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VOL. XV. NO. 45.
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1871.
DOUBLE SHEET TURKU CENTS.
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FIRST EDITION
THE JOINT HIGH COMMISSION.
lYIr. Disraeli on America.
T7hcro is Elijah Fogram?
"Why Paris Surrendered.
The Murder of U.S. Marshal Jenkins
Great Tornado in tho West.
Whole Villages Desolated.
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THE HIGH COXJIISSIOff.
Arrival of the Ilrltlnh ComtnlNslonerft.
The Biitish members of the Joint High Com
mission to eettle the Alabama claims arrived
yesterday in the Bteamship Cuba, from Liver
pool. The steamer reached her dock in Jersey
City at about o'clock, and the members of the
commission, accompanied by Mr. E. M. Archi
bald, British Consul at New York, were driven
in carriages to the Brevoort House in that city,
where they arrived about 8 o'clock. A telegram
was at cuce sent to Sir Edward Thornton, the
British Minister at Washington, informing him
of the fact. The members of the commission
are Earl de Grey, Lord Tenterden, Viscount
Goderich, and Professor Bernard. Sir Stafford
Northcote, another member of the commission,
is bow on his way to this country. The com
missioners are accompanied by two secretaries,
Mr. Howard and Mr. Cremer. The time of their
departure lor Washington had not been fixed
upon last evening, but their stay in New York
will probably be brief.
Comment, of the Brftl.h Press,
ENGLAND'S POSITION.
From the London Times, Feb. 10.
The Alabama controversy, the settlement of
which has been looked upon as a matter of the
highest national importance, is made to a great
extent subsidiary to another of only secondary
interest. Yet there can be no doubt which of
the several questions submitted to Lord De
Grey and his colleagues will chiefly engage their
attention. The pressure of public opinion and
the early adjournment of the United States
Senate will force them to enter at an early
date on tho question of Eugland's liability
for the depredations of the Alabama. Nothing
has yet been decided in the dispute, and
principles, as well as details, will have to be
considered. Our first impression on hearing of
a joint commission is that the British Govern
ment must have made up its mind to abandon
the position it has held from the beginning
that it intends to admit its liability for the es
cape of the Alabama, which, as successive min
isters maintain, left our shores unarmed, and
became a shlp-of-war only after she was
bevond our jurisdiction. A joint com
mission - looks like a body to be intrusted
chiefly with details where there Is no dispute
on principle, or with the examination of
claims and accounts. But this, we are as
sured, is not the purpose of the present com
mission. We believe, however, that they have
authority to enter upon all questions relating to
the late war, though we are not clear as to their
capacity to biud either nation by their decision.
It is satisfactory to be assured that England
does not abandon the position she has hitherto
maintained, and that, whatever course may be
taken with respect to the Alabama, the pre
liminary question, whether England is liable at
all, must be first decided- against us by a com
petent authority.
MS. DISRAELI CESSUH.ED.
From the Daily Telcjraph.
Mr. Disraeli sinned most deeply last night
when he came to the subject of American
diplomacy. American statesmen like Mr. Sum
ner, and American olticlals like President
Grant, speak of England, we are told, with an
insolence which they address to no other
Power. Their speeches and State papers bristle
with offensive expressions which they fling at
England because they believe she la weak, and
that tney may insult ner witn impunity. .Mr,
Disraeli calls upon ns to make known, once for
all, that we will not endure such treatment
But again we must point out that, if his words
mean anything, they mean war. We could not
protest against the Insolence of Mr. Sumner iu
iormai uispatenes. we coma not aemaud a
conference to teach him manners.
The whole world would join America In
laughing at such diplomacy. If we protested at
all, it must be by the thunders of our fleet. But
the proposal that we should doclare war against
the United States because some of their public
men speak of England with scurrility or inso
lence is the wildest proposition ever made by
the responsible leader of a great party. The
true policy is very different. Leave the Ameri
cans alone never mind -Mr. Sumner and the
transatlantic statesmen will learu to moderate
their wrath. The mission of Lord de Grey is
the best rebuke to Mr. Grant's freedom of Presi
dential utterance.
DANGER OF DELAY TO ENGLAND.
From the London Spectator,
The "latent war," as Mr. Fish recently
called it, has lasted already at least three years
too long, ami has cost America alone a hundred
millions sterling in the price of her public secu
rities. Ouce cordially In amity with England,
America ounht to be able to borrow at five per
cent, where she is now paving seven. We do
not know that this is not the most important
paragraph in ine speecn. it is only wtien ime
rica is hostile that Great Brlta-.n loses her
weight in European politics, a weight which, we
mav remark, the Americans do not desire her
to lose. Once relieved of that special danger a
danger to which no other power in Europe Is
exposed Great liritain is unburdened, and can.
if her rulers please, once more exert her just
authority in favor of moderate couusels, of the
observance of treaties, and of the right of every
civilized people to remain under the government
they prefer.
Debate la the BrltUh Parliament.
DISRAELI COMI'LAIN8 OF THE INSOLENCE OF THE
UNITED STATES AND THE "KOWDf KUETOKIC"
OF AMERICANS.
in the House of Commons, Mr. Disraeli, the
Conservative leader, complained of the tone
Ailnnted in reirard to England by the public men
of this country, and showed that he was not to
be outdone in the very discourtesy oi wiiicn ne
complained. He said:
"There Is one point connected with America, how
vw whii h 1 cannot refrain from bringing before
the consideration of this House, and that in, it seems
to me the tune has come when some notice should
be taken by tins country oi iub niruiiui j muu
in urim h the authorities of America cuintuuui
rate with our loverument ami with the peupleof
trns country or with persona of influence with whom
they are placed in communication. The tone of
the Awerh ufi Government toward the Government
of inland Is different from tnat used toward
tlie (ioverUIUfcUl OX UUJ oiacr iuujuj.
