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VOL. XV. NO. 28.
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1871.
DOUBLE SHEET THREE CENTS.
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FIRST EDITION
The Attorney-General's Report.
The Coolie Ship Disaster
The First Details of the Affair.
Important IJivnlc Case J
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S REPORT.
The Flrt nornmrnt of the Kind V.rrr entt
t:nnrr Hinll8(lc of Crime. Kto.
The following arc the most important portions
of the Report of the Attorney-General eent to
Congress yesterday:
THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS.
In the main the country is well served by
these oflicers. Some of them complain, not un
justly, of the inadequacy of their compensation.
The same service rendered to private clients
would receive a far more liberal reward. They
are now paid a salary of $200 a year, five dollars
a day for attendance at court, ten cents a mile
for travel, a docket fee in each case of five, ten,
or twenty dollars, according to the disposition
of it, and two per cent, of the moneys collected
in revenue cases. Should the fees exceed $0900
a year the excess must be paid into the Treasury
after certain allowances for hire of clerks, etc.
The salary of fci-'OO is Intended as a compensa
tion for the labor of corresponding with the
departments at Washington. This labor has
been much increased in late years. It oftea re
quires extended investigation and much clerical
service. I know no work for the public which
is so ill-paid. The general professional service
which these oflicer perform is of the highest
value to the Government. Unless that service
is efficient, dues to the Government are unpaid
and crime is unpunished. They are opposed to
skilful adversaries, and it is essential to the
respectability as well ns to the interests of tho
Government that they should be men of high
professional character. Such men cannot be
expected to abandon a private for a public
clientage without something like au adequate
remuneration. I respectfully suggest
AN INCREASE OF TUEIH COMPENSATION
to some such scale as tho followlug, namely:
An annual salary of live huudred dollars in the
smaller districts and a thousand dollars in the
larger, a doubling of tho present per diem and
docKet fees, and an extension of tho commis
sion of two per centum to all collections for the
Government. The rule which fixes six thousand
dollars as the maximum of compensation should
also be abolished. The application of a maxi
mum rule of compensation to such officers is
neither wise nor just. One cannot earn ten
thousand dollars in fees without doing ten times
ns much work as the man who receives one
thousand dollars in fees. Ten times the work
ought to bring ten times the pay. The present
system has a natural tendency to diminish the
zeal of the officer when his maximum is reached,
and to lead him to seek improper incidental
allowances. If the compensation at the pro
posed rate should rise to an inordinate amount
in some of the largest districts, a diminution in
the rate might be made after a certain amount
is reached without departing from the rule that
an increase of labor should bring an increase of
pay. Should the increase bo made the assistant
district attorneys, who are now paid directly
from the treasury, could be paid in the more
lucrative districts 'out of tho emoluments of their
principals. These suggestions on the subject of
the maximum are also applicable to
MARSHALS AND CLERKS.
In the act establishing this department Con
gress manifests a disapprobation of the practice
of retaining
SPECIAL COUNSEL FOR THE GOVERNMENT,
though the employment of such counstl is
allowed in certain circumstances by the seven
teenth section of the act. In a few important
cases, where before that act took effect special
counsel had been retained by the departments,
I have thought that the inconvenience of a
change of counsel in a current litigation would
justify a contlnnance of their services, but iu
new cases, however 6trongly urged, I have
generally declined to employ such counsel.
Not to dwell upon the temptation to abuse
which exists where a discretion is allowed in
that matter, I think that upon general grounds
the regular attorneys for the United
States and their regular assistants ought to be
equal to the ordinary necessities of the Govern
ment, and that special counsel should only bo
employed in cases of emergency. If, as is often
urged, the compensation allowed to regular
counsel and their assistants is not sufficient to
command the ability that is needed to cope with
the adverse counsel, the remedy lies with Con
gress. The regular district attorneys ought not
to be degraded to the rank of secondary counsel
for the United States in their respective dis
tricts, as they practically are, when special
counsel appear for the Government In every
important case. Under the present laws, when
the Government enforces
CLAIMS UPON PARTNERS
or other co-debtors living in different districts,
a separate suit must be brought in each. A law
giving jurisdiction over all such debtors to the
courts of the district iu which one of them re
sides or might be found, aud providing for ser
vice of process in the other districts would
accelerate collections and save expense. The
laws of the several States exempting certain
amounts of real and personal property from
execution for debt are held in some dis
tricts to be applicable to debts due to
the United Stales. The State regulations
are various, both as to the species and
as to the amounts of exempted property. By
removing from a State which allows a small ex
emption to a State which allows a large ex
emption, a debtor to the Government is often
practically released. Losses often occurred in
this way in the cases of defaulting postmasters,
mall contractors, distillers, etc., whose bonds,
sufficient in the State where they were executed
and approved, are made worthless by the re
moval of tho obligators to other 8t8. There
ought to be some uniform regulation on this
subject.
STATISTICS Or CRIME.
In October lat a letter was sent to the Gov
ernor of each State and Territory requesting
him to furnish toj this department as early as
fiossible in January, 1871, the statistics of crime
n his State or Territory for tho year 1870,
classifying the desired information as follows:
First. 1 he number of prosecutions instituted
during said year, uuder the penal laws of tho
State, in three classes capital crimes, crimes
punishable in tho penitentiary, offenses pun
ished less heverely.
