[From the Round Table.]
WILLL&M 'SHAKESPEARE
(APRIL 23, 1564.)
the sat in Her Eternal House,
The Sovereign Mother of Mankind;
'Before Her was the peopled World,
The hollow Night behind!
'Below my feet the thunders break,
Above my head tile stars rejoice;
But Man, although he babbles much,
Ida.s never found a Voice!
""Ten thousand years have come and gone,
And not an hour of any day
But he has dumbly looked co me
The things he could not say!
It shall be so no more," She said.
And then..revolving in Her mind,
ShethoShught: 4. will create a child
all speak for all his kind."
It was the spring-time of the year,
And lo! where Avon's waters flow,
The Child. Her darling, came on earth,
Three hundred years ago.
There was no portent in the sky,
No cry. like Pan's, along the seas;
Nor hovered
round his
classic bees!
What other children were, be was,
If more, 'twas not to mortal ken;
The bei M gn likest to mankind
ade him the Man of Men!
They gossiped, after he was dead,
An idle tale of stealing deer;
One thinks he studied Law, and one
Taught school, —but naught is clear,
Save that he married, in his youth,-
A. maid, his elder; went to Town;
Wrote plays; made money; and at last
Came back, and settled down,
A prosperous man among his kin,
In Stratford, where his bones repose,
And this—what can be less? is all
The world of Shakespeare knows!
It irks us that we know no. more,
For where we love, we would know all;
'what would be small in common men,
In great is never small.
Their daily habits—how they looked—
The color of their eyes and hair—
Their prayers, their oaths—the wine they drank
The clothes they used to wear.
Trifles like these declare the men,
And should survive them—nay, they must
`We' 11 find them somewhere—if it needs,
We'll rake among their dust!
Not Shakespeare's! He hath left his curse
On him disturbs it: let it rest—
The sacredest that ever Death
Laid in the earth's dark breast!
Not to himself did he belong,
Nor does his life belong to us;
Enough, he was: give o'er the search
If he were thus, or thus.
Before be came, his like was not,
Nor left he heirs to share his powers;
The Itlichty Mother sent him here,
To be Her "Voice—and ours!
To be Her Oracle to Man;
To be what Man may be to Her;
Between the Maker and the Made
- The best Interpreter.
The hearts of all men beat in his,
Alike in pleasure, and in pain;
And he contained their myriad minds—
Mankind in Heart and Brain!
Shakespeare! What shapes are conjured nn
By that one word! They come and go,
more real, shadows though they be,
Than many a man we know.
Hamlet, the Dane—unhappy Prince,
Who most enjoys when suffering most
His soul is haunted by itself—
There needs no other Ghost!
The Thane whose murderous fancy sees
The dagger painted in the air;
The guilty King who stands appalled,
When Banquo fills his chair!
Lear in the tempest, old and crazed—
,Btaw winds! Spit fire, singe sty white head!"
Or, sadder, watching tor the breath
Of dear Cordelis—dead!
The much-abused, relentless Jew;
Grave Pruspero, in his magic Isle
And She who captived Antoony—
The Serpent of old Nile!
Imperial Forms, heroic Souls,
Greek, Roman—masters of the world;
Rings, queens,—the soldier, scholar, priest,
The courtier, sleek and curled;_
He knew and drew all ranks of men,
And did sneh life to them impart,
They grew not old,—lmmortal Types,
The Lords of Life ana Art!
Their Sovereign, he, as She was his,
The Awful Mother of the Race,
Who, had from all Her children' s eyes,
Unveiled to him Her face:
Spake to him till Her Speech was known,
Through him till Man had learned it—then
Enthroned Bun in Her Heavenly House,
The Most Supreme of Men!
XXXVIIITH CONGRESS-FIRST SESSION;
CLOSE OF YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS.
SENATE.-31r. Foot (Vt.) presented a me
morial of wool growers of Addison county,
Vermont, representing that the tariff on wool
is a double failure, raising neither revenue nor
affording protecting, most foreign wool, by
means of dirt, grease and fraud, coming in at
less than the foreign valuation, eighteen -cents,
and producing less than one cent 'per pound.
They ask a division into coarse, medium and
fine classes, at a home valuation under eighteen
cents; three cents specific and twenty per cent.
ad valorem ; between eighteen and twenty-five
cents, six cents specific and twenty per cent. ad
valorem; over twenty-five cents, ten cents spe
cific and twenty per cent. ad valorem.
The Army Appropriation bill for the year
ending June 30, 1865, then came up. All the
amendments of the Finance Committee were
agreed to.
Mr. Wilson offered the following amend
ments
That all enlistments hereafter made in the
regular army during the continuance of the pre
sent rebellion may be for three years ; that all
persons of color, who have been or may be
muttered into the military service, shall re
ceive the same uniform, clothing, arms, emolu
ments, &c., other than bounty, as other soldiers
of the regular or volunteer forces of like arm of
the service, from and after the first of
January, 1864; and that every person of color
who shall thereafter be mustered into the ser
vice shall receive Such bounty as the President
shall order in the different States and parts of
the United States, not exceeding $100; that all
persons enlisted and mustered into service as
- volunteers, under the call of October 17, 1863,
who were at the time of enlistment actually en
rolled and subject to draft in the State in which
they volunteered, shall receive the same bounty
without regard to color.
That all Persons of color who have been en
listed and mustered into the service shall be
entitled to receive the pay and clothing allowed
to other volunteers from the date.of their mus
ter into the service, provided that the same
shall have been pledged or promised to them
by any officer or person, who in making such
pledge or promise acted by authority of the
War Department, and the Secretary of War is
hereby authorized to determine any question
of fact arising under this provision. That the
same premium shall be allowed for each colored
recruit now mustered or hereafter to be mus
tered into the service as is or shall be allowed
by law for white recruits; provided that the
Secretary of War shall previously give his as
sent to the same.