Mar.) It ii not, as I ouce thought n was, tho rude
simplicity of republican manners. (Lanfrhter.) No
thing can be more courteous than the Government
of the United States to the RusRlan Government;
and, I have no doubt, to the German Government;
but If they hate snv communications to make to
the Government of this country, or any cause to
give their opinion as to the conductor the English
people, a tone Is adopted and language
used which it may be forbearing not
to notice for a time, but which, If continued, may
lend to consequences not Intended, and which all
will deplore. Now I am not going to dwell upon
the wild worda of demagogues, who, I suppose, in
the Vnited States, aa In ail other countries, are reck
less In their expressions. 1 am talking of persons
of authority of the House of the Representatives
of the nation. I will take, ror Instance, the chief
Senator I think the Chairman of the Committee
for Foreign Ailalrs is the chief man in the senate,
and only second to the President, for he
exercises the functions of royalty to
a certain tiegree. na treaty wim
the United States can, I believe, be concluded with
out his concurrence. Well, having to deal with us
In this very matter of the fisheries treaty, he com
menced his parliamentary career last year by a vio
lent Invective against tne JK.ngnsa Government and
tho EDglish nation, calculated to excite the passions
of the people of America. Then the President of
the United States, the sovereign of America, has re
cently produced one or ine gravest state papers
which a person of his exalted position could
have produced. (Hear, bear.) When the
Kugllsh Government or people are referred
to, Instead of being spoken of with
kindness or respect I niiKht use much harsher ex
pressions to describe t lie manner in which our con-
ouct and Interests are treated. What is the cause t
It Is, I think, very unfortunate that, only recently
the Fenian prisoners were sent to America. Jt is a
questionable thing to me whether they ougtit to
have been amnestied. (Cheers.) But as I have said
on a former occasion, an amnesty should always be
complete ; ami if they were to be f reed I thinX they
ought to have been allowed to go to Ireland, instead
of being put on board with 5 in their ponket. (A
laugh and 'hear,' 'hear.') The people of
America received them, In pursuance of the system
of always insulting this country, with all honor, and
by a large majority In the House of Representatives
decided to treat them with every possible respect.
I want to know what is the reason why the Govern
ment and people of England are treated by the Gov
ernment of the United states in a dlirerent manner
from that in which other countries are treated.
Jn rov mind . If we are to have a commission it
will be a good opportunity for us to come to a clear
understanding on that point that England cannot
be Insulted or injured with Impunity (cheers);
and, although I should look upon It as the
darkest hour in my me to support or
even to counsel In this House a war with the United
States, the United States must understand that we
will not permit ourselves to be treated diirerently
from other countries. (Cheers.) If once our naval
end military Institutions were In that condition,
whh'h I hone on Thursday, or some early day. we
shall find they are (a laugh) if once It is known that
her Majesty s dominions cannot be assaulted without
being defended, all this rowdy rhetoric which Is ad
dressed to irresponsible millions, and, as It Is sup
posed, with impunity to ourselves, win, I believe,
cease.' (Cheers.)
1YIIY TAKIS SURRENDERED.
The Government of National Defenne Pnnees
before CondrainlDK Two Millions ot People to
Drain by amine Eloquent Proclamation.
The Government of National Defense has pub
lished the following proclamation:
Frenchmen : Paris has laid down her arms on the
eve of perishing by famine. It has been said to her,
wait a rew weeks ana we win deliver you." sue
has resisted live months, and In spite of heroic
enorts the departments have been nnable to come
to her Buccor. She resigned herstlf to the most eruel
privations. She accepted ruin, sickness, and deso
lation. During a whole month shells have been
raining upon her, killing both women and children.
For the last six weeks the few ounces of bud bread
which have been distributed to each Inhabitant
have been huraly suill' lent to keep them from
death's door. And when thus vanquished, by
extreme necessity, the great city pauses
before condemning 2,000,010 of citizens to the most
horrible catahtrophe, when, availing nerseii of the
power stilt left to her, she treats with the enemy,
Instead of submitting to a sunender at discretion.
Outside the walls the Government of National De
fense 1s accused of culpable levity, and is de
nounced and rejected on luu plea. Let France be
the judge between us and those who but yesterday
loaded us wnn tue mar km oi ineuusnip aua
respect, and who to-day Insult us. We should
not take up the question of these attacks it
our duty did not command us to hold to
the very last hour In a Ilrm hand the Government
which the people of Paris conllded to us in the midst
of the tempest. '1 his duty we shall carry out.
When at the end of January we resolved to attempt
to negotiate, it was very late. We hud Hour for tea
aavs only, aua we knew tuat ine devastation or tne
country rendered our revlctualment an atl'air of
grtat uncertainty. Those wao rise against us to
day will never know the anguish by which we were
agitated. We had to conceal It. however, to
accost the enemy with resolution and appear
still ready to tight, and furnished with pro
visions. This is exactly wnat we wanted before
everything to usurp no right. To France alone be
longs tte right ef disposing of herself. We wished
to reserve that right to her. It has required long
struggles to obtain this recognition of her sove
reignty. This Is the most important point of our
treaty, we nave reserved to tne uarue Rationale
its liberty and its arms. If in spite of our eiforts
we have not been able to withdraw the army and the
Garde Mobile from the Beventy of the laws of war,
we have at least saved them from captivity la Gar
many, and from Interment iu an Intrenched camp
under tne guns oi ine j-rusBianu. we are reproaoned
with not having consulted the delegation at Bor
deaux. It is forgotten that we were shut in by a
circle of iron which we could not break through.
