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Pennsylvania Legislature.
[Correspondence of The Globe.) -
MONDAY, Feb. 21st. SENATE.—On motion
of Mr. Miller, of Washington, a resolution
was adopted requesting the Auditor General
to inform the Senate whether the Pennsylva
nia Railroad Companve paid a State tax
on their capital stock, and whether there is
any part of the same unpaid. The consider
ation and passage of private bills occupied
the remaining part of the afternoon session.
The House having adjourned until Tuesday
evening, was not in session to-day.
TUESDAY. SENATE.—Petitions presented :
Several asking an appropriation to aid in the
erection of the proposed monument; several,
of farmers, mechanics - and business men,
praying the repeal of the tonnage tax ; one
for a new county to be called Ligonier; one
of citizens of Cambria county desiring the
passage of a law authorizing the voters of
that county to decide at an election, the ques
tion of removing the seat of Justice from
Ebensburg to Wilmore. Bills were read in
place: relative to the banks of this Common
wealth, and requiring railroad companies to
present to the Auditor General, uniform an
nual reports. In pursuance of a resolution
passed this morning, at 12 o'clock, the Fare
well Address of George Washington, was
read by the Clerk, and the Senate adjourned.
The House met at 7 o'clock, P. I'd., and after
the reading of the Farewell Address, ad-
journed.
WEDNESDAY. SENATE.—Prayer was offer
ed by Rev. Martz. In reply to a resoalution
passed last week, the State Treasurer sent in
a communication, informing the Senate that
on the first day of December last, the sum of
$87,375 22 was due by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company to the Commonwealth as
a tax upon tonnage, and unpaid. A portion
of this amount, being the tax on tonnage on
freight carried between points within the
State, they were willing to pay, but refused
to pay the balance. The Harrisburg and
Lancaster Railroad Company, owe the sum
of $23,394 42, and the Northern Central
Company, the sum of $1,322 90. Bills were
reported a. supplement to an act encoura
ging' the manufacture of iron with coke or
mineral coal ; a supplement to an act to
amend certain defects of the law for the
more safe and just transmission of real and
personal estates. The evidence bill came up
in order and after considerable discussion
was postponed. The bill incorporating the
Northumberland and Juniata Railroad Com
pany passed secore reading.
rfOUSE.—Prayer by Rev. C. A. Hay, - of the
Lutheran Church. Bills were read in place:
relating to the rate of interest; for the better
protection of game and insectiverous birds;
relative to the sale of real estate by assignees
and trustees ; relative to the manner of pay
ment of coupons. The resolution fixing the
15th of March as the time for the final ad
jOurnment of the Legislature, passed finally.
4. number of private bills were passed.
THITESDA.Y. SENATE.—Prayer by Rev. De
Witt, of the Presbyterian Church. The con
sideration of . the evidence bill, which has
drawn out a longer and more interesting de
bate than any other measure which has en
gaged the attention of the Senate during this
session, was again resumed. A very able
speech was made by Mr. Penney, a Senator
from the county- of Allegheny, against the
bill. This . was Mr. P's first effort on the
floor of the Senate, and it has added much to
his-reputation as a lawyer and debater.—
The bill was pressed to a _final vote and
feated by a vote of 10 ayes to 21 nays. Mr.
Wright offered a preamble and resolutions
relative to the death of Gee. W. Wood, late
a member of the - House, of -Representatives,
from the city of Philadelphia. Appropriate
and
,touching remarks were made by Sena
tors Wright, Shaeffer, Randall and Welsh,
after which the resolutions were adopted and
the:Senate adjourned.
.Housr..—Petitions -presented : one from
Huntingdon county for a change in the mode
of collecting State and county taxes in said
county, and-five remonstrances against any
change; several from the counties of Bed
ford, Franklin, Beaver, Northumberland, In
diana, Butler and Westmoreland, praying
the abolition of the office of County Superin
tendent; four for the repeal of the tonnage
tax. A bill was read in place to alter the
Districts of the Supreme Court. The general
appropriation bill was considered in the com
mittee of the whole. The death of Mr. Wood,
a member of the House, was announced by
Mr. Gratz. The usual resolutions were pas
sed, and a committee of five members was
appointed to attend the funeral. Touching
remarks were made by Messrs. Hamersly,
Wiley, Thorn and Smith, of Berks.