These amendments were adopted by h vote
of 31 yeas to 5 nays—Messrs. Buckalew, Hen
dricks, Davis, Powell and Saulsbury.
Mr. Davis offered an amendment providing
for the payment of property taken in the mili
tary service during the war. He said the
States enriched by the war were in a happy
condition. The border States have been, to a
great extent, the theatre of war, and have ex.
perienced its devastations in a direct form.
Great portions of our territory have been made
utterly desolate and devastated.
The whole object of the Government was to
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protect, the people in peace and security, and
in the enjoyment of their liberties, and when
the question was put = to him whether 'these
ends should'be sacrificed and the country cut
np to bring this war to a successful issue, he,
for one, rose up in revolution against any such
fruits of war as that. Our military leaders,
instead of acting justly and protecting us in
our persOns and property in the border States,
were waging a most' extraordinary and devas
tating war upon us. Gentlemen had a word
on this floor who were bent more on the de
struction of slavery than the restoration of the
Union.
Mr. Davis's amendment was rejected, by a
vote of 26 to 10.
Great difficulty was experienced in securing
a quorum during this and the previous vote,
and the Sergeant-at-Arms was directed to re
quest the attendance of Senators.
Mr. Hendricks (Ind.) moved an amendment,
increasing the pay of non-commissioned offi
cers and privates fifty per cent. the pay of the
former not to exceed twenty-two dollars.
After a colloquy between Messrs. Hendricks,
Conness, Fessenden and others, the amend
ment was rejected.
The bill as reported to the Senate was passed
—yeas 36; nays 1.
On motion of Mr. Powell, the Senate re
solved to adjourn till Monday.
The Senate agreed to appoint a committee
of conference on the bill relating to the ap
pointment of naval officers, and a bill relating
to naval courts martial.
The Senate then went into executive session,
and subsequently adjourned.
ROUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
The House in Committee of the Whole on
the state of the Union, resumed the considera
tion of the Tax bill.
Mr. Morrill offered an amendment, which was
adopted, that wholesale dealers in liquors who
annual sales do not exceed fifty thousand dol
lars shall pay a license of fifty dollars, and one
dollar on every thousand dollars over fifty
thousand dollars; every person who shall sell
or offer for sale any distilled spirits or fer
mented liquors,in quantities of more than three
gallons at any time, or whose annual sales
amount to twenty-five thousand dollars per
annum,shall be regarded as a wholesale dealer.
The license of retail liquor dealers was in
creased to twenty-five dollars.
Mr. Morrill offered an amendment that com
mercial brokers whose annual sales do not ex
ceed twenty-five thousand dollars, shall pay a
license of twenty dollars, and exceeding twenty
five thousand, one dollar for each additional
thousand dollars.
Mr. Fernando Wood (N. Y.) enumerated
various classes of brokers in clothing, tobacco,
coffee, &c., - and moved that all other brokers,
in addition to commercial, pay the same li
cense.
The amendment thus modified was adopted.
The bill was further modified so that all
steamers and vessels upon the waters of the
United States; on board of which passengers
or travellers are provided with food or lodging,
shall pay twenty-five dollars license.
Mr. Thayer (Pa.) offered an amendment re
quiring liotel and tavern keepers, etc , to take
out a special license at a charge of twenty-five
dollars, for selling liquor to be drank on the
premises.
Mr. Stevens (Pa.) said the present law did
not require the taking out of two licenses.
Tavern keepers are heavily taxed by this bill,
but the license being increased according to the
yearly rental, and scarcely a respectable hotel
could escape with less than a thousand dollars
tax.
Mr. Frank (N. Y.) said this question of hotel
licenses had repeatedly been before the House,
but it had been so mystified and twisted up that
there was no clear understanding of the sub
ject. He trusted the defect would now be
remedied, and that the amendment of the gen
tleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Thayer), requi
ring an additional license at twenty-five dol
lars, would prevail. A large amount of revenue
would thus be received by the governtuent,
which realized about a million of dollars from
that class of license last year.
Mr. Thayer replied to Mr. Stevens, and
showed that the drinking houses, where the
greatest crimes are committed, should not es
cape with the paltry sum of ten dollars.
Mr. Boutwell (Ky.) called attention to the
ruling of the Internal Revenue Bureau, and
quoted from the law to show that where persons
carry on different branches of business in the
same place, a license- must be takes out for
each.
Mr. Stevens replied, saying the House did
not put such a construction upon the law, and
that a tavern keeper did not carry on two
branches of business by selling liquor. This
privilege was included in the one license.
Mr. Thayer's amendment was adopted ; yeas
77, nays not counted.
The license for bowling alleys and billiard
rooms was increased from five to ten dollars,
and the same amount for each additional alley
or table.
Mr. Masson (Iowa) moved that two of the
licence clauses be transposed, giving as a
reason; that lawyers and doctors should take
precedence of stallions and jackasses.
Mr. James C. Allen objected, saying the two
clauses were pioperly placed.
Amid excessive laughter the amendment was
rejected.
Builders and contractors are to pay a license
of twenty-five dollars when the contract is over
twenty-five thousand dollars, and one dollar ad
ditional on every thousand dollars.
Mr. Mallory called attention to the clause re - -
quiring every person doing a general business
to pay a license of ten dollars, for which no
other license is required by law. He did not
understand the clause.
Mr. Hooper said he himself did not under
stand the clause, and moved to make it read
" any person doing nothing shall pay a license
often dollars. This was adopted. [Laughter.]