It is forgotten also that each day made more pro
bable the terrible catastrophe of famine, and never
tin less we disputed the ground foot by foot for six
dajs while the population of Paris was iguoraut,
ss'it ought to be, of the real situation, and, urged
on by a generous ardor, asked to be allowed to
light. We then yielded to a fatal necessity. We
have for the purpose of convoking an assembly
stipulated for an armistice, when the armies which
migni nave come to our aia were beaten back
fur away from us. One alone held out at least so
we imagined, rrussia aemaueeu tne cession of liel
fort. We refused this, aud at the same time to pro
tect the place we reserved for a few days a liberty
of action for Its army of su-cor. liut what we knew
not was that it was too late. Cut oif by the German
armies, liourbakl, In spite of his heroism, could no
longer resist, and after the act of generous despair
to which he abandoned himself his troops were
forced to pass the frontier. The convention of the
28th of January has then compromised no interests,
and Paris alone has been sacrificed. Paris docs not
murmur: she reuders Homage to the valor of those
who fought for her deliverance from afar. She does
not even accuse him wno u now st unjust and so
rash, the Minister of War, who stopped General
Chanzy when he was marching to trie relief of
Paris, and gave hiin orders to retire behiud
Mavenne. No; everything was useless, and we
had to succumb. lJut our honor Is still upright,
and we will never suiter It to be sullied.
We have summoned France to elect freely an
Assembly, which in this supreme crlBls win make
known her wishes. We recogui.e In no one the
right to imposj upon her a wih either for peace or
for war. A nation attacked by a oowertul enemy
Btrucales to the last extremity; but she is always
the judge as to the hour when that resistauce ceases
to be possible. That Is what the country must de
clare now that It is consulted on the question of its
destiny. That Its wish may be imposed upon all as a
law worthy of respect it muHt be tne sovereign ex
pression ot lree suilraire to all. We do not, therefore.
admit that any arbitrary restrictions can be imposed
upon that Buttrage.We tiaye combated the empire and
Its practices; we do not lnteud to reommence them
by instituting official candidatures by way of elimi
nation, 'llittt great faults have been committed,
that neavy respousiblliues now from them, is per
fectly true; but the misfortune of the country
ell aces all tins beneath Its level ; and besides, In
lowering ourselves to play the part of a faction in
oider to proscribe or.r ancient adversaries, we
should have the pain and shame of atrliiug those
who tight aud shed their blood by fur Bide. To re
collect these past oiaaensioui when the enemy
is upon our oiooa-suined soil is to deleat
by their lancor the great work of national
deliverance. We set our principles above
such experiments, we do net wish that the first
decree of tne Kepuoiican Assembly m isn should
be an act or defiance aguiust tne electors. To
them belongs the sovereignty; let them exercise It
without weakness ana our country may be saved,
The Government of National Deleuso rejects them
and annuls, if necessary, the degree illegally passe.
by the deputation at isoraeaux, ana cans upon
all Frenchman to vote without party feeling for the
representatives who shall appear to ihem moat
worthy to defend France.
The Boeton Timei thinks the iceoice
ilould it styled He Uoutwtll grip.
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THE XE1Y MADRID TRAGEDY.
The Aalnatla of U. B. Marshal Jenklna
Miot Thronah the Window or a llotel-ltleody
Clone ( an JKveatfal and Eidtlng Life
The St. Louis Republican of Monday has the
following:
Yesterday a startling piece of news reached
here respecting a tragedy at New Madrid,
Missouri, on Wednesday night. On the night
mentioned, Ellis T. Jenkins, deputy collector
for the Second Revenue district, and also
United States deputy marshal for the Eastern
district of Missouri under Judge Newcomb, was
assassinated in the sitting-room of the hotel at
New Madrid, being shot dead through the win
dow, there being at the time several other peo
ple in the room.
Last week some revenue business took him to
New Madrid, and he remained there several
days. On Wednesday he bad some angry words
with the son of the present Sheriff of New Mad
rid county, who was accompanied by several
other parties, and it is said revolvers were
drawn but no shots were fired, and the party
finally separated without any person being hurt.
That night between 8 and 9 o'clock, as Jenkins
was standing in the sitting-room talking to some
other parties, a pistol or gun shot was heard
immediately outside the window, and he fell to
the ground fatally wounded and soon after ex
pired. The tragedy created a wild excitement
at the time, but up to the prceent there is no
report of any person being arrested for the
crime.
There is reason to believe that the motive for
this cold-blooded murder is notof recent origin,
but dates back to events and feelings connected
with the war. Deputy Jenkins was a bold and
resolute man, somewhat reckless and of great
personal daring. During the early years of the
war he identified himself with the Confederate
cause. He was captured in Dunklin county, and
subsequently joined the Union army and acted
as a spy throughout the southeastern counties
and In other parts, and this action of his natu
rally created a bitter feeling against him among
his former associates. At the close of the war
he remained in Government service as a Deputy
Marshal, and served in that capacity under the
late Colonel Rogers. His courageous and reek
less spirit led him not to avoid the sections
of country where his war record had made him
enemies, and he shrank from no enterprise, no
matter how great the danger.