FRIDAY. SENATE.—Prayer by Rev. De
Witt. Petitions presented : ten from Tinting
don county against any change in the man
ner of collecting taxes and against extending
the term of the county treasurer; one from
Mercer county for the abolition of the office
of county superintendent ; two for the repeal
of the tonnage tax and a remonstrance against
the same. Mr. Schell read in place. a bill au
thorizing the payment to the claim of Jackson
Fee for lumber furnished for the Pennsylva
nia Canal. A bill for the better securing
the payment of the wages of labor in Schuyl
kill county came up, and after being so amend
ed as to apply to the counties of Huntingdon,
Bedford and Somerset passed finally.
HousE. A bill was read in place relative
to the service of process on corporation. The
House went again into committee of the
whole to consider the general appropriation
bill. A long and interesting discussion en
sued on the motion to appropriate an addi
tional some of $30,000 to the erection of a
Monument to the memory of the Pennsylva
nia Volunteers, who lost their lives in the
Mexican war. A number of members parti
cipated, and the general sentiment seemed to
be that to erect a monument to the memory
of the Mexican soldiers and neglect those of
the Revolution and the war of 1812, would
be an improper discrimination, and it at best
would be a decaying memento. The motion
to appropriate was lost.
Educational.—School Visitations
EY THE COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.
Dublin Township. Shade Gap School.—
David Appleby, teacher; 50 scholars; atten
dance middling ; house poor, unfit as a train
log place for youth ; 14 scholars read ; 16
write ; 21 study arithmetic ; geography 11. ;
g rammar 8.
Sapling School.—Tho. B. Wilson, teacher;
37 scholars ; attendance good ; house mid
dling ; 26 scholars read and write ; 15 study
arithmetic ; 6 geography ; grammar 4.
Cree's School.—Moses Felmelee, teacher ;
45 sch olars; attendance middling; 25 read; 27
write; 16 study arithmetic ; geography 4
grammar none ; house good.
Fair View School.—Nut in session ; Sam
uel Campbell, teacher.
Devine;/ School.•—McGinley Neeley, teach
er ; 49 scholars ; 18 read ; 30 write ; 19 study
arithmetic ; geography 5 ; attendance mid
dling ; house middling.
Pleasant-Hill School—Jacob Kough, teach
er; 46 scholars; attendance middling; 41
scholars read ; 35 write ; 24 study arithme_
tic ; geography 3 ; grammar 10. House very
good ; order good.
Springfield Twp. ffeadow Gap S'eltool.—
Jno. M. McAninch, teacher; 35 scholars;
attendance middling ;22 read ; 19 write 8
study mental arithmetic ; written arithmetic
12 ; geography 10 ; grammar 5 ; algebra 1.
Composition and declamation 21. Order
good ; house poor. The teacher of this school
is studious and one of the progressive class.
Mountain School.—N. Madden, teacher;
30 scholars; attendance middling ; 23 read ;
15 write; 10 study arithmetic; grammar 2;
geography 4 ; house poor. No system of in
struction has been introduced into this school.
Green School.—Charles Evans, teacher ;
43 scholars ; attendance very poor ; 18 read ;
9 study arithmetic ; grammar 2 ; geography
In this school we find no system of instruc
tion, and no effort to introduce one. A poor
house with poor conveniences.
Ridge . Sehool.--.lno. Myerly, teacher; 39
scholars; attendance poor; 16 read; 12 write;
7 study written arithmetic ; mental arithme
tic 5 ; grammar 3. Order in school good ;
house poor. In this school the course of
instruction is improved ; and the teacher is
approximating a system. Nearly a uniform
ity of class-books is established.
MI. Pleasant Sellool.—Geo. Holland, teach
er; 31 scholars ; attendance middling ; 2G read
and write; 16 study arithmetic; 8 geogyaphy ;
grammar 1. House good but seated on the
old style.