Mr. Mallory moved further to amend the
clause, making such a person's license apply to
his disbursements, instead of receipts. Finally
the entire clause was stricken out.
Mr. Morris (Ohio) offered an amendment
that _loafers- shall pay, each, a license of ten
dollars; every person loitering at street corners
or Standing on hotel or door steps, shall be
deemed a loafer:` Provided, that members of
Congress waiting. at the crossings for the street
cars shall not be required to take out a license
therefor. [Excessive laughter.] The amend
ment was rejected.
The Committee have thus far acted upon all
the sections relating to the general provisions
and licenses, seventy-nine in number, and lave
commenced upon those under the head of
manufactures, articles and products..
An amendment was made, by which stemmed
tobacco, with manufactured tobacco, snuff or
cigars, may be transferred, without payment of
duty, directly from the place of manufacture to
a bonded warehouse for exportation.
The Committee took a recess till seven
o'clock.
Evening. Session.—The tax bill was taken up
and an amendment made so as to read, cc On all
mineral coals except such as are known in the
trade as pea coal and dust coal, a duty of five
cents per ton ; Provided that in case the con
tract for the lease of coal lands be made prior
to the passage of this act, the lessee shall pay
the tax if not otherwise agreed upon, and all
duties or taxes on coal mines delivered by coal
on contracts heretofore made shall be paid by
the purchasers thereof, if not otherwise agreed
by the parties."
The Committee struck out the following;
"All gas companies are authorized to add the
duty or tax imposed by law to the price per
thousand cubic feet of gas sold."
:Mr. Morrill offered an amendment increasing
the duty front 20 to 25 cents on coal illuminat
ing oils per gallon.
Mr. Holman, (Ind) unsuccessfully moved
to tax them 80 cents.
Mr: Scofield said there was no comparison
between whiskey and coal oil. Whiskey was a
demoralizing luxury, while the illuminating oils
were the poor man's light. It costs 20 cents
to produce a gallon of oil, and the tax proposed
was 100 per cent.
Mr. Kasson (Iowa) exFlained that the revenue
from such oils would not be as large as was an
ticipated, for the reason that the bill provides
for drawbacks on the large quantities imported.
Mr. Amos Myers (Pa.) contended that'such
a heavy tax would have the effect to stop the
consumption, and to cut off the poor man's
light.
Mr. Morrill said the consumption would not
be reduced. It was the cheapest article of light
in the world. We have taxed gas and lard oil
nearly double, and yet there is no complaint.
Mr. Morrill's amendment was adopted, and
also one that oil produced by the distillation of
coal, asphaltum or shale, shall pay 15 cents per
gallon.
Mr. Kasson offered an amendment taxing
crude petroleum $1 per barrel, which was
adopted by a vote of 55 yeas to 43 nays.
The duty on screws,
commonly called wood
-screws, was increased to 10 per cent., ad valo
rem. An amendment was made laying a tax
of $2 on gold foil per Troy ounce. The duty
on artificial mineral water, soda waters, sarsa
parilla water, and all other beverages used for
the like purpose, sold in bottles or from, foun
tains, was reduced from 10 to 5 per cent. ad
valorem.
Mr. James C. Allen (Ill.) moved to increase
the tax on pig iron from $1 to $2 a ton. He
said the tax proposed was entirely too small.
Mr. Moorhead (Pa.) remarked that manufac
turers are perfectly willing to bear their pro
portion of the burdens. They ask no exemp
tion, but ask an assurance that the duty on the
foreign article will be increased in the Tariff
bill.
Mr. Stevens (Pa.) said the duty on iron
is double what it was, and on some of the
smaller kinds three or four times as much.
Iron was taxed higher than any other article..
Mr. Cox (Ohio) said, all things considered,
the iron manufacturers of Pennsylvania have
protection to the extent of one hundred and
fifty per centum. He reminded the gentleman
from Pennsylvania that whiskey had been taxed
four times its worth.
Mr. Scofield said his colleague (Mr. Stevens)
had voted to tax illuminating oil 150 per cent.,
an article consumed by the poor, while iron,
which was used by the wealthy, was to be taxed
to the small extent of a dollar a ton. It ought
to be taxed $5 a ton.
Mr. Kellogg (N. Y.) mentioned facts to
show that iron could bear a higher. tax. The
manufacturers in his district wish to bear their
just proportion of the expenses of the govern
ment.
Mr:Morrill (Vt.) opposed the proposed in
crease.
Mr. Griswold (N. Y.) also spoke against the
amendment to increase the duty on pig iron
two dollars a ton, which was carried.
An amendment was adopted, fixing a duty ;I'
four dollars a ton on blooms, slabs or loops,
wken made in forgeties or bloomeries directly
from the ore, thus doubling the duty as origi
nally reported in the bill. •
Mr. James C. Allen unsuccessfully moved a
duty of six instead of three dollars per ton on
railroad iron.
Mr. Scofield (Pa.) proposed a tax of tour
dollars per ton.
Mr. Woodbridge (Vt.) opposed this amend
ment. Pending its consideration, the com
mittee rose, and at ten o'clock the House
adjourned.
PERNSYLVARLt LEGISLATITRE
CLOSE OF YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDEIGS
SENATE
.Ifternoon Session.—On motion of 31r.
Lowry, the Senate resumed the consideration
of the supplement to the Anthracite Coal and
Iron Company. The bill was passed.
The Senate proceeded to consider the Ap
propriation bill, on motion of 3ir. Connell.
An act incorporating the Lawrence Railroad
and Transportation Company. An act to pro
tect creditors from bank frauds.
An act relative to the sale of graduated lands
was. discussed and passed.