About two years ago, in the prosecution of his
duty, he was assailed by n party of men, but
escaped without serious injur', having shot and
it is believed, killed two of his assailants, lie
went to Dunklin county last year to make sonic
seizures, and came across a man who had an old
grudge against .him. l'tis life was again in ex
treme jeopardy, and he only escaped by driving
his horse at a furious rate over the rough coun
try roads. So terribly did he press the animal
that it leil dead on the road, having, however.
carried its master beyond the reach of danger.
lhese perils and nalr-breaath escapes mide him
more careless, and his career Is now closed by
assassination in the night. He was twenty
eight years of age, and unmarried. Compara
tively recently he made seizures of property for
violations of the revenue law in Boliuger, St.
Francois, and Cape Girardeau countie?. but in
several instances the property was stolen by un
known parties from the places where it was de
posited, and from this and other indications it
was evident that he was working among men
reckless and daring, and many of whom were
his personal enemies.
Arreitt ol the Huppoajd Asumsin.
The Republican of Tuesday has the following
additional information:
At 1 o'clock this morning Sergeant Burrcll
and Officer Waguer of the police department
brought into the Central Police Station a man
answering to the description of the assassin of
United Slates Marshal Ellis 1. Jenklnr, at New
Madrid. The suspected person arrived In the
ity at midnight via the Iron Mountain Rail
road, aud had taken lodgings at B.irnums
Hotel, where the oflieials, by the assistance of
the United States Marshal, found the man safely
ensconced in bed, and thus easily captured. On
arriving at the police station he gave his name
as Benjamin Boyce, and said that he had lived
in New Madrid for the last thirty years.
lie Is a man about iorty-hve years of age, of
unprepossessing appearance. Ihe case will be
roniptiy investigated.
THE TORNADO.
Nix Hours' Fearful Ravaiti Seven Cities
nod Towns Named Among the Devastated
The Loss Enormous Tortillas Innldeum.
Advices from Memphis give some particulars
of the terrible tornado which passed over a por
tion of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad
on Friday, demolishing churches aud houses at
the towns of Grand Junction, focahontas and
Somerville, and uprooting and tearing down
trees for miles. At Helena, Ark., the wind
blew a gale from 3 to 9 1. M., prostrating tele-
grapn lines ana lences tor miles; uprooting
trees, carrying tnem mgn into tne air; aemoi
ishing and razing to the ground dwclliugs,
churches, bams, warehouses and stores, and
doing immense damage.
Ihe tin roof of a large warehouse on the bank
of the river was carried into the air, and landed
on the opposite side of the river, two hundred
yards from shore; distance fully a mile. One
church was blown down, aud two others badly
Injured. In all thirty-three buildings, mostly
dwellings, were destroyed, in one Instance a
one-story frame house was lifted from Its foun
dation, witn us occupants, and carried into the
air, where it was turned completely over and
hurled to tne ground, bottom up, tuuy one hun
dred yards from where it stood, killing one of
its occupants, a man, and seriously woundiug a
woman and child. The chain cables of the
wharf boat were snapped and the boat carried
down the river some distance and landed on a
bar. Coal barges and flats were also torn from
moorings and carried by wind down stream; one
striking the opposite shore, sank. The steamer
George W. Check was caught In the hurricaue,
and it was with the greatest efforts that she was
prevented from neine capsized.
The town of Friar's Point, Mississippi, and
.Napoleon. Arkansas, below, were also visuod,
and similar damages reported. It passed from
Helena to Pocahontas at the rate ot sixty miles
an hour, destroying twenty-two houses in fifteen
minutes. As was the case at Helena, one house
was turned over, but nobody injured. Another
was lifted from its foundation and carried into
Small Hatchie river. Another was nearly de
moiisiied, the occupants escaping through a
window. Fences and houses for miles in the
track of the tornado were destroyed, and several
persons badly Injured. The loss is estimated at
f'JO.OCO In Iuka a number of houses were de
molisbed, and one church destroyed. A large
store and warehouse opposite Helena, owned by
Governor Alcorn, valued at 425,000, were utterly
aemciifciiea.
As yet, with the exception of the one reported
at Helena, no loss of life is mentioned. Later
advices from Helena report loss to property by
the tornado on Friday at not less than from
tliOO.OOO to 1300,000.
At a social partyj in the Town Hall of Old-
town, Me., a few nights ago, a young lady who
wished to get a better view oi tue dancers at
tempted to lift herself by a lamp-bracket affixed
to the galltry.when Its fastenings gave way, and
the three lamps upon It were dashed in pieces
on the floor. Ihe kerosene spread over a con
siderable area and ignited. A scene of terror
and confusion ensued, which might have re
sulted fatally to some present had not a young
man leaped from tho gallery, regardless of the
height, torn otf his overcoat, aud, throwing it
upon the burning element, extinguished the
Humes. (Several other gentlemen hastened to
his aid, aud with the puUicg out of the lire the
tiCUtmeiit ssUidtd.
SECOND EDITION
TO-DAY'S CABLE MEWS.
Tlie Conditions of Peace
Are Submitted to Foreign Powars.
Tho German War Indemnity.
Prolongation of tho Armistico
Trcchu ResignsatRequsstof Thiers
To-Day's Cable Quotations.
Pacific Coast Advices,
FROM EUROPE.
The Terms of Pence.
London, Feb. 23 A despatch from Taris,
dated the 22d, says: Nothing is known yet of
the Prussian terms of peace.
The Figaro, however, says that the terms are
conciliatory. The Moniteur, of VoraaUles, says
that the
nr Indemnify Demandetlll
by the Government is 2,000,000 of thalers. The
Germans demand an immediate payment of
2,000,000 francs by the Department of the Oise,
and accord a delay in the payment of the re
maining 8,000,000.
Hallways IlcentiiblHIied.
All the railways leading to Paris are re-esta
blished.