The results of Springfield, are nearly sat
isfactory. Four of the six teachers are ardu
ously engaged in the improvement of their
qualifications. The Secretary of the Board
and District Superintendent is also a mem
ber of the class, and taking a regular course
of study. Those who are delinquent and in
different to these very commendable efforts,
are shaping their own success.
Clay Township. Scottsville School.
-----, teacher; 78 scholars ; 42 read and
write ; 28 study mental arithmetic ; written
arithmetic 30 ; . grammar 16 ; geography 2 ;
attendance middling, order in school middling.
Vocal music is general exercise, house mid
dling; ornamented with a few maps and
wreaths ; &c.
Pine Grove School.—Tho. C. Baird teacher;
30 scholars ; atteudaace good ; .10 read. and
write; 5 study arithmetic; 3 grammar and
geography. House very good, and suited to
a system of instruction.
Harmony Grove School.—Wrn. 11. Booth,
teacher ; 50 scholars ; attendance good ;
house poor; 31 scholars read ; 260 e ; 20
study mental arithmetic; written arithmetic
10 ; grammar 5 ; geography 4. Vocal music,
composition and declamation, are now intro_
duced in this school.
Oak Grove School.—James Turner, teach
er ; 65 scholars ; attendance poor ; 30 schol
ars read; 32 write; 15 study arithmetic;
house poorly seated, subject to material im
provement.
Cherry Grove School. , 52 'schol
ars ; attendance middling ; 40 scholars read ;
24 write ; 17 study mental arithmetic ; writ
ten arithmetic 7 ; geography 4. A young
teacher with fair prospects for the future.
Laurel Grove School.—Mr. Staines, teach
er; 30 scholars ; 12 read; 14 write; 5 study
arithmetic ; 5 geography. House good all
but the furniture.
The schools of Clay appear to render gen
eral satisfaction to the patrons. The teach
era are willing to - learn, and they are making
some improvement. lam confident there is
a good time near at hand.
C. D.—" If low lands are enriched by
drainage from high lands, how do the tops
of mountains become productive?" The tops
of hills and mountains become productive by
a decomposition of rocks, earths, and by
absorption from the atmosphere and from
rains.
Miss T.—" What would be your analysis
of the following question ?" "How many
chestnuts will pay for 9 walnuts, if 7 chest
nuts are equal to ten and two-sevenths wal
nuts ?"
If ten and two-sevenths walnuts are equal
to seven chestnuts, one walnut is equal to one
tenth and two-seventh part of seven chestnuts,
which is forty-nine seventy-seconds of a chest
nut ; and nine walnuts are equal to nine
times forty-nine seventy-seconds, or forty
nine-eighths, or six and one-eighth chest
nuts.
JUNIATA
Below we give a few extracts from the an
nual report of the Pennsylvania Company,
which contains information of importance' to
most of our readers :
The Board refer to the tables contained in
the report of the engineer of the Canal de
partment, for detailed statements of the re
ceipts and expenses in that branch of the
company's service. It will be seen that the
earnings of the entire line of the canal, 276
miles in length, for the year 1858, amounted
to $170,100 08
And the expense of operating
and maintaining it fur the
same time, was 124,058 32
Leaving the nett earnings, $55,041 76
The transportation of coal and lumber from
the Broad Top and Allegheny regions, may
hereafter make the lower Juniata division,
from Huntingdon to the junction, yield an
income at least equal to its expenditures,
When the depth of water shall have been
increased to five feet, but that portion of the
canal west of Huntingdon must continue to
be unremanerative.
The conditions of the purchase of the Main
Line from the State, require that the upper
Juniata and lower western _divisions shall
be kept in navigable order. In reference to
the upper western division no such require
ment exists. and as there is no local interest
that would be injuriously affected by closing
this part of the line, it is not proposed. to
incur in future any considerable expense in
its preservation.