Second. The number of criminal cases dis
posed of during said year, the report specifying,
with the same classification as above, the num
ber of cases tried by a jury, the number of con
victions by a jury, the number of cases nolle
pressed, dismissed or discontinued, the number
of cases tried by judges or magistrates without
a jury, the number of convictions ia such cases,
the number of acquittals in such cases. To this
request but few answers have come. Some of
the Governors report that there is no provision
in their States for collecting such information.
Others furnish such statistics as they possess.
Meaere as these are, they are, perhaps, tho be
ginning of a series of annual collections of
Etatistici that will finally become complete and
valuable.
A. T. Akesmani Attorney General.
HOLOCAUST AT SEA.
The Coolie Ship Dorawah DrMroyrd by Fire.
Together with Over Four Ilandred of tier
Doolie FnsieBerii.
Frm the Strait Timet, Dee. 8, 1870.
From the late Java papers we learn of the
loss by fire of the ship Uncawah, from Macao,
bound to Callao with coolies, who mntinied at
sea and set fire to the ship. The captain and
crew arrived at Anjer ia the San Salvadorian
ship Fray Bentos, and a portion of the coolies
in the British ship Juan pore. The particulars
that can bo gleaned of this sad affair are as
follows:
The Uncawah, under San Salvadorian colors
left Macao on the 13th of October for Callao.
with 537 coolies. She was under the command
of Captain Guiscppe Rosicana, an Italian,
whore account is in effect as follows:
"After having sailed for a couple of days with
a fair wind, the coolies began to grumble.
Several of them circulated letters among tho
coolies, urging them to rise and make them
selves masters of tho vessel. On the morning of
tbo 21st of October the coolies were, as usual,
left on deck to refresh themselves. Alter having
stayed some timo on deck they were ordered to
go below, but refused to obey. The coolies per
sisting in their refusal, the crew endeavored to
force them to go below, and a fight ensued be
tween them. The sailors were provided with
weapons, but the Chinese armed themsolveswith
pieces of iron and wood, and laid about with
these so effectively that tho steward and carpen
ter were killed and several sailors wounded.
"After a struggle lasting half an hour the
Chinese were driven to the hold, and, seeln
that there was little hope of obtainiug command
of the vessel by force, broke everything below
and set fire to tho ship. Tho crew perceiving
this became panic-stricken, got out a boat and
made away irom the ship so hastily that the
captain, who was left behind, was obliged to
jump overboard and swim after tho boat, which
picked him up."
The fato of the vessel and of the coolies
who wefc thus left on board is best described
in the following statement by Captain llaldane,
of the British ship Juanpore, who has also
reached Anjer, with 112 of the coolies and a
Greek sailor, who had been left behind on
board the burning vessel by his shipmates.
More than 400 of tho coolies must have per
ished by fire and by drowning:
Anjer, Nov. 13, 1870. While proceeding
down the China Sea from Shanghao ?-r I,or.dou,
on the 2ist of October, in latitude odeg. 4vmln.
north, longitude 101) deg. 45 min. east, a vessel
was reported to me to the south-southeast.
Shortly after this smoke was observed proceed
ing from her, from which I concluded that she
was a steamship, uudcr which belief I remained
until sundown, when fire was distinctly visible,
enveloping the whole ship.
At this timo wo were about twelve miles dis
tant from her. As the wind was very light, I
despatched Mr. Stewart, second officer, iu
charge of the gig, to pull away ahead, in hopes
of seeing anything or pickiug up any of tho
survivors. About an hour after this the second
officer returned with intelligence that one of
the unfortunate ship's boats, manned by twenty
live Chinamen and one European, had hailed
them, stating that they were a part of the sur
vivors from the burning ship, who had been
directed to us by observing our bluo lights and
rockets, which were exhibited every hour; but
doubting tho truth of their statement, ho re
turned alongside, followed shortly afterwards
by the Chinese boat.
I requested tho European, a Greek, to como
on board and drop the boat astern and make
fast, not allowing the Chinaman on board till I
was satisfied with this man's statement. From
him I was acquainted with the fact that the
burning ship was the Uncawah, from Macao for
Callao, with 538 coolies on board, who had
mutinied and set fire to tho ship that day, a
fierce conflict having taken place between the
officers and crew with the Chinese, some of them
bearing strong evidence of the scene of slaugh
ter.cutlaBs and pistol wounds being on several of
them. Tho Chinese, seeing they were getting
defeated, retreated to tho fore-cud of the ship
and set llro to the vessel. The captain, officers,
and crew, seeing that all hopes were gone, now
left the ship in boats. I am also informed that
five days after leaving Macao the coolies had
made an attempt to capture the ship.but had not
succeeded, whereupon about one hundred of
them were put in irons.