A d journed.
llot - sE.—Tire House met at 10 o'clock.
Mr. S midi; of Chester, from the special com
mittee appointed to inquire what measure
should be adopted in reference to enlarging
the - public buildings or erecting new ones, pre
senteYt•. a report as follows:
The committee appointed to inquire into
what measures, if any, should be adopted in
reference to enlarging the public buildings of
the commonwealth, or erecting new buildings,
report that, having met in pursuance to their
appointment and agonized, they proceeded to
inquire of the matter submitted to them.
In' lookingto the increase of public business,
not only by reason of the war in which the na
tion-is involved, but also by the great augmen
tation of business from the great prosperity of
the State, and from natural causes and indus
trial progress, the committee came at once to
the conclusion that, to accommodate the State
and military departments and the Legislature,
there would be required a great enlargement
of the buildings now erected, and also the
erection of new buildings.
-The Committee did not deem it within the
scope of the duty assigned them to procure
plans and estimates for the buildings spoken
of, but from the expression.of some of their
number, and the opinion of other gentlemen of
experience in building, the Committee believe
that such improvements would incur an ex
pense much greater than should be imposed
upon the commonwealth in the present condi
tion of her finances.
Whilst the subject was under consideration,
a committee of the Councils of the city of
Philadelphia had a conference with the com
mittee of the House, and informed them that
the Councils of that city were about, to adopt
measures looking to the removal of the seat of
government there. After some delay there
was, on the 12th inst., laid before the com
mittee a certified copy of an ordinance pledg
ing the faith of said city to the extent of one
million of dollars for the erection of suitable
buildings for the Legislature, the several De
partments, and for the residence of the Go
vernor; provided that the Legislature shall, at
this session, pass a law declaring the city of
Philadelphia the seat of government of the
commonwealth, and also pledging the said city
to provide suitable buildings for the aforesaid
purposes until such buildings shall be perma
nently erected.
In view of the great saving to expense which
would be effected, and the many advantages
not necessary here to detail, which it is alleged
would result from the change of the sear of
government, the committee have deemed it
proper to report for the consideration of the
Legislature ajoint resolution in relation to the
removal of the seat of government, but do not
commit themselves to the same.
Signed, P. Frazer Smith, Ed , S. Lee, J. B.
Beck, R. R. Reed, W. F. Smith, Jos. Rex, G.
D. Jackson.
The joint resolutions offered by the commit
tee is the bill presented by Mr. Smith (Ches
ter) some time ago, providing for the removal
of the capital to Philadelphia, and published at
the time. •
Agreeably to order, the House resumed the
consideration of the Apportionment bill on its
final passage.
Mr. Hazlet moved to go into Committee of
the Whole for special amendment,and an effort
was Made to take one member from Lancaster
and give it to Butler, which proved ineffectual.
In the senatorial districts Cambria was joined
in the same distriat with Clearfield, one Sena
tor; Armstrong with Indiana, one Senator;
Butler and Lawrence one Senator.
All the amendments made in Committee of
the Whole House on first reading were ratified.
Messrs. Barger Hopkins, Purdy, Sharpe and
Pershing made speeches against the bill; and
Messrs. Olmstead, Cochran , (Philadelphia), in
defence of it, when the bill passed finally.
Yeas 48, nays 45.
Mr. Glass called up a settlement to the act of
1862, for the adjudication and payment of mili
tary clairns, allowing the validity of certain
claims heretofore sworn to by notaries public.
Passed finally by a vote of 48 to 25.
An act to authorize the appointment of cer
tain notaries public by the Governor. Passed.
Mr. Josephs, on leave, read in place an act
to incorporate the Delaware avenue Passenger
Railroad, of. Philadelphia.
The House refused to suspend the orders for
its consideration.
Supplement to the law of limited partner
ship. Pending consideration the House ad
journed until 3 o'clock-P. M.
✓lflernoon Session.—An act relative to limi
ted partnerships was passed finally.
An act directing the entry of liens for prin
cipal and interest due the State for lands was
passed.
FOREIGN ITEMS
The productive capital in British railways is
estimated at two thousand million of dollars.
The honor of an elective trusteeship of the
British Museum is regarded as the Blue Ribbon
o terature.
The French government has maintained,since
_'6th December, an electric light at La Here
lighthouse near Havre.
Seventy thousand persons are annually ar
rested by the police of London. Of these 450
are burglars and housebreakers.
The "Illystrated London News" has passed
into the editorial hands of Mr. Roger Acton, a
very competent person.
It costs sixty dollars to go through an
English court of bankruptcy. If the debts ex
ceed $1,500 the expenses is about $125.
The standard In height of recruits in the
British army has been reduced one inch, so that
in regiments of the line the men need only be
five feet five inches.
M. Godard,the aeronaut, has started in Paris
a newspaper devoted to aeronautic subjects,and
called Le Montgoljier. He is building a new
monster balloon called L'..digle.
The Sultan has appointed two Christians
members of the Grand Council, and others have
been promoted to high official positions. This
liberal tendency on his part is a mark of pro
gress in Turkey.
- Eight millions of acres of land belonging to
the insurgent New Zealanders have been con
fiscated by the British Government, which
shows no mercy to rebels against itself, but is
very tolerant of rebels in other countries than
its own.
It has been thought, both in Spain and Eng
land; that Shakspeare and Cervantes died on
the same day. But as the former died 23d
April, Itll6, and England did not adopt the
Gregorian calendar till 1754, there were twelve
days' difference between the time of their
deaths.
A submarine boat propelled by compressed
air, has been built at Rochelle, France. It is
intended to pierce an enemy's vessel under
water, leave a combustible shell on her side,
and then to discharge it by means of electricity
as the boat retires to a safe distance.