The Paris Monik ur says that
4rnernl Trerliu has Krstgnrri
at the request of M. Thiers, and retired to pri
vate life.
The Otstnrbnnce nt Nice
has been suppressed.
The Uaalote says that Lord Lvons, the British
Ambassador, and Chevalier Nigra, the Italian
Minister, will soon go to Paris, in order to afford
M. Thiers the
ITIornl Niipport
of their Governments in the peace n3gotiations.
The Prusnlao Demands Justin. d.
Versailles, Feb. 22. The Monih ur (ofllcial)
of Versailles justifies Germany's dentin 1 for an
indemnity of two millions of thalers, and recalls
the example of America, and adds that France
will foon recover from her present condition,
provided she abandons useless war.
Prolongation of Ihe Aruiltlce.
Bordeaux, Feb. 23. The Monih'ur, of Bor
deaux, announces that the armistice has been
prolonged until the 20th inst., at midnight. It
denies the reports which have been current re'
spectiDg the Prussian demands, and says that
Bismarck and Thiers maintain absolute silence
at the present.
Pence Conditions Hubniitted to Foreign Cnbl
net.
1'aris, teo.t. me ratric of . to-day says
that Bismarck has communicated the conditions
of p ace to the Cabinets of Vienna, London, and
St. Petersburg. Fans is tranquil.
The Defense ot Arnrns.
London, Feb. 23. A despatch from Araras,
dated the 23d, says that the moats around that
city are filled with water for defense.
A despatch from Dieppe, dated the 231, says
the Stu. German corps, belonging to
lieaeral tllanteullcl's Army,
ana composed ot MecKienourgers, is arriving
there, and if peace is signed will embark for
Hamburg direct.
Hlo Janeiro Advices.
Listen, Feb. 23. News from Rio Janeiro,
dated Feb. 2, has been received by the mail
steamer. The news is meagre. Affairs at 5Ionte-
video are improving. The revolution has been
defeated, aud was nearly at an end
Trocliu'a Protest Aitalnst the Triumphal Entry
v aria Knimeu to tne Honors ot VVur.
Paris, Feb. 21. General Trochu writes to La
Libtrte: "xou ask what Is the state of my
feelings concerning the report gaining ground
or tne approacning entry into raris ot tue Ger
man army. I give it frankly. After a four and
a half months' siege, after eight combats, after
bombardment, and after a convention dictated
by famine aloues the enemy owed Paris the
honors of war. Public opinion demanded this.
But the enemy wisn to enter Paris, not hav
ine forced any point of the enceinte, nor taken
ny assault, any tiugie ueiucueu ion, nor carriea
1 . i 1 X . . .
any exterior detense. ir, under tnese circum
stances, the enemy demands the possession of
the city, be should bear the odium of the re
sponsibility in case of violence.
"As a speechless and 6olcinn protestation.
the gates should be shut, and let him open thein
with cannon. Disarmed 1'aris will not reply,
and leave to the truth and justice of history the
laK or juogwg oeiween us.
1 he police fear that the letter will cause dull
culty, 3000 bombs having been seized yesterday.
This loralnc's Quotations.
London, Feb. 2a li ao A. M. Consols 92 for b- tn
money aud account. American securities uuiet.
6-VOs Of 1S62, l: Of 1S05, oM, W; of 1SGT, S'Jt'!
10-408, 67Ji. Erie Kallroad, isv; Ilimols Central,
lot- i : Atlantio and Great Western. Vi.
LONDON, j; en. 23 11-30 A. .u. Linseeu ua,
.11 fts.
LivsRroOL, Feb. 2311-30 A. M. Cotton quiet;
middling uplands. 7.d. : Orleans, 7'jd. bales
to-daj estimated at 10,01x1 bales.
This AfteroosD'a quotations.
London. Feb. 23 l-ao P. M. Consols 92 v far both
money and account. American securities nrm;
I'nited Btates 6-20S 01 16Ci. i. biockb quiei; trie
Kallrotid, lb,.
J-kansfokt, r eo. 23. Honns, woyn o-
Liverpool, Feb. 23 Vso P. M. Provisions dull.
FROM THE PACIFIC COAST.
Arrival of the Oa!atea at Nan Francisco.
Ban Fkancibco, Feb. 23. The 6hip Galatea,
120 days from New York, has arrived.
IWolBff Stocks
are decidedly firmer, with an upward tendency.
Wa Cellars Unrned.
The wine cellars of Bieeriat Brothers, in Napa,
California, were destroyed by fire last night.
Loss toO.OOO; insured for f 18,000. The fire Is
supposed to have been the act of an incendiary.
fisfr York ffloaoy aad Mtoelc Market
Nsw Toas, Feb. 23 H Locks steady. Money,
d.aODerceut. Wold, ill1,, o-aos. loss, coupon,
.. . . .e.ai M, 111 I' tin 1QM 111..
112: GO, 17 . iOUU, UIF. HIT,
da 1666, new, 110; do. 1B6T, not; do. 1868, llOH ;
10-40, llOTi! Virginia os, new, on; ; Missouri oh,
Sis Canton CO., 13; -umDnauci preierrea. 2;
1; Heading, ; Adams Express, 65; Ml
chltian Ceutral, 117; Michigan boutnern, 94 s;
Illinois Central, 133; Cleveland and Pittsur,
lot '4; OhleaKO and Rock Is.and, 10T','; iiiu
tiurg and Port Wayne, 9 ; Western Culou
FliOM NEW YORK.
The Vllle tin Paris.
New York, Feb. 23. The steamer Ville de
Taris, from New York, arrived at Brest on the
Glh instant.