At 2 A. M. on the 22d of October I reached
the burning ship and hove to about a mile dis
tant, manned the gig, and taking command, I
proceeded in the direction of the ship; but as
the water was 6trewed with bodies in all direc
tions, floating on fragments ot the wreck, I
stopped to pick up as many as possible, return
ing twice to the ship to discharge our living
cargo. Finding that we hud now sixty Chinese
on boa'd, I proceeded direct for tho burning
ship in hopes of rescuing 6ome of the crew, but
did not find any traces of them. Alter survey
ing the vessel round, which was surrouuded
with wreck to a considerable distance, I deemed
it prudent to return on board and wait till day
light. At five A. M. I started again for the burning
ship, which was now nearly burned to tho wa
ter 8 edge, and reaching her commenced to
rescue as many as possible, which was attended
w ith considerable toil and danger, as there was
a heavy swell running, and the Chinese, teeing
deliverance approaching, became frantic.
plunging Into the water from all quarters, com
pletely surrounding us ana laying hold ot tne
gunwales of the boats, which compelled in to
make free use of the oars to prevent their too
quicK approacn, otncrwise tne boats would nave
been upset. At ten A. M. I despatched Mr.
Barlow, officer in charge of the gig and pin
nace, with instructions to till both boats and
return as quick as possible to the ship. On his
return I mustered all hands, and, fiuding that
we had 112 men on board, decided that no more
conid be done.
At 11 A. M. I filled away to the south, passing
aeaa bodies, iragmenta or wreck, ana various
articles ot cabin furniture, fully twenty miles
from the wreck.
Augustus M. Haldane.
Commander of tho ship Juanpore, owned by
jiessrs. l. a j. iirooKbanK. oi Liverpool.
IMPORTANT BASK CASE.
Verdlrt Aaalnst ihe I'nlon Rank of I.oulnlaaa
for Sil.OOO.
In the United States Circuit Court, in the
case ot tbo Planters nans ot lennesseevs
Union Bank of Louisiana, after exhaustive ar
euments of counsel for the nrecedlmr two davs.
Judge Durell charged the jury, aud at 3 o'clock
Jr. M. yesterday tue case was committed. Jx
ceptious had been taken by counsel to nearly
every point in the Judge's charge. At 5 o'clock
the jury sent in word that they bad not agreed,
and they were sent to tho jury room until
8 o'oloek, at which hour, however, they had not
agreed, and tbo case was continued until 11
o clock last night. At that hour the jury had
agreed, and rendered a verdict in favor of the
Hunters Bank lor twenty-four tbousaud dol
lais, with legal interest from date of indebted
ness, and costs. A'. O. Uepublican, 2Jth ult.
A Mr. Lempriere, son of the author of the
well-known classical dictionary, keeps a dry
troods store in Omaha.
A timid citizen of Boston lost $5000 by
selling om nis union raciuc uonus when lie
heard no interest would ue paia on mem.
An Illinois editor, in advertising his office
for sale, announces that he is going to peddle
shoe- t-triiitrs.
The cold weather in the South has killed
thousands of orange trees in Florida and
Georgia.
One of the most successful planters in Wis
consin is a widow who has just buried her sixth
husband.
All the islands in Lake Erie are now reached
with teams, the ice being very thick and per
fectly sale.
SECOND EDITION
TO-DAY'S CABLE NEWS.
XJourbaki's Army Captured.
80,000 French Enter Switzerland.
National Assembly Election.
List of rcrsons Disqualified.
Paris Postal Service Restored.
domestic ArrAins,
Advices from the Pacific.
FROM EUROPE.
The National Assembly Election.
Bordeaux, Feb. 1. The Government at Bor
deaux has issued a decree ordering elections for
the National Assembly to bo held on the 8th
instant.
Who are Disqualified.
It disqualifies for election to the Assembly the
members of families reigning over France since
1789; all persons who have acted as imperial or
official candidates in past elections, or held
office as ministers, senators, or councillors of
State under tho cmplro, and prefects who have
accepted office between the 2d of December,
1851, and the 4th of September, 1870.
Jules Simon has arrived here.
Itourbakl's Entire Army Katera Switzerland,
nn n la l iiiitnirtl.
London, Feb. J. An official despatch an
nounces that Bourbaki's army, 80,000 strong,
entered Switzerland to-day. Tho Federal autho
rities have summoned tho cantons to prepare to
Intern them.
Chnnzy Acrcptn the Armistice.
Le Mans, Jan. 31. General Chanzy has ac
cepted the armistice, commencing at noon
to-day.
rutin PoHtnl Her vice ltentored.
London, Feb. 15-30 P. M. Odo Russell
telegraphs, under date of tho 3lst, from Ver
sailles, that the postal service has been re-established
from Paris and Versailles to Havre and
Dieppe, which ports are now in communication
by steamship with England.
Foreigners not Permitted In Pari.
The French do not wish foreigners to enter
Faris until the city has been revietuallod, and
no exception to the regulation to that effect has
been made by the German authorities.
Yesterday Afternoon's Quotations.
London, Feb. 1 1S0 P. M American securities
flat. fi-'20sof 1S62, 00; of 1805, old, 897; and or
1867, S9. Railwajs dull; Krle, 18.
Liverpool, Feb. 1 f80 J M. Cotton dull and
declining; uplands, 7?i1. ; Orleans, Sales of
cotton on a snip namei at Mavannan or Charleston
in December at Td. for middling uplands. Pork
easier at ors.
London, Feb. 14-80 P. M. Consols closed at
90,v for money and account. American securities
flnu. g-sob oi is2, sex; or iss, old, BdJi; and or
1807, 69 ; ".0-408, 89. Hallways dull. Erie, 18V; Illi
nois Central, 110; Atlantic and Great Western, 2S.