There is a rumor from Egypt that the Dutch
ladies who fitted out a Nile expedition to re
lieve Captain Speke, and passed him on their
upward voyage, have met with great mislor
tune. The old lady, it is rumored, is killed,
and her daughter and lady's maid taken to
wife by black chieftains. Captain Spoke, how
ever, does not believe the rumor. .11e tniaks
that the negro tribes would respect the women,
though they might kill the men.
A grievous famine prevails throughout a
large part of Hungary. The harvest is a tliil
ure. and the valley of the Theiss,noted for its
abundant production, has become a desert.
Thousands of the inhabitants, sick and foot
worn, are wandering about iu search of food.
A committee has been formed in Paris to af
ford immediate relief,and we hope the generous
northern heart of this country will be inspired
to follow the example.
The work of restoring the great Cathedral
of Notre Dame, at Paris, has resulted in some
interesting historical discoveries. In lowerint
the soil around it, remains of Roman houses
were found, and the outline of the foundations
of an old church which centuries ago stood
here, dedicated to St.-Christopher, as well as
the plan of another church near bv, dedicated
to St. Stephen. Several marble columns,
with tine Corinthian capitals have also been
unearthed.
The.lsle of Man is governed by a petty par
liament consisting of twenty-four persons,
til
ling up all vacancies for themselves. This
body, called the House of Keys, has recently
been quarreling with the people of the island
capital, Douglas. Those worthy persons, some
nine thousand in number, being enterprising
and prosperous, with a notion that they could
manage a municipality, petitioned the House of
• Keys, and were sharply snubbed for wishing to
transfer "royal authority" to mere tradesmen.
The general classification of the population
enumerated in England and Wales at the cen
sus of 1861 is as follows : Professional class,
451,957; domestic class, 11,426,720; commer
cial class, 623,710; agricultural class, 2,010,-
434; industrial class, 4,828,399; indefinite class,
604,984—t0ta1, 20,066,224.
The enumeration of Scotland is as follows :
Professional class, 52,515; domestic class, 1,-
734,295; commercial class, 54,338; agricultural
classs, 378,609, industrial class, 694,074; inde
finite classs 118,463—t0ta1, 3,062,294.
The Irish census distributes the people of
Ireland into ten classes :—Landed proprietors,
'8,412 ; agriculturists, 960,636 ; engaged in
commerce, manufactures, and mechanical
trades, 816,356 ; learned professions, 11,695 ;
other liberal professions, 1,066; engaged in
teaching, 19,046 ; civil service, 20,564 ; military
and naval services, 30,328 ; miscellaneous,
8 0 9,138 ; without specified occupation, 3,092,-
630—total, 5,798,967. Or again thus:—Minis
tering to feed, 1,053,031 ; to clothing, 490,450 ;
to lodging, furniture and machinery, 463,547 ;
to conveyance and traveling, 68,793 ; to bank
ing and agency, 4,555 ; to literature and educa
tion, 40,840 ; to religion, 10,625 ; to charity and
benevolence, 982 ; to health, 6,733 ; to justice
and government, 55,083; to amusement, 2,840;
to science and art, 757 ; residue unclassified,
3,600,338.
The public will learn with regret that Mr. T.
P. Cooke, one of the last representatives of the
old school of British actors, died on the sth, in
London.. Mr. T. P. Cooke was born in Maryle
bone, on the 23d of April, 1786; was educated
at the School of the 31arine Society; and, sub
sequently entering the navy,served under Nel
son at the bombardment of Copenhagen, for
which he received a medal. His first appear
ance on the .stage took place at the Royalty
Theatre, in January, 'lBO4, and for many years
he was.recognized as the best theatrical type of
the British seaman. Only a few months ago
his wife died; the shock was too great for him,
and it may be said that he never recovered the
blow.
A child died in London recently from having
swallowed a balf-penny a year previously.
The first instance of a vvoman passing a re
gular and formal examination for the medical
profession took place at Apothecaries' Hall,
London, on. the 31st tilt. On that day Eliza
beth Garrett duly passed her first examination
at this hall, having complied with the regula
tion of the Apothecaries' Act.
About 4,000 miners in the South. Yorkshire
coal district have been ‘, locked out," the
coal-owners haying adopted this course in con
sequence of the movement among the men for
an advance of wages.
A man named Abraham Alather, residing at
Droyisden, had eaten twenty-four boiled eggs
on Tuesday, and on Wednesday he made a
wager that he would eat ten more at one sit
ting. The wager was accepted, and Mather ap
peared at a public house to carry out his en
gagement. When be bad swallowed four, he
was unable to eat any more. He seemed un
well and refused to go home. In consequence
of being well-known he was allowed to sleep
all night on a form. On Thursday he was
found to be so ill that it was deemed necessary
to call in a surgeon, but Mather gradually sank
and died at noon.
At Oxford Assizes on the 2d inst., Hester
Jordan (aged 24), servant, was charged under
a recent act with unlawfully abandoning and
exposing her child, under the age of two years,
whereby the child's life was endangered, at
Haddington, near Cheltenham, on the sth of
October. The evidence revealed a sad case.
The prisoner, a modest looking young woman,
had been many years living as a servant at Chel
tenham. Her child was born in a work-house.
One day she went out into the country to visit
a friend. From thence she went away with
the.child in the evening and next morning re
turned without it. She stopped at her friend's
house during the day, and in the evening about
eight o,clock went out for a walk with another
young girl. She had gone away but a short
time before her friend went out into his garden.
