26
BTAT OF THBKMOM BT(H AT THE BVIK1NO TKLKdBAPQ
omen.
8A.M 18 1 11 A. M.. 2HT.M. 83
SUM RlflM M MOON SBT9. ma
StU BBTB B IO H'H WATSH 6-64
CLKaKED TUI3 MOKNINU. "
Steamship Volunteer, Joues, New York, J. P. Ohl.
ARRIVED THIS MORNING.
Steamship Hunter, Harding, 86 hours from Prov!.
deuce, with muse, and passengers to 1). b. htetsou
Co.
pteamer Fanlta, Poane, 84 hours from New York,
With wane, und passengers to Joan 1 VUU
MEMORANDA,
Steamer Benefactor, Mierwood, hence, 11 rrlvsd at
New Yvri ut u 0 clock last night.
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