LiVKKi'OOL.Feb. 1 4 80 P. M. Cotton closed Irre
gular; uplands, y,.; Orleans, 8! d. Sales to-day
10,000 bales, Including 2000 for export ami specula
tion. Sales on a ship named, to gall from Savannah
or Charleston In January or February, at 7?id. ; and
on a snip named from New Orleans in February or
March at 6d. Spirits of Petroleum firmer at is. 6d.
Turpentine, 87s. dd.
FROM FORTRESS MOJVROE.
Terrlhle Collision nt Mea Nlnkln- of tho
Htennirr Kensington, ot Charleston.
Correspondence Associated Press.
Foktress Monroe, Va.. Jan. 31. Tho bark
Templar, of Baltimore, which sailed from
Hampton itoaas on t riaay morning lost tor ltio
de Janeiro, met with a sad accident on the same
day at about half-past 8 o'clock P. M. Captain
Wilson reports that he was running off E. S. .,
with a good westerly breeze. At night it shut
in a little thick, and he took in some of his light
sails to let her go along easy.
About half-past eight o'clock lie discovered a
steamer's lights on the starboard bow. The
bark kept on her course until he discovered that
the steamer did not see him, and if he had kept
on she would have struck him amidships. As
a last resort he put bis helm hard aport, and
endeavored to clear the steamer in that way,
but the distance was too short, and the vessels
collided. The bow of the Templar struck the
steomer well aft, tearing away her own bow
sprit, jibboom, and head-rigging and chains,
and smashing her stern, while she cut a large
hole in the steamer. The vessels separated, and
the crew of the Templar began clearing away
the wreck and examiulug to see tho extent of
the damages, when they found one of the crew
missing. They supposed he was lost overboard,
but it seems he got aboard the steamer.
The steamer, it has since been learned, was
the Kensington, from Charleston for Boston,
and she sunk in about half an hour after the
collision. One of tho Templars passengers
stated that he saw the steamer's lights after tho
collision suddenly disappear, and he supposed
eno had gone dowu.
The Templar has had a board of survey
called, and was towed to Norfolk this afternoon
for repairs.
A General Court Martial
has been convened here for tho trial of such
cases as may be brought before it. The follow
ing is a list of the officers comprising tho court:
Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Roberts, 4th Artil
lery, President; Captain Richard Loder, 4th
Artillery; Captain 8. S. Elder. 1st Artillery;
Lieutenart G. F. Barstow, 3d Artillery; Lieu
tenant U'llllain K. Van Reed, 5th Artillery; J.
W. McMurray, 1st Artillery; M. C. Grier, 4th
Artlllerv; W. F. Stewart, 4th Artillery; J. M.
Califf, 3d Artillery; F. V. (Jreeue, 4th Artillery;
and Captain 8. N. Benjamin, 2d Artillery,
Judge Advocate.
Transfer of Artillery Oftlcers to tho Infantry
Aria.
There was quite a flutter created among the
oflicers of the Artillery School of the grade of
Second Lieutenants upon the receipt recently of
a circular from tho War Department inquiring
to which of the infantry reiriments they would
prefer belDg transferred. There will be about
live otlieers irom eacu artillery regimeni r
uired to fill the vacancies in the infantry ser
vice, f nd none of those stationed here seem to
be very uuxlous to serve their country in that
branch oi tho service.
new York Money and MtoeU Market.
Nw Yore. Feb. 2. Stocks heavy. Money
an at4.. Der cent. Uold. 111,'. 6-208, 1S6J.
couprw, llu8'; do. 1884, do., 110; do. 1865, do. llo;
do. lHrtfi. new. los'i ! do. 16r. 109! da lexw, louv:
10-4i,s,lt'J, ; Virginia us, new, 60)4 ; Missouri oa,8Jtf ;
Cumuli Co., 71?. : Cumberland prcf., 21; New Yort
Central aud liudxon Kiver, tii ; jtrie,i ; jiKamng,
t7', ; Adams Kxpress, 67V i Mlotilaau Cdutftl,
117 Michigan Southern. 94: Illinois Central.
li36 : Cleveland and lltwuurg, 103 tf; Chicago and
ftock Island, 107 V ; Pittsburg aud Fort Wayne, 94. i
Western ualoo Ttuegrain, 6.
FROM Til E PACIFIC COAST.
Great Land Frond.
San Francisco, Feb. 1 The Evenlna Hal-
letin asserts editorially that the pretentions of
the various parties to portions of tho Presidio
Military Reservation rest solely on tho assign
ment of the claim of one Felix Arccntl, who
bought btate Island Canal warrants and
located them on this reservation, and that they
have not the shadow of a title or equitable
claim, the whole affair being a fraud; aud that
the proposition in Congress to give them tho
property, which is now of immense value, is de
nounced by everybody as an io famous swindle.
The Wutro Tunnel
is in 1800 feet, and has struck a large boJyof
water.
The Apnche ladlann
in Arizona are growing bolder, and make daily
raids into the Pimo and Gila reservations,
which hitherto have been considered safe.
More troops are urgently called for.
ine most
Destructive Fire In Virginia City.