Presently he heard a faint cry like the mew
of a cat. He searched among the kidney
beans, but could see nothing. The cry was re
peated, and he got a lantern. In one spot
he saw that the, earth had been freshly
turned. He scratched the mould aside with
his hand. An inch or two beneath the surface
he saw a piece of flannel. Suspecting the truth
he ran from the spot and made an alarm. He
met the prisoner in the garden and told her
that he had found buried beneath the mould a
child, which he believed to be hers. She denied
t. Together they then went to the spot and
here, cold, and stiff, and buried in the mould,
hey found the child. it was taken into the
house, and the mother, though in words she
still denied her maternity, yet moved by the
mother's love which yearned towards her off
spring, nursed the babe and warmed it before
the fire until it revived. Then she admitted
that she was the mother, and told the police
man who came for her that she had done the
act because she was destitute. It died at
ten o'clock on the morning after the night
on which it had been exposed. The surgeon
did not think that death was the result of the
exposure, though it might have been hastened
by it. Death seemed to have been chiefly
caused by convulsions to which the child had
been subject. The jury found the prisoner
guilty of a.misdemeanor, and she was sentenced
to twelve months' imprisonment.
THE TWEIsD lIARD/ACTURE AND TRADE.
The following interesting account of the rise,
progress and present condition of this highly
important branch of Scotch manufacture and
commerce is extracted from the Trade Circular
of Messrs. George Harrison 6a. Co., 31 North
Bridge, Edinburgh :
The Shepherd's Plaid, made from home
grown 'wool, has been worn from time imme
morial upon the Scottish Border. In the early
part of this century the material was made in
the web for ladies' cloaks, and about the year
l 826 tt was first adopted for the use of gentle
men. A few years afterwards it was intro
duced into - the London market, and a great im
pulse was thereby given to its production.
Since that period the manufacture has spread
throughout Scotland; it has originated and
perfected a system of weaving entirely its own,
and has diffused wealth and comfort through
out a wide circle.
Scotch Tweeds owe their popularity, in a
great measure, to their being specially adapted
to the habits of modern life. When an exqui
site and a gentlemen were believed to be syn
onymous terms, superfine cloth was the proper
material for costume, as its speckless appear
ance furnished proof that the wearer never con
' descended to labor. A different spirit per
vades modern society; work is more and more
honoured, and active life is common to all
classes. The Tweed manufacturer has aided
this reform by providing a material adapted for
a simple, elegant, and unconstrained morning
costume.
The able paper read before the late meeting
of the Social Science Association in Edin
burgh, by Mr. Adam Cochrane, Jr., of Gala
shiels, furnishes a trustworthy view of the state
of the trade at the close of last autumn.
There were then b 2 factories in Scotland em
ployed in the production of Tweeds, the greater
number of which are in the valley of the Tweed
and its tributaries, in the towns of Galashiels,
Hawick, Selkirk, Jcdburgh, lunerleithen, and
Peebles. ' Large Tweed mills are also situated
in Dumfries, Langholm and Bannockburn, and
a considerable portion of the trade is scattered
throughout Scotland. These 82 factories have
among them above 320 sets of carding engines.
Each set of engines of modern construction re
presents an annual production of manufactured._
goods of fully iff,affio value, and each of the
older ones of nearly £5,000, a considerable
part of the yarn used in Tweed making being,
however, brought from other parts of Scotland
and from England. Mr. Cochrane calculated
the total annual value of the manufactured
goods to be about £2,000,000 sterling, an esti
mate which, we are confident, was not above
the mark. Each set of carding engines, with
the accompanying machinery, furnishes ein-
Flo N talent to about forty persons, which gives
as the number of operatives engaged in
the manufacture. Onphalf of those employed
are women and young people above thirteen
years of age, and the total amount of wages
paid annually is close upon £.300,000.
The wool for the finer class of goods is im
ported chiefly from Australia and the Cape
Colony ; and, fortunately, the productive power
of these extensive countries is practically un
limited. From Australia the importations in
1868 show an increase of nearly six million
pounds above those of the previous year; and
the quantity derived from the British posses
sions in South Africa is also rapidly increasing,
being now about three times greater than it
was ten years since." •
RETURN OF THE MEDITERRANEAN' SQUADION.
—The United States naval forces now iu the
Mediterranean are expected to return in the
month of June, vessels being now named to
relieve most of those now stationed there.
The steam screw-sloops Kearsarge and Tusea
rora have been in commission since the war
began, and are the worse for the wear. One
of them is now in an English dock-yard, being
repaired, and it is supposed that she will sail
for New York when finished. The entire
squadron is as follows : St. Louis, sailing cor
vette; Constellation, sailing corvette; Kear
sine, steamer; Tuscarora, steamer; Chippewa,
steamer.
FOE 641,6 AND To LET
fee FOR ssAL E. —A desirable three-story
Brick Residence, with three-story double
back Buildings, hating every modern improve
meut,situato on east side of Sixteenth street, below
Market. Lot 18 feet front by 90 feet deep. .1. M.
GUtItMEY SONS. 503 Walnut street
FOR, SALE Olt EXORANGE for a Ger
mantown J 144 property, a three-story brick rest.
dsuce, with double three-story back buildings - ,
and replete with every convenience; situate on
west side of Twentieth street, below Race. Lot IS
feet front by 70 feet deep. J. 112. GUIVIMEY do
SOPT:, .stif3 Walnut street.
err TO ISE LE r. shier.-story brick Dwell
ing, 268 South Third strew, a centis.l location.
Apply to J. R. CURT S a SON, Thal Esta e
Brokers, 433 Walnut sire, t ain23
.r.. FIFTEENTH FIFTEENTH STREET.--FOR
four-story Dwelling', with three
btorYdouble bank buildings, 414 South Fifteenth
street, replete with every modern improvement.