The Board has directed the engineer to
proceed at once to deepen that portion of
the canal from Columbia to the south bank
of the Juniata, so as to admit of five feet
depth of water, to accommodate the growing
coal and lumber traffic of the Susquehanna
valley. This improvement, which is essen
tial to the maintenance of this canal as a
profitable avenue, with the rebuilding of
several aqueducts on the -Juniata, (all of
which are in a dilapidated condition,) will
about absorb the profits of the canal for the
past year. After these improvements and
renewals are completed, the canal depart
ment, under the economical system adopted
for its management, will, we trust, yield an
interest at five per cent. on one and a half
million of dollars, incurred in the purchase
of the . Main Line.
The very low rates of transportation of
coal upon the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, du
ring the past year, rendered it necessary
for this company to reduce the charges on
coal to the seaboard markets, to a point that
has not allowed the boatmen to secure profi
table rates from Huntingdon to tidewater.—
The improved condition of the canal has,
however enabled them to continue the com
petition to a limited extent ; but when the
line as far west as Huntingdon shall have
been deepened as contemplated, the business
may
. again return to the canal. In the
meantime, shipments can be made .by rail
road to near the mouth of the Juniata, and
thence by large tidewater boats, without
transhipment, to Philadelphia, Baltimore and
New York.
This department of the Company's service
has been heretofore successfully administer
ed by T. Haskins Dupuy, Esq., as chief en
gineer, aided by Thomas T. Wierman as
resident engineer. The services of Mr. Du
puy having been transferred to the Pitts
burgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railroad,
as acting President, Mr. Wierman has been
appointed his successor as Resident Engineer
and General Superintendent.
The long experience of Mr Wierman as a
Canal Engineer, added to his sound judg:
went and habitual economy, give assurance
to the Board that the Caual Department is
entrusted to safe hands, and that the opera
tions for the ensuing year will be attended
with encouraging results.
The effects of this unwise competition for
the carrying trade between the east and
west, which prevailed for a time during the
past year, induced the New York Central,
"Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate—
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait."
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
The Pennsylvania Canal.
New York and Erie, Baltimore and Ohio,
and Pennsylvania Railroad Companies, to
meet in convention for the purpose of agree
ing upon remunerative rates, abolishing in
judicious practices, and affecting a harmony
of purpose conducive to the mutual a,dirin
tage of the railway interest and the public:
An arrangement was agreed upon, which
took effect on the first of October last, and
the advantages thus far resulting frorii this
compact seem to demonstrate the propriety of
its continuance.
Application for aid toward furnishing the
iron rails to complete the Tyrone and Clear
field Railroads, 23 miles in length, was made
by . that Company, and after maturely consid
ering the -subject, your Board of Directors
agreed to receive in
. payment of passenger
fares and dues for freight that may accrue
for transportation to and from that road, and
passing on the Pennsylvania Railroad, sixty
per cent. in cash, and forty per cent. in the
first mortgage bonds of the said Company ;
provided the amount of the first mortgage,
which is not to exceed $200,000, shall com
plete the road from Tyrone to Philipsburg.--
This road penetrates a region rich in pro
ducts of the mine and forest, and when
brought into use, will doubtless be a valua
ble tributary to the Pennsylvania Railroad,
developing a portion of the State which has
hitherto been without the facilities of reach
ing, a market.
Mr. Thomas Seabrook, Resident Engineer
of the western division, having tendered his
resignation to accept the position of Chief
Engineer of the Pittsburg and Steubenville
Railroad, it became necessary to re-arrange
the Maintenance of Way Department. For
the purpose of insuring greater uniformity
in its administration, it has been deemed ad
visable to consolidate the two divisions into
which the department had been divided and
give to Mr. W. A. Wilson, the charge of the
entire road; an arrangement which the
Board believe will be productive of favora
ble results.