Nevada, forjyears, occurred this mornlug. The
flames crossed D street and swept away two
thirds of tho east side of tho street, from Union
to Biuion avenues. At one timo the stables of
Mr. McKay, corner of D and Union streets, were
on fire, and the work of tearing down the build
ing to save Piper's Opera House was com
menced, tint by tho exertlous of tho firemen it
was saved. Alone D street, on tho east and
west sides, tho destruction was sweeping. Tho
losses and insurances have not yet been ascer
tained. Pat Lyons and a boot-black known as
"Smoky," who were sleeping in Mrs. Sherman's
house, were not awakened in timo to escape, and
pcrifched in the flames.
FROM THE WEST.
The ftlurderer (Jalentlne Menteneed.
Cleveland, Ohio. Feb. 2. Dr. Galentine.
who was convicted of manslaughter for shoot
ing Dr. Jones for alleged seduction of his wife,
v.as this morning sentenced to tho Penitentiary
for ten years, tho full penalty.
Obituary.
Judge Thomas Bolton, heretofore a prominent
politician of this city, died here last night.
A RAILROAD "UNi?LEASAXTNESS."
Open Runture of New Yorlt and Philadelphia
Compntjlca with the Ualtimore and Ohio
I'omiiany.
The nuarrel between tho Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company and the Camden aud Amuoy,
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore, and
New Jersey Companies, has at last ended Iu an
open rupture and a suspension of all relations
between the latter companies and the first named.
lhe JNew Jersey Kailroad Company ycsterdiy
discontinued the sale of through tickets to tho
South by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in
consequence of the refueal of that company to
accept tho same amount for fare from New
xork ana Mew J-.ngland passengers that is
charged for Baltimore passengers between Bal
timore and Washington. For through passen
gers from New York and beyond$l-72 is charged
oy me company lor iaro between ualtimore and
Washington, while they charge only 130 for
tho same trip to Baltimore passengers. The
New Jersey companies yesterday effected ar
rangements for sending their Southern pas
sengers by the 'Bay" lino from Baltimore, and
passengers for the Southwest and West are to
be sent over the Pennsylvania Railroad. To
Washington passengers tickets to Baltimore are
sold at a rate considerably lower than that
hitherto charged, and the company also supply
Baltimore and Washington tickets purchased by
their agents in Baltimore at the low rate adopted
by the Baltimore and Ohio Company, for tho
exclusive benefit of Baltimore passengers. Tho
traveller will by this accemmodatlng arrange
ment save a considerable sum out of the rato of
fare biiberto paid.
This rupture, which was predicted, will of
course Injure the Baltimore and Ohio Company
by taking from it nearlv all the through traffic
Irom the East to tho Southwest and South,
liow far it will injure tho companies who havo
assumed the aggressive cannot at present bo
calculated, but the Baltimore and Ohio threatens
veDgeance on them by giving its support to tho
Alr-llne Railroad bill now before Congress. The
companies north of Baltimore claim that thev
have ODly adopted this course for the purpose
of reducing fares, after all fair efforts to induce
the Baltimore and Ohio Company to join them
had failed. JV. Y. Times to-day.
THRILLING RAILROAD RIDE.
Gentletnnn Heconies PossesHed of an Unfa
vorable View ol a llrukeuiau'a Llle.
From the Detroit lYilmne.
A few nights since a resident of Tecumseh.
who bad been on a visit to one of the way sta
tions of the L. S. and M. S- Railway, being de
sirous of reaching home, took passage on a
freight train to which a caboose was attached.
The train was very long and heavy, and the
track was slippery, rendering it almost impos
sible to make any sort of progress. In order,
therefore, to get the ireignt througn the con
ductor divided the train at a side track, leaviug
the rear half to be drawn by another engine.
wbicli was to have been furnished in the
morning.
The Idea ot remaining in a caboose car, on a
elde track, on a cold night, was not relished to
any great extent by the passenger referred to,
and he decided to test the virtue of riding, as
the brakemen usually ao, on tue lop ot the
train. The roof of the car was covered with
scow and ice, and he seized hold of two iron
brackets in order to prevent his being rolled oft.
On thundered the train, and tho home-sick
traveller clung to his perch with a heroism
worthy of a man who loves his family and home
and friends, and has a holy horror of being
crushed to atoms by a railroad train. After
proceeding a few miles his hat ilew off, and
each particular hair of his bead stood up "like
quills on a fretful porcupine." The steam pene
trated "those hair," went np his coat-sleeves,
around his face and throat, and soon he was
covered all over like a "Frost King." Arriving
at Tecumseh, he was quite benumbed, and had
to be helped down, and he presented a laughable
yet deplorable sight. II is nose had swelled to
enormous proportions, his bead presented the
appearance of a miniature iceberg, and his ears
were "like unto ' those of a baby elephant, the
only exception being that they couldn't be
flapped worth a cent.
I10RUIDLE FATE.
A ft! no and Tenm Frozen to Death.
From the Hannibal (.Wo.) Courier, Jan. 'it.
By permission of Mr. A. C Grimes wa m;ike
the following extract from a letter received by
him to-day from his brother at XiidillctOiVU, Mo.