Wreck of the Zoe.
The steamer Zoe wrecked near Il.ilifux, had a
cargo of provisions for Franco, shipped on pri
vate fpeculative account. She sailed from New
York and not from Boston, as reported by cable
despatch.
Ilnllwny Derisions.
Alrant, Feb. 23. In tho case of J.imrs Fisk,
Jr., against the Albany and Susquehanna Rail
road Company, the Supreme Court has granted
a motion to dismiss the appeal, with f 10 costs.
A similar order has been made in the case of
George M. Chapman against the Delaware,
Lackawanna and AYestern Kxilroad Company,
without costs.
There were twenty-one bids for gold to-d ir.
amounting to f4,05.000 at 110 r0r5)l 11-30. The
awards will be 4 1,000,000 at 111-25 111-30.
FROM JAMAICA
Destruction of Nngnr tfililn lv Fire Nro
Incendiaries at Work.
Kingston, Jamaica, Feb. 22. A terrific fire
broke out on Sunday night last on the Penzance
estate, in the parish of Clarendon, the property
ot Lord I'enruyn. ine boiling and curing noose
were consumed, with thirty-two hogsheads of
tugar ready for shipment. It is believed that
the plantation was fired by a neirro laborer, in
revenge for the overseer complaining of the in
stability ot a lence tne negro was employed In
mnklng.
The Penzance estate is the finest In Jamalcn,
yielding two hogsheads of sugar to the acre
01 canes, it tne boiling feoues bad not
been consumed the crop gathered would
have amounted to four hundred hogsheads.
This is the second plantation burned in the
came parish within a fortnight. General
alarm prevails in the country among the plant
ers in consequence of the excitement the plan
tation fires produce among the negroes, and tho
contagious etlect 01 incendiarism among the
blacks. The los nistained on the Penzance
estate is covered by insuranc e
New York Produeo market.
Nkw Tore, Feb. 23. Cotton heavy; middling
uplnnd, 14'lfc. ; low middling, 14 (ii. 4 v;. flour
weaker but inore doing at Inside figures; Howard
Street supcrtlue, t.v&Oirffi; do. extra, ft5-ft(7-2n; do.
family, 17-759; Citv Mills superfine, f5-7tk07-75; do.
extra, 10-Tfxn 8-vn ; do. family, $S-ro$U; Western
superfine. 15-6006; do. extra, id 60(f7-2&; do. family,
7-3748-&0. Wheat dull, except choice lots,
wiiicn are wanted; cnoice wiiite, 22-io; fair to
prime, l-60(,U-y); prime to choice red. l-i02 10;
fair to good. $l-C0l-80; common, tl-40$l-5."; In
diana and unio, fi r.r(n'i-(;5; Pennsylvania, II -fi.x5
l-oo. Corn white Southern dull at ffte. s yellow
Southern steady and firm at soc. Oats active at
fi8c. Mess Perk quiet at 23ffi23 60. bacon quiet;
snouidcrs, i0($ui.vc. ; no sides, 12c; clear no,
I2c. lianas, i2mc. Lard nrm at I3.c.
AKOTHER HORROR.
Five IMen Huffocated on the Steamer Ismalla
at few York The Fatal Hflects of the Fumes
of Welsh Coal.
The New York rost of last evening gives the
following particulars of the suffocation of five
men on the steamer Ismalia, mentioned in. our
telegraphic despatches yesterday:
A horrible affair occurred last night on board
the Ismalia, Captain Brown, a steamer of the
Anchor Line, owned by Henderson Brothers, and
now lying at Pier 10, Worth Kiver. At half-past
V o clock five 01 tue nremen ot tne Jsm.iiia,
named respectively Francis Aiken, William
Matheson, William Todd, Archibald Swan, and
James McNevin, having finished their work, left
the engine-room, and after staying on deck for
a short time resolved to go to bed.
Ihe men accordingly descended Into the for-
castle, and finding it very cold, determined to
light afire. They procured a quantity of the
elsn coal used on board the steamer, and witn
it made r re in one of the bra.iers commonly
ueed at sea, and, fearing no accident, got into
the bunks, having carelully closed all the port
holes and the door of the companion to exclude
tho cold air.
At a quarter past 1 o'clock this morning two
other firemen, named John Hynes and Adam
Gaul, came on board, having, it is said, been on
6hore up that hour. They, in their turn, en
tered the forecastle, aud, not perceiving any
thing, threw themselves into their bunks, aud
were shortly fast asleep.
At 4 o'clock this morning John McDonald
and James Dillon, two seamen, who had been
on watch on deck, went below, and on euteriug
the place where their comrades lay asleep, were
at once seized with a feeling of suffocation.
Finding that their companions did not move,
and that all was very quiet, they attempted to
arouse them, when to their fiorror they found
they had ceased to breathe.
An alarm was given, and the bodies of the
seven men were immediately carried into the
open air, and medical assistance was sent for.
The five men, Aiken, Matheson, Todd, Swan,
and McNevin, who had gone to bed at half-past
9 o'clock, had apparently been dead for some
hours. Iu Hynes and Gaul, the two men who
went to bed at a quarter past 1 o'clock this
morning, signs of life were discovered, and they
were sent to Park Hospital, where they now
lie iu a mast critical state. The medical evi
dence proved that the men died of suffocation,
from the etlect ot the fumes of the Welsh coal
with which they lighted their lire. It appears
that this particular kind of coal is, under certain
circumstances, almost as quickly fatal as c u Ar
ena), a, fact of which the unfortunate ien were
ignorant. All the men are natives of Glasgow,
Scotland.