Apply to T. H. CURTIS & SON, Rea/ Estate
Brokers, 4.33 Walnut street. ap2.3
FOR BALE AND TO LET
at% FOR SALE—A root stone DWELLING,
jikllaWest Philadelphia, SPRUCE street, abovo
forty-lonrth. Apply at li3 WALNUT street (up
stairs), ap15.1.2t*
IrA9 FOR hA.LE...--Tbe PROPERTY 1601 AROK
11 d street—double lionse, lot I'2 by 160. Apply
toG. H. ROBINETT, 230 GREEN street, or 1 P.:
ROBINETT. 2.NNortb <EOOND st. apl-I.4m*
.EGLGAL R SET - --F OR s three-
Mastory brick DWELLING, with three-story
Rouble back-buildings, 417 South BROAD street;
modern Improvements. Apply to J. H. CURTIS
& SON, .Real Estate Brokers, 433 Walnut street.
fiR FOR SA.LE.—}ifiudsome BROWN STONE
Ma HOUSE, Spruce Street, West of lith Street,
replete With all modern convenience.
u. H TILULRHEID,
No. 203 S 'nth Sixth Street.
apo2-6t* 3
AB—asuds.mie and , zouvecuent
asa RESIDENCE, EIFTEI street, below
NOBLE, 95 feet front by Si) feet deep .. Apply to
JOHN H. W'S.
' S corner Fifth and Noble.
ap15.12t
ma TO RENT—A. beautitu lly situated double
M I L COUNTRY RESIDENCE, three minutes'
walk from Wissinoming Station, on Trenton Rail.
road, with coach-house and garden. apply No.
717 WALNUT street. apB-t4
OAT NCR SALE, CllEde.:—Vanrte SI—
BENCE in Burlington. Also, D W ELL NG
with sale yard, JEFFERSON street. east of
BROAD. R. J. - DOBBINS,
No. 108 S. Fourth street.
do FOR SALE.—The building and lot No. 303
kla CHERRY street, south side. lot GO feet
front, 105 feet_deep, at 82 feet in depth widens to 76
feet to an 8 feet alley running to Oh.rry street.
Apply at the office of CHRIST CHURCH HOS
PITAL, 24'6 WALNUT street. air2.l-th-s-tatit-
EFOR sALE —A handsome three story
. Brick Residence, willklarge three. story back
Buildings, and furnished with all the modern
provements and conveniences, situate on west
side of Eleventh street below Spruce. Lot 19 feet.
6 inches front by 120 feet deep. J. RE. GUM IIEY
k SUNS, 5( S Walnut street.
fig t 4 Dili SAL E. —CO UN TRY RE •sIDNIDE
and FARM of 50 acras, substantial Dwelling
and Barn cn the Bethlehem Pike. 231 miles from
North Wales Station. North Pennsylvan.a Rail
road. Finely located and at low price. Apply to
J. H. WEF:h: ,
S. W. corner Fifth and Noble.
apis-12t4@
4.1 R 6A L- tt.II LT •I'li
s-tory Dwelling, No 617 North EL EITENTH
Street, below Inount Vernon street, will d .üble
three story back buildings and all the modern con
veniences. Immediate posse sum. Terms ac
commodating. Apply tr , d. B CARVER ot
S.W. corner Ninth and Filbert streets ap i 9 st4i.
-
ETO RENT—A large DWELLI.NG Hu USE,
well-shaded, stable and carriage house, good
water, variety of fruit, and six acres of land;
within two senores of West Philadelphia Passen
ger Railroad. Immeditste possession. Apply to
WILLIAM ESHER No. 311 WALNUT street, or
S2B North SEVENTH street. ary22-6t*
- -
iffel FOR RENT.—A nouble 110 u 6E, OIL
FRANKFORD road, three square, shave
the Second and Third Street Passenger Railroad
Depot, containing 12 rooms; all modern improve
ments; garden, stable, fruit and shade trees; about
acres of ground. Possession 20th May Rent
5450. Apply to WILLIAM ELLIS,
ap22-3to No. 724 Market street.
de WEST PHILADELPHIA RESILIENCE
FOR SALE. —A handsome stone cottage with
all modern improvements Stable, co - .ch-house,
Ac. , situate on the north side of LOCUST Street,
between Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Streets. Im
mediate possession given. Tereus accommodating.
Apply to A. B. CARVER A Co. ,southwest comer
of Ninth and Filbert - streets. apl9-6t* c
to t COUNTRY SEAT AND FARM FOR
Plf4 SALE.—One-half or all that Valuable Stone.
post Farm of 160 acres. BRISTOL TURNPIKE,
above the seven-mile stone.and near Tacony, with
a tine view of the .Delaware ricer, kc. Mansion
house and ether dwellings to let; also, factory and
smiths)2top. Apply on the premises, or R.
WHITABFR, No. 610 Locust street fl.p9-20t,*
oh TO MENT FOR THE suamEtt.—,
sirable House and Garden, with pleasant
yard and good shade trees, in the village of
WOODBURY. N. J. Easy of access to the city
by the West Jersey Railroad.
With or without the furniture. Possession given.
immediately. Apply to
apl3-Iml DAVID (DOPER. IS North Whayes.