Tho correspondent savp:
A very sad mUfortuno happened to one of our
townsmen, a Mr. J. Cobb. The particulars are
about these: Mr. Cobb was employed Vi drive
some fifteen miles iu tho country with a lady
and two children, who wished to go to tboir
friends. So they left here one week ago lust
Saturday in the morning, tho weather being
cold and bad. llo delivered the woman and
children safely to their fi iemls.aud was returning
when night came on, aud Mr. Cobb lo6t his way
in tho darkness and snow. Jle drove on, comiug
up to Lead Creek, aud drove his team over a
very dangerous embaukment, where the water
was three feet deep. Mr. Cobb was uot found
until one week ago to-day he and the team
frozen to death all frozen last in the ice. It la
not known how long Cobb lived after tho team
went over, but it is thought that he lived in a
senseless condition until the next day. It is one
of the saddest affairs that has happened lu the
history of Middletown. lie was a poor man, and
leaves a wife and nine children. Considerable
money was made np for the family
IHE HAQGERTY HOMICIDE.
A Verdict Against Torley,
The gang of thieves, gamblers, Tammany
politicians, and roughs that congregated yes
terday in the Coroner's office was the same that
oscembled during the former investigation into
the circumstances connected with the shooting
of Jim Haggerty by William Varley, alias
"Reddy the Blacksmith," in the saloon on the
corner of Broadway and Houston street.
William Tracy, JJaggerty'a companion on the
night in question, testified that he was very
much under the influence of liquor on that
right; he had a dim recollection of entering
Eagan's saloon, but knew nothing of the affray
nor of the shooting of Haggerty until the fol
lowing day. Detective Heidelherg testified rela
tive to Varley's entering Police Headquarters
and giving himself np.
The case was then submitted to tho jury,
who rendered a verdict against Varley without
any qualification, counsel lor the accused pro
icEsed to bo astonished at the verdict, deciarin
al
that Varley would be convicted in no crimin
court. The prisoner then testified that he was
a native of England, aged thirty-seven, and a
saloon-keeper. He declared that he acted solely
in self-defcuso. Coroner llerrman said that ho
would hold the prisoner to ball in .$ 10,000 to
await the action of the Grand Jury. This was
furnished by Michael Shelly, of J No. 23 Oliver
street, who wn also his surety on tho formar
occasion, and Varley was released iV. T. IVi
bune to-day.
A street in Peoria, Illinois, li nicknamed
Turtle Dove lane since fifteen newiy-married
couple took Bp their residence thereon.
The 103-year old lady who can thread a
needle w ith fluency in three different languages
and walk a mile without glasses has got around
to Ohio.
A Princeton, Illinois, saloon keeper has a
temperance pledge behind tho bar, and does
his best to induce dead-beats and loafers to
sign it.
FlIVAItX'IS All) COtUHBlKCE.
KVEOTVrt TRT.KGTIAPTI OPFTCK,
Thursdar, Fob. i, 1871, i
Both for call and time loans the Philadelphia
Money market exhibits but little activity. Tho
improvement in business generally anticipated
after the surrender of Paris is uot up to expec
tations, nearly all departments of trade being
quiet and the regular business wants small and
easily satisfied. The supply of currency, espe
cially in national bank notes, is quito large, and
some of the banks find it difficult to employ
their surplus funds. Call loans are quiet and
easy at 5(5 6 per cent, on good collaterals, and
choice A 1 mercantile paper is In demand at
7S8 rer cent, on the street, and at 0 per cent, at
the bank counters in favor of regular depositors.
Gold is active, unsettled, and higher, the
range being lllKni, closing at 111.
Government bonds, in sympathy with gold,
are also unsteady, a portion of the list being
wtnk.
The stock market was quite active and strong.
Sales of State Gs, second series, at 104)(H104?;
War Loan do. at 103'; city Cs, new, at 101,
and ante-war issues at 101102.
Reading Railroad was in demand and sold
largely at 411; Pennsylvania sold at ti2G2;
Little Schuylkill at 43; Mluehill at 51?; and
Lehigh Valley at COtf.
Canal shares attracted attention. Sales of
Schuylkill at 8; do. preferred stock at 17
17; and Lehigh at 3l(&j3ii the latter was
active and stronger.
Miscellaneous shares were quiet. Sales of
Bank of Fepubllc at U5; Germantown Railway
at 30; and Spruce and Pine Streets do. at 25.
Attention is directed t the advertisement
of the City Treasurer, who gives notice that tho
fremhim on gold interest on city loans of July
not will be paid in currency on and after the
6th inst.
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES.
Reported by De Haven 4 Bro., No. 40 3. Third street.
HOARD.
1200 Pa 6S W L....103V
4 all Mlnehill It...
B1V
60
C0V
49
tllOOO Am Uold 1U)
liooo city 6s, prior
tO '62....101Jj
I2B00 do . prior to '62.102
2M0 do.new.b3.101
fcoo Pa 6s, 8se....l04
$1R0 do 104
13000 Pa A N Y C 78
bS.... 92
4shLlt Sch Kit.. 43
4 do 43
100 sh Penna R 62
59 BH Lea V R ...
11 do
115 do M5,
400 sh Reading K. . .
200 do ....030. 49
121 do 49
800 Bh Loll N...O30
800 do
200 do SCO
600 do
800 sh Sen Nv. ....
84V
84
81
84
BETWEBN
fsooo city 6s, New.ioi
200('OAm Gold Ill
BOARDS.
62 sh LehValR....