ALLI (;EI) RKIRL'UFt
Wholesale Fraud at ihe New York Custom
House The Government Mucins; tor
100,000.
A suit to recover four hundred thousand dol
lars has been begun In the Unite! States District
Court, at New York, before Judge Bhitchford
and a jury. It is that of the United States
against Richard Baker, William G. Weld, Frede
rick Baker, and George W. Weld, trading in that
city under the firm name of Weld A Co.
On the 10th of October, 180S, the defendants
imported into New York from Mauilla, by the
thip Franklin, a large quantity of sugar, worth
about four hundred thousand doll irs. An entry
f the goods was made at tne Custom House;
but the Government claim that thia entry was
fraudulent, aud did not, upon the face of it,
represent the true value. It was made, as the
Government alleges, for the purpose of mislead
ing and deceiving the Collector of the Port. Not
only this, but there is a further allegation that
the defendants bribed tba otlicial weigher at the
Custom House to give a taise return ot the
weiuht of the sugar, which actually weighed
2,232,434 pounds, while the weigher returned the
same as weighing only y,i7o,044 pounds, tsy
this act, It Is asserted ou the part of the Govern
ment that the sum of 400,000 became forfeited
to tbem, aua tbey now bnntr this action to re
cover tbat amount from the defendants, on tlie
ground that the latter got the sugar through the
Custom House fraudulently weighed.
The aD6wer of the defendants Is a general
denial of the main allegations put forward by
the Government.
A negro who sued a Chicago saloon-keeper
t.imii .laiiuHTM fnr nnttlnir liini out. of til
saloon after his refusal to comply with a re-
. l . 11 nil
quest to leave, naB oeen avraniuu one ceuu 1 ne
court instructed the jury that the proprietor had
the legal right to remove the plaintiff from his
restaurant by force, without irlving any reason
therefor, if the plaintiil ref need or neglected to
go when requested.
THE COAL CORNER.
A New York Advance of One Hundred Per
t f nt. In l eal Mlhre December Only a Week's
huillj la the City.
In consequence of the general and long-continued
strike of miners in the coal region, to
gether with the severity ol the weather daring
much of the winter, there Is now an alarming
scarcity of coal in New York, and prices are
rapidly advaucing. Since the 10th day of
January, when the Pennsylvania Miners' Unloa
ordered work to be stopped at all the mines, no
coal has been received in that city. The amount
of anthracite coal now held by dealers is esti
mated at fifty thousand tons, which is about
equally divided between thw wholesale and the
retail dealers. The retail price, which was t6 50
per ton on the first of December, now ranges
from til to 13. The wholesale is little. If any
less. Even at these rates, coal can be obtained
from dealers only by their regular customers.
It is said that the whole stock of coal now in
the city is not over a week's supply. There are
from ten to fifteen thousand tons of bituminous
coal, but this is mostly held on contracts for
steamship companies. It is thought that coal
cannot be obtained next week for less than fl5
per ton. One dealer, it is reported, was offered
a cargo of broken coal yesterday morning for
13 per ton, but did not decide to purchase.
He would now be glad to pay $15 for the same
coal, but thinks it doubtful if he can obtain it at
that price.
A New York paper Fays; Consumers cannot be
too economical in tlie use of the coal they are
fortunate enough to have on hand. When the
stock now in the market is exhausted, it will be
impossible to replace it without a settlement of
the present difficulty between the coal compa
nies and the miners. The former are determined
not to yield, being convinced that defeat
now would place them ever after at the mercy
of the miners. The latter have been stubborn
and united up to this time, having maintained
the longest and most general strike yet at
tempted by them. So long, indeed, have the
miners been idle that the companies hope their
necessities will soon force them to resume
labor. A meeting of the leading coal capital
ists will be held in Philadelphia to-morrow, at
which it Is expected they will maintain their
preeent attitude of resistance to the strikers.
Flit ATI CU Afl C'Ull.UUUCL'.
Kvenino tklbobaph Omct,l
llmrday, Feb. 2J, lb7l. J
There is no new feature in the loan market to
attract special attention, except a moderate im
provement iu the demand for capital, as usual
after the holiday. The maraet is generally
steady, though free from pressure either from
business or speculative borrowers, and rates
continue at about previous quotations. In call
loans a fair business is being done at bldiSS per
cent, on acceptable collaterals, and discounts
rule at 7(S 8 percent., as usual outside the banks.
Regular depositors are kept In liberal supply at
6 per cent.
There is very little of interest to note either
in gold or Government bonds. The former 13
quiet and steady at llltlllX, and the latter
are about steady at Tuesday's figures.
Heading Railroad was dull, with sales at 49 56
(5 40; Pennsylvania was active, with sales at
Clifa61K; sales of Northern Central at 40';
Lehigh Valley at 60; and Oil Creek and
Allegheny at 47, an advance; 27 was bid for
Philadelphia and Erie.
In Canal shares there were small sales of Le
high at 35, s. o.(5.85, b. o., and in Banks of
Manufacturers' at 2it.
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES.
Reported by De Haven Bro., No. 40 S.Third street
FIRST BOARD.
1160 Am Gold 111U
1'OshPenna R 61
f.'xxio City 6s, New. .101
jiooo do.prlorto'62.102'4
$ld0 do.prior to 'C2.103
$1000 Suu ft E 7s... 100
fiooo Elniira 7s 93itf
(1000 lit! k. Del 2d. S.9
8
do.
do.
61 J,'
416
6H6
200
10
17
100
100
eitf
61
.1)30. Sltf
830. 6l;i
61M
..b5. 61M
do.,
do.,
do.,
do..