Under the advice of eminent counsel, the
Board has withheld the payment of the ton
nage duty claimed as due in December, with
a view, if the Legislature fails to remove this
onerous burthen upon the trade between the
east and west, to test the constitutionality of
the impost before the courts. While the
original cause for the imposition of this tax
remained, the Board felt indisposed to shrink
from its payment, though they were fully
sensible that its exaction was unequal and
unconstitutional, and that the construction
of the Pennsylvania Railroad had not only
failed to impair the nett revenue of the Main
Line, as apprehended by those who enacted
the law, and on that account imposed the
duty, but it had rendered productive the Co
lumbia Railroad, the only connected portion
of that line that was of any value as an in
vestment. The motive for the continuance
of this tax has, however, been removed by
the sale of the Main Line, at a cost far above
its value to the State or to any other inde
pendent purchaser. Its exaction under those
circumstances must, therefore, be considered
—if constitutional—an impolitic and.arbitra
ry exercise Of power, bearing oppressively
upon the interest of one section of the State,
while it benefits no portion of it. Under the
operation of this arid other tax laws of the
Commonwealth, this Company would pay for
the year 1858, $319,020 66, while the Phila
delphia and Reading Railroad Company, a
corporation of greater stock arid bond capi
tal, (exclusive of the debt due to the State
for the Main Line.) and a larger tonnage,
has paid but $22,5-16 11, State, county and
city taxes, as appears by its last annual re
port.
The citizens of Pittsburgh, complain, and
justly, of the large discrimination made in
the rates of freight in favor of more distant
points—discriminations which are necessary
to enable the Company to meet its obliga
tions; but they turn their censures from the
cause to the elect; and demand relief from
those who have not the ability to grant it,
without a sacrifice which it would be unrea
sonable to ask.
In the contest for the trade of .tbe West,
we shall hereafter have a more formidable
rival than any we have met, in the.enlarged
New York canal and its numerous steamers.
In this contest, if the tax has not been re
moved, the duty we owe to our shareholders
will compel us to reject, to a much greater
extent than we have heretofore done, the
heavy products of the distant West.
By order of the Board.
J. EDGAR THOMPSON, Pres't.
WlLT.x..ur B. FOSTER, Jr., Vice Pres't.
Mysterious Death---Supposed Poisoning
of a Man by his Wife !
[From tho Harrisburg Telegraph, Feb. 25.]
On Wednesday - evening last a man named
Adam Smith, foreman on the Pennsylvnia,
Railroad at Bailey's Station, died under very
mysterious circumstances. The previous con
duct of his wife leading to the suspicion that
he had been poisoned. Doctors Rutherford
and Orth, of our town, were sent for last
evening to hold a post mortem examination of
the body, and a Coroner's jury was summon
ed to investigate the affair. .From the testi
mony elicited we gather the following facts:
On Friday last Mrs. Smith left her home at
Bailey's station for Newport, to take the cars
for Harrisburg. Her husband was in perfectly
sound health at the time, and had not been
sick for months previous. Before leaving,
Mrs. Smith told the hired girl that if Mr.
Smith took sick that evening she should give
him some laudanum, which she always kept
in the house. Arriving at Newport, Mrs.
Smith went to a driio• t' store and asked for
arsenic. The drugfriststated thathehad none,
and that if he had would not sell it to her,
at the same time asking what she wanted
with such an article.—whether she intended
to poison Smith. She replied that she wanted
the poison to kill rats. It was testified, how
ever, by another dealer in Newport, that he
had sold her arsenic a few weeks ago—about
the first of - this month. She took the cars for
Harrisburg, arriving here at twelve o'clock
on Friday, and remained till about eight
o'clock in the evening.
.For what purpose
she visited our town, or whether she made a
purchase at any of our drug stores, does not
appear. She started home by the train
which leaves here at eight o'clock, and arri
ving at Du-icannon, offered $2 50 to any per
son who would drive her home—the cars not
stoppine , at Bailey's station—staking that Tier
husband was very sick i She failed in her
object, however, and went on to Newport,
where she remained over night, at a hotel.—
On Saturday morning she went to a ' store
and purchased a drachm of croton
was testified to by the boy who sold her' the
article—and left for home.' On her arrival
she found her husband very sick, vomiting
frequently and violently, and complaining of
intense burning in the stomach. The wife
mixed up a dose out of the bottle purchased
at Newport and administered it to Smith,
shortly after which he commenced vomiting
and purging. These doses were repeated at
short intervals, and the hired girl stated that
she noticed Mrs. Smith put into the mixture
some white powder which she had in a blue
Paper. Smith continued in this condition
for two or three days, vomiting and. purging,
-and gradually sinking. During all this time
no physician had been called in. OnTues
day, however, Mrs. Smith telegraphed to Dr.