400 BnlteadR..b60.
60
49
MB88K8. DB HATKN k BROTHKB, NO. 40 8. Third
street, Philadelphia, report the following quotations:
U. 8. 68 Of 1981, 113(4118 H ', do. 1862, 110t110,V ;
do. 1864, 1097,(4110; do. 1860, 109?;4110 ; do. 1808,
new. 108109; do. 186T, do. 109,4109; do. 1S68,
da 109lo; 10-40S, I09c109. u. 8. 80 Year
6 per cent. Currency, 11 1111 Hold, lllc4
111; Bllver, 10fluT; Union Paclflo Railroad
IstMort. Bonds, 7tsV4S00; Central PaclUo Railroad,
9ufKS9l5; Union Paollio Land Grant Bond), Csni(Tlo.
M ins as. William faintbb a Co.. No. 3 8. Third
street, report the following quotations : U. 8. 61 of
18818, 118al13 ; 6-20S Of 188,110(A110 ; do. 1364,
110(4110; do, I860, 110(4110',-; do,, July, 1866,
10h(4109; do., July, 186T, 109109; do. July,
1868, 1U(4109 :Sa, 10-40, 10914109. Gold, lit
U2. U. 8. Paclilc B, R. Cur'cy 6a, lll4lll.
Nahb fcliADNBR. uroKrs, report this morning
Gold quotations aa follows :
10- 00 A. M Ill 18-15 P. M Ill
110 " IU 18i8 Ill
11- 61 " lliU-20 " ill;?
Philadelphia Trade IXeport.
Thcrsday, Feti. 2. Bark In the absence of
sales we quote No. 1 Quercitron at f 30 y ton.
Seeds There la very little Cloversoed coming for
ward, and It la lu fair request at 10Uc y
pound. Timothy ia nominal at fa 25. Flaxseed is
wanted by the ci ushers at 12-10.
Tte Flour market Is characterized by much firm
ness, but the aggregate business la light. The de
mand is principally from the home consumers,
whose purchase)! foot np 1200 barrels, lncludiug
snperdna at f.xn'&o; extras at $v7.")rf-25; Iowa,
Wisconsin, and Minnesota extra family at $6-75-4
t -76; Pennsylvania do. do. at M-&0i47; Indiana. Illi
nois, and Ohio do.do. at 16-75(1-75, aud fancy braaiU
at Ss90. Ryo Flour may be quoted at 5-Kk4
60.
The Wheat market Is (inlet, bo', hMm are not
disposed to make concessions. Sales of l.W-l bushels
Indiana red at fl 01103; Ohio do. at fl-00, aud
amber at tt 62.41 -67. Bye sclH at 9.',e.?il for
Western. Corn Is leH active; sales of yellow a;79v4
81c., and.Westeru mixed at 79 tfslo Odis are without
change; 2400 bushels Western auJ PcuusyivauU
gold at 58(4600.
In Bailey and Malt no ailes were le nrtel.
Whisky la steady atOtc for Wetern tron-h.umd.
LATEST SHlTl'ISH INTKI.LKiENCE.
By Cable.)
Livkrfool, Feb. 1. Arrived. Khlp Oleiulower,
from NewOrleans, Dec 19. with sf3 blesof oottm;
bark Valentla, from Savannah, Dec. 20, with fesl
bales of cotton.
By Telegraph.)
NiwToit, Feb. 8. Airlved, steamship City or
Antwerp, from Liverpool.
I'oktland, Foh. 1. Steamship Peruvian, from
Liverpool, arrived to-night.
PORT OK PHILADELPHIA FEBRUARY 2
BTAT1 OF TnXBMOMITFB AT TUI KVUNINO TSI.I1HAPB
OK KICK.
8 A. M 40 I U A. M 42 I 8 P. iL 41
Sum R18B8 7 moon Hsre. 6-
Sum bara 620,Hioa WiTta 11-5T
AKK1VKD THIS MOKNINU.
6teamship Virginia, liuuttr, 70 hours irom Charles
ton, with Dirise. to Souder & Adams. Jatt.29, 6 P. M.,
40 mtleB S. W. of Hatterae, spoke three-maoted solir
Jenny N. Huddell, 11 days from Pensacola, bound
for Philadelphia.
Steamer Fanlta, Doane. 85 hours from New York,
with mdae. to John F. Old.
Br. bark King Bird, Dexter, fm Boston, in ballast.
MKMOKANDA.
Steamer Rattleanuke, staled from New York at
8-Sto Uiis A- Jo.
THE SIEGES OF PARIS.
The French Capital la the rat-I former
PUrB The lly Iaveated ny the Itomnns,
the Northmen, the Frewrti, the Ueriaaaa, and
the EaalUh and Allira.
Now that the long-expo :ted event, tho fall of
Faris, has rea'ly com 3 to pass, it may bo of
interest to give a short description of several
sieges, in some respects similar to the recent
one, which tho city of Pads has endured in days
long gone by.
IT 13 TAKEN llf JULIUS C.F.SAU.
The siege jut terminated is very far from
being the first which the devoted city has had
cause to lament. One of tho earliest, if it may
bo called a siege, waj that caused by Julius
Caesar when he first came into Gaul. Paris,
then called Lutepe, was at that time nothing but
a collection of poor huts defended only by the
river, and being without walls or fortifications.