6 sh Manu BanK.
40s)iLeh N...D60
ino do
82shLeh V R..
29'
85 'i
do.
do .
..bf.0. 61)4
100 sh Readln g K. . . 49 5o
60 do 49 i
100 do 49 68
100 do B30.19 44
mi
40.
6 Hh N Cent it
4sshCam A Ara..H6v
Mbsshs. William 1'aintbu ft Co., Ne. 86 . Third
street, report the following quotations : U. 8. s of
18818, M&Uyt 6-20S Of 1802,1 W 4112; do. 1864,
UU.9U1X; do. 1866, llli()lll; do., July, I860,
110tfftU03: do., July, 1867, 1104110; do. July,
1S68, 110?,(4110; HMOs, 110,41U5i. Wold. Ill,',' ia
lll)i . U. S. Pacific K. R. Cur'cy 6s, 113.Vcn3,'i.
Mkshrs. Di IUvkn Bkothsb, No. 40 8. Third
street, Philadelphia, report the following quotations:
U. 8. 68 Of 18S1, 114.V114 J I do. 1S63, lUJi112X ;
da 1864, HlJtf&lllV; do. 1865, 111)4111; do. 18GB,
new, lioiSilo' ; da 1867, do. 110M'110J ; da 1868,
da Ui.m.i; 10-408, no4uo. U.S. 80 Year
6 per cent Currency, H3,113 ; Gold, 111(4
111?;; Silver, 106 (4108; Union Paclflo Railroad
lstMort. Bonds, 81B.428; Central Paclflo Railroad,
4Co; Union Pacliio Land Grant Bonds, il)A725.
Nabb it Ladnkr. BroKurs, report this morning
gold quotations aa follows t
10-00 A. M lllHll-45 A. M 111V
1010 " IU m 12'15 P. M lil.'i
11U3 1U?J
Philadelphia Trade Iteporf.
Thi-hkday, Feb. 23. Bark In the absence o
sales we quote No. 1 Quercitron at f 30 per ton.
Seeds There Is very little Cloverseed coming for
ward, and It 6clls at 10,i4(aiic. Timothy may be
quoted at f 66-28, and Flaxseed at S3 05310.
The Flonr market is quiet at former quotations,
The demand Is mostly from the homo consumers,
whoso purcluihcs iool up 600 barrels, Including su
pcrtlue at 15-50; extras at 50-2S; Iowa, Wiscon
sin, and Minnesota extra famllv at tW7-&0:
Pennsylvania do. da at $!-266-JS ; ludlaua and
Ohio do. do. at (Vb7X1''5; and faucy tiraa ts at
Si.i'.-5o, as in quaiHy. lije Flour may bo quotsd
at fd. In Corn Meal no sales.
The Wht-Ht market Is dull, nut prices remain with
out change. Siiles of lnIUua and Ohio red at f l'to4
1-00; amber attl-6ojrc. and white at fl 80vil-SB.
Rje may be quoted ut fii8i4l-l0 for Western and
Pennsylvania. Corn Is dull and prices favor buyers;
salt s of yellow at 7s79c, and Western mixed at 77
(a isc. Oats are unchanged ; sales of Western and
Pennsylvania at 62ifl.to. 2000 bushels New Yorli
two-rowed Barley at 95c, aud 8000 bushels Western
on private terms.
W niaky Is dull, with small sales at 93c for Western
iron-bound aud B2c. for Pennsylvania wood-bound.
LATEST SHI WHO) IXTELLIO EXCIV
FORT OF PHILADELPHIA FEBRUARY 23
STATS OF rnKKMOMBTRB AT TBI IVBNIKO TBLBUBAFH
OFFICE.
6A.M 32 I 11 A. M 41 1 1 P. M. 44
8nw Ris8.
ISUN bBTS..
6 42 MOON SBT
6 4S HlWU WiTIK...
.10- 3
. 4-37
(By Cable.)
Liverpool, Feb. S3. Arrived yesterday, steamer
Tiber, from Mew ork, with 21s6 ba'es of cotton.
Arrived to-day, ship Lydla Bkolileld, from Mobile,
With 8-Uftf bales.
London, Feb. 3. -Steamship Peruvian, from Port
land, touched at Moviile to-day.
(By Telegraph.)
Forth bps Monrob, Va., Feb. 23. Schr White
Squtll. of Balt more, from Philadelphia, with coal
for Norfolk, spi ung ak-ak and was run on the beaua
here last bight to prevent her sinking.
CLEARED THIS MORNING.
Steamer Rattlesnake, Wiuuett, New York, John R.
W bite & Co.
N. G. ship Elena, Bohlmaun, Bremen, L. Wester
gaard A Co.
N. G. bark Carl Anguste, Sleverta, Liverpool, do.
Bark Margaret Kvmiis, Kiutit y, Cork or Falmouth for
orders, Penrose, Massey fc. Ca.
Brig ilvle Allen, Allen. Marseilles, Workman A Co.
isciir Luilly U. Naylor, Naylor, Savannah, &uigbt
& Sons.
ARRIVED THIS MORNING.
Steamer V. Franklin. Pierson, 13 hours fron Balti
more, with nulaa. and paasengers to A. Grovel, Jr.
Steamer Octorara, Reynolds, 13 hours from Ba'tl
niore, with indue, and p&ssKiiKt-rs to A. Orovus, jr.
tsteauier Reulator, Jreetunn, 24 hours from New
York, with indue, to John F. OliL
MEMORANDA.'
Steamer Yazoo, Catharine, sailed from New Or
leans tnat., fur PhliaUuliihia via llavnuA,