Hoover, at Duncanon, to visit her husband,
who was very sick. At the same time she
telegraphed to her father and mother at Phil
adelphia to come up, that Smith was dead !
All parties promptly responded to the sum
mons. Dr. Hoover, after examining Smith's
case, and conversing with him, arrived at the
conclusion that he was affected with inflam
mation of the bowels, and treated him ac
cordingly. Smith continued
,vomiting and
purging, and complaining of intense burning
and pain in the stomach. In this condition
he lingered until Wednesday night, when he
died. Up to the moment he drew his last
breath, he was perfectly clear-headed and
rational. ..As we before remarked, suspicion
was excited in the minds of the neighbors
against the wife, and they eletermined to in
vestigate the affair. For this purpose the
Coroner's jury was summoned, and Doctors
Rutherford and Orth sent for. They took out
the stomach, and without making any exam
ination of it, secured it properly and placed
it in a bottle, to be sent to Philadelphia for
chemical analysis. An examination of some
of the intestines showed a very high degree
of inflammation, from which cause, they say,
Smith died ; but whether the effect was pro
duced by poison remains to be seen. Mrs.
Smith was put under arrest and was in cus
tody of a Constable this morning when Doc
tors Rutherford and Orth left. The Coroner
told the hired girl that she would be held as
a witness in the case, when the mother of
Mrs. Smith called the girl to one side, and
told her that Mrs. Smith would give her a
twenty dollar gold piece if she refused to testi
fy! Mrs. S. does not bear a very good reputa
tion in that community, and the public feel
ing and suspicion is strong against her. She
is the daughter of Wm. Carlisle, formerly of
Newport, and now a resident of Philadel
phia, and has been married three times.—
The fact that Smith was perfectly well when
she left home—her remark to the hired girl
that if Smith took sick that evening she
should give him some laudanum—her myste
rious and inexplicable visit to Harrisburg—
her statement at Duncanon that she was anx
ious to get home because Smith was very sick
—her purchase of arsenic and croton, oil at
Newport—her contradictory dispatches to Dr.
Hoover and her parents, the ona.representing
Smith as sick and the other as dead—her con
duct at home during her husbands's illness,
and the peculiar character of the symptoms
attending his illness=are circumstances
which, to say the least, look exceedingly sus
picious.
Last night Mrs. Smith took suddenly ill,
with vomiting and purging, and it was feared
that she had taken poison herself. For a
time she was in a sinking condition, her ex
tremities being quite cold. She was prompt
ly and skillfully treated, however, and when
Doctors Rutherford and Orth left, seemed to
be quite easy and comfortable.
DEATII or Mits. Smer.u.--LBefore going to
press we received news of the death of Mrs.
Smith, at Baily's station, the supposed poi
soner of her husband. It is believed that af
ter the developments made by the Coroner's
jury on Thursday, and her arrest, she took
poison with the intention of killing herself.
A declaration made by her to a girl in the
family, and her symptom; when taken ill,
warrant such a conclusion.—Mr. Telegraph,
February 26.
Wedding - roil Board a Alan-of-War
(Correspondence of the New Orleans Picayune.]
U. S. Srur SARATOGA, VERA CRUZ, I l Cb. 1.
Fetes, fleet dinners, theatricals, balls, par
ties and receptions I have often seen on board
national ships, and they are generally strik
ingly beautiful, from the very oddity of the
thing, and the usual combination of flags,
cannon, uniform, &0., which all contribute to
the brilliancy of a military spectacle above
any simple civic event, however beautifully
got up and arranged under the most favora
ble circumstances on shore ; but I never
seen a wedding on board a ship until a few
days since, on board this ship, and certainly
a more imposing pageant in its every stage
and aspect I never witnessed.