GER . "TOWN PROPERTY FUR
ME SA LE.—A very desirable propery within 10
minutes walk of Wayne Station, Germantown Rail .
roma. Large dwelling house with all the modern
improvements, stable, spring-house, ice-house
filled, and good garden, plenty of fruit and largo
ehade trees. Apply to W. W. KNIGHT, at 51:10
COMMERCE street. zah2l-tt§
fCOUNT.RY SEAT AND PARM FOB
SALE---Contalaing fifty-five acres,
handsomely situated in Cheltenham townsmp,
Montgomery comity, Perm c.ylTania, about eignt
miles from the city and one and a-half from York
Road Station, on the North Pennsyllania Rail
road. The buildings are nearly new, substantial
and well calculated for a winter or slimmer resi
dence. Apply to C. ILIIVIEHEID, No. 2fif
South SIXTH sum.t. Philadelphia. sel9-tii
in- FOR SALE. —The -Property on School
Era House Dane, fronting eight hundred and
eight (SRI) feet on said Lane, and extending nearly
one-third of a mile to the Wissahickon•, with front
on that stream. Containing thirty (3u) arras, with
numerous desirable sites for Country Seats, time
minutes walk from the Railroad Depot, and twenty
minutes walk from the city, Apply to (IHAILLES
H. lIITURHEI D. 15i0..•216 South SIXTH. st thi-643
rag FOR SALE.—OHE , TNUT HILL MAN.
La SION and GROUNDS on SUMMIT street,
within five minutes walk: of Railroad Depor.over
looking miles of country.. The House is of Stone
of excellent build and possessing every con
venience. The lot is 200 feet front by 325 feet' deep,
well planted with trees Tt-rms accomothirmg.
Apply to JOHN H. WEEK..i.
ap 15-I.2t* S. W. cor. Fifth and Noble.
dia EXECUTORS' SALE.—THE' iIIOD6RN
built dwellmg, No. 417 South Eighth street,
below Pine, contiining in front 19 feet, and 114
feet in depth. to a three feet a ley.
The house is built in the best manner with all the
modern improvements, having always been occur
pied by its owners; is in perfect order, and calco...
Sated icr a family to take' immediate possession,
without any expense. Price 89,500. Terms ac
commodating. Inquire on the premises.
apl2-tu-th-9-fitrpo
ftv, FARM FOR S.a.LE--I.n a hie:ti state of
• =enltiv.tion, in Montgomery county, within
twenty minutes orive of a station on the North
Pennsylvania Railroad; large Stone Dwelling,
new Barn, all necessary out-buildings, plenty a
excellent water, abundance of fruit of all kinds
good fencing, everything in good order. Posses
sion immediately. Apply to GEO. J. 1-1 ENKE LS
SOD CHEST NUT street, or ERAS. W. HENS ELS,
on the premises, Montgomeryville. ap
IrPUBLIC . SALE.—OI a HAN DS ONE
,14 COUNTRY RESIDENCE, on THURS
DAY, April .29th, 1.E.64. at 2 o'clock, on the pre.'
raises sivirite in JENKINTOWN, on the old .
York Road, half mile from Railroad Station, -
nine miles from the city; containing about
Acres of Land. The improvements are a two.
story Cottage built of brick, rough-cast; 12 rooms
wan one story back Kitchen, finished and papered
throughout; Furnace in Range in ki ,hen.;
Frame stable and other out-buildings; two. wells
with pumps ; soft water ; -fine springs on rear of
lot; large garden;' fruit of all kinds; beantiful
shade trees, shrubbery, Sic. Possession im
mediately. Conditions on darof sale.
ap6, w,s-7t* THOMAS P. MANYPENNY.
Ate . FOR -eery dell, aoid atm h ,uct.
some mooern four-story brick RESi. , LitllitoE.
with three-story back bni.oings and lot of ground
o. 1111 MOUNT VERNON street (north side),
feet front anct over 125 feet deep to LE.OlOli
street.
It is finished In modern style, and is in c - mpleta
order; having been recently tborougnly oversauled
and repaired, hand.omel• papered and painted
tarot:1010M; gas introduced ( with handsome gas
fixtures and chandeliers, which will be included
in the sale), bath; hot and cold water, iurnace,
ccoking range, &c.
'will be sold at a very reasonable price, on an-
Gomm witting terms, and immediate possession
given. Apply to
C. W. THACKA.PA.,& SON,
' No 214 South Third. sc•eet
ap2o-6t
MI THE FLORENCE IRON WORKS FOR.
—T he subscriber is authorized to s 311 the
valuable property known as • , The Florence iron.
Works," situated at -Florence, on the - Delaware
river, six miles above Burlington, in the State of
• Neiv Jersey, with all the Machinery, work„ s ho ps
store, workmen's dwellings, Mansion House. and.
'about 50 Acres of Land, with a beautiful river
front of 2.000 feet: The Foundry is 150 feet longby
100 feet wide, the Machine Shop 150 by 60, both.
built of brick, in the most substantial manner. The
Mansion House is of brick, of handsome arcaitec-
Lure, and is surrounded by a magnificent grove of
large forest trees.
This property is well suited fur the manufacture
of Governmei t work, .iron- ships, cannon, pipes,
steam engines, &c., or could be adapted to almost
any manufacturing purpose. It is most. stiliuly
situated, possess me, as it does. the advautage of
butts water and railroad communication.
For further particulars. - terms, annly in
person or by lerter to E. U-I.IIPENT - Ell,
ap2o '243 South Third street.
ON SYRUOE by Twenty- fourth
sir. et; 75 feet front on Sorttni street by 100 feet
in depth to Manning street, Will be sold or let on
ground rent et the low rate of 75 per foot; water
pip. Wit in Manning street, tpid the ground tree
from emery inenrobrance. Apply to L. B. CAR.
vEE, & ',0., Ninth and Filbert streets. apn.6t* -
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'Tv./ LET. —Large Sr.l smaZi ROCELS, up atzUrs,
j 612 and 614 CHESTNUT streat. 183-11