The Gauls had refused any longer to contribute
the cavalry to tho Roman armies, as had been the
custom, and raised a great insurrection. Ca'sar
sent his lieutenant, Lablenu, to eubluo the
Lutecnns. This was before Caesar had met his
defeat in Auvergno, and before he had retreated
to Champagne. On' the approach of the army
the Gauls burnt their attempts at fortification,
broke down their bridges, forsook the locality,
and encamped on the north of the town. A
battle ensued and the Gauls were routed.
THE SIEGES OF TIIB NORTIIMEN. '
The city of Lutece became the favorite of
Julian the Apostate, and in the year 336 that
monarch cleared the city and vicinity of the
great numbers of German barbarians who had
overrun it for five years. The Danes in parti
cular were very rapacious, and in the ninth cen
tury they came down in great hordes. In the
year 843 tho Danes, fresh from the spoiling of
tho Saracens in Spain and the burning of
Nantes, came upon Paris. Then the river was
wider, and had but two bridges. There was but
one gate to the city, and the buildings after
wards historical as monasteries and public
buildings were then fortresses and strongholds.
To defend the city Charles the Bald gathered his
army together at St. Denis before tho abbey
afterwards St. Germain des Pres. Contrary to
the expectations the Danes did not attack, but
spread themselves over and ravaged the coun
try. The terrified citizens abandoned the city and
the Danes entered it ou Eister-evc. But the
riches which they expected to find had been
removed, and they toqk only the iron gates and
the beams of the roof of St. Germain as trophies
to King Eric. When sickness seized the Danish
army it was agreed that on the payment by the
Emperor Charles of the large subsidy of seven
thousand pounds by weight of pure silver
tho conquering armies should retire.
But in the year 857 these barbarians were
again on hand. They then destroyed most of
the monasteries which they had before plun
dered. They burned St. Denis and took pri
soner the abbot, a grandson of Charlemagne,
demanding a heavy ransom. Only Notre Dame
(then St. Etience) and St. Germain des Pres
escoped. The tombs of the Merovingian kings
were broken open and the bones of Clovis were
scattered.
The unsatisfied piratos were again before Paris
in 885. Kollo was then tho leader, and the fleet
that covered tho Seine for two leagues, and
which contained forty thousand men, was com
manded by Slgfrled. Paris was defended by
Eudes, son of the Count of Paris. The city was
well fortified, and a temporary bridge stopped
tho posEage of tho vessels. A treaty having been
refused by the Parisians, the Danes tried to
storm the Grand C ha tele t and wounded Bishop
Ganzelaine. The siege was continued for four
years, but the Northmen made bo great head
way. A swelling of the river damaged the
bridge and allowed the vessels to pass, but it
was repaired by the same bishop, wLo also sunk
I some five ships which were sent against it. But
the Danes captured a tower defended by the
bishop and killed its defenders, all but the
bishop himself, who died of vexation. The Em
peror cent an army to raise the siege, but tho
Danes captured and killed its leader, Count
Henry. Charles the Emporor himself came to
the rescue in the end, and gave as a subsidy
fourteen hundred silver marks and Burgundy,
which had revolted. The Danes stayed about
Paris for nearly two years afterwards, until all
the subsidy money had been paid.
MESIl.GED BY TnE GERMANS.
After this Paris had nearly a century's rest,
until tho year 973, when the Emperor Otho of
Germany with sixty thousand men attacked the
city, then governed by Lothalre, one of tho last
of the Carlovinglans. The French refused to
fight, and the Emperor had aa easy conquest.
ENGLAND THE AGGRESSOR.
Paris was again in trouble during the long
wara between England and France in the reign
of Edward III. These wars were caused by
Edward's claiming tho French throne on the
death of Charles IV as the nephew of that
monarch, ignoring the Salic law concerning the
succetfion of women, whieh prevented his
mother from bavin any right. The English
under Edward lauded at Li Haguo in 1310, and
after pillaging Normandy advanced on Paris.
The city was not then enclosed. The King
abandoned it to 1U inhibitants, and the trouble
ended with the gnat Euglish victory at Crecy.
Paris was entirely enclosed, for the first time,
iu 1357 w ith a wall and a ditch, the Provost of
Paris employing three huudred masons for a
whole year. The fortifications were tested im
mediately upon their completion. The Duke of
Normandy, Regent of France, attempted to
regain the city, and laid siege to it. It was de
fended by tho King of Navarre and some
English archers. After peace was proclaimed
the Provost continued 10 intrigue for the Klag
of Navarre, who remained at St. Denis and
allowed his English followers ami soldiers to
riot iu ibe city, wtero at one time sixty of them
vere killed in one affray. The citizens being
disposed to retaliate, armed themselves, set
upon the Euulish, aud killed six hundred of
them. The Prov. st at last planning to let ia
the Englifh for the purpose of sacking the city,
and of killing all the adherents of the Regent,
was slain with a battle-axe, and the Duke of
Normandy was brought In triumph to tbo
Louvre.
Another siege was inaugurated in 1359 by the
nglih,wLo uid sail- d from Dover, had marched
through Plcardy and Rhelm, bad halted seven
leagues from the city, and had sent to the
regent offering battle, lie refund to come
outelde of the barriers. Then it w that orders
were given to burn down the three faubourgs of
St. Germain, St. Mircel, and No re Dame des
Pht.rnna. Th vIlliiirpH nf M.int hr i,n 1 I.nn-
.' CvnUnued oh tht twomi ay.