A merchant in Vera Cruz, Mr. Dewhurst,
and the father of an American lady, Mr.
Markoe, also an American merchant, and
resident of this city, solicited permission from
Capt. Turner, commanding the Saratoga, to
solemnize the nuptials of Mr. Dewhurst and
Miss Markoe, under the Amevican flag, on
board the Saratoga.
The Captain readily gave his consent, and
upon communicating the application of the
parties to his officers, they determined in
common concert to make the occasion a hand
some one. The flags of the different nations
whose representatives were to be present,
were intertwined with each other in the most
conspicuous places forward and aft; the main
mast, the mizzenmast, and the capstan, 'were
wrapped in a Joseph's coat of brilliant; va
riegated colors; the sides were curtained by
flags gracefully draped and festooned to the
deck, while the polished surface of six sixty
eight shell guns protruded their heavy
breeches some few feet upon the deck, re
flecting almost like a mirror the corroscations
of arms and tinsel of uniforms and burnish
ed blades paraded on the quarter-deck of a
ship of war.
An arras ceiling made of different ensigns
and flags, was fitted to the under surface of
the awnings above, somewhat arabesque in
its effect, so that above, forward and aft, and
on either side, it was one display of pennon's
of brilliant colors, softened, yet heightened
by the rays of the sun which descended upon
it, and which gave to the whole a mellow
twilight shade most becoming to the picture
at large, and not unlike the effect produced
by looking through stained glass.
The officers of the chaplain of the English
frigate tarter had been secured for the occa
sion, and Capt. Dunlop had kindly volun
teered his band of music.
At half-past three the boats of the whole
fleet, English, French and Spanish, began to
arrive with large parties of officers. As the
commanding officer came over the side they
were received with a full guard, the, bands
at the same time playing their respective na
tional airs, and all the guests beinr , conduc
ted immediately to the poop as they passed
over the side, constituting, I should think,
a group of at least fifty officers in full-uni
form.
Everything being ready and the hour at
hand, the crew, neatly dressed for the occa
sion, were called to muster. They took up
the entire port side of the quarter-deck.—
The marine guard was drawn up just abaft
the mainmast, entirely across the deck from
side to side. •
The foreign officers were invited to descend
from the poop to the quarter-deck, and the
captain repaired to the cabin to announce to
the bride and groom that their presence was
necessary to proceed with. the ceremony. A
wide passage was made through the throng
of officers to permit them. to pass, through
which they advanced, accompanied only by
the captain, who had been requested by the
father to give the bride away. As they
reached the open space allotted to the cere
mony,• immediately in front of the company,
and abaft the marine guard, the guard pre
sented arms and remainechat a present du
ring the entire service, which was Most
touchingly and impressively read by the Eng
lish captain.
As rood as it was over the captain reques
ted the English commanding officer to escort
the bride to her chair of reception on the
poop, and then turning to the crew he said,
"Give her three hearty cheers, my boys I"
and such a shout went up at once from our
gallant tars aq made the "welkin ring again,"
and every one felt that it came from their
very hearts. At the same moment the first
lieutenant fired a salvo of cannon by divis
ions, and the band played " Hail Columbia!'
The crowd of officers again repaired to the
poop to offer their congratulations and then
to the festive board to quaff in bumpers full
to the long and happy -life of groom and bride.
The afternoon passed away in one continued
scene of revelry and merriment, champagne
and wine flowing like water, whilst_ the
crew spliced the main-brace at the bulls, (grog
tub.)
The evident delight and gratification of
every one at the novelty and beauty of the
scene were conspicuous, and what gratified
us most was the constant remark from our
visitors, "In what beautiful order you have
this ship, above and below."
At sun-set the ftagd Were removed and the
awnings furled; and Once more tro felt our
selves on the decks of an armed ship.
A boat was manned about dusk to convey
the bridal party to the city. The crowd of
officers feasting below were requested to re.,;
assemble on the poop ; the men were ordered.
to lay aloft, a brilliant full "neon was shining,
and as the boat shoved off from the ship's
side, three deafening cheers were - given by
every soul on board, Whilst at the same inoinent
blue lights flashed from the forecastle, gang
ways and poop, enveloping the ship in one
brilliant spectral blaze ; which made her look
for the moment a thing "less of earth than
heaven." Thus passed this gala day, for gals
day it was.
Exciting Affair at Washington. ..
A Menzber of Congress Kills the Seducer
His Wife.
AsruNoToN, Feb. 27.
The community- was thrown into an in
tense excitement to-day by he killing of
Philip Barten Key, United States District-
Attorney for the District of Columbia, at the
hands of Hon. Daniel Sickles, member of
o , mgress from the Third District of Now
York.
According to the report, Mr. Sickles be
coining convinced of the truth of certain scati
dalons rumors, involving his wife, resolVed
to redress his wrongs.
About two o'clock, this afternoon, proceed
ing from his residence, near the President's
House, to the southeast corner of Lafayette
Square, in the same neighborhood, where
Key was engaged in conversation with Mr.
Butterworth ; of New York, he charged Key
with having dishonored him and destroyed
his domestic peace, and immediattily shot
him with a revolver, one of the balls entering
the left side of the body and passing throngh
the corresponding point on the opposite side,
lodging under the skin. Another shot took
effect in the right thigh near the main arte
ry.
The Coroner immediately summoned a ju
ry, and the inquest was continued for several
hours. A verdict was rendered merely sta
ting that his death was caused from effects of
pistol shots, ftS above stated, by Lion. D. E.
Sickles.
After Mr. Sickles had killed Key, lie re
paired to the residence of Attorney General
Black, where he was advised to deliver him
self into the hands of the officers, who subse
quently conveyed him to jail, for further ex
amination to-morrow.
SECOND DISPATCH
On Friday Mr. Sickles received an anony
mous letter - stating with precision so minute
as to make suspicion imperitive, that Mr. Key
had rented a house on Fifteenth street above
above K. street, from a negro woman, and
that he was in the habit of meeting Mrs.
Sickles there two or three times a week, or
oftener. Accompanied by a friend, Mr.
Sickles went to the house designated, and
found every statement of the anonymous wri
ter corroborated. On Saturday evening Mr.
Sickles, resolved no longer to play the spy
upon his honor, determined to confront his
wife directly with his terrible suspicion: At
first Mrs. Sickles strongly denied her guilt,
but on her husband asking her whether, on
the 'Wednesday previous, she had not entered
the house on Fifteenth street, in a certain
particular dress, and concealed by a hood,
she cried out " I am betrayed and lost !" and
swooned away. On recovering her senses,
she admitted her guilt and besought mercy
and pardon. Mr. Sickles calmly said he
would not injure her, since he believed her
the victim of a scoundrel ; but that he bad a
right to a full, confession. Two ladies in the
house were sent for as witnesses, and in their
presence Mrs. Sickles made a full confession
in writing, stating that her connection' with
Mr. Key had - commenced in April last, under
Mr. Sickles' roof; but that Mr. Key had since
hired the House in Fifteenth street, in which
they had constantly met. Mrs. Sickles' con
fession was made in the midst of the bitter
est contrition and misery. Her husband sim
ply asked her to give him back her wedding
ring, and desired her to write to her'mother
to come and take her from his house forev
er. Mrs. Sickles made no objection, admit
ting the justice ofher punishment in . the most
affecting language. She exonerates her hus
band from all blame, and he has the general
Sympathy of the community.
STEAM' ON TELE 041.11 AL.—We learn from the
Harrisbur g Patriot and Union that the Penn
sylvania Rilroad Company contemplate run
ning a regular line of steam canal boats on
the Pennsylvania canal, during the coming
season. This will enable them to transport
goods with greater dispatch, and be of con
siderable advantage to merchants residing
along the line.
NOT VERT . SERIOUS—the collision in the
tunnel on Friday last. The Continentals es-.
caged injury.
WASIIIN'ITON, Feb. 28.